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The chancellor out after 38 days - BBC News", "Iran protests: Fury over police sex assault video - BBC News", "Study links coronavirus lockdowns to birth rate drop in Europe - BBC News", "Lucy Letby trial: Nurse accused of murder 'cared deeply about babies' - BBC News", "Teachers one step closer to going on strike in Great Britain - BBC News", "Faisal Islam: Truss is still PM, but Trussonomics is dead - BBC News", "Kwasi Kwarteng's letter to Liz Truss and her reply - BBC News", "Truss confirms new tax U-turn and insists she will stay as PM - BBC News", "Van Gogh's Sunflowers back on display after oil protesters threw soup on it - BBC News", "Many Tory MPs are doom-laden - what will they do next? - BBC News", "Princess Amalia: Security fears force Dutch princess from student home - BBC News", "Meat Loaf tops chart of biggest-selling debut albums in UK history - BBC News", "National Television Awards: Emmerdale praised by the King as soap wins big - BBC News", "Robbie Coltrane obituary: Actor who could be funny or serious, but always compelling - BBC News", "Gaia Pope's family call for alleged rapist review - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Kyiv demands Red Cross visit notorious prison - BBC News", "Girl fought off masked robber who tied up her and her brother - BBC News", "Creeslough explosion: Leona Harper 'a little lady with a big heart' - BBC News", "Elon Musk under federal investigation over Twitter deal - BBC News", "Ukraine: From bomb shelter to Europe's Biggest Dance Show - BBC News", "China Covid: Rare protest against President Xi before party congress - BBC News", "Cost of living: Queen's University Belfast to spend £8m on support - BBC News", "Climate change: Summer 2022 smashed dozens of UK records - BBC News", "Iran: How we are uncovering the protests and crackdowns - BBC News", "Fall in number of Covid infections across Scotland - BBC News", "Stirling Prize: Cambridge University college library wins top architecture award - BBC News", "Crimea bridge: Russia 'to repair blast damage by July 2023' - BBC News", "Government borrowing costs rise after PM's U-turn - BBC News", "Energy prices: Power NI electricity price to fall by 10% - BBC News", "New crisis looms for Ukrainians in the UK - BBC News", "France sends Germany gas for first time amid Russia energy crisis - BBC News", "Leah Croucher: Suspect in teen murder case is dead - BBC News", "Netflix ad-supported service to launch in November - BBC News", "Electricity prices vary by nearly 4p per unit - BBC News", "Robbie Coltrane: Harry Potter actor dies aged 72 - BBC News", "Tom Watson and Arlene Foster nominated for peerages - BBC News", "This is difficult, Liz Truss admits after major U-turn - BBC News", "Videos suggest Iran security forces 'sexually assault female protesters' - BBC News", "January 6 panel votes to issue subpoena for Trump testimony - BBC News", "North Carolina: Suspect,15, in custody after Raleigh mass shooting - BBC News", "Kwasi Kwarteng - a swift and sudden downfall - BBC News", "Abertillery: Outrage after Raheem Bailey loses finger - BBC News", "Who is Jeremy Hunt? New UK chancellor who backed Sunak in leadership race - BBC News", "Nicola Sturgeon urges Tories to oust 'lame duck' PM Liz Truss - BBC News", "Royal Mail to axe up to 10,000 jobs as losses rise - BBC News", "Covid cases rise as one in 37 has virus in UK - BBC News", "Chris Mason: Can Liz Truss salvage her premiership? - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Putin says no more massive strikes - for now - BBC News", "War in Ukraine - BBC News", "Harry Potter and Cracker actor Robbie Coltrane dies aged 72 - BBC News", "Making independence work will be challenging - Sturgeon - BBC News", "As it happened: Village left devastated by explosion - BBC News", "Seagulls: Barmouth wonders where birds have gone - BBC News", "Iran protests: Mahsa Amini's family receiving death threats, cousin says - BBC News", "Elon Musk wades into China and Taiwan tensions - BBC News", "Nika Shakarami: Videos show Iran teenager protesting before death - BBC News", "Richard Bacon: 'Why I quite like my ADHD' - BBC News", "Bishopsgate stabbings: Arrest over central London attack - BBC News", "Harvey Weinstein trial begins in Los Angeles - BBC News", "Kanye West's Twitter and Instagram accounts locked over anti-Semitism - BBC News", "Queen features on new 50p coin marking BBC centenary - BBC News", "Irish dancing organisation begins results fixing investigation - BBC News", "Indyref2: Supreme Court judges asked to resolve 'festering issue' - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Russian hawks celebrate deadly response to Crimea setback - BBC News", "Creeslough: Who were the 10 victims of petrol station explosion? - BBC News", "Nicola Sturgeon tells SNP: 'We are the independence generation' - BBC News", "Skeletons: Remains of 240 people under Haverfordwest store - BBC News", "World Mental Health Day 2022: 'Football changed our lives' - BBC News", "Nigeria boat accident kills at least 76 fleeing floodwater in Anambra - BBC News", "Sturgeon accused of divisive rhetoric for saying 'I detest the Tories' - BBC News", "Can Liz Truss's new charm offensive win over Tory MPs? - BBC News", "'We didn't see it coming' says Sajid Javid of brother's suicide - BBC News", "Big and painful cuts needed to fix budget, says IFS - BBC News", "Chinese technology poses major risk - GCHQ Chief - BBC News", "Ukraine war: US condemns 'brutal' Russian strikes on Ukraine - BBC News", "Crimean bridge: Who - or what - caused the explosion? - BBC News", "Deadly landslides sweep away homes in Venezuela - BBC News", "Post Office and Fujitsu to face inquiry over Horizon scandal - BBC News", "Tiger that killed nine people in India shot dead - BBC News", "Three Dads Walking: Trio complete UK-wide challenge - BBC News", "Galar Gdański: Three killed in Poland as wave capsizes tourist boat - BBC News", "Kwasi Kwarteng: Investors wary as economic plan brought forward - BBC News", "Ukraine war latest: G7 meets as Ukraine hit by fresh Russian strikes - BBC News", "Criminal barristers vote to end strike over pay - BBC News", "Liz Truss reaches out to MPs after Tory splits exposed - BBC News", "John Cleese to host new GB News TV show - BBC News", "Crimean bridge: Excitement and fear in Ukraine after bridge blast - BBC News", "Creeslough spirit shines amid darkness of tragedy - BBC News", "Widespread disruption as ScotRail strike goes ahead - BBC News", "Iran protests: Germany calls for sanctions over violent crackdown - BBC News", "BBC Young Musician: Percussionist Jordan Ashman wins 2022 contest - BBC News", "Norwich's 12th Man: 'My barber saved my life and could help others' - BBC News", "Crimea bridge: Video shows moment of huge explosion - BBC News", "Nurse Lucy Letby poisoned babies with insulin, trial told - BBC News", "William and Kate on one-day trip to Northern Ireland - BBC News", "Rollercoaster rides trigger emergency calls from new iPhones - BBC News", "Ben Bernanke, former US Federal Reserve chief, wins Nobel Prize - BBC News", "Thames Water billed London pensioner for 1m cups of tea - BBC News", "North Korea says missile launches were nuclear attack simulation on South - BBC News", "Katie Piper attacker might be abroad after licence breach police say - BBC News", "Bank of England boosts plan to calm market turmoil - BBC News", "Shock and horror after Russia's wave of strikes across Ukraine - BBC News", "Ukraine war: BBC journalist ducks as explosions happen in central Kyiv - BBC News", "Cash popular again due to cost of living concerns, says Post Office - BBC News", "Harry Kane: England and Tottenham striker to read bedtime story on CBeebies - BBC Sport", "Ukraine war: Liberating towns is a shot in the arm for Ukrainian troops - BBC News", "Cabinet minister urges Tory MPs to unite behind Liz Truss - BBC News", "Sam Tarry: Former shadow minister ousted in deselection vote - BBC News", "Crimea bridge: Putin accuses Ukraine of 'terrorism' - BBC News", "Thai nursery: CNN journalists apologise for entering site of deadly attack - BBC News", "Creeslough explosion: Third night of vigils across north west - BBC News", "Ukraine war: 'Russian attack' on city claimed by Moscow kills 13 - BBC News", "Cost of living: Couple narrowly beat mortgage rates rise - BBC News", "Tory conference: Rebellion in the air over possible benefit squeeze - BBC News", "Turmoil making investment harder, says bank chief - BBC News", "Liz Truss facing pressure to ensure benefits rise in line with inflation - BBC News", "Kwasi Kwarteng's fiscal plan really will be published early - BBC News", "Coldplay postpone Brazil shows over Chris Martin illness - BBC News", "Police probe racist abuse aimed at St Albert's Primary School pupils - BBC News", "Ringo Starr cancels North American tour after catching Covid - BBC News", "Woman admits defacing Captain Sir Tom Moore memorial - BBC News", "Ukraine regains Kherson villages from Russians - BBC News", "Prince William warns of organised crime threat to wildlife - BBC News", "Nick Kyrgios seeks dismissal of assault case on mental health grounds - BBC News", "Diana Panorama interview: BBC settles with Earl Spencer aide - BBC News", "Calais migrants: Smugglers cause fresh problems for police - BBC News", "North Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan - BBC News", "Belfast Cathedral Quarter fire caused £3m in damage, court hears - BBC News", "Mermaids trustee quits over paedophile-group links - BBC News", "What do government's tax changes mean for me? - BBC News", "Liverpool woman attacked by dogs and killed in Kirkdale house - BBC News", "Tory divisions dominate Liz Truss's first party conference as PM - BBC News", "How tax cut policy U-turn was decided - BBC News", "Northern Ireland Protocol: Funeral of peace deal unless it is sorted - Poots - BBC News", "Supermarket push to cut waste hits food bank donations - BBC News", "Ros Atkins on...why protests are happening in Iran - BBC News", "King Charles should attend climate summit, COP26 president says - BBC News", "National Women's Soccer League: Report finds 'systemic' abuse in US top flight - BBC Sport", "Danish Royal Family: Queen 'sorry' after stripping grandchildren's titles - BBC News", "Mortgage rates still rising as big lenders revise deals - BBC News", "London Marathon 2022: Man dies after collapsing during event - BBC News", "Four women to run post office and count penguins in Antarctica - BBC News", "Ukraine makes breakthrough in south against Russia - BBC News", "Elon Musk Twitter deal back on in surprise U-turn - BBC News", "Jim Redmond: Tributes paid after death of Derek Redmond's father - BBC Sport", "Man held after woman killed by American bulldogs in Liverpool - BBC News", "BBC presenter Alex Scott: I won't let my abusive dad win any more - BBC Sport", "Kwasi Kwarteng U-turns on plans to scrap 45p tax rate - BBC News", "Liz Truss speech: PM to say disruption will be worth it for growth - BBC News", "Lawyer who removed Stone of Destiny dies aged 97 - BBC News", "Wagatha Christie: Rebekah Vardy to pay 90% of Coleen Rooney's legal costs - BBC News", "Iran schoolgirls remove hijabs in protests against government - BBC News", "Queen of Country music Loretta Lynn dies aged 90 - BBC News", "Star Wars superfans exchange vows in Pontypridd ceremony - BBC News", "Will Smith film Emancipation to come out this year - BBC News", "Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to set out debt plan earlier than planned - BBC News", "Moors Murders: No bones found in search for Keith Bennett - BBC News", "Sean Fox murder: CCTV of suspects at scene of 'ruthless execution' - BBC News", "Tony Hickmott: Autistic man to be released after 21 years in hospital - BBC News", "Tory conference: Kwasi Kwarteng attempts to put tax U-turn behind him - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Liberated town shows human cost of Russia's defeat - BBC News", "Tax U-turn lifts pound as borrowing costs fall - BBC News", "Gateshead: Boy, 14, held in murder probe into teenager's death - BBC News", "EU Parliament approves common charging cable from 2024 - BBC News", "Chris Kaba: Inquest opens into death of man shot by police - BBC News", "Animal baiting: 150 people involved in Northern Ireland, says USPCA - BBC News", "UK summons top Iran diplomat over protest crackdown - BBC News", "I'm still in favour of lower tax for high earners, says Liz Truss - BBC News", "Ukraine war: The families who made it through the new Iron Curtain - BBC News", "NHS to get 1,000 extra staff to cope with winter pressures - Yousaf - BBC News", "Chris Mason: Government's U-turn won't be forgotten - BBC News", "Increasing state pension age not ruled out - BBC News", "Edenfield Centre: Care watchdog praised bosses at abuse hospital - BBC News", "Kwasi Kwarteng: We stopped consumer spending collapse - BBC News", "West Belfast: Donegal Celtic social club shooting 'reckless and disgraceful' - BBC News", "Education: New Wales GCSEs to put less emphasis on exams - BBC News", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel: Man in court accused of schoolgirl's murder - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Vladimir Putin gets a tractor for his 70th birthday - BBC News", "Customers could get £100 for cutting energy use - BBC News", "Cost of living: Asthma charity warns of rising hospital admissions - BBC News", "UK has highest lung disease deaths in Western Europe - study - BBC News", "Peter Tobin: Serial killer dies in hospital, aged 76 - BBC News", "Trade minister Conor Burns sacked after misconduct claim - BBC News", "Haiti asks world for military help to curb chaos - BBC News", "New photo of Queen's fell pony Emma released after funeral attendance - BBC News", "Protests in Iran: State-run live TV hacked by protesters - BBC News", "Crimea bridge partly reopens after huge explosion - Russia - BBC News", "SNP conference: Sturgeon will seek to exploit Truss's faltering start as PM - BBC News", "Long Covid: Hidden lung damage spotted on scans - BBC News", "John Simpson: Zelensky strikes all the right notes - BBC News", "England's Lionesses show they could be the team to beat in 2023 - BBC Sport", "Liverpool vows to host best Eurovision for Ukraine - BBC News", "England 2-1 USA: Lionesses beat world champions in Wembley friendly - BBC Sport", "Ellerby: Gold coins found hidden under kitchen floor sell for £754,000 - BBC News", "Man City 4-0 Southampton: Erling Haaland scores again as defending champions move top - BBC Sport", "Ukraine war: World must act now to stop Russia nuclear threat - Zelensky - BBC News", "Ukraine war latest: Crimea bridge partly reopens after huge blast, Russia says - BBC News", "DUP conference: Donaldson warns Liz Truss on Stormont - BBC News", "Men charged with murder over stabbing outside Coventry mosque - BBC News", "Your pictures of Scotland: 30 September - 7 October - BBC News", "Snoop Dogg and Souleye fans of Cwmbran's Mr Giant Veg - BBC News", "Rail strikes: Passengers face disruption on 11th different day of action - BBC News", "Stephen Lawrence case: Jamie Acourt to be freed in November - BBC News", "New York City declares emergency over migrant 'crisis' - BBC News", "Conor Burns sacked as minister after touching man's thigh, witness says - BBC News", "Putin ally Nikonov stripped of Edinburgh University degree - BBC News", "Crimea bridge: Video shows moment of huge explosion - BBC News", "Ukraine says mass burial sites found in retaken town of Lyman - BBC News", "DUP leader warned Liz Truss over party's future at Stormont - BBC News", "'Fairytale economics' now a nightmare - Ian Blackford - BBC News", "Police officers face probe over 'grossly offensive' WhatsApp messages - BBC News", "Asthma app aims to reduce attacks in children say Norfolk hospitals - BBC News", "Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker making last appearance as Time Lord - BBC News", "Bird flu: Poultry in Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Essex to be kept indoors - BBC News", "Nicola Sturgeon defends gender bill after JK Rowling T-shirt protest - BBC News", "Rugby World Cup: England run in record 14 tries in 84-19 win over Fiji - BBC Sport", "Uvalde suspends school police force after mass shooting - BBC News", "Scotland 'snow-free' as Sphinx patch melts again - BBC News", "Putin's dream of Russian victory slips away in Ukraine - BBC News", "Renewable energy: Government plan for price cap is risky, firms warn - BBC News", "Belfast Cathedral Quarter: Fire cordon costs business '£10k a day' - BBC News", "Tory conference: Rebellion in the air over possible benefit squeeze - BBC News", "Elon Musk Twitter deal back on in surprise U-turn - BBC News", "Heysham explosion: Man jailed for killing boy, 2, in gas blast - BBC News", "Petrol price rise warning after Opec oil output cut - BBC News", "'Humble' worm saliva can break down tough plastic - BBC News", "Tory conference: Liz Truss critical of 'anti-growth coalition' - BBC News", "Church of England abuse cases run to hundreds - report - BBC News", "Rail strike: My 30-minute journey to work took two hours - BBC News", "Liz Truss speech: We must stay the course, PM says, as she addresses Tory conference - BBC News", "Liz Truss speech: PM pledges to get country through 'stormy days' - BBC News", "Liz Truss facing pressure to ensure benefits rise in line with inflation - BBC News", "South Korea military apologises after failed missile launch sparks alarm - BBC News", "Baby names: Oliver knocked off top spot by Noah - BBC News", "BBC presenter Alex Scott: I won't let my abusive dad win any more - BBC Sport", "Man City 5-0 Copenhagen: Erling Haaland scores twice in thumping Champions League victory - BBC Sport", "Research call over MND risk to elite rugby players - 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decision to remove titles from four of her grandchildren.", "The violence at a top university in Tehran comes as anti-government protests continue nationwide.", "The ex-cabinet minister accuses the PM of not listening to public concern over tax cuts for the well-off.", "The YouTuber's 30 million subscribers finally find out what he looks like without a mask.", "A barrister is examining what was known about the ex Radio 1 DJ's conduct during his time at the BBC.", "The 36-year-old man became unwell between miles 23 and 24 of the annual 26.2-mile event.", "Ukraine makes fresh gains in occupied territory annexed by Russia, straining Russian supply lines.", "The new monarch travels to Scotland to officially declare Dunfermline a city.", "Post-apocalyptic is how one resident describes his city, from which many people have fled.", "Steve Baker apologised for some of his behaviour towards Ireland and the EU during the Brexit process.", "The top Tory says Liz Truss's policies are \"not Conservative\" but the PM says they will boost growth.", "The Scottish Tory leader previously called for the chancellor's tax cuts to be matched in Scotland.", "Kwasi Kwarteng says the proposal was \"drowning out a strong package\" to boost economic growth.", "Liz Truss is now as unpopular with voters as Boris Johnson when he was ousted, says veteran pollster.", "The slave drama will be released in December, making it eligible for next year's Oscars.", "The chancellor has been urged to say how he will pay for major tax cuts package.", "The photos, featuring original drummer Pete Best, were taken a year before debut single Love Me Do.", "Emma, 41, is fronting a new sportswear brand collection to raise money for a breast cancer charity.", "The chancellor says he wants to focus on delivering growth, after admitting it's been a \"tough day\".", "In his first comments on the protests, Ayatollah Khamenei accuses Iran's enemies of planning \"rioting\".", "Kim Kardashian agrees to pay $1.26m after regulators charge her in EthereumMax case.", "Kwasi Kwarteng says the plans had become a 'distraction' from challenges facing the country.", "Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng remains under pressure to detail how he will pay for wider tax cuts.", "A look at the state of the NHS as the health secretary gets ready to reveal his winter plans.", "President Cyril Ramaphosa's state visit next month will be the first of King Charles' reign.", "Iran's top diplomat in the UK is called to the Foreign Office over Tehran's crackdown on protests.", "A group of police and crime commissioners urge tougher penalties for supply and possession.", "As the Tory party conference starts, MPs, the market and the public need reassurance, the BBC's Ione Wells says.", "The owner of the UK's biggest power station, Drax, is cutting down key forests in Canada.", "Tory MPs said the decision to offer the best paid a tax cut was unsellable, the BBC's political editor explains.", "Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the first round but fell short of the votes needed to win outright.", "Laura Kuenssberg speaks to Prime Minister Liz Truss.", "The third and fourth largest mobile phone networks reportedly hope to strike a deal by the end of the year.", "Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng says he will stick to his tax cut plan despite days of market turmoil.", "Police say Sean Fox was enjoying a drink in a crowded function room when he was shot several times.", "Olivia's parents were in court to see Thomas Cashman, 34, charged with murdering the nine-year-old.", "Ukrainian forces on the eastern front in Bakhmut say they will fight for every last inch of soil.", "As the PM attends her first weekly audience with the King, the markets and country wonder what's next.", "A service was held for James Monaghan and his mother Catherine O'Donnell, as mourners also gathered for the funeral of James O'Flaherty.", "Uefa opens an investigation into \"potential inappropriate behaviour\" by Republic of Ireland women's players after their win over Scotland.", "Getting in his mind is a thankless task - but we should try, writes the BBC's Steve Rosenberg.", "The chairman of the committee investigating the Capitol riots called the move an \"extraordinary action\".", "The shock jock is ordered to pay huge damages after branding the Connecticut school shooting a hoax.", "The Met is investigating more than 600 domestic and sexual abuse claims against its staff, BBC told.", "A small number of companies argued the original targets risked network outages, the government says.", "Families tell the BBC they believed until the last minute their children's killer would be executed.", "First-time buyers worry about inflation as building society boss warns of difficulty for borrowers.", "Civilians in Russian-occupied Kherson are urged to \"save themselves\" from Ukrainian rockets.", "A TV show will see a studio audience decide whether the comedian should destroy a painting by Hitler.", "Asked whether he could U-turn on parts of his mini-budget, Kwasi Kwarteng says \"our position hasn't changed\".", "Liz Truss has a bruising meeting with Tory MPs - with some warning she may need to rethink tax-cut plans.", "Pupils say they have seen an increase in bad behaviour in schools post-Covid as support is offered.", "Advanced air defence weaponry will be delivered in the wake of devastating Russian missile strikes.", "Police continue to search a house where human remains are found, as the teenager's family lay flowers.", "A Ukrainian fighter besieged at Mariupol tells the BBC he was held in solitary confinement by Russia.", "No letters will be sent during the strike, but medical deliveries will be prioritised.", "The internationally renowned museum and gallery was first opened by his mother the Queen in 1983.", "The government has U-turned over scrapping the 45% rate of income tax, but other changes are going ahead.", "The bird held up traffic after landing on the Kingston Bridge - one of Scotland's busiest roads.", "\"I'm disgusted with the legal system\", says one victim's father, after jury recommends life in prison.", "A complaint is upheld after the Match of the Day host posted about the Conservative Party in February.", "Asylum seekers could be sent to Rwanda three weeks after their arrival in the UK, High Court hears.", "Despite a successful test event for competitive gaming, at the 2022 Games, organisers reject it for 2026.", "The Russian president says the \"ball is in the EU's court\", but Germany quickly rejects the offer.", "The children disappeared after being temporarily put up in hotels by the Home Office.", "Conservative parliamentarians join an organisation campaigning to return the sculptures to Greece.", "Lucy Letby was a \"dedicated nurse\" who \"in no way wanted to harm\" babies in her care, a court hears.", "Jeni Larmour, 18, died after taking ketamine within hours of arriving at Newcastle University.", "Liz Truss is facing a number of hurdles as she tries to get policies through and keep her job.", "The BBC newsreader says \"it's back to some tough stuff\" after a scan showed his cancer had spread.", "Allegations of a lockdown party in Sheffield are dropped due to a \"defective charge\".", "Stars gathered in London on Thursday for the NTAs, a month later than planned.", "We hear from young people finding it hard to afford their rent, as well as a landlord facing rising costs.", "Health Minister Will Quince apologises to patients at the Edenfield Centre in Prestwich near Manchester.", "The PM says she is \"determined to see through\" her economic plans, despite dropping her policy to scrap a rise in corporation tax.", "However the ex-Wales captain claims he was assaulted at an under-12s game.", "Essex Police say there was no threat on board the Jet2 flight after RAF planes escorted it to Stansted.", "Her parents gave details in an emotional encounter with the press, during a state visit to Sweden.", "A mix of factors are at play and greater awareness is needed, the researchers say.", "The National Television Awards 2022 also celebrated wins for This Morning and Ant and Dec (again).", "The family of the 19-year-old say police failed to properly investigate her claim of being attacked.", "Leona Harper was picking up an ice cream at the service station at the time of Friday's explosion.", "Arwyn Jones profiles the least well known of the five shadow Welsh secretaries appointed since the 2015 general election.", "The protest against President Xi came amid strict Covid measures that have also sparked anger online.", "Mia White, whose 12-year-old sister Ava was murdered, urges young people not to pick up knives.", "Staff and students at the university will begin to receive their payments in January 2023.", "The comments come as trading in the pound and UK government bonds has been volatile in recent days.", "Energy watchdog Ofgem will launch a campaign to cut consumption and ensure the UK has enough supplies.", "Magdalene College Cambridge's \"exquisitely detailed\" new library wins the Riba Stirling Prize.", "The gunman will spend life in prison, but relatives and prosecutors had sought the death penalty.", "For many refugees, the six months British hosts agreed to house them for is up. So what happens now?", "The warning comes as the Bank of England says the number struggling to pay mortgages could hit a 15-year high.", "It is not yet clear when the money will be paid but it will be made available this winter.", "The new flow was sent in \"European solidarity\" after Russia cut energy supplies to Europe.", "More than 10,000 appointments have been booked in the past 24 hours.", "The firm is rolling out the less expensive offering to try to attract viewers.", "Dangerous vapes, counterfeit designer watches and unlabelled electricals were confiscated.", "The strike for later in October was confirmed after an overtime ban took effect for members of the RMT union.", "Ms Rees, who has represented Neath since 2015, loses whip pending an investigation.", "Bing Crosby, Margot Fonteyn and James Stewart are among the interviews to be found and restored.", "The surprise move came as the committee aired never-before-seen footage from the storming of Congress.", "Charley-Ann Patterson took her own life in 2020 after being verbally abused online and in school.", "Providers are leapfrogging each other on top savings rates as they try to raise money to lend.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn names Neath MP Christina Rees as the new shadow Welsh secretary.", "The song, called Face It Alone, was originally recorded for the band's 1989 album The Miracle.", "YouTuber Michael Van Erp told a jury he fell on to Paul Lyon-Maris's car \"like a crash test dummy\".", "The activist travelled to the country for the second time, since she was shot by the Taliban in 2012.", "Post-it notes were found at Lucy Letby's home including one reading \"I am evil\", her trial hears.", "New figures show Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate of 161 people in September.", "Tenants on rolling contracts to benefit from six month notice periods - but not until June.", "\"A government that's barely begun is confronting questions about its end,\" our political editor writes.", "The foreign secretary defended the mini-budget that triggered market turmoil.", "Channel 4's two-part series about the libel trial will be broadcast later this year.", "A rucksack and other items are also discovered as police investigate the murder of Leah Croucher.", "Scottish ministers are being forced to change the law on tuition fees for hundreds of migrant students after a landmark court case.", "Jurors see CCTV of Jemma Mitchell near the home of a woman she is accused of killing and decapitating.", "The ball used by Diego Maradona for his infamous 'Hand of God' goal for Argentina against England in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final is set to be sold by the referee in charge.", "Ukraine says \"critical infrastructure\" near the capital was hit, while a block of flats in the southern city of Mykolaiv was also targeted.", "Tory MP Scott Benton says the boy, who attacked a police officer, is part of a gang in Blackpool.", "Many MPs are unhappy with the prime minister after she fired her chancellor and announced a second U-turn.", "Pupils will learn about historical and current diversity under the new curriculum.", "The inquiry levels another stinging round of accusations at Donald Trump and ends with a dramatic flourish.", "The Beatle had previously cancelled dates after catching the virus, before returning to the road.", "Footage shows a gun-mounted pick-up truck chasing people running away, as mass protests continue.", "Jeremy Hunt will take over as chancellor, as Liz Truss is expected to U-turn on her economic plan.", "Paul Feig is in Belfast ahead of release of The School for Good and Evil, which was shot in NI.", "Robbie Coltrane has played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films and won three Baftas for Cracker, but most people do not know that in the 60s his dreams were about art, not acting.", "Stephanie Sibounheuang speaks for the first time about the rapper's death during a robbery in LA.", "Families tell the BBC they believed until the last minute their children's killer would be executed.", "Civilians in Russian-occupied Kherson are urged to \"save themselves\" from Ukrainian rockets.", "Andrew Walker calls for the separation of social media content for adults and children.", "Asked whether he could U-turn on parts of his mini-budget, Kwasi Kwarteng says \"our position hasn't changed\".", "Billions of phones will be hoarded in drawers and cupboards or thrown away rather than recycled, studies suggest.", "Douglas Ramsey was suspended from his post last month after he was accused of biting a man's nose in Arkansas.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 7 and 14 October.", "No letters will be sent during the strike, but medical deliveries will be prioritised.", "Emergency crews had worked through the night to reach survivors hundreds of metres below ground.", "The government has U-turned over scrapping the 45% rate of income tax, but other changes are going ahead.", "The murder of the investigative journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia, sparked widespread anger.", "Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies says Liz Truss must \"turn this situation around\".", "Parts of the country have received several times their average October rainfall in just 24 hours.", "The tycoon reverses his earlier decision to stop funding a vital internet service for Ukraine.", "Leah Croucher's family lay flowers outside a house in Milton Keynes where human remains were found.", "He had been seen as Liz Truss's political soulmate when he was appointed to the role.", "Footage appearing to show police assaulting a woman in broad daylight sparks anger on social media.", "January 2021 saw a 14% birth rate drop in Europe in comparison with previous years, research suggests.", "Lucy Letby was a \"dedicated nurse\" who \"in no way wanted to harm\" babies in her care, a court hears.", "Two unions will ballot their members to vote on industrial action over pay in Great Britain.", "Liz Truss' decision on corporation tax on Friday marks one of the biggest fiscal U-turns on record.", "The MP is sacked as chancellor just weeks after his mini-budget plans led to economic turmoil.", "The PM says she is \"determined to see through\" her economic plans, despite dropping her policy to scrap a rise in corporation tax.", "The Sunflowers painting is on display again after climate activists threw tins of tomato soup on it.", "BBC political editor Chris Mason considers how things could play out for Liz Truss after Friday's dramatic events.", "Her parents gave details in an emotional encounter with the press, during a state visit to Sweden.", "Meat Loaf, James Blunt and Leona Lewis feature on a new chart of the most popular debut albums ever.", "The National Television Awards 2022 also celebrated wins for This Morning and Ant and Dec (again).", "The larger-than-life actor excelled in comic and tougher roles, but also battled drink problems.", "The family of the 19-year-old say police failed to properly investigate her claim of being attacked.", "Kyiv says there must be a mission to the Olenivka prison within three days as \"human lives are at stake\".", "The 16-year-old and her brother were tied up when Robert Hamilton broke into their home and ransacked it.", "Leona Harper was picking up an ice cream at the service station at the time of Friday's explosion.", "The court filing said the billionaire was under investigation but it did not explain why.", "Two Ukrainian DJs join the Europe's Biggest Dance Show line-up - and praise the power of music.", "The protest against President Xi came amid strict Covid measures that have also sparked anger online.", "Staff and students at the university will begin to receive their payments in January 2023.", "Half of the UK’s oldest weather stations set new records in the July heatwave.", "BBC journalists are verifying videos that are crucial to establishing what is happening on the ground.", "The latest ONS Covid infection survey estimates that about one in 50 people had the virus last week.", "Magdalene College Cambridge's \"exquisitely detailed\" new library wins the Riba Stirling Prize.", "The Russian government says work on the vital blast-hit bridge must be finished by July 2023.", "Borrowing costs climbed as some economists questioned whether the corporation tax U-turn went far enough.", "The decrease will come into effect in November and is a result of the energy price cap.", "For many refugees, the six months British hosts agreed to house them for is up. So what happens now?", "The new flow was sent in \"European solidarity\" after Russia cut energy supplies to Europe.", "Police suspect Neil Maxwell, a convicted sex offender who died in 2019, killed teenager Leah Croucher.", "The firm is rolling out the less expensive offering to try to attract viewers.", "People in north Wales and Mersey pay the highest rate for their electricity, new figures reveal.", "Tributes have been paid by fellow actors including Daniel Radcliffe, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.", "Winston Churchill's grandson Sir Nicholas Soames is also included in the 26 new Lords entrants.", "Liz Truss reverses her plan to scrap a business tax rise but vows to deliver economic growth.", "Recent demonstrations show little sign of abating, a month after the death of a young woman in police custody.", "The surprise move came as the committee aired never-before-seen footage from the storming of Congress.", "After shooting a relative at home, the boy went out into the street and started shooting neighbours.", "After just 38 days the former chancellor is out of a job - Nick Eardley looks at what went so wrong.", "Celebrities back a boy who lost a finger reportedly fleeing bullies and his school closes for a day.", "The ex-health secretary - who backed Rishi Sunak in the leadership race - takes over at a crucial time.", "The first minister has called on the prime minister to quit following upheaval at Downing Street.", "The postal service blames strike action and widening losses for the mass redundancies.", "The estimates show there has been a \"notable rise\" in infections older people in England and Wales.", "\"A government that's barely begun is confronting questions about its end,\" our political editor writes.", "The Russian president says it is not his aim to destroy Ukraine, despite recent heavy bombardments.", "War in Ukraine", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.", "The SNP leader and first minister tells her party there will need to be \"hard work and good judgement\" to overcome the \"many challenges along the way\".", "Reports from a County Donegal village where a petrol station blast killed 10 people.", "Townsfolk are in a little bit of a flap as their large seagull contingent seems to have flown away.", "Iran is pressing relatives not to speak out, a cousin says, as protests sparked by her death continue.", "The billionaire wins China's praise for comments but Taipei says freedom is \"not for sale\".", "Nika Shakarami's mother confirms she is the girl seen burning her headscarf on a Tehran street.", "The former BBC Radio 5 Live and Blue Peter presenter was diagnosed at the age of 42.", "The 25-year-old is detained in Islington in connection with the attack at Bishopsgate on Thursday.", "The former movie producer, serving 23 years in jail in New York, faces 11 further charges of abuse.", "The rapper posted anti-Semitic messages over the weekend, leading to his accounts being suspended.", "The commemorative 50p coins carry the late monarch's image as they were made before she died.", "An ex-court of appeal judge has been asked to investigate potential breaches of code of conduct.", "The UK's highest court is considering whether Holyrood can set up a second Scottish independence referendum.", "Missiles launched at Ukraine were the first day at work for a newly appointed, hard-line Russian general.", "The 10 people who died in the disaster range in age from five to 59 and lived in or near Creeslough.", "The first minister tells delegates at the SNP conference in Aberdeen that independence is \"essential\".", "Remains of more than 240 people, half of them children, are found at medieval priory in west Wales.", "All events hosted by the charity are played in and coached by people with mental health conditions.", "President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a review of safety measures in the country's water systems.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she does not regret her words after being accused of \"dangerous\" rhetoric.", "As MPs return to Westminster, the prime minister signals that she's in listening mode, says the BBC's Chris Mason.", "The ex-chancellor recalls his brother's 2018 death in an interview to mark World Mental Health day.", "Public spending needs to fall by £60bn to balance the books if tax cuts go ahead, a think tank warns.", "Sir Jeremy Fleming says the country's leadership is aiming to manipulate technology to gain influence.", "Joe Biden says attacks on cities including central Kyiv show the \"brutality\" of Putin's \"illegal war\".", "Russia has blamed a truck bomb - but examination of the footage seems to contradict that.", "At least 22 people have died and 52 are missing as torrential rain hits the Latin American country.", "The public inquiry is taking further evidence as it investigates the wrongful convictions of postmasters.", "Elephants are used in the operation to hunt down the man-eater in Bihar state.", "The men, who all lost daughters to suicide, walked 600 miles and visited all the UK's parliaments.", "Officials think a wave from a nearby tug boat turned over the barge in a river in Gdansk.", "Borrowing costs for the government rose, even after the chancellor's update was brought forward.", "President Zelensky asks US President Biden and leaders of other industrialised countries for further support to stop Russian attacks.", "Courts will begin hearing cases from Tuesday as criminal barristers accept a new pay deal.", "The PM will seek to stabilise her premiership, after a turbulent party conference marked by division.", "The Fawlty Towers star will appear on the network alongside satirist Andrew Doyle from next year.", "The sight of the crippled bridge is a morale boost - but fear remains, writes the BBC's Paul Adams.", "People come together in support of one another at vigils to remember those lost in Friday's blast.", "Passengers have faced 24 hours of limited services after ScotRail RMT members rejected the latest pay offer.", "Annalena Baerbock says Germany will ensure the European Union freezes assets and imposes entry bans.", "The 18-year-old from Cambridgeshire is only the third percussionist to win the prestigious contest.", "The 12th Man group is trying to help men to talk about their feelings in everyday settings.", "A thick, dark cloud of smoke is seen after a blast on the peninsula's only land link to Russia.", "Lucy Letby is described as a \"constant malevolent presence\" at the opening of her murder trial.", "The royal couple visited groups which provide support to people from all backgrounds.", "Users say the rides triggered the phones' crash detection system, US media reports.", "Ben Bernanke, who led the Fed through the financial crisis, is one of a trio to scoop the award.", "Estelle Mendoza, 98, who is on end-of-life care, saw her monthly bills rise from £33 to £215.", "Pyongyang made its claim as intelligence suggests it is preparing to hold a nuclear weapons test.", "Stefan Sylvestre received a life sentence in 2009 after throwing sulphuric acid in Ms Piper's face.", "The Bank of England will increase the daily limit on its emergency bond-buying programme during its final week.", "Russia's latest attacks have left shell-shocked residents and fiery debris, says Paul Adams in Kyiv.", "Hugo Bachega delivers a news report as several explosions happen in the centre of Kyiv.", "More people are using notes and coins to keep an eye on spending, according to the Post Office.", "England and Tottenham striker Harry Kane will make his CBeebies Bedtime Stories debut when he reads The Lion Inside by Rachel Bright to the nation's children.", "The BBC's defence correspondent meets the people of a retaken town - and the soldiers who freed it.", "But ex-culture secretary Nadine Dorries warns the PM needs to be a \"unifier\", not a \"disrupter\".", "In the first Labour deselection in more than 10 years, Sam Tarry is beaten by Jas Athwal.", "Vladimir Putin accuses Ukraine of attacking the bridge to Crimea, saying it was an \"act of terrorism\".", "The news organisation had aired footage from inside the building where 23 children were killed.", "People across County Donegal - as well as in Londonderry - are coming together for a series of vigils.", "Zaporizhzhia is controlled by Ukraine but is in a region illegally annexed by Russia.", "First-time buyers worry about inflation as building society boss warns of difficulty for borrowers.", "Some Tory MPs are clear they will not back a move to end the link between benefits and inflation.", "Willie Watt of the National Investment Bank thinks recent events could increase demand.", "But Liz Truss says a decision hasn't been made, as the issue dominates the Tory party conference.", "Despite confusion, the Treasury is going to release a long-awaited financial plan this month.", "Chris Martin is under 'strict doctors orders' to rest after contracting a serious lung infection.", "Abusive messages were posted on social media in response to a photo of pupils with the first minister.", "The Beatles drummer is \"recovering at home\" and hopes to resume shows soon, his spokesperson says.", "Madeleine Budd admits criminal damage to the memorial in Derbyshire on Friday.", "Russia's latest setbacks came as President Putin was due to sign into force annexation decrees.", "The Prince of Wales says his campaigning to protect the environment is a way of honouring the Queen.", "The tennis player - who is accused of assaulting an ex-partner - cites his struggles with mental health.", "Alan Waller claimed false documents were used by Martin Bashir to win the late princess's trust.", "New Calais smuggling networks are making it even harder to stop rising numbers of Channel crossings.", "Some Japanese woke to the sound of sirens and warnings to take cover as the missile flew above.", "The details were revealed when an 18-year-old man appeared before Belfast Magistrates' Court.", "Dr Jacob Breslow resigns from the transgender charity after attending a paedophile-support conference.", "The government has U-turned over scrapping the 45% rate of income tax, but other changes are going ahead.", "A woman, aged in her 60s, has died after she was attacked by dogs in a Liverpool house, police say.", "The Conservative conference in Birmingham is being overshadowed by splits and rows as she faces mounting pressure over benefits policy.", "The PM and chancellor held a series of crisis talks as it became clear the 45p tax cut policy was going to fail.", "The DUP MLA repeats his party will not return to Stormont until the issues it has are resolved.", "Food charity Fareshare says donations from the major grocers have fallen, just as demand has surged.", "Demonstrations are happening following the death of a woman detained by 'morality police'.", "Alok Sharma says the King has been a champion of the environment and other countries want him to attend COP27.", "Abuse and misconduct \"had become systemic\" in the United States' top-flight National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), an independent investigation finds.", "But she did not reverse the decision to remove titles from four of her grandchildren.", "The average rate of a new two-year fixed rate mortgage is 6% as the UK's biggest lenders change prices.", "The 36-year-old man became unwell between miles 23 and 24 of the annual 26.2-mile event.", "The team will also monitor a colony of gentoo penguins on Goudier Island for five months.", "Ukraine makes fresh gains in occupied territory annexed by Russia, straining Russian supply lines.", "In a letter to Twitter, the billionaire said he would buy the business and honour his original deal.", "Jim Redmond, who famously helped his injured son Derek cross the 400m finish line at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, has died aged 81.", "Five American bulldogs were put down after the victim, named locally as Ann Dunn, was attacked.", "BBC broadcaster Alex Scott says the domestic abuse she experienced during her childhood is \"still so raw\".", "Kwasi Kwarteng says the proposal was \"drowning out a strong package\" to boost economic growth.", "Liz Truss will use her first conference speech as prime minister to explain her economic policies.", "Ian Hamilton was one of four Scottish nationalists who took the stone from Westminster Abbey in 1950.", "Rebekah Vardy is ordered to pay 90% of Coleen Rooney's legal costs after the Wagatha Christie case.", "Dramatic scenes show teenagers waving headscarves and chanting against clerical authorities.", "The singer's hits included Coal Miner's Daughter, Honky Tonk Girl and feminist anthem The Pill.", "A couple take religious vows in an intergalactic gathering featuring stormtroopers and Chewbacca.", "The slave drama will be released in December, making it eligible for next year's Oscars.", "The chancellor has been urged to say how he will pay for major tax cuts package.", "A new search for Keith Bennett has found \"no evidence to suggest the presence of remains\", police say.", "Police release footage of two men they believe were involved in the murder of Sean Fox.", "Mum of Tony Hickmott, who has been held in a secure hospital since 2001, says: \"He's coming home.\"", "The chancellor says he wants to focus on delivering growth, after admitting it's been a \"tough day\".", "The BBC's Orla Guerin finds desolate scenes in Lyman, a town Ukraine recaptured from Russia.", "Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng remains under pressure to detail how he will pay for wider tax cuts.", "The 14-year-old is arrested on suspicion of murder after another teenager dies following a stabbing.", "Euro-MPs vote to make all mobile devices use the same USB-C type charger from 2024.", "A coroner offers his condolences to the family of Mr Kaba, who was due to become a father.", "An animal charity believes there could be up to 14,000 badger baiting incidents each year.", "Iran's top diplomat in the UK is called to the Foreign Office over Tehran's crackdown on protests.", "But Liz Truss says she is not currently contemplating trying again to get rid of the 45p tax rate.", "The families fleeing Russian-occupied areas speak of their hopes and fears as the border hardens.", "The health secretary announces £600m of funding to help the NHS cope in the \"challenging\" months ahead.", "Tory MPs said the decision to offer the best paid a tax cut was unsellable, the BBC's political editor explains.", "PM Liz Truss is considering options to help pay for her tax cuts, growth and bills help package.", "Inspectors also endorsed staff \"values\" at a time when the BBC was filming patients being mistreated.", "Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng says he will stick to his tax cut plan despite days of market turmoil.", "Police say Sean Fox was enjoying a drink in a crowded function room when he was shot several times.", "Plans are to change the names and teaching of some subjects, including science and Welsh language.", "Olivia's parents were in court to see Thomas Cashman, 34, charged with murdering the nine-year-old.", "Gifts for Russia's embattled president include a tractor from Belarusian ally Alexander Lukashenko.", "Octopus energy expects customers to get £4 a day on average for cutting back consumption when demand is high.", "A woman says she is unable to cut back on heating due to her and her daughter's lung conditions.", "Charity experts say UK death rates are a \"national scandal\" and want more research spending.", "Tobin was serving three life terms for the murders of Angelika Kluk, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol.", "The trade minister also had the Tory whip removed after allegations of inappropriate behaviour.", "The US considers a humanitarian corridor to allow urgent supplies to enter the country.", "She was one of the Queen's favourite ponies and appeared at the monarch's funeral.", "A live news broadcast in Iran was interrupted by messages targeting the country's supreme leader.", "The explosion wrecked one section of Europe's longest bridge, reportedly killing three people.", "The SNP conference will hear much about the fallout from the UK government's mini-budget.", "A study detected abnormalities in people who had had Covid but did not need hospital treatment.", "A quiet, charming, unassuming man - and arguably the most popular leader on Earth.", "England's victory over the United States shows they could be the team to beat at next summer's World Cup.", "Organisers pledge to reflect \"what Ukraine and its people deserve\" as they host the 2023 contest.", "European champions England beat world champions the United States for the first time since 2017 in front of more than 76,000 fans at Wembley Stadium.", "The coins, found during kitchen renovations in East Yorkshire, have attracted global interest.", "Erling Haaland scored his 20th goal for Manchester City as his side swept Southampton aside to move top of the Premier League.", "Ukraine's president tells the BBC \"they are not ready to do it... But they begin to communicate\".", "One part of the road section reopens to light traffic, after an explosion caused another part to collapse.", "Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says if his party's demands are not met, there will be \"no basis to re-enter Stormont\".", "Haji Choudhary Rab Nawaz, 52, died after police were called to a fight on 2 October.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 30 September and 7 October.", "Gardener Kevin Fortey counts rappers Snoop Dogg and Souleye among his fans.", "Limited services ran until early on Saturday evening and schedules will resume later than normal on Sunday.", "Jamie Acourt's sentence will be reactivated unless he starts paying back £90K he made in a drugs deal.", "Mayor Eric Adams said the city is on track to spend $1bn this fiscal year to care for asylum seekers.", "The trade minister, who has denied any wrongdoing, was sacked from the government on Friday.", "Russian MP Vyacheslav Nikonov, who is on UK government sanction lists, got the honorary award in 2012.", "A thick, dark cloud of smoke is seen after a blast on the peninsula's only land link to Russia.", "A Ukrainian official said two sites were found near Lyman, with one estimated to hold 200 dead.", "DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson addressed his party conference in Belfast", "Ian Blackford tells the SNP conference homes, pensions, and incomes are not safe under Westminster control.", "A criminal investigation is launched into messages allegedly shared by police officers on WhatsApp.", "A consultant paediatrician says the digital project has \"huge potential\" to reduce admissions.", "The Power Of The Doctor episode will end her time on the sci-fi series after five years in the lead role.", "Birds in Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Essex cannot be outside from Wednesday, amid the UK's largest outbreak.", "The Harry Potter author posted a selfie branding Nicola Sturgeon a \"destroyer of human rights\".", "Favourites England open their World Cup with a dominant second-half showing to claim a record 14 tries against debutants Fiji.", "The move comes after parents of the victims camped outside school offices in protest.", "The loss of the Sphinx snow patch is a sign of climate change, says expert Iain Cameron.", "While Russia's president annexes large areas of Ukraine, the truth on the ground looks very different.", "A government limit on electricity generated in older renewable and nuclear facilities is expected this week.", "Donagh McGoveran's shop has not been allowed to reopen since the Cathedral Quarter fire on Monday.", "Some Tory MPs are clear they will not back a move to end the link between benefits and inflation.", "In a letter to Twitter, the billionaire said he would buy the business and honour his original deal.", "Two-year-old George Hinds was killed in the Heysham blast caused by Darren Greenham cutting a gas pipe.", "Major oil producers including Saudi Arabia will pump less, raising fears of higher fuel prices.", "Could the solution to plastic pollution be found inside the mouths of tiny wax worms?", "Liz Truss speaks out against what she calls the \"anti-growth coalition\" in her conference speech.", "The Church's Past Cases Review looks at cases relating to living clergy, officials and volunteers.", "Commuters see disruption as 9,000 drivers at 13 rail companies walk out on Wednesday.", "The PM says she will continue with her economic plan, and rounds on an \"anti-growth coalition\" that she says is hindering it.", "In her first party conference speech as PM, Liz Truss vows to take on the \"anti-growth coalition\".", "But Liz Truss says a decision hasn't been made, as the issue dominates the Tory party conference.", "Social media posts showing what appeared to be an explosion caused some residents in Gangneung to panic.", "Noah is now the most popular name for boys, while Olivia stays at the top of the list for baby girls.", "BBC broadcaster Alex Scott says the domestic abuse she experienced during her childhood is \"still so raw\".", "Erling Haaland continues his incredible scoring form with two more goals as Manchester City sweep Copenhagen aside in Champions League Group G.", "An expert calls for \"immediate research\" after a study suggests players could be at increased risk.", "Universal boss Donna Langley is the first British woman to run a Hollywood studio.", "\"I miss her dearly,\" says the star, after fellow country singer Loretta Lynn dies at the age of 90.", "The UK's largest supermarket chain has announced a further boost to pay for its UK workers.", "Technical negotiations between the UK and EU are set to restart on Thursday after eight months.", "Rory Mason, 23, died while fighting for Ukraine's International Legion near the Russian border.", "Greenpeace campaigners heckle the prime minister a few minutes into her party conference speech.", "Liz Truss will use her first conference speech as prime minister to explain her economic policies.", "Climate activists say Egypt should reverse its decision because of Coca-Cola's plastic pollution.", "Dr Jacob Breslow resigns from the transgender charity after attending a paedophile-support conference.", "The PM and chancellor held a series of crisis talks as it became clear the 45p tax cut policy was going to fail.", "The prime minister vows to focus on “growth, growth and growth” at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.", "Jessica Lawson, 12, died after a pontoon capsized in a lake near Limoges in 2015.", "Despite confusion, the Treasury is going to release a long-awaited financial plan this month.", "The Royal College of Emergency Medicine says this winter will be tough for patients and staff.", "The families fleeing Russian-occupied areas speak of their hopes and fears as the border hardens.", "A couple take religious vows in an intergalactic gathering featuring stormtroopers and Chewbacca.", "The health secretary announces £600m of funding to help the NHS cope in the \"challenging\" months ahead.", "Angelina Jolie says Brad Pitt grabbed her head and attacked two of their children, which he denies.", "Ukraine continues to take back territory from Russia even as Moscow formalises taking over four regions.", "Growth is just one of many problems facing the Tory government, the BBC's political editor says.", "Alok Sharma says the King has been a champion of the environment and other countries want him to attend COP27.", "A typical two-year fixed rate deal has breached the 6% mark for the first time since November 2008.", "Seven people died after missiles hit residential buildings in the city of Zaporizhzhia, the region's governor says.", "A video appears to show teenagers shouting \"get lost, Basiji\", as protests spread to the classroom.", "It comes after a claim that two men entered a fitting room in Cambridge as a woman was changing.", "Filming of Rust will resume in January, with Hutchins' husband on board as executive producer.", "PM Liz Truss is considering options to help pay for her tax cuts, growth and bills help package.", "Time-restricted eating reduced blood pressure and cholesterol in a study of US firefighters.", "A telescope in Chile captures an image of a comet-like plume of debris behind the giant rock.", "Russia's latest setbacks came as President Putin was due to sign into force annexation decrees.", "A new search for Keith Bennett has found \"no evidence to suggest the presence of remains\", police say.", "Madeleine Budd admits criminal damage to the memorial in Derbyshire on Friday.", "The prime minister wants to be judged on boosting economic growth, but how easy will that be to deliver?", "Mike Pickering says the use of his song to introduce Liz Truss at the Tory conference left him \"angry\".", "Jade's case failed to reach court because it was suggested she may have a rare sleep disorder.", "Sridhar Ramaswamy says the technology sector has become \"exploitative\" of people's data.", "It is likely Hans Niemann has cheated \"much more often\" than he has acknowledged, an investigation finds.", "Tomasz Oleszak, from Gateshead, was fatally injured in the Springwell Estate on Monday.", "The Bank of England warns of a \"material risk\" to financial stability as it buys more government bonds.", "The ECHR decision relating to pensions is set to cost the government millions in backdated payouts.", "Despite beating its rivals, the west London airport says air travel demand \"remains uncertain\".", "Smashing a probe into threatening space rocks is a strategy to defend Earth, an experiment confirms.", "Reports from a County Donegal village where a petrol station blast killed 10 people.", "Nika Shakarami's mother confirms she is the girl seen burning her headscarf on a Tehran street.", "Lucy Letby told the mother of a distressed baby \"trust me I'm a nurse\", her murder trial hears.", "The artist has begun burning artworks after giving buyers' the option to own the NFT instead.", "The 25-year-old is detained in Islington in connection with the attack at Bishopsgate on Thursday.", "The renewable energy company says it could produce enough to run about 170 buses every day.", "Jessica Gallagher, 24, and Martin McGill, 49, were two of the 10 people who died last Friday.", "The UK's highest court is considering whether Holyrood can set up a second Scottish independence referendum.", "Missiles launched at Ukraine were the first day at work for a newly appointed, hard-line Russian general.", "Medics working in some British hospitals face “slave-type” conditions, says a doctors’ group.", "Ministers are also considering relaxing affordable homes targets, sparking outrage from Labour.", "The first minister tells delegates at the SNP conference in Aberdeen that independence is \"essential\".", "Remains of more than 240 people, half of them children, are found at medieval priory in west Wales.", "The group also warned that any attack on Western infrastructure would face a \"determined response\".", "Relatives of those who died in the Air France crash yelled \"shame\" as the trial started in Paris.", "Some Tories oppose the government lifting the ban on fracking in England and want a vote on the issue.", "British Cycling is accused of getting involved in \"greenwashing\" after announcing an eight-year sponsorship deal with oil giant Shell.", "Sir Jeremy Fleming says the country's leadership is aiming to manipulate technology to gain influence.", "Syed has spent 23 years in prison for the murder of Hae Min Lee, but has long maintained his innocence.", "Public spending needs to fall by £60bn to balance the books if tax cuts go ahead, a think tank warns.", "The chart-topping singer-songwriter pleads not guilty and is due to stand trial next January.", "Russia has blamed a truck bomb - but examination of the footage seems to contradict that.", "Joe Biden says attacks on cities including central Kyiv show the \"brutality\" of Putin's \"illegal war\".", "The public inquiry is taking further evidence as it investigates the wrongful convictions of postmasters.", "Lawyers ask the Human Rights Council to intervene to ensure Zeynab Javadli and her children's safety.", "President Zelensky asks US President Biden and leaders of other industrialised countries for further support to stop Russian attacks.", "Slovakia is the only eurozone country expected to have higher inflation than the UK by the end of next year.", "Shoppers could pay an extra £643 a year for food and other groceries, research firm Kantar says.", "A magistrates' court hears one man required 52 stitches after being cut with a knife on his face.", "Cathy's mum Maureen suffered multiple falls after a care-worker shortage left her to struggle on her own.", "Lucy Letby is described as a \"constant malevolent presence\" at the opening of her murder trial.", "The key suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine is charged in Germany over unrelated offences.", "Facebook-owner Meta has revealed a new VR headset as part of its continued metaverse push.", "People stock up on energy-efficient appliances as household bills rise but overall retail sales fell.", "Pyongyang made its claim as intelligence suggests it is preparing to hold a nuclear weapons test.", "The extraordinary moment a manic scrum of male bees envelops a single female to try to mate with her.", "The chef says he is \"up for the fight\" if the government does not seek to improve children's health.", "The chancellor stands by his mini-budget as the IMF says his plans could increase growth but risk higher inflation.", "The Bank of England will increase the daily limit on its emergency bond-buying programme during its final week.", "Rights activists say security forces are firing indiscriminately at protesters and homes in Sanandaj.", "Hugo Bachega delivers a news report as several explosions happen in the centre of Kyiv.", "Russia's latest attacks have left shell-shocked residents and fiery debris, says Paul Adams in Kyiv.", "War in Ukraine", "The BBC uncovers 60 cases which the CPS admit wrongly dropping but a defendant cannot be re-tried.", "Nearly 2.5 million are not looking for jobs because of long-term sickness, adding to labour shortages.", "The National Audit Office will assess costs and benefits after an MP called it \"a waste of money\".", "Supreme Court judges hear legal arguments on whether the Scottish government can hold a second independence referendum.", "The coronation in Westminster Abbey will be on a Saturday, Buckingham Palace reveals.", "The prime minister wants to be judged on boosting economic growth, but how easy will that be to deliver?", "In the first Labour deselection in more than 10 years, Sam Tarry is beaten by Jas Athwal.", "Vladimir Putin accuses Ukraine of attacking the bridge to Crimea, saying it was an \"act of terrorism\".", "Graham Bonham-Carter is accused of helping oligarch Oleg Deripaska to evade US-imposed sanctions.", "Angela Lansbury, star of the US TV crime series Murder, She Wrote, has died at the age of 96.", "People across County Donegal - as well as in Londonderry - are coming together for a series of vigils.", "Whether letting or living in their homes, mortgages are pushing up the cost for many people.", "Raychel Ferguson was one of five children whose deaths were part of the Hyponatremia Inquiry.", "Asked whether he could U-turn on parts of his mini-budget, Kwasi Kwarteng says \"our position hasn't changed\".", "Tennants Auctioneers in Leyburn say Lowry spent time on the North East coast after his mother died.", "Tributes have been paid by fellow actors including Daniel Radcliffe, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.", "The Sunflowers painting is on display again after climate activists threw tins of tomato soup on it.", "BBC political editor Chris Mason considers how things could play out for Liz Truss after Friday's dramatic events.", "The two have been charged in relation to soup thrown at the painting in the National Gallery,", "A woman has been arrested after 54-year-old Tony Browne was stabbed on Friday evening.", "Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood, 21, is due in court on Monday.", "Mason Greenwood is held for allegedly breaching bail after his previous arrest on suspicion of rape.", "It is unclear if the fire is linked to recent protests, but many protesters are being held at Evin prison.", "The actress told the BBC's Today programme she greeted the new chancellor, but wanted to say something else.", "The first electric Mini was built in Oxford in 2020, but most will now be made in China.", "Liz Truss reverses her plan to scrap a business tax rise but vows to deliver economic growth.", "The larger-than-life actor excelled in comic and tougher roles, but also battled drink problems.", "After shooting a relative at home, the boy went out into the street and started shooting neighbours.", "After just 38 days the former chancellor is out of a job - Nick Eardley looks at what went so wrong.", "Many MPs are unhappy with the prime minister after she fired her chancellor and announced a second U-turn.", "Eels are tracked to the Sargasso Sea on an epic migration, helping in their conservation.", "The Communist Party meeting is expected to see Mr Xi get a precedent-breaking third term as leader.", "Emergency crews had worked through the night to reach survivors hundreds of metres below ground.", "A Friday bank holiday for King Charles's coronation would clash with vote counting in England.", "Two attackers opened fire on recruits who had volunteered to fight in Ukraine, local media report.", "Harry Kane marks his 400th Tottenham appearance with a goal as Antonio Conte's side beat Everton at home.", "A power installation near Ukraine's capital was heavily damaged by another Russian missile strike.", "The ex-health secretary - who backed Rishi Sunak in the leadership race - takes over at a crucial time.", "The first minister has called on the prime minister to quit following upheaval at Downing Street.", "The murder of the investigative journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia, sparked widespread anger.", "Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies says Liz Truss must \"turn this situation around\".", "The postal service blames strike action and widening losses for the mass redundancies.", "The tycoon reverses his earlier decision to stop funding a vital internet service for Ukraine.", "The successor to Sir David Amess says Southend should seek City of Culture status in his honour.", "Jeremy Hunt warns of difficult decisions ahead, as he signals major changes to Liz Truss's economic plans.", "BBC journalists are verifying videos that are crucial to establishing what is happening on the ground.", "He had been seen as Liz Truss's political soulmate when he was appointed to the role.", "Liz Truss and Keir Starmer lead tributes to late Southend MP while tree is planted in his memory.", "Police suspect Neil Maxwell, a convicted sex offender who died in 2019, killed teenager Leah Croucher.", "Protesters could be blocked from targeting key infrastructure under the home secretary's new plans.", "England continue their successful start to the World Cup with a 13-7 victory against a determined France in New Zealand.", "Footage appearing to show police assaulting a woman in broad daylight sparks anger on social media.", "Will a change in chancellor and a U-turn on corporation tax be enough to reassure financial markets?", "The new chancellor has junked the prime minister's economic strategy in 24 hours, writes Laura Kuenssberg.", "Borrowing costs climbed as some economists questioned whether the corporation tax U-turn went far enough.", "BioNTech's mRNA cancer trials started long before the pandemic, and have shown some early encouraging signals.", "Jeremy Hunt will take over as chancellor, as Liz Truss is expected to U-turn on her economic plan.", "How will England's teams fare? Who are the key players? BBC experts preview the men's, women's and wheelchair World Cups.", "He showed no remorse in court as he learned his fate for tormenting the girl whose ordeal shocked Canada.", "Jeremy Hunt tells the BBC he needs to show the world the numbers add up, but says difficult decisions lie ahead.", "The Russian president says it is not his aim to destroy Ukraine, despite recent heavy bombardments.", "Andrew Bailey also describes his conversations with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt as a \"meeting of minds\".", "Robbie Coltrane has played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films and won three Baftas for Cracker, but most people do not know that in the 60s his dreams were about art, not acting.", "The actor's friends and Harry Potter co-stars pay tribute to his kindness, warmth and sense of humour.", "Two unions will ballot their members to vote on industrial action over pay in Great Britain.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.", "Council said the fire broke out in a former local authority building now in the hands of developers.", "Tobias Ellwood tweeted that he was \"off the naughty step\" and back in the parliamentary party.", "The US president condemns Russia's leader over his declared annexation of four occupied regions of Ukraine.", "After wreaking deadly havoc in Florida, Ian smashes piers in South Carolina and floods neighbourhoods.", "Russian forces withdraw from the strategic town of Lyman, where Kyiv's forces were threatening to encircle them.", "The deadliest tally in years comes amid a big increase in Israeli military raids.", "The deal is one of the biggest in music history, approaching the sum paid for Bob Dylan's music.", "The War on Larkiv game was accepted and promoted by the world's largest children's game platform.", "The army captain who announced Friday's takeover says the ousted leader is planning a counter-attack.", "Trooper Jack Burnell-Williams reportedly took part in the late Queen's funeral procession.", "The monarch and prime minister agreed the King would not go after he sought government advice.", "The detective who became like \"family\" to girl's parents, speaks of the ordeal of her disappearance.", "Anoosheh Ashoori, 68, says he is taking part to raise awareness about others held captive.", "At least 30 civilians were reportedly killed as they tried to enter Russian-held territory to deliver aid.", "Downing Street says it will not change its tax-cut plan but the PM is meeting the Budget watchdog.", "The tech billionaire claims the robot will change the future of physical work.", "Cuba's capital lost power when Hurricane Ian hit days ago, and parts still remain in the dark.", "Police search for the body of Keith Bennett, killed in 1964, after \"potential remains\" are found.", "Germany, France, the UK and Sweden have been warned over the involvement of their \"agents\", Iran says.", "The retreat came amid fears thousands of soldiers would be encircled in Lyman, and is seen as a significant blow.", "Large parts of Britain are without train services as rail workers in four unions go out on strike.", "The boss of Europe's biggest nuclear plant was blindfolded and led away by Russian troops, Ukraine says.", "This is an attempt to divert from Russia's problems on the battlefield, says the BBC's Steve Rosenberg.", "The day of action across the UK sees people highlight the cost-of-living crisis and the environment.", "Flight Sergeant William Robert Stephen Hurrell's remains were discovered in the Netherlands in 2019.", "The release is the latest twist in events surrounding the group after a dramatic breakout in Mexico.", "The Prince of Wales says online safety for young people should be \"a prerequisite, not an afterthought\".", "President Putin has sparked an international outcry by annexing four regions of occupied Ukraine.", "Laura Kuenssberg on what options the PM - one of her guests on Sunday - has to calm her party.", "New text messages between Musk and Twitter boss Parag Agrawal reveal how the relationship broke down.", "Two marathon runners tell BBC Newsbeat about overcoming the odds to compete in the London Marathon.", "Greater Manchester Police says it will continue excavation works but \"conditions are difficult\".", "The Basic Oxygen Steelmaking (BOS) Plant was brought down using 1.6 tonnes of explosives.", "Lewis Hamilton dismisses ongoing controversy about his wearing a nose stud in his F1 car as \"all a bit silly\", as the issue blows up again at the Singapore Grand Prix.", "One retailer sold almost 10 times more energy top-ups than normal on the day before prices rose.", "Dan Metcalfe was left with no muscle use from his chest downwards after a motorbike accident.", "Wildlife groups praised the move making it illegal to capture, kill, injure or disturb them.", "The economy grew in the second quarter of this year, but it remains smaller than pre-Covid levels.", "A 34-year-old man is charged over the death of the nine-year-old who was shot in her Liverpool home.", "The Mirror newspaper apologises after mistaking another man for the chancellor in an online story.", "Teachers in parts of recently-occupied Ukraine say they were beaten and forced to destroy textbooks.", "Denmark and Greenland agree to investigate traumatising birth control procedures on Inuit Greenlanders.", "The former BBC presenter jokes he is \"getting used to being the quietest person in the room\".", "Some Tory MPs are clear they will not back a move to end the link between benefits and inflation.", "Broadcaster Piers Morgan presses the MP on Question Time to make a \"simple apology\" to Britons.", "An ex-court of appeal judge has been asked to investigate potential breaches of code of conduct.", "Tom Stevenson, 21, says he had something to prove after getting disappointing A-Level results.", "Services will be cancelled on the majority of routes on Monday, 10 October.", "The 35-year-old denies he is Nicholas Rossi who is accused of raping a woman in Utah in 2008.", "An ex-police officer killed at least 37 people at a childcare centre before killing himself and his family.", "Erling Haaland continues his incredible scoring form with two more goals as Manchester City sweep Copenhagen aside in Champions League Group G.", "Survivors recount horror of deadly attacks on city of Zaporizhzhia, being blamed on Russia.", "Jessica Lawson, 12, died after a pontoon capsized in a lake near Limoges in 2015.", "There was terror and confusion as sleeping children were attacked by the former policeman.", "Cuts would probably occur at peak times and customers would be warned in advance.", "Simon Thomas praises staff for delivering his daughter eight weeks early after his wife fell ill.", "State TV shows Nika Shakarami's uncle condemning the protests as a voice appears to threaten him.", "A typical two-year fixed rate deal has breached the 6% mark for the first time since November 2008.", "BBC News NI understands that the industrial action may escalate if the pay dispute is not resolved.", "Centre for the Moving Image in administration, with the loss of 102 jobs in Edinburgh and Aberdeen.", "X-ray scans of a tiny reptile fossil reveal the pterodactyls' forebears scampered around on two legs.", "The district council says it has \"worked\" with Mr Clarkson but advice has been \"ignored\".", "Sridhar Ramaswamy says the technology sector has become \"exploitative\" of people's data.", "Elton John, Prince Harry and other public figures take legal action against Associated Newspapers.", "Rob Lewis had been suspended after a BBC investigation revealed he had been posting racist content on WhatsApp.", "In Asia, super-apps are already a vital part of everyday life, with everything available at a click of a button.", "The Los Angeles County District Attorney says Eric Weinberg allegedly lured women to photo shoots.", "Pyongyang says the launch of short-range ballistic missiles is a response to US-South Korean drills.", "Windfalls are a slip hazard and could be \"used as missiles\", the borough council was told.", "Families of some of those affected are giving evidence at a public inquiry into the treatment disaster.", "At least 18 people are killed in the shooting blamed on the Los Tequileros crime gang.", "The man, now a Home Office immigration official, has been suspended, after a BBC investigation.", "Ukraine continues to take back territory from Russia even as Moscow formalises taking over four regions.", "A \"phone snatch\" victim was stabbed after fighting back along with others, the BBC is told.", "Growth is just one of many problems facing the Tory government, the BBC's political editor says.", "A former policeman on trial for drugs offences stormed the school and killed many children before taking his own life.", "It comes after a claim that two men entered a fitting room in Cambridge as a woman was changing.", "New guidance asks staff to share concerns with \"trusted contacts\", even without the student's consent.", "Sierra Leone international Mohamed Buya Turay insists Sweden's top flight league is of a high standard after returning to Scandinavia.", "Elizabeth McMonigle's brother and sister were killed during a brutal robbery in their Glasgow home.", "Arts groups say venues are cutting down on productions and some pools are being heated less.", "Donald Brett's body was propped in a chair for days while his daughter and her partner dug a grave.", "Major oil producers including Saudi Arabia will pump less, raising fears of higher fuel prices.", "The Bank of England feared forced sales of government bonds would have risked a fresh financial crisis.", "In her first party conference speech as PM, Liz Truss vows to take on the \"anti-growth coalition\".", "Noah is now the most popular name for boys, while Olivia stays at the top of the list for baby girls.", "The fight between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr, due to take place in London on Saturday, is postponed following the former returning an \"adverse analytical finding\".", "Conservatives are facing a \"wipeout\" at the next election, ex-culture secretary Nadine Dorries says.", "Greenpeace campaigners heckle the prime minister a few minutes into her party conference speech.", "Three babies have been born after receiving the landmark treatment in the US.", "The prime minister vows to focus on “growth, growth and growth” at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.", "After winning his US Championship match, Hans Niemann said the game was \"a message to everyone\".", "The move brings President Biden closer to his campaign pledge to decriminalise recreational cannabis.", "Mike Pickering says the use of his song to introduce Liz Truss at the Tory conference left him \"angry\".", "Federal agents investigating the US president's son believe they have evidence of tax crimes.", "The author tweeted a picture of herself as a protest began outside the Scottish Parliament.", "Demand is at record levels for blood to help people with the disease that mostly affects black people.", "At least 18 people have died off Lesbos, after a boat hit rocks under a cliff elsewhere in Greece.", "The Royal College of Nursing is balloting all its UK members for the first time in 106 years.", "The government risks economic dynamite as some state workers lobby for double-digit wage rises.", "The BBC talks to students whose schools have been set on fire in a spate of recent arson attacks.", "The biggest increase was in crimes against transgender people, which rose by 56% from the previous year.", "The royal couple visited groups which provide support to people from all backgrounds.", "New licences for North Sea oil and gas are incompatible with reaching net zero by 2050, a report says.", "In a week of harrowing testimony, ex-pupils described how 72 friends died of Aids and hepatitis.", "Seven people died after missiles hit residential buildings in the city of Zaporizhzhia, the region's governor says.", "A video appears to show teenagers shouting \"get lost, Basiji\", as protests spread to the classroom.", "Filming of Rust will resume in January, with Hutchins' husband on board as executive producer.", "Ann Dunn, 65, who was attacked in a Liverpool house, was a \"one-in-a-million mum\", her family says.", "Twitter said it did not trust the billionaire's promises to proceed with the takeover.", "Plaid say using the Welsh word for Wales when promoting the country could spark \"heritage tourism\".", "The men were found alive on the Greek-Turkish border, but exactly what happened is not clear.", "A police watchdog says the way the Met responds to the public is inadequate and must improve.", "Tobin, who died in hospital aged 76, was cremated after no-one came forward to claim his body.", "Sir Mark Rowley says 100 detectives will be deployed to identify their \"criminal colleagues\".", "Wales are humbled as Rugby World Cup hosts New Zealand run in 10 tries in front of a sell-out crowd in Waitakere.", "BBC political editor Chris Mason considers how things could play out for Liz Truss after Friday's dramatic events.", "The coal mine explosion in northern Turkey on Friday night left 41 dead and 28 others injured.", "It is unclear if the fire is linked to recent protests, but many protesters are being held at Evin prison.", "Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg, the new chancellor was quizzed about what economic changes the public should expect.", "Liverpool's Mohamed Salah scores and Jurgen Klopp is sent off as Manchester City lose for the first time in the league this season.", "The death of a man who may have been taken in a vehicle against his will is suspicious, police say.", "Despite civilian and military bloodshed, Ukraine's online information war keeps a sense of humour.", "More than a thousand teddies left at royal residences by members of the public will go to a children's charity.", "The Communist Party meeting is expected to see Mr Xi get a precedent-breaking third term as leader.", "London's mayor says the force needs a new \"reforming commissioner\" to restore confidence.", "Essex toy creator Desriee Asomuyide wants every child to see themselves in toys and books.", "Emergency crews had worked through the night to reach survivors hundreds of metres below ground.", "Four others were treated at the scene in Dunipace, near Denny, on Sunday afternoon.", "Jamie Wallis accuses her of \"very basic and avoidable errors\" over the government's mini-budget.", "Clannad's remaining members said they were \"heartbroken\" by the sudden death of Noel Duggan aged 73.", "Two attackers opened fire on recruits who had volunteered to fight in Ukraine, local media report.", "Harry Kane marks his 400th Tottenham appearance with a goal as Antonio Conte's side beat Everton at home.", "Three young scouts were taken to hospital after being assisted by the Mourne Mountain Rescue Team.", "The ex-health secretary - who backed Rishi Sunak in the leadership race - takes over at a crucial time.", "The tycoon reverses his earlier decision to stop funding a vital internet service for Ukraine.", "Jeremy Hunt warns of difficult decisions ahead, as he signals major changes to Liz Truss's economic plans.", "In some videos people could be heard outside the prison chanting \"death to the dictator\".", "There have been 19 deaths and 58 cases reported in Uganda during this outbreak.", "Protesters could be blocked from targeting key infrastructure under the home secretary's new plans.", "\"A government that's barely begun is confronting questions about its end,\" our political editor writes.", "Will a change in chancellor and a U-turn on corporation tax be enough to reassure financial markets?", "Campaigners urge the government to pay for a drug they say will help protect vulnerable people this winter.", "The new chancellor has junked the prime minister's economic strategy in 24 hours, writes Laura Kuenssberg.", "BioNTech's mRNA cancer trials started long before the pandemic, and have shown some early encouraging signals.", "The chancellor calls for unity, as three MPs break cover to call for the prime minister to resign.", "John Allan told the BBC he feels a \"moral responsibility\" to help those affected by rates going up.", "Jeremy Hunt tells Laura Kuenssberg that nothing is off the table over tax cuts, but that the government will be \"compassionate\".", "The new chancellor has quickly made it clear he will not be pursuing so-called \"Trussonomics\".", "Andrew Bailey also describes his conversations with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt as a \"meeting of minds\".", "The actor's friends and Harry Potter co-stars pay tribute to his kindness, warmth and sense of humour.", "Placards saying \"we mind the gap\" were waved by villagers facing a long detour since January 2021.", "The US president spoke out as the UK pays a diplomatic price for turmoil, the BBC’s James Landale writes.", "The new chancellor warns of \"very difficult decisions\" as he heads to Chequers to hold talks with the PM.", "Council said the fire broke out in a former local authority building now in the hands of developers.", "As well as tax cuts, ministers are promising a series of changes in policy to boost economic growth.", "Kwasi Kwarteng will defend his tax cuts during his Conservative Party conference speech.", "BBC presenter Laura Kuenssberg apologised to viewers for the temporary blackout.", "It was widely reported that the actor had sold his face to a deepfake company.", "The deadliest tally in years comes amid a big increase in Israeli military raids.", "Police say no arrests have been made and the precise quantity is yet to be established.", "An estimated 42,000 people took part in the 26.2-mile London Marathon as large crowds watched.", "The monarch and prime minister agreed the King would not go after he sought government advice.", "The top Tory says Liz Truss's policies are \"not Conservative\" but the PM says they will boost growth.", "The London Marathon is almost upon us. Here is everything you need to know as 42,000 runners prepare to tackle the iconic course.", "Fifa president Gianni Infantino says it is a \"dark day\" for football after at least 125 people are killed in a crush at a match in Indonesia.", "The retreat came amid fears thousands of soldiers would be encircled in Lyman, and is seen as a significant blow.", "Exactly 50 years ago in the Peruvian capital Lima more than 300 people died - but the full story has never been told.", "The boss of Europe's biggest nuclear plant was blindfolded and led away by Russian troops, Ukraine says.", "Liz Truss is now as unpopular with voters as Boris Johnson when he was ousted, says veteran pollster.", "The day of action across the UK sees people highlight the cost-of-living crisis and the environment.", "The Tory chairman defends the chancellor over claims he discussed future spending plans with financiers.", "The victim, named locally as Sean Fox, was shot by two masked gunmen who then escaped on foot.", "As the Tory party conference starts, MPs, the market and the public need reassurance, the BBC's Ione Wells says.", "The campaigner was there as \"Melanie Brown MBE\", rather than as a Spice Girl, she says.", "The heckler was allegedly dragged to the ground as the Duke of York walked behind the Queen's coffin.", "What has happened in the last 10 days could leave an indelible mark on Liz Truss, some Tories fear.", "Laura Kuenssberg on what options the PM - one of her guests on Sunday - has to calm her party.", "Two marathon runners tell BBC Newsbeat about overcoming the odds to compete in the London Marathon.", "Greater Manchester Police says it will continue excavation works but \"conditions are difficult\".", "Lewis Hamilton dismisses ongoing controversy about his wearing a nose stud in his F1 car as \"all a bit silly\", as the issue blows up again at the Singapore Grand Prix.", "But the prime minister says she sticks by her mini budget, despite a bad reaction from the markets.", "Far-right Jair Bolsonaro will face leftist Luiz Inácio 'Lula' da Silva in the deciding second round of Brazil's election.", "Laura Kuenssberg speaks to Prime Minister Liz Truss.", "Viral videos in the US have shown a surprising card game win - and fish stuffed with weights.", "Manchester City's Erling Haaland becomes the first player to score three successive Premier League home hat-tricks as Manchester United are thrashed 6-3.", "A 34-year-old man is charged over the death of the nine-year-old who was shot in her Liverpool home.", "The Mirror newspaper apologises after mistaking another man for the chancellor in an online story.", "Teachers in parts of recently-occupied Ukraine say they were beaten and forced to destroy textbooks.", "The family of a girl awaiting a heart transplant are asking parents to consider organ donations.", "The ex-cabinet minister accuses the PM of not listening to public concern over tax cuts for the well-off.", "Ukrainian forces on the eastern front in 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residents in some hard-hit areas did not receive enough advance warning to evacuate.\n\nMore than half of the deaths recorded are in Lee County, where Ian made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane.\n\nPresident Joe Biden is expected to visit Florida on Wednesday.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Biden visited Puerto Rico - which was struck by Hurricane Fiona just days before Ian struck Florida - where he promised $60m (£53m) in aid to help the US territory.\n\n\"We're going to make sure you get every single dollar promised,\" he said in the municipality of Ponce, parts of which were still without power.\n\nAccording to the BBC's US partner network CBS, the hurricane's death toll in Florida climbed to at least 99 on Monday night. Another four deaths have been confirmed in North Carolina.\n\nFlorida officials said the latest death toll is at least 68. The figures differ as while local officials may report additional storm-related deaths, the medical examiner's officer is only attributing a death to the hurricane after an autopsy is performed.\n\nThe majority of the deaths - 55 - have been reported in Lee County, which includes the hard-hit areas Fort Myers, Sanibel and Pine Island, Sheriff Carmine Marceno said at a news conference.\n\nMr Marceno said access to Fort Myers Beach was being restricted to allow authorities to investigate deaths and to preserve potential crime scenes. He added that four arrests had been made after looting incidents were reported.\n\nOn Friday, Florida governor Ron DeSantis described the county as \"ground zero\" for the hurricane.\n\nConfusion over death tolls is common in the wake of hurricanes. In 2020, for example, fewer than 20 deaths were reported from Hurricane Laura days after it made landfall in Louisiana - a figure which the National Hurricane Center later revised to 47.\n\nWhile the death toll from Hurricane Ian already makes it one of the deadliest hurricanes in recent memory, it still pales in comparison to 2005's Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 1,800 people, and 2017's Hurricane Maria, which killed nearly 3,000.\n\nIn the wake of the storm, officials in Lee County have faced questions about the timing of their evacuation order, which was issued on 27 September, less than 24 hours before Ian made landfall. Several other counties in the path of the incoming hurricane issued their own evacuation orders a day before.\n\nLocal officials, as well as Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis, have defended Lee County's preparations for the hurricane.\n\n\"Everyone wants to focus on a plan that might have been done differently,\" Mr Marceno said on Sunday. \"I stand 100% with my county commissioners, my county manager. We did what we had to do at the exact same time. I wouldn't have changed anything.\"\n\nA 2015 planning document on the official website of Lee County's government notes that \"due to our large population and limited system, Southwest Florida is the hardest place in the country to evacuate in a disaster.\" The document adds that evacuation decision-making procedures consider \"evacuation risks, the disruption to both the lives of our residents/visitors, businesses and the potential magnitude of the impending threat\".\n\nAn aerial view of Fort Myers Beach on 2 October\n\nThe death toll cited by Florida officials does not include at least 16 Cuban migrants who remain missing after their boat capsized off the state's coastline during the hurricane. Of the 27 people on board, nine were rescued by the US Coast Guard and two managed to swim ashore at Stock Island, near Key West, The bodies of two more who died have been recovered. The Coast Guard has suspended the search for those still missing.\n\nApproximately 430,000 homes and businesses remain without power across the state, according to data from poweroutage.us.\n\nThe utility company with the largest number of outages, Florida Power & Light Co, said that the majority of customers will have their power restored by 7 October, but that storm damage has made some properties \"unable to safely accept power\".\n\nWhile officials are still assessing the damage caused by the hurricane across the state, experts have warned that the economic cost could ultimately rise to tens of billions of dollars. So far, insurers have reported about $1.44bn (£1.28bn) in preliminary claims.\n\nA preliminary forecast from data firm Enki Research published on 1 October estimated that total damages will amount to at least $66bn, but could rise as high as $75bn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US Coast Guard airlifts residents out of Sanibel Island", "Major mortgage lenders are increasing the cost of home loans, with the average two-year fixed rate now close to 6%, new figures show.\n\nA typical two-year fixed mortgage deal is currently 5.75%, up from 4.74% on the day of the mini-budget, financial information service Moneyfacts said.\n\nLenders have been scrambling to reprice deals after the pound's fall fuelled forecasts of higher interest rates.\n\nMortgage rates have climbed since December as interest rates have risen.\n\nIn December, the average two-year fixed deal was 2.34%.\n\nFixed deal interest rates do not change during the term of the mortgage, so rates are quoted for new or renewing borrowers.\n\nLenders have also withdrawn hundreds of products in recent days, which may leave some borrowers with difficulties securing a deal.\n\nThe recently re-priced deals have tended to be from major lenders who want relatively low-risk borrowers. Those homeowners who have high debt levels, or who may have missed repayments on credit, may find their choice is much more limited in the short-term.\n\nBrokers say there is still money available for mortgage providers to lend, but the days of ultra-low rates - typical of the last decade - have quickly disappeared.\n\n\"We did not expect that to happen quite so rapidly,\" one broker said.\n\nMortgage rates have been rising ever since the Bank of England began a series of seven consecutive rises in the Bank rate - the benchmark figure of interest rates. Rates then jumped after the mini-budget prompted widespread expectation of a faster and higher jump in the Bank rate in the coming months.\n\nLenders look at the long-term cost of borrowing, and potential demand, and try to stay a step ahead of the Bank of England when setting the rates for fixed rate deals.\n\nRoughly 100,000 people a month come to the end of a fixed deal and often remortgage, while first-time buyers also sign up to fixed deals. The 1.5 million homeowners on variable or tracker deals often see their costs rise in direct response to a Bank rate rise.\n\nA typical five-year fixed deal has been slightly cheaper than a two-year fixed deal for some time - but both are now seeing rates rise sharply.\n\n\"The normal rules of lending have changed,\" said Aaron Strutt of Trinity Financial.\n\nThe Halifax - the UK's biggest mortgage lender - said it would launch its new, higher rates on Wednesday.\n\n\"The new rates reflect the continued increase in mortgage market pricing over recent weeks,\" a spokesperson for Halifax said.\n\nIn recent days, other major lenders such as NatWest, Nationwide and Virgin Money have increased their rates.\n\nNatWest did so on Sunday, a highly unusual day of the week to make a change, according to brokers, signalling the speed at which the market is changing.\n\nA homeowner borrowing £200,000 on a 30-year mortgage may have been looking at a rate of 3.5% and a monthly repayment of £898 just over a week ago. Now, there are more likely to be facing a 5.5% rate and a monthly repayment of £1,135.\n\nAs always, there is uncertainty over the longer-term trend for mortgage rates. People will have to consider how much they can borrow, and what lenders will judge them to be able to afford.\n\nAmid the turmoil of last week, lenders pulled deals off the shelf at unprecedented levels, with brokers saying deals were lasting for a very short period of time as people flooded them and lenders with enquiries.\n\nMoneyfacts said that there were 3,961 deals available on the morning of the mini-budget, compared with 2,262 at the start of this week - a 43% fall. Products were last withdrawn quickly at the start of the pandemic, but not at such a level.\n\nMany of deals were withdrawn by smaller, more specialist lenders. That may create added uncertainty for those with more chequered borrowing histories.\n\nHow are you being affected by the rise in mortgage rates? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "About 42,000 runners embarked on the 26.2-mile run from Greenwich to The Mall - some donning fancy dress costumes\n\nA Spiderman, Shrek and a red postbox featuring the King's new cypher were among the fancy dress costumes donned by some of the thousands who took part in the London Marathon this year.\n\nWhether as a personal challenge or for charity, runners wore colourful, large, and occasionally furry costumes as they ran the 26.2-mile (42km) course.\n\nMore than 40,000 runners took on the race from Greenwich to The Mall.\n\nIt is the third time the event is being held in October.\n\nA man took on the race wearing a bright red postbox featuring the King's new cypher\n\nThe race moved from its traditional spring spot due to the coronavirus pandemic, but will return in April next year.\n\nThe event, which is in its 42nd year, was started by Lionesses Leah Williamson, Ellen White and Jill Scott, from England's Women's Euro 2022 team.\n\nRunners in an array of colourful costumes are taking part in this year's race\n\nA runner dressed up as Shrek for the race\n\nWilliamson sounded the buzzer for the wheelchair races to begin at about 08:50 BST, while White started the women's elite race at 09:00 and Scott pressed the buzzer to send the elite men and everyone else across the start line by 10:00.\n\nAmong the famous faces who took part, were actors Cynthia Erivo and Stephen Mangan and reality TV star turned presenter Mark Wright, who was forced to drop out last year due to injury.\n\nTV star Mark Wright finished his first ever London Marathon\n\nSir Mo Farah was due to run but had to pull out earlier in the week through injury.\n\nThe runners were cheered on by thousands of people who lined the streets to offer water, food, or just shouts of encouragement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCostumes were not a deterrent for those determined to complete the race.\n\nThe sun came out as participants ran past Big Ben\n\nThis year's race is taking place in October for the third and final time, after it was moved in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic\n\nThe men's wheelchair title was retained by Switzerland's Marcel Hug in a course record time of one hour, 24 minutes and 38 seconds.\n\nHe won a sprint finish against American Daniel Romanchuk with Britain's David Weir, in his 23rd London Marathon, coming home in third.\n\nAn ice cream cone costume were also among the London Marathon participants as thousands descended on the streets of the capital\n\nThe feeling as people cross the finish line is absolutely buzzing. These people have travelled 26.2 miles to get here.\n\nSome look great, while others look a little bit broken.\n\nWe've also had a few records. I've just seen someone dressed as a pencil crossing the finish line, breaking a Guinness World Record.\n\nWhile some are on their way down The Mall to have a well-deserved break, some still have a while to go on the route. But spectators are giving them high fives and shouting out runners' names to give them that final push.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"I want to applaud everyone running today. Having taken part myself in 2014, I know how incredibly challenging and rewarding it can be.\n\n\"It's amazing to see tens of thousands of people taking to the streets of London to support good causes.\"\n\nEngland's David Weir was interviewed after finishing third in the men's wheelchair race\n\nThere was no monkeying around for this runner...\n\nCatherine Debrunner made it a Swiss double with victory in the women's wheelchair race in one hour, 38 minutes and 24 seconds.\n\nEden Rainbow-Cooper, 21, claimed another third place for Britain behind Susannah Scaroni of the USA.\n\nEthiopia's Yalemzerf Yehualaw won the women's race in 2 hours, 17 minutes and 25 seconds, while Kenyan Amos Kipruto won the men's race in two hours, four minutes and 39 seconds.\n\nFurther coverage of the race is on the Red Button and the BBC Sport website app.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Charles and Queen Consort greet crowds on visit to Dunfermline\n\nLarge crowds gathered in Dunfermline to welcome King Charles and the Queen Consort on a visit to mark the former town's new status as a city.\n\nThe ceremony was their first public visit since the official period of royal mourning for the Queen ended.\n\nKing Charles said the event would \"gladden my dear mother's heart\".\n\nThe couple then visited Dunfermline Abbey before travelling to Edinburgh to host a reception celebrating the British South Asian community.\n\nThere were cheers from well-wishers when Charles and Camilla arrived at Dunfermline City Chambers on Monday morning.\n\nAfter being met by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack and Fife's Provost Jim Leishman, they walked across the cobbles to the waiting crowd.\n\nKing Charles spent more than five minutes reaching over the metal barriers to shake the hands of people who had queued to see the royal couple.\n\nKing Charles went straight to the waiting crowd when he arrived in Dunfermline\n\nLinda Dalgarno, from Dunfermline, was one of the people who shook the King's hand.\n\nShe said: \"It was amazing. It was so emotional to shake his hand.\n\n\"We weren't sure if he would come round and see everyone but he did and it was something to remember.\n\n\"It's history for the city.\"\n\nThe King then made a speech in the City Chambers, expressing his \"delight\" that Dunfermline had been one of the eight communities to be granted city status to mark the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Charles III: \"We gather to celebrate this great occasion but also to commemorate the life of Her late Majesty, whose deep love for Scotland was one of the foundations of her life.\"\n\nHe said he and his wife were \"immensely proud\" to be able to share the historic moment.\n\n\"There could be no more fitting way to mark my beloved mother's extraordinary life of service than by granting this honour to a place made famous by its own long and distinguished history, and by the indispensable role it has played in the life of our country,\" he said.\n\n\"Now, of course, we gather to celebrate this great occasion but also to commemorate the life of Her late Majesty, whose deep love for Scotland was one of the foundations of her life.\"\n\nAfter the ceremony the royal couple made the short walk to Dunfermline Abbey to formally mark its 950th anniversary.\n\nKing Charles and the Queen Consort wave as they leave Dunfermline Abbey after a visit to mark its 950th anniversary\n\nThe royal couple met members of the public outside the abbey\n\nThey spent about 20 minutes in the abbey, then walked down the steps to St Catherine's Wynd and met members of the public. King Charles also met a group of schoolchildren.\n\nThe couple then travelled to Edinburgh to host a reception celebrating British South Asian communities.\n\nBetween 200 and 300 guests of British Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Nepalese, Bhutanese and Maldivian heritage from across the UK attended the event at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.\n\nIt recognised the contribution that people from these communities have made to UK life, from the National Health Service to the arts, media, education, business and the armed forces.\n\nKing Charles hosted a reception to celebrate British South Asian communities at the Palace of Holyroodhouse\n\nKing Charles hosted a reception to celebrate British South Asian communities at the Palace of Holyroodhouse\n\nThe late Queen Elizabeth previously visited Dunfermline Abbey to mark its 900th anniversary.\n\nLord Provost Jim Leishman, the former manager of Dunfermline Athletic football team, said it had been \"a long, hard journey\" to achieving city status.\n\n\"A lot of people deserve a lot of credit for the work they have put in over 10 years,\" he told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme.\n\n\"The King and Queen Consort are having a wee walk going down to the abbey after he has given us the city status - the people of Dunfermline will love that.\n\n\"That is what makes it very very special - his first official engagement in Scotland and he is coming to Dunfermline. That is a tremendous accolade for the people of Dunfermline.\"\n\nCrowds packed the streets of Dunfermline to see the royal couple\n\nSchoolchildren waited for the King and the Queen Consort to arrive\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Scottish Secretary Alister Jack welcomed the King to Dunfermline", "Around 48m birds have been culled in the UK and EU\n\nAround 48m birds have been culled across the UK and the EU in the last year as a result of the largest outbreak of avian flu on record.\n\nIn the UK, 161 cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) were detected in poultry and captive birds, leading to the culling of 3.2m birds.\n\nThat compared to the previous record of 26 cases in 2020/21.\n\nThe UK government said the culled birds were a \"small proportion\" of total production - about 20m birds a week.\n\nThere have also been 1,727 cases of avian flu in the UK's wild bird population, in 406 locations involving 59 bird species.\n\nLast week, all of Norfolk and Suffolk, and parts of Essex, became the latest areas to be placed in an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ).\n\nIn previous years, the virus has mostly died out during the summer months but this outbreak has persisted year-round, with it proving more easily spread among bird populations.\n\nThe UK's chief veterinary officer, Dr Christine Middlemiss, said the high level of the disease in wild birds was driving the number of cases on commercial farms.\n\n\"Unfortunately we expect the number of cases to continue to rise over the coming months as migratory birds return to the UK, bringing with them further risk of disease that can spread into our kept flocks,\" she warned.\n\nRichard Griffiths, the chief executive of the British Poultry Council, said it was the \"most challenging bird flu season to date\".\n\nThe latest bird flu figures covering both Europe and the UK, which track outbreaks from October 2021 to September 9, were published on Monday by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the EU Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza.\n\nIn total, 47.7m birds were culled after more than 2,600 outbreaks in poultry and captive birds up until September 9.\n\nThe report also showed there have been 3,573 findings in wild birds, with the virus affecting 37 countries, spreading from Svalbard to south Portugal and eastward to Ukraine. But it warned that figure could be an underestimate.\n\nWhile there have been no recorded cases of human transmission in the EU, there was one case in south-west England in January.\n\nBut Andrea Ammon, director of the ECDC, warned those working in farming and the animal sector were still at \"increased risk of exposure\" and called for employers to improve biosecurity and health and safety measures.\n\n\"Vigilance is needed to identify infections with influenza viruses as early as possible and to inform risk assessments and public health action,\" she added.", "Liz Truss should call a general election if she wants to ditch Conservative policies from the Boris Johnson era, Nadine Dorries has said.\n\nMs Dorries stood down as culture secretary when Ms Truss - who she backed in the Tory leadership contest - succeeded Mr Johnson as prime minister.\n\nIn a tweet, she claimed Ms Truss had halted policies she had championed.\n\nFellow Johnson loyalist Jacob Rees-Mogg said he disagreed with Ms Dorries' call for a general election.\n\nIn her tweet, Ms Dorries highlighted areas that had been her responsibility which had now been paused - including the sale of Channel 4 and the Online Safety Bill.\n\n\"Widespread dismay at the fact that three years of work has effectively been put on hold,\" she wrote.\n\n\"No one asked for this. C4 [Channel 4] sale, online safety, BBC licence fee review, all signed off by Cabinet all ready to go, all stopped.\n\n\"If Liz wants a whole new mandate, she must take to the country.\"\n\nMs Dorries was asked by Ms Truss to stay on as culture secretary but chose instead to return to the backbenches when the new prime minister took over.\n\nShe has been critical of Ms Truss, and on Sunday accused her of throwing Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng \"under a bus\" by appearing to blame him for the 45p income tax rate debacle.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg said he and \"wonderful\" Ms Dorries used to get on \"like a house on fire\" around the cabinet table and agreed on \"almost everything\".\n\nBut he added: \"I don't think there's going to be an immediate election and I don't think there's a requirement for one.\"\n\nSpeaking at a Telegraph fringe meeting at the Tory conference in Birmingham, he said the current deadline for holding an election is January 2025.\n\n\"There's nothing like a good winter election is there,\" he joked.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFootball fans \"died in the arms\" of players during a crush at Indonesia's Kanjuruhan stadium, the home team coach has said, as the number of children killed in the tragedy rose to 32.\n\nJavier Roca said the crush at the match in Java, in which 125 people lost their lives, left him \"mentally shattered\".\n\nAuthorities say the youngest victim of Saturday's disaster was just three.\n\nSome 18 officers are being investigated after police fired tear gas at fans who invaded the pitch when the match ended.\n\nThe police chief in the city of Malang where the game was played has been sacked. At least nine other officers were suspended.\n\nMore than 320 other people were injured as supporters were trampled on and suffocated in crushes as they fled the gas. Indonesia's deputy minister of children and women affairs said the children were aged between three and 17.\n\nAn eyewitness told the BBC that police had fired numerous gas rounds \"continuously and fast\" after the situation with fans became \"tense\". Home team Arema FC supporters ran onto the pitch when the match ended in a 3-2 defeat to their rivals Persebaya Surabaya.\n\nPolice fired tear gas, leading to a crowd crush and cases of suffocation\n\nVideos on social media show fans clambering over fences to escape. Separate videos appeared to show lifeless bodies on the floor.\n\nOne witness, Chandra, told the BBC that a sea of smoke in the stands caused instant panic among spectators. \"Little kids were crying, women were fainting, screams were heard everywhere, all were flocking out,\" he said.\n\nAnother fan, Eko, said he couldn't get out of the stand's exits due to the number of people trying to escape.\n\n\"I went back to the top of the stands with friends. Then I used a scarf to keep the smoke away. After that I jumped into the field and went down through the side door,\" he said.\n\nEster Andayanengtyas told the BBC her 17-year-old daughter Debora suffered serious injuries, including a broken neck and swelling on the brain during the panic.\n\n\"I asked her not to watch the game that day. She didn't return home, in the morning her friends were looking for her,\" Ms Andayanengtyas said. \"We looked for her in the ER, but she wasn't there. The hospital told us to look at the mortuary. The confusion happened because my daughter didn't carry an ID.\"\n\nOther witnesses reported hearing parents crying out \"where is my child\" among the chaos, and one man told the BBC that he saw parents collapsing while protecting their children.\n\n\"A mother fainted while hugging her child, next to her the boy fainted,\" he said. \"Then some supporters picked up the mother and the boy to get out of the stadium. They were carried away unconscious - maybe because of the tear gas.\"\n\nMuhamad Dipo Maulana, 21, who was at the match, told BBC Indonesian that after the game had ended a few Arema fans went on the pitch to remonstrate with the home team players but were immediately intercepted by police and \"beaten\".\n\nMore spectators then took to the pitch in protest, the supporter said.\n\n\"Police with dogs, shields, and soldiers came forward,\" Mr Dipo told the BBC. He said he had heard more than 20 tear gas shots towards spectators at the stadium.\n\nPolice spokesperson Dedi Prasetyo told reporters that the officers under investigation \"were responsible for holding\" the weapons and said they were being questioned by an internal affairs team.\n\nA police chief has now been sacked following the investigation.\n\nHe added that several other officers, including the field security team, and some officials from the Indonesian football league, were also under investigation.\n\nIndonesia's human rights commission said it will conduct its own inquiry into the disaster, and President Joko Widodo has ordered that all matches in Indonesia's top league must be stopped until the official probe has been carried out.\n\nAmnesty International said the police response amounted to \"use of excessive force by the state\" to control an unarmed crowd, and protesters in the capital Jakarta on Sunday night carried placards that read \"stop police brutality\".\n\nIndonesia's police force has been previously criticised for its frequent use of tear gas in tightly-packed stadiums.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Roca, the Arema FC coach, told the Spanish broadcaster Cadena Ser that he thought \"the police overstepped their mark\" in efforts to control the crowd.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Candlelight vigil held for fans who died in the stadium stampede\n\nThe announcement of the investigation comes after world football's governing body Fifa called the disaster \"a dark day for all involved in football and a tragedy beyond comprehension\".\n\nFifa's own regulations say no \"crowd control gas\" should be carried or used by stewards or police at matches and the body has requested a report on the incident from the Indonesian football federation.\n\nSecurity Minister Mahfud MD wrote on Instagram that the stadium had been filled beyond capacity, with over 42,000 tickets being sold for the game in the 38,000 capacity stadium.\n\n\"It had gotten anarchic. They started attacking officers, they damaged cars,\" said Nico Afinta, police chief in East Java, adding that two police officers were among the dead.\n\n\"We would like to convey that... not all of them were anarchic. Only about 3,000 who entered the pitch,\" he said.\n\nFleeing fans \"went out to one point at the exit. Then there was a build-up, in the process of accumulation there was shortness of breath, lack of oxygen\", the officer added.", "\"It's about 8,200 years old,\" says Dr Alison Burns, pointing to a perfectly preserved human footprint pressed into ancient mud on Formby Beach.\n\nIt is one of hundreds of newly discovered ancient footprints here.\n\nThe sandy stretch of the north-west England coast is already known to be home to one of the largest collections of prehistoric animal tracks on Earth.\n\nAs well as adding to that collection, researchers found the oldest prints were formed much earlier than thought.\n\nThe first date back almost 9,000 years and the youngest of the prints are medieval - about 1,000 years old.\n\nThese findings, published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, tell the story of a coastal environment that transformed over thousands of years, as sea levels rapidly rose and humans settled permanently by the water.\n\nThe size and shape of the picture-perfect human footprint that Dr Burns has found suggest it belonged to a young man - perhaps a teenager. Strangely, this adolescent foot had the very distinct protrusion of a bunion on its little toe.\n\nResearchers worked out that this human footprint was made more than 8,000 years ago\n\n\"It's a tailor's bunion,\" Dr Burns explains. \"They were habitually barefoot, so when they sat down, the little toe would have rubbed on the ground.\"\n\nThe indentations, pressed into the mud as people and animals walked across stretches of tidal mud flat, were baked in the sun and buried for millennia.\n\n\"The oldest ones date to a time when the coastline was 30km away and the tidal muds here were teeming with animals - aurochs, herds of red deer, roe deer and also predators like wolves and lynx that are now extinct in the UK,\" explains Prof Jamie Woodward from the University of Manchester.\n\nHe and Dr Burns, along with their colleagues, verified the ages of the tracks by carbon-dating seeds extracted from cores of this ancient, compressed mud.\n\nAltogether there are 31 footprint beds, which point to a period of dramatic change in this ecosystem. \"Up to about 6,000 years ago, there was a very diverse landscape with all those animals,\" says Prof Woodward. \"Then after about 5,500 years ago, we see lots of human footprints, some deer and dogs, but not much else.\n\n\"So what we're seeing - through the footprints - is a landscape transforming with sea-level rise, and also with the arrival of agriculture that probably put a lot more pressure on this ecosystem.\"\n\nDr Burns, who led the study, explains that as the sea erodes away layers of this ancient, compressed mud, it can reveal new layers of footprints. The deeper the layers, the earlier they were formed.\n\nFootsteps taken thousands - even millions of years ago - have left tracks in many parts of the UK's coastline, which scientists have been able to find, study and turn into a deeper understanding of our prehistory.\n\nIn May 2013, a storm exposed some indentations at Happisburgh in Norfolk, which researchers eventually confirmed to be 900,000-year-old human footprints. In 2015, Edinburgh University researchers found trackways on the Isle of Skye, left 170 million years ago by the largest dinosaurs ever to walk the Earth.\n\nBut the Formby footprints are particularly fragile.\n\n\"They can be washed away within weeks of being exposed,\" Dr Burns explains. \"Some of them will be reburied and preserved for another few millennia - it's all a part of this changing coastline.\"\n\nThe coast at Formby is transforming particularly quickly - its famous dunes are in constant motion - rolling inland by an estimated 4m every year. At one spot on the expansive beach, you can see the remnants of the old visitor's car park that's now been rebuilt further inland.\n\n\"What's amazing here is that we've tracked a major ecosystem change solely by looking at the footprint record - with no bones or fossils.\n\n\"That could paint a picture for the future of our coastal biodiversity hotspots,\" adds Prof Woodward.\n\n\"Many of the biodiversity hotspots now are in coastal environments. And those environments are threatened by rapid sea-level rise now, so there are lessons we can learn about how habitats can become degraded and disconnected, which will affect the animals that can survive there.\"", "Brown arriving at the event in Birmingham on Sunday\n\nSpice Girl Melanie Brown has spoken at a Conservative Party conference event to appeal for more support for domestic abuse victims.\n\nMs Brown was appointed MBE this year for her work with vulnerable women.\n\nShe became a patron for Women's Aid in 2018, after leaving what she called an abusive relationship.\n\n\"I am not here because I am Mel B, Scary Spice from the Spice Girls,\" she told the conference event. \"I am here because I am Melanie Brown MBE.\"\n\nThe campaigner said domestic abuse was \"everywhere\" in society.\n\n\"You can be from a council estate, which I am, or you can be from a country estate - which I am now,\" she said.\n\nShe told the event she was \"probably the last person you would expect to find at a Tory Party conference\".\n\nBut she was there, she said, to call for more support through the health service and court system for domestic abuse victims.\n\n\"Every judge I have come across looks in complete horror like, 'Well, you look put together, you look all right, what is wrong with you?'\"\n\nMs Brown said she was in an abusive relationship for a decade but kept it a secret.\n\n\"I couldn't pick up the phone to call my mum, my friends, I didn't have access to anything,\" she said.\n\n\"And you think, well, Spice Girls are all about girl power, but let me tell you, when these abusers get their hooks into you, there is no way out, really - [or] so you think.\"\n\nThe event, organised by Women's Aid and the Sun newspaper, was called \"Speak out against domestic abuse\", and was one of many fringe events at the Conservative conference in Birmingham.\n\nHome Office minister Mims Davies told the audience: \"As the minister for safeguarding, I have got a fairly big inbox and this is absolutely one of the crucial ones.\n\n\"Let's say no to tolerance on this. This is criminality in homes. It is time that we really push on and help women to move forward from this, and there is no opportunity for people to find tolerance at long last.\"\n\nLater on Twitter, Ms Brown told Ms Davies on Twitter \"we need to talk urgently\" about the issues raised at the event.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mel B in 2018: \"It's hard for women to admit to themselves they are in a coercive, abusive relationship\"", "Less than 2% of foreign arms deliveries to Ukraine are contributed by France\n\nIf France wants to lead Europe to a new era of military self-reliance, how come its contribution to the war effort in Ukraine is so small?\n\nThat is the awkward question being posed by some of the country's top strategic thinkers, who are pushing President Emmanuel Macron to make an urgent decision on more arms to Kyiv.\n\nRecent analysis conducted on the ground in Poland and Ukraine shows that the French share of foreign arms deliveries is less than 2%, way behind the US on 49%, but also behind Poland (22%) and Germany (9%).\n\n\"I was concerned about the reliability of the statistics which showed France low on the list of contributing countries,\" says François Heisbourg, who is perhaps France's most influential defence analyst.\n\n\"So I went out to the main distribution hub in Poland to see how much in tonnage was actually being delivered, rather than just promised.\n\n\"Unfortunately the figures bore out my fears. France is way down the list - in ninth position.\"\n\nThe official reaction to this in Paris is: \"Yes, but...\"\n\nYes, the aid statistics are unflattering, but there are other factors at work.\n\nFirst, defence officials say the true measure of military help is quality not quantity. Some countries are delivering masses of outdated equipment. France has given 18 Caesar self-propelled artillery units, which are now celebrated along the Ukrainian front-line.\n\nFrance, they add, is like other Western countries in having run down military stocks as part of the post-Cold War peace dividend.\n\nI had the distinct feeling we [France] were becoming irrelevant. François Heisbourg\n\nSenior Advisor for Europe at the International Institute for Strategic Studies\n\nUkraine's Caesars are fully one quarter of France's entire mobile artillery. It cannot offer much more without making itself vulnerable in regions where it is already committed, like the Sahel and the Indo-Pacific.\n\n\"It might look like we are behind other countries, but France has every intention of playing its part,\" says Gen Jérome Pellistrandi, editor of the National Defence Review.\n\nThese arguments are not without merit, says Mr Heisbourg. The problem is that by not being more present in theatre, France risks writing itself out of the plot.\n\n\"When I was in Kyiv, everyone was very polite. I had no sense that the Ukrainians disapproved of us,\" he says. \"In a way it was worse. I had the distinct feeling we were becoming irrelevant.\"\n\nFor Mr Heisbourg the equation is simple. Ukraine will talk to countries who it knows are likely to deliver the weapons it needs. France at the moment is not one of them.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna discussed the supply of defence equipment with President Zelensky in Kyiv\n\nBut there is another danger for France. Its relative absence in Ukraine undermines its bid for leadership in the cause of European defence.\n\nAlready many countries of eastern Europe are wary of President Macron, who they believe was far too indulgent towards Russia's Vladimir Putin in the first months of the war. A narrative has taken root according to which France still feels ambivalent about an outright Ukrainian triumph.\n\nFor Pierre Haroche, who lectures on international security at Queen Mary University of London, this narrative is unfair - and is not the reason for France's low levels of arms deliveries to Ukraine.\n\nHowever, he is firmly of the view that France should beef up its contribution as early as possible, in order to reassure central and eastern European countries like Poland that \"we are all on the same page\".\n\n\"France's goal of strategic autonomy for Europe is focused primarily on building up our defence industries via joint procurement. But if you want joint procurement, you have to demonstrate to other countries that you have the same vision about our common security,\" he says.\n\n\"In order to make our objective of European co-operation viable, we need to show eastern European countries that co-operating with France and buying the idea of strategic autonomy is not a strategic risk.\"\n\nDr Haroche is calling for France to send 50 Leclerc main battle tanks. Mr Heisbourg would prefer air defence systems, which he says Ukraine is more in need of.\n\n\"It is like a fire extinguisher,\" says Dr Haroche. \"If there is a fire in a neighbour's house it is better to offer your extinguisher straightaway, and not wait till the fire reaches your own home.\n\n\"It's not just generosity. It's also for your own protection.\"", "Two men have been charged over the alleged assault of a man who heckled Prince Andrew as he walked behind the Queen's coffin.\n\nFootage showed a 22-year-old man shouting at the Duke of York on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh on 12 September.\n\nHe has since been charged with breach of the peace.\n\nTwo men, both 34, have now been charged after allegedly dragging the heckler to the ground.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"Two men, both aged 34, have been arrested and charged in connection with assault, following an incident on the Royal Mile around 2.50pm on Monday, 12 September 2022.\n\n\"A report will be sent for the consideration of the procurator fiscal.\"\n\nPrince Andrew walked alongside his brothers King Charles and Prince Edward and his sister Princess Anne during the procession.\n\nThousands of people lined the streets as it made its way along the Royal Mile from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles' Cathedral.\n\nAbout 33,000 people filed through St Giles' Cathedral in the following 24 hours to pay their respects while Her Majesty lay at rest.\n\nPrincess Anne accompanied the coffin as it was then flown south ahead of the Queen's state funeral at Westminster Abbey on 19 September.", "People here want Liz Truss to succeed.\n\nOf course they do - they are Conservatives.\n\nPlus, most of the activists, if not the MPs, voted for her to be party leader and their fate and hers are inextricably linked.\n\nBut, without question, there is deep worry here.\n\nAs one senior figure put it to me, first impressions are lasting and they matter - and they have, if the opinion polls are to be believed, been terrible for the new prime minister.\n\nAnother senior voice told me they thought Liz Truss was finished as prime minister and wouldn't survive this.\n\nFar more think moving against her would be absurd and would leave the party a laughing stock so soon after she got the job.\n\nBut plenty believe her reputation might not survive this, even if her premiership does.\n\nIn other words, what has happened in the last 10 days will leave an indelible mark on her - it is unrecoverably bad.\n\nAnd remember, the first party conference for a new leader is meant to be a celebratory affair, even in difficult times for the country - a victory lap for the winner.\n\nInstead, we have a second former cabinet minister telling the BBC that the plans which define her premiership are misguided.\n\nYes, both Grant Shapps and Michael Gove were supporters of Rishi Sunak for the leadership and not Liz Truss, but what they are articulating in public illustrates a deeper well of private anguish here.\n\nThis anguish comes from a bundle of ideas lots of Conservatives think are simply unsellable when packaged together: Big tax cuts for the best paid at a time of soaring interest rates, and the prospect of benefits and public sector cuts that are disproportionately important to the less well off.\n\nThere is also anguish from people here who were nervous spectators of Labour's conference last week, seeing as they did a party more united than it has been for years, hurtling to occupy political ground some Tories fret Ms Truss has too easily given up.\n\nSo what can we expect in the coming days?\n\nMonday is the chancellor's big day and Tuesday and Wednesday will be dominated by the prime minister.\n\nWe can expect bucket-loads of explanation and bucket-loads of attempted reassurance from Kwasi Kwarteng and Ms Truss, but a determination, too, for now at least, to stick to their plans.\n\nA growing number in their own party have other ideas, though.\n\nThe plan for a tax cut for the best paid doesn't look like a goer: The opposition to it appears too determined and too noisy, and whenever a vote comes, it doesn't look like it'll be sufficiently popular to pass.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Prime Minister Liz Truss says she stands by plans announced in the mini-budget\n\nLiz Truss has admitted she should have \"laid the ground better\" for her mini-budget, after it sparked days of market turmoil.\n\nThe prime minister told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg she had \"learned from that\", but she was confident her tax cutting package would boost economic growth.\n\nShe added a decision to cut the top earner tax rate was a \"decision that the chancellor made\".\n\nAnd she revealed it was not discussed with the whole cabinet beforehand.\n\nThe cut to the 45p rate has provoked outrage from opposition parties, and concern from some Conservative MPs.\n\nFormer minister Michael Gove said the cut displayed the \"wrong values,\" and signalled he wouldn't vote for it.\n\nHe also said he was \"profoundly concerned\" about the decision to borrow to fund the tax cuts, calling it \"not Conservative\".\n\nThe government's mini-budget included £45bn in cuts funded by government borrowing, and revealed the government expects its two-year scheme to fix energy prices will cost £60bn in the first six months.\n\nThe announcements sparked days of turbulence in financial markets, with the pound falling to a record low against the US dollar on Monday, although it has since recovered.\n\nThe rocky economic backdrop is set to dominate this week's Conservative party conference, Ms Truss's first as Tory leader, where she faces the task of reassuring her MPs over her approach to boosting the flagging UK economy.\n\nSpeaking from the gathering in Birmingham, Ms Truss promised to win over \"the hearts and minds\" of Tory MPs to persuade them of her plan.\n\nIn an interview for the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, she said she remained committed to her approach and she was \"confident\" better growth would result.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: Cutting tax for the wealthiest \"a display of the wrong values\"\n\n\"I do stand by the package we announced and I stand by the fact we announced it quickly, because we had to act,\" the prime minister added.\n\n\"But I do accept we should have laid the ground better. I have learned from that, and I will make sure that in future we do a better job of laying the ground.\"\n\nShe also defended the decision to cut the 45p income tax rate for top earners, saying it \"raises very little\" and made the tax system more complicated.\n\nShe added that the cut was a decision made by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng - prompting former cabinet minister and Boris Johnson loyalist Nadine Dorries to accuse her of throwing him \"under a bus\".\n\nAnd Mr Gove, who has served in several cabinet roles in previous governments, expressed concerns about scrapping the top rate at a time when \"people are suffering\".\n\nFormer deputy prime minister Damian Green warned a reception at conference that the Tories would lose the next general election if \"we end up painting ourselves as the party of the rich\".\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves accused the government of conducting a \"mad experiment\" with the economy, calling the market turmoil a \"crisis made in Downing Street\".\n\nAlso speaking to Laura Kuenssberg, she said investors had been spooked by the \"sheer scale of the borrowing\" to fund the tax cuts, alongside the decision not to publish an official economic forecast alongside the plans.\n\nShe added that the public would \"pay the price\" for the turbulence, and said Ms Truss had failed to understand the \"anxiety and fear\" about the state of the economy.\n\nJust a few weeks ago, this was a conference where many would have anticipated a mood of loyal celebration.\n\nYes, a government and a country confronting difficult times - but a party welcoming a new prime minister; relieved to have left the arguments of the collapsing premiership of Boris Johnson behind.\n\nInstead, with nosediving opinion poll numbers and self-inflicted economic volatility, the mood here is bleak, the outbreaks of public anger illustrative of a deeper well of private anguish.\n\nThere are few things more dangerous for a government than a perception that senior figures don't know what they are doing and are not fully in control of events.\n\nSome Tory MPs are already privately questioning how long Liz Truss might last in office; even more say they will not support elements of her budget, not least the tax cut for the highest paid.\n\nSenior Conservatives recognise this is a moment of considerable jeopardy for a prime minister not yet a month in the job - and the next few days will be crucial in providing reassurance for the party and the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Reeves says the government is conducting a \"mad experiment\" with the UK economy\n\nIn a bid to reassure markets, the government has said it will set out how it plans to lower public debt in the medium term on 23 November.\n\nPushed repeatedly on whether she planned to cut public spending, Ms Truss did not say, but added she wanted to get \"value for money for the taxpayer\".\n\nShe did not commit to raising benefits in line with inflation, saying that a decision would be made later this autumn.\n\nShe also rejected calls to bring forward an assessment of the government's plans from the UK's budget watchdog, currently due to be published alongside the debt plan.\n\nShe added that an assessment of the spending plans was \"not yet ready\".\n\n\"There's no point in publishing something that's not ready. That would just cause confusion,\" she added.", "A series of nuclear weapons tests took place in the 50s - the first was Operation Hurricane on 3 October 1952\n\nThe daughter of a man who witnessed a British nuclear test in the 1950s has demanded a \"Hillsborough-level\" apology 70 years after the first detonation.\n\nElin Doyle said her father Mike Doyle and many others had not seen justice.\n\nHer father suffered ill-health, as did her sibling, which they blamed on the tests, she said. The government said the veterans helped keep Britain safe.\n\nThe first test, Operation Hurricane, took place on 3 October 1952. Veterans will join a service in Kent on Tuesday.\n\nMr Doyle, a technician and civil servant, was present at a later test - Operation Grapple in 1957 - for his national service.\n\nHis daughter said he witnessed that explosion with his back to the blast, his hands over his eyes, and without protective clothing.\n\nShe said he described an intense heat as his back grew hot, and how he believed the men who were present were \"going to burn\".\n\nMs Doyle said her father developed a rare condition, cardiac sarcoidosis, had a heart attack at the age of 48, and lived with heart disease until he died aged 67.\n\nHer sibling was born with a birth defect that her parents immediately attributed to the tests.\n\nMike Doyle was a technician present at Grapple for his national service\n\nMs Doyle said her father did not question the tests, and many people at the time saw taking part as being patriotic. But potential symptoms of a condition called moral injury appeared later.\n\nCombat Stress defines moral injury as the psychological distress resulting from a person having to follow orders and take actions that clash with their own moral or ethical code.\n\n\"He'd go out of the house and be able to start a row over some perceived lack of service - he'd go on the warpath,\" Ms Doyle said.\n\n\"He definitely felt by the time he died that he had been badly served, let down in general.\n\n\"I think he had decided there was enough suspicion and enough evidence for him to believe that actually the people who were sent to the tests had been put there as guinea pigs.\"\n\nElin Doyle, seen here with her father, said he had fought for compensation and would still want an apology\n\nLondon actor Ms Doyle, whose play Guinea Pigs, based on her father's experience, is being performed this week, said for many years no government on either side would address the problem.\n\n\"After dad died, he didn't get justice,\" she said. \"Thousands and thousands never saw justice and then they died.\n\n\"He wanted an apology - like that given for the Hillsborough victims - and proper care for the families left behind.\"\n\nMr Doyle went on to work for the British Nuclear Test Veterans Association (BNTVA), fighting for veterans to be compensated\n\nMany veterans were proud of their work and would do it again, the BNTVA said\n\nCeri McDade, chief executive officer of the BNTVA, whose own father was a nuclear veteran and died from cancer, agreed an apology from the prime minister was needed.\n\nShe remembers her father telling her \"the government did this to me\".\n\nMs McDade said the average age of the veterans was now 86, and many of them had terminal illnesses and they needed to feel valued by the government, plus end-of-life care.\n\n\"If that means they have a real, deep-seated apology, that is a major step forward,\" she said.\n\nIn 2012, the government apologised for the \"injustice\" of Hillsborough.\n\nThe Cabinet Office was contacted by the BBC to comment on the nuclear veterans' call for an apology and end-of-life care provision but has not commented on either issue.\n\nIt has released a statement which said it would host a commemorative event to recognise the contribution of the veterans.\n\nIt said funding was being provided to set up a £250,000 oral history project and a separate £200,000 fund \"to support activities for nuclear test veterans and educate the public on the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrence efforts\".\n\nJames Heappey, Minister for Armed Forces and Veterans, said: \"Veterans who supported the creation of our nuclear deterrent have played a crucial role in keeping Britain and our Nato allies safe and secure.\n\n\"Their sacrifice contributed to achieving the ultimate guarantee of UK sovereignty and they forever have this nation's gratitude.\"\n\nWitnesses have described sitting with their back to the blast but feeling the heat and the force and being able to see the light through their hands\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has previously said there was \"no valid evidence\" linking the nuclear tests to ill health.\n\nThe BNTVA this week holds its conference in Kent, which will hear latest research on the issue.\n\nThe meeting will include a service to mark the 70th anniversary of Operation Hurricane, which took place off Western Australia.\n\nMany British servicemen involved with the tests have strong links with Kent, according to Ms McDade.\n\nHMS Plym set sail from Chatham to Sheerness, where the bomb was loaded, on her way to the Monte Bello Islands for Operation Hurricane.\n\nAnd HMS Cavalier, which is at Chatham's Historic Dockyard, was present at Operation Grapple, which took place on Christmas Island.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Thank you for following as colleagues in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Washington and London brought live updates and analysis from the first round of Brazil's presidential election.\n\nDespite Luiz Inácio 'Lula' da Silva winning the round, he failed to reach the 50% of votes needed to win the election outright.\n\nIt means the leftist former president will now face the second placed candidate - far-right incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro - in a run-off vote on 30 October.\n\nThe winner of that race will be the country's new president.\n\nFor updates and reaction, read our story here.", "The star celebrated his 82nd birthday this July\n\nSir Ringo Starr has cancelled several upcoming shows on his North American tour after catching Covid-19.\n\nThe former Beatle, who is 82, had been playing a string of dates in the US and Canada with his All-Starr band before falling ill this weekend.\n\nAfter cancelling two shows at the last minute, \"it has been confirmed today that Ringo has Covid and the tour will be on hold\", his spokesperson said.\n\nThe drummer is \"recovering at home\" and hopes to resume shows soon, they added.\n\nTour dates planned for this week in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia have all been cancelled. A decision has yet to be taken on upcoming shows in the US and Mexico.\n\n\"We will keep fans updated with any further news or changes,\" his spokesperson told the BBC.\n\nLast year, Sir Ringo confessed that he had rarely ventured outside in the early days of the pandemic, to avoid catching Covid-19.\n\n\"Since last March, I've left the house six times,\" he told USA Today last year. \"You've got to help protect yourself if you can\".\n\nDespite receiving two doses of the vaccine, he told the publication he was cautious about touring in 2021, saying: \"I don't think it'll be safe. And that's it. Living in the now.\"\n\nThe tour finally resumed in Canada this May, with Starr having played more than 25 shows since.\n\nThe musician rose to fame in the 1960s as the Beatles' laconic, easy-going drummer. He sang lead vocals on tracks like With A Little Help From My Friends and Yellow Submarine, and launched a successful solo career after the Beatles split in 1970.\n\nHe formed his All-Starr band, where \"everybody on stage is a star in their own right\" in 1989. The ever-changing line-up has included rock legends such as Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Todd Rundgren and Sheila E.\n\nSir Ringo received his knighthood in 2018, and was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame as a solo artist in 2015.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A row erupted following a high-stakes professional poker match held at the Hustler Casino in Los Angeles on Thursday night (file pic)\n\nFirst it was chess - now top-level US poker and match fishing have been dogged by their own claims of cheating.\n\nA casino is investigating after one player stunned poker fans by making an audacious bet to win a huge pot.\n\nMeanwhile, two fishermen have been accused of stuffing their catches with lead weights in order to win a tournament held on Lake Erie.\n\nAnd world chess officials are probing whether a teen talent cheated in face-to-face matches - something he denies.\n\nA row erupted following a high-stakes game held at the Hustler Casino in Los Angeles on Thursday night.\n\nRobbi Jade Lew stunned the table by appearing to successfully call a semi-bluff by her opponent Garrett Adelstein.\n\nLew called an all-in bet by her opponent, risking her chips with an underwhelming hand, apparently convinced her opponent was bluffing and scooping a pot that had grown to $269,000 (£241,000).\n\nPundits commentating during the livestreamed match expressed their incredulity at the gambit, while Adelstein gave his competitor an icy stare.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hustler Casino Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere followed an exchange of words on and off camera, with the two players giving conflicting accounts afterwards of what was said.\n\nLew ended up returning Adelstein his chips, saying she had been \"threatened\" - something Adelstein denied.\n\nShe challenged her opponent to a head-to-head match, tweeting: \"After I'm vindicated, let's go heads up. The whole world can watch me read you all day.\"\n\nIn his own tweet, Adelstein said he had been \"clearly cheated\", claiming that his suspicions were confirmed by reviewing previous playing footage of Lew.\n\nHe speculated that his opponent might have been wearing a vibrating device that was used to communicate information to her, though conceded it was impossible to know.\n\nMatch organisers are investigating, stressing there is not yet any proof of wrongdoing.\n\nElsewhere, a pair of competitive fishermen have been accused of stuffing their catches with lead weights to make them appear heavier to help them win a cash prize reportedly worth $30,000.\n\nOn Friday, organisers in Cleveland, Ohio, called into question the results of Lake Erie Walleye Trail's (LEWT) final event of the 2022 season - in which Chase Cominsky and Jake Runyon of Cleveland had claimed victory.\n\nViral video showed an official slicing open fish at a weigh-in, extracting lead balls and even fillets of other fish.\n\nIn the expletive-laden footage, a crowd can be heard shouting at Runyon - who remains silent as the alleged ruse is discovered.\n\nThe duo's previous victories have been called into question.\n\nLocal media report that the pair were disqualified as winners at an event last year, because one of them failed a polygraph test. At the time, Runyon denied they were guilty of any wrongdoing.\n\nNeither he nor Cominsky has publicly commented yet on the fresh allegations.\n\nMeanwhile, the global governing body of chess is now investigating after the world's top player openly accused a competitor of rule-breaking.\n\nNorwegian Magnus Carlsen suffered a surprise loss to American Hans Niemann in a match in the US last month.\n\nCarlsen also withdrew from a later online match between them after just one move, in an apparent act of protest.\n\nNorwegian Magnus Carlsen has accused an opponent of cheating after suffering a surprise loss\n\nIn his first public allegations, Carlsen wrote on Twitter: \"I believe that Niemann has cheated more - and more recently - than he has publicly admitted.\"\n\nHe did not specify how the alleged wrongdoing took place, though said there was more he wanted to add.\n\nNiemann, 19, has admitted to cheating twice while playing online several years before - but insists he has never done so in a face-to-face match.\n\nHe said Carlsen and others were trying to ruin his career, and has even offered to play naked to prove he had nothing to hide.\n\nThe International Chess Federation (FIDE) has said it will convene a three-person panel to look into Carlsen's allegations.", "Some customers will see their water bills reduced in the next financial year\n\nCustomers with 11 water firms are set to see money taken off their bills after fines of almost £150m were handed out by regulator Ofwat.\n\nThe suppliers failed to meet targets in water supply interruptions, pollution incidents and internal sewer flooding.\n\nThames Water and Southern Water performed the worst and will have to return almost £80m.\n\nCompanies which exceeded their targets will be able to recover more money from customers, meaning higher bills.\n\nHowever, Ofwat noted all firms would be allowed to hike charges in line with inflation, using the consumer prices index including owner occupiers' housing costs (CPIH) - which hit 8.6% in the 12 months to August.\n\nThis means some reductions could be offset by inflation-linked price rises in bills.\n\nThe targets, known as performance commitments, were set in 2019 at the last price review and will be in place up until the next review in 2025.\n\nDavid Black, chief executive of Ofwat for England and Wales, said: \"When it comes to delivering for their customers, too many water companies are falling short, and we are requiring them to return around £150m to their customers.\n\n\"We expect companies to improve their performance every year, where they fail to do so we will hold them to account.\"\n\nOxford councillor Mike Rowley held a protest against Thames Water by swimming in leaked water in August\n\nMr Black confirmed in August targets for areas such as leaks were \"challenging but achievable,\" stating he had concerns about the performance of some companies.\n\n\"All water companies need to earn back the trust of customers and the public and we will continue to challenge the sector to improve,\" he added.\n\nWarren Buckley, customer experience director at Thames Water, said it was \"determined to do better\".\n\nHe added: \"Our aim is to always deliver brilliant customer service. It's one of the biggest priorities of our plan to turn around our performance.\"\n\nMr Buckley said the firm's shareholders had recently approved £2bn of additional funding, which is set to be used to \"improve outcomes for customers, leakage and river health\".\n\n\"We're already accelerating the customer elements of our turnaround plan to improve our position. While we're heading in the right direction, we know there is a long way to go,\" he continued.\n\nCustomers should see their bills change depending on their water supplier for the next financial year.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kwasi Kwarteng will use his Conservative conference speech later to insist the government will \"stay the course\" on his tax-cutting growth plan.\n\nThe chancellor's approach has sparked market turmoil and disquiet among some Conservative MPs, but he will argue his plan is \"the right one\".\n\nWithout action, the country is heading for \"slow decline\", he will warn.\n\nMr Kwarteng is under pressure after a backlash against his mini-budget, unveiled on 23 September.\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Michael Gove and Grant Shapps have criticised the decision to remove the 45% top tax rate, with former transport secretary Mr Shapps predicting the proposal would be defeated in the Commons.\n\nBut Mr Kwarteng and Prime Minister Liz Truss have so far doubled down on their argument that their tax-cutting plans are needed to boost the UK's economy after more than a decade of sluggish growth.\n\nIn his first speech to a Conservative conference as chancellor, Mr Kwarteng will tell the audience in Birmingham: \"We must face up to the facts that for too long our economy has not grown enough.\n\n\"I refuse to accept that it is somehow Britain's destiny to fall into middle income status… or that the tax burden reaching a 70-year-high is somehow inevitable.\n\n\"It isn't, and shouldn't be.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Gove described the plan to cut the 45p top rate of tax as \"a display of the wrong values\", suggesting he would vote against the policy if it came before the Commons.\n\nAnd Mr Shapps, who supported Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest, warned Ms Truss not to have a \"tin ear\" to voters' concerns about rising living costs by introducing \"tax cuts for wealthy people\".\n\nAlso speaking on Sunday, Ms Truss acknowledged she should have \"laid the ground better\" for the tax changes her government was proposing.\n\nBut she stood by the decision to \"act quickly\" and promised to win over the \"hearts and minds\" of MPs in her own party who opposed the measures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: Cutting tax for the wealthiest \"a display of the wrong values\"\n\nAlso in his speech, Mr Kwarteng will argue he has a \"new approach\" focused on raising economic growth, which he says would create \"higher wages, more jobs and crucially, revenue to fund our precious public services\".\n\nIn a response to criticism that the government's tax-and-spend plans do not add up, he will say that his measures will be \"backed by an iron-clad commitment to fiscal discipline\".\n\n\"We will show that our plan is sound, credible and will increase growth.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng's £45bn package of measures outlined in the mini-budget also included cutting the basic rate of income tax to 19% from April 2023, as well as reducing stamp duty for some buyers.\n\nThe government had already announced it would be freezing energy prices for two years, estimating that the intervention would cost £60bn in the first six months alone.\n\nConcern about how the government's proposals would be paid for was heightened by the Treasury's decision not to publish an assessment by the independent spending watchdog the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) - and by Mr Kwarteng's suggestion that more tax cuts could come.\n\nIn the days following the chancellor's announcement, the value of the pound fell and the cost of government borrowing rose, forcing the Bank of England to make a £65bn intervention to calm markets.\n\nMr Kwarteng is due to set out further details of his economic plan on 23 November, along with a forecast by the OBR.", "The building's design is layered like a stack of books to reflect its learning aims\n\nCan the design of a building help create a better society?\n\nThe designers of Spark|Sbarc are hoping the structure, which aims to mimic a stack of books piled on top of each other, will allow its tenants to cross-fertilise ideas and bring concrete improvements to the lives of Welsh citizens.\n\nBilled as the world's first social science research park, the Cardiff University centre was first conceived at the social innovation agency Nesta Cymru - which now has its home in the building - and also drew inspiration from visits to Harvard, Stanford and MIT universities in the US.\n\nSally O'Connor, the director of operations at Spark, located on the university's innovation campus at Maindy Park, said the space was intended to facilitate building relationships between its inhabitants, which include academics doing research at the university and private and third sector tenants who can help to put ideas into practice.\n\nThe building, designed by architech firm Hawkins Brown, sits alongside other cutting edge research centres such as Cubric - Cardiff University Brain Imaging Centre, Europe's biggest at the time of its opening in 2016 - and the Hadyn Ellis Building for medical science research.\n\nHowever an important element is also creating real links between Spark and the local community. \"Building relationships with the community is vital,\" she said. \"You can't just build [the physical structure] and hope they come.\"\n\nAnd any organisation coming in as a tenant must have a relationship with the university which will be further fostered by their presence, she stressed. It is not just office space for rent.\n\nAt present, there are about 12 external partners located in the building, which only opened in March, but that number will - carefully - grow in time.\n\nThe staircase at Spark also acts as an informal sitting and meeting place\n\nOne of the concepts behind the building is the circular economy, an idea very much at the heart of the Welsh government's future strategy. This is where products and resources are kept in use rather than being sent to landfill.\n\nTo this end, one of the most promising sites within Spark is RemakerSpace, planned to open this autumn. It will offer access to 3D printers and other tools with which, as its name suggests, will be used to \"remanufacture\" or repair existing products that have broken or are in need of some attention to keep them in operation.\n\nParts become obsolete, and it becomes very hard to get replacement parts when something has failed on a product\n\nOne of its managers is Dr Daniel Eyers, reader in manufacturing systems management at Cardiff Business School, who says RemakerSpace's mission is to help different communities in Wales understand more about remanufacturing.\n\nHe said: \"Wales is excellent at recycling. We exceed the EU threshold for recycling.\n\n\"Recycling's great, but it takes a high-value product, like a TV or a chair or something like that, and it converts it into its component material - wood, plastic, those kinds of things - and you lose all the value.\n\n\"The idea in remanufacturing is that we want to retain the value in the products as long as possible, and our centre is about restoring and extending the life of products that people have bought.\"\n\nWhen a product breaks or appears to reach its end of life, RemakerSpace would aim to restore it to a condition \"good enough that you would get a warranty on it\" and be able to reuse it for years to come, he explained.\n\nThe space has three labs with different function. One is centred on education and training, one is a conventional workshop \"full of saws, drills, hammers, all the traditional things you might find in a repair workshop for people to come and use and to repair their products with\".\n\nThe third is a 3D printing workshop. State-of-the-art printers can be utilised to create bespoke parts to fix products which may otherwise end up as unnecessary landfill, Dan explained.\n\n\"One of the problems you get with products that are in people's houses and in factories and shops are that parts become obsolete, and it becomes very hard to get replacement parts when something has failed on a product,\" he said.\n\n\"So you might have a situation where you have a minor fault on a product, but you need to effectively replace it because you can't get the spare part. If it's a plastic part, we can 3D print replacement parts.\"\n\nThe machines can even produce parts which are \"pre-worn\" to fit into older appliances which may have slightly altered shape due to wear and tear over the years.\n\nOne of the 3D printers which will be used to print bespoke components to fix broken items\n\nBecause the equipment is funded by the Welsh government and ReMakerSpace operates as a non-profit, it is free to use, although there might be a charge to cover component costs.\n\nIts founders were inspired by the Repair Cafe network, which offers conventional repairs to household items for free at sessions held in public venues.\n\nBut Dan is keen to stress that they see themselves as a complementary rather than competing service, and they have more of an emphasis on working with \"thematic groups\" of people and learning.\n\nThey have started the process of working with industry to help companies re-engineer their supply chains and products to increase lifespan and improve reuse later down the line.\n\nThe university's schools liaison team is already working on projects with schools connected to RemakerSpace and once final safety checks are in place, the centre will be welcoming local schoolchildren in to have first-hand experience of what it can do.\n\nHe said: \"We're very much on the education and training provision. What we are fortunate with this grant from the Welsh government is it gives us the equipment to demonstrate and show the individuals, students and businesses how to do remanufacturing in practice.\"\n\nAs RemakerSpace was involved in the creation of Spark from the outset, its custom-designed labs are a huge benefit of the Spark building for their work.\n\nDan said: \"The whole ethos of the building is about engagement, whether that's with industry or research or within the community. We support what they're doing; we're a very natural fit for that.\"\n\nOpenness and interconnectedness are key elements of Spark's design as the central stairwell shows\n\nWhilst RemakerSpace has a practical application which can be seen, other tenants are more on the ideas side of delivering social change.\n\nThese include: the Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health, looking at reducing anxiety and depression in the young; Simply Do, a tech company using artificial intelligence to help public service providers effect changes in practice; Hate Lab, a hub analysing hate speech and crime; and Cascade, a children's social research and development centre for children with social care needs. Policy thinktank the Institute of Welsh Affairs moved its office into the building when it opened.\n\nAnother is Y Lab (The Lab), which director Prof James Lewis describes as the public services' innovation lab for Wales. Originally a joint project between Nesta Cymru and Cardiff University, it is now run solely by the university and funded by around 12 organisations including the Welsh government, Arts Council of Wales and the Wales European Funding Office.\n\nY Lab has two main things to do, James explained. \"We co-deliver innovation programmes that support Welsh public servants to innovate.\n\n\"When we do that we typically bring public servants together in groups, or cohorts we call them. They do things together and we give them skills and support and a variety of different things.\n\n\"We also do research on the how's and whys of public service innovation; what works well, what doesn't work so well, what enables innovation.\" A current six-month project has one cohort looking at how a local authority can decarbonise its work.\n\nThe building is designed in such a way that we will bump into one another and have those conversations while you're making a cup of coffee\n\nFinding ways of delivering efficiencies are a no-brainer in a country which spends £6bn on public services, but James says it's not all about the bottom line.\n\n\"One definition of innovation is ideas successfully applied - ideas is invention, ideas applied is change and ideas successfully applied is innovation.\n\n\"Another one is implementing new ideas to create value. That value doesn't have to be financial. It can be democratic legitimacy, it can be efficiency, it could be a better experience for citizens, it can be whatever you like,\" he explained.\n\n\"But there's something about new ideas - not necessarily new to the world but new to the organisation - that are implemented that do some good.\"\n\nHe gave an example of trialling an idea for foster care originally used in the US which was being tested in an urban area of England. Flintshire local council wanted to see if the system would work in a rural area.\n\nA group of six foster families who may not have known each other previously form an extended \"family\", with one family acting as the hub lead family.\n\nY Lab provided funding, research support and skills for the council to test it out.\n\nGlass-enclosed work spaces help to promote the openness and sharing ethic of Spark\n\n\"They did a fantastic job and got over £1m in loan financing from the Welsh government to do it with the idea that if foster care goes better, if people stay as foster carers it can have large financial savings for local authorities. It's much better for the children and it's better for the families,\" James said.\n\n\"They've supported 50 families fostering 80 children which was a real lifeline for them all during lockdown. Often they had foster families who lived a couple of streets from each other who had no idea about each other's existence.\n\n\"The kids can get to know each other and the families provide emotional support and all that kind of thing.\"\n\nOther examples of their work include looking at using behavioural science during the Covid response for the Welsh government, better targeting of support for people in fuel poverty and electric vehicle use by local authorities.\n\nBut how much of a help is it for Y Lab to be located in the Spark building?\n\nJames thinks it makes a significant difference. \"What you want to do for innovation is to combine deep understanding of the problem, which comes partly from academia and partly from front-line staff and people who experience the issue in their everyday life, with innovation methods and mindsets and an injection of creativity to make innovation happen.\n\n\"Now we've got even more of it under one roof. If we wanted to do something about school health or school children's health for example, we have Decipher [here], a research centre dedicated to that.\"\n\nThe building has a monthly meeting for centre directors to attend to help with the cross-fertilization of ideas but there are also more informal events open to anyone working under its roof, such as a coffee and sandwiches event laid on by the in-house cafe, where people can mingle and chat.\n\nJames said: \"The building is designed in such a way that we will bump into one another and have those conversations while you're making a cup of coffee or while you're grabbing a sandwich in the queue downstairs.\n\n\"All of that stuff means that you have the right people together at the right time to do the right kind of thinking.\"", "Neanderthals were a separate species of human that populated Europe for hundreds of thousands of years until they went extinct 40,000 years ago\n\nThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to Sweden's Svante Paabo for his work on human evolution.\n\nThe Prize committee said he achieved the seemingly impossible task of cracking the genetic code of one of our extinct relatives - Neanderthals.\n\nHe also performed the \"sensational\" feat of discovering the previously unknown relative - Denisovans.\n\nHis work helped explore our own evolutionary history and how humans spread around the planet.\n\nThe Swedish geneticist's work gets to the heart of some of the most fundamental questions - where do we come from and what allowed us, Homo sapiens, to succeed while our relatives went extinct.\n\nHe was just off to pick his daughter up from a sleepover when he got the call saying he'd won. He told the BBC: \"I was very surprised and overwhelmed, I had not expected this.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Nobel Prize This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Nobel Prize\n\nIn the 1990s, research on working out the human genetic code was taking place at pace. But that relied on fresh samples of pristine DNA.\n\nProf Paabo's interest was in the old, degraded and contaminated genetic material from our ancestors. Many thought it was an impossible challenge. But he was, for the first time, able to sequence DNA from a 40,000-year-old piece of bone.\n\nThose results showed that Neanderthals - who mostly lived in Europe and Western Asia - were distinct from both modern day humans and chimpanzees.\n\nHis work focused on hominins - the group of modern humans that includes us, Homo sapiens, but also our extinct relatives.\n\n\"By revealing genetic differences that distinguish all living humans from extinct hominins, his discoveries provide the basis for exploring what makes us uniquely human\", the Nobel committee said.\n\nFurther comparisons between Neanderthal DNA and humans from around the world showed their DNA was a closer match to humans coming from Europe or Asia.\n\nThis tells us that Homo sapiens had sex and children with Neanderthals after migrating out of Africa around 70,000 years ago.\n\nAnd you can still see the legacy of that today. Between 1-4% of modern human DNA comes from our Neanderthal relatives and this even affects our body's ability to respond to infection.\n\nThe next seismic contribution to human origins came in 2008. Scientists had found a 40,000-year-old finger bone in the Denisova cave, in Siberia.\n\nProf Paabo was able to sequence a sample of DNA and the results showed it was a previously unknown hominin - known as Denisovans.\n\nAnd it turned out Homo sapiens bred with Denisovans too. In parts of South East Asia up to 6% of people's DNA is Denisovan.\n\nSome of this genetic inheritance helps the body cope with low levels of oxygen, aids survival at high altitudes and is found in present-day Tibetans.\n\nProf Paabo only heard the news this morning when he was called by Thomas Perlmann, the secretary for the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.\n\n\"He was overwhelmed, he was speechless. Very happy,\" said Prof Perlmann.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do you they pick a Nobel prize winner?\n\nProf Paabo is seen as one of the founders of the scientific discipline of paleogenomics. He wins the 10m Swedish kronor (£800,000) prize. He follows in the footsteps of his father, Sune Bergstrom, who won the same Nobel Prize in 1982.\n\nHis work shows there were already two distinct groups of hominins (Neanderthals and Denisovans) living in Eurasia when Homo sapiens spread from Africa.\n\nAnalysis suggests these now extinct populations were small and relatively inbred and may not have been able to compete with rapidly expanding modern humans.\n• None Neanderthal extinction not caused by brutal wipe out\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has dropped its plan to abolish the 45% rate of income tax after Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng acknowledged that it was proving a \"massive distraction\".\n\nMr Kwarteng announced a series of tax cuts and changes in his mini-budget on September 23, before performing the U-turn. The government has not said how they will be paid for.\n\nSo how many people will benefit from them and how much will they cost?\n\nThe top rate of income tax for those earning more than £150,000 a year was reduced from 50% to 45% by then Chancellor George Osborne from April 2013.\n\nA decade on, the rate was to have been abolished in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, leaving top earners paying the 40% rate instead. Mr Kwarteng has confirmed that this will not now go ahead.\n\nThe government said it would have meant a tax cut for 660,000 people next year.\n\nThe Treasury said the policy would cost around £2.2bn in 2025-26 and £2.1bn the following year. The costings in the first few years of the policy were uncertain because of wealthy taxpayers being expected to move their earnings between years to take advantage of the cut.\n\nScotland has a different system of income tax rates and bands, which is set by the Scottish Parliament. The current top rate for those earning over £150,000 is 46% and is not affected by Mr Kwarteng's announcements.\n\nThe rate of income tax payable on incomes between £12,571 and £50,270 a year - known as the basic rate - will be cut from 20% to 19% from April 2023.\n\nThat should benefit 31 million income taxpayers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAgain, the changes to the basic rate do not affect taxpayers in Scotland, where there are currently five income tax bands, including a 19% starter rate.\n\nThe UK government expects the cut to cost just over £5bn in the first year. It's important to remember that this costing - and the others - haven't been checked by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), as they would usually be for a budget.\n\nA 1.25p in the pound increase in National Insurance was introduced in April 2022. It is now being reversed from 6 November.\n\nIt will apply throughout the UK, to about 28 million people.\n\nIt also applies to employers, the government says it will affect about 920,000 businesses.\n\nThe cut will cost the government about £17bn a year according to its estimates, although it expects to get about £3bn of that back if employers use their cut to raise wages or profits.\n\nThe price at which Stamp Duty Land Tax starts to be payable on property purchases in England and Northern Ireland has doubled, from £125,000 to £250,000.\n\nThere is also a special rate for first-time buyers. The price at which they start paying stamp duty has gone up from £300,000 to £425,000.\n\nThere were about 1.1 million residential property transactions on which stamp duty was paid in the last year.\n\nThe changes will cost the government about £1.5bn a year in lost tax revenue.\n\nScotland and Wales have separate systems of taxation for property transactions so the proposed stamp duty changes will not affect purchases there.\n\nCorporation tax is paid by companies on their profits.\n\nThe then Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced in March 2021 that the rate of corporation tax would be increasing from 19% to 25%, from April 2023.\n\nBut businesses with profits below £50,000 would have stayed at the 19% rate, with the rate then increasing gradually so that only businesses with profits over £250,000 were meant to pay the full 25% rate.\n\nMr Sunak estimated that would mean 70% of companies - about 1.4 million of them - would be unaffected and 10% - about 200,000 - would pay the full 25% rate.\n\nThe Treasury says cancelling the planned rise will cost it £12bn next year and £17bn the year after.\n\nThe government hopes the decision will encourage businesses to invest and increase growth in the economy.\n\nFrom April 2023, the government has decided to repeal the changes to the rules on off-payroll working, known as IR35, which were introduced in 2017 and 2021.\n\nThe point of the regulations was to make businesses responsible for making sure that contractors they were employing, via another company, were actually entitled to that status and should not be paid directly via payrolls.\n\nThe change to the rules will mean that across the UK it's up to the contractors themselves to make sure they have the right status and are paying the right amount of tax instead of putting the burden on employers.\n\nThe Treasury expects this change to cost it just over £1bn next year, rising to £2bn in 2026-27.\n\nAbout 4.4 million workers in the UK are classified as self-employed, but it is not clear how many of them will be affected by the change.", "The woman's family has been informed, police said\n\nA woman has died after being attacked by dogs in a house in Liverpool, police have confirmed.\n\nThe victim, aged in her 60s, was mauled by dogs in a property on St Brigids Crescent, Kirkdale, shortly before 16:30 BST, Merseyside Police said.\n\nThe force said she died at the scene and her next of kin had been informed.\n\nDet Insp Gavin Mulcahy said officers were at the scene carrying out further inquiries and asked anyone with information to contact the force.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Investigations continue in west Belfast following the shooting of Sean Fox\n\nA man has died after a shooting at a social club off the Suffolk Road in west Belfast.\n\nThe victim has been named locally as Sean Fox.\n\nHe was shot by two masked gunmen who walked into the Donegal Celtic FC social club and then made their escape on foot, the police said.\n\nThe shooting happened shortly before 14:30 BST on Sunday, when the club was busy with customers watching football on TV.\n\nEyewitnesses told BBC News NI that people initially believed the masked men came in to rob the social club.\n\nThey said the men then walked up to the victim and shot him in the back of the head, continuing to shoot after he fell.\n\nAnother eyewitness said the gunmen \"knew who they wanted to kill and did it in seconds\".\n\n\"One shot him while the other one stood and watched the door,\" they said.\n\nIt is understood Mr Fox, who was in his 40s and originally from west Belfast, was friends with Jim Donegan, who was shot dead as he waited to pick up his son from school in 2018.\n\nDetectives from the the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Major Investigation Team have launched a murder investigation and are urging anyone with information to contact them.\n\nThis looks a particularly cold-blooded brutal execution.\n\nWe had two masked gunmen casually walk into a crowded social club and identify their victim.\n\nIt is clear the gunmen knew who they were attacking and didn't leave anything to chance.\n\nIt is unclear who was behind this killing, it is far too early to say.\n\nSinn Féin MP for the area, Paul Maskey, told BBC News NI there was \"total shock\" in the community following this \"uncalled for, unjust\" shooting.\n\nHe urged anyone with information to come forward and asked for the PSNI be given space to carry out their investigation.\n\n\"My thoughts and sympathies are with this man's family... I condemn those responsible. There is no place for guns on our streets,\" he added.\n\nPeople Before Profit councillor Matt Collins called the shooting \"a horrific and appalling act of violence, which must be condemned by all\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with the victim's family and anyone impacted by this barbaric act,\" he said.\n\nThere's absolutely no place for guns or violence in our communities.\"\n\nSDLP councillor Brian Heading added: \"This incident has cast a dark cloud over the entire area.\n\n\"People in this community want to be able to live their lives in peace and this shooting in broad daylight in a busy establishment must be condemned in the strongest possible terms by all.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp John Caldwell said: \"At approximately 14:45 BST, police received a report that two masked men had entered the Donegal Celtic Sports and Social Club shortly before 14:30 BST and shot the man a number of times.\n\n\"He was pronounced dead at the scene. Both gunmen are believed to have made their escape on foot along Suffolk Road.\"", "Much of the talk at the Tory conference was about whether the party would ditch a pledge made under Boris Johnson to increase benefits in line with inflation.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live heard from people directly affected by the plans.\n\nKaren has fibromyalgia, which is a long-term condition that causes pain all over her body. She works two jobs and claims Universal Credit. She’s also been getting housing benefit and council tax benefit since she was in a car accident six years ago and had to give up her job.\n\n“I never thought I’d be in this situation, I’m 65 in a couple of months, I thought firstly I’d be getting my pension by now.\n\n“It’s this old stigma that anyone on benefits is trying to get every penny they can out of the government and sit down all day long, and it isn’t like that,” she says.\n\n“It’s really hard to make wages now with the minimum wage at £9.50, it doesn’t come in anywhere near to the cost of living. It’s never going to cover what your outgoings are and so you’ll always need to be on benefits.”\n\nShe adds: “It can happen to anyone. So many people, especially since Covid, have had to go on benefits, they’ve never claimed in their lives. It’s not shameful, the only shameful part of it is that the government don’t get it sorted out.”\n\nSpeaking about Liz Truss, Karen says she should be looking at those at the “bottom of the ladder” and that “she’s not even considering us. We need the help now.”", "Wayne Couzens is a former armed officer with the Met's Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command\n\nSarah Everard's killer Wayne Couzens has appeared in court on flashing charges but was not asked to enter pleas amid the barristers' strike.\n\nThe 49-year-old ex-Met Police officer is accused of two counts of indecent exposure pre-dating Ms Everard's kidnap, rape and murder in 2021.\n\nHe is accused of exposing himself to a female cyclist in November 2020.\n\nHe also allegedly drove with the lower half of his body undressed in Dover, Kent, in June 2015.\n\nOn Monday, Couzens appeared at the Old Bailey by video link from jail.\n\nHe only spoke to confirm his name at the brief hearing.\n\nHis barrister was not present and the defendant was instead represented by a solicitor.\n\nThe case was adjourned until 1 November when legal argument is set to take place.\n\nThe former armed officer with the Met's Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, has already pleaded not guilty to four separate counts of indecent exposure.\n\nThose charges are over other alleged incidents at a fast food restaurant in Kent in 2021 - on 30 January and 6 February, and on 14 February and 27 February.\n\nCouzens, from Deal, Kent, is serving a whole-life sentence at HMP Frankland in Durham for murdering Ms Everard in March 2021.\n\nHe kidnapped the 33-year-old marketing executive as she walked home in south London.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twenty four hours can be a long time in politics. Just ask Liz Truss.\n\nOn Sunday morning, she was telling Laura Kuenssberg her plan to scrap the additional rate of tax was here to stay.\n\nAre you completely committed to it? Yes, she replied confidently.\n\nAs late as last night, senior ministers were defending the plan in the fringe meetings around the conference.\n\nBut something had changed.\n\nThe prime minister and chancellor held a series of crisis talks over the course of Sunday, as it became increasingly clear the policy was unsellable.\n\nThe telltale signs were there. Conservative MPs were hitting the airwaves and social media to say they thought it was wrong. They had a talisman in the form of Michael Gove. What many had been saying privately was not coming out in public.\n\nThe warning they might lose the whip seemed to be counterproductive; it infuriated sceptical MPs who didn't think the prime minister had the authority to see it through.\n\nGrant Shapps - famous around Westminster for his ability to predict the result of votes - warned the government could lose in the Commons. Privately, Labour was confident of the same.\n\nAnd by the time Mr Shapps appeared on the BBC's News at 10pm - to say the government had got its priorities wrong - the policy was already destined for the dustbin.\n\nIt was late evening when the final decision was made. Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng gathered for talks in the Hyatt Hotel in Birmingham, just beside the conference venue. They both now agreed: the policy had to be dumped immediately.\n\nIt was agreed the chancellor would kill it off in the morning in his BBC interviews.\n\nSome senior cabinet ministers found out this morning, shortly before the announcement was made and after it had been reported, first by the Sun newspaper.\n\nThis is a significant blow for a government that has been in office for less than a month. It's a personal blow for a chancellor who had always prided himself on sticking to his guns.\n\nDespite that, Mr Kwarteng's allies insist he is calm and even relieved that the policy is dead.\n\n\"He knew this was going to dominate everything,\" one says this morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Prime Minister Liz Truss says she stands by plans announced in the mini-budget\n\nBut any sense of calm doesn't extend far beyond Mr Kwarteng's hotel room.\n\nAround the conference centre, the Conservative Party feels as febrile as at any point in the past couple of years.\n\nIn the words of one former minister: \"No wonder Labour are laughing. You couldn't make it up… it's just incompetence.\"\n\nWhat's been noticeable is that many true-believers aren't sure she's made the right decision.\n\nI asked one cabinet minister, close to the prime minister, if she'd made the right decision. They shrugged, adding: \"There was an inevitability to it.\"\n\nOne minister I spoke to put it politely when they said they were \"not happy\".\n\n\"It undermines credibility,\" they said, predicting that Tory backbenchers would now be emboldened to challenge policies they didn't like, a daunting prospect for a new prime minister just a few weeks into the job.\n\nA backbencher, who opposed the 45p policy, said junking it was bad for the PM's authority: \"It looks weak.\"\n\nLanguage we couldn't publish has been used more than once this morning.\n\nAnother MP who backed Ms Truss for the leadership was more sanguine, but still sceptical: \"I'm not sure I would have gone for the u-turn. But she's done it and we need to support her.\"\n\nBut there's also a question mark over the relationship between the prime minister and her chancellor.\n\nShe told the BBC on Sunday that the decision to scrap the 45p rate was his. He said this morning that the U-turn decision was hers (he later said it was both of them).\n\nWhen Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng moved into Downing Street, they were seen as the closest of political friends. Allies said they would be joined at the hip.\n\nMore than a few eyebrows were raised by the willingness to attribute a decision to the other in the past couple of days.\n\nSources close to them say the idea of a split is overplayed. But a month in, not many people would have expected it to be a discussion at all.\n\nSo what state is the government in this afternoon? Battered and bruised? Definitely humiliated? Probably.\n\nUnable to recover? Some Tories think so.\n\nA former minister told me the conference has a \"last days of Rome\" feel about it. They warned the government hasn't solved the problem of unfunded borrowing, which will still be well over £40bn for tax cuts.\n\nThe hope in government will be that by taking this decision quickly, the damage from the 45p row will be limited, and that the government will be able to move on.\n\nBut in doing so, the prime minister is admitting her determination to fight for unpopular policies only goes so far.\n\nThere is a limit to how unpopular they are prepared to be.", "T-72 tanks are used by both sides in the conflict\n\nA Czech crowdfunding campaign has successfully raised more than $1.30m (£1.17m) to buy a modernised tank for the Ukrainian army.\n\nDubbed \"a gift for Putin\", the campaign received donations from 11,288 individual donors, and organisers say it is the first purchase of its kind.\n\nThe modernised Soviet-era T-72 tank named Tomas will be sent to Ukraine.\n\nThe fund was backed by the Czech defence ministry and Ukraine's embassy in Prague.\n\nIn a message posted to Twitter, the Czech Defence Minister Jana Cernochova joked that contributors had bought Russian President Vladimir Putin - who marks his 70th birthday on 7 October - \"a proper present\".\n\n\"Many thanks to all of you who buy him 'gifts' in the form of support for Ukraine,\" she quipped.\n\n\"Once again, thank you very much for your generosity and solidarity. We must continue to help Ukraine! All of us. And we will!\"\n\nThe Ukrainian ambassador in Prague, Yevhen Perebyynis, tweeted: \"The Czech Republic has become the first country where ordinary people bought a tank for [the Ukrainian Defence Ministry].\"\n\nThe T-72 Avenger is a modernised version of the Soviet-era tank that first entered production in 1969. It has been fitted with a new device to create a smoke screen in combat and has an upgraded front cannon.\n\nBut organisers say they will continue collecting donations to supply Ukrainian forces with a host of other military essentials, including drones, thermal clothing, bulletproof vests and ammunition.\n\nSince the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Western governments have supplied Ukrainian forces with huge amounts of military hardware. The US has supplied over $15.1bn in assistance since 24 February, while the UK has committed £2.3bn, according to the UK's House of Commons research service.\n\nGovernments in central and eastern Europe have also donated massive sums to Kyiv's forces. Poland is believed to have donated around 230 tanks and the Czech government was an early supplier of hardware.\n\nBut the Ukrainian government has also pursued modern solutions to keep its military supplied.\n\nAccording to the Ukrainian embassy in Prague, the \"Gift for Putin\" campaign has raised millions of dollars for the wider weapons-purchase programme. Donors can specify what they put their money towards - whether tanks, ammunition, or drones.\n\nAnother scheme set up by the government in Kyiv, United24, has been backed by a host of celebrities - including Star Wars actor Mark Hamill.\n\nSo far, it has raised more than $196m and has been used to pay for 986 drones, 20 sets of night-vision goggles and a military helicopter. Funds have also been used for humanitarian projects.\n\nAnd in May, Lithuanians clubbed together and purchased a state-of-the-art TB2 drone from the Turkish manufacturer Bayraktar. Thousands of microtransactions saw the target of €6m (£5.1m) raised in just three days.\n\n\"This is the first case in history when ordinary people raise money to buy something like a Bayraktar. It is unprecedented, it is unbelievable,\" Beshta Petro, Ukraine's ambassador told Lithuanian TV at the time.\n\nCrowdfunding has also been used to raise money for Russia's war effort.\n\nHowever, reports suggest money sent by pro-war Russian groups has often been used to purchase food, clothing, boots, basic equipment and medical supplies to treat wounded soldiers, which have often been in short supply.\n\nThere have even been reports of mandatory crowdfunding. A Radio Liberty journalist reported two weeks ago that workers from energy giant Gazprom in the Russian far east were being forced to send 1,000 roubles ($17) to buy medications.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The drone Lithuania is donating to Ukraine", "The Supreme Leader of Iran has blamed the United States and Israel for orchestrating protests in Tehran and other cities following the death of a young woman who was detained by the nation's 'morality police'.\n\nIn his first comments Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed he had been been heartbroken by Mahsa Amini's death. Social media is playing a key role in the protests, as our analysis editor Ros Atkins reports.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nAbuse and misconduct \"had become systemic\" in the United States' top-flight National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), an independent investigation has found.\n\nGoverning body US Soccer said it would move immediately to implement reforms.\n\nAn investigation was launched last year following allegations made against North Carolina Courage's English head coach Paul Riley, who was sacked.\n\nRiley, who has coached women's teams since 2006, has denied the accusations.\n\nAfter the alleged offences against Riley came to light, a round of NWSL games were suspended before players halted matches in their own displays of unity, while league commissioner Lisa Baird resigned.\n• None The Sports Desk - Is football failing to protect women?\n\nUS Soccer appointed Sally Yates and King & Spalding LLP to conduct the independent inquiry, who spoke to more than 200 NWSL players.\n\n\"Our investigation has revealed a league in which abuse and misconduct - verbal and emotional abuse and sexual misconduct - had become systemic, spanning multiple teams, coaches, and victims,\" the Yates report said.\n\n\"Abuse in the NWSL is rooted in a deeper culture in women's soccer that normalises verbally abusive coaching and blurs boundaries between coaches and players.\n\n\"The players who have come forward to tell their stories have demonstrated great courage. It's now time that the institutions that failed them in the past listen to the players and enact the meaningful reform players deserve.\"\n\nAs well as examining claims against Riley, the report looks into allegations against two other coaches, Rory Dames and Northern Irishman Christy Holly.\n\nDames resigned from the Chicago Red Stars last November and the report alleges verbal abuse and improper sexual relationships with players, which he denies.\n\nIt says Holly left a coaching role in 2016 following similar claims and was sacked by Racing Louisville last year for sexual misconduct after groping a player. Holly has admitted to a relationship with the player but denies there was any sexual conduct while at the club, the report continues.\n\nUS Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone called the investigation's findings \"heartbreaking and deeply troubling.\"\n\nThe NWSL said it would immediately review the findings.\n\n\"We greatly appreciate our players, staff and stakeholders' cooperation with both investigations, especially during the ongoing season,\" the league said in a statement .\n\n\"We recognise the anxiety and mental strain that these pending investigations have caused and the trauma that many - including players and staff - are having to relive.\n\n\"We continue to admire their courage in coming forward to share their stories and influence all the changes necessary to keep moving our league forward.\"\n\nThe NWSL added that a joint investigation between the league and its players' association is ongoing.", "The UK is facing \"a significant risk\" of gas shortages this winter, according to the industry regulator, which could impact electricity supplies.\n\nOfgem said due to Russia's war with Ukraine, there is a possibility the UK could enter a \"gas supply emergency\".\n\nThis would lead to supplies being cut to power stations which use gas to generate the country's electricity.\n\nGas-fired power stations generate between 40% and 60% of the UK's electricity.\n\nFirms are at risk of running out of money because of huge charges they pay if they cannot deliver electricity.\n\nOfgem said: \"Due to the war in Ukraine and gas shortages in Europe, there is a significant risk that gas shortages could occur during the winter 2022-23 in Great Britain. As a result, there is a possibility that Great Britain could enter into a gas supply emergency.\"\n\nIf this happens, supplies would be cut to \"the largest gas users\" which are likely to be \"large gas-fired power stations which produce electricity to the National Electricity Transmission System\".\n\nIt is not clear if this could result in electricity blackouts or mean homes and businesses will face energy rationing this winter.\n\nDuring the Conservative Party leadership campaign, Prime Minister Liz Truss ruled out rationing.\n\nAsked about the risk of blackouts this winter, Ofgem told the BBC: \"This winter is likely to be more challenging than previous ones due to the Russian disruption of gas supplies to Europe.\"\n\nBut it said: \"Britain is in a good position with little direct import of gas from Russia\n\n\"Nevertheless, we need to be prepared for all scenarios this winter. As a result, Ofgem is putting in place sensible contingency measures with National Grid as well as the government to ensure that the UK energy system is fully prepared for this winter.\"\n\nOfgem wrote a letter in response to SSE, which operates four gas-fired power stations in the UK that produce electricity.\n\nSSE is concerned that operators of gas-fired power stations face millions of pounds worth of costs if they are unable to fulfil promises to supply electricity \"caused by events outside their control\".\n\nA power station will burn gas to create heat which powers a turbine. This creates electricity which is transmitted up and down the UK's National Electricity Transmission System via pylons or underground cables.\n\nIn the event electricity supplies are disrupted because of constrained gas supplies, generators would have to pay what are known as \"imbalance charges\".\n\nThese cover the cost of National Grid having to find electricity from elsewhere to meet demand.\n\nOfgem said this \"could result in potential insolvency of gas-fired generators if a gas supply emergency occurs\".\n\nSSE said that an averaged-sized power station could face charges of around £276m a day if it is unable to generate electricity.\n\nIn its letter, which was first reported in The Times, Ofgem said it would look at the issue of charges as a matter of urgency because it will have a \"significant impact on the safety and security of the electricity system\".\n\nSSE said that by raising the issue with Ofgem it \"would protect security of supply by ensuring gas-fired power stations are able to provide vital flexible generation through challenging periods\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"There is broad industry agreement on the need to examine this issue, with the decision ultimately one for Ofgem.\"\n\nRWE, which also generates electricity in the UK through gas-fired power, said it shares and raised the same concerns.\n\n\"Due to circumstances beyond our control, the station would be heavily penalised for not meeting its generation obligations.\"\n\nDavid Cox, an independent energy analyst, said that the UK was heading into a \"very dangerous situation\" this winter.\n\n\"The problem is we get about 40% of our electricity from gas-powered plants in the UK,\" he said.\n\nMr Cox noted that the UK will face challenges importing gas from storage sites in Europe this winter, with European countries facing their own supply crunch due to Russia's war in Ukraine.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said the UK \"has a secure and diverse energy system and the government is confident that the steps it is taking will protect security of electricity and gas supplies\".\n\n\"To strengthen this position further we are working closely with regulators and our international partners to ensure UK households and businesses' energy needs are met this winter.\"\n\nSince its initial invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin has reduced energy supplies to Europe while many countries have pledged to shift their reliance for oil and gas away from Russia.\n\nWhile the UK does not rely on Russia for oil and gas, any disruption causes a widespread impact on international supplies.\n\nMost recently, leaks were discovered at Russia's two main gas pipelines to Germany, Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2. Though neither were operational, the EU, US and Nato suggested the damage was intentional. Russia has denied any involvement.", "Queen Margrethe II said she wanted to keep the monarch in \"keeping with the times\"\n\nThe Queen of Denmark has apologised after stripping four of her grandchildren of their royal titles - but has not reversed the decision.\n\nQueen Margrethe II said she wanted the monarchy in \"keeping with the times\", that her decision had been a long time coming, and that it would \"future-proof\" the institution.\n\nBut she \"underestimated\" her family's reaction \"and for that I am sorry\".\n\nThe initial decision was announced last week, to begin next year.\n\n\"The titles of prince and princess that they have held up until now will be discontinued,\" the initial statement said. \"Prince Joachim's descendants will thus have to be addressed as excellencies in the future.\"\n\nPrince Joachim - the younger son of Queen Margrethe - said he was upset by the change.\n\n\"It's never fun to see your children being mistreated like that,\" he told Ekstra Bladet. \"They find themselves in a situation they do not understand.\"\n\nHis wife, Princess Marie, said her youngest child had been bullied at school following what she called the \"short-notice\" announcement.\n\nIn an interview, the couple also said Margrethe had not spoken to them since the changes were announced. One grandchild, Prince Nikolai, said his family were \"shocked\" by the decision.\n\nFrom the beginning of 2023, Joachim's four children - Prince Nikolai, 23, Prince Felix, 20, Prince Henrik, 13, and Princess Athena, 10 - will be known by the titles Count and Countess of Monpezat instead of Prince and Princess.\n\nThe palace said this was a \"natural extension\" to the Danish monarch's desire to slim down the monarchy.\n\n\"Her Majesty The Queen wishes to create the framework for the four grandchildren to be able to shape their own lives to a much greater extent,\" last week's statement said.\n\nBut following what Margrethe described as \"strong reactions\" to her decision, she apologised in a new statement for underestimating the reaction.\n\n\"No one should be in doubt that my children, daughters-in-law and grandchildren are my great joy and pride. I now hope that we as a family can find the peace to find our way through this situation,\" she said.\n\nQueen Margrethe II's oldest son, Crown Prince Frederik, is first in line to the throne. His four children will keep their titles.\n\nHis wife, Crown Princess Mary, supported the Queen, saying \"change can be difficult and can really hurt. But this does not mean that the decision is not the right one\".\n\nThe Danish monarch, 82, tested positive for Covid-19 after attending the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II - who was her third cousin.", "Videos posted online appeared to show students running from security forces on motorbikes\n\nIranian police have cracked down on students at a prestigious university in Tehran, as anti-government protests continue to sweep the country.\n\nReports said a large number of students at Sharif University of Technology were trapped in a car park that had been surrounded by security personnel.\n\nOne video appeared to show students running away as gunshots ring out.\n\nThe anti-government protests erupted on 17 September, after the death of a woman detained by the morality police.\n\nIn his first public comments, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described Mahsa Amini's death as a \"bitter incident\" that \"deeply broke my heart\".\n\nBut he denounced the nationwide protests as \"riots\" that he claimed had been \"planned\" by the United States and Israel, \"as well as their paid agents, with the help of some traitorous Iranians abroad\".\n\nMs Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, fell into a coma hours after officers in the capital accused her of breaking the strict law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf. She died in hospital three days later.\n\nHer family alleges that officers beat her head with a baton and banged her head against one of their vehicles. The police have said there is no evidence of any mistreatment and that she suffered \"sudden heart failure\".\n\nProtests started at her funeral and have spread across the country to become the worst unrest seen in the country for years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Protests take place in countries outside Iran, in support of opposition to the custody death of Mahsa Amini\n\nSunday was the first day of term for first-year students attending Sharif University of Technology.\n\nThe semi-official Mehr news agency reported that about 200 students gathered at the campus on Sunday afternoon and began chanting slogans including \"woman, life, freedom\" and \"students prefer death to humiliation\". As the demonstration continued, the slogans became more radical and directed against the clerical establishment, it said.\n\nThe violence erupted in the late afternoon, when security forces arrived at the campus. Mehr reported that security personnel fired tear gas and paintballs, causing some of the students to flee to one of the university's car parks.\n\nIn one video posted on social media, a group of people are seen trying to escape through a car park while being pursued by security forces on motorbikes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rana Rahimpour This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother appears to show people running as motorcyclists advance along a street. Gunshots can be heard, as well as chants of \"death to Khamenei\".\n\nThe US-based Center for Human Rights in Iran said a third video showed a \"detained protester being carted away with [their] entire head wrapped in clothing\" by two security personnel on a motorbike, one of whom then opens fire at the woman filming.\n\nReports said a number of students were beaten or shot with pullet guns, and that 30 to 40 were arrested.\n\nThe state news agency, Irna, reported that calm was restored after Science Minister Mohammad Ali Zulfigol travelled to the campus to speak with the students and security forces.\n\nMehr said classes at the university were suspended on Monday and moved online \"due to recent events and the need to protect students\".\n\nThe last two nights have seen an escalation in protests in Tehran and many other cities, despite a growing death toll.\n\nIran Human Rights, a Norway-based group, said on Sunday that at least 133 people had been killed by security forces so far. They include 41 protesters whom ethnic Baluch activists said had died in clashes in the south-eastern city of Zahedan on Friday.\n\nAuthorities have promised to come down hard on \"rioters\", who they say have been put up to it by Iran's foreign enemies.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Grant Shapps: \"Let's not muddy the water with... tax cuts for wealthy people right now\"\n\nLiz Truss would lose a Commons vote on cutting the top rate of income tax, former cabinet minister Grant Shapps has told the BBC.\n\nScrapping the 45% top rate was a key part of last Friday's mini-budget aimed at boosting growth.\n\nBut it has faced a growing backlash from Conservative MPs after market turmoil and a big slide in the polls.\n\nMichael Gove earlier hinted that he would vote against it - but Mr Shapps has now gone further.\n\nThe former transport secretary warned Ms Truss not to have a \"tin ear\" to voters' concerns about rising living costs and to do a U-turn as soon as possible.\n\n\"Let's not muddy the water with... tax cuts for wealthy people right now, when the priority needs to be on everyday households,\" he said.\n\nMPs are not likely to get a chance to vote on the tax changes until next spring, but Mr Shapps suggested enough Tory MPs would join forces with Labour and other opposition parties to defeat it.\n\n\"I don't think the House is in a place where it's likely to support that,\" he told the BBC on the first day of the Conservative conference in Birmingham.\n\nLike others who supported Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest, Mr Shapps was fired from the cabinet by Ms Truss when she became prime minister.\n\nBut Mr Shapps insisted he was not being unhelpful to the new PM. \"Sometimes budgets go wrong when they're announced,\" he said.\n\nHe cited former Chancellor George Osborne's 2012 Budget - dubbed the \"omnishambles\" - as an example of when economic policies have been \"quickly reversed\".\n\n\"And you know what? We went on to win the next election. So I mean this to be entirely helpful. There is a way through this. But the way through isn't to put fingers in the ear.\"\n\nInstead of just \"pushing on\" with the 45p top rate cut, he said the government \"needed to actually recognise that we're trying to do something here, which really isn't possible at this moment\".\n\nLater on Monday, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will use his Conservative conference speech to insist the government will \"stay the course\" on his tax-cutting growth plan, arguing that without tax reform the country is heading for \"slow decline\".\n\nOn Sunday, Conservative Party chairman Jake Berry warned that Tory MPs who voted against the prime minister's tax measures would be kicked out of the parliamentary party - known as losing the whip.\n\nTalking to Sky News, Mr Berry urged Conservatives to back the prime minister, adding: \"I'm sure that if we do that it will lead ultimately to long-term electoral success.\"\n\nBut on Sunday, Maria Caulfield became the latest Conservative MP to publicly oppose the policy, saying she could not support it at a time \"when nurses are struggling to pay their bills\".\n\nAddressing Mr Berry directly in a tweet, Ms Caulfield, who used to work as a nurse, said: \"If Tory Party don't want this working class MP, fair enough.\"\n\nFormer Levelling-Up Secretary Mr Gove - who also backed Mr Sunak in the leadership contest - said there were \"two major\" problems with the prime minister's plans.\n\n\"The first is the sheer risk of using borrowed money to fund tax cuts - that's not Conservative,\" he said.\n\nThe second, he argued, was to cut the top rate of income tax and scrap the cap on bankers' bonuses \"at a time when people are suffering\".\n\nAsked if Ms Truss would be prime minister this time next year, he said she would but added: \"There needs to be a course correction.\"\n\nAnd asked on the Telegraph's Chopper's Politics Live podcast if the prime minister had a mandate for her tax changes, Mr Gove argued she did for changes to National Insurance and corporation tax - because she had campaigned for them during the leadership contest.\n\nBut he added: \"What was not discussed was the prospect of income tax cuts, particularly income tax cuts for the very wealthiest.\"", "Popular YouTuber Dream has for years been known to his fans only as a cartoon smiley face.\n\nThe Minecraft gamer, with 30 million subscribers online, only ever uses his voice in streams - albeit occasionally appearing on camera wearing a mask.\n\nBut all that looked set to change after his friends - and other YouTubers - posted videos apparently reacting to Dream without his mask.\n\nHe then posted a video revealing his face for the first time.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMinecraft is the world's bestselling video game and Dream's most popular videos have tens of millions of views, with one having been watched more than 115 million times.\n\n\"Hi, my name is Clay, otherwise known as Dream,\" he said in a five-minute video viewed more than 12 million times.\n\nWith a friend moving to the US, where Dream is based, he wanted to be able to go out more, without worrying about leaks or speculation, he said.\n\n\"I've been bunkered up,\" Dream said. \"The people trying to leak my face, trying to find out what I look like... it's just a tiny bit too much.\"\n\nHis face would remain absent from his Minecraft videos, he said, but he may start making \"IRL content\" - set in real life - with his friends.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Dream This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIn the days leading up to his public reveal, Dream showed his face to several close contacts, asking them to post their reactions online.\n\nOne, Karl Jacobs, who said he was among Dream's best friends, said he \"looks like a baseball player\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by karl :) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd almost a million people have watched a video of Dream revealing his face to popular technology YouTuber Marques Brownlee - despite the two never having spoken before meeting virtually.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Marques Brownlee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"This channel is living proof that anyone can do anything,\" Dream said.\n\n\"Anyone can be under the mask and I don't want my face reveal to take away from that fact - Dream could have been anyone from anywhere.\n\n\"I will be forever in debt to my viewers and my subscribers. I love you guys.\"", "The barrister examining what was known about former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood's conduct during his time at the BBC has published a call for evidence.\n\nIn August, Gemma White KC was appointed by the BBC Board to lead an independent review.\n\nShe announced on Monday that she now wants to hear from anyone who may have had concerns about his behaviour.\n\nThe corporation previously acknowledged six complaints about bullying and sexual misconduct, which the DJ denies.\n\nThe review also wants to hear from anyone who has knowledge of any such allegations or concerns being raised and any known responses from the BBC, as well as any reasons why allegations or concerns were not raised with the BBC.\n\nIn April, Westwood first faced multiple allegations of sexual misconduct by women who said he had abused his position in the music industry to exploit them.\n\nIn a joint investigation by BBC News and the Guardian, the 64-year-old was accused of predatory and unwanted sexual behaviour and touching, in incidents between 1992 and 2017.\n\nAfter the joint investigation was published, BBC director general Tim Davie initially said the BBC had \"no evidence of complaints\" about Westwood.\n\nBut after BBC News challenged the corporation's response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request made in November 2021, it later acknowledged the six complaints - one of which was serious enough to have been referred to the police.\n\nThe BBC said the director general's initial response had set out the position as he understood it at the time, and ahead of the internal report Mr Davie said he wanted to \"ensure everything is flushed out\" and \"any cases are looked at\".\n\nThe BBC Board's senior independent director, Sir Nicholas Serota, said recently that new allegations continue to emerge and that there may have been times when the corporation should have done more to investigate the complaints.\n\nThe BBC has said it would pass any relevant information gathered to the Metropolitan Police, which confirmed in August it was investigating a man over four alleged sexual offences in 1982, 1985, 2010 and 2016.\n\nThe independent inquiry is expected to last six months and the BBC wants to include Westwood's other employers, MTV and Global - owner of Capital Xtra, which the DJ joined after leaving the BBC.\n\nAnyone with information is being asked to contact the review via email at GWKCBBCReview@blackstonechambers.com, or by post, marked for the attention of Gemma White KC BBC Review, to Linklaters LLP, One Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8HQ. You can also request a meeting with Gemma White.", "A 36-year-old man died after collapsing while running the London Marathon, organisers have confirmed.\n\nThe man, from south-east England, became unwell between miles 23 and 24 of the 26.2-mile event.\n\nHe received immediate medical treatment and an ambulance arrived within three minutes but he died later in hospital. His cause of death is not yet known.\n\nIn a statement, London Marathon Events expressed its \"sincere condolences\" to the man's family and friends.\n\nThe organisation said his relatives had requested privacy at this time, adding: \"No further details will be released in accordance with their wishes.\n\n\"The cause of death will be established later through medical examination.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ukrainian armoured units are advancing against the Russians in several areas\n\nUkrainian troops have retaken more territory in regions illegally annexed by Russia, with Kyiv's forces advancing near the southern city of Kherson and consolidating gains in the east.\n\nRussian-installed officials in Kherson confirmed the advance, but said Moscow's forces were digging in.\n\nUkrainian troops also moved towards Russian-held Luhansk in the east.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said \"there are new liberated settlements in several regions\".\n\nSpeaking during his nightly address, President Zelensky said \"fierce fighting continues in many areas\", but he did not give details. The progress of Ukraine's counterattacks have been closely guarded and reporters have largely been kept away from the front lines.\n\nVladimir Saldo, the Russian-installed leader in the Kherson region in the south, admitted that Ukrainian forces had broken through near Dudchany, a town on the Dnipro river about 30km (20 miles) south of the previous front line. The river is called Dnieper by Russians.\n\n\"There are settlements that are occupied by Ukrainian forces,\" Mr Saldo said. Some Russian reports say the Ukrainians have now taken Dudchany.\n\nRussian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said \"numerically superior\" Ukrainian tanks had \"driven a deep wedge\" south of Zolota Balka, a village that marked the previous front line on the Dnipro. He claimed the Russians had killed about 130 Ukrainian troops in that fighting.\n\nAccording to Mr Saldo, two Ukrainian battalions tried to reach the Kakhovka hydroelectric station, about 70km (44 miles) east of Kherson. The power station is in the port city of Nova Kakhovka.\n\nThe Ukrainian advance is targeting supply lines for as many as 25,000 Russian troops on the west bank of the Dnipro, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nMeanwhile, in the east, Kyiv's troops have continued an advance that has made inroads into Luhansk, a province annexed by Moscow last week and previously under almost complete Russian control.\n\nOn Saturday, Ukrainian forces recaptured the important hub town of Lyman in the east, near the Luhansk regional border. Russia's military had turned Lyman into a logistical base.\n\nA commander of Russia's proxy forces in Luhansk said Ukrainian troops had pushed a few kilometres into the region before being killed. The BBC cannot confirm these claims.\n\nAnd reports suggest that the Ukrainians are moving towards the Russian-held towns of Kreminna and Svatove in Luhansk, with some pro-Kremlin bloggers suggesting that Russian forces have again been ordered to retreat.\n\nKherson and Luhansk are among four regions which Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared to be part of Russia, following so-called referendums denounced as fraudulent by Kyiv and its Western allies. Russia does not fully control any of the four regions.\n\nOn Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov attracted ridicule online after he admitted that Russia was still deciding which areas it had \"annexed\", suggesting that Moscow does not know where its self-declared borders are.\n\nMr Peskov claimed the entirety of Luhansk and Donetsk regions were part of Russia, but said the Kremlin would \"continue consultations with the population regarding the borders of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions\".\n\nKyiv has vowed to retake all the territory annexed by Russia, including Crimea, seized by Russian troops in 2014.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry says reservists drafted under Mr Putin's mobilisation order last month are undergoing intensive combat training in the Russian-controlled Luhansk and Donetsk regions. The Kremlin plans to call up about 300,000 reservists - though Mr Putin did not set an upper limit.", "King Charles waves at the crowd as he attends an official ceremony to mark Dunfermline as a city Image caption: King Charles waves at the crowd as he attends an official ceremony to mark Dunfermline as a city\n\nKing Charles III's first official visit since the Queen's funeral has come to an end.\n\nThe King offered his \"warmest congratulations\" to Scotland's newest city and said conferring the honour on Dunfermline would \"gladden my dear mother's heart\".\n\nHe spoke of his mother's \"deep love for Scotland\", describing it as \"one of the foundations of her life\".\n\nThe King highlighted the new city's \"immense significance\" in Scottish history as the birthplace of entrepreneur and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.\n\nHe said: \"It is my hope that all those who live in, or who hail from, this very special place will feel a real sense of pride at this latest chapter in our rich history, and that this new distinction will not merely burnish the legacy of the past but will also brighten the prospect of our future.\"\n\nHundreds of locals turned out to greet the royal couple, with Charles telling them: \"As you celebrate your well-deserved status as Scotland's new city, I can only offer my warmest congratulations, and my heartfelt wishes for the years to come.\"\n\nKing Charles then went on to reception at Holyrood Palace that celebrated the British South Asian community.", "For all the coverage of the war in Ukraine, little has been heard about the daily lives of people in Russian-controlled areas. As Russia formally annexed four regions last week, the BBC has spoken to some of the millions about what life is like under occupation.\n\nAll names have been changed\n\nBoris has lived in Kherson most of his life. He has asked us to disguise his identity - with Russian troops digging in and the Ukrainian army inching closer, civilians have learned to be extremely wary.\n\nFor months, he has tried to maintain his professional and personal life, in a city crawling with Russian soldiers and police officers.\n\nOne day, Boris breaks off a conversation with me to wipe content from his mobile phone before passing through a Russian checkpoint.\n\n\"You have to make sure there are no incriminating photos in your deleted folder,\" he says.\n\nA lot of people disappeared in the early months, as the city's new rulers cracked-down on anyone thought to be loyal to Kyiv.\n\nJudging by the reduced number of \"disappeared, looking for\" ads posted on walls and circulating on social media, Boris thinks the number of arrests has gradually declined.\n\nHalf the city's pre-war population of 280,000 left, seeking sanctuary in government-controlled territory or abroad.\n\nThose who remained, Boris says, initially adjusted well - as citizens made up their own rules and avoided the authorities at all costs.\n\n\"For four or five months we felt we were living in a kind of libertarian society,\" he says. \"Self-sustaining, self regulating.\"\n\nAll that came to an end in mid-July, when the city started to fill up with Russian secret service personnel, a process that intensified in the weeks leading up to the referendum.\n\n\"There were practically 20 cars per minute, with very serious men inside,\" Boris says.\n\nBoris, like all the other people we have spoken to for this piece, are opposed to Russia's occupation and annexation. It would be wrong to suggest that everyone in these areas shares their views. But all the available evidence, including previous voting records, suggests that people living in areas seized since February this year overwhelmingly see themselves as Ukrainian.\n\nHowever, early in the occupation, the situation brought unexpected benefits, Boris says.\n\n\"The city's really empty now and people can safely ride bicycles,\" Boris says. \"It's quite post-apocalyptic.\"\n\nThe next time we communicate, he tells me about visiting a dacha (summer house) on the other side of the wide Dnieper River - known in Ukraine as the Dnipro. From there, you can see the Antonovsky Bridge, which has been repeatedly hit by Ukrainian artillery since July.\n\n\"We picked grapes for wine and had a sauna,\" he says. \"It's something deep from our city culture.\"\n\nA low-resolution photo of a billboard in Kherson which includes a smiling pregnant woman, a Russian passport, and the slogan \"Kherson - Russian city\"\n\nIn Russian-occupied Kherson, holding on to what you value is a matter of constant improvisation.\n\nDespite Moscow's efforts to introduce the Russian rouble, the Ukrainian hryvnia is still widely used.\n\nFor a while, small vans - equipped with wi-fi connections - enabled customers to log in to Ukrainian banks and make withdrawals in hryvnia. The van operators would charge a transaction fee of 3-5%.\n\nNow, Boris says, the minivans are no longer needed - everything is done by word of mouth, as friends circulate the names of reliable dealers charging little or no commission.\n\nBut the Russian currency is steadily encroaching. Some welfare payments are already in roubles, which shops are obliged to accept. The only functioning banks are Russian.\n\nTo open an account, a Russian passport is required. The same thing applies to jobs in state enterprises.\n\n\"That's how they try to get most of the Ukrainians in town to convert to Russian citizenship,\" Boris says.\n\nAnother way is propaganda.\n\nHistorical figures on this billboard in Kherson include 18th Century imperial hero Alexander Suvurov. The slogan beneath reads: \"Kherson is Russia\"\n\nFrom May onwards, posters appeared on the streets declaring that Russia was back to stay.\n\nSometimes these slogans would be accompanied by images of 18th Century Russian heroes - stirring memories of Kherson's foundation as a fortress city by Catherine the Great, the last Empress of Russia, in 1778.\n\nOther posters depicted Russian passports with the motto \"Social Stability and Security,\" or a happy husband hugging his pregnant wife next to a message exhorting loyal citizens to have more children.\n\nBut there were other billboards that Boris found more insidious.\n\n\"They would picture some celebrity and say that this guy comes from Kherson and has dedicated his life to Russia. You feel a bit proud [generally] about that guy, and they use that pride to connect you to Russia.\"\n\nFor Kherson's solidly pro-Ukrainian majority, Boris says, the messaging has little effect.\n\n\"But for those who were brainwashed before the war,\" he adds, \"this just allowed them to come out of the shadows.\"\n\nDuring the so-called referendum in Kherson, Boris says he saw several elderly women contentedly walking away from a voting centre, carrying candyfloss and little Russian flags.\n\n\"Probably, some cheer-up by the organisers,\" he says.\n\nA woman casts her vote in Russia's so-called referendum in Mariupol, Donetsk, 26 September 2022\n\nOther battles, for culture, history and information, are going on throughout newly occupied Ukraine - from residents straining to catch mobile phone signals across front lines, to parents covertly educating their children in online Ukrainian schools (one of Covid's more beneficial legacies) to avoid an education system now under complete Russian control.\n\n\"The kids learn online at Ukrainian schools, using Russian internet and Western VPNs,\" Boris says. \"It's quite ironic.\"\n\nThe fight to stay connected to Ukraine is part of what has kept him going for more than half a year.\n\n\"Either you mobilise yourself or you just fall apart,\" he says.\n\nBut the referendums, long anticipated but constantly put off, have threatened to shatter his sense of purpose.\n\n\"It's devastating,\" he replies, when I message him to ask how people feel about the ballot.\n\n\"Why does it take ZSU [the Ukrainian forces] so long?\" he asks, referring to their slow advance towards Kherson.\n\nThe fear now among men of fighting age is that conscription, well under way in Russia, Crimea and separatist areas of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, will be extended to Kherson.\n\nSo far, it seems only those who have taken Russian passports have been told to join up, but anxiety is on the rise.\n\nBoris says he is conflicted about whether to flee or stay on, in the hope that one day he will wake up to find Kherson has been liberated by the Ukrainian army.\n\n\"I'm torn between safety and the unique experience of meeting Ukrainian soldiers [entering the city].\"\n\nIf liberation is the prospect that sustains Boris, it feels much less likely in Mariupol, 260 miles (418km) to the east.\n\n\"After the occupation, my whole life broke down,\" says a former teacher who asked to be called Alex.\n\nAfter a hellish siege, which captured global attention between March and May, those civilians who wouldn't or couldn't flee found themselves living in a wasteland.\n\n\"Russians went from apartment to apartment, destroying everything connected with Ukraine,\" says Alex, also communicating via a secure messaging app.\n\n\"At my home, they burned Ukrainian symbols and a lot of books.\"\n\nWhen the siege ended in late May, Russian soldiers gradually withdrew, leaving pro-Moscow separatists from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic to run the city.\n\n\"The city turned into a ruin,\" says Daryna, a student who stayed on but finally fled in August.\n\n\"It became a big market where everyone sold what they could to earn something.\"\n\nElectricity and water were in short supply. Thousands of homes were destroyed. Bodies lay unburied in the rubble.\n\nBut Daryna says the streets were quickly flooded with banners hailing Mariupol's liberation by Moscow.\n\nA combination of propaganda, necessity, and pro-Russian sentiments among some Mariupol residents, has had an effect, she says.\n\n\"Many people support the occupiers and many people work for the 'rashists' [a derogatory term for Russians] because they need money so they don't die of hunger.\"\n\nA man sits by a makeshift stove to keep warm - Mariupol, 29 September 2022\n\nPhysically closer to Russia and sitting at the southern end of the Donbas, Mariupol's ties with Moscow were always a little deeper than Kherson's.\n\nFleeting glimpses of resistance can be seen on social media, where images circulate of masked people draped in the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag.\n\nThe letter \"Ï\", which exists in the Ukrainian alphabet but not the Russian, has appeared on walls throughout occupied Ukraine.\n\nBut Mariupol has been physically and emotionally trashed by war. Optimism is in short supply.\n\n\"There is not a lot of hope left,\" Alex says, \"because [people] believe that Mariupol was abandoned. But still they hope.\"\n\nIn Mariupol, the sound of war has receded. In Kherson, it's getting closer. But in Enerhodar, midway between the two, it has never really gone away.\n\nRussia captured the city and its vast nuclear power station early in the war. But in recent months, Russian and Ukrainian forces have exchanged gunfire across the Dnieper (Dnipro) River, with Ukraine accusing Russia of using the power station as cover.\n\nThe constant danger of explosions has forced the people of Enerhodar to adopt strict routines.\n\n\"You try to get all your work done during the day - see friends, visit parents, buy food,\" says 38-year old Maksym.\n\nVegetables are cheaper, but meat, cheese and milk have doubled in price - street market in Melitopol, 10 September 2022\n\nFood, which disappeared from the shops early on, is less of a problem than it was. Across the south, everyone says the same thing - supermarkets are stocked with expensive, undesirable Russian products, while street markets are full of locally-produced food.\n\nCut off from 80% of Ukraine, farmers have to sell their produce locally. Vegetables are cheaper, but meat, cheese and milk cost double what they did before the war.\n\n\"Money is now spent only on food,\" Makysm says.\n\nAfter more than half a year of occupation, Enerhodar is half empty. Many of those who remain are elderly.\n\n\"Everyone who was able to leave has left, especially mums with kids,\" says Natalya, a pensioner.\n\nNatalya says she misses her daughter and granddaughter, but is glad they are somewhere safe in Europe.\n\nWith no gas for the past four months, and frequent power cuts, life for Natalya is a constant struggle, particularly with winter now looming.\n\n\"We have been isolated for seven months, cut off from civilisation. A mobile connection is rare. To have the internet is like a holiday.\"\n\nBut like Boris in Kherson, she does her best to follow the news.\n\nThe pensioner rattles off the names of Ukrainian military analysts, saying their forecasts suggest liberation is not far off.\n\nSometimes she walks down to the banks of the Dnieper (Dnipro), hoping to catch a mobile phone signal from Ukrainian government-controlled territory on the other side.\n\nAgain, it's all about clinging on.\n\nIn Russian-controlled Melitopol, far from the front lines and deep inside occupied southern Ukraine, Toma, a woman in her 30s, speaks of another routine preoccupation - caring for the sick.\n\n\"For several days at the beginning, I had a quest,\" she says. \"To find medicine for my mother, who suffers from heart disease.\"\n\nA man crosses a Melitopol street on 26 September 2022. A banner in the background promotes the Moscow-backed referendum - it reads: \"Future - 23-27 September 2022\"\n\nThe long queues of the spring, where hundreds stood in line for hours, have gone. But Toma says pharmacies are now run by the authorities and stocked with what local people regard as inferior Russian products.\n\nFour of the five drugs her mother needs are unavailable.\n\nThey have to be purchased by friends or relatives further north, in Ukrainian-controlled Zaporizhzhia, and then delivered by hand - which involves a risky journey through Ukrainian and Russian checkpoints.\n\nIn the midst of this hand-to-mouth existence, with jobs not available and people forced to trade their belongings, the appearance of posters quoting President Vladimir Putin's observations on the future of life in Russia feels like an added insult, Toma says.\n\n\"It's like we were thrown back 35 years,\" she says, referring to the days when Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union.\n\nThe situation in Melitopol's schools, she says, is disastrous.\n\nTeachers and administrators have refused to co-operate with the occupation authorities, forcing them to recruit anyone willing to accept a job - however unqualified.\n\n\"The former school cleaner became the class teacher of our friends' child,\" she says.\n\nRussia's mark is everywhere, from imported textbooks to the flag that flies in the school courtyard and the national anthem played at the start of every day.\n\nParents willing to send their children to school are offered 10,000 roubles (about £150) each, but only if they provide the passport information and place of residence of the child's father.\n\nBut, says Toma, there are signs of rebellion in the classroom.\n\n\"Children write Russian words in Ukrainian letters, hang blue and yellow ribbons on their backpacks, and wear socks with the slogan 'Russian warship [expletive]',\" - a reference to an act of defiance by the Ukrainian defenders of a tiny Black Sea island on the first day of the war.", "Taoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin has welcomed an apology from Northern Ireland Minister Steve Baker over Brexit negotiations as \"honest\" and \"very helpful\".\n\nMr Baker's apology related to some of his behaviour towards Ireland and the EU during the Brexit process.\n\nHe said the UK must \"show humility\" with the EU if a deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol was to be reached.\n\nThe taoiseach praised \"the tone of his comments\".\n\nMr Martin added that he had a \"very good engagement\" with Prime Minister Liz Truss and her new cabinet members at the Queen's funeral.\n\nMr Baker, a well-known Eurosceptic, made the apology at the Conservative conference on Sunday.\n\nSteve Baker said he was sorry UK-Ireland relations had been \"soured\" by the Brexit process\n\nOn Monday, he added that he had \"absolutely no desire\" to be in a position where relations with Ireland were in the wrong place.\n\n\"I am here to get a deal that is going to work for everyone, especially repairing the damage to the east-west strand,\" he told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\nWhen asked if progress could be made by changing the protocol rather than removing it, Mr Baker said he did not want to have negotiations in public.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party MP Ian Paisley said he did not think the apology would achieve anything.\n\n\"I think you would want to focus on the latter part of his comments that he wanted to maintain the resolve to challenge the failed protocol,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra.\n\nThe DUP's Ian Paisley said Mr Baker's apology was naive\n\n\"But the apology is obviously the thing that has attracted everyone's attention and I must say I think it was very naive.\n\n\"And if we want to get into this series of apologies where do we start and where do we stop - most unionists would probably take the view that the first apology with regards to Brexit is probably required from Leo Varadkar for all the misrepresentation with regards to the border issues in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe European Commission has confirmed that talks will take place this week on the protocol.\n\nEuropean Commission spokesman Daniel Ferrie said the EU would approach them \"constructively\" and it remains \"committed to finding joint solutions\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conservative MP Steve Baker: \"We have to bring some humility to this situation\"\n\nMr Baker made the apology while speaking on a panel alongside Northern Ireland Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris and Conservative peer Lord Caine, who is parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Northern Ireland Office.\n\nMuch of the discussion centred around the Northern Ireland Protocol, which keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods - avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nAt the conference, Mr Baker said he and others did not \"always behave in a way which encouraged Ireland and the European Union to trust us to accept that they have legitimate interests\".\n\nUlster Unionist leader Doug Beattie said improving relations would help \"resolve the problems that we have around the protocol\".\n\n\"I think Steve Baker has started that process and I think others could join in and really show a generosity of spirit in order to move us forward,\" he added.\n\nMicheál Martin said he had spoken to UK officials while in London for the Queen's funeral\n\nLord Caine said Mr Baker's remarks were \"emphatically not a change of policy\".\n\nIn response to Mr Baker's original apology, Ms Truss said he had been speaking for himself and not on behalf of the government.\n\nMeanwhile, Ireland's Minister for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne, told BBC Radio Four there was no question that UK negotiators had altered their tone in the protocol talks.\n\n\"I think it definitely contributes to a new atmosphere at a really good time, when we're looking now to restart technical-level talks,\" Mr Byrne said.\n\nMr Baker told Irish broadcaster RTÉ that unionists and loyalists had \"not reacted well\" to his apology.\n\n\"But I would just say to them, if we're going to be constructive here... we've got to de-escalate these tensions.\n\n\"If I have to eat a bit of humble pie to get that done, then I'm happy to eat it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: Cutting tax for the wealthiest \"a display of the wrong values\"\n\nSenior Tory Michael Gove has suggested he would not vote for Liz Truss's Budget when it comes to Parliament, saying \"I don't believe it's right.\"\n\nThe former cabinet minister said the PM's decision to cut the 45p tax rate was \"a display of the wrong values\".\n\nHe also argued that using borrowed money to fund tax cuts was \"not Conservative\".\n\nMs Truss has said she stands by her tax-cutting package arguing it would boost growth.\n\nHowever, speaking to the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, the prime minister acknowledged she could have \"laid the ground better\" before announcing the changes.\n\nLast month's mini-budget, which included the surprise announcement that the tax rate for the highest earners would be cut, triggered turmoil in the markets and concern among some Conservative MPs.\n\nTalking to Sky News, Conservative Party chairman Jake Berry warned that Tory MPs who vote against the prime minister's tax measures would be kicked out of the parliamentary party - known as losing the whip.\n\nA parliamentary vote on the plans is not likely to take place until next spring.\n\nHe urged Conservatives to back the prime minister, adding: \"I'm sure that if we do that it will lead ultimately to long-term electoral success.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Gove - who supported Ms Truss's rival Rishi Sunak in the Conservative leadership contest - has hinted he may not support the measures in Parliament.\n\nThe veteran minister, who was levelling up secretary for former PM Boris Johnson, welcomed the prime minister's acknowledgement that she had made mistakes in communicating her economic measures - but he was also critical of the substance of her policies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Prime Minister Liz Truss says she stands by plans announced in the mini-budget\n\nMr Gove said there were \"two major\" problems with the prime minister's plans.\n\n\"The first is the sheer risk of using borrowed money to fund tax cuts - that's not Conservative,\" he said.\n\nThe second, he argued, was to cut the top rate of income tax and scrap the cap on bankers' bonuses \"at a time when people are suffering\".\n\nAsked if Ms Truss would be prime minister this time next year, he said she would but added: \"There needs to be a course correction.\"\n\nA dozen Conservative MPs have now gone public with concerns about the mini-budget but privately many more are worried. At the very least, they want the 45p tax cut dropped.\n\nOne minister thinks Michael Gove could become the rallying point for a rebellion with 20 or 30 MPs who feel they've got nothing to lose because current polls suggest their seats will be lost.\n\nBut Mr Gove isn't universally respected. As one former Cabinet minister put it to me: \"He doesn't have any influence in the party. It's a personal attack on Liz like it was on Boris, twice.\"\n\nThere are no planned binding votes on income tax cuts until next year. Opponents will need to be creative if they want to register their disapproval in Parliament and they could be booted out of the party if they do so.\n\nAppearing on the Telegraph's Chopper's Politics Live podcast, Mr Gove was asked if Ms Truss - who won the leadership contest over Rishi Sunak with a majority among the 170,000 Conservative members - had a mandate for her tax changes.\n\nMr Gove said she did for changes to National Insurance and corporation tax because she had campaigned for it during the leadership contest.\n\n\"What was not discussed was the prospect of income tax cuts, particularly income tax cuts for the very wealthiest,\" he added.\n\nHe is the most senior Conservative MP to date who has criticised Ms Truss's tax policies.\n\nLast week some fellow Tories expressed concern, including Robert Largan who said cutting the 45p tax rate was a \"mistake\", while Sir Charles Walker said the mini-Budget looked like \"some numbers written down on the back of a fag packet\".\n\nResponding to Mr Berry's threat that Conservatives who vote against Ms Truss's tax measures would lose the party whip, Julian Smith - a former chief whip - tweeted: \"The first job of an MP is to act in the interest of their constituents and in the national interest.\n\n\"We cannot clap for carers one month and cut tax for millionaires months later.\"\n\nElsewhere, another former cabinet minister has criticised Ms Truss for saying the decision to scrap the 45p tax rate was made by the Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng.\n\nEx-Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries tweeted: \"One of Boris Johnson's faults was that he could sometimes be too loyal and he got that.\n\n\"However, there is a balance and throwing your chancellor under a bus on the first day of conference really isn't it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Douglas Ross: \"If politicians don't listen, they don't act on the concerns raised then they rightly get criticised.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has welcomed the chancellor's decision to scrap plans to abolish the top rate of income tax.\n\nSpeaking at the Conservative Party conference he said Kwasi Kwarteng had made the \"right decision\".\n\nMr Ross had previously called for the mini-budget tax cuts announced on 23 September to be matched in Scotland.\n\nThe first minister said the U-turn was a sign of the \"chaos and ineptitude\" at the heart of the UK government.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Liz Truss urged Nicola Sturgeon on Friday to follow her lead with tax cuts that could \"turbocharge\" Scotland's economy.\n\nBut on Monday Mr Kwarteng announced that the UK government would not go ahead with removing the 45% rate of income tax, describing it as a \"distraction\".\n\nHis initial announcement of the measure - paired with a cut in the basic rate of tax to 19p in the pound - saw markets plunge, with the pound falling to its lowest ever level against the dollar.\n\nThe announcement also prompted interventions from the Bank of England and a statement from the International Monetary Fund.\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced the U-turn on Monday ahead of his speech to the Conservative Party conference\n\nMr Ross, who was speaking at a fringe event in Birmingham, backed the move.\n\nHe said: \"The best parts of the government's growth plans remain and the area that caused most concern has gone.\n\n\"Politicians have to listen and respond - and that's exactly what the chancellor has done.\"\n\nLess than six hours after the mini-budget, Mr Ross had tweeted: \"The UK government has delivered tax cuts to turbo-charge our economy.\n\n\"The SNP must match these bold plans - and pass on the UK tax cuts to 2.4 million Scottish people.\"\n\nThe chancellor's massive U-turn on scrapping the top rate of income tax for high earners has forced Douglas Ross to make one too.\n\nInitially, the Scottish Tory leader urged the Scottish government to match UK tax cuts in Scotland.\n\nNow, he says Kwasi Kwarteng has made the \"right decision\" to abandon plans to get rid of the 45p rate on earnings over £150,000.\n\nThat means John Swinney, as acting finance secretary, no longer has to worry about the potential consequences of having a top rate of tax 6p in the pound higher than England.\n\nIt also leaves some on the Tory benches at Holyrood privately questioning Mr Ross' judgement. Some of his own MSPs certainly thought it was a mistake for him to endorse tax cuts for the wealthy.\n\nHe has previously flip-flopped over calls for Boris Johnson to resign as prime minister and last month withdrew a job offer to someone who appears to have invented parts of their CV.\n\nDouglas Ross must now add to his own resume a policy switch that raises fresh questions about his credibility.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Ross said the package of measures should be looked at in the round.\n\nHe said: \"It's right that helping families through the cost-of-living crisis has been at the forefront of the political agenda.\n\n\"I welcome the capping of energy bills for both households and businesses announced by the prime minister.\n\n\"The energy cap and the other measures are the largest package of support delivered by the government to families in my lifetime.\"\n\nThe first minister hit out at the UK government after the announcement.\n\nNicola Sturgeon told BBC Scotland: \"It is really hard to overstate the chaos and ineptitude at the heart of this UK government.\n\n\"Getting rid of the top rate of tax was always an immoral thing to do, so U-turning on that, however belatedly, is the right decision.\n\n\"But of course that decision comes too late for the many people who, because of the financial chaos unleashed last week, had mortgage deals withdrawn or who will now be paying higher interest rates on their mortgages.\"\n\nShe described the fallout from the mini-budget as \"an utter mess\" and added that people would be worried about the prospect of deep spending cuts.\n\nMs Sturgeon also warned if benefits were not increased in line with inflation then more people would be pushed into extreme poverty.\n\nShe said: \"This is a government that appears to be more interested in ideological posturing than it is in the health and the wellbeing and the financial security of people across the country.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is really hard to overstate the chaos and ineptitude at the heart of this UK government.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Scotland needed a change of government at Westminster.\n\nThe MSP added: \"It is welcome news that flip-flop Douglas Ross has finally admitted that the Tories' economic plan is a disaster for people across the UK.\n\n\"It's just a shame he told so many people the opposite first.\n\n\"Surely he can see what Adam Tompkins and Nick Boles already have - it's not a single policy that's the problem, it's the entire party.\"\n\nMeanwhile, speaking in Dunfermline as the King and Queen Consort visited to bestow city status, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack also praised the chancellor's decision.\n\nHe said: \"We recognised for a number of quarters that it wasn't universally welcomed.\n\n\"And he's listened to that, he's taken the decision to drop the plans for the 45% tax rate, but he's stuck to all the other growth measures that he had in there, particularly helping businesses and people with their energy crisis, which is very important - so that's what he's done.\n\n\"And politicians are often criticised for not listening, so we should welcome the fact that he has listened and he has acted and he has acted swiftly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government has U-turned on plans to scrap the 45p rate of income tax for higher earners.\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng told the BBC the proposals, announced just 10 days ago, had become \"a massive distraction on what was a strong package\".\n\n\"We just talked to people, we listened to people, I get it,\" he added.\n\nThe decision, which marks a humiliating climbdown for Prime Minister Liz Truss, comes after several Tory MPs criticised the plan.\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Truss had said she was committed to the policy.\n\nThe plan to scrap the 45p rate, paid by people earning more than £150,000 a year, was announced as part of a package of tax cuts.\n\nMr Kwarteng told BBC Breakfast the proposal was \"drowning out a strong package\", including support for energy bills, and cuts to the basic rate of income tax and corporation tax.\n\nAsked whether he owed people an apology, he said: \"We've listened to people. And yeah, there is humility and contrition in that. And I'm happy to own it.\"\n\nHe added that he had \"the humility to say look, we got it wrong and we are not going to proceed with the abolition of the rate\".\n\nOn how the decision was made, he said: \"The prime minister decided not to proceed with the abolition of the rate.\"\n\nHowever, pressed on whether it was her U-turn, Mr Kwarteng added: \"No, we talked together, I said this is what I was minded to do and we decided together, we were in agreement that we wouldn't proceed with the abolition of the rate.\"\n\nAsked if he had considered resigning, he said: \"Not at all.\"\n\nDowning Street also said the prime minister continued to have confidence in Mr Kwarteng.\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Truss had told the BBC the move to cut the top rate of income tax was \"a decision that the chancellor made\".\n\nBut she also said she was absolutely committed to it as part of a package to make the tax system \"simpler\" and boost growth.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Prime Minister Liz Truss says she stands by plans announced in the mini-budget\n\nAsked whether his previous comment that there was \"more to come\" on tax cuts still stood, Mr Kwarteng said there would be no tax cuts ahead of the next Budget in the spring.\n\nPressed on whether his economic plans would mean spending cuts for public services, the chancellor said there would be more details in the government's fiscal plan on 23 November.\n\nHowever, he said the government was sticking to its 2021 comprehensive spending review, meaning it will not raise spending in line with inflation.\n\nIn addition to concern about the 45p tax rate, the government had also received criticism for not publishing an economic forecast by the independent spending watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility.\n\nMr Kwarteng told the BBC he had wanted to act at \"high speed\" and that there hadn't been enough time to get a full forecast.\n\nThe U-turn comes a few hours before the chancellor is due to give a speech to the Conservative Party conference, in which he had been expected to stress the importance of \"staying the course\".\n\nLabour called for the government to \"reverse their whole economic, discredited trickle down strategy\".\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the U-turn came \"too late for the families who will pay higher mortgages and higher prices for years to come\".\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey called on the chancellor to resign, saying he no longer had \"any credibility\" and the whole mini-budget needed an overhaul, while SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the government had shown \"utter ineptitude\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: Cutting tax for the wealthiest \"a display of the wrong values\"\n\nPlans to scrap the top rate of tax had seen remarkable opposition from the markets, other parties and a growing number of Tory MPs.\n\nConservative Party chairman Jake Berry had previously warned Tory MPs who voted against the prime minister's tax measures that they would be kicked out of the parliamentary party - known as losing the whip.\n\nBut increasingly, it seemed Ms Truss did not have the numbers to get it through Parliament.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Grant Shapps had warned the prime minister would lose a Commons vote on the proposal.\n\nHe welcomed the U-turn, telling the BBC: \"It's better to act, it's better to reverse ferret on something that's causing a problem like this, and it sends a very important signal to the public and also to the markets that we are serious about sound money.\"\n\nOn Sunday, former Tory minister Michael Gove hinted he would not vote for the plan when it came to Parliament, saying \"I don't believe it's right\" and it was \"a display of the wrong values\".\n\nHowever, asked whether he would now back the government's economic package following the U-turn, he told Times Radio: \"I think so on the basis of everything that I know... There were lots of good things that they announced.\"\n\nThe decision was also welcomed by the Confederation of British Industry.\n\nDirector-general Tony Danker said the pledge had become a \"distraction\" from other economic reforms, which he said would \"make a real difference to growth\".\n\nThe U-turn, suggestions of which were first reported by the Sun, comes on the second day of the Conservative conference in Birmingham, with Mr Kwarteng due to speak later on Monday.\n\nThe pound jumped on the news, rising by more than a cent against the dollar to $1.1263, before falling back.\n\nThe currency touched a record low last week after Mr Kwarteng's mini-budget created turmoil on the markets.\n\nA 45% tax rate applies to income above £150,000 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, where income tax is devolved, the higher rate of tax is 46%.\n\nScrapping the top rate made up around £2bn of the £45bn worth of tax cuts announced by the chancellor in his mini-budget.\n\nOther measures announced included a cut to the basic rate of income tax to 19%, a reversal of the recent rise in National Insurance and scrapping the cap on bankers' bonuses.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies said: \"Unless [the chancellor] also U-turns on some of his other, much larger tax announcements, he will have no option but to consider cuts to public spending: to social security, investment projects, or public services.\"\n\nHe added that Mr Kwarteng had already indicated department spending plans running to 2024-25 would be left unchanged \"which amounts to a real-terms cut in their generosity in the face of higher inflation\".\n\nSenior Conservative - and ally of Liz Truss's leadership rival Rishi Sunak - Mel Stride echoed his thoughts telling the BBC's World at One: \"Because we've come forward, or the government has, with a number of unfunded tax cuts... it may be that there will be even yet further requirements to unwind some of those positions.\n\n\"The main economic issues here haven't gone away even if the political ones have been made easier.\"", "The Labour Party are \"very clearly the favourites\" to form the next government, pollster Sir John Curtice has told Tory activists in Birmingham.\n\nNew PM Liz Truss was now as unpopular with voters as Boris Johnson was when he was ousted, said Sir John.\n\nAnd even if Labour's current double digit poll lead reduced before the next election in 2024, Labour were still likely to gain power, he suggested.\n\nHis analysis was greeted with dismay and cries of \"wow\" from activists.\n\nThe veteran pollster, who masterminds general election exit polls, said Labour already had a nine point lead in the polls when Ms Truss won last month's Tory leadership election and she had not enjoyed a honeymoon period.\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's tax-cutting mini-budget just over a week ago - and the market reaction to it - had produced a 7% swing to Labour, he said.\n\n\"The truth is, whatever the merits of Liz Truss's package, it has resulted in very serious electoral damage to the Conservatives as an institution and to this new leader,\" he told the Demos fringe meeting.\n\nThe swing to Labour was similar in size to that seen on Black Wednesday in 1992, the first time the policies of a Conservative government had produced turmoil on the money markets.\n\nIf voters remembered the events of the past week when they go to the polls in two years' time, Labour could be on course for a three figure majority, said Sir John, even if Ms Truss's policies work as intended and produce economic growth.\n\nIn the event of a hung Parliament, opposition parties would be unlikely to prop up a minority Tory administration, he suggested, which made Labour clear favourites to gain power.\n\nTory activists received a similarly sobering message at an earlier fringe meeting, from pollsters with links to the party.\n\nVeteran US pollster Frank Luntz told them: \"If you want to win, stop bitching, stop griping, stop complaining and get [it] together.\"\n\nHe said the party's MPs had to start communicating with voters in a language they understood, and talking about things which mattered to them.\n\nHe also took aim at defeated Tory leadership contender and former chancellor Rishi Sunak, who has opted to stay away from this week's conference.\n\n\"Where is Rishi Sunak? Why is he not here?\" he asked the audience of Tory members.\n\nIf Mr Sunak was here he could \"start to unify the party, you guys can go forward together,\" added Mr Luntz.\n\n\"When people don't even show up, what are the voters supposed to think?\"\n\nFrank Luntz is a friend of ex PM Boris Johnson and a longstanding Tory observer\n\nIn a scathing assessment of Liz Truss's first weeks in power, Rachel Wolf, who co-wrote the Conservatives' 2019 election manifesto, said the new prime minister had no mandate from voters or her own MPs for the \"ambitious\" Thatcherite agenda she was pursuing.\n\nShe accused Ms Truss of \"appearing not to care\" about the impact her policies will have on voters worried about the cost of living,\n\n\"People are feeling poorer,\" she added, and they don't think the solutions Liz Truss has come up with \"make any sense\".\n\nMs Wolf, co-founder of polling company Public First, and a former adviser to Michael Gove, picked apart Ms Truss's claim to be a strong leader in the mould of Margaret Thatcher, and not afraid of unpopular policies.\n\nThe crucial difference between the two, she argued, was that Lady Thatcher had an electoral and Parliamentary mandate for her policies and was capable of articulating them in way that resonated with ordinary voters.\n\n\"Thatcher was always a strong leader,\" she told the meeting, \"but she was of the people, she spoke in their language\".\n\nPursuing an \"ambitious Thatcherite agenda\" without a mandate was a recipe for disaster at the polls, she suggested, and she hoped Conservative MPs could at least start to demonstrate some unity and competence.\n\nShe also had a message for Sir Keir Starmer.\n\n\"People are voting against the government but they are not voting for Labour, That might quite possibly be enough but it is the thing I would be most worried about if I were him.\n\n\"The thing that always comes up with Starmer, and still does, is that he has no views, no ideas of his own.\"\n\nAsked about the qualities needed in a modern leader, she said: \"It's very hard to support a leader who is uninterested in, or despises, you.\n\n\"It's not whether they are strong, whether they have a view of their own, if they fundamentally don't seem to like their electorate very much, or don't think they are worth considering it's very hard to vote for them.\"", "Smith's Oscar win was overshadowed when he slapped host Chris Rock on stage at the awards ceremony, in March\n\nSlavery thriller Emancipation, starring the winner of last year's best actor Oscar, Will Smith, will be released later this year.\n\nRumours had suggested Apple Film could delay its release until 2023, after Smith slapped host Chris Rock on stage at the awards ceremony, in March.\n\nBut it will now open in cinemas on 2 December and will be available to stream from a week later, making it eligible for next year's Oscars.\n\nSmith, however, is banned for 10 years.\n\nHe also resigned from the Academy and has since apologised to comedian Rock, who had made a joke about Smith's wife, saying he is \"here whenever you need to talk\".\n\nEmancipation is based on the true story of \"Whipped Peter\", who joined the Union Army in the 1860s after escaping from slavery in Louisiana.\n\nPhotos of his scars from a whipping, taken during a medical examination, were published to become a damning indictment of slavery.\n\nAs well as Smith's win for his last film, King Richard, this year's Oscars saw Apple become the first streaming service to win best picture, with Coda.", "Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has sought to calm the markets and restore faith in his tax-cutting economic agenda\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will set out his plan to get UK debt falling earlier than planned, after markets reacted badly to his package of tax cuts.\n\nHe is expected to publish details on how the cuts will be paid for later this month despite previously insisting he would wait until 23 November.\n\nThe move follows a dramatic U-turn on scrapping the 45p rate of income tax for higher earners.\n\nMr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"move forward\" with no \"distractions\".\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Liz Truss has said that abolishing the top rate of tax was only a \"tiny part of the plan\" for economic growth.\n\nIn a speech to the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, Mr Kwarteng acknowledged the \"turbulence\" caused by his mini-budget, which saw the pound's value plummet, borrowing costs soar, and the Bank of England bail out pension funds.\n\nEven so, he promised to deliver the rest of his £43bn package of tax cuts, which is expected to be partly paid for by a squeeze on public spending.\n\nWriting in The Daily Telegraph, Ms Truss said her government would \"control public spending\" and had a \"firm commitment to fiscal responsibility\".\n\n\"The status quo is not an option,\" she wrote, adding that she and the chancellor had a \"clear plan for economic success and security\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I know the plan put forward only 10 days ago has caused a little turbulence, I get it..\"\n\nThe chancellor said his medium-term fiscal plan, which will outline how the government plans to cut the UK's debt, would come \"shortly\" rather than at the end of November.\n\nA source told the BBC the debt plan was expected this month on a date to be confirmed, with a formal announcement to be made on Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday afternoon, the chief secretary to the Treasury, Chris Philp, had suggested the government still intended to set out the plan on 23 November.\n\nBut Tory MPs and opposition parties had put increasing pressure on the chancellor to release the plan earlier to shore up market confidence in the UK's economic outlook.\n\nThe BBC's economics editor, Faisal Islam, said the move was the latest sign that the chancellor was willing to do what it takes to regain confidence lost since the mini-budget on 23 September.\n\nLast month, as financial markets reeled from the mini-budget, the chancellor said he would set out his plan on 23 November and asked the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to report back to him by that date.\n\nForecasts from the OBR - the UK's independent budget watchdog - give an indication of the health of the nation's finances. The BBC understands the government was given a draft forecast before announcing its package of tax cuts, but it has not been published.\n\nIn an unusual move, Mr Kwarteng and Ms Truss held emergency talks with the chairman of the OBR, Richard Hughes, last Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA few days later, on Sunday, Ms Truss rejected calls to bring forward the budget watchdog's assessment, which she said was \"not yet ready\".\n\n\"There's no point in publishing something that's not ready. That would just cause confusion,\" Ms Truss told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme.\n\nBut the government has changed its mind, following days of disquiet among Tory MPs, concerned about the economic fallout of the mini-budget and the Conservative Party's dramatic slide in the polls.\n\nNow the OBR will bring forward forecasts alongside the plan, analysing whether the tax-cutting agenda of Ms Truss can deliver the economic growth it has promised.\n\nThis is not a U-turn on the scale of the 45p tax rate but it is another big reversal.\n\nThere has been pressure on the Treasury from Tory MPs to bring the statement forward.\n\nThe prime minister and the chancellor do not themselves appear to have said 23 November in recent days, but they have certainly allowed the impression the statement would not move from then to persist.\n\nThe chief secretary to the Treasury, Chris Philp, certainly didn't appear to know that the date was changing, insisting on the BBC's Politics Live that it would still be 23 November, even after the chancellor hinted towards a change in his speech.\n\nThe OBR will cost all the policies announced by the chancellor and provide new numbers for borrowing.\n\nThe budget watchdog will also publish forecasts for economic growth.\n\nTory MP Mel Stride, chairman of the Treasury Committee, said he had \"pressed the chancellor very hard on this and to his credit he has listened\".\n\nHe said bringing the OBR forecast forward should \"should calm markets more quickly and reduce the upward pressure on interest rates to the benefit of millions of people up and down the country\".\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the chancellor's refusal to release the OBR's forecast was \"misguided and harmful\".\n\nShe said the government's \"continued failure\" to publish the forecast \"suggests the government has something to hide, further undermining confidence in the UK as a safe place to invest\".", "The images show George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and a partly-obscured original drummer Pete Best\n\nRare photos of The Beatles performing in their early days at Liverpool's Cavern Club have been discovered.\n\nThe images were taken in 1961, a year before their debut single Love Me Do was released.\n\nThe photos show Sir Paul McCartney and John Lennon singing, with George Harrison on guitar and a partly-obscured original drummer Pete Best.\n\nHistorian Mark Lewisohn described them as \"whippet-thin under-nourished lads\" following their tour to Germany.\n\nThe band, who were then aged between 18 and 20, had recently returned from performing in Hamburg, where they had been \"slogging 500 stage hours in 90 days\", he said.\n\n\"So slender has this marathon made them, it's as if their heads and bodies are stranger.\n\n\"A look emphasised by the unusual clothes - leather trousers and cotton tops. No other photos show them dressed this way.\"\n\nThe band are seen performing to an audience at the Cavern Club\n\nMr Lewisohn, who has written a number of books about the band, said the photos showed The Beatles playing to a lunchtime or evening audience in July 1961.\n\n\"Three months from here, John and Paul went to Paris and returned with what became known as 'The Beatle haircut'.\n\n\"Days later, Brian Epstein saw The Beatles in the Cavern, offered to become their manager and set them on a course that changed our world.\"\n\nPete Best was dropped from the band in 1962 and replaced by Ringo Starr.\n\nThe Beatles rose to worldwide fame after signing with manager Brian Epstein in 1962\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Emma said she felt \"honoured\" to front a new sportswear brand collection to raise money for a breast cancer charity\n\nA woman from Sheffield with incurable cancer has been chosen as a model for a national fundraising campaign.\n\nEmma Fisher said she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016 which was found to have spread following a snowboarding accident two years later.\n\nThe 41-year-old is fronting a new collection by a sportswear brand to raise money for the Breast Cancer Now charity.\n\nShe said she felt \"honoured\" to be part of Adidas's campaign.\n\n\"Sometimes you just have to walk up a big hill to remember you're alive, feel the cold wind on your face, laugh at your dogs, look around and think how grateful you are to still be able to get up that hill,\" she said.\n\n\"I may be slower than I used to be. I may have to take 'photo breaks' sometimes. But I can still decide on a random sunny day I want to do it and go do it! And given everything my body has been through in the last five years, it feels miraculous that I can!\"\n\nEmma discovered she had secondary breast cancer following a snowboarding accident\n\nMs Fisher identified \"a painful lump\" in her breast, which was later diagnosed as breast cancer after her GP assured her that \"painful lumps were not cancerous but unfortunately this turned out to be wrong\".\n\nFollowing numerous treatments including lumpectomy, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy, the snowboarder was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in February 2018 after the disease spread to her bones and lymph nodes around her chest.\n\nShe has undergone a series of further treatments. However, the cancerous tumours began to grow again and Ms Fisher has to take \"a multitude of medications\".\n\nShe added: \"I also have a series of injections every month too, all to try and keep me alive for as long as possible.\"\n\nRachael Franklin, director of fundraising, communications and engagement at Breast Cancer Now, said the campaign \"powerfully conveys the benefits of the outdoors - something we know is so passionately felt by many people who experience a breast cancer diagnosis\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I know the plan put forward only 10 days ago has caused a little turbulence, I get it..\"\n\nKwasi Kwarteng has promised to \"focus on the task in hand\" after a dramatic U-turn over tax cuts for the rich.\n\nThe chancellor ditched plans to cut the 45p rate of income tax after a revolt by Tory MPs - hours before his speech to the Conservative party conference.\n\nHe had planned to use the speech to promise to \"stay the course\".\n\nThat line - briefed to journalists on Sunday - was left out but Mr Kwarteng made it clear he intended to deliver the rest of his £43bn tax cut package.\n\nHe told Tory members, who packed into the hall in Birmingham, that he was determined to end the UK's \"decline\" and deliver economic growth.\n\nHe also announced that he would publish details of how the government plans to pay for its tax cuts package and bring the national debt down in the \"medium term\" earlier than planned.\n\nThe chancellor has previously resisted calls to publish the plan before 23 November, but he said in his speech it would be released \"shortly\". The Treasury would not give a date.\n\nMr Kwarteng began his speech with an admission of the pressure he has been under over the past 24 hours.\n\n\"It has been tough but we need to focus on the job in hand. We need to move forward.\n\n\"No more distractions. We have a plan and we need to get on and deliver it. That is what the public expect from the government.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe also acknowledged the turmoil caused by his mini-budget, which saw the pound plummet in value before recovering to where it was before his statement.\n\n\"I know the plan put forward only 10 days ago has caused a little turbulence. I get it. We listened. And now we want to focus on the major parts of our growth strategy.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng relaxed with supporters at a Policy Exchange fringe meeting following his speech, telling that beyond the \"hullabaloo\" around the tax row people had told him he was doing the right thing.\n\nEarlier he had sought to reassert his authority with a staunch defence of the rest of his economic plan, arguing that the government had needed to act now not just on energy bills but to boost economic growth.\n\n\"With economic growth, everybody benefits,\" he said.\n\nTo applause he added: \"And I mean, everybody. While we all believe in growth, we as Conservatives also believe that it is an important principle that people should keep more of the money they earn.\n\n\"I don't need to tell you that. That isn't radical, that isn't irresponsible, it is a deeply held belief that we all share as Conservatives.\"\n\nDowning Street said Prime Minister Liz Truss - who was in the front row for the speech - continues to have confidence in Mr Kwarteng, despite the U-turn on the 45p top rate.\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Grant Shapps and Michael Gove were among the Tory MPs to make public their private concerns about the planned tax cuts for top earners, at a time when households were struggling with the cost of living.\n\nAnother former cabinet minister, Andrea Leadsom, welcomed the U-turn, saying: \"It was not the right time and it was not the right measure.\"\n\nMel Stride, who chairs the Treasury select committee and ran Rishi Sunak's leadership campaign, suggested there may still need to be further changes.\n\nMr Sunak has stayed away from this week's conference, along with many of his supporters.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said \"so much damage has already been done\" despite Mr Kwarteng's tax U-turn.\n\nThere was now a \"Tory premium on the cost of borrowing for government, but also for individuals,\" she told BBC Radio 4's PM.", "Women have been at the forefront of the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini\n\nIran's supreme leader has blamed the US and Israel for the protests sweeping the country following the death of a woman whilst in police custody.\n\nIn his first public comments on the unrest, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said \"riots\" had been \"engineered\" by Iran's arch-enemies and their allies.\n\nThe protests are the biggest challenge to his rule for a decade, and he urged security forces to be ready for more.\n\nThe US said it was \"appalled\" by the violent response to the protests.\n\nPresident Joe Biden said he was \"gravely concerned\" about reports of the \"intensifying violent crackdown on peaceful protesters\".\n\nThose protesters were calling for \"just and universal principles\", he said, adding that the US \"stands with Iranian women\" who were \"inspiring the world with their bravery\".\n\nThe UK echoed the sentiment, summoning Iran's most senior diplomat in London to tell their leaders in Tehran that \"instead of blaming external actors for the unrest, they should take responsibility for their actions and listen to the concerns of their people\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on... why Iranians are taking to the streets\n\nMahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, fell into a coma hours after being detained by morality police on 13 September in Tehran for allegedly breaking the strict law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf. She died three days later.\n\nHer family has alleged that officers beat her head with a baton and banged her head against one of their vehicles. The police have said there is no evidence of any mistreatment and that she suffered \"sudden heart failure\".\n\nWomen have led the protests that began after Ms Amini's funeral, waving their headscarves in the air or setting them on fire to chants of \"Woman, life, freedom\" and \"Death to the dictator\" - a reference to Ayatollah Khamenei.\n\nAddressing a graduation ceremony of police and armed forces cadets on Monday, the supreme leader said Ms Amini's death \"broke our hearts\".\n\n\"But what is not normal is that some people, without proof or an investigation, have made the streets dangerous, burned the Quran, removed hijabs from veiled women and set fire to mosques and cars,\" he added, without mentioning any specific incidents.\n\nThe ayatollah, who has the final say on all state matters, asserted that foreign powers had planned \"rioting\" because they could not tolerate Iran \"attaining strength in all spheres\".\n\n\"I say clearly that these riots and the insecurity were engineered by America and the occupying, false Zionist regime [Israel], as well as their paid agents, with the help of some traitorous Iranians abroad.\"\n\nThe supreme leader often blames protests and other internal issues on meddling by Iran's foreign enemies, and he provided no evidence to support his claim.\n\nHe also gave his full backing to the security forces, saying that they had faced \"injustice\" during the unrest.\n\nIran Human Rights, a Norway-based group, has said at least 133 people have been killed by security forces so far. State media have reported that more than 40 people have died, including security personnel.\n\nThe US has already imposed sanctions on Iran's morality police, and President Biden said that this week his administration would \"impose further costs\" on those perpetrating violence against peaceful protesters.\n\nAyatollah Ali Khamenei (2nd right) gave his full backing to the security forces, saying they had faced \"injustice\"\n\nAyatollah Khamenei's comments came a day after security forces violently cracked down on a protest by students at Iran's most prestigious science and engineering university, reportedly arresting dozens.\n\nThe BBC's Kasra Naji says security forces tried to enter the campus of Sharif University of Technology in Tehran on Sunday night, but the students drove them back and closed the gates.\n\nBut, our correspondent adds, a siege developed and the students who tried to leave through a car park were picked up one by one and beaten, blindfolded and taken away.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rana Rahimpour This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe siege was lifted later in the night following the intervention of professors and a government minister.\n\nOn Monday, students at the university announced they would not go back to classes until their fellow students had been released.\n\nProtests were also reported at other universities in Tehran and elsewhere in the country.\n\nSchoolgirls were also filmed waving their headscarves in the air and chanting \"death to the dictator\".", "Kim Kardashian has agreed to pay a $1.26m (£1.12m) fine for advertising EthereumMax on her Instagram page.\n\nThe US Securities and Exchange Commission said the reality TV star had received $250,000 for advertising the cryptocurrency, without disclosing she had been paid to do so.\n\nShe also agreed not to promote crypto asset securities for three years.\n\nHer lawyer told BBC News: \"Ms Kardashian is pleased to have resolved this matter with the SEC.\"\n\nThe lawyer said: \"Kardashian fully cooperated with the SEC from the very beginning and she remains willing to do whatever she can to assist the SEC in this matter.\n\n\"She wanted to get this matter behind her to avoid a protracted dispute.\n\n\"The agreement she reached with the SEC allows her to do that so that she can move forward with her many different business pursuits.\"\n\nMs Kardashian, boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr, basketball player Paul Pierce and EthereumMax's creators were sued by investors in January.\n\nThe legal action alleged they had collaborated to \"misleadingly promote and sell\" the cryptocurrency in a \"pump and dump\" scheme designed to inflate the price before selling to investors.\n\nEthereumMax disputed the allegations at the time.\n\nIn spite of its name, EthereumMax has no legal or business connection with the Ethereum cryptocurrency.\n\nAll you need is a few pounds, a YouTube tutorial and a funky name.\n\nThis month alone, dozens of new tokens will be launched, with creators promising their coin will be the next big thing.\n\nWith little intrinsic value to the product, marketing is key - and as in many modern industries, celebrities can be the make or break.\n\nEthereumMax put a huge amount of money into snapping up celebrities such as Kim Kardashian - and at first, it seemed to be working out.\n\nBut as with many crypto coins, the fall was as dramatic as the rise.\n\nEven if EthereumMax had retained the value it gained after the celebrity pump, regulators both in the US and UK were extremely uncomfortable about the marketing of the coin.\n\nThe crypto industry is still largely unregulated - but Kim Kardashian joins a growing list of people and companies being punished for promoting these highly risky products.\n\nGary Gensler, who chairs the SEC, called the case a \"reminder\" celebrity endorsement did not necessarily make a product worth investing in.\n\n\"Ms Kardashian's case also serves as a reminder to celebrities and others that the law requires them to disclose to the public when and how much they are paid to promote investing in securities,\" he said.\n\nLater, in a YouTube video about crypto investment, he added: \"Celebrity endorsements... don't mean that an investment product is right for you or even, frankly, that it's legitimate.\n\n\"Even if a celebrity endorsement is genuine, each investment has its own risk and opportunities.\n\n\"When it comes to crypto, remember many of these are highly speculative assets.\n\n\"You may be wondering if it's right for you or even if it might be a scam.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission", "Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed he will not pursue cutting the 45p rate of income tax on people earning more than £150,000 a year.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Mr Kwarteng confirmed the U-turn 10 days after the plan was announced in the mini-budget. He said that the plans had become a \"distraction from our overriding mission to tackle the challenges facing the country\".\n\nJust yesterday Prime Minister Liz Truss told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that she was committed to the proposal.", "The pound has climbed after the chancellor reversed his controversial decision to scrap the top rate of tax.\n\nSterling gained more than 1% to $1.1284 before falling back slightly while government borrowing costs edged lower.\n\nTory MPs had threatened to vote against Kwasi Kwarteng's plan, saying it was unfair when living costs were so high.\n\nThe U-turn may ease market nerves, said the Institute for Fiscal Studies, but unease remains over how a remaining £43bn of tax cuts will be funded.\n\n\"The difference this makes really is trivial,\" said Paul Johnson, director of the IFS think tank.\n\nThe chancellor pledged to abolish the 45p rate of tax, which is paid by people who earn more than £150,000 a year.\n\nGetting rid of the rate would have cost the Treasury around £2bn out of the £45bn worth of tax cuts Mr Kwarteng announced in his so-called \"mini-budget\".\n\n\"This was, if anything, possibly the smallest measure from a fiscal point of view, if not a political point of view, in the mini-budget,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\n\"It is about 5% of the tax cuts.\"\n\nThe cut to top-rate tax for high earners sparked anger among opposition and Tory MPs and spooked markets amid concerns the unfunded cuts were unaffordable. The chancellor also declined to publish an independent assessment of his plans by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).\n\nLast week, the pound hit a record low and the Bank of England was forced to step in to stem soaring government borrowing costs.\n\nTony Danker, head of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), welcomed the U-turn saying that calming markets was an \"absolute pre-condition to investment and growth\".\n\nHe added it had been a \"distraction\" from other important pro-growth reforms promised in the mini-budget. The chancellor is expected to announce reforms to planning laws, green energy, childcare and more in the coming weeks.\n\nBut Mr Danker added: \"I think we are going to move onto another test, which is does the chancellor really mean it when he says we are going to reform the supply side of the economy... because I think that is really needed.\"\n\nThe IFS's Mr Johnson said the U-turn had eased market nerves as there was \"perhaps a sense\" the government would \"back down\" and \"listen to opinion\".\n\nBut he warned of more volatility if the chancellor did not use his next fiscal statement on 23 November to explain how he will fund his tax cuts,\n\n\"He needs to come up with something fairly convincing ... whether that involves undoing some more of those tax cuts or some additional tax rises or something fairly dramatic on the spending side.\"\n\nThe National Institute of Economic and Social Research called for an OBR forecast to be brought forward.\n\n\"Whilst we welcome this morning's statement, the fundamental issue of how the government expects to finance both its proposed tax cuts and its spending commitments to cap the unit price of energy remains unresolved,\" said deputy director Stephen Millard.\n\n\"The overall package continues to be highly inflationary and will lead to faster and higher rises in interest rates than would have been otherwise the case.\"\n\nThe Bank of England has been raising interest rates to try and curb inflation, which is currently at a nearly 40-year-high of 9.9%.\n\nOn 22 September, the Bank raised rates by 0.5 percentage points to 2.25% - the highest level for 14 years.\n\nIt warned interest rates could rise again after the value of the pound plummeted, following the government's decision to cut taxes and borrow more. Some were estimating that rates could reach more than 6% next year.\n\nHowever, fears of big rate rises receded slightly after Monday's U-turn on the 45% tax rate, with investors now forecasting a rise to 5.75% by May.", "Scotland's health secretary is preparing to announce measures to get the NHS through the winter.\n\nHumza Yousaf has warned the coming months will be \"extremely challenging\" as the fallout from the Covid pandemic continues to affect services.\n\nHe will address MSPs on Tuesday, detailing measures the Scottish government will take to support the health care system over the coming months, as well as updating on progress of the NHS recovery plan announced last year.\n\nHowever, bosses and frontline staff are already worried because pressures like longer A&E waiting times have come in the summer - ordinarily the quietest period of the year.\n\n\"Seasonal illnesses\" like flu and norovirus mean more people will require care in the winter months and more NHS staff will be off sick.\n\nExperts are warning about the risk of a big and early wave of flu and Covid has never gone away, with the UK Health Security Agency suggesting the autumn wave of the virus is already under way and putting pressure on the NHS.\n\nSo what are the biggest challenges?\n\nA&E waiting times can be a barometer for the pressures facing the wider NHS and many emergency departments are operating well below the Scottish government's target of having 95% of patients discharged or admitted within four hours.\n\nThe latest Scotland-wide average shows 66.2% of patients were dealt with within the four-hour target.\n\nHowever, the length of A&E waiting times often depends on where you live.\n\nScotland's bigger hospitals, which attract the largest number of patients, are struggling the most. Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary was the worst performing in the week ending 18 September, with 45.8% of people seen within four hours\n\nIn the same week, 96.7% of patients attending Perth Royal Infirmary were seen within four hours.\n\nThis contrasts with Forth Valley Hospital near Falkirk which was at 46.3%.\n\nForth Valley, which was scoring around the 90% mark before the pandemic, was one of a number of emergency departments recently singled out by Mr Yousaf as having performed particularly poorly.\n\nHowever, NHS Forth Valley is one of the best-performing boards in Scotland when it comes to outpatient appointments, so A&E waiting times do always not tell the full story.\n\nRegardless of where they are on the scale of delays, nearly every emergency department in Scotland will have experienced issues in recent months with moving people out of A&E, staffing shortages, and patients with more complex needs.\n\nNone of these issues show any sign of abating in the winter months.\n\nThe number of deaths in Scotland has mainly been above average levels since the start of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe count of what is known as \"excess deaths\" had been beginning to rise before 2020 and there are other factors at play too, such as an ageing population.\n\nBut in both 2020 and 2021 there were more excess deaths than usual with Covid, cancer and heart disease among the main causes.\n\nThere were fewer deaths than usual from respiratory diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but National Records of Scotland says this is likely because many people who died with Covid had pre-existing respiratory diseases.\n\nThe recorded location of the excess deaths shows there are more deaths at home than we would normally expect.\n\nThis has seen higher percentage increases than hospitals or care homes, but the reason is not yet 100% clear.\n\nActuary Stuart McDonald, who has been monitoring excess deaths throughout the pandemic, told the BBC's More or Less programme that pressure on the NHS was \"the strongest hypothesis for the current excess deaths we are experiencing\".\n\nIf people are being diagnosed and treated later than usual then it means some are turning up at hospital with more complex and demanding medical needs.\n\nIn addition, Jillian Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, has warned the cost of living crisis will strain Scotland's under-pressure healthcare services this winter.\n\nShe is worried people who cannot afford to eat well or heat their homes will be at greater risk of illness.\n\nAnother impact on the NHS this winter is trying to accommodate the sheer number of extra people waiting for treatment.\n\nAs of June this year, 451,020 new outpatients were waiting to be seen - 46.4% higher than the pre-pandemic average.\n\nAnd around half of these people had been waiting more than 12 weeks.\n\nSome specialities face bigger challenges than others.\n\nAcross Scotland, 14.5% of inpatient paediatric surgery patients have been waiting more than two years for treatments, while 10% of urology patients have been waiting as long.\n\nThe number waiting for treatment for planned procedures such as knee or hip operations has increased by more than a third since the Covid pandemic began in March 2020.\n\nOne of the medical concerns about these delays is patients developing more serious health issues while they wait.\n\nFor example, the mobility issues of someone waiting for a hip operation can be more keenly felt in winter.\n\nBed-blocking or delayed discharge - where a patient continues to occupy a hospital bed despite being well enough to leave - continues to cast a shadow over Scotland's health service.\n\nLatest figures show the average daily number of delayed beds in Scotland is 1,806 - with the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area accounting for 368 of them.\n\nBed-blocking is a longstanding challenge for the NHS but one felt more acutely now because of a post-Covid lockdown increase in demand and a lack of available social care places in the community.\n\nThere are also fewer beds available.\n\nPublic Health Scotland data shows that in 2021/22, the average number of available staffed beds for acute specialties was 13,323 - a 2.4% decrease from 2016/17.\n\nIt also shows that, on average, 84% of the available staffed beds were occupied.\n\nCaroline Lamb, chief Executive for NHS Scotland, told Holyrood's health committee: \"We are heading into this winter with a situation where our hospitals are running at higher occupancy levels of their beds than we would ideally want.\"\n\nIf bed occupancy levels are already high then it leaves less wriggle room when it comes to finding space for the patients who come with the winter increase in demand.\n\nThe impact of the Covid pandemic on the running of the NHS will last for years\n\nOne of the other issues is having enough medics to be able to safely care for the people in the beds.\n\nAs the health secretary has acknowledged, dealing with the pandemic has left many NHS and social care workers \"completely knackered\".\n\nThe knock-on effect from this has been difficulties in hiring and retaining staff in some areas.\n\nThe number of health workers is rising, and the current 155,182 NHS Scotland employees is 11.7% higher than five years ago.\n\nBut in critical areas, such as nursing and midwifery posts, the vacancy rates remain high.\n\nIn addition, the 11,838 people who left the NHS last year was a 10-year high and nearly every health board is experiencing above-average sickness rates. For example, the NHS 24 absence rate was 8.5% in March.\n\nThese pressures are always felt more keenly felt in winter and Scottish ministers have another potential challenge to contend with in the coming weeks with the prospect of strike action.\n\nHealthcare staff from five unions are being balloted on industrial action after rejecting a 5% offer from the Scottish government. Ministers said they were \"re-engaging\" with unions over a deal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa will visit from 22 to 24 November\n\nKing Charles will host the first state visit of his reign next month when he welcomes the president of South Africa to Buckingham Palace.\n\nPresident Cyril Ramaphosa and his wife, First Lady Tshepo Motsepe, have accepted an invitation to visit the King and Queen Consort.\n\nThe visit will take place from Tuesday November 22 to Thursday November 24.\n\nIt is understood the trip was in the early stages of being planned before the Queen's death in September.\n\nIt will be the first time a South African leader has visited the UK in an official capacity in more than a decade, with the last state visit being in 2010 when Jacob Zuma visited the late Queen.\n\nThe King has visited South Africa on a number of occasions since his first tour of the country in 1997, which included stops in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.\n\nHe last travelled to the country in 2011, with the Queen Consort. It was not a state event.\n\nThe King and Queen Consort made their last trip to South Africa in 2011\n\nThe Queen shared a particularly close relationship with Nelson Mandela, the first democratically elected president of South Africa. The pair were said to have enjoyed a warm friendship, and unusually, referred to each other by their first names.\n\nMr Ramaphosa, who has been in power since 2018, is the fourth leader of South Africa since Mr Mandela.\n\nState visits are an exercise in soft power and red carpets, filled with royal ceremony and banquets, but focused on the hard-headed business of strengthening international relationships.\n\nIt's the Foreign Office that advises on which countries are invited - the last being US President Donald Trump in 2019, before Covid stopped any further state visits.\n\nIt's pomp with a purpose against a backdrop of pageantry, photo ops and the jangle of a royal carriage ride. Even the paintings and items on view from the Royal Collection can be changed to set the right tone.\n\nFor the first time it will be King Charles who will now be the host at Buckingham Palace, proposing the toast to the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa.\n\nCharles was a guest at the state banquet in 1996 when Nelson Mandela paid a state visit, after post-apartheid South Africa had rejoined the Commonwealth.\n\nThe new King will want to build his own bridges with the Commonwealth, sending a message about supporting diversity and multiculturalism.\n\nWhen he arrives, Mr Ramaphosa will be given a ceremonial welcome on Horse Guards Parade, and then invited to a state banquet hosted by the monarch.\n\nHe is expected to spend the rest of their trip visiting Prime Minister Liz Truss, government ministers and leaders of the main political parties.\n\nBut Mr Ramaphosa's visit is clouded by allegations of money laundering.\n\nThe rolling scandal, which erupted in June, has seen Mr Ramaphosa accused of covering up of a robbery that took place at his private farm in February 2020.\n\nHe has repeatedly denied the allegations and insists he will stand for a second term in the 2024 national elections as ANC leader and president.", "Women have been at the forefront of the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini\n\nIran's top diplomat in the UK has been summoned to the Foreign Office over Tehran's crackdown on protests sweeping the country.\n\nDemonstrations in Iran were sparked by the death in custody of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, who was detained by the country's morality police.\n\nBut reports say as many as 133 people have been killed by security forces as they clamp down on unrest.\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly said the violence was \"truly shocking\".\n\n\"Today we have made our view clear to the Iranian authorities - instead of blaming external actors for the unrest, they should take responsibility for their actions and listen to the concerns of their people,\" Mr Cleverly said.\n\n\"We will continue to work with our partners to hold the Iranian authorities to account for their flagrant human-rights violations.\"\n\nBritish officials and foreign diplomats meet every day at the Foreign Office. So it might not seem that important for a senior FCDO director to ask Iran's acting head of mission in London to come in for a conversation.\n\nBut in fact the summons of Mehdi Hosseini Matin is significant and is designed to send a clear signal to Tehran that the world is watching.\n\nThe UK wants Iran to know that a further violent crackdown on the protestors would have consequences.\n\nIt was no surprise that at the same time that the foreign secretary issued his statement, a White House spokeswoman expressed alarm at the violence in Iran, and Canada imposed sanctions on senior figures in the regime.\n\nSo western powers are seeking to deter any escalation. But from what he has said, it is not clear if Iran's supreme leader will heed their warning.\n\nIn his first public comments on the unrest, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said \"riots\" had been \"engineered\" by Iran's arch-enemies and their allies.\n\nHe also gave his full backing to the security forces, saying that they had faced \"injustice\" during the unrest.\n\nMahsa Amini, 22, fell into a coma hours after being detained by morality police on 13 September in Tehran for allegedly breaking the strict law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf. She died three days later.\n\nMahsa Amini fell into a coma hours after being detained by morality police\n\nHer family has alleged that officers beat her head with a baton and banged her head against one of their vehicles. The police have said there is no evidence of any mistreatment and that she suffered \"sudden heart failure\".\n\nWomen have led the protests that began after Ms Amini's funeral, waving their headscarves in the air or setting them on fire to chants of \"Woman, life, freedom\" and \"Death to the dictator\" - a reference to Ayatollah Khamenei.\n\nIran Human Rights, a Norway-based group, said on Sunday that at least 133 people had been killed by security forces so far. They include 41 protesters said to have died in the city of Zahedan on Friday.\n\nState media have reported that more than 40 people have been killed, including security personnel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Protests take place in countries outside Iran, in support of opposition to the custody death of Mahsa Amini", "A group of Conservative police commissioners is calling for cannabis to be reclassified from a Class B to a Class A drug.\n\nThis would put it in the same category as heroin, cocaine and ecstasy.\n\nIt would mean tougher penalties for possession, and potential life sentences for suppliers and producers.\n\nPolice and crime commissioners are elected to hold forces to account in England and Wales, but do not control criminal law or police operations.\n\nAt the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, a group of them argued new health data on cannabis makes the case for re-evaluating penalties.\n\nThey say it is \"time we realised that it is not just a little bit of weed\".\n\nThe Home Office said there were no plans to reclassify cannabis.\n\nAnd cannabis campaigners have dismissed the idea as \"crazy\" and \"dangerous\".\n\nArresting people for cannabis possession is not a top priority for most police forces\n\nBut David Sidwick, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Dorset, said that cannabis was \"driving harm\" in communities.\n\n\"We're seeing it because it's a gateway drug. If you look at the young people in treatment, the number one drug they are in treatment for is cannabis.\"\n\nMr Sidwick, who used to work in the pharmaceutical industry, claimed that a \"wealth of new data\" on the drug's effects on health had come to light, which merited a \"re-evaluation\".\n\nHe also said that enforcement needed to go hand-in-hand with rehabilitation and education, but that reclassifying cannabis would provide clarity.\n\n\"There are so many crimes linked to drugs that, actually, by addressing this, by giving us this clarity, it makes it clearer for our police to be able to do what they need to do.\"\n\nCannabis has been a Class B drug since 2009, after it was uprated from Class C\n\nThe penalties for possession of a Class A drug include an unlimited fine and up to seven years in prison.\n\nSuppliers and producers can be sentenced to life.\n\nSentences for Class B drugs are up to five years for possession and up to 14 years for supply or production.\n\nPeter Reynolds, the President of CLEAR, which campaigns against the prohibition of cannabis, said the proposal to reclassify it was \"completely crazy.\"\n\nHe said the Commissioners were \"promoting ideas which will increase crime, violence and child exploitation\".\n\n\"The idea of doing more of the same as the past 50 years, which has quite obviously dramatically failed, is ridiculous. The only people who want this are ignorant politicians and the people who sell illegal drugs, I'm crystal clear about that.\"\n\nIn a recent letter to police forces, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said that drug-fuelled crimes were not being taken seriously enough.\n\nA spokesperson for the Home Office said: \"There are currently no plans to reclassify cannabis, which is controlled as a Class B drug in the UK on the basis of clear medical and scientific evidence of its harms.\"", "Party conferences can feel like a strange bubble, detached from the outside world.\n\nBut every word Liz Truss and her chancellor utter here has the potential for very real consequences.\n\nOn the markets - who have already been spooked by their tax-cutting bonanza mini-budget, directly impacting people's money, mortgages and savings.\n\nOn the public - who have swung sharply behind Labour in seven polls since that mini-budget, in levels not seen since 2001.\n\nOn Tory MPs - many of whom never voted for Ms Truss's economic plan.\n\nAll of them want reassurance. So every word matters.\n\nBut it's communication that is, so far, proving a problem for the chancellor and PM.\n\nJust a week ago, Kwasi Kwarteng's hints to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that even more tax cuts could be on the way were seen as a direct contributor to the pound falling to a record low.\n\nOn Thursday, Ms Truss broke a media silence in a series of BBC local radio interviews where she was confronted with people's very real fears about their bills and mortgages.\n\nIt doesn't seem likely they will row back on the plans that many argue have fuelled some of the economic turmoil overshadowing this conference, despite pressure from within their own ranks over some aspects.\n\nSo communication is key if they are to climb out of the tricky political situation they find themselves in. And it's a fine balance to strike.\n\n\"Hardcore members in the hall will want a 'lady's not for turning' speech whereas in the real world (and markets) we want something sane,\" one former cabinet minister tells me.\n\n\"She's almost checkmated herself. She can't U-turn. And pressing on seems terminal too,\" a former Downing Street spinner observes.\n\nMs Truss and her chancellor don't agree with that, obviously.\n\nShe has admitted there has been economic \"disruption\" since her chancellor's mini-budget, but has also said in the past she is prepared to be unpopular if it means pushing ahead with the plans she thinks will grow the economy.\n\nBut she's under pressure to communicate why her plans are the right ones to do that against the current economic backdrop.\n\nThe government's £45bn tax cuts, funded by borrowing, spooked the market, triggered a dramatic fall in the pound, and forced the Bank of England to step in.\n\nInterest rates are up, causing many mortgage deals to be pulled and some people's monthly repayments to rise.\n\nInflation is still high, and energy bills have gone up - though the rise has been softened.\n\nMinisters are looking at spending cuts across government, at a time when some public services like the NHS are already warning of being dangerously squeezed this winter.\n\nPolitically, this plan is one causing particular jitters among MPs - especially when viewed alongside plans to lift the cap on bankers' bonuses and scrap the top 45% rate of tax for the highest earners.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn 23 November, the chancellor is due to set out his \"medium-term\" fiscal plan, which he argues will show how he intends to get debt falling again.\n\nIt could include some government budget tightening, as well as some reforms to the economy which could include things like loosening rules around planning to increase house building in some areas, changes to business regulations, and to immigration rules for workers in sectors hit by staff shortages.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility is also set to publish an updated forecast on the country's finances in November, assessing the impact some of their new measures could have.\n\nSome Tory MPs and associations are already lobbying for two changes some feel could ease nerves.\n\nOne is to bring forward the for an OBR forecast and the chancellor's further economic reforms to stimulate growth.\n\n\"She has to calm the markets, and the public to be honest. She needs to commit to independent analysis as soon as possible,\" one prominent Tory think tank tells me.\n\nThe second is abandoning what some see as a politically-toxic plan to scrap the top rate of tax for the highest earners.\n\nBut Ms Truss has shown no indication she will concede to either of these calls.\n\nShe and the chancellor have been clear they believe a radical shake-up to the tax system is necessary to grow the economy and, among her supporters, there is surprise that people are surprised.\n\n\"Most of her policies were heavily trailed during her leadership campaign,\" one senior Tory MP who backed Ms Truss in the Tory leadership contest tells me - referring to her repeatedly pledging to scrap the national insurance and corporation tax rises.\n\n\"The cut to income tax was only brought forward by 12 months. The only really big surprises were the 45% tax rate [cut] and lifting the cap on bankers' bonuses.\n\n\"But I think it's a radical approach that was well-trailed. People have got to come to terms with that.\n\n\"If anyone was surprised that this was a radical financial statement, they shouldn't be.\"\n\nSome of Ms Truss's backers, like this MP, believe it was \"quite right\" for her to be bold in her desire to stimulate economic growth.\n\nBut he does feel that the \"big problem\" the party has had is a lack of communication and calls for Ms Truss to make a \"massive media exercise\" a top priority.\n\n\"Really what we need is a far more professional approach to all this.\n\n\"An explanation of what is happening, why, what is likely to be the consequence.\n\n\"The problem is it doesn't seem to be all this is being communicated - for example how the energy support package will help reduce inflation.\"\n\nThis concern about communication is something both her supporters and opponents seem able to agree on.\n\nConservative MP Sir Charles Walker said: \"There's only two years until a general election and once you've lost trust it's very hard to get it back. So it's got to double down. Spend a lot of time explaining to people what it's doing.\"\n\nOne Tory MP who backed Ms Truss tells me that people are \"not that upset with the budget\" as most of it is \"support for energy and the National Insurance reversal\".\n\nBut adds: \"We are angry because they did not roll the pitch, and cannot communicate the strategy so the public feel frightened instead of reassured.\"\n\nIn a sign of just how politically febrile the situation is for Ms Truss, this particular MP - who was a harsh critic of Boris Johnson and backed Ms Truss to be leader - tells me: \"I backed Liz and would rather Boris [was] back.\n\n\"She is seen by the public as economically incompetent and cannot communicate her strategy. She is done.\"\n\nAnother MP tells me they are not surprised at \"how radical\" her plans are but that \"it's roll out (the timing and communication) has been so appalling.\"\n\nSome of her supporters are more optimistic, one telling me it'll \"blow over\" and another that things will \"ultimately right themselves, they always do\".\n\nBut if the last few weeks has shown anything, it's that it's one thing saying you're prepared to be unpopular, quite another if your plans' unpopularity with the markets impact people's mortgages, savings, and the value of the money in their pocket when things are already tough.\n\nFor the sake of the economy, and her party's political fortunes, she'll need to use this conference to communicate why she's confident those things are safe under her plans.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drax, Britain's biggest power station, generates electricity by burning millions of tonnes of imported wood pellets\n\nA company that has received billions of pounds in green energy subsidies from UK taxpayers is cutting down environmentally-important forests, a BBC Panorama investigation has found.\n\nDrax runs Britain's biggest power station, which burns millions of tonnes of imported wood pellets - which is classed as renewable energy.\n\nThe BBC has discovered some of the wood comes from primary forests in Canada.\n\nThe company says it only uses sawdust and waste wood.\n\nPanorama analysed satellite images, traced logging licences and used drone filming to prove its findings. Reporter Joe Crowley also followed a truck from a Drax mill to verify it was picking up whole logs from an area of precious forest.\n\nEcologist Michelle Connolly told Panorama the company was destroying forests that had taken thousands of years to develop.\n\n\"It's really a shame that British taxpayers are funding this destruction with their money. Logging natural forests and converting them into pellets to be burned for electricity, that is absolutely insane,\" she said.\n\nThe Drax power station in Yorkshire is a converted coal plant, which now produces 12% of the UK's renewable electricity.\n\nIt has already received £6bn in green energy subsidies. Burning wood is considered green, but it is controversial among environmentalists.\n\nPanorama discovered Drax bought logging licences to cut down two areas of environmentally-important forest in British Columbia.\n\nThe Panorama team used drones to survey the area\n\nOne of the Drax forests is a square mile, including large areas that have been identified as rare, old-growth forest.\n\nThe provincial government of British Columbia says old-growth forests are particularly important and that companies should put off logging them.\n\nDrax's own responsible sourcing policy says it \"will avoid damage or disturbance\" to primary and old-growth forest.\n\nHowever, the latest satellite pictures show Drax is now cutting down the forest.\n\nThe company told Panorama many of the trees there had died, and that logging would reduce the risk of wildfires.\n\nThe entire area covered by the second Drax logging licence has already been cut down.\n\nThe electricity is classed as renewable because new trees are planted to replace the old ones and these new trees should recapture the carbon emitted by burning wood pellets.\n\nBut recapturing the carbon takes decades and the off-setting can only work if the pellets are made with wood from sustainable sources.\n\nPrimary forests, which have never been logged before and store vast quantities of carbon, are not considered a sustainable source. It is highly unlikely that replanted trees will ever hold as much carbon as the old forest.\n\nDrax told the BBC it had not cut down the forests itself and said it transferred the logging licences to other companies.\n\nBut Panorama checked and the authorities in British Columbia confirmed that Drax still holds the licences.\n\nDrax said it did not use the logs from the two sites Panorama identified. It said they were sent to timber mills - to make wood products - and that Drax only used the leftover sawdust for its pellets.\n\nThe company says it does use some logs - in general - to make wood pellets. It claims it only uses ones that are small, twisted, or rotten.\n\nBut documents on a Canadian forestry database show that only 11% of the logs delivered to the two Drax plants in the past year were classified as the lowest quality, which cannot be used for wood products.\n\nPanorama wanted to see if logs from primary forests cut down by logging companies were being transferred to Drax's Meadowbank pellet plant. The programme filmed a truck on a 120-mile round trip: leaving the plant, collecting piles of whole logs from a forest that had been cut down by a logging company and then returning to the plant for their delivery.\n\nDrax later admitted that it did use logs from the forest to make wood pellets. The company said they were species the timber industry did not want, and they would often be burned anyway to reduce wildfire risks.\n\nThe company also said the sites identified by Panorama were not primary forest because they were near roads.\n\nBut the UN definitions of primary forest do not mention proximity to roads and one of the sites is six miles from the nearest paved road.\n\nPanorama's findings come at a critical moment for Drax.\n\nThe UK government is due to publish a new biomass strategy later this year, which will set out its policy for natural fuels like wood.\n\nA Drax spokesperson said 80% of material in its Canadian pellets is sawmill residuals, which would be disposed of anyway.\n\nThey also said that Drax applies stringent sustainability standards to its own pellet production as well as suppliers, with verification from third-party certification schemes.\n\n\"We are constantly reviewing these policies to ensure we take account of the latest science,\" they added.\n\nPanorama's The Green Energy Scandal Exposed is on BBC One at 20:00 on Monday 3rd October and on iPlayer afterwards\n• None The row over the UK's largest renewable power plant", "It's quite something when a prime minister embraces unpopularity.\n\nA fortnight ago at the top of the Empire State Building in New York, Liz Truss told me she was willing to do things that weren't going to go down well.\n\nThat is a theory she very efficiently tested to destruction.\n\nHer party's poll ratings plunged as deep as that Manhattan skyscraper is tall following her government's announcement of a tax cutting package.\n\nThe markets were spooked, Conservative MPs were spooked more.\n\nThis policy was destined to crowd out everything else here at Tory conference in Birmingham for a simple reason.\n\nTory MPs from ministers down said it was unsellable: offering the best paid a tax cut with the prospect of public spending and benefits cuts at the same time.\n\nThat is why a policy that just 10 days ago was presented as a triumph for the new chancellor, a moment of political theatrics, a moment leant into and revelled in, has now sunk to the bottom of the canal here in Birmingham; junked, binned, gone.\n\nThis leaves the new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng - and by extension the prime minister - downcast and humiliated, wounded and weakened.\n\n\"Can I have a black coffee?\" he asked, on arrival for an appointment with Nick Robinson at 0810 on the BBC's Today programme.\n\nIf ever there was a moment for this chancellor to request that beverage, this was that moment.\n\nTwenty minutes later, as he climbed out of his chair, the look of relief on his face was obvious.\n\nHe had, by the end of the interview at least, acknowledged \"we got this wrong\".\n\nHe had also said - about the broader package of measures in his statement - \"we reset the debate\".\n\nThey had, but not in quite the way they had anticipated.\n\nThat debate, within the Conservative Party and beyond, was whether the new government knew what it was doing.\n\nWhether the new government was in control of events.\n\nOn that last point, they weren't.\n\nLiz Truss will now hope this U-turn creates space to move forward, hauling herself out of the political quagmire of a budgetary statement that imploded on contact with political reality.\n\nThis is another defining moment for a young government not yet a month old.\n\nAnd one that won't be forgotten.", "The result was closer than polls had predicted making for a tense wait\n\nBrazil's election is going into a second round in which left-winger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.\n\nWith almost all the votes counted, Lula had won 48% against Bolsonaro's 43% - a much closer result than opinion polls had suggested.\n\nBut Lula fell short of the more than 50% of valid votes needed to prevent a run-off.\n\nVoters now have four weeks to decide which of the two should lead Brazil.\n\nWinning outright in the first round was always going to be a tall order for any candidate - the last time it happened was 24 years ago.\n\nBut President Bolsonaro and Lula had given their supporters hope that they could achieve just that.\n\nBoth candidates can and will claim this as a victory, though. Lula has already said that this is a \"mere delay\" on his way to the presidency.\n\nFor the 76-year-old former metal worker - who could not run in the 2018 election because he was in prison after being convicted on corruption charges which were later annulled - this spells a remarkable comeback.\n\nAnd President Bolsonaro, whom opinion polls had shown trailing far behind Lula, will rejoice in the fact that he proved the pollsters wrong, just as he had predicted he would.\n\nThis is a drama which has been years in the making. The two men are arch-rivals and spent much of the campaign trading insults.\n\nIn the last TV debate before the vote, President Bolsonaro called Lula a thief, in reference to the corruption charges that put him in jail for 580 days before the conviction was annulled.\n\nLula, who has always maintained that the charges against him were politically motivated, has labelled Mr Bolsonaro a madman.\n\nNot surprisingly, that tension has filtered down into the streets. During the nights before the vote, neighbours here in Rio could be heard shouting \"Lula is a thief\" and \"Out with Bolsonaro\" at each other.\n\nSince the two candidates are such polar opposites, much is at stake.\n\nLula supporters watched how Lula gained ground during the count but did not get enough to win outright\n\nLula says he will bolster measures to protect the Amazon rainforest, while Mr Bolsonaro has argued that parts of the rainforest should be opened up to economic exploitation.\n\nDeforestation and forest fires have soared during President Bolsonaro's time in office. Climate activists have warned that if he is re-elected, the area could reach a tipping point.\n\nCritics point out that Lula's environmental record during his time in office - he governed Brazil from 2003 to 2010 - was far from perfect.\n\nBut with Mr Bolsonaro counting on the agricultural sector and agribusiness for votes and support, it is Lula who is the preferred choice of climate activists.\n\nHowever, voters in Brazil have many other pressing concerns, such as rising food prices, which have contributed to an increase in poverty and hunger.\n\nMr Bolsonaro acknowledged these concerns in a statement after the results were out. \"I understand that a lot of the vote was down to the situation the Brazilian people are in. They are feeling the price rises, especially those of basic goods. I do understand that there's a desire for change but some change can be for the worse,\" he warned.\n\nMany voters also mentioned education and Brazil's high levels of inequality as issues they want the new president to tackle.\n\nMuch of the campaign, however, was overshadowed by concern that Mr Bolsonaro may not accept defeat after he had said that \"only God\" could remove him from office.\n\nHe had also cast doubts on Brazil's electronic voting system, alleging - without providing any evidence - that it was open to fraud.\n\nWith the result much more favourable to him than predicted, he is now likely to concentrate more on how to sway those voters who cast their ballot for one of the other nine candidates who were eliminated in the first round.\n\nAll eyes will now be on centrist Senator Simone Tebet, who came third in the election with 4%, and centre-left candidate Ciro Gomes, who came fourth with 3%. Both said that they would announce \"in the coming days\" who they would throw their weight behind for the run-off.\n\nLula, who seems to thrive on overcoming obstacles, has already announced that \"the fight continues until the final victory, that's our motto\".", "Are We Heading for a Winter of Discontent?\n\nLaura Kuenssberg speaks to guests about industrial action and the cost of living.\n\nLaura Kuenssberg speaks to guests about industrial action and the cost of living.", "Vodafone is in talks with Three about merging their UK businesses.\n\nIt would mean the third and fourth largest mobile phone networks respectively combining to create a business with 27 million customers, larger than current leaders BT, EE and Virgin Media O2.\n\nThe companies say it would accelerate the rollout of 5G and rural broadband.\n\nAny deal would be scrutinised by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).\n\nReports suggest the two companies are hopeful of striking a deal by the end of the year.\n\nVodafone said it would own 51% and Hutchison - which operates Three - 49% under the deal being discussed.\n\nRegulators have previously opposed mergers that would reduce the number of networks in the UK.\n\nHowever, Vodafone has pointed to a recent report from communications regulator Ofcom which might suggest a new approach.\n\nIt found that both Vodafone and Three had in recent years delivered returns on investments that were lower than the cost of the capital they used.\n\nBut James Robinson, from communication market analysts Assembly, said there would still be hurdles to overcome for the merged firm.\n\n\"While the parties might view consolidation as a way to improve returns and unlock shareholder value, we expect the CMA would be eager to protect against the risk of consumer price rises - particularly in light of the current cost-of-living crisis,\" he said.\n\nHe suggested the merged firm may need to provide \"legally-binding concessions\" to reassure regulators.\n\nBen Wood, an analyst at CCS Insight, told the BBC that the potential tie-up was to be expected.\n\n\"The two companies have made no secret of their interest to consolidate,\" he said.\n\n\"The leading motivation to join forces is scale. In telecommunications, the most successful companies tend to be the largest; bulking up would offer many synergies and cost-saving opportunities.\n\n\"Under the status quo, it's hard to see either operator growing enough organically to get close to challenging BT and Virgin Media O2 for size in the UK.\n\nVodafone pairing with Three is just one potential tie-up in the UK.\n\nOther deals involving Virgin Media O2, TalkTalk and Sky have been speculated in recent months.\n\n\"By combining our businesses, Vodafone UK and Three UK will gain the necessary scale to be able to accelerate the rollout of full 5G in the UK, and expand broadband connectivity to rural communities and small businesses,\" Vodafone said in an update to shareholders.\n\n\"The conditions to ensure thriving competition in the market need to be nurtured, otherwise the UK is at risk of losing the opportunity to be a 5G leader,\" it added.\n\nOfcom said it did not have a fixed position in relation to market consolidation.\n\n\"Our view is that potential mergers in telecoms markets need to be assessed on a case-by-case basis, rather than on a presumptive view of the appropriate number of competitors,\" it said in its latest report.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Kwarteng is asked whether the government will stick to past pledges linking pension and benefits rises to inflation.\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has said his mini-budget was needed to stop a collapse in consumer spending, despite it sparking days of market turmoil.\n\nHe told his party's MPs that cutting taxes and limiting energy bills had protected the economy.\n\nThe plans, announced last Friday, led to a slump in the pound and the Bank of England stepping in to prevent the collapse of some pension funds.\n\nMr Kwarteng and Prime Minister Liz Truss defended their plans on Thursday.\n\nIn a series of BBC interviews, Ms Truss insisted \"urgent action\" was needed to boost the UK economy, adding she was \"prepared to do what it takes to make that happen\" and that the tax cuts outlined last week were the right plan.\n\nThis comes as a Yougov poll suggested Labour had opened up a massive 33-point lead over the Tories.\n\nMr Kwarteng tried to bolster support among Tory MPs by sending them a message saying he was working at pace to show markets he had a \"clear plan\".\n\nThe chancellor said he understood their concern about the mini-budget, which promised £45bn of tax cuts funded by government borrowing.\n\nFears this would be unaffordable and drive up interest rates had sent markets into a panic, with government borrowing costs surging, and the pound hitting a record low on Monday.\n\nThe market turmoil was fuelled by the lack of an independent forecast on the impact of the plans, which had been offered by the Office for Budget Responsibility, but was declined by the government.\n\nMr Kwarteng insisted the market volatility was \"global\" and being driven by the Ukraine war, Covid, and \"a super strong US dollar\".\n\nHe added that the government had needed to \"act quickly\".\n\n\"However I totally understand the need to be credible with markets,\" he told MPs. \"We will show markets our plan is sound, credible and will work to drive growth.\"\n\nHe said the government would announce reforms in \"childcare, business regulations, financial services, agriculture and more\" over the next six weeks.\n\nMs Truss also argued market turmoil was being caused by global factors in a series of interviews with BBC local radio stations.\n\nShe insisted that \"currencies are under pressure around the world\".\n\nLater, in BBC TV interviews, she said the UK was \"in a very serious situation\" but that was due to \"the aftermath of Covid and Putin's war in Ukraine\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Treasury select committee, which is led by Conservative MP Mel Stride, an ally of former leadership contender Rishi Sunak, rejected the government explanation.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Kwarteng on Thursday, Mr Stride said the government plans had \"resulted in various significant and concerning reactions in the markets\".\n\nHe said a drop in the price of government bonds following the announcement of the plans was greater than \"any movement during the global financial crisis or the pandemic\".\n\nHe said the financial impact of the mini-budget was larger than that of a typical Budget, but there had been no assessment by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to go with it, despite the OBR saying it could produce one.\n\n\"It is hard to conclude other than that an absence of a forecast has in some part driven the lack of confidence in the markets,\" he said. \"Some may have formed the unfortunate impression that the government may be seeking to avoid scrutiny.\"\n\nThe OBR said on Thursday it had offered to provide a forecast for the mini-budget, but the chancellor had rejected that.\n\nBBC economics editor Faisal Islam said this absence of a forecast had made the market reaction to the plans worse.\n\nMr Stride called on Mr Kwarteng to provide an OBR forecast \"earlier\" than 23 November, when the government is due to publish its medium term fiscal plan.\n\nThe OBR said on Thursday it had been asked by Mr Kwarteng to produce a first draft of its next economic forecasts by 7 October.\n\nIn an unusual move, Ms Truss will hold emergency talks with OBR head Richard Hughes on Friday, along with Mr Kwarteng.\n\nIn this message, the chancellor is seeking to reassure MPs that he is working quickly to come up with a plan to calm the markets.\n\nIn the face of mounting criticism from his backbenchers, he is also urging them to stay united.\n\nOn 23 November, Mr Kwarteng is due to set out his medium term fiscal plan.\n\nHe argues this will show how he intends to get debt falling but he has been coming under pressure from Conservative MPs to act more quickly.\n\nThere is scepticism among MPs that the economic growth needed to pay for the announced tax cuts and the government's energy bills intervention can be generated quickly enough.\n\nThat's why, in this note to Conservative MPs, he says that there are lots of ''ambitious'' supply side reforms coming over the next six weeks.\n\nThe chancellor might be conciliatory in tone, saying he always values colleagues and that he is ''always available for a meeting'', but there is no hint here that he is prepared to backtrack on any aspect of his economic plan.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Thursday, Mr Kwarteng rejected claims the government's plans had made people worse off by contributing to a spike in UK mortgage rates.\n\nIt is the first time Mr Kwarteng has made a public comment on his mini-budget since Sunday, when he hinted there were more tax cuts to come.\n\nSince then the plan has faced widespread criticism, with the International Monetary Fund and former Bank of England governor Mark Carney disparaging the plan.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Bank of England was forced to intervene, pledging to buy $65bn of government bonds in a bid to calm markets.\n\nHowever, there are concerns the turmoil could continue and fears it might affect the housing market. A record number of mortgage products have been pulled since Friday, amid fears the Bank of England will have to raise interest rates much more sharply than previously expected.\n\nMr Kwarteng said the government's plan to limit energy bills for households and businesses would save people \"thousands of pounds a year\".\n\nHowever, the chancellor said it was too early to say whether he would keep the previous government's promise to increase benefits next April in line with inflation.\n\nHe did, however, say the prime minister was committed to reinstating the triple lock on pensions, which means they increase by whichever is highest: inflation, the average wage rise, or 2.5%.", "The fatal shooting of a man in a crowded west Belfast social club where a number of people were watching football was a reckless and disgraceful attack, police have said.\n\nSean Fox, 49, was shot a number of times in the Donegal Celtic Sports and Social Club on Sunday afternoon.\n\nHe was killed after two masked gunmen entered the premises and then escaped on foot.\n\nPolice said he was attacked as he \"sat enjoying a drink\".\n\n\"This was carried out in a crowded function room where people were watching football at the time and it is only by good fortune other patrons were not injured or killed as a result of this disgraceful attack,\" Det Ch Insp Millar said.\n\nHe added that the gunmen \"walked into the premises past several people before firing their weapons at Sean a number of times\".\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), who have issued a fresh appeal for information, believe the men made off on foot along Suffolk Road in the direction of Gweedore.\n\nEyewitnesses told BBC News NI that the gunmen \"knew who they wanted to kill and did it in seconds\"\n\nIt is understood Mr Fox, who was in his 40s and originally from west Belfast, was friends with Jim Donegan, who was shot dead in 2018 as he waited to pick up his son from school.\n\nEyewitnesses to Sunday's attack told BBC News NI that the men walked up to the victim and shot him in the back of the head, continuing to shoot after he fell.\n\nAnother eyewitness said the gunmen \"knew who they wanted to kill and did it in seconds\".\n\n\"One shot him while the other one stood and watched the door,\" they said.\n\nThis looks a particularly cold-blooded brutal execution.\n\nWe had two masked gunmen casually walk into a crowded social club and identify their victim.\n\nIt is clear the gunmen knew who they were attacking and didn't leave anything to chance.\n\nIt is unclear who was behind this killing, it is far too early to say.\n\nThe police have issued a fresh appeal for information.\n\n\"I would like to hear from anyone who saw the gunmen as they entered the social club at around 14:25 or a few minutes later,\" said Det Ch Insp Millar.\n\n\"I am appealing to the community to help identify those who murdered Sean and put the lives of countless other people at risk.\"\n\nHe added that the police would like to hear from anyone who has mobile phone footage of the incident in the social club or footage from the Suffolk Road area at the time.\n\nSinn Féin MP for the area, Paul Maskey, told BBC News NI there was \"total shock\" in the community following this \"uncalled for, unjust\" shooting.\n\nHe urged anyone with information to come forward and asked for the PSNI be given space to carry out their investigation.\n\nPeople Before Profit councillor Matt Collins called the shooting \"a horrific and appalling act of violence, which must be condemned by all\", while SDLP councillor Brian Heading said incident had \"cast a dark cloud over the entire area\".", "Olivia died after being shot as her mother struggled with a gunman at the door of her home\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel who was shot in her home in Liverpool.\n\nThe nine-year-old was fatally wounded as her mother tried to stop a gunman chasing another man into their house.\n\nThomas Cashman, 34, of West Derby, Liverpool, has also been charged with the attempted murder of Olivia's mother Cheryl Korbel and Joseph Nee.\n\nHe was remanded in custody after appearing at Liverpool Crown Court with a provisional trial date set for March.\n\nOlivia was shot in the chest and her mother was injured as Mr Nee, a convicted burglar, was chased into their home in Dovecot on the night of 22 August.\n\nThe court heard any trial would be estimated to last four weeks and a plea hearing is set to be held on 10 January.\n\nMr Cashman, of Grenadier Drive, who had his head bowed throughout the proceedings, is also charged with two counts of possessing a firearm to endanger life.\n\nHe was held in handcuffs in the dock, surrounded by five police officers.\n\nThomas Cashman was in handcuffs in the dock surrounded by police officers\n\nOlivia's parents were in court for the 13-minute hearing, and also attended earlier as Mr Cashman appeared before magistrates in the city.\n\nA second defendant, Paul Russell, 40, also appeared before magistrates charged with assisting an offender.\n\nThere was a huge police convoy as Thomas Cashman arrived at court\n\nThe court heard Mr Russell, of Snowberry Road, West Derby, was alleged to have assisted Mr Cashman by driving him and disposing of clothing.\n\nHe was remanded into custody to appear at Liverpool Crown Court on 31 October.\n\nOlivia's funeral was held on 15 September at a packed St Margaret Mary's Church, just streets away from where the shooting happened.\n\nPink ties, jackets, scarves and bows were worn by those attending the service after her family asked people to wear a \"splash of pink\".\n\nMs Korbel carried a pink teddy bear into the service and said in her eulogy her daughter had \"touched so many people's hearts and was loved and adored by everyone\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Moments after this coffin was lowered into the ground, shelling struck the hills opposite\n\nAs Russia's Vladimir Putin announces the annexation of swathes of sovereign Ukrainian territory, issues nuclear threats and mobilises hundreds of thousands of reservists, the response from Ukrainian forces on the eastern front is unchanged - they will fight for every last inch of soil.\n\nWe travel to front-line positions in the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk - one of the four regions which President Putin is now illegally claiming as his own. Our journey is made in stages.\n\nWe slow down to cross the Bakhmutovka river, speed up to cover exposed ground, then weave through a dangerous curtain of downed power lines. For the last few metres, we run. All the while, the shelling is constant - part of war's familiar soundscape.\n\nBut when we reach the front-line troops, inside a battle-scarred building, we hear something else - the crackle of small arms fire. The two sides are so close they can target each other with rifles.\n\nThe Russians are around 400 metres (437 yards) in front of us, and trying hard to close in. We are warned there is a Russian sniper to the rear.\n\nAt his post below ground, where a ginger cat keeps him company, the unit commander is sombre and blunt.\n\nUkrainian Unit Cdr Oleksandr says President Putin's attempt to annex further regions of Ukraine will fail\n\n\"It's pretty hard here now,\" says Oleksandr, a 31-year-old. \"It's stressful. Everyone is under pressure. The enemy is very near, but we are standing and fighting back.\"\n\nHe dismisses President Putin's recent referendums as \"delusional\" and says Ukrainians will not be dictated to at the barrel of a Russian gun.\n\n\"In my view, those referendums will change nothing. We will fight Putin's army and make them withdraw from our land,\" he says.\n\nOleksandr knows the cost of war - and not only from fighting his own battles.\n\n\"My brother died,\" he tells me, adding: \"But I don't know where and when that happened, because he was drafted by a different drafting office from a different region. He died as well as a few of my comrades, officers who trained with me. I found out they were dead, too. So, I have lost family and friends.\"\n\nHe has not lost his will to fight. Neither has 25-year-old Roman, who is operating a key weapon in this war - a drone.\n\nRoman holds aloft a drone - the 25-year-old says he worries about his family\n\nRoman is upstairs in a bombed-out room, littered with debris and broken glass, where two more cats are in residence. The screensaver on his phone is a picture of his five-month-old son Kyrylo, born since the war broke out. He has seen his only child once.\n\n\"I see him in pictures and video, not in real life,\" he says. \"It's hard, but it's also hard to imagine what the Russians could do to my family if they reach them.\n\n\"I don't want them to do what they did in Bucha. I lived in Kyiv, and I understand clearly how the women feel. If we are weak, they will come for our families.\"\n\nThere is concern here about the mobilisation in Russia. In the coming months the Kremlin will be sending many more soldiers into battle.\n\nIt is unclear how well-trained or well-equipped they will be, but the Ukrainians are worried about the quantity, not the quality.\n\nThey are already outnumbered. In the battle for Bakhmut they have faced a seemingly endless supply of Russian fighters. In August there were five waves in a row, according to Iryna, an army spokeswoman.\n\n\"They just go, and they don't stop. They don't react to firing or shelling. Some of the prisoners of war we captured were from Wagner [a Russian mercenary group]. They had better weapons,\" Iryna says.\n\nTroops here believe the Russians are pushing hard for victory in Bakhmut because of their recent humiliating defeats in the north-east and the south, where Ukraine reclaimed about 6,000 sq km (2,317 sq miles) of territory.\n\nFor now, Bakhmut is stuck in President Putin's throat. It is an obstacle in his bid to swallow all of a mineral rich area known as Donbas - comprised of Donestk and Luhansk. Having failed to fully capture Donbas, he has annexed both regions.\n\nAs he tries to conquer Bakhmut - once home to about 70,000 people - the city has been bled of life.\n\nLyudmila remains in her apartment with her husband, despite the cracked walls and leaking water\n\nDowntown we see a large apartment block with the centre gouged out by an airstrike three months ago. Many of the windows are boarded up. It looks abandoned, but my colleague hears a woman's cry inside the building.\n\nWe call out, and Lyudmila appears from behind the plastic sheeting that covers her window on the second floor. At first, it is difficult to hear her over the deep rumble of rocket fire.\n\n\"It's very hard,\" she shouts. \"They bombard us. Yesterday a man was killed in the backyard [by shelling]. There's almost no-one left in the building.\n\n\"Everything is leaking. There is water everywhere. All the walls are cracked. It is very difficult. But at least we get humanitarian aid. Every three days, they bring bread.\"\n\nThe white-haired pensioner is living in the shattered building with her husband and a handful of others. \"We can't go anywhere,\" she tells us. \"We have no money, and I am in a wheelchair.\" A neighbour tells us the building has been hit five times.\n\nLyudmila was in her kitchen when the missile struck on 1 July. \"It came, out of the blue,\" she says. \"God himself saved me.\"\n\nLyudmila's apartment block has been hit five times by Russian shelling, according to her neighbour\n\nBut can this city be saved?\n\nFor now, the frontline is holding. Ukrainian forces are blocking the Russian advance. But here even the dead are not safe.\n\nThere is an old cemetery on the city's green outskirts, in the path of incoming shells. Mounds of dark soil top the fresh graves - those killed in recent months, since the city became a battleground.\n\nAs a coffin is lowered into the ground - watched by a few mourners - the silence is broken by shelling. The first launch is outgoing, but moments later an incoming round lands in the hills opposite the graveyard. Then a second strike, closer still. It is time to leave.\n\nAs we race towards the edge of Bakhmut there is an explosion on the road right in front of us, between 100 to 200 metres ahead. We manage a sharp left turn and follow another route out.\n\nMany battles are still raging in Ukraine. President Putin is doubling down - and winter is coming.\n\nThis is a dangerous new phase in Europe's newest war.\n\nWhen asked how long she thought the conflict would last, the army spokeswoman replied: \"A long, long time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe words of King Charles as he greeted Liz Truss for what will soon become to both of them a normal weekly thing.\n\nIt was the chat, or audience, the monarch has with the prime minister each week.\n\nSo what on earth was the King referring to?\n\nIt appears it is something of a verbal tic of his, an attempt to move a conversation on from pleasantries to the substance of the meeting.\n\nOf course, we'll never know for certain.\n\nThe camera stopped a few seconds later, as the most discreet of chats a prime minister gets to have properly began.\n\nRather less discreet, her conversations with her own MPs.\n\nMs Truss reminded her backbenchers of the government's help with people's energy bills.\n\nWe're told she said she can \"see a way through\".\n\nThe question, then, for some, is why the markets are being kept waiting for more than another fortnight, when they are clearly so jittery, if she knows the solution.\n\nShe also acknowledged, again, that her presentation of her policies could have been better so what she announced was less of a surprise to people.\n\nAnd she accepted that how she'd done things and the consequences of this had left some unhappy.\n\nSources in the room said that backbencher Robert Halfon, the chair of the Education Select Committee and a former minister, accused the government of \"trashing blue collar Conservatism\".\n\nHe said the Conservative Party's record under David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson had included things like boosting apprenticeships and the living wage, whereas she had cut tax for millionaires and wants to cut affordable housing and cut benefits.\n\nMPs there say he got a cheer, but Liz Truss looked \"shocked\" and said he could come to speak to her privately.\n\nAfterwards, as MPs filed out, there were grimaces and gritted teeth, although the prime minister herself said it had been \"very good\".\n\nWhat happens next is intriguing.\n\nA consequence of the assault on the prime minister's authority at her party conference last week is a nervousness in No 10 and a desire to be seen to be reaching out and listening to Conservative MPs.\n\nShe did it once in public and twice in private on Wednesday - at Prime Minister's Questions, in the Commons tearoom afterwards and later in the question and answer session with backbenchers.\n\nAnd this will continue next week when every Tory MP will have the chance to see her in regional groupings - to have their say on what she's doing and, crucially, what the Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng says in his economic statement in two weeks, on Monday 31 October.\n\nAnd meanwhile, the markets and the country are left to ponder what might happen next, while 300 plus Conservative MPs trundle in with their grumbles, hobby horses and priorities.\n\nThe government appears to have found itself inadvertently driving down a cul-de-sac - and doesn't want to be seen to reverse out of it.\n\nRemember it has already at the very least eased off the pace, with the cancellation of the tax cut for the best paid.\n\nThe challenge is how to retain as much economic and political credibility as possible, when preserving one risks the other.\n\nOf course, ministers hope this whole strategy turns out not to be a cul-de-sac after all and, after several twists and turns, and adventures over the grass verge, a route to economic and political credibility is found, alongside economic growth.\n\nBut right now plenty of backseat drivers - within the Conservative Party and beyond - are questioning both the navigation and the person behind the wheel.\n• None Truss under pressure from Tory MPs to rethink tax cuts", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Creeslough explosion: 'James was full of life and full of joy'\n\nMourners at the funeral for James O'Flaherty, one of the victims of the Creeslough explosion, heard he was an \"amazing and capable man\".\n\nCatherine O'Donnell, 39, and her son James Monaghan, 13, were also buried in County Donegal on Wednesday.\n\nThe congregation heard she was bubbly and loved organising parties, while her son was full of life and joy.\n\nTen people were killed in Friday's explosion, which police said appears to have been a tragic accident.\n\nMr O'Flaherty, 48, was originally from Sydney in Australia, but was living with his wife Tracey and son Hamish in Dunfanaghy, a village about 10 minutes' drive from Creeslough.\n\nFr Brian O Fearraigh, speaking at St Mary's Church in Derrybeg, said Mr O'Flaherty lived for his wife Tracey and son Hamish.\n\n\"James showered his loving son and wife in hugs and kisses every day,\" he said.\n\n\"James O'Flaherty was a generous and a kind man. He loved chatting to other people and he just wanted to spend all his free time with you - his family.\n\n\"He had honesty and integrity in abundance.\n\n\"He was a man who had high morals which I'm told are traits and values that he shared with his late father.\"\n\nThe hearse carrying the coffin of James O'Flaherty makes its way to St Mary's Church in Derrybeg\n\nPupils from Hamish's school provided a guard of honour as his father's remains were brought into the church.\n\nGifts were presented at the beginning of the Mass, including a box of chocolates and a framed family photography.\n\nA copy of Roald Dahl's Going Solo was also brought to the altar - father and son had been reading the book before the tragedy.\n\nAddressing the congregation, 12-year-old Hamish urged mourners to \"cherish\" their families.\n\n\"Be grateful, for they won't be there forever… Use the time you have wisely,\" he said.\n\nMourners at the funeral of James O'Flaherty heard he was a great man who worked hard\n\nHamish described his father as a \"great man\", who worked \"very hard and very long each day\".\n\n\"He wore a jacket with a huge paint stain on the side of it everywhere. He managed this by leaning on a wall which was still wet with paint,\" he said.\n\n\"He wore the jacket everywhere. To the shops, to the movies, to the beach.\"\n\nPresident Michael D Higgins attended both of the funeral services in County Donegal\n\nThe Irish president, Michael D Higgins, who was at both services on Wednesday, said: \"It's a privilege to be able to share with communities who are going through so much.\n\n\"When something like this happens it isn't affecting just a family because everybody is so connected to everybody.\n\n\"Everybody knows everybody.\"\n\nThe president added that the international response to the tragedy showed \"grief knows no borders\".\n\nAn Garda Síochána (Irish police) continues to investigate the cause of the blast in a building complex that included a service station, convenience store and residential apartments.\n\nThe store, which included a post office, was the main shop serving the 400-strong village.\n\nIt is another difficult day in Donegal.\n\nOutside St Mary's Church in Derrybeg, mourners greet one another, embrace and hug.\n\nIn this tranquil Irish speaking part of the county, they gather for the funeral of James O'Flaherty.\n\nAmong them, uniformed children from Faugher National School, where Mr O'Flaherty's son Hamish had been a pupil: a guard of honour to meet the cortege and welcome President Higgins.\n\nIt is a large crowd that has come to Donegal's Gaeltacht (Irish speaking) area for a Mass conducted in Irish and English.\n\nMany here will have travelled this morning through the Poisoned Glen, an area of natural beauty that belies its name.\n\nMany have made the journey now to Creeslough for the funeral Mass for Catherine O'Donnell, and her son James.\n\nOn the way into this village so devastated by Friday's explosion, some stood silently at the roadside as two coffins, as a mother and son, passed by.\n\nOutside St Michael's, the community stands side by side again.\n\nSo many who were here on Tuesday are here again, as a village continues to mourn.\n\nThe congregation heard Catherine was \"bubbly\" and that James was \"full of life and joy\"\n\nCatherine and James were in the queue for the post office when the explosion happened.\n\nThey had gone there after the 13-year-old had finished school for the day.\n\nAt their funeral in Creeslough, Fr John Joe Duffy told James's classmates: \"James was full of devilment, wasn't he? And full of life and joy.\n\n\"That's what he would want boys and girls. He would want that joy and that life in you, and to value your life and always do well in life.\"\n\nThe priest added: \"He was just a child taxiing down the runway about to take off into his teenage years. He was just about to launch into life.\n\n\"It is no wonder, under such circumstances, that words fail us this afternoon.\"\n\nThe congregation heard Catherine was \"bubbly\", a \"glam lady\" who loved to shop.\n\n\"She was very intelligent and she loved parties,\" Fr Duffy told mourners. \"She loved organising parties.\"\n\n\"She was a loving mother, a loving partner, a loving daughter and one who was much, much loved.\"\n\nFr Duffy said the village of Creeslough had shown the power of community when dealing with tragedy.\n\n\"Creeslough, maybe, out of all of this suffering and pain, had given a gift to the rest of the world... A new understanding of what it means to be community,\" he said.\n\n\"The strength of our people in tragedy has set a template for the world about how in the midst of the greatest pain and grief we are strongest when we rely on each other, support one another.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Masses were held at St Michael's Church in the village for Jessica Gallagher, 24, and 49-year-old Martin McGill.\n\nMourners at Ms Gallagher's funeral were told that she would be remembered for the \"ripples of love, affection and warmth\" she left behind.\n\nMr McGill was described as having a \"beautiful, gentle soul\".\n\nThe funerals of two other victims - 14-year-old Leona Harper and 49-year-old Martina Martin - will take place on Thursday, while Hugh Kelly, 59, will be laid to rest on Friday.\n\nThe two remaining victims were 50-year-old Robert Garwe and his five-year-old daughter Shauna Flanagan Garwe.", "Last updated on .From the section Republic of Ireland\n\nUefa is investigating \"potential inappropriate behaviour\" by Republic of Ireland women's players after a video of them singing a song containing a pro-IRA chant emerged after their World Cup play-off win over Scotland.\n\nEuropean football's governing body confirmed an ethics and disciplinary inspector will oversee the case, with information on the matter to be made available \"in due course\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Republic manager Vera Pauw said the team apologised \"from the bottom of our hearts\" for the video.\n\nIt emerged on social media after their 1-0 win at Hampden Park which saw them reach the World Cup for the first time.\n\nThe footage showed team members chanting the pro-IRA slogan in the stadium's dressing room after Amber Barrett's goal had earned the side a place at next year's finals in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nPauw insisted that the release of the footage on social media by one of the squad was not the core issue, adding the player \"was devastated and crying in her room\".\n\n\"I don't want to hide behind that because if she hadn't put it on social media and I had been notified about it and the significance, then I would have addressed it immediately.\n\n\"I've also told her that putting it on social media is not the biggest thing.\n\n\"The biggest thing is that it has happened. It doesn't matter if you are in private room or a dressing room or if you are outside.\"\n• None When is a criminal no longer a threat? Bad People considers when offenders should be released\n• None How to fool the opposition in sport effectively: Sideways dives into the world of deception", "President Putin seems to be determined to push ahead despite a series of recent military defeats in Ukraine\n\nIt's the question we've been asking for months now, even before Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nWhat is Vladimir Putin thinking and planning?\n\nLet me get the disclaimer in early. I have no Kremlin crystal ball. Neither do I have Putin on direct dial.\n\nFormer US President George W Bush once said he'd looked Vladimir Putin in the eye and \"got a sense of his soul\". Look how well that ended for relations between Russia and the West.\n\nSo, getting inside the mind of the Kremlin leader is a pretty thankless task. But it's important to try. Perhaps more than ever now, in light of recent nuclear sabre-rattling by Moscow.\n\nThere's little doubt that the Russian president is under pressure. His so-called \"special military operation\" in Ukraine has gone badly wrong for him.\n\nIt was supposed to last a few days. But we're nearly eight months in and there's no end in sight.\n\nThe Kremlin admits \"significant\" troop losses; in recent weeks the Russian military has been losing territory in Ukraine which it had previously occupied.\n\nTo boost troop numbers, last month President Putin declared partial mobilisation, something he'd insisted he wouldn't do. Meanwhile, sanctions continue to degrade the Russian economy.\n\nSo, back to Putin's state of mind. Will he be thinking he got it all wrong, that his decision to invade was a fundamental error?\n\n\"Putin's perceptions drive the entire situation in this conflict,\" believes Konstantin Remchukov, owner and editor-in-chief of the Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta.\n\n\"He is the authoritarian leader of a nuclear power. He's the unchallenged leader in this country. He has some strong beliefs and perceptions which drive him crazy. He's started to believe that this is existential from the point of view of importance. Not only for him. But for the future of Russia.\"\n\nIf this conflict is existential, how far is President Putin prepared to go to win it?