RealTimeData/bbc_alltime
This dataset contains BBC News articles from 2017 to 2022. The articles are arraged by month. Access the specific month by using the format "YYYY-MM" as config. Such as load_dataset("RealTimeData/bbc_alltime", "2021-1").
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1{"title": ["Space: Wales' new strategy could boost economy by £2bn - BBC News", "British Airways blames luggage delays on high winds - BBC News", "Domestic abuse: New coercive control laws now in force - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: UK to sanction Russia over breakaway regions decision - BBC News", "Truth Social: Banned from Twitter, Trump returns with a new platform - BBC News", "Logan Mwangi trial: Five-year-old had 'significant injuries' - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: Russia orders troops into rebel-held regions - BBC News", "Jobfished: the con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency - BBC News", "Jack Ritchie inquest: Parents hope for gambling laws change - BBC News", "Covid: How new drugs are finally taming the virus - BBC News", "Winter Olympics: Eve Muirhead says curling gold in Beijing a 'dream come true' - BBC Sport", "Assisted dying: Two arrested over death of campaigner - BBC News", "Platinum Jubilee: Stamps issued to celebrate Queen's 70-year reign - BBC News", "Home buyers see asking prices soar by nearly £8,000 - BBC News", "Benidorm bar attack: Wythenshawe man died without justice, family say - BBC News", "Ukraine: Russia plans biggest war in Europe since 1945 - Boris Johnson - BBC News", "DUP MLA Christopher Stalford dies aged 39 - BBC News", "Extra Covid booster in spring for over-75s and high risk - BBC News", "Ukraine invaded: Casualties as fighting rages after Russian attack - BBC News", "As it happened: Johnson, Whitty and Vallance hold Covid news conference - BBC News", "M4 crash: Driver admits causing deaths of two children - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: Criss-crossing the country with Zelensky - BBC News", "Buckingham Palace eases concerns over Queen's Covid case - BBC News", "Covid: Living with Covid plan will restore freedom, says Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Storm Franklin: Floods in Wales hit homes, road and rail - BBC News", "Queen carries on with light duties after Covid symptoms - BBC News", "BBC One's Morning Live makes move to Manchester - BBC News", "Angel Lynn: Court to review pair's kidnap sentences - BBC News", "Ukrainian officials run from apparent shelling - BBC News", "Storm Franklin: Wales sees near-80mph gusts and more disruption - BBC News", "Credit Suisse denies wrongdoing after big banking data leak - BBC News", "Ukraine tensions: Biden agrees in principle to summit with Putin - BBC News", "Vegetables alone not enough to reduce heart risk, study finds - BBC News", "Winter Olympics: Closing ceremony marks ends of 2022 Beijing Games - BBC Sport", "Home Office probes immigration contractor Mitie over racist text claims - BBC News", "Queen's Platinum Jubilee: Celebration plans unveiled by Buckingham Palace - BBC News", "Storm Franklin hits UK with flooding and high winds - BBC News", "Ukraine: What are Russia's possible attack routes? - BBC News", "Solihull: Arthur Labinjo-Hughes report uncovers help delay - BBC News", "Phil Foden: Manchester City 'shocked and appalled' by abuse of England player at Khan-Brook fight - BBC Sport", "Storm Eunice: Baby born on hard shoulder near Felixstowe - BBC News", "Petrópolis: More than 120 still missing in Brazil flood-hit city - BBC News", "Storm Franklin: Llandinam residents rescued by boat - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Met Police officers in Wayne Couzens WhatsApp group named - BBC News", "Jamal Edwards: Tributes flood in for music entrepreneur - BBC News", "NHS England drops limit on offering Caesarean births - BBC News", "Ukraine-Russia: Putin mulls recognising independence of breakaway regions - BBC News", "Inquiry condemns delays in Borders teacher abuse case - BBC News", "Swansea City v Bournemouth off because of storm damage 'safety issues' - BBC Sport", "Christopher Stalford: MLAs pay tribute to DUP politician - BBC News", "Pledge to move learning disabilities care nearer home - BBC News", "Ukraine: Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price defends trip - BBC News", "Novavax Covid jab approved by UK drugs regulator - BBC News", "The Queen tests positive for Covid - BBC News", "Children in care homes 'seen as criminals not victims' - BBC News", "Covid-19: How are isolation rules affecting schoolchildren? - BBC News", "'Bankrupt' Tommy Robinson faces High Court questioning over finances - BBC News", "Maida Vale deaths: Yasmin Chkaifi was 'clever, kind and witty' - BBC News", "Rishi Sunak: Energy bill help 'worth £290m to Scotland' - BBC News", "Political crisis at Stormont as first minister resigns - BBC News", "Djokovic Covid tests were valid, Serbian officials say - BBC News", "Bute Park: Three guilty of homophobic murder of doctor - BBC News", "Paul Givan: How will the new first minister handle the top job? - BBC News", "Juveniles investigated in bomb hoaxes against black colleges - BBC News", "Boris Johnson facing further calls to resign amid parties row - BBC News", "Pret raises the price of its coffee subscription by 25% - BBC News", "Ashley Wadsworth: Man in court over murder of Canadian girlfriend - BBC News", "Argentina drugs: Adulterated cocaine kills 20 in Buenos Aires - BBC News", "As it happened: Energy price cap: Sunak says government plan is right and fair - BBC News", "Woolly mammoth and other Ice Age remains found in Devon - BBC News", "PSNI's domestic abuse alert scheme extended to 77 additional schools - BBC News", "Iris: Student-built robot rover on track to explore the Moon - BBC News", "Ukraine: Boris Johnson warns Putin of tragic miscalculation - BBC News", "UK hotel bill for 37,000 migrants is £1.2m a day, MPs told - BBC News", "Bute Park murder: Gary Jenkins was 'giant in personality' - BBC News", "UK hotel bill for 37,000 migrants actually £4.7m a day, Home Office says - BBC News", "Inflation: Four things that are going up in price and why - BBC News", "Ukraine tensions: Russia condemns destructive US troop increase in Europe - BBC News", "Boris Johnson wrong to claim crime has fallen, says watchdog - BBC News", "Relatives fear bodies are 'floating in water' at Ayr Cemetery - BBC News", "Ukraine tensions: US alleges Russian plot to fake invasion pretext - BBC News", "Russian military aircraft in second RAF alert - BBC News", "Falsely accused ex-MP Proctor makes complaint against VIP inquiry officer - BBC News", "Seamus Maguire: New 'Disappeared' case opened into murder - BBC News", "Covid: New Zealand unveils phased border reopening plan - BBC News", "Four charged in drug death of The Wire actor Michael K Williams - BBC News", "Lord Ahmed: Victim calls for peer to lose title - BBC News", "Don't ask for a big pay rise, warns Bank of England boss - BBC News", "London mayor puts Met commissioner Dame Cressida Dick on notice - BBC News", "Many people still in the dark over gas boilers, say MPs - BBC News", "David Goodwillie: Raith Rovers says rapist will not play for them - BBC News", "DUP: Edwin Poots response to South Down bid 'disappointing' - BBC News", "Energy bills set to soar but millions may get £200 help - BBC News", "Djokovic thanks Serbian president for support amid Covid test doubts - BBC News", "Rayan: Moroccan rescuers inch nearer to boy stuck in well for days - BBC News", "KP Snacks hack prompts crisp and nut supplies warning - BBC News", "Rishi Sunak defends response as energy bills soar - BBC News", "Vaccine trial for killer elephant virus begins - BBC News", "Interest rates rise again in bid to cool soaring prices - BBC News", "What do key resignations mean for PM? - BBC News", "Colston statue should be displayed in museum, public says - BBC News", "Bute Park: QC denies victim blaming in homophobic attack case - BBC News", "Teen in court charged with neo-Nazi terror group membership - BBC News", "Amazon raises US price for Prime as profits jump - BBC News", "Boris Johnson's fightback fails to curb growing Tory revolt - BBC News", "Millions braced as energy price rise to be revealed - BBC News", "NI Protocol: Irish Sea border checks ordered to end at midnight - BBC News", "Downing Street parties have damaged trust in government - Rishi Sunak - BBC News", "Boris Johnson's policy chief Munira Mirza resigns over PM's Savile remarks - BBC News", "Novavax Covid jab approved by UK drugs regulator - BBC News", "Amazon strikes global deal to accept Visa credit cards - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: Russian claim of troop withdrawal false, says US - BBC News", "England to offer Covid jab to five to 11-year-olds - BBC News", "Storm Dudley: Thousands of people lose electricity due to damage - BBC News", "Edward Meenan murder accused changes plea to guilty - BBC News", "Ukraine tensions: Russian demands hark back to Cold War, says Germany - BBC News", "Met officers charged over WhatsApp messages - BBC News", "Coercive control: Ruth Dodsworth speaks of 'double life' - BBC News", "England 1-1 Canada: Lionesses held to draw in opening game of Arnold Clark Cup - BBC Sport", "Winter Olympics: Kamila Valieva misses out on podium as she finishes fourth - BBC Sport", "Judge rules Donald Trump must testify in New York investigation - BBC News", "KitKat and Durex makers Nestle and Reckitt warn of price rises - BBC News", "Schools in England given guidance to avoid biased teaching - BBC News", "Elon Musk says US is trying to 'chill' his free speech - BBC News", "UK scraps rich foreign investor visa scheme - BBC News", "Canada protests: Police arrest leaders of trucker convoy - BBC News", "Deadline to register forgotten paths scrapped - BBC News", "Why is an abuser still working as a priest? - BBC News", "Storm Eunice: Deaths and damage as high winds cause havoc - BBC News", "Petrópolis: Deadly landslides wreak havoc in Brazilian city - BBC News", "Storm Eunice heads for UK and prompts danger to life warning - BBC News", "Northern Ireland's 11 councils to increase rates - BBC News", "Brazil: Torrential rain triggers deadly mudslides in Brazil - BBC News", "Kamila Valieva: Anger and sympathy as 15-year-old breaks down at Winter Olympics - BBC Sport", "Storm Dudley: Railways reopen after checks and repairs - BBC News", "NHS waiting times: Woman in agony waiting for hip op - BBC News", "As it happened: US claims Russia could stage reason to invade Ukraine - BBC News", "Storm Eunice: Wales set to be hit by 100mph winds - BBC News", "'I lost my dad to prostate cancer, don't lose yours' - BBC News", "Paul Reed death: Man charged over fatal Rotherham Hospital fight - BBC News", "Nick Clegg gets bigger role at Facebook owner Meta - BBC News", "Inter Milan 0-2 Liverpool: Reds score two late goals to take control of last-16 tie - BBC Sport", "Simon Nellist: Sydney shark victim named locally as British man - BBC News", "Apple boss Tim Cook faces backlash to £73m pay package - BBC News", "Storm Eunice: Yellow weather warnings issued for NI - BBC News", "Storm Dudley: Cardiff trains delayed by trampoline on tracks - BBC News", "Paislee Shultis: US girl missing since 2019 found alive in secret room - BBC News", "Wordle: New York Times changes upset fans - BBC News", "Can Boris Johnson avoid a lockdown party fine? - BBC News", "Brexit: Simon Coveney plays down NI Protocol breakthrough prospects - BBC News", "Paul Robson: Sex offender who fled HMP North Sea Camp recaptured - BBC News", "Ukraine-Russia tensions: UK vows to step up support - BBC News", "Post Office scandal: MPs call for full postmaster compensation - BBC News", "M1 crash: Mum admits causing deaths of her children in crash - BBC News", "School closures as Storm Eunice snow hit Scotland - BBC News", "Louis Thorold: Driver appears in court over A10 crash death - BBC News", "Storm Eunice: A guide to preparing - BBC News", "Storm Dudley: Met Office amber wind warning takes effect - BBC News", "Storm Dudley: Falling power line kills 13 dogs in North Yorkshire - BBC News", "Storm Eunice: Somerset and Gloucestershire declare weather emergencies - BBC News", "Winter Olympics: Men's curling team guarantee Great Britain silver medal at least - BBC Sport", "Bionic eyes: Obsolete tech leaves patients in the dark - BBC News", "Covid-19 vaccine offered to children aged five to 11 in Northern Ireland - BBC News", "Police to investigate Prince Charles' charity - BBC News", "UK Weather: Train services back as Storm Eunice planning begins - BBC News", "Cressida Dick: Why is it so hard to fix the Met’s toxic culture? - BBC News", "Northern Powergrid sorry for Storm Arwen trillion pound compensation error - BBC News", "Beryl Vertue: TV producer behind Men Behaving Badly and Sherlock dies at 90 - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: 'We don't have the option to leave' - BBC News", "Evesham Rugby Club player Jack Jeffery dies after match injury - BBC News", "Steve Barclay: PM's new chief of staff pledges smaller state - BBC News", "Six Nations 2022: Wales 20-17 Scotland - Dan Biggar guides Wales to tense win - BBC Sport", "Canada bridge protesters cleared by police after a week of disruption - BBC News", "Ambassador Bridge: Police launch bid to clear Canada trucker blockade - BBC News", "Flooding: River warning as Wales hit by heavy rain - BBC News", "Ukraine seeks meeting with Russia within 48 hours to discuss build-up - BBC News", "Winter Olympics: GB curlers boost semi-final hopes - BBC Sport", "Actress Samantha Morton says 16 and 17-year-olds in care being neglected - BBC News", "Rotherham hospital: Man dies after fight between patients - BBC News", "Regional healthcare services for homeless people to be rolled out across NI - BBC News", "Pakistan: Man accused of blasphemy killed by mob in Khanewal - BBC News", "Tongue-tie: Mums and babies 'let down' by poor services - BBC News", "Winter Olympics: Heavy snowfall in Beijing causes disruption to alpine & freestyle skiing - BBC Sport", "Covid: Vulnerable children encouraged to get vaccine - BBC News", "Tonyrefail: Pentre man, 35, dies after being hit by HGV - BBC News", "Nottingham Caesars: Mice destroy American football team's kit - BBC News", "Sadiq Khan: New Met boss must have robust plan on culture problems - BBC News", "Italy 0-33 England: Visitors get Six Nations campaign back on track - BBC Sport", "Brexit: NI Protocol issues 'unlikely to be resolved before election' - BBC News", "Ukraine tensions: After eight years of war, an eastern city unifies against Russia - BBC News", "NHS hospital doctor arrested on suspicion of sexual assault - BBC News", "Ukraine tensions: A dozen nations tell citizens to leave Ukraine - BBC News", "Why women are often worst hit by climate change - BBC News", "Humza Yousaf: Scotland should not be forced into Covid easing - BBC News", "Instagram failed to act on identity theft, says novelist - BBC News", "Canada protests: After police cleared bridge, is this the end? - BBC News", "Russia-Ukraine crisis: Whiff of Munich in the air, says Ben Wallace - BBC News", "Winter Olympics: Kamila Valieva's entourage to be investigated by Wada - BBC Sport", "Hugo Torres: Nicaraguan ex-rebel leader dies after being jailed - BBC News", "Swiss approve tobacco ad ban long after neighbours - BBC News", "Call 999 with early heart attack symptoms, NHS says - BBC News", "Hackney Wick bar floor collapse: Thirteen people injured - BBC News", "Chinese sites accused of censoring LGBT content from Friends - BBC News", "New Zealand plays Barry Manilow to repel parliament protesters - BBC News", "Covid protests: Hundreds fined and dozens arrested as convoy enters Paris - BBC News", "Chelsea win Club World Cup: Kai Havertz winner sees off Palmeiras after extra time - BBC Sport", "Attacks on Boris Johnson's wife are sexist, says Sajid Javid - BBC News", "Wrexham: Baby Lincoln's two life-saving heart operations - BBC News", "Give PM time and space to deliver, says Kwasi Kwarteng - BBC News", "Climate change: Top companies exaggerating their progress - study - BBC News", "As it happened: People suffering as NHS backlog plan delayed - patients' group - BBC News", "New greenfield housing still designed around cars, report finds - BBC News", "Boris Johnson sang 'I Will Survive' to new communications chief Guto Harri - BBC News", "Levi Bellfield confesses to Lin and Megan Russell murders, lawyer says - BBC News", "Winter Olympics: Team GB curlers to play for bronze after semi-final loss to Norway - BBC Sport", "NHS Tracker: Find out about hospital waiting times in your area this winter - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: 'Lack of planning' put NHS in crisis - BBC News", "World Cup 2030: UK & Republic of Ireland FAs abandon 2030 bid to focus on Euro 2028 - BBC Sport", "Rayan: Morocco holds funeral for five-year-old who died trapped in well - BBC News", "Peterhead focus of international hunt for £13m masterpiece - BBC News", "Online gaming abuse: 'Men like to guess what I'm wearing' - BBC News", "Covid: Australia to reopen borders to international travel - BBC News", "North Korea: Missile programme funded through stolen crypto, UN report says - BBC News", "Afcon 2021: Senegal beat Egypt on penalties to win first-ever Nations Cup - BBC Sport", "Primark accused of selling 'hugely sexist' kids clothes - BBC News", "Police attend 'serious incident' at holiday park near Abergele - BBC News", "Mental health: Rise in NI children seeking help during pandemic - BBC News", "Beer prices will have to rise, says Cobra founder - BBC News", "Carrie Johnson: I'm target of a brutal briefing campaign - BBC News", "Razzies: Diana the Musical leads nominations with nine - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Government withdraws 'sexist' Stay Home advert - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: Macron says a deal to avoid war is within reach - BBC News", "Six Nations: More electric train seats for Wales v Scotland - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Robin Swann wants to remove Covid restrictions this week - BBC News", "The forgotten flu epidemic of 1989 - BBC News", "Cyclone Batsirai: Whole villages swept away in Madagascar - BBC News", "Peng Shuai: Weibo post sparked 'huge misunderstanding' - BBC News", "Canada truckers protest: Injunction granted to stop horn honking - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: Nord Stream 2 will end if Russia invades - Biden - BBC News", "Worst to come for food price rises, Tesco boss says - BBC News", "No 10 set for more changes as PM seeks to calm MPs - BBC News", "M4 crash: Motorway reopened as four in hospital - BBC News", "Duchess of Cambridge to read CBeebies Bedtime Story - BBC News", "Paralysed man with severed spine walks thanks to implant - BBC News", "Lata Mangeshkar: India bids farewell to beloved singer - BBC News", "Blood pressure warning over long-term paracetamol use - BBC News", "When did young Elizabeth realise that one day she would become Queen? - BBC News", "Fatherhood joy for paralysis implant dad - BBC News", "Six Nations 2022: Wales coach Wayne Pivac blames discipline and physicality for Ireland loss - BBC Sport", "Val McDermid calls for regulator to check footballers - BBC News", "'Lives being lost' due to Scottish ambulance waiting times - BBC News", "Platinum Jubilee: Queen's life in pictures - BBC News", "Camilla: The making of the future Queen Consort - BBC News", "Neighbours under threat after Channel 5 drops show - BBC News", "Scottish A&E waiting times worst on record - BBC News", "Matthew Selby admits killing sister at Towyn caravan park - BBC News", "Covid: Plan to tackle England's NHS backlog delayed - BBC News", "Queen backs Camilla to be Queen Consort on Jubilee - BBC News", "Prince Charles leads Jubilee tributes to 'remarkable' Queen - BBC News", "Mason Greenwood: Man Utd footballer dropped by Nike after rape allegation - BBC News", "Joe Rogan: Podcast is staying on Spotify says boss - BBC News", "Tinnitus biobank needed to explain ringing ears condition - BBC News", "Levi Bellfield confession to Lin and Megan Russell murders to be analysed - BBC News", "Canada trucker protest: Ottawa declares emergency - BBC News", "M4 crash: Gracie-Ann Wheaton, four, named as girl who died - BBC News", "Abergele holiday park incident: Man held as girl, 15, dies - BBC News", "What would persuade Scots to ditch the car? - BBC News", "Abergele: Man charged with murder of girl, 15, at holiday park - BBC News", "Asda in cheap food promise after Jack Monroe complaints - BBC News", "Russia bans British airlines from its airspace - BBC News", "Ukraine conflict: Champions League final moved from Russia & F1 GP cancelled - BBC Sport", "BBC Ukrainian editor: My son and I packed, and just left Kyiv - BBC News", "Ukraine's Zelensky asks citizens to resist and Europe to do more - BBC News", "Ukraine invasion: UK troops will not fight against Russia says Wallace - BBC News", "Ukraine invasion: Is this a new Cold War, asks John Simpson - BBC News", "Ukraine invaded: Anti-war protests in Russian cities lead to arrests - BBC News", "Polycystic ovary syndrome: Mental health link 'not recognised' - BBC News", "Ukraine invaded: How Russia's invasion unfolded - BBC News", "Roman Abramovich: Labour MP urges government to seize Russian billionaire's assets - BBC News", "Man arrested over Emma Caldwell murder - BBC News", "Birmingham pub bombings: Fight over 'confession' to Chris Mullin - BBC News", "Eurovision: Russia banned from competing at 2022 Song Contest - BBC News", "Covid: Millions of vaccine doses destroyed in England - BBC News", "Ukraine conflict: Shock and support on the streets of Moscow - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: Missile strikes, tanks and buildings hit in Kyiv - BBC News", "Florida House of Representatives passes 'Don't Say Gay' bill - BBC News", "Ukraine conflict: European clubs, players and fans show support - BBC Sport", "How hard will it be to defend Ukraine from Russian invasion? - BBC News", "Foie gras: 'Sickening' footage shows need for ban, activists say - BBC News", "Ukraine conflict: UK sanctions target Russian banks and oligarchs - BBC News", "Russian forces seize Chernobyl nuclear power plant - BBC News", "Ukraine conflict: Simple visual guide to the Russian invasion - BBC News", "Ukraine invaded: Casualties as fighting rages after Russian attack - BBC News", "Sally Kellerman: Oscar-nominated M*A*S*H actress dies at 84 - BBC News", "Snake Island: Ukraine says soldiers killed after refusing to surrender - BBC News", "Ukraine invasion: Ministers braced for 'long and serious' conflict - BBC News", "Storm Eunice: O2 Arena reopens after Storm damage - BBC News", "Russian Grand Prix cancelled following invasion of Ukraine - BBC Sport", "Court bid to prevent BBC airing MI5 agent probe - BBC News", "Ukraine: Woman confronts armed Russian soldier - BBC News", "Reid Steele: Mother Natalie Steele admits killing son, 2 - BBC News", "Ex-police officers guilty in George Floyd death - BBC News", "Skiing: Girl, 12, hopes Winter Olympics dream will come true - BBC News", "Ukraine violence: Missiles, helicopters and gunfire - BBC News", "'Chaotic' youth job scheme failing to deliver, MPs say - BBC News", "Ukraine conflict: UK to impose sanctions on Russia's President Putin - BBC News", "Ukraine conflict world reaction: Sanctions, refugees and fears of war - BBC News", "Ukraine: Kyiv residents spend night sheltering in basements and metro stations - BBC News", "Ukraine conflict: Many misleading images have been shared online - BBC News", "Ukraine conflict: UK intelligence fears ‘bloody and brutal’ war - BBC News", "Sabina Nessa: Man admits murdering south-east London teacher - BBC News", "Ukraine invasion: Russia restricts social media access - BBC News", "Ukraine conflict: Kyiv braces for Russian assault - BBC News", "Chernobyl: Why radiation levels spiked at nuclear plant - BBC News", "Ukraine invasion: Charities urge UK to welcome thousands of refugees - BBC News", "Police Scotland warn of hazardous driving conditions - BBC News", "As it happened: Kyiv warned of toxic fumes after strike on oil depot - BBC News", "Ukraine conflict: What we know about the invasion - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: Warning UK energy bills could top £3,000 a year - BBC News", "Alex Salmond suspends RT show over Ukraine invasion - BBC News", "British Airways short-haul flights from Heathrow cancelled - BBC News", "John Lewis to end 'Never Knowingly Undersold' price pledge - BBC News", "Ukraine conflict: BP under pressure to sell stake in Russian firm - BBC News", "Ukraine conflict: Further false images shared online - BBC News", "Rape cases should be tried in specialist courts, says report - BBC News", "Boris Johnson wrong on jobs claim, says statistics watchdog - BBC News", "Supreme Court: Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to top court - BBC News", "PC Adam Zaman: Met officer accused of rape has case dismissed - BBC News", "Online subscription scams costing UK victims millions - BBC News", "Northern Ireland health service 'incredibly fragile' - BBC News", "Fossil of largest Jurassic pterosaur found on Skye - BBC News", "West Midlands hit by earthquake - BBC News", "Storm Franklin: Record levels set on three rivers in Wales - BBC News", "Nicola Sturgeon to unveil plans for living with Covid - BBC News", "OnlyFans accused of conspiring to blacklist rivals - BBC News", "Reaction to Scotland Covid rule changes - BBC News", "Inflation sends UK debt interest payments higher - BBC News", "Procol Harum singer Gary Brooker dies at 76 - BBC News", "Nicola Sturgeon confirms dates for ending Covid rules - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Families remember loved ones lost to coronavirus - BBC News", "Logan Mwangi trial: Five-year-old had 'significant injuries' - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: UK to sanction Russia over breakaway regions decision - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: Russia orders troops into rebel-held regions - BBC News", "Assisted dying: Two arrested over death of campaigner - BBC News", "Lisburn: Man arrested over 'imitation gun' at shopping centre - BBC News", "Brexit: Drop in European trade hitting profits, say firms - BBC News", "Logan Mwangi: Mother's 'chilling 999 call on day body dumped' - BBC News", "Convicted bombers guilty of attacking prison officer - BBC News", "Ukraine invaded: Casualties as fighting rages after Russian attack - BBC News", "Extra Covid booster in spring for over-75s and high risk - BBC News", "Flooding risk persists as UK looks to recover from storm battering - BBC News", "Aldershot IRA Bombing: 50th anniversary memorial unveiled - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: All legal restrictions to end on 21 March - BBC News", "BBC Wales' Sabrina Lee explains our wet weather - BBC News", "National Portrait Gallery's BP sponsorship to end - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: Criss-crossing the country with Zelensky - BBC News", "Oti Mabuse to leave Strictly Come Dancing after seven years - BBC News", "Angel Lynn: Court to review pair's kidnap sentences - BBC News", "Sasha Johnson shooting: Case against four men collapses - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: Uefa likely to move Champions League final from St Petersburg in Russia - BBC Sport", "Storm Franklin: Wales sees near-80mph gusts and more disruption - BBC News", "Ukraine: Putin tells Russia's spy chief to speak plainly - BBC News", "Covid-19: Swann warns against 'rushed' decision on Covid tests - BBC News", "Canada legislators back Trudeau on emergency powers - BBC News", "Boots to sell £6 Covid tests ahead of rule change - BBC News", "Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan dies at 57 - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: Key moments in Russia's military build-up - BBC News", "Ukraine: What are Russia's possible attack routes? - BBC News", "Extra blood test could help spot heart-attack death risk - BBC News", "Storm Franklin hits UK with flooding and high winds - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: Germany halts pipeline as nations sanction Russia - BBC News", "Queen cancels virtual engagements as mild Covid persists - BBC News", "Storm Eunice: Baby born on hard shoulder near Felixstowe - BBC News", "Storm Eunice: Aintree man killed when debris hit van is named - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Met Police officers in Wayne Couzens WhatsApp group named - BBC News", "Jamal Edwards: Tributes flood in for music entrepreneur - BBC News", "NHS England drops limit on offering Caesarean births - BBC News", "River Severn Flooding: Homes and businesses evacuated - BBC News", "Footballer Emiliano Sala had carbon monoxide poisoning prior to crash - inquest - BBC News", "Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel to leave BBC to launch podcast and host LBC show - BBC News", "Concern over maintenance at Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh - BBC News", "Christopher Stalford: MLAs pay tribute to DUP politician - BBC News", "IPCC: Climate change report to sound warning on impacts - BBC News", "Jarryd Hayne: Ex-rugby star wins appeal in sexual assault case - BBC News", "Police kill man wielding knife at Paris station - BBC News", "Met Police: Some officers are racist, professional standards chief admits - BBC News", "Northern Powergrid sorry for Storm Arwen trillion pound compensation error - BBC News", "Beryl Vertue: TV producer behind Men Behaving Badly and Sherlock dies at 90 - BBC News", "Evesham Rugby Club player Jack Jeffery dies after match injury - BBC News", "Stock markets fall as Ukraine invasion fears rattle investors - BBC News", "Coventry man admits three murders but denies rape - BBC News", "Petrol and diesel prices reach new record high - BBC News", "Sadiq Khan: Met Police Federation has 'no faith' in London mayor - BBC News", "Canada bridge protesters cleared by police after a week of disruption - BBC News", "Ukraine seeks meeting with Russia within 48 hours to discuss build-up - BBC News", "Two green freeports to be established in Scotland - BBC News", "Chagos Islands: Mauritian flag raised on British-controlled islands - BBC News", "Rocket part on crash course with Moon 'not from Elon Musk's SpaceX' - BBC News", "HIA: Stormont's five main parties to apologise to abuse survivors - BBC News", "Regional healthcare services for homeless people to be rolled out across NI - BBC News", "Rotherham hospital: Man dies after fight between patients - BBC News", "Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful convictions - BBC News", "The 15-year-old Russian figure skater at the centre of a doping scandal - BBC News", "The 78-year-old Ukrainian grandmother preparing for a Russian invasion - BBC News", "Pakistan: Man accused of blasphemy killed by mob in Khanewal - BBC News", "Travel warning ahead of Storm Dudley's strong winds - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: Russia says diplomatic solution still possible - BBC News", "Italy 0-33 England: Visitors get Six Nations campaign back on track - BBC Sport", "Ukraine: Still time for Putin to step back, says Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Camilla tests positive for coronavirus - BBC News", "Milton Keynes: Teenager charged with murder of 16-year-old - BBC News", "Ukraine tensions: After eight years of war, an eastern city unifies against Russia - BBC News", "Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters' bank accounts - BBC News", "M4 crash: Second child who died after Newport collision named - BBC News", "Russia-Ukraine: No sign of de-escalation yet, Nato chief says - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: Biden and Johnson say still hope for diplomatic agreement - BBC News", "Richard Morris: Diplomat was stressed before death, inquest hears - BBC News", "Coleen Rooney not allowed to bring case against Rebekah Vardy's agent - BBC News", "Winter Olympics: Kamila Valieva allowed to compete at Beijing after Cas hearing - BBC Sport", "Sir Keir Starmer confirms he had death threats after PM's Jimmy Savile claim - BBC News", "NHS hospital doctor arrested on suspicion of sexual assault - BBC News", "Air fare rises are unavoidable, warns Air France-KLM - BBC News", "Humza Yousaf: Scotland should not be forced into Covid easing - BBC News", "HMRC seizes NFT for first time in £1.4m fraud case - BBC News", "Why women are often worst hit by climate change - BBC News", "Big banks fund new oil and gas despite net zero pledges - BBC News", "Super Bowl 2022: Rams hold nerve to claim late 23-20 win over Bengals - BBC Sport", "Russia-Ukraine crisis: Whiff of Munich in the air, says Ben Wallace - BBC News", "Police officer facing action over Wayne Couzens messages - BBC News", "Four-day working week pilot bid for Welsh workers - BBC News", "Mexico violence: Gunmen attack wake, then target funeral - BBC News", "Ivan Reitman: Ghostbusters director dies aged 75 - 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Six Nations campaign back on track as they outclass Italy to claim a 33-0 bonus-point win in Rome.", "DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says the government has \"dishonoured\" the New Decade New Approach deal.", "Separatists tried to seize Kharkiv in 2014. 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Are two weeks of protests about to end?", "There's a \"whiff of Munich in the air\", Defence Secretary Ben Wallace says, as diplomatic talks continue.", "Scrutiny of those around Kamila Valieva increases after the World Anti-Doping Agency says it will investigate the adults working with the teenager.", "Former revolutionary general Hugo Torres has died aged 73, eight months after being detained for treason.", "Voters approve tighter laws on tobacco advertising, years after most European countries.", "Thousands more lives could be saved by paying attention to early symptoms of heart attacks, doctors say.", "One man who was trapped under rubble at the east London bar says he feared he was going to die.", "Fans say key scenes have been deleted from the hit US sitcom, which has been re-released in China.", "Protesters opposed to Covid-19 vaccine mandates remain camped outside parliament.", "Police intercept lorries trying to join a protest against France's coronavirus regulations.", "Chelsea are crowned Club World Cup champions after an extra-time victory against Brazilian club Palmeiras in Abu Dhabi.", "The health secretary argues partners should be \"off limits\" ahead of a new book about the PM's wife.", "Lincoln Edwards had his first operation at 13 days and a second at five months old.", "The business secretary says Boris Johnson is focused on the job, but MPs continue to question his future.", "Companies including Google, Amazon and Ikea are not meeting their own green targets, a report finds.", "The scheme to tackle waiting lists in England is on hold due to last-minute concerns in Whitehall.", "Services such as shops, schools and doctors are often almost impossible to reach on foot or by bike", "The PM's new director of communications Guto Harri reveals how he accepted the new job in Downing Street.", "Lin Russell and her daughter Megan were attacked and killed in 1996 in Kent.", "Great Britain's curling mixed doubles pair miss the chance to guarantee at least a silver medal at the Winter Olympics.", "Flu, staff shortages and Covid backlogs are putting the NHS under severe strain, find out what's happening in your area.", "The Scottish government is criticised for not doing more to prevent record waiting times and staff shortages.", "The UK and Republic of Ireland football associations agree not to bid for the 2030 World Cup and will instead focus on a joint bid to host Euro 2028.", "Five-year-old Rayan Oram died despite a painstaking rescue effort to free him at the weekend.", "Paolo Veronese painted The Pool of Bethesda in the 16th Century and it was last known to be in Peterhead.", "Women share experiences of sexual harassment while gaming online, in a report submitted to MPs.", "Tourists and other visa holders can enter from 21 February for the first time in almost two years.", "Investigators say cyber-attackers stole over $50 million in digital assets between 2020 and mid-2021.", "Sadio Mane nets the winning spot-kick as Senegal beat Egypt 4-2 on penalties to clinch their first-ever Africa Cup of Nations after a 0-0 draw.", "Author Kate Long shared images of girls' items telling them to \"be kind\" or \"keep on smiling\".", "A spokesman for the holiday park says they are \"shocked and saddened\" by the \"tragic incident\".", "Figures show mental health services referrals from hospitals for young people rose by 24% in a year.", "A \"vicious cycle\" of rising costs means nearly all businesses are being squeezed, Lord Bilimoria says", "The PM's wife says she is being targeted by his enemies and insists she plays no role in government.", "The Netflix musical is up for nine awards, while Bruce Willis is given his own special category.", "An \"infographic\" urging people to remain indoors during lockdown showed only women doing chores.", "France's leader calls for a \"new balance\" to protect European states while affording Russia respect.", "Sports fans often complain about overcrowding on stations and trains for big games.", "Health Minister Robin Swann says he's taking legal advice on how he can act to \"replace the bulk of restrictions\".", "We go back into the BBC archive and look at the flu epidemic of 1989, and its impact on Scotland.", "At least 10 people die and 50,000 are displaced as Cyclone Batsirai brings widespread destruction.", "The Chinese tennis star again urges fans not to worry about her in an interview with Western media.", "The constant blaring of horns is one of the defining features of the movement against Canada's vaccine mandates.", "US President Joe Biden vows to shut down a key Russian pipeline to Germany if Russia invades Ukraine.", "Boss John Allan tells the BBC costs will rise further and the plight of people on low incomes \"troubles us\".", "Boris Johnson seeks to reassure Tory backbenchers amid the fallout from Sue Gray's initial report.", "Two air ambulances and a specialist rescue fire tender were among the emergency vehicles called out.", "The Duchess is the first member of the Royal Family to appear in the famous children's TV slot.", "Michel Roccati tells the BBC he \"almost has a normal life\" again thanks to an electrical implant.", "The Bollywood star beloved by Indians around the world is cremated with full state honours.", "Prescribing the painkiller for chronic pain could have risks, as well as benefits, a study finds.", "As the Queen marks 70 years on the throne, historian Robert Lacey asks how prepared she was for her destiny.", "David M’zee received an electrical implant to his spine in 2017, it enables him to walk slowly and stand.", "Wales head coach Wayne Pivac blames ill-discipline and losing the physical battles for the Six Nations defeat against Ireland.", "The author says fans want players they can look up to, following the David Goodwillie controversy.", "Opposition leaders highlighted the case of a man who died while waiting five hours for an ambulance.", "As the Queen marks 70 years on the throne, we present an image from every year of her life.", "The Duchess of Cornwall's endorsement by the Queen is well-deserved, say royal commentators.", "The Australian network that airs the show says it is looking for a new UK partner for the soap.", "Almost a third of patients going to A&E waited more than four hours to be attended to, the figures show.", "\"Loving daughter and granddaughter\" Amanda Selby, 15, was killed by her brother in July.", "The health secretary denies the full plan has been held back because of an intervention by the Treasury.", "Marking 70 years as monarch, the Queen says Camilla should have the title when Charles becomes King.", "He welcomes his mother's wish that Camilla be known as Queen Consort when he becomes King.", "Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood was arrested on suspicion of rape and sexual assault.", "Rogan's racial slurs on podcast condemned by Daniel Ek, who says silencing him is \"not the answer\".", "A charity says a biobank library of human tissue is needed so experts can try to cure tinnitus.", "Murderer Levi Bellfield's claims he also killed Lin Russell and her daughter Megan will be examined.", "The Canadian capital's mayor says the city is out of control, with more protesters than police.", "Gracie-Ann Wheaton is described as \"wonderful\" and \"creative\" by her family.", "A 15-year-old girl dies and a 19-year-old man has been arrested after the incident on Saturday.", "The Scottish government wants to cut car journeys by 20% by 2030 in a bid to tackle climate change.", "A 15-year-old girl died following a \"domestic disturbance\" at a holiday park on Saturday.", "The supermarket vows to stock its budget range in all stores after the food activist criticised shortages.", "Russia says the move is a response to the UK's 'unfriendly' decision to ban Aeroflot from the UK.", "The 2022 Champions League final will be played in Paris after Russia is stripped of the match following the nation's invasion of Ukraine.", "Marta Shokalo, of the BBC Ukrainian Service, describes her decision to leave the capital for the countryside.", "Ukraine's president tells Europe it has the \"strength to stop this aggression\" and calls for action.", "The defence secretary says Britain will not be \"directly\" involved but is supporting Ukraine forces.", "Vladimir Putin might turn Russia back to the days of the USSR, our world affairs editor writes.", "Russian police make hundreds of arrests after crowds demonstrate in support of Ukraine.", "Angharad Lewis did not want to leave home because of her polycystic ovary syndrome symptoms.", "Russia launches a full-scale attack on Ukraine - after previously saying it wouldn't. Here's how it unfolded.", "Chris Bryant accuses the government of not acting on concerns about the Chelsea Football club owner.", "Iain Packer has been arrested in connection with the death of Ms Caldwell, whose body was found in woods in 2005.", "West Midlands Police has launched a legal bid to force journalist Chris Mullin to reveal sources.", "The organisers said the inclusion of Russia could bring the competition into disrepute.", "Nearly two million were AstraZeneca shots that advisers said should not be given to younger adults.", "The BBC talks to Russians in Moscow and Rostov to find out what they think of the assault on Ukraine.", "Russia continues its full-scale assault on Ukraine, with troops said to be in the capital.", "The legislation restricts classroom discussion around sexual orientation and gender identity.", "As Ukraine came under attack from Russia on Thursday, football continued across the continent with clubs, players and fans showing their support for the Eastern European country.", "Ukraine is outgunned and outnumbered - and the invasion by Russian forces threatens to be bloody.", "Animal rights groups say ministers must not drop plans to ban imports of the duck liver pate.", "Russia's major banks will have their assets frozen following the invasion of Ukraine, Boris Johnson says.", "The power plant, the site of a 1986 nuclear disaster, has been taken over by Russian troops.", "Russian forces have invaded Ukraine. Here's a simple guide to what has happened so far - using maps and images.", "Ukraine says 57 people were killed as Russian troops launch full-scale invasion, closing in on the capital, Kyiv.", "Sally Kellerman played \"Hot Lips\" Houlihan in Robert Altman's 1970 film, set in the Korean war.", "Ukraine says the soldiers died defending a tiny island after refusing to surrender to a Russian ship.", "The cabinet has been given \"ominous assessments\" of the chances of Russia overwhelming Ukraine soon.", "A hole in the London venue's fabric, which was shredded by winds, will be visible for some time.", "The Russian Formula 1 Grand Prix is cancelled as a result of the invasion of Ukraine.", "The government wants to stop a programme which alleges the man is a dangerous extremist and misogynist.", "The woman angrily asks the soldier, seen holding a large machine gun, why he has come to the city.", "Natalie Steele, 32, pleads guilty to manslaughter of Reid, who died after he was submerged in water.", "Tou Thao, J Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were convicted of denying George Floyd his civil rights.", "This week Lowri Howie has notched up impressive wins at the English Alpine Championships in Italy.", "Footage from Ukraine as Russia attacks shows explosions, a fireball at an airport and a helicopter under fire.", "The £1.9bn plan to get youth into work has helped fewer people than predicted, a group of MPs says.", "Boris Johnson says Vladimir Putin's invasion must be made to fail, as the EU also imposes sanctions.", "Outrage in the West, and China balks at the word invasion. How Ukraine is shaking the globe.", "Ukrainians tell the BBC how they spent the night sheltering from explosions and missile strikes.", "Social media users have posted false and misleading videos and images as Russia invades Ukraine.", "The greater the resistance Russia faces the more severe its retaliation is likely to be, Whitehall fears.", "The primary school teacher was found dead in a south-east London park in September.", "Connectivity watchers accuse Moscow of \"limiting the free flow of information at a time of crisis\".", "The Ministry of Defence made the call as Russian forces reached the northern outskirts of Kyiv.", "Radiation levels increased, but a disaster at the defunct nuclear power plant there is 'extremely unlikely', experts say.", "Charities say the UK should play a leading role, as the UN warns five million people could be displaced.", "The Met Office had a yellow weather warning in place for overnight snow and ice across most of mainland Scotland.", "Residents of the capital are urged to close windows - but many are already sheltering underground.", "Russia has launched a large-scale military attack on its southern neighbour - here's what we know.", "The conflict in Ukraine could push the energy price cap to £3,238 a year from October, a report warns.", "The former first minister says his show will not air on RT again \"until peace is re-established\".", "Airline says its systems are running again after cancelling some short-haul flights from Heathrow.", "The retailer says it will abandon the promise in the summer and instead spend £500m to keep prices down.", "The oil giant's boss is warned of UK government concerns about its \"overexposure to Russian interests\".", "Misleading videos and images continue to appear on social media following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.", "Watchdogs say rape victims are being failed by a system beset by delays and poor communication.", "The UK Statistics Authority says the number of those in work is fewer than before the pandemic.", "Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said she was \"humbled by the extraordinary honour\" of her nomination.", "PC Adam Zaman remains suspended from duty while a misconduct review takes place, the Met says.", "Many of the scams lure victims in with fake adverts on Facebook, seemingly backed by celebrities.", "A potential major incident at Antrim Hospital has ended, but hospitals warn of ongoing pressure.", "A student on a field trip finds the world's largest complete fossil of a 170-million-year-old pterosaur.", "The 2.8 magnitude quake could be felt over a 12-mile radius from the Walsall epicentre.", "Natural Resources Wales say vast parts of mid Wales had been inundated with flood water.", "The first minister wants to \"strike the right balance\" between normal life and controlling the virus.", "OnlyFans is accused of conspiring with an unidentified social media company to disable accounts of adult performers working for rivals.", "Vaccine certificates will go on 28 February and the legal requirement to wear face coverings is to be lifted on Monday, 21 March.", "Interest payments on government borrowing topped £6bn last month, the highest on record for a January.", "Brooker co-wrote and sang the band's biggest hit, 1967's A Whiter Shade Of Pale.", "The first minister sets out dates for the lifting of Covid restrictions in law in Scotland.", "We share the stories of some of the 12,000 people who have died with coronavirus in Scotland.", "A court hears Logan Mwangi's injuries were consistent with a fall from height or a serious car crash.", "Boris Johnson says Russia's decision to recognise two separatist Ukrainian regions is \"plainly in breach of international law\".", "The announcement has drawn wide condemnation but Moscow says troops have yet to be deployed.", "Sharon Johnston previously told of her intention to travel to Switzerland to end her life.", "Police arrest a 50-year-old man after the incident at Bow Street Mall in Lisburn.", "More than a year on from Brexit, Welsh companies say they are feeling the pinch.", "Angharad Williamson's plea for police to find Logan was \"all an act\", Cardiff Crown Court is told.", "Manchester Arena and Parsons Green terrorists were being held in the same high security unit.", "Ukraine says 57 people were killed as Russian troops launch full-scale invasion, closing in on the capital, Kyiv.", "This is a precautionary dose ahead of a wider autumn booster programme, say UK experts.", "The West Midlands has a severe flood risk, with more than 100 warnings around the rest of the UK.", "Wreaths are laid at a new memorial to the victims of the 1972 blast on its 50th anniversary.", "People will no longer be required to wear face coverings in shops and on public transport.", "Trees have been toppled, properties had roofs torn off and the rail network ground to a halt.", "The energy giant's funding of the gallery has become a controversial topic in recent years.", "The BBC's Sarah Rainsford travels with Ukraine's leader amid his efforts to prevent a Russian invasion.", "The South African star is the only dancer to lift the show's glitterball trophy two years in a row.", "Angel Lynn suffered serious head injuries when she fell from a van after being kidnapped.", "Four men charged with conspiracy to murder after Sasha Johnson was shot have the case against them dropped.", "Uefa is almost certain to switch the this season's Champions League final away from St Petersburg amid the Ukraine-Russia crisis.", "As the Storm Eunice clear-up goes on, Storm Franklin brings more problems with gusts close to 80mph.", "Russian president presses Sergei Naryshkin during a meeting with top security officials.", "Health minister says no change is coming after England's decision to end free testing from April.", "PM Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act last week over protests against Covid restrictions.", "Four-packs of lateral flow tests will be on sale for £17 from Wednesday despite free tests remaining until 1 April.", "The US rocker is remembered as \"one of the great singers of the last 30 years\".", "As Vladimir Putin orders troops into eastern Ukraine, here's a look at how things got to this point.", "Western governments think Russian troops could go much further than east Ukraine.", "Testing suspected heart attack patients for the C-reactive protein could save lives, experts say.", "Storm Franklin is the third named storm in a week to hit the UK - following Dudley and Eunice.", "The gas pipeline between Russia and Germany cost €10bn (£8.4bn) and was completed last September.", "The Queen still has cold-like symptoms from Covid, but will continue working on light duties.", "Lauryn and Josh Vartan say they considered the name Eunice but decided to stick with Florence.", "Stephen Matthews died when the windscreen of a van was struck in Merseyside on Friday.", "The CPS previously said it would not name the men accused of sharing offensive messages with Couzens.", "Family, royalty, rap stars, actors, politicians and businesspeople are among those paying tribute.", "Hospitals in England will no longer promote natural births over C-sections, as part of a plan to improve care.", "Major incidents have been declared in towns in Worcestershire and Shropshire.", "The footballer's blood contained high levels of the gas before plane crashed, an inquest hears.", "The Newsnight host and outgoing North America editor sign a deal with LBC's parent company Global.", "NHS Lothian says the PFI operator of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh needs to carry out more upgrades.", "The DUP says \"words cannot adequately explain the sense of pain\" following his sudden death at 39.", "The study will focus heavily on how warming hurts regions as well as cities and coastal communities.", "Jarryd Hayne will face a retrial in Australia after his sexual assault convictions were quashed.", "French police shoot dead a man wielding a long-bladed knife at the Gare du Nord train station.", "Bas Javid pledges to remove racist staff, but some black officers say the issue is getting worse.", "Customers hit by power cuts in Storm Arwen erroneously received cheques for trillions of pounds.", "Her daughters pay tribute to the \"mentor and giggle-maker\" who made Men Behaving Badly and Sherlock.", "Jack Jeffery, 27, was seriously hurt while scoring a try on Saturday, Evesham Rugby Club says.", "Share prices fall across Europe, but losses are lower in the US amid hopes of a deal with Russia.", "Anthony Russell has admitted killing a mum and son plus a pregnant woman he is accused of raping.", "The price of fuel at the pump has risen with petrol at 148.02p a litre and diesel at 151.57p.", "The atmosphere among officers is said to be at \"rock bottom\" after Dame Cressida Dick's resignation.", "Police on the Canadian side of a key US border crossing clear protesters after a week of disruption.", "Ukraine accuses Russia of ignoring requests to explain its troop build-up, and calls for a meeting.", "The Scottish and UK governments agree the deal as Boris Johnson makes a visit to Scotland.", "The Mauritian government has led a trip to the disputed islands, which are controlled by Britain.", "Astronomers no longer believe a rocket stage that's due to hit the Moon was from Elon Musk's SpaceX.", "A virtual meeting of parties took place earlier to discuss delivering the apology.", "The Public Health Agency has begun work to expand services already offered across Northern Ireland.", "A man, 47, is arrested on suspicion of murdering a patient who died after a fight in Rotherham.", "More than 700 sub-postmasters and mistresses were wrongly convicted due to a flawed computer system.", "Kamila Valieva always wanted to win Olympic Gold, but is under the spotlight now in a different way.", "From grandmothers to children, some Ukrainian civilians are preparing for a Russian invasion.", "More than 80 people are detained after a man accused of desecrating the Koran is killed in Khanewal.", "An amber warning is issued for parts of central and southern Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland on Wednesday.", "Diplomacy is \"far from being exhausted\" over Ukraine, Russia's foreign minister tells President Putin.", "England get their Six Nations campaign back on track as they outclass Italy to claim a 33-0 bonus-point win in Rome.", "Boris Johnson says \"we are on the edge of a precipice\", but urges all sides to carry on talks.", "The Duchess of Cornwall is now self-isolating, days after Prince Charles tested positive for Covid.", "Ahmednur Nuur, 16, was fatally stabbed near Milton Keynes College on Friday afternoon.", "Separatists tried to seize Kharkiv in 2014. Now the city is turning away from its old neighbour.", "Canada's prime minister says police will also be given \"more tools\" to imprison or fine demonstrators.", "Jayden-Lee Lucas died six days after the collision in which his four-year-old sister was also killed.", "But signals from Moscow give some cause for optimism, the head of the military alliance says.", "The US and UK leaders shared a call after Russia too suggested a diplomatic solution was still possible.", "Richard Morris was working for the government's Covid taskforce before he died, an inquest hears.", "Mrs Rooney was trying to bring a claim against Caroline Watt for misuse of private information.", "Kamila Valieva is allowed to compete at the Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upholds a decision to lift the 15-year-old's provisional ban for a failed drugs test.", "Boris Johnson has sought to clarify his comments on Jimmy Savile but is still facing calls to apologise.", "Police have launched a major review of the doctor's work at hospitals in Dudley and Stoke-on-Trent.", "Higher jet fuel costs will push up the cost of travel this year, says the UK boss of Air France-KLM.", "Humza Yousaf says Scotland should be free to to set its own virus strategy, regardless of moves in England.", "The tax authority says it is the first UK law enforcement body to seize a Non-Fungible Token.", "Climate change affects every person on the planet but studies have found it affects women more.", "Investors should force banks to demand green plans before funding fuel firms, campaigners say.", "The Los Angeles Rams score a late touchdown to beat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 in Super Bowl 56.", "There's a \"whiff of Munich in the air\", Defence Secretary Ben Wallace says, as diplomatic talks continue.", "Sgt Simon Kempton is accused of sharing details about the killer police officer in a group chat.", "A shorter week could make staff happier and benefit firms, the Future Generations Commission says.", "After killing three people at a wake, gunmen shoot dead six mourners at the funeral of the same man.", "The Czechoslovakia-born filmmaker made some of the biggest comedies of the 80s and 90s.", "The inquiry into wrongful convictions must put former sub-postmasters at its heart, a lawyer says.", "The regulations that are currently in place will become guidance, Health Minister Robin Swann says.", "One man who was trapped under rubble at the east London bar says he feared he was going to die.", "Fans say key scenes have been deleted from the hit US sitcom, which has been re-released in China.", "Staff from Queen's and Ulster universities are walking out over pensions, pay and workload.", "The Met commissioner tells BBC London she is \"seething angry\" over a damning watchdog report.", "Diogo Jota scores twice as Liverpool cut the deficit on Premier League leaders Manchester City to nine points with a dominant performance against Leicester at Anfield.", "The rules are due to end in March - but that could be brought forward if \"encouraging trends continue\".", "Kids Company repeatedly failed to pay tax and workers, a report by the Charity Commission finds.", "Hong Kong has recorded more than 1,000 Covid infections for the first time since the pandemic began", "The Queen is showing no Covid symptoms, a royal source says, as the prince begins self-isolating.", "American Nathan Chen wins the men's figure skating gold but defending champion Yuzuru Hanyu's jump record attempt fails at Beijing 2022.", "The foreign secretary has a frosty meeting in Russia as the PM visits Brussels and Warsaw.", "A doctor says it is \"inevitable\" Covid patients will come into contact with others amid shortages.", "Hundreds of electrical wires installed on a ferry at Ferguson shipyard are found to be too short.", "Great Britain's women's curlers recovered from an opening loss to beat defending Olympic champions Sweden emphatically 8-2, as the men's side started with a win against Italy.", "The cost of heating is rising - experts say government help is needed to insulate millions of homes.", "The 41-year-old is also being held on suspicion of possessing a banned weapon.", "There are concerns survey work on at-risk blocks of flats may not take place for another two years.", "On the second day of the hearing, Mrs Vardy's barrister said the message was \"about someone else\".", "A man was arrested after the United Airlines flight from Newark Airport landed at Heathrow.", "Wayne Rooney speaks to BBC Breakfast about his struggles with alcohol and mental health issues before the release of his new documentary 'Rooney' on Amazon Prime Video.", "A lab in Oxfordshire takes a big step towards harnessing the energy source of the stars.", "The RSPCA has taken Kurt Zouma's cats away from him after videos emerged on social media of the West Ham defender kicking and slapping one of them.", "It means the rapper and entrepreneur has now bought the label that launched his career.", "The boss of Co-op's food division says she will step away from the business in May for four months.", "A 5,000-year-old chalk sculpture named the \"Burton Agnes drum\" is hailed as a \"significant find\".", "The International Olympic Committee says it cannot provide any updates on the team figure skating legal issue, with the medals still not handed out.", "The Community Security Trust recorded 2,255 anti-Jewish hate incidents in 2021, up 34% on 2020.", "Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham says the union's \"wallet is closed to bad employers\".", "Consumer goods giant Unilever is set to raise prices again as the cost of raw materials climbs.", "The people saved near the port of Dunkirk are believed to have been attempting to get to the UK.", "The legislation bans discussing sexual orientation and gender identity in primary school classrooms.", "This means security experts now think a terror attack is \"likely\", rather than \"highly likely\".", "Beluga said that women could wear \"sexy black ankle-strap heels\" or \"bodycon dresses\".", "Tributes are paid to the pioneering singer and musician by stars including Lenny Kravitz.", "Accounts for the charity show it paid out £160,000 in grants and spent the same on management.", "American Chloe Kim wins snowboard halfpipe gold with incredible ease to retain her Winter Olympic title from 2018.", "Senior school pupils will no longer need to wear face coverings in classrooms after the February break.", "The Labour leader criticises his predecessor, as he backs Boris Johnson over Nato and Ukraine.", "\"Shocking\" rates of attendance have been reported in some schools, say NI Assembly members.", "The accusation comes as the Met Police is still investigating No 10 gatherings during lockdowns.", "Western leaders fear the Kremlin is using tensions over Ukraine to exploit divisions.", "Dagenham say they will not select Yoan Zouma while an investigation into his involvement in a cat-kicking video takes place.", "From the disruption of gas supplies to the risk of broader war, the Ukraine crisis matters to the UK.", "The BMA says there were 291 posts not filled by a permanent consultant in 2021.", "Boris Johnson says he hopes \"strong deterrence\" and \"patient diplomacy\" can find a way through.", "The behaviour of PCs based mostly at Charing Cross Police station was said to be \"disgraceful\".", "US Department of Homeland Security warns Canada-style protests could start in California.", "Speaking to the BBC, Russia's EU ambassador says conflict can still be avoided through diplomacy.", "American authorities, who say the man is Nicholas Rossi, want to extradite him for a rape charge.", "Police were alerted to a hostage situation when an 80-year-old woman failed to send her daily Wordle.", "The company will introduce a range of measures, after concerns AirTags were being used by stalkers.", "Christian Eriksen says he is lucky to be alive and will do everything he can to return to his former level after joining Brentford.", "\"It has to stop,\" the Canadian PM says of the two-week protests against coronavirus restrictions.", "The publishing group has acquired the rights to his solo work, and material with The Police.", "Boris and Carrie Johnson are among those expected to be sent a questionnaire by the Met Police.", "Pupil Anna De Garis made accusations of widespread bullying and racial and sexual harassment.", "Kenny Reilly, 29, died two days after he was shot in the head in Maryhill, Glasgow, in April 2018.", "BT plans to remove copper phone lines by 2025, but villagers say this could leave them cut off.", "The Met chief previously ignored numerous calls for her resignation - what was the final nail in the coffin?", "One in 20 admitted in England wait over 12 hours for ward bed as doctors warn patients are at risk.", "The BBC investigates the disappearance of women activists and the killings of former government officials.", "New fossils challenge ideas that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals after arriving from Africa.", "It will come as Holyrood formally approves the government's budget for the coming year.", "Brigene has been fighting to bring her brother home from Muckamore Abbey Hospital for decades.", "Diane Stewart's death was treated as epilepsy-related until her husband killed a children's author.", "Mark Drakeford is self-isolating after testing positive, ahead of Friday's Covid review.", "Bob Saget, 65, was found dead by authorities in his Florida hotel room last month.", "Sending genuinely harmful communications will become illegal if the bill becomes law.", "France's fisheries minister calls for an inquiry after a trawler spills more than 100,000 blue whiting.", "Justin Welby praises her for \"doing the right thing\", ahead of the 70th anniversary of her reign.", "The Essex seat became vacant following the fatal stabbing of Sir David Amess MP in October.", "A judge orders the English Defence League founder to court to answer questions on his finances.", "The DUP's Paul Givan has resigned, with the deputy first minister also ejected from office.", "Robert Hooper's partner said he had been through \"months of hell\" after removing the Corsa from his property.", "Lord Ahmed of Rotherham is jailed for five years and six months for sexually abusing two children.", "Two men and a 17-year-old girl are found guilty of murdering Dr Gary Jenkins in a Cardiff park.", "The latest bid to find Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's lost polar yacht is set to get under way.", "The comedian is described as \"truly disturbing\" for a segment of his latest Netflix stand-up special.", "Newcastle-under-Lyme MP Aaron Bell says a \"breach of trust\" has made the PM's position \"untenable\".", "NHS Highland is trying to contact the person after the result was spotted during processing of blood.", "Multiple oil transport and storage companies across Europe have been hacked, the BBC has confirmed.", "Michael Avenatti stole almost $300,000 from client he represented in case against Donald Trump.", "The decision to wear traditional red and green jerseys will cause problems for colour-blind people.", "Charities warn of more missed diagnoses because of Covid, as the government plans a \"war on cancer\".", "The Fire Brigades Union wants to discuss government plans to cut the bottom of some school doors.", "Bishop William Nolan will succeed Archbishop Philip Tartaglia, who died after testing positive for Covid.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 28 January and 4 February.", "Logan Mwangi's body was found in the River Ogmore in July last year.", "Women describe their experiences but what can firms behind virtual-reality platforms do about it?", "Wales' cancer lead fears patients with advanced cancer will die while waiting for treatment.", "Organisers say they plan to stay in Ottawa until Covid-19 health mandates are lifted nationwide.", "Aaron Bell, who questioned the PM in the wake of the Sue Gray report, confirms he has submitted a letter of no confidence.", "The UK will be left with a £35bn \"black hole\" as motorists switch to electric cars, says Transport committee.", "Four men died in 2011 when 650,000 gallons of water flooded the mine they were working in.", "Jamie Stevenson faces extradition to Scotland after he was arrested alongside another man.", "Boris Johnson was wrong to tell the Commons crime has fallen by 14%, the UK Statistics Authority says.", "The election in Southend West was prompted by the fatal stabbing of MP Sir David Amess.", "A Labour MP accuses the minister of perpetuating a \"harmful clinical falsehood\" about the drug.", "A woman alleges she was raped during the production of a new BBC TV cooking show.", "Officials say Russia could try to justify invading Ukraine with a fake attack video.", "RAF fighters tracked two aircraft a day after intercepting four Russian planes north of Scotland.", "Seamus Maguire vanished from his home near Lurgan in the early 70s when he was 26 years old.", "The Winter Games begin amid tight Covid-19 restrictions and allegations of human rights abuses.", "A man abused as a boy by Lord Ahmed says there would be \"no justice\" if he retains his peerage.", "Andrew Bailey says a \"painful\" period of prices rising faster than wages is needed to control inflation.", "Water charges will increase between 3.8% and 6.6% from April, with the company blaming inflation.", "Moscow and Beijing release a statement showcasing agreement on a wide range of geopolitical issues.", "Fraudsters are posing as children in need of financial help from their parents.", "The five-year-old boy, Rayan, fell into the well while playing in the Moroccan town of Tamorot.", "The chancellor says offering help of £350 to most households will take the \"sting\" out of the rise.", "Regulator Ofgem says about 10% of the latest energy price cap rise covered the cost of firms going bust.", "Unions have warned London's public transport will grind to a halt without a long-term financial plan.", "DUP leader says it will be \"difficult\" to form an executive after an election if issues around the Brexit deal remain.", "Obvious political plays about resignations don't mask the sense of instability around No 10.", "Unions criticise Andrew Bailey after he urges firms to moderate pay rises, with GMB calling it a \"sick joke\".", "Inspections on goods entering NI from GB must continue pending the outcome of legal challenges.", "The 24th edition of the Winter Olympics is officially under way after the cauldron was lit in a restrained opening ceremony in Beijing.", "As referrals rise for self-harm and eating disorders rise by 77%, schools see a wave of other less severe issues.", "Peter Swailes admitted the slavery charge after a disabled man was exploited for decades.", "The increase to its membership fee applies to US customers, with no other announcements \"at this time\".", "A bid to obtain the footage for the inquests into the deaths of 11 men is rejected by the High Court.", "A former Army sniper, who is serving a life sentence for murder, tried to climb a prison fence.", "Andrew Brady is given a four-month sentence for launching a campaign of abuse against Dan Wootton.", "Plugging methane leaks from oil and gas fields could be an easy win in curbing climate change.", "But the chancellor dismisses talk of him succeeding Boris Johnson, saying the PM has his \"full support\".", "Munira Mirza says the PM should have apologised to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer over false claims.", "The gene therapy Libmeldy treats babies and children with a very rare genetic condition.", "Citizens of the capital are told to stay indoors until Monday morning as Russian forces close in.", "Patriotic Ukrainians know they will face Russian soldiers soon - and are preparing for the day.", "England snuff out a threatening second-half comeback to record a fifth successive home Six Nations win over Wales in an untidy game at Twickenham.", "Ukraine's president tells Europe it has the \"strength to stop this aggression\" and calls for action.", "Residents take to sheltering in basements for fear of Russian attacks in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.", "Video has emerged of the apartment building near Kyiv's Zhuliany airport that was struck earlier on Saturday.", "Angharad Lewis did not want to leave home because of her polycystic ovary syndrome symptoms.", "Chelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovich says he is \"giving trustees of Chelsea's charitable foundation the stewardship and care\" of the club.", "Germany, the main opponent of excluding Russia from the Swift banking system, now says it favours curbs.", "The move reverses Germany's long-standing policy banning weapon exports to conflict zones.", "West Midlands Police has launched a legal bid to force journalist Chris Mullin to reveal sources.", "Poland will boycott their World Cup play-off against Russia in March because of the invasion of Ukraine, with captain Robert Lewandowski saying \"we can't pretend that nothing is happening\".", "Russia continues its full-scale assault on Ukraine, with troops said to be in the capital.", "The EU, US and allies will block a number of Russian banks from the main global payment system, Swift.", "Military plans never survive the first contact with the enemy - and Russia is facing the same problem.", "Officers say they had been pursuing an Audi when it struck a stationary traffic management vehicle.", "Ukraine is outgunned and outnumbered - and the invasion by Russian forces threatens to be bloody.", "The reception with diplomats would have been the monarch's first engagement since her positive Covid test.", "The power plant, the site of a 1986 nuclear disaster, has been taken over by Russian troops.", "Counties Fermanagh, Tyrone, Londonderry and Antrim saw the worst of the snow on Thursday.", "Marta Shokalo, of the BBC Ukrainian Service, describes shock and panic in the capital, Kyiv.", "Ukraine says the soldiers died defending a tiny island after refusing to surrender to a Russian ship.", "Russian forces continue a military assault on neighbouring Ukraine, as fighting reaches the streets in the capital.", "The woman angrily asks the soldier, seen holding a large machine gun, why he has come to the city.", "The US, EU, UK and Canada freeze the assets of the Russian president and his foreign minister over Ukraine.", "Unexpected high demand means supplies of many pre-orders of the gaming console have been delayed.", "Boris Johnson says Vladimir Putin's invasion must be made to fail, as the EU also imposes sanctions.", "A watchdog finds the Scottish Tory leader did not \"deliberately attempt to mislead\" over his earnings.", "Wolverhampton's Grand Theatre says cancelling the visit \"is absolutely the right thing to do\".", "Mothers and grandmothers lead their children into the unknown as men aged 18 - 60 must stay behind.