\n\nIn recent months senior Russian officials (including Putin himself) have been dropping unsubtle hints that the Kremlin leader would be prepared to use nuclear weapons in this conflict.\n\n\"I don't think he will,\" US President Joe Biden told CNN. \"But I think that it's irresponsible for him to talk about it.\"\n\nRussian troops were forced to make a humiliating retreat from nearly all of Ukraine's north-eastern Kharkiv region in September\n\nThis week's intense Russian bombardment of Ukraine suggests the Kremlin is, at the very least, determined to escalate things with Kyiv.\n\n\"He's trying to avoid direct confrontation with the West, but at the same time he's prepared for it,\" believes veteran liberal politician Grigory Yavlinsky. \"I fear most the possibility of nuclear conflict. And, on the second place, I fear endless war\".\n\nBut \"endless war\" requires endless resources. That's something Russia doesn't seem to have. The wave of missile strikes on Ukrainian cities is a dramatic demonstration of force, but how long can Moscow sustain that?\n\n\"Could you continue this missile flow for days, weeks, months? Many experts doubt that we have enough missiles,\" says Mr Remchukov.\n\n\"Also, from the military point of view, no-one has ever said what would be the sign of ultimate [Russian] victory? What is the symbol of victory? In 1945 it was the banner over Berlin. What is the criteria of success now? [A banner] over Kyiv? Over Kherson? Over Kharkiv? I don't know. Nobody knows.\"\n\nIt's not even clear that Vladimir Putin knows.\n\nBack in February, the Kremlin's objective appears to have been the rapid defeat of Ukraine, forcing Russia's neighbour back into Moscow's orbit without a prolonged war. He miscalculated. He underestimated the determination of the Ukrainian army and people to defend their land, and seemingly overestimated the capabilities of his own military.\n\nWhat's he thinking now? Is Vladimir Putin's current plan to cement control over Ukrainian territory he claims to have annexed and then freeze the conflict? Or is he determined to push on until the whole of Ukraine is back in the Kremlin's sphere of influence?\n\nThis week former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev wrote: \"The Ukrainian state in its current configuration… will be a constant, direct and clear threat to Russia. I believe the aim of our future actions should be the complete dismantling of Ukraine's political regime.\"\n\nRussia's military says it wants to mobilise 300,000 reservists - but there appears to be a growing opposition to the move across the country\n\nBut, inevitably, Mr Putin's actions abroad are having consequences at home. Over years the Kremlin painstakingly cultivated Putin's image of \"Mr Stability\", encouraging the Russian public to believe that as long as he was in charge they would be safe.\n\n\"The previous contract between Putin and society was that 'I protect you',\" says Mr Remchukov.\n\n\"For many years the main slogan was 'predictability'. What kind of predictability is there today? The concept is over. Nothing is predictable. My journalists don't know whether they will receive call-up papers when they get home today.\"\n\nVladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine surprised many. But not Mr Yavlinsky.\n\n\"I think that [Putin] had been moving in that direction - year by year he was constructing the way to what we have now,\" Mr Yavlinsky says.\n\n\"For example, destroying independent media. He started that in 2001. Destroying independent business. He started that in 2003. Then 2014 and what happened with Crimea and Donbas. You'd have to be blind not to see it.\n\n\"Russia's problem is our system. A system was created here that created such a person [as Putin]. The question of the West's role in creating this system is a very serious one.\n\n\"The problem is that this system didn't create a society. There are a lot of very nice people in Russia. But there is no civil society. That's why Russia can't resist.\"", "Rep Adam Schiff says any decision will need to be unanimous Image caption: Rep Adam Schiff says any decision will need to be unanimous\n\nOne of the few remaining questions hanging over the January 6 hearings is whether the committee will formally recommend criminal charges be brought against Donald Trump.\n\nThe committee members have been guarded about whether they will issue any such conclusions on criminal culpability. Democrat Adam Schiff of California recently said that any committee decision will have to be unanimous.\n\n“It will be certainly, I think, my recommendation, my feeling, that we should make referrals, but we will get to a decision as a committee, and we will all abide by that decision, and I will join our committee members if they feel differently,” he said.\n\nEarlier this year, there was some disagreement within the committee about whether a criminal “referral” was even under consideration, with committee chair Bennie Thompson saying it wasn’t – and Republican vice-chair Liz Cheney and others quickly disagreeing.\n\nDuring the Thursday committee meeting, she left the door open, saying the committee “may ultimately decide to do so”, but the panel’s role “is not to make decisions regarding prosecution.\"\n\nWhat the committee did do, however, was subpoena the former president to testify. And if he refuses, the committee could hold him in contempt of Congress and refer that to the Justice Department for prosecution.\n\nWhile any decision to prosecute – for contempt or a larger criminal charge –would be in the hands of Justice Department prosecutors, a committee referral could have symbolic importance as the final considered judgement of the bipartisan group that has spent more than a year now investigating the Capitol attack and the factors that led to it.", "Alex Jones now acknowledges that the Sandy Hook shooting was \"100% real\"\n\nConspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965m (£869m) in damages after falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.\n\nThe families of eight victims, and an FBI agent who responded to the attack, had sought at least $550m in the defamation trial in Connecticut.\n\nThey alleged the right-wing radio host's misinformation led to a decade of harassment and death threats.\n\nTwenty children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.\n\nJones, who founded the conspiracy-laden Infowars website and talk show, argued for years that the massacre was a \"staged\" government plot to take guns from Americans and that \"no-one died\".\n\nHe called the parents of victims \"crisis actors\" and argued that some of them never actually existed.\n\nHe now acknowledges the attack was \"100% real\", a concession he made in August at a separate defamation trial in Texas.\n\nAs the verdict was read out on Wednesday in Waterbury, Connecticut - some 20 miles (32 km) from the site of the 2012 shooting - many of the families were visibly emotional with some in tears.\n\nThe three-week trial was marked by emotional testimony from a succession of parents.\n\nSome described receiving a deluge of online hate and others said they had to move homes repeatedly for their own safety. A father, Mark Barden, recounted hearing that people were desecrating his son Daniel's grave by \"urinating on it and threatening to dig it up\".\n\nJurors also heard evidence that Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, made millions of dollars selling nutritional supplements, survival gear and other products on the Infowars catalogue.\n\nJones broadcast himself watching Wednesday's verdict and scoffing at the court proceedings. He also appealed to his followers to make urgent donations, and pledged that the funds would not go towards his legal costs.\n\n\"The money does not go to these people,\" he said. \"It goes to fight this fraud and it goes to stabilise the company.\"\n\nHis lawyer Norm Pattis told reporters that they will appeal the decision.\n\n\"Candidly, from start to finish, the fix was in in this case,\" he said outside the court.\n\nIn closing arguments, plaintiffs' attorney Chris Mattei said: \"When every single one of these families were drowning in grief, Alex Jones put his foot right on top of them.\"\n\nJones, for his part, had slammed the proceedings as a \"show trial\" run by a \"tyrant\" judge and argued he was not to blame for the actions of his followers.\n\n\"I've already said I'm sorry hundreds of times, and I'm done saying I'm sorry,\" he said in dramatic testimony late last month that brought some in the courtroom to tears.\n\nHis lawyers urged the six-member jury to ignore political undercurrents in the case and award minimal damages.\n\nHis lead defence lawyer, Mr Pattis, also drew a stern rebuke from the judge after he accused the opposing legal team of \"inventing anger\".\n\nThis marks a moment of reckoning when it comes to harmful online conspiracies. Jones has never been handed damages of this scale before, nor has any other conspiracy theorist - and it sets a huge precedent.\n\nThe question everyone is asking now: will this put an end to these kinds of conspiracies and the harm they can cause? That's certainly what the Sandy Hook parents hope.\n\nA former Infowars insider tells me that he thinks this could be the beginning of the end for Jones and put a stop to him pushing theories.\n\nBut, after the pandemic, there's an increasing group of people vulnerable to the tactics and rhetoric used by a conspiracy theorist like him. Jones is already attempting to claim this verdict is just more proof that people are trying to stop him telling the truth. The bereaved families who were in court can see it's far from that.\n\nPandora's box is wide open and it's hard to close. At the very least, this shows the tide is starting to turn. People realise the danger online disinformation can pose - and how dismissing it as fringe does nothing to stop harm caused to the victims. Those victims are turning to the courts, rather than social media sites or policy markers, for justice.\n\nThe trial follows a similar case in Texas in August that saw Jones ordered to pay $49.3m in damages to other Sandy Hook parents.\n\nThe plaintiffs - who said they had endured harassment and emotional distress because of the Infowars founder's misinformation - had sought $150m.\n\nA lawyer in the Connecticut case said families should receive at least $550m, saying Jones's Sandy Hook content got an estimated 550 million views from 2012 to 2018.\n\nBut the jury ultimately made 15 separate awards, ranging from $28m to $120m, totalling $965m.\n\nIt said these were to cover emotional distress as well as slander and defamation. It is possible Jones will be separately told to pay punitive damages.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sandy Hook dad: Trolls said I killed and dismembered my son\n\nHowever, it is unclear how much money the families will actually receive, with Jones saying on Wednesday there \"ain't no money\".\n\nHe and his company have filed for bankruptcy protection in Texas, where a forensic economist has testified that he and his company are worth around $270m. Jones has disputed that figure.\n\nJones and his entourage flew to Connecticut from Texas for the trial in a private jet. They stayed in a rented villa with a pool and tennis court, according to the New York Times.\n\nJones still faces a third defamation trial over the Sandy Hook shooting that begins in Texas later this year.", "Many of the officers volunteered to join the unit\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is investigating more than 600 domestic and sexual abuse allegations against its officers, the BBC has been told.\n\nThey are the focus of a specialist team established to restore public trust in the force following a number of scandals, including the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving officer. Their work is similar to fictional unit AC-12 in the BBC drama Line of Duty, but focusing instead on abusive cops, not \"bent cops\".\n\nIn an office high in the Met's most imposing and secure building, a team of detectives is hard at work. Listen closely to their phone calls and the nature of their investigations is revealed.\n\nDet Con Zoe Di Carlo is confirming the details of a witness statement with the victim who has made it.\n\n\"These are the physical assaults, this is the controlling behaviour,\" she tells the woman as she scrolls down the document on her laptop.\n\nThese detectives are investigating abusers, not among the general public, but within their own force. Many of the officers who work in the unit volunteered to do so, a significant proportion of whom are women.\n\nThe detectives hunting criminals in uniform, to restore trust in the police.\n\nThe new Domestic and Sexual Offences Unit - or Daso unit - represents an attempt to sweep out the dark corners of a force with a trust problem.\n\nSince it was established in January, the team's caseload has grown to 625 allegations of sexual or domestic abuse against officers or police staff.\n\nSometimes the victims they are trying to protect from rogue police officers are members of the public, but sometimes they are other police officers. A significant number of cases involve domestic abuse situations where a couple are both in the police.\n\nSuch abuse often feeds on a power imbalance. The police is a service where uniforms, ranks and the law itself give officers the ability to exert power over other people, inside and outside the force. There is a risk that this might encourage unprofessional or criminal behaviour, or allow it to be covered up.\n\nThis officer reported a colleague after learning he had inappropriately contacted other members of her team\n\nDressed in her uniform - a white shirt, black trousers, epaulettes and a black tie - one alleged victim, a young female officer, describes how she reported concerns about a colleague to the unit.\n\nThe woman - whose identity we agreed to protect - told the BBC how the male officer sent her text messages of an increasingly sexual nature.\n\n\"Expressing things that he did, or didn't do, sexually,\" she says. \"Asking is that stuff that I would be interested in? I just thought: 'Someone hasn't learned boundaries.'\"\n\nBut it did not stop, and when she discovered he had targeted other women and young men in her team, she reported it to the detectives at Daso.\n\nIn another recent case, a police community support officer was convicted and sacked for masturbating in uniform, in broad daylight in a public park.\n\nSenior Daso officer Det Ch Insp Rich Williamson describes this behaviour as \"absolutely appalling. Off the scale.\"\n\nThe worst cases the team deals with involve rape and severe domestic abuse - all alleged to have been committed by police officers or staff.\n\nThe unit is the response to a string of horrifying scandals which caused enormous damage to the reputation of the UK's biggest police force.\n\nThe rape and murder of Sarah Everard in March 2021 - by a police officer who pretended to be a plain-clothes detective to gain control of his victim - had a particularly devastating impact.\n\nThe case led to protests over police misogyny by women, who said something was wrong with the organisation's culture. Then in December, two police officers were jailed for taking pictures of the bodies of murdered sisters, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman. The officers were supposed to have been guarding the crime scene.\n\nShortly afterwards, the report of a long-running investigation into a group of male officers at Charing Cross Police Station added further fuel to the fire. Codenamed Operation Hotton, it found the men had sent racist and sexist messages revealing attitudes no organisation could accept within its workforce, not least the police.\n\nThe then commissioner Dame Cressida Dick failed to convince the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan she could change things quickly enough, and was forced to resign.\n\nSeveral inquiries were launched. A \"super-complaint\" by lawyers at legal charity the Centre for Women's Justice resulted in three police watchdogs ruling that all forces needed to improve their handling of domestic abuse allegations against police officers.\n\nPreviously, internal investigations into police law-breaking or misconduct have been conducted by officers specialising in what the Met calls \"professional standards\".\n\nBut Daso is different because of the expertise of its officers.\n\nThe team's senior leader, Det Supt Annette Clark, says they have experience in safeguarding, rather than internal investigations. \"Particularly understanding domestic abuse, and understanding sexual offences,\" she explains. \"The impact that has on people and the victims.\"\n\nAchieving convictions for sexual offences and domestic abuse is notoriously hard, and the success rate currently extremely low. It is arguably harder when the alleged perpetrator is a police officer - and harder still when both the accuser and accused are in uniform.\n\nAnd when the allegation is not properly dealt with, the experience for the accuser can be devastating.\n\nGemma described the experience of accusing a police officer former partner of domestic abuse as devastating\n\nFormer officer Gemma MacRae blew the whistle at a different force, Police Scotland.\n\nWhen she accused a former partner - also a police officer - of domestic abuse, she knew she ran the risk of being \"labelled and not in a good way\" by colleagues.\n\nThe priority, she said, appeared to be protecting the reputation of the police rather than investigating the allegations.\n\n\"Essentially, it was a gang of bullies. And very much the boys' club. If you were female, you weren't part of the crew,\" she says.\n\nHer initial claims morphed into dozens of secondary complaints about the way she had been dealt with as a whistleblower.\n\nPolice Scotland investigated but concluded no action should be taken against her partner. But, after several years, the force has finally apologised for not following established procedures for dealing with domestic abuse allegations, whether made against a police officer or not.\n\nOne of her colleagues, an officer named Scott Gallop, was convicted of sexually assaulting her. When Gemma confided in him about the alleged domestic abuse, she said he seemed more interested in coming on to her, at one point touching her bottom.\n\nThe whole experience was \"devastating\", she says. She left the police, Scotland and the UK - and now lives in rural Norway.\n\nResponding to the allegation of a \"bullying boys' club\", Police Scotland said it had taken \"appropriate action...to address behaviour that was not in line with our values of integrity, fairness, respect and upholding human rights.\" The force added that it has improved police training in dealing with domestic abuse and wants its workplaces to be free of misogyny and discrimination.\n\nDet Supt Clark says her team is determined to root out bad officers\n\nThe Met's new approach is helping alleged victims. The female officer who accused a colleague of sending sexual messages says the involvement of Daso, with its expert abuse investigators, helped her.\n\n\"It just felt like they asked the right questions that made you feel like what you were saying was valid,\" she says. \"It's a specialism, you have to love it and that very much came across.\"\n\nHer allegations will likely amount to professional misconduct if proven, but the investigation continues.\n\nDet Supt Clark says her team are disgusted by the behaviour of abusive officers.\n\n\"We don't want them in the organisation and we need to get rid of them.\"\n\nAt least 1,600 allegations against police or police staff have been investigated across England and Wales in the past three years - our figures suggest - although several large forces, including Manchester and West Midlands Police refused to provide any figures, claiming it would be too costly to collate them.\n\nOne of the Met's experts on domestic abuse, Det Sgt Viran Wiltshire, says the rise in cases actually reflects the organisation's growing understanding of how the problem can present itself - by improving training in detecting it, and working with victims to get prosecutions.\n\n\"I think that's the shift that's happening within our Met culture,\" she says.\n\nWhatever the causes, the rising number of allegations looks bad for the force. \"It will get worse before it gets better,\" is a phrase heard often among senior Met officers.\n\nThe Met now has a new commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, and this issue is near the top of his inbox.\n\n\"It's about rooting out those who've let us down,\" he said in a recent BBC interview. \"We've failed to do that, and we will be doing that on my watch.\"\n\nThis will require determined police work by Det Supt Clark's team. But she says many officers tell her: \"I want to do this. I want to come and work in professional standards to ensure we get out the bad cops.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "All Huawei equipment must be removed by 2027\n\nThe government has extended two deadlines for the removal of Huawei equipment from the UK's 5G networks.\n\nThe requirement to remove the Chinese company's products from the network core has been pushed back 11 months, to 31 December 2023.\n\nAnd a limit on the amount of Huawei kit in fibre-broadband infrastructure must now be achieved by the end of October, rather than July, next year.\n\nIt follows advice from the National Cyber Security Centre.\n\nThe NCSC decided the security of Huawei's products could no longer be managed, in 2020, following a US decision to place the company under sanctions, and the UK government said all its equipment had to be stripped out of the UK by the end of 2027.\n\nThis and eight other interim deadlines remain unchanged.\n\nThe US authorities fear Huawei's 5G equipment makes countries vulnerable to their data being accessed by the Chinese state or having critically important services switched off.\n\nHuawei has denied being controlled by the Chinese government or posing a security threat.\n\nThe new deadline extensions follow consultations with Huawei and UK telecoms providers.\n\nThe government said a small number of operators had indicated - because of the pandemic and global supply-chain issues - the original deadlines risked network outages and disruption for customers.\n\nProviders should meet the original targets wherever possible, it said, and it expected most of them would do so.\n\nThe direction to remove Huawei equipment is also being put on a legal footing through the handing of notices called designated-vendor directions to all 35 UK telecoms network operators, under the Telecoms Security Act, which came into force in November 2021.\n\nDigital Secretary Michelle Donelan said it allowed the government to \"drive up the security of telecoms infrastructure and control the use of high-risk equipment\".\n\n\"We must have confidence in the security of our phone and internet networks, which underpin so much about our economy and everyday lives,\" she added.\n\nNCSC technical director Dr Ian Levy said: \"The Telecoms Security Act ensures we can be confident in the resilience of the everyday services on which we rely and the legal requirements in this designated-vendor direction are a key part of the security journey.\"\n\nHuawei has been issued a separate document - a designation notice - which categorises the company as a high-risk vendor of 5G network equipment and services and sets out all of the reasons the government considers it a national security risk, including the impact of the US sanctions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: 'My son's killer gets to live. That's not justice'\n\nThe court was packed, but you could have heard a pin drop in the moments leading up to a verdict in the sentencing trial of the Parkland school gunman.\n\nIt was the culmination of nearly five years of trauma, as jurors decided whether the gunman should spend the rest of his life in prison or be put to death.\n\nThe panel of seven men and five women voted 17 times in all, once for each murdered victim. Each time, they spared Nikolas Cruz, 24, from death row.\n\nFor victims' families, who had hoped the decision would resemble some form of reconciliation after the brutal attack, the decision has left them aghast.\n\n\"I'm disgusted with our legal system. I'm disgusted with those jurors,\" said Ilan Marc Alhadeff.\n\nHis daughter Alyssa, 14, died in the attack along with 13 other children and three educators. A first-year student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, she had dreamed of one day playing on the US women's national football team.\n\n\"You set a precedent for the next mass killing - that nothing happens and you'll get life in jail,\" Mr Alhadeff added.\n\nMass shootings are much too common in the US, but the shooting in Parkland on Valentine's Day 2018 was different.\n\nWhile such attacks tend to reignite the gun control debate in this country, partisan rancour around the issue typically sees it fizzle out within about a week. That was not the case here.\n\nA new youth movement demanding stricter gun laws, led by the school's students, kept the topic top of mind for weeks, if not months. Tens of thousands of Americans joined protests in several major cities calling for an end to gun violence.\n\nIn the months and years since, lawmakers at the state and national level have passed modest reforms but have steered clear of more ambitious proposals.\n\nThe pain has of course been especially acute for the families who lost loved ones that day.\n\nMany of them have sat in court every day since the trial began more than three months ago, reliving in visceral detail - often through video and audio - how the attack happened.\n\nOn the first day of the trial, in July, some sobbed in their seats and others rushed for the exits as the very first evidence was played in court. One woman screamed \"shut it off\" as loud gunfire was heard in audio footage.\n\nThe atmosphere in court on Thursday was equally if not even more fraught with emotion.\n\nSeated in the front rows reserved for them, families shook their heads in disbelief as Judge Elizabeth Scherer read out the jury's verdict, count by count.\n\nDebbie Hixon, whose husband was murdered at Parkland, reaches out to her sister-in-law as they hear the gunman will be spared the death penalty\n\nOn each count, jurors acknowledged the crime that had been committed as well as how its brutal and premeditated nature warranted a death sentence for the gunman. But the defence team argued \"mitigating circumstances\" - including lifelong abuse and mental health disorders - meant the death penalty was not justified. The jury agreed.\n\nTom and Gena Hoyer lost their son, Luke, in the massacre and were present to hear his killer's fate.\n\n\"It's been a bad day. I'm as stunned as I was the day Luke was killed,\" Mr Hoyer told the BBC.\n\n\"I'm heartbroken, I'm stunned. I can't believe they gave a cold-blooded killer more mercy than the 17 victims he killed,\" Mrs Hoyer said.\n\nWhen the judge read the verdict aloud, many observers were confused about what the result was because of the complex legal language. But the Hoyers knew exactly what she was saying. Prosecutors had explained to them what to listen for.\n\n\"I was waiting on that one question to hear 'yes' or 'no'. And I couldn't believe it,\" Mrs Hoyer said.\n\nTheir son Luke was the very first name read in court. When they heard no to the death penalty, they held out hope that another, more extreme death might still earn a capital sentence - meaning the gunman would still be executed.\n\nMr Hoyer waited and hoped until almost the end of the charges, when they read the name of Peter Wang, who was shot four times in the head. The gunman had said he watched his head explode like a water balloon.\n\nTom and Gena Hoyer lost their 15-year-old son, Luke, in the Parkland shooting\n\n\"Our justice system should have been used to punish this shooter to the fullest extent of the law,\" said Tony Montalto, who lost his 14-year-old daughter Gina in the shooting.\n\n\"Not as an act of revenge, but to protect our nation's schools and to stop others from attacking the future of this country.\"\n\nAs the judge spoke, Mr Montalto - who now heads a non-profit advocating for school safety reforms - shook his head vigorously in the fifth row and wrapped his arm around his wife Jennifer.\n\nCorey Hixon got up and left the room when he heard the killer would receive a life sentence, not the death penalty, for his father Christopher's murder.\n\nThe elder Hixon - the athletics director at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and a former US Navy reservist who once deployed to Iraq - died after running towards the gunfire in an effort to shield students.\n\nMr Hixon's widow Debra said: \"What this verdict says to me is that [the gunman's] life meant more than the 17 that were murdered, the 17 [others] that were shot, and the thousands of people in that school and community that are traumatised every single day.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe trial at the Broward County Courthouse - some 30 miles south-east of the scene of the shooting - was an extremely rare legal proceeding.\n\nThe gunman had already pleaded guilty on 34 criminal counts - 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder - last October, so jurors were only deciding his sentence.\n\nThe last time a mass gunman faced a trial of this kind was in 2017, when the white supremacist who fatally shot nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, was sentenced to death.\n\nBut this was the deadliest shooting ever to go to trial. That's because most attackers are either killed by law enforcement in the course of their rampage or take their own lives in its immediate aftermath.\n\nAnother individual who killed 23 people at a Walmart department store in El Paso, Texas, in 2019, could face a similar trial next year.\n\nThe Parkland trial was delayed and slowed on several occasions, including by the Covid-19 pandemic and Hurricane Ian a fortnight ago.\n\nJury selection began in April and it took nearly three months to winnow down 1,800 people to a panel of 12, with 10 alternates. In turn, those 22 jurors heard more than three months of testimony.\n\nSequestered and without access to mobile phones or television, the jury deliberated for roughly seven hours before recommending a life sentence, without the possibility of parole.\n\nA formal sentencing will take place on 1 November, but many left Thursday's proceedings feeling deflated.\n\nFred Guttenberg told the BBC last year he \"won't ever stop\" fighting to honour his daughter Jaime's memory.\n\nThe 14-year-old's death has transformed Mr Guttenberg's life and he is now one of the most well-known advocates for gun control in the country.\n\n\"I was prepared for the rest of my life to seek justice,\" he said after the verdict. \"And I could not be more disappointed in what happened today.\"\n\nNote: 4 November 2022 This article was amended to make clear the jury considered mitigating circumstances outweighed aggravating circumstances, meaning the death penalty was not justified,", "Morgan and Ewan got a mortgage before the rates rise but say most of their friends are renting\n\nFirst-time house buyers who got a mortgage just weeks before interest rates shot up have said buying is \"scary\" at the moment.\n\nMorgan Luff, 23, and Ewan Anderson, 27, are buying a house in Caldicot, Monmouthshire.\n\nThey secured a 3.6% interest rate mortgage, but the average rate has now gone above 6%.\n\nA building society boss said market volatility is likely to lead to financial difficulty for more people.\n\nMorgan and Ewan said they were \"lucky\" to get a five-year mortgage deal in August.\n\nThey are now in the process of buying the semi-detached house they rent from family.\n\n\"It seems we're at the start of these new rates, where down the line it's going to be almost double by the sounds of it,\" Ewan said.\n\nMorgan said the majority of the couple's friends are renting at the moment.\n\n\"We know friends that are not even looking to buy at the moment and just continue renting because it is almost cheaper,\" she said, \"especially if you've got a fixed rent price.\"\n\nMorgan said she does worry about taking on such a large commitment when things are so uncertain.\n\n\"With bills, they're going up all the time so you might be able to afford that but you don't know if you're going to afford everything in between,\" she explained. \"It's a massive jump and being so young I don't think you really learn any of this when you're growing up.\"\n\nShe said the process of becoming a home owner was a \"massive eye-opener\".\n\n\"Five years is a very long time whereas with renting you can just walk away when your six months or your 12 months are up,\" she said. \"It's very scary.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It feels lucky to have got the mortgage accepted\"\n\nAs borrowing costs rise, \"things will become tighter\" for borrowers, said Will Carroll of Monmouthshire Building Society.\n\nThe lender was among those to withdraw some fixed-rate mortgage products after the UK government's mini-budget.\n\n\"I think it is inevitable, with a cost of living crisis and costs increasing across the board for households, that things will become tighter,\" Mr Carroll said.\n\nHis staff, he added, were already helping those concerned about the rising cost of repayments, or the prospect of higher rates once existing deals came to an end.\n\n\"But as a responsible lender, when we issue a mortgage we do stress an increase in future rates on an individual's ability to pay,\" Mr Carroll added.\n\n\"So while we do expect an increase in those members experiencing financial difficulty, we hope that it is not going to be too severe and that we can manage through until things maybe return to more normal circumstances,\" he said.\n\nWe try and take the stress away from clients but at times when lenders are pulling deals with very little notice, it's difficult.\n\nRates for two and five-year fixed-term mortgages had begun climbing before the mini-budget.\n\nData from Moneyfacts showed average fixed rates a year ago, in October 2021, were 2.25% for a two-year fixed rate and 2.55% for a five-year fixed rate.\n\nBut by 6 October 2022 the interest rates had increased to 6.11% for a two-year deal and 6.02% for a five-year deal.\n\nFormer rugby player Mike Powell has been a mortgage broker in Caldicot since 2013.\n\nThe last month has been the busiest he has experienced, he said. Things were \"chaotic, manic, turbulent, extremely busy,\" he explained.\n\n\"We try and take the stress away from clients but at times when lenders are pulling deals with very little notice, it's difficult.\"\n\n\"We've got people who have been on tracker rates for 10, 12, 15 years who've never done anything,\" he said. \"They've seen their mortgage payments at an affordable cost to them so they've just thought it's not been going up.\n\nHe said he hears from lenders regularly and there is no sense of panic from industry insiders.\n\n\"The banks have got a lot more money this time. They're a lot more liquid than what they were in 2008 so I can't see a crash coming.\"\n\nMonmouthshire Building Society withdrew fixed-rate products for new customers in the volatile period after the mini-budget, but it honoured existing applications and kept offering fixed-rate deals to existing customers.\n\nIt expected to reintroduce fixed-rate products to new customers soon, but at a higher rate than before the mini-budget.\n\nMonmouthshire Building Society has 10,000 mortgage customers and lends about £350m a year.\n\nSpeaking at the society's Newport headquarters, Mr Carroll said his team had to adapt quickly to the market reaction after the mini-budget.\n\nMr Carroll said: \"The Bank of England rate is at its highest level now since 2008 and the expectation is that the rate will increase further over the next year.\n\n\"I think the markets are forecasting a rate of 5.5% by the middle of next year. So we can expect an increase in the cost of borrowing as we move forward.\n\n\"We are seeing our borrowing members come to us sooner than maybe they had done previously with concerns about that increased cost of borrowing into the future.\"\n\nHe encouraged borrowers with concerns to contact the building society's mortgage advisers.", "Kherson is Ukraine's only regional capital seized by Russia since it launched its invasion on 24 February\n\nThe Russian-installed leader of Ukraine's southern Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, has called on civilians to evacuate - citing daily rocket attacks by advancing Ukrainian forces.\n\nHe urged them to \"save themselves\" by going to Russia for \"leisure and study\", and asked for Moscow's help.\n\nHis call was later backed up by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin in a message on state television.\n\nUkraine rejects accusations that it targets its own civilians.\n\nIts troops have recently retaken some areas of north-western Kherson, closing in on the regional capital, Kherson city.\n\n\"The government took the decision to organise assistance for the departure of residents of the [Kherson] region to other regions of the country,\" said Mr Khusnullin, who has special responsibility for southern Russia and Crimea.\n\n\"We will provide everyone with free accommodation and everything necessary.\"\n\nThe first group of people from Kherson would arrive on Friday in Russia's Rostov region, said its governor Vasily Golubev, according to Russian state news agency Tass.\n\n\"The Rostov region will accept and accommodate everyone who wants to come to us from the Kherson region,\" he added.\n\nKyiv has been using US-supplied Himars rocket systems Among other weaponry to great effect.\n\nIt has targeted key Russian-held military targets and threatened to cut off the bulk of the occupying forces on the west bank of the Dnieper river (known as Dnipro in Ukraine).\n\nKherson is the only regional capital seized by Russian forces since Moscow's invasion began on 24 February.\n\nUkraine's military has been tight-lipped about its troop advances in the key region that borders Crimea - the southern Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.\n\nIn other major developments on Thursday:\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Mr Saldo said many towns in the region - including the two major cities of Kherson and Nova Kakhovka - were now under daily rocket attacks by Ukrainian troops.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Such strikes are causing serious damage,\" he said, urging residents across the whole region - and especially those on the west bank of the Dnieper river - to evacuate to Russia or Crimea.\n\nAnd he appealed to the government in Moscow to help organise the process. \"Russia is not abandoning its people,\" he stressed, using a popular saying.\n\nEarlier this month, President Putin declared the annexation of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in Ukraine's south, as well as Donetsk and Luhansk in the east.\n\nUkraine and its Western allies condemned the move, saying it had no legal power. The Kremlin does not fully control any of the four regions.\n\nOn Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn the Russian annexation attempt.\n\nThe assembly's resolution was supported by 143 countries, while 35 states - including China and India - abstained. As well as Russia, four countries rejected the resolution - Belarus, North Korea, Syria and Nicaragua.\n\nAlthough symbolic, it was the highest number of votes against Russia since the invasion.", "Jimmy Carr attracted controversy for a Holocaust joke in his last Netflix special\n\nA new Channel 4 show in which a studio audience will decide whether comedian Jimmy Carr should destroy a painting by Adolf Hitler has been criticised.\n\nThe channel has bought works by Hitler and other \"problematic\" artists to be used in Jimmy Carr Destroys Art.\n\nChannel 4 said the series would be \"a thoughtful and nuanced exploration of the limits of free expression in art\".\n\nBut the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust called it \"deeply inappropriate\" and said Carr was an \"inflammatory\" host.\n\nEarlier this year, the comedian was heavily criticised for performing a routine about the Holocaust in his latest Netflix stand-up special.\n\nThe Channel 4 show, to be screened later this month, is also expected to feature artworks by Rolf Harris, the former entertainer who was found guilty of the sexual assault of underage girls, and sexual abuser Eric Gill.\n\nChannel 4's director of programming Ian Katz told the Guardian that Carr would host a televised debate about what to do with the pieces in question.\n\n\"There are advocates for each piece of art,\" he said. \"So you've got an advocate for Hitler. There'll be someone arguing not for Hitler, but for the fact that his moral character should not decide whether or not a piece of art exists or not.\"\n\nBut Holocaust Memorial Day Trust chief executive Olivia Marks-Woldman said: \"There is nothing entertaining or laughable about Hitler or the murder of six million Jews, and the persecution of millions more.\"\n\nThe show was making the Nazi leader \"a topic of light entertainment\", she said, adding: \"This is deeply inappropriate, and at a time of increasing Holocaust distortion, dangerously trivialising.\n\n\"The question of how far art can be linked to its creators is an important one, but this programme is simply a stunt for shock value, and cannot excuse the trivialisation of the horrors of Nazism.\"\n\nMs Marks-Woldman added: \"Choosing Jimmy Carr to front this episode is deliberately provocative and inflammatory given his history.\"\n\nA Channel 4 spokesman said: \"Jimmy Carr Destroys Art is a thoughtful and nuanced exploration of the limits of free expression in art, and whether work by morally despicable artists still deserves to be seen.\n\n\"It speaks directly to the current debate around cancel culture and is in a long tradition of Channel 4 programming.\"\n\nCarr did not publicly comment on the backlash he faced over his Holocaust routine earlier this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: I am not going anywhere - Kwasi Kwarteng\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has insisted he is \"not going anywhere\", despite the market turbulence he admitted was caused in part by his policies.\n\nAsked if he and PM Liz Truss would still be in their jobs this time next month, he said: \"Absolutely, 100%.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng also sidestepped questions about whether he would U-turn on parts of his mini-budget, saying: \"Our position hasn't changed.\"\n\nHe is facing growing calls from Tory MPs to rethink his tax-cutting package.\n\nDiscussions are under way between the prime minister and backbenchers about what her party can accept.\n\nThe mood among Tory MPs is angry and fatalistic. \"It's checkmate, we're screwed,\" one told the BBC.\n\n\"There is no question in my mind, they'll have to junk loads of this stuff and U-turn,\" another said.\n\nSome think the government's tax-cutting plans should be reversed, while others think the help with energy bills should be more targeted.\n\nOther scenarios being discussed by Tory MPs include the chancellor resigning or the prime minister being ousted.\n\nHowever, there is little agreement on what should happen next or who should replace Ms Truss if she is removed.\n\nThe government has already U-turned on its plan to scrap the top rate of income tax, but this only made up £2bn of the tax cuts announced by the chancellor last month.\n\nHe is under pressure to spell out how the remaining £43bn will be paid for, and how he will get the UK's national debt falling.\n\nMr Kwarteng is due to deliver a statement on 31 October, along with independent economic forecasts.\n\nPressed on whether there could be further U-turns on his mini-budget, Mr Kwarteng, who is in Washington for an IMF meeting, said there would be more detail on 31 October.\n\nAsked about the possibility corporation tax could rise, Mr Kwarteng said he was \"totally focused\" on delivering his mini-budget.\n\nMs Truss has pledged to scrap a planned rise to the tax, which was set to increase from 19% to 25% in 2023.\n\nOn Wednesday, she said it would be \"wrong\" to raise corporation tax \"when we are trying to attract investment into our country at a time of global economic slowdown\".\n\nIn an interview with Sky News, former Home Secretary Priti Patel said the market would now \"dictate\" the prime minister's decision on corporation tax \"primarily because we want to see stability\".\n\nThe pound rose against the dollar as rumours emerged about a possible government U-turn.\n\nHowever, it later fell back after stronger-than-expected inflation data from the US drove up the value of the dollar.\n\nIn an interview in the Daily Telegraph, when asked about the market response to the speculation of a U-turn on corporation tax, Mr Kwarteng said: \"Let's see.\"\n\nHowever, he added that he still thought ensuring \"competitive\" tax rates for businesses was a \"great idea\".\n\nThe chancellor's mini-budget on 23 September has caused turmoil in the financial markets and prompted the Bank of England to intervene to protect pension funds.\n\nMr Kwarteng acknowledged there was \"some turbulence\" after his mini-budget but said there was \"a very dicey situation globally\", with inflation, potential interest rate rises and energy price spikes affecting everybody.", "The government may have to rethink its tax-cutting plans to reassure financial markets and stabilise the economy, some senior Conservative MPs have said.\n\nThe warnings came ahead of a bruising appearance for the prime minister at a meeting of Tory backbenchers.\n\nOne loyal minister told the BBC: \"We are completely in a dreadful place. There is no way out - maybe Liz Truss will find a way, but I cannot see it.\"\n\nMs Truss has repeatedly defended the proposed tax cuts outlined last month.\n\nThe chancellor's mini-budget on 23 September, which included £45bn of tax cuts funded by borrowing, sparked turmoil on financial markets and prompted the Bank of England to intervene to protect pension funds.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng is due to set out how he will fund the package and reduce debt on 31 October.\n\nMs Truss insists cancelling a rise in corporation tax from 19% to 25% due in April and other tax cuts will help boost growth.\n\nThe prime minister also believes stepping back from what she describes as the highest tax burden in 70 years would allow the public to keep more of the money they earn at a time of global high prices.\n\nOne of the ways the government plans to achieve this is by bringing forward a 1p cut in the lower rate of income tax, so people will be taxed 19% on earnings between £12,571 and £50,270.\n\nBut the editor of Conservative Home Paul Goodman has argued the mini-budget is now \"more likely than not\" to be totally withdrawn.\n\nMr Goodman told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was not sure Conservative ministers and MPs were \"capable of putting together a package of public spending cuts on the scale required\" to balance the books.\n\n\"And if they do, whether [the cuts] are going be acceptable to the markets,\" he added. \"Or whether the markets are now going to demand the withdrawal, in effect, of the mini-budget.\"\n\nMs Truss has denied she is planning public spending cuts, saying the government would instead focus on reducing debt \"by making sure we spend public money well\".\n\nHowever, Mel Stride, a prominent backer of Ms Truss's leadership rival Rishi Sunak, suggested the government would need to show a \"clear change of tack\" to restore credibility with the financial markets.\n\n\"Given the clear government position expressed today on protecting public spending there is an emerging question. Whether any plan that does not now include at least some element of further row back on the tax package can actually satisfy the markets,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, he told the Commons he believed it was \"quite possible\" the chancellor would have to make more changes to the tax cuts announced in his mini-budget.\n\nAsked to confirm whether this possibility was still on the table, Treasury Minister Chris Philp replied: \"There are not any plans to reverse any of the tax measures announced in the growth plan.\"\n\nTory MP Kevin Hollinrake, who was also a Sunak supporter, said it would be better for the chancellor to U-turn on aspects of his mini-budget rather than cause more market turmoil.\n\n\"I think it's better to have looked at this more carefully in the context of what's happened over the last few weeks and say 'I think we've got some of this wrong and these tax cuts need to be introduced over time',\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHe suggested reversing the government's decision to scrap the planned hike in corporation tax was one potential option.\n\nMeanwhile, former deputy prime minister Damian Green said an obvious way to reduce debt while ruling out public spending cuts would be to defer some tax cuts.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's PM programme the reversal of some parts of the mini-budget was being discussed openly by Tory MPs.\n\nFormer Conservative minister David Davis suggested overturning some of the tax cuts would \"buy some time\" and persuade Tory critics to \"come in behind them\".\n\nHe told ITV's Peston the mini-budget was a \"maxi-shambles\" but he did not think there would be moves to replace the prime minister in the next few months as the party would have \"zero chance\" of winning an election if it was in a \"civil war\".\n\nThe government has already U-turned on its plan to scrap the top rate of income tax, following market turmoil and vocal opposition from some Tories.\n\nHowever, this only made up £2bn of the tax cuts announced by the chancellor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss says she \"absolutely\" rules out making cuts to public spending.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, Ms Truss faced sharp criticism from some of her own MPs during a meeting of the 1922 Committee of backbenchers.\n\nSources in the room told the BBC that Robert Halfon had accused Ms Truss of \"trashing blue collar conservatism\".\n\nHe told her the party's record over the past 10 years had included things like boosting apprenticeships and the living wage, whereas she had cut tax for millionaires and wanted to cut affordable housing and benefits.\n\nMPs who were present said he got a cheer, while Ms Truss looked \"shocked\" and said he could come to speak to her.\n\nThey said another Tory MP, James Cartlidge, also criticised the government's mini-budget, saying the communication had been poor and she had not prepared the markets.\n\nBoth MPs supported Mr Sunak during the Tory leadership election.\n\nThe BBC's Nick Watt said he encountered a \"wall of derision and unease\" about the prime minister outside the room.\n\nThe loyal minister also told him: \"It's like Black Wednesday in 1992, when interest rates shot up, we lost economic credibility, and it took us 15 years to get it back.\"\n\nHowever, leaving the meeting the prime minister said it had been \"very good\".\n\nOne MP who supported Ms Truss in the leadership race said the PM acknowledged during the meeting that she could have laid the ground better for her recent policies.\n\nDuring the initial election rounds most MPs did not back Ms Truss to become one of the final two in the contest. She won based on a final vote among party members.", "All over Wales, teachers say the behaviour of some pupils has deteriorated significantly\n\nPupils are being offered support after an increase in children vaping and swearing at teachers post-Covid.\n\nStaff at Carmarthenshire high schools said a rise in bad behaviour was putting significant strain on teachers.\n\nPupils said they had seen children as young as 11 vaping in schools, with \"shocking\" language hurled at staff.\n\nNow every school in the county has a inclusion officer to work with pupils and parents to try to improve behaviour.\n\nTeachers reported an increase in bad behaviour after pupils returned to face-to-face lessons, with head teachers writing to parents earlier this year urging them to talk to their children about their \"detrimental behaviour\".\n\nThis included an increase in inappropriate use of social media, more pupils using e-cigarettes - or vapes - during the school day, and more graffiti and abusive language directed towards other pupils and staff.\n\nNow head teachers in Carmarthenshire have come together to try to understand the problems behind the bad behaviour, with pupils telling the S4C Newyddion programme they had witnessed disruptive behaviour when they returned to the classroom.\n\nMolly say she has been shocked at the behaviour of some in her school\n\nMolly, a Year 8 pupil at Ysgol Bro Dinefwr in Llandeilo, said she had been shocked after seeing pupils vaping in and out of school.\n\n\"It's like, 'oh my goodness, why are people doing this?\" she said.\n\n\"My older brother had warned me that there was some bad behaviour, but not a lot. I think I'm just unlucky that they're in my form class.\"\n\nLucas has seen pupils vaping on the bus to school\n\nLucas, in Year 13 at the same school, said behavioural problems had increased, saying he had been appalled by the abuse directed at his teachers.\n\n\"We now have around five [students] vaping on the bus,\" he said.\n\n\"And I've heard shouting when I walk pass the class, there's been students swearing at teachers. I've heard really vulgar language. I'm just absolutely in shock.\"\n\nNow Molly and Lucas, along with other pupils, have contributed to a new joint campaign video with all secondary schools and the council to try to improve behaviour.\n\nPupils and teachers attended a sharing session at County Hall in July, where comments were recorded to create the video.\n\n\"When youngsters came back to school after the lockdown, it was noticeable that they didn't have systems, they didn't have routines,\" said Ionwen Spowage, head teacher at Ysgol Bro Dinefwr.\n\n\"The way they had interacted with staff had changed quite dramatically.\n\n\"We saw a lot of disrespect, a lot of rudeness. It provided an enormous challenge in terms of providing that culture for learning... that's where we all felt that we needed to press reset effectively, which was the beginning of this campaign.\"\n\nThere is now ongoing work on helping pupils and trying to understand their challenging behaviour.\n\nYsgol Bro Myrddin head teacher Dr Llinos Jones says there will be full-time youth officers in her school\n\n\"Money has been invested so that every school can now have an inclusion officer to work with pupils, to work with parents,\" said Dr Llinos Jones, head of Ysgol Bro Myrddin, Carmarthen, who is also part of the campaign.\n\n\"And full time youth officers in the schools because teachers are not here to punish... we're here to work with individuals in order to improve behaviour in general.\"\n\nIt is not clear how much money the council will invest as the project is still ongoing, according to a council spokesman.\n\n\"I'm very sorry that these two-and-a-half years have left their mark on our pupils. It has left its mark on the education system,\" said councillor Glynog Davies, cabinet member for education.\n\n\"They haven't been there face-to-face with the teachers. They've been staring at some screen for hours on end. Maybe they've lost the habit of being in class and behaving in a good way.\n\n\"We support the campaign because we listen to our head teachers. These head teachers play an important role in the county, they look after our young people.\n\n\"We have to listen, we have to help our schools, to help the teachers get the best out of the children. We can't sweep it under the carpet. We're determined to work with our head teachers, with our staff in our secondary schools.\"", "Ukraine's military says the first of several air defence systems promised by Germany has already been delivered\n\nUkraine's Nato-led allies have announced deliveries of advanced air defence weapons to Kyiv, after a spate of Russian missile strikes.\n\nThe weaponry promised by the UK, Canada, France and the Netherlands includes missiles and radars. The US earlier made a similar pledge. One high-tech system from Germany is already in Ukraine.\n\nThe pledges come as Ukraine's allies from 50 countries meet at Nato headquarters in Brussels.\n\nHours later Russian shelling hit the southern city of Mykolaiv on Thursday morning, officials said.\n\nThe city's mayor Oleksandr Senkevich said the city was \"massively shelled\" at around 01:00 local time (23:00 GMT).\n\n\"A five-storey residential building was hit, the upper two floors were completely destroyed, the rest - under rubble. Rescuers are working on the site,\" he said.\n\nIt has been a particularly intense week in Ukraine - on Monday and Tuesday, it saw some of its heaviest Russian bombardment in months when more than 100 missiles were launched, hitting energy infrastructure and other non-military targets including a children's playground.\n\nAt least 19 people were killed on the first day of the strikes, which included hitting central Kyiv.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin says the missile strikes were retaliation for an attack on a key bridge linking Russia and Crimea - Ukraine's southern peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.\n\nRussia says Saturday's blast was organised by Ukraine's intelligence agency - a claim rubbished by Kyiv.\n\nThe UK will donate air defence missiles, as well as hundreds of aerial drones to support Ukraine's information gathering and logistics capabilities. It will also provide 18 howitzer artillery guns in addition to the 64 already delivered.\n\n\"Russia's latest indiscriminate strikes on civilian areas in Ukraine warrant further support to those seeking to defend their nation,\" said Defence Secretary Ben Wallace.\n\n\"These weapons will help Ukraine defend its skies from attacks and strengthen their overall missile defence.\"\n\nSpeaking after the Brussels meeting on Wednesday, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said \"we're going to do everything we can to make sure that they [Ukrainians] they have what's required to be effective\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said Paris would supply air defence systems to Ukraine.\n\nIn an interview to France 2 television, he did not specify which systems would be sent. But he did say their main function would be to protect the population from drones.\n\nThe Netherlands said it would deliver €15m (£13m; $14.5m) worth of air defence missiles.\n\nDutch Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren said the Russian attacks \"can only be met with unrelenting support for Ukraine and its people\".\n\nCanada pledged to provide more than C$47m ($34m; £31m) worth of military aid, including satellite communications and drone cameras.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine's military announced earlier on Wednesday that the first of several \"state-of-the-art IRIS-T SLM has been delivered from Germany to Ukraine\". It said the air defence system would help protect the country \"against terror\".\n\nPresident Zelensky has for months been asking Ukraine's allies to provide air defence systems to create an \"air shield\" for Ukraine.\n\nIn his video address late on Wednesday, the Ukrainian leader said: \"The more audacious and cruel Russian terror becomes, the more obvious it is to the world that helping Ukraine to protect the sky is one of the most important humanitarian tasks for Europe of our time.\"\n\n\"I believe that we will cope with this task,\" he added.\n\nRussia has repeatedly warned Ukraine's allies against supplying advanced weaponry to Kyiv, stressing this would make them participants of the war that Mr Putin began on 24 February.\n\nThe West has accused Moscow of nuclear sabre-rattling, following a string of Russian military defeats on the battlefield.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Leah Croucher, 19, was last seen on CCTV on 15 February 2019 in Milton Keynes\n\nPolice investigating the murder of teenager Leah Croucher said forensic examinations at a house where human remains were found could take weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, police said unidentified remains and a rucksack and personal items belonging to the 19-year-old had been found at a Milton Keynes property.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to take place on Friday but may \"take some time\", Thames Valley Police said.\n\nMeanwhile, Miss Croucher's parents visited the house on Thursday evening.\n\nLeah Croucher's father John, mother Claire and sister Jade looked at flowers outside the house\n\nThey arrived in a police vehicle just before 20:00 BST and were driven behind the cordon surrounding the property, on Loxbeare Drive in Furzton.\n\nThey reappeared some minutes later and laid flowers at a nearby memorial, made up of bouquets, teddy bears and candles left by members of the public.\n\nA note was left outside the house by Miss Croucher's parents\n\nThe teenager was last seen on CCTV in the Buckinghamshire city on Friday, 15 February 2019.\n\nPolice began searching the home on Monday evening, following a tip-off phone call from a member of the public.\n\nIt was there they discovered a number of Miss Croucher's items, along with human remains.\n\nForensic examinations at the scene may last \"several weeks\", the force said, and as a result there would continue to be a police presence both at the house and in the area.\n\nIt would also \"take some time\" to formally identify the remains, police said.\n\nA message left on the flowers laid by Miss Croucher's parents said they would \"cherish her memories forever\".\n\nIt said: \"Our darkest fears have come true, we only need to be apart a little longer. We have so missed you for so long already.\n\n\"The future looks so bleak now we know we will never see your smile or hear your laughter again. We will cherish your memories forever.\"\n\nA handwritten message signed from \"Nan and Grandad\" was also tied to a bunch of yellow roses and left outside the property by a group of mourners.\n\nIt read: \"Our darling, we will never stop seeking answers. Will love and miss you always.\"\n\nA note signed from \"Nan and Grandad\" was left outside the property\n\nA police spokesman said Monday was the first time they had been alerted to the property, but it had been previously \"visited as part of our house-to-house inquiries as part of the investigation\".\n\n\"There was no response at the property and as such leaflets would have been dropped through the letterbox,\" the force said.\n\nMore than 4,000 homes have been visited and 1,200 hours of CCTV footage reviewed since Miss Croucher's disappearance on her way to work at a finance company three years ago.\n\nDet Ch Supt Ian Hunter asked people to remain respectful of Miss Croucher's family and thanked the local community for their \"support and patience\" as the investigation continued.\n\n\"We are absolutely committed to finding out what has happened to Leah,\" he said.\n\nFlowers have been left near to where the search is taking place\n\nHe made a \"renewed and specific appeal\" to anyone who may have been in the area of Loxbeare Drive on or around the day Miss Croucher went missing.\n\nHe said even with the passage of time \"we remain hopeful that somebody may have a crucial piece of information\".\n\n\"No matter how insignificant you believe any information you may have will be, please contact us,\" he said.\n\nThe property is less than half-a-mile (0.8km) from where Miss Croucher was last seen in Buzzacott Lane, Furzton, walking in the direction of Loxbeare Drive and Chaffron Way.\n\nForensics officers continue to work at the house where human remains were found\n\nThames Valley Police said detectives were likely to be at the scene \"for some time\"\n\nTara Maher, 51, who lives nearby, said she saw the teenager most days, including on the day she went missing, just after 08:00 GMT.\n\n\"It was no different that day - the 15th. We didn't say hello, it was more of an acknowledgment, just a nod.\"\n\nShe gave a statement to police at the time she disappeared and helped with the community effort to find her, because she \"did not want her to be forgotten\".\n\nTara Maher said she used to see Leah Croucher most days as she walked to work\n\n\"This has come as such a shock. It's a nice area. It hits home when it is on your doorstep,\" she said.\n\nMs Maher, who works at a local shop, said customers were usually jovial, but when the news came through on Wednesday \"the whole mood changed\", becoming \"very sombre\".\n\nBunches of flowers were left at the scene on Thursday with messages\n\nLoxbeare Drive runs south from the western tip of Furzton Lake in the south-west of the Buckinghamshire city\n\nIain Stewart, Conservative MP for Milton Keynes South, said it was \"extremely upsetting to learn of the developments\" in the case.\n\nHe said he was in contact with police about the situation.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers will continue to be with Leah's loved ones at this difficult time,\" he said.\n\nA police tent has been erected outside a house on Loxbeare Drive\n\nForensics officers have been seen taking specialist equipment into the house\n\nCCTV footage showed the last confirmed sighting of Leah Croucher walking to work on the day she disappeared\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Illia Samoilenko was released in a prisoner exchange last month\n\nUkrainian fighters who surrendered after weeks besieged deep under the Azovstal steelworks in the port city of Mariupol were kept in inhumane conditions by Russia, a released fighter has told the BBC.\n\nLt Illia Samoilenko told the BBC that he had been held in Russia in solitary confinement for 120 days and feared he would never return to Ukraine.\n\nRussian forces, he said, confiscated his prosthetic arm after his capture.\n\nThe Azov Regiment fighter was released in a prisoner swap last month.\n\nLt Samoilenko, who is 28, lost his right eye and left arm after ammunition exploded in his hand while he was on a Ukrainian military mission against Russian-backed separatists in the eastern Donbas region, in 2018.\n\nThe first thing he bought when he returned to Ukraine was a pack of cigarettes, \"to feel alive,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm happy to see the people who've been waiting for me, and the tears of joy in their faces and their smiles\".\n\nIn the first international media interview by an Azov fighter since some were released in a major, and surprising, prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine last month, he claimed some of his fellow fighters held separately had been tortured and denied adequate medical treatment and food.\n\n\"Obvious things\" happened, Lt Samoilenko told me in Kyiv, where he was recovering after being freed. \"Obvious things that people who are captured are tortured by the Russians\".\n\nRussia denies torturing or mistreating prisoners of war, although Ukrainian officials say fighters have suffered abuse in Russian captivity.\n\nUkrainian fighters were holed up in the steelworks in Mariupol for weeks\n\nLt Samoilenko was among the hundreds of troops who were besieged by the Russian military in the underground tunnels and bunkers of the vast Azovstal steelworks, under relentless bombing.\n\nThey refused to surrender until an order came from Ukraine's top military commanders, which put an end to the battle for the port city of Mariupol, the deadliest and most destructive in this war so far.\n\nThe fighters left the city carrying few personal belongings, looking exhausted and with visible wounds. Some were walking on crutches. They were taken on buses to Russian-controlled territory.\n\nThey were first taken on buses to Olenivka, a prison in an area of Donetsk controlled by Russian-backed separatists, Lt Samoilenko said.\n\nDays later, he and others, mostly Azov leaders, were transferred to an undisclosed location in Russia. He says he was kept alone in a cell, he recalled, where he did push-ups and sit-ups and kept track of the time by mentally counting the days.\n\n\"[But] I wasn't physically tortured,\" he said, \"so it was far from the things people suffered in other places\".\n\nThose who were sent to other locations, he alleged, faced conditions that were \"very, very poor\", which worsened \"with each new week\".\n\nSome of those released last month told him they had been given limited amounts of water, and that some were malnourished.\n\nThe exhausted Ukrainian fighters were taken by bus to Olenivka prison after they surrendered\n\nIn July, an explosion at Olenivka killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners. Russia said the site was attacked by Ukraine, an allegation the Ukrainian government dismissed as cynical, accusing Russia of trying to destroy evidence of torture and killing.\n\nRussia, Lt Samoilenko said, ignored the rules of war. \"They didn't care about the Geneva [Conventions]. They don't care about the lives of people.\" However, he said he could not share more details yet.\n\n\"The Russians are also watching these interviews,\" he said. \"When they see our happy faces, they're becoming more mad.\"\n\nDays before the Azovstal surrender in May, Lt Samoilenko led a news conference that was broadcast live from a bunker beneath the steel works. For almost two hours, he described the desperate conditions for wounded fighters, and said he and all the others saw themselves as \"dead men\".\n\nIn Russia, the Azov Regiment to which he belongs is vilified by many because of its initial roots as a militia with links to the far-right, and it is used in Russia propaganda to justify President Vladimir Putin's baseless claim that he is \"de-Nazifying\" Ukraine. After their capture, some Russians defended harsh prison sentences for the Azov fighters; others called for their execution.\n\nBut in Ukraine, the fighters are symbols of the resistance against the Russian invasion, and celebrated on billboards. \"I don't think personally that I am a hero,\" Lt Samoilenko told me.\n\nTheir release, which saw 215 Ukrainians and 55 Russians exchanged, was seen as a victory for President Volodymyr Zelensky, and a source of national jubilation. The deal happened amid embarrassing Russian setbacks on the battlefield, and how it was brokered remains a mystery.\n\nBut the release was bittersweet, Lt Samoilenko said, as many of his \"comrades and battle brothers\" remained in captivity, and \"the Russians were still torturing them, keeping them in inhumane conditions\".\n\nLiving with his family in Kyiv, his hometown, Lt Samoilenko is waiting for a new prosthetic hand, and receiving psychological counselling. Because soon, he said, \"we have to return to the battlefield\".", "Postal workers are walking out for 24 hours in the first of 19 days of planned strikes\n\nRoyal Mail workers are holding the first of 19 strikes in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nThe Communication Workers Union (CWU) said 115,000 members across the UK would walk out in a 24-hour strike on Thursday, starting at 04:00 BST.\n\nGeneral Secretary Dave Ward said workers faced the \"biggest ever assault\" on jobs, terms and conditions \"in the history of Royal Mail\".\n\nRoyal Mail said further strikes would \"weaken\" its financial position.\n\nThe planned 19 days of industrial action include Black Friday week and Cyber Monday, as well as 13, 20, and 25 October, and 28 November.\n\nLetters will not be delivered and some parcels will be delayed, the Royal Mail has warned.\n\nThis is the sixth strike for postal workers, and comes after a summer of unrest which saw rail workers and criminal barristers walk out amid disputes with their employers.\n\nThe CWU has accused Royal Mail of planning structural change. This would effectively see employees in secure, well-paid jobs turned into a \"casualised, financially-precarious workforce overnight\", said the union.\n\nIt said plans by the postal service include cutting workers' sick pay, delaying arrival of post by three hours and inferior terms for new employees.\n\nGeneral Secretary Mr Ward said the changes could lead to the \"destruction of the special relationship that postal workers and the public have in every community in the UK\".\n\nHe described the plans as an \"asset-stripping business plan\" that will lead to the break-up of the company.\n\nRoyal Mail workers mounted picket lines at previous strikes over the summer\n\nRoyal Mail said it would do what it could to keep services running, but the strike was likely to cause disruption.\n\nNo letters will be delivered during strike days, said Royal Mail, but as many special delivery and Tracked24 parcels as possible would be delivered.\n\nIt also said it would prioritise the delivery of Covid-19 test kits and medical prescriptions.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesperson said: \"Royal Mail is losing £1m a day and must change faster in response to changing customer demands.\"\n\nIndustrial action will threaten the job security of postal workers, said Royal Mail, calling on the leaders of CWU to cancel the walk-out and accept invitations for talks.\n\nRoyal Mail apologised for any delays to customers, adding: \"We are doing all we can to minimise any delays and keep people, businesses and the country connected.\"", "King Charles was presented with flowers by local school children\n\nKing Charles has reopened Glasgow's Burrell Collection almost four decades after the Queen first opened it.\n\nThe internationally renowned museum and gallery reopened to the public in March after a six-year £68.25m refurbishment.\n\nIt houses 9,000 objects from the personal collection of shipping merchant Sir William Burrell, which were gifted to the city of Glasgow.\n\nThe King toured the gallery in Pollok Country Park and met local school and nursery children outside.\n\nSenior museum manager Jane Rowlands showed King Charles the highlights of the collection, including Auguste Rodin's The Thinker.\n\nHis mother Queen Elizabeth first opened The Burrell, which was purpose-built for the vast collection of art and antiquities from around the world, on 21 October 1983.\n\nSir William devoted more than 75 years to amassing the collection with his wife Constance and insisted his gifts to the industrial city should be housed where people could appreciate the art in a countryside setting.\n\nThe King's first official engagement in Glasgow since acceding the throne came two days after he attended a reception in Ballater with Camilla, the Queen Consort, to thank the community there for its support following the death of the Queen.\n\nDressed in Royal Stewart Hunting Tartan, he looked delighted as he was presented with an autumnal wreath by local nursery children.\n\nInside the museum, the King was shown a statue of The Luohan which portrays a Buddhist monk. Both his late mother and grandmother have previously been photographed beside it.\n\nFollowing a viewing of the museum's collection of stained-glass windows and elaborate tapestries, the King was escorted into a open foyer where he met with volunteers and those involved with the museum's refurbishment.\n\nThe King was then invited to unveil a plaque by the chair of Glasgow Life, Annette Christie, who called it a \"momentous occasion\" for Glasgow.\n\nChildren from an outdoor nursery handed the King a wreath made of pine cones\n\nSenior museum manager Jane Rowlands explained the history of the Figure of a Luohan during the tour\n\nKing Charles contemplated Auguste Rodin's The Thinker, one of the world's most recognisable sculptures\n\nThe Burrell Collection was purpose-built to incorporate carved stone work in the structure\n\nStained glass windows are among the 9,000 artworks donated as part of the collection\n\nThis 13th Century casket commemorating the death of St Thomas Becket caught the King's eye\n\nPipers were at The Burrell Collection to mark the occasion and greet the monarch\n\nKing Charles met local dignitaries who had gathered at the museum in Pollok Country Park for the royal visit\n\nSchoolchildren were among those to get a chance to meet the King on his first visit to the city since he became monarch\n\nKing Charles meets schoolchildren during his visit to Pollok park in Glasgow\n\nThirty-nine years after the Queen opened the iconic building, a new plaque was unveiled to mark the royal visit from her son King Charles", "The government has dropped its plan to abolish the 45% rate of income tax after Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng acknowledged that it was proving a \"massive distraction\".\n\nMr Kwarteng announced a series of tax cuts and changes in his mini-budget on September 23, before performing the U-turn. The government has not said how they will be paid for.\n\nSo how many people will benefit from them and how much will they cost?\n\nThe top rate of income tax for those earning more than £150,000 a year was reduced from 50% to 45% by then Chancellor George Osborne from April 2013.\n\nA decade on, the rate was to have been abolished in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, leaving top earners paying the 40% rate instead. Mr Kwarteng has confirmed that this will not now go ahead.\n\nThe government said it would have meant a tax cut for 660,000 people next year.\n\nThe Treasury said the policy would cost around £2.2bn in 2025-26 and £2.1bn the following year. The costings in the first few years of the policy were uncertain because of wealthy taxpayers being expected to move their earnings between years to take advantage of the cut.\n\nScotland has a different system of income tax rates and bands, which is set by the Scottish Parliament. The current top rate for those earning over £150,000 is 46% and is not affected by Mr Kwarteng's announcements.\n\nThe rate of income tax payable on incomes between £12,571 and £50,270 a year - known as the basic rate - will be cut from 20% to 19% from April 2023.\n\nThat should benefit 31 million income taxpayers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAgain, the changes to the basic rate do not affect taxpayers in Scotland, where there are currently five income tax bands, including a 19% starter rate.\n\nThe UK government expects the cut to cost just over £5bn in the first year. It's important to remember that this costing - and the others - haven't been checked by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), as they would usually be for a budget.\n\nA 1.25p in the pound increase in National Insurance was introduced in April 2022. It is now being reversed from 6 November.\n\nIt will apply throughout the UK, to about 28 million people.\n\nIt also applies to employers, the government says it will affect about 920,000 businesses.\n\nThe cut will cost the government about £17bn a year according to its estimates, although it expects to get about £3bn of that back if employers use their cut to raise wages or profits.\n\nThe price at which Stamp Duty Land Tax starts to be payable on property purchases in England and Northern Ireland has doubled, from £125,000 to £250,000.\n\nThere is also a special rate for first-time buyers. The price at which they start paying stamp duty has gone up from £300,000 to £425,000.\n\nThere were about 1.1 million residential property transactions on which stamp duty was paid in the last year.\n\nThe changes will cost the government about £1.5bn a year in lost tax revenue.\n\nScotland and Wales have separate systems of taxation for property transactions so the proposed stamp duty changes will not affect purchases there.\n\nCorporation tax is paid by companies on their profits.\n\nThe then Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced in March 2021 that the rate of corporation tax would be increasing from 19% to 25%, from April 2023.\n\nBut businesses with profits below £50,000 would have stayed at the 19% rate, with the rate then increasing gradually so that only businesses with profits over £250,000 were meant to pay the full 25% rate.\n\nMr Sunak estimated that would mean 70% of companies - about 1.4 million of them - would be unaffected and 10% - about 200,000 - would pay the full 25% rate.\n\nThe Treasury says cancelling the planned rise will cost it £12bn next year and £17bn the year after.\n\nThe government hopes the decision will encourage businesses to invest and increase growth in the economy.\n\nFrom April 2023, the government has decided to repeal the changes to the rules on off-payroll working, known as IR35, which were introduced in 2017 and 2021.\n\nThe point of the regulations was to make businesses responsible for making sure that contractors they were employing, via another company, were actually entitled to that status and should not be paid directly via payrolls.\n\nThe change to the rules will mean that across the UK it's up to the contractors themselves to make sure they have the right status and are paying the right amount of tax instead of putting the burden on employers.\n\nThe Treasury expects this change to cost it just over £1bn next year, rising to £2bn in 2026-27.\n\nAbout 4.4 million workers in the UK are classified as self-employed, but it is not clear how many of them will be affected by the change.", "One of Scotland's busiest stretches of road was plunged into chaos after a swan flew on to the carriageway.\n\nDrivers trying to cross the Kingston Bridge on the M8 in Glasgow were forced to stop as the bird landed on the middle lane just before 10:30.\n\nTraffic Scotland tweeted an image of the bird \"swanning\" about the road in front of a 4x4 car, unwilling to move.\n\nA queue of traffic had built up through the coned-off lane on the bridge behind it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDrivers were warned to approach with care travelling eastbound as the bird brought the traffic to a standstill.\n\nAt 10:36, Traffic Scotland said the animal had been retrieved and the flow was back to normal.\n\nIt is not the first time the bridge has been brought to a standstill because of an animal.\n\nIn April 2017 a small brown dog caused tailbacks after it was spotted running along the carriageway.\n\nPolice were called to the eastbound M8 and motorists set up a rolling roadblock to help catch the animal, which had run onto the M8 at Drumbreck.\n\nThe dog was eventually caught unhurt by officers.", "Unlike many other mass shooters - who are killed by police or die by suicide - Nikolas Cruz has lived to see a jury answer that question.\n\nThey have decided he will spend the rest of his life behind bars.\n\nHis guilt was never in doubt but after a day of deliberations the jurors accepted whilst he was eligible for the death penalty, he had mental health disorders from the moment he was born.\n\nHis mother had abused alcohol and drugs whilst pregnant with him.\n\nBut victims families wanted an eye for an eye – his life for their children’s lives.\n\nMany scowled, shook their heads, wiped away tears… some even walked out of court.\n\nParkland reshaped America’s debate on firearms after surviving students went on to create one of the biggest gun reform movement in decades.\n\nBut this case also reignited debate around the use of another thorny issue in America: capital punishment with some arguing more killing isn’t the answer.\n\nThe US is the only western nation that carries the death penalty.\n\nFlorida is a very punitive state – it’s where many death row inmates are based but Cruz won’t be amongst them.\n\nHe has avoided the death penalty but will never be released from jail.", "Gary Lineker presents the BBC's flagship football show, Match of the Day\n\nGary Lineker broke BBC impartiality rules in a tweet about the Conservative Party, the corporation has ruled.\n\nIn February, the Match of the Day host posted a story about then-Foreign Secretary Liz Truss urging a boycott of the Champions League final in Russia.\n\nHe added: \"And her party will hand back their donations from Russian donors?\"\n\nThe BBC's Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) has upheld a complaint and said Lineker's post \"did not meet the BBC's editorial standards on impartiality\".\n\nThe former England striker declined to comment on the decision.\n\nThe ECU said Lineker was \"one of the BBC's highest profile stars\" and, although not required to uphold the same high standards of impartiality as the broadcaster's journalists, does have an \"additional responsibility\" because of his profile.\n\n\"We expect these individuals to avoid taking sides on party political issues or political controversies and to take care when addressing public policy matters,\" the ruling said.\n\nIt explained that Lineker had pointed out that the tweet was prompted by an article about football, his primary area of expertise, and the board accepted it was intended as a comment on the sport rather than politics.\n\nBBC Sport managers also pointed out that he framed his tweet in the form of a question, rather than a statement of opinion on a politically controversial matter.\n\nHowever, the ECU concluded that the post was intended to highlight a \"perceived inconsistency in the Conservative Party's approach, at a time when relations between the UK and Russia were the subject of significant public debate\".\n\nLineker's tweet came as Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, and just before European footballing body Uefa moved the Champions League final from St Petersburg to Paris as a result.\n\nThe ECU said its ruling had been discussed with Lineker and BBC Sport managers.", "The first flight to take refugees from the UK to Rwanda was cancelled at the last moment in June\n\nAsylum seekers crossing the English Channel could be sent to Rwanda in as little as three weeks after their arrival, it has been claimed.\n\nIn the latest stage of a High Court legal battle over the controversial Home Office plan, opponents said the timescales were unlawful and unfair.\n\nCharity Asylum Aid said the plan denies people a fair chance to make a case.\n\nBut the Home Office said flexible timescales would in fact allow migrants time to present all of their arguments.\n\nNo flights to Rwanda have yet left - and they will not take place until the complex and huge legal battle is finished.\n\nLast month, the High Court heard five days of arguments over whether the government had any actual power to send asylum seekers to Rwanda if they have come to the UK from a safe country, such as France.\n\nJudges are also considering the UN refugee agency's concerns and whether the UK can share the personal data of migrants with Rwanda's authorities.\n\nIn Thursday's hearing at the High Court, lawyers for Asylum Aid argued that migrants could not get a fair hearing under the accelerated timetable to list them for a flight.\n\nAfter an initial screening interview in Kent, migrants would be given a \"notice of intent\" that they were being considered for the Rwanda scheme.\n\nThey would then have seven days to make a case to stay in the UK - and if the Home Office later decides to send them to Rwanda instead, they would have a further five-day notice of the date of their flight.\n\nDuring the hearing, Charlotte Kilroy KC, for the charity, repeatedly clashed with Lord Justice Lewis, one of the two judges hearing the case.\n\nHe repeatedly asked her to explain why seven days was procedurally unfair or unlawful, given all the migrant had to do was tell Home Office officials why they had not sought asylum in another European country, and explain why they were too vulnerable to be sent to Rwanda or had another reason to remain in the UK.\n\n\"Whether they come on a boat or lorry, the reality is that in most cases they will be able to explain the countries they passed through,\" said the judge. \"Do they not have every opportunity [to put their case]?\"\n\nMs Kilroy replied: \"It is not just where they have passed through but the exceptional circumstances [they may have].\n\n\"They need to get a lawyer in order to properly explain the sorts of matters that might amount to exceptional reasons.\n\n\"The screening interview is brief and they [without proper advice] don't understand what amounts to exceptional circumstances.\"\n\nThe home secretary's team say the minimum seven-day period would be \"sufficient\" in most cases - and others would get extensions so they could raise issues that officials need to examine more closely.\n\n\"It is not an 'accelerated' process,\" said Edward Brown KC, for the government, in written submissions.\n\n\"The process is designed to determine, without delay, the issue of admissibility and possible removal to Rwanda, whilst giving sufficient opportunity to the individual to make representations.\"\n\nThe hearing continues on Friday - with the judges expected to rule within weeks on the entire plan. It is highly likely that result will then be appealed by the losing side - meaning no flights to Rwanda would take off this year.", "The women's Dota2 team won bronze for Singapore at the 2022 Commonwealth Games esports pilot event\n\nCompetitive gaming will not be a medal event in the 2026 Commonwealth Games, after a surprise U-turn.\n\nEsports was a pilot event at the 2022 Birmingham Games, co-funded by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) and the Global Esports Federation (GEF).\n\nAnd the CGF called this a success, with its president saying she expected it to be included \"going forward\".\n\nBut the organisers of the 2026 Games, in Victoria, Australia, say esports will not feature.\n\nDespite numerous requests from BBC News, the CGF and GEF, the 2026 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee refused to give any specific reasons for the U-turn.\n\nOne person close to the discussions said doping in esports may have been a factor with concerns that arranging year-round drugs testing across the various gaming titles could proved problematic.\n\nThe pilot was held alongside Commonwealth Games events in Birmingham city centre\n\n\"Everything was looking great after Birmingham and it seemed like esports would make history in Victoria,\" another insider said.\n\n\"We have no idea why the committee rejected it, as they won't say.\n\n\"Doping could have been a factor but also there was a lot of general resistance to esports from more traditional, older members of the Games nation groups.\n\nAt the Birmingham event, CGF president Dame Louise Martin said she hoped including esports in the official programme would boost interest from young people less interested in traditional sports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"There are a lot of young people in that age group who don't play sport per se, in a playing field or something like that, but they are playing sport on a games console,\" she said.\n\nThe livestreamed matches pulled in audiences in the low hundreds.\n\nBut the CGF and GEF said they were continuing to assess the pilot and potential future events.\n\nA 2026 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee spokeswoman said: \"While they weren't successful this time, the Commonwealth Games Federation and Global Esports Federation will keep working on an inclusion pathway for this growing sport.\" .\n\nMohammed \"Haikal\" Md Noh cried after winning in eFootball, for Malaysia\n\nThere have been many high-profile cases of competitive gamers taking substances such as the prescription drug Adderall in the hope of enhancing their concentration and performance.\n\nLast year, professional Call of Duty player Cuyler \"Huke\" Garland admitted using Adderrall during his Championship win in 2020.\n\nIn 2015, professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player Kory \"Semphis\" Friesen said he and his Cloud9 teammates had used Adderall during a major tournament with $250,000 in prize money.\n\nAnd in July 2022, the CGF signed a long-term partnership agreement with the World Anti-Doping Agency, which has banned Adderall for use in competition.\n\nNone of the 100 gamers from 20 different countries at the 2022 pilot event was drugs tested.\n\nProfessional Fifa gamer Joshua \"JMKKing\" King, from New Zealand, who came eighth, said: \"I'm not currently aware of any doping scandals claims at all in the Fifa scene.\n\n\"I would assume the potential for issues is there due to the online nature of most competitions but there is nothing that I have ever heard about.\n\n\"It would have been a great opportunity to continue to grow esports and a potential opportunity for me to represent my country - but it isn't the end of the road and esports will continue to grow without involvement in the Commonwealth Games.\"", "Vladimir Putin said Europe was to blame for its current energy crisis\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has said the gas taps can be still turned on for Russian supplies to the EU, despite sharp political disagreements.\n\nRussia has not delivered gas to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 line since August, and Nord Stream 2 was halted after Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nThe February invasion led to gas price hikes, and EU customers face record tariffs this winter.\n\nBut Germany quickly rejected Mr Putin's offer to send gas via Nord Stream 2.\n\nAt the same time, a government spokesman in Berlin said Nord Stream 1 - which is not under sanctions - was an option, but gas was not flowing \"because Russia did not deliver\".\n\nRussia has been accused of using gas supplies as a weapon against the West since the invasion of Ukraine - a charge repeatedly denied by the Kremlin.\n\n\"The ball, as they say, is now in the European Union's court - let them just open the tap,\" Mr Putin said on Wednesday at the annual Russian Energy Week in Moscow.\n\n\"We do not limit anyone in anything,\" he said, adding that Moscow was ready to supply additional volumes of gas in the autumn-winter period.\n\nBut despite Mr Putin's words, a resumption of gas supplies to Europe seems unlikely.\n\nNord Stream 2 was halted because of the invasion, and Nord Stream 1 has suffered severe disruption in recent months:\n\nAt the Moscow forum, Mr Putin described the leaks an \"act of international terrorism\". But he said Russia was ready to resume supplies via the one intact part of Nord Stream 2.\n\nAnd the Kremlin leader also proposed creating an alternative European gas hub via Turkey. Ankara is yet to publicly comment on the issue.\n\nMany European countries - and Germany in particular - had become increasingly reliant on Russian gas.\n\nOver the past year, Russia cut its gas supplies to EU states by 88%, according to David Fyfe, chief economist with research firm Argus Media.\n\nWholesale prices of gas in Europe have more than doubled over the same period, he said.\n\nThe EU has already adopted a raft of measures to mitigate the crisis, including a pan-EU deal to cut gas usage by 15%.\n\nThe German government hopes to reduce gas usage by 2% by limiting the use of lighting and heating in public buildings this winter.\n\nSpain has already brought in similar measures and Switzerland - not an EU member - is considering doing the same.\n\nBefore Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany relied on Russia for 55% of its gas. It has reduced this to 35% and wants eventually to reduce imports to zero.\n\nGermany is also increasing its use of coal and extending the life of power stations which were due to shut - despite the negative environmental impact.\n\nGas prices have also shot up in the UK, even though it imported very little gas from Russia, because the shortages affected the international gas price.\n\nThe government in London has moved to limit energy bill rises for all households, with a typical bill being capped at £2,500 annually until 2024.\n\nOn Wednesday, EU energy ministers are discussing in Prague urgent measures to tackle the energy crisis in the 27-member bloc.\n\nA gas price cap has been suggested - but some countries are reported to be opposed to the move.\n\nIn a separate development on Wednesday, Poland reported a leak in the Druzhba - meaning Friendship - pipeline that supplies oil from Russia to Europe via Poland.\n\nThe leak on the Polish part of the pipeline is being investigated.\n\nSenior Polish energy sector official Mateusz Berger said it was most likely \"accidental damage\", Reuters reports. At this stage \"no grounds at all\" to believe that it was sabotage, the official added.", "More than 100 unaccompanied child migrants remain missing after disappearing from UK hotels over a 14-month period, data reveals.\n\nBBC News has discovered that 116 children disappeared between July 2021 and August 2022, after temporarily being put in hotels by the Home Office.\n\nCharities fear the children, some as young as 11, risk being exploited.\n\nThe Home Office said it had \"no alternative\" but to use hotels while long-term accommodation was found.\n\nThe government has been placing children who arrive in the UK in approved hotels since July last year, after local councils said there was not enough capacity to house them in suitable accommodation.\n\nSome 1,606 children who arrived alone between July 2021 and June 2022 were placed in hotel accommodation by the Home Office, according to its own figures.\n\nBBC Two's Newsnight discovered that 181 children - aged 18 or less - subsequently went missing in the 14-month period covered by the data, which was released by the Home Office following Freedom of Information requests. But 65 were later found.\n\nThe charity ECPAT UK said the number of missing children was \"shocking\" and called on the government to stop placing them in hotels.\n\n\"They could be working away in a cannabis farm, in a factory, domestic servitude. There's a whole range of exploitative situations that these young people could be in,\" said its chief executive, Patricia Durr. \"They could be being criminally exploited or sexually exploited behind closed doors.\"\n\nRishan Tsegay, who arrived in the UK from Sudan on the back of a lorry aged 17 and has since been granted asylum, says she fears some of those missing children could end up in the hands of the traffickers who brought them into the country.\n\n\"They [traffickers] like to manipulate young people and make them do things when they get here. I wouldn't doubt that. This is nothing new,\" she said.\n\n\"They might say if you go to this place you have to pay us back, otherwise I will kill your mum, or your family. How are you going to respond?\" she added.\n\nThe Home Office said it was seeing an \"unprecedented rise in dangerous Channel crossings\".\n\nIt said: \"On average, unaccompanied children seeking asylum are moved to long-term care within 15 days of arriving in a hotel, but we know more needs to be done.\n\n\"That is why we are working closely with local authorities to increase the number of placements available and offer councils £6,000 for every child they can provide accommodation for.\n\n\"Any child going missing is extremely serious, and we work around the clock with the police and local authorities to urgently locate them and ensure they are safe.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils, says it is \"working tirelessly to find suitable placements for unaccompanied children, with 597 placements made in the past six months\".\n\nWhile it said placements were increasing, it also called on the Home Office to stop using hotels. \"Councils have expressed concerns to the government around the impacts on children, including the risks around children going missing,\" it added.\n\nIn July, the Home Affairs Select Committee reported that the disappearance of separated migrant children from hotels was \"extremely concerning\".\n\nIt said the government must \"immediately and clearly confirm where responsibility lies for every aspect of safeguarding children housed in accommodation\".", "The works traditionally referred to as the Elgin Marbles are increasingly becoming known as the Parthenon Sculptures\n\nA former Conservative culture minister will chair a new body aiming to return the so-called Elgin Marbles to Greece, the BBC can reveal.\n\nLord Vaizey, culture minister from 2010-2016, says he is confident \"a deal is within reach\".\n\nOn Thursday, the House of Lords will debate an act which restricts museums from disposing of objects in their collections.\n\nThe government said it had no intention of changing the law.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said: \"The British Museum is prevented by law from removing objects from its collections, except in some narrow circumstances. The government has no plans to change this act.\"\n\nThe Elgin Marbles are currently housed in the British Museum.\n\nIn a statement, the museum said: \"We will loan the sculptures, as we do many other objects, to those who wish to display them to the public around the world, provided they will look after them and return them.\n\n\"Deepening public access and understanding, creating new ways and opportunities for collections to be shared and understood right across the world, and forging connections between the present and the past, remain at the core of what the British Museum seeks to achieve,\" they added.\n\nAsked recently about a potential deal that could lead to the return of the sculptures to Athens, Prime Minister Liz Truss said: \"I don't support that.\"\n\nFormer culture minister Ed Vaizey will chair the new board aiming to return the sculptures to Greece\n\nThe fate of the Parthenon Sculptures, as they are more frequently becoming known, is the most high-profile in the hotly contested debate about whether museums should return items in their collections to their countries of origin.\n\nFor years, Greece has lobbied to bring the sculptures home. They were removed from Greece's Parthenon temple in the early 19th Century by the Scottish soldier and diplomat, Lord Elgin.\n\nThe British Museum has always said that only the government can decide their fate, though the government says the \"collections are a matter for the trustees\".\n\nNow an advisory body plans to campaign for a \"win-win\" deal as a poll shared exclusively with the BBC appears to show the majority of British people support sending the Marbles home.\n\nLord Vaizey is joined by other founding members on the advisory board of the Parthenon Project, an organisation founded by the Greek businessman John Lefas.\n\nThe board also includes two other Conservative peers, the renowned author Lord Dobbs and Baroness Meyer. They're joined by Stephen Fry and the journalist Sarah Baxter.\n\nThe former Conservative Chancellor, George Osborne, now chairman of the British Museum, said earlier this year a \"deal is to be done\", though the current Conservative administration appears less keen.\n\nA poll of nearly 2,000 people, commissioned by the Parthenon Project, suggests while 16% of the British public think the Parthenon Sculptures should stay in Britain, 54% think they should be returned.\n\nThe strongest reason for supporting the return was because they \"rightfully belong to Greece\".\n\nPolling suggests a majority of British people would support returning the Elgin Marbles to Greece\n\nThe Parthenon Project points to a breakdown of the poll which shows, amongst people who voted Conservative in 2019, 44% thought the sculptures should go to Greece and 28% did not mind either way.\n\nLord Vaizey, new Parthenon Project chair, said: \"I am confident that a deal is within reach. Support for the reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures in Athens from the public, and in particular Conservative-leaning voters, is clear.\"\n\nHe added it would be \"in the best interests of the British Museum and UK government to begin meaningful engagement on this issue\".\n\nOn Thursday, Lord Vaizey will prompt a debate in the House of Lords about the National Heritage Act.\n\nWith growing calls from some quarters to return items held in British collections to their original countries of origin, some museums, including the V&A, run by Tristram Hunt, have called for the act to be amended or replaced.\n\nThe British Museum says it is restricted from returning items from its collection, including the Benin Bronzes from Nigeria, by another act, the British Museum Act of 1963. It has similar terms to the Heritage Act.\n\nOther smaller museums are not bound by the same restrictions. London's Horniman Museum recently announced it was returning its collection of Benin Bronzes. These items were looted by British forces in the late 19th Century.\n\nGlasgow Museums has also agreed to return seven stolen artefacts to India.\n\nThe Parthenon Project believes a cultural exchange is a solution to the stalemate over the Elgin Marbles.\n\nFry said he was \"delighted\" to be supporting the Parthenon Project, adding: \"I firmly believe that we now have a real chance to find a solution that benefits both Britain and Greece. It is time to put our energies into an exchange involving a revolving collection of never-seen-in-London before artefacts populating the Duveen Gallery in the British Museum, whilst the sculptures are returned to Greece.\"\n\nCorrection 13 October: This article has been amended after an earlier version reported that previously the British Museum has argued that the sculptures should remain in London because there's nowhere to house them in Greece and the Greek authorities can't look after them. In fact the British Museum specifically highlight that this is a misconception and so we have removed this paragraph from the story.\n• None How did the Elgin Marbles get here?", "Lucy Letby is accused of murdering seven babies and trying to kill 10 others\n\nA nurse accused of murdering babies on a neonatal ward \"cared deeply\" for those she had to look after, a court has heard.\n\nLucy Letby is charged with killing seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016.\n\nOutlining Ms Letby's defence, Ben Myers KC, said she was a \"dedicated nurse\" and in \"no way did she want to harm them\".\n\nMr Myers told the court: \"She trained hard to be a neonatal nurse and what she wanted was to care for babies she looked after.\n\n\"The defence say she is not guilty of causing intentional harm to any baby or to killing any baby.\n\n\"She loved her job. She cared deeply about the babies and also cared for their families.\n\n\"She had a fulfilling life, had friends, a life outside work.\"\n\nManchester Crown Court earlier heard how she had penned passages including \"I am evil\" and \"I killed them on purpose because I'm not good enough to care for them\".\n\nThe notes were among other papers and post-it notes which also contained \"many protestations of innocence\", the jury was told.\n\nThe nurse's tightly-written notes were shown to the jury during the trial\n\nBut Mr Myers said \"anyone with an ounce of human understanding\" would see the notes as \"the anguished outpouring of a young woman in fear and despair when she realises the enormity of what is being said about her\".\n\nHe continued: \"We recognise the sadness and the stress, and even the anger, that comes with allegations like these.\n\n\"I start on behalf of the defence by acknowledging how upsetting the allegations will be and acknowledging the very great loss and sadness of the families involved.\n\n\"Anything that I do, or say, during this trial is not intended to diminish that in any way.\"\n\nBut he told jurors it would be \"staggeringly unfair\" to convict a person without a word of evidence.\n\nHe said there was \"a real danger\" people will simply accept the prosecution theory of guilt \"based firmly on coincidence\".\n\nPointing to Ms Letby, of Hereford, sitting in the dock, he told jurors: \"It is important to be careful that blame is not heaped on that woman when there may be others who have made mistakes or a system which has failed.\"\n\nIn some cases, he said, no-one could say why a particular child deteriorated or died.\n\nMr Myers said the jury had been shown Ms Letby's text messages, her Facebook searches on the families of babies she was alleged to have harmed and \"pieces of paper\" and mentioned \"amateur psychology\".\n\nBut he said the \"foundation\" of the case was medical evidence.\n\nMr Myers said causes of a baby's deterioration or death were not always clear.\n\nHe added in this case the babies were \"clinically fragile\" and in conditions that could change \"very swiftly and deteriorate very rapidly\".\n\nMr Myers said: \"Ms Letby is adamant she's done nothing intentionally to harm these babies.\"\n\nWith Child A, the first murder count, Ms Letby was said to have injected air into the child, but he said the defence does not accept an air embolus - or air bubble - was the cause of death.\n\nMr Myers said the \"polite\" way of describing the care of Child A on the unit was \"sub-optimal\".\n\nLucy Letby worked on the neonatal ward at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nWith Child B, who was Child A's twin sister, who Ms Letby is accused of trying to kill, it was a \"good example\" of the \"assumption of guilt\" and experts had been \"influenced by the theory of harm\".\n\nMr Myers said Child C, who Ms Letby is also alleged to have murdered by injecting him with air, was a \"very premature\" baby, born at 30 weeks.\n\nHe said such babies were vulnerable, especially to infection, and Child C should have been at a specialist children's hospital.\n\nMr Myers said the hospital failed to provide adequate care for Child D, who Ms Letby was alleged to have murdered with air.\n\nHe said it was \"beyond dispute\" Child D should have been given antibiotics hours before she was treated with them, and there was more evidence infection played a part in her death.\n\nHe said the prosecution alleged Ms Letby injected Child E with a fatal amount of air and attacked him in front of his mother.\n\nHe said: \"We say there is no clear explanation in his case for what happened.\n\n\"That being so, it is not right to rely on the assumption of guilt.\"\n\nHe next turned to allegations that Ms Letby attempted to murder Child F - the twin brother of Child E - and Child L by poisoning them with insulin.\n\nThe barrister said there was \"nothing in fact\" to establish this.\n\nChild G, who Ms Letby is accused of attempting to murder on three occasions, was an \"extremely premature\" baby who was \"high risk\", he said.\n\nLucy Letby was described as a \"dedicated nurse\" by her defence\n\nThe defence did not accept Ms Letby did anything to contribute to Child G's health problems in the neonatal unit.\n\nChild H, who Ms Letby is alleged to have attacked twice, was another example of \"sub-optimal care\" by the hospital and \"nothing to do with Lucy Letby\", he said.\n\nMr Myers said the defence did not accept Ms Letby caused any harm to Child I, who she is said to have tried to kill on three occasions before succeeding on the fourth attempt.\n\nHe said: \"We will say her collapses and ultimately death were part of a series of clinical problems which may well have been inevitable given her extreme prematurity.\"\n\nMr Myers said the hospital was \"well out of its depth\" with Child J, who Ms Letby is said to have tried to murder, and knowing how to treat her.\n\nHe said an assumption of deliberate harm had been made rather than an alternative explanation of a baby receiving inadequate care.\n\nBen Myers KC said Ms Letby \"in no way wanted to harm\" babies in her care\n\nChild K, who is subject of another count of attempted murder, was said to have been harmed with the deliberate dislodging of a breathing tube.\n\nBut Mr Myers said the probable cause was the child inadvertently moving the tube herself.\n\nHer case was another example of \"sub-optimal care\" in that she should have been treated at a more specialist unit.\n\nMr Myers said the defence did not accept that Child M, who is the twin brother of Child L, was harmed by an injection of excessive air or airway obstruction.\n\nHe insisted there was no obvious cause of his collapse.\n\nMr Myers said: \"We are back in the territory of blame being put on Lucy Letby because there is no obvious alternative.\"\n\nAddressing the allegation that Child N was deliberately harmed by a nasogastric tube being pushed into his throat which caused him to scream, Mr Myers said: \"The defence observe there are many reasons why a baby will shout or scream.\n\nLucy Letby denies the 22 charges against her\n\n\"We say it is far more likely to be hunger. That may sound banal but sometimes it can be true.\"\n\nMr Myers said Child N was another baby who received \"sub-optimal care\" - not from Ms Letby - and should have been treated elsewhere.\n\nThe barrister said there was no evidence that Ms Letby inflicted harm to either Child O or Child P - two of three triplets - who she is said to have murdered, or to Child Q, who she allegedly attempted to murder.\n\nFinally, Mr Myers said there were problems with the way the neonatal unit was run, suggesting it was overstretched and understaffed.\n\nHe added: \"This whole case is complicated.\n\n\"Sat in that dock is a young woman who says this is not her fault, so we need to look at the evidence.\"\n\nThe trial was adjourned until Friday morning.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jeni Larmour had been a deputy head girl at the Royal School, Armagh\n\nA high-achieving student died on her first night at university after taking drugs given to her \"by another\", a coroner has ruled.\n\nJeni Larmour, 18, from Newtonhamilton, County Armagh, died on 3 October 2020, hours after arriving in Newcastle.\n\nShe consumed a lethal combination of alcohol and ketamine, a tranquiliser which she snorted with one of her new flatmates, an inquest heard.\n\nHaving heard from the flatmate involved - Kavir Kalliecharan - other student witnesses, a Home Office pathologist and police, Mrs Dilks gave her view of the circumstances of the death \"on the balance of probabilities\".\n\nShe said the former deputy head girl had arrived at Newcastle University and had drunk alcohol with flatmates between 17:00 and 19:00.\n\n\"Later that evening, while her judgement was impaired due to alcohol, Jeni took a quantity of ketamine provided for her by another, the combined effects of which led to her death,\" she said.\n\nMr Kalliecharan, 20, from Leeds, was not charged with supplying the ketamine and told police the drugs belonged to Miss Larmour.\n\nPolice searched the flat in Park View halls with sniffer dogs and found ketamine, cannabis and MDMA in Mr Kalliecharan's room but he insisted the ketamine was not his.\n\nNo drugs were found in other students' rooms in the flat, including Miss Larmour's.\n\nThe inquest heard Miss Larmour filmed a Snapchat video on her phone showing her in Mr Kalliecharan's bedroom with white powder on a table.\n\nIt was not played in open court but was seen by witnesses.\n\nAndrew Metcalfe, then an acting detective sergeant with Northumbria Police, said the video revealed no evidence of either student coercing or pressuring the other to take drugs.\n\nMr Kalliecharan was later sentenced to two years on conditional discharge after pleading guilty possessing Class A and Class B drugs.\n\nHe had previously told the inquest that the pair had returned to the halls in a taxi after Miss Larmour was turned away from a city centre bar because she did not have ID.\n\nMiss Larmour's mother, Sandra, addressed members of the media following the ruling\n\nFollowing the conclusion of the hearing, Miss Larmour's mother, Sandra, said her daughter had been \"vindicated\".\n\n\"I have had to hear the substance that killed Jeni was her own and that she was wilfully engaged with the supplying of these drugs to others.\n\n\"I have always known this could not be further from the truth, particularly given the fact just a few hours earlier Jeni had boarded a plane with me from Belfast, meaning she would've had to take the substance with her.\n\n\"The coroner's acknowledgement that the drugs were provided to her by another, or in other words, [they were] not her own, is a huge comfort to us.\n\n\"Jeni forgot her ID that night. If she hadn't, or the bar she was seeking to enter had let her in or somebody different had gone back to the room with her, we don't feel this would've happened.\n\n\"I will be forever proud of my daughter's achievements. Nobody can ever take that away from me.\"\n\nDuring the hearing, Lucy Backhurst, the university's academic registrar and director of student services, said: \"Jeni was just the sort of bright, able student we want studying with us at Newcastle University,\" she said.\n\nShe said the university had a compulsory online induction programme with information about drink and drugs.\n\nBut after Miss Larmour's death there had been a backlash when the vice-chancellor emailed students a \"stark\" warning about the risks of drink and drugs, she said.\n\n\"We got an awful lot of kickback from students [saying], 'Who do you think you are, telling us what to do'?\"\n\nMrs Dilks highlighted that none of the flatmates who gave evidence could recall any information from the university's induction course.\n\nThe university said since the death it had \"further developed\" its harm reduction stance and had introduced \"additional educational material\" that students had to view at the start of their studies.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liz Truss is battling to save her premiership after just over a month in the job - what are the key hurdles she faces?\n\nTwo things are going to happen on 31 October which could spook MPs.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt will publish independent forecasts for the UK's economic outlook, by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).\n\nAnd he will set out details of spending cuts and possible tax rises he will say are needed.\n\nThe chancellor has already ditched nearly all of his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng's tax-cutting mini budget, in the biggest economic U-turn in British history.\n\nMany Conservative MPs have said they are waiting to see what Mr Hunt has to say, and how the markets react to it, before deciding whether to continue supporting Liz Truss.\n\nThe OBR forecasts are expected to be bleak. The Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests the UK economy is facing a £60bn \"black hole\", while press reports suggest the OBR analysis will point to a larger gap of £72bn.\n\nThe £32bn package of tax cut reversals and rises announced by Mr Hunt this week will only take the chancellor part of the way to filling that, although there is much uncertainty around the numbers.\n\nJeremy Hunt has already told government departments to come up with efficiency savings, and warned that public spending will not rise as quickly as some had expected.\n\nMr Hunt has said he is \"not taking anything off the table\".\n\nThe UK is committed to military aid to Ukraine\n\nHealth, education and defence are the biggest spending departments, but cutting the budget of any of these would be politically toxic and hard to sell to Tory MPs.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace - tipped by some as a potential replacement for Ms Truss - has said he intends to hold the PM to her promise to increase defence spending to 3% of GDP by 2030.\n\nThe welfare budget, which is the biggest source of cash spending, could end up taking the hit.\n\nThe state pension - the biggest item in the welfare budget, according to the OBR - has long been seen as untouchable in British politics, with both Labour and the Conservatives promising to keep the triple lock guarantee. This is the policy which ensures the state pension goes up in line with inflation or average earnings or 2.5%, whichever is highest.\n\nUnder the guarantee, state pensioners would get a rise of about 10% in April 2023, which would take their weekly payment from £185.15 to just over £200.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt indicated on Monday that the government was no longer committed to the triple lock, as he sought savings. This was echoed by the foreign secretary on Wednesday morning.\n\nBut Liz Truss told MPs she remains committed to the triple lock, at Prime Minister's Questions at midday on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said Ms Truss had agreed to keep the triple lock after discussions with the chancellor, but declined to say whether she had overruled Mr Hunt.\n\nMs Truss believes pensioners are in a \"unique position\" because they are \"unable to increase their earnings through work\", her spokesman said.\n\nThe chancellor could also attempt to break the previous government's commitment to ensure that benefits increase in line with the rising cost of living.\n\nBut this would not go down well with many Tory MPs, including Commons leader Penny Mordaunt, another figure tipped as a replacement for Ms Truss, who have argued strongly against it.\n\nSome benefits - such as the disability living allowance - do have to be uprated in line with inflation, by law. If the government wanted to uprate those benefits in line with earnings instead, it would need to pass a whole new law, which would face stiff resistance inside and outside Parliament.\n\nThere are different rules for other benefits, including universal credit, which can be increased through tweaks to existing law.\n\nOne of Liz Truss's first acts as prime minister was to announce an end to the ban on fracking, as part of a package of measures to boost domestic energy production.\n\nBut she has said it would only resume where there is local consent - and the government has yet to spell out how this will be sought.\n\nA number Tory MPs have spoken out against the resumption of fracking, which was banned in 2019, reflecting constituents' concerns about earth tremors.\n\nHowever, given that overturning the ban does not require a new law, MPs may have to find other ways to get ministers to back down.\n\nLabour is attempting to force a Commons vote on banning fracking and is urging Tory MPs to back it.\n\nThe opposition has already warned Tory MPs they will use the issue of fracking to campaign at the next election.\n\nMs Truss's government has backed fracking as a way to boost the UK's domestic gas supplies\n\nThe government still plans to push ahead with potentially controversial planning law reforms, which were a key part of Liz Truss's plan to boost economic growth.\n\nMs Truss wants to deregulate planning, cutting environmental regulations and reducing the number of affordable homes in new developments. She also wants to scrap centrally-set housing targets. Some of the plans could be unveiled before 31 October, but they may prove difficult to get through.\n\nAttempts by Boris Johnson's government to fast track new developments had to be rethought after opposition from backbench Tory MPs.\n\nIn 2019, the UK made a legally binding commitment to reach the target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. When he was prime minister, Mr Johnson was an enthusiastic supporter of net zero.\n\nBut at a time of historically high energy prices and soaring inflation, some Tory MPs have questioned the wisdom of spending money on hitting the target.\n\nTheir concerns have been taken on board by Ms Truss, who has commissioned an independent review into the delivery of net zero.\n\nLed by former energy minister Chris Skidmore, the review with a focus on \"ensuring the UK's fight against climate change maximises economic growth, while increasing energy security and affordability for consumers and businesses\".\n\nHe will report to the government with a set of recommendations by the end of this year.", "BBC presenter George Alagiah will be taking a break from TV after discovering his cancer has spread further, his agent has said.\n\nHe was first diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in 2014 and has stepped back from presenting intermittently for treatment since then.\n\nThe journalist, 66, returned to the BBC's News at Six in April.\n\nWorking in the newsroom \"has been such an important part of keeping energised and motivated\", said Alagiah.\n\nIn a statement, he said \"it's back to the tough stuff\" after a scan showed his cancer had spread further.\n\n\"I'm missing my colleagues\", he said, adding that he was looking forward to returning to the studio \"as soon as I can\".\n\nThe news was confirmed by his agent Mary Greenham.\n\nIn January, Alagiah said he thought the cancer he had had since 2014 would \"probably get me in the end\", but he still feels \"very lucky\".\n\nSpeaking on the podcast Desperately Seeking Wisdom he said that when his cancer was first diagnosed, it took a while for him to understand what he \"needed to do\".\n\n\"I had to stop and say, 'Hang on a minute. If the full stop came now, would my life have been a failure?'\n\n\"And actually, when I look back and I looked at my journey... the family I had, the opportunities my family had, the great good fortune to bump into (Frances Robathan), who's now been my wife and lover for all these years, the kids that we brought up... it didn't feel like a failure.\"\n\nAlagiah underwent 17 rounds of chemotherapy to treat his advanced bowel cancer in 2014 and said he was a \"richer person\" for it upon returning to presenting the following year.\n\nAs well as presenting the news, Alagiah has worked as a BBC News foreign correspondent and specialist on Africa and the developing world, covering events including the Rwandan genocide and interviewing Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.\n\nMost people with these symptoms do not have bowel cancer, but the NHS advice is to see your GP if you have one or more of the symptoms and they have persisted for more than four weeks.\n\nAnd if you, or someone you know, have been affected by cancer, information and support is available on the BBC's Action Line page.", "Sunny-Jo Veasey was accused of having a rave-type gathering at her shared home in Sheffield\n\nA woman accused of hosting a rave during a coronavirus lockdown said court proceedings had been \"a con\" after the case against her was dropped.\n\nSunny-Jo Veasey, 28, of Sheffield, was accused of hosting more than 30 people at her shared home in February 2021.\n\nShe said the case was withdrawn due to a \"defective charge\", and was worried others were pressured into paying fines despite \"inconsistent\" legislation.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police, which brought the case, has been asked to comment.\n\nMs Veasey was alleged to have hosted a party in her shared home on Ecclesall Road on 28 February 2021, when the country was subject to restrictions.\n\nAt the time, this meant you could only leave home for limited reasons permitted in law, such as to shop for essentials, to work if you could not work from home, or to exercise.\n\nThose found guilty could be fined £10,000 under the legislation.\n\nIn March, Ms Veasey was found guilty of the charge in her absence after court documents were sent to her old address.\n\nSheffield Magistrates' Court rescinded the verdict and adjourned the case to May, which was extended again until October.\n\nMs Veasey, who represented herself, said video evidence showed 27 people in her home but maintained it was not a party.\n\nShe admitted she was in the wrong for inviting people from outside her household to the property, which she shared with seven other people.\n\nShe added she would have paid a smaller fine but felt the £10,000 fine was unjust.\n\n\"It seems like a bit of a con. They're trying to pull money out of people, pushing people through court cases,\" she said.\n\n\"I think it's a large waste of time. I've had numerous court cases, and they probably spent more on these court cases out of the taxpayers' money than the fine would have been in the first place.\"\n\nShe felt people would be \"scared\" and pay the fines rather than try to fight them, she added.\n\nDays of research using Google helped her prepare her case, but just two days before she was due in court the case was withdrawn.\n\n\"I was so relieved. I was over the moon. I feel free, like I can finally put this behind me,\" she added.\n\nSheffield Magistrates' Court confirmed the case had been withdrawn.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The stars were out in force on the red carpet ahead of Thursday's National Television Awards.\n\nThe ceremony took place at London's Wembley Arena, a month later than planned due to the death of the Queen, and notably many wore black.\n\nAnt and Dec, who won the best presenter award for a 21st straight time, both missed the event due to Covid. But let's take a look at some of those who did make it.\n\nDame Arlene Phillips, who shot to fame as a judge on Strictly Come Dancing, arrived in a black collared dress.\n\nHolly Willoughby stopped for pictures wearing her own long black number - but did not answer questions, in the wake of \"Queue-gate\",\n\nHer show, This Morning, which she hosts alongside Phillip Schofield, won the award for best daytime TV show, and they both thanked their viewers.\n\nNeither of them were nominated, however, for the individual presenter award.\n\nSinger and presenter Rochelle Humes sometimes fills in for Willoughby on the aforementioned show, and arrived in a similarly glamourous black and white dress.\n\nIt was all white on the night for Maya Jama, the day after she was announced as the new host of Love Island.\n\nKit Connor and Joe Locke may be castmates on Netflix's Heartstopper, which was up for best new drama, but they were also rivals on the night for the rising star gong.\n\nBoth finished runners-up in the end to Coronation Street's Paddy Bever, but seemed to be enjoying themselves beforehand here.\n\nThe Plummer brothers - Tremaine, Tristan and Twaine - opted for a mix of cravats and dicky bows to pimp up their navy blue suits.\n\nThe Gogglebox star siblings took home the award for best factual entertainment.\n\nDuring their acceptance speech, Tristan thanked all the producers in the room for continuing to make the shows that they get paid to make fun of. Nice work if you can get it.\n\nUK Eurovision singer Sam Ryder opened the show, filling in for Robbie Williams, and his baggy loose fit outfit screamed: \"Let me entertain you\".\n\nJournalist and presenter Ria Hebden was one of the first to arrive on the red carpet, wearing a blue sequin dress with added frills.\n\nOti Mabuse, the Strictly Come Dancing pro dancer and two-time winner, was another star dressed in black on the night.\n\nDermot O'Leary presented the NTAs for many years, and he looked relaxed on the way in - alongside his wife, the director Dee Koppang - safe in the knowledge that Joel Dommett has the responsibility of overseeing proceedings.\n\nDommett arrived looking sharp alongside his wife, British model Hannah Cooper, for his second stint as host, having taken over from David Walliams last year, when the awards returned in-person following the pandemic.\n\nLove Island star Gemma Owen found her perfect date for the evening in the form of her dad and former England footballer Michael.\n\nRicky Gervais arrived with his partner, the author and TV producer Jane Fallon. And they both got the memo about wearing black too (though he has previously joked it is slimming).\n\nHis show After Life won best comedy.\n\nLast but not least... Alison Hamond found herself in the impossible position of being up against Ant and Dec for best presenter.\n\nNot that she let that spoil her evening though.\n\nWhile up on stage with her This Morning colleagues, following their daytime TV award win, she told the audience: \"Lets be honest, I should have won one of these as well!\"\n\nIt's hard to argue with her.", "Manchester university student Jess had to check everyday to secure a house as many were snapped up\n\nWhat's it like being young and facing higher rent while your pay stays the same?\n\nFigures seen by the BBC show people under 30 face a growing cost-of-renting crisis, with worrying numbers spending more than 30% of their pay on rent.\n\nExperts say spending this level of income on rental costs is unaffordable.\n\nWe've been speaking to people experiencing this, as well as hearing what it is like for landlords.\n\nFor Manchester University student Jess Walmsley, the scarcity of housing has been a major challenge.\n\nThe 21-year-old said she and her friends began looking for a house for their third year of study back in January and February but \"there were hardly any places left this year\".\n\n\"You really have to be on it and look every day,\" she said. \"We were left with expensive or bad quality houses but luckily a student dropped out so we got a good deal.\"\n\nMs Walmsley pays £87 a week per person for a four-bedroom house, excluding bills. She said it was now common for people to start looking for houses for the next academic year as early as October - just a month into term.\n\nHer housemates have also been cutting down on using the tumble dryer and shopping a lot more at Iceland to reduce costs.\n\n\"It's a tough process, I've been working all of the summer but I feel lucky to be eligible for the maximum loan because otherwise, it would be so hard to manage,\" Ms Walmsley added.\n\nData seen by the BBC, supplied by property market consultancy Dataloft, suggests that people under 30 are spending more of their earnings on rent than other working-age groups.\n\nLondon has the highest rents, according to the data. However, many of the places where affordability has worsened since the pandemic are in locations such as Rotherham, Bolton and Dudley.\n\nShannon Waine, 31, and Oliver Kimber, 28, have had to move 45 minutes outside of Cheltenham with their 10-month-old baby Mhairi, to find affordable rental accommodation.\n\nAlthough Ms Waine is a little older than the people examined in our data, her experience shows life isn't getting any easier for this cohort.\n\nShannon Waine and her family are now paying £175 more each month\n\nAfter applying for 20 different houses in their price range in Cheltenham, Ms Waine said she had to look further afield. After six weeks, she found a house in Bidford-on-Avon in Warwickshire for £825 a month - £175 higher than their previous house.\n\n\"We used to pay £650 a month but there was no longer anything in that price bracket as there is just so much demand for two beds in Cheltenham now,\" she told the BBC.\n\nThe family have moved in with relatives twice during their search.\n\n\"It's been incredibly stressful, not knowing where we'll be and with a 10-month-old daughter has not been easy through no fault of our own,\" she said.\n\n\"Unless you have family support I don't know how people can cope - there's nowhere near enough council houses and it feels like it's all backwards.\"\n\nThe family has also had to borrow money to afford the cost of moving house in six trips from Cheltenham to Warwickshire.\n\nColin Hayman, a private landlord from Norwich, says he does have sympathy for tenants facing spiralling rents.\n\nBut Mr Hayman, who's 61, says he's also frustrated at how landlords are \"always painted as the bad guy\".\n\nColin Hayman says landlords have good reasons for increasing rents.\n\n\"Of course I have sympathy for renters, don't get me wrong,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But from a landlord's perspective there are good reasons for increasing rents which are being ignored, including changes in tax laws in respect of buy-to-let mortgage payments.\"\n\nMr Hayman, who has a small portfolio of properties in north-east England, says there are also changes coming in which make it increasingly difficult to make an income from being a landlord.\n\nThese include new regulations to make properties more energy efficient.\n\n\"It's expensive to achieve the new standards,\" he says. \"For many landlords, it's simply not viable to keep their properties as it's costing too much.\"\n\nMr Hayman says many landlords are being forced out of the market.\n\n\"They are selling up now whilst property prices are high, thus reducing supply of rental stock and pushing prices up further,\"\n\n\"The government likes to show it is pro-tenant but everything they are doing is anti-landlord.\"", "Health Minister Will Quince says the case \"does meet the threshold\" for an independent inquiry\n\nThe mistreatment of patients at a mental health hospital does warrant an inquiry, the health minister has said.\n\nWill Quince apologised to patients at the Edenfield Centre in Prestwich near Manchester and their families.\n\nA BBC Panorama investigation found a \"toxic culture of humiliation, verbal abuse and bullying\" at the hospital.\n\nHospital bosses said they took immediate action including suspending staff and launching a clinical review.\n\nRaising the case in the House of Commons, Bury South MP Christian Wakeford said it had been 15 days since the Panorama show aired \"deeply distressing\" scenes at the hospital, which had \"brought tears across the country\", yet \"we have heard nothing from the department\".\n\nHe said: \"The programme showed some of the most vulnerable people in society being physically abused, goaded, sexualised behaviour from staff to patients, falsifying medical records and patients locked in isolation for months on end.\"\n\nThe Labour MP claimed there was a \"culture of bullying\" and a \"failure of leadership\" at the centre.\n\nHe said some of the families of patients featured in the programme had told him they were \"still being blocked from contacting their relatives, who are desperate to move out of the Edenfield Centre and some are even in seclusion now\".\n\nHe called for an inquiry and an apology.\n\nIf you are experiencing issues with mental health or self-harm, details of help and support are available here.\n\nMr Quince responded: \"He asks whether I will apologise to the patients and their families, of course I will unequivocally do so.\n\n\"It should not have happened and it is our role as ministers, and in fact all those who work within the NHS, to do all we possibly can to prevent it from happening again.\n\n\"He asks for an independent inquiry, I believe it does meet the threshold to do so.\"\n\nAndrew Maloney, deputy chief executive of Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) NHS Foundation Trust which runs the centre, said disciplinary procedures started as soon as it was informed of the allegations with a \"significant number of staff\" suspended.\n\nHe earlier told a Manchester City Council meeting that senior staff were deployed to the centre, which was closed to new admissions, and it launched an independent clinical review of the centre, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nThe committee described the situation at the centre as a \"catastrophic disaster\".\n\nFindings of an independent review are expected to be sent to the trust by the end of the month\n\nLabour councillor Tom Robinson, said: \"I, like many, watched that documentary and there's a certain point that made me cry.\n\n\"We have a duty to those patients who are now victims and the courage demonstrated by their families to... do everything we can in partnership with the Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust.\"\n\nMr Maloney said: \"We are wholeheartedly committed to do whatever it takes to put right these wrongs and to preventing them from happening again.\"\n\nSpeaking in the House of Lords earlier, Lord Markham said body-worn cameras could be \"one approach\" in the wake of the allegations.\n\nBut he also told Parliament that while there were advantages of video recorders \"being able to pick up things like this\", it was a complex issue because of privacy considerations.\n\nHe said: \"I do not believe that there is an easy solution such as body cameras - that might be one approach, but first and foremost I want to feel that these are places where patients feel that their privacy is respected.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Police's investigation into the allegations is ongoing.\n\nA BBC Panorama undercover investigation has found evidence that a secure NHS psychiatric hospital is failing to protect some of its vulnerable patients.\n\nAvailable now on BBC iPlayer (UK Only)\n\nCORRECTION - 13 October 2022: Our original story said the minister had agreed to a \"public\" inquiry. In fact, Mr Quince said he would support an \"independent\" inquiry\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 24 hours many Conservative MPs have gone from despondency to despair. By going back on her promise to cut taxes she’s now alienated some of those who backed her in the leadership contest for her “bold” approach.\n\nIt’s not hard to find Tory MPs who think her time is up.\n\nBut as we witnessed with Boris Johnson, if a prime minister wants to cling to power, it can be difficult to remove them. It took the mass resignation of dozens of ministers to persuade him to resign.\n\nMany in the Parliamentary party think they have to avoid another drawn out leadership contest where Tory members have the final say. To do that they need to agree on a unity candidate and that’s easier said than done.\n\nFirstly, it requires others to put their personal ambitions to one side for the greater good. It also requires discipline, something that’s been in short supply in Conservative ranks since the turbulent days of Theresa May’s premiership.\n\nThe idea cropping up most frequently is a joint ticket with Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt. But after twelve years in power, under 4 different leaders, there are many old scores to settle in the Tory Party.\n\nSeveral of Boris Johnson’s supporters would do anything to stop Sunak taking over.\n\nOne told the BBC such a move would lead to a split in the party and he’d stand himself to prevent a coronation. “The only unity we’d end up with is the unity of the grave. The question is do we jump in now or step back”.\n\nThere is deep and widespread unhappiness with Liz Truss’s leadership but there are still a few voices calling for calm, to give her and Jeremy Hunt a chance to improve a dire situation.\n\nIt’s possible the appointment of her new chancellor has bought some time, but a leader with diminishing authority will struggle to bring this fractious party together.", "Former Wales football captain Ashley Williams is to contest a Football Association charge of improper conduct during a children's match.\n\nThe 38-year-old ex-Everton defender is accused of confronting an opposition coach during an under-12s game in which his son was playing in Manchester.\n\nHe has been charged by Manchester County FA under rule E3, which includes violent or threatening behaviour.\n\nHowever the player's spokesman claimed Mr Williams was assaulted.\n\nThe charge came from a match in the East Manchester Junior Football League last month.\n\nIt is understood Mr Williams, a BBC football pundit who also played for Swansea, has requested a personal hearing at which he will set out his defence.\n\nThe spokesman for the former centre-back told the Daily Mail: \"Ashley had been assaulted and was defending himself.\n\n\"We have 45 witnesses - including people associated with the two teams who were about to use the pitch - who will back up our version of events and we will defend Ashley vigorously.\"", "The Jet2 plane was held at a special stand near the perimeter of Stansted Airport\n\nA Jet2 plane was escorted by RAF aircraft and forced to divert after a security scare.\n\nEssex Police said they were alerted to a potential threat onboard the aircraft flying from Dalaman, Turkey, to Manchester just before 21:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe flight diverted to Stansted Airport in Essex under the supervision of RAF Typhoons.\n\nEssex Police said officers established there was no threat on board.\n\nEssex Police said it was altered to the incident at about 21:00 on Wednesday evening\n\nThe RAF confirmed \"quick reaction alert\" Typhoon aircraft were launched from RAF Coningsby to intercept the aircraft \"that was causing concern\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"The aircraft was safely escorted to Stansted Airport.\"\n\nThe A321 aircraft, with a capacity of up to 220 passengers, was met by police on landing.\n\nEssex Police said officers were then able to establish there was no threat on board, and onward travel was organised for passengers.\n\nJet2 said its teams were looking after those affected, adding: \"We would like to apologise to everyone onboard for any inconvenience or upset caused by this unforeseen incident.\"\n\nIt confirmed at about 23:38 that the aircraft had \"landed safely and taxied to a remote stand\" and all customer had disembarked.\n\nLondon Stansted Airport said in a statement: \"The runway was closed for a short time but has now reopened.\"", "Amalia on her first day at university in September\n\nThe King and Queen of the Netherlands have revealed their 18-year-old daughter can no longer move around freely outside due to the possibility of an attack or kidnapping.\n\nPrincess Amalia has moved out of her student accommodation in Amsterdam and has returned home to The Hague.\n\nHer parents gave details in an unusually emotional encounter with the press, during a state visit to Sweden.\n\nQueen Maxima's eyes glistened as she described the \"difficult consequences\".\n\n\"There is no student life for her like others have,\" she added.\n\nPrincess Amalia - and the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte - are understood to have appeared in organised crime communications, which indicated they may become a target.\n\nLast month, official photographs were released showing a smiling Princess Amalia on the first day of term.\n\nMuch fanfare was made of the teenager moving into a shared student house and getting on with her degree in politics, psychology, law and economics at the University of Amsterdam.\n\nAmalia, who turns 19 in December, is seen by many here in the Netherlands as a relatively down-to-earth royal.\n\nA keen jockey, she has a horse named Mojito and was nicknamed the Cocktail Queen while working at a beach bar in Scheveningen during the summer holidays.\n\nIn an autobiography released to coincide with her 18th birthday, Princess Amalia opened up about her mental health and said she often speaks to a therapist.\n\nNot even halfway through the first term, the intelligence report meant Princess Amalia has been forced to abandon that relaxed student life.\n\nHer family is hoping the intensified security precautions are only temporary.\n\nQueen Maxima told reporters in Sweden she was proud of how Princess Amalia was coping and paid tribute to her bravery.\n\nThe Argentinian-born former economist pointed out Amalia is still attending university - and even managed to joke about her maybe getting really good grades.\n\nAsked what it did to him \"as a father\", King Willem-Alexander acknowledged it was \"a heavy situation\" and said he was unable to express the impact.\n\nIt is extremely rare for the royals or government officials to talk about security issues.\n\nThe police, public prosecution service and the government ministry that represents the House of Orange are not expected to comment on the royal couple's revelations.", "Black people are more likely to develop dementia than white and South Asian people, a UK study suggests.\n\nIt confirms previous study findings but the reasons are complex, University College London (UCL) researchers said.\n\nA mix of genes and underlying health conditions, such as high blood pressure and obesity, may play a role in dementia risk among black people.\n\nLarger studies with more dementia cases in ethnic groups are needed to tease out the precise causes.\n\nExperts are warning that by 2050, more than 153 million people worldwide could have dementia, up from 57 million in 2019.\n\nThe predicted rise is largely down to ageing, and growing populations.\n\nThe UCL research followed nearly 300,000 people who took part in the UK Biobank study for up to 14 years.\n\nDuring that time, about 6,000 people developed dementia - most were white, 91 were black and 79 were South Asian.\n\nDespite the small number affected in black and South Asian groups, the study found that the same factors increased the risk of dementia in all three ethnic groups,\n\nThese risk factors were hypertension, or high blood pressure, obesity, smoking, social isolation, air pollution, depression, diabetes and hearing loss.\n\nThe study, published in PLoS One, found hypertension and obesity were more common in black people, compared to white or South Asian people.\n\nBlack people in the study were also more likely to be carriers of a gene linked to dementia.\n\nBut some risk factors were less common in black people, such as smoking, drinking more than 21 units of alcohol per week, and having high cholesterol.\n\nDr Naaheed Mukadam, study author and senior research fellow in psychiatry at UCL, said what lies behind a higher risk of dementia in black people was a \"complex picture\".\n\n\"It could be driven by genetics or the way their risks are managed,\" she said.\n\n\"The difference means we need greater awareness in that population that dementia is a concern - and more proactive management of risk factors like hypertension, and more health checks.\"\n\nA recent study by the same researchers, which looked at 20 years' worth of GP and hospital health records, found black people had a 22% higher incidence of dementia being recorded than white people.\n\nThey also found black and South Asian people were diagnosed at a younger average age than white people in the UK.\n\nKatherine Gray, research communications manager at Alzheimer's Society, said 25,000 people living with dementia were from ethnically diverse communities, with the number predicted to double by 2026.\n\n\"However, current research into dementia risk factors is mostly in people from white European ancestry,\" she said, adding that there was a need to better understand and support diverse populations.\n\nShe called for more research into the experiences of ethnically diverse communities and a doubling of dementia research funding.", "The King praised Emmerdale's contribution as the soap won big at the National Television Awards (NTAs) on the eve of its 50th anniversary.\n\nPhillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby kept their titles as king and queen of daytime telly, too, in the wake of their \"queue-gate\" controversy.\n\nAnd money saving expert Martin Lewis criticised the government's handling of the economy during his winner's speech.\n\nElsewhere, Ant and Dec won their 21st straight best presenter trophy.\n\nThe pair missed the ceremony, though, after both catching Covid.\n\nThis year's NTAs, voted for by the public, took place at London's Wembley Arena, a month later than planned due to the death of the Queen.\n\nIn a video recorded before his mother's death, the new monarch congratulated the ITV serial drama on having nearly made its half century and recalled \"being so old\" he could remember it originally being called Emmerdale Farm.\n\nHe described the show as an \"amazing British export\" that had kept true to its creator's original vision - \"depicting what life is really like for those who work the land and protect our precious countryside\".\n\n\"It also stresses brilliantly something that concerns me greatly: the long-term sustainability of the way we produce our food.\"\n\nKing Charles III gave Emmerdale his Royal approval for helping to \"protect our precious countryside\"\n\nAfter the speech, it was announced that Mark Charnock, who stars as Marlon Dingle, had won the serial drama performance award.\n\nCharnock, whose character suffered a stroke, later told the BBC's Daniel Rosney it had been \"overwhelming\" to see so many people share their similar experiences, following the powerful plotline.\n\nBoy George presented the Yorkshire soap with the big final award of the night for best serial drama, quipping: \"I've been upstaged in my life by a few queens but never by a King.\"\n\nSegments of the show marked both the Queen's death - with many stars opting for black outfits on the night - and the war in Ukraine.\n\nThis Morning presenters Willoughby and Schofield were recently backed by ITV bosses after they were accused of jumping the queue for the Queen's lying-in-state.\n\nHolly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield celebrated their win after a tricky few weeks\n\nAccepting the award for best daytime show for a second year, Schofield said: \"Don't think we ever get complacent and please don't think we ever take this for granted.\n\n\"This means so much to us every year, especially this year.\n\n\"We have the most amazing team, I have the best friend,\" he added, in Willoughby's direction. \"We have the best boss.\"\n\nWhile some boos were heard around the arena, they soon died down once the famous pair were up on stage alongside their team.\n\n\"Thank you so much, this award means everything because it is voted by you, and I think This Morning has a very special relationship with you,\" Willoughby added. \"You make our show for us, you really do.\"\n\nUkrainian broadcaster Timur Miroshnychenko thanked the UK for its continued support and said his country is \"looking forward\" to Eurovision 2023, which is being hosted in Liverpool because the 2022 winners are currently unable to host such an event.\n\nThe UK's Eurovision star Sam Ryder got the night going with an energetic performance of his track Space Man, before a casually dressed Lewis Capaldi sang his new single, Forget Me.\n\nBut in between all that, things got political when consumer champion Martin Lewis won a new category for best expert.\n\nReferencing the cost-of-living crisis, Lewis, who expressed surprised at having beaten Sir David Attenborough to the award, noted it \"has been a pretty horrible year, financially\".\n\nMartin Lewis said experts were needed right now, while accepting the new award\n\n\"I mean, the energy crisis has been disastrous and left many people with terrible issues and mental health problems,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm afraid the next year, with the mortgage problem and the knock-on to rent, is going to be pretty bad.\n\n\"And you know what?\" Lewis added. \"We need somebody to get a grip on the economy and put things a little bit back.\"\n\nSoon after the ceremony, BBC News reported that chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng had cut short his visit to the US for urgent talks in Downing Street, as pressure mounts on Prime Minister Liz Truss to U-turn over the mini-budget.\n\nAnt McPartlin and Declan Donnelly beat the likes of Alison Hammond to bag their 21st consecutive presenting award, meaning the last time they didn't win it was in 2000, to Michael Barrymore.\n\nThe winner of the rising star award on Thursday night, Coronation Street's Paddy Bever, who plays Max Turner, wasn't even born then.\n\nStephen Mulhern accepted the award on their behalf, saying: \"Full respect to these guys, 21 years on the trot!\"\n\nHe then jokingly added his own name to the trophy, declaring: \"This baby is coming home with me.\"\n\nThe award for best authored documentary went to Kate Garraway for a second year, as she continued to chronicle her family's life as her husband Derek Draper gets treated for coronavirus.\n\nKate Garraway brought her daughter Darcey up to help accept her award\n\nFlanked by her daughter Darcey, she thanked the film-makers for \"making a very difficult thing easier\" and dedicated the win to the nation's carers.\n\n\"We have a care crisis in our country but we don't have a crisis of love,\" declared Garraway, while confirming her husband was now back in hospital.\n\nThe special recognition award went to a slightly tearful Sir Lenny Henry, after the comedian, actor and Comic Relief fundraiser was praised by stars in a video for having paved the way for other black British artists.\n\n\"These awards are so long David Beckham is still queuing to get in\", he smiled, with his own nod to the royals.\n\nOther winners on the night included After Life, Gogglebox and Peaky Blinders/Cillian Murphy, as well as Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nStrictly champion Rose Ayling-Ellis, who wowed the nation last year with a dance dedicated to the experience of deaf people everywhere, said the show had helped to \"change people's perceptions\", as it won the talent show prize.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The family of Gaia Pope-Sutherland are demanding changes into policing and health and social care services\n\nThe family of Gaia Pope-Sutherland are calling for an independent investigation into her alleged rape.\n\nMiss Pope, 19, was found dead 11 days after she went missing in Swanage, Dorset, in 2017 having been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\nHer family said her disorder was caused when she was drugged and sexually attacked by a man at 16 years old.\n\nThe police watchdog said it would consider any new complaints referred to it over Miss Pope's case.\n\nGaia Pope-Sutherland's cousin Marienna Pope-Weidemann, during a press conference at Doughty Street Chambers in London, where her family called for changes in policing, health and social care to prevent future deaths\n\nMiss Pope's cousin Marienna Pope-Weidemann said Miss Pope reported the offence after suffering a mental health crisis triggered by the experience.\n\nDorset Police chose not to pursue the report, Ms Pope-Weidemann said.\n\nShe added: \"I think the decision to take no further action on Gaia's rape case was devastating for her and why she was so concerned about it was because we knew there were other victims.\n\n\"In terms of the police over the next two years what we saw was a consistent and repeated failure to recognise her vulnerability.\n\n\"We are calling for a real independent investigation because it is absolutely in the public interest for us all to understand how this could be allowed to happen.\"\n\nMs Pope-Weidemann said the police had discriminated against Miss Pope by allegedly hanging up on her when she called them on the day she went missing.\n\n\"Even on the very day Gaia went missing, she had contact with the police, she was showing clear signs of being in an acute mental health crisis,\" she said.\n\n\"Not only did they not take any action, they discriminated against and hung up on her.\"\n\nSearch and rescue teams scoured the open space above the cliffs near Swanage in the hunt for Gaia Pope\n\nThe family also alleged that during Miss Pope's submission to hospital, \"she had been repeatedly sexually harassed by another male patient\".\n\n\"She disclosed that to staff, and not only did they fail to take appropriate safeguarding action, they didn't even log the incident,\" Ms Pope-Weidemann said.\n\nAs part of the family's Justice for Gaia campaign, the family are demanding changes including improved funding for mental health services and the creation of a specialist unit dedicated to investigating rape and sexual offences across all police forces in the UK.\n\nFamily members of Gaia Pope-Sutherland comfort each other outside Dorset Coroner's Court in Bournemouth after the inquest in July\n\n\"We want to see police forces bringing in the 'Gaia Principle' to make sure when they get reports of serious sex offences they are obliged to check for other similar allegations from other potential victims and to present all those cases together as a whole to the Crown Prosecution Service,\" Ms Pope-Weidemann said.\n\nFailing to follow the process should be a police misconduct matter.\n\nThe campaign also includes a manifesto for change across mental health and social support in Dorset and nationwide.\n\nAn inquest into Miss Pope-Sutherland's death found she had died of hypothermia within 18 hours of going missing on 7 November 2017. Her body was found 11 days later in undergrowth between Dancing Ledge and Anvil Point.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it previously investigated complaints from Miss Pope's family about how Dorset Police dealt with the allegation of rape.\n\nThe watchdog said it provided the family with terms of reference at the start of the investigation in 2018 and \"no issues or concerns were raised with the investigation's scope then, or at any subsequent meeting\".\n\nFollowing Miss Pope's family's latest call for an independent investigation, a spokesperson for the IOPC said: \"We have had no direct approach from Gaia Pope's family concerning any wider review.\n\n\"Any new complaint referred to us would be considered and assessed as to what further action may be required by the IOPC.\"\n\nThe watchdog said it \"carefully\" examined how Dorset Police investigated the rape allegation.\n\nBut it added: \"While we found the police investigation could have been more thorough, any failings by individual officers did not amount to breaches of the professional standards of behaviour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gaia Pope's family produced a video to show to the inquest jury\n\n\"We found performance issues for four officers for some inadequacies, including not contacting all witnesses, not submitting intelligence reports and insufficient record-keeping. \"\n\nThe IOPC said it established that Dorset Police did informally speak to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) about the rape investigation, \"but there was insufficient evidence to merit a formal referral to them\".\n\nIn a statement an IOPC spokesperson added: \"However, we did find that Dorset Police failed to advise Gaia's family of the Victims' Right to Review (VRR) following their decision not to refer to the CPS.\n\n\"We established that the closing code used to finalise the investigation on police systems did not tally with search terms used by the Victims' Bureau to identify cases suitable for VRR.\n\n\"Consequently, the bureau did not write to the family to inform them of their right to request a review of the decision to take no further action in respect of the rape report.\"\n\nThe IOPC recommended Dorset Police ensured its officers knew the search terms used by the bureau.\n\n\"This recommendation was accepted by the force and will go some way to reducing the risk of the same happening to other victims in such circumstances in the future,\" the IOPC said.\n\nDorset Police said it recognised that its immediate response to the missing person enquiry should have been better managed.\n\nThe force's Deputy Chief Constable Sam de Reya said that since Miss Pope's death and the IOPC's investigation the force had delivered \"many changes\" to its ways of working and has introduced dedicated missing people teams.\n\n\"We are absolutely committed to supporting victims of sexual offences and we are continuing to work with colleagues in the Crown Prosecution Service to improve the services offered to those who report rape and other serious sexual offences,\" Ms De Reya said.\n\nIn a statement, she added: \"We take reports of rape offences extremely seriously and will do all we can to ensure offences are thoroughly investigated and offenders are brought to justice. We want victims to know that we are here for you.\n\n\"We would strongly encourage anyone who has been the victim of a sexual offence to come forward and report it to the force.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teenager Leona Harper was a gem who \"shone brightly and beautifully\", a priest tells mourners\n\nOne of the youngest victims of the Creeslough explosion in County Donegal was \"a little lady with a big heart\", her funeral has heard.\n\nLeona Harper, 14, was picking up an ice cream in the shop when the explosion happened on Friday.\n\nThe funeral of Martina Martin, 49, also took place on Thursday, at St Michael's Church in Creeslough.\n\nThe mother-of-four, who worked at the service station, \"lived for her children\", the congregation was told.\n\nTen people were killed in Friday's explosion, which police said appears to have been a tragic accident.\n\nLeona Harper was one of the youngest people to die in the blast\n\nFr Michael Carney told mourners at St Mary's Church in Ramelton that although Leona's time on this earth was \"too short\" she lived life to the full.\n\n\"She has made her unique contribution, left her imprint and contributed to the lives of those she loved, lived and laughed with.\"\n\nThe congregation heard that Leona was described as a \"little miracle\" being born after her mother, Donna, was told she could not conceive another child.\n\nThe priest also spoke of Leona's \"varied\" interests and pursuits from music, dance and fashion to a love for the outdoors, fishing and a passion for tractors.\n\n\"She was beginning to feature in her rugby club as a gifted player,\" Fr Carney added.\n\n\"And, like many girls, the exploits and success of Kelly Harrington and Katie Taylor had sparked an interest in boxing, and Liverpool was her team.\"\n\nHer father Hugh told Highland Radio his daughter was a \"little gem\".\n\nMembers of a dog search team who helped in the recovery operation attended Leona Harper's funeral\n\nRepresentatives from Search and Rescue Dog Association Ireland (SARDAI) attended Leona's funeral on Thursday.\n\nThey had been called to Creeslough following Friday's explosion.\n\nLabrador Bodhi was the first dog that entered the rubble and the last dog to leave, his handler Michael McCamley told BBC News NI.\n\nThey also had the help of Tess and her handler Trevor Hartley who were at the scene on Friday and Saturday.\n\nPaying tribute to Leona, Mulroy College said its school community had been filled with a terrible sadness following her death.\n\n\"We will think of her great strength of character, independent mindedness and love of sport and farming,\" it said.\n\nMartina Martin, it added, was also a parent at the school, which is about 12 miles from Creeslough, and would be remembered as a \"cherished friend\".\n\nA Liverpool flag blew in the wind outside St Mary's Church Ramelton as crowds of young people formed a guard of honour for the funeral of 14-year old Leona Harper.\n\nStudents from Mulroy College and Scoil Mhuire, both in Milford, were there. They're both schools which Leona attended.\n\nAs these young people stood in the rain, ready to say goodbye to Leona, the church singer sang Jealous of the Angels in the background over a loudspeaker.\n\nMartina's funeral Mass was held at St Michael's church in Creeslough which has seen a number of funerals of the blast victims this week.\n\n\"Once you met her in life, she became your friend,\" a priest told mourners.\n\nFr John Joe Duffy said Martina Martin was \"so well loved, so well liked\" and had been \"doing what she loved\" when the tragedy happened.\n\n\"She worked at the heart of the community,\" he added.\n\nAs the service began, Ms Martin's daughter Grainne carried a photo of her siblings to the front of the church.\n\nA coffee cup, dark chocolate and a Harry Potter train and pillow were also used as symbols to represent her mother's life.\n\n\"She believed in you and she wanted you to be happy,\" Fr Duffy said in a message directed at Ms Martin's children.\n\nWhen giving a reading, Ms Martin's cousin Sonia concluded by saying \"rest in peace beautiful lady\".\n\nFr Duffy said the community had showed great strength to support people through recent days.\n\n\"Creeslough is a village, yes, a small village, but it is now more than just that,\" he explained.\n\n\"It is now a word for determination, for resolve, and for togetherness.\n\n\"This tragedy has reignited within all of us, myself included, that each one of us are only as strong as the families we have around us, only as strong as the community that surrounds us.\"\n\nRepresentatives of the Irish president, the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) and emergency services were present at both services.\n\nOn Tuesday, funeral services were held at St Michael's Church in the village for Jessica Gallagher, 24, and 49-year-old Martin McGill.\n\nJames O'Flaherty, Catherine O'Donnell and her 13-year-old son James Monaghan were buried on Wednesday.\n\nHugh Kelly, who also lost his life, will be buried on Friday.", "Christina Rees has been appointed as the new shadow secretary of state for Wales.\n\nShe is the fifth person to hold the position since the general election in 2015, when she was elected to parliament.\n\nPerhaps, unsurprisingly, she is also the least well known.\n\nMs Rees has served on Labour's front bench team as a shadow justice minister, but this is her first shadow cabinet position.\n\nHer constituents in Neath will be used to having their MP in that role, as her predecessor was the former Secretary of State for Wales, Peter Hain.\n\nHaving entered Parliament in 2015, Ms Rees unsuccessfully put forward legislation to allow the name of the mother of each person getting married to be recorded on marriage certificates.\n\nOutlining the reason for proposing the change in law, Ms Rees told MPs: \"My father died when I was a young teenager and my mother brought me up.\n\n\"The father of my husband-to-be had also died many years before.\n\n\"The two mothers came to the ceremony but their names could not be on the certificate. That was when I realised it was a great injustice.\"\n\nThe \"husband-to-be\" was the former Welsh Secretary Ron Davies to whom she was married during his time in office from 1997-98.\n\nThey divorced in 1999 and have a daughter, Angharad who says her mother is a \"one-off\".\n\nChristina Rees is no stranger to political life. She stood as the Labour candidate for Arfon in the Welsh Assembly elections in May 2011 and came second.\n\nShe has also been a member of the Welsh Executive Committee of the Labour Party.\n\nMs Rees also (almost) succeeded in making the former Labour Leader Ed Miliband blush during a party conference Q&A when, as a newly elected councillor in Bridgend, she complained \"you haven't kissed me, Ed, but you kissed Barbara yesterday and I'm extremely jealous\".\n\nChristina Rees making her maiden speech in the Commons\n\nMs Rees, who is a qualified barrister, was born in the village of Kenfig Hill in south Wales.\n\nShe became head girl of Cynffig Comprehensive School and has a very impressive sporting background.\n\nShe represented Wales Schools at tennis, hockey and athletics, and was a member of the Great Britain Youth Team to the Munich Olympics.\n\nBut her main sporting achievements came on the squash courts where she represented Wales over 100 times.\n\nHowever, her love of sport does not extend to golf, which she claims not to understand.\n\n\"It involves spending five hours on a golf course,\" she told a Westminster hall debate last year, \"hitting perhaps 100 balls, while on a squash court it is 100 balls in five minutes.\n\n\"I am sorry, but I do not get it. That is my personal opinion.\"\n\nAt the same debate she outlined how sport had helped her as a child.\n\n\"I was very shy when I was a child and was bullied, so my mother sent me to judo classes to strengthen me up. I got a black belt first dan when I was 13 and a fourth dan in 1974,\" she said.\n\nShe joked: \"I may come across as being rather feeble but I do have a dark side, so be very scared.\"\n\nPolitical opponents might want to take note.", "There was a visible police presence near where the protest happened\n\nA rare protest attacking President Xi Jinping and China's Covid restrictions has taken place in Beijing, days before a historic Communist Party congress.\n\nImages showed two protest banners on a bridge in the north-west of the city. The protest appeared to have been swiftly stopped by the authorities.\n\nFrustration has been mounting in the capital before the congress.\n\nThere has been an outpouring of anger online at strict security measures and the Covid restrictions put in place.\n\nAuthorities have tightened access to the city, shutting out many travellers, returning residents and deliveries. Others had their movement restricted or were forced to quarantine.\n\nThe images and footage of the protest that have been circulating showed two large banners unfurled on a bridge in Beijing's Haidian district.\n\nOne read: \"No Covid test, we want to eat. No restrictions, we want freedom. No lies, we want dignity. No Cultural Revolution, we want reform. No leaders, we want votes. By not being slaves, we can be citizens.\"\n\nThe other called on residents to \"go on strike at school and work, remove dictator and national traitor Xi Jinping\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVideo from the scene showed unexplained thick plumes of smoke on the bridge and a man could be heard chanting slogans into a loudhailer.\n\nA BBC team visit to the scene later found no trace of it, but there was a visible police presence in the area.\n\nThe week-long 20th Party Congress, due to kick off on Sunday, will see about 2,300 top officials and party delegates descend upon the capital.\n\nChina's leader Xi Jinping is expected to be handed a third term, breaking decades-long tradition and shoring up his already firm grip on power.\n\nThe capital usually sees strict security measures in the lead-up to important events. Street-level security has been strengthened with paramilitary police patrolling subway stations and neighbourhoods near the Great Hall of the People where the congress will take place.\n\nExhibitions highlighting China's achievements under Xi Jinping have been set up around the country ahead of the congress\n\nAuthorities are cracking down on the use of virtual private networks circumventing China's firewalls, to restrict access to the internet beyond Communist Party control.\n\nBut in an attempt to stamp out small Covid outbreaks in Beijing as the congress nears, city authorities are enforcing much stricter measures than most other parts of China.\n\nTens of millions of residents are being tested every three days, with screenings for entry to all buildings enforced and mask-wearing mandates policed.\n\nOfficials have also heavily restricted the number of people entering the city and discouraged residents from leaving.\n\nMany people who travelled to other cities during a recent National Day holiday found that their online health codes - essential for travel around the country - suddenly indicated they were at risk of Covid infection, preventing them from getting on trains or flights back to Beijing.\n\nOthers who managed to return to Beijing saw a similar change in their health codes days after returning, according to online accounts, forcing them to quarantine at home.\n\n\"I don't understand why Beijing did this... I can't go to work. I'm about to lose my job. I'm so frustrated. When is it going to end?\" said one commenter on Weibo, while another added: \"We suffer all these just because someone has to hold a meeting.\"\n\n\"Why torment the ordinary people? The authorities have implemented their policy unreasonably. Their credibility is down the drain. How could people trust them?\" asked another.\n\nIt comes amid a growing fatigue among ordinary Chinese with the \"zero Covid\" strategy that has seen harsh lockdowns and quarantine measures, long after other countries have eased restrictions.\n\nSeveral recent incidents, including a bus crash that killed 27 people who were being transported to quarantine camps, have sparked public anger.\n\nThe frustration is at odds with the celebratory mood for the 20th Party Congress on display on state media and institutions.\n\nRed banners marking the congress have popped up around the capital and popular mobile apps have changed their display colours to red. A drama recapping the highlights of the last 10 years of Mr Xi's rule has begun airing on primetime television, while similarly themed exhibitions are being held around the country.\n\nState media outlets have rolled out material in support of official policies including \"zero Covid\", urging Chinese people to \"strengthen confidence in and have patience with the current epidemic prevention and control policies\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mia White spoke to BBC Newsbeat about the death of her sister, Ava.\n\nAva White, 12, was stabbed to death in a row over a Snapchat video. Her older sister, Mia, has spoken in-depth for the first time about Ava's murder, and her hope of preventing similar tragedies.\n\nFor Mia White, the day of her sister's death remains fresh in her memory.\n\n\"It felt like my world crashed, and it feels like yesterday to me,\" she says.\n\nMia, 19, remembers her younger sibling fondly, describing her as \"funny, loving and caring\".\n\nShe says Ava behaved just as you'd expect any 12-year-old to: \"Pulling funny faces and singing songs from TikTok\".\n\n\"We told each other everything, would sit in each other's rooms until we went to bed. And just laugh, take pictures and listen to music like normal teenagers,\" Mia tells BBC Newsbeat.\n\nBut everything changed when Ava was fatally attacked in Liverpool city centre after a Christmas lights switch-on in November 2021. Mia says it has devastated her family.\n\n\"I never thought this would be my life. I rarely see my friends and I just sit in my room, looking at [pictures of] me and Ava all the time,\" she says.\n\nMia had planned to take Ava shopping the day after her death, so she could \"pick some [Christmas] presents out\"\n\nAlmost one year on, the void left by Ava remains painful for her family.\n\n\"It's so hard for me and my mum to be around the nieces and nephews because they're all Ava's age and all hung out together,\" says Mia.\n\n\"She would always make them laugh.\"\n\n\"It's so different now, you can tell something is missing in the family.\"\n\nMia says she \"remembers everything from that night\".\n\nShe describes it as \"a normal day\", until 7:30pm, when, after putting on the pyjamas Ava had given her for Christmas, she received a phone call.\n\nIt was her auntie telling her Ava had been in a fight. A short time later, she received another call telling her \"Ava had been injured terribly\".\n\n\"I don't think I took a breath going from the bottom of the stairs, up the stairs and then back down into the taxi,\" she says.\n\nAfter arriving at the hospital, she was eventually told by her mum that Ava was in a critical condition. She then received the news that she had been dreading.\n\nBalloons were released at the start of a vigil in memory of Ava\n\nMia admits she sometimes forgets that Ava is no longer around - before realising she won't see her sister again.\n\n\"Every single day, I always go to ring Ava and text her just to see what she's doing. I don't think it's ever going to sink in,\" she says.\n\nA 15-year-old boy was sentenced to life with a minimum of 13 years for Ava's murder.\n\n\"There are no words for it,\" Mia says.\n\nBut she is determined to use the pain of Ava's death to get her \"story out there\" and stop further tragedies.\n\nThe family have set up the Ava White Foundation to prevent knife crime.\n\nThey've put resources such as bleed packs around the city, and Mia wants to go into schools and speak to children to help them understand the consequences.\n\n\"It needs to start at a really young age, wanting to engage,\" she says. \"Because why would you ever want to ruin someone else's life and your own?\"\n\n\"No-one should be going through what we're going through. But if I can stop one child from putting a knife in the pocket...\"\n\n\"It's scary to think about, why would a youth want to be carrying a knife?\"\n\nOver the past year, events to honour Ava have taken place, from setting balloons off to a summer get-together with her friends - eating her favourite foods and listening to her favourite songs.\n\nMia says for Ava's friends and family, what happened will \"stick with them for the rest of their lives\".\n\nAnd it's that heartbreak that she wants to get across to anyone thinking about picking up a knife.\n\n\"The danger you put yourself in when you put a knife in your pocket. I want to get the message out to stop doing it.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The cost-of-living payments will be made to staff and students in January 2023\n\nQueen's University Belfast is to spend about £8m making extra cost-of-living payments to students and most staff.\n\nMost of the university's 25,000 students will receive £150, although about 3,600 students from lower-income families will get a higher payment of £400.\n\nAbout 3,000 staff - all staff apart from senior managers - will receive between £500 and £750.\n\nBut the payments will not be made until January 2023.\n\nInflation is increasing at nearly its fastest rate in 40 years, driven largely by the rising cost of food and fuel.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, thousands of students staged walkouts on Thursday, in protest at the cost-of-living and accommodation crises.\n\nQueen's University recently declared a \"critical incident\" due to rises in the cost of living and said it would bring forward measures to help staff and students.\n\nSome of those measures have now been agreed by senate, the university's governing body.\n\nThe university's vice-chancellor Prof Ian Greer told BBC News NI he was \"very concerned\" about the cost-of-living pressures on students and staff.\n\n\"There's no doubt that fuel in particular has been a problem across the board, not just for our student population but our staff also,\" he said.\n\n\"In addition the cost of food is also increasing and that causes general hardship for students who are on a very modest income in any event.\"\n\nProf Ian Greer said the university was also considering further measures\n\nProf Greer was asked by BBC News NI why it would take until January for students to get the payments.\n\n\"Students have largely just received their student loan support funding, and we felt the time of greatest need would be just after the Christmas period,\" he replied.\n\nStudents will also not have to pay any fees to graduate - normally £47 - in 2022/23.\n\nAll library fines will also be waived and any student discipline fines halved.\n\nThe 3,600 students who will receive the higher £400 payment are those whose family household income is below £25,000 a year.\n\nStaff will also receive their cost-of-living payment in January.\n\n\"The pressures for the cost of living crisis that I've outlined for students - things like fuel, cost of housing, cost of food - are real pressures for our staff,\" Prof Greer said.\n\nThe university will spend about £5.5m on the cost-of-living payments for students and around £2.5m on the payments for staff.\n\nProf Greer said the university was also considering further measures, including providing breakfasts for staff and students, and decisions would be made on those in the coming weeks.\n\nHe also told BBC News NI the university was facing an increase of \"several million pounds\" in its energy bills.\n\nPresident of Queen's Students Union, Emma Murphy, said November and December will be a particularly tough time for students\n\n\"It has come from strong lobbying on our behalf of students, making sure that their voices are being heard and listened to and that the university is recognising the really tough times they are going to go through over the winter months,\" she said.\n\nShe said there were three main areas that would be a concern for students - the cost of food, fuel and rent.\n\nShe added that November and December would be a particularly tough time for students because loan payments typically come through in January.\n\nMs Murphy said there was \"some lobbying to be done in terms of different programmes\" to help support students including offering free breakfasts and ensuring free period products are available.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, students at third level colleges walked out of lectures and tutorials on Thursday morning in protest at the accommodation and cost-of-living crises.\n\nThe action, which took place at 11 minutes past 11, saw hundreds of students gather in college quads and other outdoor spaces to protest.\n\nIt was organised by the Union of Students in Ireland, which claims that landlords are exploiting the student accommodation crisis by charging sky-high rents.\n\nStudents are calling for an immediate ban on evictions and the introduction of housing as a constitutional right.\n\nHundreds of students staged a walkout at Trinity University, Dublin, on Thursday morning\n\nIn the Republic, thousands of students participated in a walkout on Thursday.\n\nStudents left universities at 11:11 local time and gathered in protest in college squares and open spaces. Demonstrations took place in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Waterford, Carlow and other towns.\n\nThe walkout was organised by the Union of Students in Ireland who say landlords are exploiting students with extortionate rents.\n\nThe union said there is an expected shortfall of 20,000 student beds by 2024.\n\nIt criticised the Irish government for failing to cap rent and said the recently announced budget shows no commitment to solving the shortage.\n\nSeparately, a number of schools in Northern Ireland had previously decided to offer more pupils free meals in response to rises in the cost of living.\n\nQueen's University had previously spent about £4.5m in July 2022 on payments of between £1,000 and £150 to staff for their work during the Covid pandemic.\n\nUlster University also paid most of its staff an extra cost-of-living payment of up to £1,000 in June 2022.", "British economic policy faced some thinly-veiled criticism by other G7 finance ministers at the crucial meeting of major economies at the IMF yesterday, the BBC understands.\n\nWhile the UK was not identified by name, multiple participants at the round table, the debut of UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, raised their concerns about countries making unfunded tax cuts that threatened financial stability, at a delicate time, a clear reference to Britain.\n\nOne G7 minister said privately that the concern was really about how the UK had \"doubled down\" even after the clear financial stability implication, and that explanations would be sought.\n\nThe US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen had already said publicly on the sidelines of the IMF conference that she was \"watching UK developments closely\".\n\nWhile she didn't want to comment on UK policy, she said: \"I am going to try to understand what the impact of those policies and their rationale is.\"\n\nSecretary Yellen, a former Federal Reserve Chair told CNBC when asked if UK fiscal credibility problems were making global markets more volatile said \"at a time when monetary policy is tightening, fiscal policy should have a stance that complements that that central banks play the lead, but fiscal policy should be complementary. We've tried to do that in the United States.\"\n\nThe President of the Eurogroup, which represents the Eurozone, the Irish Finance minister Paschal Donohoe, told the BBC: \"The United Kingdom is a G7 economy with their own currency.\n\n\"And it's absolutely obvious in all of the public statements that have been made by the Bank of England and by the government of the United Kingdom, that they're aware of developments that are taking place and have every confidence in their ability to be able to manage these kinds of developments.\"\n\nBut he stressed that Ireland had taken a \"different approach\" by deciding \"not to borrow\" to fund energy crisis help, because he wanted to make sure it was affordable and \"the need to ensure financial market confidence\".\n\nThe former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, when asked about the message being sent by markets to the UK, said, \"whether it's in monetary policy or fiscal policy, or climate policy, credibility comes from commitment, clear commitment, it comes from transparency, and it's buttressed by institutions\".\n\nMr Carney said he had \"full confidence in the Bank of England\" to get inflation back down and to safeguard the financial system and \"as a consequence of both of those, markets will settle and they will price risk accordingly. And I'm sure the government is aware of that and working to ensure that it has the right budget policy\".", "The UK's energy watchdog will call on the public to cut how much gas and electricity they use this winter to guard against the risk of shortages.\n\nOfgem is set to launch a campaign to show people how to reduce energy use.\n\nOfgem boss Jonathan Brearley is expected to say that a supply emergency is unlikely.\n\nBut he will also warn the coming months could be \"difficult\" and \"we cannot at any time, particularly this winter, eliminate all risk\".\n\nThe initiative, set to be launched in a speech later on Thursday, comes as the government appeared to change direction on its own public information campaign to cut energy bills.\n\nLast week, cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi said a planned £15m government drive to encourage household energy-saving had been dropped because the National Grid and Ofgem were running similar campaigns. But the BBC also reported that the campaign had been shelved after opposition by Prime Minister Liz Truss.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, however, Pensions Minister Guy Opperman asked Ms Truss about having a nationwide mailout campaign on cutting energy usage.\n\nShe said that the Business and Energy Secretary, Jacob Rees-Mogg, \"is working on a plan to help companies and individuals use energy more efficiently\", adding: \"I hope we'll be able to start this going in Number 10 straight away.\"\n\nIn a speech due to be made at industry body Energy UK, Mr Brearley will say that \"all of us should be thinking about how to reduce our energy use where possible\".\n\nHe will add that cutting consumption \"is not only the most direct way of reducing our bills. It directly helps with security of supply, contributes to decarbonisation, and saves money for the public finances\".\n\nNational Grid recently warned that British households could lose power for up to three hours at a time this winter if gas supplies run extremely low.\n\nIt said it was an \"unlikely\" scenario, but added that supply interruptions were a possibility if the energy crisis escalated.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine has created \"unprecedented turmoil and volatility\" in the energy markets, according to National Grid. Gas flows from Russia to Europe have been all but cut off, leaving countries scrambling for alternative supplies.\n\nMr Brearley will say: \"Russia is using energy as a geopolitical weapon.\"\n\nHe is expected to tell the audience at Energy UK: \"The overall picture for Britain remains favourable. We are in a stronger position than many European countries.\n\n\"However, we should be under no illusion that this winter is likely to be a difficult environment - and we cannot at any time, particularly this winter, eliminate all risk.\n\nMr Brearley is also expected to say the government's Energy Price Guarantee and Energy Bills Support Scheme will provide \"much needed relief\" to millions of consumers and businesses.\n\nBut the Energy Price Guarantee still means that a typical household will be paying around double what they were a year ago, with the typical bill around £2,500 rather than £1,277 last October.\n\nWhat are your tips for saving energy? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The new library in Magdalene College, Cambridge, has been named the UK's best new building, winning the prestigious Riba Stirling Prize for architecture.\n\nThe \"exquisitely detailed\" building by Níall McLaughlin Architects is open 24 hours a day, as part of the 700-year-old University of Cambridge college.\n\nThe prize's judges called it a \"solid and confident, yet deferential new kid on the college block\".\n\nThe other five shortlisted buildings included a school and community centre.\n\nSimon Allford, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba), called the library, which incorporates an archive and art gallery, a \"unique setting with a clear purpose\".\n\nThe building allows for both private and communal study\n\nHe added that it had been a \"significant challenge\" to create a building that would last at least 400 years, but that the architects had managed it \"with the utmost skill, care and responsibility\".\n\n\"Well-designed environments hugely improve student success and wellbeing. They should be the rule for all students and teachers in all places of learning, not the exception.\"\n\nMagdalene College's librarian, Dr Marcus Waithe, said the architects had been given an \"unusually challenging brief: to erect a building at the edge of one of Cambridge's most historically sensitive sites, and to do so without committing an intrusion\".\n\nHe added the result was \"an inspiring structure - one that would encourage our undergraduates to aim high\".\n\nSeen from below, it has a vaulted roof\n\nMr McLaughlin said it was the first time a college had won the annual prize, and called the library \"a work of many hands and many minds\".\n\nHe added: \"We knew we were building for a client who was motivated to achieve the best outcome. Our responsibility to the history and future development of this learning community was clear. We were asked to build for the long-term using present resources wisely.\"\n\nThe new library combines load-bearing brick, gabled pitched roofs and brick chimneys, along with a tiered timber interior and a large vaulted lantern skylight.\n\nThe other five shortlisted buildings were:\n\nMr Allford was joined on the jury by architects Glenn Howells and Kirsten Lees, and artist Chris Ofili.\n• None 'Warehouse of ideas' named UK's best new building", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe gunman who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has been spared the death penalty.\n\nA jury recommended that the defendant, 24, should instead spend the rest of his life in prison for the 14 February, 2018 shooting.\n\nFamily members of victims were visibly upset and angry as the decision was read out in court.\n\nA sentencing hearing has been set for 1 November.\n\nThe gunman, Nikolas Cruz, pleaded guilty to the murders in October last year. It was the deadliest mass shooting case ever to reach a jury trial in the US.\n\nThe verdict sparing him from capital punishment was described at a press conference afterwards as \"unreal\" and \"wrong\" by relatives of those killed.\n\n\"I could not be more disappointed in what happened today,\" said Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter Jaime was among the students killed.\n\n\"I'm stunned. I'm devastated,\" he said. \"There are 17 victims that did not receive justice today. This jury failed our families today.\"\n\nThe jury's decision was also a blow for prosecutors, who had repeatedly sought to prove that the crimes were \"cold, calculated and premeditated\" and met Florida's definition of \"aggravating factors\" that warrant the death penalty.\n\nA unanimous decision would have been needed to issue a death sentence.\n\nAs each of 17 counts was read out in court, it emerged that while jurors agreed there were factors that would warrant the death penalty, at least one juror believed there were also \"mitigating factors\" that instead warranted life in prison.\n\nFamily members comfort each other as verdict is being read\n\nDistress was visible on the faces of many of the family members gathered in court. Tony Montalto - who lost his daughter, Gina, in the attack - shook his head repeatedly. His arm was around his wife, Jennifer, who dropped her head on his shoulder as the count related to Gina was read out.\n\nOther family members could be seen crying quietly. Corey Hixon - whose father Christopher Hixon died in the attack - stood up and left the room as soon he heard the jury's recommendation for a life sentence instead of death.\n\nSpeaking to reporters after the hearing, Ilan Alhadeff, whose daughter Alyssa was killed, said the gunman was \"not a human being - he's an animal\".\n\n\"I pray that animal suffers every day of his life in jail,\" he said. \"And that he has a short life.\"\n\nGordon Weekes, the Broward County public defender in charge of the defence team, called on the public to \"respect the process\" that led to the verdict.\n\nHe added that he believes the decision marks a \"solemn opportunity to reflect on the healing that is necessary for this community\".\n\nBoth Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, and his electoral opponent, Democrat Charlie Crist, said they believed the gunman should have received the death penalty.\n\n\"I just don't think anything else is appropriate except a capital sentence in this case,\" Mr DeSantis said.\n\nThe gunman was aged 19 when he walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and opened fire using a legally bought AR-15 rifle. Within four minutes, 34 people had been shot. Seventeen of them - 14 students and three staff members - were killed. The attack remains one of the deadliest school shootings in US history.\n\nIn the chaos that ensued, the gunman managed to escape the crime scene by blending in with students, and lingered in the area after buying a soft drink at a nearby fast-food restaurant. Soon after, he was arrested by police about two miles (3.2km) from the school.\n\nIn the aftermath of the killings, prosecutors presented evidence that the attack had been premeditated. The gunman researched past mass killings, and posted online comments in which he said he would show \"no mercy\". In one video, taken days before the shooting, the gunman said he planned to be the \"next school shooter\" of the year and that his goal was to murder at least 20 people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: 'My son's killer gets to live. That's not justice'\n\nThe gunman's lawyers sought to portray him as mentally ill, a young man psychologically shattered by a difficult childhood in which he was \"poisoned\" by his mother's drinking and substance abuse.\n\nThe shooting reignited the US debate over guns, and prompted a wave of youth-led activism.\n\nIn the days after the tragedy, a group of surviving students - including Cameron Kasky, David Hogg, X Gonzalez and Sarah Chadwick - called on social media for stricter gun control laws and the right to be able to go to school without the fear of being killed.\n\nJust six weeks after the attack, an estimated 800,000 people attended the \"March for Our Lives\" rally against gun violence in Washington DC.\n\nThe organisation continues to campaign for policy aims such as more regulation and control of firearms and holding the gun lobby \"accountable\".\n\nBut its legislative goals, such as a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, have proved elusive.", "Clare Maddox (right) has been hosting Olena (left) and her daughter Diana (second from left) for six months\n\nAlmost 30,000 Ukrainian refugees have been in the UK for almost six months, analysis by BBC News shows. It means nearly a third of the total arrivals under the Homes for Ukraine scheme are facing the end of their initial hosting arrangements. So what happens to them now?\n\nSix months ago, Olena Sachavo, 44, and her 22-year daughter Diana, arrived at Stansted airport, from war-torn Irpin. In tears, they were welcomed by Clare Maddox and her daughter.\n\nClare had hosted Diana a decade ago, when she came to the UK with a charity, Chernobyl Children's Lifeline. Now she was offering a refuge to Olena and Diana, who had fled the war with Russia. BBC News was there to witness the reunion. The two families hugged, unable to let go.\n\nAs part of the scheme, Ukrainian families escaping the war were offered the chance to come to the UK for up to three years and receive access to healthcare and benefits, provided a named individual agreed to put them up for a minimum of six months.\n\nDuring the past six months, Olena and Diana have lived in Clare's home, in Billericay, Essex. But the Maddox family suffered a bereavement during that time, and while they are pleased the sponsorship happened, there have been strains.\n\nOlena and Diana have been sharing a small room\n\nOlena and Diana's sponsorship period has officially ended. But none of them know what will happen next.\n\n\"It's really stressing me out,\" sighs Clare. \"I'm not going to chuck them out. But at the same time my job is done.\" Like many hosts, she is grappling with ways to help her Ukrainian refugees find alternative accommodation.\n\nAnd sometimes the burden is too much to bear. \"My guests are hoping I will magic somewhere out of thin air. They think I'll help them find somewhere, they are relying on me,\" says Clare.\n\nShe is clear her disappointment lies with the government, not her guests. \"The government was saying, people of UK open your doors; we'll be supportive of you. And they haven't been,\" she adds.\n\nShe has contacted her MP and local councils, but says she has met a \"wishy-washy\" response. \"When I offered to host, I hadn't really appreciated how much I'd have to do,\" Clare says. \"Looking after them is not so intense now as it was at the beginning.\n\n\"I used to drive them around to open bank accounts, to job centre appointments, to the Ukrainian group meetings,\" she says. \"They are extremely reliant on me. Their English is just not good enough to do anything by themselves. I can't blame them for that.\"\n\nOlena is keen to find accommodation close to the cafe where she works\n\n\"Nobody in the councils has been given any guidelines about what to do with these people,\" Clare says. \"The onus is on the host to find accommodation for them.\"\n\nClare's guests are also feeling the strain. \"I understand Clare very well, because the house is very small. There is one bathroom between the five of us,\" says Olena. She says she and Diana are living in a small room - just two metres by two metres. \"We'd also like to leave,\" she adds.\n\nSome Ukrainians have returned home. But for Olena and Diana there is no possible way back. \"We were dropped into open water by the war, and Clare is our safety buoy,\" Olena says. \"Clare has a heart of gold.\"\n\nOlena had her own fashion shop in Ukraine, but she now works up to 45 hours a week in a cafe, which is a 45-minute walk away. She is resigned to the move. \"Clare has her own family, and we are not part of her family,\" Olena says.\n\nClare says Basildon Council told her they could register Olena and her daughter as homeless. If registered homeless, Olena and Diana would be likely to be offered accommodation in a hotel, but it probably wouldn't be in Billericay, where Olena works and where they've built up a support network of local Ukrainians.\n\n\"I'm still waiting in limbo for a response from the government. They don't know what on earth they are going to do with Ukrainians,\" says Clare.\n\nEssex County Council said housing issues are the responsibility of the local city, borough or district council but Ukrainians will be re-matched with new sponsors as close to their current location as possible.\n\nJane (left) felt that they had a large house and they could help a Ukrainian family\n\nJane, 67, and her husband Nick, both retired lawyers from Oxfordshire, have been hosting Anna Semenenko, 40, and her two children, aged three and 13, at their home. Anna's family is from Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, and they are facing a similar situation.\n\n\"I feel very guilty talking about the end of hosting because the heart wants to help,\" says Jane.\n\nShe talks of the many joys of hosting, but says there are stresses also. \"They live here like a big family, but they are not family. It's quite a different relationship to understand and establish - one that we've not done before,\" Jane says.\n\nShe says it would have been helpful to recognise \"from the beginning\" that host families were not there to provide accommodation for the entirety of the war.\n\nJane says she was told Ukrainians would be prioritised for council accommodation at meetings run by Cherwell Council, but so far, none has been found.\n\nAnna says she understands Jane's position as the initial arrangement was for six months.\n\n\"We were hoping that the war would come to an end by this time, and I didn't expect that we would need to stay in the UK for much longer,\" she says.\n\nAnna Semenenko hopes that she can stay local so that her children remain in their current schools\n\nLike Olena and Diana, Anna is resigned to having to move, but she is worried.\n\n\"I'm worried that if we don't find accommodation, I'll be forced to impose change on my children again. There is a difficult journey ahead of them, they don't have roots. And another change would be a blow for them,\" she says.\n\nAnna is a mathematician, specialising in relativity theory. She re-trained as a hairdresser and later worked as an accountant in Kyiv. She is ready to cut hair \"non-stop\" and is considering renting privately. But if she remains on benefits, many landlords would not agree to her renting accommodation.\n\n\"I'd need to prove to the landlord that I earn enough to continue paying my rent. I need a deposit and a guarantor,\" Anna says. Her teenage son has also settled in the local secondary school, and her daughter has just started at a local nursery.\n\nShe doesn't know what to do next. \"I can spend two hours on the government site and not understand anything,\" she says.\n\nIn the meantime Anna and Jane are looking for an alternative host nearby, so that Anna's children don't have to move schools again. \"We've tried to find new local sponsors for Anna and her family but so far no-one has come forward,\" says Jane.\n\nWith no clear guidance from the government, both sides feel helpless.\n\nCherwell District Council said it was working to rematch Ukrainian refugees to new hosts and investigating \"moving on\" options to find independent accommodation. Ukrainian refugees' housing needs will be assessed in the same way as all other households it owes duties to, it added.\n\nOxford City Council said it was asking hosts and guests to continue with their arrangements because there was no spare social housing capacity available in Oxfordshire, while the private rented sector has limited capacity and is very expensive.\n\nAnna's hosts have lent her a car as it's difficult to get anywhere from their village by public transport\n\nNearly a 100,000 Ukrainians are in the UK on the scheme, with many looking for new sponsors at a time when there are few.\n\nMeanwhile, sponsors are calling MPs to ask for help, and MPs are seeking guidance from the government and local councils, which are being told they have been given funding to help.\n\nSome families are agreeing to extend their sponsorship. The former refugees minister, Lord Harrington, has urged the government to double the payment sponsors currently receive - to £700 a month - to encourage more to help.\n\nIn a statement, the government said \"the majority of sponsors want to continue hosting for longer than six months\".\n\n\"Where guests do move on they have a number of options, including to enter private rental or find a new host to sponsor them. Councils have a duty to ensure families are not left without a roof over their heads,\" the spokesman added.\n\nBut a coalition of civil society organisations and charities has written to the prime minister calling for more help for Ukrainian families looking for homes to rent and buy, extra winter payments for hosts, and the appointment of a new refugees minister.\n\nKate Daniels, from the Association for Family Therapy (AFT), has set up a network of therapists providing support for hosts, across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nShe says there is \"nothing worse than to feel in an impossible position and feel helpless\". \"Hosts experience guilt and a sense of shame, and all this despite often having been extremely generous and helpful,\" she says.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There have been fresh warnings of a housing slowdown after the number of people struggling to pay mortgages was forecast to hit a 15-year high.\n\nHouse sales in September hit their lowest levels since the height of the pandemic, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said.\n\nRising mortgage rates will drive house prices down this year, it warned.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Bank of England said the number struggling to pay mortgages would rise sharply next year.\n\nNew house buyer inquiries fell in September, marking the fifth month in a row they had fallen, according to RICS.\n\nIt said there continued to be fewer properties for sale which had helped push up housing prices by a small amount, but it warned this was likely to end.\n\nRICS chief economist Simon Rubinsohn said although house prices were still rising, \"storm clouds\" were gathering over both pricing and sales.\n\n\"It is difficult not to envisage further pressure on the housing sector as the economy adjusts to higher interest rates and the tight labour market begins to reverse,\" he said.\n\n\"For now, mortgage arrears and possessions remain at historic lows but they are inevitably going to move upwards over the next year, as pressure on homeowners grows,\" he added.\n\n\"However, as lenders have been a lot more cautious through this cycle, with high loan-to-value mortgages accounting for a much smaller share of the lending book than in the past, this should help to limit the adverse impact on the market.\"\n\nThe Bank of England's quarterly survey of banks and building societies on credit conditions found that mortgage lending between July and September fell and is expected to decrease again in the final three months of the year. Conversely, lending for remortgaging grew in the third quarter and is forecast to increase between October and December.\n\nMortgage rates, which had been rising since the Bank of England started to increase interest in December, shot up sharply after the government's mini-budget in September sparked alarm among investors.\n\nThe promise of huge, unfunded tax cuts led to expectations that the Bank will have to raise interest rates more aggressively than previously thought, and mortgage providers are pricing their loans accordingly.\n\nOn Thursday, the average two-year fixed mortgage rate was 6.46%, according to researcher Moneyfacts, the highest since 2008. The average five-year fixed deal was 6.28%, also close to a 14-year high.\n\nThe Bank of England said many households would struggle if interest rates rose as high as the market expected them to, with it hitting both mortgage holders and renters.\n\nCurrently it says around 1.7% of UK households - or 475,000 - are in a position where they are more likely to experience repayment difficulties. It defines that as having to spend more than 70% of their take-home pay on mortgage or rent and essentials.\n\nBut it believes that percentage will rise to 2.8% - or around 800,000 households - by the end of next year.\n\n\"Rises in the cost of living and interest rates will increase pressure on UK household finances and make households more vulnerable to shocks,\" the Bank's Financial Policy Committee said in a report on Wednesday.\n\n\"Some may find it harder to repay debts,\" it added, unless they can make significant spending cuts.\n\nHowever, it also said households were better placed to deal with financial stress than in the past, having less debt relative to their incomes.\n\nThe share of people with high loan-to-value mortgages is also much lower.\n\n\"This reduces the risk of them defaulting on debt and banks are now required to be flexible in their response,\" the Bank said.\n\nIt forecasts that about 1.7 million of the country's 11 million mortgage holders will have to refinance their loans in the coming year, moving onto much higher rates.\n\nAre you concerned about rising mortgage rates? Tell us how that is affecting you haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The government has confirmed that a £100 payment to home heating oil customers will be in the form of a credit to electricity bills.\n\nAbout two thirds of households in Northern Ireland use heating oil.\n\nThe payment was announced last month as part of a package of measures to help with energy costs but many Northern Ireland politicians have criticised it as being inadequate.\n\nIt is not yet clear when the £100 will be paid.\n\nIn an update on the scheme, the government said the relatively modest payment reflected the fact that the cost of gas heating had risen more sharply.\n\n\"The £100 payment has been calculated to ensure that a typical customer using heating oil does not face a higher rate of growth in their heating costs since last winter, in comparison to those using mains gas who are supported by the Energy Price Guarantee,\" a statement said.\n\nIt added that the government would continue to monitor the prices of alternative fuels, such as heating oil, and would consider further intervention if required.\n\nIt is not yet clear when the £100 will be paid, with the statement only referring to \"this winter.\"\n\nNor is it clear how people will be expected to prove they use oil heating.\n\nThe payment will also go to people who use LPG, coal and biomass as their main heating fuel.\n\nThe £100 will be delivered as a top-up to the £400 Energy Bills Support payment, which is going to all UK households that are connected to the gas or electricity grid.", "The neighbouring countries struck up a deal to help one other shoulder the burden of the energy crisis that has hit Europe\n\nFrance has sent gas to Germany for the first time in \"European solidarity\" amid increasing energy pressures.\n\nThe gas, delivered via a pipeline, is part of a deal between the countries to ease energy shortfalls after Russian turned off the taps to Europe.\n\nThough the new flow is less than 2% of Germany's daily needs, it is welcome as Berlin battles to diversify its energy.\n\nRussia has been accused of using gas supplies as a weapon against the West since the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nFrench grid operator, GRTgaz, said it would initially deliver 31 gigawatt hours (GWh) per day, via a pipeline from the French border village of Obergailbach.\n\nThe maximum daily capacity of the new gas flow is 100 GWh, it added in a statement.\n\nLast month, in the energy solidarity deal, Germany pledged to provide additional electricity to France when needed, and in exchange France agreed to help Germany with gas supplies.\n\n\"If we did not have European solidarity and an integrated, united market right now, we would have serious problems,\" said French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday.\n\nFrance is less affected by Russia turning off the gas taps because most of its energy needs are fulfilled by Norway and through liquified natural gas supplies.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine in February led to gas price hikes, and EU customers face record tariffs this winter.\n\nUntil then Germany relied on Russia for 55% of its gas. It has reduced this to 35% and wants eventually to reduce imports to zero.\n\nGermany is also increasing its use of coal and extending the life of power stations which were due to shut - despite the negative environmental impact.\n\nThe former German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said she did not regret relying on Russia as a major gas supplier during her 16 years in government.\n\nThe German government hopes to reduce gas usage by 2% by limiting the use of lighting and heating in public buildings this winter.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the gas taps could still be turned on to Europe and that \"the ball, as they say, is now in European Union's court\".\n\n\"We do not limit anyone in anything,\" he said, adding that Moscow was ready to supply additional volumes of gas in the autumn-winter period.\n\nBut despite Mr Putin's words, a resumption of gas supplies to Europe seems unlikely.\n\nNord Stream 1, Russia's largest gas pipeline to Europe, was closed indefinitely in August for technical reasons, and a number of leaks were then discovered in September.\n\nThe Nord Stream 2 project, which had been due to come on stream this year, was denied an operating licence by Germany because of the invasion. Leaks have been found in this pipeline as well.", "The blood-donation service has been inundated with offers of help after putting out an alert, on Wednesday, warning NHS stocks were running critically low in England.\n\nMore than 10,000 appointments to donate blood over the next few weeks have been booked in the past 24 hours.\n\nPeople can check how and where to donate, at blood.co.uk, but should be prepared for online queues, NHS Blood and Transplant says.\n\nPhone lines also saw a spike in calls.\n\nThe NHS usually has six days' worth of blood to use for operations and transfusions but levels are currently due to fall below two.\n\nType-O blood is in particular demand. O positive is the most common and anyone can receive O negative in an emergency or if their blood type is unknown.\n\nBlood supplies have been challenging since the Covid pandemic, because of staff shortages and sickness, and a change in people's behaviour means they are less likely to visit donation centres in towns and cities, according to NHSBT.\n\nIndividual hospitals must decide how to manage the shortage - for example, by postponing some non-urgent operations.\n\n\"This is an amazing response from the public and we have been reminded in the last 24 hours of the incredible goodwill and spirit of the public towards helping patients in times of great difficulty,\" an NHSBT official said.\n\n\"While the amber alert isn't a widespread donor appeal, we want to say a huge thank you to existing donors and those who came forward in their thousands yesterday to register for the first time.\n\n\"We'd like to extend a special thanks to those donors who called us to express their empathy and offering to do anything they could to help.\"\n\nBut the amber alert will remain in place for at least the next four weeks, with limited available appointments.\n\n\"We know this can be frustrating for donors who want book an appointment right now to help,\" NHSBT said.\n\n\"Please be assured that we are doing our utmost to prioritise appointments for blood types most in demand right now and in the near future - but we only have so many appointments available in the short term, so it's a fine balancing act.\"\n\nNHSBT said it was quickly developing a \"register your interest\" form so it can work with new donors who tried to sign up.\n\n\"If you are an O-neg group blood donor, please call our customer-contact centre to book a priority appointment - we are asking all other blood donors to help by filling the appointments available in the coming few weeks at our permanent donor centres.\n\n\"If you can't make an appointment now, please come back to us in a few weeks - we need to supply hospitals with blood every day of the year,\" says NHSBT.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 2021 Squid Game became the most-watched series globally in Netflix history\n\nNetflix is launching a new streaming option with adverts in November, introducing a less expensive offering as it fights to keep viewers.\n\nThe plan will be available in 12 countries including the UK, US, Canada, Mexico and Australia.\n\nThe firm said it would charge £4.99 a month for the service in the UK, while it will cost $6.99 in the US.\n\nNetflix has been losing customers as competition and cost of living pressures mount.\n\nThe company lost more than 1 million subscribers in the first half of this year. It is due to provide an update of that figure to investors next week.\n\nNetflix's move into advertising is a big change for the company, which pioneered the idea of subscription-based streaming.\n\nBut as more entertainment companies roll out online streaming platforms, it has had a harder time retaining subscribers, especially as households concerned about the rising cost-of-living look for ways to cut back.\n\nIn the UK, the least expensive plan without commercials starts at £6.99 a month.\n\n\"We're confident that ... we now have a price and plan for every fan,\" the company said in a press release.\n\n\"While it's still very early days, we're pleased with the interest from both consumers and the advertising community and couldn't be more excited about what's ahead.\"\n\nSubscribers to the new offering should expect to see an average of four to five minutes of adverts per hour, the company said.\n\nSome films and TV series also will not be available due to licensing restrictions.\n\nThe company said it planned to expand the offering to more countries over time.\n\nMany of Netflix's competitors already combine streaming with adverts or have plans to.\n\nDisney, for example, is due to roll out an advert supported service in December in the US. That plan will start at $7.99 a month.\n\nJeremi Gorman, Netflix's president of worldwide advertising, said it had nearly sold out all the available ad time for the launch, a sign of the interest from advertisers in reaching younger audiences that are increasingly turning away from traditional television.\n\nNetflix is asking people who sign up for the ad service for gender and birth date information as part of efforts to target ads.", "Fake designer watches and unsafe vapes were among the items seized\n\nA London council has seized more than £200,000 worth of counterfeit goods from sweet and souvenir shops along Oxford Street.\n\nWestminster City Council said fake designer watches and unsafe vapes were among the items taken from businesses along the famous shopping route.\n\nHundreds of children's toys, power banks, and electrical chargers without safety labels were also confiscated.\n\nIt comes as the council unveils multi-million pound regeneration plans.\n\nAdam Hug from the local authority said there had \"been an explosion\" of the American-themed candy shops, which \"are a threat to the status\" of Oxford Street.\n\nThe council said it is cracking down on \"dodgy sweet shops\"\n\nInvestigations are under way, in conjunction with Trading Standards, into 30 of the stores in the West End amid allegations that some companies have evaded business rates to the amount to £8m.\n\nMr Hug added the revamp of Oxford Street was to attract \"high-value retail tenants\".\n\nHe said the council was \"cracking down on dodgy sweet shops which leave a sour taste in the mouth for people who go in them\".\n\nThe plans for a revamp include wider pavements and more street foliage.\n\nThe newly-elected Labour administration has said it will learn from the mistakes made by the previous Conservative-run council, which oversaw the infamous Marble Arch Mound.\n\nAn investigation into the disappointing attraction last year found the soaring costs were \"devastating\" and \"avoidable\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "RMT members are striking over pay, conditions and proposed changes to the business\n\nScotRail workers are to go on strike again later this month.\n\nThe operator received confirmation from the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) that members would take part in a 24-hour strike on 29 October.\n\nAn overtime ban also took effect for RMT members on Friday, with passengers being warned to expect last-minute cancellations on ScotRail trains.\n\nIt is the latest industrial action from rail workers after the union rejected a renewed pay offer last week.\n\nAnnouncing the strike, RMT Scotland tweeted: \"Now is the time to stand together and win a pay offer that addresses the rising cost of living.\"\n\nPhil Campbell, ScotRail's head of customer operations, said he had received confirmation of the strike from the union, adding: \"We are now assessing the impact this will have on our services and working on contingency arrangements.\n\n\"We will update customers as soon as this is complete.\"\n\nThe RMT rejected ScotRail's latest package of a 5% basic pay increase, a six-year job guarantee, a one-off £500 payment for technology such as mobile phones and improved maternity leave conditions.\n\nThe company had also put forward a further payment of £390 and enhanced commission for front-line teams.\n\nAbout 2,000 employees at ScotRail are members of the RMT union.\n\nAs such, the overtime ban is expected to involve daily cancellations from Friday.\n\nScotRail said information on the potential impact on services would be made available on social media, on the ScotRail website and on its app.\n\nSpeaking earlier about the overtime ban, Mr Campbell said: \"We are really disappointed with this additional industrial action, which will again impact on our customers, following the strike action earlier in the week.\n\n\"The ban on overtime does nothing for the railway's recovery during this challenging time, and in addition to the impact on those travelling, it will further cost our staff with lost income.\n\n\"We do rely on staff working overtime in various parts of the business as we actively recruit to fill vacancies, and unfortunately there will be some daily cancellations starting from Friday 14 October and throughout the period of the RMT's ban.\"\n\nHe added: \"We will do everything we can to minimise the impact on customers, however, there will be some disruption. We advise customers to check their journey before they travel, particularly in the morning before they start their day.\n\n\"We are continuing to meet with RMT representatives to resolve this dispute.\"\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: \"Our industrial action campaign on ScotRail will continue until we can find a just settlement to our dispute.\n\n\"We are open to meaningful talks with ScotRail at any time to discuss all the outstanding issues.\"", "Christina Rees will now sit in the Commons as an independent\n\nNeath MP Christina Rees has been suspended from Labour following reported allegations of bullying.\n\nThe politician, who has represented the constituency since 2015, has lost the party whip pending an investigation.\n\nIt means the former shadow Welsh secretary will sit in the Commons as an independent. The Guardian said Ms Rees faces allegations of bullying staff.\n\nMs Rees told the newspaper she was cooperating fully with the investigation.\n\nThe Guardian reported the move followed complaints by staff working for her in her south Wales constituency. Labour has declined to comment.\n\nThe MP took her seat in 2015 after Peter Hain stood down at that year's general election.\n\nShe is the 14th MP to be sitting in parliament as an independent, joining others who have lost the whip from their parties.\n\nBorn in the village of Kenfig Hill in south Wales, the qualified barrister has represented Wales in squash more than 100 times.\n\nShe was a member of the Great Britain Youth Team to the Munich Olympics.\n\nMs Rees, who served on the Labour frontbench during Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, was married to former Welsh Secretary Ron Davies until they divorced in 1999.\n\nShe told the Guardian: \"There has been a complaint made against me to the Labour Party, which is under investigation and I am therefore under an administrative suspension until the process is concluded. I'm not aware of the details of the complaint but I am fully cooperating with the investigation.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. LISTEN: The voices of Dame Margot Fonteyn, Bing Crosby and Sir Dirk Bogarde on Desert Island Discs\n\nMore than 90 lost recordings of BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs have been discovered by an audio collector from Lowestoft in Suffolk.\n\nBing Crosby, Dame Margot Fonteyn, James Stewart, David Hockney and Dirk Bogarde are among the big names who appear in the episodes found by Richard Harrison.\n\nHe described finding the missing recordings which date back to the 1960s and 1970s as \"a great feeling\".\n\nFormer Discs presenter Sue Lawley said: \"Thank God for Mr Lowestoft.\"\n\nBing Crosby tells the programme he was named after a comic strip character\n\nThe voices on the rediscovered tapes speak from a bygone era; clipped, formal, with the odd American accent thrown in.\n\nAmongst the US stars are not just Crosby and Stewart but one of the most popular entertainers of the first half of the 20th Century, the actress and singer Sophie Tucker. Unlike these men, but like many others on the list, Tucker is no longer a household name.\n\nMany of the luxuries chosen by the interviewees being cast away are also of a different time.\n\nFonteyn asks for the kind of \"mask that skin divers use\".\n\nBogarde wants John Singer Sargent's \"haunting\" portrait of the Sitwell family, pointing out that he could turn it into a tent or a raft if he needed to.\n\nBob Monkhouse asks for a \"large colour picture of Marilyn Monroe to remind me of what I'm supposed to forget\".\n\nAs for reading matter, Hockney requests an out of print pornographic book, Route 69 by Floyd Carter, \"otherwise you might fantasise too much on the island\".\n\nCrosby wants Roget's Thesaurus because with that, and a sharp stick, \"I could do some useful writing\".\n\nThe programmes are an insight into the lives of some of the (predominately white male) greats of the last century, many of whom are no longer with us. They are also a window onto a British cultural institution.\n\nRichard Harrison in his attic where he keeps collected recordings\n\nI met Richard Harrison at his home in Lowestoft where he told me he's always been \"interested in finding missing radio\". He's a member of the Radio Circle, a group of enthusiasts who try to locate lost programmes. He says he honed in on Desert Island Discs because it's \"such an iconic programme\".\n\nFor years the BBC didn't automatically archive its radio programmes, so when episodes are missing, collectors like Harrison are dependent on listeners from the period who recorded the shows on reels and cassettes so they could listen again.\n\nHarrison's attic is stacked full of boxes of recordings he's bought at car boot sales and, more often, auctions. Some are labelled, others aren't. In his spare time, he loads them on to his old player to discover what's on them.\n\n\"It's a great feeling. You open up a box and you have no idea what might be on the tape.\"\n\nDirk Bogarde says he was influenced by Rex Harrison more than anyone else\n\nHarrison was \"most excited\" to find, on an unlabelled reel, an episode from 1964 with the award-winning actor Bogarde.\n\n\"The neighbours must have wondered what was up. I let out a huge yell of triumph, it was a genuinely great moment\".\n\nIn the show, Bogarde tells the presenter Roy Plomley he was determined to be an actor \"as soon as I was born\". His first job in the theatre was \"cleaning out the gentleman's lavatory in the Kew Theatre\".\n\nBogarde went on to star in films including The Servant, Oh! What a Lovely War and Death in Venice. He reveals in the episode that he had \"lost my nerve for the theatre\", his first love, and had \"decided to pack that in\".\n\nThe tone is respectful. Plomley, who devised and hosted Desert Island Discs from 1942 until his death in 1985, didn't interrogate his guests in the style of interviewing we have come to expect now; there's rarely a follow-up question.\n\nAccording to Lawley, early on in the show's history Plomley would take his interviewees out to London's Garrick Club for lunch. \"They would have the whole conversation, then he would go home and type it all up. Then they would meet at Broadcasting House across a green baize table and read the script to each other.\"\n\nMargot Fonteyn said she would be \"delighted\" to get away from the telephone on a desert island\n\nWhether scripted or not, Plomley's recordings are sometimes as interesting for the questions he doesn't ask.\n\nDame Margot's appearance in 1965 was the 750th edition of the long-running show. The Royal Ballet's prima ballerina extraordinaire told Plomley she was looking forward to living on a desert island as she would be \"delighted\" to get away from the telephone.\n\nWith World War Two still casting a long shadow, she describes being on tour in the Netherlands in 1940 when she saw the German army \"landing by parachute\". The ballet company \"left hurriedly in what we were wearing and what we could wear on top of our ordinary clothes\", abandoning scenery, costumes, music, \"everything else\".\n\nPlomley does mention the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, but only to ask about whether they had to change their styles to work together. Nureyev had defected to the West just a few years earlier and Dame Margot had famously forged a dancing partnership of such chemistry that rumours grew as to the nature of their relationship. Yet Plomley is discretion personified.\n\nDame Margot is one of just 18 women who appear in the rescued episodes. Others include the 1967 Forsyte Saga star, Nyree Dawn Porter, sometimes described as the first romantic sex symbol of the television age. Her introduction in an episode from 1970 bluntly signals what a different era these recordings were made in.\n\n\"This week our castaway is an actress,\" says Plomley, \"and a very attractive one, too\".\n\nThese rescued episodes are indisputably of their time. They also illustrate why Desert Island Discs, as Lawley puts it, is \"much more than a simple little radio show\". Its secret is that music is a \"direct line to your feeling\" and through the music you get \"this great tide of emotion that runs underneath it\".\n\nThe programme was originally recorded in the BBC's bomb-damaged Maida Vale studio in 1942, airing on the Forces Programme two days later.\n\nIt came off-air in 1946, returning to the Home Service in 1951 before transferring to Radio 4 in 1967, with the guests' mainly classical choices in these episodes reflecting that history.\n\nThere are exceptions. Dudley Moore says \"when I can't sleep, I'll play a record\". His second choice is Spinning Wheel by Blood Sweat and Tears, because \"I think pop is giving jazz a tremendous boost in spirit\".\n\nCrosby manages to squeeze his friends into his track choices, kicking off with a record from his brother's band, the Bob Crosby Bobcats.\n\nThe interview with Crosby took place in 1975, less than two years before he died. But that smooth, unmistakeable voice still sounds like he's in his High Society heyday. He makes a plea to be cast away on an island in the South Pacific, \"where you can swim, maybe fashion a hook and fish\".\n\nCrosby's luxury is a guitar. \"Out there alone, I'd get to be very good at it, but nobody would hear me.\"\n\nI like to imagine Crosby, and all the other long departed guests of these programmes, happily enjoying their rejuvenated immortality on a distant desert island. They have been given new life in these rescued episodes, and as the crystal surf laps over their sun-drenched feet, we should all rejoice at being able to rediscover them.\n\nListen to the rescued Desert Island Discs episodes on BBC Sounds. Richard Harrison will appear on Raiders of the Lost Archives on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds on Thursday.", "The US congressional committee investigating last year's Capitol riot is issuing a legal summons for former President Donald Trump to testify.\n\n\"He is required to answer for his actions,\" said Representative Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat.\n\nIf Mr Trump does not comply with the summons, known as a subpoena, he could face criminal charges and imprisonment.\n\nThe select committee is looking into Trump supporters' storming of Congress on 6 January 2021.\n\nThe panel's seven Democrats and two Republicans voted 9-0 in favour on Thursday of issuing the subpoena for the former Republican president to provide documents and testimony under oath in connection with the Capitol riot.\n\nThe subpoena is expected to be issued in the coming days, and include a deadline for when Mr Trump must comply.\n\nRepresentative Liz Cheney, the committee's vice-chairwoman and a Wyoming Republican, said: \"We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. And every American is entitled to those answers.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe surprise move came during the investigation's ninth and possibly final public hearing for the investigation into last year's raid on Congress.\n\nAt Thursday's session the committee said it would focus on Mr Trump's \"state of mind\" as he refused to admit defeat to Joe Biden in the presidential election of November 2020.\n\nMr Trump - who has lambasted the inquiry as a ruse designed to distract US voters from the \"disaster\" of Democratic governance - is widely expected to refuse to testify and fight the subpoena.\n\nIn a 14-page letter responding to the subpoena on Thursday, he once again accused the committee of failing to investigate his claims of election fraud.\n\n\"This memo is being written to express our anger, disappointment, and complaint that with all of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on what many consider to be a Charade and Witch Hunt, and despite strong and powerful requests, you have not spent even a short moment on examining the massive Election Fraud that took place during the 2020 Presidential Election, and have targeted only those who were, as concerned American Citizens, protesting the Fraud itself,\" he wrote.\n\nEarlier, on his Truth Social platform, he had questioned why the committee waited \"until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting\" to ask him to testify.\n\nHis former political strategist, Steve Bannon, also flouted a similar legal summons from the select committee to testify, and he was found guilty in July of criminal contempt of Congress.\n\nDuring Thursday's hearing, the committee showed never-before-seen footage of Congress being evacuated as the building was breached, and lawmakers being moved to secure shelters.\n\nDemocratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, whose daughter filmed the video, is seen expressing shock when told that lawmakers in another part of the building were being told to wear gas masks.\n\nShe and other lawmakers in the clip desperately call military officials and the governors of nearby states in a plea for more resources to fight back the mob.\n\nMike Pence, Mr Trump's vice-president, is heard on the phone speaking to Mrs Pelosi about how long it will be before lawmakers can return to the floor to resume voting on Mr Biden's confirmation.\n\nThe committee also heard evidence that Mr Trump was aware he had lost, but encouraged the conspiracy theory about a stolen election anyway.\n\nWhite House communications aide Alyssa Farah said in videotaped testimony that about a week after the election the president was watching the news when he said to her: \"Can you believe I lost to this effing guy?\"\n\nThe panel has spent more than a year interviewing over 1,000 witnesses, including Mr Trump's children, his top aides and top military and police officials.\n\nUnder the committee's rules, its lawmakers must produce a report of their findings. It is expected to be released in December.\n\nMs Cheney and the only other Republican on the panel, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, have become pariahs in their party amid conservative backlash to their participation in the inquiry.\n\nShe lost a primary election this summer for her Wyoming seat, and Mr Kinzinger has decided not to run in next month's US midterm elections.\n\nMore than 850 people have been charged with participating in the riot at Congress.", "Charley-Ann Patterson was targeted by other pupils who called her names, her inquest has heard\n\nA 12-year-old girl who killed herself \"suffered some bullying\" but the abuse did not \"cross the criminal threshold\", a police officer has told her inquest.\n\nCharley-Ann Patterson was found dead at her home in Cramlington, Northumberland, on 1 October 2020.\n\nDet Sgt Lee Baldwin said she had been called names, including sexually offensive slurs, and people had clapped in her face to \"make fun of her tics\".\n\nHer parents have said she struggled to get mental health support.\n\nDuring an investigation after the schoolgirl's death, a number of people known to the family \"raised concerns around Charley being bullied\", Det Sgt Baldwin told Northumberland Coroner's Court.\n\nThat had included name-calling as well as comments such as \"I hope you get run over by a bus\", he added.\n\nWhen Charley was found dead in her bedroom, she had the word \"freak\" written on her hand and the television was paused on a screen that said: \"I'm a misfit.\"\n\nThe hearing was told police considered criminal offences including encouraging suicide and malicious communications.\n\nHowever, Det Sgt Baldwin said: \"Although it is possible to find incidents and identify persons who have on occasions said or done something to Charley which would have undoubtedly caused some distress, none of those incidents appear to be sufficient to cross the criminal threshold.\n\n\"As a result, no prosecutions have been progressed.\"\n\nHe added: \"There is nothing to suggest the death was anything other than a suicide.\"\n\nIf you've been affected by self-harm or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.\n\nOn Wednesday, the inquest heard that in March 2020, just before the first Covid-19 lockdown, Charley sent an email to a school staff member asking whether it would be possible to move forms as a girl \"keeps spreading rumours about me\".\n\nThe message continued: \"Other people have started joining in and being mean to me.\"\n\nGill Travers, designated safeguarding lead at Cramlington Learning Village, told the hearing that when asked about the email, Charley had \"backtracked\" and said it was \"more of a case of people not talking to her\".\n\nThe inquest has also heard evidence that Charley felt \"isolated\" in the months before her death and had self harmed.\n\nAdditionally, she had been left \"visibly upset\" by a TikTok video relating to suicide and other messages sent by pupils from her school.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Savers are finally being offered better rewards from providers after years of low interest rates, but some deals are being pulled within hours.\n\nExperts say banks and building societies are leapfrogging each other on best-buy tables as they advertise new products with better returns.\n\nThis is the flipside of more expensive mortgages seen in recent weeks.\n\nMany providers are raising money by attracting savers which helps them to lend mortgages and other loans.\n\nHowever, when they have brought in the money they need, their deals are being withdrawn before they become oversubscribed.\n\n\"Things are changing so quickly that people are in danger of missing the peak,\" said Anna Bowes, of independent comparison service Savings Champion.\n\n\"They may be hanging around for something better. Some who are not sure what to do are leaving their money in accounts which offer nothing in interest.\"\n\nHowever, whatever the rate, at the same time the buying power of those savings is being eaten away by inflation, or rising prices. The UK inflation rate is currently 9.9%.\n\nThe Bank of England has been engaged in a bond-buying programme in recent days to fulfil its role in bringing financial stability to the UK.\n\nBut separately, it is still widely expected to raise interest rates as part of its monetary policy. That likelihood was heightened by the recent mini-budget.\n\nAs a result, the interest charged on new fixed-rate mortgages has been increasing. The average two-year fixed deal now has a rate of close to 6.5%, according to the financial information service Moneyfacts. On the day of the mini-budget, it was 4.74%.\n\nAs rates rise, so do the interest rates offered to savers. In recent days, rates on easy access accounts have reached 2.75%. For those willing to lock their savings in for a year, returns are close to 4.5%. Both are much higher than anything offered in recent years.\n\nThe idea of saving money will be alien to many people struggling with the rising cost of living. A recent survey by the Building Societies Association (BSA) found 35% of those questioned had stopped saving as a result of the rising cost of living.\n\nMeanwhile, 36% of those asked said they were relying on their savings to get through a period of rising bills and prices.\n\nSome credit unions are offering ways to help families save for expensive times of year, such as Christmas.\n\nJonathan Moore, chief executive of the Stockport Credit Union, said they were encouraging a savings habit with products that lock in savings until they are released to help pay festive costs, or to cover higher energy bills.\n\nMany millions of pounds are still in savings accounts - some of which was built up during Covid lockdowns - but some of that will receive almost nothing in interest if it has been in the same account for years. The BSA said that 31% of those asked in its survey never checked what interest rate they were getting with their bank or building society.\n\nHigher rates can also help those who have saved for a pension, despite the current turbulence in that sector.\n\nAn annuity is a fixed retirement income for the rest of your life which you buy once using some, or all, of the pension pot saved up when you are working.\n\nThey have been somewhat out of favour during a decade of low interest rates.\n\nNow they are becoming more attractive again. The deal you get is better when gilt yields are high, and they have been rising.\n\nProviders say demand is growing as new pensioners consider how best to manage their finances in retirement. The free, government-backed MoneyHelper service, with its Pension Wise helpline, can assist with some of the basics.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has named Neath MP Christina Rees as the new shadow Welsh secretary.\n\nShe replaces Jo Stevens, who resigned last month in protest at an instruction that Labour MPs should back the bill to trigger Brexit.\n\nMs Rees is the fifth appointment to the role since the 2015 general election.\n\nMr Corbyn said his team's strength would \"develop Labour's alternative plan to rebuild and transform Britain\".\n\nIn other appointments, Rebecca Long-Bailey becomes shadow business secretary, Sue Hayman takes the environment, food and rural affairs brief, and the new shadow chief secretary to the Treasury is Peter Dowd.\n\nMs Rees was a shadow justice minister in January 2016 but resigned after the EU referendum, only to return to the job in October 2016.\n\nShe backed Andy Burnham for the Labour leadership in 2015 and Owen Smith in 2016.\n\nA former Welsh squash international who won more than 100 caps, the new shadow Welsh secretary was preceded by Ms Stevens, Paul Flynn, Nia Griffith and Mr Smith.\n\nMs Rees was previously married to former Labour Welsh Secretary Ron Davies.\n\nChristina Rees is the fourth MP to hold the shadow Welsh secretary's job under Jeremy Corbyn - and the fifth since the general election less than two years ago when she entered Parliament.\n\nShe supported Owen Smith's challenge to Mr Corbyn's leadership last year but voted with the Labour leader to trigger Brexit this week.\n\nEight Welsh Labour MPs rebelled in that vote, including Shadow Arts Minister Kevin Brennan.\n\nUnusually, the Cardiff West MP and other frontbench rebels are likely to keep their jobs, a sign of Mr Corbyn's limited authority as leader.", "The song was recorded after Freddie Mercury had been diagnosed with HIV but before he made it public\n\nQueen have revealed a previously unheard, deeply emotional song they recorded with Freddie Mercury in 1988.\n\nFace It Alone, which the late singer recorded during sessions for 1989 album The Miracle, was given its premiere by BBC Radio 2's Ken Bruce on Thursday.\n\n\"We did find a little gem from Freddie, that we'd kind of forgotten about,\" drummer Roger Taylor said about the track in June.\n\n\"It's wonderful, a real discovery. It's a very passionate piece.\"\n\nThe song is one of six unreleased tracks to feature in a forthcoming box set of The Miracle, four of which feature Mercury's vocals.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Queen Official This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Queen Official\n\nA slow, sombre ballad, Face It Alone opens with a pounding drum and a finger-picked guitar line, before Mercury sings: \"When something so near and dear to life / Explodes inside / You feel your soul is set on fire.\"\n\nIt was recorded during the historic sessions for The Miracle in London and Switzerland, when Mercury had been diagnosed with HIV but hadn't made it public.\n\nIn a powerful vocal, he appears to reference his failing health, growing increasingly passionate as he repeats the refrain: \"In the end / You have to face it all alone.\"\n\nGuitarist Brian May originally thought the recording was unsalvageable, but engineers proved him wrong.\n\n\"It was kind of hiding in plain sight,\" he told Radio 2's Zoe Ball earlier this year.\n\n\"We looked at it many times and thought, oh no, we can't really rescue that. But in fact, we went in there again and our wonderful engineering team went, 'OK, we can do this and this.'\n\n\"It's like kind of stitching bits together... but it's beautiful, it's touching.\"\n\nQueen's Greatest Hits is the best-selling album of all time in the UK\n\nOne of more than 20 off-cuts from the sessions, Face It Alone is much darker than tracks like I Want It All and The Invisible Man, which eventually made it on to The Miracle.\n\nThe album's closing track Was It All Worth It, however, dealt with similar themes, as the star reflected on his life and career and asked: \"Am I a happy man / Or is this sinking sand?\"\n\nMercury died in November 1991, nine months after Queen's final album Innuendo - the successor to The Miracle - was released.\n\nThe surviving group members reconvened in 1995 to record Made In Heaven, completing songs the singer had recorded before his death.\n\nThe last \"new\" Queen music featuring Mercury's vocals came out eight years ago, when May and Taylor included the Michael Jackson duet There Must Be More to Life Than This on the 2014 Queen Forever compilation.\n\nIn 2019, a stripped-down version of Mercury's 1986 solo single Time was also released under the title Time Waits for No One.\n\nSince 2011, the band have toured with American Idol star Adam Lambert, selling out stadiums across the world. Their 1981 Greatest Hits album is the UK's best-selling album of all time, with more than seven million copies sold.\n\nFace It Alone is being released as a single on Thursday, with the Miracle box set following on 18 November.\n\nThe eight-disc collection will feature alternative takes and demos, alongside radio interviews and fly-on-the-wall recordings from the album sessions.\n\nThe other unreleased tracks are When Love Breaks Up, You Know You Belong To Me, Dog With a Bone, Water and fan favourite I Guess We're Falling Out.\n\nSeveral of those have circulated on bootlegs over the last 30 years, but this marks their first official release.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Paul Lyon-Maris was cleared of dangerous driving and assault\n\nA theatrical agent who drove for 65ft (20m) with a cycling activist on the bonnet of his car has been cleared of assault and dangerous driving.\n\nPaul Lyon-Maris, who has represented actors including Colin Firth and Sir Ian McKellen, told a jury the YouTuber Michael Van Erp \"jumped\" on his car.\n\nMr Van Erp tried to stop Mr Lyon-Maris driving on the wrong side of the road.\n\nThe agent had pulled out of a queue near Regent's Park in central London because he was running late.\n\nProsecution lawyer James Dean told Southwark Crown Court that Mr Lyon-Maris, 60, used his Range Rover \"as a weapon\" in an act of \"road rage\" during rush hour in September 2021.\n\nMr Van Erp - who is known for catching motorists, including ex-boxer Chris Eubank and film director Guy Ritchie, breaking road laws - filmed the incident using a head camera and a selfie stick.\n\nThe 50-year-old road safety activist, told jurors Mr Lyon-Maris drove at him and he fell on to the vehicle \"like a crash test dummy\".\n\nBut the jury acquitted Mr Lyon-Maris, from Belsize Park in north-west London, of dangerous driving and common assault.\n\nHe had previously pleaded guilty to a traffic offence for ignoring a \"keep left\" sign to make a right turn and was fined at the magistrates' court.\n\nThe judge, Recorder Jonathan Bellamy, said: \"I wish Mr Lyon-Maris luck in his profession and elsewhere.\"\n\nMr Van Erp, who works as a carer, told how he gained \"notoriety\" after broadcaster Jeremy Vine retweeted one of his videos of him on the bonnet of a silver Mercedes on the same stretch of road.\n\nHe claims to have been responsible for hundreds of prosecutions against motorists.\n\nHe told the jury he accepted stepping out in front of vehicles was \"risky\" but added: \"I look at it in the same way as taking the keys off a drink-driver - I want to stop the immediate harm.\"\n\nGiving evidence, Mr Lyon-Maris said he did not know who Mr Van Erp was or what he was doing when he stepped out in front of him, telling jurors: \"I did not move forward. He jumped on to the bonnet, moved back and jumped on again.\"\n\nHe said he was \"surprised and a little intimidated\" during the incident and insisted: \"I'm not a person who becomes enraged.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Malala Yousafzai returned to her native Pakistan and met with families affected by mass flooding.\n\nThe Nobel Peace Prize winner visited communities that had been devastated.\n\nAn estimated 33 million people were affected by the floods.\n\nMalala called on other countries to donate more aid to help those who've been displaced.", "A nurse accused of murdering babies on a neonatal ward wrote notes reading \"I am evil\" and \"I killed them on purpose because I'm not good enough\", a court has heard.\n\nLucy Letby is charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016.\n\nHer trial at Manchester Crown Court was told the notes were found following a search of her home.\n\nThe court heard the passages were written on post-it notes, and included phrases such as \"what allegations have been made and by who? Do they have written evidence to support their comments?\".\n\nThe notes also contained \"many protestations of innocence,\" prosecutor Nick Johnson KC told the jury.\n\nOne said: \"I haven't done anything wrong and they have no evidence so why have I had to hide away?\"\n\nOther notes read \"I am a horrible evil person\", the court heard, and \"I killed them on purpose because I'm not good enough\".\n\nIn one, in capital letters, Ms Letby wrote \"I am evil. I did this,\" the jury was told.\n\nThe nurse's tightly-written notes were shown to the jury during the trial\n\nThe parents of some of the babies concerned were in court to hear the prosecution speech, and saw the note as it was shown on large screens.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Well, ladies and gentlemen, that in a nutshell is your task in this case.\n\n\"Whether or not she did these dreadful things is the decision you will have to make when you have heard all the evidence.\"\n\nOutlining Ms Letby's defence, Ben Myers KC, said \"anyone with an ounce of human understanding\" would see the notes as \"the anguished outpouring of a young woman in fear and despair when she realises the enormity of what is being said about her\".\n\nHe said they also contained passages such as \"I'll never marry or have children\" and \"I haven't done anything wrong\".\n\nThe notes showed \"anguish not guilt\", he said.\n\nThe court earlier heard Ms Letby is accused of murdering a baby referred to in court as Child P.\n\nThe baby boy was from a set of triplets and died the day after she is said to have murdered his brother, Child O.\n\nChild P suffered an \"acute deterioration\" before preparations were put in place to move him to another hospital.\n\nJust before the planned transfer, a doctor was said to be \"optimistic\" about his prospects but then \"all of a sudden Lucy Letby said to him something like 'he's not leaving alive here, is he?'\", Mr Johnson said.\n\nThe baby collapsed and died shortly afterwards, the court heard.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"That remark surprised [the doctor] but Lucy Letby's prediction came true.\n\n\"After all, she knew what she had done to him and therefore she knew what was likely to happen. It is certainly what she intended because it was something she had done to so many other children.\"\n\nThe nurse is accused of injecting Child Q with excess air and a clear fluid, possibly water or saline, into his stomach through a nasogastric tube in a bid to murder him.\n\nThe baby was later transferred to another hospital, where he went on to make a \"rapid recovery\".\n\nMr Johnson said the child was another example whereby \"investigations at the time could find nothing wrong\" and when he was \"moved out of Lucy Letby's orbit he made a rapid recovery\".\n\nLucy Letby worked on the neonatal ward at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nMr Johnson said consultants eventually suspected the deaths and life-threatening collapses of the 17 children were \"not medically explicable and were the result of the actions of Lucy Letby\".\n\nThe prosecutor told jurors: \"No doubt they were acutely aware that making such an allegation against a nurse was as serious as it gets.\n\n\"They did not, at the time, have the benefit of the evidence that you are going to hear and the decision was made by the hospital to remove Lucy Letby from a hands-on role.\n\n\"She was moved to clerical duties where she would not come into contact with children.\"\n\nThe police were contacted and a \"very lengthy and complex\" investigation followed which involved instructing independent paediatricians and other specialists to review many cases that passed through the neo-natal unit, the court heard.\n\nFollowing that review, the decision was made to arrest Lucy Letby on 3 July 2018, said Mr Johnson.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Most of the deaths related to Covid-19 last week happened in hospitals\n\nThe number of people dying from coronavirus in Scotland has fallen, according to the latest figures.\n\nData from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) showed that Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate of 161 people who died in September compared with 213 in August.\n\nThose living in the most deprived areas were most at risk.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, the highest rate of Covid-related deaths was in April 2020 when 2,413 people died.\n\nOf the 15,794 people in Scotland whose deaths involved Covid-19, 93% (14,750) had at least one pre-existing condition, with the most common being dementia or Alzheimer's disease.\n\nIn both August and September, there were more deaths in men than women.\n\nFigures from the first week of October showed that the number of death certificates mentioning Covid-19 had dropped again to 36, nine fewer than the previous week, however, the number of infections in Scotland is rising again.\n\nLast week, six of the Covid deaths were in South Lanarkshire, and there were four each in the Glasgow and Edinburgh city council areas. Most deaths occurred in hospitals, six were in care homes, and four were at home or in a non-institutional setting.\n\nReferring to the weekly figures, Pete Whitehouse, director of statistical services at NRS, said deaths from all causes in Scotland - 1,275 for that week - were still 15% higher than the five-year average.\n\n\"People living in the most deprived areas were 2.4 times as likely to die with Covid-19 as those in the least deprived areas,\" he said.\n\n\"The size of this gap slowly widened over the period of the pandemic but has narrowed since January 2022, when the gap was 2.5.\"\n\nNRS said there had been nine deaths in Scotland in which the underlying cause of death adverse effects of a Covid-19 vaccination, with four further fatalities having an adverse effect mentioned on the death certificate.\n\nBy 30 September this year, statistics from Public Health Scotland showed 4.4 million people had been given at least one vaccine dose.", "More landlords will be forced to give six months' notice for no-fault evictions under last minute plans to change a housing law.\n\nUnder current rules landlords can ask tenants to leave without giving a reason - with just two months' warning.\n\nA new law, due to come in from December, means new renters will have to be given six months' notice.\n\nNow Welsh ministers want to expand to some existing tenants - admitting the original plans left many at risk of short notice evictions for years.\n\nBut this extension would only come into force in June, six months later than the rest of the law.\n\nIt will apply to people on so-called rolling tenancies, which have no end date.\n\nThere are fears that the delay to the extension - which is under consultation - could spark a \"wave of evictions\".\n\nShelter Cymru called for the Welsh government to bring forward the plans, to ensure the same notice would need to be given to new tenants and those in rolling tenancies from the same date.\n\nThe new terms if approved will apply to tenants on periodic contracts - also known as rolling tenancies - that have no specific end dates.\n\nThat is opposed to a fixed-term agreement, which have an end date in mind, are not covered by the proposed extension to the no fault eviction law.\n\nTheir contracts may eventually convert to the new rules if landlords allow their tenants to remain in the property.\n\nOne group warned that in the current market it would be \"extremely difficult\" for people who find themselves evicted before the summer to find homes.\n\nMeanwhile an organisation representing landlords called for the delay to be even longer, adding that short notice changes were leading to some quitting the sector.\n\nMinisters launched the consultation following concerns from the housing sector over how the original law was going to work.\n\nNo-fault or Section 21 evictions are where private landlords can ask tenants to leave without giving a reason - under existing law landlords need to give tenants two months.\n\nThere are longstanding calls for no-fault evictions to be reformed - Shelter Cymru says it can be hard for tenants to find a home in such a short period of time.\n\nThe changes are being considered to the already delayed Wales' Renting Homes legislation, which will see the conversion of tenants' contracts to simplify them and new rules on landlords to keep their homes in good repair.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe law was originally passed six years ago, and was amended in 2021 to include the no-fault eviction rules. It was due to come into force in the summer, before it was delayed until December.\n\nUnder the Renting Homes legislation, new tenants will have a minimum of one year to live in their home - after the initial six month period landlords would need to give another six if they wanted to evict.\n\nIn the consultation the Welsh government said the way the new housing law had been drawn up meant that a \"significant number\" of tenants would remain subject to two-month notice periods for \"some years\".\n\nIt said that rules had \"the practical disadvantage of rendering the Renting Homes system less effective in terms of improving security of tenure\" for people on assured shorthold tenancy contracts (ASTs).\n\nThe consultation added that as the change was at a \"relatively late stage\" there was a \"strong case\" for applying the changes six months after the act comes into force, \"thus allowing landlords time to make any necessary adjustments to prepare for their implementation\".\n\nThat prompted \"real concern\" from Shelter Cymru, which said the notice period extension \"needs to happen on 1 December 2022, alongside the other changes, to stop a wave of evictions in the months after Christmas\".\n\nA spokeswoman said they had asked Welsh government to extend eviction notice periods to six-months for people with pre-existing tenancies \"and are pleased to see that they are listening\".\n\nKatie Dalton, director of Cymorth Cymru, an organisation which represents housing services, welcomed the proposal but also expressed fears the delay \"will leave existing tenants facing a prolonged and unnecessary period of inequity and uncertainty\".\n\n\"If people are evicted during that period, they would only have two months to find a new home - and in the current housing market, that would be extremely difficult for many people.\"\n\nDouglas Haig, a director of the National Residential Landlords Association, accused the Welsh government of \"constant tinkering and short notice changes... when we are less than two months from implementation\".\n\nHe alleged it was \"yet another reason as to why we are seeing landlords exit the sector\", saying landlords had been entering into contracts \"expecting to be able to retain their two-months notice period\".\n\n\"We are sympathetic to the idea of a sunset clause for the current terms but six months is far too short a period and we would like at least two years, or more reasonably four, which is the current average life of a tenancy.\"\n\nNo-fault evictions have been banned in Scotland for tenancies starting after December 2017, and there are plans to do the same in England.\n\nShorter notice periods will apply in Wales for anti-social behaviour, rent arrears and other breaches.\n\nWelsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds said the Renting Homes Act \"has been a disaster from start to end, it should not take the Senedd over six years to introduce legislation\".\n\n\"We now need an inquiry into what went wrong with the introduction of this act to ensure it doesn't happen again and that the taxpayers are getting value for their money when it comes to introducing new legislation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It feels lucky to have got the mortgage accepted\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesman said: \"Everybody has a right to a decent, affordable home and, when it comes into force this December, the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 will completely transform the rented sector in Wales.\n\n\"It will bring much greater transparency and consistency to renting a home and protect the interests of both landlords and tenants.\n\n\"Our proposal to apply this to existing tenancies, as well as new ones, under the Renting Homes Act would be an important step forward in improving security for tenants, particularly given the current challenges facing both households and public services.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A government that has barely begun is confronted by open questions about its imminent end.\n\nThat is the astonishing truth at Westminster, so spectacularly has Liz Truss cratered her authority with her own MPs.\n\nIn the short term, she seeks to salvage her premiership and her programme for government, or at least any parts of it that can command the confidence of her party and the financial markets.\n\nHer critics say waiting until the end of the month to announce her plans is unsustainable.\n\nMeanwhile Tory MPs speculate about her future and that of the chancellor.\n\nCould Kwasi Kwarteng be the fall guy for the chaos, some ask.\n\nCould he be sacked, or resign?\n\n\"The thing is, if she does that she removes a lightning rod, and you know what happens then? The lightning will hit her instead,\" one MP sceptical of that idea said.\n\nBut others suggest the former Chancellor Sajid Javid could be brought in as a replacement and Ms Truss could attempt to recast her whole government and agenda, accepting that Plan A has imploded on contact with reality.\n\nAnd others ponder Liz Truss's future in Downing Street, acutely aware that removing a prime minister who doesn't want to go isn't easy, and particularly so when a divided party would need to unite around a single replacement to avoid a lengthy leadership contest lasting months.\n\nOne senior Conservative MP told me Ms Truss had found herself in a maze. \"And every way we turn, there's a brick wall,\" they said.\n\nOthers argue she has tanked and bombed with such unimaginable speed she has to go.\n\nBut they're not sure who could replace her, or how.\n\nSome talk of an \"assembly of elders\" as it was put to me, but then joke darkly that many of those elders either left Parliament or were thrown out of the Conservative Party under Boris Johnson.\n\nThey then ponder that with so many former ministers, including two former prime ministers on the backbenches, there is plenty of experience to be drawn on, if a Conservative government of all the talents could be cobbled together.\n\nCould defeated leadership candidate and former chancellor Rishi Sunak work with fellow defeated candidate Penny Mordaunt?\n\nWhat about Boris Johnson? Theresa May? William Hague?\n\nI've heard all these names being mentioned as the future is pondered.\n\nSo back to the here and now.\n\nA U-turn looks inevitable, so when will it happen?\n\nCan it wait until the chancellor's economic statement two weeks on Monday?\n\nRight now, that seems a long, long way off.\n\n\"It is choppy and might get choppier. But we'll find a way through it,\" one of Ms Truss's team told me.\n\nThe thing is, it might not be up to them.\n\nA government not yet six weeks old faces an existential threat.", "Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has defended the government's economic plans and says replacing the prime minister is \"a disastrously bad idea\".\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme, he said Liz Truss was delivering what she promised and the government was sticking with its current plans \"to grow the economy\".", "Michael Sheen will star in a new drama about the so-called Wagatha Christie case on Channel 4 later this year.\n\nThe actor, known for portraying real-life figures such as Chris Tarrant and Sir Tony Blair, will play Coleen Rooney's barrister David Sherborne.\n\nThis Is England actress Chanel Cresswell will play Rooney while Harry Potter star Natalia Tena will portray Rebekah Vardy.\n\nThe network said it would recreate the \"high drama, high stakes High Court defamation case that followed\" Mrs Rooney's now-infamous social media post in 2019, in which she accused Vardy of leaking private stories about her to the press.\n\nThe broadcaster said the case \"had a huge impact on the lives of the two women at its heart and catapulted the two sparring legal teams into the spotlight where, much like Rooney and Vardy, their every move in the courtroom was dissected and scrutinised in the press\".\n\nVardy's barrister, Hugh Tomlinson, will be portrayed by Simon Coury, best known for appearing in The Professor And The Madman.\n\nRooney's husband, the footballer Wayne Rooney, will be played by Dion Lloyd and Jamie Vardy by Marci Nagyszokolyai.\n\nThe show has been created from the court transcripts and will air before the end of the year.\n\nMrs Vardy (right) lost her libel action against Mrs Rooney earlier this year\n\nIt is not the only TV show exploring the case - in August, Disney+ confirmed it was creating a three-part documentary series about the court battle with \"exclusive access\" to Coleen Rooney.\n\nThe BBC is also understood to be working on its own documentary, made by Curious Films.\n\nEarlier this summer, Vardy, 40, lost her libel battle against 36-year-old Rooney, who said she had carried out a months-long sting operation to uncover who had been passing information about her to the Sun newspaper.\n\nMrs Rooney's sleuthing efforts saw her dubbed Wagatha Christie in reference to the popular mystery writer Agatha Christie.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "Leah Croucher, 19, was last seen on CCTV on 15 February 2019 in Milton Keynes\n\nPolice investigating the murder of 19-year-old Leah Croucher have found human remains at a property where some of her possessions were discovered.\n\nThames Valley Police earlier found her rucksack and personal items at a house on Loxbeare Drive in Furzton, Milton Keynes.\n\nThe teenager was last seen on CCTV in the city on 15 February 2019.\n\nFormal identification has not taken place but Miss Croucher's family were being kept informed, the force said.\n\n\"It is likely to take some time to formally identify the deceased,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nOfficers have been at the property since 18:30 BST on Monday, after they received information from a member of the public, and said on Wednesday that a murder investigation had begun after her possessions were found.\n\nLater, human remains were discovered during \"forensic examinations\".\n\nA police tent has been put up outside a house on Loxbeare Drive in Furzton, Milton Keynes\n\nPolice described the scene as \"challenging and complex\" and said the \"forensic examination continues and will do for some time\".\n\nSince Miss Croucher's disappearance on her way to work at a finance company three years ago, police have carried out more than 4,000 house-to-house inquiries and reviewed 1,200 hours of CCTV footage.\n\nForensics experts have been seen getting specialist equipment from a white van parked on the drive of the neighbouring property, and also from a marked police truck on the street.\n\nForensics officers have been seen taking special equipment into the house\n\nMiss Croucher was described by loved ones as \"very quiet\" and \"not really an outgoing type of person\", preferring to read fantasy fiction or watch DVDs in her room to nights out at the pub.\n\nShe had competed internationally in taekwondo but her father said she was \"not a fighter\".\n\nA reward poster is pinned to a tree just yards from the home police have been searching\n\nOfficers are coming and going, many in forensics suits.\n\nBeyond the police tape, the atmosphere is one of confusion. People linger around the cordon wondering what is happening in this usually quiet area.\n\nFor neighbours it's a sense of shock and heartbreak. Many helped look for Leah after she went missing - a reward poster is pinned to a tree just yards from the hive of police activity.\n\nCCTV footage showed the last confirmed sighting of Leah Croucher walking to work on the day she disappeared\n\nMiss Croucher's family was struck by further tragedy when her half-brother, Haydon Croucher, took his own life, aged 24, in November 2019.\n\nHis mother said he had found the disappearance \"very difficult\".\n\nA police scene is likely to remain in place for days to come\n\nFollowing the update on the investigation, Ben Everitt, Conservative MP for Milton Keynes North, said he hoped it could \"provide some answers to Leah's loved ones\".\n\n\"My thoughts continue to be with Leah's family and friends at this incredibly difficult time,\" he said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ola Jasim has lived in Scotland since she was 11 but was not eligible for free tuition fees\n\nScottish ministers are being forced to change the law on tuition fees for hundreds of students from migrant families after a landmark court case.\n\nLawyers successfully argued that Iraq-born Ola Jasim, who has lived in Scotland since she was 11, had her human rights breached.\n\nShe was told she could not access free tuition because she was two months short of the length of time required.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was committed to a fair funding system.\n\nThe Court of Session case was brought by 20-year-old Ola, who has been in Scotland for nine years.\n\nHer whole secondary school education was at a school in Glasgow and she excelled in all her examinations.\n\nBut when she applied to study medicine two years ago she was told she could not access free tuition because she was 58 days short of the length of time she needed to have lived in the country.\n\nThe rules state that someone under 18 on the first day of their university course must be ordinarily resident in Scotland and have lived in the UK for seven years to qualify.\n\nAnyone aged between 18 and 25 has to have lived in the UK for either half their life or 20 years.\n\nImmigration is a matter reserved to Westminster but education is a Scottish government power.\n\nThe current regulations allow SAAS, the Scottish funding authority, no discretion in making decisions.\n\nOla took her case to the Court of Session which found the rules governing migrant student's access to tuition funding were unlawful in light of articles in the European Convention on Human Rights relating to discrimination and the right to education.\n\nThe decision is expected to affect hundreds of teenagers from migrant families who have been living in Scotland for years but perhaps not long enough to have met the threshold.\n\nScottish ministers must now introduce an interim scheme immediately with a public consultation and new legislation planned next year. It is not clear what the cut off would be to allow pupils to access the interim scheme but discretion will form part of decisions.\n\nOla is now in her third year studying medicine at Dundee University.\n\nShe said the university had been very supportive and allowed her extra time to pay her tuition fees.\n\nHer mother worked as an engineer in Iraq but her qualifications are not recognised in Scotland so she is not working and her father is a scientist who is completing a Phd.\n\nShe said her parents were forced to borrow money from extended family to pay her fees and that for the past two years they had all had to give up all the small things which bring \"joy in your life\" including birthday cakes.\n\nThe court decision described the demand on her and her family to self-fund her as \"intolerable\".\n\nIt said she presently had limited leave to remain in the UK but intended to apply for indefinite leave to remain when she qualified.\n\nThe court said she had \"participated fully in Scottish society\".\n\nOla told the BBC the court's decision was \"life-changing\" for and her parents.\n\nShe explained: \"For the past couple of years I have been their biggest financial burden and they have not only not had to look after themselves properly but my sisters as well because everything was going into me.\n\n\"It was a lot of guilt for me to deal with. My parents never complained about it but I could see the difference it made in their lives.\"\n\nOla said she called Scotland home so being told she could not access the same treatment as her school friends really upset her.\n\n\"It made me feel discriminated against even though this is what I call home,\" she said.\n\n\"You are really trapped. It was a lose-lose situation. Now I know the law is changing hopefully a lot of people's lives will be changed too because it is not just me who has been so badly treated.\n\n\"There are so many people out there who are in the same position.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has agreed to pay her fees for last year and she will now get her fees covered as she continues with her course.\n\nLawyer Andy Sirel said the decision would help many young people from migrant families\n\nLawyer Andy Sirel of Just Right Scotland took the case.\n\nHe said the decision would help many young people from migrant families who have been going to school in Scotland for years \"to access college and university and fulfil their potential\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The Scottish government like to talk about how they are a pro-human rights government and are opposed to the UK government down south but with these rules they effectively copied and pasted the UK immigration rules on educational policy and have fallen in line with the home secretary.\n\n\"Now if you are going to talk the talk you need to walk the walk. On this situation we did not think the Scottish government had got it right. The court agreed and the Scottish government has been held to account.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said it is considering the outcome of the case and is committed to fair funding rules that help students succeed.", "The body of Mee Kuen Chong, from London, was found more than 200 miles away in Devon\n\nA woman accused of murdering her friend was seen on video dragging a suitcase around the streets of London after carrying out the alleged killing and putting the body inside, a court heard.\n\nJemma Mitchell, 38, is accused of killing and decapitating Mee Kuen Chong, 67, at her Wembley home in 2021.\n\nShe allegedly then deposited the headless corpse more than 200 miles away in Salcombe, Devon, 15 days later.\n\nThe Old Bailey was shown CCTV tracking Ms Chong's last known sighting.\n\nOn 9 June 2021, the CCTV footage showed Ms Chong, also known as Deborah, walking in Chaplin Road where she lived, accompanied by her lodger.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo days later, in the early morning, defendant Ms Mitchell was seen on footage walking from her home in Willesden with a large blue suitcase and backpack, going in the direction of Ms Chong's house in Wembley at 08:01.\n\nJust over five hours later, she emerged carrying the blue suitcase and another smaller bag allegedly containing Ms Chong's financial paperwork.\n\nThe defendant was also seen on CCTV footage, shown to the jury, dragging the bags on the street and through a grass verge for two hours before being picked up by a minicab.\n\nIn that time, she had called various cab companies nine times before a driver collected her for the 40-minute journey home, the jury was told.\n\nJemma Mitchell's professional website said she was \"attuned to subjects\" including \"dissection of human cadavers\", jurors heard\n\nLater that evening, the jury heard, she went to St Thomas's Hospital in central London to be treated for a broken finger, saying she shut it in a door - a claim the prosecution say is a lie.\n\nThe court heard the blue suitcase was not seen again until 26 June 2021, when the prosecution alleges Ms Mitchell hired a car and drove to Salcombe with the suitcase containing the body in the boot.\n\nMs Chong's decapitated body was discovered in woods by holidaymakers the next day and her skull was found in nearby undergrowth a few days later.\n\nJurors previously heard the prosecution allege that Ms Mitchell had killed Ms Chong because she wanted to get hundreds of thousands of pounds to pay for repairs to her home.\n\nMs Mitchell has denied murder and the trial continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe ball used by Diego Maradona to score two of the most famous goals in football history is to go on auction.\n\nThe match ball used in the famous 1986 World Cup quarter final between England and Argentina carries an estimated price of £2.5m to £3m.\n\nIt is being sold by Ali Bin Nasser, the Tunisian referee who allowed Maradona's 'Hand of God' goal during the game.\n\nBin Nasser said: \"This ball is part of football history - it is the right time to be sharing it with the world.\"\n\nThe ball was used for the full 90 minutes of the match, which remains one of the most defining and controversial contests in World Cup history.\n\nMaradona scored the opener by punching the ball past England goalkeeper Peter Shilton.\n\nBin Nasser did not spot the handball and allowed the goal to stand, with the player later describing it as being \"a little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God\".\n\nMaradona's second strike of the match has become known as the 'goal of the century', where he dribbled past five England outfield players and slotted past Shilton.\n\nArgentina went on to win the match 2-1 and eventually win the World Cup in Mexico.\n\nThe ball is being sold at auction on 16 November as part of a World Cup special event. It will be streamed live and prospective buyers can register their bids online from 28 October.\n\n\"The timing of the match, the history between the two teams and the handball have all led to this match going down as one of the most famous and emotive matches in football history,\" said Graham Budd, chairman of Graham Budd Auctions.\n\n\"With the history surrounding the ball, we are expecting this lot to be hugely popular when it comes up for auction.\"\n\nSeveral items of sporting memorabilia have broken records at auctions recently. The shirt Maradona wore during the 1986 quarter final was sold in May for $9.3m (£7.4m), a new world record.\n\nThis was beaten just three months later when a Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $12.6m (£10.3m) in August.\n\nIn September, Michael Jordan's 1998 NBA finals jersey sold for $10.1 (£8.7m), a new world record for any 'game worn' sporting memorabilia.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Difficult to see how Ukraine would negotiate with Russia\n\nTurkey has tried to act as a mediator in this war, helping negotiate a deal that allowed the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports and prisoner swaps between Ukraine and Russia. The country, a Nato member with good relations with Kyiv and Moscow, is now calling for a ceasefire. It is difficult – nearly impossible – to see how Ukraine would engage in any negotiations. Officials here say Russia may be trying to find a way to freeze the conflict as Ukrainian forces reclaim territory and force Russia to abandon long-held positions. At home, the Kremlin is facing criticism for its setbacks, amid a chaotic military mobilisation that led to rare anti-war protests and the exodus of tens of thousands of military-age men. Russia has stepped up attacks on civilian sites in Ukraine, damaging critical infrastructure ahead of winter, in what Kyiv has described as President Putin’s response to defeats on the battlefield. The barrage of missiles on cities across the country on Monday shocked some and angered many, but did not affect Ukraine’s resolve to fight. Last week, in the wake of Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions (a declaration Kyiv has described as a farce and illegitimate), President Zelensky signed a decree formally stating the prospect of negotiations with President Putin “impossible”. But he let the door open to dialogue with Russia. Ukraine, empowered by sophisticated weapons provided by the West, has vowed to reclaim all areas that have been invaded, including those before February. Most Ukrainians appear to support that.", "Some residents in Blackpool are being \"plagued\" by anti-social behaviour, an MP says\n\nAn 11-year-old boy who attacked a police officer is the \"ringleader\" of a crime spree, an MP has said.\n\nConservative MP Scott Benton said a gang of youths had committed \"hundreds of crimes\" in Blackpool in recent weeks.\n\nHe said police attempts to bring the ringleader to justice had been compromised by children's services, \"who refuse to criminalise teenagers\".\n\nThe council said that was \"completely untrue\" and there was no interference.\n\nMr Benton, who represents Blackpool South, said residents in the areas of Talbot and Brunswick had \"been plagued by anti-social behaviour in recent weeks, with hundreds of different crimes being committed by a gang of teenagers\".\n\nHe said the 11-year-old was \"responsible for over 80 different offences, including assaulting a female police officer\".\n\nAsking for a parliamentary debate on whether police have the powers to tackle anti-social behaviour, he said: \"Sadly the efforts of Lancashire Police to bring him to justice have been compromised by Blackpool Council's children's directorate, who refuse to criminalise teenagers.\"\n\nCommons Leader Penny Mordaunt encouraged him to set up a Commons debate, saying it would take \"a team of people to redress this situation - it's about education, it's about the local authority, it's about a good policing approach\".\n\nBlackpool Council described Mr Benton's comments as \"uninformed\" and \"unhelpful\", adding that the number of crimes in the area had dropped, although \"some serious and impactful issues remain\".\n\nIt said it was \"completely untrue\" to suggest that there had been \"any interference from children's social care in the work of the police to address criminal acts or youth anti-social behaviour.\"\n\n\"The Youth Justice Partnership in Blackpool rightly takes a 'child first' approach to anti-social behaviour among children, but this does not mean that offending is taken lightly.\"\n\nThe local authority said suggesting an 11-year-old was a ringleader was \"harmful\" to individual children, and detracted from the national issues of county lines, when vulnerable children are exploited to commit crime.\n\nPolice, council and community organisations had \"worked hard\" to address local concerns and engage vulnerable children and young people in \"positive activities\", it added.\n\nEarlier this year, the council promised to improve children's activities after a review reported that many youths found them boring.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A dizzying 24 hours for UK politics... in under a minute\n\nLiz Truss is facing a backlash from Conservative MPs after firing her chancellor and announcing a second U-turn on a major economic policy.\n\nOne former minister told the BBC, \"we cannot go on like this indefinitely\".\n\nAnother Tory MP said the party was in a \"state of despair\" after the PM's Downing Street news conference.\n\nTruss supporter Christopher Chope said \"time will tell\" if she had done enough to secure her position, calling those plotting to remove her \"hyenas\".\n\nSir Christopher said: \"We can't possibly force another prime minister out of office, we've just got to calm down and try to give the prime minister our support.\"\n\nIn an attempt to end turmoil on the financial markets, Ms Truss sacked her chancellor and close ally, Kwasi Kwarteng, replacing him with former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt. She then reversed a key policy to scrap a planned rise in corporation tax from 19% to 25%.\n\nIt is the second major U-turn on September's mini-budget after Ms Truss cancelled her plan to scrap the top rate of income tax earlier this month.\n\nAt a brief news conference in Downing Street on Friday, the PM dismissed calls for her resignation, saying she was determined to see her promises through.\n\nCommenting on the corporation tax U-turn, Sir Christopher added it was \"going to be damaging to the prospects for growth\" and was \"totally inconsistent\" with what Ms Truss said during her leadership campaign.\n\nConservative MP for Coalville, Andrew Bridgen, said he thought there would \"be a challenge to Truss in the next few weeks\".\n\nMr Bridgen, who backed Rishi Sunak to be leader, said: \"Dissatisfaction is so high in the parliamentary party.\n\n\"Removing Kwasi Kwarteng when he implemented the policies she asked him to do won't engender loyalty to her.\"\n\nFormer Conservative leader William Hague meanwhile said her premiership was \"hanging by a thread\".\n\nPrivately many Conservative MPs admit they have gone through despondency and into despair over the past 24 hours.\n\nBy going back on her promise to cut taxes she has now alienated some of those who backed her in the leadership contest for her \"bold\" approach.\n\nIt is not hard to find Tory MPs who think her time is up.\n\nOne former backer told the BBC Ms Truss had \"appointed her successor,\" by bringing in Jeremy Hunt as chancellor. \"Sadly I think that hastened her demise,\" the Conservative MP said.\n\nAnother MP called Ms Truss's news conference \"a mega-disaster\". They said: \"She will have to resign - she is worse than Corbyn.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng cut short a US trip to hold talks with the prime minister in Downing Street, where he was asked to resign\n\nMs Truss insisted she would stay on as prime minister to get the economy growing.\n\n\"I'm absolutely determined to see through what I promised - to deliver a higher growth, more prosperous United Kingdom to see us through the storm we face,\" she said.\n\nThe eight-minute news conference came after a dramatic day in which the prime minister fired Mr Kwarteng after he returned early from a US summit.\n\nBut as we witnessed with Boris Johnson, if a prime minister wants to cling to power, it can be difficult to remove them.\n\nIt took the mass resignation of dozens of ministers to persuade him to resign.\n\nMembers of Ms Truss's cabinet are not in open revolt. Many allies have been tweeting support for her and Mr Hunt.\n\nFormer chancellor Nadhim Zahawi tweeted: \"It's time to get Britain moving. We are determined to grow the economy, eliminate the Covid backlog and protect people from Putin's energy warfare.\"\n\nIn a tweet, Deputy Prime Minister Therese Coffey - a close ally of Ms Truss - said the prime minister was \"right to act now to ensure our country's economic stability\".\n\nAnd Business and Energy Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg tweeted: \"As a government, we must now get on and deliver the pro-growth reforms that will lay the foundations for our future prosperity.\"\n\nAppearing on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions programme, Welsh Secretary Sir Robert Buckland also warned: \"I think if we start with gay abandon, throwing another prime minister to the wolves, we're going to be faced with more delay, more debate, more instability.\"\n\nThe prime minister said she and Jeremy Hunt shared the same vision for the country\n\nThe Liberal Democrats and the SNP have called for a general election, while shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said a new government led by Labour is \"what this country needs\".\n\nBut Ms Truss has ruled out a general election until 2024 and with the government's large majority in Parliament the opposition would find it very difficult to trigger one.\n\nOn 23 September, Mr Kwarteng unveiled a so-called mini-budget to deliver the prime minister's vision, announcing the biggest package of tax cuts in decades.\n\nBut the mini-budget spooked financial markets and sparked a revolt among Tory MPs, who urged the prime minister to drop parts of her economic plan to shore up the UK's finances.\n\nMany in the parliamentary Conservative party think they have to avoid another drawn-out leadership contest where Tory members have the final say.\n\nFirstly, it requires others to put their personal ambitions to one side for the greater good. It also requires discipline - something that has been in short supply in Conservative ranks since the turbulent days of Theresa May's premiership.\n\nThe idea cropping up most is a joint ticket with former chancellor Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt. But after 12 years in power, under four different leaders, there are many old scores to settle in the Tory Party.\n\nSeveral of Mr Johnson's supporters would do anything to stop Mr Sunak from taking over.\n\nOne told the BBC such a move would lead to a split in the party and he would stand himself to prevent a coronation. He said: \"The only unity we'd end up with is the unity of the grave. The question is do we jump in now or step back.\"\n\nIt is possible the appointment of her new chancellor has bought some time but a leader with diminishing authority will struggle to bring this fractious party together.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Natera Morris says some of the comments on social media have made her question how her friends feel about her\n\nAll children will be taught about racism and the contributions of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, the education minister said.\n\nAlmost 35,000 people have called for Britain's colonial past to be taught in school lessons.\n\nUnder changes to the new curriculum the teaching of BAME histories will be mandatory, Kirsty Williams said.\n\nMs Williams said it would help pupils become \"informed citizens of the world\".\n\nHowever, Plaid Cymru argued the changes were not included in the school curriculum law, passed in the Senedd last week, but instead in a code which could be changed or got rid of by ministers.\n\nThe Welsh government said this was \"incorrect\" and the teaching of BAME stories would be required in every school.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Butetown in Cardiff attracted people from across the world\n\nWales' new curriculum, set to be introduced in 2022, is based on six \"areas of learning and experience\" and does not set out exactly what schools should be teaching.\n\nHowever, the changes will now mean all learning areas will need to reflect the diverse experiences and contributions of BAME communities and individuals to both past and present Wales.\n\nFollowing worldwide protests after the death of George Floyd in US police custody, there were calls for greater recognition of Wales' role in colonialism and slavery to be taught in schools.\n\nProf Charlotte Williams, who led a working group set up by the Welsh government to look at how BAME contributions through history was taught in schools, said there was considerable evidence of \"racial inequality\" in Wales' education system.\n\nShe said the new curriculum was an opportunity for \"significant change\", and it was the right of \"every child to learn about histories and contributions that have shaped the Welsh nation\".\n\nProf Charlotte Williams said children needed to learn about diverse role models and histories regardless of where they lived\n\nIn a report published on Friday, Prof Williams said with schools able to set their own curriculum under the national framework BAME histories could \"continue to be marginalised or ignored\", unless made mandatory.\n\nWhile learning about diversity, identity and equality is mandatory under the new curriculum, there is no requirement for schools to teach pupils about slavery, the British Empire, or the Holocaust, Ms Williams writes.\n\nProf Williams said this was concerning as these areas were \"topics of central understanding to the histories of racism and diversity\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We have faced racial prejudice in Wales'\n\nIn 2019, 12% of all pupils aged five and over came from minority ethnic backgrounds, but this differs widely across Wales, from 34.4% in Cardiff to 4.1% in Anglesey, according to Pupil Level Annual School Census data.\n\nFewer than 1% of teachers in Wales say they are black, Asian, or from other or mixed minority ethnic backgrounds, according to the 2019-20 school workforce census.\n\nForty of the 1,065 students who began training to become teachers in Wales in 2018-19 said they were from a minority ethnic group.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When Neville Howard arrived in the UK in 1947 society was very different\n\nProf Williams, who has previously spoken about growing up in Llandudno where her family were the only black family, said children were being \"failed\" by a lack of positive role models in schools and a curriculum that did not represent their histories.\n\nShe said all children should be able to learn about diverse history and talent regardless of their background or where they lived.\n\nThe report states that current resources to support the teaching of ethnic minority themes is disproportionately focused on slavery, colonialism and Empire, and that positive contributions and role models needed to be celebrated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three trailblazers talk about their experiences in Wales\n\nThe report makes 51 recommendations for changes in the new curriculum and teacher training including:\n\nThe Welsh government has said all of the recommendations in the report had been accepted, and it had allocated £500,000 to help with their implementation.\n\nMs Williams said: \"Our new curriculum can only be enriched by revealing the diversity of perspectives and contributions made by the ethnic minority communities to the development of Wales across its history and in the present.\"\n\nAngel, a member of the Welsh Youth Parliament, had campaigned for black history to be included in the curriculum\n\nAngel Ezeadum, member of UK Youth Parliament for Cardiff, said it was a relief that \"finally we are doing something\" to tackle racism and inequality.\n\nThe 16-year-old student said she hoped the changes would lead to the next generation of pupils having more opportunity to have a \"different mindset to perhaps their parents or grandparents\".\n\n\"If we want a society which is better for all, where there's equality, and there's fair representation then we need this,\" she said.\n\n\"It's massive in terms of shaping who young people are going to be in the future whether that's a police officer, a teacher, a politician.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian said that there was a danger children could miss out as Welsh history was only guidance under the new curriculum law\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said that schools were not required to deliver Welsh history under the newly-passed curriculum law, which was a \"major flaw\".\n\nWhile teaching humanities is one of the learning areas under law, Welsh history and the teaching of BAME stories is included in statutory guidance, called the What Matters Code.\n\n\"It has the potential of being transformational in the way our society is developing...and it has been left out [of the law],\" Ms Gwenllian said.\n\n\"It has to be mandatory in our schools, otherwise we are not going to be equipping our young people with the information that they want, with the knowledge about where we have come from as a people and as a nation.\"\n\nHowever, the Welsh government said the What Matters Code was mandatory and must be taught to all pupils.\n\n\"It is incorrect to claim otherwise,\" a spokesman said.", "Congresswoman Liz Cheney is one of two Republicans on the committee\n\nThe 6 January committee did not conclude its ninth and possibly final public hearing by referring Donald Trump to the US justice department for criminal conduct - a move many, including some members of the panel, had urged.\n\nInstead, it voted unanimously to subpoena the president to testify before the committee.\n\nIt was, effectively, substituting one symbolic action for another.\n\nThe decision of whether to indict the president for crimes relating to the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol rests with the justice department, not Congress. And the committee's formal subpoena of the former president, while historic, is almost certain to be ignored by Mr Trump.\n\nWhile the committee could vote to hold the former president in contempt of Congress, the clock is ticking towards next month's midterm elections and what could be a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in January, when the committee would be unceremoniously shuttered.\n\nStill, the vote to call Mr Trump to offer his defence made for a dramatic flourish at the end of what was another stinging round of accusations directed at the former president - one that included some never-before-seen footage from the Capitol attack and recently acquired documentary evidence.\n\nThe 6 January committee has laid responsibility for the attack at Donald Trump's feet, but one of the challenges it has faced has been tying the former president directly to the violence. Investigators have said Mr Trump created an atmosphere that led to violence and that he was aware that trouble was possible, but they have yet to directly link Mr Trump to those who attacked the Capitol.\n\nIn her presentation on Thursday, congresswoman Zoe Lofgren suggested that longtime Trump confidante Roger Stone was that missing link. Mr Stone was in contact with members of the right-wing militant groups Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers - individuals who have been charged with seditious conspiracy by the justice department for their involvement in the Capitol attacks.\n\nMs Lofgren showed photographs of Mr Stone with leaders of the Oath Keepers the day before the Capitol attack. She also noted that Mr Stone was in touch with Mr Trump in late December and that the president wanted to talk with Mr Stone in the days leading up to 6 January.\n\nStill, however, the committee has been unable to fully document interactions between Mr Stone and the president.\n\n\"We don't yet have all the relevant records of Roger Stone's communications,\" Ms Lofgren said.\n\nIf Mr Stone is the missing link, it is one that remains in the shadows.\n\nCongressman Adam Schiff was tasked with presenting new evidence that the select committee had received from the Secret Service detailing their agents' communications during and before the Capitol attack.\n\nHe read one email from an anonymous tipster warning that groups were planning violence. In texts and emails on 6 January, the agents noted the large crowds lingering outside Mr Trump's morning \"Stop the Steal\" rally and speculated that it could be because they were armed.\n\nOther reports, of sightings of handguns, assault rifles, riot shields and pepper spray, back this up.\n\nAll this, the congressman continued, was evidence that the White House - and its security teams - knew that violence was not only possible but probable as the crowd moved up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. He even suggested agents may have lied to congressional investigators.\n\n\"Despite this, certain White House and Secret Service witnesses previously testified that they had received no intelligence about violence that could potentially threaten any of the protectees on January 6, including the vice-president,\" Mr Schiff said. \"Evidence strongly suggests that this testimony is not credible.\"\n\nCongressman Pete Aguilar later added that the committee is reviewing testimony and will consider whether some witnesses were pressured not to tell the full story about what the White House and the Secret Service knew in advance.\n\nAfter the hearing concluded, congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland told reporters outside the room that he thought Mr Trump ought to take the committee up on its offer to testify.\n\n\"I would consider it a great honour and a privilege to testify if somebody accused me of trying to overthrow a presidential election and subvert the government of the United States,\" he said.\n\nWry comments aside, the committee offered a concise summary of what it views as its case against the former president - that he had the means, motive and opportunity to attempt to undermine the peaceful transition of power to the presidential candidate who defeated him at the ballot box.\n\nIt was a case, committee chairman Bennie Thompson said, that was made not by the testimony of Democrats or Mr Trump's political opponents, but by the former president's own loyal staff members, senior advisers, executive appointees and Republican state politicians.\n\nRepublican congressman Adam Kinzinger reviewed the evidence the committee acquired indicating that the president knew he had been defeated but refused to cede power.\n\nHe presented testimony by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchison, who said she witnessed Mr Trump telling White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows: \"I don't want people to know we lost, Mark. This is embarrassing. Figure it out.\"\n\nCongresswoman Elaine Luria of Virginia asserted that Mr Trump knew that the claims he was making about election fraud were false, but he persisted anyway.\n\nMr Raskin spoke of the president's actions on 6 January and how he watched the violence unfold, was urged to intervene by friends, advisers and members of Congress, and refused.\n\nIn one powerful segment, he played new video footage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and then-Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer pleading with the secretary of defence to send troops to quell the violence at the Capitol.\n\nAt the end of the hearing, Mr Thompson again addressed the room and announced the decision to subpoena the former president.\n\n\"We want to hear from him,\" he said. \"This is a question about accountability to the American people. He must be accountable. He is required to answer for his actions.\"\n\nWithin the hour, the former president had issued his reply, accusing the committee of being a \"bust\" and promising that his endorsed candidates would win in next month's elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Ringo Starr wears a face mask as he celebrates his 82nd birthday in July\n\nSir Ringo Starr has cancelled the rest of his North American tour after testing positive to Covid-19 again.\n\nThe Beatles drummer, 82, had earlier cancelled some dates with his All Starr band after catching the virus, but returned after a negative test.\n\nOn Thursday, he tweeted \"the rest of the tour is off\", signing off with his trademark \"peace and love\".\n\nDates had been planned in California - including Los Angeles - and Mexico.\n\nEarlier this month Sir Ringo cancelled performances in several US states including Michigan and Minnesota, as well as Canada, after catching Covid.\n\nDays later he tweeted: \"I am negative, peace and love everybody. Thanks for waiting. Ringo.\"\n\nIn an interview with USA Today last year, he said he had only left the house a handful of times due to the pandemic.\n\n\"You've got to help protect yourself if you can,\" he said, adding he had been vaccinated and was \"feeling groovy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by #RingoStarr This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Liverpudlian rose to fame in the 1960s, quitting the Hurricanes to replace Pete Best as the Beatles' drummer in 1962 shortly before they met global success. He sang lead vocals on tracks including With A Little Help From My Friends, Yellow Submarine and Octopus's Garden.\n\n\"Our appeal is that we're ordinary lads,\" Sir Ringo once said.\n\nAfter the band split in 1970 he launched a successful solo career, and in 1989 formed the All Starr Band.\n\nHe was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 2015, and in 2018 received his knighthood for services to music.\n\n\"I'll be wearing it at breakfast,\" he said of his medal, adding that he still missed his bandmates more than 50 years after they were all awarded the MBE.\n\n\"I was a bit shaky today on my own,\" he admitted.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVideo footage has emerged showing what appears to be Iranian security forces shooting at fleeing people with a gun mounted on the back of a pick-up truck.\n\nIn the clip, which has been verified by the BBC Persian service, bangs can be heard as the vehicle chases people in Baneh, in Kurdistan province.\n\nKurdistan has seen a fierce crackdown since mass protests which have swept the nation began last month.\n\nOne human rights group says more than 200 people have been killed.\n\nThe number of fatalities or casualties is hard to verify since the BBC and other independent media are banned from reporting from inside Iran. Authorities have also heavily disrupted the internet.\n\nNorway-based Iran Human Rights organisation put the death toll at 201, including 23 children, as of Wednesday, though the true figure is believed to be higher.\n\nThe protests are the biggest since the inception of the Islamic Republic in 1979 and are seen as a major challenge to the regime.\n\nDemonstrations, which have been met with a violent response, have been reported in more than 110 cities across Iran.\n\nAnger was triggered by the death in police custody of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, nearly a month ago. Ms Amini had been arrested by Iran's morality police for allegedly violating the law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf.\n\nAuthorities say she died from an underlying health condition, but her family say she was healthy and died after being beaten on her head and body.\n\nDespite tight controls on the internet and blocks on some social media platforms, hundreds of videos have emerged from inside Iran showing mass protests and a violent backlash by security forces.\n\nWomen have taken a leading role in the protests, defiantly appearing without - or burning - hijabs. In unprecedented scenes, schoolgirls have also shown their support by removing their hijabs and chanting against the regime.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The protests currently sweeping the country have their roots in changes made after the 1979 revolution", "Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked as chancellor amid intense speculation Prime Minister Liz Truss is about to junk key parts of their economic plan.\n\nMr Kwarteng met Ms Truss for crunch talks in Downing Street after cutting short a US trip.\n\nIn a letter to the PM, Mr Kwarteng said Ms Truss's vision for economic growth was \"right\" and he still supported it.\n\nMs Truss is expected to announce a U-turn on business tax cuts at a news conference in Downing Street at 14:30.\n\nThe prime minister has appointed former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt - who backed Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest - as the new chancellor.\n\nMs Truss's pledge to cut taxes was at the heart of the economic agenda that won her the Tory leadership at the start of September.\n\n\"As I said many times in the past weeks, following the status quo was simply not an option,\" Mr Kwarteng wrote in his letter.\n\n\"For too long this country has been dogged by low growth rates and high taxation - that must change if this country is to succeed.\"\n\nResponding to Mr Kwarteng in her own letter, Ms Truss said she was \"deeply sorry\" to lose him and thanked him for putting \"the national interest first\" by standing down.\n\n\"We share the same vision for our country and the same firm conviction to go for growth,\" Ms Truss wrote.\n\nThe dramatic dismissal of Mr Kwarteng makes him the second shortest-serving chancellor after just 38 days in the job.\n\nA long-time ally of Ms Truss, Mr Kwarteng shared her tax-cutting economic ideology and was seen as her political soulmate when he was appointed to the role on 6 September.\n\nThe prime minister has also asked Chris Philp to move to the Cabinet Office, with Edward Argar replacing him as chief secretary to the Treasury.\n\nFor days, Ms Truss has faced calls to drop parts or all of her economic plan to calm market turbulence and reassure her party, which has slumped in the polls.\n\nSome Tory MPs have discussed options to remove Ms Truss as prime minister, laying bare divisions within the party, which has been in power for 12 years.\n\nMs Truss has already U-turned on her plan to scrap the top rate of income tax and some Tory MPs believe another change of course is inevitable.\n\nA further U-turn is likely to seen as a blow to Ms Truss's political authority only 39 days after she became prime minister.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said a \"humiliating U-turn is necessary\" after the government \"plunged our economy into chaos and crisis with Truss' discredited trickle down approach\".\n\n\"Changing the Chancellor doesn't undo the damage that's already been done,\" she said.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey urged the prime minister to call a general election, accusing the Conservatives of mismanaging the economy.\n\n\"It started with Boris Johnson failing our country, and now Liz Truss has broken our economy, it is time for the people to have their say in a general election,\" he said.\n\nIt's clear from Kwasi Kwarteng's letter that it was the prime minister's decision to get rid of him.\n\nThis wasn't a mea culpa on his part; he was told to step down and did.\n\nDo not underestimate how significant this is. Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng were billed as the closest of political allies when she won power.\n\nHis allies told me he saw his job as delivering her plans. They would, we were told, work in lockstep free from the drama seen in previous PM-chancellor relationships.\n\nBut the turmoil in the markets - and then at Westminster - have ripped that relationship apart.\n\nMs Truss has made the calculation that to move on from the mini budget she needed to get rid of her chancellor. But given how close the pair have been, that may be easier said than done.\n\nThe mini-budget - announced by Mr Kwarteng on 23 September - included £45bn of tax cuts and an energy package worth an £60bn over six months, partly funded by borrowing.\n\nThere were few details on how the government would fund the package, which left financial markets reeling, sent the pound plummeting, and forced the Bank of England to bail out pensions funds.\n\nThe chancellor was due to make a financial statement on 31 October, but it is unclear whether that will change.\n\nMeanwhile, financial markets rallied and the pound held firm as speculation mounts about a possible U-turn over the mini-budget.\n\nThe Bank of England has been buying government bonds - known as gilts - to try to stabilise their price and prevent a sell-off that could put some pension funds at risk of collapse.\n\nBut that support is due to come to an end on Friday.", "Paul Feig directed hit films such as Bridesmaids and Last Christmas\n\nNorthern Ireland's screen industry needs more film studios in order to grow, according to one of Hollywood's top directors.\n\nPaul Feig has directed The School for Good and Evil, which is being released next week.\n\nThe action-adventure with an all-star cast was filmed at Belfast's Harbour Studios and across Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is based on Soman Chainani's novels about a school where children learn to be fairy tale heroes and villains.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Feig said Northern Ireland needed more \"stage space\" to attract more big productions.\n\n\"It's a chicken-and-egg thing because you need more things coming in, in order to build more production space and sound stages,\" he said.\n\n\"But you could use more sound stages, definitely.\n\n\"Belfast Harbour studios is beautiful, but it's two giant stages and we could have used another stage.\"\n\nHe said the problem in the industry was that there is \"so much production because it used to be all just movie studios but now it's the streamers\".\n\n\"The streamers have taken over various studios in London and Budapest and all these places.\n\n\"If you can become the place that has all the stage space, has these great crews, great city to work in, that's going to make people start coming in.\"\n\nBlade Runner 2099, a TV series based on the iconic Blade Runner films, is soon to be filmed in Northern Ireland.\n\nNorthern Ireland Screen has a new four-year strategy to grow the TV, film and video game industries.\n\nFeig started out as an actor, but has become a highly successful director and producer.\n\nAmong the films he has directed are hits like Bridesmaids and Last Christmas and episodes of TV series like Nurse Jackie, 30 Rock and Mad Men.\n\nThe director (centre) said he is keen to visit Northern Ireland again in the future\n\nThe School for Good and Evil was Netflix's first major production in Northern Ireland and was filmed in 2021.\n\nThe cast has, in Feig's words, \"some heavy hitters\".\n\n\"And then we've got a whole bunch of amazing newcomers in Sophia Anne Caruso, Sofia Wylie, Jamie Flatters, Kit Young,\" Feig said.\n\n\"What's nice is when you get the two generations together, if they're real pros and really talented they just mesh and it's fun to watch them play.\"\n\nThe School for Good and Evil was filmed in Belfast's Harbour Studios, but also at locations such as St Anne's Cathedral, Mount Stewart in County Down and Big Dog Forest in County Fermanagh.\n\nWhile the film has spectacular special effects, Feig said that filming on location was crucial.\n\n\"What I never want to do is get caught in a special-effects driven vortex, where you're in front of green screens and people are acting with tennis balls and all that stuff,\" he said.\n\n\"For this movie we tried to do as much as we could practically.\n\n\"We really loved being at Mount Stewart, which was great because we used that for a lot of the outside grounds.\n\n\"We have a whole scene around this beautiful pond out there so that was great.\n\n\"Then we were shooting in Big Dog Forest which was way, way out in the woods.\n\n\"So far in that most people said we probably couldn't even do it logistically, but it's so gorgeous.\n\n\"It's just so stunning that most people watching the movie will go: 'That's a special effect.'\n\n\"No, that is the real forest, that's how it looks.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Feig's film, The School for Good and Evil, was filmed in NI.\n\nSt Anne's Cathedral also features heavily in the film.\n\n\"It was so lovely that they let us take it over,\" Feig recalled.\n\n\"We were there for a good two weeks and really transformed the place, though it was this big, almost sound-stage type space but with so much detail.\"\n\nBut directing a major production is, according to Feig, an all-consuming role.\n\n\"I always say that when you're picking a project you're basically picking a spouse - you're going to do 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you're never going to stop thinking about this,\" he said.\n\n\"It's what you obsess about, that's why you have to be in love with the project you're doing.\n\n\"These big ones are logistical challenges, let's just say.\"\n\nHaving filmed in Belfast in 2021 as lockdown was easing, Feig is keen to come back to see more.\n\n\"It was really only the last couple of weeks where the town opened up again,\" he said.\n\n\"My hope is that I can make another movie here... and then I'll just be out partying every night.\"\n\nThe School for Good and Evil is on Netflix from Wednesday, 19 October.", "Robbie Coltrane has played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films and won three Baftas for Cracker, but most people do not know that in the 60s his dreams were about art, not acting.\n\nHe was once a student at The Glasgow School of Art, and on Wednesday he returned there to open their newest building.\n\nThe BBC's Colin Paterson caught up with him to find out more about his early years.", "PnB Rock was shot dead at a restaurant while having lunch with his girlfriend\n\nThe girlfriend of rapper PnB Rock has spoken for the first time about witnessing his death.\n\nThe 30-year-old, real name Rakim Hasheem Allen, was shot dead at a Los Angeles waffle house while having lunch with Stephanie Sibounheuang.\n\nPosting on Instagram, she revealed the musician had saved her life by throwing her under a table during the 12 September attack.\n\n\"I'm not supposed to be here but [because] of him. I am,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I can't even handle this. To witness what I saw and to keep seeing it in my head.\"\n\nStephanie described being forced out of the restaurant, not being able to go in the ambulance or hospital and having her things taken from her.\n\nStephanie, who has a two-year-old daughter, Xuri, with the late rapper, described PnB as \"loyal\".\n\n\"I felt this time in my relationship everything was finally perfect for our family.\" she wrote.\n\n\"I feel so empty. My world is dark now. My heart is broken for the kids.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by stephsibounheuang This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA father and son have been charged with PnB's murder.\n\nPnB rose to fame with the release of his 2016 hit Selfish and had collaborated with artists including Ed Sheeran.\n\nTributes flooded in for PnB after his death, from artists including Drake, who posted a photo of the two together on his Instagram story.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: 'My son's killer gets to live. That's not justice'\n\nThe court was packed, but you could have heard a pin drop in the moments leading up to a verdict in the sentencing trial of the Parkland school gunman.\n\nIt was the culmination of nearly five years of trauma, as jurors decided whether the gunman should spend the rest of his life in prison or be put to death.\n\nThe panel of seven men and five women voted 17 times in all, once for each murdered victim. Each time, they spared Nikolas Cruz, 24, from death row.\n\nFor victims' families, who had hoped the decision would resemble some form of reconciliation after the brutal attack, the decision has left them aghast.\n\n\"I'm disgusted with our legal system. I'm disgusted with those jurors,\" said Ilan Marc Alhadeff.\n\nHis daughter Alyssa, 14, died in the attack along with 13 other children and three educators. A first-year student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, she had dreamed of one day playing on the US women's national football team.\n\n\"You set a precedent for the next mass killing - that nothing happens and you'll get life in jail,\" Mr Alhadeff added.\n\nMass shootings are much too common in the US, but the shooting in Parkland on Valentine's Day 2018 was different.\n\nWhile such attacks tend to reignite the gun control debate in this country, partisan rancour around the issue typically sees it fizzle out within about a week. That was not the case here.\n\nA new youth movement demanding stricter gun laws, led by the school's students, kept the topic top of mind for weeks, if not months. Tens of thousands of Americans joined protests in several major cities calling for an end to gun violence.\n\nIn the months and years since, lawmakers at the state and national level have passed modest reforms but have steered clear of more ambitious proposals.\n\nThe pain has of course been especially acute for the families who lost loved ones that day.\n\nMany of them have sat in court every day since the trial began more than three months ago, reliving in visceral detail - often through video and audio - how the attack happened.\n\nOn the first day of the trial, in July, some sobbed in their seats and others rushed for the exits as the very first evidence was played in court. One woman screamed \"shut it off\" as loud gunfire was heard in audio footage.\n\nThe atmosphere in court on Thursday was equally if not even more fraught with emotion.\n\nSeated in the front rows reserved for them, families shook their heads in disbelief as Judge Elizabeth Scherer read out the jury's verdict, count by count.\n\nDebbie Hixon, whose husband was murdered at Parkland, reaches out to her sister-in-law as they hear the gunman will be spared the death penalty\n\nOn each count, jurors acknowledged the crime that had been committed as well as how its brutal and premeditated nature warranted a death sentence for the gunman. But the defence team argued \"mitigating circumstances\" - including lifelong abuse and mental health disorders - meant the death penalty was not justified. The jury agreed.\n\nTom and Gena Hoyer lost their son, Luke, in the massacre and were present to hear his killer's fate.\n\n\"It's been a bad day. I'm as stunned as I was the day Luke was killed,\" Mr Hoyer told the BBC.\n\n\"I'm heartbroken, I'm stunned. I can't believe they gave a cold-blooded killer more mercy than the 17 victims he killed,\" Mrs Hoyer said.\n\nWhen the judge read the verdict aloud, many observers were confused about what the result was because of the complex legal language. But the Hoyers knew exactly what she was saying. Prosecutors had explained to them what to listen for.\n\n\"I was waiting on that one question to hear 'yes' or 'no'. And I couldn't believe it,\" Mrs Hoyer said.\n\nTheir son Luke was the very first name read in court. When they heard no to the death penalty, they held out hope that another, more extreme death might still earn a capital sentence - meaning the gunman would still be executed.\n\nMr Hoyer waited and hoped until almost the end of the charges, when they read the name of Peter Wang, who was shot four times in the head. The gunman had said he watched his head explode like a water balloon.\n\nTom and Gena Hoyer lost their 15-year-old son, Luke, in the Parkland shooting\n\n\"Our justice system should have been used to punish this shooter to the fullest extent of the law,\" said Tony Montalto, who lost his 14-year-old daughter Gina in the shooting.\n\n\"Not as an act of revenge, but to protect our nation's schools and to stop others from attacking the future of this country.\"\n\nAs the judge spoke, Mr Montalto - who now heads a non-profit advocating for school safety reforms - shook his head vigorously in the fifth row and wrapped his arm around his wife Jennifer.\n\nCorey Hixon got up and left the room when he heard the killer would receive a life sentence, not the death penalty, for his father Christopher's murder.\n\nThe elder Hixon - the athletics director at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and a former US Navy reservist who once deployed to Iraq - died after running towards the gunfire in an effort to shield students.\n\nMr Hixon's widow Debra said: \"What this verdict says to me is that [the gunman's] life meant more than the 17 that were murdered, the 17 [others] that were shot, and the thousands of people in that school and community that are traumatised every single day.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe trial at the Broward County Courthouse - some 30 miles south-east of the scene of the shooting - was an extremely rare legal proceeding.\n\nThe gunman had already pleaded guilty on 34 criminal counts - 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder - last October, so jurors were only deciding his sentence.\n\nThe last time a mass gunman faced a trial of this kind was in 2017, when the white supremacist who fatally shot nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, was sentenced to death.\n\nBut this was the deadliest shooting ever to go to trial. That's because most attackers are either killed by law enforcement in the course of their rampage or take their own lives in its immediate aftermath.\n\nAnother individual who killed 23 people at a Walmart department store in El Paso, Texas, in 2019, could face a similar trial next year.\n\nThe Parkland trial was delayed and slowed on several occasions, including by the Covid-19 pandemic and Hurricane Ian a fortnight ago.\n\nJury selection began in April and it took nearly three months to winnow down 1,800 people to a panel of 12, with 10 alternates. In turn, those 22 jurors heard more than three months of testimony.\n\nSequestered and without access to mobile phones or television, the jury deliberated for roughly seven hours before recommending a life sentence, without the possibility of parole.\n\nA formal sentencing will take place on 1 November, but many left Thursday's proceedings feeling deflated.\n\nFred Guttenberg told the BBC last year he \"won't ever stop\" fighting to honour his daughter Jaime's memory.\n\nThe 14-year-old's death has transformed Mr Guttenberg's life and he is now one of the most well-known advocates for gun control in the country.\n\n\"I was prepared for the rest of my life to seek justice,\" he said after the verdict. \"And I could not be more disappointed in what happened today.\"\n\nNote: 4 November 2022 This article was amended to make clear the jury considered mitigating circumstances outweighed aggravating circumstances, meaning the death penalty was not justified,", "Kherson is Ukraine's only regional capital seized by Russia since it launched its invasion on 24 February\n\nThe Russian-installed leader of Ukraine's southern Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, has called on civilians to evacuate - citing daily rocket attacks by advancing Ukrainian forces.\n\nHe urged them to \"save themselves\" by going to Russia for \"leisure and study\", and asked for Moscow's help.\n\nHis call was later backed up by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin in a message on state television.\n\nUkraine rejects accusations that it targets its own civilians.\n\nIts troops have recently retaken some areas of north-western Kherson, closing in on the regional capital, Kherson city.\n\n\"The government took the decision to organise assistance for the departure of residents of the [Kherson] region to other regions of the country,\" said Mr Khusnullin, who has special responsibility for southern Russia and Crimea.\n\n\"We will provide everyone with free accommodation and everything necessary.\"\n\nThe first group of people from Kherson would arrive on Friday in Russia's Rostov region, said its governor Vasily Golubev, according to Russian state news agency Tass.\n\n\"The Rostov region will accept and accommodate everyone who wants to come to us from the Kherson region,\" he added.\n\nKyiv has been using US-supplied Himars rocket systems Among other weaponry to great effect.\n\nIt has targeted key Russian-held military targets and threatened to cut off the bulk of the occupying forces on the west bank of the Dnieper river (known as Dnipro in Ukraine).\n\nKherson is the only regional capital seized by Russian forces since Moscow's invasion began on 24 February.\n\nUkraine's military has been tight-lipped about its troop advances in the key region that borders Crimea - the southern Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.\n\nIn other major developments on Thursday:\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Mr Saldo said many towns in the region - including the two major cities of Kherson and Nova Kakhovka - were now under daily rocket attacks by Ukrainian troops.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Such strikes are causing serious damage,\" he said, urging residents across the whole region - and especially those on the west bank of the Dnieper river - to evacuate to Russia or Crimea.\n\nAnd he appealed to the government in Moscow to help organise the process. \"Russia is not abandoning its people,\" he stressed, using a popular saying.\n\nEarlier this month, President Putin declared the annexation of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in Ukraine's south, as well as Donetsk and Luhansk in the east.\n\nUkraine and its Western allies condemned the move, saying it had no legal power. The Kremlin does not fully control any of the four regions.\n\nOn Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn the Russian annexation attempt.\n\nThe assembly's resolution was supported by 143 countries, while 35 states - including China and India - abstained. As well as Russia, four countries rejected the resolution - Belarus, North Korea, Syria and Nicaragua.\n\nAlthough symbolic, it was the highest number of votes against Russia since the invasion.", "Molly Russell was aged 14 when she died in 2017\n\nA coroner has written to social media firms and the government calling for action following the inquest into the death of schoolgirl Molly Russell.\n\nThe 14-year-old, from Harrow, ended her life in November 2017 after viewing suicide and self-harm content online.\n\nCoroner Andrew Walker issued six recommendations including separating platforms for adults and children and reviewing algorithms used by sites.\n\nMolly's father Ian urged social media firms not to \"drag their feet\".\n\nAt the inquest held last month at North London Coroner's Court, the coroner concluded the schoolgirl died while suffering from the \"negative effects of online content\".\n\nIn a prevention of future deaths report sent on Thursday to firms including Meta, Pinterest, Twitter and Snapchat, as well as the UK government, Mr Walker identified these concerns and action points for media firms and government to consider:\n\nThe coroner also voiced concerns over age verification when signing up to the platforms, content not being controlled so as to be age-specific and algorithms being used to provide content together with adverts.\n\nOther issues included were the lack of access or control for parents and guardians and the absence of capability for a child's account to be linked to a parent or guardian's account.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his report, Mr Walker said: \"I recommend that consideration is given to the setting up of an independent regulatory body to monitor online platform content.\"\n\nHe also recommended that \"consideration is given to enacting such legislation as may be necessary to ensure the protection of children from the effects of harmful online content and the effective regulation of harmful online content\".\n\nThe coroner added that while any regulation \"would be a matter for government I can see no reason why the platforms themselves would not wish to give consideration to self-regulation\".\n\n\"I believe you and/or your organisation have the power to take such action,\" he wrote.\n\nMeta, Pinterest, Twitter and Snapchat now all have 56 days to respond with a timetable of action they propose to take or explain why no action is proposed.\n\nMolly's father Ian Russell said he welcomed the coroner's report and called on social media firms \"to heed the coroner's words and not drag their feet waiting for legislation and regulation\".\n\n\"They should think long and hard about whether their platforms are suitable for young people at all.\"\n\nHe added that the government \"must also act urgently to put in place its robust regulation of social media platforms to ensure that children are protected from the effects of harmful online content, and that platforms and their senior managers face strong sanctions if they fail to take action to curb the algorithmic amplification of destructive and extremely dangerous content or fail to remove it swiftly\".\n\nIan Russell has campaigned for a safer online world for children since his daughter's death\n\nRepresentatives from both Meta, Instagram's parent company, and Pinterest gave evidence during the inquest.\n\nMeta executive Elizabeth Lagone said she believed posts seen by Molly, which her family say \"encouraged\" suicide, were safe, while Pinterest's Judson Hoffman told the inquest the site was \"not safe\" when the schoolgirl used it.\n\nReacting to the report, Meta agreed that \"regulation is needed\" and it was \"reviewing\" the recommendations.\n\n\"We'll continue working hard, in collaboration with experts, teens and parents, so we can keep improving,\" the firm added.\n\nIn a statement, Pinterest said it was \"committed to making ongoing improvements to help ensure that the platform is safe for everyone and the coroner's report will be considered with care\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: I am not going anywhere - Kwasi Kwarteng\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has insisted he is \"not going anywhere\", despite the market turbulence he admitted was caused in part by his policies.\n\nAsked if he and PM Liz Truss would still be in their jobs this time next month, he said: \"Absolutely, 100%.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng also sidestepped questions about whether he would U-turn on parts of his mini-budget, saying: \"Our position hasn't changed.\"\n\nHe is facing growing calls from Tory MPs to rethink his tax-cutting package.\n\nDiscussions are under way between the prime minister and backbenchers about what her party can accept.\n\nThe mood among Tory MPs is angry and fatalistic. \"It's checkmate, we're screwed,\" one told the BBC.\n\n\"There is no question in my mind, they'll have to junk loads of this stuff and U-turn,\" another said.\n\nSome think the government's tax-cutting plans should be reversed, while others think the help with energy bills should be more targeted.\n\nOther scenarios being discussed by Tory MPs include the chancellor resigning or the prime minister being ousted.\n\nHowever, there is little agreement on what should happen next or who should replace Ms Truss if she is removed.\n\nThe government has already U-turned on its plan to scrap the top rate of income tax, but this only made up £2bn of the tax cuts announced by the chancellor last month.\n\nHe is under pressure to spell out how the remaining £43bn will be paid for, and how he will get the UK's national debt falling.\n\nMr Kwarteng is due to deliver a statement on 31 October, along with independent economic forecasts.\n\nPressed on whether there could be further U-turns on his mini-budget, Mr Kwarteng, who is in Washington for an IMF meeting, said there would be more detail on 31 October.\n\nAsked about the possibility corporation tax could rise, Mr Kwarteng said he was \"totally focused\" on delivering his mini-budget.\n\nMs Truss has pledged to scrap a planned rise to the tax, which was set to increase from 19% to 25% in 2023.\n\nOn Wednesday, she said it would be \"wrong\" to raise corporation tax \"when we are trying to attract investment into our country at a time of global economic slowdown\".\n\nIn an interview with Sky News, former Home Secretary Priti Patel said the market would now \"dictate\" the prime minister's decision on corporation tax \"primarily because we want to see stability\".\n\nThe pound rose against the dollar as rumours emerged about a possible government U-turn.\n\nHowever, it later fell back after stronger-than-expected inflation data from the US drove up the value of the dollar.\n\nIn an interview in the Daily Telegraph, when asked about the market response to the speculation of a U-turn on corporation tax, Mr Kwarteng said: \"Let's see.\"\n\nHowever, he added that he still thought ensuring \"competitive\" tax rates for businesses was a \"great idea\".\n\nThe chancellor's mini-budget on 23 September has caused turmoil in the financial markets and prompted the Bank of England to intervene to protect pension funds.\n\nMr Kwarteng acknowledged there was \"some turbulence\" after his mini-budget but said there was \"a very dicey situation globally\", with inflation, potential interest rate rises and energy price spikes affecting everybody.", "Less than 20% of electronic waste is recycled, experts say\n\nThis year, 5.3 billion mobile phones will be thrown away the international waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) forum says.\n\nIts estimate, based on global trade data, highlights the growing environmental problem of \"e-waste\".\n\nMany people keep old phones, rather than recycling them, research suggests.\n\nPrecious minerals not extracted from waste electronics, such as the copper in wire or the cobalt in rechargeable batteries, have to be mined.\n\n\"People tend not to realise that all these seemingly insignificant items have a lot of value and together at a global level represent massive volumes,\" WEEE director general Pascal Leroy said.\n\nThere are an estimated 16 billion mobile phones worldwide - and in Europe, almost a third are no longer in use.\n\nThe WEEE says its research shows the \"mountain\" of electrical and electronic waste - from washing machines and toasters to tablet computers and global positioning system (GPS) devices - will grow to 74 million tonnes a year by 2030.\n\nEarlier this year, the Royal Society of Chemistry launched a campaign promoting the mining of e-waste to produce new products, highlighting global conflict, including the war in Ukraine, threatens precious-metal supply chains.\n\nMagdalena Charytanowicz, of the WEEE, said: \"These devices offer many important resources that can be used in the production of new electronic devices or other equipment, such as wind turbines, electric car batteries or solar panels - all crucial for the green, digital transition to low-carbon societies.\"\n\nPrecious elements not extracted from waste have to be mined - at great environmental cost\n\nJust over 17% of the world's e-waste is properly recycled - but the United Nations International Telecommunication Union has set a target to raise that to 30% by next year.\n\nIt highlights it is one of the \"fastest growing and most complex waste streams that affects both human health and the environment, as it can contain harmful substances\".\n\nIn the UK, more than 20 million unused but working electrical items, worth as much as possibly £5.63bn, are currently hoarded in UK homes, surveys by the organisation Material Focus suggest.\n\nIt also calculated that the average UK household could sell unwanted tech and raise about £200.\n\nThe organisation's online campaign provides tips, including where to find recycling centres.\n\nMr Leroy said much more could be done.\n\n\"Providing collection boxes in supermarkets, pick-up of small broken appliances upon delivery of new ones and offering PO [post-office] boxes to return small e-waste are just some of the initiatives introduced to encourage the return of these items,\" he said.", "The Beyond Meat executive who was accused of biting a man's nose is leaving the vegan food company.\n\nThe US firm, known for its plant-based burgers, had suspended Douglas Ramsey, then chief operating officer, indefinitely after the incident.\n\nHis departure comes amid a broader shake-up at the company, which is struggling with faltering demand for fake meat.\n\nThe firm also said it was axing 200 staff, about 20% of its workforce.\n\n\"We believe our decision to reduce personnel and expenses throughout the company, including our leadership group, reflects an appropriate right-sizing of our organization given current economic conditions,\" Beyond Meat boss Ethan Brown said.\n\n\"We remain confident in our ability to deliver on the long-term growth and impact expected from our global brand.\"\n\nBeyond Meat, which started selling its plant-based food in 2012, has blamed cost-of-living pressures for pushing shoppers to less expensive options, including traditional meat.\n\nThe company has also seen its edge eroded by a wealth of new competitors, including from food giants such as Kellogg and Tyson Foods.\n\nExecutives warned investors on Friday that sales this year are likely to fall 9% to 14% compared to 2021.\n\nIt is the second time the company had cut its forecast in recent months - and marks a sharp slowdown from the more than 20% growth the firm had initially projected.\n\nThe company said it had been \"negatively impacted by ongoing softness in the plant-based meat category overall, especially in the refrigerated subsegment, and by the impact of increased competition\".\n\n\"Inflation is believed to be an underlying factor exerting pressure on the category as consumers trade down into cheaper forms of protein, including animal meat,\" it added.\n\nBeyond Meat had announced an earlier round of job cuts in August. Multiple executives in addition to Mr Ramsey have also left the company in recent weeks.\n\nThe company did not respond to a request for comment about Mr Ramsey.\n\nHe was arrested last month for reportedly biting a man's nose during a row after a football game in Arkansas. His last day was 14 October, the company said.\n\nBefore joining Beyond Meat last year, Mr Ramsey had a three-decade career at meat processing giant Tyson Foods, where he oversaw the company's poultry and McDonald's business units.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 7 and 14 October.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\n\"A dreich day in Glencoe was brightened up when this rainbow appeared on the moors opposite the Glencoe Ski lift,\" says Brian Colston.\n\nMarcus Tyler took this captivating image on a foggy morning while watching a man fly-fishing.\n\nJane McArthur witnessed a magnificent sunrise over the North Sea from the village of Auchmithie.\n\nPeter Wilkinson was at Kinnoull tower at sunrise, where he took this shot looking down the Tay towards Dundee and the North Sea.\n\n\"An acrobatic squirrel captured in mid-air, taken in Rothiemurchus,\" says Jeremy Morris.\n\nJamie Ballantine took a picture of the world-famous Swilken Bridge on The Old Course at St Andrews on an autumn morning.\n\nDavid Hay took this beautiful picture of Poppy, the fox red labrador, on Tentsmuir Beach in Fife during a stormy autumn day. Mr Hay said he loved the reflection of her on the sand.\n\nStornoway Harbour looking calm in between torrential downpours, snapped by June Grey.\n\nCreels on Port Seton Harbour in East Lothian as the lobster season draws to a close for another year. Photographed by Ian Mulvey.\n\nMoira MacKintosh took this photograph of swans at Loch Flemington near Nairn.\n\n\"When I visited a stable near Selkirk, a red admiral butterfly landed on Daffodil the Shetland pony,\" says Walter Baxter.\n\nMalcolm Gillies snapped this image of a narrowboat carefully passing a beautifully-coloured tree on the Forth and Clyde Canal.\n\nAnnie Halliday took this picture of her Siberian husky, Hugo, looking longingly at the apples on her tree.\n\n\"Whilst travelling through Glencoe, had to stop off at Loch Leven to capture the beautiful reflections,\" reflects Tracey Currie.\n\nAutumnal views from the Trossachs, captured by Iain Wood.\n\n\"My dog, Dora, admiring the glorious Perthshire countryside from the top of Ben Vrackie,\" says Angela Bathgate.\n\nRichard Marsh's visit to Kirkgate Park, Loch Leven, threatened to be a wet one when storm clouds gathered above.\n\nEmma Legge spotted this bullfinch feasting on her rowan berries in Cupar, Fife.\n\nLooks like a scene straight from Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit. Edyta Rice took this picture of a golden glow over Glencoe valley.\n\nLouise O'Brien took this picture on her visit to Sanna Bay with her miniature poodles. Looks like it was a windy day, thankfully the pooches have all that fur to keep warm.\n\nFilip Vanourek's photo of Stirling Castle in amazing natural lighting. This picture was taken from the Wallace Monument.\n\nJegathesh Kumaran Jayakaran took this image of swans on a frozen lake.\n\n\"No chips were harmed when taking this shot,\" says Jacki Gordon at James Hamilton Heritage Park.\n\nDonald MacIver took this beautiful picture of his friend Muriel Mackenzie heading out for a surf in the Isle of Lewis.\n\nChristopher Crossland took this image of moonlit Jupiter from West Kilbride. He says Jupiter is the closest it has been for 59 years.\n\nMorris Macleod spotted this grey seal eating a dogfish it had just caught at Stornoway harbour.\n\nSam Ross snapped this on his visit to an impressive pumpkin patch which was ready for picking.\n\nA roe deer brought its fawn down into Lorraine Campbell's garden, where she took this adorable shot. She said they stayed in the garden for a while and seemed to enjoy eating her agapanthus.\n\nDavid McErlane was at the Wings & Wheels event at the Dumfries Aviation Museum. He said he loved this Ferrari he saw and it was great to see such a mixture of classic planes, cars, bikes, trucks and everything in between.\n\n\"This cottage in Angus looks about ready for Halloween,\" says Eric Niven.\n\nA perfectly-placed and photogenic Highland cow, captured by Dan Roberts, near Appin in the Highlands.\n\nSandra Williams snapped this image of Hamish enjoying the evening light of golden hour in the woods near Minto in the Scottish Borders.\n\nFiona Corlett took this photo from an easyJet flight from London. She said the sky was so amazing, she could not stop looking out of the window.\n\nReg Connon captured the magnificent night sky near Macduff, in Banff and Buchan.\n\nThe sunset over Arisaig bay, captured by Keith Verrall.\n\nSpooky season is well and truly upon us. Michael Meng Hung NG captured this view of the moon in the distance as he was walking on Princes Street.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Postal workers are walking out for 24 hours in the first of 19 days of planned strikes\n\nRoyal Mail workers are holding the first of 19 strikes in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nThe Communication Workers Union (CWU) said 115,000 members across the UK would walk out in a 24-hour strike on Thursday, starting at 04:00 BST.\n\nGeneral Secretary Dave Ward said workers faced the \"biggest ever assault\" on jobs, terms and conditions \"in the history of Royal Mail\".\n\nRoyal Mail said further strikes would \"weaken\" its financial position.\n\nThe planned 19 days of industrial action include Black Friday week and Cyber Monday, as well as 13, 20, and 25 October, and 28 November.\n\nLetters will not be delivered and some parcels will be delayed, the Royal Mail has warned.\n\nThis is the sixth strike for postal workers, and comes after a summer of unrest which saw rail workers and criminal barristers walk out amid disputes with their employers.\n\nThe CWU has accused Royal Mail of planning structural change. This would effectively see employees in secure, well-paid jobs turned into a \"casualised, financially-precarious workforce overnight\", said the union.\n\nIt said plans by the postal service include cutting workers' sick pay, delaying arrival of post by three hours and inferior terms for new employees.\n\nGeneral Secretary Mr Ward said the changes could lead to the \"destruction of the special relationship that postal workers and the public have in every community in the UK\".\n\nHe described the plans as an \"asset-stripping business plan\" that will lead to the break-up of the company.\n\nRoyal Mail workers mounted picket lines at previous strikes over the summer\n\nRoyal Mail said it would do what it could to keep services running, but the strike was likely to cause disruption.\n\nNo letters will be delivered during strike days, said Royal Mail, but as many special delivery and Tracked24 parcels as possible would be delivered.\n\nIt also said it would prioritise the delivery of Covid-19 test kits and medical prescriptions.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesperson said: \"Royal Mail is losing £1m a day and must change faster in response to changing customer demands.\"\n\nIndustrial action will threaten the job security of postal workers, said Royal Mail, calling on the leaders of CWU to cancel the walk-out and accept invitations for talks.\n\nRoyal Mail apologised for any delays to customers, adding: \"We are doing all we can to minimise any delays and keep people, businesses and the country connected.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nForty-one people have died following an explosion in a coal mine in northern Turkey, the country's president says.\n\nThe discovery of the final missing body brings the rescue operation to an end, more than 20 hours after Friday's deadly blast.\n\nEarlier the interior minister said 58 people working in the mine when the blast went off were rescued or got out by themselves.\n\nSuleyman Soylu said 10 people remained in hospital and one was discharged.\n\nAround 110 people were in the mine at the time of Friday's blast, almost half of them at more than 300m (984ft) deep.\n\nEmergency crews had worked through the night, digging through rock to try to reach survivors.\n\nVideo footage showed miners emerging blackened and bleary-eyed accompanied by rescuers at the facility in Amasra, on the Black Sea coast.\n\nFamily and friends of the missing could also be seen at the mine, anxiously awaiting news of their loved ones.\n\nPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been visiting the site in Bartin province, along with other ministers, and confirmed the final missing person had been found dead.\n\nAuthorities said Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into the cause of the explosion but initial indications were that the blast was caused by firedamp, a term referring to methane forming an explosive mixture in coal mines.\n\nIt is believed to have occurred at around 300m deep. At the time, some 49 people had been working in the \"risky\" zone between 300 and 350m underground, Mr Soylu said.\n\nEnergy Minister Fatih Donmez said there were partial collapses inside the mine, but no ongoing fires, and ventilation was working properly.\n\nAmasra's mayor Recai Cakir said many of those who survived had suffered \"serious injuries\".\n\nOne worker who managed to escape on his own said: \"There was dust and smoke and we don't know exactly what happened.\"\n\nThe mine belongs to the state-owned Turkish Hard Coal Enterprises.\n\nTurkey witnessed its deadliest coal mining disaster in 2014, when 301 people died after a blast in the western town of Soma.", "The government has dropped its plan to abolish the 45% rate of income tax after Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng acknowledged that it was proving a \"massive distraction\".\n\nMr Kwarteng announced a series of tax cuts and changes in his mini-budget on September 23, before performing the U-turn. The government has not said how they will be paid for.\n\nSo how many people will benefit from them and how much will they cost?\n\nThe top rate of income tax for those earning more than £150,000 a year was reduced from 50% to 45% by then Chancellor George Osborne from April 2013.\n\nA decade on, the rate was to have been abolished in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, leaving top earners paying the 40% rate instead. Mr Kwarteng has confirmed that this will not now go ahead.\n\nThe government said it would have meant a tax cut for 660,000 people next year.\n\nThe Treasury said the policy would cost around £2.2bn in 2025-26 and £2.1bn the following year. The costings in the first few years of the policy were uncertain because of wealthy taxpayers being expected to move their earnings between years to take advantage of the cut.\n\nScotland has a different system of income tax rates and bands, which is set by the Scottish Parliament. The current top rate for those earning over £150,000 is 46% and is not affected by Mr Kwarteng's announcements.\n\nThe rate of income tax payable on incomes between £12,571 and £50,270 a year - known as the basic rate - will be cut from 20% to 19% from April 2023.\n\nThat should benefit 31 million income taxpayers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAgain, the changes to the basic rate do not affect taxpayers in Scotland, where there are currently five income tax bands, including a 19% starter rate.\n\nThe UK government expects the cut to cost just over £5bn in the first year. It's important to remember that this costing - and the others - haven't been checked by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), as they would usually be for a budget.\n\nA 1.25p in the pound increase in National Insurance was introduced in April 2022. It is now being reversed from 6 November.\n\nIt will apply throughout the UK, to about 28 million people.\n\nIt also applies to employers, the government says it will affect about 920,000 businesses.\n\nThe cut will cost the government about £17bn a year according to its estimates, although it expects to get about £3bn of that back if employers use their cut to raise wages or profits.\n\nThe price at which Stamp Duty Land Tax starts to be payable on property purchases in England and Northern Ireland has doubled, from £125,000 to £250,000.\n\nThere is also a special rate for first-time buyers. The price at which they start paying stamp duty has gone up from £300,000 to £425,000.\n\nThere were about 1.1 million residential property transactions on which stamp duty was paid in the last year.\n\nThe changes will cost the government about £1.5bn a year in lost tax revenue.\n\nScotland and Wales have separate systems of taxation for property transactions so the proposed stamp duty changes will not affect purchases there.\n\nCorporation tax is paid by companies on their profits.\n\nThe then Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced in March 2021 that the rate of corporation tax would be increasing from 19% to 25%, from April 2023.\n\nBut businesses with profits below £50,000 would have stayed at the 19% rate, with the rate then increasing gradually so that only businesses with profits over £250,000 were meant to pay the full 25% rate.\n\nMr Sunak estimated that would mean 70% of companies - about 1.4 million of them - would be unaffected and 10% - about 200,000 - would pay the full 25% rate.\n\nThe Treasury says cancelling the planned rise will cost it £12bn next year and £17bn the year after.\n\nThe government hopes the decision will encourage businesses to invest and increase growth in the economy.\n\nFrom April 2023, the government has decided to repeal the changes to the rules on off-payroll working, known as IR35, which were introduced in 2017 and 2021.\n\nThe point of the regulations was to make businesses responsible for making sure that contractors they were employing, via another company, were actually entitled to that status and should not be paid directly via payrolls.\n\nThe change to the rules will mean that across the UK it's up to the contractors themselves to make sure they have the right status and are paying the right amount of tax instead of putting the burden on employers.\n\nThe Treasury expects this change to cost it just over £1bn next year, rising to £2bn in 2026-27.\n\nAbout 4.4 million workers in the UK are classified as self-employed, but it is not clear how many of them will be affected by the change.", "The murder of the Maltese journalist triggered international anger.\n\nTwo brothers have been jailed for 40 years for killing a Maltese journalist, whose 2017 death sparked global anger.\n\nGeorge and Alfred Degiorgio admitted to murdering Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, just hours after pleading not guilty.\n\nShe was killed by a car bomb in October 2017. Many suspect the killing was ordered by top establishment figures.\n\nKnown as the \"one-woman WikiLeaks\", she uncovered networks of corruption in Malta and abroad, and was know as a harsh critic of the government.\n\nThe year Caruana Galizia died, she effectively triggered an early election by publishing allegations linking Joseph Muscat, the then-prime minister, to the Panama Papers scandal, which exposed the use of tax havens by the rich.\n\nLast year, two men were charged with supplying the car bomb in the attack, while another man, Vincent Muscat, was jailed for15 years when he admitted involvement in the murder.\n\nThe man who is accused of ordering the killing, Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech, is yet to stand trial - he denies any involvement.\n\nOne of Caruana Galizia's three sons, Paul, who publicly campaigned for justice on her behalf, said the sentencing was \"a break in the clouds\". The family were in court on Friday to hear the sentence handed down.\n\nIt was also welcomed by Maltese Prime Minister, Robert Abela, who said the judgement was \"another important step towards justice for the Caruana Galizia family\".\n\nA public inquiry into the assassination of the investigative journalist found the state responsible for her death. The report said the state had failed to recognise risks to the reporter's life and take reasonable steps to avoid them.\n\nAn investigation also led to the resignation of Mr Muscat in 2019 after his close associates were implicated. He has denied corruption allegations.", "Liz Truss arriving for her news briefing in which she said she was 'incredibly sorry' to lose her chancellor\n\nThere should be a general election if Liz Truss cannot \"regain confidence\" in her leadership, the Welsh Conservative leader has said.