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge say they \"stand\" with Ukraine, as rallies are held across UK.", "The greater the resistance Russia faces the more severe its retaliation is likely to be, Whitehall fears.", "Connectivity watchers accuse Moscow of \"limiting the free flow of information at a time of crisis\".", "Residents of the capital are urged to close windows - but many are already sheltering underground.", "Radiation levels increased, but a disaster at the defunct nuclear power plant there is 'extremely unlikely', experts say.", "The primary school teacher was found dead in a south-east London park in September.", "Watch how Friday unfolded, from early morning explosions to a defiant message from Ukraine's president.", "There are calls to put Betsi Cadwaladr health board's mental health services into special measures.", "Scotland's Josh Taylor clings on to his status as undisputed light-welterweight world champion with a controversial split decision victory against Jack Catterall in Glasgow.", "The Russian-flagged cargo ship is suspected of breaching sanctions imposed because of the Ukraine war.", "PM says more must be done to change \"heavy odds\" against Ukraine, as Russians enter city of Kharkiv.", "Ukrainian's President Volodymyr Zelensky is standing firm against Russian aggression.", "Airline says its systems are running again after cancelling some short-haul flights from Heathrow.", "Ukraine's defiant president says the country's army \"broke\" Russia's plan to block the city.", "Ukraine's president had no experience of politics when when elected in 2019, but has emerged as a convincing war leader.", "The oil giant's boss is warned of UK government concerns about its \"overexposure to Russian interests\".", "Paul Hodgson, originally from Tyne and Wear, teaches at Kyiv's British International School.", "Misleading videos and images continue to appear on social media following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.", "Politicians from across the political spectrum are among those gathered to mourn the late South Belfast MLA.", "Russian planes will now be unable to land in, take off from or fly over any EU nation.", "Daunte Wright's father calls Kim Potter's two-year sentence for manslaughter a \"slap on the wrist\".", "The pandemic has made hybrid working the new norm for some firms, a survey suggests.", "It was \"chilling\" the way a distraught Kamila Valieva was treated by her coach and raises concerns for the future, says IOC president Thomas Bach.", "The trial of two other men will continue after Derek Creswell, 29, admits the 2018 murder.", "Great Britain are stripped of the silver medal won in the 4x100 metre relay at the Tokyo Olympics because of CJ Ujah's doping violation.", "Germany accuses Russia of putting peace at risk and calls for \"serious steps towards de-escalation\".", "The charges relate to an inquiry into the phone records of Sarah Everard's killer Wayne Couzens.", "Ava White, 12, was stabbed to death at a Christmas lights switch-on event in Liverpool city centre.", "Senior NHS staff say they disagree with the prime minister's planned changes to English Covid rules.", "Donald Trump and his children Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump must testify in the probe.", "An invasion could happen in days and the capital Kyiv will be a target, the US president says.", "Former members of Ellesmere College Titans suffered eating disorders and severe mental health issues.", "Fast-track Tier 1 visas ended with immediate effect, amid concerns over fraud and security.", "Tamara Lich tells local media her personal bank account is frozen and she is resigned to a jail term.", "Campaigners say historical routes can now be \"protected for future generations\".", "A woman abused by her stepfather says victims and survivors need more support from the legal system.", "The Duke of Sussex is challenging a government decision to refuse police security during visits.", "A live YouTube stream of planes attempting to land at Heathrow during Storm Eunice goes viral.", "Dr Adam Towler says there is no need for Chanz Maximen, who stabbed him nine times, to apologise.", "Millions of people are urged to stay at home as the UK prepares for one of the worst storms in years.", "The 42-year-old woman befriended the girl when she was 15 as her own marriage broke down.", "Councils say they are under pressure due to revenue lost during the pandemic and rising energy costs.", "Anger and sympathy for Kamila Valieva plus questions for authorities as teenager ends controversial Winter Olympics journey in tears.", "Lewis Hamilton says the controversial end to last year's title fight made him consider his future but he does not want it to define his career.", "A report by GLAAD has found there's been growing \"LGBTQ representation on television\".", "The spire, at St Thomas's Church in Wells, Somerset, fell as the storm reached its peak.", "How children are becoming the forgotten victims of pandemic after disruption to care and support.", "Thousands are left without power, travel networks are disrupted and hundreds of schools are closed.", "Snow and high winds have caused problems in Northern Ireland while a man was killed in the Republic.", "Great Britain's women's curlers will play for Olympic gold after edging past Sweden 12-11 in an extra end after a tense and compelling semi-final.", "Simon Nellist died in the city's first fatal shark attack in almost 60 years, a friend says.", "Warnings for wind and snow have been issued for Northern Ireland by the UK Met Office.", "The storm sweeps across the UK, with a provisional record gust of 122mph measured on the Isle of Wight.", "Staff leading the group up Helvellyn ignored warnings to turn back and had to be rescued after dark.", "Big Jet TV's YouTube stream of pilots battling Storm Eunice at Heathrow becomes an unexpected hit.", "The US president made the comments in a televised address following a call with allies over the crisis.", "Lorna and Craig Hewitt locked Matthew Langley, 22, in a filthy bedroom in their house in Sheffield.", "A 10-month-old baby with breathing difficulties was being rushed to hospital in Aberdeenshire.", "Boris Johnson was one of more than 50 people to be sent the document by the Metropolitan Police.", "Residents flee Petrópolis and the rescue mission is paused as more heavy rain is forecast.", "Some are on the verge of accidentally becoming illegal immigrants, lawyers tell the Home Office.", "Players also ask whether the word game has got more difficult, but the paper denies it has changed.", "Greek and Italian boats rush to rescue 290 people from a ferry but not everyone is accounted for.", "The Irish foreign minister says UK-EU joint committee talks next week will be more of a \"staging post\".", "Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie do battle over ownership of the French vineyard where they got married.", "The country is dealing with a second storm in a week following major disruption from Storm Dudley.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 11 and 18 February.", "Practical ways you can prepare for Storm Eunice.", "Cuckavalda Gundogs say the animals were electrocuted when the line fell on to a kennel.", "Formerly known as the Millennium Dome, the landmark has been damaged by gusts of up to 80mph.", "Storm Eunice leaves three people in the UK dead and brings record wind speeds and huge waves.", "Winds of up to 90mph, flooding and disruption to transport is expected in Somerset and Gloucestershire.", "The PM says Canadians are \"shocked and disgusted\" by the behaviour of some of the protesters in Ottawa.", "WhatsApp messages shared between Mrs Vardy and her friend and PR have been made public.", "Belfast, Dune and West Side Story will also be in the running at the Academy Awards.", "West Ham \"unreservedly condemn\" Kurt Zouma after a video emerges of the defender hitting his pet cat.", "No 10 replaces the chief whip while the health secretary outlines plans to tackle hospital waiting lists.", "Anne-Marie was the second performance of the night at this year's Brit Awards.", "Despite Covid restrictions lifting for holidays abroad, many Welsh resorts are already fully booked.", "The PM's new director of communications Guto Harri reveals how he accepted the new job in Downing Street.", "Zhu Yi fell during her team event sparking backlash from some social media users in China.", "The Scottish Conservatives want Test and Protect replaced with a cheaper and more targeted system.", "Ministers admit it could take to 2024 to cut numbers, as they unveil their recovery plan.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury asks why a memorial to a slavery financier is taking so long to come down.", "The legislation, which will be known as Dáithí's Law. will bring in an opt-out system.", "The Scottish government is criticised for not doing more to prevent record waiting times and staff shortages.", "The Labour leader was bundled into a police car after protesters surrounded him outside Parliament.", "Paolo Veronese painted The Pool of Bethesda in the 16th Century and it was last known to be in Peterhead.", "Ottawa police have warned of \"determined\" and \"volatile\" protests amid an all-out effort to remove them.", "Check out our comprehensive guide to all the key events and British medal hopes in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.", "Black women face higher risks of miscarriage - and experts say this urgent problem needs more attention.", "Ryan O'Connor, 26, died after being stabbed in the heart and lungs for his designer Gucci bag.", "Russia's Vladimir Putin indicates some progress was made during talks with the French leader.", "Author Kate Long shared images of girls' items telling them to \"be kind\" or \"keep on smiling\".", "The TV presenter fronted the quiz show throughout its original run on ITV between 1962 and 1987.", "Three weeks after catching Covid-19 and suffering \"quite badly\", Andrew Young can be proud he made it to the Olympic start line.", "The BBC understands hackers accessed its systems but were detected.", "Ex-Chief Whip Mark Spencer becomes Commons leader, as Boris Johnson seeks to shore up MPs' support.", "Boris Johnson replaces ministers who quit and forced him to announce his departure as prime minister.", "The term collusion is in several official reports into Northern Ireland killings. What does it mean?", "We go back into the BBC archive and look at the flu epidemic of 1989, and its impact on Scotland.", "The constant blaring of horns is one of the defining features of the movement against Canada's vaccine mandates.", "Sian Griffiths swims to aid her recovery but feels ashamed she cannot go back to work.", "The French president tells reporters that the Russian leader gave him assurances in talks in Moscow.", "US President Joe Biden vows to shut down a key Russian pipeline to Germany if Russia invades Ukraine.", "Players wear face masks for an ice hockey match at the Winter Olympics after confusion over Covid-19 tests.", "Boris Johnson seeks to reassure Tory backbenchers amid the fallout from Sue Gray's initial report.", "The singer bagged three of the main awards at the O2 Arena on Tuesday evening.", "Kate Forbes will be the first serving Scottish government cabinet secretary to take maternity leave.", "The Duchess is the first member of the Royal Family to appear in the famous children's TV slot.", "Michel Roccati tells the BBC he \"almost has a normal life\" again thanks to an electrical implant.", "Prescribing the painkiller for chronic pain could have risks, as well as benefits, a study finds.", "Cameron Kalani was caught with a kitchen knife and cocaine in his bag in the Royal Mews.", "Great Britain's curling mixed doubles pair lose their Winter Olympics bronze-medal match to Sweden.", "Up to a third of UK children - mostly teens - consume at least one energy drink a week, research reveals.", "Loyalist gunmen burst into Sean Graham bookmakers on the Ormeau Road and murdered five people in 1992.", "Users may be asked to prove they own a credit card or confirm their age, under new UK rules.", "Pay as you go customers will typically pay £708 more a year for their energy", "Some Tory MPs criticise Boris Johnson's language after an ugly protest engulfs the Labour leader.", "Leisure travel rather than commuting will be the focus of 150 new services on ScotRail's timetable.", "Murderer Levi Bellfield's claims he also killed Lin Russell and her daughter Megan will be examined.", "One witness says the Great Orme goats were \"having a right scrap\" at the entrance to Asda.", "England's Ashes campaign ends with another crushing defeat by Australia in the final one-day international in Melbourne.", "China's Eileen Gu produces a spectacular final jump to win gold in the ski big air at the Beijing Winter Olympics.", "MPs hear how only a third of children in England with mental health problems get NHS help.", "Friday's prize would put the ticketholder in 10th place on the National Lottery's rich list.", "Two suspects allegedly conspired to launder the money after it was stolen by a hacker in 2016.", "Women who have lost babies share their stories as MSPs call for more support 'as a matter of urgency'.", "Boris Johnson says the UK will seek new powers to impose sanctions if Moscow invades.", "Andrew RT Davies defends Boris Johnson following calls for PM to apologise for false Savile claim.", "After 45 PCR tests in three weeks and a frantic race around the globe, Casey Dawson finally realises his Olympic dream.", "A weekly injection that suppresses hunger will soon become available, if draft guidelines are approved.", "Season's Greetings is moving to an undisclosed location after more than three years in Wales.", "John Foley is being replaced as potential suitors circle amid a downturn for the exercise firm.", "When it comes to levelling up, can places like Rhyl learn from other towns and cities?", "The Duke of York will face a deposition in London as part of the civil sexual assault case against him.", "Sending genuinely harmful communications will become illegal if the bill becomes law.", "The woman in her 30s dies after being hit by the bus in east London.", "Thousands of children sat the exams in a bid for a place in a post-primary school of their choice.", "A committee of six will work out what to buy the monarch to mark her Platinum Jubilee in 2022.", "France's fisheries minister calls for an inquiry after a trawler spills more than 100,000 blue whiting.", "A Labour MP accuses the minister of perpetuating a \"harmful clinical falsehood\" about the drug.", "Justin Welby praises her for \"doing the right thing\", ahead of the 70th anniversary of her reign.", "Marking 70 years as monarch, the Queen says Camilla should have the title when Charles becomes King.", "The five-year-old boy, Rayan, fell into the well while playing in the Moroccan town of Tamorot.", "DUP leader says it will be \"difficult\" to form an executive after an election if issues around the Brexit deal remain.", "Obvious political plays about resignations don't mask the sense of instability around No 10.", "Three-time Winter Olympic snowboarding champion Shaun White says he will retire from the sport after the Games in Beijing.", "The 95-year-old is expected to spend a few weeks in Norfolk, after her Christmas visit was postponed.", "The Duchess of Cornwall calls for change of culture to stop violence and sexual harassment against women.", "Robert Hooper's partner said he had been through \"months of hell\" after removing the Corsa from his property.", "A bid to obtain the footage for the inquests into the deaths of 11 men is rejected by the High Court.", "Middlesbrough stun Manchester United at Old Trafford as the Championship side triumph 8-7 in a penalty shootout to reach the fifth round of the FA Cup.", "Scotland secure successive Calcutta Cup wins after a dramatic late penalty try helps them claim a nerve-shredding Six Nations victory over England at Murrayfield.", "A UK player matches all seven numbers to take the biggest prize of the year so far.", "A video shared online showed the podcast host using a racial slur on several occasions.", "Lord Ahmed of Rotherham is jailed for five years and six months for sexually abusing two children.", "First minister announces \"living memorial\" to those who have died during the coronavirus pandemic.", "An anxious wait for news of their five-year-old son, Rayan Oram, ends in grief for the parents.", "Puddings, parties and pageantry as well as a four-day bank holiday weekend will mark her 70-year reign.", "A toddler snatched from a busy beach, a brother's guilt and a new search for answers - the disappearance of Cheryl Grimmer.", "The monarch is said to be on \"sparkling\" form ahead of the 70th anniversary of her reign.", "Nick Gibb is the latest Conservative MP to submit a letter of no confidence in the prime minister.", "The Queen hosted a reception on the eve of the 70th anniversary of her reign.", "Barnaby Joyce apologises for calling Australia's prime minister a \"hypocrite and a liar\" in a text.", "The comedian is described as \"truly disturbing\" for a segment of his latest Netflix stand-up special.", "Newcastle-under-Lyme MP Aaron Bell says a \"breach of trust\" has made the PM's position \"untenable\".", "Emergency services said the man's condition was critical after the crash on Saturday afternoon.", "Local officials say the city, home to 1.4 million, is now rid of Russian troops after fierce clashes.", "Head coach Marcelo Bielsa is sacked by Leeds United after a run of poor form that saw his side suffer several heavy defeats.", "Citizens of the capital are told to stay indoors until Monday morning as Russian forces close in.", "The latest financial measures against Russia for invading Ukraine had been seen as a 'last resort'.", "In Dnipro, teachers prepare Molotov cocktails while volunteers coordinate a huge aid stockpile.", "The UK government says it is considering restricting the access of Russian ships to UK ports.", "Patriotic Ukrainians know they will face Russian soldiers soon - and are preparing for the day.", "Norwegian energy giant Equinor also says it will start to divest its joint ventures in Russia.", "Video has emerged of the apartment building near Kyiv's Zhuliany airport that was struck earlier on Saturday.", "Chelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovich says he is \"giving trustees of Chelsea's charitable foundation the stewardship and care\" of the club.", "The move reverses Germany's long-standing policy banning weapon exports to conflict zones.", "Poland will boycott their World Cup play-off against Russia in March because of the invasion of Ukraine, with captain Robert Lewandowski saying \"we can't pretend that nothing is happening\".", "The Bank of Russia says it has enough liquidity to 'function smoothly' despite new sanctions.", "The EU, US and allies will block a number of Russian banks from the main global payment system, Swift.", "Military plans never survive the first contact with the enemy - and Russia is facing the same problem.", "Officers say they had been pursuing an Audi when it struck a stationary traffic management vehicle.", "Liverpool beat Chelsea 11-10 on penalties to win the Carabao Cup after a breathless final ended in a goalless draw at Wembley.", "Ukraine is outgunned and outnumbered - and the invasion by Russian forces threatens to be bloody.", "The PM says the UK wants to be generous, but Labour says the visa rules are \"unclear\" for Ukrainians.", "Thousands of anonymous donations are being made to the Ukrainian military in Bitcoin.", "The reception with diplomats would have been the monarch's first engagement since her positive Covid test.", "The president blames \"unfriendly\" Western actions following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.", "Telecoms firm Ericsson put contractors' lives at risk, according to a leaked company report seen by the BBC.", "Rita was last seen on Saturday morning, and she is thought to be travelling on foot.", "The EU says it will begin shipping arms to Ukraine, the first time it has done so in a conflict.", "Counties Fermanagh, Tyrone, Londonderry and Antrim saw the worst of the snow on Thursday.", "Ukraine says Russia has attacked the main television tower in the capital, killing five people.", "The US, EU, UK and Canada freeze the assets of the Russian president and his foreign minister over Ukraine.", "Russian troops have entered Kharkiv, where they are figthing Ukrainian soldiers on the streets.", "The trustees of Chelsea's charitable foundation have not yet agreed to take control of the club, BBC Sport has learned.", "Ukraine says more than 200 civilians have been killed. Children have been caught up in the violence.", "Mothers and grandmothers lead their children into the unknown as men aged 18 - 60 must stay behind.", "Gregory Wallace, 50, is charged with 10 offences including carrying a firearm or imitation.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge say they \"stand\" with Ukraine, as rallies are held across UK.", "Wolverhampton's Grand Theatre says cancelling the visit \"is absolutely the right thing to do\".", "Residents of the capital are urged to close windows - but many are already sheltering underground.", "Radiation levels increased, but a disaster at the defunct nuclear power plant there is 'extremely unlikely', experts say.", "Thomas Tuchel's Chelsea take on Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley on Sunday.", "Scotland's Josh Taylor clings on to his status as undisputed light-welterweight world champion with a controversial split decision victory against Jack Catterall in Glasgow.", "Putin moves Russia's nuclear forces to \"special alert”.", "The Russian-flagged cargo ship is suspected of breaching sanctions imposed because of the Ukraine war.", "PM says more must be done to change \"heavy odds\" against Ukraine, as Russians enter city of Kharkiv.", "The fire prompted fears of toxic fumes and residents were warned to close their windows and stay indoors.", "Ukraine's president had no experience of politics when when elected in 2019, but has emerged as a convincing war leader.", "The \"brilliance and resilience\" of British theatre is celebrated at the WhatsOnStage awards.", "Western nations are debating how far they should support a possible Ukrainian insurgency.", "Former Wales manager John Toshack is no longer on a ventilator after being admitted to hospital in Spain having contracted Covid-19.", "Robin Swann said health pressures are \"only going to get worse despite the best efforts of staff\".", "Russian planes will now be unable to land in, take off from or fly over any EU nation.", "Britain's human rights watchdog shouldn't be considered an independent group, charities tell the BBC.", "The International Testing Agency confirms teenage Russian Olympic Committee figure skater Kamila Valieva failed a drugs test in December.", "A 5,000-year-old chalk sculpture named the \"Burton Agnes drum\" is hailed as a \"significant find\".", "People in the UK drank less beer and more wine and spirits in the pandemic, an industry group says.", "Economy Minister Vaughan Gething announced the latest easing of Covid restrictions in Wales.", "Dame Cressida Dick quit after losing the confidence of London Mayor Sadiq Khan.", "The Labour leader criticises his predecessor, as he backs Boris Johnson over Nato and Ukraine.", "The SpaceX CEO says he hopes to launch his new monster rocket system in a couple of months.", "Bank of England increases rates for the second time in three months as the cost of living rises.", "Colin Townsend had just nipped back into his house for lunch when a camper van plunged into his garden.", "An area of trees more than seven times the size of Manhattan, New York was destroyed.", "President Biden and Vladimir Putin to talk as the US says Russia could invade Ukraine \"at any time\".", "Dame Cressida Dick's resignation has been welcomed by many. But what do police officers think of her?", "Kids Company repeatedly failed to pay tax and workers, a report by the Charity Commission finds.", "\"Strong and decisive\" leadership will be required to restore public confidence, the home secretary says.", "Boris Johnson tells world leaders he fears for the security of Europe amid tensions with Russia.", "Robin Swann says he cannot lift restrictions without the executive, but Gordon Lyons says it is possible.", "The Queen is showing no Covid symptoms, a royal source says, as the prince begins self-isolating.", "The accusation comes as the Met Police is still investigating No 10 gatherings during lockdowns.", "The man accidentally shoots his brother while loading a gun to aim at a bear on their property.", "Research for the BBC suggests the price of 15 food staples across four supermarkets has risen 8% in a year.", "About 200 birds thought to be starlings have died in mysterious circumstances near a village.", "Neil Coyle apologises for \"insensitive comments\" after accusations from a British Chinese journalist.", "The Met chief previously ignored numerous calls for her resignation - what was the final nail in the coffin?", "\"I've got plans for next year,\" she says. \"Imagine if I have to cancel because I am having a baby!\"", "Dagenham say they will not select Yoan Zouma while an investigation into his involvement in a cat-kicking video takes place.", "The US president says he has issued the warning due to \"increased threats of Russian military action\".", "Demonstrations continue to shut down parts of Ottawa as well as vital border crossings.", "Dylan McEwan, 19, admits to car thefts which were the subject of lyrics he recorded afterwards.", "The people saved near the port of Dunkirk are believed to have been attempting to get to the UK.", "Experts may have detected a planet in the habitable zone of a nearly dead star called a white dwarf.", "Boris Johnson says he hopes \"strong deterrence\" and \"patient diplomacy\" can find a way through.", "Christian Eriksen says he is lucky to be alive and will do everything he can to return to his former level after joining Brentford.", "The woman in Durham, Canada, had typed \"I need help, he is in the house\" before falling silent.", "Brigene has been fighting to bring her brother home from Muckamore Abbey Hospital for decades.", "Defence Secretary Ben Wallace says he was assured Russia would not invade Ukraine at talks in Moscow.", "The behaviour of PCs based mostly at Charing Cross Police station was said to be \"disgraceful\".", "The UK and EU agree on the \"need for progress in the interest of people in Northern Ireland\".", "A committee of MPs says the tax authority's inaction is rewarding the unscrupulous, a claim that is denied.", "Unvaccinated 12 to 17-year-olds will be able to enter Spain with a negative test from Monday.", "From Monday, unvaccinated British 12-to-17 year-olds will be allowed into Spain with a negative test.", "Anis Hemissi flew from Denmark as a professional hitman to kill father-of-two Flamur Beqiri.", "West Ham boss David Moyes says Kurt Zouma is available for Sunday's game at Leicester amid the controversy of the defender being filmed kicking his cat.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 4 and 11 February.", "No 10 confirms that Boris Johnson has been contacted and says he will \"respond as required\".", "The company will introduce a range of measures, after concerns AirTags were being used by stalkers.", "The Ebola-like virus is endemic in parts of West Africa and can be spread by rats.", "Brandon Lewis says the executive must be restored whatever the results of May's assembly election.", "Prof Ian Young warns it is not \"freedom day\" yet as face covering rule is among restrictions scrapped.", "French police shoot dead a man wielding a long-bladed knife at the Gare du Nord train station.", "Fire tests on cladding similar to Grenfell Tower's resulted in 20m flames, an inquiry hears.", "Real pay fell by 0.8% between October and December as inflation soared, official figures show.", "Bas Javid pledges to remove racist staff, but some black officers say the issue is getting worse.", "Paracetamol, nicotine, caffeine and epilepsy and diabetes drugs were widely detected, research finds.", "Halyna Hutchins died on the set of Rust after a gun actor Alec Baldwin was holding discharged.", "The casualties are in hospital with \"blast injuries\" following the explosion in Sunderland.", "Mazars says it can no longer stand behind 10 years of the former president's statements.", "A woman who lost everything in an house fire says a £20 benefits cut will be \"catastrophic\".", "Anthony Russell has admitted killing a mum and son plus a pregnant woman he is accused of raping.", "Tennis star Novak Djokovic tells the BBC he is willing to forfeit future trophies rather than get vaccinated.", "The opposition leader, who has already spent a year behind bars, faces fresh fraud charges.", "The price of fuel at the pump has risen with petrol at 148.02p a litre and diesel at 151.57p.", "Hundreds of hospital staff are identified as potentially coming into contact with the disease.", "At 475,000 people, Northern Ireland's waiting lists are the worst in the UK.", "The Mauritian government has led a trip to the disputed islands, which are controlled by Britain.", "With no evidence of the withdrawal, Western powers react cautiously to the de-escalation.", "A virtual meeting of parties took place earlier to discuss delivering the apology.", "Astronomers no longer believe a rocket stage that's due to hit the Moon was from Elon Musk's SpaceX.", "Paul Robson, who is described as a \"menace to women\", walked out of HMP North Sea Camp on Sunday.", "Boris Johnson says there are signs of diplomatic progress, but Russian activity is \"not encouraging\".", "Death certificates suggest fewer people are dying with, or from, Covid.", "Elizabeth, 10, received her first jab and says it \"looks kind of fierce, but it isn't\".", "Record-breaking floods are no longer the exception, says Natural Resources Wales.", "Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has argued her positive drugs test was due to contamination with her grandad's medicine, an Olympic official says.", "Conservative Bridgend MP Jamie Wallis is fined a total of £270 and given three penalty points.", "Sajid Javid says Novak Djokovic is able to earn millions by playing tennis again because of vaccines.", "A complaint accuses Neuralink's research partner of 'deadly brain experiments' on monkeys.", "The Duchess of Cornwall is now self-isolating, days after Prince Charles tested positive for Covid.", "Ms Palin failed to prove that the NY Times ruined her reputation by linking her to a deadly shooting.", "Separatists tried to seize Kharkiv in 2014. Now the city is turning away from its old neighbour.", "Ahmednur Nuur, 16, was fatally stabbed near Milton Keynes College on Friday afternoon.", "Harley and Harry Crane were born at 22 weeks in October and their mum hopes they can go home soon.", "Canada's prime minister says police will also be given \"more tools\" to imprison or fine demonstrators.", "The US and UK leaders shared a call after Russia too suggested a diplomatic solution was still possible.", "But signals from Moscow give some cause for optimism, the head of the military alliance says.", "After striking a deal with Virginia Giuffre, will there be any future public role for Prince Andrew?", "Mrs Rooney was trying to bring a claim against Caroline Watt for misuse of private information.", "Plans match rebate scheme in England and also include people who do not pay council tax.", "In footage released by Russia's defence ministry, troops appear to be packing up some military equipment.", "Leah Croucher was last seen on CCTV footage the morning after she left the family home in 2019.", "Mother of footballer Emiliano Sala says she wants justice for him and to prevent future deaths.", "What we know about the woman who has accused the British royal of sexual assault.", "An emotional Kamila Valieva launches her bid for figure skating gold after a court cleared her to compete despite a positive drugs test.", "The experiment saw 2,000 people paid €560 (£490) a month, instead of their unemployment benefit.", "Bradford Council faced a long-term struggle to recruit and retain social workers, a report finds.", "Criminals are 'socially engineering' victims into giving them money, according to Barclays Bank.", "The regulations that are currently in place will become guidance, Health Minister Robin Swann says.", "The comments come as Russia's military says some troops are withdrawing from the border near Ukraine.", "It's equivalent to just under 80,000 litres of oil, but it's expected none will reach Welsh shores.", "The man was sexually assaulted and beaten by three Christian Brothers at St Ninian's in Falkland, Fife.", "The US president says an invasion of Ukraine is still possible despite Russian claims of a withdrawal.", "The Queen meets ambassadors via video link, her first engagement since contact with Prince Charles.", "A potential major incident at Antrim Hospital has ended, but hospitals warn of ongoing pressure.", "It is claimed Facebook colluded with OnlyFans to disable social accounts of adult entertainers working for rivals, BBC News has learned.", "Flash floods hit multiple states, with some areas receiving up to 400mm of rain in 24 hours.", "The government tells Ofcom the RT channel is \"part of Russia's global disinformation campaign\".", "The chancellor has pledged to deliver a lower tax economy amid pressure to scrap a rise in National Insurance.", "Former NI international Paddy McCourt denies sexually assaulting a woman on 30 January.", "Boris Johnson is facing calls to accelerate moves to tackle economic crime amid the crisis in Ukraine.", "Anthony Elanga's late equaliser boosts Manchester United's hopes of reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League as they fight back to draw at Atletico Madrid.", "Public Accounts Committee report says the taxpayer is exposed to long-term financial risk.", "The drama sets a record for the most hours viewed for an English-language series in a single week.", "The number of exceptional wildfires will increase by 50% by the end of the century, the UN warns.", "A study says works could cost billions more if MPs stay put - but many of them oppose moving out.", "Senedd Members Adam Price and Mick Antoniw are criticised for ignoring UK government travel advice.", "It finds James Craig's human rights were breached by a failure to introduce a legal measure in Scotland.", "Next month, a report will be published into one of the biggest scandals in the history of the NHS - why were so many failures allowed to happen?", "Police arrest a 50-year-old man after the incident at Bow Street Mall in Lisburn.", "The US president says he will go after Russia's Western financing and the country's \"elites\".", "Amrit Magar is handed a five-year restraining order after walking 23 miles to the tennis star's home.", "Patients should avoid routine surgery in the weeks after infection as a precaution, experts advise.", "The Advertising Standards Authority said the drinks firm's ads \"misled\" customers over environmental impacts.", "Angharad Williamson's plea for police to find Logan was \"all an act\", Cardiff Crown Court is told.", "Ms Taylor was killed during a police raid and her death triggered widespread racial justice rallies.", "George Ezra is the first performer on the line-up for the Platinum Party at the Palace on 4 June.", "Christie's holds its annual sale of meteorites, along with a dog house struck by a rock from space.", "People will no longer be required to wear face coverings in shops and on public transport.", "Yellow weather warnings are issued for counties Antrim, Tyrone, Fermanagh, and Londonderry.", "The \"earthquake\" road near Lyneham in Wiltshire could be closed for up to a year due to subsidence.", "A 27-year-old man who launched a hostage situation at an Apple store has died in hospital.", "The Russian leader has been keeping the world guessing. The BBC's Moscow correspondent looks for clues.", "Jes Staley's payments are suspended as regulators examine how he described his links to Epstein.", "Four men charged with conspiracy to murder after Sasha Johnson was shot have the case against them dropped.", "Chilling footage of Austin Osayande carrying his victim was released following the attack in Leeds.", "A BBC investigation witnesses grooming, sexual material and a rape threat in a virtual reality world.", "Aamir Siddiqi, 17, was killed in a case of mistaken identity in front of his parents 12 years ago.", "Russian president presses Sergei Naryshkin during a meeting with top security officials.", "Levels are expected to stay high for some time and a severe flood warning is still in place.", "Health minister says no change is coming after England's decision to end free testing from April.", "Four-packs of lateral flow tests will be on sale for £17 from Wednesday despite free tests remaining until 1 April.", "UK gas and fuel prices continue to rise as Russia-Ukraine tensions worsen.", "As Vladimir Putin orders troops into eastern Ukraine, here's a look at how things got to this point.", "The US rocker is remembered as \"one of the great singers of the last 30 years\".", "Neil McEvoy asked for £3,400 as reports state litany of rule breaches in Welsh Parliament.", "In a national address, Ukraine's president says his attempts to speak to Vladimir Putin were rejected.", "Clarity over UK funding is needed before plans for mass testing are confirmed, the Scottish government says.", "A taskforce wants improvements for women belonging to ethnic minorities and those living in deprived areas.", "The gas pipeline between Russia and Germany cost €10bn (£8.4bn) and was completed last September.", "Testing suspected heart attack patients for the C-reactive protein could save lives, experts say.", "The Russian president praises the military as the US warns an invasion of Ukraine is beginning.", "A fall in Covid rates in London means people will no longer need to wear masks on public transport.", "It's part of new government proposals to shake up England's higher education system.", "Scientists - who \"accidentally\" made the first ever recording of a dying brain - saw startling results.", "Major incidents have been declared in towns in Worcestershire and Shropshire.", "The PM promises more military support for Ukraine, but Labour urges tougher action against Russia.", "The Newsnight host and outgoing North America editor sign a deal with LBC's parent company Global.", "Everton complete a permanent deal for Tottenham's England midfielder Dele Alli.", "The BBC's Ros Atkins examines Sue Gray's report on parties at 10 Downing Street during lockdown.", "The prime minister's original claim that all the guidelines were followed seems almost farcical now.", "The flight from Aberdeen got into trouble as it was trying to land at London Heathrow Airport.", "The promise follows a row over whether any fine imposed on Boris Johnson will be made public.", "Marks & Spencer and Aldi reach a settlement in a copyright row over caterpillar cakes.", "MMR vaccine rates have fallen to their lowest level in a decade, data for England reveals.", "Invasion or fear strategy: the Russian leader keeps everyone guessing on his real plans for Ukraine.", "Souvenirs produced for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee arrived with a Del Boy-style mistake.", "The new law brings Northern Ireland into line with the rest of the UK and the Republic of Ireland.", "Edwin Poots' bill aims to cut emissions by 82% by 2050 but another bill aims for a net-zero target.", "There are more tree species than previously thought but mostly in fast disappearing forests.", "Payments to people on Universal Credit in Wales to help with bills to rise.", "This year marks the change from the Year of the Ox to the Year of the Tiger.", "The driver used his car to try to stop Yasmin Chkaifi from being stabbed by her stalker ex-husband.", "Oliver Davies, 11, suffered a fractured spine when he was hit by a drug-driver.", "One in five pupils were not in school last week - the lowest attendance level of the academic year.", "The 20-year-old Manchester United footballer was arrested on suspicion of rape and assault on Sunday.", "A tractor-racing show in Northern Ireland and a new soap opera are in the pipeline.", "The book identifies a person who may have betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis.", "Experts said the bolt that stretched across Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas was 'extraordinary'.", "Welfare support continues to be offered as 4,800 homes remain without supplies following weekend storms.", "One in 10 people testing positive during the Omicron wave were likely to have had Alpha or Delta.", "Plans to improve education outside the South East are being set out in the Levelling Up White Paper.", "Boris Johnson attended at least three of the events where Covid laws are alleged to have been broken.", "The star's muddled attempt to clarify her comments left her having to apologise for a second time.", "The policy for England, which also includes care staff, will be reviewed in light of the Omicron variant.", "The supermarket's plans will mean the end of overnight restocking at some of its stores.", "On Ukraine's eastern front lines, in the deep winter cold, soldiers and civilians await Russia's next move.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon also tells parliament that older children will need to continue wearing masks in the classroom.", "Briton Josh Wardle sells his online game sensation to the New York Times for a seven-figure sum.", "Masato Sagawa's neodymium-iron-boron magnet has become central to our modern way of living.", "Countdown word expert Susie Dent reflects on the sale of the popular online game Wordle to the New York Times.", "The UK PM has been speaking alongside Ukraine's president amid warnings Russia plans to invade.", "The councillor, previously in hot water over offensive tweets, is suspended for bullying.", "The UK's largest retailer will close down seven of its 13 Jack's discount stores affecting 130 jobs.", "An estimated 1.18 billion trips will be made across China, a far cry from pre-pandemic figures.", "Moscow's mobilisation near Ukraine's border is the biggest in Europe in decades, the US says.", "Michael Gove says tackling inequalities is a \"moral mission\", but critics say his plan falls short.", "The Man United player is being questioned over an alleged rape, sexual assault and threats to kill.", "Russia's leader criticises the US and Nato amid tensions over his military build-up near Ukraine.", "Tributes are paid to \"kind and wonderful\" Moses J Moseley, who was a pet zombie on the horror show.", "The move affects about 55,000 customers in places including Armagh, Ballymena and Londonderry.", "Boris Johnson's predecessor questions whether he knew the rules, but opinion is divided among other MPs.", "Premier League clubs completed the second-highest spending January in history as Tottenham made the biggest moves.", "From the disruption of gas supplies to the risk of broader war, the Ukraine crisis matters to the UK.", "President Volodymyr Zelensky highlights the support of allies and announces an expansion of the army.", "Data such as ethnicity, which would help identify abusers, is not collected, an inquiry finds.", "Nationwide says a deposit now constitutes a record percentage of a first-time buyer's salary.", "The woman's public mischief conviction is overturned at the Cypriot Supreme Court.", "The behaviour of PCs based mostly at Charing Cross Police station was said to be \"disgraceful\".", "The National Crime Agency celebrates the ruling after probing a sophisticated money laundering operation.", "The PM emphasises Western unity as he visits Ukraine amid fears of a Russian invasion.", "The request to London's High Court relates to the civil sexual assault case against the prince.", "Linda Maggs was stabbed at least 15 times to her neck, chest and hands.", "The Kids, a collection of modern sonnets by Hannah Lowe, is named the Costa Book of the Year.", "Tom Brady, one of the greatest players in NFL history, decides to stop playing as he could no longer make the \"competitive commitment\" to continue.", "The report into gatherings in Downing Street angers families who lost loved ones in the pandemic.", "The UK PM will hold talks designed to avert war, while Russia masses tens of thousands of troops.", "The deal would have allowed two of Ahmaud Arbery's killers to serve in \"preferred\" federal prisons", "Routine checks for cervical cancer may help uncover other tumours elsewhere, research suggests.", "But deputy PM Dominic Raab says Boris Johnson has apologised and promised action to fix the running of No 10.", "No 10 says it stands by the decision to buy the kit, arguing 97% was suitable for use by the NHS.", "Trade groups had warned there could food shortages without a fresh deal to ensure supplies to industry.", "Crime writer Val McDermid protests at the signing of David Goodwillie who was ruled a rapist in a civil case.", "Steven Williams was left bedridden and shaking for 18 hours a day after contracting the illness.", "Suppliers try to restore power after Storms Malik and Corrie hit Scotland and northern England.", "The four members of Insulate Britain had been due in court to answer contempt of court charges.", "Germany's refusal to arm Ukraine has puzzled and angered some allies. Here's what's behind it.", "No 10 says an updated report on Whitehall parties will be published once a police inquiry finishes.", "They discussed whether to recruit a new commissioner after controversy over Sarah Everard's case, the BBC is told.", "\"It has to stop,\" the Canadian PM says of the two-week protests against coronavirus restrictions.", "Rhys Langford started raising money for Jacob, six, after learning his own cancer was terminal.", "Lincoln Edwards had his first operation at 13 days and a second at five months old.", "The French president tells reporters that the Russian leader gave him assurances in talks in Moscow.", "WhatsApp messages shared between Mrs Vardy and her friend and PR have been made public.", "Belfast, Dune and West Side Story will also be in the running at the Academy Awards.", "A rule barring unvaccinated over-12s means UK travellers are opting for Mexico and Turkey instead.", "Anne-Marie was the second performance of the night at this year's Brit Awards.", "The singer bagged three of the main awards at the O2 Arena on Tuesday evening.", "Rhys Langford, who has months to live, says he wants to help \"save this little boy\".", "Boris and Carrie Johnson are among those expected to be sent a questionnaire by the Met Police.", "A limited-edition, 11-piece collection will be available in 60 Primark stores later this month.", "A campus gynaecologist at UCLA allegedly abused hundreds of patients over his 35-year career.", "Demonstrators call for reform after the killing of a 22-year-old man in a police raid.", "The rules are due to end in March - but that could be brought forward if \"encouraging trends continue\".", "Many stars opted to wear a black cut-out dress but there were still plenty of pops of red carpet colour.", "The prime minister has faced Keir Starmer and other MPs in the Commons in the wake of his cabinet reshuffle.", "They began raising money after their daughter's final chemotherapy session in the 1980s.", "The BBC understands hackers accessed its systems but were detected.", "The health minister's department is due to review current measures in the absence of NI's government.", "A mum says her autistic son needs a transplant but medics argue it is not in his best interests.", "Sadiq Khan's spokesperson said he told Dame Cressida Dick Londoners would not \"put up with this\".", "Kenny Reilly, 29, died two days after he was shot in the head in Maryhill, Glasgow, in April 2018.", "The Met chief previously ignored numerous calls for her resignation - what was the final nail in the coffin?", "A cross-party committee of MPs warns of further disruption later this year as new import controls start.", "Two suspects allegedly conspired to launder the money after it was stolen by a hacker in 2016.", "Ministers admit it could take to 2024 to cut numbers, as they unveil their recovery plan.", "New fossils challenge ideas that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals after arriving from Africa.", "This means security experts now think a terror attack is \"likely\", rather than \"highly likely\".", "Boris Johnson says he hopes \"strong deterrence\" and \"patient diplomacy\" can find a way through.", "A month after more post-Brexit paperwork came into force, many companies are having problems.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury asks why a memorial to a slavery financier is taking so long to come down.", "Financier John Armitage says he believes the UK's challenges require \"serious, engaged\" politicians.", "Ex-Chief Whip Mark Spencer becomes Commons leader, as Boris Johnson seeks to shore up MPs' support.", "Boris Johnson replaces ministers who quit and forced him to announce his departure as prime minister.", "Accounts for the charity show it paid out £160,000 in grants and spent the same on management.", "Wrexham set to regain the freehold of the club's Racecourse Stadium, co-chairmen Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney confirm.", "Business associations warn that the closure of the Ambassador Bridge threatens the US and Canadian economies.", "Diane Stewart's death was treated as epilepsy-related until her husband killed a children's author.", "Police said they believe three masked gunmen waited in a car park before shooting a man on Tuesday.", "On the second day of the hearing, Mrs Vardy's barrister said the message was \"about someone else\".", "Gillian Keegan says she briefly continued a meeting on Tuesday after finding out she was positive.", "Three mothers beg for their children to be released from locked units into appropriate community care.", "A man was arrested after the United Airlines flight from Newark Airport landed at Heathrow.", "Speaking to the BBC, Russia's EU ambassador says conflict can still be avoided through diplomacy.", "A BBC investigation raises new doubts about evidence used to deport thousands for allegedly cheating in an English test.", "A lab in Oxfordshire takes a big step towards harnessing the energy source of the stars.", "The RSPCA has taken Kurt Zouma's cats away from him after videos emerged on social media of the West Ham defender kicking and slapping one of them.", "Ottawa police have warned of \"determined\" and \"volatile\" protests amid an all-out effort to remove them.", "The Met reviews its decision not to investigate the December 2020 gathering after photo of PM emerges.", "Mared Foulkes, 21, took her own life hours after being told she had failed an exam she had passed.", "John Foley is being replaced as potential suitors circle amid a downturn for the exercise firm.", "Police launch murder investigation after Eugene McCormack died from injuries he sustained last week.", "Daunte Wright's father calls Kim Potter's two-year sentence for manslaughter a \"slap on the wrist\".", "Police have said they have 170 arrests over the past two days of operations in Canada's capital.", "More strong winds could hamper clean-up work after 92mph gusts battered parts of Wales on Friday.", "Nato allies suspect that Russia will use a false flag attack as a pretext to invade Ukraine", "Great Britain are stripped of the silver medal won in the 4x100 metre relay at the Tokyo Olympics because of CJ Ujah's doping violation.", "The breakaway territories go on a war footing amid fears Russia will use them as a pretext to invade.", "The remaining passengers are all thought to be lorry drivers, according to authorities.", "The wife acted as lookout while her husband hid a data card inside a peanut butter sandwich.", "An invasion could happen in days and the capital Kyiv will be a target, the US president says.", "Former members of Ellesmere College Titans suffered eating disorders and severe mental health issues.", "A family 'does the very British thing' after their house is storm damaged... and goes to the pub.", "Great Britain's men's curlers have to settle for Olympic silver as Sweden triumph 5-4 in a nerve-shredding final to claim gold.", "A woman abused by her stepfather says victims and survivors need more support from the legal system.", "A live YouTube stream of planes attempting to land at Heathrow during Storm Eunice goes viral.", "The Duke of Sussex is challenging a government decision to refuse police security during visits.", "The 42-year-old woman befriended the girl when she was 15 as her own marriage broke down.", "Boris Johnson tells BBC that intelligence suggests Russia intends to launch an invasion encircling Kyiv.", "Glasgow-born Brian McBride built his career in the digital and tech sectors, leading T-Mobile and Amazon in the UK.", "The proposed measure is likely to be dropped from an animal welfare bill, after ministers raised concerns.", "A Met Office yellow warning for ice covers much of Scotland overnight after a day of issues caused by snow.", "The family of Simon Nellist, killed in Sydney's first fatal attack in 60 years, pay tribute to him.", "The spire, at St Thomas's Church in Wells, Somerset, fell as the storm reached its peak.", "Snow and high winds have caused problems in Northern Ireland while a man was killed in the Republic.", "Scottish government gender definition for public sector boards is ruled a breach of equality law.", "Staff at high street pharmacies in Scotland are increasingly being abused by aggressive customers.", "The storm sweeps across the UK, with a provisional record gust of 122mph measured on the Isle of Wight.", "Staff leading the group up Helvellyn ignored warnings to turn back and had to be rescued after dark.", "The US president made the comments in a televised address following a call with allies over the crisis.", "Model agent Jean-Luc Brunel was being investigated for rape and supplying girls to Jeffrey Epstein.", "A 10-month-old baby with breathing difficulties was being rushed to hospital in Aberdeenshire.", "Lorna and Craig Hewitt locked Matthew Langley, 22, in a filthy bedroom in their house in Sheffield.", "Plaid's Adam Price and Labour's Mick Antoniw travel to Kyiv against UK government travel advice.", "The 41-year-old man from Swansea died at the scene, say police.", "Boris Johnson was one of more than 50 people to be sent the document by the Metropolitan Police.", "Efforts to restore power and travel could be hit by up to 70mph gusts in England and Wales from Sunday.", "Eilish McColgan breaks Paula Radcliffe's 21-year-old British half marathon record with a stunning run at Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates.", "A court hears Lulu Lakatos' only asset is the cash she had on her at the time of her arrest.", "Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says the UK will spend more on democracy and energy projects in Ukraine.", "The six-year-old was supposed to deliver the ball to the referee, but drove straight past twice.", "But President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine is ready to defend itself, amid a deadly rise in fighting.", "The health service will instead fund its own gambling services from 1 April, says mental health boss.", "Kell Brook settles bitter rivalry by defeating Amir Khan via sixth-round stoppage in their grudge match in Manchester.", "Boris Johnson tells fellow world leaders \"we should not underestimate the gravity of this moment\".", "Defra says it will take further samples after reports of crustaceans dying across the North East.", "Figures reflect the rise of online shopping and the pandemic, but the rate of closures is slowing.", "The Duke of York will face a deposition in London as part of the civil sexual assault case against him.", "The business secretary says Boris Johnson is focused on the job, but MPs continue to question his future.", "Check out our comprehensive guide to all the key events and British medal hopes in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.", "Sending genuinely harmful communications will become illegal if the bill becomes law.", "The woman in her 30s dies after being hit by the bus in east London.", "Scotland's energy secretary says there is a \"real risk\" that people will die as a result of rising costs.", "Justin Welby praises her for \"doing the right thing\", ahead of the 70th anniversary of her reign.", "Marking 70 years as monarch, the Queen says Camilla should have the title when Charles becomes King.", "Eileen Harding was taken to hospital after a collision with a lorry, but died from her injuries", "Boss John Allan tells the BBC costs will rise further and the plight of people on low incomes \"troubles us\".", "He welcomes his mother's wish that Camilla be known as Queen Consort when he becomes King.", "Sadio Mane nets the winning spot-kick as Senegal beat Egypt 4-2 on penalties to clinch their first-ever Africa Cup of Nations after a 0-0 draw.", "First Minister Paul Givan's resignation leaves healthcare in \"a difficult position\", says Dr Alan Stout.", "Chris Eubank Jr produces a dazzling display as he proves a class above Welshman Liam Williams to move closer to a world title shot in 2022.", "Three-time Winter Olympic snowboarding champion Shaun White says he will retire from the sport after the Games in Beijing.", "Zoi Sadowski-Synnott wins New Zealand's first Winter Olympics gold medal in the women's slopestyle final.", "The Bollywood star beloved by Indians around the world is cremated with full state honours.", "The Duchess of Cornwall calls for change of culture to stop violence and sexual harassment against women.", "Lin Russell and her daughter Megan were attacked and killed in 1996 in Kent.", "As the Queen marks 70 years on the throne, historian Robert Lacey asks how prepared she was for her destiny.", "The PM's wife says she is being targeted by his enemies and insists she plays no role in government.", "A murder investigation is launched after a man stabbed on 7 January dies from his injuries.", "The Queen is the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee - 70 years on the throne.", "Scotland secure successive Calcutta Cup wins after a dramatic late penalty try helps them claim a nerve-shredding Six Nations victory over England at Murrayfield.", "Craig Lambert's father guarded Adolf Hitler's deputy during his life sentence in Berlin.", "As the Queen marks 70 years on the throne, historian Robert Lacey asks how prepared she was for her destiny.", "A UK player matches all seven numbers to take the biggest prize of the year so far.", "Welcome to the 24th edition of the Winter Olympics and Robot bar staff.", "A video shared online showed the podcast host using a racial slur on several occasions.", "An anxious wait for news of their five-year-old son, Rayan Oram, ends in grief for the parents.", "The side is now known as the McDermid Ladies, after the men's club signed rapist David Goodwillie.", "Moscow has amassed most of the military capability needed for a full-scale invasion, officials say.", "As the Queen marks 70 years on the throne, we present an image from every year of her life.", "A toddler snatched from a busy beach, a brother's guilt and a new search for answers - the disappearance of Cheryl Grimmer.", "France's leader calls for a \"new balance\" to protect European states while affording Russia respect.", "The Duchess of Cornwall's endorsement by the Queen is well-deserved, say royal commentators.", "Team GB's curling mixed doubles pair are through to the semi-finals at the Winter Olympics despite a 6-2 defeat by Norway.", "The monarch is said to be on \"sparkling\" form ahead of the 70th anniversary of her reign.", "The Australian network that airs the show says it is looking for a new UK partner for the soap.", "Max Woosey has spent 670 nights camping outside to raise money for the North Devon Hospice.", "The comedian is described as \"truly disturbing\" for a segment of his latest Netflix stand-up special.", "At least 10 people die and 50,000 are displaced as Cyclone Batsirai brings widespread destruction.", "Investigators say cyber-attackers stole over $50 million in digital assets between 2020 and mid-2021.", "The 95-year-old is continuing with \"light duties\", four days after her positive Covid test was announced.", "Boris Johnson will give a televised statement later before revealing new sanctions against Russia to MPs.", "Are we witnessing the prelude to World War 3? And what is the wild card in the crisis?", "The government's climate change advisers say new oil and gas in the North Sea would not lower bills.", "Kyiv residents queue for supplies outside shops as others leave the city by road.", "Ms Taylor was killed during a police raid and her death triggered widespread racial justice rallies.", "Yellow weather warnings are issued for counties Antrim, Tyrone, Fermanagh, and Londonderry.", "Hours before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, Mr Zelensky made a direct appeal to Russian people.", "The Russian leader has been keeping the world guessing. The BBC's Moscow correspondent looks for clues.", "Gregory Wallace, 50, is charged with 10 offences including carrying a firearm or imitation.", "Boris Johnson says President Putin has launched a \"vast invasion\" of Ukraine without provocation.", "UK gas and fuel prices continue to rise as Russia-Ukraine tensions worsen.", "A shorter week could make staff happier and benefit firms, the Future Generations Commission says.", "Russian forces have crossed Ukraine's borders, bombing military targets near big cities.", "Robin Swann said health pressures are \"only going to get worse despite the best efforts of staff\".", "Vladimir Putin might turn Russia back to the days of the USSR, our world affairs editor writes.", "The chancellor has pledged to deliver a lower tax economy amid pressure to scrap a rise in National Insurance.", "Former NI international Paddy McCourt denies sexually assaulting a woman on 30 January.", "Chris Bryant accuses the government of not acting on concerns about the Chelsea Football club owner.", "Court documents show he filed a claim against Associated Newspapers Limited on Wednesday.", "Nick Beake reports from Kyiv after President Putin announces a 'military operation' in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.", "The Met Office yellow warning for snow and lightning is in place until 09:30 on Friday.", "Admiral says attractive offices would encourage staff to \"make an effort\" to commute.", "A 27-year-old man who launched a hostage situation at an Apple store has died in hospital.", "Tou Thao, J Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were convicted of denying George Floyd his civil rights.", "Footage from Ukraine as Russia attacks shows explosions, a fireball at an airport and a helicopter under fire.", "The Ministry of Defence made the call as Russian forces reached the northern outskirts of Kyiv.", "In a national address, Ukraine's president says his attempts to speak to Vladimir Putin were rejected.", "The former first minister says his show will not air on RT again \"until peace is re-established\".", "The pandemic has made hybrid working the new norm for some firms, a survey suggests.", "It is claimed Facebook colluded with OnlyFans to disable social accounts of adult entertainers working for rivals, BBC News has learned.", "Iain Packer has been arrested in connection with the death of Ms Caldwell, whose body was found in woods in 2005.", "A study says works could cost billions more if MPs stay put - but many of them oppose moving out.", "Ukraine is outgunned and outnumbered - and the invasion by Russian forces threatens to be bloody.", "Moscow launches a deadly attack targeting cities and military targets, as civilians attempt to flee.", "Russia's major banks will have their assets frozen following the invasion of Ukraine, Boris Johnson says.", "The danger-to-life alerts are lifted as peak levels move down the River Severn,", "Counties Fermanagh, Tyrone, Londonderry and Antrim saw the worst of the snow on Thursday.", "Marta Shokalo, of the BBC Ukrainian Service, describes shock and panic in the capital, Kyiv.", "The singer-songwriter pays tribute to the late Jamal Edwards, who helped to launch his career.", "George Ezra is the first performer on the line-up for the Platinum Party at the Palace on 4 June.", "Debbie Leitch, who had Down's syndrome, died as a result of neglect and severe emaciation.", "The government wants to stop a programme which alleges the man is a dangerous extremist and misogynist.", "Outrage in the West, and China balks at the word invasion. How Ukraine is shaking the globe.", "The government announces a shake-up of student finance in England to reduce the bill for taxpayers.", "The government is set to abandon plans for an import ban - but some Conservatives say it must go ahead.", "A missile sparks a fireball as it hits Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport in western Ukraine.", "Western governments think Russian troops could go much further than east Ukraine.", "Russia has launched a large-scale military attack on its southern neighbour - here's what we know.", "The conflict in Ukraine could push the energy price cap to £3,238 a year from October, a report warns.", "Laura says having two babies on such a date with so many twos in it has \"got to be good luck\".", "Schools in Northern Ireland are exempt from laws outlawing religious discrimination.", "Jason Kenny, Great Britain's most successful Olympian of all time, retires to take up a coaching job with British Cycling.", "Russia launches a full-scale attack on Ukraine - after previously saying it wouldn't. Here's how it unfolded.", "Ukraine says 57 people were killed as Russian troops launch full-scale invasion, closing in on the capital, Kyiv.", "Crizanlizumab is thought to cut visits to A&E by 40% for patients with the blood disorder.", "Social media users have posted false and misleading videos and images as Russia invades Ukraine.", "The Duchess of Cornwall tells the BBC she is on a lifelong campaign for domestic violence victims.", "Sir Jeffrey Donaldson responds to reports by The Nolan Show that he held talks with the UUP.", "Scientists - who \"accidentally\" made the first ever recording of a dying brain - saw startling results.", "The UK Statistics Authority says the number of those in work is fewer than before the pandemic.", "BBC eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford reports from Kramatorsk in Ukraine's Donbas region.", "PC Adam Zaman remains suspended from duty while a misconduct review takes place, the Met says.", "The resignation of Britain's most senior constable comes after a series of crises has engulfed the force.", "Britons in Ukraine are weighing up whether they can escape as fears of a Russian invasion mount.", "Captain Dan Biggar kicks 15 points in his 100th international to guide Wales to a 20-17 Six Nations victory against Scotland in Cardiff.", "Police in Windsor, Ontario, are working to move protesting truckers off the Ambassador Bridge.", "Rebecca Hogue is sentenced to 16 months in prison after being found guilty of first-degree murder.", "A flood warning is in place along a river following a heavy rain weather warning.", "The actress, who was homeless as a teen, says 16 and 17-year-olds in care do not have enough support.", "Crowds of protesters are flouting the injunction and continue to occupy a vital border crossing.", "An area of trees more than seven times the size of Manhattan, New York was destroyed.", "President Biden and Vladimir Putin to talk as the US says Russia could invade Ukraine \"at any time\".", "\"Strong and decisive\" leadership will be required to restore public confidence, the home secretary says.", "After ground-breaking surgery 20 years ago, Janet Craven says the results have been life-changing.", "Boris Johnson tells world leaders he fears for the security of Europe amid tensions with Russia.", "Robin Swann says he cannot lift restrictions without the executive, but Gordon Lyons says it is possible.", "Jack Thomas's mother says not knowing exactly how her son died is the worst part.", "Research for the BBC suggests the price of 15 food staples across four supermarkets has risen 8% in a year.", "DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says the government has \"dishonoured\" the New Decade New Approach deal.", "Demonstrations continue to shut down parts of Ottawa as well as vital border crossings.", "An 18-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of murder after the teenager died in hospital.", "The brand better known for discount household essentials has rolled out its first supermarket-style format", "US President Joe Biden again warns Russian leader Vladimir Putin against invading Ukraine.", "The woman in Durham, Canada, had typed \"I need help, he is in the house\" before falling silent.", "The UK and EU agree on the \"need for progress in the interest of people in Northern Ireland\".", "Thousands more lives could be saved by paying attention to early symptoms of heart attacks, doctors say.", "Anis Hemissi flew from Denmark as a professional hitman to kill father-of-two Flamur Beqiri.", "From Monday, unvaccinated British 12-to-17 year-olds will be allowed into Spain with a negative test.", "Protesters opposed to Covid-19 vaccine mandates remain camped outside parliament.", "One man who was trapped under rubble at the east London bar says he feared he was going to die.", "Police intercept lorries trying to join a protest against France's coronavirus regulations.", "No 10 confirms that Boris Johnson has been contacted and says he will \"respond as required\".", "The Ebola-like virus is endemic in parts of West Africa and can be spread by rats.", "Brandon Lewis says the executive must be restored whatever the results of May's assembly election.", "Chelsea are crowned Club World Cup champions after an extra-time victory against Brazilian club Palmeiras in Abu Dhabi.", "Prof Ian Young warns it is not \"freedom day\" yet as face covering rule is among restrictions scrapped.", "Strict Covid protocols - which are still in place - have seen routine dental care dramatically reduced.", "Halyna Hutchins died on the set of Rust after a gun actor Alec Baldwin was holding discharged.", "Nikolaos Karvounakis left a device containing nails and explosive in Princes Street Gardens.", "Fast-track Tier 1 visas ended with immediate effect, amid concerns over fraud and security.", "The best-selling writer and political commentator defied the leftward trend of American humour.", "An amber warning is issued for parts of central and southern Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland on Wednesday.", "Sajid Javid says Novak Djokovic is able to earn millions by playing tennis again because of vaccines.", "Harley and Harry Crane were born at 22 weeks in October and their mum hopes they can go home soon.", "Mary McCann's two young children died in a crash while she was under the influence of alcohol.", "The Met Office is warning gusts of 80mph could hit parts of Scotland, England and Northern Ireland.", "Police have charged three people over Paislee Shultis' disappearance in Saugerties, New York state.", "Landslides and flash flooding have left a trail of destruction and many dead in Petrópolis, Brazil.", "There have been no arrests or interviews under caution, London's Metropolitan Police says.", "One electricity company warns \"the peak is still ahead\" after 14,000 people lost power in the storm.", "Landslide blocks road after heavy rain as forecasters warn of \"strong and disruptive winds\" to come.", "Hundreds of hospital staff are identified as potentially coming into contact with the disease.", "A BBC investigation has found that women’s intimate photos are being shared in large groups on Telegram.", "Network Rail said engineers checked 1,500 miles of track after Storm Dudley swept across Scotland.", "After striking a deal with Virginia Giuffre, will there be any future public role for Prince Andrew?", "Some wines contain more sugar than a doughnut, but carry no nutritional information on their labels.", "The body that looks after the rail network completes checks and gives the all-clear for train services to resume.", "Fire tests on cladding similar to Grenfell Tower's resulted in 20m flames, an inquiry hears.", "The Advertising Standards Authority said the retailer's advert was irresponsible and likely to cause offence.", "Nato defence ministers have been meeting to discuss the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.", "Kyiv says it wants to see evidence that Russia really is moving troops away from the border.", "The former UK deputy prime minister has been named the firm's president of global affairs.", "Trainer Sir Mark Todd is given an interim suspension by the British Horseracing Authority after a video on social media appeared to show him hit a horse with a branch.", "The brewer blames rising inflation, adding that people may drink less beer as a result.", "What we know about the woman who has accused the British royal of sexual assault.", "Rents for 85,000 Housing Executive residents are being frozen to help as other living costs rise.", "It's equivalent to just under 80,000 litres of oil, but it's expected none will reach Welsh shores.", "A senior US official says Russia has moved thousands more troops to the border in recent days.", "No details are available but it says it will not be using the same approach as Apple.", "Cornwall Council is warning people to only travel \"if absolutely necessary\" this Friday.", "How eight million trees have already been brought down this winter, with thousands more threatened by storms.", "But the rollout will be \"non-urgent\", with a focus on parental choice, the government says.", "The US Trade Representative has accused Beijing of repeatedly failing to live up to commitments on trade.", "Inflation rose by 5.5% in the 12 months to January, hitting a fresh 30-year high.", "At 475,000 people, Northern Ireland's waiting lists are the worst in the UK.", "Storm Eunice could bring power cuts and a \"very rare\" red warning, forecasters say.", "Liverpool take a huge step towards the Champions League quarter-finals after scoring two late goals against Inter Milan in the San Siro Stadium.", "Ms Palin failed to prove that the NY Times ruined her reputation by linking her to a deadly shooting.", "A swimmer sustained \"catastrophic injuries\" in Wednesday's attack, Australian officials say.", "Human Rights Watch highlighted the record figure following Novak Djokovic's detention last month.", "Manufacturers call for a regulator to monitor electric car charging prices and charge point rollout.", "The US president says an invasion of Ukraine is still possible despite Russian claims of a withdrawal.", "They will be offered two vaccine doses, however the paediatric dose is a third of the strength of an adult dose.", "Police have said they have 170 arrests over the past two days of operations in Canada's capital.", "Eve Muirhead's women's curlers claim Great Britain's only gold medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics with a sensational 10-3 victory over Japan on the final day of action in Beijing.", "Justin Welby says he felt God's love and a \"vicious sense of dislike\" for himself simultaneously.", "Group lacked \"judgement, equipment, skills and ethics\", say mountain rescuers.", "Firefighters have rescued some residents as heavy rain and strong winds sweep Yorkshire.", "The remaining passengers are all thought to be lorry drivers, according to authorities.", "A hearing is due to consider the role of gambling addiction in 24-year-old Jack Ritchie's death.", "After heart-breaking near misses, hip surgery and a tumultuous campaign in Beijing, Eve Muirhead says curling gold is a \"dream come true\".", "A family 'does the very British thing' after their house is storm damaged... and goes to the pub.", "Royal Mail issues eight stamps celebrating her 70-year reign, with photos ranging from 1957 to 2020.", "Great Britain's men's curlers have to settle for Olympic silver as Sweden triumph 5-4 in a nerve-shredding final to claim gold.", "The Queen is showing no Covid symptoms, a royal source says, as the prince begins self-isolating.", "The trade body says firms need help as they face the highest tax burden in decades.", "Boris Johnson tells BBC that intelligence suggests Russia intends to launch an invasion encircling Kyiv.", "Mr Stalford represented South Belfast and was the NI Assembly's principal deputy speaker.", "At least 16 people have died as high winds leave homes without power and transport systems in disarray.", "Zoey went missing in 2010 when her owners went shopping but she was identified by her microchip.", "The family of Simon Nellist, killed in Sydney's first fatal attack in 60 years, pay tribute to him.", "The Duchess of Cornwall is now self-isolating, days after Prince Charles tested positive for Covid.", "Reassurances about mild symptoms mark a rare opening up about the monarch's health, says our correspondent.", "But hours later rescuers find a body in a burnt-out lorry in the ferry burning off Greece.", "Watch the winning moment as Eve Muirhead's curlers claim Great Britain's only gold medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics with a 10-3 victory over Japan.", "Eve Muirhead nails a crucial shot in the seventh end to earn four points and give Team GB an 8-2 lead against Japan in the women's curling final at the Winter Olympics.", "The business group says emerging industries such as biotech should be based in the North.", "Watch the moment when a group including the interior minister take cover in eastern Ukraine.", "Model agent Jean-Luc Brunel was being investigated for rape and supplying girls to Jeffrey Epstein.", "An investigation identifies thousands of foreign customers who stashed their money at the bank.", "Plaid's Adam Price and Labour's Mick Antoniw travel to Kyiv against UK government travel advice.", "The meeting, proposed by France, will only take place if Russia does not invade Ukraine, the US says.", "The Beijing Games closed on Sunday, with IOC president Thomas Bach calling for political leaders to be inspired by the athletes' \"examples of peace\".", "Efforts to restore power and travel could be hit by up to 70mph gusts in England and Wales from Sunday.", "The Home Office investigates claims racist messages were sent by immigration staff at a firm it pays.", "Puddings, parties and pageantry as well as a four-day bank holiday weekend will mark her 70-year reign.", "Eilish McColgan breaks Paula Radcliffe's 21-year-old British half marathon record with a stunning run at Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates.", "Storm Franklin is the third named storm in a week to hit the UK - following Dudley and Eunice.", "The UK prime minister is asked about the Ukraine crisis and No 10 parties on this week's Sunday Morning.", "The decision fuels renewed fears that Russia plans to invade Ukraine, despite denials from Moscow.", "The airlines suspend services to Ukraine's capital as fears grow over a possible Russian invasion.", "Manchester City say they are \"shocked and appalled\" at abuse suffered by Phil Foden and his family at Saturday's Khan-Brook fight.", "At least 171 deaths are confirmed five days after huge mudslides in Petrópolis.", "Llandinam in Powys is left looking like a \"disaster zone\" after the River Severn burst its banks.", "The GB women's curling captain reacts to getting a gold medal at her fourth Winter Olympic Games.", "But President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine is ready to defend itself, amid a deadly rise in fighting.", "Family, royalty, rap stars, actors, politicians and businesspeople are among those paying tribute.", "Kell Brook settles bitter rivalry by defeating Amir Khan via sixth-round stoppage in their grudge match in Manchester.", "She has mild symptoms and expects to continue \"light duties\" at Windsor, Buckingham Palace says.", "BBC News NI speaks to a parent and a principal doing their best to cope with Covid-19 cases.", "Many civilians are not convinced Russia will invade, but say all the war talk is unsettling.", "The Duchess of Cambridge visited a Twickenham training session as she became England's rugby patron.", "The husband of Yasmin Chkaifi, who was stabbed in Maida Vale, says his wife was an \"amazing\" woman.", "The government announced its long-promised plan to close the gap between rich and poor parts of England.", "The flight from Aberdeen got into trouble as it was trying to land at London Heathrow Airport.", "The promise follows a row over whether any fine imposed on Boris Johnson will be made public.", "Doubts have been cast over the validity of documents the tennis star submitted to enter Australia.", "Marks & Spencer and Aldi reach a settlement in a copyright row over caterpillar cakes.", "Invasion or fear strategy: the Russian leader keeps everyone guessing on his real plans for Ukraine.", "The new law brings Northern Ireland into line with the rest of the UK and the Republic of Ireland.", "Three more MPs, including an ex-minister, say they have submitted no-confidence letters in the PM.", "Some customers say the 25% rise is too steep but Pret says its costs are rising sharply.", "They discussed whether to recruit a new commissioner after controversy over Sarah Everard's case, the BBC is told.", "The driver used his car to try to stop Yasmin Chkaifi from being stabbed by her stalker ex-husband.", "One in five pupils were not in school last week - the lowest attendance level of the academic year.", "The firm will disable a feature in its self-driving software that lets them slow down but not stop.", "The network president told staff he was \"wrong\" to not report the consensual relationship.", "Groups of pupils at 13 schools and one college will trial five extra hours of work a week.", "The expansion of the retailer’s programme includes over 200 degree-level apprenticeships.", "Experts said the bolt that stretched across Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas was 'extraordinary'.", "Officials suspect the illegal drug was either laced with poison or \"cut\" with another substance.", "Operation Encompass aims to help children affected by domestic violence by informing school staff.", "Boris Johnson and Russia's president agree to continue talks to resolve tension on the Ukraine border.", "The case of a woman who was sat naked in a cell prompts calls for officers to be more understanding of minorities.", "Actor Michael Sheen said it is the \"old story\" of items with real value being moved over the border.", 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before his overdose death.", "The star will also give her first interview since postponing her Las Vegas residency.", "The group ignored a government injunction preventing them from protesting on the M25.", "Sadiq Khan's spokesperson said he told Dame Cressida Dick Londoners would not \"put up with this\".", "Michael Gove is in charge of delivering Boris Johnson's flagship policy - here is what he plans to do.", "If flowers continue to appear earlier as the planet warms, there are risks for farming and nature.", "The behaviour of PCs based mostly at Charing Cross Police station was said to be \"disgraceful\".", "Sammy Wilson suggests a challenge by Edwin Poots to the South Down nomination will not succeed.", "Average bills could hit £2,000 as ministers consider loans to support energy firms to limit increases.", "The RAF said the military aircraft did not enter UK airspace during the \"quick reaction alert\" incident.", "The PM emphasises Western unity as he visits Ukraine amid fears of a Russian invasion.", "The prime minister needs to put \"meat on the bones\" of his levelling up plan - or pay the political price, MPs say.", "As a report says levelling up plans must consider local views, people in Rhyl debate the changes needed.", "In some countries BA.2 now accounts for over half of sequenced Omicron cases, the WHO says.", "Daniel Boulton is jailed for a minimum of 40 years for killing Bethany Vincent and Darren Henson.", "The fire from Lauren Griffiths' Range Rover spread to her house, causing extensive damage.", "The 20-year-old striker was arrested on suspicion of rape, sexual assault and making threats to kill.", "The Kids, a collection of modern sonnets by Hannah Lowe, is named the Costa Book of the Year.", "GPs, pharmacists and the public in England are being asked for their views on the proposal.", "ABC suspends the US talk show host for two weeks after she said the Holocaust was \"not about race\".", "At least 24 people have died after rainfall reaches 20-year-high in the capital, Quito.", "The military has been called in to deliver food and supplies as floods cause transport chaos.", "Routine checks for cervical cancer may help uncover other tumours elsewhere, research suggests.", "Three more Tory MPs join efforts to oust Boris Johnson, but that doesn't mean his time is up yet.", "The accused are aged 15 to 44, and include two also charged with arson with intent to endanger life.", "No 10 says it stands by the decision to buy the kit, arguing 97% was suitable for use by the NHS.", "NI Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots says he has taken the decision after receiving legal advice.", "The chief executive of Scottish Women's Football has criticised Raith Rovers' \"poor\" decision to sign David Goodwillie.", "Germany's refusal to arm Ukraine has puzzled and angered some allies. 