\n\nAndrew RT Davies made the comments just before it was reported Kwasi Kwarteng had been sacked as chancellor.\n\nThe prime minister announced she was reversing her policy to scrap the planned rise in corporation tax from 19% to 25%.\n\nMr Davies said it was important for Ms Truss to \"turn this situation around\".\n\nIn an interview with Times Radio, he said: \"It's important now that we reflect on where we're at, the prime minister seeks to regain that confidence, and if she can't regain that confidence, it would be right that people have their chance to have their say on this matter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe was asked to confirm that he was saying that Ms Truss failing to turn things around would mean there would have to be a general election.\n\n\"I think it would be very difficult to command public confidence in the situation where you change the leader again, in an internal party discussion,\" Mr Davies said.\n\n\"I think what's really important is that Liz Truss turns this situation around.\n\n\"She has a mandate from the leadership election, we have a manifesto from 2019, we have a solid platform to build on, albeit the last five weeks have been very difficult indeed, with some self-inflicted mistakes.\n\n\"Now we need to turn that situation back round and get on with the job to the people have purchasing power to deliver for them.\"\n\nMs Truss held a brief news conference where she said it was clear that parts of the mini-budget went \"further and faster\" than markets were expecting \"so the way we are delivering our mission right now has to change\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to act now to reassure the markets of our fiscal discipline\".\n\nThe prime minister has faced calls to drop parts or all of her economic plan for days, to calm market turbulence and reassure her party.\n\nThe hustings event in Cardiff in August marked the first time Liz Truss had visited Wales since the leadership contest began\n\nFormer Welsh Secretary and current Clwyd West Conservative MP David Jones said: \"Clearly this is a difficult time for the prime minister but all the members of the parliamentary party should now help restore stability by giving her their support.\n\n\"I am sure she realises the magnitude of the task but I believe she has it in her come out of these difficulties.\"\n\nLord Nick Bourne of Aberystwyth said the Conservatives had to \"focus on what happens next rather than should we be in this mess, because of course we shouldn't\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Drive, he agreed with commentator Tim Montgomerie that the Conservatives \"probably don't deserve to be in power at this moment\".\n\nLord Bourne said on a personal level he felt very sorry for the Prime Minister but does not know what is in her mind or how long she has got\n\n\"It's painful when you look at the state of the markets, when you look at the position we're on with inflation, when you look at the position we're on with the cost of living crisis, we need a government which is going to get us out of this mess.\n\n\"We've got a Prime Minister who sadly is in massive difficulties, she's shredded the policies she was elected on, she's shredded the chancellor, and it's hard to see how she survives this, but the most important this is what happens to the country.\n\n\"It's not really what happens to the Prime Minister, it's how do we get the country through this very, very difficult position, and I think we need a change of leader to do that,\" he said.\n\nLord Bourne added he did not think a general election was the right way forward, but said it could not be long before Ms Truss would have to go.\n\nHe said there was a need for a change of policy, and someone who believed in it, and Rishi Sunak was that person.\n\n\"The question now is, when will the prime minister leave, not will she leave\".\n\nThat's what one Welsh Conservative told me this week. Another said it didn't matter what \"happens next, we've definitely lost the next election.\"\n\nOther Welsh Tories are more supportive, accusing their colleagues of making political hay.\n\nIf you cast your mind back as far as 40 days ago, you'll remember Welsh Conservative MPs and Senedd Members were pretty equally split between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak by the end of the Conservative leadership contest.\n\nUniting a party around an economic plan criticised by your main opponent as a \"moral failure\" was always going to be tough but most were willing to give it a go.\n\nFew would have predicted how quickly it would unravel.\n\nThe First Minister, Mark Drakeford said: \"The Prime Minister is the architect of her own misfortunes. It is her decisions that have led to weeks of confusion and chaos.\n\n\"We must now see a period of stability and certainty so that we can support people and businesses through the massive challenges we face.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts called for Ms Truss to quit, accusing her of seeking \"to save her zombie premiership by making a scapegoat of Kwasi Kwarteng\".\n\n\"She was the driver of this car crash, she must therefore take responsibility,\" Ms Roberts said.\n\n\"Liz Truss must recognise that the economic shock which has caused so much anxiety for people is her own fault. She must resign today.\"\n\nLeader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats Jane Dodds said Ms Truss should call a general election.\n\n\"This economic crisis we have been facing wasn't started by Kwasi Kwarteng alone, it was a direct consequence of Liz Truss' economic fantasies,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCommunities in three Australian states have been ordered to evacuate as torrential rain brings major flooding.\n\nParts of the country have received up to four times their average October rainfall in just 24 hours.\n\nAt least 500 homes have been flooded, one person has died and another is missing as the disaster unfolds.\n\nWidespread flooding across Australia - driven by a La Niña weather pattern - has killed more than 20 people this year.\n\nVictoria - Australia's second most populous state - has been worst hit this week. Several communities have been ordered to evacuate, including some in the state capital Melbourne.\n\nFloods have swamped roads, forced school closures and cut power to 3,000 houses and businesses.\n\nPremier Daniel Andrews said the number of inundated homes was \"absolutely certain to grow\", calling it one of the state's worst flood events in decades.\n\n\"This has only just started, and it's going to be with us for a while,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.\n\nBarry Webster, who lives in Melbourne's north-west, is one of those whose house has gone underwater.\n\n\"I always said I wanted riverfront views, but not like this,\" he told The Age.\n\n\"Going downstairs and seeing the lounge floating… it's a bit surreal, kind of like a movie.\"\n\nMany areas received massive 24-hour rainfall totals, but the highest was in Strathbogie, north-east of Melbourne.\n\nIt received 220mm - more than double the town's average October rainfall, or about a third of London's annual average.\n\nSeveral rivers have also flooded in Tasmania after up to 400mm of rain fell in some areas in 24 hours. It is unclear how many homes and business have been affected there.\n\nIn New South Wales, about 600 people were told to evacuate from the town of Forbes, where about 250 properties and business were expected to flood.\n\nOne man died in the state's west earlier this week after his car became submerged in floodwaters.\n\nRescuers have also been searching for man thought to have been swept away in similar circumstances on Tuesday.\n\nMore rain is forecast in the coming weeks, placing strain on already swollen rivers and saturated ground.\n\nExperts say recent flooding in Australia has been worsened by climate change and a La Niña weather phenomenon. In Australia, a La Niña increases the likelihood of rain, cyclones and cooler daytime temperatures.", "Elon Musk says his rocket firm SpaceX will continue funding its Starlink internet service in Ukraine, a day after he said it could no longer do so.\n\n\"The hell with it... Even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we'll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free,\" he tweeted.\n\nStarlink has been vital for Ukraine's military and people to stay online.\n\nUkraine says it helped to reboot key infrastructure after Russian attacks.\n\nEnergy installations were among facilities targeted by more than 100 Russian missiles this week. Starlink consists of thousands of satellites in low-Earth orbit and ground terminals.\n\nLast month Mr Musk, the Tesla boss and world's richest man, asked the Pentagon to fund the Starlink programme instead of him, according to US media.\n\nAnd on Friday he tweeted: \"SpaceX is not asking to recoup past expenses, but also cannot fund the existing system indefinitely\". That move drew strong criticism.\n\nMr Musk earlier provoked Kyiv's ire by suggesting Ukraine could cede territory to Russia.\n\nA Starlink terminal seen providing Kharkiv, Ukraine, with internet last month\n\nThe Starlink programme costs $20m (£18m) per month to maintain, according to Mr Musk. He recently said SpaceX had spent $80m so far to keep Ukraine online.\n\n\"In addition to terminals, we have to create, launch, maintain & replenish satellites & ground stations,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"We've also had to defend against cyberattacks & jamming, which are getting harder.\"\n\nUkraine's vice-Prime Minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, downplayed tensions with Mr Musk, writing on Twitter that the billionaire \"is among the world's top private donors supporting Ukraine\".\n\n\"Starlink is an essential element of our critical infrastructure,\" he wrote.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Musk tweeted out a proposal that Ukraine accept Russia's annexation of Crimea and allow referendums in Ukrainian regions invaded by Moscow.\n\nThe Kremlin responded positively to the overture.\n\nBut Ukraine's outgoing ambassador to Germany, Andrij Melnyk, posted a tweet telling Mr Musk to go away, using a swear word.\n\nResponding on Friday to a post referring to the ambassador's remark, Mr Musk said: \"We're just following his recommendation.\"\n\nMoscow recently declared four more Ukrainian regions to be part of Russia, following so-called referendums denounced as fraudulent by Kyiv and its Western allies. Russia does not fully control any of the four regions.\n\nMr Musk has also suggested the world should \"formally\" recognise Crimea - illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014 - as part of Russia.\n\nThis week, Mr Musk denied that he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin before releasing his Twitter poll.\n\n\"I have spoken to Putin only once and that was about 18 months ago. The subject matter was space,\" he tweeted.\n\nThat statement came after a think tank researcher claimed Mr Musk had personally told him about the alleged conversation.", "Leah Croucher, 19, was last seen on CCTV on 15 February 2019 in Milton Keynes\n\nThe parents of Leah Croucher have visited the house where human remains were found earlier this week.\n\nOn Wednesday, police said unidentified remains and a rucksack and personal items belonging to the 19-year-old had been found at a Milton Keynes property.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to take place on Friday but may \"take some time\", Thames Valley Police said.\n\nMiss Croucher's parents left a note at the site saying: \"We will cherish your memories forever.\"\n\nLeah Croucher's father John, mother Claire and sister Jade looked at flowers outside the house\n\nThe teenager was last seen on CCTV in the Buckinghamshire city on Friday, 15 February 2019.\n\nPolice began searching the house on Loxbeare Drive in Furzton on Monday evening, following a tip-off phone call from a member of the public.\n\nLeah's parents, along with her sister Jade, arrived in a police vehicle just before 20:00 BST on Thursday and were driven behind the cordon surrounding the property, .\n\nThey reappeared some minutes later and laid flowers at a nearby memorial, made up of bouquets, teddy bears and candles left by members of the public.\n\nA note was left outside the house by Miss Croucher's parents\n\nA message left on the flowers laid by Miss Croucher's parents said their \"darkest fears have come true\".\n\n\"We only need to be apart a little longer. We have so missed you for so long already,\" it said.\n\n\"The future looks so bleak now we know we will never see your smile or hear your laughter again. We will cherish your memories forever.\"\n\nA note from her sister said \"my heart has broken, my mind racing with thoughts and my body numb\".\n\n\"How can a life as beautiful as yours come to an end in such a tragic way?\n\n\"I have loved you from your first breath and I will... until my last.\n\n\"There has never been a moment where you were not in my thoughts and there never will be.\"\n\nShe added that her \"only comfort\" was that Leah and her brother Haydon - who took his own life nine months after his sister's disappearance - were \"together\".\n\nA note signed from \"Nan and Grandad\" was left outside the property\n\nA handwritten message signed from \"Nan and Grandad\" was also tied to a bunch of yellow roses and left outside the property by a group of mourners.\n\nIt read: \"Our darling, we will never stop seeking answers. Will love and miss you always.\"\n\nThe force has said forensic examinations at the scene may last \"several weeks\" and as a result there would continue to be a police presence both at the house and in the area.\n\nIt would also \"take some time\" to formally identify the remains, police added.\n\nThe property is less than half a mile (0.8km) from where Miss Croucher was last seen in Buzzacott Lane, Furzton, walking in the direction of Loxbeare Drive and Chaffron Way.\n\nForensics officers continue to work at the house where human remains were found\n\nA police spokesman said Monday was the first time they had been alerted to the property, but it had been previously \"visited as part of our house-to-house inquiries as part of the investigation\".\n\n\"There was no response at the property and as such leaflets would have been dropped through the letterbox,\" the force said.\n\nMore than 4,000 homes have been visited and 1,200 hours of CCTV footage reviewed since Miss Croucher's disappearance on her way to work at a finance company.\n\nThames Valley Police said detectives were likely to be at the scene \"for some time\"\n\nOn Thursday, Det Ch Supt Ian Hunter made a \"renewed and specific appeal\" to anyone who may have been in the area of Loxbeare Drive on or around the day Miss Croucher went missing.\n\nHe has also asked people to remain respectful of Miss Croucher's family and thanked the local community for their \"support and patience\" as the investigation continued.\n\nBunches of flowers have been left at the scene with messages\n\nForensics officers have been seen taking specialist equipment into the house\n\nCCTV footage showed the last confirmed sighting of Leah Croucher walking to work on the day she disappeared\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked as chancellor and replaced by Jeremy Hunt after his mini-budget resulted in financial turbulence and a revolt from Tory MPs.\n\nHe has become Britain's second shortest-serving chancellor, lasting just 38 days in the role.\n\nThe long-time ally of Prime Minister Liz Truss, seen as her political soulmate, was appointed to the role on 6 September.\n\nSpeaking before Mr Kwarteng became chancellor, one friend told the Times that he and Ms Truss were a bit like \"Batman and Robin\", adding: \"They are both slight social misfits, amiable geeks, and have strong views which are in tune with each other.\"\n\nHe took over at Number 11 Downing Street at a critical time for the UK economy, with millions looking to him for help with soaring winter energy bills.\n\nAn Old Etonian who became the first black Conservative cabinet minister in 2021, he read classics and history at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has a PhD in economic history. He is also a past winner of notoriously tough BBC quiz show University Challenge.\n\nFamily: Married to solicitor Harriet Edwards with one daughter\n\nMr Kwarteng's parents came to the UK from Ghana as students in the 1960s. He was born in East London in 1975, the same year as Ms Truss.\n\nHis economist father and barrister mother gave him a traditional Ashanti first name, meaning \"born on Sunday\", when he was actually born on a Monday. He told the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast his parents stayed silent on the matter when he jokingly pulled them up on it.\n\nThe Church was a strong part of his mother's life and she was a lifelong Conservative voter.\n\nHe was just three years old when Margaret Thatcher came to power, and she would remain prime minister until his GCSE year. He has said in the past that his mother deeply admired Mrs Thatcher as someone \"who wanted to rely on their own efforts\" and has described himself as a \"pragmatic Thatcherite\".\n\nHe attended the exclusive private school Eton College after winning a scholarship there, and went on to graduate with a double first from Cambridge University in classics and history.\n\nOne well-known anecdote about the young Kwasi Kwarteng harks back to his admissions interview for Trinity College. The self-confident 17-year-old told the tutor, who had arrived late and hadn't conducted many of these interviews before: \"Don't worry, sir - I'm sure you'll do very well.\"\n\nHe was part of the Cambridge team which won University Challenge in 1995, although he generated headlines for uttering a swearword after he buzzed in and forgot the answer to a question.\n\nHe has since questioned how much being good at quizzes \"relates to anything in what people call 'real life'\".\n\nKwasi Kwarteng appeared in the winning team for Trinity College, Cambridge, on University Challenge in 1994-95\n\nHe attended Harvard University in the United States on a Kennedy Scholarship, before returning to the University of Cambridge to complete a PhD in economic history in 2000.\n\nDuring his second stint at the university, Tristram Hunt, the former Labour MP and now head of the V&A Museum, joked that then roommate Mr Kwarteng was \"quite ungovernable and dishevelled\".\n\nHe worked as a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and a financial analyst at banks including JP Morgan in the City of London and got involved in Conservative politics as chairman of the Bow Group think tank.\n\nHe has remarked that \"politics was always something I was drawn to\", and he made his first attempt to become an MP in 2005. He stood as the Conservative candidate for Brent East at the general election, but came third. There was also an unsuccessful run for the London Assembly in 2008.\n\nHowever, he became part of the \"class of 2010\", a cohort of politicians entering Westminster for the first time that year. He was elected as MP for Spelthorne in Surrey and entered Parliament the same time as future colleagues Ms Truss, Priti Patel and Sajid Javid.\n\nHis maiden speech in the House of Commons came with some comments he described as \"controversial\", when he used the opportunity to criticise the former Labour government led by Gordon Brown and how it tackled the 2008 financial crisis.\n\n\"They have not once accepted any blame for what happened and they seem to think that we can just sail on as before,\" he said, also setting out the view that \"wealth creation is the most important element in getting us out of this recession\".\n\nAlthough Mr Kwarteng was tipped to become the Conservatives' first black cabinet member as early as 2006, he spent eight years as a constituency MP before he became a minister.\n\nHe backed Leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum, and in 2017 became a ministerial aide to the then Chancellor Philip Hammond, before becoming a junior minister in the Department for Exiting the European Union.\n\nMr Kwarteng also co-authored the book Britannia Unchained with several Tory MPs, including Ms Truss. In the 2012 text, they claimed: \"Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world.\" He has since distanced himself from this view.\n\nMr Kwarteng has used his spare time to write several books and pamphlets on topics from Mrs Thatcher's final six months in office to the British Empire and its legacy.\n\nHe has argued that \"the debate around Black Lives Matter and imperialism or colonialism has a cartoon-like view of history\", and has said he thinks that view is true on both sides of the issue.\n\nMr Kwarteng was a supporter of Boris Johnson who put him on the ministerial fast-track as energy minister in 2019.\n\nHe worked there for more than a year before becoming business secretary 18 months later.\n\nThe ascent has been described as a \"reward\" for his backing of Mr Johnson during the race for party leadership.\n\nThe realities of the pandemic and the soaring cost of energy, however, meant that his views on state intervention in industry moderated.\n\n\"There's nothing [better] to convert someone from being a radical free marketeer to seeing the virtues of government action than making them an energy minister,\" he said at a 2019 Conservative party conference event.\n\nThat same year, he married solicitor Harriet Edwards, having previously dated former Home Secretary Amber Rudd.\n\nHis political partnership with Ms Truss, a fellow member of the 2010 intake of MPs, paid dividends when she asked her close ally to serve as chancellor.\n\nBut the mini-budget he unveiled on 23 September spooked financial markets and prompted a drop in the value of the pound.\n\nAmid warnings from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of England stepped in to buy government bonds in a bid to stabilise their value.\n\nThe chancellor said he had listened to criticism - including from within his party - and there was a U-turn on a plan to abolish the 45p rate of income tax for top earners.\n\nBut market turbulence continued, causing speculation that the government would announce a further reversal on its tax-cutting plans.\n\nThe day before his ejection from Number 11 Downing Street, Mr Kwarteng said \"our position hasn't changed\" - and that he would \"absolutely\" still be in his job a month later.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA video of anti-riot forces in Iran sexually assaulting a female protester whilst trying to arrest her has provoked fury on social media.\n\nUsers voiced outrage, with many calling for \"justice\" and the resignation of the police chief. Some pro-government users also condemned the perpetrators.\n\nDespite blocks on some social media tools, Iranians are still managing to share powerful images of the protests.\n\nThe country has been rocked by the most intense unrest in decades.\n\nThe protests erupted last month when anger over the death in police custody of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian Mahsa Amini boiled over. Officials say she died from an underlying health condition, but her family say she died after being beaten by morality police.\n\nNumerous videos of the protest have gone viral both inside and outside of Iran. This latest video, which happened in Tehran's Argentina Square on Wednesday, shows a group of officers in protective gear and helmets surrounding a woman on a main road.\n\nOne of them grabs her by the neck and leads her into a crowd of about two dozen police, many of whom are on motorcycles.\n\nWhile the woman is being forced towards one of the bikes, another officer approaches her from behind and puts his left hand on her bottom.\n\nThe woman then crouches on the ground as more officers surround her. A female voice behind the camera is heard saying: \"They are pulling her hair.\"\n\nDrivers in vehicles next to where it is happening start sounding their horns, a form of protest in similar situations seen in the past few days across the country.\n\nThe woman, who appears to have no hijab, or headscarf, is then seen standing up and running away from the scene.\n\nAt this point, the same voice on the clip is heard to say: \"Look at him [the security force officer], he is laughing\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC NEWS فارسی This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe footage has been verified by the BBC's Persian service.\n\nTehran's Police Public Relations office has said the incident is being investigated, state news agency Irna reported.\n\nThe police statement does not give details of what happened, but says that \"enemies using psychological warfare tried to cause public anxiety and incite violence\".\n\nThe fact that the incident happened in public has led human rights activists to question what security forces might also be doing behind closed doors.\n\n\"Have you brought out the harassment of the girls of this land from [your] prisons into the open streets with the aim to shout out [at us] in public your obscenity, lechery and filth?\" posted a social media user by the name of Atefeh.\n\nMistreatment, including sexual and psychological abuse, has been reported by many inmates, especially political prisoners, for years.\n\nMany Iranians commented on social media that the video from Tehran had made them more determined to go out on the streets to protest, with one person saying they intended \"to put their anger and fury into action\".", "Europe saw a 14% drop in its birth rate in January 2021 compared to previous years - a decline probably triggered by the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, research suggests.\n\nJanuary 2021 was nine to 10 months after the imposition of Covid-related lockdowns.\n\nThe decline was more common in countries where health systems struggled.\n\nLithuania and Romania saw the biggest drops - at 28% and 23% respectively - while Sweden, which had no lockdown, saw normal birth rates, according to findings published in the journal Human Reproduction.\n\nResearchers say the findings may lead to \"long-term consequences on demographics particularly in western Europe where there are aging populations\".\n\n\"The longer the lockdowns the fewer pregnancies occurred in this period, even in countries not severely affected by the pandemic,\" said Dr Leo Pomar, a midwife sonographer at Lausanne University Hospital, who wrote the study.\n\n\"We think that couples' fears of a health and social crisis at the time of the first wave of Covid-19 contributed to the decrease in live births nine months later.\"\n\nSocial distancing measures, fears related to the virus, and the social and economic crisis caused as a result may be \"indirect factors that played a role in the decision of couples to postpone pregnancies\", the report states.\n\nEngland and Wales saw a 13% drop in January 2021, compared with January 2018 and 2019 - while the number of babies born in Scotland decreased by 14%.\n\nFrance and Spain saw a 14% and 23% drop respectively.\n\nIn March 2021, births returned to a similar rate to the pre-pandemic level, corresponding to a rebound nine to 10 months after the end of lockdowns, the study says.\n\nBut researchers say that this rebound does not appear to have compensated for the drop in birth rates two months before.\n\n\"The fact that the rebound in births does not seem to compensate for the decrease in January 2021 could have long-term consequences on demographics, particularly in western Europe where there are aging populations,\" Dr Pomar said.", "Lucy Letby is accused of murdering seven babies and trying to kill 10 others\n\nA nurse accused of murdering babies on a neonatal ward \"cared deeply\" for those she had to look after, a court has heard.\n\nLucy Letby is charged with killing seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016.\n\nOutlining Ms Letby's defence, Ben Myers KC, said she was a \"dedicated nurse\" and in \"no way did she want to harm them\".\n\nMr Myers told the court: \"She trained hard to be a neonatal nurse and what she wanted was to care for babies she looked after.\n\n\"The defence say she is not guilty of causing intentional harm to any baby or to killing any baby.\n\n\"She loved her job. She cared deeply about the babies and also cared for their families.\n\n\"She had a fulfilling life, had friends, a life outside work.\"\n\nManchester Crown Court earlier heard how she had penned passages including \"I am evil\" and \"I killed them on purpose because I'm not good enough to care for them\".\n\nThe notes were among other papers and post-it notes which also contained \"many protestations of innocence\", the jury was told.\n\nThe nurse's tightly-written notes were shown to the jury during the trial\n\nBut Mr Myers said \"anyone with an ounce of human understanding\" would see the notes as \"the anguished outpouring of a young woman in fear and despair when she realises the enormity of what is being said about her\".\n\nHe continued: \"We recognise the sadness and the stress, and even the anger, that comes with allegations like these.\n\n\"I start on behalf of the defence by acknowledging how upsetting the allegations will be and acknowledging the very great loss and sadness of the families involved.\n\n\"Anything that I do, or say, during this trial is not intended to diminish that in any way.\"\n\nBut he told jurors it would be \"staggeringly unfair\" to convict a person without a word of evidence.\n\nHe said there was \"a real danger\" people will simply accept the prosecution theory of guilt \"based firmly on coincidence\".\n\nPointing to Ms Letby, of Hereford, sitting in the dock, he told jurors: \"It is important to be careful that blame is not heaped on that woman when there may be others who have made mistakes or a system which has failed.\"\n\nIn some cases, he said, no-one could say why a particular child deteriorated or died.\n\nMr Myers said the jury had been shown Ms Letby's text messages, her Facebook searches on the families of babies she was alleged to have harmed and \"pieces of paper\" and mentioned \"amateur psychology\".\n\nBut he said the \"foundation\" of the case was medical evidence.\n\nMr Myers said causes of a baby's deterioration or death were not always clear.\n\nHe added in this case the babies were \"clinically fragile\" and in conditions that could change \"very swiftly and deteriorate very rapidly\".\n\nMr Myers said: \"Ms Letby is adamant she's done nothing intentionally to harm these babies.\"\n\nWith Child A, the first murder count, Ms Letby was said to have injected air into the child, but he said the defence does not accept an air embolus - or air bubble - was the cause of death.\n\nMr Myers said the \"polite\" way of describing the care of Child A on the unit was \"sub-optimal\".\n\nLucy Letby worked on the neonatal ward at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nWith Child B, who was Child A's twin sister, who Ms Letby is accused of trying to kill, it was a \"good example\" of the \"assumption of guilt\" and experts had been \"influenced by the theory of harm\".\n\nMr Myers said Child C, who Ms Letby is also alleged to have murdered by injecting him with air, was a \"very premature\" baby, born at 30 weeks.\n\nHe said such babies were vulnerable, especially to infection, and Child C should have been at a specialist children's hospital.\n\nMr Myers said the hospital failed to provide adequate care for Child D, who Ms Letby was alleged to have murdered with air.\n\nHe said it was \"beyond dispute\" Child D should have been given antibiotics hours before she was treated with them, and there was more evidence infection played a part in her death.\n\nHe said the prosecution alleged Ms Letby injected Child E with a fatal amount of air and attacked him in front of his mother.\n\nHe said: \"We say there is no clear explanation in his case for what happened.\n\n\"That being so, it is not right to rely on the assumption of guilt.\"\n\nHe next turned to allegations that Ms Letby attempted to murder Child F - the twin brother of Child E - and Child L by poisoning them with insulin.\n\nThe barrister said there was \"nothing in fact\" to establish this.\n\nChild G, who Ms Letby is accused of attempting to murder on three occasions, was an \"extremely premature\" baby who was \"high risk\", he said.\n\nLucy Letby was described as a \"dedicated nurse\" by her defence\n\nThe defence did not accept Ms Letby did anything to contribute to Child G's health problems in the neonatal unit.\n\nChild H, who Ms Letby is alleged to have attacked twice, was another example of \"sub-optimal care\" by the hospital and \"nothing to do with Lucy Letby\", he said.\n\nMr Myers said the defence did not accept Ms Letby caused any harm to Child I, who she is said to have tried to kill on three occasions before succeeding on the fourth attempt.\n\nHe said: \"We will say her collapses and ultimately death were part of a series of clinical problems which may well have been inevitable given her extreme prematurity.\"\n\nMr Myers said the hospital was \"well out of its depth\" with Child J, who Ms Letby is said to have tried to murder, and knowing how to treat her.\n\nHe said an assumption of deliberate harm had been made rather than an alternative explanation of a baby receiving inadequate care.\n\nBen Myers KC said Ms Letby \"in no way wanted to harm\" babies in her care\n\nChild K, who is subject of another count of attempted murder, was said to have been harmed with the deliberate dislodging of a breathing tube.\n\nBut Mr Myers said the probable cause was the child inadvertently moving the tube herself.\n\nHer case was another example of \"sub-optimal care\" in that she should have been treated at a more specialist unit.\n\nMr Myers said the defence did not accept that Child M, who is the twin brother of Child L, was harmed by an injection of excessive air or airway obstruction.\n\nHe insisted there was no obvious cause of his collapse.\n\nMr Myers said: \"We are back in the territory of blame being put on Lucy Letby because there is no obvious alternative.\"\n\nAddressing the allegation that Child N was deliberately harmed by a nasogastric tube being pushed into his throat which caused him to scream, Mr Myers said: \"The defence observe there are many reasons why a baby will shout or scream.\n\nLucy Letby denies the 22 charges against her\n\n\"We say it is far more likely to be hunger. That may sound banal but sometimes it can be true.\"\n\nMr Myers said Child N was another baby who received \"sub-optimal care\" - not from Ms Letby - and should have been treated elsewhere.\n\nThe barrister said there was no evidence that Ms Letby inflicted harm to either Child O or Child P - two of three triplets - who she is said to have murdered, or to Child Q, who she allegedly attempted to murder.\n\nFinally, Mr Myers said there were problems with the way the neonatal unit was run, suggesting it was overstretched and understaffed.\n\nHe added: \"This whole case is complicated.\n\n\"Sat in that dock is a young woman who says this is not her fault, so we need to look at the evidence.\"\n\nThe trial was adjourned until Friday morning.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Teachers are one step closer to going on strike in Britain after rejecting a 5% pay rise offer.\n\nThe largest union for England and Wales, the NEU, said 86% of its members who responded to an initial ballot said they were willing to strike. It is now launching a formal strike ballot.\n\nThe NASUWT union has also begun one for members in Scotland, England and Wales.\n\nBoth have previously said the government's offer does not address the cost-of-living pressures on teachers.\n\nThe last national dispute over teachers' pay was in 2008.\n\nEducation is one of many sectors grappling with action over pay. Railway workers and Royal Mail staff are among those walking out.\n\nThe starting salary for teachers in England is due to rise to £30,000 a year by September 2023, as part of a promise that was made during the 2019 election which became delayed by the pandemic.\n\nThe pay of more experienced teachers in England - who make up most of the workforce - has seen the biggest squeeze over the past decade, falling by 8% in real terms between 2007 and 2021, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nThe pay rises in England have to be paid for out of schools' existing budgets, leading some to warn BBC News they were axing school trips and music lessons to try to avoid having to cut staff.\n\nThe NEU said it would announce a timetable for a formal ballot and potential strike dates in the coming week.\n\nIt said the results of a preliminary online ballot of its members in England and Wales showed support for a formal ballot, with 98% of respondents saying they wanted a \"fully funded, above-inflation pay rise\", and 86% saying they would vote yes to strike action to demand the rise.\n\nJoint general secretaries Dr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney said the results were \"a clear statement from teachers that they cannot go on like this\".\n\n\"Our members don't want to strike - they want to be in the classroom, doing what they do best, educating the nation's children,\" they said.\n\n\"It is regrettable that we have reached this point, but enough is enough.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said it was \"incredibly disappointing\" that some unions are threatening strike action, saying it would \"damage children's education and disrupt parents' lives\".\n\n\"The highest pay awards for teachers in a generation\" have been confirmed with 8.9% for new teachers and 5% for experienced teachers, it said, adding that the average salary for teachers in November 2021 was £42,360.\n\nMembers of NASUWT in England, Scotland and Wales will receive ballot papers from 27 October, and voting will close on 9 January.\n\nThe union, which wants a fully-funded real-terms pay award of 12%, said it was recommending that members vote in favour of industrial action.\n\nMembers of Scotland's largest teaching union, the EIS, are also being balloted for strike action.\n\nTeaching unions in Northern Ireland voted last week to take action short of a strike, after rejecting an \"inadequate\" two-year pay offer.", "The word U-turn normally refers to the reversal of a policy.\n\nAnd by any measure, Prime Minister Liz Truss' decision to scrap the cancellation of her former leadership rival Rishi Sunak's rise on corporation tax is one of the biggest fiscal U-turns on record.\n\nOver five years, it is worth £67bn, the biggest single revenue measure of the mini-budget.\n\nBut U-turn doesn't really adequately capture what we have seen today.\n\nThis is not about the extraction of a serving chancellor across the Atlantic from important meetings at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. This is the almost total capitulation of the economic philosophy that became known as \"Trussonomics\".\n\nThe totemic heart of it was the idea that lower corporation tax would pay for itself with higher growth. The prime minister has now, in an emergency, not just hiked corporation tax, but presumably now agrees with the analysis, the so-called Treasury \"orthodoxy\" that it will credibly and permanently raise tens of billions of pounds.\n\nToday's developments have been inevitable since the mini-budget. The die was cast in fact within three days, when sterling fell to a record low and borrowing costs rose by record amounts, endangering some funds that service the pension industry.\n\nOn that day, the Bank of England insisted that the chancellor fully uses the official forecaster (the Office for Budget Responsibility), which had been side-lined from the mini-budget, meaning there was no fudging the numbers.\n\nThe Bank's refusal to extend emergency lending past Friday also helped bring the matter to a head.\n\nRegaining lost credibility in the markets is not an easy task for incoming Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who will deliver the next iteration of the government's economic plan on 31 October. Some significant ongoing economic scars in the form of an extra UK risk premium on borrowing across the economy, from mortgages to business loans, remain.\n\nBut the \"bean counters\", and \"abacus economics\" that Liz Truss derided during the Conservative leadership campaign, are now firmly back.", "Kwasi Kwarteng with the PM Liz Truss at the Tory Party conference\n\nKwasi Kwarteng has been sacked as chancellor. Here is his letter to Prime Minister Liz Truss.\n\nYou have asked me to stand aside as your chancellor. I have accepted.\n\nWhen you asked me to serve as your chancellor, I did so in full knowledge that the situation we faced was incredibly difficult, with rising global interest rates and energy prices. However, your vision of optimism, growth and change was right.\n\nAs I have said many times in the past weeks, following the status quo was simply not an option. For too long this country has been dogged by low growth rates and high taxation - that must still change if this country is to succeed.\n\nThe economic environment has changed rapidly since we set out the Growth Plan on 23 September. In response, together with the Bank of England and excellent officials at the Treasury we have responded to those events, and I commend my officials for their dedication.\n\nIt is important now as we move forward to emphasise your government's commitment to fiscal discipline. The Medium-Term Fiscal Plan is crucial to this end, and I look forward to supporting you and my successor to achieve that from the backbenches.\n\nWe have been colleagues and friends for many years. In that time, I have seen your dedication and determination. I believe your vision is the right one. It has been an honour to serve as your first chancellor.\n\nYour success is this country's success and I wish you well.\n\nThe prime minister responded as follows:\n\nThank you for your letter. As a long-standing friend and colleague, I am deeply sorry to lose you from the Government.\n\nWe share the same vision for our country and the same firm conviction to go for growth.\n\nYou have been Chancellor in extraordinarily challenging times in the face of severe global headwinds.\n\nThe Energy Price Guarantee and the Energy Bill Relief Scheme, which made up the largest part of the mini budget, will stand as one of the most significant fiscal interventions in modern times.\n\nThanks to your intervention, families will be able to heat their homes this winter and thousands of jobs and livelihoods will be saved.\n\nYou have cut taxes for working people by legislating this week to scrap the increase in National Insurance Contributions.\n\nYou have set in train an ambitious set of supply side reforms that this Government will proudly take forward. These include new investment zones to unleash the potential of parts of our country that have been held back for too long and the removal of EU regulations to help British businesses succeed in the global economy.\n\nI deeply respect the decision you have taken today. You have put the national interest first.\n\nI know that you will continue to support the mission that we share to deliver a low tax, high wage, high growth economy that can transform the prosperity of our country for generations to come.\n\nThank you for your service to this country and your huge friendship and support. I have no doubt you will continue to make a major contribution to public life in the years ahead.", "In 24 hours many Conservative MPs have gone from despondency to despair. By going back on her promise to cut taxes she’s now alienated some of those who backed her in the leadership contest for her “bold” approach.\n\nIt’s not hard to find Tory MPs who think her time is up.\n\nBut as we witnessed with Boris Johnson, if a prime minister wants to cling to power, it can be difficult to remove them. It took the mass resignation of dozens of ministers to persuade him to resign.\n\nMany in the Parliamentary party think they have to avoid another drawn out leadership contest where Tory members have the final say. To do that they need to agree on a unity candidate and that’s easier said than done.\n\nFirstly, it requires others to put their personal ambitions to one side for the greater good. It also requires discipline, something that’s been in short supply in Conservative ranks since the turbulent days of Theresa May’s premiership.\n\nThe idea cropping up most frequently is a joint ticket with Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt. But after twelve years in power, under 4 different leaders, there are many old scores to settle in the Tory Party.\n\nSeveral of Boris Johnson’s supporters would do anything to stop Sunak taking over.\n\nOne told the BBC such a move would lead to a split in the party and he’d stand himself to prevent a coronation. “The only unity we’d end up with is the unity of the grave. The question is do we jump in now or step back”.\n\nThere is deep and widespread unhappiness with Liz Truss’s leadership but there are still a few voices calling for calm, to give her and Jeremy Hunt a chance to improve a dire situation.\n\nIt’s possible the appointment of her new chancellor has bought some time, but a leader with diminishing authority will struggle to bring this fractious party together.", "Stock photo of a man taking a photo of Van Gogh's Sunflowers at the National Gallery\n\nOne of Van Gogh's famous Sunflowers paintings has been cleaned and is back on display, after climate activists threw tins of what appeared to be tomato soup over it.\n\nLondon's National Gallery confirmed it is now back in place, about six hours after the soup incident.\n\nFootage showed two people in Just Stop Oil T-shirts opening tins and throwing the contents on the masterpiece before gluing their hands to the wall.\n\nThe gallery said earlier the painting was covered by glass and therefore not damaged.\n\nA statement from the Trafalgar Square venue said: \"At just after 11am this morning two people entered Room 43 of the National Gallery.\n\n\"The pair appeared to glue themselves to the wall adjacent to Van Gogh's Sunflowers (1888). They also threw a red substance - what appears to be tomato soup - over the painting.\n\n\"The room was cleared of visitors and police were called. Officers are now on the scene.\n\n\"There is some minor damage to the frame but the painting is unharmed.\"\n\nThe National Gallery holds more than 2,300 artworks\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said: \"Officers were rapidly on scene at the National Gallery this morning after two Just Stop Oil protesters threw a substance over a painting and then glued themselves to a wall.\n\n\"Both have been arrested for criminal damage and aggravated trespass. Officers are now de-bonding them.\"\n\nVideos of Friday's incident showed a protester shouting: \"What is worth more? Art or life? Is it worth more than food? Worth more than justice? Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?\"\n\nShe also referenced the cost of living crisis and \"millions of cold, hungry families\" who \"can't even afford to heat a tin of soup\".\n\nThe painting is one of seven Sunflowers works Van Gogh created in 1888 and 89, five of which are on display in galleries and museums across the world. The artist created them to decorate his house in Arles, France, before a visit from his friend, the artist Paul Gauguin.\n\nThe gallery describes the sunflower paintings as \"among Van Gogh's most iconic and best-loved works\".\n\nThe action comes three months after members of the same group pasted paper over John Constable's the Hay Wain in the same gallery.", "Credibility is one of the most prized assets in politics.\n\nWhen it drains away, dredging it back is difficult, often impossible.\n\nThe mood among Conservative MPs is bleak, doom-laden, fatalistic.\n\nMost I speak to are convinced the last month and a bit means losing the next election is a near certainty.\n\nIt's now about minimising their losses, they fear.\n\nThis pessimism - justified or otherwise - could help to shape the psychology of what happens next, how they act.\n\nIn the short term, their focus this weekend will be on the performance of the new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, who is talking to BBC Breakfast and Radio 4's Today Programme among others, and will then spend his time in the Treasury meeting officials and being briefed on the job ahead.\n\nJust imagine the mugging up he has to do.\n\nIn a fortnight, he'll be the front man for the government's economic statement that could determine whether we end up with another new prime minister before Christmas.\n\nHe is steeped in Conservative politics, has held high office and is widely seen within the party as a decent bloke.\n\nHe also backed Rishi Sunak for the leadership and is now in a massive job in the Truss administration, which didn't exactly initially go out of its way to hire those who'd backed her opponent.\n\nMeanwhile, in the WhatsApp groups and on the phones, in the corridors and the bars, the chatter among Tory MPs about what to do next is everywhere.\n\nFor all the noise you'll have heard about, remember this: there are those who say, hang on a minute, Liz Truss must be given time. Ousting her would be a ridiculous. And a \"coronation\", as one described it - the party at Westminster stitching things up behind their chosen one - would be wrong, undemocratic and literally incredible.\n\nIt seems to me that after the party conference, while many, many Conservative MPs were in the doldrums about Liz Truss, plenty felt it would look absurd if they were to move against her.\n\nNow, many still accept that, but are concluding absurdity might be better than the alternative.\n\nAmong those who think a change will become necessary, there is widespread acceptance the party couldn't \"spend months faffing about\" over it as one put it to me - in other words asking party members all over the country what they think, as happened in the summer.\n\nWhich brings us back to that idea of a \"coronation\".\n\nSome take issue with that word, because they say it wouldn't be that - any new leader would have to command the support of the parliamentary party.\n\nBut what would have to happen is the party being willing to coalesce around a single figure, supported by a wider team representing the party's different wings - a Conservative government of all the talents, if you like.\n\nSome are sceptical that can happen.\n\n\"You've got to remember that some of my colleagues are so ambitious, even inheriting dust is something they'd want to do\", says one backbencher about the landscape Liz Truss's successor would inherit, and the difficulty of persuading plenty of fellow Conservatives to turn off their aspiration gene.\n\nSo how might a party far from united unite around a single candidate, and who might they be?\n\nWell, there is Rishi Sunak, someone else who can call themselves a former chancellor, and the man Liz Truss beat for the leadership.\n\nThen there is Penny Mordaunt, also beaten to the job in the summer by Liz Truss.\n\nPenny Mordaunt is now in the cabinet.\n\nAnd then there's a bloke you may just remember: Boris Johnson. What does he choose to say, or do, in the coming days, weeks, months? Does he stay quiet? Precedent suggests that's not his natural inclination. Does he endorse someone? Is it too soon for him to attempt some sort of comeback? Almost certainly. But who knows.\n\nAnd that's the key point this weekend.\n\nLiz Truss is in office, but far from in control.\n\nNo one knows what is going to happen next, how this will play out.", "Amalia on her first day at university in September\n\nThe King and Queen of the Netherlands have revealed their 18-year-old daughter can no longer move around freely outside due to the possibility of an attack or kidnapping.\n\nPrincess Amalia has moved out of her student accommodation in Amsterdam and has returned home to The Hague.\n\nHer parents gave details in an unusually emotional encounter with the press, during a state visit to Sweden.\n\nQueen Maxima's eyes glistened as she described the \"difficult consequences\".\n\n\"There is no student life for her like others have,\" she added.\n\nPrincess Amalia - and the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte - are understood to have appeared in organised crime communications, which indicated they may become a target.\n\nLast month, official photographs were released showing a smiling Princess Amalia on the first day of term.\n\nMuch fanfare was made of the teenager moving into a shared student house and getting on with her degree in politics, psychology, law and economics at the University of Amsterdam.\n\nAmalia, who turns 19 in December, is seen by many here in the Netherlands as a relatively down-to-earth royal.\n\nA keen jockey, she has a horse named Mojito and was nicknamed the Cocktail Queen while working at a beach bar in Scheveningen during the summer holidays.\n\nIn an autobiography released to coincide with her 18th birthday, Princess Amalia opened up about her mental health and said she often speaks to a therapist.\n\nNot even halfway through the first term, the intelligence report meant Princess Amalia has been forced to abandon that relaxed student life.\n\nHer family is hoping the intensified security precautions are only temporary.\n\nQueen Maxima told reporters in Sweden she was proud of how Princess Amalia was coping and paid tribute to her bravery.\n\nThe Argentinian-born former economist pointed out Amalia is still attending university - and even managed to joke about her maybe getting really good grades.\n\nAsked what it did to him \"as a father\", King Willem-Alexander acknowledged it was \"a heavy situation\" and said he was unable to express the impact.\n\nIt is extremely rare for the royals or government officials to talk about security issues.\n\nThe police, public prosecution service and the government ministry that represents the House of Orange are not expected to comment on the royal couple's revelations.", "Meat Loaf died in January at the age of 74\n\nMeat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell is the biggest-selling debut album in UK chart history, it has been revealed.\n\nThe record, a campy blend of hard rock and Broadway pizzazz, has sold more than 3.5 million copies in the UK, spending 530 weeks in the top 100.\n\nIt beat James Blunt's Back To Bedlam, which is the biggest debut by a British artist and second on the overall list, compiled to mark National Album Day.\n\nBlunt is followed by Leona Lewis's Spirit and Lady Gaga's The Fame.\n\nThe top 10 also features hit debut albums by Dido, the Spice Girls, Alanis Morissette and Coldplay, while Ed Sheeran, Adele and Oasis are also on the full list.\n\nThe top 20 will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Saturday, with an extended programme featuring the top 40 available on BBC Sounds.\n\n\"Bat Out Of Hell reaching number one might be a surprise to some,\" said presenter Steve Wright, who is hosting the countdown as the first of his new special projects for the station since leaving his long-running afternoon slot and reverting to a weekly show on Sundays.\n\n\"But it is a truly brilliant debut album and one which reached a whole new audience following the sad passing of Meat Loaf earlier this year,\" Wright added.\n\nStyled as an OTT rock opera, the album contains hits like You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth and Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad, as well as the nine-minute title track.\n\nDeeply unfashionable in the era of disco and punk, it was rejected by four record labels. But when it was finally released in 1977, it became an immediate success in the UK, thanks to an unforgettable performance on BBC TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test.\n\nAlthough it tops this countdown, Bat Out Of Hell is only comes 21st in overall chart of the UK's best-selling albums. That list is dominated by greatest hits albums, and records released in the mid-point of artists' careers.\n\nThe special chart's top 20 largely focuses on debut albums released in the late 1990s and early 2000s - coinciding with the peak in CD sales.\n\nAlbums from that era include Dido's No Angel, Keane's Hopes and Fears and The Killers' Hot Fuss.\n\nThe most recent album on the list is Sam Smith's 2014 debut In The Lonely Hour, while Mike Oldfield's timeless Tubular Bells (1973) is the oldest.\n\nNothing from the 1960s has made it into the top 20, meaning albums like The Beatles' Please Please Me and The Rolling Stones' self-titled debut have missed out.\n\nThat's a reflection of several factors - a lower UK population, with less access to home stereo equipment, at a time when singles were the dominant sales format.\n\nIt was only later in the decade that albums came to be seen as a valid artistic pursuit, thanks to innovative releases like the Beatles' Revolver, the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde.\n\nNational Album Day is now in its fifth year. It will be marked by the release of 30 debut albums in a collectible format, including Lady Gaga's The Fame on pale blue vinyl, and The Spice Girls' Spice on white vinyl.\n\nIt is organised by British record industry association the BPI, which has also revealed the biggest-selling debut albums from every nation and region of the UK.\n\nOasis's Definitely Maybe emerged victorious in the north-west, with Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys scoring a home victory in Yorkshire.\n\nDuffy's Rockferry is the top album by an artist from Wales, with Emeli Sande's Our Version of Events representing Scotland, and Katie Melua's Call Off The Search topping the charts for Northern Ireland.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The King praised Emmerdale's contribution as the soap won big at the National Television Awards (NTAs) on the eve of its 50th anniversary.\n\nPhillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby kept their titles as king and queen of daytime telly, too, in the wake of their \"queue-gate\" controversy.\n\nAnd money saving expert Martin Lewis criticised the government's handling of the economy during his winner's speech.\n\nElsewhere, Ant and Dec won their 21st straight best presenter trophy.\n\nThe pair missed the ceremony, though, after both catching Covid.\n\nThis year's NTAs, voted for by the public, took place at London's Wembley Arena, a month later than planned due to the death of the Queen.\n\nIn a video recorded before his mother's death, the new monarch congratulated the ITV serial drama on having nearly made its half century and recalled \"being so old\" he could remember it originally being called Emmerdale Farm.\n\nHe described the show as an \"amazing British export\" that had kept true to its creator's original vision - \"depicting what life is really like for those who work the land and protect our precious countryside\".\n\n\"It also stresses brilliantly something that concerns me greatly: the long-term sustainability of the way we produce our food.\"\n\nKing Charles III gave Emmerdale his Royal approval for helping to \"protect our precious countryside\"\n\nAfter the speech, it was announced that Mark Charnock, who stars as Marlon Dingle, had won the serial drama performance award.\n\nCharnock, whose character suffered a stroke, later told the BBC's Daniel Rosney it had been \"overwhelming\" to see so many people share their similar experiences, following the powerful plotline.\n\nBoy George presented the Yorkshire soap with the big final award of the night for best serial drama, quipping: \"I've been upstaged in my life by a few queens but never by a King.\"\n\nSegments of the show marked both the Queen's death - with many stars opting for black outfits on the night - and the war in Ukraine.\n\nThis Morning presenters Willoughby and Schofield were recently backed by ITV bosses after they were accused of jumping the queue for the Queen's lying-in-state.\n\nHolly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield celebrated their win after a tricky few weeks\n\nAccepting the award for best daytime show for a second year, Schofield said: \"Don't think we ever get complacent and please don't think we ever take this for granted.\n\n\"This means so much to us every year, especially this year.\n\n\"We have the most amazing team, I have the best friend,\" he added, in Willoughby's direction. \"We have the best boss.\"\n\nWhile some boos were heard around the arena, they soon died down once the famous pair were up on stage alongside their team.\n\n\"Thank you so much, this award means everything because it is voted by you, and I think This Morning has a very special relationship with you,\" Willoughby added. \"You make our show for us, you really do.\"\n\nUkrainian broadcaster Timur Miroshnychenko thanked the UK for its continued support and said his country is \"looking forward\" to Eurovision 2023, which is being hosted in Liverpool because the 2022 winners are currently unable to host such an event.\n\nThe UK's Eurovision star Sam Ryder got the night going with an energetic performance of his track Space Man, before a casually dressed Lewis Capaldi sang his new single, Forget Me.\n\nBut in between all that, things got political when consumer champion Martin Lewis won a new category for best expert.\n\nReferencing the cost-of-living crisis, Lewis, who expressed surprised at having beaten Sir David Attenborough to the award, noted it \"has been a pretty horrible year, financially\".\n\nMartin Lewis said experts were needed right now, while accepting the new award\n\n\"I mean, the energy crisis has been disastrous and left many people with terrible issues and mental health problems,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm afraid the next year, with the mortgage problem and the knock-on to rent, is going to be pretty bad.\n\n\"And you know what?\" Lewis added. \"We need somebody to get a grip on the economy and put things a little bit back.\"\n\nSoon after the ceremony, BBC News reported that chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng had cut short his visit to the US for urgent talks in Downing Street, as pressure mounts on Prime Minister Liz Truss to U-turn over the mini-budget.\n\nAnt McPartlin and Declan Donnelly beat the likes of Alison Hammond to bag their 21st consecutive presenting award, meaning the last time they didn't win it was in 2000, to Michael Barrymore.\n\nThe winner of the rising star award on Thursday night, Coronation Street's Paddy Bever, who plays Max Turner, wasn't even born then.\n\nStephen Mulhern accepted the award on their behalf, saying: \"Full respect to these guys, 21 years on the trot!\"\n\nHe then jokingly added his own name to the trophy, declaring: \"This baby is coming home with me.\"\n\nThe award for best authored documentary went to Kate Garraway for a second year, as she continued to chronicle her family's life as her husband Derek Draper gets treated for coronavirus.\n\nKate Garraway brought her daughter Darcey up to help accept her award\n\nFlanked by her daughter Darcey, she thanked the film-makers for \"making a very difficult thing easier\" and dedicated the win to the nation's carers.\n\n\"We have a care crisis in our country but we don't have a crisis of love,\" declared Garraway, while confirming her husband was now back in hospital.\n\nThe special recognition award went to a slightly tearful Sir Lenny Henry, after the comedian, actor and Comic Relief fundraiser was praised by stars in a video for having paved the way for other black British artists.\n\n\"These awards are so long David Beckham is still queuing to get in\", he smiled, with his own nod to the royals.\n\nOther winners on the night included After Life, Gogglebox and Peaky Blinders/Cillian Murphy, as well as Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nStrictly champion Rose Ayling-Ellis, who wowed the nation last year with a dance dedicated to the experience of deaf people everywhere, said the show had helped to \"change people's perceptions\", as it won the talent show prize.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Robbie Coltrane, who has died at the age of 72, became an international star as the giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter films.\n\nBut his reputation in the UK had already been sealed, notably as the chain-smoking forensic psychologist Fitz in Cracker - one of a number of compelling and larger-than-life characters he made his own.\n\nHe cut his teeth in stand-up comedy before branching out into films and television, comfortably fitting into both funny and dramatic roles.\n\nAnd he later rebelled against his middle-class upbringing and fought a well-publicised battle with alcohol addiction.\n\nHe was born Anthony Robert McMillan in Rutherglen on the outskirts of Glasgow on 30 March 1950.\n\nHis parents were both Calvinists. His mother was a teacher, while his father, a doctor, also worked part-time as a police surgeon.\n\nColtrane later claimed that his father was so busy, he hardly spoke to his son until he was six. He died of lung cancer when Coltrane was still a teenager.\n\nColtrane (top right) with the cast of A Kick Up The Eighties\n\nHis mother introduced him to literature and music, and he recalled lying under the piano while she played.\n\nHe was sent to Glenalmond public school in Perthshire, sometimes dubbed the Scottish Eton, where he began to kick against authority.\n\n\"I didn't accept the hierarchy, basically,\" he later told the Guardian. \"You've crossed the quad and you've got your hands in your pockets. That's not very good, is it?\n\n\"But I'm very lucky because I was a big, strong boy. It's essentially survival of the fittest and I was one of the fittest, so I have no complaints.\"\n\nThe experience later led him to call for the banning of all public schools, and fostered his love of left-wing causes, earning the nickname Red Robbie.\n\nHe was threatened with expulsion after hanging the prefect's gowns on the clock tower, but applied himself enough to gather a reasonable education, and his size gained him a place in the school's rugby XV.\n\nWhen he left school, he enrolled at Glasgow Art School, where he was teased for the posh voice he had laboriously adopted at Glenalmond, so he quickly reverted back to his native Glaswegian accent.\n\nTutti Frutti documented the tale of an a dysfunctional rock and roll band\n\nHe opted to study painting. Although he quickly realised he'd never excel, he persevered through to his graduation.\n\n\"It was a horrible feeling. The ideas were not there on the canvas at all.\"\n\nBy then, he'd decided film was where he wanted to be. In 1973, his documentary, Young Mental Health, was voted film of the year by the Scottish Education Council.\n\nHe was a jazz aficionado and adopted the stage name Coltrane in tribute to John Coltrane, the renowned saxophonist.\n\nHe began mixing with actors in Glasgow, taking part-time jobs while appearing on the Edinburgh Fringe and with a number of small theatre groups.\n\nThere were small parts in films, including appearances in Flash Gordon and Lindsay Anderson's black comedy Britannia Hospital.\n\nHe also featured in the TV series The Comic Strip Presents, which launched the careers of a host of comedy stars including Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson and Jennifer Saunders.\n\nMona Lisa saw him break through as a straight actor\n\nArguably his big break as a straight actor came when he was cast in the 1986 Neil Jordan film Mona Lisa alongside Bob Hoskins.\n\nFor the next few years, his career see-sawed between comedy and more serious roles.\n\nThere was Tutti Frutti, in which he played the lead singer of The Majestics, a chaotic Scottish rock 'n' roll band, and a hilarious performance as Samuel Johnson in Blackadder.\n\nHe also played Falstaff in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Henry V.\n\nBut, off stage, things were getting out of hand. He was struggling with alcohol addiction, and his friends worried that he had developed a self-destructive streak.\n\n\"Booze is my undoing. I can drink a gallon of beer and not feel the least bit drunk,\" he said.\n\nHis long on-off relationship with artist Robin Paine, who he had met at art school, also ended at this time after she felt unable to cope with his lifestyle.\n\nHe excelled as the hard drinking, hard gambling Fitz in Cracker\n\nThe failure of two films, Nuns on the Run and The Pope Must Die, helped persuade him to turn away from comedy.\n\nHe did that in some style with Cracker, which first aired on ITV in 1993. The writer, Jimmy McGovern, had wanted actor Robert Lindsay for the role, but he was committed to other projects.\n\nThe role of the criminal psychologist Dr Edward \"Fitz\" Fitzgerald could have been made for Coltrane. His character, like Coltrane, was addicted to alcohol, sarcastic, occasionally foul-mouthed and not a little manic.\n\nThe series was a huge hit and Coltrane's performance won him three consecutive Bafta Awards.\n\nHis personal life was also beginning to achieve some stability. He met an 18-year-old student, Rhona Gemmel, and withdrew to a remote farmhouse near Loch Lomond, where they raised two children. The couple married in 1999.\n\n\"You can't live the life of an existential hero and be a good father,\" Coltrane remarked.\n\nHe also managed to get his drinking, which had contributed to his excessive weight, under control.\n\nHe was JK Rowling's first choice to play Hagrid in the Harry Potter films\n\nIn 1995, he played Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky, the Russian Mafia boss in the James Bond film Goldeneye, reprising the role four years later in The World Is Not Enough.\n\nWhen casting began for the first Harry Potter film in 2000, JK Rowling insisted that Coltrane be given the part of Hagrid, the genial but somewhat indiscreet giant.\n\n\"Robbie is just perfect for Hagrid because Hagrid is a very loveable character, quite likeable, quite comic,\" the author said. \"But he had to have - you really do have to sense - a certain toughness underneath, and I think Robbie does that perfectly.\"\n\nColtrane was nominated for a Bafta for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and went on to play the role throughout the rest of the films.\n\nIt was while filming the third Harry Potter film that his marriage to Rhona foundered.\n\nThe break-up affected him badly and his problems with alcohol, depression and his weight re-emerged, forcing him to seek professional help.\n\nHagrid made him famous across the world and something of a role model for the film's young fans.\n\nHe had a passion for classic cars\n\n\"Kids come up to you and they go, 'Would you like to sign my book?' with those big doe-eyes. And it's a serious responsibility.\"\n\nIn 2012, he appeared in Mike Newell's film of Great Expectations as Mr Jaggers, the lawyer who looks after Pip's affairs.\n\nHe also indulged his passion for classic cars, piloting his Jaguar XK150 around the UK in the TV programme Robbie Coltrane's B Road Britain.\n\nAnother Bafta nomination came his way for one of his last major roles, playing a TV host accused of rape in Channel 4's National Treasure.\n\nAnd he became a little emotional as he got back together with his Harry Potter co-stars in the franchise's televised reunion, which aired earlier this year. It has now become his screen swansong.\n\n\"The legacy of the movies is that my children's generation will show them to their children,\" he said.\n\n\"So you could be watching it in 50 years time, easy. I'll not be here, sadly. But Hagrid will, yes.\"", "The family of Gaia Pope-Sutherland are demanding changes into policing and health and social care services\n\nThe family of Gaia Pope-Sutherland are calling for an independent investigation into her alleged rape.\n\nMiss Pope, 19, was found dead 11 days after she went missing in Swanage, Dorset, in 2017 having been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\nHer family said her disorder was caused when she was drugged and sexually attacked by a man at 16 years old.\n\nThe police watchdog said it would consider any new complaints referred to it over Miss Pope's case.\n\nGaia Pope-Sutherland's cousin Marienna Pope-Weidemann, during a press conference at Doughty Street Chambers in London, where her family called for changes in policing, health and social care to prevent future deaths\n\nMiss Pope's cousin Marienna Pope-Weidemann said Miss Pope reported the offence after suffering a mental health crisis triggered by the experience.\n\nDorset Police chose not to pursue the report, Ms Pope-Weidemann said.\n\nShe added: \"I think the decision to take no further action on Gaia's rape case was devastating for her and why she was so concerned about it was because we knew there were other victims.\n\n\"In terms of the police over the next two years what we saw was a consistent and repeated failure to recognise her vulnerability.\n\n\"We are calling for a real independent investigation because it is absolutely in the public interest for us all to understand how this could be allowed to happen.\"\n\nMs Pope-Weidemann said the police had discriminated against Miss Pope by allegedly hanging up on her when she called them on the day she went missing.\n\n\"Even on the very day Gaia went missing, she had contact with the police, she was showing clear signs of being in an acute mental health crisis,\" she said.\n\n\"Not only did they not take any action, they discriminated against and hung up on her.\"\n\nSearch and rescue teams scoured the open space above the cliffs near Swanage in the hunt for Gaia Pope\n\nThe family also alleged that during Miss Pope's submission to hospital, \"she had been repeatedly sexually harassed by another male patient\".\n\n\"She disclosed that to staff, and not only did they fail to take appropriate safeguarding action, they didn't even log the incident,\" Ms Pope-Weidemann said.\n\nAs part of the family's Justice for Gaia campaign, the family are demanding changes including improved funding for mental health services and the creation of a specialist unit dedicated to investigating rape and sexual offences across all police forces in the UK.\n\nFamily members of Gaia Pope-Sutherland comfort each other outside Dorset Coroner's Court in Bournemouth after the inquest in July\n\n\"We want to see police forces bringing in the 'Gaia Principle' to make sure when they get reports of serious sex offences they are obliged to check for other similar allegations from other potential victims and to present all those cases together as a whole to the Crown Prosecution Service,\" Ms Pope-Weidemann said.\n\nFailing to follow the process should be a police misconduct matter.\n\nThe campaign also includes a manifesto for change across mental health and social support in Dorset and nationwide.\n\nAn inquest into Miss Pope-Sutherland's death found she had died of hypothermia within 18 hours of going missing on 7 November 2017. Her body was found 11 days later in undergrowth between Dancing Ledge and Anvil Point.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it previously investigated complaints from Miss Pope's family about how Dorset Police dealt with the allegation of rape.\n\nThe watchdog said it provided the family with terms of reference at the start of the investigation in 2018 and \"no issues or concerns were raised with the investigation's scope then, or at any subsequent meeting\".\n\nFollowing Miss Pope's family's latest call for an independent investigation, a spokesperson for the IOPC said: \"We have had no direct approach from Gaia Pope's family concerning any wider review.\n\n\"Any new complaint referred to us would be considered and assessed as to what further action may be required by the IOPC.\"\n\nThe watchdog said it \"carefully\" examined how Dorset Police investigated the rape allegation.\n\nBut it added: \"While we found the police investigation could have been more thorough, any failings by individual officers did not amount to breaches of the professional standards of behaviour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gaia Pope's family produced a video to show to the inquest jury\n\n\"We found performance issues for four officers for some inadequacies, including not contacting all witnesses, not submitting intelligence reports and insufficient record-keeping. \"\n\nThe IOPC said it established that Dorset Police did informally speak to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) about the rape investigation, \"but there was insufficient evidence to merit a formal referral to them\".\n\nIn a statement an IOPC spokesperson added: \"However, we did find that Dorset Police failed to advise Gaia's family of the Victims' Right to Review (VRR) following their decision not to refer to the CPS.\n\n\"We established that the closing code used to finalise the investigation on police systems did not tally with search terms used by the Victims' Bureau to identify cases suitable for VRR.\n\n\"Consequently, the bureau did not write to the family to inform them of their right to request a review of the decision to take no further action in respect of the rape report.\"\n\nThe IOPC recommended Dorset Police ensured its officers knew the search terms used by the bureau.\n\n\"This recommendation was accepted by the force and will go some way to reducing the risk of the same happening to other victims in such circumstances in the future,\" the IOPC said.\n\nDorset Police said it recognised that its immediate response to the missing person enquiry should have been better managed.\n\nThe force's Deputy Chief Constable Sam de Reya said that since Miss Pope's death and the IOPC's investigation the force had delivered \"many changes\" to its ways of working and has introduced dedicated missing people teams.\n\n\"We are absolutely committed to supporting victims of sexual offences and we are continuing to work with colleagues in the Crown Prosecution Service to improve the services offered to those who report rape and other serious sexual offences,\" Ms De Reya said.\n\nIn a statement, she added: \"We take reports of rape offences extremely seriously and will do all we can to ensure offences are thoroughly investigated and offenders are brought to justice. We want victims to know that we are here for you.\n\n\"We would strongly encourage anyone who has been the victim of a sexual offence to come forward and report it to the force.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A security guard stands outside a building at Olenivka prison camp after it was damaged by an explosion in July\n\nUkrainian officials have urged the Red Cross to conduct a mission to a notorious prison camp in the Russia-occupied east of the country.\n\nThe Ukrainian president's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, demanded that the Red Cross (ICRC) visit the Olenivka prison in Donetsk within three days.\n\n\"We just can't waste more time. Human lives are at stake,\" he tweeted.\n\nLast month, the Red Cross tried to secure access to the camp, but said it was denied by Russian authorities.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, the ICRC said: \"We want to stress that our teams are ready on the ground - and have been ready for months - to visit the Olenivka penal facility and any other location where POWs are held.\n\n\"However, beyond being granted access by high levels of authority, this requires practical arrangements to materialize on the ground. We cannot access by force a place of detention or internment where we have not been admitted.\"\n\nThe Olenivka prison has been under the control of Russian-backed authorities in Donetsk since 2014, and conditions are said to be extremely poor.\n\nIn July, dozens of Ukrainian prisoners were killed in explosions at the camp, which both sides blamed on each other. Kyiv said the prison was targeted by Russia to destroy evidence of torture and killing, while Moscow blamed Ukrainian rockets. Without an independent investigation, however, the truth remains unknown.\n\nThose detained at the site include members of the Azov battalion, who were the last defenders of the city of Mariupol and whom Russia has sought to depict as neo-Nazis and war criminals.\n\nThis is not the first time Ukraine has applied pressure to international organisations to investigate what is going on at the prison.\n\nMr Yermak said he had raised the issue again during a video conference with officials from the ICRC and other international organisations.\n\nHe has demanded the trip be made by Monday.\n\n\"Ukraine... will contribute to this mission in every possible way,\" he said on Telegram, adding he did not understand why a mission to inspect Olenivka had not yet been arranged.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky echoed the calls, and accused the Red Cross of inaction, saying it had \"obligations, primarily of a moral nature\".\n\nIn his nightly address on Thursday, Mr Zelensky said he believed that the Red Cross was \"not a club with privileges where one receives a salary and enjoys life\".\n\nHe said a mission to the prison camp could be organised similar to that of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which visited the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in August.\n\n\"But it requires leadership,\" Mr Zelensky said in a thinly veiled criticism of the Red Cross. \"The Red Cross can make it happen. But you have to try to make it happen.\"\n\nThe circumstances surrounding the deaths of at least 53 Ukrainian prisoners at Olenivka remain unexplained.\n\nRussia quickly blamed Ukraine, saying it used US-supplied Himars rockets to hit the prison. Ukraine said Russia was to blame and called it a war crime.\n\nWe investigated the incident at length at the time and spoke to half a dozen weapons and forensics experts.\n\nAll agreed that there was absolutely no evidence that the warehouse where prisoners were being held had been struck from the outside, by a missile or anything else.\n\nVideo evidence, they all said, pointed to the use of some kind of incendiary device, planted inside the building.\n\nIn other words, they were all convinced that Russia had deliberately killed the prisoners.\n\nThe Red Cross had been asking for access to Olenivka from May, when large numbers of Azov Regiment prisoners were taken there by the Russians following the end of the siege of Mariupol.\n\nBut Russia had consistently refused to grant permission. ICRC appeals following the explosion also went unanswered.\n\nThe Ukrainian government has expressed frustration over the ICRC's role for months and would like to see more public pressure being exerted on Russia to allow access to Olenivka.\n\nBut the Red Cross has always operated in a confidential manner with parties holding prisoners. It argues that it cannot really function in any other way.\n\nThe government in Kyiv is likely to remain frustrated.\n\nAlso in his Thursday address President Zelensky said Ukraine would celebrate its Defenders Day on Friday, which was made a national holiday in 2014 after Russia's invasion of Crimea.\n\n\"Tomorrow we will definitely celebrate… one of our most important days. The holiday of all our warriors - from ancient times to the present, from the Cossacks to the rebels, from all of them to the soldiers of the modern army,\" he said.", "Anderson admitted assault and robbery when he appeared at the High Court in Glasgow\n\nA teenage girl fought off a masked robber who broke into her Glasgow home.\n\nThe 16-year-old and her brother, 13, were tied up while two men ransacked their parents' home in Baillieston in December last year.\n\nThe whole ordeal was overheard by a friend of the girl who had been on a video call when the men arrived.\n\nThe girl was able to free herself and hit thief Robert Anderson, 65, on the head with a wooden stick before he made off with jewellery and cash.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard that the teenagers were at home alone while their parents were at work.\n\nThe girl was on a video call with a boy when she answered a knock at the door.\n\nMasked Anderson and an unknown male accomplice barged into the house and locked the door.\n\nThey shouted: \"Where's the safe, where's the money, don't move, sit down or else.\"\n\nThe second man grabbed a pair of scissors and threatened to kill the sister and brother and their family.\n\nThe men dragged the teenagers into the living room and tied their arms and legs with wire, Christmas tree lights and a school tie.\n\nThe victims told the pair there was no safe in the property but handed over £65 of their own cash.\n\nThe two men went on to ransack the house, opening drawers and cupboards.\n\nProsecutor Leigh Lawrie said: \"Unbeknown to the men, the boy remained on the video call and heard the threats being made.\n\n\"He alerted his father and mother who also overheard the threats and contacted the police as well as the victims' parents.\"\n\nThe boy's parents went to the house and banged on the locked door as the victims shouted for help.\n\nMs Lawrie added: \"The girl shouted that the men were going out the back door and at this point she was able to free herself.\n\n\"She picked up a wooden stick and hit Anderson over the head.\"\n\nThe two men ran off before police arrived.\n\nOfficers were able to trace Anderson to a neighbouring property and he was arrested. The other man's whereabouts is still unknown.\n\nAnderson was treated for a head injury at hospital before being held in custody.\n\nIn court on Friday he admitted assault and robbery and was remanded in custody pending a sentencing hearing next month.\n\nJudge Lord Scott said: \"A custodial sentence is inevitable. It must have been an ordeal for these children to have this happen to them in their own home.\"\n\nAnderson was previously jailed for six years after impersonating a police officer.\n\nHe used fake identification to carry out a spate of robberies against elderly people in Glasgow, as well as Giffnock in East Renfrewshire and Airdrie in North Lanarkshire.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teenager Leona Harper was a gem who \"shone brightly and beautifully\", a priest tells mourners\n\nOne of the youngest victims of the Creeslough explosion in County Donegal was \"a little lady with a big heart\", her funeral has heard.\n\nLeona Harper, 14, was picking up an ice cream in the shop when the explosion happened on Friday.\n\nThe funeral of Martina Martin, 49, also took place on Thursday, at St Michael's Church in Creeslough.\n\nThe mother-of-four, who worked at the service station, \"lived for her children\", the congregation was told.\n\nTen people were killed in Friday's explosion, which police said appears to have been a tragic accident.\n\nLeona Harper was one of the youngest people to die in the blast\n\nFr Michael Carney told mourners at St Mary's Church in Ramelton that although Leona's time on this earth was \"too short\" she lived life to the full.\n\n\"She has made her unique contribution, left her imprint and contributed to the lives of those she loved, lived and laughed with.\"\n\nThe congregation heard that Leona was described as a \"little miracle\" being born after her mother, Donna, was told she could not conceive another child.\n\nThe priest also spoke of Leona's \"varied\" interests and pursuits from music, dance and fashion to a love for the outdoors, fishing and a passion for tractors.\n\n\"She was beginning to feature in her rugby club as a gifted player,\" Fr Carney added.\n\n\"And, like many girls, the exploits and success of Kelly Harrington and Katie Taylor had sparked an interest in boxing, and Liverpool was her team.\"\n\nHer father Hugh told Highland Radio his daughter was a \"little gem\".\n\nMembers of a dog search team who helped in the recovery operation attended Leona Harper's funeral\n\nRepresentatives from Search and Rescue Dog Association Ireland (SARDAI) attended Leona's funeral on Thursday.\n\nThey had been called to Creeslough following Friday's explosion.\n\nLabrador Bodhi was the first dog that entered the rubble and the last dog to leave, his handler Michael McCamley told BBC News NI.\n\nThey also had the help of Tess and her handler Trevor Hartley who were at the scene on Friday and Saturday.\n\nPaying tribute to Leona, Mulroy College said its school community had been filled with a terrible sadness following her death.\n\n\"We will think of her great strength of character, independent mindedness and love of sport and farming,\" it said.\n\nMartina Martin, it added, was also a parent at the school, which is about 12 miles from Creeslough, and would be remembered as a \"cherished friend\".\n\nA Liverpool flag blew in the wind outside St Mary's Church Ramelton as crowds of young people formed a guard of honour for the funeral of 14-year old Leona Harper.\n\nStudents from Mulroy College and Scoil Mhuire, both in Milford, were there. They're both schools which Leona attended.\n\nAs these young people stood in the rain, ready to say goodbye to Leona, the church singer sang Jealous of the Angels in the background over a loudspeaker.\n\nMartina's funeral Mass was held at St Michael's church in Creeslough which has seen a number of funerals of the blast victims this week.\n\n\"Once you met her in life, she became your friend,\" a priest told mourners.\n\nFr John Joe Duffy said Martina Martin was \"so well loved, so well liked\" and had been \"doing what she loved\" when the tragedy happened.\n\n\"She worked at the heart of the community,\" he added.\n\nAs the service began, Ms Martin's daughter Grainne carried a photo of her siblings to the front of the church.\n\nA coffee cup, dark chocolate and a Harry Potter train and pillow were also used as symbols to represent her mother's life.\n\n\"She believed in you and she wanted you to be happy,\" Fr Duffy said in a message directed at Ms Martin's children.\n\nWhen giving a reading, Ms Martin's cousin Sonia concluded by saying \"rest in peace beautiful lady\".\n\nFr Duffy said the community had showed great strength to support people through recent days.\n\n\"Creeslough is a village, yes, a small village, but it is now more than just that,\" he explained.\n\n\"It is now a word for determination, for resolve, and for togetherness.\n\n\"This tragedy has reignited within all of us, myself included, that each one of us are only as strong as the families we have around us, only as strong as the community that surrounds us.\"\n\nRepresentatives of the Irish president, the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) and emergency services were present at both services.\n\nOn Tuesday, funeral services were held at St Michael's Church in the village for Jessica Gallagher, 24, and 49-year-old Martin McGill.\n\nJames O'Flaherty, Catherine O'Donnell and her 13-year-old son James Monaghan were buried on Wednesday.\n\nHugh Kelly, who also lost his life, will be buried on Friday.", "Elon Musk is under a federal investigation related to his $44 billion takeover deal for Twitter.\n\nThe news came from a court filing made public on Thursday about the latest in ongoing legal disputes between the billionaire and the social network.\n\nWhile the filing said he was under investigation, it did not say what the focus was.\n\n\"This game of 'hide the ball' must end,\" the company said in the court filing.\n\nMr Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\nTwitter - which sued Mr Musk in July to force him to close the deal - said lawyers for the Tesla CEO had claimed \"investigative privilege\" when refusing to hand over documents it wanted.\n\nIt also said it had requested that Mr Musk's attorneys produce their communications with federal authorities months ago, but they had not done so.\n\nIn late September, Mr Musk's attorneys provided a \"privilege log\", identifying documents to be withheld.\n\nThe log referenced drafts of a 13 May email to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - the American regulator which enforces the law against market manipulation.\n\nIt also referenced a slide presentation to the Federal Trade Commission - whose principal mission is promoting antitrust law and consumer protection.\n\nThe court request was filed on the same day the court granted a stay of litigation to allow Twitter and Mr Musk to close the takeover deal.\n\nThe SEC has questioned Mr Musk's comments about the Twitter acquisition.\n\nIn April, the SEC asked him whether the disclosure of his 9% Twitter stake was late and why it indicated that he intended to be a passive shareholder. Mr Musk later refiled the disclosure to indicate he was an active investor.\n\nIn June, the SEC asked Mr Musk in a letter whether he should have amended his public filing to reflect his intention to suspend or abandon the deal.\n\nAlex Spiro, an attorney for Mr Musk, told Reuters that Twitter's court filing was a \"misdirection\".\n\n\"It is Twitter's executives that are under federal investigation,\" he said.\n\nTwitter declined to comment on the statement.\n\nThe filing comes as the months-long saga of Mr Musk's proposed Twitter purchase continues, during which the billionaire proposed a takeover, went back on the deal, and was then sued by Twitter to stick to his word.\n\nThe billionaire's side then said he would go ahead with the deal, just days before a trial was set to take place to force the purchase through.", "\"I would like to say that music helps the military to be strong and keep fighting,\" Viktoria says\n\nTwo Ukrainian DJs who have spent the last few months playing shows inside bomb shelters will be part of the Europe's Biggest Dance Show line-up.\n\nThe marathon broadcast, involving 11 radio stations across 10 countries, will return to BBC Radio 1 later.\n\nBut for Viktoria Polchenko from Ukraine's Radio Promin, it will mean a little bit more than just a party.\n\nMusic has the power to act \"like a lifeline that helps us be strong and hold on\", she tells BBC Newsbeat.\n\nIt will be the first time the show, which starts in London, will involve Ukraine.\n\nViktoria, in capital city Kyiv, and her fellow broadcaster DJ Leo Levsky in the city of Lviv, will be representing the country.\n\nAt the moment, the pair are split between the two locations because of the war.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDJ Leo says there is \"emotional stress\" for many Ukrainians with family members fighting on the front line.\n\nBut events involving lots of dance music let people \"rest and communicate with people\", he says.\n\nAs you might expect, the pair say that working during a war is not easy, but it's something they've become accustomed to.\n\nViktoria describes \"doing everything in bomb shelters\", with live shows being recorded there in the event of threats.\n\nAnd she says the Covid pandemic provided a rehearsal for broadcasting in tough times.\n\n\"We worked online, offline and I believe that we have passed this test right now,\" she says.\n\nLeo has also played songs from inside bomb shelters, with tunes often starting from someone's phone.\n\n\"Jokes then start coming and everyone gets involved in listening. Sometimes we even sing simultaneously so it kind of helps relieve stress.\"\n\nDJ Leo feels music can act as a release for Ukrainians\n\nRadio 1's Danny Howard will kick the show off at 18:00 BST in the UK before handing over to the next country.\n\n\"Friday nights and Radio 1 is always a huge party, it signals the start of the weekend,\" he says.\n\n\"It's just a huge vibe. Take that and multiply it across an entire continent.\"\n\nFor many, the last few years has been tough with the pandemic and cost of living crisis.\n\nBut Danny says dance music can often be a way to get into good spirits and bring people together.\n\n\"People can turn on the radio for free and get involved in a huge occasion,\" he says.\n\nDanny is really looking forward to the UK's music, but also other countries such as Germany, whom he describes as having \"a rich heritage\"\n\nThe night will end in Ukraine, a country which has been locked in conflict with Russia since February.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking to see what's happened. I think it's quite fitting that we can end such a huge occasion in Kyiv,\" Danny says.\n\n\"So hopefully, it will put a smile on a few faces [of people listening there], even if it is just for that half an hour.\"\n\nViktoria understands the power of radio and many who will have tuned in to listen once Russia invaded.\n\n\"We want to show people that we are with them, we feel them and we support them,\" she adds.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "There was a visible police presence near where the protest happened\n\nA rare protest attacking President Xi Jinping and China's Covid restrictions has taken place in Beijing, days before a historic Communist Party congress.\n\nImages showed two protest banners on a bridge in the north-west of the city. The protest appeared to have been swiftly stopped by the authorities.\n\nFrustration has been mounting in the capital before the congress.\n\nThere has been an outpouring of anger online at strict security measures and the Covid restrictions put in place.\n\nAuthorities have tightened access to the city, shutting out many travellers, returning residents and deliveries. Others had their movement restricted or were forced to quarantine.\n\nThe images and footage of the protest that have been circulating showed two large banners unfurled on a bridge in Beijing's Haidian district.\n\nOne read: \"No Covid test, we want to eat. No restrictions, we want freedom. No lies, we want dignity. No Cultural Revolution, we want reform. No leaders, we want votes. By not being slaves, we can be citizens.\"\n\nThe other called on residents to \"go on strike at school and work, remove dictator and national traitor Xi Jinping\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVideo from the scene showed unexplained thick plumes of smoke on the bridge and a man could be heard chanting slogans into a loudhailer.\n\nA BBC team visit to the scene later found no trace of it, but there was a visible police presence in the area.\n\nThe week-long 20th Party Congress, due to kick off on Sunday, will see about 2,300 top officials and party delegates descend upon the capital.\n\nChina's leader Xi Jinping is expected to be handed a third term, breaking decades-long tradition and shoring up his already firm grip on power.\n\nThe capital usually sees strict security measures in the lead-up to important events. Street-level security has been strengthened with paramilitary police patrolling subway stations and neighbourhoods near the Great Hall of the People where the congress will take place.\n\nExhibitions highlighting China's achievements under Xi Jinping have been set up around the country ahead of the congress\n\nAuthorities are cracking down on the use of virtual private networks circumventing China's firewalls, to restrict access to the internet beyond Communist Party control.\n\nBut in an attempt to stamp out small Covid outbreaks in Beijing as the congress nears, city authorities are enforcing much stricter measures than most other parts of China.\n\nTens of millions of residents are being tested every three days, with screenings for entry to all buildings enforced and mask-wearing mandates policed.\n\nOfficials have also heavily restricted the number of people entering the city and discouraged residents from leaving.\n\nMany people who travelled to other cities during a recent National Day holiday found that their online health codes - essential for travel around the country - suddenly indicated they were at risk of Covid infection, preventing them from getting on trains or flights back to Beijing.\n\nOthers who managed to return to Beijing saw a similar change in their health codes days after returning, according to online accounts, forcing them to quarantine at home.\n\n\"I don't understand why Beijing did this... I can't go to work. I'm about to lose my job. I'm so frustrated. When is it going to end?\" said one commenter on Weibo, while another added: \"We suffer all these just because someone has to hold a meeting.\"\n\n\"Why torment the ordinary people? The authorities have implemented their policy unreasonably. Their credibility is down the drain. How could people trust them?\" asked another.\n\nIt comes amid a growing fatigue among ordinary Chinese with the \"zero Covid\" strategy that has seen harsh lockdowns and quarantine measures, long after other countries have eased restrictions.\n\nSeveral recent incidents, including a bus crash that killed 27 people who were being transported to quarantine camps, have sparked public anger.\n\nThe frustration is at odds with the celebratory mood for the 20th Party Congress on display on state media and institutions.\n\nRed banners marking the congress have popped up around the capital and popular mobile apps have changed their display colours to red. A drama recapping the highlights of the last 10 years of Mr Xi's rule has begun airing on primetime television, while similarly themed exhibitions are being held around the country.\n\nState media outlets have rolled out material in support of official policies including \"zero Covid\", urging Chinese people to \"strengthen confidence in and have patience with the current epidemic prevention and control policies\".", "The cost-of-living payments will be made to staff and students in January 2023\n\nQueen's University Belfast is to spend about £8m making extra cost-of-living payments to students and most staff.\n\nMost of the university's 25,000 students will receive £150, although about 3,600 students from lower-income families will get a higher payment of £400.\n\nAbout 3,000 staff - all staff apart from senior managers - will receive between £500 and £750.\n\nBut the payments will not be made until January 2023.\n\nInflation is increasing at nearly its fastest rate in 40 years, driven largely by the rising cost of food and fuel.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, thousands of students staged walkouts on Thursday, in protest at the cost-of-living and accommodation crises.\n\nQueen's University recently declared a \"critical incident\" due to rises in the cost of living and said it would bring forward measures to help staff and students.\n\nSome of those measures have now been agreed by senate, the university's governing body.\n\nThe university's vice-chancellor Prof Ian Greer told BBC News NI he was \"very concerned\" about the cost-of-living pressures on students and staff.\n\n\"There's no doubt that fuel in particular has been a problem across the board, not just for our student population but our staff also,\" he said.\n\n\"In addition the cost of food is also increasing and that causes general hardship for students who are on a very modest income in any event.\"\n\nProf Ian Greer said the university was also considering further measures\n\nProf Greer was asked by BBC News NI why it would take until January for students to get the payments.\n\n\"Students have largely just received their student loan support funding, and we felt the time of greatest need would be just after the Christmas period,\" he replied.\n\nStudents will also not have to pay any fees to graduate - normally £47 - in 2022/23.\n\nAll library fines will also be waived and any student discipline fines halved.\n\nThe 3,600 students who will receive the higher £400 payment are those whose family household income is below £25,000 a year.\n\nStaff will also receive their cost-of-living payment in January.\n\n\"The pressures for the cost of living crisis that I've outlined for students - things like fuel, cost of housing, cost of food - are real pressures for our staff,\" Prof Greer said.\n\nThe university will spend about £5.5m on the cost-of-living payments for students and around £2.5m on the payments for staff.\n\nProf Greer said the university was also considering further measures, including providing breakfasts for staff and students, and decisions would be made on those in the coming weeks.\n\nHe also told BBC News NI the university was facing an increase of \"several million pounds\" in its energy bills.\n\nPresident of Queen's Students Union, Emma Murphy, said November and December will be a particularly tough time for students\n\n\"It has come from strong lobbying on our behalf of students, making sure that their voices are being heard and listened to and that the university is recognising the really tough times they are going to go through over the winter months,\" she said.\n\nShe said there were three main areas that would be a concern for students - the cost of food, fuel and rent.\n\nShe added that November and December would be a particularly tough time for students because loan payments typically come through in January.\n\nMs Murphy said there was \"some lobbying to be done in terms of different programmes\" to help support students including offering free breakfasts and ensuring free period products are available.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, students at third level colleges walked out of lectures and tutorials on Thursday morning in protest at the accommodation and cost-of-living crises.\n\nThe action, which took place at 11 minutes past 11, saw hundreds of students gather in college quads and other outdoor spaces to protest.\n\nIt was organised by the Union of Students in Ireland, which claims that landlords are exploiting the student accommodation crisis by charging sky-high rents.\n\nStudents are calling for an immediate ban on evictions and the introduction of housing as a constitutional right.\n\nHundreds of students staged a walkout at Trinity University, Dublin, on Thursday morning\n\nIn the Republic, thousands of students participated in a walkout on Thursday.\n\nStudents left universities at 11:11 local time and gathered in protest in college squares and open spaces. Demonstrations took place in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Waterford, Carlow and other towns.\n\nThe walkout was organised by the Union of Students in Ireland who say landlords are exploiting students with extortionate rents.\n\nThe union said there is an expected shortfall of 20,000 student beds by 2024.\n\nIt criticised the Irish government for failing to cap rent and said the recently announced budget shows no commitment to solving the shortage.\n\nSeparately, a number of schools in Northern Ireland had previously decided to offer more pupils free meals in response to rises in the cost of living.\n\nQueen's University had previously spent about £4.5m in July 2022 on payments of between £1,000 and £150 to staff for their work during the Covid pandemic.\n\nUlster University also paid most of its staff an extra cost-of-living payment of up to £1,000 in June 2022.", "Two months after the summer heatwave, new data underlines the huge impact climate change is having on the UK.\n\nMore than half of the UK's oldest active weather stations recorded their hottest day ever in 2022, according to Met Office data.\n\nNew all-time highs were set at 56 of the 109 longest standing stations during the July heatwave.\n\nOne west Yorkshire village broke its previous record by a whopping 6.3C.\n\nScientists at the Met Office who carried out the analysis described this summer's extreme temperatures as a \"real indication of how our climate is changing\".\n\nTemperatures passed 40C (104F) for the first time, something \"virtually impossible\" without human-induced climate change, according to the Met Office.\n\nThe data includes measurements from active weather stations in the UK that had at least 50 years of observations.\n\nRecords are typically broken by narrow margins, however, the long-functioning stations that broke their previous records this summer did so by more than 2C on average.\n\nThe largest gaps between records can be seen in the chart below.\n\nThe new UK high of 40.3C was recorded at Coningsby in Lincolnshire on 19 July 2022.\n\nThe measurement was a full 1.6C higher than the previous maximum temperature of 38.7C set at Cambridge Botanical Gardens in summer 2019.\n\nAmong the 109 stations with long reporting histories, 14 other stations surpassed the 2019 record, although this does not include Coningsby as it does not have at least 50 years of data.\n\n\"What was really notable about this heatwave was the northerly extent of extreme temperatures, and by how much previous records were broken,\" according to Dr Mark McCarthy, head of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre.\n\nThe largest increase was at Bramham in West Yorkshire, which smashed its previous high of 33.5C by more than 6C.\n\nOther stations in parts of Yorkshire, the North East and the North West also broke their all-time records by huge margins.\n\nKielder Castle in Northumberland surpassed its previous high set 40 years ago by more than 5C, while Whitby in Yorkshire beat its standing record by 4.8C.\n\nNew records at measurement stations in Sheffield, Durham, and Bradford were around 4C higher.\n\nWhile the highest temperatures were seen in parts of England, the summer heatwave saw new national records established in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nThese were set at stations with less than 50 years of data and are not included in this analysis, however the extreme heat this summer shattered multiple records related to specific stations across all four nations, some of which had stood for decades.\n\nOnly one in five of the longest-standing weather stations in the UK has a temperature record that was set before 2000.\n\nThe remaining 80% were all set in the past two decades.\n\nLeuchars station in Fife was the northernmost of the long-standing stations to set a record in 2022. Its previous high set in 1990 was beaten by 0.5C.\n\nGogerddan, near Aberystwyth, was the first location in Wales to break the previous national record of 35.2C that had stood for more than 30 years.\n\nArmagh station in Northern Ireland broke its record by a relatively small 0.2C, but that record had dated back 146 years - the longest anywhere in the UK.\n\nClimate change is making heatwaves in the UK more likely and more extreme.\n\nSince 2000, the hottest day of the year has surpassed 35C seven times. This only happened on five occasions in the 90 years prior.\n\nAnd the UK's record temperatures have been broken more regularly in recent years.\n\nWhile the 1911 record of 36.7C held for 79 years, subsequent records stood for less than two decades. The 2022 heatwave broke a record that had lasted only three years.\n\n\"The first recording of over of 40C in the UK was a landmark moment and a real indication of how our climate is changing,\" Dr McCarthy told the BBC.\n\n\"The impacts of this kind of heat became evident in parts of the UK with transport disruption, wildfires and health implications affecting the population,\" he added.\n\nThe UK was not the only country in Europe to see temperature records shattered these past few months.\n\nA long-running drought, likely Europe's worst in 500 years, and series of extreme heatwaves made summer 2022 the continent's hottest on record, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service.\n\nTemperatures in Portugal hit 47C in July, the highest ever recorded that month, while in France 64 different areas experienced record highs.\n\nDeadly wildfires in France, Portugal, Spain and Greece forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes.\n\nOn average, the summer was 0.4C warmer than the previous record, only set last year.", "Female special forces were filmed violently detaining a woman in Tabriz on Friday\n\nA woman dragged away by female special forces. Security forces shooting from a pick-up truck. Detained protesters being bussed away. Men ducking for cover from gunfire.\n\nThese are some of the shocking incidents seen in videos shared by people inside Iran over the past day whose authenticity BBC journalists have been able to verify.\n\nThe BBC and independent media are not allowed to report from Iran, so such videos are crucial to establishing what is happening on the ground.\n\nIranian authorities have been disrupting the internet service in order to limit the flow of information and control the narrative, but Iranians are still sending BBC Persian videos of protests happening across the country via messaging apps. Videos are also being posted frequently on social media.\n\nBefore a video can be used in any reports, journalists need to establish where and when it was filmed.\n\nThey can pinpoint the location by looking for landmarks and signs in the footage and checking them against satellite images, street-level photos and previous footage. Weather reports, the position of the sun and the angles of shadows it creates can be used to confirm the timing.\n\nOn Friday, BBC Persian journalists, investigative journalists from the BBC News Reality Check and User Generated Content (UGC) teams and video journalists sat down together to verify the footage coming in.\n\nOvernight, BBC Persian posted a video on Twitter in which security personnel guarding a building appear to open fire when protesters approach.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC NEWS فارسی This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMuzzle flashes are seen coming from a rifle being pointed by one of the officers towards the crowd, as shots ring out. A man filming the video can also be heard saying that he is in the eastern city of Neyshabur.\n\nAfter looking at satellite images of Neyshabur, it is possible to confirm that the video was filmed outside the city hall. One of the frames shows the building's entrance gate (marked below in orange). A fluorescent sign can also be seen in another frame, and that can be matched to that of a branch of Bank Mellat in Iran Square (marked in red).\n\nThe BBC journalists were able to verify a number of other videos sent directly by Iranians or posted online on Thursday night and on Friday.\n\nThis video appears to show a member of the security forces shooting at fleeing people from a gun mounted on the back of a pick-up truck.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShots can be heard as the vehicle chases people down a street at night-time in Baneh, a city in the north-western province of Kurdistan.\n\nThe Kurdish-populated cities and towns in the west of the country have seen widespread protests and violent crackdowns by security forces since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old Kurdish woman was from the city of Saqqez, about 40km (25 miles) north-west of Baneh.\n\nThe city of Sanandaj has been the epicentre of the protests in Kurdistan. Several protesters have been shot dead by security forces over the past month, according to Kurdish human rights activists.\n\nThis footage from Friday shows protesters running for cover as security personnel on motorbikes drive towards them. Gunfire is heard as they duck into an alley.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe person filming then peers around a wall as the shots continue to ring out. A group of men on motorbikes, wearing black uniforms and helmets, are seen waiting at the end of the road.\n\nBBC Persian journalists were familiar with the hilly, south-eastern area of Sanandaj that is seen in the video and satellite images showed there are many alleys there. The signs of local shops are also visible in the footage.\n\nThis footage from overnight shows the moment detained protesters in Bukan, another city in Kurdistan province, are driven away in a pick-up truck by security forces.\n\nThe audio has been distorted by the BBC to protect the identity of the person filming and the protesters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The moment arrested Iranian protesters are driven away in a pick-up truck\n\nThis footage from the north-western city of Tabriz on Friday shows female special forces personnel, wearing beige uniforms and black flak jackets, violently detaining a woman.\n\nThey are seen dragging the woman across a road by her arms and legs and then lifting her towards the open doors of a black minivan. It is not clear why the woman is being detained, although her hair appears to be uncovered near the end of the video.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe video was filmed near a public library attached to the Imam Khomeini Mosalla, a huge prayer hall.\n\nBBC journalists established the location by searching on Twitter, where they found mention of the mosalla. A local businessperson then told BBC Persian that the arrest took place near the library.\n\nThe monument in the foreground of the video, the zebra crossing, the taxi rank and the distinctive gate were located in satellite images.\n\nThis video, which has caused an uproar on social media, appears to show a member of the security forces sexually assaulting a woman in Tehran's Argentina Square on Wednesday.\n\nSecurity officers in protective gear and helmets are seen surrounding a woman. One of them grabs her by the neck and leads her into a crowd of about two dozen police, many of whom are on motorbikes. While she is being forced towards one of the bikes, another officer seems to put his hand on her bottom.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe woman then crouches on the ground as more officers surround her. A female voice behind the camera is heard saying: \"They are pulling her hair.\" Drivers in vehicles nearby meanwhile start sounding their horns. The woman, who appears to have no headscarf, is then seen standing up and running away.\n\nTehran's police force has confirmed that the incident is being investigated.\n\nIn this video from the south-eastern city of Zahedan, male protesters can be seen marching along a street towards the Grand Makki Mosque, whose dome and four minarets are clearly visible in the background, after Friday prayers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey can be heard chanting anti-government slogans. One of them is \"Death to Basiji\" - a reference to the members of the feared paramilitary Basij Resistance Force, loyalist volunteers who have often deployed by the authorities to suppress protests in recent years.\n\nTwo weeks ago, Zahedan saw several days of fierce clashes between security forces and ethnic Baluchi protesters erupt after Friday prayers.\n\nHuman rights activists said at least 83 protesters and bystanders were killed. The authorities said security forces were attacked by Baluchi separatists - something the imam of the Grand Makki Mosque denied.", "The number of Covid infections in Scotland has fallen slightly in the last week despite a rise across the UK, according to new figures.\n\nLast week's ONS Covid infection survey estimated that about one in 50 people had the virus on any day in the previous week.\n\nThis was down from one in 45 two weeks earlier.\n\nBut total infections in the UK have risen by 31%, the biggest percentage jump since June.\n\nPublic health expert Jillian Evans said there was a need to be cautious about interpreting small movements in data.\n\nBut she told BBC Scotland's Lunchtime Live: \"We are not seeing that big increase that we are seeing in other parts of the UK.\"\n\nMs Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, said it was tempting to think the numbers, which have been hovering around one in 45 to one in 55 since late August, could be levelling off.\n\nShe also told the programme Scotland was in some ways ahead of the UK trend, partly because children went back to school sooner.\n\nMs Evans said factors driving the overall rise included waning immunity and an increase in the number of contacts people have.\n\nShe added: \"We are certainly not out of the woods. We are still talking about 2% of the population in Scotland with Covid.\"\n\nSome 1.7 million people in private households across the UK are likely to have tested positive for coronavirus in the period 23 September to 3 October, according to the ONS.\n\nThis is up from 1.3 million in the previous survey, which covered the period 18 to 26 September.\n\nIt is the highest UK-wide total since late July, but is still below the 3.8 million weekly infections in early July, at the peak of the wave caused by the Omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants of the virus.\n\nThere is a lag in the reporting of the ONS data due to the time it takes for the survey to be compiled.\n\nSarah Crofts, ONS deputy director for the Covid-19 infection survey, said: \"Infections have risen again across much of the United Kingdom, continuing the pattern of steady increases seen over recent weeks, although Scotland and the north-east of England had uncertain trends in the latest week.\n\n\"We have also seen another notable rise in infections amongst older age groups in England and Wales, underlining once again the need for close monitoring as we move through the colder months.\"\n\nThe trend in Scotland is described by the ONS as \"uncertain\", with 109,700 people likely to have Covid-19 in the latest survey - 2.08% of the population.\n\nIn England, the number of people testing positive for coronavirus in the latest survey was 1.5 million, or around one in 35 people - up from 1.1 million, or one in 50, in the previous survey.\n\nWales has also seen a rise, where the latest estimate for infections is 74,900, or one in 40 people, up from 63,400, or one in 50.In Northern Ireland the latest estimate is 45,100 infections, or one in 40 people, compared with 46,100, which is also one in 40 - though the longer trend here is showing an increase.\n\nThe Scottish government said this week that 1.3 million vaccines had already been delivered to protect against the latest strains of flu and Covid-19.\n\nFront-line healthcare staff and the most vulnerable were called up first with 80.2% of all care home residents being fully vaccinated since the rollout began in September.\n\nThe next groups - over 65s and those at high-risk - are currently being sent scheduled appointments along with 50-64-year-olds.\n\nAnyone who has missed an appointment can reschedule through the NHS Inform online booking portal.\n\nOver 50s in England are now able to book their Covid booster and flu jabs and over-50s in Wales and Northern Ireland are already eligible for both jabs.\n\nMost of the deaths related to Covid-19 last week happened in hospitals\n\nMs Evans said taking up the offer of a jab was \"massively\" important.\n\n\"The great news is that of the cohorts vaccinated so far, uptake has been tremendous,\" she said.\n\n\"In the general population demand is there, and you will get those letters to book towards the end of this month.\n\n\"There has been high uptake of those who have been invited so far, let's hope that continues.\"\n\nThe Covid-19 vaccine is being given at the same time as the flu jab where possible, and so far 94% of those invited have had both at the same appointment.\n\nMore than two million Scots will be offered both vaccines over the next three months.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"Scotland remains steadfast in the effort to protect everyone - continuing the huge success of the vaccination programme since it was first rolled out in December 2020.\n\n\"Covid-19 has not gone away and I call on everyone to take up the offer of a booster as soon as their invitation arrives to protect themselves, their families and the NHS.\"\n\nOn Thursday, latest figures showed that despite cases rising, the number of people dying from coronavirus in Scotland had fallen.\n\nData from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) showed that Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate of 161 people who died in September compared with 213 in August.\n\nThose living in the most deprived areas were most at risk.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, the highest rate of Covid-related deaths was in April 2020 when 2,413 people died.", "The new library in Magdalene College, Cambridge, has been named the UK's best new building, winning the prestigious Riba Stirling Prize for architecture.\n\nThe \"exquisitely detailed\" building by Níall McLaughlin Architects is open 24 hours a day, as part of the 700-year-old University of Cambridge college.\n\nThe prize's judges called it a \"solid and confident, yet deferential new kid on the college block\".\n\nThe other five shortlisted buildings included a school and community centre.\n\nSimon Allford, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba), called the library, which incorporates an archive and art gallery, a \"unique setting with a clear purpose\".\n\nThe building allows for both private and communal study\n\nHe added that it had been a \"significant challenge\" to create a building that would last at least 400 years, but that the architects had managed it \"with the utmost skill, care and responsibility\".\n\n\"Well-designed environments hugely improve student success and wellbeing. They should be the rule for all students and teachers in all places of learning, not the exception.\"\n\nMagdalene College's librarian, Dr Marcus Waithe, said the architects had been given an \"unusually challenging brief: to erect a building at the edge of one of Cambridge's most historically sensitive sites, and to do so without committing an intrusion\".\n\nHe added the result was \"an inspiring structure - one that would encourage our undergraduates to aim high\".\n\nSeen from below, it has a vaulted roof\n\nMr McLaughlin said it was the first time a college had won the annual prize, and called the library \"a work of many hands and many minds\".\n\nHe added: \"We knew we were building for a client who was motivated to achieve the best outcome. Our responsibility to the history and future development of this learning community was clear. We were asked to build for the long-term using present resources wisely.\"\n\nThe new library combines load-bearing brick, gabled pitched roofs and brick chimneys, along with a tiered timber interior and a large vaulted lantern skylight.\n\nThe other five shortlisted buildings were:\n\nMr Allford was joined on the jury by architects Glenn Howells and Kirsten Lees, and artist Chris Ofili.\n• None 'Warehouse of ideas' named UK's best new building", "The bridge has been reopened to rail and light road traffic\n\nRussia's government has ordered contractors to finish repairs to a key bridge linking annexed Crimea to Russia by July 2023.\n\nThe bridge was damaged by a blast last Saturday which officials say left at least three people dead.\n\nRussia blamed Ukraine for the attack but Kyiv has not said it was behind it.\n\nThe 19km (12-mile) bridge, Europe's longest, is a key supply route for Russian forces in Ukraine, but heavy goods vehicles are unable to use it.\n\nThe explosion caused midway sections of one of the two carriageways of the bridge to collapse into the sea and also damaged the railway line.\n\nCurrently, lorries are forced to queue for a ferry, in a process which is thought to take several days.\n\nThe bridge has, however, been reopened for rail and light road traffic.\n\nIn other developments on Friday:\n\nA document on the Russian government's website said it had appointed the company Nizhneangarsktransstroy to be the sole contractor, tasked with the \"design and restoration of destroyed elements of the transport and engineering infrastructure of the Crimean Bridge\".\n\nIt sets \"a deadline by which state contracts for the work are to be completed... of 1 July 2023\".\n\nThe bridge was opened by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018, four years after Russia's annexation of Crimea.\n\nLinking eastern Crimea with southern Russia's Taman peninsula across the Kerch strait, it is considered a showcase project of Mr Putin's rule.\n\nThe Russian president described Saturday's attack as \"an act of terrorism\" by Ukraine.\n\nThere were widespread celebrations in Ukraine following the attack, but the Kyiv government has denied it was involved.\n\nMassive Russian air strikes on Monday which targeted cities all over Ukraine, killing civilians and damaging infrastructure, were presented by Moscow as a response to the attack on the bridge.\n\nHowever, analysts say the strikes must have been prepared weeks in advance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Government borrowing costs rose on Friday afternoon after the prime minister announced another U-turn on the mini-budget.\n\nThe pound, which initially held firm earlier on Friday, also lost ground.\n\nThe moves came as Liz Truss sacked her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, and said a rise in corporation tax would now go ahead.\n\nHowever, some economists warned that the latest developments might not be enough to restore the UK's credibility.\n\n\"It's unlikely that the removal of Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor and the new plans to cancel the cancellation of the rise in corporation tax from 19% to 25% from next April will be enough on their own to regain the full confidence of the financial markets,\" said Paul Dales, Chief UK economist at Capital Economics.\n\nHe also pointed out that despite another U-turn on the 45p tax cut, there are still unfunded tax cuts of about £25bn left over from the mini-budget - down from £45bn originally.\n\nThe cost of government borrowing rose across a range of bonds traded on the financial markets following the announcement.\n\nThe interest rate - or yield - on bonds due to be repaid in 30 years' time climbed to 4.85%.\n\nThey had hit 5.17% on 28 September in the aftermath of the mini-budget when Mr Kwarteng set out one of the biggest tax cuts packages seen in decades but did not explain how they would be funded.\n\nMeanwhile, the yield on bonds due to be repaid in five years' time, which underpins the cost of new five-year fixed rate mortgages, jumped to 4.35%.\n\nThe pound - which had jumped on Thursday as speculation mounted about a possible U-turn - also sank by more than 1% to just under $1.12 on Friday before clawing back some losses.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss admitted the government's mini-budget had gone \"faster and further\" than many expected.\n\n\"We need to act now to reassure the markets of our fiscal discipline,\" she said.\n\nThe government also announced that Jeremy Hunt, the former foreign and health secretary, will succeed Mr Kwarteng. He will be the UK's fourth chancellor so far this year and will face big challenges with prices soaring and hikes in interest rates.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam, leading economist Mohamed El-Arian said that the events seen in the UK over the last few weeks in particular were \"unthinkable\".\n\n\"There are already scars. If you had to refinance your mortgage, if you're looking to buy a house - you've been hit,\" he said of the recent market turmoil.\n\nHe said Mr Hunt \"needs more measures, he needs to cover more of the unfunded tax cuts that were introduced… most of the damage is recoverable but it needs action and time\".\n\nJeremy Hunt steps in as chancellor at a crucial time for the UK economy\n\nInvestec economist Ellie Henderson described markets as \"dizzy\" over the series of policy reversals and changes.\n\n\"Markets seem unconvinced that today's announcement was enough to fully restore confidence in the UK government,\" she said.\n\nThe government had already U-turned on its plan to scrap the top rate of income tax for people earning £150,000 a year or more. Reducing the tax rate for top earners would have cost £2bn.\n\nMoving ahead with the increase in corporation tax should add an estimated £18bn a year in tax revenue to the government's coffers.\n\nThe prime minister added that \"spending will grow less rapidly than previously planned\".\n\nThe Treasury also confirmed that the incoming chancellor would still deliver the government's \"economic plan\" on 31 October, which will set out how the remaining tax cuts will be funded, and how debts will be reduced.\n\nOn Friday, an emergency bond-buying scheme set up by the Bank of England to restore calm in the financial markets following the previous mini-budget will also come to an end.\n\nThe government raises money it needs for spending by selling bonds - a form of debt that is paid back plus interest in anywhere between five and 30 years.\n\nPension funds invest in bonds because they provide a low but usually reliable return over a long period of time.\n\nHowever, the sharp fall in their value after the mini-budget forced pension funds to sell bonds, threatening to create a \"downward spiral\" in their prices as more were offloaded, which left some funds close to collapse.\n\nThis sparked an emergency intervention by the Bank of England, which has stepped in to buy £19.3bn worth of government bonds.\n\nThere has been strong speculation that the Bank will extend the scheme past the Friday deadline.\n\nBut on Tuesday, the Bank's governor Andrew Bailey dashed those hopes, telling pension funds: \"You've got three days left now and you've got to sort it out.\"\n\nBethany Payne, global bonds fund manager at Janus Henderson, told the BBC it was not clear whether pension funds have done enough to strengthen their finances.\n\n\"The risk is that we don't know how pension funds have used this window of time and whether they have used it effectively by raising cash and doing everything they need to,\" she said.\n\n\"So the true test of the market will be this afternoon and Monday morning to see whether they have done enough.\"\n• None Why are interest rates going up?", "The energy cap has been in place in other parts of the UK since the start of October\n\nPower NI customers will see electricity prices fall by 10% from the start of November as a result of the energy price cap.\n\nThe cap will more than reverse a 60% increase which would have applied from the same date.\n\nThis cap sets the highest amount suppliers are allowed to charge domestic households for each unit of energy they use.\n\nIt has been in place in other parts of the UK since the start of October.\n\nIt will apply to all electricity and gas suppliers in Northern Ireland from the start of November.\n\nCustomers in Northern Ireland who saw prices rises in October will receive some form of rebate so they are on an equal footing with people in GB.\n\nPower NI is the largest electricity supplier in Northern Ireland, with about 471,000 domestic customers which is more half of all connections.\n\nPower NI last changed its prices in July when it put them up by 27.5%; that followed a 21.4% increase in January\n\nWilliam Steele, Director, Power NI Customer Solutions, said: \"As many customers will already be aware, the UK Government has announced a major intervention into the energy market called the Energy Price Guarantee (EPG).\n\n\"This means that from 1 November 2022, energy bill support will be provided to Northern Ireland residential customers, by reducing the underlying cost of electricity.\n\n\"Although we now must substantially increase our underlying price to reflect the current market, the implementation of the EPG will mean our customers will see a reduction in their billed tariff level of 10%.\"\n\nThe NI Utility Regulator said with the cap in place the typical Power NI customer's bill will be 38% lower than the equivalent in Great Britain and 48% lower than the equivalent in the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Further tariff reviews for all suppliers are likely given the ongoing volatility of wholesale prices and the effect of changes to the EPG discount - the latter to be announced by the UK Government every three months going forward,\" John French, Chief Executive of the Regulator added.\n\n\"Separate to the energy price guarantee support, we are working with the UK Government and local energy suppliers to ensure that the £400 Energy Bill Support Scheme payment is paid to Northern Ireland consumers as soon as possible.\"", "Clare Maddox (right) has been hosting Olena (left) and her daughter Diana (second from left) for six months\n\nAlmost 30,000 Ukrainian refugees have been in the UK for almost six months, analysis by BBC News shows. It means nearly a third of the total arrivals under the Homes for Ukraine scheme are facing the end of their initial hosting arrangements. So what happens to them now?\n\nSix months ago, Olena Sachavo, 44, and her 22-year daughter Diana, arrived at Stansted airport, from war-torn Irpin. In tears, they were welcomed by Clare Maddox and her daughter.\n\nClare had hosted Diana a decade ago, when she came to the UK with a charity, Chernobyl Children's Lifeline. Now she was offering a refuge to Olena and Diana, who had fled the war with Russia. BBC News was there to witness the reunion. The two families hugged, unable to let go.\n\nAs part of the scheme, Ukrainian families escaping the war were offered the chance to come to the UK for up to three years and receive access to healthcare and benefits, provided a named individual agreed to put them up for a minimum of six months.\n\nDuring the past six months, Olena and Diana have lived in Clare's home, in Billericay, Essex. But the Maddox family suffered a bereavement during that time, and while they are pleased the sponsorship happened, there have been strains.\n\nOlena and Diana have been sharing a small room\n\nOlena and Diana's sponsorship period has officially ended. But none of them know what will happen next.\n\n\"It's really stressing me out,\" sighs Clare. \"I'm not going to chuck them out. But at the same time my job is done.\" Like many hosts, she is grappling with ways to help her Ukrainian refugees find alternative accommodation.\n\nAnd sometimes the burden is too much to bear. \"My guests are hoping I will magic somewhere out of thin air. They think I'll help them find somewhere, they are relying on me,\" says Clare.\n\nShe is clear her disappointment lies with the government, not her guests. \"The government was saying, people of UK open your doors; we'll be supportive of you. And they haven't been,\" she adds.\n\nShe has contacted her MP and local councils, but says she has met a \"wishy-washy\" response. \"When I offered to host, I hadn't really appreciated how much I'd have to do,\" Clare says. \"Looking after them is not so intense now as it was at the beginning.\n\n\"I used to drive them around to open bank accounts, to job centre appointments, to the Ukrainian group meetings,\" she says. \"They are extremely reliant on me. Their English is just not good enough to do anything by themselves. I can't blame them for that.\"\n\nOlena is keen to find accommodation close to the cafe where she works\n\n\"Nobody in the councils has been given any guidelines about what to do with these people,\" Clare says. \"The onus is on the host to find accommodation for them.\"\n\nClare's guests are also feeling the strain. \"I understand Clare very well, because the house is very small. There is one bathroom between the five of us,\" says Olena. She says she and Diana are living in a small room - just two metres by two metres. \"We'd also like to leave,\" she adds.\n\nSome Ukrainians have returned home. But for Olena and Diana there is no possible way back. \"We were dropped into open water by the war, and Clare is our safety buoy,\" Olena says. \"Clare has a heart of gold.\"\n\nOlena had her own fashion shop in Ukraine, but she now works up to 45 hours a week in a cafe, which is a 45-minute walk away. She is resigned to the move. \"Clare has her own family, and we are not part of her family,\" Olena says.\n\nClare says Basildon Council told her they could register Olena and her daughter as homeless. If registered homeless, Olena and Diana would be likely to be offered accommodation in a hotel, but it probably wouldn't be in Billericay, where Olena works and where they've built up a support network of local Ukrainians.\n\n\"I'm still waiting in limbo for a response from the government. They don't know what on earth they are going to do with Ukrainians,\" says Clare.\n\nEssex County Council said housing issues are the responsibility of the local city, borough or district council but Ukrainians will be re-matched with new sponsors as close to their current location as possible.\n\nJane (left) felt that they had a large house and they could help a Ukrainian family\n\nJane, 67, and her husband Nick, both retired lawyers from Oxfordshire, have been hosting Anna Semenenko, 40, and her two children, aged three and 13, at their home. Anna's family is from Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, and they are facing a similar situation.\n\n\"I feel very guilty talking about the end of hosting because the heart wants to help,\" says Jane.\n\nShe talks of the many joys of hosting, but says there are stresses also. \"They live here like a big family, but they are not family. It's quite a different relationship to understand and establish - one that we've not done before,\" Jane says.\n\nShe says it would have been helpful to recognise \"from the beginning\" that host families were not there to provide accommodation for the entirety of the war.\n\nJane says she was told Ukrainians would be prioritised for council accommodation at meetings run by Cherwell Council, but so far, none has been found.\n\nAnna says she understands Jane's position as the initial arrangement was for six months.\n\n\"We were hoping that the war would come to an end by this time, and I didn't expect that we would need to stay in the UK for much longer,\" she says.\n\nAnna Semenenko hopes that she can stay local so that her children remain in their current schools\n\nLike Olena and Diana, Anna is resigned to having to move, but she is worried.\n\n\"I'm worried that if we don't find accommodation, I'll be forced to impose change on my children again. There is a difficult journey ahead of them, they don't have roots. And another change would be a blow for them,\" she says.\n\nAnna is a mathematician, specialising in relativity theory. She re-trained as a hairdresser and later worked as an accountant in Kyiv. She is ready to cut hair \"non-stop\" and is considering renting privately. But if she remains on benefits, many landlords would not agree to her renting accommodation.\n\n\"I'd need to prove to the landlord that I earn enough to continue paying my rent. I need a deposit and a guarantor,\" Anna says. Her teenage son has also settled in the local secondary school, and her daughter has just started at a local nursery.\n\nShe doesn't know what to do next. \"I can spend two hours on the government site and not understand anything,\" she says.\n\nIn the meantime Anna and Jane are looking for an alternative host nearby, so that Anna's children don't have to move schools again. \"We've tried to find new local sponsors for Anna and her family but so far no-one has come forward,\" says Jane.\n\nWith no clear guidance from the government, both sides feel helpless.\n\nCherwell District Council said it was working to rematch Ukrainian refugees to new hosts and investigating \"moving on\" options to find independent accommodation. Ukrainian refugees' housing needs will be assessed in the same way as all other households it owes duties to, it added.\n\nOxford City Council said it was asking hosts and guests to continue with their arrangements because there was no spare social housing capacity available in Oxfordshire, while the private rented sector has limited capacity and is very expensive.\n\nAnna's hosts have lent her a car as it's difficult to get anywhere from their village by public transport\n\nNearly a 100,000 Ukrainians are in the UK on the scheme, with many looking for new sponsors at a time when there are few.\n\nMeanwhile, sponsors are calling MPs to ask for help, and MPs are seeking guidance from the government and local councils, which are being told they have been given funding to help.\n\nSome families are agreeing to extend their sponsorship. The former refugees minister, Lord Harrington, has urged the government to double the payment sponsors currently receive - to £700 a month - to encourage more to help.\n\nIn a statement, the government said \"the majority of sponsors want to continue hosting for longer than six months\".\n\n\"Where guests do move on they have a number of options, including to enter private rental or find a new host to sponsor them. Councils have a duty to ensure families are not left without a roof over their heads,\" the spokesman added.\n\nBut a coalition of civil society organisations and charities has written to the prime minister calling for more help for Ukrainian families looking for homes to rent and buy, extra winter payments for hosts, and the appointment of a new refugees minister.\n\nKate Daniels, from the Association for Family Therapy (AFT), has set up a network of therapists providing support for hosts, across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nShe says there is \"nothing worse than to feel in an impossible position and feel helpless\". \"Hosts experience guilt and a sense of shame, and all this despite often having been extremely generous and helpful,\" she says.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The neighbouring countries struck up a deal to help one other shoulder the burden of the energy crisis that has hit Europe\n\nFrance has sent gas to Germany for the first time in \"European solidarity\" amid increasing energy pressures.\n\nThe gas, delivered via a pipeline, is part of a deal between the countries to ease energy shortfalls after Russian turned off the taps to Europe.\n\nThough the new flow is less than 2% of Germany's daily needs, it is welcome as Berlin battles to diversify its energy.\n\nRussia has been accused of using gas supplies as a weapon against the West since the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nFrench grid operator, GRTgaz, said it would initially deliver 31 gigawatt hours (GWh) per day, via a pipeline from the French border village of Obergailbach.\n\nThe maximum daily capacity of the new gas flow is 100 GWh, it added in a statement.\n\nLast month, in the energy solidarity deal, Germany pledged to provide additional electricity to France when needed, and in exchange France agreed to help Germany with gas supplies.\n\n\"If we did not have European solidarity and an integrated, united market right now, we would have serious problems,\" said French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday.\n\nFrance is less affected by Russia turning off the gas taps because most of its energy needs are fulfilled by Norway and through liquified natural gas supplies.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine in February led to gas price hikes, and EU customers face record tariffs this winter.\n\nUntil then Germany relied on Russia for 55% of its gas. It has reduced this to 35% and wants eventually to reduce imports to zero.\n\nGermany is also increasing its use of coal and extending the life of power stations which were due to shut - despite the negative environmental impact.\n\nThe former German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said she did not regret relying on Russia as a major gas supplier during her 16 years in government.\n\nThe German government hopes to reduce gas usage by 2% by limiting the use of lighting and heating in public buildings this winter.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the gas taps could still be turned on to Europe and that \"the ball, as they say, is now in European Union's court\".\n\n\"We do not limit anyone in anything,\" he said, adding that Moscow was ready to supply additional volumes of gas in the autumn-winter period.\n\nBut despite Mr Putin's words, a resumption of gas supplies to Europe seems unlikely.\n\nNord Stream 1, Russia's largest gas pipeline to Europe, was closed indefinitely in August for technical reasons, and a number of leaks were then discovered in September.\n\nThe Nord Stream 2 project, which had been due to come on stream this year, was denied an operating licence by Germany because of the invasion. Leaks have been found in this pipeline as well.", "Leah Croucher, 19, was last seen on CCTV on 15 February 2019 in Milton Keynes\n\nA sex offender who killed himself while on the run from police is suspected of murdering teenager Leah Croucher.\n\nThis week, unidentified human remains and personal items belonging to the 19-year-old were found in the loft of a house in Milton Keynes.\n\nThames Valley Police said Neil Maxwell, 49, who was found dead two months after Ms Croucher's disappearance, had a history of offences against women.\n\nIt said he was the only person to have keys to the house when she vanished.\n\nDet Ch Supt Ian Hunter said: \"If Maxwell were alive today, we would be seeking his arrest in connection with this investigation, so he could be interviewed under caution to provide his account.\"\n\nThe teenager was last seen on CCTV in the Buckinghamshire city on Friday, 15 February 2019.\n\nPolice began searching the house on Loxbeare Drive in Furzton on Monday evening, following a tip-off phone call from a member of the public.\n\nIn the loft they discovered human remains and a rucksack containing personal items belonging to Ms Croucher.\n\nA post-mortem examination is taking place on Friday and formal identification of the remains and forensic analysis of the property could \"take some time\", police said.\n\nThe property is less than half-a-mile (0.8km) from where Ms Croucher was last seen on Buzzacott Lane, Furzton, walking in the direction of Loxbeare Drive and Chaffron Way.\n\nDet Ch Supt Ian Hunter named Neil Maxwell as the suspect at a press conference\n\nAt a press conference on Friday, Det Ch Supt Hunter said: \"Sadly, the call from the member of the public that we received on Monday was the first occasion that information was made available to enable the investigation team to provide any link between that address in Loxbeare Drive and Leah.\"\n\nHe confirmed that number two Loxbeare Drive, where the remains were discovered, was visited on at least two occasions during door-to-door inquiries in the search for the teenager, but there was no response.\n\n\"Therefore, we dropped a leaflet through the letterbox, requesting a call back if the occupants of the property had any information,\" he said.\n\nSince Monday, the force said it discovered the house was owned by someone who lived overseas who rarely visited the UK and was not in the UK at the time Ms Croucher went missing. It said the house was unoccupied when officers attended.\n\nThe force said it also learned this week that during the time of the disappearance, Neil Maxwell was the only person to have keys to the property.\n\nHe had been employed by the home owner to carry out maintenance at the house. He was found dead in Milton Keynes on 20 April 2019, having taken his own life.\n\nMr Hunter said the person who contacted the force on Monday was doing some other work at the address and \"informed us of some concerns that led to the call to police and further investigations\".\n\nForensics officers continue to work at the house where human remains were found\n\nHe said the suspect - who had previous convictions for sexual offences against women - had keys to the home since November 2018 and was wanted in connection with a sexual assault in Newport Pagnell in the same month.\n\nOfficers first attempted to arrest him in connection with the offence on 30 November 2018, at an address in central Milton Keynes, but he was not there, he said.\n\nThames Valley Police shared his name with other forces on the Police National Computer in December 2018 and attempted to arrest him 18 times at addresses across the UK.\n\nThe force said it would keep \"an open mind\" as the investigation continued and would gather more evidence to establish what happened.\n\n\"This may or may not implicate or exonerate Maxwell or any other persons from the investigation,\" police said.\n\nHowever, he was the only suspect at this stage, they added.\n\nLeah Croucher's father John, mother Claire and sister Jade looked at flowers outside the house\n\nOn Thursday evening, Ms Croucher's parents and her sister Jade visited the house and left flowers with a message, saying: \"We will cherish your memories forever.\"\n\nCCTV footage showed the last confirmed sighting of Leah Croucher walking to work on the day she disappeared\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 2021 Squid Game became the most-watched series globally in Netflix history\n\nNetflix is launching a new streaming option with adverts in November, introducing a less expensive offering as it fights to keep viewers.\n\nThe plan will be available in 12 countries including the UK, US, Canada, Mexico and Australia.\n\nThe firm said it would charge £4.99 a month for the service in the UK, while it will cost $6.99 in the US.\n\nNetflix has been losing customers as competition and cost of living pressures mount.\n\nThe company lost more than 1 million subscribers in the first half of this year. It is due to provide an update of that figure to investors next week.\n\nNetflix's move into advertising is a big change for the company, which pioneered the idea of subscription-based streaming.\n\nBut as more entertainment companies roll out online streaming platforms, it has had a harder time retaining subscribers, especially as households concerned about the rising cost-of-living look for ways to cut back.\n\nIn the UK, the least expensive plan without commercials starts at £6.99 a month.\n\n\"We're confident that ... we now have a price and plan for every fan,\" the company said in a press release.\n\n\"While it's still very early days, we're pleased with the interest from both consumers and the advertising community and couldn't be more excited about what's ahead.\"\n\nSubscribers to the new offering should expect to see an average of four to five minutes of adverts per hour, the company said.\n\nSome films and TV series also will not be available due to licensing restrictions.\n\nThe company said it planned to expand the offering to more countries over time.\n\nMany of Netflix's competitors already combine streaming with adverts or have plans to.\n\nDisney, for example, is due to roll out an advert supported service in December in the US. That plan will start at $7.99 a month.\n\nJeremi Gorman, Netflix's president of worldwide advertising, said it had nearly sold out all the available ad time for the launch, a sign of the interest from advertisers in reaching younger audiences that are increasingly turning away from traditional television.\n\nNetflix is asking people who sign up for the ad service for gender and birth date information as part of efforts to target ads.", "People in north Wales, Cheshire and parts of Merseyside pay the highest rate for their electricity under the government's Energy Price Guarantee.\n\nCustomers in this region pay 36p a unit compared with the average of 34p, and the lowest of 32p, new figures show.\n\nOver a year, those on a typical direct debit dual-fuel bill will pay £121 more than those in the cheapest region.\n\nThe energy regulator Ofgem says price differences \"reflect how much it costs to transport energy to where you live\".\n\nIt adds: \"The charging regime… is a way to share out costs for running and maintaining the energy network.\"\n\nThe BBC has analysed official figures from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Ofgem.\n\nThe new figures show the price per unit of electricity and gas under the Energy Price Guarantee in the 14 regions of Great Britain used by the industry. These divisions date back to the electricity board structure before nationalisation in 1947.\n\nNorth Wales and Mersey - known as ManWeb - stretches from Aberystwyth to Anglesey, and as far east as Warrington and Crewe, including Liverpool. There are around 1.4 million households in the region.\n\nIt is not the most expensive region for gas, paying just a fraction above the average of 10.3p. That still leaves a typical dual-fuel bill for electricity and gas the most expensive at £2,566 a year, higher than the typical £2,500 stated by the government for its Guarantee.\n\nThe cheapest region for electricity is the northeast of England, where 1.5 million households now pay just over 32p for each unit. Typical households in this region will pay around £2,445 a year.\n\nPrepay customers in north Wales and Mersey and those there who pay quarterly also have the highest typical annual bills - £2,621 and £2,785 respectively - because standing charges are more and unit rates are the highest in Britain for those payment methods.\n\nOn 1 October, the day the new prices came into effect, Ben Saltmarsh of the fuel poverty charity National Energy Action Wales gave BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme his reaction.\n\n\"There is a huge question over whether that is fair. It's very significant. We have increasing numbers of people living at home with no heat or power for prolonged periods to the detriment of their health. Every penny counts,\" he said.\n\nThe Energy Price Guarantee will apply to Northern Ireland from November but instead of a capped price per unit there will be a discount of 17p per unit of electricity and 4.2p per unit of gas. The savings will be backdated to October.\n\nListen to the Money Box Energy special: Llandudno live on BBC Sounds\n\nHave you delayed putting your heating on? What are your tips for avoiding putting the heating on? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Coltrane appeared in two James Bond films - Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough\n\nActor Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has died aged 72.\n\nHe also appeared in ITV detective drama Cracker and the James Bond films Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough.\n\nIn a statement, his agent Belinda Wright confirmed the actor died in hospital near Falkirk in Scotland.\n\nShe described Coltrane as a \"unique talent\", adding his role as Hagrid \"brought joy to children and adults alike all over the world\".\n\n\"For me personally I shall remember him as an abidingly loyal client. As well as being a wonderful actor, he was forensically intelligent, brilliantly witty and after 40 years of being proud to be called his agent, I shall miss him.\n\n\"He is survived by his sister Annie Rae, his children Spencer and Alice and their mother Rhona Gemmell. They would like to thank the medical staff at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert for their care and diplomacy.\n\n\"Please respect Robbie's family's privacy at this distressing time.\"\n\nRobbie Coltrane was well known for playing Hagrid in the Harry Potter films\n\nColtrane was made an OBE in the 2006 New Year's honours list for his services to drama and he was awarded the Bafta Scotland Award for outstanding contribution to film in 2011.\n\nHarry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe paid tribute to Coltrane in a statement, saying: \"Robbie was one of the funniest people I've met and used to keep us laughing constantly as kids on that set.\n\n\"I've especially fond memories of him keeping our spirits up on Prisoner of Azkaban, when we were all hiding from the torrential rain for hours in Hagrid's hut and he was telling stories and cracking jokes to keep morale up.\n\n\"I feel incredibly lucky that I got to meet and work with him and very sad that he's passed. He was an incredible actor and a lovely man.\"\n\nFellow Harry Potter star Emma Watson said: \"Robbie, if I ever get to be so kind as you were to me on a film set I promise I'll do it in your name and memory.\"\n\nShe paid tribute to Coltrane on Instagram saying there was \"no better Hagrid\" and he \"made it a joy to be Hermione\".\n\n\"I'll really miss your sweetness, your nicknames, your warmth, your laughs and your hugs.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter, Harry Potter author JK Rowling described Coltrane as an \"incredible talent\" and \"a complete one-off\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by J.K. Rowling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActor Stephen Fry, who appeared alongside Coltrane in Alfresco, tweeted: \"Such depth, power and talent: funny enough to cause helpless hiccups and honking as we made our first TV show Alfresco. Farewell, old fellow, you'll be so dreadfully missed.\"\n\nFellow Alfesco actor Hugh Laurie, who also starred alongside Coltrane in Blackadder, recalled their time spent sharing car rides between Manchester and London. \"I don't think I've ever laughed or learned so much in my life\", he tweeted.\n\nAnd Blackadder star Tony Robinson described Coltrane as \"such a sweet man... so talented as a comic and as a straight actor\". Posting on Twitter about his favourite episode from the period sitcom, he said: \"It was all down to you mate.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described Coltrane's death as \"very sad news\".\n\n\"He had such range and depth as an actor, from brilliant comedy to hard-edged drama. I think my favourite of all his roles was Fitz in Cracker,\" she said. \"Robbie Coltrane, Scottish entertainment legend - you will be hugely missed. RIP.\"\n\nThe official James Bond Twitter account called him an \"exceptional actor whose talent knew no bounds\".\n\nBroadcaster Richard Coles added: \"Very sorry to hear Robbie Coltrane has died. We shared a dressing room once and he had the biggest pants I have ever seen, which he wore with tremendous flair. We were friends from then on.\"\n\nThe Scottish star, whose real name is Anthony Robert McMillan, was born in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, in 1950.\n\nColtrane was the son of teacher and pianist Jean Ross and GP Ian Baxter McMillan, and was educated at independent school Glenalmond College in Perth and Kinross.\n\nThe actor's career began in 1979 in the TV series Play for Today, but he came to prominence in A Kick Up the Eighties, a BBC TV comedy series which also starred Tracey Ullman, Miriam Margolyes and Rik Mayall.\n\nHe also appeared in the 1983 ITV comedy Alfresco, with Fry, Emma Thompson, Siobhan Redmond and Hugh Laurie.\n\nBy 1987 he had a leading role in Tutti Frutti, about Scottish rock and roll band The Majestics, which also starred Emma Thompson and Richard Wilson. The year before he was in British crime film Mona Lisa, starring Bob Hoskins.\n\nColtrane was made an OBE in the 2006 New Year's honours list for his services to drama\n\nColtrane gained further fame starring as criminal psychologist Dr Eddie \"Fitz\" Fitzgerald in the ITV series Cracker from 1993 to 1995 and in a special return episode in 2006.\n\nThe role secured him the Bafta award for best actor for three consecutive years from 1994 to 1996.\n\nArguably his best-known role came in the Harry Potter film series as he starred in all eight movies as Rubeus Hagrid alongside Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson.\n\nIn 2016, he starred in Bafta-winning Channel 4 drama National Treasure, with Dame Julie Walters, about a comic and TV host accused of sexual abuse of women.\n\nLate last year he appeared in the Harry Potter reunion TV special, which reunited the cast, although JK Rowling was absent and featured only in archive video clips.\n\nColtrane appeared alongside Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, along with Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman and Ralph Fiennes.", "Tom Watson, the former deputy leader of the Labour Party, is due to enter the House of Lords\n\nTom Watson and Dame Arlene Foster are among 26 new peers set to enter the House of Lords.\n\nHonours for the former deputy leader of the Labour Party and former Northern Ireland first minister were conferred by the King on Friday.\n\nThey were recommended by Prime Minister Liz Truss after being suggested by her predecessor Boris Johnson.\n\nSir Nicholas, a former MP, was briefly expelled from the parliamentary Conservative Party by Mr Johnson for rebelling over Brexit.\n\nNew members are appointed to the House of Lords, which scrutinises bills that have been approved by the House of Commons, by the monarch after being proposed by the prime minister.\n\nAn outgoing prime minister has the right to draw up a dissolution or resignation honours list on leaving office, while considering nominations from other political parties.\n\nSince 2000, peers nominated by political parties have been vetted by the House of Lords Appointments Commission.\n\nDame Arlene, who will sit as a non-affiliated member, stepped down as DUP leader last year after a revolt by party representatives.\n\nOthers nominated by Mr Johnson include former minister Sir Hugo Swire, as well as ex-MP Angie Bray.\n\nFormer Northern Ireland First Minister Dame Arlene Foster has been nominated for a peerage\n\nBusinessman and National Gallery trustee Sir Michael Hintze is also on the list, alongside former Tory MP Graham Evans, who lost his Commons seat in Weaver Vale in 2017.\n\nStewart Jackson, another ex-Tory MP and former special adviser to the Brexit secretary, also gets a peerage.\n\nPeter Weir, a former Stormont education minister, will join the House of Lords after being nominated by the DUP.\n\nFrances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), will be made a peer after being nominated by Labour, alongside Ruth Smeeth, a former Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent North.\n\nChairman of Network Rail Sir Peter Hendy has also been nominated as a crossbench peer.\n\nHowever, Paul Dacre, the editor-in-chief of DMG Media which publishes the Daily Mail and Metro newspapers, was not on the list despite previously being tipped to receive the honour.\n\nConservative Party chairman Jake Berry and former culture secretary John Whittingdale were awarded knighthoods.\n\nJames Duddridge, an international trade minister and former parliamentary private secretary to Boris Johnson, received the honour of the Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George for \"political and public service\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Liz Truss asked why she should stay on as PM\n\nLiz Truss has described sacking her chancellor and scrapping a major economic policy after just 39 days as prime minister as \"difficult\".\n\nIn a brief statement after a day of turmoil, she reversed planned cuts to business tax aimed at boosting growth.\n\nShe admitted \"parts of our mini-budget went further and faster\" than the markets were expecting.\n\nBut she insisted she would stay on as PM to see through her \"mission\" to get the economy growing.\n\n\"I'm absolutely determined to see through what I promised - to deliver a higher growth, more prosperous United Kingdom to see us though the storm we face,\" Ms Truss said.\n\nThe eight-minute news conference came after a dramatic day in which the prime minister fired Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor after he returned early from a US summit.\n\nSome Tory MPs have been calling for the prime minister to resign following the news conference, which one senior backbencher branded \"a mega disaster\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats and the SNP have called for a general election, while shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said a new government led by Labour is \"what this country needs\".\n\nBut Ms Truss has ruled out a general election until 2024 and with the government's large majority in Parliament the opposition would find it very difficult to trigger one.\n\nThe prime minister has appointed former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt - who backed Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest - as the new chancellor.\n\nMs Truss said her new chancellor shared her vision for the country and would deliver a statement on her economic plan at the end of this month.\n\nAdmitting \"we need to act now to reassure the markets\", Ms Truss struck a solemn tone as she reversed a key policy to scrap the planned rise in corporation tax from 19% to 25%.\n\nShe said the move should raise £18bn a year in tax revenue for the government and act as a \"down payment\" on her economic plan.\n\n\"I want to be honest, this is difficult,\" Ms Truss said. \"But we will get through this storm.\"\n\nFollowing her statement, Ms Truss took questions from four journalists, all of whom asked her why she had not left office along with Mr Kwarteng.\n\nShe said she was \"determined to see through what I've promised\" before leaving abruptly, shocking some journalists who did not get a chance to ask questions.\n\nThe statement marks the second major U-turn on the mini-budget after Ms Truss cancelled her plan to scrap the top rate of income tax earlier this month.\n\nIn office for 39 days, Ms Truss won the Conservative Party leadership last month after promising to slash taxes and deregulate the economy in a bid to \"get Britain moving\".\n\nOn 23 September, Mr Kwarteng unveiled a so-called mini-budget to deliver the prime minister's vision, announcing the biggest package of tax cuts in decades.\n\nBut the mini-budget spooked financial markets and sparked a revolt among Tory MPs, who urged the prime minister to drop parts of her economic plan to shore up the UK's finances.\n\nThe prime minister said she and Jeremy Hunt shared the same vision for the country\n\nMs Truss's statement has intensified speculation about her future, with some Tory MPs sharing their thoughts with the BBC.\"She will have to resign,\" said one senior backbencher said, adding \"she is worse than Corbyn\", referring to the former Labour leader.\n\nA former cabinet minister said \"we cannot go on like this indefinitely\", adding the \"electorate are not going to forgive us\" if Tory MPs oust another prime minister.\n\nOne of her supporters said \"that was the worst press conference I have seen in a decade and a half\".\n\nAnother MP, who voted for Ms Truss in the leadership election, said \"I had my hands over my eyes\" during the speech.\n\nOne Scottish Tory MP said the statement made former PM Theresa May's \"worst speech look like the Gettysburg Address\", referring to a famous speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln.\n\nThere has been muted reaction among Ms Truss's supporters so far.\n\nBut members of Ms Truss's cabinet have been tweeting support for her and the new chancellor, Mr Hunt.\n\nFormer chancellor Nadhim Zahawi tweeted: \"It's time to get Britain moving. We are determined to grow the economy, eliminate the Covid backlog and protect people from Putin's energy warfare.\"\n\nIn a tweet, Deputy Prime Minister Therese Coffey - a close ally of Ms Truss - said the PM was \"right to act now to ensure our country's economic stability\".\n\nCommenting on Mr Hunt's appointment, the Levelling Up Secretary Simon Clarke said the new chancellor was \"hugely capable and experienced\".", "The Iranian government has not published the number of people killed during the protests so far.\n\nThe same was true of the 2019 protests against the regime in the country, despite promises they would publish official figures. According to Amnesty International, 321 people were killed in less than a week during this episode.\n\nIt is unlikely the government will publish official numbers this time around. And if they do, it will be just one side of the story. The government denies killing \"peaceful\" protesters and sometimes claim \"foreign agents\" and even opposition groups kill protesters to provoke the nation.\n\nAt the same time, the country's media landscape is tightly controlled by the state. Even journalists who work for international media outlets and are based in Tehran are not allowed to report the protests or contact the family of victims freely.\n\nIranian journalists who try to use social media or outside media to report anything related to protests face possible prosecution. According to the International Federation of Journalists, 26 journalists have been arrested, including Niloofar Hamedi, who used social media to report the death of Mahsa Amini.\n\nOn top of that, the government has been accused of orchestrating a sophisticated disinformation campaign which made the verification of crucial pieces of information such as the number of deaths or the name of victims more complex.\n\nSome victims' families spoke publicly about the pressure from the security apparatus for not talking to the media. And some even accused the government of forcing them to lie on national TV and say their loved ones died for other reasons, such as suicide.\n\nThat is why the number of deaths is still unknown, and human rights organisations such as Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch announce different numbers when they report the killings.\n\nAccording to the latest report by an Iranian right group, Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana), based in the United States, the number of killings reached 224. However, the Iran Human Rights organisation in Norway has confirmed 201 deaths.", "The US congressional committee investigating last year's Capitol riot is issuing a legal summons for former President Donald Trump to testify.\n\n\"He is required to answer for his actions,\" said Representative Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat.\n\nIf Mr Trump does not comply with the summons, known as a subpoena, he could face criminal charges and imprisonment.\n\nThe select committee is looking into Trump supporters' storming of Congress on 6 January 2021.\n\nThe panel's seven Democrats and two Republicans voted 9-0 in favour on Thursday of issuing the subpoena for the former Republican president to provide documents and testimony under oath in connection with the Capitol riot.\n\nThe subpoena is expected to be issued in the coming days, and include a deadline for when Mr Trump must comply.\n\nRepresentative Liz Cheney, the committee's vice-chairwoman and a Wyoming Republican, said: \"We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. And every American is entitled to those answers.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe surprise move came during the investigation's ninth and possibly final public hearing for the investigation into last year's raid on Congress.\n\nAt Thursday's session the committee said it would focus on Mr Trump's \"state of mind\" as he refused to admit defeat to Joe Biden in the presidential election of November 2020.\n\nMr Trump - who has lambasted the inquiry as a ruse designed to distract US voters from the \"disaster\" of Democratic governance - is widely expected to refuse to testify and fight the subpoena.\n\nIn a 14-page letter responding to the subpoena on Thursday, he once again accused the committee of failing to investigate his claims of election fraud.\n\n\"This memo is being written to express our anger, disappointment, and complaint that with all of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on what many consider to be a Charade and Witch Hunt, and despite strong and powerful requests, you have not spent even a short moment on examining the massive Election Fraud that took place during the 2020 Presidential Election, and have targeted only those who were, as concerned American Citizens, protesting the Fraud itself,\" he wrote.\n\nEarlier, on his Truth Social platform, he had questioned why the committee waited \"until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting\" to ask him to testify.\n\nHis former political strategist, Steve Bannon, also flouted a similar legal summons from the select committee to testify, and he was found guilty in July of criminal contempt of Congress.\n\nDuring Thursday's hearing, the committee showed never-before-seen footage of Congress being evacuated as the building was breached, and lawmakers being moved to secure shelters.\n\nDemocratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, whose daughter filmed the video, is seen expressing shock when told that lawmakers in another part of the building were being told to wear gas masks.\n\nShe and other lawmakers in the clip desperately call military officials and the governors of nearby states in a plea for more resources to fight back the mob.\n\nMike Pence, Mr Trump's vice-president, is heard on the phone speaking to Mrs Pelosi about how long it will be before lawmakers can return to the floor to resume voting on Mr Biden's confirmation.\n\nThe committee also heard evidence that Mr Trump was aware he had lost, but encouraged the conspiracy theory about a stolen election anyway.\n\nWhite House communications aide Alyssa Farah said in videotaped testimony that about a week after the election the president was watching the news when he said to her: \"Can you believe I lost to this effing guy?\"\n\nThe panel has spent more than a year interviewing over 1,000 witnesses, including Mr Trump's children, his top aides and top military and police officials.\n\nUnder the committee's rules, its lawmakers must produce a report of their findings. It is expected to be released in December.\n\nMs Cheney and the only other Republican on the panel, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, have become pariahs in their party amid conservative backlash to their participation in the inquiry.\n\nShe lost a primary election this summer for her Wyoming seat, and Mr Kinzinger has decided not to run in next month's US midterm elections.\n\nMore than 850 people have been charged with participating in the riot at Congress.", "The shooting occurred near the Neuse River Greenway, a popular trail in the area\n\nA boy suspected of a mass shooting in North Carolina on Thursday began the rampage by fatally shooting a relative at home, police have said.\n\nFive people including an off-duty police officer were killed and two injured in the attack in Raleigh.\n\nThe 15-year-old suspect is in a critical condition in hospital, but it is not clear how he was injured.\n\nThe Gun Violence Archive says there have been 533 mass shootings (four or more shot) in the US this year.\n\nThursday's attack unfolded in a residential neighbourhood near the Neuse River Greenway, a popular trail on the outskirts of the state capital.\n\nThe unnamed suspect's motive is yet to be established, said police. He is white, and the victims were all of different races.\n\nAfter shooting a relative at home, the boy went out into the street and shot two women in the neighbourhood, Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson said on Friday morning.\n\nThe suspect then allegedly ran towards the local river trail, fatally shooting 29-year-old police officer Gabriel Torres, who was on his way to work.\n\nOnce on the trail the attacker killed two more people and wounded two others, said the police chief.\n\nA nearby primary school was locked down and two community centres were pre-emptively evacuated.\n\n\"My heart is heavy, because we don't have answers as to why this tragedy occurred,\" Chief Patterson said.\n\nThe shooting - which spanned over two miles - began just after 17:00 EDT (21:00 GMT) on Thursday.\n\nA police dog tracked the suspect to a shed, where he was taken into custody about four-and-a-half hours later.\n\nThe two wounded victims included another police officer, Casey Clark, 33, who has since been released from hospital, and a 59-year-old woman, who was in a critical condition.\n\nAlong with Officer Torres, the deceased victims were identified by officials as Nicole Connors, 53, Susan Karnatz, 49, Mary Marshall, 34, and James Thompson,16.\n\nMs Connors' husband told the Associated Press news agency she had been chatting to a neighbour on the porch when she was shot. Ms Marshall was walking her dog, Scruff, her sister told NBC.\n\nMs Karnatz's husband, Tom, posted a tribute to the mother-of-three on Facebook, writing: \"We had plans together for growing old. Always together.\"\n\nWake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman said on Friday the teen suspect would be charged as an adult.\n\nMore than 34,000 people have died in shootings in the US in 2022, more than half of which were from suicide, according to the Gun Violence Archive website.\n\n\"We must stop this mindless violence in America,\" said North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, after the shooting. \"We must address gun violence. We have much to do, and tonight we have much to mourn.\"\n• None The numbers behind the rise in US mass shootings", "The downfall of Kwasi Kwarteng is one of the fastest in British political history. Just three weeks ago, in the poorly named mini-budget, he ripped up years of Conservative economic strategy.\n\nThe chancellor and prime minister were determined to take radical action in pursuit of economic growth. It didn't matter if parts were unpopular, they would do it anyway.\n\nBut key elements of the strategy proved too unpopular for the markets and for Tory MPs. The \"Growth Plan\" has now been scaled back, the chancellor has been removed from his job and the prime minister's own future remains in the balance.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss were the closest of political allies. In 2012, they helped write Britannia Unchained, a right-leaning, free market prospectus for economic growth.\n\nDuring the Conservative leadership campaign this summer, they worked together on an economic plan to be implemented if she won. They both agreed tweaks were not enough - that radical change was needed.\n\nThe relationship between 10 and 11 Downing Street is often rocky, but we were told this would be different and they would be \"fully aligned\".\n\nMr Kwarteng's allies briefed that their relationship was solid; that he saw his job simply as delivering the prime minister's vision for a low tax economy. One friend of the chancellor told me: She was the First Lord of the Treasury, his job was to serve her.\n\nThose close to the chancellor also portrayed him as politically stubborn; once he had made up his mind he would stick with the plan. One said: \"He doesn't tend to change ideology\".\n\nThe message was clear: the chancellor believed in his strategy and was determined to see it through.\n\nThe Treasury was initially happy with the reaction to the mini-budget. But within days, things began to fall apart.\n\nThe markets reacted terribly, followed by many Conservative MPs. In off the record phone calls, they began to say they thought the government may have made a mistake - and to question the future of both the prime minister and the chancellor.\n\nThey were even angrier when Mr Kwarteng suggested he was planning more tax cuts - seeing it as a tone deaf response to political reality.\n\nSoon came open revolt, with senior Conservatives openly criticising the decision to scrap the 45p additional tax rate. This forced Mr Kwarteng and Ms Truss into their first U-turn. Despite the sense of chaos, the chancellor's allies insisted he was \"very calm\" and still working as one with the prime minister.\n\nIt was not enough - and the mood among Conservative MPs remained mutinous. \"Kwasi is a zealot,\" one told me. \"The damage will last a decade\".\n\nA former minister added: \"It's just incompetence.\"\n\nAnother said: \"It feels like the last days of Rome… I don't think this is going to solve the problem\".\n\nSenior Tories hoped that things would start to calm down a bit after the conference. But the opposite was true as MPs returned to Westminster this week.\n\nAfter Ms Truss faced a skewering from her own MPs in a private meeting of the 1922 committee, it was clear the 45p U-turn had done nothing to quell rebellion.\n\nA well-connected backbencher described the mood in the party as \"rock bottom\".\n\nSo even when Mr Kwarteng insisted on Thursday that he was going nowhere, things had already started to change. It had become clear more U-turns were going to be needed. His allies say he took the decision to fly back to London from an IMF meeting in the Washington himself.\n\nBut he did not do it to resign voluntarily - sources close to Mr Kwarteng said this morning he was going to have meetings with the prime minister and others. In the meeting with Ms Truss, his cabinet career was brought to a swift end.\n\nThere is little sign Mr Kwarteng thinks he or the prime minister got the ideology wrong. He said in his resignation letter that the prime minister's vision was right, and that the country still needs to move on from high taxation.\n\nInstead, he accepts the government needs to do more emphasise its commitment to balancing the books. The U-turn on corporation tax will make that a bit easier - reducing the size of the black hole that needs filled.\n\nThe prime minister will be hoping that by sacrificing her political bedfellow she saves her own job. Some have told me they are pleased with the appointment of Jeremy Hunt as chancellor.\n\nBut others criticised her performance at the press conference. Some still say she may have to ultimately carry the can for the economic strategy she dreamt up with Mr Kwarteng.\n\nI asked one senior backer of Ms Truss for his take. \"What can you think? This whole thing is a shambles now.\"\n\n\"How does she get rid of a chancellor that was doing her bidding? I just don't know.\"\n\nBut after just five weeks, the government's economic strategy lies in pieces. The bold promises of the early days are gone. It is hard to think of a political gamble which has backfired more - or a political relationship which has collapsed more quickly.", "Raheem underwent six hours of surgery to try and save his finger\n\nEquality campaigners have voiced outrage that a boy lost his finger after reportedly fleeing bullies.\n\nRaheem Bailey, 11, caught his finger climbing a fence to escape, and it could not be saved despite surgery.\n\nHis mother Shantal said her son, a pupil at Abertillery Learning Community in Blaenau Gwent, had been subjected to \"racial and physical abuse\".\n\nBoxer Anthony Joshua and footballer Jadon Sancho are among those to send messages of support to Raheem.\n\nAn online fundraising campaign set up by Ms Bailey has already received more than £94,000 in donations.\n\nRace Council Cymru chief executive Prof Uzo Iwobi said she worried people still did not believe black lives mattered.\n\nAll campuses at Abertillery Learning Community were shut on Monday on health and safety grounds and students used blended learning instead.\n\nBlaenau Gwent council said: \"Due to the serious nature and content of some of the social media activity over the past few days, a decision was made on Sunday evening on health and safety grounds to move all Abertillery Learning Community campuses to blended learning on Monday 23 May.\n\n\"The safety and well-being of all learners and staff remains paramount. We have continued to closely monitor and review the situation and can confirm that all campuses at Abertillery Learning Community will be open to learners as normal on Tuesday 24 May.\"\n\nRaheem's mother Shantal said she was just happy that Raheem was alive\n\nMs Bailey said her son was \"truly brave\" but had been \"in utter agony\".\n\n\"The whole time [he was] telling me 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry Mummy. I just couldn't, I couldn't stay there, like why does no-one like me? Why did they pick on me?\"\n\n\"These are things that my child, while being in pain, is constantly having to ask me, 'Mummy, why does no-one like me? Like why? Why did they pick on me?\"'\n\nProf Iwobi said: \"When will we know black children are going to come home alive and with their fingers and toes attached? I am in fear for all of our children that they could come back in a box.\"\n\n\"I'm absolutely disappointed, disgusted and outraged that this is the experience of black children in Wales.\n\n\"I feel nothing has improved. Teachers and the educational leaders of schools need to be especially sharp to detect racism and racial harassment and they are not doing that.\n\nEducation Minister Jeremy Myles said in a statement that he was \"shocked and saddened\" to hear of the incident.\n\nHe added the Welsh government condemned bullying and harassment in any form, including any form of racist bullying or harassment.\n\n\"Every one of our education settings in Wales should be an inclusive, engaging environment where everyone's well-being is considered and everyone feels accepted, safe and ready to learn,\" Mr Myles said in a statement.\n\n\"We expect allegations and incidents of bullying and racism to be fully investigated by schools, with appropriate action taken to address the matter and prevent further instances from happening.\"\n\nProf. Iwobi, whose own children have faced racism in school while growing up, said: \"This boy could have lost his life trying to get away.\"\n\nShe added: \"The question I want to ask every teacher and local educational authority is 'When will black lives matter?'\n\n\"This boy will have four fingers for the rest of his life. His life is now marked by a racist incident and all he did was go to school.\"\n\nRaheem is recovering at home following surgery\n\nMs Bailey has said her son was \"attacked\" on Tuesday by a group of children who kicked him when he was on the floor.\n\nShe explained how he caught his finger in the fence trying to escape and after surgery it was decided that it had to be amputated.\n\n\"I am grateful and happy he's alive,\" she said.\n\n\"He actually said he was worried and thought that he could have died, he just couldn't get away no matter what he did.\"\n\nHadassah Radway, an education consultant for Black History Wales, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast she cannot imagine what Raheem is going through.\n\nShe said: \"This is going to be haunting him for the rest of his life and also his younger siblings. What must they be thinking?\n\n\"They might be thinking, this is going to be my lot, is going to be my situation in going into a school system that should be looking after them.\"\n\nWales' children's commissioner Rocio Cifuentes said it was \"heart-breaking\" what had happened to Raheem, and she will be looking into the case \"with urgency\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rocio Cifuentes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Bailey said Anthony Joshua, Jadon Sancho and footballer Ashley Williams - a former Wales captain - have all sent messages of support for Raheem through Instagram.\n\nMs Bailey said Raheem also received messages from football manager Chris Hughton, pundit Gary Neville and Olympic BMX biker Kye Whyte.\n\n\"Here's so many people just in different places that have been so generous, and I did not expect what has happened so I am truly, truly grateful for it,\" said Ms Bailey.\n\nShe said the messages he has received mean so much, as people tell him \"how strong he is and that this does not define him\".\n\nFormer heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua is among those who have sent messages of support for Raheem\n\nSpeaking about the wider issue of bullying and racism in schools, Ms Bailey added: \"Why should I send my child into school to be a punching bag?\"\n\nGrowing tearful, she said: \"It is difficult, as a mum, having to tell your child that people might not like you because of your skin - not because you're mean, not because you're horrible, but just because of the skin he was born into.\"\n\nPolice are investigating the incident at Abertillery Learning Community\n\nGwent Police said said the alleged attack was reported to it at about 13:00 BST on Wednesday, 18 May,\n\nIt said it was working with the school as part of its inquiries.\n\nAbertillery Learning Community said it was working with the police and the council.\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said: \"We condemn bullying and racial harassment in any form and expect allegations and incidents of bullying and racism to be fully investigated by schools, with appropriate action taken to address the matter and prevent further instances from happening.\"", "Jeremy Hunt, who has previously served as health secretary and foreign secretary, has been named as the UK's new chancellor.\n\nHe takes over at a critical time for the UK economy after weeks of financial turmoil and uncertainty over the recently proposed mini-budget.\n\nHis predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked by the prime minister.\n\nMr Hunt is a big name in the Conservative party - and has twice unsuccessfully tried to become the party leader.\n\nIn the leadership race this year, he put his weight behind former chancellor Rishi Sunak over Liz Truss. This was after getting eliminated from the contest himself early on, having failed to get enough votes to go any further.\n\nHe had stood for the top job before - and in 2019 he nearly made it, finishing second in the leadership race with Boris Johnson named as the winner.\n\nEducation: Oxford University, obtaining a First in philosophy, politics and economics\n\nMr Hunt, the fourth chancellor this year, was brought up in the Surrey town of Godalming and attended Charterhouse School, where he became head boy and was known for his love of cross-country running.\n\nAt Oxford University he put his name out into the political sphere when he served as president of the Conservative Association.\n\nBut prior to his career in parliament, Mr Hunt had a career as an English teacher in Japan and as an entrepreneur - co-founding the Hotcourses education publisher. When the business was sold in 2017, he netted a reported £14m, making him one of the UK's richest politicians. Mr Hunt said he would use the money to fund campaigns after he leaves politics.\n\nMr Hunt was first elected to parliament at the 2005 general election, taking over from Virginia Bottomley as the MP for South West Surrey.\n\nFrom 2005 to 2007 he was the shadow minister for disabled people as a reward for supporting David Cameron - who attended Oxford University at the same time as him - in the Conservative leadership contest.\n\nThen when the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government was formed in 2010, Mr Hunt joined the cabinet as secretary of state for culture, Olympics, media and sport.\n\nIt was an important role in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics, during which he worked closely with Mr Johnson, who was Mayor of London at the time.\n\nEarlier in 2012, he faced calls to resign over his role in the BSkyB takeover bid. The then Labour leader Ed Miliband said Mr Hunt should quit over his contacts with Rupert Murdoch's media empire while he was considering the bid, which was later withdrawn.\n\nBut he survived the row and in September 2012, was appointed heath secretary.\n\nHe held office during a slow period of investment in the NHS which created big problems, amid times when demands on the health service were growing.\n\nJunior doctors took to picket lines in 2016 over pay and consitions\n\nHe also faced criticism over his handling of plans to introduce new contracts for junior doctors.\n\nThe medics took part in a series of walk outs in 2016 - on two occasions, between 08:00 and 17:00, leaving emergency care uncovered - the first time that had ever happened in the history of the NHS. A new contract for junior doctors was later imposed.\n\nBut Mr Hunt did go on to secure a funding increase for the NHS and also oversaw the introduction of an Ofsted-style system for rating hospitals and GP surgeries in England.\n\nDuring the 2016 EU referendum, Mr Hunt was a remain campaigner, but afterwards said he would support leave.\n\nHis long-running appointment as health secretary ended when he became foreign secretary in July 2018. This was after his predecessor Mr Johnson quit over Theresa May's Brexit strategy.\n\nDuring his time as foreign secretary between 2018-19 Mr Hunt tried to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who had been held in Iran on spying charges, which she always denied.\n\nAfter her release, he accused the UK of \"diplomatic failure\" and said global co-operation was needed to \"stamp out\" states taking people hostage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn March 2019, he became the first Western foreign minister to visit Yemen since conflict there began.\n\nAfter losing to Mr Johnson in the 2019 leadership race, Mr Hunt said the campaign was \"always going to be uphill\" for him because he voted Remain in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nHe was elected to head a committee of MPs which scrutinises the performance of the NHS and government health policy in January 2020, saying he was \"honoured\".\n\nIn June this year, he revealed he had had cancer but had now recovered. He said at the time that \"every member of his family\" has had the disease and that he had \"a minor one\" himself.\n\nRecently Mr Hunt made headlines appearing at an infected-blood inquiry where he called the scandal a \"huge failing of democracy\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's time for Liz Truss to go' - Sturgeon\n\nThe first minister said the Tory leader was \"completely out of her depth\" after she sacked her chancellor and made a major U-turn on corporation tax.\n\nThere have been calls for Ms Truss to resign and a general election to be held amid the turmoil at Westminster.\n\nThe prime minister has insisted she is \"absolutely determined\" to deliver on her leadership promises.\n\nScottish Tory leader Douglas Ross says he still has confidence in Ms Truss and that she should remain in Number 10.\n\nAfter firing close ally Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor, Ms Truss held a Downing Street press conference on Friday to announce new economic measures the government hopes will calm the financial markets.\n\nMs Truss reversed a key policy to scrap the planned rise in corporation tax from 19% to 25%, saying this would raise £18bn a year for a \"down payment\" on her fiscal plans.\n\nLiz Truss announced changes to her fiscal policy at a Downing Street press conference\n\nMs Sturgeon said the UK government's heavily criticised mini-budget had already \"heaped misery\" on the public.\n\nThe first minister said: \"She had already shown herself to be completely out of her depth as prime minister. As of today she is also a lame duck prime minister.\n\n\"The sooner she goes and the sooner people get the chance to get rid of this Tory government, that is doing so much damage, once and for all the better.\"\n\nThe first minister urged Tory MPs to take matters into their own hands if their leader does not resign, adding: \"This is beyond a joke.\n\n\"It was never funny, but Liz Truss has already, through her own decisions, trashed the economy and heaped misery on people who were already struggling with a cost of living crisis.\"\n\nDuring the press conference, which lasted less than 10 minutes, Ms Truss was asked by journalists if she should resign.\n\nIn reply, she said she was \"absolutely determined to see through what I have promised\".\n\nMs Truss has appointed Jeremy Hunt as her new chancellor.\n\nSpeaking after the press conference, Scottish Tory leader Mr Ross said he still had confidence in the prime minister and did not believe she should quit.\n\n\"I think it's important that we get behind the prime minister and we focus on the challenges that are affecting people up and down in the country,\" he said.\n\nHe said Ms Truss had \"listened\" and implemented a plan to stabilise the financial markets.\n\nDouglas Ross says the prime minister has listened to critics\n\nMr Ross also defended his decision to call for the Scottish government to replicate Ms Truss's widely criticised tax plan – which was presented without an assessment from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).\n\n\"The plans were for these tax changes to grow the economy and I want to see growth in our economy here in Scotland and across the United Kingdom,\" he said.\n\n\"I expected, and I think many others expected, that the groundwork had been prepared with the markets, with the OBR, and clearly that work had not been done.\"\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford told the BBC he believes Ms Truss will \"ultimately be removed from office\" by her own MPs.\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar also argued there should now be a general election and that the prime minister has \"lost all authority\".\n\n\"She's clearly now a lame duck prime minister,\" he said.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng been removed as the UK's chancellor\n\n\"It's clear for everyone to see that her plan has trashed our economy, trashed our pound, put people's mortgages up and that is frankly unforgivable.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex-Cole Hamilton said: \"Enough is enough.\n\n\"It started with Boris Johnson failing our country, and now Liz Truss is trashing our economy. It's time for us to have our say in a general election.\"\n\nScottish Green co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"This has already gone on too long, and far too many people are suffering.\n\n\"If Liz Truss wants to emerge with any shred of credibility then it can't just be her chancellor that leaves Downing Street, it must also be her.\"", "Royal Mail has announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs by next August, blaming ongoing strike action and rising losses at the business.\n\nThe postal company said it will begin notifying workers of its plan, which includes up to 6,000 redundancies.\n\nApart from the redundancies, the firm will cut roles through natural attrition, for example by not replacing workers who leave.\n\nRoyal Mail also said it expects its full-year losses to hit £350m.\n\nIt said this included \"the direct impact of eight days of industrial action\" as well as lower volumes of parcels being posted.\n\nBut the firm warned that losses could reach as much as £450m \"if customers move volume away for longer periods\" following strike action.\n\nRoyal Mail's chief executive Simon Thompson said: \"This is a very sad day. I regret that we are announcing these job losses. We will do all we can to avoid compulsory redundancies and support everyone affected.\"\n\nRoyal Mail workers, who are members of the Communication Workers Union, began a fresh round of strikes this week over pay and conditions which will include 19 days of industrial action, including Black Friday.\n\nThe next strike date is scheduled for 20 October followed by a further walk-out on 25 October.\n\nThe CWU's general secretary, Dave Ward, said Royal Mail's announcement \"is the result of gross mismanagement and a failed business agenda of ending daily deliveries, a wholesale levelling-down of the terms, pay and conditions of postal workers, and turning Royal Mail into a gig economy style parcel courier\".\n\nBut Mr Thompson said on Friday: \"Each strike day weakens our financial situation.\n\n\"The CWU's decision to choose damaging strike action over resolution regrettably increases the risk of further headcount reductions.\"\n\nRoyal Mail said that if workers go ahead with further walk-outs \"the loss for the full year would increase materially and may necessitate further operational restructuring and headcount reduction\".\n\nDuring the first half of its financial year, Royal Mail said strike action cost the business £70m, leading to an operating loss of £219m compared to a £235m profit last year.\n\nBut Mr Ward responded: \"This announcement is holding postal workers to ransom for taking legal industrial action against a business approach that is not in the interests of workers, customers or the future of Royal Mail. This is no way to build a company.\"\n\nJulie Macken, co-founder of family-run natural skincare firm Neve's Bees, is fearful of more strikes in the run-up to Christmas\n\nJulie Macken, co-founder of natural skincare firm Neve's Bees, told the BBC the prospects of more strike action \"makes me really scared actually\".\n\n\"It could have a huge impact on our business especially at this time of year. Much of what we sell is gifts and obviously Christmas is a key gifting period for everybody.\"\n\nMs Macken, who is also a beekeeper and runs the firm with her family, said the business has already outsourced some of its larger parcel deliveries to a courier business \"because Royal Mail was just becoming unreliable and we can't risk losing those packages\".\n\nShe added: \"The system used to work really well - it was reliable, it was good value for money, the people were all really nice. But now I don't feel like I can trust them to give our products to our customers on time anymore.\"\n\nRoyal Mail also revealed that it will have to enter talks with the union because, it said its legacy voluntary redundancy scheme, which offers up to two years' of pay, \"is now unaffordable\".\n\nInternational Distributions Services, which is the parent company of Royal Mail, saw its share price tumble by 6.75% to 195p on Friday following the announcement.\n\nThe company currently employs 140,000 people. It plans to cut between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs through redundancies. Headcount will be scaled back by a further 4,000 through not replacing people when they leave, cutting temporary staff and reducing overtime.\n\nCWU members are striking over a pay deal Royal Mail offered earlier this year. This is made up of a 2% wage rise. as well as an additional 3.5% increase dependent on workers agreeing to certain conditions such as mandatory working on Sunday to deliver parcels.\n\nRoyal Mail workers have staged a number of one-day strikes this year\n\nAt the moment, Sunday working is voluntary. Royal Mail also wants employees to start later and finish later to accommodate online shopping habits, where people tend to order goods in the evening or late at night and want next-day delivery.\n\nThe CWU has rejected the offer, saying it failed to match rising inflation, which is currently running at a 40-year high of nearly 10%.\n\nRoyal Mail has been attempting to make the company a \"parcels-led\" business as the number of letters being sent through the post declines and more people shop online.\n\nMr Thompson told the BBC that nearly 20 years ago, Royal Mail delivered 20 billion letters a year. Today, it is eight billion.\n\n\"We are now a parcels business that also delivers letters,\" he said.\n\nAsked whether the current situation was his fault because he had failed to persuade workers of the firm's new direction, Mr Thompson said: \"Any change, particularly when you have been doing your working practices for tens of years, is very, very difficult and I think that we all recognise that.\"\n\nBut he added: \"We don't want to be a gig economy like our competitors and the irony of our current situation is our customers, our retailers are having to give our work to people that operate a gig economy model. That is not what we want.\"", "The latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest one in 37 people in the UK has coronavirus, a rise from one in 50 the week before.\n\nExperts warn of a \"notable rise\" in older people in England and Wales.\n\nThey say vaccines are the best defence against the virus and urge people aged 50 and over and others eligible for booster jabs to get them.\n\nThere are fears of a flu and Covid \"twindemic\" this winter.\n\nSarah Crofts, deputy director for the ONS Covid survey, said there was a need for close monitoring as we moved through colder months.\n\nShe added: \"Infections have risen again across much of the United Kingdom, continuing the pattern of steady increases seen over recent weeks, although Scotland and the North East of England had uncertain trends in the latest week.\"\n\nMore time and more data will help clarify whether infections are rising or falling in these areas.\n\nThe latest ONS figures suggest Covid is infecting around 2.7% of the population - around 1.7 million people overall.\n\nBut the proportion of people infected is higher in older age groups. In people aged 70 and over around 3.7% have the virus in England.\n\nAcross the UK Covid is infecting:\n\nThe estimates are based on thousands of random tests taken by people in households across the UK a couple of weeks ago, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), told BBC News it was \"particularly worrying\" that the number of infected older people was rising \"because they are the age group that are likely to get severe Covid and go to hospital.\"\n\nShe said people over 50 should be encouraged to get their boosters to protect them and help prevent them ending up in hospital, but also to protect the NHS from pressures that are likely to get worse over the winter.\n\nEveryone in England aged 50 and over is now able to book a Covid booster and flu jab.\n\nOver-50s in Wales and Northern Ireland are also already eligible for both jabs.\n\nThe Scottish government says that it will begin inviting 50 to 64-year-olds soon.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid has also been rising in the last few weeks.\n\nAs of 12 October, figures show there were 10,608 patients in hospital who had a positive coronavirus test.\n\nThat was up 10% on the week before but still far below the levels at the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAround two-thirds of patients in hospital who test positive for Covid are being treated primarily for other things.\n\nBut they may need to be isolated from other patients, putting extra demand on hospitals.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A government that has barely begun is confronted by open questions about its imminent end.\n\nThat is the astonishing truth at Westminster, so spectacularly has Liz Truss cratered her authority with her own MPs.\n\nIn the short term, she seeks to salvage her premiership and her programme for government, or at least any parts of it that can command the confidence of her party and the financial markets.\n\nHer critics say waiting until the end of the month to announce her plans is unsustainable.\n\nMeanwhile Tory MPs speculate about her future and that of the chancellor.\n\nCould Kwasi Kwarteng be the fall guy for the chaos, some ask.\n\nCould he be sacked, or resign?\n\n\"The thing is, if she does that she removes a lightning rod, and you know what happens then? The lightning will hit her instead,\" one MP sceptical of that idea said.\n\nBut others suggest the former Chancellor Sajid Javid could be brought in as a replacement and Ms Truss could attempt to recast her whole government and agenda, accepting that Plan A has imploded on contact with reality.\n\nAnd others ponder Liz Truss's future in Downing Street, acutely aware that removing a prime minister who doesn't want to go isn't easy, and particularly so when a divided party would need to unite around a single replacement to avoid a lengthy leadership contest lasting months.\n\nOne senior Conservative MP told me Ms Truss had found herself in a maze. \"And every way we turn, there's a brick wall,\" they said.\n\nOthers argue she has tanked and bombed with such unimaginable speed she has to go.\n\nBut they're not sure who could replace her, or how.\n\nSome talk of an \"assembly of elders\" as it was put to me, but then joke darkly that many of those elders either left Parliament or were thrown out of the Conservative Party under Boris Johnson.\n\nThey then ponder that with so many former ministers, including two former prime ministers on the backbenches, there is plenty of experience to be drawn on, if a Conservative government of all the talents could be cobbled together.\n\nCould defeated leadership candidate and former chancellor Rishi Sunak work with fellow defeated candidate Penny Mordaunt?\n\nWhat about Boris Johnson? Theresa May? William Hague?\n\nI've heard all these names being mentioned as the future is pondered.\n\nSo back to the here and now.\n\nA U-turn looks inevitable, so when will it happen?\n\nCan it wait until the chancellor's economic statement two weeks on Monday?\n\nRight now, that seems a long, long way off.\n\n\"It is choppy and might get choppier. But we'll find a way through it,\" one of Ms Truss's team told me.\n\nThe thing is, it might not be up to them.\n\nA government not yet six weeks old faces an existential threat.", "Mr Putin said he did not regret the invasion, although the current situation was \"not pleasant\"\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has said there is no need for more massive strikes on Ukraine, days after the heaviest bombardment of the country since the war began.\n\nHe said most designated targets of the strikes had been hit, adding that it was not his aim to destroy Ukraine.\n\nMoscow's goal of mobilising 300,000 men would be met within two weeks, he said.\n\nIt comes as Russian forces are mostly in retreat and Ukraine advances, almost eight months since the invasion.\n\nSpeaking to journalists after a summit with regional leaders in Kazakhstan's capital Astana, the Russian leader said that the recent strikes had destroyed 22 out of the 29 targets in Ukraine set by the military and that \"they are getting\" the remaining seven.\n\n\"There's no need for massive strikes. We now have other tasks,\" he said.\n\nFrom Monday onwards, Russia unleashed a wave of strikes on cities across Ukraine, in what Mr Putin said was retaliation for a blast which damaged a key bridge between Russia and annexed Crimea.\n\nDozens of people were killed and injured in the strikes, which also damaged infrastructure. Central areas of Kyiv were targeted for the first time since the invasion.\n\nBut Mr Putin said it was not Russia's intention to destroy Ukraine, but he did not regret the invasion.\n\n\"What is happening today is not pleasant, to put things mildly,\" he said. \"But all the same, [if Russia hadn't attacked] we would have been in the same situation, only the conditions would have been worse for us. So we're doing everything correctly and at the right time.\"\n\nPresident Putin said 220,000 men had been mobilised, of whom 16,000 were already in combat. He saw no need for additional mobilisation, he added.\n\nHowever, the call-up has caused widespread discontent in Russia, with tens of thousands of men fleeing to neighbouring countries. The BBC has also found evidence of the poor level of training such conscripts or recruits receive before being sent to the front.\n\nMeanwhile, the BBC Russian service says it has identified more than 7,500 Russian service personnel who have died in the Ukraine war. The actual level of casualties is believed to be much higher, and there are reports that some recently mobilised troops have been killed.\n\nAddressing relations with other former Soviet countries, Mr Putin insisted that the war had not affected their \"character and depth\".\n\nHe said it was natural for some countries to be concerned but he was keeping them informed in detail.\n\nBut analysts say Russia's influence in the region is declining, with leaders like Kazakhstan's Kassym-Jomart Tokayev trying to distance themselves from Mr Putin over the war.\n\nIn other developments on Friday:", "The attack came as Ukraine's president made an unannounced visit to meet Canada's PM in Ottawa.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nThe actor, known for playing Hagrid in the Harry Potter franchise and Fitz in the series Cracker, has died at 72.\n\nHe also appeared in ITV detective drama Cracker, and the James Bond films Golden Eye and The World is not Enough.", "This speech – and the reaction to it – underlined how united the SNP is under its leader, and how firmly they believe that independence is coming.\n\nNicola Sturgeon talked about the “arc of history” moving towards it, about being part of “the independence generation”.\n\nThere are still major questions over how that will actually happen, and in all honesty there were long spells over the weekend when this did not feel like a gathering of a party which is one year out from a referendum.\n\nBut the process issue is on hold for today, deferred to the Supreme Court, which will become the focus of the debate from tomorrow morning.\n\nAnd, as ever, Ms Sturgeon’s speech was the spark that energised the entire conference.\n\nThere was ovation after ovation for her promises that “the overwhelming power of democracy” would triumph.\n\nThere was a message to staunch unionists too, with the first minister promising that “whatever happens in future, Scotland belongs to you as much as it does to us”.\n\nBut for the most part this was a speech for the faithful in the room – and they clearly loved every moment of it.", "I have spent all weekend in the area.\n\nCreeslough is a tiny village. It had one shop. It doesn't have that anymore - and that in a way pales.\n\nBut in the ordinary rhythm of life here, it was a hub where people gathered and met. That's gone.\n\nOver and above that, is the loss of so many lives, the concerns for the injured, concerns for the families and the wider community.\n\nThis community is deeply traumatised. It's been struggling to comprehend the sheer enormity of what has happened.\n\nMany of the people I spoke to over the weekend couldn't compute it - and how could they?\n\nI am from Donegal and would have travelled throughout the county playing football, including against St Michael's, Creeslough.\n\nOnce you come to a place and spend some time there you have an abiding empathy with it.\n\nFrom an early stage all across Donegal sporting and other events were being called off.\n\nPeople have lost the heart to do anything but think of Creeslough.\n\nThe people in the area will need support in the days weeks and months ahead.", "No chips used to be safe on the shores of Barmouth, but that's changed this year and residents are concerned\n\nResidents of one seaside town have been left wondering what's happened to their usually bustling seagull population.\n\nHerring gulls have always been a distinctive sight in Barmouth, Gwynedd, perching on rooftops and stealing food from visitors.\n\nBut over the past few weeks, some residents have said there seem to be hardly any at all.\n\nSome people have wondered if an outbreak of bird flu is to blame.\n\nConservationists say more monitoring is needed of avian influenza cases in wild birds to know if there's a link.\n\nRob Triggs, who represents the town on Gwynedd council, said: \"The herring gulls are my alarm clock in the summer - as soon as the sun comes up at 04:30, they get me up to take the dogs out.\n\n\"There's an old quarry face looking down on the town, and there'd normally be hundreds roosting there, but now there's nothing.\"\n\nBarmouth: the old quarry face where gulls like to roost. It's now oddly silent, say locals.\n\n\"The town feels quite eerie - when we had a sunny day recently, there were loads of visitors here, they dropped chips, and there were no gulls to pick them up,\" Mr Triggs added.\n\nSome people in Barmouth have said an outbreak of avian influenza nearby may be connected to the decline in herring gull numbers.\n\nFishermen in the area say they have seen dead birds on the shoreline recently.\n\nBut other people in town have suggested on social media that herring gulls may have simply gone elsewhere to look for food now that the summer tourist season is winding down.\n\nA fresh portion of chips, usually a target for Barmouth's gulls, was left undisturbed\n\n\"We don't really know what's happening. We are still seeing some herring gulls on the beaches, but nothing like the numbers you'd expect.\" added Mr Triggs.\n\n\"It would be useful to get some feedback from the authorities to know what's going on.\"\n\nDr Rachel Taylor, senior ecologist for Wales with the British Trust for Ornithology, a conservation charity, said that if the gulls in Barmouth have contracted avian flu, it could have spread from anywhere.\n\nDr Rachel Taylor says there's no national system for monitoring avian flu in wild birds\n\n\"It's very hard to tell what is happening with herring gulls in Barmouth or elsewhere in Wales,\" said Dr Taylor.\n\n\"But there is an obvious candidate for any decline this year, because we've had unexpectedly extended and major outbreaks of avian flu viruses in seabirds generally.\n\n\"So it's entirely possible that we're losing herring gulls as a result of avian flu infections.\n\nDr Taylor said it was difficult to be sure if this was the case, because national avian flu monitoring focussed on outbreaks in domestic birds such as chickens, and there is no surveillance system with wild birds.\n\n\"There certainly have been cases identified in herring gulls and other wild bird species, but there's not enough information, and we can't use it to understand an outbreak in wild birds,\" she added.\n\nA Welsh government spokeswoman said: \"We continue to work with Natural Resources Wales and Public Health Wales to monitor and respond to the threat of Avian Influenza to our wild birds.\n\n\"This includes having developed, with Defra (the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) a mitigation strategy for outbreaks in wild birds.\n\n\"We are also engaging with the other UK government administrations to monitor the domestic and international picture and share best practice, expertise and learning from the recent outbreaks in Scotland and England, recognising the migratory and dispersive behaviours of wild birds.\"", "Mahsa Amini's family shared a video showing her dancing at a wedding and waving a colourful shawl\n\nThe family of Mahsa Amini - the 22-year-old Kurdish woman whose death in police custody three weeks ago sparked protests across Iran - say they have received death threats and have been warned not to get involved in the demonstrations.\n\nMahsa became a symbol of Iranian repression after her arrest by the morality police, who accused her of wearing her hijab improperly. Her face, and her story, are now known around the world.\n\n\"Our family have been under immense pressure from the Islamic Republic's officials, so we don't talk to human rights organisations or channels outside of Iran and inform anyone from the outside world about her passing,\" her cousin Erfan Mortezai tells me when we meet across the border in Iraq's Kurdistan Region.\n\nErfan is a Peshmerga fighter for Komala, an exiled Iranian Kurdish opposition party based in Iraq. For years, since long before Mahsa's death, he has been trying to bring down the Islamic Republic. The Iranian government have blamed the latest unrest on such outside influences.\n\nMahsa Amini's family in Iran, including her father and uncle, have repeatedly denied supporting Kurdish opposition groups, which Iran accuses of separatism.\n\nErfan Mortezai, a member of an Iraq-based opposition group, says he is receiving threats over the phone\n\nAs we talk in the shadow of the mountains, he uses her Kurdish given name - Zhina - the one her friends and family called her every day. Mahsa is her official Iranian name, which her parents were forced to use on documentation because certain Kurdish names are banned in Iran.\n\n\"Zhina was a normal person, she was not political,\" Erfan insists. \"The regime have been making up scenarios and disinformation - saying that Zhina was in contact with me and I taught her and sent her back to Iran to do a certain activity, when in fact this is completely baseless.\"\n\nHe says the threats that his family members have received have made them question their safety.\n\n\"They are under Islamic Republic torture,\" he tells me. \"The regime's officials have threatened us through Instagram with fake accounts, and told the family members in Iran that if they get involved in the protests, they might be killed.\"\n\n\"Myself, I have been receiving many threats over the phone, [saying] that if they see me in the city, they will kidnap me and kill me.\"\n\nErfan shared previously unseen videos with me and they reveal a heartbreaking contrast.\n\nThe first is of Mahsa dancing at a wedding, waving colourful shawls and glancing shyly up at the camera.\n\nThe second shows her family gathered at a cemetery, marking what should have been her 23rd birthday. A cake decorated with her face has been carefully placed on her grave. There is angry shouting and many tears.\n\nMahsa Amini's family accused morality police of beating her in custody, but police say she had a heart attack\n\nI travelled to the mountainous border between Iran and Iraq, where dust blows across the steep roads and farmers riding donkeys herd their cattle. Here is one of the few places you can hear stories first-hand from Iranians.\n\nI meet a family who have come from Sanandaj, in the west of Iran, loaded into a minibus. They say they have left for just a short time to visit family.\n\nMost importantly, they are terrified to talk publicly. While they are eager to speak and share messages to pass on to the outside world, they know that to appear on camera or to reveal their names puts them at serious risk.\n\n\"We'd be killed by Iranian intelligence,\" they tell me. But they're desperate for change. They talk of corruption and repression, of many more issues than just the hijab. It is more a whole system that breaks their spirits, they explain. Iran is a country they love, but fear living in.\n\nThere have been demonstrations in Iran before, but the regime has always stood firm. That is why it is so hard to predict what will happen next.\n\nAs the latest protests reach new cities, Mahsa's cousin Erfan believes the momentum could have a lasting effect.\n\n\"We shouldn't forget the people of Iran have been in resistance and protest against the regime for many years, but the people now are revolutionaries,\" he says.\n\n\"They are women, workers, teachers, sportspeople, artists, taking to the streets and mixing their voices of dissent with that of Zhina's family. In my opinion, these protests will continue and it will end with the fall of the Islamic Republic.\"", "Beijing and Taipei have spoken out after Tesla chief executive Elon Musk said Taiwan should become a special administrative zone of China.\n\nThe world's richest man said in a Financial Times interview he believed the two governments could reach a \"reasonably palatable\" arrangement.\n\nChina's ambassador to the US praised Musk but his Taiwanese counterpart said freedom is \"not for sale\".\n\nTaiwan rules itself but Beijing claims it as part of its territory.\n\nLast week, Mr Musk also drew criticism for posting a Twitter poll with his suggestions for ending the war between Russia and Ukraine, including Kyiv giving up territory to Moscow.\n\nMr Musk's comments come as the electric car maker hit a monthly record for sales in China.\n\nHe weighed in on heightened China-Taiwan tensions in a wide-ranging interview with the UK business newspaper the Financial Times, which was published on Friday.\n\n\"My recommendation... would be to figure out a special administrative zone for Taiwan that is reasonably palatable, probably won't make everyone happy,\" he said.\n\n\"And it's possible, and I think probably, in fact, that they could have an arrangement that's more lenient than Hong Kong.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Saturday, China's ambassador to the US Qin Gang welcomed Mr Musk's suggestion to establish Taiwan as a special administrative zone.\n\nHe said on Twitter that \"peaceful reunification\" and the \"one country two systems\" model used in governing Hong Kong were China's \"basic principles for resolving the Taiwan question\".\n\n\"Provided that China's sovereignty, security and development interests are guaranteed, after reunification Taiwan will enjoy a high degree of autonomy as a special administrative region, and a vast space for development,\" he added.\n\nIn response, Hsiao Bi-khim, Taiwan's de facto ambassador to Washington said on Twitter: \"Taiwan sells many products, but our freedom and democracy are not for sale.\"\n\n\"Any lasting proposal for our future must be determined peacefully, free from coercion, and respectful of the democratic wishes of the people of Taiwan,\" Ms Hsiao added.\n\nShihoko Goto, director for geoeconomics and Indo-Pacific enterprise at the Wilson Center in Washington DC, told the BBC that Mr Musk's suggestions could hurt his business interests.\n\n\"Let's bear in mind that Elon Musk is supposedly on the brink of purchasing Twitter. Of course, Twitter is banned in China because free speech is not allowed in China,\" Ms Goto said.\n\n\"So if he is investing in Twitter, his company will probably not be able to operate in a Taiwan that is going to be under pressure or under the thumb of China. That would be a suicidal act on the part of Elon Musk,\" she added.\n\nChina sees self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province that will eventually be under Beijing's control.\n\nMeanwhile, Tesla delivered 83,135 China-made electric vehicles in September, according to a report released on Sunday by the China Passenger Car Association.\n\nThat broke the previous record set by the company in June and marked a milestone for Tesla's factory in Shanghai which has been trying to boost production.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Nika Shakarami disappeared hours after burning a headscarf at this protest, her mother told BBC Persian\n\nVideos posted online show an Iranian teenager protesting hours before her death, her mother has told BBC Persian.\n\nNika Shakarami, 16, is seen standing on a dumpster and burning her headscarf in Tehran on 20 September, as others chant slogans against the Islamic Republic.\n\nShe later disappeared after telling a friend she was being chased by police.\n\nHer mother, Nasrin, also denied she was in a CCTV video put out by officials to support their claim that her death was not connected to the protests that day.\n\nMrs Shakarami has accused security forces of murdering her daughter, but officials have said she died after being thrown from a building that was under construction, possibly by workmen.\n\nLast week, Iranian state TV broadcast blurry footage showing a teenage girl or woman whom it identified as Nika walking down an alley and entering a building through a door.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Parham Ghobadi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Mrs Shakarami told BBC Persian on Monday that the person in the video was not her daughter. Another source close to the family also said that they did not walk like Nika.\n\nMrs Shakarami also alleged that her sister Atash and brother Mohsen had been forced into making false statements about Nika's death while they were in detention.\n\n\"They threatened to detain my brother's four-year-old child,\" she said.\n\nMohsen was shown on TV last Wednesday night speaking against the current protests, as someone off camera seems to whisper to him: \"Say it, you scumbag!\" Atash was meanwhile seen saying that Nika \"was killed falling from a building\". They were released after making the statements.\n\nNika Shakarami's mother said family members had been ordered to lie about how her daughter died\n\nNika's family have said they located her body at the mortuary 10 days after she went missing, and that they were only allowed by officials to see her face for a few seconds in order to identify her. Atash has also said that the Revolutionary Guards told her that Nika was in their custody for five days and then handed over to prison authorities.\n\nMrs Shakarami said Nika had disappeared hours after attending the protest seen in videos that have surfaced on social media in recent days.\n\nOne of the videos show a girl dressed in black standing on a dumpster on a street and waving a burning headscarf. A crowd around her is heard chanting \"death to the dictator\" - a reference to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters. Another video shows the same scene from a different angle.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Parham Ghobadi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Like Nika, I have been against compulsory hijab since I was a child. But my generation was not brave enough to protest,\" Mrs Shakarami told BBC Persian.\n\n\"People my age accepted years of suppression, intimidation and humiliation, but my daughter protested and she had every right to do so.\"\n\n\"Generation Z\" - defined as those born between 1997 and 2012 - have been at the forefront of the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was detained by the morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic's strict hijab law.\n\nNika is not the only young female protester to have been killed during the unrest.\n\nThe family of Hadis Najafi, 22, have said that she was shot dead by security forces while protesting in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran, on 21 September.\n\nAnother 16-year-old girl, Sarina Esmailzadeh, allegedly died after being severely beaten on the head with batons by security forces during protests in Karaj on 23 September, according to Amnesty International.\n\nOn Monday, the Iranian Society for Protecting the Rights of the Child reported that a total of 28 children had been killed during the protests.\n\nMany other children had been arrested and were being held at detention centres, the group said.", "The 46-year-old said he has huge amounts of energy and creativity\n\nFormer BBC presenter Richard Bacon has said he quite likes having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), after being diagnosed as an adult.\n\nThe former Radio 5 Live presenter, who now works in the US, was diagnosed four years ago.\n\nBacon, 46, said he had \"huge amounts of energy\" and \"fell in love\" with whatever he was doing.\n\nBut he also said the condition had brought challenges, and that it affected people in different ways.\n\nCharity ADHD UK said people were increasingly being diagnosed as adults.\n\nBacon, from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, was advised to seek a diagnosis by a therapist.\n\n\"I went to a place in Orange County, California which specialises in ADHD,\" he said.\n\n\"I filled in a very long questionnaire, which is a very hard thing for people with ADHD to do - it's very counter-intuitive.\n\n\"I had a brain scan and even on the brain scan you can actually see a physical manifestation of it.\"\n\nHe said he had welcomed the diagnosis, having not previously realised he had the condition.\n\nThe presenter now mainly lives and works in the US\n\n\"When you find out about it, you understand yourself a bit better and how you conduct your life,\" he said.\n\n\"I quite like having it really.\n\n\"The downsides are my chaos and disorganisation. But there's a spectrum with all these things and they can show themselves in different ways.\n\n\"What I've liked about having it is that I've got a thing called hyper-focus, which you can get with ADHD.\n\n\"We all have that moment when you are doing something creative and you really, really love it and you focus more on it.\n\n\"Every single human has that capacity but I think with ADHD it's beyond that.\n\n\"You fall in love with whatever you are doing. You can create stuff with ADHD. There's an element of a superpower to it. I have huge amounts of energy.\n\n\"But I would caution that it does affect people differently.\"\n\nMr Bacon, who has taken medication since his diagnosis, said ADHD had also brought him challenges.\n\nBacon said he was grateful to his wife for her support with his condition\n\n\"In my job, you have to actually pitch a show, produce it, liaise with the team, plan it,\" he said.\n\n\"Having the idea is great but the bit where you have to manage a production of people is a challenge for me because it doesn't move at that pace my brain really enjoys.\"\n\nHe added that he was enormously grateful to his wife Rebecca.\n\n\"She's had to deal with me and my passions and relative chaos. It's been challenging. She's a very steady person,\" he said.\n\nMr Bacon, whose early career saw him sacked from Blue Peter over his cocaine use, said it was \"difficult to say\" if that would have happened had he received his ADHD diagnosis earlier.\n\n\"Back then, [ADHD] wasn't talked about as much,\" he said.\n\n\"Maybe then I wouldn't have got into drugs when I was in my late teens, early 20s. It's very difficult to say. The counter-factual is hard to know.\n\n\"Maybe [the Blue Peter sacking] wouldn't have happened but frankly, it happening changed the course of my career in a way that turned out to be good.\n\n\"I don't know where I'd be, but I quite like where I am now.\n\n\"But it is better to find the diagnosis, better to find the right medication with a really good ADHD doctor.\"\n\nHenry Shelford, the chairperson and founder of ADHD UK said people were increasingly being diagnosed as adults but support remained patchy nationwide.\n\n\"One of the things that can be so great about the diagnosis is that you feel enlightened and you can understand your strengths,\" he said.\n\n\"Without that, people can really, really struggle to understand what they are dealing with.\"\n\nYou can hear more from this interview on BBC Radio Nottingham.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "A cordon was put in place outside 22 Bishopsgate in the city of London on Thursday\n\nA man has been arrested after three people were stabbed when they tried to stop a phone robbery in central London.\n\nThe 25-year-old was detained in Islington, north London, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit robbery, grievous bodily harm with intent and possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nMembers of the public intervened when the attackers struck in Bishopsgate on Thursday morning.\n\nNone of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries.\n\nOfficers were alerted at 09:45 BST on Thursday to reports of three stabbings, which left the injured needing hospital treatment.\n\nPart of Bishopsgate was cordoned off, near to Camomile Street.\n\nDetectives are appealing for witnesses to come forward.\n\nCity of London Police previously said the attack was not being treated as terror-related.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harvey Weinstein was known for producing films such as Shakespeare in Love and Pulp Fiction\n\nHarvey Weinstein has gone on trial in Los Angeles, where the imprisoned former film producer is facing 11 further charges of abuse.\n\nThe 70-year-old is currently serving 23 years in jail in New York, after he was convicted there for sexual assaults including rape.\n\nThe new charges include allegations of assault and rape that allegedly took place in Los Angeles hotels between 2004 and 2013.\n\nJury selection, which began on Monday, is expected to take about two weeks. Five alleged victims are expected to take the stand during the course of the trial.\n\nThe Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love and Pulp Fiction producer claims his sexual encounters were consensual, and his lawyer told the press the latest round of West Coast allegations \"stem from many years ago\" and cannot \"be substantiated or corroborated by any forensic evidence\" or \"credible witnesses\".\n\nIf convicted, Weinstein could face 140 additional years behind bars.\n\nHis conviction in New York in 2020 was a landmark moment for the #MeToo movement, which had been calling out widespread sexual abuse and harassment in the film industry for several years.\n\nIn Los Angeles, prosecutors initially charged him in early 2020 but opted to put the trial on hold until legal proceedings in New York had been completed.\n\nStars including Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Salma Hayek all accused Weinstein of assault or harassment.\n\nIn a statement quoted by the Los Angeles Times, one of Weinstein's defence attorneys, Mark Werksman, said that some of the women who are expected to testify would be familiar to the public.\n\nWitnesses at the trial will be identified either as Jane Doe or by their first name and initials, according to the Times.\n\nThe New York Film Festival will this week premiere She Said, a movie about the 2017 newspaper investigation into Weinstein.\n\nIn June, it was revealed he was also to be charged with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in the summer of 1996.", "The controversy began after West wore a \"white lives matter\" t-shirt to Paris Fashion Week\n\nKanye West has been locked out of his Twitter and Instagram accounts after posting anti-Semitic messages.\n\nThe star had his Instagram account suspended at the weekend after accusing rapper Diddy of being controlled by Jewish people.\n\nWest responded to his suspension by rejoining Twitter and saying he would go \"death con 3 On Jewish people\", earning him a second disbarment.\n\nBoth platforms removed West's posts and said the star had violated policies on hate speech.\n\nThe incident comes after West drew criticism for wearing a \"white lives matter\" T-shirt during Paris fashion week.\n\nThe slogan also appeared during his YZY fashion show, modelled by Selah Marley, the daughter of Lauryn Hill and granddaughter of Bob Marley.\n\nThe Anti-Defamation League has called the phrase \"hate speech\" and attributed it to white supremacists, who began using it in 2015 in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nAmong them was Diddy, who posted an Instagram video saying he \"did not rock\" with the slogan.\n\n\"All lives matter - but that Black Lives Matter, don't play with it. Don't wear the shirt. Don't buy the shirt. Don't play with the shirt. It's not a joke,\" he said.\n\nWest then posted what appeared to be a text exchange with Diddy to his Instagram, in which he told the rapper: \"I didn't like our convo. I'm selling these tees. Nobody can get in between me and my money\".\n\nWhen Diddy asked him again to stop, West replied: \"Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.\"\n\nThe post appeared to reference the anti-Semitic theory that a secret cabal of Jewish people is conspiring to control the world's media, government and banks.\n\nWest was in Paris for a show that rebranded his Yeezy fashion line as YZY, but the event was overshadowed by the controversy he provoked\n\nAfter having his Instagram account disabled, West took to Twitter, posting a photo of him with Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg.\n\n\"Look at this Mark. How you gone kick me off Instagram?\" he wrote.\n\nHe followed up with a message saying: \"I'm a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I'm going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is I actually can't be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also.\n\n\"You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda,\" he added.\n\nThe tweet has since been removed, and West's account has been locked.\n\nWest, who has changed his name to Ye, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder several years ago and has spoken publicly about his mental health challenges.\n\nHe has a long history of erratic behaviour and making controversial statements, but his latest outbursts threaten to damage his business interests.\n\nAdidas said it was reviewing its partnership with the star after his appearance at Paris Fashion Week, and an interview where he expressed dissatisfaction with how some of his recent Adidas shoes had turned out.\n\n\"After repeated efforts to privately resolve the situation, we have taken the decision to place the partnership under review,\" the clothing company said in a statement.\n\n\"We will continue to co-manage the current product during this period.\"\n\nLast week, West gave a lengthy interview to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, addressing everything from his religion and his relationship with late fashion designer Virgil Abloh to his anti-abortion stance and his political aspirations.\n\nAsked about the \"white lives matter\" t-shirt, he told Carlson it was \"funny\" and \"the obvious thing to do\".\n\n\"The answer to why I wrote 'White Lives Matter' on a shirt is because they do,\" he said.\n\nHe also recalled a conversation he had had with his father about the statement.\n\n\"I said, 'I thought the shirt was a funny shirt; I thought the idea of me wearing it was funny.' And I said, 'Dad, why did you think it was funny?' He said, 'Just a Black man stating the obvious.'\"\n\nWhen Carlson asked why the t-shirt had provoked such a backlash, West said that it was because he was not acting in a way the media approved of.\n\n\"Because the same people that have stripped us of our identity and labelled us as a colour, have told us what it means to be Black,\" West said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The coin commemorating the BBC's centenary depicts a broadcasting mast emerging from the Earth\n\nA commemorative 50p coin has been unveiled by the Royal Mint to mark the BBC's centenary.\n\nThe coin - priced at £11 - pays tribute to the BBC's global reach and shows a broadcast mast emerging from the Earth.\n\nIt also features an image of the Queen rather than King Charles - whose effigy will now adorn all new coins.\n\nThe coins were produced before the Queen died in September and will not be re-struck in order to \"minimise waste or unnecessary environmental impact\".\n\nThe Queen's depiction on the coins is expected to create a \"high demand\" among collectors, said the Royal Mint.\n\nThe reverse side of the coin is also inscribed with \"inform, educate, entertain\" - the values set out by Lord Reith when he founded the BBC in 1922.\n\nRebecca Morgan, the Royal Mint's director of collector services, said the company was \"delighted\" to work with the BBC \"to create a special 50p\" to mark 100 years of the organisation.\n\n\"An ever-present British institution for most people's lives, the BBC has had a marked influence on our culture and broadcast some of the most extraordinary moments in British history.\"\n\nThe 50p coins were made before the Queen died in September\n\nThe British Broadcasting Company, as the BBC was originally called, was started on 18 October 1922 by a group of leading wireless manufactures including Marconi and daily broadcasting began on 14 November.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said the national broadcaster was \"honoured\" by the coin, adding that the design \"perfectly captures the BBC's huge reach and impact\".", "An Irish dancing organisation has launched an investigation into allegations of results fixing.\n\nAn Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha (CLRG) said its ethics committee had received allegations of several grievous breaches of its code of conduct.\n\nIt said evidence had also been provided, apparently dating back several years.\n\nCLRG has engaged a former Court of Appeal judge to carry out the investigation.\n\nThe CLRG, which is Ireland's oldest established organisation for Irish dancing, said: \"Such unethical behaviour cannot and will not be tolerated by this organisation.\"\n\nThe complaints were made to An Coiste Faire (CLRG Ethics Committee) in July, with supporting documentation.\n\nA statement was first issued to members via email last week, and that has been seen by BBC News NI.\n\nIt said: \"The evidence apparently dates back several years and identifies individuals allegedly offering various inducements to promote dancers to a higher than deserved placing at particular competitions.\n\n\"It is believed that there are a number of teachers and schools implicated in the allegations.\"\n\nCLRG said the judge would \"oversee and supervise the immediate investigation\" into these matters \"due to the potential extent of such allegations\".\n\n\"The process will no doubt be difficult and arduous, but this grossly unethical behaviour must be eliminated from our competitions, dance schools and governing organisations,\" the CLRG statement added.\n\nIrish Minister for the Arts, Catherine Martin, said she would write to CLRG to ensure every possible step was taken to restore confidence in competitive Irish dancing.\n\nShe told Irish broadcaster RTÉ that her department had no regulatory or funding role in the competitions, but that the very least people could expect for their children was that they would be treated fairly.\n\nCLRG was established by Conradh na Gaeilge, a cultural organisation which promotes the Irish language, in the late 1930s.\n\nAccording to its website, the objective of An Coimisiún is to preserve and promote Irish dancing and also to promote the use of the Irish language.\n\nCLRG has members across all five continents around the world, with nine regional councils set up to oversee events.\n\nSome of its major annual events include the All-Ireland Irish Dancing Championships, Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne (the World Irish Dancing Championships) or more locally, provincial championships in Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connacht.\n\nAnother statement has since been published on the CLRG website, adding that no further comment will be made until the investigation process has concluded.\n\nThe organisation said any registered member found to be engaged in such practices would be subject to due and full process under its disciplinary procedures.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's highest court has been urged to resolve the \"festering\" issue of whether Holyrood can set up a Scottish independence referendum without the agreement of Westminster.\n\nTwo days have been set aside for the hearing at the Supreme Court in London.\n\nThe Scottish government's top law officer, Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain, argued it was in the \"public interest\" to settle the question.\n\nBut the UK government wants the court to refuse to rule on the case.\n\nIt argues that the question is beyond the court's jurisdiction – and that it can only give a judgement if the bill has been passed by MSPs.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants to hold an independence referendum on 19 October 2023, but this is opposed by the UK government.\n\nThe Scottish government case in the Supreme Court argues the referendum is \"advisory\" and would have no legal effect on the Union.\n\nUK law officers argue the constitution is reserved to Westminster and it is therefore a matter beyond the powers of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nMs Bain said former Lord Advocate Lord Mackay of Drumadoon had predicted that this would become a \"festering issue\" - and that he had been proved correct.\n\nShe said she could not allow a referendum bill to go before the Scottish Parliament because she does not have \"necessary degree of confidence\" that it falls within devolved power.\n\n\"I do not consider that it is in the public interest that on an issue of law of this exceptional public importance to the people of Scotland and the United Kingdom that I should be in effect the arbiter,\" Ms Bain said.\n\n\"It is not constitutionally appropriate that a law officer perform such a function.\n\n\"Only this court can provide an authoritative ruling and certainty and provide certainty and clarity to the Scottish government, the Scottish Parliament and the electorate.\"\n\nThe lord advocate added there is a \"risk\" that a referendum bill could be introduced by an individual member of the Scottish Parliament, and said this underlined the need for a ruling from the court on the legal issues.\n\nThe UK government argues that a bill needs to be passed before the Supreme Court rules on it. However, Ms Bain said she was settling a question about proposed legislation.\n\nShe contends that while Scottish ministers might have the \"subjective intention\" of independence, the bill itself would be objectively neutral.\n\nMs Bain also sought to draw a distinction between a \"self-executing\" referendum, which specifies what should happen depending on the result, and those which do not stipulate any legal outcome. \"No legal consequences necessarily or automatically flow from any result\" of the latter, she told the court.\n\nThis is a key point because the UK government argues a referendum bill would be outside of the Scottish Parliament's competency because a referendum \"plainly relates to reserved matters\".\n\nMs Bain cited case law to argue that the Scotland Act 1998 should not \"invalidate\" all legislation which might have a \"slight, indirect or remote\" link to a reserved matter.\n\nShe argued the focus of the court should be on the referendum bill's primary purpose - fulfilling the government's manifesto pledge to seek the views of the Scottish people on independence - and not on incidental or indirect consequences, such as a referendum potentially leading to independence following negotiations.\n\nThe court should not consider \"political\" effects of a referendum, the law officer said, but instead focus on \"purely legal\" consequences.\n\nThe lord advocate also addressed the question of whether she was correct to ask the Supreme Court to give a ruling on a proposed referendum bill.\n\nThe Scotland Act says that a law officer can ask \"any other question arising by virtue of [the Scotland Act] about reserved matters\". Ms Bain argued that this case falls within that \"any other question\" category.\n\nSir James Eadie is the UK government's independent barrister on legal issues of national importance\n\nSir James Eadie KC, the UK government's independent barrister on legal issues of national importance, argued the court could not consider the case until a referendum bill was passed by MSPs.\n\nHe said: \"There is clear and consistent authority, including at this elevated level, that it is not appropriate for courts generally to engage in abstract questions of law until the facts are known.\"\n\nSir James said those facts included whether the legislation will be passed, what its precise terms will be, and what the legislation actually applies to.\n\nHe insisted judges could not even be certain that the Scottish Parliament, with a majority of pro-independence MSPs, would pass the bill.\n\n\"I don't think you can take that as read,\" Sir James told the court.\n\n\"People might have different views, [MSPs] have not yet voted, the mere fact there is a government majority may lead to that result and it may not.\"\n\nEarlier, the Supreme Court's senior judge, Lord Reed, warned that the hearing was just the \"tip of the iceberg\".\n\nHe explained there are more than 8,000 pages of written material and it is likely to be some months before the judgement is delivered.\n\nThe case is being heard by a panel of five judges - Lord Reed, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Sales, Lord Stephens and Lady Rose.\n\nMs Sturgeon used her speech at the SNP party conference on Monday to reiterate her commitment to making Scotland an independent country, saying it was \"essential to escape Westminster control and mismanagement\" and return to the EU.\n\nShe has repeatedly said her preference would be to proceed with the agreement of the UK government, as happened ahead of the referendum in 2014 when a \"section 30 order\" was granted giving Holyrood the power to hold such a vote.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss and her recent Conservative predecessors, however, have refused to grant such permission, arguing that now is not time for another independence vote.\n\nMs Sturgeon has said she would respect the judgement of the court but if the ruling goes against the Scottish government, she would then fight the next general election solely on the issue, making it a de facto independence vote.\n\nThe vote on independence in 2014 was held after Downing Street recognised a pro-referendum majority in the Scottish Parliament and granted formal consent for the poll.\n\nScotland voted in favour of remaining in the three centuries old union by 55 per cent to 45 per cent but since then the UK has left the European Union against the wishes of most Scottish voters, a \"material change\" which the Scottish government says means the issue of independence should be tested at the ballot box again.\n\nThe current UK government strongly disagrees, responding to a Holyrood election result last year, which saw voters returning another pro-referendum majority this time comprised of SNP and Green MSPs, by saying, simply, no.\n\nThe political row which has followed is now a legal dispute.\n\nIf the Supreme Court also says no, Nicola Sturgeon intends to take her case for leaving the UK directly to the people of Scotland at the next general election although she has not set out exactly how that would work in practice.\n\nHer opponents say the de facto referendum plan is illegitimate and would not provide a mandate for Scotland to negotiate its exit from the UK.\n\nBut with the polls split more or less down the middle on the question of independence, the issue looks set to dominate Scottish politics for years to come, whatever the judges decide.", "The flurry of missiles launched against Ukraine were the first day at work for the hard-line Gen Sergei Surovikin (right), pictured here in 2017\n\nThe hail of indiscriminate missile fire across Ukraine this morning was Russia's brutal payback for the attack on the Crimean bridge.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin called it the response to an \"act of terrorism\" which he blamed on Ukraine.\n\nBut it was also Mr Putin's response to hawks in his own camp who have been growing increasingly restless with Russian losses in the war and increasingly loud with their calls for tougher action.\n\nThose pro-Kremlin officials and TV hosts who were depressed and dejected just days ago are now cheering this assault on their neighbour, gloating and even dancing in social media posts as Ukraine grieves for its dead and picks through the wreckage of multiple attacks.\n\nThe barrage of missiles was Gen Sergei Surovikin's first day of work.\n\nNow in charge of Russia's war effort, his appointment this weekend was a sop by Mr Putin to the hardliners.\n\nThe general's CV includes the indiscriminate Russian bombardment of Syria and the death of pro-democracy protesters in Moscow in 1991 during the attempted coup, so he was already being described as ruthless.\n\nThe Crimean bridge strike on Saturday pushed Russian dismay at the war's progress to a peak.\n\nA symbol of Russia's claim to Ukraine - the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 - had gone up in flames and the loudest voices in this war, the hardliners, were baying for retaliation.\n\nThey had been calling for attacks on civilian infrastructure for some time: to freeze the Ukrainian people into submission this winter, if their soldiers can't be beaten on the battlefield.\n\n\"When will we actually start fighting?\" propagandist Vladimir Solovyov demanded to know, arguing it was better for Russia to be feared than laughed at.\n\nThe Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who had been furiously criticising Russia's defence ministry for weeks, has pronounced himself \"100% happy\".\n\nRT television channel boss Margarita Simonyan defined the bridge attack as a \"red line\" before cooing that Russia's \"little response has landed\".\n\nAnton Krasovsky of Russian state TV posted a video of himself apparently celebrating the latest strikes across Ukraine\n\nOne of her senior employees, Anton Krasovsky, posted a video of himself in a cap with a pro-war Z symbol and what looked like Russian army pyjamas, dancing and grinning broadly at the camera. At the start, he punches the air, apparently for victory.\n\nBut this \"shock and awe\" attack - which killed civilians and destroyed homes, smashing into parks and playgrounds - comes from a position of Russian weakness: its troops have been losing on the ground.\n\nVladimir Putin seemed to drag his heels when that began, perhaps hoping to hold out on the battlefield until winter when Ukraine's Western allies might weaken in their support, under more political pressure at home.\n\nRussia could then pressure for talks: a frozen conflict.\n\nBut Ukraine's military kept advancing, its morale still strong, even after Russia illegally annexed four chunks of Ukrainian land.\n\nThe frustration of Russian hardliners burst into the open.\n\nTheir criticism has been carefully focused on the military, not President Putin. But this is his war: he launched it and he is Russia's supreme commander-in-chief.\n\nThat's why Grigory Yudin, from the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, described Monday's mass shelling as \"an act of desperation\", aimed mostly at solving Mr Putin's internal problems.\n\nRussia's president had embraced the hawks' idea that you have to \"scare the opponent to death\" so it will surrender, Mr Yudin wrote on Twitter.\n\nRussia's former President, Dmitry Medvedev - once seen as a liberal - warned that these strikes were just \"the first episode\", with more to come.\n\nVladimir Putin himself said Russia would respond \"in a very harsh manner\" if what he called \"acts of terrorism\" like the bridge attack continue.\n\nSuch talk could suggest a dark, new turn in the war, with increasingly random and devastating attacks.\n\n\"I think the Russian leadership is ready for a war of attrition,\" Russian foreign policy analyst Andrei Kortunov told the BBC.\n\n\"They would like to break the will of the Ukrainian people and army which implies heavy strikes against critical infrastructure.\"\n\nAnd yet Ukraine has shown no sign of buckling in well over seven months of an invasion that has already brought horrors such as the siege of Mariupol and torture and executions in places like Bucha and Izyum.\n\n\"This theory is wrong in the Ukrainian case,\" Grigory Yudin wrote. \"But that is something the hawks are still to learn.\"", "Top row left to right: Shauna Flanagan Garwe and her father Robert Garwe, Leona Harper, Hugh Kelly, Jessica Gallagher. Bottom row left to right: Martin McGill, James O'Flaherty, Martina Martin, Catherine O'Donnell and son James Monaghan\n\nFriends and neighbours have paid tribute to the 10 people who were killed by a huge explosion at a petrol station in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe victims - ranging in age from five to 59 - lost their lives in the disaster in the County Donegal village of Creeslough on Friday.\n\nGardaí (Irish police) said they were all \"local people\" who lived in the village or in surrounding areas.\n\nFive-year-old Shauna was the youngest of the people who died and was with her father Robert when the explosion happened.\n\n\"Shauna was a playful, energetic little girl - she always asked for a lollipop,\" said Creeslough pharmacist Fergus Brennan.\n\n\"Looking at her photograph as the names have been released brings home the tragedy of a life cut short.\n\n\"A beautiful little girl... her dad doted on her.\"\n\nRobert, known in the village as Bob, had taken his daughter to the shop to buy a birthday cake and treats.\n\nCatherine, 39, and her son James were in the queue for the post office inside the shop when the explosion happened.\n\nThey had gone there after the 13-year-old had finished school for the day.\n\nHe had been studying at Mulroy College in the nearby town of Milford.\n\nBusinessman Fintan Coll told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster show that he knew Catherine well.\n\n\"I used to do work in Catherine's house. You would look forward so much to going up to Catherine's just to have the chat with her; the work only come secondary,\" he said.\n\n\"As soon as you'd go in Catherine would say 'Do you want a cup of tea before you start?' She was just a nice kind goodhearted person.\n\n\"Wee James was a grand wee boy - a friend of my own grandchildren at school and they're heartbroken over James.\"\n\nThe parents of 14-year-old Leona Harper, said she was a \"little gem\".\n\nHer father Hugh Harper told Donegal radio station Highland Radio that his daughter was \"very outgoing, very friendly, a lovely person, very quiet, laid-back\".\n\nHe said that she loved life and loved the outdoors and spending time with friends..\n\n\"She was very special, very, very special. She's going to be very sorely missed,\" he said.\n\nLeona's mother Donna thanked the digger driver who found her body after a long search.\n\n\"A massive thank you to him because he just didn't stop until he got her,\" she said.\n\n\"Twenty-four hours before we got her and she was the last taken out.\n\n\"The doctors and everything, everybody was amazing the way they treated the whole scene from start to finish with nothing more than respect.\"\n\nLeona was described as a talented rugby player by Letterkenny Rugby Club, where she played in the under-14 team.\n\nShe was a supporter of Liverpool Football Club, which posted on Twitter that it was \"deeply saddened\" by her death.\n\nJeremy Worth from the rugby club told Good Morning Ulster that she was a very promising player.\n\n\"Leona was also simply a lovely young person,\" he said.\n\nThe 14-year-old, who was a pupil at Mulroy College in Milford, had been due to go to a birthday party on Friday. Instead she decided to go to Creeslough for a sleepover with a friend.\n\nShe was picking an ice cream in the shop when the explosion happened.\n\nJessica, 24, was a fashion graduate who had studied in Paris and Shanghai and had been due to start her career as a designer in Belfast on Monday.\n\nShe had been visiting her boyfriend in his apartment above the petrol station when the explosion happened.\n\nHer aunt, Dolores Gallagher, told Donegal's Highland Radio that Jessica was \"the most beautiful young woman\".\n\n\"She was very artistic,\" she said. \"Today was the day she was starting her new professional life as a fashion designer in Belfast and she had just finished her first commission.\n\n\"She was so proud of and loved her locality; she loved Creeslough so much.\n\n\"When she was a student in Paris, one of her assignments was to work on something from home and she produced a beautiful picture of Muckish [mountain] in the moonlight.\"\n\nShe said the family brought Jessica's remains home in the moonlight on Sunday.\n\nHer aunt said the family wanted to thank everyone for their \"unbelievable\" kindness and support.\n\nForty-eight-year-old James was an engineer and originally from Sydney in Australia.\n\nHe was married to Tracey and had a son, Hamish.\n\nHe had been living in Dunfanaghy, a village about 10 minutes' drive from Creeslough.\n\nDr Dan Gill, a GP in Falcarragh, was a friend and neighbour.\n\n\"We both built houses together on the same field, quite near the village centre. He was a lovely man,\" he said.\n\n\"Quiet, humorous, he was from Australia. I am also half Australian so we had lots to talk about.\n\n\"He was very attached to his son Hamish. They were always around together - they had those wide-brimmed hats that Australians wear during the summer - walking down town together - it is just terrible.\"\n\nDr Gill added: \"He married a lovely Donegal woman, Tracey. I think they were living in Scotland before here, and they found that lovely site and moved over.\n\n\"He was an engineer for a large multinational corporation. He worked from home and every time I drove in at the house he was standing at a big bank of computers doing his job.\"\n\nMartin was described as a \"devoted son\" who cared for his elderly mother.\n\nThe 49-year-old who was originally from Scotland regularly visited the village pharmacy to collect medication for her.\n\n\"[He] was such a special, lovable and friendly young man, very well known and liked around Creeslough,\" said pharmacist Fergus Brennan.\n\nAfter the explosion Martin's mother was trying to find him and called the pharmacy to ask if he had been there.\n\n\"Tragically one of our team went up to [the petrol station] and Martin's car was on the forecourt,\" said Mr Brennan.\n\nLocal businessman Fintan Coll said he moved to Creeslough to look after both his parents. His father had since died.\n\n\"He would be a fella that, if he saw you in trouble, he couldn't pass you.\n\n\"If he was driving along and saw somebody with a flat wheel, Martin would have to stop.\"\n\nMartina was working in the shop at the petrol station.\n\nShe was 49 and was a mother of four.\n\nHer sons Sean and Neil attended a vigil in the nearby village of Downings on Sunday night.\n\nThere they shook hands with and hugged firefighters from Mevagh Fire Station who had been at the scene of the blast on Friday.\n\nJulie Wilkinson, whose daughter Orla worked alongside her, paid tribute on Facebook.\n\n\"She was a friend to all, a cheery word and always a smile, to her co-workers she was a dear friend and to the younger staff members, she was their work mammy, minding them,\" she said.\n\n\"May her kind, gentle soul rest in peace.\"\n\nHugh, or Hughie as some knew him, was a farmer from the area.\n\nHe was 59 years old and was the oldest person to die as a result of the explosion.\n\nReporter Chris McNulty from the Donegal Democrat told RTE that he was from Doe Point outside Creeslough.\n\n\"He did a bit of construction work and was a farmer,\" he said.\n\n\"He was well-known and well-liked... a simple man who kept himself to himself. A much-loved man who just happened to be in the shop going about his Friday business.\"\n• None Girl, 5, and dad among 10 killed in Donegal blast", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told SNP members they were \"the independence generation\" in a keynote speech.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has told her party members they are \"the independence generation\" in her keynote speech at the SNP conference.\n\nThe SNP leader told delegates that independence was \"essential\".\n\nShe also told the conference in Aberdeen that she would unveil a new economic prospectus next week.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this would include a proposal to use oil revenues to set up a £20bn investment fund if Scotland became independent.\n\nShe also announced an increase to a child benefit bridging payment.\n\nIn her rallying cry to party members, Ms Sturgeon told the conference: \"We are the independence generation\n\n\"I believe - firmly - that we will be the first, in the modern world, to live in an independent Scotland.\"\n\nWhile the SNP leader warned independence was not \"a miracle economic cure\", she insisted it was \"essential to escape Westminster control and mismanagement\".\n\nShe urged the \"independence generation\" to keep in mind two points.\n\n\"First is the fundamental right of the nation of Scotland to self-determination,\" she said.\n\n\"And the second is what history teaches us – the overwhelming power of democracy to triumph.\"\n\nThis speech - and the reaction to it - underlined how united the SNP is under its leader, and how firmly they believe that independence is coming.\n\nNicola Sturgeon talked about the \"arc of history\" moving towards it, about being part of \"the independence generation\".\n\nThere are still major questions over how that will actually happen, and in all honesty there were long spells over the weekend when this did not feel like a gathering of a party which is one year out from a referendum.\n\nBut the process issue is on hold for today, deferred to the Supreme Court, which will become the focus of the debate from tomorrow morning.\n\nAnd as ever Ms Sturgeon's speech was the spark that energised the entire conference.\n\nThere was ovation after ovation for her promises that \"the overwhelming power of democracy\" would triumph.\n\nThere was a message to staunch unionists too, with the first minister promising that \"whatever happens in future, Scotland belongs to you as much as it does to us\".\n\nBut for the most part this was a speech for the faithful in the room - and they clearly loved every moment of it.\n\nAt the first in-person conference since 2019, the first minister said her party would publish a paper next week which would make the economic case for independence.\n\nIt is the third in a series of papers being published by the Scottish government.\n\nShe said this would include plans for a fund which would deliver up to £20bn of investment within the first decade.\n\nThe SNP leader said this would be funded from remaining oil revenues and by using borrowing powers.\n\n\"It will set out how we can build a new, sustainable economy based on our massive renewable energy resources,\" Ms Sturgeon said.\n\n\"It will show how in an energy rich, independent Scotland, we can deliver lower prices and stronger security of supply.\"\n\nThe speech comes ahead of a Supreme Court hearing on the Scottish parliament's ability to legislate for an independence referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that if the court rules in her favour, the Scottish government will hold a referendum on 19 October 2023.\n\nIf not, she said she would respect the rule of law and then \"put our case for independence to the people in an election\".\n\n\"I will never - ever - give up on Scottish democracy,\" the first minister said.\n\nShe insisted that independence could help Scotland forge closer ties with its near neighbours.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland would always be \"the closest of friends\".\n\n\"We will always be family.\n\n\"But we can achieve a better relationship - a true partnership of equals - when we win Scotland's independence.\"\n\nShe also said the NHS would be protected in a written constitution after independence and confirmed two new cancer diagnosis centres are opening - one in the Borders and one in Lanarkshire.\n\nNicola Sturgeon took aim at the UK government during her speech\n\nMs Sturgeon – who announced her desire to continue as first minister for \"quite some time yet\" – told the conference that the government would double the funding for this year's final quarterly bridging payment to 145,000 school age children. This will rise from £130 to £260 as part of a £19m investment.\n\nThe bridging payment, which is delivered by councils on behalf of the government, was introduced in 2021 to provide support until the Scottish Child Payment is extended to eligible under 16s.\n\nShe went on to take aim at Liz Truss's UK government, who were accused of overseeing \"chaos and catastrophe\".\n\nMs Sturgeon highlighted recent comments from Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who said it was her \"dream\" to see asylum seekers deported to Rwanda.\n\nThe SNP leader responded: \"My dream is that we live in a world where those fleeing violence and oppression are shown compassion and treated like human beings... not shown the door and bundled on to planes like unwanted cargo.\"\n\nThe first minister also expressed solidarity with people facing oppression and violence in Ukraine, Afghanistan and Iran.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some remains have been found with head injuries, possibly caused by a battle involving arrows or musket balls\n\nThe remains of more than 240 people, including children, have been unearthed by archaeologists working on the remnants of a medieval priory found beneath a former department store.\n\nThe \"hugely significant\" discovery was made under the old Ocky White building in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.\n\nArchaeologists believe the ruins are from St Saviour's Priory, founded by a Dominican order of monks in about 1256.\n\nOne expert said it offered a \"window into medieval Haverfordwest\".\n\nOcky White was a popular store for more than a century before its riverside premises closed in 2013.\n\nSome skulls have been found with injuries consistent with having been in battle, according to the experts\n\nSite supervisor Andrew Shobbrook, from Dyfed Archaeological Trust, described the priory as a significant complex of buildings with dormitories, scriptoriums - rooms devoted to writing and manuscripts - stables and a hospital.\n\n\"It's quite a prestigious place to be buried. You have a range of people, from the wealthy to general townsfolk,\" he said.\n\nIt is believed that the graveyard could have been used until the early 18th Century.\n\nArchaeologists believe the ruins are from a 13th Century priory, including a hospital\n\nOcky White was a popular shopping mainstay for more than a century before its riverside premises closed in 2013\n\nAbout half of the remains are those of children, which is said to be a reflection of their high mortality rate at the time.\n\nAll the bones will be analysed by a specialist before being reburied on consecrated ground nearby.\n\nSome of the remains have been found with head injuries, consistent with having been in battle, and the wounds could have been caused by arrows or musket balls, according to Mr Shobbrook.\n\nHundreds of remains and artefacts have been unearthed\n\nTiles have also been found at the site\n\nIt is believed that the graveyard could have been used until the early 18th Century\n\nOne theory is that the victims could date from an attack led by Owain Glyndŵr, who was the last native Welsh person to hold the title Prince of Wales.\n\nIt was a joint assault by Welsh and French forces, who had united to battle English occupation of Wales.\n\n\"We know that the town was besieged in 1405 by Owain Glyndŵr and they could be victims of that conflict,\" said Mr Shobbrook.\n\nThe remains and other finds, including tiles, are being stored at a nearby disused shop after being cleaned and dried.\n\nArchaeologists Andrew Shobbrook and Gaby Lester say the finds are significant\n\n\"Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would involved in something so big,\" said archaeologist Gaby Lester.\n\n\"The site is showing itself to be massive part of the history of Haverfordwest and Pembrokeshire.\n\n\"It can be slightly overwhelming at times but it's also quite humbling to be part of that person's journey.\"\n\nThe site is being redeveloped to become a food emporium, bar and rooftop terrace.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mental Health Football Wales allows people with experience of mental ill health to develop friendships and support each other\n\nIf you want to see another side to the beautiful game, look no further than Mental Health Football Wales.\n\nPlayed, coached and organised by people with a variety of mental health conditions, MHFW aims to improve participants' wellbeing through sport.\n\nMonday 10 October is World Mental Health Day, and one player said the team \"totally changed\" his life.\n\nKeri Harris founded MHFW during the coronavirus pandemic, hosting online activities before football was allowed.\n\nHe said: \"I heard a lot of people say they felt alone and there was no contact with others during the pandemic.\n\n\"We felt we needed to do something to help people struggling with their mental health in Wales.\n\n\"Football is my big thing, so it felt natural to put them both together.\"\n\nKeri has his own motivation for starting the sessions.\n\n\"From a personal point of view, I've struggled with depression, probably for my whole adult life. It was only a few years ago that I admitted that.\n\nKeri still hosts a clubhouse every week, so that people can sign in and check on each other\n\n\"I went to see a GP, started getting some anti-depressants and started feeling better.\n\n\"I've seen the impact football can have on peoples' mental health. It's definitely been a positive in my life.\"\n\nOne of the sessions MHFW runs is held weekly in Swansea.\n\nSian Louise Tambini has been attending for a year and said football is extremely helpful for her mental health.\n\nSian's three-year-old son loves football and asks about his mum's performances every week\n\nThe 31-year old said: \"I was diagnosed as autistic when I was 25, before that I was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder.\n\n\"I help with the sessions, and go to the tournaments. We can meet other people who have mental health problems, and who are striving for the same goal.\n\n\"MHFW really helps me when I'm feeling anxious because I can come here and exercise and take my mind off anything that's bothering me.\"\n\nSpencer Williams, who coaches the sessions on a Tuesday night in Swansea, said coaching allows him to help others, and his own mental health.\n\n\"If it wasn't for this, I wouldn't be in the situation I am today. I owe it all and it's great to give something back.\n\n\"I went through a phase from 16 onwards with crippling anxiety, really terrible mental health. I was in and out of hospital, and I didn't know what was wrong with me.\n\nSpencer Williams says MHFW allows him to be himself with 'no pressure'\n\nSpencer said meeting Keri helped him get back on his feet and gave him confidence.\n\n\"Back then I didn't think there was any hope for me. Meeting all these guys was the turning point for my mental state.\n\n\"Now I've got a family and I'm married. My life has totally changed, 100% being involved in this has changed my life.\"\n\nAmong the players and volunteers, some people had come to watch the session in Swansea, including Serena Alli, 39, who attends with her husband, Carl, 41.\n\nSerena and Carl Alli support each other with their mental health and attend MHFW together\n\nShe said: \"I've just come from counselling and I've come to watch my husband play football here.\n\n\"I come to get out and forget about everything. It helps me get out of the house and focus on other things.\"\n\nSisters Anna and Louise Massey also attend the sessions, with their young children. Anna, 23, said: \"We got involved in all the Zooms in lockdown and it really built your confidence because you weren't alone.\n\nAnna and Louise Massey say Keri always checks up on them on the anniversary of their mother's death\n\n\"The first meeting we could do as a group in person, we've been coming ever since.\n\n\"I've known Keri for years. He's amazing and like Louise said he knows when something's wrong and he will make sure we're okay.\"\n\nHer sister, Louise, 33, said: \"When we found out Keri was doing mental health football, I jumped at the chance to be involved because I've suffered with mental health myself.\n\n\"I suffer with depression and anxiety, so [MHFW] was perfect to get my anger out. Kicking the ball, I forget about all my worries.\n\n\"Keri has changed our lives for the better, I don't drink or take drugs any more and we've got babies now.\n\nThe sisters take photos of the sessions and post them on MHFW's social media accounts\n\n\"A couple of years ago, I wouldn't be able to do that. I wouldn't be able to look after a child because I could barely look after myself.\n\n\"But now, my kids are always in new clean clothes and always smiling. Keri has been like a dad to us and our children absolutely love him.\"\n\nElsewhere, clubs such as Aberystwyth Exiles run mental health teams in their community.\n\nBonny Jewell, 30, set up the team in Cardiff with her partner, Tim Cann, said: \"We've been bonding together, we have a laugh, it's a great way to experience football and make friends.\n\nBonnie (holding the trophy) previously represented Wales in the 2019 Homeless World Cup\n\n\"Regardless of mental health, we feel safe and secure and we can talk about it when the time is right.\"\n\nHowever, she said: \"Since being involved with football, it has made me feel safe and secure, like I'm not being judged, it's all support.\n\n\"That's what made me feel like, right I feel safe and supported by an organisation, I want my team to feel the same.\"\n\nIn September, Aberystwyth Exiles hosted Jumpers for Goalposts, another mental health team from Ceredigion.\n\nAlex Truss, 38, who has lost four stone since joining the team, said: \"I have suffered with my mental health since I was a teenager, and when my marriage ended suddenly, playing football was the only thing that got me out of the house.\n\nAberystwyth Exiles' team to play Jumpers for Goalposts in September\n\n\"Mentally I can't begin to say how much it has helped, football was the only thing that kept me on track. I couldn't miss it.\"\n\nHayley Jarvis, head of physical activity for charity Mind, said there is good evidence that more physical activity can have benefits for mental wellbeing.\n\nShe said that sport-based support groups \"focus on bringing together people with shared experiences to support each other\" and provide a space where people \"feel accepted and understood\".", "Flooding has hit large areas of Nigeria in recent weeks - such as this scene in Makurdi, nearly 300km from the Anambra accident, a week ago\n\nAt least 76 people have been reported dead after a boat accident in Nigeria's south-eastern state of Anambra.\n\nThe boat, which was carrying at least 80 people, capsized on Friday in the Ogbaru area in Anambra state.\n\nMost of the victims were women and children, trying to reach safety after their community had been inundated by floodwater.\n\nBenard Achonu told the BBC he was devastated: \"My life has fallen apart,\" he said.\n\nThe 60-year-old lost his wife and all three of his children, aged between two and six. They were among those fleeing floodwaters in the area, he said.\n\nAnother former resident, Precious Umeh, told BBC Pidgin that the situation was extremely bad. \"Some people whose family members have died in the boat accident are wondering how to bury the bodies because there is no dry land in their area.\"\n\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari offered his condolences to the families of the victims in the \"tragic\" accident.\n\nHe also ordered a review of safety measures across the country's water transport system, and said emergency services must do everything to account for those missing.\n\nMr Buhari called on government agencies \"to check the safety protocols on these transport ferries to make sure such incidents are avoided in the future\".\n\nLocal media reports say those aboard the boat were heading to the Nkwo market in Ogbakuba before it capsized. Some officials said the boat had suffered an engine failure and hit a bridge before capsizing.\n\nThickman Tanimu, south-east coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, told the AFP news agency: \"The water level is very high and too risky for a smooth search and rescue operation\".\n\nAnambra governor Charles Soludo added that the accident had been a shock for both residents and the state's government, offering his sympathies to the victim's families.\n\nBoat accidents are relatively common in Nigeria, although most are blamed on overloading or poor safety measures.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: I detest the Tories and everything they stand for - Nicola Sturgeon\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of using divisive rhetoric after she said \"I detest the Tories\" in a BBC interview.\n\nShe made the comments to Laura Kuenssberg when asked if she would prefer a Labour or a Tory PM.\n\nCabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi said her language was \"dangerous\".\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon later told the BBC she did not regret her choice of words, which were not about individuals or Tory voters.\n\nThe Scottish first minister clarified that when she had said she \"detests\" the Tories, she was \"referring to Tory policies and values that do a lot of damage\".\n\nEarlier in her interview on the programme Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Ms Sturgeon hit out at the UK government's continuing opposition to granting Scotland another vote on independence.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would \"never, ever give up\" on her push for a second referendum on independence, something Tory Prime Minister Liz Truss has ruled out.\n\nAsked if Ms Truss was a friend or foe, Ms Sturgeon said that they were \"political opponents\" but she \"would like to be a friend on the basis of the areas we can work together constructively\".\n\nHowever, when then asked if she would prefer a Labour or Tory government, Ms Sturgeon said: \"I detest the Tories and everything they stand for so it's not difficult to answer that question.\"\n\nMr Zahawi - the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - told the same programme: \"I think that language is really dangerous.\"\n\nHe said he preferred to work with his colleagues in Scotland on delivering projects.\n\nAt the SNP's annual conference in Aberdeen, BBC political correspondent David Wallace Lockhart asked the first minister if Mr Zahawi's criticism of her language was fair.\n\n\"No it's not,\" Ms Sturgeon said. \"I was referring to Tory party values and policies, policies that throughout much of my lifetime have devastated communities and plunged people into poverty.\"\n\nDuring the conference, senior SNP politicians have attacked the Conservative government and its policies.\n\nOn Sunday some Tory politicians criticised Ms Sturgeon, accusing her of stoking divisions for political ends in Scotland.\n\nIn a tweet, former leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, said the comment about detesting the Tories was \"clearly a rhetoric-raising strategy\" ahead of Ms Sturgeon's speech to the SNP conference on Monday.\n\nConservative MP Andrew Bowie also tweeted to suggest the language was no way to win over voters who voted against Scottish independence in the 2014 referendum.\n\nAnd Conservative MSP Annie Wells wrote in a tweet that the use of \"detest\" was \"irresponsible language\" from someone in Ms Sturgeon's position.\n\nBut some SNP politicians have defended Ms Sturgeon's remarks as they gathered for their party conference.\n\nWhen asked if he detested the Tories, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Channel 4 News he \"had no stomach for the Tories whatsoever\".\n\nPressed on whether \"detest\" was the right word to use, Ms Swinney repeated his earlier comment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: No regret for saying 'I detest the Tories' - Sturgeon\n\nEarlier this week, Ms Sturgeon told the BBC she still had not had a phone call with Ms Truss, more than a month after she had become prime minister.\n\nWhen Ms Truss was campaigning to be Tory leader, the prime minister branded Ms Sturgeon as an \"attention seeker\" who was best ignored.\n\nIn Sunday's interview with Laura Kuenssberg, Ms Sturgeon said she had \"always tried to work with her predecessors and I will try to work with her [Liz Truss]\".\n\nMs Sturgeon took at swipe at Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who she said \"no longer wants to take the UK or Scotland back into the European Union\".\n\nBut when asked if she wanted to see Sir Keir in Downing Street, she told Laura Kuenssberg that \"being better than the Tories is not a high bar to cross right now\".\n\nShe said: \"I think we need to see more of a radical alternative from Labour rather than just a pale imitation.\n\n\"If you're asking me do I think either a Westminster Tory government or a Westminster Labour government are good enough for Scotland, then my answer to that is no.\"", "When a leader lets it be known they are in listening mode, or words to that effect, it usually means there is already a 170 decibel political firework display well under way.\n\nThere is and it's volcanic.\n\nThe breakdown in discipline during the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham last week was extraordinary because of its breadth: nervous activists, jittery backbenchers and disloyal cabinet ministers.\n\nSo where do we find ourselves as MPs prepare to return to Westminster?\n\nIn the words of one senior figure: \"This is a party that is unstoppable when it has the will to win. But the opposite is true too, when it decides it has a death wish.\"\n\nAmong Liz Truss's critics, and there are many, her speech to close the party conference \"bought her half a week\" in the words of one.\n\n\"It wasn't brilliant, but it wasn't terrible.\"\n\nBut things do seem just a little cooler than they were in the hothouse of Birmingham.\n\nThe appointment of Greg Hands as international trade minister, replacing Conor Burns, is seen as good news by those wanting to see evidence the prime minister is listening.\n\nMr Hands was a supporter of Rishi Sunak for the party leadership, and very, very few of those MPs were given jobs in Liz Truss's government.\n\nBizarrely, given the prime minister has been in post for a month now, this is the first normal Westminster week of her time in office.\n\nAfter the mourning period for the Queen and the party conferences, Parliament is back, and the usual weekly fixtures, such as Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday are in place.\n\nConservative MPs can expect a noticeable dollop of love and attention coming their way from Downing Street, with the PM leading meetings of groups of Tory MPs, Project Reassurance (my phrase, not theirs) is underway.\n\nThere will be a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning as usual.\n\nAmong many of the issues causing ructions: benefits payments, and whether Universal Credit, a benefit received by 5.6 million people, rises in line with wages or inflation.\n\nA basket of benefits have, by law, to go up in line with prices - such as the Personal Independence Payment, Disability Living Allowance, Carers' Allowance and Incapacity Benefit.\n\nBut Universal Credit does not - it is a decision taken every year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Key moments from Liz Truss’s speech at the Conservative Party conference\n\nThe inflation figure that the rate could be lifted by is the one for the Consumer Prices Index, in September.\n\nMinisters will have that number by the middle of next week - and so will have, by then, a more rounded sense of how much of a cost gap there is between the two options.\n\nThe prime minister says she has not decided what to do, although my understanding is her initial hunch was to put them up by the lower amount (wages), rather than the higher, more expensive amount (prices).\n\nBut, it doesn't look like she has the numbers in Parliament to do it.\n\nJust this morning, the former cabinet minister Sajid Javid joined those saying it must rise by the higher amount.\n\n\"The last week means the prime minister has no political space at all,\" one cabinet minister told me.\n\nIf anything you have read in the last few days sounds like a fountain of hyperbole from excitable reporters - and yes, we are occasionally guilty of a splash of excitability - just measure the depth and breadth and verbiage of the pushback in the newspapers over the weekend.\n\nCabinet ministers, including Penny Mordaunt, arguably the most transparently disloyal last week, pledged their loyalty.\n\nThen there was a grandee, Sir Bill Cash; and a message from the grassroots too, in a letter to the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nAt all altitudes of the party, there is a collective attempt to discourage what some see as a lemming tendency taking grip.\n\nIt's the prime minister's job to try to turn that fatalism off.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sajid Javid on losing his brother to suicide\n\nEx-chancellor Sajid Javid has spoken about his brother's suicide, telling the BBC his family \"just didn't see it coming\".\n\nMr Javid, who appeared on Radio 4's Today programme to mark World Mental Health day, recalled being stunned by his brother Tariq's death in July 2018.\n\n\"One day he was there, the next he was gone,\" Mr Javid said.\n\n\"I still think... whether there was anything I could have done to save his life,\" the Conservative MP added.\n\nIn 2021 more than 5,000 people took their own lives in the UK - three-quarters of them were men. Mr Javid said he felt that in some cases, a stigma around mental health prevented men from seeking help sooner.\n\n\"There is a bit of a macho culture sometimes for men not to speak out,\" he said, adding that his brother had not spoken about the challenges he was facing.\n\n\"He didn't talk to anyone about this, and I think for anyone that might even be listening that might have suicidal thoughts, or they think a friend might have, the most important thing is to talk to someone,\" Mr Javid said.\n\nThe former health secretary, whose parents came to the UK from Pakistan in the 1960s, suggested that in some minority communities a reluctance to engage in conversations about mental health could prevent people from accessing treatment.\n\n\"When it comes to suicide prevention, you quickly learn about disparities and challenges, particularly in certain communities,\" Mr Javid said.\n\n\"When Tariq took his own life, there were members in the Asian community who said 'don't say that he took his own life, don't talk about that, just say that he had an accident'.\"\n\nHe urged the government to take action around areas which could lead to a deterioration of mental health, noting that it had been four years since he launched a white paper on the regulation of online content that incites harm.\n\n\"When I was home secretary, alongside Jeremy Wright the [then] culture secretary, we introduced the white paper on online harm, and here we are, four years later, nothing has happened,\" Mr Javid said.\n\nThe delay in passing the online safety bill has come into sharp focus following the death of Molly Russell.\n\nLast week a coroner ruled the 14-year-old took her life after an act of self-harm while suffering depression, saying that social media material contributed \"more than minimally\" to her death.\n\nHer father Ian Russell told the BBC that \"there is no time for delay\" in legislating to stop children seeing harmful content online.\n\nMr Javid agreed and criticised the government for \"taking too long\" to pass the bill, noting that there is now a \"huge gap\" in the law when it comes to tackling harmful content.\n\nMr Russell told the BBC last week that Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan called him to pledge that the bill would continue through parliament and would not be watered down.", "The chancellor will need to make \"big and painful\" spending cuts to put the country's finances on a sustainable path, the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank has warned.\n\nWith a weaker economy and promised tax cuts, there will be a large shortfall in revenue, the IFS predicts.\n\nIt calculates the government would have to spend £60bn a year less by 2026-27.\n\nHowever, the Treasury said its tax cuts and reforms would deliver \"sustainable funding for public services\".\n\nIn a new report, the IFS outlines the scale of the cuts necessary to make the sums add up over the next five years, using an illustrative example.\n\nMr Kwarteng and Prime Minister Liz Truss have argued focusing on measures to promote growth will help plug the shortfall between income and outgoings.\n\nThe chancellor has promised to set out further details of his economic strategy on 31 October, three weeks earlier than originally planned, alongside a full forecast from the official Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).\n\nThat change of timetable came after the markets baulked at the strategy announced in last month's mini-budget.\n\nIt outlined large tax cuts and a huge package of support with energy costs without details of how they would be paid for, and without the usual assessment of their impact from the OBR.\n\nThe IFS, a politically independent economics-focused think tank, has published its own assessment of the chancellor's strategy, in what it names a Green Budget, after the consultation green papers issued in Parliament.\n\nIt calculates that, if the planned tax cuts are not reversed, the chancellor would have to cut spending on benefits, public services, and investment sharply if he wants to stick to his commitment to balance the budget in the medium term, rather than see debt continuing to rise.\n\nIFS director Paul Johnson said: \"The chancellor says he wants to get the public finances on a sustainable basis. It looks to us like that's going to mean tens of billions of pounds of spending cuts in order to achieve that.\n\n\"It's hard to see what other way out the chancellor has.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the country was not going into a period \"with much fat to trim\".\n\n\"One of the problems the government faces is we have had a decade and more of really tight spending settlements, we're still spending less on a lot of public services than we were just over a decade ago,\" he told BBC News.\n\nCutting public sector pay, benefits, education, justice and prisons would all be very difficult against that backdrop, he said.\n\nThe government's current commitment is to have debt falling relative to the size of the economy after three years, though that rule predates the start of Liz Truss's government.\n\nThe IFS has done its calculations based on allowing five years before debt must start to fall.\n\nIt said it accepted there was \"huge uncertainty\" over the impact of budgetary policies, and welcomed the government's focus on faster growth, which it said \"would definitely help\".\n\nCutting spending on areas like education would be hard, the IFS says\n\nThe chancellor has said he is targeting growth of 2.5% a year, which would boost tax revenues and reduce the need for spending cuts.\n\nHowever, an independent assessment from the OBR remained vital, the IFS said, to make sure that \"politically motivated wishful thinking is not incorporated into economic and fiscal forecasts\".\n\nForecasts from the bank Citi, which collaborated on the IFS Green Budget, suggest the economy will shrink in the next two years, as rising interest rates and rising prices slow the economy down.\n\nCiti estimates growth will average about 0.8% over the next five years.\n\nPaul Johnson said he would be \"very surprised\" if he OBR didn't also suggest that large spending cuts or tax rises would be necessary balance the books.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"Through tax cuts and ambitious supply-side reforms, our Growth Plan will drive sustainable long-term growth, which will lead to higher wages, greater opportunities and sustainable funding for public services.\"\n\n\"The government is committed to fiscal responsibility and getting debt falling as a share of GDP in the medium term,\" they added.", "Sir Jeremy Fleming will warn against buying in Chinese technology with \"hidden costs\"\n\nChinese technology poses a major risk to the UK's security and prosperity, the head of GCHQ has said.\n\nIn a lecture, Sir Jeremy Fleming said China's leadership was using technology to secure control at home and abroad.\n\nHe argued that this was an urgent problem that needed to be addressed by the UK and allies.\n\nHe also said Russia's military was exhausted but there were no signs yet of nuclear weapons use.\n\nChina has deliberately and patiently set out to gain \"strategic advantage by shaping the world's technology ecosystem\", the head of the intelligence agency told an audience at the Royal United Service Institute for its annual security lecture.\n\nSir Jeremy argued the Chinese Communist Party was aiming to manipulate the technology that underpins people's lives to embed its influence at home and abroad and provide opportunities for surveillance.\n\nHe warned China was seeking to create \"client economies and governments\" by exporting technology to countries around the world, and said these countries risked \"mortgaging the future\" by buying in Chinese technology with \"hidden costs\".\n\nHe pointed to a series of examples including:\n\nBut the intelligence chief said he would not stop children using TikTok - which is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance - although he said young people should be more aware of their personal data and how it could be shared.\n\n\"No, I wouldn't (stop children from using TikTok), but I would speak to my child about the way in which they think about their personal data on their device,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme in advance of the lecture.\n\n\"I think it's really important from a very early age that we understand that there is no free good here. When we are using these services we are exchanging our data for that and if it's proportionate and we're happy with the way that data is safeguarded then that's great.\n\n\"Make the most of that, make those videos, use TikTok - but just think before you do,\" he added.\n\nChinese control of future technology is not inevitable though, he said, adding: \"Our future strategic tech advantage rests on what we do as a community next.\"\n\nSir Jeremy, who runs the agency which monitors communications and cyberspace, also called for a \"grown-up\" conversation about collaboration with China at UK universities.\n\nThere has been controversy over some educational institutions carrying out joint projects with Chinese counterparts with defence or surveillance ties.\n\nHe said the UK should continue to welcome students from China but \"be really clear on the areas of technology where we will require additional safeguards\". Areas like artificial intelligence and quantum computing were particularly important, he told the audience.\n\nHis remarks also addressed Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He said Russia's military was \"exhausted\" and that it was running out of supplies and ammunition.\n\nA destroyed tank near Izyum in the Kharkiv area of Ukraine\n\nHe argued that the mobilisation of prisoners and inexperienced men \"speaks of a desperate situation\" - and criticised President Putin as making mistakes.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme about the state of the Russian military, Sir Jeremy said it was \"running short of munitions\" and \"is certainly running short of friends\".\n\nHe said that Russian missile strikes in recent days were not an escalation in terms of the types of weapons being used.\n\nBut he warned that the missile attacks on targets across Ukraine on Monday showed Russia was still \"very capable\" of causing damage.\n\nHe added: \"Russia's military machine can launch weapons, it has deep stocks and expertise. And yet, it is very broadly stretched in Ukraine.\"\n\nOn concerns over the use of tactical nuclear weapons, he said in response to questions after his lecture that any talk of their use was \"extremely dangerous\" but that their use still appeared \"hopefully a long way off\".\n\nHe also said he believed the UK and its allies would have a \"good chance\" of spotting any preparations, although there were never any guarantees.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia has been widely condemned after bombarding cities across Ukraine, including launching missile strikes on the centre of Kyiv for the first time.\n\nThe US said the \"brutal\" attacks had hit non-military targets, including a university and children's playground, and promised further military aid.\n\nUnited Nations chief Antonio Guterres said he was \"deeply shocked\".\n\nVladimir Putin said the attacks were retaliation for Saturday's explosion on a key bridge linking Russia to Crimea.\n\nUkraine says 83 missiles were launched, of which more than 43 were shot down.\n\nIn a defiant video, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said that \"Ukraine cannot be intimidated. It can only be more united.\"\n\nThe deadly barrage included strikes on the cities of Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, and were some of the worst Ukraine has seen for months.\n\nAt least 14 people were killed and scores more were injured, officials said.\n\nSeveral regions were left without electricity and water after missiles hit energy infrastructure.\n\nResidents in the capital Kyiv said Russia appeared to be targeting civilian areas which were busy with Monday morning commuters, including a children's playground, a university and the popular Taras Shevchenko park.\n\nMonday's strikes saw central Kyiv targeted for the first time\n\nMr Guterres described the strikes as \"another unacceptable escalation of the war\" for which civilians were paying the highest price.\n\nThe EU said a war crime had been committed, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Russia stood for \"terror and brutality\".\n\nUS President Joe Biden was one of many foreign leaders to speak with President Zelensky, and he \"pledged to continue providing Ukraine with the support needed to defend itself, including advanced air defence systems\", the White House said.\n\nMr Biden said the attacks demonstrated \"the utter brutality\" of Putin's \"illegal war\".\n\nAfter the phone call, President Zelensky vowed to strengthen Ukraine's armed forces and \"make the battlefield even more painful for the enemy\".\n\nChina and India, which have not condemned the war, called for a de-escalation.\n\nSpeaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine's Ambassador to the body, said his family had been in a residential area in Ukraine when it was attacked by the latest Russian missiles and they were unable to go to a bomb shelter.\n\nHe said Russia had already killed some of his relatives, calling it \"a terrorist state\" that must be deterred in the strongest possible ways to prevent further atrocities. He added that Moscow's delegation to the UN left \"a trail of blood\" whenever it entered the General Assembly hall.\n\nThe General Assembly is holding an emergency meeting following Russia's latest attacks. Although the session was convened because of the Kremlin's annexation of four partly-occupied Ukrainian regions following sham referendums, it has been overshadowed by Monday's attacks.\n\nPutin said the attacks were retaliation for Saturday's explosion on a key bridge linking Russia to Crimea\n\nRussian missiles began hitting targets across Ukraine around the morning rush hour on Monday, in the most widespread bombardment of the war.\n\nIhor Zhovkva, deputy head of President Zelensky's office, said they were designed to sow panic.\n\nThe strikes were more intense than had previously been seen, he told the BBC, and in some ways resembled the early days of the war.\n\nHe added that this had not come as a surprise, and was a sign of things to come during the \"very difficult\" winter ahead.\n\nMr Putin warned he was ready to authorise more \"severe\" attacks, while deputy head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that \"the first episode has been played. There will be others\".\n\nUkraine has not confirmed it was behind that strike. Mr Zhovkva said he did not entirely believe that the Russian attacks were a retaliation, as Kyiv has been hit before.\n\nMeanwhile, Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko - a close ally of Mr Putin - has agreed to deploy his forces to link up with Russian soldiers at Belarus' border with Ukraine in response to what he said was a threat to his country from Kyiv.\n\n\"We need to figure out what else needs to be done to strengthen the security of our state, given the rapidly changing environment,\" he said according to comments carried in the state-run Belta news agency.\n\nMr Lukashenko, who held a one-on-one meeting with President Putin in St Petersburg, said he had been informed through unofficial channels of a \"Crimean Bridge 2\" being planned against Belarus, a reference to Saturday's explosion on a key bridge linking Russia with Crimea.\n\nWithout providing any evidence, he said: \"Ukraine is not just contemplating, but planning strikes on the territory of Belarus,\" adding that Kyiv was being \"pushed by their patrons to unleash a war against Belarus\" and Russia at the same time.\n\n\"We saw it, we knew it, we created battalion tactical groups, we practiced the defence of the southern border, which we are doing now,\" he said.\n\nMr Lukashenko has become increasingly reliant on Russia for economic, political and military support in recent years, and Russian forces used Belarus as a base when it began its invasion of Ukraine in February.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhat do we know about what caused Saturday's dramatic explosion on the Kerch Bridge?\n\nThere are plenty of theories, not all of them very credible.\n\nRussia was quick to suggest this was a truck (lorry) bomb, but didn't say who orchestrated it.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of attacking the bridge in an \"act of terrorism\".\n\nSecurity camera footage released on social media showed a truck - allegedly from the Russian city of Krasnodar, an hour's drive from the crossing - moving west across the bridge at the time of the explosion.\n\nRussian officials named a 25-year old Krasnodar man, Samir Yusubov, as the owner of the truck, and said an older relative, Makhir Yusubov, was the driver.\n\nBut close examination of the footage seems to show that the truck had nothing to do with the explosion.\n\nThe footage shows a huge fireball erupting just behind - and to one side - of the truck as it begins to climb an elevated section of the bridge.\n\nThe speed with which the truck bomb theory started to spread in Russian circles was suspicious. It suggested the Kremlin preferred an act of terrorism to a more alarming possibility: that this was an audacious act of sabotage carried out by Ukraine.\n\n\"I've seen plenty of large vehicle-borne IEDs [improvised explosive devices] in my time,\" a former British army explosives expert told me. \"This does not look like one.\"\n\nA more plausible explanation, he said, is a massive explosion below the bridge - probably delivered using some kind of clandestine maritime drone.\n\n\"Bridges are generally designed to resist downwards loads on the deck and a certain amount of side loading from the wind,\" he said. \"They are not generally engineered to resist upward loads. I think this fact was exploited in the Ukrainian attack.\"\n\nSome observers have noted that in one of the other security camera videos, something that looks like the bow wave of a small boat appears next to one of the bridge supports, a split second before the explosion.\n\nWhat kind of vessel could it be?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Is this what caused the Crimean bridge explosion?\n\nOn 21 September, images circulated on Russian social media channels showing a mysterious unmanned boat that washed ashore near Russia's naval base in the Crimean city of Sevastopol.\n\nIt resembled a large black covered kayak, complete with bow-mounted sensors and a white, periscope-like device on top\n\nAccording to local reports, the vessel was towed out to sea and blown up.\n\n\"A part of an unmanned vehicle was discovered,\" the governor of Russian-controlled Sevastopol is quoted as saying.\n\n\"After the survey was completed, this apparatus was destroyed at sea by an explosion. No-one was hurt.\"\n\nThis is not the first time reports have circulated suggesting that Ukraine has access to such clandestine equipment.\n\n\"There are well-founded reports which suggest that the Ukrainians have both surveillance and strike maritime remote controlled vehicles in service,\" the British explosives expert told me.\n\n\"This operational concept has been developed over years, not months.\"\n\nIf this is how Ukraine managed to attack the Kerch Bridge, hundreds of miles from Ukrainian-controlled territory, then it's one of Kyiv's most ambitious operations so far.\n\nBut apart from a few whispers in the capital, no-one is confirming the theory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The $3.7bn (£2.7bn) bridge links southern Russia with the territory it annexed in 2014 (2018 report)\n\nIn fact, in a statement last night, the head of President Zelensky's office, Mykhailo Podolyak, seemed to endorse Moscow's truck bomb theory.\n\n\"The answers should be sought in Russia,\" he said in a statement.\n\nThe explosion, he said, was the result of infighting between different parts of Russia's security establishment.\n\n\"This is a concrete manifestation of the conflict between the FSB [Russia's internal intelligence service] / PMC [private military contractors, like the Wagner Group] on the one hand, and the Ministry of Defence / general staff of the Russian Federation on the other hand,\" he said.\n\nDid Mr Podolyak know something everyone else didn't? Or was he, perhaps, trolling Moscow, playing on extremely raw nerves exposed by Russia's recent setbacks on the battlefield in Ukraine?\n\nThe truth is, we don't know.\n\nJust like previous episodes - including the sinking of the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, the Moskva, and the mysterious attack in August which devastated a Russian airbase in Crimea - Kyiv is very happy to keep everyone guessing.\n\nIt's all part of a highly successful information campaign which Ukraine has waged, along with its military effort, ever since Russia's full-scale invasion in February.\n\nFor now, it seems to be working.", "Rescue efforts continue in Las Tejerias, as torrential rain has caused deadly landslides\n\nDeadly landslides have swept away homes in Venezuela's Las Tejerias city, south of the capital Caracas.\n\nAt least 22 people have been reported dead, and a further 52 are missing after the torrential rainfall caused by La Niña weather pattern.\n\nVice President Delcy Rodriguez visited one of the worst-affected areas on Sunday. Rescue services are working to find those still missing, she said.\n\nPresident Nicolas Maduro described the situation as \"difficult and painful\".\n\nAbout 1,000 emergency personnel were taking part in search and rescue operations, deputy civil protection minister Carlos Perez Ampueda added.\n\nThe landslides happened after the El Pato river burst its banks, and the resulting floodwaters swept away several houses and shops.\n\nCarmen Melendez, a 55-year-old local, told AFP: \"The village is lost. Las Tejerias is lost.\"\n\nLas Tejerias, which is some 67km (42 miles) from Caracas, has been hit the hardest in Venezuela by this year's La Niña weather pattern.\n\nLa Niña is a naturally-occurring event, which involves a cooling of the Pacific Ocean and usually brings wetter conditions to Asia, Africa and Latin America.\n\nResidents help rescuers dig up mud from destroyed homes in Las Tejerias", "The public inquiry into the IT failings that led to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of Post Office branch managers starts hearing evidence from other key witnesses this week.\n\nThis new stage of the inquiry aims to uncover what was behind one of the most widespread miscarriages of justice in UK legal history.\n\nNo-one at the Post Office or Fujitsu has yet been held accountable.\n\nThe chair of the inquiry said he was \"determined to expose the truth\".\n\nMore than 700 Post Office managers were given criminal convictions after a new computer software system, built by the Japanese firm Fujitsu, wrongly showed money was going missing from individual branches between 2000 and 2014.\n\nThousands of other sub-postmasters lost their businesses, as they were forced to pay back money which was alleged to be missing from their branches.\n\nThe first phase of the public inquiry earlier this year heard testimony from sub-postmasters who were wrongly bankrupted and imprisoned. They described being treated as criminals by their employers and their communities. Dozens have had their convictions overturned, and many more are in line for compensation.\n\nThis next phase of the inquiry will hear from the Post Office, government officials and the firm Fujitsu. It will examine who knew about the faults in the Horizon software programme, and what they did, or did not do, with that information.\n\nThe chair of the inquiry, Sir Wyn Williams, said the evidence he heard through the spring and summer had made a deep impression on him.\n\nIn a recorded statement he said he was \"determined to expose the truth about these matters\".\n\nThe process is expected to take several months, with witnesses called who were involved in the design, roll-out, operation and management of the new system.\n\nEarlier this year Jez Thompson, who worked on a team training sub-postmasters to use the new software system, told the BBC that problems were flagged up as Horizon was rolled out.\n\nHe said glitches and bugs frequently made the software fail to compute the sums, and he regularly passed that information up to his supervisors, who he is sure would have passed it on.\n\n\"I reported [these issues] to my line manager and he then reported that to a weekly meeting with Fujitsu Training Services, where both Fujitsu and the Post Office would have been present and glitches would've been discussed,\" he said.\n\nBut a member of Fujitsu's UK board, speaking for the first time exclusively to the BBC, said that the board wasn't aware of any significant technical problems when Horizon was being rolled out.\n\nAndy MacNaughton originally worked for ICL, a British firm, that had the government contract to roll out new computers and accounting software in every single branch of the Post Office. After ICL was taken over by Fujitsu in 2000, it was Mr MacNaughton's job to manage the contract.\n\nThe project was already running late, and he was under pressure, because the firm would only be paid once a \"working system\" was delivered, he said.\n\nHe was unaware of any issues, and the system could not have been made live without the Post Office thoroughly testing and approving it, he added.\n\n\"We couldn't put a system in and make it live without the customer first accepting, signing off.\"\n\n\"You can't force somebody to take something that they don't want or don't believe works. We just can't do it.\"\n\nFujitsu's UK board was never informed of the problems with Horizon, says Andy McNaughton\n\nMr MacNaughton said he wasn't aware the Post Office were prosecuting staff or that Fujitsu data was used when sub-postmasters were prosecuted.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is currently investigating two people over potential perjury - failing to tell the truth under oath - during those trials.\n\nFujitsu said it has \"been co-operating with the current Post Office Horizon IT statutory inquiry since it began and continues to be focused on helping assist its chair and his team\".\n\nIt says it is committed to providing \"the fullest and most transparent information so that key lessons are learned\".\n\nNo-one from Fujitsu has apologised, and the company has not offered any financial contribution towards the compensation bill for the victims of the wrongful prosecutions.\n\nMr MacNaughton said this might be for legal reasons. \"As soon as you start doing that, there is an admission of guilt and liability,\" he said.\n\nAnd he doesn't feel there is anything to apologise for since he believes the Post Office failed to inform Fujitsu of the problems with Horizon. More than a dozen Fujitsu staff are, however, set to face questions at the inquiry in the coming weeks.\n\nThe Post Office used evidence from Fujitsu data, and called on Fujitsu staff as witnesses, when it pursued criminal prosecutions against more than 700 of its own staff. They were accused of theft and false accounting, with many others having their contracts terminated.\n\nThe Post Office has said it is \"sincerely sorry\" for the impact of the scandal on the wrongly accused postmasters, and that it believes the inquiry will ensure \"lessons are learned\".\n\n\"Post Office is openly and transparently assisting the Inquiry in its important work to determine what went wrong in the past and to provide, as much as possible, closure for those affected,\" it said in a statement.\n\nWithin the past few days the Post Office has agreed the first two full compensation deals for sub-postmasters whose convictions have been overturned.\n\nIn the last year, the government has removed Fujitsu from its list of preferred suppliers, but the firm is still able to win government contracts through the normal procurement process.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) echoed Sir Wyn's determination to \"uncover the truth of how the Horizon scandal came about\".\n\nThe statutory inquiry should \"ensure something like this can never happen again\" they added.\n\n\"On top of this, we are funding compensation for the postmasters whose lives have been so badly affected by this scandal,\" they said.", "Police in India have shot dead a tiger after it killed at least nine people in Champaran, Bihar state.\n\nDubbed the \"man-eater of Champaran\", the beast was killed after a hunt by around 200 police officers and district officials. Some officers patrolled on elephants to find it.\n\nThe male tiger had been terrorising communities around the Valmiki Tiger Reserve.\n\nIndia is home to more than 70% of the world's wild tigers.\n\nIndia's tiger reserves - protected areas where the animals can live - have not expanded at the same rate as its tiger population.\n\nThat has forced some big cats to turn to human-dominated landscapes for survival, which leads to livestock, and sometimes people being killed.\n\nThe operation was led by Bihar police, who surrounded a sugarcane field near the village of Sitaltola Baluwa to kill the three-year-old tiger known as T-104.\n\nKumar Gupta, chief wildlife warden for the region, told the Times of India the tiger had been identified as \"dangerous to human lives\".\n\nValmiki Tiger Reserve's director, Nesamani K, said the final hunt to find T-104 had begun on Saturday, shortly after news emerged that a mother and her child had been killed in a tiger attack.\n\n\"It was a sleepless night for the whole village,\" Paltu Mahato told the Hindustan Times. \"While some of us kept banging stones against each other, others kept beating tin containers to shoo away the tiger.\"\n\nAttempts to tranquilise the animal were unsuccessful and the tiger showed a \"complete lack of fear\" when surrounded by teams, Mr Gupta added.\n\nTwo teams, on two elephants, went into the forest, and a third one was on stand-by where authorities thought the tiger would exit from.\n\nT-104 was shot at 15:15 local time on Saturday.\n\nBihar's wildlife warden said there was no information available to suggest the killings of people had been carried out by another tiger.\n\nAccording to government data published in 2019, between 40 and 50 people are killed by tigers each year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the Indian government launched ‘Project Tiger’ to save the animals from extinction", "Mike Palmer, Andy Airey and Tim Owen arrived at Westminster on World Mental Health Day\n\nThree dads who lost daughters to suicide have ended a 600-mile (965km) walk between all four UK parliaments calling for suicide prevention to be made part of the school curriculum.\n\nThey arrived in London after leaving Belfast four weeks ago, taking in Edinburgh and Cardiff.\n\nAndy Airey, Mike Palmer and Tim Owen - known as 3 Dads Walking - have also raised nearly £1m for charity Papyrus.\n\nThey were accompanied by others who had lost loved ones to suicide.\n\nMr Airey from Morland in Cumbria, Mr Palmer from Sale in Greater Manchester and Mr Owen from Shouldham in Norfolk arrived in Westminster on World Mental Health Day.\n\nLast year the men, who did not previously know each other, walked 300 miles between their three homes in memory of their daughters Sophie, Beth and Emily in order to raise awareness.\n\nJames Bond actor Daniel Craig sent the trio a good luck message as they embarked on their latest challenge.\n\nSuicide is the biggest killer of under-35s and the 3 Dads Walking said young people needed to be equipped from an early age with the tools needed to deal with suicidal feelings.\n\nThey have started an online petition calling on the UK government to take action to ensure that suicide prevention is a mandatory subject in every school.\n\nThe dads all lost daughters to suicide - Sophie Airey, Beth Palmer and Emily Owen\n\nArriving at Westminster, Mr Airey said: \"It's been a long journey, and it's quite weird to be here.\"\n\nMr Owen said: \"There's a sense of partial achievement, obviously we still want to get suicide prevention on the school curriculum.\n\n\"We've done as much as we can as the three dads so now it's up to society and government to back us up and try and save some young lives.\"\n\nMr Palmer said: \"It's World Mental Health Day and people can help make a difference on this very special day...help us get this petition into parliament.\"\n\n\"If Beth, Sophie and Emily had been more aware they could still be here now.\n\n\"We know, and these people here with us now, who have also lost loved ones, also know, if you put these changes into place I believe it'll make a massive difference and save lives.\"\n\nThe men began their walk in September\n\nA UK government spokesperson said all children were taught about mental health as part of the mandatory \"Relationships, Sex and Health Education\" part of the curriculum, which, they said, \"helps them recognise and manage issues to prevent suicide\".\n\n\"This includes understanding that experiencing mental ill-health is not uncommon and how to seek support for themselves or someone else,\" they added.\n\nA Scottish Government spokesperson said it was committed to improving support to help prevent suicide and mental health and wellbeing was being \"embedded\" across school environments .\n\nThey added the Mental Health in Schools Working Group had also developed training for school staff, which included suicide awareness.\n\nA spokesperson for the Welsh Government said young people's mental health \"should be central to all school experiences\" and health and wellbeing would be part of the new Curriculum for Wales, which is starting to be rolled out.\n\n\"We recognise the importance of talking about suicide which is why we have published specific guidance, which will help adults who work with young people to respond to issues of suicide and self-harm,\" they added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Executive said schools provided opportunities for pupils to learn how to be \"healthy and resilient\" to deal with mental health issues.\n\nThey added the Education Authority had a range of wellbeing training programmes for school staff, a critical incident response team and \"multiple services\" whose work had an impact on children and young people's health and wellbeing.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Galar Gdanskis (Gdansk lighters) can be seen in this picture of the Motlawa Rover, taken in August\n\nThree people have died after a wooden tourist boat capsized in the northern Polish city of Gdansk.\n\nOfficials said the boat most likely turned over due to waves generated by a nearby tug boat.\n\nFourteen people, including two crew members, were on board when the Galar Gdański capsized on the Motlawa river on Saturday.\n\nThe state fire service said three people were pulled from the water and attempts were made to resuscitate them.\n\nA 60-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene and two others later died in hospital.\n\nOne of the victims was a pregnant woman, local media report.\n\nThis picture of the aftermath was released by the Gdansk fire service\n\nMore than 20 firefighters, search and rescue units, and border guards were involved in the search and rescue operation.\n\nThe Mayor of Gdansk, Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, described the incident as an \"enormous tragedy\".\n\nShe said the causes of the terrible accident would be explained \"as soon as possible\", adding that survivors were under \"professional medical and psychological care\".\n\nBoats like the one which capsized are typically around nine metres long and can take up to 12 passengers and two crew members.\n\nThey are replicas of a Polish vessel popular in the 18th Century used for transporting goods down the river.", "The chancellor's decision to bring forward the date of his plan to balance the government's finances failed to reassure markets on Monday.\n\nGovernment borrowing costs rose sharply after Kwasi Kwarteng said he would fast-track his plan to 31 October.\n\nThe plan will set out how he will fund tax cuts and reduce debt after his mini-budget sparked market turmoil.\n\nAn independent forecast of the UK economy's prospects will be published at the same time.\n\nIn the wake of the September mini-budget, the pound slumped to a record low, government borrowing costs surged and the Bank of England was forced to step in and take emergency action after the dramatic market movements put some pension funds at risk of collapse.\n\nThe volatility eased but on Monday the yields - or effective interest rates - on UK government bonds were almost at the levels seen at the height of the market turmoil.\n\nFurther efforts by the Bank of England to calm markets, along with the appointment of an experienced civil servant as Permanent Secretary to the Treasury also seemed to fall short.\n\nFormer Treasury chief Lord Macpherson warned the government that there could be an even tougher response from the financial markets in the coming weeks if the chancellor could not show his sums added up.\n\n\"Unless the government can restore economic credibility, the market response in the weeks ahead could be a whole lot worse than we've seen so far,\" he told the House of Lords.\n\nMr Kwarteng had initially said he would wait for 23 November to give details of his economic plan but faced mounting pressure from his MPs to change course.\n\nThe new date means Mr Kwarteng's fiscal statement will be published before the Bank of England announces its latest decision on interest rates on 3 November.\n\nThe Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is widely expected to raise interest rates for the eighth time since last December with many economists forecasting a sharper rise than previous increases.\n\nBut Mel Stride, chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, tweeted that he hoped Mr Kwarteng's decision to release the report earlier would result in a smaller rate rise.\n\nHe tweeted this would be \"critical to millions of mortgage holders\",\n\nNoting that that the plan will be published on Hallowe'en, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner tweeted: \"Trick or cheat? The Tory horror show rattles on.\"\n\nThe OBR, the independent budget watchdog, will now publish a report alongside Mr Kwarteng's statement at the end of October. Its forecasts will give an indication of the health of the nation's finances.\n\nThe chancellor bringing forward his explanation of how he intends to get down government debt and the official watchdog's assessment of his plans to Hallowe'en is aimed at quelling the market turmoil which has driven up borrowing costs for households and government.\n\nProviding reassurance on that score will likely mean confirming unpalatable news for others. For most economists reckon that, even if the government can boost growth, it will realistically need to find savings of perhaps £40bn or more, if it is to bring down debt in a few years.\n\nBut by anyone's measure that's not small change, it's an amount greater than the defence budget, and won't be raised through efficiency savings. Many public services are already hampered by pandemic disruption and rising inflation. The Institute for Fiscal Studies reckons the latter means departments have to find £18bn from existing budgets just to provide planned services.\n\nOn top of that balancing act, they'll be bracing for a new wave of austerity.\n\nBorrowers have faced paying the price for the markets' lack of faith in the government's plans - millions more may feel the cost of regaining it.\n\nThere was some confusion after the chancellor denied there had been any changes to the date of the fiscal statement.\n\nHowever, Treasury sources then clarified that the chancellor would, indeed, bring it forward and that it had simply been waiting to officially announce the change of date in Parliament.\n\nSince then the government has been forced into a series of embarrassing climbdowns under growing pressure from its own MPs.\n\nLast week, Mr Kwarteng scrapped a decision to cut the top rate of income tax.\n\nLiz Truss faces a rebellion from her MPs over benefits\n\nAnd on Monday, James Bowler was announced as the new Permanent Secretary to the Treasury.\n\nMs Truss fired Sir Tom Scholar, the civil servant who previously held the job and planned to bring in a high profile outsider - a move some feared would further spook the markets.\n\nMs Truss still faces a potential rebellion from her MPs after declining to say whether she would increase benefits in line with inflation next April.\n\nHer approval ratings have plummeted since the mini-budget. The prime minister says her tax cuts will boost the UK economy after years of lacklustre growth.\n\nBut there are fears the government will have to borrow huge sums to fill the spending gap. The cost of government borrowing consequently jumped, as investors demanded higher rates of interest on UK government bonds.\n\nThis has fed through to the mortgage market where hundreds of products were pulled due to concerns about how to price these long-term loans.\n\nLast week, interest rates on typical two and five-year fixed rate mortgages topped 6% for the first time in over a decade.\n\nOn Monday, the Bank of England announced measures to ensure an \"orderly end\" to an emergency bond buying scheme it was forced to launch after Mr Kwarteng pledged additional tax cuts on top of those outlined in the mini-budget.\n\nSusannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said that the government and the Bank had launched \"a two pronged attempt to calm markets\" as the pound remained weak and government borrowing costs were rising again.\n\n\"Policymakers and politicians are clearly nervous about seeing a repeat of the mini-financial crisis unleashed following the presentation of the Truss administration's slash and spend plans,\" she said.\n\n\"All eyes will be on the independent assessment of his spending plans, and the risk is that if the numbers don't add up, the markets could take fright again.\"", "No sign Russia is currently considering using nuclear weapons - UK spy chief\n\nMore now from the BBC's interview with the UK's spy chief Sir Jeremy Fleming on Russia's military strategy in Ukraine. Fleming, the head of GCHQ, told the Today programme there were no current signs that Russia was considering the use of nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war but warned that any talk of nuclear weapons was \"very dangerous\". GCHQ would hope to see \"indicators\" if Russia planned to use them, he said. \"Any talk of nuclear weapons is very dangerous and we need to be very careful of how we are talking about that,\" he said this morning. In an address to the nation last month, Putin said his country had \"various weapons of destruction\" and would \"use all the means available to us\", adding: \"I'm not bluffing.\" \"It's clear to me that whilst we might not like and in many ways abhor the ways the Russian military machine and President Putin are conducting this war, they are staying within the doctrine that we understand for their use, including for nuclear weapons,\" Fleming said.", "Barristers have held a number of rallies to highlight their claims\n\nCriminal barristers in England and Wales have voted to end their long-running strike action after the government offered a new pay deal.\n\nA total of 57% of barristers voted in a ballot to accept a 15% pay rise, the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) said.\n\nThe decision means that crown courts will begin hearing cases as normal from Tuesday.\n\nHundreds of trials have been delayed during the action. It is not clear how quickly the backlog can be reduced.\n\nThe barristers had been offered a package of measures by new Justice Secretary Brandon Lewis which went much further than what had been put on the table by his predecessor, Dominic Raab.\n\nThe deal included an immediate 15% rise in fees for government-funded defence work - an independent recommendation first made to ministers almost a year ago. There was also a promise that this would apply to 60,000 cases in the unprecedented national backlog.\n\nMr Lewis has offered additional payments for a range of court preparation work that barristers said they were not being properly paid for.\n\nBarristers, who originally requested a 25% pay rise, said criminal justice was falling apart due to a chronic lack of funding, arguing that ministers had to invest far more cash in order to cut the record delays to trials.\n\nThe strikes began in June after years of complaints from criminal barristers that the system of legal aid - which makes up the bulk of their pay - had been \"pared to the bone\", resulting in cuts to their income of 35% in the last decade.\n\nThe industrial action was ramped up in September when the CBA started an indefinite, uninterrupted strike.\n\nKirsty Brimelow KC, chair of the CBA, said barristers were hoping for a new relationship with the government and that ministers' treatment of the profession would \"not be shabby moving forwards\".\n\nShe said that the criminal justice system remained \"chronically underfunded\", adding that it should not have got to the stage of industrial action in order to \"force\" more funding from government into criminal legal aid.\n\n\"This offer from government is an overdue start. Its acceptance by barristers is on the basis that it is implemented - otherwise the CBA will ballot again to lift the suspension of action,\" Ms Brimelow warned.\n\nStatistics due this week are expected to show no progress on reducing the backlogs, which mean some trials are taking more than two years to be heard.\n\nMr Lewis said: \"Since starting this job five weeks ago, my priority has been to end this strike action and reduce delays for victims, and I'm glad that barristers have agreed to return to work.\n\n\"This breakthrough is a result of coming together and restarting what I hope to be a constructive relationship as we work to drive down the backlog and ensure victims see justice done sooner.\"\n\nBut there are warning signs that the pay offer may prompt walkouts by solicitors after the body which represents them, the Law Society of England and Wales, said the dispute on criminal legal aid funding was \"far from over\".\n\nOutgoing Law Society president Stephanie Boyce called for fair funding across the criminal justice system, including giving solicitors parity in pay.\n\n\"The justice minister may think he has got one problem off his table but there are bigger problems coming his way as this dispute continues,\" Ms Boyce warned.\n\n\"This is another example of a government U-turn marking a bad situation worse.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Diana Fawcett, chief executive at the charity Victim Support, said it was positive news for victims but that more had to be done to reduce waiting times.\n\n\"It's important to remember that when it comes to the huge backlogs in our courts, these strikes, and the delay caused by the pandemic are only part of the picture,\" she said.\n\n\"Long court delays have been an issue for nearly a decade, and are agonising for victims.\"\n\nThe father of a sexual assault victim who has waited four years for his case to come to trial welcomed the ballot result.\n\nJames - not his real name - hopes the case, which has been put back until the end of November, will now go ahead. But he fears the courts backlog is now so severe the trial could be delayed again.\n\nHe said the long wait has had a catastrophic effect on his son's mental health.\n\nJames said: \"My son's at the point where he said to me: 'I have no faith in any of this. They give us a date and crush it, every step along the way.'\"", "Liz Truss will hold a series of meetings with Tory MPs this week, as she tries to quell backbench unrest over her fledgling premiership.\n\nUnease over the government's direction burst into the open at last week's party conference, which was blighted by internal division.\n\nCabinet ministers have been calling for backbenchers to unite behind the PM.\n\nIn a bid to repair relations, she has given a government post to a backer of her ex-leadership rival Rishi Sunak.\n\nGreg Hands has been appointed trade minister, replacing Conor Burns who was sacked last week after a misconduct complaint.\n\nAnd the chancellor has given the date when he further outlines his economic plan as 31 October.\n\nMs Truss entered No 10 last month after defeating Mr Sunak in a bruising leadership contest, and already faces potential rebellions on multiple fronts.\n\nLast week she was forced to abandon her plans to scrap the top rate of income tax, after a number of her MPs criticised the move as unfair.\n\nShe also faces the task of assuring them of her economic credibility, after her tax-cutting mini-budget sparked turmoil in the financial markets.\n\nThere is also unease in the party over the idea she could decide to raise working-age benefits in line with earnings rather than inflation, a real-terms cut that would save the government around £5bn.\n\nFormer chancellor Sajid Javid has become the latest Tory MP to demand an increase in line with inflation, saying people were going through \"incredibly challenging times\".\n\nThe PM's spokesman said a decision had not yet been made, adding: \"We want to get the latest information as regards things like inflation.\"\n\nAsked if Ms Truss was \"open-minded\" in listening to Conservative MPs on the topic, the spokesman answered: \"Yes\".\n\nSpeaking in Derbyshire, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told reporters he would work with Tories who \"want to do the right thing\" and fight any real-terms cut to benefit payments.\n\nWhen a leader lets it be known they are in listening mode or words to that effect, it usually means there is already a 170 decibel political firework display well under way.\n\nThere is and it's volcanic.\n\nThe breakdown in discipline during the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham last week was extraordinary because of its breadth: nervous activists, jittery backbenchers and disloyal cabinet ministers.\n\nSo where do we find ourselves as MPs prepare to return to Westminster?\n\nIn the words of one senior figure: \"This is a party that is unstoppable when it has the will to win. But the opposite is true too, when it decides it has a death wish.\"\n\nWith Parliament due to return on Tuesday, the prime minister will inaugurate a series of policy lunches with MPs from each region of the country this week.\n\nShe is also due to meet Tory MPs when she addresses the backbench 1922 committee this week.\n\nThe meetings come ahead of a busy few weeks for the government, as it unveils a series of measures designed to boost economic growth.\n\nThe changes to planning, immigration and childcare rules, among other areas, could prove an early test of Ms Truss's parliamentary support.\n\nIn a bid to further reassure restive financial markets, the government has brought forward the date for its plan for balancing the public finances to 31 October.\n\nThe blueprint was originally scheduled for 23 November, but Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng had been under pressure to give more details of his plan to bring down debt, following the bad market reaction to the mini-budget.\n\nAfter arriving in Downing Street, Ms Truss removed Sunak supporters including Dominic Raab, Grant Shapps and George Eustice from their cabinet positions.\n\nShe later appointed some supporters of her defeated rival to positions in her junior team.\n\nConor Burns was dismissed from his ministerial post on Friday after a complaint of serious misconduct. He denies any wrongdoing and says he looks forward to clearing his name.\n\nMr Burns, who was also suspended as a Tory MP, was seen by eyewitnesses touching a young man's thigh at a hotel bar during the party's conference, the BBC has been told.\n\nGreg Hands was previously a trade minister under both Boris Johnson and Theresa May", "John Cleese rose to fame as part of the British surreal comedy troupe Monty Python\n\nActor and comedian John Cleese has confirmed he will host his own GB News TV show from next year.\n\nThe Fawlty Towers star told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the new show will see him work alongside satirist Andrew Doyle, and encourage \"proper argument\".\n\nDoyle currently hosts Free Speech Nation on the channel which launched last year.\n\nCleese warned that GB News audiences \"may not be used to hearing the sort of things I'll be saying\".\n\n\"I was approached and I didn't know who they were,\" he explained to presenter Amol Rajan on Monday.\n\n\"I don't know much about modern television because I've pretty much given up on it - English television.\"\n\nHe added: \"Then I met one or two of the people concerned and had a dinner with them and I liked them very much.\n\n\"And what they said was, 'people say it's a right-wing channel [but] it's a free speech channel'.\"\n\n(Left to right) Monty Python's Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin in 1969\n\nBefore creating and playing the much-loved misanthropic hotel owner Basil Fawlty, Cleese rose to fame as part of the British surreal comedy troupe Monty Python in the late 1960s and early 70s.\n\nHe told Rajan that entertainment bosses had said the show would not get commissioned today \"because it's six white people, five of whom went to Oxbridge\".\n\nAdding he had not been offered an opportunity to return to the BBC but that if he did his reply would be: \"Not on your nelly.\"\n\n\"Because I wouldn't get five minutes into the first show before I'd been cancelled or censored,\" he said.\n\nCleese been a vocal critic of cancel culture in comedy and so-called \"woke\" politics. Last year, he cancelled an appearance at Cambridge University after a visiting speaker was banned for a doing a Hitler impression.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe later walked out of a BBC interview due to what he described as the \"deception, dishonesty and tone\" of the conversation. Though a BBC spokeswoman said at the time it had been a \"fair and appropriate interview\".\n\nGB News launched in June last year, becoming the UK's first TV news start-up for 30 years, since the launch of Sky News.\n\nA few months ago, Cleese questioned the extent to which his soon-to-be new employer was \"influenced by Russian interests\".\n\nHe told Today he had \"kind of lost interest\" in British politics in recent years after the country \"sunk to the lowest intellectual level I can ever remember\" during the Brexit debates.", "A woman and man pose in front of an artist's impression of the Crimean bridge explosion in Kyiv, Ukraine\n\nUkraine is exploding with excitement this morning.\n\nVideos of the damaged Crimean bridge have spread like wildfire on social media; this is already being compared to the sinking of the Russian warship Moskva in April.\n\n\"The guided missile cruiser Moskva and the Kerch bridge - two notorious symbols of Russian power in Ukrainian Crimea - have gone down,\" tweeted Ukraine's ministry of defence.\n\n\"What's next in line, Russkies?\" it went on.\n\nUkraine's inventive social media activists are gleefully pumping out memes to celebrate the occasion.\n\nAnd Ukraine's second largest bank, Monobank, says it has already issued a new debit card design featuring the collapsed bridge.\n\nOleksii Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine's National Security Council, wasn't the only one noting that the attack came just a day after Vladimir Putin's 70th birthday, tweeting a video of the damaged bridge next to Marilyn Monroe's famous performance of Happy Birthday, Mr President from 1962.\n\nThe sense of excitement is palpable.\n\nComing on the back of weeks of mostly good news from the battlefront, where Ukrainian forces continue to take back territory seized by Russia back in February and March, the sight of the crippled, burning bridge is a massive additional boost to morale.\n\nHow was this done? Any number of theories are doing the rounds - from a Ukrainian special forces operation to the work of partisans in Crimea, a missile strike, or even a suicide bomb.\n\n\"This is a masterpiece of clandestine sabotage,\" a former senior British army explosives expert told me.\n\n\"A well-planned attack from below may have been the cause,\" he said.\n\n\"With structural demolition, you always plan a 'collapse mechanism' which lets the weight of the structure do the majority of the work.\"\n\nTwo women pose with the Ukrainian flag in front of the artwork in central Kyiv, Ukraine\n\nUkrainian officials are giving little away, happy to apply the same level of ambiguity that followed a mysterious attack on the Russian airbase in Crimea in August.\n\nBut the attacks on the Saky base and the bridge are all part of the same wider effort: to undermine Russia's ability to use Crimea as a launch pad for its war in southern Ukraine.\n\nThe road and railway bridges are vital links in Russia's supply chain. Without them, Moscow will find it even harder to send troops and equipment to repel Ukraine's offensive north of Kherson.\n\nKyiv is also saying to Moscow: Crimea is ours and eventually we are going to take it back.\n\nFor all the giddy delight ricocheting across social media, some Ukrainians are anxious.\n\nThis morning, we left the city of Zaporizhzhia, which is still in shock after Russian missile attacks on Thursday, which left at least 17 civilians dead.\n\nPeople there suspect that they are being punished by Russia as Moscow lashes out after its recent military failures. They fear the coming days may bring more.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Fire and smoke seen on Crimean bridge after explosion reported", "Hugs were shared a vigils across County Donegal on Sunday evening\n\nThe names of those killed in the Creeslough petrol station explosion were made known to the world on Sunday but this close-knit community already knew who they were.\n\nThey were all from the area, all once part of this special community in County Donegal.\n\nAll friends, neighbours and loved ones.\n\nTop row left to right: Shauna Flanagan Garwe and her father Robert Garwe, Leona Harper, Hugh Kelly, Jessica Gallagher. Bottom row left to right: Martin McGill, James O'Flaherty, Martina Martin, Catherine O'Donnell and son James Monaghan\n\nAmid such unfathomable grief and unimaginable sadness, the community spirit here still finds a way to shine through.\n\nIt was seen on the tired faces of coffee shop employees who worked through Friday night, providing free food and drinks to the emergency workers and volunteers.\n\nIt was there in a childcare centre that opened its doors on Saturday to offer support to those in need.\n\nIt was felt in a brief, comforting hug exchanged between an elderly woman and a young child as they left church on Sunday afternoon.\n\nThe Applegreen shop destroyed in the explosion was a regular stop for people in the village\n\nThis tight-knit community has shown that in the face of such immense heartache their sense of loyalty to each other is unwavering.\n\nSpeak to the people who call this place home and they tell you that this tragedy has stunned them to their core.\n\nMargaret Ferry cannot believe her eyes when she views the destroyed service station - once a thriving hub of activity, now reduced to rubble.\n\n\"I would've went [to the shop] before Mass to get milk, bread and the Sunday paper and now it's gone,\" she tells me.\n\nMargaret Ferry was one of the many who attended Mass in Creeslough on Sunday\n\n\"Everybody is shocked - I know a few people who passed and I can't believe it.\"\n\nShe speaks to me as she leaves Mass at St Michael's Catholic Church in the village.\n\nA reminder of the scale of the loss is there as you walk through the church doors.\n\nTen candles burning brightly - each candle representing the life of a treasured, special someone no longer there.\n\nThe congregation is told by Bishop Alan McGuckian that they are \"living through a nightmare\".\n\nBishop Alan McGuckian has been supporting those who are reeling with the shock of the tragedy\n\nHe urges them to keep those killed, injured and those who tried to help in their thoughts and prayers.\n\nHe says the harrowing scenes of Friday were \"completely random\" - the tragedy is one that \"anybody could have been caught up in\".\n\nThat sentiment is echoed outside the church by one resident who does not want to give her name.\n\nShe says: \"It could have been any one of us in that shop.\"\n\nHer partner, in disbelief that their quiet village nestled in the mountains has been plunged into darkness, simply says: \"Things like this don't happen here.\"\n\nBried Colhoun, who is originally from the village, says she is devastated by what has happened.\n\n\"It's tragic - I have a second cousin and her son has been killed in it, she says.\n\nMarian Harper-Coleman played the song Cutting the Corn In Creeslough on her button accordion during a vigil in Castlefin\n\nIt's a reminder that in a village of just over 400 people, with a tapestry of interwoven connections, many will know someone who was taken.\n\nBut it's not just in Creeslough that this is felt.\n\nA whole island mourns for this place.\n\nMichael McGowan from Carrick-on-Shannon in County Leitrim, travelled for three hours to attend a morning church service.\n\n\"I drove down to pay my own personal respects to the people of Creeslough,\" he tells me.\n\nMichael McGowan felt compelled to make a lengthy journey to Creeslough to attend the morning Mass\n\n\"How can you deal with a tragedy like this? You can't.\n\n\"All you can do is pray for those who lost their lives and their loved ones.\n\n\"It's bad enough now but the days to come will also be just so horrendous - the wakes, the funerals; it's just so sad.\"\n\nOver the coming days communities across Ireland will come together for vigils and for prayer.\n\nDespite this village having a population of so few, they will not be alone.", "The industrial action follows the RMT union's rejection of the latest pay offer made to non-driving rail workers.\n\nDispatchers, station staff, conductors, ticket examiners and cleaners were among staff who were not working.\n\nThe RMT said they were prepared to \"keep fighting\" for a fair offer to cover the rising cost of living.\n\nThe strike was confirmed on Thursday when the RMT said it would not recommend members accept an improved offer tabled by ScotRail two days earlier.\n\nThe rail operator said there no services running between Glasgow and Edinburgh and just a handful on three central belt routes, which ended at 18:30.\n\nThe company said the limited services were all it could offer due to the number of contingency staff required to cover the shifts of those on strike.\n\nThis strike is separate from the RMT's dispute with Network Rail which has seen disruption across the whole of Britain's railway network on a number of days since July.\n\nThe last offer made to staff was a 5% increase, but the RMT, which represents the majority of non-driver ScotRail staff, is holding out for more.\n\nMick Hogg, senior organiser for Scotland and Northern Ireland, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland: \"I would say to John Swinney 'get round the table and start actually talking to the RMT in order to find a solution'.\"\n\n\"As far as I'm concerned, the money is there, the problem I've got is no one is prepared to listen. We're prepared to fight and keep fighting until we get a pay increase that actually reflects the cost of living crisis.\"\n\nHe said the union wanted a \"fair settlement\" that came somewhere near inflation of 12.3% because the \"bosses are getting richer and workers are getting poorer\".\n\nMr Hogg vowed the union would \"seriously consider\" an offer of 8.2 - 8.3% but warned that the 5% on the table was \"way below what we would consider to be a reasonable offer\".\n\nHe added: \"If it is good enough for the Scottish government to give bin workers and teachers a 10% pay increase then it is good enough for rail workers.\"\n\n\"The bosses don't hold back when they give themselves pay rises and we have a situation within Scotland's railway where the managing director is on a salary of £335,000 and we have a CEO of ScotRail holdings on £120,000 for a three-day week.\"\n\nMr Hogg also confirmed that, at present, no further talks were planned.\n\nRMT members are striking over pay, conditions and proposed changes to the business\n\nScotRail said it had been informed by the RMT that its general grades members would also take part in an overtime and rest day working ban from Friday 14 October, which would have some impact to services until the dispute was resolved.\n\nThe rail operator said it was disappointed with the current situation.\n\nPhil Campbell, head of customer operations, said: \"We're really disappointed that the dispute with the RMT has reached this outcome, given the strength of the improved pay offer ScotRail made.\n\n\"This strike action does nothing for the railway's recovery at this fragile time. It will severely impact our customers and it will also cost our staff through lost wages.\n\n\"Due to the large number of ScotRail staff who are members of the RMT, ScotRail customers should expect significant disruption to services on Monday, 10 October, as we won't be able to operate the vast majority of our services.\n\n\"We remain open to resolving this dispute.\"", "Protests against the authorities over the death of Mahsa Amini are continuing in Tehran and elsewhere\n\nGermany's foreign minister has called for action against those responsible for the violent crackdown on protests in Iran.\n\nAnnalena Baerbock said Germany would ensure the European Union froze assets and imposed entry bans.\n\nShe described those \"who beat up women and girls on the street\" as standing on \"the wrong side of history\".\n\nEU foreign ministers are expected to decide on sanctions on 17 October, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nSpeaking to a German newspaper, Baerbock also criticised those who \"condemn to death people who want nothing other than to live free\".\n\nShe told Iranians: \"We stand by you, and will continue to do so.\"\n\nThe proposed sanctions come after the death of Mahsa Amini sparked demonstrations throughout the country.\n\nThe 22-year-old died in custody after being detained by Iran's morality police on 16 September.\n\nDozens of Iranians have lost their lives after taking to the streets to protest Ms Amini's death.\n\nThe Iran Human Rights group, based in Norway, said at least 185 people - including 19 children - had died since the unrest began.\n\nIran's state media say 20 members of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps, police and security forces have been killed.\n\nVideos and images circulating on social media over the weekend appeared to show Iran's security services entering schools and universities.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFemale students at a university in Tehran were reported to have chanted \"get lost\" to President Ebrahim Raisi when he visited on Saturday.\n\nSaturday also saw the country's state television channel hacked.\n\nViewers saw a mask appear on their screens followed by an image of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, surrounded by flames.\n\nMany in Iran are now calling for the end of Islamic clerical rule.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The protests currently sweeping the country have their roots in changes made after the 1979 revolution", "Jordan Ashman is only the third percussionist to win the contest since it began in 1978\n\nThe 18-year-old from Cambridgeshire took the prestigious title performing Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto, requiring him to play drums, marimba, vibraphone and even a car's brake drum.\n\nAnna Lapwood, chair of the judging panel, said his \"emotional\" performance \"made all of us catch our breath\".