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Black Arrow Space Technologies wants to set up a base in Port Talbot later this year\n\nPlans to launch rockets at sea and build satellites that will act as mini-factories form part of a new strategy to boost Wales' space industry.\n\nThe hope is the sector will bring in £2bn a year to the Welsh economy by 2030.\n\nBritish astronaut Tim Peake said he was \"delighted\" by the proposals.\n\nBut one firm named in the Welsh government's strategy said other similar-sized countries were \"doing an awful lot more, an awful lot quicker\".\n\nSpace has been among the UK's fastest growing sectors in recent years, employing 42,000 people, of whom just 1% are based in Wales.\n\nBut ministers have claimed the country is well placed to become a \"true haven for space industry innovation\".\n\nAn astronaut's view of Wales from space\n\nThey said they wanted to put a particular focus on environmentally-friendly space enterprises.\n\nCardiff firm Space Forge is one example, as later this year it is set to launch an innovative reusable satellite into orbit.\n\nThis means one that can be sent up, brought down and then sent back up again repeatedly.\n\nIf successful, this will be the first satellite made entirely in Wales and the company hopes to use those that follow for in-space manufacturing.\n\nThe seaborne launch vessel that will be based at Port Talbot\n\nThat means taking advantage of conditions in space such as ultra-low temperatures and lack of gravity to make new materials the company says could help us transition towards a low-carbon future on Earth.\n\nChief executive Joshua Western said the firm hopes to expand from 30 to 100 staff by 2024, describing the new Welsh space strategy as \"an important milestone that will help galvanise the industry\".\n\nThe infrastructure already in place along the Welsh coastline - such as the military testing range at Aberporth in Ceredigion - was ideally suited to returning the satellites from orbit, he said.\n\nAlongside Aberporth, Radnor range in Powys, Pendine in Carmarthenshire and the Llanbedr airfield in Gwynedd - home of Spaceport Snowdonia - will all be involved in testing and evaluating new greener propulsion technologies for launching objects into space, the government's strategy notes.\n\nEfforts to coordinate and promote research in the area amongst Welsh universities is also under way - including the use of satellite data to monitor the environment and help with issues such as coal-tip subsidence.\n\nVaughan Gething said the strategy aimed to bring \"well-paid, highly skilled jobs closer to home\"\n\n\"We must remember this is all about fixing challenges on Earth,\" explained Alan Davies, development manager for Space Wales, an organisation set up to help deliver the new strategy.\n\n\"From communication challenges to environmental ones, these problems can all be improved by the utilisation of space data and resources,\" he said.\n\nEconomy Minister Vaughan Gething said the strategy also aimed to bring \"well-paid, highly skilled jobs closer to home, spreading prosperity across Wales\".\n\n\"This exciting sector opens up a new front in tackling climate change and perfectly aligns with our focus on clean energy and the wider green agenda,\" he said.\n\nSmaller nations, such as Wales, are making their mark when it comes to the space sector, according to Dr Bleddyn Bowen from the University of Leicester.\n\n\"Unlike 40 years ago, space isn't just for the big countries,\" said the expert in space policy.\n\n\"Whether it's making components for satellites or selling services based on the data gathered from them, lots of small economies are doing more and more in space today,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh government's proposals have won the backing of astronaut Tim Peake\n\nBut while the government's strategy reads as \"a very aspirational\" document it lacks any significant funding announcements, he suggested.\n\nMeanwhile, Black Arrow Space Technologies - another firm named in the strategy - claimed the Welsh government has been slow off the mark in its support for the sector.\n\nThe company hopes to set up a base in Port Talbot later in 2022, with the aim of launching payloads of up to 500kg into orbit from a specially designed ship.\n\nThis will be a totally different approach to any other rocket or satellite launching operation across the UK - which are all land-based.\n\nBlack Arrow's chief executive, Paul Williams, described Port Talbot as a \"highly optimal\" area - with its deep-water harbour close to the proposed launch site out at sea, manufacturing heritage, skilled workforce and academic links.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tim Peake's family wave as the Soyuz rocket blasts off into space\n\nHe said he wanted to see Port Talbot developed as a \"space cluster\" for companies in the field - and while welcoming the publication of a new strategy for the wider sector, said he was critical of the time it has taken for ministers to act.\n\n\"I've always maintained that Wales has a major part to play in the UK space sector.\n\n\"But when we look around at other countries that seem to be doing an awful lot more, an awful lot quicker - it's quite frustrating,\" he said.\n\nPaul Williams believes south Wales could become a major player in the space sector\n\nHowever, the government's proposals have won big-name backing in the form of astronaut Tim Peake.\n\n\"Space has an ability to inspire and educate future generations, as well as being at the heart of solving some of today's toughest challenges,\" he said.\n\n\"Technology and innovation are key to growing our economy with a skilled workforce and I'm delighted to see that Wales is embracing the exciting opportunities that the space sector has to offer.\"\n\nThe UK space sector has previously set a target of achieving a 10% share of the predicted £400bn annual global space market in 2030.\n\nThe Welsh government's ambition is for Wales to achieve a 5% share of the UK's share, which would equate to £2bn per year for the Welsh economy.", "A British Airways plane struggled with high winds on its approach to Heathrow on Friday\n\nBritish Airways has said continuous high winds over the last few days have made it difficult to unload baggage from its planes.\n\nThe airline said stormy weather made opening the luggage hold of aircraft hard, and passengers had faced delays getting their bags after landing.\n\nIt has also struggled to land and restock its planes on time, affecting inbound and outbound plane movements.\n\nIt added that items of machinery needed to offload bags could not be be operated in high winds.\n\nMachinery such as scissor lifts, that are needed to load catering trucks on to aircraft, also cannot be used because of the danger they pose.\n\nThe high winds of Storm Eunice on Friday and Storm Franklin on Monday have delayed many flights because of the difficulties landing aircraft.\n\nBA said every time a flight could not land, it had to circle above the airport and then try again. But every time this happened it caused further delays to flights due to leave in the following hours.\n\nIt also said some staff had not been able to get to work because of the storms.\n\nIt took Richard Sams, 40, and his partner Lindsay, 36, six hours on Sunday to collect their luggage at Heathrow and leave the airport.\n\nThat was after a 17-hour journey back from Mexico via Austin in Texas.\n\n\"BA just didn't seem to know what to do, it was immensely frustrating,\" Mr Sams tells the BBC.\n\nHe says it took them just over an hour to get off the plane because of the high winds. Then, when they reached the baggage reclaim hall they found \"thousands of people\" waiting for their luggage, some who had been there for up to five hours.\n\n\"We were told we could go home and have our bags returned to us within seven days, but we decided to wait it out,\" Mr Sams says.\n\n\"We had access to water but no food other than a chocolate from a vending machine.\"\n\nThe couple got their bags at 4:05pm - six hours after they had landed - and then headed home.\n\nBritish Airways said: \"We are extremely sorry to all our customers who have been disrupted during the extreme weather conditions in the last few days.\n\n\"We know we have let people down, and that isn't good enough, but can reassure our customers that we are doing absolutely everything we can to improve the situation.\"\n\nIt said it was operating the vast majority of flights as planned but, due to bad weather in the UK and Europe, it was still experiencing some disruption and had been forced to cancel or delay a number of flights.\n\nThe airline added that it was \"working round the clock\" to reunite passengers with their luggage.\n\nCustomers due to travel on short-haul services on Monday can rebook flights for free, it said, while those whose flights have been cancelled can get a full refund.\n\nHeathrow is not the only airport being affected by high winds. Since Friday, more than 850 flights have been cancelled across the UK, according to data company Cirium.\n\nThis number covers flights in and out of the UK, plus domestic services.\n\nCirium said 507 of the cancellations were on Friday. There were 42 on Saturday and 181 on Sunday. As of midday on Monday, 122 flights have been cancelled.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Easy, easy... OK, tippy-toe!\" Watch a clip from Big Jet TV's livestream showing pilots battling strong winds to land at Heathrow", "New domestic abuse laws have come into force in Northern Ireland.\n\nCoercive control includes psychological and financial abuse and non-violent intimidation.\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said the new offence was a \"milestone\" and a \"real step change\" which would bring with it the potential for longer sentences.\n\nThe new offence came into effect with the launch of a campaign to raise awareness of the new legislation, including a website where people can find out more about domestic abuse.\n\n\"Domestic abuse is wrong and will not be tolerated, not by our community and crucially now not by the law,\" said Mrs Long.\n\n\"No longer will those that abuse a loved one, be that a partner, former partner, or a close family member be able to evade justice. Abusers will be punished.\n\n\"The changes brought forward will help many people, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, class, race or religion.\n\n\"This is particularly important given that anyone can be a victim, just as anyone can be an abuser.\"\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne said it was a \"defining moment for our criminal justice system\".\n\n\"Officers and staff members have been trained to recognise and respond to reports of coercive control and how to use the new powers they now have to safeguard children that witness any form of domestic abuse,\" he said.\n\n\"Domestic abuse is not just physical.\n\n\"As of today, we are now empowered to address what has been invisible, in plain sight, for so long.\"\n\nLegislation to make stalking criminal in Northern Ireland is also expected to pass its final hurdle at Stormont this week.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, there is a list of organisations that may be able to help at BBC Action Line.\n• None Victims 'can have confidence' in new NI abuse laws", "Vladimir Putin's decision came shortly before Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared at a news conference in Downing Street\n\nThe UK government has promised to sanction Russia over President Vladimir Putin's decision to recognise two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine.\n\nRecent legislation will be used to impose restrictions on people and organisations linked to Russia, the BBC understands.\n\nGovernment sources say sanctions would be \"ratcheted up\" in the event of a Russian incursion of Ukraine.\n\nThe PM is expected to set out further details in the UK Parliament later.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid accused Russia of a \"flagrant violation\" of Ukraine's sovereignty, adding it appeared an invasion of the country had already begun.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he said Europe was waking up to a \"very dark morning\", adding \"we cannot allow this to stand\".\n\nHe added UK sanctions would be targeted at individuals and companies linked to the Russian government, and Russia's economy.\n\nSeveral of the UK's western allies, the US, France and the European Union, made similar pledges, condemning Mr Putin's move and promising sanctions.\n\nEarly on Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussed sanctions, as well as the latest intelligence, at a Cobra emergency response meeting of cabinet ministers and officials.\n\nMr Johnson told Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday evening that he believed an invasion was a real possibility in the coming hours and days, a Downing Street spokesperson said.\n\nIn a phone call, the PM told Mr Zelensky he would \"explore sending further defensive support to Ukraine\" at the request of the country's government, as well as detailing sanctions.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson added: \"The leaders agreed that the West needed to support Ukraine in the event of an invasion, but should continue to pursue a diplomatic solution until the last possible second.\"\n\nHours earlier on Monday, Mr Putin signed a decree recognising the independence of the self-declared people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.\n\nRussian-backed rebels have been fighting Ukrainian forces in those regions since 2014 in a conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 14,000 people.\n\nMr Putin's decision has been preceded by weeks of tensions and intense diplomacy over a build-up of Russian troops on Ukraine's borders.\n\nPro-Russian activists react in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk following President Putin's announcement\n\nThe decree signed by Mr Putin says Russian armed forces will perform \"peacekeeping functions\" in Donetsk and Lugansk.\n\nIn a lengthy TV address, Mr Putin, appearing visibly angry at points, claimed \"modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia\" and was part of its ancient lands.\n\nBut in recent weeks, Russia has repeatedly denied it has plans to invade Ukraine and accused the West of \"hysteria\".\n\nMr Putin delivered the speech as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was giving one of his own in Downing Street on measures to lift Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nMr Johnson said Mr Putin's decision to recognise the two separatist Ukrainian regions was \"plainly in breach of international law\" and a \"flagrant violation of the sovereignty and integrity\" of the country.\n\nSkip image gallery Tap or click to go through the gallery\n\nMr Johnson said the decision was a \"very ill omen\" that things were moving in the wrong direction in Ukraine.\n\n\"The UK will continue to do everything we can to stand by the people of Ukraine with a very robust package of sanctions,\" he said.\n\nHe said it was becoming clear there was a need to \"start applying as much pressure as we possibly can\" because it was hard to see how the situation would improve.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK government passed new legislation that expanded its powers to impose sanctions on those directly linked to Russian actions in Ukraine.\n\nThe legislation gave the government powers to impose sanctions on Russian businesses and individuals in strategically significant sectors, such as the chemical, defence, extractives, ICT and financial services industries.\n\nAre you in Ukraine? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Donald Trump's social-media platform, Truth Social, has launched, in a limited form, on the US Apple App Store.\n\nThe app had similarities to Twitter, commentators noted - Mr Trump was banned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube last year.\n\nAnd some early users had difficulties registering accounts.\n\nProject lead and former congressman Devin Nunes said it was expected to be fully operational by the end of March.\n\nSome of those trying to register had been told: \"Due to massive demand, we have placed you on our waitlist,\" the Reuters news agency reported.\n\nCreated by the year-old Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), Truth Social had previously been made available to about 500 beta testers.\n\nLast week, Donald Trump Jr shared a screenshot of his father's first \"truth\" on the social network: \"Get ready. Your favourite president will see you soon.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTruth Social has already had one update for \"bug fixes\", according to the App Store, and is now on version 1.0.1.\n\nLast autumn, pranksters discovered a test version of the app website and, according to the Washington Post, adopted the username donaldjtrump.\n\nTwitter banned the former president following the 6 January 2021 US Capitol riot, saying he had broken its rules on the glorification of violence.\n\nAnd commentators have highlighted, among other things, Truth Social buttons that resemble those relating to Twitter's reply, retweet and \"like\" functions.\n\nOn its website, Truth Social describes itself as a \"'big tent' social-media platform that encourages an open, free and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology\".\n\nMr Trump wants Truth Social to champion \"free speech\" and eschew the \"censorship\" of sites such as Twitter and Facebook.\n\nIt is a common view among conservatives Silicon Valley social-media companies are curtailing free speech by removing posts and users.\n\n\"We cannot use any of the big tech companies,\" Mr Nunes, who resigned from Congress in December to become TMTG's chief executive, told the conservative Newsmax network.\n\n\"So we're having to build this from scratch.\"\n\nMr Nunes has vowed Truth Social will be a \"censorship-free experience\".\n\nBut any social-media platform on the App Store, and Google Play, has to remove content that breaks the rules.\n\nAnd a truly uncensored platform would soon be frozen out.\n\nAt his zenith on Twitter, Mr Trump had more than 88 million followers.\n\nBut none of the other alternative platforms presenting themselves as censorship free, such as Gettr, Parler, Gab and Rumble, has attracted audiences comparable to those of the big social networks.\n\nCompanies such as Twitter \"have had years to develop their platforms and build their audiences\", points out Darrell West, a senior technology innovation fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank.\n\n\"I just think he's going to discover it's a lot harder than he realises,\" he said.\n\n\"If this were easy, I think he would have done this six months ago.\"\n\nLast year, Apple and Google removed Parler from their stores, for failing to take down posts they said threatened violence and contained illegal activity.\n\nIt was allowed back but only once it had agreed to Apple and Google's terms of service.\n\n\"There simply is no way to avoid big tech,\" Mr West says.\n\n\"Even if he has his own platform, if he's violating their terms of service, they could basically push his app out of their app store, which would make it very difficult for him to build an audience.\"\n\nGettr, which also advocates \"free speech\" and looks like Twitter, was founded last year by Mr Trump's former adviser and spokesman Jason Miller.\n\n\"It's not like there's the dummies' guide to creating a social-media platform,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"And quite frankly, there are a lot of people who are just scared... because people worry what it's going to be like if I have something on my resume that challenges one of the big tech companies.\"\n\nTruth Social will also have to be robust enough to repel hackers.\n\n\"We have so many people who don't want to see us be successful... even foreign governments and other bad actors,'' Mr Nunes said.", "Logan was found dead in the River Ogmore last July\n\nA five-year-old boy's body was dumped in a river after being beaten so badly his injuries were consistent with a fall from a great height or car crash, a murder trial has been told.\n\nMother Angharad Williamson, 30, step-father, John Cole, 40, both of Sarn, Bridgend county, and a 14-year-old boy, who cannot be named, all deny murder.\n\nLogan's body was pulled from the River Ogmore on 31 July 2021.\n\nThey are all charged with murdering the youngster between 28 July and 1 August.\n\nAll three are also accused of perverting the course of justice, including moving Logan's body to the river near Pandy Park, removing his clothing, washing bloodstained bed linen, and making a false missing person report to police.\n\nMs Williamson and the youth pleaded not guilty to both offences, while Mr Cole admitted perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe two adults were also charged with causing or allowing the death of a child, which they both deny.\n\nOn the first day of their trial, prosecutor Caroline Rees QC said: \"The prosecution's case is that Logan was murdered and each of these three defendants played their part in the killing of that five-year-old child.\"\n\nAngharad Williamson is accused of murdering her son\n\nShe said each of the three defendants had covered up their involvement, adding: \"Each prioritised their own self-preservation over all else, and particularly over the needs of Logan.\n\nReferring to the teenage defendant, Ms Rees said: \"The prosecution say his young age was no object to his involvement in the death and cover-up, in which we say he took full part.\"\n\nShe described him as a \"complex, troubled and violent\" boy and said he had previously made \"repeated threats that he wanted to kill Logan and wanted him dead\".\n\nThe jury of seven men and five women heard an apparently distraught Ms Williamson had reported Logan missing at 05:45 BST on 31 July, and had accused a woman against whom she held a grudge of abducting him.\n\nThe 999 call and the faked search for Logan were described by Ms Rees as a \"callous\" and \"elaborate\" attempt to cover up the trio's role in his death.\n\nPolice found Logan, wearing only mis-matched pyjamas, in the river a short time later. He was taken to the town's Princess of Wales Hospital, where he was confirmed dead.\n\nMs Rees said he had suffered \"significant injuries to his internal organs and his brain which caused his death\".\n\nShe added one pathologist described his injuries as \"so extreme you would expect to find them as a result of a fall from a great height or a high-velocity road traffic accident\".\n\nLogan had 56 external injuries to his head, face, trunk, arms and legs which were from \"blunt force trauma\", Ms Rees said.\n\nIt was apparent Logan had died before his body was placed in the river, she added.\n\n\"The prosecution say that Logan died as a result of a brutal and sustained assault upon him which happened inside the home,\" she said.\n\n\"It is the use of forceful violence which caused the catastrophic injuries found at post-mortem.\"\n\nThe jury was told Mr Cole and the 14-year-old were caught on CCTV in the early hours of 31 July leaving a house.\n\nAngharad Williamson and John Cole both deny the murder of Logan Mwangi\n\nMr Cole was carrying something in his arms which he has since confirmed was Logan's dead body, the court heard.\n\nThe pair walked along the riverside path to the spot where Logan's body was found.\n\nDuring this time, a light can be seen switching on and off in the room used by Logan, which the prosecution said proved his mother was awake and knew what had happened to her son.\n\nMr Cole and the 14-year-old boy then returned to the property before heading out again; the prosecution said this trip was to dispose of Logan's bloodied pyjama top.\n\nMs Rees QC said: \"Angharad Williamson must have been awake and up and about, fully aware Logan had died and that his body had been dumped in the river by her partner - disposed of like they were fly-tipping rubbish.\"\n\nMs Williamson began to cry, becoming more upset as the jury was shown a picture of Logan and the circumstances of the five-year-old's death was described.\n\nThe jury was told CCTV footage two days earlier showed a \"physical struggle\" between Logan's mother and the teenager, in which a witness described her as \"hysterical\".\n\nMs Rees said: \"In her [police] interview, Angharad Williamson said that there was an incident on 29 July when Logan was seriously assaulted by Cole and the youth who were acting together.\"\n\nThe prosecutor told the jury this suggested the attack on Logan had already started.\n\n\"Angharad Williamson failed to do anything to help for over a day,\" she added.\n\nMs Rees questioned why Ms Williamson failed to help Logan, describing him as a \"vulnerable five-year-old child - her own son who had been attacked by a grown man and a teenager\".\n\nMs Rees said this demonstrated \"that something serious has been going on behind closed doors\".\n\nThe court heard the following day a social worker made an unscheduled visit to Mr Cole and Ms Williamson's address but was told she could not see Logan because he had tested positive for Covid-19 and was in self-isolation.\n\nBut Ms Rees said: \"If, as Angharad Williamson claims in interview, and as we understand her defence case will be, [the youth] and John Cole had severely assaulted Logan the day before, why didn't she tell [the social worker] in her 20-minute visit to the property?\n\n\"Who was she protecting and why was she doing it?\"\n\nThe court also heard the teenager told police he did not realise Mr Cole was carrying Logan's dead body, but the prosecution said the CCTV footage on 31 July shows the pair were so close together he must have known.\n\nThe trial, which is expected to last about eight weeks, continues.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vladimir Putin announces that Russia will recognise Donetsk and Luhansk as independent\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops into two rebel-held regions in eastern Ukraine, after recognising them as independent states.\n\nRussia said the troops have not yet been deployed but will be \"peacekeeping\" in the regions, which it has backed since 2014.\n\nThe US said calling them peacekeepers was \"nonsense\", and accused Russia of creating a pretext for war.\n\nSeveral countries have announced sanctions in response.\n\nUkraine's president said his country was \"not afraid of anything or anyone\".\n\nIn a late-night televised address to the nation, President Volodymyr Zelensky called for \"clear and effective actions of support\" from Ukraine's international allies.\n\n\"It is very important to see now who our real friend and partner is, and who will continue to scare the Russian Federation with words only,\" he added.\n\nFears over an invasion have been rising in recent months, as Russia has massed some 150,000 troops along Ukraine's borders, according to US estimates.\n\nAt an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield dismissed Russia's claims that troops would be taking on a \"peacekeeping\" role, saying: \"We know what they really are.\"\n\nRecognising Luhansk and Donetsk as independent was part of Russia's bid to create a reason to invade Ukraine, she said.\n\nRussia has been backing a bloody armed rebellion in eastern Ukraine for the past eight years. Some 14,000 people - including many civilians - have died in fighting since then.\n\nIn recent years, Russian passports have been given out to large numbers of people in Donetsk and Luhansk.\n\nThe rebel-held areas have been evacuating women, children and the elderly to Russia since late last week.\n\nIn an hour-long address on Monday, Mr Putin said Ukraine was an integral part of his country's history, and described eastern Ukraine as \"ancient Russian lands\".\n\nRussia's UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya argued for the need to defend the rebel-held areas in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region from what he called Ukrainian aggression. \"Allowing a new bloodbath in the Donbas is something we do not intend to do,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Zelensky said Moscow's recognition of the rebel-held regions represented a threat to the security of Ukraine and other European nations.\n\n\"If we have a full-scale escalation... our neighbours would be put at risk,\" he said.\n\nWestern powers have rallied behind Ukraine, promising tough sanctions against Russia if it invades - though it is not yet clear how effective this move could be.\n\nThe US swiftly condemned Mr Putin's move, and President Joe Biden signed an executive order that prohibits new investment, trade and financing by Americans in the breakaway regions. The White House said the measures were separate to wider Western sanctions which are ready to go \"should Russia further invade Ukraine\".\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Russia had violated Ukrainian sovereignty and \"completely torn up\" international law. He said Mr Putin appeared \"bent on a full-scale invasion\", and promised a \"barrage of sanctions\".\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he was halting the process of certifying the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline because of Russia's actions. The gas pipeline between Russia and Germany was completed last September but is not yet operating. Running under the Baltic Sea, it would double Moscow's gas exports to Germany and circumvent Ukraine, which relies on existing pipelines for income.\n\nThe European Union pledged to \"react with unity, firmness and with determination in solidarity with Ukraine\".\n\nBoth Mr Scholz and France's President Emmanuel Macron spoke with the Russian leader ahead of his announcement.\n\nThis speech was Putin the angry, impatient and directly threatening. It felt like Russia's president was getting 20-odd years of hurt off his chest and hitting back.\n\n\"You didn't want us to be friends,\" was how he put it to the West, \"but you didn't have to make an enemy of us.\"\n\nThere was a lot we've heard before, repackaged for this moment when he knows he has maximum attention.\n\nHe's clearly ceding no ground on his key security demands: Nato expansion must be rolled back, and Ukrainian membership is a red line. He complained that Russia's concerns had been ignored as irrelevant for years and accused the West of trying to \"contain\" Russia as a resurgent global force.\n\nMr Putin's focus on Ukraine felt obsessive, like a man who thinks about little else. At times it sounded like a bid to run for president there, it was so detailed.\n\nAnd, of course, there was his re-writing of Ukrainian history, to claim it has never really been a state. In today's context, that had deeply ominous overtones.\n\nA Ukrainian serviceman at a position on the front line near the village of Travneve in Donetsk region\n\nGroundwork for the controversial decision was laid earlier on Monday, when Mr Putin convened Russia's security council to discuss recognising the self-declared republics as independent.\n\nMr Putin's top officials were called to a podium to deliver their views, each speaking in favour of the move. Monday's televised meeting was not entirely smooth, however.\n\nTwo officials appeared to reference a possibility to \"incorporate\" the regions into Russia. On both occasions, Mr Putin corrected them.\n\n\"We are not talking about that,\" Mr Putin said, shaking his head in response to one official's use of the phrase. \"We are talking about whether to recognise their independence or not.\"\n\nAre you in Ukraine? Are you or your family affected? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Zoom call had about 40 people on it - or that's what the people who had logged on thought. The all-staff meeting at the glamorous design agency had been called to welcome the growing company's newest recruits. Its name was Madbird and its dynamic and inspirational boss, Ali Ayad, wanted everyone on the call to be ambitious hustlers - just like him.\n\nBut what those who had turned on their cameras didn't know was that some of the others in the meeting weren't real people. Yes, they were listed as participants. Some even had active email accounts and LinkedIn profiles. But their names were made up and their headshots belonged to other people.\n\nThe whole thing was fake - the real employees had been \"jobfished\". The BBC has spent a year investigating what happened.\n\nChris Doocey, a 27-year-old sales manager based in Manchester, started at Madbird in October 2020, a few months before the Zoom call. He would be working from home, but the pandemic was still raging, so that was normal. Covid had upended Chris's life. It had cost him his last job and was the reason he'd applied for this role at Madbird. The ad described a \"human-centred digital design agency born in London, running worldwide\". It sounded good.\n\nMadbird hired more than 50 others. Most worked in sales, some in design and some were brought in to supervise. Every new joiner was instructed to work from home - messaging over email and speaking to each other on Zoom.\n\nDays were often long. Jordan Carter from Suffolk, who was 26 at the time, was credited with being one of the hardest working members of Chris's sales team. In five months, he pitched Madbird to 10,000 possible business clients, hoping to win deals to redesign websites or build apps. By January 2021, his work ethic had earned him the title Employee of the Month.\n\nOther staff lived outside the UK. Keen to tap into a global market, Madbird's HR department posted job ads online for an international sales team based out of Dubai. At least a dozen people from Uganda, India, South Africa, the Philippines and elsewhere were hired.\n\nJob adverts were placed for Madbird teams in London and Dubai\n\nFor them, the job represented more than just a pay cheque - but a UK visa too. If they passed their six-month probation period, and met their sales targets, their contracts said Madbird would sponsor them to move to the UK.\n\nAli Ayad knew what it could mean to make a new life in the UK. He often talked to Madbird staff about his past before settling in London. But there were many versions of his story.\n\nTo one person he introduced himself as a Mormon, from Utah in the US. To others, he was from Lebanon, where a difficult childhood had taught him how to be a hustler. Even his name changed. Sometimes he added a second \"y\" to his surname, spelling it \"Ayyad\". Other times he signed off as \"Alex Ayd\".\n\nBut some chapters in the story he told people were consistent. Key - above all - was the time he spent as a creative designer at Nike. He told everyone about working at the fashion brand's Oregon headquarters in the US. It was where he'd met Dave Stanfield, Madbird's co-founder.\n\nThe stories about Ali's high-flying career didn't seem far-fetched. He was a smooth operator on video calls - intense, charismatic, even appearing caring. He spoke with confidence, sometimes bordering on bullishness. It is how he persuaded at least three people to quit other jobs to work for him.\n\nAli Ayad has over 90,000 followers on his Instagram - in his bio he describes himself as an \"influencer\"\n\nMadbird's staff had no reason to doubt Ali's Nike stories. And if they did, all they had to do was check his LinkedIn profile. It glowed with lengthy endorsements from former colleagues.\n\nAli Ayad \"floored me with how meaningful and thoughtful his approach was\", read one comment - supposedly from a creative director at Nike. \"Agencies can be filled with copycats but that's not Ali. He brings originality and authenticity to any project he works on.\"\n\nAnd then there was his business partner, Dave Stanfield. At Nike, Ali Ayad was \"instrumental\" and \"one of the best professionals I've ever worked with,\" read his testimony.\n\nAli's optimism and energy were contagious. One person he hired compared her new boss to Tom Cruise. But the two people whom Ali compared himself to most often were Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. The tech titans were Ali's idols.\n\n\"Elon Musk works 16 hours a day, I'm trying to do 17!\" he wrote in one email trying to motivate his team to keep pushing through. And - weighing up another tough business decision - he used a quote often attributed to Steve Jobs. \"If you want to make everybody happy, don't be a leader, go sell ice cream.\"\n\nFor months, Madbird's daily business hummed along, more designers were hired to meet the backlog of briefs being negotiated by the sales team.\n\nBut even before the truth about Madbird was revealed, its workers had a problem. Because of the unusual way their contracts had been written, they were yet to be paid.\n\nReporter Catrin Nye exposes Ali Ayad's tangled web of lies and ends up confronting him to get to the truth.\n\nWatch Jobfished on 21 February at 21:00 on BBC Three or BBC iPlayer.\n\nThey had all agreed to work on a commission-only basis for the first six months. It was only after they passed their probation period that they would be put on a salary - about £35,000 ($47,300) for most. Until then, they would only earn a percentage of every deal they negotiated. They were all young adults looking for work and living through a pandemic. Many felt they had no choice but to accept the terms in their contracts.\n\nBut no deals were ever finalised. By February 2021, not a single client contract had been signed. None of the Madbird staff had been paid a penny.\n\nSome recruits ended up leaving after a few weeks, but many stayed. Many had been there for almost six months - forced to take out credit cards and borrow money from family to keep on top of bills.\n\nThe longer you worked at Madbird, the harder it became to leave. What if one of the big deals you'd been working on came through next week? It made no sense to resign just as you were about to finish your probation period. For many, a salary seemed within grasp. Plus, in the middle of the pandemic, jobs were hard to find.\n\nIt is obvious now why no-one was paid. Madbird had no money coming in. But that wasn't obvious to new staff. They mistakenly assumed their pay contracts were unique - and that their line managers must have been on salaries. Besides, Madbird was on the cusp of signing a whole bunch of deals. The money was finally coming.\n\nOr that is how it appeared until everything crumbled one afternoon.\n\nGemma Brett became suspicious soon after she started working for Madbird\n\nGemma Brett, a 27-year-old designer from west London, had only been working at Madbird for two weeks when she spotted something strange. Curious about what her commute would be like when the pandemic was over, she searched for the company's office address. The result looked nothing like the videos on Madbird's website of a sleek workspace buzzing with creative-types. Instead, Google Street View showed an upmarket block of flats in London's Kensington.\n\nGemma contacted an estate agent with a listing at the same address who confirmed her suspicion - the building was purely residential. We later corroborated this by speaking to someone who'd worked in the building for years. They had never seen Ali Ayad. The block of flats was not the global headquarters of a design firm called Madbird.\n\nGemma shared her discovery with another Madbird employee she had got to know and trust - Antonia Stuart, who was leading the company's expansion into Dubai.\n\nAntonia Stuart was hired to work as Madbird's head of creative based in Dubai\n\nUsing online reverse image searches they dug deeper. They found that almost all the work Madbird claimed as its own had been stolen from elsewhere on the internet - and that some of the colleagues they'd been messaging online didn't exist.\n\nThey thought about their options. One was to leave quietly without causing a stir. They had no idea who was behind this con, or the scale of it. They were scared. On the other hand, they worried if the truth wasn't exposed innocent staff could end up in trouble if they completed deals for Madbird based on lies. Deals were just days away.\n\nIn the end, they decided to send an all-staff email from an alias - Jane Smith.\n\nThe email was sent on a busy workday afternoon and accused Madbird's founders of \"unethical and immoral\" behaviour - including stealing the work of others and \"fabricating\" team members.\n\nThe revelations were devastating for real staff members. Everything they had been doing, it seemed, was built on lies. It now looked like they'd never see any money in return for months of their time and hard work.\n\nIt was at this moment that we began our own investigation into Madbird. We corroborated the claims in the Jane Smith email, and went even further.\n\nThe company had not been \"shipping products and experiences locally and globally for 10 years\" as it had claimed. In fact, Ali Ayad only registered Madbird with Companies House on the same day he interviewed Chris Doocey to be a sales manager - 23 September 2020.\n\nAt least six of the most senior employees profiled by Madbird were fake. Their identities stitched together using photos stolen from random corners of the internet and made-up names. They included Madbird's co-founder, Dave Stanfield - despite him having a LinkedIn profile and Ali referring to him constantly. Some of the duped staff had even received emails from him. Ali told one employee that if they wanted to get in touch with Mr Stanfield they should email him, because he was too busy with projects for Nike to jump on a call.\n\nUsing facial recognition technology we were able to match Dave Stanfield's headshot to its actual owner - a Prague-based beehive maker named Michal Kalis. When we tracked Michal down, he confirmed he had never heard of Madbird, Ali Ayad or Dave Stanfield.\n\nNigel White was another. Someone using his name had even logged into that January Zoom call. But his photo wasn't of a graphic designer - it was a model whose image was one of the first results when you searched for \"ginger man\" in Getty Images' stock library. His face appeared all over the internet.\n\nOthers were even wackier. A graphic designer, brand growth manager, and marketing manager at Madbird actually turned out to be pictures of a Lebanese doctor, a Spanish actor, and an Italian fashion influencer. All of their photos had been stolen to create fake identities.\n\nWe contacted all 42 brands Madbird had listed as former clients - including Nike, Tate, and Toni & Guy. None of those that responded had ever worked with Madbird.\n\nBut what about the impressive portfolios of client design work that Madbird had been showcasing with its branding all over it? Lots was ripped from the internet.\n\nReporter Catrin Nye tries to work out who working at Madbird is real and who is fake\n\nOne pitch document distributed to Madbird's potential clients had been copied from a London-based design firm called Hatched, in some places lifted word-for-word. When we contacted them, they were shocked. Hatched's bosses told us they had written the pitch document in 2016. The personal bios of their top team had also been stolen and used in the profiles of Madbird's fake staff.\n\nAli's own backstory crumbled, too. He had never worked for Nike as a \"creative lead\" in the US, like he claimed. Nike confirmed to us in writing it hadn't employed anyone with his name - or any of his aliases.\n\nThe prestigious US and Canadian universities that Ali said he had attended didn't even offer the degrees he claimed to have studied. Neither the University of Southern California nor Concordia University recognised his name among their lists of former students.\n\nAnd then there was Ali's Instagram account, where he posted updates about his career as a model and influencer to more than 90,000 followers. His social media presence had been one of the reasons many of Madbird's workers admired and trusted him. But the life Ali presented on Instagram was only distantly related to the life he actually lived.\n\nOne post in particular caught our attention. It was a photo showing an open issue of GQ magazine, with Ali Ayad modelling a blazer in a full-page ad for Spanish fashion brand Massimo Dutti. \"Hustle in silence, let your success make the noise,\" read the caption.\n\nAli Ayad's Instagram included a post claiming he had modelled for Massimo Dutti in British GQ which received 4,000 'likes'\n\nThe actual issue of British GQ featured a watch advert on the page\n\nBut when we got hold of the GQ issue and opened it to page 63, the photo of Ali wasn't there. It was an advert for a watch. Ali Ayad had never modelled for Massimo Dutti, and he had never been featured in British GQ.\n\nThe morning after the allegations landed from Gemma and Antonia in their Jane Smith email, Ali Ayad sent his own email to the Madbird team. \"If any of this information came to be true,\" he wrote, it is as \"shocking to me as it's shocking to all of you.\"\n\nAli Ayad was claiming complete ignorance. But, as the company's director, he said he would still take full responsibility. He promised to remove Madbird's website and pause all ongoing work \"until we fix this\".\n\nAnd then, before he signed off for a final time, a flash of remorse.\n\n\"I have put 16 hours every single day for months and done the best that I could to make this work. I should've known better and for that I'm truly sorry.\"\n\nIt was the closest to a meaningful apology that Madbird's staff would get. Ali Ayad soon went quiet. He stopped answering calls from his confused workers and blocked others. Madbird's website went offline, and Ali's LinkedIn profile vanished.\n\nJust like that, the man withdrew into the same digital ether from which he had emerged.\n\nHave you worked with Ali Ayad in the past?\n\nOr have you been jobfished by someone else?\n\nLet us know: jobfished@bbc.co.uk\n\nMadbird's former workers were devastated. Some had spent as long as six months working for no pay. Now they were jobless in the middle of a pandemic, and struggling to even describe what had just happened to them.\n\nSales manager Chris Doocey had racked up a credit card debt of £10,000 to pay his monthly bills while waiting for his first pay cheque.\n\nStephie Nkoy-Nyama, from east London, had quit a good job to join Madbird. Her last company had kept her on during the pandemic even while letting others go. She felt pressured by Ali into quitting that job to join his company. \"He played us like fools.\"\n\n'He played us like fools' says Stephie Nkoy-Nyama\n\nAnd then, there were the international staff. Elvis John, originally from Chennai in India, had at one point been expecting to be on a flight to the UK. He was now just weeks from finishing his six-month probation period and hoping that Ali would sponsor his visa. When the Jane Smith email landed he fell into depression. \"My dreams just shattered.\"\n\nBecause Elvis had been doing the job in Dubai the stakes were even higher. He believes that if he had negotiated any deals to completion he would have faced serious legal consequences under Dubai's strict business rules - possibly imprisonment and deportation back to India.\n\n\"I don't know if Ali will ever understand what he put us through,\" says Elvis - who feels the whole thing was treated like a game.\n\nElvis John fears he could have faced legal action in Dubai had any Madbird deals been signed\n\nMany were embarrassed to have been caught up in it. Some waited days and even weeks before telling friends and family the truth. And to others, the story was difficult to explain - and always met with questions to which none of the tricked staff had answers.\n\nThree former workers pursued Madbird through an employment tribunal, arguing they should at least be paid minimum wage for their time there. Ali didn't respond to the tribunal in time, and so a judge ordered the trio be paid £19,000 in wages in total. Ali appealed against the decision, which the tribunal upheld. He is now appealing again.\n\nBut if he fails once more, that doesn't mean the trio will see any money. The tribunal order was made against the company, not against Ali Ayad as an individual. So if Madbird was insolvent, like Ali said, there was no way the tribunal could force it to pay any of the owed wages. It didn't have the money.\n\nAt least one Madbird worker was offered money. James Harris from York had worked there for two weeks as a designer when the revelations came out. Eleven months later he received a cheque in the post for £29.70, retrieved by HMRC's Minimum Wage Unit. Ali had apparently agreed to pay the money in recognition of a few hours' unpaid training James had done.\n\nJames Harris ended up receiving less than £30 for the work he did at Madbird\n\nDid Ali Ayad understand the consequences of his actions? For a time Ali said he was going to speak to us to give his version of events. After months of messages back and forth, he eventually agreed to a sit-down, on-camera interview with us at the BBC.\n\nBut then, with a day's notice, he dropped out. If we were going to get Ali Ayad's version of events we had no choice but to seek him out.\n\nWe tracked him down to a west London street one afternoon last October, where we confronted him. He was dressed in a black leather jacket and on his way to an underground station. If he was surprised by us, he didn't show it - choosing at first to ignore our questions. But after a while he couldn't help but speak.\n\nHe insisted he had been trying to do something good.\n\n\"All I know is that we created opportunities for people. In the midst of Covid.\"\n\nWhen we accused him of creating fake identities and stealing other people's work, he got angry.\n\n\"I did? How do you know I did?\" Was he implying someone else was involved? When we pushed him, he wouldn't name anyone.\n\nThere was always the possibility that some anonymous mastermind was behind everything, and it is something we seriously considered. But without any names or help from Ali, it was a path we were unable to pursue.\n\nAli also insisted that Madbird did have an office. But when we challenged him he backtracked, implying he meant a virtual office. \"You don't really have to have computers and stuff, right? It's a digital company.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWe later wrote to give him another chance to respond to the accusations. He replied, conceding that a \"couple of points\" he was being accused of were true - he wouldn't say which. He also said that the \"majority\" of the 24 separate points we had put to him in writing were \"absurd and incorrect\". He said he would respond more fully, but never did.\n\nAs long as Ali Ayad refuses to play ball we will never know for certain why he created Madbird. For those who spent the most time with him online, exchanging emails and on video calls, two theories stand out.\n\nOne is that the whole thing was an attempt to start an actual business. It may have started out as a lie, but maybe Madbird would eventually start closing real deals and making money. The company, staff believed, was just days from signing on clients when everything fell apart. If the lies hadn't been uncovered, maybe no-one would have ever exposed Madbird's murky origins.\n\nAnother explanation is that it was about more than money. Maybe Ali Ayad got a kick out of pretending to be a boss. He genuinely appeared to enjoy his time running Madbird. Job interviews with him often lasted more than an hour. He told stories about how he had turned people's lives around by spotting their talent and giving them a chance. He sent staff links to deep house music to listen to while working. He wanted to be a cool boss - and, for the months Madbird was online, that's how people treated him.\n\nThe pandemic changed the way many of us worked - communicating through a screen became the norm. Ali Ayad exploited that. It was as if he wanted to be the next Elon Musk - and, in Madbird, he thought he had found a shortcut. A universe where he would be judged solely by his online presence rather than the offline reality.\n\nAnd the most shocking part of Ali Ayad's gamble?\n\nThe fact that we live in an age where it nearly worked.\n\nThe Madbird which was the subject of our investigation was registered to an address in central London. It should not be confused with unrelated companies with similar names based elsewhere in the UK", "Jack Ritchie took his own life in Vietnam in 2017 after years of gambling addiction\n\nThe parents of a 24-year-old gambling addict hope an inquest into his death will speed up changes in betting laws.\n\nJack Ritchie, who had been gambling since he was 17, took his own life in November 2017.\n\nHis mother Liz and father Charles have campaigned for industry reform since he died, urging the government not to delay \"life-saving\" law changes.\n\nA two-week hearing, starting in Sheffield on Monday, will examine the role of gambling in Jack's death.\n\nMr and Mrs Ritchie believe Jack, who started betting when he used school dinner money to play fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs), had an undiagnosed gambling disorder.\n\nThe Ritchies have argued there were no public health warnings about the risk to life posed by gambling products, and that their son was not diagnosed or offered treatment that linked his symptoms to the disorder.\n\nHull University graduate Jack died in Hanoi, Vietnam, while working as an English teacher in the country.\n\nIn September 2020, coroner David Urpeth ruled the inquest, since delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, would investigate issues including the state's provision of medical treatment to Mr Ritchie, and the information available to him and his family about the risks of gambling.\n\nA previous coroner, since retired, ruled in 2019 that the full hearing would be held under Article 2 rules, meaning it could examine whether any arm of the state breached its duty to protect Jack's right to life.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the Department for Health and Social Care, and the Gambling Commission have been named as interested persons by the coroner, as have the charities GambleAware and GamCare.\n\nMore than four years on from her son's death, Liz Ritchie says her family is \"very pleased that people are starting to listen\".\n\n\"A very senior legal professional will be listening to the evidence and we're really grateful to him,\" she said.\n\n\"He's listed it for two weeks which gives time for the evidence to be heard and the politicians are listening.\"\n\nCharles and Liz Ritchie set up the charity Gambling with Lives following the death of their son\n\nThe couple have campaigned for reform through their charity Gambling with Lives and support other bereaved families who have had a similar experience.\n\n\"These were ordinary, bright, happy cheerful people and they have been exposed unknowingly to something that is incredibly addictive,\" Charles said\n\n\"It happens very rapidly.\"\n\nA DCMS spokesperson said: \"Our thoughts are with Jack's family at this difficult time and following this tragic case.\n\n\"We will not comment further until the inquest and legal proceedings have concluded.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Dr Matthias Schmid treated the UK's very first Covid patient in January 2020 at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary\n\nThe first patients in the NHS are being offered a new drug to help treat Covid-19. As Covid treatments are changing, fewer patients are becoming seriously ill or dying. So does this mean we are finally taming the virus?\n\nAt the start of the pandemic there were no drugs for Covid. In April 2020, I stood in a Covid intensive care ward while a doctor, in full PPE, told me they had nothing but oxygen to treat critically ill patients. I watched patient after patient on ventilators being turned on to their fronts to help their lungs take in oxygen.\n\nIt's a deeply troubling memory that will always remain with me.\n\nNow things have changed enormously. At the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, the critical care unit looks and feels very different. Firstly, staff are no longer in full PPE, because most wards are Covid-free. At the peak a year ago the hospital trust was caring for 90 critically ill Covid patients. Today there are just three.\n\nIt is now the exception, rather than the norm, for patients to go on a ventilator. Hospital stays are much shorter and survival rates have improved significantly.\n\n\"Two years ago we had nothing,'\" says Dr Matthias Schmid, head of infectious diseases at the RVI, who treated the UK's first Covid patient at the end of January 2020.\n\n\"Now we have a range of treatments available which reduce the severity and prevent death in a huge number of patients.\"\n\nThey include the cheap anti-inflammatory steroid dexamethasone, the first drug proven to save the lives of people seriously ill with Covid, which was discovered through a ground-breaking NHS trial.\n\n\"It's feeling more normal for us,\" says Dr Miriam Baruch, intensive care medicine consultant.\n\n\"It's really nice that we can train our doctors for the variety of patients that we get.\"\n\nIntensive care medicine consultant Dr Miriam Baruch says work is feeling more normal\n\nOf course the biggest single advance has been the introduction of highly effective vaccines. While they are less effective at preventing people from catching the latest variant Omicron, they do give very strong protection against severe disease.\n\n\"We've had some very sick patients who've come in with Omicron but the majority of those are unvaccinated,\" says infectious diseases consultant Dr Ashley Price. He says without vaccines Omicron would have caused \"vast numbers\" of hospital admissions.\n\nAnd there are now treatments to defend the most vulnerable.\n\nDavid Howarth is a day patient. After long periods shielding through the pandemic, he has finally caught Covid. Because he is immunosuppressed he has had four doses of vaccine. But those with weakened immune systems often don't get as much protection from the jabs, so are more vulnerable once infected.\n\nDavid Howarth is optimistic about the care he is receiving\n\nBut he's feeling fine and is not worried. David, 59, is getting a one-off infusion of Covid-fighting antibodies.\n\n\"I was only diagnosed with Covid yesterday, and I'm receiving this already,\" he told us. \"It'll boost my ability to fight the virus. It will give it a helping hand.\"\n\nThe drug, sotrovimab, is a monoclonal antibody - synthetic proteins which stick to coronavirus to prevent an infection from getting established.\n\nIn trials of vulnerable patients it cut their risk of hospital admission and death by 79% - 100,000 doses of sotrovimab, are on order for the NHS.\n\nThe one thing still missing here is visitors, but the hospital is just beginning to ease restrictions.\n\nThe focus now is on keeping patients from ever needing hospital treatment. That's where antivirals come in.\n\nThere are thousands of medicines on the shelves in the Royal Victoria Infirmary's automated dispensary, which is the size of a couple of shipping containers. When one of the pharmacists types in the name of a drug, the robot arm races down the central aisle, selecting the medicine and dropping the pack down a chute.\n\nThe box of pills selected is called Paxlovid - it's an antiviral which, in trials, cut Covid hospital admissions by 88%. The treatment is being dispatched to high-risk patients across the UK who have just tested positive.\n\nThrough the Antivirals Taskforce, the government has procured nearly five million doses of Paxlovid and another antiviral, molnupiravir.\n\nBoth are designed to prevent a Covid infection from turning serious and form part of the armoury of treatments we now have against Covid.\n\nEmily Goldfischer, 51, from west London, is one of the first patients in the UK to take Paxlovid.\n\nShe is immunosuppressed and has also had four doses of vaccine. She contacted her hospital team when she tested positive on a lateral flow.\n\nA prescription for Paxlovid was couriered to her home the same day from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.\n\nEmily Goldfischer says she feels quite well, despite having caught Covid\n\n\"I've taken it for about two days now and I'm already feeling much better,\" she told us. \"And it's been quite reassuring that I've been able to get this medication so quickly from the NHS.\"\n\nThere are still more than 12,000 Covid patients in hospitals across the UK. And there could still be new and concerning variants which cause further waves of infection. If this pandemic has taught us one thing it is to avoid making rash predictions. Coronavirus will flare up again and continue to pose a threat, especially to the unvaccinated and those who have serious underlying health conditions.\n\nEven though the Covid hospital admissions have fallen sharply, there is the growing problem of long Covid. Last month a record 1 in 50 people in the UK said they were living with lingering symptoms of Covid.\n\nBut the combination of effective vaccines and targeted medicines look set to help keep Covid in check and allow the NHS and society to plan for a future no longer dominated and disrupted by coronavirus.\n\nCovid will not disappear completely, but even if a new more deadly variant emerges it should be managed by a combination of vaccines and the increasing range of effective drug treatments.\n\nCovid has been the biggest challenge ever faced by the NHS. Two years on, hospitals can begin to plan for a future not completely free of the disease, but one where it no longer dominates healthcare and society.\n• None Which treatments work best against Covid?", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nAt the fourth attempt, after heart-breaking near misses and career-saving surgery on an arthritic hip, Eve Muirhead finally has her Olympic curling gold medal.\n\n\"Without these girls being so strong, this dream would not have come true,\" said Muirhead, who was in tears on the podium.\n\n\"They helped me become a better curler, and a better person.\n\n\"Together we are a very, very strong unit and I think today we proved that.\"\n\nThe Great Britain team of Muirhead, Vicky Wright, Jen Dodds and Hailey Duff overwhelmed Japan 10-3 in Sunday's final - a routine surge to victory compared with the twists and turns of the previous rounds, and with Muirhead's Olympic past.\n\nAfter four defeats from nine in the group stage, GB only scraped into the semi-finals courtesy of other results going their way and the tiebreak of the 'draw shot challenge'.\n\nIn the last four they came through a gripping, stomach-churning match against Sweden - a win third time lucky for Muirhead, who had lost Olympic semi-finals in 2014 and 2018.\n\n\"Nobody likes to do it the easy way, do they? So we thought we would do it the tough way,\" the 31-year-old said.\n\n\"As a team we showed a lot of resilience. We are very strong and very fit. And I think being physically fit helps you be mentally fit.\n\n\"It shows that if you can be as strong at the beginning of a tournament as at the end of a tournament, then you have a good chance.\n\n\"As a team, there were moments where you doubt yourself. You doubt whether you will make those play-offs, but we never gave up. We just didn't give up, and I think that shows the incredible strength of this team.\"\n\nThe win emulates the gold secured by Great Britain 20 years earlier when Rhona Howie delivered her 'Stone of Destiny' in Salt Lake City.\n\nHowie was in Beijing to witness the latest triumph as a BBC commentator and Muirhead credited her former coach, mentor and fellow Scot.\n\n\"It's funny because several months before I came here I was getting interviewed for a documentary about Rhona's 20-year anniversary,\" said Muirhead, who was 11 when Howie won gold.\n\n\"I remember saying in that, 'I would love to follow Rhona's footsteps. I would love to do what she did because I remember staying up watching it'.\n\n\"To have this moment now and know that I followed in Rhona's footsteps and have this gold medal around my neck, is something very, very special.\n\n\"I can't thank Rhona enough for all of her help and support through the years to help me get here.\"\n\nMuirhead, who became the youngest ever Olympic skip at just 19, had hip surgery in 2018 having played in pain for several years and admitted before the 2022 Games she had not known whether she would return to curling afterwards.\n\nHer Scotland team only managed eighth at the World Championships last year, putting her Olympic place in jeopardy.\n\nNine players were put into a squad selection process as a result of the disappointing finish but the current quartet, plus alternate Mili Smith, emerged.\n\nThe Olympics has been 25-year-old Duff's first major global competition. Dodds has played 22 matches in Beijing after finishing fourth in the mixed doubles with men's skip Bruce Mouat, while Wright is a nurse who returned from her training to work full-time on the frontline during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"I was working full-time up until 2019 when I joined Eve's team,\" said Wright, who Muirhead described as the \"mother of the team\".\n\n\"Then I dropped to one hour a week. Then the Covid pandemic hit in 2020, and I went back to work full-time.\"\n\nShe was working on the wards alongside her training as recently as January before taking time off for the trip to China.\n\n\"I took eight weeks off, so it's back to work when I get back from here,\" she said.\n\n\"A week from today, I am back to work.\"\n\nWhile it may have been a disappointing Games for TeamGB overall - this gold and the silver won by the men's curlers on Saturday their only medals - the final day will live long in the memory of Muirhead and her rink.\n\n\"I'm so proud of the girls, how we played today, because if you can bring your A-game in the Olympic finals that just shows how great and what fantastic abilities we all have,\" Muirhead said.\n\n\"To stand on the podium and get that gold medal around your neck is honestly a moment I'll never forget.\"\n• None Watch the trailer for the extraordinary new series of Killing Eve", "Sharon Johnston had said nothing would change her mind about wanting an assisted death\n\nTwo women have been arrested on suspicion of assisting or encouraging suicide, following the death of a 60-year-old woman from Cardigan.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police has confirmed the woman who died is Sharon Johnston, a severely disabled woman who was a prominent advocate of assisted dying.\n\nMs Johnston had been reported missing from her home.\n\nBBC Wales understands she had travelled to Switzerland, with the intention of asking doctors to help end her life.\n\nPolice said a 29-year-old woman from the London area and a 69-year-old woman from Cardiff were arrested after returning to Heathrow Airport and have been released pending further investigation.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Wales Investigates programme last October, Ms Johnston said she intended to travel to Switzerland to end her life.\n\n\"I go out in the town and I can get about. It's not that like I'm trapped in bed or bedridden. But I don't want the care,\" she said.\n\n\"Physically I can't do a suicide, I can't take an overdose of medication because it's all done with the carers in a secure medical box. I don't want to do a botched suicide,\" she said.\n\nSwiss law enables doctors to assist certain patients to die, although the process remains illegal in the UK.\n\nMs Johnston was told that she would never be able to walk again, following a fall more than three years ago.", "Eight stamps celebrating the Queen's dedication to service have been issued to mark her Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThe Queen's 70th anniversary of ascending to the throne is on Sunday, becoming the first British monarch to reach the milestone.\n\nThe photographs show her reign over the decades, with the images on the first class stamps ranging from 1957 to 2020.\n\nThey show her official duties - from Trooping the Colour and walkabouts in the UK to international visits.\n\nThis stamp features the Queen and Prince Philip during a tour of the US\n\nThe Queen is pictured here on a 1966 visit to the West Indies\n\nThe photographs featured on the stamps are:\n\nThis scene is from the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977\n\nShe is pictured her in uniform during the Trooping of the Colour in 1978\n\nSimon Thompson, chief executive of Royal Mail, said: \"These stamps are a celebration of the second Elizabethan Age and a tribute to a remarkable lifetime of duty and public service.\n\n\"We are honoured to be releasing them to mark the occasion of the first Platinum Jubilee in the UK's history, a momentous occasion.\"\n\nThis is a scene from a walkabout in Worcester in 1980\n\nThe Queen is pictured here wearing her Order of the Garter robes\n\nThe Queen's Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilees were also marked with special stamp issues.\n\nNone of the set has the silhouette of the Queen normally required on special stamps printed on them, as her image is used in the actual design of the stamp - removing the need for the silhouette.\n\nWhile the Queen's Accession Day falls on 6 February, a special four-day bank holiday weekend in June will be held to celebrate - with festivities including a concert at Buckingham Palace, a service of thanksgiving and a pageant on the Mall.\n\nThis image is from a visit to Canada in 2005\n\nThis stamp features the Queen on a visit to MI5's headquarters in 2020", "A shortage of homes being put up for sale has led to rising asking prices and frustration for buyers, two reports suggest.\n\nThe average asking price for a property in Britain has risen by £7,785 in February compared with last month, property portal Rightmove said.\n\nThis was the largest month-on-month rise for 20 years, it said.\n\nHigh-end estate agent Savills found buyers could also be affected by the rising cost of living.\n\nSpring is traditionally the busiest season for the housing market.\n\nRightmove said high demand among buyers was being driven by those looking for more space and who were ready to move on from their first homes.\n\nCity property, particularly in London, was more highly sought after than during the pandemic, with some workers being encouraged to return to the office.\n\nThe increase in demand has pushed the average asking price across Britain to a record £348,804, according to Rightmove.\n\nThis demand for properties was being frustrated, according to Savills, by a lack of homes on the market.\n\nNearly two-thirds (65%) of potential buyers said the lack of available homes was having a severe effect on their ability to buy, according to a survey of people registering with the estate agent earlier this month.\n\nStock shortages appeared to be particularly acutely felt at the top end of the market, with 94% of buyers with a budget of £1m or more reporting a lack of choice.\n\nNearly half (48%) of potential buyers had been considering a move for more than a year, with half (50%) hoping to complete within the next six months.\n\nFrances Clacy, research analyst at Savills, said: \"The imbalance of supply and demand, coupled with existing high levels of property wealth, will continue to fuel price growth in the coming months, despite the recent (Bank of England) rate rises.\"\n\nBut she added that \"realistic pricing\" would become more important as the market felt the knock-on effects of the rising cost of living.", "Mr Rydings, who worked in construction, was an avid Manchester United supporter, his family said\n\nThe family of a man who died after an altercation outside a Spanish bar have urged anyone who knows who attacked him to come forward and \"change the fact that he died without justice\".\n\nMike Rydings, 48, from Wythenshawe, was celebrating a friend's 50th birthday in Benidorm when he was injured outside the Hippodrome bar on 23 June 2018.\n\nHe died in hospital a year later.\n\nHis family said the man who attacked him was still unknown, but \"someone somewhere knows who this person is\".\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said it was believed the man was part of a group of five or six men, who may have been from the UK, and was described as being in his 20s or 30s, white and of a larger than average build.\n\nHe was also said to be between 5ft 7ins (1.7m) and 6ft (1.8m) tall and may have been wearing camouflage clothing.\n\nA force spokesman said Mr Rydings, a construction worker and avid Manchester United supporter, spent a month in hospital in Spain before being transferred to Salford Royal Hospital, where he died on 11 August 2019.\n\nRenewing an appeal for witnesses, he said officers had spoken to about 15 English holidaymakers who were there on the night.\n\nGMP said Mr Rydings was involved in a row with a group of men at the Hippodrome bar in Benidorm\n\nIn a statement, Mr Rydings' family said his death had left \"a huge hole\" which can \"never will be filled\".\n\nThey said the \"father, grandfather, son, brother, nephew, cousin and friend to many\" had been \"full of energy\" and \"the life and soul of the party\".\n\n\"All Mike's family and friends want is some justice for him,\" they added.\n\n\"The person who did this is continuing to live a full life, but he could repeat this attack on a member of your family and change your life forever.\"\n\n\"Someone somewhere knows who this person is.\"\n\nDet Insp Nicola McCulloch said GMP was \"committed\" to supporting Spanish authorities to identify Mr Rydings' killer and she was sure \"someone out there\" knew who was responsible.\n\n\"While the murder investigation in Spain hasn't been successful, we continue to be determined to do whatever possible to get the answers Mike's loved ones crave for his upcoming inquest,\" she said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Boris Johnson says people need to understand the \"sheer cost in human life\" war could entail\n\nEvidence suggests Russia is planning \"the biggest war in Europe since 1945\", Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nHe told the BBC's Sophie Raworth in an interview: \"All the signs are that the plan has already in some senses begun.\"\n\nIntelligence suggests Russia intends to launch an invasion that will encircle Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"People need to understand the sheer cost in human life that could entail,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister was speaking from Munich, where world leaders are meeting for an annual security conference.\n\nThe latest estimates by the US government suggests that between 169,000 and 190,000 Russian troops are stationed along Ukraine's border, both in Russia and neighbouring Belarus - but this figure also includes Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine.\n\nMr Johnson warned that any conflict could be \"bloody and protracted\", saying Russian President Vladimir Putin was possibly \"thinking illogically about this\" and did not \"see the disaster ahead\".\n\n\"I think it's vital for us all now to get over what a catastrophe it would be for Russia,\" he added.\n\nHe indicated that the UK and US would bring further sanctions against Russia than have been suggested before, including stopping its companies \"trading in pounds and dollars\" - a move that he said would \"hit very, very hard\".\n\nMr Johnson added: \"The lesson of [the Russian seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in] 2014 is that you can't just let Vladimir Putin get away with it.\"\n\nAn invasion of Ukraine would strengthen, rather than weaken, Nato, he predicted, saying Western countries could not allow opposition forces to come to \"the false conclusion that might is right\".\n\n\"If [Mr Putin] thinks he's going to get less Nato as a result of this, he's totally wrong,\" Mr Johnson said. \"He's going to get more Nato.\"\n\nWhile a full-blown Russian invasion of Ukraine is yet to materialise, Boris Johnson's latest comments ratchet up the war of words.\n\nThe prime minister raising the prospect of a conflict as devastating as World War II is designed to focus minds.\n\nThe ongoing tensions in eastern Europe have given Mr Johnson, who's faced a myriad of problems at home, a chance to show leadership on the world stage.\n\nAnd on the sidelines of the Munich security conference, he seems to have made some progress on the question of sanctions.\n\nStopping Russian companies' ability to trade in pounds and dollars is a new proposal designed to do serious damage to the country's finances.\n\nUkraine is not a member of Nato or the European Union but has close relations with both.\n\nRussia is insisting its neighbour should not be allowed to join Nato, which it sees as a threat to its security.\n\nWestern nations have accused Russia of trying to stage a fake crisis on Ukraine's border, warning in recent weeks Mr Putin's forces could be preparing to invade at any time.\n\nBut Russia has denied the claims, saying the massed troops are just conducting military exercises.\n\nAsked whether a Russian invasion was still thought to be imminent, Mr Johnson said: \"I'm afraid that that is what the evidence points to. There's no burnishing it.\"\n\nThe prime minister said US President Joe Biden had told Western leaders that intelligence suggested Russian forces were not just planning on entering Ukraine from the east, via Donbas, but down from Belarus and the area surrounding Kyiv.\n\n\"I'm afraid to say that the plan we are seeing is for something that could be really the biggest war in Europe since 1945, just in terms of sheer scale,\" he said.\n\nPeople needed to not only consider the potential loss of life of Ukrainians, but also of \"young Russians\", he added.\n\nMr Johnson was speaking after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and telling world leaders in a speech that any invasion of Ukraine by Russia would \"echo around the world\".\n\nDuring a phone call on Sunday, the prime minister and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed the next week would be \"crucial for diplomacy\".\n\nA No 10 spokeswoman said the two leaders updated one another on their \"respective diplomatic efforts\", including Mr Macron's call with Mr Putin on Sunday.\n\n\"The prime minister noted that President Putin's commitments to President Macron were a welcome sign that he might still be willing to engage in finding a diplomatic solution,\" the spokeswoman added.\n\nShe said Mr Johnson stressed Ukraine's \"voice must be central\" in any talks, and that the two leaders \"underscored the need for President Putin to step back from his current threats and withdraw troops from Ukraine's border\".\n\nLabour said it stood \"four-square behind the UK government and Nato, with shadow health secretary Wes Streeting telling Sky News: \"There should be no doubt on the resolve of the UK, on a cross-party basis, and the resolve of Nato across the alliance.\"\n\nBut he also urged the government to do more to prevent the City of London being a \"centre\" for \"Russian kleptocrats and money laundering\".\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Home Secretary Priti Patel warned the crisis could bring an increased risk of cyber attacks in Britain.\n\nShe said past Russian cyber activity had included interference with UK media, telecommunications, and energy infrastructure, and the government expected to see an escalation of similar operations in the coming months.\n\nIn the same paper, Lindy Cameron, head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), said that \"attacks targeting Ukraine's digital infrastructure could be felt here in Britain\".\n\nShe said that, in 2017, malware used by the Russian military to target infrastructure in Ukraine \"spiralled recklessly out of control to affect many other countries, including the UK'.", "Christopher Stalford was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2016\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician Christopher Stalford has died suddenly at the age of 39.\n\nMr Stalford was a well-known member of the party and had represented South Belfast in the Northern Ireland Assembly since 2016.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said he was deeply saddened at Mr Stalford's death.\n\nSir Jeffrey said Mr Stalford was \"not just an elected representative or a colleague, he was a friend\".\n\nMr Stalford is survived by his wife Laura and four children.\n\nThe DUP leader said his sympathies were with the wider Stalford family on the \"loss of a husband, father, son and brother\".\n\n\"I talked at length with Christopher on Friday night,\" said Sir Jeffrey.\n\n\"He was passionate about Northern Ireland and wanted the best for his constituents.\n\n\"I was never to know how precious that conversation was to be.\"\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said Mr Stalford was \"born to be a public representative\"\n\nBoris Johnson said Mr Stalford was a \"passionate and dedicated servant\" of the people of South Belfast.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin said he was \"deeply saddened\".\n\n\"I conveyed my sympathies to his party leader Jeffrey Donaldson earlier, and my sincere condolences go to his wife Laura, children, family, friends and colleagues in the DUP,\" he said.\n\nDUP chairman Lord Morrow said he had known Mr Stalford since he was a child.\n\n\"As a party, we are shocked and saddened by his death but most of all we are heartbroken for Laura, their four little children and Christopher's wider family who will feel this loss most keenly,\" he said.\n\nThe party's North Antrim MP Ian Paisley said he had \"loved politics and engagement with the public\".\n\n\"We just do not know what a day will bring forward and today a shadow of loss hangs over our party,\" he added.\n\nHe once thought about being a history or politics teacher and before he became a politician he often took part in discussion programmes on radio and television.\n\nAn articulate advocate for unionism, he began working for the then DUP MEP Jim Allister and also for the MLA Peter Weir.\n\nLater he joined the DUP's press team.\n\nAfter 11 years on Belfast City Council he became an assembly member for South Belfast where he was brought up - it was a place he was very proud of.\n\nHe often talked about growing up in Annadale Flats near the River Lagan.\n\nHe once described himself as an Arlene Ultra when Arlene Foster was party leader - but last year he supported Edwin Poots in his bid for leadership.\n\nIn private Christopher Stalford was a very witty man.\n\nHe took his job as a public representative seriously, but never himself. He liked nothing more than winding up colleagues and political rivals.\n\nWhen Stormont returned in 2020 he relished the role of principal deputy speaker and even at moments of political tension his personality and sense of humour shone through.\n\nMr Stalford with party colleagues at the opening of his constituency office in 2016\n\nMr Stalford had worked in the DUP press office for a number of years before becoming an elected representative.\n\nElected to Belfast City Council in 2005, he served as deputy mayor from 2013 to 2014.\n\nIn 2016, he was one of two DUP candidates selected to run for the South Belfast constituency in the assembly election.\n\nAfter the restoration of the Stormont institutions in 2020, Mr Stalford was appointed principal deputy speaker to chair debates in the assembly.\n\n\"His friends and colleagues throughout the world of politics will miss his political contribution, and his constituents his local efforts and leadership across south Belfast,\" she added.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood announced the party's spring conference, scheduled for Sunday evening, would be postponed as a mark of respect for Mr Stalford.\n\n\"Christopher and I knew each other for more than 20 years and this news has come as such a shock,\" he said.\n\n\"You could have a storming argument in the assembly with terse words and raised voices but as soon as you left, he would always have a wry smile and a laugh.\"\n\nDoug Beattie, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, said he was \"lost for words\" at the news.\n\n\"He was someone I liked, respected and who worked tirelessly for his community and country,\" he added.\n\nNaomi Long, Alliance Party leader, said it was hard to put into words her \"shock, sadness and devastation\".\n\n\"Despite our politics often being radically different, Christopher and I had a warm personal friendship, with him often talking to me about his pride in his family,\" said Mrs Long.\n\n\"He was a genuine and funny person, who was dedicated to public service.\"\n\nChristopher Stalford, pictured alongside former DUP leader Ian Paisley, served as deputy mayor of Belfast City Council\n\nTUV leader Jim Allister said words were not adequate to express the shock he felt.\n\n\"His colleagues in the assembly and elsewhere will feel an aching void, though it is his family who above all require the prayers and support of us all,\" he said.\n\nBrandon Lewis, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, offered sincere condolences to Mr Stalford's family.\n\n\"As MLA and principal deputy speaker, Christopher was passionate about crucial issues that affected people across NI and was dedicated to building a better Northern Ireland for everyone,\" Mr Lewis said.", "An additional booster dose will be offered to all adults over-75 and the most vulnerable over-12s in the UK this spring.\n\nThe UK's vaccines advisers said an extra dose would help top up their protection against severe Covid-19.\n\nMany of the oldest received their latest shot back in the autumn and immunity may now be waning, it said.\n\nAn autumn booster programme, aimed at a wider group of people, is also planned later this year.\n\nUp until now, only people with severely weakened immune systems had been eligible for a fourth dose - three doses plus a booster.\n\nThose now being offered a second booster this spring, to be administered six months after their previous dose, are:\n\nAdults will be offered a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, while children aged 12-18 will receive Pfizer.\n\nAround 7.2 million people in the UK aged over 75, who have already had their primary course of Covid vaccines, will be eligible for the extra spring booster.\n\nAnother half a million people who are immunosuppressed, with diseases such as blood cancer or who've had an organ transplant or are receiving chemotherapy, can also have the additional booster.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said vaccinating these groups was a \"precautionary\" move and did not mean there was any current danger to their health.\n\nBut because people in these groups are at higher risk from Covid-19, have weaker immune systems than other people and were last vaccinated in September or October 2021, their protection from vaccines might be waning more quickly.\n\nData suggests that older people who have had two doses of a Covid vaccine have about 45% protection against hospital admission with Omicron, rising to 90% straight after their first booster.\n\nTen weeks later, that protection has dropped to about 88% but the JCVI believes that even a small drop-off in protection among vulnerable and older people can have a large impact, including on hospital admissions and the NHS.\n\nWinter is seen to be the season which poses the greatest threat from Covid, particularly for older adults, the NHS and care homes.\n\nProf Wei Shen Lim, chair of Covid vaccination at the JCVI, said: \"Last year's booster vaccination programme has so far provided excellent protection against severe Covid-19.\n\n\"To maintain high levels of protection for the most vulnerable individuals in the population, an extra spring dose of vaccine is advised ahead of an expected autumn booster programme later this year.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said he had accepted the JCVI's advice and asked the NHS to prepare to offer a vaccine to those eligible. He added that further details would be sent out in due course.\n\n\"It's important that everyone gets their top-up jabs as soon as they're eligible,\" he said.\n\nScotland's Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said a further dose would be offered to high priority groups from next month.\n\nThe JCVI said data showed that the risk of being admitted to hospital after being infected with Covid-19 was highest in the over-75s, but some scientists questioned why over-65s, a much larger group, were not included.\n\n\"With community infection rate still stubbornly high, there is ample opportunity yet for another variant with higher case fatality rate to emerge before the proposed autumn campaign - and if it does perhaps this advice may yet be regretted, given that it's a long time to wait for autumn,\" said Prof Penny Ward, visiting professor in pharmaceutical medicine at King's College London.\n\nHowever, Prof Jonathan Ball, professor of molecular virology at the University of Nottingham, said the boosters plan was \"a sensible thing to do\".\n\n\"We know that immunity contracts over time and that this is usually more pronounced in older people, who are also most likely to develop serious disease. Therefore, giving these people an additional boost to their immunity makes sense to help protect them disease.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would bring gas to Germany has shuttered amid the latest fighting Image caption: The Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would bring gas to Germany has shuttered amid the latest fighting\n\nThere was plenty of criticism that Western sanctions in the days leading up to this invasion did not go far enough, fast enough.\n\nThese new measures will hit the Russian economy much harder. But there are still potential gaps.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said sanctions against major Russian banks include one of the largest state banks, VTB, which will have all its assets frozen. But another major bank, Sberbank, was not mentioned.\n\nAnd the Ukrainian government wanted more – in particular moves to disconnect Russia from the international payment system known as Swift, which thousands of banks use to exchange information.\n\nThe US and the UK are in favour of such a move, but some European countries fear it could damage their own banks.\n\nSuspending Russia from Swift is still under consideration, but the hesitation is a reminder that in a globalised world all sanctions tend to have an impact on the countries imposing them as well.\n\nAnd the real trouble with sanctions is that they don’t work quickly.\n\nThey do increase pressure, and they can do damage.\n\nBut the international community is not trying to damage the Russian economy just for the sake of doing so.\n\nIt wants economic pressure to force a change in Putin’s political and military calculations.\n\nMeanwhile, the invasion of Ukraine continues.", "Two big reasons for removing restrictions and testing\n\nThere are two big reasons why the government has decided to act now in getting rid of the remaining coronavirus laws in England. The first is the current picture: Omicron has proved to be very mild in terms of the number of people it is killing. To use the technical term, there haven't been any excess deaths as a result of it, or, as Prof Chris Whitty has just put it, \"the total number of deaths is slightly lower than the seasonal average at this time of year\". The second is cost: the prime minister has said the test, trace and isolation budget in the 2020/21 financial year exceeded the entire budget of the Home Office. It has cost a further £15.7bn in this financial year - from last April until now - and a another £2bn in January of this year alone.", "Gracie-Ann and Jayden-Lee were returning from a birthday party\n\nA man has admitted causing the deaths of two children in a crash on the M4 motorway.\n\nGracie-Ann Lucas, aged four, and her brother Jayden-Lee, three, died following the crash on 5 February.\n\nMartin Newman, 41 of Croeserw, Neath Port Talbot, appeared in court on Monday.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to two counts of causing their deaths by dangerous driving.\n\nHe also pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving to another passenger in the car, the children's mother Rhiannon Lucas.\n\nThe family had been returning from a birthday party on 5 February when the car and a Ford Transit van crashed at about 13:45 GMT.\n\nThe children, from Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, were taken to the intensive care unit of University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.\n\nA GoFundMe page set up to raise money for the siblings' funeral has raised more than £14,700\n\nMs Lucas and the children's father, who has not been named, were also taken to hospital.\n\nGracie-Ann suffered a cardiac arrest due to the severity of her injuries and died the following day. Jayden died on 11 February.\n\nNewman spoke only to confirm his identity and enter his guilty pleas during a brief hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday.\n\nThe crash happened on the westbound carriageway between junctions 28 and 29, prompting a huge emergency services response and causing the route to be closed for about seven hours.\n\nIn a tribute to Jayden-Lee, his cousin, Jamie Lucas, 19, said: \"He was wonderful, creative and a kind soul. Turned the grey skies blue.\"\n\nIn a previous tribute to Gracie-Ann, he said: \"She was so young. She had a bright future ahead of her. She was such a wonderful child.\"\n\nHe added: \"She was very smart, she was very creative. She had a really great imagination as well. She was just fantastic to be around.\"\n\nA GoFundMe page set up to raise money for the siblings' funeral has raised more than £14,700.\n\nNewman was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 8 April.", "President Zelensky drinking tea as he meets Ukrainian soldiers at the frontline in Shyrokyne\n\n\"Move quickly, but watch where you put your feet,\" the soldier instructed as we pulled in behind a wall a few hundred metres from the frontline.\n\nBeside us, Ukraine's president was already climbing out of his vehicle wearing body armour and a helmet and heading across a strip of wasteland towards the trenches.\n\nThis week, as western governments escalated their warnings about the threat of all-out war with Russia, Volodymyr Zelensky decided to drop-in on some of the Ukrainian soldiers who could be right in the path of any invasion.\n\nThe visit was part of the president's own, two-pronged offensive: showing support for his country's troops on the one hand, whilst warning allies in the West that trying to \"appease\" Moscow over Ukraine was dangerous.\n\nFor two days, we followed Volodymyr Zelensky as he criss-crossed the country.\n\nBy plane and helicopter, we moved from military drills to the actual conflict line and from land into the Azov Sea as the West pumped up the volume on its war-warnings.\n\nMeant to deter Russia, its alarm appears to have been ignored.\n\nThe idea of Russia bombing Kyiv into submission still seems far-fetched - more damaging to Vladimir Putin than of any possible benefit. But violence in those parts of eastern Ukraine already controlled by Russian-backed forces has suddenly picked-up.\n\nUkrainian soldiers have been fighting Russian-backed rebels in the east of the country since 2014\n\nAt the frontline in Shyrokyne, President Zelensky shared tea and chat with soldiers in the shell of someone's ruined house.\n\nOnce a popular holiday destination, the coastal village has been shattered by eight years of fighting, its streets partly replaced by deep, muddy trenches and abandoned, shrapnel-hit buildings all around.\n\nOne soldier admitted his parents were worried about the latest spike in tensions and called constantly to check on him. He himself seemed more anxious about meeting the president: on the table, neat plates of cheese and salami sandwiches lay untouched.\n\nThat day there had been an increase in shelling along what is known as the contact line. At 09:00, up in Luhansk region, a missile smashed through the wall of a kindergarten into the sport and music room. All the signs are that it was fired from territory controlled by Russian-backed forces.\n\nSince then, the number of ceasefire violations has climbed.\n\nThe president's team told me his security detail were not happy about his high-risk travels, but Volodymyr Zelensky insisted on going ahead.\n\nA missile smashed through the wall of a kindergarten in Luhansk region on Thursday\n\nOutwardly, he managed to project calm, despite the weeks of tensions. But in our snatched conversations, his frustration with Ukraine's allies quickly surfaced.\n\nSome countries are clearly pressuring Kyiv to make compromises that it finds impossible, including renouncing its long-held goal of joining Nato.\n\n\"We can't close our eyes every day and year and say it's only Russia that doesn't want to see us there,\" Mr Zelensky told me at one point. \"There are also Nato members who support Russia in this.\"\n\nJust the other day, the German chancellor underlined how Ukraine's membership of Nato should not be an issue as it is \"not on the agenda\" for now.\n\nBut Moscow is demanding written guarantees that its neighbour will be excluded from the alliance for life. For Kyiv, agreeing to that is impossible.\n\nPresident Zelensky spoke passionately about the price Ukraine has already paid for trying to wrest itself free from Moscow's grasp: more than 14,000 lives lost as well as the Crimean Peninsula and the Donbas. Over two million people have been displaced.\n\nJoining Nato was the people's choice, he said, a guarantee of independence whilst living in Moscow's shadow, making it impossible to backtrack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe echoed all that on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference in a speech that impressed even critics back home.\n\nDriving from a section of frontline, jolted from one giant pothole to the next, Mr Zelensky's security adviser told me the very idea of Ukraine reneging on Nato membership was \"capitulation\".\n\nBut he acknowledged that pressure from some European countries was mounting.\n\n\"They think it's like the 1930s in Europe: that if we appease the aggressor with concessions, it will calm down,\" Mykhailo Podoliak warned.\n\n\"We have to keep explaining that if you appease someone, it only encourages them. If the problem is about Nato now, it will just be about the EU next or trade. Russia is the problem, not us.\"\n\nThe conflict in eastern Ukraine has resulted in more than 14,000 deaths since 2014\n\nThe way Ukraine sees this crisis, it is standing-up to Russia on behalf of the world. A soldier I met described it as defending the \"eastern flank of democracy\".\n\n\"We shouldn't have to beg; this is about your investment in European security,\" Volodymyr Zelensky told the Munich conference crowd, reminding them that Ukraine had acted as a \"shield\" for Europe, \"holding back one of the biggest armies in the world\".\n\nAt the end of our trip, we flew low over the fields in a trio of helicopters to then drive down broken roads towards another stretch of frontline.\n\nAvdiivka's loyalties are still daubed onto its lampposts in stripes of blue and yellow like Ukraine's flag.\n\nAs Volodymyr Zelensky pulled his flak jacket back over his head and set off up the road to greet more soldiers, I stood and read the names of those who have died fighting at the same spot.\n\nThe youngest soldier carved into the stone was Olesiya.", "This announcement from Buckingham Palace that the Queen has tested positive for Covid is a careful balancing act between telling the public about the Queen getting the virus - while at the same time playing down any sense of alarm.\n\nSo the concern about the 95-year-old monarch has been countered by the assurance that the symptoms are mild and she is well enough to carry on working.\n\nEmphasising this business-as-usual approach, the Queen was back at work on Sunday to sign off a message of congratulations to the Winter Olympics curling teams.\n\nLike for the curlers, the royal brushers have smoothed a path for what might otherwise be a worrying message.\n\nIn terms of what happens next - the Queen is clearly going to be very carefully monitored by her personal medical team.\n\nThe Queen's physician, Sir Huw Thomas, has previously described his \"key priority\" as keeping the Royal Household safe through the pandemic.\n\nBut there are likely to be few details of how she might be treated or updates on her Covid case. Buckingham Palace has already said not to expect any \"running commentary\" in the days ahead.\n\nThis reflects a strong convention of privacy surrounding the Queen's health.\n\nWhen Prince Charles and Camilla recently reported having caught Covid, it wasn't even confirmed whether the Queen had taken a test.\n\nEven though it's believed the Queen has had three Covid vaccinations, only the first has ever been formally acknowledged.\n\nAnd when the Queen cancelled a series of appearances last autumn because of health problems, details of those medical issues were never made public.\n\nFor the Queen's health, the curtain of privacy is kept tightly closed.\n\nSo the confirmation that the Queen has Covid has been something of an exception. And having opened that gap in the curtains, there will be great media pressure for more information.\n\nThis is against a background of a busy year ahead for the monarch during her Platinum Jubilee - and events are likely to reflect the need to be cautious about her health.\n\nSince last autumn, many of the Queen's appearances have been through video screen - and that could be a pattern in the months ahead, with a few personal appearances scattered in between.\n\nA reception she hosted at her estate in Sandringham earlier in February, marking 70 years of her reign, was her first in-person public engagement for several months.\n\nThat was followed last week by hosting an audience at Windsor Castle, after other virtual meetings and video messages.\n\nMarking the start of her Platinum Jubilee this month, the Queen joked about having someone else finish cutting a ceremonial cake\n\nIf the Jubilee has to be adapted to take account of the health of the monarch, it won't be the first time.\n\nFor Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, there was a service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral in London, as there will be for the Queen this summer.\n\nBut the steps up to St Paul's were too much of a challenge for Queen Victoria, and so the service was held outside, with Victoria staying in her carriage.\n\nFor the Queen, catching Covid rounded off what has been a rough week for her family, not least after the negative coverage of Prince Andrew's out-of-court settlement of the civil case brought by his accuser Virginia Giuffre.\n\nWhile this Covid case will focus attention on the Queen's wellbeing, it will also be a reminder of how much the health of the monarchy depends on the Queen.", "Boris Johnson is due to set out his plans to scrap all remaining Covid legal restrictions in England, including the requirement to isolate.\n\nThe BBC understands cabinet ministers have agreed to the PM's \"living with Covid plan\" after a delayed meeting.\n\nThere were reports of tensions between the Treasury and the Department of Health over how parts of the plan will be funded.\n\nSome experts have urged caution and Labour queried plans to reduce testing.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to update MPs in the Commons at about 16:30 GMT.\n\nThe prime minister will then lead a televised No 10 news conference at 19:00 GMT alongside England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, and Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK government's chief scientific adviser.\n\nSpeaking before Monday's announcement, Mr Johnson said his plan would bring society \"towards a return to normality\".\n\nNo 10 said the Covid vaccination programme had put England in a \"strong position to consider lifting the remaining legal restrictions\".\n\nIt added that the plan for living with Covid would take a \"cautious approach\" retaining \"some surveillance systems and plans for contingency measures\".\n\nThe legal requirement to self-isolate for a fixed period after testing positive in England has been in place ever since mass testing was rolled out.\n\nCurrently positive or asymptomatic people have to isolate for up to 10 days, but can end their isolation earlier if they register negative lateral flow tests on both days five and six.\n\nMr Johnson has said that Covid testing would take place at a \"much lower level\" after revealing £2bn was spent on the system in January alone.\n\nCommunity PCR testing for people with symptoms is expected to stop under the new plan, but it is unclear whether the availability of free lateral flow tests will be reduced.\n\nOn the issue of changes to testing arrangements, a Welsh government spokesperson said any decision to alter them \"would be premature and reckless\".\n\nEarlier, Stormont ministers held talks with Michael Gove, minister for intergovernmental relations, about future funding to fight the Covid pandemic ahead of the PM's announcement.\n\nIt follows a joint letter from Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford and Northern Ireland's Health Minister Robin Swann warning of the need to keep existing testing in place.\n\nCovid is no longer an exceptional threat. Despite the huge wave of infections, the numbers dying in recent months has been similar to what you would expect during a normal winter.\n\nMost agree some scaling back is warranted, but it needs to be done carefully.\n\nDuring the pandemic £37 billion has been set aside for test and trace. This is a huge sum - more than has been spent on GP care.\n\nMass PCR testing in the community is almost certain to go. But these gold standard tests will be kept in hospitals to diagnose patients who are seriously ill and to keep an eye out on variants.\n\nMany believe the Office for National Statistics surveillance survey can be done on a smaller scale, but it is essential to have something to keep a check on how the virus is spreading.\n\nProf Sir Andrew Pollard, who helped develop the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, told the BBC's Today programme that \"there isn't a right or wrong answer\" to when restrictions change.\n\nHe said: \"If restrictions change this week, next week, or the week after, in six months' time the number of transmission events will likely be very similar.\"\n\nHe added that having a surveillance system - \"an early warning system\" - in place whenever restrictions are eased will be \"critical\".\n\nThe government is expected to urge people to exercise their own judgement.\n\nBut Prof Anthony Costello, professor of global health and sustainable development at UCL, told the BBC: \"The worry about lifting the legal restrictions is that we are telling not only our population, but the world, that there is really nothing to worry about, that it's all over when it isn't.\"\n\nJust over 91% of people in the UK aged 12 and over have had a first dose of a vaccine, 85% a second jab, and 66% a booster or a third dose, according to official data, which has been collated daily since the vaccine rollout began in December 2020.\n\nThe UK's vaccine advisory body has recommended that an additional Covid booster vaccination should be offered to all adults over the age of 75 and the most vulnerable over-12s this spring.\n\nEngland, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are set to accept the advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nThe government has announced it will offer a low-dose Covid vaccine to children aged between five and 11 in England during April. Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland have also said they will be offering young children the same vaccine.\n\nThe prime minister's announcement will come a day after Buckingham Palace revealed the Queen, 95, had tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Juliet Coffer, who been isolating for over 850 days, reacts to the prospect of no Covid restrictions\n\nThe new Covid plans would also see councils in England become responsible for managing outbreaks using existing powers.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics infection survey, which randomly tests a sample of the population, is also expected to be replaced with a slimmed down surveillance programme.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded another 25,696 new infections and a further 74 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test - although Sunday figures do tend to be among the lowest of any typical week.\n\nAmid concerns that payments for people off sick due to Covid will come to an end, Wes Streeting said \"now is not the time to start charging for tests or weaken sick pay\".\n\nHe said he was \"particularly concerned\" about the end of free testing and described such a move as \"like being 2-1 up with 10 minutes left of play and subbing your best defender\".\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the British Medical Association, said infections need to fall further before the rules were relaxed.\n\n\"It does appear as if the government is trying to pretend that Covid doesn't exist in the day-to-day lives of so many people,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Boris Johnson's response when asked if it's too soon to end mandatory self-isolation when testing positive\n\nSeveral scientists and clinicians - including Prof Anthony Costello, Dr Kit Yates and Prof Christina Pagel - have signed an open letter to Sir Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance, urging them to \"clarify the extent to which the planned policies are consistent with scientific advice and what specifically that scientific advice contained\".\n\nPlan B measures - introduced in December to stem the spread of the Omicron variant - including the requirement to wear masks in public places and the use of Covid passes for large events, were abolished in England last month.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have moved at different speeds in introducing or relaxing restrictions.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, all remaining Covid measures - such as certificates in nightclubs, face coverings, and limits on gatherings in homes - stopped being legally binding on Tuesday.\n\nWales is currently at alert level zero, its lowest level of Covid rules.\n\nIn Scotland, legislation covering face coverings and vaccine passports had been due to expire next Monday but earlier this month ministers extended it for another six months.\n\nWhat have been your experiences of the pandemic? Have you had to shield? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More weather disruption has hit Wales with three storms in a week.\n\nStorm Franklin is continuing to cause problems on Monday with homes, roads and rail affected by floods and fallen trees.", "The Queen is working on \"light duties\" at Windsor Castle this week despite testing positive for Covid, royal officials say.\n\nBuckingham Palace confirmed on Sunday that the Queen, 95, was experiencing \"mild cold-like symptoms\".\n\nLight duties likely includes reading state papers, which usually takes up a significant chunk of nearly every day.\n\n\"The mood at Windsor Castle is one of caution and no major cause for alarm,\" said royal correspondent Daniela Relph.\n\nThe BBC correspondent added that there is a sense it will be \"business-as-usual as much as is possible for the Queen\".\n\nBut the Queen's medical team will likely be keeping a very close eye on her, especially as she is considerably thinner and frailer than she was last year, Daniela Relph added.\n\nThe Queen's eldest son and heir, the Prince of Wales, 73, tested positive on 10 February, two days after the pair had met each other.\n\nA number of people have also tested positive at Windsor Castle where the Queen lives, it is understood.\n\nThe Queen had no public engagements in the diary this week, but it is likely that any scheduled video meetings are likely to have been postponed.\n\nWhile on light duties it is likely the Queen will be reading documents from UK government ministers and Commonwealth representatives sent to her every day, approving and signing them where necessary.\n\nA short trip to Denmark by the Duchess of Cambridge is still set to go ahead this week.\n\nThe Queen was pictured using a stick during an audience at Windsor Castle last Wednesday\n\nThe Queen, who will be 96 in April, had her first vaccine in January 2021 and is believed to have had all her follow-up jabs after that.\n\nMessages wishing her well poured in to the Queen following the Covid announcement, including from Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nNews of her positive test comes as Mr Johnson prepares to announce an end to Covid restrictions including the legal requirement to self-isolate.\n\nThe prime minister is to meet the Cabinet in the morning before updating the Commons in the afternoon with his \"living with Covid\" strategy.\n\nIt also comes in her Platinum Jubilee year marking 70 years on the throne.\n\nLast Tuesday, the Queen attended her first official engagement since coming into contact with Prince Charles, holding a virtual meeting with two new ambassadors to the UK.\n\nThe following day, she smiled as she suggested she had mobility problems during a meeting with defence staff. Standing while using a walking stick, she pointed to her left leg and said: \"Well, as you can see, I can't move.\"\n\nThe Royal Household has its own physicians, and the Queen's is Sir Huw Thomas, a consultant at St Mary's Hospital in London and professor of gastrointestinal genetics at Imperial College London.\n\nHe is \"head of the medical household\", which is part of the Royal Household looking after the health of the family.", "BBC One's Morning Live moved to Manchester on Monday as part of the broadcaster's drive to create more programmes outside London.\n\nThe show relocated from the capital to a new 10th floor set on the site of the former Granada studios.\n\nSara Cox, Kimberley Walsh and Sam Quek have joined Kym Marsh and Gethin Jones on the line-up of permanent presenters.\n\nThe move was announced last year as part of the corporation's Across the UK strategy.\n\nBBC Breakfast has been broadcast from Salford since 2012, and Morning Live's move means four hours of BBC One's weekday programming will now come live from Greater Manchester.\n\nKym Marsh will remain on the show's presenting line-up\n\nHockey player-turned-presenter Quek, from the Wirral, said Morning Live's move would give a \"broader perspective on the whole of the UK\".\n\nShe said: \"That's what the show is about. Ultimately, it's about being able to represent everybody, being able to get points across and stories across from a very honest, down-to-earth point of view where the viewer can connect with us and also feel that they can join in the conversation.\n\n\"It creates opportunities for more jobs up north as well.\"\n\nMorning Live attracts about 1.2 million viewers a day, ahead of its ITV daytime rivals Lorraine and This Morning, which usually attract below one million people daily.\n\nThe BBC show's content editor Martin Bruce said being based outside London would allow it to have a different perspective of life.\n\n\"As you walk through the city, immediately you're soaking up everything that's going on in the north-west and in Manchester,\" he said. \"Any of the team, when they come in, are going to be seeing that every single day. I think it's really important to be living that life and in amongst it all.\"\n\nThe programme was originally due to join Breakfast at MediaCity in Salford, but it was decided to use a new studio in the ABC Buildings in Manchester instead.\n\nThe studio has views over the city, and a balcony. \"So when the sun shines in Manchester, we'll be outside there as well,\" said Bruce.\n\nUnder the Across the UK strategy, the BBC's Eurovision Song Contest coverage plus Children In Need, and Comic Relief's Red Nose Day will be broadcast from Salford, and more radio programmes will come from outside the capital.\n\nSome BBC News teams are also moving, with the Learning and Identity team going to Leeds and the Climate and Science unit to Cardiff.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, BBC director general Tim Davie said: \"I think for me it is utterly critical that we take our output and push it outside the M25.\n\n\"That is not really about saving money, it is about spending licence fee payers' money across the UK. And we know that that infuses itself into the programme-making.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angel Lynn: Woman's kidnap by then boyfriend caught on camera\n\nThe sentence given to a man who kidnapped his then girlfriend before she was seriously hurt in a fall will be reviewed, it has been confirmed.\n\nChay Bowskill bundled Angel Lynn into a van before she was found injured on the A6 near Loughborough in September 2020.\n\nBowskill's sentence of seven-and-a-half years was assessed under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.\n\nA spokesman for the Attorney General said the Court of Appeal would now decide if the term should be changed.\n\nChay Bowskill had been in a relationship with Miss Lynn at the time\n\nMiss Lynn, who was aged 19 at the time, fell from the van as it was travelling at about 60mph (97km/h) along the dual carriageway and suffered severe brain injuries, which she has still not recovered from.\n\nBowskill, of Empingham Drive, Syston, Leicestershire, and his friend Rocco Sansome, 20 - who had driven the van - were sentenced for kidnap in January.\n\nSansome, of Wanlip Lane, Birstall, was sentenced to 21 months in a young offenders' institution.\n\nHis sentence will also be reviewed.\n\nAngel Lynn has still not recovered from the severe injuries she sustained\n\nMiss Lynn, now 21, is receiving 24-hour specialist care in a rehabilitation centre.\n\nHer mother Nikki said of the pair involved: \"They have got no idea what they have done to my family.\"\n\nThe Attorney General's spokesman said: \"I can confirm the Solicitor General has referred the sentences of Chay Bowskill and Rocco Sansome to the Court of Appeal as he agrees that they appear unduly lenient.\n\n\"It is now for the court to decide whether to increase their sentences.\"\n\nThe Solicitor General, Alex Chalk QC MP, said: \"The horrendous case of Angel Lynn, who was the victim of sustained abuse by her partner, Chay Bowskill, culminated in her suffering life-changing injuries.\n\n\"I wish to express my sympathies to her family. I have referred the sentence of Chay Bowskill, and that of his accomplice Rocco Sansome, to the Court of Appeal as they appear to me to be unduly lenient.\n\n\"It is now for the Court to decide whether to increase the sentences.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Watch the moment when Ukrainian officials, including the interior minister, and journalists take cover from what appears to be shelling in the eastern part of the country.\n\nThe incident happened on Saturday, during a visit close to areas controlled by Russian-backed separatists.\n\nUkraine confirmed the group were evacuated to a safe shelter.\n\nRussia has denied claims of an imminent invasion, saying troops are conducting military exercises in the region.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Homes, roads and rail hit by storm floods in Wales\n\nMore weather disruption has hit Wales, with further warnings in place and flood alerts likely to increase.\n\nThe Met Office said gusts reached 79mph (127km/h) in Capel Curig, Conwy, and 75mph (120kmh) in Aberdaron, Gwynedd, but a weather warning has been lifted.\n\nThousands of homes were without power after damage from Friday's Storm Eunice and others were flooded when some Welsh rivers reached record levels.\n\nThe fire service had to rescue people from homes and 50 from a bus in Powys.\n\nSwansea City's home Championship game against Bournemouth on Tuesday has been postponed after storm damage at their ground.\n\nCounty councillor Karl Lewis said one person was taken to hospital as a precaution after flooding left Llandinam looking like a \"disaster zone\".\n\nMr Lewis said seven people were rescued by boat when five properties in the village were flooded with up to 2ft (0.6m) of water, after heavy rain and strong winds caused the river banks to burst at about 16:00 on Sunday.\n\nOne man, Roger Higgs, described how he rescued his 96-year-old mother in Llandinam as the waters rose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why has mid Wales been particularly affected by storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin?\n\n\"I've lived in Llandinam all my life, 41 years, and I've never seen water like that before,\" he said.\n\n\"We only had a few minutes to get people out.\"\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it dealt with 100 flood-related calls in 24 hours over the weekend, including using a boat and sled to help 50 passengers and a driver from a coach after it became stuck in water in Welshpool on Sunday night.\n\nHeavy rain led to the flooding of a football pitch in Caersws\n\nNicola Brant from Caersws lives on a flood plain and tweeted a video of what was usually \"a little babbling brook\" becoming a full-flowing river.\n\n\"It's dangerous and scary… it's getting more common.\n\n\"We only have to have heavy rain now, which can be in the middle of the summer, and it floods. It's definitely got worse over the last two or three years.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Branty This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Little Haven, Pembrokeshire, high winds blew the roof off a caravan used as an office for Greenacres Animal Rescue and one of their stables.\n\nMikey Lawlor, manager of Greenacres Animal Rescue, said: \"It became quite dangerous quite quickly.\n\n\"We live on the coast, wind is something that we're used to… we've been here for 14 years, I've never seen wind like that before. It was literally taking people off their feet.\"\n\nThe river running high in Newtown, Powys, on Sunday night\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) issued a number of flood warnings, with the worst affected areas in mid Wales.\n\nSome of the highest river levels on record were on parts of the Severn, Vyrnwy, Teme, Wye and Usk.\n\nNRW said there is the potential for further flood warnings on the lower sections of the River Wye near Monmouth as the peak moved down stream.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWestern Power Distribution said on Monday that all power had been restored to customers, after 450 incidents in south Wales at the weekend.\n\nNetwork services manager Sean Sullivan said it was an \"extremely challenging weekend\", describing it as \"unprecedented\" in his 36-year career.\n\n\"It's been a tough weekend for some of our customers. A small number were off for quite a significant period and I'm very sorry that they had to experience that. It's been incredibly challenging.\"\n\nIn Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Sarah Davies opened up the Amman RFC clubhouse to offer help to the community.\n\nShe said there were \"lots of families, lots of houses without power overnight and into the next day\".\n\n\"We got up in the morning and decided right let's open up the club, try to help - because we had electric, we had microwaves, we had a cooker, had heating - just to try and get a bit of community spirit going,\" she said.\n\nSport Wales, the national organisation which promotes physical activity, announced that it will give grants of £300-£5,000 to fix damage to clubhouses, pitches or equipment stored outside as a direct result of the recent storms.\n\nApplications will be accepted until next Monday, 28 February.\n\nSP Energy Networks said it was dealing with several power cuts across mid and north Wales.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was dealing with about 100 fallen trees across Wales which has affected travel.\n\nThe M48 Severn Bridge remains closed in both directions, with reported wind speeds of 50mph. But the M4 Prince of Wales Bridge is open.\n\nTransport for Wales operations manager Marie Daly said it was a \"dynamically changing\" picture on the rail lines, and it was having to constantly review its services.\n\nShe warned passengers to check before travelling, adding: \"Speed restrictions will see a reduction in our timetable.\n\n\"There should be services across all of our network, if it's not by train it will be by replacement buses.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Wales & Borders This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPowys council reported road closures along the A483 at Berriew, Buttington, Llanwrtyd Wells and Dyfi Bridge, as well as on the A470 at Rhayader and Builth Wells.\n\nWrexham council said the River Dee was being monitored with localised flooding affecting roads at Bangor-on-Dee and Rossett.\n\nNeath Port Talbot council said it had received 105 calls regarding fallen trees affecting several roads, including a number of trees down on High Street, Abergwynfi.\n\nAccess was affected on other routes due to structural damage in Water Street and Eagle Street in Port Talbot.", "Credit Suisse has hit out after a massive data leak has brought to light the hidden wealth of several clients of the bank.\n\nData on more than 18,000 bank accounts, holding more than $100bn (£73.6bn), was leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung by a whistleblower.\n\nIt includes personal, shared and corporate accounts, as well as those opened as far back as the 1940s.\n\nNearly 50 media organisations have spent months poring over the data.\n\nIn their investigations, they suggest they have found evidence Credit Suisse accounts had been used by clients involved in serious crimes such as money laundering or drug trafficking.\n\nBut on Sunday, the Swiss bank said it strongly rejected the allegations and insinuations about its alleged business practices or lack of due diligence.\n\n\"The matters presented are predominantly historical, in some cases dating back as far as the 1940s, and the accounts of these matters are based on partial, inaccurate, or selective information taken out of context\", it said.\n\nIn reports published by media organisations such as The Guardian and the New York Times, it has been claimed the bank opened or maintained accounts for high-risk clients, including criminals and individuals involved in human trafficking.\n\nHolding a Swiss account is not illegal and the leak also reportedly contained data of clients who had done nothing wrong.\n\nThe data was shared with more than 40 media organisations around the world by non-profit journalism group, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.\n\nIt includes bank accounts dating back decades. The majority were opened from 2000 onwards, although the bank's current operations are not included.\n\nCredit Suisse also said on Sunday that it had reviewed a large volume of accounts potentially associated with the matters raised.\n\n\"Approximately 90% of the reviewed accounts are today closed or were in the process of closure prior to receipt of the press inquiries, of which over 60% were closed before 2015,\" it said, although it would not comment on specific clients mentioned.\n\nThe bank added it was \"deeply aware of its responsibility to clients and the financial system as a whole to ensure that the highest standards of conduct are upheld\".\n\n\"These media allegations appear to be a concerted effort to discredit not only the bank but the Swiss financial market-place as a whole, which has undergone significant changes over the last several years,\" it said.\n\nIn a statement published by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the anonymous source explained their motivation for leaking the records more than a year ago.\n\n\"I believe that Swiss banking secrecy laws are immoral. The pretext of protecting financial privacy is merely a fig leaf covering the shameful role of Swiss banks as collaborators of tax evaders,\" they wrote.\n\nIt is not known if the whistleblower is an individual or a group.\n\nThey also acknowledged \"having an offshore Swiss bank account does not necessarily imply tax evasion or any other financial crime\".\n\nCredit Suisse pointed out it had taken \"significant additional measures over the last decade, including considerable further investments in combating financial crime\".\n\nIt follows other scandals for the Swiss bank, including the departure of two of its top executives after allegedly breaking Covid regulations and spying on former staff.", "This satellite image shows what appears to be additional armour and equipment deployed near Valuyki in Russia\n\nUS President Joe Biden has agreed \"in principle\" to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the crisis over Ukraine.\n\nThe talks proposed by France will only take place if Russia does not invade its neighbour, the White House said.\n\nThe Kremlin, meanwhile, said there were no \"concrete plans\" for a summit.\n\nIt is hoped that such talks could offer a possible diplomatic solution to one of the worst security crises in Europe in decades.\n\nUS officials say intelligence suggests Russia is ready to launch a military operation, which Moscow denies.\n\nThe proposed summit was announced by the French presidency after two phone calls between President Emmanuel Macron and Mr Putin, which went on for almost three hours in total.\n\nThe second exchange happened in the early hours of Monday Moscow time, and followed a 15-minute conversation Mr Macron had with Mr Biden.\n\nMr Macron's office said details of the possible summit would be discussed during a meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday.\n\nIn a statement that confirmed the proposal, the White House also said Russia appeared to be \"continuing preparations for a full-scale assault on Ukraine very soon\", and that the US was ready to impose \"swift and severe consequences\" should it happen.\n\nRussia has massed more than 150,000 troops close to Ukraine's borders, according to US estimates.\n\nUS company Maxar said new satellite imagery showed multiple new field deployments of armoured equipment and troops from Russian garrisons near the border with Ukraine, indicating increased military readiness.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment Ukrainian officials run from apparent shelling in the eastern part of the country\n\nThe French presidency said both leaders had agreed to resume talks through the Normandy Format, a group created to resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine that includes Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany.\n\nMr Putin agreed on the need to \"prioritise a diplomatic solution\" to the crisis, it said, adding that \"intense work\" would be carried out to enable a meeting \"in the next few hours\" aiming for a ceasefire.\n\nHowever, the Kremlin later said it was \"premature to talk about any specific plans for organising any kind of summit\".\n\n\"There is an understanding that dialogue should be continued at the level of foreign ministers,\" spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. He added that a meeting was possible \"if the heads of state consider it appropriate\".\n\nThe Kremlin says Mr Putin blames the Ukrainian military for the escalation of tensions. Ukraine has rejected this, saying Moscow is engaged in a provocation campaign aimed at creating a pretext for an intervention.\n\nEarlier, Russia announced the extension of military drills in Belarus, where 30,000 Russian troops are deployed, that were due to end on Sunday. A Belarusian statement blamed the \"deterioration of the situation\" in eastern Ukraine as one reason for extending the exercises.\n\nSpeaking on CNN, Secretary Blinken said \"everything we are seeing suggests that this is dead serious\" and that \"we are on the brink of an invasion\".\n\n\"Until the tanks are actually rolling, and the planes are flying, we will use every opportunity and every minute we have to see if diplomacy can still dissuade President Putin from carrying this forward,\" he added.\n\nTemporary accommodation in Taganrog, Russia, for people evacuated from Donetsk\n\nHis comments came as unverified reports in the US media suggested Washington believed an attack could be launched imminently.\n\nCBS News reported the US had intelligence that Russian commanders on the ground had received orders to proceed with an invasion and were now making specific battle plans on how to attack.\n\nThe report said an invasion would begin with a cyber-assault followed by a campaign of missile and airstrikes, before ground units attempted to take the capital Kyiv.\n\nAnd an unnamed intelligence official told CNN close to 75% of Russia's conventional forces were now poised at the Ukrainian border. The concentration of Russian forces within striking distance of Ukraine was highly unusual, the source said.\n\nBut Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said an attack \"tomorrow or the day after tomorrow\" was unlikely as no Russian \"strike groups\" had yet formed near the border.\n\nMr Putin has been demanding assurances that Nato will not admit Ukraine, a former Soviet state with close ties to Russia, while the Western alliance denies it poses any threat to Russia.\n\nThere are fears that a Russian military intervention could start a war even bloodier than the conflict in eastern Ukraine which has cost at least 14,000 lives.", "Vegetables are high in fibre and nutrients, especially if eaten raw\n\nVegetables may be good for you, but eating a lot of them is unlikely to reduce your risk of a heart attack or stroke, a large UK study suggests.\n\nWhat else we eat, how much exercise we do and where and how we live may have more of an impact, the researchers say.\n\nBut they emphasise that a balanced diet helps reduce the risk of many diseases, including some cancers.\n\nEating at least five portions of fruit and vegetables every day is recommended by health advisers, including the NHS.\n\nThe study, from the universities of Oxford and Bristol and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, asked nearly 400,000 people who are taking part in the UK Biobank study to fill in a questionnaire about their diet, including the quantity of cooked and raw vegetables they ate each day.\n\nOn average, people said they ate two heaped tablespoons of raw vegetables, three of cooked vegetables and five in total per day.\n\nTheir health, and any heart problems that led to hospital treatment or death, was then tracked over the next 12 years.\n\nAlthough the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease was around 15% lower for those eating the most vegetables - particularly those eating lots of raw veg - compared with those eating the least, the researchers said this could all be explained by other factors.\n\nThese included people's lifestyles - for example, whether they smoked and how much alcohol they drank - as well as their jobs, incomes and overall diet.\n\nAs a result, they said their study did not find evidence of \"a protective effect of vegetable intake\" on how often heart and circulatory problems occurred.\n\nDr Ben Lacey, from the University of Oxford, said: \"This is an important study with implications for understanding the dietary causes of cardiovascular disease (CVD).\"\n\nBut Prof Naveed Sattar, professor of metabolic medicine at the University of Glasgow, said there was \"good trial evidence\" that eating foods rich in fibre such as vegetables, \"can help lower weight and improve levels of risk factors known to cause heart disease\".\n\nHe said the study's conclusions could be debated and should not alter widespread advice to eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day.\n\n\"Many living in the UK fall well short of this, sadly, and more needs to be done to encourage better intake of vegetables,\" he said.\n\n\"In fact, I suspect we may have underestimated the importance of a healthy diet on health and disease in general,\" he added.\n\nOther experts said measuring how much and what kinds of foods people eat over many years in order to study the effect on disease risk was prone to error.\n\n\"Unfortunately doubt has to be cast on the reliability of findings from the use of simple questions expecting users to express an average intake value,\" said Prof Janet Cade, from the University of Leeds.\n\nThe study, published in Frontiers in Nutrition, says people who eat lots of raw vegetables may have a reduced heart risk because cooking vegetables removes important nutrients, such as vitamin C.\n\nOils and fat used in cooking may also increase intake of sodium and fats, which are known risk factors for heart problems.\n\nPeople eating a high-vegetable diet may eat fewer calories and less fat, while also consuming more vitamins and anti-oxidants, which can prevent damage to cells.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nThe Beijing Winter Olympics came to a close on Sunday in a touching ceremony.\n\nAlmost 3,000 athletes competed in 109 events across 15 disciplines during the past two weeks.\n\nInternational Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach called for political leaders \"around the world\" to be inspired by the athletes' \"example of solidarity and peace\".\n\n\"This unifying power of the Olympic Games is stronger than the forces that want to divide us,\" he said.\n\nBach said the athletes had \"given peace a chance,\" with his comments coming amid rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine.\n\n\"Each and every one of you strived to achieve your personal best. We were deeply touched how you were wishing and cheering for your competitors to achieve their best as well,\" he said.\n\n\"You not only respected each other: you embraced each other, even if your countries are divided by conflict.\"\n• None How did Team GB fare at the Winter Olympics?\n\nBach also encouraged countries to continue vaccinating against Covid-19, saying: \"If we want to finally overcome this pandemic, we must be faster.\n\n\"We must aim higher, we must be stronger, we must stand together. Vaccination means caring for each other.\n\n\"In this Olympic spirit of solidarity, we call on the international community: give equal access to vaccines for everybody around the world.\"\n\nGreat Britain leave Beijing with two medals - gold in the women's curling and silver in the men's event.\n\nCurling skip Bruce Mouat, who led the men's rink, was the flagbearer for Team GB at the closing ceremony.\n\nThe Olympic flame was extinguished, with the next Games taking place in Milan-Cortina in Italy in 2026. The Winter Paralympics begins in Beijing on 4 March.\n\nThe Beijing Games were engulfed by the controversy surrounding Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva and the teenager's failed drug test.\n\nThe positive test came to light after the Russian Olympic Committee won gold in the team figure skating, with the 15-year-old becoming the first woman to land a quadruple jump at an Olympic Games.\n\nHowever, the medal ceremony was delayed, with it coming to light that Valieva had tested positive for a banned drug used to prevent angina attacks.\n\nAfter a series of appeals and re-appeals, Valieva was allowed to compete in the remaining individual events, but it has led to questions about her coaching team and the fairness of children competing in Olympic events, particularly as she crumbled in her final event.\n\nNone of the podium athletes from the event have received their medals, with the IOC asking the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) to investigate the positive result.\n\n\"Every athlete wants a fair playing field and we also want to protect the health and mental health of athletes,\" two-time Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold said on BBC TV.\n\n\"The biggest thing I have learned is remembering athletes are humans. We need to protect our young athletes.