\n\nThe teenager, from Milton, started playing drums at the age of seven, expanding into orchestral percussion a year later, after building a 3.5-octave xylophone with his father.\n\n\"Obviously they're quite expensive,\" he said. \"So my dad, being an engineer, was a bit like, 'We'll just make one'.\"\n\nHe has played with the National Children's Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Brass Band, and is currently studying at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.\n\nAshman was lost for words when his victory was announced, but managed to thank his family and friends in the audience.\n\n\"Getting support from home, it's just [incredible]\", he told host Jess Gillam, herself a finalist in the 2016 Young Musician competition.\n\nLater, after gathering his thoughts, Ashman said taking part in the contest had been \"very scary\" but \"really exciting\".\n\n\"I really feel like it's a great opportunity to show what percussion can do,\" he added. \"A lot of people think on percussion you're at the back booming away, but it's so versatile.\"\n\nAshman covered the entire stage of Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, playing at four separate percussion stations\n\nThe musician beat viola player Jaren Ziegler, flautist Sofía Patterson-Gutiérrez, trumpeter Sasha Canter and pianist Ethan Loch from Glasgow, who has been blind since birth.\n\nEach of the musicians won their individual category competitions before progressing to the grand final, at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.\n\nThe contest was filmed on 29 September, with the results revealed on BBC Four and BBC Radio Three on Sunday night.\n\n\"All five finalists demonstrated a bravery and commitment to excellence that was incredibly moving,\" said Lapwood, who is director of music at Pembroke College, Cambridge.\n\nDescribing the winner, she added: \"Jordan Ashman's performance started not with loud, flashy playing, but with exquisite, gentle beauty.\n\n\"He held the entire room throughout that delicate opening and kept that magic through his whole performance. Jordan combined emotional expression with an easy, assured technique, and moments of brilliance that made all of us catch our breath.\"\n\nAshman is only the third percussionist to win the biannual Young Musician competition, after Adrian Spillet in 1998, who is now principal percussionist of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; and Fang Zhang, who won the 2020 title in May last year, after the original final was delayed due to the pandemic.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Kyle, who wanted to remain anonymous, reached out for support at Croppers after hearing about 12th Man\n\nWhen Kyle walked into a barber shop, he was at the \"end of his tether\" and struggling with his physical and mental health.\n\nHe was there because he had heard about the 12th Man - a Norwich-based campaign that uses a football analogy to empower men to talk about mental health more openly - and his barber had signed up to the cause.\n\n\"I just burst into tears,\" says Kyle, reflecting back on when he first spoke there four years ago.\n\n\"I was going through the mill and they just asked what was wrong and said, 'Let's talk about it.'\n\n\"They listen and they don't judge and it somehow feels more comfortable to have a conversation with someone there.\"\n\nNick Little, left, and Tim Guy, who run the 12th Man, are creating an army of people to help men with their mental health\n\nThrough grant funding, 12th Man provides free mental health first aid training to businesses and groups used by men, in a bid to open up conversations and provide interventions.\n\nPlaces like tattoo parlours, pubs and gyms are among the everyday settings that have signed up.\n\nAlso involved is Croppers barbers in Norwich, which is helping people like Kyle.\n\n\"If I hadn't spoken to them, there's a possibility I may not still be here - but I did speak to them and I'm still here,\" says Kyle.\n\nThe 43-year-old, who lives in the city, has been a regular customer ever since, with monthly haircuts.\n\n\"They have been the light in the darkness to guide you home. They have saved my life and could save other people's lives.\"\n\nSteve Bunn, who runs Croppers in St Gregorys Alley with business partner Mike Nicholson, was one of the first people to get on board with the 12th Man campaign.\n\nThe project was set up in 2013 by Nick Little and Oz Osborne, who died four years ago after a short illness, to get men talking about mental health, as \"the outcomes for men are pretty dire and so we need to turn that around\".\n\nGovernment statistics show suicide in England and Wales is three times more common among men than among women, and is the biggest killer of men aged under 50.\n\nBarber Steve Bunn says it was \"humbling\" to have been able to come to the aid of Kyle\n\nThe idea behind the 12th Man is to get men to \"see mental health like they see their football team\", says Mr Little.\n\n\"You never give up on your team, so do the same for your friends, family, colleagues,\" the 41-year-old from Brundall, Norfolk, adds.\n\nMr Bunn was one of the first to undertake the Mental Health First Aid England (MHFA) training delivered for free by the 12th Man in 2016.\n\nSince then, it has trained 430 people.\n\nMr Bunn says it is \"humbling\" to have been able to have helped Kyle.\n\n\"It took a lot of courage on his part to come in here and ask if anyone was around for a chat, and we made time for him.\n\n\"He was open with us to allow us to empathise with his situation,\" he says.\n\nThe 12th Man campaign, which started in Norwich and is expanding across Suffolk and Essex, has also trained cyclists to be mental health first aid aware\n\nMr Bunn says the training helps him and his staff to not shy away from such conversations.\n\n\"There could be that social awkwardness and if someone started to talk about something sensitive, it's easy to clam up and assume you are going to say the wrong thing.\n\n\"What it does is it disarms you of those feelings, you can talk to someone and not be an expert, but give that person the space to talk and show them you are listening,\" he says.\n\n\"It's made us much better listeners.\"\n\nTattoo artists, including Red's Tattoo Parlour in Colchester, have also got on board\n\nMr Bunn says although being a mental health first aider is no replacement for professional help, it enables him and his team to \"normalise\" conversations about mental health in an environment where men feel comfortable.\n\n\"You can come into a barbers and still be you and talk about mental health and how you feel, but that doesn't have to dominate the conversation,\" he says.\n\n\"Over the years, people may have talked and opened up and been aware of the 12th Man without mentioning it, which is what you want - the end goal is for everyone to be able to talk about their wellbeing, physically and mentally, as openly as they need to.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe 12th Man is expanding to Suffolk, Essex and further afield, and reaching out to more groups.\n\n\"By working with businesses such as barbers, tattoo shops, pubs and gyms, and interest groups like cycling clubs and football clubs, we want to train an army of people who work in places where men go, or go where men go, in large numbers.\n\n\"We see these places as the front line of men's mental health, so we need the army there, so to speak.\n\n\"Millions of conversations happen in these places each year and they are all opportunities for interventions,\" says Mr Little, whose co-founder died from a short illness in 2018.\n\nThe campaign has received commissions and grants from Norfolk and Suffolk community foundations, Norfolk and Suffolk county councils, Cheshire East Council and Colchester Catalyst to provide the training.\n\nThe idea behind the 12th Man is to get men to \"see mental health like they see their football team\"\n\nSimon Blake, chief executive of MHFA England, says initiatives such as 12th Man are \"vital in helping to break down traditional ideas about masculinity and the stigma associated with mental ill health\".\n\n\"I am thrilled that 12th Man have delivered our training to over 400 people. With their help we have now trained one in 50 adults in England in mental health skills and knowledge,\" he says.\n\nSuzanne Meredith, deputy director of Norfolk Public Health, adds: \"The work done by 12th Man in Norwich is incredibly valuable; by providing training to businesses, interest groups and others in how to support those dealing with challenges to their mental health.\n\n\"They're getting the skills and knowledge needed to help people at their lowest, raising awareness of the importance of talking to someone and [saying] that you are not alone during difficult times, such as a relationship breakdown or financial difficulty.\n\n\"It is also important to remember that there are steps each of us can take to make sure we're looking after our own mental wellbeing.\n\n\"These can be as simple as trying something new with the family, taking children for a walk perhaps on one of Norfolk's trails, helping others or talking with a friend.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The road section of the only crossing from occupied Crimea has collapsed after an explosion.\n\nWidely shared images show a train on the Kerch rail bridge ablaze, with the adjacent road bridge appearing to have sustained damage.\n\nThe bridge, built on the orders of Vladimir Putin, is a key link to move military equipment into Ukraine. Moscow had illegally annexed the region four years earlier.", "Ms Letby, of Hereford, was working at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit when the deaths happened\n\nA \"poisoner was at work\" at a hospital where there was a \"significant rise\" in the number of healthy babies dying, a court has heard.\n\nLucy Letby has been accused of murdering five baby boys and two girls, and attempting to murder 10 other babies at Countess of Chester hospital.\n\nNick Johnson KC, prosecuting, said she was a \"constant malevolent presence\" in the hospital's neonatal unit.\n\nJurors heard Ms Letby is alleged to have tried to kill one child three times, while another died as a result of being injected with air.\n\nFamily members of some of the babies concerned in the case were among those present in the court as Mr Johnson opened the prosecution.\n\nHe said the Chester institution was a \"busy general hospital like so many others in the UK\".\n\nHowever, he said that \"unlike many other hospitals, within the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, a poisoner was at work\".\n\n\"Prior to January 2015, the statistics for the mortality of babies in the neo-natal unit at the Countess of Chester were comparable to other like units,\" he said.\n\n\"However, over the next 18 months or so, there was a significant rise in the number of babies who were dying and in the number of serious catastrophic collapses.\"\n\nLucy Letby appeared in the dock at Manchester Crown Court\n\nHe said the increases were noticed by hospital consultants, who were concerned that \"babies who were dying had deteriorated unexpectedly\".\n\nMedics also noted that babies who had collapsed \"did not respond to appropriate and timely resuscitation\" and that others \"collapsed dramatically, but then, equally dramatically, recovered\".\n\n\"Having searched for a cause, which they were unable to find, the consultants noticed that the inexplicable collapses and deaths did have one common denominator,\" he said.\n\n\"The presence of one of the neonatal nurses and that nurse was Lucy Letby.\"\n\nMr Johnson told the court that as medics could not account for the collapses and deaths, police were called in and conducted a \"painstaking review\".\n\n\"That review suggests in the period between mid-2015 and the middle of 2016, somebody in the neonatal unit poisoned two children with insulin,\" he said.\n\n\"The prosecution say the only reasonable conclusion to be drawn from the evidence you will hear is that somebody poisoned these babies deliberately with insulin.\"\n\nAmong several cases detailed by the barrister, he told the jury that both babies were boys and both born as twins - but not to each other - and were poisoned within a few days of being born.\n\nMr Johnson said their blood sugar levels dropped to dangerous levels.\n\nBut the babies - identified only as Child F and Child L - survived due to the skill of medical staff who appreciated low blood sugar can have natural causes, he said.\n\n\"What the medical staff did not realise was that in both cases, was the result of someone poisoning them with insulin,\" he added.\n\nThe prosecutor said nobody would think somebody would be trying to kill babies in a neonatal unit.\n\nNick Johnson KC, prosecuting, said Lucy Letby was the \"one common denominator\" that linked the deaths and collapses\n\n\"There's a very restricted number of people who could have been the poisoner, because entry to a neonatal unit is closely restricted,\" he said.\n\n\"Lucy Letby was on duty when both were poisoned and we allege she was the poisoner,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe said both of the twins had a baby brother, Child E and Child M, who were both also allegedly attacked by Ms Letby - one of which did not survive.\n\nThe court heard one of the means by which the Child E was killed and Child M was harmed, was by having air injected into the bloodstream - what the doctors call an air embolus.\n\nHe said all the deaths and collapses were \"no accident\" and were not \"naturally-occurring tragedies\".\n\nMr Johnson said sometimes babies were injected with air and on other occasions they were fed with insulin or too much milk.\n\nLucy Letby is alleged to have tried to kill the same baby three times\n\nHe told the court: \"So varying means by which these babies were attacked, but the constant presence when they were fatally attacked or collapsed catastrophically was Lucy Letby.\"\n\nJurors were shown a chart showing nurses who were present on duty when the alleged criminal incidents were said to have taken place.\n\nPointing out, as examples, the first three alleged offences in time he said the chart showed the only person that was present on all three occasions was the defendant.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"If you look at the table overall the picture is, we say, self-evidently obvious. It's a process of elimination.\n\n\"Many of the events in this case occurred on the night shifts.\n\n\"When upon Lucy Letby was moved on to day shifts, the collapses and deaths moved to the day shifts.\n\n\"They were all the work of the woman in the dock, who, we say, was the constant malevolent presence when things took a turn for the worse for these 17 children.\"\n\nMr Johnson alleged that in some cases, Ms Letby tried to kill the same baby more than once.\n\n\"Sometimes a baby that she succeeded in killing she did not manage to kill the first time she tried, or even the second time, and in one case even the third time.\"\n\nThe court heard how Ms Letby studied for her nursing degree at the University of Chester and had qualified a few years before the alleged events.\n\nShe worked throughout the period in consideration at the neonatal unit and was living in Chester at the time.\n\nThe jury has been told the trial may last up to six months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "First stop for the royal couple was a charity in north Belfast\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales have made a one-day trip to Northern Ireland where they visited charities and community organisations.\n\nIt was the couple's first visit since receiving their new titles following the accession of King Charles III.\n\nTheir trip began with a visit to suicide prevention charity PIPS in north Belfast.\n\nThey also took part in a cocktail-making race at a market in Belfast before heading to Carrickfergus.\n\nBelfast Lord Mayor Tina Black and Sinn Féin MP John Finucane were among those who welcomed the royal couple at their first engagement.\n\nPIPS was founded in 2003 following the loss of 14 young people to suicide in Belfast over a short period of time the previous year.\n\nDuring their visit, the prince and princess spoke to staff about their work helping people at risk of suicide and self-harm.\n\nThey also took part in an art therapy session with some vulnerable children who have been supported by PIPS.\n\nThe Princess of Wales makes a cocktail as she visits the Trademarket outdoor market in Belfast\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollowing the visit to the charity, the royal couple were greeted by crowds during a walk-about on the Antrim Road.\n\nDuring one exchange, a woman shook the Princess of Wales' hand and said: \"Nice to meet you but it would be better if it was when you were in your own country.\"\n\nThe woman, who appeared to film the encounter, added: \"Ireland belongs to the Irish\".\n\nThe princess smiled at the woman before moving on to shake hands with a well-wisher.\n\nThe prince and princess then travelled to Trademarket, a recently opened outdoor street-food and retail market on the Dublin Road.\n\nUpon their arrival the couple were greeted by project director Will Neill and met vendors to hear how the market had benefitted their new businesses.\n\nThe pair then took up position either side of the bar for a cocktail-making race to see who would be the quickest at mixing up a drink with William declared the winner.\n\nIt was cocktails and cocker spaniels for the royal couple at Trademarket in Belfast.\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales met with traders, and with representatives from Kainos, the IT company that leases the land to the food and retail enterprise.\n\nThe couple competed to make a cocktail called \"Up the Lagan in a Bubble\" in the fastest time - with Prince William winning.\n\nThe prince met two cocker spaniels on his visit to Trademarket\n\nThe royals then met two cocker spaniels before being gifted a collar for Orla - their own cocker spaniel at home.\n\nBefore leaving, they were given a card by sisters Rae, four, and Matilda, seven, who told the BBC: \"This is definitely better than school.\"\n\nThe royal couple's next stop was Carrickfergus where they visited Carrick Connect, a youth charity which offers support services to young people experiencing social or emotional difficulties.\n\nDuring their visit, they learned about some of the projects the charity are involved in including a mentoring service created to help young people develop strategies for coping with life.\n\nA large crowd gathered in Carrickfergus to greet the royals\n\nThe royal couple met Vice Lord Lieutenant of County Antrim, Miranda Gordon, on a visit to Carrick Connect\n\nThe prince and princess then took part in a walkabout along the Carrickfergus seafront to meet well-wishers.\n\nThey exchanged handshakes and fist-bumps with schoolchildren who had waited for hours to catch a glimpse of the royal couple.\n\nThe late Queen gave the couple the titles Baron and Baroness Carrickfergus on the morning of their wedding in 2011.\n• None William and Kate made Prince and Princess of Wales", "Rollercoasters have triggered some new iPhones to make emergency calls.\n\nAccording to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), at one US amusement park the plummeting rides activated the phones' crash detection system.\n\nThe feature was introduced in the new iPhone 14 and Apple Watch Series 8, Ultra and SE with the latest OS.\n\nApple told the newspaper the technology is intended to provide \"peace of mind\" and will continue to improve over time.\n\nAlthough a new feature on the iPhone, the crash detection system recently demonstrated its utility alerting emergency services to a fatal accident in Nebraska.\n\nPrevious reporting by the WSJ testing Apple's system in a variety of collisions - including using the skills of a \"demolition derby\" driver - did not suggest the system was overly sensitive.\n\nHowever, the newspaper was provided with records of six calls to local emergency services from iPhones whose crash detection system had been triggered while on rides at Kings Island amusement park outside Cincinnati, Ohio.\n\nIn a recording of one of the calls obtained by the newspaper an automated message from an iPhone can be heard saying: \"The owner of this iPhone was in a severe car crash and is not responding to their phone\". The sound of the amusement park is audible in the background.\n\nDrivers have also described instances where the crash detection system has been triggered because phones were dropped while their vehicle was moving.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Douglas Sonders This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFalse alerts can waste emergency services' time, and cause distress to relatives.\n\n\"We are very vigilant about calls. No call doesn't get checked. You get used to calls that are not an emergency, but it's wear and tear on the dispatchers,\" Melissa Bour, the director of emergency services for Warren County - which received the calls - told the WSJ.\n\nRollercoaster news site Coaster101 noted that Dollywood - a theme park partly owned by country music performer and literacy campaigner Dolly Parton - also warned riders of the risk of false alerts.\n\nSigns placed at entrances to two of the park's most \"intense\" roller coasters warned riders that Apple watches and other similar devices should not be taken on the ride, Coaster101's reporter noted, as they could trigger the collision detection feature and cause an unintended emergency call.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Coaster101.com This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to Apple, the system is designed to detect severe car crashes - such as front-impact, side-impact and rear-end collisions and rollovers.\n\nThe phone uses a number of sensors to detect a crash, including sound, changes in air pressure caused by airbags deploying, motion sensors and GPS.\n\nFollowing a detected crash, users are given an option to call the emergency services or dismiss the alert.\n\nHowever, if after 20 seconds the user does not respond, the phone automatically calls emergency services, giving the location of the incident. It also sends a message to a user's emergency contacts if they have them.\n\nUsers concerned that a scream-filled trip on a high adrenalin ride might trigger a false alert from their phone can turn the feature off if they wish, or put the phone into airplane mode.\n\nMany amusement parks ask people to leave their phone behind before going on a ride.\n\nThe BBC has approached Apple for comment.", "Ben Bernanke, who led the US central bank during the 2008 financial crisis, is one of three recipients of this year's Nobel prize in economics.\n\nThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said it was recognising the trio for research that had changed our understanding of financial crises.\n\nThe work focused on the importance of avoiding runs on banks.\n\nThe insights have \"improved our ability to avoid both serious crises and expensive bailouts\", the academy said.\n\nMr Bernanke's research showed how bank runs had prolonged the Great Depression in the 1930s. He later applied some of those lessons during his time at the US Federal Reserve, which he led from 2006-2014.\n\nWhen the financial crisis hit, he pushed the Federal Reserve to intervene aggressively, slashing interest rates and helping to organise bailouts of some of America's biggest banks - moves that were politically controversial.\n\nThe tools he deployed were also used by the Fed and other central banks in 2020 to stabilise the economy when the Covid pandemic hit and many countries went into lockdown.\n\n\"The laureates have provided a foundation for our modern understanding of why banks are needed, why they are vulnerable and what to do about it,\" said Stockholm University economist John Hassler, a member of the prize committee. \"We can also note that even though the financial crisis had large consequences, neither that, nor the Covid pandemic, led to depressions like in the '30s.\"\n\nWhen Mr Bernanke published his work in 1983, bank failures were viewed as a consequence of economic crisis, rather than the cause. His work turned that wisdom on its head.\n\nMr Bernanke, a long-time professor who is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said his work looks \"primitive\" today, but was unusual at the time for arguing that the financial system had a big impact on the rest of the economy.\n\n\"I'm incredibly honoured to be a co-winner,\" he said. He said the call was unexpected - noting that he learned the news from his daughter, after the committee failed to reach him because his mobile phone was off.\n\nMr Bernanke shared the prize with economists Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, who are professors at the University of Chicago and Washington University in St Louis, Missouri respectively.\n\nTheir work showed the vital role banks play in the economy and how regulation, such as deposit insurance, can make banks less vulnerable to collapse, insights that the committee said \"form the foundation of modern banking regulation\".\n\nUnderstanding financial crises remains a \"first-order priority\", Prof Hassler said in awarding the prize, which comes at a time of heightened global economic uncertainty.\n\nProf Diamond said the world is much better prepared for financial crises than it was in 2008. But he said unexpected events, like the surge in borrowing costs that hit the UK last month after the government unveiled plans for tax cuts, still pose risks, especially if people lose faith in the credibility of the system.\n\nThe 2022 Nobel prize in economics went to economists Ben Bernanke, Philip Dybvig and Douglas Diamond (above)\n\n\"The best advice is to be prepared for making sure that your part of the banking sector is both perceived to be healthy and to stay healthy and respond in a measured and transparent way to changes in monetary policy,\" he said, speaking by phone at the announcement.\n\nMr Bernanke, speaking at a press conference in Washington after the award was announced, said the big risks to the current economy - such as the energy crisis in Europe - do not appear to be rooted in the financial system. But he warned that if lenders are affected, they can make the situation worse.\n\n\"I don't think we know very much [about] how changes in interest rates affect long-run financial stability,\" he added.\n\nThe award comes with 10 million Swedish crown ($885,000) in prize money, which will be split three ways.\n\nAlthough not one of the original Nobel Prizes, the economics award is administered by the Nobel Foundation and is the last to be announced each year.\n\nThe other Nobel prizes were established by Alfred Nobel's will in 1895, while the economics prize, officially known as the Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was created in 1968.\n\nPrevious winners, the majority of whom have been from the US, include Paul Krugman and Milton Friedman. It is unusual for the prize to go to a prominent policymaker.\n\nMr Bernanke, who earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard and doctorate from MIT, previously worked as a professor of economics at Princeton and other universities. He also served as an advisor to former president George W Bush.\n\nThe announcement brought congratulations from many economists, including Olivier Blanchard, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, who said Mr Bernanke had done more for global growth than any other living economist.\n\n\"Without his actions when the financial crisis came, GDP would have collapsed much more than it did,\" he wrote on Twitter. \"So, on purely financial grounds, he deserves the prize (and on other grounds as well).\"\n\nBen Bernanke's moves to stabilise the US financial system in 2008 sparked controversy\n\nBut the prize also revived criticism of Mr Bernanke's actions, with some noting that he pioneered large bank purchases of government debt and other assets, which some say have helped fuel the price rises plaguing the economy today.\n\n\"Ben Bernanke wins the economic Nobel Prize at the very moment when the global financial system is (once again) on the edge due to the misguided monetary policies he and other central bankers spearheaded. This is a bankruptcy moment for central banking and the economics Nobel,\" Indian billionaire Sridhar Vudu, the chief executive of the Zoho technology firm, wrote on Twitter.", "Estelle Mendoza used to work for the Ministry of Food, which was set up in World War Two\n\nA bedridden 98-year-old woman was sent a water bill which said she had consumed the equivalent of one million cups of tea in six months.\n\nEstelle Mendoza's monthly Thames Water charge increased from £33 to £215 after the supplier suggested she had used 255 megalitres of water.\n\nHer son Lawrence, 68, branded the treatment of his mother, who has lived in her Gants Hill home in east London since 1948, \"disgusting\".\n\nThe sharp rise in smart meter readings was due to a leak but Mr Mendoza said it took months for the water company to act.\n\nMrs Mendoza, is considered a vulnerable customer because she has dementia and requires round-the-clock care.\n\nLetters seen by the BBC show the annual bill from Thames Water could total up to £3,400 a year - or enough to take 3,400 showers - based on Mrs Mendoza's usage between September 2020 and March 2021.\n\nAn average person uses 152 litres of water a day, with an average annual charge for water and sewage of £408 according to WaterUK.\n\nBecause her son had power of attorney, he noticed the huge payment leaving his mother's account and cancelled the direct debit.\n\nMr Mendoza, who works as an accountant, spotted that the figures didn't add up.\n\nHe said: \"The treatment from them is appalling. They [Thames Water] tell us water is a valuable commodity and they couldn't give a damn.\n\n\"There is absolutely no care or consideration given to their customers. I cannot believe this is the exception to the rule.\"\n\nLawrence Mendoza says Thames Water should have acted sooner\n\nAfter cancelling the direct debit, it was suggested that his mother's credit rating could be affected if payment was not made.\n\nThe Ongar town councillor said: \"My message to Thames Water would be, look after the vulnerable who can't look after themselves.\n\n\"Even the people in the complaints department have said it's disgusting.\n\n\"I cannot understand why they are unable to act when they have a smart meter telling them there's a problem.\"\n\nMr Mendoza added: \"If she didn't have me, Thames Water would have continued billing at £215 a month and not done anything.\"\n\nThames Water apologised for Mrs Mendoza's experience and any distress caused.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Taking care of customers who need additional support and delivering brilliant customer service is one of our biggest priorities.\n\n\"Our team are aware of her case and have escalated it to ensure we visit and investigate and, if possible, repair the leak on her property. Once the leak is repaired, we will compare normal water use and provide a revised bill.\"\n\nThe supplier highlighted that smart meters only charge for water used, which should lead to lower bills. Meters could also indicate a leak at a property, as there \"would be a continuous flow even at times where we wouldn't expect to see any water being used\", they added.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "One of the recent missile launches at an undisclosed area in North Korea\n\nNorth Korea says its recent barrage of missile launches were a \"simulation\" of a nuclear attack on the South.\n\nIt comes as intelligence suggests North Korea is preparing to hold its first nuclear weapon test in five years.\n\nIn recent weeks, Pyongyang has launched seven sets of missiles in response to recent US and South Korea drills.\n\nOn Monday, state media published extensive reports claiming the missiles were designed to carry tactical nuclear weapons.\n\nThese are small short-range weapons intended for use on the battlefield. They said the military practised loading the missiles with dummy versions of these miniaturised warheads.\n\nThey also claimed to have successfully simulated hitting South Korea's military bases, ports and airports, and said the launches were a warning to US and South Korea.\n\nState news agency KNCA ran photos of leader Kim Jong-un overseeing and \"guiding\" the tests.\n\nSouth Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said North Korea has nothing to gain from using nuclear weapons.\n\n\"North Korea is advancing its nuclear development and threatening not only the Republic of Korea but the world,\" he said, referring to South Korea by its official name.\n\n\"I believe it has nothing to gain from nuclear weapons.\"\n\nState media also published several pictures of Kim Jong-un presiding over the missile launches\n\nUS and South Korea intelligence officials have been suggesting that the North may soon test a nuclear weapon for the first time since 2017.\n\nExperts believe it could also use the opportunity to detonate a smaller tactical device for the first time - the sort which would fit into the missiles it has been testing.\n\nLast month Kim Jong-un declared North Korea an \"irreversible\" nuclear power and revised its laws, allowing it to use nuclear weapons pre-emptively. Its previous policy had been to only use such weapons in response to an attack.\n\nIt has also markedly stepped up its frequency of missile firings this year, carrying out over 40 missile launches this year so far - its most ever.\n\nMost of the launches in the past fortnight have been short-range missiles, which landed in the sea between North Korea and Japan.\n\nBut North Korea also fired a longer-distance missile over Japan last Tuesday - which analysts say is a new intermediate-range ballistic missile, based on the weapon's design.\n\nThis year has seen the North test-fire missiles from a variety of launch sites including trains and convoys - moving platforms which would make it harder for the weapons to be destroyed in a strike, analysts have suggested.\n\nThey also noted that Monday's state media reports framed the recent launches as \"tactical nuclear operations units\" - instead of describing them purely as missile tests - suggesting that North Korea has now developed a system for deploying smaller, short-range nuclear weapons.\n\nThe 25 September-October 9 barrage were a response to the US deploying its nuclear-powered aircraft carrier the USS Ronald Reagan to waters around the Korean peninsula, and holding joint drills with Seoul and Tokyo.\n\nThe acceleration marks a significant change from when Pyongyang pursued denuclearisation talks with then US President Donald Trump between 2018 and 2019.\n\nAnalysts say North Korea is also reacting in response to South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol, who was elected in May and has pursued a more hawkish stance to the North and closer ties with the US.", "Stefan Sylestre could be abroad after breaching his licence, police say\n\nThe man who attacked model and campaigner Katie Piper with acid might have fled the UK, police said.\n\nStefan Sylvestre is wanted by police after breaching his licence conditions.\n\nHe received a life sentence in 2009 after throwing sulphuric acid at Ms Piper's face, on the orders of her former partner Daniel Lynch.\n\nSylvestre was released on licence in 2018 but has now been recalled to prison. Officers said he should not be approached.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police force said it was notified on 23 September that Sylvestre, 34, had been recalled to prison.\n\nHis last known address was in north London.\n\nPolice said inquiries indicated that Sylvestre had left the UK on 2 August.\n\nOfficers from the Met's Specialist Crime Command were continuing to work with partner agencies to locate and arrest him, it said.\n\nSylvestre, who lives in Shepherd's Bush, attacked Ms Piper in March 2008 at the request of her obsessive ex-boyfriend Lynch.\n\nHe was jailed for a minimum of 16 years for sexually assaulting Ms Piper and telling Sylvestre to throw acid over her.\n\nThe attack left Ms Piper with serious injuries and permanent scarring and she has had hundreds of surgeries to repair damage to her face and eyesight.\n\nWhen Sylvestre was released in 2018, the Parole Board's decision summary said he had \"displayed empathy for the victim and expressed remorse and shame for his actions\".\n\nIt said he had avoided anti-social behaviour while imprisoned, had \"repaired his relationship\" with his family and had \"completed relevant offence-focused work to challenge and change his attitude and thinking\".\n\nA Probation Service spokesperson said: \"We are urgently working with the police to bring the offender back to prison, where he'll face longer behind bars.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Bank of England has announced new measures aimed at ensuring an \"orderly end\" to its emergency bond buying scheme which was introduced to stop a collapse of some pension funds.\n\nThe Bank will increase the amount of bonds it can buy in the final week of the scheme, which ends on Friday.\n\nIt will also introduce extra support to ease future strains on pension funds.\n\nThe Bank initially stepped in after the government's mini-budget sparked turmoil on financial markets.\n\nWith the deadline for the Bank's bond-buying programme fast approaching, there have been concerns volatility would return once the scheme ends.\n\nHowever, Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said the Bank was taking the approach of \"talking loudly and carrying a big stick\" in its attempt to calm concerns,\n\nHe said the measures are \"designed to reassure pension managers - and pension holders - that help will be provided\".\n\nHe added that the Bank's announcement reaffirms that the bond purchases were a short-term measure and \"it remains committed to withdrawing monetary stimulus and tightening monetary policy as it fights inflation\".\n\nThe mini-budget - which was announced on 23 September - pledged £45bn of tax cuts as part of a plan to boost economic growth, but the level of government borrowing required shocked investors who questioned the sustainability of the public finances.\n\nIn the aftermath of the statement, the pound hit a record low and investors demanded a much higher return for investing in government bonds, causing some to drop sharply in value.\n\nCertain types of funds in the pension industry, which invest in bonds, were forced to start selling, sparking fears of a fresh market downturn.\n\nOn 28 September, the Bank stepped in to buy government bonds saying its decision was driven by concern over \"a material risk to UK financial stability\".\n\nIt said it would buy up to £65bn bonds, with a limit of £5bn a day.\n\nSo far, the Bank has bought only around £5bn bonds in total under the programme and in its latest announcement it said stood ready to increase the size of its daily purchases. On Monday, it doubled the limit to £10bn.\n\nThis intervention is about a transition off the Bank of England emergency support offered in government bond markets, in the aftermath of the mini-budget.\n\nThe Bank of England is trying to leave no stone unturned in making sure the withdrawal of this support occurs in an orderly manner. But the Bank is also committing to the timetable to phase out the support this week. Some in the markets had anticipated it would need to be extended.\n\nThe Bank is demonstrating that this intervention is not intended to limit the rise in government costs, but instead was a temporary and targeted effort aimed at maintaining financial stability.\n\nThis is the message heard in markets on Monday, with effective borrowing costs, or yields, on government debt on the rise again. These rates were over 4.5% for borrowing over 30 years and five years.\n\nThe big picture is this: if the Treasury wants to bring down now rising government borrowing costs - which have an effect on mortgages and business lending too - it is up to it to present a credible set of tax and spending plans and independent forecasts, which are now promised for the end of October.\n\nThe forecasts and the plan will now feed into the Bank of England's interest rate decision in early November.\n\nThe Bank of England's intervention was a temporary bridge over a specific crisis. The solution here is for the government.\n\nThe government borrows money to fund its spending plans by selling bonds, or \"gilts\", to investors such as pension funds and big banks on international markets.\n\nBut a collapse in the price of those bonds in the aftermath of the mini-budget was forcing some funds to rush to sell bonds further forcing down the price.\n\nIf that process had continued, there was a risk that those pension funds could have got to a position where they could not pay their debts.\n\nIn its latest statement, the Bank said there had been \"substantial progress\" in addressing the financial problems facing these funds, which had faced the prospect of having to make forced sales of £50bn of bonds.\n\nAs well as increasing the daily limit on bond purchases this week, the Bank also announced a further measure to help the funds affected by the recent market volatility.\n\nUnder the measure, these funds will be able to use a wider range of assets - such as company bonds - to access money to help meet any short-term financial demands.\n\nIt is hoped this means these funds will not be forced to sell government bonds to raise cash, which was what they had to do in the immediate aftermath of the mini-budget.\n\nThis measure will continue after the emergency bond-buying programme has finished.\n\nBefore the mini-budget, the yield on government borrowing over a 30-year period stood at about 3.7%. The yield is effectively the interest rate.\n\nAfter the mini-budget it jumped to 5.1% until the Bank's intervention pushed the rate back down. However, in recent days it has crept back up again to around 4.5%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: A pedestrian on Kyiv's Klitschko bridge has a narrow escape from the missile strike\n\nThe past few hours have seen wave after wave of explosions, not just here in Kyiv, but all across this vast country, from Lviv in the west to Kharkiv in the east and Odesa in the south.\n\nFor those of us who were here when Russia's full-scale invasion began in February, there's an element of déjà vu. We've been told to spend as much time as we can in the basement, as further attacks, using missiles and drones, are expected.\n\nBut this is also different. The explosions here in Kyiv are much closer to the centre. Not distant thumps from the suburbs, but loud reverberations close to streets and locations we've come to know well in the past eight months.\n\nIt's difficult to tell what is being targeted, but a statement from Ukraine's ministry of culture said museums and the Philharmonic building had been hit.\n\nOne video circulating on social media showed a huge crater in a children's playground.\n\nAnother showed a missile blast hitting Mayor Vitali Klitschko's glass bridge, a popular tourist spot and viewpoint above the Dnipro River.\n\nOlena and Valerii Badakh live in an apartment overlooking the playground in Shevchenko Park.\n\n\"It was horrifying. In an instant, there appeared a hole in our life. It was terrible,\" Olena told me.\n\nValerii and Olena were horrified by the attacks\n\n\"I spent my entire life here. I went to school here. Cleaned the park, sowed grass. My son, and now my grandson grew up here,\" said her husband Valerii. \"There are always so many kids here.\n\n\"I think they wanted to hit the university building and the monument to Hrushevsky. Those are important symbols for us, it was a symbolic attack.\"\n\nSymbolic targets? It's hard, this early, to discern the logic. But reports from elsewhere speak of a thermal power plant being hit in Lviv. President Volodymyr Zelensky says energy facilities are being hit all over the country.\n\nIt's been a long time since so many cities were targeted at the same time. Moscow was apparently determined to make the biggest possible statement.\n\nTwo days ago, social media was flooded with videos and memes as Ukrainians wildly celebrated the attack on the bridge linking Russia with the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nToday, the videos are all of shell-shocked residents, fiery debris and urgent warnings. Any sense of euphoria is gone.\n\nIt feels inevitable, but that doesn't lessen the shock. Fear is once again stalking the capital.", "The BBC's correspondent in Kyiv, Hugo Bachega, was delivering a news report when several explosions happened in the centre of Ukraine's capital city.", "Post Office branches handled increased amounts of cash in August as banks close branches and the cost of living bites.\n\nThe Post Office handled £3.45bn in cash in August, the highest total since it began recording volumes five years ago.\n\nIt says it expects the trend to continue due to rising living costs and tighter budgets.\n\nSome people say they find it easier to monitor spending by using notes and coins, rather than electronic payments.\n\nPeople typically use less cash in August, the state-owned company said, but this year branches dealt with record-breaking amounts of cash.\n\nDuring the worst of the pandemic all transactions fell, but cash use dropped particularly sharply as shopkeepers preferred contactless methods.\n\n\"We expect cash transactions to continue to exceed expectations in October and for the rest of the year,\" said Martin Kearsley, banking director at the Post Office.\n\nCash transactions include personal deposits and withdrawals from post office accounts, as well as business use.\n\nPeople relied on the11,500 local Post Office branches around the country. Banks have been closing branches across the UK, leaving some communities with no access to banking services at all.\n\nAs part of efforts to ensure individuals and businesses can still access banking services, the Post Office is running pilots of shared banking hubs in two locations, with another 13 locations also earmarked for hubs.\n\nCustomers of most banks can already use post office counters for basic banking, but at the hubs there is a wider range of services and the banks taking part send representatives once a week to help customers.\n\nBut while the Post Office is processing more cash transactions in the short term, over the longer-term, the trend away from cash is set to continue, with UK Finance, the body representing the banking industry, forecasting cash will account for only 6% of payments by 2031.\n\nThe use of notes and coins has already fallen dramatically over the last decade, from 55% of payments in 2011 to 15% last year.\n\nThe total for September was slightly lower at £3.35bn. It would have been even higher without the extra bank holiday for the Queen's funeral, said the Post Office.\n\nThe Post Office said personal cash withdrawals at its branches totalled £805m in August, up 0.5% compared to July, while personal cash deposits exceeded £1.4bn for the first time.\n\nAre you using cash more than your card and if so, why? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland captain and Tottenham striker Harry Kane will make his CBeebies Bedtime Stories debut when he reads The Lion Inside by Rachel Bright to the nation's children.\n\nThe story follows a shy mouse who goes on a journey to find his roar.\n\nKane's reading will be on CBeebies at 18:50 BST on Monday, 10 October and on BBC iPlayer.\n\n\"One of my favourite things to do is sit down with my children before bedtime and read them a book,\" he said.\n\n\"I enjoy this quality time with them. They especially love the book The Lion Inside so they will be extremely excited to hear this.\"\n\nThe reading comes on the same day as Kane, 29, launched the Harry Kane Foundation, which seeks to change perceptions of mental health by normalising conversations and promoting positive habits to end stigma around the subject.\n\nLaunching his foundation on World Mental Health Day, Kane said: \"It marks the start of my journey to learn more about mental health and use my position hopefully to encourage others to look after their mental health, be their best and not be afraid to ask for help.\n\n\"While I'm far from an expert on the subject, I've learnt that there is a growing number of people who need to learn positive coping strategies and build resilience to deal with adversity.\n\n\"I am excited to be working in support of some amazing organisations and causes close to my heart.\"\n\nRecent CBeebies Bedtime Stories readers have included the Princess of Wales, Harry Styles, Arlo Parks, Dave Grohl, Steve Carell and Rose Ayling-Ellis, who signed her story in British Sign Language.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Oleksii, part of the National Guard, takes solace from Ukraine's recent success in Donetsk\n\nOleksii tells me: \"I feel safe here because we are on our land and even the ground will bring me help.\" That's despite the nearby sound of small-arms fire, exploding artillery shells landing within sight and the roar of Russian jets overhead.\n\nThe ground he and the small team of Ukrainian troops now occupy is on the border of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The same ground that Russian President Vladimir Putin recently declared as being Russian forever.\n\nOver the past week the men of Ukraine's D1 National Guard Unit have advanced more than 20km (12 miles) east from the recently liberated city of Lyman in Donetsk region. They now occupy a former Russian position in a wood - still within range of the retreating Russian army. Part of \"forever Russia\" is already back in Ukrainian hands. Russia's now the defending army.\n\nThe reversal in fortunes has been a shot in the arm for Ukrainian troops. There's a palpable sense of confidence among them, even though they're still within range. Ilya, another member of the unit, tells me: \"We can retake territory, but the Russians cannot.\" I ask why? \"Because they are weak now, they're scared of us, they're running from us.\"\n\nThis position also tells a story about the difference between Ukrainian and Russian discipline and morale. Strewn across the ground and hanging in trees are remnants of the retreating Russian forces - empty cans, ration packs, boots, bottles and clothes.\n\nIlya picks up a discarded Russian helmet and compares it with his own. \"Army of the future,\" jokes Ilya as he taps the Russian helmet. \"A very bad future,\" adds a comrade, laughing.\n\nIt's not that dissimilar to what Russian troops would have worn in World War Two. They hold up a Russian winter glove and read the label. It says it was made in 2005. \"New for Russians,\" they joke. Another soldier called Duke says Russia treats its soldiers like meat.\n\nOleksii says discarded Russian trash often gives away their positions when they fly their small drone. They rely on one of Elon Musk's Starlink satellite kits for communication. They say it's been working all week.\n\nAs you drive around the Donbas there are more signs of Russia's depleted army. We witnessed Ukrainian forces towing away a troop carrier and a large self-propelled gun - both still marked with the Russian \"Z\".\n\nSome of the collected, discarded materiel the Russian leave behind\n\nUkraine's now captured more Russian armour than it's been supplied by the West. Dozens more burnt-out military vehicles, too damaged to salvage, have been left rusting on the sides of roads. Boxes of unused ammunition are collected to be used against their former owners. The Donbas is also still littered with lethal mines - which will take years to clear.\n\nAny sense of euphoria among Ukrainian troops is not always shared among the people they've freed from Russian control. Liberation comes with a costly legacy.\n\nThose who survived the shelling are wondering how they'll make it through the winter. Tens of thousands of people are without power and running water.\n\nIn Lyman we come across Natalia and Vitali, searching in the rubble of a bombed out house for wood they can burn. Their fire is now the only way they can stay warm. An estimated 80% of their city has been destroyed or damaged. They narrowly survived a Russian rocket landing on their home - waking them up at 05:30.\n\nNatalia and Vitali speaking to the BBC's Jonathan Beale\n\nNatalia describes life now as \"hard and simply unbearable\".\n\n\"We are like ants. We were trampled on and those who survived now carry firewood. And those who did not are buried,\" she says. Like many here, she tries to avoid blaming either side for her woes.\n\nWhen we arrive at the centre of Lyman there's already a long queue for bread. Many of them appear to be hedging their bets on the future.\n\nThe queue for bread in Lyman\n\nKataryna, a mum with two young children, tries to explain her dilemma: Russia, she says, still \"has a lot of power, which is why it is scary that they might return. Because the city has already suffered very badly, and if the city will be passed back and forth from hand to hand, then nothing will remain including people\".\n\nAt the moment she says all she wants is electricity and peace. This winter she's unlikely to get either.", "Nadhim Zahawi - chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - has urged Tory MPs to back the prime minister\n\nCabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi has urged Tories to rally behind Prime Minister Liz Truss after weeks of unrest over her policies.\n\nMr Zahawi told the BBC that division would delay the growth plan and risk defeat at the next election.\n\nBut ex-culture secretary Nadine Dorries warned Ms Truss needed to be a \"unifier\", not a \"disrupter\".\n\nMr Zahawi's call for unity was echoed by other cabinet ministers in Sunday newspaper articles.\n\nWhen asked if he could see a situation where the Conservatives oust Ms Truss, Mr Zahawi told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: \"No, I think what the party will do is get behind Liz Truss.\"\n\nCalling delay \"our great enemy\", Mr Zahawi said the government had to focus on delivering its plan for economic growth and lowering energy bills, adding how it would \"demonstrate in 24 months' time how we have delivered\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: I detest the Tories and everything they stand for - Nicola Sturgeon\n\nMr Zahawi also accused Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon of using \"dangerous language\" when she took a swipe at the Conservatives on the same programme.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the SNP's party conference in Aberdeen on Sunday, Ms Sturgeon said she would prefer a Labour rather than a Tory government, adding: \"I detest the Tories and everything they stand for.\"\n\nMs Dorries told the programme the Tories faced electoral \"wipeout\" and urged the prime minister to \"reflect on what's gone wrong\" in recent weeks.\n\nWhen asked about her suggestion in a tweet that the prime minister should call a general election if she wanted to drop the policies of Boris Johnson, she said if Ms Truss introduced a \"completely new set of policy ideas\", it would \"be right to go to the country\".\n\nBut she continued: \"Liz doesn't need to do that. And I really hope she won't do that when we're 30 points behind in the polls [to Labour].\"\n\nMs Dorries, who insisted she was \"still one of Liz's biggest supporters\", called on Tory colleagues to unify behind the prime minister.\n\nThe calls to cease the public divisions within the party follow a turbulent week for Ms Truss, with interventions from former ministers and backbenchers forcing a U-turn over plans to scrap the top 45p rate of tax on the highest earners.\n\nDisagreements also emerged over calls to raise benefits in line with inflation.\n\nWhen asked if Boris Johnson could return as prime minister, Ms Dorries said she did not \"rule anything out\" but it was \"extremely unlikely\".\n\nMr Zahawi said he could not see Mr Johnson returning, saying the former prime minister was \"telling all colleagues to get behind Liz\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Zahawi and other cabinet colleagues - including Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt - penned opinion pieces in Sunday's newspapers. Ms Braverman and Mr Zahawi both suggested any future Labour administration would be propped up by the SNP.\n\nBBC political correspondent Ian Watson says No 10 is keen to quell any talk of rebellion among Conservatives as MPs return to Westminster this week after the party conference season.\n\nBut he says despite the co-ordinated messages from cabinet ministers, Ms Truss's internal critics could interpret the need for such explicit declarations of support as a sign of vulnerability.", "Former shadow minister Sam Tarry has lost a battle to keep hold of his London seat in the first deselection of a Labour MP for more than a decade.\n\nThe vote by party members means Mr Tarry, an ex-trade union official, will not stand as Ilford South's Labour candidate at the next general election.\n\nHe was beaten by Redbridge Council leader Jas Athwal, by 499 votes to 361.\n\nMr Tarry had previously beaten Mr Athwal to contest the seat in controversial circumstances in 2019.\n\nJust before the 2019 selection, Mr Athwal, who had been the favourite to win, was suspended over \"extremely serious allegations\", which ruled him out of the race.\n\nHe had always denied the allegations and was later cleared. Mr Athwal claimed the complaint was \"malicious\" and politically motivated.\n\nThe move sparked accusations of a \"stitch-up\" to allow Mr Tarry, a supporter of then-party leader Jeremy Corbyn, to become the candidate.\n\nMr Tarry has represented Ilford South since the December 2019 election. He replaced Mike Gapes, who had held the seat since 1992 but resigned from Labour alongside six other MPs that February.\n\nSpeaking after the results of Monday night's vote were announced, Mr Athwal said it was a \"real honour\" to be selected.\n\n\"Ilford is my home, it is where I live, went to school and where my children all went to school. It is the only place I would ever want to represent,\" he said.\n\n\"Today means Ilford can focus on the future and ensure that Westminister delivers for Ilford, that Ilford gets the investment it needs and deserves.\"\n\nMr Tarry, who had been backed by the left-wing Momentum campaign group, said he was \"incredibly disappointed\".\n\nHe added that he intended to issue a further statement on Tuesday \"on the process and outcome\".\n\nMr Athwal had the support of shadow health secretary Wes Streeting, who represents the neighbouring Ilford North seat.\n\nWelcoming the result, Mr Streeting said: \"Jas will be a superb representative for Ilford South. His is an Ilford story - the boy who came from the Punjab and built an education, successful businesses, and a wonderful family here.\n\n\"He's led Redbridge Labour to three unprecedented victories because he's a local resident who fights as hard for our community as he would for his own family.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wes Streeting MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Tarry was sacked as shadow transport secretary by Sir Keir Starmer in July, after joining striking rail workers on a picket line.\n\nThe Labour leader said he lost his role for doing unauthorised interviews and \"making up policy on the hoof\".\n\nThe vote by party members was triggered after every local branch in Mr Tarry's constituency voted for him to go through a re-selection process.\n\nThe east London constituency is a safe Labour seat, with a majority of 24,101.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of attacking the bridge to Russian-annexed Crimea, saying that it was an \"act of terrorism\".\n\nPresident Putin said Ukraine's intelligence forces had aimed to destroy a critically important piece of Russia's civil infrastructure.\n\nHe was speaking at a meeting with the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin.\n\nOfficials say three people were killed in the blast on the bridge.\n\nThe victims were in a nearby car when a lorry blew up, Russian officials say.\n\n\"There is no doubt, this is an act of terrorism aimed at destroying Russia's critical civilian infrastructure,\" Mr Putin said.\n\n\"Its authors, perpetrators and beneficiaries are the security services of Ukraine.\"\n\nMr Bastrykin said that citizens of Russia and some foreign states had aided preparations for the attack.\n\nAccording to Mr Bastrykin, investigators have established that the truck which they say blew up travelled through Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, North Ossetia and Krasnodar Territory.\n\nHe has ordered an investigation into the incident which brought down sections of the roadway.\n\nUkrainian officials have not indicated that their forces were behind the attack.\n\nBut an adviser to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, denied Mr Putin's accusation.\n\nHe wrote that there is \"only one terrorist state here\" and that the \"whole world knows who it is\".\n\n\"Does Putin accuse Ukraine of terrorism? It looks too cynical even for Russia,\" he said.\n\nOn Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged the incident in his nightly address, saying: \"Today was not a bad day and mostly sunny on our state's territory.\"\n\n\"Unfortunately, it was cloudy in Crimea. Although it was also warm,\" he added.\n\nRussian authorities partially re-opened the roadway part of the bridge hours after the attack but for light traffic only.\n\nThe railway part of the bridge - where oil tankers caught fire - has also reopened.\n\nThe 19km (12-mile) bridge, the longest in Europe, is an important supply route for Russian forces fighting in Ukraine.\n\nRussia has used the bridge to move military equipment, ammunition, and personnel from Russia to battlefields in southern Ukraine.\n\nIt was opened by Mr Putin in 2018, four years after Russia's annexation of Crimea.\n\nSecurity camera footage released on social media showed a truck - allegedly from the Russian city of Krasnodar, an hour's drive from the crossing - moving west across the bridge at the time of the explosion.\n\nThe footage shows a huge fireball erupting just behind - and to one side - of the truck as it begins to climb an elevated section of the bridge.\n\nThe speed with which the truck bomb theory started to spread in Russian circles was suspicious. It suggested the Kremlin preferred an act of terrorism to a more alarming possibility: that this was an audacious act of sabotage carried out by Ukraine.\n\n\"I've seen plenty of large vehicle-borne IEDs [improvised explosive devices] in my time,\" a former British army explosives expert told me. \"This does not look like one.\"\n\nA more plausible explanation, he said, is a massive explosion below the bridge - probably delivered using some kind of clandestine maritime drone.\n\n\"Bridges are generally designed to resist downwards loads on the deck and a certain amount of side loading from the wind,\" he said. \"They are not generally engineered to resist upward loads. I think this fact was exploited in the Ukrainian attack.\"\n\nSome observers have noted that in one of the other security camera videos, something that looks like the bow wave of a small boat appears next to one of the bridge supports, a split second before the explosion.", "CNN journalists, Anna Coren and Daniel Hodge, speak to police after being detained\n\nTwo journalists from US news outlet CNN have apologised for their coverage of last week's attack on a childcare centre in Thailand that left 37 people, including 23 children, dead.\n\nThey entered the building where the attack occurred and filmed on site.\n\nThey were accused of trespassing and filming a crime scene without permission.\n\nBoth of them were later cleared of the charges, but fined for working as journalists while on tourist visas.\n\nThe journalists - reporter Anna Coren and cameraman Daniel Hodge - have agreed to leave the country. They have also apologised in a video that has since been widely circulated by local news outlets, and appeared to have been filmed inside a police station.\n\n\"My deepest apologies... especially the families of victims of this tragedy - we are so sorry to have caused you more pain and suffering,\" said Ms Coren, who along with Mr Hodge was fined 5,000 baht ($133; £120).\n\n\"We know your country is going through a painful time and we never came here to cause more grief.\"\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThai police investigated the incident after other journalists raised concerns. The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand and Thai Journalists' Association issued statements criticising the CNN crew for \" a serious breach of journalistic ethics in crime reporting\".\n\n\"Would one of their crews have behaved in the same way at a serious crime scene in the United States?\" the statement asked.\n\nThere was also a widely shared picture on social media from the weekend that showed a CNN crew member climbing over a low fence to leave the compound.\n\nMs Coren and Mr Hodge were later taken to the police station in Nong Bua Lam Phu province, where the attack took place, for questioning.\n\nTwo Thai ministers have said the CNN crew did not have official permission to enter the premises, but the police accepted that they believed they had permission and decided not to prosecute them.\n\nCNN has issued two statements. In the first response, it said their crew were told by three public health officials that they could film inside. They said the premises had been cordoned off while they were inside, and they needed to climb over the fence to leave.\n\nPolice later found that village health volunteers had granted the team entry despite having no authority to do so, according to local news outlet The Nation.\n\nIn the second statement, CNN International's executive vice-president and general manager Mike McCarthy said the team entered the building \"in good faith, to gain a fuller impression of what transpired inside and to humanise the scale of the tragedy for their audience\".\n\nHe added they \"deeply regret any distress or offense\" the report may have caused, and said CNN had since stopped broadcasting the report and removed the video from its website.\n\nThailand is still in shock over the attack by a former policeman who stormed the childcare centre, killing children as young as two while they slept.\n\nPolice say the 34-year-old attacker - a local named Panya Kamrab - killed his wife and his step-son, before killing himself after a manhunt. The motive for the attack is not yet known.", "A photograph of the youngest victim of the explosion, five year-old Shauna Flanagan Garwe, was placed among candles at the Letterkenny vigil\n\nVigils are being held for the third night in a row following the explosion in Creeslough in County Donegal that killed 10 people.\n\nThe explosion happened at a service station in the village on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe close-knit community of about 400 people is coming to terms with an unprecedented scale of loss.\n\nCandlelit vigils are being held across Donegal as well as in Guildhall Square in Londonderry.\n\nAt a vigil in Letterkenny, photographs of the victims were placed in Market Square and people were urged to talk about what happened.\n\nThe vigil was organised by the Letterkenny Community Development Project as a show of support to the families of those killed or injured.\n\nCandles were lit in Derry on the steps of the Guildhall\n\nProject director Gerry McMonagle said people needed to talk after the tragedy to process what had happened.\n\n\"This was an awful incident. I think the randomness of it, it could have happened to any one of us, and that brought it home to people,\" he said.\n\n\"In this crowd tonight, everyone will know someone who was affected by this, it is such a tight knit community, when one hurts we all hurt.\n\n\"That's why we're all here tonight in solidarity and sympathy with those families.\"\n\nIn Derry, 10 red candles were lit on the steps of the Guildhall, as Mayor Sandra Duffy paid tribute to the victims.\n\nMs Duffy reiterated there was a strong connection between the city and County Donegal while the Allegri choir sang its version of A Rose.\n\nOne of the vigils held in County Donegal on Monday evening was held in the village of Culdaff\n\nAn investigation is under way into the cause of the explosion, but police have said it appears to have been a tragic accident.\n\nTributes to those affected have been paid by the Pope, Irish president and neighbours.\n\nOn Monday, a statement from King Charles and the Queen Consort said they expressed their \"most heartfelt sympathy and deepest condolences\" to people who had lost loves ones and with \"the people of Ireland\".\n\nThe monarch said they had experienced the \"strong sense of community\" that exists in Donegal from their visit to the county in 2016.\n\nThe first funerals of two of the victims, Jessica Gallagher, 24, from Creeslough, and Martin McGill, 49, who was originally from Scotland, will take place on Tuesday.\n\nMiss Gallagher's aunt Dolores Gallagher said her niece was a \"beautiful woman\".\n\nThe 24-year-old had recently graduated from IFA [International Fashion Academy] Paris and was due to start her first fashion and design job in Belfast on Monday, Ms Gallagher told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"She was lively, vibrant, and lit up every room she walked into.\n\n\"She was such a happy person and a hard worker - she wanted her life to make a difference in the field of fashion and art. She was so proud to belong to Creeslough.\"\n\nThe funeral of James O'Flaherty, from Sydney, Australia, will be held on Wednesday morning, followed by the funerals of Catherine O'Donnell and her son James Monaghan, from Creeslough, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nMr O'Flaherty's coffin was removed from the Eternal Light Chapel of Rest in Letterkenny earlier.\n\nHe was accompanied by his wife Tracey and son Hamish.\n\nLeona Harper, who was 14, will be buried on Thursday.\n\nHer parents described her as a \"a little gem\" and thanked the digger driver who found her body after a 24-hour search.\n\n\"A massive thank you to him because he just didn't stop until he got her,\" Donna Harper told Highland Radio.\n\n\"Twenty-four hours before we got her and she was the last taken out. The doctors and everything, everybody was amazing the way they treated the whole scene from start to finish with nothing more than respect.\"\n\nAmong the other victims of the blast were a five-year-old girl and two teenagers, while there are eight people still in hospital.\n\nIn Creeslough, like many villages in rural Ireland, everyone knows everyone.\n\nThe youngest victim, Shauna Flanagan Garwe was a \"playful, energetic little girl\" who always asked for a lollipop, according to Creeslough pharmacist Fergus Brennan.\n\nShe was with her father Robert, known as Bob to the villagers, when the explosion happened.\n\nSpeaking outside St Michael's Church before Mass on Monday, resident Majella Russell said \"10 beautiful souls have gone to heaven\".\n\nMs Russell, whose niece worked in the shop, said church services had been packed as \"we just have to pray and be with each other\".\n\n\"All we have is our faith, our faith will get us through,\" she said.\n\n\"We are just all numb, this is a very close community, it's just unbelievable what's happened.\"\n\nButcher Patrick O'Donnell was working at the back of the shop when the explosion happened.\n\nHe was able to help an elderly woman from the scene but said local people \"are the real heroes\" for their rescue efforts.\n\n\"I'm praying for them as well because they went through a lot,\" he said.\n\nThe investigation into the cause of the blast is continuing\n\nOn Monday, the Irish Red Cross announced it had set up the Creeslough Community Support Fund to help those injured, bereaved, made homeless or who had lost an income.\n\nA separate online appeal for donations to help people in the village has surpassed €250,000 (£219,000) in two days.\n\nEverton FC captain and Republic of Ireland international Seamus Coleman, who is from Donegal, issued a statement on Monday night sending his sympathies to everyone affected by events in Creeslough.\n\n\"Having been born and raised in the county, I know first-hand how tight-knit the communities are,\" he said.\n\n\"The immediate reaction of the emergency services, local residents and passers-by who put themselves at risk to help others is an example of the spirit and togetherness of the entire county.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Sunday, An Garda Síochána (the Irish police force) confirmed the names of the 10 victims, who were all from Creeslough or the surrounding areas.\n\nEmergency crews from Northern Ireland were sent across the border on Friday to help their Irish counterparts deal with the aftermath.\n\nCreeslough resident Anthony Gallagher spoke to two search-dog handlers from Northern Ireland who had been part of the rescue operation.\n\n\"They looked a little bit stressed out because they had been in doing all the hard work, and they came down the road for a walk or a break,\" he said.\n\n\"I had a conversation with them both - [it was a] difficult job and I thanked them for their help.\"\n\nA man in his 20s who was injured in the explosion is critically ill in St James's Hospital in Dublin.\n\nSeven other people who were hurt are in a stable condition in Letterkenny University Hospital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Blocks of flats in Zaporizhzhia were left in total ruin after an overnight Russian missile strike\n\nAt least 13 people have been killed by Russian missile strikes on the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian officials say.\n\nDozens more were wounded, and several residential buildings destroyed.\n\nThe city is under Ukrainian control, but it is part of a region that Russia says it annexed last month.\n\nZaporizhzhia has been hit repeatedly in recent weeks, as Russia hits back at urban areas after suffering defeats in the south and north-east of Ukraine.\n\nParts of the Zaporizhzhia region, including its nuclear power plant - which is around 52km (30 miles) from the city - have been under Russian control since early in the invasion.\n\nUkrainian officials initially put the death toll at 17 but later revised it down.\n\nThe BBC's Paul Adams, who was recently in the city, says the buildings struck are not obvious military targets and the attacks seem entirely indiscriminate.\n\nMore than 60 civilians are understood to have been killed in and around Zaporizhzhia in the past nine days.\n\nUkrainian President Zelensky called the shelling \"merciless strikes on peaceful people again\".\n\n\"Absolute meanness,\" he said. \"Absolute evil. Savages and terrorists. From the one who gave this order to everyone who fulfilled this order. They will bear responsibility. For sure. Before the law and before people.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian regional governor in Zaporizhzhia, Oleksandr Starukh, said 12 Russian missiles had partially destroyed a nine-storey building, and levelled five other residential buildings.\n\n\"There may be more people under the rubble. A rescue operation is under way at the scene. Eight people have already been rescued,\" he said on Telegram.\n\nSurvivors of the strikes have spoken of the moment they were woken by the blasts.\n\nKateryna Ivanova and her family were forced to run to the bathroom as their apartment filled with smoke, she told AFP news agency.\n\nAfter managing to run into the street, Ms Ivanova said she was met by a neighbour who \"screamed that her husband was dead\".\n\nAnother resident, 38-year-old Lyudmyla, told Reuters news agency how she rushed to wake her children and move them to safety after a \"roaring\" blast \"completely destroyed\" the door to her home.\n\nHer 10-year-old son Bohdan described the missile strike as \"horrific\" and said he was woken by the sound of screaming.\n\nA map showing the four areas of Ukraine that Russia claimed it annexed last month, plus Crimea, which it has occupied since 2014\n\nMeanwhile, a power line supplying the nuclear plant has been reconnected after shelling resulted in a cut on Friday night, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, said.\n\n\"Our team at #Zaporizhzhya confirms the offsite power line lost yday was restored & #ZNPP is reconnected to the grid - a temporary relief in a still untenable situation,\" he tweeted on Sunday.\n\nMr Grossi said he would call on both sides to support a protection zone around the plant. Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for the shelling.\n\nMeanwhile, Russian divers are beginning a fuller examination of the damage done by Saturday's explosion on the road and rail bridge linking occupied Crimea with Russia.\n\nThough limited traffic has resumed along one lane, a section of the bridge was brought down by the blast.\n\nSecurity has been tightened and Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a full investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Fire and smoke on Crimean bridge after Saturday explosion\n\nHave you been affected by what's happened? If it's safe for you to do so, you can get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Morgan and Ewan got a mortgage before the rates rise but say most of their friends are renting\n\nFirst-time house buyers who got a mortgage just weeks before interest rates shot up have said buying is \"scary\" at the moment.\n\nMorgan Luff, 23, and Ewan Anderson, 27, are buying a house in Caldicot, Monmouthshire.\n\nThey secured a 3.6% interest rate mortgage, but the average rate has now gone above 6%.\n\nA building society boss said market volatility is likely to lead to financial difficulty for more people.\n\nMorgan and Ewan said they were \"lucky\" to get a five-year mortgage deal in August.\n\nThey are now in the process of buying the semi-detached house they rent from family.\n\n\"It seems we're at the start of these new rates, where down the line it's going to be almost double by the sounds of it,\" Ewan said.\n\nMorgan said the majority of the couple's friends are renting at the moment.\n\n\"We know friends that are not even looking to buy at the moment and just continue renting because it is almost cheaper,\" she said, \"especially if you've got a fixed rent price.\"\n\nMorgan said she does worry about taking on such a large commitment when things are so uncertain.\n\n\"With bills, they're going up all the time so you might be able to afford that but you don't know if you're going to afford everything in between,\" she explained. \"It's a massive jump and being so young I don't think you really learn any of this when you're growing up.\"\n\nShe said the process of becoming a home owner was a \"massive eye-opener\".\n\n\"Five years is a very long time whereas with renting you can just walk away when your six months or your 12 months are up,\" she said. \"It's very scary.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It feels lucky to have got the mortgage accepted\"\n\nAs borrowing costs rise, \"things will become tighter\" for borrowers, said Will Carroll of Monmouthshire Building Society.\n\nThe lender was among those to withdraw some fixed-rate mortgage products after the UK government's mini-budget.\n\n\"I think it is inevitable, with a cost of living crisis and costs increasing across the board for households, that things will become tighter,\" Mr Carroll said.\n\nHis staff, he added, were already helping those concerned about the rising cost of repayments, or the prospect of higher rates once existing deals came to an end.\n\n\"But as a responsible lender, when we issue a mortgage we do stress an increase in future rates on an individual's ability to pay,\" Mr Carroll added.\n\n\"So while we do expect an increase in those members experiencing financial difficulty, we hope that it is not going to be too severe and that we can manage through until things maybe return to more normal circumstances,\" he said.\n\nWe try and take the stress away from clients but at times when lenders are pulling deals with very little notice, it's difficult.\n\nRates for two and five-year fixed-term mortgages had begun climbing before the mini-budget.\n\nData from Moneyfacts showed average fixed rates a year ago, in October 2021, were 2.25% for a two-year fixed rate and 2.55% for a five-year fixed rate.\n\nBut by 6 October 2022 the interest rates had increased to 6.11% for a two-year deal and 6.02% for a five-year deal.\n\nFormer rugby player Mike Powell has been a mortgage broker in Caldicot since 2013.\n\nThe last month has been the busiest he has experienced, he said. Things were \"chaotic, manic, turbulent, extremely busy,\" he explained.\n\n\"We try and take the stress away from clients but at times when lenders are pulling deals with very little notice, it's difficult.\"\n\n\"We've got people who have been on tracker rates for 10, 12, 15 years who've never done anything,\" he said. \"They've seen their mortgage payments at an affordable cost to them so they've just thought it's not been going up.\n\nHe said he hears from lenders regularly and there is no sense of panic from industry insiders.\n\n\"The banks have got a lot more money this time. They're a lot more liquid than what they were in 2008 so I can't see a crash coming.\"\n\nMonmouthshire Building Society withdrew fixed-rate products for new customers in the volatile period after the mini-budget, but it honoured existing applications and kept offering fixed-rate deals to existing customers.\n\nIt expected to reintroduce fixed-rate products to new customers soon, but at a higher rate than before the mini-budget.\n\nMonmouthshire Building Society has 10,000 mortgage customers and lends about £350m a year.\n\nSpeaking at the society's Newport headquarters, Mr Carroll said his team had to adapt quickly to the market reaction after the mini-budget.\n\nMr Carroll said: \"The Bank of England rate is at its highest level now since 2008 and the expectation is that the rate will increase further over the next year.\n\n\"I think the markets are forecasting a rate of 5.5% by the middle of next year. So we can expect an increase in the cost of borrowing as we move forward.\n\n\"We are seeing our borrowing members come to us sooner than maybe they had done previously with concerns about that increased cost of borrowing into the future.\"\n\nHe encouraged borrowers with concerns to contact the building society's mortgage advisers.", "This has not been an easy party conference for the government.\n\nSome in Birmingham think it's been a disaster.\n\nFirst, a colossal U-turn on the 45p tax rate, then being forced to bring forward the next step of the chancellor's economic growth plan under pressure from Tory MPs.\n\nNow, there's another mutiny brewing over benefits - and how much they should go up by.\n\nBoris Johnson's government promised that working-age benefits would go up in line with inflation.\n\nHis successor as PM, Liz Truss, has pledged that pensions will continue to be linked to inflation but has pointedly not made the same commitment when it comes to welfare payments like universal credit.\n\nIt means a rise in working-age benefits could be linked to wages instead.\n\nThe government has said no final decision will be made for a few weeks yet. But rebellion hangs in the air here in Birmingham and it's likely to follow the prime minister back to Westminster.\n\nA growing number of Conservative MPs are making it clear where they stand - and remarkably, that goes all the way up to the cabinet.\n\n\"We are not about trying to help people with one hand and take away with another,\" she told Times Radio.\n\nRemember, cabinet ministers are supposed to toe the government line. This is not an example of biting your tongue.\n\nThen there's the former Tory leader - and one of the main architects of the universal credit system - Iain Duncan Smith, who has urged benefits to rise in line with prices.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"Do the right thing for those who are poorest.\n\n\"The money you give into this area to deal with the worst off will go straight back into the economy, so that will help growth, ironically, at a time when we need growth rather than recession.\"\n\nThere is a debate going on in government over the best way to proceed.\n\nOne argument being made in Downing Street is that it is unfair to urge workers to accept below inflation wage rises, then to give inflation-matched increases in benefits.\n\nHence the suggestion the rises in benefits could be limited to the average salary increase.\n\nOne minister who sits around the cabinet table also argues the government needs to be prepared to have \"a conversation\" with the public about the benefits system.\n\nThey argue the drive for growth requires people to be in work, earning more money.\n\nBut there is significant concern in the Conservative Party about the idea of real-terms benefits cuts during a cost-of-living crisis.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Chloe Smith is among those to have argued the government needs to protect the most vulnerable in society.\n\nShe told the conference: \"We do understand that these are very anxious times for people, we know that people are struggling with some of the costs that are rising. That's why protecting the most vulnerable is a vital priority for me and to this government.\"\n\nIt'll be her job to conduct review of benefit levels. It's common for people in the job to back higher rather than lower benefits. Her allies haven't contested suggestions she wants to secure an inflation-level increase.\n\n\"I suspect we'll end up with something close to inflation because of parliamentary pressure,\" says one minister I spoke to on Tuesday morning.\n\nSo where does this all end up? Is the move now inevitable? Some think so, like the former cabinet minister Damian Green who says the prime minister would lose any vote in Parliament on below-inflation benefits.", "Scots business leaders need more confidence to build up companies to scale, according to the chair of the Scottish National Investment Bank.\n\nWillie Watt said the economic strategy has been more successful in encouraging people to start up businesses, which has been a weakness of the Scottish economy.\n\nBut he said only by growing those start-ups will Scotland tackle its weakness in productivity growth.\n\nThe financier was commenting on the publication of the first full-year set of accounts by the publicly-owned lender.\n\nHe said it had invested more than £129m in the year to March, in partnership with other investors bringing £440m to the deals. In the previous year, with only four months of operation, it invested £22m.\n\nMr Watt, 63, who was previously chief executive and chair of Martin Currie, the Edinburgh-based fund manager - said last year's investment total was less than he wanted, and that he hoped the public investment bank would get close to the £200m of Scottish government funding allocated for investment this year.\n\nMinisters are funding the investment bank with £2bn over ten years, to invest in projects where private sector investors are reluctant to commit funds without a public sector partner taking a leading role.\n\nIt is focused on projects aimed at reducing carbon emissions, innovation and regeneration of places that help reduce inequalities.\n\nMarket turmoil in recent days and weeks - unlike anything Willie Watt has seen in 40 years as an investment manager, he says - were making it more difficult to get investors to commit. He said it would mean the Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) could expect to become busier, as projects might need more reassurance about risk.\n\n\"There was always a good case for a development bank in Scotland, and that case is underlined by the times in which we find ourselves,\" he said.\n\nThe opportunities that lie ahead in the next stage of offshore wind developments, known as ScotWind, require companies to build up to scale if they are to compete and seize worldwide opportunities.\n\nThe North Sea oil and gas service sector have successfully done that, said Mr Watt, winning contracts in offshore drilling around the world.\n\nThe energy developers that won bids to in the ScotWind auction were announced in January. They were required to set out how they intend to use local contractors to develop vast wind farms around Scotland's coast.\n\nThe bids showed a willingness to spend more than £23bn on 'local' content across the 17 projects, but the potential will not be reached if Scottish companies are not able to bid for that work.\n\n\"The ScotWind developers needed to make significant commitments to local content in their submissions for the ScotWind funding round,\" the SNIB chief told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"What concerns the bank is whether the supply chain is in shape to capitalise on those commitments. So we are trying to work with the business community and government to make sure that opportunity can be exploited in the private sector.\n\n\"We want the bank's capital to be used to help develop globally competitive companies in the ScotWind supply chain.\"\n\nA £30m \"keystone\" investment in the extension to Aberdeen Harbour is part of that process.\n\nHe added: \"We may make other infrastructure investments in that area. We're also interested in investing in innovative service-led companies that can invest in ScotWind, and potentially to support the work Scottish Enterprise does in attracting further investment into Scotland.\"\n\nHe said the challenge of growing companies was not so much about ambition or a lack of funding, as it was about confidence: \"We think that scale-up is one of the biggest challenges that the sector faces.\n\n\"There's been a big focus on early stage entrepreneurship, and there's nothing wrong with that. Scotland is reasonably good at early stage entrepreneurship.\n\n\"I would like to see more companies become much larger, employ more people, generate more economic value. That would make a far bigger impact on the productivity problems Scotland has. Productivity is a problem for all developed western economies, but Scotland's position is not good.\"\n\nThe bank has invested in companies developing electric car charging points\n\nThe Investment Bank has invested in two tidal turbine projects, where it found private investors needed further reassurance that it was turning into a commercially viable technology. The technology behind electric vehicle charging points is also getting some investment support, along with loft insulation and Lothian Broadband, a company aiming to lay cables that support roll-out of high-speed broadband to the smaller towns that are not in near-term Openreach plans.\n\nDuring the first year of operation, the 30 staff at SNIB more than doubled, at an administrative cost of £10m.\n\nIts first chief executive, Eilidh Mactaggart, resigned \"for personal reasons\" in January, and secured more than £100,000 in severance pay.\n\nNine months later, she has not been replaced, while finance director Sarah Roughead has been interim chief executive.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Liz Truss declines to say she trusts Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng\n\nLiz Truss is coming under pressure from Tory MPs to ensure benefits rise in line with prices, with minister Penny Mordaunt arguing it \"makes sense\".\n\nFormer PM Boris Johnson pledged benefits would rise with inflation.\n\nMs Truss has refused to say she would maintain the commitment, as she faces questions over how to pay for her government's tax-cutting plans.\n\nThe PM told the BBC a decision hadn't yet been made, as the issue dominated Tory party conference in Birmingham.\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio, Ms Mordaunt said: \"We want to make sure that people are looked after and that people can pay their bills. We are not about trying to help people with one hand and take away with another.\"\n\nAsked if she welcomed Ms Mordaunt making her views public, Ms Truss said: \"I look forward to having those discussions.\"\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng said he would not \"get drawn into the debate\", but stressed his attachment to \"compassionate conservatism\"; while Work and Pensions Secretary Chloe Smith would not be drawn.\n\nWelsh Secretary Robert Buckland, asked by BBC Newsnight if he wanted to see benefits rise in line with inflation, said: \"Every Conservative government that I've been part of has maintained the safety net, and I'm sure this one will do the same.\"\n\nCertain benefits, including disability benefits and carer's allowance, must increase in line with inflation by law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss will take to the podium on Wednesday\n\nHowever, for working-age benefits like universal credit no decision has yet been made on whether a rise will be linked to prices or wages.\n\nQuestions about the government's policy on benefits come during a difficult week for the prime minister.\n\nOn Monday, Ms Truss's authority took a blow when she was forced by her own MPs to U-turn on her plan to reduce tax for higher earners.\n\nSpeaking in her first BBC interview since the U-turn, Ms Truss reiterated that the government could have laid the groundwork better for the measure.\n\nShe said the government was listening and did \"reflect on where we could have done things better\" but said the top income tax rate had not been a \"core part\" of her economic growth package.\n\nThe PM is facing opposition from some Tory MPs over how the government will pay for its growth package.\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's tax-cutting mini-budget on 23 September saw the pound's value plummet, borrowing costs soar, and the Bank of England bail out pension funds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I know the plan put forward only 10 days ago has caused a little turbulence, I get it..\"\n\nAsked about whether she would commit to increasing benefits in line with inflation, Ms Truss told the BBC: \"We are going to have to make decisions about how we bring back down debt as a proportion of GDP in the medium term.\"\n\nShe added that she was \"very committed to supporting the most vulnerable\", including providing an extra £1,200 to the poorest households.\n\n\"So we have to look at these issues in the round. We have to be fiscally responsible.\"\n\nIn May this year, then-chancellor Rishi Sunak said benefits would be uprated by this September's Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation, which is currently 9.9%, subject to a review by the work and pensions secretary.\n\nMr Kwarteng has declined to commit to the policy, though the government has pledged to increase state pension contributions in line with inflation.\n\nFailing to keep benefits in line with rising prices would leave some of the poorest households facing a real-terms cut in their incomes.\n\nMel Stride, who chairs the Commons Treasury Committee, said he \"would have to think long and hard\" about whether to vote for uprating benefits in line with wages instead because of the \"strong real-terms squeeze on those benefits already\".\n\nAnd former work and pensions secretary Damian Green told the BBC the policy would \"probably not\" get through the Commons.\n\nHowever, Tory MP Lee Anderson said it \"does not seem fair\" for those on benefits to get \"inflation-busting\" increases of as much as 10%, while public and private sector workers are offered pay rises of 2-4%.\n\nMeanwhile, former home secretary Priti Patel accused the government of \"spending today with no thought for tomorrow\" at a fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves criticised the lack of commitment to the move, saying: \"The idea that the government can afford to give tax cuts to the wealthiest, but not uprate benefits in line with inflation, I think is grotesque.\"\n\nTuesday also saw confirmation the chancellor would bring forward his medium-term fiscal plan, which will outline how the government plans to cut the UK's debt, \"shortly\" rather than at the end of November.\n\nMs Truss was asked several times whether she trusted her chancellor following the U-turn.\n\nSidestepping the question, she said: \"I work very, very closely with my chancellor, we're very focused on getting the economy growing.\"\n\nAre you affected by the issues in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "After 24 hours of confusion, the Treasury has confirmed that it has brought forward the publication date of long-awaited financial plans.\n\nThe economic forecasts could be published later this month.\n\nThis is despite both Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and PM Liz Truss saying that the publication date is 23 November.\n\nThat was the date announced by the chancellor in the wake of his mini-budget 12 days ago.\n\nHe came under immediate pressure to bring that date forward to calm markets spooked by the lack of details on how tax cuts will be paid for.\n\nHe resisted these calls, saying the forecasts would not be ready in time, but appeared to have changed his mind in his speech to the Conservative Party conference on Monday.\n\nBuried in the speech was a line saying the medium-term fiscal plan would be published \"shortly\".\n\nJournalists checking this out with Treasury sources on Monday evening, had it confirmed that the statement would indeed be brought forward.\n\nBut quizzed on Tuesday about whether that was the case, the chancellor said there had been no change.\n\n\"People have been reading the runes and the pauses, it's going to be the 23rd,\" he told GB News.\n\nThe reason for the confusion, say Treasury sources, is that they want to officially announce the change of date in Parliament - and it really will be brought forward.\n\nBut until then, 23 November will remain in the official diary....", "Coldplay performed in Rio de Janeiro last month, as part of the line-up for the Rock in Rio festival\n\nColdplay say they are \"extremely sorry\" to have to postpone upcoming shows in Brazil, after frontman Chris Martin contracted a serious lung infection.\n\nThe British band announced on Tuesday that the concerts, due to take place this month, will be held in early 2023.\n\nColdplay was due to play eight shows in Rio De Janeiro and Sao Paulo as part of its 'Music of the Spheres' world tour.\n\nBut Martin is under \"strict doctor's orders\" to rest for three weeks, the band tweeted.\n\n\"To everyone in Brazil who was looking forward to these concerts, we're extremely sorry for any disappointment and inconvenience, and we're so grateful for your understanding at this challenging time where we need to prioritise Chris' health,\" the statement read.\n\n\"We're optimistic that Chris will return to good health after the prescribed medical break and we look forward to resuming the tour soon.\"\n\nThe band added that is working to secure the rescheduled dates and will follow up with more information in the coming days.\n\nTickets will be valid for the 2023 concerts, it added, and refunds will also be honoured where required.\n\nColdplay started its global tour in March this year in Costa Rica.\n\nTheir next show will take place in Argentina on 25 October - following Martin's scheduled period of rest - with the European leg of the tour beginning in May 2023.", "Teachers from the school admire hearts which were drawn outside after the incident\n\nPolice are investigating online racial abuse aimed at children from a Glasgow primary school.\n\nThe messages were posted on social media in response to a photo of pupils from St Albert's Primary School in Pollokshields with the first minister.\n\nNicola Sturgeon had visited the pupils on Friday and shared a picture of herself with the class.\n\nGlasgow City Council said the \"vile\" abuse directed at the pupils had been reported to police as a hate crime.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed it was investigating and providing support to the school.\n\nSt Albert's head teacher Clare Harker said staff were shocked and horrified by the reaction on social media.\n\nShe said: \"Thankfully the pupils in the photo are unaware of the online abuse as they're so young, but all the teachers and parents are appalled.\n\n\"Thank you to everyone, including the first minister, for their messages of support for the children and school. Their kind words have helped reaffirm our faith in human beings following the disgusting online abuse.\"\n\nThe first minister condemned the comments on Saturday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe posted: \"Every brilliant young person and every member of staff @StAlbertsG41 is worth a million and more of the vile racists who hurl abuse at them.\n\n\"It's my privilege to represent the wonderful, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Southside of Glasgow. I stand with them, always.\"\n\nGlasgow City Council is currently working with groups to highlight Hate Crime Awareness Week.\n\nCouncillor Christina Cannon, the convener for education and equalities, said the online abuse was a \"sickening reminder\" of why everyone needed to stand up to hate crime.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited the school last week\n\n\"Glasgow is proud to be an inclusive city enriched by its diversity,\" she said.\n\n\"Our slogan is People Make Glasgow and that means all people. We do not tolerate hate crime and I encourage anyone who witnesses it or experiences it to report it either to the police or via a third party reporting centre.\"\n\nShe said the school had been overwhelmed with support. On Monday, hearts were drawn in chalk around the school by community members.\n\nPolice Scotland said inquiries were continuing into the incident.\n\nSupt Patrick Murphy said: \"There is no place for these types of abusive posts and messages on social media platforms. I would ask anyone to report any offensive comments to Police Scotland on 101.\"\n• None What is the reality of racism in Scotland?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The star celebrated his 82nd birthday this July\n\nSir Ringo Starr has cancelled several upcoming shows on his North American tour after catching Covid-19.\n\nThe former Beatle, who is 82, had been playing a string of dates in the US and Canada with his All-Starr band before falling ill this weekend.\n\nAfter cancelling two shows at the last minute, \"it has been confirmed today that Ringo has Covid and the tour will be on hold\", his spokesperson said.\n\nThe drummer is \"recovering at home\" and hopes to resume shows soon, they added.\n\nTour dates planned for this week in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia have all been cancelled. A decision has yet to be taken on upcoming shows in the US and Mexico.\n\n\"We will keep fans updated with any further news or changes,\" his spokesperson told the BBC.\n\nLast year, Sir Ringo confessed that he had rarely ventured outside in the early days of the pandemic, to avoid catching Covid-19.\n\n\"Since last March, I've left the house six times,\" he told USA Today last year. \"You've got to help protect yourself if you can\".\n\nDespite receiving two doses of the vaccine, he told the publication he was cautious about touring in 2021, saying: \"I don't think it'll be safe. And that's it. Living in the now.\"\n\nThe tour finally resumed in Canada this May, with Starr having played more than 25 shows since.\n\nThe musician rose to fame in the 1960s as the Beatles' laconic, easy-going drummer. He sang lead vocals on tracks like With A Little Help From My Friends and Yellow Submarine, and launched a successful solo career after the Beatles split in 1970.\n\nHe formed his All-Starr band, where \"everybody on stage is a star in their own right\" in 1989. The ever-changing line-up has included rock legends such as Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Todd Rundgren and Sheila E.\n\nSir Ringo received his knighthood in 2018, and was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame as a solo artist in 2015.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A woman who poured faeces over a memorial to Sir Captain Tom Moore has admitted criminal damage.\n\nMadeleine Budd damaged the life-sized statue of the World War Two veteran in Thistley Meadow, in Hatton, Derbyshire, on Friday in an apparent climate protest.\n\nThe 21-year-old, from Manchester, was charged with criminal damage on Monday.\n\nShe admitted the offence at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday. The case was adjourned until 25 October.\n\nDuring the hearing, prosecutor Jordan Pratt said Budd approached the memorial and \"poured a bucket of human faeces all over the statue\".\n\nMr Pratt told the court the incident was filmed and shared on social media as part of an environmental protest.\n\nHe said it was an \"abhorrent act\", which people would see as \"hugely disrespectful\".\n\nDistrict Judge Louisa Cieciora said the starting point for sentencing could be one year and six months in jail.\n\nThe Army veteran became famous for his fundraising efforts during the first coronavirus lockdown\n\nShe declined an application for bail, saying she had \"substantial grounds\" to believe Budd may commit another offence while on bail, adjourning sentencing for a pre-sentence report until 25 October.\n\nA man in the public gallery then stood up and told the judge: \"On behalf of every veteran member, thank you very much.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the memorial has been vandalised - graffiti was sprayed on it in December 2021.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom, from Bedfordshire, became a household name during the Covid-19 pandemic when he set out to complete laps around his garden in a bid to raise money for the NHS.\n\nBy the time he reached his 100th birthday, he had raised nearly £33m.\n\nThe Army veteran was knighted by the Queen before he died with Covid-19 in February 2021.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Flags being raised in retaken areas of Ukraine\n\nUkrainian forces have liberated a key village in the southern region of Kherson, hastening another Russian military retreat.\n\nThe defence ministry in Kyiv posted a video showing the 35th marine brigade hoisting a Ukrainian flag above Davydiv Brid, amid reports of several other nearby villages being recaptured.\n\nRussian forces have already been forced to retreat in Ukraine's north-east.\n\nThey are now being pushed back in the south as well.\n\nTheir latest setbacks came as President Vladimir Putin was due to sign into force decrees annexing four Ukrainian regions, while war was raging in all four.\n\nThe annexation has no legitimacy under international law and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has declared them null and void.\n\nPresident Joe Biden spoke with Mr Zelensky on Tuesday and assured him the US would never recognise Russian annexation. They also discussed $625m (£550m) of US aid, including Himars rocket launchers.\n\nRussia still controls Kherson city, the regional capital, in the south. But its grip is looking increasingly shaky on the entire area north of the River Dnieper, known as Dnipro in Ukrainian.\n\nIn the past 48 hours, Ukrainian forces have pushed south along the west bank of the river, and Russian units have now been forced to pull back from several settlements in the north of Kherson region too.\n\nMr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had made \"fast, powerful movements\" in southern Ukraine and liberated \"dozens of settlements\" this week alone.\n\n\"The Ukrainian flag flies again over the village of Davydiv Brid,\" Ukraine's defence ministry proclaimed on social media. Residents filmed Ukrainian soldiers walking through the village.\n\nIn his Tuesday evening address, Mr Zelensky said the villages of Lyubymivka, Khreshchenivka, Zolota Balka, Bilyaivka, Ukrainka, Velyka Oleksandrivka and Mala Oleksandrivka had also been liberated, and that that was \"far from being the whole list\".\n\nUkraine's deputy interior minister Yevhen Enin said 50 towns and villages had been recaptured and some 3,500 citizens freed in Kherson, but did not say over what period.\n\nThe defence ministry said later that Russian forces were demoralised and trying to destroy bridges in an attempt to slow down the Ukrainian advance.\n\nA Kremlin-installed official in Kherson, Kirill Stremousov, told residents: \"There is no reason to panic.\"\n\nThere was no immediate confirmation that villages to the north-east of Davydiv Brid had also fallen and Russia's military spokesman made no mention of losses there.\n\nBut on maps used to illustrate Russian control, it was clear that it no longer included the villages of Arkhanhelske and Velyka Oleksandrivka in the north-east of the region, and of Dudchany on the bank of the Dnieper.\n\nRussian military blogger Rybar said the army decided to pull back because it was at risk of being encircled. \"It's not entirely clear where the new line of contact will be,\" he said.\n\nKherson exiled deputy Mayor Roman Holovnia said: \"Many settlements were flattened - some settlements have almost no undestroyed buildings left.\"\n\nHe added that residents of the city were waiting for Ukrainian forces, in the knowledge they were advancing.\n\nOf the 320,000 people living there before the war, only 100,000 were left, Mr Holovnia said.\n\nUkrainian forces have targeted Russian supply lines in the Kherson area for weeks, destroying the few bridges across the river. But their advance southwards until now has been slow. Kherson was swiftly captured by Russian forces at the start of the war, as they poured into the region from the Crimean peninsula, annexed in 2014.\n\nUkraine had more dramatic success in Kharkiv in the north-east and in Donetsk, seizing on Saturday the strategically important Lyman. The town is part of Donetsk but is seen as the gateway to Luhansk, a region under almost complete Russian occupation.\n\nThe BBC's Orla Guerin, reporting from Lyman, said few civilians remained there now, while the bodies of several Russian soldiers lay in their uniforms outside the town.\n\nKherson, Luhansk and Donetsk are among the Ukrainian regions being illegally annexed by Russia, but the triumphalism of Vladimir Putin's proclamation last Friday is looking increasingly premature.\n\nThere were few signs of normal life in Lyman when the BBC visited\n\nA Russian blogger published accounts by two men he described as fighters from Luhansk's Russian proxy force who narrowly escaped being surrounded near Lyman last week.\n\n\"We left Lyman, but it was just us - no munitions, nothing. Everything was burned up. All our friends and comrades stayed there [dead],\" said one of the men, named Mikhei.\n\nRussia has so far mobilised more than 200,000 troops since President Putin gave the order last month, according to Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. The initial target of the \"partial mobilisation\" is 300,000, but the recruitment drive has been overshadowed by stories of Russians trying to escape the draft or being given shoddy equipment when they join up.\n\nKazakhstan alone has reported that more than 200,000 Russians have crossed its borders in the past two weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC’s Abdujalil Abdurasulov reports from Ukrainian front line positions in the Kherson region", "Prince William spoke of the \"heinous\" crimes and corruption behind the illegal wildlife trade\n\nPrince William has given a strong warning that multi-national organised crime networks are threatening to destroy endangered wildlife species.\n\nIn his first major speech as Prince of Wales, he spoke of the urgent need to tackle the poaching, smuggling and sale of rhino horn and ivory from elephants.\n\n\"There are still too many criminals who believe they can act with impunity,\" said Prince William.\n\nHe said his wildlife work was a way of honouring the memory of the Queen.\n\nThe speech suggested he was going to take up the mantle of his father, King Charles, in being outspoken about protecting the environment.\n\nPrince William, warning about the international criminal gangs involved in wildlife smuggling, told the United for Wildlife summit in London that his love of nature came from his family.\n\nAn anti-poaching unit in Kenya - but the summit heard of the need to track money laundering too\n\n\"It is a lesson I learnt from a young age, from my father and grandfather, both committed naturalists in their own right, and also from my much-missed grandmother, who cared so much for the natural world.\n\n\"In times of loss, it is a comfort to honour those we miss through the work we do,\" he said.\n\nPrince William told the summit at the Science Museum there were \"too many lives being destroyed and too many species on the brink of extinction due to this heinous crime\".\n\nThose involved in the illegal wildlife trade should \"face an international response as powerful and co-ordinated as any other serious and organised crime\", he told 300 delegates, including from conservation groups and law enforcement agencies.\n\nPrince William warned that the scale of wildlife crimes was being overlooked and called for greater efforts to \"bring their sinister operations out of the shadows\".\n\nThe summit heard this meant \"following the money\" in an illegal industry worth £17.5bn per year, with financial tracking needed as well as anti-poaching activities on the ground.\n\nThe trafficking in wildlife body parts, including from rhinos, elephants, tigers and pangolins, was linked to money laundering, corruption and extreme violence, the conference was told.\n\nEarlier this year Prince William had paid tribute to Anton Mzimba, an anti-poaching ranger in South Africa who had been killed by gunmen.\n\n\"Rangers like Anton are on the frontline of conservation, protecting people as well as wildlife. Among many roles, they are teachers, carers and researchers, looking out for a natural world that can't defend itself,\" Prince William had said in a Twitter message.\n\nAltin Gysman, a colleague of Mr Mzimba's and a trainer of rangers in South Africa, praised this \"selfless individual\" who had given so much to the cause of protecting wildlife.\n\nThe summit heard that around the world there were three wildlife rangers killed each week - and Mr Gysman warned how vulnerable they were to \"victimisation and intimidation by poaching syndicates\".\n\nThere have been international police efforts to tackle the illegal trade, supported by United for Wildlife, a campaign set up by the Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales.\n\nIn August, a court in New York sentenced a Ugandan-based trader to over five years in jail, after the uncovering of an international network selling products made from 35 rhinoceroses and 100 elephants.\n\nRhino horn and ivory worth about £6.5m had been caught being smuggled from East Africa to buyers in the United States and South-east Asia.\n\nStephen Kavanagh, executive director of Interpol, said a \"more sophisticated\" approach was needed, similar to addressing the illegal drugs trade, to tackle the cartels making enormous profits from wildlife trafficking.\n\nMr Kavanagh, from the international police agency, warned how much corruption and international money laundering allowed this trade to persist.\n\nWhile King Charles will not attend the COP 27 climate change conference next month, this speech from Prince William suggested his successor as Prince of Wales will remain a strong advocate for environmental causes.\n\nWhile required to stay out of party politics, the Prince of Wales has more scope to speak out on issues than the monarch.\n\nPrince William is expected to continue to be involved in causes he has supported, which have included sport, helping the homeless and mental health.\n\nLast week, after the inquest into the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell, Prince William made an unusual intervention, commenting on the need for online safety.\n\n\"Online safety for our children and young people needs to be a prerequisite, not an afterthought,\" Prince William said on Twitter.", "The Australian tennis star is ranked 20th in the world\n\nLawyers for Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios have said they will apply to have an assault charge against him dismissed on mental health grounds.\n\nKyrgios, who is currently playing in the Japan Open in Tokyo, was not required to attend the hearing in Canberra on Tuesday.\n\nThe charge against the 27-year-old relates to an alleged assault in December 2021 on a former partner.\n\nIf convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison.\n\nKyrgios's lawyer Michael Kukulies-Smith said he was making the application having reviewed his client's \"medical history since 2015, including public disclosures of his mental health struggles\".\n\nUnder section 334 of the Australian Capital Territory's Crimes Act, the magistrates court has the power to dismiss a case if it is satisfied the accused is mentally impaired and the facts or other relevant evidence supports the person being dealt with under this rule.\n\nHowever, the bar for a case to be thrown out on these grounds is high, and needs approval from the director of public prosecutions.\n\nA hearing on the application will take place on 3 February. Mr Kukulies-Smith told Magistrate Glenn Theakston that his client's work meant he spent large periods of time overseas.\n\nBut it was Kyrgios's preference for the hearing to take place as soon as possible and for him to attend in person, the ACT Magistrates Court heard.\n\nThe tennis star, currently ranked number 20 in the world, has spoken openly about his mental health struggles in the past, including in posts on Instagram.\n\nThis week he insisted that the looming court case was not making it difficult to focus on his tennis.", "The BBC apologised for the way Martin Bashir's 1995 interview with Princess Diana was obtained\n\nThe BBC has reached a settlement with Earl Spencer's former head of security, after his bank statements were forged by Martin Bashir to help secure an interview with Princess Diana.\n\nAlan Waller had claimed false documents were used to win the late princess's trust in an effort to encourage her to be interviewed on Panorama.\n\nA 2021 inquiry led by Lord Dyson found Bashir acted in a \"deceitful\" way to secure an interview with Princess Diana. The corporation said it had now settled with Mr Waller.\n\n\"Following the publication of the Dyson Report last year, the BBC and Alan Waller, a former employee of the brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, today announce that a settlement has been reached between them,\" the corporation said in a statement published last Thursday.\n\n\"The BBC has agreed to pay Mr Waller an agreed sum in damages and to pay his reasonable costs, and apologises to him for the false information included in the fabricated bank statements used to procure the 1995 Interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\n\"The BBC hopes that Mr Waller is now able to draw a line under this chapter, and we wish him the best for the future.\"\n\nMr Waller was left \"deeply distressed\" by Bashir's tactics, according to documents filed at the High Court. Mr Waller said his business ventures suffered when his name was linked to the scandal.\n\nBashir's interview with Princess Diana was broadcast by Panorama in late 1995, when she was separated from Prince Charles but not yet divorced.\n\nMore than 20 million people watched the programme. In it, the princess famously said \"there were three of us in this marriage\", referring to the then Prince of Wales's relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, whom he later married.\n\nFollowing the publication of Lord Dyson's report last year, which strongly criticised the corporation, the BBC made an \"unconditional apology\" over the way the interview had been obtained.\n\nThe BBC said the report identified \"clear failings\" and that while it now has better procedures in place, \"those that existed at the time should have prevented the interview being secured in this way\".", "Despite more and more resources from the UK and France, police in Calais are struggling to stop Channel crossings\n\nHidden in dense vegetation along the coast north of Calais, two men are quietly piling the pressure on Britain's new prime minister.\n\nCrouching in the darkness, they swiftly prepare a boat to take migrants across the Channel.\n\nHigh above them in the pre-dawn gloom, the approaching buzz of a UK-funded drone signals the start of a familiar chase.\n\nLess than a kilometre away, French gendarmes scrutinise the two figures on the drone's thermal camera; their images a riot of pink and orange.\n\nWithin seconds the unit have piled into a special buggy, also provided by the UK, and are bouncing across the sandy scrubland towards the site.\n\nIt takes less than five minutes to get there, but the last 50 metres must be covered on foot through thick, spiky vegetation, some of it chest-high.\n\nThe two men flee as the unit approaches, leaving behind them the half-prepared boat, the fuel and motor, and two sacks of life-jackets.\n\n\"The vegetation works against us,\" General Frantz Tavart told me. \"The smugglers know this and stash the boats here on purpose.\"\n\nWe have five minutes to intervene between the moment they inflate the boat and the moment they put it in the sea, otherwise it's over.\n\nThe UK drones are valuable, he says, because they spot even well-hidden sites like this one.\n\n\"The drone caught this,\" he said. \"The [surveillance] plane passed over beforehand and didn't spot it, because it was hidden by the trees.\"\n\nThis 160km stretch of coastline has sucked in resources, year after year. France and the UK have invested in more patrols, better technology and different kinds of vehicles. And still the numbers crossing the Channel keep growing.\n\nBritain's new home secretary, Suella Braverman, will give a speech at the Conservative's party conference later where she's expected to restate her determination to crack down on the arrivals.\n\nFrench patrols say they're stopping around half of all crossing attempts, but more than 30,000 people have still made it to the UK so far this year.\n\nAnd it's not just migrants who are finding this route increasingly attractive. New smuggling networks have been reported this summer too.\n\nA senior French official with good knowledge of the situation told us that dedicated Albanian smuggling networks are now operating across the Channel, separately from the main Kurdish and Iraqi networks.\n\n\"[The Albanian networks] are more efficient than the others,\" he told us. \"40% of those we intercept on this side of the Channel are Albanian; but they make up 60% of those who arrive on the other side.\"\n\n\"Our hypothesis is that they're a lot more experienced than the others in terms of criminal activity, and more used to organising themselves and avoiding the police. We find the prices are higher for Albanian networks than for the others.\"\n\nGeneral Tavart says he can't confirm whether the new Albanian smuggling routes are being run by established criminal groups, perhaps based in the UK, but he says it would make sense.\n\n\"With the price of a crossing around 4,000 euros (£3,482), and around 40 people in one boat, do the maths,\" he said. \"It's extremely lucrative, even more so than drug trafficking, and the criminal charges are lighter.\"\n\nFrench patrols say they are stopping around half of all crossing attempts from Calais\n\nSome have suggested that shortages in the labour market post-Brexit are adding to the 'pull-factors' attracting both smugglers and their clients.\n\nLarger numbers of Albanians have been seen at the main migrant camp in Dunkerque, but most seem to stay in hotels around the area, or in Paris or Brussels.\n\nAt one hotel in Dunkerque, the landlady confirmed she now had a large number of Albanian clients passing through.\n\nThe owner of a bar across the street from the station said that on some days half his customers are Albanian.\n\n\"I wonder if there's anyone left in Albania,\" he said, \"seeing how many of them are coming through here.\"\n\nThe rise in migrants crossing the Channel, and the appearance of new smuggling networks, seems to challenge the government's strategy of deterrence.\n\nFor months, the UK government has been promising to send some of those who arrive in small boats to Rwanda, where their asylum claims will be processed, and where they will be expected to settle if their claim is successful.\n\nOn the road outside Calais, in the small hours of the morning, we met 17-year-old Sikunder and his friends, wrapped in survival blankets that glinted like pieces of silver in the dark.\n\nThey are all from Afghanistan, they said, and had just been rescued from a sinking boat by the French police.\n\nThe group had just been pulled out of the sea by French police\n\nI asked Sikunder whether he was aware that the UK might send him to Rwanda.\n\n\"I have heard about it,\" he replied, \"but some of my relatives in the UK told us the plan was finished, and we can come to the UK.\"\n\nIt was his second attempt at crossing; he's determined it won't be his last.\n\nThe UK government is currently fighting a court battle over the legality of its Rwanda policy. In the camps around Calais, almost everyone is aware of the risk, and almost everyone finds a way to rationalise it away.\n\nBiniam is a softly-spoken 28-year-old man from the Tigray region in Ethiopia. In fluent English, he told me he had a degree in manufacturing, and that he wanted to claim asylum in the UK because he had seen how the British government had spoken out strongly against the violent conflict in Tigray.\n\n\"The UK understands the situation in my country,\" he told me. \"So that's why I will go.\"\n\nI ask him how afraid he is of being sent to Rwanda.\n\n\"100% afraid,\" he said. \"If they return me to Africa, it will be easy for the government of Ethiopia to take me.\"\n\nThe UK's government's stance on the conflict in Tigray convinced Biniam to seek asylum in the UK\n\nMore than one person here told me how the change of prime minister would mean the policy would be scrapped.\n\nThere's little sign of that UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has so far been very supportive of it.\n\nJess Sharman of Care4Calais says people are risking their lives to get to the UK, because they can't claim asylum while in France, and can't cross the Channel via official routes.\n\n\"They shouldn't be here, and it's only because of government policies that they are,\" she said. \"And that could change overnight if Liz Truss could make it safe and legal for them to [claim asylum].\"\n\nA lot can change overnight here in Calais.\n\nCamps are systematically destroyed by police units; violent conflicts erupt between smuggling gangs; security patrols race migrants for miles along the scrubby coastline; and - very often - as dawn breaks, another boatload of people from around the world end up on Britain's shores.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorth Korea has fired a ballistic missile over Japan, in what appears to be a deliberate escalation to get the attention of Tokyo and Washington.\n\nThe missile travelled 4,500km (2,800 miles) before falling into the Pacific Ocean - far enough to hit the US island of Guam if it took another trajectory.\n\nIt is the North's first missile launch over Japan since 2017. Japan issued an alert to some citizens to take cover.\n\nThe US, Japan and South Korea conducted their own military drills in response.\n\nSouth Korean and US aircraft fired at a mock target on an uninhabited island in the Yellow Sea, while the US and Japan also jointly carried out drills over the Sea of Japan.\n\nThe UN prohibits North Korea from testing ballistic and nuclear weapons. Flying missiles towards or over other countries without any warning or consultation also contravenes international norms.\n\nMost countries avoid doing it completely as it can easily be mistaken for an attack. While it is not as big as a nuclear test - which could be next - it can be considered hugely provocative.\n\nSouth Korean and US fighter jets conducted joint bombing drills in response to the missile launch\n\nPeople in the north of Japan, including Hokkaido island and Aomori city, reportedly woke up to the noise of sirens and text alerts which read: \"North Korea appears to have launched a missile. Please evacuate into buildings or underground.\"\n\nAs the missile flew overhead, they were warned to look out for falling debris. Many remained calm, though, with one video showing Tokyo commuters walking normally as loudspeakers blared out warnings.\n\nBut others were more shaken. \"If a missile hit, I was worried it would be a big problem not only here but also nationwide,\" Aomori resident Kazuko Ebina told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.\n\nOfficials later said the intermediate-range ballistic missile fell into the Pacific Ocean far from Japan, and there were no reported injuries.\n\nIt had covered the longest distance ever travelled by a North Korean missile, and reached a height of around 1,000km - higher than the International Space Station.\n\nJapan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida described the launch as \"violent behaviour\", while defence minister Yasukazu Hamada said Japan would not rule out any options to strengthen its defences including \"counterattack capabilities\".\n\nUS President Joe Biden reinforced Washington's \"ironclad commitment\" to Japan's defence during a phone call with Mr Kishida, while the two leaders jointly condemned the missile test, a White House statement said.\n\nThey confirmed they would work closely with South Korea and the international community to coordinate an immediate and longer-term response to the threat posed by the North, it added.\n\nLast week, the three countries conducted naval exercises together for the first time since 2017. Such drills have long antagonised Pyongyang leader Kim Jong-un, who views them as proof that his enemies are preparing for war.\n\nFollowing the combined exercises in 2017, North Korea fired two missiles over Japan in response. A week later, it conducted a nuclear test.\n\nRecent intelligence has suggested that North Korea is getting ready to test another nuclear weapon.\n\nIt is expected that North Korea would wait until after China - its main ally - holds its Communist party congress later this month.\n\nBut some experts are now asking if it could come sooner than expected - they believe Tuesday's launch shows that North Korea is preparing the ground for a nuclear test.\n\nThe missile launch is the fifth carried out by Pyongyang in a week. On Saturday, two rockets came down in waters outside Japan's exclusive economic zone.\n\nMany of North Korea's missile tests are conducted on a high, lofted flight path - reaching a high altitude, avoiding flights over its neighbours.\n\nBut firing over or past Japan allows North Korean scientists to test missiles under circumstances \"that are more representative of the conditions they'd endure in real-world use\", analyst Ankit Panda told news agency Reuters.\n\nThese actions have contributed to enduring tensions between North Korea and Japan, rooted in Japan's colonisation of Korea from 1910 to 1945 and the North's abduction of Japanese citizens in the past.\n\nEarlier this month, North Korea passed a law declaring itself to be a nuclear weapons state, with leader Kim Jong-un ruling out the possibility of talks on denuclearisation.\n\nPyongyang conducted six nuclear tests between 2006 and 2017, incurring widespread sanctions.\n\nThe East Asian state regularly defies the ban on nuclear and missile tests, saying it needs to bolster its defences.", "A court has been told more than £3m worth of damage was caused during a blaze in Belfast on Monday.\n\nThe details were revealed when an 18-year-old man appeared before Belfast Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe was charged in connection with the fire in the Old Cathedral building, which is home to a range of businesses, artists and groups.\n\nPatrick Gough, from Victoria Street in the city, was charged with arson endangering life with intent.\n\nCrews from the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service spent about eleven hours at the scene of the blaze, which was reported shortly after 05:30 BST.\n\nThe court heard that damage was caused to buildings and contents at the Police Ombudsman's office and a number of commercial businesses, including Neighbourhood Cafe and Never Never clothes shop.\n\nMany workers in the creative industry have lost property and their workspace as a result of the fire.\n\nThe defendant has also been charged with possessing cannabis and stealing three bottles of alcohol and a till containing cash from the 7 Spice Bangladeshi restaurant at nearby St Anne's Square.\n\nA police witness told the court the defendant had 60 convictions and was in breach of bail at the time of the fire.\n\nThe witness also said the cost of the damage to the buildings and contents was expected to rise beyond £3m.\n\nShe said the defendant was arrested close to the scene of the fire after the police viewed CCTV footage which showed a man climbing down scaffolding at the Police Ombudsman's Office.\n\nA defence lawyer said his client had been arrested because he was wearing clothes similar to the man observed on the scaffolding but there was no facial recognition.\n\nThe police witness also agreed with the defence that there was no forensic evidence linking Patrick Gough to the fire at this time but she said tests would be carried out on his clothing.\n\nThe defence lawyer said it would take a long time to determine if the fire was caused by arson and the defendant was therefore entitled to bail at an address provided by his father in Downpatrick.\n\nAfter hearing submissions from the police and the defence, the judge refused bail.", "The London School of Economics, where Dr Jacob Breslow is an associate professor of gender and sexuality, says it is looking into the reports\n\nA trustee of the charity Mermaids has resigned after reports he spoke at a conference organised by a group that promotes support for paedophiles.\n\nDr Jacob Breslow quit the transgender children's charity after the Times revealed he had attended the B4U-ACT conference in 2011, as a PhD student.\n\nB4U-ACT calls for paedophiles to have the right to live \"in truth and dignity\".\n\nMermaids says the organisation is \"completely at odds\" with its values.\n\nB4U-ACT's website says it holds workshops and gives presentations about the needs and rights of people \"with an attraction to children and adolescents\", and runs support groups for both them and their friends and family members.\n\nA published summary of a presentation Dr Breslow is understood to have given uses the phrase \"minor-attracted persons\" instead of paedophile.\n\nDr Breslow is an associate professor of gender and sexuality at the London School of Economics (LSE).\n\nLSE said: \"We have been made aware of a presentation given at an external event in 2011 by a then graduate student, now faculty member of LSE. We are looking into these reports.\"\n\nThe transgender children's charity said: \"Mermaids has been made aware of Dr Breslow's historical participation in a conference that is completely at odds with our values.\n\n\"Once notified we took swift and decisive action to investigate. Dr Breslow tendered his notice on the same day.\n\n\"We will be reviewing our processes and procedures in light of this event to make them even more robust.\n\n\"Safeguarding is of the utmost importance to Mermaids and the safety of the young people we support is our highest priority.\"\n\nBBC News has approached Dr Breslow for comment but he was unavailable at the time of publishing.", "The government has dropped its plan to abolish the 45% rate of income tax after Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng acknowledged that it was proving a \"massive distraction\".\n\nMr Kwarteng announced a series of tax cuts and changes in his mini-budget on September 23, before performing the U-turn. The government has not said how they will be paid for.\n\nSo how many people will benefit from them and how much will they cost?\n\nThe top rate of income tax for those earning more than £150,000 a year was reduced from 50% to 45% by then Chancellor George Osborne from April 2013.\n\nA decade on, the rate was to have been abolished in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, leaving top earners paying the 40% rate instead. Mr Kwarteng has confirmed that this will not now go ahead.\n\nThe government said it would have meant a tax cut for 660,000 people next year.\n\nThe Treasury said the policy would cost around £2.2bn in 2025-26 and £2.1bn the following year. The costings in the first few years of the policy were uncertain because of wealthy taxpayers being expected to move their earnings between years to take advantage of the cut.\n\nScotland has a different system of income tax rates and bands, which is set by the Scottish Parliament. The current top rate for those earning over £150,000 is 46% and is not affected by Mr Kwarteng's announcements.\n\nThe rate of income tax payable on incomes between £12,571 and £50,270 a year - known as the basic rate - will be cut from 20% to 19% from April 2023.\n\nThat should benefit 31 million income taxpayers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAgain, the changes to the basic rate do not affect taxpayers in Scotland, where there are currently five income tax bands, including a 19% starter rate.\n\nThe UK government expects the cut to cost just over £5bn in the first year. It's important to remember that this costing - and the others - haven't been checked by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), as they would usually be for a budget.\n\nA 1.25p in the pound increase in National Insurance was introduced in April 2022. It is now being reversed from 6 November.\n\nIt will apply throughout the UK, to about 28 million people.\n\nIt also applies to employers, the government says it will affect about 920,000 businesses.\n\nThe cut will cost the government about £17bn a year according to its estimates, although it expects to get about £3bn of that back if employers use their cut to raise wages or profits.\n\nThe price at which Stamp Duty Land Tax starts to be payable on property purchases in England and Northern Ireland has doubled, from £125,000 to £250,000.\n\nThere is also a special rate for first-time buyers. The price at which they start paying stamp duty has gone up from £300,000 to £425,000.\n\nThere were about 1.1 million residential property transactions on which stamp duty was paid in the last year.\n\nThe changes will cost the government about £1.5bn a year in lost tax revenue.\n\nScotland and Wales have separate systems of taxation for property transactions so the proposed stamp duty changes will not affect purchases there.\n\nCorporation tax is paid by companies on their profits.\n\nThe then Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced in March 2021 that the rate of corporation tax would be increasing from 19% to 25%, from April 2023.\n\nBut businesses with profits below £50,000 would have stayed at the 19% rate, with the rate then increasing gradually so that only businesses with profits over £250,000 were meant to pay the full 25% rate.\n\nMr Sunak estimated that would mean 70% of companies - about 1.4 million of them - would be unaffected and 10% - about 200,000 - would pay the full 25% rate.\n\nThe Treasury says cancelling the planned rise will cost it £12bn next year and £17bn the year after.\n\nThe government hopes the decision will encourage businesses to invest and increase growth in the economy.\n\nFrom April 2023, the government has decided to repeal the changes to the rules on off-payroll working, known as IR35, which were introduced in 2017 and 2021.\n\nThe point of the regulations was to make businesses responsible for making sure that contractors they were employing, via another company, were actually entitled to that status and should not be paid directly via payrolls.\n\nThe change to the rules will mean that across the UK it's up to the contractors themselves to make sure they have the right status and are paying the right amount of tax instead of putting the burden on employers.\n\nThe Treasury expects this change to cost it just over £1bn next year, rising to £2bn in 2026-27.\n\nAbout 4.4 million workers in the UK are classified as self-employed, but it is not clear how many of them will be affected by the change.", "The woman's family has been informed, police said\n\nA woman has died after being attacked by dogs in a house in Liverpool, police have confirmed.\n\nThe victim, aged in her 60s, was mauled by dogs in a property on St Brigids Crescent, Kirkdale, shortly before 16:30 BST, Merseyside Police said.\n\nThe force said she died at the scene and her next of kin had been informed.\n\nDet Insp Gavin Mulcahy said officers were at the scene carrying out further inquiries and asked anyone with information to contact the force.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Much of the talk at the Tory conference was about whether the party would ditch a pledge made under Boris Johnson to increase benefits in line with inflation.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live heard from people directly affected by the plans.\n\nKaren has fibromyalgia, which is a long-term condition that causes pain all over her body. She works two jobs and claims Universal Credit. She’s also been getting housing benefit and council tax benefit since she was in a car accident six years ago and had to give up her job.\n\n“I never thought I’d be in this situation, I’m 65 in a couple of months, I thought firstly I’d be getting my pension by now.\n\n“It’s this old stigma that anyone on benefits is trying to get every penny they can out of the government and sit down all day long, and it isn’t like that,” she says.\n\n“It’s really hard to make wages now with the minimum wage at £9.50, it doesn’t come in anywhere near to the cost of living. It’s never going to cover what your outgoings are and so you’ll always need to be on benefits.”\n\nShe adds: “It can happen to anyone. So many people, especially since Covid, have had to go on benefits, they’ve never claimed in their lives. It’s not shameful, the only shameful part of it is that the government don’t get it sorted out.”\n\nSpeaking about Liz Truss, Karen says she should be looking at those at the “bottom of the ladder” and that “she’s not even considering us. We need the help now.”", "Twenty four hours can be a long time in politics. Just ask Liz Truss.\n\nOn Sunday morning, she was telling Laura Kuenssberg her plan to scrap the additional rate of tax was here to stay.\n\nAre you completely committed to it? Yes, she replied confidently.\n\nAs late as last night, senior ministers were defending the plan in the fringe meetings around the conference.\n\nBut something had changed.\n\nThe prime minister and chancellor held a series of crisis talks over the course of Sunday, as it became increasingly clear the policy was unsellable.\n\nThe telltale signs were there. Conservative MPs were hitting the airwaves and social media to say they thought it was wrong. They had a talisman in the form of Michael Gove. What many had been saying privately was not coming out in public.\n\nThe warning they might lose the whip seemed to be counterproductive; it infuriated sceptical MPs who didn't think the prime minister had the authority to see it through.\n\nGrant Shapps - famous around Westminster for his ability to predict the result of votes - warned the government could lose in the Commons. Privately, Labour was confident of the same.\n\nAnd by the time Mr Shapps appeared on the BBC's News at 10pm - to say the government had got its priorities wrong - the policy was already destined for the dustbin.\n\nIt was late evening when the final decision was made. Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng gathered for talks in the Hyatt Hotel in Birmingham, just beside the conference venue. They both now agreed: the policy had to be dumped immediately.\n\nIt was agreed the chancellor would kill it off in the morning in his BBC interviews.\n\nSome senior cabinet ministers found out this morning, shortly before the announcement was made and after it had been reported, first by the Sun newspaper.\n\nThis is a significant blow for a government that has been in office for less than a month. It's a personal blow for a chancellor who had always prided himself on sticking to his guns.\n\nDespite that, Mr Kwarteng's allies insist he is calm and even relieved that the policy is dead.\n\n\"He knew this was going to dominate everything,\" one says this morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Prime Minister Liz Truss says she stands by plans announced in the mini-budget\n\nBut any sense of calm doesn't extend far beyond Mr Kwarteng's hotel room.\n\nAround the conference centre, the Conservative Party feels as febrile as at any point in the past couple of years.\n\nIn the words of one former minister: \"No wonder Labour are laughing. You couldn't make it up… it's just incompetence.\"\n\nWhat's been noticeable is that many true-believers aren't sure she's made the right decision.\n\nI asked one cabinet minister, close to the prime minister, if she'd made the right decision. They shrugged, adding: \"There was an inevitability to it.\"\n\nOne minister I spoke to put it politely when they said they were \"not happy\".\n\n\"It undermines credibility,\" they said, predicting that Tory backbenchers would now be emboldened to challenge policies they didn't like, a daunting prospect for a new prime minister just a few weeks into the job.\n\nA backbencher, who opposed the 45p policy, said junking it was bad for the PM's authority: \"It looks weak.\"\n\nLanguage we couldn't publish has been used more than once this morning.\n\nAnother MP who backed Ms Truss for the leadership was more sanguine, but still sceptical: \"I'm not sure I would have gone for the u-turn. But she's done it and we need to support her.\"\n\nBut there's also a question mark over the relationship between the prime minister and her chancellor.\n\nShe told the BBC on Sunday that the decision to scrap the 45p rate was his. He said this morning that the U-turn decision was hers (he later said it was both of them).\n\nWhen Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng moved into Downing Street, they were seen as the closest of political friends. Allies said they would be joined at the hip.\n\nMore than a few eyebrows were raised by the willingness to attribute a decision to the other in the past couple of days.\n\nSources close to them say the idea of a split is overplayed. But a month in, not many people would have expected it to be a discussion at all.\n\nSo what state is the government in this afternoon? Battered and bruised? Definitely humiliated? Probably.\n\nUnable to recover? Some Tories think so.\n\nA former minister told me the conference has a \"last days of Rome\" feel about it. They warned the government hasn't solved the problem of unfunded borrowing, which will still be well over £40bn for tax cuts.\n\nThe hope in government will be that by taking this decision quickly, the damage from the 45p row will be limited, and that the government will be able to move on.\n\nBut in doing so, the prime minister is admitting her determination to fight for unpopular policies only goes so far.\n\nThere is a limit to how unpopular they are prepared to be.", "Edwin Poots was responding to comments by Prime Minister Liz Truss\n\nThe political impasse over the Northern Ireland Protocol could lead to the \"funeral of the Good Friday Agreement\", a Democratic Unionist Party minister has said.\n\nEdwin Poots repeated that his party would not return to Stormont until issues were resolved.\n\nThe DUP withdrew from Stormont's institutions in protest at the post-Brexit trading arrangements.\n\nThe prime minster said her party is \"determined\" to sort out the protocol.\n\n\"It's very important that we restore the east/west trading relationship so that we're able to support both communities in Northern Ireland and support the primacy of the Belfast Good Friday Agreement,\" Liz Truss told Northern Ireland Conservatives at her party's conference on Tuesday.\n\n\"I want to see the assembly and executive back up and running,\" she continued.\n\n\"I want to see decisions made in Northern Ireland and I want to see new jobs, new investment and new opportunities.\"\n\nThe Good Friday peace deal set up power-sharing in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe protocol keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods, avoiding the need for a hard border with the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nBut it means new checks on goods arriving from Great Britain, causing deep concern among unionists.\n\nLegislation to enable the UK government to effectively tear up parts of the protocol is to return to Parliament on 11 October.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol Bill has already cleared the House of Commons and will be debated at second reading by the House of Lords, which is expected to consider it at length, next week.\n\nSpeaking on Irish national broadcaster RTÉ on Tuesday, Mr Poots said it would be fantastic if the bill proceeded quickly but added that it could take a further nine months to proceed.\n\nHe said this was \"an untenable position\".\n\nMr Poots also said US President Joe Biden could be visiting Ireland next year for the \"funeral\" of the Good Friday Agreement rather than a celebration of its 25th anniversary.\n\nHe said this was likely \"unless something radical happens and the EU decides to become a bit more realistic\".\n\nAsked by BBC News NI about his comments, Mr Poots added: \"In reality, if we are sitting here in April with no change, we won't have the devolved institutions.\n\n\"As a consequence of that the Good Friday Agreement will not be a celebration, it will certainly be something else.\"\n\nThe DUP withdrew from the executive in protest over the Northern Ireland Protocol earlier this year.\n\nThe executive is at the heart of Northern Ireland's devolved government, made up of ministers nominated to oversee key departments such as health, finance and justice.\n\nMr Poots was responding to earlier remarks from Liz Truss, who said there was no reason an assembly and executive should not be re-established at Stormont now.\n\nMs Truss also said she wanted a settlement with the EU over the Northern Ireland Protocol which \"works for everybody\".\n\n\"The prime minister knows what the DUP's position is, and it is reflecting of all of unionism's position in that no-one accepts that the protocol is the way forward for Northern Ireland,\" Mr Poots said.\n\n\"The consequence of that is that the Belfast Good Friday Agreement was established on the basis of cross-community consent and that cross community consent has not been achieved.\n\n\"Therefore there will not be an assembly and there will not be institutions of the Good Friday Agreement whilst we have the protocol - the two things are incompatible.\"\n\nSinn Féin's John Finucane said the comments by Edwin Poots were \"petulant\" and \"immature\".\n\nThe North Belfast MP said the comments are yet another example that the DUP remained deaf and blind to the problems that face society.\n\nTalks between the EU and UK are due to resume this week, when officials will meet for technical level talks.\n\nThe EU's ambassador to the UK said there is \"still a lot of work to do\" to resolve the dispute over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nJoão Vale de Almeida welcomed that technical talks between both sides would restart this week.\n\nOn Monday, he spoke at an EU event at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.\n\nMr Vale de Almeida said he hoped in the \"coming weeks\" that progress would be made.\n\nThe government has been attempting to renegotiate the deal for some time, following concerns from unionists.\n\nBut the EU had said while it would allow flexibilities, it did not want to get into a full renegotiation.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Mícheál Martin called for the UK and EU negotiators to be given space as they try to resolve differences over the protocol.\n\nSpeaking in the Dáil (lower house of parliament), he said he couldn't indicate when the talks might be finalised with or without an agreement.", "Food waste charity Fareshare has told the BBC it has seen a drop of around 200 tonnes in supermarket surplus donations every month this summer.\n\nThe charity said the reduction had come at the same time as demand for the services they support surged.\n\nThe BBC understands Fareshare is writing to major supermarkets, asking for an increase in contributions.\n\nTesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Asda and Waitrose all told the BBC their donations were steady.\n\nSainsbury's and Asda said they were also committed to reducing food waste with Sainsburys acknowledging this could affect donations.\n\nFareshare redistributes food waste to smaller charitable and community projects across the UK.\n\nReverend Christine Threlfall says what she has to give out has halved in recent months\n\nOne is the Place of Welcome at St James church in Broughton, Salford, which offers free hot dinners as well as a £2.50 pantry for locals in need.\n\nReverend Christine Threlfall tells the BBC that what she has to give out has halved in recent months.\n\n\"We help a real mix of people: pensioners, young families, working people and the unemployed,\" she says. \"They all have one thing in common. Prices are skyrocketing but their income is the same.\"\n\nDemand for help at the church has doubled since the pandemic. Christine and her team of volunteers have seen queues round the block. She says Fareshare food is a lifeline for desperate residents, but it needs to be the right food.\n\n\"A lot of our customers are telling us they are turning off their fridges and ovens. They can't afford to run them,\" Christine explains. That's why ready meals and simple suppers are important, or for volunteers to be able to cook a big stew to dish out, she says.\n\n\"But now we just don't have the ingredients.\"\n\nFareshare said there was less waste food due to a combination of ongoing global food production and supply chain issues.\n\nAt the same time, supermarkets are striving to be more efficient and waste less, in order to keep prices for their customers low.\n\nCarl Hawkes, head of network at the charity, explained that donations from supermarket warehouses were particularly valuable.\n\n\"If you're a community group trying to make a meal, out of say, beetroot, that's really hard,\" he said.\n\n\"Whereas the retail food is very mixed. It's much easier for our charities and beneficiaries to make meals out of what they send.\"\n\nCarl Hawkes from Fareshare said supermarket donations offered a variety of meal options for low-income families\n\nMr Hawkes showed the BBC around the Barnsley depot in South Yorkshire.\n\nAt that location alone, Fareshare is taking in 40 fewer pallets of surplus food each month. It is particularly noticeable in the fridge, he explains, which was less than half full and lacking in staples like meat and dairy.\n\nThe charity is at pains to explain they have no problem with supermarkets wasting less - but it poses a challenge for them to continue to support so many charities that depend on waste food.\n\n\"Supermarkets at the moment are more willing to sell wonky fruit and veg than they may previously have done, or to sell food with slightly less shelf life on it - and that food would have traditionally have come to us,\" he explained.\n\nBut he is worried about those in need this winter.\n\nThe Barnsley site supports 400 groups, from food banks to breakfast clubs, some homeless shelters and housing associations.\n\n\"There are so many people struggling to feed themselves or their families,\" Mr Hawkes added.\n\n\"As an organisation we would far rather see families fed. It is a shame organisations like this exist but in such times it is great we can provide support to the communities we operate in.\"\n\nAs well as writing to supermarkets, the charity is casting its net wider, looking into food waste opportunities from British farming and working with a more diverse mix of smaller food manufacturers, hotels and restaurants.\n\nOne is Fullers, which makes frozen chips and vegetable products that most major retailers stock under its own brand.\n\nThe business has started donating spare stock from its warehouses, as well as the prototype and test food from head office to Fareshare.\n\nFullers managing director Kevin Smith said donating waste food puts something back into the community\n\nManaging director Kevin Smith said it made sense on many levels.\n\n\"If we send food to landfill, we get charged for that,\" he explained. \"It makes absolute commercial sense for us to do it. Plus it feels like we're doing something that puts back into the community.\"\n\nBut tapping into waste food as businesses of all kinds seek to be leaner in their operations will pose a challenge. Mr Smith also said that higher demand for products meant the pressure was on to order smart and not make errors that could lead to waste.\n\nThe BBC also spoke to manufacturer Kellogg's, which has a long-standing commitment to back breakfast clubs and has redistributed over 18 million servings of cereal in 2022 so far - more than last year.\n\nBut alongside this, the business recognised a drive to reduce waste, too.\n\n\"Like every business, we are trying to be as efficient as possible and look at our costs,\" said Paul Wheeler, communications director at Kellogg's UK.\n\n\"We are trying to manage down the amount of food we give, which causes a problem. Because as we do that, the demand for Fareshare and other charities is like never before.\"\n\nPaul Wheeler, communications director at Kellogg's said charity demand for surplus food was at an all-time high\n\nThe BBC contacted Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Asda and Waitrose regarding food waste donations. All said that supporting charities such as Fareshare was important to them, and that food waste donations as a whole were steady, and to a broad range of organisations.\n\nBut alongside this, Sainsbury's and Asda did also add that reducing food waste was an important commitment within the business.\n\n\"We are aware this could impact the volumes we are able to redistribute to charities to support their beneficiaries,\" a Sainsbury's spokesperson explained.", "The Supreme Leader of Iran has blamed the United States and Israel for orchestrating protests in Tehran and other cities following the death of a young woman who was detained by the nation's 'morality police'.\n\nIn his first comments Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed he had been been heartbroken by Mahsa Amini's death. Social media is playing a key role in the protests, as our analysis editor Ros Atkins reports.", "King Charles should attend the upcoming climate change conference COP27, the president of last year's summit and member of Liz Truss's cabinet has said.\n\nAlok Sharma was responding to a report which claimed the prime minister had \"ordered\" the King not to attend.\n\nBuckingham Palace later confirmed the King will not attend the summit in Egypt next month.\n\nMr Sharma said the King had championed the environment for decades and other countries wanted him to attend.\n\nThe former business secretary, who led COP26 in Glasgow last November and retains cabinet status, told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight programme: \"I would certainly like to see His Majesty attend and that is a message I am getting from countries around the world.\n\n\"Of course, he is head of state in the United Kingdom but he is also head of state in other countries, some of which are very much on the front line of climate change.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Buckingham Palace said the decision for King Charles not to attend COP27 had been made \"with mutual friendship and respect\" after the monarch sought the prime minister's advice.\n\nCOP26 president Alok Sharma said King Charles had been a \"huge global champion of the environment\" before it was a mainstream issue\n\nMr Sharma said he couldn't comment about the content of the conversations between the King and prime minister, but said the monarch had for decades been a \"huge global champion of the environment and tackling climate change long before it was a mainstream issue\".\n\nIn his former role as the Prince of Wales, the King has been a staunch climate campaigner and made a speech during the opening ceremony of last year's summit.\n\nLast week, Egypt warned the UK not to \"backtrack\" on the global climate agenda.\n\nMs Truss has not said whether she will attend COP27, suggesting that the UK may have neither a head of government nor a head of state in attendance.\n\nMr Sharma said the prime minister had been clear on the government's commitment to reach a target of net-zero emissions by 2050.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nAbuse and misconduct \"had become systemic\" in the United States' top-flight National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), an independent investigation has found.\n\nGoverning body US Soccer said it would move immediately to implement reforms.\n\nAn investigation was launched last year following allegations made against North Carolina Courage's English head coach Paul Riley, who was sacked.\n\nRiley, who has coached women's teams since 2006, has denied the accusations.\n\nAfter the alleged offences against Riley came to light, a round of NWSL games were suspended before players halted matches in their own displays of unity, while league commissioner Lisa Baird resigned.\n• None The Sports Desk - Is football failing to protect women?\n\nUS Soccer appointed Sally Yates and King & Spalding LLP to conduct the independent inquiry, who spoke to more than 200 NWSL players.\n\n\"Our investigation has revealed a league in which abuse and misconduct - verbal and emotional abuse and sexual misconduct - had become systemic, spanning multiple teams, coaches, and victims,\" the Yates report said.\n\n\"Abuse in the NWSL is rooted in a deeper culture in women's soccer that normalises verbally abusive coaching and blurs boundaries between coaches and players.\n\n\"The players who have come forward to tell their stories have demonstrated great courage. It's now time that the institutions that failed them in the past listen to the players and enact the meaningful reform players deserve.\"\n\nAs well as examining claims against Riley, the report looks into allegations against two other coaches, Rory Dames and Northern Irishman Christy Holly.\n\nDames resigned from the Chicago Red Stars last November and the report alleges verbal abuse and improper sexual relationships with players, which he denies.\n\nIt says Holly left a coaching role in 2016 following similar claims and was sacked by Racing Louisville last year for sexual misconduct after groping a player. Holly has admitted to a relationship with the player but denies there was any sexual conduct while at the club, the report continues.\n\nUS Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone called the investigation's findings \"heartbreaking and deeply troubling.\"\n\nThe NWSL said it would immediately review the findings.\n\n\"We greatly appreciate our players, staff and stakeholders' cooperation with both investigations, especially during the ongoing season,\" the league said in a statement .\n\n\"We recognise the anxiety and mental strain that these pending investigations have caused and the trauma that many - including players and staff - are having to relive.\n\n\"We continue to admire their courage in coming forward to share their stories and influence all the changes necessary to keep moving our league forward.\"\n\nThe NWSL added that a joint investigation between the league and its players' association is ongoing.", "Queen Margrethe II said she wanted to keep the monarch in \"keeping with the times\"\n\nThe Queen of Denmark has apologised after stripping four of her grandchildren of their royal titles - but has not reversed the decision.\n\nQueen Margrethe II said she wanted the monarchy in \"keeping with the times\", that her decision had been a long time coming, and that it would \"future-proof\" the institution.\n\nBut she \"underestimated\" her family's reaction \"and for that I am sorry\".\n\nThe initial decision was announced last week, to begin next year.\n\n\"The titles of prince and princess that they have held up until now will be discontinued,\" the initial statement said. \"Prince Joachim's descendants will thus have to be addressed as excellencies in the future.\"\n\nPrince Joachim - the younger son of Queen Margrethe - said he was upset by the change.\n\n\"It's never fun to see your children being mistreated like that,\" he told Ekstra Bladet. \"They find themselves in a situation they do not understand.\"\n\nHis wife, Princess Marie, said her youngest child had been bullied at school following what she called the \"short-notice\" announcement.\n\nIn an interview, the couple also said Margrethe had not spoken to them since the changes were announced. One grandchild, Prince Nikolai, said his family were \"shocked\" by the decision.\n\nFrom the beginning of 2023, Joachim's four children - Prince Nikolai, 23, Prince Felix, 20, Prince Henrik, 13, and Princess Athena, 10 - will be known by the titles Count and Countess of Monpezat instead of Prince and Princess.\n\nThe palace said this was a \"natural extension\" to the Danish monarch's desire to slim down the monarchy.\n\n\"Her Majesty The Queen wishes to create the framework for the four grandchildren to be able to shape their own lives to a much greater extent,\" last week's statement said.\n\nBut following what Margrethe described as \"strong reactions\" to her decision, she apologised in a new statement for underestimating the reaction.\n\n\"No one should be in doubt that my children, daughters-in-law and grandchildren are my great joy and pride. I now hope that we as a family can find the peace to find our way through this situation,\" she said.\n\nQueen Margrethe II's oldest son, Crown Prince Frederik, is first in line to the throne. His four children will keep their titles.\n\nHis wife, Crown Princess Mary, supported the Queen, saying \"change can be difficult and can really hurt. But this does not mean that the decision is not the right one\".\n\nThe Danish monarch, 82, tested positive for Covid-19 after attending the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II - who was her third cousin.", "The UK's biggest mortgage lender will raise rates on Wednesday as the cost of new fixed rate deals keeps climbing.\n\nThe Halifax, part of Lloyds Banking Group, will put up the interest rates on a range of deals for new borrowers to well over 5%.\n\nIt follows a string of major providers in re-pricing products, which has pushed the average two-year fixed rate deal to 6%.\n\nFour days ago, the rate was 5.43% and at the start of December it was 2.34%.\n\nBrokers say lenders are \"playing safe\" with rates amid current economic uncertainty, but costs could eventually start to dip.\n\nThe fall-out from the mini-budget initially led to a slump in the value of the pound, as traders expected a sharper increase in interest rates by the Bank of England than previously anticipated.\n\nThat prompted mortgage providers to rapidly pull hundreds of deals from the market. This week, the availability of products has started to pick up again.\n\nHowever, mortgages are now more expensive. That is affecting about 100,000 homeowners each month who remortgage and first-time buyers getting a new home loan.\n\nThe interest rate on a new, average two-year fixed deal has risen consistently since the mini-budget.\n\nOn the morning of the speech it was 4.74%. Now, it is 5.97%. A five-year fixed deal has typically risen from 4.75% to 5.75% over the same period.\n\nIn recent days, the biggest lenders have revised their prices.\n\nOn Wednesday, the largest of them - the Halifax - will increase its own. A spokesman said this was to \"reflect the continued increase in mortgage market pricing over recent weeks\".\n\nIt means its rate for a two-year fixed deal for a customer offering a 25% deposit is up from 4.61% to 5.84%.\n\nOn a 30-year mortgage for somebody borrowing £200,000, that would mean a monthly repayment of £1,179 rather than £1,026.\n\nSimilar shocks to the mortgage sector in the past have led to lenders pursuing a \"flight to quality\", according to Andrew Montlake, of mortgage broker Coreco.\n\nThat means lenders have concentrated their attention on borrowers able to offer large deposits and absolute certainty of repaying.\n\nHe said the current upheaval is likely to be a relatively short-term issue with lenders scrambling to reset prices, rather than a longer-term problem.\n\nLenders were playing safe with their rates, he added. Notably, the TSB has a stricter test of affordability - checking whether homeowners can cope were rates to rise to 8% (or 7% for first-time buyers) before accepting an application.\n\nSome more specialist lenders, whose customers may include those with a chequered credit history or the recently self-employed, have been raising rates to 6.5-7% or more.\n\nThis group of customers may be the one that finds their choice of products is curtailed.\n\nMr Montlake said there was still high demand from borrowers, and money available for providers to lend.\n\nEconomic clarity provided by clear forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility should eventually feed through to stop the increase, or see some reversal in mortgage rates, he said.\n\nThe prospect has already improved the value of the pound.\n\nSome brokers are worried that first-time buyers offering a 5% deposit could find it more difficult to find a deal.\n\n\"The 95% loan-to-value mortgage won't die, but there will almost certainly be fewer of them due to the current economic situation,\" said Ian Hewett, founder of Ashford-based The Bearded Mortgage Broker.\n\n\"Equally, I am sure they will be resurrected once stability is back and confidence in the government has resumed.\"\n\nHow are you being affected by the rise in mortgage rates? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A 36-year-old man died after collapsing while running the London Marathon, organisers have confirmed.\n\nThe man, from south-east England, became unwell between miles 23 and 24 of the 26.2-mile event.\n\nHe received immediate medical treatment and an ambulance arrived within three minutes but he died later in hospital. His cause of death is not yet known.\n\nIn a statement, London Marathon Events expressed its \"sincere condolences\" to the man's family and friends.\n\nThe organisation said his relatives had requested privacy at this time, adding: \"No further details will be released in accordance with their wishes.\n\n\"The cause of death will be established later through medical examination.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "(L-R) Lucy Bruzzone, Clare Ballantyne, Natalie Corbett and Mairi Hilton will spend five months on Goudier Island\n\nFour women have been selected to run the world's most remote post office and count penguins in Antarctica.\n\nClare Ballantyne, Mairi Hilton, Natalie Corbett and Lucy Bruzzone beat a record number of applicants to become the team responsible for managing historic site Port Lockroy, on Goudier Island.\n\nThe team will travel 9,000 miles from the UK to reopen the bay for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThey will spend five months without running water or a flushing toilet.\n\nAbout 80,000 cards are mailed each year from the site to more than 100 countries\n\nNewlywed Ms Corbett, in charge of running the gift shop at the site's museum, will leave behind her husband for the trip, which she dubbed a \"solo honeymoon\".\n\nThe 31-year-old from Hampshire said she could not resist the opportunity to work on the island.\n\n\"Who wouldn't want to spend five months working on an island filled with penguins in one of the most remote places on the planet?\" she said.\n\nAs well as dealing with sub-zero temperatures and almost constant daylight, the women will share the island with a colony of gentoo penguins, which Ms Hilton will be in charge of monitoring.\n\n\"This will be my first time in Antarctica and I'm very excited to set eyes on the white continent. I have no idea what to expect when we get there - how cold it will be, will we have to dig our way through the snow to the post office?\" Ms Hilton, from Bo'ness, near Falkirk in Scotland, said.\n\n\"I'm a conservation biologist, so personally I can't wait to see the penguins and other wildlife like seabirds and whales.\"\n\nThe four women were among 6,000 people who expressed an interest in the roles, which were advertised by the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) charity.\n\nThe women will be joined for 10 weeks by Vicky Inglis, general assistant and wildlife monitor on Port Lockroy\n\nNewly appointed postmaster Ms Ballantyne, from Lincolnshire, has just completed a masters in earth science at Oxford University.\n\nThe 23-year-old will deal by hand with approximately 80,000 cards, which are mailed each year from the site to more than 100 countries.\n\nMs Bruzzone will be base leader, managing the team and coordinating all ship visits to the island.\n\nThe scientist, who has already spent three months in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard on an Arctic expedition, described the opportunity as a \"lifelong dream\".\n\nThe women will be joined for the first 10 weeks by 42-year-old Vicky Inglis, from Aberdeenshire, who was a UKAHT general assistant in the 2019/20 season.\n\nThe team will also be monitoring a local colony of gentoo penguins\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The museum at the end of the world reopens at last\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ukrainian armoured units are advancing against the Russians in several areas\n\nUkrainian troops have retaken more territory in regions illegally annexed by Russia, with Kyiv's forces advancing near the southern city of Kherson and consolidating gains in the east.\n\nRussian-installed officials in Kherson confirmed the advance, but said Moscow's forces were digging in.\n\nUkrainian troops also moved towards Russian-held Luhansk in the east.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said \"there are new liberated settlements in several regions\".\n\nSpeaking during his nightly address, President Zelensky said \"fierce fighting continues in many areas\", but he did not give details. The progress of Ukraine's counterattacks have been closely guarded and reporters have largely been kept away from the front lines.\n\nVladimir Saldo, the Russian-installed leader in the Kherson region in the south, admitted that Ukrainian forces had broken through near Dudchany, a town on the Dnipro river about 30km (20 miles) south of the previous front line. The river is called Dnieper by Russians.\n\n\"There are settlements that are occupied by Ukrainian forces,\" Mr Saldo said. Some Russian reports say the Ukrainians have now taken Dudchany.\n\nRussian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said \"numerically superior\" Ukrainian tanks had \"driven a deep wedge\" south of Zolota Balka, a village that marked the previous front line on the Dnipro. He claimed the Russians had killed about 130 Ukrainian troops in that fighting.\n\nAccording to Mr Saldo, two Ukrainian battalions tried to reach the Kakhovka hydroelectric station, about 70km (44 miles) east of Kherson. The power station is in the port city of Nova Kakhovka.\n\nThe Ukrainian advance is targeting supply lines for as many as 25,000 Russian troops on the west bank of the Dnipro, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nMeanwhile, in the east, Kyiv's troops have continued an advance that has made inroads into Luhansk, a province annexed by Moscow last week and previously under almost complete Russian control.\n\nOn Saturday, Ukrainian forces recaptured the important hub town of Lyman in the east, near the Luhansk regional border. Russia's military had turned Lyman into a logistical base.\n\nA commander of Russia's proxy forces in Luhansk said Ukrainian troops had pushed a few kilometres into the region before being killed. The BBC cannot confirm these claims.\n\nAnd reports suggest that the Ukrainians are moving towards the Russian-held towns of Kreminna and Svatove in Luhansk, with some pro-Kremlin bloggers suggesting that Russian forces have again been ordered to retreat.\n\nKherson and Luhansk are among four regions which Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared to be part of Russia, following so-called referendums denounced as fraudulent by Kyiv and its Western allies. Russia does not fully control any of the four regions.\n\nOn Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov attracted ridicule online after he admitted that Russia was still deciding which areas it had \"annexed\", suggesting that Moscow does not know where its self-declared borders are.\n\nMr Peskov claimed the entirety of Luhansk and Donetsk regions were part of Russia, but said the Kremlin would \"continue consultations with the population regarding the borders of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions\".\n\nKyiv has vowed to retake all the territory annexed by Russia, including Crimea, seized by Russian troops in 2014.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry says reservists drafted under Mr Putin's mobilisation order last month are undergoing intensive combat training in the Russian-controlled Luhansk and Donetsk regions. The Kremlin plans to call up about 300,000 reservists - though Mr Putin did not set an upper limit.", "Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share in April\n\nBillionaire Elon Musk has apparently changed his mind about buying Twitter, again, and is now willing to proceed with his takeover of the social media platform.\n\nIn a letter to the firm, Mr Musk agreed to pay the price he offered months ago before trying to quit the deal.\n\nThe surprise reversal comes just weeks before the two sides were due in court.\n\nTwitter, which had sued Mr Musk to force the takeover to move forward, was seen as having the stronger case.\n\nIn the letter, attorneys for Mr Musk said he intended to move ahead to complete the transaction, pending receipt of the financing and an end of the legal fight.\n\nA spokesperson for Twitter acknowledged the firm had received the proposal, adding \"the intention of the company is to close the transaction at $54.20 per share\" - the price that Mr Musk promised in April.\n\nThe apparent win for Twitter sent its shares soaring more than 20% to more than $52 apiece. But the value remained lower than the takeover price, in a sign of lingering investor doubts the deal will go through.\n\nLater on Tuesday, Mr Musk wrote in a tweet: \"Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app\".\n\nWhen Mr Musk first revealed plans to buy Twitter in a $44bn deal, he said he wanted to clean up spam accounts on the platform and preserve it as a venue for free speech.\n\nBut the billionaire, a prolific Twitter user known for his impulsive style, balked at the purchase just a few weeks later, citing concerns that the number of fake accounts on the platform was higher than Twitter claimed.\n\nTwitter executives denied the accusations, arguing that Mr Musk - the world's richest person with a net worth of more than $220bn - wanted out because he was worried about the price.\n\nThe back-and-forth followed a sharp downturn in the value of technology stocks, including Tesla, the electric car company that Mr Musk leads and is the base of much of his fortune.\n\nThe fight, which was scheduled to go to trial 17 October, saw the two sides face off in lengthy court filings, private messages and bitter public spats on Twitter, where Mr Musk has more than 100 million followers.\n\nIn one such exchange, Mr Musk responded to Twitter boss Parag Agrawal with an emoji for faecal matter.\n\nPreparation for the trial had ensnarled many of the biggest names in tech, as lawyers for the two companies demanded communications about the deal.\n\nMr Musk, who could have paid a $1bn break-up fee to walk away, was set to be interviewed ahead of the trial this week.\n\nSome industry watchers, who were taken by surprise by the development, questioned whether the latest twist was a concrete offer or a delay tactic.\n\nIt's hard to keep track with this deal. On, off, now - it appears - on again.\n\nHowever there's a lot to read into Twitter's brief statement.\n\nThe \"intention\" to go through with the deal suggests a nervousness that this is a delaying tactic from Musk's team.\n\nThe statement effectively can be read as - 'We are going to pursue this sale, whatever Elon Musk says or does'.\n\nThe way Twitter also, so pointedly, says it will sell the company at $54.20 suggests they are still worried about Musk lowballing.\n\nSo far Musk has been a highly erratic negotiating partner - hot and cold. Keen one minute, looking for the exit the other.\n\nYou can see why Twitter is playing it cautiously.\n\nAt Twitter, which has been thrown into turmoil since Mr Musk first turned his attention to the firm, staff told the BBC that their bosses were initially silent on the matter, even as the report spread widely.\n\nInvestors have long been sceptical that the takeover would go forward, especially since Mr Musk was seen as offering a heady price for a firm struggling to attract users and grow.\n\nTwitter shares had been trading below $43 apiece at the start of the day.\n\nNews that Mr Musk had proposed to honour the original agreement sent shares in the company soaring almost 13% before trading was halted.\n\nWedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives said Mr Musk's chance of winning in court was \"highly unlikely\".\n\n\"Being forced to do the deal after a long and ugly court battle in Delaware was not an ideal scenario and instead accepting this path and moving forward with the deal will save a massive legal headache,\" he wrote in a report after the news.\n\nBut he added, that Mr Musk's ownership of the platform, a top venue for politicians and journalists to spread news and opinion, would still likely cause a \"firestorm of worries and questions\" in Washington and beyond.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nJim Redmond, who famously helped his injured son Derek cross the finish line in Barcelona in 1992 in an iconic Olympic moment, has died aged 81.\n\nRedmond ran from his seat in the crowd to assist his son, who had torn his hamstring at the top of the home straight.\n\nThe pair then finished the 400m semi-final together.\n\nThe British Olympic Association said his was an Olympic moment that will \"never be forgotten\".\n\nThe footage has been viewed millions of times on social media and the International Olympic Committee said on Twitter : \"Our thoughts are with Derek Redmond and his family following the death of his father, Jim.\n\n\"Together, they brought us one of the most inspirational moments in Olympic history.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC Sport in 2012, Derek Redmond said that when he suffered the injury, he just wanted to finish the race and became aware of his father running over to him.\n\n\"He tried to talk me out of it at first,\" he recalled. \"He was telling me that I had nothing to prove and that I didn't need to do this, but I told him I was going to finish. Then he said that we would do it together.\n\n\"So we did, and I limped over the line in tears.\"\n• None The champion of two courts ignored by the world: Ora Washington fought to make her name in racially segregated America\n• None Can BrewDog's CEO steer the Good Ship through the storm of controversy?", "The woman was pronounced dead at the scene on Monday afternoon\n\nA man has been arrested after a woman was mauled to death by dogs in a house.\n\nThe 65-year-old, named locally as Ann Dunn, was fatally attacked at a property which had been listed for dog breeding online on St Brigid's Crescent in Kirkdale, Liverpool, on Monday.\n\nFive American bulldogs inside the house were handed over and have since been humanely destroyed.\n\nMerseyside Police said a man, aged 31, had been held on suspicion of owning a dog dangerously out of control.\n\nThe force said the woman had not yet been formally identified\n\nDet Insp Katie Coote said it was \"clearly a very distressing incident and our thoughts are with the family and friends of the lady who died\".\n\n\"Our inquiries remain ongoing as we seek to establish what has happened and I would urge anyone who could assist... to get in touch,\" she added.\n\nThe force said the woman had not yet been formally identified but her next of kin had been informed.\n\nA post-mortem examination will be carried out to establish the cause of death.\n\nAmerican bulldogs are not one of the four breeds currently banned in the UK.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BBC broadcaster Alex Scott says the domestic abuse she experienced during her childhood is \"still so raw\" but she wishes she had spoken about it sooner.\n\nScott has released her memoir in which she describes her father's violent behaviour towards her and her mother.\n\nHer father, Tony, denied her claims on Monday in a Daily Mail interview.\n\nResponding on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Scott said: \"I almost feel angry at myself that I'm allowing him to hurt me again by those claims of lying.\"\n\nIn an emotional interview, the former England footballer said she had decided to write about her father's behaviour because she wanted to help \"free my mum\".\n\nThe 37-year-old said: \"That story from him coming out yesterday takes her back to a place... hearing the pain and the terror again in her voice last night - that's why I don't know what I can do. But I'm not going to allow him to win no more.\n\n\"This book, the reason was to get some peace. And I suppose when you are in peace it gives you a new position of power and that's maybe why he's trying to (respond) right now.\"\n\nIn her autobiography, How (Not) to Be Strong, Scott writes about hearing her father be violent towards her mother while she and her brother were in bed in their flat in east London. She wrote: \"All I could do was lie there and pray my mum would be alive in the morning.\"\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Emma Barnett, she said: \"(My mum) doesn't know that her two kids are in the room hearing everything.\n\n\"She's trying to be strong in a totally different way, we're trying to be strong for her but can't help her. The visuals are still so there. I couldn't do anything.\n\n\"It's all still so raw. I can visualise it like it was yesterday.\n\n\"Even when my dad left that environment, we never communicated or you don't speak about it, it's like you try to move on with your life and leave that to the side but it never leaves you. That pain and the struggles still continue.\"\n\n'I'm sorry I didn't use my voice sooner'\n\nIn her father's interview, he denied having been violent towards his family, but did acknowledge that he was a strict parent.\n\nHe said: \"Perhaps she is judging me by today's standards, I don't know. Parents were a lot tougher back then. But I was never violent, that's just not me. I never beat Alex or anyone else in the family or did anything like that.\"\n\nIn response, Scott added: \"I actually don't care what happened to me. If you are saying being beaten with a belt is just being strict - I can take that, I really don't care about me.\n\n\"What I do care is about my mum and the fear and terror that she had to live in and the fact I was never able to help her in that, but what I can do is help her now by speaking the truth. And everything I wrote in that book, I stand by it. It is the truth.\"\n\nScott has pledged that all the proceeds of her book will go to help women affected by domestic abuse.\n\nShe added: \"I feel sorry right now that I've not used my voice sooner to help my mum or any other woman that is in this position.\n\n\"But what he has done - he lit a new fire in me yesterday. What I will do is do all I can to help women in this position so they don't have the feelings that my mum has carried her whole life - or that I have.\"\n\nIf you're affected by any of the issues in this article you can find details of organisations who can help via the BBC Action Line.\n\nIf you feel you are in immediate danger, call the police on 999. If you can't speak, press 55 when prompted to let them know you need urgent help.\n\nOnline webchats and text services are also available.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government has U-turned on plans to scrap the 45p rate of income tax for higher earners.\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng told the BBC the proposals, announced just 10 days ago, had become \"a massive distraction on what was a strong package\".\n\n\"We just talked to people, we listened to people, I get it,\" he added.\n\nThe decision, which marks a humiliating climbdown for Prime Minister Liz Truss, comes after several Tory MPs criticised the plan.\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Truss had said she was committed to the policy.\n\nThe plan to scrap the 45p rate, paid by people earning more than £150,000 a year, was announced as part of a package of tax cuts.\n\nMr Kwarteng told BBC Breakfast the proposal was \"drowning out a strong package\", including support for energy bills, and cuts to the basic rate of income tax and corporation tax.\n\nAsked whether he owed people an apology, he said: \"We've listened to people. And yeah, there is humility and contrition in that. And I'm happy to own it.\"\n\nHe added that he had \"the humility to say look, we got it wrong and we are not going to proceed with the abolition of the rate\".\n\nOn how the decision was made, he said: \"The prime minister decided not to proceed with the abolition of the rate.\"\n\nHowever, pressed on whether it was her U-turn, Mr Kwarteng added: \"No, we talked together, I said this is what I was minded to do and we decided together, we were in agreement that we wouldn't proceed with the abolition of the rate.\"\n\nAsked if he had considered resigning, he said: \"Not at all.\"\n\nDowning Street also said the prime minister continued to have confidence in Mr Kwarteng.\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Truss had told the BBC the move to cut the top rate of income tax was \"a decision that the chancellor made\".\n\nBut she also said she was absolutely committed to it as part of a package to make the tax system \"simpler\" and boost growth.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Prime Minister Liz Truss says she stands by plans announced in the mini-budget\n\nAsked whether his previous comment that there was \"more to come\" on tax cuts still stood, Mr Kwarteng said there would be no tax cuts ahead of the next Budget in the spring.\n\nPressed on whether his economic plans would mean spending cuts for public services, the chancellor said there would be more details in the government's fiscal plan on 23 November.\n\nHowever, he said the government was sticking to its 2021 comprehensive spending review, meaning it will not raise spending in line with inflation.\n\nIn addition to concern about the 45p tax rate, the government had also received criticism for not publishing an economic forecast by the independent spending watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility.\n\nMr Kwarteng told the BBC he had wanted to act at \"high speed\" and that there hadn't been enough time to get a full forecast.\n\nThe U-turn comes a few hours before the chancellor is due to give a speech to the Conservative Party conference, in which he had been expected to stress the importance of \"staying the course\".\n\nLabour called for the government to \"reverse their whole economic, discredited trickle down strategy\".\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the U-turn came \"too late for the families who will pay higher mortgages and higher prices for years to come\".\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey called on the chancellor to resign, saying he no longer had \"any credibility\" and the whole mini-budget needed an overhaul, while SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the government had shown \"utter ineptitude\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: Cutting tax for the wealthiest \"a display of the wrong values\"\n\nPlans to scrap the top rate of tax had seen remarkable opposition from the markets, other parties and a growing number of Tory MPs.\n\nConservative Party chairman Jake Berry had previously warned Tory MPs who voted against the prime minister's tax measures that they would be kicked out of the parliamentary party - known as losing the whip.\n\nBut increasingly, it seemed Ms Truss did not have the numbers to get it through Parliament.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Grant Shapps had warned the prime minister would lose a Commons vote on the proposal.\n\nHe welcomed the U-turn, telling the BBC: \"It's better to act, it's better to reverse ferret on something that's causing a problem like this, and it sends a very important signal to the public and also to the markets that we are serious about sound money.\"\n\nOn Sunday, former Tory minister Michael Gove hinted he would not vote for the plan when it came to Parliament, saying \"I don't believe it's right\" and it was \"a display of the wrong values\".\n\nHowever, asked whether he would now back the government's economic package following the U-turn, he told Times Radio: \"I think so on the basis of everything that I know... There were lots of good things that they announced.\"\n\nThe decision was also welcomed by the Confederation of British Industry.\n\nDirector-general Tony Danker said the pledge had become a \"distraction\" from other economic reforms, which he said would \"make a real difference to growth\".\n\nThe U-turn, suggestions of which were first reported by the Sun, comes on the second day of the Conservative conference in Birmingham, with Mr Kwarteng due to speak later on Monday.\n\nThe pound jumped on the news, rising by more than a cent against the dollar to $1.1263, before falling back.\n\nThe currency touched a record low last week after Mr Kwarteng's mini-budget created turmoil on the markets.\n\nA 45% tax rate applies to income above £150,000 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, where income tax is devolved, the higher rate of tax is 46%.\n\nScrapping the top rate made up around £2bn of the £45bn worth of tax cuts announced by the chancellor in his mini-budget.\n\nOther measures announced included a cut to the basic rate of income tax to 19%, a reversal of the recent rise in National Insurance and scrapping the cap on bankers' bonuses.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies said: \"Unless [the chancellor] also U-turns on some of his other, much larger tax announcements, he will have no option but to consider cuts to public spending: to social security, investment projects, or public services.\"\n\nHe added that Mr Kwarteng had already indicated department spending plans running to 2024-25 would be left unchanged \"which amounts to a real-terms cut in their generosity in the face of higher inflation\".\n\nSenior Conservative - and ally of Liz Truss's leadership rival Rishi Sunak - Mel Stride echoed his thoughts telling the BBC's World at One: \"Because we've come forward, or the government has, with a number of unfunded tax cuts... it may be that there will be even yet further requirements to unwind some of those positions.\n\n\"The main economic issues here haven't gone away even if the political ones have been made easier.\"", "Liz Truss will use her set-piece Tory conference speech to explain why she thinks the \"disruption\" caused by her economic policies will be worth it.\n\n\"Everyone will benefit\" from the economic growth produced by her tax-cutting plan, the PM will claim.\n\nAfter a bruising conference marked by U-turns and internal division, she will set out a long-term vision for the country under her leadership.\n\nAnd she will attempt to reassure her party that she is on the right path.\n\nThe speech is due to get under way at 11:00 BST.\n\n\"Whenever there is change, there is disruption,\" she will tell party members.\n\n\"Not everyone will be in favour. But everyone will benefit from the result - a growing economy and a better future.\"\n\nAsked what \"disruption\" there could be and whether higher mortgage interest payments were acceptable, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly told BBC Breakfast: \"There's almost an inevitability about an increase in interest rates because it's going on around the globe.\n\n\"What we need to do is make sure we find a way of offsetting that by having a growing economy, growing wages.\"\n\nMajor providers have already increased rates on mortgages, after the government's mini-budget led to a slump in the value of the pound and traders expected the Bank of England to raise interest rates more sharply than previously anticipated.\n\nThe four-day conference in Birmingham has been overshadowed by wrangling within the party over the future direction of the economy.\n\nThis week Ms Truss - who became prime minister a month ago after winning a Tory leadership contest - dramatically abandoned plans to scrap the top rate of income tax announced at the mini-budget on 23 September, after criticism from her own MPs.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman, who was in favour of abolishing the 45p tax rate for higher earners and disappointed by the U-turn, said the policy had been overturned by a \"coup\" within the party.\n\nCabinet colleagues have also come out publicly against the suggestion that benefits could be linked to the rise in earnings rather than inflation.\n\nPenny Mordaunt, the Leader of the Commons, said it \"makes sense\" for Universal Credit to continue to be linked to inflation, which has soared during the cost of living crisis.\n\nOther senior Tories, including former leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, have also said during the conference that an inflation-level rise should go ahead.\n\nAsked whether Ms Mordaunt was right in her comments, Mr Cleverly said no policy had been made yet but it was better to \"feed ideas directly into the centre\" of government.\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has faced pressure following financial turmoil in the wake of the mini-budget, after markets reacted badly to plans to borrow to fund £45bn in tax cuts.\n\nThe Conservatives have slumped in the polls since the mini-budget was unveiled, with Labour opening up wide leads.\n\nIn an interview with Times Radio, former Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said MPs would \"find a way to make change\" if poll numbers against Ms Truss did not improve.\n\n\"I want Liz to succeed, so I'm hoping that she can turn us around,\" he said. \"I think there is a window of opportunity for her to do it.\"\n\nHowever, former Brexit Secretary David Davis, who has been a strong critic of Ms Truss, said the idea of getting rid of her before the next election was \"fantasy\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it had been \"a poor start\" to her leadership but \"you've got to make this work\".\n\n\"If the party splits into pieces then we will lose the next election,\" he added.\n\nWhile there are no big policy announcements expected in her speech, BBC Political Editor Chris Mason said Ms Truss would use her platform to \"attempt to pull this party together\" following days of \"open dysfunction\".\n\n\"Governments function through the exercise of power and authority - and there've been two transparent examples in the last two days of this government lacking in both...\n\n\"This is a government that is nervous - with a lot to be nervous about.\"\n\nMs Truss will also say there has been too much focus on redistributing wealth within society, rather than on increasing the size of the economy.\n\n\"Instead, we need to grow the pie so that everyone gets a bigger slice,\" she will say.\n\n\"That is why I am determined to take a new approach and break us out of this high-tax, low-growth cycle.\n\n\"We have huge talent across the country. We're not making enough of it.\n\n\"To deliver this, we need to get Britain moving. We cannot have any more drift and delay at this vital time.\"\n\nA No 10 source said Ms Truss would aim to spell out her long-term vision in her address, and was planning to speak to Tory MPs in Parliament next week to listen to concerns and explain her plans.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Scotland's Stone of Destiny was removed from Westminster Abbey\n\nThe last surviving member of a group of Scottish nationalists who removed the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey and returned it to Scotland has died.\n\nIan Hamilton KC was one of four students who broke into the Abbey on Christmas Day in 1950.\n\nThe stone had played a key role in the coronation of Scottish kings before being taken to London by King Edward I of England in 1296.\n\nMr Hamilton became a lawyer, and continued to campaign for independence.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon described Mr Hamilton - who was 97 - as a \"legend of the independence movement\" and \"one of the many giants on whose shoulders the modern SNP stands\".\n\nShe added: \"During my time as the SNP leader I have received occasional words of wisdom, encouragement and support from him, which I will always treasure.\"\n\nThe other three students involved in the plot to remove the stone - which is also known as as the Stone of Scone - were Gavin Vernon, Kay Matheson and Alan Stuart, who died in 2004, 2013 and 2019 respectively.\n\nThey had all travelled to London on 23 December with the aim of removing the stone from underneath the coronation throne, where it had lain for 650 years since being taken from Scotland during the Wars of Independence.\n\nAfter breaking into the abbey through a side door, they prized out the stone from a cavity underneath the throne, causing it to fall to the floor.\n\nThe stone was moved back to Scotland in 1996\n\nThe students then dragged the stone outside and vanished into the night.\n\nA nationwide search for the perpetrators was launched, but the stone - which had broken into two during the removal process but was later repaired - was not found until it appeared, draped in a Saltire, at Arbroath Abbey on 11 April 1951.\n\nMr Hamilton was questioned by the police but was not arrested, with the home secretary telling the Commons at the time that it would not be in the public interest to prosecute those responsible for taking the stone.\n\nThe stone was taken back to Westminster Abbey, where it remained until being moved to Edinburgh Castle in 1996.\n\nIt now lies alongside the crown jewels of Scotland in the castle's Crown Room, but will be temporarily taken to London to be used in the coronation ceremony for King Charles III.\n\nRoddy Dunlop KC, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, said Mr Hamilton had been its oldest living member.\n\nHe added: \"Ian was a formidable advocate, a great friend to many, and a lovely man. It is thus with deep sorrow that we bid him farewell.\"", "Rebekah Vardy must make an initial payment of £800,000 by 15 November\n\nRebekah Vardy is expected to pay an estimated £1.5m towards Coleen Rooney's legal costs after losing a defamation case earlier this year.\n\nCourt documents show Mrs Vardy has been ordered to pay 90% of Mrs Rooney's legal fees.\n\nAn initial payment of £800,000 must be made by 15 November, the court documents said.\n\nEarlier this year, a High Court judge ruled in Mrs Rooney's favour following the so-called Wagatha Christie trial.\n\nMrs Rooney's legal team have not yet produced a final total for their costs, but the last figure presented to the court was £1,667,860 - and 90% of that would be £1.5m if it remains unchanged.\n\nMrs Rooney incurred total costs of more than £2m, but £350,000 of those had already been racked up before the trial in May, so those were removed from the figure that her legal team presented to the court.\n\nMrs Rooney had argued she should be paid 100%, while Mrs Vardy had asked to pay 80%.\n\nThe order is to contribute to costs incurred, and is not a libel payment - because it was Mrs Vardy who was suing for libel and her claim failed.\n\nMrs Rooney, therefore, was not awarded any libel payment.\n\nColeen Rooney, pictured with husband Wayne during the trial in May\n\nThe final figure of costs Mrs Vardy has to pay may be reduced further if she does not agree to pay the 90% total incurred by Mrs Rooney and, at a later date, a court considers some of those costs to have been unreasonable.\n\nMrs Justice Steyn said there were certain issues which arose during the seven-day trial which justified the reduction of 10% in the amount Mrs Vardy has to pay, including Mrs Rooney's \"weak\" allegation that Mrs Vardy was one of the people behind The Sun's \"Secret Wag\" gossip column, and Mrs Rooney's unsuccessful public interest defence.\n\n\"However, given the defendant's success on the defence of truth which was at the heart of this claim, and the degree to which there was overlap between the issues, I consider that the appropriate reduction is 10%,\" the judge said.\n\nOn top of the estimated £1.5m, Mrs Vardy will have to pay her own legal costs, which could bring her combined bill to over £3m.\n\nMrs Vardy will also have to pay some of the costs incurred by seven journalists who were potential witnesses but did not give evidence.\n\nThe trial took place earlier this year after Mrs Rooney, the wife of former England footballer Wayne Rooney, conducted a sting operation in 2019, accusing Mrs Vardy online of leaking private stories about her to The Sun.\n\nMrs Vardy has always denied passing the information from Mrs Rooney's private Instagram to the newspaper.\n\nBut in July, Mrs Justice Steyn ruled that Mrs Rooney's accusation was \"substantially true\", saying it was likely Mrs Vardy \"knew of, condoned and was actively engaged\" in the process of leaking stories about Mrs Rooney to the Sun in collaboration with Mrs Vardy's agent, Caroline Watt.\n\nMrs Vardy, who is married to Leicester striker Jamie Vardy, said in a statement released at the time that she was \"extremely sad and disappointed\" at the judge's decision.\n\nMrs Rooney said she was \"pleased\" the ruling had gone in her favour, adding \"it was not a case I ever sought or wanted\".\n\nThe trial was dubbed \"Wagatha Christie\" - a reference to Wags, the wives and girlfriends of footballers, and Agatha Christie, the author famous for her whodunit mysteries.\n\nLibel cases are mounted when an individual feels their reputation has been damaged following the publication of a false statement.", "Protesting schoolgirls walked along a main road in Karaj, a city just to the west of Tehran, on Tuesday\n\nSchoolgirls in Iran have been waving their headscarves in the air and chanting against clerical authorities, in an unprecedented show of support for the protests engulfing the country.\n\nVideos verified by the BBC showed demonstrations inside schoolyards and on the streets of several cities.\n\nThey echoed the wider unrest sparked by the death last month of a woman who was detained for breaking the hijab law.\n\nIn Karaj, girls reportedly forced an education official out of their school.\n\nFootage posted on social media on Monday showed them shouting \"shame on you\" and throwing what appear to be empty water bottles at the man until he retreats through a gate.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn another video from Karaj, which is just to the west of the capital Tehran, students are heard shouting: \"If we don't unite, they will kill us one by one.\"\n\nIn the southern city of Shiraz on Monday, dozens of schoolgirls blocked traffic on a main road while waving their headscarves in the air and shouting \"death to the dictator\" - a reference to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Shayan Sardarizadeh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFurther protests by schoolgirls were reported on Tuesday in Karaj, Tehran and the north-western cities of Saqez and Sanandaj.\n\nA number of students were also photographed standing in their classrooms with their heads uncovered.\n\nSome were raising their middle fingers - an obscene gesture - at portraits of Ayatollah Khamenei and the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.\n\nThe protests by the schoolgirls began hours after Iran's supreme leader defended the government's response\n\nAfter almost three weeks of protests, it is clear that Iran's leadership is facing a serious challenge.\n\nIts opponents are no longer just politicians or people in their 20s. It is now facing teenagers - schoolgirls who are not scared of burning photos of the supreme leader.\n\nThe protests have continued despite Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's warning on Monday that they were \"riots\" orchestrated by the West.\n\nMany of those taking part simply want a normal life. They might not understand politics, but they understand that they are not free to live their lives the way they want.\n\nNow, every school and university could potentially become a headquarters for the protesters. Every day at school, teenagers will be able to get together and exchange ideas about how to overthrow the regime.\n\nThe question is whether and how the Islamic Republic will be able to stop them.\n\nThe protests by the schoolgirls began hours after Ayatollah Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters, broke his silence on the unrest and accused the United States and Israel, Iran's arch-enemies, of orchestrating \"riots\".\n\nHe also gave his full backing to the security forces, which have responded to the protests with a violent crackdown.\n\nThe unrest was triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who fell into a coma after being detained by morality police on 13 September in Tehran for allegedly violating the law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf. She died in hospital three days later.\n\nHer family has alleged that officers beat her head with a baton and banged her head against one of their vehicles. The police have denied that she was mistreated and said she suffered \"sudden heart failure\".\n\nThe first protests took place in Kurdish-populated north-western Iran, where Ms Amini lived, and then spread rapidly across the country.\n\nIran Human Rights, a Norway-based group, reported on Tuesday that at least 154 people had been killed by security forces so far.\n\nThey include 63 protesters whom ethnic Baluch activists said had died in clashes in the south-eastern city of Zahedan on Friday.", "Lynn's hits included Don't Come Home A-Drinkin', Honky Tonk Girl and the feminist anthem, The Pill\n\nLoretta Lynn, whose songs of strength and independence made her a standard-bearer for women in country music, has died at the age of 90.\n\nKnown as the Queen of Country, her songs were rooted in real-life experience, most notably on the autobiographical Coal Miner's Daughter.\n\nOther hits included Don't Come Home A-Drinkin', Honky Tonk Girl and the feminist anthem, The Pill.\n\nLynn's family said she died on Tuesday at her home in Tennessee.\n\n\"Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, October 4th, in her sleep at home in her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills,\" the family said in a statement.\n\nThey asked for privacy as they grieve and said a memorial would be announced later.\n\nThe singer was born Loretta Webb in a one-room log cabin in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky in 1932. She was the second of eight children.\n\nJust as she would later sing in Coal Miner's Daughter, her family eked out a living during the Depression, with her father earning a \"poor man's dollar\" by working all night in the coal mines, and all day in the fields \"a-hoein' corn\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by The Ed Sullivan Show This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by The Ed Sullivan Show\n\nThe family made its own entertainment - her mother played guitar, with her father accompanying on banjo - and she grew up on the songs of the Carter Family.\n\n\"I was singing when I was born, I think,\" she told the Associated Press in 2016. \"Daddy used to come out on the porch where I would be singing and rocking the babies to sleep.\n\n\"He'd say, 'Loretta, shut that big mouth. People all over this holler can hear you.' And I said, 'Daddy, what difference does it make? They are all my cousins.'\"\n\nAt the age of 15, she attended a \"pie social\" - where local girls would bake a pie, and men would bid to win both the food and a meeting with the cook.\n\nLoretta's pie, accidentally baked with salt instead of sugar, was won by Oliver Lynn, a 21-year-old solider, who swept her off her feet. A month later, they married and moved to Custer, Washington, where they raised four children.\n\nHer husband, whom she called \"Doo\" or \"Doolittle,\" urged her to sing professionally and bought her a $17 (£15) Sears guitar, with which she started a band, Loretta and the Trailblazers, that also featured her brother Jay Lee Webb.\n\nLoretta was married to Oliver \"Doolittle\" Lynn for 48 years\n\nBy 1960, she had signed a contract with Zero Records and released her debut single, I'm a Honky Tonk Girl.\n\nThe song was inspired by a woman Lynn befriended in Washington, whose husband had left her for another woman. Lynn said she wrote the song while leaning up against an old toilet in her house, the words pouring out of her in a 10-minute burst of inspiration.\n\nShe and her husband promoted the song relentlessly, driving to radio stations around the country to pester DJs into playing it, and sending out hundreds of free discs.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by Loretta Lynn - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe effort paid off. I'm A Honky Tonk Girl reached number 14 on the country charts, and Lynn relocated to Nashville, where she was quickly snapped up by Decca Records.\n\nShe released her first Decca record, Success, in 1962, beginning an impressive stretch of hits that continued into the 1990s.\n\nLynn earned her first number one with Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind) in 1966, and topped the US country charts another 15 times.\n\nShe recorded 60 albums in total, and was nominated for 18 Grammy Awards, winning three.\n\nHer songs frequently depicted broken relationships and unhappy homes - but were unusual for expressing a female point of view at a time when that was unheard of in country music.\n\nMany addressed Doolittle's infidelity and alcoholism. You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man) and Fist City were feisty warnings to any woman who considered approaching her husband, while 1971's I Wanna Be Free fantasised about divorce.\n\n\"I'm gonna take this chain from around my finger / And throw it just as far as I can sling,\" sang Lynn.\n\n\"I've wrote every song I ever wrote about him,\" she told a BBC Arena documentary. \"He gave me a lot of opportunities.\"\n\nThe singer scored 24 number one singles and 11 number one albums on the US country chart\n\nLynn later confessed that the relationship could turn violent - although she gave as good as she got.\n\n\"If he smacked me or anything, I'd stand up and be fightin' him just like I'd be fightin' the other woman,\" she told PBS's American Masters documentary in 2016. \"He'd smack me, I'd smack him; he'd pull my hair, I pulled his hair. That's the way it was.\"\n\nDespite their troubles, the couple stayed together for 48 years until Oliver's death in 1996.\n\nLynn's songs weren't just about relationships, however. Dear Sam was inspired by the women left at home during the Vietnam War, with lyrics that ran: \"Don't misunderstand/ I know he's fighting for our land / I really love my country/ But I also love my man\", while The Pill was a frank and funny celebration of reproductive choice.\n\n\"This old maternity dress I've got is going in the garbage/The clothes I'm wearing from now on won't take up so much yardage,\" sang the star. \"Miniskirts, hot pants and a few little fancy frills/Yeah, I'm making up for all those years since I've got the pill.\"\n\nAlthough she wasn't initially credited as a writer, it later transpired she had played a part in its composition. Speaking to NPR in 2010, the mother of six said the lyrics spoke directly to her own experiences.\n\n\"If I'd had [the pill] I would have used it,\" she said. \"'Cause back when I was having all the kids, we didn't have birth-control pills. Or if we did, I didn't know anything about them.\"\n\nThe subject matter meant her record label held the single back for several years. When it was finally released in 1975, many country radio stations refused to play it, keeping it from hitting number one. But it still reached the top five, and became Lynn's biggest crossover pop hit.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 3 by Loretta Lynn - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBy that time, Lynn had begun a professional partnership with country star Conway Twitty, with whom she scored hits like After the Fire Is Gone, Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man and As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone. The musicians were named vocal duo of the year by the Country Music Association for four consecutive years from 1972 to 1975.\n\nLynn published her autobiography, also called Coal Miner's Daughter, in 1976, and it was turned into a film in 1980, earning Sissy Spacek an Oscar for best actress.\n\nThe musician's output slowed in the 1980s and she announced her retirement in the 1990s - although she still managed to release a handful of albums, including 1993's Honky Tonk Women, a collaboration with fellow country music trailblazers Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette.\n\nIn the meantime, she turned her attention to food, launching a restaurant called Loretta Lynn's Kitchen, and a series of cookbooks that mixed recipes with stories from her life.\n\nShe also opened the Loretta Lynn Ranch in Tennessee - Lynn's equivalent to Parton's Dollywood - which hosts a museum and campsite, and stages regular music events.\n\nIn 2004, her career was resurrected by super-fan Jack White, who encouraged her back into the studio for an album that combined his abrasive rock sound with Lynn's penchant for pedal steel and banjo.\n\nThe album showed that her narrative power was undiminished (one song, Ms Leroy Brown, told of a bored housewife who stole her husband's savings to rent a limousine and go on a bender) and gained her a new audience at the age of 72, as well as the Grammy Award for best country album.\n\nIn 2013, Lynn was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour in the United States, by President Barack Obama.\n\nLoretta Lynn receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013\n\nLater albums included Full Circle, a mix of new songs and remakes of old standards, and 2021's Still Woman Enough, which saw her duet with Margo Price and Tanya Tucker.\n\nLynn stopped touring in 2017 after a stroke, and suffered a broken hip after falling over at home the following year. But she continued to perform and record, and forcefully denied tabloid reports at the time that her health was failing.\n\n\"Through the years they've said I'm broke, homeless, cheating, drinking, gone crazy, terminally ill, and even dead! Poor things can't ever get it right,\" she wrote on Facebook. \"I guess if those old pesky tabloids are harassing me then they're giving someone else a break... but I'm about an inch from taking 'em to Fist City!\"\n\nIt was that down-to-earth gutsiness that endeared her to fans over the last six decades, and one that ensures her music still feels relevant.\n\n\"I like real life, because that's what we're doing today,\" she said 2004. \"And I think that's why people bought my records, because they're living in this world and so am I. So I see what's going on, and I grab it.\"\n\nLynn is survived by four of her six children: Clara, Ernest and twins Peggy and Patsy, as well as 17 grandchildren and four step-grandchildren.", "A pair of Star Wars superfans have exchanged religious vows in a ceremony themed around the blockbuster films.\n\nTina and Kevin Rankin, from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, got married 20 years ago, but wanted a service in a church not so far, far away.\n\nThe ceremony at St Catherine's was officiated by the Reverend Charlotte Ruston, dressed as character Kylo Ren.\n\nShe said: \"Being a massive Star Wars fan myself, there was never any danger of me saying no this wedding.\"\n\nThe Reverend Charlotte Ruston says there was never any danger of her saying no to the Star Wars-themed wedding\n\n\"The whole day was full of fun and laughter. When Jesus talked about the fullness of life, I think that he was referring to days like this,\" Ms Ruston added.\n\nSt Catherine's was transformed from a traditional Anglican church into a Star Wars-inspired setting for the ceremony.\n\nMr Rankin is a member of the UK Garrison of the 501 Legion, an international Star Wars fan organisation.\n\nTheir members describe themselves as \"bad guys doing good\". Members dress as the villains from the Galactic Empire to raise funds for charity.\n\nTina and Kevin originally got married in a register office, but transformed the church into a Star Wars-themed setting\n\nThe couple were keen to include the Garrison in their wedding blessing.\n\n\"We are thankful for everyone at St Catherine's for helping us renew our wedding vows in a style which reflected not only our faith, but also our personalities and hobbies as well,\" Ms Rankin said.\n\n\"The whole day was full of joy and merriment. It was definitely a day no one will forget. We feel really blessed.\"\n\nMs Rankin explained that when they got married in 2005, the only say Kevin had was the venue. They always joked that when they renewed their vows, she would have the say on the venue and everything else would be his call.\n\n\"It's a bit of fun after a rough couple of years.\"\n\nMr Rankin said with beautiful weather, friends and family who could make it, and the Garrison, it was \"all he could have hoped for\".\n\n\"It was a fun day, and people were totally open to dress up, some had costumes and some just had t-shirts.\n\n\"It just goes to show, you don't have to colour in the same lines as everyone else, you can break with tradition and do things that are personal to yourself.\"", "Smith's Oscar win was overshadowed when he slapped host Chris Rock on stage at the awards ceremony, in March\n\nSlavery thriller Emancipation, starring the winner of last year's best actor Oscar, Will Smith, will be released later this year.\n\nRumours had suggested Apple Film could delay its release until 2023, after Smith slapped host Chris Rock on stage at the awards ceremony, in March.\n\nBut it will now open in cinemas on 2 December and will be available to stream from a week later, making it eligible for next year's Oscars.\n\nSmith, however, is banned for 10 years.\n\nHe also resigned from the Academy and has since apologised to comedian Rock, who had made a joke about Smith's wife, saying he is \"here whenever you need to talk\".\n\nEmancipation is based on the true story of \"Whipped Peter\", who joined the Union Army in the 1860s after escaping from slavery in Louisiana.\n\nPhotos of his scars from a whipping, taken during a medical examination, were published to become a damning indictment of slavery.\n\nAs well as Smith's win for his last film, King Richard, this year's Oscars saw Apple become the first streaming service to win best picture, with Coda.", "Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has sought to calm the markets and restore faith in his tax-cutting economic agenda\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will set out his plan to get UK debt falling earlier than planned, after markets reacted badly to his package of tax cuts.\n\nHe is expected to publish details on how the cuts will be paid for later this month despite previously insisting he would wait until 23 November.\n\nThe move follows a dramatic U-turn on scrapping the 45p rate of income tax for higher earners.\n\nMr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"move forward\" with no \"distractions\".\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Liz Truss has said that abolishing the top rate of tax was only a \"tiny part of the plan\" for economic growth.\n\nIn a speech to the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, Mr Kwarteng acknowledged the \"turbulence\" caused by his mini-budget, which saw the pound's value plummet, borrowing costs soar, and the Bank of England bail out pension funds.\n\nEven so, he promised to deliver the rest of his £43bn package of tax cuts, which is expected to be partly paid for by a squeeze on public spending.\n\nWriting in The Daily Telegraph, Ms Truss said her government would \"control public spending\" and had a \"firm commitment to fiscal responsibility\".\n\n\"The status quo is not an option,\" she wrote, adding that she and the chancellor had a \"clear plan for economic success and security\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I know the plan put forward only 10 days ago has caused a little turbulence, I get it..\"\n\nThe chancellor said his medium-term fiscal plan, which will outline how the government plans to cut the UK's debt, would come \"shortly\" rather than at the end of November.\n\nA source told the BBC the debt plan was expected this month on a date to be confirmed, with a formal announcement to be made on Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday afternoon, the chief secretary to the Treasury, Chris Philp, had suggested the government still intended to set out the plan on 23 November.\n\nBut Tory MPs and opposition parties had put increasing pressure on the chancellor to release the plan earlier to shore up market confidence in the UK's economic outlook.\n\nThe BBC's economics editor, Faisal Islam, said the move was the latest sign that the chancellor was willing to do what it takes to regain confidence lost since the mini-budget on 23 September.\n\nLast month, as financial markets reeled from the mini-budget, the chancellor said he would set out his plan on 23 November and asked the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to report back to him by that date.\n\nForecasts from the OBR - the UK's independent budget watchdog - give an indication of the health of the nation's finances. The BBC understands the government was given a draft forecast before announcing its package of tax cuts, but it has not been published.\n\nIn an unusual move, Mr Kwarteng and Ms Truss held emergency talks with the chairman of the OBR, Richard Hughes, last Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA few days later, on Sunday, Ms Truss rejected calls to bring forward the budget watchdog's assessment, which she said was \"not yet ready\".\n\n\"There's no point in publishing something that's not ready. That would just cause confusion,\" Ms Truss told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme.\n\nBut the government has changed its mind, following days of disquiet among Tory MPs, concerned about the economic fallout of the mini-budget and the Conservative Party's dramatic slide in the polls.\n\nNow the OBR will bring forward forecasts alongside the plan, analysing whether the tax-cutting agenda of Ms Truss can deliver the economic growth it has promised.\n\nThis is not a U-turn on the scale of the 45p tax rate but it is another big reversal.\n\nThere has been pressure on the Treasury from Tory MPs to bring the statement forward.\n\nThe prime minister and the chancellor do not themselves appear to have said 23 November in recent days, but they have certainly allowed the impression the statement would not move from then to persist.\n\nThe chief secretary to the Treasury, Chris Philp, certainly didn't appear to know that the date was changing, insisting on the BBC's Politics Live that it would still be 23 November, even after the chancellor hinted towards a change in his speech.\n\nThe OBR will cost all the policies announced by the chancellor and provide new numbers for borrowing.\n\nThe budget watchdog will also publish forecasts for economic growth.\n\nTory MP Mel Stride, chairman of the Treasury Committee, said he had \"pressed the chancellor very hard on this and to his credit he has listened\".\n\nHe said bringing the OBR forecast forward should \"should calm markets more quickly and reduce the upward pressure on interest rates to the benefit of millions of people up and down the country\".\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the chancellor's refusal to release the OBR's forecast was \"misguided and harmful\".\n\nShe said the government's \"continued failure\" to publish the forecast \"suggests the government has something to hide, further undermining confidence in the UK as a safe place to invest\".", "Police said a search of Saddleworth Moor had produced \"no visible evidence\"\n\n\"No bones, fabric or items of interest\" have been found at a site being searched for the last victim of the Moors murderers, police have said.\n\nKeith Bennett was one of five youngsters killed by Ian Brady and his partner Myra Hindley in the 1960s.\n\nThe 12-year-old is the only victim whose remains have never been found.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said a search of Saddleworth Moor had produced \"no visible evidence to suggest the presence of human remains\".\n\nThe force said a member of the public researching Keith's murder had reported \"possible human remains\" on Thursday, leading to a search of a \"site of interest\".\n\nKeith Bennett, who was killed in 1964, is the only victim whose remains were not found\n\nOfficers and forensic experts were now continuing a \"controlled excavation\" of the surrounding area, police said\n\nDet Ch Insp Cheryl Hughes said forensic archaeologists and forensic anthropologists had \"completed a methodical archaeological excavation and examination of the area previously dug and refilled by the member of the public\".\n\n\"No bones, fabric or items of interest were recovered from the soil,\" she said.\n\nShe said the experts were now continuing a \"controlled excavation of the area immediately surrounding the original site to provide a higher level of assurance of the presence or absence of any items of interest\".\n\n\"Further soil samples have been taken for analysis, but at this time, there is no visible evidence to suggest the presence of human remains,\" she said.\n\nShe added that officers remained \"committed\" to providing Keith's family with answers and would keep them \"updated at every stage\".\n\nThe force said samples obtained by the member of the public had been sent by GMP to accredited experts for analysis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Daniel Sandford looks back at the revulsion caused by Brady's crimes\n\nKeith went missing while on his way to see his grandmother in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester on 16 June 1964.\n\nHis mother Winnie Johnson, who died in 2012, spent her life trying to locate her son, even taking to the moor herself, armed with a spade.\n\nHe was one of five youngsters who were tortured and killed by Brady and Hindley between 1963 and 1965.\n\nBrady, who was born in Glasgow but later moved to Manchester, was jailed in 1966 for the murders of John Kilbride, aged 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17.\n\nIn 1985, after being moved to a secure hospital, Brady also admitted murdering Keith and 16-year-old Pauline Reade.\n\nFlowers have been left close to the scene of the search on Saddleworth Moor\n\nThe pair were caught after Hindley's brother-in-law witnessed the murder of Edward and reported it to police, who found his body at Brady and Hindley's shared home in Hyde, Greater Manchester.\n\nLesley Ann was the first victim to be found on Saddleworth Moor, after police received a tip-off from one of Brady's neighbours, and subsequent searches of the area unearthed the remains of Pauline and John.\n\nPolice have since carried out a number of searches of the moor to try and find Keith's remains, including two in which they were joined by the murderers, but his body has never been found.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two suspects were filmed on CCTV entering and leaving the social club\n\nPolice investigating the murder of Sean Fox in west Belfast have released CCTV footage of two suspects who were caught on camera at the scene of the shooting.\n\nMr Fox, 42, was shot dead in front of customers in the Donegal Celtic Sports and Social Club on Sunday afternoon.\n\nDet Supt Eamonn Corrigan described his murder \"as a calculated, planned, ruthless execution\".\n\n\"At one point, both gunmen stood over Sean, shooting him, as he collapsed to the floor,\" the officer said.\n\nMr Corrigan added that the attack took place \"in broad daylight\" in front of several witnesses and the victim was \"singled out\" as he sat enjoying a drink.\n\nFootage of the suspects outside the venue has been posted on the Police Service of Northern Ireland's YouTube account.\n\nIt shows two masked men in hooded tops entering the grounds of the social club and leaving on foot in the direction of Gweedore Gardens.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"The gunmen arrived, carried out the murder and left the club in under a minute. They were inside the premises for approximately 21 seconds,\" Mr Corrigan said.\n\n\"This cold-blooded act has taken a man's life. It has left a family bereft, and many others in the local community shocked.\n\n\"This barbaric act has no place in any society.\"\n\nMr Fox was a married father of two who was a regular customer of the social club.\n\nAt a press conference on Tuesday, the police confirmed the killers fired 20 bullets inside the busy function room and \"multiple strike marks\" have been identified in the premises.\n\n\"Anyone in that room or indeed nearby, could have been killed or seriously injured on Sunday,\" Mr Corrigan added.\n\nThe victim was a friend of Jim Donegan who was shot dead in west Belfast in 2018 as he waited to pick up his son from school.\n\nMr Corrigan was asked if the PSNI believed there was a connection between the friends' murders.\n\nThe officer replied: \"We are looking at all previous shootings and seeing if there are any links.\"\n\nHis colleague Ch Supt Darrin Jones said the PSNI's thoughts were first and foremost with the victim's family.\n\n\"There's been some speculation about the motive for Sean's murder,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"Only those who were involved know how they could attempt to justify the brutal murder of a family man. I want to be clear, there can be no justification or acceptable explanation for the murder of Sean Fox.\"\n\nMr Jones added that the PSNI recognised that the shooting was \"an attack on the fabric of the local community\" and they have \"increased resources across west Belfast\".\n\nAppealing for help from the public, Mr Corrigan said the killers had concealed their identities and had left \"little forensic opportunity\" in what would be a \"challenging\" investigation.\n\nGiving a description of the suspects, he said one of the men was wearing \"a blue hooded-top, a peaked baseball cap, dark face covering, two-toned gloves (pale on top and dark on the bottom), dark-coloured bottoms and dark shoes/trainers\".\n\nHe added that the second suspect was wearing \"a distinctive light (possibly grey) hooded-top with three red lines down each arm, a peaked baseball cap, a light-green face covering, two-toned gloves (pale on top and dark on the bottom), dark-coloured bottoms and dark shoes/trainers\".\n\nA reward of £20,000 has been offered for anonymous information which leads to the conviction of Mr Fox's killers.\n\nIt has been offered by the Crimestoppers charity, which is independent of the police.", "An autistic man who has been held in a secure hospital for 21 years has been told he can finally go home.\n\nTony Hickmott, 45, was sectioned after he had a mental health crisis in 2001, and despite a long fight by his family, he has not been released since.\n\nLast year, a judge criticised his detention, telling authorities to find a home near his parents, in Brighton.\n\nA care team for Mr Hickmott is now being assembled and he is expected in a new home in his home town, next month.\n\n\"He's coming home, I can't believe it,\" his mum Pam told BBC News. \"It will be a real home. We'll get him home and every day will be a bonus.\"\n\nMr Hickmott has been held in a secure Assessment and Treatment Unit (ATU) designed to be a short-term safe space used in a crisis. It's a two-hour drive for his parents, Pam, 78 and Roy, 82.\n\nThere are about 2,000 people with learning disabilities or autism detained in specialist hospitals across England and a BBC investigation revealed 100 of them, including Mr Hickmott, have been held for longer than 20 years.\n\nLast year, a select committee of MPs backed calls from campaigners to end the scandal of autistic people being wrongly detained, saying such hospitals should be closed by 2024.\n\nIn 2013, psychiatrists agreed Mr Hickmott was \"fit for discharge\" but authorities failed to create a care package with appropriate support in the community. Last December, Pam and Roy took the case to the Court of Protection.\n\nThere, a senior judge ordered managers at the NHS and Brighton & Hove City Council to stick to a rigorous timetable to find Mr Hickmott a home, condemning their \"egregious\" delays and \"glacial\" progress.\n\nA whistleblower who worked at the ATU as a support worker between 2015 and 2017 also told the BBC Mr Hickmott was the \"loneliest man in the hospital\", living in segregation with little or no stimulation.\n\nMr Hickmott has to speak to staff through a hatch, the paint worn thin from countless knocks and bangs.\n\nA photo taken on his birthday shows his TV encased in a Perspex box, his cards lined up on top. Mr Hickmott isn't allowed to use the remote control and has to ask carers to change channel.\n\nPatients such as Tony Hickmott were stuck on a ward and left to watch TV all day, health inspectors said\n\nThis year, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said Mr Hickmott's hospital - which we are not naming for his care and wellbeing - was failing to meet people's needs.\n\nInspectors halted further admissions because they believed \"people would or may be exposed to significant risk of harm\".\n\nThe report highlighted staff shortages, a lack of training and an increase in restrictive interventions. It reported how relatives of patients said their loved ones were heavily medicated and had few meaningful activities to enjoy.\n\nRobert Persey, Brighton & Hove Council's executive director for health and adult social care admitted there had been unacceptable delays in Mr Hickmott's case - but said the process was both complicated and costly. Care in the community must be funded by the local authority.\n\n\"It has taken far too long. It's complicated trying to get all the elements like housing and carers all ready at the right time,\" he said.\n\n\"Local government [funding] is continually being cut. Yet we have a responsibility to look after these people to the optimum level we can, and the funding is really challenging to find and achieve that.\"\n\nThe hospital's owners have been approached for comment.\n\nFamily advocate Jayne Knight helped the Hickmott family for eight years\n\nIn June, the government published draft reforms to the Mental Health Act to redefine \"mental disorder\" so that it no longer included autism.\n\nIf enacted, the changes will also require authorities and the NHS to provide sufficient resources to prevent autistic people reaching crisis point and then having to stay in an institution because there is nowhere else to go.\n\nA government spokesman told the BBC: \"Ministers accept that there must be credible alternatives to inpatient facilities, allowing people to live independent and fulfilled lives in their community.\"\n\nChris Lucas, who is part of the care team supporting Mr Hickmott, has been meeting him each week for the last few months.\n\nHe said he loves talking about old TV game shows, singing the theme tunes. \"I think his world is quite small at the moment. But now, I think there's so much opportunity for him. I think there's a whole world out there that can really help him become the person he is meant to be.\"\n\nMr Hickmott is expected to move into his new home on 1 November, but Pam and Roy remain fearful of further delays. \"We can't give him any more broken promises. He says 'no more Christmases here, mum. No more birthdays here'. I've lost count of the broken promises. We can't do it to him again.\"\n\nBut they are looking forward to seeing their son living freely again - with support - in a bungalow close to where they live. \"I can't wait for him to make us a cup of tea,\" Pam added.\n\n\"He wants to go to the pub with me,\" said Roy. \"I'll have a pint and he'll have a half and he says he'll have a cheese roll. That's what he wants, a cheese roll. I can't wait. It'll be heaven.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I know the plan put forward only 10 days ago has caused a little turbulence, I get it..\"\n\nKwasi Kwarteng has promised to \"focus on the task in hand\" after a dramatic U-turn over tax cuts for the rich.\n\nThe chancellor ditched plans to cut the 45p rate of income tax after a revolt by Tory MPs - hours before his speech to the Conservative party conference.\n\nHe had planned to use the speech to promise to \"stay the course\".\n\nThat line - briefed to journalists on Sunday - was left out but Mr Kwarteng made it clear he intended to deliver the rest of his £43bn tax cut package.\n\nHe told Tory members, who packed into the hall in Birmingham, that he was determined to end the UK's \"decline\" and deliver economic growth.\n\nHe also announced that he would publish details of how the government plans to pay for its tax cuts package and bring the national debt down in the \"medium term\" earlier than planned.\n\nThe chancellor has previously resisted calls to publish the plan before 23 November, but he said in his speech it would be released \"shortly\". The Treasury would not give a date.\n\nMr Kwarteng began his speech with an admission of the pressure he has been under over the past 24 hours.\n\n\"It has been tough but we need to focus on the job in hand. We need to move forward.\n\n\"No more distractions. We have a plan and we need to get on and deliver it. That is what the public expect from the government.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe also acknowledged the turmoil caused by his mini-budget, which saw the pound plummet in value before recovering to where it was before his statement.\n\n\"I know the plan put forward only 10 days ago has caused a little turbulence. I get it. We listened. And now we want to focus on the major parts of our growth strategy.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng relaxed with supporters at a Policy Exchange fringe meeting following his speech, telling that beyond the \"hullabaloo\" around the tax row people had told him he was doing the right thing.\n\nEarlier he had sought to reassert his authority with a staunch defence of the rest of his economic plan, arguing that the government had needed to act now not just on energy bills but to boost economic growth.\n\n\"With economic growth, everybody benefits,\" he said.\n\nTo applause he added: \"And I mean, everybody. While we all believe in growth, we as Conservatives also believe that it is an important principle that people should keep more of the money they earn.\n\n\"I don't need to tell you that. That isn't radical, that isn't irresponsible, it is a deeply held belief that we all share as Conservatives.\"\n\nDowning Street said Prime Minister Liz Truss - who was in the front row for the speech - continues to have confidence in Mr Kwarteng, despite the U-turn on the 45p top rate.\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Grant Shapps and Michael Gove were among the Tory MPs to make public their private concerns about the planned tax cuts for top earners, at a time when households were struggling with the cost of living.\n\nAnother former cabinet minister, Andrea Leadsom, welcomed the U-turn, saying: \"It was not the right time and it was not the right measure.\"\n\nMel Stride, who chairs the Treasury select committee and ran Rishi Sunak's leadership campaign, suggested there may still need to be further changes.\n\nMr Sunak has stayed away from this week's conference, along with many of his supporters.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said \"so much damage has already been done\" despite Mr Kwarteng's tax U-turn.\n\nThere was now a \"Tory premium on the cost of borrowing for government, but also for individuals,\" she told BBC Radio 4's PM.", "There were few signs of normal life in Lyman when the BBC visited\n\nIt does inside the eastern Ukrainian town of Lyman, retaken from the Russians at the weekend. The deserted debris-strewn streets are lined by boarded up or burnt-out buildings. Metal sheeting dangling from smashed roofs is buffeted by the wind. Few civilians venture out. We counted almost as many dogs as people - though the population was around 20,000 before the war.\n\nThe handful of civilians we met seem shell-shocked by months of bombardment, and uncertain their ordeal is over.\n\nThe only surge of life was a convoy of Ukrainian troops riding high on top of armoured personnel carriers, waving and cheering, as they headed out of town, along a road bordered by pine forest.\n\nThey roared past evidence of the human cost of Russia's defeat.\n\nThe bodies of five dead Russian soldiers lay near each other, now bloated, and contorted by death, but once somebody's husband or somebody's son.\n\nThey were in full uniform, with boots still on, as if they might somehow return to the fight. They appear to have been cut down together as they tried to flee.\n\nNearby we saw a heap of discarded Russian uniforms, sleeping bags, and ration packs. There was an army backpack with a name written on it. We don't know what became of its owner.\n\nTwo young volunteers from a Ukrainian humanitarian group were working carefully and quietly, numbering the bodies, and looking for anything that might identify them.\n\nThey were kneeling just metres away from mines scattered along the roadside, their dark green colour camouflaged by the grass and leaves. They are a lingering threat from an enemy that has been driven into retreat, or as Russia's defence ministry put it, was \"withdrawn to more advantageous positions\". That statement has a familiar ring to it after the domino of Russian routs last month in Kharkiv province in the north-east.\n\nLater the volunteers manoeuvred the remains into black body bags and drove them away - some of Russia's fallen soldiers finally leaving the battlefield.\n\nThe bodies of Russian soldiers were left in the street\n\nA new Ukrainian flag was flying atop a captured Russian T72 tank, parked by the roadside. \"We are going to win,\" said the smiling young Ukrainian soldier clambering around the gun turret. \"I feel very good, very great.\"\n\nWhat happened here isn't just a defeat for President Vladimir Putin. It's a complete humiliation. Just last Friday he announced to the world he was annexing four Ukrainian regions, including Donetsk, where Lyman is located. He proclaimed that they would be \"Russian forever\".\n\nA day later Ukrainian forces were inside Lyman, and his troops were running for their lives.\n\nUkraine says as many as 5,000 Russian troops were encircled in Lyman, before the town fell. We don't know how many were killed or captured. The defence ministry in Kyiv said in a tweet that almost all the Russian troops deployed to Lyman had been \"redeployed either into body bags or into captivity\".\n\nThe strategic town is a gateway to the neighbouring region of Luhansk, which is almost entirely in Russia's grip. Ukraine is hoping to advance further, using its victory here as a springboard.\n\nLena and her 10-year-old Radion are hoping for peace, and for running water. We met the mother and son heading for a well to refill a five-litre container.\n\n\"I think it will be peaceful,\" said Lena, who wore a black hat and a few layers of woollen jumpers, \"It should be peaceful. Everyone has suffered enough. The hardest thing was to survive the shelling. We prayed as we stayed in the cellar. The situation is still tense but overall, I am happy.\"\n\nThe Russian army left behind tanks when they retreated\n\nWhile deprived of school, Radion has learnt the lessons of war. His face is sombre, beneath his deep blue hat. \"It was a bit scary in Lyman,\" he tells us \"because there was a lot of bombing. War is very bad because people are dying. It's more peaceful in my heart now.\"\n\nOthers here still seem lost in their trauma, like 66-year-old Nadia. She was alone on the streets, walking slowly, as if she could not recognise her surroundings.\n\n\"I hope for the best,\" she said \"and that they [the Russians] won't come back here. It was very bad. Both sides were firing. We didn't understand anything. When it was quiet, we went outside to cook. Then it started again. We have all gone mad now.\"\n\nAnd she had a question for us.\n\n\"Why am I being bombarded?\" she beseeched us. \"I didn't do anything bad. I didn't kill. I didn't steal. I don't understand why. Maybe you can tell me. We lived well, everything was good, we worked. And in one moment it was turned upside down.\"\n\nIn the streets around town pro-Russian slogans have been daubed on walls, kiosks and bus shelters. \"CCCP\" is daubed on a closed shop front - the Cyrillic letters for USSR, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.\n\nMuch as President Putin may wish to resurrect the Soviet Union of his youth, the ruins of Lyman stand as testament to his failure.\n\nUkraine now has momentum and knows it must move fast, Western weapons supplies permitting. Battle lines will harden when freezing weather comes. The window for reclaiming more territory this winter may close in a few weeks.", "The pound has climbed after the chancellor reversed his controversial decision to scrap the top rate of tax.\n\nSterling gained more than 1% to $1.1284 before falling back slightly while government borrowing costs edged lower.\n\nTory MPs had threatened to vote against Kwasi Kwarteng's plan, saying it was unfair when living costs were so high.\n\nThe U-turn may ease market nerves, said the Institute for Fiscal Studies, but unease remains over how a remaining £43bn of tax cuts will be funded.\n\n\"The difference this makes really is trivial,\" said Paul Johnson, director of the IFS think tank.\n\nThe chancellor pledged to abolish the 45p rate of tax, which is paid by people who earn more than £150,000 a year.\n\nGetting rid of the rate would have cost the Treasury around £2bn out of the £45bn worth of tax cuts Mr Kwarteng announced in his so-called \"mini-budget\".\n\n\"This was, if anything, possibly the smallest measure from a fiscal point of view, if not a political point of view, in the mini-budget,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\n\"It is about 5% of the tax cuts.\"\n\nThe cut to top-rate tax for high earners sparked anger among opposition and Tory MPs and spooked markets amid concerns the unfunded cuts were unaffordable. The chancellor also declined to publish an independent assessment of his plans by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).\n\nLast week, the pound hit a record low and the Bank of England was forced to step in to stem soaring government borrowing costs.\n\nTony Danker, head of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), welcomed the U-turn saying that calming markets was an \"absolute pre-condition to investment and growth\".\n\nHe added it had been a \"distraction\" from other important pro-growth reforms promised in the mini-budget. The chancellor is expected to announce reforms to planning laws, green energy, childcare and more in the coming weeks.\n\nBut Mr Danker added: \"I think we are going to move onto another test, which is does the chancellor really mean it when he says we are going to reform the supply side of the economy... because I think that is really needed.\"\n\nThe IFS's Mr Johnson said the U-turn had eased market nerves as there was \"perhaps a sense\" the government would \"back down\" and \"listen to opinion\".\n\nBut he warned of more volatility if the chancellor did not use his next fiscal statement on 23 November to explain how he will fund his tax cuts,\n\n\"He needs to come up with something fairly convincing ... whether that involves undoing some more of those tax cuts or some additional tax rises or something fairly dramatic on the spending side.\"\n\nThe National Institute of Economic and Social Research called for an OBR forecast to be brought forward.\n\n\"Whilst we welcome this morning's statement, the fundamental issue of how the government expects to finance both its proposed tax cuts and its spending commitments to cap the unit price of energy remains unresolved,\" said deputy director Stephen Millard.\n\n\"The overall package continues to be highly inflationary and will lead to faster and higher rises in interest rates than would have been otherwise the case.\"\n\nThe Bank of England has been raising interest rates to try and curb inflation, which is currently at a nearly 40-year-high of 9.9%.\n\nOn 22 September, the Bank raised rates by 0.5 percentage points to 2.25% - the highest level for 14 years.\n\nIt warned interest rates could rise again after the value of the pound plummeted, following the government's decision to cut taxes and borrow more. Some were estimating that rates could reach more than 6% next year.\n\nHowever, fears of big rate rises receded slightly after Monday's U-turn on the 45% tax rate, with investors now forecasting a rise to 5.75% by May.", "Police have cordoned off land in the Aycliffe Crescent area of Gateshead\n\nA 14-year-old boy has died following a stabbing in Gateshead.\n\nThe teenager, who has not been named, was seriously injured in the Aycliffe Crescent area of the Springwell Estate at about 20:00 BST on Monday.\n\nAnother 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and a girl, 13, has been detained on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nThe injured boy was taken to hospital but died in the early hours of Tuesday, Northumbria Police said.\n\nOfficers from Northumbria Police have been searching scrubland at the scene this morning\n\nCh Supt Helena Barron said: \"A teenage boy has sadly died and his family have been left devastated beyond belief.\n\n\"Our thoughts are very much with his loved ones at this time and we are supporting them in every way we can.\n\n\"We are determined to find out exactly what happened and a full investigation is ongoing into the circumstances surrounding this tragic incident.\"\n\nPolice are now carrying out \"extensive inquiries\" at Whitehills Nature Park\n\nShe asked the public not to speculate online about what had happened, adding: \"What might seem like an innocent post on social media could in reality disrupt an ongoing investigation and cause further upset to the family of the victim.\"\n\nAt a news conference on Tuesday evening, Ch Supt Barron was asked about the circumstances of the attack, if a knife had been found or if more arrests were likely to follow but said she could not disclose any further details as the investigation was in its \"very early stages\".\n\nThe boy and girl who were arrested remain in police custody.\n\nA huge sliver of White Hills Nature Park in Gateshead is cordoned off by police tape. In the south-west corner, dozens of specialist officers are carrying out painstaking searches of the vegetation. Police dogs are assisting with the search too, running back and forth between the tape.\n\nThrough the cordons, to the south of the park, is Aycliffe Crescent where a single bunch of flowers, bearing a boy's name, is fixed to a fence.\n\nThere's a huge police presence here too with officers going door to door making inquiries. There are also officers on horseback going around the whole Springwell Estate as Northumbria Police moves to reassure residents.\n\nSome of the people here are extremely upset. One woman, whose grandson was friends with the dead boy, begins to cry when talking about what's happened. She is upset, but there is also a lot of anger that someone so young should lose their life like this.\n\nOne resident on the street, who asked not to be named, said: \"We saw the lads running around screaming and shouting at about 8pm - it was about four lads that ran past.\n\n\"My partner was out having a cigarette and she rang an ambulance for the victim and waited with him until they came.\"\n\nThere is a heavy police presence in the area\n\nAnother neighbour, Ella, who only wished to give her first name, said: \"I heard someone screaming when I was putting my daughter to bed, then when I was putting something in the bin about 10 minutes later I saw all the police cars.\n\n\"I spoke to my neighbour across the road to ask if everything was OK and she told me her son's friend had been stabbed and police were trying to revive him. She was crying, she was absolutely devastated.\n\n\"She said they went to school together and he was a good kid.\"\n\nFlowers have been left near the scene\n\nNorthumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Kim McGuinness described the boys death as \"devastating\".\n\nShe said: \"My thoughts are with the victim's family who will be experiencing unimaginable pain.\n\n\"This should never have happened and it now sits with our police to carry out extensive inquiries to establish the full circumstances that have led to the senseless loss of a young life.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "European MPs have voted for a law requiring all new portable devices to use the same type of charging cable.\n\nSmartphones and tablets, including the Apple iPhone and iPad, would have to use a USB-C charger from 2024, while laptop manufacturers would have until 2026 to make the change.\n\nThere were 602 votes in favour and 13 against, with eight abstaining.\n\nMember states are expected to grant approval on 24 October, before the rule is signed into law at the parliament.\n\nFollowing a provisional agreement by the European Union, in June 2022, the UK government told BBC News it was not \"currently considering\" introducing a common charging cable.\n\nBut under the current post-Brexit arrangements, the new regulation could apply to Northern Ireland.\n\nThe \"new requirements may also apply to devices sold in Northern Ireland under the terms of the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit agreement, potentially triggering divergence of product standards with the rest of the UK\", according to a December 2021 parliamentary report.\n\nThe treaty works by keeping Northern Ireland inside the EU's single market for goods, while the rest of the UK is outside it.\n\nA row between the UK and EU about how to reform the Northern Ireland protocol remains unresolved.\n\nEU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager celebrated the new rule on Twitter, citing the \"waste and inconvenience\" of having multiple chargers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Apple has historically argued against the proposal.\n\nWhen it was first introduced, in September 2021, an Apple representative told BBC News: \"Strict regulation mandating just one type of connector stifles innovation rather than encouraging it, which in turn will harm consumers in Europe and around the world\".\n\nThe technology giant is the main manufacturer of smartphones using a custom charging port, as its iPhone series uses an Apple-made Lightning connector.\n\nApple has been approached for comment.\n\nThe new rule will cover a range of \"small and medium-sized portable electronics\", according the EU, including:", "Chris Kaba, who was due to become a father, died in the early hours of 6 September\n\nAn inquest has been opened into the death of Chris Kaba, who was shot by armed police in south London.\n\nCoroner Andrew Harris offered his condolences to the family of the 24-year-old, who was shot through the windscreen of a car in Streatham Hill on 5 September.\n\nMr Kaba's family have asked for an urgent decision on whether criminal charges should be brought in the case.\n\nThe Met Police marksman who fired the fatal shot has been suspended.\n\nInner South London Coroner's Court heard an unarmed Mr Kaba was driving an Audi that had been linked by police to a firearms incident the previous day, although his name was not included in the briefing given to officers. An automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) marker had been placed on it.\n\nAt 21:52 BST, about 15 minutes before the shooting, a pursuit began by officers in an unmarked police car with no lights or sirens.\n\nAfter driving the Audi down Kirkstall Gardens, Mr Kaba was blocked by a marked police car and there was contact between the Audi and police vehicles, the court heard.\n\nAn officer standing to the front of the Audi then fired a single shot through the windscreen, which hit Mr Kaba in the head.\n\nHe was taken to hospital, but died soon after midnight on 6 September. A provisional cause of death was given as a \"gunshot wound to the head\".\n\nSpeaking outside the coroner's court, his cousin Jefferson Bosela said: \"An urgent decision on criminal charges is critical for this family and many others to have faith in a system that is supposed to bring them justice.\"\n\nHe said that the shooting felt \"very personal\" for many communities across London, because Mr Kaba could have been their son.\n\nThe family has called on the police officers involved to be interviewed under caution and for the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) to keep the family up to date with its investigation.\n\nFamily spokesman Jefferson Bosela called for \"an urgent decision on criminal charges\"\n\nMr Bosela, flanked by Mr Kaba's mother Helen Lumuanganu and father Prosper Kaba, added: \"This should never have happened. It must never happen again.\n\n\"We must never accept this as normal. Someone must be held accountable.\"\n\nConstruction worker Mr Kaba was due to become a father when he died.\n\nThe hearing was adjourned to allow the IOPC to carry out its investigation. The watchdog is investigating the shooting as a potential homicide.\n\nThe IOPC confirmed the probe was set to last between six and nine months, something Mr Kaba's family said they were \"alarmed\" at.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Spotlight programme features a dog who was rescued from a badger sett after a hunting incident\n\nThe USPCA has told BBC Spotlight its intelligence indicates there are 150 people actively involved in animal baiting in Northern Ireland.\n\nBaiting involves deliberately setting up fights between hunting dogs and wild animals like foxes and badgers.\n\nBaiting badgers is illegal because badgers are a protected species while foxes have no legal protection.\n\nThe charity believes there could be up to 14,000 cases of badger baiting in Northern Ireland each year.\n\nFor Exposed: Hunting With Dogs, BBC Spotlight joined USPCA (Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) investigators in September as they monitored alleged animal baiters.\n\nThe programme also revealed a shadowy online world where people involved in baiting share photos and videos of both brutally-injured dogs and their savaged prey.\n\nThe USPCA said the law should be better enforced to protect badgers\n\nUSPCA chief executive Brendan Mullan said he believed 99% of the people involved in baiting in Northern Ireland were targeting both foxes and badgers.\n\n\"While fox hunting is legal the chances of a badger baiting conviction are undermined, because there is the defence, the cloak of 'well, I was just out hunting foxes', whereas in fact it was badgers that they were hunting,\" he added.\n\nIn 2021, a Stormont private member's bill put forward by an Alliance MLA would have closed that loophole by banning all hunting with dogs in Northern Ireland, in line with the existing law in the rest of the UK.\n\nBut the bill was defeated and with Stormont absent, there is no prospect of a change in the law at the moment.\n\nThe USPCA said it would like to see greater enforcement of the existing law protecting, specifically, badgers.\n\nMr Mullan said: \"We would like to see, even on a time-limited basis, a special task force set up by the police to proactively investigate this network of over 150 badger baiters in Northern Ireland and to hold them to account in the criminal court.\"\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it took reports of animal-related crime seriously and it was an important part of policing.\n\nIt said it had a wildlife and rural crime team ensuring all police officers and staff could receive the expert support and guidance necessary to respond to reports of wildlife crime.\n\nBBC Spotlight, Exposed: Hunting With Dogs was broadcast on Tuesday and is available to watch on the BBC iPlayer.", "Women have been at the forefront of the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini\n\nIran's top diplomat in the UK has been summoned to the Foreign Office over Tehran's crackdown on protests sweeping the country.\n\nDemonstrations in Iran were sparked by the death in custody of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, who was detained by the country's morality police.\n\nBut reports say as many as 133 people have been killed by security forces as they clamp down on unrest.\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly said the violence was \"truly shocking\".\n\n\"Today we have made our view clear to the Iranian authorities - instead of blaming external actors for the unrest, they should take responsibility for their actions and listen to the concerns of their people,\" Mr Cleverly said.\n\n\"We will continue to work with our partners to hold the Iranian authorities to account for their flagrant human-rights violations.\"\n\nBritish officials and foreign diplomats meet every day at the Foreign Office. So it might not seem that important for a senior FCDO director to ask Iran's acting head of mission in London to come in for a conversation.\n\nBut in fact the summons of Mehdi Hosseini Matin is significant and is designed to send a clear signal to Tehran that the world is watching.\n\nThe UK wants Iran to know that a further violent crackdown on the protestors would have consequences.\n\nIt was no surprise that at the same time that the foreign secretary issued his statement, a White House spokeswoman expressed alarm at the violence in Iran, and Canada imposed sanctions on senior figures in the regime.\n\nSo western powers are seeking to deter any escalation. But from what he has said, it is not clear if Iran's supreme leader will heed their warning.\n\nIn his first public comments on the unrest, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said \"riots\" had been \"engineered\" by Iran's arch-enemies and their allies.\n\nHe also gave his full backing to the security forces, saying that they had faced \"injustice\" during the unrest.\n\nMahsa Amini, 22, fell into a coma hours after being detained by morality police on 13 September in Tehran for allegedly breaking the strict law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf. She died three days later.\n\nMahsa Amini fell into a coma hours after being detained by morality police\n\nHer family has alleged that officers beat her head with a baton and banged her head against one of their vehicles. The police have said there is no evidence of any mistreatment and that she suffered \"sudden heart failure\".\n\nWomen have led the protests that began after Ms Amini's funeral, waving their headscarves in the air or setting them on fire to chants of \"Woman, life, freedom\" and \"Death to the dictator\" - a reference to Ayatollah Khamenei.\n\nIran Human Rights, a Norway-based group, said on Sunday that at least 133 people had been killed by security forces so far. They include 41 protesters said to have died in the city of Zahedan on Friday.\n\nState media have reported that more than 40 people have been killed, including security personnel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Protests take place in countries outside Iran, in support of opposition to the custody death of Mahsa Amini", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss: “I would like to see the higher rate lower, I want us to be a competitive country\"\n\nLiz Truss has said she is still in favour of lowering tax for the highest earners although it is not something she is currently contemplating.\n\nIt comes after the PM was forced to U-turn on her plan to scrap the 45p tax rate for those paid over £150,000.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Chris Mason, Ms Truss said her priority was making sure people could \"get through the winter\".\n\nShe also denied her first weeks in office had been a disaster, saying she had \"acted decisively\" on energy bills.\n\nMs Truss also pointed to her decisions to reverse a rise in National Insurance and scrap a planned increase to corporation tax.\n\nOverall her tax cuts are estimated to cost £43bn, and the government is under pressure to show how it will pay for the changes.\n\nThere have been suggestions that the government would increase benefits in line with earnings, which are rising by around 5%, rather than inflation which is at around 10%.\n\nOne of her cabinet ministers Penny Mordaunt has argued it \"makes sense\" to increase benefits in line with inflation because it would ensure people could pay their bills - however, Ms Truss said she had \"not yet taken a decision\".\n\nThe prime minister had also hoped to lower taxes for the highest earners in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but a backlash from her own MPs forced her and her chancellor into a U-turn.\n\nDespite having to ditch the policy, Ms Truss told the BBC she still believes in the principle, saying: \"I would like to see the higher rate lower, I want us to be a competitive country.\"\n\nExplaining her U-turn, she said she had \"listened to feedback\".\n\n\"Fundamentally if people are concerned about something that was a distraction from the major policies - like the energy price guarantee, like keeping taxes low, like getting the economy moving - I felt it was wrong to allow that distraction to continue.\"\n\nAsked if she might in the future try again to scrap the 45p tax rate, Ms Truss said: \"I'm not contemplating that now.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Telegraph, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said she was \"very disappointed\" in those Conservative MPs who had publicly voiced concern about the abolition of the 45p tax rate, accusing them of having \"staged a coup, effectively, against the prime minister\".\n\nShe argued that ex-minister Michael Gove - who called the plan \"un Conservative\" - should have raised his concerns with Ms Truss \"in private\".\n\nTweeting his support for the home secretary, Levelling Up Secretary Simon Clarke said: \"Suella speaks a lot of good sense, as usual.\"\n\nA few things strike me about the prime minister at this Conservative Party conference.\n\nAt a gathering that feels winded by events, tanking markets and opinion polls and a U-turn you could see from space, Liz Truss appears repeatedly chipper.\n\nA sense that there is still a novelty - four weeks into the job - associated with being prime minister, despite all the difficulties she's encountered.\n\nIn my interview with her, she was determined to talk about the help the government is offering with energy bills, almost irrespective of what questions I asked.\n\nIt is a colossal intervention from ministers, which the government is proud of, but it's been drowned out by first the national period of mourning after the Queen's death and then the so-called mini-budget, much of which blew up in the government's face.\n\nNow, weeks later, ministers from Liz Truss down are leaning into talking about it, and doing so all the time.\n\nThey've concluded, firstly, that it's what plenty of people are very worried about and secondly it is calmer territory upon which to focus, rather than those budgetary measures that have caused them such a headache.\n\nThe interview comes the day before the prime minister is due to make her big speech to the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.\n\nAsked if she was concerned about opinion polls which have shown a slump in popularity for the Conservatives, Ms Truss said: \"What I care about is doing the right thing by the British people.\"\n\nShe said she was \"taking the right short-term decisions to help struggling families get through this winter, but also the right long-term decisions to put Britain on track to success to make sure that we've got that low-tax high-wage economy\".\n\n\"I never pretended this would be easy,\" she said, adding that the country was facing \"very difficult global headwinds\" citing the war in Ukraine.", "Moscow's move to annex parts of Ukraine has sent a new Iron Curtain down across a vast swathe of territory - cutting off an unknown number of people from their own country.\n\nUntil 1 October, Ukrainians were able, with difficulty, to move to and from across the front lines.\n\nFrom a crossing point at Vasylivka, on the eastern bank of the Dnipro river, some would travel to nearby non-occupied Zaporizhzhia to visit relatives, buy food or medicines.\n\nBut many left for good, carrying what they could with them, in search of new lives in areas not under Russian occupation. Some travelled on to Europe.\n\nOn average, about 1,000 people used to arrive every day at a makeshift reception centre in the carpark of a DIY superstore on the edge of Zaporizhzhia.\n\nOn 30 September, with Russia's self-styled \"referendums\" over and annexation being announced in Moscow, local police said that figure rose to 1,616.\n\nBut then the flow almost stopped.\n\nThe following day, 50 people arrived. On Sunday 2 October, it was down to just eight.\n\nReports from Vasylivka, meanwhile, spoke of huge lines of people in cars desperate to leave.\n\nPeople are desperate to leave Russian-occupied areas, Mayor Ivan Fedorov says\n\n\"The queue to leave the occupied territories is 4,500 people,\" the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, told us from his temporary office in Zaporizhzhia. \"An elderly man died in the queue yesterday.\"\n\nCivilians from Melitopol were trying any route they could, Fedorov said, including through Crimea, but there were long lines that way too.\n\n\"Those who left the east before 1 October managed to cross the passage to Zaporizhzhia within two days,\" said a source in Kherson who asked to remain anonymous.\n\n\"But a friend of mine who left on Thursday is still there. They have to sleep in their cars for the fourth day in a row.\"\n\nOn Monday, the reception centre in Zaporizhzhia was almost deserted. The car park where barriers are arranged to deal with convoys of vehicles was empty.\n\nThere was almost no-one in the large white tent where blankets and clothes were piled up, ready to be handed out to new arrivals.\n\nWe met 19-year old Maksym Bezhan, travelling with his mother, young brother and family cat - three of just 43 people to arrive that day.\n\nThey were all exhausted after a four-day trip from their home in a village near the port city of Berdyansk.\n\n\"It was frightening to get out,\" he told us. \"We were afraid we'd encounter a Russian soldier in a bad mood; that we'd be turned around and sent back home.\"\n\nThere were other worries too. Would the soldiers check his phone? His computer?\n\n\"After the invasion,\" he said, \"I became very pro-Ukrainian.\"\n\nMaksym Bezhan (left) and his family made it after a gruelling four-day trip\n\nThe family spent nights sleeping in the car. \"It was raining on Sunday,\" Maksym said. \"It was very uncomfortable to sit in the car. All our bones ached. But it was too cold to go outside.\"\n\nThe family had very little money. Maksym's mother bought food for his younger brother but refused to eat any herself.\n\n\"People are very tired there,\" he said of the queues around Vasylivka. \"They're barely surviving. They're running out of patience and money. There's an atmosphere of tiredness and despair.\"\n\nOne of the main holdups since annexation is a new Russian exit form. All those who want to leave are obliged to complete it online and wait for a reply.\n\nIt asks for a lot of information. Not just the names and passport details of applicants, but their mobile phone and IMEI (phone identification) numbers, contact information for their hosts, purpose of their trip and details of all relatives living in Ukraine.\n\n\"Have you ever done military/state service in Ukraine from May 2014 to April 2022?\" it asks. \"If not, specify the reason.\"\n\n\"Have you been a member of any [political] parties of NGOs on the territory of Ukraine?\"\n\nIt's basically a visa application, underlining Russia's insistence that this is now an international frontier.\n\nFamilies who got through are hoping for a new life beyond the reach of the Kremlin\n\nThe head of Zaporizhzhia's Ukrainian regional military administration, Oleksandr Starukh, said Russia was trying to build a \"state border\" at Vasylivka. Until Friday, no such form existed.\n\nIts appearance is causing fear and confusion. Telegram chat groups set up to help people leave are full of anxious questions.\n\n\"I'm going with my daughter through Vasylivka,\" writes Sofia. \"My husband is in Poland. Will they let me through with her, without his permission?\"\n\n\"Please help me,\" Andrii writes. \"A 20-year old guy wants to go to hospital. People say it's better not to say that. Who wrote what when applying for a pass.\"\n\n\"We've been sitting near Dneprorudny [west of Vasylivka] for 4 days,\" complains Viraliy. \"We've not received a response yet.\"\n\nAnd there are other, more domestic concerns too. \"Maybe someone saw a grey young cat with green eyes running around?\" Olena asks. \"He escaped from the car.\"\n\nAnother woman, posting anonymously to a Telegram channel, spoke of families, some of them with babies, living in their cars, short of food and running out of money.\n\n\"In addition to this,\" she wrote, \"not far from where cars are parked, hostilities are taking place. Rockets sometimes fly over people.\"\n\nFor now, movement across the front line is impossible in either direction.\n\nFollowing last Friday's rocket attack on the outskirts of Zaporizhzhia, which killed at least 30 civilians, the authorities in Zaporizhzhia banned all movement into Russian-controlled territory for an indefinite period, citing security concerns.", "The NHS in Scotland will recruit 1,000 new staff to help the health service cope this winter, the health secretary has said.\n\nHumza Yousaf said more than £8m would be invested in recruiting 750 additional nurses, midwives and health professionals from overseas.\n\nNHS boards will also hire 250 more support staff across acute, primary care and mental health.\n\nThe Conservatives described the plans as \"completely inadequate\".\n\nThe government's Health and Social Care Winter Resilience plan sets out £600m of funding for the coming months.\n\nIt comes after summer waiting times at Scotland's A&E departments were the worst on record, according to new figures.\n\nMr Yousaf said new recruitment would be a welcome boost to staff and health boards ahead of what is anticipated to be an \"extremely challenging\" winter.\n\nHe also outlined an additional £45m of funding for recruitment in the Scottish Ambulance Service, as well as measures to help health boards retain staff.\n\nThe health secretary told MSPs the measures would ensure \"people get the right care they need at the right time and in the most appropriate setting\".\n\nHe added: \"NHS Scotland's staffing and funding is already at historically high levels, but as we approach the winter period it is crucial that we look to maximise, and enhance where we can, the capacity of the NHS.\n\n\"Given the scale of the escalating cost of living crisis, combined with the continued uncertainty posed by Covid and a possible resurgence of flu, this winter will be one of the most challenging our NHS has ever faced.\n\n\"These measures will support winter resilience across our health and care system. We will also expand our workforce, particularly registered nurses to assist with the expected increase in workload.\"\n\nWaiting times at Scotland's A&E departments were the worst on record over the summer\n\nWith such little give in the health system and unprecedented demand, there is no shortage of warnings on how hard it is going to be for the NHS in the coming months.\n\nThe health secretary's winter plans were never going to offer a magical solution.\n\nAdditional funding for new staff will be welcomed by health boards, but recruitment has been a long-standing challenge in health and social care. It comes at a time when doctors' and nurses' unions warn of fears people could leave these professions early because of sustained pressures and pay disputes.\n\nThere is also no escaping that A&E waiting times performance hitting a new low during the summer indicates a more widespread crisis in the NHS.\n\nIn part, this is down to shortages in social care which means high numbers of people are unable to be discharged from hospital, leaving less capacity to admit new patients.\n\nThe flow of patients in and out of the hospital isn't working well enough to keep up with the volume of people who need care.\n\nThis is the backdrop as winter is on our doorstep, a time when demand for health services traditionally increases.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said doctors and patients \"at their wits' end\" would receive little comfort from the government's winter plans.\n\nThe party's health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane said: \"The health secretary offered no solutions to the crisis in our A&E departments.\n\n\"He made no mention of dentistry whatsoever in his speech, despite warnings that NHS dentistry in Scotland is on the verge of collapse.\n\n\"And he boasted about his government's action on delayed discharge, despite the latest statistics showing that bed blocking remains at almost record levels.\"\n\nHe added: \"Scotland's NHS is already at breaking point, and if this is all the health secretary can muster, then we are in for a terrifying winter.\n\nThe government had earlier faced criticism over the record high waiting times at A&E.\n\nThe monthly stats for August show 69.7% of patients were dealt with within the four-hour target.\n\nThe figure was just slightly down on the previous month which was also among the worst since comparable records began more than a decade ago.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said it was \"chilling\" to imagine the state of A&Es when winter comes and Labour said Scotland was at risk of a humanitarian crisis if action was not taken.\n\nThe Scottish government target for accident and emergency waiting is for 95% of patients to be admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.\n\nIn August 2019, the summer before the pandemic, more than 90% of patients were dealt with in the target time.\n\nThis year, the monthly figures for August show that despite fewer people attending A&E, the number waiting longer than four hours rose massively to 41,112 patients.\n\nOf the 135,532 people who went to A&E for help that month, 12,969 were there for eight hours or more.\n\nThere were 4,967 patients who spent more than 12 hours in A&E - the highest monthly total on record. By contrast, in August 2019 it was just 354.\n\nThe performance against the A&E target is monitored both weekly and monthly.\n\nThe latest figures showed in the week-ending 25 September that two-thirds of patients (66.3%) were dealt with in the target time.\n\nThis was just slightly above the record low for week-ending 11 September (63.5%).\n\nHowever, the length of A&E waiting times often depends on where you live.\n\nScotland's bigger hospitals, which attract the largest number of patients, are struggling the most.\n\nForth Valley Royal was the worst performing A&E in the week-ending 25 September, with 39.6% of people seen within four hours.\n\nThe figure for Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary was 43.5% and Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital was 54.3%.\n\nThe health secretary urged people to \"consider whether their condition is an emergency\" before heading to A&E.\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"As we enter the winter period, it is crucial that people consider whether their condition is an emergency, such as a stroke, heart attack or major trauma, before going to A&E.\n\n\"Local GPs and pharmacies can be contacted during the day for non-critical care, NHS 24 is also available on 111 for non-emergencies.\"\n\nScottish Labour health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said Mr Yousaf had shown himself thoroughly incapable of taking on the challenge.\n\n\"Winter is looming - if action is not taken now we risk a humanitarian crisis in A&E departments,\" she said.\n\n\"The SNP must act now to prevent further casualties at the hands of their inept health secretary.\"", "It's quite something when a prime minister embraces unpopularity.\n\nA fortnight ago at the top of the Empire State Building in New York, Liz Truss told me she was willing to do things that weren't going to go down well.\n\nThat is a theory she very efficiently tested to destruction.\n\nHer party's poll ratings plunged as deep as that Manhattan skyscraper is tall following her government's announcement of a tax cutting package.\n\nThe markets were spooked, Conservative MPs were spooked more.\n\nThis policy was destined to crowd out everything else here at Tory conference in Birmingham for a simple reason.\n\nTory MPs from ministers down said it was unsellable: offering the best paid a tax cut with the prospect of public spending and benefits cuts at the same time.\n\nThat is why a policy that just 10 days ago was presented as a triumph for the new chancellor, a moment of political theatrics, a moment leant into and revelled in, has now sunk to the bottom of the canal here in Birmingham; junked, binned, gone.\n\nThis leaves the new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng - and by extension the prime minister - downcast and humiliated, wounded and weakened.\n\n\"Can I have a black coffee?\" he asked, on arrival for an appointment with Nick Robinson at 0810 on the BBC's Today programme.\n\nIf ever there was a moment for this chancellor to request that beverage, this was that moment.\n\nTwenty minutes later, as he climbed out of his chair, the look of relief on his face was obvious.\n\nHe had, by the end of the interview at least, acknowledged \"we got this wrong\".\n\nHe had also said - about the broader package of measures in his statement - \"we reset the debate\".\n\nThey had, but not in quite the way they had anticipated.\n\nThat debate, within the Conservative Party and beyond, was whether the new government knew what it was doing.\n\nWhether the new government was in control of events.\n\nOn that last point, they weren't.\n\nLiz Truss will now hope this U-turn creates space to move forward, hauling herself out of the political quagmire of a budgetary statement that imploded on contact with political reality.\n\nThis is another defining moment for a young government not yet a month old.\n\nAnd one that won't be forgotten.", "Prime Minister Liz Truss has not ruled out increasing the retirement age to help balance the nation's books.\n\nMen and women can currently receive state pension at the age of 66.\n\nUnder government plans that age would rise to 67 this decade, and 68 as early as 2039. Two reviews of these dates are under way.\n\nMs Truss is under pressure to find savings to pay for her tax-cutting economic growth plan and to get the UK's national debt falling.\n\nShe has guaranteed that state pensions will continue to increase in line with wages.\n\nBut she has not ruled out real-terms cuts in working age benefits such as universal credit, saying the government has not decided whether to link rises to inflation or not.\n\nAsked at the Tory conference in Birmingham if she was going to end up raising the age at which people can clam the state pension age beyond 67, she said: \"You're asking me to speculate all kinds of decisions that haven't yet been made.\"\n\nA review chaired by Conservative peer Baroness Neville-Rolfe is looking at what factors the government should take into account when setting the pension age.\n\nAt the moment, the age limit is based on ensuring no-one spends more than one third of their adult life in retirement. A separate review by the government's actuary is examining the latest life expectancy data.\n\nThey are due to report back to the government on 7 May next year.\n\nTwo increases to the state pension age are currently set out in legislation:\n\nWhen it launched the reviews in January, the Department for Work and Pensions said: \"As the number of people over state pension age increases, due to a growing population and people on average living longer, the government needs to make sure that decisions on how to manage its costs are, robust, fair and transparent for taxpayers now and in the future.\n\n\"It must also ensure that as the population becomes older, the state pension continues to provide the foundation for retirement planning and financial security.\"", "Some patients were kept in small, bare seclusion rooms for weeks\n\nThe healthcare watchdog praised bosses of a mental health hospital after visiting during the weeks when the BBC filmed patients being mistreated.\n\nAccording to a report to governors at the trust which runs the Edenfield Centre, the Care Quality Commission noted its \"strong, motivated leaders\".\n\nAfter the BBC gave it information about the abuse, the watchdog suspended the hospital's \"good\" rating.\n\nThe CQC said it would take further action if needed.\n\nThe watchdog, which inspects hospitals like Edenfield to ensure they are safe and providing a good service, told the BBC patients were subjected to \"inhumane and degrading\" treatment in the footage captured by Panorama's undercover reporter.\n\nThe CQC said it had given \"initial feedback\" to the Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, according to its \"standard process\".\n\nIt added that its two inspections in June and July - examining the overall leadership of the trust as well as three of its core services - had found \"significant shortfalls\" and it had taken enforcement action.\n\nUntil BBC Panorama sent the watchdog a summary of its findings in September, however, the CQC had only sent warning notices relating to different services visited during the recent inspections - adult acute wards and psychiatric intensive care units.\n\nThe regulator had not sent any such warning about the Edenfield medium secure inpatient unit in Prestwich hospital, where the undercover reporter filmed staff swearing at patients, mocking their self-harm, using restraint inappropriately and secluding patients for weeks in small, bare rooms.\n\nDuring informal feedback following the recent inspections, the care watchdog said that staff \"demonstrated the values of the trust\" - which include being caring and compassionate, inspiring hope, and showing respect. Inspectors also said the trust had \"strong, motivated leaders who carried strong vision and values and were highly motivated\".\n\nChristian Wakeford, the Labour MP whose Bury South constituency includes the hospital, criticised the CQC's failure to act promptly and inspector's praise of leaders at the trust.\n\n\"Either the CQC have not inspected properly or there is a fundamental failure of leadership at the organisation,\" he said.\n\n\"All they have done is given more questions we need to ask in order to provide justice to patients and families.\"\n\nThe BBC learnt of the section 29A warning notices issued by the CQC in July, from an internal GMMH-Trust document. Such notices are one way the watchdog can take enforcement action if it finds issues which are probably systemic and that result in harm, or the risk of harm.\n\nThey required hospital bosses to improve the way they managed the risks of patients finding places to hang or strangle themselves, and to address fire safety concerns, including their \"smoke free policy\". These were for adult acute services, which are not based at Prestwich hospital.\n\nThe Edenfield Centre holds patients who are at serious risk of harming themselves or others\n\nIn September, after BBC Panorama had given the CQC information about the abuses caught in its secret filming, the watchdog said it had suspended the previous \"good\" inspection grade for Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust's forensic and secure wards.\n\nThe rating was given to Edenfield and the other secure wards at the trust in October 2019, when the regulator concluded that services were effective, caring, responsive and well-led.\n\nIn the same inspection, they gave safety a lower grade of \"requires improvement\".\n\nDays before the Panorama was broadcast, the BBC understands the CQC also issued a new section 29A warning notice about \"safe staffing and systems and processes\". The BBC does not know what services inspected this related to specifically.\n\nThe mental health charity Mind told the BBC that the treatment and behaviour uncovered by the BBC at Edenfield \"raises serious questions about the effectiveness of the CQC inspection process\".\n\n\"The patients at Edenfield deserve answers about whether these failings had been detected during the inspection visit in June while the undercover filming was going on, and if so, why they weren't urgently acted upon.\"\n\nMind is calling for a public inquiry into inpatient mental health care across England. It said there had been \"repeated failures in care and regulation over the past decade\".\n\nJemima Burnage, interim director of mental health at the CQC, said its inspection of the three core services had been in response to \"emerging concerns\" and the full report would be published later.\n\nShe said: \"We have suspended the rating of the forensic services while we finalise the findings from our most recent inspection and to reflect the current concerns about the quality and safety of care being provided.\n\n\"We are reviewing the footage shown by the BBC and will not hesitate to take further action if needed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Kwarteng is asked whether the government will stick to past pledges linking pension and benefits rises to inflation.\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has said his mini-budget was needed to stop a collapse in consumer spending, despite it sparking days of market turmoil.\n\nHe told his party's MPs that cutting taxes and limiting energy bills had protected the economy.\n\nThe plans, announced last Friday, led to a slump in the pound and the Bank of England stepping in to prevent the collapse of some pension funds.\n\nMr Kwarteng and Prime Minister Liz Truss defended their plans on Thursday.\n\nIn a series of BBC interviews, Ms Truss insisted \"urgent action\" was needed to boost the UK economy, adding she was \"prepared to do what it takes to make that happen\" and that the tax cuts outlined last week were the right plan.\n\nThis comes as a Yougov poll suggested Labour had opened up a massive 33-point lead over the Tories.\n\nMr Kwarteng tried to bolster support among Tory MPs by sending them a message saying he was working at pace to show markets he had a \"clear plan\".\n\nThe chancellor said he understood their concern about the mini-budget, which promised £45bn of tax cuts funded by government borrowing.\n\nFears this would be unaffordable and drive up interest rates had sent markets into a panic, with government borrowing costs surging, and the pound hitting a record low on Monday.\n\nThe market turmoil was fuelled by the lack of an independent forecast on the impact of the plans, which had been offered by the Office for Budget Responsibility, but was declined by the government.\n\nMr Kwarteng insisted the market volatility was \"global\" and being driven by the Ukraine war, Covid, and \"a super strong US dollar\".\n\nHe added that the government had needed to \"act quickly\".\n\n\"However I totally understand the need to be credible with markets,\" he told MPs. \"We will show markets our plan is sound, credible and will work to drive growth.\"\n\nHe said the government would announce reforms in \"childcare, business regulations, financial services, agriculture and more\" over the next six weeks.\n\nMs Truss also argued market turmoil was being caused by global factors in a series of interviews with BBC local radio stations.\n\nShe insisted that \"currencies are under pressure around the world\".\n\nLater, in BBC TV interviews, she said the UK was \"in a very serious situation\" but that was due to \"the aftermath of Covid and Putin's war in Ukraine\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Treasury select committee, which is led by Conservative MP Mel Stride, an ally of former leadership contender Rishi Sunak, rejected the government explanation.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Kwarteng on Thursday, Mr Stride said the government plans had \"resulted in various significant and concerning reactions in the markets\".\n\nHe said a drop in the price of government bonds following the announcement of the plans was greater than \"any movement during the global financial crisis or the pandemic\".\n\nHe said the financial impact of the mini-budget was larger than that of a typical Budget, but there had been no assessment by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to go with it, despite the OBR saying it could produce one.\n\n\"It is hard to conclude other than that an absence of a forecast has in some part driven the lack of confidence in the markets,\" he said. \"Some may have formed the unfortunate impression that the government may be seeking to avoid scrutiny.\"\n\nThe OBR said on Thursday it had offered to provide a forecast for the mini-budget, but the chancellor had rejected that.\n\nBBC economics editor Faisal Islam said this absence of a forecast had made the market reaction to the plans worse.\n\nMr Stride called on Mr Kwarteng to provide an OBR forecast \"earlier\" than 23 November, when the government is due to publish its medium term fiscal plan.\n\nThe OBR said on Thursday it had been asked by Mr Kwarteng to produce a first draft of its next economic forecasts by 7 October.\n\nIn an unusual move, Ms Truss will hold emergency talks with OBR head Richard Hughes on Friday, along with Mr Kwarteng.\n\nIn this message, the chancellor is seeking to reassure MPs that he is working quickly to come up with a plan to calm the markets.\n\nIn the face of mounting criticism from his backbenchers, he is also urging them to stay united.\n\nOn 23 November, Mr Kwarteng is due to set out his medium term fiscal plan.\n\nHe argues this will show how he intends to get debt falling but he has been coming under pressure from Conservative MPs to act more quickly.\n\nThere is scepticism among MPs that the economic growth needed to pay for the announced tax cuts and the government's energy bills intervention can be generated quickly enough.\n\nThat's why, in this note to Conservative MPs, he says that there are lots of ''ambitious'' supply side reforms coming over the next six weeks.\n\nThe chancellor might be conciliatory in tone, saying he always values colleagues and that he is ''always available for a meeting'', but there is no hint here that he is prepared to backtrack on any aspect of his economic plan.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Thursday, Mr Kwarteng rejected claims the government's plans had made people worse off by contributing to a spike in UK mortgage rates.\n\nIt is the first time Mr Kwarteng has made a public comment on his mini-budget since Sunday, when he hinted there were more tax cuts to come.\n\nSince then the plan has faced widespread criticism, with the International Monetary Fund and former Bank of England governor Mark Carney disparaging the plan.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Bank of England was forced to intervene, pledging to buy $65bn of government bonds in a bid to calm markets.\n\nHowever, there are concerns the turmoil could continue and fears it might affect the housing market. A record number of mortgage products have been pulled since Friday, amid fears the Bank of England will have to raise interest rates much more sharply than previously expected.\n\nMr Kwarteng said the government's plan to limit energy bills for households and businesses would save people \"thousands of pounds a year\".\n\nHowever, the chancellor said it was too early to say whether he would keep the previous government's promise to increase benefits next April in line with inflation.\n\nHe did, however, say the prime minister was committed to reinstating the triple lock on pensions, which means they increase by whichever is highest: inflation, the average wage rise, or 2.5%.", "The fatal shooting of a man in a crowded west Belfast social club where a number of people were watching football was a reckless and disgraceful attack, police have said.\n\nSean Fox, 49, was shot a number of times in the Donegal Celtic Sports and Social Club on Sunday afternoon.\n\nHe was killed after two masked gunmen entered the premises and then escaped on foot.\n\nPolice said he was attacked as he \"sat enjoying a drink\".\n\n\"This was carried out in a crowded function room where people were watching football at the time and it is only by good fortune other patrons were not injured or killed as a result of this disgraceful attack,\" Det Ch Insp Millar said.\n\nHe added that the gunmen \"walked into the premises past several people before firing their weapons at Sean a number of times\".\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), who have issued a fresh appeal for information, believe the men made off on foot along Suffolk Road in the direction of Gweedore.\n\nEyewitnesses told BBC News NI that the gunmen \"knew who they wanted to kill and did it in seconds\"\n\nIt is understood Mr Fox, who was in his 40s and originally from west Belfast, was friends with Jim Donegan, who was shot dead in 2018 as he waited to pick up his son from school.\n\nEyewitnesses to Sunday's attack told BBC News NI that the men walked up to the victim and shot him in the back of the head, continuing to shoot after he fell.\n\nAnother eyewitness said the gunmen \"knew who they wanted to kill and did it in seconds\".\n\n\"One shot him while the other one stood and watched the door,\" they said.\n\nThis looks a particularly cold-blooded brutal execution.\n\nWe had two masked gunmen casually walk into a crowded social club and identify their victim.\n\nIt is clear the gunmen knew who they were attacking and didn't leave anything to chance.\n\nIt is unclear who was behind this killing, it is far too early to say.\n\nThe police have issued a fresh appeal for information.\n\n\"I would like to hear from anyone who saw the gunmen as they entered the social club at around 14:25 or a few minutes later,\" said Det Ch Insp Millar.\n\n\"I am appealing to the community to help identify those who murdered Sean and put the lives of countless other people at risk.\"\n\nHe added that the police would like to hear from anyone who has mobile phone footage of the incident in the social club or footage from the Suffolk Road area at the time.\n\nSinn Féin MP for the area, Paul Maskey, told BBC News NI there was \"total shock\" in the community following this \"uncalled for, unjust\" shooting.\n\nHe urged anyone with information to come forward and asked for the PSNI be given space to carry out their investigation.\n\nPeople Before Profit councillor Matt Collins called the shooting \"a horrific and appalling act of violence, which must be condemned by all\", while SDLP councillor Brian Heading said incident had \"cast a dark cloud over the entire area\".", "The regulator says there will be a reduced focus on traditional exams\n\nNew GCSEs for Wales will put less emphasis on exams and aim to increase the use of digital technology, the watchdog has said.\n\nTeachers, pupils, parents and employers are being asked for their views on the latest plans for qualifications to be taught from 2025.\n\nQualifications Wales is also asking for feedback on names for a number of new subjects.\n\nThese include GCSE the sciences and GCSE core Cymraeg.\n\nThe reforms include controversial plans to merge language and literature into a single GCSE, and individual science subjects will be combined in one qualification.\n\nWhen those plans were published last year, it raised concerns of \"dumbing down\" but Qualifications Wales has argued that it will broaden pupils' learning.\n\nChanges are happening to fit in with the new Curriculum for Wales, which was formally introduced in primary schools and about half of secondary schools in September, marking the start of the rollout to all three to 16-year-olds.\n\nThe consultation is looking at how schools can be given more flexibility in how they teach\n\nThe consultation is about the content of the qualifications and how they will be assessed, with the aim of giving schools more flexibility to pick and choose which areas they cover and how they assess pupils.\n\nOverall, there is less emphasis on traditional exams, the regulator said.\n\nIn the new English language and literature, and Cymraeg language and literature GCSEs, the plan is for 60% to be assessed by exams compared to 80% at the moment.\n\nA quarter of the sciences GCSE will be practical work, but the new maths GCSE will still be 100% exam-based, though these could be staggered through the course.\n\nA-level student Jess, from Blaenau Gwent, said she felt taking her GCSEs last year was more about \"how fast you can write and how much you can remember rather than actually showing skills\".\n\n\"If the examination process was to be adapted, and not to be so content loaded over such a long course, perhaps that would have been a bit better,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nSarah Parry, headteacher at Llanishen High School in Cardiff said it was \"absolutely vital\" that GCSEs change to meet the needs of young people and provide a broad and balanced curriculum.\n\nSarah Parry wants lessons to be learned from education during the Covid pandemic\n\n\"We need a balanced mix of assessment methods, with less emphasis on exams,\" she said.\n\n\"If Covid taught us anything in terms of assessment, it is not to put all of our eggs in one basket. If we rely solely on exams at the end of year 11, we create a single point of failure.\"\n\nDigital assessments are already used in some subjects, but the proposals suggest on-screen assessments could be used in more GCSEs.\n\nHowever, the consultation asks for feedback on how practical this would be - especially making sure there was enough devices for everyone.\n\nPryderi ap Rhisiart, managing director of M-SParc, a science park on Anglesey, believes the new Curriculum of Wales is exciting and requires a rethink of GCSEs.\n\nPupils at Llanishen High School in Cardiff should have their needs met in a new curriculum, their headteacher says\n\n\"But at the same time employers and other people will be looking at some way of measuring how our students and young people are doing,\" he said.\n\n\"It offers us a massive economic opportunity if we can close the skills gap.\n\n\"We need the new curriculum to develop our young people to have the skills, to be able to apply those skills and to link them to economic opportunities.\"\n\nThe qualifications watchdog is asking for views on the content of 26 GCSEs, including food and nutrition, health and physical education, engineering, and film and digital media.\n\nSome reforms have been controversial, including ditching separate GCSEs in physics, biology and chemistry in favour of a new qualification, equivalent to two GCSEs - called GCSE the sciences.\n\nThe consultation also asks for feedback on GCSE Core Cymraeg - the new Welsh qualification for English medium schools, which will replace Welsh second language.", "Olivia died after being shot as her mother struggled with a gunman at the door of her home\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel who was shot in her home in Liverpool.\n\nThe nine-year-old was fatally wounded as her mother tried to stop a gunman chasing another man into their house.\n\nThomas Cashman, 34, of West Derby, Liverpool, has also been charged with the attempted murder of Olivia's mother Cheryl Korbel and Joseph Nee.\n\nHe was remanded in custody after appearing at Liverpool Crown Court with a provisional trial date set for March.\n\nOlivia was shot in the chest and her mother was injured as Mr Nee, a convicted burglar, was chased into their home in Dovecot on the night of 22 August.\n\nThe court heard any trial would be estimated to last four weeks and a plea hearing is set to be held on 10 January.\n\nMr Cashman, of Grenadier Drive, who had his head bowed throughout the proceedings, is also charged with two counts of possessing a firearm to endanger life.\n\nHe was held in handcuffs in the dock, surrounded by five police officers.\n\nThomas Cashman was in handcuffs in the dock surrounded by police officers\n\nOlivia's parents were in court for the 13-minute hearing, and also attended earlier as Mr Cashman appeared before magistrates in the city.\n\nA second defendant, Paul Russell, 40, also appeared before magistrates charged with assisting an offender.\n\nThere was a huge police convoy as Thomas Cashman arrived at court\n\nThe court heard Mr Russell, of Snowberry Road, West Derby, was alleged to have assisted Mr Cashman by driving him and disposing of clothing.\n\nHe was remanded into custody to appear at Liverpool Crown Court on 31 October.\n\nOlivia's funeral was held on 15 September at a packed St Margaret Mary's Church, just streets away from where the shooting happened.\n\nPink ties, jackets, scarves and bows were worn by those attending the service after her family asked people to wear a \"splash of pink\".\n\nMs Korbel carried a pink teddy bear into the service and said in her eulogy her daughter had \"touched so many people's hearts and was loved and adored by everyone\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Putin was given a certificate to say he had been presented with a Belarusian tractor\n\nA tractor is one of the odder gifts for Vladimir Putin, as Russia's president, a pariah in the West since his invasion of Ukraine, turns 70.\n\nIt was given him by his Belarusian ally, Alexander Lukashenko, whose country boasts a tractor works.\n\nMr Lukashenko confirmed the news as he visited his fellow strongman's home city, St Petersburg, for talks.\n\nMr Putin was hosting other leaders of ex-Soviet states as the war fanned by his invasion raged.\n\nFaced with successful Ukrainian counter-attacks, he hinted at problems this week, describing the situation in regions he recently annexed as \"restive\".\n\nBut on Friday, his allies lavished praise and gifts on the man who has led Russia, whether as president or prime minister, for more than two decades.\n\nMr Lukashenko, Europe's self-styled \"last dictator\" who has been in power even longer than the Russian leader (since 1994) and whose administration is also under Western sanctions, came to St Petersburg with a gift certificate for the Belarusian-made vehicle.\n\nThe Minsk Tractor Works is the flagship of Belarusian industry.\n\nIt was not immediately clear how Mr Putin responded to the big-wheeled gift, which had to compete with mountains of melons and watermelons from Tajikistan's President, Emomali Rahmon.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Vernon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Vernon\n\nHowever, it is a fact that Mr Putin has been frequently seen in tractors for some years now.\n\nTrying out a Fendt tractor with the then German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, at a trade fair in Hanover in 2005\n\nAt the wheel on a visit to the Russian city of Tambov in 2010\n\nExperiencing a tractor simulator at a factory in Rostov-on-Don in 2018\n\nAlong with the gifts came praise for Mr Putin for \"transforming the image of Russia, strengthening its sovereignty and its defence capability, and protecting its national interests\", in the words of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill.\n\n\"The number one patriot in the world\" was how Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's Moscow-backed leader, put it.\n\nFurther afield, but dealing with similar international isolation, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un congratulated the man in the Kremlin for \"crushing the challenges and threats of the United States\".\n\nMr Putin's enemies used the occasion of his birthday again to depict him as a war criminal trying to destroy another country while ruining his own.\n\nUkrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov called on Russia's military to reject him and refuse to fight his war, saying Mr Putin was \"hiding in a bunker rather than standing\" with his soldiers.\n\nSome social media users noted the irony of Mr Lukashenko's gift to Mr Putin: the humble tractor became an early symbol of Ukrainian resistance to the Russian invasion after farmers were seen towing away abandoned military vehicles.\n\nIn the Czech capital, Prague, demonstrators mocked Russia's president with a giant dummy depicting him as a naked emperor sitting on a golden toilet.", "One energy supplier is predicting households could earn around £100 over the winter through a scheme to reduce peak-time energy use.\n\nOctopus Energy said it expects to pay on average £4 each time a customer responds to a request to cut back.\n\nNational Grid will announce full details of the scheme, which can be adopted by all energy suppliers, later this month.\n\nThe grid operator said some customers might get as much as £10 a day.\n\nThe cash incentive is to persuade people to wait until later on to run their washing machine, tumble dryer, or dishwasher, and to not charge their electric car if demand is already high.\n\nThe scheme, set to start next month and run until March 2023, aims to help the UK avoid blackouts, by reducing energy consumption at peak times.\n\nOn Thursday National Grid warned homes could face three-hour rolling blackouts, if the UK is unable to secure enough gas and electricity imports, as demand rises over the colder months.\n\nThe UK relies on gas to generate electricity, but the war in Ukraine has led to pressure on gas supplies across Europe.\n\nNumber Ten ruled out running a campaign being worked up by the business ministry to persuade households to consume less electricity.\n\nBut the National Grid is set to announce soon exactly how much it will pay per kilowatt hour for people cutting back when there is an acute shortfall in supply.\n\n\"Instead of cutting off whole chunks of the country if we are short of gas, we can reward people for using less energy at times of peak demand,\" Octopus chief executive Greg Jackson said.\n\nThe payback service will be available to homes that have smart meters installed, as long as their supplier is taking part in the scheme. There are about 14 million households with electricity smart meters in the UK.\n\nOctopus Energy, which ran a trial of the scheme earlier this year, said there could be 25 days over the next six months when National Grid was willing to pay households to reduce their use.\n\nJulie Byrne in Saffron Walden embraced the Octopus trial with gusto. She switched off lights, hung the towels outdoors to dry, turned the computer off, and even postponed dinner, despite her 25-year-old son rolling his eyes.\n\n\"Sometimes it was inconvenient,\" she says. \"But we worked round it.\"\n\nHer smart meter is outdoors so Julie didn't check which of her cut-backs was saving more, but she did see a small reduction in her next bill.\n\n\"It wasn't just the money. I felt I was helping,\" she said, though with the cost of living rising, she thinks, the payments are \"always going to be a plus.\"\n\nCustomers who managed to cut back compared to their recent average electricity consumption would be rewarded with a payment, likely to be between £3 and £6 per kilowatt hour saved, Octopus said.\n\nThe compensation rate was likely to be set higher on days when the energy shortfall was particularly severe, the firm said.\n\nDuring Octopus' trial in February and March customers saved an average of 0.7 kilowatt hours, but were receiving much lower financial compensation, the firm said.\n\nUnder the National Grid-backed scheme, customers, including businesses, will receive an email or text a day ahead, outlining the time slot when they would be paid if they reduce their energy use, usually between 4pm and 7pm.\n\nMr Jackson believes the financial incentive, which is significantly higher than it was in the trial, will prove effective, noting that people regularly change their habits to make savings - even small ones.\n\n\"If you go to the supermarket and you buy stuff that's reduced to clear, you're saving less than a pound. People respond to that,\" said Mr Jackson.\n\nHe believes there will be savings for the country as a whole as well. \"Today our system pays a fortune to have diesel and coal generation on standby.\n\n\"Every unit of energy that is saved will save on expensive standby diesel and coal.\"\n\nHave you been contacted by Octopus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Alice Spencer is worried for her and her daughters health this winter\n\nA mother has said cutting back on heating is not an option for her and her daughter this winter due to their lung conditions.\n\nIt comes as one lung charity warned there could be a \"tidal wave\" of hospital admissions of people with lung conditions this year.\n\nAsthma and Lung UK has said patients should receive tailored financial help.\n\nThe Welsh government said its Nest scheme offered free home improvements for those eligible.\n\nAsthma and Lung UK said cold weather was causing people to cut back on heating, putting those with certain lung conditions at risk.\n\nAlice Spencer, from Cardiff, has asthma, and her daughter has cystic fibrosis.\n\nShe said the cold weather exacerbates her symptoms and keeping warm was \"really important\" for her and her daughter's health.\n\nShe added: \"My daughter has a lung condition and uses a nebuliser every day - up to four times a day if she is poorly - it's battery powered but needs charging regularly.\"\n\nShe said the main cost of using the equipment was cleaning, as it must be washed thoroughly after each use with boiling water.\n\n\"I worry that people may neglect the cleaning process to save money, this would them at risk of becoming sick\", said Ms Spencer.\n\nA nebuliser helps users breathe in medicine as a fine mist through a mask or a mouthpiece\n\nAbout one in five people with asthma surveyed by Asthma and Lung UK said the soaring cost of living has caused life-threatening asthma attacks as they cut back on medicines, heating and food.\n\nHalf of the 3,600 people surveyed also said their condition had worsened since the cost of living crisis began, with many needing emergency treatment.\n\nAsthma and Lung UK also said calls to its helpline had risen by 89% and website traffic had increased by 63%.\n\nLiz Moore, from Cardiff, said she was also concerned about the winter ahead.\n\nShe has Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and said the drop in temperature had \"massively affected\" her lungs, as she needs a warm home to keep well.\n\n\"During the cold winter months, I get frequent chest infections which often leaves me struggling to breathe,\" she said.\n\nLiz Moore says she wants to see more support from the Welsh government for people with lung conditions this winter\n\n\"Living with COPD means the drop in temperatures massively affects my health and wellbeing.\n\n\"As my bills increase, I no longer have any spare cash for emergencies. I am also really concerned about people turning to wood burning as an alternative to gas.\n\n\"Air pollution is already an issue in Cardiff, these high prices are only going to make people chose other options.\"\n\nMs Moore said the cost of living was affecting people like her the most and therefore more tailored support is needed.\n\nDr Andrew Whittamore, a GP and clinical lead at Asthma and Lung UK, said winter was the \"deadliest time\" for people with lung conditions.\n\nHe said: \"Cold homes provide the perfect environment for respiratory infections to thrive.\n\n\"Cold air is a trigger for life-threatening asthma attacks and COPD flare-ups. In the longer-term, cold homes are a hotbed for mould and damp, which alongside cold air are also common lung triggers.\"\n\nAsthma and Lung Cymru advised people with lung conditions should heat their home to at least 18C.\n\nThe Welsh government said improving the energy efficiency of homes is the most effective way we can support householders to reduce their energy bills.\n\n\"More than 67,000 homes have benefitted from our Warm Homes programme and we are also offering a £200 fuel support payment to help around 400,000 eligible households with their energy bills this winter.\n\n\"Our Nest scheme also offers free energy efficiency home improvements for eligible people on lower incomes who are living with a chronic respiratory condition.\"", "People in the poorest neighbourhoods are seven times more likely to die of a lung condition than those in the richest areas\n\nMore people die in the UK from serious lung disease than anywhere else in Western Europe, new analysis suggests.\n\nNew charity Asthma and Lung UK (ALUK) found that 500,000 people died from pneumonia, asthma and other respiratory conditions over a seven-year period.\n\nIt described the state of lung health as \"shameful\" and called for more funding for research and treatments.\n\nThe Department of Health said improving the lives of people with lung conditions was a \"clinical priority\".\n\nThe number of people admitted to hospital for lung conditions in England and Wales has doubled in the last 20 years, according to research published in November 2021.\n\nThe academic study found that admission rates increased from 1,535 to 3,143 per 100,000 people between 1999 and 2019, before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe. The most common cause was influenza or pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory disease, or other acute lower respiratory infections.\n\nALUK, which relaunched on Monday having previously been known as Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation, said one likely cause was air pollution, which is now connected to 36,000 premature deaths each year in the UK.\n\nAround 7,000 of the deaths are in Scotland.\n\nIt said there was a link to deprivation, with people in the poorest neighbourhoods seven times more likely to die of a lung condition than those in the richest areas. That could be down to greater exposure to poor-quality damp housing, other forms of air pollution and cigarette smoke.\n\nAn analysis of death figures published by Eurostat, the EU statistical office, found there were 84,721 respiratory deaths recorded in the UK in 2018, the most recent year in which full data was available.\n\nWhen deaths were compared across Europe, only Turkey had a higher per capita death rate than the UK, with people in Finland three times less likely to die from lung disease.\n\nALUK chief executive Sarah Woolnough described the death figures as a \"national scandal\".\n\n\"The state of lung health in the UK is shameful, with the numbers of hospital admissions increasing, and air pollution causing people to develop lung conditions or making existing ones worse,\" she said.\n\nThe charity wants more research into diagnostic testing and treatments, saying that lung disease accounts for two per cent of publicly-funded research spending, despite making up 24% of all deaths.\n\nUnder its long-term plan published in 2019, the NHS said it would target improved treatment and support for those with lung disease in England so that health outcomes would be \"equal or better\" than other comparable countries.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said air pollution has reduced significantly since 2010 with emissions of nitrogen oxides, formed when fossil fuels burn, at their lowest level nationally since records began.\n\n\"Improving the lives of people with lung conditions is a clinical priority for the UK,\" said a DHSC spokesperson.\n\n\"Since 2017, the National Institute for Health Research has invested over £130 million into respiratory health and disease research. Alongside this, we're funding research into respiratory infections and the health impact of air pollution and other environmental exposures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Peter Tobin was serving three life terms for the murders of Angelika Kluk, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol\n\nSerial killer Peter Tobin has died in hospital, at the age of 76.\n\nHe was convicted of raping and murdering Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23, and hiding her body under the floor of a Glasgow church in 2006.\n\nHe was also serving life terms at HMP Edinburgh for the murders of Vicky Hamilton, 15, and Dinah McNicol, 18.\n\nPolice Scotland said officers attended Edinburgh Royal Infirmary at 06:04 on Saturday following the death of a 76-year-old man.\n\nThey said the death was not being treated as suspicious and a report would be submitted to the procurator fiscal.\n\nPolice also said that attempts had been made towards the end of Tobin's life to get him to reveal information about his victims.\n\nDet Ch Supt Laura Thomson, head of major crime, said: \"Our thoughts are with the victims of Peter Tobin, their families and friends.\n\n\"Recent attempts to encourage him to do the right thing and share any knowledge he may have which could assist the police were unsuccessful.\n\n\"While we have no current lines of investigation into Peter Tobin, we welcome any information in relation to his activities.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Strathclyde Police detective David Swindle has no doubts that Tobin had more victims\n\nLast month, a newspaper reported that Tobin was lying \"chained to a hospital bed\" and was pictured in a hospital gown, appearing seriously ill.\n\nThe Sunday Mail said the murderer had cancer and had fallen and broken his hip. It said he was refusing food and medication.\n\nEarlier, in January, it emerged that Tobin had been transferred from HMP Edinburgh to the city's Royal Infirmary after becoming unwell.\n\nAnd in February 2016 he was taken to the Royal Infirmary by ambulance after he reportedly collapsed in his cell.\n\nTobin was only unmasked as a serial killer after his final victim - Angelika Kluk - was found hidden under the floorboards of a church in Glasgow in 2006.\n\nHis arrest set in motion a UK-wide investigation which ultimately led officers to the remains of two teenage girls.\n\nVicky Hamilton, 15, disappeared in February 1991 as she travelled home to just outside Falkirk. And 18-year-old Dinah McNicol from Essex was last seen in August that year after she hitched a lift from Tobin after a music festival.\n\nBoth girls' remains were found 16 years later, buried in the garden of Tobin's former home in Margate, Kent.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lindsay Brown said Peter Tobin robbed her whole family of the life they could have had with her sister Vicky Hamilton.\n\nLindsay Brown, the sister of Vicky Hamilton, said living with what happened was a \"dark shadow\" over the family.\n\nShe said: \"We were hoping that now Tobin's gone that shadow can eventually just clear and we can remember Vicky as the sweet loving sister that she was than trying to remember what we don't have any more and what was taken from us.\n\n\"He didn't just rob Vicky of her life - he robbed us of a big sister, nieces and nephews and a life with her.\"\n\nThe Hamilton family posted a statement on social media saying they would not be celebrating Tobin's death.\n\nIt said: \"We remember Vicky, we remember her laughter, her smile and we want to keep that memory after all the years of having no idea what had happened to her, followed by heartbreak of losing our mum not long after Vicky went missing.\n\n\"He does not deserve anymore of our family's thoughts.\n\n\"If he has taken more victims, our hearts go out to their families and can only wish one day they get the closure they so badly deserve.\n\n\"We will not be celebrating any passing but instead will be remembering Vicky, Angelika and Dinah along with any other victims, and we respectfully ask for others to do the same.\"\n\nFormer Strathclyde Police detective David Swindle, who led the investigation into Peter Tobin, said he had no doubts that Tobin killed more people.\n\n“This is someone who had no respect for humanity,” he said.\n\nIn the days following the discovery of Peter Tobin's first known victim, I witnessed a moment I'll never forget.\n\nThe police had found 15-year-old Vicky Hamilton buried behind Tobin's former home in Margate.\n\nThe news that they had uncovered a second body came through when I was interviewing Ian McNicol, whose daughter Dinah had been missing for 16 years.\n\nWith the camera rolling, Ian raised his hand, crossed his fingers, and said: \"Please be Dinah...and get us out of this misery.\"\n\nImagine hoping that your beloved daughter was lying in a shallow grave, in the shadow of a murderer's old house.\n\nSerial killers like Tobin inflict a particular brand of hell on their victims' families.\n\nTobin was convicted of murdering Dinah McNicol and Vicky Hamilton\n\nVicky and Dinah had gone missing within six months of each other in 1991, at opposite ends of the UK.\n\nThey were only found after Tobin killed again. His murder of Polish student Angelika Kluk in Glasgow was followed by a nationwide police inquiry which eventually led to the back garden in Irvine Drive in Margate.\n\nFor 16 years, Dinah and Vicky's families had absolutely no idea what had happened to them.\n\nWithout a body, there could be no funeral, no grave to visit, no prospect whatsoever of anything remotely resembling closure, if that's ever possible in such cases.\n\nVicky's mother died two years after her daughter went missing. Her family say it was from a broken heart.\n\nAngelika Kluk's body was found hidden under the floorboards of a Glasgow church\n\nWhen the girls were found, their relatives were relieved because at last they knew the truth, no matter how terrible it was. They had them back and they could lay them to rest.\n\nDetectives who investigated Tobin are convinced he had other victims. He targeted young girls and women when they were vulnerable and took care to conceal his crimes.\n\nHe was in his 40s when he killed Vicky and Dinah, an unusually late age for a serial killer to start committing murders.\n\nIf the police are right, Tobin could have revealed his secrets and given some semblance of comfort to other families.\n\nBut he would never have spared a moment's thought for Dinah's father, or for the relatives of any of his victims.\n\nIn that man's foul and wicked soul, there was nothing but darkness.", "Trade minister Conor Burns has been sacked from the government after a complaint of serious misconduct.\n\nMr Burns, 50, has also had the Tory whip removed while allegations of inappropriate behaviour during the party conference are investigated.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister \"took direct action on being informed of this allegation\".\n\nMr Burns said: \"I will fully cooperate with the Party's enquiry and look forward to clearing my name.\"\n\nIn a string of tweets Mr Burns said he was not given any information about the complaint, \"nor was I asked to provide any information\".\n\nHe said: \"I hope the party will be as quick to conduct their enquiry as they were to rush to judgement\".\n\nIn a statement No 10 said: \"Following a complaint of serious misconduct, the prime minister has asked Conor Burns MP to leave the government with immediate effect.\n\n\"The prime minister took direct action on being informed of this allegation and is clear that all ministers should maintain the high standards of behaviour - as the public rightly expects.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Whips' Office said: \"We have suspended the whip pending [an] investigation into allegations of inappropriate behaviour earlier this week.\n\n\"We take all such allegations extremely seriously. The prime minister has been clear that the highest standards in public life must be upheld.\"\n\nThe LGBT+ Conservatives have suspended Mr Burns as a patron \"pending the conclusion of investigations\".\n\nConor Burns - seen as a key ally of Boris Johnson - had been a trade minister for exactly one month but now he's out of government.\n\nNo 10 was keen to stress his appointment went through the appropriate checks.\n\nBut Liz Truss clearly wants to be seen to be acting quickly against allegations of impropriety. Remember her predecessor Boris Johnson was criticised for taking too long to respond to allegations of inappropriate behaviour.\n\nConor Burns is suggesting the party has jumped to conclusions - saying he looks forward to clearing his name.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"After just a month as prime Minister, Liz Truss's government is already beset by scandal.\n\nShe said it was \"the latest in a long line of serious misconduct allegations, and raises serious questions not only about yet another minister but about the prime minister's judgement in refusing to appoint an independent ethics adviser.\"\n\nMP for Bournemouth West since 2010, Mr Burns has served as a minister under both Liz Truss and Boris Johnson.\n\nIn 2020 he resigned as a trade minister after a parliamentary watchdog ruled he used his position to \"intimidate a member of the public\".\n\nHe later returned to government as a minister in the Northern Ireland Office, and had been working on this week's discussions about the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nIn August, Mr Burns attended the funeral of former Northern Ireland First Minister Lord Trimble alongside Taoiseach Micheal Martin\n\nEarlier this year then deputy chief whip Chris Pincher was suspended by the party after he was alleged to have groped two men in a club, setting off a chain reaction that led to Mr Johnson stepping down as an prime minister. Mr Pincher has denied the claims.\n\nNeil Parish resigned as a Tory MP in April after he admitted watching pornography in the House of Commons.\n\nWork and Pensions Minister Victoria Prentis said the allegations were \"obviously concerning\", but she had been assured the matter was being taken \"very seriously\".\n\n\"In terms of politics as a whole it's always worrying because we all expect and hope to maintain the highest standards in public life,\" she told Times Radio.\n\nConservative MP Simon Hoare defended the suspended Mr Burns, saying: \"You couldn't find a harder working person, so I'm very sad he has lost his position in government.\"\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that he hoped Mr Burns would \"return to government and continue as an effective minister\".\n\nAny inquiry should take place \"speedily\" and \"on the presumption...that you're innocent until proven guilty\", Mr Hoare added.", "Protests and gang violence have rocked Haiti, plunging the country into a worsening political, economic and security crisis.\n\nHaiti has asked for foreign military support to curb its gang violence crisis which has paralysed the country.\n\nThe Haitian government authorised Prime Minister Ariel Henry to request armed help due to \"the risk of a major humanitarian crisis\".\n\nThe US meanwhile urged its citizens in Haiti to leave due to the insecurity.\n\nA group of powerful gangs have blocked the country's main fuel terminal since September, crippling its basic supplies like water and food.\n\nIt is not clear to whom the request for intervention has been sent to, and in what form the help would be given.\n\nThe UN said it had not received an official request from Haiti's government.\n\n\"That being said, we remain extremely concerned about the security situation in Haiti, the impact its having on the Haitian people, on our ability to do our work, especially in the humanitarian sphere,\" said UN spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric.\n\nThe US is also considering a request for a humanitarian corridor to restore fuel distribution within Haiti, according to state department spokesperson Vedant Patel.\n\nMr Patel did not say where the troops to support this would come from.\n\nVarreux fuel terminal has been controlled and blockaded by a coalition of powerful gangs since last month, which has ground the whole country to a halt. Some hospitals have shut, while businesses and transport services stopped working in protest of destitution.\n\nCivil unrest escalated since Mr Henry announced an end to government fuel subsidies on 11 September, which sent petrol and diesel prices skyrocketing.\n\nSince then, protests and looting have intensified, with the capital, Port-au-Prince, at the heart of it. Food aid warehouses have been targeted, with an estimated $5m (£4.6m) worth of food aid lost in repeated attacks, according to Haiti's UN envoy.\n\nIt is unclear whether the Haitian government request for foreign military intervention would mean the return of UN peacekeeping troops, after leaving five years ago.\n\nThe UN's presence has left a mixed legacy in Haiti: its peacekeepers accepted partial responsibility for sparking a cholera epidemic more than a decade ago which killed about 10,000 people.\n\nHaiti's government said eight people had died on Sunday from cholera, for the first time in three years - raising concerns over the potential for a health crisis too.\n\nOf the many supplies that have been blocked by the country's gangs, clean water is a vital one - especially as cholera is spread via contaminated water.\n\nHaiti is one of the poorest countries in the world and has suffered a number of recent crises, most notably the assassination of its president, Jovenel Moïse, in July 2021 and a massive earthquake that left more than 2,200 people dead just a month later.\n\nDeaths are frequent, with more than 200 people killed in gang violence in Port-au-Prince in the space of just 10 days in July, according to figures from the UN.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Gunshots heard in Haiti streets as people take cover", "A new picture of one of the Queen's favourite ponies has been released by Buckingham Palace, following her appearance at the monarch's funeral.\n\nThe fell pony called Emma stood to the side of the Long Walk as the coffin was driven past on the approach to Windsor Castle.\n\nShe stood amongst floral tributes beside Queen's groom Terry Pendry.\n\nThe late monarch had ridden the black pony for light exercise in the castle grounds over the previous 15 years.\n\nGroom and manager Mr Pendry, who bowed his head as the coffin went past, once described Emma as a \"wonderful servant to Her Majesty\" and one of her favourite-ever horses.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the pony, whose full name is Carltonlima Emma, would continue to be much-loved and cared for at the Royal Mews in Windsor.\n\nEmma stood with groom Terry Pendry as the Queen's coffin was taken towards Windsor Castle\n\nThe Queen was laid to rest on 19 September with a state funeral, military procession and a private family burial.\n\nFollowing the funeral at Westminster Abbey in London, the coffin travelled to Windsor Castle for a committal service - where Emma stood as the procession went past.\n\nWearing black armbands, grooms from the Royal Mews at Windsor stood behind Emma to pay their final respects.\n\nThe Queen was well-known for her love of horses, starting when her grandfather King George V gave her a Shetland pony called Peggy.\n\nThroughout her equine career she became a rider, owner and breeder of race horses - and often watched her own horses run and sometimes win.\n\nAfter being bought by the Queen as an eight-year-old Emma had a short but successful competition career - qualifying for Horse of the Year Show and Olympia.\n\nUpon retirement she returned to the Royal Mews and appeared in three pageants at the Royal Windsor Horse Show to mark the Diamond Jubilee, the 90th celebrations and the Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThe Queen championed various breeds during her reign, including Fell ponies, Highland ponies and Cleveland Bays.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIran's state-run broadcaster was apparently hacked on air Saturday, with a news bulletin interrupted by a protest against the country's leader.\n\nA mask appeared on the screen, followed by an image of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with flames around him.\n\nThe group called itself \"Adalat Ali\", or Ali's Justice.\n\nIt comes after at least three people were shot dead when protesters clashed with security forces in new unrest over the death of Mahsa Amini.\n\nMs Amini was detained in Tehran by morality police for allegedly not covering her hair properly. The 22-year-old Iranian Kurd died in custody on 16 September, three days after her arrest.\n\nHer death has sparked an unprecedented wave of protest across the country.\n\nSaturday's TV news bulletin at 21:00 (17:30 GMT) was interrupted with images which included Iran's supreme leader with a target on his head, photos of Ms Amini and three other women killed in recent protests.\n\nOne of the captions read \"join us and rise up\", whilst another said \"our youths' blood is dripping off your paws\".\n\nThe interruption lasted only a few seconds before being cut off.\n\nSuch displays of rebellion against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are historically rare, and he wields almost complete power within Iran. But following Ms Amini's death, there has been widespread open dissent.\n\nAlso on Saturday, social media videos emerged which seemed to show female students at a university in Tehran chanting \"get lost\" during a visit by President Ebrahim Raisi.\n\nEarlier in the day, two people were killed in Sanandaj, including a man shot in his car after he sounded his horn in support of protesters. A video shared online also showed a woman shot in the neck lying unconscious on the ground in Mashhad.\n\nIn Sanandaj, a police official said a man had been killed by \"counter-revolutionaries\", the state-run news agency IRNA reported.\n\nOn Friday, Iran's Forensic Medicine Organisation said Ms Amini had died from multiple organ failure caused by cerebral hypoxia - and not from blows to the head, as her family and protesters contend.\n\nRights groups say more than 150 people have been killed since the protests in the Islamic Republic began on 17 September.\n\nShops in several cities have shut in support of the protesters, including in Tehran's bazaar where some set fire to a police kiosk and chased the security forces away.\n\nThe protests reaching the bazaar in Tehran will ring alarm bells with Iranian leaders who have counted the merchants as among their supporters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The protests currently sweeping the country have their roots in changes made after the 1979 revolution", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Fire and smoke seen on Crimean bridge after explosion reported\n\nLight traffic has resumed on Russia's only bridge to Crimea, hours after a huge blast brought down sections of the roadway.\n\nThe blast on Europe's longest bridge - a symbol of Russia's annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 - killed three people, investigators say.\n\nThe victims were in a nearby car when a lorry blew up, Russian officials claim.\n\nThe railway part of the bridge - where oil tankers caught fire - has also apparently reopened.\n\nOn Saturday evening, Russia's foreign ministry published a video, seemingly showing cars using the bridge.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe rail and road crossing was opened in 2018 and is a key supply route for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAn adviser to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, did not directly claim Ukrainian responsibility but wrote: \"Crimea, the bridge, the beginning.\n\n\"Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything occupied by Russia must be expelled.\"\n\nUkraine's defence ministry compared the bridge explosion to the sinking of Russia's Moskva missile cruiser in April.\n\n\"Two notorious symbols of Russian power in Ukrainian Crimea have gone down,\" it tweeted. \"What's next in line?\"\n\nRussia's foreign ministry said: \"The Kiev [Kyiv] regime's reaction towards destruction of civilian infrastructure is a testament to its terrorist nature.\"\n\nIt is hard to exaggerate the significance, and symbolism, of seeing the bridge - which was opened by President Putin - on fire.\n\nRussia has used the bridge to move military equipment, ammunition, and personnel from Russia to battlefields in southern Ukraine.\n\nAs such, Ukrainian authorities said it was a legitimate target, as they vow to retake the peninsula.\n\nAny attack on Crimea, where the Russian army has a massive presence, will be seen as another massive humiliation for the Kremlin.\n\nThe bridge is particularly hated by Ukrainians. Social media in Ukraine erupted in celebration on seeing the fire - one day after Russian President Vladimir Putin turned 70.\n\nLocal authorities in Crimea organised a ferry service between the Russian mainland and the peninsula, for heavier vehicles that can't use the partially reopened bridge.\n\nScorch marks could be seen on the railway bridge on Saturday\n\nRussia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee said: \"At 06:07 Moscow time today [03:07 GMT], an explosion was set off at a cargo vehicle on the motorway part of the Crimean bridge on the side of the Taman peninsula, which set fire to seven fuel tanks of a train that was en route to the Crimean peninsula.\n\n\"Two motorway sections of the bridge partially collapsed.\"\n\nCrimean parliamentary speaker Vladimir Konstantinov blamed the explosion on \"Ukrainian vandals, who have finally managed to reach their bloody hands to the Crimean bridge\".\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin was briefed about the \"emergency\" on the bridge and ordered a government inquiry, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. A criminal investigation is also under way.\n\nThe 19km (12-mile) bridge across the Kerch Strait, which cost £2.7bn to build, was opened four years after Moscow illegally annexed Crimea.\n\nIt was hailed by Russian media as \"the construction of the century\". Russian officials previously claimed it was well protected from threats from air, land or water.\n\nThe crossing is more than 100 miles from Ukrainian-held territory. One explosives expert told the BBC the fire was probably not caused by a missile.\n\n\"The lack of obvious blast / fragmentation damage on the road surface suggests that an air-delivered weapon was not used,\" he said.\n\nHe said it was possible that \"a well-planned attack from below may have been the cause\".\n\n\"I suspect explosives on the road bridge and train deck were initiated near simultaneously using coded radio command,\" he added.\n\nKyiv has the momentum in this conflict. The army has reclaimed large swathes of territory, forcing Russian troops to abandon long-held positions.\n\nAmid the losses, Moscow has begun a chaotic military mobilisation - which led to rare anti-war protests in Russia, and a huge exodus of military-age men.\n\nOn Russian TV talk shows, presenters and studio guests have been expressing increasing doom and gloom about the situation.\n\nIf the attack were carried out by Ukraine, it would not be the first time it has targeted Crimea.\n\nLast month, Ukraine claimed responsibility for a series of air strikes on Crimea - including an attack on Russia's Saky military base.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The $3.7bn (£2.7bn) bridge links southern Russia with the territory it annexed in 2014 (2018 report)", "Chaos. Chaos. Chaos. It is a word you can expect to hear a lot this weekend as the SNP meets in Aberdeen.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has already deployed it during a round of pre-conference interviews with broadcasters.\n\nNot to describe her own party's gathering, of course. Instead, to characterise the political and economic fallout from the UK government's tax cutting mini-budget.\n\nIn a preview of his speech, the SNP's deputy leader Keith Brown suggests that independence is the only way to \"escape Westminster chaos for good\".\n\nConsider that a foretaste of what will become a conference theme.\n\nIt is not exactly a new argument but expect new emphasis on it as the SNP seeks to exploit the faltering start to Liz Truss's premiership.\n\nNicola Sturgeon is not, of course, without difficulties in her own administration after 15 years of SNP rule.\n\nAmong the challenges: the threat of strikes in schools and hospitals, a huge backlog in the NHS and the overdue, overbudget ferries being built for CalMac.\n\nThe party continues to enjoy high levels of support in opinion polls, even as Labour's revival at the expense of the Conservatives across Britain offers voters another potential route to political change.\n\nWhile the SNP see independence as the ultimate opportunity to do things better, their opponents think the upheaval of leaving the UK could make the Scottish economy considerably worse.\n\nThis would be one of the key battlegrounds in any future referendum campaign, just as it was in 2014.\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and Prime Minister Liz Truss have been strongly criticised over their mini-budget plans\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said a Scottish government paper on the economic case for independence is to be published soon after conference.\n\nThere is little sign that the UK government will engage in the argument because they remain determined to ensure that indyref2 does not happen any time soon.\n\nDuring the Conservative leadership campaign, Liz Truss said Nicola Sturgeon was an \"attention seeker\" best ignored, at least on the issue of independence.\n\nShe has since offered to work with the first minister on other issues like cutting taxes, building infrastructure and energy security.\n\nOne snag with that is the considerable disagreement that exists between the two governments in these areas.\n\nFor example, Nicola Sturgeon is opposed to UK calls for new nuclear power stations in Scotland and does not consider UK plans to issue a hundred new North Sea exploration licences justified.\n\nAnother problem with talk of cross-border co-operation is that, unlike the past three Conservative prime ministers, Liz Truss has not arranged early talks with Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nThey are unlikely to chat in advance of next week's UK Supreme Court case, where their respective lawyers will dispute Holyrood's ability to hold an independence referendum without UK consent.\n\nThe case could determine whether or not the Scottish government is able to go ahead with a vote on 19 October 2023.\n\nIf not, Nicola Sturgeon has said she will seek to win majority support for independence at the next UK general election - to treat it like a referendum.\n\nIt is a risky strategy. Success would not necessarily be accepted as a mandate for independence. Failure could throw the SNP into a chaos of its own.\n\nThis weekend, the party leadership will prefer to focus on the political difficulties of others and try to persuade SNP members that independence is within grasp.", "The larger areas of darkness on patients' Xenon scans could represent lung abnormalities\n\nSome people with long Covid may have hidden damage to their lungs, a small pilot study in the UK suggests.\n\nScientists used a novel xenon gas scan method to pick up lung abnormalities not identified by routine scans.\n\nThey focused on 11 people who had not required hospital care when they first caught Covid but experienced long-lasting breathlessness after their initial infection.\n\nA larger, more detailed study is under way to confirm the results.\n\nThe work builds on an earlier study that looked at people who had been admitted to hospital with Covid.\n\nResearchers say the findings shed some light on why breathlessness is so common in long Covid - though the reasons for feeling short of breath are often many and complex.\n\nLong Covid refers to a host of symptoms that continue for many weeks after a coronavirus infection and cannot be explained by another cause.\n\nThe team, from Oxford, Sheffield, Cardiff and Manchester compared xenon gas scans and other lung-function tests in three groups of people.\n\nThis included people with long Covid and breathlessness who had not been admitted to hospital when infected, 12 people who had been admitted to hospital with Covid but did not have long Covid, and 13 healthy people as \"controls\".\n\nUsing the novel approach, developed by the University of Sheffield, all participants inhaled xenon gas during a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan.\n\nThe gas behaves in a very similar way to oxygen but can be traced visually during scans, so scientists were able to \"see\" how well it moved from the lungs into the blood stream - a crucial step in transporting oxygen around the body.\n\nResearchers found for the majority of people with long Covid, gas transfer was less effective than in healthy controls.\n\nPeople who had been admitted to hospital for Covid had similar abnormalities.\n\nLead researcher and lung specialist Dr Emily Fraser said it was frustrating having people coming into clinic and not being able to explain to them exactly why it was that they were breathless. Often X-rays and CT scans show no abnormalities.\n\n\"This is important research and I really do hope this will shed more light on that.\"\n\nBut she added: \"It is important people know that rehabilitation strategies and breathing retraining can be really helpful.\n\n\"When we see people in clinic who are breathless we can make progress.\"\n\nThe study's co-chief investigator, Prof Fergus Gleeson, said: \"There are now important questions to answer, such as, how many patients with long Covid will have abnormal scans, the significance of the abnormality we've detected, the cause of the abnormality, and its longer-term consequences.\n\n\"Once we understand the mechanisms driving these symptoms, we will be better placed to develop more effective treatments.\"\n\nThe paper is a pre-print and has not yet been through the formal process of peer review.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It's always a temptation to see great wars as a clash between individuals - Napoleon against Wellington, Churchill against Hitler - but it's usually a mistake. There's vastly more going on in a war across continents than simply a duel between two people.\n\nBut Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine does have the genuine flavour of a personal battle.\n\nIt was very much his own idea, hatched with a group of three or four officials and generals at a time when Russia was cut off by Covid, even though by now, nearly eight months after it began, millions of lives in Russia and Ukraine have been damaged by it.\n\nAnd one man has risen to prominence because he's opposed it with extraordinary success.\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky is a quiet, charming, unassuming man. He's famously an actor by profession, and played the part of the president of Ukraine on television long before he was elected to the actual job. Maybe, of course, the quiet charm and the apparent lack of assumption are part of the act: you'd need to know him a great deal better to be able to be sure about that. My guess is not, though.\n\nZelensky seems pretty much as he appears, and like a lot of actors he has a clear-sighted appreciation of himself and the limits of his abilities.\n\nIn the presidential palace, where the main staircase is defended by sandbagged emplacements and you can't even take a watch with you if you're a visitor, Zelensky's trademark dark green T-shirt seemed to fit in perfectly.\n\nWhichever of his top officials suggested that he should appear on television wearing that during the frightening days of February and March, when the Russians were very close and the streets of Kyiv were full of the rust-coloured steel tank-traps called \"hedgehogs\", deserves a special award.\n\nZelensky struck precisely the right note - tough, dressed-down, practical and ready for a fight. In those days, most of Ukraine's friends abroad were certain that the Russians would carve their way through to central Kyiv in no time. It was a sign of Zelensky's toughness of character that he announced he was staying, whatever happened.\n\nHis ability to continue striking the right note has lasted for eight months.\n\nA few days ago, though, he got something wrong, and seemed to be calling for a pre-emptive strike to stop Russia using its battlefield nuclear weapons - relatively small-yield bombs that would have an appalling effect locally, but would be fairly limited in the damage they did over a wider area.\n\nZelensky's words weren't well-chosen, and they handed Moscow an easy win for a few hours. When I interviewed him, he was sufficiently anxious to dampen down the criticism by making his defence in English. He meant, he said, pre-emptive sanctions which the West should impose on Russia to dissuade President Putin and his generals from opening up Europe's first nuclear war.\n\n\"We're not terrorists,\" he said when I questioned him about this, and that opened up another question. The New York Times has suggested the US now believed that Ukrainian agents were responsible for the car bomb in Moscow last August which killed the ultra-conservative television reporter Darya Dugina, and may have been intended for her equally extreme father, who used to be close to Putin.\n\nZelensky insisted that his government had absolutely nothing to do with it. Of course he would.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Zelensky warns Russians are being prepared for nuclear warfare\n\nYet there are plenty of presidents and prime ministers who would turn vicious if you asked them questions like this. Not Volodymyr Zelensky: he stays calm and surprisingly warm. He's a great deal better at talking about emotions and the effects of the war on ordinary people than he is about detailed questions of policy, but that's part of the reason for his enormous success, not just in Ukraine but around the world.\n\nHe must be the most popular leader on Earth at the moment, and he is winning his personal public relations duel with President Putin hands down; Putin angry and scowling and reluctant to leave the Kremlin, Zelensky making trips to newly liberated towns. He is even showing sympathy for the young Russian conscripts who are sent to fight in Ukraine, saying to me, \"without weapons and body armour - just cannon-fodder\".\n\nI wondered if his very public refusal to consider negotiating with Vladimir Putin was a signal to other Russian political leaders that if they wanted to end the war they would have to push Putin aside. After speaking to him about it, I decided not.\n\nHe doesn't seem to have the slightest interest in Putin as a person, and has no respect whatever for him as a war-leader who micro-manages the fighting in angry calls with his generals.\n\nDid he care if Vladimir Putin fell from power, I asked?\n\nZelensky blew out his cheeks and shook his head. \"Not in the slightest,\" he said.", "Manager Sarina Wiegman said England \"don't win a World Cup now\" just because they defeated the United States - but their victory at Wembley suggests they could be the team to beat next summer.\n\nThe USA have won back-to-back World Cups and have long held the edge over England on the big stage.\n\nBut as European champions brimming with confidence, England showed on Friday they are right up there with the best with only 10 months to go until the 2023 World Cup.\n\nThe 2-1 result extends England's unbeaten run to 23 games under Wiegman - winning 15 of them in a row - and was their first victory against the USA since 2017.\n\nIt also ended the USA's unbeaten run - they had won 18 and drawn three of their last 21 matches in all competitions, winning 13 consecutive games prior to Friday's defeat.\n\nEngland were fortunate on occasions as the USA had a goal disallowed, a penalty award overturned and a spot-kick given against them following VAR reviews.\n\nBut it was the manner in which England imposed themselves on the USA which proved they have come a long way since the two teams last met in 2020.\n\n\"I think the USA will be looking at us and thinking 'wow, that's how you play in possession',\" former England midfielder Karen Carney told ITV.\n\n\"In my career, we never really had that. We were always looking at the USA and were scared of them. But [on Friday] they came on our home soil and saw us play them off the park at times.