\"\n\nThere have been moments of brightness. Norway will leave Beijing with a record 16 gold medals and 37 in total, having dominated in the snow.\n\nChina's 18-year-old Eileen Gu became one of the stars of the Games with gold in the big air and halfpipe, while snowboarder Shaun White closed his career on the slopes.\n\nThe biggest sporting surprise was America's Mikaela Shiffrin, a heavy pre-Games favourite to clean up in the skiing events. She crashed out of three of her best events and did not manage to grab a medal in the others.\n\nWhile the Games have been a success for China, who secured their best Winter Olympics medal haul, questions over human rights abuses and the safety of tennis player Peng Shuai that dominated the build-up to the competition remain.\n\nThis is Great Britain's lowest medal total since 2010, where they won a sole gold in the women's skeleton.\n\nUK Sport set a target of three to seven medals but there were a number of near-misses and disappointment in the sliding events, making it the first time since 2002 that Britain have failed to win a skeleton medal.\n\nSnowboarder Charlotte Bankes, 2018 skeleton bronze medallist Laura Deas and alpine skier Dave Ryding were among the medal hopes, but struggled for rhythm and form in Beijing.\n\nBritain's first medal of the Games came on Saturday in the men's curling, before Eve Muirhead's rink claimed gold on the final day.\n\nSally Munday, the chief executive of UK Sport, said the \"greatest progress can come if we really learn from disappointment\".\n\n\"I also know that whilst the last 24 hours has created real joy, there are a number of our athletes who will leave Beijing disappointed,\" Munday wrote.\n\n\"Whilst there have been some memorable performances, many did not achieve the results they came for and no-one will be more disappointed than the athletes themselves.\n\n\"We always knew that Beijing 2022 would be a challenge like nothing they had previously experienced.\n\n\"We also know that the jeopardy that makes sports on snow and ice such a compelling spectacle for those of us watching is also a recipe for uncertainty. This undeniably played its part in preventing some of our medal hopes from achieving their dreams.\"\n• None Watch the trailer for the extraordinary new series of Killing Eve", "The Home Office is investigating claims racist WhatsApp messages were sent by immigration staff working for a firm it pays.\n\nThe messages - first reported by the Sunday Mirror - allegedly sent by Mitie staff, remarked on Syrian refugees, MP Diane Abbott and the home secretary.\n\nThe Home Office said its professional standards unit was probing the claims.\n\nMitie said the staff concerned had been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.\n\nIt did not confirm how many workers have been suspended.\n\nIn a statement, Mitie said the allegations were brought to its attention by a whistleblower and insisted there was \"no place for racism, bullying or discrimination\" in its business.\n\nThe Sunday Mirror revealed the alleged comments were made on a WhatsApp group containing about 80 Mitie workers, with offensive messages being exchanged since March 2020. Mitie said the group was \"not a company channel\".\n\nThe paper reported the messages were posted by Mitie workers whose duties include escorting immigration detainees and running detention centres.\n\nMitie added: \"As soon as we were made aware [of the claims], we commenced an investigation which is ongoing.\n\n\"In light of the seriousness of the allegations, we have suspended those colleagues about whom complaints have been made, pending the outcome of the investigation.\"\n\nThe messages revealed by the paper allegedly included remarks about Syrian refugees, Chinese people, Priti Patel and Ms Abbott, a Labour MP and former shadow home secretary.\n\nThe alleged racism was said to be within Mitie's \"care and custody\" division.\n\nThe texts were reported to managers and the WhatsApp thread was deleted last month, the Mirror reported.\n\nShadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said the messages were \"sickening\" and called for a review of Mitie's contract.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the department was \"investigating the allegations relating to Mitie staff's behaviour and conduct\".\n\nThey added: \"Mitie will update the immigration minister update next week on the steps being taken to ensure the highest standards are always met and that individuals in their care are treated with dignity and respect.\"\n\nFounded in 1987, Mitie describes itself as a facilities management company that delivers \"critical public services within the immigration, justice and care sectors for vulnerable adults\".\n\nIn 2017, it was awarded a 10-year Home Office contract to provide immigration services worth an estimated £525m.", "The Queen will be 96 when the main Jubilee celebrations kick off in June\n\nBuckingham Palace has unveiled the full line-up of celebrations to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee this year.\n\nStreet parties, a concert with some of the world's \"biggest entertainment stars\" and a chance to see the Queen's homes up close are all part of the plan to mark her 70 years on the throne.\n\nIt will culminate in a four-day UK bank holiday weekend from 2 to 5 June.\n\nThe first event begins on Monday, with a competition to invent a new pudding to celebrate the Queen's reign.\n\nFinalists will be judged by an expert panel including Dame Mary Berry and Masterchef's Monica Galetti.\n\nThe winning recipe will be made available to the public and the pudding will be enjoyed at Big Jubilee Lunches during the bank holiday weekend.\n\nOn 6 February the Queen will become the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking a 70-year reign.\n\nA series of celebrations will take place throughout the year.\n\nThe Queen marked 50 years on the throne in 2002, with the Duke of Edinburgh by her side\n\nShe rode in the Golden State Coach as part of the celebrations\n\nAs with the Queen's Golden and Diamond Jubilees, the first week in June has been chosen for the celebratory weekend, with the summer offering a better chance of good weather than February.\n\nTo create the four-day weekend, the late May Spring Bank Holiday will be moved to 2 June and an additional one-off bank holiday on 3 June created.\n\nIt is not clear which events the Queen will attend herself. She was advised by her medical team to rest for several weeks after an overnight hospital stay in October.\n\nThe majority of the jubilee duties will probably be given to the rest of the family, including the heir to the throne, the Prince of Wales, alongside his wife the Duchess of Cornwall.\n\nThis jubilee will be the Queen's first without her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died in April last year.\n\nIt's going to be puddings, parties, parades and pageants, in honour of the platinum jubilee.\n\nThere isn't really a template for celebrating a British monarch's 70-year reign, because it's not happened before.\n\nThe nearest was Queen Victoria's 63 years and elsewhere you have to go back to 18th-Century France and Louis XIV, who reached 72 years.\n\nIn this current bleak mid-Covid winter, the jubilee offers the warming prospect of a four-day bank holiday in June, with concerts, parties and pubs open until 1am.\n\nThe \"platinum pudding\" competition is in the tradition of royal-related dishes like Coronation Chicken, invented for the Queen's coronation in 1953. So expect a lot of trifling puns.\n\nThe celebrations are also a reminder of how much the Queen has been a constant figure. A recent study showed for 85% of the population she's the only monarch they've ever known.\n\nThis will be a marker for memories in many people's lives.\n\nPrince Philip joined the Queen on board the Royal Barge Spirit of Chartwell as part of the celebrations in 2012\n\nThe Queen taking part in a Silver Jubilee walkabout in 1977\n\nDuring the festivities, Sandringham and Balmoral will be open for visitors to enjoy the celebrations across the long weekend in June.\n\nAnd during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, a River Of Hope - made up of 200 silk flags decorated with images of hope drawn by children - will make its way along the Mall in central London.\n\nAs part of the Queen's Green Canopy initiative, some 60,000 trees have already been planted to mark the year, as people have been encouraged to \"plant a tree for the jubilee\".\n\nOn 10 January the Platinum Pudding Competition starts. Members of the public are invited to create a dish to dedicate to the Queen's reign.\n\nFrom 12 to 15 May, more than 500 horses and 1,000 performers will take part in a 90-minute show at Windsor Castle, taking the audience on a journey through history from Elizabeth I to present day.\n\nThe first day of the long weekend is Thursday 2 June and will see Trooping the Colour held in full for the first time since the pandemic. There will be more than 1,400 parading soldiers, 200 horses and 400 musicians taking part. Tickets are available to the public from next week on this site.\n\nAlso that day, Platinum Jubilee beacons will be lit in more than 1,500 locations across the UK, the Channel Islands, Isle of Man and UK Overseas Territories. For the first time, the capital cities of Commonwealth countries will also light beacons.\n\nOn Friday 3 June - the second day of the Bank Holiday weekend - a Service of Thanksgiving for the Queen's reign will be held at St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nOn Saturday 4 June the Queen will be joined by members of the Royal Family at the Derby, held at Epsom Downs. There will also be a Platinum Party at Buckingham Palace, with members of the public invited to apply to attend a live concert. Performers have yet to be named, but it is billed as bringing together some of the world's biggest stars to celebrate the most significant moments from the Queen's seven-decade reign. The ballot for UK residents to secure tickets will be launched in February.\n\nOn Sunday 5 June people across the country will be invited to sit down together to take part in the Big Jubilee Lunch, with street parties held across the UK. That day's events will also include the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, which will feature 5,000 people from the UK and the Commonwealth performing around the area of Buckingham Palace. The palace promises \"pomp and ceremony, street arts, theatre, music, circus, costumes as well as cutting-edge visual technology\".\n\nPrimary and secondary school children are invited to create a picture of their hopes and aspirations for the planet over the next 70 years. A selection of these will be transferred on to silk flags, which will carried by secondary school pupils in the pageant.\n\nIn July, three displays marking the Queen's accession to the throne, the coronation and jubilees will be put on at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse. It will include portraits as well as the jewellery and outfits worn for each occasion.\n\nWhat are your plans for the Jubilee? Or if you have a pudding recipe you'd be willing to share, please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The River Wharfe in Otley, West Yorkshire, after bursting its banks\n\nStorm Franklin has hammered parts of the UK with strong winds and heavy rain.\n\nThere is severe flooding in parts of Northern Ireland and flood warnings remain in place across England, Scotland and Wales.\n\n\"Severe disruption\" means Network Rail is advising customers to check before they travel on the railways.\n\nFranklin comes days after Storm Eunice killed three people and left 1.4 million homes without power.\n\nThe highest wind gust speeds on Monday morning reached 79mph in Capel Curig in Wales, and 78mph in Orlock Head, Northern Ireland. On Sunday night, 87mph was recorded at the Needles on the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe Met Office issued two weather warnings for earlier on Monday: an amber warning for wind in Northern Ireland, and a milder yellow warning for wind covering Wales, Northern Ireland, most of England and parts of south-west Scotland.\n\nStorm Franklin is the third named storm in a week - following Dudley and Eunice - the first time this has happened since the storm-naming system was introduced in 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Monday evening, UK Power Networks said it had restored electricity to 98% of properties across east and south-east England but 8,500 remained without power.\n\nEnergy minister Greg Hands said power outages were a \"horrible thing\" to happen to households and lessons would be learned for the energy network.\n\nHe said: \"Quite often very significant lessons do get learned - the 105 emergency number for power outages was a lesson learned from a previous storm.\"\n\nManchester Airport diverted nine flights on Monday morning because of storm winds. It is understood the planes were holding to land before being diverted, but the airport says the weather has not affected departures.\n\nBritish Airways has said winds made it difficult to unload baggage from its planes - causing delays for passengers after landing. The airline has also struggled to land and restock planes on time, affecting inbound and outbound movements.\n\nElsewhere, the O2 arena in London will remain closed until Friday, when a UB40 concert is expected to go ahead as planned, after Storm Eunice shredded sections of the roof.\n\nGeorge Goodfellow, from BBC weather, says the forecast for the rest of the week is best described as unsettled: \"We're expecting further spells of wet and windy weather for most of the coming week, and some parts of the UK will see strong winds at times.\n\n\"It looks as though the strongest winds will generally be towards the north west of the UK. Whether the winds will be strong enough to warrant the Met Office naming another storm is a bit uncertain.\n\n\"Warnings are usually issued based on the risk of disruption/hazardous weather, so I think the question is will it become significantly windier than normal. If so then warnings are likely, and I wouldn't rule out a named storm.\"\n\nStorms have been more frequent in the last week because of a strong jet stream running across the Atlantic and the UK - the coming week sees the jet stream move \"a little further north\".\n\nNorthern Ireland has seen severe flooding with locals trying to prevent rivers from bursting their banks\n\nIn Northern Ireland, heavy rain has caused severe flooding, with counties Londonderry and Tyrone the worst hit.\n\nNorthern Ireland Electricity said at the peak there were 10,000 homes without power during the early hours of Monday morning - that number has now fallen to around 330.\n\nA car is left covered in foam in Portstewart, County Derry\n\nParts of the River Severn and the Bristol Channel coast are on flood alert and emergency teams have erected flood barriers to try to stop the waters from reaching homes.\n\nCounty councillor Karl Lewis said Llandinam in Powys, central Wales, had been left looking like a \"disaster zone\".\n\nNational Rail is advising customers to check their routes before travelling.\n\nCrossCountry trains, which runs services from Aberdeen, through Birmingham and to the South West, is \"strongly recommending\" that people do not travel on Monday.\n\nGreat Western Railway (GWR) and South Western Railway joined CrossCountry trains and \"strongly\" advised against travel on Monday, and said disruption on routes are expected.\n\nSoutheastern railway withdrew its \"do not travel\" advice but warned its customers that they should expect delays and allow extra time for their journeys.\n\nChiltern Railways warned disruption will continue into Tuesday morning, \"including trains and carriages being in the wrong places\". It said customers should only travel on Monday \"if their journey is absolutely essential\".\n\nIn West Yorkshire, the Thackley railway tunnel closed due to flooding.\n\nAnd Rotherham Central station will remain closed until at least Tuesday - a picture shared by Leeds City Station on Twitter shows the extent of the track flooding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Leeds City Station This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russia has ordered its troops into east Ukraine, but western governments believe Moscow may be planning a much bigger invasion, to take over the whole country.\n\nThe UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said: \"We think they have a huge preparation ready to go.\n\n\"Everybody can see what the potential routes in are.\"\n\nMilitary analysts agree that with up to 190,000 troops near the Ukraine border, Russia has a range of options, should it decide to strike.\n\nRussian president Vladimir Putin has recognised two Russian-backed regions in east Ukraine, the self-styled Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, as independent states.\n\nHe has ordered troops into the two regions to \"maintain peace\".\n\nIf Mr Putin decides his troops should go further than the two regions, they may head for Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, according to Seth Jones of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.\n\nAn advance through Melitopol to the south would create a land bridge between Rostov in Russia and Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.\n\nRussia could also strike from Belgorod, where thousands of troops have been gathering for months. From there, the cities of Kharkiv and Kremenchuk are likely targets.\n\nBen Barry of the International Institute for Strategic Studies says a ground war would involve \"powerful armoured columns with concentrated artillery support to attempt to advance fast into the depth of Ukraine\".\n\nHe says even a limited operation in the east could involve the bombing of air defences and other key military command infrastructures elsewhere in the country.\n\nTroops have been taking part in exercises near Rostov-on-Don\n\nA Russian strike from the east might be helped by Russian-backed separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk.\n\nThey are thought to number about 15,000. Ukraine says the number is higher.\n\nIf Russia's goal is full regime change in Ukraine, an assault from the north is highly possible, according to Michael Kofman, of the US-based Center for Naval Analyses (CNA).\n\nRussia has 30,000 troops in Belarus for extended joint military exercises, equipped with Iskander short-range missiles and a number of rocket launchers, as well as Su-25 ground attack aircraft and Su-35 fighters.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Johnson said that he had seen intelligence suggesting that Russia was planning an attack from Belarus.\n\nHe said it would see a Russian advance \"coming down from the north, coming down from Belarus, and encircling Kiev itself\".\n\nThe exercises in Belarus have been extended indefinitely.\n\nTo the east, just inside Russian territory, \"Russia's entire 41st army is waiting on the border\", says Mr Kofman.\n\nAn advance on Kyiv from Belarus may avoid the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.\n\nOn the Russian side, it could come from Novye Yurkovichi and Troebortno, according to Mr Jones.\n\nA breakout from Crimea is \"almost certain\" if Russia launches an invasion, according to Mr Barry, a former British military planner.\n\nA Russian advance towards Kyiv from Crimea could strand large numbers of Ukrainian troops east of the Dnieper river, he says.\n\nWith Russian forces to their west, east and north, and in Crimea, Ukrainian troops would be encircled.\n\nRussian troops may try to take Kherson and Odesa to their west and Melitopol and Mariupol to the east - another option for creating a land bridge between Crimea and western Russia.\n\nAn advance from Crimea could also involve naval forces currently in the Black Sea.\n\nRussian landing ships in the area are capable of deploying personnel, armoured vehicles and main battle tanks.\n\nAnalysts emphasise that it's possible that any Russian advance could involve a number of routes simultaneously, allied to cyber-attacks, disinformation warfare and missile strikes.\n\nThey say Russia's most limited option might be to launch significant cyber-attacks on Ukraine, aiming to paralyse key infrastructure without taking territory.\n\nMr Kofman believes Russia has \"maximalist aims\" and is highly likely to strike deep into Ukraine.\n\nBut in the end, says Mr Kofman, the exact details of any attack will depend on Moscow's political objectives.", "Two reviews have been commissioned into Arthur Labinjo-Hughes' death, with the local inquiry's findings published on Monday\n\nVulnerable children living where schoolboy Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was tortured and killed have to wait too long for help, a report has found.\n\nArthur, six, died in June 2020 following a campaign of violence by his father and stepmother.\n\nA probe of services in Solihull has since uncovered a \"significant\" number of children who remain in \"unknown risk\" due to assessment delays.\n\nSolihull Council said it had already begun improvement work.\n\nThe report, published on Monday, found \"too many children in Solihull face drift and delay\" under the support framework delivered by multiple local agencies.\n\nWatchdogs said provision was \"under-resourced\" and showed a lack of \"clear understanding\" of the experiences of \"children and their families that need help and protection\".\n\nIn December, Emma Tustin was jailed for at least 29 years for Arthur's murder while her partner, Arthur's father Thomas Hughes, was given a 21-year sentence for manslaughter.\n\nEmma Tustin took a photo of Arthur as he lay dying and sent the image to Thomas Hughes\n\nThe pair's trial heard Arthur had been poisoned with salt by Tustin and subjected to regular beatings by both adults. He was also given punishments such as being denied food and drink and being made to stand for hours alone in a hallway.\n\nTustin delivered a fatal head injury to Arthur while in her sole care.\n\nDuring the trial, it emerged social workers from Solihull Council had visited the boy's home in the months before he died and found no issues, despite relatives raising concerns.\n\nA national inquiry commissioned after the pair's sentencing is to focus on the precise circumstances of the case. In the meantime, a Joint Targeted Area Inspection (JTAI) last month probed how local agencies worked together to help children.\n\nThe JTAI found Solihull's Local Safeguarding Children Partnership had experienced frequent changes of personnel which \"resulted in a loss of knowledge and experience\".\n\nIt warned long-standing issues in ensuring there were enough social workers had been compounded by Arthur's death, making those in the profession \"highly reluctant to work in Solihull\".\n\nAdditionally, inspectors were \"concerned\" about record-keeping flaws within the police system, including multiple records for the same person, and children not linked on the system to their parents, carers, siblings, and those who may pose a risk.\n\nInspectors identified one case of a child who was not linked to her father who had a criminal record, meaning an incident of domestic abuse to which the child was exposed did not appear on her file.\n\nThe report also found health workers did not have access to each other's records.\n\nLearning from significant incidents was not shared effectively either, it added, although steps had been developed following Arthur's death, it said, including guidance on bruising to children.\n\nArthur had more than 130 bruises when he died.\n\nToo many children experience \"drift and delay\" in having their needs, and risks they may face, assessed in Solihull.\n\nIt's a stark conclusion from the inspectors as they try to provide context to why concerns raised about Arthur Labinjo-Hughes didn't lead to more action.\n\nKnowing when to step in to protect a child is an incredibly tough judgment call. Information is almost inevitably patchy, but the inspectors describe the front door of Solihull's child protection services as significantly under resourced.\n\nIt points to immense pressure to meet daily demand, not enough social workers and long-term systemic issues, including delays in getting early support to those who need it.\n\nSuch pressures are not unusual. Many children's services teams in England say they are dealing with growing need and struggling to recruit staff.\n\nYears of squeezed council budgets mean there have been significant cuts to the early intervention services which might head off later problems.\n\nThere is a government review into the whole system currently under way, and many will argue that these deep-rooted problems have to be addressed if children are to be better protected.\n\nInspectors said Solihull Council should prepare a written statement of proposed action by 30 May.\n\nA raft of measures were suggested by inspectors. Steps, they said, should include addressing the \"timeliness and quality\" of initial decisions relating to concerns raised about children, and boosting consistency in recording children's voices across all agencies' records.\n\nThe local authority said it had already launched an Improvement Board and recruited an independent chair to work on upgrading safeguarding in the borough.\n\nCouncil leader Ian Courts, Conservative, said the new improvement board would \"support, oversee, and importantly challenge\" organisations with responsibility for safeguarding children.\n\nOpposition councillor Marcus Brain, Green, said: \"A lot of this seems to come down to quite fundamental systemic failures across the various multi-agencies.\"\n\nArthur had more than 130 bruises when he died\n\nIn a joint statement, the Minister for Children and Families Will Quince, the Minister for Care Gillian Keegan, and Minister for Safeguarding Rachel Maclean, said: \"Arthur's death was horrific and deeply disturbing.\n\n\"The two individuals responsible are in prison - but we must do everything we can to prevent any more cases like this. His death serves as a daily reminder of the urgent need for all the agencies tasked with protecting vulnerable children to work together.\"\n\nThey said police, health and children's services had an \"equal duty\" and they would be writing to all three about their expectation the agencies would provide a statement of intent.\n\nArthur had lived with his mother Olivia Labinjo-Halcrow until 2019\n\nArthur had lived with his mother Olivia Labinjo-Halcrow after she and Hughes split up not long before the boy's second birthday.\n\nIn 2019, after she was jailed for the manslaughter of her partner Gary Cunningham, Arthur was left in the sole care of his father.\n\nThe sentences of Tustin and Hughes have been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Attorney General as she believed they were \"too low\".\n\nArthur's case prompted an outpouring of grief across the UK and, after his killers were jailed, hundreds attended a vigil near the home where he died.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City say they are \"shocked and appalled\" at abuse suffered by Phil Foden and his family backstage at Saturday's Amir Khan-Kell Brook fight.\n\nFootage has emerged on social media of a confrontation at Manchester Arena between members of the public and a group including the England midfielder.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) say they have received no report in relation to the incident.\n\nBut they are conducting further enquiries after reviewing the footage.\n\nCity said they were aware of a video that \"shows Phil Foden and his family being harassed and abused\".\n\n\"We are shocked and appalled about the nature of the abuse and ensuing assault on one of Phil's family members,\" their statement added.\n\n\"We will continue to give Phil and his family all the support and assistance they need.\"\n\nIn a statement, GMP said they are \"aware of a video circulating on social media showing a disturbance at the AO Arena\" on Saturday.\n\nThey added: \"We are conducting some further enquiries into the circumstances surrounding the incident.\"\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "Josh and Lauryn Vartan delivered baby Florence in the back of their car on the day of Storm Eunice\n\nA couple from Suffolk welcomed their baby on the side of the road as Storm Eunice blew in.\n\nLauryn Vartan was due to be induced on Friday, but baby Florence had other ideas as Mrs Vartan's contractions started at 23:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nBy 04:00 on Friday she and husband Josh were in the car on the way from Felixstowe to Ipswich Hospital, but almost immediately needed to pull over.\n\nFlorence was delivered by her dad on the hard shoulder 45 minutes later.\n\nMr Vartan said: \"It's something I didn't expect to be doing but I feel total euphoria.\n\n\"[It is] such a lovely feeling - like something you see in a movie, but never think you'll have to do anything like it; it's a bit far-fetched but actually such a lovely experience.\"\n\nBaby Florence was born just as Storm Eunice was beginning on Friday\n\nMrs Vartan was \"stressed\" but still managed to issue \"a very strict instruction 'to pull the car over now'\" to her husband.\n\n\"We live in the centre of Felixstowe. We got as far as the Dock Spur roundabout and had to pull over,\" he said.\n\n\"As soon as I looked I could see my daughter's head.\"\n\nAmbulance staff talked Mr Vartan through what he needed to do via the phone, but being in the car he did not have all the right tools, such as a shoelace, safety pin or towel.\n\n\"I said we had a dressing gown which Lauryn had for labour and they said that was perfect to catch and wrap the baby in,\" he said.\n\nFlorence was delivered at 04:45 and Mr Vartan said his wife was almost thankful for the winds, which were picking up, as the fresh air through the open door during labour made the experience \"a bit less hot\".\n\nMum and baby were both \"doing fantastic\", Mr Vartan said.\n\nMidwives did suggest naming the baby Eunice, but after careful consideration the family decided to stick with Florence.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Workers dug with spades and shovels through the rubble and muck in a dense fog on Saturday\n\nSearch and clean-up efforts continue in the Brazilian city of Petrópolis, five days after flash floods and mudslides that have killed at least 171 people.\n\nThe victims include at least 27 children and teenagers, while more than 120 are still missing, officials say.\n\nRepeated downpours have hampered the work of emergency teams, with authorities saying it is unlikely anyone will be found alive.\n\nAbout 900 people are being housed in schools and shelters.\n\nWorkers are digging with spades and shovels through the rubble and muck, with teams of volunteers helping in the efforts.\n\nThe search is being carried out with hand tools and chainsaws in unstable areas, with teams being helped by 41 sniffer dogs.\n\n\"It's impossible to bring in heavy machinery up here,\" Roberto Amaral, co-ordinator of the local fire department's special rescue group, told AFP news agency. \"So we basically have to work like ants, going little by little.\"\n\nIn one of the worst-hit neighbourhoods, up to 80 houses on a hillside were hit by landslides.\n\nIn unstable areas, the search is being carried out with hand tools and chainsaws\n\nUp to 80 houses on a hillside were hit by landslides in one of the worst-hit neighbourhoods\n\nOn Sunday, a massive clean-up effort retrieved more than 300 vehicles that had been swept away by the floods as the city, a popular tourist getaway north of Rio de Janeiro, tries to reopen for business.\n\n\"We need our streets clear so we can speed up the job of getting our city back on its feet,\" Mayor Rubens Bomtempo said.\n\nTuesday's rainfall exceeded the average for the whole of February, triggering landslides and floods. President Jair Bolsonaro, who flew over the disaster zone on Friday, said the city was suffering from \"enormous destruction, like scenes of war\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deluge of rainfall causes a landslide and flooding in Petrópolis, Brazil", "The A470 was unpassable at Llandinam after the River Severn burst its banks\n\nResidents had to be evacuated and seven people were rescued by boat after the River Severn burst its banks during Storm Franklin, a councillor has said.\n\nKarl Lewis said one person was taken to hospital as a precaution after flooding left Llandinam, Powys, looking like a \"disaster zone\".\n\nIt was the third named storm within a week and came just days after Wales was battered by Storm Eunice.\n\nDozens of flood warnings were in place and high winds caused further damage.\n\nMr Lewis, county councillor for Llandinam, said four properties in the village were flooded after heavy rain and strong winds caused the river banks to burst at about 16:00 GMT Sunday.\n\n\"We've rescued seven people out of four properties near the River Severn when it came across the road,\" he said.\n\nHe described those rescued as \"elderly and frail\", adding: \"It's like a disaster zone. The river levels are dropping now, but the A470 remains impassable.\"\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) has issued more than 20 flood warnings, with north Powys the worst affected.\n\nAt Meifod, the River Vyrnwy reached 3.817m (12.5 ft), beating the previous high of 3.79m (12.43 ft), while the River Severn in Newtown reached 4.106m (13.47 ft), eclipsing the record of 3.63m (11.9 ft) from 2008.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Branty This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHundreds of homes were still without power on Sunday evening after widespread damage was caused following 92mph (148km/h) winds.\n\nA yellow warning for wind is in place across Wales until 13:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nA woman on Twitter said a small stream near her mother's home in Caersws, north Powys, now resembled a river.\n\nIn Powys, the A470 between Llangurig and Rhayader was closed due to flooding, according to Dyfed Powys Police, as was the A458 at Cyfronydd, Powys and A487 Dyfi Bridge in Machynlleth.\n\nSara Gibson described difficult driving conditions on the A458 in Powys, as river levels continued to rise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sara Gibson This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNigel Brinn, an executive director at Powys council, said: \"We are expecting river levels in the north of the county to be comparable to their peak during Storm Dennis.\"\n\nStorm Dennis brought record rainfall to Wales in February 2020, resulting in some of the most significant and devastating flooding seen since the 1970s.\n\nA footpath along the River Severn in Newtown, Powys, is completely submerged by water\n\nNRW said flooding was expected in Powys on the River Teme in Knighton, along the River Severn around Welshpool, and on the River Vyrnwy at Llansantffraid, Llanymynech and Meifod.\n\nIt said flooding was also possible around large parts of the Welsh coast and on several rivers including the Dee in Wrexham and Denbighshire, the Usk estuary in Newport and the Wye estuary in Monmouthshire.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Cardiff by Camera This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 3 by Cardiff by Camera\n\nMeanwhile, travel on roads and railway lines continues to be disrupted following damage caused by Storm Eunice.\n\nGwent Police said several roads were affected by the weather on Sunday evening, including the A472 in Newbridge and a number of routes in Newport. In Cardiff, Cathedral Road is closed after a tree fell on to a property.\n\nThe tree crashed down on to properties on Cathedral Road in Cardiff\n\nCardiff resident Yoko Hargreaves, 23, who lives on Cathedral Road, described sitting down to watch television and looking up to see a tree crashing into her property.\n\nHer house was unscathed and she thinks a few tiles were damaged next door, adding: \"It was really shocking. I think we anticipated the worse of the storm was taking place on Friday so to suddenly have a tree come down on the property today was really unexpected.\"\n\nChristchurch Road in Newport has been closed after a tree fell into the road\n\nIn Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales Police said it had closed Cyfarthfa Retail Park after receiving reports of insecure roofing.\n\nTens of thousands of homes had been without power as workers from Western Power and Scottish Power worked to restore electricity over the weekend.\n\nThe worst affected areas have been Gower, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion, according to Western Power.\n\nSabrina Lee: \"Storm Eunice has resulted in weakened or damaged trees and structures\"\n\nA third storm system has been named in the space of less than a week; first Storm Dudley, then Storm Eunice and now Storm Franklin.\n\nGusts of 50-60mph (80-97km/h) are expected quite widely, possibly closer to 70mph (113km/h) for some coastal locations\n\nWhilst the peak wind gusts will not be as high as those recorded in Storm Eunice, the spell of very windy conditions could delay the Storm Eunice clear-up.\n\nIn addition, there is a greater chance of disruption than usually observed with winds of this strength, as Storm Eunice has resulted in weakened or damaged trees and structures.\n\nThe roof has been torn off the gym at Merthyr Tydfil's Bishop Hedley school\n\nThe roof of a school gymnasium \"peeled back like a piece of cardboard\", according to the head teacher, who said: \"This could have been a catastrophe.\"\n\nSarah Hopkins, of Bishop Hedley secondary school in Merthyr Tydfil, said it happened on Friday when there were no children present, with debris inside the building and the floor now covered in water.\n\nMs Hopkins said scaffolding needed to be put up to secure the roof but winds had been too strong for that to happen.\n\nWhen children return after half-term, they will be able to use another sports hall or indoor 3G pitch, with Ms Hopkins adding: \"This is just a building. It could have been so much worse.\"\n\nThe windy weather has whipped up a sea of foam along Aberystwyth promenade\n\nThe power cuts have brought out community spirit, with warm drinks and biscuits being offered to anyone without power by Amman United RFC in Glanamman, Carmarthenshire.\n\nAnd Pembrokeshire council has urged family and friends to check on users of personal alarms, saying they have a 24-hour battery as a back-up in the event of a power cut.\n\nVolunteers also came forward to help with a clean-up at Greenacres Rescue in Little Haven, Pembrokeshire, where rabbit and geese enclosures were blown around \"like they were dolls houses\".\n\nA roof blew off a stable and the main office - a static caravan - was \"torn apart\" but no animals were hurt and well-wishers pledged more than £2,000 to help with costs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJulie James, Minister for Climate Change, said she had \"huge gratitude for the people who've worked their socks off this weekend, and getting prepared, and then helping to clear up the aftermath\".\n\n\"If we can't get the world's temperature to come down, we're going to be seeing more and more of these events,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Sunday Supplement.\n\nAerial view of engineers clearing a fallen tree from the tracks near Llangadog, Carmarthenshire\n\nTransport for Wales said its \"emergency amended timetable\" would continue to run until further notice following damage caused by Storm Eunice.\n\nIt advised rail passengers to check their journeys before they travel on Sunday and Monday.\n\nSeveral roads remain closed due to fallen trees, power cables and debris, including Goetre Fach Road in Killay, Swansea, where tiles were blown off a chapel roof.\n\nThe M48 Severn Bridge at Monmouthshire has been closed due to the strong winds and restrictions are in place on the A55 Britannia Bridge between Anglesey and Gwynedd.", "Two police constables and an ex-officer charged with sharing \"grossly offensive\" messages with Wayne Couzens have been named by prosecutors.\n\nPC Jonathon Cobban, 35, PC William Neville, 33, and former officer Joel Borders, 45, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 16 March.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had said it could not release their names\n\nCouzens, 49, raped and murdered Sarah Everard while working for the Met, after kidnapping her in a fake arrest.\n\nPC Cobban and Mr Borders are each charged with five counts of sending grossly offensive messages on a public communications network. PC Neville faces two counts of the same offence.\n\nThe alleged offences took place between April and August 2019, two years before the murder of the 33-year-old marketing executive.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said the charges arose from an investigation into the phone records of Couzens.\n\nThe Met said the serving officers had been suspended from duty.\n\nLast week, when the charges were first announced, the CPS said that it could not release the men's names due to \"operational reasons\".\n\nBut on Monday their identities were published, as is standard in criminal cases after charges have been brought.\n\nMet Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Bas Javid said: \"I am deeply concerned to hear two serving officers and a former officer have been charged with these offences.\n\n\"I understand that the public will be very concerned too.\n\n\"Criminal proceedings must now take their course.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Jamal Edwards speaking in 2016 and 2017, sharing business advice and the reason he got into film-making\n\nPrince Charles and rappers Dave and AJ Tracey are among the many voices paying tribute to entrepreneur and YouTube star Jamal Edwards.\n\nEdwards, who has died at the age of 31, is the son of singer and presenter Brenda Edwards, who said she was \"completely devastated\".\n\nThe Prince of Wales paid tribute to his work for The Prince's Trust.\n\nDave simply wrote: \"Thank you for everything. Words can't explain\" while Tracey said he was a \"legend\".\n\nPrince Charles was among the figures paying tribute to Jamal Edwards\n\nEdwards was the founder of SBTV, an online grime and rap music platform which helped launch the careers of artists like Dave, Ed Sheeran and Skepta. He first got into film-making after his parents gave him a video camera as a Christmas present when he was 15.\n\nBorn in Luton and later moving to west London, he was appointed an MBE for services to music in 2014. A pioneering figure in British rap and grime music, Edwards attended the Brit Awards earlier this month, and was understood to have performed as a DJ at a gig in north London on Saturday night.\n\nHis company confirmed his death to the BBC on Sunday, saying he died that morning. His mother said he \"passed away after a sudden illness\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Loose Women This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Prince's Trust described him in a tweet as \"an incredible innovator and entrepreneur.\"\n\nActor Idris Elba tweeted that Edwards would \"be missed\", while businessman Sir Richard Branson, who wrote the forward for Edwards' 2013 book, Self Belief: The Vision, tweeted that the star was \"a truly extraordinary young man who made a huge difference to so many people's lives\".\n\nI May Destroy You star Michaela Coel said: \"May his passion, joy and relentless desire to platform British artists be an inspiration.\"\n\nFormer prime minister David Cameron, who is chair of the National Citizen Service's Board of Patrons, paid tribute to Edwards for \"supporting and inspiring young people to be the best they could be, leading from the front and showing what's possible with hard work and determination\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan tweeted that British music and entertainment \"has lost one of its brightest stars\", while Chelsea Football Club added that Edwards - a Chelsea fan - was \"an inspiration to many, we're honoured that he was part of our Chelsea family\".\n\nIn 2019, he directed the Chelsea FC remix video of grime artist Capo Lee's Style and Swag, and the video featured several of the team's players.\n\nIt's impossible to overstate how important Jamal Edwards was to British rap.\n\nHis YouTube channel, which was started \"on a £20 phone\" while he was still at school, has given early exposure to almost every key player in the game. Stormzy, Skepta, JME, J Hus, Lady Leshurr, Dave, AJ Tracey, Krept & Konan, Headie One… the list is endless.\n\nTo an extent, SBTV was formed out of frustration. \"Everyone in my area was an MC and I remember thinking, 'Why can't I find these online? I'm going to film people in my area and upload it to Youtube',\" Edwards told BBC Radio 1Xtra in 2017. \"And from there it just started building and growing.\"\n\nSBTV arrived at a crucial time, showing that grime could thrive online, while police were attempting to shut down gigs with the controversial risk-assessment form 696.\n\nThe channel's success meant Edwards became known as an entrepreneur and businessman - but he was a reluctant frontman. \"I wanted to be the Banksy,\" he said. \"I wanted no-one to know who I was.\"\n\nThat changed in 2011, when he featured in an advert for Google Chrome. His name was searched more than a million times. and people started approaching him for selfies.\n\nBut he put his fame to good use - raising awareness of mental health, funding youth centres and encouraging other young entrepreneurs.\n\nMusic remained his true passion, though, and he never stopped supporting the artists he loved. As recently as December, he encouraged Ed Sheeran to record a new verse for a song he'd discovered by Nigerian artist Fireboy DML. That track, Peru, climbed to number two in the UK charts, giving the African star his first international hit.\n\nEdwards took no credit - he never did - but hundreds of artists have similar stories. His loss will be felt throughout the UK music scene.\n\nBBC 1Xtra DJ and presenter Nadia Jae told Newsbeat that Edwards \"helped me with my career\", adding: \"He's helped so many people, put them in places that they never would have been and did a lot of the pushing of doors to make sure that our industry is as fruitful as it is now.\"\n\nShe added: \"He had a heart of gold, I don't know anyone who has a bad word to say about Jamal.\n\n\"He broke so many barriers, I don't know if we're ever going to get another Jamal.\"\n\nPresenter and comedian Mo Gilligan, who hosted this year's Brit awards, tweeted: \"A truly humble and blessed soul. Your legacy will live on for years and you've inspired a whole generation.\"\n\nRapper Lady Leshurr said: \"He gave me opportunity after opportunity to showcase my talent from Brum into London. We need to keep his name and brand alive.\"\n\nSinger Jessie J, whose early appearances on SBTV helped get her noticed, said her \"heart is broken\". Her Instagram post included clips of them appearing on Channel 4's Celebrity Gogglebox together.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by jessiej This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActress Linda Robson, who sits alongside Edwards' mother Brenda on the Loose Women panel, said on the ITV show on Monday that Edwards had taken her own son, the musician Louis Dunford, \"under his wing\".\n\n\"Brenda did such a good job with her son because he was a proper gentleman,\" Robson told presenter Charlene White. \"He really was the loveliest boy... Thanks to Jamal my son is now going on tour this year with Jake Bugg.\"\n\nWhite dedicated the entire show to their friend Brenda while describing her late son as \"a powerhouse\" who \"changed the UK music scene in a way that we've not seen for generations\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charlene White This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRapper Youngs Teflon, who featured on SBTV, told the BBC: \"If I had one word for Jamal it would be selfless.\n\n\"Almost every artist has a story - he just touched so many people. Rappers, singers, presenters.\"\n\nHe added: \"His thing with me was never stop, never get disheartened…. He made me feel I had a purpose. It meant a lot and it went a long way.\n\n\"He will be remembered in every conversation when it comes to pioneers. This will be the person that put me on or gave me my first opportunity.\"\n\nAt a vigil in west London, fans and friends also paid tribute.\n\n\"He was the hero of Acton. He was the guy who showed you could make it out without being a drug dealer, without getting involved in crime or anything,\" Zachary Thomas told the BBC.\n\nDominic Magliore said: \"It's hard to accept it. I heard about it yesterday and I saw him on Friday, we was hugging, laughing and having a good time & everything seemed ok.\"\n\nSam Borelli said: \"Jamal was the guy that showed kids from low-income households that you are not limited to what your grades might tell you. He made the musicians that made me, if you know what I mean, with a camera he got for Christmas.\"\n\nActor and director Adam Deacon posted that he was \"honestly heartbroken\", saying: \"Jamal was one of the nicest, most down to earth and humble men I've met in this industry,\" he said. \"He always gave me time even when no-one else would.\"\n\nSinger Gabrielle described Edwards as \"an incredible young man\", and Transport for London employees and writers All on the Board, who share inspiring quotes on social media, also paid tribute.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by All On The Board This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 3 by All On The Board\n\nThe Voice Newspaper added their whole team was \"saddened and shocked\", saying: \"Gone waaay to soon. He made an amazing contribution to promoting black music, to entrepreneurship, and so much more. An incredible talent who will be much missed. RIP.\"\n\nIn a tweet, the organisers of the Mobo Awards said they were \"deeply saddened\" to learn of Edwards' death.\n\nThey added: \"As the founder of @SBTVonline, his groundbreaking work & legacy in British music and culture will live on. Our hearts and thoughts are with his friends and family.\"\n\nBirmingham-based rapper Jaykae is an example of one of the acts that SBTV has helped to achieve success. Although he only broke through to mainstream chart success as the featured rapper on Top 20 hit Flowers two years ago, his videos have been featured on SBTV for more than a decade.\n\nDescribing Edwards as a \"legend\", Jaykae tweeted: \"I think I can speak for us all as artists and as supporters of UK grime/rap scene when I say I owe this man so much! Helped me sometimes without even speaking of it.\"\n\nIn a 2013 interview with the BBC, Edwards said he filmed friends rapping or singing and began to upload the videos to YouTube to allow other friends to see them.\n\n\"You can say my videos had mixed reviews to begin with, some people didn't get them, but others thought they were sick [good],\" he said. \"So I started to put them up on YouTube so everyone could see them, and it just grew from there.\"\n\nSBTV - his London-based platform for discovering emerging artists and named after Edwards' own rapper moniker SmokeyBarz - has now grown to 1.22 million subscribers on YouTube.\n\nIt featured early music videos from artists including J Hus, Emeli Sande and Stormzy - and dozens of other British acts who were not widely known at the time.\n\nEdwards, pictured in 2020, wrote a book in 2013 called Self Belief: The Vision: How to Be a Success on Your Own Terms\n\nAs Edwards' profile grew, he also entered the fashion world, walking the catwalk for Hermes, fronting a collection for Kurt Geiger and then posing for Primark in order to illustrate his own belief that \"affordable fashion is important\".\n\nHe wrote a book - described as a mix of a memoir and a business manual - called Self Belief: The Vision: How to Be a Success on Your Own Terms.\n\nHe often tweeted motivational tips to inspire his followers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEdwards also founded JE Delve, a grassroots charity that provides youth clubs as well as learning and work opportunities for young people in west London, where he grew up after he and his family moved there from Luton.\n\nHe worked with a handful of other youth charities and regularly made visits to speak to teenagers, including at both Acton High School and West London College where he had studied, to answer questions on business success and self-motivation.\n\nEaling MP Rupa Huq shared a selection of photos of Edwards on social media as she paid tribute to the \"local hero\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Rupa Huq MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS in England will no longer limit the number of Caesarean sections it performs, under plans to improve care for mothers and babies.\n\nMaternity units were previously encouraged to promote natural births and keep the Caesarean rate to about 20%.\n\nIt comes after one NHS trust was criticised for poor maternity care.\n\nShrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is currently being investigated for nearly 2,000 maternity incidents.\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC News, maternity staff have been told to treat cases on an individual basis and follow National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance allowing women to opt for a planned Caesarean even if it is not for medical reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Caesarean sections: Why and when are they used?\n\nCaesarean sections are when a baby is delivered through a surgical cut into the abdomen and womb and can be:\n\nMore than one out of every four babies born in England is now delivered by either elective or emergency Caesarean.\n\nNHS England chief midwife Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent and clinical director for women's health Dr Matthew Joly said in the letter they were \"concerned\" by trusts focusing on hitting targets.\n\n\"We therefore ask all maternity services to stop using total Caesarean section rates as a means of performance management, as we are concerned by the potential for services to pursue targets that may be clinically inappropriate and unsafe in individual cases,\" the letter says.\n\nHospitals had previously been following advice from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, given in 2012.\n\nRCOG vice-president Dr Jo Mountfield welcomed the clarification to end target-driven clinical decision making for Caesarean births, saying: \"These targets carry certain benefits and risks, which should be discussed with women as they choose how they wish to give birth.\n\n\"Women and people giving birth should feel supported and their choices should be respected.\"\n\nLast year, after the Health and Social Care Committee found 1,000 more babies a year would survive if England had safer maternity services, the government announced £2m was being put into research to spot early signs of distress.\n\nMaternity units were improving but newborn deaths remained too high, the committee found.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Ukrainian soldier on the frontline in Donetsk, one of two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine\n\nRussia will decide today whether to recognise the independence of two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has said.\n\nRussian-backed rebels have been fighting Ukrainian troops in Donetsk and Luhansk since 2014, with regular violence despite a ceasefire agreement.\n\nLeaders of both regions asked Russia to recognise their independence on Monday.\n\nBut Western powers fear such a move could be used as a pretext for Russia to invade its neighbour.\n\nSince 2019, Russia has issued large numbers of passports to people living in the two regions.\n\nAnalysts say that if the two regions were recognised as independent, Russia might send troops into Ukraine's east under the guise of protecting its citizens.\n\nRussia has built up more than 150,000 troops on Ukraine's borders, a move which has widely been seen by Western nations as preparation for an imminent invasion. Russia denies any such plans.\n\nMr Putin will give a televised address to the nation on Monday evening, according to Russian media, but no exact time has been given.\n\nAt a televised meeting of the Russian security council on Monday, Mr Putin said he was considering recognising both breakaway regions as states.\n\n\"The objective of our meeting today is to listen to colleagues and decide on our next steps in this area,\" Mr Putin said.\n\n\"I mean both the appeal to Russia made by the heads of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic for the recognition of their sovereignty,\" he added.\n\nSeveral officials at the council meeting spoke up in favour of the move, and the Russian parliament has already asked Mr Putin to recognise their independence.\n\nBut the Russian President did not indicate his final decision, saying it would be made later Monday.\n\nThis was a piece of theatre in which everyone had their allotted role and script.\n\nRussia's most senior officials sat in an awkward-looking semi-circle before Vladimir Putin, and were called upon one by one to tell him what he wanted to hear.\n\nIn the story they spun, Russia was being compelled to step in to protect the people of the Donbas - many of them now Russian citizens - from the deadly threat posed by Kyiv, by giving formal recognition to the breakaway regions. The word genocide was uttered again; Ukraine's government described as puppets of the West.\n\nSome played their part with more gusto than others. At one point, a dry-mouthed and stumbling intelligence chief strayed off script and declared his support for incorporating the breakaway regions into Russia. He was corrected like an errant schoolboy by President Putin.\n\nThe actual decision - which would end any peace talks with Kyiv - hasn't been announced yet. In a final flourish, Vladimir Putin said he would first mull over what he'd heard, then make his call.\n\nWhich sounded rather like a challenge to the US to try and stop him.\n\nThe move came amid a day of claim and counter-claim by Russia and Ukraine about events on the frontlines of the contested region.\n\nIn Donestk and Luhansk, the Russia-backed rebel groups have been locked in an uneasy ceasefire with Ukrainian forces since 2015 with frequent violations.\n\nInternational monitors report a \"dramatic increase\" in attacks along the line dividing rebel and government forces. Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and four injured by shelling on Saturday, the first deaths to be reported in weeks.\n\nThe rebels, meanwhile, have alleged casualties on their side, including at least one civilian, and Russia has evacuated some women and children from the regions to Russian soil.\n\nMoscow and the separatist rebels have claimed Ukraine is planning an assault to retake the areas, but this has been dismissed by both Kyiv and the West.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Amid fears of a Russian invasion, families in Ukraine are worried they will have to flee for a second time\n\nRussian military officials said they had killed five Ukrainians who crossed into Russia's territory from Ukraine, and that one Ukrainian soldier had been captured. Russia also claimed that one of its border crossing posts had been destroyed by shelling from Ukraine.\n\nThe allegations prompted Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to take to social media and accuse Russia of carrying out a wider disinformation campaign.\n\n\"Russia, stop your fake-producing factory now,\" he wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dmytro Kuleba This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier, US President Joe Biden agreed \"in principle\" to hold a summit with Mr Putin.\n\nThe hoped-for talks were brokered by the French presidency after two lengthy phone calls with Mr Putin, but have not been confirmed. The Kremlin then sought to downplay the likelihood of any summit, saying there were no \"concrete plans\".\n\nHowever, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov are due to meet for talks later this week as attempts to find a diplomatic solution continue.", "Linda McCall was convicted of attacks on five vulnerable children\n\nAn inquiry into a case of abuse by a teacher has described the time it took a council to report concerns to a child protection unit as \"reprehensible\".\n\nAndrew Webster QC said this should have happened in October 2017 - but did not take place until about a year later.\n\nScottish Borders Council has now issued an apology to parents over the case.\n\nLinda McCall, who was initially cleared of wrongdoing, was found guilty last year of assaulting five vulnerable children between 2016 and 2017.\n\nAn independent inquiry was ordered into the case, and its report has now been made public.\n\nThe families have previously told BBC Scotland of the \"life-changing trauma\" that had been caused by the case.\n\nScottish Borders Council will meet to discuss the findings later this week\n\nThe inquiry found that the council's procedures meant concerns should have been raised with the child protection unit in October 2017.\n\nIt added that there were further occasions when they could have been reported, and the council \"compounded its failure\" to act promptly.\n\nMr Webster said the fact that it took until October 2018 for the case to be taken to the child protection unit was \"reprehensible\".\n\nHe said he could not rule out that the delay had caused \"unnecessary harm\" to children and that it had undoubtedly caused distress for parents.\n\nHe also criticised the local authority's failure to recognise the significance of the conduct being alleged and deficiencies in its training in the reporting of child protection concerns.\n\nThe inquiry has made 10 recommendations in light of its findings including:\n\nThe 62-page report says other staff at the primary school where McCall was working as a teacher of complex needs raised concerns about her \"rough treatment\" of children in October 2017.\n\nShe was moved to another location - away from pupils - and a disciplinary investigation launched which ultimately saw her reassigned to a different place of work.\n\nThe council did not inform parents about the allegations or the disciplinary process but rumours began to circulate about the reasons for her departure - including the possibility children had been harmed.\n\nOne parent was advised by a councillor that the rumours were not true but they persisted - leading to media reports of an alleged \"cover-up\" and concerns over the council's \"wall of silence\".\n\nIt was only after a child protection investigation in late 2018 that the allegations - made about a year earlier - were brought to the attention of the police.\n\nOne parent told BBC Scotland that the council should have apologised \"a lot sooner\".\n\n\"Finally, they are actually realising they have got something to apologise for,\" she added.\n\nAnother parent shared the frustration about the time it had taken to receive \"a bit of a half-hearted apology\".\n\n\"It has just been an exhausting battle,\" she said.\n\n\"It feels a little bit better in some ways, but it still doesn't change what happened and that should never have happened.\n\n\"There need to be changes that ensure this never ever happens to another child again.\"\n\nMarina Urie, a senior lawyer with Thompsons Solicitors, said the report \"completely vindicates the families\" and laid bare the council's failings.\n\n\"Thanks to the efforts of my clients, hopefully every child under the protection of Borders Council from now on will be looked after properly.\n\n\"The council are now subject to civil legal proceedings on behalf of children abused by their employee and we hope to conclude these matters soon.\"\n\nCouncil leader Mark Rowley said what had happened was \"shocking and completely unacceptable\".\n\nHe said he was sorry matters had not been referred to the child protection unit at their earliest opportunity, and for the council's failure to communicate appropriately with parents.\n\n\"Most of all, the council apologises wholeheartedly that the incidents of abuse occurred in the first place,\" he said.\n\n\"We must now learn from these mistakes and ensure they are never repeated.\"\n\nCarol Hamilton, executive member for children and young people, said the report made \"very uncomfortable reading\" and the council \"should have done much better\".\n\nThe council will meet to discuss the inquiry's findings on Friday and look at any changes required as a result of its recommendations.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nSwansea City's Championship game against Bournemouth on Tuesday has been postponed with the Welsh club citing \"safety reasons\" after storm-damage at their home ground.\n\nThe club say neither a full assessment of damage at the Swansea.com Stadium nor the necessary repair work can be completed in time for kick-off.\n\nThe decision was made \"following an inspection by the licensing authority and club management\".\n\nMore bad weather is forecast in Wales.\n\nIt is understood Swansea are confident the damage will be repaired before their next home game, against Coventry City on Saturday, 5 March.\n\nIn their statement, Swansea said: \"A rearranged date for this fixture will be announced in due course.\"\n\nBournemouth's last scheduled match against Nottingham Forest on Friday was also postponed after Storm Eunice caused damage to Vitality Stadium.\n\nFleetwood's League One game against Sheffield Wednesday on Tuesday is also off because of storm damage.\n• None 'I was the most successful medium': Meet the self-confessed conman who lifted the lid on the 'psychic mafia'", "Tributes have been paid at Stormont to Christopher Stalford after the DUP assembly member's sudden death aged 39.\n\nMr Stalford was principal deputy speaker and had represented South Belfast since 2016, having served previously as councillor, high sheriff of Belfast and deputy mayor.\n\nHe is survived by his wife Laura and four children.\n\nAhead of the sitting, DUP assembly members gathered in the Great Hall at Stormont to pray.\n\nThey were led by North Antrim MLA Mervyn Storey.\n\nSome then entered the chamber, with others heading to the assembly gallery which has been opened specially for other MLAs to sit and watch the tributes, because social distancing rules are still in place in the chamber limiting numbers.\n\nAfter tributes had been paid, members took part in a minute's silence to reflect on Mr Stalford's life.\n\nAhead of the sitting, DUP assembly members gathered in the Great Hall at Stormont to pray\n\nMr Stalford's death was announced on Sunday and the tributes, paid across the political spectrum, referenced his wry humour, passion for politics and debate, and love for his wife and children.\n\nDUP deputy leader Paula Bradley led a tearful tribute in the chamber on behalf of the party.\n\nShe said she wanted to \"honour and give thanks for the life of our much-loved friend and esteemed colleague\".\n\n\"Words cannot adequately explain the sense of pain and loss that is felt on these benches,\" she added.\n\nDUP deputy leader Paula Bradley led an emotional tribute to her colleague\n\nShe expressed her sympathies to Mr Stalford's family \"on the loss of a man who was so utterly devoted to them\".\n\n\"Christopher's joy came not in holding office but in how he could use that office to improve the everyday lives of those he was honoured to represent,\" she said.\n\n\"It was a mark of the man that he had friends on all sides of this chamber.\"\n\nBefore tributes began, DUP MLAs gathered together just outside the chamber in the great hall, led in prayer by the party's Mervyn Storey.\n\nThe DUP deputy leader Paula Bradley spoke tearfully as she thanked other parties for their kind tributes.\n\nOne by one, members of other parties shared their fond memories of the fierce debater, known for his wit but also his respect for the institutions and love of public service - something reflected by the Assembly Speaker Alex Maskey\n\nEvery MLA who spoke, conscious of what Stormont is now without, even more aware of the great loss felt by Christopher Stalford's family, who he was so deeply devoted to.\n\nThe former Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill has Covid so is not present.\n\nInstead, Deirdre Hargey, the communities minister, led the tributes for Sinn Féin.\n\nThe South Belfast MLA said she first met Mr Stalford at Belfast City Council and \"instantly thought he was older than me due to his mannerisms and his attire of his pinstriped suit, initially thinking this was the instructed uniform of all DUP councillors at that time\".\n\nMs Hargey said he \"enjoyed the cut and thrust\" of debate and loved talking about his family, faith and unionism.\n\n\"Whilst our politics differed, we shared similarities, growing up in working class communities in south Belfast,\" she added.\n\nSocial Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) MLA Nichola Mallon told the chamber she had known the DUP MLA for 10 years.\n\n\"In all that time, I got to know a man who was challenging, argumentative, ambitious, some may even say combative, during debates but also a man who was kind, who was quick-witted, fiercely intelligent and very, very funny,\" Ms Mallon said.\n\nShe said his love for his wife and children \"just radiated from him\".\n\nOn Sunday, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood postponed his party's conference out of respect.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, Christopher Stalford and his wife Laura in 2010\n\nUUP leader Doug Beattie told the chamber Mr Stalford was \"absolutely unique, he was a fierce debater\".\n\n\"I have no words that will quench the anguish of his party colleagues sitting here today, I have no words that will help with the pain that his family is dealing with today,\" he said.\n\n\"I didn't just like Christopher Stalford, I was jealous of Christopher Stalford as he was truly a first class politician and family man.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlliance Party leader Naomi Long said she first met Mr Stalford during their time at Belfast City Council.\n\nShe added that during his tenure as principal deputy speaker, Mr Stalford was \"fair, he could be fierce, he kept us all in order\", but \"used his wit and self-deprecating humour and you never felt that when you were stopped or challenged by him that there was any animosity or personal discord behind it\".\n\n\"We had very different political backgrounds and views but we had a lot in common,\" adding that they were \"opponents but friends\".\n\n\"We both lost our fathers at a young age, we were both fiercely proud of coming from working class backgrounds, we both had a passion for the communities we grow up in that drove us into politics and we both believed passionately that education was the route to lift people permanently out of disadvantage in life and we shared a deep faith.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said Mr Stalford was passionate about Northern Ireland\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister told the chamber that he was still having difficulty processing the shock of Mr Stalford's passing.\n\n\"That pales into total insignificance compared to the devastation that undoubtedly his beloved wife Laura and beautiful children are experiencing,\" he added, sending them his condolences.\n\nHe said Mr Stalford had come to work for him 20 years ago in his Belfast office.\n\n\"It was evident to me that he had the ability and talent which would make him the politician that he was,\" he said.\n\n\"Though our political perspectives diverged, I am pleased to say we retained a friendship and respect.\"\n\nPeople Before Profit's Gerry Carroll said he could \"only imagine the heartbreak\" Mr Stalford's family were going through.\n\nThe West Belfast MLA said that he and Mr Stalford had \"robust debate and strong disagreements\" when they first met at Belfast City Hall in 2014.\n\nMr Carroll said he was \"an absolutely fair speaker, someone who went out of his way to ensure all voices were heard in debates\".\n\nClare Sugden, an independent MLA, said his passing was \"devastating\" and that she \"felt numb\" when she heard the news of his passing, and still does.\n\n\"We have lost one of our own. He was the epitome of public service,\" she said.\n\nHe was incredibly \"funny and full of wit\" said the East Londonderry representative.\n\nShe said he was a witty man but one that, when his wit cut, it was \"never with malice, and that's how he stood out\".\n\n\"I do believe that this assembly and NI politics will miss him and I will miss him,\" she said.\n\nChristopher Stalford with his DUP colleague Carla Lockhart and former leader Arlene Foster\n\nEarlier, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said he last spoke to Mr Stalford on Friday.\n\n\"I was never to know how precious that conversation was to be,\" he told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"A young man who came a long way, from a working class background in south Belfast to the deputy principal speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly - something he was immensely proud of.\n\n\"More than anything else and with his love for politics, the one thing that stood out about Christopher was his love for his family.\n\n\"His desire to create a better future for his children was something that drove him on.\"\n\nMr Stalford sat on the board of governors at Braniel Primary School.\n\nOn Monday morning, Diane Dawson, headteacher at Braniel Primary School, said Mr Stalford was \"passionate\" about education and \"wanted the best for every single child irrespective of their background, or their creed or their colour or their denomination\".\n\n\"We have a very integrated school here in Braniel Nursery and Primary and Christopher championed that,\" she said.\n\nShe said she had the privilege of knowing him as a father and a husband.\n\n\"What I saw with Christopher was his sense of fairness and wanting equality for every child in this school.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Louis Sainsbury has been stuck in institutional units for years\n\nSignificantly fewer people with learning disabilities will be stuck far from home or in hospitals by March 2024, Scottish ministers have pledged.\n\nIt follows a report looking at why people with complex needs were in out-of-area placements and had inappropriate long stays in hospital.\n\nIt recommended a new national register of those with learning disabilities stuck in hospitals.\n\nAnd a national oversight panel to hold local authorities to account.\n\nMental Wellbeing Minister Kevin Stewart said it was \"completely unacceptable\" that people were spending time in hospitals or other care settings when they were medically fit for discharge.\n\n\"This is not going to be an easy task but we have a collective responsibility to take action,\" he said.\n\nDozens of people with learning disabilities and complex needs are recorded as delayed discharges from hospital in Scotland.\n\nThey can often be stuck for many years in a hospital or care institution when they ought to be discharged to live in the community.\n\nThe numbers for those with autism or learning disabilities who are held out of their local area are not routinely recorded.\n\nThe Scottish government's own adviser told the BBC many of them had been \"forgotten\" or \"lost\" in the system.\n\nOne example highlighted in the working group report was Louis Sainsbury.\n\nLouis and Kate Sainsbury are trying to move to a new arrangement in Perthshire\n\nLouis developed meningitis when he was four days old. As a result his speech is impaired and he has learning disabilities.\n\nHis mother Kate Sainsbury said he had been stuck in an institutional unit for years. At one point he was hundreds of miles from home in Hartlepool.\n\n\"I don't want to dwell on the bad times but some of those bad times were horrible,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been a four-year nightmare trying to get my son quality care in his own home. And we are not at the end of the road. This is just the beginning.\"\n\nLouis is now in the process of getting out of the locked hospital unit where he's been for more than three years - spending half his week in Perthshire, getting used to his new house and new care team.\n\n\"Transition is really crucial,\" Kate told the BBC.\n\n\"You have got to be able to build relationships with the people who are going to go forward in looking after somebody who is currently in hospital and you have got to fund that so there has got to be funding for the hospital placement and the care team.\"\n\nShe said collaboration was crucial too and where there was a parent involved their expertise had to be recognised.\n\nLouis' story is highlighted in the report, which recommends a national register for people with learning disabilities stuck behind locked doors and a national panel to monitor their release.\n\nEarlier this month, BBC Scotland highlighted the plight of three mothers whose sons have been stuck in hospital units for years.\n\nKate Sainsbury said that what they had created in Perthshire for Louis was one example of how things could be done differently, but it needed committed staff and resources to succeed.\n\nLouis' new home was part-funded through a medical negligence award. His care is funded by the local authority and his disability allowance.\n\nDr Anne Macdonald said people had been \"lost\" in the system\n\nMental Wellbeing Minister Kevin Stewart said: \"For every day spent unnecessarily in hospital, a person loses part of their connection with their community, their family, and their friends.\n\n\"We are not protecting the rights of people with learning disabilities and complex needs if they remain in hospital when they should be living at home, or in a homely environment with the right support.\n\n\"The recommendations are key to achieving our mission to significantly reduce delayed discharge and inappropriate out-of-area placements for adults with learning disabilities and complex care needs by March 2024.\n\nScottish government professional adviser on learning disabilities, Dr Anne Macdonald, said she was delighted ministers had agreed to action the recommendations in the report.\n\nIn the past she said people had been \"lost\" in the system, \"forgotten about\" for years, often hundreds of miles from home.\n\nShe said for people with complex needs living a full life in the community near family was a \"human right\".\n\n\"In that sense I believe it is non-negotiable,\" she said. \"This is something we have to address. The right services and the right support don't have to be expensive.\"\n\nJan Savage, Enable Scotland director, said: \"This is a landmark moment for the human rights of people who have a learning disability in Scotland. But the day for real celebration will be the day we know that no-one is still stuck in hospital or living in communities where they don't want to be.\n\n\"Our member-led My Own Front Door campaign called for urgent action. Today - nine years after this was identified as a priority by the Scottish government - we now finally have a deadline for change by March 2024 to end this human rights scandal.\"\n\nCouncillor Stuart Currie, Cosla's health and social care spokesman, said that developing and maintaining \"good, sustainable accommodation and support services\" was crucial to meeting the aspirations of the report and of those inappropriately-delayed in hospital beds or in accommodation away from their local area.\n\n\"Achieving this requires co-ordinated effort and investment in local support, which is something Cosla fully endorses,\" he added.\n\nA study by Dr Macdonald three years ago found 400 people with complex needs were still in care homes and hospitals out of their local area, not through choice.\n• None Coming Home Implementation- Report from the Working Group on Complex Care and Delayed Discharge - gov.scot The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price and the Labour Welsh government's Counsel General Mick Antoniw arrived in Kyiv on Saturday evening\n\nPlaid Cymru's leader has defended visiting Ukraine \"to show solidarity\" as fears of a Russian invasion grow.\n\nAdam Price said he was there in a personal capacity and had paid for the trip out of his own pocket.\n\nMr Price and Welsh Labour government minister Mick Antoniw MS arrived in the capital Kyiv on Saturday in spite of UK government advice not to travel.\n\nConservative MS James Evans said Senedd politicians had \"no role to play in this matter\".\n\nAnother Tory MS, the Vale of Clwyd's Gareth Davies, said the \"dangerous trip\" was \"reckless\", adding he hoped both men \"get back to Wales safely, but please justify this on return\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said evidence suggests Russia is planning \"the biggest war in Europe since 1945\".\n\nLess than 24 hours before the two men flew into the Ukrainian capital, US President Joe Biden said he was convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin had decided to launch an invasion which could start in the coming days, with Kyiv a potential key target.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has advised against all travel to Ukraine and told all British nationals to leave.\n\nIn a further update on Saturday, the FCDO said: \"British nationals should leave while commercial options remain.\n\n\"In the event of a military incursion, it is likely that commercial routes out of Ukraine will be severely disrupted and roads across Ukraine could be closed.\"\n\nBut Mr Price and Mr Antoniw, who comes from a Ukrainian family, are in the country for four days as part of a UK delegation, which also includes former Labour MEP Julie Ward and general secretary of the ASLEF union Mick Whelan.\n\nUkrainians take part in military training for civilians in Kyiv\n\nDuring their stay they will meet Ukrainian workers, LGBTQ+ people, ethnic minorities and human rights defenders.\n\nFollowing online criticism, Plaid leader Adam Price said on Twitter: \"I felt I had a choice - to either comment from afar behind a phone or laptop, or come here to connect and understand on a human, meaningful level.\n\n\"I am obviously not here to solve the conflict, but I am here to show solidarity in a time where real, meaningful connection with real people means far more than a tweet, a press release or just another soundbite from a politician at home in their comfort zone.\n\n\"It's not going to be a good time to travel here for a long time and Senedd recess provided a window.\n\n\"If we want to see Wales truly connect with the world, then we must reach out in meaningful ways, even if that may feel uncomfortable at times.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Labour Pontypridd MS and Welsh government Counsel General Mick Antoniw said: \"In too many of the discussions about the situation in Ukraine, it is the people themselves who are being bypassed.\n\n\"We want to listen to what the Ukrainian people say and to show our solidarity with them.\n\n\"We stand by them and their right to determine their own future and to defend their country from Russian aggression and imperialism.\"\n\nAsked on the BBC Politics Wales programme how the Welsh government felt about a minister visiting Ukraine against foreign office advice, Social Justice Minister Jane Hutt MS said it was \"a personal visit\" for Mr Antoniw who has \"very strong connections, obviously, family contacts in Ukraine\".", "The UK has approved a fifth Covid-19 vaccine, developed by US company Novavax, which offers up to 89% protection against Covid illness.\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has said it is safe as a first and second dose in adults.\n\nMillions of doses are being manufactured at a plant on Teesside.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid says independent scientists on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation will now consider its use.\n\nThe vaccine could then be used immediately as part of the UK vaccination programme.\n\n\"It's a testament to the country's first-rate research and development capabilities for vaccines,\" Mr Javid said, \"with tens of thousands of people taking part in clinical trials here in the UK, contributing to the invaluable research that shows our vaccines are safe and effective.\"\n\nNovavax said it still sees a role for the jab in reaching the 16% of over-12s in the UK who have not yet had two doses.\n\nIt plans to apply for extra authorisation for use in children \"in the next few weeks\", and to submit data for use as a booster jab, either immediately or as a possible fourth dose this autumn.\n\nThe Novavax product - known by the brand name Nuvaxovid - was shown to be 89% effective against catching symptomatic Covid-19 in clinical trials.\n\nThe original research was conducted against both the earlier Wuhan and Alpha variants of the virus.\n\nPoliticians - including then Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi, Communities Minister Kemi Badenoch (pictured) and Labour MP Naz Shah - were among volunteers in the UK part of the Novavax trial\n\nIn December, Novavax said two doses were also effective in generating an immune response against the now dominant Omicron variant, first identified in South Africa.\n\nThe company has also started working on a version specific to Omicron.\n\nMHRA chief executive Dr June Raine, said: \"Our approval of Nuvaxovid follows a rigorous review of the safety, quality and effectiveness of this vaccine, and expert advice from the government's independent scientific advisory body, the Commission on Human Medicines.\"\n\nThe jab, a protein adjuvant vaccine, is based on technology used for decades to protect people from diseases such as hepatitis and shingles.\n\nIt delivers copies of the spike protein on the surface of the virus directly into a person's cells, stimulating the immune system to produce antibodies and T-cells.\n\nAn extra ingredient, an adjuvant, then helps boost the immune response.\n\nScientists say this approach makes it simpler to produce than some other vaccines and means it can be stored in a refrigerator.\n\nProf Sir Munir Pirmohamed, who chairs the independent Commission on Human Medicines, said: \"Nuvaxovid is distinct from other Covid-19 vaccines currently in use in the UK as it uses recombinant protein-based technology which has been used for many years in the development of vaccines to prevent other illnesses, for example hepatitis B.\"\n\nIn August 2020, the government agreed to buy 60 million doses of the jab. If it is recommended for use by the JCVI, then doses are initially likely to come from the Serum institute in India.\n\nA factory in Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees, has also been producing a key ingredient of the jab since February 2021, with a second site in nearby Barnard Castle expected to provide the fill-finish capacity - putting the vaccine into vials and packaging.\n\nBut setbacks to the approval process around the world have led to concerns about jobs in the area.\n\nNovavax had to delay its submission to US regulators multiple times because of development and manufacturing setbacks.\n\nIt was eventually filed on Monday.", "The Queen has tested positive for Covid, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe monarch is experiencing \"mild cold-like symptoms\" but expects to continue \"light duties\" at Windsor over the coming week, the palace said.\n\n\"She will continue to receive medical attention and will follow all the appropriate guidelines,\" it added in a statement.\n\nHer eldest son and heir, the Prince of Wales, tested positive on 10 February, after meeting his mother on 8 February.\n\nIt is understood a number of people have tested positive at Windsor Castle, where the Queen resides.\n\nLater on Sunday, the Palace issued a congratulatory message from the Queen to the Team GB Curling teams.\n\nShe heralded the teams' \"outstanding performance\" at the Winter Olympics, which led to the women securing a gold medal and the men silver.\n\nShe added: \"I know that your local communities and people throughout the United Kingdom will join me in sending our good wishes to you, your coaches and the friends and family who have supported you in your great success.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"sure I speak for everyone in wishing Her Majesty The Queen a swift recovery from Covid and a rapid return to vibrant good health\".\n\nLeader of the Opposition, Labour's Sir Keir Starmer, also wished the monarch \"good health and a speedy recovery\", adding: \"Get well soon, Ma'am.\"\n\nThe positive test comes days before England is expected to drop the legal requirement to self-isolate for those who catch Covid, as the last virus restrictions are set to be removed.\n\nOutlining the thinking behind the government's upcoming \"living with Covid\" plans, Mr Johnson told the BBC it was time to \"shift the balance away from state mandation\" and said the public can \"get their confidence back\".\n\nOn the eve of her Platinum Jubilee marking 70 years on the throne on 6 February, the Queen carried out her first major public engagement for more than three months, meeting charity workers at Sandringham House.\n\nThe Queen, who will be 96 in April, had her first vaccine in January 2021 and is believed to have had all her follow-up jabs after that.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said she had been taking life \"rather more easily\" since spending a night in hospital for medical checks in October last year.\n\nIn November, the Queen missed the Remembrance Sunday service with a strained back, weeks after being advised to rest by doctors following the hospital stay.\n\nIt was the first time she missed the ceremony at the Cenotaph in London as monarch, other than when she was pregnant or abroad.\n\nWhile on light duties it is likely the Queen will be reading documents from UK government ministers and Commonwealth representatives sent to her every day, approving and signing them where necessary.\n\nMeanwhile, BBC health correspondent Jim Reed said newly-approved antiviral drugs could aid the Queen's recovery.\n\nHe said the drugs were now a key way to cut the risk of vulnerable people needing hospital treatment, although it was not clear if they would definitely be offered to the monarch.\n\nCurrently, the available antivirals need to be taken within three to five days of contracting Covid.\n\nThe drugs approved for use in the UK include Paxlovid and molnupiravir, which have both demonstrated in medical trials they significantly reduce the risk of hospital admission or death.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Queen attended her first official engagement since coming into contact with Prince Charles, holding a virtual meeting with two new ambassadors to the UK.\n\nThe following day, she smiled as she suggested she had mobility problems during a meeting with defence staff. Standing while using a walking stick, she pointed to her left leg and said: \"Well, as you can see, I can't move.\"\n\nThe tone of this message from Buckingham Palace seems designed to convey important information about the Queen's health, but at the same time play down any sense of alarm.\n\nSo the concern about the 95-year-old monarch catching Covid is set against her being well enough to continue working.\n\nAs if to emphasise business-as-usual, the Queen was back at her desk this morning to sign off a congratulations message to the Winter Olympic curling teams.\n\nIn terms of what happens next - she is clearly going to be very carefully monitored by her personal medical team.\n\nThe Queen's physician, Sir Huw Thomas, has previously described his \"key priority\" as keeping the Royal Household safe through the pandemic.\n\nWe know the Queen had a first vaccination last year and suggestions she has had all three vaccinations have never been denied.\n\nBut the Queen's health is usually kept as a firmly private matter, with only the barest of details being revealed.\n\nWhen Prince Charles and Camilla had Covid last week, there wasn't even any confirmation whether the Queen had been tested.\n\nSo it is a significant step to announce she has Covid - which in turn will create pressure for updates.\n\nRead more from Sean here.\n\nPrince Charles, 73, tested positive on 10 February while, his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, 74, tested positive for the virus last week.\n\nIt was the first time the duchess had caught Covid, and the second time for Prince Charles.\n\nThe Royal Household has its own physicians, and the Queen's is Sir Huw Thomas, a consultant at St Mary's Hospital in London and professor of gastrointestinal genetics at Imperial College London.\n\nHe is \"head of the medical household\", which is part of the Royal Household looking after the health of the family.", "Children in care are treated as \"criminals rather victims\" (Picture posed by a model)\n\nChildren in care are too often treated in society as criminals rather than victims, an independent body has said.\n\nApplications to build new care homes are regularly met with hostility by nearby residents, said the Independent Children's Home Association (ICHA).\n\nChief executive Peter Sandiford urged communities to view the wellbeing of children above fears over house prices.\n\nSince 2017 the number of children's homes in England has risen by at least a quarter, to more than 2,700.\n\nMr Sandiford said: \"I think local communities and people often think about themselves rather than valuing children's wellbeing.\n\n\"An example would be how local communities think their house prices will go down if they have a children's home in that area.\"\n\nIndependent Children's Home Association boss Peter Sandiford says neighbours are often 'hostile' to new homes being built\n\nMr Sandiford said residents were often \"at the very least reluctant, if not actually hostile\" when plans for children's homes are revealed.\n\n\"For some reason they seem to believe that children who require care away from their families are criminals rather than victims, with objections to planning consents having included terms such as 'murderer' and 'rapist',\" he added.\n\n\"Children in public care have almost inevitably experienced early life trauma and, for many, ongoing trauma.\n\n\"The task of children's homes is to address the consequences of such experiences and help children achieve their true potential.\"\n\nSocial services initially seek to place children with foster families, but this is not always possible.\n\nThe number of foster carers is not keeping up with demand.\n\nResidential homes are therefore an important part of children's social care, providing support for those who cannot live with their families.\n\nHowever, communities are often divided when planning applications for children's homes are submitted to their local council.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Author and poet Lemn Sissay spoke to the BBC about his concerns about the care system.\n\nAuthor and poet Lemn Sissay, who grew up in the care system, spoke to the BBC about Mr Sandiford's concerns.\n\nHe said: \"This is about inherent prejudice against children in care.\n\n\"Having a children's home in your area should be something people want - a sign of caring for the most vulnerable in society, a sign of kindness.\n\n\"Instead we have people falling back on unchallenged prejudice.\"\n\nLee - not his real name - is 17. He recently left residential care in the North West of England.\n\nHe said: \"I think children's homes have a really bad reputation.\n\n\"There needs to be more education around what children's homes are actually like.\n\n\"There's crime and anti-social behaviour, no matter where you go.\n\n\"It doesn't make a difference whether you're in a children's home or not - it's a massive stereotype if anything.\"\n\nDespite the growing demand for children's care homes, provision is not equally spread across England.\n\nMore than a quarter are found in the North West, with Lancashire home to the highest number.\n\nAt the other end of the scale, several London boroughs, including Lambeth and Hackney, are among nine local authorities with only one registered children's home.\n\nPer capita, Shropshire has the highest number of children's homes with roughly one for every 5,000 people.\n\nRichard Witt is one of the owners of Hopscotch Care, a company which owns seven care homes across the North West.\n\nHe said his company recently had problems gaining permission to convert a residential property into a home for just two children, with objections relating to parking and anti-social behaviour.\n\nMr Witt said: \"We've got young people who are vulnerable, who have come from some very complex backgrounds, but they're just young children.\n\n\"Children's homes don't have to be a problem.\"\n\nObjections to applications for children's homes include fears regarding anti-social behaviour, reduced house prices, and that residents may be sex offenders or targeted for crime.\n\nAccording to the Local Democracy Reporting Service:\n\nAdele Warren, a Conservative councillor on Bolton Council, recently backed a campaign opposing a new children's home in the area.\n\nShe said: \"At the time we already had 30 children's homes in the borough, with an additional eight to 12 that were also planned.\n\n\"When the first one came along, I actually defended that home to local residents.\n\n\"Then when there was the second and then the third; obviously that became quite concerning for local residents.\"\n\nMs Warren said that although there are \"some very good private children's homes\", there are others that are \"capitalising on shipping children that are very vulnerable across the country for placements\".\n\nOther objections to children's homes relate to the companies that own them, including large private equity groups considered to be making large profits, or those previously judged unfavourably by Ofsted.\n\nHowever, figures from Ofsted show that four out of five homes in 2021 and 2020 were judged as \"outstanding\" or \"good\".\n\nMr Sandiford said: \"Children living in children's homes are the responsibility of society.\n\n\"Local politicians and national politicians have joined with local residents to fight the opening of children's homes. My belief is those leaders in society should be challenging those myths - that nimby-ism - rather than joining in.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Children's homes provide places for young people who require dedicated support and care, who may be particularly vulnerable to exploitation or harm.\n\n\"Councils are responsible for ensuring sufficient places to meet those needs and we are making up to £19.5m of capital funding available in 2021-23 for councils to develop new homes for vulnerable young people.\n\n\"As with any planning application, where there is a change of use of a building to convert to a children's home, the community will be given an opportunity to comment.\"", "Emma Worthington with her husband and their four children\n\nAs schools struggle to keep classes going during the latest wave of Covid-19, how are pupils, their parents and teachers coping with the disruption?\n\nThe disease continues to spread fast through the school-aged population, with people aged under 19 accounting for 41% of all cases in the past week.\n\nThe infection rate is highest in children aged 10 to 14, according to figures from NI's Department of Health.\n\nBBC News NI spoke to a parent and a principal facing the challenges.\n\nMax, 10, has contracted Covid twice in five months\n\nSince the school year started last September, only one member of Emma Worthington's family has managed to avoid Covid-19. That's one of out six.\n\n\"I feel like if somebody else tests positive in this house, I'm just going to lie down and cry. I can't do it anymore, I'm done!\"\n\nBut one of Emma's sons made up for that this week by catching Covid for a second time.\n\nThe Worthingtons have been affected by both the Delta and the Omicron waves, but thankfully none of them have become seriously ill and most, including Emma, were asymptomatic.\n\nHowever, she remains very concerned about the infection risk they pose to her 78-year-old father.\n\n\"My dad lives in a flat joined on to my house so we were very Covid-aware with him, because he's elderly.\"\n\nMrs Worthington, who works part-time, is mother to six-year-old Eve, 10-year-old Max, 12-year-old Maddie and their big brother Kal, who is 16.\n\nShe and Max were the first to test positive last September, which resulted in him missing two weeks of school at the start of the academic year.\n\nThe pair isolated together for 10 days and managed not to infect other family members.\n\nBut on 27 December, with Omicron circulating widely, her husband and their daughter, Maddie, both tested positive, meaning Maddie missed a few days of the new term.\n\nThen about a week and a half into the January term, Maddie's little sister, Eve, also tested positive and had to begin her isolation period. But even that wasn't the end of it.\n\n\"So she [Eve] tested negative on Saturday morning, which was her day nine, so she missed about a week and a half of school,\" Mrs Worthington says.\n\n\"And then Max came in - I'm not joking you, it was literally five minutes later - and said: 'My throat's sore.' And he tested positive again... you couldn't have made it up.\"\n\nMrs Worthington has, so far, managed to avoid the virus this time around but has to spend more time at home because her younger children have not been able to attend class.\n\n\"Even though I'm testing negative, I'm still very aware of Max having Covid - and people obviously are a bit strange when you say that he has Covid - so I'm minimising my contacts.\"\n\nAs her husband works in England during the week, her father would usually help with childminding or picking the children up from school, but she cannot risk that at the moment.\n\n\"It just really impacts on your life, it impacts everything. It's draining as a mum... I feel like I'm just trapped in this house.\"\n\nMrs Worthington is still following the guidelines but is now pondering the merits of isolation rules for schoolchildren.\n\n\"I'm in two minds - I'm fed up of it but I can see the reason for it.\"\n\nBrian McGrath says it is a difficult task to find cover for staff who cannot come into work\n\nAt one school in County Fermanagh, almost a quarter of the staff were off work this week.\n\nHowever, the principal says they have managed to keep all of their year groups in the building, for now at least.\n\nIn total, 37 people are employed at St Ronan's Primary and Nursery School, Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, nine of whom were not at work on Tuesday.\n\n\"At the moment I have four teachers off with Covid, or isolating,\" says principal Brian McGrath.\n\n\"I also have four classroom assistants off, mostly Covid-related also, and a secretary who is absent.\"\n\nHe says it is harder for a rural school to secure last-minute cover from substitute teachers.\n\n\"It's been a difficult task trying to get cover to make sure all kids are attending school, that all children are being taught,\" Mr McGrath says.\n\n\"On Friday last week, after making 25 calls to substitute teachers, we were very unsuccessful in being able to source anyone,\" he adds.\n\n\"The people just aren't there at the moment.\"\n\nThe principal came close to having to tell some year groups to stay at home for remote learning, until a contact within the school recommended a substitute who was available for work.\n\nBut with four of his 17 teachers off, Mr McGrath has had to redeploy staff to cover all necessary work.\n\nSpecial needs teachers, who should be helping small groups of children who need the most support, are now taking mainstream classes, and classroom assistants are making phone calls to substitutes.\n\n\"Our main aim is to try and keep all children in school at the one time, to make sure that they're here and they're being taught and that's the place they need to be,\" the principal says.\n\nIt has been a difficult start to the new term across Northern Ireland.\n\nAlmost 20% of pupils were not in school in the week from Monday 24 to Friday 28 January, according to the latest figures from Stormont' Department of Education.\n\nThat regional picture is reflected in St Ronan's, where the older year groups have been worst affected.\n\n\"We have two classes, at the moment where there's more than 20% absence due to Covid-related illness,\" Mr McGrath said.\n\nThe principal paid tribute to his staff for their \"flexibility\" in covering their colleagues' roles, but the solution is not without problems.\n\n\"I suppose the overarching priority at the moment is that we keep the school functioning for all kids.\"", "Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson, owes an estimated £2m to people\n\nEnglish Defence League founder Tommy Robinson will be quizzed about his finances after he failed to pay legal bills for a libel case he lost.\n\nThe 39-year-old, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was sued by Jamal Hijazi after defaming him online.\n\nIn response to a video of the then 16-year-old schoolboy being attacked, Mr Yaxley-Lennon claimed he had attacked \"young English girls\".\n\nA High Court judge ordered him to court to answer questions on his finances.\n\nMr Yaxley-Lennon was sued by Mr Hijazi after he made the accusations following a viral video clip of him being attacked at Almondbury School in Huddersfield in 2018.\n\nThe judge found in the claimant's favour and said the fake accusations and language used by Mr Yaxley-Lennon on Facebook were intended to \"inflame the situation\".\n\nAt a High Court hearing earlier, Mr Hijazi's barrister Ian Helme said Mr Yaxley-Lennon was ordered to pay £43,293 in legal costs after a pre-trial hearing in November 2020.\n\nHowever, at a further hearing in March 2021, he said he was bankrupt.\n\nThe barrister argued Mr Yaxley-Lennon, who did not attend the hearing, could be cross-examined about his finances over the debt, despite the ongoing bankruptcy process.\n\nIn written arguments, he stated: \"The claimant envisages that counsel's opportunity to cross-examine the defendant under oath, accompanied by documents provided by the defendant, will provide for a more detailed analysis of his assets than might be possible through the normal bankruptcy process.\"\n\nThe barrister said Mr Yaxley-Lennon owes a \"substantial sum\" and he intended to question him \"with a view to establishing what steps would be most proportionate to take with a view to maximising recovery\".\n\nHe told the court that Mr Hijazi's lawyers had information \"that what is stated in his bankruptcy application is not a full account of [Mr Yaxley-Lennon's] assets\".\n\nWhile damages and legal costs from the libel trial were not mentioned at the High Court hearing, Mr Yaxley-Lennon was ordered to pay £100,000 damages to Mr Hijazi and £500,000 in legal costs.\n\nThe High Court hearing about his finances is due to take place on 22 March.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Yasmin Chkaifi's family said her death was preventable\n\nThe husband of a woman stabbed to death in the street by her violent ex-partner has said he is \"so grateful\" for the time he had with her.\n\nYasmin Chkaifi was killed by Leon McCaskie in Maida Vale, west London, on 24 January, weeks after a warrant was issued for his arrest.\n\nJoseph Salmon told the BBC his wife was \"smart, clever and witty\".\n\nOther members of her family said she had a \"big, caring heart\" and would still be alive if police had done more.\n\nThe police watchdog is investigating the case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Joseph Salmon, the husband of Yasmin Chkaifi, says not enough was done to protect her\n\nThe warrant, saying McCaskie should be held without bail, was issued on 4 January after he failed to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court in relation to an alleged stalking protection order breach.\n\nHe was hit by a passing car as he attacked his former wife and also died at the scene. The driver of the car was released without charge on Tuesday.\n\nPaying tribute to his wife, Mr Salmon said: \"I'm grateful for the chance to talk to her, marry her, be happy with her, and fall in love with her.\"\n\nHe added that both he and his family were \"at a loss\" and \"heartbroken\".\n\n\"I just think domestic abuse is a very bad problem and, if there's no education about it from very young, if things aren't sorted, if men can't keep their hands to themselves, I don't know what we're going to do,\" he said.\n\nMcCaskie was hit by this car whilst stabbing Ms Chkaifi to death\n\nAzhar Elfaddi, Ms Chkaifi's cousin and best friend, said: \"She was probably the smartest and wisest woman I knew. She was just a simple, loving, amazing woman. I've never seen anyone compare to her, her parenting, as a person, her heart.\n\n\"She was always forgiving, she never really liked to speak bad about people.\"\n\nAnother cousin, Inass Elfaddi, said it was \"sad that no one did anything about it\" and she had many questions for police.\n\nShe said: \"It could have easily been prevented.\n\n\"I think I would asked why her case wasn't a priority, why [McCaskie's] warrant wasn't a priority, why his criminal record wasn't enough for him to be searched for, as you did have a warrant?\n\n\"Obviously they didn't see him as a threat.\"\n\nAzhar Elfaddi says her cousin never complained\n\nThe Met Police said it was unable to comment because the case had been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThe force previously confirmed the stalking order had been obtained against McCaskie, who also used the surname McCaskre, but not whether he had been arrested in relation to the alleged breach.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Every penny' of extra funds will go on energy costs\n\nScotland will benefit from an additional £290m of funding to help ease the burden of rising energy bills, the Chancellor has said.\n\nThe money is the result of Barnett consequentials from a council tax cut announced by Rishi Sunak in England.\n\nIt will be on top of a £200 reduction on energy bills for customers in England, Scotland and Wales in October.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said \"every penny\" of the £290m would go towards helping ease the cost of living crisis.\n\nScotland's finance secretary, Kate Forbes, later tweeted that the additional £120m allocated to councils last week in order to avoid council tax rises would be paid for by the additional money.\n\nShe said the Scottish government had been told in advance of the Chancellor's announcement that there would be additional money from Barnett, adding: \"I'll have more info in due course but as the first minister said we'll ensure that we use consequential funding to mitigate the cost of living in Scotland.\"\n\nThe chancellor announced the measures to help households after regulator Ofgem raised the energy price cap.\n\nTypical household energy bills will soar by £693 per year from April, or £708 for those on prepayment meters.\n\nThe Bank of England has also increased interest rates from 0.25% to 0.5%, which will make borrowing money more expensive for people, but is designed to keep a lid on rising prices.\n\nMr Sunak responded with a £150 rebate on council tax bands A to D in England, and a reduction of £200 on energy bills which will be repaid at £40 a year over five years from April 2023.\n\nThe Chancellor said: \"The price cap has meant that the impact of soaring gas prices has so far fallen predominantly on energy companies.\n\n\"So much so that some suppliers who couldn't afford to meet those extra costs have gone out of business as a result.\n\n\"It is not sustainable to keep holding the price of energy artificially low. For me to stand here and pretend we don't have to adjust to paying higher prices would be wrong and dishonest.\n\n\"But what we can do is take the sting out of a significant price shock for millions of families by making sure that the increase in prices is smaller initially and spread over a longer period.\"#\n\nEnergy bills will rise by £693 a year from April\n\nAsked about the announcements at First Minister's Questions, Ms Sturgeon said: \"The chancellor announced what sounded like welcome steps to mitigate that but steps that did not go far enough.\"\n\nBut she said it was too early to say where money would be spent, given it was less than an hour after the announcement had been made.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"not opposed\" to Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar's calls for a windfall tax on oil and gas companies, adding: \"We believe that those who have the broadest shoulders should pay the most.\n\n\"That certainly includes oil and gas companies who are seeing rising profits but during the pandemic other companies fall into that category as well.\n\n\"We have seen Amazon profits rise and also supermarkets, so we need to make sure we have a fair approach. The Scottish government doesn't have the power to do any of this - it would be a decision for the UK government.\"\n\nIn a Holyrood debate on the rising cost of living later on Thursday, Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie called on the Scottish government to spell out next week where the additional funding would be spent.\n\nShe said: \"This cannot wait. There must be no excuses, no inaction, no hiding behind the constitution.\n\n\"They must act and act now in the interests of the people of Scotland.\"\n\nTeacher Mog has already tightened her belt and sees more cuts to household spending coming with higher energy bills\n\nMog, a teacher, lives in Westray, Orkney, with her three daughters.\n\n\"I worry about energy prices rising. The electricity bill is almost as much as rent and I have already made steps to reduce our outgoings.\n\n\"The children are down to a capsule wardrobe of just what they need. We are quite frugal, we have smart switches that turn things off when we leave the room and we have storage heaters which go off between Easter and October. We don't run a tumble drier and run economy loads on the washing machine.\n\n\"We sit under duvets in the living room and I have rearranged the rooms in the house. The three girls sleep in the smallest room because it is easier to keep that warm. The cosy rooms share a wall with our neighbour so we share heat.\n\n\"Things like universal credit take into account housing costs but not what you might be spending on electricity. If your bills have risen above the level of the money you are getting, then your electricity bills will come out of your disposable income.\n\n\"Higher bills will mean budgeting even more carefully.\"\n\nDerek Mitchell from Citizens Advice Scotland said the \"eye-watering increase\" in energy bills was a hammer blow for consumers.\n\nHe said: \"One in three of us already find bills unaffordable and, shamefully, almost half a million people in Scotland have had to cut back on food to deal with unaffordable bills.\n\nHe said April would be a \"nightmare scenario\" as rising bills and prices in the shops collided with flat or falling incomes, adding: \"No one should be forced into the heart-breaking choice between keeping their homes warm or feeding their families. We need immediate direct interventions.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in Scotland said that the announcements by the Chancellor gave no relief to the energy bills of businesses.\n\nIt added: \"Ministers need to extend the support to include smaller firms. And with cash from today's announcement heading to Holyrood, we'd urge decision-makers in Edinburgh to look at what they can do to help.\"", "“It is absolutely vital for peace and prosperity in Northern Ireland that the executive is delivering for the people of Northern Ireland, particularly now as we emerge from the Covid pandemic,” his spokesman told PA.\n\n“The protocol is part of an international treaty agreed and ratified by the UK and EU, to protect the Good Friday Agreement in all its dimensions.\n\n“The UK has an obligation under international law, and under its own domestic law, to ensure it meets is obligations under the protocol.\n\n“The current talks between the EU and the UK and must be given every chance to succeed. The commission has put forward serious proposals which directly address the concerns about outstanding issues on implementation of the protocol.\n\n“I would urge the DUP to return to full engagement with all the institutions of the Good Friday Agreement and avoid any action that could damage peace and stability in Northern Ireland.”", "Prosecutors in Serbia say there is no evidence to suggest that Novak Djokovic submitted falsified Covid test certificates to Australian authorities.\n\nA BBC report last week cast doubt over the tests, suggesting the serial numbers were out of sequence with others from a similar time.\n\nThe tests were provided to exempt him from rules barring unvaccinated people.\n\nSerbian authorities have not explained the discrepancies identified by the BBC.\n\nDjokovic's visa was rejected and he was later deported before the start of the Australian Open tournament. The Australian government cancelled his visa on \"health and good order\" grounds and not because his documents were falsified.\n\nThe Belgrade Public Prosecutor's office has now said that the Health Ministry confirmed the documents were authentic.\n\nThe office says it inspected the \"electronic database\" which contains details of tests and results and it shows that Djokovic's initial positive test and his later negative result were both valid.\n\nDocuments submitted by his lawyers to federal court in Australia included two Covid (PCR) test certificates, one with a positive result on 16 December and one with a negative result on 22 December.\n\nA German research group called Zerforschung first picked up on the discrepancy that the earlier test had a higher confirmation code than the later one.\n\nThey wrote a blog titled \"Novak Djokovic's time-travelling PCR tests\", and partnered with German news site Der Spiegel who reported on the issue.\n\nDocuments submitted to the federal court in Australia included one from the acting director of Serbia's official health body, confirming the dates on these certificates accurately reflected when the tests had been carried out.\n\nThe serial numbers on the documents were out of sequence with others collected from around the same period, the BBC reported.\n\nBut Serbia's prosecutor's office said on Wednesday: \"It was established that Novak Djokovic was tested multiple times and the... test results from December 16 and December 22 were valid.\"\n\nThe prosecutor's statement comes on the eve of a meeting between the tennis player and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo men and a 17-year-old girl have been found guilty of murdering a doctor in a homophobic attack in a park in the centre of Cardiff.\n\nLee Strickland, 36, Jason Edwards, 25, and Dionne Timms-Williams killed Dr Gary Jenkins, 54, in Bute Park in July 2021.\n\nAll three had admitted to manslaughter, but were found guilty of murder after a trial at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court.\n\nThey will all be sentenced on 25 March.\n\nFollowing the verdicts, LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall said there will be a vigil for Dr Jenkins on the steps of National Museum Wales in Cardiff on Sunday.\n\nDionne Timms-Williams, from Creigiau, who was 16 at the time of the attack, can be named for the first time after the judge in the case lifted reporting restrictions.\n\nSpeaking after the verdict, Dr Jenkins' family said in a statement: \"Gary was such a kind soul who would never hurt anyone. He was an incredibly generous and creative man who had only good intentions.\"\n\nThey added he was one of \"the most humane, kind, compassionate doctors one could ever come across\".\n\nStrickland and Edwards were on trial with Timms-Williams, who they had met on the evening of the attack\n\nMembers of the jury were told Dr Jenkins had been married and had two daughters but separated from his wife and was openly bisexual when he moved back to his home city of Cardiff about six years ago.\n\nThe prosecution, led by Dafydd Enoch QC, said the attack had been \"motivated by greed, homophobia and straight-up violence\" and that the defendants had been \"in search of vulnerable gay men who were in the park\" to rob.\n\nHe also revealed that a piece of evidence, which had not been put before the jury, was a statement from Strickland's ex-girlfriend saying he had targeted gay men in the park regularly.\n\nWitness Louis Williams said he had seen a man on the floor with three people around him, pulling at his bag and kicking and punching him.\n\nTimms-Williams was interviewed at Cardiff Bay Police Station after her arrest\n\nHe said the three were \"egging each other on, laughing and aggressive\".\n\n\"Their tone was bullying, it was like they were having fun, they think it's funny, it was just enjoyment for them,\" he told police in an interview.\n\nHe told the court he had crouched down and tried to create a barrier around Dr Jenkins, but the three defendants then turned on him.\n\nCCTV footage from around the city played a key role in the prosecution's case, building up a picture of Gary Jenkins' movements before the attack, as well as the defendants'.\n\nIt shows Dr Jenkins spending the afternoon and evening of 19 July in pubs around the city.\n\nHe visited a restaurant in the Canton area, before walking through Sophia Gardens on his way to Bute Park.\n\nThis is where he would come into contact with the three defendants.\n\nCCTV footage shows the moment the three defendants met, with Timms-Williams offered a can of cider by Edwards\n\nCCTV footage shows Timms-Williams being offered a can of cider by Edwards on Queen Street at about 23:00 BST - the first time she had met the other two.\n\nProsecutors also used audio recorded on a security camera at the Summerhouse Cafe in Bute Park, which picked up the sound of the attack, lasting 15 minutes.\n\nDr Jenkins was attacked near the Summerhouse cafe in Bute Park\n\nIn the recording, Dr Jenkins can be heard repeatedly shouting \"leave me alone\" and \"get off me\".\n\nA female voice, identified as Timms-Williams, shouts \"money\" and \"now\", then says: \"Hit him again.\"\n\nA male voice says: \" Stamp on his head. Stamp on his head too.\"\n\nA different male voice adds: \"Oh, let me stamp on him again.\"\n\nDr Jenkins is then heard pleading \"why?\" and \"please, stop it\".\n\nAt the end of the attack, the girl is heard saying: \"Yeah, I needed that.\"\n\nA large area of park was cordoned off after the attack\n\nDr Jenkins was \"deeply unconscious\" when medics arrived at the scene and symptoms suggested he had a severe brain injury.\n\nHe was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff where he remained in intensive care for 16 days before he died.\n\nA post mortem examination gave Dr Jenkins' cause of death as blunt head injury including including subdural haemorrhage, or bleeding on the brain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He was very warn and full of humanity\"\n\nDr Jenkins was a consultant for the NHS for 20 years and had been due to retire.\n\nFollowing the case, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said: \"The level of violence from all three defendants was truly shocking, with the evidence showing they appeared to enjoy the cruelty of what they were doing.\n\n\"Throughout the court process our thoughts have remained with the family and friends of Dr Jenkins, who is so clearly missed.\"\n\nProsecutor Mr Enoch had been criticised for comments made at the start of the trial, which suggested the fact the victim had been in the park for \"sexual contact with like-minded men\" was to be his \"undoing\".\n\nDr Gary Jenkins died 16 days after the attack last July\n\nThe CPS apologised, saying: \"The only people responsible for this horrific crime were those convicted today by the jury. The suggestion that Dr Jenkins was in any way to blame is completely wrong.\n\n\"We apologise for inappropriate and insensitive remarks made during the opening statement.\"\n\nAlso speaking after the verdicts, Det Insp Stuart Wales, of South Wales Police, said: \"The attack upon Dr Jenkins by the three defendants was cowardly and senseless in the extreme.\n\n\"The degree and duration of unnecessary violence inflicted upon him, together with homophobic abuse - all captured on audio, was both sickening and staggering. He did nothing whatsoever to warrant this.\n\n\"Nothing will fill the void in the lives of those who loved Gary and have suffered the heartbreak of losing him in the most devastating circumstances.\"", "Paul Givan first entered politics as a part-time assistant for Edwin Poots - now he has been announced as first minister by his friend and colleague\n\nPaul Givan has already boldly gone where no DUP first minister has ever gone before. He's been to a Sinn Féin Ard Fheis (annual conference).\n\nThe year was 2008. His friend, Edwin Poots, had just been sacked as minister for culture arts and leisure, and so Mr Givan lost his job as special adviser.\n\nHe went to work for a trade organisation and ended up on one of the many stands at Sinn Féin's annual conference at the RDS in Dublin.\n\nIt was an unlikely place for a rising politician from the DUP's right wing to find himself.\n\nAnd it never happened again.\n\nHe was co-opted in 2010 as an MLA for the Lagan Valley constituency, replacing the local MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson.\n\nNow he finds himself on the verge of taking Stormont's top job, once more at the behest of his friend and colleague Edwin Poots.\n\nAnd once again he will find himself at close quarters with Sinn Féin - with potentially much bigger consequences.\n\nPaul Givan has said his first contact with politics was working as a part-time assistant in Mr Poots' constituency and Stormont offices.\n\nHe became involved in the DUP after listening to an Ian Paisley speech at an anti-Agreement rally in Kilkeel, County Down.\n\nHe's been associated with the so-called Paisley wing of the party ever since.\n\nBut it was his appointment as minister for communities in May 2016 that really catapulted Paul Givan into the public eye.\n\nA keen soccer player, when Paul Givan visited a GAA club in 2016 it was the first time the sports minister had kicked a Gaelic football\n\nHe famously visited a Lisburn GAA club where the keen soccer player swapped codes to score a point for the cameras.\n\nIt brought him some cross-community kudos - unlike his next big move - the highly controversial decision to cut funding for a small Irish language bursary scheme called Liofa in December 2016, during the crisis over the botched RHI scheme.\n\nThe email informing employees of the decision was signed off \"Happy Christmas and Happy New Year\".\n\nIt earned him the label \"ignoramus\" from Gerry Adams and is said by some to have been the final straw which helped to bring down Stormont in early 2017.\n\nPaul Givan soon reversed the decision but it was too late.\n\nMartin McGuinness resigned - he probably would have done so anyway - and devolution was suspended for three years.\n\nEdwin Poots, NI's Agriculture Minister, replaced Arlene Foster as DUP leader amid tensions within the party\n\nPaul Givan has a strongly socially conservative streak in common with his new party leader.\n\nIn March, he brought forward a Private Members Bill which seeks to amend the law in Northern Ireland to prevent abortions in cases of non-fatal disabilities, including Down's Syndrome.\n\nThe prospect of having to drop the bill should he be offered a ministerial post is said to have made him think twice.\n\nBut it's thought there's a precedent for allowing the bill to proceed, even if it might have to be transferred to another MLA's name.\n\nThere's no doubt his role as first minister will be a daunting challenge.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Edwin Poots MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome believe that before Mr Givan's election can be confirmed, Sinn Féin - which can block the appointment - will seek guarantees on some of the things promised in the New Decade, New Approach deal especially Irish language legislation.\n\nProf Jon Tonge, of Liverpool University, said Mr Givan's \"room to manoeuvre is very limited\".\n\n\"He can't really renege on plans to introduce Irish language provisions because there's always the risk that Sinn Féin would walk away from the institutions and trigger an early election,\" he said.\n\n\"The risk for Paul Givan is that he has the shortest first ministership in Northern Ireland's political history.\n\n\"Basically he will have to tango with Michelle O'Neill here if he's going to survive in office until the next assembly election.\"\n\nIf the polls are to be believed the DUP is highly unlikely to emerge as the largest party after that election, whenever it takes place.\n\nPaul Givan can't afford to worry about any of that right now.\n\nFirst he has to actually become the first minister, providing Sinn Féin agrees to nominate a deputy first minister.\n\nSome, like his DUP councillor father Alan Givan, worry the role of first minister may have come too soon for Paul Givan's \"young shoulders\".\n\nAnd if that happens he can at least say that, at 39, he was the youngest first minister - however long he lasts in office.", "Howard University was among more than a dozen black universities targeted on Tuesday\n\nSix children are suspected of orchestrating a nationwide campaign of bomb threats against black colleges, law enforcement officials have said.\n\nMore than a dozen universities and places of worship have been targeted by hoax calls, which spiked on the first day of Black History Month on Tuesday.\n\nThe suspects reportedly used sophisticated methods of technology to disguise the origin of their calls.\n\nThe FBI is investigating the incidents as racially motivated hate crimes.\n\nNo explosives were found at any of the sites.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the FBI said its Joint Terrorism Task Forces was conducting the investigation with \"the highest priority\" and that more than 20 field officers were involved.\n\n\"Although at this time no explosive devices have been found at any of the locations, the FBI takes all threats with the utmost seriousness, and we are committed to thoroughly and aggressively investigating these threats,\" the FBI statement said.\n\nThe threats \"are being investigated as racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism and hate crimes\", the statement adds.\n\nAccording to US media, six children have been identified as persons of interest in the case.\n\nOne unnamed official told NBC News that the group appeared to be \"tech savvy\".\n\nInvestigators were searching their homes and conducting interviews, the Wall Street Journal reported, adding that it was not known if any arrests had been made.\n\nMore than a dozen historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) received threatening calls on 1 February, the first day of Black History Month in the US, as well as the day beforehand.\n\nDozens of campuses and places of worship, including black-affiliated churches and Jewish synagogues, have received similar calls since the beginning of 2022.\n\nThe universities that received the threatening calls were forced to close their doors and send out shelter-in-place alerts. Many moved to online learning as bomb squads combed campuses for suspicious objects.\n\nIn Daytona Beach, Florida, the caller claimed to be affiliated with a neo-Nazi group called Atomwaffen Division and threatened to open fire in addition to the bomb threat, the local police chief said.\n\n\"He advised that there were seven explosives that were disguised in duffel bags and backpacks and they were all C-4 [explosive],\" said Police Chief Jakari Young.\n\n\"There was a secondary threat of an active shooter, an active shooting that was supposed to occur,\" he continued.\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Jen Psaki called the threats \"disturbing\" on Tuesday, adding that White House officials \"take these threats seriously\".\n\n\"It is scary, it is horrifying, it is terrible that these students, these faculty, these institutions are feeling under threat,\" she said.\n\n\"A lot of us feel like this is political,\" a 19-year-old student of Spelman College in Atlanta told the New York Times.\n\nThe FBI has previously warned of a rise in white supremacist-fuelled domestic extremism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first black woman to run for US president", "Boris Johnson is under fresh pressure after three Tory MPs joined efforts to oust him as prime minister.\n\nEx-minister Tobias Ellwood said on Wednesday he submitted a letter of no confidence in the PM, amid the ongoing row over lockdown parties in No 10.\n\nHe was joined by backbenchers Anthony Mangnall and Sir Gary Streeter, who also called for a vote on his future.\n\nThe BBC is aware of 17 Tory MPs who have submitted letters of no confidence.\n\nOf these, only nine have publicly confirmed that they have taken this step, and the situation remains fluid. Only the chairman of the backbench 1922 committee Sir Graham Brady knows the exact number.\n\nAt least 54 MPs need to write to Sir Graham to trigger a vote on the PM's leadership of the party.\n\nMr Johnson is seeking to head off a potential leadership challenge from Tory MPs angry about his response to reports of parties in government buildings held whilst Covid restrictions were in place.\n\nSpeaking to the Sun, the prime minister rejected calls for him to resign, telling the newspaper he was \"focused\" on leading the Tory party into the next general election.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries, a close ally of the PM, attacked the latest MPs to put in letters on Wednesday, claiming they were \"a handful of egos [who] want to make it all about them.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's selfish, doing Labour's work and it's really not helping their constituents.\"\n\nOnly a dozen Conservative MPs have called publicly for Boris Johnson to go. More of them privately have claimed to have sent letters of no confidence, though well short of the 54 required.\n\nSo far, this effort has not been hugely co-ordinated.\n\nOne of the PM's longstanding critics told me that today's three letters felt like \"a wave\" of opposition, but it would take more to sweep the PM from power.\n\nAnd over the next 48 hours there will be discussions aimed at better managing the process.\n\nPotentially rebellious ministers and ex-ministers had wanted to make their move only after the full Sue Gray report was published or after May's local elections, whichever was the sooner.\n\nThe assessment was that there would be more chance of unseating Mr Johnson at that stage, with bad election results or bad behaviour providing ammunition.\n\nBecause while it takes 54 MPs to trigger a confidence vote, 180 would then be required to ensure his removal.\n\nWith some of the rebels motivated not by ideology but by a desire to protect the party's - or their personal - reputation, the prime minister's position remains delicate.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, the prime minister refused to confirm press reports that he was at a party in his Downing Street flat on 13 November 2020.\n\nThe gathering is one of 12 events in Downing Street and Whitehall being investigated by the Metropolitan Police for alleged Covid-rule breaking.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford claimed Mr Johnson misled MPs in December last year when he denied being at this event.\n\n\"Surely he doesn't need to wait for an investigation to tell us exactly where he was?\" asked Mr Blackford.\n\nMr Johnson said processes had to be followed and he was getting on with delivering the government's recovery plan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tobias Ellwood MP says the Conservatives \"require a new leader\"\n\nMr Ellwood, who chairs the Commons Defence Committee, called on the PM to \"cut to the chase, to call a vote of confidence in himself\" and said the party was on a \"glide path to a very, very dark place\".\n\nHe told the BBC the prime minister had not shown enough \"contrition\" in his Commons statement on Sue Gray's report, on Monday, and had already had plenty of time to make the changes he had promised.\n\nAnthony Mangnall, Tory MP for Totnes and South Devon, also revealed shortly after PMQs he had submitted a no-confidence letter in the PM.\n\nHe tweeted: \"At this time I can no longer support the PM. His actions and mistruths are overshadowing the extraordinary work of so many excellent ministers.\"\n\nWriting on his Facebook page, South West Devon MP Sir Gary Streeter, a Eurosceptic who was first elected to Parliament in 1992, said he had not taken the decision \"lightly\" to submit his letter.\n\nBut he added: \"I cannot reconcile the pain and sacrifice of the vast majority of the British public during lockdown with the attitude and activities of those working in Downing Street\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ian Blackford says If the PM is fined for attending a lockdown party, he must resign\n\nAnother former minister told the BBC on Wednesday they had resolved to submit a no-confidence letter in the PM, but they are waiting until they are sure he would lose the subsequent vote.\n\nThey added that colleagues \"didn't want to jump the gun,\" because if Mr Johnson won a no-confidence vote then under Tory rules he would be safe from another challenge for a year.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, backbencher Simon Hoare said he had given \"serious thought\" to sending in a letter, but he was persuaded the PM \"gets the scale of the challenge\".\n\nBut he warned: \"I'm not saying we're in the last-chance saloon, but closing time is getting closer.\"\n\nMr Johnson is also facing calls to withdraw a claim he made in the Sue Gray debate on Monday that Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions (DPP).\n\nTobias Ellwood and other Conservatives have criticised the PM for these comments, with Mr Ellwood suggesting it was one of the reasons he decided to submit a letter of no confidence in him.\n\nSir Keir has called Mr Johnson's comments a \"ridiculous slur\" - and he made a brief statement on them at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nAddressing Conservative MPs, the Labour leader said: \"Theirs is the party of Winston Churchill. Our parties stood together as we defeated fascism in Europe.\n\n\"Now their leader stands in the House of Commons parroting the conspiracy theories of violent fascists to try and score cheap political points. He knows exactly what he was doing. It's time to restore some dignity.\"\n\nThe Labour leader was head of the Crown Prosecution Service in 2009 when Surrey Police interviewed Savile and consulted a CPS lawyer, who decided there was insufficient evidence for a prosecution to take place.\n\nThe CPS has said Sir Keir was not the reviewing lawyer on the case, and there is no mention of his involvement in a 2013 review into the case.\n\nNazir Afzal, a former chief crown prosecutor for the North West, said on Monday: \"It's not true. I was there. Keir Starmer had nothing to do with the decisions taken.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, senior Tory Sir Bob Neill called on Mr Johnson to withdraw his claim - calling it \"baseless and unworthy\".\n\nHe joined former Northern Ireland secretary Julian Smith, who said on Tuesday the PM's accusation was \"wrong and cannot be defended\".", "Pret a Manger is raising the price of its coffee subscription service to £25 a month prompting criticism from some of its customers.\n\nThe High Street chain said ingredients and staff costs were rising, and that VAT was about to go back up.\n\nSome subscribers, who were previously paying £20 a month for up to five \"barista-prepared\" drinks per day took to Twitter to complain.\n\nBut others said the subscription still represented value for money.\n\nThe 25% price rise will come into effect from Thursday for new subscribers, and from 16 March for people who already have a subscription.\n\nPret created the subscription service in a bid to win back business lost during lockdowns. It created an initial buzz on social media, but some customers complained that popular drinks weren't always available and former Pret staff said the scheme's popularity had left some workers feeling overwhelmed by their workload.\n\nA Pret spokesperson said: \"Since we launched the Pret coffee subscription in 2020, prices for ingredients such as coffee beans and milk have gone up, VAT is increasing to 20%, and we've invested in additional pay for Pret Team members.\n\n\"We believe the coffee subscription continues to offer great value.\"\n\nHowever Twitter user Sam Anton wrote: \"This isn't acceptable. You can't put prices up without consultation, especially when the quality of produce is deteriorating. I'll be cancelling my subscription. Disappointing.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sam Anton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther customers described it as \"bad news\" and some said they were cancelling their membership.\n\nBut other customers said the subscription still represented value for money.\n\nTwitter user Jodie Portugal wrote: \"Just received an email from #pret stating that my subscription will be increased to £25 a month for 5 drinks a day, which by itself would be about £150+, so for the cost of an extra drink and croissant I still save a fortune.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by jodie portugal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother customer tweeted they'd be prepared to pay £40 for the subscription.\n\nPret said in an email to customers that of the extra £5 charge, about £2 will cover VAT, £1.50 would go on paying staff more, and £1.50 will offset inflation.\n\nThe sandwich chain announced in January that it was going to boost pay for thousands of workers to £10 per hour.\n\nIn addition, in April the tax people pay when they buy goods and services - VAT - is set to return to 20% after being cut during the pandemic.\n\nAs an employer Pret will also have a larger National Insurance bill to pay from April, following the government's move to raise NI rates to fund NHS and social care spending.\n\nPret uses Arabica coffee beans, and the price Pret pays for these has risen by 40% from 2020 levels, while the cost of milk has also gone up, it said.", "Ashley Wadsworth died after police were called to reports of a disturbance in Chelmsford\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with murdering his 19-year-old Canadian girlfriend in Essex.\n\nPolice were called to Tennyson Road in Chelmsford shortly after 16:00 GMT on Tuesday following reports of a disturbance.\n\nAshley Wadsworth, from Vernon, British Columbia, in Canada, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.\n\nJack Sepple, 23, of Tennyson Road, Chelmsford, has been charged with murder.\n\nJack Sepple, of Tennyson Road, Chelmsford, appearing at Colchester Magistrates' Court, charged with murder\n\nDuring a hearing at Colchester Magistrates' Court, prosecutors said Mr Sepple was Ms Wadsworth's boyfriend and they had met online.\n\nHe was remanded to appear at Chelmsford Crown Court on Friday morning.\n\nAccording to Ms Wadsworth's Facebook profile, she moved to the UK in November.\n\nMr Sepple wore a grey tracksuit and spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address during his court appearance\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Adulterated cocaine has killed at least 20 people and left 74 in hospitals around the Buenos Aires region of Argentina, the authorities say.\n\nInvestigators believe the illegal drug was either laced with some kind of poison or \"cut\" with another substance.\n\nThe regional security minister called on any users who had bought cocaine in the past 24 hours to throw it away.\n\nReports suggest the drugs were bought in the same shanty town and nine arrests have been made.\n\nInvestigators are awaiting the results of post-mortem examinations to compare drugs seized in raids with those consumed by the victims.\n\nThose affected come from the Hurlingham, Tres de Febrero and San Martín districts of the capital region and were taken to 10 different local hospitals.\n\nOutside a hospital in Hurlingham, an empty police car was attacked and damaged by people related to one of the victims, local media reported.\n\nCocaine (hydrochloride) is a highly addictive stimulant extracted from the leaves of coca plants and is generally snorted.\n\nA 2019 report on drug consumption in the Americas listed Argentina as the country with the third highest rate of cocaine consumption per person after the US and Uruguay.\n\nIn San Martín, police identified four of the victims as Hernán Castro, 45, Martín López, 36, Dino Melgarejo, 33, and Fernando Yacante, whose age was not given, the Buenos Aires Times reports.\n\nRaids were launched after one user reportedly told police they had bought cocaine from an individual in the Puerta 8 shantytown in Tres de Febrero.\n\nCocaine was subsequently found in similar packages to those provided by a relative of one of the people who had died.\n\nSergio Berni, the security minister for Buenos Aires province, said: \"Every dealer that buys cocaine cuts it. Some do it with non-toxic substances such as starch. Others put hallucinogens, and if there is no form of control, those things pass.\"\n\nOn this occasion, however, the drug was cut with a harmful substance as part of a \"war between drug-traffickers\", he was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.\n\nAuthorities suspect the substance used to cut the cocaine contained a strong sedative, the agency adds.\n\nAnother official, San Martin attorney-general Marcelo Lapargo, said: \"This event is exceptional. We have no precedent.\"\n\nHe added: \"We think the substance was added deliberately, it's not a processing error.\"\n\nVictims are believed to have suffered convulsions and sudden heart attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Do you accept council tax is poorly targeted?\n\nThe chancellor is asked about issues with people on low incomes who happen to live in properties valued 30 years ago in a higher tax band. Does he accept that it's poorly targeted as a way to support people? Sunak says he accepts that no system could be \"perfectly targeted\", but he says there is a discretionary fund of £150m for councils to support people in this situation. He says there are about 300,000 people living on benefits who live in houses that are rated about council tax band D, so wouldn't automatically get the £150 discount. But he defends using the council tax system, saying it has the advantage of working on a household basis, as energy bills do, and being quick. \"People will feel that £150 in April and that’s really good,\" he says.", "Part of a woolly mammoth tusk recovered from the site near Plymouth\n\nThe remains of a woolly mammoth have been found among a host of hugely significant Ice Age animal bones in a cave in Devon, experts have said.\n\nThe bones, including those of a woolly rhinoceros, wolf and hyena, are thought to date to the last Ice Age - about 30,000 to 60,000 years ago.\n\nArchaeologists found the remains during work as part of the development of a new town near Plymouth.\n\nLead archaeologist Rob Bourn said the finds were of \"national significance\".\n\nMr Bourn, from Orion Heritage, an archaeological and heritage consultancy, said it had been \"a once in a lifetime experience for those involved\".\n\nThe mandible of a woolly rhinoceros was found during the investigations\n\nThe developers of Sherford, a new 5,500-home town which is being built, instigated archaeological work at the start of construction in 2015, which has continued ever since.\n\nHe said: \"Construction happening at Sherford is the sole reason these findings have been discovered and it is remarkable that they have laid undisturbed until now.\n\n\"To find such an array of artefacts untouched for so long is a rare and special occurrence.\"\n\nA team of archaeologists recorded the finds in situ before removing them for analysis\n\nExcavation during infrastructure work led to the discovery of the animal remains in an area near old lime kilns and Sherford Quarry.\n\nThe archaeological team has so far found the partial remains of a woolly mammoth and a woolly rhinoceros, along with a virtually complete wolf skeleton and the partial remains of a hyena, horse, reindeer, mountain hare and red fox.\n\nThe bones are now undergoing academic analysis but are expected to be given to the care of Plymouth's new museum, The Box.\n\nA nearly complete wolf skeleton including skull was found at Sherford\n\nThe Sherford Consortium - the team behind the development of the new town - said the underground area where the remains were found would be conserved and no construction would take place on top of it.\n\nBut it said the entrance would be closed and it was not, nor would it be, possible for the public to safely access the area.\n\nHe said: \"To have found partial remains of such a range of species here in Devon gives us a brilliant insight into the animals which roamed around Ice Age Britain thousands of years ago, as well as a better understanding of the environment and climate at the time.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A scheme to alert schools if their pupils have been affected by domestic violence is to be extended in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 77 schools are to be added to Operation Encompass in February as part of a pilot programme.\n\nIt has already been running in 60 schools in Newry and south Down since September 2021.