\"\n\nEngland have an \"aura\" about them now, added Carney, and Wiegman believes confidence has grown during her time in charge - helped by their success at Euro 2022.\n\nThis match against the USA may only have been a friendly but it comes 10 months out from the World Cup and will help to build momentum.\n\n\"It was a good measure. It's good to have a test against the USA as they have won so many things over so many years. But it's now October and not July yet,\" said Wiegman.\n\nAsked if England's unbeaten run has given them belief they can beat anyone in the world, Wiegman added: \"We have proved to ourselves that we can do it. In the Euros we showed we could beat anyone.\n\n\"It's a thin line between winning and losing but we could bring on something that could win against the best opponents and that's what we showed again [against the USA].\"\n\nIt was a victory earned without injured striker Alessia Russo and captain Leah Williamson, though the USA were also missing key players and are in a transition period with several younger stars coming through.\n\nWiegman wanted her side to control the ball and create chances which they managed to do for large periods.\n\nThe USA were also a threat and there were nervous moments in the game for England, who were put under pressure in a frantic and explosive encounter.\n\nWiegman, usually so relaxed, joked she was \"not calm at all\" when midfielder Keira Walsh kept the ball inside her own area at one point before passing it back to goalkeeper Mary Earps to hastily clear.\n\n\"She loves to play out but I would have preferred her to do it a little higher up the pitch!\" Wiegman added.\n\nBut former England defender Stephen Warnock believes the hosts showed enough quality and nerve to prove they can compete with the best.\n\n\"We brought to Wembley the most successful international team to challenge them. It showed the standard of the [women's] game,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"This USA team will compete at the highest level at the World Cup and this shows what England under Sarina Wiegman can achieve.\"\n\nThere is still a long way to go until next summer's World Cup though, and Wiegman is keen to stay grounded.\n\nWhen asked if England can be considered the best team in the world right now, she said: \"You are the best team in the world when you have won the World Cup. We didn't.\"\n\nMeanwhile, USA boss Vlatko Andonovski \"absolutely believes\" England are contenders to win next year's tournament, though he hopes his side will be the team to stop them.\n\n\"They have an incredible squad and they showed once again they are very good,\" he added.\n\n\"If you give them space, they have players who can make a difference. They have an incredible coach and I wouldn't mind facing them again in the final!\"\n• None Do you throw away too much food? See how copying supermarket strategies could save you money\n• None Check out the star-studded collection of films on BBC iPlayer", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Graham Norton announces Liverpool as the host of Eurovision 2023\n\nOrganisers of next year's Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool say they want to put on \"the best show for Ukraine\".\n\nUkraine's entrant Kalush Orchestra won May's contest, however the event will not be staged in the country due to the Russian invasion.\n\nIt will be held instead in Liverpool following the UK's selection as hosts after coming second with Sam Ryder.\n\nClaire McColgan, director of Culture Liverpool, said the city would reflect \"what Ukraine and its people deserve\".\n\n\"We're just hosting it, it's their party,\" she told BBC Radio 4 Today.\n\nThe decision to host the event in Liverpool was announced during the BBC's One Show on Friday. The city beat off competition from bookmakers' favourite Glasgow and nearly 20 other cities in the UK.\n\nMs McColgan said: \"This is a very different Eurovision, which is why were we're so excited and keen to do this, because we know we can do the best show for Ukraine because that's who this is for.\"\n\nShe added organisers would use \"intel and insight\" from Liverpool's twin city Odessa to celebrate the country's culture during the broadcasts and cultural programmes.\n\n\"Let's be honest, it's Liverpool - every bar, every restaurant, ever corner of the city will be celebrating Ukraine and celebrating Eurovision. It's not a city that does things quietly, is it?\"\n\nMs McColgan said that \"with everything horrendous that's going on in this world, to bring that moment of togetherness in this city with our Ukrainian partners, I can't think of anywhere I'd rather be than here\".\n\nLiverpool's statues will be decorated with traditional Ukrainian headdresses and local schools will link up with counterparts in the war-torn country, which was invaded by Russia in February.\n\nLiverpool M&S Bank Arena will host the final on 13 May 2023\n\nKalush Orchestra, who will perform at the Liverpool event, said they were \"sad\" Ukraine would not host the contest, but that \"playing in the same place that The Beatles started out will be a moment we'll never forget\".\n\nThey added: \"We know that the people of Liverpool will be warm hosts and the organisers will be able to add a real Ukrainian flavour to Eurovision 2023.\"\n\nTaras Khomych, a priest in the city's Ukrainian community, said: \"Under the circumstances, local Ukrainians found [the announcement] very comforting.\"\n\nHe said Eurovision could enable Ukrainian customs to become \"more integrated\" in the life of Liverpool and \"develop our cultural clubs and choirs\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDemand has soared for the city's accommodation during the events, which will be held in the week running up to the final on 13 May 2023, with the cheapest rooms available on the Booking.com website advertised for at least £600.\n\nIt is expected the wider north-west region will also see a boost, with previous contenders Manchester - about an hour's commute - accommodating visitors.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEuropean champions England beat world champions the United States for the first time since 2017 in front of more than 76,000 fans at Wembley Stadium.\n\nIt promised to be a blockbuster fixture and did not disappoint with VAR drama, goals and a penalty featuring in the showpiece friendly.\n\nManchester City winger Lauren Hemp, filling in as a central striker for the injured Alessia Russo, put the Lionesses ahead after just 10 minutes.\n\nThe USA responded when Sophia Smith fired in an equaliser, but England were awarded a penalty for a high boot on Lucy Bronze after referee Riem Hussein went to check the VAR monitor.\n• None England honour former Lionesses in 50th anniversary celebrations at Wembley\n\nGeorgia Stanway stepped up to make it 2-1, before the USA had a goal ruled out for a marginal offside minutes later.\n\nChances continued to fall for both sides after the break - the visitors having the best of them - in an open, frantic encounter.\n\nThere was further frustration for the USA after they were awarded a penalty for handball in the 81st minute, but referee Hussein once again checked the VAR monitor and overturned her decision.\n\nEngland held on to record a huge victory against their long-standing rivals in their first meeting at the national stadium, and extend their impressive unbeaten run to 23 matches under manager Sarina Wiegman.\n\nSpeaking to ITV Sport after the game, Wiegman said: \"That was really intense, just what we wanted. USA played as we expected, they gave us hard times sometimes. I thought we played well in moments, better first half than second.\"\n\nThis was just the third time England have beaten the USA in 11 meetings - and the first victory since the SheBelieves Cup in March 2017. The teams met in the 2019 Women's World Cup semi-finals when the USA won 2-1.\n\nIt also comes 10 months before the 2023 Women's World Cup which England are bidding to win for the first time, while the USA are hoping to defend their crown for a third successive tournament.\n\nBefore kick-off, England showed solidarity with the USA after an inquiry uncovered \"systemic\" abuse and misconduct in the National Women's Soccer League earlier this week.\n\nPlayers wore teal armbands, Wembley's arch was lit in teal and both squads gathered in the middle before kick-off, arm-in-arm in front of a banner saying 'Protect The Players'.\n\nUSA manager Vlatko Andonovski said after the game: \"Obviously it was an extremely difficult week for everybody. It wasn't easy for them to see and experience everything they went through.\n\n\"I applaud their bravery and their fearlessness and relentlessness. They showed once again nothing will stop them playing the game they love. I hope we never have to go through that again.\n\n\"It was a very special moment when the players got together and had the banner in front of them. It gave me goosebumps when the crowd applauded them. It was a statement, and once again the players did an incredible job to use this game and this event as a platform to fight against it.\"\n\nThis was one of the Lionesses' biggest tests so far under Wiegman, and though both teams were missing key players, it was a dress rehearsal for what could come at the World Cup next summer in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nIt was pleasing therefore that the fine margins went England's way in this fixture, when they have suffered so much heartbreak in the past.\n\nBeth Mead's curling cross was not dealt with by defender Alana Cook and Hemp was able to poke in from close range for England's opener.\n\nThe 22-year-old was playing in a less familiar number nine position because of Russo's absence and thrived, causing havoc all match and creating numerous chances.\n\nWiegman said of Hemp's performance: \"She was enjoying herself and giving them a lot of problems. It helps that she scored a goal!\"\n\nMead and Chloe Kelly on the opposite wing were also hugely dangerous in an impressive England attack, but Wiegman's side were also given good fortune.\n\nUSA substitute Hailie Mace was shown a yellow card when her high boot caught Bronze in the face, leading to the penalty which Stanway put away to restore England's narrow lead before half-time.\n\nAnd VAR twice came to England's aid when Trinity Rodman's finish was ruled out after Smith was inches offside in the fluent build-up.\n\nIt was another warning sign for England, who were cut open on numerous occasions at the back with Rodman, Megan Rapinoe and Smith all having big chances.\n\nAsked whether she was happy with her team's defensive display, Wiegman said: \"Sometimes we were very open and we know the USA are very quick, but we wanted to play a game with the high press. We will review and see if we can do better, but this is how we want to play.\"\n\nEngland could have extended their lead too - Stanway fired wide and Bronze struck the side-netting - but the USA thought they had been handed a lifeline when referee Hussein blew for handball with less than 10 minutes remaining.\n\nReplays showed the ball deflected off the back of Rachel Daly and the decision was overturned, before England held on to pick up a significant victory over the World Cup holders in front of 76,893 supporters at Wembley.\n• None Attempt missed. Sophia Smith (USA) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Attempt missed. Ella Toone (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Lucy Bronze.\n• None Lucy Bronze (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Georgia Stanway (England) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ella Toone.\n• None Offside, England. Lucy Bronze tries a through ball, but Lauren Hemp is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The coins, found underneath concrete and 18th Century floorboards in 2019, have attracted worldwide attention\n\nA treasure trove of more than 260 gold coins discovered by a couple beneath their kitchen floor during renovations has sold for £754,000 at auction.\n\nThe collection, found under a home in Ellerby, East Yorkshire in 2019, was spotted inside a pot hidden underneath concrete and 18th Century floorboards.\n\nThe coins, dating from 1610-1727, belonged to the Fernley-Maisters, a Hull family involved in Baltic trading.\n\nThe coins, whose provisional estimate of between £200,000-£250,000 was tripled after the story gained global attention, were eventually sold to dozens of buyers in individual lots by Spink & Son auctioneers in Bloomsbury, London.\n\nThe auction house, which said the collection represented approximately £100,000 in today's money, called it \"one of the largest hoards of 18th Century English gold coins ever found in Britain\".\n\nInterest had come from private collectors from around the world, including in America, Europe, Australia, China and Japan, it said.\n\nRenovation work uncovered the treasure in the kitchen of a couple's home in Ellerby, East Yorkshire\n\nAuctioneer Gregory Edmund called the treasure trove \"120 years of English history hidden in a pot the same size as a soda can\".\n\nThe identity of the couple who found the hoard remains undisclosed.\n\nMr Edmund said: \"Picture the scene: you're choosing to re-lay your uneven kitchen floor, you put a pick-axe through the concrete and just beneath you see a tiny sliver of gold.\n\n\"At the time, you think it must just be a bit of electrical cable, but you find it's a gold round disc and beneath it there are hundreds more.\"\n\nThe London auction, featuring phone and online bidders, reached a \"hammer price\" of £628,000 for all the lots, with the final purchase price including fees calculated at £754,000.\n\nThe discovery, found in a mug a similar size to a fizzy drink can, featured 264 gold coins in total\n\nAn imperfectly minted coin from 1720 fetched the highest individual price at £62,400, Spink & Son said.\n\nAuctioneer Mr Edmund described the bidding as \"electrifying\" during the sale of the most sought-after coins, with dozens of successful bidders.\n\n\"I will never see an auction like this again,\" he added.\n\nSpink & Son said Joseph Fernley and Sarah Maister married in 1694 and lived in Ellerby, with Joseph dying in 1725, aged 76.\n\nSarah died aged 80 in 1745, with the \"family line dying out soon after\", the firm added.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Couple find £250,000 worth of coins under their feet!\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola says Erling Haaland is helping to bring the best out of Kevin de Bruyne after seeing the pair help his side sweep Southampton aside to move top of the Premier League.\n\nHaaland scored his 20th goal for City against Saints, while De Bruyne's pass to set up Phil Foden means his stats are just as stellar, with nine assists in his first nine league games.\n\nDe Bruyne has already bettered the tally of eight league assists he made last season, and is well on his way towards breaking the record of 20 in a single campaign that he shares with Thierry Henry.\n\n\"Of course for a player like Kevin, and especially Kevin, having this threat, this guy [Haaland] who likes to run in behind with this pace, it helps him a lot,\" Guardiola said.\n\n\"Kevin again created three or four chances [against Southampton], but he can play better. Today was not the best Kevin that we know, because he can put his mate in front of the keeper most of the time - but having players like Erling, Julian [Alvarez] or Phil, making movements in behind, it is so important to him.\"\n• None Haaland called 'ridiculous' and 'sublime' as he sets more scoring records\n• None Go straight to all the best Manchester City content\n\nTwenty goals is usually the benchmark of a successful season for any striker, but Haaland has taken only 13 games to reach that mark in all competitions, with struggling Saints the latest side to find out how hard it is to keep him or his team-mates quiet.\n\nCity attacked relentlessly from the start and Haaland was within inches of giving them an early lead when - to the surprise of virtually the entire stadium - he hit the inside of the post after galloping clear.\n\nInstead it was Joao Cancelo who put the home side ahead, running on to Phil Foden's pass and cutting past James Ward-Prowse before finding the bottom corner of the net.\n\nFoden, who like Haaland scored a hat-trick here against Manchester United last weekend, got on the scoresheet himself soon afterwards with a dinked finish after De Bruyne found him in space in the box.\n\nThat put City in complete control at the break and they wrapped up the points at the start of the second half when Riyad Mahrez volleyed home a Rodri cross.\n\nThe only thing missing for the home fans was another Haaland goal and, after three successive home league hat-tricks, for once it appeared it might not be his day.\n\nHaaland was unable to get on the end of De Bruyne's cross under pressure from Mohammed Salisu, and then brilliantly denied by Gavin Bazunu who dived at his feet as he charged through on goal.\n\nAs the chances kept coming however, you just knew Haaland would take one - and so he did, meeting Cancelo's cutback with a typically precise low finish to make it 4-0 after 65 minutes.\n\nSouthampton, who managed only one touch in the City area and a total of two shots - both from distance, and both off target - drew home and away against Guardiola's side last season. This time, they never looked like avoiding a fourth consecutive defeat.\n\nCity keep scoring, and keep on winning\n\nCity were last in top spot on 20 August and might not stay there for long - Arsenal will return to the summit if they beat Liverpool on Sunday.\n\nRegardless of their current position in the table, though, it is clear the defending champions are in the sort of form which will worry all their title rivals.\n\nCity are the last unbeaten side in England's top four divisions, but it is the way they are dispatching opponents that is ominous.\n\nCity's stroll against Saints means they have now scored 33 goals in nine league games, 13 more than Arsenal who have the next best tally.\n\nHaving Haaland obviously helps - he now has 15 Premier League goals for the season, matching the tally of De Bruyne when he finished as top scorer in the competition in 2021-22 - but his team-mates keep scoring too.\n\nSaints put up a fight for their manager\n\nSouthampton's performance was far more important to their manager's cause than the end result.\n\nReports this week suggested Ralph Hasenhuttl is on the brink of the sack after four years at St Mary's, but his side did not play like one that has given up on him.\n\nTrue, damage limitation was always their main aim, but that has not saved others from worse drubbings at Etihad Stadium this season.\n\nHasenhuttl must have feared the worst when City came flying out of the blocks but his side defended well, and continued to do so even when the game was long lost.\n• None Attempt blocked. Cole Palmer (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Julián Álvarez.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Rico Lewis tries a through ball, but Cole Palmer is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Elyounoussi (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse.\n• None Attempt missed. Romain Perraud (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Romain Perraud (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Romain Perraud (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Gómez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Attempt missed. Rúben Dias (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jack Grealish with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Jack Grealish (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Erling Haaland. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Zelensky warns Russians are being prepared for nuclear warfare\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russian officials have begun to \"prepare their society\" for the possible use of nuclear weapons, but added he does not believe Russia is ready to use them.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, President Zelensky denied having urged strikes on Russia, claiming that an earlier remark had been mistranslated.\n\n\"You must use preventive kicks,\" he said, referring to sanctions, \"not attacks\".\n\nIn recent weeks, the Ukrainian army has recaptured large swathes of territory in a successful counter-offensive that has forced Russian troops to abandon long-held positions. In what Kyiv describes as Moscow's response to its defeats, President Vladimir Putin has incorporated four partially occupied regions of Ukraine.\n\nThe annexations, widely dismissed as illegal, have raised fears of a possible escalation in the seven-month war. President Putin and other senior Russian officials have suggested that nuclear weapons - possibly smaller, tactical weapons - could be used to defend those areas, although Western officials say there has been no evidence Moscow is prepared to do so.\n\nSpeaking in English at the president's office in Kyiv, President Zelensky said: \"They begin to prepare their society. That's very dangerous.\n\n\"They are not ready to do it, to use it. But they begin to communicate. They don't know whether they'll use or not use it. I think it's dangerous to even speak about it.\"\n\nThen, in Ukrainian, he said through a translator: \"What we see is that Russia's people in power like life and thus I think the risk of using nuclear weapons is not that definite as some experts say, because they understand that there is no turning back after using it, not only the history of their country, but themselves as personalities.\"\n\nHowever, he denied having called for strikes on Russia during an online event on Thursday, saying the Ukrainian word he had used had been misunderstood.\n\nThe initial comment was denounced by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as \"an appeal to start yet another world war\", while Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said it demonstrated why Russia was right to launch its operation in Ukraine.\n\n\"After that translation,\" President Zelensky said, \"they [the Russians] did their way, how it's useful for them, and began to retranslate it in other directions.\"\n\nThe interview happened hours after US President Joe Biden said that the Russian threat to use nuclear weapons had brought the world closer to \"Armageddon\" than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis during the Cold War.\n\nPresident Zelensky said action was needed now, as Russia's threats were a \"risk for the whole planet\". Moscow, he claimed, had \"made a step already\" by occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest nuclear station which President Putin is trying to turn into Russian property.\n\nAround 500 Russian troops were at the plant, he said, although the Ukrainian staff still operate it.\n\n\"The world can stop urgently the actions of Russian occupiers,\" President Zelensky said. \"The world can implement the sanction package in such cases and do everything to make them leave the nuclear power plant.\"\n\nEmpowered by sophisticated Western-supplied weapons, the Ukrainian army has made significant advances in the east and the south, reclaiming towns and villages even in areas the Kremlin claims are now part of Russia.\n\nPresident Zelensky said Russian forces were putting up a \"good enough fight\", but that Ukraine had received weapons - \"I won't say we have enough now\" - and soldiers were motivated to push forward.\n\nThe Russian military's setbacks, a major embarrassment for President Putin, have sparked unusual criticism of the country's military.\n\nAmid the losses, President Putin announced the mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of reservists, which led to rare anti-war protests in Russia and to a huge exodus of military-age men.\n\nPresident Zelensky urged Russians to \"fight for your body, rights and soul\", saying: \"Those mobilised kids now, they come with nothing. Without guns or armour. They are being thrown here like cannon fodder... If they want to be kebabs - fine, let them come. But if they are people after all and think that this is their lives, they have to fight.\n\n\"Everything Putin is afraid of, and it's not the nuclear hit, he is afraid of his community,\" he said. He's afraid of his people. Because only those people are capable of replacing him nowadays. Take away his power. Give it to someone else.\"\n\nAsked whether President Putin could survive in an eventual Ukrainian win in the war, he said: \"I don't care.\"", "The damage to the Kerch bridge - which links Russia to Crimea - poses a strategic setback for Moscow’s troops, according to Dr Samuel Ramani, author of ‘Putin’s war on Ukraine’.\n\n“They have more than 20,000 forces that are stuck in Kherson right now. They've lost access to bridges, they’re relying on pontoon ferries, and they desperately need ammunition, food and supplies from Crimea,” he says.\n\nRussia is strategically in a more dire situation than it was at the start of the week, he adds.\n\nThe loss of Kharkiv was a major morale and logistical setback for Russia, and the loss of Lyman cut off another logistical route, which “has dealt them a serious blow”.\n\nHe says: \"Whenever Russia’s tried to disperse their forces they’ve always failed, but Ukraine has been able to sustain offensives on Luhansk, Donetsk and Kherson at the same time. They might now be opening a new one on Zaporizhzhia.”\n\nRamani adds that this is a “big concern” for Russia as Ukraine may have more territory than it had in February by the time 20,000 of its troops arrive on the frontlines.\n\nRussia's forces may not have adequate supply lines to feed and equip themselves, he says.", "DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has issued a warning to the prime minister over his party's future at Stormont\n\nIn his first conference speech as leader, he said if his party's demands on the Northern Ireland Protocol are not met \"there will be no basis to re-enter Stormont\".\n\nMembers met in Belfast on Saturday for its first annual conference since 2019.\n\nLast year, saw DUP infighting that led to Arlene Foster and Edwin Poots being ousted as leader within months.\n\nSir Jeffrey, who is the MP for Lagan Valley, became leader in June 2021.\n\nIn setting out his demands, he said: \"Either the prime minister delivers the provisions of the Protocol Bill by legislation or by negotiation and ensures that our place in the United Kingdom is restored.\n\n\"On this issue, it is not words but actions we need to see and we will judge any outcome on the basis of actions not words.\"\n\nSir Jeffrey said his party welcomed the resumption of negotiations between the UK and EU and wished both parties \"well\".\n\nThe DUP leader also reaffirmed his party's long-term commitment to power sharing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says until the protocol is dealt with, there is \"no basis\" to re-enter Stormont\n\n\"For the benefit of those watching in London and Brussels,\" he said.\n\n\"If decisive action is taken on the protocol that restores our place fully within the United Kingdom, this party will take its place once again in a fully-functioning executive.\"\n\nOn the prospect of an early Assembly election, Sir Jeffrey said: \"We are ready and we will take our case to the people as the lead party of unionism.\n\n\"We will campaign as never before to secure a further fresh mandate from the people.\"\n\nNI Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has pledged to call an assembly election if an executive is not formed by 28 October\n\nHe also warned delegates about the pressure his party will face over its refusal to re-enter Stormont.\n\n\"In the coming weeks we may be tested as never before,\" he said\n\n\"Let us not be found wanting but rather rise to the challenges ahead so that when future generations look back on this period, they will be able to say of us that our legacy was not based on short-term fixes but on the long-term solutions we secured for all the people in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe DUP leader also called for greater unionist unity in the aftermath of the last assembly election.\n\nHe blamed \"splintered unionism\" for seats lost to other parties.\n\n\"The outcome of May's election must act as a wake-up call to unionists across Northern Ireland.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is vital that lessons are learned in its aftermath and before we return to the polls.\n\n\"As unionists, we must be honest with one another; it wasn't nationalists or others who caused the loss of several pro-union seats at the election.\n\n\"That was the direct result of a splintered unionism where seats were lost in Strangford, North Antrim and East Antrim.\"\n\nSir Jeffrey has faced criticism from other political parties for blocking the formation of a new Northern Ireland Executive and assembly at Stormont.\n\nThe party withdrew Paul Givan as first minister in February in protest over the Northern Ireland Protocol, which triggered the collapse of power sharing.\n\nThe DUP wants checks between Great Britain and Northern Ireland to be significantly reduced and has insisted Northern Ireland's place within the UK internal market must be \"fully restored\".\n\nThe UK government has been attempting to renegotiate the agreement with the EU, which set out post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland.\n\nTalks between both sides resumed this week, with British and Irish ministers suggesting progress could be made to reach a new deal.\n\nHowever, on Thursday Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney warned that a deal was unlikely before 28 October - that is the current deadline for restoring power sharing at Stormont.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Secretary, Chris Heaton-Harris, has repeatedly pledged to call an election if a new Stormont Executive is not in place by then.\n\nYou can watch Sir Jeffrey Donaldson's speech at the DUP conference on the BBC News NI website from midday and on the BBC iPlayer.", "Haji Choudhary Rab Nawaz was found injured and died a short time after, police said\n\nThree men have been charged with murder after a stabbing outside a Coventry mosque.\n\nHaji Choudhary Rab Nawaz was found injured following reports of a fight outside the Jamiah Masjid & Institute just after 21:00 BST on 2 October.\n\nThe 52-year-old died in hospital a short time later, police said.\n\nAdam Razaaq, 20, Hasnian Razaaq, 23 and Mohammed Faisal, 29, are due to appear at the city's magistrates court on Saturday.\n\nBoth Mr Razaaq and Mr Razaaq are from Halesowen, while Mr Faisal is from Handsworth in Birmingham.\n\nThey have also been charged with attempted murder after another man was found with a stab wound, West Midlands Police said.\n\nPolice were called to the scene, at the junction of Dunbar Avenue and Queen Mary's Road, last weekend\n\nThree other men arrested in connection with the incident have been bailed while police inquiries into Mr Nawaz's death continue.\n\nOfficers were called to the area, at the junction of Dunbar Avenue and Queen Mary's Road, to reports of a fight involving a large group of men, some armed with knives.\n\nIn a statement, the family of Mr Nawaz thanked emergency services for their \"tireless effort to trying to save our father\".\n\nPolice are seeking more people to come forward with information regarding the attack. There is a dedicated web page for people to upload information.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Angela McKearney, of Walls, Shetland, whose son took this picture, said: \"There is an old building called Parkhall in Bixter. It's been derelict for a while and has a lot of history attached to it. Overnight someone has drawn Halloween characters on the windows.\"", "Kevin Fortey (left) has held seven Guinness World Records for his giant vegetables\n\nFrom giving gardening tips to global superstars and royalty to advising on film sets - the life of a giant vegetable grower sounds glitzier than one might expect.\n\nKevin Fortey, or Mr Giant Veg as he is known to some, has just claimed his seventh Guinness World Record - this time for a potato plant measuring 210cm (6ft 10).\n\nHe has some famous fans, with rapper Snoop Dogg, Martha Stewart's gardener Ryan McCallister and Alanis Morrissette's rapper husband Souleye all contacting him for advice on growing supersized vegetables.\n\nKevin, 44, from Cwmbran, Torfaen, has also shared growing tips with King Charles at Highgrove.\n\nKevin Fortey (left) met up with Snoop Dogg (middle) in Cardiff\n\nThe meeting with King Charles came about while filming for the BBC's Great British Village Show.\n\nHe met Snoop Dogg after he got in touch asking for tips on growing giant fruits and flowers.\n\n\"That was a surreal experience really, going to meet Snoop Dogg and his bodyguards who were two ex American footballers and must have been about 7ft tall,\" said Kevin.\n\nKevin Fortey has just won his seventh Guinness World Record - this time for a potato plant measuring 210cm (6ft 10)\n\nHe is also in touch with the hip hop artist and rapper Souleye, who is married to Alanis Morissette.\n\n\"I'm always up for challenging him,\" said Kevin.\n\n\"He sends me over some of the things he's doing with his children, and it's really inspirational.\"\n\nAmerican businesswoman Martha Stewart's head gardener Ryan McCallister has also been in touch for advice growing giant cabbages.\n\nKevin and his brother have been gardening since they were tiny\n\nKevin's giant vegetables have been used as props in films including Pudsey the Dog and Sky crime comedy Agatha Raisin.\n\nHe was recently a giant vegetable consultant on Swede Caroline, a British mockumentary set in the world of competitive giant vegetable growing, starring Jo Hartley and Aisling Bea.\n\nKevin said growing gigantic vegetables was a family tradition and he had many happy memories of being in the garden with his brother and their father.\n\nKevin's dad Mike (second from right) with his family at a pumpkin championship in the 1980s\n\n\"From when I could put my own wellies on my dad took us down to the allotments - he basically encouraged myself and my brother to have a grow, allow us to compete against him and he basically give us the the competitive genes from a very young age,\" he said.\n\nHis father Mike started the UK Giant Vegetable Championships from the Mill Tavern pub in Cwmbran, Torfaen, in the 1980s.\n\nMike died from a heart attack in 1996 and Kevin believes he would be proud the family tradition has continued, with his son, nieces and nephews getting involved.\n\n\"My dad is watching down upon us so probably has a smile on his face,\" he said.\n\nKevin Fortey with one of his giant marrows\n\nDuring the Covid-19 pandemic he tried to encourage local community to grow vegetables in a bid to save money and support their mental health .\n\nA woman got in touch offering him hundreds of packets of seeds so he and neighbours distributed them to people in the area.\n\n\"It gave them something to wake up to in the morning, seeing their vegetables grow,\" he said.\n\nBut how do you grow giant vegetables?\n\n\"Growing giant veg is pretty much the same as growing ordinary veg,\" said Kevin.\n\n\"It's about having the right seeds, having a bit of luck, the right weather, learning from other people, time, commitment and learning from your mistakes.\"\n\nHe said he avoids using chemicals and uses horticultural soap to get rid of pests.\n\nHe believes growing is for everyone.\n\n\"I think everyone should be going some form of vegetable, even if they have a balcony,\" he said.", "Mainline stations such as London's Paddington were almost empty on Saturday\n\nOnly about one-in-five train services across Britain ran on Saturday as rail workers took part in their latest walkout, the 11th day affected in 2022.\n\nMore than 40,000 Rail, Maritime and Transport union members at 15 train operating companies and Network Rail have been on strike.\n\nThe action is part of an ongoing row over jobs, pay and conditions.\n\nServices started later and finished earlier with people urged to avoid travelling unless absolutely necessary.\n\nMembers of the TSSA union, who staff station ticket offices and work in on-board operational roles, have been on strike, affecting Avanti West Coast, c2c and Transpennine Express services.\n\nAbout half of the rail network was closed all day and trains operated only until 18.30 BST, with services on Sunday also expected to start later than normal as workers return to duties.\n\nIt was the third strike affecting rail services this month and the 11th since the first one in June this year.\n\nNo further national strikes are scheduled but RMT general secretary Mick Lynch has said the union will reballot members to see if they are in favour of taking further action.\n\nIn a letter to Transport Secretary Anne Marie Trevelyan, Mr Lynch said he was hopeful that a deal can be reached between the union and the rail companies.\n\nBut he said \"for this to be achieved, your government must unshackle the train operators who currently take their mandate directly from yourself\".\n\nA normally busy King's Cross station in London saw only a few passengers on Saturday\n\nA spokesperson from the Department of Transport responded by urging union bosses to \"work with their employers, not against them\" in agreeing a way forward.\n\n\"Our railway is in desperate need of modernisation but all strikes will do is punish the very people unions claim to stand up for and push passengers further away,\" they said.\n\nMr Lynch has also hit back at Prime Minister Liz Truss's recent suggestion that unions form part of an \"anti-growth coalition\" holding back the economy.\n\nSpeaking from the picket lines outside London's Euston station on Saturday, he said: \"We're not against the economy, we're not against the country, we want the country to succeed.\n\n\"And we want our people to succeed within that country - it's in our interests.\"\n\nManuel Cortes, general secretary of the TSSA union, described the workers' demands as \"reasonable\", saying his members deserved a pay rise after several years of wage freezes.\n\n\"We urge employers and government to bring forward talks to find a resolution to the concerns that rail workers have over pay, conditions and job security,\" Mr Cortes said.\n\nPassengers were urged to check latest travel updates during the day\n\nNetwork Rail's chief negotiator Tim Shoveller said: \"Despite our best efforts to compromise and find a breakthrough in talks, rail unions remain intent on continuing and co-ordinating their strike action.\n\n\"This means railway staff forgo even more of their pay unnecessarily, passengers' lives are disrupted once again and the railway's recovery from the pandemic is further damaged.\"\n\nSeparately, there will be further strikes on Monday in Scotland after the RMT rejected a 5% ScotRail pay offer which it described as a \"kick in the teeth\".\n\nScotRail warned of \"significant disruption\" to services, saying it would run \"very limited\" services on just three lines on the day.", "Jamie Acourt was never convicted of any offence relating to Stephen Lawrence's death\n\nA man suspected of murdering Stephen Lawrence in a racist attack will be released from jail despite not repaying any money he made from a drugs plot.\n\nJamie Acourt, 45, has served half of a nine-year sentence, after spending more than two years on the run in Spain.\n\nHe was one of five men arrested over the 1993 murder of 18-year-old Mr Lawrence in Eltham, south-east London.\n\nAcourt was last January ordered to pay £90,000 he made in the drugs deal or have a year added to his sentence.\n\nOn Friday, police asked a judge at City of London Magistrates' Court to impose the extra penalty but Acourt told her he had been offered a job with a construction firm and would be supported by his partner.\n\nDistrict Judge Neeta Minhas agreed Acourt should be released from prison as scheduled on 3 November but ordered him to start paying back £500 each month or face the reactivation of his jail sentence.\n\nStephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in south-east London in 1993\n\nShe said: \"I can see before me you have a job offer supported by an email from the managing director of that company.\n\n\"You will be earning a decent salary. It is not minimum wage. You have a partner who has confirmed she will contribute towards the amount which is outstanding, which is a significant amount.\n\n\"I am going to give you the opportunity to come out into the community and pay that. If you do not pay, the consequences are you will be serving that term.\"\n\nAcourt and his brother Neil were jailed for a drugs plot involving cannabis resin with a street value of more than £7m. Both were previously arrested in connection with Mr Lawrence's murder but neither was convicted.\n\nTwo other men, Gary Dobson and David Norris, received life sentences in 2012 for murdering the teenager.\n\nJudge Minhas said Jamie Acourt had until 1 January to make the first payment towards meeting the £90,000 he owes.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mayor Eric Adams said that since September, an average of five to six buses have arrived per day in New York\n\nNew York City Mayor Eric Adams has declared a state of emergency to address a \"crisis situation\" over an influx of migrants.\n\nMore than 17,000 have arrived in the city from the southern border since April.\n\nRepublican states like Texas, Arizona and Florida have been sending migrants to Democratic areas in recent months.\n\nIt's part of a row with the White House as unprecedented numbers of people arrive at the US-Mexico border.\n\nSince September, an average of five to six buses have been arriving in the city each day, Mr Adams said at a press conference on Friday. He said that one in five people in the city shelter system is currently an asylum seeker.\n\nMany of those arriving are families with school-aged children and are in serious need of medical care, he said.\n\nThe influx is on track to cost New York $1bn (£900m) this fiscal year, and the mayor is calling for federal and state funding to help with the costs.\n\n\"New Yorkers are angry,\" said Mayor Adams. \"I am angry too. We have not asked for this. There was never any agreement to take on the job of supporting thousands of asylum seekers.\"\n\nHe added: \"The city is going to run out of funding for other priorities. New York City is doing all we can, but we are reaching the outer limit of our ability to help.\"\n\nThe city's social services are \"being exploited by others for political gain\", he added.\n\nThree states - Texas, Arizona and Florida - have transported migrants to Democratic-led areas, focusing on self-proclaimed \"sanctuary\" cities that limit their co-operation with federal immigration authorities.\n\nRepublican officials in border states say the tactic is aimed at mitigating the impact of migration flows.\n\nThey have also said the measure is designed to increase pressure on the administration of President Joe Biden to do more to reduce the number of migrants crossing the southern US border, which has hit a record high this year.\n\nThe Democratic-run city of El Paso, Texas, has been offering migrants free rides to New York City and Chicago as a means of alleviating the strain on city resources. El Paso alone has transported more than double the number of migrants - nearly 9,000 - to the two northern cities than have been sent by the Texas governor.\n\nEl Paso officials say the rides are voluntary, and that they co-ordinate with the destination cities to help the migrants upon arrival.\n\nAs part of his emergency declaration, the New York mayor issued an executive order that allows the city to dedicate resources to support the asylum seekers and expedite any response efforts.\n\nA spokeswoman for Texas Governor Greg Abbott dismissed the declaration by the mayor on Friday.\n\n\"The true emergency is on our nation's southern border where small Texas border towns are overrun and overwhelmed by hundreds of migrants every single day as the Biden administration dumps them in their communities,\" said Renae Eze.\n\nMs Eze said that, as of October, Texas had sent around 3,100 migrants arriving in the state to New York on more than 60 buses.", "Allies of Conor Burns claim he was on heavy medication for a rib injury at the time of the incident\n\nConor Burns was sacked as a Conservative minister and suspended as a Tory MP after eyewitnesses saw him touching a young man's thigh at a hotel bar, the BBC has been told.\n\nAn eyewitness said they saw him in the early hours of Tuesday in the Hyatt Regency hotel bar in Birmingham with the man during the party's conference.\n\nThe BBC has not spoken to, or heard the account, of the individual the ex-minister was seen with.\n\nDowning Street has not commented further on the circumstances surrounding the sacking.\n\nThe eyewitness claimed that the minister had his hand on the young man's thigh, and that there were several onlookers.\n\nThey added that Mr Burns was told at the time by an onlooker to stop what he was doing, although this is disputed by friends of the Bournemouth West MP.\n\nA second source, with knowledge of the disciplinary process, corroborated this account and confirmed this incident was what led to him being sacked as well as losing his whip.\n\nThe BBC understands that a third party — not the man seen with Mr Burns — raised this incident with party whips, who look after discipline among MPs, and that this complaint led to the suspension of his whip and his sacking as international trade minister.\n\nSomebody with knowledge of the disciplinary process told the BBC that concerns were also raised about \"inappropriate comments\" made by Mr Burns on that night.\n\nAllies of the MP claim he had injured his ribs the weekend before the party conference and was on heavy medication to manage the pain.\n\nThey suggested the prescribed medicine made the effect of the alcohol worse.\n\nIt is not disputed by the former minister's friends that he had been drinking or that he flirted with the young man who had joined him, who, we understand, was not known to Mr Burns.\n\nThe MP was sufficiently drunk that he had to later be taken back to his hotel by a friend.\n\nWe understand that Mr Burns is strongly of the view that the flirting was consensual, but the BBC has not yet spoken to the man the former minister was with to hear his account of events.\n\nAn ally of the sacked minister told the BBC: \"He feels imprisoned without any of the process of the police or a trial.\"\n\nThe ally added that his career had been ruined, as even if he were to be exonerated and the whip was restored, he would have lost his ministerial role.\n\nThe prime minister has not spoken to Mr Burns since his sacking.\n\nAnother suggested what had happened suggested a \"morality police\" could now act in judgement on the behaviour of others, irrespective of what those involved made of it.\n\nOne source suggested that after a \"diabolical conference\" and an \"atrocious start\" to Liz Truss's time as prime minister, she was determined to use this incident as an example of her demonstrating her authority over her party and government.\n\nThe source suggested that given former prime minister Boris Johnson had \"vacillated\" over the case of Christopher Pincher, Ms Truss was determined to be seen as decisive, irrespective of due process.\n\nA Conservative Party source said: \"The prime minister has been clear that the highest standards in public life must be maintained.\"", "Vyacheslav Nikonov is on a UK government travel ban and asset freeze list for his support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine\n\nAn ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin has been stripped of his honorary degree by the University of Edinburgh.\n\nRussian MP Vyacheslav Nikonov was given the award in 2012 for his role in a Russian state-backed cultural foundation which has a base at the university.\n\nBut a university review has now ruled the degree should be withdrawn.\n\nMr Nikonov is on both US and UK government sanction lists as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nA member of the Russian State Duma and Putin's United Russia party, Mr Nikonov also hosts a current affairs show.\n\nThe politician's honorary degree came after the Russkiy Mir Foundation contributed £241,949 to fund the Princess Dashkova Russian Centre at the University of Edinburgh.\n\nIn a statement on its website, the University of Edinburgh said: \"In line with others in the sector, we have been reviewing our relationships with Russia.\n\n\"We have formally confirmed withdrawal of the honorary degree awarded to the head of the Ruskiy Mir Foundation, Vyacheslav Nikonov.\n\n\"We do not have any institutional partnerships with Russian universities or organisations, so our current links are limited to individual academic projects and exchange programmes.\"\n\nThe university also said it had instructed its investment managers to divest its Russian investment holdings \"at the earliest opportunity\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The road section of the only crossing from occupied Crimea has collapsed after an explosion.\n\nWidely shared images show a train on the Kerch rail bridge ablaze, with the adjacent road bridge appearing to have sustained damage.\n\nThe bridge, built on the orders of Vladimir Putin, is a key link to move military equipment into Ukraine. Moscow had illegally annexed the region four years earlier.", "Destroyed vehicles remain in the city of Lyman after Russian troops were forced out\n\nUkraine says two mass burial sites have been found in the recently-recaptured eastern town of Lyman, after Russia retreated.\n\nThe Ukrainian governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said one burial site had about 200 individual graves containing civilian bodies.\n\nIt was unclear how many bodies the second site held, but it may contain both soldiers and civilians, he said.\n\nThe time and cause of death for the deceased is yet to be determined.\n\nThe BBC was not able to independently verify the claims.\n\nMr Kyrylenko, writing on Telegram, said officials had begun investigating both burial sites. He also asked people not to speculate on the details until the investigation was completed.\n\nRussia withdrew its troops from the strategic town of Lyman, in a significant setback for its campaign in eastern Ukraine.\n\nLyman is in Donetsk - one of four partially-occupied Ukrainian regions which Moscow declared it was annexing. Ukraine and its Western allies have dismissed the move as an illegal land-grab.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously accused Russia of deliberately killing civilians in other locations in Ukraine.\n\nMr Zelensky said that mass graves were found this spring in Bucha, near the capital Kyiv, and also near Mariupol - the key south-eastern Ukrainian port now occupied by Russia since its invasion of Ukraine in February.\n\nInvestigators and journalists found what appeared to be evidence of the deliberate killing of civilians in Bucha and other nearby areas.\n\nUkrainian forces said they found mass graves and evidence that civilians had been killed after their feet and hands were bound.\n\nHundreds of graves were also found outside the eastern city of Izyum days after Russian troops retreated, according to Ukrainian authorities. It is unclear what happened to the victims, but early accounts suggest some may have died from shelling and a lack of access to healthcare.", "\"Let us not be found wanting but rather rise to the challenges ahead so that when future generations look back on this period, they will be able to say of us that our legacy was not based on short-term fixes but on the long-term solutions we secured for all the people in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"For when we do that, this party will succeed, but more importantly Northern Ireland will succeed and the Union will endure,\" he concluded.", "SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford told delegates that Scotland should not be \"shackled to the Westminster shambles\"\n\nIan Blackford has described Tory economic plans as a \"nightmare\".\n\nThe SNP Westminster leader said Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng had made \"the worst first impression in the history of British politics\".\n\nAnd he said the \"inequality and incompetence of (the) Budget will go down as one of the worst financial interventions in modern history.\"\n\nHe told his party's conference that Scotland should not be \"shackled to the Westminster shambles\".\n\nDuring his speech in Aberdeen, he said: \"What was once 'fairytale economics' - used to bribe votes from Tory members in the summer - has become everyone else's nightmare this autumn and winter.\"\n\nHe laid down a challenge to Conservative MPs.\n\n\"Here's a test for the new Conservative rebels who are magically multiplying by the day.\n\n\"If they have any sense of morality - if they have any backbone - they will join with us in stopping any real-terms cuts to benefits and any return to austerity.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is now broke, broken Britain. Your homes, your pensions, your incomes are not safe under Westminster control.\n\n\"It is a cost, a risk, a price that Scotland can't afford to pay any longer.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon watched over proceedings in Aberdeen\n\nThe three-day conference is the first in-person gathering of the party since before the Covid pandemic.\n\nEarlier, deputy leader Keith Brown took aim at the UK government, saying that Liz Truss was a \"symptom of the dysfunction at Westminster\".\n\nHe said of Liz Truss: \"She has delivered more chaos and confusion than even the most pessimistic prediction.\"\n\nWatched by SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, he went on: \"In less than a month, she has tanked the economy; risked the pensions of millions; scrapped the cap on bankers' bonuses; announced and then U-turned on income tax cuts for the wealthy; created a debt crisis; and showed the world she is singularly unfit for the job.\n\n\"The chaos she has created is no surprise.\n\n\"She has been a Tory government minister for a decade, serving under Cameron, May and Johnson. From austerity to Brexit, she's been complicit in inflicting the worst Tory policies on the people of this country.\n\n\"It is a sobering thought that when the history of 2022 is written, it will record that Boris Johnson was not even the worst prime minister this year.\"\n\nMr Brown added: \"What is clear is that Liz Truss is a symptom of the dysfunction at Westminster - not the cause.\n\n\"The very fact that she and her policy agenda was deemed acceptable to enter Downing Street in the first place speaks volumes.\"\n\nThe deputy leader made a call for members to be united and to campaign for independence with kindness.\n\nHe said the way the SNP conducts the campaign is an advert for the Scotland that he wants to see.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keith Brown MSP said Liz Truss is a \"symptom of the dysfunction at Westminster\"\n\nMr Brown also said the Westminster system was beyond repair, claiming Labour were the handmaidens of more Tory rule.\n\nHe condemned Labour, describing leader Sir Keir Starmer as \"just another Tony Blair\" and accusing the party of being \"as Trumpian as the Tories in their denial of Scottish democracy\".\n\nHe told delegates: \"It is an incontrovertible fact that the SNP has a cast-iron mandate to hold an independence referendum.\n\n\"But Labour always side with the Tories to protect Westminster control - no matter how high a price the people of Scotland pay. Labour supports the deeply damaging Brexit that Scotland did not vote for.\n\n\"I repeat, Labour supports Brexit, and stands against any Scottish aspiration for our country to re-join the European family of nations.\n\n\"And never forget, never forgive, that in 2014 it was Labour who championed the No campaign message that only a No vote would deliver economic stability.\"\n\nLiz Truss and her UK government are fairly obvious targets for the SNP right now; for seasoned politicians it's like shooting fish in a barrel.\n\nBut it's striking that both of the main speakers on day one have also gone in hard on Labour.\n\nThe SNP and Tories have sought to contest Scottish politics as a binary affair for years now, as the parties of independence and the union, as it suits both of them to shut Labour out as a third wheel.\n\nBut with Ms Truss's party floundering and Labour looking to build momentum as a viable alternative, there is a real prospect of that duopoly being upset.\n\nSo the SNP is starting to look for ways of attacking Labour too - primarily by tying them to Brexit.\n\nMr Brown announced plans for the party to enter into the \"broadcasting arena\".\n\n\"We will soon launch a new broadcast platform, with the first episode of this new show covering the debate over Scotland's future,\" he told the conference.\n\nThe show appeared to be a podcast named Scotland's Voices, with a one-minute clip including people from Glasgow reacting to the Prime Minister posted on podcast streaming platforms.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will deliver her keynote speech on Monday.", "The seven are accused of sending offensive messages over WhatsApp\n\nA criminal investigation has been launched into the conduct of six serving police officers, and one former officer, linked to messages shared in a WhatsApp group.\n\nThe police watchdog is investigating a series of \"grossly offensive\" WhatsApp messages, said to be \"discriminatory, derogatory or pornographic\" in nature.\n\nFive of the officers work for the Civil and Nuclear Constabulary.\n\nThe ex-officer also used to work for the unit, which polices nuclear sites.\n\nThe other person involved has since moved to another force in south-west England.\n\nAll seven are being investigated over \"grossly offensive messages\" under the Communications Act said the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which is responsible for carrying out the inquiry.\n\nThe officers have also been told they are under investigation for potential gross misconduct, although it does not mean criminal charges or misconduct proceedings will follow.\n\nIOPC regional director Catherine Bates said: \"The allegations against these officers and a former officer are extremely serious and concerning.\n\n\"On conclusion of our investigation we will decide whether the matters should be referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, whose role it is to determine whether criminal charges will follow.\"\n\nThe status of each officer will remain under review throughout the investigation, the IOPC said.\n\nThe probe was launched after information came to light in a separate police investigation.\n\nBut the case is not linked to any ongoing or former investigations into police WhatsApp messages.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has announced plans for a new anti-corruption unit to crack down on officers who carry out abusive behaviour.\n\nSpeaking to Newsnight on Thursday, Sir Mark promised cultural reform, saying he would \"root out\" corrupt officers and staff from the organisation through a new anti-corruption and abuse command.\n\nThe 100-strong team will investigate police who are \"predatory, who abuse their position of trust - for their personal, financial or sexual advantage - whether on duty, off duty, in person or online\", he said.", "Seven-year-old Oscar has been taking part in the pilot project\n\nTwo Norfolk hospitals have teamed up with a technology company to trial a phone app that aims to reduce asthma attacks in children and young people.\n\nThe Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and the James Paget University Hospital are providing patients with an inhaler tracker that connects to the app which then monitors their lungs.\n\nThe app then alerts patients when they need to take action to stop an attack.\n\nDr Bikalpa Neupane said the trial had \"huge potential\" to prevent admissions.\n\nDr Bikalpa Neupane said he hoped the project would enable families to \"self-manage\" asthma better\n\nThe consultant paediatrician at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital said the app provided \"powerful data which allows us to intervene when needed\".\n\nThe data is sent to clinicians who can review it remotely and act when necessary.\n\nThe two hospitals have worked with Cambridgeshire-based company Aseptika, as well as a consultancy firm and the Eastern Academic Health Science Network on the project.\n\nThe trial has been opened to children and young people who have been taken to hospital after an asthma attack in the last 12 months.\n\nThe inhaler tracker can show patients how well their lungs are working\n\nSeven-year-old Oscar, from Gressenhall, has been taking part in the pilot project. The app sends a notification when he needs to use his inhaler.\n\nMother, Jodie, said in the past he could need hospital treatment for asthma up to four times a year.\n\n\"On a bad day when he needs admitting he can barely walk or talk,\" she said.\n\n\"It's usually bad over the winter months and he can be in hospital for several days, which means he misses school.\n\n\"Because the information is going straight to the hospital, they'll be able to pick up on things sooner which will result in less hospital stays and he will have more time in school.\"\n\nDr John Chapman, consultant paediatrician at the James Paget University Hospital, said: \"This is a very exciting project which has the potential to change the way that we look after children with asthma.\n\n\"Remote monitoring will allow us to identify which of our patients are doing well and which ones need more of our attention.\n\n\"This should reduce asthma attacks and visits to our outpatient clinics, allowing these children to get on with their lives.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Whittaker will take on some of her deadliest enemies - including The Master, Daleks and Cybermen\n\nDoctor Who star Jodie Whittaker is set to make her final appearance as the Time Lord.\n\nShe has led the show since 2017, and will end her time on the sci-fi series with a feature-length centenary special on 23 October.\n\nIn an episode titled The Power Of The Doctor, Whittaker will take on some of her deadliest enemies - including The Master, Daleks and Cybermen.\n\nThe actress announced she would be leaving the show in July of last year.\n\nThe episode will mark the first time all three of the Doctor's main enemies have featured in a single storyline since 1983.\n\nFans will see her try to work out who is attacking a bullet train in a distant galaxy and why 21st century seismologists are going missing from Earth.\n\nA trailer released earlier this year revealed two companions from previous eras will be making an appearance.\n\nJanet Fielding will reprise her role as Tegan Jovanka - companion to the fourth and fifth Doctors,\n\nSophie Aldred - who starred as Ace, companion to the seventh Time Lord - will also be making a comeback.\n\nThe centenary special, to mark 100 years of the BBC, will also star Mandip Gill, Sacha Dhawan and comedian John Bishop.\n\nSex Education actor Ncuti Gatwa will take over from Whittaker to become the sci-fi series' 14th Doctor.\n\nHe will follow Sylvester McCoy, David Tennant and Peter Capaldi to become the fourth Scot to take up the role.\n\nThe 29-year-old, who was born in Rwanda, will also become the first person of colour to lead the series.\n\nSpeaking in May this year, Gatwa told the BBC: \"It feels really amazing. It's a true honour. This role is an institution and it's so iconic.\"\n\nA series of special episodes to mark Doctor Who's 60th anniversary will take place next year.\n\nDavid Tennant, the tenth Time Lord, will return to that show alongside Catherine Tate.", "All poultry in Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Essex must be kept indoors from Wednesday, as part of a ramping-up of measures to prevent avian flu spreading, the government has said.\n\nThe affected areas were placed in an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone last month, after a series of outbreaks.\n\nThere have been 161 cases in captive birds detected in the past year - the UK's largest ever outbreak.\n\nIn Staffordshire, birds are due to be culled after the disease was found.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the (HPAI) H5N1 strain of avian influenza was found in captive birds at a property on Friday and a monitoring and controlled zone has been set up around the premises.\n\nThe previous record of cases in captive birds was 26 cases detected in 2020/21.\n\nAll birdkeepers in affected areas will be legally required to keep their flocks indoors and follow stringent biosecurity measures to help protect them from the disease, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.\n\nThe measures apply regardless of type or size of the flock of captive birds.\n\nAround 48m birds have been culled in the UK and the EU this year, amid the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza.\n\nThe government has said the 3.2m birds culled in the UK were a \"small proportion\" of total production - about 20m birds a week.\n\nMore than 1,700 cases have also been recorded in the UK's wild bird population, in 406 locations involving 59 species.\n\nIn previous years, the virus has mostly died out during the summer months but this outbreak has persisted all year round, and spread more easily.\n\nThe mandatory housing measures for all poultry and captive birds will be introduced after a decision by the UK's chief veterinary officer Christine Middlemiss.\n\nShe is encouraging all birdkeepers in the affected regions to prepare over the next few days, including taking steps to protect animal welfare, consult their vet and expand housing where necessary.\n\nMs Middlemiss said there was a growing number of bird flu cases on \"commercial farms and in backyard birds\" in the three affected counties, adding that she expects the \"risk to continue to rise over the coming months as migratory birds return to the UK\".\n\n\"We are now taking further action to help protect flocks from this highly infectious and devastating disease.\"\n\nThe eastern part of the prevention zone covers all of Norfolk and Suffolk and nine of the more easterly districts in Essex\n\nThe prevention that was declared by the Defra on 28 September also covered Devon, Cornwall and parts of Somerset - but these areas have not yet been told to keep birds indoors.\n\nInstead, all poultry gatherings - such as fairs or markets are banned - and bird keepers are told to cleanse and disinfect clothing and equipment before and after contact with birds.\n\nThe latest bird flu figures covering both Europe and the UK, which track outbreaks from October 2021 to 9 September, were published on Monday. They showed that there have been 3,573 findings in wild birds, with the virus affecting 37 countries, spreading from Svalbard to south Portugal and eastward to Ukraine. But it warned that figure could be an underestimate.\n\nWhile there have been no recorded cases of human transmission in the EU, there was one case in south-west England in January.", "JK Rowling and Nicola Sturgeon have differing views on proposed gender recognition legislation\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she wants people with strong views to \"treat each other with respect\", after author JK Rowling criticised her on social media.\n\nIt was in protest against the Scottish government's proposed gender recognition legislation.\n\nThe first minister said Ms Rowling was entitled to express her views, but defended the legislation.\n\nThe author tweeted the picture in support of a rally outside the Scottish parliament, held while a committee of MSPs backed the general principles of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.\n\nThe proposed new law would make it easier for people to be legally recognised as their preferred gender and broaden the official definition of what it means to be transgender.\n\nAnyone aged 16 or over who has lived in their \"acquired gender\" for at least three months would be eligible to apply and a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria would no longer be required, removing the need for doctors' reports.\n\nCritics including Ms Rowling believe the new law would harm the most vulnerable women and undermine the safety of women-only spaces.\n\nMs Sturgeon told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"People are entitled to express their views in whatever way they think is fit.\n\n\"I have always thought that on this issue, where people have very strong views, we should all try to treat each other with respect and that is what I will continue to do.\"\n\nThe Bill is currently going through the committee process and the legislation will be examined by parliament after the October recess.\n\nThe first minister added: \"This bill is about reforming an existing process that is degrading and traumatic for trans people, seeking to make it less traumatic for those who want to legally change their gender.\n\n\"It doesn't give any additional rights to trans people nor does it take any rights away from women.\n\nShe added: \"It is men who attack women and we need to focus on that, not on further stigmatising and discriminating against a tiny group in our society that is already one of the most stigmatised.\n\n\"I say this as a passionate life-long feminist, and I have spent much of my life campaigning for women's rights.\n\n\"We don't have to look very far to see the real threats to women's rights right now. They come from men who sexually and violently attack women, who try to abuse women in a misogynistic way.\n\n\"They come from law makers in parts of the world trying to take away our reproductive rights and access to abortion.\n\n\"They come from places in oppressive regimes in places like like Iran where we are seeing women rise up admirably right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"These are the threats to women's rights, and feminists should focus on them, not on trans women who are not the threat to women's rights.\"\n\nThe first minister said that any man who sought to abuse the law on gender recognition for nefarious purposes would be committing a criminal offence under the proposed bill.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nFavourites England opened their World Cup with a dominant second-half showing to claim a record 14-try win against debutants Fiji.\n\nFiji played a high-tempo game and only trailed by 10 points at half-time.\n\nBut the Red Roses' professionalism shone as they scored 10 tries after the break and wing Claudia MacDonald took her individual tally to four.\n\nEngland have never scored more tries or points in a World Cup match and extend their record winning run to 26 Tests.\n\nEngland's previous highest World Cup score was 82 against Kazakhstan in 2010 and they scored 13 tries against Sweden and Canada in 1998.\n\nAuckland's Eden Park was sold out for the opening day, with an attendance of 34,235 surpassing the record for a women's World Cup match of 20,000 set in 2014.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, France - England's closest rivals for the title along with New Zealand - beat South Africa 40-5 at the same venue, meaning the Red Roses are top of Pool C.\n\nThe three main contenders and Wales are the only sides at the tournament with enough investment from their union to be classed as fully professional.\n• None 'We'll take that' - England deliver statement win\n\nFiji brought the same amount of intensity to the first half of their World Cup debut as they did emotion to the national anthem.\n\nNumber eight Karalaini Naisewa made an immediate break to set England on edge but the professional and clinical Red Roses soon stifled Fiji's creativity with their ever-reliable set-piece.\n\nA maul left space for MacDonald to score the opening try, before Fiji's fast game began to test England again.\n\nThe two main talking points before the opening day had been that it is the biggest women's World Cup ever and that England are favourites to win.\n\nDropped balls from fly-half Zoe Harrison and flanker Sadia Kabeya - starting ahead of the injured Marlie Packer - hinted at nerves from the highly-touted team but again their maul came good as Amy Cokayne scored the second try.\n\nEngland may not be able to rely so strongly on that tactic against stronger opponents like France and New Zealand and retired World Cup winner Katy Daley-Mclean questioned during the week whether the Red Roses have a plan B.\n\nPlan A was all that was needed against Fiji. Women's rugby is still in its infancy there, with the first club only formed 10 years ago, and the side's most-capped players have made just eight appearances.\n\nAbbie Ward drove over for a try and Fiji captain Sereima Leweniqila was shown a yellow card in the aftermath.\n\nDespite being a player down, Fiji finally delivered on their attacking promise as full-back Roela Radiniyavuni broke through a maze of red shirts inside her own half and fed wing Alowesi Nakoci for the team's first World Cup try.\n\nThen Kabeya made amends for her earlier error with an impressive break of her own, with Helena Rowland running onto a low pass to score.\n\nFiji continued to show individual brilliance as Sesenieli Donu faked a pass and sliced through four England defenders for a second try before the break.\n• None 'They rattled us' - reaction to England's win\n• None Why England are favourites to win World Cup\n\nIn the second half, England looked more like the side which has averaged nine tries per game in 2022.\n\nTop of the world rankings since November 2020, the Red Roses have dominated the world game since their last loss in July 2019.\n\nThat defeat came against five-time world champions New Zealand, but England's opening win demonstrates why they are such heavy favourites to take a third title.\n\nCokayne drove over for a second try three minutes after the half began and another three minutes later Zoe Aldcroft scored.\n\nA loose ball led to a try for Lydia Thompson and the wing then finished off a well-worked team score before MacDonald claimed a second.\n\nIf you had to pick a winner among the 14 tries, the 10th would be up there. Abby Dow, who completed her unlikely return from a broken leg in six months to get to New Zealand, scored to the delight of her team-mates and coaches.\n\nEngland will always find room for improvement and kicking may be one such area, with centre Emily Scarratt missing five of 10 conversion attempts.\n\nBut it is hard to find much fault in a team that scored a try every four minutes in the second half, with Leanne Infante and Connie Powell also adding their names to the scoresheet before the 80 minutes were up.\n• None How will you get on in our World Cup quiz?", "The school district in Uvalde, Texas, has suspended its entire police force following protests by parents of children killed in a shooting there.\n\nThe suspension will be indefinite, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD) said in a statement.\n\nRecent developments \"have uncovered additional concerns with department operations\", it added.\n\nNineteen children and two teachers died in the attack at Robb Elementary School on 24 May.\n\nPolice have been accused of botching the response to the fatal shooting.\n\nA July investigation into the shooting by the Texas legislature found \"systemic failures and egregiously poor decision-making\" by those involved in the response.\n\nThe UCISD is responsible for supervising the security of schools in the Uvalde area, including Robb Elementary.\n\nThe school district's police force consisted of five officers and one security guard, according to its website.\n\nTheir officers were among the first of nearly 400 police to respond to the attack by a rifle-wielding 19-year-old gunman, who was eventually shot and killed by a border patrol agent.\n\nState troopers have been asked to help provide security for the school district, the UCISD statement said.\n\nThere are still two ongoing investigations into the police response to the school shooting.\n\nIt recently emerged that a police officer newly hired by the Uvalde school district is being looked into for her conduct on the day of the shooting, while she was working as a state trooper. Officer Crimson Elizondo was fired from the force on Thursday.\n\nAlso on Friday, the acting district police chief was placed on administrative leave while the director of student services of the Uvalde school district announced his decision to retire.\n\nParent of the shooting's victims have been camped outside school offices for days. They praised the district's decision to suspend the entire police force.\n\n\"They don't know how to hire people, they don't know how to vet officers,\" mother Kimberly Rubio, told ABC News, adding that the move to suspend the entire force is \"what we've been asking for - it's more than we've been asking for\".\n\nThe former head of the police department for the school district, Pete Arredondo, was fired in August. He was one of the first officers on the scene that day, and received much of the blame for the botched response.\n\nThe Texas Department of Public Safety has said that Mr Arredondo wrongly told officers under his command to treat the situation as if they were dealing with a barricaded gunman rather than an active shooter, which would have prompted a more urgent enforcement reaction.", "Snow expert Iain Cameron and the last remnants of the snow patch before it melted back in 2017\n\nScotland is completely snow-free again after a well-known patch melted for the fourth time in six years.\n\nThe Sphinx, in the Cairngorms, is historically the longest-lasting patch of snow in the UK.\n\nSnow expert Iain Cameron reported via social media on Friday that the famous patch had disappeared in the previous 24 hours.\n\nIt had only melted nine times in the past 300 years. Mr Cameron said climate change was a likely factor.\n\nThe Sphinx, on remote Braeriach, a 1,296m (4,252ft) Munro, has melted away more frequently in the last 18 years.\n\nAccording to records, it previously melted fully in 1933, 1959, 1996, 2003, 2006, 2017, 2018, 2021 and now 2022.\n\nBefore 1933, it is thought to have last melted completely in the 1700s.\n\nA picture taken on Friday shows the Sphinx snow patch is gone\n\nMr Cameron tweeted: \"So there we have it. It is confirmed that Scotland is snow-free yet again.\n\n\"The last patch, the Sphinx, disappeared sometime in the last 24 hours. \"\n\nHe added: \"I'm not a climatologist (nor even an academic), but it's a pretty obvious direction of travel.\n\n\"The future for semi-permanent snows in Scotland looks bleak.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Iain Cameron This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJust six days ago he had made the climb to check on the patch and described it as \"hanging on for dear life.\"\n\nMr Cameron, based in Stirling, has been studying snow patches in Scotland for 25 years and is author of the book The Vanishing Ice, which he describes as a \"lament\" to snow and ice that lingers high in Scotland's hills.\n\nHe worked alongside the late Dr Adam Watson, a biologist dubbed Mr Cairngorms because of his many years studying the mountains.\n\nSome of Dr Watson's research on the Sphinx drew on information handed down by generations of people who worked and visited the Cairngorms.\n\nGarbh Choire Mor is usually described as Scotland's snowiest corrie but it is now snow-free\n\nThe Scottish Mountaineering Club began noting the fortunes of the patch in the 1840s and more recently scientists and ecologists have gathered information.\n\nSeparately from Mr Cameron's research, a report commissioned by Cairngorms National Park Authority and published in July 2020 said declining snow cover, and fewer days when it snowed had been observed on Cairngorm mountain since the winter of 1983-84.\n\nResearchers also noted a trend for increasingly warmer weather since the 1960s, and suggested that by the 2080s there would be some years with very little or no snow at all on Cairngorm.\n\nThe Sphinx lies in Garbh Choire Mor, a hollow known as a corrie formed by ice or a glacier during the last ice age.\n\nGarbh Choire Mor is described as Scotland's snowiest corrie because of the amount of snow it can hold even through summer months.\n\nThe Sphinx is the name of a climbing route near the snow patch.", "For the past month Ukrainian forces have pushed Russia's military back and recaptured large chunks of occupied territory\n\n\"The truth is on our side and truth is strength!\" Vladimir Putin boomed into a microphone on Red Square last week, after a grand ceremony at which he proclaimed four large chunks of Ukrainian territory to be part of Russia.\n\nBut in the real world, things look very different.\n\nEven as Russia's president signed his illegal annexation treaties in the Kremlin, Ukrainian forces were advancing inside the areas he had just seized.\n\nHundreds of thousands of men have been fleeing Russia rather than be drafted to fight in an expanding war.\n\nAnd things are going so badly on the battlefield that Mr Putin and his loyalists are now reframing what they once claimed was the \"de-Nazification\" of Ukraine and the protection of Russian speakers as an existential fight against the entire \"collective\" West.\n\nThat is the truth and none of it is on Russia's side.\n\n\"He's in a blind zone. It seems he's not really seeing what's happening,\" the editor of Riddle Russia, Anton Barbashin, argues of Russia's president.\n\nLike many, the political analyst believes that Mr Putin was caught completely off-guard by strong Western support for Kyiv, as well as Ukraine's own fierce resistance to occupation.\n\nAs he turns 70 today, after more than 20 years in power, it seems Russia's leader has become a victim of his own system. His autocratic style is impeding his access to sound intelligence.\n\n\"You can't question his ideas,\" explains Tatyana Stanovaya, the head of R.Politik analysis firm.\n\n\"Everyone who works with Mr Putin knows his picture of the world and of Ukraine, they know his expectations. They can't deliver him information that contradicts his vision. That's just how it works.\"\n\nThe president's latest address, delivered beneath the gilded Kremlin chandeliers, re-stated his vision of a new world order.\n\nThe ongoing collapse of Western hegemony is irreversible: things will never be the same. The battlefield to which destiny and history have called us is a battlefield for our people\n\nIt involves a mighty Russia, a cowed Western world that has been forced to learn respect and Kyiv subjugated once again to Moscow.\n\nTo attain that, Ukraine is Mr Putin's chosen battlefield.\n\nEven as his ambitions appear most illusory, he looks in no mood to scale back.\n\n\"A lot of major calculations the Kremlin was working with did not pan out and it doesn't seem like Putin has a Plan B, other than keeping on pushing people to the front line and hoping that sheer numbers will prevent Ukraine from advancing further,\" Anton Barbashin believes.\n\n\"Pushing people to the front\" is a significant shift in itself.\n\nVladimir Putin continues to call his invasion a \"special military operation\" - styling it as limited in scope and short-lived.\n\nMany Russians were able to accept that - even support it - while it didn't affect them directly. But the mobilisation of military reservists has turned something distant and abstract into a very close and personal risk.\n\nRegional politicians are falling over themselves in a Soviet-style race to overfulfill their quotas, calling up as many men as possible.\n\n\"This is a shaping moment. For the majority of Russians, the war just started a couple of weeks ago,\" Anton Barbashin says.\n\n\"In the first months, the people dying were mostly from the peripheries and smaller centres. But mobilisation will eventually change that, as the coffins will come back to Moscow and St Petersburg.\"\n\nThe call-up has spawned reams of social media chatter by wives and mothers of the new recruits - those who did not rush for the borders when the mobilisation was announced.\n\nSome of their posts - and videos by the men themselves - reveal grim conditions: poor food, old weapons and a lack of basic medical supplies. The women discuss sending sanitary towels to pad the men's boots and tampons to pack their wounds.\n\nThe Kursk regional governor has described conditions in several military units as \"simply awful\", even down to a shortage of uniforms.\n\nI am perplexed how the current defence ministry training unit can be in such a state: Ruined dining room; broken and rusty showers; a lack of beds and any beds they have are broken\n\nSuch revelations blow holes in one of Vladimir Putin's proudest claims: that he has rebuilt the Russian military into a professional fighting force in which patriotic citizens will want to serve.\n\nBut for now, most recruits' wives seem focused on rallying behind their troops.\n\n\"We're at the stage where a significant part of Russian society still believes that 'Russia is a great power combating Nato in Ukraine' and sending tampons, socks and toothbrushes to the mobilised is a sign of patriotism,\" Anton Barbashin tweeted this week.\n\nBut the mobilisation mess, and Russia's military embarrassment, are pushing more prominent figures to speak out.\n\nWhen liberals condemned the Ukraine invasion, they were arrested and many are still behind bars.\n\nEven calling it a war is illegal.\n\nIn pro-Kremlin circles, that word is now commonplace, though, as is fierce criticism of Russia's military command.\n\nMP Andrei Kartapolov was the latest this week to urge the defence ministry to \"stop lying\" about Russian difficulties, because \"our people are far from stupid\".\n\nAs many Russians have fled over the border with Kazakhstan as have been drafted into the army in the past two weeks\n\nMargarita Simonyan, editor of RT television channel, cited Stalin's practice of executing \"cowards\" and \"incompetent\" generals.\n\nBut there is no public questioning of the invasion itself, let alone of Vladimir Putin.\n\nMargarita Simonyan refers to him as \"The Boss\" and becomes glassy-eyed talking of the annexation of Ukrainian territory as a historic achievement.\n\n\"There is no anti-war political movement,\" Tatyana Stanovaya points out, especially in a politically repressive climate.\n\n\"Even those against the mobilisation are opting to escape. Some try to leave the country, others are hiding. But we don't see attempts to create any political resistance.\"\n\nThis could change, she says, if Russia continues to lose and suck in ever more troops.\n\n\"Putin has to deliver some victories.\"\n\nEven the president hinted at problems this week, describing the situation in the annexed regions as \"restive\".\n\nBut there is a giant push to blame Russia's setbacks on the \"collective\" West which is backing Ukraine.\n\nState media hosts are now describing the land-grab in Ukraine as something far grander, apparently buoying the nation up for a bigger fight.\n\n\"It's our war with total Satanism\", no less, Vladimir Solovyov told viewers this week.\n\n\"This is not about Ukraine. The West's aim is clear. Regime change and dismembering Russia, so that Russia no longer exists,\" he bellowed.\n\nThat is the \"truth\" that Vladimir Putin believes in and it is why this moment of objective weakness for Russia is also a moment of risk.\n\n\"This war is existential for Russia and so for Putin, victory has to be possible,\" Tatyana Stanovaya argues.\n\nAnd \"he has nuclear weapons\", she says bluntly.\n\n\"I think he hopes that at some level of nuclear escalation, the West will step away from Ukraine.\"\n\nShe's not the only one to note Mr Putin's more radical, near-messianic tone.\n\n\"It feels like this is what he actually believes: that this is the last stand of the Russian Empire, an all-out war with the West,\" says Anton Barbashin.\n\n\"That we're at the finish line, whether Russia makes it or not.\"\n\nOf course, that's also the \"truth\" that Vladimir Putin now needs the West to believe, more than ever.", "The government is set to cap the price of electricity from older renewable and nuclear facilities as early as this week, the BBC understands.\n\nThe plans could hit the profits of energy companies including SSE, Scottish Power, RWE and EDF Energy.\n\nFirms are concerned that further price limits could upset the UK's reputation for a stable regulatory environment and deter future investment.\n\nEnergy bosses will discuss their concerns with the government on Monday.\n\nCurrently, the price of electricity generated in older facilities is linked to the cost of gas. This is different at newer facilities, who produce power at an agreed price.\n\nIn years gone by, electricity produced by gas had been the cheapest - but this is no longer the case.\n\nIn fact, those nuclear and renewable producers are making very significant excess profits because the price of gas has rocketed, but their costs of production have not.\n\nThese profits have prompted calls for a windfall tax on them.\n\nThis was looked at by the Treasury under former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, but was ultimately rejected as it was very complex and energy producers argued it sent a perverse message about investment in renewables.\n\nAlso, the problem with a windfall tax is that while it addresses the profit, the price doesn't come down.\n\nIf you cap the price - then profits, prices and therefore inflation comes down. The latter is a key attraction to the government, which has £500bn of debt.\n\nThe electricity producers are lobbying hard against this and warn that an intervention like this has several risks.\n\nFirstly, it will reduce the incentive for energy retailers to buy in advance - creating a less predictable, more volatile market.\n\nSecondly, they have already sold most of what they expect to produce this year and next.\n\nAny government haste to tinker with contracts already signed could cause market disruptions at a time when the volatile economic weather can magnify market dislocations into major crises, energy firms said.\n\nSome energy bosses said they would actually prefer a windfall tax - with one mentioning he would be happy to pay tax at 25% rather than the current 19% and pointed out that the oil and gas companies are able to reduce their tax burden by 91% for every pound they invested.\n\nOne said that it \"would be perverse to impose higher effective taxes on renewables than on oil and gas companies.\"\n\nThe electricity producers are trying to protect their profits but the government is equally determined to find a way to lower bills and inflation.\n\nIf it does cause market chaos and deters future investment, the industry will say the government has been warned.", "Belfast City Council said their officers are working with Destination CQ to help identify vacant buildings which could be used as temporary spaces for businesses.\n\nA businessman says he is losing £10,000 each day his shop has not been allowed to open due to a fire at a building in the Cathedral Quarter on Monday.\n\nSome streets around the scene of the blaze remain sealed off while efforts continue to make the building safe.\n\nA number of shops and offices are closed and traffic is still not allowed through Donegal Street and Academy street.\n\nStaff are working remotely pending the outcome of structural tests on the damaged building which in close proximity to the office.\n\nA spokesperson told BBC News NI there had been no damage to the office or any of its contents, but telephone lines have been out of operation since the fire.\n\nDonagh McGoveran said he is losing £10,000 in sales daily\n\nDonagh McGoveran, who owns a shop beside the building, said there was nothing wrong with his shop but it is inside the cordon and had not been allowed to reopen.\n\nMr McGoveran said it has been \"devastating\" and \"hugely frustrating\" that he could not access his business.\n\n\"The new university has only opened the first week of term last week, we have been waiting a long time for the campus to open and it finally did and then we come in the Monday morning and see the devastation here,\" he continued.\n\n\"We are losing the guts of £10,000 a day in sales here, I have also got my staff who are concerned about their jobs, we have a lot of food in the store there that is very short-dated and we need to get access to that.\"\n\nLong-term, he said businesses in the area do not want it to become \"another Primark\".\n\nThis is a reference to the Bank Buildings fire in 2018 which caused a number of nearby shops to close until the cordon was reduced.\n\nMs Laird said their services have not been affected and they continue to operate as normal\n\nOlwen Laird, the chief executive at the Police Ombudsman's office, said although their office building has been closed since the fire they were continuing to operate as normal with staff working remotely.\n\n\"It is disruption but it is limited and we hope that people should not see a material impact on the progression of any complaints that they make to us,\" she said.\n\nMs Laird said although they were yet to get confirmation from the landlord, she said there seemed to be no damage to any of the contents in the building.\n\n\"Physical files are all intact and systems have been unaffected,\" she said.\n\nBelfast City Council said its officers had been actively involved at the site of the fire in the Cathedral Quarter.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Our building control team has attended the site of the fire to assess the building under the dangerous structures legislation.\n\n\"We are working with the owner and their representatives to have the building made safe as quickly as possible.\n\n\"Council officers are working with Destination CQ to help identify any vacant buildings within the city centre which could be used as temporary spaces for the businesses affected by the fire,\" they continued.\n\n\"We are also exploring how we can support the businesses and artists with practical help around insurance and legal issues.\"\n\nMany artists and other workers in the creative industry lost their work and their workspaces in the fire.\n\nCrews from the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service spent around eleven hours at the scene on Monday after the fire was discovered shortly after 05:30 BST.", "This has not been an easy party conference for the government.\n\nSome in Birmingham think it's been a disaster.\n\nFirst, a colossal U-turn on the 45p tax rate, then being forced to bring forward the next step of the chancellor's economic growth plan under pressure from Tory MPs.\n\nNow, there's another mutiny brewing over benefits - and how much they should go up by.\n\nBoris Johnson's government promised that working-age benefits would go up in line with inflation.\n\nHis successor as PM, Liz Truss, has pledged that pensions will continue to be linked to inflation but has pointedly not made the same commitment when it comes to welfare payments like universal credit.\n\nIt means a rise in working-age benefits could be linked to wages instead.\n\nThe government has said no final decision will be made for a few weeks yet. But rebellion hangs in the air here in Birmingham and it's likely to follow the prime minister back to Westminster.\n\nA growing number of Conservative MPs are making it clear where they stand - and remarkably, that goes all the way up to the cabinet.\n\n\"We are not about trying to help people with one hand and take away with another,\" she told Times Radio.\n\nRemember, cabinet ministers are supposed to toe the government line. This is not an example of biting your tongue.\n\nThen there's the former Tory leader - and one of the main architects of the universal credit system - Iain Duncan Smith, who has urged benefits to rise in line with prices.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"Do the right thing for those who are poorest.\n\n\"The money you give into this area to deal with the worst off will go straight back into the economy, so that will help growth, ironically, at a time when we need growth rather than recession.\"\n\nThere is a debate going on in government over the best way to proceed.\n\nOne argument being made in Downing Street is that it is unfair to urge workers to accept below inflation wage rises, then to give inflation-matched increases in benefits.\n\nHence the suggestion the rises in benefits could be limited to the average salary increase.\n\nOne minister who sits around the cabinet table also argues the government needs to be prepared to have \"a conversation\" with the public about the benefits system.\n\nThey argue the drive for growth requires people to be in work, earning more money.\n\nBut there is significant concern in the Conservative Party about the idea of real-terms benefits cuts during a cost-of-living crisis.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Chloe Smith is among those to have argued the government needs to protect the most vulnerable in society.\n\nShe told the conference: \"We do understand that these are very anxious times for people, we know that people are struggling with some of the costs that are rising. That's why protecting the most vulnerable is a vital priority for me and to this government.\"\n\nIt'll be her job to conduct review of benefit levels. It's common for people in the job to back higher rather than lower benefits. Her allies haven't contested suggestions she wants to secure an inflation-level increase.\n\n\"I suspect we'll end up with something close to inflation because of parliamentary pressure,\" says one minister I spoke to on Tuesday morning.\n\nSo where does this all end up? Is the move now inevitable? Some think so, like the former cabinet minister Damian Green who says the prime minister would lose any vote in Parliament on below-inflation benefits.", "Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share in April\n\nBillionaire Elon Musk has apparently changed his mind about buying Twitter, again, and is now willing to proceed with his takeover of the social media platform.\n\nIn a letter to the firm, Mr Musk agreed to pay the price he offered months ago before trying to quit the deal.\n\nThe surprise reversal comes just weeks before the two sides were due in court.\n\nTwitter, which had sued Mr Musk to force the takeover to move forward, was seen as having the stronger case.\n\nIn the letter, attorneys for Mr Musk said he intended to move ahead to complete the transaction, pending receipt of the financing and an end of the legal fight.\n\nA spokesperson for Twitter acknowledged the firm had received the proposal, adding \"the intention of the company is to close the transaction at $54.20 per share\" - the price that Mr Musk promised in April.\n\nThe apparent win for Twitter sent its shares soaring more than 20% to more than $52 apiece. But the value remained lower than the takeover price, in a sign of lingering investor doubts the deal will go through.\n\nLater on Tuesday, Mr Musk wrote in a tweet: \"Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app\".\n\nWhen Mr Musk first revealed plans to buy Twitter in a $44bn deal, he said he wanted to clean up spam accounts on the platform and preserve it as a venue for free speech.\n\nBut the billionaire, a prolific Twitter user known for his impulsive style, balked at the purchase just a few weeks later, citing concerns that the number of fake accounts on the platform was higher than Twitter claimed.\n\nTwitter executives denied the accusations, arguing that Mr Musk - the world's richest person with a net worth of more than $220bn - wanted out because he was worried about the price.\n\nThe back-and-forth followed a sharp downturn in the value of technology stocks, including Tesla, the electric car company that Mr Musk leads and is the base of much of his fortune.\n\nThe fight, which was scheduled to go to trial 17 October, saw the two sides face off in lengthy court filings, private messages and bitter public spats on Twitter, where Mr Musk has more than 100 million followers.\n\nIn one such exchange, Mr Musk responded to Twitter boss Parag Agrawal with an emoji for faecal matter.\n\nPreparation for the trial had ensnarled many of the biggest names in tech, as lawyers for the two companies demanded communications about the deal.\n\nMr Musk, who could have paid a $1bn break-up fee to walk away, was set to be interviewed ahead of the trial this week.\n\nSome industry watchers, who were taken by surprise by the development, questioned whether the latest twist was a concrete offer or a delay tactic.\n\nIt's hard to keep track with this deal. On, off, now - it appears - on again.\n\nHowever there's a lot to read into Twitter's brief statement.\n\nThe \"intention\" to go through with the deal suggests a nervousness that this is a delaying tactic from Musk's team.\n\nThe statement effectively can be read as - 'We are going to pursue this sale, whatever Elon Musk says or does'.\n\nThe way Twitter also, so pointedly, says it will sell the company at $54.20 suggests they are still worried about Musk lowballing.\n\nSo far Musk has been a highly erratic negotiating partner - hot and cold. Keen one minute, looking for the exit the other.\n\nYou can see why Twitter is playing it cautiously.\n\nAt Twitter, which has been thrown into turmoil since Mr Musk first turned his attention to the firm, staff told the BBC that their bosses were initially silent on the matter, even as the report spread widely.\n\nInvestors have long been sceptical that the takeover would go forward, especially since Mr Musk was seen as offering a heady price for a firm struggling to attract users and grow.\n\nTwitter shares had been trading below $43 apiece at the start of the day.\n\nNews that Mr Musk had proposed to honour the original agreement sent shares in the company soaring almost 13% before trading was halted.\n\nWedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives said Mr Musk's chance of winning in court was \"highly unlikely\".\n\n\"Being forced to do the deal after a long and ugly court battle in Delaware was not an ideal scenario and instead accepting this path and moving forward with the deal will save a massive legal headache,\" he wrote in a report after the news.\n\nBut he added, that Mr Musk's ownership of the platform, a top venue for politicians and journalists to spread news and opinion, would still likely cause a \"firestorm of worries and questions\" in Washington and beyond.", "Two-year-old George Hinds died in the blast in Heysham in May 2021\n\nA man who cut a gas pipe to sell for scrap, causing a blast in which a two-year-old boy died, has been jailed.\n\nDarren Greenham used an angle grinder to cut the pipe at his home on Mallowdale Avenue in Heysham, Lancashire, in May 2021.\n\nThe subsequent explosion killed George Hinds, whose family lived next door.\n\nGreenham, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, damaging a gas meter and theft of gas, was sentenced to 15 years in jail at Preston Crown Court.\n\nGeorge's father Stephen Hinds clutched a Paw Patrol toy as he watched the sentencing from the public gallery with George's mother, Vicki Studholme, and a number of other neighbours.\n\nThe court heard the explosion, which happened at about 02:35 BST on 16 May 2021, destroyed the council-owned property where Greenham lived.\n\nDarren Greenham boasted to witnesses that he would make £400 to buy a car from the pipework\n\nIt left two neighbouring terraced houses severely damaged and a further 55 properties in the area were also affected.\n\nGreenham had cut a gas pipe in his own house while drunk and under the influence of drugs in the early hours of the morning and planned to sell the pipework, the court heard.\n\nThe gas meter was also found to have been bypassed in order to steal gas, Lancashire Police said.\n\nDetectives said he was intent on selling the cut pipes for scrap metal and had boasted to witnesses that he would make £400 to buy a car.\n\nTwo houses collapsed and a third was seriously damaged in the explosion\n\nSentencing him, Recorder of Preston Judge Robert Altham said he was a \"selfish and disruptive neighbour\".\n\n\"He lived his life without regard for the comfort of those who were unfortunate enough to live adjacent to him.\"\n\nThe judge praised George's parents, who have been living in a caravan since the blast, for their dignity and said he shared their \"incomprehension\" that anyone could put the lives of so many at risk for the sake of stealing \"a few lengths of copper piping\".\n\nIn a statement read to the court on Tuesday, Ms Studholme described Greenham as a \"neighbour from hell\" who made her feel \"unsafe\" because he threatened violence to the family.\n\nShe said: \"After the explosion, being trapped in the rubble was the most scared I had ever been in my life.\n\n\"This was until I arrived at the hospital to be told that George had died.\n\n\"Never ever have I felt so scared as in that moment of my life.\"\n\nMr Hinds told the court: \"By Darren Greenham cutting a gas pipe to make a few quid I have lost my son, my absolute world.\"\n\nThe court heard Greenham, who suffered a serious head injury and lost much of the use of his right hand in the explosion, had been facing eviction proceedings when he cut the pipes in the property.\n\nGeorge's father said his son was \"my absolute world\"\n\nGreenham showed no emotion in the dock as he was given concurrent sentences of one month for the charges of damaging the meter and theft of gas.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Det Ch Insp Jane Webb said: \"Greenham is a purely selfish, self-centred, ignorant man whose blind stupidity of thinking that he could sell gas pipes to just make a bit of money was completely reckless with no regard for anybody's safety.\"\n\n\"It's his actions that have caused the death of George which are really unforgivable,\" she added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some of the world's top oil-producing countries have agreed to cut the amount they export in a decision expected to raise petrol prices around the world.\n\nMembers of Opec+ - a group that includes Saudi Arabia and Russia - said they would slash production by two million barrels per day.\n\nThe group said it wanted to stabilise prices, which have fallen in recent months as the world economy slows.\n\nBut the decision raised fears that prices for motorists will climb.\n\nExpectations that countries were planning to pump less had already pushed oil prices higher this week. The price of a barrel of Brent crude jumped another almost 2% to more than $93 (£82) a barrel on Wednesday.\n\nA spokesman for the RAC motoring group said the reduction announced on Wednesday would \"inevitably\" lead to higher oil prices, forcing up the wholesale cost of fuel.\n\n\"The question is when, and to what extent, retailers choose to pass these increased costs on at their forecourts,\" spokesman Simon Williams said.\n\nThe cut announced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and allies marks the biggest reduction by the group since the height of the pandemic in 2020.\n\nIt comes despite pleas from the US and others to pump more, after oil prices spiked this spring when the war in Ukraine disrupted supplies.\n\nIn a statement, the White House said US President Joe Biden was \"disappointed by the short-sighted decision\".\n\nThe US pledged to continue to release oil from national stockpiles \"as appropriate\" and look at other ways to try to rein in prices at the pump, which are a key issue for American voters in midterm elections scheduled for November.\n\nThe move is also likely to disrupt US-led efforts to set a price cap for oil from Russia, a plan the US had suggested as a way to limit money flowing into the country and being put towards military use.\n\nOpec members defended their decision as a response to significant \"uncertainty\" about future demand for oil, amid fears that the global economy is heading towards a recession.\n\n\"The decision is technical, not political,\" United Arab Emirates Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazroui told reporters as Opec+ members gathered in Vienna to discuss the plans.\n\nThe latest decision by Opec+ is not just significant for oil markets, but for geopolitics as well.\n\nThe fact that the Saudi-led cartel has taken this decision just three months after President Joe Biden's controversial trip to Saudi Arabia to convince the kingdom's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, to pump more barrels to cool down prices is a huge blow for the White House.\n\nThe move not only carries the risk of pushing up oil prices but will also damage efforts by the West to restrict the Russian oil income used to sustain its war in Ukraine.\n\nMany countries will see this as a clear indication of major oil producers, especially Saudi Arabia, siding with Russia in the name of protective oil market management.\n\nIt appears that the decision had support across the group as the Opec+ energy ministers approved the proposal in a meeting that lasted 30 minutes.\n\nAs far as oil markets go, even though this is a substantial reduction, the actual impact on global supplies on the ground would be smaller because several members of Opec+ are already pumping far below their official quotas.\n\nBut that may not be enough to calm the sentiments of the oil markets in the coming days.\n\nHigher oil prices were a major driver of the increase in consumer prices that hit countries around the world earlier this year, pushing inflation rates to levels not seen in decades and raising political tensions.\n\nThe more recent drop had provided some relief to consumers, even as prices of many other staples, including food, continue to rise.\n\nA barrel of Brent Crude oil was trading at $84.06 in late September - down from highs of about $130 this spring.\n\nDespite falling oil prices and concerns about the global economy, Caroline Bain, chief commodities economist for research firm Capital Economics, said it was unusual timing to slash supply.\n\n\"Global oil stocks are historically low and, so far, high prices have failed to materially dent demand,\" she added.\n\nAnalysts said that the impact of the cuts is likely to be less significant than its size might suggest, since some countries were already producing less than they had said they would, with Capital predicting a 1% drop in global supplies as a result.\n\nKathleen Brooks, director at Minerva Analysis, said the output cut was the \"worst case scenario people were looking for\" - one that would weigh on UK financial markets and raise fears that prices across the economy would continue to rise.\n\nIt \"changes the narrative in terms of peak inflation - we might not be there yet,\" she said.\n• None Why are the world's big oil producers cutting supplies?", "One of the worst forms of plastic pollution may have met its match in the saliva of a humble worm.\n\nSpanish researchers say they've discovered chemicals in the wax worm's drool that break down polyethylene, a tough and durable material.\n\nThe researchers say that one hour's exposure to the saliva degrades the plastic as much as years of weathering.\n\nThey hope the breakthrough will lead to new natural approaches to deal with plastic pollution.\n\nThey've discovered two enzymes in the liquid that can degrade polyethylene at room temperatures and believe it's the first time that such an effective agent has been found in nature.\n\nFrom the poles to the depths of the oceans, plastic is a major pollution issue across the whole world.\n\nPolyethylene plastic has a wide variety of uses\n\nWhile efforts to reduce, recycle and reuse plastic are slowly making progress, there are few options when it comes to the very sturdy polyethylene (PE) material.\n\nIt is one of the most widely used forms, comprising around 30% of production and is used for a wide range of materials including hard wearing items like pipes, flooring, and bottles but it's also used for bags and food containers.\n\nThis plastic is dense and is very slow to break down in nature as it is highly resistant to oxygen.\n\nMost attempts to degrade it require PE to be pre-treated with heat or UV light to incorporate oxygen into the polymer.\n\nPlastic pollution is a major problem all over the world\n\nThe Spanish team first discovered that wax worms could break down the material in 2017, but in this new study they've worked out that the key elements are enzymes in the creature's saliva.\n\nIn their paper they show that this key step of getting oxygen into the polymer can be achieved within an hour of the plastic being exposed to the saliva of the larvae.\n\n\"What we think is that the enzymes are capable of an accelerated version of the weathering of polyethylene,\" said Dr Clemente Arias, a co-author from the Spanish National Research Council.\n\n\"What we found was that the enzymes alone can oxidise plastic, which is the process that takes such a long time in the environment,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe researchers are using saliva from the larvae of the greater wax moth, commonly known as wax worms.\n\nThese creatures are a well known pest that attacks and destroys honeybee hives. They are also popular with anglers as a bait and as a food source for reptiles.\n\nThe researchers say the larvae's destructive abilities when it comes to beeswax may provide an explanation of their capacity for PE degradation.\n\nThe scientists believe that what they've discovered so far provides a promising alternative approach to biological degradation and could lead to new solutions.\n\n\"We imagine you could apply this new understanding to large plastic waste management facilities,\" said Dr Federica Bertocchini, a co-author on the paper also from the Spanish National Research Council.\n\n\"But you could also have a home-based kit which could help you degrade your own plastic.\"\n\nThere are still many questions to be answered, say the researchers, including whether the saliva is working on the polymer or on the additives that are used to strengthen this type of plastic.\n\n\"We also want to know why a humble worm has these amazing enzymes, what's the use of them in their daily life,\" said Dr Arias.\n\nThey want to now develop their work by carrying out bigger experiments.\n\n\"The field of biodegradation is focused on bacteria and fungi, mostly bacteria, and on looking for enzymes,\" said Dr Bertocchini.\n\n\"Now we have some enzymes that work, so the idea is, well, let's give it a try.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the journal, Nature Communications.", "Liz Truss spoke out against what she called the \"anti-growth coalition\" in her conference speech.\n\nShe said the group, including opposition parties, trade unions and environmentalists, were \"peddling the same old answers\": more taxes, regulation and meddling.\n\nCoverage of Wednesday at the Conservative Party conference", "The Church of England has found hundreds of new cases involving allegations of abuse of vulnerable adults and children by clergy, Church officers and volunteers.\n\nThe reviewers found 383 cases relating to abuse, that the Church says require further attention.\n\nThe Church says this is its most extensive review of past abuse cases.\n\nThe archbishops of Canterbury and York apologised and expressed \"profound shame\" at the findings.\n\nThe new report came about after criticism of the previous Past Cases Review, published in 2010, which said the Church had found only 13 new cases requiring further action.\n\nThe updated version, published on Wednesday, is highly critical of a culture within the Church that is portrayed as still not adequately dealing with abuse.\n\n\"The Church is still at risk of failing others in the future unless there are further significant changes of culture and attitude as well as adherence to more detailed and effective safeguarding practices,\" it says.\n\nOf the 383 new cases, 168 relate to children and 149 to vulnerable adults.\n\nThe rest either involve both or have insufficient data.\n\nLouise, not her real name, who says she was abused as a child by a clergyman, told BBC News she had asked to participate in the review but been ignored.\n\n\"I feel betrayed and angry because the report states survivors have been included when I haven't,\" she said.\n\n\"I was told my case was in the 'cause for concern' category - but I can't see anything about how those cases will be followed up, including mine.\n\n\"I don't even know whether I'm in the 383.\n\n\"Survivors were told we would be warned when the report comes out but we heard nothing.\"\n\nThe alleged perpetrators, who are still alive, include 242 clergy, 53 Church officers and 41 volunteers whose role included engagement with children.\n\nMany no longer hold positions in the Church - but in some cases, their identity was not recorded.\n\nThe cases range from errors in information sharing to those that should have been referred to the police.\n\nBut the report does not include details of the seriousness of the abuse.\n\nSome of the most damning parts detail issues surrounding the culture within the Church of England relating to abuse.\n\nThe reviewers mention victim-blaming, deference to those in power, inertia and inaction in dealing with allegations of abuse.\n\nThe Church accepts much more needs to be done to instil confidence it has processes in place to adequately protect the vulnerable and deal with perpetrators.\n\nAnd the report lists 26 recommendations, including establishing a charter to ensure the voices of children are heard.\n\nBut they do not include any major overhaul of existing processes that are meant to protect children and vulnerable adults from abuse but have often failed to do so.\n\nTwo years ago, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse detailed how the Church had failed to protect children from sexual abuse and created a culture where abusers \"could hide\".\n\nIn a joint statement, the archbishops of Canterbury and York said the findings illustrated the failings of the Church's leadership.\n\n\"There are no possible excuses, no rationalisations for our Church's failure to share the love of God and value each and every person,\" a joint statement from the Most Reverend Justin Welby and the Most Reverend Stephen Cottrell said.\n\n\"We sincerely apologise for our failures and want to reach out to those who are still suffering from the pain and misery they endured.\n\n\"We extend this apology to wider family members affected from this past abuse.\n\n\"We are so sorry that this ever happened. It was not your fault and you are not to blame.\"\n\nFor information and support for anyone affected by sexual abuse, including sources of support for children, young people and concerned parents, visit listings on BBC Action Line.", "April Richmond said her 30 minute commute had taken two hours\n\nRail services in the UK are being disrupted as around 9,000 train drivers in the Aslef union take part in another large-scale strike on Wednesday.\n\nThe 24-hour walkout, in a row over pay and conditions, means no trains on lines run by firms such as Northern, Avanti West Coast and Southeastern.\n\nOthers are running limited services, while unaffected lines could be busy.\n\nApril Richmond says it took two hours to get to work in Birmingham rather than the usual 30 minutes by train.\n\nThe Stourbridge resident was also half an hour late.\n\n\"I feel like I don't understand enough about why they're striking, but it's definitely making a massive impact, so I hope they get it sorted soon,\" she told the BBC.\n\nRestaurant co-owner Neil McGougan said repeated strikes were affecting his business, but he supported the strikers\n\nNeil McGougan, who co-owns the Tiger Bites Pig restaurant in Birmingham, said that he expected a slow day of trade but he supported the strike.\n\n\"I had to get the bus in instead, so it makes my day longer,\" he said. \"I can moan about it from a business point of view, but I understand why they're doing it,\" he added.\n\nSome stations are closed, and the rail industry has warned passengers that trains run by unaffected operators will be busy.\n\nJourney planners such as National Rail Enquiries have been updated with the new timetables, detailing how the strike will affect services.\n\nThe Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (Aslef) strike is the latest in a series of actions, as unions representing rail workers battle the government and companies over pay, job cuts and changes to terms and conditions.\n\nOnly train companies directly involved in the strike will be affected. That differs from RMT union strikes, which also involve Network Rail signallers and therefore cause nationwide disruption.\n\nHowever, with 13 train companies involved in Wednesday's action, the disruption is extensive.\n\nSteve Montgomery, chairman of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents industry operators, said he understand the \"economic pressures\" on workers but called the strikes \"unfair\" on the public.\n\nHe also said the railways needed reform after the pandemic, adding that \"modernising practices\" would enable rail operators to increase pay.\n\nBut Mick Whelan, general secretary of the Aslef union, said drivers had gone without a pay rise for two years and operators should be more generous.\n\n\"It seems to me they've got a wish-list of productivity to keep maintaining their ability to make massive profits and give money to their shareholders, yet not want to give it to the people that generate the money by operating the railways.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues in this story? Get in touch.\n\nAslef has timed its strike around the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, which ends on Wednesday. It also coincides with several football fixtures.\n\nPeople with tickets for Wednesday can use them on Tuesday, Thursday or Friday, if services are running.\n\nHowever, there will be no East Midlands Railway (EMR) services on Wednesday, and no services running east of Nottingham up to and including Saturday.\n\nThe Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) union also has plans for much smaller scale strikes this week, including CrossCountry on 5 October, Great Western Railway on 6-7 October, and Avanti and c2c on Saturday, 8 October.\n\nThe National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) will also stage a further national walkout this Saturday.\n\nThe RMT's general secretary, Mick Lynch, told the BBC that rail worker members of the union will soon be balloted over further strike action, potentially stretching into the spring.\n\nSeparately, the Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan said her message to trade union leaders was to take their seats at the negotiating table so a \"landing zone\" could be found that everyone could work with.\n\nAslef said it was always happy to talk, but there had to be substantive proposals on the table.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Transport Secretary also told the Conservative party conference that she had asked the rail industry to launch consultations on reforming ticket office provision.\n\nShe insisted it was \"not about cutting jobs\" but about \"putting the passenger at the heart of the railway\".\n\nHowever, Mr Montgomery admitted there would be some cuts to ticket office staff.\n\nPassengers will be wondering how long strikes will last.\n\nIf nothing changes, it seems the answer could be for months to come.\n\nThe RMT has already said it will re-ballot members for further strike action.\n\nTrain drivers' union Aslef has made it clear it doesn't believe an agreement is imminent - despite some progress in talks with the group that speaks for train companies.\n\nAslef says the train companies involved are imposing real terms pay cuts - that is, wages are failing to keep up with rising prices.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group has insisted neither taxpayers nor passengers can be asked to pay more to plug the financial gap left by the pandemic - so reforms must be agreed to afford pay rises.\n\nThe new Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan has already taken a different approach to the strikes than her predecessor.\n\nShe has met the leaders of the two main rail unions and spoken of all sides needing to make compromises.\n\nThe question is whether this will lead to any concrete changes which lead to a breakthrough.\n\nThe rail strikes come as thousands of workers across different industries take or consider industrial action as the cost of living soars.\n\nBarristers, postal workers, telecoms workers, teachers, hospital workers, and refuse workers are all holding or planning strikes.\n\nWorkers at container ports have also been striking, with congestion at Felixstowe after an eight day walkout, and another strike due in Liverpool.\n• None Which train services are affected by the latest strikes?", "It has been a fairly chaotic few days in Birmingham for the Conservatives and new leader Liz Truss at the party conference.\n\nHere's a quick recap of the key moments since the weekend.\n\nOn Sunday Liz Truss admitted to Laura Kuenssberg that she should have \"laid the ground better\" for her mini-budget but defiantly said that she would not budge on a decision to cut the 45p top rate of tax.\n\nThis was a decision which was criticised by Tory heavyweight Michael Gove who said it displayed the \"wrong values\". Hours later former Transport Secretary Grant Shapps added his name to the backlash saying the policy would not get through the House of Commons.\n\nBy Monday the policy was axed as Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng told BBC Breakfast that he \"had listened\" and confirmed the U-turn much to the delight of Tory backbenchers.\n\nKwarteng told the Birmingham conference that he wanted to \"focus on the task in hand\". But more confusion surrounded whether or not the chancellor would bring forward the date - initially 23 November - to publish his plans to pay for tax cuts and bring down the national debt.\n\nOn Tuesday a row emerged over whether benefits should rise with inflation or in line with earnings. We also had some bitter Tory infighting with the Home Secretary Suella Braverman openly criticising her own party members for \"staging a coup\" which forced the 45p tax U-turn.\n\nAll eyes on Wednesday shifted to Liz Truss and her first speech as prime minister and Tory leader. She vowed to get the UK through \"stormy days\" ahead.\n\nBut, her speech was briefly disrupted by Greenpeace protestors who were escorted out of the hall.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Key moments from Liz Truss’s speech at the Conservative Party conference\n\nLiz Truss has promised to get the country through \"stormy days\", as she vowed to take on the \"anti-growth coalition\".\n\nIn her speech to the Tory conference, which has been marked by U-turns and internal division, the PM admitted her policies would cause \"disruption\".\n\nBut she said \"the status quo is not an option\" and \"we must stay the course\".\n\nThe speech came against a backdrop of financial and political turmoil following the government's mini-budget.\n\nMarkets reacted badly to the plans for £45bn in tax cuts funded by borrowing, while the government's U-turn on its plan to scrap the 45p tax band for the highest earners was fuelled by opposition from Tory MPs.\n\nThe prime minister's speech lasted around 35 minutes - shorter than is usually the case for the party leader at conference - and was briefly interrupted by environmental protesters from Greenpeace, holding up a sign reading \"who voted for this?\".\n\nMs Truss - who became PM just one month ago - made no new policy announcements but pledged to stick to her promises to cut taxes and regulations on businesses.\n\nShe acknowledged \"these are stormy days\", citing the global economic crisis caused by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.\n\nBut she added: \"I'm determined to get Britain moving, to get us through the tempest and to put us on a stronger footing as a nation.\"\n\nMs Truss also vowed to take on the \"anti-growth coalition\" and \"enemies of enterprise\", including opposition parties, \"militant unions\" and environmental campaigners - like the ones, she said, who heckled during her speech.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Greenpeace campaigners heckle the PM a few minutes into her party conference speech.\n\nThe prime minister mentioned growth 29 times in her speech, recognising that her goal was \"difficult but necessary\".\n\nShe argued cutting taxes was \"the right thing to do morally and economically\" as it allowed people to keep more of their own money so they are \"inspired to do more of what they do best\".\n\n\"I believe that you know best how to spend your own money, to get on in life and realise your own ambitions,\" she said, adding: \"I want what you want.\"\n\nHowever, in attempt to reassure the markets, she promised to \"keep an iron grip on the nation's finances\".\n\nThere was the content of today's speech. And then the context of its delivery.\n\nAnd context is everything: this is a party that's been close to ripping itself to shreds in the last few days. A conference that was a showcase of dysfunction and division, from the cabinet down.\n\nIndiscipline within government, mutiny beyond it. Fears of this government's collapse run to its highest levels.\n\nThe only crutch that gives these senior figures reprieve from their gloom is a view that another leadership race would be ridiculous and, for a party languishing so far behind in the opinion polls, an imminent election would amount to a death wish.\n\nThose around the prime minister are shaken by the turbulence of the last few days and glad this conference is over.\n\nThe problems the government confronts are colossal - gripping them would stretch a united outfit. The Conservatives are a long way from that right now.\n\nHighlighting her own background, Ms Truss said her upbringing in Paisley and Leeds in the 1980s and 1990s meant she knew what it was like \"to live somewhere that isn't feeling the benefits of economic growth\".\n\n\"I have fought to get where I am today,\" she told the conference, highlighting how the barriers she had faced as a woman \"made me angry and it made me determined\".\n\nEchoing her predecessor Boris Johnson's pledge when he became prime minister, she promised to \"level up\" the country \"in a Conservative way, ensuring everyone everywhere can get on\".\n\nThe hall was not packed, but reaction during the speech was positive, and included several standing ovations.\n\nTory delegates leaving the conference hall echoed this, with one member saying: \"She has steel and you need that when you are a woman in politics.\"\n\nCabinet ministers seated on the front row for the speech applauded as Ms Truss outlined her priorities. Afterwards Welsh Secretary Sir Robert Buckland was one who praised the leader's message, adding that her speech was \"packed full of substance\".\n\nHowever, the liberal Conservative think tank, Bright Blue, accused Ms Truss's government of \"amateurism and amorality\".\n\nChief executive Ryan Shorthouse said her economic policies \"do very little\" for voters who backed the Conservatives in 2019 and \"have for a long time felt forgotten\".\n\nThere was a muted reaction from the financial markets, with the pound falling slightly against the dollar during Ms Truss's speech.\n\nGovernment borrowing costs also fell but were slightly higher over the day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How did Liz Truss's conference speech go down?\n\nThe Tory conference has been overshadowed by divisions, after the government made a dramatic U-turn over its plans to scrap the top rate of income tax.\n\nSome cabinet ministers and senior Conservatives have also publicly spoken out against the suggestion increases to some benefits like universal credit could be linked to wages rather than prices, which would amount to a real-terms cut.\n\nConservative MPs have been told they face suspension from the party - known as losing the whip - if they vote against Ms Truss's tax cuts in Parliament.\n\nLevelling Up Minister Paul Scully told the BBC it would be a \"very serious situation\" for the government if its mini-budget did not get through and urged Tory colleagues to \"think of that before they think about rebelling\".\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said Ms Truss had been \"at the heart of building a Conservative economy that has led to the flat wages and low growth she highlighted today\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said: \"The Conservatives have lost control of the economy, causing eye-watering mortgage payments, soaring inflation and an ever-deepening cost-of-living emergency.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Liz Truss declines to say she trusts Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng\n\nLiz Truss is coming under pressure from Tory MPs to ensure benefits rise in line with prices, with minister Penny Mordaunt arguing it \"makes sense\".\n\nFormer PM Boris Johnson pledged benefits would rise with inflation.\n\nMs Truss has refused to say she would maintain the commitment, as she faces questions over how to pay for her government's tax-cutting plans.\n\nThe PM told the BBC a decision hadn't yet been made, as the issue dominated Tory party conference in Birmingham.\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio, Ms Mordaunt said: \"We want to make sure that people are looked after and that people can pay their bills. We are not about trying to help people with one hand and take away with another.\"\n\nAsked if she welcomed Ms Mordaunt making her views public, Ms Truss said: \"I look forward to having those discussions.\"\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng said he would not \"get drawn into the debate\", but stressed his attachment to \"compassionate conservatism\"; while Work and Pensions Secretary Chloe Smith would not be drawn.\n\nWelsh Secretary Robert Buckland, asked by BBC Newsnight if he wanted to see benefits rise in line with inflation, said: \"Every Conservative government that I've been part of has maintained the safety net, and I'm sure this one will do the same.\"\n\nCertain benefits, including disability benefits and carer's allowance, must increase in line with inflation by law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss will take to the podium on Wednesday\n\nHowever, for working-age benefits like universal credit no decision has yet been made on whether a rise will be linked to prices or wages.\n\nQuestions about the government's policy on benefits come during a difficult week for the prime minister.\n\nOn Monday, Ms Truss's authority took a blow when she was forced by her own MPs to U-turn on her plan to reduce tax for higher earners.\n\nSpeaking in her first BBC interview since the U-turn, Ms Truss reiterated that the government could have laid the groundwork better for the measure.\n\nShe said the government was listening and did \"reflect on where we could have done things better\" but said the top income tax rate had not been a \"core part\" of her economic growth package.\n\nThe PM is facing opposition from some Tory MPs over how the government will pay for its growth package.\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's tax-cutting mini-budget on 23 September saw the pound's value plummet, borrowing costs soar, and the Bank of England bail out pension funds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I know the plan put forward only 10 days ago has caused a little turbulence, I get it..\"\n\nAsked about whether she would commit to increasing benefits in line with inflation, Ms Truss told the BBC: \"We are going to have to make decisions about how we bring back down debt as a proportion of GDP in the medium term.\"\n\nShe added that she was \"very committed to supporting the most vulnerable\", including providing an extra £1,200 to the poorest households.\n\n\"So we have to look at these issues in the round. We have to be fiscally responsible.\"\n\nIn May this year, then-chancellor Rishi Sunak said benefits would be uprated by this September's Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation, which is currently 9.9%, subject to a review by the work and pensions secretary.\n\nMr Kwarteng has declined to commit to the policy, though the government has pledged to increase state pension contributions in line with inflation.\n\nFailing to keep benefits in line with rising prices would leave some of the poorest households facing a real-terms cut in their incomes.\n\nMel Stride, who chairs the Commons Treasury Committee, said he \"would have to think long and hard\" about whether to vote for uprating benefits in line with wages instead because of the \"strong real-terms squeeze on those benefits already\".\n\nAnd former work and pensions secretary Damian Green told the BBC the policy would \"probably not\" get through the Commons.\n\nHowever, Tory MP Lee Anderson said it \"does not seem fair\" for those on benefits to get \"inflation-busting\" increases of as much as 10%, while public and private sector workers are offered pay rises of 2-4%.\n\nMeanwhile, former home secretary Priti Patel accused the government of \"spending today with no thought for tomorrow\" at a fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves criticised the lack of commitment to the move, saying: \"The idea that the government can afford to give tax cuts to the wealthiest, but not uprate benefits in line with inflation, I think is grotesque.\"\n\nTuesday also saw confirmation the chancellor would bring forward his medium-term fiscal plan, which will outline how the government plans to cut the UK's debt, \"shortly\" rather than at the end of November.\n\nMs Truss was asked several times whether she trusted her chancellor following the U-turn.\n\nSidestepping the question, she said: \"I work very, very closely with my chancellor, we're very focused on getting the economy growing.\"\n\nAre you affected by the issues in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The US and South Korea fired missiles into the East Sea - also known as the Sea of Japan\n\nSouth Korea's military has apologised after a failed missile launch during a joint drill with the United States sparked alarm among residents in the coastal city of Gangneung.\n\nThey reported hearing an explosion and seeing a fire overnight.\n\nBut the military, which has said there were no casualties, did not acknowledge the incident until seven hours later.\n\nThe launch was in response to North Korea firing a missile over Japan early on Tuesday.\n\nThis is the first time Pyongyang has flown a missile over Japan since 2017 - and it prompted a show of force from the US, Japan and South Korea which conducted military drills. Seoul and Washington also fired a volley of missiles into the East Sea - also known as the Sea of Japan - between the Korean peninsula and Japan.\n\nThe South Korean military later confirmed that one of their missiles failed soon after it was launched and crashed - this was separate to the ones launched with the US.\n\nThe military also said that the Hyunmoo-2 missile carried a warhead but that it did not explode, and apologised for causing worry.\n\nResidents in Gangneung said they saw a bright flash and heard an explosion at around 01:00 on Wednesday (16:00 GMT Tuesday).\n\nThey were left in the dark for hours, and many of them posted on social media wondering what had happened, while sharing photos and videos of the incident. The footage showed what appeared to be a brightly burning fire, with smoke rising from a distance.\n\n\"I can't sleep because I feel anxious [after hearing] the explosion,\" said one user, according to news site Kang Won Ilbo. Another wondered if a plane had crashed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Raphael Rashid This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Korea's missile launch on Tuesday was the fifth carried out by Pyongyang in a week. Many of its missile tests are conducted on a flight path that reaches a high altitude, avoiding flights over its neighbours.\n\nBut firing over or past Japan allows North Korean scientists to test missiles under circumstances \"that are more representative of the conditions they'd endure in real-world use\", analyst Ankit Panda told news agency Reuters.\n\nIn September, North Korea passed a law declaring itself to be a nuclear weapons state, with leader Kim Jong-un ruling out the possibility of talks on de-nuclearisation.", "New entries into the top 100 baby names include Brody and Olive\n\nNoah has become the most popular name for baby boys, replacing Oliver which held the top spot for eight years.\n\nOfficial birth data for 2021 in England and Wales showed Olivia remained the most popular name for girls for the sixth year in a row.\n\nNew top 10 entries include Willow and Henry - kicking Jack out of the top 10 for the first time since 1996.\n\nBig movers into the top 100 were Brody and Olive, rising 36 and 25 places respectively from 2020.\n\nIn all, 4,525 baby boys were named Noah last year - moving it to the top spot for the first time, up from fourth place in 2020, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows.\n\nMeanwhile, the name Olivia was given to 3,649 baby girls. It has been the most popular girl's name since 2016, according to the ONS.\n\nThe name Noah has been steadily rising in popularity since it was ranked 225th in 1996, the first year the data on names was published.\n\nIn the US, Noah topped baby name charts in 2013, ending Jacob's 14-year run in the No 1 spot.\n\nSJ Strum, who founded the parenting podcast Baby Name Envy, told BBC News the name may appeal to \"so many new parents for its blend of traditional and pop culture associations\".\n\n\"It's traditionally a symbol of new beginnings,\" Ms Strum said, \"which after [the coronavirus] pandemic feels so meaningful.\"\n\nShe also said she asked some of her listeners why they liked the name - and all pointed to the 2004 romantic comedy film The Notebook, in which the male lead is named Noah.\n\nOther famous men with the same name as the biblical figure include actor Noah Wyle, who starred in hit US television series ER.\n\nFreya, Florence and Willow replaced Isabella, Rosie and Sophia in the top 10 names for girls. It is the first time since 1996 that Florence and Willow have appeared in the top 10.\n\nLara, Beatrice and Sara were new entries in the top 100 for girls.\n\nIn the boys' list, Brody and Rupert made it into the top 100 names for the first time, along with Kai, Tobias, Nathan and Blake.\n\nRegionally, Muhammad was found to be the most popular boy's name in four regions. Olivia was the most popular name in Wales and every English region except the East Midlands, where Amelia came top.\n\nOn the endangered names list are Glenda and Kerry, says the ONS. Fewer than five girls were given these names every year since 2018.\n\nClifford, Nigel and Norman have also fallen out of favour with 10 or fewer boys taking the name. Leslie is among the least popular with fewer than seven babies given that name each year since 2018.\n\nThe ONS also found older mums continue to give their babies more traditional names and younger mums go for more modern names or shorter versions of traditional names, part of a long-running trend.\n\nExplaining why it uses mothers' data to glean the most popular baby names, an ONS spokeswoman previously said: \"To get a complete statistical picture for our baby names analysis, we rely on a mother's data, because information relating to mothers should appear on every birth registration.\"\n\nDisney film Luca may have helped the name rise to 28th most popular in 2021\n\nWhile it is not clear exactly what is behind parents' baby-naming decisions, popular culture seems to play a part, with Hollywood a major influence.\n\nDisney Pixar's 2021 film Luca may have helped the name jump to 28th most popular. It was given to 1,807 babies last year, compared to 1,323 in 2020.\n\nDisney's Raya and the Last Dragon movie, also released last year, saw registrations of the name more than double in one year to 251 births.\n\nPopstars also seem to be influencing a rise in less common names. There were 14 times the number of baby boys named Ezra - the second name of singer George Ezra - in 2021 compared to a decade ago.\n\nAnd 885 baby girls were called Mabel - with the Finders Keepers singer possibly providing the inspiration.\n\nContinuing to rise for both boys and girls were Bowie and Ziggy, which have been growing in popularity since the death of late pop legend David Bowie. His alter-ego was Ziggy Stardust.\n\nKim Kardashian named her boys Saint, pictured on the right, and Psalm\n\nThe Duke of Sussex's second child Lilibet born last year appears to be behind eight Lilibets being registered, compared to fewer than three in each of the previous seven years.\n\nAnd reality TV stars the Kardashians could have inspired an increase in the name Saint, the child of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. There were 59 babies given that name in 2021, compared with five in 2015 when he was born.\n\nThere were three baby girls registered North, six boys registered Psalm, and four girls named Chicago, the names of Kardashian's three other children.\n\nJames Tucker, from the ONS, said: \"Popular culture continues to influence parents' baby name choices.\"", "BBC broadcaster Alex Scott says the domestic abuse she experienced during her childhood is \"still so raw\" but she wishes she had spoken about it sooner.\n\nScott has released her memoir in which she describes her father's violent behaviour towards her and her mother.\n\nHer father, Tony, denied her claims on Monday in a Daily Mail interview.\n\nResponding on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Scott said: \"I almost feel angry at myself that I'm allowing him to hurt me again by those claims of lying.\"\n\nIn an emotional interview, the former England footballer said she had decided to write about her father's behaviour because she wanted to help \"free my mum\".\n\nThe 37-year-old said: \"That story from him coming out yesterday takes her back to a place... hearing the pain and the terror again in her voice last night - that's why I don't know what I can do. But I'm not going to allow him to win no more.\n\n\"This book, the reason was to get some peace. And I suppose when you are in peace it gives you a new position of power and that's maybe why he's trying to (respond) right now.\"\n\nIn her autobiography, How (Not) to Be Strong, Scott writes about hearing her father be violent towards her mother while she and her brother were in bed in their flat in east London. She wrote: \"All I could do was lie there and pray my mum would be alive in the morning.\"\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Emma Barnett, she said: \"(My mum) doesn't know that her two kids are in the room hearing everything.\n\n\"She's trying to be strong in a totally different way, we're trying to be strong for her but can't help her. The visuals are still so there. I couldn't do anything.\n\n\"It's all still so raw. I can visualise it like it was yesterday.\n\n\"Even when my dad left that environment, we never communicated or you don't speak about it, it's like you try to move on with your life and leave that to the side but it never leaves you. That pain and the struggles still continue.\"\n\n'I'm sorry I didn't use my voice sooner'\n\nIn her father's interview, he denied having been violent towards his family, but did acknowledge that he was a strict parent.\n\nHe said: \"Perhaps she is judging me by today's standards, I don't know. Parents were a lot tougher back then. But I was never violent, that's just not me. I never beat Alex or anyone else in the family or did anything like that.\"\n\nIn response, Scott added: \"I actually don't care what happened to me. If you are saying being beaten with a belt is just being strict - I can take that, I really don't care about me.\n\n\"What I do care is about my mum and the fear and terror that she had to live in and the fact I was never able to help her in that, but what I can do is help her now by speaking the truth. And everything I wrote in that book, I stand by it. It is the truth.\"\n\nScott has pledged that all the proceeds of her book will go to help women affected by domestic abuse.\n\nShe added: \"I feel sorry right now that I've not used my voice sooner to help my mum or any other woman that is in this position.\n\n\"But what he has done - he lit a new fire in me yesterday. What I will do is do all I can to help women in this position so they don't have the feelings that my mum has carried her whole life - or that I have.\"\n\nIf you're affected by any of the issues in this article you can find details of organisations who can help via the BBC Action Line.\n\nIf you feel you are in immediate danger, call the police on 999. If you can't speak, press 55 when prompted to let them know you need urgent help.\n\nOnline webchats and text services are also available.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nErling Haaland continued his incredible scoring form with two more goals as Manchester City swept Copenhagen aside to make it three wins out of three in Champions League Group G.\n\nHaaland was taken off at half-time and so missed an attempt at what would have been a fourth hat-trick for City, but his first-half double means he now has 19 goals in his first 12 games for Pep Guardiola's side.\n\nWith or without him, City were far too quick and clever for their Danish opponents and would have ended up with more than five goals from a totally one-sided match if not for Copenhagen keeper Kamil Grabara.\n\nFresh from crushing neighbours Manchester United at the weekend, City and Haaland picked up where they left off on Sunday and took less than seven minutes to open their account.\n\nCancelo's low cross found Haaland in space inside the area and, predictably, he made no mistake with a powerful finish from what was his first touch of the game.\n\nThe only surprise was that it took until after the half-hour mark for City to extend their lead and, predictably, it was Haaland who was in the right place to tap the loose ball after Grabara had parried a Sergio Gomez shot.\n\nThe last thing Copenhagen needed at this stage was bad luck but their misery was compounded before half-time when a Gomez shot took a double deflection off Denis Vavro and then David Khocholava on its way into the net.\n• None All the best Man City content in one place\n\nWith victory secured, Haaland was replaced by Cole Palmer at half-time - even goal machines need a rest - as City cast an eye towards their next game, against Southampton here on Saturday.\n\nHis exit reduced City's threat but they still dominated possession and further goals followed.\n\nRiyad Mahrez made it 4-0 from the penalty spot after Aymeric Laporte was fouled, then the Algeria forward turned provider to set up Julian Alvarez to round off the scoring from close range.\n\nCity were completely dominant and will be heavy favourites to repeat this result in Denmark next week and ensure their progress to the last 16.\n\nCity have competition for places too\n\nHaaland will continue to hog the headlines but Guardiola will be pleased to see Mahrez get off the mark with his first goal and assist of 2022-23.\n\nThe 31-year-old was City's top scorer last season with 24 goals in all competitions, but had been in unconvincing form in the early stages of this campaign.\n\nThis week, Guardiola even went as far as saying he would not pick him until he improved his physical fitness - but this was surely the response he was looking for from Mahrez after restoring him to the team.\n• None Haaland's records - and the ones he could break at Man City\n\nMahrez was not the only player to make his case for more minutes with the lively Gomez impressing again, just as he did after coming on against United, and only the post stopped Alvarez getting a second goal.\n\nAt the back, Laporte's recovery from injury meant he was fit enough to make his first start of the season, while Ruben Dias was recalled after finding himself an unused substitute for the derby.\n\nWith a busy schedule to come that sees City play 10 times before the campaign pauses for the World Cup on 12 November, competition for places is exactly what Guardiola wants.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Gómez (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Jack Grealish (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt saved. Jack Grealish (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Aymeric Laporte.\n• None Attempt missed. Jack Grealish (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 5, FC Copenhagen 0. Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Valdemar Lund (FC Copenhagen) header from very close range is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Ísak Jóhannesson with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Mukairu (FC Copenhagen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Hákon Haraldsson.\n• None Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) hits the left post with a left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left. Assisted by Jack Grealish. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn expert has called for \"immediate research\" after a study suggested that elite rugby union players could be at increased risk of brain conditions like motor neurone disease.\n\nThe study examined a link between sport and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, MND and dementia.\n\nThe MND Association said the study raised \"more questions than answers\".\n\nScientists said the study should encourage \"dramatic changes\" in rugby to reduce the risks of brain injury.\n\nRugby authorities have been told they should look to minimise contact training and reduce the global calendar.\n\nThe research team was led by consultant neuropathologist Professor Willie Stewart, honorary professor at the University of Glasgow.\n\nIt looked at former Scotland rugby international players from both the amateur and the professional period.\n\nThe research team compared health outcomes among 412 former Scotland international male rugby players with more than 1,200 individuals from the general population.\n\nThe results showed that the rugby players, all of whom were born before 1991, were more likely to die at a slightly older age than peers of similar age and socioeconomic status.\n\nWhile they had a higher risk of death overall from neurodegenerative disease, they were less likely to die of respiratory disease.\n\nTheir chances of being diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease were 2.67 times higher.\n\nBy far the biggest risk was for MND, with rugby players 15.17 times more likely to be diagnosed than people of the same age range in the general population.\n\nThe overall number of MND cases in the study is not known, although it is understood to be small.\n\nFormer internationalists were also three times more likely to develop Parkinson's and two times more likely to develop dementia.\n\nThe debate on brain health and contact sports such as rugby and football is gathering momentum.\n\nThere are no definitive answers but a series of research studies, including this latest one from the University of Glasgow, add weight to the suspicion that elite players are more at risk than those in the wider population.\n\nCare has to be taken about drawing firm conclusions especially if the numbers of players surveyed is relatively small.\n\nBut the research team, led by Professor Willie Stewart, having previously carried out a landmark study of the dementia risk among former professional footballers, has now further underlined the need for further research on the impact of concussion and other head injuries on the longer-term health of rugby players.\n\nThe results have been published as part of the FIELD study, which was funded by the Football Association and the Professional Footballers Association.\n\nProf Stewart - who led previous research that found former footballer professionals are three-and-a-half times more likely to die of dementia than the general population - called for further investigation.\n\n\"Of particular concern are the data on motor neurone disease risk among our rugby players, which is even higher than that for former professional footballers,\" he said.\n\n\"This finding requires immediate research attention to explore the specific association between rugby and the devastating condition of motor neurone disease.\"\n\nThe study looked at former Scotland rugby international players\n\nAt at briefing ahead of the study's publication, the academic said urgent action was needed by rugby authorities.\n\nHe welcomed moves to reduce high-impact training between matches, but said the pace of change was \"slow\".\n\n\"This should be a stimulus to them to really pick up their heels and start making pretty dramatic changes as quickly as possible to try and reduce risk,\" Prof Stewart said.\n\n\"Instead of talking about extending seasons and introducing new competitions and global seasons, they should be talking about restricting it as much as possible.\n\n\"So cutting back on the amount of rugby we're seeing, getting rid of as much training as possible. Things like that have to be addressed pretty, pretty rapidly.\"\n\nThe study, published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, showed about three out of four of the rugby players with dementia had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a specific pathology linked to brain injury exposure.\n\nIt also found that unlike in football, there was no sign of increased risk depending on position on the field.\n\nDr Brian Dickie, director of research development at the Motor Neurone Disease Association, said the new study added weight to previous reports from the FIELD team on increased risk of neurodegeneration in football players, although the new study was considerably smaller.\n\nHowever, he said it raised \"more questions than answers\".\n\nA previous Scottish study called for mandatory protective headgear at all levels of the game\n\n\"For example, it is not clear exactly how many players were diagnosed with MND, though from the information provided, that absolute number will be small,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also surprising that there were no cases reported in the larger control group, as MND is the most common neurodegenerative disease of mid-life and the study population appears to include people in the 'high risk' age range of 50-80 years.\n\n\"Moreover, we know that the vast majority of cases of MND involve a complex mix of genetic and environmental risk factors, so the level of genetic risk may be different in high-performance athletes compared with the general population.\"\n\nDr Jane Haley, director of research at MND Scotland, said: \"We welcome this very interesting piece of research. While the initial results do seem concerning, the study is based on a small sample size which means that, because MND is a relatively uncommon condition, larger studies will be needed to determine whether this result can be confirmed more widely.\n\n\"A connection between elite level sports and MND has been proposed before, but this is the first time an increased risk has been indicated for rugby players. The reasons for these apparent increases are not yet known and need to be explored further.\"\n\nDr James Robson, chief medical officer for the Scottish Rugby Union, said: \"Work continues in Scotland, on and off the field, to address player safety, taking the issues involved seriously.\"\n\nHe added: \"Rugby continues to have many health and social benefits. Important research like this can help us continue to improve safety and mitigate risks associated with contact sport.\"", "Donna Langley spoke to the BBC's Katie Razzall at Universal in LA\n\nDonna Langley is a woman with big plans, not least to send Tom Cruise into space.\n\nAs the chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, she's the first British woman to run a major American film studio.\n\nIt makes her one of the most powerful people in Hollywood. Not bad for a Brit from the Isle of Wight who arrived in Los Angeles in her early 20s with no contacts in the movie business at all.\n\nThirty years on - and now a Dame - Langley tells me she still feels \"culturally very English, even though my accent slips in and out a bit\".\n\nShe does sound more transatlantic than Isle of Wight, but as we ride together on the back of a golf cart around the Universal lot, she assures me: \"I still like my Marmite sandwiches and a good packet of crisps.\"\n\nLangley has turned Universal's fortunes around, and has been steering the oldest surviving US film studio through the difficulties of a pandemic as well as the rise of the streaming platforms.\n\nShe is impressive and down to earth - but the project Universal is developing with Cruise is literally out of this world.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Katie Razzall spoke to Donna Langley at Universal in LA\n\nLangley tells BBC News that Cruise plans to take a rocket up to the International Space Station. The movie plot, which Cruise and director Doug Liman pitched to her on Zoom during the pandemic, \"actually takes place on earth, and then the character needs to go up to space to save the day\".\n\nThe hope, she adds, is that Cruise will be \"the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station\".\n\nDonna Langley is reaching for the stars with the help of Tom Cruise\n\nFor Universal, the space film is clearly still an aspiration at this stage.\n\nMore definite is the slate of 44 movies announced for release in 2022/23 as the industry tries to get back to pre-Covid levels.\n\nThere will be the lucrative franchise stalwarts (among them another Trolls movie; the 10th Fast and Furious, shot in the UK; and then Despicable Me 4 in 2024). But there's creative range too.\n\nLangley's wooed Steven Spielberg back to the studio where he made Jaws and ET. The Fabelmans has just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Christopher Nolan will release his next movie Oppenheimer with Universal after he dumped Warner Bros for Langley.\n\nThe forthcoming She Said stars Carey Mulligan as one of the journalists who broke the Harvey Weinstein scandal.\n\nThe Despicable Me franchise has been extremely lucrative for Universal\n\nPicking which movie pitches will fly is \"gut instinct\", she tells me in a lengthy interview for BBC Radio 4's The Media Show. Rather than rationalising decisions through a business model lens, it's about \"feeling the story on a very human level\", she says.\n\nHer USP in part comes from learning early in her career to \"make films that were aimed at a specific audience\", often people traditionally ignored by Hollywood. She found that movies appealing to women or people of colour, for example, were \"good business. The amount of money [the films] make is relative to what they cost, so they're hugely profitable.\"\n\nShe championed Straight Outta Compton, the movie charting the rise of hip-hop group NWA, which took $201m at the box office worldwide.\n\nFamously, she fought for Mamma Mia when others weren't keen. The movie, based on Abba's back catalogue, was a smash hit, with global takings of $600m.\n\n\"They are films that I didn't see as inherently risky. It's easy for me to sit here with you today and say that, when the proof is in the pudding.\"\n\nBut for Langley, there's a common thread to that success, even if others didn't see it. They were universal stories audiences could relate to.\n\nDonna Langley with Ice Cube on the set of Straight Outta Compton\n\nPhyllida Lloyd, Mamma Mia's director, praises Langley's \"clarity and calm\". She told me the Universal executive had \"a business-like approach. She really did not sweat the small stuff.\"\n\nSharon Waxman, editor in chief of The Wrap, one of Hollywood's most influential publications, describes Langley as \"hugely respected\". Of course not everything is a hit and Waxman points to the disappointing opening weekend for Bros, Universal's gay romcom. They are the first major studio to make a movie of this kind.\n\nBut she credits her with taking risks. She Said, for example, \"is not a movie that every studio would decide to green light\".\n\nStorytelling (and Abba), Langley says, were a big part of her childhood on the Isle of Wight. Her biological father was Egyptian and she was adopted as a baby. Her mum was an activist (\"she had me shaking a can on behalf of Greenpeace or CND on the local high street\"), while her dad worked for the Civil Aviation Authority.\n\nGoing to the cinema wasn't a common family event, although she remembers her sister taking her to see an Abba concert movie in the 1970s (which was \"90 minutes of heaven, I was so happy\"). Instead, the family read widely, and perhaps that drew her to film.\n\n\"As Brits, we grow up with a deep love of literature,\" she says. Free to roam on the Isle of Wight, \"my imagination would run wild with the history of the place, whether it was smugglers or aristocracy\".\n\nOn the island, her heritage meant she was viewed, she says archly, as \"exotic\", adding: \"It gave me a sense of independence.\" She says she was \"bullied a little bit\" in school and found humour was a way to deflect the \"tougher moments\".\n\nAbba, which spawned Mamma Mia and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, was Langley's favourite group growing up\n\nSo how did that kid make it so big in Tinseltown? Langley told me she \"didn't see a future\" for herself in the UK of the early 90s though she \"had no idea I was going to work in film\". She admits \"I do have moments when I look back and think how did it all happen?\"\n\nLangley was just 22 when she arrived in LA with a letter of introduction to a literary agent, planning to stay just a few months. But she was \"bitten by the bug\" and \"it became obvious I needed to stay\". She found the US \"less restrictive,\" telling me that whereas Britain was very hierarchical, in America \"if you have an idea, a work ethic, you can make it\".\n\nShe got her first break while working in a nightclub on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. One of the regulars hired her at New Line Cinema.\n\nShe credits her success to \"a bit of delusional self-belief\" and a lot of hard work, though the Hollywood of the time wasn't \"for the faint of heart, you had to have some chutzpah\".\n\nUniversal's Jurassic World Dominion was shot just outside London\n\nLangley is committed to British film-making. Universal's Jurassic World Dominion, shot at Pinewood Studios, was the first Hollywood blockbuster to resume filming during the pandemic, and they'll soon start production on Wicked in the UK.\n\nBen Roberts, CEO of the BFI, told me she is \"one of the most successful British executives in the business - and we're delighted that Universal have decided to base so many of their productions here in the UK\".\n\nWith the future of cinema still in the balance, Langley accepts that streaming movies at home is here to stay. She earned the fury of cinema chains when she decided during the pandemic to put Universal's new Trolls movie straight on to a streaming platform. She says it was a \"watershed moment\". It certainly severed the tradition of big movies going first into cinemas.\n\nVin Diesel is the star of the blockbuster franchise Fast and Furious\n\nWaxman believes Langley's biggest challenges now are \"to refill the pipeline of Universal with the kinds of blockbusters, like the Fast and Furious franchise, that will drive billion dollar global hits\".\n\nFor Langley, the \"$100bn question\" is what will entice audiences back into cinemas. She accepts they're \"the domain of the big visual effects movies… but what else?\"\n\nWhile \"the bar is getting higher\" on the kinds of movies people will leave their home to watch, she has a use-it-or-lose-it message.\n\n\"To make movies matter, to make them connect with the cultural zeitgeist, to create movie stars and to create directors and careers, it really does need that theatrical experience,\" she says.\n\nListen to the full interview with Donna Langley on The Media Show on BBC Sounds and watch on BBC iPlayer.\n• None Tom Cruise and Nasa join forces to film in space", "Loretta Lynn was one of country music's most recognisable and beloved singers\n\nDolly Parton has paid tribute to the \"wonderful talent\" Loretta Lynn, following the country music star's death at the age of 90.\n\n\"So sorry to hear about my sister, friend Loretta,\" said the singer.\n\n\"We've been like sisters all the years we've been in Nashville and she was a wonderful human being.\"\n\nCarole King, Carrie Underwood, Billy Ray Cyrus and Jack White have also paid tribute to Lynn, who was best known for the song Coal Miner's Daughter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhite, who recorded an album with the star in 2004, called her both a \"mother figure\" and \"the greatest female singer-songwriter of the 20th century\".\n\n\"She was such an incredible presence and such a brilliant genius in ways that I think only people who got to work with her might know about,\" he said in an Instagram video.\n\n\"What she did for feminism, women's rights in a time period, in a genre of music that was the hardest to do it in, is just outstanding and will live on for a long time.\n\n\"She broke down a lot of barriers for people that came after her.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by officialjackwhite This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe country star died on Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, her family said in a statement.\n\nShe built her stardom on music that addressed the struggles of women, at a time when country music often marginalised their voices. Her songs were full of rural pride, determination and autobiographical details from her own, often rocky, marriage.\n\nHer signature song, Coal Miner's Daughter, documented her humble beginnings in a one-room log cabin in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, where she was the second of eight siblings.\n\nOther hits, including The Fist, Rated X and Don't Come Home A-Drinkin', were expressions of female resolve and standing up to unfaithful men.\n\n\"Up to now I've been an object made for pleasin' you,\" she sang on 1978's We've Come A Long Way, Baby. \"Times have changed and I'm demanding satisfaction too.\"\n\nSome of her songs, in particular The Pill, which celebrated reproductive freedom, upset the conservative programmers of country music radio, but she still scored 16 number one hits, and influenced generations.\n\n\"I sure appreciate her paving the rough and rocky road for all us girl singers,\" said country star Reba McEntire on Instagram.\n\n\"She blazed so many trails for all of us girls in country music,\" agreed Miranda Lambert.\n\n\"It's safe to say I wouldn't even be making country music today if it weren't for Loretta Lynn,\" added Margo Price. \"Her writing was as real as the day was long.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCarrie Underwood shared the story of her first encounter with Lynn, at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, in a lengthy Instagram post.\n\n\"I was chatting in the corner with another artist and someone walked behind me and smacked me on the rear end!\" she recalled.\n\n\"I turned around and there she was, in a big sparkly dress, laughing as she continued to walk down the hall at what she had just done.\n\n\"This is one of my most favourite stories to tell. I think it sums up her personality pretty well. She was a cantankerous little pistol… friendly and sweet… never afraid to be herself and speak her mind.\"\n\nUnderwood added: \"She is irreplaceable. She will be incredibly missed… but her legacy lives on in those of us whom she has influenced.\"\n\nCarole King called Lynn an \"inspiration\" while k.d. lang described her as \"joyous, fierce, one of a kind\".\n\nBilly Ray Cyrus said that \"one of my highest honours\" came when Lynn agreed to duet with him and George Jones on the song Country Music Has The Blues.\n\n\"She handed me this wonderful gift on that day,\" he added, alongside a photo of a signed copy of Lynn's album Van Lear Rose.\n\nLynn's half-sister and fellow country star Crystal Gayle simply tweeted: \"The world lost a legend. We lost a sister. Love you, Loretta.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Crystal Gayle This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tesco has said people are \"watching every penny\" as they try to make ends meet, amid rising costs.\n\nThe UK's largest supermarket chain said customers are looking for ways to make their money go further, including switching from branded products and cutting back on eating out.\n\nIt came as Tesco reported a fall in profits and warned full-year earnings would be at the lower end of guidance.\n\nIt also announced a further boost to pay for UK workers.\n\nThe cost of living is increasing at its fastest rate in nearly 40 years, driven by the rising cost of food and energy.\n\nIt is eating into household budgets, with prices rising faster than wages.\n\nTesco said consumers were already spending less as shopping habits normalised after the pandemic, but they are cutting back even more now because of inflation.\n\nThe supermarket giant said operating profits in its retail division fell by 10% in the six months to the end of August. However, sales across the whole group excluding its fuel business increased by more than 3% .\n\nThe retailer now expects annual underlying retail earnings of between £2.4bn and £2.5bn, which is at the lower end of previous guidance.\n\nTesco boss Ken Murphy said customers were trying to \"make their money go further, whether they are switching from branded products, between categories or cutting back on eating out\".\n\n\"As we look to the second half [of the year], cost inflation remains significant, and it is too early to predict how customers will adapt to ongoing changes in the market,\" he added.\n\n\"We know our customers are facing a tough time and watching every penny to make ends meet.\"\n\nShoppers are being squeezed and supermarkets are feeling the pressure, too.\n\nIt's more competitive than ever in the grocery aisles. And there's a massive shift in shopping habits underway.\n\nTesco says customers are switching from branded to cheaper own label products, making more frequent shopping trips and putting fewer items in their baskets as well buying more frozen food.\n\nLike other supermarkets, Tesco is also having to absorb some cost price increases to protect customers and stop them from shopping elsewhere. And that's hitting retail profits, as well as the return to more normal shopping habits after the pandemic.\n\nFor all retailers, there's a lot of uncertainty ahead. But Tesco, helped by its huge scale, looks well placed to navigate the cost of living crisis.\n\nTesco faces mounting competition from discounters such as Aldi, which became the fourth-largest UK supermarket for the first time in September as shoppers looked to make savings.\n\nIn its update, Tesco said it would lock in the prices of more than 1,000 everyday products until next year to help consumers cope with rising costs.\n\nIt also announced that its shop staff in the UK are set to receive another pay rise, their second this year.\n\nRival chains Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Asda have also hiked pay for their store workers this year, as UK supermarkets battle for staff amidst increasing competition in the sector.\n\nMatt Britzman, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said Tesco was under pressure from competitors as shoppers felt the pinch.\n\n\"Supermarkets are no strangers to dealing with cost-of-living pressures, there's been an all-out price war in the industry for some years now,\" he said.\n\n\"Amongst the larger players, Tesco's arguably been one of the standout businesses in the battle against low-cost outfits [such as Aldi and Lidl] but pressures on consumer spending can only build for so long before something must give.\"\n\nFind out why food prices are also on the rise.\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer (UK only).", "Simon Coveney (left) says he welcomes the \"change in course\" from the UK government\n\nThe \"mood music\" has changed in discussions over the Northern Ireland Protocol, the Irish foreign minister has said.\n\nSimon Coveney made the comments ahead of a meeting with Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Thursday.\n\nOn Wednesday, government minister Conor Burns said he was \"pretty bullish\" about getting a deal with the EU.\n\nTechnical negotiations between the UK and EU are set to restart this week for the first time since February.\n\nMr Coveney said: \"This is a very welcome change of course that the British government is engaging now seriously, as opposed to moving ahead with unilateral action which would certainly have caused a lot more problems than it would have solved.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said it would not restore Stormont's institutions until protocol matters had been resolved.\n\nMr Coveney will also co-chair the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference with Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris on Friday.\n\n\"But certainly the mood music has changed quite fundamentally, we welcome that, and we will work on not only the relationships to rebuild trust, but also work on solutions in a practical way, and I think that process very much starts in earnest this week,\" Mr Coveney added.\n\nMr Burns, a former minister in the Northern Ireland Office, said he believed a \"pragmatic solution\" could be found with the EU.\n\nConor Burns said he believed a pragmatic solution could be found to deal with the Northern Ireland Protocol\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss said she was \"determined\" to see progress.\n\nSpeaking at the Conservative Party conference, she said it was important \"to restore the east-west trading relationship\".\n\nThe protocol, part of the UK government's Brexit deal to leave the European Union, keeps Northern Ireland aligned with the EU's single market to ensure free trade can continue across the Irish land border.\n\nA failure to \"prepare the ground\" proved costly this week for the under fire prime minister and her big tax cutting plan.\n\nThe same charge can't be levelled at those back around the negotiating table trying to sort the protocol problems.\n\nIf anything, the ground is too well prepared with apologies and bullish predictions, raising expectations that a deal between the UK and EU is within touching distance.\n\nWarm words alone won't bridge the massive gap which remains and a weakened and distracted Liz Truss now adds another potential hurdle.\n\nThe talks may have resumed after an eight-month break under her watch, but will the prime minister still be in charge if and when they conclude?\n\nHowever, unionist politicians have protested against the protocol for resulting in additional checks being placed on some goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe EU's ambassador to the UK, João Vale de Almeida, said he hoped there would be progress reached in the \"coming weeks\".\n\nMr Burns, who is now a minister in the Department for International Trade, said the government's position is that goods travelling to Northern Ireland which are not meant for onward travel to the EU \"should be treated differently to those goods which are going into the single market\".\n\nHe told BBC News NI: \"If we can find a way to recognise that reality, treat those differently, recognise the legitimacy of the United Kingdom's internal market on a par with the EU's single market, then I think there is a way through.\"\n\nThe DUP has blocked the functioning of Northern Ireland's legislative assembly and governing executive because it believes the protocol undermines Northern Ireland's position within the UK.\n\nThe party's Edwin Poots, Stormont's agriculture minister, said the impasse which has been created could lead to the \"funeral of the Good Friday Agreement\".\n\nMr Burns said it would be \"very strange\" if the Stormont institutions were not functioning ahead of the agreement's 25th anniversary in 2023.\n\nHe described the peace accord, which established power-sharing, as a \"compromise that has worked\".\n\nMeanwhile, legislation which could override parts of the protocol is expected to return to parliament for a debate in the House of Lords next week.\n\nMr Burns described the bill as the domestic implementation of the UK's \"tabled solutions\" to the protocol issues.\n\nHowever, he said \"talks will evolve\", adding \"there's got to be a pragmatic way through this\".", "Rory Mason was killed in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine\n\nAn Irishman has been killed while fighting in Ukraine, his family has confirmed.\n\nRory Mason, 23, from Dunboyne in County Meath, died while fighting for Ukraine's International Legion near the Russian border.\n\nThe Mason family learned of his death from the Department of Foreign Affairs, which is providing consular assistance.\n\nHis father Rob said: \"Rory was a private young man of drive, purpose and conviction.\"\n\nThe family said they were in contact with representatives of the International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine, for which Mr Mason enlisted in March.\n\n\"Though we are deeply saddened at his death, we are enormously proud of his courage and determination and his selflessness in immediately enlisting to support Ukraine,\" said Mr Mason's father.\n\n\"Rory was never political but he had a deep sense of right and wrong and an inability to turn the other way in the face of injustice.\n\n\"He had a long-standing interest in Eastern Europe, in travel and in learning new languages, including Russian.\n\n\"Those who fought alongside Rory speak of a truly brave and courageous man who could have left at any time but chose not to.\n\n\"In the words of a colleague who served with him - Rory was a man who from a glance could seem shy however when it came to actions and character he proved again and again he was a man of fortitude, principal and honour.\n\n\"Rory was our son and we will miss him enormously.\"\n\nMr Mason had been working in Germany to help fund his travel plans.\n\nHe is survived by parents Rob and Elizabeth and a younger brother and sister.\n\nThe International Legion said: \"Our brother in arms, Rory Mason has taken part in the Kharkiv counteroffensive with his unit and was killed in action.\n\n\"While conducting operations, the unit came under attack.\n\n\"Rory's memory will live on in his unit, in the Legion and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.\"\n\nThe Irish Department of Foreign Affairs issued a statement saying: \"The Department of Foreign Affairs is aware of a case and is providing consular assistance.\n\n\"As with all consular cases, the department does not comment on the details of any individual case.\"", "Greenpeace campaigners heckled Liz Truss a few minutes into her party conference speech. Holding a banner that read 'Who voted for this, they could be heard shouting: \"Who voted for fracking?\"\n\nAfter they left the hall in Birmingham the prime minister joked that they had arrived too early and would be addressing their issues later in her speech.\n\nCoverage of Wednesday at the Conservative Party conference", "Liz Truss will use her set-piece Tory conference speech to explain why she thinks the \"disruption\" caused by her economic policies will be worth it.\n\n\"Everyone will benefit\" from the economic growth produced by her tax-cutting plan, the PM will claim.\n\nAfter a bruising conference marked by U-turns and internal division, she will set out a long-term vision for the country under her leadership.\n\nAnd she will attempt to reassure her party that she is on the right path.\n\nThe speech is due to get under way at 11:00 BST.\n\n\"Whenever there is change, there is disruption,\" she will tell party members.\n\n\"Not everyone will be in favour. But everyone will benefit from the result - a growing economy and a better future.\"\n\nAsked what \"disruption\" there could be and whether higher mortgage interest payments were acceptable, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly told BBC Breakfast: \"There's almost an inevitability about an increase in interest rates because it's going on around the globe.\n\n\"What we need to do is make sure we find a way of offsetting that by having a growing economy, growing wages.\"\n\nMajor providers have already increased rates on mortgages, after the government's mini-budget led to a slump in the value of the pound and traders expected the Bank of England to raise interest rates more sharply than previously anticipated.\n\nThe four-day conference in Birmingham has been overshadowed by wrangling within the party over the future direction of the economy.\n\nThis week Ms Truss - who became prime minister a month ago after winning a Tory leadership contest - dramatically abandoned plans to scrap the top rate of income tax announced at the mini-budget on 23 September, after criticism from her own MPs.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman, who was in favour of abolishing the 45p tax rate for higher earners and disappointed by the U-turn, said the policy had been overturned by a \"coup\" within the party.\n\nCabinet colleagues have also come out publicly against the suggestion that benefits could be linked to the rise in earnings rather than inflation.\n\nPenny Mordaunt, the Leader of the Commons, said it \"makes sense\" for Universal Credit to continue to be linked to inflation, which has soared during the cost of living crisis.\n\nOther senior Tories, including former leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, have also said during the conference that an inflation-level rise should go ahead.\n\nAsked whether Ms Mordaunt was right in her comments, Mr Cleverly said no policy had been made yet but it was better to \"feed ideas directly into the centre\" of government.\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has faced pressure following financial turmoil in the wake of the mini-budget, after markets reacted badly to plans to borrow to fund £45bn in tax cuts.\n\nThe Conservatives have slumped in the polls since the mini-budget was unveiled, with Labour opening up wide leads.\n\nIn an interview with Times Radio, former Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said MPs would \"find a way to make change\" if poll numbers against Ms Truss did not improve.\n\n\"I want Liz to succeed, so I'm hoping that she can turn us around,\" he said. \"I think there is a window of opportunity for her to do it.\"\n\nHowever, former Brexit Secretary David Davis, who has been a strong critic of Ms Truss, said the idea of getting rid of her before the next election was \"fantasy\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it had been \"a poor start\" to her leadership but \"you've got to make this work\".\n\n\"If the party splits into pieces then we will lose the next election,\" he added.\n\nWhile there are no big policy announcements expected in her speech, BBC Political Editor Chris Mason said Ms Truss would use her platform to \"attempt to pull this party together\" following days of \"open dysfunction\".\n\n\"Governments function through the exercise of power and authority - and there've been two transparent examples in the last two days of this government lacking in both...\n\n\"This is a government that is nervous - with a lot to be nervous about.\"\n\nMs Truss will also say there has been too much focus on redistributing wealth within society, rather than on increasing the size of the economy.\n\n\"Instead, we need to grow the pie so that everyone gets a bigger slice,\" she will say.\n\n\"That is why I am determined to take a new approach and break us out of this high-tax, low-growth cycle.\n\n\"We have huge talent across the country. We're not making enough of it.\n\n\"To deliver this, we need to get Britain moving. We cannot have any more drift and delay at this vital time.\"\n\nA No 10 source said Ms Truss would aim to spell out her long-term vision in her address, and was planning to speak to Tory MPs in Parliament next week to listen to concerns and explain her plans.", "Climate activists are \"baffled\" over Egypt's decision to have Coca-Cola - a major plastic producer - sponsor this year's global climate talks.\n\nCampaigners told the BBC the deal undermines the talks, as the majority of plastics are made from fossil fuels.\n\nCoca-Cola said it \"shares the goal of eliminating waste and appreciates efforts to raise awareness\".\n\nThis year's COP27 UN climate talks are hosted by the Egyptian government in November in Sharm el-Sheikh.\n\nEgypt announced it had signed the sponsorship deal last week.\n\nAt the signing, Coca-Cola Global Vice-President, Public Policy and Sustainability Michael Goltzman said: \"Through the COP27 partnership, the Coca-Cola system aims to support collective action against climate change.\"\n\nBut opposition to the decision has grown over the past week over Coca-Cola's links to plastic pollution. Climate activists are accusing the company of \"greenwashing\" and more than 5,000 have now signed a petition calling for the decision to be reversed.\n\nThe company admitted in 2019 that it uses three million tonnes of plastic packaging in a year.\n\nFound on every continent and in the oceans, plastic is a major source of pollution. Its production also contributes to global warming. Currently 99% of global plastic is produced from fossil fuels in a process called 'cracking' which produces greenhouse gas emissions and drives climate change.\n\nAnd in 2021, an audit from Break Free From Plastic named Coca-Cola as the world's number one plastic polluter.\n\nMohammad Ahmadi of Earth Uprising International said: \"This action by the COP27 presidency goes against the purpose of the conference.\"\n\nThis was a sentiment echoed by Steve Trent, CEO of the Environmental Justice Foundation, who called on Egypt to reverse the decision.\n\nNeither Egypt's COP27 presidency nor UNFCCC - the UN's climate change body - responded to the BBC's request for comment on the sponsorship deal.\n\nLast year when the UK government hosted the climate talks, they banned fossil fuel companies from sponsoring the event.\n\nMr Trent said: \"Coca-Cola's whole business model is predicated on fossil fuels. They have made promises to improve recycling which have never been met.\"\n\nYouth activists have been protesting ahead of COP27 in November\n\nCoca-Cola told the BBC it recognised it needs to do more: \"While we have made progress against our World Without Waste goals, we're also committed to do more, faster.\"\n\nClimate activists the BBC spoke to were not only concerned about the signal the sponsorship sent, but also how it could affect the negotiations.\n\nNyombi Morris, a climate activist from Uganda and a UNOCHA Ambassador, told the BBC: \"When polluters dominate climate negotiations, we don't get good results. As an African activist, I am concerned that more of our lakes are going to be filled with plastics again.\"\n\nLast year the BBC revealed the impact that plastic pollution by Coca-Cola was having on remote communities across the world.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Panorama investigates Coca-Cola's promises to crack down on plastic waste\n\nCoca-Cola told the BBC that it remains committed to: \"collect and recycle a bottle or can for every one we sell by 2030.\"", "The London School of Economics, where Dr Jacob Breslow is an associate professor of gender and sexuality, says it is looking into the reports\n\nA trustee of the charity Mermaids has resigned after reports he spoke at a conference organised by a group that promotes support for paedophiles.\n\nDr Jacob Breslow quit the transgender children's charity after the Times revealed he had attended the B4U-ACT conference in 2011, as a PhD student.\n\nB4U-ACT calls for paedophiles to have the right to live \"in truth and dignity\".\n\nMermaids says the organisation is \"completely at odds\" with its values.\n\nB4U-ACT's website says it holds workshops and gives presentations about the needs and rights of people \"with an attraction to children and adolescents\", and runs support groups for both them and their friends and family members.\n\nA published summary of a presentation Dr Breslow is understood to have given uses the phrase \"minor-attracted persons\" instead of paedophile.\n\nDr Breslow is an associate professor of gender and sexuality at the London School of Economics (LSE).\n\nLSE said: \"We have been made aware of a presentation given at an external event in 2011 by a then graduate student, now faculty member of LSE. We are looking into these reports.\"\n\nThe transgender children's charity said: \"Mermaids has been made aware of Dr Breslow's historical participation in a conference that is completely at odds with our values.\n\n\"Once notified we took swift and decisive action to investigate. Dr Breslow tendered his notice on the same day.\n\n\"We will be reviewing our processes and procedures in light of this event to make them even more robust.\n\n\"Safeguarding is of the utmost importance to Mermaids and the safety of the young people we support is our highest priority.\"\n\nBBC News has approached Dr Breslow for comment but he was unavailable at the time of publishing.", "Twenty four hours can be a long time in politics. Just ask Liz Truss.\n\nOn Sunday morning, she was telling Laura Kuenssberg her plan to scrap the additional rate of tax was here to stay.\n\nAre you completely committed to it? Yes, she replied confidently.\n\nAs late as last night, senior ministers were defending the plan in the fringe meetings around the conference.\n\nBut something had changed.\n\nThe prime minister and chancellor held a series of crisis talks over the course of Sunday, as it became increasingly clear the policy was unsellable.\n\nThe telltale signs were there. Conservative MPs were hitting the airwaves and social media to say they thought it was wrong. They had a talisman in the form of Michael Gove. What many had been saying privately was not coming out in public.\n\nThe warning they might lose the whip seemed to be counterproductive; it infuriated sceptical MPs who didn't think the prime minister had the authority to see it through.\n\nGrant Shapps - famous around Westminster for his ability to predict the result of votes - warned the government could lose in the Commons. Privately, Labour was confident of the same.\n\nAnd by the time Mr Shapps appeared on the BBC's News at 10pm - to say the government had got its priorities wrong - the policy was already destined for the dustbin.\n\nIt was late evening when the final decision was made. Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng gathered for talks in the Hyatt Hotel in Birmingham, just beside the conference venue. They both now agreed: the policy had to be dumped immediately.\n\nIt was agreed the chancellor would kill it off in the morning in his BBC interviews.\n\nSome senior cabinet ministers found out this morning, shortly before the announcement was made and after it had been reported, first by the Sun newspaper.\n\nThis is a significant blow for a government that has been in office for less than a month. It's a personal blow for a chancellor who had always prided himself on sticking to his guns.\n\nDespite that, Mr Kwarteng's allies insist he is calm and even relieved that the policy is dead.\n\n\"He knew this was going to dominate everything,\" one says this morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Prime Minister Liz Truss says she stands by plans announced in the mini-budget\n\nBut any sense of calm doesn't extend far beyond Mr Kwarteng's hotel room.\n\nAround the conference centre, the Conservative Party feels as febrile as at any point in the past couple of years.\n\nIn the words of one former minister: \"No wonder Labour are laughing. You couldn't make it up… it's just incompetence.\"\n\nWhat's been noticeable is that many true-believers aren't sure she's made the right decision.\n\nI asked one cabinet minister, close to the prime minister, if she'd made the right decision. They shrugged, adding: \"There was an inevitability to it.\"\n\nOne minister I spoke to put it politely when they said they were \"not happy\".\n\n\"It undermines credibility,\" they said, predicting that Tory backbenchers would now be emboldened to challenge policies they didn't like, a daunting prospect for a new prime minister just a few weeks into the job.\n\nA backbencher, who opposed the 45p policy, said junking it was bad for the PM's authority: \"It looks weak.\"\n\nLanguage we couldn't publish has been used more than once this morning.\n\nAnother MP who backed Ms Truss for the leadership was more sanguine, but still sceptical: \"I'm not sure I would have gone for the u-turn. But she's done it and we need to support her.\"\n\nBut there's also a question mark over the relationship between the prime minister and her chancellor.\n\nShe told the BBC on Sunday that the decision to scrap the 45p rate was his. He said this morning that the U-turn decision was hers (he later said it was both of them).\n\nWhen Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng moved into Downing Street, they were seen as the closest of political friends. Allies said they would be joined at the hip.\n\nMore than a few eyebrows were raised by the willingness to attribute a decision to the other in the past couple of days.\n\nSources close to them say the idea of a split is overplayed. But a month in, not many people would have expected it to be a discussion at all.\n\nSo what state is the government in this afternoon? Battered and bruised? Definitely humiliated? Probably.\n\nUnable to recover? Some Tories think so.\n\nA former minister told me the conference has a \"last days of Rome\" feel about it. They warned the government hasn't solved the problem of unfunded borrowing, which will still be well over £40bn for tax cuts.\n\nThe hope in government will be that by taking this decision quickly, the damage from the 45p row will be limited, and that the government will be able to move on.\n\nBut in doing so, the prime minister is admitting her determination to fight for unpopular policies only goes so far.\n\nThere is a limit to how unpopular they are prepared to be.", "Liz Truss has addressed the Conservative Party conference for the first time as prime minister, vowing to focus on “growth, growth and growth”.\n\nHere are some of the key moments from her speech.", "Brenda and Tony Lawson, Jessica's parents, attended the judicial hearing into the 12-year-old's death in France\n\nThree British teachers have been found not guilty of the equivalent of manslaughter by gross negligence after a girl drowned on a trip to France.\n\nJessica Lawson, 12, who attended Wolfreton School near Hull, had been swimming in a lake near Limoges in July 2015 when a plastic pontoon overturned.\n\nChantelle Lewis, Daisy Stathers and Steven Layne were cleared of any wrongdoing by a judicial hearing.\n\nThe lifeguard on duty and the French local authority were also cleared.\n\nThe hearing in France was told 24 children, aged 12 to 17, had been swimming when the incident happened and Jessica was found beneath the pontoon. She later died in hospital.\n\nFrench prosecutors had recommended Ms Lewis, Ms Stathers and Mr Layne, as well as lifeguard Leo Lemaire, be jailed for three years.\n\n(Clockwise from top left) Teachers Steven Layne, Chantelle Lewis, Daisy Stathers and lifeguard Leo Lemaire were cleared of wrongdoing\n\nGiving her verdicts through an interpreter to the Palais de Justice in Tulle on Wednesday, the head of jurisdiction, Marie-Sophie Waguette, told the four: \"The area was being surveyed by the lifeguard, the lifeguard was present, the flag was green.\n\n\"There was not any reason to think that the floating platform could turn over. We don't know why her drowning took place at the time when the platform turned over.\n\n\"There is therefore no evidence to show that they were negligent - therefore you are found not guilty.\"\n\nEarlier in proceedings, Ms Waguette said there should have been a minimum of three chains to secure the pontoon, but a picture shown in court displayed only two.\n\nThe three teachers had stood accused of failing to comply with risk-evaluation regulations.\n\nHowever, Ms Waguette said the court believed they \"were not under obligation to carry out any specific checks\".\n\nShe added there was no evidence to suggest the teachers had failed to monitor the activity.\n\nWhen the verdicts were announced, Jessica's father, Tony Lawson, left the courtroom. Both Ms Lewis and Ms Stathers broke down in tears.\n\nThe schoolgirl's mother, Brenda Lawson, said her family had been through \"torturous suffering\", describing Jessica as \"full of fun, laughter and care\".\n\nSpeaking outside court, Mr Lemaire, the lifeguard at the scene of the incident, said: \"It's been seven years since this happened. During that time I have, of course, thought of her parents and what happened.\n\n\"And today, I think, it was the moment for everyone to move on and try to move forward with their lives.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "After 24 hours of confusion, the Treasury has confirmed that it has brought forward the publication date of long-awaited financial plans.\n\nThe economic forecasts could be published later this month.\n\nThis is despite both Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and PM Liz Truss saying that the publication date is 23 November.\n\nThat was the date announced by the chancellor in the wake of his mini-budget 12 days ago.\n\nHe came under immediate pressure to bring that date forward to calm markets spooked by the lack of details on how tax cuts will be paid for.\n\nHe resisted these calls, saying the forecasts would not be ready in time, but appeared to have changed his mind in his speech to the Conservative Party conference on Monday.\n\nBuried in the speech was a line saying the medium-term fiscal plan would be published \"shortly\".\n\nJournalists checking this out with Treasury sources on Monday evening, had it confirmed that the statement would indeed be brought forward.\n\nBut quizzed on Tuesday about whether that was the case, the chancellor said there had been no change.\n\n\"People have been reading the runes and the pauses, it's going to be the 23rd,\" he told GB News.\n\nThe reason for the confusion, say Treasury sources, is that they want to officially announce the change of date in Parliament - and it really will be brought forward.\n\nBut until then, 23 November will remain in the official diary....", "Lives are being lost across Northern Ireland because emergency departments are unable to cope with rising numbers.\n\nThat is according to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine which said this winter will be tough for patients and staff.\n\nIts vice-president, Dr Paul Kerr, told BBC News NI that patients are queuing for beds and waiting in corridors.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said he was \"keenly aware of the pressures being felt\".\n\nEarlier, the Royal College of Surgeons warned that planned surgeries in Northern Ireland could be cancelled in the coming weeks.\n\n\"We know that people are having to wait for a very long time at the most vulnerable time in their lives, they are coming to hospital and lying on trolleys sometimes for days and lives are being lost,\" Dr Kerr added.\n\nWaiting times are already reaching those similar to what is reported in winter.\n\nTrusts have been appealing for help over the last 24 hours with emergency departments under severe pressure.\n\nIt comes as political and health officials call for a functioning Northern Ireland Executive to tackle the ongoing health crisis.\n\nUnison said the \"relentless\" situation was \"completely unsustainable\".\n\nMark Taylor, from the Royal College of Surgeons, told BBC's Good Morning Ulster that the current situation had became \"just the usual\".\n\n\"This has been unrelenting. Winter pressures came many, many months ago, at a time when we would have had the normal lull in emergency admissions,\" he said.\n\nThe Royal College of Surgeons has warned that planned surgeries in Northern Ireland could be cancelled in the coming weeks.\n\n\"The difficulty for me, from the Royal College of Surgeons, is it will mean elective [planned] surgery will stop because that's what happens every year, in winter.\n\n\"One of the reasons we have called repeatedly for the separation of emergency and elective is for this very reason.\n\n\"It will not be surprising if we're cancelling elective surgery in the coming weeks.\"\n\nMr Taylor said there are currently 124,917 patients waiting for surgery in Northern Ireland and they are presenting in emergency departments as a \"journey of their illness\".\n\nHe called on political leaders to form an executive to tackle the ongoing health crisis.\n\n\"It requires a collective approach, we have said it repeatedly that you need a functioning government, you need all people willing to make the changes that are needed,\" he said.\n\nUnison representative James Large said his members were \"feeling the strain\" across the entire healthcare system.\n\nHe told Good Morning Ulster: \"It's just become completely unsustainable for our members who haven't had a break, it's been relentless over the last two-and-a-half, three years.\n\n\"I think it's a bit disingenuous to call it winter pressures because it's all year round pressure, it just doesn't go away and it's gradually getting worse with each passing day.\"\n\nHe called for a functioning executive, adding spiralling food and fuel costs would contribute to hospital admissions this winter.\n\nThe Stormont executive is not sitting due to the DUP's ongoing opposition over the NI Protocol, the post-Brexit trading deal.\n\nPressures faced by the health service are now a perennial issue, Alliance assembly member Paula Bradshaw told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\nMs Bradshaw says she hopes an action plan from the Department for Health can help address some of the issues.\n\n\"There's no doubt that it's not even a winter pressure issue anymore,\" she said.\n\n\"They made an appeal in July, they were appeals made last March and January - it is perennial issue now.\"\n\nRobin Swann said the health and social care service was \"focused on increasing levels of activity after the pandemic\" and would be \"mobilising available capacity\" to mitigate winter pressures.\n\n\"It is important to be honest with the public - these problems are long-standing and there is no quick fix,\" he said.\n\nHe added that efforts to increase capacity through investment in people and technology had been hampered by the absence of a Northern Ireland Executive and the \"significant projected overspend\" facing his department.\n\nSinn Féin's Colm Gildernew said an executive must be formed urgently to bolster the struggling health service.\n\n\"It is reflected in the emergency departments but it is a result of a lack of workforce right across the system,\" he said.\n\n\"Staff are under too much pressure for far too long and a lack of implementation and investment in retention and recruitment of staff.\"\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) assembly member Pam Cameron said the problems \"won't magically disappear\" once the executive is formed.\n\n\"Obviously the challenges facing the health service haven't developed over the last months, certainly not over the last six months,\" Ms Cameron said.\n\n\"They won't magically disappear when we can form an executive.\n\n\"It is going to take a long-term strategic plan for our health service and that is something that we want to see.\"", "Moscow's move to annex parts of Ukraine has sent a new Iron Curtain down across a vast swathe of territory - cutting off an unknown number of people from their own country.\n\nUntil 1 October, Ukrainians were able, with difficulty, to move to and from across the front lines.\n\nFrom a crossing point at Vasylivka, on the eastern bank of the Dnipro river, some would travel to nearby non-occupied Zaporizhzhia to visit relatives, buy food or medicines.\n\nBut many left for good, carrying what they could with them, in search of new lives in areas not under Russian occupation. Some travelled on to Europe.\n\nOn average, about 1,000 people used to arrive every day at a makeshift reception centre in the carpark of a DIY superstore on the edge of Zaporizhzhia.\n\nOn 30 September, with Russia's self-styled \"referendums\" over and annexation being announced in Moscow, local police said that figure rose to 1,616.\n\nBut then the flow almost stopped.\n\nThe following day, 50 people arrived. On Sunday 2 October, it was down to just eight.\n\nReports from Vasylivka, meanwhile, spoke of huge lines of people in cars desperate to leave.\n\nPeople are desperate to leave Russian-occupied areas, Mayor Ivan Fedorov says\n\n\"The queue to leave the occupied territories is 4,500 people,\" the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, told us from his temporary office in Zaporizhzhia. \"An elderly man died in the queue yesterday.\"\n\nCivilians from Melitopol were trying any route they could, Fedorov said, including through Crimea, but there were long lines that way too.\n\n\"Those who left the east before 1 October managed to cross the passage to Zaporizhzhia within two days,\" said a source in Kherson who asked to remain anonymous.\n\n\"But a friend of mine who left on Thursday is still there. They have to sleep in their cars for the fourth day in a row.\"\n\nOn Monday, the reception centre in Zaporizhzhia was almost deserted. The car park where barriers are arranged to deal with convoys of vehicles was empty.\n\nThere was almost no-one in the large white tent where blankets and clothes were piled up, ready to be handed out to new arrivals.\n\nWe met 19-year old Maksym Bezhan, travelling with his mother, young brother and family cat - three of just 43 people to arrive that day.\n\nThey were all exhausted after a four-day trip from their home in a village near the port city of Berdyansk.\n\n\"It was frightening to get out,\" he told us. \"We were afraid we'd encounter a Russian soldier in a bad mood; that we'd be turned around and sent back home.\"\n\nThere were other worries too. Would the soldiers check his phone? His computer?\n\n\"After the invasion,\" he said, \"I became very pro-Ukrainian.\"\n\nMaksym Bezhan (left) and his family made it after a gruelling four-day trip\n\nThe family spent nights sleeping in the car. \"It was raining on Sunday,\" Maksym said. \"It was very uncomfortable to sit in the car. All our bones ached. But it was too cold to go outside.\"\n\nThe family had very little money. Maksym's mother bought food for his younger brother but refused to eat any herself.\n\n\"People are very tired there,\" he said of the queues around Vasylivka. \"They're barely surviving. They're running out of patience and money. There's an atmosphere of tiredness and despair.\"\n\nOne of the main holdups since annexation is a new Russian exit form. All those who want to leave are obliged to complete it online and wait for a reply.\n\nIt asks for a lot of information. Not just the names and passport details of applicants, but their mobile phone and IMEI (phone identification) numbers, contact information for their hosts, purpose of their trip and details of all relatives living in Ukraine.\n\n\"Have you ever done military/state service in Ukraine from May 2014 to April 2022?\" it asks. \"If not, specify the reason.\"\n\n\"Have you been a member of any [political] parties of NGOs on the territory of Ukraine?\"\n\nIt's basically a visa application, underlining Russia's insistence that this is now an international frontier.\n\nFamilies who got through are hoping for a new life beyond the reach of the Kremlin\n\nThe head of Zaporizhzhia's Ukrainian regional military administration, Oleksandr Starukh, said Russia was trying to build a \"state border\" at Vasylivka. Until Friday, no such form existed.\n\nIts appearance is causing fear and confusion. Telegram chat groups set up to help people leave are full of anxious questions.\n\n\"I'm going with my daughter through Vasylivka,\" writes Sofia. \"My husband is in Poland. Will they let me through with her, without his permission?\"\n\n\"Please help me,\" Andrii writes. \"A 20-year old guy wants to go to hospital. People say it's better not to say that. Who wrote what when applying for a pass.\"\n\n\"We've been sitting near Dneprorudny [west of Vasylivka] for 4 days,\" complains Viraliy. \"We've not received a response yet.\"\n\nAnd there are other, more domestic concerns too. \"Maybe someone saw a grey young cat with green eyes running around?\" Olena asks. \"He escaped from the car.\"\n\nAnother woman, posting anonymously to a Telegram channel, spoke of families, some of them with babies, living in their cars, short of food and running out of money.\n\n\"In addition to this,\" she wrote, \"not far from where cars are parked, hostilities are taking place. Rockets sometimes fly over people.\"\n\nFor now, movement across the front line is impossible in either direction.\n\nFollowing last Friday's rocket attack on the outskirts of Zaporizhzhia, which killed at least 30 civilians, the authorities in Zaporizhzhia banned all movement into Russian-controlled territory for an indefinite period, citing security concerns.", "A pair of Star Wars superfans have exchanged religious vows in a ceremony themed around the blockbuster films.\n\nTina and Kevin Rankin, from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, got married 20 years ago, but wanted a service in a church not so far, far away.\n\nThe ceremony at St Catherine's was officiated by the Reverend Charlotte Ruston, dressed as character Kylo Ren.\n\nShe said: \"Being a massive Star Wars fan myself, there was never any danger of me saying no this wedding.\"\n\nThe Reverend Charlotte Ruston says there was never any danger of her saying no to the Star Wars-themed wedding\n\n\"The whole day was full of fun and laughter. When Jesus talked about the fullness of life, I think that he was referring to days like this,\" Ms Ruston added.\n\nSt Catherine's was transformed from a traditional Anglican church into a Star Wars-inspired setting for the ceremony.\n\nMr Rankin is a member of the UK Garrison of the 501 Legion, an international Star Wars fan organisation.\n\nTheir members describe themselves as \"bad guys doing good\". Members dress as the villains from the Galactic Empire to raise funds for charity.\n\nTina and Kevin originally got married in a register office, but transformed the church into a Star Wars-themed setting\n\nThe couple were keen to include the Garrison in their wedding blessing.\n\n\"We are thankful for everyone at St Catherine's for helping us renew our wedding vows in a style which reflected not only our faith, but also our personalities and hobbies as well,\" Ms Rankin said.\n\n\"The whole day was full of joy and merriment. It was definitely a day no one will forget. We feel really blessed.\"\n\nMs Rankin explained that when they got married in 2005, the only say Kevin had was the venue. They always joked that when they renewed their vows, she would have the say on the venue and everything else would be his call.\n\n\"It's a bit of fun after a rough couple of years.\"\n\nMr Rankin said with beautiful weather, friends and family who could make it, and the Garrison, it was \"all he could have hoped for\".\n\n\"It was a fun day, and people were totally open to dress up, some had costumes and some just had t-shirts.\n\n\"It just goes to show, you don't have to colour in the same lines as everyone else, you can break with tradition and do things that are personal to yourself.\"", "The NHS in Scotland will recruit 1,000 new staff to help the health service cope this winter, the health secretary has said.\n\nHumza Yousaf said more than £8m would be invested in recruiting 750 additional nurses, midwives and health professionals from overseas.\n\nNHS boards will also hire 250 more support staff across acute, primary care and mental health.\n\nThe Conservatives described the plans as \"completely inadequate\".\n\nThe government's Health and Social Care Winter Resilience plan sets out £600m of funding for the coming months.\n\nIt comes after summer waiting times at Scotland's A&E departments were the worst on record, according to new figures.\n\nMr Yousaf said new recruitment would be a welcome boost to staff and health boards ahead of what is anticipated to be an \"extremely challenging\" winter.\n\nHe also outlined an additional £45m of funding for recruitment in the Scottish Ambulance Service, as well as measures to help health boards retain staff.\n\nThe health secretary told MSPs the measures would ensure \"people get the right care they need at the right time and in the most appropriate setting\".\n\nHe added: \"NHS Scotland's staffing and funding is already at historically high levels, but as we approach the winter period it is crucial that we look to maximise, and enhance where we can, the capacity of the NHS.\n\n\"Given the scale of the escalating cost of living crisis, combined with the continued uncertainty posed by Covid and a possible resurgence of flu, this winter will be one of the most challenging our NHS has ever faced.\n\n\"These measures will support winter resilience across our health and care system. We will also expand our workforce, particularly registered nurses to assist with the expected increase in workload.\"\n\nWaiting times at Scotland's A&E departments were the worst on record over the summer\n\nWith such little give in the health system and unprecedented demand, there is no shortage of warnings on how hard it is going to be for the NHS in the coming months.\n\nThe health secretary's winter plans were never going to offer a magical solution.\n\nAdditional funding for new staff will be welcomed by health boards, but recruitment has been a long-standing challenge in health and social care. It comes at a time when doctors' and nurses' unions warn of fears people could leave these professions early because of sustained pressures and pay disputes.\n\nThere is also no escaping that A&E waiting times performance hitting a new low during the summer indicates a more widespread crisis in the NHS.\n\nIn part, this is down to shortages in social care which means high numbers of people are unable to be discharged from hospital, leaving less capacity to admit new patients.\n\nThe flow of patients in and out of the hospital isn't working well enough to keep up with the volume of people who need care.\n\nThis is the backdrop as winter is on our doorstep, a time when demand for health services traditionally increases.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said doctors and patients \"at their wits' end\" would receive little comfort from the government's winter plans.\n\nThe party's health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane said: \"The health secretary offered no solutions to the crisis in our A&E departments.\n\n\"He made no mention of dentistry whatsoever in his speech, despite warnings that NHS dentistry in Scotland is on the verge of collapse.\n\n\"And he boasted about his government's action on delayed discharge, despite the latest statistics showing that bed blocking remains at almost record levels.\"\n\nHe added: \"Scotland's NHS is already at breaking point, and if this is all the health secretary can muster, then we are in for a terrifying winter.\n\nThe government had earlier faced criticism over the record high waiting times at A&E.\n\nThe monthly stats for August show 69.7% of patients were dealt with within the four-hour target.\n\nThe figure was just slightly down on the previous month which was also among the worst since comparable records began more than a decade ago.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said it was \"chilling\" to imagine the state of A&Es when winter comes and Labour said Scotland was at risk of a humanitarian crisis if action was not taken.\n\nThe Scottish government target for accident and emergency waiting is for 95% of patients to be admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.\n\nIn August 2019, the summer before the pandemic, more than 90% of patients were dealt with in the target time.\n\nThis year, the monthly figures for August show that despite fewer people attending A&E, the number waiting longer than four hours rose massively to 41,112 patients.\n\nOf the 135,532 people who went to A&E for help that month, 12,969 were there for eight hours or more.\n\nThere were 4,967 patients who spent more than 12 hours in A&E - the highest monthly total on record. By contrast, in August 2019 it was just 354.\n\nThe performance against the A&E target is monitored both weekly and monthly.\n\nThe latest figures showed in the week-ending 25 September that two-thirds of patients (66.3%) were dealt with in the target time.\n\nThis was just slightly above the record low for week-ending 11 September (63.5%).\n\nHowever, the length of A&E waiting times often depends on where you live.\n\nScotland's bigger hospitals, which attract the largest number of patients, are struggling the most.\n\nForth Valley Royal was the worst performing A&E in the week-ending 25 September, with 39.6% of people seen within four hours.\n\nThe figure for Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary was 43.5% and Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital was 54.3%.\n\nThe health secretary urged people to \"consider whether their condition is an emergency\" before heading to A&E.\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"As we enter the winter period, it is crucial that people consider whether their condition is an emergency, such as a stroke, heart attack or major trauma, before going to A&E.\n\n\"Local GPs and pharmacies can be contacted during the day for non-critical care, NHS 24 is also available on 111 for non-emergencies.\"\n\nScottish Labour health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said Mr Yousaf had shown himself thoroughly incapable of taking on the challenge.\n\n\"Winter is looming - if action is not taken now we risk a humanitarian crisis in A&E departments,\" she said.\n\n\"The SNP must act now to prevent further casualties at the hands of their inept health secretary.\"", "Angelina Jolie has filed court papers accusing ex-husband Brad Pitt of drunkenly attacking her and their children during a private plane flight, prompting her to file for divorce.\n\nIn a lawsuit over a French winery that the stars bought, Ms Jolie says Mr Pitt grabbed her by the head and attacked two of their children on the 2016 trip.\n\nMr Pitt also verbally abused and poured alcohol on his family during the flight from France to Los Angeles, she says.\n\nMs Jolie's claim of abusive behaviour by Mr Pitt on the 14 September 2016 flight have emerged in previous court papers, including the Oscar-winning former couple's divorce settlement.\n\nThe incident was investigated by the FBI in 2016. Authorities decided not to press charges.\n\nBut new details were alleged in Tuesday's filing in Los Angeles by Ms Jolie's legal team. It is part of an ongoing lawsuit over Chateau Miraval SA, a home and vineyard in the south of France that the former Hollywood couple acquired together.\n\nMr Pitt argues that he and his former wife had agreed not to sell their stakes in the venue without the permission of the other.\n\nMs Jolie disputes this, and blames Mr Pitt for ending negotiations over purchasing her shares of the property.\n\nHer cross-complaint on Tuesday says the actor was physically and emotionally abusive towards her and their six children - aged 8 to 15 at the time - during the private plane flight.\n\nHer lawyers allege the Fight Club star began shouting, accusing her of being \"too deferential to the children\".\n\nShortly into the flight, Mr Pitt \"pulled her into the bathroom\" in the back of the plane, says the lawsuit.\n\n\"Pitt grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her, and then grabbed her shoulders and shook her again before pushing her into the bathroom wall,\" the filing adds.\n\nMiraval is known for its rosé wine\n\n\"Pitt then punched the ceiling of the plane numerous times, prompting Jolie to leave the bathroom.\"\n\nAfter one child verbally intervened, Mr Pitt \"lunged at his own child\", says the filing.\n\nMs Jolie then \"grabbed him from behind to stop him\", according to the court papers.\n\n\"To get Jolie off his back, Pitt threw himself backwards into the airplane's seats injuring Jolie's back and elbow,\" the legal filing continues.\n\n\"The children rushed in and all bravely tried to protect each other. Before it was over, Pitt choked one of the children and struck another in the face.\"\n\nMs Jolie's lawyers say she and her children \"sat still and silent under blankets\" for the remainder of the flight.\n\nThe French estate, seen in 2008\n\n\"Pitt periodically emerged from the back of the plane to yell and swear at them. At one point, he poured beer on Jolie; at another, he poured beer and red wine on the children,\" says the filing.\n\nA source close to the actor told the BBC that Ms Jolie's claims were false.\n\n\"She continues to rehash, revise and reimagine her description of an event that happened six years ago by adding completely untrue information each time she fails to get what she wants,\" said the source. \"Her story is constantly evolving.\"\n\nLast year, a judge awarded joint custody of the children to both parents.\n\nThe Miraval estate is located in the village of Correns in south-eastern France, and was bought by the couple for around €25m (£21.3m; $25m) in 2008.\n\nThe stars got married there six years later.\n\nMr Pitt has sued Ms Jolie, claiming that her decision to sell her stake in the estate to a Russian oligarch amounted to an attempt to \"undermine\" his investment and cause \"gratuitous harm\" to Mr Pitt, who had \"poured money and sweat equity into the wine business\".\n\nMs Jolie's lawyers say in their filing that the actress \"has gone to great lengths to try to shield their children from reliving the pain Pitt inflicted on the family that day\".\n\nThey add that her decision to sell her stake in the venture was in part due to her \"growing increasingly uncomfortable with continuing to participate in an alcohol-related business, given the impact of Pitt's acknowledged problem of alcohol abuse on their family\". Mr Pitt told the New York Times in 2019 that he had joined Alcoholics Anonymous following his split from Ms Jolie.\n\nMs Jolie's court filing lays bare the tension between the couple over their plans for the winery.\n\nMr Pitt, who has previously spoken of his love for architecture and design, decided the chateau needed a fifth pool at a cost of €1m and wanted a staircase to be rebuilt four times, according to Ms Jolie.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Angelina Jolie made an emotional speech in support of victims of abuse in February", "Ukraine says seven Russian missiles hit residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia before dawn on Thursday\n\nRussia's President Vladimir Putin has signed the final papers to annex four regions of Ukraine - even as his military suffered further setbacks.\n\nThe Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions are \"accepted into the Russian Federation\" the documents say.\n\nBut in two of those areas - Luhansk and Kherson - Ukraine said it has been retaking more villages.\n\nMr Putin also signed a decree to formalise Russia's seizure of the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia.\n\nLast Friday, the Russian leader held a grand ceremony in the Kremlin, where he signed agreements with the Moscow-installed leaders of the four regions.\n\nThe move followed self-proclaimed referendums in the areas, denounced as a \"sham\" by the West.\n\nBut on the ground there appears to be a different reality, with Ukrainian forces making gains in both the south and the east.\n\nSerhiy Haidai, Ukrainian governor of Luhansk, told the BBC on Wednesday that six villages in the region had been recaptured.\n\nAnd President Zelensky later said Ukraine had liberated three more villages in the southern region of Kherson.\n\nThat followed a series of gains in Kherson the previous day, including the strategically key village of Davydiv Brid.\n\nMeanwhile, the southern city of Zaporizhzhia was rocked by a series of huge explosions an hour or so before dawn on Thursday.\n\nLocal authorities say seven Russian missiles hit residential buildings and that people are under the rubble. There has been no information on casualties so far.\n\nThe BBC's Paul Adams, who is in the city, says rescue workers are combing through the shattered remains of an elegant five storey apartment building in the middle of the city.\n\nZaporizhzhia was rocked by a series of huge explosions an hour or so before dawn on Thursday\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia would retake any territory that had been lost to Ukrainian forces.\n\nFacing questions over the recent losses, he told reporters: \"There is no contradiction here. They will be with Russia forever, they will be returned.\"\n\nIn a speech to teachers on Russian teachers' day, Mr Putin said he would \"calmly develop\" the annexed territories.\n\nBut Andrey Kartopolov, the chairman of the State Duma defence committee, told state media that Russia needed to stop lying about what was happening on the battlefield, saying that Russians were not stupid.\n\nRussia is still working to mobilise reservists, after Mr Putin announced a call-up last month of 300,000 people who had completed compulsory military service.\n\nBut Mr Putin has rowed back on which groups will be affected, after strong opposition and protests in Russia against the move.\n\nHe has signed a decree exempting several categories of students, including first-time students at accredited institutions, and certain types of postgraduate students - such as those in the field of science.\n\nIn another move, President Putin has signed a decree to formalise Russia's seizure of the nuclear power plant in one of the annexed regions - Zaporizhzhia - which has been occupied by Russian troops since the early days of the war.\n\nRussia says the plant - Europe's largest nuclear facility - will be operated by a new company, but Ukraine's nuclear operator has dismissed the move as \"worthless\".\n\nRafael Grossi, the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, has said he will hold consultations with the two sides following the development.\n\nHe is heading to Kyiv and then Moscow, seeking to establish a protection zone around the plant, which is situated near the front line of fighting.\n\nReports of battles around the nuclear site have sparked international concern, and the last of its reactors was shut down last month.", "There was the content of the prime minister's speech. And then the context of its delivery.\n\nAnd context is everything. This is a party that has been close to ripping itself to shreds in the last few days.\n\nIt was a conference that was a showcase of dysfunction and division, from the cabinet down. Indiscipline within government, mutiny beyond it.\n\nLet's explore both in more detail - both what was said publicly and what I was told privately.\n\nFirstly, there was the ruthlessly successful campaign to get a new prime minister to junk her planned tax cut for the highest earners in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nSpearheaded by prominent former supporters of Liz Truss's leadership rival Rishi Sunak, yes, but with broad support including among people in government.\n\nA crushing, humiliating, authority sapping U-turn that left the prime minister weakened and vulnerable.\n\nVulnerable to further mutiny, which followed within hours.\n\nBecause then came the debate about benefits - whether all such payments should go up in line with wages or the more expensive option of inflation, exposed deeper disagreement, because it exposed indiscipline within government.\n\nThe Commons leader, Penny Mordaunt, another rival of Liz Truss over the summer, said she supported a rise in line with prices, even though the government's official position was that it hadn't decided.\n\nSo much for cabinet collective responsibility. A strong prime minister would sack a cabinet minister for such insubordination.\n\n\"She should be called in on Monday morning and sacked,\" one senior party figure who voted for Ms Truss told me.\n\nTheir face etched with anguish, they were astonished and depressed by the early weeks of her time in Downing Street.\n\nCollective responsibility? Cabinet members Michelle Donelan, Penny Mordaunt and Jake Berry watched the speech together\n\nBut another senior figure, a current cabinet minister, disagreed. Ms Mordaunt is too big a figure to fire when the government is so weak, it could be the start of a snowballing chain of events that could bring the prime minister down, this minister speculated.\n\nAnd make no mistake, fears of this government's collapse run to its highest levels.\n\n\"People need to calm the [expletive] down!,\" said another cabinet minister.\n\nThe only crutch that gives those at the top reprieve from their gloom is a view that another leadership race would be ridiculous and, for a party languishing so far behind in the opinion polls, an imminent election would amount to a death wish.\n\nBut there is a growing fear among some Truss supporters that there is a doom-laden fatalism among too many Conservative MPs, an assumption that defeat at the next election is close to inevitable.\n\n\"They say it'd be good for us to have a stint in opposition! It drives me mad,\" one said.\n\nOne party veteran said the root of the worries was fundamental and depressing - a concern Ms Truss isn't in control and doesn't know what she is doing and that that is a perception that might stick.\n\nThose around the prime minister are shaken by the turbulence of the last few days and glad this conference is over.\n\nThe speech itself was short and had no new policy ideas. A case of once bitten, twice shy, methinks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut remember too this is a prime minister barely known by the wider electorate, still seeking to introduce herself - and it was this she sought to do in her Birmingham speech.\n\nCharacter-shaping moments that give her drive, such as being handed an air hostess badge on a plane as a child, when her brothers were given pilot badges, for instance.\n\nAnd a framing of her central objective, improving economic growth, by attempting to bind her political opponents together as an \"anti-growth coalition.\" Expect to hear that phrase again.\n\nThe problems the government confronts are colossal. Economic growth, or the lack of it, is just one of many.\n\nGripping them would stretch a united outfit - the Conservatives are a long way from that right now.", "King Charles should attend the upcoming climate change conference COP27, the president of last year's summit and member of Liz Truss's cabinet has said.\n\nAlok Sharma was responding to a report which claimed the prime minister had \"ordered\" the King not to attend.\n\nBuckingham Palace later confirmed the King will not attend the summit in Egypt next month.\n\nMr Sharma said the King had championed the environment for decades and other countries wanted him to attend.\n\nThe former business secretary, who led COP26 in Glasgow last November and retains cabinet status, told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight programme: \"I would certainly like to see His Majesty attend and that is a message I am getting from countries around the world.\n\n\"Of course, he is head of state in the United Kingdom but he is also head of state in other countries, some of which are very much on the front line of climate change.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Buckingham Palace said the decision for King Charles not to attend COP27 had been made \"with mutual friendship and respect\" after the monarch sought the prime minister's advice.\n\nCOP26 president Alok Sharma said King Charles had been a \"huge global champion of the environment\" before it was a mainstream issue\n\nMr Sharma said he couldn't comment about the content of the conversations between the King and prime minister, but said the monarch had for decades been a \"huge global champion of the environment and tackling climate change long before it was a mainstream issue\".\n\nIn his former role as the Prince of Wales, the King has been a staunch climate campaigner and made a speech during the opening ceremony of last year's summit.\n\nLast week, Egypt warned the UK not to \"backtrack\" on the global climate agenda.\n\nMs Truss has not said whether she will attend COP27, suggesting that the UK may have neither a head of government nor a head of state in attendance.\n\nMr Sharma said the prime minister had been clear on the government's commitment to reach a target of net-zero emissions by 2050.", "The interest rate on a typical two-year fixed rate mortgage has breached 6% for the first time in 14 years.\n\nThe typical deal has a rate of 6.07%, the financial information service Moneyfacts says, a level not seen since the financial crisis in November 2008.\n\nMortgage rates have been going up for months, but recorded a sharp increase in response to the fall-out from the mini-budget nearly two weeks ago.\n\nFirst-time buyers and those looking to remortgage are affected.\n\nAn average of at least 100,000 people a month are coming to the end of their current mortgage, and face a significant rise in their monthly repayments.\n\n\"Borrowers may well be concerned about the rise to fixed mortgage rates but it is essential they seek advice to assess the deals that are available to them right now,\" said Rachel Springall from Moneyfacts.\n\n\"Fixing for longer may seem more appealing, particularly as both the average two- and five-year fixed rates rise to levels not seen in over a decade. Consumers must carefully consider whether now is the right time to buy a home or to wait and see how things change in the coming weeks.\"\n\nBrokers say lenders are \"playing safe\" with rates amid current economic uncertainty, but costs could eventually start to dip.\n\nUncertainty over future interest rates after the mini-budget led lenders to pull more than a thousand deals from the market.\n\nThey are slowly starting to return - there were 3,961 products a fortnight ago, now there are 2,371 - but have become more expensive on average.\n\nRepresentatives from High Street banks and mortgage lenders are meeting Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng on Thursday, with the current situation facing borrowers on the agenda. It is understood that this is the latest in a regular series of discussions.\n\nBosses from Barclays, Natwest and Lloyds Banking Group are expected to attend.\n\nThe interest rate on a new, average two-year fixed deal on the morning of the speech was 4.74%, compared with 6.07% now. That is a difference of about £170 a month on repayments for somebody borrowing £200,000 on a 30-year mortgage.\n\nA five-year fixed deal has typically risen from 4.75% to 5.97% over the same period.\n\nThat leap will be much greater when compared to a borrower's previous deal taken out two or five years ago.\n\nSome more specialist lenders, whose customers may include those with a chequered credit history or the recently self-employed, have been raising rates to 6.5-7% or more.\n\nIn the meantime, the average standards variable rate - which by nature are changeable and are paid by 900,000 homeowners - has gone up from 4.41% at the start of the year to 5.63% at the start of October.\n\nDuring her speech at the Conservative Party conference, Prime Minister Liz Truss said that the government \"will do what we can\" to support homeowners. However, she said that the benchmark interest rate was set independently by the Bank of England.", "The death toll after the Russian missile strikes on Ukraine's southern city of Zaporizhzhia this morning has risen to seven, says the regional governor, Oleksandr Starukh.\n\nAt least five people are still considered missing and efforts to determine the exact number of dead and injured are continuing, he adds.\n\n\"Thanks to the prompt work of special services, rescuers and doctors, it was possible to save 21 people,\" he says.\n\nHe adds that the firing of S-300 air defence missiles - which Russia has used increasingly to attack civilian and other targets in Ukraine - was “a real act of terrorism\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Students in Iran chant 'get lost' at paramilitary visitor\n\nA new video posted online appears to show schoolgirls heckling a member of Iran's feared paramilitary Basij force, after anti-government protests sweeping the country spread to the classroom.\n\nThe teenagers wave their headscarves in the air and shout \"get lost, Basiji\" at the man, who was asked to address them.\n\nThe BBC could not verify reports that it was filmed in Shiraz on Tuesday.\n\nThe Basij has helped security forces crack down on the protests sparked by the death in custody of a young woman.\n\nOther footage circulated on social media shows a man shouting \"death to the dictator\" as another group of girls walk through traffic in the north-western city of Sanandaj and an elderly woman clapping as unveiled schoolgirls chant \"freedom, freedom, freedom\" at a protest on a street.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Khosro Kalbasi Isfahani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIran's Education Minister, Yousef Nouri, on Wednesday accused the \"enemy\" of targeting schools and universities.\n\nProsecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri meanwhile said authorities should be prepared to counter the protests by young Iranians, who he claimed had been \"trapped\" through their exposure to the internet.\n\nAs the two men spoke, Iran's Human Rights Activists News Agency (Harana) shared what it said was a video showing uniformed and plainclothes security personnel pushing a group of schoolgirls protesting in the capital Tehran.\n\nIn another clip, reportedly filmed in the nearby city of Karaj, schoolgirls are seen screaming and running from a man, thought to be a member of the security forces in plainclothes, who is driving a motorcycle along a pavement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Khosro Kalbasi Isfahani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe unrest was triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who fell into a coma hours after being detained by morality police on 13 September in Tehran for allegedly breaking the strict law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf. She died in hospital three days later.\n\nHer family has alleged that officers beat her head with a baton and banged her head against one of their vehicles. The police have denied that she was mistreated and said she suffered a heart attack.\n\nThe first protests took place in north-western Iran, where Ms Amini was from, and then spread rapidly across the country.\n\nYoung women have been at the forefront of the unrest, but it was not until Monday that schoolgirls began participating publicly in large numbers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC has mapped how the death of Mahsa Amini sparked widespread unrest in Iran\n\nIt came a day after security forces briefly besieged the prestigious Sharif University of Technology in Tehran in response to a protest on the campus. Dozens of students were reportedly beaten, blindfolded and taken away.\n\nMonday also saw the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, break his silence on the unrest and give his full backing to the security forces, which have been accused by human rights groups of killing dozens of people.\n\nOn Tuesday, there were reports that the death toll resulting from clashes between security personnel and anti-government protesters in the south-eastern city of Zahedan had risen to 83.\n\nZahedan is the capital of Sistan Baluchistan province, which borders both Pakistan and Afghanistan, and has a sizeable Sunni Muslim population. Iran is a majority Shia country.\n\nAuthorities have said the security forces were attacked by armed Baluchi separatists - something the imam of the city's biggest mosque has denied.\n\nThe violence erupted on Friday, when protesters surrounded a police station and officers opened fire.\n\nTensions in the city had been compounded by the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl by a police chief elsewhere in Sistan Baluchistan.\n\nIran's supreme leader has called on security forces to be ready to deal with more unrest if necessary\n\nIn separate development on Wednesday, BBC Persian reported that a death certificate issued by a cemetery for Nika Shakarami, a 16-year-old girl who went missing after joining protests in Tehran on 20 September, stated that she had died after suffering \"multiple injuries caused by blows with a hard object\".\n\nState media said earlier that the judiciary had opened an investigation into Nika's death and cited an official in the capital as saying that it had nothing to do with the protests. The official said a post-mortem showed she had suffered \"multiple fractures... in the pelvis, head, upper and lower limbs, arms and legs, which indicate that the person was thrown from a height\".\n\nHer aunt has previously said that in her last message Nika told a friend that she was being chased by police, and that her family found her body in a mortuary at a detention centre 10 days later.\n\nSources close to the family have told BBC Persian that before they could bury Nika, security forces stole her body and buried it secretly in a village about 40km (25 miles) from her father's hometown of Khorramabad.", "Primark has said it would reintroduce \"women-only\" fitting rooms after concerns over combined changing spaces.\n\nIt follows an incident in Cambridge where a woman claimed two men walked in on her in a changing room.\n\nIn a statement on its website, the retailer also said curtains in cubicles would be lengthened and new mechanisms added to keep them in place.\n\nPrimark said it was \"important for everyone to have a positive experience in their stores\".\n\nThe company said combined fitting rooms will still be in place in their stores alongside the women-only changing rooms in 187 of 191 stores in the UK.\n\nPrimark said they were exploring other options in the remaining four, which only have one changing room area.\n\n\"The combined fitting room area is for everyone. The women-only area is for all women and customers are not required to provide identification,\" the retailer said.\n\n\"If someone appears to be deliberately trying to abuse the policy then the store will manage at their discretion. The changes we are introducing are informed by the feedback we have had from customers and colleagues.\n\n\"We have taken these steps to try to improve our customer experience whilst using our fitting rooms.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlotte Kirby said she would not be going into unisex changing rooms on her own again\n\nLast month, customer Charlotte Kirby posted a video on social media about how two men had walked in as she was trying on clothes in the Cambridge store.\n\nPrimark said: \"We want our stores to be places where everyone feels safe and welcome.\n\n\"We're sorry to hear this hasn't been the experience some people have reported in our fitting rooms.\"\n\nStaff would be trained in managing the fitting rooms and supporting customers, it said.\n\nThe company statement added: \"It's really important to us that everyone has a positive experience in our stores. If they don't, we are committed to doing all we can to make things better.\n\n\"We'll be monitoring these changes closely and continuing to listen to our customers and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nStory updated on 19 October 2022 in light of new information provided by Primark around the use of the changing rooms.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Alec Baldwin has reached a settlement with the family of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, after she was killed on a film set when he fired a prop gun.\n\nFilming of Rust will continue in January, with Ms Hutchins' widower Matthew on board as the movie's executive producer.\n\nAll parties believe Ms Hutchins' death was an accident, her husband said.\n\nA lawsuit filed against Mr Baldwin, producers and others, had alleged violations of industry standards.\n\nThe exact terms of the settlement, which is subject to court approval, have not been disclosed.\n\nAlec Baldwin is the star and producer of Rust\n\nIn a statement, Mr Hutchins said that \"all the original principal players\" would be involved when filming resumes, which he said would be a way to \"pay tribute\" to his late wife's final work.\n\n\"I have no interest in engaging in recriminations or attribution of blame,\" he added.\n\n\"All of us believe Halyna's death was a terrible accident.\"\n\nMr Baldwin posted his reaction in a statement on Instagram: \"We are pleased to announce today the settlement of the civil case filed on behalf of the family of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.\n\n\"Throughout this difficult process, everyone has maintained the specific desire to do what is best for Halyna's son.\n\n\"We are grateful to everyone who contributed to the resolution of this tragic and painful situation.\"\n\nRust director Joel Souza, who was also injured in the shooting on the Bonanza Creek Ranch set near Santa Fe in New Mexico, said in a statement on Wednesday that he would now devote himself \"to honouring Halyna's legacy and making her proud\".\n\n\"Though certainly bittersweet, I am pleased that together, we will now complete what Halyna and I started,\" he said.\n\nThe incident occurred in October last year when Baldwin was practicing drawing a prop gun.\n\nThe film's producers were fined and strongly criticised by authorities for failing to follow safety guidelines.\n\nThe makers of Rust showed \"plain indifference to recognised hazards associated with use of firearms on set\", according to the New Mexico Environment Department.\n\nThe agency issued the maximum $136,793 (£105,000) fine to Rust Movie Productions.\n\nThe producers of the film later disputed the official report saying the company had \"enforced all applicable safety protocols\".\n\nPolice also released footage from the set, including of the aftermath of the fatal shooting.\n\nAlmost a year on from the tragedy, the criminal investigation still hasn't concluded.\n\nHeather Brewer, spokesperson for the Office of the First Judicial District Attorney for New Mexico said in a statement: \"The proposed settlement announced today in Matthew Hutchins' wrongful death case against Rust movie producers, including Alec Baldwin, in the death of Halyna Hutchins will have no impact on District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altweis' ongoing investigation or her ultimate decision whether to file criminal charges in the case.\n\n\"While civil suits are settled privately and often involve financial awards, criminal cases deal only in facts. If the facts and evidence warrant criminal charges under New Mexico law then charges will be brought. No one is above the law.\"", "Prime Minister Liz Truss has not ruled out increasing the retirement age to help balance the nation's books.\n\nMen and women can currently receive state pension at the age of 66.\n\nUnder government plans that age would rise to 67 this decade, and 68 as early as 2039. Two reviews of these dates are under way.\n\nMs Truss is under pressure to find savings to pay for her tax-cutting economic growth plan and to get the UK's national debt falling.\n\nShe has guaranteed that state pensions will continue to increase in line with wages.\n\nBut she has not ruled out real-terms cuts in working age benefits such as universal credit, saying the government has not decided whether to link rises to inflation or not.\n\nAsked at the Tory conference in Birmingham if she was going to end up raising the age at which people can clam the state pension age beyond 67, she said: \"You're asking me to speculate all kinds of decisions that haven't yet been made.\"\n\nA review chaired by Conservative peer Baroness Neville-Rolfe is looking at what factors the government should take into account when setting the pension age.\n\nAt the moment, the age limit is based on ensuring no-one spends more than one third of their adult life in retirement. A separate review by the government's actuary is examining the latest life expectancy data.\n\nThey are due to report back to the government on 7 May next year.\n\nTwo increases to the state pension age are currently set out in legislation:\n\nWhen it launched the reviews in January, the Department for Work and Pensions said: \"As the number of people over state pension age increases, due to a growing population and people on average living longer, the government needs to make sure that decisions on how to manage its costs are, robust, fair and transparent for taxpayers now and in the future.\n\n\"It must also ensure that as the population becomes older, the state pension continues to provide the foundation for retirement planning and financial security.\"", "The firefighters were encouraged to eat lots of fruit, vegetables and fish\n\nEating meals within set hours of the day may be a good way for shift workers to feel better and stay healthier, researchers say.\n\nTheir working patterns are known to play havoc with the body's rhythms, raising the risk of disease.\n\nIn a study, firefighters working 24-hour shifts reduced their \"bad\" cholesterol and blood pressure, by eating within a 10-hour window.\n\nAnd those with existing health conditions benefited the most.\n\nThe researchers said parents who are kept up at night looking after a new baby, and health workers, could also benefit from time-restricted eating.\n\n\"Many of us eat all the time, right up until we go to bed - but the body doesn't need it,\" says Prof Pam Taub, study co-author and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.\n\nInstead, the body needs a rest period to allow cells to repair and rejuvenate so the body becomes more efficient, she explains.\n\nNurses working night shifts could also benefit from time-restricted eating\n\nThe researchers, writing in the journal Cell Metabolism, asked 150 firefighters from the San Diego Fire Rescue Department to track everything they ate for three months on an app.\n\nHalf ate all their calories within a 10-hour window of 9am to 7pm, without skipping meals, while the other half didn't change their normal routine and ate within a 14-hour window, on average.\n\nBoth groups were encouraged to follow a Mediterranean diet - full of fresh vegetables, fruit, fish and olive oil - which is known to be healthy.\n\nFirefighters who were overweight or had health issues such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol or type 2 diabetes, were included in the study.\n\nThe health of those following a time-restricted eating regime improved more than the health of those in the comparison group, the study found.\n\nTests showed their blood pressure levels, blood sugar and cholesterol levels all improved by eating within a set timeframe and then fasting for the rest of their shift.\n\nEven healthy firefighters with no underlying health risks experienced a boost to their quality of life and a reduction in \"bad\" cholesterol, by eating that way.\n\nAnd the study found no decrease in energy levels or other negative side-effects.\n\n\"We've shown that time-restricted eating is a feasible way for shift workers, such as firefighters, to improve their cardiovascular health and wellbeing,\" said Prof Taub.\n\nShift workers, who make up more than a quarter of working people in many countries, are at increased risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer.\n\nThis is because the body's natural circadian rhythms are regularly disrupted by being awake at night and sleeping during the day.\n\nAnd yet shift workers are often left out of clinical trials and little is understood about how to improve their health, Prof Taub says.\n\nDr Linia Patel, a registered dietitian and spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association, said anyone could try time-restricted eating and see if it worked for them.\n\n\"But one size doesn't fit all - shift working is very hard and finding out the best time to fast is key,\" she said.\n\nThere were some limitations to the research - the study was made up mostly of men and only one particular shift pattern was analysed. But the research team says time-restricted eating should be tested in other groups of shift workers.\n\n\"These findings can likely be extended to a wider population, including health care workers like nurses and others who experience abnormal sleep-wake patterns,\" Prof Taub said.", "A trail of debris from the asteroid struck by a Nasa spacecraft can be seen stretching thousands of kilometres\n\nA new image shows that an asteroid which was deliberately struck by Nasa's Dart probe has left a trail of debris stretching thousands of kilometres.\n\nA telescope in Chile captured the remarkable picture of a comet-like plume spreading behind the giant rock.\n\nThe probe was crashed last week to test whether asteroids that might threaten Earth can be nudged out of the way.\n\nScientists are working to establish whether the test was a success, and the asteroid's trajectory altered.\n\nThe extraordinary image was taken two days after the collision by astronomers in Chile, who were able to capture the vast trail using the Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (Soar).\n\nIt stretches for more than 10,000km (6,200 miles), and is expected to get even longer until it disperses completely, and looks like other space dust floating around.\n\n\"It is amazing how clearly we were able to capture the structure and extent of the aftermath in the days following the impact,\" said Teddy Kareta, an astronomer involved in the observation.\n\nThe trail of debris would be monitored over the coming weeks and months, Michael Knight of the US Naval Research Laboratory said.\n\nThe $325m (£240m) Dart mission saw the probe deliberately smashed into the asteroid, destroying the spacecraft in the process. It will be some weeks before scientists know for sure whether their experiment has worked.\n\nHowever, Dr Lori Glaze, the director of planetary science at Nasa, was convinced something remarkable had been achieved by the mission.\n\n\"We're embarking on a new era of humankind, an era in which we potentially have the capability to protect ourselves from something like a dangerous hazardous asteroid impact. What an amazing thing; we've never had that capability before,\" she told reporters.\n\nScientists will determine whether the mission has been successful by studying the changes to the orbit of Dimorphos around another asteroid called Didymos.\n\nTelescopes on Earth will make precise measurements of the two-rock, or binary, system.\n\nDart is an acronym for Double Asteroid Redirection Test.\n\nIt was designed to do \"exactly what is says on the tin\", mission lead Dr Andy Rivkin told BBC News.\n\nThe technique could be used if there was an asteroid heading for Earth at some point in the future, he said, describing it as a \"very simple idea\" - ramming the spacecraft into the object you are worried about, and using the mass and speed of the craft \"to slightly change the orbit of that object enough so that it would miss the Earth\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Flags being raised in retaken areas of Ukraine\n\nUkrainian forces have liberated a key village in the southern region of Kherson, hastening another Russian military retreat.\n\nThe defence ministry in Kyiv posted a video showing the 35th marine brigade hoisting a Ukrainian flag above Davydiv Brid, amid reports of several other nearby villages being recaptured.\n\nRussian forces have already been forced to retreat in Ukraine's north-east.\n\nThey are now being pushed back in the south as well.\n\nTheir latest setbacks came as President Vladimir Putin was due to sign into force decrees annexing four Ukrainian regions, while war was raging in all four.\n\nThe annexation has no legitimacy under international law and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has declared them null and void.\n\nPresident Joe Biden spoke with Mr Zelensky on Tuesday and assured him the US would never recognise Russian annexation. They also discussed $625m (£550m) of US aid, including Himars rocket launchers.\n\nRussia still controls Kherson city, the regional capital, in the south. But its grip is looking increasingly shaky on the entire area north of the River Dnieper, known as Dnipro in Ukrainian.\n\nIn the past 48 hours, Ukrainian forces have pushed south along the west bank of the river, and Russian units have now been forced to pull back from several settlements in the north of Kherson region too.\n\nMr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had made \"fast, powerful movements\" in southern Ukraine and liberated \"dozens of settlements\" this week alone.\n\n\"The Ukrainian flag flies again over the village of Davydiv Brid,\" Ukraine's defence ministry proclaimed on social media. Residents filmed Ukrainian soldiers walking through the village.\n\nIn his Tuesday evening address, Mr Zelensky said the villages of Lyubymivka, Khreshchenivka, Zolota Balka, Bilyaivka, Ukrainka, Velyka Oleksandrivka and Mala Oleksandrivka had also been liberated, and that that was \"far from being the whole list\".\n\nUkraine's deputy interior minister Yevhen Enin said 50 towns and villages had been recaptured and some 3,500 citizens freed in Kherson, but did not say over what period.\n\nThe defence ministry said later that Russian forces were demoralised and trying to destroy bridges in an attempt to slow down the Ukrainian advance.\n\nA Kremlin-installed official in Kherson, Kirill Stremousov, told residents: \"There is no reason to panic.\"\n\nThere was no immediate confirmation that villages to the north-east of Davydiv Brid had also fallen and Russia's military spokesman made no mention of losses there.\n\nBut on maps used to illustrate Russian control, it was clear that it no longer included the villages of Arkhanhelske and Velyka Oleksandrivka in the north-east of the region, and of Dudchany on the bank of the Dnieper.\n\nRussian military blogger Rybar said the army decided to pull back because it was at risk of being encircled. \"It's not entirely clear where the new line of contact will be,\" he said.\n\nKherson exiled deputy Mayor Roman Holovnia said: \"Many settlements were flattened - some settlements have almost no undestroyed buildings left.\"\n\nHe added that residents of the city were waiting for Ukrainian forces, in the knowledge they were advancing.\n\nOf the 320,000 people living there before the war, only 100,000 were left, Mr Holovnia said.\n\nUkrainian forces have targeted Russian supply lines in the Kherson area for weeks, destroying the few bridges across the river. But their advance southwards until now has been slow. Kherson was swiftly captured by Russian forces at the start of the war, as they poured into the region from the Crimean peninsula, annexed in 2014.\n\nUkraine had more dramatic success in Kharkiv in the north-east and in Donetsk, seizing on Saturday the strategically important Lyman. The town is part of Donetsk but is seen as the gateway to Luhansk, a region under almost complete Russian occupation.\n\nThe BBC's Orla Guerin, reporting from Lyman, said few civilians remained there now, while the bodies of several Russian soldiers lay in their uniforms outside the town.\n\nKherson, Luhansk and Donetsk are among the Ukrainian regions being illegally annexed by Russia, but the triumphalism of Vladimir Putin's proclamation last Friday is looking increasingly premature.\n\nThere were few signs of normal life in Lyman when the BBC visited\n\nA Russian blogger published accounts by two men he described as fighters from Luhansk's Russian proxy force who narrowly escaped being surrounded near Lyman last week.\n\n\"We left Lyman, but it was just us - no munitions, nothing. Everything was burned up. All our friends and comrades stayed there [dead],\" said one of the men, named Mikhei.\n\nRussia has so far mobilised more than 200,000 troops since President Putin gave the order last month, according to Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. The initial target of the \"partial mobilisation\" is 300,000, but the recruitment drive has been overshadowed by stories of Russians trying to escape the draft or being given shoddy equipment when they join up.\n\nKazakhstan alone has reported that more than 200,000 Russians have crossed its borders in the past two weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC’s Abdujalil Abdurasulov reports from Ukrainian front line positions in the Kherson region", "Police said a search of Saddleworth Moor had produced \"no visible evidence\"\n\n\"No bones, fabric or items of interest\" have been found at a site being searched for the last victim of the Moors murderers, police have said.\n\nKeith Bennett was one of five youngsters killed by Ian Brady and his partner Myra Hindley in the 1960s.\n\nThe 12-year-old is the only victim whose remains have never been found.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said a search of Saddleworth Moor had produced \"no visible evidence to suggest the presence of human remains\".\n\nThe force said a member of the public researching Keith's murder had reported \"possible human remains\" on Thursday, leading to a search of a \"site of interest\".\n\nKeith Bennett, who was killed in 1964, is the only victim whose remains were not found\n\nOfficers and forensic experts were now continuing a \"controlled excavation\" of the surrounding area, police said\n\nDet Ch Insp Cheryl Hughes said forensic archaeologists and forensic anthropologists had \"completed a methodical archaeological excavation and examination of the area previously dug and refilled by the member of the public\".\n\n\"No bones, fabric or items of interest were recovered from the soil,\" she said.\n\nShe said the experts were now continuing a \"controlled excavation of the area immediately surrounding the original site to provide a higher level of assurance of the presence or absence of any items of interest\".\n\n\"Further soil samples have been taken for analysis, but at this time, there is no visible evidence to suggest the presence of human remains,\" she said.\n\nShe added that officers remained \"committed\" to providing Keith's family with answers and would keep them \"updated at every stage\".\n\nThe force said samples obtained by the member of the public had been sent by GMP to accredited experts for analysis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Daniel Sandford looks back at the revulsion caused by Brady's crimes\n\nKeith went missing while on his way to see his grandmother in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester on 16 June 1964.\n\nHis mother Winnie Johnson, who died in 2012, spent her life trying to locate her son, even taking to the moor herself, armed with a spade.\n\nHe was one of five youngsters who were tortured and killed by Brady and Hindley between 1963 and 1965.\n\nBrady, who was born in Glasgow but later moved to Manchester, was jailed in 1966 for the murders of John Kilbride, aged 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17.\n\nIn 1985, after being moved to a secure hospital, Brady also admitted murdering Keith and 16-year-old Pauline Reade.\n\nFlowers have been left close to the scene of the search on Saddleworth Moor\n\nThe pair were caught after Hindley's brother-in-law witnessed the murder of Edward and reported it to police, who found his body at Brady and Hindley's shared home in Hyde, Greater Manchester.\n\nLesley Ann was the first victim to be found on Saddleworth Moor, after police received a tip-off from one of Brady's neighbours, and subsequent searches of the area unearthed the remains of Pauline and John.\n\nPolice have since carried out a number of searches of the moor to try and find Keith's remains, including two in which they were joined by the murderers, but his body has never been found.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman who poured faeces over a memorial to Sir Captain Tom Moore has admitted criminal damage.\n\nMadeleine Budd damaged the life-sized statue of the World War Two veteran in Thistley Meadow, in Hatton, Derbyshire, on Friday in an apparent climate protest.\n\nThe 21-year-old, from Manchester, was charged with criminal damage on Monday.\n\nShe admitted the offence at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday. The case was adjourned until 25 October.\n\nDuring the hearing, prosecutor Jordan Pratt said Budd approached the memorial and \"poured a bucket of human faeces all over the statue\".\n\nMr Pratt told the court the incident was filmed and shared on social media as part of an environmental protest.\n\nHe said it was an \"abhorrent act\", which people would see as \"hugely disrespectful\".\n\nDistrict Judge Louisa Cieciora said the starting point for sentencing could be one year and six months in jail.\n\nThe Army veteran became famous for his fundraising efforts during the first coronavirus lockdown\n\nShe declined an application for bail, saying she had \"substantial grounds\" to believe Budd may commit another offence while on bail, adjourning sentencing for a pre-sentence report until 25 October.\n\nA man in the public gallery then stood up and told the judge: \"On behalf of every veteran member, thank you very much.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the memorial has been vandalised - graffiti was sprayed on it in December 2021.\n\nCaptain Sir Tom, from Bedfordshire, became a household name during the Covid-19 pandemic when he set out to complete laps around his garden in a bid to raise money for the NHS.\n\nBy the time he reached his 100th birthday, he had raised nearly £33m.\n\nThe Army veteran was knighted by the Queen before he died with Covid-19 in February 2021.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Growth, growth, growth,\" is the metric the prime minister wants us to use to judge the effectiveness of her government. That much she made clear in her conference speech.\n\nIn forthcoming weeks we will get the economic reforms, in planning, regulation, worker visas, and elsewhere, that the PM hopes will unleash that growth.\n\nAs one minister from the John Major era, who phoned me after the speech, said, even if the strategy works perfectly, it will take time. In the mid-1990s he experienced an economic shock that affected mortgages, and that was linkable, at least in part, to government decisions. In his view \"British voters do not give credit for cleaning up your own mess\".\n\nAnd will the strategy work, even in the long-run?\n\nThe theme of the PM's speech to conference was that she would take on the \"vested interests\" of the \"anti-growth coalition\" in order to deliver a step-change after two decades of anaemic growth.\n\nThe epitome of the problem, for her, is a 70-year high in taxation, which is why she is urgently prioritising tax cuts.\n\nThere is a tremendous amount of debate over why the UK has had sluggish growth, more or less since the financial crisis. But a 70-year high in taxation is not usually a big part of it.\n\nFor a start, it has never actually come about, because it has always been a forecast for future years (from the Office for Budget Responsibility), rather than fact, and it seems contrary to attribute decades of low growth to something that was only a prediction. Taxation over the past quarter of a century, under prime ministers Blair, Brown, Cameron, May and Johnson, has averaged 32.8% as a proportion of economic output, or GDP. Under Mrs Thatcher's 11 years that number was 32.4% of GDP.\n\nIt is clear that some lower taxes can help boost growth; all of this begs the question as to what has been weighing down the economy. Indeed it is striking the government's comprehensive and transformational policy agenda is proceeding without a thorough, published analysis of what the growth problem is, why it occurred here and not in say the USA or Germany, and therefore how it should be addressed.\n\nThat brings us back to the \"anti-growth coalition\". At a tense political conference, the PM was always going to focus on her external political enemies. But that coalition stretches well into her own membership in that hall.\n\nPlanning reform, for example, would help growth and productivity, but always seems to get thwarted. One interesting part of the Kwarteng growth plan refers to changing regulations to allow more onshore wind to be built. That certainly would be a statement of intent.\n\nOnshore wind isn't popular with all parts of the Conservative Party\n\nWhat other policies could increase forecast growth so quickly that they would help the current numbers add up, when the OBR does its sums? Increasing the number of foreign workers to address the visible labour shortages around the country. Are people who oppose changes to the immigration rules for political reasons part of the \"anti-growth coalition\"? Moves to lower new post-Brexit, non-tariff trade barriers for British exporters, could also help reverse recent reductions to the OBR's long-term growth forecast. Neither move is on the government's agenda.\n\nNumber 11 may, in general, struggle to persuade the OBR that its plans will materially change the economy. And, indeed, there is then the reverse risk in the short term: that the turbulence of the past fortnight could have a permanent effect on perceptions of the UK's macroeconomic stability.\n\nFor 20 years Britain has set the gold standard for institutional independence when it comes to economic policy, built up by successive governments. That meant low borrowing costs, even through financial, and eurozone crises, and the pandemic too. In recent weeks this administration allowed the perception to grow, that it was fiddling with these essential controls on the economy. That perception was fed by leadership campaign rhetoric, and the mini-budget's massive tax cuts, presented without hard borrowing numbers.\n\nWhereas sterling recovered its losses over the last few days, government borrowing costs remain materially higher. Perceptions of how high the Bank of England will have to raise benchmark interest rates are also higher. Rates were always going to get back to normal - higher levels - at some point after a decade-and-a-half of ultra-low interest rates. But it didn't have to happen so violently, in a matter of days. It is rates for mortgages and company lending that have been \"moving on up\", to echo the PM's choice of theme tune.\n\nThe OBR is right now calculating how hard the extra interest rate shock will hit the economy, and how much it will cost the government too. And it is true to say that UK growth will also be affected by rising economic challenges elsewhere in the world, including the eurozone and the USA.\n\nSo if the PM's speech was light on policy, that might reflect the need to not do anything at this point, that could further spook markets. Above all, it seems the lesson of the last week may have sunk in: that macroeconomic stability, rooted in institutional credibility, is actually a prerequisite for \"Growth, Growth, Growth\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The prime minister walks on stage to the 1993 track Moving on Up\n\nThe use of Moving On Up as introductory music for the prime minister has left its creators \"livid\" and frustrated.\n\nLiz Truss walked on to M People's 1993 hit before addressing the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham earlier.\n\nThe Manchester group's founder Mike Pickering said he hoped Ms Truss took note of the lyrics, as it was \"about, 'go and pack your bags and get out'\".\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary said she had personally selected the song as her walk-on music.\n\nMoving On Up was the second single from M People's Mercury Music Prize-winning album, Elegant Slumming, and reached number two in the UK charts in 1993.\n\nIt became an international hit for the band, making the top 10 in Ireland, France, Australia and Israel and breaking them into the US top 40, and featured on a number of film soundtracks, including The Full Monty and The First Wives Club.\n\nMike Pickering said the band were \"quite left-leaning\" and were \"really upset\" the track had been used\n\nPickering said he discovered the song had been used while he was out riding his bike.\n\nHe said he could feel his phone \"going mad in my pocket\" and thought something had happened to a family member due to the number of notifications and messages.\n\nHowever, he said he quickly realised what had happened and took to Twitter to voice his anger.\n\nHe said the band were \"quite left-leaning\" and were \"really upset\" and \"livid\" the track had been used.\n\n\"No-one said to them 'Tony Blair and new Labour used that song all the time'... or 'Mike is really vociferous on Twitter and social media about being an anti-Tory',\" he said.\n\nM People were regulars at the top of the charts in the 1990s and won the 1994 Mercury Music Prize\n\nHe said if Ms Truss had \"bothered to read the lyrics, it's hardly suitable\" as it refers to taking a \"sip from the devil's cup\".\n\n\"I don't think they think in any depth.\"\n\nHe added that he had \"checked with legal\" and been told \"we can't stop them\" using the track.\n\n\"If we'd have known, we could have sent a letter of cease and desist,\" he said.\n\nJames Small-Edwards, a Labour councillor in Westminster and the son of the group's singer Heather Small, also tweeted about the use of the song, calling it \"an apt choice\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cllr James Small-Edwards This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary said Ms Truss had had \"a range of options and she chose that one\".\n\nHe said he was unable to confirm if the party had asked for permission to use the song and he did not have \"detailed knowledge of how the licensing of this stuff works\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None We must stay the course, Truss tells Tory conference\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jade McCrossen-Nethercott's rape case was dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) because of claims she had an episode of a rare sleep condition called \"sexsomnia\". As a result, the CPS no longer believed they could secure a conviction. But Jade challenged the decision and spent months reinvestigating.\n\nThe CPS now admit they were wrong not to take it to trial and have apologised unreservedly to her.\n\nBut what went wrong? The BBC followed Jade's case as events unfolded.\n\nIt was a Sunday evening in the spring of 2017 when Jade woke up on a sofa in south London to discover she was half-naked, with her necklace lying broken on the floor.\n\nThe 24-year-old, originally from St Ives in Cornwall, had the intense feeling she had been penetrated and thought she had been raped while she slept.\n\nThree years later - and just days before the man charged with raping her was due to stand trial - lawyers from the CPS called her to an urgent meeting at a police station.\n\nHer case was being dropped. The CPS lawyer explained that two sleep experts had given their opinions on her case. They said it was possible Jade had had an episode of sexsomnia and could have appeared to have been awake and consenting.\n\nSexsomnia is a medically-recognised sleep disorder. People with the condition perform sexual acts in their sleep.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jade was allowed to record the CPS meeting where she was told there would not be a trial\n\nA person is deemed not to have consented to sex if they are asleep, according to the law in England and Wales. However, it also states that a person is not guilty of rape if they had \"reasonable belief\" in consent.\n\n\"It came completely out of the blue, and it was baffling,\" says Jade, who had never heard of sexsomnia until then.\n\n\"I've had two long-term relationships spanning 13 years, and I've never had anything like this.\"\n\n​​The decision by the CPS meant they would close the case and the defendant would be formally acquitted.\n\nThe first time Jade had been asked about her sleep, was in the police station when she went to give a formal statement.\n\nIn response to a question from a police officer, she explained that she had always been a deep sleeper and had sleepwalked a couple of times as a teenager.\n\nIt was a passing comment, forgotten about in the whole gruelling process until her case was dropped.\n\nJade and Bel took a selfie before they went out in south London\n\nIt had been Jade's best friend Bel who had dialled 999 and started the whole police process.\n\nShe remembers the sound of Jade's voice on the other end of the line. \"It was like nothing I've ever heard before. She was hysterical and sobbing, and she said 'I think I've been raped.' When your best friend says that to you, it's just earth-shattering.\"\n\nThe two had been out the evening before at a bar in south London. They had got ready together, drinking prosecco as they did their makeup and headed out arm-in-arm.\n\nIt was a fun evening, drinking and chatting. When closing time came, Bel ordered a taxi home. Jade decided to go back to a friend's flat with a few people for a last drink.\n\nAt around 02:00, with people still chatting around her in the living room, she curled up under a blanket in the corner of the sofa, fully-clothed, and fell asleep.\n\nAt 05:00 she says she woke up to find her trousers and pants were off and her bra was undone. She says she saw a man on the other side of the sofa she was lying on.\n\n\"I confronted him saying, 'What's happened? What have you done?' And he said something a bit odd I guess, but he did say 'I thought you were awake.'\n\n\"And he just bolted out basically, and left the door open. And I got my phone and started calling Bel…\"\n\nTwo male police officers arrived and took Jade straight for forensic tests. Vaginal swabs detected semen which would later be matched to the man on the sofa.\n\nThe suspect offered no comment when initially questioned by police. The CPS made the decision to charge him with rape. He pleaded not guilty. A date was set for trial.\n\nJade was determined to prove the CPS were wrong to drop her case, but she had limited time to appeal.\n\nShe requested all the evidence - including police interviews, toxicology results, witness statements and the sleep experts' reports - and pored over them.\n\nShe was shocked by what she read - and in particular the weight given to the sleep experts' theories.\n\nWhen unexpected sleepwalking claims turn a rape case on its head, Jade fights back. Filmed over three years, this is the remarkable story of one woman's battle for justice. Will she win?\n\nNeither expert had met her in person, but their opinions had been significant enough to close her case.\n\nThe first expert, who had been instructed by the defence, concluded there was a \"strong possibility\" that Jade had an attack of sexsomnia, saying \"her behaviour would have been of someone actively engaging in sexual activity with eyes open and showing pleasure\".\n\nThe CPS then hired their own expert in response. He concluded that \"a history of sleepwalking, even once at the age of 16 years, and ongoing sleep talking or any family history, is entirely adequate to establish a predisposition to sexsomnia\".\n\nJade was speechless. \"I don't see how this can be one isolated incident [of sexsomnia], that just so happens to be the time that somebody I would never have consented to have sex with had sex with me,\" she says.\n\nJade decided to pay for her own expert opinion and approached Dr Irshaad Ebrahim at the London Sleep Centre. He also has experience of giving expert opinions in rape cases.\n\nJade's case was the first he had seen where a complainant victim was purported to have sexsomnia. In all the other rape cases he had encountered, it was the defendant claiming to have had an attack of sexsomnia. The BBC carried out extensive research and could not find any other UK rape case where the defence had argued the complainant had sexsomnia.\n\nDr Ebrahim explained there was limited scientific research and no precise way of diagnosing sexsomnia. But he said people he sees with the disorder are typically male and tend to have a history of the sexual behaviour in their sleep.\n\nJade then underwent a sleep test - a polysomnography, which monitors brainwaves, breathing and movement during sleep.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police bodycam footage when officers first spoke to Jade\n\nThe test indicated that she snores and has mild sleep apnea, a common condition where breathing stops and starts during sleep. Both were, according to Dr Ebrahim, potential trigger factors for sexsomnia, so he could not rule out that she may have had an isolated episode.\n\nJade wanted to know if he could give her a clear idea of what the chances were that sexsomnia had been to blame for what happened.\n\n\"That is the billion dollar question,\" said Dr Ebrahim.\n\n\"Wanting a definitive, black and white answer - yes it was or no it wasn't - is not going to happen.\"\n\nJade still believed she didn't have sexsomnia - but was frustrated the sleep experts couldn't rule it out.\n\nShe turned to a lawyer to find out more about how courts treat the disorder as a defence.\n\nBarrister Allison Summers KC has defended in rape cases where the man accused has claimed to have sexsomnia.\n\nShe told Jade that sleep experts are almost never able to say definitively whether someone has the condition - but saying \"it's possible\" could be enough for a jury to reach a not guilty verdict.\n\n\"Do I think, as a result of that, that some guilty people get off or are acquitted? Yes, I do. But I generally come back to the point that I would rather that be the case, than we're convicting people of serious offences that are genuinely not guilty,\" she said.\n\n\"The only thing I can say is that you hope the criminal trial process will enable those genuine cases to be pulled out from those less genuine.\"\n\nSexsomnia and other sleepwalking defences should always be robustly challenged in court, according to the CPS guidelines.\n\nBut Jade's case never made it to court. Armed with her research, she submitted her appeal, known as a victim's right to review.\n\nA chief crown prosecutor, independent of the CPS department which made the original decision to close the case, reviewed all the evidence again.\n\nHe concluded the case should have gone to trial - and that the sleep experts' opinions, and the defendant's account, should have been challenged in court.\n\nA jury would have been \"more likely than not\" to convict the defendant, he said - one of the tests a case must meet for the CPS to take it to trial.\n\n\"I cannot begin to imagine what you have been through and how you feel. I noted during my review the devastating effect of this case on you,\" he wrote to Jade.\n\n\"I apologise unreservedly for this on behalf of the Crown Prosecution Service although I appreciate that is likely to be of little consolation to you.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, help and advice can be found here\n\nFor Jade, the acknowledgement that her case should have been put to a jury was bittersweet - because the CPS cannot reopen the case.\n\nThe defendant was found officially not guilty - and so double jeopardy laws mean he cannot be tried without compelling new evidence.\n\n\"There is no hope of any justice for what happened to me,\" says Jade - but she hopes the CPS will learn lessons to prevent others from going through similar ordeals.\n\n\"It's just being let down by a system that's there to protect - and they've openly said they messed up,\" she says.\n\nIn the year to September 2021, just 1.3% of rape cases recorded by police in England and Wales resulted in a suspect being prosecuted, according to Home Office figures.\n\nThe CPS say they are \"committed to improving every aspect of how life-changing crimes like rape are dealt with and are working closely with the police to transform how they are handled.\"\n\nJade is now suing the CPS for damages.", "An advert- and tracker-free search engine launches in the UK, France and Germany on Thursday.\n\nNeeva has 600,000 users in the US, where it launched last year.\n\nCreator Sridhar Ramaswamy, who worked at Google for 16 years and ran its ad business, told BBC News the technology sector had become \"exploitative\" of people's data, something he no longer wanted to be a part of.\n\nIt offers free-to-use search, with other features such as password-manager access and virtual-private-network (VPN) service to be made available on a subscription basis.\n\nUsers are asked to create an account, to build subscriptions at a later date.\n\nAnd the UK price was likely to be about £5 per month, Mr Ramaswamy said.\n\n\"We felt the traditional search engines had become about advertising and advertisers - and not really about serving users,\" he said.\n\n\"Google has a dominant position in the marketplace - and the incentive for them to truly innovate, to truly create disruptive experiences, is not really there.\n\n\"And then also as a company they feel obligated to show more and more revenue and profit to their shareholders, so they just keep increasing the number of ads.\"\n\nSearch the word \"migraine\" on both Google and Neeva, and the first page of the results are fairly similar - links to news articles and factual information.\n\nBut with a brand, the difference becomes more stark.\n\nWhen I try \"BMW\", both search engines lead with links to the carmaker's website and Wikipedia entry.\n\nBut while Google follows with a map, social-media feeds and links to used-car dealers, Neeva sticks with different BMW official pages.\n\nGoogle certainly has more variety - but it is also blatantly pushing me towards buying a car.\n\nAnd almost all - but not the BBC - had at least one belonging to Google, meaning Google is receiving anonymised information about users visiting those pages.\n\nWhile I had the extension activated, no ads displayed around the editorial content.\n\nBut ultimately, none of Neeva's other rivals has dented the dominance of Google search.\n\n\"To Bing\" or \"to Duckduckgo\" - another privacy-focused service - are not verbs in the way \"to google\" is.\n\nAnd asked if Mr Ramaswamy could ever topple his former employer, Steph Liu, an analyst at Forrester specialising in privacy and search, said: \"Realistically, no.\n\n\"It's a sort of David and Goliath story. Google has too many users, it has too much revenue.\n\n\"The ultimate goal is to offer an alternative for the consumer base who are worried about their privacy, who don't want Google hoovering up their data and targeting ads based on their search history\".", "World champion Magnus Carlsen (left) rocked the chess world by accusing Hans Niemann (right) of cheating\n\nA chess player at the centre of a cheating row gripping the game \"likely\" cheated in more than 100 games online, according to an investigation.\n\nHans Niemann has been accused by world champion Magnus Carlsen of cheating, though no evidence has been presented.\n\nNow an investigation by Chess.com says it is likely Niemann has cheated \"much more often\" than he has acknowledged.\n\nBut it found no evidence he had cheated in his game against Carlsen or in any \"over-the-board\" games.\n\nThe American has admitted cheating in informal games when he was younger but denies doing so in competitive games.\n\nThe 19-year-old, who has been approached by the BBC for comment, has previously accused Carlsen and Chess.com of trying to ruin his career.\n\nThe scandal began last month, after Carlsen, considered by many to be the greatest player of all time, was defeated by Niemann at the Sinquefield Cup in a major upset.\n\nThe Norwegian made veiled accusations of cheating against Niemann at the time before openly accusing him last week.\n\nNow Chess.com has produced a 72-page investigation into Niemann's games on the site, which most of the world's top players compete on, including for cash prizes.\n\nThe site, which has banned Niemann for alleged cheating, claims it is likely he cheated as recently as 2020, including in prize money events and against highly-rated \"well known\" figures in the game.\n\nIts analysis compared Niemann's moves to those suggested by chess computers - which are far stronger than even the best players - and the probability of his results, among other factors.\n\n\"Overall, we have found that Hans has likely cheated in more than 100 online chess games, including several prize money events,\" the report said.\n\n\"He was already 17 when he likely cheated in some of these matches and games. He was also streaming in 25 of these games.\"\n\nThe report contradicts statements previously made by Niemann that he had only cheated in informal games on the site when he was 12 and 16, but never in competitive games or when he was streaming on gaming platforms such as Twitch.\n\nHowever, although his results are \"statistically extraordinary\", Chess.com said there was no \"direct evidence\" Niemann had cheated in his win against Carlsen or in other over-the-board games in the past.\n\nIn his statement last week, Carlsen suggested Niemann had cheated in their game at the Sinquefield Cup in the US state of Missouri, saying he \"wasn't tense or even fully concentrating\" while outplaying him using the black pieces \"in a way I think only a handful of players can do\".\n\nHe also said he had become suspicious of Niemann because he has made \"unusual\" progress in recent years. Others have argued that Niemann's progress, while fast, is comparable to other top junior players.\n\nChess.com said there were \"certain aspects\" of the game that were \"suspicious\", including Niemann's explanation of the game afterwards.\n\nThe site also noted \"anomalies\" in Niemann's rate of improvement, which has seen him soar up the rankings in classical chess from around 800 in the world to the top 50 in less than two years.\n\nChess.com said this rise was the fastest in \"modern recorded history\" and had occurred \"much later in life than his peers\".\n\nThe site also denied it had been pressured by Carlsen, who has dominated chess for more than a decade, to remove Niemann.\n\nCarlsen has insisted he will not play Niemann, and earlier this month resigned in protest after just one move when they re-matched each other in an online tournament.\n\nWhen the controversy erupted earlier this month, Niemann issued a strenuous denial, saying he was willing to play naked to prove he was not concealing electronic devices that could allow him to cheat.\n\n\"I don't care, because I know I am clean. You want me to play in a closed box with zero electronic transmission, I don't care. I'm here to win and that is my goal regardless.\"\n\nA statistical analysis of Niemann's over-the-board games by Prof Kenneth Regan, widely regarded as the world's leading expert on cheating in chess, found no evidence he had cheated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How a computer beat the best chess player in the world", "Tomasz Oleszak died in hospital the day after he was injured\n\nA 14-year-old boy who died after being stabbed has been named by police.\n\nTomasz Oleszak, from Gateshead, was seriously injured in the Aycliffe Crescent area of the Springwell Estate at about 20:00 BST on Monday.\n\nHe died in hospital in the early hours of Tuesday morning.\n\nA 14-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of murder and a girl, 13, held on suspicion of assisting an offender remain in custody.\n\nMany floral tributes have been left near the scene\n\nHead teacher Brendan Robson, of Cardinal Hume Catholic School in Gateshead, where the teenager was a pupil, said everyone was \"devastated\".\n\nHe also said a parents' evening due to be held had been cancelled as a \"mark of respect\".\n\n\"We are devastated to hear of this tragic incident involving one of our students,\" Mr Robson said.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this very sad time.\n\n\"As a school we are doing all we can to support our students and everyone in our community who is affected; we are also supporting the police with their ongoing inquiries.\"\n\nPolice are now carrying out \"extensive inquiries\" at Whitehills Nature Park\n\nCards left with flowers where Tomasz was found described him as an \"amazing friend\" and someone \"loved and missed by many\".\n\nThe teenager played at Gateshead Cleveland Hall Community Football Club which said in a statement it was \"devastated\" to learn of his death.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and anyone that knew Tomasz,\" it said.\n\nThere was a heavy police presence in the area\n\nIn a fundraising page set up in Tomasz's memory, one of his football coaches said he was a \"very kind, caring young man\" who had been brought to the UK by his parents for a better life and \"didn't deserve what has happened to him\".\n\nHe said: \"He was much-loved member of his local community and will be sadly missed by all who loved him.\n\n\"This is every parent's worst nightmare come true and can't imagine what they're going through.\"\n\nBob Boustead said the whole football community was shocked\n\nThe appeal aimed at supporting Tomasz's family has raised more than £12,000 and received dozens of messages of condolence.\n\nBob Boustead, chairman of Tomasz's football club, told BBC Look North the whole of \"grass-roots community of football\" was in shock, adding: \"We've never had anything like this. It's very difficult to get to grips with.\"\n\nPolice cordoned off land in the Aycliffe Crescent area of Gateshead\n\nNorthumbria Police Ch Supt Helena Barron stressed such incidents were rare in the region and said officers would remain in the area.\n\n\"I want to reiterate my plea to the public not to speculate on details of the investigation,\" she said.\n\n\"What might seem like an innocent comment or post on social media to you could in reality disrupt an ongoing investigation and cause further upset to the family of the victim.\"\n\nThe force has asked anyone with information to speak directly to officers.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Bank of England has warned of a \"material risk\" to financial stability as it made a fresh emergency move to try to calm investors.\n\nIt said it would buy more government bonds to try to stabilise their price and prevent a sell-off that could put some pension funds at risk of collapse.\n\nIt is the third time the Bank has had to step in since the government's mini-budget sparked alarm among investors.\n\nThe chancellor promised huge tax cuts without saying how he would fund them.\n\nThe government said it remained confident in the plan, with Kwasi Kwarteng telling MPs he was \"relentlessly focused on growing the economy\" and \"raising living standards\".\n\nBut Labour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said: \"This is a Tory crisis that has been made in Downing Street, and that is being paid for by working people.\"\n\nThe Bank's warning about financial stability is rare and suggests it cannot confidently ignore the threat it sees to the financial system.\n\nIt is even rarer for several senior Bank executives to have indicated part of the blame for the turmoil may lie at the government's door, the result of domestic policy.\n\nThe Bank was forced to intervene after government borrowing costs rose sharply despite actions it and the Treasury had taken to calm investors on Monday.\n\nOn Tuesday borrowing costs remained close to the levels seen at the height of the market turmoil last month.\n\nOne pensions industry body urged the Bank to extend its emergency support beyond Friday due to fears of further market turmoil.\n\nThe Bank will now widen the emergency programme it launched on 28 September, when days after the mini-budget, investors began demanding higher rates of interest on those bonds and government borrowing costs surged to worrying levels.\n\nThe turmoil has forced pension funds to sell bonds due to concerns over their solvency, and threatened to create a downward spiral in bond prices as more were offloaded which left some funds close to collapse.\n\nIt has also fed through to the mortgage market, where hundreds of products have been suspended due to concerns about how to price these long-term loans.\n\nLast week, interest rates on typical two and five-year fixed rate mortgages topped 6% for the first time in over a decade.\n\nThe government raises money it needs for spending by selling bonds - a form of IOU that is paid back plus interest in anywhere between five and 30 years.\n\nBut the sharp rise in the cost of new government borrowing - the interest on those bonds - reflects an anxiety among investors that the UK's tax-cutting plans make it a risky investment bet.\n\nBy buying bonds, the Bank is hoping to help keep their price stable and prevent investors selling them in what it likened to a \"fire sale\".\n\nThe Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, which represents schemes managing about £1.3tn of retirement money, said many funds wanted the bond-buying programme to last until the chancellor delivered his economic plan on 31 October.\n\nThe Treasury said it was \"working closely with other UK authorities to monitor the markets as is usual\".\n\nUnder pressure from its MPs, the government has been forced into a series of embarrassing climbdowns since the mini-budget, including U-turning on a plan to scrap the top rate of income tax.\n\nExperts believe Mr Kwarteng will have to row back on more of his tax cuts or drastically cut public spending.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank warned government departments could see \"big and painful cuts\" of up to £60bn a year to balance the books when Mr Kwarteng announces his economic plan on 31 October.\n\nSir John Gieve, a former deputy governor for fiscal stability at the Bank of England, said the Bank had primarily stepped in to protect pension funds, many of which hold government bonds as investments.\n\nHowever, he said the \"underlying problem\" was that investors did not believe the government would be able to cut spending enough before its growth measures took effect.\n\n\"The internal workings of the financial markets have thrown up an element of instability that the Bank is addressing. But the underlying move came on the back of the announcement of huge amounts of extra borrowing and tax cuts without a clear plan of how to pay for them,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"It's one thing to [promise huge cuts], but can [the chancellor] actually deliver that?\"\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss has said her £43bn of promised tax cuts will boost UK economic growth and therefore help pay for themselves.\n\nThe chancellor has also committed to publishing an independent forecast of the UK's economic prospects by the OBR, the independent budget watchdog, at the same time as his economic plan - something he declined to do with his mini-budget.", "The Swiss government is discriminating against men in its rules on pension benefits, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found.\n\nThe decision will cost millions in backdated payments, and force the government to rewrite pension law.\n\nCurrently, women whose husbands die are paid a pension for the rest of their lives, while men only receive payments if they have children under 18.\n\nThe \"male breadwinner\" concept is not enough to justify this, the ECHR found.\n\nThe decision centred on the case of Max Beeler, a Swiss man whose wife died in an accident in the early 1990s.\n\nThen 41, he quit his job to care for their two young children and was supported by a widower's pension, local media reported.\n\nBut in 2010 the pension payments were stopped as his younger child reached 18 years old.\n\nHad Mr Beeler been a woman, the payments would have continued for the rest of his life, regardless of whether or not he had children.\n\nMr Beeler, who had been out of the workplace for many years relying on the pension, lodged an appeal against the decision.\n\nThis was quashed, as the court in his local region said the law deliberately recognised men as the main breadwinner in most families.\n\nIt argued that widowers with childcare responsibilities could be expected to return to work once those children became adults, while the same was not true of widows.\n\nThe case was eventually brought to the ECHR, where Mr Beeler successfully argued that he had been discriminated against.\n\nThe court found that the role of women in the workplace had changed, and so the discrepancy violated Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights in discriminating against men.\n\nMr Beeler will now receive his pension, and other widowers will be able to come forward to claim unpaid benefits.\n\nThe decision is expected to reopen a long-running debate in Switzerland about how much power European judges should have over domestic law.\n\nThe ECHR is an international court based in Strasbourg in France, which rules on alleged violations of the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\nThe convention has 46 signatories, including several countries, like Switzerland, which are not members of the European Union.", "The airport said it still faced an \"uncertain\" future\n\nHeathrow has regained its crown as Europe's busiest airport, according to its latest passenger data.\n\nThe west London airport said it hosted 5.8 million passengers between July and September, more than rivals in cities such as Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.\n\nA year ago, it was Europe's 10th busiest airport, something it blamed on Covid pandemic travel rules.\n\nDespite the rebound, passengers numbers were still 15% below pre-pandemic levels, it added.\n\nChief executive John Holland-Kaye said it had grown more in the past 12 months than any airport in Europe.\n\n\"I am proud of the way our team has worked with airlines and their ground handlers to get 18 million passengers successfully away over summer,\" he explained.\n\n\"While we face many economic headwinds, as well as the legacy of Covid, our aim is to get back to full capacity and the world-class service people should expect from the UK's hub airport as soon as possible.\"\n\nBut the airport insists the outlook for future demand \"remains uncertain\" due to \"growing economic headwinds, a new wave of Covid and the escalating situation in Ukraine\".\n\nIt added: \"However, we expect peak days at Christmas to be very busy.\"\n\nMr Holland-Kaye said the \"vast majority\" of passengers travelling through the airport this summer had \"had a very good experience\".\n\nThis is despite staff shortages forcing the airport to cap the number of departing passengers to 100,000 a day in July.\n\nIt came after long queues and problems with baggage handling over the summer.\n\nThe cap is set to end on 29 October.\n\nAfter this, Heathrow says it is working with airline partners to develop a more targeted mechanism, which \"protects passenger service during peak periods\"\n\nHeathrow has declared its \"focus\" over the next 12 months is to get capacity, service levels and resilience back to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAfter two years blighted by Covid travel restrictions, this summer was extraordinary in a different way.\n\nDemand roared back, but many airports, airlines and other aviation businesses did not have enough staff in place to meet the surge in customers.\n\nHeathrow's cap on the number of passengers who could depart each day caused some advance flight cancellations, but the airport insists it kept a lid on on-the-day disruption while staffing levels were increased.\n\nHowever, today's news contains a strong warning that significant challenges still lie on the road to international travel's recovery.\n\nAnd despite saying staffing levels are better, the fact Heathrow still thinks it necessary to have a plan for managing capacity at peak times over the winter shows things are clearly not back to normal yet.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "The Hubble Space Telescope saw a trail of debris from the asteroid after impact\n\nThe American space agency says its recent attempt to deflect the path of an asteroid was successful.\n\nScientists have now confirmed the orbit of a 160m-wide (520ft) space rock known as Dimorphos was altered when the Dart probe struck it head on last month.\n\nResearchers came to the conclusion after making measurements using a range of space and Earth-based telescopes.\n\nThe mission was conceived to test a potential strategy to defend the Earth against threatening objects.\n\nDart's achievement proves such an idea would work, provided it was initiated early enough and the target wasn't overly massive.\n\n\"This mission shows that Nasa is trying to be ready for whatever the Universe throws at us,\" said agency administrator Bill Nelson.\n\n\"I believe that Nasa has proven that we are serious as a defender of the planet,\" he told reporters.\n\nThe space agency released a raft of data on Tuesday to support its assessment, including new pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope and from a small Italian satellite, or cubesat, that stood off from the impact by about 50km (30 miles).\n\nItalian observation: The squares have increased contrast to highlight particular impact features\n\nThe Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) took place some 11 million km (7 million miles) from Earth.\n\nIt saw the refrigerator-sized Nasa satellite drive straight into Dimorphos at 22,000km/h (14,000mph), destroying itself in the process.\n\nThe space rock orbits a much larger (780m wide; 2,550ft) object called Didymos. Before impact, the time taken for Dimorphos to make one circuit of its sibling was 11 hours and 55 minutes.\n\nThe telescope evidence now indicates this orbital period has been reduced to 11 hours and 23 minutes - a change of 32 minutes. This corresponds to Dimorphos moving closer to Didymos - a tightening of the orbital path - by \"tens of metres\".\n\nDimorphos imaged by the Dart probe just moments before the crash\n\nNasa had defined a minimum successful period change of Dimorphos of 73 seconds or more. The results released on Tuesday show Dart surpassed this benchmark by more than 25 times.\n\n\"This is a 4% change in the orbital period of Dimorphos around Didymos. Dart just gave it a small nudge. But if you wanted to do this in the future, you'd want to do it years in advance,\" commented Dr Nancy Chabot from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which led the mission for Nasa.\n\n\"Warning time is really key here in order to enable this sort of asteroid deflection to be used in the future as part of a much larger planetary defence strategy.\"\n\nThe time taken for Dimorphos to orbit Didymos was reduced by 32 minutes\n\nNasa's Dart programme scientist, Dr Tom Statler, also had a word of caution about drawing too many conclusions from the experiment.\n\nAsteroids came in many different guises, he said. Their compositions and constructions were diverse - something that was being emphasised every time a mission visited a new object.\n\n\"We should not be too eager to say one test on one asteroid tells us exactly how every other asteroid would behave in a similar situation,\" he stressed.\n\n\"But what we can do is use this test as an anchor point for our physics calculations in our simulations that tell us how different kinds of impacts in different situations should behave.\"\n\nFour years from now, the European Space Agency (Esa) will have three spacecraft - collectively known as the Hera mission - at Didymos and Dimorphos to make follow-up studies.", "I have spent all weekend in the area.\n\nCreeslough is a tiny village. It had one shop. It doesn't have that anymore - and that in a way pales.\n\nBut in the ordinary rhythm of life here, it was a hub where people gathered and met. That's gone.\n\nOver and above that, is the loss of so many lives, the concerns for the injured, concerns for the families and the wider community.\n\nThis community is deeply traumatised. It's been struggling to comprehend the sheer enormity of what has happened.\n\nMany of the people I spoke to over the weekend couldn't compute it - and how could they?\n\nI am from Donegal and would have travelled throughout the county playing football, including against St Michael's, Creeslough.\n\nOnce you come to a place and spend some time there you have an abiding empathy with it.\n\nFrom an early stage all across Donegal sporting and other events were being called off.\n\nPeople have lost the heart to do anything but think of Creeslough.\n\nThe people in the area will need support in the days weeks and months ahead.", "Nika Shakarami disappeared hours after burning a headscarf at this protest, her mother told BBC Persian\n\nVideos posted online show an Iranian teenager protesting hours before her death, her mother has told BBC Persian.\n\nNika Shakarami, 16, is seen standing on a dumpster and burning her headscarf in Tehran on 20 September, as others chant slogans against the Islamic Republic.\n\nShe later disappeared after telling a friend she was being chased by police.\n\nHer mother, Nasrin, also denied she was in a CCTV video put out by officials to support their claim that her death was not connected to the protests that day.\n\nMrs Shakarami has accused security forces of murdering her daughter, but officials have said she died after being thrown from a building that was under construction, possibly by workmen.\n\nLast week, Iranian state TV broadcast blurry footage showing a teenage girl or woman whom it identified as Nika walking down an alley and entering a building through a door.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Parham Ghobadi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Mrs Shakarami told BBC Persian on Monday that the person in the video was not her daughter. Another source close to the family also said that they did not walk like Nika.\n\nMrs Shakarami also alleged that her sister Atash and brother Mohsen had been forced into making false statements about Nika's death while they were in detention.\n\n\"They threatened to detain my brother's four-year-old child,\" she said.\n\nMohsen was shown on TV last Wednesday night speaking against the current protests, as someone off camera seems to whisper to him: \"Say it, you scumbag!\" Atash was meanwhile seen saying that Nika \"was killed falling from a building\". They were released after making the statements.\n\nNika Shakarami's mother said family members had been ordered to lie about how her daughter died\n\nNika's family have said they located her body at the mortuary 10 days after she went missing, and that they were only allowed by officials to see her face for a few seconds in order to identify her. Atash has also said that the Revolutionary Guards told her that Nika was in their custody for five days and then handed over to prison authorities.\n\nMrs Shakarami said Nika had disappeared hours after attending the protest seen in videos that have surfaced on social media in recent days.\n\nOne of the videos show a girl dressed in black standing on a dumpster on a street and waving a burning headscarf. A crowd around her is heard chanting \"death to the dictator\" - a reference to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters. Another video shows the same scene from a different angle.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Parham Ghobadi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Like Nika, I have been against compulsory hijab since I was a child. But my generation was not brave enough to protest,\" Mrs Shakarami told BBC Persian.\n\n\"People my age accepted years of suppression, intimidation and humiliation, but my daughter protested and she had every right to do so.\"\n\n\"Generation Z\" - defined as those born between 1997 and 2012 - have been at the forefront of the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was detained by the morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic's strict hijab law.\n\nNika is not the only young female protester to have been killed during the unrest.\n\nThe family of Hadis Najafi, 22, have said that she was shot dead by security forces while protesting in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran, on 21 September.\n\nAnother 16-year-old girl, Sarina Esmailzadeh, allegedly died after being severely beaten on the head with batons by security forces during protests in Karaj on 23 September, according to Amnesty International.\n\nOn Monday, the Iranian Society for Protecting the Rights of the Child reported that a total of 28 children had been killed during the protests.\n\nMany other children had been arrested and were being held at detention centres, the group said.", "An alleged killer nurse was interrupted by the mother of one of her victims who paid her baby boy a visit at the neonatal unit, a court has heard.\n\nLucy Letby is accused of murdering five baby boys and two girls, and attempting to murder 10 other babies at Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016.\n\nManchester Crown Court heard Child E's mother did not realise he was being attacked and was told by the nurse the blood from his mouth was due to a tube.\n\nThe nurse, of Hereford, is accused of murdering Child E and attempting to murder his twin, Child F, the following day.\n\nThe court heard how the twins had been born prematurely and Ms Letby was the designated nurse for both boys.\n\nOne night, their mother, who was an inpatient on the postnatal ward, decided to visit her sons in the neonatal unit.\n\nThe jury was told the mother interrupted Ms Letby, who was in the process of attacking Child E, but she did not realise this. Child E's mother found her son acutely distressed and bleeding from his mouth.\n\nMs Letby attempted to reassure the mother saying: \"Trust me I'm a nurse.\"\n\nThe court heard the nurse urged the mother of Child E to go back to her ward, which she did, but was so concerned she phoned her husband.\n\nMs Letby later made a record on the nursing notes which was not true and \"designed to cover her tracks\", prosecutor Nick Johnson KC said.\n\nLucy Letby told the mother of a distressed baby \"trust me I'm a nurse\"\n\n\"They fail to mention that Child E was bleeding at 21:00 BST and they mention a meeting between his mum and a doctor that neither of them remember.\"\n\nThe court heard Child E was bleeding so heavily that one of the doctors said he had never encountered such a large bleed in a small baby.\n\nThe jury heard after Child E's death his parents did not wish to have a post-mortem examination, the doctor on-call did not deem one necessary and the coroner's office agreed.\n\n\"As subsequent reviews have established that was a big mistake,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe alleged Child E was murdered by an injection of air.\n\nThe prosecution also told the court Ms Letby added insulin to Child F's feed.\n\nThis caused Child F's blood sugar to start to drop calamitously while Ms Letby was present and continued after she had gone.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Somebody poisoned him. No other baby on the neonatal unit was being prescribed insulin. Therefore it couldn't have been negligence.\n\n\"You know who was in the room, and you know from the records who hung the [feed] bag.\"\n\nThe court heard Child F's nutrients bag was replaced and he survived, but the medical team on the unit were concerned and ordered checks.\n\nIt was also claimed Ms Letby took a \"very unusual interest\" in the parents of the twins, searching for them repeatedly on Facebook, including on Christmas Day in 2015.\n\nNick Johnson KC, prosecuting, previously said Lucy Letby was the \"one common denominator\" linking the deaths\n\nThe court heard the nurse allegedly attempted to murder one baby, Child G, who had been born at 23 weeks, three times.\n\nThe baby was born at a different hospital weighing 1lb 2oz (510g) and had later been transferred to the Chester hospital.\n\nShe had been there three weeks and was \"perfectly well\" but then vomited and showed signs of infection, the jury heard.\n\nShe was subsequently transferred away from the Countess of Chester Hospital back to the hospital where she was born, and made a \"remarkable recovery\".\n\nThe jury was told once Child G recovered, she was then transferred back to Chester, where Ms Letby allegedly gave her milk via a tube and in little over an hour she had projectile vomited twice and was not breathing.\n\nThere had been \"no significant issues\" with Child G \"until Lucy Letby got involved\", the court heard.\n\n\"Putting it simply the milk in her vomit did not come from nowhere. That doesn't happen by accident,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nAn MRI scan taken between the events revealed neurological changes and an MRI scan some months later in August 2016 confirmed Child G had sustained irreversible brain damage.\n\nLucy Letby worked on the neonatal ward at the Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nThe court also heard about Child C and D's alleged murders.\n\nMs Letby allegedly injected air into the stomach of the tiny, premature Child C through a nose tube, causing his breathing and heart to stop.\n\nThe trial heard Ms Letby agreed she had been the only person in the room when Child C collapsed and was supposed to be looking after another, more poorly baby, in another room.\n\nThe incident came six days after she allegedly killed Child A by injecting air into his bloodstream, and she later similarly attacked his twin sister, Child B, causing her to collapse.\n\n\"You can now see there was a pattern emerging,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Lucy Letby was the only person working on the night shift when Child C died who had also been working on either of the shifts when Child A died and his twin sister Child B collapsed.\"\n\nMr Johnson told the court Ms Letby's method of attacking the babies was \"beginning to develop\".\n\n\"She had injected air into the bloodstream of the first twins, Child A and B, and varied this approach by injecting air into Child C's stomach via the nasogastric tube,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson also alleged Ms Letby murdered Child D with an intentional injection of air.\n\nThe baby girl had an infection but was responding well to treatment until she deteriorated and collapsed three times and could not be revived.\n\nAt the time, three children had died and one had had a life-threatening episode in the neonatal unit and \"only Lucy Letby was the constant presence\", the court was told.\n\nThe jury has been told the trial may last up to six months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDamien Hirst has begun burning hundreds of his own artworks after selling a series of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).\n\nThe artist told buyers who bought pieces from his latest collection to choose either the physical artwork or the NFT representing it.\n\nThose who chose the NFTs were told their corresponding physical piece would be destroyed.\n\nAsked how he felt to be burning the works, Hirst said: \"It feels good, better than I expected.\"\n\nThe artist was dressed in silver metallic boiler-suit trousers and matching fire safety gloves as he collected each piece and burned it in a contained fire box.\n\nIt has been estimated the works being burned are collectively worth almost £10 million.\n\nNewport Street Gallery said 4,851 buyers chose the NFTs, which means that many physical artworks will be burned\n\nHirst launched his first NFT collection last year, called The Currency, which was made up of 10,000 NFTs, corresponding to 10,000 original pieces of art.\n\nCollectors who bought one had to choose between keeping the NFT or swapping it for the physical artwork.\n\nLondon's Newport Street Gallery said 5,149 buyers opted for the original artworks while 4,851 chose the NFTs.\n\nArtworks for the non-exchanged NFTs would be destroyed, buyers were informed, with Hirst telling his Instagram followers earlier this week that he would burn the first 1,000 artworks on Tuesday.\n\nThe NFTs, which depicted colourful spots, reportedly sold for $2,000 (£1,800) each.\n\nLivestreaming the event, the Turner Prize winner and assistants used tongs to deposit individual pieces stacked in piles into fireplaces in the gallery as onlookers watched.\n\nMore works from the collection will be burned until the exhibition closes on 30 October\n\n\"A lot of people think I'm burning millions of dollars of art but I'm not,\" Hirst said. \"I'm completing the transformation of these physical artworks into NFTs by burning the physical versions.\n\n\"The value of art, digital or physical, which is hard to define at the best of times will not be lost; it will be transferred to the NFT as soon as they are burnt.\"\n\nThe artworks were created in 2016 with enamel paint on handmade paper and each numbered, titled, stamped and signed.\n\nThey will be burned until The Currency exhibition closes on 30 October.\n\nBefore Hirst burned each artwork, he showed it to a camera to log its unique code to keep track of every piece that had been burnt.\n\nMany have criticised Hirst for burning his own valuable artworks during a cost of living crisis.\n\n\"I's almost like Damien Hirst is so out of touch with the real world that he's basically transcended to another plane of existence, populated only by oligarchs and the once-edgy artists they collect,\" wrote Time Out's Eddy Frankel.\n\n\"Still, look at it this way, even if you can't afford to turn on your heating at home, just go to Newport Street Gallery: it's free and it should be nice and toasty with all those £20,000 paintings on fire.\"\n\nDamien Hirst's work has divided critics since he rose to fame in the 1990s\n\nHirst, who is no stranger to what some critics describe as publicity stunts, rose to fame during the 1990s Young British Artist scene.\n\nHe picked up the Turner Prize in 1995 and his work has sold for millions, but he is also one of Britain's most controversial artists.\n\nMuch of his work has divided critics, including one featuring a dead shark floating in formaldehyde and another consisting of a bisected cow and calf.\n\nThe 57-year-old is also known for his spot paintings and \"For The Love Of God\", a platinum cast of an 18th-century human skull encrusted with diamonds.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC about his art in 2018, he said: \"If I put it in a skip outside a pub, would someone take it home? And you think, 'yeah, they would.' If it's good, it won't get left in the street. I think that's a good way of working out if a painting's good or not.\"\n\nNFTs are \"one-of-a-kind\" assets in the digital world that can be bought and sold like any other piece of property, but which have no tangible form of their own.\n\nThe digital tokens can be thought of as certificates of ownership for virtual or physical assets.\n\nTraditional works of art such as paintings are valuable precisely because they are one of a kind.\n\nBut digital files can be easily and endlessly duplicated.\n\nWith NFTs, artwork can be \"tokenised\" to create a digital certificate of ownership that can be bought and sold.\n\nNFTs soared in popularity last year as crypto-rich speculators sought to cash in on rising prices but sales volumes have fallen more recently.", "A cordon was put in place outside 22 Bishopsgate in the city of London on Thursday\n\nA man has been arrested after three people were stabbed when they tried to stop a phone robbery in central London.\n\nThe 25-year-old was detained in Islington, north London, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit robbery, grievous bodily harm with intent and possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nMembers of the public intervened when the attackers struck in Bishopsgate on Thursday morning.\n\nNone of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries.\n\nOfficers were alerted at 09:45 BST on Thursday to reports of three stabbings, which left the injured needing hospital treatment.\n\nPart of Bishopsgate was cordoned off, near to Camomile Street.\n\nDetectives are appealing for witnesses to come forward.\n\nCity of London Police previously said the attack was not being treated as terror-related.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former Royal Navy Armaments Depot was once a secret underground arms base\n\nPart of a former military base could be used to produce enough green hydrogen to power 170 buses every day.\n\nRenewable energy firm Statkraft UK wants to build a green energy hub at the former Royal Navy Armaments Depot in Trecwn, Pembrokeshire.\n\nIt aims to extract hydrogen from water by using electricity generated from wind turbines and solar panels.\n\nThe company is to due hold a series of public consultations before submitting an application to planners next year.\n\nThe sprawling site once housed the biggest underground secret arms depot in Europe, storing torpedoes, mines and other armaments for Royal Navy warships.\n\nStatkraft UK has earmarked a disused rail transfer shed for its Trecwn Green Energy Hub, producing about three tonnes of hydrogen a day if its plans are realised.\n\nA disused rail transfer shed has been earmarked for Statkraft UK's Trecwn Green Energy Hub\n\nMatt Kelly, from Statkraft UK, said it has the \"potential to act a catalyst for the redevelopment of Trecwn Valley\".\n\n\"We're working closely with Pembrokeshire County Council and, despite being at an early stage of the project, we're keen to hear what local people think,\" he said.\n\nThe company said its green hydrogen could be used to power trains \"delivering many of the benefits of electrification, such as using a zero-carbon fuel, but at significantly lower capital costs and with fewer requirements for new infrastructure\".\n\n\"It could also power Pembrokeshire council's fleet of HGV lorries and local buses, with the site able to produce enough green hydrogen to run around 170 buses every day,\" it said.\n\nPembrokeshire deputy council leader councillor Paul Miller said: \"Growing and nurturing renewable technology and industry right across the county, including in our more rural communities, is vital to ensure we position Pembrokeshire and the south west region at the heart of Wales' renewable energy push.\"\n\nThe Royal Navy built its depot for munitions at Trecwn, south of Fishguard, at the start of World War II and the site, including storage bunkers, was finally decommissioned 30 years ago.\n\nDrop-in sessions are being held at Trecwn Valley Boardroom, Letterston Memorial Hall and Fishguard Community Learning Centre this month.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The funeral Mass for Jessica Gallagher was held in her home village of Creeslough\n\nThe funerals have taken place of two victims of the explosion that killed 10 people in Creeslough, County Donegal.\n\nMasses were held at St Michael's Church in the village for Jessica Gallagher, 24, and 49-year-old Martin McGill.\n\nMourners at Ms Gallagher's funeral were told that she would be remembered for the \"ripples of love, affection and warmth\" she left behind.\n\nMr McGill was described as having a \"beautiful, gentle soul\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Gallagher had County Donegal \"in her heart\", a priest tells mourners\n\nThey were among the victims of the disaster at a service station in the small village in the north-west of Ireland last Friday.\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the explosion is taking place but police have said it appears to have been an accident.\n\nThe building complex where the blast happened included a service station, a convenience shop and residential apartments.\n\nThe store, which included a post office, was the main shop serving the 400-strong village, which has been mourning an unprecedented loss of life in its community.\n\nJessica Gallagher was visiting her boyfriend at his apartment above the shop when the explosion happened\n\nDuring Ms Gallagher's funeral Mass, Creeslough priest Father John Joe Duffy said she had a \"radiant smile\".\n\n\"She always brought the sun whether things were happy or difficult,\" he said.\n\nMourners were told how the fashion designer, who was to start a new job in Belfast on Monday, used Donegal tweed as a feature in her work.\n\nThe county was \"in her heart\", Fr Duffy continued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Father John Joe Duffy says the families of those who died have contacted each other to offer support\n\nHe said Pope Francis had conveyed that he was \"heartbroken\" by the disaster.\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins was represented at both of Tuesday's funerals by his senior aide.\n\nMr McGill, who was originally from Scotland, was described as a devoted son who cared for his elderly mother.\n\nHe moved to Creeslough to look after both of his parents but his father had since died.\n\nA piper played as the hearse carrying Martin McGill arrived at St Michael's Church\n\nMourners heard how he was \"so much loved and so loving\" to his \"dearest mum\" Mary and the rest of his family.\n\nThe churchgoers were told that caring for his mother had got him through the recent death of his father and how he was always running errands for those he loved.\n\n\"Martin had a beautiful, gentle soul - a kind person where caring flowed from him,\" said Fr Duffy.\n\n\"Each Sunday he would be in this church lighting candles - he lit more candles than I did.\n\n\"He will be with his dad now,\" the priest directly told Martin's mother Mary.\n\nFriends described Martin McGill as a devoted son who looked after his mother\n\nMr McGill was a supporter of Celtic Football Club, which said it would pay tribute to the victims by holding a period of silence before Tuesday's Champions League tie against RB Leipzig.\n\nThe club's players will also wear black armbands during the match.\n\nAt his funeral his love of the club was referenced many times and Fr Duffy said the gesture would have meant a lot.\n\nThe village of Creeslough fell silent twice in as many hours on Tuesday.\n\nFirst when the hearse carrying Jessica Gallagher was driven through the village, where family, friends and neighbours had gathered to remember the young woman who had travelled the world and come home to start her career.\n\nThen again when a lone piper accompanied the funeral cortege of Martin McGill as it made the short journey from his family home to the church.\n\nOne man offered a salute as the cortege passed; another wiped tears from his face.\n\nThe simple white church where many of the funerals will take place is in the foothills of the Donegal mountains.\n\nMany stood outside as the building was too small to accommodate all of the mourners.\n\nUnder grey, rainy skies, people stood together with heads bowed, tearful and in solemn silence.\n\nThey found comfort with each other - an entire community united in its loss, together in its grief.\n\nEight people who were injured in the explosion remain in hospital.\n\nA man in his 20s is critically ill in St James's Hospital in Dublin.\n\nOn Monday, nurses from Letterkenny Hospital lined the road as the coffin of another victim James O'Flaherty, who was originally from Sydney in Australia, was taken from a chapel in the town.\n\nHis wife Tracey is a nurse at the hospital and her colleagues gathered outside the chapel as the hearse drove past.\n\nHis funeral is due to take place on Wednesday morning and a service is set for the afternoon for two other victims, Catherine O'Donnell and her son James.\n\nLeona Harper and Martina Martin will be buried on Thursday.\n\nCandlelit vigils have been held and messages of sympathy have poured in from across Ireland and around the world.\n\nBooks of condolence have been opened across Ireland and in the Guildhall in Londonderry, in Belfast City Hall and at Stormont.\n\nIrish police say the evidence gathered so far suggests the explosion was a \"tragic accident\"\n\nSpecial messages have come from the Pope and King Charles.\n\nOn Tuesday Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin led expressions of sympathy in the Dáil (Irish parliament).\n\nHe said the 10 people who died represented \"everything good and kind and beautiful about Creeslough, Donegal and our country\".\n\n\"Fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, each one an enormous, incalculable loss in the lives of those around them,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's highest court has been urged to resolve the \"festering\" issue of whether Holyrood can set up a Scottish independence referendum without the agreement of Westminster.\n\nTwo days have been set aside for the hearing at the Supreme Court in London.\n\nThe Scottish government's top law officer, Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain, argued it was in the \"public interest\" to settle the question.\n\nBut the UK government wants the court to refuse to rule on the case.\n\nIt argues that the question is beyond the court's jurisdiction – and that it can only give a judgement if the bill has been passed by MSPs.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants to hold an independence referendum on 19 October 2023, but this is opposed by the UK government.\n\nThe Scottish government case in the Supreme Court argues the referendum is \"advisory\" and would have no legal effect on the Union.\n\nUK law officers argue the constitution is reserved to Westminster and it is therefore a matter beyond the powers of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nMs Bain said former Lord Advocate Lord Mackay of Drumadoon had predicted that this would become a \"festering issue\" - and that he had been proved correct.\n\nShe said she could not allow a referendum bill to go before the Scottish Parliament because she does not have \"necessary degree of confidence\" that it falls within devolved power.\n\n\"I do not consider that it is in the public interest that on an issue of law of this exceptional public importance to the people of Scotland and the United Kingdom that I should be in effect the arbiter,\" Ms Bain said.\n\n\"It is not constitutionally appropriate that a law officer perform such a function.\n\n\"Only this court can provide an authoritative ruling and certainty and provide certainty and clarity to the Scottish government, the Scottish Parliament and the electorate.\"\n\nThe lord advocate added there is a \"risk\" that a referendum bill could be introduced by an individual member of the Scottish Parliament, and said this underlined the need for a ruling from the court on the legal issues.\n\nThe UK government argues that a bill needs to be passed before the Supreme Court rules on it. However, Ms Bain said she was settling a question about proposed legislation.\n\nShe contends that while Scottish ministers might have the \"subjective intention\" of independence, the bill itself would be objectively neutral.\n\nMs Bain also sought to draw a distinction between a \"self-executing\" referendum, which specifies what should happen depending on the result, and those which do not stipulate any legal outcome. \"No legal consequences necessarily or automatically flow from any result\" of the latter, she told the court.\n\nThis is a key point because the UK government argues a referendum bill would be outside of the Scottish Parliament's competency because a referendum \"plainly relates to reserved matters\".\n\nMs Bain cited case law to argue that the Scotland Act 1998 should not \"invalidate\" all legislation which might have a \"slight, indirect or remote\" link to a reserved matter.\n\nShe argued the focus of the court should be on the referendum bill's primary purpose - fulfilling the government's manifesto pledge to seek the views of the Scottish people on independence - and not on incidental or indirect consequences, such as a referendum potentially leading to independence following negotiations.\n\nThe court should not consider \"political\" effects of a referendum, the law officer said, but instead focus on \"purely legal\" consequences.\n\nThe lord advocate also addressed the question of whether she was correct to ask the Supreme Court to give a ruling on a proposed referendum bill.\n\nThe Scotland Act says that a law officer can ask \"any other question arising by virtue of [the Scotland Act] about reserved matters\". Ms Bain argued that this case falls within that \"any other question\" category.\n\nSir James Eadie is the UK government's independent barrister on legal issues of national importance\n\nSir James Eadie KC, the UK government's independent barrister on legal issues of national importance, argued the court could not consider the case until a referendum bill was passed by MSPs.\n\nHe said: \"There is clear and consistent authority, including at this elevated level, that it is not appropriate for courts generally to engage in abstract questions of law until the facts are known.\"\n\nSir James said those facts included whether the legislation will be passed, what its precise terms will be, and what the legislation actually applies to.\n\nHe insisted judges could not even be certain that the Scottish Parliament, with a majority of pro-independence MSPs, would pass the bill.\n\n\"I don't think you can take that as read,\" Sir James told the court.\n\n\"People might have different views, [MSPs] have not yet voted, the mere fact there is a government majority may lead to that result and it may not.\"\n\nEarlier, the Supreme Court's senior judge, Lord Reed, warned that the hearing was just the \"tip of the iceberg\".\n\nHe explained there are more than 8,000 pages of written material and it is likely to be some months before the judgement is delivered.\n\nThe case is being heard by a panel of five judges - Lord Reed, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Sales, Lord Stephens and Lady Rose.\n\nMs Sturgeon used her speech at the SNP party conference on Monday to reiterate her commitment to making Scotland an independent country, saying it was \"essential to escape Westminster control and mismanagement\" and return to the EU.\n\nShe has repeatedly said her preference would be to proceed with the agreement of the UK government, as happened ahead of the referendum in 2014 when a \"section 30 order\" was granted giving Holyrood the power to hold such a vote.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss and her recent Conservative predecessors, however, have refused to grant such permission, arguing that now is not time for another independence vote.\n\nMs Sturgeon has said she would respect the judgement of the court but if the ruling goes against the Scottish government, she would then fight the next general election solely on the issue, making it a de facto independence vote.\n\nThe vote on independence in 2014 was held after Downing Street recognised a pro-referendum majority in the Scottish Parliament and granted formal consent for the poll.\n\nScotland voted in favour of remaining in the three centuries old union by 55 per cent to 45 per cent but since then the UK has left the European Union against the wishes of most Scottish voters, a \"material change\" which the Scottish government says means the issue of independence should be tested at the ballot box again.\n\nThe current UK government strongly disagrees, responding to a Holyrood election result last year, which saw voters returning another pro-referendum majority this time comprised of SNP and Green MSPs, by saying, simply, no.\n\nThe political row which has followed is now a legal dispute.\n\nIf the Supreme Court also says no, Nicola Sturgeon intends to take her case for leaving the UK directly to the people of Scotland at the next general election although she has not set out exactly how that would work in practice.\n\nHer opponents say the de facto referendum plan is illegitimate and would not provide a mandate for Scotland to negotiate its exit from the UK.\n\nBut with the polls split more or less down the middle on the question of independence, the issue looks set to dominate Scottish politics for years to come, whatever the judges decide.", "The flurry of missiles launched against Ukraine were the first day at work for the hard-line Gen Sergei Surovikin (right), pictured here in 2017\n\nThe hail of indiscriminate missile fire across Ukraine this morning was Russia's brutal payback for the attack on the Crimean bridge.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin called it the response to an \"act of terrorism\" which he blamed on Ukraine.\n\nBut it was also Mr Putin's response to hawks in his own camp who have been growing increasingly restless with Russian losses in the war and increasingly loud with their calls for tougher action.\n\nThose pro-Kremlin officials and TV hosts who were depressed and dejected just days ago are now cheering this assault on their neighbour, gloating and even dancing in social media posts as Ukraine grieves for its dead and picks through the wreckage of multiple attacks.\n\nThe barrage of missiles was Gen Sergei Surovikin's first day of work.\n\nNow in charge of Russia's war effort, his appointment this weekend was a sop by Mr Putin to the hardliners.\n\nThe general's CV includes the indiscriminate Russian bombardment of Syria and the death of pro-democracy protesters in Moscow in 1991 during the attempted coup, so he was already being described as ruthless.\n\nThe Crimean bridge strike on Saturday pushed Russian dismay at the war's progress to a peak.\n\nA symbol of Russia's claim to Ukraine - the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 - had gone up in flames and the loudest voices in this war, the hardliners, were baying for retaliation.\n\nThey had been calling for attacks on civilian infrastructure for some time: to freeze the Ukrainian people into submission this winter, if their soldiers can't be beaten on the battlefield.\n\n\"When will we actually start fighting?\" propagandist Vladimir Solovyov demanded to know, arguing it was better for Russia to be feared than laughed at.\n\nThe Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who had been furiously criticising Russia's defence ministry for weeks, has pronounced himself \"100% happy\".\n\nRT television channel boss Margarita Simonyan defined the bridge attack as a \"red line\" before cooing that Russia's \"little response has landed\".\n\nAnton Krasovsky of Russian state TV posted a video of himself apparently celebrating the latest strikes across Ukraine\n\nOne of her senior employees, Anton Krasovsky, posted a video of himself in a cap with a pro-war Z symbol and what looked like Russian army pyjamas, dancing and grinning broadly at the camera. At the start, he punches the air, apparently for victory.\n\nBut this \"shock and awe\" attack - which killed civilians and destroyed homes, smashing into parks and playgrounds - comes from a position of Russian weakness: its troops have been losing on the ground.\n\nVladimir Putin seemed to drag his heels when that began, perhaps hoping to hold out on the battlefield until winter when Ukraine's Western allies might weaken in their support, under more political pressure at home.\n\nRussia could then pressure for talks: a frozen conflict.\n\nBut Ukraine's military kept advancing, its morale still strong, even after Russia illegally annexed four chunks of Ukrainian land.\n\nThe frustration of Russian hardliners burst into the open.\n\nTheir criticism has been carefully focused on the military, not President Putin. But this is his war: he launched it and he is Russia's supreme commander-in-chief.\n\nThat's why Grigory Yudin, from the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, described Monday's mass shelling as \"an act of desperation\", aimed mostly at solving Mr Putin's internal problems.\n\nRussia's president had embraced the hawks' idea that you have to \"scare the opponent to death\" so it will surrender, Mr Yudin wrote on Twitter.\n\nRussia's former President, Dmitry Medvedev - once seen as a liberal - warned that these strikes were just \"the first episode\", with more to come.\n\nVladimir Putin himself said Russia would respond \"in a very harsh manner\" if what he called \"acts of terrorism\" like the bridge attack continue.\n\nSuch talk could suggest a dark, new turn in the war, with increasingly random and devastating attacks.\n\n\"I think the Russian leadership is ready for a war of attrition,\" Russian foreign policy analyst Andrei Kortunov told the BBC.\n\n\"They would like to break the will of the Ukrainian people and army which implies heavy strikes against critical infrastructure.\"\n\nAnd yet Ukraine has shown no sign of buckling in well over seven months of an invasion that has already brought horrors such as the siege of Mariupol and torture and executions in places like Bucha and Izyum.\n\n\"This theory is wrong in the Ukrainian case,\" Grigory Yudin wrote. \"But that is something the hawks are still to learn.\"", "Augustine came to the UK from Nigeria to work as a doctor in a large private hospital in West Yorkshire\n\nDoctors recruited from some of the world's poorest countries to work in UK hospitals say they're being exploited - and believe they're so overworked they fear putting patients' health at risk.\n\nA BBC investigation has found evidence that doctors from Nigeria are being recruited by a British healthcare company and expected to work in private hospitals under conditions not allowed in the National Health Service.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) has described the situation as \"shocking\" and says the sector needs to be brought in line with NHS working practices.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to several foreign medics - including a young Nigerian doctor who worked at the private Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital in 2021.\n\nAugustine Enekwechi says his hours were extreme - on-call 24 hours a day for a week at a time - and that he was unable to leave the hospital grounds. He says working there felt like being in \"a prison\".\n\nThe tiredness was so intense, he says, there were times he worried he couldn't properly function.\n\n\"I knew that working tired puts the patients at risk and puts myself also at risk, as well for litigation,\" he says. \"I felt powerless… helpless, you know, constant stress and thinking something could go wrong.\"\n\nNuffield Health disputes those working hours, saying its doctors are offered regular breaks, time off between shifts, and the ability to swap shifts if needed. The company adds that \"the health and wellbeing of patients and hospital team members\" is its priority.\n\nAugustine was hired out to the Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital from a private company - NES Healthcare. It specialises in employing doctors from overseas, many from Nigeria, and using them as Resident Medical Officers, or RMOs - live-in doctors found mainly in the private sector.\n\nAugustine says he was so excited to be offered a job that he barely looked at the NES contract. In fact it opted him out of legislation that protects UK workers from excessive working hours - the Working Time Directive - and left him vulnerable to a range of punishing salary deductions.\n\nListen to File on 4 - Paul Kenyon investigates the 'brain drain' of doctors from developing countries to work in the UK\n\nAugustine is far from alone. The BMA and the front line lobbying group the Doctors' Association has given the BBC's File on 4 and Newsnight exclusive access to the findings of a questionnaire put to 188 Resident Medical Officers. Most of the doctors were employed by NES but some were with other employers.\n\nIt found that 92% had been recruited from Africa and most - 81% - were from Nigeria. The majority complained about excessive working hours and unfair salary deductions.\n\nFor years now, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against the \"active recruitment\" of doctors and nurses from developing countries with severe shortages of medical personnel. The WHO has compiled a list of 47 such countries - most of them in Africa. The UK government has incorporated that list into its own code of practice - calling it the \"red list\". In effect, it makes Nigeria a no-go destination for British medical recruiters.\n\nSo how did the doctors come to be working in the UK in the first place? We travelled to Nigeria and witnessed another troubling side to this story.\n\nIn an exam hall in Lagos, the country's biggest city, we found hundreds of doctors queuing to take what's called a Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board test - or PLAB 1. The paper is set by the General Medical Council in London and is the first step required by the British medical authorities to secure a licence to work in the UK.\n\nThe doctors we spoke to said they were attracted by the potential of higher salaries and better working conditions. The event was being overseen by staff from the British Council - an organisation sponsored by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn Lagos, doctors queue to take PLAB 1 exams - the first step towards getting them a licence to work in the UK\n\nThe GMC also offers the exams in several other red-list countries - Ghana, Sudan, Pakistan and Bangladesh.\n\nBoth the GMC and British Council deny they are involved in \"active recruitment\" and say they're simply helping provide a service for doctors wanting to come to the UK independently - something that is allowed under the guidelines.\n\nIn Augustine's case, he was studying for the second part of those PLAB exams in the UK, when he was approached by NES Healthcare and later offered visa sponsorship and a potential job.\n\nWhile that does appear to have been \"active recruitment\" - NES says it wasn't, because it is not a recruitment agency and, as such, only engages with doctors from overseas once they've already committed to practising in the UK. But the Department of Health and Social Care told us the UK code of practice did apply to NES - so the company was in breach of it.\n\nWe spoke to several African doctors recruited in this way by NES. They all had similar stories about what the terms and conditions of their contracts meant in reality, once they had been hired out to private UK hospitals.\n\n\"It's not humanly possible to do that every day for seven days,\" says Dr Femi Johnson\n\nDr Femi Johnson was sent to a different hospital to Augustine, but says he was also expected to work 14 to 16-hour days and then be on call overnight. \"I was burnt out,\" he says. \"I was tired, I needed sleep. It's not humanly possible to do that every day for seven days.\"\n\nBut when he needed a break because he was too exhausted to continue, NES were entitled to deduct money from his salary. The company says that is to cover the cost of finding a replacement doctor, but Femi says it leaves NES doctors in a terrible dilemma.\n\n\"In situations like that, I always make that internal discussion with my inner self - 'Femi are you doing right by yourself and are you doing right by the patient?'\" he tells us. \"Unfortunately, I haven't always been able to answer that question.\"\n\n\"This is a slave-type work,\" says Dr Jenny Vaughan from the Doctors' Association\n\nSome NES doctors have received help from Dr Jenny Vaughan from the Doctors' Association. She receives many complaints from Resident Medical Officers and says the UK healthcare system has developed into two tiers - one for NHS doctors, the other for international recruits working in the private sector.\n\nNHS doctors can only be scheduled to work up to 48 hours, and if they request, up to 72 hours a week.\n\n\"No doctor in the NHS does more than four nights consecutively because we know that it's frankly not safe,\" says Dr Vaughan.\n\n\"This is a slave-type work with… excess hours, the like of which we thought had been gone 30 years ago.\n\n\"It is not acceptable for patients for patient-safety reasons. It is not acceptable for doctors. \"\n\nEmma Runswick of the BMA describes the situation as \"so exploitative it beggars belief\".\n\nWe took our findings to the BMA - and its deputy chair, Emma Runswick. She told us the situation was a \"disgrace to UK medicine\".\n\n\"Our international colleagues have come a long way to the UK, and have found conditions so exploitative it beggars belief.\"\n\nNES Healthcare told us that our \"feedback about doctors' experiences\" with the company was \"extremely positive\". It says it provides doctors \"with a safe and supportive route to pursue their career choice in the National Health Service, and in the UK healthcare system more generally, and that their work is of \"great benefit to the British public.\"", "Long-promised plans to stop landlords in England evicting tenants without giving a reason could be scrapped.\n\nA ban on no-fault evictions was due to become law next year after being promised by Boris Johnson at the 2019 general election.\n\nBut the government now says \"no decisions have been made\" about it.\n\nMinisters are also considering relaxing rules on how many affordable homes must be included in new developments, which they say will boost housebuilding.\n\nThe government says it remains committed to ensuring renters get a \"fair deal\" - but housing charities and opposition parties have accused them of betrayal.\n\n\"No-fault evictions mean that families can face the disruption and upheaval of moving home and often schools with just two months' notice,\" said campaign group Generation Rent.\n\nIt also means that \"unscrupulous landlords can bully tenants into accepting shoddy conditions or unaffordable rent increases,\" it added.\n\nOsama Bhutta, director of campaigns at Shelter, said deciding not to ban no-fault evictions \"will pour fuel on the housing emergency and make thousands homeless\".\n\n\"The government must change its mind, it can do it now or do it after grasping the anger of millions of people,\" he added.\n\nBanning Section 21 no-fault evictions was included in the 2019 Conservative election manifesto and was due to become law next year, as part of a \"new deal\" for private tenants.\n\nAnnouncing the legislation in May, the then Levelling-Up Secretary Michael Gove said: \"Too many renters are living in damp, unsafe and cold homes, powerless to put it right, and under the threat of sudden eviction.\"\n\nBut Mr Gove's successor Simon Clarke is considering scrapping the ban on no-fault evictions as part of a review of policies that do not \"boost growth\", according to The Times.\n\nHailed as \"game changing\" by those who'd long argued the private rental sector was stacked against tenants, the government's plans appear to be on hold.\n\nA ban on no-fault evictions had cross-party support and even qualified backing from landlords, but now a reversal of the policy has not been ruled out.\n\nCharities warn that an unpredictable housing market could see landlords selling or re-letting their properties, ending tenancies at short notice.\n\nThe number of households evicted in England has more than doubled in a year, largely down to the ban on evictions during the pandemic coming to an end.\n\nBut campaigners say the 19,790 Section 21 notices served in 2021/22 is higher than pre-Covid levels and will only rise further, fuelling homelessness.\n\nThere could be political repercussions too. Former housing secretary Michael Gove, who spearheaded the changes, has already accused Liz Truss of displaying the \"wrong values\" with tax cuts for higher earners.\n\nIf the prime minister now signs off on the reversal of a manifesto commitment to protect private renters, he and other Conservative backbenchers are unlikely to let it lie.\n\nMr Clarke is also considering relaxing rules on affordable housing.\n\nUnder current planning rules, developers must include affordable homes in any scheme of more than 10 homes. Mr Clarke reportedly wants to increase this threshold to 40 or 50 to boost housebuilding.\n\n\"The government is committed to exploring policies that build the homes people need, deliver new jobs, support economic development and boost local economies,\" a government spokesperson said.\n\nBut Labour's shadow levelling-up secretary Lisa Nandy said relaxing affordable homes targets \"beggars belief\" - and she urged the government to stick to its commitment on no-fault evictions.\n\n\"Millions of people are only a few weeks from losing their home through no fault of their own.\n\n\"The Tories promised to stop this in their election manifesto and the Queen's Speech. It would be shameful to break this promise.\"\n\nAsked whether Liz Truss thought it was right to scrap no-fault evictions, the prime minister's spokesman said: \"No decisions have been made.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"This is something the secretary of state is considering in terms of how to improve the rental market.\n\n\"Clearly, ensuring a fair deal for renters will always remain a priority for this government.\"\n\nBen Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, said that whatever the government decided to do, a \"wide range of reforms are desperately needed to support the sector\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told SNP members they were \"the independence generation\" in a keynote speech.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has told her party members they are \"the independence generation\" in her keynote speech at the SNP conference.\n\nThe SNP leader told delegates that independence was \"essential\".\n\nShe also told the conference in Aberdeen that she would unveil a new economic prospectus next week.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this would include a proposal to use oil revenues to set up a £20bn investment fund if Scotland became independent.\n\nShe also announced an increase to a child benefit bridging payment.\n\nIn her rallying cry to party members, Ms Sturgeon told the conference: \"We are the independence generation\n\n\"I believe - firmly - that we will be the first, in the modern world, to live in an independent Scotland.\"\n\nWhile the SNP leader warned independence was not \"a miracle economic cure\", she insisted it was \"essential to escape Westminster control and mismanagement\".\n\nShe urged the \"independence generation\" to keep in mind two points.\n\n\"First is the fundamental right of the nation of Scotland to self-determination,\" she said.\n\n\"And the second is what history teaches us – the overwhelming power of democracy to triumph.\"\n\nThis speech - and the reaction to it - underlined how united the SNP is under its leader, and how firmly they believe that independence is coming.\n\nNicola Sturgeon talked about the \"arc of history\" moving towards it, about being part of \"the independence generation\".\n\nThere are still major questions over how that will actually happen, and in all honesty there were long spells over the weekend when this did not feel like a gathering of a party which is one year out from a referendum.\n\nBut the process issue is on hold for today, deferred to the Supreme Court, which will become the focus of the debate from tomorrow morning.\n\nAnd as ever Ms Sturgeon's speech was the spark that energised the entire conference.\n\nThere was ovation after ovation for her promises that \"the overwhelming power of democracy\" would triumph.\n\nThere was a message to staunch unionists too, with the first minister promising that \"whatever happens in future, Scotland belongs to you as much as it does to us\".\n\nBut for the most part this was a speech for the faithful in the room - and they clearly loved every moment of it.\n\nAt the first in-person conference since 2019, the first minister said her party would publish a paper next week which would make the economic case for independence.\n\nIt is the third in a series of papers being published by the Scottish government.\n\nShe said this would include plans for a fund which would deliver up to £20bn of investment within the first decade.\n\nThe SNP leader said this would be funded from remaining oil revenues and by using borrowing powers.\n\n\"It will set out how we can build a new, sustainable economy based on our massive renewable energy resources,\" Ms Sturgeon said.\n\n\"It will show how in an energy rich, independent Scotland, we can deliver lower prices and stronger security of supply.\"\n\nThe speech comes ahead of a Supreme Court hearing on the Scottish parliament's ability to legislate for an independence referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that if the court rules in her favour, the Scottish government will hold a referendum on 19 October 2023.\n\nIf not, she said she would respect the rule of law and then \"put our case for independence to the people in an election\".\n\n\"I will never - ever - give up on Scottish democracy,\" the first minister said.\n\nShe insisted that independence could help Scotland forge closer ties with its near neighbours.\n\nMs Sturgeon said that England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland would always be \"the closest of friends\".\n\n\"We will always be family.\n\n\"But we can achieve a better relationship - a true partnership of equals - when we win Scotland's independence.\"\n\nShe also said the NHS would be protected in a written constitution after independence and confirmed two new cancer diagnosis centres are opening - one in the Borders and one in Lanarkshire.\n\nNicola Sturgeon took aim at the UK government during her speech\n\nMs Sturgeon – who announced her desire to continue as first minister for \"quite some time yet\" – told the conference that the government would double the funding for this year's final quarterly bridging payment to 145,000 school age children. This will rise from £130 to £260 as part of a £19m investment.\n\nThe bridging payment, which is delivered by councils on behalf of the government, was introduced in 2021 to provide support until the Scottish Child Payment is extended to eligible under 16s.\n\nShe went on to take aim at Liz Truss's UK government, who were accused of overseeing \"chaos and catastrophe\".\n\nMs Sturgeon highlighted recent comments from Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who said it was her \"dream\" to see asylum seekers deported to Rwanda.\n\nThe SNP leader responded: \"My dream is that we live in a world where those fleeing violence and oppression are shown compassion and treated like human beings... not shown the door and bundled on to planes like unwanted cargo.\"\n\nThe first minister also expressed solidarity with people facing oppression and violence in Ukraine, Afghanistan and Iran.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some remains have been found with head injuries, possibly caused by a battle involving arrows or musket balls\n\nThe remains of more than 240 people, including children, have been unearthed by archaeologists working on the remnants of a medieval priory found beneath a former department store.\n\nThe \"hugely significant\" discovery was made under the old Ocky White building in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.\n\nArchaeologists believe the ruins are from St Saviour's Priory, founded by a Dominican order of monks in about 1256.\n\nOne expert said it offered a \"window into medieval Haverfordwest\".\n\nOcky White was a popular store for more than a century before its riverside premises closed in 2013.\n\nSome skulls have been found with injuries consistent with having been in battle, according to the experts\n\nSite supervisor Andrew Shobbrook, from Dyfed Archaeological Trust, described the priory as a significant complex of buildings with dormitories, scriptoriums - rooms devoted to writing and manuscripts - stables and a hospital.\n\n\"It's quite a prestigious place to be buried. You have a range of people, from the wealthy to general townsfolk,\" he said.\n\nIt is believed that the graveyard could have been used until the early 18th Century.\n\nArchaeologists believe the ruins are from a 13th Century priory, including a hospital\n\nOcky White was a popular shopping mainstay for more than a century before its riverside premises closed in 2013\n\nAbout half of the remains are those of children, which is said to be a reflection of their high mortality rate at the time.\n\nAll the bones will be analysed by a specialist before being reburied on consecrated ground nearby.\n\nSome of the remains have been found with head injuries, consistent with having been in battle, and the wounds could have been caused by arrows or musket balls, according to Mr Shobbrook.\n\nHundreds of remains and artefacts have been unearthed\n\nTiles have also been found at the site\n\nIt is believed that the graveyard could have been used until the early 18th Century\n\nOne theory is that the victims could date from an attack led by Owain Glyndŵr, who was the last native Welsh person to hold the title Prince of Wales.\n\nIt was a joint assault by Welsh and French forces, who had united to battle English occupation of Wales.\n\n\"We know that the town was besieged in 1405 by Owain Glyndŵr and they could be victims of that conflict,\" said Mr Shobbrook.\n\nThe remains and other finds, including tiles, are being stored at a nearby disused shop after being cleaned and dried.\n\nArchaeologists Andrew Shobbrook and Gaby Lester say the finds are significant\n\n\"Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would involved in something so big,\" said archaeologist Gaby Lester.\n\n\"The site is showing itself to be massive part of the history of Haverfordwest and Pembrokeshire.\n\n\"It can be slightly overwhelming at times but it's also quite humbling to be part of that person's journey.\"\n\nThe site is being redeveloped to become a food emporium, bar and rooftop terrace.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLeaders of the G7 group of rich nations have said they will back Ukraine for \"as long as it takes\" in the wake of Monday's major Russian missile strikes.\n\nThe group, which met for emergency virtual talks, said it would keep on giving military and humanitarian aid.\n\nNato also said it would stand with Ukraine for as long as necessary.\n\nAt least 19 people were killed and scores more injured, as Russian missiles hit regions across Ukraine, including central Kyiv.\n\nStrikes continued into Tuesday, with civilians advised to stay in air raid shelters.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin said the attacks were in retaliation for a strike on a key bridge linking Russia with occupied Crimea, for which he blamed Ukraine.\n\nWestern leaders were quick to condemn the Russian escalation, and the G7 on Tuesday reiterated its commitment to Ukraine.\n\n\"We will continue to provide financial, humanitarian, military, diplomatic and legal support and will stand firmly with Ukraine for as long as it takes,\" the group said in a statement.\n\nThe bloc also condemned Mr Putin's recent attempts to annex four regions of Ukraine with self-styled referendums.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the G7 for further air defence capabilities.\n\nHe also asked the alliance to support an international mission on the Ukraine-Belarus border.\n\nBelarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko - a close ally of Mr Putin - has agreed to deploy forces with Russian soldiers at the border with Ukraine, saying this is in response to a threat from Kyiv.\n\nOn Tuesday, US President Joe Biden said he believed President Putin is a \"rational actor\" who misjudged his ability to successfully invade Ukraine.\n\n\"I think he thought he'd be welcomed with open arms - that this was the home of mother Russia in Kyiv and he was going to be welcomed - and I think he totally miscalculated,\" Biden told CNN.\n\nNato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the military bloc would also continue to stand by Ukraine.\n\nIn a press conference, Mr Stoltenberg suggested that Nato needed to produce more weapons, as supplies have run low due to the war. Nato is in discussions with member nations and defence companies, he said.\n\nFollowing indirect threats from Mr Putin, Mr Stoltenberg said the alliance was closely monitoring Russia's nuclear forces, but had not seen any changes in their posture.\n\nHe added that any attack on infrastructure critical to Nato would trigger a \"united and determined response\". It comes two weeks after a series of attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which many Western leaders indirectly suggested may have been caused by Russia.\n\nIn its statement the G7 said is was \"deeply troubled\" by these attacks, and welcomed further investigation into what caused them.\n\nThe G7 is made up of the seven largest \"advanced\" economies.\n\nIt includes Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US.\n\nChina is not included as it is not considered an advanced economy in the way the other nations are. Russia was part of the group, but was excluded after its annexation of Crimea in 2014.", "A relative of victims of AF 447 holds a poster reading \"French Justice 13 years too late\" on the first day of the trial\n\nThe bosses of Airbus and Air France have been greeted with cries of \"shame\" at the opening of a long-awaited trial in Paris connected with a deadly 2009 plane crash off Brazil.\n\nThe firms deny involuntary manslaughter in the loss of the Airbus A330 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.\n\nInvestigators found the pilots had lost control when air-speed sensors froze, and all 228 people on board died.\n\nFamilies of the deceased have campaigned for years for a trial.\n\nRelatives shouted protests as Air France Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Anne Rigail and Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury expressed their condolences during opening statements.\n\nMr Faury told reporters \"it will be a difficult trial\" and that the company wanted to contribute to \"truth and understanding\". Ms Rigail expressed \"the deepest compassion\" after telling the court Air France would never forget its worst ever accident.\n\nBut Mr Faury's remarks met cries of \"shame\" and \"too little, too late\".\n\n\"Thirteen years we have been waiting for this day and we have prepared for a long time,\" Daniele Lamy, who lost her son in the crash, told Reuters news agency before the hearing.\n\nThe Air France Flight 447 crashed hours after departing from Rio de Janeiro, having run into a high altitude thunderstorm.\n\nAfter a years-long search for the plane's black boxes, investigators concluded that speed sensors on the plane failed and gave false readings.\n\nThe pilots then failed to follow correct procedure and lost control of the aircraft, which plunged 38,000ft (11,580 m) into the ocean. The captain was on a break when problems began and investigators concluded that the co-pilots did not have the training to deal with malfunctioning equipment.\n\nJudges had initially charged both the airline and manufacturer with manslaughter, but the prosecutor then recommended that only Air France should go on trial. In September 2019 charges against both were dropped, because there were not enough grounds to prosecute.\n\nThat decision was challenged, and in May last year the Paris appeals court decided that both Air France and Airbus should face trial.\n\nBoth firms risk a maximum fine of €225,000 (£200,000; $218,500) in a trial expected to last several weeks.", "Some Conservative MPs are in talks with opposition parties to try to block the government's fracking plans, the BBC has been told.\n\nCurrently, MPs are not set to get a vote on the government's pledge to lift the ban on fracking in England.\n\nBut Labour want to force a vote on the issue, while some Tory MPs have told the BBC they would like this too.\n\nFracking was halted in 2019, following opposition from environmentalists and local concerns over earth tremors.\n\nHowever, last month the government ended the ban in England as part of its plan to limit rising energy costs.\n\nThe controversial practice involves drilling into the earth to recover oil and gas from shale rock.\n\nWhen asked if there should be a vote on fracking in Parliament, Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg told the BBC there were \"any number of mechanisms MPs can use to have a say on things\".\n\nHe said: \"The government doesn't have to give votes. There are backbench business debates, there are opposition debates, there are amendments.\"\n\nA number of Conservatives told the BBC they had spoken to opposition parties about what mechanism they could use to force the government to change its plans.\n\nA Labour source also confirmed they had spoken to some backbench Conservative MPs who are willing to work together on \"opposing fracking\".\n\nSome Conservatives said they believe dozens of their colleagues have raised concerns with No 10 and the prime minister about her plans to bring back fracking where there is \"local consent\".\n\nSome of them have argued publicly, and others privately, that the government has not clarified how it could prove \"local consent\".\n\nOthers have argued that the plans go against the 2019 Conservative manifesto commitment to maintain the ban on fracking unless the science had changed to show it can be done safely.\n\nIn the past, a ban was placed on fracking after it triggered seismic events or earthquakes that breached a threshold set by the government.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg has said that tolerating a higher degree of risk and disturbance from fracking appears to be \"in the national interest\" given the desire to produce more energy domestically since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nCross-party MPs who oppose fracking are looking for a parliamentary mechanism they could use to force MPs to get a formal vote on the issue - and use this to try and persuade the government to change its plans.\n\nOne idea being considered by opposition parties and Tory rebels is an amendment to future energy or planning bills - draft laws - blocking fracking from taking place, that MPs could then have the opportunity to vote for or against.\n\nIf enough Tory MPs voted with the opposition parties, this could overturn the government's majority meaning the amendment would pass.\n\nHowever, amendments to proposed laws do not always get selected by the Speaker of the House of Commons.\n\nAnother option being considered is Labour tabling an opposition day debate on the issue, though some rebel Tory MPs could be less likely to vote for a Labour motion than an amendment to a government bill.\n\nWhile an opposition day vote would not be binding, if it was backed by enough Tory MPs it could be used to show a lack of support for fracking in Parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOpposition sources have told the BBC that fracking is just one policy area where they are attempting to tap into opportunities to overturn the government's plans by getting enough Tory MPs to vote with them instead which, if successful, would scupper the government's parliamentary majority.\n\nGiven the number of Tory MPs publicly - and privately - opposing fracking, some have told the BBC they feel the government may eventually see this as one fight too many after weeks of infighting within the Tory party over the government's economic plans.\n\nEarlier this month, the government was forced to perform a U-turn over its plans to scrap the top rate of income tax for the highest earners after widespread opposition from within the Tory party.\n\nMeanwhile, there is currently a live debate in the party over whether or not the government should raise benefits in line with prices or wages, which would be lower.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBritish Cycling has been accused of getting involved in \"greenwashing\" after announcing an eight-year sponsorship deal with oil giant Shell.\n\nThe partnership will bring \"wide-ranging support and investment\", says British Cycling.\n\nThis include initiatives to make cycling more accessible for disabled people and target a 'net-zero' status.\n\nBut environmental campaigners say the \"disappointing\" move is \"cynical PR\" to improve Shell's reputation.\n\nGreenpeace UK policy director Dr Doug Parr added: \"The idea of Shell helping British Cycling reach net zero is as absurd as beef farmers advising lettuce farmers on how to go vegan.\n\n\"After being booted out of museums and other cultural institutions, Big Oil are looking at sports as the next frontier for their brazen greenwash. But their aim hasn't changed - to distract from the inconvenient fact that the fossil fuel industry is making our planet uninhabitable.\"\n\nFriends of the Earth campaigner Jamie Peters said: \"Cycling is the epitome of environmentally friendly travel. It's deeply disappointing that UK Cycling [sic] could think it's appropriate to partner with a fossil fuel giant.\n\n\"Shell is continuing to invest billions in oil and gas projects, while using cynical PR initiatives like this partnership to attempt to greenwash its harmful activities.\"\n\nBritish Cycling chief executive Brian Facer, said: \"We're looking forward to working alongside Shell UK to widen access to the sport.\n\n\"We want to support our elite riders and help our organisation and sport take important steps towards net-zero - things we know our members are incredibly passionate about.\"\n\nThe partnership brings an end to the eight-year deal with banking giant HSBC.\n• None What do George Clooney and Julia Roberts think about rom-coms?: They reveal it all to Ali Plumb...", "Sir Jeremy Fleming will warn against buying in Chinese technology with \"hidden costs\"\n\nChinese technology poses a major risk to the UK's security and prosperity, the head of GCHQ has said.\n\nIn a lecture, Sir Jeremy Fleming said China's leadership was using technology to secure control at home and abroad.\n\nHe argued that this was an urgent problem that needed to be addressed by the UK and allies.\n\nHe also said Russia's military was exhausted but there were no signs yet of nuclear weapons use.\n\nChina has deliberately and patiently set out to gain \"strategic advantage by shaping the world's technology ecosystem\", the head of the intelligence agency told an audience at the Royal United Service Institute for its annual security lecture.\n\nSir Jeremy argued the Chinese Communist Party was aiming to manipulate the technology that underpins people's lives to embed its influence at home and abroad and provide opportunities for surveillance.\n\nHe warned China was seeking to create \"client economies and governments\" by exporting technology to countries around the world, and said these countries risked \"mortgaging the future\" by buying in Chinese technology with \"hidden costs\".\n\nHe pointed to a series of examples including:\n\nBut the intelligence chief said he would not stop children using TikTok - which is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance - although he said young people should be more aware of their personal data and how it could be shared.\n\n\"No, I wouldn't (stop children from using TikTok), but I would speak to my child about the way in which they think about their personal data on their device,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme in advance of the lecture.\n\n\"I think it's really important from a very early age that we understand that there is no free good here. When we are using these services we are exchanging our data for that and if it's proportionate and we're happy with the way that data is safeguarded then that's great.\n\n\"Make the most of that, make those videos, use TikTok - but just think before you do,\" he added.\n\nChinese control of future technology is not inevitable though, he said, adding: \"Our future strategic tech advantage rests on what we do as a community next.\"\n\nSir Jeremy, who runs the agency which monitors communications and cyberspace, also called for a \"grown-up\" conversation about collaboration with China at UK universities.\n\nThere has been controversy over some educational institutions carrying out joint projects with Chinese counterparts with defence or surveillance ties.\n\nHe said the UK should continue to welcome students from China but \"be really clear on the areas of technology where we will require additional safeguards\". Areas like artificial intelligence and quantum computing were particularly important, he told the audience.\n\nHis remarks also addressed Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He said Russia's military was \"exhausted\" and that it was running out of supplies and ammunition.\n\nA destroyed tank near Izyum in the Kharkiv area of Ukraine\n\nHe argued that the mobilisation of prisoners and inexperienced men \"speaks of a desperate situation\" - and criticised President Putin as making mistakes.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme about the state of the Russian military, Sir Jeremy said it was \"running short of munitions\" and \"is certainly running short of friends\".\n\nHe said that Russian missile strikes in recent days were not an escalation in terms of the types of weapons being used.\n\nBut he warned that the missile attacks on targets across Ukraine on Monday showed Russia was still \"very capable\" of causing damage.\n\nHe added: \"Russia's military machine can launch weapons, it has deep stocks and expertise. And yet, it is very broadly stretched in Ukraine.\"\n\nOn concerns over the use of tactical nuclear weapons, he said in response to questions after his lecture that any talk of their use was \"extremely dangerous\" but that their use still appeared \"hopefully a long way off\".\n\nHe also said he believed the UK and its allies would have a \"good chance\" of spotting any preparations, although there were never any guarantees.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last month, a US judge overturned Adnan Syed's conviction and released him from prison\n\nUS prosecutors have dropped all charges against a Baltimore man whose case garnered worldwide attention through the hit true crime podcast Serial.\n\nAdnan Syed served 23 years in prison after he was convicted of the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee.\n\nBut his conviction was quashed last month, and on Tuesday it was announced that all charges had been dropped.\n\n\"Finally, Adnan Syed is able to live as a free man,\" his lawyer, Erica Suter, said in a statement.\n\n\"Adnan is innocent and lost 23 years of his life serving time for a crime he did not commit,\" she added.\n\nIn a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Baltimore's state attorney Marilyn Mosby said the dropping of charges means the case against Syed is closed and he cannot be charged again.\n\nThe charges were dropped due to the completion of touch DNA testing on Ms Lee's clothes for the first time, which uncovered multiple DNA samples on her shoes - none of which belonged to Adnan Syed.\n\n\"Today, justice is done,\" Ms Mosby said, adding her office will continue its efforts to prosecute anyone who is responsible for Ms Lee's death.\n\nShe also apologised to the families of Ms Lee and Adnan Syed, who she said spent 23 years behind bars due to a \"wrongful conviction\".\n\nSyed's innocence still needs to be cemented through a formal certification process, Ms Mosby said.\n\nThe 41-year-old's murder conviction was quashed last month after prosecutors identified two other potential suspects following a year-long case review.\n\nProsecutors then had 30 days to decide whether they would proceed with a new trial or drop the charges against Syed.\n\nAfter the murder of his high school classmate and ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999, a jury found Syed guilty of premeditated murder, kidnapping, robbery and false imprisonment.\n\nProsecutors argued he was a scorned lover who had strangled Ms Lee and hid her body in Baltimore's Leakin Park with the help of a friend. They relied in part on mobile phone location data that has since been proven unreliable.\n\nSyed has maintained his innocence since his conviction and appealed the court's decision several times, including a recent attempt in 2019. All of his applications were denied.\n\nHis story and the case was chronicled in the widely successful true crime podcast Serial, which cast doubt on his guilt. Episodes of the show have been downloaded more than 340 million times.\n\nBaltimore's state attorney's office has studied the case over the past year and concluded that Syed deserved a new trial.\n\nThey said they lacked \"confidence in the integrity of the conviction\" and identified two new suspects who had been known to police since the murder.\n\nThe conviction was then quashed on 20 September \"in the interest of fairness and justice\", said Baltimore Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn.\n\nMs Lee's family has appealed Judge Phinn's decision, but the dropping of Mr Syed's charges by Baltimore state's attorney means the appeal is null.\n\nMs Mosby said her office will be providing support to Ms Lee's family, who she said \"had to relive an unimaginable nightmare over and over again.\"", "The chancellor will need to make \"big and painful\" spending cuts to put the country's finances on a sustainable path, the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank has warned.\n\nWith a weaker economy and promised tax cuts, there will be a large shortfall in revenue, the IFS predicts.\n\nIt calculates the government would have to spend £60bn a year less by 2026-27.\n\nHowever, the Treasury said its tax cuts and reforms would deliver \"sustainable funding for public services\".\n\nIn a new report, the IFS outlines the scale of the cuts necessary to make the sums add up over the next five years, using an illustrative example.\n\nMr Kwarteng and Prime Minister Liz Truss have argued focusing on measures to promote growth will help plug the shortfall between income and outgoings.\n\nThe chancellor has promised to set out further details of his economic strategy on 31 October, three weeks earlier than originally planned, alongside a full forecast from the official Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).\n\nThat change of timetable came after the markets baulked at the strategy announced in last month's mini-budget.\n\nIt outlined large tax cuts and a huge package of support with energy costs without details of how they would be paid for, and without the usual assessment of their impact from the OBR.\n\nThe IFS, a politically independent economics-focused think tank, has published its own assessment of the chancellor's strategy, in what it names a Green Budget, after the consultation green papers issued in Parliament.\n\nIt calculates that, if the planned tax cuts are not reversed, the chancellor would have to cut spending on benefits, public services, and investment sharply if he wants to stick to his commitment to balance the budget in the medium term, rather than see debt continuing to rise.\n\nIFS director Paul Johnson said: \"The chancellor says he wants to get the public finances on a sustainable basis. It looks to us like that's going to mean tens of billions of pounds of spending cuts in order to achieve that.\n\n\"It's hard to see what other way out the chancellor has.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the country was not going into a period \"with much fat to trim\".\n\n\"One of the problems the government faces is we have had a decade and more of really tight spending settlements, we're still spending less on a lot of public services than we were just over a decade ago,\" he told BBC News.\n\nCutting public sector pay, benefits, education, justice and prisons would all be very difficult against that backdrop, he said.\n\nThe government's current commitment is to have debt falling relative to the size of the economy after three years, though that rule predates the start of Liz Truss's government.\n\nThe IFS has done its calculations based on allowing five years before debt must start to fall.\n\nIt said it accepted there was \"huge uncertainty\" over the impact of budgetary policies, and welcomed the government's focus on faster growth, which it said \"would definitely help\".\n\nCutting spending on areas like education would be hard, the IFS says\n\nThe chancellor has said he is targeting growth of 2.5% a year, which would boost tax revenues and reduce the need for spending cuts.\n\nHowever, an independent assessment from the OBR remained vital, the IFS said, to make sure that \"politically motivated wishful thinking is not incorporated into economic and fiscal forecasts\".\n\nForecasts from the bank Citi, which collaborated on the IFS Green Budget, suggest the economy will shrink in the next two years, as rising interest rates and rising prices slow the economy down.\n\nCiti estimates growth will average about 0.8% over the next five years.\n\nPaul Johnson said he would be \"very surprised\" if he OBR didn't also suggest that large spending cuts or tax rises would be necessary balance the books.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"Through tax cuts and ambitious supply-side reforms, our Growth Plan will drive sustainable long-term growth, which will lead to higher wages, greater opportunities and sustainable funding for public services.\"\n\n\"The government is committed to fiscal responsibility and getting debt falling as a share of GDP in the medium term,\" they added.", "Singer Rex Orange County is to stand trial after being charged with six counts of sexually assaulting a woman.\n\nThe chart-topping singer-songwriter, real name Alexander O'Connor, from Surrey, appeared at Southwark Crown Court in London on Monday.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to the allegations of intentional touching of a sexual nature without consent, and his trial was scheduled for 3 January.\n\nMr O'Connor's third studio album went to number one in the UK this March.\n\n\"Alex is shocked by the allegations which he denies and looks forward to clearing his name in court,\" a statement issued on his behalf said.\n\n\"He is unable to make any further comment because of the ongoing proceedings.\"\n\nThe Sun reported that the assaults were alleged to have taken place in a taxi and his London home in early June.\n\nThe following month, the singer posted a message saying he was cancelling his European, Australian and New Zealand tour dates because, \"due to unforeseen personal circumstances, I am having to spend some time at home this year\".\n\nHe has been released on unconditional bail until the trial.\n• None Ex-chorister is second on Sound Of 2018", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhat do we know about what caused Saturday's dramatic explosion on the Kerch Bridge?\n\nThere are plenty of theories, not all of them very credible.\n\nRussia was quick to suggest this was a truck (lorry) bomb, but didn't say who orchestrated it.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of attacking the bridge in an \"act of terrorism\".\n\nSecurity camera footage released on social media showed a truck - allegedly from the Russian city of Krasnodar, an hour's drive from the crossing - moving west across the bridge at the time of the explosion.\n\nRussian officials named a 25-year old Krasnodar man, Samir Yusubov, as the owner of the truck, and said an older relative, Makhir Yusubov, was the driver.\n\nBut close examination of the footage seems to show that the truck had nothing to do with the explosion.\n\nThe footage shows a huge fireball erupting just behind - and to one side - of the truck as it begins to climb an elevated section of the bridge.\n\nThe speed with which the truck bomb theory started to spread in Russian circles was suspicious. It suggested the Kremlin preferred an act of terrorism to a more alarming possibility: that this was an audacious act of sabotage carried out by Ukraine.\n\n\"I've seen plenty of large vehicle-borne IEDs [improvised explosive devices] in my time,\" a former British army explosives expert told me. \"This does not look like one.\"\n\nA more plausible explanation, he said, is a massive explosion below the bridge - probably delivered using some kind of clandestine maritime drone.\n\n\"Bridges are generally designed to resist downwards loads on the deck and a certain amount of side loading from the wind,\" he said. \"They are not generally engineered to resist upward loads. I think this fact was exploited in the Ukrainian attack.\"\n\nSome observers have noted that in one of the other security camera videos, something that looks like the bow wave of a small boat appears next to one of the bridge supports, a split second before the explosion.\n\nWhat kind of vessel could it be?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Is this what caused the Crimean bridge explosion?\n\nOn 21 September, images circulated on Russian social media channels showing a mysterious unmanned boat that washed ashore near Russia's naval base in the Crimean city of Sevastopol.\n\nIt resembled a large black covered kayak, complete with bow-mounted sensors and a white, periscope-like device on top\n\nAccording to local reports, the vessel was towed out to sea and blown up.\n\n\"A part of an unmanned vehicle was discovered,\" the governor of Russian-controlled Sevastopol is quoted as saying.\n\n\"After the survey was completed, this apparatus was destroyed at sea by an explosion. No-one was hurt.\"\n\nThis is not the first time reports have circulated suggesting that Ukraine has access to such clandestine equipment.\n\n\"There are well-founded reports which suggest that the Ukrainians have both surveillance and strike maritime remote controlled vehicles in service,\" the British explosives expert told me.\n\n\"This operational concept has been developed over years, not months.\"\n\nIf this is how Ukraine managed to attack the Kerch Bridge, hundreds of miles from Ukrainian-controlled territory, then it's one of Kyiv's most ambitious operations so far.\n\nBut apart from a few whispers in the capital, no-one is confirming the theory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The $3.7bn (£2.7bn) bridge links southern Russia with the territory it annexed in 2014 (2018 report)\n\nIn fact, in a statement last night, the head of President Zelensky's office, Mykhailo Podolyak, seemed to endorse Moscow's truck bomb theory.\n\n\"The answers should be sought in Russia,\" he said in a statement.\n\nThe explosion, he said, was the result of infighting between different parts of Russia's security establishment.\n\n\"This is a concrete manifestation of the conflict between the FSB [Russia's internal intelligence service] / PMC [private military contractors, like the Wagner Group] on the one hand, and the Ministry of Defence / general staff of the Russian Federation on the other hand,\" he said.\n\nDid Mr Podolyak know something everyone else didn't? Or was he, perhaps, trolling Moscow, playing on extremely raw nerves exposed by Russia's recent setbacks on the battlefield in Ukraine?\n\nThe truth is, we don't know.\n\nJust like previous episodes - including the sinking of the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, the Moskva, and the mysterious attack in August which devastated a Russian airbase in Crimea - Kyiv is very happy to keep everyone guessing.\n\nIt's all part of a highly successful information campaign which Ukraine has waged, along with its military effort, ever since Russia's full-scale invasion in February.\n\nFor now, it seems to be working.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia has been widely condemned after bombarding cities across Ukraine, including launching missile strikes on the centre of Kyiv for the first time.\n\nThe US said the \"brutal\" attacks had hit non-military targets, including a university and children's playground, and promised further military aid.\n\nUnited Nations chief Antonio Guterres said he was \"deeply shocked\".\n\nVladimir Putin said the attacks were retaliation for Saturday's explosion on a key bridge linking Russia to Crimea.\n\nUkraine says 83 missiles were launched, of which more than 43 were shot down.\n\nIn a defiant video, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said that \"Ukraine cannot be intimidated. It can only be more united.\"\n\nThe deadly barrage included strikes on the cities of Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, and were some of the worst Ukraine has seen for months.\n\nAt least 14 people were killed and scores more were injured, officials said.\n\nSeveral regions were left without electricity and water after missiles hit energy infrastructure.\n\nResidents in the capital Kyiv said Russia appeared to be targeting civilian areas which were busy with Monday morning commuters, including a children's playground, a university and the popular Taras Shevchenko park.\n\nMonday's strikes saw central Kyiv targeted for the first time\n\nMr Guterres described the strikes as \"another unacceptable escalation of the war\" for which civilians were paying the highest price.\n\nThe EU said a war crime had been committed, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Russia stood for \"terror and brutality\".\n\nUS President Joe Biden was one of many foreign leaders to speak with President Zelensky, and he \"pledged to continue providing Ukraine with the support needed to defend itself, including advanced air defence systems\", the White House said.\n\nMr Biden said the attacks demonstrated \"the utter brutality\" of Putin's \"illegal war\".\n\nAfter the phone call, President Zelensky vowed to strengthen Ukraine's armed forces and \"make the battlefield even more painful for the enemy\".\n\nChina and India, which have not condemned the war, called for a de-escalation.\n\nSpeaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine's Ambassador to the body, said his family had been in a residential area in Ukraine when it was attacked by the latest Russian missiles and they were unable to go to a bomb shelter.\n\nHe said Russia had already killed some of his relatives, calling it \"a terrorist state\" that must be deterred in the strongest possible ways to prevent further atrocities. He added that Moscow's delegation to the UN left \"a trail of blood\" whenever it entered the General Assembly hall.\n\nThe General Assembly is holding an emergency meeting following Russia's latest attacks. Although the session was convened because of the Kremlin's annexation of four partly-occupied Ukrainian regions following sham referendums, it has been overshadowed by Monday's attacks.\n\nPutin said the attacks were retaliation for Saturday's explosion on a key bridge linking Russia to Crimea\n\nRussian missiles began hitting targets across Ukraine around the morning rush hour on Monday, in the most widespread bombardment of the war.\n\nIhor Zhovkva, deputy head of President Zelensky's office, said they were designed to sow panic.\n\nThe strikes were more intense than had previously been seen, he told the BBC, and in some ways resembled the early days of the war.\n\nHe added that this had not come as a surprise, and was a sign of things to come during the \"very difficult\" winter ahead.\n\nMr Putin warned he was ready to authorise more \"severe\" attacks, while deputy head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that \"the first episode has been played. There will be others\".\n\nUkraine has not confirmed it was behind that strike. Mr Zhovkva said he did not entirely believe that the Russian attacks were a retaliation, as Kyiv has been hit before.\n\nMeanwhile, Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko - a close ally of Mr Putin - has agreed to deploy his forces to link up with Russian soldiers at Belarus' border with Ukraine in response to what he said was a threat to his country from Kyiv.\n\n\"We need to figure out what else needs to be done to strengthen the security of our state, given the rapidly changing environment,\" he said according to comments carried in the state-run Belta news agency.\n\nMr Lukashenko, who held a one-on-one meeting with President Putin in St Petersburg, said he had been informed through unofficial channels of a \"Crimean Bridge 2\" being planned against Belarus, a reference to Saturday's explosion on a key bridge linking Russia with Crimea.\n\nWithout providing any evidence, he said: \"Ukraine is not just contemplating, but planning strikes on the territory of Belarus,\" adding that Kyiv was being \"pushed by their patrons to unleash a war against Belarus\" and Russia at the same time.\n\n\"We saw it, we knew it, we created battalion tactical groups, we practiced the defence of the southern border, which we are doing now,\" he said.\n\nMr Lukashenko has become increasingly reliant on Russia for economic, political and military support in recent years, and Russian forces used Belarus as a base when it began its invasion of Ukraine in February.", "The public inquiry into the IT failings that led to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of Post Office branch managers starts hearing evidence from other key witnesses this week.\n\nThis new stage of the inquiry aims to uncover what was behind one of the most widespread miscarriages of justice in UK legal history.\n\nNo-one at the Post Office or Fujitsu has yet been held accountable.\n\nThe chair of the inquiry said he was \"determined to expose the truth\".\n\nMore than 700 Post Office managers were given criminal convictions after a new computer software system, built by the Japanese firm Fujitsu, wrongly showed money was going missing from individual branches between 2000 and 2014.\n\nThousands of other sub-postmasters lost their businesses, as they were forced to pay back money which was alleged to be missing from their branches.\n\nThe first phase of the public inquiry earlier this year heard testimony from sub-postmasters who were wrongly bankrupted and imprisoned. They described being treated as criminals by their employers and their communities. Dozens have had their convictions overturned, and many more are in line for compensation.\n\nThis next phase of the inquiry will hear from the Post Office, government officials and the firm Fujitsu. It will examine who knew about the faults in the Horizon software programme, and what they did, or did not do, with that information.\n\nThe chair of the inquiry, Sir Wyn Williams, said the evidence he heard through the spring and summer had made a deep impression on him.\n\nIn a recorded statement he said he was \"determined to expose the truth about these matters\".\n\nThe process is expected to take several months, with witnesses called who were involved in the design, roll-out, operation and management of the new system.\n\nEarlier this year Jez Thompson, who worked on a team training sub-postmasters to use the new software system, told the BBC that problems were flagged up as Horizon was rolled out.\n\nHe said glitches and bugs frequently made the software fail to compute the sums, and he regularly passed that information up to his supervisors, who he is sure would have passed it on.\n\n\"I reported [these issues] to my line manager and he then reported that to a weekly meeting with Fujitsu Training Services, where both Fujitsu and the Post Office would have been present and glitches would've been discussed,\" he said.\n\nBut a member of Fujitsu's UK board, speaking for the first time exclusively to the BBC, said that the board wasn't aware of any significant technical problems when Horizon was being rolled out.\n\nAndy MacNaughton originally worked for ICL, a British firm, that had the government contract to roll out new computers and accounting software in every single branch of the Post Office. After ICL was taken over by Fujitsu in 2000, it was Mr MacNaughton's job to manage the contract.\n\nThe project was already running late, and he was under pressure, because the firm would only be paid once a \"working system\" was delivered, he said.\n\nHe was unaware of any issues, and the system could not have been made live without the Post Office thoroughly testing and approving it, he added.\n\n\"We couldn't put a system in and make it live without the customer first accepting, signing off.\"\n\n\"You can't force somebody to take something that they don't want or don't believe works. We just can't do it.\"\n\nFujitsu's UK board was never informed of the problems with Horizon, says Andy McNaughton\n\nMr MacNaughton said he wasn't aware the Post Office were prosecuting staff or that Fujitsu data was used when sub-postmasters were prosecuted.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is currently investigating two people over potential perjury - failing to tell the truth under oath - during those trials.\n\nFujitsu said it has \"been co-operating with the current Post Office Horizon IT statutory inquiry since it began and continues to be focused on helping assist its chair and his team\".\n\nIt says it is committed to providing \"the fullest and most transparent information so that key lessons are learned\".\n\nNo-one from Fujitsu has apologised, and the company has not offered any financial contribution towards the compensation bill for the victims of the wrongful prosecutions.\n\nMr MacNaughton said this might be for legal reasons. \"As soon as you start doing that, there is an admission of guilt and liability,\" he said.\n\nAnd he doesn't feel there is anything to apologise for since he believes the Post Office failed to inform Fujitsu of the problems with Horizon. More than a dozen Fujitsu staff are, however, set to face questions at the inquiry in the coming weeks.\n\nThe Post Office used evidence from Fujitsu data, and called on Fujitsu staff as witnesses, when it pursued criminal prosecutions against more than 700 of its own staff. They were accused of theft and false accounting, with many others having their contracts terminated.\n\nThe Post Office has said it is \"sincerely sorry\" for the impact of the scandal on the wrongly accused postmasters, and that it believes the inquiry will ensure \"lessons are learned\".\n\n\"Post Office is openly and transparently assisting the Inquiry in its important work to determine what went wrong in the past and to provide, as much as possible, closure for those affected,\" it said in a statement.\n\nWithin the past few days the Post Office has agreed the first two full compensation deals for sub-postmasters whose convictions have been overturned.\n\nIn the last year, the government has removed Fujitsu from its list of preferred suppliers, but the firm is still able to win government contracts through the normal procurement process.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) echoed Sir Wyn's determination to \"uncover the truth of how the Horizon scandal came about\".\n\nThe statutory inquiry should \"ensure something like this can never happen again\" they added.\n\n\"On top of this, we are funding compensation for the postmasters whose lives have been so badly affected by this scandal,\" they said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ex-wife of Dubai royal appeals for help to ensure her and her children's safety\n\nLawyers for the former wife of a member of Dubai's ruling family have lodged a request to the UN Human Rights Council.\n\nThey want the council to intervene with authorities in the UAE to ensure Zeynab Javadli and her children's safety.\n\nThe request claims that Ms Javadli has faced abuse, harassment and intimidation by authorities during a bitter custody battle with Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum.\n\nHis lawyers have argued Ms Javadli is an unfit mother, which she has denied.\n\nIt's the latest case in Dubai to reveal rifts within the ruling family\n\n\"Please help me,\" Ms Javadli says in a video exclusively obtained by the BBC. \"My children and I are terrified and frightened for our lives and safety.\"\n\n\"We are effectively homeless and trapped in a hotel in Dubai, with my children unable to leave without fear that I might be arrested and have my children taken from me.\"\n\nThe 31-year-old former international gymnast from Azerbaijan is speaking from Dubai, where she has remained since her divorce from Sheikh Saeed at the end of 2019. She has stayed there with her three young daughters out of concern that if she left the country, she might never see them again.\n\nFor nearly three years, she's been locked in a custody battle with her ex-husband.\n\nThe couple were married in 2015. They lived in Dubai, where Sheikh Saeed is part of the ruling family - he is the nephew of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.\n\nIn their appeal for intervention from the UN Human Rights Council, her UK-based lawyers claim that both her freedom of movement and of expression have been restricted, while tactics of intimidation have been used against her.\n\nThe appeal alleges that Ms Javadli, her children and her parents were attacked and assaulted when Dubai police broke into their house two years ago. Ms Javadli livestreamed the event, attracting worldwide attention. Her parents have since returned to Azerbaijan.\n\nOver the past three years, she says that police raids on her home, court summonses and arrest warrants have become a routine part of her life.\n\nThe 50-page document also alleges that her case has not been handled impartially - claiming that custody was granted to Sheikh Saeed without due process.\n\nIt claims that Ms Javadli has been faced with a \"blatantly unfair, discriminatory and biased judicial process\". It says that the only court decision in her favour was changed \"without proper justification\" within days of being issued.\n\nLawyers acting for Sheikh Saeed have claimed in court in Dubai that Ms Javadli is an unfit mother, who has failed to send her daughters to school, is living in a place unsuitable for the children, and has put the health of the youngest girl at risk.\n\nMs Javadli has rejected the accusations and provided evidence to the contrary in court.\n\nCurrently, she is engaged in a stand-off with the Dubai authorities - keeping her children at home and not sending them to school over her concern that they might be taken from her and never return.\n\nThe school has asked for her to take part in a meeting to discuss the situation.\n\nShe and her lawyers believe the order granting custody of the children to Sheikh Saeed could be enforced at any moment, although she has lodged another appeal against the judgement.\n\nAnother source with experience of the legal system in Dubai says that what is described by Zeynab Javadli fits the pattern of previous cases involving former wives or members of the ruling family.\n\nPrincess Haya - the ex-wife of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum - fled the UAE in 2019, saying that she feared for her life. Earlier this year, the princess won a custody battle that played out in the highest court in the UK, which gave her sole custody of their two children.\n\nThat followed the extraordinary saga of Sheikh Mohammed's daughter, Princess Latifa, who mounted a daring bid for freedom in 2018 from what at the time she claimed was her family's coercive control.\n\nThe boat on which she was making her escape was intercepted in the Indian Ocean and she was forcibly returned to Dubai. She then claimed that she was being held captive in secret videos. She has since re-emerged to a limited extent in public, saying she that she is well and living as she wishes.\n\nIt's in this context that Zeynab Javadli is making her case for UN intervention.\n\n\"We are hostages in our home,\" she says in the video obtained by the BBC.\n\nOne of the lawyers acting for her, Rodney Dixon KC, says: \"It's not too late... There is no need for this situation to deteriorate any further - it can be ended now in the best interest of all parties.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted the UAE authorities for comment on the case, but has not yet received a response.", "No sign Russia is currently considering using nuclear weapons - UK spy chief\n\nMore now from the BBC's interview with the UK's spy chief Sir Jeremy Fleming on Russia's military strategy in Ukraine. Fleming, the head of GCHQ, told the Today programme there were no current signs that Russia was considering the use of nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war but warned that any talk of nuclear weapons was \"very dangerous\". GCHQ would hope to see \"indicators\" if Russia planned to use them, he said. \"Any talk of nuclear weapons is very dangerous and we need to be very careful of how we are talking about that,\" he said this morning. In an address to the nation last month, Putin said his country had \"various weapons of destruction\" and would \"use all the means available to us\", adding: \"I'm not bluffing.\" \"It's clear to me that whilst we might not like and in many ways abhor the ways the Russian military machine and President Putin are conducting this war, they are staying within the doctrine that we understand for their use, including for nuclear weapons,\" Fleming said.", "The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has doubled down on criticism of the chancellor's mini-budget, days after warning it will fuel rising prices.\n\nThe body, which works to stabilise economic growth, admitted tax cuts announced by Kwasi Kwarteng would boost growth in the short-term.\n\nBut it said the cuts would \"complicate the fight\" against soaring prices.\n\nIt expects high prices to last longer in the UK with only Slovakia out of the eurozone set to see higher inflation.\n\nInflation, which measures how the cost of living changes over time, is expected to peak at about 11.3% before the end of the year in the UK, according to the IMF's latest assessment of the global economy.\n\nIn each of the next two years, it expects price rises will average at about 9% - far above the Bank of England's target of 2%.\n\nAlthough the UK economy is set to grow the fastest of the major economies included in the G7 group this year, it is projected to grind to a near-halt next year, with it expanding by just 0.3%.\n\nThe most recent figures included in the report by the influential financial institution do not fully, however, take into account the UK chancellor's recent mini-budget.\n\nAfter Mr Kwarteng unveiled plans for huge tax cuts in the UK, the IMF criticised the plans warning they were likely to increase inequality and add to pressures pushing up prices.\n\nIt was an unusually outspoken statement from the IMF, which has a key role in acting as an early economic warning system.\n\nThe IMF said it understood the government's mini-budget aimed to boost growth, but it said that the tax cuts could speed up the pace of price rises, which the UK's central bank, the Bank of England, is trying to bring down.\n\nDowning Street defended the chancellor's plans, with the Prime Minister's official spokesperson saying its policies aimed \"to support British people at a time of global high prices\" and said the IMF report showed \"the global challenges that countries are facing\".\n\nThe IMF warned the global economy was facing a downturn with \"the worst yet to come\" as war in Ukraine helps push prices higher around the globe.\n\n\"For many people 2023 will feel like a recession,\" it warned.\n\nIt said governments and central banks globally had to work together to help people through the turmoil.\n\nThe IMF's Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas told the BBC: \"Imagine a car with two drivers at the front and each of them has a steering wheel - and one wants to go left and the other wants to go right.\"\n\nHe added: \"One is the central bank trying to cool off the economy so that price pressures will ease, and the other one wants to spend more to support families... it's probably not going to work very well.\"\n\nIn the UK, the chancellor has already said he will bring forward his economic plan where he will spell out how he plans to pay for the tax cuts and provide an independent forecast on the UK economy's prospects, a move welcomed by the IMF.\n\nHowever on Tuesday, government borrowing costs remained close to the levels seen at the height of the market turmoil last month despite fresh action from the Bank of England to try and stabilise financial markets.\n\nThe IMF has said \"the worst is yet to come\" in the world economy, saying \"for many people 2023 will feel like a recession\".\n\nIt made the comments as it downgraded forecast growth around the world as a result of a longer-lasting inflationary shock, arising from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Rising global interest rates, and a strong dollar, are adding to these pressures, said the world's most important international financial institution.\n\nThe direct impact of the gas shutdowns in continental Europe means some major economies are hit even more badly - Germany and Italy are now predicted to contract next year. The projections do not fully take into account the chancellor's mini budget and its aftermath, which will \"lift growth somewhat in the near term\", but \"complicate the fight against inflation\".\n\nThe IMF criticised the UK's mini-budget in stark terms last month, and also repeated a more general warning about untargeted fiscal support, without mentioning the UK specifically.\n\nThe IMF also cautioned that governments would need to protect the least well-off from the impact of higher prices.\n\nPoorer households often spend relatively more than others on food, heating, and fuel, it pointed out - all areas that have seen steep price rises as energy and grain exports have been restricted after the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAnd countries that are reliant on Russian gas in Europe are being hit particularly badly. Germany's economy, for example, is now predicted to contract next year.\n\nMeanwhile, Russia's economy is expected to contract by 2.3% next year, the biggest fall of all the nations included in the projections.\n\nSpeaking on Monday, IMF boss Kristalina Georgieva noted that growth was also being dragged down in China by continued Covid restrictions, while in the US rising interest rates were \"starting to bite\".\n\nAt the first in-person meetings between the IMF and the World Bank since the pandemic, she said countries could \"reduce the pain ahead of us in 2023\" by acting together.\n\nShe added that the IMF will be pushing for major economies to carry on with their efforts to bring down the cost of living, even if they have a negative impact on economic growth.\n\nIf they don't do enough, she said, \"we are in trouble. We cannot afford inflation to be a runaway train.\"", "The average annual grocery bill across Great Britain is forecast to rise by £643 this year, according to research firm Kantar.\n\nThat means shoppers could be paying on average an extra £12 a week for food and other groceries.\n\nBack in June, the firm predicted the cost of the average annual supermarket shop would go up by £380 in 2022.\n\nFood prices have soared this year, with the war in Ukraine helping to drive up prices at supermarket tills.\n\nThe survey also showed the price of a weekly shop rose 13.9% in September, compared with the year before. That marks another record high since Kantar first started tracking the sector in 2008.\n\n\"The cost-of-living crisis is still hitting people hard at the checkouts and this latest data will make tough reading for many,\" said Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar.\n\n\"Based on our numbers, the average household is facing a £643 jump in their annual grocery bill to £5,265 if they continue to buy the same items. Taking that at a basket level, that's an extra £3.04 on top of the cost of the average shopping trip last year which was £21.89.\"\n\nHowever, the firm also said that people are looking for ways to manage their budgets to avoid paying more for their shopping, amid soaring living costs.\n\nSales of supermarket own-label products continue to grow as customers switch from branded products.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices are rising - is currently near a 40-year high, at 9.9%.\n\nIncreasing costs are eating into household budgets, with new figures on Tuesday showing rises in regular wages are failing to keep up with the rising cost of living.\n\nFood prices went up around the world following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has been one of the factors pushing up prices at supermarket tills.\n\nThe war has disrupted supplies from the two countries, which are major exporters of goods such as sunflower oil, wheat and fertiliser.\n\nKantar said grocery inflation now stands at 12.3% for the 12-week period ending 2 October. Items such as milk, margarine and dog food are seeing the fastest price rises.\n\nMarmalade sales rose in September following the death of the Queen\n\nHowever, there isn't strong evidence of diets changing despite rising prices, Mr McKevitt said.\n\n\"We're generally reluctant to change what we eat, so this is more about sticking to the food we know and love while hunting for cheaper alternatives,\" he said.\n\n\"For example, while frozen veg sales have gone up slightly, there hasn't been a big switch away from fresh products, which are still worth 10 times more.\"\n\nThe one standout exception to this was a surge in marmalade sales, which were up by 18% in September as the country commemorated the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nShoppers are also hunting out products to help manage their energy bills, the data suggests.\n\nEnergy bills rose for millions of households on 1 October, although the increase was cushioned by a government cap on the cost per unit as well as cost-of-living payments.\n\nA typical household annual bill rose from £1,971 to £2,500 - which is twice as high as last winter.\n\nSales of cooking appliances including slow cookers, air fryers and sandwich makers, which tend to use less energy, rose by 53%, suggesting people are searching out cheaper ways to cook as they try to avoid using their ovens.\n\nMeanwhile, sales of duvets and electric blankets grew by 8%, while candles are up by 9%, suggesting that people may be preparing for possible winter blackouts.\n\nThe report by Kantar also showed that the discounters are once again the fastest growing grocers.\n\nLidl's sales were up 21% over the last 12 weeks, closely followed by Aldi.\n\nAsda was the best performing of the traditional big supermarkets, with its new Just Essentials basic range helping to boost sales.", "City of London Police said it was looking for a second suspect\n\nA 25-year-old man has appeared in court accused of cutting another man's face with a knife during an attempted phone robbery in the City of London, leaving him needing 52 stitches.\n\nThree people were hurt during the incident in Bishopsgate on Thursday.\n\nLouis Parkinson, from Highbury, north London, is charged with conspiracy to commit robbery and causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard Mr Parkinson was trying to snatch phones.\n\nProsecutors said the defendant and an accomplice had been cycling around the area at 09:00 BST, trying to take mobile phones from people's hands.\n\nThe accomplice is said to have knifed various people, before passing the blade to Mr Parkinson, the court heard.\n\nThe court was told members of the public had tried to detain the pair after a person cried out during an alleged attempted robbery.\n\nThe three hurt people were taken to hospital but none were in a life-threatening condition.\n\nMr Parkinson has also been charged with possession of an offensive weapon and possession of a Class B controlled drug.\n\nHe will next appear at Inner London Crown Court on 8 November.\n\nCity of London Police has said officers are still hunting for a second suspect.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cathy says the struggle to find care for her mum Maureen left her 'desperate and appalled'\n\n\"Good care is what you would want for yourself and your parents... and it's not there. It's totally broken.\"\n\nCathy, who asked not to use her full name, says finding care for her 83-year-old mum Maureen was \"a nightmare\".\n\nThey are not alone - new figures show the number of care workers in England has fallen for the first time, leaving more people without support.\n\nThe number of empty care jobs both rose by 52% in a year says the industry body, Skills for Care.\n\nMaureen died of liver cancer last month, on the same day as the Queen, her last months shaped by failings in the health and social care system.\n\nThe latest annual Skills for Care workforce analysis found in the year to March there were:\n\nThese figures refer both to staff in care homes and workers who support people in their own homes.\n\nThe fall is due to problems with recruiting and retaining staff - but, at the same time, the demand for care has risen, says the report.\n\nIt warns the shortage of care workers will increasingly affect people who need support, and their families.\n\nMaureen's family has already felt that impact.\n\nEarly on in her illness, Maureen was told the struggle to find care staff would be particularly difficult because she lived in a rural area.\n\nOn her own at home and without care, she had a series of falls which put her in hospital.\n\nOnce, she was discharged from a hospital emergency department to an empty house at 03:00 and, within hours, had fallen again.\n\nHer condition deteriorated and she became eligible for NHS-funded end-of-life care visits.\n\nEven so, she was stuck in hospital for more than a week after doctors said she was ready to go home, waiting for the authorities to find a care company able to visit her four times a day.\n\nFinally her daughter Cathy, \"desperate and appalled\", found care providers herself and persuaded the NHS to pay for them.\n\nCathy says the experience, when the family should have been focusing on their mother's last few days, was \"shocking\".\n\nThe report warns experiences like this will become more common as the population ages, and employers will need to fill about 480,000 more posts by 2035.\n\nOn top of that, more than a quarter (28%) of the existing workforce are aged over 55 and likely to retire within 10 years.\n\nSeparate research from the Health Foundation charity, also published on Tuesday, found one in five residential care workers in the UK were already living in poverty before the cost-of-living crisis, compared with one in eight of all workers.\n\nJames Waterhouse, from Rotherham, worked for about 10 years in homes for people with dementia.\n\nFor James, helping \"the most vulnerable people in society, going through probably the worst disease you can get... and being able to bring something good to their lives... it does make it worthwhile\".\n\nUntil last year he was a senior carer, in charge of administering medication for up to 40 people overnight - and earned the minimum wage.\n\nHe had money worries and felt he couldn't progress in life. Finally he left for better-paid work.\n\n\"It just adds to the stress within the job... so you add those things together and on many occasions, not only myself but other carers, you just end up breaking down at work.\"\n\nSkills for Care chief executive Oonagh Smyth is calling for \"a step change\" in how we value social care.\n\nShe wants better terms, conditions and career development for care workers \"to make it easier for the people who love working in social care to stay\".\n\n\"We need to think now about the long-term workforce requirements... so that we have enough people with the right skills and knowledge to meet increased demand,\" she said.\n\nThe government points out the report only covers the period until March and says, since then, tens of thousands of care workers have been appointed from overseas after the role was added to the shortage occupation list.\n\n\"We're investing in adult social care and have made £500m available to support discharge from hospital into the community and bolster the workforce this winter, on top of record funding to support our 10-year plan set out in the People at the Heart of Care White Paper,\" said an official.\n\nThe official said a £15m international recruitment fund and a new domestic campaign would be launched soon.\n\nThe Skills for Care report is based on analysis of figures collected from 20,000 employers.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Ms Letby, of Hereford, was working at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit when the deaths happened\n\nA \"poisoner was at work\" at a hospital where there was a \"significant rise\" in the number of healthy babies dying, a court has heard.\n\nLucy Letby has been accused of murdering five baby boys and two girls, and attempting to murder 10 other babies at Countess of Chester hospital.\n\nNick Johnson KC, prosecuting, said she was a \"constant malevolent presence\" in the hospital's neonatal unit.\n\nJurors heard Ms Letby is alleged to have tried to kill one child three times, while another died as a result of being injected with air.\n\nFamily members of some of the babies concerned in the case were among those present in the court as Mr Johnson opened the prosecution.\n\nHe said the Chester institution was a \"busy general hospital like so many others in the UK\".\n\nHowever, he said that \"unlike many other hospitals, within the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, a poisoner was at work\".\n\n\"Prior to January 2015, the statistics for the mortality of babies in the neo-natal unit at the Countess of Chester were comparable to other like units,\" he said.\n\n\"However, over the next 18 months or so, there was a significant rise in the number of babies who were dying and in the number of serious catastrophic collapses.\"\n\nLucy Letby appeared in the dock at Manchester Crown Court\n\nHe said the increases were noticed by hospital consultants, who were concerned that \"babies who were dying had deteriorated unexpectedly\".\n\nMedics also noted that babies who had collapsed \"did not respond to appropriate and timely resuscitation\" and that others \"collapsed dramatically, but then, equally dramatically, recovered\".\n\n\"Having searched for a cause, which they were unable to find, the consultants noticed that the inexplicable collapses and deaths did have one common denominator,\" he said.\n\n\"The presence of one of the neonatal nurses and that nurse was Lucy Letby.\"\n\nMr Johnson told the court that as medics could not account for the collapses and deaths, police were called in and conducted a \"painstaking review\".\n\n\"That review suggests in the period between mid-2015 and the middle of 2016, somebody in the neonatal unit poisoned two children with insulin,\" he said.\n\n\"The prosecution say the only reasonable conclusion to be drawn from the evidence you will hear is that somebody poisoned these babies deliberately with insulin.\"\n\nAmong several cases detailed by the barrister, he told the jury that both babies were boys and both born as twins - but not to each other - and were poisoned within a few days of being born.\n\nMr Johnson said their blood sugar levels dropped to dangerous levels.\n\nBut the babies - identified only as Child F and Child L - survived due to the skill of medical staff who appreciated low blood sugar can have natural causes, he said.\n\n\"What the medical staff did not realise was that in both cases, was the result of someone poisoning them with insulin,\" he added.\n\nThe prosecutor said nobody would think somebody would be trying to kill babies in a neonatal unit.\n\nNick Johnson KC, prosecuting, said Lucy Letby was the \"one common denominator\" that linked the deaths and collapses\n\n\"There's a very restricted number of people who could have been the poisoner, because entry to a neonatal unit is closely restricted,\" he said.\n\n\"Lucy Letby was on duty when both were poisoned and we allege she was the poisoner,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe said both of the twins had a baby brother, Child E and Child M, who were both also allegedly attacked by Ms Letby - one of which did not survive.\n\nThe court heard one of the means by which the Child E was killed and Child M was harmed, was by having air injected into the bloodstream - what the doctors call an air embolus.\n\nHe said all the deaths and collapses were \"no accident\" and were not \"naturally-occurring tragedies\".\n\nMr Johnson said sometimes babies were injected with air and on other occasions they were fed with insulin or too much milk.\n\nLucy Letby is alleged to have tried to kill the same baby three times\n\nHe told the court: \"So varying means by which these babies were attacked, but the constant presence when they were fatally attacked or collapsed catastrophically was Lucy Letby.\"\n\nJurors were shown a chart showing nurses who were present on duty when the alleged criminal incidents were said to have taken place.\n\nPointing out, as examples, the first three alleged offences in time he said the chart showed the only person that was present on all three occasions was the defendant.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"If you look at the table overall the picture is, we say, self-evidently obvious. It's a process of elimination.\n\n\"Many of the events in this case occurred on the night shifts.\n\n\"When upon Lucy Letby was moved on to day shifts, the collapses and deaths moved to the day shifts.\n\n\"They were all the work of the woman in the dock, who, we say, was the constant malevolent presence when things took a turn for the worse for these 17 children.\"\n\nMr Johnson alleged that in some cases, Ms Letby tried to kill the same baby more than once.\n\n\"Sometimes a baby that she succeeded in killing she did not manage to kill the first time she tried, or even the second time, and in one case even the third time.\"\n\nThe court heard how Ms Letby studied for her nursing degree at the University of Chester and had qualified a few years before the alleged events.\n\nShe worked throughout the period in consideration at the neonatal unit and was living in Chester at the time.\n\nThe jury has been told the trial may last up to six months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Christian Brueckner has not been charged over Madeleine's disappearance\n\nThe prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been charged in Germany with unrelated sexual offences.\n\nConvicted sex offender Christian Brueckner is accused of five offences between 2000 and 2017 in Portugal.\n\nGerman prosecutors say the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance is ongoing separately.\n\nBrueckner was identified as a suspect in the case in June 2020 but has denied involvement.\n\nInvestigators believe the 45-year-old killed Madeleine, then three, after abducting her from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on 3 May 2007.\n\nBrueckner has now been charged separately with three counts of aggravated rape and the sexual abuse of two children in Portugal over a 17-year period.\n\nThe offences he has been accused of include the rape of a German-speaking girl, believed to have been at least 14 years old, between 2000 and 2006 at his home in Praia da Luz.\n\nIn a statement, the prosecutor in Braunschweig, Germany, said: \"The investigation concerning the case of Madeleine McCann is ongoing separately from these charges.\n\n\"Due to the ongoing investigation the prosecution cannot at the current time give any information on the status of that investigation.\"\n\nBrueckner is currently serving a seven-year sentence for rape which he committed in 2005, also in Portugal, prosecutors added.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three when she went missing in 2007\n\nMadeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, was on holiday with her family at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, when she disappeared. Her whereabouts remains unknown.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police, which continues to treat the case as a missing persons inquiry, said earlier this year it was \"committed\" to finding the truth.", "Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled a new VR headset, the Quest Pro, at an online event held for developers.\n\nWith a price tag of $1,499 (£1,499), Quest Pro is almost four times the price of Meta's current headset, the Quest 2, which starts at $399.\n\nIt boasts thinner lenses, a curved battery around the head strap at the back, and controllers which self-track.\n\nThe headset also allows users to see their real environment around the periphery of the screen.\n\nQuest Pro has mixed reality capabilities, unlike its predecessor - meaning digital content can be viewed overlaid on the real world.\n\nMeta boss Mark Zuckerberg said mixed reality was \"the next major step for VR\".\n\nGartner analyst Tuong Nguyen said the high launch price made it a device more suited to \"high-end, enthusiast and potentially enterprise users\" than mass-market.\n\nMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella also announced that the office platform Windows 365 will be available on it, as Meta seeks to position mixed and virtual reality as a work tool as well as a form of entertainment.\n\nThe firm Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is betting its future on the creation of a metaverse - a virtual world in which people can both conduct their everyday lives, in the form of avatars, and explore fantasy virtual spaces.\n\nMany tech firms are building their own metaverses but it is likely to be several years before any exist.\n\nMeta's existing virtual reality world, Horizons, has received mixed reviews so far, and there have been reports of avatars carrying out violence and sexual assault within it.\n\nChief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth has also admitted that \"it will be a while before there are enough headsets out there\".\n\nPaolo Pescatore from PP Foresight said it felt like the tech was being \"fast tracked\" into people's hands. \"There's no demand, why rush,\" he said.\n\nThere was much talk about virtual reality apps during the event, some of which have proved very lucrative for their developers, like the VR version of the video game Resident Evil 4, which made $2m in revenue in its first 24 hours.\n\nNew VR gaming titles announced included Iron Man and Among Us, as well as an upcoming partnership with Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming. However there was no update on the long-awaited VR Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which some gamers had anticipated.\n\nAndrew Bosworth said that one of the most popular apps on the Quest store was YouTube VR.\n\n\"The ultimate goal for the metaverse is to feel like any other social experience, great and small,\" said Vishal Shah, Meta's vice president of the metaverse.", "People are stocking up on blankets and air fryers as they try to keep their energy bills down this winter, according to a new report.\n\nOther energy-efficient appliances, such as air dryers, and warm clothing have also been selling well, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.\n\nBut despite this, overall retail sales volumes continued to fall in September, the BRC said.\n\nIt said people have been avoiding buying items such as TVs and computers.\n\nThe report, from the BRC and consultancy KPMG, showed the value of retail sales grew by 2.2% last month, an increase from the 1% growth seen in August.\n\nHowever, the slight rise in sales masks a much bigger fall in the volume of goods sold, once inflation is accounted for, the BRC said.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices are rising - is currently near a 40-year high, at 9.9%.\n\n\"While UK retail sales grew in September, this represented another month of falling sales volumes given high levels of inflation,\" said Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium.\n\n\"As consumer confidence continued to fall, people shopped cautiously, avoiding large ticket items such as new computers, TVs and furniture,\" she said.\n\n\"Many households are also preparing for higher energy costs this winter, with blankets, warm clothing, and energy-efficient appliances, such as air dryers and air fryers, all selling well.\"\n\nEnergy bills rose for millions of households on 1 October, although the increase was cushioned by a government cap on the cost per unit.\n\nA typical household annual bill has gone up from £1,971 to £2,500 and there are some further cost-of-living payments to help soften the impact.\n\nBut prices are still twice as high as last winter.\n\nElsewhere, the BRC report shows that food sales rose by 4.6% over the three months to September, compared with the same period in 2021.\n\nNon-food sales slipped by 0.4% over the quarter but rose over the month of September, helped by clothing sales.\n\n\"Once again, clothing and footwear came to the rescue of the High Street, and back-to-school purchasing was a driver in retail growth figures, with sales of children's shoes up over 15%,\" said Paul Martin, UK head of retail at KPMG.\n\n\"Sales of household appliances and cooking accessories also moved into positive territory this month, as consumers look to purchase more energy efficient kitchen items in light of rising energy prices.\"\n\nMs Dickinson warned the winter ahead would be tough for retailers as well as consumers.\n\n\"Costs are increasing throughout retailers' supply chain, the pound remains weak, interest rates are rising, and a tight labour market is pushing up the cost of hiring,\" she said.\n\n\"All of this is making it harder for retailers to reduce prices and help struggling households.\"\n\nA separate report from Barclaycard further illustrated the pressures on households, as cost of living concerns bite.\n\nThe figures showed consumer card spending rose 1.8% year-on-year in September, the smallest uplift since February 2021.\n\nSpending on essential items saw its weakest rise this year, with growth slowing on fuel and groceries.\n\nHowever, Barclaycard said that categories such as takeaways and digital content benefited from the arrival of colder weather, which has prompted people to spend more time at home.\n\n\"Consumers are taking a savvy approach to budgeting as they reduce spending on discretionary items and seek more value in their weekly shop, which is having a knock-on effect on retail and hospitality sectors,\" said Esme Harwood, director at Barclaycard.\n\n\"However, Brits are also looking for ways to enjoy themselves at home while saving money, which has led to growth across \"insperience\" categories such as digital subscriptions and takeaways.\n\n\"It is likely to remain a challenging time for many other sectors as consumers focus on essential spending and businesses continue to navigate inflationary headwinds.\"", "One of the recent missile launches at an undisclosed area in North Korea\n\nNorth Korea says its recent barrage of missile launches were a \"simulation\" of a nuclear attack on the South.\n\nIt comes as intelligence suggests North Korea is preparing to hold its first nuclear weapon test in five years.\n\nIn recent weeks, Pyongyang has launched seven sets of missiles in response to recent US and South Korea drills.\n\nOn Monday, state media published extensive reports claiming the missiles were designed to carry tactical nuclear weapons.\n\nThese are small short-range weapons intended for use on the battlefield. They said the military practised loading the missiles with dummy versions of these miniaturised warheads.\n\nThey also claimed to have successfully simulated hitting South Korea's military bases, ports and airports, and said the launches were a warning to US and South Korea.\n\nState news agency KNCA ran photos of leader Kim Jong-un overseeing and \"guiding\" the tests.\n\nSouth Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said North Korea has nothing to gain from using nuclear weapons.\n\n\"North Korea is advancing its nuclear development and threatening not only the Republic of Korea but the world,\" he said, referring to South Korea by its official name.\n\n\"I believe it has nothing to gain from nuclear weapons.\"\n\nState media also published several pictures of Kim Jong-un presiding over the missile launches\n\nUS and South Korea intelligence officials have been suggesting that the North may soon test a nuclear weapon for the first time since 2017.\n\nExperts believe it could also use the opportunity to detonate a smaller tactical device for the first time - the sort which would fit into the missiles it has been testing.\n\nLast month Kim Jong-un declared North Korea an \"irreversible\" nuclear power and revised its laws, allowing it to use nuclear weapons pre-emptively. Its previous policy had been to only use such weapons in response to an attack.\n\nIt has also markedly stepped up its frequency of missile firings this year, carrying out over 40 missile launches this year so far - its most ever.\n\nMost of the launches in the past fortnight have been short-range missiles, which landed in the sea between North Korea and Japan.\n\nBut North Korea also fired a longer-distance missile over Japan last Tuesday - which analysts say is a new intermediate-range ballistic missile, based on the weapon's design.\n\nThis year has seen the North test-fire missiles from a variety of launch sites including trains and convoys - moving platforms which would make it harder for the weapons to be destroyed in a strike, analysts have suggested.\n\nThey also noted that Monday's state media reports framed the recent launches as \"tactical nuclear operations units\" - instead of describing them purely as missile tests - suggesting that North Korea has now developed a system for deploying smaller, short-range nuclear weapons.\n\nThe 25 September-October 9 barrage were a response to the US deploying its nuclear-powered aircraft carrier the USS Ronald Reagan to waters around the Korean peninsula, and holding joint drills with Seoul and Tokyo.\n\nThe acceleration marks a significant change from when Pyongyang pursued denuclearisation talks with then US President Donald Trump between 2018 and 2019.\n\nAnalysts say North Korea is also reacting in response to South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol, who was elected in May and has pursued a more hawkish stance to the North and closer ties with the US.", "The big buzz: Karine Aigner's winning picture came at the end of several weeks of shooting\n\nIt's a manic moment as male cactus bees envelop a single female. But who in this amorous scrum will emerge lucky and get to mate with her?\n\nThis remarkable picture, captured by Karine Aigner, is the grand title winner in this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.\n\nOn one level it's quite a technical image. It required the use of a macro probe lens to get in close to the very heart of the action.\n\n\"I had to spend quite a bit of time on my belly in the dirt,\" Karine joked.\n\nThe American is only the fifth woman to win the top prize in the 58-year history of WPY, as the competition is often called.\n\n\"It wasn't something I went looking for. I've been working on a ranch in South Texas for years, and I just happened on the location. I saw all these little 'volcanoes' in the ground - the individual burrows dug by the females to make their nests,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCactus bees, as their name suggests, live on and around cactus plants. The females collect pollen, which they fashion into small balls and store in chambers in the soil. The balls will sustain their larvae until they can surface as adults and continue the reproductive cycle.\n\n\"The picture is fabulous; it's got so much energy. It's a proper 'behaviour' shot. That's what you get from invertebrates and that's why I love them,\" said Roz Kidman Cox, who chairs the WPY judges.\n\n\"It's also the composition. What makes the photo complete are the bees coming in from the side. They give you 'the soundtrack'.\"\n\nThe beauty of baleen: Katanyou Wuttichaitanakorn went out in a boat 20-30 times to get this picture\n\nThe Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year for 2022 is Thailand's Katanyou Wuttichaitanakorn.\n\nThe 16-year-old's winning entry is a close-up of a Bryde's whale and the baleen plates in its mouth which are used to filter food.\n\nYou can see a sardine flying through the air as it tries to escape being gobbled down by the great cetacean.\n\n\"Somehow the sardine jumped in the boat,\" Katanyou recalled. \"I was lucky. I got close in the boat and the whale stayed above the water for about a minute.\"\n\nWPY is one of the most prestigious competitions of its type in world photography.\n\nStarted in 1964 by BBC Wildlife Magazine, the competition is now organised by London's Natural History Museum.\n\nThis year's event drew 38,575 entries from 93 countries. Below are some of the category winners.\n\nBrent Stirton is well known for his photojournalism, for which he is the WPY category winner this year. His picture shows the end of life of Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who was rescued as a two-month-old after her troop was brutally killed by a powerful charcoal mafia in the DRC's Virunga National Park. Ndakasi is in the arms of her rescuer and caregiver, Andre Bauma.\n\nThese flamingos are pictured high in the Andes at Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt pan. It is also one of Bolivia's largest lithium mines, which threatens the future of the flamingos. Japanese photographer Junji Takasago suffered altitude sickness to get this image, but his discomfort won him the Natural Artistry category.\n\nIt may look colourful but this is not a healthy scene. Daniel Núñez used a drone to capture the contrast between the forest and the algal growth on the edge of Guatemala's Lake Amatitlán. The cyanobacteria in the water are driven by the presence of pollutants, such as sewage discharged from Guatemala City. The image won the Wetlands, The Bigger Picture category.\n\nTony Wu caught this scene off the coast of Japan. It shows a giant sea star (starfish) at the moment of spawning. The echinoderm is moving its arms and swaying its body, perhaps to sweep eggs and sperm into the currents where they can fertilise together in the water. The image won WPY's Underwater category.\n\nFernando Constantino Martínez Belmar took this picture at a location known as the Cave of the Hanging Snakes. At dusk, thousands of bats leave the cave to forage for insects. As they depart, the rat snakes hang from the walls of the cave, aiming to get a meal of their own. The picture won the Behaviour: Amphibians and Reptiles category.\n\nDimitry Kokh took this picture on Kolyuchin Island, which is in the Arctic's Chukchi Sea. The polar bears present a haunting scene in the fog that hangs over the abandoned buildings. Yachtsman Dimitry was on the island to take shelter from a storm. He used a small drone to get close to the predators. The picture won the Urban Wildlife category.\n\nThe annual exhibition dedicated to the WPY competition opens at the Natural History Museum in London on Friday. As in past years, it will also go on tour around the UK and to 10 countries worldwide. Entries for the 59th Wildlife Photographer of the Year will be accepted from Monday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jamie Oliver says successive PMs have not taken seriously managing child health\n\nCelebrity chef Jamie Oliver has called for all children in households on universal credit to be given free school meals.\n\nHe said he was \"up for the fight\" after Prime Minister Liz Truss suggested she would scrap plans for a ban on multi-buy deals for junk food.\n\nThe government says 1.9 million children receive free school meals in England.\n\nIt says it will keep the rules on who is eligible under review.\n\nIn England, all infant state school pupils up to Year Two can get free school meals during term time.\n\nChildren in Year Three and above living in households on income-related benefits (such as universal credit) are also eligible, as long as their annual household income does not exceed £7,400 after tax. That figure does not include welfare payments.\n\nMr Oliver, who has long campaigned for children to have better access to healthy food, is backing the Feed the Future campaign for free school meals to be extended to around 800,000 more children who are \"the most vulnerable in society\".\n\n\"If you earn over £7,400 then you won't get that free school lunch, but I think we'd all agree there's a massive gap between the means test for free school lunches as it stands and universal credit,\" Mr Oliver told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss has previously said she would scrap a planned ban on multi-buy deals for unhealthy products and not introduce any new taxes on junk food.\n\nMr Oliver said he had \"no faith\" the PM would change her views but that he was \"up for the fight\" to improve children's health.\n\nThe chef said he believed that investing in free school meals for children would help the economy.\n\n\"The reality is, if you speak to the best minds in economics, in the country, in the world, they will tell you that if you output healthier kids, you're going to have a more productive, more profitable country.\n\n\"We know in every way, shape and form that kids who have a decent lunch and breakfast learn better, their educational attainment is better... but no-one's taken it seriously yet.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Therese Coffey told Today it was important that support for struggling families was \"targeted\".\n\nShe said if all children from families on universal credit were allowed to have free school meals, \"taxpayers may be surprised to learn that somebody on £35,000 or £40,000 would all of a sudden be eligible\".\n\nMr Oliver also said England had the \"meanest\" policy on free school meals in the UK.\n\nScotland and Wales have recently committed to rolling out free school meal provision to all primary pupils, while some schools in Northern Ireland have decided to offer more pupils free meals in response to rises in the cost of living.\n\nAbout 950 children attend Cockshut Hill secondary school, in Birmingham, and half are eligible for free school meals.\n\nBut that proportion would rise to about 70% if eligibility was extended to every family on universal credit, staff say.\n\nShepherd's pie, pizza and a chicken-tikka wrap were the hot options on Tuesday's lunch menu.\n\nThe school works with local charities and businesses to provide a free breakfast for about 150 children every day and is planning to also offer the most vulnerable a free meal after school.\n\n\"We are in a crisis with many, many families,\" Summit Learning Trust chief executive Vince Green says, \"but I think there's much more that can be done.\n\n\"This level of government support that Jamie Oliver is talking about would be a huge help.\"\n\nChief executive of charity The Food Foundation, Anna Taylor, is backing the Feed the Future campaign.\n\nShe said families who fell just outside the criteria to get free school meals were experiencing \"devastating\" effects of trying to make ends meet amid rising costs.\n\nShe told the BBC her charity had heard from teachers that some children have been \"stealing from the canteen\" to save money, and that children had told the charity they are \"sharing their meals with their fellow classmates\" as they do not have enough to eat.\n\nBut Conservative backbencher Tim Loughton, who took on the government to support footballer Marcus Rashford's call to extend free school meals during Covid, said he did not support Mr Oliver's campaign.\n\nHe told BBC Two's Politics Live programme that extending free school meals to everyone receiving universal credit, \"many of whom don't need it... is not the best use of scarce resources\".\n\nA government spokesperson said the Feed the Future campaign had under-estimated the cost of widening the scheme, and that the government had already expanded access to free school meals more than any other government in recent decades.\n\nHealth Secretary Therese Coffey made two points about free school meals to the Today programme.\n\nOne was that the limit on how much you can earn and still get free school meals if you are claiming universal credit in England is similar to Scotland: \"In fact I think the threshold in England may be even higher\", she said.\n\nShe is wrong. The threshold in England is £7,400 a year while in Scotland it is £7,920.\n\nHer second point was \"people could be earning over £40,000 and still be on universal credit\".\n\nEligibility for universal credit depends on various factors, but it is certainly possible that a single parent with two children paying about £200 a week in rent could be eligible for some universal credit.\n\nWe asked the government how many people earning over £40,000 are claiming universal credit but they could not tell us.\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Please get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Something financial markets don't like about the Bank of England's emergency bond-buying is that there is an expiry date. The scheme is set to end on Friday.\n\n“By all accounts, this time isn’t sufficient,\" Antoine Bouvet, senior rates strategist at ING, tells the BBC.\n\nHe points out that the Bank only made its first intervention on 28 September: \"And as you can see as the end of this operation approaches, market volatility is increasing again.\"\n\nBouvet reckons the Bank will have to take further steps to keep markets calm.\n\n\"There’s two ways they can do that,\" he says. \"Keep the piecemeal, whack-a-mole approach…this is papering over the crack and isn’t very efficient.\"\n\nOr, says Bouvet, a second approach would be \"give a blanket cover to the market to give reassurance that it will buy gilts for a long period of time at least until the end of the year\".\n\n\"They don’t need to buy a huge amount of debt for this to be efficient,\" he says.\n\n\"They just need to say they will in case of market stress, and that’s already something that will go a long way to restore market confidence.”", "The Bank of England has announced new measures aimed at ensuring an \"orderly end\" to its emergency bond buying scheme which was introduced to stop a collapse of some pension funds.\n\nThe Bank will increase the amount of bonds it can buy in the final week of the scheme, which ends on Friday.\n\nIt will also introduce extra support to ease future strains on pension funds.\n\nThe Bank initially stepped in after the government's mini-budget sparked turmoil on financial markets.\n\nWith the deadline for the Bank's bond-buying programme fast approaching, there have been concerns volatility would return once the scheme ends.\n\nHowever, Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said the Bank was taking the approach of \"talking loudly and carrying a big stick\" in its attempt to calm concerns,\n\nHe said the measures are \"designed to reassure pension managers - and pension holders - that help will be provided\".\n\nHe added that the Bank's announcement reaffirms that the bond purchases were a short-term measure and \"it remains committed to withdrawing monetary stimulus and tightening monetary policy as it fights inflation\".\n\nThe mini-budget - which was announced on 23 September - pledged £45bn of tax cuts as part of a plan to boost economic growth, but the level of government borrowing required shocked investors who questioned the sustainability of the public finances.\n\nIn the aftermath of the statement, the pound hit a record low and investors demanded a much higher return for investing in government bonds, causing some to drop sharply in value.\n\nCertain types of funds in the pension industry, which invest in bonds, were forced to start selling, sparking fears of a fresh market downturn.\n\nOn 28 September, the Bank stepped in to buy government bonds saying its decision was driven by concern over \"a material risk to UK financial stability\".\n\nIt said it would buy up to £65bn bonds, with a limit of £5bn a day.\n\nSo far, the Bank has bought only around £5bn bonds in total under the programme and in its latest announcement it said stood ready to increase the size of its daily purchases. On Monday, it doubled the limit to £10bn.\n\nThis intervention is about a transition off the Bank of England emergency support offered in government bond markets, in the aftermath of the mini-budget.\n\nThe Bank of England is trying to leave no stone unturned in making sure the withdrawal of this support occurs in an orderly manner. But the Bank is also committing to the timetable to phase out the support this week. Some in the markets had anticipated it would need to be extended.\n\nThe Bank is demonstrating that this intervention is not intended to limit the rise in government costs, but instead was a temporary and targeted effort aimed at maintaining financial stability.\n\nThis is the message heard in markets on Monday, with effective borrowing costs, or yields, on government debt on the rise again. These rates were over 4.5% for borrowing over 30 years and five years.\n\nThe big picture is this: if the Treasury wants to bring down now rising government borrowing costs - which have an effect on mortgages and business lending too - it is up to it to present a credible set of tax and spending plans and independent forecasts, which are now promised for the end of October.\n\nThe forecasts and the plan will now feed into the Bank of England's interest rate decision in early November.\n\nThe Bank of England's intervention was a temporary bridge over a specific crisis. The solution here is for the government.\n\nThe government borrows money to fund its spending plans by selling bonds, or \"gilts\", to investors such as pension funds and big banks on international markets.\n\nBut a collapse in the price of those bonds in the aftermath of the mini-budget was forcing some funds to rush to sell bonds further forcing down the price.\n\nIf that process had continued, there was a risk that those pension funds could have got to a position where they could not pay their debts.\n\nIn its latest statement, the Bank said there had been \"substantial progress\" in addressing the financial problems facing these funds, which had faced the prospect of having to make forced sales of £50bn of bonds.\n\nAs well as increasing the daily limit on bond purchases this week, the Bank also announced a further measure to help the funds affected by the recent market volatility.\n\nUnder the measure, these funds will be able to use a wider range of assets - such as company bonds - to access money to help meet any short-term financial demands.\n\nIt is hoped this means these funds will not be forced to sell government bonds to raise cash, which was what they had to do in the immediate aftermath of the mini-budget.\n\nThis measure will continue after the emergency bond-buying programme has finished.\n\nBefore the mini-budget, the yield on government borrowing over a 30-year period stood at about 3.7%. The yield is effectively the interest rate.\n\nAfter the mini-budget it jumped to 5.1% until the Bank's intervention pushed the rate back down. However, in recent days it has crept back up again to around 4.5%.", "A woman without a headscarf was photographed defying security forces in Sanandaj\n\nHuman rights activists have expressed alarm at a crackdown on protests in a Kurdish-populated city in western Iran.\n\nAmnesty International said there were reports that security forces had used firearms indiscriminately in Sanandaj.\n\nKurdish group Hengaw posted a video which it said showed police shooting at homes in the city and another in which gunfire and cries could be heard.\n\nIt reported that at least five civilians had been killed and 400 injured across the region since Sunday.\n\nBut it warned that the death toll might be higher because authorities were disrupting local internet and mobile networks.\n\nProtests against the clerical establishment have swept across Iran since the death three weeks ago of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman from the western city of Saqqez who fell into a coma after being detained by morality police in Tehran for allegedly violating the strict hijab law.\n\nThe unrest is now considered the most serious challenge to the Islamic Republic since its inception in 1979.\n\nIran's leaders have accused foreign enemies and exiled opposition groups of fomenting \"riots\" that they will not tolerate.\n\nHengaw reported on Tuesday that over the past three days protests had taken place in 10 areas of Kurdistan, Kermanshah and West Azerbaijan provinces, with Sanandaj the epicentre of the unrest and the crackdown by authorities.\n\nThe Norway-based group posted videos which it said showed intense clashes between protesters and security forces in the city on Monday night. Repeated gunfire can be heard in the footage, as well as cries and shouts.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Hengaw Organization for Human Rights\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVideos of ongoing demonstrations by schoolgirls in Sanandaj and elsewhere in the region were also posted online.\n\nIn one, more than a dozen girls are seen waving their headscarves in the air in the middle of a road and shouting \"woman, life, freedom\", which is the main slogan of protests triggered by Mahsa Amini's death.\n\nAnother in Saqqez showed a crowd shouting \"death to the dictator\" - a reference to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.\n\nDuring a visit to the city on Tuesday, Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi blamed \"counter-revolutionary terrorist\" groups for the \"riots\" and vowed that security forces would continue to respond with an iron hand, state media said.\n\nAt least 185 people, including 19 children, have been killed by security forces since the protests erupted on 17 September, according to Iran Human Rights, another Norway-based group.\n\nThe government has denied killing protesters and said that more than 20 security personnel have died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The protests currently sweeping the country have their roots in changes made after the 1979 revolution\n\nThousands of people have also reportedly been arrested in the crackdown.\n\nThey include the daughter of late former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Faezeh Hashemi, who the judiciary said on Tuesday had been charged with \"disruption of public order and propaganda against the Islamic Republic\", according to AFP news agency.\n\nIn another development, protests by workers in Iran's vital oil and gas industry reportedly widened on Tuesday.\n\nVideos appeared to show people demonstrating outside the Abadan oil refinery in Khuzestan province, Iran's oldest and largest in terms of output.\n\n\"This is the beginning of the road and we continue our protests every day, together with people all over the country,\" the Wall Street Journal cited a committee representing contract oil workers as saying in a statement.\n\nHowever, state media denied the reports of a strike.\n\nOn Monday, dozens of employees blocked roads outside the Assaluyeh petrochemical complex in Bushehr province and shouted: \"Do not fear, we stand together.\" A regional official insisted it was related to a wages dispute.", "The BBC's correspondent in Kyiv, Hugo Bachega, was delivering a news report when several explosions happened in the centre of Ukraine's capital city.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: A pedestrian on Kyiv's Klitschko bridge has a narrow escape from the missile strike\n\nThe past few hours have seen wave after wave of explosions, not just here in Kyiv, but all across this vast country, from Lviv in the west to Kharkiv in the east and Odesa in the south.\n\nFor those of us who were here when Russia's full-scale invasion began in February, there's an element of déjà vu. We've been told to spend as much time as we can in the basement, as further attacks, using missiles and drones, are expected.\n\nBut this is also different. The explosions here in Kyiv are much closer to the centre. Not distant thumps from the suburbs, but loud reverberations close to streets and locations we've come to know well in the past eight months.\n\nIt's difficult to tell what is being targeted, but a statement from Ukraine's ministry of culture said museums and the Philharmonic building had been hit.\n\nOne video circulating on social media showed a huge crater in a children's playground.\n\nAnother showed a missile blast hitting Mayor Vitali Klitschko's glass bridge, a popular tourist spot and viewpoint above the Dnipro River.\n\nOlena and Valerii Badakh live in an apartment overlooking the playground in Shevchenko Park.\n\n\"It was horrifying. In an instant, there appeared a hole in our life. It was terrible,\" Olena told me.\n\nValerii and Olena were horrified by the attacks\n\n\"I spent my entire life here. I went to school here. Cleaned the park, sowed grass. My son, and now my grandson grew up here,\" said her husband Valerii. \"There are always so many kids here.\n\n\"I think they wanted to hit the university building and the monument to Hrushevsky. Those are important symbols for us, it was a symbolic attack.\"\n\nSymbolic targets? It's hard, this early, to discern the logic. But reports from elsewhere speak of a thermal power plant being hit in Lviv. President Volodymyr Zelensky says energy facilities are being hit all over the country.\n\nIt's been a long time since so many cities were targeted at the same time. Moscow was apparently determined to make the biggest possible statement.\n\nTwo days ago, social media was flooded with videos and memes as Ukrainians wildly celebrated the attack on the bridge linking Russia with the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nToday, the videos are all of shell-shocked residents, fiery debris and urgent warnings. Any sense of euphoria is gone.\n\nIt feels inevitable, but that doesn't lessen the shock. Fear is once again stalking the capital.", "The attack came as Ukraine's president made an unannounced visit to meet Canada's PM in Ottawa.", "The Crown Prosecution Service admitted it was wrong to drop Jade McCrossen-Nethercott's rape case\n\nAn urgent review of rights available to victims after their court cases are dropped has been urged by Labour.\n\nIt comes after the CPS apologised to a woman whose rape case was wrongfully closed over claims she had an episode of sexsomnia, a rare sleep condition.\n\nThe BBC found 60 cases in 2021/22 which the CPS admitted wrongly dropping, but the cases can no longer be pursued.\n\nThe CPS said decisions to halt cases were never taken lightly.\n\nIn all 60 cases, a victim won a review against proceedings being terminated, but this does not have the same strength as winning an appeal overturning the decision.\n\nIn each situation, the case had already been closed by the CPS \"offering no evidence\", which means the accused was found officially not guilty - despite never appearing in front of a jury.\n\nCrucially, under the double jeopardy law, the cases cannot be reopened, even if a review requested by a victim finds it should have gone to trial.\n\nDiscovery of the cases up to September 2022 in England and Wales comes after the BBC reported the case of Jade McCrossen-Nethercott.\n\nShe is suing the CPS after her rape trial was dropped days before court - over defence claims she had had an episode of sexsomnia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jade was allowed to record the CPS meeting where she was told the rape case had been dropped.\n\nTwo sleep experts - one for the defence and one for the prosecution - concluded that it was possible she had had an isolated attack of the sleep disorder, which causes people to engage in sexual activity in their sleep.\n\nAfter Ms McCrossen-Nethercott challenged the CPS decision under a system called the \"victim's right to review\" (VRR), an independent chief crown prosecutor found her case should have been taken to trial.\n\nHe said the jury would have been \"more likely than not\" to convict the defendant, which is one of the tests for bringing a prosecution.\n\nBut because the CPS had offered no evidence - meaning the defendant was formally acquitted - the case could not be reopened.\n\nInstead, she received a letter of an apology from the chief prosecutor on behalf of the Crown Prosecution Service - which he accepted was likely to be of \"little consolation\" to her.\n\nLabour said the case highlighted by the BBC showed the VRR system - which enables victims to challenge CPS decisions - was failing and urged the government to swiftly establish an inquiry into it.\n\nJess Phillips has urged the Attorney General to take action\n\nIn a letter to Attorney General Michael Ellis, shadow minister for domestic abuse and safeguarding Jess Phillips wrote: \"I think that the average person in the country would be quite surprised to hear that a letter of sorrow is all an alleged rape victim can expect in cases where such errors are made.\n\n\"They would be further horrified to understand that it means that potentially dangerous offenders face no consequences.\"\n\nShe added Ms McCrossen-Nethercott's experience was \"by no means an isolated case\", with the VRR process identifying similar errors each year, \"leaving victims of sexual and violent crimes with their own letters of sorrow\".\n\nWhen asked for comment, the Attorney General's office said it had received Ms Phillips's letter, \"and will consider it and respond in due course\".\n\nThe Freedom of Information figures on dropped cases obtained by the BBC include four sexual offences and 31 \"offences against the person\", which cover a range of violent offences from harassment to murder.\n\nFraud, burglary and robbery cases were also among the terminated cases which, after victims asked for a review, the CPS later admitted should have been prosecuted.\n\nThe CPS said it had \"huge sympathy\" for victims whose cases could not be reopened because no evidence had been offered.\n\n\"We strive for justice in every possible case and decisions to halt them are never taken lightly,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nIn 2018, the High Court found that it was not unlawful for the CPS to close a case by offering no evidence before a victim was able to challenge the decision.\n\nIn his judgement, Lord Justice Holroyde concluded that allowing a victim's review before the prosecution was terminated would cause serious and unjustifiable delay in proceedings.\n\nHe added that the admission of error - and an apology - was an important outcome of a victim's right to review, even if the case could not be reopened.\n\nThe victim's right-to-review scheme gives complainants three months to seek a review of a CPS decision.\n\nThe CPS received 1,961 review requests in the year to March 2021. In 270 cases, the original decision was overturned.\n\nThe CPS said in many cases the prosecution could be reopened, however it was legally prevented from doing so if no evidence had been offered.\n\nDame Vera Baird, the former victim's commissioner for England and Wales, who recently resigned from the role, said the current right-to-review system was \"unacceptable\", and cases should be kept alive until a victim had been able to request a review.\n\n\"If the CPS don't change to help rather than hinder rape victims there must be legislation,\" she said.\n\nWhen unexpected sleepwalking claims turn a rape case on its head, Jade fights back. Filmed over three years, this is the remarkable story of one woman's battle for justice. Will she win?", "The number of people not looking for work because they are suffering from a long-term illness has hit a record high, latest official figures show.\n\nThe fall in the number looking for work has helped to push the unemployment rate to its lowest for nearly 50 years.\n\nThe jobless rate fell to 3.5% in the three months to August, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nThe number of job vacancies fell again, although the level still remains high with many firms struggling to recruit.\n\nHowever, the squeeze on pay remains, with rises in regular wages failing to keep up with the rising cost of living.\n\nHave you left work due to illness?\n\nONS head of labour market and household statistics David Freeman said the number of people neither working nor looking for work had continued to rise over the past few months.\n\nThe economic inactivity rate - which measures the proportion of people aged between 16 and 64 not looking for work - increased to 21.7% in the June to August period, the ONS said. The number of those inactive because they are long-term sick hit a record high of nearly 2.5 million.\n\nMr Freeman added: \"While the number of job vacancies remains high after its long period of rapid growth, it has now dropped back a little, with a number of employers telling us they've reduced recruitment due to a variety of economic pressures.\"\n\nThe estimated number of vacancies in the three months to September fell by 46,000 to 1,246,000, the largest fall since mid-2020 during the Covid pandemic.\n\nRuth Gregory at Capital Economics said that while there were \"tentative signs that the labour market is cooling from the red-hot conditions seen in recent months, the shortfall in labour supply is keeping it exceptionally tight\".\n\n\"That will maintain intense pressure on the Bank of England to raise rates aggressively over the coming months,\" she added.\n\nOne company still struggling to recruit enough staff is PMG Services, a waste management business based in Bristol. It employs 50 people, but has a vacancies for a wide range of roles.\n\n\"We get a lot of interested candidates, we offer interviews, and then we get a lot of no-shows which is really disheartening and wastes so much time,\" says PMG's Clare McGuinness.\n\n\"Some people are offered jobs and don't even show up for work. It's a real challenge,\" she adds.\n\nThe company has also raised salaries to try to help recruitment, as well hold on to its current workers.\n\nShe says the ongoing vacancies are making it difficult for the company to take on extra work.\n\n\"We've become very lean. We've increased our efficiencies but there's only so much we can do, and it really limits our ability to grow.\"\n\nThe ONS data showed that while wages were seeing strong rises, they were still failing to keep with rising prices.\n\nRegular pay - which excludes bonuses - grew at an annual rate of 5.4% in the June to August period, the ONS said, which is the strongest growth seen outside of the coronavirus pandemic period.\n\nHowever, inflation - the rate at which prices rise - currently stands at a near 40-year high of 9.9%.\n\nWhen taking the rise in prices into account, the value of regular pay fell by 2.9% in the three months to August, the ONS said.\n\nReacting to the figures, the Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, said \"the fundamentals of the UK economy remain resilient\".\n\n\"Our ambitious Growth Plan will drive sustainable long term growth, meaning higher wages and better living standards for everyone, and we are cutting taxes so people can keep more of what they earn,\" he added.", "A decommissioned offshore platform on Weston-super-Mare\"s seafront has been transformed into a public art installation as part of Unboxed\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) is to examine the delivery and value for money of the Unboxed festival.\n\nIt comes after the chair of a parliamentary committee called for an investigation into the £120m arts festival, criticising it as an \"excessive waste of money\".\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said: \"We do not agree with the select committee's views.\"\n\nUnboxed was announced in 2018 by then prime minister Theresa May.\n\nThe UK-wide free event, which began in March and will run until November, features 10 projects highlighting science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics.\n\nBut the government's \"celebration of creativity\" was soon dubbed the Festival of Brexit, and has since had its visitor numbers questioned.\n\nIn late August, an article published in parliament's The House magazine claimed suggested there had been fewer than 240,000 visitors, despite a proposed target of 66 million.\n\nHowever Unboxed told the BBC on Tuesday that \"the numbers reported misrepresent the public engagement with Unboxed, and reflect attendance at only eight of the 107 physical locations from within the programme\".\n\nPaisley Abbey was illuminated as part of the opening event, About Us\n\nLast month, Unboxed chief creative officer Martin Green told the BBC the festival was \"absolutely value for money\".\n\nThe DCMS said on Tuesday that \"more than four million people have engaged in Unboxed programming so far, and these numbers are set to rise further\".\n\nConservative MP Julian Knight, chair of the DCMS select committee, which holds the government department to account, has questioned the money spent on the festival \"during a cost of living crisis\".\n\nThis prompted him to ask the NAO, the UK's independent public spending watchdog, to investigate.\n\nIn a letter published on Tuesday, the NAO's comptroller and auditor general Gareth Davies, confirmed that the Unboxed organisers and government would now come under greater scrutiny over the event.\n\n\"I propose in in the coming months to publish a short, focused report on Unboxed which could act as the basis for future questioning during a committee session with DCMS,\" Mr Davies wrote.\n\nHe added he expected they should be able to report on the costs and benefits associated with the festival, along with its management and planning work - including forecasting of visitor numbers.\n\nBirmingham's PoliNations is among the other Unboxed projects\n\nMr Knight told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the event was \"unfortunately a monumental waste of money\".\n\n\"And it's something we've warned about,\" he added. \"And actually even within the department [it] was something that effectively they felt as if it was going off the rails. But no-one said, 'Stop, let's reassess. And if necessary, let's cancel.'\"\n\nHowever the DCMS responded by saying Unboxed had \"helped open up access to arts and culture across the country with an inclusive and ground-breaking programme of live and digital events, designed to bring people together and delivered in partnership with the devolved nations of the UK.\".\n\nUnboxed added that its commissions have been presented in \"more than 100 towns, cities and villages, engaged millions across live and digital and employed thousands of creatives around the UK\".\n\nFeatures of the festival include the See Monster installation in Weston-super-Mare - intended to promote the conversation about climate change - and Birmingham's PoliNations, as well as the About Us installation at Paisley Abbey in Scotland.\n\nUnboxed organisers have not yet released official visitor numbers, but Mr Green told BBC Culture correspondent Katie Razzall last month that \"millions\" of people had engaged with it in person, and that he was \"very confident\" the festival would hit its visitor targets.\n\nIn June, the government said in response to its report on major cultural and sporting events that it disagreed with the committee's assessment of Unboxed, insisting it was \"being promoted globally\".", "It will be a while before there is a result - the judges warned they may need “some months” to chew things over.\n\nCourt President Lord Reed noted that the arguments heard in court were “the tip of the iceberg”, with thousands of pages of written material to wade through.\n\nThere are three potential outcomes:\n• MSPs have the power to pass an independence referendum bill\n• they are specifically barred from it\n• the court decides it would be premature to decide.\n\nThe Scottish government is confident that, regardless of the outcome, it will move the issue on a bit.\n\nIf they win, they will move to get the bill through Holyrood swiftly. But they will also use it as a lever to try to box the UK government into signing up to the contest.\n\nIf they lose, Scottish ministers will still look to exert pressure - but this time via the public, by arguing that the existing setup blocks Scottish democracy at every turn.\n\nThey hope the perceived unfairness of this will prompt a wave of support - which in itself may force UK ministers to engage, or risk the wrath of the electorate.\n\nWhatever happens, the debate over Scotland's future is far from over.", "King Charles's coronation service will be a mix of ancient and modern\n\nKing Charles III's coronation is to be held on Saturday 6 May, at Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace has announced.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort, will also be crowned alongside the King in the historic ceremony.\n\nKing Charles became monarch when his mother the late Queen died, but the coronation will mark a symbolic celebration of his new reign.\n\nBut it will be a shorter, smaller and more diverse ceremony than the previous coronation, held 70 years ago.\n\nIt is not yet known whether there will be an extra bank holiday added or moved to the coronation weekend, with a bank holiday already scheduled for earlier that week on Monday 1 May.\n\nBuckingham Palace has indicated the ceremony will combine the ancient and modern - saying it will be \"rooted in longstanding traditions\" but will also \"reflect the monarch's role today and look towards the future\".\n\nCamilla will also be anointed and crowned\n\nKing Charles will be 74 at the coronation - the oldest that a new monarch has been crowned. The date will also be the fourth birthday of his grandson Archie, the son of Prince Harry and Meghan.\n\nCamilla, the Queen Consort will be crowned as part of the service, in a similar but simpler ceremony to the crowning of the King.\n\nCoronations have been held at London's Westminster Abbey for more than 900 years, with the medieval church the setting for a ceremony that is a mixture of religious ritual and constitutional symbolism. It will be the first coronation held on a Saturday since Edward VII in 1902.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury will preside over the anointing, blessing and consecration of King Charles.\n\nElizabeth II was aged 27 at her coronation, after becoming Queen following the death of her father King George VI\n\nElizabeth II's coronation service in June 1953 lasted almost three hours but royal sources suggest that next year's ceremony will be shorter, more diverse and with a much smaller number of guests.\n\nIn 1953 temporary stands were built inside the Abbey which allowed 8,000 guests, including the then Prince Charles, who was aged four. But the current capacity of the Abbey is about 2,200, which is likely to be the limit for next year.\n\nAttention will be paid to how he might adapt the ceremony for his own coronation - such as the wording of his oath or whether there will be a multi-faith element to the service.\n\nMany of the rituals have been part of the ceremony for centuries - and it is understood the \"core elements\" will remain in place, while acknowledging the \"spirit of our times\".\n\nMonarchs traditionally sit in the 14th-Century King Edward's Chair and are crowned with the solid gold 17th-Century St Edward's Crown.\n\nThe medieval coronation chair will be used again for the crowning of Charles III\n\nThey are given emblems of their royal role - an orb, sceptre and ring - and, if the template of previous coronations is followed, there will be a procession through the capital, featuring the horse-drawn Gold State Coach.\n\nLater that day, the newly-crowned monarch usually makes an appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.\n\n\"Coronations, like all rituals, are tailored to fit the times,\" says royal historian Robert Lacey.\n\nAs well as a shorter and smaller ceremony than in 1953, he expects a wider range of religions to be represented.\n\nThere will also have to be a sensitivity to the cost-of-living pressures facing many people, he says.\n\n\"King Charles has a very difficult balancing act. What to keep, what to abolish, what to alter in a modern way,\" says Mr Lacey.\n\nElizabeth II's coronation became a turning point for television audiences for big events, with more than 20 million people in the UK watching the service being televised for the first time.\n\nFor King Charles III's coronation, a potential worldwide television audience of hundreds of millions could be expected.\n• None What kind of king will Charles be?", "\"Growth, growth, growth,\" is the metric the prime minister wants us to use to judge the effectiveness of her government. That much she made clear in her conference speech.\n\nIn forthcoming weeks we will get the economic reforms, in planning, regulation, worker visas, and elsewhere, that the PM hopes will unleash that growth.\n\nAs one minister from the John Major era, who phoned me after the speech, said, even if the strategy works perfectly, it will take time. In the mid-1990s he experienced an economic shock that affected mortgages, and that was linkable, at least in part, to government decisions. In his view \"British voters do not give credit for cleaning up your own mess\".\n\nAnd will the strategy work, even in the long-run?\n\nThe theme of the PM's speech to conference was that she would take on the \"vested interests\" of the \"anti-growth coalition\" in order to deliver a step-change after two decades of anaemic growth.\n\nThe epitome of the problem, for her, is a 70-year high in taxation, which is why she is urgently prioritising tax cuts.\n\nThere is a tremendous amount of debate over why the UK has had sluggish growth, more or less since the financial crisis. But a 70-year high in taxation is not usually a big part of it.\n\nFor a start, it has never actually come about, because it has always been a forecast for future years (from the Office for Budget Responsibility), rather than fact, and it seems contrary to attribute decades of low growth to something that was only a prediction. Taxation over the past quarter of a century, under prime ministers Blair, Brown, Cameron, May and Johnson, has averaged 32.8% as a proportion of economic output, or GDP. Under Mrs Thatcher's 11 years that number was 32.4% of GDP.\n\nIt is clear that some lower taxes can help boost growth; all of this begs the question as to what has been weighing down the economy. Indeed it is striking the government's comprehensive and transformational policy agenda is proceeding without a thorough, published analysis of what the growth problem is, why it occurred here and not in say the USA or Germany, and therefore how it should be addressed.\n\nThat brings us back to the \"anti-growth coalition\". At a tense political conference, the PM was always going to focus on her external political enemies. But that coalition stretches well into her own membership in that hall.\n\nPlanning reform, for example, would help growth and productivity, but always seems to get thwarted. One interesting part of the Kwarteng growth plan refers to changing regulations to allow more onshore wind to be built. That certainly would be a statement of intent.\n\nOnshore wind isn't popular with all parts of the Conservative Party\n\nWhat other policies could increase forecast growth so quickly that they would help the current numbers add up, when the OBR does its sums? Increasing the number of foreign workers to address the visible labour shortages around the country. Are people who oppose changes to the immigration rules for political reasons part of the \"anti-growth coalition\"? Moves to lower new post-Brexit, non-tariff trade barriers for British exporters, could also help reverse recent reductions to the OBR's long-term growth forecast. Neither move is on the government's agenda.\n\nNumber 11 may, in general, struggle to persuade the OBR that its plans will materially change the economy. And, indeed, there is then the reverse risk in the short term: that the turbulence of the past fortnight could have a permanent effect on perceptions of the UK's macroeconomic stability.\n\nFor 20 years Britain has set the gold standard for institutional independence when it comes to economic policy, built up by successive governments. That meant low borrowing costs, even through financial, and eurozone crises, and the pandemic too. In recent weeks this administration allowed the perception to grow, that it was fiddling with these essential controls on the economy. That perception was fed by leadership campaign rhetoric, and the mini-budget's massive tax cuts, presented without hard borrowing numbers.\n\nWhereas sterling recovered its losses over the last few days, government borrowing costs remain materially higher. Perceptions of how high the Bank of England will have to raise benchmark interest rates are also higher. Rates were always going to get back to normal - higher levels - at some point after a decade-and-a-half of ultra-low interest rates. But it didn't have to happen so violently, in a matter of days. It is rates for mortgages and company lending that have been \"moving on up\", to echo the PM's choice of theme tune.\n\nThe OBR is right now calculating how hard the extra interest rate shock will hit the economy, and how much it will cost the government too. And it is true to say that UK growth will also be affected by rising economic challenges elsewhere in the world, including the eurozone and the USA.\n\nSo if the PM's speech was light on policy, that might reflect the need to not do anything at this point, that could further spook markets. Above all, it seems the lesson of the last week may have sunk in: that macroeconomic stability, rooted in institutional credibility, is actually a prerequisite for \"Growth, Growth, Growth\".", "Former shadow minister Sam Tarry has lost a battle to keep hold of his London seat in the first deselection of a Labour MP for more than a decade.\n\nThe vote by party members means Mr Tarry, an ex-trade union official, will not stand as Ilford South's Labour candidate at the next general election.\n\nHe was beaten by Redbridge Council leader Jas Athwal, by 499 votes to 361.\n\nMr Tarry had previously beaten Mr Athwal to contest the seat in controversial circumstances in 2019.\n\nJust before the 2019 selection, Mr Athwal, who had been the favourite to win, was suspended over \"extremely serious allegations\", which ruled him out of the race.\n\nHe had always denied the allegations and was later cleared. Mr Athwal claimed the complaint was \"malicious\" and politically motivated.\n\nThe move sparked accusations of a \"stitch-up\" to allow Mr Tarry, a supporter of then-party leader Jeremy Corbyn, to become the candidate.\n\nMr Tarry has represented Ilford South since the December 2019 election. He replaced Mike Gapes, who had held the seat since 1992 but resigned from Labour alongside six other MPs that February.\n\nSpeaking after the results of Monday night's vote were announced, Mr Athwal said it was a \"real honour\" to be selected.\n\n\"Ilford is my home, it is where I live, went to school and where my children all went to school. It is the only place I would ever want to represent,\" he said.\n\n\"Today means Ilford can focus on the future and ensure that Westminister delivers for Ilford, that Ilford gets the investment it needs and deserves.\"\n\nMr Tarry, who had been backed by the left-wing Momentum campaign group, said he was \"incredibly disappointed\".\n\nHe added that he intended to issue a further statement on Tuesday \"on the process and outcome\".\n\nMr Athwal had the support of shadow health secretary Wes Streeting, who represents the neighbouring Ilford North seat.\n\nWelcoming the result, Mr Streeting said: \"Jas will be a superb representative for Ilford South. His is an Ilford story - the boy who came from the Punjab and built an education, successful businesses, and a wonderful family here.\n\n\"He's led Redbridge Labour to three unprecedented victories because he's a local resident who fights as hard for our community as he would for his own family.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wes Streeting MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Tarry was sacked as shadow transport secretary by Sir Keir Starmer in July, after joining striking rail workers on a picket line.\n\nThe Labour leader said he lost his role for doing unauthorised interviews and \"making up policy on the hoof\".\n\nThe vote by party members was triggered after every local branch in Mr Tarry's constituency voted for him to go through a re-selection process.\n\nThe east London constituency is a safe Labour seat, with a majority of 24,101.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of attacking the bridge to Russian-annexed Crimea, saying that it was an \"act of terrorism\".\n\nPresident Putin said Ukraine's intelligence forces had aimed to destroy a critically important piece of Russia's civil infrastructure.\n\nHe was speaking at a meeting with the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin.\n\nOfficials say three people were killed in the blast on the bridge.\n\nThe victims were in a nearby car when a lorry blew up, Russian officials say.\n\n\"There is no doubt, this is an act of terrorism aimed at destroying Russia's critical civilian infrastructure,\" Mr Putin said.\n\n\"Its authors, perpetrators and beneficiaries are the security services of Ukraine.\"\n\nMr Bastrykin said that citizens of Russia and some foreign states had aided preparations for the attack.\n\nAccording to Mr Bastrykin, investigators have established that the truck which they say blew up travelled through Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, North Ossetia and Krasnodar Territory.\n\nHe has ordered an investigation into the incident which brought down sections of the roadway.\n\nUkrainian officials have not indicated that their forces were behind the attack.\n\nBut an adviser to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, denied Mr Putin's accusation.\n\nHe wrote that there is \"only one terrorist state here\" and that the \"whole world knows who it is\".\n\n\"Does Putin accuse Ukraine of terrorism? It looks too cynical even for Russia,\" he said.\n\nOn Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged the incident in his nightly address, saying: \"Today was not a bad day and mostly sunny on our state's territory.\"\n\n\"Unfortunately, it was cloudy in Crimea. Although it was also warm,\" he added.\n\nRussian authorities partially re-opened the roadway part of the bridge hours after the attack but for light traffic only.\n\nThe railway part of the bridge - where oil tankers caught fire - has also reopened.\n\nThe 19km (12-mile) bridge, the longest in Europe, is an important supply route for Russian forces fighting in Ukraine.\n\nRussia has used the bridge to move military equipment, ammunition, and personnel from Russia to battlefields in southern Ukraine.\n\nIt was opened by Mr Putin in 2018, four years after Russia's annexation of Crimea.\n\nSecurity camera footage released on social media showed a truck - allegedly from the Russian city of Krasnodar, an hour's drive from the crossing - moving west across the bridge at the time of the explosion.\n\nThe footage shows a huge fireball erupting just behind - and to one side - of the truck as it begins to climb an elevated section of the bridge.\n\nThe speed with which the truck bomb theory started to spread in Russian circles was suspicious. It suggested the Kremlin preferred an act of terrorism to a more alarming possibility: that this was an audacious act of sabotage carried out by Ukraine.\n\n\"I've seen plenty of large vehicle-borne IEDs [improvised explosive devices] in my time,\" a former British army explosives expert told me. \"This does not look like one.\"\n\nA more plausible explanation, he said, is a massive explosion below the bridge - probably delivered using some kind of clandestine maritime drone.\n\n\"Bridges are generally designed to resist downwards loads on the deck and a certain amount of side loading from the wind,\" he said. \"They are not generally engineered to resist upward loads. I think this fact was exploited in the Ukrainian attack.\"\n\nSome observers have noted that in one of the other security camera videos, something that looks like the bow wave of a small boat appears next to one of the bridge supports, a split second before the explosion.", "Graham Bonham-Carter is said to be linked to Oleg Deripaska through five properties, according to the NCA\n\nA British businessman has been charged with allegedly helping a Russian oligarch evade US-imposed sanctions.\n\nGraham Bonham-Carter was arrested on Tuesday accused of funding properties purchased by Oleg Deripaska - one of Russia's most controversial oligarchs who was sanctioned by the US in 2018.\n\nMr Bonham-Carter is also accused of unlawfully moving his artwork abroad, the US Department of Justice said.\n\nThe US is now seeking Mr Bonham-Carter's extradition, the DoJ said.\n\nMr Bonham-Carter, who is based in London and is the second cousin of actress Helena, appeared before Westminster Magistrates' Court following the extradition request and was released on conditional bail.\n\nAs well as being sanctioned by the US in 2018, Mr Deripaska was one of seven oligarchs sanctioned by the UK in March as part of the government's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMr Bonham-Carter is believed to be linked to the oligarch through a number of high-value properties in the US and in the UK - all suspected to be ultimately held for Mr Deripaksa's benefit.\n\nIn March, Mr Bonham-Carter had his bank accounts frozen for six months under orders which were secured by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) after it was alleged his accounts contained money linked to Mr Deripaska.\n\nMr Bonham-Carter faces three US charges - conspiring to violate and evade US sanctions in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), one count of violating IEEPA and one count of wire fraud.\n\nEach charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.\n\nMr Bonham-Carter is accused of engaging in more than $1m (£900,000) worth of illicit transactions to fund real estate properties in the US for Mr Deripaska's benefit.\n\nIt is alleged that the businessman was instructed by Mr Deripaska to set up a company, named GBCM Ltd, for managing his properties, including two in New York and one in Washington DC.\n\nMr Deripaska wealth has been estimated to be more than £2bn.", "Dame Angela Lansbury, who won international acclaim as the star of the US TV crime series Murder, She Wrote, has died aged 96.\n\nThe three-time Oscar nominee had a career spanning eight decades, across film, theatre and television.\n\nBorn in 1925, she was one of the last surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.\n\nDame Angela died in her sleep just five days before her 97th birthday, her family said in a statement.\n\n\"The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles,\" the family said.\n\nBorn in London, Dame Angela later moved to New York and attended the Feagin School of Dramatic Art.\n\nShe was noticed by a Hollywood executive at a party in 1942, and given her first role as a maid in the 1944 film Gaslight, based on the 1938 play of the same name. Her portrayal earned her an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress the following year.\n\nThe term \"gaslighting\" originated from Patrick Hamilton's play, which was about a young woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing she is going crazy.\n\nThe British star went on to land two more Oscar nominations as Sibyl in The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1945 and Laurence Harvey's manipulative mother in The Manchurian Candidate - opposite Frank Sinatra - in 1962.\n\nAfter a move on to Broadway in the 1960s she won several Tony Awards, including one for her turn as Nellie Lovett in Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical play Sweeney Todd.\n\nShe appeared in the Disney hit Bedknobs and Broomsticks in 1971, and later featured in other children's films, providing the voice for Mrs Potts in the animated Beauty and the Beast; and more recently Mary Poppins Returns.\n\nBut it was her portrayal of sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the television series Murder, She Wrote which gained her millions of fans across the world.\n\nStarring as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote brought international fame and made her very wealthy\n\nShe took up the role in 1984, and continued for 12 years and nine seasons.\n\nThe show made her one of the wealthiest women in the US at the time, with a fortune estimated at $100m.\n\n\"I worked much harder on a character in the theatre than I do playing Jessica,\" Lansbury said in a TV interview in 1985.\n\n\"Jessica's much closer to home for me. She's an easy-going woman.\n\n\"It's just that I can relate to her,\" she added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Frank Sinatra This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHer later accolades included an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2013 at the age of 88.\n\nDuring the ceremony, fellow actor Geoffrey Rush praised her as the \"living definition of range\".\n\nIt followed a lifetime achievement award from Bafta in 2002, as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.\n\nShe was made a Dame in 2014 for services to drama, charitable work and philanthropy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Angela Lansbury speaks to the BBC's Andrew Marr in 2014\n\nTributes following her death lauded a \"legend\" of Hollywood.\n\nActor Josh Gad wrote on Twitter: \"It is rare that one person can touch multiple generations, creating a breadth of work that defines decade after decade. Angela Lansbury was that artist.\"\n\nFellow actor Harvey Fierstein added that Dame Angela was \"everything\".\n\nActress Mia Farrow, who starred in the 1978 film Death on the Nile alongside Dame Angela, wrote that it was \"an honour\" to have worked with her.\n\nOscar-winner Viola Davis wrote that she thought the late star \"would live forever\". \"What an absolutely beautiful legacy you've left,\" she posted. \"You have influenced generations of actors to aspire to excellence.\"\n\nSeinfeld actor Jason Alexander tweeted that \"one of the most versatile, talented, graceful, kind, witty, wise, classy ladies I've ever met has left us\", adding: \"Her huge contribution to the arts and the world remains always.\"\n\nComedian and actress Kathy Griffin wrote: \"I cannot tell you how many ladies and gays are crushed, moved and feeling nostalgic about something in the past with the news of the passing of the fabulous Dame Angela Lansbury.\"\n\nMany tributes mentioned Dame Angela's work to raise awareness and money for Aids in the 1980s and 90s, fronting a TV information campaign and headlining fundraising events.\n\nDame Angela was married twice, briefly to the actor Richard Cromwell when she was 19, and later to the British actor and producer Peter Shaw.\n\nThey remained together for more than 50 years, until his death in 2003.\n\nShe is survived by three children and her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury, as well as several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "A photograph of the youngest victim of the explosion, five year-old Shauna Flanagan Garwe, was placed among candles at the Letterkenny vigil\n\nVigils are being held for the third night in a row following the explosion in Creeslough in County Donegal that killed 10 people.\n\nThe explosion happened at a service station in the village on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe close-knit community of about 400 people is coming to terms with an unprecedented scale of loss.\n\nCandlelit vigils are being held across Donegal as well as in Guildhall Square in Londonderry.\n\nAt a vigil in Letterkenny, photographs of the victims were placed in Market Square and people were urged to talk about what happened.\n\nThe vigil was organised by the Letterkenny Community Development Project as a show of support to the families of those killed or injured.\n\nCandles were lit in Derry on the steps of the Guildhall\n\nProject director Gerry McMonagle said people needed to talk after the tragedy to process what had happened.\n\n\"This was an awful incident. I think the randomness of it, it could have happened to any one of us, and that brought it home to people,\" he said.\n\n\"In this crowd tonight, everyone will know someone who was affected by this, it is such a tight knit community, when one hurts we all hurt.\n\n\"That's why we're all here tonight in solidarity and sympathy with those families.\"\n\nIn Derry, 10 red candles were lit on the steps of the Guildhall, as Mayor Sandra Duffy paid tribute to the victims.\n\nMs Duffy reiterated there was a strong connection between the city and County Donegal while the Allegri choir sang its version of A Rose.\n\nOne of the vigils held in County Donegal on Monday evening was held in the village of Culdaff\n\nAn investigation is under way into the cause of the explosion, but police have said it appears to have been a tragic accident.\n\nTributes to those affected have been paid by the Pope, Irish president and neighbours.\n\nOn Monday, a statement from King Charles and the Queen Consort said they expressed their \"most heartfelt sympathy and deepest condolences\" to people who had lost loves ones and with \"the people of Ireland\".\n\nThe monarch said they had experienced the \"strong sense of community\" that exists in Donegal from their visit to the county in 2016.\n\nThe first funerals of two of the victims, Jessica Gallagher, 24, from Creeslough, and Martin McGill, 49, who was originally from Scotland, will take place on Tuesday.\n\nMiss Gallagher's aunt Dolores Gallagher said her niece was a \"beautiful woman\".\n\nThe 24-year-old had recently graduated from IFA [International Fashion Academy] Paris and was due to start her first fashion and design job in Belfast on Monday, Ms Gallagher told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"She was lively, vibrant, and lit up every room she walked into.\n\n\"She was such a happy person and a hard worker - she wanted her life to make a difference in the field of fashion and art. She was so proud to belong to Creeslough.\"\n\nThe funeral of James O'Flaherty, from Sydney, Australia, will be held on Wednesday morning, followed by the funerals of Catherine O'Donnell and her son James Monaghan, from Creeslough, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nMr O'Flaherty's coffin was removed from the Eternal Light Chapel of Rest in Letterkenny earlier.\n\nHe was accompanied by his wife Tracey and son Hamish.\n\nLeona Harper, who was 14, will be buried on Thursday.\n\nHer parents described her as a \"a little gem\" and thanked the digger driver who found her body after a 24-hour search.\n\n\"A massive thank you to him because he just didn't stop until he got her,\" Donna Harper told Highland Radio.\n\n\"Twenty-four hours before we got her and she was the last taken out. The doctors and everything, everybody was amazing the way they treated the whole scene from start to finish with nothing more than respect.\"\n\nAmong the other victims of the blast were a five-year-old girl and two teenagers, while there are eight people still in hospital.\n\nIn Creeslough, like many villages in rural Ireland, everyone knows everyone.\n\nThe youngest victim, Shauna Flanagan Garwe was a \"playful, energetic little girl\" who always asked for a lollipop, according to Creeslough pharmacist Fergus Brennan.\n\nShe was with her father Robert, known as Bob to the villagers, when the explosion happened.\n\nSpeaking outside St Michael's Church before Mass on Monday, resident Majella Russell said \"10 beautiful souls have gone to heaven\".\n\nMs Russell, whose niece worked in the shop, said church services had been packed as \"we just have to pray and be with each other\".\n\n\"All we have is our faith, our faith will get us through,\" she said.\n\n\"We are just all numb, this is a very close community, it's just unbelievable what's happened.\"\n\nButcher Patrick O'Donnell was working at the back of the shop when the explosion happened.\n\nHe was able to help an elderly woman from the scene but said local people \"are the real heroes\" for their rescue efforts.\n\n\"I'm praying for them as well because they went through a lot,\" he said.\n\nThe investigation into the cause of the blast is continuing\n\nOn Monday, the Irish Red Cross announced it had set up the Creeslough Community Support Fund to help those injured, bereaved, made homeless or who had lost an income.\n\nA separate online appeal for donations to help people in the village has surpassed €250,000 (£219,000) in two days.\n\nEverton FC captain and Republic of Ireland international Seamus Coleman, who is from Donegal, issued a statement on Monday night sending his sympathies to everyone affected by events in Creeslough.\n\n\"Having been born and raised in the county, I know first-hand how tight-knit the communities are,\" he said.\n\n\"The immediate reaction of the emergency services, local residents and passers-by who put themselves at risk to help others is an example of the spirit and togetherness of the entire county.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Everton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Sunday, An Garda Síochána (the Irish police force) confirmed the names of the 10 victims, who were all from Creeslough or the surrounding areas.\n\nEmergency crews from Northern Ireland were sent across the border on Friday to help their Irish counterparts deal with the aftermath.\n\nCreeslough resident Anthony Gallagher spoke to two search-dog handlers from Northern Ireland who had been part of the rescue operation.\n\n\"They looked a little bit stressed out because they had been in doing all the hard work, and they came down the road for a walk or a break,\" he said.\n\n\"I had a conversation with them both - [it was a] difficult job and I thanked them for their help.\"\n\nA man in his 20s who was injured in the explosion is critically ill in St James's Hospital in Dublin.\n\nSeven other people who were hurt are in a stable condition in Letterkenny University Hospital.", "During the financial crisis in 2008, Philip Wilson says he became a somewhat reluctant landlord.\n\nThe property market had slowed considerably so he decided to rent out, rather than sell, two properties - a flat and a house in North and West Yorkshire.\n\nNow, the upheaval in the mortgage market means he is being forced to push up the rent for his tenants, and is considering whether he will eventually have to sell up.\n\n\"I really feel for my tenants,\" the 64-year-old says. \"One of them is really struggling, she pays her rent in parts when she has the cash. But now I'm going to have to tell her that her rent is going up. She has been [paying] £395 a month, and it's now looking like it will go up to £450. That is quite an increase.\n\n\"But I've swallowed several interest rate rises this year without increasing rents. Now I have to pass them on.\n\n\"Hand on heart, once this crisis is over, I'll be selling both properties. I feel sorry for my tenants but I can't be a charity.\"\n\nHe is one of many people pointing out that the rising costs of mortgages affects more people than just the 100,000 or so homeowners a month whose existing fixed-rate deals are expiring.\n\nLandlords, like Mr Wilson, are having to pass on higher costs to tenants if they are on variable rates, which have seen consistent increases throughout the year, or more expensive new fixed deals.\n\nThe most obvious change in the last fortnight, following the mini-budget, has been with fixed-rate deals.\n\nOn Wednesday, the interest rate on the average two-year fixed rate mortgage hit 6% for the first time for 14 years, according to the financial information service Moneyfacts.\n\nThe following day, a typical five-year fixed rate product had a rate over 6% for the first time for 12 years.\n\nThat has left many people unsure and uneasy about what to do next.\n\nAlice Heywood, a digital curator from Edinburgh, has been looking at what the increases mean for her when her current deal expires in June.\n\n\"I've been overpaying my mortgage by £100 as I'm really keen on reducing the overall term. I was doing well with my current deal. I knew interest rates would go up, of course they would, but I thought it would be an incremental hike, not an overnight jump,\" the 47-year-old says.\n\nAlice Heywood described the situation as gut-wrenching\n\nShe is facing repayments on a new deal that are £200 a month higher than she had expected.\n\n\"It's so gut-wrenching because I'd been doing all the right things - really trying to reduce my mortgage debt, getting a permanent and stable job. I just feel like the rug has been pulled from underneath my feet.\"\n\nWhile Ms Heywood's stomach has been churning, Michael Bird says he and his girlfriend have been tearing their hair out.\n\nThe 45-year-old from Sheffield was expecting to get close to a house purchase any day, but that is now at risk because first-time buyers down the chain have been unable to secure a mortgage at the higher rates.\n\n\"The whole process was taking ages. Now waiting to hear from our solicitors if anything can be done,\" he says.\n\n\"It's very frustrating. We have an 11-month-old sleeping in our room and were hoping to have her in her own room by now.\n\n\"Now we just have to wait again.\"\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng met with officials from the major mortgage lenders on Thursday to discuss the situation.\n\nA Treasury statement following the meeting said that \"while it is the responsibility of the sector to provide the best value for mortgage rates\", the chancellor confirmed the Treasury would \"continue to work closely with the sector\" in the weeks and months ahead.\n\nDuring her speech at the Conservative Party conference, Prime Minister Liz Truss said that the government \"will do what we can\" to support homeowners.\n\nHowever, she said that the benchmark interest rate was set independently by the Bank of England.", "Raychel Ferguson died at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children in June 2001\n\nThe mother of a child whose death was found to be avoidable has said she is not surprised a further inquest into what happened has been postponed.\n\nRaychel Ferguson, who was nine and from Londonderry, died at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children in 2001.\n\nHer death was examined as part of the Hyponatremia Inquiry. In 2018 it found it was a result of \"negligent care\".\n\nIn January a new inquest opened but has now been postponed after new evidence came to light.\n\nThe inquest was ordered by the attorney general in 2019 and was due to start hearing live evidence on 17 October.\n\nRaychel's mother Marie said the coroner \"had no choice to postpone and everyone involved in the case agreed to the adjournment\".\n\nThe nine-year-old died a day after an appendix operation at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry.\n\nHyponatraemia is an abnormally low level of sodium in blood and can occur when fluids are given incorrectly.\n\nThe Hyponatraemia Inquiry examined the treatment of five children and was one of the longest running public inquiries in the UK.\n\nIt was delayed many times as documents linked to Raychel's case were withheld by health trusts.\n\nLast week it emerged that new documents had come to light as a result of recent investigations by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.\n\nBBC News NI also understands additional information relating to a police investigation has also been drawn to the coroner's attention.\n\nMarie Ferguson said she welcomed the second inquest into her daughter's death as it gave the Western Health Trust another opportunity \"to tell the truth\".\n\nIn January, when the new inquest opened, the Western Trust apologised and said it was sorry to the Ferguson family for the death of Raychel.\n\nHer parents have long campaigned to find out the truth about their daughter's death.\n\n\"Not one of the 96 recommendations made by the Hyponatraemia Inquiry have been implemented,\" Mrs Ferguson said.\n\n\"There has been no meaningful ministerial or Department of Health response.\n\n\"Since none of the recommendations have been implemented, Raychel's inquest takes on a new significance when the court looks at how Raychel died while in the care of the Western Trust.\n\n\"We need to make sure that what happened to Raychel and how we as parents were treated never happens again.\"\n\nIn 2018, the Department of Health put a detailed action plan in place to respond to the 96 recommendations made by the public inquiry.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: I am not going anywhere - Kwasi Kwarteng\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has insisted he is \"not going anywhere\", despite the market turbulence he admitted was caused in part by his policies.\n\nAsked if he and PM Liz Truss would still be in their jobs this time next month, he said: \"Absolutely, 100%.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng also sidestepped questions about whether he would U-turn on parts of his mini-budget, saying: \"Our position hasn't changed.\"\n\nHe is facing growing calls from Tory MPs to rethink his tax-cutting package.\n\nDiscussions are under way between the prime minister and backbenchers about what her party can accept.\n\nThe mood among Tory MPs is angry and fatalistic. \"It's checkmate, we're screwed,\" one told the BBC.\n\n\"There is no question in my mind, they'll have to junk loads of this stuff and U-turn,\" another said.\n\nSome think the government's tax-cutting plans should be reversed, while others think the help with energy bills should be more targeted.\n\nOther scenarios being discussed by Tory MPs include the chancellor resigning or the prime minister being ousted.\n\nHowever, there is little agreement on what should happen next or who should replace Ms Truss if she is removed.\n\nThe government has already U-turned on its plan to scrap the top rate of income tax, but this only made up £2bn of the tax cuts announced by the chancellor last month.\n\nHe is under pressure to spell out how the remaining £43bn will be paid for, and how he will get the UK's national debt falling.\n\nMr Kwarteng is due to deliver a statement on 31 October, along with independent economic forecasts.\n\nPressed on whether there could be further U-turns on his mini-budget, Mr Kwarteng, who is in Washington for an IMF meeting, said there would be more detail on 31 October.\n\nAsked about the possibility corporation tax could rise, Mr Kwarteng said he was \"totally focused\" on delivering his mini-budget.\n\nMs Truss has pledged to scrap a planned rise to the tax, which was set to increase from 19% to 25% in 2023.\n\nOn Wednesday, she said it would be \"wrong\" to raise corporation tax \"when we are trying to attract investment into our country at a time of global economic slowdown\".\n\nIn an interview with Sky News, former Home Secretary Priti Patel said the market would now \"dictate\" the prime minister's decision on corporation tax \"primarily because we want to see stability\".\n\nThe pound rose against the dollar as rumours emerged about a possible government U-turn.\n\nHowever, it later fell back after stronger-than-expected inflation data from the US drove up the value of the dollar.\n\nIn an interview in the Daily Telegraph, when asked about the market response to the speculation of a U-turn on corporation tax, Mr Kwarteng said: \"Let's see.\"\n\nHowever, he added that he still thought ensuring \"competitive\" tax rates for businesses was a \"great idea\".\n\nThe chancellor's mini-budget on 23 September has caused turmoil in the financial markets and prompted the Bank of England to intervene to protect pension funds.\n\nMr Kwarteng acknowledged there was \"some turbulence\" after his mini-budget but said there was \"a very dicey situation globally\", with inflation, potential interest rate rises and energy price spikes affecting everybody.", "The auction house said The North Sea was one of the finest examples of Lowry's rare large-scale seascapes xx\n\nAn \"important seascape\" by renowned artist LS Lowry has sold at auction for more than a million pounds.\n\nAlthough the artist was better known for depicting the north-west of England, The North Sea shows a view from Seaburn, Sunderland.\n\nThe work, which had been in private hands since a year after it was painted in 1966, sold for £1,070,381.\n\nTennants Auctioneers in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, said Lowry had been \"fascinated by the sea\".\n\nFrom the early 1940s he began to paint pure seascapes, depicting nothing but sea and sky.\n\n\"These rare, seemingly simple yet highly sophisticated works are far removed from the bustling industrial streets scenes for which he is better known,\" the auction house said.\n\nThe painting demonstrates Lowry's skilful use of colour to create a monochrome effect\n\nThe majority of his seascapes depict the North West, and the resorts of Lytham and Rhyl, where he spent holidays.\n\nWhen, after the death of his mother, he was free to choose his own holiday destinations, Lowry frequently stayed for long periods of time at the Seaburn Hotel, to \"which he became deeply attached\", the auctioneers said.\n\n\"He always stayed in the same room, which looked straight out at the empty expanse of the North Sea, the water and sky melding at the horizon,\" they said.\n\nThe painting was sold by the estate of a Lancaster woman who had studied to become a classical pianist in Perugia and Paris.\n\nAfter returning to the North West to marry, she regularly met Lowry in Morecambe.\n\nTennants said she recounted his delight in the simple pleasures of eating ice cream and his visible enjoyment of the seaside, and the pair bonded over their shared love of the sea.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coltrane appeared in two James Bond films - Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough\n\nActor Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has died aged 72.\n\nHe also appeared in ITV detective drama Cracker and the James Bond films Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough.\n\nIn a statement, his agent Belinda Wright confirmed the actor died in hospital near Falkirk in Scotland.\n\nShe described Coltrane as a \"unique talent\", adding his role as Hagrid \"brought joy to children and adults alike all over the world\".\n\n\"For me personally I shall remember him as an abidingly loyal client. As well as being a wonderful actor, he was forensically intelligent, brilliantly witty and after 40 years of being proud to be called his agent, I shall miss him.\n\n\"He is survived by his sister Annie Rae, his children Spencer and Alice and their mother Rhona Gemmell. They would like to thank the medical staff at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert for their care and diplomacy.\n\n\"Please respect Robbie's family's privacy at this distressing time.\"\n\nRobbie Coltrane was well known for playing Hagrid in the Harry Potter films\n\nColtrane was made an OBE in the 2006 New Year's honours list for his services to drama and he was awarded the Bafta Scotland Award for outstanding contribution to film in 2011.\n\nHarry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe paid tribute to Coltrane in a statement, saying: \"Robbie was one of the funniest people I've met and used to keep us laughing constantly as kids on that set.\n\n\"I've especially fond memories of him keeping our spirits up on Prisoner of Azkaban, when we were all hiding from the torrential rain for hours in Hagrid's hut and he was telling stories and cracking jokes to keep morale up.\n\n\"I feel incredibly lucky that I got to meet and work with him and very sad that he's passed. He was an incredible actor and a lovely man.\"\n\nFellow Harry Potter star Emma Watson said: \"Robbie, if I ever get to be so kind as you were to me on a film set I promise I'll do it in your name and memory.\"\n\nShe paid tribute to Coltrane on Instagram saying there was \"no better Hagrid\" and he \"made it a joy to be Hermione\".\n\n\"I'll really miss your sweetness, your nicknames, your warmth, your laughs and your hugs.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter, Harry Potter author JK Rowling described Coltrane as an \"incredible talent\" and \"a complete one-off\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by J.K. Rowling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActor Stephen Fry, who appeared alongside Coltrane in Alfresco, tweeted: \"Such depth, power and talent: funny enough to cause helpless hiccups and honking as we made our first TV show Alfresco. Farewell, old fellow, you'll be so dreadfully missed.\"\n\nFellow Alfesco actor Hugh Laurie, who also starred alongside Coltrane in Blackadder, recalled their time spent sharing car rides between Manchester and London. \"I don't think I've ever laughed or learned so much in my life\", he tweeted.\n\nAnd Blackadder star Tony Robinson described Coltrane as \"such a sweet man... so talented as a comic and as a straight actor\". Posting on Twitter about his favourite episode from the period sitcom, he said: \"It was all down to you mate.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described Coltrane's death as \"very sad news\".\n\n\"He had such range and depth as an actor, from brilliant comedy to hard-edged drama. I think my favourite of all his roles was Fitz in Cracker,\" she said. \"Robbie Coltrane, Scottish entertainment legend - you will be hugely missed. RIP.\"\n\nThe official James Bond Twitter account called him an \"exceptional actor whose talent knew no bounds\".\n\nBroadcaster Richard Coles added: \"Very sorry to hear Robbie Coltrane has died. We shared a dressing room once and he had the biggest pants I have ever seen, which he wore with tremendous flair. We were friends from then on.\"\n\nThe Scottish star, whose real name is Anthony Robert McMillan, was born in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, in 1950.\n\nColtrane was the son of teacher and pianist Jean Ross and GP Ian Baxter McMillan, and was educated at independent school Glenalmond College in Perth and Kinross.\n\nThe actor's career began in 1979 in the TV series Play for Today, but he came to prominence in A Kick Up the Eighties, a BBC TV comedy series which also starred Tracey Ullman, Miriam Margolyes and Rik Mayall.\n\nHe also appeared in the 1983 ITV comedy Alfresco, with Fry, Emma Thompson, Siobhan Redmond and Hugh Laurie.\n\nBy 1987 he had a leading role in Tutti Frutti, about Scottish rock and roll band The Majestics, which also starred Emma Thompson and Richard Wilson. The year before he was in British crime film Mona Lisa, starring Bob Hoskins.\n\nColtrane was made an OBE in the 2006 New Year's honours list for his services to drama\n\nColtrane gained further fame starring as criminal psychologist Dr Eddie \"Fitz\" Fitzgerald in the ITV series Cracker from 1993 to 1995 and in a special return episode in 2006.\n\nThe role secured him the Bafta award for best actor for three consecutive years from 1994 to 1996.\n\nArguably his best-known role came in the Harry Potter film series as he starred in all eight movies as Rubeus Hagrid alongside Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson.\n\nIn 2016, he starred in Bafta-winning Channel 4 drama National Treasure, with Dame Julie Walters, about a comic and TV host accused of sexual abuse of women.\n\nLate last year he appeared in the Harry Potter reunion TV special, which reunited the cast, although JK Rowling was absent and featured only in archive video clips.\n\nColtrane appeared alongside Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, along with Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman and Ralph Fiennes.", "Stock photo of a man taking a photo of Van Gogh's Sunflowers at the National Gallery\n\nOne of Van Gogh's famous Sunflowers paintings has been cleaned and is back on display, after climate activists threw tins of what appeared to be tomato soup over it.\n\nLondon's National Gallery confirmed it is now back in place, about six hours after the soup incident.\n\nFootage showed two people in Just Stop Oil T-shirts opening tins and throwing the contents on the masterpiece before gluing their hands to the wall.\n\nThe gallery said earlier the painting was covered by glass and therefore not damaged.\n\nA statement from the Trafalgar Square venue said: \"At just after 11am this morning two people entered Room 43 of the National Gallery.\n\n\"The pair appeared to glue themselves to the wall adjacent to Van Gogh's Sunflowers (1888). They also threw a red substance - what appears to be tomato soup - over the painting.\n\n\"The room was cleared of visitors and police were called. Officers are now on the scene.\n\n\"There is some minor damage to the frame but the painting is unharmed.\"\n\nThe National Gallery holds more than 2,300 artworks\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said: \"Officers were rapidly on scene at the National Gallery this morning after two Just Stop Oil protesters threw a substance over a painting and then glued themselves to a wall.\n\n\"Both have been arrested for criminal damage and aggravated trespass. Officers are now de-bonding them.\"\n\nVideos of Friday's incident showed a protester shouting: \"What is worth more? Art or life? Is it worth more than food? Worth more than justice? Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?\"\n\nShe also referenced the cost of living crisis and \"millions of cold, hungry families\" who \"can't even afford to heat a tin of soup\".\n\nThe painting is one of seven Sunflowers works Van Gogh created in 1888 and 89, five of which are on display in galleries and museums across the world. The artist created them to decorate his house in Arles, France, before a visit from his friend, the artist Paul Gauguin.\n\nThe gallery describes the sunflower paintings as \"among Van Gogh's most iconic and best-loved works\".\n\nThe action comes three months after members of the same group pasted paper over John Constable's the Hay Wain in the same gallery.", "Credibility is one of the most prized assets in politics.\n\nWhen it drains away, dredging it back is difficult, often impossible.\n\nThe mood among Conservative MPs is bleak, doom-laden, fatalistic.\n\nMost I speak to are convinced the last month and a bit means losing the next election is a near certainty.\n\nIt's now about minimising their losses, they fear.\n\nThis pessimism - justified or otherwise - could help to shape the psychology of what happens next, how they act.\n\nIn the short term, their focus this weekend will be on the performance of the new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, who is talking to BBC Breakfast and Radio 4's Today Programme among others, and will then spend his time in the Treasury meeting officials and being briefed on the job ahead.\n\nJust imagine the mugging up he has to do.\n\nIn a fortnight, he'll be the front man for the government's economic statement that could determine whether we end up with another new prime minister before Christmas.\n\nHe is steeped in Conservative politics, has held high office and is widely seen within the party as a decent bloke.\n\nHe also backed Rishi Sunak for the leadership and is now in a massive job in the Truss administration, which didn't exactly initially go out of its way to hire those who'd backed her opponent.\n\nMeanwhile, in the WhatsApp groups and on the phones, in the corridors and the bars, the chatter among Tory MPs about what to do next is everywhere.\n\nFor all the noise you'll have heard about, remember this: there are those who say, hang on a minute, Liz Truss must be given time. Ousting her would be a ridiculous. And a \"coronation\", as one described it - the party at Westminster stitching things up behind their chosen one - would be wrong, undemocratic and literally incredible.\n\nIt seems to me that after the party conference, while many, many Conservative MPs were in the doldrums about Liz Truss, plenty felt it would look absurd if they were to move against her.\n\nNow, many still accept that, but are concluding absurdity might be better than the alternative.\n\nAmong those who think a change will become necessary, there is widespread acceptance the party couldn't \"spend months faffing about\" over it as one put it to me - in other words asking party members all over the country what they think, as happened in the summer.\n\nWhich brings us back to that idea of a \"coronation\".\n\nSome take issue with that word, because they say it wouldn't be that - any new leader would have to command the support of the parliamentary party.\n\nBut what would have to happen is the party being willing to coalesce around a single figure, supported by a wider team representing the party's different wings - a Conservative government of all the talents, if you like.\n\nSome are sceptical that can happen.\n\n\"You've got to remember that some of my colleagues are so ambitious, even inheriting dust is something they'd want to do\", says one backbencher about the landscape Liz Truss's successor would inherit, and the difficulty of persuading plenty of fellow Conservatives to turn off their aspiration gene.\n\nSo how might a party far from united unite around a single candidate, and who might they be?\n\nWell, there is Rishi Sunak, someone else who can call themselves a former chancellor, and the man Liz Truss beat for the leadership.\n\nThen there is Penny Mordaunt, also beaten to the job in the summer by Liz Truss.\n\nPenny Mordaunt is now in the cabinet.\n\nAnd then there's a bloke you may just remember: Boris Johnson. What does he choose to say, or do, in the coming days, weeks, months? Does he stay quiet? Precedent suggests that's not his natural inclination. Does he endorse someone? Is it too soon for him to attempt some sort of comeback? Almost certainly. But who knows.\n\nAnd that's the key point this weekend.\n\nLiz Truss is in office, but far from in control.\n\nNo one knows what is going to happen next, how this will play out.", "The Van Gogh Sunflowers painting is displayed at the National Gallery\n\nTwo women have denied causing criminal damage to the frame of one of Van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings.\n\nThe masterpiece had soup thrown at it in the National Gallery on Friday.\n\nAnna Holland, 20, from Newcastle, and Phoebe Plummer, 21, from Lambeth, south-west London, pleaded not guilty when they appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court earlier.\n\nA third woman is charged over paint sprayed on the New Scotland Yard sign during a day of protest in Westminster.\n\nLora Johnson, 38, from Southwold, Suffolk, pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal damage of the famous rotating sign at the same court.\n\nMs Holland and Ms Plummer spoke only to confirm their names, dates of birth, addresses and to enter their pleas to charges of criminal damage to the value of less than £5,000.\n\nDistrict judge Tan Irkam released the pair on bail on the condition they do not enter galleries or museums and do not have paint or adhesive substances in a public place.\n\nProsecutor Ola Oyedepo said the pair threw the \"orange substance\" knowing there was a \"protective case\" over the actual painting, though damage was caused to the frame.\n\nMs Oyedepo said the value of the damage was \"significantly below the £5,000 cost threshold\".\n\nKatie McFadden, defending, said: \"The prosecution needs to prove that damage has been caused.\"\n\nShe said the \"extent of the damage would be relevant to the proportionality assessment\" in weighing up their right to expression.\n\nTheir trial was set for 13 December at City of London Magistrates' Court.\n\nPolice officers surround the New Scotland Yard sign which was defaced on Friday\n\nMs Johnson, who appeared in the dock for a separate hearing, also spoke to confirm her name, address and enter her plea.\n\nMr Irkam released Ms Johnson on bail on the condition she does not have paint or adhesive materials in a public place.\n\nMs Oyepedo said Ms Johnson was part of a protest group which gathered at the New Scotland Yard building on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe prosecutor said £4,750 has been spent trying to remove the paint from the sign and the ground under it.\n\nHer trial was set for 23 November at City of London Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe Met Police previously said a total of 28 people were arrested on Friday as Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion demonstrators gathered in central London.\n\nIt said 25 of them had been bailed pending further inquiries.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police remain at the scene of the incident at Woodside Park in west Belfast\n\nA woman has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 54-year-old man in west Belfast.\n\nTony Browne was stabbed at a property in Woodside Park in Poleglass at about 22:05 BST on Friday.\n\nA 33-year-old woman is being questioned by police on suspicion of murder and possession of a Class B controlled drug.\n\nDet Ch Insp Neil McGuinness said Mr Browne was taken to hospital but died from his injuries.\n\n\"I am appealing to anyone who believes they may have information which could assist detectives with their investigation to contact us,\" he added.\n\nSinn Féin Cllr Danny Baker told BBC News NI the community was \"in shock\" after what had happened.\n\n\"This community is a tight-knit community and they are devastated by the news,\" he continued.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers are with everybody involved.\"", "The 21-year-old, who has also played for England, was arrested in January\n\nManchester United footballer Mason Greenwood has been charged with attempted rape, engaging in controlling behaviour and assault.\n\nThe forward was arrested in January following allegations that emerged in images and videos posted online.\n\nHe was arrested again on Saturday for allegedly breaching his bail.\n\nProsecutors said the charges all related to the same female complainant. Mr Greenwood is due at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nThe 21-year-old, who has made one appearance for the senior England men's team, has not played or trained with Manchester United since his arrest.\n\nNike also ended its sponsorship deal with him and Electronic Arts removed him from active squads on its Fifa 22 game.\n\nThe forward has not played for Manchester United since the allegations emerged\n\nJanet Potter, from Crown Prosecution Service North West, said they had authorised Greater Manchester Police to charge Mr Greenwood with attempted rape, engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.\n\nThe alleged attempted rape is said to have occurred on 22 October 2021, while the alleged assault is said to have taken place last December.\n\nThe charge of controlling and coercive behaviour relates to a period of time since November 2018.\n\nMs Potter said the charges were made after specialist rape prosecutors reviewed a file of evidence from police.\n\nShe added: \"The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all concerned that criminal proceedings against the defendant are active and that he has a right to a fair trial.\n\n\"It is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice those proceedings.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The footballer was initially arrested earlier this year\n\nManchester United footballer Mason Greenwood has been arrested for allegedly breaching bail conditions.\n\nThe 21-year-old striker was arrested on suspicion of rape and assault in January. He was also questioned about claims of making threats to kill.\n\nGreenwood, who has made one appearance for England, has not been charged and his bail was extended in June.\n\nThe BBC understands the latest arrest was made at his home in Bowdon, Greater Manchester.\n\nIn a statement, a representative for Greater Manchester Police said they were \"aware of an allegation regarding a 21-year-old man breaching his bail conditions and an arrest has been made on Saturday\".\n\nThey added that \"enquiries are ongoing at this time\".\n\nWithin hours of the online allegations in January, Greenwood was suspended from playing or training with his club until further notice.\n\nNike ended its sponsorship deal with him and Electronic Arts removed him from active squads on its Fifa 22 game.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFour prisoners have died and 61 have been injured following a major fire at Iran's notorious Evin prison, according to an Iranian state news agency.\n\nSources inside the prison - which is known for housing political prisoners - have told BBC Persian the number of casualties is higher.\n\nVideos shared online showed flames and smoke at the site in Tehran, and gunshots and explosions could be heard.\n\nThe fire followed weeks of anti-government protests across Iran.\n\nHundreds of those taking part in protests have been sent to Evin prison. It is not known whether the situation at the jail is linked to the demonstrations.\n\nThe protests first erupted last month after the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian Mahsa Amini in police custody. Officials said she died of a heart attack, but her family disputed this, saying she was beaten by morality police.\n\nState media has suggested the events in Evin prison are not linked to the ongoing protests, quoting an official who blamed \"criminal elements\" for the fire.\n\nSpeaking from inside the prison, Tehran's governor told state TV that there was a riot in a wing of the prison housing petty criminals.\n\nMeanwhile, Iran's Mizan News has said the injured developed breathing difficulties during a fire at the prison's sewing workshop. Four of the injured are in critical condition, it reported.\n\nSome journalists on social media accused the authorities of \"setting the prison ablaze intentionally\" as a high profile political prisoner was sent home before it broke out.\n\nMehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani - son of Iran's late former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani - was given \"early temporary release\", according to his brother.\n\nImages posted online appear to show a fire at Evin prison\n\nDramatic footage of the fire and smoke was first posted on social media on Saturday evening.\n\nIn several videos people could be heard outside the prison chanting \"death to the dictator\" - one of the main slogans of the anti-government protest movement.\n\nGunshots and explosions were audible in other videos - prompting rights groups to raise grave fears for the fate of the inmates.\n\nThe Fars news agency - which is linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards - initially said the explosions were due to mines going off after a prison break.\n\n\"Some prisoners who attempted to escape amid the fire, ended up in a minefield in the northern side of the prison,\" it reported.\n\nLater however, the agency said this was not the case, quoting a source saying no prisoner had stepped on a mine.\n\nOne video posted online appeared to show objects fired into the prison from outside its perimeter, followed by the sound of an explosion.\n\nFamilies and lawyers of prisoners had not been allowed near the jail last night, and roads were blocked, the family of a political prisoner told BBC Persian.\n\nSmoke can be seen rising from Evin prison\n\nThe families of some prisoners said they had not been able to contact their relatives on the phone, and that the internet connection around the prison appeared to have been cut off.\n\nHowever, later some prisoners were able to reach out to their families to tell them that they were safe.\n\nThe husband of journalist Niloufar Hamed said she had been able to phone him, and he told her he was fine, but did not know what had happened in the jail. And Iranian-American dual national Siamak Namazi told his lawyer he had been moved to a secure area.\n\nA former prisoner, who spent 200 days in solitary confinement in the jail, told the BBC it must have been a terrifying experience for the prisoners.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying as it is to be in that concrete cell, let alone to have fire raging outside your cell, explosions happening, sound of gunshots,\" she said.\n\nOn Saturday night Iranian state TV broadcast a report showing parts of the prison safe and calm. However exiled Iranian journalist Masoud Kazemi - who spent almost a year inside Evin - said the report had only shown areas of the jail where the action had not taken place.\n\nA person places a candle during a demonstration in solidarity with the protesters\n\nBritish-Iranian dual nationals Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori were both held at Evin prison for several years on spying charges, which they denied, before their release earlier this year.\n\n\"I used to call it the valley of hell, so you can imagine the situation there is really dark. Medical care is next to zero. They are living with bedbugs, cockroaches, rats, you name it,\" Mr Ashoori told the BBC on Sunday.\n\nThe prison has long been criticised by Western rights groups. Human Rights Watch has accused authorities at the prison of using threats of torture and of indefinite imprisonment, as well as lengthy interrogations and denial of medical care for detainees.\n\nA group of hackers calling themselves Edalat-e Ali (Ali's Justice) posted videos in August last year of leaked surveillance footage from Evin prison showing guards beating or mistreating inmates.\n\nSome foreign governments whose citizens are being held in the prison have expressed concern.\n\nA spokesperson for the US state department said it was following events with \"urgency\", while the UK government's security minister called it a \"very worrying development\".\n\nSince the death of Ms Amini five weeks ago, a wave of protests has swept across Iran in the boldest challenge to the Islamic Republic since its establishment in 1979.\n\nMany of those who have died have been teenagers.", "Presenters on Radio 4's Today programme apologised to listeners after Miriam Margolyes swore live on air while discussing the new chancellor.\n\nThe actress had been on to talk about the death of Robbie Coltrane, and had just taken a seat vacated by Jeremy Hunt.\n\nMargolyes said she had wished him luck, but had wanted to tell him to go away - using explicit language.\n\nLater she told producers she had mistakenly believed she was off air.\n\nMargolyes, who played Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films, had been paying tribute to her fellow Potter star Robbie Coltrane, who died in hospital on Friday aged 72.\n\nAt the end of the Today interview, the 81-year-old actress told presenters Justin Webb and Martha Kearney about how she had greeted Mr Hunt.\n\nMargolyes - who is known for being outspoken during interviews - said: \"When I saw him there I just said 'you've got a hell of a job, the best of luck'.\"\n\nShe went on to say that she had actually wanted to tell him something different, but added that \"you can't say that\".\n\n\"Oh, no, no, no, you mustn't say that. No, you can't say that!\" Webb said, apologising for the language.\n\nMr Hunt was taking part in his first round of media interviews since being appointed the new chancellor, and had told the BBC that difficult decisions would be needed on tax and spending.\n\nAfter the Margolyes interview, the Today programme quickly moved on to the sports section.\n\nLater, Webb apologised for the incident saying: \"When I watched the Rugby on BT Sport they always apologised when you hear words that you possibly shouldn't have heard, as they put it on BT Sport in the scrum.\n\n\"Well, we apologise to you if you heard a word that you shouldn't have heard, earlier on.\n\n\"The rest of Miriam Margolyes' interview was wonderful though.\"\n\nWebb ended the programme by saying it had been a \"very eventful morning\".\n\n\"Miriam Margolyes\" was trending on Twitter after the show, with people sharing clips of the radio interview.\n\nFormer BBC journalist Jon Sopel tweeted a series of laughing and embarrassed emojis in reaction.\n\nWebb responded with the tweet: \"Yes it was a good interview\" - and an opened-mouth emoji.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by justin webb This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "King Charles drove an electric Mini off the production line during a visit to Plant Oxford in June 2021\n\nBMW insists Oxford will \"remain at the heart of Mini production\" despite it moving the manufacture of some of its electric cars to China.\n\nThe first electric Mini was built at the city's Cowley plant in 2020. All Minis will be electric by 2030.\n\nBMW said its hatchback and small SUV electric Minis will start being built in China. Its electric Countryman model will be built in Leipzig, Germany.\n\nA spokesperson said there will be no impact on jobs in Oxford.\n\nBMW said it was going to produce electric cars in China as well as Oxford after it agreed a deal with Chinese manufacturer Great Wall Motor in 2018.\n\nIt said workers at Cowley will build the Mini Cooper three-door and five-door Hatch models. The Mini Convertible will also be built at Plant Oxford from 2025.\n\n\"This is one of our most important cars and a global best-seller, and further signals our commitment to the future. Plant Oxford will remain at the heart of Mini production,\" a BMW spokesperson said.\n\n\"Oxford plays an important role in the BMW Group's production strategy, with its high degree of flexibility, competitiveness and expertise - also in the area of electromobility. There is no impact on jobs,\" they added.\n\nSusan Brown, Oxford City Council's leader, said: \"I have sought reassurance from BMW and understand that while BMW is looking to rebalance the production of its Mini range globally as it moves towards being all-electric by 2030, there is an ongoing commitment to the city, building on significant recent investments in the Cowley plant.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Liz Truss asked why she should stay on as PM\n\nLiz Truss has described sacking her chancellor and scrapping a major economic policy after just 39 days as prime minister as \"difficult\".\n\nIn a brief statement after a day of turmoil, she reversed planned cuts to business tax aimed at boosting growth.\n\nShe admitted \"parts of our mini-budget went further and faster\" than the markets were expecting.\n\nBut she insisted she would stay on as PM to see through her \"mission\" to get the economy growing.\n\n\"I'm absolutely determined to see through what I promised - to deliver a higher growth, more prosperous United Kingdom to see us though the storm we face,\" Ms Truss said.\n\nThe eight-minute news conference came after a dramatic day in which the prime minister fired Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor after he returned early from a US summit.\n\nSome Tory MPs have been calling for the prime minister to resign following the news conference, which one senior backbencher branded \"a mega disaster\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats and the SNP have called for a general election, while shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said a new government led by Labour is \"what this country needs\".\n\nBut Ms Truss has ruled out a general election until 2024 and with the government's large majority in Parliament the opposition would find it very difficult to trigger one.\n\nThe prime minister has appointed former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt - who backed Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest - as the new chancellor.\n\nMs Truss said her new chancellor shared her vision for the country and would deliver a statement on her economic plan at the end of this month.\n\nAdmitting \"we need to act now to reassure the markets\", Ms Truss struck a solemn tone as she reversed a key policy to scrap the planned rise in corporation tax from 19% to 25%.\n\nShe said the move should raise £18bn a year in tax revenue for the government and act as a \"down payment\" on her economic plan.\n\n\"I want to be honest, this is difficult,\" Ms Truss said. \"But we will get through this storm.\"\n\nFollowing her statement, Ms Truss took questions from four journalists, all of whom asked her why she had not left office along with Mr Kwarteng.\n\nShe said she was \"determined to see through what I've promised\" before leaving abruptly, shocking some journalists who did not get a chance to ask questions.\n\nThe statement marks the second major U-turn on the mini-budget after Ms Truss cancelled her plan to scrap the top rate of income tax earlier this month.\n\nIn office for 39 days, Ms Truss won the Conservative Party leadership last month after promising to slash taxes and deregulate the economy in a bid to \"get Britain moving\".\n\nOn 23 September, Mr Kwarteng unveiled a so-called mini-budget to deliver the prime minister's vision, announcing the biggest package of tax cuts in decades.\n\nBut the mini-budget spooked financial markets and sparked a revolt among Tory MPs, who urged the prime minister to drop parts of her economic plan to shore up the UK's finances.\n\nThe prime minister said she and Jeremy Hunt shared the same vision for the country\n\nMs Truss's statement has intensified speculation about her future, with some Tory MPs sharing their thoughts with the BBC.\"She will have to resign,\" said one senior backbencher said, adding \"she is worse than Corbyn\", referring to the former Labour leader.\n\nA former cabinet minister said \"we cannot go on like this indefinitely\", adding the \"electorate are not going to forgive us\" if Tory MPs oust another prime minister.\n\nOne of her supporters said \"that was the worst press conference I have seen in a decade and a half\".\n\nAnother MP, who voted for Ms Truss in the leadership election, said \"I had my hands over my eyes\" during the speech.\n\nOne Scottish Tory MP said the statement made former PM Theresa May's \"worst speech look like the Gettysburg Address\", referring to a famous speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln.\n\nThere has been muted reaction among Ms Truss's supporters so far.\n\nBut members of Ms Truss's cabinet have been tweeting support for her and the new chancellor, Mr Hunt.\n\nFormer chancellor Nadhim Zahawi tweeted: \"It's time to get Britain moving. We are determined to grow the economy, eliminate the Covid backlog and protect people from Putin's energy warfare.\"\n\nIn a tweet, Deputy Prime Minister Therese Coffey - a close ally of Ms Truss - said the PM was \"right to act now to ensure our country's economic stability\".\n\nCommenting on Mr Hunt's appointment, the Levelling Up Secretary Simon Clarke said the new chancellor was \"hugely capable and experienced\".", "Robbie Coltrane, who has died at the age of 72, became an international star as the giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter films.\n\nBut his reputation in the UK had already been sealed, notably as the chain-smoking forensic psychologist Fitz in Cracker - one of a number of compelling and larger-than-life characters he made his own.\n\nHe cut his teeth in stand-up comedy before branching out into films and television, comfortably fitting into both funny and dramatic roles.\n\nAnd he later rebelled against his middle-class upbringing and fought a well-publicised battle with alcohol addiction.\n\nHe was born Anthony Robert McMillan in Rutherglen on the outskirts of Glasgow on 30 March 1950.\n\nHis parents were both Calvinists. His mother was a teacher, while his father, a doctor, also worked part-time as a police surgeon.\n\nColtrane later claimed that his father was so busy, he hardly spoke to his son until he was six. He died of lung cancer when Coltrane was still a teenager.\n\nColtrane (top right) with the cast of A Kick Up The Eighties\n\nHis mother introduced him to literature and music, and he recalled lying under the piano while she played.\n\nHe was sent to Glenalmond public school in Perthshire, sometimes dubbed the Scottish Eton, where he began to kick against authority.\n\n\"I didn't accept the hierarchy, basically,\" he later told the Guardian. \"You've crossed the quad and you've got your hands in your pockets. That's not very good, is it?\n\n\"But I'm very lucky because I was a big, strong boy. It's essentially survival of the fittest and I was one of the fittest, so I have no complaints.\"\n\nThe experience later led him to call for the banning of all public schools, and fostered his love of left-wing causes, earning the nickname Red Robbie.\n\nHe was threatened with expulsion after hanging the prefect's gowns on the clock tower, but applied himself enough to gather a reasonable education, and his size gained him a place in the school's rugby XV.\n\nWhen he left school, he enrolled at Glasgow Art School, where he was teased for the posh voice he had laboriously adopted at Glenalmond, so he quickly reverted back to his native Glaswegian accent.\n\nTutti Frutti documented the tale of an a dysfunctional rock and roll band\n\nHe opted to study painting. Although he quickly realised he'd never excel, he persevered through to his graduation.\n\n\"It was a horrible feeling. The ideas were not there on the canvas at all.\"\n\nBy then, he'd decided film was where he wanted to be. In 1973, his documentary, Young Mental Health, was voted film of the year by the Scottish Education Council.\n\nHe was a jazz aficionado and adopted the stage name Coltrane in tribute to John Coltrane, the renowned saxophonist.\n\nHe began mixing with actors in Glasgow, taking part-time jobs while appearing on the Edinburgh Fringe and with a number of small theatre groups.\n\nThere were small parts in films, including appearances in Flash Gordon and Lindsay Anderson's black comedy Britannia Hospital.\n\nHe also featured in the TV series The Comic Strip Presents, which launched the careers of a host of comedy stars including Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson and Jennifer Saunders.\n\nMona Lisa saw him break through as a straight actor\n\nArguably his big break as a straight actor came when he was cast in the 1986 Neil Jordan film Mona Lisa alongside Bob Hoskins.\n\nFor the next few years, his career see-sawed between comedy and more serious roles.\n\nThere was Tutti Frutti, in which he played the lead singer of The Majestics, a chaotic Scottish rock 'n' roll band, and a hilarious performance as Samuel Johnson in Blackadder.\n\nHe also played Falstaff in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Henry V.\n\nBut, off stage, things were getting out of hand. He was struggling with alcohol addiction, and his friends worried that he had developed a self-destructive streak.\n\n\"Booze is my undoing. I can drink a gallon of beer and not feel the least bit drunk,\" he said.\n\nHis long on-off relationship with artist Robin Paine, who he had met at art school, also ended at this time after she felt unable to cope with his lifestyle.\n\nHe excelled as the hard drinking, hard gambling Fitz in Cracker\n\nThe failure of two films, Nuns on the Run and The Pope Must Die, helped persuade him to turn away from comedy.\n\nHe did that in some style with Cracker, which first aired on ITV in 1993. The writer, Jimmy McGovern, had wanted actor Robert Lindsay for the role, but he was committed to other projects.\n\nThe role of the criminal psychologist Dr Edward \"Fitz\" Fitzgerald could have been made for Coltrane. His character, like Coltrane, was addicted to alcohol, sarcastic, occasionally foul-mouthed and not a little manic.\n\nThe series was a huge hit and Coltrane's performance won him three consecutive Bafta Awards.\n\nHis personal life was also beginning to achieve some stability. He met an 18-year-old student, Rhona Gemmel, and withdrew to a remote farmhouse near Loch Lomond, where they raised two children. The couple married in 1999.\n\n\"You can't live the life of an existential hero and be a good father,\" Coltrane remarked.\n\nHe also managed to get his drinking, which had contributed to his excessive weight, under control.\n\nHe was JK Rowling's first choice to play Hagrid in the Harry Potter films\n\nIn 1995, he played Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky, the Russian Mafia boss in the James Bond film Goldeneye, reprising the role four years later in The World Is Not Enough.\n\nWhen casting began for the first Harry Potter film in 2000, JK Rowling insisted that Coltrane be given the part of Hagrid, the genial but somewhat indiscreet giant.\n\n\"Robbie is just perfect for Hagrid because Hagrid is a very loveable character, quite likeable, quite comic,\" the author said. \"But he had to have - you really do have to sense - a certain toughness underneath, and I think Robbie does that perfectly.\"\n\nColtrane was nominated for a Bafta for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and went on to play the role throughout the rest of the films.\n\nIt was while filming the third Harry Potter film that his marriage to Rhona foundered.\n\nThe break-up affected him badly and his problems with alcohol, depression and his weight re-emerged, forcing him to seek professional help.\n\nHagrid made him famous across the world and something of a role model for the film's young fans.\n\nHe had a passion for classic cars\n\n\"Kids come up to you and they go, 'Would you like to sign my book?' with those big doe-eyes. And it's a serious responsibility.\"\n\nIn 2012, he appeared in Mike Newell's film of Great Expectations as Mr Jaggers, the lawyer who looks after Pip's affairs.\n\nHe also indulged his passion for classic cars, piloting his Jaguar XK150 around the UK in the TV programme Robbie Coltrane's B Road Britain.\n\nAnother Bafta nomination came his way for one of his last major roles, playing a TV host accused of rape in Channel 4's National Treasure.\n\nAnd he became a little emotional as he got back together with his Harry Potter co-stars in the franchise's televised reunion, which aired earlier this year. It has now become his screen swansong.\n\n\"The legacy of the movies is that my children's generation will show them to their children,\" he said.\n\n\"So you could be watching it in 50 years time, easy. I'll not be here, sadly. But Hagrid will, yes.\"", "The shooting occurred near the Neuse River Greenway, a popular trail in the area\n\nA boy suspected of a mass shooting in North Carolina on Thursday began the rampage by fatally shooting a relative at home, police have said.\n\nFive people including an off-duty police officer were killed and two injured in the attack in Raleigh.\n\nThe 15-year-old suspect is in a critical condition in hospital, but it is not clear how he was injured.\n\nThe Gun Violence Archive says there have been 533 mass shootings (four or more shot) in the US this year.\n\nThursday's attack unfolded in a residential neighbourhood near the Neuse River Greenway, a popular trail on the outskirts of the state capital.\n\nThe unnamed suspect's motive is yet to be established, said police. He is white, and the victims were all of different races.\n\nAfter shooting a relative at home, the boy went out into the street and shot two women in the neighbourhood, Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson said on Friday morning.\n\nThe suspect then allegedly ran towards the local river trail, fatally shooting 29-year-old police officer Gabriel Torres, who was on his way to work.\n\nOnce on the trail the attacker killed two more people and wounded two others, said the police chief.\n\nA nearby primary school was locked down and two community centres were pre-emptively evacuated.\n\n\"My heart is heavy, because we don't have answers as to why this tragedy occurred,\" Chief Patterson said.\n\nThe shooting - which spanned over two miles - began just after 17:00 EDT (21:00 GMT) on Thursday.\n\nA police dog tracked the suspect to a shed, where he was taken into custody about four-and-a-half hours later.\n\nThe two wounded victims included another police officer, Casey Clark, 33, who has since been released from hospital, and a 59-year-old woman, who was in a critical condition.\n\nAlong with Officer Torres, the deceased victims were identified by officials as Nicole Connors, 53, Susan Karnatz, 49, Mary Marshall, 34, and James Thompson,16.\n\nMs Connors' husband told the Associated Press news agency she had been chatting to a neighbour on the porch when she was shot. Ms Marshall was walking her dog, Scruff, her sister told NBC.\n\nMs Karnatz's husband, Tom, posted a tribute to the mother-of-three on Facebook, writing: \"We had plans together for growing old. Always together.\"\n\nWake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman said on Friday the teen suspect would be charged as an adult.\n\nMore than 34,000 people have died in shootings in the US in 2022, more than half of which were from suicide, according to the Gun Violence Archive website.\n\n\"We must stop this mindless violence in America,\" said North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, after the shooting. \"We must address gun violence. We have much to do, and tonight we have much to mourn.\"\n• None The numbers behind the rise in US mass shootings", "The downfall of Kwasi Kwarteng is one of the fastest in British political history. Just three weeks ago, in the poorly named mini-budget, he ripped up years of Conservative economic strategy.\n\nThe chancellor and prime minister were determined to take radical action in pursuit of economic growth. It didn't matter if parts were unpopular, they would do it anyway.\n\nBut key elements of the strategy proved too unpopular for the markets and for Tory MPs. The \"Growth Plan\" has now been scaled back, the chancellor has been removed from his job and the prime minister's own future remains in the balance.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss were the closest of political allies. In 2012, they helped write Britannia Unchained, a right-leaning, free market prospectus for economic growth.\n\nDuring the Conservative leadership campaign this summer, they worked together on an economic plan to be implemented if she won. They both agreed tweaks were not enough - that radical change was needed.\n\nThe relationship between 10 and 11 Downing Street is often rocky, but we were told this would be different and they would be \"fully aligned\".\n\nMr Kwarteng's allies briefed that their relationship was solid; that he saw his job simply as delivering the prime minister's vision for a low tax economy. One friend of the chancellor told me: She was the First Lord of the Treasury, his job was to serve her.\n\nThose close to the chancellor also portrayed him as politically stubborn; once he had made up his mind he would stick with the plan. One said: \"He doesn't tend to change ideology\".\n\nThe message was clear: the chancellor believed in his strategy and was determined to see it through.\n\nThe Treasury was initially happy with the reaction to the mini-budget. But within days, things began to fall apart.\n\nThe markets reacted terribly, followed by many Conservative MPs. In off the record phone calls, they began to say they thought the government may have made a mistake - and to question the future of both the prime minister and the chancellor.\n\nThey were even angrier when Mr Kwarteng suggested he was planning more tax cuts - seeing it as a tone deaf response to political reality.\n\nSoon came open revolt, with senior Conservatives openly criticising the decision to scrap the 45p additional tax rate. This forced Mr Kwarteng and Ms Truss into their first U-turn. Despite the sense of chaos, the chancellor's allies insisted he was \"very calm\" and still working as one with the prime minister.\n\nIt was not enough - and the mood among Conservative MPs remained mutinous. \"Kwasi is a zealot,\" one told me. \"The damage will last a decade\".\n\nA former minister added: \"It's just incompetence.\"\n\nAnother said: \"It feels like the last days of Rome… I don't think this is going to solve the problem\".\n\nSenior Tories hoped that things would start to calm down a bit after the conference. But the opposite was true as MPs returned to Westminster this week.\n\nAfter Ms Truss faced a skewering from her own MPs in a private meeting of the 1922 committee, it was clear the 45p U-turn had done nothing to quell rebellion.\n\nA well-connected backbencher described the mood in the party as \"rock bottom\".\n\nSo even when Mr Kwarteng insisted on Thursday that he was going nowhere, things had already started to change. It had become clear more U-turns were going to be needed. His allies say he took the decision to fly back to London from an IMF meeting in the Washington himself.\n\nBut he did not do it to resign voluntarily - sources close to Mr Kwarteng said this morning he was going to have meetings with the prime minister and others. In the meeting with Ms Truss, his cabinet career was brought to a swift end.\n\nThere is little sign Mr Kwarteng thinks he or the prime minister got the ideology wrong. He said in his resignation letter that the prime minister's vision was right, and that the country still needs to move on from high taxation.\n\nInstead, he accepts the government needs to do more emphasise its commitment to balancing the books. The U-turn on corporation tax will make that a bit easier - reducing the size of the black hole that needs filled.\n\nThe prime minister will be hoping that by sacrificing her political bedfellow she saves her own job. Some have told me they are pleased with the appointment of Jeremy Hunt as chancellor.\n\nBut others criticised her performance at the press conference. Some still say she may have to ultimately carry the can for the economic strategy she dreamt up with Mr Kwarteng.\n\nI asked one senior backer of Ms Truss for his take. \"What can you think? This whole thing is a shambles now.\"\n\n\"How does she get rid of a chancellor that was doing her bidding? I just don't know.\"\n\nBut after just five weeks, the government's economic strategy lies in pieces. The bold promises of the early days are gone. It is hard to think of a political gamble which has backfired more - or a political relationship which has collapsed more quickly.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A dizzying 24 hours for UK politics... in under a minute\n\nLiz Truss is facing a backlash from Conservative MPs after firing her chancellor and announcing a second U-turn on a major economic policy.\n\nOne former minister told the BBC, \"we cannot go on like this indefinitely\".\n\nAnother Tory MP said the party was in a \"state of despair\" after the PM's Downing Street news conference.\n\nTruss supporter Christopher Chope said \"time will tell\" if she had done enough to secure her position, calling those plotting to remove her \"hyenas\".\n\nSir Christopher said: \"We can't possibly force another prime minister out of office, we've just got to calm down and try to give the prime minister our support.\"\n\nIn an attempt to end turmoil on the financial markets, Ms Truss sacked her chancellor and close ally, Kwasi Kwarteng, replacing him with former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt. She then reversed a key policy to scrap a planned rise in corporation tax from 19% to 25%.\n\nIt is the second major U-turn on September's mini-budget after Ms Truss cancelled her plan to scrap the top rate of income tax earlier this month.\n\nAt a brief news conference in Downing Street on Friday, the PM dismissed calls for her resignation, saying she was determined to see her promises through.\n\nCommenting on the corporation tax U-turn, Sir Christopher added it was \"going to be damaging to the prospects for growth\" and was \"totally inconsistent\" with what Ms Truss said during her leadership campaign.\n\nConservative MP for Coalville, Andrew Bridgen, said he thought there would \"be a challenge to Truss in the next few weeks\".\n\nMr Bridgen, who backed Rishi Sunak to be leader, said: \"Dissatisfaction is so high in the parliamentary party.\n\n\"Removing Kwasi Kwarteng when he implemented the policies she asked him to do won't engender loyalty to her.\"\n\nFormer Conservative leader William Hague meanwhile said her premiership was \"hanging by a thread\".\n\nPrivately many Conservative MPs admit they have gone through despondency and into despair over the past 24 hours.\n\nBy going back on her promise to cut taxes she has now alienated some of those who backed her in the leadership contest for her \"bold\" approach.\n\nIt is not hard to find Tory MPs who think her time is up.\n\nOne former backer told the BBC Ms Truss had \"appointed her successor,\" by bringing in Jeremy Hunt as chancellor. \"Sadly I think that hastened her demise,\" the Conservative MP said.\n\nAnother MP called Ms Truss's news conference \"a mega-disaster\". They said: \"She will have to resign - she is worse than Corbyn.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng cut short a US trip to hold talks with the prime minister in Downing Street, where he was asked to resign\n\nMs Truss insisted she would stay on as prime minister to get the economy growing.\n\n\"I'm absolutely determined to see through what I promised - to deliver a higher growth, more prosperous United Kingdom to see us through the storm we face,\" she said.\n\nThe eight-minute news conference came after a dramatic day in which the prime minister fired Mr Kwarteng after he returned early from a US summit.\n\nBut as we witnessed with Boris Johnson, if a prime minister wants to cling to power, it can be difficult to remove them.\n\nIt took the mass resignation of dozens of ministers to persuade him to resign.\n\nMembers of Ms Truss's cabinet are not in open revolt. Many allies have been tweeting support for her and Mr Hunt.\n\nFormer chancellor Nadhim Zahawi tweeted: \"It's time to get Britain moving. We are determined to grow the economy, eliminate the Covid backlog and protect people from Putin's energy warfare.\"\n\nIn a tweet, Deputy Prime Minister Therese Coffey - a close ally of Ms Truss - said the prime minister was \"right to act now to ensure our country's economic stability\".\n\nAnd Business and Energy Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg tweeted: \"As a government, we must now get on and deliver the pro-growth reforms that will lay the foundations for our future prosperity.\"\n\nAppearing on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions programme, Welsh Secretary Sir Robert Buckland also warned: \"I think if we start with gay abandon, throwing another prime minister to the wolves, we're going to be faced with more delay, more debate, more instability.\"\n\nThe prime minister said she and Jeremy Hunt shared the same vision for the country\n\nThe Liberal Democrats and the SNP have called for a general election, while shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said a new government led by Labour is \"what this country needs\".\n\nBut Ms Truss has ruled out a general election until 2024 and with the government's large majority in Parliament the opposition would find it very difficult to trigger one.\n\nOn 23 September, Mr Kwarteng unveiled a so-called mini-budget to deliver the prime minister's vision, announcing the biggest package of tax cuts in decades.\n\nBut the mini-budget spooked financial markets and sparked a revolt among Tory MPs, who urged the prime minister to drop parts of her economic plan to shore up the UK's finances.\n\nMany in the parliamentary Conservative party think they have to avoid another drawn-out leadership contest where Tory members have the final say.\n\nFirstly, it requires others to put their personal ambitions to one side for the greater good. It also requires discipline - something that has been in short supply in Conservative ranks since the turbulent days of Theresa May's premiership.\n\nThe idea cropping up most is a joint ticket with former chancellor Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt. But after 12 years in power, under four different leaders, there are many old scores to settle in the Tory Party.\n\nSeveral of Mr Johnson's supporters would do anything to stop Mr Sunak from taking over.\n\nOne told the BBC such a move would lead to a split in the party and he would stand himself to prevent a coronation. He said: \"The only unity we'd end up with is the unity of the grave. The question is do we jump in now or step back.\"\n\nIt is possible the appointment of her new chancellor has bought some time but a leader with diminishing authority will struggle to bring this fractious party together.", "The European eel is classed as critically endangered\n\nScientists have unravelled a mystery surrounding one of nature's most incredible journeys.\n\nEvery year, eels leave European rivers to travel in an epic migration to the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic to breed for a single time, then die.\n\nAlthough this final destination has long been suspected, until now there has been no direct evidence.\n\nBy fitting eels with satellite tags, researchers have tracked the creatures on the final leg of the route.\n\nAnd they say the information will help in the conservation of the critically endangered species.\n\n\"This is the first time we've been able to track eels to the Sargasso Sea and we are delighted we have the first direct evidence of adult European eels reaching their spawning area,\" said Ros Wright of the Environment Agency, who led the research.\n\n\"Their journey will reveal information about eel migration that has never been known before.\"\n\nThe European eel faces many hazards throughout its life cycle, including changes to ocean currents caused by climate change, pollution, poaching and obstacles in waterways such as dams and weirs.\n\nEel specialist at the Environment Agency, Dan Hayter, has been monitoring eels in the River Blackwater in Essex for 20 years and has seen a drastic decline over that time.\n\n\"We do catch eels here every single year,\" he explained. \"Compared with the historic numbers, they're very low now, and there's been a 95% decline since the 1980s.\"\n\nEels arrive around the European coast as tiny, fragile and transparent glass eels, having drifted across the Atlantic for two or three years from the Sargasso Sea.\n\nThey adapt to freshwater and mature in rivers - growing up to 1m long - until they are ready to swim all the way back to reproduce once and die.\n\nYoung eels being counted at the River Blackwater in Essex\n\nUntil now, it has been very difficult to study their migration across the ocean; previous studies have tracked adult eels all the way to the Azores, but from there the trail went cold.\n\nThe researchers have now tagged adult eels in the Azores, showing they can swim all the way to the Sargasso Sea.\n\n\"We knew they could get as far as the Azores, but that final leg was just undiscovered country,\" said Ros Wright.\n\n\"We thought if we could tag eels in the Azores then we might fill that gap - and we have managed this - we can confirm we have filled in that final leg of the journey to the Sargasso Sea.\"\n\nUnravelling the routes taken and locating where eels spawn is critical for understanding the reasons behind their decline and to inform conservation measures.\n\nThe life cycle of the eel has long puzzled scientists. Even the Greek philosopher Aristotle pondered the question of where eels came from, deciding that they sprang up spontaneously from the mud.\n\nAlmost 100 years ago, it was assumed that their destination was the Sargasso Sea, in the western Atlantic near the Bahamas, but until now final proof had been lacking.\n\nThe research is published in the journal, Scientific Reports.", "Mr Xi has used his speech to defend his zero-Covid policy\n\nChina's President Xi Jinping signalled there would be no immediate loosening of his controversial zero-Covid strategy as a historic Communist Party congress opened in Beijing.\n\nIn a break in decades-long tradition, delegates are likely to hand Mr Xi a third term as party chief.\n\nZero-Covid was a \"people's war to stop the spread of the virus\", he said.\n\nThe policy has saved lives, but also exacted a punishing toll on the Chinese people and economy.\n\nThere is increasing public fatigue over lockdowns and travel restrictions.\n\nBeijing has come under strict security measures ahead of the congress, sparking frustration in the city with a rare and dramatic public protest on Thursday criticising Mr Xi and zero Covid.\n\nMr Xi also addressed the issue of Taiwan - which China claims as part of its territory. Self-governing Taiwan sees itself as distinct from the mainland.\n\nSpeaking slowly and deliberately, he said Beijing would \"never promise to renounce the use of force\" and that \"complete reunification of our country must and will be realised\", prompting sustained applause from delegates.\n\nOn Hong Kong, Mr Xi said Beijing had exerted control there, turning the situation from \"chaos to governance\". Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the territory after pro-democracy demonstrations in 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Xi Jinping - Hong Kong has gone from chaos to governance\n\nMr Xi also made reference to divisions within China's political establishment, saying his rule had \"removed serious hidden dangers in the party\".\n\nSince reaching top office, he has overseen a wide-reaching corruption crackdown extending to the highest echelons of the party. But critics have portrayed it as a political purge.\n\nHe also added that China would accelerate the building of its military, referencing the terms \"safety\" or \"security\" some 73 times.\n\nThe speech, which lasted less than two hours, was significantly shorter than his speech at the last congress in 2017.\n\nHis remarks have likely had their choice of words workshopped for months and analysts will be poring over it for any signs of policy shifts.\n\nThursday's protest called for an end to zero-Covid and the overthrow of Mr Xi\n\nA third term as leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will pave the way for him to become the most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.\n\nAbout 2,300 delegates are meeting to elect party leaders and debate key policies.\n\nOver the course of the congress, delegates are also expected to elect various leaders including the Politburo Standing Committee - China's equivalent of a presidential cabinet - who will present themselves to waiting media after the congress.\n\nIn the past, the twice-a-decade congress was seen as a chance for leaders to promote their supporters, as they vied to increase the power of their factions within the party.\n\nBut observers say these days there appears to be only one faction at the 20th Party Congress - that of Mr Xi.\n\nIn a clear sign of this consolidation of power, top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders released a communiqué days earlier endorsing him as \"the core\" of the party and leadership. They also called for the party to unite even more closely behind him.\n\nMr Xi currently holds the three most powerful positions in China - general secretary of the CCP, chairman of the country's armed forces and president. He is expected to renew his term for the first two titles at the congress.\n\nThe CCP does not set any term limits. But no leader besides Mao, the founder of communist China, has ever served a third term.\n\nThe presidency also used to have a two-term limit in the country's constitution, put in place by reformer Deng Xiaoping to prevent the rise of a Mao-like figure.\n\nBut Mr Xi has managed to eliminate this requirement: in 2018 China's rubber-stamp parliament abolished the rule, effectively allowing him to remain president for as long as he likes.\n\nSince taking power in 2012, Mr Xi has led China on a path that has been equal parts ambitious and authoritarian.\n\nHe has pushed for \"a great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation\", which saw him pursuing economic reform, reducing pollution and alleviating poverty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is Xi Jinping's poverty-busting \"potato miracle\" all that it seems\n\nHe has also launched crackdowns on the Uyghurs in Xinjiang and pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.\n\nBut Mr Xi continues to face a multitude of challenges, such as youth unemployment, a slowing economy and the ongoing property crisis - and of course zero-Covid.\n\nMany will also be watching the congress to see if there will be any alteration to Beijing's foreign policy, especially towards the world's other superpower, the US.\n\nMr Xi's attempts to expand China's influence abroad through the One Belt One Road programme and claims in the South China Sea, as well as its support of Russia in the Ukraine war and its recent military exercises around Taiwan have raised tensions with the US and other countries.\n\nWith Mr Xi remaining at the helm all these will continue to be core interests - though some experts believe he may temper China's approach in some aspects to pursue better trade relations with the US and regional partners.\n\n\"The CCP's political legitimacy lies in socioeconomic delivery,\" said Dr Collin Koh of Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies.\n\n\"The average Chinese citizen will feel that things are not going very well, so there's a need to reinvigorate the kind of growth China has been more used to in recent decades.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nForty-one people have died following an explosion in a coal mine in northern Turkey, the country's president says.\n\nThe discovery of the final missing body brings the rescue operation to an end, more than 20 hours after Friday's deadly blast.\n\nEarlier the interior minister said 58 people working in the mine when the blast went off were rescued or got out by themselves.\n\nSuleyman Soylu said 10 people remained in hospital and one was discharged.\n\nAround 110 people were in the mine at the time of Friday's blast, almost half of them at more than 300m (984ft) deep.\n\nEmergency crews had worked through the night, digging through rock to try to reach survivors.\n\nVideo footage showed miners emerging blackened and bleary-eyed accompanied by rescuers at the facility in Amasra, on the Black Sea coast.\n\nFamily and friends of the missing could also be seen at the mine, anxiously awaiting news of their loved ones.\n\nPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been visiting the site in Bartin province, along with other ministers, and confirmed the final missing person had been found dead.\n\nAuthorities said Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into the cause of the explosion but initial indications were that the blast was caused by firedamp, a term referring to methane forming an explosive mixture in coal mines.\n\nIt is believed to have occurred at around 300m deep. At the time, some 49 people had been working in the \"risky\" zone between 300 and 350m underground, Mr Soylu said.\n\nEnergy Minister Fatih Donmez said there were partial collapses inside the mine, but no ongoing fires, and ventilation was working properly.\n\nAmasra's mayor Recai Cakir said many of those who survived had suffered \"serious injuries\".\n\nOne worker who managed to escape on his own said: \"There was dust and smoke and we don't know exactly what happened.\"\n\nThe mine belongs to the state-owned Turkish Hard Coal Enterprises.\n\nTurkey witnessed its deadliest coal mining disaster in 2014, when 301 people died after a blast in the western town of Soma.", "The coronation of King Charles will be the same week as local elections\n\nElection officials have warned about a clash with next year's local elections on 4 May if a bank holiday is added to the coronation weekend.\n\nThe coronation of King Charles III will be on Saturday 6 May.\n\nBut there are concerns that if Friday 5 May becomes a bank holiday, that will fall on the day planned for counting votes from local elections in England.\n\nThe Association of Electoral Administrators has asked the government for clarification.\n\nPeter Stanyon, the organisation's chief executive, said a bank holiday switched to 5 May would \"directly affect the election timetable\".\n\nThis would include difficulties for election staffing, including volunteers, if the day set aside for counting votes was turned into a bank holiday.\n\n\"A lot of the staff involved in the elections will also be involved in the ceremonial events alongside the coronation,\" he said.\n\n\"It makes it more difficult,\" said Mr Stanyon, calling for early information from the government - and suggesting a bank holiday on Monday 8 May would be less problematic.\n\nCounting will take place on the eve of the coronation\n\nBut the government department responsible for bank holidays - the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - said on Friday no decision had been made: \"Plans are being considered carefully and we will update in due course.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Downing Street said about an extra bank holiday: \"All options remain on the table.\"\n\nThe date of a monarch's coronation is \"generally determined by the Cabinet and the Royal Household\", according to the House of Commons library. The coronation to be held in Westminster Abbey is a state occasion funded by the government.\n\nThe choice of 6 May places King Charles's coronation in the same week as local government elections, which will be the first big electoral test for Liz Truss's government since she became prime minister.\n\nThese are also expected to be the first elections where voters will have to show photo ID.\n\nElection administrators expect this new requirement to be another challenge for staff working on elections - but their particular concern is about an extra bank holiday on the eve of the coronation, such as moving the existing one from 1 May.\n\nThis happened for the VE commemorative weekend in May 2020, with the bank holiday being moved to the Friday to create a long weekend.\n\nThe polling booths on 4 May will see votes for a range of council elections in England, including unitary authorities, metropolitan boroughs, district councils and parish councils.\n\nLocal elections are seen as more intensive to administer than general elections, with many more seats to be decided, multi-member ballots and large numbers of candidates.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Electoral Commission said they were \"working to understand the impact of the timing of the coronation on the May elections. We await further detail on any potential changes to the bank holiday\".", "Gunmen have killed 11 people in an attack at a Russian military training ground on Saturday.\n\nDuring a firearms training session, two men opened fire on a group who had volunteered to fight in Ukraine, state-owned news agency Ria reported.\n\nThe attackers were from a former Soviet republic, the Russian defence ministry said, but did not give further details.\n\nThey were also shot dead during the incident in the Belgorod region of Russia, which borders Ukraine.\n\n\"During a firearms training session with individuals who voluntarily expressed a desire to participate in the special military operation [against Ukraine], the terrorists opened fire with small arms on the personnel of the unit,\" Ria cited a defence ministry statement as saying.\n\n\"As a result of the shooting, 11 people were fatally wounded. Another 15 people with wounds of varying severity were taken to a medical facility,\" it said.\n\nThe local governor said no residents of the Belgorod region had been killed or injured in the attack.\n\nBut later, on Sunday, they announced that three people had been injured during missile attacks on Belgorod City.\n\nVideo posted online shows two missiles slamming into the area of Belgorod Airport, followed by massive explosions. Russian interceptor missiles failed to hit the incoming projectiles.\n\nLast month Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a mobilisation of 300,000 Russians who had previously done compulsory military service.\n\nThe order sparked protests across Russia, and a surge of people attempting to leave the country.\n\nSoon after the mobilisation was announced, a military recruiter was shot at an enlistment office in Siberia.\n\nLast week, Putin announced more than 200,000 people had already been mobilised, and he saw no need for additional mobilisation.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nHarry Kane marked his 400th Tottenham appearance with the opening goal as Antonio Conte's side closed the gap on Premier League leaders Arsenal with victory over Everton. Kane broke the Toffees' resistance from the penalty spot after being tripped in the area by England team-mate Jordan Pickford, who had failed to hold on to Matt Doherty's effort. Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg added a second late on with a curling strike that took a slight deflection off Alex Iwobi on its way in. Spurs dominated the early stages but the two best chances of the first half fell to the visitors, who will be disappointed not to have put away both opportunities. Demarai Gray failed to hit the target after racing on to Conor Coady's long ball over the top of the Tottenham defence, before Amadou Onana blazed over the crossbar following Hojbjerg's poor touch. Kane sent a rasping volley straight at Pickford early in the second half but there was nothing the Toffees keeper could do about the 29-year-old's spot-kick - his 14th goal in 15 Premier League appearances against Everton - or Hojbjerg's late finish. The victory lifts Conte's team level on points with second-placed Manchester City and just a point behind north London rivals Arsenal, while Everton drop to 14th.\n• None Spurs a 'different animal' in best start since 1963\n• None Go straight to all the best Everton content Prolific Kane sets Spurs on their way The victory lifts Spurs on to 23 points from 10 league matches - their highest tally at this stage of a Premier League season - while Kane has now scored in five successive top-flight games for the first time in his career. It was a win the home side thoroughly deserved after a dominant display, although they rode their luck in the first half and could have found themselves behind at half-time. But Frank Lampard's team were no match for Spurs in the second half and it wasn't long before Spurs' pressure told, Pickford bringing down England team-mate Kane inside the six-yard box with an outstretched arm. Kane's penalty lifts him to within eight goals of Jimmy Greaves' all-time Tottenham record of 266. Hojbjerg secured the win with five minutes remaining, collecting Rodrigo Bentancur's delivery before finding the far corner via a deflection off Iwobi. The only sour note from the hosts' perspective was a second-half injury to former Everton forward Richarlison, who went down clutching his left calf and was replaced by Yves Bissouma. \"We hope it is not so serious,\" Conte said afterwards. \"He felt a problem in his calf. He will have an MRI tomorrow.\" Before the game, manager Lampard spoke of Everton's improved strength of character since their narrow escape from relegation last season. The Merseyside club have undoubtedly come a long way since losing 5-0 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in March but the visitors were taking no risks in the early stages here, with midfield trio Iwobi, Onana and Idrissa Gueye operating deep in front of the Toffees' back five in an effort to stifle Conte's side. But Everton soon grew into the contest and should have taken the lead when Coady released Gray, but the winger's finish lacked composure. The same applied to Onana's wild effort not long afterwards, which came after the Everton midfielder had capitalised on a lapse in concentration from Hojbjerg inside the Tottenham half. It was one-way traffic in the second-half, however, as the Toffees failed to register a shot at Hugo Lloris' goal. Their overall tally of four attempts is their lowest total in a Premier League game this season. Tottenham 2-0 Everton: Frank Lampard says side must take chances\n• None Attempt blocked. Ivan Perisic (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Ben Davies.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, Everton 0. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Rodrigo Bentancur with a cross following a fast break.\n• None Vitaliy Mykolenko (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Matt Doherty (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Kyiv came under renewed Russian missile attack last week\n\nKyiv residents have been urged to cut down on electricity use in the evenings, after a Russian missile strike disabled a power installation near the capital.\n\nOfficials said power had been restored across Ukraine earlier after Russian missiles hit energy infrastructure.\n\nBut Ukraine's state energy operator Ukrenergo has still called for the reduction between 17:00 and 23:00 (15:00 - 21:00 GMT), warning of possible power cuts.\n\nThe request was not confined to Kyiv.\n\nThe deputy head of Ukraine's presidential administration, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, said the populations of Zhytomyr, Cherkasy and Chernihiv should also save electricity.\n\n\"If this advice is ignored, we will have difficulties and it will be necessary to take out the candles,\" he warned on Telegram.\n\nUkrenergo has urged residents to save electricity in the evening by not using energy-guzzling appliances, switching off unnecessary lighting and doing their washing at night.\n\nHowever, the BBC's Paul Adams reports that Kyiv streets are already darker than usual at night, but \"life very much goes on\".\n\nThe energy warning comes as more heavy fighting is reported north of Russian-held Kherson.\n\nKirill Stremousov, a Russian-appointed leader in the southern region, said Ukrainian shelling was coming from the Dudchany area, on the west bank of the Dnieper river (called Dnipro by Ukrainians).\n\nAdvancing Ukrainian forces have repeatedly bombarded bridges over the river, aiming to cut off Russian troops in Kherson city.\n\nRussian-installed officials in the city have urged Moscow to help transfer Kherson families to Russian cities as Ukrainian shelling intensifies.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has declared Kherson and three other Ukrainian regions to be part of Russia - a move condemned internationally, after hastily-organised so-called referendums in the regions.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukrainian prosecutors have accused Russian soldiers of shooting and killing the chief conductor of the Kherson Music and Drama Theatre, Yuri Kerpatenko, in his home. It is widely reported on Ukrainian media, but there are few details. He is said to have refused to co-operate with the occupation authorities.\n\nFor two days running the governor of Belgorod, a Russian city 40km (25 miles) north of Ukraine, has reported Ukrainian cross-border shelling. One shell caused a major fire at an oil depot near the city on Saturday, Vyacheslav Gladkov said, adding later that firefighters had extinguished it.\n\nUkrainian shelling set fire to an electricity substation in Belgorod on Friday, he reported on Telegram. In that case too the fire was contained. Kyiv has not commented on the Russian claims, but there have been explosions in the Belgorod region previously, which Russia blamed on Ukrainian shelling.\n\nOn Friday President Putin said he saw no need for further massive missile strikes against Ukraine \"for now\", on the scale of last Monday's, which hit Kyiv and other cities, killing at least 20 civilians. Mr Putin said those strikes were retaliation for the attack that damaged Russia's huge Kerch bridge - a key strategic link to annexed Crimea.\n\nAnother focus of fighting in the south is Zaporizhzhia - Ukrainian officials in the city say it was hit by more Russian missiles and Iranian-made Shahed \"kamikaze\" drones overnight. There was damage to energy facilities and industrial infrastructure there.\n\nThe Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant - Europe's largest - lies just south of the city, under Russian control, and repeated shelling in the area has raised fears of a nuclear disaster.\n\nThe US has announced $725m (£649m) of further military aid for Ukraine, including ammunition for Himars rocket systems, artillery rounds, anti-tank weapons and Humvee armoured vehicles. The US has provided more than $17bn of military aid since Russia's 24 February invasion - by far the largest contribution among Ukraine's Western allies.\n\nOn Ukraine's northern border, Belarus says a new Russian military contingent has arrived - part of what it describes as a regional border protection force. Belarus has hosted Russian forces involved in the war in Ukraine, including those who launched an abortive assault on Kyiv. But so far it has not sent its own troops across the border.", "Jeremy Hunt, who has previously served as health secretary and foreign secretary, has been named as the UK's new chancellor.\n\nHe takes over at a critical time for the UK economy after weeks of financial turmoil and uncertainty over the recently proposed mini-budget.\n\nHis predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked by the prime minister.\n\nMr Hunt is a big name in the Conservative party - and has twice unsuccessfully tried to become the party leader.\n\nIn the leadership race this year, he put his weight behind former chancellor Rishi Sunak over Liz Truss. This was after getting eliminated from the contest himself early on, having failed to get enough votes to go any further.\n\nHe had stood for the top job before - and in 2019 he nearly made it, finishing second in the leadership race with Boris Johnson named as the winner.\n\nEducation: Oxford University, obtaining a First in philosophy, politics and economics\n\nMr Hunt, the fourth chancellor this year, was brought up in the Surrey town of Godalming and attended Charterhouse School, where he became head boy and was known for his love of cross-country running.\n\nAt Oxford University he put his name out into the political sphere when he served as president of the Conservative Association.\n\nBut prior to his career in parliament, Mr Hunt had a career as an English teacher in Japan and as an entrepreneur - co-founding the Hotcourses education publisher. When the business was sold in 2017, he netted a reported £14m, making him one of the UK's richest politicians. Mr Hunt said he would use the money to fund campaigns after he leaves politics.\n\nMr Hunt was first elected to parliament at the 2005 general election, taking over from Virginia Bottomley as the MP for South West Surrey.\n\nFrom 2005 to 2007 he was the shadow minister for disabled people as a reward for supporting David Cameron - who attended Oxford University at the same time as him - in the Conservative leadership contest.\n\nThen when the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government was formed in 2010, Mr Hunt joined the cabinet as secretary of state for culture, Olympics, media and sport.\n\nIt was an important role in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics, during which he worked closely with Mr Johnson, who was Mayor of London at the time.\n\nEarlier in 2012, he faced calls to resign over his role in the BSkyB takeover bid. The then Labour leader Ed Miliband said Mr Hunt should quit over his contacts with Rupert Murdoch's media empire while he was considering the bid, which was later withdrawn.\n\nBut he survived the row and in September 2012, was appointed heath secretary.\n\nHe held office during a slow period of investment in the NHS which created big problems, amid times when demands on the health service were growing.\n\nJunior doctors took to picket lines in 2016 over pay and consitions\n\nHe also faced criticism over his handling of plans to introduce new contracts for junior doctors.\n\nThe medics took part in a series of walk outs in 2016 - on two occasions, between 08:00 and 17:00, leaving emergency care uncovered - the first time that had ever happened in the history of the NHS. A new contract for junior doctors was later imposed.\n\nBut Mr Hunt did go on to secure a funding increase for the NHS and also oversaw the introduction of an Ofsted-style system for rating hospitals and GP surgeries in England.\n\nDuring the 2016 EU referendum, Mr Hunt was a remain campaigner, but afterwards said he would support leave.\n\nHis long-running appointment as health secretary ended when he became foreign secretary in July 2018. This was after his predecessor Mr Johnson quit over Theresa May's Brexit strategy.\n\nDuring his time as foreign secretary between 2018-19 Mr Hunt tried to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who had been held in Iran on spying charges, which she always denied.\n\nAfter her release, he accused the UK of \"diplomatic failure\" and said global co-operation was needed to \"stamp out\" states taking people hostage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn March 2019, he became the first Western foreign minister to visit Yemen since conflict there began.\n\nAfter losing to Mr Johnson in the 2019 leadership race, Mr Hunt said the campaign was \"always going to be uphill\" for him because he voted Remain in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nHe was elected to head a committee of MPs which scrutinises the performance of the NHS and government health policy in January 2020, saying he was \"honoured\".\n\nIn June this year, he revealed he had had cancer but had now recovered. He said at the time that \"every member of his family\" has had the disease and that he had \"a minor one\" himself.\n\nRecently Mr Hunt made headlines appearing at an infected-blood inquiry where he called the scandal a \"huge failing of democracy\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's time for Liz Truss to go' - Sturgeon\n\nThe first minister said the Tory leader was \"completely out of her depth\" after she sacked her chancellor and made a major U-turn on corporation tax.\n\nThere have been calls for Ms Truss to resign and a general election to be held amid the turmoil at Westminster.\n\nThe prime minister has insisted she is \"absolutely determined\" to deliver on her leadership promises.\n\nScottish Tory leader Douglas Ross says he still has confidence in Ms Truss and that she should remain in Number 10.\n\nAfter firing close ally Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor, Ms Truss held a Downing Street press conference on Friday to announce new economic measures the government hopes will calm the financial markets.\n\nMs Truss reversed a key policy to scrap the planned rise in corporation tax from 19% to 25%, saying this would raise £18bn a year for a \"down payment\" on her fiscal plans.\n\nLiz Truss announced changes to her fiscal policy at a Downing Street press conference\n\nMs Sturgeon said the UK government's heavily criticised mini-budget had already \"heaped misery\" on the public.\n\nThe first minister said: \"She had already shown herself to be completely out of her depth as prime minister. As of today she is also a lame duck prime minister.\n\n\"The sooner she goes and the sooner people get the chance to get rid of this Tory government, that is doing so much damage, once and for all the better.\"\n\nThe first minister urged Tory MPs to take matters into their own hands if their leader does not resign, adding: \"This is beyond a joke.\n\n\"It was never funny, but Liz Truss has already, through her own decisions, trashed the economy and heaped misery on people who were already struggling with a cost of living crisis.\"\n\nDuring the press conference, which lasted less than 10 minutes, Ms Truss was asked by journalists if she should resign.\n\nIn reply, she said she was \"absolutely determined to see through what I have promised\".\n\nMs Truss has appointed Jeremy Hunt as her new chancellor.\n\nSpeaking after the press conference, Scottish Tory leader Mr Ross said he still had confidence in the prime minister and did not believe she should quit.\n\n\"I think it's important that we get behind the prime minister and we focus on the challenges that are affecting people up and down in the country,\" he said.\n\nHe said Ms Truss had \"listened\" and implemented a plan to stabilise the financial markets.\n\nDouglas Ross says the prime minister has listened to critics\n\nMr Ross also defended his decision to call for the Scottish government to replicate Ms Truss's widely criticised tax plan – which was presented without an assessment from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).\n\n\"The plans were for these tax changes to grow the economy and I want to see growth in our economy here in Scotland and across the United Kingdom,\" he said.\n\n\"I expected, and I think many others expected, that the groundwork had been prepared with the markets, with the OBR, and clearly that work had not been done.\"\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford told the BBC he believes Ms Truss will \"ultimately be removed from office\" by her own MPs.\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar also argued there should now be a general election and that the prime minister has \"lost all authority\".\n\n\"She's clearly now a lame duck prime minister,\" he said.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng been removed as the UK's chancellor\n\n\"It's clear for everyone to see that her plan has trashed our economy, trashed our pound, put people's mortgages up and that is frankly unforgivable.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex-Cole Hamilton said: \"Enough is enough.\n\n\"It started with Boris Johnson failing our country, and now Liz Truss is trashing our economy. It's time for us to have our say in a general election.\"\n\nScottish Green co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"This has already gone on too long, and far too many people are suffering.\n\n\"If Liz Truss wants to emerge with any shred of credibility then it can't just be her chancellor that leaves Downing Street, it must also be her.\"", "The murder of the Maltese journalist triggered international anger.\n\nTwo brothers have been jailed for 40 years for killing a Maltese journalist, whose 2017 death sparked global anger.\n\nGeorge and Alfred Degiorgio admitted to murdering Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, just hours after pleading not guilty.\n\nShe was killed by a car bomb in October 2017. Many suspect the killing was ordered by top establishment figures.\n\nKnown as the \"one-woman WikiLeaks\", she uncovered networks of corruption in Malta and abroad, and was know as a harsh critic of the government.\n\nThe year Caruana Galizia died, she effectively triggered an early election by publishing allegations linking Joseph Muscat, the then-prime minister, to the Panama Papers scandal, which exposed the use of tax havens by the rich.\n\nLast year, two men were charged with supplying the car bomb in the attack, while another man, Vincent Muscat, was jailed for15 years when he admitted involvement in the murder.\n\nThe man who is accused of ordering the killing, Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech, is yet to stand trial - he denies any involvement.\n\nOne of Caruana Galizia's three sons, Paul, who publicly campaigned for justice on her behalf, said the sentencing was \"a break in the clouds\". The family were in court on Friday to hear the sentence handed down.\n\nIt was also welcomed by Maltese Prime Minister, Robert Abela, who said the judgement was \"another important step towards justice for the Caruana Galizia family\".\n\nA public inquiry into the assassination of the investigative journalist found the state responsible for her death. The report said the state had failed to recognise risks to the reporter's life and take reasonable steps to avoid them.\n\nAn investigation also led to the resignation of Mr Muscat in 2019 after his close associates were implicated. He has denied corruption allegations.", "Liz Truss arriving for her news briefing in which she said she was 'incredibly sorry' to lose her chancellor\n\nThere should be a general election if Liz Truss cannot \"regain confidence\" in her leadership, the Welsh Conservative leader has said.\n\nAndrew RT Davies made the comments just before it was reported Kwasi Kwarteng had been sacked as chancellor.\n\nThe prime minister announced she was reversing her policy to scrap the planned rise in corporation tax from 19% to 25%.\n\nMr Davies said it was important for Ms Truss to \"turn this situation around\".\n\nIn an interview with Times Radio, he said: \"It's important now that we reflect on where we're at, the prime minister seeks to regain that confidence, and if she can't regain that confidence, it would be right that people have their chance to have their say on this matter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andrew RT Davies This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe was asked to confirm that he was saying that Ms Truss failing to turn things around would mean there would have to be a general election.\n\n\"I think it would be very difficult to command public confidence in the situation where you change the leader again, in an internal party discussion,\" Mr Davies said.\n\n\"I think what's really important is that Liz Truss turns this situation around.\n\n\"She has a mandate from the leadership election, we have a manifesto from 2019, we have a solid platform to build on, albeit the last five weeks have been very difficult indeed, with some self-inflicted mistakes.\n\n\"Now we need to turn that situation back round and get on with the job to the people have purchasing power to deliver for them.\"\n\nMs Truss held a brief news conference where she said it was clear that parts of the mini-budget went \"further and faster\" than markets were expecting \"so the way we are delivering our mission right now has to change\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to act now to reassure the markets of our fiscal discipline\".\n\nThe prime minister has faced calls to drop parts or all of her economic plan for days, to calm market turbulence and reassure her party.\n\nThe hustings event in Cardiff in August marked the first time Liz Truss had visited Wales since the leadership contest began\n\nFormer Welsh Secretary and current Clwyd West Conservative MP David Jones said: \"Clearly this is a difficult time for the prime minister but all the members of the parliamentary party should now help restore stability by giving her their support.\n\n\"I am sure she realises the magnitude of the task but I believe she has it in her come out of these difficulties.\"\n\nLord Nick Bourne of Aberystwyth said the Conservatives had to \"focus on what happens next rather than should we be in this mess, because of course we shouldn't\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Drive, he agreed with commentator Tim Montgomerie that the Conservatives \"probably don't deserve to be in power at this moment\".\n\nLord Bourne said on a personal level he felt very sorry for the Prime Minister but does not know what is in her mind or how long she has got\n\n\"It's painful when you look at the state of the markets, when you look at the position we're on with inflation, when you look at the position we're on with the cost of living crisis, we need a government which is going to get us out of this mess.\n\n\"We've got a Prime Minister who sadly is in massive difficulties, she's shredded the policies she was elected on, she's shredded the chancellor, and it's hard to see how she survives this, but the most important this is what happens to the country.\n\n\"It's not really what happens to the Prime Minister, it's how do we get the country through this very, very difficult position, and I think we need a change of leader to do that,\" he said.\n\nLord Bourne added he did not think a general election was the right way forward, but said it could not be long before Ms Truss would have to go.\n\nHe said there was a need for a change of policy, and someone who believed in it, and Rishi Sunak was that person.\n\n\"The question now is, when will the prime minister leave, not will she leave\".\n\nThat's what one Welsh Conservative told me this week. Another said it didn't matter what \"happens next, we've definitely lost the next election.\"\n\nOther Welsh Tories are more supportive, accusing their colleagues of making political hay.\n\nIf you cast your mind back as far as 40 days ago, you'll remember Welsh Conservative MPs and Senedd Members were pretty equally split between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak by the end of the Conservative leadership contest.\n\nUniting a party around an economic plan criticised by your main opponent as a \"moral failure\" was always going to be tough but most were willing to give it a go.\n\nFew would have predicted how quickly it would unravel.\n\nThe First Minister, Mark Drakeford said: \"The Prime Minister is the architect of her own misfortunes. It is her decisions that have led to weeks of confusion and chaos.\n\n\"We must now see a period of stability and certainty so that we can support people and businesses through the massive challenges we face.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts called for Ms Truss to quit, accusing her of seeking \"to save her zombie premiership by making a scapegoat of Kwasi Kwarteng\".\n\n\"She was the driver of this car crash, she must therefore take responsibility,\" Ms Roberts said.\n\n\"Liz Truss must recognise that the economic shock which has caused so much anxiety for people is her own fault. She must resign today.\"\n\nLeader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats Jane Dodds said Ms Truss should call a general election.\n\n\"This economic crisis we have been facing wasn't started by Kwasi Kwarteng alone, it was a direct consequence of Liz Truss' economic fantasies,\" she said.", "Royal Mail has announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs by next August, blaming ongoing strike action and rising losses at the business.\n\nThe postal company said it will begin notifying workers of its plan, which includes up to 6,000 redundancies.\n\nApart from the redundancies, the firm will cut roles through natural attrition, for example by not replacing workers who leave.\n\nRoyal Mail also said it expects its full-year losses to hit £350m.\n\nIt said this included \"the direct impact of eight days of industrial action\" as well as lower volumes of parcels being posted.\n\nBut the firm warned that losses could reach as much as £450m \"if customers move volume away for longer periods\" following strike action.\n\nRoyal Mail's chief executive Simon Thompson said: \"This is a very sad day. I regret that we are announcing these job losses. We will do all we can to avoid compulsory redundancies and support everyone affected.\"\n\nRoyal Mail workers, who are members of the Communication Workers Union, began a fresh round of strikes this week over pay and conditions which will include 19 days of industrial action, including Black Friday.\n\nThe next strike date is scheduled for 20 October followed by a further walk-out on 25 October.\n\nThe CWU's general secretary, Dave Ward, said Royal Mail's announcement \"is the result of gross mismanagement and a failed business agenda of ending daily deliveries, a wholesale levelling-down of the terms, pay and conditions of postal workers, and turning Royal Mail into a gig economy style parcel courier\".\n\nBut Mr Thompson said on Friday: \"Each strike day weakens our financial situation.\n\n\"The CWU's decision to choose damaging strike action over resolution regrettably increases the risk of further headcount reductions.\"\n\nRoyal Mail said that if workers go ahead with further walk-outs \"the loss for the full year would increase materially and may necessitate further operational restructuring and headcount reduction\".\n\nDuring the first half of its financial year, Royal Mail said strike action cost the business £70m, leading to an operating loss of £219m compared to a £235m profit last year.\n\nBut Mr Ward responded: \"This announcement is holding postal workers to ransom for taking legal industrial action against a business approach that is not in the interests of workers, customers or the future of Royal Mail. This is no way to build a company.\"\n\nJulie Macken, co-founder of family-run natural skincare firm Neve's Bees, is fearful of more strikes in the run-up to Christmas\n\nJulie Macken, co-founder of natural skincare firm Neve's Bees, told the BBC the prospects of more strike action \"makes me really scared actually\".\n\n\"It could have a huge impact on our business especially at this time of year. Much of what we sell is gifts and obviously Christmas is a key gifting period for everybody.\"\n\nMs Macken, who is also a beekeeper and runs the firm with her family, said the business has already outsourced some of its larger parcel deliveries to a courier business \"because Royal Mail was just becoming unreliable and we can't risk losing those packages\".\n\nShe added: \"The system used to work really well - it was reliable, it was good value for money, the people were all really nice. But now I don't feel like I can trust them to give our products to our customers on time anymore.\"\n\nRoyal Mail also revealed that it will have to enter talks with the union because, it said its legacy voluntary redundancy scheme, which offers up to two years' of pay, \"is now unaffordable\".\n\nInternational Distributions Services, which is the parent company of Royal Mail, saw its share price tumble by 6.75% to 195p on Friday following the announcement.\n\nThe company currently employs 140,000 people. It plans to cut between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs through redundancies. Headcount will be scaled back by a further 4,000 through not replacing people when they leave, cutting temporary staff and reducing overtime.\n\nCWU members are striking over a pay deal Royal Mail offered earlier this year. This is made up of a 2% wage rise. as well as an additional 3.5% increase dependent on workers agreeing to certain conditions such as mandatory working on Sunday to deliver parcels.\n\nRoyal Mail workers have staged a number of one-day strikes this year\n\nAt the moment, Sunday working is voluntary. Royal Mail also wants employees to start later and finish later to accommodate online shopping habits, where people tend to order goods in the evening or late at night and want next-day delivery.\n\nThe CWU has rejected the offer, saying it failed to match rising inflation, which is currently running at a 40-year high of nearly 10%.\n\nRoyal Mail has been attempting to make the company a \"parcels-led\" business as the number of letters being sent through the post declines and more people shop online.\n\nMr Thompson told the BBC that nearly 20 years ago, Royal Mail delivered 20 billion letters a year. Today, it is eight billion.\n\n\"We are now a parcels business that also delivers letters,\" he said.\n\nAsked whether the current situation was his fault because he had failed to persuade workers of the firm's new direction, Mr Thompson said: \"Any change, particularly when you have been doing your working practices for tens of years, is very, very difficult and I think that we all recognise that.\"\n\nBut he added: \"We don't want to be a gig economy like our competitors and the irony of our current situation is our customers, our retailers are having to give our work to people that operate a gig economy model. That is not what we want.\"", "Elon Musk says his rocket firm SpaceX will continue funding its Starlink internet service in Ukraine, a day after he said it could no longer do so.\n\n\"The hell with it... Even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we'll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free,\" he tweeted.\n\nStarlink has been vital for Ukraine's military and people to stay online.\n\nUkraine says it helped to reboot key infrastructure after Russian attacks.\n\nEnergy installations were among facilities targeted by more than 100 Russian missiles this week. Starlink consists of thousands of satellites in low-Earth orbit and ground terminals.\n\nLast month Mr Musk, the Tesla boss and world's richest man, asked the Pentagon to fund the Starlink programme instead of him, according to US media.\n\nAnd on Friday he tweeted: \"SpaceX is not asking to recoup past expenses, but also cannot fund the existing system indefinitely\". That move drew strong criticism.\n\nMr Musk earlier provoked Kyiv's ire by suggesting Ukraine could cede territory to Russia.\n\nA Starlink terminal seen providing Kharkiv, Ukraine, with internet last month\n\nThe Starlink programme costs $20m (£18m) per month to maintain, according to Mr Musk. He recently said SpaceX had spent $80m so far to keep Ukraine online.\n\n\"In addition to terminals, we have to create, launch, maintain & replenish satellites & ground stations,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"We've also had to defend against cyberattacks & jamming, which are getting harder.\"\n\nUkraine's vice-Prime Minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, downplayed tensions with Mr Musk, writing on Twitter that the billionaire \"is among the world's top private donors supporting Ukraine\".\n\n\"Starlink is an essential element of our critical infrastructure,\" he wrote.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Musk tweeted out a proposal that Ukraine accept Russia's annexation of Crimea and allow referendums in Ukrainian regions invaded by Moscow.\n\nThe Kremlin responded positively to the overture.\n\nBut Ukraine's outgoing ambassador to Germany, Andrij Melnyk, posted a tweet telling Mr Musk to go away, using a swear word.\n\nResponding on Friday to a post referring to the ambassador's remark, Mr Musk said: \"We're just following his recommendation.\"\n\nMoscow recently declared four more Ukrainian regions to be part of Russia, following so-called referendums denounced as fraudulent by Kyiv and its Western allies. Russia does not fully control any of the four regions.\n\nMr Musk has also suggested the world should \"formally\" recognise Crimea - illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014 - as part of Russia.\n\nThis week, Mr Musk denied that he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin before releasing his Twitter poll.\n\n\"I have spoken to Putin only once and that was about 18 months ago. The subject matter was space,\" he tweeted.\n\nThat statement came after a think tank researcher claimed Mr Musk had personally told him about the alleged conversation.", "Sir David Amess campaigned against fox hunting and for leaving the European Union\n\nThe successor to murdered MP Sir David Amess says Southend should seek City of Culture status in his honour.\n\nSir David was stabbed to death while meeting constituents at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on October 15 2021.\n\nAli Harbi Ali was given a whole-life jail sentence in April for murdering the Southend West MP.\n\nSir David's successor Anna Firth said she wanted to help make \"Southend the city that he would have been proud of\".\n\nSir David, a father-of-five, had long campaigned for Southend to become a city and this became a reality after his death.\n\nThe 69-year-old was posthumously made the city of Southend's first freeman at a ceremony attended by the then Prince of Wales in March.\n\nAnna Firth was elected MP for Southend West in February\n\nMrs Firth, who was elected as MP for Southend West in February, said Southend becoming a city had \"given everyone a huge boost\".\n\n\"Civic pride is important and it's given everybody a focus because what we all want to do now is to make the city of Southend the city that he would have been proud of,\" said the 56-year-old.\n\n\"We're all coming together and working out ways in which we can take Southend forward.\n\n\"Just one of the suggestions which I've come up with is that we go for UK City of Culture in 2029 because culture was really important to Sir David and he led the charge for Southend to be UK City of Culture in 2017, and we didn't get it.\n\n\"So, what better legacy than for us to fulfil his dream and make us not only a city but a City of Culture.\"\n\nJohn Lamb said Sir David would be looking forward to what the future had in store for his beloved Southend\n\nJohn Lamb, chairman of the Southend West Conservative Association, said Sir David would be \"over the moon\" that Southend had become a city and it had \"brought a lot of pride\".\n\n\"You don't see everything that's actually come about through city status but in fact it is building,\" said Mr Lamb, 74.\n\n\"We've seen multinational businesses who want to move into the [city], bring the investment.\"\n\nHe said that Southend \"is changing and for the good reasons\".\n\nMr Lamb said that, after achieving city status for Southend, Sir David would have been looking forward.\n\n\"Now he'd be working on 'what's the next thing that Southend needs? Let's get that going',\" he said.\n\n\"He would be determined to move that forward for us.\"\n\nSir David Amess, pictured with his pugs Lily and Boat, repeatedly campaigned on animal rights issues\n\nSir David, from east London, was a Conservative MP for 38 years, first as an MP for Basildon from 1983, and for Southend West from 1997.\n\nConstituency assistant Julie Cushion was at the church when he was fatally stabbed and gave evidence at the trial of his killer at the Old Bailey.\n\nThe court heard that 60-year-old Ms Cushion, who now works for Sir David's successor, made the first 999 call from the scene.\n\nJulie Cushion was at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea when Sir David Amess was murdered\n\nShe said working with Sir David was \"never ever boring\", recalling how he \"wanted to make Southend the alternative city of culture when he was really peed off we didn't get City of Culture\".\n\n\"He used to do the most craziest of things,\" she said.\n\n\"He was that larger-than-life personality. He was very good at working a room.\n\n\"He would make sure he spoke to everybody.\n\n\"But I have to say his timekeeping was absolutely appalling.\"\n\nA gathering is to be held at Chalkwell Park on the anniversary of his death, with a tree planted in his memory.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Chancellor admits mistakes made and some taxes will rise\n\nDifficult decisions will be needed \"across the board\" on tax and spending, the new chancellor has told the BBC.\n\nSpeaking in his first interviews since replacing Kwasi Kwarteng, Jeremy Hunt said some taxes will go up, while government spending may need to fall.\n\nCutting the top rate of tax and not independently costing measures were mistakes being \"put right\", he added.\n\nHe also insisted he had a \"clean slate\" after Liz Truss sacked Mr Kwarteng on Friday.\n\nMr Hunt, a former foreign secretary who had not been part of Ms Truss's cabinet, was made chancellor on Friday as the prime minister sought to restore confidence in her government.\n\nIn another dramatic day in Westminster, the PM also scrapped the plan to freeze corporation tax - set out in the 23 September mini-budget - in another major U-turn.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Hunt signalled a big shift away from the economic policies of Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng.\n\n\"Taxes are not going to come down by as much as people hoped, and some taxes will have to go up,\" he said. \"I'm going to be asking all government departments to find additional efficiency savings.\"\n\nWhile he did not say where taxes could rise or public spending be reduced, Mr Hunt did not rule out cuts to NHS spending or rowing back on Ms Truss's pledge to increase defence spending to 3% of GDP.\n\nThe chancellor, a Rishi Sunak supporter in the leadership contest, said the government needed to \"show the world we have a plan that adds up financially\".\n\nMs Truss, prime minister for just 39 days, is already facing pressure from within her party following September's mini-budget, which included £45bn worth of tax cuts and sparked turbulence in the financial markets.\n\nMr Hunt said Ms Truss's administration had made \"mistakes\", adding: \"It was wrong to cut the top rate of tax for the very highest earners at a time where we're going to have to be asking for sacrifices from everyone to get through a very difficult period.\"\n\nAnd he also said it was wrong to \"fly blind\" and announce the mini-budget without a forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).\n\nHe said both of these were now in the process of \"being put right\".\n\nThe chancellor made a series of other points about the government's mini-budget and discussed possible plans for his new role in his interviews with the BBC:\n\nMeanwhile, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said there had been a \"meeting of minds\" when he held discussions with Mr Hunt on Friday.\n\nMr Bailey made the comments after hinting at impending fresh interest rate hikes.\n\n\"Inflationary pressures\" meant a \"stronger response\" could be needed from the Bank than previously thought in August, the governor said.\n\nAnd the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned Mr Hunt had inherited a \"difficult and tricky situation\", with the public finances \"very stretched\".\n\nThe think tank's director Paul Johnson said: \"I think we're going to see even further reversal of tax cuts that we've had, and in addition probably some very tight spending rounds.\"\n\nJeremy Hunt arriving at the BBC on Saturday\n\nDespite Mr Hunt's appointment, Ms Truss and her premiership remain under significant pressure.\n\nOne Tory MP described the party as being in a \"state of despair,\" but Truss supporter Christopher Chope said \"time will tell\" if she had done enough to secure her position.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the prime minister of \"grotesque chaos\" following the sacking of Mr Kwarteng and called for a general election.\n\nDuring a speech in Barnsley a day after the upheaval in Westminster, Sir Keir said Ms Truss was \"clinging on\", arguing that there was \"no historical precedent\" for the current situation facing her government.\n\nBut Mr Hunt rejected suggestions of a general election, saying the country needs \"stability\".", "Female special forces were filmed violently detaining a woman in Tabriz on Friday\n\nA woman dragged away by female special forces. Security forces shooting from a pick-up truck. Detained protesters being bussed away. Men ducking for cover from gunfire.\n\nThese are some of the shocking incidents seen in videos shared by people inside Iran over the past day whose authenticity BBC journalists have been able to verify.\n\nThe BBC and independent media are not allowed to report from Iran, so such videos are crucial to establishing what is happening on the ground.\n\nIranian authorities have been disrupting the internet service in order to limit the flow of information and control the narrative, but Iranians are still sending BBC Persian videos of protests happening across the country via messaging apps. Videos are also being posted frequently on social media.\n\nBefore a video can be used in any reports, journalists need to establish where and when it was filmed.\n\nThey can pinpoint the location by looking for landmarks and signs in the footage and checking them against satellite images, street-level photos and previous footage. Weather reports, the position of the sun and the angles of shadows it creates can be used to confirm the timing.\n\nOn Friday, BBC Persian journalists, investigative journalists from the BBC News Reality Check and User Generated Content (UGC) teams and video journalists sat down together to verify the footage coming in.\n\nOvernight, BBC Persian posted a video on Twitter in which security personnel guarding a building appear to open fire when protesters approach.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC NEWS فارسی This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMuzzle flashes are seen coming from a rifle being pointed by one of the officers towards the crowd, as shots ring out. A man filming the video can also be heard saying that he is in the eastern city of Neyshabur.\n\nAfter looking at satellite images of Neyshabur, it is possible to confirm that the video was filmed outside the city hall. One of the frames shows the building's entrance gate (marked below in orange). A fluorescent sign can also be seen in another frame, and that can be matched to that of a branch of Bank Mellat in Iran Square (marked in red).\n\nThe BBC journalists were able to verify a number of other videos sent directly by Iranians or posted online on Thursday night and on Friday.\n\nThis video appears to show a member of the security forces shooting at fleeing people from a gun mounted on the back of a pick-up truck.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShots can be heard as the vehicle chases people down a street at night-time in Baneh, a city in the north-western province of Kurdistan.\n\nThe Kurdish-populated cities and towns in the west of the country have seen widespread protests and violent crackdowns by security forces since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old Kurdish woman was from the city of Saqqez, about 40km (25 miles) north-west of Baneh.\n\nThe city of Sanandaj has been the epicentre of the protests in Kurdistan. Several protesters have been shot dead by security forces over the past month, according to Kurdish human rights activists.\n\nThis footage from Friday shows protesters running for cover as security personnel on motorbikes drive towards them. Gunfire is heard as they duck into an alley.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe person filming then peers around a wall as the shots continue to ring out. A group of men on motorbikes, wearing black uniforms and helmets, are seen waiting at the end of the road.\n\nBBC Persian journalists were familiar with the hilly, south-eastern area of Sanandaj that is seen in the video and satellite images showed there are many alleys there. The signs of local shops are also visible in the footage.\n\nThis footage from overnight shows the moment detained protesters in Bukan, another city in Kurdistan province, are driven away in a pick-up truck by security forces.\n\nThe audio has been distorted by the BBC to protect the identity of the person filming and the protesters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The moment arrested Iranian protesters are driven away in a pick-up truck\n\nThis footage from the north-western city of Tabriz on Friday shows female special forces personnel, wearing beige uniforms and black flak jackets, violently detaining a woman.\n\nThey are seen dragging the woman across a road by her arms and legs and then lifting her towards the open doors of a black minivan. It is not clear why the woman is being detained, although her hair appears to be uncovered near the end of the video.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe video was filmed near a public library attached to the Imam Khomeini Mosalla, a huge prayer hall.\n\nBBC journalists established the location by searching on Twitter, where they found mention of the mosalla. A local businessperson then told BBC Persian that the arrest took place near the library.\n\nThe monument in the foreground of the video, the zebra crossing, the taxi rank and the distinctive gate were located in satellite images.\n\nThis video, which has caused an uproar on social media, appears to show a member of the security forces sexually assaulting a woman in Tehran's Argentina Square on Wednesday.\n\nSecurity officers in protective gear and helmets are seen surrounding a woman. One of them grabs her by the neck and leads her into a crowd of about two dozen police, many of whom are on motorbikes. While she is being forced towards one of the bikes, another officer seems to put his hand on her bottom.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe woman then crouches on the ground as more officers surround her. A female voice behind the camera is heard saying: \"They are pulling her hair.\" Drivers in vehicles nearby meanwhile start sounding their horns. The woman, who appears to have no headscarf, is then seen standing up and running away.\n\nTehran's police force has confirmed that the incident is being investigated.\n\nIn this video from the south-eastern city of Zahedan, male protesters can be seen marching along a street towards the Grand Makki Mosque, whose dome and four minarets are clearly visible in the background, after Friday prayers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey can be heard chanting anti-government slogans. One of them is \"Death to Basiji\" - a reference to the members of the feared paramilitary Basij Resistance Force, loyalist volunteers who have often deployed by the authorities to suppress protests in recent years.\n\nTwo weeks ago, Zahedan saw several days of fierce clashes between security forces and ethnic Baluchi protesters erupt after Friday prayers.\n\nHuman rights activists said at least 83 protesters and bystanders were killed. The authorities said security forces were attacked by Baluchi separatists - something the imam of the Grand Makki Mosque denied.", "Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked as chancellor and replaced by Jeremy Hunt after his mini-budget resulted in financial turbulence and a revolt from Tory MPs.\n\nHe has become Britain's second shortest-serving chancellor, lasting just 38 days in the role.\n\nThe long-time ally of Prime Minister Liz Truss, seen as her political soulmate, was appointed to the role on 6 September.\n\nSpeaking before Mr Kwarteng became chancellor, one friend told the Times that he and Ms Truss were a bit like \"Batman and Robin\", adding: \"They are both slight social misfits, amiable geeks, and have strong views which are in tune with each other.\"\n\nHe took over at Number 11 Downing Street at a critical time for the UK economy, with millions looking to him for help with soaring winter energy bills.\n\nAn Old Etonian who became the first black Conservative cabinet minister in 2021, he read classics and history at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has a PhD in economic history. He is also a past winner of notoriously tough BBC quiz show University Challenge.\n\nFamily: Married to solicitor Harriet Edwards with one daughter\n\nMr Kwarteng's parents came to the UK from Ghana as students in the 1960s. He was born in East London in 1975, the same year as Ms Truss.\n\nHis economist father and barrister mother gave him a traditional Ashanti first name, meaning \"born on Sunday\", when he was actually born on a Monday. He told the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast his parents stayed silent on the matter when he jokingly pulled them up on it.\n\nThe Church was a strong part of his mother's life and she was a lifelong Conservative voter.\n\nHe was just three years old when Margaret Thatcher came to power, and she would remain prime minister until his GCSE year. He has said in the past that his mother deeply admired Mrs Thatcher as someone \"who wanted to rely on their own efforts\" and has described himself as a \"pragmatic Thatcherite\".\n\nHe attended the exclusive private school Eton College after winning a scholarship there, and went on to graduate with a double first from Cambridge University in classics and history.\n\nOne well-known anecdote about the young Kwasi Kwarteng harks back to his admissions interview for Trinity College. The self-confident 17-year-old told the tutor, who had arrived late and hadn't conducted many of these interviews before: \"Don't worry, sir - I'm sure you'll do very well.\"\n\nHe was part of the Cambridge team which won University Challenge in 1995, although he generated headlines for uttering a swearword after he buzzed in and forgot the answer to a question.\n\nHe has since questioned how much being good at quizzes \"relates to anything in what people call 'real life'\".\n\nKwasi Kwarteng appeared in the winning team for Trinity College, Cambridge, on University Challenge in 1994-95\n\nHe attended Harvard University in the United States on a Kennedy Scholarship, before returning to the University of Cambridge to complete a PhD in economic history in 2000.\n\nDuring his second stint at the university, Tristram Hunt, the former Labour MP and now head of the V&A Museum, joked that then roommate Mr Kwarteng was \"quite ungovernable and dishevelled\".\n\nHe worked as a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and a financial analyst at banks including JP Morgan in the City of London and got involved in Conservative politics as chairman of the Bow Group think tank.\n\nHe has remarked that \"politics was always something I was drawn to\", and he made his first attempt to become an MP in 2005. He stood as the Conservative candidate for Brent East at the general election, but came third. There was also an unsuccessful run for the London Assembly in 2008.\n\nHowever, he became part of the \"class of 2010\", a cohort of politicians entering Westminster for the first time that year. He was elected as MP for Spelthorne in Surrey and entered Parliament the same time as future colleagues Ms Truss, Priti Patel and Sajid Javid.\n\nHis maiden speech in the House of Commons came with some comments he described as \"controversial\", when he used the opportunity to criticise the former Labour government led by Gordon Brown and how it tackled the 2008 financial crisis.\n\n\"They have not once accepted any blame for what happened and they seem to think that we can just sail on as before,\" he said, also setting out the view that \"wealth creation is the most important element in getting us out of this recession\".\n\nAlthough Mr Kwarteng was tipped to become the Conservatives' first black cabinet member as early as 2006, he spent eight years as a constituency MP before he became a minister.\n\nHe backed Leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum, and in 2017 became a ministerial aide to the then Chancellor Philip Hammond, before becoming a junior minister in the Department for Exiting the European Union.\n\nMr Kwarteng also co-authored the book Britannia Unchained with several Tory MPs, including Ms Truss. In the 2012 text, they claimed: \"Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world.\" He has since distanced himself from this view.\n\nMr Kwarteng has used his spare time to write several books and pamphlets on topics from Mrs Thatcher's final six months in office to the British Empire and its legacy.\n\nHe has argued that \"the debate around Black Lives Matter and imperialism or colonialism has a cartoon-like view of history\", and has said he thinks that view is true on both sides of the issue.\n\nMr Kwarteng was a supporter of Boris Johnson who put him on the ministerial fast-track as energy minister in 2019.\n\nHe worked there for more than a year before becoming business secretary 18 months later.\n\nThe ascent has been described as a \"reward\" for his backing of Mr Johnson during the race for party leadership.\n\nThe realities of the pandemic and the soaring cost of energy, however, meant that his views on state intervention in industry moderated.\n\n\"There's nothing [better] to convert someone from being a radical free marketeer to seeing the virtues of government action than making them an energy minister,\" he said at a 2019 Conservative party conference event.\n\nThat same year, he married solicitor Harriet Edwards, having previously dated former Home Secretary Amber Rudd.\n\nHis political partnership with Ms Truss, a fellow member of the 2010 intake of MPs, paid dividends when she asked her close ally to serve as chancellor.\n\nBut the mini-budget he unveiled on 23 September spooked financial markets and prompted a drop in the value of the pound.\n\nAmid warnings from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of England stepped in to buy government bonds in a bid to stabilise their value.\n\nThe chancellor said he had listened to criticism - including from within his party - and there was a U-turn on a plan to abolish the 45p rate of income tax for top earners.\n\nBut market turbulence continued, causing speculation that the government would announce a further reversal on its tax-cutting plans.\n\nThe day before his ejection from Number 11 Downing Street, Mr Kwarteng said \"our position hasn't changed\" - and that he would \"absolutely\" still be in his job a month later.", "Sir David Amess was fatally stabbed during a constituency surgery on 15 October 2021\n\nThe Prime Minister Liz Truss and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer have led tributes to Sir David Amess on the first anniversary of his murder.\n\nSir David, who was an MP for nearly 40 years, was stabbed during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on 15 October 2021.\n\nHe is survived by his wife Lady Julia Amess and their five children.\n\nThe prime minister tweeted a statement along with Sir David's parliamentary portrait on Saturday morning.\n\nSouthend-on-Sea Council also planted a tree in the city in memory of the veteran Conservative MP, who represented Southend West.\n\nUK Prime Minister Liz Truss paid tribute to former Conservative MP Sir David Amess who was fatally stabbed a year ago\n\nThe prime minister wrote: \"On the anniversary of Sir David Amess' death, we cherish his memory and remember his enormous contribution to politics, to the people of Southend and to the country.\n\n\"My thoughts today are with his wife Julia, the Amess family and to all those who knew and loved him.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir wrote on Twitter: \"Remembering our friend & colleague David Amess, on the 1st anniversary of his senseless death.\n\n\"David's commitment to public service, carried out with inherent, consistent kindness, will forever be admired.\n\n\"Thinking of his wife & children, hoping memories of him bring comfort.\"\n\nThe tree was planted by Southend-on-Sea council at Chalkwell Park in memory of the late MP\n\nCompost made from flowers left across the area in the days and weeks following the MP's death was used in the tree-planting ceremony at Chalkwell Park.\n\nSouthend mayor, Councillor Kevin Robinson, made a speech on behalf of the local community, and an ensemble from the Southend Band performed.\n\nStephen George, leader of the council, said: \"A kind family man, Sir David was devoted to his local constituency of Southend West and was the greatest champion of Southend-on-Sea and local area.\n\n\"He is greatly missed and we hope that we can remember him in an appropriate way by planting a memorial tree at one of his favourite local parks.\"\n\nFloral tributes laid at the foot of a tree planted on the anniversary of Sir David Amess' murder\n\nMr Robinson said: \"Whilst we reflect on the awful and tragic events of October 15, 2021, we must also be thankful for the life that Sir David lived and the many lives that he touched and changed both locally and beyond.\n\n\"Southend-on-Sea would not be a city without the continued commitment of Sir David to make it happen, and as the first freeman of the city of Southend-on-Sea, he will always be the most important part of our history as a city.\"\n\nA Conservative backbencher for nearly 40 years, Sir David entered Parliament in 1983 as the MP for Basildon\n\nThe 69-year-old, who had campaigned to make Southend-on-Sea a city and was posthumously made the first freeman of the new city, had served Southend West since 1997, and Basildon before that since 1983.\n\nAli Harbi Ali, 26, who claimed he targeted the MP over his vote for airstrikes on Syria, was handed a whole-life prison term in April after a trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nSir David Amess was stabbed by Ali Harbi Ali who had booked an appointment to see him at his constituency surgery at Belfairs Methodist Church\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Leah Croucher, 19, was last seen on CCTV on 15 February 2019 in Milton Keynes\n\nA sex offender who killed himself while on the run from police is suspected of murdering teenager Leah Croucher.\n\nThis week, unidentified human remains and personal items belonging to the 19-year-old were found in the loft of a house in Milton Keynes.\n\nThames Valley Police said Neil Maxwell, 49, who was found dead two months after Ms Croucher's disappearance, had a history of offences against women.\n\nIt said he was the only person to have keys to the house when she vanished.\n\nDet Ch Supt Ian Hunter said: \"If Maxwell were alive today, we would be seeking his arrest in connection with this investigation, so he could be interviewed under caution to provide his account.\"\n\nThe teenager was last seen on CCTV in the Buckinghamshire city on Friday, 15 February 2019.\n\nPolice began searching the house on Loxbeare Drive in Furzton on Monday evening, following a tip-off phone call from a member of the public.\n\nIn the loft they discovered human remains and a rucksack containing personal items belonging to Ms Croucher.\n\nA post-mortem examination is taking place on Friday and formal identification of the remains and forensic analysis of the property could \"take some time\", police said.\n\nThe property is less than half-a-mile (0.8km) from where Ms Croucher was last seen on Buzzacott Lane, Furzton, walking in the direction of Loxbeare Drive and Chaffron Way.\n\nDet Ch Supt Ian Hunter named Neil Maxwell as the suspect at a press conference\n\nAt a press conference on Friday, Det Ch Supt Hunter said: \"Sadly, the call from the member of the public that we received on Monday was the first occasion that information was made available to enable the investigation team to provide any link between that address in Loxbeare Drive and Leah.\"\n\nHe confirmed that number two Loxbeare Drive, where the remains were discovered, was visited on at least two occasions during door-to-door inquiries in the search for the teenager, but there was no response.\n\n\"Therefore, we dropped a leaflet through the letterbox, requesting a call back if the occupants of the property had any information,\" he said.\n\nSince Monday, the force said it discovered the house was owned by someone who lived overseas who rarely visited the UK and was not in the UK at the time Ms Croucher went missing. It said the house was unoccupied when officers attended.\n\nThe force said it also learned this week that during the time of the disappearance, Neil Maxwell was the only person to have keys to the property.\n\nHe had been employed by the home owner to carry out maintenance at the house. He was found dead in Milton Keynes on 20 April 2019, having taken his own life.\n\nMr Hunter said the person who contacted the force on Monday was doing some other work at the address and \"informed us of some concerns that led to the call to police and further investigations\".\n\nForensics officers continue to work at the house where human remains were found\n\nHe said the suspect - who had previous convictions for sexual offences against women - had keys to the home since November 2018 and was wanted in connection with a sexual assault in Newport Pagnell in the same month.\n\nOfficers first attempted to arrest him in connection with the offence on 30 November 2018, at an address in central Milton Keynes, but he was not there, he said.\n\nThames Valley Police shared his name with other forces on the Police National Computer in December 2018 and attempted to arrest him 18 times at addresses across the UK.\n\nThe force said it would keep \"an open mind\" as the investigation continued and would gather more evidence to establish what happened.\n\n\"This may or may not implicate or exonerate Maxwell or any other persons from the investigation,\" police said.\n\nHowever, he was the only suspect at this stage, they added.\n\nLeah Croucher's father John, mother Claire and sister Jade looked at flowers outside the house\n\nOn Thursday evening, Ms Croucher's parents and her sister Jade visited the house and left flowers with a message, saying: \"We will cherish your memories forever.\"\n\nCCTV footage showed the last confirmed sighting of Leah Croucher walking to work on the day she disappeared\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The home secretary has unveiled plans for a major crackdown on disruptive protests carried out by environmental groups such as Extinction Rebellion.\n\nSuella Braverman says the new Public Order Bill will stop demonstrators holding the public \"to ransom\".\n\nMinisters will be empowered to block protests causing \"serious disruption\" to key infrastructure and goods.\n\nActivists said they would not be intimidated by law changes aimed at \"silencing non-violent people\".\n\nEnvironmental groups including Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion have staged various protests and demonstrations in recent months, causing disruption to commuters and traffic in central London.\n\nMore than 350 Just Stop Oil protesters - demanding halts to all new oil and gas licences and consents - have been arrested in London since the start of October, according to Home Office figures.\n\nThe home secretary described one incident which saw emergency fire crews unable to get through a junction in Knightsbridge as \"indefensible\".\n\nMs Braverman has long expressed opposition to such protests, telling the Conservative Party conference earlier this month there was \"not a human right to vandalise property\".\n\nShe will use the Public Order Bill to allow secretaries of state to apply for injunctions in the \"public interest\" where protests are causing or threatening \"serious disruption or a serious adverse impact on public safety\".\n\nThe new legislation - which will be put to MPs next week - will also see jail sentences of up to six months or unlimited fines for protesters accused of \"locking-on\" to people, objects or buildings - a favoured tactic of climate demonstrators.\n\nHome Office officials said the proposed legislation would create a new criminal offence of interfering with infrastructure, such as oil refineries, airports and railways, carrying sentences of up to 12 months in prison.\n\nMeanwhile, tunnelling under infrastructure to cause damage will also now carry a maximum penalty of up to three years in prison, and police will be given new powers to take a more \"proactive\" approach to some protests.\n\n\"Preventing our emergency services from reaching those who desperately need them is indefensible, hideously selfish and in no way in the public interest,\" Ms Braverman said on Saturday.\n\n\"The police need strengthened and tougher powers to match the rise in self-defeating protest tactics and that's what the Public Order Bill will do.\"\n\nResponding, Just Stop Oil said: \"We will not be intimidated by changes to the law, we will not be stopped by injunctions sought to silence non-violent people. Our supporters understand that these are irrelevant when set against mass starvation, slaughter, the loss of our rights, freedoms and communities.\n\n\"Stand with our supporters in prison, with the 1,700 murdered across the global, for protecting our futures. We will not die silently, it will be ordinary people, like you, your friends, colleagues and neighbours who do what our government cannot.\"\n\nEarlier this year the government suffered a major defeat in the House of Lords, after peers rejected similar plans to clamp down on noisy and disruptive protests.\n\nOpposition members described the plans - tabled by then Justice Secretary Dominic Raab - as \"oppressive\" and \"plain nasty\".\n\nLabour peer Lord Hain - a former Northern Ireland secretary - called the move \"the biggest threat to the right to dissent and the right to protest in my lifetime\", adding that it would have \"throttled\" protests by the suffragettes.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland continued their successful start to the World Cup with a tight victory against a determined France. After France lost star players Laure Sansus and Romane Menager to injury, England's Emily Scarratt scored the opening try in Whangarei, New Zealand. Scarratt added a penalty either side of half-time before France caused a scare as Gaelle Hermet crossed. Tournament favourites England held on for a statement 13-7 win that will likely mean they qualify for the quarter-finals as Pool C winners. Captain Sarah Hunter became England's joint most-capped player as she made her 137th international appearance.\n• None England victorious but fans given wake-up call by France\n• None 'This could be the making of England' - reaction to Red Roses' victory England, who thrashed Fiji 84-19 in their opening game last week, extended their record winning run to 27 Tests and have not lost since July 2019. The close scoreline in this game is a reality check for England fans, showing fellow professional sides France and New Zealand will provide sterner opposition in the latter stages of the tournament. But the Red Roses proved they can withstand the pressure of a tight contest against title contenders France. The match was expected to be one of the most tightly contested and highest quality encounters of the World Cup, and it did not disappoint as England's clinical endeavour came up against a stellar France defence. The level of competition offered by France in the first half was evident in the statistics. England had 69% territory and 73% possession, but only came away with 10 points as France made an exhausting 127 tackles. England head coach Simon Middleton said he had found weaknesses to target since Thomas Darracq was brought in to lead France in May, and England looked determined to litter France's backfield with kicks. Fly-half Zoe Harrison put in a composed performance as she repeatedly tested France with her boot, often leading to dropped balls. Other than that, it was a bright start from France but the wind was taken from their sails as two of their key players were forced from the field. Scrum-half Sansus left with a leg injury then number eight Menager appeared to be knocked unconscious in a ruck. Sansus was replaced by her partner Pauline Bourdon, while regular captain Hermet came on for Menager. France continued to frustrate England's forwards with their defence inside their 22 and lock Abbie Ward was held up over the tryline. Eventually, England went to their backs and a slick move between Harrison and Scarratt sent the centre over after 24 minutes. France were penalised at the breakdown in front of the posts and Scarratt opted to take three points and give England a 10-0 lead at half-time. England looked buoyant after the break and seemed to have unlocked France's scrum. Claudia MacDonald picked up a chip from Harrison, before Scarratt spilled the ball forward in a rare mistake that left Middleton with his head in his hands. Nevertheless, England gathered momentum off the scrum again and Sarah Bern went over the tryline, but she landed without the ball as France centre Maelle Filopon stripped it from her grasp. Despite their forward dominance, England decided not to make use of the line-out drive on which they have relied so often in the past year. Instead, Marlie Packer peeled off the side of a maul and sent the ball to Amy Cokayne, who was held up as she crossed. With tries not forthcoming, Scarratt took another three points from in front of the posts and it looked as if England had sealed victory. From nowhere, France regained momentum. A stunning cross-field kick from Caroline Drouin was grabbed by Joanna Grisez, who sent Hermet over. Despite an 11th victory in a row against France, the frantic finish showed England are fallible at this World Cup. They face South Africa in their final pool game on 23 October, while France meet Fiji on 22 October. Flanker Alex Matthews' carrying was the difference in a close contest.\n• None The champion of two courts ignored by the world: Ora Washington fought to make her name in racially segregated America\n• None Go behind the scenes at the Rolls-Royce factory in Derby to find out", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA video of anti-riot forces in Iran sexually assaulting a female protester whilst trying to arrest her has provoked fury on social media.\n\nUsers voiced outrage, with many calling for \"justice\" and the resignation of the police chief. Some pro-government users also condemned the perpetrators.\n\nDespite blocks on some social media tools, Iranians are still managing to share powerful images of the protests.\n\nThe country has been rocked by the most intense unrest in decades.\n\nThe protests erupted last month when anger over the death in police custody of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian Mahsa Amini boiled over. Officials say she died from an underlying health condition, but her family say she died after being beaten by morality police.\n\nNumerous videos of the protest have gone viral both inside and outside of Iran. This latest video, which happened in Tehran's Argentina Square on Wednesday, shows a group of officers in protective gear and helmets surrounding a woman on a main road.\n\nOne of them grabs her by the neck and leads her into a crowd of about two dozen police, many of whom are on motorcycles.\n\nWhile the woman is being forced towards one of the bikes, another officer approaches her from behind and puts his left hand on her bottom.\n\nThe woman then crouches on the ground as more officers surround her. A female voice behind the camera is heard saying: \"They are pulling her hair.\"\n\nDrivers in vehicles next to where it is happening start sounding their horns, a form of protest in similar situations seen in the past few days across the country.\n\nThe woman, who appears to have no hijab, or headscarf, is then seen standing up and running away from the scene.\n\nAt this point, the same voice on the clip is heard to say: \"Look at him [the security force officer], he is laughing\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC NEWS فارسی This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe footage has been verified by the BBC's Persian service.\n\nTehran's Police Public Relations office has said the incident is being investigated, state news agency Irna reported.\n\nThe police statement does not give details of what happened, but says that \"enemies using psychological warfare tried to cause public anxiety and incite violence\".\n\nThe fact that the incident happened in public has led human rights activists to question what security forces might also be doing behind closed doors.\n\n\"Have you brought out the harassment of the girls of this land from [your] prisons into the open streets with the aim to shout out [at us] in public your obscenity, lechery and filth?\" posted a social media user by the name of Atefeh.\n\nMistreatment, including sexual and psychological abuse, has been reported by many inmates, especially political prisoners, for years.\n\nMany Iranians commented on social media that the video from Tehran had made them more determined to go out on the streets to protest, with one person saying they intended \"to put their anger and fury into action\".", "Jeremy Hunt replaced Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor following a backlash against the latter's mini-budget\n\nThe term \"bond market vigilantes\" was coined by the American investor Ed Yardeni in the 1980s to describe bond traders who would force the hand of governments and central banks to see the world their way.\n\nThe vigilantes are back in force. The markets didn't like Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss's not so mini-budget and its £45bn in unfunded tax cuts, and it now lies in tatters.\n\nThe largest single measure - a decision to reverse a planned rise in corporation tax costing the treasury £18bn - has been dumped.\n\nTaxes on business profits will rise from 19-25% in April and in so doing will consign Ms Truss's dreams of a lower-tax economy to the dustbin for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe vigilantes have killed off \"Trussonomics\", but will they be satisfied or will they want more blood?\n\nAs markets closed on Friday, the cost of government borrowing was creeping back up to the level at which the Bank of England stepped in to buy bonds from specialist pension fund managers facing collapse. But the Bank has made clear that its last direct intervention was on Friday.\n\nIt also made clear it only stepped in to preserve financial stability.\n\nIt is not there to bring government borrowing costs down - quite the opposite in fact - it is committed to raising interest rates to fight inflation. What happens on Monday when the Bank, the biggest bond buyer of the last decade, goes on strike?\n\nSimon French from investment bank Panmure Gordon told the BBC that installing Jeremy Hunt as chancellor would help and his comments to the media on Saturday morning were sensible.\n\n\"There was a touch of the [former chancellor] George Osborne about him, acknowledging that there were tough choices and trade-offs to make on tax and spending.\n\n\"He acknowledged the economy we actually have and not the one we wish we had. My sense is they have done enough for now to keep the markets happy.\"\n\nBut Mohamed El-Erian, a renowned economist and President of Queens' College, Cambridge, told the BBC he believed the government had not yet done enough to reassure the financial markets.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"They're going to be pushed to find more ways to cover what is still a significant hole in the budget.\n\n\"Of the £45bn additional unfunded tax cuts that were introduced - in addition to the energy bill - they've now covered about £21bn of that, so the market will press them to cover more of that. Hopefully by going back on some other tax cuts, but also possibly through expenditure reduction - but that would go against the growth objective.\"\n\nBut he added that most of the business \"damage\" sustained since the mini-budget was \"recoverable\", as long as the government moved \"even more forcefully\" in trying to restore financial stability - but this would also take \"time and luck\".\n\nBoth the new chancellor and his diminished boss will have their fingers crossed on Monday morning when the vigilantes show up again.", "Who is in charge? Over the last couple of days you'd be forgiven for wondering if anyone was running the country.\n\nThe dizzying ups and downs of the mighty financial markets suggest they didn't really have faith that anyone had a grip on things either.\n\nWhat happens on traders' screens affects the costs we have to grapple with - whether mortgages or rents - and how much of our taxes the government can spend on vital public services rather than paying interest on debt.\n\nUnder acute pressure from the markets Prime Minister Liz Truss had a choice - stick with her plan and say goodbye to what economic credibility her government had left - or say farewell to her proposals and try to muddle on.\n\nIn other words - change or die. She chose change. But has she killed off what political authority she had left and handed it to someone else?\n\nJeremy Hunt, her new Chancellor of the Exchequer and a guest on this week's show, has in a little over 24 hours junked her economic strategy of tax cuts and a promise not to cut public spending.\n\nHe's made a virtue out of being candid about how bad things are - dangling the implication the prime minister has not levelled with the public about what comes next.\n\nWhether it's intentional or not, the message isn't that subtle: after the craziness of the last few weeks here comes an experienced grown-up to take control.\n\nAnd it's given the impression, as one former minister put it: \"He's gone out and said he's in charge.\"\n\nAnother said Mr Hunt had \"dismantled\" the prime minister's agenda, while others suggested his arrival leaves Ms Truss in office, but not really in power.\n\nMr Hunt told me in our interview for Sunday's programme - as you might expect - that she is still the boss.\n\nYet the way in which he has been able to comprehensively ditch her programme is striking and shifts the political balance in Downing Street.\n\nThe hope in No 10 and No 11 is that Mr Hunt's appointment will grant some breathing space to this struggling administration and the financial markets will stop pounding the UK and reserve judgement about the economy's prospects for a fortnight.\n\nThen, on 31 October, the government will be able to spell out how its numbers add up without the need for a magic calculator. But that arithmetic won't be pretty - public spending cuts are on the way and taxes could rise too.\n\nIt leaves Ms Truss now technically in charge of a government that is on track to do the opposite of what she originally promised.\n\nShe became prime minister by promising the Conservative Party she would cut taxes and shake up what she condemned as boring old Treasury thinking.\n\nBut now she can't keep those vows does she still have the right to govern?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A dizzying 24 hours for UK politics... in under a minute\n\nOne former minister suggested no-one really has legitimacy now: not Ms Truss, nor Mr Hunt.\n\nMr Hunt's appointment could calm the markets and has definitely eased some of the concerns in the centre of the Conservative Party, but it has created new unhappiness on the right.\n\nThey are frustrated that Ms Truss has given up on her plans and are suspicious that MPs who were never really on board with her ideology have taken advantage of a crisis in the markets for their own political ends.\n\nOne of her fellow free marketeers, an ex-minister, told me they were \"discouraged\" and warned a \"full-scale dismantling of the plans would test party unity in a different way\".\n\nIn other words, the prime minister can no longer rely on their support.\n\nDoes the politicking of the last 48 hours really make that much difference? Believe the polls and Ms Truss' start in office has been an epic disaster from which it is hard to see a return.\n\nFor some MPs, whoever is in No 11, the Truss project is over. One former minister said there had been a \"total seepage of power and authority\" and she is on her way out in either weeks or months.\n\nAnother MP said there was no point hanging around: \"We need to purge the current incumbents,\" they said, suggesting it would be a mistake to wait.\n\n\"The idea we would lose any credibility we have left by removing her is for the birds because we have no credibility.\"\n\nIt is one of the easiest things in politics to say: \"We can't go on like this.\" And yet, very often, it does.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Liz Truss asked why she should stay on as PM\n\nBoris Johnson and Theresa May survived far, far longer than many of their colleagues had hoped. Disbelief and depression on the Tory backbenches is not the same as there being consensus about who could do the job, or how a replacement would be installed.\n\nThere's still reticence about dispatching yet another leader. As one minister said: \"We'll look like circus clowns if we change again.\"\n\nAnd there's a truth that's been obscured by the wild politics of the last few weeks.\n\nThe Conservative Party in 2022 doesn't feel entirely sure what it's for, and hasn't for some time.\n\nOn the Tory right some feel an attempt at ditching the rather limp centrist approach of the last few years has crashed - but in the middle there's a sense of grim satisfaction they were correct.\n\nRight now this deeply fragile government may not have time to consider such lofty arguments, let alone settle them.\n\nTheir only way out is to try to get a grip.", "Government borrowing costs rose on Friday afternoon after the prime minister announced another U-turn on the mini-budget.\n\nThe pound, which initially held firm earlier on Friday, also lost ground.\n\nThe moves came as Liz Truss sacked her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, and said a rise in corporation tax would now go ahead.\n\nHowever, some economists warned that the latest developments might not be enough to restore the UK's credibility.\n\n\"It's unlikely that the removal of Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor and the new plans to cancel the cancellation of the rise in corporation tax from 19% to 25% from next April will be enough on their own to regain the full confidence of the financial markets,\" said Paul Dales, Chief UK economist at Capital Economics.\n\nHe also pointed out that despite another U-turn on the 45p tax cut, there are still unfunded tax cuts of about £25bn left over from the mini-budget - down from £45bn originally.\n\nThe cost of government borrowing rose across a range of bonds traded on the financial markets following the announcement.\n\nThe interest rate - or yield - on bonds due to be repaid in 30 years' time climbed to 4.85%.\n\nThey had hit 5.17% on 28 September in the aftermath of the mini-budget when Mr Kwarteng set out one of the biggest tax cuts packages seen in decades but did not explain how they would be funded.\n\nMeanwhile, the yield on bonds due to be repaid in five years' time, which underpins the cost of new five-year fixed rate mortgages, jumped to 4.35%.\n\nThe pound - which had jumped on Thursday as speculation mounted about a possible U-turn - also sank by more than 1% to just under $1.12 on Friday before clawing back some losses.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss admitted the government's mini-budget had gone \"faster and further\" than many expected.\n\n\"We need to act now to reassure the markets of our fiscal discipline,\" she said.\n\nThe government also announced that Jeremy Hunt, the former foreign and health secretary, will succeed Mr Kwarteng. He will be the UK's fourth chancellor so far this year and will face big challenges with prices soaring and hikes in interest rates.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam, leading economist Mohamed El-Arian said that the events seen in the UK over the last few weeks in particular were \"unthinkable\".\n\n\"There are already scars. If you had to refinance your mortgage, if you're looking to buy a house - you've been hit,\" he said of the recent market turmoil.\n\nHe said Mr Hunt \"needs more measures, he needs to cover more of the unfunded tax cuts that were introduced… most of the damage is recoverable but it needs action and time\".\n\nJeremy Hunt steps in as chancellor at a crucial time for the UK economy\n\nInvestec economist Ellie Henderson described markets as \"dizzy\" over the series of policy reversals and changes.\n\n\"Markets seem unconvinced that today's announcement was enough to fully restore confidence in the UK government,\" she said.\n\nThe government had already U-turned on its plan to scrap the top rate of income tax for people earning £150,000 a year or more. Reducing the tax rate for top earners would have cost £2bn.\n\nMoving ahead with the increase in corporation tax should add an estimated £18bn a year in tax revenue to the government's coffers.\n\nThe prime minister added that \"spending will grow less rapidly than previously planned\".\n\nThe Treasury also confirmed that the incoming chancellor would still deliver the government's \"economic plan\" on 31 October, which will set out how the remaining tax cuts will be funded, and how debts will be reduced.\n\nOn Friday, an emergency bond-buying scheme set up by the Bank of England to restore calm in the financial markets following the previous mini-budget will also come to an end.\n\nThe government raises money it needs for spending by selling bonds - a form of debt that is paid back plus interest in anywhere between five and 30 years.\n\nPension funds invest in bonds because they provide a low but usually reliable return over a long period of time.\n\nHowever, the sharp fall in their value after the mini-budget forced pension funds to sell bonds, threatening to create a \"downward spiral\" in their prices as more were offloaded, which left some funds close to collapse.\n\nThis sparked an emergency intervention by the Bank of England, which has stepped in to buy £19.3bn worth of government bonds.\n\nThere has been strong speculation that the Bank will extend the scheme past the Friday deadline.\n\nBut on Tuesday, the Bank's governor Andrew Bailey dashed those hopes, telling pension funds: \"You've got three days left now and you've got to sort it out.\"\n\nBethany Payne, global bonds fund manager at Janus Henderson, told the BBC it was not clear whether pension funds have done enough to strengthen their finances.\n\n\"The risk is that we don't know how pension funds have used this window of time and whether they have used it effectively by raising cash and doing everything they need to,\" she said.\n\n\"So the true test of the market will be this afternoon and Monday morning to see whether they have done enough.\"\n• None Why are interest rates going up?", "They are the husband and wife team behind one the most successful Covid vaccines, yet in the UK they are barely known.\n\nProfessors Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci co-founded the German company BioNTech in 2008, exploring new technology involving messenger RNA (mRNA), to treat cancer.\n\nWhen the pandemic struck they partnered with Pfizer to use the same approach to create a Covid vaccine.\n\nNow the doctors are hopeful it could lead to new treatments for melanoma, bowel cancer and other tumour types.\n\nBioNTech has several trials in progress, including one where patients are given a personalised vaccine, to prompt their immune system to attack their disease.\n\nThe mRNA technology being used works by sending an instruction or blueprint to cells to produce an antigen or protein.\n\nIn Covid this antigen is part of the spike protein of the virus. In cancer it would be a marker on the surface of tumour cells.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BioNTech founders say they have had a \"number of breakthroughs\" in cancer trials\n\nThis teaches the immune system to recognise and target affected cells for destruction.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Prof Tureci said: \"mRNA acts as a blueprint and allows you to tell the body to produce the drug or the vaccine… and when you use mRNA as a vaccine, the mRNA is a blueprint for the 'wanted poster' of the enemy - in this case cancer antigens which distinguish cancer cells from normal cells.\"\n\nHarnessing the power of mRNA to produce vaccines was unproven until Covid. But the success of mRNA vaccines in the pandemic has encouraged scientists working with the technology in cancer.\n\nBioNTech's mRNA cancer trials started long before the pandemic, and have shown some early encouraging signals.\n\n\"Every step, every patient we treat in our cancer trials helps us to find out more about what we are against and how to address that,\" Prof Tureci, BioNTech's chief medical officer, said.\n\n\"As scientists, we are always hesitant to say we will have a cure for cancer. We have a number of breakthroughs and we will continue to work on them.\"\n\nCaution is needed. Many promising cancer trials end in failure. It may be several years before we know if BioNTech's treatments for bowel cancer, melanoma and other tumour types really do live up to the hype.\n\nThere is no doubt though that Covid mRNA vaccines have been highly successful and made billions for BioNTech, Pfizer and Moderna.\n\nBut a huge legal tussle is under way surrounding the innovation behind mRNA vaccines.\n\nUS firm Moderna has started legal action against Pfizer and BioNTech for patent infringement - in essence claiming key elements of their mRNA technology were copied.\n\nProf Sahin, BioNTech's chief executive officer, says the company will vigorously defend against the allegations.\n\n\"Our innovations are original,\" he said.\n\n\"We have spent 20 years of research in developing these type of treatments and of course we will fight for this, for our intellectual property.\"\n\nThese patent disputes will not stop the roll-out of Covid vaccines - all booster jabs used by the NHS are mRNA vaccines. It is a technology that came of age in the pandemic. The question now is can it take on cancer?", "Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked as chancellor amid intense speculation Prime Minister Liz Truss is about to junk key parts of their economic plan.\n\nMr Kwarteng met Ms Truss for crunch talks in Downing Street after cutting short a US trip.\n\nIn a letter to the PM, Mr Kwarteng said Ms Truss's vision for economic growth was \"right\" and he still supported it.\n\nMs Truss is expected to announce a U-turn on business tax cuts at a news conference in Downing Street at 14:30.\n\nThe prime minister has appointed former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt - who backed Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest - as the new chancellor.\n\nMs Truss's pledge to cut taxes was at the heart of the economic agenda that won her the Tory leadership at the start of September.\n\n\"As I said many times in the past weeks, following the status quo was simply not an option,\" Mr Kwarteng wrote in his letter.\n\n\"For too long this country has been dogged by low growth rates and high taxation - that must change if this country is to succeed.\"\n\nResponding to Mr Kwarteng in her own letter, Ms Truss said she was \"deeply sorry\" to lose him and thanked him for putting \"the national interest first\" by standing down.\n\n\"We share the same vision for our country and the same firm conviction to go for growth,\" Ms Truss wrote.\n\nThe dramatic dismissal of Mr Kwarteng makes him the second shortest-serving chancellor after just 38 days in the job.\n\nA long-time ally of Ms Truss, Mr Kwarteng shared her tax-cutting economic ideology and was seen as her political soulmate when he was appointed to the role on 6 September.\n\nThe prime minister has also asked Chris Philp to move to the Cabinet Office, with Edward Argar replacing him as chief secretary to the Treasury.\n\nFor days, Ms Truss has faced calls to drop parts or all of her economic plan to calm market turbulence and reassure her party, which has slumped in the polls.\n\nSome Tory MPs have discussed options to remove Ms Truss as prime minister, laying bare divisions within the party, which has been in power for 12 years.\n\nMs Truss has already U-turned on her plan to scrap the top rate of income tax and some Tory MPs believe another change of course is inevitable.\n\nA further U-turn is likely to seen as a blow to Ms Truss's political authority only 39 days after she became prime minister.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said a \"humiliating U-turn is necessary\" after the government \"plunged our economy into chaos and crisis with Truss' discredited trickle down approach\".\n\n\"Changing the Chancellor doesn't undo the damage that's already been done,\" she said.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey urged the prime minister to call a general election, accusing the Conservatives of mismanaging the economy.\n\n\"It started with Boris Johnson failing our country, and now Liz Truss has broken our economy, it is time for the people to have their say in a general election,\" he said.\n\nIt's clear from Kwasi Kwarteng's letter that it was the prime minister's decision to get rid of him.\n\nThis wasn't a mea culpa on his part; he was told to step down and did.\n\nDo not underestimate how significant this is. Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng were billed as the closest of political allies when she won power.\n\nHis allies told me he saw his job as delivering her plans. They would, we were told, work in lockstep free from the drama seen in previous PM-chancellor relationships.\n\nBut the turmoil in the markets - and then at Westminster - have ripped that relationship apart.\n\nMs Truss has made the calculation that to move on from the mini budget she needed to get rid of her chancellor. But given how close the pair have been, that may be easier said than done.\n\nThe mini-budget - announced by Mr Kwarteng on 23 September - included £45bn of tax cuts and an energy package worth an £60bn over six months, partly funded by borrowing.\n\nThere were few details on how the government would fund the package, which left financial markets reeling, sent the pound plummeting, and forced the Bank of England to bail out pensions funds.\n\nThe chancellor was due to make a financial statement on 31 October, but it is unclear whether that will change.\n\nMeanwhile, financial markets rallied and the pound held firm as speculation mounts about a possible U-turn over the mini-budget.\n\nThe Bank of England has been buying government bonds - known as gilts - to try to stabilise their price and prevent a sell-off that could put some pension funds at risk of collapse.\n\nBut that support is due to come to an end on Friday.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer and online; Live commentary on Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; Live texts and highlights on BBC Sport website & app\n\n\"Inspirational\", \"a game-changer\" and \"something very powerful\"; we asked our pundits for their verdicts on the upcoming Rugby League World Cup.\n\nYou can watch all 61 games from the men's, women's and wheelchair events live on the BBC.\n\nThe delayed 2021 tournament gets under way on Saturday when England men take on Samoa at 14:30 BST, in a game you can watch on BBC One.\n\nHere is what our experts had to say before a festival of rugby league...\n• None Dave Woods on why the World Cup is \"unmissable\"\n• None 'The Sports desk podcast' - Is the World Cup a make or break moment for rugby league?\n• None All 61 games live on BBC - full TV and radio schedule\n\nFormer New Zealand and Bradford Bulls player Robbie Hunter-Paul\n\n'England's men have the whole nation behind them'\n\nIt's going to be a World Cup unlike anything we have ever seen before.\n\nThis is rugby league's biggest opportunity to inspire the young and old to pick up the sport.\n\nAnd England men have all the tools to aid that. Their 50-0 warm-up win over Fiji earlier this month was certainly inspirational.\n\nEngland look so smooth together, the strength they have out wide is absolutely incredible. Their forwards too are linking up so well.\n\nThis is rugby league's premier competition and England have a whole nation behind them.\n• None 'Biggest and best' World Cup set to begin\n• None George Williams column: At our best, England can beat anyone\n\nIf you are viewing this page on the BBC News app please click here to vote.\n\nThis isn't the tournament rugby league used to be, now there are five teams who could win this.\n\nYou have your traditional top three of the hosts England, the holders Australia and the world number one New Zealand.\n\nBut Samoa and Tonga are right up there and boast some of the strongest squads in their history.\n\nAny number of teams can win this, it's so competitive. And that's great.\n\nThere are so many key players for England but I think Victor Radley is a real coup.\n\nAustralia-born Radley could have been in contention for a place in the Kangaroos' squad, but chose England, qualifying through his Sheffield-born father.\n\nThere is an element to his organisational skills that come into play in the right parts of the field.\n\nIt's something that goes unnoticed. Most people only see forwards punching holes through the opposition.\n\nBut he is a really smart player who is capable of organising those around him to set things up. Under the radar, he is going to play a really important role.\n• None Young set for first England cap against Samoa\n\nIt's everybody's World Cup. If you're a sports fan you've got the next month to watch something that's both home-nations based and super exciting.\n\nEngland's women's rugby league team will want to write their own legacy, but you can't not look at the Lionesses at the football European Championship.\n\nThe wave has started for women's sport and these girls will want to ride that.\n\nThey're not professional, so there's this aspiration to take rugby league to the same level football is at now. This World Cup could be a game-changer.\n\nYou can't write off the Australians. The NRL Women's Premiership is contracted if you play at international level so they are all full-time athletes. Australia's squad is phenomenal.\n\nEngland, though, in front of their own supporters, are in the best possible place to go as far as they can in the competition.\n\nIn 2017 we had six half-day training sessions. This time around the girls have fitted in as much training as humanly possible.\n\nEngland now look at analytics, they have a nutritionist. They are used to playing at big stadiums, there is a confidence in the camp. It's the best-prepared England women's team ever to go to a World Cup.\n\nAli Brigginshaw is a stalwart in the Australia team and will completely rule the roost when it comes to directing play in the middle of the park.\n\nBut England also have stars of their own. Tara-Jane Stanley is the current Woman of Steel, coming off the back of a great season with York City Knights.\n\nShe's been pivotal at full-back and this will be her third World Cup. The expectation will be that she will lead by example and inspire the rest of the group.\n\n'Once you start watching wheelchair rugby league, you can't stop'\n\nThere's something always happening, the pitch is small, the ball is almost always in play, once you start watching you can't take your eyes off it.\n\nApart from one or two little tweaks, the wheelchair rugby league rules are exactly the same as the running game.\n\nBut it's end-to-end and so hard to call as a commentator sometimes. There's usually about 15 tries scored per game.\n\nThere's a huge platform for these athletes to be on the main stage at this World Cup. It's something very powerful.\n• None Four reasons to follow the wheelchair tournament\n\nEngland will be favourites. In fact, across all three World Cups, I'd say the hosts' best chance will be in the wheelchair tournament.\n\nEngland are up there with the very best in the world. It's them and France, that's who I think will be the finalists.\n\nBut there are so many unknowns, especially from Ireland, Scotland and Wales.\n\nIreland can rely on one of the game's top coaches in Phil Roberts. He took Wigan Warriors, then known as Leyland Warriors, to the Grand Final in 2021.\n\nFor me, England will be relying heavily on Seb Bechara who plays for Catalans Dragons. He lives over in France as a professional trumpet player.\n\nHe's such a good player for the wheelchair side, he's got it all. A true all-rounder.\n\nRobbie Hunter-Paul, Danika Priim and Kyle Amor were speaking to BBC Sport's Joe Rindl.\n• None The champion of two courts ignored by the world: Ora Washington fought to make her name in racially segregated America\n• None Go behind the scenes at the Rolls-Royce factory in Derby to find out", "Before Amanda Todd died in 2012, she uploaded a video describing the bullying she had suffered\n\nA Dutchman convicted of sexually extorting a teenage Canadian girl who later took her own life has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.\n\nAydin Coban, 44, will serve his sentence in the Netherlands, prosecutors in British Columbia said.\n\nHe was convicted in August of child luring, child pornography, extortion and harassment of Amanda Todd.\n\nAmanda, who was then 15, posted a video in 2012 detailing how the cyber-stalker had tormented her.\n\nWarning: This article contains details that some readers may find upsetting.\n\nThe YouTube video was watched millions of times and sparked a national debate about online bullying.\n\nCoban was sentenced to 11 years in prison by a Dutch court in 2017 for blackmailing and harassing dozens of young women on the internet, some as far away as Britain, Canada and the United States.\n\nHe was later extradited to Canada where he faced the additional charges. He was not, however, charged with Amanda's death.\n\nThe 13-year sentence handed down on Friday will begin after the term imposed by the Dutch court has expired, said the British Columbia Prosecution Service.\n\nCoban showed no remorse in court in New Westminster as he learned his fate.\n\nAmanda killed herself five weeks after uploading her widely watched YouTube video, and after explicit photos of her were leaked online.\n\nCoban harassed the girl for nearly three years online using 22 separate fake social media accounts.\n\nHe sent messages to her between 2009, starting when she was 13, and 2012. In some, he threatened to send explicit images of her to her friends, family and school staff if she didn't agree to give him a webcam \"show\".\n\nCoban hid his IP address, so police were not able to trace the messages back to him at the time.\n\nDuring Coban's sentencing hearing this week, prosecutors argued for a 12-year prison term to protect other young people from his \"repugnant\" abuse. They said they believed Coban was at high risk of offending again.\n\nCoban's defence lawyers had pushed for a two-year sentence, arguing a longer punishment would be \"disproportionate\" to the crimes he committed.\n\nBritish Columbia Supreme Court Justice Martha Devlin read the sentence in court on Friday.\n\nShe said that although Coban's behaviour was not the \"dominating factor\" in the girl's suicide, she did find that the \"profound harm\" he caused her aggravated mental health and substance abuse issues, according to CBC News.\n\n\"Ruining Amanda's life was Mr Coban's expressly stated goal and was, sadly, one that he achieved,\" she said.\n\nHis sentencing hearing in Canada began shortly after the 10th anniversary of Amanda's death. Her mother, Carol, has since become an outspoken advocate against online bullying and sex extortion.\n\n\"We need to talk about it,\" she said. \"We need to make sure there is justice for Amanda.\"\n\nIf you want to talk to someone about the issues raised in this piece, you can call the US National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialling 988 or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.\n\nYou can call the UK Samaritans Helpline on 116 123 or visit samaritans.org.", "As markets closed on Friday, the cost of government borrowing was creeping back up to the level at which the Bank of England stepped in to buy bonds from specialist pension fund managers facing collapse.\n\nBut the Bank has made clear that its last direct intervention was on Friday.\n\nIt also made clear it only stepped in to preserve financial stability.\n\nIt is not there to bring government borrowing costs down - quite the opposite in fact - it is committed to raising interest rates to fight inflation.\n\nWhat happens on Monday when the Bank, the biggest bond buyer of the last decade, goes on strike?\n\nSimon French from investment bank Panmure Gordon told the BBC that installing Jeremy Hunt as chancellor would help and his comments to the media on Saturday morning were sensible.\n\n\"He acknowledged the economy we actually have and not the one we wish we had,\" French said. \"My sense is they have done enough for now to keep the markets happy.\"\n\nBut Mohamed El-Erian, a renowned economist and President of Queen's College, Cambridge, told the BBC he believed the government had not yet done enough to reassure the financial markets.\n\nHe said: \"They're going to be pushed to find more ways to cover what is still a significant hole in the budget.\"\n\nRead more from Simon here.", "Mr Putin said he did not regret the invasion, although the current situation was \"not pleasant\"\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has said there is no need for more massive strikes on Ukraine, days after the heaviest bombardment of the country since the war began.\n\nHe said most designated targets of the strikes had been hit, adding that it was not his aim to destroy Ukraine.\n\nMoscow's goal of mobilising 300,000 men would be met within two weeks, he said.\n\nIt comes as Russian forces are mostly in retreat and Ukraine advances, almost eight months since the invasion.\n\nSpeaking to journalists after a summit with regional leaders in Kazakhstan's capital Astana, the Russian leader said that the recent strikes had destroyed 22 out of the 29 targets in Ukraine set by the military and that \"they are getting\" the remaining seven.\n\n\"There's no need for massive strikes. We now have other tasks,\" he said.\n\nFrom Monday onwards, Russia unleashed a wave of strikes on cities across Ukraine, in what Mr Putin said was retaliation for a blast which damaged a key bridge between Russia and annexed Crimea.\n\nDozens of people were killed and injured in the strikes, which also damaged infrastructure. Central areas of Kyiv were targeted for the first time since the invasion.\n\nBut Mr Putin said it was not Russia's intention to destroy Ukraine, but he did not regret the invasion.\n\n\"What is happening today is not pleasant, to put things mildly,\" he said. \"But all the same, [if Russia hadn't attacked] we would have been in the same situation, only the conditions would have been worse for us. So we're doing everything correctly and at the right time.\"\n\nPresident Putin said 220,000 men had been mobilised, of whom 16,000 were already in combat. He saw no need for additional mobilisation, he added.\n\nHowever, the call-up has caused widespread discontent in Russia, with tens of thousands of men fleeing to neighbouring countries. The BBC has also found evidence of the poor level of training such conscripts or recruits receive before being sent to the front.\n\nMeanwhile, the BBC Russian service says it has identified more than 7,500 Russian service personnel who have died in the Ukraine war. The actual level of casualties is believed to be much higher, and there are reports that some recently mobilised troops have been killed.\n\nAddressing relations with other former Soviet countries, Mr Putin insisted that the war had not affected their \"character and depth\".\n\nHe said it was natural for some countries to be concerned but he was keeping them informed in detail.\n\nBut analysts say Russia's influence in the region is declining, with leaders like Kazakhstan's Kassym-Jomart Tokayev trying to distance themselves from Mr Putin over the war.\n\nIn other developments on Friday:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Bank of England \"will not hesitate to raise rates\", says governor Andrew Bailey\n\nThe governor of the Bank of England has warned interest rates may need to rise by more than previously expected.\n\nSpeaking in Washington, Andrew Bailey said \"inflationary pressures\" meant a \"stronger response\" could be needed from the Bank than thought in August.\n\nThe next rate rise decision is on 3 November, days after the government lays out its economic plans.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Bailey described his discussions with the new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt as a \"meeting of minds\".\n\nMr Hunt, who was appointed on Friday after his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng was abruptly sacked, has confirmed the government will set out its tax and spending plans on 31 October.\n\nHe has already signalled that some taxes could rise and public spending may fall.\n\nMr Bailey said the Bank will not take any action on interest rates until after this fiscal plan is announced, describing this as \"the correct sequence\" of action.\n\nBut speaking on Saturday, he said officials would \"not hesitate to raise interest rates to meet the inflation target\" of 2%.\n\nThe warning comes just weeks after the Bank hiked interest rates by 0.5% to 2.25% on 22 September.\n\nPrior to Mr Bailey's comments, the markets were expecting a rise of between 0.75% and 1% when the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee makes its next rates decision in November.\n\nMr Bailey also commented on the effects of the government's recent mini-budget, which he said had been followed by some \"some violent moves in the last few weeks\" in UK markets.\n\nHe also spoke of the need \"to have the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) involved\" in the government's budget discussions, adding that \"flying blind is not a way to achieve sustainability\".\n\nLast month, it was revealed that Mr Kwarteng had refused to allow the OBR to review the impact of his mini-budget on the economy before he delivered the statement.\n\nThe governor's intervention comes just hours after Mr Hunt told the BBC that some taxes could rise in the coming months and some departments could see their budgets slashed.\n\nMarking a significant change in government policy, the chancellor told the Today programme that difficult decisions will be needed \"across the board\".\n\nTaking questions after his speech in Washington, Mr Bailey signalled that he was in lockstep with the new chancellor.\n\n\"I can tell you that I spoke to Jeremy Hunt, the new chancellor, yesterday\", Mr Bailey said.\n\n\"I can tell you that there was a very clear and immediate meeting of minds between us about the importance of fiscal sustainability and the importance of taking measures to do that.\"\n\nHe added that the comment was intended as a \"clear message for markets\".", "Robbie Coltrane has played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films and won three Baftas for Cracker, but most people do not know that in the 60s his dreams were about art, not acting.\n\nHe was once a student at The Glasgow School of Art, and on Wednesday he returned there to open their newest building.\n\nThe BBC's Colin Paterson caught up with him to find out more about his early years.", "Tributes have poured in for actor Robbie Coltrane, who has died at the age of 72.\n\nMiriam Margolyes described her former Harry Potter co-star, who played Hagrid in the film franchise, as \"huge in stature\" and \"in heart\".\n\nActor Stephen Fry, who starred with Coltrane in the TV show Alfresco, said he will \"be so dreadfully missed\".\n\nIt was confirmed on Friday that the actor had died in hospital near Falkirk in Scotland.\n\nActress Miriam Margolyes, who played Professor Sprout in Harry Potter, described Coltrane as a \"very fine actor and delightful man, huge in stature, in personality, in heart\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's just such a waste to think of all that talent, that fire. He acted with passion, he was really wonderful.\"\n\nColtrane played much-loved gentle giant Hagrid in all eight films in the Harry Potter series, which were released over a ten-year period. He was also well known for his roles in TV show Cracker and James Bond Films Goldeneye and The World is Not Enough.\n\nFormer England rugby union international Martin Bayfield, who acted as Coltrane's stunt double in the Harry Potter films, said the actor was \"incredibly funny\" and \"incredibly mischievous\", and that he had been struck by his \"warmth and generosity\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"He was great fun, very generous with his time and just a wonderful man.\"\n\nRobbie Coltrane was well known for playing Hagrid in the Harry Potter films\n\nThe franchise's biggest stars, who were young children when they first acted alongside Coltrane, have recalled his kindness and good humour on set.\n\nDaniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter, said: \"Robbie was one of the funniest people I've met and used to keep us laughing constantly as kids on that set.\n\n\"I've especially fond memories of him keeping our spirits up on Prisoner of Azkaban, when we were all hiding from the torrential rain for hours in Hagrid's hut and he was telling stories and cracking jokes to keep morale up.\"\n\nEmma Watson, who played Hermione Granger, said: \"Robbie, if I ever get to be so kind as you were to me on a film set I promise I'll do it in your name and memory.\"\n\nWriting on Instagram, she said the actor was like the \"most fun uncle\", adding that there was \"no better Hagrid\" and Coltrane \"made it a joy to be Hermione\".\n\nShe continued: \"I'll really miss your sweetness, your nicknames, your warmth, your laughs and your hugs.\"\n\nTom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy, shared his favourite scene with Coltrane from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"One of my fondest memories of filming Harry Potter was a night shoot on the first film in the forbidden forest.\n\n\"I was 12. Robbie cared & looked after everyone around of him. Effortlessly. And made them laugh. Effortlessly. Love you mate - thank you for everything xx\".\n\nActor Warwick Davis, who played Professor Flitwick, said: \"Always jovial, he brought warmth, light and laughter to any set he walked on to. RIP Robbie, Beloved Giant of comedy\".\n\nWhile Coltrane was best known to many younger fans as Hagrid, he had a successful career playing both comic and dramatic roles long before Harry Potter was created.\n\nActor Stephen Fry, who appeared alongside Coltrane in sketch comedy show Alfresco in the early 1980s, tweeted: \"Such depth, power and talent: funny enough to cause helpless hiccups and honking as we made our first TV show Alfresco. Farewell, old fellow, you'll be so dreadfully missed.\"\n\nFellow Alfresco actor Hugh Laurie, who also starred alongside Coltrane in sitcom Blackadder, recalled their time spent sharing car rides between Manchester and London. \"I don't think I've ever laughed or learned so much in my life\", he tweeted.\n\nBlackadder star Tony Robinson described Coltrane as \"such a sweet man\" who was \"so talented as a comic and as a straight actor\".\n\nColtrane was made an OBE in the 2006 New Year's honours list for his services to drama\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described Coltrane's death as \"very sad news\" and said her favourite performance by the actor was the role of Fitz in Cracker,\n\n\"He had such range and depth as an actor, from brilliant comedy to hard-edged drama,\" she wrote on Twitter. \"Robbie Coltrane, Scottish entertainment legend - you will be hugely missed. RIP.\"\n\nThe official James Bond Twitter account called Coltrane an \"exceptional actor whose talent knew no bounds\".\n\nBroadcaster Richard Coles added: \"Very sorry to hear Robbie Coltrane has died. We shared a dressing room once and he had the biggest pants I have ever seen, which he wore with tremendous flair. We were friends from then on.\"\n\nColtrane's agent Belinda Wright added in her statement: \"For me personally I shall remember him as an abidingly loyal client. As well as being a wonderful actor, he was forensically intelligent, brilliantly witty and after 40 years of being proud to be called his agent, I shall miss him.\"\n\nColtrane was made an OBE in the 2006 New Year's honours list for his services to drama and he was awarded the Bafta Scotland Award for outstanding contribution to film in 2011.", "Teachers are one step closer to going on strike in Britain after rejecting a 5% pay rise offer.\n\nThe largest union for England and Wales, the NEU, said 86% of its members who responded to an initial ballot said they were willing to strike. It is now launching a formal strike ballot.\n\nThe NASUWT union has also begun one for members in Scotland, England and Wales.\n\nBoth have previously said the government's offer does not address the cost-of-living pressures on teachers.\n\nThe last national dispute over teachers' pay was in 2008.\n\nEducation is one of many sectors grappling with action over pay. Railway workers and Royal Mail staff are among those walking out.\n\nThe starting salary for teachers in England is due to rise to £30,000 a year by September 2023, as part of a promise that was made during the 2019 election which became delayed by the pandemic.\n\nThe pay of more experienced teachers in England - who make up most of the workforce - has seen the biggest squeeze over the past decade, falling by 8% in real terms between 2007 and 2021, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nThe pay rises in England have to be paid for out of schools' existing budgets, leading some to warn BBC News they were axing school trips and music lessons to try to avoid having to cut staff.\n\nThe NEU said it would announce a timetable for a formal ballot and potential strike dates in the coming week.\n\nIt said the results of a preliminary online ballot of its members in England and Wales showed support for a formal ballot, with 98% of respondents saying they wanted a \"fully funded, above-inflation pay rise\", and 86% saying they would vote yes to strike action to demand the rise.\n\nJoint general secretaries Dr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney said the results were \"a clear statement from teachers that they cannot go on like this\".\n\n\"Our members don't want to strike - they want to be in the classroom, doing what they do best, educating the nation's children,\" they said.\n\n\"It is regrettable that we have reached this point, but enough is enough.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said it was \"incredibly disappointing\" that some unions are threatening strike action, saying it would \"damage children's education and disrupt parents' lives\".\n\n\"The highest pay awards for teachers in a generation\" have been confirmed with 8.9% for new teachers and 5% for experienced teachers, it said, adding that the average salary for teachers in November 2021 was £42,360.\n\nMembers of NASUWT in England, Scotland and Wales will receive ballot papers from 27 October, and voting will close on 9 January.\n\nThe union, which wants a fully-funded real-terms pay award of 12%, said it was recommending that members vote in favour of industrial action.\n\nMembers of Scotland's largest teaching union, the EIS, are also being balloted for strike action.\n\nTeaching unions in Northern Ireland voted last week to take action short of a strike, after rejecting an \"inadequate\" two-year pay offer.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nThe actor, known for playing Hagrid in the Harry Potter franchise and Fitz in the series Cracker, has died at 72.\n\nHe also appeared in ITV detective drama Cracker, and the James Bond films Golden Eye and The World is not Enough.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fire has broken out in a building in central Leeds, as shown by this video by Twitter user @mediajoshg\n\nFire crews in Leeds tackled a large blaze in a city centre building on Saturday night.\n\nIt broke out on the top floors of a derelict high rise building in Cookridge Street, near the city's Millennium Square, at about 19:50 BST.\n\nA number of nearby pubs and restaurants were evacuated, the fire service said.\n\nTen fire engines worked to extinguish the blaze and a safety cordon was put in place as the fire service said the structure was \"potentially unsafe\".\n\nThe fire broke out in the top floors of a derelict high rise building\n\nStudent, Will Dunaway, 18, said he had just left a restaurant on nearby Oxford Place with his family when he saw the fire.\n\n\"Whatever it was that was on fire it looked like it was the top part that was on fire, the bottom part looked pretty intact.\n\n\"There was a lot of crackling and some explosions, like a popping sound.\n\n\"Nobody appeared to be in any danger as far as I could tell.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Fire Service said the police, ambulance service and a specialist response team were also on the scene.\n\nIt's a busy Saturday night in central Leeds, with the nearby 02 Academy bustling with people for the annual Live at Leeds music festival.\n\nMillennium Square has been taken over by fire engines, with police tape blocking off several streets.\n\nThe area smells strongly of burning plastics, with a hose on an aerial platform dousing flames in a building next to Leeds City Museum.\n\nThe fire broke out at around 19:50 BST\n\nEmergency services including a specialist response team are on the scene\n\nLeeds City Council leader James Lewis said the fire was in the Leonardo building, a former council property sold to developers which currently lies empty.\n\nHe said he understood the fire service had managed to contain it so that it did not spread to neighbouring buildings.\n\n\"I'm hugely thankful for the quick response from the fire service, they stopped it becoming a much more serious and destructive fire.