\n\nThe scheme has been in operation in police forces in England and Wales for a number of years.\n\nOperation Encompass aims to help children affected by domestic violence by getting them immediate support from staff in their school.\n\nIf the PSNI is called to an incident and a child is present, they will inform school staff responsible for safeguarding before the start of the next school day.\n\nIncidents of domestic violence and abuse have increased in Northern Ireland recently.\n\nFor instance, the number of domestic abuse calls made to police over the Christmas period in 2021 rose.\n\nEducation Minister Michelle McIlveen said during the pilot scheme 51 referrals had been received by schools from the PSNI\n\nDetails of the extension of the scheme in schools in Northern Ireland was revealed by Education Minister Michelle McIlveen, in response to an assembly question from Sinn Féin MLA Linda Dillon.\n\nThe minister also said that 51 referrals had been received by schools from the PSNI of incidents involving 106 pupils since the pilot scheme in the Downpatrick PSNI area began in September.\n\n\"Stage two of the pilot scheme is due to start in February 2022 and will add a further 77 schools,\" Ms McIlveen said.\n\nOperation Encompass will eventually be rolled out across all schools in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe scheme is a partnership between the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), the Safeguarding Board Northern Ireland (SBNI), the Education Authority (EA) and schools.\n\nIt came into effect after new domestic abuse laws were introduced in Northern Ireland in 2021.", "William \"Red\" Whittaker may not be a household name, but he should be.\n\nThe robotics professor has been leading the development of a tiny wheeled robot called Iris, which could become the first uncrewed rover sent by the US to explore the Moon.\n\nIris has not been built by experienced engineers at Nasa or a large aerospace company, but by students at Whittaker's home institution of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh. The robot was recently secured to its lunar lander, ahead of a launch scheduled for 2022.\n\nThe project represents a dream come true for the robotics pioneer, whose work has spanned cleaning up nuclear accidents to building driverless cars.\n\nOn 28 March 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, experienced a partial meltdown in one of its reactors. Radioactive gases were released into the environment and the reactor building became too contaminated for people to enter.\n\nIris is made largely of carbon fibre and will use \"bottle cap\" wheels designed to reduce its weight\n\nRed Whittaker, who had just been awarded his PhD, built three robots to explore and clean up the reactor's radioactive basement. This, he explains, was \"revolutionary\" because, at the time, \"there were no nuclear work robots\".\n\nThe robotics professor, who is in his 70s, has since been behind many major advances in robotics. After the nuclear clean-up machines, Whittaker worked on robots designed to automate agricultural processes (he's a keen farmer) and explore disaster zones such as mine collapses.\n\nHe later built forerunners of today's driverless cars - winning a 2007 challenge sponsored by the US military's research agency Darpa. According to Intel, the self-driving car sector could have a projected value of $7tn by 2050.\n\nExploring the Moon was the result of a clear-minded goal he set himself more than three decades ago. \"I formulated my own vision, way back in the 80s that, besides developing, securing, feeding planet Earth, I would explore worlds beyond.\"\n\nAnd, he adds: \"Once you say it, you'd better do it.\"\n\nRed Whittaker (top) and colleagues pose with Workhorse, the last of three robots built to clean up Three Mile Island\n\nWhittaker led the development of a driverless car called Sandstorm, shown competing in the 2004 Darpa Grand Challenge\n\nJust four uncrewed rovers have ever explored the Moon - the two Lunokhods launched by the Soviet Union in the 70s and the Yutu robots sent by China within the last decade. The next few years could increase that tally considerably, as repeated flights to the Moon are made by private firms.\n\nGetting to this point has not been easy. In 2007, Whittaker co-founded a space company called Astrobotic with the intention of winning the Google Lunar X-Prize, which had offered $20m to the first privately-funded team to land a rover on the Moon.\n\nThe money went unclaimed when none of the finalists was able to secure a launch contract by the deadline. But during the 2010s, many of the previous, lofty barriers to space exploration started to collapse.\n\nAnd in 2016, US President Donald Trump's administration shifted the focus for human exploration at Nasa from Mars back to the Moon.\n\nMs Duvall says students are often willing to experiment with new designs\n\nThe space agency set up a programme called CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services), designed to encourage private companies to send robot landers to the Moon. Contract winners would carry Nasa experiments to the surface in support of human missions, but they could sell unused space on the lander to other customers.\n\n\"I would have gone to my grave without a lunar opportunity if there had not been an inflection point. if there had not been New Space [the emerging wave of private space companies] and a new view of the Moon,\" Red Whittaker explains.\n\nIris will take advantage of one of these flight opportunities aboard a lander built by Astrobotic. The 2kg, shoebox-sized rover is battery-powered and will operate on the surface for 72 hours.\n\nThe challenges of packing the required technology into such a small space were considerable - including miniaturising the electronics. \"It is so highly specialised and integrated, the degree of difficulty and the challenges that had to be overcome were incredible,\" says Prof Whittaker.\n\nRed Whittaker and Raewyn Duvall with members of the Iris team\n\nOf working with CMU students on the project, he says: \"It's not really okay to pick a favourite project, or robot, any more than a family picks a favourite child. But the Iris team is just so inspirational and competent, capable and committed.\"\n\nRaewyn Duvall, deputy programme manager for Iris at Carnegie Mellon, told BBC News: \"Students are so much more willing to take risks and try entirely new designs.\"\n\nOnce Iris reaches the lunar surface, it will be actively driven by operators on the ground who will send the rover commands. Onboard cameras will send images of the terrain to Earth, helping team members plan driving routes.\n\nMs Duvall says she \"can't imagine\" what it's going to be like for operators at CMU realising for the first time that they are controlling a machine on the Moon, but she expects it to be \"mind-blowing\".\n\nHouston-based Intuitive Machines plans to send its Nova-C lander to the Moon this year (artwork)\n\nData will travel back to Earth at 50 kilobits per second, meaning low quality images from the Moon, used to help drive the rover, will take a minute to get to Earth. High-quality images, used for science, will take about 10 minutes.\n\n\"Honestly, I think it's going to feel like a very old, retro computer game,\" Duvall explains.\n\nIris will travel to Lacus Mortis, a lava plain on the north-east part of the Moon's near side. While the location is relatively flat, \"we are tiny\", says Duvall, adding: \"A small rock for a person to step over can be a larger obstacle for us.\"\n\nThe robot will be joined on Astrobotic's Peregrine lander by a set of small rovers built by the Mexican Space Agency (AEM).\n\nThis year should also see the launch of India's Chandrayaan-3 mission, which will deploy an advanced mobile robot, and another CLPS flight for a lander built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines. Its Nova-C spacecraft will carry science instruments for Nasa and other customers but no rovers at present.\n\nAlongside Iris, Whittaker has also been building a bigger, more capable rover called MoonRanger. This is scheduled to be launched on a lander built by Mojave-based company Masten Systems in 2023.\n\nArtwork: MoonRanger, developed at CMU, should launch to the Moon in 2023\n\nWhile the student-built rover will be entirely directed by commands from Earth, MoonRanger will be capable of autonomous driving, allowing it to roam beyond the radio communications range of its lander.\n\nLooking beyond this mission, Whittaker says several other innovations have the potential to transform the way robots currently explore the Solar System. Currently, rovers use stereo vision to detect landscape hazards. Whittaker says that if laser-ranging technology called Lidar can be miniaturised to fit on a robot, it would be a \"breakthrough\".\n\nImproved onboard chips that can better handle the large amounts of data collected by rovers would also be transformative.\n\nWhatever the future holds, it's an exciting time for lunar exploration and those on the Carnegie Mellon team. From a personal perspective, says Prof Whittaker, \"I've had such a good run of it, [building] robots for land, the sea, in the air, underwater and underground. Now my frontier is the high frontier\".", "Boris Johnson has expressed deep concern about Russia's hostile activity on the Ukrainian border, in a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe PM told Mr Putin any further incursion by troops on the border would be \"a tragic miscalculation\" by Russia.\n\nThe Kremlin said the two leaders had \"a detailed exchange\" in which Mr Putin reiterated Nato's \"unwillingness\" to address Russia's concerns.\n\nMoscow denies planning to invade neighbouring Ukraine but has deployed an estimated 100,000 troops near Ukraine's borders.\n\nDuring Wednesday's phone call, Mr Johnson warned against any Russian invasion into Ukraine and emphasised to Mr Putin the need to respect Ukraine's territorial integrity.\n\nIt comes as US President Joe Biden announced his intention to send extra troops to Europe this week.\n\nBoth leaders agreed \"that aggravation was in no-one's interest\", a Downing Street spokesperson said.\n\nThe pair cited issues such as climate change, the situation in Afghanistan and the Iran nuclear deal where Russia and the UK benefitted from open channels of communication.\n\nThey agreed to apply this \"spirit of dialogue\" to the current situation in Ukraine \"in order to find a peaceful resolution\".\n\nThe current tensions on the Ukrainian border come eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backed a bloody rebellion in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nMoscow accuses Nato countries of \"pumping\" Ukraine with weapons and the US of stoking tensions to contain Russia's development.\n\nRussia's core demand is for the West to guarantee Ukraine will not join Nato, a defensive alliance of 30 countries.\n\nDuring the phone call, Mr Johnson highlighted Nato's open-door policy - which states Nato membership is open to any European state - and its status as a defensive alliance.\n\nBut Mr Putin says the alliance is refusing to address Russia's legitimate security concerns about Nato military activity encroaching into eastern Europe.\n\nSome 2,000 US troops will be sent from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Poland and Germany, and a further 1,000 already in Germany will go to Romania.\n\nThe US troops being deployed will not fight in Ukraine but are intended to ensure the defence of US allies.\n\nRussian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko described the US deployment as a \"destructive\" step that heightened tension and reduced the scope for a political solution.\n\nMr Putin has accused the US of trying to draw his country into a war in Ukraine and using any subsequent confrontation as a pretext to impose more sanctions on Russia.\n\nThe UK has also threatened sanctions against Russia in the face of any invasion. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said legislation was being prepared to target a wider range of individuals and businesses associated with Mr Putin.\n\nOn Monday, the UK government announced it was giving Ukraine £88m to promote stable governance and energy independence from Russia.\n\nMr Johnson, who visited Kyiv on Tuesday, has been accused of using the situation on the Ukraine border to divert attention from troubles at home, after weeks of negative headlines about parties in Downing Street and discussions about his leadership.", "Homes have been found for 4,000 Afghan refugees but 12,000 remained in \"bridging accommodation\", MPs were told\n\nSome 37,000 asylum seekers and Afghan refugees are living in UK hotels at a cost of £1.2m per day, MPs were told.\n\nThe home secretary said there was a struggle to find permanent homes for thousands of refugees months after they were evacuated from Afghanistan.\n\nPriti Patel told the Home Affairs Committee the current policy was \"thoroughly inadequate\".\n\nThe Home Office was developing better ways of working with local authorities to find permanent homes, MPs heard.\n\nMs Patel said: \"We do not want people in hotels, we are looking at dispersed accommodation.\"\n\nShe said there were efforts under way to use Ministry of Defence buildings for more asylum accommodation.\n\nThere are 25,000 asylum seekers currently in hotels and another 12,000 people rescued from Afghanistan.\n\nHome Office official Tricia Hayes told the committee homes had been found for 4,000 Afghan refugees so far and the 12,000 remained in \"bridging accommodation\".\n\nShe said her department had been working with the Local Government Association and with councils to develop a new way of working on asylum schemes,\n\nShe said there was a financial and policy imperative of \"cutting the cost that we're currently incurring in hotels, which is now racking up to about £1.2 million every single day\".\n\nThere were now improved communication systems, such as a dedicated portal to connect people who could offer accommodation with councils and the government to help match them with families, she said.\n\nMs Hayes added: \"We're incredibly grateful to the 300 councils that have already stepped forward to help us, but we can always do with more.\"\n\nConservative MP Tim Loughton told Ms Patel that one Afghan refugee in his constituency with young children was in a hotel with \"appalling food\" and \"terrible conditions\".\n\nHe said he was called a troublemaker and told to shut up and leave when he complained.\n\nMs Patel asked him to provide her with more details, adding that it was an \"awful situation\".\n\nUPDATE: The Home Office clarified on 3 February 2022 that the total UK hotel bill for migrants was in fact £4.7m per day.", "As the friends of psychiatrist Gary Jenkins carried his wicker coffin from the church to the graveyard, two red kites circled high overhead.\n\nIt was so apt that these beautiful birds appeared just as his coffin was being taken to its final resting place.\n\nThese are the words of one of Mr Jenkins' patients, speaking after the trial and conviction of two men and a girl responsible for robbing, beating up, torturing and ultimately murdering the doctor in Bute Park on the night of 20 July, 2020.\n\nThe patient, who did not wish to be named, has come forward to share how his care, focus and dedication helped her through the depths of her depression.\n\nGary loved nature. As a child he spent hours in a makeshift den with his friends, binoculars in hand watching the birds.\n\nThat beautiful Monmouthshire churchyard, bathed in warm sunshine and birdsong was in stark contrast to his last conscious moments.\n\nIn the transcript of the audio recording of the attack in Bute Park, Gary could be heard saying \"Why are you doing this?\"\n\nIt's a question I've asked myself a hundred times since then. There is no answer.\n\nI knew Gary, he was my psychiatrist and I like to think of him as my friend. Without him, I wouldn't be here today. That might seem like an exaggeration. But it's not.\n\nI first met him not long after I'd been the victim of repeated sexual assaults and bullying in my workplace. No one would help me. I was forced to walk away from a job I loved. I couldn't take any more.\n\nFor the first year there were many days I couldn't get up, couldn't get dressed. For more than six months I couldn't leave my front door alone.\n\nThe world was too hostile for me.\n\nThere was a time that I was so ill that I'd planned and paid for my own funeral and the wake.\n\nI'd stockpiled pills and written goodbye notes, I was just waiting for the right time.\n\nI'd even written one for my bedroom door so that my poor other half wouldn't find me. It read \"don't open the door, just call the police. Sorry\".\n\nDr Jenkins was attacked near the Summerhouse cafe in Bute Park\n\nThree years later, I went back to work and back to life.\n\nAnd that was because of Gary. So what was he like?\n\nWell, he was small in stature, but a giant in personality.\n\nPsychiatry to me, was a mixture of chemicals and kindness. He tweaked the anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs until the deep bleak fog of depression began to lift and then, this lovely, thoughtful, clever man began the delicate and difficult work of bringing me back into the world.\n\nGary rallied a team to get me back on my feet including a PTSD expert who usually works with emergency service staff and a return to work consultant to deal with my employers. He supported my partner and invited him to talk about how he was coping. He was so very thoughtful.\n\nAnd somehow, over time, he persuaded me that the world wasn't a completely evil and horrible place.\n\nBut standing in that churchyard, watching as his two daughters saw their father laid to rest, his family, friends and colleagues heartbroken, I couldn't help but think the world was truly evil.\n\nHow could it be that someone so truly good and kind was taken like this?\n\nGary's funeral was a window on a rich life well lived.\n\nLee Strickland and Jason Edwards pleaded guilty to manslaughter and robbery but had denied murder\n\nHis brave, brilliant daughters who sang and spoke, his love and talent for music and performing evident in every word they spoke, supported by their mother as they gazed at the wicker coffin garlanded with summer flowers.\n\nHis childhood friends, remembering those days birdwatching from their den.\n\nHis happy early days as a medical student in London, meeting his wife, becoming a dad.\n\nThe years of work in that most difficult of discipline, psychiatry, the tributes from colleagues who spoke of ward rounds with Gary being a memorable experience. His knowledge and expertise.\n\nHe was the kind of person you'd want for a friend, a talented musician who was always ready to play the piano at a party, someone who loved good food and good conversation.\n\nGary Jenkins worked at the Hamadryad Hospital in Cardiff Bay\n\nAfter the funeral, the wake was held in the pretty country pub overlooking the churchyard.\n\nOf course, Gary couldn't and didn't talk about his work to his family and friends. His best friend from childhood said it was a part of his life they knew nothing about.\n\nI was so glad to be able to tell him what a wonderful doctor he was - how kind and dedicated, funny and irreverent he could be.\n\nAnd how when he asked how you were, looking at you with that kind face, you knew, absolutely knew, he really cared.\n\nAnd that's what writing this is about - telling you about my experience of Dr Gary Jenkins.\n\nHis life is defined by so much more than simply one terrible night and writing this is the only thing I can do to say thank you.\n\nAt the time of his death he was thinking about making big changes.\n\nHe was hoping to reduce his working hours. He wanted to become a wildlife ranger, spending more time in his beloved nature, after years of dedicated service in the NHS.\n\nIt would have meant more time with his family, his friends, more time to live the life he wanted to.\n\nBut it wasn't to be. He gave so much, had so much more to give and yet it was taken away from him and that's the hardest part.\n\nDr Jenkins was a much loved father and friend", "Homes have been found for 4,000 Afghan refugees but 12,000 remained in \"bridging accommodation\", MPs were told\n\nSome 37,000 asylum seekers and Afghan refugees are living in UK hotels at a cost of £4.7m per day, revised Home Office figures show.\n\nA Home Office official said yesterday the total hotel bill was £1.2m a day but the department has since clarified the actual overall daily cost is £4.7m.\n\nIt it understood the £1.2m is to accommodate Afghan refugees and another £3.5m a day is spent on asylum seekers.\n\nA spokesman said the use of hotels was unacceptable and a short-term solution.\n\nHe insisted the Home Office was \"working hard\" to find suitable accommodation for asylum seekers and Afghan refugees, and urged councils to do all they could to help find permanent homes.\n\nIt comes after the home secretary said there was a struggle to find permanent homes for thousands of refugees months after they were evacuated from Afghanistan.\n\nPriti Patel told MPs on the Home Affairs Committee the current policy was \"thoroughly inadequate\".\n\nThe Home Office was developing better ways of working with local authorities to find permanent homes, MPs heard.\n\nMs Patel said: \"We do not want people in hotels, we are looking at dispersed accommodation.\"\n\nShe said there were efforts under way to use Ministry of Defence buildings for more asylum accommodation.\n\nThere are 25,000 asylum seekers currently in hotels and another 12,000 people rescued from Afghanistan.\n\nHome Office Second Permanent Secretary Tricia Hayes told the committee homes had been found for 4,000 Afghan refugees so far and the 12,000 remained in \"bridging accommodation\".\n\nShe said her department had been working with the Local Government Association and with councils to develop a new way of working on asylum schemes.\n\nShe said there was a financial and policy imperative of \"cutting the cost that we're currently incurring in hotels, which is now racking up to about £1.2 million every single day\".\n\nThere were now improved communication systems, such as a dedicated portal to connect people who could offer accommodation with councils and the government to help match them with families, she said.\n\nMs Hayes added: \"We're incredibly grateful to the 300 councils that have already stepped forward to help us, but we can always do with more.\"\n\nBut the Home Office has since clarified that a drafting error saw Ms Hayes incorrectly give the daily hotel bill cost as £1.2m - rather than £4.7m - when arguing for the financial and policy need for cost-cutting.\n\nIt is understood she has since clarified with the committee that the £1.2m figure was just part of the total cost.\n\nConservative MP Tim Loughton told Ms Patel one Afghan refugee in his constituency with young children was in a hotel with \"appalling food\" and \"terrible conditions\".\n\nHe said he was called a troublemaker and told to shut up and leave when he complained.\n\nMs Patel asked him to provide her with more details, adding that it was an \"awful situation\".", "Lamb lovers will have seen prices rise\n\nEveryone is braced for financial pain as the cost of living rises this year, particularly with energy bills likely to soar from April.\n\nBut it is not just gas that is pushing up prices at their fastest rate for nearly 30 years.\n\nHere are some of the less obvious items which have recorded rapid price rises, and some of the reasons behind the increases.\n\nThose families who still sit down to eat a traditional roast dinner together are having to be a little more imaginative if they are trying to keep the costs down.\n\nPrices of fresh beef rose by 8.6% from a year earlier, information from data firm Kantar shows. Fresh lamb prices were up even more steeply, rising by 10% to around £11 per kilogramme.\n\nPotatoes - another Sunday lunch staple - were also highlighted as a factor in pushing up December's official inflation rate (which measures the rising cost of living), by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nIn fact, food prices in general were key to the rate rising to a level not seen for three decades.\n\nFraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar, says that a lid had been kept on grocery prices for some time, especially at Christmas, but it is \"inevitable\" that increases are to come.\n\nSupermarkets are facing cost pressures of their own from logistics, manufacturing, farming and distribution. Problems such as driver shortages and rising energy prices will add to those pressures.\n\n\"Retailers will be having robust discussions with suppliers, but delayed costs have to flow through and be reflected in what consumers pay,\" he says.\n\nHe points out that when shoppers are faced with grocery price rises of more than 3% or 4% a year, they tend to make bigger decisions, such as cutting back, seeking out promotions, or buying cheaper own-label products.\n\nThe trouble is, he says, there are price rises \"in nearly every category across the supermarket shelves\" and the price gap between discount brands and others is narrower than was once the case.\n\nRichard Walker, boss of supermarket chain Iceland, says he has been seeing an \"alarming\" rise in the use of food banks.\n\nOpen the bathroom cabinet and the moisturisers and cleansers you see inside may well have got more expensive recently.\n\nPrices of skincare products typically rose by 9.6% in the 12 weeks to Boxing Day compared with the same period a year earlier, data from the same Kantar survey shows.\n\nPrestige brands, in particular, went up in price even though demand fell, according to analysts. Perhaps people were a little less hung up on their Zoom face.\n\nSkincare tells a story typical of the general cost of living squeeze at the moment, in that no one single factor is causing prices to rise.\n\n\"The cost of shipping, packaging and raw materials are on the rise and thereby brands have little choice but to increase the price of their products to ensure that their business is sustainable,\" says Emma Fishwick, from analysts NPD.\n\nShe said masks, body creams and eye treatments had recorded some of the biggest price rises towards the end of the year.\n\nCustomer behaviour has been changing as a result, she says. Shoppers are increasingly choosing mid-range brands, which can be 60% cheaper than the upmarket options.\n\n\"Whilst consumers feel the squeeze, as the cost of living increases, consumers are increasingly turning to these brands as a cheaper alternative,\" she says.\n\nIn the official figures, sofas and the like come under quite a broad category of \"furniture and household goods\". The ONS points out prices in the sector have been rising steadily since the start of 2021.\n\nThat includes furniture, household appliances - including the cost of fitting them, and even garden equipment.\n\nPrices of furniture have been highlighted in official statistics\n\nThe 7.4% inflation rate of this category in December was the highest since comparable data began in 1989, according to ONS calculations.\n\nFurniture prices are rising for many of the same reasons as skincare products and food. The cost of raw materials - such as wood in this case - as well as transporting them has gone up.\n\nA settee may be considered a luxury item, and one only bought new after saving up the money. A fridge, on the other hand, is a necessity for every family.\n\nInflation is the rate at which prices are rising. If the price of a bottle of milk is £1 and it rises by 5p, then milk inflation is 5%.\n\nYou may not notice price rises from month to month. But right now, prices are rising so quickly that the money people earn does not go as far.\n\nStatisticians at the ONS featured the effect of second-hand car prices on the inflation rate as a whole, and not for the first time.\n\nThey say used-car prices grew by 28% during 2021, compared with a 7.3% increase the previous year.\n\nIssues in the new and used car market are pushing up prices\n\nThe cost of manufacturing new cars has risen and has been made difficult by a global shortage of computer chips, as well as other materials such as copper, aluminium and cobalt.\n\nAs a result fewer new vehicles have been rolling off production lines.\n\nThat has meant more buyers turning to the used-car market, which has pushed up prices.\n\nAdded to that, the ONS says there are concerns in the trade about fewer second-hand cars being made available owing to a dearth of one-year-old cars to sell on. Delays in new car supplies have meant extensions of lease contracts and fewer part exchanges, again affecting used car availability.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Understand the Ukraine crisis with Ros Atkins in less than six minutes\n\nRussia has condemned a US decision to send extra troops to Europe to support its allies amid continuing fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMoscow said it was a \"destructive\" step which heightened tension and reduced the scope for a political solution.\n\nThe Pentagon said 2,000 US troops would be sent from North Carolina to Poland and Germany, and a further 1,000 already in Germany would go to Romania.\n\nRussia has some 100,000 troops near Ukraine. It denies planning to invade.\n\nThe tensions come eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backed a bloody rebellion in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nMoscow accuses the Ukrainian government of failing to implement the Minsk agreement - an international deal to restore peace to the east, where Russian-backed rebels control swathes of territory and at least 14,000 people have been killed since 2014.\n\nThe US and the Western military alliance Nato question the continued build up of Russian forces near Ukraine.\n\nOn Thursday Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance had seen a \"significant movement\" of roughly 30,000 Russian troops to Belarus in the last few days - the biggest deployment to the country since the end of the Cold War.\n\nRussia says the troops are there for joint military drills.\n\nUkraine, meanwhile, has sought to dampen talks of conflict. Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Thursday the number of ceasefire violations in eastern Ukraine had dropped, and that there have been no combat losses for three weeks.\n\nIn a separate development, Russia announced that it was closing the Moscow bureau of German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and revoking accreditations for its staff.\n\nThis comes a day after Germany banned Russian state TV network RT on the grounds that it did not have a legitimate broadcasting permit.\n\nResponding to US President Joe Biden's decision to deploy extra troops to Europe this week, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said it was a \"destructive\" and an \"unjustified\" step.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Grushko added that it would \"delight\" the Ukrainian authorities, who would continue sabotaging the Minsk agreement \"with impunity\".\n\nOn Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov urged the US to \"stop escalating tensions\" in Europe, saying the new troop deployment worsened the situation and adding that Russian concerns about Nato's eastward expansion are \"absolutely justified\".\n\nThe Pentagon has said the US troops being deployed would not fight in Ukraine - but would ensure the defence of Washington's allies.\n\nTheir deployment is in addition to the 8,500 troops the Pentagon put on alert last month to be ready to deploy to Europe if needed.\n\n\"It's important that we send a strong signal to Mr Putin and, frankly, to the world that Nato matters to the United States and it matters to our allies,\" Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Wednesday.\n\nBut on the question of alleged invasion plans by Mr Putin, he said: \"We still don't believe he's made a decision to further invade Ukraine.\"\n\nHe also said a US proposal \"leaked to a European news outlet\" was genuine. He appeared to be referring to a story in Spain's El País newspaper about a US offer of talks with Russia in exchange for reducing tensions over Ukraine.\n\nThe documents said the US would discuss all issues that affect European security with its allies.\n\nThese are combat-ready troops but they are not expected to be fighting Russian soldiers - if they were the deployment would be much bigger. After all Moscow is not seen to be directly threatening Poland and Romania.\n\nJoe Biden is trying to show this resolve without undermining chances of a diplomatic solution. He is not sending a lot of troops, and notably, none to the Baltic states right on Russia's doorstep.\n\nBut these deployments are the most concrete sign that the current crisis is broader than Ukraine, that it's over the post-Cold War security infrastructure in Europe.\n\nRivalry between Russia and the US, which still possess the world's biggest nuclear arsenals, dates back to the Cold War (1947-89). Ukraine was then a crucial part of the communist Soviet Union, second only to Russia.\n\nMr Putin said the US had ignored Moscow's concerns in its response to Russian demands for legally binding security guarantees, including a block on the Nato alliance's further expansion to the east.\n\nRomania, which is hosting some of the newly deployed US troops, is home to a US-built Aegis land-based missile defence station, which Russia has described as a security threat since it opened in 2016.", "The prime minister and the Home Office have been criticised by the UK statistics watchdog for incorrectly claiming crime has fallen.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons on Monday, Boris Johnson said crime had come down by 14%.\n\nIt followed a Home Office press release last week that claimed the government \"continues to cut crime\".\n\nThe UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) said the prime minister \"did not make clear\" the figure excluded fraud.\n\nIt also said the Home Office had presented figures in a \"misleading way\".\n\nThe authority was responding to a complaint by the Liberal Democrats, who accused Mr Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel of \"fiddling the figures\".\n\nThe government has commented several times on the stats, released this week for England and Wales, which track crime for the year ending September 2021.\n\nThe figures for all crimes estimated by the Crime Survey of England and Wales in fact showed a 14% increase for the period, including a 47% rise in fraud and computer misuse as people moved their lives online during the lockdowns.\n\nBut speaking in the Commons, the prime minister said crime had fallen by 14% without mentioning that this figure did not include the rise in fraud and computer crime.\n\nMr Johnson made the claim while taking questions from MPs following the publication of Sue Gray's report into Downing Street parties during lockdown.\n\nThe UKSA said the Home Office press release presented the statistics \"to give a positive picture of trends in crime\"\n\nResponding to the Liberal Democrats' complaint, UKSA chair Sir David Norgrove said in a letter the official statistics \"quite properly\" included fraud and computer misuse and the prime minister had excluded them but \"did not make this clear\".\n\n\"If fraud and computer misuse are counted in total crime as they should be, total crime in fact increased by 14% between the year ending September 2019 and the year ending September 2021,\" he wrote.\n\nHe added the Home Office press release presented the statistics \"to give a positive picture of trends in crime in England and Wales\".\n\nHe said the omission of fraud and computer misuse was \"stated\" in the release but in the title and two other places it had not been made clear crime had only fallen if these offences were not included.\n\nSir David also noted the Home Office had suggested the fall in other types of crime was related to the government's so-called Beating Crime Plan.\n\nHe said \"it would have been helpful\" if it had been made clear the Office of National Statistics actually believed falls in the relevant crime types were due to the pandemic.\n\nLiberal Democrat home affairs spokesperson Alistair Carmichael MP said: \"This is a damning verdict from the official watchdog. Yet more distortions from Boris Johnson and his cabinet to play down the extent of crime.\n\n\"When the government's record on crime is so bad that both the prime minister and home secretary feel the need to fiddle the figures, it is clear we need a new approach.\n\n\"The prime minister must come before Parliament to apologise for his latest lie and set the record straight.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat chief whip Wendy Chamberlain raised the issue in the Commons on Thursday, prompting deputy speaker Dame Rosie Winterton to respond: \"If an error has been made I am sure the minister will seek to correct it as quickly as possible.\"", "Suzann Mckenzie regularly takes her son to the grave of his father, James Mcgarrie\n\nFamilies are concerned for the bodies of their loved ones after water was found in 10 chambers at Ayr Cemetery.\n\nSuzann Mckenzie said she feared the remains of her son's dad were now \"floating in six feet of water\".\n\nWhen 32-year-old James Mcgarrie died nearly three years ago he was buried with letters and drawings by his son.\n\nSouth Ayrshire Council said water ingress had been discovered in a number of chambers and an investigation had been launched to find the cause.\n\nUp to 30 of these cells, which are designed to be air and watertight, could be waterlogged. The council said it was waiting for specialists to report back following their inspection work.\n\nMs Mckenzie found out about the underground flooding from a fellow cemetery visitor. She later joined other families at a meeting which was called to address concerns.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"Families were asking if there was water in the graves. We were told that the chambers were air-tight and water-tight.\n\n\"And we were told the chambers had a six to nine month trial period before being used.\"\n\nShe said the council sent out letters asking families for consent to have their loved ones' graves inspected.\n\nAlthough 30 families gave their permission, only 10 graves were checked and confirmed to have water ingress.\n\nMs Mckenzie expressed disappointment with the council, claiming it had not kept families properly informed.\n\nShe said: \"It's really distressing. I've got all sorts going through my head, thinking my son's dad is floating in six feet of water.\n\n\"No one has any trust in the council or trust the report will be the 100% truthful.\n\n\"The council don't care, it's just a job to them. If it was their families in there, they would understand.\n\n\"They are not caring or communicating with us or making people feel relaxed.\"\n\nMs Mckenzie, who had found comfort visiting James' grave with her son, said some of the families affected are now looking to hire lawyers to take up their case.\n\nSuzann Mckenzie has joined other families in raising concerns\n\nA statement from South Ayrshire Council said: \"Following an investigation of burial chambers at Ayr Cemetery extension, we can confirm that water ingress has been found in the 10 chambers that were inspected.\n\n\"The water found within the inspected chambers has been removed and the chambers have been sealed.\n\n\"The contractor had initially programmed for 30 chamber inspections in the three-week period, however, individual inspections took much longer than anticipated.\n\n\"As water was found in the first few chambers, the contractor undertook detailed investigatory works to determine the cause of water ingress. The cause of the water ingress is still being investigated and we are waiting on a report from the specialists who carried out the investigation.\n\n\"Decisions on any necessary further action will be taken when we receive the reports and know the cause of the water ingress. These chambers were installed by external contractors on the basis that they were watertight and airtight, and all appropriate permissions were obtained to satisfy statutory requirements.\n\n\"We have been in regular contact with affected lair owners and will continue to liaise with them directly throughout.\"", "Washington alleged that the staged attack could show Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine targeting Russians\n\nThe US has claimed Russia is planning to stage a fake Ukrainian attack that it would use to justify an invasion.\n\nIt alleged Moscow was likely to release a graphic video showing the attack on Russian territory or against Russian-speaking people in eastern Ukraine.\n\nRussia denied it was planning to fabricate an attack, and the US did not provide evidence to support the claim.\n\nThe build-up of tens of thousands of Russian troops on Ukraine's borders has escalated fears of an invasion.\n\nMoscow says they are there for military drills, but Ukraine and its Western allies remain concerned that Russia is planning to launch an assault.\n\n\"We do have information that the Russians are likely to want to fabricate a pretext for an invasion,\" Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Thursday.\n\n\"As part of this fake attack, we believe that Russia would produce a very graphic propaganda video, which would include corpses and actors that would be depicting mourners and images of destroyed locations,\" he said.\n\nBut senior US officials said the video was just one of several ideas Russia has to provide a pretext to invade its neighbour.\n\nThey added that the alleged plan was being revealed in an effort to dissuade Russia from invading.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to the reports later on Thursday.\n\n\"This is not the first promise of its kind [to release details about Russian provocation],\" he said. \"Something similar was also said before, but nothing came of it.\"\n\nRussia has repeatedly denied that it is planning an attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Understand the Ukraine crisis with Ros Atkins in less than six minutes\n\nNews of the alleged plot came a day after the US said it was sending more troops to eastern Europe to support allies in the Nato defensive alliance.\n\nRussia said the move was \"destructive\" and showed that its concerns about Nato's eastward expansion were justified.\n\nAlso on Thursday, Nato expressed concerns that Russia was likely to deploy up to 30,000 troops - including special forces, fighter jets and short-range ballistic missiles - in Belarus, Ukraine's northern neighbour.\n\n\"This is the biggest Russian deployment there since the Cold War,\" Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.\n\nRivalry between Russia and the US, which still possess the world's biggest nuclear arsenals, dates back to the Cold War. Ukraine was then a crucial part of the communist Soviet Union.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin is currently in the Chinese capital, Beijing, for the Winter Olympics, and on Friday met his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, for their first face-to-face meeting since June 2019, because of the pandemic.\n\nThe two nations have a close relationship - President Xi has previously praised Mr Putin as his \"best friend\", and it is widely expected that Russia will be looking for diplomatic support from China as tensions build with Ukraine and the West.\n\nMeanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Russia and Ukraine next week to try and de-escalate the tensions. He will meet Mr Putin in the Russian capital, Moscow, on Monday, then Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky the next day.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in Ukraine earlier this week in an effort to \"avoid further bloodshed\".", "Typhoons and a fuel tanker are involved in Thursday's quick reaction alert\n\nRAF jets have intercepted Russian military aircraft for the second day in a row.\n\nTyphoons from RAF Lossiemouth in Moray and a Voyager air-to-air fuel tanker from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire were involved in the mission.\n\nOn Wednesday, Lossiemouth pilots tracked four Russian military aircraft off the north of Scotland.\n\nIncidents like this - known as quick reaction alerts (QRAs) - are not uncommon.\n\nQRAs involve RAF crews shadowing Russian military aircraft near UK airspace and have occurred since the Cold War era but this week's incidents have come amid mounting tensions in eastern Europe.\n\nThe US and its allies have accused Russia of planning to invade Ukraine, something Russia has repeatedly denied.\n\nConfirming the latest QRA, the RAF said: \"Quick reaction alert Typhoon fighters based at RAF Lossiemouth supported by a Voyager from RAF Brize Norton were scrambled today against aircraft approaching the UK area of interest.\n\n\"Subsequently we intercepted and escorted two Russian Tu-95 Bear F aircraft.\"\n\nThe incident is understood to have taken place off Scotland.\n\nThe RAF jets shadowed the Russian aircraft as they travelled through international airspace \"within the UK's area of interest\". They did not enter UK airspace.\n\nOn Wednesday, two Russian Tu-95 Bear H, which are long-range bombers, and two Tu-142 Bear F aircraft were tracked by the RAF.", "Harvey Proctor has made an official complaint against a former senior Met Police officer\n\nA former MP falsely accused of murder during a disastrous probe into claims of a VIP paedophile ring has called on the Met Police's commissioner to give him transparency \"before I die\".\n\nHarvey Proctor has made a formal complaint alleging misconduct and malfeasance in public office by a former senior Scotland Yard officer.\n\nThe 75-year-old former Conservative MP's statement comes after revelations about two other men - aside from main false accuser Carl Beech - said to have lied to Operation Midland in 2015.\n\nThe Met Police did not follow a recommendation made by retired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques, who reviewed the investigation in 2016, to investigate the pair.\n\nBeech is now serving 18 years in prison for perverting the course of justice.\n\nHis lies included claims an establishment paedophile ring involving politicians, generals, and spies was responsible for three murders.\n\nThe BBC first revealed that senior officers declined to act on Sir Richard's recommendation over the two other false accusers, who are known only as A and B.\n\nLast week, a Daily Mail investigation quoted one of the men saying Midland detectives had \"wanted me to implicate\" Mr Proctor.\n\nThe politician, who lost his job as a private secretary to a peer, and his home as a result of the murder inquiry, asked: \"Why have they still not been investigated? I have yet to receive an answer. This issue cannot be left to fester.\"\n\nHe said: \"I know these matters have damaged me personally, physically and mentally for nearly seven years, I have a right to transparency and to the truth concerning Operation Midland before I die.\"\n\nMr Proctor, who was an MP from 1979 to 1987, said that was \"something denied\" to the late Lord Leon Brittan, Field Marshall Lord Bramall, Sir Edward Heath and others who had also been investigated.\n\nCarl Beech was jailed for 18 years for offences including perverting the course of justice\n\nHis formal complaint relates to former Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Rodhouse, who oversaw Operation Midland and is said to have considered A and B to be liars.\n\nMr Proctor said an internal police document, seen by the Mail, proved this and shows Mr Rodhouse, who now works for the National Crime Agency, knew the other accusers had lied \"about me and others yet did nothing about it\".\n\nHe said he had asked Dame Cressida Dick \"to place in the public domain all relevant documents\", adding \"the catalogue of errors committed\" by the Met Police commissioner \"has become legion\".\n\nMr Proctor also said a Merseyside Police inquiry into how A and B were handled - announced last year - had failed to get to the truth and had not even interviewed him.\n\nThe Met said it was in contact with the police watchdog regarding Mr Proctor's complaint and was currently considering the \"appropriate next steps\".\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct confirmed it had received a new complaint about the handling of Operation Midland and was liaising with the Met.", "Seamus Maguire's case is the commission's first case in more than 10 years\n\nThe commission established to find the remains of murder victims buried in secret graves during the Troubles is taking on a new case for the first time in more than 10 years.\n\nSeamus Maguire disappeared after leaving his home at Aghagallon, near Lurgan, about 50 years ago.\n\nThe Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) said it was not clear \"which wing of the IRA was involved\".\n\nHe is the commission's 17th case.\n\nThe Disappeared are those who were abducted, murdered and secretly buried by republicans during Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nMr Maguire vanished in or around 1973-74, according to a statement from the commission, when he was about 26.\n\nIt is believed republican paramilitaries were behind his murder - both the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA were active at the time.\n\nThe ICLVR said it was taking on the case \"on the basis of information received from the PSNI\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Maguire family said: \"Seamus was a much loved eldest son. His mother looked for him for many years.\n\nGeoff Knupfer, who is leading the commission's investigation, appealed for more information\n\n\"The family's wish is that he is brought home and given a Christian burial.\"\n\nThe ICLVR's lead investigator, Geoff Knupfer, said: \"As with all our cases, our sole aim is to locate and recover the remains to return them to Seamus' family.\n\n\"It is a purely humanitarian cause.\n\n\"I would appeal to anyone who knows anything about the disappearance of Seamus to come forward to the commission, safe in the knowledge that any information will be treated in the strictest confidence.\n\n\"With the right information we will find Seamus and return his remains to his family\".\n\nInformation given to the ICLVR is not passed to other agencies or used in prosecutions.\n\nIt is understood the PSNI and the commission have had ongoing discussions about the case for several years.\n\n\"This case currently sits within the workload of Legacy Investigation Branch for formal review in due course,\" a PSNI statement read.\n\n\"The commission believe the case meets their criteria and the police will share all relevant information to assist their investigation.\"\n\nThe ICLVR has located the remains of 13 people since it was established by the British and Irish governments in 1999.\n\nThe majority of the murders took place in the 1970s, with victims abducted in Northern Ireland and mostly killed and buried at locations in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe Provisional IRA has admitted responsibility for 13 of the murders and the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) one.\n\nNo attribution has been given to the others.\n\nSeamus Maguire now joins Joe Lynskey, Columba McVeigh and Army officer Robert Nairac as the 'Disappeared' whose remains have yet to be found.\n\nA reward of more than £44,000 is being offered for new information that results in finding any or all of their remains by the independent UK charity Crimestoppers.\n• None Who were the Disappeared?", "New Zealand has announced a phased reopening of its borders, as the country starts to ease some of the world's toughest Covid restrictions.\n\nVaccinated citizens in Australia can go home from 27 February without needing to undergo state mandatory hotel quarantine.\n\nJabbed citizens elsewhere will be allowed in from 13 March, said PM Jacinda Ardern.\n\nPeople will still have to self-isolate for 10 days but can do so at home.\n\nThe announcement comes after growing criticism of Wellington's controversial closed-border policy to keep out the coronavirus.\n\nNew Zealand's borders have been shut for nearly two years due to the pandemic.\n\nIn that period, the country of five million people has recorded 53 deaths and about 17,000 Covid cases - very low numbers compared to the rest of the world.\n\nBut while the closed border policy has been popular domestically, New Zealanders overseas said it had made it near impossible to go home.\n\nThe huge demand for hotel quarantine spots shut many Kiwis out.\n\n\"We have missed a lot of big life events such as weddings and funerals but more than anything just miss seeing family and friends,\" said Joe Mulcare, who lives in Singapore.\n\n\"I'm really happy that I now have the opportunity to get home but have felt a lot of frustration and confusion over New Zealand's halted approach when the rest of the world is moving on with opening up and co-existing with Covid.\"\n\nThe difficulties faced by stranded New Zealanders was also highlighted this week by the case of a pregnant reporter, who said she had to turn to the Taliban to ask if she could give birth in Afghanistan, after her initial request to return home was rejected.\n\nNew Zealand's re-opening will be in five stages.\n\n\"Opening back up in this managed way balances inflows of travellers so people can reunite and fill our workforce shortages, while also ensuring our healthcare system can manage an increase in cases,\" Ms Ardern said in a speech in Auckland on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister said there was \"life before\" the virus but \"there will be life after Covid too\".\n\n\"We are well on our way to reaching that destination. But we are not quite there yet,\" she stressed.\n\nThe key elements of the plan are as follows:\n\nSince the emergence of the Delta variant, Ms Ardern has switched from a Covid elimination strategy to pushing for higher vaccination rates and treating the virus as endemic.\n\nIt is thought that about 94% of the country's population over the age of 12 is fully vaccinated and 56% of eligible people have had their boosters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why do new variants of Covid-19 keep appearing? BBC's health reporter Laura Foster explains\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Williams played gay robber Omar Little on HBO's The Wire\n\nPolice in New York and Puerto Rico have arrested four men who allegedly sold the drugs that actor Michael K Williams took before his overdose death.\n\nWilliams, most famous for his role as Omar on HBO's The Wire, was found dead in his Brooklyn flat in September 2021.\n\nThe four men are accused of narcotics conspiracy. Police say they sold drugs laced with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid blamed for thousands of drug deaths.\n\nA medical examiner has ruled that the 54-year-old's death was an accident.\n\nThe suspects include Hector Robles, Luis Cruz and Carlos Macci - who were all arrested on Tuesday and are expected to make their first court appearances on Wednesday.\n\nIrvin Cartagena was arrested on Tuesday in Puerto Rico and is expected to go before a judge on Thursday.\n\n\"This is a public health crisis. And it has to stop,\" US Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement announcing the arrests.\n\n\"Deadly opioids like fentanyl and heroin don't care about who you are or what you've accomplished. They just feed addiction and lead to tragedy.\"\n\nInvestigators have obtained surveillance footage of the men allegedly selling drugs to Williams on the street the day before he was found.\n\nPolice have obtained footage of the alleged drug deal\n\nThey allegedly continued to sell the drugs at residences in Manhattan and Brooklyn even after they learned that their drugs had killed Williams, officials say.\n\nAccording to the Daily Beast, NYPD detectives treated his death as a homicide, and used surveillance cameras throughout the city to trace car licence plates to the suspects.\n\n\"Treat this case as if Michael K Williams was hit by a bullet,\" one police official instructed his officers, he later told the website. \"Make believe he got shot.\"", "The peer was convicted under his real name, Nazir Ahmed, in January\n\nA victim of convicted sex offender Lord Ahmed of Rotherham has demanded the government strip him of his title.\n\nThe former Labour peer was found guilty in January of a serious sexual assault against a boy and the attempted rape of a young girl in the 1970s.\n\nOnly an Act of Parliament can remove his title, but none currently exists.\n\n\"That title is bestowed upon people that have got some honour, some dignity, and he's got none of that,\" the male victim told BBC Newsnight.\n\nThe government said Ahmed had resigned from the Lords and was \"no longer a member of the legislature\".\n\nDuring a Sheffield Crown Court trial, jurors heard Ahmed carried out the repeated sexual assaults as a teenager in Rotherham.\n\nThe male victim, known as Mr B to protect his anonymity, said the abuse had started when he was a young child and he had spent much of his life since trying to \"to bury it\".\n\n\"You try to lead a normal life, but you can never lead a normal life,\" he said.\n\nAhmed, who was tried under his real name Nazir Ahmed, is due to be sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday.\n\nHe resigned from the House of Lords in 2020, days before he could be expelled over the findings of a conduct committee that concluded he had sexually and emotionally exploited a vulnerable woman. He stepped down from the Labour Party in 2013.\n\nDespite both investigations and his conviction, he will retain his title.\n\n\"I'm demanding the government take that peerage away from him,\" said Mr B.\n\n\"He's a convicted paedophile and there's no justice in that.\"\n\nThe call is being supported by crossbench peer Lord Carlisle, the charity Muslim Women's Network UK and Conservative Rother Valley MP Alexander Stafford.\n\nOnly an Act of Parliament can remove a peer's title\n\nLord Carlisle said it was \"offensive\" and \"illogical\" that Ahmed could retain his title and that the system needed updating to retain the House of Lord's credibility.\n\n\"We need to be able to expel from their titles as well as from the House, those who have been convicted of serious criminal offences,\" he said.\n\nMr Stafford, whose constituency includes parts of Rotherham, agreed the law needed overhauling and has urged the government to take action.\n\nThe charity Muslim Women's Network UK has written to Lord Chancellor Dominic Raab calling for action.\n\nCo-chair Shaista Gohir said it was wrong that Ahmed could continue to use his title and its associations of privilege.\n\n\"Once he's completed his sentence, he could go up and down the country, speak at events, use that title to influence,\" she said.\n\n\"What kind of message does that send to victims that somebody that's committed such an appalling crime can continue to use that privilege and that title?\"\n\nLord Ahmed, pictured arriving at court in late November 2021 resigned from the House of Lords in November 2020\n\nMr B said reporting Ahmed had been daunting, and he was initially put off due to his abuser's \"political clout\" and his doubts about securing a conviction.\n\n\"He knows powerful people, he knows prime ministers,\" he said.\n\n\"I was quite worried in terms of the consequences of going to make a complaint against him in terms of what he might be able to do to me.\"\n\nThe trial heard he was encouraged to come forward by the female complainant in the case, who urged him to \"seek justice for the little boy who could not protect himself\".\n\n\"If I can challenge somebody that sits in the House of Lords as a peer, and I can win, then there is hope for everybody,\" Mr B said.\n\n\"I think I can move on from this dirty little secret that I've been carrying for decades.\n\n\"I can sleep at night now.\"\n\nIn response to a question about Ahmed, a spokesperson said the government was \"committed to helping the police and local agencies prevent and disrupt this type of offending\" through the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy\n\n\"Nazir Ahmed resigned from the House of Lords in November 2020 and is no longer a member of the legislature,\" they added.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight at 22: 30 GMT on BBC 2 and afterwards on the iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bank of England boss: 'Don’t ask for a big pay rise'\n\nWorkers should not ask for big pay rises, to try and stop prices rising out of control, the Bank of England governor has told the BBC.\n\nPrices are expected to climb faster than pay, putting the biggest squeeze on household finances in decades.\n\nAndrew Bailey said the Bank raised rates to 0.5% from 0.25% to prevent rising prices becoming \"ingrained\".\n\nAsked if the Bank was also implicitly asking workers not to demand big pay rises, he said: \"Broadly, yes\".\n\nInflation is on course to rise above 7% this year, leaving households facing the biggest income squeeze in decades.\n\nPost-tax incomes are forecast to fall 2% this year, after taking into account the rising cost of living.\n\nThis represents the biggest fall in living standards since records began in 1990.\n\nMr Bailey said that while it would be \"painful\" for workers to accept that prices would rise faster than their wages, he added that some \"moderation of wage rises\" was needed to prevent inflation becoming entrenched.\n\n\"In the sense of saying, we do need to see a moderation of wage rises, now that's painful. I don't want to in any sense sugar that, it is painful. But we need to see that in order to get through this problem more quickly,\" he added.\n\nWorkers are currently enjoying pay rises of just below 5% on average, according to a Bank survey.\n\nHowever, in sectors with big labour shortages, such as IT, construction and engineering firms have started paying workers \"ad-hoc\" bonuses in order to keep them.\n\nIn the year from 1 March 2020, Mr Bailey was paid £575,538 including pension.\n\nThat is more than 18 times higher than the median annual pay for full-time employees of £31,285 for the tax year ending 5 April 2021.\n\nInflation, as measured by the consumer prices index (CPI), is expected to peak at 7.25% in April, and average close to 6% in 2022.\n\nThis would be the fastest price growth since 1991 and is well above the Bank's 2% target.\n\nThere are also increasing signs of broader price pressures across the economy.\n\nPrices of household appliances such as fridges climbed almost 10% over the past year.\n\nGoods shortages also meant retailers were offering fewer bargains in the January sales compared with previous years.\n\nThe price of services such as getting a haircut or a trip to the vet had also become more expensive as companies passed on higher wage costs to consumers, the Bank warned.\n\nMr Bailey described the jobs market as \"extraordinarily tight\", adding that labour shortages were the \"first, second and third thing people want to talk about\" when he visited businesses across the country.\n\nThe Bank's Monetary Policy Committee that sets interest rates suggested that further rate rises would be needed \"in the coming months\" if the economy continued to bounce back from the slowdown caused by the Omicron variant,.\n\nHowever, Mr Bailey cautioned that the economic outlook was particularly \"uncertain\"\n\nThis may not necessarily be the start of a \"long march upwards\" in interest rates, he added.\n\nThe worst squeeze on the income of households since 1990 is what the Bank predicts.\n\nRecord energy bill rises from April will take inflation to a peak of 7.25% in April, more than treble the Bank's normal target.\n\nSome have called it \"Black Thursday\" for living standards.\n\nIn raising interest rates again and signalling more rate rises in the coming months, and nearly voting for even more on Thursday, the Bank is putting the nation on the couch in an exercise in mass psychology.\n\nInflation rises can be self-fulfilling. If workers, consumers and businesses expect 7% rises to persist, they will pre-emptively put up prices and ask for wage rises that then bring this about.\n\nWhat the Bank is trying to do is to confine what is happening right now to being a one-off shock.\n\nTo stop the inflation becoming \"ingrained\" as Bank governor Andrew Bailey put it today.\n\nThere is a presentational issue here.\n\nIn ordinary circumstances interest rates are raised to temper booming or bubbly growth - to take the punch bowl away from the party. But there is no punch bowl. There is no party.\n\nIn fact the Bank lowered its forecasts for growth of the economy to 3.75% from 5%, even though Omicron was not as damaging as feared.\n\nThe Bank's answer is that this series of rate rises will be enough to stop a spiral of inflation, but will not go so high as to kill off the recovery. It is a delicate balancing act indeed.", "Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has been put \"on notice\" by the London mayor after \"shocking\" behaviour by some officers was found.\n\nA report by the police watchdog found \"disgraceful\" misogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment among PCs based mainly at Charing Cross.\n\nA mayoral spokesperson said Sadiq Khan told Dame Cressida of his anger at \"a return to the bad days of the Met of his childhood in the 1970s and 80s\".\n\nAmong the findings, the report by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) found the officers had joked about rape, domestic violence and killing black children.\n\nThe mayoral spokesperson said Mr Khan and Dame Cressida Dick had taken part in a \"very frank discussion which lasted for well over 90 minutes\" about the force and the changes needed.\n\n\"The mayor made clear to the commissioner how angry he is with a return to the bad days of the Met of his childhood in the 1970s and 80s, and that neither he nor Londoners will put up with this.\n\n\"He has put the commissioner on notice. He said the Met needs to urgently show it has an effective plan for restoring the trust and confidence of Londoners in the police and to drive out the culture of racism, homophobia, bullying and misogyny which clearly still exists within its ranks.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a source close to Mr Khan said: \"If the commissioner is not able to do so, then the mayor will have to consider whether she is the right person to lead the change needed at the Met.\"\n\nIn its report published on Tuesday, the IOPC made 15 recommendations and said: \"We believe these incidents are not isolated or simply the behaviour of a few 'bad apples'.\"\n\nThe IOPC London regional director, Sal Naseem, described the officers' behaviour as \"disgraceful\" and \"shocking\", adding: \"We know from other recent cases that these issues are not isolated or historic.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel \"appalled and sickened\" by a report showing misogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment in Met Police\n\nThe Met Police commissioner is appointed by the Queen following a recommendation from the home secretary, although the views of London's mayor are considered as part of the process.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said earlier she had been left \"appalled and sickened\" by the report.\n\nFollowing the report's findings, the Met said it was \"deeply sorry\" about the revelations and a \"series of measures\" had been taken \"to hold those responsible to account and stamp out unacceptable behaviour\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many people in Britain remain unprepared for the revolution in home heating that the country faces in the next ten to 15 years, a report from MPs has said.\n\nMPs on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee said the government's approach to decarbonising home heating lacked clear direction.\n\nCurrent policies are also not on the scale required, they said.\n\nHowever, the report rejected hydrogen as a solution for greener home heating.\n\nThe committee's chairman, Darren Jones, said replacing gas boilers, the major source of pollution from homes, was \"a huge task and we are not making near enough progress\".\n\nThe report urges the government to do more to explain to the public the changes they will be facing, including the potential costs and benefits.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said it would provide a detailed response to the committee's report in due course but said its Heat and Buildings Strategy, published last year, already provided \"a clear and comprehensive plan for cutting emissions\".\n\n\"In total, we're investing £6.6bn this parliament to decarbonise our buildings, saving people money on their bills and slashing pollution in the process,\" a BEIS spokesperson said.\n\nMeeting climate targets would require a ban on the installation and use of any new gas boilers by the mid-2030s at the latest, the report said.\n\nThe government should set a clear date in law, regulating the phase out of gas boilers it said. Current \"signalling\" from the government failed to give industry and consumers a clear date to work towards, it said.\n\nNo new gas boilers should be installed after 2035 as part of government strategy\n\nMr Jones said the government should also replace the failed Green Homes Grant – the scheme providing financial support for people to insulate their homes.\n\n“Ministers can’t simply leave this to the market – the government should tackle the cost of heating our homes in the round and bring forward joined-up policies that address these issues together,” he said.\n\nThe committee also urged ministers to support the training of engineers to install low carbon heating systems in every community.\n\nBEIS said the government's existing plans would incentivise people to install low-carbon heating systems \"in a simple, fair and cheap way\" and included £5,000 grants for heat pumps.\n\n\"With industry we are aiming for big cost reductions of between a quarter and a half by 2025 as the heat pump market expands and technology develops,\" a BEIS spokesperson said.\n\nThe Heat and Buildings Strategy set out measures to support customers switching away from gas, with additional support for those on low incomes. From 2035 all new heating systems must be heat pumps, hydrogen-ready boilers or similarly low-carbon systems.\n\nHowever, the cross-party committee poured cold water on suggestions that hydrogen could play a major role in home heating.\n\nMr Jones told BBC News: “We were not convinced that hydrogen was proven to be a front-running, viable technology.\n\n\"I understand why trades unions are enthusiastic about hydrogen because it preserves jobs – but many workers will need to transition to heat pumps.\n\nConcerns around hydrogen included “supply, distribution, changes to the network, changes in the home with safety work around pipes and valves - so many reasons we’re not convinced,” he said.\n\nMr Jones’ comments were attacked by Mike Foster from the trade body Energy and Utilities Alliance.\n\n\"Comments in the report [about hydrogen] are factually untrue and others deliberately misinterpret government plans,” Mr Foster said.\n\nSeparately, the think tank Nesta said home heating accounted for 38% of all UK gas use.\n\nNesta said the greenhouse gases emitted from the average UK gas boiler were equivalent to approximately 2.2 tonnes of CO2 per year, which it said was roughly the same as taking seven flights between London and New York or eating 1,263 quarter-pounders made with British beef.\n\nIt also published polling suggesting that most people significantly underestimate boiler emissions.\n\nA poll of 2,000 UK adults, conducted by the market research firm Opinium for Nesta, found only 12% saw heating their home with a gas boiler as a high source of emissions.\n\n“For most people, your boiler is probably the most environmentally damaging thing that you own,” said Nesta's Andrew Sissons.\n\nHe said there were steps people could take to reduce both the emissions from their boilers and cut their gas bills, such as improving home insulation and reducing the flow temperature of their boiler.\n\nNesta said it had developed a carbon calculator where people could quantify the environmental impact of their own boiler.", "David Goodwillie played for Clyde for five years\n\nDavid Goodwillie will not play for Raith Rovers and the club is reviewing his contract after admitting it \"got it wrong\" by signing him.\n\nThe club sparked an outcry on Monday by signing the striker, who was ruled to be a rapist and ordered to pay damages in a civil case in 2017.\n\nTwo directors resigned in protest, sponsors withdrew and its women's teams moved to sever ties with the club.\n\nChairman John Sim said he had \"learned a hard but valuable lesson\".\n\nHe said the Scottish Championship club \"bitterly regret\" signing Goodwillie, adding that the 32-year-old would not be selected to play and that talks would begin with him about his contract.\n\nAuthor Val McDermid - who ended her sponsorship of the club on Tuesday in protest - welcomed the announcement, but said it was \"just the first step on a long road back\".\n\nRaith initially defended the decision to sign Goodwillie from Clyde, saying it was based primarily on his abilities on the pitch.\n\nBut on Thursday morning Mr Sim issued a fresh statement via the club's website apologising \"wholeheartedly\" to fans, sponsors and players for the \"anguish and anger caused over the past few days\".\n\nHe said the board and management team had \"listened carefully\" to fans who had got in touch.\n\nHe said: \"This very unfortunate episode is something that we all bitterly regret and we are now wholly committed to making things right.\n\n\"I can therefore confirm that, following a meeting of the board, the player will not be selected by Raith Rovers and we will enter into discussions with the player regarding his contractual position.\"\n\nVal McDermid withdrew her support and sponsorship of Raith Rovers over the signing\n\nMs McDermid - who has a stand at the club's Starks Park stadium in Kirkcaldy named after her and is the team's shirt sponsor - ended her support of Raith on Tuesday in protest at the move.\n\nResponding to the U-turn on Thursday, she said it was \"a victory of sorts of the hundreds of people who make the club, who were appalled a the original decision\".\n\nShe said: \"It's just the first step on a long road back. The same people who made the decision are still in charge.\n\n\"Those who love and value the club are still on the outside - they need to be on the inside, shaping the future for the community.\"\n\nThe chief executive of Scottish Women's Football had warned the signing could have \"devastating\" consequences for the game, with Raith's girls and women's teams saying they were looking to break away from the club.