\n\n\"I'm sure it was very worrying for people nearby.\n\n\"Certainly it was a very serious incident and had the fire service not reacted so quickly, it could have been much more devastating,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tobias Ellwood says he has been readmitted to the Conservative parliamentary party\n\nA senior Tory MP said he had been readmitted to the parliamentary party after he had the whip withdrawn.\n\nTobias Ellwood was suspended in July when he missed a vote of confidence in Boris Johnson's government.\n\nAt the time the Bournemouth East MP said he was \"sorry\" to lose the whip but had been unable to get back from Moldova in time.\n\nEarlier, he tweeted that he was \"off the naughty step\" and welcomed the government's \"re-set\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tobias Ellwood MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe welcomed Jeremy Hunt's appointment as chancellor on Friday as a \"wise inclusion\" in the government.\n\n\"We thrive when governing as \"One Nation\" Tories harnessing a coalition of talent - solving economic crises via sound money & fiscal responsibility,\" he said.\n\nIn the summer, Mr Ellwood, a former minister who chairs the Commons Defence Committee, had met the president of Moldova and said he had been \"unable to secure return travel due to unprecedented disruption both here and in the UK\".\n\nA spokesman for the Whips' Office confirmed that Mr Ellwood is in receipt of the Conservative whip.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Joe Biden said his Russian counterpart would not scare the US and its allies\n\nPresident Joe Biden has warned Russia that the United States will not be intimidated by reckless threats after Vladimir Putin declared the annexation of four occupied regions of Ukraine.\n\nOn Friday, President Putin appeared to make a veiled threat to use nuclear weapons to defend those regions.\n\nHe said they would \"forever\" be Russian - but Ukraine vowed to liberate them.\n\nNato chief Jens Stoltenberg said the Russian move was \"the most serious escalation since the start of the war\".\n\nIn a speech in Moscow, the Russian leader claimed citizens in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south had voted to be \"with their people, their motherland\".\n\nHe was referring to so-called referendums held in the regions in recent days, but Ukraine and Western governments have condemned the votes as a sham.\n\nMuch of Mr Putin's speech was used to rail at the West.\n\nHe said the US had created a \"precedent\" by using nuclear weapons against Japan at the end of World War Two, in an apparent threat.\n\nMr Putin last week said his country had \"various weapons of destruction\" and would \"use all the means available to us\", adding: \"I'm not bluffing.\"\n\nThe Kremlin has made clear that any attack on the regions claimed by Russia would be seen as an attack on Russian soil, signalling an escalation in the war.\n\nRussia does not fully control any of the four regions, and in his speech Mr Putin did not clear define the borders.\n\nPresident Biden called out his Russian counterpart's \"reckless words and threats\", but added that Mr Putin was \"not going to scare us\".\n\n\"America and its allies are not going to be intimidated,\" President Biden said at the White House.\n\nHe then addressed the Russian president directly, pointing his finger into the camera.\n\n\"America's fully prepared, with our Nato allies, to defend every single inch of Nato territory,\" he said, in reference to the Western security bloc.\n\n\"Mr Putin, don't misunderstand what I'm saying: every inch.\"\n\nShortly after, Mr Biden's top national security official said while there was a chance of Moscow resorting to nuclear weapons, there did not appear to be an imminent threat.\n\nUkraine launched a new, fast-track bid to join Nato soon after Mr Putin's speech.\n\nAfter a crisis meeting of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv had long been a \"de facto\" member of the security bloc and accused Moscow of redrawing borders \"using murder, blackmail, mistreatment and lies\".\n\nMr Zelensky vowed to liberate all Ukrainian territories, including Crimea - Ukraine's southern peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. And he also ruled out any further negotiations with Mr Putin.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Stoltenberg of Nato was reluctant to be drawn on the bid, saying the decision rested with the bloc's 30 members.\n\nThe alliance's members \"do not and will not\" recognise any of the annexed territory as part of Russia, Mr Stoltenberg told reporters, accusing Mr Putin of \"irresponsible nuclear sabre-rattling\".\n\nHe called the annexation a \"pivotal moment\" in the war.\n\nEU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said \"the illegal annexation proclaimed by Putin won't change anything\".\n\n\"All territories illegally occupied by Russian invaders are Ukrainian land and will always be part of this sovereign nation.\"\n\nTurkey described the Russian move as a \"grave violation\" of international law.\n\nSouth Korea said it did not recognise the attempted annexations, adding that Ukraine's sovereignty, territorial security and independence must be protected.\n\nAs Mr Putin spoke in Moscow, 750km (466 miles) to the south, his forces were being surrounded by Ukrainian troops in Lyman, a strategically important town in the eastern region of Donetsk.\n\nUkraine's military has been keen to conceal the pace of its troops' advance in the area, but one video on social media appeared to show Kyiv's forces in the centre of Yampil, just 16km (9 miles) south-east of Lyman.\n\nAnd late on Friday night, Kyiv's defence ministry said it had taken the village of Drobysheve, 8km (4 miles) north-west of Lyman.\n\nElsewhere, Ukraine reported on Saturday morning that the director of the Zaporizhzhia's nuclear power plant - Europe's biggest - has been detained by Russians and taken \"in an unknown direction\". Russia occupied the plant shortly after launching its invasion on 24 February.\n\nThis comes just hours after Ukraine accused Russia of killing 30 people in a rocket strike on a civilian convoy in the city of Zaporizhzhia.\n\nRussia blamed Ukraine for that attack - one of deadliest in recent weeks.\n\nIn another development on Friday, Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution which would have condemned its annexation of the four occupied regions. Moscow's ambassador, Vasily Nebenzia, complained that it was unprecedented to seek the condemnation of a permanent member of the body.\n\nWhile the Kremlin's blocking of the motion was anticipated, both India and China abstained.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A policeman in Charleston, South Carolina, is pelted with rain\n\nPost-Tropical Cyclone Ian is lashing South Carolina in its second US landfall after carving a swathe of deadly destruction across Florida.\n\nIan returned as a category one hurricane near Georgetown at 14:05 local time (18:05 GMT) on Friday before losing some power as it marched inland.\n\nBut the danger is not over. Flooding is projected to continue throughout the region, including in Florida, for days.\n\nBut a state medical examiner must determine if all the fatalities are directly related to the storm.\n\nIan was one of the strongest storms ever to hit the US when it struck Florida as a category four hurricane on Wednesday.\n\nIn coastal South Carolina, Ian damaged four piers and sent torrents of water flooding into neighbourhoods, including in the popular seaside city of Myrtle Beach.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial views of the destruction from Hurricane Ian in Florida.\n\nNearly 200,000 homes and businesses in South Carolina were without power by Friday evening.\n\nIn the city of Charleston, around 80 miles (130km) south of where the hurricane made landfall, cars were seen driving through flooded roads.\n\nThe storm is moving north with maximum sustained winds of around 50mph (85km/h), according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).\n\nAlthough Ian weakened on Friday, it is still dangerous, says the NHC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"I hid in my bath tub all day and night as the hurricane hit my mobile home.\"\n\nThe agency warns that central Florida could see record river flooding into next week.\n\nConsiderable flash and urban flooding was possible across coastal and north-east South Carolina, coastal and north-west North Carolina and southern Virginia into Saturday morning, the NHC said.\n\nThere was also a chance that Ian could spawn tornados in North Carolina and Virginia as it marched north, according to the NHC.\n\nIan is expected to dissipate over either North Carolina or Virginia by late on Saturday.\n\nThe ruins of a petrol station in Fort Myers\n\nMeanwhile, the full scope of the disaster in Florida - where 1.6 million people still have no electricity - is coming to light.\n\n\"We're just beginning to see the scale of that destruction,\" President Joe Biden said at the White House on Friday.\n\nHe said Ian was likely to be among the worst natural disasters in US history. The storm has caused $47bn (£42bn) in insured losses, according to research firm CoreLogic.\n\nHurricane Ian was much less damaging than category five Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 1,800 people and wreaked $125bn in damage when it slammed into Louisiana in August 2005.\n\nFort Myers beach was one of the first places to encounter the power of Ian when it struck the Florida peninsula this week.\n\nTwo days on, shell-shocked residents like Pat and Kathleen Unger - who have an apartment close to the beach - are returning to their homes.\n\n\"Elevator's gone, pool sheds are gone, office is gone, the library's gone,\" Mrs Unger says.\n\n\"Parking lot's gone, everything's gone except for the buildings,\" Mr Unger adds.\n\n\"It looks like three buildings standing in the middle of the Sahara Desert.\"\n\nAt what was once a small marina on the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, about 30 boats have been destroyed.\n\n\"I'm in the boat business,\" a visibly upset man said. \"Well, actually, I guess I was in the boat business. Past tense.\"\n\nMeanwhile, in Cuba - where Ian knocked out electricity for the entire island of 11 million people - residents in several neighbourhoods of the capital Havana have taken to the streets to bang pots in protest at a third day of blackouts.", "A huge crater from Friday's deadly missile attack on civilians near Zaporizhzhia Image caption: A huge crater from Friday's deadly missile attack on civilians near Zaporizhzhia\n\nRussian forces are thought to have used long-range air defence missiles in a ground attack role yesterday to hit a humanitarian convoy near the city of Zaporizhzhia.\n\nSuch Soviet-era missiles - named S-300 - have frequently been used by the Russian army on ground targets such as civilian infrastructure and housing, military analysts and Ukrainian officials say.\n\nThe UK Ministry of Defence says Russia’s remaining stock of \"high-value\" missiles is probably limited.\n\nSo why are S-300s being used against ground targets, instead of shooting down aircraft?\n\nJustin Crump, CEO of the strategic risk company Sibylline and a former British Army officer, told the BBC that \"it is a wasteful use of these missiles, and they're not particularly accurate either\".\n\nHowever, \"the Russians have a stockpile of older missiles they need to use up. It’s a question of using everything they've got - Russia really is throwing everything but the kitchen sink at its operation in Ukraine.\n\n\"Using surface-to-air missiles to hit ground targets is an improvisation of sorts,\" Crump said.\n\n\"Although they have this role it's a very secondary role - it's not very effective and this is not a great use of it. The current operations, while deadly to Ukrainian civilians, still fall far short of the sort of capabilities we saw at the start of the war with Iskanders and Kalibr cruise missiles being used routinely.\"\n\nUkraine has shown it is capable of high-precision, deep strikes with HIMARS and MLRS rockets, so \"Russia is trying to match it with everything it can to try and play the same game - but they're definitely playing from behind\".\n\nDespite the rudimentary nature of some attacks, it is probably going to get worse as they try to increase the pressure on Ukraine, Crump added.", "There has been a spike in Palestinian deaths since Israel launched an operation to quell attacks\n\nAt least 100 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem this year amid a massive increase in Israeli military raids, according to figures compiled by the BBC.\n\nThe number was reached as an 18-year-old man was shot dead in East Jerusalem on Saturday and after a week which saw Israeli forces reportedly firing an anti-tank missile at a house in Jenin that killed a wanted gunman and three others.\n\nIt means this year is now on course to become the deadliest for Palestinians in the West Bank since 2015.\n\nThe vast majority were shot dead by Israeli security forces and several by armed Israeli civilians.\n\nIn a small number of cases the source of gunfire - Israeli or Palestinian - is disputed, while one man was shot dead during an arrest raid carried out by Palestinian security forces.\n\nAs human rights groups express mounting alarm, the figures show nearly a fifth of the Palestinians killed were children, the youngest of whom was 14.\n\nMeanwhile the US this week called for an immediate investigation after a seven-year-old boy died of apparent heart failure when the Israeli military came to the family home after his brothers were accused of throwing stones. The army says an initial inquiry found no connection between its search and the boy's death.\n\nThe list of fatalities includes gunmen from militant groups, teenagers and young men shot after reportedly throwing stones or petrol bombs, unarmed civilians and bystanders, protesters and anti-settlement activists, and individuals carrying out alleged knife attacks or using other weapons against Israeli soldiers or civilians.\n\nPalestinian officials have accused Israel of carrying out \"field executions\", while the period also saw the worst wave of violence against Israelis in years.\n\nIn the spring, a spate of deadly attacks by Arab Israelis and Palestinians killed 16 Israelis and two foreigners, after which near nightly army raids have taken place in the West Bank as Israeli officials said they would aggressively counter a growing terrorism threat.\n\nTheir pace has stoked fears of a much wider flare-up, with the Israeli military accused of routinely using excessive force and collective punishment, while security forces of the Western-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) have been losing their grip to armed groups whose firepower has grown to levels unmatched in years.\n\nThe raids frequently spark gunfights with young, newly-armed militants in densely populated areas of Jenin and Nablus.\n\nIsraeli and Palestinian officials blame each other for the security collapse in the northern West Bank.\n\nArmed groups have more control in some areas than Palestinian security forces\n\nIn a statement the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it used live fire when all other options were exhausted in response to \"violent riots and acts of terrorism daily\".\n\nIt said: \"In the case of the death of a Palestinian as a result of IDF activity, a Military Police criminal investigation is generally launched to clarify the circumstances of the incident. However, in incidents where the operations were of a real combat nature, a criminal investigation is not immediately launched.\"\n\nIn August, then-UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said many cases appeared to break international law combined with \"an almost total lack of accountability\".\n\nOur analysis of the Palestinian death toll draws on a range of sources including the BBC's own on-the-ground coverage, regional media reporting and official statements cross-referenced with reports from non-governmental groups and UN agencies.\n\nThe youngest Palestinian killed in the West Bank was 14-year-old Mohammad Salah, shot by soldiers in late February close to Israel's separation barrier south of Bethlehem.\n\nThe IDF alleged he threw petrol bombs on to a road but didn't say why it used lethal force to stop this. His family say he wasn't close to the road when he was shot dead.\n\nThe oldest fatalities were two 80-year-old men in separate incidents. One of them, Palestinian-American Omar Assad, died from a heart attack after being bound and gagged by troops during a village search in January.\n\nThe army later said it had suspended two officers from command positions and passed the file to military investigators.\n\nBy mid-March, 20 Palestinians had been killed, before this year's deadly wave of violence that struck Israel's streets.\n\nA wave of attacks earlier this year by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs on the streets of Israel caused shock and anger\n\nThose attacks were carried out by Arab Israeli supporters of the Islamic State group and by Palestinian gunmen mostly from the Jenin area.\n\nThe deadliest attack was claimed by the militant group al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades while each was praised by Hamas - the Palestinian militant group that dominates the blockaded Gaza strip - and Islamic Jihad. All three are listed by Israel and the West as terrorist organisations.\n\nThe Israeli military then launched Operation Breakwater. Naftali Bennett, prime minister at the time, gave security forces \"full freedom\" to end the threats. \"There are not and will not be limits for this war,\" he said.\n\nOf the 100 fatalities, most were shot dead by Israeli forces during search, arrest and punitive home demolition raids.\n\nMore than half the total number have been in Jenin and Nablus or surrounding villages in the northern West Bank.\n\nAround a third of all those killed were militant gunmen. In many but not all cases Israeli soldiers shot them during or after reported exchanges of fire, although the IDF virtually never gives accounts of what happens in any detail.\n\nAcross the West Bank, at least a quarter of the total number of fatalities took place when soldiers used live ammunition to fire at young men or teenagers in groups it said had thrown stones, petrol bombs or improvised explosives.\n\nIn June the BBC witnessed the aftermath of an army raid into Jenin, reportedly a weapons search, in which gunmen from three militant groups were said to have pursued and fired at army jeeps, before an Israeli sniper on a rooftop shot them dead in their car.\n\nSeveral young men also suffered bullet wounds after apparently throwing stones, while crowds outside the hospital called for revenge.\n\nIt came amid a collapse of security control by the PA, which has limited powers to govern Palestinian cities.\n\nWe saw the growth of weaponry in Jenin refugee camp, new formations of militants - many still just teenagers - and a rejection of the formal Palestinian leadership viewed as corrupt and unwilling to defend them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Guns and grief on the rise in the West Bank\n\nYoung gunmen backed by established armed groups have fused into the Jenin Brigade, while in Nablus militants patrolling the Ottoman-era alleyways of the Old City dub themselves the Den of Lions.\n\nIn the summer Israeli forces targeted the group's 19-year-old leader Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, or the Lion of Nablus, as he was known from his TikTok videos - as part of a trend for such footage to go viral among Palestinians.\n\nEarly on 9 August soldiers raided the city in unmarked vans, surrounded his safe house and fired shoulder launched missiles at it, killing him and another gunman.\n\nIsrael wanted al-Nabulsi for a spate of shooting attempts against Israelis around Nablus. Another two Palestinians, including a 16-year-old boy, were also shot dead during the raid in unclear circumstances.\n\nThe building's ruins have become a shrine, where other gunmen vow to fight on.\n\nBut this is an \"uneven battle\", according to Amos Harel, defence analyst for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, given Israel's overwhelming military superiority.\n\nHe says the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) did two things to try to stem the threat of attacks: It flooded Israel's West Bank separation barrier with troops, and readied battalions and commando units to raid Palestinian cities to carry out \"preventative\" arrests.\n\nMr Harel was embedded with Israeli forces on a raid into Jenin refugee camp in March.\n\n\"You saw young people on motorcycles getting close to the Israeli jeeps, sometimes 20 or 30 metres [65-100ft] behind them, and just shooting,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"This is different [from the recent past]. These are people who are willing to fight and willing to die.\"\n\nAccording to the figures, 19 Palestinian children have been killed in the West Bank this year.\n\nMost of the under-18s were shot dead by Israeli soldiers during military search-and-arrest raids or anti-occupation protests.\n\nOne boy was killed while carrying out an alleged hammer attack on a soldier.\n\nUday Salah, 17, killed during an Israeli operation in Jenin, was one of 19 child fatalities in West Bank violence this year\n\nThe human rights group Defence for Children International (DCI) Palestine has said the death toll indicates a \"complete disregard for international norms\" by the Israeli military.\n\nIn July, 16-year-old Amjad Nasr was shot dead in the village of Al Mughayyir, where tensions frequently erupt as Israeli settlers have targeted nearby land to build illegal outposts.\n\nPalestinians and settlers confronted each other, both groups throwing stones, while at least one of the settlers was armed with a machine gun.\n\nVideo of the moment Amjad was hit shows him starting to run away as a gunshot is heard.\n\nA soldier can be seen nearby although it's still not clear who fired the fatal bullet - Amjad's family maintain it was one of the settlers.\n\nAmjad's father, Nashaat Nasr, told the BBC he had not received any explanation from the army about his son's death.\n\n\"Life has changed a lot without Amjad. He left school to help me as I suffered from cancer and underwent chemotherapy treatment. He used to help the family,\" he said.\n\nAsked about the incident at the time the Israeli army said it was being \"examined\", and forwarded the BBC a video and photos of Palestinians on a road attacking a passing Israeli car with stones. It didn't respond to questions about how this was connected to the shooting of Amjad Nasr in a different location while he was running from security forces.\n\nThe IDF subsequently said a military police investigation was under way into his death.\n\nMeanwhile, the IDF's competence or willingness to investigate itself over fatal incidents has been increasingly subject to question this year.\n\nAfter the killing in Jenin of the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, Israeli officials gave misleading statements to the media, before a final internal probe falsely suggested a soldier probably mistakenly shot her because he was being fired at by militants from her location at the time.\n\nIsraeli civilians have repeatedly been targeted by Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank\n\nThe IDF routinely says it acts to protect its civilians and soldiers from \"violent riots\" during raids or protests, while officials defend its rules of engagement allowing for the use of live fire.\n\nTwo years ago, a 21-year-old Israeli soldier was killed when a large rock was thrown at him from a rooftop during an arrest raid near Jenin.\n\nThis year, two members of Israel's security forces have been killed in the escalating violence in the West Bank.\n\nOne of them, Maj Bar Falah, was shot dead in September near the separation barrier in a reported gunfight with two Palestinian militants who were also killed.\n\nThe IDF says the number of gun attacks by Palestinians targeting civilians and the military in the West Bank has risen three-fold compared with last year. It put the number at 170 by mid-September.\n\nIsraeli officials also briefed reporters that Operation Breakwater had prevented 550 separate attacks in the last two months, but did not provide further details.\n\nIn at least eight cases this year Palestinians were killed during attempted or alleged attacks against Israeli soldiers or settlers in the West Bank.\n\nOn 31 March, an Israeli bus passenger was stabbed with a screwdriver near the settlement of Efrat, leaving him badly wounded. Another Israeli civilian onboard shot dead the alleged attacker, 30-year-old Palestinian Nidal Jaafra.\n\nMeanwhile the frequent IDF raids have seen more than 1,500 Palestinians arrested since April.\n\nAseel AlBajeh, an advocacy officer with the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq, describes the overall impact of Israel's operation as \"collective punishment on the entire region\", citing further restrictions on movement, the closure of military checkpoints to Israel, denial of work permits and detentions without trial that have accompanied it.\n\nMany Palestinian families have been waiting for a clear explanation about loved ones' deaths.\n\nOmar, child of Ghada Sabatien, with a picture of his mother who was killed by an Israeli soldier\n\nA 47-year-old widow, Ghada Sabatien, was shot dead by an Israeli soldier at close range after the IDF says she \"ignored orders to halt\". It happened on 10 April in the village of Husan near Bethlehem.\n\nShe was unarmed and a subsequent report by the UN's humanitarian affairs agency said she was visually impaired. The IDF said afterwards it had opened an investigation into her death.\n\nHuman rights groups say they will seek to add many of this year's cases to a current investigation by the International Criminal Court into possible war crimes by Israel and Palestinian armed groups.\n\nIn August, 49 Palestinians were also killed in the Gaza Strip during a military escalation between Israel and Islamic Jihad.\n\nThe list of 100 fatalities does not include Palestinians who were killed this year while carrying out the attacks inside Israel.\n• None Guns and grief on the rise in the West Bank. Video, 00:07:07Guns and grief on the rise in the West Bank", "Phil Collins and his Genesis bandmates have sold the rights to their music in a deal reportedly worth $300m (£269m).\n\nConcord Music, which has bought the rights, said the sale included Collins' blockbuster solo albums No Jacket Required and ...But Seriously!\n\nWhile it did not provide a figure, the Wall Street Journal quoted $300m.\n\nThat would make it one of the biggest deals of its kind, putting Collins and Genesis behind only Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nThose two rock legends have sold their catalogues in recent deals worth between $400m and $500m. Neil Young also earned $150m by selling a 50% share in his music in 2021.\n\nStars selling their catalogues has become a major music industry trend in recent years, with artists including Blondie, Shakira, Mark Ronson, Chic, Tina Turner and The Killers also handing over control of their songs in exchange for large lump sums.\n\nFor them, the deals provide immediate financial security, while ensuring their music does not fall into complicated litigation after they die.\n\nIn return, investors - who range from record labels to hedge funds - make money from all future royalties generated by sales, streams and licensing deals.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Phil Collins This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nOriginally fronted by Peter Gabriel, Genesis were formed in 1969 and became leading lights of the progressive rock scene.\n\nThe band survived Gabriel's departure in 1975, with drummer Collins taking over lead vocals and eventually steering the band in a more pop-rock direction alongside Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford.\n\nConcord's deal does not cover contributions from Gabriel and another former member, Steve Hackett, but includes top 10 hits like Invisible Touch, Mama, That's All and Abacab.\n\nCollins' solo catalogue had previously been shopped around for a sum in the region of $200m, according to trade publication Billboard.\n\nThat eventually morphed into a bigger deal that included music by Banks and Rutherford, including Rutherford's side-project Mike + The Mechanics.\n\nCollins' run of hit singles from the 1980s and 90s - including tracks like In Against All Odds, Sussudio and Another Day In Paradise - are likely to be the most attractive element of the deal.\n\nHis most popular track on Spotify, 1981's In The Air Tonight, has been played more than 500 million times, while Genesis's most-streamed song, Invisible Touch, has about 170 million plays.\n\nConcord President Bob Valentine said the company would introduce the songs to a new generation of fans.\n\n\"In the world we live in today with Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, all these things that drive consumption of older music, there are definitely ways for us as a record company to bring some of this music back to life,\" he told the Wall Street Journal.", "The world's biggest gaming platform for children, Roblox, has removed two games that allowed players to fight and kill each other as Russians or Ukrainians.\n\nOne of them, called War on Larkiv: Ukraine, was showcased to users in the Roblox discovery section.\n\nIt clocked up 90,000 plays in less than two weeks.\n\nRoblox said that both games violated its community standards and removed them within four hours of being contacted by the BBC.\n\nWar on Larkiv was based in a fictional city that resembled the real city of Kharkiv, where hundreds of people have died in indiscriminate shelling after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February this year.\n\nThe game was launched by a developer called Russia War RP\n\nThe other game, called Battle for Ukraine, had been on the Roblox website for months.\n\nIt allowed players to watch the bombing of cities such as Mariupol, which was besieged and largely destroyed by Russian forces earlier this year.\n\nFifty million players, mainly children, log in to Roblox every day to explore, play mini-games and create their own \"experiences\".\n\nThe game was selling upgrades to weapons in exchange for Roblox's currency Robux\n\nThere are millions of these player-generated experiences.\n\nThe most popular are showcased to Roblox players through a curated home screen, but others can be found using the search function.\n\nWar on Larkiv: Ukraine grew in popularity because it was showcased and had a review score of 71% from users.\n\nIt had also gained an audience on TikTok, with 4.7 million views of videos related to the title.\n\nThe game encouraged players to upgrade their weapons in exchange for Roblox's in-game currency, Robux.\n\nThe game page read: \"Grab your guns and choose your side to fight in the War on Larkiv: Ukraine. Heavy combat is taking place right now in the fictional city of Larkiv, soldiers strive with hope and destiny.\"\n\nPlayers could choose to fight for Ukraine or Russia, with a kill count on each side updating throughout the live game that anyone on the platform could take part in.\n\nThe BBC monitored the game on and off for two days and found it had a continuous player base of about 10 to 40 people, with many sharing game chat in English, Ukrainian and Russian.\n\nPlayers could choose to spawn inside the bombed city or in the suburbs\n\nA Roblox spokesman said: \"We have strict Community Standards which govern the portrayal of real-world events. Both of the experiences in question have been removed for violating our standards following an assessment by our moderation team.\"\n\nUkrainian game developer Grisha Bolshakov, who fled his home in Kharkiv and is now living in the UK, said he would never try to make an entertainment game about the war.\n\n\"Obviously a game with this sensational topic will resonate and generate interest on social platforms, but I would never touch this topic for an entertainment product,\n\n\"It's not helping to educate players morally or take a real look at rather sad things. It's just making fun from the meat grinder happening in the real world.\"\n\nControversies are not new to Roblox, a huge sprawling world of games valued at about $24bn (£18bn).\n\nIn Battle for Ukraine the city of Mariupol is depicted with bombs falling on it from the sky\n\nRecent headlines have referred to sex rooms and inappropriate sexual content about Kim Kardashian.\n\nThere are also other war simulation games seemingly based on active Middle Eastern conflicts that have been available for over a year.\n\n\"The model is broken,\" technology and ethics researcher Stephanie Hare says of Roblox's moderation system.\n\n\"There is an argument that the company has the right to profit from content that some people find offensive, but clearly these games broke their own decency rules, so why wasn't it spotted before a reporter found it?\n\n\"It comes down to incentive - there's no penalty or enforcement, so the company can just rely on inadequate tools and staffing and this will keep happening.\"\n\nUnlike many games companies, Roblox has not stopped or suspended trading in Russia since the invasion.\n\nAt a recent Roblox developer conference, Chief Executive Dave Baszucki said Russia sees more than two million active Roblox users a day, according to Bloomberg reporting.", "Roads have been blocked and shops closed in the capital, Ouagadougou, as Burkina Faso's power struggle continues\n\nBurkina Faso's self-declared leader says the man he ousted a day ago in a coup is plotting a counter-attack.\n\nCapt Ibrahim Traoré also accused the French army of harbouring Lt Col Paul-Henri Damiba at one of its bases - but France denies any involvement.\n\nGunshots were heard in Burkina Faso's capital city Ouagadougou on Saturday and helicopters have circled overhead.\n\nProtesters started a fire outside the French embassy - an attack condemned \"with the greatest firmness\" by Paris.\n\nThe French foreign ministry told AFP news agency that the security of its compatriots was the greatest priority, adding that a crisis centre had been opened in Ouagadougou.\n\nEarlier, witnesses said troops blocked main roads around the city and shops that had been open were later shut.\n\nIn the country's second city, Bobo-Dioulasso, the gate of the French Institute was also reportedly set ablaze by protesters.\n\nFriday's apparent takeover had been announced on state TV and was the second time this year that the country's army had seized power.\n\nOn both occasions the coup leaders said they had to step in because national security was so dire.\n\nBurkina Faso controls as little as 60% of its territory, experts say, and Islamist violence is worsening. Since 2020 more than a million people have been displaced in the country due to the violence.\n\nThe African Union has demanded the return of constitutional order by July 2023 at the latest, agreeing with the regional group Ecowas that the ousting of leader Lt Col Damiba was \"unconstitutional\".\n\nEcowas earlier said it was \"inappropriate\" for army rebels to seize power when the country was working towards civilian rule.\n\nThe latest international criticism has come from the UN, whose chief António Guterres says he \"strongly condemns\" the coup.\n\nFor the second time in under 24 hours the coup leaders have issued a statement on state TV, signed by their leader Capt Traoré.\n\nThe putschists accuse France of meddling and say they are willing to seek new partners\n\nThis time they claimed Lt Damiba was planning a counter-attack because of their own willingness to work with new partners in their fight against the Islamists. The statement did not name these potential new partners, but rights groups say troops in neighbouring Mali have been working closely with Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group - although both nations deny this.\n\nOn Friday evening flanked by rebel soldiers in fatigues and black facemasks, an officer had read an announcement on national TV stating that they were kicking out Lt Damiba, dissolving the government and suspending the constitution.\n\nThat statement was also read on behalf of Capt Traoré, who said Lt Col Damiba's inability to deal with an Islamist insurgency was to blame.\n\n\"Our people have suffered enough, and are still suffering\", he said.\n\nLittle is known about Capt Traoré, the 34-year-old soldier who led an anti-jihadist unit in the north called Cobra.\n\nHis statement effectively declared himself the interim leader of Burkina Faso. But in Friday's announcement came the promise that the \"driving forces of the nation\" would in time be brought together to appoint a new civilian or military president and a new \"transitional charter\".\n\nBack in January, Lt Col Damiba's junta overthrew President Roch Kaboré and his elected government, saying they had failed to deal with Islamist violence. Lt Col Damiba told citizens \"we have more than what it takes to win this war.\"\n\nBut his administration has also not been able to quell the jihadist violence. Analysts told the BBC recently that Islamist insurgents were encroaching on territory, and military leaders had failed in their attempts to bring the military under a single unit of command.\n\nOn Monday, 11 soldiers were killed when they were escorting a convoy of civilian vehicles in Djibo in the north of the country.\n\nMany citizens feel no safer under military rule, and there have been protests in different parts of the country this week.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, some protesters took to the capital's streets calling for the removal of Lt Col Damiba.\n\nThe Islamist insurgency broke out in Burkina Faso in 2015, leaving thousands dead and forcing an estimated two million people from their homes.\n\nThe country has experienced eight successful coups since independence in 1960.", "Trooper Jack Burnell-Williams was found unresponsive at Hyde Park Barracks in London\n\nAn 18-year-old soldier has been found dead at an Army barracks in London.\n\nTrooper Jack Burnell-Williams, from Bridgend, died on Wednesday after being found unresponsive at Hyde Park Barracks just before 16:00 BST.\n\nAccording to reports, he was involved in the late Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral arrangements.\n\nAn Army spokesman said: \"Our thoughts are with the soldier's family and friends at this difficult time and we ask that their privacy is respected.\"\n\nFamily and friends are set to gather in his memory at Bryntirion Football Club in Bridgend on Saturday afternoon.\n\nHis death is not being treated as suspicious.\n\nThe case has been referred to the coroner, a Met Police spokesman said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "King Charles will not attend the climate change conference COP27, which is due to be held in Egypt next month, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.\n\nIt was responding to a story in the Sunday Times which claimed Prime Minister Liz Truss had \"ordered\" the King not to attend.\n\nThe Palace said advice had been sought by the King and given by Ms Truss.\n\n\"With mutual friendship and respect there was agreement that the King would not attend,\" the Palace stated.\n\nBefore his accession to the throne last month, the King - then the Prince of Wales - had indicated he would attend the annual conference.\n\nRoyal correspondent Jonny Dymond said the BBC had put it to the Palace the King must be personally disappointed given his long decades of passionate environmental campaigning.\n\nBut the Palace responded that the idea the King was uncomfortable was not the case, and he was ever mindful of the sovereign's role to act on the government's advice.\n\nLast November - as Prince Charles - the King travelled to Egypt with the then-government's blessing to urge the Egyptian administration on its efforts, meeting President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi during a planned visit.\n\nIn the past, the King has demonstrated his deep commitment to environmental issues and, as Prince of Wales, had a long history of campaigning to reduce the effects of climate change.\n\nOnly last year he made a speech at the COP26 opening ceremony in Glasgow, when the summit was hosted by the UK. The late Queen also gave a speech at the event, via video link.\n\nSenior Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood said he hoped \"common sense would prevail\" and the King would be allowed to go Egypt.\n\nHe said in a tweet that King Charles was a \"globally-respected voice\" on the environment whose attendance would add \"serious authority\" to the British delegation.\n\nAt last year's COP26 conference, King Charles - or Prince Charles as he was then - was one of the star turns, delivering a passionate call for world leaders to adopt a \"war-like footing\" over climate change.\n\nThis year he'll have to keep his powder dry, after what's presented, on the surface at least, as a dispute-free agreement that he shouldn't go.\n\nAlthough it's worth noting this is about not attending \"in person\", which might leave the door ajar for other virtual contributions.\n\nThere will inevitably be speculation that, below all the constitutional smoothing, this will have really disappointed the King. He has campaigned devotedly for decades, heart on sleeve, on such environmental issues.\n\nAnd it could also raise the prospect of early tensions between a new King and a new PM.\n\nBut it's a case of different role, different rules, and the King has always known that as sovereign he would have to act within a different set of politically-neutral constraints.\n\nConservative Cabinet minister Simon Clarke said the decision for the King not to attend had been made \"amicably, as far as I am aware\".\n\n\"The suggestions this morning that he was ordered to stay away are simply not true,\" he told Times Radio. \"It is the normal course of matters that this would be handled by the government rather than by the monarchy.\"\n\nThe Egyptian authorities say they hope to use their presidency of COP27 to urge the international community to act on pledges of support for developing countries to cope with the devastating impacts of climate change.\n\nHowever, there has been criticism ahead of the summit. Human Rights Watch has said Egypt has severely curtailed the work of environmental groups. Officials in Cairo said the report was \"misleading\".\n\nCOP27, a United Nations event, is being held in the coastal city of Sharm el-Sheikh from 8 to 16 November.\n\nNext week, King Charles will attend his first public engagements since the royal period of mourning came to an end, including a reception in Edinburgh for South Asian communities from across the UK and a visit to Dunfermline Abbey in Fife.\n\nA new picture of the King with the Queen Consort, Prince and Princess of Wales was released on Saturday\n\nOn Monday, Downing Street dismissed claims it \"ordered\" the King not to attend the summit.\n\nA spokesperson said it was a matter for the Royal Family whether any members address the COP27 climate conference.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman would not comment on conversations between the prime minister and the King, but said the UK had a \"proud record\" on tackling climate change.\n\nBuckingham Palace previously said the King sought advice on attending the conference from Ms Truss with \"mutual friendship and respect\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Sgt Hayley Heard says police were not prepared for the horror of April Jones's murder\n\nA detective has relived the moment she had to tell a family their five-year-old daughter would not be coming home.\n\nDet Sgt Hayley Heard was their liaison officer from the moment April Jones disappeared, 10 years ago on Saturday, until Mark Bridger was sentenced for her murder.\n\nShe praised the family, from Machynlleth, Powys, for their strength through \"dark moments\".\n\nApril was abducted on 1 October 2012, with her remains never found.\n\nNow-retired, CID officer Ms Heard remembers when April's mother Coral wanted to visit Bridger in prison, and when the parents of Madeleine McCann reached out to the family.\n\n\"I think like everybody else, we weren't prepared for the horror that unfolded,\" she said.\n\nApril went missing from Machynlleth in 2012. Mark Bridger was later jailed for life for her murder\n\nAlong with a colleague from the public protection unit, Ms Heard was assigned to the family the morning after April disappeared, describing the first few hours as \"chaotic, as you can imagine\".\n\nShe said: \"Everyone wanted to look for April, family members were turning up, there was a media frenzy, everybody wanted to know what had happened.\"\n\nThe effort to look for April became the largest search in British police history, with officers and members of the public arriving in Machynlleth from all over the UK.\n\nMs Heard said the family were \"overwhelmed\" with the support.\n\nThe bad news was given to the family in a room called the \"sanctuary\", which was a space away from their home, and she added: \"The sanctuary was really important, they were having some quite harrowing information shared with them about their daughter.\n\nDet Sgt Heard was with the family throughout the harrowing experience - including speaking to the media\n\n\"We didn't want to associate all of that bad news within their home. It was a place we could reflect on the horror that was happening really.\"\n\nMs Heard said April's family were \"incredible\" in the face of such horror.\n\nThey received hundreds of letters from all over the world, which she had to read before they reached the family.\n\n\"They were calling April, Little Welsh Princess, hoping she would be found,\" she said.\n\nMs Heard said Coral and Paul Jones were contacted by families in similar situations to them \"to offer them comfort because they knew what they were going through\", including Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of Madeleine McCann.\n\nOn the 10th anniversary of April's disappearance, the retired police officer has been reflecting on it\n\n\"They were just telling them they were aware as parents, bereaved parents, what they were going through, because Mark Bridger has never said where April is, which is difficult for them really to actually have any closure on what has happened, and there was obviously similarities with the McCanns,\" she said.\n\nMs Heard also remembers vividly the moment she told the family April would not be returning home.\n\n\"It was horrendous, that's the only way I can describe it. We almost had to brace ourselves for the news that we had to share with them,\" she said.\n\n\"They were made aware there had been significant developments in the investigation and that they confirmed that April was not coming back home to them.\n\n\"I remember Coral's reaction, she just collapsed. Paul was very composed. I think it was something they couldn't comprehend at that time.\n\n\"As the investigation unfolded, I think they did realise that she wasn't coming home.\"\n\nThe whole community in Machynlleth got involved in the search for April\n\nShe said liaison officers became \"their family\" and remembers Mr Jones saying life would be like \"learning to walk again without a crutch\".\n\nMark Bridger stood trial at Mold Crown Court for four-and-a-half weeks, the jury unanimously convicting him of April's sexually-motivated murder.\n\nBridger received a whole life tariff and will never be released from prison.\n\nApril's family were provided with special accommodation throughout the trial, and Ms Heard and her colleague remained with them throughout the proceedings.\n\n\"We would collect them in the morning and then we would stay with them throughout the trial,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the most challenging thing I have ever dealt with.\n\n\"They were relieved he had that sort of sentence - Coral always wanted to know where April was, why hadn't he told her where April was, so that she could finally put her little girl to rest.\"\n\nDet Sgt Heard comforted and supported Coral and Paul Jones through the trial\n\nShortly after Bridger was convicted, it emerged that while on remand at HMP Manchester, he told a prison priest he disposed of April's body in a river - thought to be the Dyfi, close to where he was arrested.\n\n\"She actually wanted to go and visit him in prison, to ask personally where April was, what had he done with April, which was awful, and to actually see the torment she was going through was awful,\" Ms Heard said.\n\n\"She was incredible, as was Paul, they dealt with the whole thing with dignity really considering how they must have been feeling.\"\n\nCoral was discouraged from visiting Bridger in prison and the family launched a campaign to change the law to make children safer.\n\nMs Heard added: \"They were very broken, coming to terms with what happened, but they grew from strength to strength - their courage came from their family members.\n\n\"Coral felt she wanted to give something back, and if April's death could mean something, then she would have achieved something.\"\n\nReflecting on her time with the family, she said: \"It was a real privilege to be part of the investigation team to be accepted into the family like we were.\n\n\"There were dark moments, there were moments of despair - I think everybody felt the pain.\"", "Mr Ashoori said he will be running the marathon to raise awareness about other detainees\n\nA man held in Iran for nearly five years on spying charges, before being released alongside Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, says he is determined to finish the London Marathon.\n\nAnoosheh Ashoori, from Lewisham, south-east London, was released in March.\n\nTalking to the BBC's Today programme, the 68-year-old said he was dedicating his run to the people of Iran and its prisoners.\n\n\"I am determined to cross the finish line, if my knees don't fail,\" he said.\n\nHe is running for Amnesty International and Hostage International at the race on Sunday.\n\nThe British-Iranian dual national was arrested in August 2017 while visiting his elderly mother in Tehran and was later convicted of allegedly spying for Israel's intelligence service Mossad, despite having lived in the UK for 20 years. He denied all charges.\n\nMr Ashoori said while being held in Evin prison he started running in circles in a small prison yard, and gradually built up his stamina so he was able to run for up to two hours.\n\nAnoosheh Ashoori flew back to the UK alongside Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in March\n\n\"In the prison we had very little opportunity for exercise,\" he said.\n\n\"We had a small yard we could run in circles which put strain on our knees.\n\n\"At one point we were banned from using all the sports facilities, the very little that they had, so we were practicing in a patio but we were determined to carry on.\"\n\nMr Ashoori said physical exercise was a \"good remedy\" to \"fight insanity when you are going through such intense suffering\".\n\nMr Ashoori said he was running to \"let all the ones who are left behind know they are not forgotten\"\n\nMr Ashoori, who will be running with his son Aryan, also urged the British Government to do more to help negotiate the release of other detainees held in Iran, like Morad Tahbaz.\n\nHe added he was running to \"let all the ones who are left behind know they are not forgotten\".\n\n\"What will be going through my mind when I'm running is my solidarity with the people of Iran and with the women's movement,\" he said.\n\n\"My heart will be with them and I hope that it will come into fruition.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Office of the President of Ukraine The convoy had planned to go to the Russian-occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region\n\nAt least 30 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a Russian rocket strike on a civilian convoy in south Ukraine, local officials say.\n\nA huge crater next to a row of vehicles in the city of Zaporizhzhia testifies to the violence of the attack. Windows and windscreens were smashed in.\n\nThe BBC saw half a dozen bodies lying at the scene, apparently civilians. Baggage and coats strewed the tarmac.\n\nOne survivor told the BBC her boss had been killed in the attack.\n\n\"She had two kids. I left the cafe to use the restroom when it happened. I ran back and tried to find her. The cafe was demolished, there were many bodies around. It was all so very horrifying,\" Viktoriia Yosypenko said.\n\nViktoriia Yosypenko told the BBC her boss was killed in the attack\n\nReacting to the attack in the early hours of Friday on the outskirts of the regional capital of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia was a \"state-terrorist\".\n\nHe said Russia launched 16 rockets on the city, and vowed to punish perpetrators for \"every lost Ukrainian life\".\n\nMeanwhile, a Russian-installed local official blamed Ukraine for the attack.\n\nThe convoy was hit as people were preparing to travel to the Russian-occupied part of the region to pick up their relatives and also deliver humanitarian aid.\n\nNear the missile's impact crater, the BBC spoke to Kateryna Holoborod, sat on her suitcase in a state of shock.\n\n'We arrived in a line, to join a column going towards Kherson,\" she said.\n\n\"We got out to see what number we had in the queue. Then the first rocket hit, behind the wagons.\n\n\"We dropped to the ground. Then the second one hit in the centre of the queue. There was glass everywhere, people screaming and running. I don't remember much.\n\n\"It was very scary. I then got up to see what happened, help the injured. I tried to help an injured young man when the third explosion happened.\"\n\nUkraine said the attack was \"another terrorist act\" by Russia\n\nThe attack comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing for a signing ceremony in Moscow to annex Zaporizhzhia along with Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson regions.\n\nThe move follows self-styled referendums in the eastern and southern regions, which have been condemned by Ukraine and the West as a sham.\n\nRussia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, and Moscow currently controls the majority of the Zaporizhzhia region, including Europe's biggest nuclear power plant there - but not the regional capital.\n\nMoscow-installed regional official Vladimir Rogov blamed \"Ukrainian militants\" for the Zaporizhzhia attack, Russian state-run media reported.\n\nA Ukrainian transport company in Dnipro was hit in overnight Russian strikes, local officials said\n\nIn a separate development, one person was killed and five injured in overnight Russian strikes by Iskander missiles on the central city of Dnipro, about 70km (43 miles) north of Zaporizhzhia, local officials said.\n\nThey said a transport company was targeted, and as many as 52 buses were burnt and another 98 damaged.\n\nSeveral high-rise buildings, offices and a shop were also hit.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC’s Abdujalil Abdurasulov reports from Ukrainian front line positions in the Kherson region", "The strategy from the government is that there will be no changes to the mini-budget.\n\nThey believe that the fleshing out of the details of their economic plans on planning laws, energy, childcare, worker visas - will persuade markets that UK growth will accelerate.\n\nThe combination of these reforms over the next few weeks and a medium-term plan to reduce the national debt, with \"iron discipline\" on existing spending plans, will, they argue, turn things around.\n\nThose spending plans were set in cash terms last year. They do not account for 10% inflation. And the chancellor himself would not commit to updating benefits in line with inflation, as was previous policy. Pension increases will continue to be protected.\n\nThe \"fiscal surprise\" was \"small,\" a reference to the £2bn value of the scrapping of the 45p tax rate. That means it is not possible, say the government, to have caused the market chaos.\n\nInstead they view the turmoil as the result of the US Federal Reserve aggressively hiking interest rates, partly leading to a strong dollar that helps rein in its inflation.\n\nUltimately, the plan is that the economic reform package will enable the Bank of England to bring down interest rates as quickly as possible after inflation is defeated.\n\nThat is what is underpinning the offensive from the prime minister and Cabinet. If it works, the markets will realise that they were wrong about the mini-budget, and the situation will recover.\n\nIf it does not work there will be weeks of uncertainty as currency and borrowing markets continue to move wildly in response to every announcement, rumour of a statement or piece of economic data.\n\nIt is impossible to disentangle the market reaction from the politics. Already a small number of senior Conservatives are breaking ranks with their leadership on aspects of the mini-budget.\n\nAmid all of this the independent financial watchdog the Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) chairman will meet the prime minister in Downing Street.\n\nThings have moved rather quickly since his offer to do a forecast alongside the mini-budget was rejected, contributing, many in the world of finance argue, to the chaos.\n\nThe OBR, its costings, methods and forecasts are now central to the plan to regain confidence. The Treasury orthodoxy, the \"bean counters\", and the \"abacus economics\", strike back.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTech billionaire Elon Musk has presented the latest prototype of a humanoid robot being developed by his Tesla electric car company.\n\nOptimus appeared on stage at a Silicon Valley event, where it waved to the audience and raised its knees.\n\nThe CEO said the robot was work-in-progress but could be on sale to the public in a few years' time.\n\nTesla's mass-market robots will be tested by working jobs in the car factories, company engineers say.\n\nThe prototype was wheeled on stage during an annual Tesla AI [artificial intelligence] Day presentation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople were shown a video of Optimus performing simple tasks, such as watering plants, carrying boxes and lifting metal bars.\n\nMr Musk said the robots would be produced en masse, at a cost lower than $20,000 (£17,900), and be available in three to five years.\n\nThe Tesla boss spoke of \"a future of abundance\" ahead.\n\n\"It really is a fundamental transformation of civilization as we know it,\" he continued.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nInvestors and financial analysts have expressed scepticism that Tesla will turn to robotics, advising it to focus, instead, on projects closer to Tesla's core business of electric cars.\n\nBut Mr Musk said he wanted to solve one of the toughest problems artificial intelligence: how to make a machine that can replace a human.\n\nThe entrepreneur, who once warned of artificial intelligence being a threat to humanity, said that Tesla wanted to make sure the transition to a society in which robots did the work and people reaped the benefits was a safe one.\n\n\"We always want to be careful we don't go down the Terminator path,\" he cautioned, referring to a blockbuster film about a killer cyborg.\n\nHe added that Tesla was building in safeguards, including a stop button that could not be be tampered with.\n\nMr Musk contended that shareholders would determine if the publicly traded company was socially responsible.\n\nTesla's AI Day is aimed at recruiting and showcasing latest products.", "Protests have taken place on the streets of Havana, Cuba's capital city, after Hurricane Ian knocked out power to the entire country on 27 September.\n\nOnly parts of the city have had the lights turned back on, inspiring residents to take to darkened streets in protest at the government's response.\n\nOutside of the capital, much of the island is also still without power, as work crews attempt to repair electricity poles that were damaged in the storm.", "Keith Bennett was killed in 1964 and is the only victim of the pair whose remains have never been found\n\nThe search for the body of one of the Moors murderers' victims has restarted after \"potential human remains\" were found on moorland, police have said.\n\nKeith Bennett, 12, was one of five children tortured and killed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in the 1960s, but his body has never been recovered.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said it had received information about a \"site of interest\" on Saddleworth Moor.\n\nKeith's brother had been told about the \"potential development\", it added.\n\nKeith disappeared on 16 June 1964 while on his way to see his grandmother in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester.\n\nPolice searched Saddleworth Moor in 1986 following reports Hindley and Brady had confessed to his murder.\n\nForensic officers could be seen by a tent set up on the moorland\n\nHis mother Winnie Johnson, who died in 2012, spent her life trying to locate her son, even taking to the moor herself, armed with a spade.\n\nA plaque in her and Keith's memory was placed on the moor, with the inscription: \"To Winnie and Keith. May you both RIP. Keith will come home.\"\n\nGMP's Force Review Officer Martin Bottomley said police had been contacted on Thursday by the representative of an author who has been researching the murders.\n\nHe said after \"direct contact with the author, we were informed that he had discovered what he believes are potential human remains in a remote location on the moors\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Daniel Sandford looks back at the revulsion caused by Brady's crimes\n\nMr Bottomley said the author had agreed to meet officers \"to elaborate on his find and direct us to a site of interest\".\n\nHe said after a site assessment, specialist officers had \"begun initial exploration activity\".\n\n\"We are in the very early stages of assessing the information which has been brought to our attention, but have made the decision to act on it in line with a normal response to a report of this kind,\" he said.\n\n\"It is far too early to be certain whether human remains have been discovered and this is expected to take some time.\"\n\nSeveral police vehicles were also at the scene\n\nBrady, who was born in Glasgow but later moved to Manchester, was jailed in 1966 for the murders of John Kilbride, aged 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17.\n\nIn 1985, after being moved to a secure hospital, Brady also admitted murdering Keith and 16-year-old Pauline Reade.\n\nThe children had been abducted by Brady and his partner Hindley, who died in prison in 2002, between 1963 and 1965.\n\nA wider view of the remote area on Saddleworth Moor\n\nThe pair were caught after Hindley's brother-in-law witnessed the murder of Edward and reported it to police, who found his body at Brady and Hindley's shared home in Hyde, Greater Manchester.\n\nLesley Ann was the first victim to be found on Saddleworth Moor, after police received a tip-off from one of Brady's neighbours, and subsequent searches of the area unearthed the remains of Pauline and John.\n\nKeith's body was never found and Brady, who died in 2017, never revealed where it was buried, despite being taken to the moor to join a police search in 1987.\n\nIn 2009, police said a covert search operation, which used a wealth of scientific experts, had also failed to discover any trace of the boy.\n\nPolice have conducted numerous searches for Keith's remains, including in 1987 when they were joined by Brady\n\nFollowing Brady's death, his lawyer Robin Makin told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was with his client less than two hours before he died but the whereabouts of the remains of Keith Bennett did not come up in conversation.\n\n\"I would be very surprised if he really had information that was useful,\" he said.\n\n\"He did go to the moors a long time ago and I suspect that if there had been information for him that he could have provided, he would have provided it then.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Protests erupted in Tehran in the days after Mahsa Amini's death\n\nNine European nationals have been arrested in Iran during deadly street protests sparked by a custody death.\n\nIntelligence officers detained people deemed to be \"agents of foreign spy organisations\" either at protests or \"behind the scenes\", local media said.\n\nThe violence shows no sign of easing, with the death toll continuing to rise.\n\nProtests erupted in the capital Tehran and spread through the country after Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini died having spent time in police custody.\n\nThe 22-year-old, from the north-western city of Saqez, was arrested in Tehran on 13 September by morality police officers for allegedly violating the strict law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf.\n\nOfficers did not specify where the nine Europeans had been arrested, but gave 10 instances of what it said was involvement by foreigners and foreign-based opposition groups in the demonstrations.\n\nThose detained are from Poland, Sweden, Germany, Italy, France and the Netherlands, Iran's intelligence ministry says.\n\nThe German, French, British and Swedish embassies were among those who were warned over the involvement of their \"agents\" in the anti-government protests, the ministry added.\n\nIt also claimed that before and during the protests, several other plots had taken place to either prepare for or coincide with the unrest, including cyber-attacks and the spread of \"fake, pro-riot news\" by non-state media such as BBC Persian and Iran International.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Mahsa Amini became a symbol of defiance in Iran\n\nMs Amini collapsed after being taken to a detention centre to be \"educated\" and died in hospital following three days in a coma. Her family believe she was beaten by officers but police insist she died after suffering sudden heart failure.\n\nIran is partly blaming \"foreign enemies\" for the chaos that has ensued, which has seen dozens killed.\n\nIn its latest estimate, posted to Twitter, the Norway-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR) said: \"At least 83 people including children, are confirmed to have been killed in [the] #IranProtests.\"\n\nNineteen more people were reported to have died on Friday following a standoff between protesters and police at a police station in Zahedan, the provincial capital of the southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province.\n\nAmong those dead was a Revolutionary Guards colonel, the AFP news agency reports, though it was not immediately clear whether the clashes were connected to the unrest sparked by Ms Amini's death.\n\n\"Nineteen people were killed and 20 injured in the incident,\" regional governor Hossein Khiabani told state TV, adding: \"Provincial intelligence officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Colonel Ali Mousavi was also killed.\"\n\nSistan-Baluchistan, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan, is a flashpoint for clashes with drug smuggling gangs, as well as rebels from the Baluchi minority and Sunni Muslim extremist groups.\n\nEarlier on Friday, state media reported that security forces had returned fire when a police station in Zahedan came under attack by gunmen.", "Ukraine's forces have mounted a sweeping counter-attack to re-take territory in the east\n\nRussia has withdrawn its troops from the strategic Ukrainian town of Lyman, in a move seen as a significant setback for its campaign in the east.\n\nThe retreat came amid fears thousands of soldiers would be encircled in the town, Russia's defence ministry said.\n\nRecapturing Lyman could let Ukrainian soldiers reach more contested territory in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelenky said on Sunday the town had been \"completely cleared\" of Russian troops.\n\nVideo footage shared online on Saturday - before the Russian retreat was announced - showed Ukrainian soldiers waving their national flag on the outskirts of the town.\n\nLyman had been used as a logistics hub by Russia, making its recapture all the more significant to Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe battlefield setback prompted the Chechen leader and hardline Moscow ally, Ramzan Kadyrov, to comment that Russia should consider using low-yield nuclear weapons in the face of such defeats.\n\nLyman is in Donetsk - one of four partially-occupied Ukrainian regions which Russia declared it was annexing on Friday. Ukraine and its Western allies have dismissed the move as an illegal land-grab.\n\nAn adviser to Ukraine's defence minister earlier told the BBC that recent gains around Lyman - following days of intense fighting - represented a \"considerable success\".\n\nRussian fighters had been given the chance to surrender, Yurik Sak said, and would face better treatment as prisoners of war than from the Russian military leadership.\n\nShortly afterwards, the Kremlin said it was withdrawing its forces from the town, using its Soviet-era name of Krasnyi (Red) Lyman, acknowledging that the Ukrainians had \"significant superiority in forces\" in the area.\n\nMilitary analysts say that Kyiv currently has momentum in the war, and it has vowed to forge ahead with a counter-offensive to reclaim all territory under occupation.\n\nIn a speech on Friday, Mr Zelensky said efforts to \"liberate our entire land\" would act as proof that international law could not be violated.", "More than 50,000 workers are taking part in a strike resulting in the worst rail disruption of the year so far.\n\nMembers of four unions are staging a 24-hour walkout in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.\n\nIt means only 11% of usual train services are running, with large areas of the UK with no services at all.\n\nUnions say there has been little progress in resolving disputes, while rail bosses want pay to be linked to modernisation.\n\nIt is the first time the four unions - RMT, Aslef, Unite and the TSSA - have walked out on the same day. The co-ordinated action involves about 54,000 members, meaning services are more disrupted than on previous strike days when only one or two unions were striking.\n\nLarge parts of the network have virtually ground to a halt with only about one in 10 services running, and trains starting later and finishing earlier than usual.\n\nNo trains are running between London and major cities including Edinburgh, Brighton and Newcastle.\n\nSome operators including Northern, Avanti West Coast and Southeastern are not running any trains for the entire day. Heathrow Express is also suspended.\n\nIn Scotland, ScotRail is running only 20% of services between 07:30 BST and 18:30 in the central belt, Borders and Fife, with no trains running elsewhere on the network.\n\nMany who had planned journeys to the capital for the London Marathon are having to rethink their plans. Those running the major charity fundraising event have to collect their event pack at ExCel London by the end of Saturday.\n\nMost services on Sunday will start later than usual following Saturday's disruption, but London Marathon has said Southeastern trains would get passengers to the start line on time.\n\nThe strike will also affect delegates travelling to and from the Conservative party conference, which begins on Sunday, as well as thousands of people heading to football matches and other events.\n\nKaren Andrews received a ballot place in the London marathon after six years of trying to secure a spot\n\nKaren Andrews, from Staffordshire, is raising money for her local hospital's breast care unit, where she was treated for cancer.\n\nWhen the strike was announced, she says all her plans were \"thrown into disarray\": \"Every morning... I've thought how are we going to work this out.\"\n\nIn the end her husband had to travel to London during the week to collect Karen's race pack and is driving her to the capital for the race.\n\n\"I understand people wanting pay rises, of course, but it's hitting normal people\",\" she says.\n\n\"I had to come to London a day earlier, and I will stay until Monday - so all this costs,\" says fellow runner David Wright, who lives in Dover.\n\n\"I'm very disappointed in Mick Lynch,\" he tells BBC News. \"Strikes don't work.\"\n\n\"I'm also angry with the government - they are not doing enough,\" he says.\n\nSpeaking from a picket line at London's Euston Station, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: \"We haven't targeted the London Marathon, we've more targeted the Tory conference, if we're honest with you - because they're the people responsible for this mess.\"\n\nHe apologised for the inconvenience caused to people, adding that they would much rather have a settlement.\n\nBut he said members had to keep going with the dispute, which has lasted nearly six months. He said he believed workers had the public's full support.\n\nHe said on Saturday that members will be balloted again on further strikes. The six-month mandate for strikes runs out at the end of November.\n\nMainline stations such as London's Paddington were empty on Saturday\n\nEli Skipper, an ambulance responder based in Leicester, is among the many shift workers affected by the action. She told BBC News she has had to cancel her scheduled work as she is unable to get to the event in Nottingham. Further strike action on 8 October means she has also had to cancel next Saturday's shift.\n\n\"This is a large loss of earnings for me, particularly in the current crisis - with rising cost of living - and on top of two shifts cancellations due to the Queen's funeral.\" says Eli, 27\n\nBut she adds: \"I support the strikes. I understand what people are standing for. The government needs to listen to the unions.\n\n\"Some of their concerns are about safety, so it's not just about wages.\"\n\nThe RMT union expects more than 40,000 of its members who work at Network Rail and 16 train companies will not show up for work on Saturday. Joining them are 9,000 train drivers who are members of Aslef, working at 12 train companies.\n\nThe RMT's Mick Lynch says members will be balloted again next week\n\nThe TSSA also expects about 5,000 of its staff to walk out, alongside a few hundred members of the Unite union.\n\nAslef is planning a further train drivers' strike on 5 October, and another RMT walkout is scheduled for 8 October.\n\nThe Department for Transport said disruption over the weekend would \"push passengers further away\" and called on union bosses to reconsider.\n\nThe new Transport Secretary, Anne Marie Trevelyan, has so far met the general secretaries of both Aslef and the RMT, which has been described as a \"good start\".\n\nMick Whelan, general secretary of Aslef, said the train drivers' union would continue with talks and remained optimistic. He told BBC Breakfast: \"We're not very close at all - but again, every time we meet there's an opportunity for something else on the table.\"\n\nMembers of the public arriving at train stations on Saturday have been left with few travel options\n\nAslef maintains many drivers are effectively being given a pay cut because of the rising cost of living.\n\nRail bosses have consistently said they want to give employees a pay rise, but there is pressure to save money after the Covid pandemic when the rail service had to be propped with taxpayers' money.\n\nThe industry argues reforms are necessary to make the service more cost efficient, but the RMT rejected the latest pay offer of 4% in the first year, plus another 4% in the second year, which was conditional on reforms.\n\nNetwork Rail has repeatedly called on the union to allow members to vote on the offer, which it has called \"a decent package\".\n\nRoyal Mail workers are also on picket lines outside delivery and sorting offices on Saturday, on the second day of their 48-hour strike, in a dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nCommunication Workers Union members also plan to strike for 24 hours from 04:00 on 13, 20, and 25 October and 28 November. The union said it reflects the \"level of anger\" workers feel.\n\nThe Royal Mail Group said further strikes would make its financial position worse and threaten workers' job security.\n\nHave you been affected by the current train strikes? You can share your experience by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Russia has not commented on the reported detention of Ihor Murashov\n\nRussian troops have detained the director of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Ukraine's state nuclear regulator Enerhoatom says.\n\nIt says Ihor Murashov was held as his car was on its way from the facility to the nearby town of Enerhodar at about 16:00 local time (14:00 BST) on Friday.\n\nHe was then blindfolded and is believed to have been taken to a prison facility in Enerhodar, Enerhoatom's president told the BBC.\n\nMoscow seized Europe's biggest nuclear plant in March, and kept on its Ukrainian staff.\n\nBoth Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of repeatedly shelling the plant, amid global concerns that this could lead to a major radiation incident in Europe.\n\nIn a statement published on Saturday, Enerhoatom president Petro Kotin said that Mr Murashov \"bears main and exclusive responsibility for the nuclear and radiation safety\" of the nuclear plant.\n\nHe said Friday's detention \"jeopardises the safety of operation of Ukraine and Europe's largest nuclear power plant\".\n\nIn addition, he told the BBC the detention happened as Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the annexation of four regions of Ukraine, including Zaporizhzhia.\n\nMr Kontin said representatives of Russia's nuclear state company Rosatom had visited the plant \"just two days ago\". They said the power plant would be transferred from Ukrainian control to Rosatom's control in line with the annexation of the region.\n\nMr Kontin said he believed the move to kidnap Mr Musharov was an attempt to try and get him to accept the transfer of the power plant from Ukraine to Russia.\n\n\"They are trying to make him accept the move of [the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant] from Ukraine to Rosatom. But I am sure he is against it. Many times before he refused to accept the Russian world and so on,\" Mr Kontin said.\n\nThe plant's president appealed to the International Atomic Energy Agency to demand the immediate release of the plant's chief, accusing Russia of \"nuclear terrorism\".\n\nThe six-reactor Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is located near Enerhodar, in the occupied part of Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nUkraine says Russian troops are using the station as a military base and that employees are in effect held at gunpoint.\n\nOn Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the annexation of the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk regions - a move widely condemned by Ukraine and the West.\n\nMoscow does not fully control any of the four regions in Ukraine's east and south.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis week, one Russian newspaper, Moskovsky Komsomolets, concluded: \"Vladimir Putin has nowhere to retreat. So, he'll continue to attack.\"\n\nCue St George's Hall of the Kremlin Palace and the controversial signing ceremony in front of MPs, senators and officials.\n\nVladimir Putin's decision to annex the four Ukrainian territories (\"incorporate\" in Kremlinspeak) is the Russian president's latest offensive in his battle with Ukraine and the West.\n\nThrough annexation, the Kremlin is trying to change the facts on the ground (at a time when Russia has been losing ground in Ukraine).\n\nMr Putin wants to present a fait accompli to Kyiv and to the West.\n\nIt raises the stakes considerably in the president's standoff with Ukraine and the Western world.\n\nThe Kremlin event was carefully choreographed for maximum patriotic effect: plenty of applause for the president from the invited audience; a stirring rendition of the national anthem; and Mr Putin and the four Kremlin-appointed administrators of the annexed territories clasping hands and chanting \"Russia! Russia!\" along with everyone in the hall.\n\nBut declaring \"this is my land now\" doesn't make it true. Especially in the light of the so-called \"referendums\" in the occupied territories, which were not real referendums at all. They were Kremlin-conceived, Kremlin-controlled events designed as a smokescreen for Moscow to grab 15% of Ukraine's territory. Ukraine will not accept this annexation; neither will the international community as a whole.\n\n\"The United States will never, never, never recognise Russia's claim on Ukraine sovereign territory,\" US President Joe Biden said on Thursday, while UN Secretary General António Guterres had already said the annexation \"would have no legal value and deserves to be condemned\".\n\nBut that still leaves the question: what now? How will Mr Putin respond when Ukrainian troops push on to try to reclaim their land?\n\nRussia has already warned that any attack on its \"new territories\" will be viewed as an attack on the territorial integrity of Russia. The Kremlin says it reserves the right to respond \"with all means available to it\".\n\nThat includes, potentially, nuclear weapons. In recent weeks, senior Russian officials have been dropping unsubtle hints about Moscow's nuclear arsenal.\n\nIn his speech today, Vladimir Putin said the United States had created a \"precedent\" by using nuclear weapons against Japan at the end of World War Two.\n\nThat comment won't have gone unnoticed by Western governments.\n\nRussia's nuclear sabre-rattling has been causing concern in the West. But it's worrying people inside Russia, too. This week, an editorial in the country's mainstream Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper was heavily critical of \"senior Russian officials\" for making \"nuclear threats\".\n\n\"It is incredible that today… high-ranking officials in Russia start talking about the nuclear button,\" the editorial continued. \"They do this without a second thought… They even forget to make the qualification so important for the world to hear: 'Of course, we mustn't allow this under any circumstance.'\n\n\"To allow, in thoughts and words, the possibility of a nuclear conflict is a sure step to allowing it in reality.\"\n\nWhat struck me most about President Putin's annexation speech was just how full it was of anti-Western bile. The Russian president seems set on whipping up nationalistic, anti-Western sentiment in the country.\n\nIt's a useful diversion from the problems at home and the battlefields of Ukraine.", "Enough is Enough members protest in Birmingham on Saturday\n\nProtests have been taking place across the UK on a day of action highlighting issues including the increased cost of living and the climate crisis.\n\nEnough is Enough, a campaign set up in response to the rising cost of living, held events in cities across the UK.\n\nIt comes on the day energy price rises came into effect for millions.\n\nMembers of Extinction Rebellion (XR), Just Stop Oil and the Revolutionary Communist Group (RCG) were also among those marching in London on Saturday.\n\nThousands attended the demonstrations, which also coincided with postal and rail strikes. People attended rallies in cities including Birmingham, Glasgow and Belfast.\n\nPrices are twice as high as last winter, with an 80% increase in domestic gas and electricity bills - although this has been cushioned by a government cap on the cost per unit.\n\nThe government has said its energy guarantee would cost £60bn for the first six months, but industry analysts suggest the total bill could be between £130bn and £150bn.\n\nAs well as the huge rises in energy bills coming into effect, the rallies are also against the government's recent mini-budget, which included a £45bn package of tax cuts.\n\nThose taking part include supporters of Don't Pay UK - a group encouraging householders to cancel their direct debits if the government does not offer further support to families.\n\nOne protester said: \"The people want and desperately need change.\"\n\nMusicians were among those taking part\n\nThe climate campaigners brought Westminster Bridge to a standstill as people sat in the road, chanting slogans about the environment and playing instruments.\n\nA woman called Meg, a member of Doctors For Extinction Rebellion, who was taking part in the march said: \"This is a climate emergency and people are already dying, more are going to die from the effects of climate change.\"\n\nSome carried a banner saying capitalism was \"the enemy of Mother Earth\", others were protesting more specifically against the government.\n\nA man, giving his name as George, criticised the Conservatives' record on fossil fuels and their financial record.\n\n\"No government can run if it's spending more, like vastly more, than it's bringing in,\" he said.\n\nIn Birmingham - where the Conservative party conference begins on Sunday - people burned mock energy bills in response to the rise in the cost of gas and electricity.\n\nThe campaign wants a real pay rise, cut to energy bills and a tax on the rich\n\nXR staged a protest in Edinburgh as people marched to the Scottish Parliament.\n\nRetired Army officer Mike Grant, 62, said: \"The climate crisis hit the UK with a vengeance this summer. The science has been clear for years but now we are seeing what that means in reality.\"\n\nAnd architect Simon Clark, also 62, said: \"The fossil fuel industry has openly enslaved our society, allowing it to create havoc in the environment whilst making record profits with complete impunity.\"\n\nProtester Lily Holder, 29, who was on a London march organised by Enough is Enough said: \"It's time to funnel our collective rage into something active and productive.\"\n\nShe was among a group supporting striking unions, like the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT), at King's Cross.\n\nSome 50,000 workers from four unions are taking part in a strike on Saturday, resulting in the worst rail disruption of the year so far.\n\n\"This is an opportunity to express a shared sense of disillusionment in our Tory government,\" she said, adding: \"The people want and desperately need change - and they need it soon. This winter is a frightening prospect and is going to show the true cruelty of our government.\"\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss has said she wants to \"get the economy growing\" and is maintaining an \"iron grip on the national finances\"\n\nShe has resisted calls to reverse the tax cuts announced in Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-budget or bring forward publication of the economic assessment of their plans. Mr Kwarteng says further economic plans being announced next month will include a \"credible plan\" to get finances back on track.\n\nProtests have also been held about the death of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini\n\nProtests have also been held in London following the death of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini. They included one in Trafalgar Square, where people gathered to make their views heard. The 22-year-old woman died after she was detained by morality police.\n\nDemonstrations have been taking place across the world, with those in Iran becoming increasingly violent and dozens of people being killed.", "Flt Sgt Hurrell's remains were discovered in 2019 after Dutch authorities excavated the crash site on farmland near the village of Eefde, Lochem\n\nA London-born WW2 pilot has been buried, 78 years after he was killed in action.\n\nFlt Sgt William Robert Stephen Hurrell, from East Ham, died when his RAF Typhoon was hit by an enemy plane over Arnhem in September 1944.\n\nHis remains were discovered in 2019 after Dutch authorities excavated the crash site on farmland near the village of Eefde, Lochem in the Netherlands.\n\nHe was buried at Jonkerbos War Cemetery in the Netherlands.\n\nThe pilot was flying in a formation of six aircraft on an armed reconnaissance north of Arnhem when they were attacked by up to 60 enemy fighter planes.\n\nThe service was attended by members of Flt Sgt Hurrell's family, who had travelled from Australia, representatives of the RAF, the British Embassy in the Netherlands, and dignitaries from the municipality of Lochem.\n\nHis great niece Brydie Hurrell, said: \"We grew up knowing that Bill was shot down at the end of the war and that his parents had never found him. We knew he was in the Netherlands - we just weren't sure where exactly.\n\n\"When we heard about the salvage project we were over the moon. Representing the rest of my family back home means a lot.\n\n\"Bill's parents and his brother, my grandfather, died never knowing where he was, but we now have closure for them and for ourselves.\"\n\nThe RAF's Queen's Colour Squadron remove the Union Flag from Flt Sgt Hurrell's coffin before laying him to rest\n\nTracey Bowers, of the Ministry of Defence, said: \"It has been an absolute privilege to arrange this ceremony for Flt Sgt William Hurrell and I am grateful for the help given by the community of Lochem.\n\n\"I am honoured to stand alongside his military and blood family to pay him this final tribute.\"\n\nAfter leaving Downham Market, Norfolk, on 29 March 1943 for a raid on Berlin, the group's flight was designated \"missing believed killed\".\n\nThe crash site was later located in Lake Markermeer and, in 2020, the remains were removed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About 20 members of the group were held for several days after the raid\n\nLeaders of a Jewish sect arrested on suspicion of human trafficking and sex crimes in Mexico have been freed.\n\nTheir lawyer said the pair, who are foreign citizens, were released on Thursday night for lack of evidence.\n\nIt followed a mass breakout of about 20 members of the sect held in a government facility after the raid on their jungle base last week.\n\nThe sect, Lev Tahor, is known for extremist practices and imposing a strict regime on its followers.\n\nIt advocates child marriage, inflicts harsh punishments even for minor transgressions and requires women and girls as young as three years old to completely cover up with robes.\n\nA source who was involved in the operation against the group told the BBC the decision to free the pair undermined \"the impressive and untainted legal work accomplished by the Attorney General's Office and the police prior to and during the raid\".\n\nThe two men had been under arrest since the raid on 23 September. Israel's foreign ministry identified them as an Israeli and a Canadian citizen.\n\nThe lawyer, Yaret Jiménez, told Spanish news agency Efe that her clients were \"100% acquitted\" of the alleged offences.\n\nMs Jiménez suggested the accusations against her clients were used as a pretext by the authorities to carry out the raid in order to remove a child from the compound.\n\nA three-year-old boy was released in the raid and reunited with his father, a former sect member. The pair flew back to his father's home in Israel on Tuesday.\n\nThe operation was the result of two years of secret activity which began when the man, Yisrael Amir, appealed to a former member of Israel's domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet, for help to get his son out.\n\nThe group's compound, 11 miles (17.5km) north of Tapachula in Chiapas state, was raided after months of investigation and surveillance involving Mexican and Guatemalan authorities and a private four-man team from Israel including former Mossad and Shin Bet agents.\n\nAbout 20 sect members removed from the compound were held at a government facility in the western town of Huixtla while authorities decided what to do with them.\n\nHowever, they broke out in dramatic scenes on Wednesday night, clambering over a guard who had fallen trying to stop them, and disappearing into the night. It is unclear where they have gone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Members of the group forced their way past guards while making their escape\n\nThe group arrived in Mexico from neighbouring Guatemala, where most members still live, earlier this year.\n\nThe sect's leadership in Guatemala has been at the centre of a kidnapping case since 2018. Nine of the sect's members have been charged, four of whom have so far been convicted.\n\nLev Tahor - Hebrew for Pure of Heart - was formed in Israel in 1988 and is thought to number up to 350 members, according to an ex-members group.\n\nIt has been forced to move from country to country in recent years after coming under scrutiny from local authorities. It is currently spread between Israel, the US, North Macedonia, Morocco, Mexico and Guatemala.\n\nWhile the group is often described as ultra-Orthodox, it follows its own sets of rules and has been declared a \"dangerous cult\" by an Israeli court.\n\nIts leaders have denied breaking local laws and say the group is being targeted because of its beliefs.", "The Prince and Princess of Wales met Ian Russell at a charity event in 2019.\n\nPrince William says online safety for young people should be \"a prerequisite, not an afterthought\" after an inquest into 14-year-old Molly Russell's death.\n\nA coroner concluded that the teenager from London died from an act of self-harm while suffering depression and the negative effects of online content.\n\nMolly's father Ian called for urgent changes to make children safer online.\n\nThe prince said: \"No parent should ever have to endure what Ian Russell and his family have been through.\"\n\nIt is unusual for any member of the Royal Family to comment following any legal proceedings - but mental health is a topic on which the new Prince of Wales has campaigned on regularly in the past.\n\nPrince William, who met Mr Russell in November 2019, tweeted: \"They have been so incredibly brave. Online safety for our children and young people needs to be a prerequisite, not an afterthought.\"\n\nMolly took her own life in 2017, and coroner Andrew Walker said the images of self-harm and suicide she viewed online \"shouldn't have been available for a child to see\".\n\nAfter the hearing finished on Friday, Mr Russell said: \"It's time to protect our innocent young people instead of allowing [social media] platforms to prioritise their profits by monetising the misery of children.\"\n\nMolly Russell accessed social media posts on Instagram and Pinterest that were related to depression, self-harm and suicide\n\nMr Walker, the senior coroner for north London, said Molly appeared a healthy girl who was flourishing at school, having settled well into secondary school life, and displayed an enthusiastic interest in the performing arts.\n\nHowever, Molly had become depressed, something common in children of this age, the coroner said. The inquest was told her condition worsened into a depressive illness.\n\nMr Walker told North London Coroner's Court: \"It would not be safe to leave suicide as a conclusion.\n\n\"She died from an act of self-harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content.\"\n\nHis narrative conclusion continued: \"Molly subscribed to a number of online sites. She had access to images, video clips and text concerned with self-harm and suicide, or that were otherwise negative or depressing in nature.\"\n\nThe coroner added that the algorithms used by social media sites Instagram and Pinterest meant some content was selected and provided for Molly without her requesting it.\n\nThe content she then kept watching more and more of was likely to have had a negative effect on the teenager, and \"contributed to her death in a more than minimal way\", Mr Walker said.\n\nAfter their meeting with Molly's father in London three years ago, Prince William and Catherine extended their condolences to the family.\n\nPrince William asked Mr Russell if he thought social media companies such as Instagram were doing enough.\n\n\"My thoughts on Instagram are, we're grateful that they're doing something but I think they're only really inching along the road, and they need to do a lot more,\" Mr Russell responded.\n\nThere have been two weeks of what one witness described as deeply disturbing, deeply distressing evidence.\n\nThe inquest was only shown a small sample of the thousands of images that algorithms served up to Molly - dark, miserable and depressing, of nooses, pills and razor blades.\n\nA member of his staff had to leave the room while they were viewed. And in a first for both Meta, which owns Instagram, and the picture-sharing site Pinterest, senior executives gave evidence under oath in a court in the UK.\n\nMeta's Elizabeth Lagone came with bodyguards each day. They used decoy vehicles and at one point a photographer was manhandled, all in an effort to avoid press waiting outside the court.\n\nIan Russell always claimed that social media helped kill Molly, and today a coroner agreed. The family were visibly moved as Coroner Andrew Walker read out his conclusions.\n\nAnd at a later news conference Mr Russell was on the edge of tears as he concluded his remarks by paying tribute to Molly - thanking her for being his daughter.\n\nPrince William has spoken openly in recent years about his own mental health and has campaigned for people to open up if they are struggling.\n\nHe created Heads Together, launched to help combat the stigma of mental health, in 2016 with his wife and Prince Harry.\n\nThe prince has also addressed the pressures faced by young people and warned of the need for greater protection for teenagers and vulnerable individuals online.\n\nIn a statement following Friday's inquest into Molly Russell's death, NSPCC chief executive Sir Peter Wanless said: \"This should send shockwaves through Silicon Valley - tech companies must expect to be held to account when they put the safety of children second to commercial decisions.\n\n\"The magnitude of this moment for children everywhere cannot be understated.\"\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing, the coroner said he would compile a report outlining his concerns. He is to write to Pinterest and Instagram's parent company Meta, as well as the government and Ofcom.\n\nA spokeswoman for Meta said the company was \"committed to ensuring that Instagram is a positive experience for everyone, particularly teenagers\" and that it would \"carefully consider the coroner's full report when he provides it\".\n\nPinterest executive Judson Hoffman told the court that the platform \"should be safe for everyone\", and accepted that \"there was content that should have been removed that was not removed\" when Molly was using it.\n\nThe government said it will use \"the full force of the law\" though its Online Safety Bill to make social media firms protect young people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia has formally annexed four occupied regions of Ukraine, in a move sparking international condemnation.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin signed \"accession treaties\" with the regions' Moscow-installed leaders at a ceremony in the Kremlin's opulent St George's Hall on Friday.\n\nWatched by members of the political elite, he declared the regions would \"forever\" be part of Russia.\n\nKyiv reacted by launching a new, fast-track bid to join the Nato alliance.\n\nFlanked by his prime minister and the speaker of parliament, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had long been a \"de-facto\" member of the security bloc, and accused Moscow of redrawing borders \"using murder, blackmail, mistreatment and lies\".\n\n\"We are taking our decisive step by signing Ukraine's application for accelerated accession to Nato,\" Mr Zelensky said, speaking from the centre of Kyiv.\n\nNato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg was reluctant to be drawn on the bid, saying the decision rested with the bloc's 30 members. But he condemned Moscow's annexation of Ukrainian territory, calling the move \"the most serious escalation since the start of the war\".\n\nUS President Joe Biden also accused Mr Putin of a \"fraudulent attempt\" to claim Ukrainian territory, and said the move was \"trampling on the United Nations Charter, and showing its contempt for peaceful nations everywhere\".\n\n\"The illegal annexation proclaimed by Putin won't change anything,\" EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. \"All territories illegally occupied by Russian invaders are Ukrainian land and will always be part of this sovereign nation.\"\n\nAnd French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to \"stand by Ukraine in order to deal with Russian aggression and to enable Ukraine to recover its full sovereignty across its entire territory\".\n\nVladimir Putin speaks to crowds in Moscow, with the words \"Together forever\" at the top of the screen.\n\nBut Mr Putin has long been unmoved by Western criticism of his war in Ukraine, and during a rambling 37-minute long speech he promised to \"protect\" the newly annexed regions \"with all the forces and means at our disposal\".\n\nHe claimed citizens in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk had voted to be \"with their people, their motherland\".\n\n\"The people have made their choice,\" Mr Putin said. \"This is the will of millions of people.\"\n\nHe was referring to self-styled referendums held in the regions in recent days, but Ukraine and Western governments have condemned the votes as a sham.\n\nIn his pledge, the Russian leader seemingly returned to his vague threats to use nuclear weapons, accusing the US of creating a \"precedent\" when it bombed the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima at the end of World War Two in 1945.\n\nThe ceremony concluded with the leaders of the four annexed regions joining Mr Putin to sign \"decrees\", before they joined hands and led the assembled crowd in chants of \"Russia, Russia\".\n\nRussian media had billed the event as historic, but Mr Putin's speech gave little new detail on the extent of the territory Russia is claiming.\n\nUkraine has retained control of large chunks of Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions throughout the war, and retaken significant amounts of territory in recent weeks.\n\nInstead, the 69-year-old Russian president largely focused on a list of perceived injustices in which he accused the West of \"colonialism\", before pivoting to a homophobic attack on \"satanic\" leaders.\n\nAs Mr Putin spoke in Moscow, 750km (466 miles) to the south his forces were being surrounded by Ukrainian troops in Lyman, a strategically important town in the eastern province of Donetsk - one of four regions annexed by Russia.\n\nThe town has served as a supply and logistics hub for Russian forces in the region, and it is believed that between 3,000 - 5,000 troops are trapped in the near encirclement.\n\nAnton Herashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's interior ministry, wrote that \"Ukrainian forces are attacking the occupiers from three directions and their situation is 'incredibly complicated'\".\n\nDenis Pushilin, the leader of the newly annexed Donetsk People's Republic, admitted that Lyman was \"partially surrounded\" and that two nearby villages were \"not fully under our control\".\n\nUkraine's military has been keen to conceal the pace of its troops' advance in the area, but one video on social media appeared to show Kyiv's forces in the centre of Yampil, just 16km (9 miles) south-east of Lyman.\n\nAnd late on Friday night, Kyiv's defence ministry said it had taken the village of Drobysheve, 8 km (4 miles) north-west of Lyman.\n\nElsewhere, in Zaporizhzhia some 30 Ukrainians were killed in a Russian rocket strike on a civilian convoy.\n\nWestern nations were quick to react to Friday's annexation, with a host of new sanctions announced on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe US targeted Russia's Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina, with Treasury Department officials accusing her of being pivotal to moves to protect Russia's economy. More than 1,000 other companies, politicians and businesspeople were also targeted.\n\nThe UK banned the export to Russia of almost 700 goods that are critical to manufacturing production.\n\nAnd the EU Commission unveiled proposals to impose a cap on the price of Russian seaborne oil, while also imposing a ban on EU citizens serving on the boards of Russian companies.\n\nBack in Moscow, Mr Putin and his separatist allies attended an evening pop concert in the city's Red Square.\n\nThe Russian president led cheers for the four annexed regions and joined the crowd in a rendition of the national anthem. \"Victory will be ours,\" he said.\n\nThousands of people packed into the event, with many clutching Russian flags, though the BBC's Will Vernon in Moscow says many of those in attendance said they had been brought on buses as organised groups.\n\nAnd late on Friday night, Russia vetoed a UN security council resolution which would have condemned its annexation of the four occupied regions. Moscow's Ambassador Vasily Nebenzia complained that it was unprecedented to seek the condemnation of a permanent member of the body.\n\nWhile the Kremlin's blocking of the motion was anticipated, both India and China abstained.", "\"I don't think there is a way out.\"\n\nIt's breathtaking to hear that judgement on Liz Truss' problems from a seasoned former Conservative minister when the prime minister has not been in charge for a month.\n\nBut instead of a honeymoon Liz Truss's first weeks in office have resembled a horror film.\n\nA crash in the pound, since recovered, a crash in the polls and the Bank of England having to pump billions into the markets to stop pensions being wiped out.\n\nTory MPs tell me about phone calls from constituents who are in tears - fearful of losing their homes or businesses as borrowing costs soar.\n\nAnd those higher costs - and inflation - will hit the government hard, bringing the prospect of dramatic spending cuts.\n\nSo instead of anticipating their new leader taking the stage in triumph at the Conservative Party conference this week, the question many MPs and members of the public are asking is how can Liz Truss - who is on our show this week - get out of this mess?\n\nDoes she ditch her plans? Stick firmly to the script? Or muddle through?\n\nFirst, remember what happened to prompt the last wild week.\n\nThe government announced a hugely expensive package to freeze energy prices before following that up with a promise of chunky tax cuts that gave back more money to the wealthiest people in the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng: \"What I'm focused on, is tax cuts across the board\"\n\nBut what they crucially did not do was show how they planned to pay for it - by refusing to publish an assessment from the Office for Budget Responsibility - which examines the government's tax and spending plans. And on our programme last week, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng suggested there would be more tax cuts to come.\n\nOf course, there's a healthy political debate about the rights and wrongs of those policies on their own. But what financial markets detest is the notion of spending and borrowing at huge levels without spelling out how and when the bills will be paid.\n\nAs one weary sounding Tory MP put it: \"The problem wasn't the numbers, it was that there weren't any.\"\n\nIt's perfectly normal for governments to borrow billions of pounds from the markets but the reaction last week suggested the City had precious little faith that the government's plans added up.\n\nThat's toxic, because without that confidence, it makes it more expensive for the government to borrow the cash it needs. That makes the cost of loans and mortgages go up for everyone and could mean less money for public services too.\n\nOne party insider says that the hit to the Tories' reputation for running the economy could have \"all the hallmarks of a generation-defining setback\".\n\nBut all the signs are that the prime minister has zero intention of shifting an inch on this. Here's what her supporters have told me:\n\nYet No 10 faces a double nightmare of trying to recover economic and political credibility at the same time. Can they really do nothing?\n\nThe head of a large foreign investor said the UK was now \"uninvestable\". Trying to keep calm (ish) and carry on just may not be possible.\n\nCan the government convince the City of London its plan will work?\n\nThe pound has recovered much of its losses but it seems a tall order for confidence to bounce back in the same way.\n\nThe last week suggests there are serious doubts about the chancellor's strategy. As one senior investor told me: \"I don't know a single person in the City who thinks he knows what he is doing.\"\n\nPoliticians I've spoken to - fans of the new government or not - suggest moving Mr Kwarteng would be \"cowardly\" or \"wouldn't make a difference\".\n\nLiz Truss is politically close to her chancellor and a major move like that could cause even more instability. But there is no doubt that No 11's authority is part of the problem.\n\nA source close to Mr Kwarteng says \"we make no apology for reversing an unsustainable high tax path\". But a cabinet minister told me while there's no chance of an exit now \"history shows that chancellors who have moments like this don't necessarily survive in the medium to long-term\".\n\nWhile it's clear neither No 10 nor No 11 will consider a change of approach right now their own party may force them to make some changes so they can muddle through.\n\nFirst off, there is a rising hunger for ministers to bring forward their full plans for the economy, including spelling out the costs and consequences of their spending.\n\nAs things stand No 10 is adamant this won't be until 23 November. But plenty of backbenchers want it brought forward. One minister suggested the government will have to budge before November, saying: \"Give the markets what they want with some more detailed forecasts and some attempt to show that this will work.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere's a thirst too to bring forward announcements of the other changes the government wants to make to get the economy going. One senior MP said the chancellor has a chance this week to talk about his \"big productivity plans\" to show \"it's a wider package, not just tax cuts\".\n\nBut the government may yet have to ditch some of its ideas. \"They'll have to walk back some of the things that have caused the most offence,\" says an MP.\n\nThis could be scrapping the 45% top tax rate which I'm told the whole cabinet was not consulted on and which raised the most eyebrows in the mini-budget.\n\nAnd it's clear many Conservative MPs would be reluctant to back it, with one telling me: \"If there is a vote on 45p or bankers' bonuses I won't vote for them, and neither will colleagues.\"\n\nThere is growing unease too about the costs and implications of the decisions that have already been made for public spending, and specifically about the possibility of going back on Boris Johnson's promise that benefits would rise in line with inflation.\n\nOne former minister told me the idea was \"stupidity squared\" because cutting tax for the best-off while giving those on benefits a real-terms cut is a total political non-starter.\n\nAnother senior figure predicts a classic climbdown where the government will stick to cutting the basic rate of tax with the classic promise to \"consult\" on the more controversial elements.\n\nBut what if Ms Truss can't or won't budge'?\n\nSeveral MPs say one approach to get the government's attention would be a kind of strike. They could make it plain the government doesn't have backbench support by not turning up in the Commons.\n\nBut others are already contemplating even more. Extraordinary as it is to say this so soon into a new leader's tenure, there are already conversations in the party about taking the ultimate action. In other words, if the PM won't change her plans, her party might have to change her job.\n\nOne MP told me baldly in the last week: \"They have lost the privilege of governing - I'm going to try and get rid of her.\"\n\nA former minister said there was a lot of \"bluster and chest-beating\" going and talk of removing the PM was \"hysteria\", but added: 'Four weeks of polls like this and we might move.\"\n\nCrazy? Perhaps. Wild talk in Westminster is often subdued by inertia. Things change quickly. There are many Conservatives who believe Liz Truss' plans are an important and badly needed reset.\n\nBut if the Tories carry on being battered in the polls, and the market turmoil continues for weeks, all bets could be off.\n\nAnd if it becomes a question of personal survival, arguably Liz Truss may not have helped her case by giving all the plum jobs to MPs who backed her in the leadership contest.\n\nRemember she wasn't the favourite choice of MPs to start with. As one senior figure reflects: \"There is already a cohort of people who are saying 'this is nothing to do with us'.\"\n\nLiz Truss has a huge chance in Birmingham this week to calm her party, the country and the financial markets, as well as explaining more clearly what she is trying to achieve.\n\nAnd while there is no remote sense she will backtrack on her ambitions, these first steps in power have created serious doubts in her party, and among the public, about whether she has the right ideas and the backing to make radical changes to the country. Downing Street could very, very quickly become a lonely place.", "Messages between Elon Musk and Twitter boss Parag Agrawal have been published in a court filing.\n\nThey reveal how the pair's relationship, after a good start, went dramatically south.\n\nIn late March, it became clear that Elon Musk was interested in purchasing shares in Twitter - and potentially sitting on Twitter's board.\n\nOn 27 March, Parag Agrawal reaches out: \"Hey Elon - great to be connected directly. Would love to chat,\" he says.\n\nElon Musk likes the message. \"Perhaps tonight around 8?\" he says. So far so good.\n\nBy 31 March, a hastily planned dinner is arranged near San Jose as the deal really starts heating up.\n\nThe speed of developments is clearly exhilarating for Mr Agrawal. The world's richest person is about to become a Twitter board member. Mr Agrawal tells Mr Musk he's \"excited\" to see him in person.\n\nBret Taylor, Twitter's board chair, texts Musk about the dinner. \"I think they were looking for an Airbnb near the airport and there are tractors and donkeys,\" he says in a text. The location, he continues, \"wins for the weirdest place I've had a meeting recently\".\n\nThe dinner goes well despite the farmyard location. \"Memorable for multiple reasons. Really enjoyed it\", Mr Agrawal says.\n\nA few days later it's announced that Elon Musk is to join the board.\n\nAs the announcement goes public, all sorts of names begin to text Mr Musk.\n\nPodcaster Joe Rogan asks Mr Musk whether he is going to \"liberate Twitter from the censorship happy mob\".\n\n\"I will provide advice, which they may or may not choose to follow,\" Mr Musk replies.\n\nOn 5 April, Jack Dorsey, former chief executive of Twitter, tells Mr Musk that Mr Agrawal is an \"incredible engineer\", but that Twitter's board is \"terrible\".\n\nBy 7 April, Mr Agrawal and Mr Musk are burnishing their coding credentials - the start of a seemingly beautiful working relationship.\n\n\"I wrote heavy duty software for 20 years,\" Mr Musk says. \"I interface way better with engineers who are able to do the hardcore programming than with program manager/MBA types\".\n\nAgrawal replies: \"In our next convo - treat me like an engineer instead of a CEO and let's see where we get to.\"\n\n\"You got it\", Mr Musk replies.\n\nOn 9 April, Mr Musk tweets asking why so few of Twitter's most followed accounts tweeted very much. \"Is Twitter dying?\" he asks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Elon Musk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis tweet angers Mr Agrawal. Later that day he messages:\n\n\"You are free to tweet 'is Twitter dying?' or anything else about Twitter - but it's my responsibility to tell you that it's not helping me make Twitter better in the current context.\n\n\"Next time we speak, I'd like to you provide you [sic] perspective on the level of the internal distraction right now and how it [sic] hurting our ability to do work.\"\n\nElon Musk, notoriously, does not like being told what to do - especially whether and what he can tweet.\n\nWe can't be certain what is going on behind the scenes, but this message seems to have infuriated Elon Musk. A few hours later he shoots off a volley of irascible messages.\n\n\"What did you get done this week?... I'm not joining the board… This is a waste of time. Will make an offer to take Twitter private.\"\n\nHe rings Bret Taylor, who desperately tries to understand what is going on.\n\n\"Parag just called me and mentioned your text conversations. Can you talk?\" he says.\n\n\"Fixing Twitter by chatting with Parag won't work,\" Mr Musk says. \"Drastic action is needed.\"\n\n\"Can you take 10 minutes to talk through with me?\" Mr Taylor asks.\n\n\"It has been about 24 hours since you joined the board. I get your point, but just want to understand about the sudden pivot,\" he continues.\n\nElon Musk follows through. He offers $44bn to take Twitter private. On 25 April, the board accepts the offer.\n\nThe next day, Jack Dorsey makes another attempt to patch up the relationship between the two. He organises a call. It doesn't go well.\n\n\"You and I are in complete agreement,\" Mr Musk messages Mr Dorsey after the conversation. \"Parag is just moving far too slowly and trying to please people who will not be happy no matter what he does.\"\n\nMr Dorsey replies: \"At least it became clear that you can't work together.\"\n\nFrom there the relationship between Mr Musk and Twitter gets worse and worse.\n\nMr Musk eventually attempts to pull out of the deal entirely in July. But Twitter still approves the purchase in September.\n\nA court case in Delaware in mid-October will decide whether he will be allowed to walk away - or forced to buy the company.\n\nBut the messages show that the relationship between Twitter's CEO and Mr Musk had broken down far earlier.\n\nThey also suggest that if Mr Musk is made to buy Twitter - Parag Agrawal will need to look for another job.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Hannah is a doctor and was diagnosed with cancer in 2020\n\nWhen Hannah Delmas was diagnosed with a rare ovarian cancer in 2020, she didn't think she'd be running a marathon just a few years later.\n\n\"With my chemotherapy, I spent a lot of time lying in bed or at home, and lost quite a lot of muscle mass through because of being in intensive care,\" she says.\n\nThe 25-year-old doctor will be running for the charity Young Lives vs Cancer, which helps young people going through cancer treatment and the aftermath.\n\nLike Hannah, Chris Reid will be lacing up his running boots and taking on the iconic 26.2-mile route around London.\n\nChris, also 25, has a learning disability and bipolar disorder, but that hasn't stopped him from competing in running events. His latest though, for the charity Mencap, will be the hardest yet.\n\n\"I'll actually give back to the charity that's been part of my history,\" he says.\n\nThe organisation, he says, has supported him with things like communication, Maths, English and work experience.\n\nChris, who previously lived with his parents, has since moved into supported housing and the help he receives has contributed to him becoming more confident with everyday activities such as managing his own money.\n\nChris loves running, as it helps his mental health and \"it's a friendly atmosphere and camaraderie with the runners\"\n\nHannah graduated early from medical school in 2020, because of the Covid pandemic, to help \"ease some of the pressures on the NHS\".\n\nBut she was then hit by the news that she had a rare ovarian tumour, having to pause her career to start chemotherapy.\n\nAfter several rounds of treatment, surgery and a stay in intensive care to remove the tumour, she was back caring for patients six weeks after her final treatment.\n\nThen, between work and follow up check-ups, she signed up to run the marathon despite her lack of experience in running.\n\n\"I'm not a runner, I think I've ran once in primary school and secondary school, but I've never really done much since.\"\n\nThere have been challenges in training, such as building up fitness levels after intensive treatment, and her busy schedule as a doctor.\n\nAnother challenge was finding sportswear that didn't rub on her scars from her surgery.\n\n\"I think my preparation probably could have been a little bit better. But it's now too late.\"\n\nHannah graduated early because of Covid - no word yet on if the dog will be running with her\n\nChris, on the other hand, feels he is more than ready, with his prep ranging from light 5k park runs on Saturdays to a training programme of 16 weeks.\n\nBut he emphasises it's not just about the running, as his nutritional diet of \"brown rice, eggs and avocado\" is just as important.\n\nChris was inspired to get into running because of Sir Mo Farah's double gold medal-winning performances at London 2012.\n\nHis first run after seeing Sir Mo's success was tough and incomplete, but he persevered after a friend encouraged him and told to \"keep on going\".\n\nHe says running and taking in the air \"clears things out\" of his head and helps his mood.\n\nAnd while some may be worried about completing the marathon, Chris confidently says he'll channel his inner Mo Farah and \"be able to complete it\".\n\nChris was inspired to take up running after Sir Mo Farah's performances at the 2012 Olympics\n\nCrossing the finish line is what Hannah is looking forward to most.\n\n\"Just having the relief of finishing and knowing that I've completed a marathon as well as seeing everybody else at the finish line.\"\n\nFor people in a difficult situation like Hannah has been in, she says it's important \"to take it one day at a time\".\n\n\"Make little goals that you can complete because I know how frustrating it is to finish treatment, and then think it's fine for everything to go back to normal.\"\n\n\"Don't give up on your dreams and keep going even through tough times,\" Chris adds.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Police investigators continued their search on Saddleworth Moor on Saturday\n\nPolice searching for Moors murderers' victim Keith Bennett have said no identifiable human remains have so far been found, as excavations continue.\n\nThe 12-year-old was one of five youngsters killed by Ian Brady and his partner Myra Hindley in the 1960s.\n\nHe disappeared on 16 June 1964 while on his way to see his grandmother in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said it had received information about a \"site of interest\" on Saddleworth Moor.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Cheryl Hughes, senior investigating officer at GMP, said they had received images of a potential burial site from people involved in a privately-funded search.\n\n\"This information included photographs of the site and show what experts working with the informant have interpreted as a human jaw bone,\" she said.\n\n\"No physical evidence of a jaw bone or skull has been examined.\n\n\"Conditions are difficult and it may take us some time to fully complete the excavation but we are committed to ensuring this is undertaken in the most thorough way possible.\"\n\nKeith Bennett, who was killed in 1964, is the only victim whose remains were not found\n\nBrady and Hindley tortured and killed five youngsters in 1963-65 in one of the most notorious crimes in recent British history.\n\nThey buried four of their victims on Saddleworth Moor in the Pennines but Keith's body is the only one that has not been recovered.\n\nIan Brady and Myra Hindley's crimes in the 1960s shocked the nation\n\nFarmer Chris Crowther, who owns the land which is being searched, said: \"If they have found him, it will be a very big relief for the [Bennett] family.\n\n\"I've always been going out and looking for any signs for a grave when I've been gathering sheep.\"\n\nHe said Keith's mother Winnie Johnson, who spent most of her life trying to find her son's remains, spoke to him before her death in 2012, adding \"she asked me to keep looking and I said I will keep looking\".\n\nThe other victims include Lesley Ann Downey, Edward Evans, John Kilbride and Pauline Reade\n\nMr Crowther said the current excavation site was \"about 100 yards\" from where John Kilbride's remains were discovered, with the remains of the two girls found on the other side of the A635.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful valley, but it's been blackened by that [crime].\n\n\"If it gets tidied up, everyone will have a bit of peace.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The blast could be heard up to eight miles away\n\nA building on the site of a former steelworks has been brought down in what is thought to be one of the largest single explosive demolition operations in the UK in 75 years.\n\nThe Basic Oxygen Steelmaking (BOS) Plant in Redcar refined molten iron from the blast furnace, until the works closed in 2015.\n\nUp to 1.6 tonnes of explosives was used to level the 65m (213ft) structure.\n\nThe site is now being regenerated to create the Teesworks industrial zone.\n\nThe structure contained an estimated 105,000 tonnes of steel\n\nThe building was levelled at 09:40 BST\n\nThe demolition was part of a £25m project carried out over the past 12 months to pull down a series of large industrial shed buildings and seven tall chimney stacks that made up part of the 30-acre steelmaking facility.\n\nMajor plant items and equipment were stripped out from the facility to prepare the structure, which contained an estimated 105,000 tonnes of steel.\n\nThe blast could be heard up to eight miles away.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen, who pressed the button to detonate the explosives, said: \"Each demolition of the former steelmaking structures on this site is a bittersweet moment as they have played such a huge part in shaping our communities, people and identity for decades.\n\n\"While we remember our past, we must never lose sight of the reason we're doing this.\n\n\"This is demolishing to deliver - it's only by bringing old structures down that we can build new opportunity.\n\n\"We're unlocking yet more land and making the site an even more attractive prospect for all of the international investors we're working to bring to Teesworks.\"\n\nRedcar Steelworks was first mothballed in 2010 before being restarted by SSI UK when it took over ownership from Tata Steel in 2012, but it entered liquidation three years later with the loss of more than 2,000 jobs.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lewis Hamilton has dismissed the ongoing controversy about his wearing a nose stud in his Formula 1 car as \"all a bit silly\" after the issue blew up again at the Singapore Grand Prix.\n\nHamilton's Mercedes team were fined €25,000 (£22,000) after qualifying for a procedural error in incorrectly filing out a scrutineering form saying Hamilton would comply with the regulations not to wear jewellery, only for him to do so.\n\nHamilton said when the issue first emerged at the start of the season that he felt singled out by governing body the FIA over the issue, as he is the only driver to wear significant amounts of piercings.\n• None How to follow the Singapore GP on the BBC\n\nBut he said on Saturday that he was \"not trying to make a statement\" and explained that he was wearing the stud again on the advice of doctors after suffering medical problems.\n\n\"I've had my jewellery and my nose stud for years and obviously we had that whole commotion at the beginning of the year,\" Hamilton said.\n\n\"At the time it was, like, soldered in, so it didn't come loose. They gave me, at the time for many races, an exemption so I could find a solution.\n\n\"Then I went to get it taken out and tried to find a solution, putting it in and out. It got infected because of that and I was just continuing on with this infection. I got a blood blister and had quite a sore on my nose. Then I went back [to the doctor]…\n\n\"This is all stuff I told them before qualifying. I went back and had to have the blood blister fixed, because there was pus and blood. I put this back in and in the last two weeks it's started to heal and they've asked that I keep it in.\n\n\"It's crazy that we're having to talk about something so small. I take everything else out. At this point, I don't really care to be honest.\"\n\nHamilton, sounding exasperated by the issue, said he had \"tried my best\" and pointed out what he saw as an inconsistency in the FIA's strict approach on the matter, which has emerged this season after years of jewellery being tolerated in the car despite it being against the rules for nearly 20 years.\n\n\"One of the best excuses I was given a long time ago was about heat and if you are in a fire metal conducts heat.\n\n\"But our suits are covered, our zip is metal, our buckle around our helmet is metal, we've got the wires with aluminium metal in them.\n\n\"So I don't know. It's all a bit silly. Hopefully they'll be sensible. The stewards should be there to keep us safe most importantly but this is not a safety issue.\"\n\nOops... Leclerc enjoyed his pole even though it likely came from Red Bull's fuel oversight\n\nAll this was a bizarre and unexpected distraction from a weekend that has been dominated by another controversy - over whether Red Bull are one of two teams to breach last year's budget cap.\n\nIt is a widely held belief within the F1 paddock that Red Bull and Aston Martin are both likely not to be issued certificates of compliance when the FIA posts them officially on Wednesday.\n\nAston Martin say they are \"in discussion with the FIA and awaiting certification\".\n\nRed Bull have reacted angrily to Mercedes and Ferrari discussing the issue publicly this weekend, after the allegations finally emerged in media reports after months of senior people in F1 being aware of them without it being publicly reported because of a lack of proof.\n\nFerrari have been careful not to name Red Bull at all in their comments. And while Wolff has mentioned his bitter rivals in his answers, he has not directly accused them of breaking the cap, even if that could be inferred from some of his answers.\n\nThe closest he came was in an interview with Sky television on Saturday.\n\nIn this, when asked about Red Bull team principal Christian Horner saying he was \"not aware\" of any breaches, Wolff said: \"It's funny that Christian says that because it's weeks and months that they are being investigated, so maybe he doesn't speak to his CFO.\"\n\nWolff went on to talk about why the issue of the budget cap was so important, adding: \"The crucial part is that if you've been over in 2021, then you've been over in 2022. That means you have an advantage into 2023.\n\n\"If it's true that they've homologated a lightweight chassis this year, they may use it next year. So it's a real cascade of events that can be influential on all of the three championships.\"\n\nThis interview from Wolff has infuriated Horner, and his displeasure was clear in a news conference on Saturday, in which he accused Mercedes and Ferrari of defamation and claimed they had spoken on the subject to distract attention from the fact that Red Bull driver Max Verstappen has a chance of clinching the championship in Sunday's race.\n\n\"We take umbrage, and extremely seriously, the remarks that have been made,\" Horner said, \"because, you know, is it any coincidence that Max has his first shot at winning a world title and here we are talking nothing but cost caps rather than the phenomenal performance that he has had this year.\n\n\"And I think it's an underhand tactic that has been employed to detract from perhaps a lack of performance on track this year. And of course, when references are made to last year, this year, next year we're going to take that extremely seriously.\"\n\nAsked later whether he was concerned about being sued, Wolff said: \"It's noise. There is a process. On Wednesday there are going to be certificates of compliance issued or not and then if someone is not there is a process and governance in place, and for me it is 100% sure the FIA is gonna do the right thing. It's chatter until then.\n\n\"It is important the cost cap is complied with. It is a cornerstone of the new regulations and I very much hope all the teams have done that.\n\n\"We know exactly that we are spending $3.5m a year on parts we bring to the car and then you can say what difference it makes to spend another $500,000.\n\n\"We haven't produced lighter parts for the car to bring us down from a double digit overweight because we simply haven't got the money. So we need to do it for next year's car. We can't homologate a lightweight chassis and bring it because it is $2m we would be over the cap. So you can see every spend more has a performance advantage.\"\n\nRed Bull have not introduced a lighter-weight chassis this weekend, as it has been speculated for some time they might, and Horner has told BBC Sport that Red Bull have introduced fewer development parts than Ferrari and Mercedes this season.\n\nRed Bull continue to insist that they \"stand absolutely 100% behind (our) submission (to the FIA), that we are below the cap\".\n\nAnd then there's the fuel issue\n\nAll this back and forth has intensified an atmosphere that is always oppressive in at least one way at this race, owing to the tropical heat and humidity. And Horner is certainly right to say that it has distracted from the on-track battle.\n\nSo, in the context of a weekend in which Red Bull's well-worn modus operandi of pushing absolutely everything to the limit was the centre of attention, it was perhaps not the ideal time for this to be underlined by an error by the team in qualifying.\n\nVerstappen looked on target to take pole, but he and the team failed to take advantage of his blistering pace in the final part of qualifying.\n\nVerstappen was on one lap that was likely going to be good enough for pole towards the end of the session, only to be told to abort because there was just time to get in another one, when the drying track would be in even better condition.\n\nThe team had failed to notice that the car was running short of fuel and they had to call Verstappen into the pits at the end of his final lap - which would certainly have beaten Ferrari's Charles Leclerc to pole - to avoid being in contravention of a rule that requires enough fuel to be in the car for a one-litre sample to be given to stewards.\n\nThis is, incidentally, a rule the team fell foul of in Abu Dhabi some years ago, when they were handed the standard penalty of being disqualified from qualifying.\n\nVerstappen was furious afterwards, swearing at the team over the radio. He had no regrets about his criticism, he said later, \"because that is how we keep each other heading in the right direction. Because we don't want to be good, we want to be perfect\".\n\nVerstappen has appeared capable of winning from anywhere in recent races, doing so from 10th in Hungary, 15th in Belgium and seventh in Italy.\n\nBut he believes that eighth in Singapore is too far back to repeat the feat.\n\n\"Its a bit like Monaco,\" he said. \"You cannot really pass.\n\n\"We have been to tracks where passing is possible. This one is going to be a bit different, a bit more frustrating. But I know that once I jump in the car I will give it everything I have. Of course I try to move forward. But I don't really see a podium or a win.\"\n\nIf he did manage it, he was asked, would it be the most special win of the year?\n\n\"Yeah,\" he said, \"but I don't even want to think about that because it is very, very difficult.\"\n\nA win is the minimum result he needs to clinch the title this weekend, but to do so he also needs other results to go his way. One of them is for Leclerc to finish near the bottom of the top 10, and the Ferrari driver starts on pole.\n\nLeclerc said: \"Realistically it is a matter of time before Max gets his title. It is important to win as many races as possible before the end of the season.\n\n\"We will just focus on ourselves try to use the races in the best way possible and try to maximise the package as much as possible. This is important to me, the rest is. I don't care…\"\n\nHamilton, third on the grid after his best qualifying result of the season, is also on the hunt for a win, along with Red Bull's Sergio Perez, alongside Leclerc on the front row. And Fernando Alonso says he wants to \"dream big\" and aim for a podium from his excellent fifth place on the grid for Alpine.\n\nSingapore tends to be a slow-burner, but this weekend has had plenty of fire already.\n• None The raw and honest story of Paul Gascoigne and his turbulent life\n• None How did a magazine intern reinvent herself and con thousands of dollars in the process?", "About 200 people gathered outside Belfast City Hall to protest about the rising cost of living\n\nTens of thousands of people in Northern Ireland rushed to purchase energy top-ups before big prices rises kicked in.\n\nSubstantial increases in the cost of electricity and gas from some suppliers came into effect on Saturday.\n\nSSE Airtricity, Electric Ireland and Click Ireland all put their electricity price up by about a third, while gas from SSE Airtricity went up by 28%.\n\nPayPoint, which operates the top-up card system, described the rush for top-ups on Friday as \"unprecedented\".\n\nIt said one retailer in Northern Ireland processed 45,000 energy top-ups on Friday - it usually does about 5,000.\n\nSome retailers struggled as they hit their daily quota of energy sales - that was despite sales limits being quadrupled in recent weeks.\n\nPayPoint said the fact that some shops could not sell top-ups was not due to a technical issue.\n\nMany householders who pay for their energy through a monthly or quarterly billing system tried to submit their meter reading to their supplier on Friday.\n\nBut some SSE Airtricity customers reported issues submitting their readings online.\n\nThe energy company said it was aware of a technical issue affecting its website and the SSE Airtricity app.\n\nIt added that customers can submit a meter reading to customerservice@sseairtricity.com and \"readings received by midday on 2 October will be honoured at the pre-price change rate\".\n\nCustomers can also call 0345 601 9093 to leave a meter reading if they have their meter point reference number (MPRN).\n\nA crowd gathered at Belfast City Hall on Saturday to protest against the cost-of-living crisis, while smaller protests went ahead in other cities and towns.\n\nThe Belfast rally was organised by the Cost of Living Coalition and coincided with dozens of similar demonstrations across the UK.\n\nProtesters in Belfast were calling for the government to do more to help with rising bills\n\nCailín McCaffery from the coalition said politicians at Westminster and at Stormont had to take more action.\n\n\"We can see daily how this is affecting people - the price of energy especially,\" she said.\n\n\"[Energy] companies are making billions yet... us at the bottom of the barrel are left trying to scrape the pennies together to pay for the electricity, pay for the gas, pay for oil - whatever it may be.\"\n\nUniversity student Hannah Pryor wants an immediate freeze on the cost of renting\n\nShe said energy bill discounts offered by the UK government would help a little but would not go far enough for lower-income families\n\nHannah Pryor, who is originally from Birmingham and studies at Queen's University Belfast, said she wanted to increase awareness of the difficulties many people were facing.\n\n\"The government don't seem to be doing that much,\" she said.\n\n\"A lot more can be done - we need rent freezes.\"", "A paraplegic scuba diver believes he has set three Guinness World Records.\n\nDan Metcalfe, from Grantham in Lincolnshire, was left with no muscle use from his chest downwards after a motorbike accident.\n\nSupported by a team of experts, he took on a challenge at Stoneycove Diving Centre, in Leicestershire.\n\nHe swam 5,246m (17,211ft) underwater which he believes is the furthest distance swum by a paraplegic diver.\n\nThe challenge, which saw Mr Metcalfe also try to be the fastest scuba diver to swim one mile (1.6km) in open water and with a swimming band, was initially in jeopardy.\n\nWaterproof casing for the camera, which was set to film the challenge, had flooded meaning it might not have been accepted by Guinness World Records.\n\n\"It was a rather stressful moment,\" he said.\n\n\"It was sorted by the amazing team. They all worked together as one team for a common goal and that was to get a load of GoPro cameras into the water.\"\n\nUnderwater cameras were used to follow Dan's progress\n\nDespite completing the challenge in 5hrs 32mins, Mr Metcalfe must wait to see if Guinness World Records confirms he has achieved his goal.\n\nThe company said it could take up to 12 weeks.\n\nHe said: \"It'll be an amazing feeling to say that I haven't just got one, I've got three Guinness World Records.\n\n\"It's been an unbelievable journey.\n\n\"I've met some of the most amazing people that I will ever have the privilege to work with.\"\n\nMr Metcalfe is aiming to raise £5,000 to be split between the MAGPAS Air Ambulance, The Scuba Trust and Stoney Cove Dive Centre.\n\nA Guinness World Records spokesperson said: \"We look forward to receiving evidence from the attempt for our records management team to review.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Eurasian beavers have been recognised as a European protected species in England, making it illegal to capture, kill, injure or disturb them.\n\nThe move limits measures previously available to \"control\" beavers.\n\nLandowners will not be able to damage a burrow or dam without a licence from Natural England, for example.\n\nWildlife charities praised the move, saying beavers' dams helped the environment, keeping water clean and preventing flooding and drought.\n\n\"Beavers bring such an astonishing array of ecosystem services to our landscape, this truly is an historic day for the species in England,\" said Sandra King, chief executive of Beaver Trust.\n\nThe National Farmers' Union had previously objected to beavers becoming a protected species, saying their dams could pose a flooding risk to agricultural land.\n\n\"Many farmers will be rightly concerned about the potential impact of beavers on their land so will be asking for adequate tools and support to manage a species that could impact their business and on food production,\" it said in response to the law change.\n\nBeavers are now a European Protected species under The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017.\n\nThese protections apply to species which are endangered, vulnerable, rare or otherwise at risk across Europe. Other European Protected Species present in the UK include bats, the Large Blue Butterfly, the Sand Lizard and the Natterjack Toad.\n\nEurasian beavers, which were once widespread but hunted to extinction 400 years ago, have been reintroduced at multiple sites across Britain.\n\nIn 2009, wild beavers were released in Scotland as part of the Scottish Beaver Trial, which was the first authorised mammal reintroduction project in the UK. Beavers were later given a protected status in Scotland in 2019.\n\nThe Wildlife Trusts, which have overseen the release of beavers across the UK, welcomed the news but called for more information on how beaver reintroductions will be facilitated.\n\nPeter Burgess, director of Nature Recovery at Devon Wildlife Trust, said: \"This gives clarity where beavers are currently present in our river catchments - which is a tiny fraction of our rivers and wetlands in the country. However, there is no strategy in place to guide future beaver reintroductions which have gained overwhelming support nationwide.\"\n\nThe NFU said it would monitor how existing beaver populations, reintroductions, and future policy developments work in practice.", "The UK's economy grew in the second quarter of this year, contrary to an initial reading which said it had shrunk, revised official data suggests.\n\nEconomic output rose by 0.2% between April and June, revised up from a previous reading of -0.1%, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nIt suggests the UK is not currently in recession, as was predicted by the Bank of England earlier this month.\n\nHowever, the economy is still smaller than it was before the Covid pandemic.\n\nThis is because the new ONS figures show the impact of Covid on the economy was more severe than previously thought, and it had shrunk by more than estimated in the first few months of the pandemic.\n\nAs a result, the ONS said the economy was still 0.2% smaller than pre-pandemic levels, whereas it had said previously it was 0.6% bigger.\n\nThe ONS said that the UK was the only economy in the G7 group of nations yet to rise above its pre-coronavirus pandemic level seen in the final three months of 2019.\n\nCommenting on the revised figures, ONS chief economist Grant Fitzner said: \"These improved figures show the economy grew in the second quarter, revised up from a small fall.\"\n\n\"They also show that, while household savings fell back in the most recent quarter, households saved more than we previously estimated during and after the pandemic.\"\n\nSamuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said: \"The downturn in economic activity during 2020 looks even worse than previously thought, and the subsequent recovery even weaker, following the latest set of national accounts revisions.\"\n\nThe good news is that the economy wasn't going into reverse over the summer, the bad news is that's because the economy was smaller than previously thought prior to that point.\n\nWith some consumers opting to hang on to savings built up during the pandemic rather than spend, the economy is still not, unlike some competitors, bigger than its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nSo a growth plan to boost our prosperity, as the government intends, seems ideally timed.\n\nBut some economists point out that our productive capacity is limited - just look at the shortages of skilled workers. So as it stands, those £45bn of tax cuts may be even more likely to boost prices, and ultimately rates, if they prompt higher spending.\n\nSo some worry those plans are untenable - unless the government can find sufficient measures to turbo-boost the productive capability of our economy, by boosting skills or infrastructure or streamlining processes. Trouble is, those type of measures don't take effect overnight.\n\nThe size of the UK economy is measured through its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is the value of all the activity of companies, governments and individuals in a country.\n\nEarlier this month, the Bank of England had warned the UK could already be in a recession - which is defined as two three-month periods of GDP shrinking in a row.\n\nThe Bank predicted the economy would shrink by 0.1% in the July-to-September period, and at the time the economy was thought to have shrunk in the previous quarter.\n\nMr Tombs said Friday's new figures would compel the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to further revise down its estimates for future growth.\n\nThe OBR is the independent watchdog for the government's finances. It usually produces economic forecasts twice a year, to accompany each Autumn Budget and Spring Statement.\n\nThe lack of an OBR forecast to accompany last week's mini-budget from the government has been seen as one of the reasons for this week's turmoil on the financial markets.\n\nIt had offered to prepare a draft forecast in time for the mini-budget, but it was not taken up.\n\nThe government's tax-cutting plan faced criticism from the International Monetary Fund and the pound dropped to a 37-year low of $1.03 on Monday.\n\nOn Friday, sterling rose to $1.12 - close to the level the currency was at before the mini-budget was announced one week ago.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng are meeting the chairman of the OBR on Friday to discuss the fallout.", "Olivia died after being shot as her mother struggled with a gunman at the door of her home\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, who was shot in her home in Liverpool.\n\nThe nine-year-old was fatally wounded as her mother tried to stop a gunman chasing another man into their house.\n\nThomas Cashman, 34, of West Derby, Liverpool, has also been charged with the attempted murder of Olivia's mother Cheryl Korbel and Joseph Nee.\n\nOlivia was shot in the chest and her mother injured as Mr Nee, a convicted burglar, was chased into their home.\n\nMr Cashman has also been charged with two counts of possession of a firearm to endanger life.\n\nPaul Russell, 40, of Snowberry Road, West Derby, has been charged with assisting an offender.\n\nBoth men are due to appear at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nOlivia's mother was shot in the wrist as she tried to shut the door to stop two men entering her house on Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, at about 22:00 BST on 22 August.\n\nThe gunman continued shooting and fatally hit Olivia. Neither man was known to the family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chief Crown Prosecutor Maria Corr gives full details of the charges\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Chris Green, of Merseyside Police, said his team had worked \"relentlessly\" in what has been \"a complex inquiry, supported by Olivia's mum and dad and the wider Merseyside community\".\n\nDet Ch Supt Mark Kameen said it was still \"very much a live investigation\".\n\nHe said: \"At the beginning of the investigation we were firm in our commitment to finding all of those involved in this case, which includes the people who have tried to shield and protect individuals, and those who have supplied the weapon or are hiding the weapons used in this incident.\n\n\"We have had an overwhelming response and support from the public since the tragic murder of Olivia and I would ask for your continued support so we can keep the promise we made to Olivia's family and the local community to ensure that those involved face justice.\n\n\"Our thoughts today are with Olivia's mum and dad, Cheryl and John Francis, and their families, who throughout the last few weeks have shown incredible strength, courage, and dignity.\"\n\nOlivia's mother Cheryl Korbel said the nine-year-old \"will never be forgotten\"\n\nOlivia's funeral was held on 15 September at a packed St Margaret Mary's Church, just streets away from where the shooting happened.\n\nPink ties, jackets, scarves and bows were worn by those attending the service after her family asked people to wear a \"splash of pink\".\n\nSpeaking in her eulogy, her mother said her daughter had \"touched so many people's hearts and was loved and adored by everyone\".\n\n\"I will never say goodbye but what I will say is goodnight, love you, see you in the morning.\"\n\nThe police force has appealed for anyone with CCTV, dashcam or smart doorbell footage, which might help the investigation, to come forward.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None Man charged with murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel. Video, 00:01:40Man charged with murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Mirror said it would \"redouble our efforts\" against racism after mistaking another man for the chancellor\n\nThe Mirror newspaper has apologised for a \"terrible error\" after it mistook another man for Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in an online story.\n\nMr Kwarteng called out the newspaper on Twitter with a screenshot of the story about him, which erroneously used a picture of a different man outside a Treasury building.\n\n\"That isn't me,\" tweeted the chancellor.\n\nThe Mirror said it would \"redouble our efforts\" against racism.\n\nThe story headlined \"Kwasi Kwarteng says he had to do 'something different' after causing budget chaos\" instead pictured Bernard Mensah, the president of international for Bank of America.\n\nMr Mensah had been among representatives of US banks meeting the chancellor at the Treasury on Wednesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Mirror said in a statement on Twitter: \"This morning a picture in a story about Kwasi Kwarteng was wrongly captioned on the Mirror website.\n\n\"This was a terrible error and we apologise to Mr Kwarteng and all our readers.\n\n\"The Mirror has a long history of working against racism and we will redouble our efforts on this.\"\n\nThe wrong image appeared underneath a link promoting Black History Month stories on the Mirror website.\n\nHornsey and Wood Green Conservative chairman Ben Obese-Jecty said: \"Good to see the Daily Mirror kicking off its coverage of Black History Month with this they-all-look-the-same-don't-they clanger.\n\n\"You'd think, given the coverage he's received this week, that most people in the press would know what Kwasi Kwarteng looked like…\"\n\nAnother person tweeted: \"Bad from the Mirror, but they corrected their error over two hours before Kwasi Kwarteng tweeted about it.\n\n\"Now ask him a question about the economy and he'll go into hiding again.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng became the first black chancellor of the UK when he took up his role last month.", "Head teacher Lidiya Tilna says she was detained and beaten for refusing to teach a Russian curriculum\n\nIn the past two weeks, Ukrainian forces say they have taken back 6,000 sq km (2,317 sq miles) of territory, liberating communities that have been under Russian control for more than six months. School teachers in these areas have told the BBC there has been a systematic attempt to eliminate the Ukrainian curriculum and replace it with a Russian agenda.\n\nTravelling east of Kharkiv, to the recently liberated cities of Balakliya and Vovchansk, the BBC spoke to local teachers and staff who all described a similar pattern of forced assimilation. First the destruction of property: school textbooks, Ukrainian flags, children's work - including wall displays on famous Ukrainian writers or cultural icons. But then, a siege upon the teachers themselves.\n\nStanding proudly amongst a sea of Ukrainian textbooks is head teacher Liliya Sirous. She says she was given a list of more than 2,200 books and told to destroy them all. But instead, she hid them. Replaced with a new curriculum of Russian history, literature, and language, for six months Liliya's secret library remained untouched.\n\nHead teacher Liliya Sirous was told to destroy thousands of Ukrainian textbooks\n\nBut now, gazing back upon her treasure trove of thousands of books, neatly stacked and tied up with ribbons, she starts to cry. \"My neighbour said: 'Why are you going to all this trouble? Russia has seized this land forever.'\"\n\nBut Liliya says she never lost hope. \"At the beginning of the school term, we were told we would have to teach our students that Ukraine was a territory of Russia, namely Malorussia ['Little Russia'],\" says Inna Mandryka, deputy director at Balakliya Five school.\n\nInna was one of the teachers who refused to cooperate. After being removed from her post, she carried on working every night from her basement by candlelight.\n\nAs the shelling continued overhead, she created a syllabus of online lessons. When she had access to the internet, she would distribute her work to teachers scattered all over Ukraine and Europe.\n\nTogether, Inna's network of allies has managed to support close to 100 students in the past six months from all over occupied Ukraine.\n\nInna launched an underground online school from her basement\n\nIn another school, just over 100km (62 miles) north of Balakliya, in the village of Ivanivka, head teacher Lidiya Tina - a professional educator with more than 40 years' experience - says she was detained for 19 days after refusing to set up a Russian school.\n\n\"As I was trying to flee Kharkiv, I was detained. A car pulled up and three masked men with assault rifles got out. They put a gun to my throat and ripped up my teaching diploma in front of my face,\" says Lidiya, 60.\n\nShe says a bag was put over her head and then she was placed in solitary confinement for five days. \"My soul ached,\" says Lidiya. \"I thought: 'No-one knows where I am.'\"\n\nShe says she was beaten and forced to kneel, and made to believe she would be executed. \"They tried to force me to learn the lyrics of the Russian anthem, but I refused.\"\n\nThe Russian authorities did not respond to the BBC's request to comment on Lidiya's claims.\n\nThere was pressure not just on teachers, but parents too. \"Parents were threatened that if they didn't send their children back to school, their kids would be taken to an orphanage,\" says Svitlana Shvid, head of education in the Balakliya region, with oversight of its 19 schools.\n\nIn the Vovchansk region, teachers told the BBC how Russian guards were stationed in classrooms while students tried to study.\n\nThe BBC asked the Russian authorities to comment on alleged threats to parents, but they did not respond.\n\nStudents in Balakliya city are keen to return to school soon. It has been two weeks since the liberation of their city, and young people are finally able to go outside again and hang out with friends.\n\nBest friends Daria, Veronica and Milena on a basketball court in Balakliya city\n\nOn the basketball court, 14-year-old Daria is playing with her friends. She asked her mum not to send her to the Russia-run school during the occupation. Now, since its liberation, she is looking forward to going back.\n\n\"I've spent months in our basement after Russian soldiers shelled our house and threw a grenade in our backyard.\"\n\nEnjoying their rekindled freedom, 13-year-old Milena agrees. \"Right now, our aim is just to survive,\" she says. \"I'm not dreaming about anything else.\"", "Naja Lyberth was fitted with a coil as part of a birth control strategy in Greenland in the 1970s\n\nDenmark and Greenland have formally agreed to launch a two-year investigation into historic birth control practices carried out for many years on Inuit Greenlanders by Danish doctors.\n\nThousands of Inuit women and girls were fitted with an intrauterine device (IUD), commonly known as a coil, during the 1960s and 70s.\n\nIt is a contraceptive device placed inside the womb - or uterus - to prevent pregnancy.\n\nAmong the women and girls fitted with an IUD was Naja Lyberth.\n\nIt was in the 1970s that a doctor told Naja, who believes she was then aged about 13, to go to her local hospital to have a coil implanted following a routine school medical examination.\n\n\"I didn't really know what it [was] because he never explained or got my permission,\" says Naja, who at the time was living in Maniitsoq, a small town on Greenland's west coast.\n\n\"I was afraid. I couldn't tell my parents,\" she says. \"I was a virgin. I had never even kissed a boy.\"\n\nNow 60, Naja is one of the first to speak out about what happened.\n\n\"I can remember the doctors [in] white coats, and maybe there was a nurse. I saw the metal things [stirrups] where you should spread your legs. It was very frightening. The equipment the doctors used was so big for my child body - it was like having knives inside me.\"\n\nNaja as a young teenager in her home in the small town of Maniitsoq\n\nNaja says her parents' permission had not been sought, and that her classmates were also sent to hospital but did not talk about it because \"it was too shocking\".\n\nShe has set up a Facebook group to allow women to share their common experiences and help each other cope with the trauma. More than 70 women have joined.\n\nA recent podcast, Spiralkampagnen (\"coil campaign\"), found records indicating that up to 4,500 women and girls - roughly half of all fertile females - had an IUD implanted in Greenland between 1966 and 1970. But the procedures continued into the mid-1970s.\n\nOf these, it is unclear how many cases lacked consent or proper explanation.\n\nAmong those affected were girls as young as 12, and several have stated publicly that they were not properly informed. Some women unable to have children suspect the coil is to blame.\n\n\"So many women contact me,\" says Naja. \"It seems that the younger the girls were, the more complications they get from this coil. It's so sad.\"\n\nArnannguaq Poulsen had a coil fitted when she was 16, not in Greenland but on Danish soil. She was studying at a boarding school for Greenlandic children on the island of Bornholm in 1974.\n\nArnannguaq Poulsen says she suffered pain as a result of having a coil procedure as a teenager\n\n\"They didn't ask me before the procedure, and I had no idea what it was all about, or what the coil was,\" she says.\n\nShe could only travel home once a year and is certain her parents were not consulted. Arnannguaq describes suffering pains, and says she had the coil removed when she returned home to Greenland a year later, aged 17.\n\n\"I feel that I didn't get a choice back then, and I cannot accept that,\" the 64-year-old says, tearfully. \"How would people react if it was Danish women instead of Greenlandic?\"\n\nThere was little knowledge of the birth control programme in either Greenland or Denmark, and the reports have caused shock and indignation.\n\nNow, a committee will examine the pregnancy prevention practices carried out by Danish health authorities between 1960 and 1991, both in Greenland and at schools in Denmark with Greenlandic students.\n\nGreenland's government only took control of health policy from Copenhagen in 1992.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said the investigation would shed light on the decisions leading up to the practice, and how it was carried out.\n\nHe said he had met several of the women affected, adding: \"The pain, physically and emotionally, that they have experienced is still there today.\"\n\nGreenland transitioned from a colony to a country of Denmark in 1953.\n\nSweeping modernisation plans ushered in better healthcare and living conditions. Life expectancy and new-born survival rates improved.\n\nBut those successes brought other challenges, says Soeren Rud, a historian at Copenhagen University.\n\nGreenland's tiny population rocketed, and by 1970 it had almost doubled.\n\nA modern intrauterine device (IUD), commonly known as a coil, is used to prevent pregnancy\n\nMr Rud believes the rationale for introducing the coil was partly financial, but also the result of colonial attitudes.\n\n\"There's an obvious interest in trying to limit the growth of the population,\" he says, adding that it reduces \"the challenges of providing housing and welfare services\".\n\nA high proportion of young single mothers was another concern that prompted family-planning initiatives.\n\nDoctors wrote about the coil initiative in journals, perceiving it a success, Mr Rud adds. Records show the birth rate halved in just a few years.\n\nKatrine Jakobsen, from Nuuk, says she was only 12 when she had a coil fitted. She remembers being taken to the doctor by a relative's girlfriend in 1974.\n\nShe had the coil for almost two decades and suffered pain and a string of complications. In her late 30s, her uterus was removed.\n\nI remember right after the procedure, I was in so much pain that I just sat down in the snow. Katrine Jakobsen, from Nuuk, Greenland\n\nDescribing having a coil fitted at a young age\n\n\"It's had a big impact on my life. I never had children,\" she says. \"I never told anyone. I always thought I was alone in this.\"\n\nToday's IUDs are small T-like devices, but earlier versions in the 1960s were S-shaped and much larger.\n\n\"In a uterus that had never been pregnant, it would give more bleeding, more pain, a bigger risk of infection,\" says Dr Aviaja Siegstad, a gynaecologist at Queen Ingrid's Hospital in Nuuk.\n\nIn the 1990s and 2000s, she and her colleagues came across patients struggling to conceive who were unaware they had a coil. It was not a big number, she says, but it was also not unusual.\n\n\"In a couple of cases we were able to date the IUD back to women who had abortions and probably had it placed after an abortion without being told,\" she adds.\n\nAccording to Greenland's Human Rights Council, conventions on family life and privacy were breached.\n\n\"We need to get it investigated to know whether or not it was actually a genocide,\" says the council's chairperson Qivioq Loevstroem, adding: \"We don't want a whitewashed report.\"\n\nGreenland's health minister, Mimi Karlsen, said involving Greenland in the investigation was \"necessary to get to the bottom\" of what happened.\n\nIt follows other controversies that have seen Denmark's past relationship with Greenland come under increased scrutiny.\n\nIn March, Denmark apologised and paid compensation to six Inuit who were separated from their families and sent to Denmark as part of failed 1950s social experiment.\n\nDuring the summer, Greenland's parliament voted for a separate commission to examine Denmark's decolonisation after 1953.\n\nCounselling has been offered to those affected by the birth control practice, but Arnannguaq Poulsen hopes there will be compensation.\n\n\"I know there are many women that cannot have children,\" she says.", "Former BBC presenter Mark Mardell has revealed he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.\n\nThe former Europe and North America editor shared the news on the podcast Beeb Watch, telling ex-colleague Roger Bolton he was \"fine and dandy\" but his voice was \"rather strange and weak\".\n\n\"I'm getting used to being the quietest person in the room rather than the loudest,\" the 65-year-old joked.\n\nPresenter Jeremy Paxman disclosed he had Parkinson's last year.\n\nThe University Challenge presenter's diagnosis came just two years after former BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones revealed he had Parkinson's disease, after a neurologist noticed his symptoms during a live broadcast and contacted the BBC.\n\nBroadcaster Mardell, who also hosted The World This Weekend on BBC Radio 4, told Bolton he first noticed the symptoms after struggling to open supermarket packaging earlier in the year.\n\n\"I started thinking at the beginning of the year, Waitrose are making their packaging really hard to get into these days - what's this about?\"\n\n\"And then I found my arms suddenly lifting above my head for no particular reason, or at least staying there.\"\n\nMardell. who left the BBC in 2020 after 30 years at the corporation, was advised by a friend who is also a physiotherapist to see a doctor in May.\n\n\"Generally it's in the stage of just being annoying rather than anything terrible,\" said Mardell, adding that currently his biggest concern was learning that the medication he has been prescribed can make patients act impulsively.\n\n\"If I start gambling, you know there's a problem with the pills!\"\n\nParkinson's disease is a neurological disorder which attacks the area of the brain which controls movement.\n\nComedian Sir Billy Connolly, musician Ozzy Osbourne and actor Michael J Fox have all been diagnosed with the disease which is believed to be the fastest-growing neurological condition in the world.\n\nCharity Parkinson's UK estimates that around 145,000 people in the UK are living with the disease, with that number predicted to grow as life expectancy increases.", "This has not been an easy party conference for the government.\n\nSome in Birmingham think it's been a disaster.\n\nFirst, a colossal U-turn on the 45p tax rate, then being forced to bring forward the next step of the chancellor's economic growth plan under pressure from Tory MPs.\n\nNow, there's another mutiny brewing over benefits - and how much they should go up by.\n\nBoris Johnson's government promised that working-age benefits would go up in line with inflation.\n\nHis successor as PM, Liz Truss, has pledged that pensions will continue to be linked to inflation but has pointedly not made the same commitment when it comes to welfare payments like universal credit.\n\nIt means a rise in working-age benefits could be linked to wages instead.\n\nThe government has said no final decision will be made for a few weeks yet. But rebellion hangs in the air here in Birmingham and it's likely to follow the prime minister back to Westminster.\n\nA growing number of Conservative MPs are making it clear where they stand - and remarkably, that goes all the way up to the cabinet.\n\n\"We are not about trying to help people with one hand and take away with another,\" she told Times Radio.\n\nRemember, cabinet ministers are supposed to toe the government line. This is not an example of biting your tongue.\n\nThen there's the former Tory leader - and one of the main architects of the universal credit system - Iain Duncan Smith, who has urged benefits to rise in line with prices.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"Do the right thing for those who are poorest.\n\n\"The money you give into this area to deal with the worst off will go straight back into the economy, so that will help growth, ironically, at a time when we need growth rather than recession.\"\n\nThere is a debate going on in government over the best way to proceed.\n\nOne argument being made in Downing Street is that it is unfair to urge workers to accept below inflation wage rises, then to give inflation-matched increases in benefits.\n\nHence the suggestion the rises in benefits could be limited to the average salary increase.\n\nOne minister who sits around the cabinet table also argues the government needs to be prepared to have \"a conversation\" with the public about the benefits system.\n\nThey argue the drive for growth requires people to be in work, earning more money.\n\nBut there is significant concern in the Conservative Party about the idea of real-terms benefits cuts during a cost-of-living crisis.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Chloe Smith is among those to have argued the government needs to protect the most vulnerable in society.\n\nShe told the conference: \"We do understand that these are very anxious times for people, we know that people are struggling with some of the costs that are rising. That's why protecting the most vulnerable is a vital priority for me and to this government.\"\n\nIt'll be her job to conduct review of benefit levels. It's common for people in the job to back higher rather than lower benefits. Her allies haven't contested suggestions she wants to secure an inflation-level increase.\n\n\"I suspect we'll end up with something close to inflation because of parliamentary pressure,\" says one minister I spoke to on Tuesday morning.\n\nSo where does this all end up? Is the move now inevitable? Some think so, like the former cabinet minister Damian Green who says the prime minister would lose any vote in Parliament on below-inflation benefits.", "Nadhim Zahawi, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, has said he was ''sorry'' - after being challenged about the turmoil in the financial markets following the government's mini-budget.\n\nHe was speaking on the BBC's Question Time programme and responding to prompting from a fellow panellist, broadcaster Piers Morgan.\n\nMr Zahawi began by commending the prime minister for her conference speech and action she had taken. But he was pressed again by Piers Morgan for a ''simple apology'' and then replied ''Of course, I'm sorry''.", "An Irish dancing organisation has launched an investigation into allegations of results fixing.\n\nAn Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha (CLRG) said its ethics committee had received allegations of several grievous breaches of its code of conduct.\n\nIt said evidence had also been provided, apparently dating back several years.\n\nCLRG has engaged a former Court of Appeal judge to carry out the investigation.\n\nThe CLRG, which is Ireland's oldest established organisation for Irish dancing, said: \"Such unethical behaviour cannot and will not be tolerated by this organisation.\"\n\nThe complaints were made to An Coiste Faire (CLRG Ethics Committee) in July, with supporting documentation.\n\nA statement was first issued to members via email last week, and that has been seen by BBC News NI.\n\nIt said: \"The evidence apparently dates back several years and identifies individuals allegedly offering various inducements to promote dancers to a higher than deserved placing at particular competitions.\n\n\"It is believed that there are a number of teachers and schools implicated in the allegations.\"\n\nCLRG said the judge would \"oversee and supervise the immediate investigation\" into these matters \"due to the potential extent of such allegations\".\n\n\"The process will no doubt be difficult and arduous, but this grossly unethical behaviour must be eliminated from our competitions, dance schools and governing organisations,\" the CLRG statement added.\n\nIrish Minister for the Arts, Catherine Martin, said she would write to CLRG to ensure every possible step was taken to restore confidence in competitive Irish dancing.\n\nShe told Irish broadcaster RTÉ that her department had no regulatory or funding role in the competitions, but that the very least people could expect for their children was that they would be treated fairly.\n\nCLRG was established by Conradh na Gaeilge, a cultural organisation which promotes the Irish language, in the late 1930s.\n\nAccording to its website, the objective of An Coimisiún is to preserve and promote Irish dancing and also to promote the use of the Irish language.\n\nCLRG has members across all five continents around the world, with nine regional councils set up to oversee events.\n\nSome of its major annual events include the All-Ireland Irish Dancing Championships, Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne (the World Irish Dancing Championships) or more locally, provincial championships in Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connacht.\n\nAnother statement has since been published on the CLRG website, adding that no further comment will be made until the investigation process has concluded.\n\nThe organisation said any registered member found to be engaged in such practices would be subject to due and full process under its disciplinary procedures.", "Tom Stevenson solved the Countdown Conundrum in three seconds on the way to his score of 154\n\nA university student has broken two records on Channel 4's quiz programme Countdown.\n\nTom Stevenson, 21, followed up a record score of 154 points by being the first person to progress without losing a round on the show.\n\nThe University of Worcester student, of Burford, Shropshire, said he wanted to \"prove something\" after getting three Ds in his A-levels.\n\nShow host Colin Murray, said it was an \"absolutely phenomenal\" performance.\n\nHe broke the record with the final Countdown Conundrum, despite being told by Murray the significance of the moment.\n\nThe student cracked the anagram UNLETOVER in just three seconds - read on to discover the solution.\n\nHe is now through to the final at the end of the year.\n\nDespite dealing with that pressure, Mr Stevenson said he often suffered from anxiety in pressured situations, describing his A-level results as feeling like \"the end of the world\".\n\nHe said he thought he had been \"hard done by\" in those results and wanted to show he was \"more than them\".\n\nMr Stevenson started watching Countdown when he was at school, but said he really got into watching it regularly because of his agoraphobia, which he said had become less of a problem over time.\n\nHe said: \"I could hardly leave the house and watching Countdown helped me to pass the time.\"\n\nIt also helped him develop strategies, he said, and when he got his chance, he went into the studio prepared.\n\n\"I did a bit of practice, mainly because I wanted to avoid being trounced by some sort of 16-year-old whiz-kid who swallowed a dictionary.\"\n\nAs well as beating the previous high score of 152 points, he became only the fourth contestant to score more than 1,000 points across a series of episodes and went through 120 rounds without a single loss.\n\nMr Murray joked that if he wins the end of season finals without dropping a round, \"we should just cancel the show, because that would be it\".\n\nMr Stevenson said he was aware of the record of 152 points in a round, but was unaware whether his record 154 points, which included three, maximum, nine-letter words, still stood.\n\n\"I just went with the flow\", he said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "ScotRail services have been disrupted due to a number of disputes over pay and conditions\n\nStrike action by ScotRail workers will take place on Monday 10 October after the RMT union rejected the latest pay offer.\n\nThere will be no services between Glasgow and Edinburgh and just a handful on three central belt routes.\n\nAn improved pay offer was made on Tuesday but the details of that were not made public.\n\nThe RMT union confirmed on Thursday afternoon that it would not be recommending members accept it.\n\nScotRail said only three services would be running during the day on Monday. They include;\n\nNext week's strike is part of a wave of industrial action on the railways across the UK.\n\nOne involves a dispute by Network Rail staff who maintain the infrastructure, such as tracks and signalling.\n\nThey are unhappy about the future of jobs, as well as pay and conditions, and are due to walk out on Saturday, 8 October.\n\nScotRail is expect to run a limited daytime service on a number of routes around the Central Belt and the Borders including trains every 30 minutes between Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nRail passengers in Scotland have had a miserable summer.\n\nFirst ScotRail had to run a reduced timetable for several weeks as drivers were declining overtime because of a pay row.\n\nThen national strike action at the signals company Network Rail meant ScotRail had to cancel most of its services.\n\nBut so far there has been no strikes or formal industrial action at ScotRail itself.\n\nScotRail was effectively renationalised in April - it is owned by the Scottish government.\n\nAny pay offer at the company has to be seen as value for money to the taxpayer and can be seen as a precedent for those public sector workers whose wages are directly paid for by taxpayer.\n\nImproving on the pay offer to the RMT could prove difficult in practice.\n\nThe 5% offer rejected by the union was accepted by the drivers' union ASLEF. Revisions and improvements to that offer earlier this week were insufficient for the RMT which is worried about how its members are being affected by the rising cost of living.\n\nThe six months since ScotRail was brought back into public ownership have proved difficult for the company and its customers, even if the problems can be blamed on the impact of rising inflation and the cost-of-living crisis\n\nIt has hardly been the bright new dawn for the railways which supporters of renationalisation had hoped for.", "The man who denies he is Nicholas Rossi is currently in Edinburgh's Saughton prison\n\nAn alleged fugitive facing extradition from Scotland to the US has had photos of his tattoos taken in prison as part of a bid to establish his identity.\n\nUS prosecutors believe he is Nicholas Rossi, who is said to have faked his own death to escape charges there.\n\nHowever, the 35-year-old claims to be Arthur Knight, a victim of mistaken identity who has never been to the US.\n\nHe is accused of raping a 21-year-old in Utah in 2008 and attacking other women in the States.\n\nAt an Edinburgh Sheriff Court hearing on Thursday, the man's lawyer David Kinloch said work was under way to prove the identity of his client, who is being held at Edinburgh's Saughton prison.\n\nHe told the court: \"The Crown have provided various photographs of a person they believe is Nicholas Rossi, including tattoos being exhibited. It was suggested that my client should be examined and photographed.\n\n\"That has been done on an evening visit to Saughton. I personally attended last Thursday, a week ago today, and counsel is in possession of those photos.\"\n\nAt a previous hearing last month Sheriff Kenneth Maciver said it should not be \"rocket science\" to prove identity.\n\nThe man, appearing by video-link from HMP Edinburgh in a wheelchair and wearing an oxygen mask, denies being the alleged fugitive.\n\nWhen asked whether he was Nicholas Rossi, he replied: \"No, I am Arthur Knight.\"\n\nMr Kinloch asked for the proceedings to be continued for another week as his client's senior legal counsel was not available.\n\nSheriff Kenneth Campbell KC, who was overseeing this week's hearing, agreed to set a further appearance date of 13 October.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People are seen gathered outside the nursery in the aftermath of the attack\n\nAn ex-policeman has killed at least 37 people, most of them children, in a gun and knife attack at a childcare centre in north-east Thailand.\n\nPolice say he then killed himself and his family after a manhunt following the attack in Nong Bua Lamphu province.\n\nChildren and adults are among the casualties at the nursery - police say the attacker mostly stabbed his victims before fleeing the scene.\n\nThe former officer, aged 34, was sacked in June for drug use, police said.\n\nIt is not clear if there was a motive for the attack.\n\nAt least 23 children were among the dead in the mass killing in the town of Utthai Sawan. Some victims aged as young as two were attacked as they slept.\n\nA dozen people who were injured have been taken to Nong Bua Lamphu district hospital.\n\nHeadteacher Nanticha Panchum said the attacker's son attended the centre but had not been there for a month.\n\nThe man used to drop his child off, and was always polite and chatty, she said.\n\nMs Panchum said there were usually more than 90 children at the school, but just over 20 were present on Thursday due to bad weather and a school bus breakdown.\n\nPolice guard the centre as relatives of those killed gather\n\n\"The shooter came in around lunchtime and shot four or five officials at the childcare centre first,\" a local official, Jidapa Boonsom, who was working nearby, told Reuters news agency. One of them was a teacher who was eight months pregnant.\n\n\"At first people thought it was fireworks,\" she said, adding that the man then forced entry to a locked room where children were sleeping.\n\nVideos shared on social media appear to show the tears and distress of parents and relatives of those killed, as they gathered at a shelter outside the centre.\n\nPolice officers arriving after the attack were confronted with horrific scenes, the bodies of adults and children, some of them very young, lying inside and outside the building.\n\n\"After inspecting the crime scene, we found that the perpetrator tried to break in and he mainly used a knife to commit the crime by killing a number of small children,\" said Police Chief Damrongsak Kittiprapat.\n\n\"Then he got out and started killing anyone he met along the way with a gun or the knife until he got home. We surrounded the house and then found that he committed suicide in his home.\"\n\nThai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha described the incident as \"a shocking event\".\n\nThe shooter appears to have travelled from the nursery in Uthai Sawan to his home in the nearby village of Ban Tha Uthai, where he killed himself and his family\n\nPolice named the attacker as Panya Kamrab, a local man who had been a police sergeant before he was suspended for drug use in January, and then dismissed in June. He is understood to have appeared in court on Thursday on charges related to the use and possible sale of methamphetamine. The verdict was scheduled to be delivered on Friday.\n\nArmed with a shotgun, a pistol and a knife, he stormed the nursery at about 12:30 local time (05:30 GMT).\n\nThe details of what followed are still emerging, but after the killing spree the attacker fled the scene in a white four-door Toyota pick-up truck with Bangkok registration plates, according to police, who launched a search for him and warned locals to keep indoors for their own safety.\n\nEyewitnesses were quoted saying the attacker had driven into bystanders and opened fire at some of them, injuring several people as he made his escape.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pichayada P. This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice say Kamrab returned home, killing his wife and son before taking his own life.\n\nMass shootings in Thailand are rare, although gun ownership rates are relatively high for the region. Illegal weapons are also common in the south-east Asian country, according to the Reuters news agency.\n\nThe nursery attack comes less than a month after an army officer shot dead two of his colleagues at a base in Bangkok.\n\nIn 2020 a soldier killed 29 people and injured dozens more in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nErling Haaland continued his incredible scoring form with two more goals as Manchester City swept Copenhagen aside to make it three wins out of three in Champions League Group G.\n\nHaaland was taken off at half-time and so missed an attempt at what would have been a fourth hat-trick for City, but his first-half double means he now has 19 goals in his first 12 games for Pep Guardiola's side.\n\nWith or without him, City were far too quick and clever for their Danish opponents and would have ended up with more than five goals from a totally one-sided match if not for Copenhagen keeper Kamil Grabara.\n\nFresh from crushing neighbours Manchester United at the weekend, City and Haaland picked up where they left off on Sunday and took less than seven minutes to open their account.\n\nCancelo's low cross found Haaland in space inside the area and, predictably, he made no mistake with a powerful finish from what was his first touch of the game.\n\nThe only surprise was that it took until after the half-hour mark for City to extend their lead and, predictably, it was Haaland who was in the right place to tap the loose ball after Grabara had parried a Sergio Gomez shot.\n\nThe last thing Copenhagen needed at this stage was bad luck but their misery was compounded before half-time when a Gomez shot took a double deflection off Denis Vavro and then David Khocholava on its way into the net.\n• None All the best Man City content in one place\n\nWith victory secured, Haaland was replaced by Cole Palmer at half-time - even goal machines need a rest - as City cast an eye towards their next game, against Southampton here on Saturday.\n\nHis exit reduced City's threat but they still dominated possession and further goals followed.\n\nRiyad Mahrez made it 4-0 from the penalty spot after Aymeric Laporte was fouled, then the Algeria forward turned provider to set up Julian Alvarez to round off the scoring from close range.\n\nCity were completely dominant and will be heavy favourites to repeat this result in Denmark next week and ensure their progress to the last 16.\n\nCity have competition for places too\n\nHaaland will continue to hog the headlines but Guardiola will be pleased to see Mahrez get off the mark with his first goal and assist of 2022-23.\n\nThe 31-year-old was City's top scorer last season with 24 goals in all competitions, but had been in unconvincing form in the early stages of this campaign.\n\nThis week, Guardiola even went as far as saying he would not pick him until he improved his physical fitness - but this was surely the response he was looking for from Mahrez after restoring him to the team.\n• None Haaland's records - and the ones he could break at Man City\n\nMahrez was not the only player to make his case for more minutes with the lively Gomez impressing again, just as he did after coming on against United, and only the post stopped Alvarez getting a second goal.\n\nAt the back, Laporte's recovery from injury meant he was fit enough to make his first start of the season, while Ruben Dias was recalled after finding himself an unused substitute for the derby.\n\nWith a busy schedule to come that sees City play 10 times before the campaign pauses for the World Cup on 12 November, competition for places is exactly what Guardiola wants.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Gómez (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Jack Grealish (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt saved. Jack Grealish (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Aymeric Laporte.\n• None Attempt missed. Jack Grealish (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 5, FC Copenhagen 0. Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Valdemar Lund (FC Copenhagen) header from very close range is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Ísak Jóhannesson with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Mukairu (FC Copenhagen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Hákon Haraldsson.\n• None Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) hits the left post with a left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left. Assisted by Jack Grealish. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least five people have been killed in a series of Russian rocket attacks on Ukraine's southern city of Zaporizhzhia, local officials say.\n\nThey say the rockets hit residential buildings before dawn and then again several hours later. People are reported to be under the rubble.\n\nRescue workers are now combing through the shattered remains of one elegant five-storey apartment building.\n\nGlass and rubble is strewn across, and nearby shops are wrecked.\n\nOlha Chobotariova, who lives nearby, told the BBC: \"My children were frightened. The windows blew out. My daughter got so frightened she hid in a corner and I couldn't drag her out.\n\n\"I told her, please come to me and she said: 'No mother, I'm scared.'\n\nOlha Chobotariova: \"I will never forgive Russia for this\"\n\n\"I don't understand how they could do it. There were all just people, children. We haven't done anything. Why are they torturing us like this?\n\n\"My soul aches for our Ukraine. I have no words. It really hurts me. I will never forgive Russia for this. I won't. We should take revenge and take it to the end. Because we're Ukrainians. We're a strong nation. I can't accept this.\"\n\nAlla Yermachenko, another local resident, told the BBC her elderly relatives were in one of the destroyed buildings.\n\n\"There's very little hope that they're alive. Why are they doing this to us? What are they trying to prove? Killing old people. Why? For what?\" Ms Yermachenko said.\n\n\"May our tears drop not on the ground but on the chests of those who launched that missile.\"\n\nThere are fears that the death toll will rise further\n\nAndriy Yermak, the head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's office reacted to the attack by saying that \"Russian terrorists know how to fight only with peaceful people\".\n\nZaporizhzhia regional head Oleksandr Starukh said one woman was killed. Another seven people, including a three-year-old child, were injured.\n\nRussia has so far made no comments on the issue.\n\nThe Ukrainian-held city is the capital of the eponymous Zaporizhzhia region, which Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week declared annexed, along with three other Ukrainian regions - Donetsk and Luhansk in the east, and Kherson in the south. Ukraine and its Western allies condemned the move.\n\nMoscow does not fully control any of the four regions, and in recent weeks Ukrainian troops have made significant advances in the the country's north-east and south.\n\nOn Wednesday, Russia said it was now taking over the operation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe's largest, located in the Moscow-occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nUkraine said it was still in charge, condemning the Russian move. It was unclear how Kyiv could still control the station seized by Moscow during the first days of its invasion launched on 24 February.\n\nThe head of the UN nuclear watchdog is currently visiting Ukraine and later Russia to try to defuse the crisis.\n\nThe station has been repeatedly shelled in recent weeks, with both Kyiv and Moscow accusing each other for such attacks. There are fears that a major incident at the plant could lead to radioactive contamination of much of Europe.", "Brenda and Tony Lawson, Jessica's parents, attended the judicial hearing into the 12-year-old's death in France\n\nThree British teachers have been found not guilty of the equivalent of manslaughter by gross negligence after a girl drowned on a trip to France.\n\nJessica Lawson, 12, who attended Wolfreton School near Hull, had been swimming in a lake near Limoges in July 2015 when a plastic pontoon overturned.\n\nChantelle Lewis, Daisy Stathers and Steven Layne were cleared of any wrongdoing by a judicial hearing.\n\nThe lifeguard on duty and the French local authority were also cleared.\n\nThe hearing in France was told 24 children, aged 12 to 17, had been swimming when the incident happened and Jessica was found beneath the pontoon. She later died in hospital.\n\nFrench prosecutors had recommended Ms Lewis, Ms Stathers and Mr Layne, as well as lifeguard Leo Lemaire, be jailed for three years.\n\n(Clockwise from top left) Teachers Steven Layne, Chantelle Lewis, Daisy Stathers and lifeguard Leo Lemaire were cleared of wrongdoing\n\nGiving her verdicts through an interpreter to the Palais de Justice in Tulle on Wednesday, the head of jurisdiction, Marie-Sophie Waguette, told the four: \"The area was being surveyed by the lifeguard, the lifeguard was present, the flag was green.\n\n\"There was not any reason to think that the floating platform could turn over. We don't know why her drowning took place at the time when the platform turned over.\n\n\"There is therefore no evidence to show that they were negligent - therefore you are found not guilty.\"\n\nEarlier in proceedings, Ms Waguette said there should have been a minimum of three chains to secure the pontoon, but a picture shown in court displayed only two.\n\nThe three teachers had stood accused of failing to comply with risk-evaluation regulations.\n\nHowever, Ms Waguette said the court believed they \"were not under obligation to carry out any specific checks\".\n\nShe added there was no evidence to suggest the teachers had failed to monitor the activity.\n\nWhen the verdicts were announced, Jessica's father, Tony Lawson, left the courtroom. Both Ms Lewis and Ms Stathers broke down in tears.\n\nThe schoolgirl's mother, Brenda Lawson, said her family had been through \"torturous suffering\", describing Jessica as \"full of fun, laughter and care\".\n\nSpeaking outside court, Mr Lemaire, the lifeguard at the scene of the incident, said: \"It's been seven years since this happened. During that time I have, of course, thought of her parents and what happened.\n\n\"And today, I think, it was the moment for everyone to move on and try to move forward with their lives.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople who witnessed a deadly rampage at a Thai nursery have described the horrific moment a former police officer burst in and began attacking staff and children.\n\nNanticha Panchum, the headteacher at the childcare centre, said that after sending the children off for a nap, she had been about to make some lunch when she heard five gunshots.\n\nShe told the BBC there would normally be 92 children at the centre, but because of the shared bus breaking down and some rain, there were only 24 on site at the time of the attack.\n\nOnly one child survived, according to Ms Nanticha.\n\n\"This is something I never dreamed of… I don't know what to do next. I really can't think of anything at the moment,\" she said.\n\nOne of the other teachers recognised the attacker as a parent of a child at the centre, she said - although that child had not attended school for a month.\n\nShe said the man never came across as unwell, adding he was always polite when dropping his son off and was almost too chatty sometimes.\n\nBut on Thursday, she said the colleague told her his eyes were crossed and he was quiet.\n\nThe teachers were trying to lock the door, but he broke in and went into the rooms where the children were sleeping, she said.\n\nMs Nanticha told AFP some staff members had been eating outside when the attacker parked his car and shot four of them dead.\n\nHe then \"smashed down the door with his leg and then came inside\" and began attacking the children, she said.\n\nOne distraught teacher at the nursery told how she locked the door and tried to get help before the killer, armed with a gun and knife, shot his way in and attacked sleeping children.\n\nShe trembled as she told Thailand's Thairath TV how she heard a sound \"similar to firecrackers\" and saw two colleagues lying on the floor before seeing the attacker walking towards her.\n\nShe said she told other colleagues to get into a room and had locked the door before climbing out over a wall to get help.\n\nThe teacher cried as she said she was not in time.\n\nChildren as young as two were among the victims of the attack at the centre in the Nong Bua Lamphu province.\n\nThere were fewer than usual children at the centre when the man arrived as heavy rain had kept many people away, according to district official Jidapa Boonsom, who was working in an office nearby.\n\n\"The shooter came in around lunchtime and shot four or five officials at the childcare centre first,\" Ms Jidapa told Reuters news agency.\n\nThe attacker then forced his way into a locked room where children were sleeping and attacked them, the official said.\n\nAt first people thought the shots were fireworks, she said.\n\n\"It's really shocking. We were very scared and running to hide once we knew it was shooting. So many children got killed, I've never seen anything like it.\"\n\nA teacher who managed to escape described the knife as \"like one for cutting grass - it was curved\".\n\nPaweena Purichan, 31, told AFP news agency she was riding her motorcycle to the shop when she encountered the killer trying to ram other drivers as he fled the scene in a truck.\n\n\"He intended to crash into others on the road,\" she said.\n\n\"The attacker rammed a motorbike and two people were injured. I sped off to get away from him.\n\n\"There was blood everywhere,\" she said.\n\nPolice named the attacker as Panya Kamrab, a police lieutenant colonel who had been dismissed from the force for drug use.\n\nThey said he had been described as agitated before the attack and had opened fire after being unable to find his child at the centre, according to broadcaster ThaiPBS.", "British households could lose power for up to three hours at a time this winter if gas supplies run extremely low, National Grid has warned.\n\nThe company said it was an \"unlikely\" scenario but added that supply interruptions were a possibility if the energy crisis escalated.\n\nCuts would probably occur at peak times and customers would be warned in advance.\n\nBut as a \"base case\" National Grid expects homes will face no problems.\n\nCustomers would be warned at least a day in advance about the power cuts, which would occur at times of high demand, possibly in the morning, or more likely between 4pm and 7pm.\n\nThey would be rotated so not all areas of the country were affected at the same time.\n\nWhen campaigning to be leader of the Conservative Party in August, Prime Minister Liz Truss pledged that there would be no energy rationing this winter.\n\nAsked on Thursday if she could guarantee there would be no blackouts, the Prime Minister said, \"what we're clear about is that we do have a good supply of energy in the UK, we're in a much better position than many other countries, but of course there's always more we can do and that's why I'm here working with our partners making sure we do have a secure energy supply into the future\".\n\nReports have suggested that some in the government want to run a campaign this winter encouraging households to save energy, but this has been opposed by Ms Truss.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, said: \"Ministers are not launching a public information campaign and any claim otherwise is untrue.\"\n\nThe UK is heavily reliant on gas to produce electricity, with gas-fired power stations generating more than 40% of the country's electricity. It also imports electricity from Continental Europe.\n\nNational Grid - which keeps the lights on in England, Scotland and Wales - said Russia's invasion of Ukraine had created \"unprecedented turmoil and volatility\" in the energy markets.\n\nGas flows from Russia to Europe have been all but cut off, leaving countries scrambling for alternative supplies.\n\nAlthough Britain is far less reliant on Russian gas than mainland Europe, it could still suffer knock-on effects from any shortfalls in supplies on the continent, National Grid said.\n\nIn a report, it laid out three possible scenarios for what might happen this winter.\n\nIts central view remains that there will be enough energy to provide Britain with similar levels of electricity to previous winters.\n\nBut it has modelled two more worrying scenarios which could arise.\n\nIn the first, the energy crisis in Europe would result in Britain not being able to import electricity from France, Belgium or the Netherlands, although power would still flow from Norway.\n\nWithout taking action, National Grid warned this situation could lead to shortages.\n\nHowever, it said it had struck deals with three power companies - EDF, Drax and Uniper - to keep additional coal-fired power generators on standby in case they are needed.\n\nIt will also launch a scheme from 1 November which incentivises businesses and households to reduce their electricity use at key times:\n\nSome suppliers have raised doubts about the scheme, but National Grid is encouraging them to work with customers to ensure the \"highest levels of participation\".\n\nWith these measures in place, it thinks that supply interruptions would be avoided. However, it said it had modelled a second, more extreme scenario, in which the energy crisis in Europe escalates, resulting in not enough gas being available in Britain.\n\nIn that event, distributors would be forced to cut off electricity to homes and firms for up to three hours during the day, it said. The measure, not used since the 1970s, would need the approval of the government and the King.\n\nThe last time Britain faced power cuts was in the 1970s\n\n\"In the unlikely event we were in this situation, it would mean that some customers could be without power for pre-defined periods during a day - generally this is assumed to be for three-hour blocks,\" said National Grid.\n\nThe number of people being cut off from electricity will depend on how many gas-power stations are forced to shut down because of a shortage of gas, it added.\n\nHospitals and \"priority businesses\" would be protected from the cuts. However, the Energy Networks Association said vulnerable individuals would not necessarily be protected.\n\nNational Grid said the industry would work with government to inform the public about such measures including via Covid-style press conferences.\n\nA separate report by the National Grid, looking specifically at gas supplies over the winter, also warned of a potential for a shortfall in the event of a cold snap, which could be overcome by paying higher prices.\n\nMost households saw their energy bills rise on 1 October, as the new energy price guarantee came into effect. However, the rise was less than had previously been expected after the government announced it would cap domestic bills to prevent widespread hardship.\n\nOverall, the grid operator concluded that this is likely to be \"a challenging winter\".\n\nThe report from the National Grid relates to Great Britain. But there is also a warning that Northern Ireland could face electricity blackouts in 2024 and 2025 unless action is taken.\n\nThe grid operator, System Operator NI (SONI), says the issue centres on Kilroot power station and environmental permits which limit its operating hours.\n\nEarlier this week, industry regulator Ofgem warned the UK is facing a \"significant risk\" of gas shortages this winter, which could impact electricity supplies.\n\nCommenting on National Grid's forecasts, Ofgem said: \"We have one of the most reliable energy systems in the world and we are in a favourable position.\n\n\"However, it is incumbent on a responsible and prudent energy sector to ensure the right contingency measures are in place, which is why we are working with the government, National Grid and key partners to protect consumers, so that Great Britain is fully prepared for any challenges this winter.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said it was \"confident in our plans to protect households and businesses in the full range of scenarios this winter\".\n\nIndustry group the CBI said although \"there should be sufficient resources to meet demand, the increased risk of energy shortages is worrying for businesses, particularly energy intensive firms\".\n\n\"Early forewarning of tight supplies is essential to help firms minimise disruption to supply chains,\" said Tom Thackray, CBI programme director for decarbonisation.\n\nAnd charity Age UK said \"contingency arrangements need to be planned for now to ensure vulnerable households can be confident of maintaining their electricity supply, come what may\".\n\n\"We are thinking, for example, of older people with chronic health conditions who have to remain warm, or others who dependent on electricity to run essential equipment, including home dialysis machines,\" said Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK.", "Simon Thomas's daughter was born eight weeks early at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire\n\nTV presenter Simon Thomas has praised \"incredible\" NHS staff for delivering his baby daughter eight weeks early.\n\nHe said his wife Derrina fell \"rapidly ill\" and was taken to Stoke Mandeville hospital, Buckinghamshire, where their daughter was born on Tuesday.\n\nThe team \"held our hands physically and in spirit the whole way through a very fear-filled and stressful day\", he said on Instagram.\n\nHis family has \"a long road ahead but she's in the best hands\", he said.\n\nThe presenter praised his \"brave\" wife Derrina and his \"wonderful daughter\"\n\nIn his post he said: \"Not everything in life goes quite according to plan.\n\n\"One moment we think we've got eight weeks until our little one arrives; the next, after Derrina fell rapidly ill, we're suddenly welcoming into the world a very tiny, but hugely precious baby girl weighing just over three pounds.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by simonthomastv This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe thanked the NHS neonatal team at the hospital who were \"were simply incredible\" and for being there for them.\n\n\"I cannot express how proud and blessed I feel right now - I have a beautiful, brave wife in Derrina, a precious son and now a tiny, wonderful daughter and sister for our boy Ethan.\n\n\"We have a long road ahead of being in hospital for the next few weeks, but we have the best team around us.\"\n\nThe former Blue Peter and Sky Sports presenter married his wife at Norwich Cathedral in July 2021.\n\nHis first wife Gemma passed away in November 2017, three days after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nika Shakarami messaged a friend to say she was being chased by security forces\n\nRelatives of a girl who died during protests in Iran have been forced into making false statements, a source close to the family has told BBC Persian.\n\nNika Shakarami, 16, went missing in Tehran on 20 September after telling a friend she was being chased by police.\n\nOn Wednesday night, a state TV report showed her aunt, Atash, saying: \"Nika was killed falling from a building.\"\n\nHer uncle was also seen on TV speaking against the unrest, as someone seems to whisper to him: \"Say it, you scumbag!\"\n\nThe source told BBC Persian that these were both \"forced confessions\" that came \"after intense interrogations and being threatened that other family members would be killed\".\n\nAtash and Nika's uncle, Mohsen, were detained by authorities after Atash posted messages online about her niece's death and spoke to the media. The televised statements were recorded before they were released, according to the source.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Siavash Ardalan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAtash told BBC Persian prior to her arrest on Sunday that the Revolutionary Guards had told her that Nika was in their custody for five days and then handed over to prison authorities.\n\nThe judiciary has said that on the night she disappeared Nika went into a building where eight construction workers were present, and that she was found dead in the yard outside the next morning.\n\nTehran judiciary official Mohammad Shahriari was cited by state media as saying on Wednesday that a post-mortem showed Nika suffered \"multiple fractures... in the pelvis, head, upper and lower limbs, arms and legs, which indicate that the person was thrown from a height\".\n\nHe declared that this proved her death was nothing to do with the protests.\n\nHowever, a death certificate issued by a cemetery in the capital, which was obtained by BBC Persian, states that she died after suffering \"multiple injuries caused by blows with a hard object\".\n\nNika's Instagram and Telegram accounts were also deleted after she went missing, according to Atash. Iranian security forces are known to demand that detainees give them access to the social media accounts so that the accounts or certain posts can be deleted.\n\nWednesday night's state TV report also featured footage in which Atash was seen confirming that her niece's body was found outside the building mentioned by the judiciary, even though that contradicted previous statements made by her and other members of the family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Women in Iran wave hijabs in air and hang protest banner\n\nThe family have said they located Nika's body at the mortuary of a detention centre 10 days after she went missing, and that they were only allowed by officials to see her face for a few seconds in order to identify her. Atash said before she was detained that she did not go to the mortuary.\n\nNika's family transferred her body to her father's hometown of Khorramabad, in the west of the country, on Sunday - on what would have been her 17th birthday.\n\nA source close to them told BBC Persian that the family agreed, under duress from authorities, not to hold a public funeral. But, the source said, security forces then \"stole\" Nika's body from Khorramabad and secretly buried it in the village of Veysian, about 40km (25 miles) away.\n\nHundreds of protesters later gathered in Khorramabad's cemetery and chanted slogans against the government, including \"death to the dictator\" - a reference to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.\n\nHadis Najafi, 22, and Sarina Esmailzadeh, 16, died after taking part in protests in the city of Karaj\n\nNika is not the only young female protester to have been killed during the unrest that erupted last month following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was detained by the morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic's strict hijab law.\n\nThe family of Hadis Najafi, 22, have said that she was shot dead by security forces while protesting in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran, on 21 September. Officials allegedly asked her father to say that she died of a heart attack.\n\nAnother 16-year-old girl, Sarina Esmailzadeh, died after being severely beaten on the head with batons by security forces during protests in Karaj on 23 September, Amnesty International cited a source as saying. The source also told the human rights group that security and intelligence agents had harassed the girl's family to coerce them into silence.\n\nSeveral videos made by Sarina before her death have now been posted on social media. In one recorded after finishing some school exams, she says: \"Nothing feels better than freedom.\"", "The interest rate on a typical two-year fixed rate mortgage has breached 6% for the first time in 14 years.\n\nThe typical deal has a rate of 6.07%, the financial information service Moneyfacts says, a level not seen since the financial crisis in November 2008.\n\nMortgage rates have been going up for months, but recorded a sharp increase in response to the fall-out from the mini-budget nearly two weeks ago.\n\nFirst-time buyers and those looking to remortgage are affected.\n\nAn average of at least 100,000 people a month are coming to the end of their current mortgage, and face a significant rise in their monthly repayments.\n\n\"Borrowers may well be concerned about the rise to fixed mortgage rates but it is essential they seek advice to assess the deals that are available to them right now,\" said Rachel Springall from Moneyfacts.\n\n\"Fixing for longer may seem more appealing, particularly as both the average two- and five-year fixed rates rise to levels not seen in over a decade. Consumers must carefully consider whether now is the right time to buy a home or to wait and see how things change in the coming weeks.\"\n\nBrokers say lenders are \"playing safe\" with rates amid current economic uncertainty, but costs could eventually start to dip.\n\nUncertainty over future interest rates after the mini-budget led lenders to pull more than a thousand deals from the market.\n\nThey are slowly starting to return - there were 3,961 products a fortnight ago, now there are 2,371 - but have become more expensive on average.\n\nRepresentatives from High Street banks and mortgage lenders are meeting Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng on Thursday, with the current situation facing borrowers on the agenda. It is understood that this is the latest in a regular series of discussions.\n\nBosses from Barclays, Natwest and Lloyds Banking Group are expected to attend.\n\nThe interest rate on a new, average two-year fixed deal on the morning of the speech was 4.74%, compared with 6.07% now. That is a difference of about £170 a month on repayments for somebody borrowing £200,000 on a 30-year mortgage.\n\nA five-year fixed deal has typically risen from 4.75% to 5.97% over the same period.\n\nThat leap will be much greater when compared to a borrower's previous deal taken out two or five years ago.\n\nSome more specialist lenders, whose customers may include those with a chequered credit history or the recently self-employed, have been raising rates to 6.5-7% or more.\n\nIn the meantime, the average standards variable rate - which by nature are changeable and are paid by 900,000 homeowners - has gone up from 4.41% at the start of the year to 5.63% at the start of October.\n\nDuring her speech at the Conservative Party conference, Prime Minister Liz Truss said that the government \"will do what we can\" to support homeowners. However, she said that the benchmark interest rate was set independently by the Bank of England.", "Teaching unions in Northern Ireland are set to take \"unprecedented\" joint industrial action over pay.\n\nMembers of the INTO, NAHT and NEU have voted to take co-ordinated action short of strike, and members of the UTU are expected to follow.\n\nTeachers in the NASUWT union previously began industrial action short of a strike in May.\n\nMembers of the INTO and NAHT have also voted to give their unions a mandate for strike action.\n\nThe votes came after teaching unions in Northern Ireland rejected a pay offer from employers as \"inadequate\" earlier this year.\n\nAccording to the unions, the teaching employers claimed the deal was a 3.2% increase over two years.\n\nBut the unions said the deal consisted of a restructure of pay grades which cost less than an equivalent pay offer of 1% each year.\n\nSince then, inflation has risen to almost 10%, driven largely by the rising cost of food and fossil fuels.\n\nThe Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) has about 7,000 members in Northern Ireland.\n\nAbout half voted in their ballot for industrial action, with 98% voting for action short of strike and 85% for strike action.\n\nIn a statement, INTO's Northern Secretary Gerry Murphy said the result was \"a clear manifestation of the frustration and anger our members and teachers as a whole are feeling\".\n\nMr Murphy said the co-ordinated action short of strike by the unions was \"unprecedented\", but would not interfere with the teaching and learning of children.\n\nThe joint action short of strike that the unions are expected to take will involve things like a boycott of assessments - apart from formal assessments like GCSEs or A-Levels, for instance - and attending only one school meeting a week.\n\nIt also affects other duties such as administrative tasks, lesson plans, refusing to take on any unpaid duties, and participation in boards of governors' meetings.\n\nGraham Gault said the education system was \"teetering on the brink\"\n\nBBC News NI understands that the action may escalate if the pay dispute is not resolved.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has fewer members in Northern Ireland than INTO, but represents many school leaders such as principals and vice-principals.\n\nOn a 68% turnout, 93% voted in favour of action short of strike, and 62% voted in favour of strike action.\n\nThe NAHT's Northern Ireland Director Dr Graham Gault, said that the education system was \"teetering on the brink\".\n\n\"Removing co-operation is a loss of confidence in government,\" he said.\n\n\"Education is an investment in the future of Northern Ireland, not a burden on the public purse\".\n\nMeanwhile, National Education Union (NEU) members in Northern Ireland also voted to take action short of strike from 11 October.\n\nThe union's regional secretary in Northern Ireland, Mark Langhammer, said it had taken strike action only once in its 130-year history.\n\nHe said the joint action showed \"unprecedented unity of purpose, with all five recognised teachers' unions engaging in coordinated action\".\n\n\"The actions do not target the education of our children,\" he said.\n\n\"They will target unnecessary bureaucracy, administration, hyper-accountability and teacher-surveillance.\"\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Good Morning Ulster show, Mr Langhammer said the fact pay had fallen behind for teachers in Northern Ireland had led to shortages in areas including maths, home economics, sciences and computing.\n\n\"It is not an attractive graduate profession anymore,\" he said.\n\nWhile the results of the Ulster Teachers' Union (UTU) ballot have not yet been revealed, their members are also expected to back strike action and action short of strike.\n\nHowever, the teaching employers have previously warned that teachers taking action short of a strike could have pay deducted for breaching their contract.\n\nAny pay award to teachers would be dependent on the Stormont Executive reaching agreement on public sector pay policy and an education budget.\n\nThere has been no executive in Northern Ireland since February, however, when the then DUP First Minister Paul Givan resigned as part of the party's protest against the Northern Ireland Protocol.", "The Edinburgh Film Festival has been running for 75 years\n\nThe Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Edinburgh Filmhouse and the Belmont cinema in Aberdeen have all stopped trading with immediate effect.\n\nThe parent charity that runs them - Centre for the Moving Image - announced it had called in administrators after what it described as a \"perfect storm\".\n\nIt said it had seen sharply rising costs alongside reduced trade due to the effects of the Covid pandemic.\n\nIt announced 102 staff had lost their jobs as a result of the closures.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs she was \"hugely concerned\" by the news.\n\nIt puts in doubt the future of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which is the world's oldest continually running festival, and comes just weeks after it celebrated its 75th anniversary.\n\nThe CMI also runs the Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen\n\nThe CMI was founded in 2010 and has run Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen since 2014.\n\nIn March 2020, just before the Covid pandemic, the CMI unveiled plans for a new £50m cinema complex, opposite the Usher Hall, that would become the home for the Edinburgh International Film Festival.\n\nBosses hailed the plans as a \"21st Century temple for film\".\n\nBut the charity has now called in administrators amid difficult post-pandemic conditions which had seen audience figures down by more than 50%.\n\nIt said escalating operating costs and overheads along with soaring energy charges and inflation had added to unsustainable cash flow problems and debt.\n\nIn a statement, it said it was aware of the stress it would cause for staff who have lost their jobs.\n\nA spokesman for the board of the CMI said: \"We would like to put on record our immense gratitude to the entire staff team whose passion for film and for the audiences and communities we work with and serve has remained undented by the challenges of recent years.\"\n\nResponding to a question from Labour MSP Daniel Johnson at First Minister's Questions, Ms Sturgeon said the Scottish government would engage with Edinburgh and Aberdeen city councils to see if there was any support that could be offered.\n\n\"The issue is of huge concern and I know many people in Edinburgh and Aberdeen will be profoundly upset about it,\" she said.\n\n\"These are really important cultural organisations and all of us want to see them go from strength to strength.\"\n\nThe Filmhouse in Edinburgh will close with immediate effect\n\nAdministrators Tom MacLennan and Chad Griffin have been appointed to assess the charity's future and said the CMI had been \"central to the development of Scotland's thriving film industry\".\n\nIn statement, Mr MacLennan said: \"Unfortunately, CMI and its three subsidiary businesses have been severely affected by a wide range of factors that have rendered all businesses unsustainable and administration was the only option.\n\n\"We are hopeful that businesses already operating in the film industry or entrepreneurs looking to enter the film industry will be encouraged to register their interest in the assets.\"\n• None Film festival hub tower to be reduced in height", "The study produced the first full skeleton reconstruction of the 230-million-year-old creature\n\nThe evolutionary secrets of a 230-million-year-old fossil reptile have been revealed, after a century of it being \"locked inside a block of stone\".\n\nResearchers used powerful X-ray scans to examine the fossil, found a century ago in Scotland.\n\nTheir study produced the first full skeleton reconstruction of the creature Scleromochlus.\n\nThis small, scampering Triassic reptile is, scientists say, the ancient cousin of the great, winged pterodactyl.\n\nThe findings are published in the journal Nature.\n\n\"We just didn't understand just how much we were missing until we did these scans,\" lead researcher Dr Davide Foffa, from National Museums Scotland, said.\n\nScleromochlus is part of a collection known as the Elgin reptiles - a set of fossils from the Triassic period unearthed in the 1900s in Lossiemouth, near Elgin, Moray.\n\nThe fragile fossils are \"locked\" in sandstone blocks\n\nThey date to a time when Scotland was largely a desert within the supercontinent Pangea.\n\nDr Foffa and his colleagues worked closely with the Natural History Museum, in London, where much of the Elgin collection is now held, to scan and study seven fragile, sandstone-entombed specimens of Scleromochlus.\n\nUntil now, it has been difficult to draw useful information from the fossils. But they piqued the palaeontologist's interest because they date to a murky and critical point in the fossil record - about 10 million years before the first fossil pterosaurs.\n\n\"The first pterosaurs [we have] in the fossil record are already winged - already adapted for flying - so it's really difficult to understand where that came from,\" Dr Foffa said.\n\nAnd now, fine anatomical details revealed by the X-ray scans - including the shape of its jaw and upper thigh bone - have allowed the scientists to correctly place Scleromochlus on the pterosaur family tree, revealing the first flying reptiles evolved from small ground-dwelling ancestors that probably ran around on two legs.\n\nThe small agile reptiles probably ran around on two legs\n\n\"It was great to be the first person to look at these details,\" Dr Foffa said.\n\n\"This animal now provides a lot of information about what the precursors of pterosaurs looked like.\"\n\nPterosaurs - often referred to collectively as pterodactyls, which were probably the most famous of the prehistoric, winged reptiles - were the first animals with bones to start flying. They took to the skies more than 200 million years ago, long before birds and bats.\n\nProf Steve Brusatte from the University of Edinburgh, who was also involved in the study, described them as \"bizarre\" - with wings of skin attached to a single long, skinny finger.\n\n\"It's long been mysterious what type of animals they evolved from and how they took to the air,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"By identifying Scleromochlus as a close pterosaur cousin, we can now reveal that pterosaurs evolved from tiny, fast-running, ground-living animals, which raced around on their toes like a ballerina, that were so humble that you could hold one in your hand.\"", "A plan for a new restaurant at Jeremy Clarkson's farm was turned down by the council in January, but one opened in July\n\nJeremy Clarkson has been ordered to shut his farm's cafe and restaurant after a council claimed his business breached planning laws.\n\nMr Clarkson has appealed against an enforcement notice for Diddly Squat Farm after West Oxfordshire District Council (WODC) took action in August.\n\nA restaurant opened in July, months after two applications were rejected.\n\nThe farm, in Chadlington, is featured in the Amazon Prime Video documentary series, Clarkson's Farm.\n\nWODC ordered the farm to undertake a catalogue of measures within six weeks of it serving the notice on 12 August.\n\nThey include removing all mobile toilets, all tables that would be used by diners, and \"landscaping materials\".\n\nIt said there was \"unlawful\" use of the farm and said its \"nature, scale [and] siting is unsustainable and incompatible with its countryside location within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty\".\n\nThe council said the farm must also stop selling products other than those made on the farm, those made within a 16-mile (25.7km) radius of it, or others that the council has allowed.\n\nMr Clarkson's farm shop has been popular with visitors - like these photographed in August - since it opened in 2020\n\nIn a statement, the authority said: \"Council officers have worked with the owner and planning agents of the business, over many months, to investigate breaches in planning control, advising on how the business can be operated in a lawful way and trying to reach a solution.\n\n\"The business continues to operate outside the planning permissions granted and advice has been ignored. The activity has also had a significant impact on the local community.\"\n\nBut agents working on the farm's behalf denied it breached planning laws and said some of the requirements were \"excessive\".\n\nIt also said a map served by the council was wrong and that the notice \"should be quashed in its entirety as a result\".\n\nThe agent added the proposed six-week period to undertake the ordered work would be too short.\n\nThey said it would have a \"serious and detrimental impact on the business and livelihoods of those employed at the site\" and that six months would be a \"more reasonable timeframe\".\n\nLong queues of visitors formed at Mr Clarkson's farm in the summer\n\nPapers served by the Planning Inspectorate show it has accepted Mr Clarkson's appeal as valid and that representations must be made in coming weeks.\n\nThe former Top Gear presenter reportedly found a \"delightful little loophole\" and opened the restaurant in the summer, according to The Sun.\n\nHe said he had found another barn and notified WODC of the restaurant opening.\n\nAt the time, the council said it was looking to ensure the venue was \"compliant with local and national planning law\".\n\nAn application to extend the farm's car park was rejected in May.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An advert- and tracker-free search engine launches in the UK, France and Germany on Thursday.\n\nNeeva has 600,000 users in the US, where it launched last year.\n\nCreator Sridhar Ramaswamy, who worked at Google for 16 years and ran its ad business, told BBC News the technology sector had become \"exploitative\" of people's data, something he no longer wanted to be a part of.\n\nIt offers free-to-use search, with other features such as password-manager access and virtual-private-network (VPN) service to be made available on a subscription basis.\n\nUsers are asked to create an account, to build subscriptions at a later date.\n\nAnd the UK price was likely to be about £5 per month, Mr Ramaswamy said.\n\n\"We felt the traditional search engines had become about advertising and advertisers - and not really about serving users,\" he said.\n\n\"Google has a dominant position in the marketplace - and the incentive for them to truly innovate, to truly create disruptive experiences, is not really there.\n\n\"And then also as a company they feel obligated to show more and more revenue and profit to their shareholders, so they just keep increasing the number of ads.\"\n\nSearch the word \"migraine\" on both Google and Neeva, and the first page of the results are fairly similar - links to news articles and factual information.\n\nBut with a brand, the difference becomes more stark.\n\nWhen I try \"BMW\", both search engines lead with links to the carmaker's website and Wikipedia entry.\n\nBut while Google follows with a map, social-media feeds and links to used-car dealers, Neeva sticks with different BMW official pages.\n\nGoogle certainly has more variety - but it is also blatantly pushing me towards buying a car.\n\nAnd almost all - but not the BBC - had at least one belonging to Google, meaning Google is receiving anonymised information about users visiting those pages.\n\nWhile I had the extension activated, no ads displayed around the editorial content.\n\nBut ultimately, none of Neeva's other rivals has dented the dominance of Google search.\n\n\"To Bing\" or \"to Duckduckgo\" - another privacy-focused service - are not verbs in the way \"to google\" is.\n\nAnd asked if Mr Ramaswamy could ever topple his former employer, Steph Liu, an analyst at Forrester specialising in privacy and search, said: \"Realistically, no.\n\n\"It's a sort of David and Goliath story. Google has too many users, it has too much revenue.\n\n\"The ultimate goal is to offer an alternative for the consumer base who are worried about their privacy, who don't want Google hoovering up their data and targeting ads based on their search history\".", "Sir Elton John is among several public figures taking legal action against the publisher of the Daily Mail over what they call \"gross breaches of privacy\".\n\nThe Duke of Sussex, Baroness Doreen Lawrence and actresses Sadie Frost and Elizabeth Hurley have also filed cases against Associated Newspapers Ltd.\n\nThe company's alleged activity includes having listening devices secretly placed inside people's cars and homes.\n\nA spokesman for ANL described the allegations as \"preposterous smears\".\n\nIn a statement, the newspaper group said: \"We utterly and unambiguously refute these preposterous smears which appear to be nothing more than a pre-planned and orchestrated attempt to drag the Mail titles into the phone hacking scandal concerning articles up to 30 years old.\n\n\"These unsubstantiated and highly defamatory claims - based on no credible evidence - appear to be simply a fishing expedition by claimants and their lawyers, some of whom have already pursued cases elsewhere.\"\n\nThe company also publishes The Mail on Sunday and the Mail Online.\n\nSadie Frost won damages from Mirror Group Newspapers in 2015 over phone-hacking\n\nLaw firm Hamlins, which is representing Prince Harry and Frost, said in a press release that those taking action had been the victims of \"abhorrent criminal activity\".\n\nIn the statement, Hamlins alleged that the activity included:\n\nHamlins added: \"It is apparent to these individuals that the alleged crimes listed above represent the tip of the iceberg - and that many other innocent people remain unknowing victims of similar terrible and reprehensible covert acts.\n\n\"They have now therefore banded together to uncover the truth, and to hold the journalists responsible fully accountable, many of whom still hold senior positions of authority and power today.\"\n\nBaroness Lawrence's son Stephen was murdered in a racist attack in 1993\n\nSir Elton John's husband David Furnish is also named as one of the figures taking action against the media company.\n\nBaroness Lawrence, Hurley, Sir Elton and Furnish are being represented by law firm Gunnercooke.\n\nDoreen Lawrence is the mother of Stephen Lawrence, the black British teenager who was murdered in a racist attack in 1993. In the years following his murder, the Daily Mail campaigned for his killers to be brought to justice.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have had a difficult relationship with the British press for several years - the couple have previously said they would have \"zero engagement\" with four major British papers, including the Daily Mail, accusing them of false and invasive coverage.\n\nThe duke separately sued Associated Newspapers for libel in February over an article in the Mail on Sunday about his legal battle with the Home Office. In an initial ruling in the ongoing case, a judge said parts of the story were potentially defamatory.\n\nLast year, the duchess won the latest stage in her legal fight against the publisher over a story about a letter she sent to her father.\n\nJonathan Coad, a media lawyer who has previously been involved in legal action against Associated Newspapers, said the allegations were even more serious than phone-hacking.\n\n\"They are highly intrusive. They are means of delving into the private lives of people, and private lives which are protected by statute and the human rights act, and by the European convention on human rights.\n\n\"So it is a gross invasion of privacy if these things occurred, and it would be absolutely right and proper if they did occur, that Associated Newspapers and hopefully some of their senior figures, are held to account.\"", "Rob Lewis, an ex-Metropolitan Police officer, is understood to have created the group chat\n\nAn ex-Met Police officer, suspended after a BBC investigation revealed he had been posting racist content on WhatsApp, has been arrested.\n\nRob Lewis, now a Home Office official, is being held on suspicion of offences under the Communications Act and misconduct in a public office.\n\nBBC Newsnight has seen racist messages about flooding in Pakistan, as well as Harry and Meghan, shared in the chat.\n\nThe Home Office suspended him, calling the messages \"vile and deplorable\".\n\nIt said it had \"a zero-tolerance approach to anyone displaying racist or discriminatory behaviour\".\n\nThe Met's new commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, called the material \"horrific and completely shameful\" and pledged to be ruthless in removing officers who damage the integrity of the force.\n\n\"We're going to be much more forceful in the way we see this as criminality, not just bad behaviour,\" he told the BBC's Newsnight.\n\n\"The leadership, culture and standards [within the Met] has allowed too many people to behave in this way and we haven't been ruthless enough about it.\"\n\nSir Mark added that concrete steps were being taken to see more people removed from the force for such \"ghastly acts\".\n\nHe said he would also focus on strengthening community policing and would report his progress both publicly and to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.\n\nMr Lewis is understood to have created the group chat, which also included other former Met police officers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: We've let the public and good officers down - Met Police commissioner\n\nNewsnight has been passed dozens of messages, by a member of the group. Many are too offensive to show. Some contain the very strongest racial slurs.\n\nSome of the posts reference the government's Rwanda policy, while others joke about recent flooding in Pakistan, which left almost 1,700 people dead. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex also feature in several memes, alongside racist language.\n\nSeveral of the members of the WhatsApp group used to work for the Diplomatic Protection Group (DPG), a specialist operations branch of the Met that guards the Houses of Parliament and protects ministers.\n\nNewsnight understands serving police officers were part of the group in question until recently, but many left following the murder of Sarah Everard, last year. Ms Everard was murdered by Wayne Couzens, who was a member of the same specialist branch.\n\nThe unit has since changed its name and is now called the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection (PaDP).", "I'm stuck at home taking care of a sick child, when a familiar feeling suddenly hits - a craving for durian.\n\nBut there's no need to head out to a durian stall or supermarket to buy the tropical fruit, lug it home, and wrestle open its spiky husk.\n\nI just whip out my phone, open an app called Grab, and make a few taps.\n\nForty-five minutes later, there's a knock on my door. A deliveryman hands over a bag: it's my durian, freshly shucked and sealed in plastic tubs, ready to eat.\n\nFrom ordering cabs and food, to paying our bills and booking holidays, super-apps like Grab offer a mindboggling array of services. They don't exist yet in the West - Elon Musk is thinking of creating one called X - but in many parts of Asia they've already been a vital part of our everyday lives for the past few years.\n\nIn Singapore, you can now buy durian on an app and have it delivered to your home\n\nI mostly use Grab to get a ride home after a night out, or order Thai takeaway when I haven't got the energy to cook dinner for the family.\n\nBut many in Singapore also use it to send parcels and documents, or shop online - one colleague just purchased a home karaoke set.\n\nOther extensions allow you to book bus and ferry tickets, make hotel reservations, and even arrange for someone to come to your home and do a professional Covid swab test.\n\nThese can be paid for through the app's finance system. There's an e-wallet linked to your bank account or credit card, or you can set up instalment plans, or pay with points which you earn with every activity done through the app.\n\nIt can also be used for cashless payments - you pay for items at a shop by scanning a QR code with the app, or you can get a physical card linked to your account.\n\nYou can get a physical Grab card linked to your account\n\nBut Grab is not the only player in town.\n\nThere are super-apps aplenty from Indonesia's GoJek to India's PayTM and they allow you to do even more, such as book a manicure, order fuel for your motorbike, pay your traffic fine and purchase gold.\n\nThey have caught on in a region of digital natives - in South East Asia alone, about three-quarters of our population use the internet, and of that group, 88% own a smartphone.\n\nThen, there's China's WeChat - the original Asian super-app said to be the inspiration for Mr Musk's X.\n\nIt's a messaging and social media platform that's evolved into one of the region's biggest apps in terms of its range of services and number of users. At last count it's estimated to have 1.29 billion users in China alone.\n\nWeChat is also one of China's biggest payment networks, with consumers using it to pay for goods and services and to send money to each other.\n\nSome research suggests that a Chinese user spends as much as a third of their waking life on WeChat alone.\n\nMuch has been written about how its ubiquity in Chinese everyday life, operating in a society tightly controlled by the government has seen WeChat become a tool of surveillance and censorship.\n\nMessages, posts and even accounts are routinely blocked for content deemed politically sensitive, and there are concerns of how it could contribute to the various controversial \"social credit\" schemes in China, where citizens' lives can be restricted based on their bank credit scores or social behaviour.\n\nIn China, even vegetable markets use WeChat as a payment system\n\nIn 2020, WeChat introduced its own scoring system where users get extra privileges if they have good in-app credit records.\n\nThe example of WeChat highlights the main concern about super-apps - with everyone doing practically everything on just a few platforms, these apps end up collecting a vast trove of data on people, and could wield some power over our daily lives.\n\nHow such data is treated and to what extent governments should have access to it will be part of the debate in societies where privacy is particularly prized. Mr Musk's X super-app - if it does come to fruition - may be seen by some with suspicion as a double-edged Swiss Army knife.\n\nFor others though, the convenience and simplicity of living life on one app is an easy trade-off to make. There's always the option of scaling back their use, for those with deep concerns about privacy.\n\nAnd in open markets, specialty apps will continue to vie for users' attention, reducing the likelihood of most of the data ending up in the hands of just one or two companies - one reason for WeChat's dominance in China is because some apps like Twitter and WhatsApp are blocked there.\n\nHere in Singapore, I don't do everything on Grab. It's not because I distrust it, but I prefer using specialty apps to do other things like grocery shopping and buying clothes as they're just better at it.\n\nSo I'm fine with Grab humming away in the recesses of my phone because it doesn't know everything about me, just some things - like the fact that I love delivery durian.", "Eric Weinberg, who was an executive producer and writer on hit US comedy series Scrubs, has been charged with 18 counts of sexual assault.\n\nThe Los Angeles County District Attorney said Mr Weinberg \"relied on his Hollywood credentials to lure young women for photo shoots where he allegedly sexually assaulted them\".\n\nThe alleged incidents, dated between 2014 and 2019, involved five women.\n\nHis lawyer has previously called the accusations a \"blatant smear campaign\".\n\nSet in a hospital, Scrubs ran on TV from 2001 to 2010 and won two primetime Emmy Awards. It starred Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke.\n\nMr Weinberg's other TV work includes the US series Californication and Anger Management.\n\nThe 62-year-old was arrested in July and has since been re-arrested and released from police custody after posting a $5m (£4.4m) bond.\n\nThe charges against him include six counts of sexual penetration by use of force and three counts of forcible rape.\n\nLA District Attorney George Gascon said his office was there to offer victims \"the guidance and support they need on the road to recovery\".\n\nHe added: \"Power and influence can corrupt some to hurt others that often leads to a lifetime of trauma for those who are victimised.\"\n\nLawyers for Mr Weinberg did not respond to media requests for comment.\n\nAccording to the Los Angeles Times, his attorney Robin Sax previously denied all wrongdoing during an unrelated child custody case, calling the women's claims a \"blatant smear campaign\" with \"unconscionable and unsubstantiated allegations\" that were designed to portray Mr Weinberg in the \"most horrendous light\".\n\nAnd his divorce lawyer Karen Silver previously told the Hollywood Reporter the claims were \"strategically placed criminal allegations\" stemming from \"a heavily litigated and acrimonious custody dispute\".\n\nMr Weinberg is alleged to have carried out his assaults, sometimes in his home, in 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019.\n\nThe LA Police Department is still investigating the case, and has urged further victims or anyone with information to contact detectives.\n\nMr Weinberg is expected to appear in court in LA on 25 October.", "South Koreans woke up to the news that North Korea had fired two more short-range ballistic missiles\n\nNorth Korea fired another two ballistic missiles on Thursday - the sixth such banned launch in less than two weeks.\n\nPyongyang on Wednesday described its recent blitz as \"just counteraction measures\" to joint US and South Korean military drills.\n\nOn Tuesday Pyongyang fired a missile over Japan, prompting the US to call an emergency UN Security Council meeting.\n\nAt the meeting the US accused Russia and China of protecting the North from stronger sanctions.\n\nBy opposing further sanctions Moscow and Beijing had given Pyongyang \"blanket protection\", the US ambassador to the UN said. The Chinese and Russian representatives said increased dialogue was better than punishment.\n\nFor the past two months the US, South Korea and Japan have been holding a series of combined exercises as they practice how to defeat and deter a North Korean attack. These drills have antagonised North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who sees them as proof his enemies are preparing for war.\n\nIn its statement the North accused the US of \"escalating the military tensions on the Korean peninsula\".\n\nOn Wednesday the US, Japan and South Korea carried out further drills, which they said were a response to Tuesday's launch. The US said there was \"no equivalency\" between a banned missile test-fire and security drills.\n\nThe US also redeployed its aircraft carrier the USS Ronald Reagan near the Korean peninsula.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSouth Korea and Japan said the first of Thursday's missiles, launched at about 06:00 local time (21:00 GMT) flew about 350km (217 miles) with a maximum altitude of around 100km, while the second missile had a flight range of about 800km at an altitude of around 50km.\n\nThe recent flurry of launches is strongly reminiscent of the period leading up to its last nuclear weapon test in 2017.\n\nBack then, as is happening now, the North tested missiles, there was no dialogue with the US, and Pyongyang fired two missiles over Japan.\n\nSatellite imagery shows that the North has been restoring tunnels at their nuclear testing site, which they had claimed to have destroyed in 2018 during a short-lived diplomatic rapprochement with the US under President Trump.\n\nLast month, North Korea also revised its nuclear laws, with leader Kim Jong Un declaring his country an \"irreversible\" nuclear power.\n\nWith everything in place, Kim appears to be waiting for a politically opportune moment to carry out its seventh nuclear test.\n\nAnalysts believe a test is most likely to happen during the window of three weeks between the Communist Party Congress in China later this month and the US mid-term elections in early November.", "Trees will be planted around the resort - including South Quay - by March 2023\n\nA council rejected planting fruit trees in a public place amid fears windfalls could be \"used as missiles\".\n\nWork on the Queen's Green Canopy along Great Yarmouth's South Quay will not feature apple, plum or pear trees, the borough council decided.\n\nA total of 92 \"standard\" trees will now be planted along the quay between November and March 2023.\n\nA council officer said they wanted to create \"more of an avenue feel\" by the waterside.\n\nThe issue was raised at Great Yarmouth Borough Council's environment committee, which discussed the constraints involved in planting trees in the area.\n\nThey had received advice that fallen fruit could be \"used as missiles\".\n\nNinety-two trees will be planted along the quayside, including honey locust (pictured) and English oak\n\nResearch had been undertaken into soil types \"due to ongoing issues with tree survival rates in this area\", it was told.\n\nLabour councillor Marlene Fairhead questioned the suitability of fruit trees along South Quay, saying \"they cause a bit of a hazard\".\n\n\"The fruit drops off, nobody claims it, it gets slippery, and also children pick it up and chuck it at each other,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It's a health and safety issue really. You get elderly people walking along the pavements.\n\n\"They assured us they will not plant them along the kerbsides.\"\n\nFruit trees will not be planted on South Quay over \"slip hazard\" fears\n\nThe two-year project involves planting more than 500 trees by March 2023 in urban areas of Great Yarmouth, as part of the Forgotten Places: Greening Coastal Towns and Cities initiative.\n\nThe total budget of £261,840, the council said, included £40,000 of Town Deal government money to replace trees along South Quay that had to be dug up in 2013 after they failed to thrive.\n\nA selection of trees, including honey locust, English oak and hornbeam, will now be planted along South Quay.\n\n\"I have an allotment and I'm into fruit trees and I don't let the fruit go to waste,\" Ms Fairhead added.\n\n\"I think it's a waste when they're planted along the kerbside and cause a hazard.\"\n\nA Great Yarmouth Borough Council spokesman insisted it wanted to choose the \"right trees for each location\" and there was no ban on fruit trees.\n\n\"We have taken advice from professional arboriculturists that includes considering the ground conditions, maintenance, and any potential impact on the local environment or residents,\" he said.\n\nHe said the \"potential for anti-social behaviour\" was considered but was \"not the main factor\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As a child, Michael was diagnosed with haemophilia, a genetic disorder that stopped his blood clotting properly\n\nAt least 175 children with the blood disorder haemophilia were infected with HIV in the 1980s, according to documents from the national archives seen by BBC News. Some of the families affected are giving evidence at a public inquiry into what has been called the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.\n\nIt was almost 36 years ago - in late October 1986 - but Linda will never forget the day she was told her son had been infected.\n\nShe had been called into a consulting room in Birmingham Children's Hospital, with 16-year-old Michael.\n\nAs a toddler, he had been diagnosed with haemophilia, a genetic disorder that stopped his blood clotting properly.\n\nLinda assumed the meeting was to discuss moving his care to the main Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the city.\n\n\"It was so routine that my husband stayed in the car outside,\" she says.\n\n\"Then, all of a sudden, the doctor said, 'Of course, Michael is HIV positive,' and he came out with it like he was talking about the weather outside. My stomach just fell.\n\n\"We got in the car, I told my husband and we were silent all the way home. We never spoke - it was such a shock.\"\n\nIt was still early in the Aids crisis - a few months before the government's Don't Die of Ignorance TV campaign brought the illness into every British living room.\n\nBut the stigma of the disease was already very real.\n\nIn 1985, dozens of parents had taken their children out of a primary school in Hampshire after a nine-year-old pupil - also a haemophiliac - had tested positive for Aids antibodies, as HIV was then known.\n\nMichael did not want his friends or family told.\n\n\"That's the way he coped with it - he kept it to himself,\" Linda says.\n\n\"He never told his friends or anything because he just wanted to feel normal.\"\n\nMichael's mother, Linda: \"He never told his friends or anything because he just wanted to feel normal\"\n\nBetween 1970 and 1991, 1,250 people with blood disorders were infected with HIV in the UK after taking Factor VIII - a new treatment that replaced the clotting protein missing from their blood.\n\nNow, documents from the National Archives reveal that included at least 175 children who were given the medication by NHS doctors in hospitals, schools or haemophilia clinics.\n\nTens of thousands of others are believed to have been exposed to hepatitis C, which can cause liver failure and cancer, either through the same treatment or a blood transfusion.\n\nAbout half of those infected with HIV died of an Aids-related illness before life-saving antiretroviral drugs became available.\n\nAt that time, the UK was not self-sufficient in blood products, so Factor VIII was imported from the United States.\n\nEach batch was made from the pooled, or mixed, blood plasma of thousands of donors. If just one of those donors was HIV positive, then the virus could be passed on.\n\nDrug companies in the US paid individuals to donate - including some in high-risk groups, such as prisoners and drug users.\n\nLinda remembers being first told about Aids at a presentation at Birmingham Children's Hospital in 1984 and warned to look out for certain symptoms.\n\nBut she says the family were never made fully aware of the dangers - at one point, she was told by a nurse not to worry as \"Michael was fine\".\n\nThrough this whole time, her son continued to be treated with the same American medication.\n\nThe old Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham was closed in 2010 and services moved to a new site\n\nIn his late teens, Michael started having health problems - from night sweats to glandular fever to a bad bout of flu.\n\nBut he continued to live life to the full - travelling, listening to music and supporting West Bromwich Albion football club.\n\n\"There was a big match at Wembley and he was very, very poorly,\" Linda says.\n\n\"So we decorated all the car up and he met his friends down there. It didn't matter how he felt, if he could get there he would.\"\n\nLater in his life, as his immune system started to break down, Michael lost weight and experienced fatigue and memory loss.\n\nMichael as a young man: He died on May 26, 1995, exactly a week before his 26th birthday\n\nHe was transferred to Heartlands Hospital, in Birmingham, where Linda, who gave up her job as a cook in a care home, helped nurse him though the last few months of his life.\n\n\"He said to me, 'Mum, you're never going to be a nan,' and I just said, 'Don't worry about it.' That's all I could think of saying,\" Linda says.\n\nMichael developed meningitis and pneumonia - both caused by the HIV he was infected with as a child.\n\nHe died on May 26, 1995, exactly a week before his 26th birthday.\n\nAlmost three decades later, Linda is giving evidence to the long-running public inquiry into the treatment disaster.\n\nShe will appear alongside other parents, in a special session about the experiences of families whose children were infected in the 1970s and 80s.\n\n\"I felt as though I needed to do it because I want to help get to the bottom of it,\" she says.\n\n\"We all want to know why it was allowed to happen and to keep on happening as well.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care Spokesperson said: \"The infected blood tragedy should never have happened and the ongoing public inquiry was set up to get to the truth and give families the answers they deserve.\n\n\"We are committed to co-operating fully with the inquiry and will carefully consider any recommendations.\"\n\nLinda asked that her surname be withheld\n\nYou can follow Jim on Twitter.", "Gunmen have shot dead the mayor of a small town in western Mexico, and at least 17 others, officials say.\n\nPolice say gunmen stormed the San Miguel Totolapan town hall at 14:00 (19:00 GMT) on Wednesday. Photos online show it riddled with bullet holes.\n\nThe attack has been blamed on the Los Tequileros criminal gang, which is linked to a powerful drug cartel.\n\nPolice officers and council workers were also killed in the massacre, with graphic images of bloodied bodies lying on the ground circulating on social media.\n\nMr Mendoza Almeda's father, former mayor Juan Mendoza Acosta, was also killed - in his home - before the attack moved to the town hall.\n\nA highway in the state of Guerrero, where San Miguel Totolapan lies, was reportedly briefly blocked by large vehicles to prevent security forces from getting into the city.\n\nThe town hall was riddled with bullets during the violent attack\n\nEven by the violent standards of Guerrero state, this was a shocking attack, reports the BBC's Mexico correspondent, Will Grant.\n\nSan Miguel Totolapan lies in the heart of a region known as Tierra Caliente, a violent part of drug cartel-controlled western Mexico.\n\nVarious groups battle for control of the lucrative drug routes north along the Pacific corridor, our correspondent adds. The region is a hotspot for the growing of opium poppies and the production of heroin.\n\nIn a preliminary report seen by local media, Guerrero's attorney general said that as well as the 18 people who were killed, three others were wounded.\n\nIt is not yet clear what the motive behind the attack may have been but killings of local officials are not uncommon.\n\nIn 2018, at least three dozen mayors, former mayors and mayoral candidates were killed. The number has dwindled to single figures in recent years but those who hold local office remain at risk from armed gangs, which often want to be the only authority in town.\n\nFollowing the attack, the defence ministry said it was deploying army and navy units to the area to find the gunmen.\n\nGuerrero Governor Evelyn Salgado Pineda tweeted to say she deeply regretted the deaths.\n\nShortly before the attack, alleged members of Los Tequileros released a video on social networks announcing its return to the region, where they had been fighting a rival drug gang.\n\nThe criminal group devastated Guerrero between 2015 and 2017 - and was known for threatening mayors of the region - until its leader Raybel Jacobo de Almonte was assassinated.\n\nDe Almonte was known as El Tequilero - the Tequila Drinker - and his gang took their name from him.", "Rob Lewis, an ex-Metropolitan Police officer, is understood to have created the group chat\n\nAn immigration official at the Home Office has been suspended after a BBC investigation revealed he had been posting racist content on WhatsApp.\n\nRob Lewis, an ex-Metropolitan Police officer, is understood to have created the group chat, which also included other former Met police officers.\n\nBBC Newsnight has seen racist messages about flooding in Pakistan, as well as Harry and Meghan, shared in the chat.\n\nThe Home Office called the messages \"vile and deplorable\".\n\nIt said it had \"a zero-tolerance approach to anyone displaying racist or discriminatory behaviour\". Mr Lewis declined to answer questions about the group and its content.\n\nNewsnight has been passed dozens of messages, all shared within the group chat, by a member of the group. Many of the images are racist and too offensive to show. Some contain the very strongest racial slurs.\n\nSome of the posts reference the government's Rwanda policy, while others joke about recent flooding in Pakistan, which left almost 1,700 people dead. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex also feature in several memes, alongside racist language.\n\nSeveral of the members of the WhatsApp group used to work for the Diplomatic Protection Group (DPG), a specialist operations branch of the Met that guards the Houses of Parliament and protects ministers.\n\nThe unit has since changed its name and is now called the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection (PaDP).\n\nNewsnight understands serving police officers were part of the group in question until recently, but many left following the murder of Sarah Everard, last year. Ms Everard was murdered by Wayne Couzens, who was a member of the same specialist branch.\n\nDave Eden, a former member of the DPG, passed the messages to the BBC\n\nDave Eden, a former member of the DPG, has been on the WhatsApp group since its creation in 2016 and passed the messages to the BBC. He says he has never posted in the group.\n\n\"There are references to black politicians, which are extremely unpleasant,\" he told the BBC. \"The entire undertone is one of racism and misogyny.\"\n\nMr Eden was a police officer for 27 years and retired in 2010. Throughout that time he has collected evidence - some shared with the BBC - showing prejudice in British policing.\n\nIt comes as a serving officer with the Met has also shared a racist image with Newsnight, which he says has been doing the rounds on WhatsApp in recent months. The image is too offensive to publish and involves a picture of black babies.\n\nAnother serving officer, who spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity, said: \"I do not think these behaviours and ideologies can be removed from the Met.\n\n\"Individuals need to be held accountable and made an example of to demonstrate to colleagues that these behaviours and ideologies have no place in the Met. I fail to see any substantial improvement within the organisation.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Home Office said it had suspended a member of staff following allegations of gross misconduct.\n\n\"We expect the highest standards of our staff and have a zero tolerance approach to anyone displaying racist, homophobic, misogynist or discriminatory behaviour. Where we are made aware of such behaviour we will not hesitate to take decisive action.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it had contacted Mr Eden's representatives in the spring, when it first learnt about the messages \"but they declined to share further details\". In a statement to Newsnight, it said: \"We urge them to reconsider so we can take action\".\n\nMr Eden said: \"I don't trust the system. I don't trust professional standards or senior management and if I was to ever speak to the Met it would be someone of very senior rank.\"\n\nThe Met's new Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, said his plan for reform \"is already under way\". He added: \"I will be ruthless in rooting out those corrupting officers and staff, including racists and misogynists, from our organisation.\n\n\"I have taken over as the leader of an organisation that has been far too weak in taking on those who undermine the honest and dedicated majority, who determinedly serve the public.\n\n\"That will change and I will continue to seek out those, from both within and outside the Met, with that constructive anger who can help us reform.\"\n\nMr Eden is preparing a submission of material gathered over four decades to the Angiolini Inquiry, which is investigating the murder of Sarah Everard, as well as wider issues affecting policing.\n\nHe said: \"This group tells me that the culture of the Metropolitan Police hasn't changed. And in fairness, it's not just this group, it's other groups. It's what I'm hearing out of the mouths of ex-colleagues. And what I'm witnessing all the time.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"The Met has previously been far too weak and slow to act when this kind of unacceptable behaviour has been exposed.\n\n\"The new Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has assured me that he's determined to take a different approach.\"\n\nHe added that any officers found to be responsible for sexism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, bullying or harassment did not deserve to wear the Met uniform and must be quickly rooted out - and assured Londoners he would hold the Met to account.", "Ukraine says seven Russian missiles hit residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia before dawn on Thursday\n\nRussia's President Vladimir Putin has signed the final papers to annex four regions of Ukraine - even as his military suffered further setbacks.\n\nThe Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions are \"accepted into the Russian Federation\" the documents say.\n\nBut in two of those areas - Luhansk and Kherson - Ukraine said it has been retaking more villages.\n\nMr Putin also signed a decree to formalise Russia's seizure of the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia.\n\nLast Friday, the Russian leader held a grand ceremony in the Kremlin, where he signed agreements with the Moscow-installed leaders of the four regions.\n\nThe move followed self-proclaimed referendums in the areas, denounced as a \"sham\" by the West.\n\nBut on the ground there appears to be a different reality, with Ukrainian forces making gains in both the south and the east.\n\nSerhiy Haidai, Ukrainian governor of Luhansk, told the BBC on Wednesday that six villages in the region had been recaptured.\n\nAnd President Zelensky later said Ukraine had liberated three more villages in the southern region of Kherson.\n\nThat followed a series of gains in Kherson the previous day, including the strategically key village of Davydiv Brid.\n\nMeanwhile, the southern city of Zaporizhzhia was rocked by a series of huge explosions an hour or so before dawn on Thursday.\n\nLocal authorities say seven Russian missiles hit residential buildings and that people are under the rubble. There has been no information on casualties so far.\n\nThe BBC's Paul Adams, who is in the city, says rescue workers are combing through the shattered remains of an elegant five storey apartment building in the middle of the city.\n\nZaporizhzhia was rocked by a series of huge explosions an hour or so before dawn on Thursday\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia would retake any territory that had been lost to Ukrainian forces.\n\nFacing questions over the recent losses, he told reporters: \"There is no contradiction here. They will be with Russia forever, they will be returned.\"\n\nIn a speech to teachers on Russian teachers' day, Mr Putin said he would \"calmly develop\" the annexed territories.\n\nBut Andrey Kartopolov, the chairman of the State Duma defence committee, told state media that Russia needed to stop lying about what was happening on the battlefield, saying that Russians were not stupid.\n\nRussia is still working to mobilise reservists, after Mr Putin announced a call-up last month of 300,000 people who had completed compulsory military service.\n\nBut Mr Putin has rowed back on which groups will be affected, after strong opposition and protests in Russia against the move.\n\nHe has signed a decree exempting several categories of students, including first-time students at accredited institutions, and certain types of postgraduate students - such as those in the field of science.\n\nIn another move, President Putin has signed a decree to formalise Russia's seizure of the nuclear power plant in one of the annexed regions - Zaporizhzhia - which has been occupied by Russian troops since the early days of the war.\n\nRussia says the plant - Europe's largest nuclear facility - will be operated by a new company, but Ukraine's nuclear operator has dismissed the move as \"worthless\".\n\nRafael Grossi, the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, has said he will hold consultations with the two sides following the development.\n\nHe is heading to Kyiv and then Moscow, seeking to establish a protection zone around the plant, which is situated near the front line of fighting.\n\nReports of battles around the nuclear site have sparked international concern, and the last of its reactors was shut down last month.", "A cordon is in place outside of 22 Bishopsgate in the city of London\n\nThree people were treated in hospital after being stabbed during an attempted phone robbery in the City of London.\n\nThe BBC was told the victim of a \"phone snatch\" was injured after fighting back, along with other members of the public who stepped in to help.\n\nAn eyewitness said he saw \"two or three teenagers\" on bicycles watching a middle-aged man before they grabbed him, with a knifeman wearing a mask.\n\nPart of Bishopsgate was cordoned off, near to Camomile Street.\n\nThe witness, who did not want to give his name, said passers-by had become involved and a man had jumped off a moped and intervened during the attack on Thursday morning, adding that the moped rider and the middle-aged man had both been stabbed.\n\nPolice confirmed the case was being treated as a suspected robbery and two suspects were being sought.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service (LAS) said paramedics had treated four patients at the scene, with three of those taken to hospital. Their injuries are said to be non life-threatening.\n\nInside the police tape, medical kits and clothing can be seen spread out on the ground in small piles\n\nA cordon, about 50m (160ft) long, was put in place outside the location, at 22 Bishopsgate.\n\nInside the police tape, medical kits and clothing could earlier be seen spread out on the ground in small piles, and blood was visible on the pavement.\n\nThe eyewitness said he had seen one of the teenagers \"grabbing\" the victim.\n\n\"The next thing I saw, was this teenager grabbing this guy, this middle-aged man. Things escalated so quickly,\" he said.\n\n\"Pedestrians got involved and they were trying to help the middle-aged man. I heard lots of screams and shouts.\n\n\"The next minute, a man on a white moped saw what happened and jumped off, and got himself involved.\n\n\"There was a fight with these teenagers. Out of nowhere, the guy on the moped got stabbed.\n\n\"The middle-aged man was already on the floor at this point after he got stabbed, and another pedestrian got hurt too, his head was hurt.\n\n\"The teenagers then just took off.\"\n\nSayeed Dukanwala, owner of BK News newsagent, near the scene, also saw events unfold.\n\nHe said: \"I was here in my shop working when I saw some guys running past my shop and shouting 'Oi oi oi'.\n\n\"After a few minutes I saw a fight break out over there and people running away.\n\n\"Then some people came in and told me there was a stabbing. They said there was a man and a lady on the floor, and there was blood.\"\n\nThe building of 22 Bishopsgate is open and people have been able to leave and enter the premises\n\nNickie Aiken, Cities of London and Westminster MP, said she was \"concerned\" about the attack.\n\nShe tweeted: \"I'm in contact with City Police for updates.\n\n\"My thoughts are with all those involved including the first responders.\"\n\nCh Supt Steve Heatley, of the City of London Police, said: \"We received reports of three stabbings and a person pushed to the floor on Bishopsgate at 9.46am and officers arrived at the scene at 9.51am.\n\n\"Three victims were taken by London Ambulance Service to a nearby hospital to be treated; they do not have life-threatening injuries.\n\n\"Two suspects are being sought as part of the ongoing investigation related to an attempted phone theft and is not being treated as terror-related.\"\n\nThe building of 22 Bishopsgate remains open and workers have been entering and leaving the premises.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "There was the content of the prime minister's speech. And then the context of its delivery.\n\nAnd context is everything. This is a party that has been close to ripping itself to shreds in the last few days.\n\nIt was a conference that was a showcase of dysfunction and division, from the cabinet down. Indiscipline within government, mutiny beyond it.\n\nLet's explore both in more detail - both what was said publicly and what I was told privately.\n\nFirstly, there was the ruthlessly successful campaign to get a new prime minister to junk her planned tax cut for the highest earners in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nSpearheaded by prominent former supporters of Liz Truss's leadership rival Rishi Sunak, yes, but with broad support including among people in government.\n\nA crushing, humiliating, authority sapping U-turn that left the prime minister weakened and vulnerable.\n\nVulnerable to further mutiny, which followed within hours.\n\nBecause then came the debate about benefits - whether all such payments should go up in line with wages or the more expensive option of inflation, exposed deeper disagreement, because it exposed indiscipline within government.\n\nThe Commons leader, Penny Mordaunt, another rival of Liz Truss over the summer, said she supported a rise in line with prices, even though the government's official position was that it hadn't decided.\n\nSo much for cabinet collective responsibility. A strong prime minister would sack a cabinet minister for such insubordination.\n\n\"She should be called in on Monday morning and sacked,\" one senior party figure who voted for Ms Truss told me.\n\nTheir face etched with anguish, they were astonished and depressed by the early weeks of her time in Downing Street.\n\nCollective responsibility? Cabinet members Michelle Donelan, Penny Mordaunt and Jake Berry watched the speech together\n\nBut another senior figure, a current cabinet minister, disagreed. Ms Mordaunt is too big a figure to fire when the government is so weak, it could be the start of a snowballing chain of events that could bring the prime minister down, this minister speculated.\n\nAnd make no mistake, fears of this government's collapse run to its highest levels.\n\n\"People need to calm the [expletive] down!,\" said another cabinet minister.\n\nThe only crutch that gives those at the top reprieve from their gloom is a view that another leadership race would be ridiculous and, for a party languishing so far behind in the opinion polls, an imminent election would amount to a death wish.\n\nBut there is a growing fear among some Truss supporters that there is a doom-laden fatalism among too many Conservative MPs, an assumption that defeat at the next election is close to inevitable.\n\n\"They say it'd be good for us to have a stint in opposition! It drives me mad,\" one said.\n\nOne party veteran said the root of the worries was fundamental and depressing - a concern Ms Truss isn't in control and doesn't know what she is doing and that that is a perception that might stick.\n\nThose around the prime minister are shaken by the turbulence of the last few days and glad this conference is over.\n\nThe speech itself was short and had no new policy ideas. A case of once bitten, twice shy, methinks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut remember too this is a prime minister barely known by the wider electorate, still seeking to introduce herself - and it was this she sought to do in her Birmingham speech.\n\nCharacter-shaping moments that give her drive, such as being handed an air hostess badge on a plane as a child, when her brothers were given pilot badges, for instance.\n\nAnd a framing of her central objective, improving economic growth, by attempting to bind her political opponents together as an \"anti-growth coalition.\" Expect to hear that phrase again.\n\nThe problems the government confronts are colossal. Economic growth, or the lack of it, is just one of many.\n\nGripping them would stretch a united outfit - the Conservatives are a long way from that right now.", "Head teacher Nanticha Panchum was among the five teachers and a maid at the centre on the day of the attack.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said usually there were 92 children who attend the centre. But due to bad weather and a broken down bus, only 24 children had shown up.\n\nNot long before the attack, she said she had just sent the children to nap, and had gone to make some lunch. It was then that she heard five gun shots.\n\nShe described how another teacher had recognised the gunman as a parent of one of the children at the centre. But the child hadn't come to the school for a month.\n\nShe said the gunman never came across as unwell, adding he was always polite when dropping his son off and was almost too chatty sometimes.\n\nBut today, however, her colleague told her his eyes were crossed and he was quiet.\n\nThe teachers tried to lock the door to stop him from entering, but he broke in and went into the rooms where the kids were sleeping.\n\nOnly one child survived, according to Nanticha.\n\nQuote Message: This is something I never dreamed of… I don’t know what to do next. I really can’t think of anything at the moment.\" This is something I never dreamed of… I don’t know what to do next. I really can’t think of anything at the moment.\"", "Primark has said it would reintroduce \"women-only\" fitting rooms after concerns over combined changing spaces.\n\nIt follows an incident in Cambridge where a woman claimed two men walked in on her in a changing room.\n\nIn a statement on its website, the retailer also said curtains in cubicles would be lengthened and new mechanisms added to keep them in place.\n\nPrimark said it was \"important for everyone to have a positive experience in their stores\".\n\nThe company said combined fitting rooms will still be in place in their stores alongside the women-only changing rooms in 187 of 191 stores in the UK.\n\nPrimark said they were exploring other options in the remaining four, which only have one changing room area.\n\n\"The combined fitting room area is for everyone. The women-only area is for all women and customers are not required to provide identification,\" the retailer said.\n\n\"If someone appears to be deliberately trying to abuse the policy then the store will manage at their discretion. The changes we are introducing are informed by the feedback we have had from customers and colleagues.\n\n\"We have taken these steps to try to improve our customer experience whilst using our fitting rooms.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlotte Kirby said she would not be going into unisex changing rooms on her own again\n\nLast month, customer Charlotte Kirby posted a video on social media about how two men had walked in as she was trying on clothes in the Cambridge store.\n\nPrimark said: \"We want our stores to be places where everyone feels safe and welcome.\n\n\"We're sorry to hear this hasn't been the experience some people have reported in our fitting rooms.\"\n\nStaff would be trained in managing the fitting rooms and supporting customers, it said.\n\nThe company statement added: \"It's really important to us that everyone has a positive experience in our stores. If they don't, we are committed to doing all we can to make things better.\n\n\"We'll be monitoring these changes closely and continuing to listen to our customers and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nStory updated on 19 October 2022 in light of new information provided by Primark around the use of the changing rooms.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Callum Dineen (pictured) said universities needed to help students like his friend Theo Brennan-Hulme, who died in 2019\n\nUniversities are being told to contact key family members, carers or friends if they have serious concerns about a student's mental health - even without their permission.\n\nStudents should register a \"trusted contact\" when they start university, according to new guidance.\n\nUniversities UK (UUK) said its advice, which it shared with BBC News, aimed to prevent student suicides.\n\nBereaved loved ones say universities need to act on their policies.\n\nThe law allows organisations to share personal data in an emergency, and the guidance says most universities already have some sort of system in place for contacting next of kin in such situations, even without the student's agreement.\n\nBut this is the first time all universities have been asked to get in touch with loved ones if there are concerns.\n\nMr Brennan-Hulme, who died at the age of 21, was described as \"incredibly outgoing\" and caring\n\nUUK say universities need to be proactive when it comes to preventing student suicides.\n\nTheo Brennan-Hulme, who had Asperger's syndrome and a history of self-harm, died while studying at the University of East Anglia in March 2019.\n\nHe had given UEA permission to contact his mother with any concerns, his friend and flatmate Callum Dineen, 22, told BBC News, but this did not happen.\n\n\"He was reaching out to the university, he was following all the guidance on how he could help his mental health, and he was following all the processes as well as he could have done,\" Mr Dineen told BBC News.\n\n\"They could have done better. They could have done a lot better.\"\n\nUUK's guidance aims to make rules clearer so universities have more confidence about when to act, which Mr Dineen said would have made a difference.\n\n\"UEA did have that policy and they didn't use it well, or at all,\" he said, adding the university had since improved its services and policies.\n\nUEA said it did not comment on individual cases but welcomed the focus on information sharing, adding it had introduced a policy asking students for advance consent to contact their loved ones.\n\nUUK's guidance says staff \"should make every reasonable effort to secure consent\" but \"there are some circumstances in which a university can and should share information with emergency services and with trusted contacts, even where they have not been able to secure consent\".\n\nIt also asks universities to:\n\nOfficial estimates suggest 64 students killed themselves in England and Wales in the 2019-20 academic year.\n\nSince 2016, the student suicide rate in England and Wales has been significantly lower than among the general population of similar ages. Suicide rates are generally higher in men than women.\n\nBut the student rates are only estimates, leading some parents to call for legislation for universities to report the annual number of student suicides.\n\nJames Murray's son's death led to the creation of a scheme at the University of Bristol\n\nJames Murray was not warned of his son Ben's deteriorating mental health while he was at the University of Bristol. Ben killed himself in May 2018.\n\n\"Why on Earth wasn't I called? Maybe I could have done something,\" James told BBC News.\n\nHe wants universities to have legal \"duty of care\" towards students when it comes to their mental health.\n\n\"This is not about meddling parents. The overall goal is the prevention of future deaths within the student community,\" he said.\n\nUUK president and University of the West of England vice-chancellor Prof Steve West said universities had a duty of care around health and safety, and equality and diversity.\n\nBut he said: \"There isn't a legal framework for that for universities, for [their] students, in terms of mental health.\"\n\nBob and Maggie Abrahart, the parents of Natasha Abrahart, who killed herself in April 2018 while at the University of Bristol, are concerned that institutions may not take up the recommendations.\n\n\"Even those that do uptake them may not apply them properly, because there's no requirement to actually do what it says on the tin,\" Mr Abrahart told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nSince Ben and Natasha's deaths, the University of Bristol has introduced an \"opt-in\" programme now used at about 30 universities, including UEA.\n\nAs well as being able to contact a student's next of kin in an emergency, the university asks students to give \"advance consent\" for it to share information about their wellbeing with their contacts if they have concerns.\n\nThe university said it had learned from Ben's death and the policy had had a \"positive\" response. In 2021-22, contacts were involved 98 times.\n\nAsked why UUK was not asking all universities to have \"opt-in\" programmes, Prof West said: \"Those students who don't opt in are often the students who are most vulnerable.\"\n\nThe UUK guidance is not mandatory and universities cannot make students give \"trusted contacts\".\n\nUUK has also published a checklist to help universities support students on placement, with the help of Izzy de George, whose brother Harrison killed himself in December 2020, while studying at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) to be a teacher.\n\nMs De George said her brother lit up any room he walked into with his \"cheeky little grin\"\n\nMs De George welcomed the phrase \"trusted contacts\", which could mean friends or housemates, telling BBC News contacting some students' parents could be \"almost the worst thing to do\".\n\nShe would continue campaigning, she said, because \"suicides are preventable\", adding: \"If I can just stop one suicide, that's basically what keeps me going.\"\n\nMMU said it had \"re-emphasised the importance\", following Harrison's death, of communications between placement providers and the university if there were wellbeing or attendance concerns.\n\nThe National Union of Students welcomed UUK's guidance but said universities must ensure policies did not deter those \"already less likely to disclose a mental health condition\", such as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender students and people belonging to ethnic minorities.\n\nThe British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy said it was \"a positive step that universities are proposing consistent practice for the first time\", but feared \"this might be a tick-box exercise in managing risk for some institutions\".\n\n\"What is really needed is more investment in support services,\" it said.\n\nThe Department for Education said it expected all universities to \"engage actively with suicide prevention\", and had asked for £15m to be allocated for student mental health.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport Africa\n\nSo determined was Sierra Leone international Mohamed Buya Turay to make an impact with his new Swedish club that he missed his own wedding in July to join Malmo's pre-season training.\n\nInstead, a few days after posing for pictures in wedding gear in Freetown, Turay was represented at his wedding ceremony in the capital by his brother.\n\nThis is because Malmo unveiled his signing on 22 July, a day after Turay should have been attending his own wedding.\n\n\"I wasn't there because Malmo asked me to come here earlier,\" he later told Swedish newspaper Afton Bladet.\n\n\"We took the pictures in advance. So it looks like I was there but I wasn't. My brother had to represent me at the wedding itself.\"\n\nBut while Turay's brother could cover for him on his wedding day, he certainly cannot stand in for the forward in the demands of top-level European football.\n\nFor the 27-year-old is \"delighted\" to be back in Sweden after joining the country's most successful side, so allowing him to chase Europa League glory.\n\n\"It's a dream for me to play in the Europa League for Malmo,\" he told BBC Sport Africa.\n\nAfter exiting Champions League qualifying, Turay helped Malmo reach the Europa League group stage where they are in Group D alongside Sporting Braga of Portugal, German side Union Berlin and Belgium's Union Saint Gilloise.\n\nHe played over an hour in the opening 2-0 defeat at home to Braga but was absent in the 3-2 loss in Belgium, and - after scoring twice in the third qualifying round against Luxembourg's F91 Dudelange - is still looking for his first goal in the group stage.\n\nYet that could come as early as Thursday evening, when Malmo host Union Berlin.\n\nTuray knows Swedish football very well, having spent the better part of his club career in the Scandinavian country.\n\nIn 2019, while on loan at Djurgardens IF, he won the Allsvenskan title and the league's golden boot award with 15 goals.\n\n\"The Swedish league made me known,\" Turay said, and he is keen to further its credentials in return.\n\nFor while the country's top flight may not be rated among the best in Europe, ranked 23rd out of 55 leagues in the coefficients of European governing body Uefa, the 27-year-old has a very different view.\n\nHis comments come after he returned to Sweden in July to join champions Malmo on a three-and-half-year deal, having previously left Chinese Super League side Henan Songshan Longmen by mutual consent.\n\n\"I know some people don't rate the Swedish league very high, but they are not in Sweden to feel the tempo and the quality,\" he rallied.\n\n\"The standard is high and it's very competitive. If the standard of the league isn't good and not rated highly, why are Swedish teams playing Champions League and Europa League [group stages] every year?\"\n\nTuray was part of the Sierra Leone squad at the Africa Cup of Nations finals in Cameroon early this year, playing in all his side's three matches against Algeria, Ivory Coast and Equatorial Guinea.\n\nHis national team-mate Issa Kallon, who also played at the Nations Cup, joined Chinese Super League outfit Shanghai Port from Dutch side Cambuur just after Turay left China for Malmo.\n\nThe forward, who moved to China in 2020 and also turned out for Super League sides Hebei FC and Henan Songshan Longmen, says Kallon must be fully committed on and off the pitch to adapt to his new life in the Asian nation.\n\n\"My advice for him is that he has to work harder than anyone in their team to succeed,\" he said.\n\n\"I am proud of him for the step he has taken to go there. He did a smart move by taking his family with him and that will keep him happy to perform well in the team.\n\n\"I know it's hard to be there without your family. I went through a lot without my family for the past four years, but thank God I am married now.\"", "Liz McMonigle (left) and her daughter Kim Kellacher holding pictures of Irene and John\n\nElizabeth McMonigle was just nine years old when her brother and sister were killed during a brutal robbery in their Glasgow home.\n\nJohn McMonigle, 13, and Irene McMonigle, 12, were bludgeoned to death with a hammer by Alexander Millar in 1976.\n\nHe admitted culpable homicide on the grounds of diminished responsibility, and had been detained in secure facilities in Scotland ever since.\n\nBut now the revelation that Millar has been transferred to England has sparked concerns about the amount of information the family will receive about Millar - and brought back the fears that Elizabeth has lived with for more than 40 years.\n\n\"It has taken me back to that child that I was, and that fear he could come and get me and my children,\" she told BBC Scotland's The Nine programme.\n\nElizabeth, who is now 55, said this was compounded by the fact that she and her family now live in the north of England.\n\n\"It is in my mind constantly and I think about my children and my grandchildren,\" she said.\n\n\"In myself, I'm that nine-year-old girl again - but this time, I've not got my dad with me, and I'm lost.\"\n\nAt the time of the killings, the family had been planning to move from Govan to a new home in the Pollok area of the city.\n\nElizabeth and her father had left the house to take some belongings to the new property.\n\nThey found the bodies of John and Irene on their return.\n\n\"I just remember John always smiling. He was really, really popular in school and he loved his football.\n\n\"Irene always wanted to be a nurse, and she was like my mum. Because it was just my dad who was bringing us three up.\n\n\"She was like the mother figure... they should still be here.\"\n\nElizabeth said no-one else could fully understand the effect that the crime had on her.\n\n\"That lives with me... my dad trying to save the two of them. He was frantic.\"\n\nMillar was held for more than 30 years at the State Hospital in Carstairs, Lanarkshire, before being moved to a facility in Ayrshire.\n\nUnder the conditions of his detention, he can be held without a limit of time.\n\nMillar, pictured after he was sentenced in 1976\n\nMillar has appealed for release on a number of occasions. Last year an appeal which had begun in 2019 was turned down by the Mental Health Tribunal Scotland.\n\nHe was transferred to England last month, and Elizabeth was told that her right to information about Millar had changed.\n\nThe family is concerned that he could be released or allowed day release without them being informed.\n\n\"It doesn't matter how old he is. To me, he is still a danger, and he always will be,\" said Elizabeth.\n\n\"I always said when I stayed in Glasgow that I would come back to England, just to get away from all of that.\n\n\"There's nowhere for me to run any more, and I am stuck. I am stuck with what I do, where do I go?\"\n\nShe received a letter from the Scottish government last month informing her about Millar's transfer.\n\nIt also said that she would not receive any further information about him through the Victim Notification Scheme.\n\nThe Scottish government told BBC Scotland that it was unable to comment on individual cases, but that transfers took place so patients could \"receive care and treatment appropriate to their needs\".\n\nIt said the family may be able to access equivalent information through similar schemes in a patient's new location.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice, which is responsible for the justice system in England, said it had been a \"horrific crime\".\n\nIt said the Victim Contact Scheme which operates in England and Wales \"stands ready to support them and will provide the same rights as victims they had when Millar was held in Scotland\".\n\nIt is understood that the McMonigle family will be entitled to know about Millar being released. They would also be able to apply for licence conditions to be put in place if he was released.", "Leisure centres in Wales are reducing pool temperatures to cut down on energy bills\n\nSwimming pools are having to turn down the heat of their water due to soaring energy costs, the Senedd has been told.\n\nThe Senedd's culture and sport committee heard pools were facing an \"energy crisis\" and arts centres were scaling back to stay open.\n\nOne rugby club, which raised prices after its utility bills tripled, said its patrons faced \"difficult choices\".\n\nA theatre company also said it had to cut ticket prices, despite rising costs, fearing they will not sell.\n\nIt comes as the leisure and arts sectors said their revenues still have not recovered to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAndrew Howard, of the Welsh Sports Association, warned colder pools could impact children and the elderly.\n\nMr Howard told the committee any centre with high energy usage was \"at threat\" due to rising costs, and swimming pools were particularly vulnerable despite demand increasing since before Covid.\n\nLeisure centres have already taken steps to reduce running costs, such as reducing pool temperatures, cutting down on social activities and reduced weekend opening hours.\n\nMr Howard warned that if the temperature is turned down in pools, this would impact the elderly and children\n\nHalf of all leisure centres in Wales are run by leisure trusts, and The Welsh Sports Association and Community Leisure UK said most in the sector reported a return of only 80% of pre-Covid levels.\n\nIt said: \"This means that at present there are already fewer people being physically active in leisure centres than there were prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nData from the Community Leisure UK membership also showed that energy costs could be as high as a 200% increase when compared with 2019.\n\nOwen Hathaway, from Sport Wales, told the committee: \"In the best of times if you live in an area of deprivation you are less likely to participate in sport.\"\n\nHe said there were safety implications if people, particularly women, chose to run on dark winter nights instead of going to a leisure centre.\n\nMeanwhile, Bedwas RFC near Caerphilly, said it had seen its utility bills triple in recent months.\n\n\"The cost of living crisis has had a massive impact.... both on and off the pitch,\" said club secretary Will Rees.\n\nWill Rees said \"absolutely everything\" had gone up in the past 12 months\n\nHe said the club has had to leave aside \"fixes\" to try to cover day-to-day costs.\n\n\"It gives us less money to reinvest into the facility and into our future players,\" he added.\n\nMr Rees also said he was concerned the club's income could also start to suffer if problems with the cost of living started to price out its players and supporters from staying involved.\n\n\"Rugby is optional,\" he said. \"People have to prioritise how they're spending and maybe they don't have enough money to come to the club every weekend.\n\n\"We try our best to keep our memberships as low as possible for our playing sides, but people have to make tough choices,\" he added.\n\nArt centres and theatres are also feeling the pinch, with many having to limit showings and activities\n\nMeanwhile, Arts Council of Wales (ACW) boss Michael Elliott told the committee more than 50% of arts venues who responded to a recent survey said they were having to reduce their activities.\n\nRecent ACW figures showed audience numbers were only at 60% to 80% of pre-pandemic levels.\n\nEnergy costs for arts venues are doubling, despite the six-month support for businesses offered by the UK government, with 40% of venues who responded to the ACW survey saying they would be coming off a fixed energy contract during 2023.\n\nA number of companies said they were having to \"play safe\" in their choice of events, with the Christmas shows as being particularly important for the sustainability of the sector.\n\nMr Elliott suggested targeted support of around £5m to £10m was needed to secure the sustainability of the arts sector over the next six months to a year.\n\nAvant Cymru, a theatre group in Tylorstown, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said it was already feeling the effects of people having less money.\n\nThe group relies on the support of freelancers and volunteers to put on productions, but the group's artistic director, Rachel Pedley, said that may become impossible to sustain.\n\n\"We might be struggling to work with that many people because we can't guarantee pay and we can't be expecting people to work for free\", she said\n\nAvant Cymru fears it may not be able to puts on special events, like this breakdancing class for mental health in 2019\n\nDespite already offering reduced ticket prices for many of their productions, Ms Pedley said it may not be enough to entice people to part with their money.\n\n\"I don't think we'll be able to budget in a ticket income\", she said. \"It's too precarious.\n\n\"We already had 'pay what you can' options, we already had free spaces for classes,\" she added.\n\nClara Cullen, of the Music Venue Trust, also told MSs they were worried some venues would close within six months.\n\nShe added many were already closing on weekdays to cut down on running costs.\n\nAccording to Louise Miles-Payne, director of performing arts body Creu Cymru, producers are having to balance increasing ticket costs with trying to keep tickets affordable for audiences, while there are concerns about a skill shortages as people leave the sector.\n\nShe said that a number of arts venues across Wales were also preparing to be \"warm banks\" over the winter, to provide warm places to go for people struggling with energy costs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donald Brett wanted to be buried in woods near his farmhouse home at Aberedw, near Builth Wells (pictured)\n\nA woman secretly carried out an illegal pagan-style burial for her father after advising him not to seek medical help, an inquest has heard.\n\nEirys Brett suggested Donald Brett take alternative medicines instead, but he became \"quite unwell\" and died.\n\nMs Brett and her boyfriend then drove the 78-year-old's body to his home in Powys, leaving it propped on a chair for days while they dug a grave.\n\nAn open conclusion was recorded at Pontypridd Coroner's Court.\n\nThe inquest heard Ms Brett, 32, and her father both lived \"particularly alternative\" off-grid lifestyles.\n\nDonald Brett wanted to be buried in woods near his farmhouse home at Aberedw, near Builth Wells\n\nHe refused NHS care when he fell ill with what his daughter believed was prostate cancer.\n\nIn the weeks before his death, while suffering abdominal pain, the inquest heard Mr Brett messaged his daughter to say: \"Maybe I should get NHS treatment.\"\n\nBut Ms Brett and her partner Mark Watson, 47, advised him against seeing a doctor and told him to take alternative medicines.\n\nHe came to stay at their home in St Harmon, near Rhayader, Powys, so they could help him but he became \"quite unwell\" and died a short time later.\n\nThe inquest heard Mr Brett wished to be buried near his home of 25 years in Aberedw, near Builth Wells, Powys.\n\nThe couple put his body in their red Vauxhall Corsa and drove it to his cottage in June 2019.\n\nDonald Brett was buried in a pagan-style ceremony near Aberedw\n\nInvestigating officer Det Con Alex Stuart said they put Mr Brett's body in his favourite chair next to a wood burner for several days while digging his grave 100 metres (328ft) away from the house.\n\n\"They started to dig around a 6ft (1.8m) burial site,\" he said. \"It was not particularly wide. They dug it down over a number of days while Mr Brett was in his house.\"\n\nThe inquest heard he was buried in a red and turquoise bobble hat, red t-shirt and harlequin chef trousers.\n\nHis body was wrapped in a hessian cotton blanket with rope wrapped in a cross pattern with paintbrushes, flowers and a poem in the grave.\n\n\"They had a ritual,\" said Det Con Stuart. \"He was not thrown in, he was strategically placed.\n\n\"It was a Stone or Bronze Age sort of burial, then they covered the hole.\"\n\nThe alarm was raised after Donald Brett's landlord had not seen him in weeks, Pontypridd Coroner's Court heard\n\nThe inquest heard the alarm was raised by Mr Brett's landlord after he had not been seen for weeks.\n\nA search was launched before Ms Brett and Mr Watson were pulled over by police in a lay-by in the car they had used to transport Mr Brett's body.\n\nIn July they both pleaded guilty at Merthyr Crown Court to preventing a lawful and decent burial and were handed four month suspended sentences.\n\n\"They both pinpointed pretty much the same place where he had been buried,\" DC Stuart told the hearing.\n\n\"It was a full and frank admission from the start. They both made full admissions that he was unlawfully buried.\"\n\nThe inquest also heard phone records showed Mr Brett relied on his daughter for advice on treatments when he became unwell.\n\nShe told police she believed her dad had been suffering from prostate cancer and had advised him to take holistic treatments.\n\nBut Mr Brett had the capacity to make decisions and was not coerced, the inquest was told.\n\nFriends told police Mr Brett would only seek medical treatment if \"absolutely necessary\" at his cottage with no electricity.\n\nHis ex-partner, Alison Walker, said he was \"anti-establishment\" and that her daughter shared his views.\n\nMs Walker said she last saw Mr Brett alive in June 2019, when he told her: \"Aren't I lucky our daughter is looking after me.\"\n\nMr Brett died that month, the inquest heard, but his body was not discovered until two months later.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed the cause of death as \"indeterminate\" but there was no evidence of anything other than a natural death.\n\nAssistant coroner Patricia Morgan recorded an open conclusion, adding: \"There is no evidence to suggest that his death was suspicious.\"", "Some of the world's top oil-producing countries have agreed to cut the amount they export in a decision expected to raise petrol prices around the world.\n\nMembers of Opec+ - a group that includes Saudi Arabia and Russia - said they would slash production by two million barrels per day.\n\nThe group said it wanted to stabilise prices, which have fallen in recent months as the world economy slows.\n\nBut the decision raised fears that prices for motorists will climb.\n\nExpectations that countries were planning to pump less had already pushed oil prices higher this week. The price of a barrel of Brent crude jumped another almost 2% to more than $93 (£82) a barrel on Wednesday.\n\nA spokesman for the RAC motoring group said the reduction announced on Wednesday would \"inevitably\" lead to higher oil prices, forcing up the wholesale cost of fuel.\n\n\"The question is when, and to what extent, retailers choose to pass these increased costs on at their forecourts,\" spokesman Simon Williams said.\n\nThe cut announced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and allies marks the biggest reduction by the group since the height of the pandemic in 2020.\n\nIt comes despite pleas from the US and others to pump more, after oil prices spiked this spring when the war in Ukraine disrupted supplies.\n\nIn a statement, the White House said US President Joe Biden was \"disappointed by the short-sighted decision\".\n\nThe US pledged to continue to release oil from national stockpiles \"as appropriate\" and look at other ways to try to rein in prices at the pump, which are a key issue for American voters in midterm elections scheduled for November.\n\nThe move is also likely to disrupt US-led efforts to set a price cap for oil from Russia, a plan the US had suggested as a way to limit money flowing into the country and being put towards military use.\n\nOpec members defended their decision as a response to significant \"uncertainty\" about future demand for oil, amid fears that the global economy is heading towards a recession.\n\n\"The decision is technical, not political,\" United Arab Emirates Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazroui told reporters as Opec+ members gathered in Vienna to discuss the plans.\n\nThe latest decision by Opec+ is not just significant for oil markets, but for geopolitics as well.\n\nThe fact that the Saudi-led cartel has taken this decision just three months after President Joe Biden's controversial trip to Saudi Arabia to convince the kingdom's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, to pump more barrels to cool down prices is a huge blow for the White House.\n\nThe move not only carries the risk of pushing up oil prices but will also damage efforts by the West to restrict the Russian oil income used to sustain its war in Ukraine.\n\nMany countries will see this as a clear indication of major oil producers, especially Saudi Arabia, siding with Russia in the name of protective oil market management.\n\nIt appears that the decision had support across the group as the Opec+ energy ministers approved the proposal in a meeting that lasted 30 minutes.\n\nAs far as oil markets go, even though this is a substantial reduction, the actual impact on global supplies on the ground would be smaller because several members of Opec+ are already pumping far below their official quotas.\n\nBut that may not be enough to calm the sentiments of the oil markets in the coming days.\n\nHigher oil prices were a major driver of the increase in consumer prices that hit countries around the world earlier this year, pushing inflation rates to levels not seen in decades and raising political tensions.\n\nThe more recent drop had provided some relief to consumers, even as prices of many other staples, including food, continue to rise.\n\nA barrel of Brent Crude oil was trading at $84.06 in late September - down from highs of about $130 this spring.\n\nDespite falling oil prices and concerns about the global economy, Caroline Bain, chief commodities economist for research firm Capital Economics, said it was unusual timing to slash supply.\n\n\"Global oil stocks are historically low and, so far, high prices have failed to materially dent demand,\" she added.\n\nAnalysts said that the impact of the cuts is likely to be less significant than its size might suggest, since some countries were already producing less than they had said they would, with Capital predicting a 1% drop in global supplies as a result.\n\nKathleen Brooks, director at Minerva Analysis, said the output cut was the \"worst case scenario people were looking for\" - one that would weigh on UK financial markets and raise fears that prices across the economy would continue to rise.\n\nIt \"changes the narrative in terms of peak inflation - we might not be there yet,\" she said.\n• None Why are the world's big oil producers cutting supplies?", "The aftermath of the mini-budget could have seen a £50bn fire sale of UK government bonds by funds connected to the pensions industry, the Bank of England has said.\n\nThere was risk of a downward \"spiral\", it said, as increases in the cost of government borrowing hit the funds.\n\nThe Bank feared these funds would be forced to sell their government debt holdings, adding to the market turmoil.\n\nThe cost of borrowing saw record increases for two days, the Bank said.\n\nThe rise in borrowing costs over four days was \"three times larger than any other historical move\".\n\nThe Bank stepped in to calm markets last week following fears that some types of pension funds were at risk of collapse.\n\nIt pledged to buy up to £65bn of government bonds after the mini-budget sparked turmoil on financial markets and the pound plunged.\n\nInvestors had demanded a much higher return for investing in government bonds, causing some to halve in value.\n\nThe Bank said that the market in long-term loans to the government lasting three decades, known as 30-year gilts, saw two days where the effective cost of borrowing saw record increases, on its data which starts in 2000.\n\nA letter from the Bank's deputy governor John Cunliffe to the Treasury Select Committee contains a diagram depicting the trigger for the interest rate shock as the \"fiscal event\", another name for the mini-budget, and that the nature of the move in the UK was not seen in the US or eurozone.\n\nJonathan Haskell, a member of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee, also said in a speech on Thursday that \"there was undoubtedly a UK-specific factor\" in the market turmoil.\n\nThis contradicts the claims made by some government supporters that the mini-budget had nothing to do with last week's turmoil, which was instead caused by \"global factors\".\n\nThe UK's independent economic forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), had offered to prepare a draft forecast in time for the mini-budget, but the government did not take this up.\n\nMr Haskell added that the Bank uses OBR data in its own forecasts, and a \"sidelined\" OBR \"generates more uncertainty by worsening everyone's information base\".\n\nThe risk the Bank feared was that the funds connected to the pensions industry, known as Liability Driven Investments, would become forced sellers of their holdings of UK government debt, in an already troubled market.\n\nA £50bn sale would represent four times the normal daily trade in the market, and would have pushed the effective cost of borrowing, or yield, even higher than 5%, leading to further problems. Before the mini-budget, this yield had stood at about 3.7%.\n\nWhile individual defined benefit pension funds were not at risk, because they are guaranteed by the sponsoring company, it could have led to a wider financial stability challenge.\n\nThe Bank of England decided to intervene in the market last Wednesday, bringing down the effective borrowing cost from over 5% to under 4%.\n\nAs the Bank has eased off its interventions, on Thursday these costs had risen notably again, as high as 4.4%. These rates feed into the costs of long-term mortgages and business lending.\n\nThe Bank emergency intervention is due to end next week and it has so far bought a fraction of the government bonds it could have, spending just £3.7bn.\n\nOn Thursday, the Bank said it would wind down its bond buying in \"a smooth and orderly fashion\" once it felt the market was functioning normally again.\n\nThe Bank also said it is working with the UK's pensions and financial regulators to make sure that that investment strategies used by certain types of pension schemes can withstand market volatility.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Key moments from Liz Truss’s speech at the Conservative Party conference\n\nLiz Truss has promised to get the country through \"stormy days\", as she vowed to take on the \"anti-growth coalition\".\n\nIn her speech to the Tory conference, which has been marked by U-turns and internal division, the PM admitted her policies would cause \"disruption\".\n\nBut she said \"the status quo is not an option\" and \"we must stay the course\".\n\nThe speech came against a backdrop of financial and political turmoil following the government's mini-budget.\n\nMarkets reacted badly to the plans for £45bn in tax cuts funded by borrowing, while the government's U-turn on its plan to scrap the 45p tax band for the highest earners was fuelled by opposition from Tory MPs.\n\nThe prime minister's speech lasted around 35 minutes - shorter than is usually the case for the party leader at conference - and was briefly interrupted by environmental protesters from Greenpeace, holding up a sign reading \"who voted for this?\".\n\nMs Truss - who became PM just one month ago - made no new policy announcements but pledged to stick to her promises to cut taxes and regulations on businesses.\n\nShe acknowledged \"these are stormy days\", citing the global economic crisis caused by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.\n\nBut she added: \"I'm determined to get Britain moving, to get us through the tempest and to put us on a stronger footing as a nation.\"\n\nMs Truss also vowed to take on the \"anti-growth coalition\" and \"enemies of enterprise\", including opposition parties, \"militant unions\" and environmental campaigners - like the ones, she said, who heckled during her speech.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Greenpeace campaigners heckle the PM a few minutes into her party conference speech.\n\nThe prime minister mentioned growth 29 times in her speech, recognising that her goal was \"difficult but necessary\".\n\nShe argued cutting taxes was \"the right thing to do morally and economically\" as it allowed people to keep more of their own money so they are \"inspired to do more of what they do best\".\n\n\"I believe that you know best how to spend your own money, to get on in life and realise your own ambitions,\" she said, adding: \"I want what you want.\"\n\nHowever, in attempt to reassure the markets, she promised to \"keep an iron grip on the nation's finances\".\n\nThere was the content of today's speech. And then the context of its delivery.\n\nAnd context is everything: this is a party that's been close to ripping itself to shreds in the last few days. A conference that was a showcase of dysfunction and division, from the cabinet down.\n\nIndiscipline within government, mutiny beyond it. Fears of this government's collapse run to its highest levels.\n\nThe only crutch that gives these senior figures reprieve from their gloom is a view that another leadership race would be ridiculous and, for a party languishing so far behind in the opinion polls, an imminent election would amount to a death wish.\n\nThose around the prime minister are shaken by the turbulence of the last few days and glad this conference is over.\n\nThe problems the government confronts are colossal - gripping them would stretch a united outfit. The Conservatives are a long way from that right now.\n\nHighlighting her own background, Ms Truss said her upbringing in Paisley and Leeds in the 1980s and 1990s meant she knew what it was like \"to live somewhere that isn't feeling the benefits of economic growth\".\n\n\"I have fought to get where I am today,\" she told the conference, highlighting how the barriers she had faced as a woman \"made me angry and it made me determined\".\n\nEchoing her predecessor Boris Johnson's pledge when he became prime minister, she promised to \"level up\" the country \"in a Conservative way, ensuring everyone everywhere can get on\".\n\nThe hall was not packed, but reaction during the speech was positive, and included several standing ovations.\n\nTory delegates leaving the conference hall echoed this, with one member saying: \"She has steel and you need that when you are a woman in politics.\"\n\nCabinet ministers seated on the front row for the speech applauded as Ms Truss outlined her priorities. Afterwards Welsh Secretary Sir Robert Buckland was one who praised the leader's message, adding that her speech was \"packed full of substance\".\n\nHowever, the liberal Conservative think tank, Bright Blue, accused Ms Truss's government of \"amateurism and amorality\".\n\nChief executive Ryan Shorthouse said her economic policies \"do very little\" for voters who backed the Conservatives in 2019 and \"have for a long time felt forgotten\".\n\nThere was a muted reaction from the financial markets, with the pound falling slightly against the dollar during Ms Truss's speech.\n\nGovernment borrowing costs also fell but were slightly higher over the day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How did Liz Truss's conference speech go down?\n\nThe Tory conference has been overshadowed by divisions, after the government made a dramatic U-turn over its plans to scrap the top rate of income tax.\n\nSome cabinet ministers and senior Conservatives have also publicly spoken out against the suggestion increases to some benefits like universal credit could be linked to wages rather than prices, which would amount to a real-terms cut.\n\nConservative MPs have been told they face suspension from the party - known as losing the whip - if they vote against Ms Truss's tax cuts in Parliament.\n\nLevelling Up Minister Paul Scully told the BBC it would be a \"very serious situation\" for the government if its mini-budget did not get through and urged Tory colleagues to \"think of that before they think about rebelling\".\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said Ms Truss had been \"at the heart of building a Conservative economy that has led to the flat wages and low growth she highlighted today\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said: \"The Conservatives have lost control of the economy, causing eye-watering mortgage payments, soaring inflation and an ever-deepening cost-of-living emergency.\"", "New entries into the top 100 baby names include Brody and Olive\n\nNoah has become the most popular name for baby boys, replacing Oliver which held the top spot for eight years.\n\nOfficial birth data for 2021 in England and Wales showed Olivia remained the most popular name for girls for the sixth year in a row.\n\nNew top 10 entries include Willow and Henry - kicking Jack out of the top 10 for the first time since 1996.\n\nBig movers into the top 100 were Brody and Olive, rising 36 and 25 places respectively from 2020.\n\nIn all, 4,525 baby boys were named Noah last year - moving it to the top spot for the first time, up from fourth place in 2020, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows.\n\nMeanwhile, the name Olivia was given to 3,649 baby girls. It has been the most popular girl's name since 2016, according to the ONS.\n\nThe name Noah has been steadily rising in popularity since it was ranked 225th in 1996, the first year the data on names was published.\n\nIn the US, Noah topped baby name charts in 2013, ending Jacob's 14-year run in the No 1 spot.\n\nSJ Strum, who founded the parenting podcast Baby Name Envy, told BBC News the name may appeal to \"so many new parents for its blend of traditional and pop culture associations\".\n\n\"It's traditionally a symbol of new beginnings,\" Ms Strum said, \"which after [the coronavirus] pandemic feels so meaningful.\"\n\nShe also said she asked some of her listeners why they liked the name - and all pointed to the 2004 romantic comedy film The Notebook, in which the male lead is named Noah.\n\nOther famous men with the same name as the biblical figure include actor Noah Wyle, who starred in hit US television series ER.\n\nFreya, Florence and Willow replaced Isabella, Rosie and Sophia in the top 10 names for girls. It is the first time since 1996 that Florence and Willow have appeared in the top 10.\n\nLara, Beatrice and Sara were new entries in the top 100 for girls.\n\nIn the boys' list, Brody and Rupert made it into the top 100 names for the first time, along with Kai, Tobias, Nathan and Blake.\n\nRegionally, Muhammad was found to be the most popular boy's name in four regions. Olivia was the most popular name in Wales and every English region except the East Midlands, where Amelia came top.\n\nOn the endangered names list are Glenda and Kerry, says the ONS. Fewer than five girls were given these names every year since 2018.\n\nClifford, Nigel and Norman have also fallen out of favour with 10 or fewer boys taking the name. Leslie is among the least popular with fewer than seven babies given that name each year since 2018.\n\nThe ONS also found older mums continue to give their babies more traditional names and younger mums go for more modern names or shorter versions of traditional names, part of a long-running trend.\n\nExplaining why it uses mothers' data to glean the most popular baby names, an ONS spokeswoman previously said: \"To get a complete statistical picture for our baby names analysis, we rely on a mother's data, because information relating to mothers should appear on every birth registration.\"\n\nDisney film Luca may have helped the name rise to 28th most popular in 2021\n\nWhile it is not clear exactly what is behind parents' baby-naming decisions, popular culture seems to play a part, with Hollywood a major influence.\n\nDisney Pixar's 2021 film Luca may have helped the name jump to 28th most popular. It was given to 1,807 babies last year, compared to 1,323 in 2020.\n\nDisney's Raya and the Last Dragon movie, also released last year, saw registrations of the name more than double in one year to 251 births.\n\nPopstars also seem to be influencing a rise in less common names. There were 14 times the number of baby boys named Ezra - the second name of singer George Ezra - in 2021 compared to a decade ago.\n\nAnd 885 baby girls were called Mabel - with the Finders Keepers singer possibly providing the inspiration.\n\nContinuing to rise for both boys and girls were Bowie and Ziggy, which have been growing in popularity since the death of late pop legend David Bowie. His alter-ego was Ziggy Stardust.\n\nKim Kardashian named her boys Saint, pictured on the right, and Psalm\n\nThe Duke of Sussex's second child Lilibet born last year appears to be behind eight Lilibets being registered, compared to fewer than three in each of the previous seven years.\n\nAnd reality TV stars the Kardashians could have inspired an increase in the name Saint, the child of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. There were 59 babies given that name in 2021, compared with five in 2015 when he was born.\n\nThere were three baby girls registered North, six boys registered Psalm, and four girls named Chicago, the names of Kardashian's three other children.\n\nJames Tucker, from the ONS, said: \"Popular culture continues to influence parents' baby name choices.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nThe fight between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr, due to take place in London on Saturday, has been postponed.\n\nIt comes after Benn, 26, returned what promoters said was an \"adverse analytical finding for trace amounts of a fertility drug\".\n\nThe British Boxing Board of Control had said the bout was \"prohibited and not in the interests of boxing\".\n\nPromoter Matchroom confirmed on Thursday that the fight had been postponed.\n\n\"After discussions with various parties, we have taken the decision to formally postpone the bout between Chris Eubank Jr. and Conor Benn,\" Matchroom said.\n\n\"It is undeniable that the British Boxing Board of Control's decision to withdraw their sanctioning was procedurally flawed and without due process,\" it added.\n\n\"That remains a legal issue between the promoters and the Board which we intend to pursue.\"\n\nBenn, who insists he is a \"clean\" fighter, and Eubank were scheduled to meet in the ring at a catchweight of 157lbs, 30 years after their fathers Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank Sr fought.\n\nMatchroom promoter Eddie Hearn had been seeking to overturn the BBBofC's decision as both fighters' camp said in a statement on Wednesday they wanted the fight to go ahead.\n\nFollowing the decision to postpone the fight, Benn said on Twitter: \"I am truly gutted that we were unable to make this fight happen on Saturday and I'm sorry to everyone who has been affected by the postponement.\"\n\nBenn added: \"I am still completely shocked and surprised by this and it has been a tough couple of days.\n\n\"My team and I will consider the next options, including rescheduling the fight, but my immediate focus is on clearing my name because I am a clean athlete.\"\n\nEubank Jr said: \"Can't believe it. I really apologise to the fans and everyone that bought tickets, travelled and booked hotels, this should not have happened. He has escaped his schooling… for now.\"\n\nSpeaking at a delayed press conference on Thursday, Hearn said the decision had been made \"in the best interests of the parties involved\".\n\n\"While we were desperate for this fight to take place, for the fans, for the undercard fighters, we made a decision we felt we had to at this time.\"\n\nHearn had earlier ruled out seeking a new body to sanction the fight.\n\n\"It's been done before and it's not something I've looked at before or something I necessarily agree with,\" Hearn said. \"This is not a situation where we want to run rogue and come up with an alternative plan.\"\n\nThe Matchroom statement said that \"whilst there are legal routes to facilitate the fight taking place as planned, we do not believe that it is in the fighters' interests for those to be pursued at such a late stage, or in the wider interests of the sport.\"\n\nIt added: \"As promoters, we take our obligations and duties very seriously, and a full investigation will now need to take place.\"\n\nBenn returned an \"adverse analytical finding\" for the fertility drug clomifene in August, following a test taken by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (Vada).\n\nClomifene can be used to boost testosterone levels in men and is banned inside and outside competition by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada).\n\nVada was hired by Benn and Eubank to provide extra testing alongside UK Anti-Doping, which is the Board's officially anti-doping partner and adheres to Wada.\n\nEubank's promoter Kalle Sauerland confirmed on Wednesday that both camps had known of the drug test results for several weeks and Eubank wanted to go ahead with the fight.\n\n\"We discussed it straight away with the most important person from our side, the athlete,\" Sauerland said. \"He was happy to continue and spoke to Benn directly.\"\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Sauerland said: \"[Eubank is] hugely, hugely disappointed. He was ready, he was on weight and he was very much looking forward to this weekend.\"\n\nHe added: \"This matter was taken out of our hands. The handling of it, we feel, was totally inappropriate given the rules. We now look at the plans to reschedule it.\"\n\nInternally at Matchroom and their broadcasters DAZN, they are convinced Benn is innocent of intentionally doping.\n\nHearn argued that because the Board do not \"recognise\" VADA, they had no reason to call off the fight or suspend Benn.\n\nUK Anti-Doping (UKAD) Chief Executive, Jane Rumble said: \"UKAD notes the reporting of a failed VADA test by the boxer Conor Benn with concern.\"\n\nRumble added: \"UKAD acts on all reports of doping and always encourages anyone with information on suspected doping activity to come forward and share that with us.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, Steve Bunce said the BBBofC decision to intervene was \"the bravest and boldest thing\" he has witnessed from the governing body.\n\nHe added: \"I think Benn would have been a broken man in that ring and his head would not have been in the right place.\n\n\"The optics don't look good. Conor has now got to get his head right. Let's assume he's innocent, it's going to be really hard.\n\n\"It's going to take some soul searching for him to get back the trust of the people. Even for the people who have been cleared, it hangs over their heads.\"\n• None Tony Adams, former Arsenal and England footballer, opens up about his addiction and recovery", "Former culture secretary Nadine Dorries has accused the government of \"lurching to the right\", as she warned the Tories were facing a \"wipeout\" at the next election if it did not change course.\n\nMs Dorries told the Times Liz Truss had made some \"big mistakes\" in her first weeks as prime minister.\n\nTory chairman Jake Berry said he did not understand some of her comments.\n\nThe government has faced vocal opposition from some of its own MPs since its mini-budget on 23 September.\n\nThe party's annual conference in Birmingham this week was overshadowed by internal divisions, after the chancellor U-turned on plans to scrap the top rate of income tax in the face of criticism from many Tories and turbulence in financial markets.\n\nSome cabinet ministers and senior Conservatives have also publicly spoken out against the suggestion increases to benefits including universal credit could be linked to wages rather than prices, which would amount to a real-terms cut.\n\nMs Dorries, who supported Liz Truss during the leadership election, told the Times: \"You don't win elections by lurching to the right and deserting the centre ground for Keir Starmer to place his flag on.\n\n\"If we continue down this path, we absolutely will be facing a Stephen Harper-type wipeout. I'm sure [the prime minister has] listened and will stop and rethink.\"\n\nCanadian prime minister Justin Trudeau won a landslide victory against Mr Harper in the 2015 election.\n\nMs Dorries, who was a key ally of Boris Johnson, was asked by Ms Truss to stay on as culture secretary but chose instead to return to the backbenches when the new prime minister took over.\n\nShe accused the government of shelving several of his policies, including privatising Channel 4, reviewing the BBC's licence fee, introducing the Online Safety Bill, and bringing forward new animal welfare legislation.\n\nShe said abandoning Mr Johnson's policies was \"a mistake\", adding: \"That was our mandate, our deal with the voters. Removing a prime minister and the policies people voted for less than three years ago is a troubling precedent to set in a democracy.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Berry told LBC: \"I've seen some of the comments by Nadine, I don't understand some of them and some of them I don't agree with.\"\n\n\"[I am] quite good friends with Nadine and I think she's a very fine individual and a very fine Conservative, but quite a lot of what we have done hasn't been just about cutting people's taxes - though of course people are getting the cut in income tax. Quite a lot of it is, you know, action on energy bills,\" he said.\n\nHe suggested the current tax policy is \"very similar\" to when Ms Dorries was in government.\n\nThere have also been divisions within the Tory party over whether benefits should rise in line with inflation - a pledge made by Mr Johnson.\n\nMs Truss has refused to say she would maintain that commitment.\n\nMs Dorries said increasing benefits only in line with wages would be \"cruel, unjust and fundamentally unconservative\" during a cost-of-living crisis.\n\nIn his interview with LBC, Mr Berry also said he regretted saying on Sunday people could get a better-paid job to cover their energy bills, adding that \"my language was a bit clumsy\".\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer has branded Ms Truss the \"destroyer of growth\", after she accused Labour of being part of an \"anti-growth coalition\" in her conference speech.\n\nIn a round of interviews with BBC local radio, the Labour leader said increased mortgage rates were a \"direct result\" of the government's \"kamikaze\" mini-budget last month.", "Greenpeace campaigners heckled Liz Truss a few minutes into her party conference speech. Holding a banner that read 'Who voted for this, they could be heard shouting: \"Who voted for fracking?\"\n\nAfter they left the hall in Birmingham the prime minister joked that they had arrived too early and would be addressing their issues later in her speech.\n\nCoverage of Wednesday at the Conservative Party conference", "Emily agreed to having the surgery when pregnant with her baby Robbie\n\nUS doctors say they have successfully carried out surgery on babies in the womb to repair harmful spine defects using a special, therapeutic stem cell patch method.\n\nExperts hope the pioneering research at UC Davis Health could help others with spina bifida - when the spinal cord and spine do not develop properly.\n\nThree of the babies in the trial have now been born.\n\nThe team will monitor them for at least six years.\n\nWithout treatment, spina bifida can sometimes lead to a range of lifelong issues, including problems with mobility because of nerve damage. In extreme cases, the spinal canal remains open and exposed. If the defect is not closed to protect it shortly before or after birth, it can cause total paralysis of the legs.\n\nSurgeons have already used keyhole surgery on babies in the womb to mend the gap. Now the US team have gone a step further, fitting a graft or implant to bridge the repair.\n\nIt is a patch that contains immature cells, called stem cells, that can grow with the baby.\n\nThe researchers say they have already had very promising results in animals with this technique. They have tried it in baby sheep and a pair of English bulldog puppies - Darla and Spanky - to refine the process.\n\nBaby Robbie is one of the first humans to have the treatment.\n\nHer mum, Emily, says it was a lifeline that they could not refuse.\n\n\"We didn't know about spina bifida until the diagnosis. We are so thankful that we got to be a part of this. We are giving our daughter the very best chance at a bright future,\" she said.\n\nTheir surgeon, Diana Farmer, says the operation went off without a hitch: \"Mother and foetus did great!\"\n\nEmily recalls the day Robbie was born more than a year ago.\n\n\"One of my first fears was that I wouldn't be able to see her, but they brought her over to me. I got to see her toes wiggle for the first time. It was so reassuring and a little bit out of this world.\"\n\nThe UC Davis team plan to treat about 35 babies as part of their trial. More studies and follow-up are needed to assess how well the treatment works.\n\nRobbie and the other babies will have check-ups to see their progress with skills such as walking and potty training.\n\nProf Paolo De Coppi is a paediatric surgeon at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital in the UK. He has been doing surgery on babies in the womb for spina bifida and says using stem cell patches might improve outcomes even further. \"That's the hope, but we need to wait and see,\" he told the BBC.\n\nIt is not known what causes spina bifida but a number of things can increase the risk of a baby developing the condition.\n\nNot having enough folic acid (vitamin B9) during pregnancy is one of the most important ones.\n\nProf Neena Modi, an expert in neonatal medicine at Imperial College London in the UK, stressed the importance of women taking supplements around conception and in pregnancy - a cheap and easy intervention that can help prevent cases of spina bifida.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liz Truss has addressed the Conservative Party conference for the first time as prime minister, vowing to focus on “growth, growth and growth”.\n\nHere are some of the key moments from her speech.", "World champion Magnus Carlsen (left) rocked the chess world by accusing Hans Niemann (right) of cheating\n\nA top chess player accused of cheating has insisted he is \"not going to back down\" after making his first comments on the scandal in nearly a month.\n\nOn Tuesday, a Chess.com investigation claimed it was \"likely\" Hans Niemann cheated in more than 100 games online.\n\nThe 19-year-old American rising star had already been accused of cheating by world champion Magnus Carlsen.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday after winning his US Championship game, Niemann said his victory was \"a message to everyone\".\n\nIn a news conference following a convincing win against 15-year-old grandmaster Christopher Yoo, Niemann was asked about the \"elephant in the room\" - a reference to the cheating scandal that has gripped the chess world.\n\nWithout addressing the allegations directly, Niemann said: \"This game is a message to everyone. This entire thing started with me saying 'chess speaks for itself' and I think this game spoke for itself and showed the chess player I am.\n\n\"It also showed I'm not going to back down and I'm going to play my best chess here regardless of the pressure.\"\n\nNiemann then cut the interview short after less than 60 seconds.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Saint Louis Chess Club This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"You can leave it to your own interpretation, but thank you, that's it\", he said when the interviewer tried to ask more questions.\n\n\"That's all I can say, because it was such a beautiful game I don't even need to describe it,\" he concluded.\n\nNiemann, who was playing in the first round of the US Championship in St Louis, then walked out of the interview, prompting commentator Yasser Seirawan to laugh and say: \"What? That's it? Ok.\"\n\nUntil the interview Niemann had not spoken about the scandal since 7 September when he admitted to cheating in informal games when he was younger but strenuously denied doing so in competitive games.\n\nNiemann added that he was willing to play naked to prove his innocence and accused Carlsen and Chess.com of trying to ruin his career.\n\nThe scandal began last month after 31-year-old Carlsen, considered by many to be the greatest player of all time, was defeated by Niemann at the Sinquefield Cup in a major upset.\n\nThe Norwegian made veiled accusations of cheating against Niemann at the time before openly accusing him last week.\n\nThen on Tuesday, a Chess.com investigation claimed it was likely Niemann had cheated \"much more often\" than he had admitted to, including in prize money events and against highly-rated \"well known\" figures in the game.\n\nChess.com also noted \"anomalies\" in Niemann's rate of improvement, which has seen him soar up the rankings in classical chess from around 800 in the world to the top 50 in less than two years.\n\nThe site said this rise was the fastest in \"modern recorded history\" and had occurred \"much later in life than his peers\".\n\nBut it found no evidence he had cheated in his game against Carlsen or in any other over-the-board games.\n\nA separate statistical analysis of Niemann's over-the-board games by Prof Kenneth Regan, widely regarded as the world's leading expert on cheating in chess, has also found no evidence he cheated.\n\nNot since 2006's \"Toiletgate\" has chess faced a cheating scandal at the elite levels of the game.\n\nBack then, world championship challenger Veselin Topalov's team accused the champion Vladimir Kramnik of cheating during his \"strange, if not suspicious\" trips to the bathroom.\n\nProf Regan also found no evidence Kramnik had cheated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How a computer beat the best chess player in the world", "President Joe Biden has pardoned all Americans who have been convicted at the national level of possessing small amounts of marijuana.\n\nOfficials estimate about 6,500 people with federal convictions for simple possession of marijuana will benefit.\n\nNo-one is currently in federal prison solely for possession of marijuana. Most convictions occur at state level.\n\nBut the federal pardons will make it easier for people to get employment, housing, and education, Mr Biden said.\n\nAs a presidential candidate, Mr Biden promised to decriminalise cannabis use, as well as expunging convictions.\n\n\"Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit,\" Mr Biden said on Thursday.\n\nHe added that non-white people were statistically far more likely to be jailed for cannabis.\n\nAs a White House candidate, Mr Biden was criticised for writing a 1994 crime bill that stiffened penalties for drug crimes and led to more incarceration of minorities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Democratic president said he would call upon all state governors to issue their own marijuana pardons.\n\nHe is also directing the Department of Justice and the Department of Health to review how cannabis is classified under federal law.\n\n\"We classify marijuana at the same level as heroin - and more serious than fentanyl,\" said Mr Biden. \"It makes no sense.\"\n\nRecreational marijuana is already legal in 19 states and Washington DC. Medical use is legal in 37 states and three US territories.\n\nHowever, the drug remains illegal at the federal level, even in states where it can be legally bought and used, meaning people there could still be convicted for possession in certain circumstances.\n\nThe pardons come a month before November's congressional mid-term elections, which will determine the power balance in Washington for the last two years of Mr Biden's term.\n\nLife for Pot, a website advocating for the release of non-violent marijuana offenders, noted that there are no known federal prisoners that will be affected by Mr Biden's measure, tweeting: \"This is window dressing.\"\n\nCannabis company shares jumped on the stock market by around 20% with news of Mr Biden's pardons.\n\nMr Biden is not the first US president to pardon cannabis offenders.\n\nOn his final day in office, Donald Trump pardoned 12 marijuana offenders, including some who had been jailed for life under the three-strikes rule created by Mr Biden's 1994 crime bill.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The prime minister walks on stage to the 1993 track Moving on Up\n\nThe use of Moving On Up as introductory music for the prime minister has left its creators \"livid\" and frustrated.\n\nLiz Truss walked on to M People's 1993 hit before addressing the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham earlier.\n\nThe Manchester group's founder Mike Pickering said he hoped Ms Truss took note of the lyrics, as it was \"about, 'go and pack your bags and get out'\".\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary said she had personally selected the song as her walk-on music.\n\nMoving On Up was the second single from M People's Mercury Music Prize-winning album, Elegant Slumming, and reached number two in the UK charts in 1993.\n\nIt became an international hit for the band, making the top 10 in Ireland, France, Australia and Israel and breaking them into the US top 40, and featured on a number of film soundtracks, including The Full Monty and The First Wives Club.\n\nMike Pickering said the band were \"quite left-leaning\" and were \"really upset\" the track had been used\n\nPickering said he discovered the song had been used while he was out riding his bike.\n\nHe said he could feel his phone \"going mad in my pocket\" and thought something had happened to a family member due to the number of notifications and messages.\n\nHowever, he said he quickly realised what had happened and took to Twitter to voice his anger.\n\nHe said the band were \"quite left-leaning\" and were \"really upset\" and \"livid\" the track had been used.\n\n\"No-one said to them 'Tony Blair and new Labour used that song all the time'... or 'Mike is really vociferous on Twitter and social media about being an anti-Tory',\" he said.\n\nM People were regulars at the top of the charts in the 1990s and won the 1994 Mercury Music Prize\n\nHe said if Ms Truss had \"bothered to read the lyrics, it's hardly suitable\" as it refers to taking a \"sip from the devil's cup\".\n\n\"I don't think they think in any depth.\"\n\nHe added that he had \"checked with legal\" and been told \"we can't stop them\" using the track.\n\n\"If we'd have known, we could have sent a letter of cease and desist,\" he said.\n\nJames Small-Edwards, a Labour councillor in Westminster and the son of the group's singer Heather Small, also tweeted about the use of the song, calling it \"an apt choice\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cllr James Small-Edwards This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary said Ms Truss had had \"a range of options and she chose that one\".\n\nHe said he was unable to confirm if the party had asked for permission to use the song and he did not have \"detailed knowledge of how the licensing of this stuff works\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None We must stay the course, Truss tells Tory conference\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The FBI has gathered enough evidence to charge Hunter Biden with tax crimes and making a false statement to buy a gun, according to the BBC's US partner CBS News.\n\nPresident Joe Biden's son has been under federal investigation since 2018.\n\nThe decision on whether to file criminal charges now rests with the US Attorney in Delaware.\n\nA lawyer for Hunter said he had not been contacted by federal agents. He has repeatedly denied breaking the law.\n\nThe US Department of Justice has declined to comment.\n\nHunter Biden, 52, is a lawyer and lobbyist who has worked abroad including in China and Ukraine. He was discharged from the US Navy in 2014 after testing positive for cocaine.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, federal agents began investigating him in 2018, and initially centred on finances related to his overseas businesses and consulting.\n\nOver time, the investigation began to focus on whether Hunter properly reported his income and made false statements on paperwork used to purchase a firearm in 2018.\n\nIn a book published last year he had admitted to still being a heavy user of crack cocaine at that time. But the Washington Post reports that he said \"no\" on a federal form asking if he was \"an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug or any other controlled substance\".\n\nCriminal charges stemming from falsehoods on gun-purchase forms remain rare and number in the hundreds each year.\n\nIn a statement sent to CBS, a lawyer for the president's son said that he expected the Department of Justice to \"diligently investigate and prosecute\" those who leaked information about the investigation.\n\n\"As is proper and legally required, we believe the prosecutors in this case are diligently and thoroughly weighing not just evidence provided by agents, but also all the other witnesses in this case, including witnesses for the defence,\" the statement from lawyer Chris Clark said.\n\n\"That is the job of the prosecutors. They should not be pressured, rushed, or criticised for doing their job.\"\n\nMr Clark added that he has had no contact \"whatsoever\" with any federal investigators. He said any information from agents - cited by the Washington Post, which first reported the story - was \"inherently biased, one-sided, and inaccurate\".\n\nHunter Biden has long been a target of scrutiny from conservatives, who have alleged that his overseas business dealings indicate a pattern of corruption.\n\nRepublicans have vowed to investigate him in the House of Representatives if they win a majority of seats in next month's midterm congressional elections.\n\nWhile the younger Biden has admitted to a troubled life and a previous \"massive drug addiction\", both he and President Biden have denied that he engaged in illegal activity.\n\nHe first admitted knowledge of an investigation in December 2020. In a statement at the time, Hunter Biden said he was \"confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, with the benefit of professional tax advisers\".\n\nIn April, Joe Biden's chief of staff, Ron Klain, said the US president \"is confident that his son didn't break the law\", but that the matter would be left to the Justice Department and that the White House would not get involved.\n\nIn 2018, Hunter Biden was investigated after his then-girlfriend threw away a gun belonging to him in a rubbish bin near a school, according to US media reports.\n\nSecret Service agents reportedly intervened, according to Politico, by visiting the Delaware store where he had bought the firearm earlier that month and requesting access to his background check form.\n\nThe gun-store owner refused to hand over the paperwork, the website reports, and no charges were filed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hunter Biden says his father \"saved\" him several times when he was in \"a really dark, dark place\"", "JK Rowling posted the selfie on Twitter as the women's rally was beginning at Holyrood\n\nAuthor JK Rowling has supported a protest rally by wearing a T-shirt calling Scotland's first minister a \"destroyer of women's rights\".\n\nThe author tweeted a picture of herself as demonstrators gathered outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.\n\nHundreds of people protested against gender recognition legislation proposed by the Scottish government.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said the aim is to make the existing process \"less degrading, intrusive and traumatic\".\n\nInside the parliament a committee of MSPs backed the general principles of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill\n\nThe proposed new law would make it easier for people to be legally recognised as their preferred gender and broaden the official definition of what it means to be trans.\n\nAnyone aged 16 or over who has lived in their \"acquired gender\" for at least three months would be eligible to apply.\n\nA medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria would no longer be required, removing the need for doctors' reports.\n\nIt remains a hotly contested issue, however, with critics saying \"self identification\" would undermine the safety of women-only spaces. JK Rowling has previously argued the new law would harm the most vulnerable women.\n\nMs Rowling tweeted: \"I stand in solidarity with @ForWomenScot and all women protesting and speaking outside the Scottish Parliament. #NoToSelfID.\"\n\nThe T-shirt, which matched those worn by many women at the rally, read: \"Nicola Sturgeon: Destroyer of women's rights.\"\n\nAsked by journalists about the post, a spokesman for the Scottish government said he had not seen it.\n\nHundreds of people demonstrated outside the Scottish Parliament against gender recognition legislation changes\n\nA majority of MSPs on the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee recommended the general principles of the bill should be approved.\n\nCommittee convener Joe FitzPatrick said: \"We believe these important reforms will improve the lives and experiences of trans people.\"\n\nThe committee backed removing the need for any medical evidence or diagnosis \"believing that trans people know their own minds\".\n\nFive MSPs backed the legislation but the two Conservatives - Pam Gosal and Rachael Hamilton - opposed it.\n\nThe minority were \"concerned that the removal of the requirement for gender dysphoria and the requirement for medical evidence may extend the GRC process to a large and more diverse group of people\".\n\nThey said this \"could potentially mean the process is open to abuse from bad faith actors, particularly predatory men\".\n\nCampaigners opposed to the legislation are concerned it will lead to women-only spaces and services, including hospital wards, refuges and prisons being opened to people with male anatomy.\n\nThe committee report - published ahead of the demonstration outside Holyrood - said most MSPs on the committee agreed that while such views were \"sincerely held\", they were satisfied the bill would not change any of the existing protections women have under the Equality Act 2010, \"including the ability to exclude trans people from single-sex services where proportionate and appropriate\".\n\nIt said: \"The majority is satisfied that the bill will not change or remove women's rights, make changes to how toilets and changing rooms operate, redefine what a man or a woman is, nor change or expand trans people's rights.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Scottish Trans said they were pleased the committee agreed with the principles of the bill and \"significantly reforming the law that is currently in place in Scotland\".\n\nManager Vic Valentine said: \"We urge MSPs to now also vote in favour of reforms, and to make a real difference to the lives of trans people in Scotland.\"\n\nOn Wednesday the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) wrote to Social Justice Secretary Robison about the potential cross-border impact of gender laws changing in Scotland.\n\nThe regulator's chairwoman, Baroness Kishwer Falkner, urged the devolved nations and UK government to work together.\n\nThe letter pointed out that changes could affect sex discrimination across the UK, including equal pay, gender pay gap reporting and measures to address disadvantages experienced by women.", "A record 250 blood donations are needed every day to treat sickle cell\n\nThe NHS is urgently calling for black donors to give blood to help people with sickle cell disease as the demand for donations reaches record levels.\n\nAbout 250 donations are needed every day to help treat the blood disorder in England.\n\nBut currently only about half of all hospital requests are being met with matched blood, the NHS says.\n\nSickle cell mostly affects people of black heritage and ethnically-matched blood gives the best treatment.\n\nThe disease, which is the fastest-growing genetic condition in the UK, causes red blood cells to distort and become sticky, blocking vessels and restricting oxygen supply, which triggers excruciating pain.\n\nMany patients need regular blood transfusions to stay alive.\n\nFive years ago, 150 donations a day were needed. Now that figure is at 250, with the demand projected to keep on rising.\n\nNHS Blood and Transplant say this is due to patients living longer and the increased use of complete blood transfusions, which has improved patient outcomes.\n\nAbout 55% of black people have a Ro blood type, compared to 2% of the wider population.\n\nIt is clinically safe for patients to be treated with O negative - the universal blood type - but that can lead to complications in the long term.\n\nLanre Ogundimu nearly died from a reaction to a donor's blood\n\nLanre Ogundimu, from south London, has sickle cell and nearly died in 2018 after having a reaction to a donor's blood.\n\nThe NHS says the shortage of ethnically matched blood increases the risk of these reactions for people with sickle cell.\n\nThe radio producer said: \"I can't receive blood as a standard treatment any more. Well-matched blood from within the black community can be the difference between life or death.\n\n\"I was recently reminded of the fragility of living life with sickle cell, when a child I know needed an urgent blood transfusion.\n\n\"I'm here to let you know - there is no need to feel shy or squeamish or scared. There is no stigma or shame in helping others, by giving blood.\"\n\nThe urgent call from the NHS Blood and Transplant service comes as it launches a Black History Month campaign to highlight how black communities have the power to help treat sickle cell and provide life-changing blood donations.\n\nDr Rekha Anand, a consultant in transfusion medicine, said: \"Matched blood is vital for sickle cell patients to reduce the risk of serious complications and black people are more likely to be able to donate matched blood.\n\n\"There has been a small rise in black people donating blood but we urgently need more to become regular donors.\n\n\"Giving blood is easy, quick and safe - and you will save and improve lives.\"\n\nProfessor Kevin Fenton, regional director for London for the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, said: \"Being able to provide high quality clinical care to sickle cell patients both saves and improves the quality of their lives and is an important step in helping tackle health inequalities.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 18 people have died and 25 have been rescued after a migrant boat sank off the Greek island of Lesbos on Wednesday night.\n\nThe Greek coastguard said the dinghy had left the Turkish coast carrying 40 people in very high winds.\n\nElsewhere in Greece dozens of migrants were rescued when their boat hit rocks near the southern island of Kythira.\n\nCoastguard video showed a group of people trapped beneath a cliff as rescuers pulled them to safety.\n\nBoth boats went down within hours of each other on Wednesday night and early on Thursday, hundreds of kilometres apart.\n\nVolunteers joined rescue officials at the top of the cliff face on Kythira, an island off the Peloponnese region of southern Greece.\n\nThe migrant boat broke up close to the island's eastern harbour at Diakofti in winds of up to 70km/h (45mph) and according to Greek reports one of those on board raised the alarm when it got into trouble.\n\n\"We could see the boat smashing against the rocks and people climbing up those rocks to try and save themselves,\" local resident Martha Stathaki told the Associated Press news agency.\n\nEighty of the 95 people on board are said to have been rescued on the Kythira coast. Greek reports say they had originally come from Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq and included 55 men and 18 children.\n\nMayor Stratos Harhalakis said the boat had arrived at the worst possible point on Kythira as a gale-force winds pushed it on to treacherous rocks. He described seeing five people drown as they were swept away. Their small boat was big enough for 15 to 20 people, rather than almost 100, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, on Lesbos, authorities said the bodies of 16 young women of African origin and a 15-year-old boy had been recovered after their boat went down near Thermi. The body of a man was also recovered later.\n\nLesbos was hit by powerful winds as the coastguard searched for survivors.\n\nLocal officials said the boat had left the Turkish port of Ayvali and Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi called on Turkey to take \"immediate action\" to put an end to irregular migrant crossings in harsh weather. \"Already today many lives lost in the Aegean, people are drowning in unseaworthy vessels. EU must act,\" he tweeted.\n\nWhile Lesbos is a short distance from the coast of western Turkey, Kythira lies some 400km (250km) west of Turkey's coastline on the Aegean Sea and is on what has become known as the smugglers' \"Calabrian\" route, named after their destination in southern Italy.\n\nLast month two migrant boats landed on Kythira carrying almost 100 people, mainly from Afghanistan. More and more crossings are being made from Turkey to the Italian coast, bypassing Greece.", "The RCN describes the ballot as \"a once-in-a-generation chance\" to improve pay and overcome staff shortages\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing is balloting all of its UK members for strike action for the first time in its 106-year history.\n\nThe union is recommending its 300,000 members walk out over pay, with the result of the ballot due next month.\n\nIf strikes go ahead, the RCN says they would affect non-urgent but not emergency care.\n\nThe government has urged nurses to \"carefully consider\" the impact on patients.\n\nThe RCN has been calling for a rise of 5% above the RPI inflation rate of 12%, but no UK nation has offered close to that.\n\nIn England and Wales, NHS staff, including nurses, are being given an average of 4.75% more, with extra for the lowest paid, while in Scotland, 5% has been given. In Northern Ireland, nurses are yet to receive a pay award.\n\nThe RCN said it had commissioned research showing average pay had fallen by 6% between 2011 and 2021 - once inflation had been taken into account - compared with the 4.6% average for the whole economy.\n\nVictoria works part-time as a mental health nurse in an NHS trust\n\nVictoria, 38, has worked as a mental health nurse in an NHS trust for three years. She did a second degree to retrain, having previously worked in a lab and before that was in the navy.\n\n\"My love for it [the job] was to make a difference in people's lives and that's why I'm here. But then sometimes when I look at it, it's like, is it really worth it?\" she says.\n\nAfter coming back from maternity leave she went part-time and receives universal credit because she says her pay wouldn't cover the cost of childcare if she worked full-time.\n\n\"Sometimes you end up having not enough money to feed yourself or even feed your children. If I'm going to work and I'm making a difference in people's lives then I feel like I should be able to be compensated and have enough pay for myself to sustain myself and look after my children.\"\n\nGeneral secretary Pat Cullen told the BBC: \"We're not asking for the salaries of bankers or billionaires that seems to be the focus of this government.\n\n\"We're just asking for a decent wage for our nursing staff so they can continue to do the brilliant job they do everyday for their patients, and so that we can absolutely retain the staff that we've got.\"\n\nShe added: \"They need to give them a decent wage so they can look after their families, pay their bills.\"\n\nSpeaking about how a strike would work, she added: \"We will add no additional risk to the risk patients are facing every single day as a consequence of not having the right numbers and expertise of nursing staff looking after them.\"\n\nStarting salaries for nurses in England are currently just above £27,000, rising to nearly £55,000 for the most senior nurses.\n\nThe RCN said the average pay for a full-time established nurse was just above £32,000 last year - similar to average pay across the economy.\n\nThe union is inviting members of the public to co-sign a letter to Prime Minister Liz Truss, backing its stance.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care in England said it valued \"the hard work of NHS nurses\"\n\nThe 380,000 members of Unison, including about 50,000 nurses, are also being balloted.\n\nThese ballot papers have been sent out in Scotland, with the rest of the UK following suit in the coming weeks.\n\nMidwives in Scotland have also been balloted on strike action by the Royal College of Midwives, while the British Medical Association has said it will ballot junior doctors over industrial action.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care in England pointed out the independent NHS Pay Review Body had recommended its pay award.\n\nAnd it followed a 3% pay rise last year, in recognition of work during the pandemic, despite a public-sector pay freeze.\n\n\"We value the hard work of NHS nurses and are working hard to support them. Industrial action is a matter for unions and we urge them to carefully consider the potential impacts on patients,\" she added.\n\nScottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"Any ballot for industrial action is disappointing. We are engaged with health unions and I hope we can come to an agreement on pay in the near future.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it had accepted the independent pay review body's recommendations in full but without additional funding from the UK government, there were inevitably limits to how far it could go.\n\nIn 2019, RCN members went on strike in Northern Ireland over pay, while nurses who are members of Unison in England walked out in 2014 over pay.\n\nDuring any strike action, some nurses would continue to work to ensure emergency and urgent services continue.", "The reports of the public sector pay review bodies are arriving across Whitehall right now, with the potential to become both economic and political dynamite.\n\nThey cover eight areas and just under half the public sector workforce but it may be the case that the evidence submitted, mainly at the turn of the year, is already out of date.\n\nInflation is on a march. But as Treasury Minister Simon Clarke told me last week, and reiterated yesterday, there is no automatic link in the Treasury's view between the rate of inflation and wage settlements.\n\nIn private, senior Cabinet ministers go further, saying that matching wages to inflation would be dangerous and damaging - even suggesting such a thing is irresponsible.\n\nThey point to two factors around a significant real terms pay cuts for NHS workers, teachers, police officers and council workers.\n\nThe bulk of the 9% current rate of inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, is driven by energy price rises.\n\nThe Government has already announced support for energy bills for millions of households, especially those on lower incomes. It also points to early indications of private sector wage growth at around 4-5%, as a more relevant metric.\n\nThere are two counter arguments here Firstly, those payments, which cover almost all the cost for several million households, are currently a one-off. Second, public sector pay has fallen overall since 2010 already, and there are some recruitment challenges already affecting some provision of services.\n\nFurthermore, state pensions and some benefits are pegged to the prevailing rate of inflation, and that potentially huge increase will be delivered next year, under current plans. Other bills are also linked to inflation, such as mobile phone and broadband payments.\n\nUnions have asked for pay rises reflecting the current huge spike in inflation. Unison, for example, has asked for rises to match the higher Retail Price Index measure of inflation at 11%. Nurses have asked for 15%.\n\nOur Cost of Living survey last week suggested eight in 10 Britons thought that wages should go up with the cost of living.\n\nFewer though - just over a third of workers - said they would push their employer for such a rise. Unions also face some difficulties in reaching new thresholds required in ballots for legal strike action on a national basis. Though the RMT did manage to clear such hurdles to go ahead with the rail strike.\n\nThen there is the more general argument about a 1970s-style wage-price spiral emerging. Certainly the last time inflation reached double digits in the 1970s when inflation topped over 20%, and in some years wage inflation was 30%.\n\nPrices went up in anticipation that wages would, which in turn increased because of expectations of price rises, and so on and so forth. This was the classic wage-price spiral that saw the period of very high inflation last years rather than months.\n\nThere is some evidence that this is happening in the US. But not much so far in the UK, where prices certainly have spiked and wages haven't - though that could change. There are structural reasons for this.\n\nUnion membership has fallen from 13 million at the 1970s peak to six million now. While the Government privately accepts that the numbers affected are small in relation to the whole economy, there is a \"signalling effect\", they argue, from high profile public disputes.\n\nWe are obviously a world away from Downing Street slapping down the Bank of England Governor after my interview in February, where Andrew Bailey warned workers not to ask for excessive pay rises. And significant in-year real wage cuts may leave some voters who were promised a \"high wage\" economy a little short-changed.\n\nBut the Treasury insists there is no \"central pay\" policy. The result of the Pay Review Body process is for relevant departments to make decisions, based on recruitment and retainment and existing policies on, for example, starting salaries for teachers.\n\nThe important fact here though is that the Treasury is not intending to increase the cash budgets for departments. If they want to find funds to increase wages against Spending Review plans, they will have to find it in efficiency savings or cuts in their own departments.\n\nIt is time for Cabinet ministers who like to talk about a smaller state and tax cuts to show how they intend to contribute, say some of their colleagues.\n\nAll of which leaves unions claiming their members are ready to move towards industrial action across a range of public services. At a time of labour shortages, some union leaders believe they will never have more leverage to force their wages higher, and that there will be post-pandemic public sympathy for their asks not to see a cut to living standards.\n\nThe Government will argue this way lies the inflationary dangers of the past.\n\nBut for many of the workers concerned, it is not just that their memories have faded - they were not even born the last time inflation hit double digits. So for many, we are in uncharted territory.", "Fire officers tackle one of the many arson attacks on Kenyan schools last year\n\nA school dormitory in western Kenya burned down a few weeks ago and several students were arrested on suspicion of arson - just the latest instance of a devastating criminal pattern that has dominated the country's education system for more than 30 years.\n\nLast year saw a particular spike in the number of boarding school arson attacks by the pupils, which students blamed on an intensified curriculum following time lost to the Covid lockdown. The second half of the year saw an average of three a week. The BBC has spoken to students whose schools have been set on fire to investigate what lies behind the regular attacks.\n\nThe names of the students have been changed\n\nIt was about 16:30 on a Sunday afternoon when someone on the school field spotted the fire. At first, Lillian wasn't too worried. It was just the matron burning rubbish, someone said. But before long, screaming students began streaming out of the school building. Smoke was pouring out of Lillian's dorm.\n\nLillian [not her real name], 15 at the time of the attack last October, was terrified. She knew her good friend was in the building having a nap.\n\n\"People were crying, they were traumatised… [I could see] smoke had covered the entire dorm.\"\n\nThey watched as students at Buruburu Girls High School - in the capital Nairobi - began jumping from the windows to escape.\n\nLillian doesn't know for sure what provoked the arson attack. But she claims that students were deeply unhappy about the amount of academic pressure they were under in the run up to national exams.\n\n\"We're usually in class by 4.30am every morning,\" Lillian told the BBC last November. Independent study then continued to 22:00, she said.\n\nBoarding schools are the main educators of secondary school-aged children in Kenya - seen as a way of getting good quality subsidised education, and places where children can concentrate on their studies.\n\nAnother student, Mary, 16, confirmed that there had been no extra curricular activities last year, and said the academic schedule had been intense.\n\n\"We had to add more lessons to cover the syllabus in time… it was quite challenging.\"\n\nHer mother confirmed that her daughter had complained of long hours and poor student-teacher relations.\n\nThe BBC asked Buruburu Girls High School to comment but it did not respond.\n\nKenya's boarding schools are educationally demanding, admits Dr Newton Mwangi, a former principal of Passenga Secondary School who retired last year.\n\n\"Nowadays a child who does not make a good score to take him or her to university is like a condemned child,\" he says.\n\nArson attacks are not a new issue in Kenyan boarding schools - the deadliest Kenyan school arson took place 20 years ago, killing 67 students in Machakos County, south-east of Nairobi.\n\nThe fires are particularly dangerous because they are usually lit in dormitories, as was the case in Lillian's school. Although her friend finally emerged through the fire exit unscathed, 59 of the girls were reported by local media to have received hospital treatment for smoke inhalation, minor burns, and fractures.\n\nSuch attacks have historically been debated only behind closed doors - the government refuses to share data with the media on the number of school arson attacks, or discuss the issue.\n\nBut in November 2021, the Ministry of Education issued a response to a parliamentary committee which had requested more information on the school arson crisis and revealed that there were 126 arson cases between January and November last year.\n\nIt revealed that 302 students had been arrested in connection with those incidents and of those, 41 had appeared in court accused of arson and destruction of property.\n\nWe don't know how many of those 41 were found guilty, because Kenyan courts restrict reporting on crimes involving children, children's lawyer Paul Muchiri told the BBC.\n\nOne of the few convictions we are aware of took place earlier this year. An 18-year-old was found guilty of manslaughter for starting a fire that resulted in the death of 10 students at Moi Girls High School in Nairobi in 2017 when she was 14. The student, only identified as TWG, was handed a five-year prison term.\n\nRequiem mass for girls who died in a fire at Moi Girls School, Nairobi, in September 2017\n\nThe Ministry of Education statement issued in November listed what it believed to be the reasons behind the arson epidemic, which included: overcrowding, poor teacher-student relations, drug abuse, and inadequate counselling services within schools. It suggested however that the fault did not just lie with academic institutions, remarking that parents were \"overprotective\" of their children when accused of misbehaviour, and that the law hindered teachers' ability to discipline pupils.\n\nIts recommendations included recruiting professional school counsellors - but it also suggested \"critically\" examining the role of boarding schools in Kenya's education system.\n\nLillian not only missed nine days of school as a result of the destruction, but all students' families were asked to pay collective damages, a common policy according to local media reports. Lillian's mother shared a letter from the school with the BBC dated 5 November - five days after the fire - requesting 1,500 Kenyan shillings [£10] \"for damages incurred\". The family lives in a slum and she says this was a huge amount of money for the family to find.\n\nThe Ministry of Education did not respond to the BBC's request for an interview.\n\nSchool arson is not unique to Kenya, says Elizabeth Cooper, a Canadian academic and anthropologist who has spent years in Kenya studying the issue.\n\nBut she says what is remarkable is its frequency, severity and collective nature.\n\n\"Many students participate, sometimes planning in advance, sometimes being coerced to participate by other students… [which] points to… this idea that there could be some consensus around the logic of using arson,\" she told the BBC.\n\nDr Cooper believes this might be because students feel as though setting fire to their schools is working to an extent, and that it might be time to consider a different approach to education in Kenya, which currently relies on \"trying to strong-arm [students] into compliance\". The potential to shift thinking on this might lie with teacher training colleges, she says, but parents, governors and politicians would all need to be brought on board, meaning it will take time \"to try shifting the culture of how education is done\".", "More than two-thirds of all hate crimes reported were race-related\n\nThe number of hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales has risen by 26% - to 155,841 in the year to March 2022, Home Office figures show.\n\nMore than two-thirds - 109,843 - were racist hate crimes.\n\nBut crimes against transgender people saw the biggest rise, with 4,355 reports, up 56% from the previous year.\n\nThe Home Office said the overall rise could be due to better recording by police - and fewer had been recorded under Covid restrictions in 2020-21.\n\nThe rise in crimes against transgender people could also be because \"transgender issues have been heavily discussed on social media over the last year\", it said.\n\nHate crimes targeting people's sexual orientation also increased - by 42%, to 26,152.\n\nA hate crime is an offence targeting a victim's race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or disability.\n\nSometimes a person can be targeted for more than one of these at the same time - for example, someone attacked for being both Asian and Muslim or abused for being gay and transgender.\n\nMost of the recorded crimes were violence against the person, public-order offences or criminal damage and arson.\n\nHate crimes motivated by religion also increased, with 8,730 reports - the highest number in 10 years - after two years of decreases.\n\nAbout two-fifths of these targeted Muslims, while the second most commonly targeted religious group was Jewish people.\n\nWelsh police forces alone recorded 6,295 hate crimes - up 35% to a new high for the nation.\n\nJabeer Butt, of the anti-racism charity the Race Equality Foundation, said: \"Alarm bells should be ringing for anyone looking at these figures.\n\n\"The rise in all kinds of hate crime - with racially motivated hate crime being the highest - speaks volumes about attitudes towards minoritised people in England and Wales. There can be no room for this kind of behaviour in modern Britain.\"\n\nLeni Morris, from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) anti-abuse charity Galop, said the rise in transphobic hate crimes was \"staggering\" but in line with an increase in people using its hate-crime support services.\n\n\"Some will try to say this increase is just showing that the LGBT+ community's trust in the police is improving - that this is not an increase in incidents but in people coming forward,\" she said.\n\n\"We strongly do not believe that to be the case. Demand for our hate-crime support services, including the National LGBT+ Hate Crime Helpline, has grown by 19% in just the last six months.\"\n\nHave you been a victim of a hate crime? What have been your experiences with hate crime? Please get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First stop for the royal couple was a charity in north Belfast\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales have made a one-day trip to Northern Ireland where they visited charities and community organisations.\n\nIt was the couple's first visit since receiving their new titles following the accession of King Charles III.\n\nTheir trip began with a visit to suicide prevention charity PIPS in north Belfast.\n\nThey also took part in a cocktail-making race at a market in Belfast before heading to Carrickfergus.\n\nBelfast Lord Mayor Tina Black and Sinn Féin MP John Finucane were among those who welcomed the royal couple at their first engagement.\n\nPIPS was founded in 2003 following the loss of 14 young people to suicide in Belfast over a short period of time the previous year.\n\nDuring their visit, the prince and princess spoke to staff about their work helping people at risk of suicide and self-harm.\n\nThey also took part in an art therapy session with some vulnerable children who have been supported by PIPS.\n\nThe Princess of Wales makes a cocktail as she visits the Trademarket outdoor market in Belfast\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollowing the visit to the charity, the royal couple were greeted by crowds during a walk-about on the Antrim Road.\n\nDuring one exchange, a woman shook the Princess of Wales' hand and said: \"Nice to meet you but it would be better if it was when you were in your own country.\"\n\nThe woman, who appeared to film the encounter, added: \"Ireland belongs to the Irish\".\n\nThe princess smiled at the woman before moving on to shake hands with a well-wisher.\n\nThe prince and princess then travelled to Trademarket, a recently opened outdoor street-food and retail market on the Dublin Road.\n\nUpon their arrival the couple were greeted by project director Will Neill and met vendors to hear how the market had benefitted their new businesses.\n\nThe pair then took up position either side of the bar for a cocktail-making race to see who would be the quickest at mixing up a drink with William declared the winner.\n\nIt was cocktails and cocker spaniels for the royal couple at Trademarket in Belfast.\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales met with traders, and with representatives from Kainos, the IT company that leases the land to the food and retail enterprise.\n\nThe couple competed to make a cocktail called \"Up the Lagan in a Bubble\" in the fastest time - with Prince William winning.\n\nThe prince met two cocker spaniels on his visit to Trademarket\n\nThe royals then met two cocker spaniels before being gifted a collar for Orla - their own cocker spaniel at home.\n\nBefore leaving, they were given a card by sisters Rae, four, and Matilda, seven, who told the BBC: \"This is definitely better than school.\"\n\nThe royal couple's next stop was Carrickfergus where they visited Carrick Connect, a youth charity which offers support services to young people experiencing social or emotional difficulties.\n\nDuring their visit, they learned about some of the projects the charity are involved in including a mentoring service created to help young people develop strategies for coping with life.\n\nA large crowd gathered in Carrickfergus to greet the royals\n\nThe royal couple met Vice Lord Lieutenant of County Antrim, Miranda Gordon, on a visit to Carrick Connect\n\nThe prince and princess then took part in a walkabout along the Carrickfergus seafront to meet well-wishers.\n\nThey exchanged handshakes and fist-bumps with schoolchildren who had waited for hours to catch a glimpse of the royal couple.\n\nThe late Queen gave the couple the titles Baron and Baroness Carrickfergus on the morning of their wedding in 2011.\n• None William and Kate made Prince and Princess of Wales", "A new North Sea oil and gas licensing round is expected to be launched in the coming days\n\nExploiting new oil and gas fields is \"radically at odds\" with the UK's commitments to fight climate change, according to a new report.\n\nResearchers from Global Energy Monitor (GEM) also calculated the greenhouse gas emissions if all the North Sea's reserves were extracted and burnt.\n\nThey said it would lead to the UK exceeding its legally binding carbon budget by almost two-fold.\n\nA new licensing round for North Sea oil and gas is set to be launched soon.\n\nThe report looked at the reserves in the 21 largest North Sea oil and gas fields that have already been licensed and are awaiting final approval. It says that if those reserves were extracted and burnt it would release the equivalent of 920m tonnes of CO2. That's more than the total annual emissions of many countries.\n\n\"If the UK claims to be a climate leader, it cannot allow these new fields to start up, nor hold another licensing round,\" Scott Zimmerman, lead author of the GEM report \"Hooked on Hydrocarbons\", told BBC News.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss says she is committed to reaching net zero emissions by 2050. But her government has also lifted a moratorium on fracking of shale gas and said it will award new licences for North Sea oil and gas.\n\n\"We are taking decisive action to reinforce our energy security,\" Ms Truss told the Conservative party conference.\n\n\"We are opening more gas fields in the North Sea and delivering more renewables and nuclear energy. That is how we will protect the great British environment, deliver on our commitment to net zero and tackle climate change,\" she said.\n\nThe International Energy Agency (IEA), the United Nations, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have warned there can be no new fossil fuel projects if there is to be any chance of keeping global temperature rises under 1.5 degrees.\n\nBusiness secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg has spoken of his desire to extract \"every last drop\" of North Sea oil. The GEM report also looked what the environmental consequences of that might be, estimating that if all undeveloped and undiscovered (currently unlicensed) oil and gas were extracted and burnt it would release the equivalent of 7,602m tonnes of CO2. That's more than the total UK carbon budget for the 14 years from 2023 to 2037.\n\n\"The Government remain fully committed to the legally binding target of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050,\" the spokesperson said.", "An inquiry this week heard evidence from former pupils of a boarding school where 72 of their friends died after being treated with infected blood products in the 1970s and '80s. It emerged that, as doctors were coming to terms with the fact many of the boys could have been infected with HIV and hepatitis, students and parents had been kept in the dark.\n\nLee Stay is not a typical campaigner. A private, quietly-spoken man, even his friends were not aware of his HIV diagnosis for many years.\n\nThis week he calmly gave detailed testimony in front of hundreds in central London.\n\n\"You haven't really done it for yourself, I think you've done it for others,\" said the inquiry chairman Sir Brian Langstaff, as he stepped down from the stand.\n\nLee was born with severe haemophilia, a rare condition in which the blood does not clot properly. It mostly affects men. His council in Hounslow, west London, wouldn't let him join his local secondary school - the risk of a severe bleed was too great. So, in 1980, aged 11, he was sent to the grounds of a stately home in Hampshire.\n\n\"It seemed very big at the time, because I'd never been to a boarding school before,\" he said.\n\nLord Mayor Treloar College in Holybourne, Hampshire in the late 1980s\n\nLord Mayor Treloar College was the only site like it in the country with its own haemophilia centre, run by a small group of NHS doctors.\n\nBy the mid-1970s, treatment for Lee's condition was progressing. A new type of clotting agent called Factor VIII or IX - cut the risk of a haemorrhage. At Treloar's, Lee was taught to self-administer the clear solution, injecting it into his vein\n\nOver the next two years he was given at least five different brands of the treatment. Other boys were given \"massive doses\" of a high potency product to prevent life-threatening bleeds, according to documents seen at the inquiry.\n\nAt that time, the treatment could only be made by pooling blood plasma from thousands of donors. If just one of them was infected with a virus, the whole batch could be contaminated.\n\nBut no-one was checking the supplies.\n\nDocuments released to the inquiry showed doctors knew there was a danger of infection linked to blood products. There had already been an outbreak of hepatitis B at Treloar's in 1974 and another \"clutch of reports\" in 1975.\n\nYet, Lee, now aged 52, said that he had not been told about the risks nor had his parents.\n\n\"[My parents] were never given a record of what bleeds I had, what treatments I had, what blood tests I had. To my knowledge, they had nothing,\" he said.\n\nLee, here with his parents in 1984, was already being tested for Aids at this point although none of them knew that\n\nBy 1981 reports of another virus had begun emerging from New York's gay community. In 1982 the US published its first bulletin linking haemophilia treatment with what would become known as Aids.\n\nYet it took some 40 years, as part of the current inquiry, for Lee and other survivors from Treloar's, to find out that doctors started monitoring them for the disease as early as 1983.\n\nA letter sent by M Wassef, a doctor at Treloar's haemophilia centre, to Lee's consultant in June 1983 - and revealed at the inquiry - said he was already conducting \"Aids-related investigations\" on Lee. Just as Lee and his parents had not been told about treatments, so they were kept in the dark about these tests.\n\nAll the while, the use of Factor VIII at the school continued as it did in hospitals and haemophilia centres across the country.\n\nThe father of another two Treloar's pupils looked shocked when he was shown similar documents at the inquiry.\n\n\"Especially not that early, 1983. Christ,\" said John Peach, the father of Leigh and Jason.\n\nJohn Peach and his sons Leigh and Jason\n\nJason's medical records from Treloar's in July 1985 refer to \"stigmata of Aids\" such as \"some thrush and difficulty swallowing\". But their father said he was not told about the possibility his son was ill and did not learn about his eventual HIV diagnosis until December 1985, after a doctor in Oxford carried out blood tests.\n\nJason and Leigh died of Aids six months apart in 1993 and 1994.\n\nAll of the senior NHS staff who worked at the haemophilia centre on the Treloar's site have since died. But former headmaster Alec Macpherson told the inquiry he found it \"hard to believe\" doctors would not have acted straight away if they had known about the danger of contamination.\n\n\"[I'd be] very surprised if that is true and I would be pretty horrified and disgusted as well as that's not how I would have wanted it dealt with,\" he said.\n\nYet it's clear a lot of the burden of understanding was put on very young shoulders.\n\n\"They said they didn't know how long I would have left,\" said Lee Stay, remembering when he was eventually told he was HIV+, aged 17. \"It could be anything from a couple of years to 10 years, but the outlook was bleak. I thought, well, I just need to get on with my life the best I can with what time I've got.\"\n\nLike others who gave evidence, he cannot remember his parents being informed by the school and thinks he had to break the news himself. He said he was never offered counselling and support.\n\nAlec Macpherson said it would have been the responsibility of the NHS medical staff, not teachers, to tell the boys and their parents, but he would have \"absolutely expected\" families to have been informed.\n\n\"All the boys had someone they could talk to who was willing to listen to them,\" he said. \"[T]hey had… a rage inside them, a frustration, that suddenly they had been made ill and they were going to die in the not-too-distant future.\"\n\nIn 1988, Lee left Treloar's College, eventually going on to work for the ferry company P&O and getting married. He was later diagnosed with hepatitis C. He has had three different types of cancer, a liver transplant and, more recently, severe stomach pains, all linked to the Factor VIII he was given as a child.\n\n\"As a result of being infected, I have lost my job, my home, my wife, my ability to have children, the possibility of a decent pension, had numerous serious health issues and who knows what other health condition could yet materialise,\" he said in his final statement to the inquiry.\n\nIn a statement, Treloar's School and College, which still cares for disabled children said: \"Although the NHS clinic closed decades ago, we continue to stand with all those affected. We trust that the inquiry will find the answers needed for our former students and indeed all the thousands of people who were infected with hepatitis and HIV across the UK as a result of this tragedy.\"", "The death toll after the Russian missile strikes on Ukraine's southern city of Zaporizhzhia this morning has risen to seven, says the regional governor, Oleksandr Starukh.\n\nAt least five people are still considered missing and efforts to determine the exact number of dead and injured are continuing, he adds.\n\n\"Thanks to the prompt work of special services, rescuers and doctors, it was possible to save 21 people,\" he says.\n\nHe adds that the firing of S-300 air defence missiles - which Russia has used increasingly to attack civilian and other targets in Ukraine - was “a real act of terrorism\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Students in Iran chant 'get lost' at paramilitary visitor\n\nA new video posted online appears to show schoolgirls heckling a member of Iran's feared paramilitary Basij force, after anti-government protests sweeping the country spread to the classroom.\n\nThe teenagers wave their headscarves in the air and shout \"get lost, Basiji\" at the man, who was asked to address them.\n\nThe BBC could not verify reports that it was filmed in Shiraz on Tuesday.\n\nThe Basij has helped security forces crack down on the protests sparked by the death in custody of a young woman.\n\nOther footage circulated on social media shows a man shouting \"death to the dictator\" as another group of girls walk through traffic in the north-western city of Sanandaj and an elderly woman clapping as unveiled schoolgirls chant \"freedom, freedom, freedom\" at a protest on a street.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Khosro Kalbasi Isfahani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIran's Education Minister, Yousef Nouri, on Wednesday accused the \"enemy\" of targeting schools and universities.\n\nProsecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri meanwhile said authorities should be prepared to counter the protests by young Iranians, who he claimed had been \"trapped\" through their exposure to the internet.\n\nAs the two men spoke, Iran's Human Rights Activists News Agency (Harana) shared what it said was a video showing uniformed and plainclothes security personnel pushing a group of schoolgirls protesting in the capital Tehran.\n\nIn another clip, reportedly filmed in the nearby city of Karaj, schoolgirls are seen screaming and running from a man, thought to be a member of the security forces in plainclothes, who is driving a motorcycle along a pavement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Khosro Kalbasi Isfahani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe unrest was triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who fell into a coma hours after being detained by morality police on 13 September in Tehran for allegedly breaking the strict law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf. She died in hospital three days later.\n\nHer family has alleged that officers beat her head with a baton and banged her head against one of their vehicles. The police have denied that she was mistreated and said she suffered a heart attack.\n\nThe first protests took place in north-western Iran, where Ms Amini was from, and then spread rapidly across the country.\n\nYoung women have been at the forefront of the unrest, but it was not until Monday that schoolgirls began participating publicly in large numbers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC has mapped how the death of Mahsa Amini sparked widespread unrest in Iran\n\nIt came a day after security forces briefly besieged the prestigious Sharif University of Technology in Tehran in response to a protest on the campus. Dozens of students were reportedly beaten, blindfolded and taken away.\n\nMonday also saw the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, break his silence on the unrest and give his full backing to the security forces, which have been accused by human rights groups of killing dozens of people.\n\nOn Tuesday, there were reports that the death toll resulting from clashes between security personnel and anti-government protesters in the south-eastern city of Zahedan had risen to 83.\n\nZahedan is the capital of Sistan Baluchistan province, which borders both Pakistan and Afghanistan, and has a sizeable Sunni Muslim population. Iran is a majority Shia country.\n\nAuthorities have said the security forces were attacked by armed Baluchi separatists - something the imam of the city's biggest mosque has denied.\n\nThe violence erupted on Friday, when protesters surrounded a police station and officers opened fire.\n\nTensions in the city had been compounded by the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl by a police chief elsewhere in Sistan Baluchistan.\n\nIran's supreme leader has called on security forces to be ready to deal with more unrest if necessary\n\nIn separate development on Wednesday, BBC Persian reported that a death certificate issued by a cemetery for Nika Shakarami, a 16-year-old girl who went missing after joining protests in Tehran on 20 September, stated that she had died after suffering \"multiple injuries caused by blows with a hard object\".\n\nState media said earlier that the judiciary had opened an investigation into Nika's death and cited an official in the capital as saying that it had nothing to do with the protests. The official said a post-mortem showed she had suffered \"multiple fractures... in the pelvis, head, upper and lower limbs, arms and legs, which indicate that the person was thrown from a height\".\n\nHer aunt has previously said that in her last message Nika told a friend that she was being chased by police, and that her family found her body in a mortuary at a detention centre 10 days later.\n\nSources close to the family have told BBC Persian that before they could bury Nika, security forces stole her body and buried it secretly in a village about 40km (25 miles) from her father's hometown of Khorramabad.", "Alec Baldwin has reached a settlement with the family of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, after she was killed on a film set when he fired a prop gun.\n\nFilming of Rust will continue in January, with Ms Hutchins' widower Matthew on board as the movie's executive producer.\n\nAll parties believe Ms Hutchins' death was an accident, her husband said.\n\nA lawsuit filed against Mr Baldwin, producers and others, had alleged violations of industry standards.\n\nThe exact terms of the settlement, which is subject to court approval, have not been disclosed.\n\nAlec Baldwin is the star and producer of Rust\n\nIn a statement, Mr Hutchins said that \"all the original principal players\" would be involved when filming resumes, which he said would be a way to \"pay tribute\" to his late wife's final work.\n\n\"I have no interest in engaging in recriminations or attribution of blame,\" he added.\n\n\"All of us believe Halyna's death was a terrible accident.\"\n\nMr Baldwin posted his reaction in a statement on Instagram: \"We are pleased to announce today the settlement of the civil case filed on behalf of the family of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.\n\n\"Throughout this difficult process, everyone has maintained the specific desire to do what is best for Halyna's son.\n\n\"We are grateful to everyone who contributed to the resolution of this tragic and painful situation.\"\n\nRust director Joel Souza, who was also injured in the shooting on the Bonanza Creek Ranch set near Santa Fe in New Mexico, said in a statement on Wednesday that he would now devote himself \"to honouring Halyna's legacy and making her proud\".\n\n\"Though certainly bittersweet, I am pleased that together, we will now complete what Halyna and I started,\" he said.\n\nThe incident occurred in October last year when Baldwin was practicing drawing a prop gun.\n\nThe film's producers were fined and strongly criticised by authorities for failing to follow safety guidelines.\n\nThe makers of Rust showed \"plain indifference to recognised hazards associated with use of firearms on set\", according to the New Mexico Environment Department.\n\nThe agency issued the maximum $136,793 (£105,000) fine to Rust Movie Productions.\n\nThe producers of the film later disputed the official report saying the company had \"enforced all applicable safety protocols\".\n\nPolice also released footage from the set, including of the aftermath of the fatal shooting.\n\nAlmost a year on from the tragedy, the criminal investigation still hasn't concluded.\n\nHeather Brewer, spokesperson for the Office of the First Judicial District Attorney for New Mexico said in a statement: \"The proposed settlement announced today in Matthew Hutchins' wrongful death case against Rust movie producers, including Alec Baldwin, in the death of Halyna Hutchins will have no impact on District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altweis' ongoing investigation or her ultimate decision whether to file criminal charges in the case.\n\n\"While civil suits are settled privately and often involve financial awards, criminal cases deal only in facts. If the facts and evidence warrant criminal charges under New Mexico law then charges will be brought. No one is above the law.\"", "A woman who died after being attacked by dogs in a house has been described as a \"one-in-a-million mum\" by her family.\n\nAnn Dunn, 65, was killed on Monday in a house on St Brigid's Crescent, Liverpool, which had been listed online for dog breeding.\n\nMs Dunn's family said: \"Life will never be the same without you.\"\n\nFive American bulldogs, which were inside the house, were handed over and humanely destroyed.\n\nAmerican bulldogs are not one of the four breeds currently banned in the UK.\n\nA man who was arrested on suspicion of owning a dog dangerously out of control was released on conditional bail on Wednesday.\n\nMs Dunn, 65, died after the attack on Monday\n\nMerseyside Police said a post-mortem examination would be carried out to establish the victim's cause of death.\n\nLiverpool John Moores University, where Ms Dunn worked as a cleaner, previously described her as \"hard-working and dedicated\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Billionaire Elon Musk has said he aims to complete his purchase of Twitter by the end of the month, but the company \"will not take yes for an answer\".\n\nIn a court filing, he said the social media platform had raised concerns about the \"theoretical possibility of a future failure to obtain debt financing\" to pay for the deal.\n\nTwitter said it did not trust that the offer would come through.\n\nTwitter sued Mr Musk in July after he tried to back out of buying the firm.\n\nThe judge overseeing the case gave the two sides until 28 October to work out a deal, agreeing to put legal proceedings on hold at the request of Mr Musk.\n\nMr Musk said litigation was no longer necessary, after he said in a surprise move this week that he was prepared to go forward with the original takeover plan, pending receipt of the financing and an end to the legal battle.\n\n\"There is no need for an expedited trial to order defendants to do what they are already doing,\" Mr Musk's attorneys wrote in a filing.\n\n\"Yet, Twitter will not take yes for an answer. Astonishingly they have insisted on proceeding with this litigation, recklessly putting the deal at risk and gambling with their stockholders interests.\"\n\nIn its own filing for Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday, Twitter said it was opposed to suspending litigation, calling such a move \"an invitation to further mischief and delay.\"\n\nIt said it did not trust Mr Musk's promises, noting that one bank helping to finance the deal had testified this week that it had not received any notice from Mr Musk about plans to move forward.\n\n\"Defendants can and should close next week,\" the company wrote. \"Until defendants commit to close as required, Twitter is entitled to its day in court.\"\n\nMr Musk announced a plan to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share in April. But he backed away from the deal just a few weeks later saying he was concerned that spam accounts on the platform were higher than Twitter had claimed.\n\nTwitter ultimately sued to force Mr Musk to complete the deal.\n\nIn its lawsuit, Twitter argued Mr Musk was worried about the price he had agreed to pay, after a sharp downturn in the value of tech shares, including Tesla, the electric car company he leads and is the base of much of his wealth.\n\nMr Musk was due to be questioned this week as part of the preparation for the trial, which was scheduled to begin 17 October. The trial is now postponed to 28 October to allow a deal to close, according to a court filing.\n\nShares in Twitter ended the day down more than 3%, amid investor doubts the deal will go through.", "Welsh players celebrate reaching the World Cup for the first time since 1958\n\nThe Welsh government should \"embrace the use of Cymru rather than Wales internationally\", says Plaid Cymru.\n\nIt made the call in a Welsh Conservative debate accusing Labour ministers of a \"lack of ambition\" in bringing national events to Wales.\n\n\"The Cymru brand can and will bring a form of sustainable heritage tourism to Wales,\" said Plaid MS Luke Fletcher.\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said it \"proudly\" uses both Cymru and Wales \"because both belong to all of us.\".\n\nEconomy Minister Vaughan Gething said the Welsh government recognises the \"vital role of events in Wales\".\n\nThe call was made in the context of the Welsh government's National Events Strategy for Wales 2022 to 2030.\n\nOne of the key themes of the strategy is that \"events in Wales will have a distinct 'Welshness' regardless of size, scale, or location. This will include the Welsh language\" and \"reflect the Cymru Wales Brand\".\n\nThe Football Association of Wales has set a precedent in its use of Cymru.\n\nRob Dowling, the association's head of content and engagement, told the BBC that their use of Welsh-only words had increased, \"in an inclusive and accessible way\", during the iconic Euro 2016 campaign and that \"helped to differentiate us from other countries\".\n\nAfter reaching the finals in France, 'Diolch' was printed on the team's shirts \"knowing those images would be shown around the world\", he said.\n\nWelsh players wearing shirts saying thank you in Welsh and French at Euro 2016\n\nIn 2017, said Mr Dowling, \"the conscious decision was made to use Cymru instead of Wales, which was a natural progression\".\n\n\"We had some complaints, but we felt we needed to be confident in using it. Most people across the UK understand the word.\n\n\"Now fans sometimes chant Cymru not Wales, especially when we play in Llanelli.\"\n\nHe explained that by naming leagues Cymru Premier, Cymru South and Cymru North, they were \"forcing the media to use it\".\n\n\"And why not - they use La Liga, Bundesliga etc.\"\n\nNoel Mooney, chief executive of the Football Association of Wales, regularly uses 'Cymru' when speaking\n\nAnother advantage of using Cymru rather than Wales, Rob Dowling joked, is the alphabetical order - \"on sticker albums we would be towards the front not the back, and at FIFA meetings we'd get seats closer to the front\".\n\nHe said the association was grateful to digital and social media professional Owen Williams for gifting it the @Cymru Twitter handle.\n\nThe association used the handle for the first time in January 2018 to announce the appointment of Ryan Giggs as new manager.\n\n\"I can see, based on our experience, how the country could benefit from using Cymru instead of Wales,\" said Mr Dowling.\n\nThe Gŵyl Cymru Festival, starting November 19, has been announced by the FAW to bring communities together during World Cup 2022\n\nLeading the Senedd debate, the Welsh Conservatives proposed a motion that \"major events help to boost jobs and the economy by showcasing Wales to the world\" but expressing \"regret at the lack of ambition show by the Welsh government in bringing these opportunities to Wales\".\n\nThe party called on the Welsh government \"to rethink the strategy with a focus on aspiration, creativity and innovation in attracting major events to Wales\".\n\nConservative MS Paul Davies said: \"We on this side of the Chamber believe that the Welsh government should rethink its major events strategy and ensure that there is much more on the cultural significance of major events.\"\n\nAs well as calling for the use of Cymru rather than Wales internationally, Plaid Cymru's amendment called on the Welsh government \"to ensure that Wales's culture, heritage and the Welsh language are further embedded in the strategy, including major homegrown events such as the National Eisteddfod\".\n\nMr Fletcher said Wales' culture and language is a \"powerful selling point, and one that we can't underestimate\".\n\nHe said: \"That is our advantage, our hook, unique to this corner of the world - the story of the land of our fathers, a taste of which has been given via the world cup, and should happen with every global event where Wales is present.\n\n\"Putting our identity as a country front and centre is how we succeed in promoting Wales, and putting more of a focus on this to promote the Cymru brand can and will bring a form of sustainable heritage tourism to Wales, as it has for other places, like Scotland and like Ireland.\"\n\nThe Conservatives' proposal was rejected by 14 votes to 38, and Plaid Cymru's amendment was rejected by 26 votes to 27.\n\nEconomy minister Vaughan Gething said the strategy \"re-emphasises our reputation in Wales as an events nation on the world stage\".", "An image of some of the 92 men was tweeted by Greece's migration minister\n\nThe United Nations' refugee agency has said it is \"deeply distressed\" by the discovery of almost 100 naked men at the border between Greece and Turkey.\n\nThe two countries have blamed each other for the plight of the 92 migrants.\n\nGreece laid the blame at Turkey's door, saying its \"behaviour\" was a \"shame for civilisation\".\n\nTurkey branded its neighbour's claims as \"fake news\" and accused it of \"cruelty\".\n\nAs both sides blamed each other, the United Nation's refugee agency called for an investigation and said it was \"deeply distressed by the shocking reports and images\".\n\nGreek police said they rescued the 92 men who were discovered naked, and some with injuries, close to its northern border with Turkey on Friday.\n\nThey said an investigation by them and officials from the EU border agency Frontex, found evidence that the migrants crossed the Evros river into Greek territory in rubber dinghies from Turkey.\n\n\"Border policemen... discovered 92 illegal migrants without clothes, some of whom had injuries on their bodies,\" the statement said.\n\nGreek authorities said the men were immediately given clothing, food and first aid.\n\nIt was not clear how and why the men had lost their clothes.\n\nFrontex said the men were mainly from Afghanistan and Syria, and that the organisation's fundamental rights officer had been informed of a potential rights violation.\n\nGreek minister for civil protection, Takis Theodorikakos, accused Turkey of \"instrumentalising illegal immigration\" in the latest in a row over migration between the neighbours.\n\nSpeaking on Greek television he claimed that many of the migrants had told Frontex that \"three Turkish army vehicles had transferred them\" to the river which acts as a border between the two countries. The BBC has not been able to independently verify this claim.\n\n\"One would expect a working explanation from the Turkish government's side,\" Mr Theodorikakos said.\n\nA day earlier, Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said in a tweet that Turkey's treatment of the migrants was a \"shame for civilisation\". He said Athens expected Ankara to investigate the incident and \"protect... its border with the EU\".\n\nThe dispute has reached the highest level of government in Turkey, with tweets on behalf of the president denying any responsibility for what had happened and blaming Greece for the \"inhuman\" situation.\n\n\"The Greek machine of fake news is back at work,\" President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's top press aide Fahrettin Altun wrote on the social media site.\n\nHe described the allegations as \"futile and ridiculous\", accusing Greece of not respecting the refugees by posting their pictures.\n\nIn response, the UNHCR said it is \"deeply distressed by the shocking reports and images\", but said it had not been able to speak to the group directly yet - something which it hoped would happen in the coming days.\n\n\"We condemn any cruel and degrading treatment and call for a full investigation,\" the UNHCR told the BBC.\n\nThe discovery of the men comes days after a leaked report by an EU agency criticised some senior staff at Frontex for covering up illegal pushbacks of migrants by Greece to Turkey, something Athens denies. Frontex says such practices by its staff are a thing of the past.\n\nLast month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a UN address to accuse Greece of transforming the Aegean Sea into a \"cemetery\" and said it had \"oppressive policies\" on immigration.\n\nGreece was on the frontline of a European migration crisis in 2015 and 2016, when around a million refugees fleeing war and poverty in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan arrived in the country, mainly via Turkey.\n\nThe number of arrivals has fallen since then, but Greek authorities said they had recently seen an increase in attempted arrivals through the Turkish land border and the Greek islands.\n\nGreece has urged Turkey to respect a 2016 deal with the European Union in which Ankara agreed to contain the flow of migrants to Europe in exchange for billions of euros in aid.\n\nAthens will soon extend a 25-mile (40-kilometre) fence along its northern border with Turkey to prevent migrants from entering the country, Mr Theodorikakos said.", "Sir Mark Rowley is just days into his role as Metropolitan Police Commissioner\n\nThe Met is \"failing\" in several areas of its work, according to the police inspectorate, which has raised \"serious concerns\" over the force's performance.\n\nHis Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) said the Metropolitan Police must make \"urgent improvements\".\n\nIt follows a series of scandals that have engulfed Scotland Yard.\n\nHowever, the report described \"many successes\" at the Met Police, which it said was good at preventing crime.\n\nThe force said it was \"committed to making changes to address all of the issues that the report highlights\".\n\nHMICFRS graded the Met's performance in the way it responds to the public as \"inadequate\", while finding it \"requires improvement\" in areas such as investigating crime, protecting vulnerable people and managing offenders.\n\nThe force was judged as \"adequate\" in two areas of its police work but only found to be \"good\" in one.\n\nInspector of Constabulary Matt Parr said his concerns about the force had been growing for a \"considerable time\" and this latest report \"raises serious concerns about how the force responds to the public\".\n\nThe Met was praised for the large policing operation in the run-up to the Queen's funeral\n\nAmong his criticisms was that calls from the public were not being answered quickly enough.\n\nMr Parr added that the force must better support officers and staff. Investigations were not being overseen properly, he said, and work was being allocated unfairly, placing \"undue pressure\" on some staff.\n\nHMICFRS's findings have been published just days after Sir Mark Rowley took over as commissioner of the force following Dame Cressida Dick's resignation earlier this year.\n\nThe Met has said it recognised the \"concerns\" raised by the report. Deputy Commissioner Lynn Owens said: \"Our new Commissioner, Sir Mark, has returned to policing with a clear plan for change at the Met.\n\n\"We are both determined to renew policing by consent, working with communities to deliver the kind of police service Londoners need and deserve.\"\n\nSir Mark Rowley took up his role just last week, at the helm of a police force where a series of scandals has severely damaged public confidence - and just three months after it was placed in a form of special measures by the watchdog.\n\nThe report highlights problems with the Met's response to the public, and its handling of emergency and non-emergency calls: an issue which was raised repeatedly at a community meeting arranged by police in Greenford last month, following the killing of Thomas O'Halloran.\n\nSir Mark has promised to make urgent reforms to modernise the force, including its use of technology and data. Other challenges, such as the high number of inexperienced staff, may be harder to address: the Met is trying to recruit 4,000 new officers by next spring.\n\nElsewhere in the report, Mr Parr acknowledged that the Met \"operates under scrutiny other forces do not face\" and praised the large-scale policing operation in the wake of the Queen's death.\n\nInspectors also came across \"many successes and some examples of innovation\" in crime detection, he said, adding that the Met is \"good at preventing crime and anti-social behaviour\".\n\nFollowing the report's publication, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was confident Sir Mark \"understands the extent of change and reform required within the Met.\"\n\n\"Sir Mark has been clear with me that he is committed to implementing a robust plan to rebuild trust and confidence in the police as well as driving through the urgent reforms and step change in culture and performance Londoners deserve,\" Mr Khan said.\n\nIn a letter before his tenure began, then-home secretary Priti Patel demanded that he address the \"appalling mistakes of the past\".\n\nThe force will continue to face close monitoring after being placed into a form of \"special measures\" earlier this year, Mr Parr said. The move followed a series of issues that \"raised issues around confidence and trust\".\n\nOn Wednesday, a serving Met constable and an ex-officer were found guilty of sharing \"grossly racist, sexist, and misogynistic\" messages with Couzens.\n\nThe force is currently being investigated over the fatal shooting of Chris Kaba, 24, who died after a police pursuit in south London on 5 September.\n\nTwo separate reviews into the Met are taking place - one to scrutinise the force's culture, while the another will look at the police career and conduct of Couzens.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Peter Tobin was serving three life terms for the murders of Angelika Kluk, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol\n\nSerial killer Peter Tobin's ashes have been scattered at sea after no-one came forward to claim his body.\n\nTobin, who died last week aged 76, was convicted of raping and murdering Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23, and hiding her body under the floor of a Glasgow church in 2006.\n\nHe was also serving life terms at HMP Edinburgh for the murders of Vicky Hamilton, 15, and Dinah McNicol, 18.\n\nThe City of Edinburgh Council confirmed Tobin was cremated on Thursday.\n\nThe local authority assumes responsibility for funeral arrangements if no relatives or next of kin come forward to claim a body.\n\nA council spokeswoman said: \"Yesterday evening (13 Oct 2022) the remains of Peter Tobin were cremated in accordance with the requirements of Section 87 of the Burials and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016.\n\n\"Ashes from the cremation were dispersed into the sea.\n\n\"The council's thoughts are with the victims of his crimes and their loved ones.\"\n\nTobin's death certificate, obtained by the Sunday Mail newspaper, confirms he died at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary at 05:35 on Saturday 8 October.\n\nThe cause of his death, which was registered by a detective sergeant, is listed as \"unascertained (pending investigations)\".\n\nPolice Scotland last week revealed fruitless attempts had been made towards the end of Tobin's life to get him to reveal information about other potential victims.\n\nLast month, the Sunday Mail reported that Tobin was lying \"chained to a hospital bed\" and was pictured in a hospital gown, appearing seriously ill.\n\nThe paper said the murderer had cancer and had fallen and broken his hip. It said he was refusing food and medication.\n\nEarlier, in January, it emerged that Tobin had been transferred from HMP Edinburgh to the city's Royal Infirmary after becoming unwell.\n\nTobin was convicted of murdering Dinah McNicol and Vicky Hamilton\n\nTobin was only unmasked as a serial killer after his final victim, Angelika Kluk, was found hidden under the floorboards of a church in Glasgow in 2006.\n\nHis arrest set in motion a UK-wide investigation which ultimately led officers to the remains of two teenage girls.\n\nVicky Hamilton, 15, disappeared in February 1991 as she travelled home to just outside Falkirk. And 18-year-old Dinah McNicol from Essex was last seen in August that year after she hitched a lift from Tobin after a music festival.\n\nBoth girls' remains were found 16 years later, buried in the garden of Tobin's former home in Margate, Kent.\n\nLindsay Brown, the sister of Vicky Hamilton, said living with what happened was a \"dark shadow\" over the family.\n\nFormer Strathclyde Police detective David Swindle, who led the investigation into Peter Tobin, said he had no doubts the predator had killed more people.\n\nHe said: \"This is someone who had no respect for humanity.\"", "The unit will use bold new tactics to identify police officers and staff who have no place in the Met, the force says\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has created a new anti-corruption unit to \"root out\" criminal colleagues within the force.\n\nCommissioner Sir Mark Rowley has assigned about 100 detectives to help the Met's fight against wrongdoing within the ranks, the force said.\n\nThe move follows a number of high-profile scandals over sexism and misogyny allegations.\n\nThe Met said the team would deploy covert tactics to \"identify and respond swiftly to any emerging threats\".\n\nSpeaking about the new Anti-Corruption and Abuse Command, Sir Mark said: \"We will be proactive and unrelenting in actively seeking out these criminal colleagues.\n\n\"I make no apology for this ruthlessness in evicting those who undermine our integrity as we seek to reform the Met and give the public the confidence in us they deserve.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Mark Rowley spoke to BBC Breakfast in April 2022 about the challenges facing police\n\nThe new unit is to adopt the same tactics used to target those engaged in corrupt relationships with criminals, the Met said.\n\nIt also aims to tackle those whose behaviour \"corrupts public trust\".\n\nDet Insp Neil Corbel who secretly filmed models during fake photoshoots was jailed for three years in January\n\nIn the fictional world of AC12, the BBC's drama Line of Duty portrayed a team focused on rooting out \"bent coppers\" as the character Supt Ted Hastings famously said, in order to bring them to justice.\n\nThis new command is the Met's equivalent.\n\nIn the past the force has had a serious corruption problem, with police officers taking advantage of a close relationship with criminals or private investigators working for newspapers.\n\nEven last year an officer was jailed for working with a gang to steal drugs from its rivals by stopping them under the pretext of police work.\n\nBut it is becoming increasingly clear that the Met's current reputational problems stem from, broadly, abusive cops.\n\nMore cases are coming to light of domestic and sexual abuse, ranging from inappropriate touching to rape, and in the case of Sarah Everard, murder.\n\nThere are also more opportunities to dig it out, as technology reveals new evidence in the form of videos and online messaging between police officers.\n\nIt will be with a heavy heart that the commissioner Sir Mark Rowley takes a decision to invest in policing the police. A new Anti-Corruption and Abuse Command is a serious investment.\n\nHe'd rather be catching criminals outside the Met, but the force will be unable to \"move on\" until this scar on its reputation is erased.\n\nSix months ago, a watchdog report said \"it would not describe the Met as institutionally corrupt\" based on an inspection carried out at the time.\n\nBut, it did say the force's approach to tackling corruption was \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nEarlier this year, the police watchdog found \"disgraceful\" examples of bullying and sexual harassment at Charing Cross police station in central London.\n\nThe previous Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick faced criticism over, among many other issues, the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met officer last year.\n\nSir Mark Rowley succeeded Dame Cressida Dick as the new Met Police commissioner last month\n\nSir Mark said: \"In recent years we have seen the corrosive effect corrupt, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, abusive and criminal officers and staff have had on the levels of trust our communities have in the Met.\n\n\"This also undermines our crime fighting efforts and impedes our ability to investigate offences.\n\n\"Both communities and our honest determined majority of officers are rightly angry.\n\n\"As part of my commitment to renew policing by consent and to bring more trust, less crime and high standards to the Met, I'm investing in extra officers and staff, skills and technology to root out those corrupt or abusive officers or staff.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nWales were humbled by hosts New Zealand in front of a sell-out Rugby World Cup crowd in the Waitakere sunshine.\n\nThe reigning world champions made major changes from the opening weekend, but still ran in 10 tries to Wales' two.\n\nPortia Woodman extended her tournament tally to five with a double, and Sylvia Brunt also crossed twice.\n\nFfion Lewis and Sioned Harries scored in either half for Wales, who slip to third behind Australia in Pool A on points difference.\n\nDespite the result, Wales are still in a good position to secure their place in the knockout stages.\n\nNew Zealand clinched their place in the quarter-finals following their second bonus-point win.\n\nThe top two teams in each of the three pools are guaranteed progression, along with the two best third-placed sides.\n\nWales started well, like they did against Scotland, and enjoyed all the early possession.\n\nThey asserted their scrum dominance from the outset, much to the delight of the 100-plus travelling supporters.\n\nGwen Crabb carried well in her first outing of the tournament and Wales, not that they needed it, were given an early reminder of the threat of New Zealand full-back Ruby Tui, who halted a promising attack with a well-timed interception.\n\nWales tackled ferociously as the hosts grew into the game, and they successfully held up their first attempt at the try line.\n\nAs their defence continued to be tested, Wales coughed up a penalty which the captain and player of the match Ruahei Demant kicked to touch.\n\nWales repelled the initial onslaught but could not prevent Chelsea Bremner from crossing as the game approached its first quarter.\n\nThe Black Ferns were back on the attack from the restart, and Demant broke the line before the ball found its way out to Woodman, a hat-trick hero in last weekend's 41-17 win over Australia.\n\nTwo tries soon became three as the Black Ferns grew in confidence; Woodman carved her way through the defence before offloading to Alana Bremner, who gave a cheeky out-the-back-door pass for Brunt to score.\n\nWoodman bagged her second moments later, Wales giving the world-class winger far too much space as she shrugged off the tackles of Jasmine Joyce and Kayleigh Powell.\n\nDemant was successful with the conversion, having missed the previous three attempts.\n\nWales settled back into the game, but their trademark five metre driving line-out was dropped, gifting possession back to the Black Ferns.\n\nWales, to their credit, regathered the ball after again destroying the Black Ferns scrum, and Harries was just short of the line after picking up from number eight.\n\nWales continued to bully up front and celebrated a deserved try on the stroke of half-time, as scrum-half Lewis scored with a typical snipe.\n\nElinor Snowsill continued her good kicking form with a successful conversion to make the half-time score more respectable at 22-7.\n\nAny hopes of a Welsh resurgence were quickly dashed after the break as New Zealand ran in two quick tries.\n\nTheresa Fitzpatrick burst through the tackle of Hannah Jones, before Maia Roos powered through a double collision to touch down.\n\nFitzpatrick turned creator to try scorer moments later with Wales stunned.\n\nAlex Callender was introduced for Wales soon after but even the opening round's top tackler could do nothing to stem the tide.\n\nNew Zealand then scored the try of the game on the counter, once again starting from Demant, with the ball going through several offloads before Brunt crossed for her second.\n\nTheir seventh try came from an attacking scrum, which New Zealand were able to keep steady before allowing replacement prop Krystal Murray to power through.\n\nDemant added her third conversion of the afternoon.\n\nWales offered little in the second half. Joyce attempted to go the long way around the defence on a rare attack but ran out of room.\n\nWales' pack continued to make ground and won a welcome penalty to relieve some pressure.\n\nThey thought they had scored from a driving lineout, but after consultation with the television match official, the referee ruled the ball had been held up.\n\nWales were boosted by the yellow card of replacement flanker Sarah Hirini 10 minutes from time, but they could not use their numerical advantage as Demant latched on to a floating pass to add her name to the scoresheet.\n\nNew Zealand went down to 13 in the dying minutes, number eight Charmaine McMenamin this time sent to the bin for a deliberate knock-on.\n\nWales pressed for a late score and were rewarded with a try from Harries off the back of the lineout.\n\nBut the hosts had the final say, Tui adding her name to the scoresheet, bringing the fans to their feet.\n\nWales always went into this match as underdogs and remain winless against the Black Ferns in five meetings, but with Scotland pushing Australia all the way on Saturday, they will fancy their chances against the Wallaroos next weekend.\n\n\"I think we had dominance up front, especially from our scrum where we got a lot of penalties and field position. Our lineout drive was impressive which gave us our tries.\n\nBut we had three glaring opportunities which we failed to convert... we can take a lot of heart from that for sure.\"\n\nNew Zealand Director of Rugby, Wayne Smith said:\n\n\"I thought our attacking intent was really good, there were some great tries out there, a lot of it on the back of great defence.\n\n\"I was impressed with the Welsh pack, that was not a 50 point game, they were much more competitive than that and I think it is going to be a hell of a game next week [against Australia].\"", "Credibility is one of the most prized assets in politics.\n\nWhen it drains away, dredging it back is difficult, often impossible.\n\nThe mood among Conservative MPs is bleak, doom-laden, fatalistic.\n\nMost I speak to are convinced the last month and a bit means losing the next election is a near certainty.\n\nIt's now about minimising their losses, they fear.\n\nThis pessimism - justified or otherwise - could help to shape the psychology of what happens next, how they act.\n\nIn the short term, their focus this weekend will be on the performance of the new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, who is talking to BBC Breakfast and Radio 4's Today Programme among others, and will then spend his time in the Treasury meeting officials and being briefed on the job ahead.\n\nJust imagine the mugging up he has to do.\n\nIn a fortnight, he'll be the front man for the government's economic statement that could determine whether we end up with another new prime minister before Christmas.\n\nHe is steeped in Conservative politics, has held high office and is widely seen within the party as a decent bloke.\n\nHe also backed Rishi Sunak for the leadership and is now in a massive job in the Truss administration, which didn't exactly initially go out of its way to hire those who'd backed her opponent.\n\nMeanwhile, in the WhatsApp groups and on the phones, in the corridors and the bars, the chatter among Tory MPs about what to do next is everywhere.\n\nFor all the noise you'll have heard about, remember this: there are those who say, hang on a minute, Liz Truss must be given time. Ousting her would be a ridiculous. And a \"coronation\", as one described it - the party at Westminster stitching things up behind their chosen one - would be wrong, undemocratic and literally incredible.\n\nIt seems to me that after the party conference, while many, many Conservative MPs were in the doldrums about Liz Truss, plenty felt it would look absurd if they were to move against her.\n\nNow, many still accept that, but are concluding absurdity might be better than the alternative.\n\nAmong those who think a change will become necessary, there is widespread acceptance the party couldn't \"spend months faffing about\" over it as one put it to me - in other words asking party members all over the country what they think, as happened in the summer.\n\nWhich brings us back to that idea of a \"coronation\".\n\nSome take issue with that word, because they say it wouldn't be that - any new leader would have to command the support of the parliamentary party.\n\nBut what would have to happen is the party being willing to coalesce around a single figure, supported by a wider team representing the party's different wings - a Conservative government of all the talents, if you like.\n\nSome are sceptical that can happen.\n\n\"You've got to remember that some of my colleagues are so ambitious, even inheriting dust is something they'd want to do\", says one backbencher about the landscape Liz Truss's successor would inherit, and the difficulty of persuading plenty of fellow Conservatives to turn off their aspiration gene.\n\nSo how might a party far from united unite around a single candidate, and who might they be?\n\nWell, there is Rishi Sunak, someone else who can call themselves a former chancellor, and the man Liz Truss beat for the leadership.\n\nThen there is Penny Mordaunt, also beaten to the job in the summer by Liz Truss.\n\nPenny Mordaunt is now in the cabinet.\n\nAnd then there's a bloke you may just remember: Boris Johnson. What does he choose to say, or do, in the coming days, weeks, months? Does he stay quiet? Precedent suggests that's not his natural inclination. Does he endorse someone? Is it too soon for him to attempt some sort of comeback? Almost certainly. But who knows.\n\nAnd that's the key point this weekend.\n\nLiz Truss is in office, but far from in control.\n\nNo one knows what is going to happen next, how this will play out.", "Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits the site of the mine the day after the explosion\n\nTurkey's president has been criticised for linking the deaths of 41 miners in an explosion to \"destiny\", saying such accidents \"will always be\".\n\nRecep Tayyip Erdogan's comments triggered protests in Istanbul, with some describing the accident in northern Turkey as \"a massacre\".\n\nRelatives of the dead claim they reported being able to smell gas for more than a week.\n\nFriday's blast at the facility on the Black Sea also left 28 injured.\n\nMr Erdogan made the remarks during a visit to the site in Bartin province on Saturday.\n\n\"We are people who believe in the plan of destiny,\" he told reporters, as he was surrounded by rescue workers. Such accidents \"will always be, we need to know that too\", he added.\n\nHowever, he added that he didn't want to see \"deficiencies or unnecessary risks\", according to Euronews.\n\nBut the comment angered many. Opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu demanded to know \"in which century we are living?\".\n\n\"Why [do] the mine accidents happen only in Turkey?\" he said.\n\nEmin Koramaz, who leads the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects, dismissed the idea the blast could be described as an accident, alleging on Twitter that the miners had been sent \"hundreds of metres underground without taking the necessary precautions, without inspection and without creating safe conditions\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe official cause of the blast is not yet known. Authorities said Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into the cause of the explosion, with preliminary findings suggesting it was caused by firedamp, a term referring to methane forming an explosive mixture in coal mines.\n\nAngry families suspect gas may have played a role. The father of a man in his early 20s who died in the explosion told Pakistan's Associated Press that his son had also reported smelling gas for 10 days.\n\nIn the village of Makaraci, which lost four men, a tearful woman told Mr Erdogan at her brother's funeral: \"President, my brother knew, he said there was a gas leak 10, 15 days ago. He said 'they will explode us soon'. How come it's negligence? He said 'they will explode us here'... He knew it.\"\n\nAccording to news agency AFP, after a moment of silence, Mr Erdogan replied: \"Sorry for your loss, may Allah give patience.\"\n\nAround 110 people were in the mine at the time of Friday's blast, almost half of them at more than 300m (984ft) deep. Some 58 people working in the mine when the blast went off were rescued or got out by themselves.\n\nThe mine belongs to the state-owned Turkish Hard Coal Enterprises.\n\nTurkey witnessed its deadliest coal mining disaster in 2014, when 301 people died after a blast in the western town of Soma.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFour prisoners have died and 61 have been injured following a major fire at Iran's notorious Evin prison, according to an Iranian state news agency.\n\nSources inside the prison - which is known for housing political prisoners - have told BBC Persian the number of casualties is higher.\n\nVideos shared online showed flames and smoke at the site in Tehran, and gunshots and explosions could be heard.\n\nThe fire followed weeks of anti-government protests across Iran.\n\nHundreds of those taking part in protests have been sent to Evin prison. It is not known whether the situation at the jail is linked to the demonstrations.\n\nThe protests first erupted last month after the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian Mahsa Amini in police custody. Officials said she died of a heart attack, but her family disputed this, saying she was beaten by morality police.\n\nState media has suggested the events in Evin prison are not linked to the ongoing protests, quoting an official who blamed \"criminal elements\" for the fire.\n\nSpeaking from inside the prison, Tehran's governor told state TV that there was a riot in a wing of the prison housing petty criminals.\n\nMeanwhile, Iran's Mizan News has said the injured developed breathing difficulties during a fire at the prison's sewing workshop. Four of the injured are in critical condition, it reported.\n\nSome journalists on social media accused the authorities of \"setting the prison ablaze intentionally\" as a high profile political prisoner was sent home before it broke out.\n\nMehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani - son of Iran's late former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani - was given \"early temporary release\", according to his brother.\n\nImages posted online appear to show a fire at Evin prison\n\nDramatic footage of the fire and smoke was first posted on social media on Saturday evening.\n\nIn several videos people could be heard outside the prison chanting \"death to the dictator\" - one of the main slogans of the anti-government protest movement.\n\nGunshots and explosions were audible in other videos - prompting rights groups to raise grave fears for the fate of the inmates.\n\nThe Fars news agency - which is linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards - initially said the explosions were due to mines going off after a prison break.\n\n\"Some prisoners who attempted to escape amid the fire, ended up in a minefield in the northern side of the prison,\" it reported.\n\nLater however, the agency said this was not the case, quoting a source saying no prisoner had stepped on a mine.\n\nOne video posted online appeared to show objects fired into the prison from outside its perimeter, followed by the sound of an explosion.\n\nFamilies and lawyers of prisoners had not been allowed near the jail last night, and roads were blocked, the family of a political prisoner told BBC Persian.\n\nSmoke can be seen rising from Evin prison\n\nThe families of some prisoners said they had not been able to contact their relatives on the phone, and that the internet connection around the prison appeared to have been cut off.\n\nHowever, later some prisoners were able to reach out to their families to tell them that they were safe.\n\nThe husband of journalist Niloufar Hamed said she had been able to phone him, and he told her he was fine, but did not know what had happened in the jail. And Iranian-American dual national Siamak Namazi told his lawyer he had been moved to a secure area.\n\nA former prisoner, who spent 200 days in solitary confinement in the jail, told the BBC it must have been a terrifying experience for the prisoners.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying as it is to be in that concrete cell, let alone to have fire raging outside your cell, explosions happening, sound of gunshots,\" she said.\n\nOn Saturday night Iranian state TV broadcast a report showing parts of the prison safe and calm. However exiled Iranian journalist Masoud Kazemi - who spent almost a year inside Evin - said the report had only shown areas of the jail where the action had not taken place.\n\nA person places a candle during a demonstration in solidarity with the protesters\n\nBritish-Iranian dual nationals Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori were both held at Evin prison for several years on spying charges, which they denied, before their release earlier this year.\n\n\"I used to call it the valley of hell, so you can imagine the situation there is really dark. Medical care is next to zero. They are living with bedbugs, cockroaches, rats, you name it,\" Mr Ashoori told the BBC on Sunday.\n\nThe prison has long been criticised by Western rights groups. Human Rights Watch has accused authorities at the prison of using threats of torture and of indefinite imprisonment, as well as lengthy interrogations and denial of medical care for detainees.\n\nA group of hackers calling themselves Edalat-e Ali (Ali's Justice) posted videos in August last year of leaked surveillance footage from Evin prison showing guards beating or mistreating inmates.\n\nSome foreign governments whose citizens are being held in the prison have expressed concern.\n\nA spokesperson for the US state department said it was following events with \"urgency\", while the UK government's security minister called it a \"very worrying development\".\n\nSince the death of Ms Amini five weeks ago, a wave of protests has swept across Iran in the boldest challenge to the Islamic Republic since its establishment in 1979.\n\nMany of those who have died have been teenagers.", "Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg a day after assuming office, the chancellor was quizzed about what economic changes were coming.\n\nHe said the government was doing everything it could to bring back stability to the economy.\n\nMr Hunt said he didn't think the country was going to have to enter a period of austerity, and that people would eventually see the government was willing to do \"tough and difficult things\" to secure long term prosperity.\n\nAfter being pressed about Prime Minister Liz Truss's premiership, the new chancellor said that he believes voters want stability rather than a change at the top.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool put their recent Premier League struggles behind them to end Manchester City's unbeaten run in an enthralling and hot-tempered encounter at Anfield, which saw Jurgen Klopp sent off.\n\nCity, fuelled by the goals of Erling Haaland, were in prime condition but Liverpool finally found the form which has deserted them for much of the season to overcome the reigning champions.\n\nHaaland, for once, was not on the scoresheet and it was Liverpool's talisman Mohamed Salah who made the vital contribution, racing on to a clearance from keeper Alisson after Joao Cancelo's slip to beat Ederson with a composed finish with 14 minutes left.\n\nEarlier, Ederson had produced a brilliant save to deny Salah in a similar one-on-one situation while City manager Pep Guardiola was furious that a Phil Foden goal that would have put his side ahead was ruled out by the video assistant referee for Haaland's foul on Fabinho.\n\nThis was not to be Haaland's day, although he did bring two saves from Alisson, but Anfield was left exultant as Liverpool at last showed why they have consistently been City's biggest threat.\n\nIn a frantic finale, tempers boiled over and Klopp was sent off by referee Anthony Taylor for his protests after he felt Salah was fouled - but when temperatures cool he will be overjoyed by a statement win.\n• None 'Why Liverpool had to wait for Gomez to get back to his best'\n• None Liverpool v Manchester City as it happened, plus reaction and analysis\n• None Go straight to all the best Liverpool content\n\nLiverpool went into this match with Manchester City in the rare position of underdogs at Anfield but, as so often in the past, they rose to the occasion in a thunderous atmosphere.\n\nKlopp's team were without key forward Luis Diaz and lost defender Ibrahima Konate to injury before the game, forcing 36-year-old James Milner into the right-back role with Joe Gomez in central defence alongside Virgil van Dijk.\n\nGomez showed why he is so highly regarded by Klopp with an outstanding display which kept out City's previously all-powerful attack.\n\nThe game was settled by Salah's moment of composure, once again aided by an assist from keeper Alisson. The Egyptian showed he is still Liverpool's match-winner when he raced clear with Anfield expectant, and Ederson was unable to halt him on this occasion.\n\nLiverpool's false start to the season means they are off the pace in the title race with Klopp, who was shown a red card for vehement protests as tensions grew, already downplaying their chances.\n\nHowever, they are still the team with the capacity to come closest to City at their best - although great credit must be given to the way Arsenal have set the pace in outstanding style.\n\nAnfield was at its intimidating best once it became clear Liverpool were going to stand toe-to-toe with City, with other chances created apart from Salah's winning goal.\n\nLiverpool's fans were in joyous mood at the end as they celebrated a victory they always relish.\n\nManchester City have been performing with ominous menace this season, with Haaland as the spearhead, and have looked unstoppable in attack, but in the Anfield cauldron their final flourish was missing and it condemned them to their first league defeat of the season.\n\nThe goal that decided the game was celebrated wildly, with justification, by Liverpool but City and Guardiola will be furious at the manner of its concession.\n\nCity wasted a free-kick which ended tamely in the arms of Alisson, whose clearance was missed by Cancelo as he slipped, leaving Salah, who scored a hat-trick in the 7-1 Champions League win at Rangers, to confirm he has rediscovered his best form with a trademark finish.\n\nGuardiola, as so often at Anfield, was infuriated by a decision, this time when Foden's goal was ruled out but when referee Taylor was called to the screen, it was clear Haaland had a piece of Fabinho's shirt in the build-up.\n\nCity are too good, and have too many threats, to be knocked off their stride by one defeat but it is clear that losses to Liverpool cause them particularly acute pain.\n• None Substitution, Liverpool. Konstantinos Tsimikas replaces Diogo Jota because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Erling Haaland (Manchester City) with an attempt from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Darwin Núñez (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Diogo Jota.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the right. Assisted by Darwin Núñez.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Trent Alexander-Arnold tries a through ball, but Darwin Núñez is caught offside.\n• None Diogo Jota (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None João Cancelo (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Darwin Núñez (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Diogo Jota. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "The victim's body was found near the Oakwood Hill Industrial Estate in Loughton, Essex\n\nThree men have been arrested after a man's body was found in woodland two days after being taken against his will in a car in north London, police say.\n\nHis body was discovered by Oakwood Hill Industrial Estate in Loughton, Essex, at about noon on Saturday.\n\nThe man, and a woman, who were known to each other, were taken from Ebony Crescent, Enfield, on Thursday night, the Met Police said.\n\nThe three men are in police custody after they were arrested in Kent.\n\nThe woman, who is in her 30s, has been found physically unharmed, police say. The man was in his 40s.\n\nDet Ch Insp Kate Kieran said: \"While the investigation remains at an early stage, a key line of enquiry is that the man and woman were taken against their will in a vehicle on Thursday night.\n\n\"I need anyone who was in the Ebony Crescent area on the night of Thursday 13 October and may have witnessed something suspicious, to contact police immediately.\n\n\"This is a very complex and fast-moving investigation.\"\n\nWoodland next to Oakwood Hill Industrial Estate in Loughton has been closed\n\nA post mortem examination and formal identification will take place in due course, Scotland Yard said.\n\nPolice are providing specialist support to the family of the deceased and the woman.\n\nEssex Police have said the death is being treated as suspicious and road closures have been put in place, limiting access to the industrial estate.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ukraine's plea for more French Caesar howitzers - in a humorous romantic video\n\nAfter almost eight months, the war in Ukraine hangs in the balance. Ukrainian counter-offensives continue to make progress, while Russian forces are still pressing elsewhere.\n\nBut on the internet, it's a very one-sided affair.\n\n\"This is a meme nation,\" says Olena, a Kyiv entrepreneur who manages teams of social media volunteers.\n\n\"If this was a war of memes, we would be winning.\"\n\nOlena is not her real name. Due to the sensitive nature of the work she and her teams carry out on behalf of Ukraine's defence ministry, she has asked to remain anonymous.\n\nHer teams work round-the-clock, reacting within hours to news from around the country, producing punchy videos, often set to music, for the ministry's audiences at home and abroad.\n\nJust as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky tailors speeches to foreign parliaments to take account of local history, culture and sensibility, so Olena's five-strong international team target their messages.\n\nA June video thanking Britain for its military assistance featured the music of Gustav Holst and The Clash, with glimpses of Shakespeare, David Bowie, Lewis Hamilton and a montage of British-supplied anti-tank weapons in action.\n\nMore recently, French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to supply Caesar self-propelled guns was greeted with a video which declared: \"Romantic gestures take many forms\".\n\nImages of red roses, chocolates, the Paris skyline, followed by the guns in action, were set - perhaps inevitably - to the sound of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin's breathless Je T'aime Moi Non Plus.\n\nWith nods to a Macron-Zelensky bromance, it was suggestive and thoroughly tongue-in-cheek.\n\nOlena says one of her favourite \"thank you\" videos praised Sweden for its value-for-money investment in Ukraine: $20,000 (£17,900) Carl Gustav rocket launchers, capable of knocking out Russian T-90 tanks worth $4.5m.\n\nThe tune? You guessed it: Abba's Money, Money, Money.\n\nThanks to the team's efforts, the defence ministry's Twitter feed now has 1.5m followers around the world. Some of the videos have been viewed more than a million times.\n\nTheir most successful video, released in August after several mysterious attacks on Russian targets in annexed Crimea, has racked up 2.2m views. It mocked Russians for going on holiday on the peninsula and was set to the Bananarama song Cruel Summer.\n\n\"The main idea is to speak to the international audience and show that Ukraine is actually capable of winning,\" she says. \"Because nobody wants to invest in losers.\"\n\nBut another of Olena's teams carries out more subversive work, designed to highlight Russian losses and demoralise Ukraine's invaders.\n\nWith a wealth of videos depicting Russian military setbacks being posted on social media platforms, the team is not short of material. But they've learned through trial and error what works and what doesn't.\n\n\"We started displaying dead Russian bodies,\" Olena says. \"And then we realised that it actually didn't work. It only united them against us.\"\n\nThe team then tried to appeal to the consciences of Russian soldiers by showing images of dead Ukrainian civilians. Again, it seemed to fall on deaf ears.\n\n\"We realised they were actually proud of it. They were not condemning this at all,\" she says. \"We realised that we have to do this in a much more sophisticated way.\"\n\nUkrainian videos warn Russians that they will suffer more big losses\n\nNow the volunteers scrutinise Russian social media platforms, looking to press buttons and probe weaknesses in specific parts of the country.\n\n\"If you do it in Saratov you have to know what's going on in Saratov,\" Olena says. \"If you do it in Nizhny Novgorod, you have to know what's going on in Nizhny Novgorod.\"\n\nIt's extremely hard to gauge the impact this work is having, but Vladimir Putin's recent partial mobilisation has given the volunteers lots of material to work with.\n\n\"We were waiting for the mobilisation,\" Olena says. \"We knew that it would be very demoralising for them.\"\n\nThe single richest seam of material is to be found on the messaging service Telegram. Olena calls it \"the Wild Wild West\".\n\nThe volunteers providing material for the defence ministry are just a small part of a vast, vibrant, fiercely patriotic and wildly irreverent community reacting to events on the ground, sometimes with amazing speed.\n\nUkrainians quickly exploited the dramatic attack on Russia's Kerch Bridge in the information war\n\nOne, called \"Ukrainian Offensive\", has 96,485 followers. Its slogan is \"fighting on the civil-meme frontlines of the information war since 2014.\"\n\nIt provides a diet of military updates, out-and-out trolling of Moscow and occasional digs at Western media coverage (including the BBC).\n\nLike most other channels, it doesn't shy away from showing suffering, including footage of dead or dying Russian soldiers.\n\nThe recent explosion on Russia's Kerch Bridge, linking Russia with occupied Crimea, triggered a tidal wave of videos, jokes and memes as Ukraine's internet army celebrated wildly.\n\nBut the country didn't turn into a nation of digital ninjas overnight. Eight years of war in the eastern Donbas region has given people lots of time to hone their skills, from countering disinformation to circulating humorous content designed to boost morale.\n\nMore on the information war:\n\nThe current social media environment, says Ihor Solovey, head of Ukraine's Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security, reflects a rare convergence of official and popular sentiment.\n\n\"We're witnessing perhaps the first time in history when civil society trusts the state and is helping it,\" he told me.\n\n\"The armed forces do their own thing, while society is creating content, memes, creative works on their own. Because everyone feels responsible for their own future.\"\n\nWhat, if anything, is Russia throwing back at Ukraine?\n\nStrangely, given Russia's reputation for troll farms and shady scammers with alleged links to the Kremlin, the answer seems to be: not much.\n\nEarlier this month, two well-known Russian pranksters did manage to con Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba into thinking he was talking to a former US ambassador to Moscow, Michael McFaul.\n\nExcerpts were broadcast on Russian state media, in which Mr Kuleba appeared to admit that Ukraine was responsible for recent attacks in Crimea and Russia - although the prank was conducted before the 8 October Kerch Bridge explosion.\n\nBut if Russia does have a similarly inventive internet army, Olena says she has seen little sign of it.\n\n\"Russians haven't managed to come up with anything interesting,\" she says. \"No humour, no beauty. Not even pain. No compassion.\"\n\nA mural of a hacker has appeared on the streets of Kyiv\n• None The Ukrainian city where Russia is still advancing", "The Queen passed the patronage of Barnardo's to Camilla - who was photographed with some of the bears\n\nMore than a thousand Paddington bears and other teddies left by the public in memory of the late Queen are to be sent to charity, Buckingham Palace says.\n\nThe toys were left at royal residences such as the palace and Windsor Castle after her death in September.\n\nThe bears have been professionally cleaned and will be delivered to the children's charity Barnardos.\n\nAn image of the Queen Consort and the bears has been released to mark the donation.\n\nIn the photo, Camilla is seen sitting on a low sofa in the Morning Room at Clarence House, surrounded by soft toys.\n\nThe picture was taken on Thursday - the 64th anniversary of the publication of the first Paddington Bear book.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II came to be closely associated with the famous Peruvian bear after the pair made a surprise appearance together in a comedy sketch during the summer's Platinum Jubilee celebrations.\n\nIn a short film, Paddington visited Buckingham Palace for afternoon tea, during which the Queen produced a marmalade sandwich from her handbag.\n\nIt prompted mourners to leave teddy bears and even marmalade sandwiches among the floral tributes at royal palaces and parks following her death.\n\nIn 2016, the Queen passed the patronage of Barnardo's to Camilla, who was then the Duchess of Cornwall.\n\nThe Queen offered Paddington tea and he offered her a marmalade sandwich in the sketch\n\nBarnardo's chief executive Lynn Perry said: \"Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was Barnardo's patron for over 30 years, and we are honoured to be able to give homes to the teddies that people left in her memory.\n\n\"We promise to look after these bears who will be well-loved and bring joy to the children we support.\n\n\"We are incredibly grateful to Her Majesty The Queen Consort for her support in helping us to raise awareness of the needs of vulnerable children and young people in the UK so that we can continue to support them through our vital services.\"\n\nTom Jarvis, director of parks at the Royal Parks charity, said: \"Over the last few weeks, we have been looking for a fitting and appropriate use for the hundreds of teddy bears that were left in Green Park and Hyde Park to honour the Queen.\n\n\"We are delighted that the teddy bears will now bring joy and comfort to hundreds of children supported by Barnardo's.\"\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast that it was a challenge when cuddly toys were left outdoors but that the \"weather was kind\" during that period and his team had been able to collect all of the bears.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the teddies had been collected with the help of shire horses and almost 200 volunteers - and were being \"well looked after\".\n\nHundreds of bears were left among floral tributes to Queen Elizabeth II after her death", "Mr Xi has used his speech to defend his zero-Covid policy\n\nChina's President Xi Jinping signalled there would be no immediate loosening of his controversial zero-Covid strategy as a historic Communist Party congress opened in Beijing.\n\nIn a break in decades-long tradition, delegates are likely to hand Mr Xi a third term as party chief.\n\nZero-Covid was a \"people's war to stop the spread of the virus\", he said.\n\nThe policy has saved lives, but also exacted a punishing toll on the Chinese people and economy.\n\nThere is increasing public fatigue over lockdowns and travel restrictions.\n\nBeijing has come under strict security measures ahead of the congress, sparking frustration in the city with a rare and dramatic public protest on Thursday criticising Mr Xi and zero Covid.\n\nMr Xi also addressed the issue of Taiwan - which China claims as part of its territory. Self-governing Taiwan sees itself as distinct from the mainland.\n\nSpeaking slowly and deliberately, he said Beijing would \"never promise to renounce the use of force\" and that \"complete reunification of our country must and will be realised\", prompting sustained applause from delegates.\n\nOn Hong Kong, Mr Xi said Beijing had exerted control there, turning the situation from \"chaos to governance\". Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the territory after pro-democracy demonstrations in 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Xi Jinping - Hong Kong has gone from chaos to governance\n\nMr Xi also made reference to divisions within China's political establishment, saying his rule had \"removed serious hidden dangers in the party\".\n\nSince reaching top office, he has overseen a wide-reaching corruption crackdown extending to the highest echelons of the party. But critics have portrayed it as a political purge.\n\nHe also added that China would accelerate the building of its military, referencing the terms \"safety\" or \"security\" some 73 times.\n\nThe speech, which lasted less than two hours, was significantly shorter than his speech at the last congress in 2017.\n\nHis remarks have likely had their choice of words workshopped for months and analysts will be poring over it for any signs of policy shifts.\n\nThursday's protest called for an end to zero-Covid and the overthrow of Mr Xi\n\nA third term as leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will pave the way for him to become the most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.\n\nAbout 2,300 delegates are meeting to elect party leaders and debate key policies.\n\nOver the course of the congress, delegates are also expected to elect various leaders including the Politburo Standing Committee - China's equivalent of a presidential cabinet - who will present themselves to waiting media after the congress.\n\nIn the past, the twice-a-decade congress was seen as a chance for leaders to promote their supporters, as they vied to increase the power of their factions within the party.\n\nBut observers say these days there appears to be only one faction at the 20th Party Congress - that of Mr Xi.\n\nIn a clear sign of this consolidation of power, top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders released a communiqué days earlier endorsing him as \"the core\" of the party and leadership. They also called for the party to unite even more closely behind him.\n\nMr Xi currently holds the three most powerful positions in China - general secretary of the CCP, chairman of the country's armed forces and president. He is expected to renew his term for the first two titles at the congress.\n\nThe CCP does not set any term limits. But no leader besides Mao, the founder of communist China, has ever served a third term.\n\nThe presidency also used to have a two-term limit in the country's constitution, put in place by reformer Deng Xiaoping to prevent the rise of a Mao-like figure.\n\nBut Mr Xi has managed to eliminate this requirement: in 2018 China's rubber-stamp parliament abolished the rule, effectively allowing him to remain president for as long as he likes.\n\nSince taking power in 2012, Mr Xi has led China on a path that has been equal parts ambitious and authoritarian.\n\nHe has pushed for \"a great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation\", which saw him pursuing economic reform, reducing pollution and alleviating poverty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is Xi Jinping's poverty-busting \"potato miracle\" all that it seems\n\nHe has also launched crackdowns on the Uyghurs in Xinjiang and pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.\n\nBut Mr Xi continues to face a multitude of challenges, such as youth unemployment, a slowing economy and the ongoing property crisis - and of course zero-Covid.\n\nMany will also be watching the congress to see if there will be any alteration to Beijing's foreign policy, especially towards the world's other superpower, the US.\n\nMr Xi's attempts to expand China's influence abroad through the One Belt One Road programme and claims in the South China Sea, as well as its support of Russia in the Ukraine war and its recent military exercises around Taiwan have raised tensions with the US and other countries.\n\nWith Mr Xi remaining at the helm all these will continue to be core interests - though some experts believe he may temper China's approach in some aspects to pursue better trade relations with the US and regional partners.\n\n\"The CCP's political legitimacy lies in socioeconomic delivery,\" said Dr Collin Koh of Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies.\n\n\"The average Chinese citizen will feel that things are not going very well, so there's a need to reinvigorate the kind of growth China has been more used to in recent decades.\"", "Sadiq Khan: \"We now need to see nothing less than a new contract forged between the police and the public\"\n\nThe mayor of London has called for \"root-and-branch\" transformation of the Met Police culture.\n\nIn a speech at City Hall, Sadiq Khan said a series of scandals had exposed \"deep cultural problem\" in the Met.\n\nDame Cressida Dick stood down as Met Police commissioner in February after Mr Khan said he had lost confidence in her leadership.\n\nA Met spokeswoman said: \"We completely share the mayor's ambitions for standards and public confidence.\"\n\nShe added: \"I know I speak for all of the Met Police when I say we're completely committed to being a service that earns the trust of all Londoners.\n\n\"I know the next commissioner will feel exactly the same.\"\n\nThe new commissioner will be chosen by Home Secretary Priti Patel but as the police and crime commissioner for London, Mr Khan has to be consulted on the decision.\n\nDame Cressida's departure followed a series of scandals, including the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving policeman and her handling of racist and homophobic messages shared by a group of officers at Charing Cross police station.\n\nDame Cressida Dick resigned after Sadiq Khan criticised her handling of racist, misogynist and homophobic messages shared by a group of officers\n\nDuring the speech on Friday, Mr Khan said the series of Met Police scandals had \"left me sick to my stomach\".\n\nThe problems \"remind me of the bad old days of the Met\" in 1970s and 1980s, when Mr Khan said he regularly heard stories \"from friends and family members of racist, sexist and abusive behaviour by police officers\".\n\nMr Khan said: \"The reality is that a series of appalling scandals have not only exposed deep cultural problems within the Met, but have contributed to an acute crisis of confidence in London's police service.\n\n\"We now need to see nothing less than a new contract forged between the police and the public.\n\n\"This means root-and-branch reforms to improve policing to ensure the Met can deliver the basics better.\"\n\nLast year, the Met Police announced an independent review of its culture and standards would be led by Baroness Casey of Blackstock.\n\nThe force said the review would examine its vetting, recruitment and training procedures.\n\nThere will also be a review of officers accused of sexual misconduct and sexual abuse allegations remaining in the Met.\n\nSusan Hall, chair of the London Policing Committee, said: \"As the mayor reminded us this morning, he is the police and crime commissioner.\n\n\"Yet he set out a to do list for the new Met commissioner without saying what he himself was going to do.\n\n\"Sadiq Khan should be practicing what he preaches, taking responsibility and leading the way with actionable and detail orientated policies.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Desriee Asomuyide with products from her inclusive toy company Little Omo which she created after the birth of her son\n\nA mother who started an inclusive toy brand after the birth of her first child said she wanted to create a toy that better represented her son.\n\nDesriee Asomuyide, 29, from Hornchurch, was inspired to create Little Omo, after being gifted some flashcards with few diverse characters on them.\n\nShe said she was concerned that many toys did not \"really represent my son\".\n\nSince its launch in September 2020, the company has grown its range to include puzzles, books and posters.\n\nDesriee Asomuyide with products from her inclusive toy company Little Omo\n\nThe fashion and design graduate said her creations went through many prototypes to ensure that she used the \"right colours, the inclusivity and diversity was there and that they positively represented her child\".\n\nShe has recently brought out a puzzle which tried to incorporate people from different backgrounds, including people who wear \"head coverings\" or may have different skin textures.\n\n\"And it is very important for my son because he can learn not only about black people, but people of other cultures and traditions as well,\" she said.\n\n\"I want every child to sit there with a book or toy from my company and say, I can see myself in this.\"\n\nDesriee Asomuyide with her son Isaiah. She created her inclusive toy company Little Omo after his birth\n\nThe products from her brand have also had a positive impact on different generations, from children to parents and grandparents.\n\n\"It touches me so much to hear that the current generation, the next generation will have these products and they can remember playing with them as their childhood memories.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Asomuyide mentioned that there needs to be more of a concerted effort from big toy stores to \"diversify their range of children's products\".\n\n\"Because it's really important for every child to see themselves as being beautiful\", she said.\n\n\"And that is done through them seeing products that look like them.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nForty-one people have died following an explosion in a coal mine in northern Turkey, the country's president says.\n\nThe discovery of the final missing body brings the rescue operation to an end, more than 20 hours after Friday's deadly blast.\n\nEarlier the interior minister said 58 people working in the mine when the blast went off were rescued or got out by themselves.\n\nSuleyman Soylu said 10 people remained in hospital and one was discharged.\n\nAround 110 people were in the mine at the time of Friday's blast, almost half of them at more than 300m (984ft) deep.\n\nEmergency crews had worked through the night, digging through rock to try to reach survivors.\n\nVideo footage showed miners emerging blackened and bleary-eyed accompanied by rescuers at the facility in Amasra, on the Black Sea coast.\n\nFamily and friends of the missing could also be seen at the mine, anxiously awaiting news of their loved ones.\n\nPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been visiting the site in Bartin province, along with other ministers, and confirmed the final missing person had been found dead.\n\nAuthorities said Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into the cause of the explosion but initial indications were that the blast was caused by firedamp, a term referring to methane forming an explosive mixture in coal mines.\n\nIt is believed to have occurred at around 300m deep. At the time, some 49 people had been working in the \"risky\" zone between 300 and 350m underground, Mr Soylu said.\n\nEnergy Minister Fatih Donmez said there were partial collapses inside the mine, but no ongoing fires, and ventilation was working properly.\n\nAmasra's mayor Recai Cakir said many of those who survived had suffered \"serious injuries\".\n\nOne worker who managed to escape on his own said: \"There was dust and smoke and we don't know exactly what happened.\"\n\nThe mine belongs to the state-owned Turkish Hard Coal Enterprises.\n\nTurkey witnessed its deadliest coal mining disaster in 2014, when 301 people died after a blast in the western town of Soma.", "There were no visible sign of the explosion from the street in Denny on Monday morning\n\nA man has died in a suspected gas explosion in central Scotland.\n\nEmergency services were called to reports of a blast at an outbuilding in the Northfield Road area of Dunipace, near Denny, at about 16:10 on Sunday.\n\nPolice Scotland said a man was pronounced dead at the scene, and there was no wider danger to the public.\n\nA spokesperson said the death was being treated as unexplained and there were no suspicious circumstances.\n\nIt is understood that four other people were treated at the scene, but they did not need to be taken hospital.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said they sent three appliances to the scene and they worked with other emergency services to make the area safe.\n\n\"There was no fire and we left the scene 18:50,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service also confirmed they were in attendance with their special operations response unit.\n\nA Scottish Ambulance Service spokesperson said: \"We received a call at 16:07 to attend an incident in Dunipace, Denny on Sunday.\n\n\"We dispatched three resources, including the special operations response unit to the scene.\"", "Jamie Wallis published his letter to Liz Truss on Twitter criticising her performance as prime minister\n\nA Welsh MP has written to Prime Minister Liz Truss calling on her to resign.\n\nBridgend MP Jamie Wallis accused her of \"very basic and avoidable errors\" over the government's mini-budget and her sacking of Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng.\n\nIt comes after Wales Office minister David TC Davies apologised for \"all of the problems\" and \"feeling of instability\" caused by the mini-budget.\n\nMr Wallis is the third Tory MP to publicly call on Ms Truss to resign.\n\nFormer minister Crispin Blunt was the first, telling Channel 4 \"the game is up and it's now a question as to how the succession is managed\".\n\nThen later on Sunday, Andrew Bridgen became the second, telling the Daily Telegraph: \"We cannot carry on like this. Our country, its people and our party deserve better.\"\n\nIn Mr Wallis' letter to Ms Truss, he said she had \"undermined Britain's economic credibility and fractured our party irreparably\".\n\nHe added: \"Mistakes can be undone, and as one united team I believe we can achieve almost anything. However, while you are leader, I no longer believe this is possible.\"\n\nLiz Truss has held talks with her new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt over the weekend about a new budget\n\nIn the letter, shared on Twitter, Mr Wallis also accused the prime minister of choosing her supporters for key roles in the cabinet over the most experienced.\n\nJeremy Hunt was appointed as chancellor on Friday after Mr Kwarteng was sacked following a major U-turn over the mini-budget.\n\nOn Sunday, he urged the party to unite behind Ms Truss, as the pair held crunch talks to thrash out plans on tax and spending.\n\nDespite overseeing a dramatic change in Ms Truss's flagship policy, Mr Hunt insisted \"the prime minister's in charge\" and denied media speculation that he had become the most powerful member of government.\n\n\"She's listened. She's changed. She's been willing to do that most difficult thing in politics, which is to change tack,\" he said in an interview with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nEarlier, Monmouth MP Mr Davies accused fellow Conservative MPs of \"undermining\" Ms Truss with anonymous \"whispering\" to the media.\n\nThe Monmouth MP said some did not accept losing the argument over the party leadership and \"want to pick fights\".\n\nMr Davies, the parliamentary under-secretary at the Wales Office, told BBC Radio Wales Sunday Supplement the issues began with the government trying to find ways to pay for an energy price cap to halt rising costs.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jamie Wallis MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I'm sorry for all of the problems that it's caused,\" he said.\n\n\"I understand that there's a feeling of instability at the moment and people are nervous. I absolutely get that.\n\n\"The chancellor has gone partly as a result of that mini-budget and we're going to have to change a few things in order to make sure it continues.\n\n\"But my message, actually, as much as anything else, is to other Conservative MPs: it's just let's get on with the job,\" he said.\n\n\"There are millions of people and businesses out there who need that energy guarantee, who need to know that they're going to be able to pay their bills.\n\n\"And it doesn't always help anyone if people start getting involved in unattributed briefings to the press.\"\n\nHe added: \"We want a stable economy and we want to do the right thing for people and businesses in this country.\n\nDavid TC Davies: \"Some of the endless brickbats that have been thrown around aren't terribly helpful\"\n\n\"And I sometimes think that some of the endless brickbats that are being thrown around aren't terribly helpful.\"\n\nAsked if Ms Truss had not delivered stability to the country, Mr Davies said: \"You could argue that Liz Truss hasn't done it, but one could also argue that some people in the Conservative Party have done the undermining\".\n\nReferring to party leadership campaigns, he said \"unfortunately there might be a small number of MPs who can't accept sometimes when they are on the losing side of an argument and want to pick fights.\n\n\"I haven't always backed all of the people who've ended up as leaders of the Conservative Party. But I look at it and I say I'm a Conservative and I believe in Conservative values and therefore whoever ends up there I'm going to back them because I don't want the alternative.\n\n\"And I think there may be a few of my colleagues who want to dwell on that\".\n\nMr Davies said: \"Any briefings I give are on air and on the radio like this. If any of my colleagues feel particularly strongly about something they should go out and say it in person on the radio and the telly and put their name to it.\n\n\"What I really find difficult is people who are whispering things to the press and we don't know who they are.\"\n\nStephen Crabb: \"There will need to be some difficult discussions about how we manage our finances as a nation\"\n\nFormer Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb, the Conservative MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire, said after a \"very difficult, poor start\", the \"next few weeks are going to be crucial\" for Ms Truss's premiership.\n\nHe said that if she returned to \"a broad-based, balanced, pragmatic political agenda\", there was \"no reason she shouldn't be able to carry on through 'til 2024\".\n\n\"The immediate challenge, though, is to get us through a very difficult winter, address the challenge of high energy costs, get the country through that focus on protecting, particularly people at the lowest end of the income chain - people on social security, pensioners.\n\n\"Beyond that, there will need to be some difficult discussions about how we manage our finances as a nation,\" he told BBC Politics Wales.\n\nWelsh government budget over next three years estimated to be worth £4bn less due to inflation, Vaughan Gething says\n\nMeanwhile, Wales' Labour Economy Minister Vaughan Gething said the Welsh government was facing \"terrible choices to make with less money\" with its budget over the next three years already estimated to be worth £4bn less than originally planned as a result of inflation.\n\nAsked if the Welsh government would consider using its own partial income tax powers to try to plug some of the gaps, Mr Gething replied: \"We'll consider the income tax position in the round with all our other budget choices and we don't have any kind of certainty about the context in which we'll be making those choices.\"\n\nWelsh teachers, NHS staff, ambulance staff and nurses are all threatening to go on strike in their calls for better pay offers from the Welsh government.\n\nMr Gething said the government \"simply can't provide\" an inflation-matching pay rise for public sector workers.\n\nHe went on to say that it was \"entirely possible that there will be significant industrial action\" in Wales over the winter months.", "Noel Duggan, one of the founding members of the Irish folk band Clannad, has died.\n\nThe group said it was \"heartbroken\" by the news, which it shared on its Twitter account.\n\nThe 73-year-old \"died suddenly in Donegal\" on Saturday evening, according to the tweet.\n\nClannad was formed in 1970 in Gweedore, County Donegal by siblings Ciarán, Pól and Moya Brennan and their uncles Noel and Padraig.\n\n\"Noel will be forever remembered for his outstanding guitar solos, his love of music and his dedication to the band,\" said the statement from Clannad.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Clannad This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nClannad's international breakthrough came when the band were asked to record the theme for ITV mini-series Harry's Game, set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe group successfully bridged traditional Celtic music and pop, and became the first band to sing in Irish on Top of the Pops in 1982.", "Gunmen have killed 11 people in an attack at a Russian military training ground on Saturday.\n\nDuring a firearms training session, two men opened fire on a group who had volunteered to fight in Ukraine, state-owned news agency Ria reported.\n\nThe attackers were from a former Soviet republic, the Russian defence ministry said, but did not give further details.\n\nThey were also shot dead during the incident in the Belgorod region of Russia, which borders Ukraine.\n\n\"During a firearms training session with individuals who voluntarily expressed a desire to participate in the special military operation [against Ukraine], the terrorists opened fire with small arms on the personnel of the unit,\" Ria cited a defence ministry statement as saying.\n\n\"As a result of the shooting, 11 people were fatally wounded. Another 15 people with wounds of varying severity were taken to a medical facility,\" it said.\n\nThe local governor said no residents of the Belgorod region had been killed or injured in the attack.\n\nBut later, on Sunday, they announced that three people had been injured during missile attacks on Belgorod City.\n\nVideo posted online shows two missiles slamming into the area of Belgorod Airport, followed by massive explosions. Russian interceptor missiles failed to hit the incoming projectiles.\n\nLast month Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a mobilisation of 300,000 Russians who had previously done compulsory military service.\n\nThe order sparked protests across Russia, and a surge of people attempting to leave the country.\n\nSoon after the mobilisation was announced, a military recruiter was shot at an enlistment office in Siberia.\n\nLast week, Putin announced more than 200,000 people had already been mobilised, and he saw no need for additional mobilisation.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nHarry Kane marked his 400th Tottenham appearance with the opening goal as Antonio Conte's side closed the gap on Premier League leaders Arsenal with victory over Everton. Kane broke the Toffees' resistance from the penalty spot after being tripped in the area by England team-mate Jordan Pickford, who had failed to hold on to Matt Doherty's effort. Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg added a second late on with a curling strike that took a slight deflection off Alex Iwobi on its way in. Spurs dominated the early stages but the two best chances of the first half fell to the visitors, who will be disappointed not to have put away both opportunities. Demarai Gray failed to hit the target after racing on to Conor Coady's long ball over the top of the Tottenham defence, before Amadou Onana blazed over the crossbar following Hojbjerg's poor touch. Kane sent a rasping volley straight at Pickford early in the second half but there was nothing the Toffees keeper could do about the 29-year-old's spot-kick - his 14th goal in 15 Premier League appearances against Everton - or Hojbjerg's late finish. The victory lifts Conte's team level on points with second-placed Manchester City and just a point behind north London rivals Arsenal, while Everton drop to 14th.\n• None Spurs a 'different animal' in best start since 1963\n• None Go straight to all the best Everton content Prolific Kane sets Spurs on their way The victory lifts Spurs on to 23 points from 10 league matches - their highest tally at this stage of a Premier League season - while Kane has now scored in five successive top-flight games for the first time in his career. It was a win the home side thoroughly deserved after a dominant display, although they rode their luck in the first half and could have found themselves behind at half-time. But Frank Lampard's team were no match for Spurs in the second half and it wasn't long before Spurs' pressure told, Pickford bringing down England team-mate Kane inside the six-yard box with an outstretched arm. Kane's penalty lifts him to within eight goals of Jimmy Greaves' all-time Tottenham record of 266. Hojbjerg secured the win with five minutes remaining, collecting Rodrigo Bentancur's delivery before finding the far corner via a deflection off Iwobi. The only sour note from the hosts' perspective was a second-half injury to former Everton forward Richarlison, who went down clutching his left calf and was replaced by Yves Bissouma. \"We hope it is not so serious,\" Conte said afterwards. \"He felt a problem in his calf. He will have an MRI tomorrow.\" Before the game, manager Lampard spoke of Everton's improved strength of character since their narrow escape from relegation last season. The Merseyside club have undoubtedly come a long way since losing 5-0 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in March but the visitors were taking no risks in the early stages here, with midfield trio Iwobi, Onana and Idrissa Gueye operating deep in front of the Toffees' back five in an effort to stifle Conte's side. But Everton soon grew into the contest and should have taken the lead when Coady released Gray, but the winger's finish lacked composure. The same applied to Onana's wild effort not long afterwards, which came after the Everton midfielder had capitalised on a lapse in concentration from Hojbjerg inside the Tottenham half. It was one-way traffic in the second-half, however, as the Toffees failed to register a shot at Hugo Lloris' goal. Their overall tally of four attempts is their lowest total in a Premier League game this season. Tottenham 2-0 Everton: Frank Lampard says side must take chances\n• None Attempt blocked. Ivan Perisic (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Ben Davies.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, Everton 0. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Rodrigo Bentancur with a cross following a fast break.\n• None Vitaliy Mykolenko (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Matt Doherty (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Mourne Mountain Rescue Team says one of the three injured sustained \"potentially serious injuries\"\n\nThree young people were taken to hospital after falling about 30m (98ft) on Slieve Binnian on Saturday.\n\nThey were part of a large group of scouts from Dublin who were in the \"water slabs area\" when two of them fell.\n\nMourne Mountain Rescue Team said one person sustained \"potentially serious injuries\".\n\nThe other had an injured leg, as did a third person who tried to help.\n\nScouting Ireland said 80 scouts and 40 adults were in the area to take part in a \"mountain pursuit challenge\".\n\n\"The scouts received medical assistance on the mountain and were transferred to hospital,\" it added.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Police Newry, Mourne & Down This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. End of facebook post by Police Newry, Mourne & Down\n\nMourne Mountain Rescue Team received a call shortly before 17:00 BST to assist the group.\n\nSixteen team volunteers responded to the incident and treated two of the scouts, before carrying them by stretcher to rescue vehicles.\n\nThe third person who was injured was able to reach a track before local police assisted them to an ambulance.\n\nScouting Ireland said the adult scouter team was \"experienced and included trained paramedics and mountain leaders\".\n\nIt added: \"We would like to thank the PSNI and Mourne Mountain Rescue who provided assistance to the group.\"\n\nMourne Mountain Rescue Team said the Coastguard Rescue Helicopter 116 from Dublin had also responded to the scene but was unable to assist in worsening conditions.", "Jeremy Hunt, who has previously served as health secretary and foreign secretary, has been named as the UK's new chancellor.\n\nHe takes over at a critical time for the UK economy after weeks of financial turmoil and uncertainty over the recently proposed mini-budget.\n\nHis predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked by the prime minister.\n\nMr Hunt is a big name in the Conservative party - and has twice unsuccessfully tried to become the party leader.\n\nIn the leadership race this year, he put his weight behind former chancellor Rishi Sunak over Liz Truss. This was after getting eliminated from the contest himself early on, having failed to get enough votes to go any further.\n\nHe had stood for the top job before - and in 2019 he nearly made it, finishing second in the leadership race with Boris Johnson named as the winner.\n\nEducation: Oxford University, obtaining a First in philosophy, politics and economics\n\nMr Hunt, the fourth chancellor this year, was brought up in the Surrey town of Godalming and attended Charterhouse School, where he became head boy and was known for his love of cross-country running.\n\nAt Oxford University he put his name out into the political sphere when he served as president of the Conservative Association.\n\nBut prior to his career in parliament, Mr Hunt had a career as an English teacher in Japan and as an entrepreneur - co-founding the Hotcourses education publisher. When the business was sold in 2017, he netted a reported £14m, making him one of the UK's richest politicians. Mr Hunt said he would use the money to fund campaigns after he leaves politics.\n\nMr Hunt was first elected to parliament at the 2005 general election, taking over from Virginia Bottomley as the MP for South West Surrey.\n\nFrom 2005 to 2007 he was the shadow minister for disabled people as a reward for supporting David Cameron - who attended Oxford University at the same time as him - in the Conservative leadership contest.\n\nThen when the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government was formed in 2010, Mr Hunt joined the cabinet as secretary of state for culture, Olympics, media and sport.\n\nIt was an important role in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics, during which he worked closely with Mr Johnson, who was Mayor of London at the time.\n\nEarlier in 2012, he faced calls to resign over his role in the BSkyB takeover bid. The then Labour leader Ed Miliband said Mr Hunt should quit over his contacts with Rupert Murdoch's media empire while he was considering the bid, which was later withdrawn.\n\nBut he survived the row and in September 2012, was appointed heath secretary.\n\nHe held office during a slow period of investment in the NHS which created big problems, amid times when demands on the health service were growing.\n\nJunior doctors took to picket lines in 2016 over pay and consitions\n\nHe also faced criticism over his handling of plans to introduce new contracts for junior doctors.\n\nThe medics took part in a series of walk outs in 2016 - on two occasions, between 08:00 and 17:00, leaving emergency care uncovered - the first time that had ever happened in the history of the NHS. A new contract for junior doctors was later imposed.\n\nBut Mr Hunt did go on to secure a funding increase for the NHS and also oversaw the introduction of an Ofsted-style system for rating hospitals and GP surgeries in England.\n\nDuring the 2016 EU referendum, Mr Hunt was a remain campaigner, but afterwards said he would support leave.\n\nHis long-running appointment as health secretary ended when he became foreign secretary in July 2018. This was after his predecessor Mr Johnson quit over Theresa May's Brexit strategy.\n\nDuring his time as foreign secretary between 2018-19 Mr Hunt tried to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who had been held in Iran on spying charges, which she always denied.\n\nAfter her release, he accused the UK of \"diplomatic failure\" and said global co-operation was needed to \"stamp out\" states taking people hostage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn March 2019, he became the first Western foreign minister to visit Yemen since conflict there began.\n\nAfter losing to Mr Johnson in the 2019 leadership race, Mr Hunt said the campaign was \"always going to be uphill\" for him because he voted Remain in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nHe was elected to head a committee of MPs which scrutinises the performance of the NHS and government health policy in January 2020, saying he was \"honoured\".\n\nIn June this year, he revealed he had had cancer but had now recovered. He said at the time that \"every member of his family\" has had the disease and that he had \"a minor one\" himself.\n\nRecently Mr Hunt made headlines appearing at an infected-blood inquiry where he called the scandal a \"huge failing of democracy\".", "Elon Musk says his rocket firm SpaceX will continue funding its Starlink internet service in Ukraine, a day after he said it could no longer do so.\n\n\"The hell with it... Even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we'll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free,\" he tweeted.\n\nStarlink has been vital for Ukraine's military and people to stay online.\n\nUkraine says it helped to reboot key infrastructure after Russian attacks.\n\nEnergy installations were among facilities targeted by more than 100 Russian missiles this week. Starlink consists of thousands of satellites in low-Earth orbit and ground terminals.\n\nLast month Mr Musk, the Tesla boss and world's richest man, asked the Pentagon to fund the Starlink programme instead of him, according to US media.\n\nAnd on Friday he tweeted: \"SpaceX is not asking to recoup past expenses, but also cannot fund the existing system indefinitely\". That move drew strong criticism.\n\nMr Musk earlier provoked Kyiv's ire by suggesting Ukraine could cede territory to Russia.\n\nA Starlink terminal seen providing Kharkiv, Ukraine, with internet last month\n\nThe Starlink programme costs $20m (£18m) per month to maintain, according to Mr Musk. He recently said SpaceX had spent $80m so far to keep Ukraine online.\n\n\"In addition to terminals, we have to create, launch, maintain & replenish satellites & ground stations,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"We've also had to defend against cyberattacks & jamming, which are getting harder.\"\n\nUkraine's vice-Prime Minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, downplayed tensions with Mr Musk, writing on Twitter that the billionaire \"is among the world's top private donors supporting Ukraine\".\n\n\"Starlink is an essential element of our critical infrastructure,\" he wrote.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Musk tweeted out a proposal that Ukraine accept Russia's annexation of Crimea and allow referendums in Ukrainian regions invaded by Moscow.\n\nThe Kremlin responded positively to the overture.\n\nBut Ukraine's outgoing ambassador to Germany, Andrij Melnyk, posted a tweet telling Mr Musk to go away, using a swear word.\n\nResponding on Friday to a post referring to the ambassador's remark, Mr Musk said: \"We're just following his recommendation.\"\n\nMoscow recently declared four more Ukrainian regions to be part of Russia, following so-called referendums denounced as fraudulent by Kyiv and its Western allies. Russia does not fully control any of the four regions.\n\nMr Musk has also suggested the world should \"formally\" recognise Crimea - illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014 - as part of Russia.\n\nThis week, Mr Musk denied that he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin before releasing his Twitter poll.\n\n\"I have spoken to Putin only once and that was about 18 months ago. The subject matter was space,\" he tweeted.\n\nThat statement came after a think tank researcher claimed Mr Musk had personally told him about the alleged conversation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Chancellor admits mistakes made and some taxes will rise\n\nDifficult decisions will be needed \"across the board\" on tax and spending, the new chancellor has told the BBC.\n\nSpeaking in his first interviews since replacing Kwasi Kwarteng, Jeremy Hunt said some taxes will go up, while government spending may need to fall.\n\nCutting the top rate of tax and not independently costing measures were mistakes being \"put right\", he added.\n\nHe also insisted he had a \"clean slate\" after Liz Truss sacked Mr Kwarteng on Friday.\n\nMr Hunt, a former foreign secretary who had not been part of Ms Truss's cabinet, was made chancellor on Friday as the prime minister sought to restore confidence in her government.\n\nIn another dramatic day in Westminster, the PM also scrapped the plan to freeze corporation tax - set out in the 23 September mini-budget - in another major U-turn.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Hunt signalled a big shift away from the economic policies of Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng.\n\n\"Taxes are not going to come down by as much as people hoped, and some taxes will have to go up,\" he said. \"I'm going to be asking all government departments to find additional efficiency savings.\"\n\nWhile he did not say where taxes could rise or public spending be reduced, Mr Hunt did not rule out cuts to NHS spending or rowing back on Ms Truss's pledge to increase defence spending to 3% of GDP.\n\nThe chancellor, a Rishi Sunak supporter in the leadership contest, said the government needed to \"show the world we have a plan that adds up financially\".\n\nMs Truss, prime minister for just 39 days, is already facing pressure from within her party following September's mini-budget, which included £45bn worth of tax cuts and sparked turbulence in the financial markets.\n\nMr Hunt said Ms Truss's administration had made \"mistakes\", adding: \"It was wrong to cut the top rate of tax for the very highest earners at a time where we're going to have to be asking for sacrifices from everyone to get through a very difficult period.\"\n\nAnd he also said it was wrong to \"fly blind\" and announce the mini-budget without a forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).\n\nHe said both of these were now in the process of \"being put right\".\n\nThe chancellor made a series of other points about the government's mini-budget and discussed possible plans for his new role in his interviews with the BBC:\n\nMeanwhile, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said there had been a \"meeting of minds\" when he held discussions with Mr Hunt on Friday.\n\nMr Bailey made the comments after hinting at impending fresh interest rate hikes.\n\n\"Inflationary pressures\" meant a \"stronger response\" could be needed from the Bank than previously thought in August, the governor said.\n\nAnd the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned Mr Hunt had inherited a \"difficult and tricky situation\", with the public finances \"very stretched\".\n\nThe think tank's director Paul Johnson said: \"I think we're going to see even further reversal of tax cuts that we've had, and in addition probably some very tight spending rounds.\"\n\nJeremy Hunt arriving at the BBC on Saturday\n\nDespite Mr Hunt's appointment, Ms Truss and her premiership remain under significant pressure.\n\nOne Tory MP described the party as being in a \"state of despair,\" but Truss supporter Christopher Chope said \"time will tell\" if she had done enough to secure her position.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the prime minister of \"grotesque chaos\" following the sacking of Mr Kwarteng and called for a general election.\n\nDuring a speech in Barnsley a day after the upheaval in Westminster, Sir Keir said Ms Truss was \"clinging on\", arguing that there was \"no historical precedent\" for the current situation facing her government.\n\nBut Mr Hunt rejected suggestions of a general election, saying the country needs \"stability\".", "A blaze at Evin Prison in Iran has been captured in videos shared on social media, where gunshots and explosions can be heard.\n\nIran has been gripped for weeks by anti-government protests and many of those detained in Iran's recent protests have reportedly been sent to Evin.\n\nRead more: Huge fire and gunshots at notorious Iranian prison", "Red Cross workers sanitised a house in Mubende district after the death of a child, thought to be from Ebola\n\nA three-week lockdown has been declared in two districts of Uganda as the country battles an Ebola outbreak.\n\nBars, nightclubs, places of worship and entertainment venues will be closed in Mubende and neighbouring Kassanda, and a curfew will come into force.\n\nThe move is a U-turn for Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, who previously said there was no need for such measures.\n\nThis latest outbreak has killed 19 people among 58 recorded cases.\n\nHowever, the real number of deaths and cases may be higher.\n\nThe outbreak began in early September in Mubende, about 80km (50 miles) from the capital Kampala, and has remained the epicentre.\n\nPresident Museveni had previously ruled out lockdowns, saying Ebola was not an airborne virus so did not require the same measures as Covid-19.\n\nBut on Saturday he halted all movement in and out of Mubende and Kassanda districts for 21 days.\n\nCargo trucks will still be allowed to enter and leave the areas, he said, but all other transport will be stopped.\n\n\"These are temporary measures to control the spread of Ebola,\" he said in a televised address.\n\n\"We should all cooperate with authorities so we bring this outbreak to an end in the shortest possible time.\"\n\nThe president had already ordered police to arrest anyone suspected of having the virus who refused to isolate.\n\nAnd he has forbidden traditional healers from trying to handle cases. In previous outbreaks, healers have been associated with hotspots for spread of the virus.\n\nThe first recorded death in this outbreak was a 24-year-old man in Mubende. Six members of his family also died.\n\nIt later reached the capital Kampala, with one death recorded in October. But health officials said the city remained virus-free, as the man who died had travelled from Mubende.\n\nThis latest outbreak is of the Sudan strain of the virus, for which there is no approved vaccine. The Zaire strain, which killed 11,000 people in an outbreak across West Africa from 2013-2016, can be vaccinated against.\n\nEbola spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids or contaminated material.\n\nSymptoms include vomiting, diarrhoea and in some cases internal or external bleeding.\n\nThe incubation period can last from two days to three weeks, and the virus can be associated with other illnesses, such as malaria and typhoid.", "The home secretary has unveiled plans for a major crackdown on disruptive protests carried out by environmental groups such as Extinction Rebellion.\n\nSuella Braverman says the new Public Order Bill will stop demonstrators holding the public \"to ransom\".\n\nMinisters will be empowered to block protests causing \"serious disruption\" to key infrastructure and goods.\n\nActivists said they would not be intimidated by law changes aimed at \"silencing non-violent people\".\n\nEnvironmental groups including Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion have staged various protests and demonstrations in recent months, causing disruption to commuters and traffic in central London.\n\nMore than 350 Just Stop Oil protesters - demanding halts to all new oil and gas licences and consents - have been arrested in London since the start of October, according to Home Office figures.\n\nThe home secretary described one incident which saw emergency fire crews unable to get through a junction in Knightsbridge as \"indefensible\".\n\nMs Braverman has long expressed opposition to such protests, telling the Conservative Party conference earlier this month there was \"not a human right to vandalise property\".\n\nShe will use the Public Order Bill to allow secretaries of state to apply for injunctions in the \"public interest\" where protests are causing or threatening \"serious disruption or a serious adverse impact on public safety\".\n\nThe new legislation - which will be put to MPs next week - will also see jail sentences of up to six months or unlimited fines for protesters accused of \"locking-on\" to people, objects or buildings - a favoured tactic of climate demonstrators.\n\nHome Office officials said the proposed legislation would create a new criminal offence of interfering with infrastructure, such as oil refineries, airports and railways, carrying sentences of up to 12 months in prison.\n\nMeanwhile, tunnelling under infrastructure to cause damage will also now carry a maximum penalty of up to three years in prison, and police will be given new powers to take a more \"proactive\" approach to some protests.\n\n\"Preventing our emergency services from reaching those who desperately need them is indefensible, hideously selfish and in no way in the public interest,\" Ms Braverman said on Saturday.\n\n\"The police need strengthened and tougher powers to match the rise in self-defeating protest tactics and that's what the Public Order Bill will do.\"\n\nResponding, Just Stop Oil said: \"We will not be intimidated by changes to the law, we will not be stopped by injunctions sought to silence non-violent people. Our supporters understand that these are irrelevant when set against mass starvation, slaughter, the loss of our rights, freedoms and communities.\n\n\"Stand with our supporters in prison, with the 1,700 murdered across the global, for protecting our futures. We will not die silently, it will be ordinary people, like you, your friends, colleagues and neighbours who do what our government cannot.\"\n\nEarlier this year the government suffered a major defeat in the House of Lords, after peers rejected similar plans to clamp down on noisy and disruptive protests.\n\nOpposition members described the plans - tabled by then Justice Secretary Dominic Raab - as \"oppressive\" and \"plain nasty\".\n\nLabour peer Lord Hain - a former Northern Ireland secretary - called the move \"the biggest threat to the right to dissent and the right to protest in my lifetime\", adding that it would have \"throttled\" protests by the suffragettes.", "A government that has barely begun is confronted by open questions about its imminent end.\n\nThat is the astonishing truth at Westminster, so spectacularly has Liz Truss cratered her authority with her own MPs.\n\nIn the short term, she seeks to salvage her premiership and her programme for government, or at least any parts of it that can command the confidence of her party and the financial markets.\n\nHer critics say waiting until the end of the month to announce her plans is unsustainable.\n\nMeanwhile Tory MPs speculate about her future and that of the chancellor.\n\nCould Kwasi Kwarteng be the fall guy for the chaos, some ask.\n\nCould he be sacked, or resign?\n\n\"The thing is, if she does that she removes a lightning rod, and you know what happens then? The lightning will hit her instead,\" one MP sceptical of that idea said.\n\nBut others suggest the former Chancellor Sajid Javid could be brought in as a replacement and Ms Truss could attempt to recast her whole government and agenda, accepting that Plan A has imploded on contact with reality.\n\nAnd others ponder Liz Truss's future in Downing Street, acutely aware that removing a prime minister who doesn't want to go isn't easy, and particularly so when a divided party would need to unite around a single replacement to avoid a lengthy leadership contest lasting months.\n\nOne senior Conservative MP told me Ms Truss had found herself in a maze. \"And every way we turn, there's a brick wall,\" they said.\n\nOthers argue she has tanked and bombed with such unimaginable speed she has to go.\n\nBut they're not sure who could replace her, or how.\n\nSome talk of an \"assembly of elders\" as it was put to me, but then joke darkly that many of those elders either left Parliament or were thrown out of the Conservative Party under Boris Johnson.\n\nThey then ponder that with so many former ministers, including two former prime ministers on the backbenches, there is plenty of experience to be drawn on, if a Conservative government of all the talents could be cobbled together.\n\nCould defeated leadership candidate and former chancellor Rishi Sunak work with fellow defeated candidate Penny Mordaunt?\n\nWhat about Boris Johnson? Theresa May? William Hague?\n\nI've heard all these names being mentioned as the future is pondered.\n\nSo back to the here and now.\n\nA U-turn looks inevitable, so when will it happen?\n\nCan it wait until the chancellor's economic statement two weeks on Monday?\n\nRight now, that seems a long, long way off.\n\n\"It is choppy and might get choppier. But we'll find a way through it,\" one of Ms Truss's team told me.\n\nThe thing is, it might not be up to them.\n\nA government not yet six weeks old faces an existential threat.", "Jeremy Hunt replaced Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor following a backlash against the latter's mini-budget\n\nThe term \"bond market vigilantes\" was coined by the American investor Ed Yardeni in the 1980s to describe bond traders who would force the hand of governments and central banks to see the world their way.\n\nThe vigilantes are back in force. The markets didn't like Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss's not so mini-budget and its £45bn in unfunded tax cuts, and it now lies in tatters.\n\nThe largest single measure - a decision to reverse a planned rise in corporation tax costing the treasury £18bn - has been dumped.\n\nTaxes on business profits will rise from 19-25% in April and in so doing will consign Ms Truss's dreams of a lower-tax economy to the dustbin for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe vigilantes have killed off \"Trussonomics\", but will they be satisfied or will they want more blood?\n\nAs markets closed on Friday, the cost of government borrowing was creeping back up to the level at which the Bank of England stepped in to buy bonds from specialist pension fund managers facing collapse. But the Bank has made clear that its last direct intervention was on Friday.\n\nIt also made clear it only stepped in to preserve financial stability.\n\nIt is not there to bring government borrowing costs down - quite the opposite in fact - it is committed to raising interest rates to fight inflation. What happens on Monday when the Bank, the biggest bond buyer of the last decade, goes on strike?\n\nSimon French from investment bank Panmure Gordon told the BBC that installing Jeremy Hunt as chancellor would help and his comments to the media on Saturday morning were sensible.\n\n\"There was a touch of the [former chancellor] George Osborne about him, acknowledging that there were tough choices and trade-offs to make on tax and spending.\n\n\"He acknowledged the economy we actually have and not the one we wish we had. My sense is they have done enough for now to keep the markets happy.\"\n\nBut Mohamed El-Erian, a renowned economist and President of Queens' College, Cambridge, told the BBC he believed the government had not yet done enough to reassure the financial markets.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"They're going to be pushed to find more ways to cover what is still a significant hole in the budget.\n\n\"Of the £45bn additional unfunded tax cuts that were introduced - in addition to the energy bill - they've now covered about £21bn of that, so the market will press them to cover more of that. Hopefully by going back on some other tax cuts, but also possibly through expenditure reduction - but that would go against the growth objective.\"\n\nBut he added that most of the business \"damage\" sustained since the mini-budget was \"recoverable\", as long as the government moved \"even more forcefully\" in trying to restore financial stability - but this would also take \"time and luck\".\n\nBoth the new chancellor and his diminished boss will have their fingers crossed on Monday morning when the vigilantes show up again.", "The drugs Blanche Hampton takes for lupus suppress her immune system\n\nTime is running out for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people who are facing another winter shielding from Covid, campaigners have said.\n\nThey are calling on the government to buy a drug called Evusheld to provide some protection against the virus.\n\nThe government says it is not clear how long that protection will last when up against the Omicron variant.\n\nBut patients, charities and health experts argue the protection offered is better than nothing.\n\nThere are around 500,000 people in the UK with suppressed immune systems.\n\nThat means their bodies struggle to produce antibodies, so the existing vaccines offer them little or no protection, leaving them very vulnerable to Covid.\n\nBlanche Hampton has lupus, a condition where her immune system has turned against her.\n\nThe drugs she takes to control the lupus also suppress her immune system, meaning her body has no defences against Covid.\n\nBlanche has been shielding for two and a half years, but she believes Evusheld offers a chance for at least some kind of existence outside of her small flat in Inverkip, west of Glasgow.\n\nPeople whose immune systems do not respond well to vaccines could benefit from the antibody treatment, campaigners say\n\n\"Evusheld would give me a layer of protection, that is better than nothing. Because that's what I have currently - nothing.\"\n\nAnd Blanche, like many people who find themselves in the same situation, says she feels abandoned.\n\n\"I'm expensive and expendable. So, you know, the sooner people like me disappear, the easier it will be for everybody.\n\n\"You don't have any hope and it is one of the requisites for humans to want to stay alive.\n\n\"So this thing is draining me of any desire to really continue with my life, because it isn't a life.\"\n\nEvusheld, manufactured by AstraZeneca, was approved by the UK medicines regulator in March and is already available in more than 30 other countries.\n\nBut in August the government said it wouldn't be buying any doses until it had more data.\n\nIn particular, there are some concerns over how long protection may last against the Omicron variant of Covid.\n\nMinisters say they are urgently looking into setting up clinical trials, but it's unlikely that any results will be available until late spring at the earliest.\n\nScott and Nikola Bridgen have shared their disappointment over the decision\n\nThat decision was a bitter blow for Scott Bridgen and his wife Nikola.\n\nScott's treatment for a rare form of blood cancer has left his immune system in pieces.\n\nEvusheld offered the couple the chance to make some memories in whatever time Scott has left.\n\nScott says he feels terribly let down.\n\n\"I'm ex-military, I served this country in the early 1990s, and I feel like I've just been thrown under the bus to be quite honest.\"\n\nScott's wife Nikola is one of the founders of the patient campaign group 'Evusheld for the UK', which is pushing for the decision to be reviewed.\n\n\"The solution to the problem is there, but we can't get it.\n\n\"And to be honest, I think that's even more cruel than not having a solution at all.\"\n\nProf Alex Richter, consultant immunologist at University of Birmingham, said: \"The decision to not run with Evusheld this winter is very much a kind of glass half empty approach.\n\n\"But the glass half-full approach is, it has some activity and it has some benefit. And so for very many patients, actually isn't it better to do something for them rather than nothing?\"\n\nCampaigners - backed by charities such as Kidney Care UK and the MS Society and more than 120 medical experts - say time is now running out, ahead of another winter during which the most vulnerable will have to shield.\n\nThey argue that even if Evusheld doesn't give 100% protection, doing something is better than doing nothing.\n\nThey warn the mental, physical and economic costs of another winter of isolation for hundreds of thousands of people will have an impact for years to come.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said they were \"urgently exploring\" the option of commissioning a clinical trial.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"We are keeping the evidence under close review and NICE have begun their appraisal of Evusheld. If they consider the treatment to be clinically and cost effective, it will be made available on the NHS in the usual way.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Who is in charge? Over the last couple of days you'd be forgiven for wondering if anyone was running the country.\n\nThe dizzying ups and downs of the mighty financial markets suggest they didn't really have faith that anyone had a grip on things either.\n\nWhat happens on traders' screens affects the costs we have to grapple with - whether mortgages or rents - and how much of our taxes the government can spend on vital public services rather than paying interest on debt.\n\nUnder acute pressure from the markets Prime Minister Liz Truss had a choice - stick with her plan and say goodbye to what economic credibility her government had left - or say farewell to her proposals and try to muddle on.\n\nIn other words - change or die. She chose change. But has she killed off what political authority she had left and handed it to someone else?\n\nJeremy Hunt, her new Chancellor of the Exchequer and a guest on this week's show, has in a little over 24 hours junked her economic strategy of tax cuts and a promise not to cut public spending.\n\nHe's made a virtue out of being candid about how bad things are - dangling the implication the prime minister has not levelled with the public about what comes next.\n\nWhether it's intentional or not, the message isn't that subtle: after the craziness of the last few weeks here comes an experienced grown-up to take control.\n\nAnd it's given the impression, as one former minister put it: \"He's gone out and said he's in charge.\"\n\nAnother said Mr Hunt had \"dismantled\" the prime minister's agenda, while others suggested his arrival leaves Ms Truss in office, but not really in power.\n\nMr Hunt told me in our interview for Sunday's programme - as you might expect - that she is still the boss.\n\nYet the way in which he has been able to comprehensively ditch her programme is striking and shifts the political balance in Downing Street.\n\nThe hope in No 10 and No 11 is that Mr Hunt's appointment will grant some breathing space to this struggling administration and the financial markets will stop pounding the UK and reserve judgement about the economy's prospects for a fortnight.\n\nThen, on 31 October, the government will be able to spell out how its numbers add up without the need for a magic calculator. But that arithmetic won't be pretty - public spending cuts are on the way and taxes could rise too.\n\nIt leaves Ms Truss now technically in charge of a government that is on track to do the opposite of what she originally promised.\n\nShe became prime minister by promising the Conservative Party she would cut taxes and shake up what she condemned as boring old Treasury thinking.\n\nBut now she can't keep those vows does she still have the right to govern?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A dizzying 24 hours for UK politics... in under a minute\n\nOne former minister suggested no-one really has legitimacy now: not Ms Truss, nor Mr Hunt.\n\nMr Hunt's appointment could calm the markets and has definitely eased some of the concerns in the centre of the Conservative Party, but it has created new unhappiness on the right.\n\nThey are frustrated that Ms Truss has given up on her plans and are suspicious that MPs who were never really on board with her ideology have taken advantage of a crisis in the markets for their own political ends.\n\nOne of her fellow free marketeers, an ex-minister, told me they were \"discouraged\" and warned a \"full-scale dismantling of the plans would test party unity in a different way\".\n\nIn other words, the prime minister can no longer rely on their support.\n\nDoes the politicking of the last 48 hours really make that much difference? Believe the polls and Ms Truss' start in office has been an epic disaster from which it is hard to see a return.\n\nFor some MPs, whoever is in No 11, the Truss project is over. One former minister said there had been a \"total seepage of power and authority\" and she is on her way out in either weeks or months.\n\nAnother MP said there was no point hanging around: \"We need to purge the current incumbents,\" they said, suggesting it would be a mistake to wait.\n\n\"The idea we would lose any credibility we have left by removing her is for the birds because we have no credibility.\"\n\nIt is one of the easiest things in politics to say: \"We can't go on like this.\" And yet, very often, it does.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Liz Truss asked why she should stay on as PM\n\nBoris Johnson and Theresa May survived far, far longer than many of their colleagues had hoped. Disbelief and depression on the Tory backbenches is not the same as there being consensus about who could do the job, or how a replacement would be installed.\n\nThere's still reticence about dispatching yet another leader. As one minister said: \"We'll look like circus clowns if we change again.\"\n\nAnd there's a truth that's been obscured by the wild politics of the last few weeks.\n\nThe Conservative Party in 2022 doesn't feel entirely sure what it's for, and hasn't for some time.\n\nOn the Tory right some feel an attempt at ditching the rather limp centrist approach of the last few years has crashed - but in the middle there's a sense of grim satisfaction they were correct.\n\nRight now this deeply fragile government may not have time to consider such lofty arguments, let alone settle them.\n\nTheir only way out is to try to get a grip.", "They are the husband and wife team behind one the most successful Covid vaccines, yet in the UK they are barely known.\n\nProfessors Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci co-founded the German company BioNTech in 2008, exploring new technology involving messenger RNA (mRNA), to treat cancer.\n\nWhen the pandemic struck they partnered with Pfizer to use the same approach to create a Covid vaccine.\n\nNow the doctors are hopeful it could lead to new treatments for melanoma, bowel cancer and other tumour types.\n\nBioNTech has several trials in progress, including one where patients are given a personalised vaccine, to prompt their immune system to attack their disease.\n\nThe mRNA technology being used works by sending an instruction or blueprint to cells to produce an antigen or protein.\n\nIn Covid this antigen is part of the spike protein of the virus. In cancer it would be a marker on the surface of tumour cells.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BioNTech founders say they have had a \"number of breakthroughs\" in cancer trials\n\nThis teaches the immune system to recognise and target affected cells for destruction.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Prof Tureci said: \"mRNA acts as a blueprint and allows you to tell the body to produce the drug or the vaccine… and when you use mRNA as a vaccine, the mRNA is a blueprint for the 'wanted poster' of the enemy - in this case cancer antigens which distinguish cancer cells from normal cells.\"\n\nHarnessing the power of mRNA to produce vaccines was unproven until Covid. But the success of mRNA vaccines in the pandemic has encouraged scientists working with the technology in cancer.\n\nBioNTech's mRNA cancer trials started long before the pandemic, and have shown some early encouraging signals.\n\n\"Every step, every patient we treat in our cancer trials helps us to find out more about what we are against and how to address that,\" Prof Tureci, BioNTech's chief medical officer, said.\n\n\"As scientists, we are always hesitant to say we will have a cure for cancer. We have a number of breakthroughs and we will continue to work on them.\"\n\nCaution is needed. Many promising cancer trials end in failure. It may be several years before we know if BioNTech's treatments for bowel cancer, melanoma and other tumour types really do live up to the hype.\n\nThere is no doubt though that Covid mRNA vaccines have been highly successful and made billions for BioNTech, Pfizer and Moderna.\n\nBut a huge legal tussle is under way surrounding the innovation behind mRNA vaccines.\n\nUS firm Moderna has started legal action against Pfizer and BioNTech for patent infringement - in essence claiming key elements of their mRNA technology were copied.\n\nProf Sahin, BioNTech's chief executive officer, says the company will vigorously defend against the allegations.\n\n\"Our innovations are original,\" he said.\n\n\"We have spent 20 years of research in developing these type of treatments and of course we will fight for this, for our intellectual property.\"\n\nThese patent disputes will not stop the roll-out of Covid vaccines - all booster jabs used by the NHS are mRNA vaccines. It is a technology that came of age in the pandemic. The question now is can it take on cancer?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt has insisted Liz Truss is still in charge of the government, after a series of U-turns left her premiership in jeopardy.\n\nSome Tory backbenchers have been talking privately about how to remove the PM, after market turmoil led her to abandon her flagship tax policies.\n\nMr Hunt urged the party to unite behind her, as the pair held crunch talks to thrash out plans on tax and spending.\n\nBut three Tory MPs have since broken cover and called for Ms Truss to go.\n\nMr Hunt replaced Kwasi Kwarteng on Friday, after the former chancellor was fired following financial turbulence in the wake of last month's mini-budget and a backlash from a number of MPs in his party.\n\nA key test of the government's moves so far will come when markets reopen early on Monday, with ministers facing a nervous wait to see if the rise in UK government debt costs over recent weeks continues.\n\nMeasures already jettisoned from the £45bn package of unfunded tax cuts announced last month include scrapping the top income tax rate, and a freeze in corporation tax.\n\nDespite overseeing a dramatic change in Ms Truss's flagship policy, Mr Hunt insisted that \"the prime minister's in charge\"and denied media speculation that he has become the most powerful member of government.\n\n\"She's listened. She's changed. She's been willing to do that most difficult thing in politics, which is to change tack,\" he said in an interview with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nMr Hunt also ruled himself out of any future leadership contest, saying his desire to lead the party had been \"clinically excised\" after two previous failed attempts.\n\nInstead, he urged Conservative MPs to come together and back Ms Truss, noting that the \"worst thing would be another protracted leadership campaign\".\n\nA source close to the prime minister told the BBC that she will host a reception for the cabinet on Monday to get their input on the government's economic plans, while Mr Hunt will hold discussions with all Conservative MPs later this week.\n\nHowever, some Tory MPs have reportedly opened talks about how to remove her from power, despite current party rules preventing a formal leadership challenge for a year.\n\nTactics reportedly under consideration include submitting no-confidence letters in a bid to force party bosses into a rule change, or changing the rules to allow MPs to bypass party members and pick a new leader themselves.\n\nOn Sunday, three MPs in the party broke cover to become the first to call for Ms Truss to go since she sacked Mr Kwarteng.\n\nMr Hunt held talks with the prime minister at Chequers, her official country residence, on Sunday\n\nThe former minister Crispin Blunt was the first, telling Channel 4 \"the game is up and it's now a question as to how the succession is managed\".\n\n\"If there is such a weight of opinion in the parliamentary party that we have to have a change then it will be effected.\"\n\nThen later on Sunday, Andrew Bridgen became the second, telling the Daily Telegraph: \"We cannot carry on like this. Our country, its people and our party deserve better.\"\n\nAnd Jamie Wallis said Ms Truss had \"undermined Britain's economic credibility and fractured our party irreparably\".\n\nA letter shared on Twitter said: \"Enough is enough. I have written to [her] to ask her to stand down as she no longer holds the confidence of this country.\"\n\nEarlier, senior backbencher Robert Halfon told Sky News that MPs across the party \"are unhappy with what is going on\", adding that \"we're all talking to see what can be done about it\".\n\nHe said he was not calling on Ms Truss to go, but called for a \"dramatic reset\" in the government's direction.\n\nSir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, who sits on the 1922 Committee that organises Conservative leadership contests, confirmed it would be possible to change the rules that currently prevent another race.\n\nBut he told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House that doing so would require the support of a \"large majority\" of Conservative MPs - \"probably sixty to seventy percent\".\n\nFormer cabinet minister Nadine Dorries, a key ally of former leader Boris Johnson, warned \"serial back-stabbers\" against trying to depose Ms Truss.\n\n\"Our core supporters will not vote for a feuding party that throws its leaders overboard in every storm,\" she wrote in the Sunday Express. \"She has had a rough start but we must give her the chance to put things right\".\n\nMeanwhile, in a further blow to the prime minister, US President Joe Biden has criticised tax cuts from her mini-budget.\n\nIn an unusual intervention, he told reporters during a campaign visit that the outcome was \"predictable\" and \"I wasn't the only one that thought it was a mistake\".\n\nHe added that he had disagreed with \"the idea of cutting taxes on the super wealthy\", but it was up to the UK to \"make that judgment, not me\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Joe Biden voices his disagreement to cutting taxes for the UK's \"super wealthy\"\n\nIn his BBC interview, Mr Hunt said every government department would be asked to make savings, ahead of the 31 October economic statement.\n\nHowever, he insisted the changes would not be \"anything like\" the period of austerity which began in 2010, when predecessor George Osborne oversaw large cuts in public spending.\n\nAsked who was running the government, he said \"the prime minister's in charge\", insisting she remained committed to boosting economic growth but had changed \"the way we're going to get there\".\n\n\"She's listened, she's changed, she's been willing to do that most difficult thing in politics which is to change tack,\" he added.\n\nAccording to reports, Ms Truss is also preparing to delay by a year her 1p cut to the basic rate of income tax.\n\nAnd Mr Hunt, who held talks with Ms Truss at her official Chequers country retreat, has not ruled out further U-turns as he seeks to restore UK economic credibility.\n\nHe warned of \"difficult decisions both on spending and on tax,\" as he prepares to deliver an economic statement on 31 October to convince investors he has a plan to get debt under control.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds said any further public spending cuts would be entirely because of government \"incompetence\".\n\n\"I'm not even sure what this government's economic policy is at the moment. I don't know which bits of the budget still apply, and I don't know what we will hear next week,\" he told the BBC.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe chairman of Tesco has warned of the hardship people will face in the wake of rising interest rates.\n\nJohn Allan told the BBC he was aware millions would face much higher mortgage payments while prices for food and energy were already increasing.\n\n\"We have a moral responsibility to look after people, who in the real world are being impacted by this,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the Bank of England said interest rates may need to rise by more than previously expected.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg programme on Sunday, Mr Allan said that it was important to focus on how recent market turmoil and rising interest rates would impact on real people.\n\n\"The reality is that the movement in interest rates is now going to lead to much higher mortgage [repayments] for millions of people,\" he said.\n\n\"Lots of people I think are [already] struggling with the existing elements of the cost of living crisis in food and so on.\"\n\nInflation, which measures how the cost of living changes over time, is increasing at almost its fastest rate in 40 years, driven largely by the rising cost of food and fossil fuels.\n\nTo tackle the rising cost of living, the Bank of England would typically raise interest rates to encourage people to save, but this also means some people with mortgages see their monthly payments go up.\n\nRaising interest rates also makes borrowing more expensive and - it is hoped - people will have less money to spend. As a result, they will buy fewer things and prices will stop rising as fast.\n\nRising costs and recent market turmoil are top issues facing the new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who has admitted that his predecessor's mini-budget went \"too far, too fast\".\n\nMr Hunt, who replaced Kwasi Kwarteng, said in a statement that his focus was on growth \"underpinned by stability\" and he warned there would be tax rises and savings in public spending.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Allan said that he felt \"encouraged\" by the new chancellor's recent remarks.\n\nThe boss of the UK's largest private sector employer urged the government to provide stability after a recent plunge in the value of the pound, which had caused \"real problems\".\n\nHe also called on Conservative politicians \"to look after those people suffering\" and to set out a plan demonstrating how they will try to grow the economy.\n\nHe said that Labour had already put forward some policy ideas on growing the UK economy, but added he would like to hear \"a concrete plan\" from the government.\n\n\"I don't think we've seen a growth plan from the Conservatives, I hope we will… Labour's ideas are on the table, and many are attractive, but at the moment there's only one team on the field.\"\n\nBusinesses, rather in tune with public opinion, are no longer shy about criticising the government.\n\nMany kept their counsel as the government pursued a form of Brexit that made exports more difficult and hit inward investment. The latest bout of economic and political instability has led to open conversations about how \"investible\" the UK is at this precise moment.\n\nThe chairman of Tesco, the supermarket historically most shy of saying anything about politics, told Laura Kuenssberg not only that the Conservatives \"did not have a growth plan\", but that Labour had the start of one with \"many attractive ideas\".\n\nThis reflects more general grumbling: Who is in charge? What is the policy? Is there macroeconomic stability? What is sterling worth?\n\nThese are active questions in boardrooms, and with an apparent swing in public opinion, and big stakes, business leaders feel empowered to say what they think.\n\nWhen challenged on whether or not the business was prepared to absorb more costs to help customers struggling, Mr Allan said that the firm already was, pointing to a recent fall in profits.\n\nEarlier in October, the supermarket giant said operating profits in its retail division fell by 10% in the six months to the end of August. However, sales across the whole group excluding its fuel business increased by more than 3%.\n\nIt also announced that its shop staff in the UK would receive another pay rise, their second this year.\n\nThe retailer now expects annual underlying earnings across the brand of between £2.4bn and £2.5bn, which is at the lower end of previous guidance.\n\nIts chief executive Ken Murphy said that customers are trying to \"make their money go further, whether they are switching from branded products, between categories or cutting back on eating out\".\n\nTesco bosses have previously said that customers \"were watching every penny\".\n\n\"We know our customers are facing a tough time and watching every penny to make ends meet,\" he said, although he admitted it was difficult to anticipate how customers' behaviour might change in the second half of the year.\n\nThe Bank of England currently expects that the increase in the cost of living will peak at 11% in October and then stay above 10% for a few months before starting to come down.\n\nBut its governor Andrew Bailey said in Washington on Saturday that meant a \"stronger response\" on interest rates than previously thought in August could be needed.\n\nThe next interest rate rise decision is on 3 November, days after the government lays out its tax and spending plans.\n\nMr Bailey said the Bank would not take any action on interest rates until after this new economic plan is announced, describing this as \"the correct sequence\" of action.\n\nBut he added that officials would not hesitate to raise interest rates to meet the inflation target of 2%.\n\nIt came just weeks after the UK's central bank hiked interest rates by 0.5% to 2.25% in late September.", "Prime Minister Liz Truss has been trying to shore up Tory support, having faced criticism from others in her party following her 23 September mini-budget.\n\nAs we reported earlier, she's written in The Sun on Sunday, admitting that her tax-cutting plans went \"further and faster than the markets were expecting\".\n\n\"I've listened, I get it,\" she wrote . \"We cannot pave the way to a low-tax, high-growth economy without maintaining the confidence of the markets in our commitment to sound money.\"\n\nReferring to the departure of Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, she said it had been a \"wrench to see my friend\" leave the cabinet.\n\nHer article continued: \"But in Jeremy Hunt we have a highly experienced new chancellor who shares my desire to build a high-growth, low-tax economy.\"\n\nTruss criticised Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's \"anti-growth coalition\", adding that \"we cannot allow Britain to be held back by this militant mob\" comprising protesters and rail unions.\n\nTruss and her new chancellor Hunt are holding talks at Chequers today to discuss economic plans.", "Having just conducted what turned out to be the last interview with former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng while across the pond, it certainly seemed like the economic experiment known as \"Trussonomics\" was dead - even if Liz Truss remained prime minister.\n\nI had not expected the new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to seal the coffin and publicly bury that approach to economics within 24 hours. But that is what happened in his interview with Laura Kuenssberg today.\n\nAnd for good measure, former Health Secretary Matt Hancock read out a eulogy, of sorts.\n\n\"There are people who, in good faith, made arguments about libertarian economics… We've tested those arguments, it is now self-evident for a generation, it didn't work\", he said.\n\nJeremy Hunt's acknowledgement of the \"mistake\" of side-lining the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), revealed by the BBC before the mini-budget, promise of \"very difficult decisions\" - and refusal to take any Truss tax cuts \"off the table\" - are aimed squarely at unimpressed markets.\n\nIn a few hours, the markets for British government borrowing reopen, but without the support of emergency help from the Bank of England.\n\nBut the market can be a capricious friend as well as a difficult enemy.\n\nThe economic message may be \"credible\", but questions remain as to the political sustainability: A prime minister without her programme, a cabinet now obliged to keep its lips shut over doubts about the OBR or Institute for Fiscal Studies, and a defence secretary having to contemplate how realistic the 3% of GDP promise is.\n\nTruss-supporting MPs are privately concerned that all of this has been driven by pessimistic borrowing forecasts. Is this an entity with enough political capital and unity to push through significant cuts and tax rises, at least partly the result of previous mistakes, that they do not agree about?\n\nAnd as this happens, businesses, rather in tune with public opinion, are no longer shy about criticising the government.\n\nMany kept their counsel as the government pursued a form of Brexit that made exports more difficult and hit inward investment. The latest bout of economic and political instability has led to open conversations about how \"investible\" the UK is at this precise moment.\n\nThe chairman of Tesco, the supermarket historically most shy of saying anything about politics, told Laura Kuenssberg not only that the Conservatives \"did not have a growth plan\", but that Labour had the start of one with \"many attractive ideas\" and that \"there's only one team in the field\".\n\nThis reflects more general grumbling: Who is in charge? What is the policy? Is there macroeconomic stability? What is sterling worth?\n\nThese are active questions in boardrooms, and with an apparent swing in public opinion, and big stakes, business leaders feel empowered to say what they think. Buckle up.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Bank of England \"will not hesitate to raise rates\", says governor Andrew Bailey\n\nThe governor of the Bank of England has warned interest rates may need to rise by more than previously expected.\n\nSpeaking in Washington, Andrew Bailey said \"inflationary pressures\" meant a \"stronger response\" could be needed from the Bank than thought in August.\n\nThe next rate rise decision is on 3 November, days after the government lays out its economic plans.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Bailey described his discussions with the new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt as a \"meeting of minds\".\n\nMr Hunt, who was appointed on Friday after his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng was abruptly sacked, has confirmed the government will set out its tax and spending plans on 31 October.\n\nHe has already signalled that some taxes could rise and public spending may fall.\n\nMr Bailey said the Bank will not take any action on interest rates until after this fiscal plan is announced, describing this as \"the correct sequence\" of action.\n\nBut speaking on Saturday, he said officials would \"not hesitate to raise interest rates to meet the inflation target\" of 2%.\n\nThe warning comes just weeks after the Bank hiked interest rates by 0.5% to 2.25% on 22 September.\n\nPrior to Mr Bailey's comments, the markets were expecting a rise of between 0.75% and 1% when the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee makes its next rates decision in November.\n\nMr Bailey also commented on the effects of the government's recent mini-budget, which he said had been followed by some \"some violent moves in the last few weeks\" in UK markets.\n\nHe also spoke of the need \"to have the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) involved\" in the government's budget discussions, adding that \"flying blind is not a way to achieve sustainability\".\n\nLast month, it was revealed that Mr Kwarteng had refused to allow the OBR to review the impact of his mini-budget on the economy before he delivered the statement.\n\nThe governor's intervention comes just hours after Mr Hunt told the BBC that some taxes could rise in the coming months and some departments could see their budgets slashed.\n\nMarking a significant change in government policy, the chancellor told the Today programme that difficult decisions will be needed \"across the board\".\n\nTaking questions after his speech in Washington, Mr Bailey signalled that he was in lockstep with the new chancellor.\n\n\"I can tell you that I spoke to Jeremy Hunt, the new chancellor, yesterday\", Mr Bailey said.\n\n\"I can tell you that there was a very clear and immediate meeting of minds between us about the importance of fiscal sustainability and the importance of taking measures to do that.\"\n\nHe added that the comment was intended as a \"clear message for markets\".", "Tributes have poured in for actor Robbie Coltrane, who has died at the age of 72.\n\nMiriam Margolyes described her former Harry Potter co-star, who played Hagrid in the film franchise, as \"huge in stature\" and \"in heart\".\n\nActor Stephen Fry, who starred with Coltrane in the TV show Alfresco, said he will \"be so dreadfully missed\".\n\nIt was confirmed on Friday that the actor had died in hospital near Falkirk in Scotland.\n\nActress Miriam Margolyes, who played Professor Sprout in Harry Potter, described Coltrane as a \"very fine actor and delightful man, huge in stature, in personality, in heart\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's just such a waste to think of all that talent, that fire. He acted with passion, he was really wonderful.\"\n\nColtrane played much-loved gentle giant Hagrid in all eight films in the Harry Potter series, which were released over a ten-year period. He was also well known for his roles in TV show Cracker and James Bond Films Goldeneye and The World is Not Enough.\n\nFormer England rugby union international Martin Bayfield, who acted as Coltrane's stunt double in the Harry Potter films, said the actor was \"incredibly funny\" and \"incredibly mischievous\", and that he had been struck by his \"warmth and generosity\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"He was great fun, very generous with his time and just a wonderful man.\"\n\nRobbie Coltrane was well known for playing Hagrid in the Harry Potter films\n\nThe franchise's biggest stars, who were young children when they first acted alongside Coltrane, have recalled his kindness and good humour on set.\n\nDaniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter, said: \"Robbie was one of the funniest people I've met and used to keep us laughing constantly as kids on that set.\n\n\"I've especially fond memories of him keeping our spirits up on Prisoner of Azkaban, when we were all hiding from the torrential rain for hours in Hagrid's hut and he was telling stories and cracking jokes to keep morale up.\"\n\nEmma Watson, who played Hermione Granger, said: \"Robbie, if I ever get to be so kind as you were to me on a film set I promise I'll do it in your name and memory.\"\n\nWriting on Instagram, she said the actor was like the \"most fun uncle\", adding that there was \"no better Hagrid\" and Coltrane \"made it a joy to be Hermione\".\n\nShe continued: \"I'll really miss your sweetness, your nicknames, your warmth, your laughs and your hugs.\"\n\nTom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy, shared his favourite scene with Coltrane from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"One of my fondest memories of filming Harry Potter was a night shoot on the first film in the forbidden forest.\n\n\"I was 12. Robbie cared & looked after everyone around of him. Effortlessly. And made them laugh. Effortlessly. Love you mate - thank you for everything xx\".\n\nActor Warwick Davis, who played Professor Flitwick, said: \"Always jovial, he brought warmth, light and laughter to any set he walked on to. RIP Robbie, Beloved Giant of comedy\".\n\nWhile Coltrane was best known to many younger fans as Hagrid, he had a successful career playing both comic and dramatic roles long before Harry Potter was created.\n\nActor Stephen Fry, who appeared alongside Coltrane in sketch comedy show Alfresco in the early 1980s, tweeted: \"Such depth, power and talent: funny enough to cause helpless hiccups and honking as we made our first TV show Alfresco. Farewell, old fellow, you'll be so dreadfully missed.\"\n\nFellow Alfresco actor Hugh Laurie, who also starred alongside Coltrane in sitcom Blackadder, recalled their time spent sharing car rides between Manchester and London. \"I don't think I've ever laughed or learned so much in my life\", he tweeted.\n\nBlackadder star Tony Robinson described Coltrane as \"such a sweet man\" who was \"so talented as a comic and as a straight actor\".\n\nColtrane was made an OBE in the 2006 New Year's honours list for his services to drama\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described Coltrane's death as \"very sad news\" and said her favourite performance by the actor was the role of Fitz in Cracker,\n\n\"He had such range and depth as an actor, from brilliant comedy to hard-edged drama,\" she wrote on Twitter. \"Robbie Coltrane, Scottish entertainment legend - you will be hugely missed. RIP.\"\n\nThe official James Bond Twitter account called Coltrane an \"exceptional actor whose talent knew no bounds\".\n\nBroadcaster Richard Coles added: \"Very sorry to hear Robbie Coltrane has died. We shared a dressing room once and he had the biggest pants I have ever seen, which he wore with tremendous flair. We were friends from then on.\"\n\nColtrane's agent Belinda Wright added in her statement: \"For me personally I shall remember him as an abidingly loyal client. As well as being a wonderful actor, he was forensically intelligent, brilliantly witty and after 40 years of being proud to be called his agent, I shall miss him.\"\n\nColtrane was made an OBE in the 2006 New Year's honours list for his services to drama and he was awarded the Bafta Scotland Award for outstanding contribution to film in 2011.", "'We mind the gap': Placard-waving protesters make their views known\n\nAbout 100 people have attended a protest seeking a replacement for a bridge destroyed during Storm Christoph in January 2021.\n\nLlanerch bridge linked the Denbighshire villages of Trefnant and Tremeirchion until an oak tree fell on it.\n\nVillagers have since faced a round trip diversion of five miles (8km).\n\nDenbighshire council said it \"understands local frustrations\" but was keeping residents up to date with developments through a newsletter.\n\nPlacards read \"We mind the gap\" and \"Build a bridge\" as protesters from Tremeirchion shouted over to their counterparts in Trefnant during Saturday's protest.\n\nLlanerch Bridge collapsed into the River Clwyd in January 2021\n\nLocal business owner Jane Marsh shut her tea hut due to the bridge collapse as customers from larger communities like St Asaph have been unable to make the journey.\n\n\"People here are frustrated,\" she said. \"From January 2021, why we are still in this position?\n\n\"It's costing people money in petrol to use shops, the chippy,\" she said. \"Why hasn't this been done?\"\n\nThe 200-year-old grade II-listed bridge is likely to be replaced by a wider structure with two lanes.\n\nHowever, this has led to concerns it could see the area become an unofficial bypass for the A55 at nearby St Asaph.\n\nCommunity councillor Dewi Davies said: \"It's approaching two years now and whilst we've been very reassured by the council that they will be rebuilding it subject to finding money, it's been two years and I don't see us much closer.\"\n\nWith her dog Alfie, villager Cath Easton also attended the protest, calling for more to be done to resolve the issue.\n\n\"It's taking way too much time, not just for us but for farmers - they're losing money here,\" she said.\n\nDenbighshire council said it has appointed consultants to look at initial designs and to consider options for how it would be positioned.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Joe Biden voices his disagreement to cutting taxes for the UK's \"super wealthy\"\n\nThe president of the United States, Joe Biden, has called Liz Truss's original economic policies \"a mistake\".\n\nIn an unusual intervention, he said the economic turmoil that followed the government's mini-budget had been \"predictable\".\n\nSpeaking at an ice cream shop in Oregon, Mr Biden was asked by reporters about the prime minister's attempt to boost growth with unfunded tax cuts - what the reporter called the \"trickle-down plan that she has had to back away from\".\n\nThe president replied: \"Well, it's predictable. I wasn't the only one that thought it was a mistake.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think that the idea of cutting taxes on the super wealthy at a time when - anyway, I just think - I disagreed with the policy, but that's up to Great Britain to make that judgment, not me.\"\n\nMr Biden has long been critical of the economic theory at the heart of the prime minister's policy, namely that cutting taxes on businesses and the rich generates growth that allows wealth to \"trickle down\" to all sectors of society.\n\nBut it is unusual for the president of the United States to be so critical of the leader of one of America's closest allies.\n\nMr Biden has been criticised in the past for not doing enough to support UK-US relations, preferring instead to focus his transatlantic relationship on Dublin, Paris and Berlin.\n\nBut he is not alone on the world stage in being puzzled at the way Britain is being governed and the choices being made by its politicians.\n\nGreek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has also joked about the UK's economic upheaval\n\nForeign ministers and British diplomats say there is a diplomatic cost to Britain's political turmoil, as well as an economic price.\n\nSome world leaders are even happy to laugh at Britain's expense in public. The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke to the Sunday Times about the concerns expressed by the International Monetary Fund about the state of Britain's economy.\n\n\"If you need experience in dealing with the IMF, we are here to help!\" he joked, a reference to Greece's own financial instability and support from the international body.\n\nDiplomats from countries suffering their own economic turmoil joke that their currency is stronger than the pound.\n\nAnd crucially, foreign diplomats feel able to break one of the first rules of diplomacy and criticise the domestic policies of their host governments, such as the German ambassador in London, Miguel Berger, who voiced his concerns about the government's economic plans.\n\nLiz Truss insists she will see through her \"mission\" to get Britain's economy growing\n\nOne UK diplomat told me: \"We are a laughing-stock. People come up to me and ask: 'What is going on in your country?' There is a grim fascination in it all. But when I want to talk about substance, they just say, \"let's wait until things have settled down and there's a plan.'\"\n\nForeign diplomats and ministers say they miss the role the UK used to play on the world stage, saying they long to see what some describe as \"the Britain of old\", that provided a calm, steady presence on the world stage.\n\nBritain was in the past seen by diplomats as one of those countries that followed due process and the rule of law and tended to be on the sensible side of any argument.\n\nOne European foreign minister told me this weekend: \"Wake up Britain! The world is on fire. We need you.\"\n\nThe international unease has been noted by the main opposition parties in the UK, with shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, saying the recent turmoil has \"made Britain's economy an international punchline\".\n\n\"President Biden knows the dangerous folly of trickle-down economics,\" the MP continued. \"His comments confirm the hit our reputation has taken thanks to the Conservatives.\"\n\nThe BBC approached the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office for a response, but it said it would not be commenting.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Chancellor admits mistakes made and some taxes will rise\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss and chancellor Jeremy Hunt will hold talks at Chequers later as the government tries to salvage its economic credibility.\n\nMr Hunt, who replaced Kwasi Kwarteng, said in a statement that his focus was on growth \"underpinned by stability\".\n\nHe warned there would be tax rises and savings in public spending, saying the mini-budget went \"too far, too fast\".\n\nPressure is growing on Ms Truss, with reports that a group of Conservative MPs is seeking to remove her as PM.\n\nSunday's meeting at Chequers is the first chance for the prime minister and her new right-hand man to hold detailed discussions about the fiscal plan after weeks of market turbulence sparked by September's mini-budget.\n\nBut many Conservative MPs are furious that Ms Truss has led the government into this period of instability. They are talking privately about trying to get the prime minister out of Downing Street.\n\nThere are \"definitely moves afoot behind the scenes\", according to former Home Office special adviser Mo Hussein.\n\n\"People have been organised, some of the bigger names are getting their supporters in line,\" he told BBC Breakfast, adding that next few days would be tumultuous.\n\nTalk of plots to oust Ms Truss dominates Sunday's papers. The Sunday Times reported that \"dozens\" of MPs had been discussing how to oust the PM, while the Sunday Telegraph said the Conservative party was \"on the brink of open warfare\".\n\nMeanwhile the Sunday Mirror reported that Ben Wallace could be the unity candidate to replace Liz Truss in Downing Street.\n\nThese reports come amid a series of interviews from the new chancellor on Saturday.\n\nMr Hunt signalled a shift away from Ms Truss's tax-cutting agenda and indicated he would reverse some of the key pledges made by his predecessor Mr Kwarteng, who was sacked on Friday.\n\nHe said this was necessary to ensure stability on the financial markets.\n\n\"Taxes are not going to come down by as much as people hoped, and some taxes will have to go up,\" the chancellor told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"I'm going to be asking all government departments to find additional efficiency savings.\"\n\nIt comes as the Times reported that Mr Hunt planned to delay by a year a 1p cut to the basic rate of income tax - a flagship part of the 23 September mini-budget.\n\nHowever, the Treasury has so far refused to confirm the report, with a spokesman saying: \"We cannot speculate on any tax changes outside of a fiscal event.\"\n\nTruss and Hunt are meeting at Chequers, the official country residence of the prime minister\n\nMr Hunt is due to outline the government's refreshed economic plan in a statement on 31 October, a task his predecessor was building up to following the aftermath of his mini-budget.\n\nIn his latest statement, released on Saturday night, Mr Hunt said: \"My focus is on growth underpinned by stability. The drive on growing the economy is right - it means more people can get good jobs, new businesses can thrive and we can secure world class public services. But we went too far, too fast.\n\nHe also said he intended to be \"honest with people\" about the \"very difficult decisions\" that had to be made \"both on spending and on tax to get debt falling\".\n\n\"I will set out clear and robust plans to make sure government spending is as efficient as possible, ensure taxpayer money is well spent and that we have rigorous control over our public finances,\" Mr Hunt added.\n\nMeanwhile, the PM's authority has come under increasing pressure - with some Tory MPs telling the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg Mr Hunt's appointment means Ms Truss is \"in office, but not really in power\".\n\nThe prime minister's hopes of survival could hinge on what she and her chancellor decide over the next two weeks.\n\nThere will be a budget at the end of the month that needs to convince financial markets and prove politically palatable to a fuming, mutinous Tory party.\n\nToday's meeting at the prime minister's country residence is their first chance to have detailed discussions about the government's new fiscal plan - which is expected to junk the tax-cutting agenda Liz Truss promised during the Tory leadership contest.\n\nJeremy Hunt has been clear that nothing is off the table and that tax rises and spending cuts will be needed. But many Conservative MPs are furious Liz Truss has led the government into this chaos and are talking privately about trying to turf her out.\n\nOne former minister predicted Ms Truss would be gone within weeks - but for now, she limps on, hoping the current turmoil subsides.\n\nThe imminent talks come as Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, warned that interest rates may need to be raised higher than previously expected in order to keep UK inflation under control.\n\n\"As things stand today, my best guess is that inflationary pressures will require a stronger response than we perhaps thought in August,\" Mr Bailey said in Washington, less than three weeks before the Bank's monetary policy committee is due to meet.\n\nTurning to his initial conversations with the new chancellor, Mr Bailey described an \"immediate meeting of minds on the importance of stability and sustainability\".\n\nElsewhere in the US, President Joe Biden weighed in on the political situation in the UK, saying he \"wasn't the only one that thought it was a mistake\" when asked about Ms Truss's original economic plan.\n\nHe called the outcome \"predictable\" but said, while he disagreed with the prime minister's policies, it was up to the British people.\n\nMr Biden also dismissed concerns about the strength of the dollar. \"The problem is the lack of economic growth and sound policy in other countries,\" he told a White House pool reporter.\n\nFollowing the mini-budget, the pound plummeted to a record low against the dollar and the cost of government borrowing climbed as markets reacted to the package - which was not accompanied by an official assessment of how the UK economy would perform.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fire has broken out in a building in central Leeds, as shown by this video by Twitter user @mediajoshg\n\nFire crews in Leeds tackled a large blaze in a city centre building on Saturday night.\n\nIt broke out on the top floors of a derelict high rise building in Cookridge Street, near the city's Millennium Square, at about 19:50 BST.\n\nA number of nearby pubs and restaurants were evacuated, the fire service said.\n\nTen fire engines worked to extinguish the blaze and a safety cordon was put in place as the fire service said the structure was \"potentially unsafe\".\n\nThe fire broke out in the top floors of a derelict high rise building\n\nStudent, Will Dunaway, 18, said he had just left a restaurant on nearby Oxford Place with his family when he saw the fire.\n\n\"Whatever it was that was on fire it looked like it was the top part that was on fire, the bottom part looked pretty intact.\n\n\"There was a lot of crackling and some explosions, like a popping sound.\n\n\"Nobody appeared to be in any danger as far as I could tell.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Fire Service said the police, ambulance service and a specialist response team were also on the scene.\n\nIt's a busy Saturday night in central Leeds, with the nearby 02 Academy bustling with people for the annual Live at Leeds music festival.\n\nMillennium Square has been taken over by fire engines, with police tape blocking off several streets.\n\nThe area smells strongly of burning plastics, with a hose on an aerial platform dousing flames in a building next to Leeds City Museum.\n\nThe fire broke out at around 19:50 BST\n\nEmergency services including a specialist response team are on the scene\n\nLeeds City Council leader James Lewis said the fire was in the Leonardo building, a former council property sold to developers which currently lies empty.\n\nHe said he understood the fire service had managed to contain it so that it did not spread to neighbouring buildings.\n\n\"I'm hugely thankful for the quick response from the fire service, they stopped it becoming a much more serious and destructive fire.\n\n\"I'm sure it was very worrying for people nearby.\n\n\"Certainly it was a very serious incident and had the fire service not reacted so quickly, it could have been much more devastating,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng insist the tax cuts announced in the mini-budget will boost economic growth - but they've promised a series of other policy changes which they say will also help grow the economy.\n\nThese so-called \"supply-side\" reforms were intended to be across eight areas: business regulations, agriculture, housing and planning, immigration, mobile and broadband, financial services, childcare, and energy.\n\nThey were supposed to be announced in the run-up to the chancellor's next economic statement - originally scheduled for the end of November, but now brought forward to 31 October.\n\nIf they were so central to the growth plan, then where are they?\n\nWe're now expecting the first of the announcements to come next week - but not all of them will be ready by the end of the month.\n\nThe delay suggests some of the proposed changes - like loosening planning rules to encourage building, or trying to attract more foreign workers to plug gaps in the labour market - are contentious within government and the wider party, and are still being haggled over.\n\n\"Some of the areas they are looking at are very promising - in particular the area of land use,\" says Greg Thwaites, research director at the Resolution Foundation think tank.\n\n\"Some of the planned reforms wouldn't be game-changers in and of themselves. The point is to develop a package that adds up to something that makes a difference.\"\n\nRemember what will accompany the chancellor's economic plan on Halloween is an independent assessment by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) watchdog of the impact of the government's plans.\n\nThe Treasury initially said it wanted the chancellor to make his next statement in November, so the OBR would be able to take all the additional reforms into account alongside the tax cuts - and assess how much the whole package of measures would contribute to economic growth.\n\nNow because of the time pressure, the OBR won't have the complete picture of the government's plans, although they are being presented with some policy decisions privately.\n\nBut does this mean its growth projection won't be as high as it could have been if the government had outlined all the measures it intended?\n\nWell there's a question of how much difference to growth mooted increases in childcare ratios for example, would make.\n\n\"They didn't say anything about skills or business investment - things that would make a real difference to productivity and growth,\" says the Resolution Foundation's Mr Thwaites.\n\nAnd he adds that the impact of the supply-side changes will probably only be felt in the longer term: \"It takes time to get rules changed and it takes time for them to take effect.\"\n\nThe OBR is still working towards its all-important final fiscal and growth forecast, and will work with the Treasury to incorporate new information right up until a few days before the chancellor's economic statement.\n\nA lot rests on what it comes up with.", "Kwasi Kwarteng will use his Conservative conference speech later to insist the government will \"stay the course\" on his tax-cutting growth plan.\n\nThe chancellor's approach has sparked market turmoil and disquiet among some Conservative MPs, but he will argue his plan is \"the right one\".\n\nWithout action, the country is heading for \"slow decline\", he will warn.\n\nMr Kwarteng is under pressure after a backlash against his mini-budget, unveiled on 23 September.\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Michael Gove and Grant Shapps have criticised the decision to remove the 45% top tax rate, with former transport secretary Mr Shapps predicting the proposal would be defeated in the Commons.\n\nBut Mr Kwarteng and Prime Minister Liz Truss have so far doubled down on their argument that their tax-cutting plans are needed to boost the UK's economy after more than a decade of sluggish growth.\n\nIn his first speech to a Conservative conference as chancellor, Mr Kwarteng will tell the audience in Birmingham: \"We must face up to the facts that for too long our economy has not grown enough.\n\n\"I refuse to accept that it is somehow Britain's destiny to fall into middle income status… or that the tax burden reaching a 70-year-high is somehow inevitable.\n\n\"It isn't, and shouldn't be.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Gove described the plan to cut the 45p top rate of tax as \"a display of the wrong values\", suggesting he would vote against the policy if it came before the Commons.\n\nAnd Mr Shapps, who supported Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest, warned Ms Truss not to have a \"tin ear\" to voters' concerns about rising living costs by introducing \"tax cuts for wealthy people\".\n\nAlso speaking on Sunday, Ms Truss acknowledged she should have \"laid the ground better\" for the tax changes her government was proposing.\n\nBut she stood by the decision to \"act quickly\" and promised to win over the \"hearts and minds\" of MPs in her own party who opposed the measures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: Cutting tax for the wealthiest \"a display of the wrong values\"\n\nAlso in his speech, Mr Kwarteng will argue he has a \"new approach\" focused on raising economic growth, which he says would create \"higher wages, more jobs and crucially, revenue to fund our precious public services\".\n\nIn a response to criticism that the government's tax-and-spend plans do not add up, he will say that his measures will be \"backed by an iron-clad commitment to fiscal discipline\".\n\n\"We will show that our plan is sound, credible and will increase growth.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng's £45bn package of measures outlined in the mini-budget also included cutting the basic rate of income tax to 19% from April 2023, as well as reducing stamp duty for some buyers.\n\nThe government had already announced it would be freezing energy prices for two years, estimating that the intervention would cost £60bn in the first six months alone.\n\nConcern about how the government's proposals would be paid for was heightened by the Treasury's decision not to publish an assessment by the independent spending watchdog the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) - and by Mr Kwarteng's suggestion that more tax cuts could come.\n\nIn the days following the chancellor's announcement, the value of the pound fell and the cost of government borrowing rose, forcing the Bank of England to make a £65bn intervention to calm markets.\n\nMr Kwarteng is due to set out further details of his economic plan on 23 November, along with a forecast by the OBR.", "The BBC has said \"technical glitches\" were to blame for a temporary blackout during an interview with Prime Minister Liz Truss.\n\nThe problems occurred during the prime minister's live TV interview ahead of the Tory party conference in Birmingham.\n\n\"There was a technical glitch during the programme which was quickly resolved,\" a BBC spokesperson said.\n\nThe issues started a few minutes into the show as Ms Kuenssberg spoke with the panel, which included former minister Michael Gove and the Guardian's political editor Pippa Crerar.\n\nThen, just as the prime minister's interview was starting, the screen went blank for about 30 seconds, and was followed by the BBC's news titles. When the show re-started Ms Truss was discussing issues related to people's energy bills.\n\nAt the end of the interview, Ms Kuenssberg told viewers: \"Thanks for sticking with us during some technical glitches during that interview. Apologies for that.\"\n\nOnline commentators quipped that the error was deliberate, with one joking it would help viewers prepare for blackouts this winter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Torsten Bell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDuring the interview, Ms Truss admitted she could have \"laid the ground better\" for her mini-budget, which led to several days of concerns among the markets.\n\nShe added that the decision to cut the top earner tax rate from 45% to 40% was a \"decision that the chancellor made\".\n\nFormer minister Michael Gove said the cut displayed the \"wrong values,\" and signalled he wouldn't vote for it.\n\nHe also said he was \"profoundly concerned\" about the decision to borrow to fund the tax cuts, calling it \"not Conservative\".", "Bruce Willis's agent has denied reports that the film star has sold the rights to his face.\n\nLast week, it was widely reported that Willis, in the first deal of its kind, had sold his face to a deepfake company called Deepcake.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson for the actor told the BBC that he had \"no partnership or agreement\" with the company.\n\nAnd a representative of Deepcake said only Willis had the rights to his face.\n\nWillis announced his retirement from acting in March after being diagnosed with aphasia, a disorder that affects speech.\n\nDeepfakes use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology to create realistic videos - often of celebrities or politicians. For actors that can no longer act, the technology has the potential to be game-changing.\n\nOn 27 September, the Daily Mail reported that a deal had been struck between Willis and Deepcake.\n\n\"Two-time Emmy winner Bruce Willis can still appear in movies after selling his image rights to Deepcake,\" the story reads.\n\nThe story was picked up by the Telegraph and a series of other media outlets.\n\n\"Bruce Willis has become the first Hollywood star to sell his rights to allow a 'digital twin' of himself to be created for use on screen.\" said the Telegraph.\n\nBut that doesn't appear to be the case.\n\nWhat is true is that a deepfake of Bruce Willis was used to create an advert for Megafon, a Russian telecoms company, last year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Reuters This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tech used in the advert was created by Deepcake, which describes itself as an AI company specializing in deepfakes.\n\nDeepcake told the BBC it had worked closely with Willis' team on the advert.\n\n\"What he definitely did is that he gave us his consent (and a lot of materials) to make his Digital Twin,\" they said.\n\nThe company says it has a unique library of high-resolution celebrities, influencers and historical figures.\n\nOn its website, Deepcake promotes its work with an apparent quote from Mr Willis: \"I liked the precision of my character. It's a great opportunity for me to go back in time.\n\n\"The neural network was trained on content of Die Hard and Fifth Element, so my character is similar to the images of that time.\"\n\nHowever, Willis's agent told the BBC, \"Please know that Bruce has no partnership or agreement with this Deepcake company.\"\n\nThe BBC asked Willis's agent whether he had ever worked with Deepcake, or whether the quote used by the company was accurate.\n\nThe BBC has not yet received a response.\n\nIn a statement from Deepcake, the company said reports that it had bought the rights to Bruce Willis's face were inaccurate.\n\n\"The wording about rights is wrong… Bruce couldn't sell anyone any rights, they are his by default,\" a representative for the company said.\n\nThe confusion highlights just how new this technology is - and the lack of clear rules around it.\n\nAI replacement appears to be a growing trend. Darth Vader actor James Earl Jones has recently retired from playing the famous character, but his voice has carried on. Respeecher, another AI firm, has reportedly used archival materials and a proprietary algorithm to replicate the Vader vocals.\n\nThis summer, Disney released its latest Star Wars spinoff, Obi-Wan Kenobi. The show used Respeecher's technology to reproduce Vader's speech and even make him sound younger.\n\nIn April, Equity, the UK's performing arts workers union, launched the campaign, Stop AI Stealing The Show. Some are concerned AI deep fakes could take work away from actors.\n\nThere are also concerns that actors could lose control of their faces and voices.\n\nYou can follow Ben Derico and James Clayton on Twitter @ben_derico & @jamesclayton5", "There has been a spike in Palestinian deaths since Israel launched an operation to quell attacks\n\nAt least 100 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem this year amid a massive increase in Israeli military raids, according to figures compiled by the BBC.\n\nThe number was reached as an 18-year-old man was shot dead in East Jerusalem on Saturday and after a week which saw Israeli forces reportedly firing an anti-tank missile at a house in Jenin that killed a wanted gunman and three others.\n\nIt means this year is now on course to become the deadliest for Palestinians in the West Bank since 2015.\n\nThe vast majority were shot dead by Israeli security forces and several by armed Israeli civilians.\n\nIn a small number of cases the source of gunfire - Israeli or Palestinian - is disputed, while one man was shot dead during an arrest raid carried out by Palestinian security forces.\n\nAs human rights groups express mounting alarm, the figures show nearly a fifth of the Palestinians killed were children, the youngest of whom was 14.\n\nMeanwhile the US this week called for an immediate investigation after a seven-year-old boy died of apparent heart failure when the Israeli military came to the family home after his brothers were accused of throwing stones. The army says an initial inquiry found no connection between its search and the boy's death.\n\nThe list of fatalities includes gunmen from militant groups, teenagers and young men shot after reportedly throwing stones or petrol bombs, unarmed civilians and bystanders, protesters and anti-settlement activists, and individuals carrying out alleged knife attacks or using other weapons against Israeli soldiers or civilians.\n\nPalestinian officials have accused Israel of carrying out \"field executions\", while the period also saw the worst wave of violence against Israelis in years.\n\nIn the spring, a spate of deadly attacks by Arab Israelis and Palestinians killed 16 Israelis and two foreigners, after which near nightly army raids have taken place in the West Bank as Israeli officials said they would aggressively counter a growing terrorism threat.\n\nTheir pace has stoked fears of a much wider flare-up, with the Israeli military accused of routinely using excessive force and collective punishment, while security forces of the Western-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) have been losing their grip to armed groups whose firepower has grown to levels unmatched in years.\n\nThe raids frequently spark gunfights with young, newly-armed militants in densely populated areas of Jenin and Nablus.\n\nIsraeli and Palestinian officials blame each other for the security collapse in the northern West Bank.\n\nArmed groups have more control in some areas than Palestinian security forces\n\nIn a statement the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it used live fire when all other options were exhausted in response to \"violent riots and acts of terrorism daily\".\n\nIt said: \"In the case of the death of a Palestinian as a result of IDF activity, a Military Police criminal investigation is generally launched to clarify the circumstances of the incident. However, in incidents where the operations were of a real combat nature, a criminal investigation is not immediately launched.\"\n\nIn August, then-UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said many cases appeared to break international law combined with \"an almost total lack of accountability\".\n\nOur analysis of the Palestinian death toll draws on a range of sources including the BBC's own on-the-ground coverage, regional media reporting and official statements cross-referenced with reports from non-governmental groups and UN agencies.\n\nThe youngest Palestinian killed in the West Bank was 14-year-old Mohammad Salah, shot by soldiers in late February close to Israel's separation barrier south of Bethlehem.\n\nThe IDF alleged he threw petrol bombs on to a road but didn't say why it used lethal force to stop this. His family say he wasn't close to the road when he was shot dead.\n\nThe oldest fatalities were two 80-year-old men in separate incidents. One of them, Palestinian-American Omar Assad, died from a heart attack after being bound and gagged by troops during a village search in January.\n\nThe army later said it had suspended two officers from command positions and passed the file to military investigators.\n\nBy mid-March, 20 Palestinians had been killed, before this year's deadly wave of violence that struck Israel's streets.\n\nA wave of attacks earlier this year by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs on the streets of Israel caused shock and anger\n\nThose attacks were carried out by Arab Israeli supporters of the Islamic State group and by Palestinian gunmen mostly from the Jenin area.\n\nThe deadliest attack was claimed by the militant group al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades while each was praised by Hamas - the Palestinian militant group that dominates the blockaded Gaza strip - and Islamic Jihad. All three are listed by Israel and the West as terrorist organisations.\n\nThe Israeli military then launched Operation Breakwater. Naftali Bennett, prime minister at the time, gave security forces \"full freedom\" to end the threats. \"There are not and will not be limits for this war,\" he said.\n\nOf the 100 fatalities, most were shot dead by Israeli forces during search, arrest and punitive home demolition raids.\n\nMore than half the total number have been in Jenin and Nablus or surrounding villages in the northern West Bank.\n\nAround a third of all those killed were militant gunmen. In many but not all cases Israeli soldiers shot them during or after reported exchanges of fire, although the IDF virtually never gives accounts of what happens in any detail.\n\nAcross the West Bank, at least a quarter of the total number of fatalities took place when soldiers used live ammunition to fire at young men or teenagers in groups it said had thrown stones, petrol bombs or improvised explosives.\n\nIn June the BBC witnessed the aftermath of an army raid into Jenin, reportedly a weapons search, in which gunmen from three militant groups were said to have pursued and fired at army jeeps, before an Israeli sniper on a rooftop shot them dead in their car.\n\nSeveral young men also suffered bullet wounds after apparently throwing stones, while crowds outside the hospital called for revenge.\n\nIt came amid a collapse of security control by the PA, which has limited powers to govern Palestinian cities.\n\nWe saw the growth of weaponry in Jenin refugee camp, new formations of militants - many still just teenagers - and a rejection of the formal Palestinian leadership viewed as corrupt and unwilling to defend them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Guns and grief on the rise in the West Bank\n\nYoung gunmen backed by established armed groups have fused into the Jenin Brigade, while in Nablus militants patrolling the Ottoman-era alleyways of the Old City dub themselves the Den of Lions.\n\nIn the summer Israeli forces targeted the group's 19-year-old leader Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, or the Lion of Nablus, as he was known from his TikTok videos - as part of a trend for such footage to go viral among Palestinians.\n\nEarly on 9 August soldiers raided the city in unmarked vans, surrounded his safe house and fired shoulder launched missiles at it, killing him and another gunman.\n\nIsrael wanted al-Nabulsi for a spate of shooting attempts against Israelis around Nablus. Another two Palestinians, including a 16-year-old boy, were also shot dead during the raid in unclear circumstances.\n\nThe building's ruins have become a shrine, where other gunmen vow to fight on.\n\nBut this is an \"uneven battle\", according to Amos Harel, defence analyst for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, given Israel's overwhelming military superiority.\n\nHe says the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) did two things to try to stem the threat of attacks: It flooded Israel's West Bank separation barrier with troops, and readied battalions and commando units to raid Palestinian cities to carry out \"preventative\" arrests.\n\nMr Harel was embedded with Israeli forces on a raid into Jenin refugee camp in March.\n\n\"You saw young people on motorcycles getting close to the Israeli jeeps, sometimes 20 or 30 metres [65-100ft] behind them, and just shooting,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"This is different [from the recent past]. These are people who are willing to fight and willing to die.\"\n\nAccording to the figures, 19 Palestinian children have been killed in the West Bank this year.\n\nMost of the under-18s were shot dead by Israeli soldiers during military search-and-arrest raids or anti-occupation protests.\n\nOne boy was killed while carrying out an alleged hammer attack on a soldier.\n\nUday Salah, 17, killed during an Israeli operation in Jenin, was one of 19 child fatalities in West Bank violence this year\n\nThe human rights group Defence for Children International (DCI) Palestine has said the death toll indicates a \"complete disregard for international norms\" by the Israeli military.\n\nIn July, 16-year-old Amjad Nasr was shot dead in the village of Al Mughayyir, where tensions frequently erupt as Israeli settlers have targeted nearby land to build illegal outposts.\n\nPalestinians and settlers confronted each other, both groups throwing stones, while at least one of the settlers was armed with a machine gun.\n\nVideo of the moment Amjad was hit shows him starting to run away as a gunshot is heard.\n\nA soldier can be seen nearby although it's still not clear who fired the fatal bullet - Amjad's family maintain it was one of the settlers.\n\nAmjad's father, Nashaat Nasr, told the BBC he had not received any explanation from the army about his son's death.\n\n\"Life has changed a lot without Amjad. He left school to help me as I suffered from cancer and underwent chemotherapy treatment. He used to help the family,\" he said.\n\nAsked about the incident at the time the Israeli army said it was being \"examined\", and forwarded the BBC a video and photos of Palestinians on a road attacking a passing Israeli car with stones. It didn't respond to questions about how this was connected to the shooting of Amjad Nasr in a different location while he was running from security forces.\n\nThe IDF subsequently said a military police investigation was under way into his death.\n\nMeanwhile, the IDF's competence or willingness to investigate itself over fatal incidents has been increasingly subject to question this year.\n\nAfter the killing in Jenin of the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, Israeli officials gave misleading statements to the media, before a final internal probe falsely suggested a soldier probably mistakenly shot her because he was being fired at by militants from her location at the time.\n\nIsraeli civilians have repeatedly been targeted by Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank\n\nThe IDF routinely says it acts to protect its civilians and soldiers from \"violent riots\" during raids or protests, while officials defend its rules of engagement allowing for the use of live fire.\n\nTwo years ago, a 21-year-old Israeli soldier was killed when a large rock was thrown at him from a rooftop during an arrest raid near Jenin.\n\nThis year, two members of Israel's security forces have been killed in the escalating violence in the West Bank.\n\nOne of them, Maj Bar Falah, was shot dead in September near the separation barrier in a reported gunfight with two Palestinian militants who were also killed.\n\nThe IDF says the number of gun attacks by Palestinians targeting civilians and the military in the West Bank has risen three-fold compared with last year. It put the number at 170 by mid-September.\n\nIsraeli officials also briefed reporters that Operation Breakwater had prevented 550 separate attacks in the last two months, but did not provide further details.\n\nIn at least eight cases this year Palestinians were killed during attempted or alleged attacks against Israeli soldiers or settlers in the West Bank.\n\nOn 31 March, an Israeli bus passenger was stabbed with a screwdriver near the settlement of Efrat, leaving him badly wounded. Another Israeli civilian onboard shot dead the alleged attacker, 30-year-old Palestinian Nidal Jaafra.\n\nMeanwhile the frequent IDF raids have seen more than 1,500 Palestinians arrested since April.\n\nAseel AlBajeh, an advocacy officer with the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq, describes the overall impact of Israel's operation as \"collective punishment on the entire region\", citing further restrictions on movement, the closure of military checkpoints to Israel, denial of work permits and detentions without trial that have accompanied it.\n\nMany Palestinian families have been waiting for a clear explanation about loved ones' deaths.\n\nOmar, child of Ghada Sabatien, with a picture of his mother who was killed by an Israeli soldier\n\nA 47-year-old widow, Ghada Sabatien, was shot dead by an Israeli soldier at close range after the IDF says she \"ignored orders to halt\". It happened on 10 April in the village of Husan near Bethlehem.\n\nShe was unarmed and a subsequent report by the UN's humanitarian affairs agency said she was visually impaired. The IDF said afterwards it had opened an investigation into her death.\n\nHuman rights groups say they will seek to add many of this year's cases to a current investigation by the International Criminal Court into possible war crimes by Israel and Palestinian armed groups.\n\nIn August, 49 Palestinians were also killed in the Gaza Strip during a military escalation between Israel and Islamic Jihad.\n\nThe list of 100 fatalities does not include Palestinians who were killed this year while carrying out the attacks inside Israel.\n• None Guns and grief on the rise in the West Bank. Video, 00:07:07Guns and grief on the rise in the West Bank", "Police say a \"large quantity\" of what is thought to be cocaine was found washed up on Tan y Bwlch beach in Aberystwyth\n\nPolice are investigating after a \"significant quantity\" of what is thought be cocaine was found washed up on a beach in Wales.\n\nA large number of black bags tied to buoyancy aids were found on Tan-y-Bwlch beach near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, by passers-by on Saturday morning.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said no arrests had been made and the precise quantity was yet to be established.\n\nThe force thanked those who informed police after finding the packages.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Dyfed-Powys Police is investigating the discovery of a significant quantity of what is thought to be cocaine, spotted along the Ceredigion coast this weekend.\n\n\"Inquiries are being undertaken to establish how such an unusually large amount of the controlled drug came to wash up on the Welsh shore, following recent storms.\n\n\"The precise quantity is still being established and at this time no-one has been arrested in relation to this matter.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About 42,000 runners embarked on the 26.2-mile run from Greenwich to The Mall - some donning fancy dress costumes\n\nA Spiderman, Shrek and a red postbox featuring the King's new cypher were among the fancy dress costumes donned by some of the thousands who took part in the London Marathon this year.\n\nWhether as a personal challenge or for charity, runners wore colourful, large, and occasionally furry costumes as they ran the 26.2-mile (42km) course.\n\nMore than 40,000 runners took on the race from Greenwich to The Mall.\n\nIt is the third time the event is being held in October.\n\nA man took on the race wearing a bright red postbox featuring the King's new cypher\n\nThe race moved from its traditional spring spot due to the coronavirus pandemic, but will return in April next year.\n\nThe event, which is in its 42nd year, was started by Lionesses Leah Williamson, Ellen White and Jill Scott, from England's Women's Euro 2022 team.\n\nRunners in an array of colourful costumes are taking part in this year's race\n\nA runner dressed up as Shrek for the race\n\nWilliamson sounded the buzzer for the wheelchair races to begin at about 08:50 BST, while White started the women's elite race at 09:00 and Scott pressed the buzzer to send the elite men and everyone else across the start line by 10:00.\n\nAmong the famous faces who took part, were actors Cynthia Erivo and Stephen Mangan and reality TV star turned presenter Mark Wright, who was forced to drop out last year due to injury.\n\nTV star Mark Wright finished his first ever London Marathon\n\nSir Mo Farah was due to run but had to pull out earlier in the week through injury.\n\nThe runners were cheered on by thousands of people who lined the streets to offer water, food, or just shouts of encouragement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCostumes were not a deterrent for those determined to complete the race.\n\nThe sun came out as participants ran past Big Ben\n\nThis year's race is taking place in October for the third and final time, after it was moved in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic\n\nThe men's wheelchair title was retained by Switzerland's Marcel Hug in a course record time of one hour, 24 minutes and 38 seconds.\n\nHe won a sprint finish against American Daniel Romanchuk with Britain's David Weir, in his 23rd London Marathon, coming home in third.\n\nAn ice cream cone costume were also among the London Marathon participants as thousands descended on the streets of the capital\n\nThe feeling as people cross the finish line is absolutely buzzing. These people have travelled 26.2 miles to get here.\n\nSome look great, while others look a little bit broken.\n\nWe've also had a few records. I've just seen someone dressed as a pencil crossing the finish line, breaking a Guinness World Record.\n\nWhile some are on their way down The Mall to have a well-deserved break, some still have a while to go on the route. But spectators are giving them high fives and shouting out runners' names to give them that final push.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"I want to applaud everyone running today. Having taken part myself in 2014, I know how incredibly challenging and rewarding it can be.\n\n\"It's amazing to see tens of thousands of people taking to the streets of London to support good causes.\"\n\nEngland's David Weir was interviewed after finishing third in the men's wheelchair race\n\nThere was no monkeying around for this runner...\n\nCatherine Debrunner made it a Swiss double with victory in the women's wheelchair race in one hour, 38 minutes and 24 seconds.\n\nEden Rainbow-Cooper, 21, claimed another third place for Britain behind Susannah Scaroni of the USA.\n\nEthiopia's Yalemzerf Yehualaw won the women's race in 2 hours, 17 minutes and 25 seconds, while Kenyan Amos Kipruto won the men's race in two hours, four minutes and 39 seconds.\n\nFurther coverage of the race is on the Red Button and the BBC Sport website app.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "King Charles will not attend the climate change conference COP27, which is due to be held in Egypt next month, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.\n\nIt was responding to a story in the Sunday Times which claimed Prime Minister Liz Truss had \"ordered\" the King not to attend.\n\nThe Palace said advice had been sought by the King and given by Ms Truss.\n\n\"With mutual friendship and respect there was agreement that the King would not attend,\" the Palace stated.\n\nBefore his accession to the throne last month, the King - then the Prince of Wales - had indicated he would attend the annual conference.\n\nRoyal correspondent Jonny Dymond said the BBC had put it to the Palace the King must be personally disappointed given his long decades of passionate environmental campaigning.\n\nBut the Palace responded that the idea the King was uncomfortable was not the case, and he was ever mindful of the sovereign's role to act on the government's advice.\n\nLast November - as Prince Charles - the King travelled to Egypt with the then-government's blessing to urge the Egyptian administration on its efforts, meeting President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi during a planned visit.\n\nIn the past, the King has demonstrated his deep commitment to environmental issues and, as Prince of Wales, had a long history of campaigning to reduce the effects of climate change.\n\nOnly last year he made a speech at the COP26 opening ceremony in Glasgow, when the summit was hosted by the UK. The late Queen also gave a speech at the event, via video link.\n\nSenior Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood said he hoped \"common sense would prevail\" and the King would be allowed to go Egypt.\n\nHe said in a tweet that King Charles was a \"globally-respected voice\" on the environment whose attendance would add \"serious authority\" to the British delegation.\n\nAt last year's COP26 conference, King Charles - or Prince Charles as he was then - was one of the star turns, delivering a passionate call for world leaders to adopt a \"war-like footing\" over climate change.\n\nThis year he'll have to keep his powder dry, after what's presented, on the surface at least, as a dispute-free agreement that he shouldn't go.\n\nAlthough it's worth noting this is about not attending \"in person\", which might leave the door ajar for other virtual contributions.\n\nThere will inevitably be speculation that, below all the constitutional smoothing, this will have really disappointed the King. He has campaigned devotedly for decades, heart on sleeve, on such environmental issues.\n\nAnd it could also raise the prospect of early tensions between a new King and a new PM.\n\nBut it's a case of different role, different rules, and the King has always known that as sovereign he would have to act within a different set of politically-neutral constraints.\n\nConservative Cabinet minister Simon Clarke said the decision for the King not to attend had been made \"amicably, as far as I am aware\".\n\n\"The suggestions this morning that he was ordered to stay away are simply not true,\" he told Times Radio. \"It is the normal course of matters that this would be handled by the government rather than by the monarchy.\"\n\nThe Egyptian authorities say they hope to use their presidency of COP27 to urge the international community to act on pledges of support for developing countries to cope with the devastating impacts of climate change.\n\nHowever, there has been criticism ahead of the summit. Human Rights Watch has said Egypt has severely curtailed the work of environmental groups. Officials in Cairo said the report was \"misleading\".\n\nCOP27, a United Nations event, is being held in the coastal city of Sharm el-Sheikh from 8 to 16 November.\n\nNext week, King Charles will attend his first public engagements since the royal period of mourning came to an end, including a reception in Edinburgh for South Asian communities from across the UK and a visit to Dunfermline Abbey in Fife.\n\nA new picture of the King with the Queen Consort, Prince and Princess of Wales was released on Saturday\n\nOn Monday, Downing Street dismissed claims it \"ordered\" the King not to attend the summit.\n\nA spokesperson said it was a matter for the Royal Family whether any members address the COP27 climate conference.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman would not comment on conversations between the prime minister and the King, but said the UK had a \"proud record\" on tackling climate change.\n\nBuckingham Palace previously said the King sought advice on attending the conference from Ms Truss with \"mutual friendship and respect\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: Cutting tax for the wealthiest \"a display of the wrong values\"\n\nSenior Tory Michael Gove has suggested he would not vote for Liz Truss's Budget when it comes to Parliament, saying \"I don't believe it's right.\"\n\nThe former cabinet minister said the PM's decision to cut the 45p tax rate was \"a display of the wrong values\".\n\nHe also argued that using borrowed money to fund tax cuts was \"not Conservative\".\n\nMs Truss has said she stands by her tax-cutting package arguing it would boost growth.\n\nHowever, speaking to the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, the prime minister acknowledged she could have \"laid the ground better\" before announcing the changes.\n\nLast month's mini-budget, which included the surprise announcement that the tax rate for the highest earners would be cut, triggered turmoil in the markets and concern among some Conservative MPs.\n\nTalking to Sky News, Conservative Party chairman Jake Berry warned that Tory MPs who vote against the prime minister's tax measures would be kicked out of the parliamentary party - known as losing the whip.\n\nA parliamentary vote on the plans is not likely to take place until next spring.\n\nHe urged Conservatives to back the prime minister, adding: \"I'm sure that if we do that it will lead ultimately to long-term electoral success.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Gove - who supported Ms Truss's rival Rishi Sunak in the Conservative leadership contest - has hinted he may not support the measures in Parliament.\n\nThe veteran minister, who was levelling up secretary for former PM Boris Johnson, welcomed the prime minister's acknowledgement that she had made mistakes in communicating her economic measures - but he was also critical of the substance of her policies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Prime Minister Liz Truss says she stands by plans announced in the mini-budget\n\nMr Gove said there were \"two major\" problems with the prime minister's plans.\n\n\"The first is the sheer risk of using borrowed money to fund tax cuts - that's not Conservative,\" he said.\n\nThe second, he argued, was to cut the top rate of income tax and scrap the cap on bankers' bonuses \"at a time when people are suffering\".\n\nAsked if Ms Truss would be prime minister this time next year, he said she would but added: \"There needs to be a course correction.\"\n\nA dozen Conservative MPs have now gone public with concerns about the mini-budget but privately many more are worried. At the very least, they want the 45p tax cut dropped.\n\nOne minister thinks Michael Gove could become the rallying point for a rebellion with 20 or 30 MPs who feel they've got nothing to lose because current polls suggest their seats will be lost.\n\nBut Mr Gove isn't universally respected. As one former Cabinet minister put it to me: \"He doesn't have any influence in the party. It's a personal attack on Liz like it was on Boris, twice.\"\n\nThere are no planned binding votes on income tax cuts until next year. Opponents will need to be creative if they want to register their disapproval in Parliament and they could be booted out of the party if they do so.\n\nAppearing on the Telegraph's Chopper's Politics Live podcast, Mr Gove was asked if Ms Truss - who won the leadership contest over Rishi Sunak with a majority among the 170,000 Conservative members - had a mandate for her tax changes.\n\nMr Gove said she did for changes to National Insurance and corporation tax because she had campaigned for it during the leadership contest.\n\n\"What was not discussed was the prospect of income tax cuts, particularly income tax cuts for the very wealthiest,\" he added.\n\nHe is the most senior Conservative MP to date who has criticised Ms Truss's tax policies.\n\nLast week some fellow Tories expressed concern, including Robert Largan who said cutting the 45p tax rate was a \"mistake\", while Sir Charles Walker said the mini-Budget looked like \"some numbers written down on the back of a fag packet\".\n\nResponding to Mr Berry's threat that Conservatives who vote against Ms Truss's tax measures would lose the party whip, Julian Smith - a former chief whip - tweeted: \"The first job of an MP is to act in the interest of their constituents and in the national interest.\n\n\"We cannot clap for carers one month and cut tax for millionaires months later.\"\n\nElsewhere, another former cabinet minister has criticised Ms Truss for saying the decision to scrap the 45p tax rate was made by the Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng.\n\nEx-Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries tweeted: \"One of Boris Johnson's faults was that he could sometimes be too loyal and he got that.\n\n\"However, there is a balance and throwing your chancellor under a bus on the first day of conference really isn't it.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nIt's one of the most special days on the calendar every year - that's right, the London Marathon is almost upon us.\n\nOn Sunday, some 42,000 people are expected to run the 26.2 miles from Greenwich to The Mall, raising millions of pounds for charities as they go.\n\nThis year's marathon marks the third and final time it will take place in October - moved because of the Covid-19 pandemic - with the race returning to its traditional spring date in 2023.\n\nHere's everything you need to know about the 2022 London Marathon.\n\nThe race will be officially started by England's Euro 2022 champions Leah Williamson, Ellen White and Jill Scott - the latter no stranger to the event after winning the Mini Marathon back in 2001.\n\nFour-time Olympic champion Mo Farah had been due to headline this year's elite men's race but withdrew earlier in the week because of a hip injury, while women's world record holder Brigid Kosgei - a two-time winner in London - was also forced to pull out.\n\nEliud Kipchoge, who broke his own men's marathon world record last week in Berlin, is not taking part but will be in London to present medals to winners in the Mini Marathon on Saturday.\n\nIn his absence, defending London Marathon champion Sisay Lemma and Ethiopian compatriot Kenenisa Bekele are among the favourites for the men's title, while the women's race is headlined by last year's winner Joyciline Jepkosgei of Kenya and Ethiopia's Yalemzerf Yehualaw, who set the fastest debut time for a marathon.\n\nCharlotte Purdue flies the flag for the Brits in the elite women's race, while Phil Sesemann will hope to improve on his seventh-place finish from last year in the elite men's.\n\nIn the wheelchair races, Switzerland's Marcel Hug and Manuela Schar are back to defend their titles in the men's and women's races respectively, while Australia's Paralympic marathon winner Madison de Rozario and Great Britain's eight-time London Marathon champion David Weir will also compete for a share of the biggest wheelchair racing prize in history.\n\nThe winners of both the men's and women's races will take home $35,000 (£31,559) each, up from $25,000 (£22,542) last year.\n\n\"For the London Marathon to be taking a stand and increasing prize money for wheelchair athletes is really powerful and sets a benchmark for all sports globally,\" said Weir, who is making his 23rd consecutive London Marathon appearance.\n\nThe mass start race sets off at the same time as the elite men, and sporting stars to look out for include double Olympic rowing gold medallist James Cracknell, ex-British sprinter Iwan Thomas, former England footballers Danny Mills and Stephen Warnock, Millwall manager Gary Rowett, and Formula E driver Sam Bird.\n\nKeep your eyes peeled for other famous faces too, such as BBC News presenter Sophie Raworth, McFly drummer Harry Judd, radio DJs Chris Stark and Reece Parkinson, and TV star Mark Wright.\n• None 'We are running the London Marathon for our country, our people'\n• None Blood, sweat & running - how hard is it to do the marathon on your period?\n\nThere are 28 official Guinness World Record attempts being made at the London Marathon this year, including the fastest marathon dressed as a bottle, wearing riot gear, and on crutches.\n\nThe oldest participant is 89-year-old Koichi Kitabatake from Japan, while Alex Horsley from Bournemouth will celebrate his 18th birthday on marathon day. He is one of 205 birthday runners who will hope to be on the start line on Sunday.\n\nThat could depend on the rail strikes that have been causing headaches for those travelling to London.\n\nOrganisers say they are doing \"everything we can\" to help runners facing travel disruption due to a planned strike by rail workers, with 90% of rail services not running on Saturday. Services are also due to start later than usual on the morning of the race.\n\nRace director Hugh Brasher told BBC Sport that runners who arrive late will be allowed to start in a later pen.\n\nThis year, a small section of the marathon route will be turned into Rainbow Row to \"celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community, promote inclusivity and create a carnival atmosphere for participants as they pass through the final part of their marathon journey\".\n\nThe 250m stretch will be located on Butcher Row in Limehouse, just past the 21-mile marker.\n\nTalking of those markers, new 100 percent recycled mile markers will be in place this year, constructed from four tonnes of plastic waste.\n\nThe 2022 marathon also sees the introduction of more inclusive policies. These include enhanced deferral options for pregnant or postpartum participants, and entries for assisted participants.\n\nFor the first time, the Mini Marathon will be a standalone event on Saturday 1 October, the day before the London Marathon.\n\nAbout 7,000 children are expected to take part across one-mile and 2.6km distances, but the hope is that this will increase to 50,000 by 2030.\n\nIf you're running on Sunday, we hate to break it to you - there is a chance you're going to get wet.\n\nThe current forecast suggests rain showers and light winds for London, with highs of 16C.\n\nAll times are BST and subject to change.\n\n13:15-13:45 - My Reason to Run - BBC One", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFifa president Gianni Infantino says it is a \"dark day\" for football following the death of at least 125 people in a crush at a football match in Indonesia.\n\nAbout 180 people were also hurt after Arema FC's loss to rivals Persebaya Surabaya in East Java on Saturday.\n\nThe crush took place after police tear-gassed fans who invaded the pitch.\n\n\"The football world is in a state of shock following the tragic incidents that have taken place in Indonesia,\" Infantino said.\n\n\"This is a dark day for all involved in football and a tragedy beyond comprehension.\"\n\nAs panic spread in Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, thousands surged towards the exits, where many suffocated.\n\nFifa, the world's governing football body, states that no \"crowd control gas\" should be carried or used by stewards or police at matches.\n\nInfantino added: \"I extend my deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims who lost their lives following this tragic incident.\n\n\"Together with Fifa and the global football community, all our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, those who have been injured, together with the people of the Republic of Indonesia, the Asian Football Confederation, the Indonesian Football Association, and the Indonesian Football League, at this difficult time.\"\n\nThe head of the Asian Football Confederation, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, told Reuters in a statement he was \"deeply shocked and saddened to hear such tragic news coming out of football-loving Indonesia\".\n\nLa Liga and the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) have agreed that clubs will observe a minute's silence before kick-off in Sunday's games as a mark of respect.\n\nA statement by La Liga said the silence would \"offer condolences to the Indonesian people, especially the families of the deceased, as well as wishing a quick recovery to those injured\".\n\n'There should never be violence at a football match'\n\nPlayers wore black armbands in Sunday's two Premier League matches, and several clubs offered their condolences to the victims of the disaster.\n\nLiverpool tweeted: \"We are deeply saddened to hear of the events at Kanjuruhan Stadium, Malang, Indonesia. The thoughts of everyone at Liverpool Football Club are with all those affected at this time.\"\n\nIn the UK, a crush developed at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield in 1989, resulting in the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans attending the club's FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest.\n\nEngland captain Leah Williamson posted on Twitter: \"My thoughts are with everyone affected by this tragedy. Indonesia holds a special place in my heart.\"\n\nSpain defender Sergio Ramos called the incident \"heartbreaking\" while ex-England forward Wayne Rooney said it was \"devastating\".\n\nAjax's club account tweeted: \"We are deeply saddened by the tragedy in Malang, Indonesia. There should never be violence at a football match.\"\n\nBarcelona said they were \"pained by the tragic events\" at Kanjuruhan Stadium, adding they \"reject all acts of violence both on and off the field\".", "Ukraine's forces have mounted a sweeping counter-attack to re-take territory in the east\n\nRussia has withdrawn its troops from the strategic Ukrainian town of Lyman, in a move seen as a significant setback for its campaign in the east.\n\nThe retreat came amid fears thousands of soldiers would be encircled in the town, Russia's defence ministry said.\n\nRecapturing Lyman could let Ukrainian soldiers reach more contested territory in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelenky said on Sunday the town had been \"completely cleared\" of Russian troops.\n\nVideo footage shared online on Saturday - before the Russian retreat was announced - showed Ukrainian soldiers waving their national flag on the outskirts of the town.\n\nLyman had been used as a logistics hub by Russia, making its recapture all the more significant to Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe battlefield setback prompted the Chechen leader and hardline Moscow ally, Ramzan Kadyrov, to comment that Russia should consider using low-yield nuclear weapons in the face of such defeats.\n\nLyman is in Donetsk - one of four partially-occupied Ukrainian regions which Russia declared it was annexing on Friday. Ukraine and its Western allies have dismissed the move as an illegal land-grab.\n\nAn adviser to Ukraine's defence minister earlier told the BBC that recent gains around Lyman - following days of intense fighting - represented a \"considerable success\".\n\nRussian fighters had been given the chance to surrender, Yurik Sak said, and would face better treatment as prisoners of war than from the Russian military leadership.\n\nShortly afterwards, the Kremlin said it was withdrawing its forces from the town, using its Soviet-era name of Krasnyi (Red) Lyman, acknowledging that the Ukrainians had \"significant superiority in forces\" in the area.\n\nMilitary analysts say that Kyiv currently has momentum in the war, and it has vowed to forge ahead with a counter-offensive to reclaim all territory under occupation.\n\nIn a speech on Friday, Mr Zelensky said efforts to \"liberate our entire land\" would act as proof that international law could not be violated.", "The world's worst stadium disaster occurred exactly 50 years ago in the Peruvian capital Lima. More than 300 people died - but the full story has never been told, and possibly never will be.\n\n\"The police didn't let their dogs loose but they did let them tear his clothes off,\" recalls Hector Chumpitaz, one of Peru's football legends, who was playing at the time and saw the tragedy beginning to unfold.\n\n\"The people were getting disturbed by the way in which they were taking the pitch invader away. It was driving them mad.\n\n\"We don't know what would have happened if they had removed him in a peaceful fashion, but we can't think about that now.\"\n\nChumpitaz went on to gain more than 100 caps for Peru. He captained the side at the 1970 and 1978 World Cups, but he almost gave up football after this disastrous match, at the start of his international career.\n\nHosting Argentina on 24 May 1964, Peru were second in the table at the half-way stage of South America's Olympic qualifying tournament. Confidence was high, but with Brazil awaiting in their last game, Peru realistically needed a draw at least against Argentina.\n\nThe stadium was packed to its 53,000 capacity, a little over 5% of Lima's population at the time.\n\n\"Though we were playing well, they took the lead,\" Chumpitaz recalls. \"We attacked, they defended and this continued until a play came where their defender went to clear - and our player, Kilo Lobaton, raised his foot to block and the ball rebounded into the goal - but the referee said it was a foul, so he disallowed it. This is why the crowd began to get very upset.\"\n\nIn quick succession, two spectators entered the field of play. The first was a bouncer known as Bomba, who tried to hit the referee before being both stopped by police and manhandled off the field. The second, Edilberto Cuenca, then suffered a brutal assault.\n\n\"Our very own policemen were kicking him and beating him as if he were the enemy. This is what raised everybody's anger - including mine,\" says one of the fans in the Estadio Nacional that day, Jose Salas.\n\nWithin seconds, the crowd were launching a variety of missiles at the police. A couple of dozen more people were trying to reach the pitch. Reading the mood, Salas and his friends decided to leave.\n\n\"The five of us went down the stairs to go out on to the streets - as did many others - but we found the exit gate closed,\" he says. \"So we turned round and started to climb the stairs, which is when the police started throwing the tear gas. At that point, the people in the stands ran into the tunnel to escape - where they met us - causing an enormous crush.\"\n\nSalas was in the north stand, where the greatest number of tear gas canisters fell - between 12 and 20.\n\nSalas thinks he spent some two hours in a human glacier that slowly edged down the stairs - so tightly packed, he says, that his feet did not touch the floor until he ended up at the bottom, trapped in a pile of bodies, some living some dead.\n\nRecords state that most victims died from asphyxiation. But what makes this stadium disaster different from others is what happened on the streets outside.\n\nNewspapers the following day showed the panic caused by the tear gas\n\nWhile some fans who escaped from the stadium managed to open the gates and free those trapped inside, others became involved in a battle with armed police.\n\n\"Some lads from my neighbourhood were going by and spotted me. I was quite skinny, and eventually they pulled me out,\" he says. \"But then the shooting began and they started running. The shots were outside - bullets were everywhere. I started to run and didn't look back.\"\n\nFor most of this time, Chumpitaz was also unable to leave.\n\n\"After we made it to the dressing rooms, some people went outside and came back saying there had been two deaths. 'Two deaths?' we asked. One would have seemed a lot. We were in the dressing room for two hours before we could leave, so we didn't know the magnitude of what was going on.\n\n\"On the way back to our training base, we were listening to the radio and it was 10, 20, 30 deaths. Every time there was news, the number was rising: 50 deaths, 150, 200, 300, 350.\"\n\nThe official number of those who died is 328, but this may be an underestimate, as it does not include anyone killed by gunfire.\n\nThere are many eyewitness accounts of people dying of gunshot wounds, but the judge appointed to investigate the disaster, Judge Benjamin Castaneda, was never able to find the bodies to prove it.\n\nHearing of two corpses with gunshot wounds in Lima's Hospital Loayza, he rushed to inspect them, he told me when I interviewed him 14 years ago. As he arrived, a vehicle was just leaving.\n\n\"Reaching the mortuary, I met someone I knew,\" he said. \"I asked him if there were two corpses with bullet wounds. 'Yes,' he told me, 'but they've just taken them away.'\"\n\nSome months after the tragedy, Castaneda was visited by an elderly man who said his two sons, both medical students, had travelled from the provinces to attend the game and never returned.\n\n\"Even though he had looked for their names among the dead, he could not find them,\" Castaneda told me.\n\n\"He had made further inquiries, but found nothing. So I told him I had news that some people had died after being shot and that, lamentably, I could never discover their identities as everything had been hidden from me.\"\n\nIn his report, Castaneda said the death toll given by the government did not \"reflect the true number of victims, since there are well-founded suspicions of secret removals of those killed by bullets\".\n\nHe went on to accuse the then interior minister of orchestrating the pitch invasion and the brutal police response, in order to incite the crowd to violence - thus providing a pretext for a violent crackdown. The show of strength was intended, he said, to \"make the people learn, with blood and tears\" the risks they ran if they challenged the authorities.\n\nFor its part, the government laid the blame for the trouble on Trotskyist agitators.\n\nJorge Salazar, a journalist and professor who has written a book about the disaster, says Peruvian society was at the time unusually turbulent.\n\n\"It was the sixties, it was Beatles time, Fidel Castro was in fashion - everything was changing in the world,\" he says.\n\n\"In Peru, people were talking for the first time about social justice. There were a lot of demonstrations, worker movements and communist parties. The left was quite powerful, and there was a permanent clash between the police and the people.\"\n\nMany of the football fans who escaped from the tear gas, certainly wanted revenge on the police. Two policemen were reportedly killed inside the stadium, and battles continued on the streets outside.\n\nFifty years on, Peruvian Congressman Alberto Beingolea, who has called this weekend for a minute's silence to honour the dead, doubts that the violence was pre-planned by either the government or revolutionaries.\n\nBut he doesn't discount the idea that people died from gunshot wounds.\n\n\"Two such deaths are possible, especially if you are in a climate of chaos - as happened in that era,\" he says. \"When one generates chaos, the police have to respond - and at any moment, that can result in shooting.\"\n\nPeru has never made a serious attempt to get to the bottom of the Estadio Nacional disaster, and this may never now be possible.\n\nA wall was kicked apart, and the bricks thrown at police\n\nWhat we do know is that those punished can be counted on two fingers.\n\nJorge Azambuja, the police commander who gave the order to fire the tear gas, was sentenced to 30 months in jail.\n\nThe other was Judge Castaneda himself. He was fined for submitting his report six months late, and for failing to attend all 328 autopsies as he ought to have done. His report was thrown out.\n\nNow dead, he told me in 2000: \"I asked everywhere about the bodies but never found anything. They said - without official confirmation of any kind - they were interred in Callao.\"\n\nThis year, the head of the Peruvian Institute of Sport - one of the country's four Olympic medallists, Francisco Boza - has made an unprecedented effort to contact families affected by the tragedy and to invite them to a long overdue mass, to be held at the Cathedral of Lima on Saturday.\n\nBut there is still no plaque on display at the Estadio Nacional to commemorate those who died in football's worst disaster.\n\nInterviews with Benjamin Castaneda, Jose Salas and Jorge Salazar conducted in 2000\n\nYou can hear Piers Edwards reporting on the Estadio Nacional tragedy on World Football and Sporting Witnesson the BBC World Service", "Russia has not commented on the reported detention of Ihor Murashov\n\nRussian troops have detained the director of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Ukraine's state nuclear regulator Enerhoatom says.\n\nIt says Ihor Murashov was held as his car was on its way from the facility to the nearby town of Enerhodar at about 16:00 local time (14:00 BST) on Friday.\n\nHe was then blindfolded and is believed to have been taken to a prison facility in Enerhodar, Enerhoatom's president told the BBC.\n\nMoscow seized Europe's biggest nuclear plant in March, and kept on its Ukrainian staff.\n\nBoth Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of repeatedly shelling the plant, amid global concerns that this could lead to a major radiation incident in Europe.\n\nIn a statement published on Saturday, Enerhoatom president Petro Kotin said that Mr Murashov \"bears main and exclusive responsibility for the nuclear and radiation safety\" of the nuclear plant.\n\nHe said Friday's detention \"jeopardises the safety of operation of Ukraine and Europe's largest nuclear power plant\".\n\nIn addition, he told the BBC the detention happened as Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the annexation of four regions of Ukraine, including Zaporizhzhia.\n\nMr Kontin said representatives of Russia's nuclear state company Rosatom had visited the plant \"just two days ago\". They said the power plant would be transferred from Ukrainian control to Rosatom's control in line with the annexation of the region.\n\nMr Kontin said he believed the move to kidnap Mr Musharov was an attempt to try and get him to accept the transfer of the power plant from Ukraine to Russia.\n\n\"They are trying to make him accept the move of [the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant] from Ukraine to Rosatom. But I am sure he is against it. Many times before he refused to accept the Russian world and so on,\" Mr Kontin said.\n\nThe plant's president appealed to the International Atomic Energy Agency to demand the immediate release of the plant's chief, accusing Russia of \"nuclear terrorism\".\n\nThe six-reactor Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is located near Enerhodar, in the occupied part of Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nUkraine says Russian troops are using the station as a military base and that employees are in effect held at gunpoint.\n\nOn Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the annexation of the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk regions - a move widely condemned by Ukraine and the West.\n\nMoscow does not fully control any of the four regions in Ukraine's east and south.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Labour Party are \"very clearly the favourites\" to form the next government, pollster Sir John Curtice has told Tory activists in Birmingham.\n\nNew PM Liz Truss was now as unpopular with voters as Boris Johnson was when he was ousted, said Sir John.\n\nAnd even if Labour's current double digit poll lead reduced before the next election in 2024, Labour were still likely to gain power, he suggested.\n\nHis analysis was greeted with dismay and cries of \"wow\" from activists.\n\nThe veteran pollster, who masterminds general election exit polls, said Labour already had a nine point lead in the polls when Ms Truss won last month's Tory leadership election and she had not enjoyed a honeymoon period.\n\nChancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's tax-cutting mini-budget just over a week ago - and the market reaction to it - had produced a 7% swing to Labour, he said.\n\n\"The truth is, whatever the merits of Liz Truss's package, it has resulted in very serious electoral damage to the Conservatives as an institution and to this new leader,\" he told the Demos fringe meeting.\n\nThe swing to Labour was similar in size to that seen on Black Wednesday in 1992, the first time the policies of a Conservative government had produced turmoil on the money markets.\n\nIf voters remembered the events of the past week when they go to the polls in two years' time, Labour could be on course for a three figure majority, said Sir John, even if Ms Truss's policies work as intended and produce economic growth.\n\nIn the event of a hung Parliament, opposition parties would be unlikely to prop up a minority Tory administration, he suggested, which made Labour clear favourites to gain power.\n\nTory activists received a similarly sobering message at an earlier fringe meeting, from pollsters with links to the party.\n\nVeteran US pollster Frank Luntz told them: \"If you want to win, stop bitching, stop griping, stop complaining and get [it] together.\"\n\nHe said the party's MPs had to start communicating with voters in a language they understood, and talking about things which mattered to them.\n\nHe also took aim at defeated Tory leadership contender and former chancellor Rishi Sunak, who has opted to stay away from this week's conference.\n\n\"Where is Rishi Sunak? Why is he not here?\" he asked the audience of Tory members.\n\nIf Mr Sunak was here he could \"start to unify the party, you guys can go forward together,\" added Mr Luntz.\n\n\"When people don't even show up, what are the voters supposed to think?\"\n\nFrank Luntz is a friend of ex PM Boris Johnson and a longstanding Tory observer\n\nIn a scathing assessment of Liz Truss's first weeks in power, Rachel Wolf, who co-wrote the Conservatives' 2019 election manifesto, said the new prime minister had no mandate from voters or her own MPs for the \"ambitious\" Thatcherite agenda she was pursuing.\n\nShe accused Ms Truss of \"appearing not to care\" about the impact her policies will have on voters worried about the cost of living,\n\n\"People are feeling poorer,\" she added, and they don't think the solutions Liz Truss has come up with \"make any sense\".\n\nMs Wolf, co-founder of polling company Public First, and a former adviser to Michael Gove, picked apart Ms Truss's claim to be a strong leader in the mould of Margaret Thatcher, and not afraid of unpopular policies.\n\nThe crucial difference between the two, she argued, was that Lady Thatcher had an electoral and Parliamentary mandate for her policies and was capable of articulating them in way that resonated with ordinary voters.\n\n\"Thatcher was always a strong leader,\" she told the meeting, \"but she was of the people, she spoke in their language\".\n\nPursuing an \"ambitious Thatcherite agenda\" without a mandate was a recipe for disaster at the polls, she suggested, and she hoped Conservative MPs could at least start to demonstrate some unity and competence.\n\nShe also had a message for Sir Keir Starmer.\n\n\"People are voting against the government but they are not voting for Labour, That might quite possibly be enough but it is the thing I would be most worried about if I were him.\n\n\"The thing that always comes up with Starmer, and still does, is that he has no views, no ideas of his own.\"\n\nAsked about the qualities needed in a modern leader, she said: \"It's very hard to support a leader who is uninterested in, or despises, you.\n\n\"It's not whether they are strong, whether they have a view of their own, if they fundamentally don't seem to like their electorate very much, or don't think they are worth considering it's very hard to vote for them.\"", "Enough is Enough members protest in Birmingham on Saturday\n\nProtests have been taking place across the UK on a day of action highlighting issues including the increased cost of living and the climate crisis.\n\nEnough is Enough, a campaign set up in response to the rising cost of living, held events in cities across the UK.\n\nIt comes on the day energy price rises came into effect for millions.\n\nMembers of Extinction Rebellion (XR), Just Stop Oil and the Revolutionary Communist Group (RCG) were also among those marching in London on Saturday.\n\nThousands attended the demonstrations, which also coincided with postal and rail strikes. People attended rallies in cities including Birmingham, Glasgow and Belfast.\n\nPrices are twice as high as last winter, with an 80% increase in domestic gas and electricity bills - although this has been cushioned by a government cap on the cost per unit.\n\nThe government has said its energy guarantee would cost £60bn for the first six months, but industry analysts suggest the total bill could be between £130bn and £150bn.\n\nAs well as the huge rises in energy bills coming into effect, the rallies are also against the government's recent mini-budget, which included a £45bn package of tax cuts.\n\nThose taking part include supporters of Don't Pay UK - a group encouraging householders to cancel their direct debits if the government does not offer further support to families.\n\nOne protester said: \"The people want and desperately need change.\"\n\nMusicians were among those taking part\n\nThe climate campaigners brought Westminster Bridge to a standstill as people sat in the road, chanting slogans about the environment and playing instruments.\n\nA woman called Meg, a member of Doctors For Extinction Rebellion, who was taking part in the march said: \"This is a climate emergency and people are already dying, more are going to die from the effects of climate change.\"\n\nSome carried a banner saying capitalism was \"the enemy of Mother Earth\", others were protesting more specifically against the government.\n\nA man, giving his name as George, criticised the Conservatives' record on fossil fuels and their financial record.\n\n\"No government can run if it's spending more, like vastly more, than it's bringing in,\" he said.\n\nIn Birmingham - where the Conservative party conference begins on Sunday - people burned mock energy bills in response to the rise in the cost of gas and electricity.\n\nThe campaign wants a real pay rise, cut to energy bills and a tax on the rich\n\nXR staged a protest in Edinburgh as people marched to the Scottish Parliament.\n\nRetired Army officer Mike Grant, 62, said: \"The climate crisis hit the UK with a vengeance this summer. The science has been clear for years but now we are seeing what that means in reality.\"\n\nAnd architect Simon Clark, also 62, said: \"The fossil fuel industry has openly enslaved our society, allowing it to create havoc in the environment whilst making record profits with complete impunity.\"\n\nProtester Lily Holder, 29, who was on a London march organised by Enough is Enough said: \"It's time to funnel our collective rage into something active and productive.\"\n\nShe was among a group supporting striking unions, like the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT), at King's Cross.\n\nSome 50,000 workers from four unions are taking part in a strike on Saturday, resulting in the worst rail disruption of the year so far.\n\n\"This is an opportunity to express a shared sense of disillusionment in our Tory government,\" she said, adding: \"The people want and desperately need change - and they need it soon. This winter is a frightening prospect and is going to show the true cruelty of our government.\"\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss has said she wants to \"get the economy growing\" and is maintaining an \"iron grip on the national finances\"\n\nShe has resisted calls to reverse the tax cuts announced in Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-budget or bring forward publication of the economic assessment of their plans. Mr Kwarteng says further economic plans being announced next month will include a \"credible plan\" to get finances back on track.\n\nProtests have also been held about the death of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini\n\nProtests have also been held in London following the death of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini. They included one in Trafalgar Square, where people gathered to make their views heard. The 22-year-old woman died after she was detained by morality police.\n\nDemonstrations have been taking place across the world, with those in Iran becoming increasingly violent and dozens of people being killed.", "The Sunday Times claims Kwasi Kwarteng was \"egged on\" by hedge fund managers to continue with his plan for tax cuts\n\nThe Conservative Party chairman has defended the chancellor after a report claimed he discussed confidential plans for the economy with financiers at a private champagne reception.\n\nJake Berry said Kwasi Kwarteng had not shared any insights at the party - which he was also at - held in the hours after his mini-budget last week.\n\nThe Sunday Times said hedge fund managers, who might gain from a crash in the pound, had \"egged him\" on.\n\nLib Dems have called for an inquiry.\n\nSenior Labour MP Angela Eagle also said the matter needed investigating, calling it \"utterly improper or worse\".\n\nAfter the chancellor's tax-cutting mini-budget on 23 September, he attended a gathering at the Chelsea home of a City financier where he gave guests insights about planned spending cuts, according to the Sunday Times.\n\nSpeaking to Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Mr Berry insisted that was not the case.\n\n\"I can categorically rule out that in terms of the address he made to the group of people who were there as part of this normal treasurer's event, he did not give any insight into future plans and I'm sure in terms of his private conversations he didn't give any,\" he said.\n\nMr Berry said he did not see the chancellor drink champagne and pointed out that drinks receptions were often held for Conservative Party donors, just as they were for Labour and Lib Dem donors.\n\nThe event was not for hedge fund managers, but rather for \"Britain's leading entrepreneurs\", he added, although he admitted he knew of at least one hedge fund manager who was there.\n\nMr Berry insisted no confidential information was discussed and the event was \"part of the normal drumbeat of treasurer events within the Conservative Party\".\n\n\"I'm not sure any of them did make money from the crash in the pound,\" he added.\n\nLiz Truss told Laura Kuenssberg said it was the chancellor's job to meet business people\n\nAsked about the report on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Prime Minister Liz Truss said: \"The chancellor meets business people all the time, that's his job.\n\n\"I do not manage Kwasi Kwarteng's diary, believe me.\"\n\nPressed on whether it would have been better if he had not gone as people struggle with the cost-of-living crisis, she said the chancellor and cabinet were focused on bettering the country.\n\nThe Lib Dems have called for an official inquiry into the reception.\n\n\"While struggling homeowners saw their mortgage bills spiral, it seems the chancellor was sipping champagne with hedge fund managers profiting from the falling pound,\" the party's Treasury spokeswoman Sarah Olney said.\n\n\"How out of touch can you get?\"\n\nIn his mini-budget, the chancellor unveiled the biggest tax cuts in a generation, including scrapping the 45p rate of tax for top earners and the cap on bankers' bonuses.\n\nThe announcements sparked days of turbulence in financial markets, with the pound falling to a record low against the US dollar on Monday, although it has since recovered.", "Investigations continue in west Belfast following the shooting of Sean Fox\n\nA man has died after a shooting at a social club off the Suffolk Road in west Belfast.\n\nThe victim has been named locally as Sean Fox.\n\nHe was shot by two masked gunmen who walked into the Donegal Celtic FC social club and then made their escape on foot, the police said.\n\nThe shooting happened shortly before 14:30 BST on Sunday, when the club was busy with customers watching football on TV.\n\nEyewitnesses told BBC News NI that people initially believed the masked men came in to rob the social club.\n\nThey said the men then walked up to the victim and shot him in the back of the head, continuing to shoot after he fell.\n\nAnother eyewitness said the gunmen \"knew who they wanted to kill and did it in seconds\".\n\n\"One shot him while the other one stood and watched the door,\" they said.\n\nIt is understood Mr Fox, who was in his 40s and originally from west Belfast, was friends with Jim Donegan, who was shot dead as he waited to pick up his son from school in 2018.\n\nDetectives from the the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Major Investigation Team have launched a murder investigation and are urging anyone with information to contact them.\n\nThis looks a particularly cold-blooded brutal execution.\n\nWe had two masked gunmen casually walk into a crowded social club and identify their victim.\n\nIt is clear the gunmen knew who they were attacking and didn't leave anything to chance.\n\nIt is unclear who was behind this killing, it is far too early to say.\n\nSinn Féin MP for the area, Paul Maskey, told BBC News NI there was \"total shock\" in the community following this \"uncalled for, unjust\" shooting.\n\nHe urged anyone with information to come forward and asked for the PSNI be given space to carry out their investigation.\n\n\"My thoughts and sympathies are with this man's family... I condemn those responsible. There is no place for guns on our streets,\" he added.\n\nPeople Before Profit councillor Matt Collins called the shooting \"a horrific and appalling act of violence, which must be condemned by all\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with the victim's family and anyone impacted by this barbaric act,\" he said.\n\nThere's absolutely no place for guns or violence in our communities.\"\n\nSDLP councillor Brian Heading added: \"This incident has cast a dark cloud over the entire area.\n\n\"People in this community want to be able to live their lives in peace and this shooting in broad daylight in a busy establishment must be condemned in the strongest possible terms by all.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp John Caldwell said: \"At approximately 14:45 BST, police received a report that two masked men had entered the Donegal Celtic Sports and Social Club shortly before 14:30 BST and shot the man a number of times.\n\n\"He was pronounced dead at the scene. Both gunmen are believed to have made their escape on foot along Suffolk Road.\"", "Party conferences can feel like a strange bubble, detached from the outside world.\n\nBut every word Liz Truss and her chancellor utter here has the potential for very real consequences.\n\nOn the markets - who have already been spooked by their tax-cutting bonanza mini-budget, directly impacting people's money, mortgages and savings.\n\nOn the public - who have swung sharply behind Labour in seven polls since that mini-budget, in levels not seen since 2001.\n\nOn Tory MPs - many of whom never voted for Ms Truss's economic plan.\n\nAll of them want reassurance. So every word matters.\n\nBut it's communication that is, so far, proving a problem for the chancellor and PM.\n\nJust a week ago, Kwasi Kwarteng's hints to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that even more tax cuts could be on the way were seen as a direct contributor to the pound falling to a record low.\n\nOn Thursday, Ms Truss broke a media silence in a series of BBC local radio interviews where she was confronted with people's very real fears about their bills and mortgages.\n\nIt doesn't seem likely they will row back on the plans that many argue have fuelled some of the economic turmoil overshadowing this conference, despite pressure from within their own ranks over some aspects.\n\nSo communication is key if they are to climb out of the tricky political situation they find themselves in. And it's a fine balance to strike.\n\n\"Hardcore members in the hall will want a 'lady's not for turning' speech whereas in the real world (and markets) we want something sane,\" one former cabinet minister tells me.\n\n\"She's almost checkmated herself. She can't U-turn. And pressing on seems terminal too,\" a former Downing Street spinner observes.\n\nMs Truss and her chancellor don't agree with that, obviously.\n\nShe has admitted there has been economic \"disruption\" since her chancellor's mini-budget, but has also said in the past she is prepared to be unpopular if it means pushing ahead with the plans she thinks will grow the economy.\n\nBut she's under pressure to communicate why her plans are the right ones to do that against the current economic backdrop.\n\nThe government's £45bn tax cuts, funded by borrowing, spooked the market, triggered a dramatic fall in the pound, and forced the Bank of England to step in.\n\nInterest rates are up, causing many mortgage deals to be pulled and some people's monthly repayments to rise.\n\nInflation is still high, and energy bills have gone up - though the rise has been softened.\n\nMinisters are looking at spending cuts across government, at a time when some public services like the NHS are already warning of being dangerously squeezed this winter.\n\nPolitically, this plan is one causing particular jitters among MPs - especially when viewed alongside plans to lift the cap on bankers' bonuses and scrap the top 45% rate of tax for the highest earners.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn 23 November, the chancellor is due to set out his \"medium-term\" fiscal plan, which he argues will show how he intends to get debt falling again.\n\nIt could include some government budget tightening, as well as some reforms to the economy which could include things like loosening rules around planning to increase house building in some areas, changes to business regulations, and to immigration rules for workers in sectors hit by staff shortages.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility is also set to publish an updated forecast on the country's finances in November, assessing the impact some of their new measures could have.\n\nSome Tory MPs and associations are already lobbying for two changes some feel could ease nerves.\n\nOne is to bring forward the for an OBR forecast and the chancellor's further economic reforms to stimulate growth.\n\n\"She has to calm the markets, and the public to be honest. She needs to commit to independent analysis as soon as possible,\" one prominent Tory think tank tells me.\n\nThe second is abandoning what some see as a politically-toxic plan to scrap the top rate of tax for the highest earners.\n\nBut Ms Truss has shown no indication she will concede to either of these calls.\n\nShe and the chancellor have been clear they believe a radical shake-up to the tax system is necessary to grow the economy and, among her supporters, there is surprise that people are surprised.\n\n\"Most of her policies were heavily trailed during her leadership campaign,\" one senior Tory MP who backed Ms Truss in the Tory leadership contest tells me - referring to her repeatedly pledging to scrap the national insurance and corporation tax rises.\n\n\"The cut to income tax was only brought forward by 12 months. The only really big surprises were the 45% tax rate [cut] and lifting the cap on bankers' bonuses.\n\n\"But I think it's a radical approach that was well-trailed. People have got to come to terms with that.\n\n\"If anyone was surprised that this was a radical financial statement, they shouldn't be.\"\n\nSome of Ms Truss's backers, like this MP, believe it was \"quite right\" for her to be bold in her desire to stimulate economic growth.\n\nBut he does feel that the \"big problem\" the party has had is a lack of communication and calls for Ms Truss to make a \"massive media exercise\" a top priority.\n\n\"Really what we need is a far more professional approach to all this.\n\n\"An explanation of what is happening, why, what is likely to be the consequence.\n\n\"The problem is it doesn't seem to be all this is being communicated - for example how the energy support package will help reduce inflation.\"\n\nThis concern about communication is something both her supporters and opponents seem able to agree on.\n\nConservative MP Sir Charles Walker said: \"There's only two years until a general election and once you've lost trust it's very hard to get it back. So it's got to double down. Spend a lot of time explaining to people what it's doing.\"\n\nOne Tory MP who backed Ms Truss tells me that people are \"not that upset with the budget\" as most of it is \"support for energy and the National Insurance reversal\".\n\nBut adds: \"We are angry because they did not roll the pitch, and cannot communicate the strategy so the public feel frightened instead of reassured.\"\n\nIn a sign of just how politically febrile the situation is for Ms Truss, this particular MP - who was a harsh critic of Boris Johnson and backed Ms Truss to be leader - tells me: \"I backed Liz and would rather Boris [was] back.\n\n\"She is seen by the public as economically incompetent and cannot communicate her strategy. She is done.\"\n\nAnother MP tells me they are not surprised at \"how radical\" her plans are but that \"it's roll out (the timing and communication) has been so appalling.\"\n\nSome of her supporters are more optimistic, one telling me it'll \"blow over\" and another that things will \"ultimately right themselves, they always do\".\n\nBut if the last few weeks has shown anything, it's that it's one thing saying you're prepared to be unpopular, quite another if your plans' unpopularity with the markets impact people's mortgages, savings, and the value of the money in their pocket when things are already tough.\n\nFor the sake of the economy, and her party's political fortunes, she'll need to use this conference to communicate why she's confident those things are safe under her plans.", "Brown arriving at the event in Birmingham on Sunday\n\nSpice Girl Melanie Brown has spoken at a Conservative Party conference event to appeal for more support for domestic abuse victims.\n\nMs Brown was appointed MBE this year for her work with vulnerable women.\n\nShe became a patron for Women's Aid in 2018, after leaving what she called an abusive relationship.\n\n\"I am not here because I am Mel B, Scary Spice from the Spice Girls,\" she told the conference event. \"I am here because I am Melanie Brown MBE.\"\n\nThe campaigner said domestic abuse was \"everywhere\" in society.\n\n\"You can be from a council estate, which I am, or you can be from a country estate - which I am now,\" she said.\n\nShe told the event she was \"probably the last person you would expect to find at a Tory Party conference\".\n\nBut she was there, she said, to call for more support through the health service and court system for domestic abuse victims.\n\n\"Every judge I have come across looks in complete horror like, 'Well, you look put together, you look all right, what is wrong with you?'\"\n\nMs Brown said she was in an abusive relationship for a decade but kept it a secret.\n\n\"I couldn't pick up the phone to call my mum, my friends, I didn't have access to anything,\" she said.\n\n\"And you think, well, Spice Girls are all about girl power, but let me tell you, when these abusers get their hooks into you, there is no way out, really - [or] so you think.\"\n\nThe event, organised by Women's Aid and the Sun newspaper, was called \"Speak out against domestic abuse\", and was one of many fringe events at the Conservative conference in Birmingham.\n\nHome Office minister Mims Davies told the audience: \"As the minister for safeguarding, I have got a fairly big inbox and this is absolutely one of the crucial ones.\n\n\"Let's say no to tolerance on this. This is criminality in homes. It is time that we really push on and help women to move forward from this, and there is no opportunity for people to find tolerance at long last.\"\n\nLater on Twitter, Ms Brown told Ms Davies on Twitter \"we need to talk urgently\" about the issues raised at the event.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mel B in 2018: \"It's hard for women to admit to themselves they are in a coercive, abusive relationship\"", "Two men have been charged over the alleged assault of a man who heckled Prince Andrew as he walked behind the Queen's coffin.\n\nFootage showed a 22-year-old man shouting at the Duke of York on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh on 12 September.\n\nHe has since been charged with breach of the peace.\n\nTwo men, both 34, have now been charged after allegedly dragging the heckler to the ground.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"Two men, both aged 34, have been arrested and charged in connection with assault, following an incident on the Royal Mile around 2.50pm on Monday, 12 September 2022.\n\n\"A report will be sent for the consideration of the procurator fiscal.\"\n\nPrince Andrew walked alongside his brothers King Charles and Prince Edward and his sister Princess Anne during the procession.\n\nThousands of people lined the streets as it made its way along the Royal Mile from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles' Cathedral.\n\nAbout 33,000 people filed through St Giles' Cathedral in the following 24 hours to pay their respects while Her Majesty lay at rest.\n\nPrincess Anne accompanied the coffin as it was then flown south ahead of the Queen's state funeral at Westminster Abbey on 19 September.", "People here want Liz Truss to succeed.\n\nOf course they do - they are Conservatives.\n\nPlus, most of the activists, if not the MPs, voted for her to be party leader and their fate and hers are inextricably linked.\n\nBut, without question, there is deep worry here.\n\nAs one senior figure put it to me, first impressions are lasting and they matter - and they have, if the opinion polls are to be believed, been terrible for the new prime minister.\n\nAnother senior voice told me they thought Liz Truss was finished as prime minister and wouldn't survive this.\n\nFar more think moving against her would be absurd and would leave the party a laughing stock so soon after she got the job.\n\nBut plenty believe her reputation might not survive this, even if her premiership does.\n\nIn other words, what has happened in the last 10 days will leave an indelible mark on her - it is unrecoverably bad.\n\nAnd remember, the first party conference for a new leader is meant to be a celebratory affair, even in difficult times for the country - a victory lap for the winner.\n\nInstead, we have a second former cabinet minister telling the BBC that the plans which define her premiership are misguided.\n\nYes, both Grant Shapps and Michael Gove were supporters of Rishi Sunak for the leadership and not Liz Truss, but what they are articulating in public illustrates a deeper well of private anguish here.\n\nThis anguish comes from a bundle of ideas lots of Conservatives think are simply unsellable when packaged together: Big tax cuts for the best paid at a time of soaring interest rates, and the prospect of benefits and public sector cuts that are disproportionately important to the less well off.\n\nThere is also anguish from people here who were nervous spectators of Labour's conference last week, seeing as they did a party more united than it has been for years, hurtling to occupy political ground some Tories fret Ms Truss has too easily given up.\n\nSo what can we expect in the coming days?\n\nMonday is the chancellor's big day and Tuesday and Wednesday will be dominated by the prime minister.\n\nWe can expect bucket-loads of explanation and bucket-loads of attempted reassurance from Kwasi Kwarteng and Ms Truss, but a determination, too, for now at least, to stick to their plans.\n\nA growing number in their own party have other ideas, though.\n\nThe plan for a tax cut for the best paid doesn't look like a goer: The opposition to it appears too determined and too noisy, and whenever a vote comes, it doesn't look like it'll be sufficiently popular to pass.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "\"I don't think there is a way out.\"\n\nIt's breathtaking to hear that judgement on Liz Truss' problems from a seasoned former Conservative minister when the prime minister has not been in charge for a month.\n\nBut instead of a honeymoon Liz Truss's first weeks in office have resembled a horror film.\n\nA crash in the pound, since recovered, a crash in the polls and the Bank of England having to pump billions into the markets to stop pensions being wiped out.\n\nTory MPs tell me about phone calls from constituents who are in tears - fearful of losing their homes or businesses as borrowing costs soar.\n\nAnd those higher costs - and inflation - will hit the government hard, bringing the prospect of dramatic spending cuts.\n\nSo instead of anticipating their new leader taking the stage in triumph at the Conservative Party conference this week, the question many MPs and members of the public are asking is how can Liz Truss - who is on our show this week - get out of this mess?\n\nDoes she ditch her plans? Stick firmly to the script? Or muddle through?\n\nFirst, remember what happened to prompt the last wild week.\n\nThe government announced a hugely expensive package to freeze energy prices before following that up with a promise of chunky tax cuts that gave back more money to the wealthiest people in the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng: \"What I'm focused on, is tax cuts across the board\"\n\nBut what they crucially did not do was show how they planned to pay for it - by refusing to publish an assessment from the Office for Budget Responsibility - which examines the government's tax and spending plans. And on our programme last week, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng suggested there would be more tax cuts to come.\n\nOf course, there's a healthy political debate about the rights and wrongs of those policies on their own. But what financial markets detest is the notion of spending and borrowing at huge levels without spelling out how and when the bills will be paid.\n\nAs one weary sounding Tory MP put it: \"The problem wasn't the numbers, it was that there weren't any.\"\n\nIt's perfectly normal for governments to borrow billions of pounds from the markets but the reaction last week suggested the City had precious little faith that the government's plans added up.\n\nThat's toxic, because without that confidence, it makes it more expensive for the government to borrow the cash it needs. That makes the cost of loans and mortgages go up for everyone and could mean less money for public services too.\n\nOne party insider says that the hit to the Tories' reputation for running the economy could have \"all the hallmarks of a generation-defining setback\".\n\nBut all the signs are that the prime minister has zero intention of shifting an inch on this. Here's what her supporters have told me:\n\nYet No 10 faces a double nightmare of trying to recover economic and political credibility at the same time. Can they really do nothing?\n\nThe head of a large foreign investor said the UK was now \"uninvestable\". Trying to keep calm (ish) and carry on just may not be possible.\n\nCan the government convince the City of London its plan will work?\n\nThe pound has recovered much of its losses but it seems a tall order for confidence to bounce back in the same way.\n\nThe last week suggests there are serious doubts about the chancellor's strategy. As one senior investor told me: \"I don't know a single person in the City who thinks he knows what he is doing.\"\n\nPoliticians I've spoken to - fans of the new government or not - suggest moving Mr Kwarteng would be \"cowardly\" or \"wouldn't make a difference\".\n\nLiz Truss is politically close to her chancellor and a major move like that could cause even more instability. But there is no doubt that No 11's authority is part of the problem.\n\nA source close to Mr Kwarteng says \"we make no apology for reversing an unsustainable high tax path\". But a cabinet minister told me while there's no chance of an exit now \"history shows that chancellors who have moments like this don't necessarily survive in the medium to long-term\".\n\nWhile it's clear neither No 10 nor No 11 will consider a change of approach right now their own party may force them to make some changes so they can muddle through.\n\nFirst off, there is a rising hunger for ministers to bring forward their full plans for the economy, including spelling out the costs and consequences of their spending.\n\nAs things stand No 10 is adamant this won't be until 23 November. But plenty of backbenchers want it brought forward. One minister suggested the government will have to budge before November, saying: \"Give the markets what they want with some more detailed forecasts and some attempt to show that this will work.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere's a thirst too to bring forward announcements of the other changes the government wants to make to get the economy going. One senior MP said the chancellor has a chance this week to talk about his \"big productivity plans\" to show \"it's a wider package, not just tax cuts\".\n\nBut the government may yet have to ditch some of its ideas. \"They'll have to walk back some of the things that have caused the most offence,\" says an MP.\n\nThis could be scrapping the 45% top tax rate which I'm told the whole cabinet was not consulted on and which raised the most eyebrows in the mini-budget.\n\nAnd it's clear many Conservative MPs would be reluctant to back it, with one telling me: \"If there is a vote on 45p or bankers' bonuses I won't vote for them, and neither will colleagues.\"\n\nThere is growing unease too about the costs and implications of the decisions that have already been made for public spending, and specifically about the possibility of going back on Boris Johnson's promise that benefits would rise in line with inflation.\n\nOne former minister told me the idea was \"stupidity squared\" because cutting tax for the best-off while giving those on benefits a real-terms cut is a total political non-starter.\n\nAnother senior figure predicts a classic climbdown where the government will stick to cutting the basic rate of tax with the classic promise to \"consult\" on the more controversial elements.\n\nBut what if Ms Truss can't or won't budge'?\n\nSeveral MPs say one approach to get the government's attention would be a kind of strike. They could make it plain the government doesn't have backbench support by not turning up in the Commons.\n\nBut others are already contemplating even more. Extraordinary as it is to say this so soon into a new leader's tenure, there are already conversations in the party about taking the ultimate action. In other words, if the PM won't change her plans, her party might have to change her job.\n\nOne MP told me baldly in the last week: \"They have lost the privilege of governing - I'm going to try and get rid of her.\"\n\nA former minister said there was a lot of \"bluster and chest-beating\" going and talk of removing the PM was \"hysteria\", but added: 'Four weeks of polls like this and we might move.\"\n\nCrazy? Perhaps. Wild talk in Westminster is often subdued by inertia. Things change quickly. There are many Conservatives who believe Liz Truss' plans are an important and badly needed reset.\n\nBut if the Tories carry on being battered in the polls, and the market turmoil continues for weeks, all bets could be off.\n\nAnd if it becomes a question of personal survival, arguably Liz Truss may not have helped her case by giving all the plum jobs to MPs who backed her in the leadership contest.\n\nRemember she wasn't the favourite choice of MPs to start with. As one senior figure reflects: \"There is already a cohort of people who are saying 'this is nothing to do with us'.\"\n\nLiz Truss has a huge chance in Birmingham this week to calm her party, the country and the financial markets, as well as explaining more clearly what she is trying to achieve.\n\nAnd while there is no remote sense she will backtrack on her ambitions, these first steps in power have created serious doubts in her party, and among the public, about whether she has the right ideas and the backing to make radical changes to the country. Downing Street could very, very quickly become a lonely place.", "Hannah is a doctor and was diagnosed with cancer in 2020\n\nWhen Hannah Delmas was diagnosed with a rare ovarian cancer in 2020, she didn't think she'd be running a marathon just a few years later.\n\n\"With my chemotherapy, I spent a lot of time lying in bed or at home, and lost quite a lot of muscle mass through because of being in intensive care,\" she says.\n\nThe 25-year-old doctor will be running for the charity Young Lives vs Cancer, which helps young people going through cancer treatment and the aftermath.\n\nLike Hannah, Chris Reid will be lacing up his running boots and taking on the iconic 26.2-mile route around London.\n\nChris, also 25, has a learning disability and bipolar disorder, but that hasn't stopped him from competing in running events. His latest though, for the charity Mencap, will be the hardest yet.\n\n\"I'll actually give back to the charity that's been part of my history,\" he says.\n\nThe organisation, he says, has supported him with things like communication, Maths, English and work experience.\n\nChris, who previously lived with his parents, has since moved into supported housing and the help he receives has contributed to him becoming more confident with everyday activities such as managing his own money.\n\nChris loves running, as it helps his mental health and \"it's a friendly atmosphere and camaraderie with the runners\"\n\nHannah graduated early from medical school in 2020, because of the Covid pandemic, to help \"ease some of the pressures on the NHS\".\n\nBut she was then hit by the news that she had a rare ovarian tumour, having to pause her career to start chemotherapy.\n\nAfter several rounds of treatment, surgery and a stay in intensive care to remove the tumour, she was back caring for patients six weeks after her final treatment.\n\nThen, between work and follow up check-ups, she signed up to run the marathon despite her lack of experience in running.\n\n\"I'm not a runner, I think I've ran once in primary school and secondary school, but I've never really done much since.\"\n\nThere have been challenges in training, such as building up fitness levels after intensive treatment, and her busy schedule as a doctor.\n\nAnother challenge was finding sportswear that didn't rub on her scars from her surgery.\n\n\"I think my preparation probably could have been a little bit better. But it's now too late.\"\n\nHannah graduated early because of Covid - no word yet on if the dog will be running with her\n\nChris, on the other hand, feels he is more than ready, with his prep ranging from light 5k park runs on Saturdays to a training programme of 16 weeks.\n\nBut he emphasises it's not just about the running, as his nutritional diet of \"brown rice, eggs and avocado\" is just as important.\n\nChris was inspired to get into running because of Sir Mo Farah's double gold medal-winning performances at London 2012.\n\nHis first run after seeing Sir Mo's success was tough and incomplete, but he persevered after a friend encouraged him and told to \"keep on going\".\n\nHe says running and taking in the air \"clears things out\" of his head and helps his mood.\n\nAnd while some may be worried about completing the marathon, Chris confidently says he'll channel his inner Mo Farah and \"be able to complete it\".\n\nChris was inspired to take up running after Sir Mo Farah's performances at the 2012 Olympics\n\nCrossing the finish line is what Hannah is looking forward to most.\n\n\"Just having the relief of finishing and knowing that I've completed a marathon as well as seeing everybody else at the finish line.\"\n\nFor people in a difficult situation like Hannah has been in, she says it's important \"to take it one day at a time\".\n\n\"Make little goals that you can complete because I know how frustrating it is to finish treatment, and then think it's fine for everything to go back to normal.\"\n\n\"Don't give up on your dreams and keep going even through tough times,\" Chris adds.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Police investigators continued their search on Saddleworth Moor on Saturday\n\nPolice searching for Moors murderers' victim Keith Bennett have said no identifiable human remains have so far been found, as excavations continue.\n\nThe 12-year-old was one of five youngsters killed by Ian Brady and his partner Myra Hindley in the 1960s.\n\nHe disappeared on 16 June 1964 while on his way to see his grandmother in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said it had received information about a \"site of interest\" on Saddleworth Moor.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Cheryl Hughes, senior investigating officer at GMP, said they had received images of a potential burial site from people involved in a privately-funded search.\n\n\"This information included photographs of the site and show what experts working with the informant have interpreted as a human jaw bone,\" she said.\n\n\"No physical evidence of a jaw bone or skull has been examined.\n\n\"Conditions are difficult and it may take us some time to fully complete the excavation but we are committed to ensuring this is undertaken in the most thorough way possible.\"\n\nKeith Bennett, who was killed in 1964, is the only victim whose remains were not found\n\nBrady and Hindley tortured and killed five youngsters in 1963-65 in one of the most notorious crimes in recent British history.\n\nThey buried four of their victims on Saddleworth Moor in the Pennines but Keith's body is the only one that has not been recovered.\n\nIan Brady and Myra Hindley's crimes in the 1960s shocked the nation\n\nFarmer Chris Crowther, who owns the land which is being searched, said: \"If they have found him, it will be a very big relief for the [Bennett] family.\n\n\"I've always been going out and looking for any signs for a grave when I've been gathering sheep.\"\n\nHe said Keith's mother Winnie Johnson, who spent most of her life trying to find her son's remains, spoke to him before her death in 2012, adding \"she asked me to keep looking and I said I will keep looking\".\n\nThe other victims include Lesley Ann Downey, Edward Evans, John Kilbride and Pauline Reade\n\nMr Crowther said the current excavation site was \"about 100 yards\" from where John Kilbride's remains were discovered, with the remains of the two girls found on the other side of the A635.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful valley, but it's been blackened by that [crime].\n\n\"If it gets tidied up, everyone will have a bit of peace.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lewis Hamilton has dismissed the ongoing controversy about his wearing a nose stud in his Formula 1 car as \"all a bit silly\" after the issue blew up again at the Singapore Grand Prix.\n\nHamilton's Mercedes team were fined €25,000 (£22,000) after qualifying for a procedural error in incorrectly filing out a scrutineering form saying Hamilton would comply with the regulations not to wear jewellery, only for him to do so.\n\nHamilton said when the issue first emerged at the start of the season that he felt singled out by governing body the FIA over the issue, as he is the only driver to wear significant amounts of piercings.\n• None How to follow the Singapore GP on the BBC\n\nBut he said on Saturday that he was \"not trying to make a statement\" and explained that he was wearing the stud again on the advice of doctors after suffering medical problems.\n\n\"I've had my jewellery and my nose stud for years and obviously we had that whole commotion at the beginning of the year,\" Hamilton said.\n\n\"At the time it was, like, soldered in, so it didn't come loose. They gave me, at the time for many races, an exemption so I could find a solution.\n\n\"Then I went to get it taken out and tried to find a solution, putting it in and out. It got infected because of that and I was just continuing on with this infection. I got a blood blister and had quite a sore on my nose. Then I went back [to the doctor]…\n\n\"This is all stuff I told them before qualifying. I went back and had to have the blood blister fixed, because there was pus and blood. I put this back in and in the last two weeks it's started to heal and they've asked that I keep it in.\n\n\"It's crazy that we're having to talk about something so small. I take everything else out. At this point, I don't really care to be honest.\"\n\nHamilton, sounding exasperated by the issue, said he had \"tried my best\" and pointed out what he saw as an inconsistency in the FIA's strict approach on the matter, which has emerged this season after years of jewellery being tolerated in the car despite it being against the rules for nearly 20 years.\n\n\"One of the best excuses I was given a long time ago was about heat and if you are in a fire metal conducts heat.\n\n\"But our suits are covered, our zip is metal, our buckle around our helmet is metal, we've got the wires with aluminium metal in them.\n\n\"So I don't know. It's all a bit silly. Hopefully they'll be sensible. The stewards should be there to keep us safe most importantly but this is not a safety issue.\"\n\nOops... Leclerc enjoyed his pole even though it likely came from Red Bull's fuel oversight\n\nAll this was a bizarre and unexpected distraction from a weekend that has been dominated by another controversy - over whether Red Bull are one of two teams to breach last year's budget cap.\n\nIt is a widely held belief within the F1 paddock that Red Bull and Aston Martin are both likely not to be issued certificates of compliance when the FIA posts them officially on Wednesday.\n\nAston Martin say they are \"in discussion with the FIA and awaiting certification\".\n\nRed Bull have reacted angrily to Mercedes and Ferrari discussing the issue publicly this weekend, after the allegations finally emerged in media reports after months of senior people in F1 being aware of them without it being publicly reported because of a lack of proof.\n\nFerrari have been careful not to name Red Bull at all in their comments. And while Wolff has mentioned his bitter rivals in his answers, he has not directly accused them of breaking the cap, even if that could be inferred from some of his answers.\n\nThe closest he came was in an interview with Sky television on Saturday.\n\nIn this, when asked about Red Bull team principal Christian Horner saying he was \"not aware\" of any breaches, Wolff said: \"It's funny that Christian says that because it's weeks and months that they are being investigated, so maybe he doesn't speak to his CFO.\"\n\nWolff went on to talk about why the issue of the budget cap was so important, adding: \"The crucial part is that if you've been over in 2021, then you've been over in 2022. That means you have an advantage into 2023.\n\n\"If it's true that they've homologated a lightweight chassis this year, they may use it next year. So it's a real cascade of events that can be influential on all of the three championships.\"\n\nThis interview from Wolff has infuriated Horner, and his displeasure was clear in a news conference on Saturday, in which he accused Mercedes and Ferrari of defamation and claimed they had spoken on the subject to distract attention from the fact that Red Bull driver Max Verstappen has a chance of clinching the championship in Sunday's race.\n\n\"We take umbrage, and extremely seriously, the remarks that have been made,\" Horner said, \"because, you know, is it any coincidence that Max has his first shot at winning a world title and here we are talking nothing but cost caps rather than the phenomenal performance that he has had this year.\n\n\"And I think it's an underhand tactic that has been employed to detract from perhaps a lack of performance on track this year. And of course, when references are made to last year, this year, next year we're going to take that extremely seriously.\"\n\nAsked later whether he was concerned about being sued, Wolff said: \"It's noise. There is a process. On Wednesday there are going to be certificates of compliance issued or not and then if someone is not there is a process and governance in place, and for me it is 100% sure the FIA is gonna do the right thing. It's chatter until then.\n\n\"It is important the cost cap is complied with. It is a cornerstone of the new regulations and I very much hope all the teams have done that.\n\n\"We know exactly that we are spending $3.5m a year on parts we bring to the car and then you can say what difference it makes to spend another $500,000.\n\n\"We haven't produced lighter parts for the car to bring us down from a double digit overweight because we simply haven't got the money. So we need to do it for next year's car. We can't homologate a lightweight chassis and bring it because it is $2m we would be over the cap. So you can see every spend more has a performance advantage.\"\n\nRed Bull have not introduced a lighter-weight chassis this weekend, as it has been speculated for some time they might, and Horner has told BBC Sport that Red Bull have introduced fewer development parts than Ferrari and Mercedes this season.\n\nRed Bull continue to insist that they \"stand absolutely 100% behind (our) submission (to the FIA), that we are below the cap\".\n\nAnd then there's the fuel issue\n\nAll this back and forth has intensified an atmosphere that is always oppressive in at least one way at this race, owing to the tropical heat and humidity. And Horner is certainly right to say that it has distracted from the on-track battle.\n\nSo, in the context of a weekend in which Red Bull's well-worn modus operandi of pushing absolutely everything to the limit was the centre of attention, it was perhaps not the ideal time for this to be underlined by an error by the team in qualifying.\n\nVerstappen looked on target to take pole, but he and the team failed to take advantage of his blistering pace in the final part of qualifying.\n\nVerstappen was on one lap that was likely going to be good enough for pole towards the end of the session, only to be told to abort because there was just time to get in another one, when the drying track would be in even better condition.\n\nThe team had failed to notice that the car was running short of fuel and they had to call Verstappen into the pits at the end of his final lap - which would certainly have beaten Ferrari's Charles Leclerc to pole - to avoid being in contravention of a rule that requires enough fuel to be in the car for a one-litre sample to be given to stewards.\n\nThis is, incidentally, a rule the team fell foul of in Abu Dhabi some years ago, when they were handed the standard penalty of being disqualified from qualifying.\n\nVerstappen was furious afterwards, swearing at the team over the radio. He had no regrets about his criticism, he said later, \"because that is how we keep each other heading in the right direction. Because we don't want to be good, we want to be perfect\".\n\nVerstappen has appeared capable of winning from anywhere in recent races, doing so from 10th in Hungary, 15th in Belgium and seventh in Italy.\n\nBut he believes that eighth in Singapore is too far back to repeat the feat.\n\n\"Its a bit like Monaco,\" he said. \"You cannot really pass.\n\n\"We have been to tracks where passing is possible. This one is going to be a bit different, a bit more frustrating. But I know that once I jump in the car I will give it everything I have. Of course I try to move forward. But I don't really see a podium or a win.\"\n\nIf he did manage it, he was asked, would it be the most special win of the year?\n\n\"Yeah,\" he said, \"but I don't even want to think about that because it is very, very difficult.\"\n\nA win is the minimum result he needs to clinch the title this weekend, but to do so he also needs other results to go his way. One of them is for Leclerc to finish near the bottom of the top 10, and the Ferrari driver starts on pole.\n\nLeclerc said: \"Realistically it is a matter of time before Max gets his title. It is important to win as many races as possible before the end of the season.\n\n\"We will just focus on ourselves try to use the races in the best way possible and try to maximise the package as much as possible. This is important to me, the rest is. I don't care…\"\n\nHamilton, third on the grid after his best qualifying result of the season, is also on the hunt for a win, along with Red Bull's Sergio Perez, alongside Leclerc on the front row. And Fernando Alonso says he wants to \"dream big\" and aim for a podium from his excellent fifth place on the grid for Alpine.\n\nSingapore tends to be a slow-burner, but this weekend has had plenty of fire already.\n• None The raw and honest story of Paul Gascoigne and his turbulent life\n• None How did a magazine intern reinvent herself and con thousands of dollars in the process?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Prime Minister Liz Truss says she stands by plans announced in the mini-budget\n\nLiz Truss has admitted she should have \"laid the ground better\" for her mini-budget, after it sparked days of market turmoil.\n\nThe prime minister told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg she had \"learned from that\", but she was confident her tax cutting package would boost economic growth.\n\nShe added a decision to cut the top earner tax rate was a \"decision that the chancellor made\".\n\nAnd she revealed it was not discussed with the whole cabinet beforehand.\n\nThe cut to the 45p rate has provoked outrage from opposition parties, and concern from some Conservative MPs.\n\nFormer minister Michael Gove said the cut displayed the \"wrong values,\" and signalled he wouldn't vote for it.\n\nHe also said he was \"profoundly concerned\" about the decision to borrow to fund the tax cuts, calling it \"not Conservative\".\n\nThe government's mini-budget included £45bn in cuts funded by government borrowing, and revealed the government expects its two-year scheme to fix energy prices will cost £60bn in the first six months.\n\nThe announcements sparked days of turbulence in financial markets, with the pound falling to a record low against the US dollar on Monday, although it has since recovered.\n\nThe rocky economic backdrop is set to dominate this week's Conservative party conference, Ms Truss's first as Tory leader, where she faces the task of reassuring her MPs over her approach to boosting the flagging UK economy.\n\nSpeaking from the gathering in Birmingham, Ms Truss promised to win over \"the hearts and minds\" of Tory MPs to persuade them of her plan.\n\nIn an interview for the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, she said she remained committed to her approach and she was \"confident\" better growth would result.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: Cutting tax for the wealthiest \"a display of the wrong values\"\n\n\"I do stand by the package we announced and I stand by the fact we announced it quickly, because we had to act,\" the prime minister added.\n\n\"But I do accept we should have laid the ground better. I have learned from that, and I will make sure that in future we do a better job of laying the ground.\"\n\nShe also defended the decision to cut the 45p income tax rate for top earners, saying it \"raises very little\" and made the tax system more complicated.\n\nShe added that the cut was a decision made by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng - prompting former cabinet minister and Boris Johnson loyalist Nadine Dorries to accuse her of throwing him \"under a bus\".\n\nAnd Mr Gove, who has served in several cabinet roles in previous governments, expressed concerns about scrapping the top rate at a time when \"people are suffering\".\n\nFormer deputy prime minister Damian Green warned a reception at conference that the Tories would lose the next general election if \"we end up painting ourselves as the party of the rich\".\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves accused the government of conducting a \"mad experiment\" with the economy, calling the market turmoil a \"crisis made in Downing Street\".\n\nAlso speaking to Laura Kuenssberg, she said investors had been spooked by the \"sheer scale of the borrowing\" to fund the tax cuts, alongside the decision not to publish an official economic forecast alongside the plans.\n\nShe added that the public would \"pay the price\" for the turbulence, and said Ms Truss had failed to understand the \"anxiety and fear\" about the state of the economy.\n\nJust a few weeks ago, this was a conference where many would have anticipated a mood of loyal celebration.\n\nYes, a government and a country confronting difficult times - but a party welcoming a new prime minister; relieved to have left the arguments of the collapsing premiership of Boris Johnson behind.\n\nInstead, with nosediving opinion poll numbers and self-inflicted economic volatility, the mood here is bleak, the outbreaks of public anger illustrative of a deeper well of private anguish.\n\nThere are few things more dangerous for a government than a perception that senior figures don't know what they are doing and are not fully in control of events.\n\nSome Tory MPs are already privately questioning how long Liz Truss might last in office; even more say they will not support elements of her budget, not least the tax cut for the highest paid.\n\nSenior Conservatives recognise this is a moment of considerable jeopardy for a prime minister not yet a month in the job - and the next few days will be crucial in providing reassurance for the party and the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Reeves says the government is conducting a \"mad experiment\" with the UK economy\n\nIn a bid to reassure markets, the government has said it will set out how it plans to lower public debt in the medium term on 23 November.\n\nPushed repeatedly on whether she planned to cut public spending, Ms Truss did not say, but added she wanted to get \"value for money for the taxpayer\".\n\nShe did not commit to raising benefits in line with inflation, saying that a decision would be made later this autumn.\n\nShe also rejected calls to bring forward an assessment of the government's plans from the UK's budget watchdog, currently due to be published alongside the debt plan.\n\nShe added that an assessment of the spending plans was \"not yet ready\".\n\n\"There's no point in publishing something that's not ready. That would just cause confusion,\" she added.", "Thank you for following as colleagues in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Washington and London brought live updates and analysis from the first round of Brazil's presidential election.\n\nDespite Luiz Inácio 'Lula' da Silva winning the round, he failed to reach the 50% of votes needed to win the election outright.\n\nIt means the leftist former president will now face the second placed candidate - far-right incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro - in a run-off vote on 30 October.\n\nThe winner of that race will be the country's new president.\n\nFor updates and reaction, read our story here.", "Are We Heading for a Winter of Discontent?\n\nLaura Kuenssberg speaks to guests about industrial action and the cost of living.\n\nLaura Kuenssberg speaks to guests about industrial action and the cost of living.", "A row erupted following a high-stakes professional poker match held at the Hustler Casino in Los Angeles on Thursday night (file pic)\n\nFirst it was chess - now top-level US poker and match fishing have been dogged by their own claims of cheating.\n\nA casino is investigating after one player stunned poker fans by making an audacious bet to win a huge pot.\n\nMeanwhile, two fishermen have been accused of stuffing their catches with lead weights in order to win a tournament held on Lake Erie.\n\nAnd world chess officials are probing whether a teen talent cheated in face-to-face matches - something he denies.\n\nA row erupted following a high-stakes game held at the Hustler Casino in Los Angeles on Thursday night.\n\nRobbi Jade Lew stunned the table by appearing to successfully call a semi-bluff by her opponent Garrett Adelstein.\n\nLew called an all-in bet by her opponent, risking her chips with an underwhelming hand, apparently convinced her opponent was bluffing and scooping a pot that had grown to $269,000 (£241,000).\n\nPundits commentating during the livestreamed match expressed their incredulity at the gambit, while Adelstein gave his competitor an icy stare.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hustler Casino Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere followed an exchange of words on and off camera, with the two players giving conflicting accounts afterwards of what was said.\n\nLew ended up returning Adelstein his chips, saying she had been \"threatened\" - something Adelstein denied.\n\nShe challenged her opponent to a head-to-head match, tweeting: \"After I'm vindicated, let's go heads up. The whole world can watch me read you all day.\"\n\nIn his own tweet, Adelstein said he had been \"clearly cheated\", claiming that his suspicions were confirmed by reviewing previous playing footage of Lew.\n\nHe speculated that his opponent might have been wearing a vibrating device that was used to communicate information to her, though conceded it was impossible to know.\n\nMatch organisers are investigating, stressing there is not yet any proof of wrongdoing.\n\nElsewhere, a pair of competitive fishermen have been accused of stuffing their catches with lead weights to make them appear heavier to help them win a cash prize reportedly worth $30,000.\n\nOn Friday, organisers in Cleveland, Ohio, called into question the results of Lake Erie Walleye Trail's (LEWT) final event of the 2022 season - in which Chase Cominsky and Jake Runyon of Cleveland had claimed victory.\n\nViral video showed an official slicing open fish at a weigh-in, extracting lead balls and even fillets of other fish.\n\nIn the expletive-laden footage, a crowd can be heard shouting at Runyon - who remains silent as the alleged ruse is discovered.\n\nThe duo's previous victories have been called into question.\n\nLocal media report that the pair were disqualified as winners at an event last year, because one of them failed a polygraph test. At the time, Runyon denied they were guilty of any wrongdoing.\n\nNeither he nor Cominsky has publicly commented yet on the fresh allegations.\n\nMeanwhile, the global governing body of chess is now investigating after the world's top player openly accused a competitor of rule-breaking.\n\nNorwegian Magnus Carlsen suffered a surprise loss to American Hans Niemann in a match in the US last month.\n\nCarlsen also withdrew from a later online match between them after just one move, in an apparent act of protest.\n\nNorwegian Magnus Carlsen has accused an opponent of cheating after suffering a surprise loss\n\nIn his first public allegations, Carlsen wrote on Twitter: \"I believe that Niemann has cheated more - and more recently - than he has publicly admitted.\"\n\nHe did not specify how the alleged wrongdoing took place, though said there was more he wanted to add.\n\nNiemann, 19, has admitted to cheating twice while playing online several years before - but insists he has never done so in a face-to-face match.\n\nHe said Carlsen and others were trying to ruin his career, and has even offered to play naked to prove he had nothing to hide.\n\nThe International Chess Federation (FIDE) has said it will convene a three-person panel to look into Carlsen's allegations.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City's Erling Haaland became the first player to score three successive Premier League home hat-tricks as Manchester United were humiliated in the derby at Etihad Stadium.\n\nHaaland's rampant start to the season continued as he made it 17 goals in 11 starts - a goal every 54 minutes - since his move from Borussia Dortmund while Phil Foden scored his first treble for City as they closed the gap on pace-setters Arsenal to one point.\n\nThis was a brutal reality check for United after their recent improvement, as the reigning Premier League champions ran riot to illustrate the gulf in class between the teams.\n\nCity's lightning start was rewarded when Foden swept home Bernardo Silva's cross after eight minutes before Haaland inevitably joined the action with a header from a corner 11 minutes before half-time.\n\nAs United subsided, Haaland slid in a third from Kevin de Bruyne's perfect pass then turned provider to set up a simple finish for Foden before the break.\n\nUnited's new signing Antony replied with a superb goal from 25 yards to pull one back but it only provoked City to up the tempo again, Haaland thumping home his third from Sergio Gomez's cross then again showing he can be creator by setting up Foden for City's sixth.\n\nHaaland's third put him in the record books following hat-tricks at home to Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace.\n\nAnthony Martial's late goal for United was greeted in near silence, as was his added-time penalty, on a day of embarrassment for the visitors and their manager Erik ten Hag and one of elation for City and Pep Guardiola.\n• None 'This was Pep's idea of perfect football'\n\nWho can stop Man City and Haaland?\n\nArsenal are worthy Premier League leaders but this was a frightening display of firepower from the reigning champions as they confirmed their status as firm favourites to win a fifth title in six years.\n\nCity were clearly potent before the arrival of Haaland but he has put them on a different level, delivering the one thing they were arguably missing as he increases the ratio of chances they take with his ruthless finishing.\n\nAdd the creativity, and on this day the goals, from Foden plus the genius of De Bruyne and it is hard to see how they can be stopped, with Haaland also looking as if he could be the missing link that might finally bring the Champions League to the Etihad.\n\nCity blew United away as they started at lightning speed and went in 4-0 at half-time, referee Michael Oliver's whistle for the break coming as a merciful release for United.\n\nUnited's goal poked City into action with Antony's fine strike merely the catalyst for another onslaught, as Haaland scored the record-breaking third.\n\nManchester United arrived at the Etihad fuelled by the optimism of four successive league wins but were brought down to earth by their rampant neighbours.\n\nUnited looked out of their depth within seconds of the start, surviving three goal-line clearances in the same incident before Foden set the tone for the afternoon when he flashed Silva's cross past a helpless David de Gea.\n\nManager Ten Hag resisted the temptation to start with the experience of £70m signing from Real Madrid, Casemiro, as he stuck with Christian Eriksen, Scott McTominay and Bruno Fernandes in midfield.\n\nIt was a decision he may now regret as United were over-powered and over-run in all areas, unable to stem the tide and failing to cope with City's creation and the awesome power and athleticism of Haaland.\n\nThe fact they scored more goals in the second half than City, including a beauty from new signing Antony, can hardly be labelled as a consolation as their recent upturn in results was put in perspective.\n\nIf anyone at United thought those better results in the last few weeks meant they were moving closer to City, this scoreline - which actually flattered them - put a stop to those notions.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 6, Manchester United 3. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by João Cancelo (Manchester City) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antony (Manchester United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Casemiro (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fred.\n• None Attempt saved. Antony (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Diogo Dalot.\n• None Attempt missed. Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Sergio Gómez with a cross following a corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 6, Manchester United 2. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) header from very close range to the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Fred (Manchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Luke Shaw.\n• None Attempt blocked. Erling Haaland (Manchester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cole Palmer. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Olivia died after being shot as her mother struggled with a gunman at the door of her home\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, who was shot in her home in Liverpool.\n\nThe nine-year-old was fatally wounded as her mother tried to stop a gunman chasing another man into their house.\n\nThomas Cashman, 34, of West Derby, Liverpool, has also been charged with the attempted murder of Olivia's mother Cheryl Korbel and Joseph Nee.\n\nOlivia was shot in the chest and her mother injured as Mr Nee, a convicted burglar, was chased into their home.\n\nMr Cashman has also been charged with two counts of possession of a firearm to endanger life.\n\nPaul Russell, 40, of Snowberry Road, West Derby, has been charged with assisting an offender.\n\nBoth men are due to appear at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nOlivia's mother was shot in the wrist as she tried to shut the door to stop two men entering her house on Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, at about 22:00 BST on 22 August.\n\nThe gunman continued shooting and fatally hit Olivia. Neither man was known to the family.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chief Crown Prosecutor Maria Corr gives full details of the charges\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Chris Green, of Merseyside Police, said his team had worked \"relentlessly\" in what has been \"a complex inquiry, supported by Olivia's mum and dad and the wider Merseyside community\".\n\nDet Ch Supt Mark Kameen said it was still \"very much a live investigation\".\n\nHe said: \"At the beginning of the investigation we were firm in our commitment to finding all of those involved in this case, which includes the people who have tried to shield and protect individuals, and those who have supplied the weapon or are hiding the weapons used in this incident.\n\n\"We have had an overwhelming response and support from the public since the tragic murder of Olivia and I would ask for your continued support so we can keep the promise we made to Olivia's family and the local community to ensure that those involved face justice.\n\n\"Our thoughts today are with Olivia's mum and dad, Cheryl and John Francis, and their families, who throughout the last few weeks have shown incredible strength, courage, and dignity.\"\n\nOlivia's mother Cheryl Korbel said the nine-year-old \"will never be forgotten\"\n\nOlivia's funeral was held on 15 September at a packed St Margaret Mary's Church, just streets away from where the shooting happened.\n\nPink ties, jackets, scarves and bows were worn by those attending the service after her family asked people to wear a \"splash of pink\".\n\nSpeaking in her eulogy, her mother said her daughter had \"touched so many people's hearts and was loved and adored by everyone\".\n\n\"I will never say goodbye but what I will say is goodnight, love you, see you in the morning.\"\n\nThe police force has appealed for anyone with CCTV, dashcam or smart doorbell footage, which might help the investigation, to come forward.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None Man charged with murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel. Video, 00:01:40Man charged with murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Mirror said it would \"redouble our efforts\" against racism after mistaking another man for the chancellor\n\nThe Mirror newspaper has apologised for a \"terrible error\" after it mistook another man for Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in an online story.\n\nMr Kwarteng called out the newspaper on Twitter with a screenshot of the story about him, which erroneously used a picture of a different man outside a Treasury building.\n\n\"That isn't me,\" tweeted the chancellor.\n\nThe Mirror said it would \"redouble our efforts\" against racism.\n\nThe story headlined \"Kwasi Kwarteng says he had to do 'something different' after causing budget chaos\" instead pictured Bernard Mensah, the president of international for Bank of America.\n\nMr Mensah had been among representatives of US banks meeting the chancellor at the Treasury on Wednesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Mirror said in a statement on Twitter: \"This morning a picture in a story about Kwasi Kwarteng was wrongly captioned on the Mirror website.\n\n\"This was a terrible error and we apologise to Mr Kwarteng and all our readers.\n\n\"The Mirror has a long history of working against racism and we will redouble our efforts on this.\"\n\nThe wrong image appeared underneath a link promoting Black History Month stories on the Mirror website.\n\nHornsey and Wood Green Conservative chairman Ben Obese-Jecty said: \"Good to see the Daily Mirror kicking off its coverage of Black History Month with this they-all-look-the-same-don't-they clanger.\n\n\"You'd think, given the coverage he's received this week, that most people in the press would know what Kwasi Kwarteng looked like…\"\n\nAnother person tweeted: \"Bad from the Mirror, but they corrected their error over two hours before Kwasi Kwarteng tweeted about it.\n\n\"Now ask him a question about the economy and he'll go into hiding again.\"\n\nMr Kwarteng became the first black chancellor of the UK when he took up his role last month.", "Head teacher Lidiya Tilna says she was detained and beaten for refusing to teach a Russian curriculum\n\nIn the past two weeks, Ukrainian forces say they have taken back 6,000 sq km (2,317 sq miles) of territory, liberating communities that have been under Russian control for more than six months. School teachers in these areas have told the BBC there has been a systematic attempt to eliminate the Ukrainian curriculum and replace it with a Russian agenda.\n\nTravelling east of Kharkiv, to the recently liberated cities of Balakliya and Vovchansk, the BBC spoke to local teachers and staff who all described a similar pattern of forced assimilation. First the destruction of property: school textbooks, Ukrainian flags, children's work - including wall displays on famous Ukrainian writers or cultural icons. But then, a siege upon the teachers themselves.\n\nStanding proudly amongst a sea of Ukrainian textbooks is head teacher Liliya Sirous. She says she was given a list of more than 2,200 books and told to destroy them all. But instead, she hid them. Replaced with a new curriculum of Russian history, literature, and language, for six months Liliya's secret library remained untouched.\n\nHead teacher Liliya Sirous was told to destroy thousands of Ukrainian textbooks\n\nBut now, gazing back upon her treasure trove of thousands of books, neatly stacked and tied up with ribbons, she starts to cry. \"My neighbour said: 'Why are you going to all this trouble? Russia has seized this land forever.'\"\n\nBut Liliya says she never lost hope. \"At the beginning of the school term, we were told we would have to teach our students that Ukraine was a territory of Russia, namely Malorussia ['Little Russia'],\" says Inna Mandryka, deputy director at Balakliya Five school.\n\nInna was one of the teachers who refused to cooperate. After being removed from her post, she carried on working every night from her basement by candlelight.\n\nAs the shelling continued overhead, she created a syllabus of online lessons. When she had access to the internet, she would distribute her work to teachers scattered all over Ukraine and Europe.\n\nTogether, Inna's network of allies has managed to support close to 100 students in the past six months from all over occupied Ukraine.\n\nInna launched an underground online school from her basement\n\nIn another school, just over 100km (62 miles) north of Balakliya, in the village of Ivanivka, head teacher Lidiya Tina - a professional educator with more than 40 years' experience - says she was detained for 19 days after refusing to set up a Russian school.\n\n\"As I was trying to flee Kharkiv, I was detained. A car pulled up and three masked men with assault rifles got out. They put a gun to my throat and ripped up my teaching diploma in front of my face,\" says Lidiya, 60.\n\nShe says a bag was put over her head and then she was placed in solitary confinement for five days. \"My soul ached,\" says Lidiya. \"I thought: 'No-one knows where I am.'\"\n\nShe says she was beaten and forced to kneel, and made to believe she would be executed. \"They tried to force me to learn the lyrics of the Russian anthem, but I refused.\"\n\nThe Russian authorities did not respond to the BBC's request to comment on Lidiya's claims.\n\nThere was pressure not just on teachers, but parents too. \"Parents were threatened that if they didn't send their children back to school, their kids would be taken to an orphanage,\" says Svitlana Shvid, head of education in the Balakliya region, with oversight of its 19 schools.\n\nIn the Vovchansk region, teachers told the BBC how Russian guards were stationed in classrooms while students tried to study.\n\nThe BBC asked the Russian authorities to comment on alleged threats to parents, but they did not respond.\n\nStudents in Balakliya city are keen to return to school soon. It has been two weeks since the liberation of their city, and young people are finally able to go outside again and hang out with friends.\n\nBest friends Daria, Veronica and Milena on a basketball court in Balakliya city\n\nOn the basketball court, 14-year-old Daria is playing with her friends. She asked her mum not to send her to the Russia-run school during the occupation. Now, since its liberation, she is looking forward to going back.\n\n\"I've spent months in our basement after Russian soldiers shelled our house and threw a grenade in our backyard.\"\n\nEnjoying their rekindled freedom, 13-year-old Milena agrees. \"Right now, our aim is just to survive,\" she says. \"I'm not dreaming about anything else.\"", "Nineteen-month-old Beatrix is on the waiting list for a new heart\n\nA new photo project has been launched to raise awareness of the difficult issue of child organ donation. To coincide, the BBC has spoken to a family whose 19-month-old girl needs a heart and are asking prospective parents to consider the unthinkable.\n\nBeatrix lives in hospital, her young life sustained by a machine.\n\nMilestones of her childhood - her first steps, words and teeth - have all occurred on her ward.\n\n\"She is growing up, turning into a little girl, hitting the terrible twos,\" her father Terry says with a laugh.\n\nBeatrix needs a new heart, she is one of more than 200 UK children awaiting a life-saving organ transplant, but with only about 50 donors a year the wait is long - and some might not survive it.\n\nThe problem is not a shortage of potential donors, but rather the first time most people are asked about allowing their child's organs to be donated comes at the most devastating time of their lives.\n\nBeatrix's parents are spearheading a campaign to get people to consider the unimaginable long before they may ever have to make the decision, namely, what would happen to their child's organs if they died?\n\nBeatrix is attached to a Berlin heart which keeps her alive\n\nIt's a plight Terry and Cheryl from Burnopfield, County Durham, know both sides of.\n\nIn 2018 their daughter Isabel was still-born.\n\nDoctors asked if they would donate her organs, Terry immediately refused but Cheryl said yes.\n\n\"Cheryl was right,\" Terry says. \"The difference between us was I had never even thought about it, while Cheryl had previously discussed it and made a decision long before.\n\n\"Losing a child is just the worst thing imaginable, and my instant response was to be protective of her. I did not want anyone touching her.\n\n\"I was in no state to even think about it, but because Cheryl already had, she said 'of course we will help'.\"\n\nDebbie Todd is an award-winning photographer from County Durham\n\nThey want doctors and midwives to ask prospective parents to think about it before their children arrive, and to even teach lessons in school to the parents of the future.\n\n\"It's such a traumatic thing, so we are asking people to simply think about it before they ever actually find themselves in that situation,\" Terry says.\n\n\"The reality is it needs to be talked about because if things do not change and we do not make it easier to talk about, more children are going to be waiting longer and longer with their outcomes getting worse.\"\n\nBeatrix is one of the first subjects of a new project by award-winning photographer Debbie Todd, who has previously captured and celebrated people's differences.\n\n\"Child organ donation is a subject that isn't talked about very much and the number of donated child organs is very low because of this,\" Debbie says.\n\n\"Getting people thinking about what they would do is key.\"\n\nDebbie Todd has also photographed two-year-old Grace who had a heart transplant earlier this year\n\nShe has also photographed two-year-old Grace Westwood who had a heart transplant earlier this year after two years of waiting.\n\nShe is now appealing for other people and children who have undergone heart transplants, surgery or organ donations to take part in her project.\n\nFor Beatrix, the wait goes on at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital where she is attached to a so-called Berlin heart, a pump which replicates her heart and keeps her alive.\n\n\"This isn't just about our daughter. It's about helping all children now and in future,\" says Terry.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Grant Shapps: \"Let's not muddy the water with... tax cuts for wealthy people right now\"\n\nLiz Truss would lose a Commons vote on cutting the top rate of income tax, former cabinet minister Grant Shapps has told the BBC.\n\nScrapping the 45% top rate was a key part of last Friday's mini-budget aimed at boosting growth.\n\nBut it has faced a growing backlash from Conservative MPs after market turmoil and a big slide in the polls.\n\nMichael Gove earlier hinted that he would vote against it - but Mr Shapps has now gone further.\n\nThe former transport secretary warned Ms Truss not to have a \"tin ear\" to voters' concerns about rising living costs and to do a U-turn as soon as possible.\n\n\"Let's not muddy the water with... tax cuts for wealthy people right now, when the priority needs to be on everyday households,\" he said.\n\nMPs are not likely to get a chance to vote on the tax changes until next spring, but Mr Shapps suggested enough Tory MPs would join forces with Labour and other opposition parties to defeat it.\n\n\"I don't think the House is in a place where it's likely to support that,\" he told the BBC on the first day of the Conservative conference in Birmingham.\n\nLike others who supported Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest, Mr Shapps was fired from the cabinet by Ms Truss when she became prime minister.\n\nBut Mr Shapps insisted he was not being unhelpful to the new PM. \"Sometimes budgets go wrong when they're announced,\" he said.\n\nHe cited former Chancellor George Osborne's 2012 Budget - dubbed the \"omnishambles\" - as an example of when economic policies have been \"quickly reversed\".\n\n\"And you know what? We went on to win the next election. So I mean this to be entirely helpful. There is a way through this. But the way through isn't to put fingers in the ear.\"\n\nInstead of just \"pushing on\" with the 45p top rate cut, he said the government \"needed to actually recognise that we're trying to do something here, which really isn't possible at this moment\".\n\nLater on Monday, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will use his Conservative conference speech to insist the government will \"stay the course\" on his tax-cutting growth plan, arguing that without tax reform the country is heading for \"slow decline\".\n\nOn Sunday, Conservative Party chairman Jake Berry warned that Tory MPs who voted against the prime minister's tax measures would be kicked out of the parliamentary party - known as losing the whip.\n\nTalking to Sky News, Mr Berry urged Conservatives to back the prime minister, adding: \"I'm sure that if we do that it will lead ultimately to long-term electoral success.\"\n\nBut on Sunday, Maria Caulfield became the latest Conservative MP to publicly oppose the policy, saying she could not support it at a time \"when nurses are struggling to pay their bills\".\n\nAddressing Mr Berry directly in a tweet, Ms Caulfield, who used to work as a nurse, said: \"If Tory Party don't want this working class MP, fair enough.\"\n\nFormer Levelling-Up Secretary Mr Gove - who also backed Mr Sunak in the leadership contest - said there were \"two major\" problems with the prime minister's plans.\n\n\"The first is the sheer risk of using borrowed money to fund tax cuts - that's not Conservative,\" he said.\n\nThe second, he argued, was to cut the top rate of income tax and scrap the cap on bankers' bonuses \"at a time when people are suffering\".\n\nAsked if Ms Truss would be prime minister this time next year, he said she would but added: \"There needs to be a course correction.\"\n\nAnd asked on the Telegraph's Chopper's Politics Live podcast if the prime minister had a mandate for her tax changes, Mr Gove argued she did for changes to National Insurance and corporation tax - because she had campaigned for them during the leadership contest.\n\nBut he added: \"What was not discussed was the prospect of income tax cuts, particularly income tax cuts for the very wealthiest.\"", "Moments after this coffin was lowered into the ground, shelling struck the hills opposite\n\nAs Russia's Vladimir Putin announces the annexation of swathes of sovereign Ukrainian territory, issues nuclear threats and mobilises hundreds of thousands of reservists, the response from Ukrainian forces on the eastern front is unchanged - they will fight for every last inch of soil.\n\nWe travel to front-line positions in the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk - one of the four regions which President Putin is now illegally claiming as his own. Our journey is made in stages.\n\nWe slow down to cross the Bakhmutovka river, speed up to cover exposed ground, then weave through a dangerous curtain of downed power lines. For the last few metres, we run. All the while, the shelling is constant - part of war's familiar soundscape.\n\nBut when we reach the front-line troops, inside a battle-scarred building, we hear something else - the crackle of small arms fire. The two sides are so close they can target each other with rifles.\n\nThe Russians are around 400 metres (437 yards) in front of us, and trying hard to close in. We are warned there is a Russian sniper to the rear.\n\nAt his post below ground, where a ginger cat keeps him company, the unit commander is sombre and blunt.\n\nUkrainian Unit Cdr Oleksandr says President Putin's attempt to annex further regions of Ukraine will fail\n\n\"It's pretty hard here now,\" says Oleksandr, a 31-year-old. \"It's stressful. Everyone is under pressure. The enemy is very near, but we are standing and fighting back.\"\n\nHe dismisses President Putin's recent referendums as \"delusional\" and says Ukrainians will not be dictated to at the barrel of a Russian gun.\n\n\"In my view, those referendums will change nothing. We will fight Putin's army and make them withdraw from our land,\" he says.\n\nOleksandr knows the cost of war - and not only from fighting his own battles.\n\n\"My brother died,\" he tells me, adding: \"But I don't know where and when that happened, because he was drafted by a different drafting office from a different region. He died as well as a few of my comrades, officers who trained with me. I found out they were dead, too. So, I have lost family and friends.\"\n\nHe has not lost his will to fight. Neither has 25-year-old Roman, who is operating a key weapon in this war - a drone.\n\nRoman holds aloft a drone - the 25-year-old says he worries about his family\n\nRoman is upstairs in a bombed-out room, littered with debris and broken glass, where two more cats are in residence. The screensaver on his phone is a picture of his five-month-old son Kyrylo, born since the war broke out. He has seen his only child once.\n\n\"I see him in pictures and video, not in real life,\" he says. \"It's hard, but it's also hard to imagine what the Russians could do to my family if they reach them.\n\n\"I don't want them to do what they did in Bucha. I lived in Kyiv, and I understand clearly how the women feel. If we are weak, they will come for our families.\"\n\nThere is concern here about the mobilisation in Russia. In the coming months the Kremlin will be sending many more soldiers into battle.\n\nIt is unclear how well-trained or well-equipped they will be, but the Ukrainians are worried about the quantity, not the quality.\n\nThey are already outnumbered. In the battle for Bakhmut they have faced a seemingly endless supply of Russian fighters. In August there were five waves in a row, according to Iryna, an army spokeswoman.\n\n\"They just go, and they don't stop. They don't react to firing or shelling. Some of the prisoners of war we captured were from Wagner [a Russian mercenary group]. They had better weapons,\" Iryna says.\n\nTroops here believe the Russians are pushing hard for victory in Bakhmut because of their recent humiliating defeats in the north-east and the south, where Ukraine reclaimed about 6,000 sq km (2,317 sq miles) of territory.\n\nFor now, Bakhmut is stuck in President Putin's throat. It is an obstacle in his bid to swallow all of a mineral rich area known as Donbas - comprised of Donestk and Luhansk. Having failed to fully capture Donbas, he has annexed both regions.\n\nAs he tries to conquer Bakhmut - once home to about 70,000 people - the city has been bled of life.\n\nLyudmila remains in her apartment with her husband, despite the cracked walls and leaking water\n\nDowntown we see a large apartment block with the centre gouged out by an airstrike three months ago. Many of the windows are boarded up. It looks abandoned, but my colleague hears a woman's cry inside the building.\n\nWe call out, and Lyudmila appears from behind the plastic sheeting that covers her window on the second floor. At first, it is difficult to hear her over the deep rumble of rocket fire.\n\n\"It's very hard,\" she shouts. \"They bombard us. Yesterday a man was killed in the backyard [by shelling]. There's almost no-one left in the building.\n\n\"Everything is leaking. There is water everywhere. All the walls are cracked. It is very difficult. But at least we get humanitarian aid. Every three days, they bring bread.\"\n\nThe white-haired pensioner is living in the shattered building with her husband and a handful of others. \"We can't go anywhere,\" she tells us. \"We have no money, and I am in a wheelchair.\" A neighbour tells us the building has been hit five times.\n\nLyudmila was in her kitchen when the missile struck on 1 July. \"It came, out of the blue,\" she says. \"God himself saved me.\"\n\nLyudmila's apartment block has been hit five times by Russian shelling, according to her neighbour\n\nBut can this city be saved?\n\nFor now, the frontline is holding. Ukrainian forces are blocking the Russian advance. But here even the dead are not safe.\n\nThere is an old cemetery on the city's green outskirts, in the path of incoming shells. Mounds of dark soil top the fresh graves - those killed in recent months, since the city became a battleground.\n\nAs a coffin is lowered into the ground - watched by a few mourners - the silence is broken by shelling. The first launch is outgoing, but moments later an incoming round lands in the hills opposite the graveyard. Then a second strike, closer still. It is time to leave.\n\nAs we race towards the edge of Bakhmut there is an explosion on the road right in front of us, between 100 to 200 metres ahead. We manage a sharp left turn and follow another route out.\n\nMany battles are still raging in Ukraine. President Putin is doubling down - and winter is coming.\n\nThis is a dangerous new phase in Europe's newest war.\n\nWhen asked how long she thought the conflict would last, the army spokeswoman replied: \"A long, long time.\"", "Now let's go to back to the wider Conservative Party conference, which is taking place in Birmingham.\n\nTory members arriving seem to be willing to give Liz Truss a chance - even if they have doubts about her economic policies.\n\nHannah Jarvis, from Monmouth in South Wales, says it's a difficult time to be a Tory - and the party has to have some \"humility\" about its recent mistakes.\n\n\"That said, this is an opportunity for us all to come together now as members of the party and unite behind the leader and give her a chance,\" she tells me.\n\nShe adds: \"She wasn’t my first choice but when it was whittled down to the final two I voted for her over Rishi.\n\n\"I did so on the strength of what I anticipated her fiscal policy would be and I must be honest this is not what I anticipated.\n\n\"I see the logic in what she is saying. That the wealthy do stimulate the economy, but I would, if I’m being honest, like to see a bit more in place for those on lower incomes and for those on benefits.\"\n\nJane MacBean, from the Chesham and Amersham constituency, says Ms Truss's economic policies had to be given time to \"bed in\".\n\nAnd Olatunde Macauley, from Rayleigh and Wickford - who is attending his first Tory conference - is upbeat about the week ahead.\n\n\"I am a big supporter of what she is doing. 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