\n\nThere was also condemnation from politicians, with the issue raised in the House of Commons and former prime minister Gordon Brown - one of Raith's most high-profile supporters.\n\nMr Brown said the club had now made the \"right decision\", and that football needs to consider how it deals with cases of players involved in rape and violence against women.\n\nRaith's away shirt sponsor TagGames said it was still pulling out of the club despite the u-turn as \"we no longer believe the board and current management are capable of acting in the best interests of the club and the partnership we entered into\".\n\nIt said it would now allow its logo to remain on the shirts for the remainder of the season, but would not be extending its sponsorship in future seasons under the current setup.\n\nFans of the club opposed to Goodwillie's signing have raised more than £11,500 for Rape Crisis Scotland through a fundraising website.\n\nGoodwillie, a former Scotland international who has previously played for clubs including Aberdeen and Dundee United, was in the stands on Tuesday night as his new club drew 3-3 with Queen of the South.\n\nHe had played with League One side Clyde since 2017, and was the club's captain.\n\nRaith said he had been signed as a \"proven goalscorer\", but Mr Sim now says the board had \"focused far too much on football matters and not enough on what this decision would mean for our club and the community as a whole\".\n\nGoodwillie never faced a criminal trial over the rape accusation, with prosecutors saying there was not enough evidence.\n\nHowever he was taken to court by a woman who said she was raped by Goodwillie and his former Dundee United team-mate, David Robertson, after a night out in 2011.\n\nBoth men accepted they had sex with her, but maintained it was consensual.\n\nThe judge in the civil case ruled that both had raped her, saying she had been \"incapable of giving meaningful consent\", and ordered them to pay her £100,000 in damages.\n\nGoodwillie left Plymouth Argyle by mutual consent following the ruling, and later signed for Clyde - then competing in Scotland's League Two.\n\nThis move also attracted criticism, but the club defended the decision and said people should be allowed to rebuild their lives after mistakes.\n\nGoodwillie went on to become club captain, scoring more than 100 goals in five and a half seasons. Clyde said he had made a \"tremendous contribution\", and that they had given him \"a football home and platform to enjoy what he does best at a difficult juncture in his life\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. I don't know if Sir Jeffrey voted for me, says Edwin Poots\n\nIt is disappointing that Edwin Poots has not accepted the decision to reject his bid to stand for the assembly in South Down, a DUP MP has said.\n\nLagan Valley MLA Mr Poots said he only agreed to switch constituency to help party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson get elected to Stormont.\n\nMr Poots said he would challenge his party's decision not to select him.\n\nBut East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson said a challenge by Mr Poots would not overturn the decision.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) officers endorsed Diane Forsythe as the South Down candidate at the meeting by way of a secret ballot, replacing current assembly member Jim Wells, who has been deselected.\n\nMr Poots insisted Sir Jeffrey encouraged him to stand in South Down for the assembly election just days before DUP officers rejected his nomination.\n\nSir Jeffrey is currently MP for Lagan Valley.\n\nMr Wilson said he was among those who interviewed Mr Poots and Ms Forsythe during the nomination process.\n\nSammy Wilson criticised Edwin Poots for his reaction to not being selected in South Down\n\nHe said Ms Forsythe was \"by far the best candidate\" and that in the constituency, \"her selection has been positively received\".\n\n\"Diane is both the party officers' and the party leader's choice for South Down,\" he said.\n\nMr Wilson went on to say that if Mr Poots challenged the decision, the outcome would be the same as it would go the the party officers and leader.\n\n\"It is disappointing that Edwin has not accepted the decision, especially because he has a seat of his own which he is free to contest and there are other vacant places available which he could have chosen and is still free to choose if he so wished,\" he said.\n\nMr Poots argued that he had been told by Sir Jeffrey that he should put his name forward for selection in South Down.\n\n\"I was being encouraged to stand in South Down up until the middle of last week by the party leader,\" Mr Poots, who is Stormont's agriculture minister, said.\n\n\"That was the last conversation we had.\"\n\nAsked if he felt Sir Jeffrey had reneged on a promise, Mr Poots said: \"I don't know if that was the case, as there were 11 party officers and it was a secret ballot\".\n\nHe added he was not aware if Sir Jeffrey voted for him as \"they hadn't had that conversation yet\".\n\n\"Previously our conversations were about either Jeffrey or myself going in South Down, and when I started thinking about this, I didn't know what other names were in\" he added.\n\nMs Forsythe's selection must still be ratified by the party executive.\n\nMr Poots said he had not been aware that Ms Forsythe was in the running for the nomination as \"for me it was about facilitating Jeffrey's return to Stormont\".\n\nThe DUP said it does not comment on internal party processes.\n\nHowever, a senior source within the party disputed Mr Poots' version of what happened before last week's nomination meeting.\n\nThis all lifts a curtain on private DUP business and reveals that all is not well.\n\nEdwin Poots' version of events is that he was being offered this alternative seat, and he believes he had this deal, but the deal didn't materialise.\n\nIt doesn't play well publicly for the DUP. It reignites those tensions that we witnessed last year during all the leadership battles.\n\nFor Mr Poots, the South Down decision is not the final decision.\n\nHe's banking on going to the executive and getting that decision regarding Diane Forsythe to be overturned and getting his name on the ballot paper.\n\nHe will be gambling on the fact that he has got allies in the room and will be number crunching to see if he has that support he needs.\n\nAs far as he's concerned, his political career is not over.\n\nEarlier, Mr Poots told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme he had engaged with Sir Jeffrey for two months on the issue of where he would stand in the election.\n\nHe said some \"very silly people\" had leaked elements of the nomination process to the press.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, he told BBC News NI the possibility of running in Lagan Valley was \"not entirely\" gone, but something would need to change \"radically\".\n\nAsked if he might find an alternative route back to the assembly, he said there could be lots of \"different permutations\".\n\nDiane Forsythe has been selected to stand in South Down\n\nThe DUP currently holds two seats in the Lagan Valley assembly constituency, belonging to Mr Poots and First Minister Paul Givan.\n\nSir Jeffrey has signalled his intention to return to the Northern Ireland Assembly and is also expected to be a candidate in Lagan Valley.\n\nMr Poots was elected leader of the DUP in May 2021 after the ousting of Arlene Foster, but he resigned just 21 days later.\n\nHis appointment and the process that led to it had caused divisions within the party and several members of the South Down constituency office quit the party including Ms Forsythe.\n\nThey later returned when Sir Jeffrey was ratified as leader, saying they felt happier under his leadership.", "A record rise in energy bills is set to be announced on Thursday, but the government may step in to reduce bills by £200 for many households.\n\nThe energy regulator will detail how much bills can rise from the beginning of April, with forecasts they could reach £2,000 for many homes.\n\nEnergy firms are likely to be given loans to help them cut customers' bills, the BBC has been told.\n\nMinisters may also extend targeted help for those in need.\n\nBut there are doubts over whether the measures will be ready by the time higher prices start on 1 April.\n\nEnergy bosses have told the BBC that they have been kept largely in the dark about the government's plans.\n\nWhile some have described the plan to lend money to energy companies, to allow them to reduce bills as credible, they say they are worried that the details of the plan have not been thought through.\n\nEnergy firms are struggling under the weight of surging wholesale gas prices, and passing on some of that rise to consumers, driving up the cost of living.\n\nRising energy bills have helped push inflation up to a 30-year high, leaving the government under pressure to intervene.\n\nThe Treasury's \"rebate and clawback\" scheme, first revealed in The Times, would involve providing around £5-6bn in loans to energy firms to enable them to lower bills.\n\nBut the scheme has raised concerns among providers because the money would still have to be paid back eventually.\n\nEnergy bosses told the BBC they expect the plan would include recouping the money from households over three to five years as wholesale costs fall.\n\nHowever, the bosses said wholesale prices are not expected to fall significantly any time soon.\n\nOfgem was meant to reveal April's price cap - which sets how much providers can charge for gas and electricity - next Monday, but it has brought the announcement forward.\n\nThe government's announcement, which could come as early as Thursday, may also include an extension of the warm homes discount and changes in other benefits.\n\nOne of the UK's biggest providers, EDF, said in a statement it would welcome government action, but gave no details of any plan nor the timing.\n\nPhilippe Commaret, the firm's managing director for customers, said: \"Ballooning wholesale gas prices are driving energy bills up and customers need government to act now, especially to support those most in need.\n\n\"We look forward to hearing from government urgently on how it will help struggling households beyond the support energy companies already provide. Delaying action adds to the stress and anxiety households face.\"\n\nIt is feared Ofgem's announcement will take the average annual domestic energy bill from 1 April to about £2,000 for 22 million households, up from about £1,300.\n\nThat has intensified calls in recent weeks for the government to step in to help struggling households.\n\nCitizens Advice revealed they have already seen a record number of people turning to them for advice on energy debts.\n\nThe cost of living is forecast to rise further this year, along with interest rates.\n\nAcross the economy individuals and companies are reporting price pressures. On Wednesday, a survey found that shoppers are seeing the sharpest rise in prices for a decade.\n\nThe cost of broadband and mobile phones, raw materials, transport and fuel, and food and drink are among a wide range of products and services now on the rise.\n\nThere are also planned tax rises in April, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson under intense pressure to scrap an increase in National Insurance. But he, and Chancellor Rishi Sunak, said at the weekend the NI rise would go ahead.", "Novak Djokovic thanked the president for his support during the tennis star's legal battle\n\nNovak Djokovic has thanked the Serbian president for his support during his legal challenge to play at the Australian Open.\n\nThe Serbian tennis star's visa was cancelled and he was deported due to Australia's strict vaccination rules.\n\nDjokovic said that he \"never felt alone\" while in detention thanks to support from around the world.\n\nSerbian officials also hit back at claims the player submitted falsified Covid test results.\n\n\"I am very grateful for your acts that also put you in a troubling political position in international relations,\" Djokovic told President Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday.\n\n\"I will remember that for a long time.\"\n\nMr Vucic said he saw how Djokovic was willing to fight \"not only for himself, but his country\".\n\n\"Thank you for the great fight you fought in Australia,\" he told the tennis player.\n\nDjokovic said that his ties to the Serbian people were getting stronger each day and vowed to give his \"version of what happened in Australia\" within the next 10 days.\n\nDjokovic's attempt to enter Australia without being vaccinated stoked public anger.\n\nHe is not vaccinated, but had initially been granted an exemption due to a recent positive Covid test.\n\nThe Australian Border Force detained him on 5 January for not meeting coronavirus requirements, and his visa was revoked. A judge then overturned that decision, only for Immigration Minister Alex Hawke to cancel Djokovic's visa on public health grounds.\n\nHis positive and negative test certificates were published as part of the legal battle and last week a BBC report cast doubt over the tests. .\n\nDocuments submitted by his lawyers to federal court in Australia included two Covid (PCR) test certificates, one with a positive result on 16 December and one with a negative result on 22 December.\n\nA German research group called Zerforschung first picked up on the discrepancy that the earlier test had a higher confirmation code than the later one.\n\nThey wrote a blog titled \"Novak Djokovic's time-travelling PCR tests\", and partnered with German news site Der Spiegel who reported on the issue.\n\nDocuments submitted to the federal court in Australia included one from the acting director of Serbia's official health body, confirming the dates on these certificates accurately reflected when the tests had been carried out.\n\nThe serial numbers on the documents were out of sequence with others collected from around the same period, the BBC reported.\n\nBut Serbia's prosecutor's office said on Wednesday: \"It was established that Novak Djokovic was tested multiple times and the... test results from December 16 and December 22 were valid.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Rescuers have dug a huge hole next to the well (front, centre)\n\nRescuers who are desperately trying to reach a five-year-old boy who fell into a deep well in Morocco are entering the final stages of their operation.\n\nThey worked through the night to reach the boy, named by local media as Rayan, who plunged 32m (104ft) through the well's narrow opening four days ago.\n\nRescuers said they were in an access tunnel less than a metre from the boy.\n\nFears of a possible landslide have complicated the task. A rescue official was unsure Rayan was still alive.\n\nChief rescuer Abdelhadi Tamrani told AFP that the camera showed him from behind lying on his side.\n\n\"It is not possible to determine the child's condition at all at this time. But we hope to God that the child is alive,\" he told local TV.\n\nFootage on Thursday from a camera lowered into the well showed that the boy was alive and conscious, although he appeared to be suffering from some minor head injuries.\n\nRescue workers have lowered an oxygen mask, food and water into the well but it was unclear whether the boy had been able to use the supplies.\n\nA medical team is also on site, ready to treat the boy. A helicopter has also arrived at the scene.\n\nThe rescue effort has gripped the North African country for days, and thousands have gathered at the scene and have been encouraging rescuers.\n\nThe mixture of rocky and sandy soils has meant rescuers deem opening the water well's narrow shaft to be too dangerous.\n\nInstead, bulldozers were used to cut a huge trench next to the well. Rescuers then started digging horizontally to reach the boy.\n\n\"We're almost there,\" said one of the operation's leaders, Abdesalam Makoudi, on Friday afternoon. \"We've been working non-stop for three days and tiredness is kicking in, but the whole rescue team is hanging on.\"\n\nLed by Morocco's Civil Protection Directorate, rescue operations in the small northern town of Tamorot, around 100km (62 miles) from the city of Chefchaouen, have been ongoing since Tuesday evening.\n\nRayan's father was repairing the well at the time of the accident, and has said he and Rayan's mother were \"devastated and very worried\".\n\n\"In that one moment I took my eyes off him, the little one fell into the well. I haven't slept a wink\", he told news site le360 on Wednesday.\n\nSpeaking to Moroccan media with tears in her eyes, Rayan's mother said: \"The whole family went out to look for him. Then we realised that he'd fallen down the well. I'm still keeping up hope that we'll get him out alive.\"\n\nOn Moroccan social media, the #SaveRayan has been trending across the country as thousands of people have followed updates from local media and onlookers at the scene.\n\nMohamed Yassin El Quahabi, president of the Chefchaouen Association of Caving and Mountain Activities, has been helping with the rescue and he told the BBC that the narrowness of the well had hampered rescue efforts.\n\nHe added that several attempts by local volunteers and rescue workers to gain access through the well's opening have already failed.\n\n\"The problem of this rescue is that the hole diameter is very, very small, about 25cm (9.8 inches),\" Mr El Quahabi said. \"At the depth of 28 metres it became smaller so we couldn't reach him.\"\n\nCrowds gathered to watch the rescue operation on Saturday\n\nOne of the rescue team explained: \"The closer we get, the hole gets narrow and hard to pass through - which makes it very hard to save the child through volunteers. That's why we had to come up with another technique - which is digging.''\n\nBut authorities remain concerned that any interference with the well could accidentally hurt the five-year-old by triggering a landslide.", "Shops have been warned deliveries of nuts and crisps could be at risk, after KP Snacks was hit by ransomware.\n\nIn a letter to retailers, first reported by Better Retailing, the company said it \"cannot safely process orders or dispatch goods\".\n\nThe producer of McCoys, Hula Hoops and various varieties of nuts apologised for any disruption.\n\nIn a message quoted by Better Retailing, one wholesaler warned problems could last into March.\n\n\"Initial discussions have highlighted that no orders will be being placed or delivered for a couple of weeks at least and service could be affected until the end of March at the earliest,\" the wholesaler wrote.\n\nIn a post on the darknet, seen by BBC News, cyber-criminals published personal documents from staff, with the company letterhead.\n\nA countdown timer on the page warns more will be published unless a ransom is paid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What is ransomware and how does it work?\n\nOften, ransomware hackers will gain entry to a computer network, steal valuable data and then scramble the victim's copies of documents.\n\nRansoms are then demanded for the decryption of the data and the deletion of the hacker's copy of sensitive information.\n\nKP Snacks, which has a factory in Billingham, said: \"On Friday, 28 January, we became aware that we were unfortunately victims of a ransomware incident.\n\n\"As soon as we became aware of the incident, we enacted our cyber-security response plan and engaged a leading forensic information technology firm and legal counsel to assist us in our investigation.\n\n\"We have been continuing to keep our colleagues, customers, and suppliers informed of any developments and apologise for any disruption this may have caused.\"\n\nThe police advise organisations not to pay ransoms but many do.\n\nLast June, the world's largest meat-processing company paid criminals $11m (£7.8m), for example.", "Millions of households will typically pay an extra £693 a year on their energy bills from April, but chancellor Rishi Sunak said his support plan would take the \"sting\" out of the rise.\n\nThe sharp rise in energy bills will put a further squeeze on people already facing higher prices and rising taxes.\n\nThe chancellor said help of £350 per household would \"ease\" people's anxiety over the increase.\n\nBut the scheme was criticised for not being targeted on those most in need.\n\nDespite costing the government £9bn this year the average earner was still likely to be £400 worse off than last year, Paul Johnson, director of the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies said, due to a combination of tax rises and inflation.\n\nMore than half of the support package was \"effectively a loan\", Mr Johnson added.\n\nWholesale gas prices have been rising sharply over the last few months, which meant the regulator Ofgem was obliged to announce a rise in the cap that limits what companies can charge consumers in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nThe higher cap means a typical household will pay £1,971 a year from April, 54% more than they pay now, with a further rise expected in October.\n\nThe £693 a year rise will affect 22 million households, with 4.5 million customers on prepayment meters facing an even bigger increase of £708 a year.\n\nMr Sunak said the majority of families would receive a total of £350 to help them adjust to higher prices. However, only £150 will arrive by the time energy bills rise in April.\n\n\"I really believe that what we're doing, £350, it's a significant amount of money that will make a big difference to the vast majority of households, and I think people, I hope actually, will be reassured by us stepping in,\" the chancellor said.\n\nThe council tax rebate applies to homes in bands A to D, covering about 80% of households, which Mr Johnson said meant it was only \"very loosely\" targeted at lower-income households.\n\nThe other £200 will be taken off energy bills from October, but households will pay that back in instalments from 2023.\n\nHigher energy bills are set to play a key role in what the Resolution Foundation think tank has described as a \"cost of living catastrophe\" facing people across the UK this year.\n\nAlthough wages are rising, they are not growing fast enough to make up for prices that are rising at their fastest pace for 30 years. Tax changes in April, including a higher rate of National Insurance, will slim pay packets further.\n\nPost-tax incomes are now forecast to fall 2% this year, after taking into account the rising cost of living. This represents the biggest fall in take-home pay since records began in 1990.\n\nOn Thursday the Bank of England increased interest rates from 0.25% to 0.5% to try to dampen the pace of price rises over the longer term but the Bank said inflation could still reach 7.25% in April.\n\nMany people say they are already having to adapt to cope with higher prices, including 24-year-old Michael Ball, from Kirkcaldy,\n\nHe pays for his electricity via a pre-payment meter in the flat where he lives, but he goes back to his parents' house to wash his clothes to save money.\n\nMichael Ball says he is anxious about the price rise\n\n\"I do worry about money a lot. It's a big burden and this news is something that makes me feel anxious,\" he said.\n\nHe said he might have to move back in with his parents if his energy bills continued to rise.\n\n\"If I lose my independence, my own space, I worry about how it might affect my finances and mental health.\"\n\nTell us how you have been affected by the issues raised in this story.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said the £200 rebate would have an upfront cost of £5.6bn while the council tax discount would cost the government £3.6bn in 2022-23.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves criticised Mr Sunak for not scrapping VAT on energy bills.\n\nShe said that despite the chancellor's pledges the \"uncomfortable truth\" was that families in Britain would still be paying hundreds of pounds more for energy after April.\n\nShe described the plan as a \"buy now pay later scheme that loads up costs for tomorrow\".\n\nThe cap, which is announced every six months, sets the prices that suppliers can charge for each unit of energy as well as the standing charge. This is then translated into the expected annual bill for a household that uses the typical amount of gas and electricity.\n\nThat does not mean there is a limit to how much people can pay. The more gas and electricity that is used, the higher the bill.\n\nAnyone who is on a standard variable tariff, whose fixed deal has come to an end (or is about to), and those moved because their old supplier went bust will be affected by the new higher cap.\n\nAnalysts suggest the next change in the cap, scheduled for October, could add hundreds of pounds more on to a typical bill this coming winter.\n\nThere is a separate cap for 4.5 million people on prepayment meters, for whom there will be a rise from £1,309 a year to £2,017 in April for a typical household bill.\n\nEnergy firms are struggling under the weight of surging wholesale gas prices. The new cap will allow them to pass some of that cost onto customers.\n\nOfgem's announcement was brought forward as part of a coordinated approach of announcements about the cost of living.", "The veterinary team at Chester Zoo worked around the clock to save Indali from the dangerous elephant herpes virus in 2019\n\n\"She's our wonder baby!\" says elephant keeper Katie Morrison, smiling broadly.\n\nKatie points to five-year-old Indali, an elephant survivor of an often deadly virus, which has killed seven calves at Chester Zoo.\n\nNow, the zoo, with scientists at the University of Surrey, is embarking on a world first - a trial, in elephants, of a potentially life-saving vaccine.\n\nThe disease, called elephant endotheliotrophic herpes virus (EEHV), has a mortality rate of up to 85%.\n\n\"We've lost elephants usually between the ages of 18 months and three years,\" Katie explains. \"When we see symptoms - lethargy, mouth lesions - it's usually too late\".\n\nIndali is now thriving, having survived her brush with the virus in 2019\n\nThe virus was discovered in 1990 and formally characterised in 1999 by researchers at the Smithsonian Zoo in Washington DC. They linked 10 cases of a \"highly fatal haemorrhagic disease\" in young Asian and African elephants in zoos. In each case, they found \"herpes virus-like particles\" in cells of dead elephants' hearts, livers and tongues.\n\nSince then, the virus has been a zoo's worst nightmare. A recent study, led by Berlin-based veterinary scientist Sonia Jesus Fontes, calculated that it had caused 52% of the deaths of Asian elephants in European zoos since 1985. In North American zoos, it accounted for 50% of deaths since 1980.\n\nIt has now been detected in sanctuaries, safari parks and, more worryingly, in wild elephant herds in nine countries.\n\nCruelly, it usually affects the youngest animals. Since 2010, Chester Zoo has had just one calf survive to five years of age - Indali. All the others died of EEHV.\n\nAayu was 18 months old when she died of EEHV; the virus can kill a young animal within 24 hours\n\nIn 2018, it claimed three-year-old Nandita and 18-month-old Aayu in the course of a single day. \"It's so tough - you do everything you can, and it's not enough,\" says Katie.\n\nGroups of researchers around the world study EEHV, but Chester Zoo is now taking an important step with the vaccine trial, as the lead scientist behind its development, Prof Falko Steinbach from the University of Surrey, explains.\n\n\"We know it's almost impossible to prevent infection - we're trying to prevent serious disease and death,\" he tells BBC News.\n\nMuch about how the virus causes such severe disease is still unknown, but it's believed to be passed from older elephants to calves - possibly when a calf is being weaned and the antibodies from the mother's milk decline. At this stage, a calf's immune system is in a \"delicate balance\" with the virus and can become overwhelmed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How vets and scientists are battling the deadly elephant virus\n\n\"Our aim is to give them a prime before infection,\" explains Prof Steinbach. \"So the elephant's immune system knows the virus and is on the front foot.\"\n\nThe team - of immunologists, zoo vets and keepers - is able to move ahead with the trial now because the new vaccine is built on a tried and tested \"scaffold\". Essentially, the backbone of this vaccine is identical to one routinely used to immunise elephants against a virus called cowpox.\n\nThe scientists have \"seeded\" this tried and tested vaccine backbone with proteins from EEHV - bits of the virus for the elephant's immune system to recognise and respond to.\n\n\"We're using established, safe processes,\" says Prof Steinbach. \"And it's important to move ahead with a trial in elephants, because there is no other animal we can test this in.\"\n\nThe trial itself is only possible because the zoo elephants take part.\n\nIn their battle against the virus, vets at Chester test the elephants regularly, so the animals are used to health checks and to provide blood samples.\n\nThe team persuade five-tonne Aung Bo, the Asian bull elephant, to position himself so vets can take a blood sample\n\n\"We build a mutual respect between us and them,\" explains Katie. \"It's all based around a positivity and food rewards.\n\n\"We encourage them to interact with us. But if they don't want to, that's fine. We'll leave them to it and try later.\"\n\nWhen we're invited behind the scenes to watch the process, the big male elephant Aung Bo seems to be feeling quite co-operative.\n\nWith expert coaxing from Katie and from Richard Fraser, Chester's elephant team manager - and with the aid of a huge pouch of high-fibre elephant biscuits - Aung Bo positions himself so his wonderfully flappy ear is up against a small elephant-ear-sized door in the bars of his training enclosure.\n\nJavier Lopez, Chester Zoo's vet, then climbs up a small stepladder to take a blood sample from the elephant's ear vein. This will be the process for the vaccine trial - each animal rewarded for participating with biscuits and encouraging words from their trusted keepers.\n\nBlood plasma from Aung Bo, the bull elephant, was used to save a calf's life in 2019\n\nProf Steinbach is hopeful there will be \"significant progress\" towards a vaccine within five years. Until then, tests and blood donations from the herd have enabled Chester's vets to diagnose the virus before symptoms appear.\n\nWhen Indali tested positive, the team spent two weeks intensively treating her with anti-virals, immune boosters and blood plasma transfusions (donated by Aung Bo).\n\n\"Then we were in uncharted territory,\" recalls Katie. \"We'd never got that far - usually we lost calves within 24 hours.\"\n\nIndali is now fully recovered and thriving. But lives of future calves could depend on the results of the trial. If the vaccine is proven effective, it could also be rolled out in sanctuaries and even in the wild.\n\nConservationists say a vaccine could also help wild Asian elephants\n\nMike Jordan, director of animals at the zoo, says the ability to develop this treatment in a captive setting is \"hugely important\" for all Asian elephants.\n\n\"The more we look for this disease in the wild, the more we find it - it's clearly an important threat in a whole suite of threats they face,\" he says.\n\n\"All these things combined are what drive species to extinction.\"\n\nKatie adds that, for the zoo, \"a vaccine would give our calves a fighting chance right from the beginning.\n\n\"And any way that we can support the wild population would be fantastic.\"", "Interest rates have risen for the second time in three months as the Bank of England tries to curb a rapid rise in the cost of living.\n\nThe hike to 0.5% from 0.25% came as the Bank warned that price rises could speed up.\n\nPrices are expected to climb faster than pay, putting the biggest squeeze on household finances in decades.\n\nIt comes as the chancellor unveiled a support package to help households cope with a 54% jump in energy bills.\n\nRising gas and electricity costs are the main factors pushing up prices across the economy.\n\nInflation, as measured by the consumer prices index (CPI), is expected to peak at 7.25% in April, and average close to 6% in 2022.\n\nThis would be the fastest price growth since 1991 and is well above the Bank's 2% target.\n\nDespite that, the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has suggested workers need to accept pay restraint, and should not ask for higher wages, in order for inflation to be tamed more quickly.\n\nThere are also increasing signs of broader price pressures across the economy.\n\nPrices of household appliances such as fridges climbed almost 10% over the past year.\n\nGoods shortages also meant retailers were offering fewer bargains in the January sales compared with previous years.\n\nFood prices and rents were also likely to creep up in the short term, the Bank warned.\n\nPay increases are not expected to keep pace with rising prices.\n\nPost-tax incomes are forecast to fall 2% this year, after taking into account the rising cost of living.\n\nThis represents the biggest fall in take-home pay since records began in 1990.\n\nDespite this, the Bank said there had been a \"material pick-up in pay settlements\" this year, with the average worker enjoying a 5% pay rise.\n\n\"Acute\" staff shortages in sectors such as hospitality, engineering, construction and IT also meant many employers were offering staff \"ad-hoc\" bonuses to keep them.\n\nThe pandemic meant other workers had retired early, stayed in education or cut down their hours for a better work life balance. The Bank said this had created other labour shortages that could take \"many years to be resolved\".\n\nBank of England governor Andrew Bailey said the jobs market was \"extraordinarily tight\", adding that when he speaks to businesses up and down the UK, labour shortages are the \"first, second and third thing people want to talk about\".\n\nThe Bank's decision to raise interest rates will make borrowing more expensive, potentially hitting some households harder.\n\nThe Bank cannot do much to ease the energy price shock or rapid price rises in some consumer goods, so it is sticking to its job by trying to keep inflation stable, the Bank's deputy governor for monetary policy Ben Broadbent said.\n\nThe rates rise coupled with soaring prices will make it more difficult for some people to afford mortgage repayments.\n\nNaomi Mellor said her and her husband were \"tightening their belts\" due to rising energy costs\n\nNaomi Mellor, a vet who lives in Hatfield with her husband, sold their house in April, but their next purchase fell through, so they're renting.\n\nShe said rising mortgage rates have had a big impact on what they can afford.\n\n\"We're looking at a rise in our energy bills, a rise in our fuel bills and a rise in our mortgage repayments, which altogether is going to contribute to probably £200 to £300 a month more in our monthly bills.\n\n\"We're trying to buy a house and the rising mortgage rates have had a big impact on what we can afford and how much we're going to be repaying on a monthly basis,\" she said.\n\nThe Bank's rates decision will add just over £25 to the typical monthly repayment for people on a tracker mortgage.\n\nThose who have a standard variable rate mortgage will pay an extra £15 per month on average.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have one of these two types of mortgage.\n\nWhile savers will hope for higher returns, many big banks failed to pass on the full increase in December, when interest rates were increased from a record low of 0.1%.\n\nThe worst squeeze on the income of households since 1990 is what the Bank predicts.\n\nRecord energy bill rises from April will take inflation to a peak of 7.25% in April, more than treble the Bank's normal target.\n\nSome have called it \"Black Thursday\" for living standards.\n\nIn raising interest rates again and signalling more rate rises in the coming months, and nearly voting for even more on Thursday, the Bank is putting the nation on the couch in an exercise in mass psychology.\n\nInflation rises can be self-fulfilling. If workers, consumers and businesses expect 7% rises to persist, they will pre-emptively put up prices and ask for wage rises that then bring this about.\n\nWhat the Bank is trying to do is to confine what is happening right now to being a one-off shock.\n\nTo stop the inflation becoming \"ingrained\" as Bank governor Andrew Bailey put it today.\n\nThere is a presentational issue here.\n\nIn ordinary circumstances interest rates are raised to temper booming or bubbly growth - to take the punch bowl away from the party. But there is no punch bowl. There is no party.\n\nIn fact the Bank lowered its forecasts for growth of the economy to 3.75% from 5%, even though Omicron was not as damaging as feared.\n\nThe Bank's answer is that this series of rate rises will be enough to stop a spiral of inflation, but will not go so high as to kill off the recovery. It is a delicate balancing act indeed.\n\nThe recent rapid rise in prices led to some members of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to call for a bigger rate rise.\n\nFour of the nine members voted to increase rates to 0.75% to ward off fears that price rises could become more sustained.\n\nThe MPC voted unanimously to end new purchases as part of its £895bn bond buying programme to support the economy.\n\nThe Bank also forecast that the rapid spread of the Omicron Covid variant will hit growth this year.\n\nThe economy is forecast to stagnate in the first three months of this year, while the Bank also cut its annual growth forecast for 2022 from 5% to 3.75%.\n\nPolicymakers expect the economy to grow by around 1.25% in 2023.\n\nWhile consumers are expected to dip into their savings to maintain living standards, this is expected to slow down later this year, weighing on growth.", "Munira Mirza, the prime minister's policy chief, was one of four senior aides to quit on Thursday\n\nThe chief of staff, the chief of communications, the official who runs the prime minister's private office, and his policy chief - all gone. A quartet of departures from No 10.\n\nIn the words of one senior backbencher, not just a nightmare on Downing Street but a total meltdown.\n\nYet two different things happened on a turbulent day. The first three paid the price for the fiasco over lockdown gatherings - one sending the invite to the garden drinks, the other two crafting Boris Johnson's bungled response to weeks of damaging claims.\n\nMr Johnson's backers claim it's evidence that he'll keep his vow - \"I get it, I will fix it\" - that No 10 can become the home to a new and improved operation.\n\nThe resignation of Munira Mirza is of a very different order. For more than 10 years she's been one of Mr Johnson's true political friends - described as \"Boris' brain\" by one former colleague, an ally of ideas.\n\nHer choice to take a public stand after staying loyal during so many controversies sends a message loud and clear - even one of the prime minister's closest backers believes it is enough.\n\nIt's suggested the three men's departures were fast forwarded to help soften the sharpness of Ms Mirza's attack, MPs cajoled to display their pleasure in tweets online that Mr Johnson was sticking to his promise to clear out No 10.\n\nYet those obvious political plays don't mask the sense of instability around No 10. Tory MPs who wanted to be reassured are likely to be rattled instead. His allies who have rallied support for him in the last couple of weeks have bolstered his operation.\n\nBut some MPs are privately turning against their approaches, one joking they are wannabe \"Peaky Blinders\" trying to threaten colleagues to behave. The almost immediate leak of their plea to MPs to welcome the No 10 changes show as much.\n\nAnd all the while those who want the prime minister gone gather and prepare. There seems no one grand plot to oust the PM from office. Alliances are shifting. There's no one clear alternative, let alone one unifying idea.\n\nAnd the Tories' long-standing reputation for ruthless removals of leaders does not always ring true. Older heads remind restive colleagues how long it took for Theresa May to go, even after losing a majority, even after a confidence vote.\n\nOthers fear a bungled attempt to force Mr Johnson out would trap the party in a terrible limbo. Others believe that when it comes to campaigning it would be insane to lose Mr Johnson's clout.\n\nBut every mistake or misjudgement provides more evidence to those who want him gone.\n\nAnd for the prime minister's backers, it becomes harder for them to argue that he ought to stay.", "The statue of Edward Colston being thrown into Bristol's harbour made headlines around the world\n\nA report commissioned after the statue of Edward Colston was pulled down in Bristol has recommended that it should remain on display in the city's museum.\n\nA survey to gather views about the statue's possible future was begun after it was removed on 7 June, 2020.\n\nNearly 14,000 people responded and 74% said they wanted the statue displayed in a museum lying down on its side.\n\nThe recommendations by We Are Bristol History Commission group will be considered by the council and mayor.\n\nIt also recommended the plinth and original plaques should remain in place and a new plaque be installed to explain why the statue was first put up and when it was taken down.\n\nDr Shawn Sobers, Dr Joanna Burch-Brown and Professor Tim Cole of the We Are Bristol History Commission worked on the report\n\nThe survey was undertaken in the summer with the aim of giving everyone the chance to share their opinions on what should happen to the statue and its plinth.\n\nA total of 13,984 people shared their views and the majority said they wanted to see the statue on display in a museum with the graffiti preserved, in a similar way to how it has been displayed in the M Shed Museum.\n\nThe report said it should enter the permanent collection of the city council museums service and be presented in a \"nuanced, contextualised and engaging way\", to explain its history.\n\nOf the 16 per cent of people in Bristol who didn't want to see the statue in a city museum, around three-quarters wanted it returned to the plinth and a quarter suggested it should be destroyed or not on display.\n\nThe report recommended the statue be exhibited in a similar way to how it was displayed at the M Shed Museum in Bristol\n\nOpinions were mixed on what should be done with the plinth.\n\nPeople were asked if they preferred for it to be used for temporary artwork or sculptures, or used for a permanent replacement or whether it should be left empty.\n\nThe commission recommended the city to \"think creatively\" about the empty plinth, to seek funding to commission temporary artworks and activities, but for there to be \"periods of intentional emptiness\" at times.\n\nPeople were also asked how they felt about the statue being toppled - 56% of respondents said they had a positive feeling about the act and 36% had a negative feeling about it.\n\nYounger people and women felt more positive about it, while those feeling negative cited the way it was taken down as the main reason for their negative response.\n\nThe bronze memorial to the 17th Century slave merchant was rolled to the harbour after being toppled\n\nAuthors Dr Joanna Burch-Brown and Professor Tim Cole said there was a need to create opportunities for younger and older generations to share perspectives on the city's past, present and future.\n\nCo-chair of the We Are Bristol History Commission, Dr Burch-Brown said it was key to connect across different generations.\n\n\"Many older people have been feeling there should be more respect for law and tradition, and that the pace of change is too quick.\n\n\"Many younger people feel there is a need for change, and for more equality.\n\n\"There are positive intentions behind both views. We would love to see people of different ages coming together to spend time connecting through stories and histories,\" she said.\n\nProfessor Tim Cole added their work had found there to be \"considerable shared thinking and feeling in the city.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr Gary Jenkins died 16 days after the attack last July\n\nA senior barrister has denied victim blaming following comments he made in court about a psychiatrist who was murdered in a homophobic attack.\n\nDr Gary Jenkins died after the attack in Cardiff's Bute Park on 20 July.\n\nDafydd Enoch QC said he had been there for \"sexual contact with like-minded men\" and \"his sexual predilections were to be his undoing\", prompting criticism online and an apology from the CPS.\n\nProsecutor Mr Enoch has since said Dr Jenkins was in no way to blame.\n\nIn response to the BBC, he said: \"It was never my intention to apportion any blame on Dr. Jenkins.\"\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said: \"The only people responsible for this horrific crime were those convicted today by the jury. The suggestion that Dr Jenkins was in any way to blame is completely wrong.\n\n\"We apologise for inappropriate and insensitive remarks made during the opening statement.\"\n\nLee Strickland, 36, Jason Edwards, 25, and 17-year-old girl Dionne Timms-Williams, who was 16 at the time, were found guilty of Dr Jenkins' murder at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court.\n\nStonewall says the remarks had put the responsibility on the victim rather than the perpetrators\n\nIestyn Wyn, campaigns, policy and research manager at Stonewall Cymru, said: \"The responsibility being put on the victim rather than the perpetrators is obviously insensitive in our view and wrong as it is a distraction from the crimes that were committed by the perpetrators.\n\n\"Language is really important and at times language like this can distract from the fact that LGBTQ+ and people from all walks of life should be treated with respect and dignity and should not be targeted.\"\n\nAt the opening of the prosecution's case on 25 July, Mr Enoch told the jury: \"Dr Jenkins was actively bisexual and when he moved back to Cardiff it would seem that this particular side of his character came to the fore.\"\n\nHe added: \"He was open about it and his colleagues were well aware, including Dr Paul Cantrell, his line manager.\"\n\nHe said the psychiatrist was \"in the habit of attending Bute Park in Cardiff at night looking for sexual contact with like-minded men\".\n\n\"He would often drink heavily as well although he was thought of as fit and healthy and proud of his appearance,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, his sexual predilections were to be his undoing. By engaging in this activity, he rendered himself hopelessly vulnerable and was an easy target.\n\n\"By its very nature the activity was infused with risk.\"\n\nHe went on to say: \"He did not deserve what happened to him. For all his peccadillos [minor faults or sins] he was a much-loved and admired individual.\"\n\nMS Jeremy Miles says the comments \"illuminate a much larger picture about our attitudes to these kinds of crimes\"\n\nFollowing the opening of the trial, the openly gay member of the Senedd for Neath, Jeremy Miles, tweeted: \"He was not 'undone' by his 'sexual proclivities'. He was brutally attacked, and died.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales, he said: \"To hear in the court the language being used, that it was his sexual orientation that made him vulnerable to this, I think is completely unacceptable.\n\n\"We see this happening in a range of contexts, women being blamed for being attacked, gay men being blamed for being attacked - we have to move beyond that kind of language.\n\n\"It's not about the victim, it's not about their sexual identity, it's about the act of people who choose to attack and choose to kill... it illuminates a much larger picture about our attitudes to these kinds of crimes - we can't be in the situation where the victim is shamed in this way.\"\n\nYan White says the comments felt \"almost prehistoric\"\n\nYan White, founder of The Queer Emporium, a shop dedicated to showcasing LGBTQ+ vendors in Cardiff, said: \"It feels almost prehistoric nowadays for people to be trying to blame people's sexuality and what they're doing on what then happens to them, and especially in a case like this that is so harrowing.\n\n\"It's just straight-up victim blaming, there's no other way to put it really, it's quite clear-cut.\"\n\nHe said the case had been \"heart-wrenching\", adding: \"There are physical attacks [on LGBT people] that happen all the time and often they don't make the headlines.\"\n\nHe said he took particular issue with the use of the word \"peccadillos\".\n\n\"The idea even, that these things are a flaw in someone, I take real issue with... the idea of cruising and stuff goes back hundreds of years, this isn't something which is new and it happens all over the world, largely out of necessity.\n\n\"This is not something which is a flaw in a person's character, it's unfortunately as a result of society and the way that people are treated.\"\n\nHe added: \"I wouldn't want this person ever representing me, and I think he's probably just isolated himself from an entire community of people who would never want him to represent them after these comments that shows a clear bias against LGBTQ people.\"\n\nMr White said Mr Enoch should \"consider their position\" and learn \"how to become a better ally to the [LGBT] community\".\n\nFollowing criticism of his remarks on social media, in court on Wednesday Mr Enoch said to the jury: \"Let me talk to you about the concept of victim blaming.\n\n\"Gary Jenkins was in no way to blame for what happened to him.\"\n\nHe added: \"Prosecution simply points to the fact that Dr Jenkins was indeed vulnerable in that park.\n\n\"We are clear that he bore no responsibility for being a victim. There are only three people who are responsible.\n\n\"I remain now, as I was in opening, at pains to remind you how highly regarded Dr Jenkins was as a human being and on every level.\"", "Luca Benincasa appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court accused of five terrorism offences\n\nA 19-year-old from Cardiff has appeared in court charged with membership of a banned neo-Nazi terror group.\n\nLuca Benincasa, 19, from the Whitchurch area of the city, was arrested in a police raid on Tuesday.\n\nHe appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London accused of five terrorism offences, one of which is belonging to the outlawed group Feuerkrieg Division.\n\nHe confirmed his name and personal details but did not indicate any pleas.\n\nThe Feuerkrieg Division, founded in Estonia but with members around the world, was proscribed by the UK government in 2020.\n\nThe Home Office said it was a \"vile white supremacist group\" that advocated \"violence and mass murder in pursuit of an apocalyptic race war\".\n\nAlong with the charge of belonging to the group, Mr Benincasa is also accused of four counts of possessing information useful to a terrorist, namely documents containing instructions for making bombs, including manuals first created for Islamist Jihadist terror groups.\n\nProsecutor Adam Harbison said the documents were found on Mr Benincasa's laptop along with an unfinished \"handbook\" for Feuerkrieg Division members.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and will next appear at the Old Bailey on 14 February.", "Amazon is raising the price of its Prime service for US customers after reporting record sales and profits.\n\nThe e-commerce giant said it was hiking the price by 17% to $139 for annual membership.\n\nThe firm, which cited increased wage and shipping costs, said it had no announcements to make about other countries \"at this time\".\n\nIt is the first increase since 2018 for Prime, which gives subscribers access to benefits like faster shipping.\n\nMore than 200 million people globally pay for the service, many of them in the US.\n\nAmazon shares soared almost 15% in after hours trade on the news, which accompanied the release of its end of 2021 performance.\n\nSales for the last three months of 2021 expanded by 10% year-on-year to $137.4bn. But those gains were driven by growth in areas like its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, and advertising, while its e-commerce sales dipped from 2020, when the pandemic propelled blockbuster gains.\n\nThe firm's profits in the quarter also jumped, to $14.3bn - almost double the prior year. Its investment in electric vehicle maker Rivian, which floated on the stock market in November, drove those increases.\n\nFor the year, sales rose 22% to $469.8 billion, sending profits to $33.4bn.\n\nAnalysts had been worried about how the firm would fare, after executives warned last year they were seeing higher costs due to supply issues and difficulty hiring workers.\n\nAmazon said those challenges had hurt - and were likely to continue this year. It forecast sales growth of 3%-8% in the first three months of 2022.\n\n\"As expected over the holidays, we saw higher costs driven by labour supply shortages and inflationary pressures, and these issues persisted into the first quarter due to Omicron,\" chief executive Andy Jassy said.\n\n\"Despite these short-term challenges, we continue to feel optimistic and excited about the business as we emerge from the pandemic.\"\n\nThe company said inflation, including higher wages, drove $4bn more in costs in the final months of 2021. With the increase in the Prime fees, the firm is moving to shift some of those costs to customers.\n\nAmazon's chief financial officer, Brian Olsavsky, said some may quit Prime due to the fee increase, which goes into effect on 18 February for new members and will apply after 25 March to existing subscribers.\n\nBut he said that hadn't been a problem in the past.\n\nConsumer spending in the US has remained strong, despite prices rising at a 7% rate last year - the fastest inflation in nearly four decades.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has faced calls to resign over lockdown parties in Downing Street\n\nAnd then there were three.\n\nIn one day, another trio of Tory MPs from different parts of the Conservative Party made the decision to add their names to the small number of their colleagues publicly saying that Boris Johnson's time in office is up.\n\nIt doesn't mean that the prime minister yet faces overwhelming opposition from his own side.\n\nRemember, wherever public opinion is, whatever the latest allegation against No 10 is, it's Tory resistance to the leadership that could trigger a vote that might hasten Mr Johnson out of office.\n\nBut it does mean that the prime minister and his allies' attempt to grab control of an unruly party, and to get back to conversations that have a direct effect on voters, is failing to convince their own side.\n\nIt means that those MPs who have decided that they agree privately that Mr Johnson has become a liability, not an asset, may feel more able to speak out when they are next asked the question.\n\nIt means, too, that No 10 are not managing to close down the conversation about the prime minister's leadership.\n\nIt means, too, that the small group who are happy to make the public case for him to stay look increasingly like outriders than reasonable brokers just trying to cool tempers that have temporarily run hot.\n\nIt does not mean, though, that the consensus has reached a stage where the prime minister's time really is up.\n\nBut it does mean that the Tory party is still distracted by the question of who will, and who ought to lead them into the next election.\n\nAnd for as long as that is still a matter of debate for the party, it's a vital question for the world outside.", "Millions of people facing a spike in energy costs will find out shortly how much more they will have to pay.\n\nThe energy regulator's new price cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge customers for each unit of energy - is likely to add hundreds of pounds onto the annual bill for 22 million homes.\n\nOfgem's new cap for England, Wales and Scotland will take effect in April.\n\nMinisters are reported to have plans to provide loans for energy firms to help them cut money from customers' bills.\n\nDetails of the new cap are due to be announced at 11:00 GMT.\n\nA typical household will face an annual increase of more than £600 on their energy bill, with a further increase of as much as £400 to come in the winter after the next cap is set in six months' time, analysts at Cornwall Insight have said.\n\nThe cost of living in general is forecast to rise further this year, and the Bank of England will also announce on Thursday whether it will increase interest rates to combat rising prices.\n\nThere are also planned tax rises in April, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson under intense pressure to scrap an increase in National Insurance. But he, and Chancellor Rishi Sunak, said at the weekend the tax rise would go ahead.\n\nMichael Ball says he is anxious about the price rise\n\nAmong those braced for the squeeze on their finances is 24-year-old Michael Ball, from Kirkcaldy.\n\nHis biggest worry is that a significant rise in energy prices could mean he would no longer be able to afford the rent on his one-bedroom flat, and would have to move back in with his parents.\n\n\"Anything over a 30% rise in April would make me leave this flat. I'm already spending more than my rent on energy,\" he said.\n\nHe said he was \"very anxious\" about the rise, and expected it to be a \"big challenge\".\n\nThe cap, which is announced every six months, sets the prices that suppliers can charge for each unit of energy as well as the standing charge.\n\nThis is then translated into the expected annual bill for a household that uses the typical amount of gas and electricity.\n\nAt present, that is £1,277, but analysts are predicting a 50% rise from April.\n\nThat does not mean there is a limit to how much people can pay. The more gas and electricity that is used, the higher the bill.\n\nAnyone who is on a standard variable tariff, whose fixed deal has come to an end (or is about to), and those moved because their old supplier went bust will be affected by the new higher cap.\n\nThere is a separate cap for 4.5 million people on prepayment meters. It means a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity pays £1,309 a year.\n\nEnergy firms are struggling under the weight of surging wholesale gas prices. The new cap will allow them to pass some of that cost onto customers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why are UK energy prices so high?\n\nJoe Malinowski, founder of energy price comparison website The Energy Shop, said: \"The energy price cap has already bankrupted over half of all energy suppliers in the market. Now it is set to bankrupt the consumer.\n\n\"Come 1 April, energy households up and down the country are set to get battered by colossal increases in energy bills. For many, if not most, it will be simply unaffordable.\"\n\nHowever, ministers are expected to announce a package of measures to reduce the immediate impact on households.\n\nThe plans are expected to include the Treasury's \"rebate and clawback\" scheme, which would involve providing around £5-6bn in loans to energy firms to enable them to lower bills from April - possibly by about £200.\n\nBut it has raised concerns among providers because the money would still have to be paid back eventually by billpayers.\n\nAs oil giant Shell announced a huge increase in profits, Labour has called for a windfall tax to pay to keep consumer bills down.\n\nShell's earnings reached $19.2bn (£14.2bn) in 2021, about four times the level recorded a year earlier.\n\n\"With oil and gas profits booming in recent months because of the spike in energy prices, it is clearer than ever that the North Sea oil and gas producers who have made a fortune recently should be asked to contribute,\" said Labour's shadow climate change secretary Ed Miliband.\n\n\"Our plan, part paid for with a one-off windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas profits, would save most households £200 off their bills, with targeted support of up to £400 on top of that to the squeezed middle, pensioners and the lowest earners.\n\nNigel Pocklington, chief executive of renewable energy supplier Good Energy, said there was \"a lot unexplained\" about the government's proposal, but added a £200 rebate would \"help\" households.\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme: \"It looks to be quite a complex and perhaps a slightly rushed proposal in that there's all sorts of open questions around what happens if a customer leaves you and you have borrowed money to smooth their bill?\n\n\"What happens if a customer is already on a low tariff? Do we cut that even lower?\"\n\nMeanwhile, the managing director of supermarket chain Iceland, Richard Walker, said he was concerned that \"bricks and mortar\" retailers and businesses were \"going to bear the brunt\" of rising energy prices.\n\n\"I think it's safe to say 2022 is probably set to be the hardest year ever for many UK families,\" he added.\n\n\"We are talking about energy prices and costs directly affecting consumers but that is also going to have a huge knock on effect for businesses too. In terms of grocery retail, every supermarket will be raising its prices.\"\n\nWould you be affected by a rise in energy prices? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "DUP minister Edwin Poots has ordered his officials to halt Irish Sea border checks from midnight.\n\nHe had been threatening to act, as part of the DUP's ongoing opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nMr Poots said he had taken legal advice which meant he could direct the checks to stop in the absence of executive approval for them.\n\nSinn Féin, the DUP's power-sharing partners, criticised the move as a \"stunt\".\n\nAside from staff from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera), which Mr Poots oversees, border posts also employ local authority environmental health staff.\n\nIt remains unclear what they will do in light of Mr Poots' order, although pre-Brexit checks on livestock are expected to continue.\n\nNorthern Ireland Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, of Sinn Féin, said it was an attempt by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to \"unlawfully interfere with domestic and international law\".\n\nThe protocol was agreed by the UK and EU to ensure free movement of trade across the Irish land border after Brexit.\n\nBut unionist politicians have been critical of the arrangements, saying they are damaging Northern Ireland's place in the UK.\n\nA UK government spokesperson has said the operation of checks \"is a matter for the Northern Ireland Executive\".\n\n\"We have been consistently clear that there are significant problems with the protocol which urgently need fixing, which is why we are in intensive talks with the EU to find solutions,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nUnder power-sharing arrangements, if the matter was put to the executive, it would need an agreed approach from both the first and deputy first minister if changes were to be made.\n\nSinn Féin has previously said it will block any attempt to halt border checks.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss is expected to speak to EU Commision Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič again on Thursday.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss is due to talk with Maros Sefcovic later this week\n\nThe UK's former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost said he believed that the protocol still needed to be dramatically altered.\n\n\"The best way of resolving this situation would be for the EU to negotiate seriously with us to change the protocol so that these unnecessary checks aren't required in the first place,\" he said.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said the move, if officials do follow Mr Poots' direction, would be a \"breach of international law\".\n\nHe said on Wednesday night that the British government had \"an obligation to comply with international law\".\n\n\"Surely that's not too much to ask as we all work to find agreement on flexible & pragmatic implementation of the NI Protocol,\" he tweeted.\n\nUnder the Northern Ireland Protocol, checks on goods from Great Britain must take place at Northern Ireland's ports to make sure they comply with EU laws.\n\nBut Mr Poots believes the checks are unlawful and cannot continue without approval from the Stormont Executive.\n\nLast week, his bid to force an executive rethink on the issue was blocked by Sinn Féin.\n\nMr Poots said he had received legal advice on Wednesday\n\nHe said legal advice he had received on Wednesday confirmed that the implementation of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) checks required approval from the Stormont Executive.\n\nMr Poots said that meant he was able to direct the checks to cease, and he had issued a formal instruction to his department's permanent secretary to halt all checks not in place on 31 December 2020 as of midnight tonight.\n\nThe body which represents manufacturing businesses in Northern Ireland, Manufacturing NI, responded to the decision by saying it was advising its members to continue to enact the measures that they had been.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBusiness leaders have previously told politicians that trading issues needed to be resolved as \"a matter of priority\".\n\nAnthony Harbinson has only been in post as the top civil servant at Northern Ireland's Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) for seven months.\n\nNow he finds himself with a difficult political dilemma - to follow or not to follow orders from his minister?\n\nEdwin Poots believes he has a democratic mandate to issue instructions on the checks, and that his legal advice backs that up.\n\nBut critics argue that civil servants are already bound by current law on the protocol and must not stop their work.\n\nThen there is the other question of how Westminster will respond.\n\nIt stepped in before to remind Stormont of its legal obligations when it comes to operating the protocol.\n\nBut that was two years ago, and the political temperature has risen significantly.\n\nWith the assembly election only months away, Number 10 could take a back seat on this for now but there is every chance the issue could still end up in court.\n\nA spokesperson for Daera said Mr Poots had received \"senior counsel advice and has issued an instruction on that basis\".\n\nA spokesperson for Belfast City Council, which is responsible for making sure Belfast Port meets environmental health standards, said it would engage with elected representatives and statutory partners on Thursday \"and assess the situation at that point\".\n\nThe BBC has also contacted the UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs for a response.\n\nThe minister added that he would prepare a further paper for the executive seeking approval for the measures in due course.\n\nSinn Féin maintains that Stormont has a legal obligation to enforce the checks, and that the executive agreed in May 2020 to designate Mr Poots' department to perform the controls.\n\nThe protocol created a new trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK\n\nMr Coveney said the protocol was part of an international treaty.\n\n\"So, to deliberately frustrate obligations under that treaty, I think, would be a very serious matter indeed,\" he said.\n\nAn EU diplomat told BBC News the move \"won't do the UK's reputation any good\" and questioned the legality of the decision.\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill tweeted that the DUP were \"fixated on their own priorities, which are clearly at odds with where the wider community is at\".\n\nThe reaction of the European Commission will be key in this.\n\nThe Irish government will be very concerned as well. That raises the question - if stuff isn't being checked at the Irish Sea then where is it being checked?\n\nWill the companies sending stuff here - will they still fill out the export health certs, will they still produce the Common Health Entry Documents even if there is nobody to actually carry out the physical inspections?\n\nMight they want to do that for their own legal certainty? That's another question I'm not certain about.\n\nAn industry source was suggesting that the advice they would give is that to have legal certainty you should do what you've been doing under grace periods as it stands.\n\nThat will be an individual decision for businesses - particularly the big supermarkets.\n\nThe Alliance Party's John Blair said it was \"not a time for causing further disruption\".\n\n\"The minister knows the solutions won't be found in the assembly or the department - it's a matter for the joint UK-EU committee,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the Alliance Party would consider \"very carefully\" how the matter progresses in the coming days before deciding whether the decision should be challenged in court.\n\nMatthew O'Toole, the SDLP's Brexit spokesperson said the order given by Edwin Poots to civil servants was \"outrageous\" and that the general public was more concerned with other matters.\n\n\"The pretence that this is the biggest issue facing political leaders is a scandalous lie,\" he said.\n\n\"It will not command the support of the Assembly or the Executive and it will be challenged.\"\n\nThe move was welcomed by Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister, who said the protocol implementation was \"never compatible\" with Northern Ireland's position within the UK.\n\n\"The fundamental question though remains, why did it take a year to do this - a year which included excuses and justifications for the very checks Minister Poots now abandons,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chancellor agrees that No 10 party claims have damaged the public’s confidence in the government\n\nRishi Sunak has said controversy over Downing Street parties has damaged public trust in the government, but Boris Johnson has his \"full support\".\n\nThe chancellor told the BBC he believed the prime minister had always told the truth about parties in No 10.\n\nAnd he dismissed talk of him replacing Mr Johnson as Tory leader, saying he was focused on his current job.\n\nMr Johnson is facing growing calls to stand down from the opposition and Conservative MPs.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is investigating 12 gatherings in Downing Street and other government buildings that took place when the country was in lockdown - including at least three that the PM was at.\n\nMr Sunak, who lives next door to the prime minister in Downing Street, is reported to have attended a surprise birthday party for Mr Johnson in No 10's Cabinet Room in June 2020.\n\nBut, in an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, he said he had been in that room \"100, 200, God knows how many times\" for Covid meetings during he pandemic, adding: \"You're asking me about something that happened almost two years ago.\"\n\nAsked whether he had been aware of multiple gatherings during lockdown, Mr Sunak, speaking in his office overlooking the Downing Street garden, replied: \"People seem to think that I'm spending all my time there staring out of this window behind me... [But] I spent half my time in the Treasury, as well as working here.\"\n\nOn Thursday, the chancellor also announced a package of measures to help households cope with a huge surge in energy bills from April. The rise comes amid a cost-of-living crisis, that also includes tax rises and higher food prices.\n\nAsked by Laura Kuenssberg if he worried that reporting of Downing Street parties had damaged the public's confidence in the government, Mr Sunak replied: \"Yes, I think it has. I can appreciate people's frustration. And I think it's now the job of all of us in government, all politicians, to restore people's trust.\"\n\nAnd, asked if Mr Johnson always told the truth, Mr Sunak - who has previously made little comment on the Downing Street gatherings - replied: \"Yes, of course he does. He's the prime minister of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThe BBC is aware of 17 Tory MPs who have submitted letters of no confidence in the prime minister to Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservatives' 1922 Backbench Committee.\n\nIf 54 of them do so, it will trigger a vote on Mr Johnson's future, potentially leading to a leadership contest.\n\nSome of the most recent MPs to submit their letters also cited the PM's false claim that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute serial sex offender Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions (DPP) as one of their reasons for trying to oust him.\n\nMr Johnson made the accusation in the Commons on Monday, but had no evidence to back it up, and it has been widely debunked since.\n\nAt Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir accused Mr Johnson of fuelling conspiracy theories. Mr Johnson replied that Sir Keir had taken \"full responsibility for what had happened on his watch\".\n\nBut on Thursday, the PM appeared to back down, telling reporters he had not been talking about Sir Keir's \"personal record\" when he was DPP, adding: \"I totally understand that he had nothing to do personally with those decisions.\n\n\"I was making a point about his responsibility for the organisation as a whole.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Johnson's latest comments, Sir Keir told BBC Three Counties Radio: \"If the PM thought that, he should have kept his mouth shut.\"\n\nSome Tory MPs say Mr Sunak, as one of the most powerful figures in the government, would be a frontrunner to replace the PM, should he go.\n\n\"Well, that's very kind of them to suggest that,\" Mr Sunak said. \"But what I think people want from me is to focus on my job...\n\n\"I know a few of my colleagues have said that and they'll have their reasons for doing that. But I don't think that's the situation we're in. The prime minister has my full support.\"\n\nAsked if he would run to be the next Tory leader and prime minister, should there be a vacancy, Mr Sunak said: \"No, that's that's not what I'm focused on.\"\n\nThe MP for Richmond, North Yorkshire, who has been chancellor since just before the pandemic started, said his job was \"stressful and tiring\" but an \"enormous privilege\".\n\nLabour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP are all calling for the prime minister to resign, accusing him of lying over the gatherings.", "Munira Mirza has worked with Boris Johnson since his time as London mayor\n\nBoris Johnson's top policy aide has quit over the PM's false claim that Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute serial sex offender Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions.\n\nThe PM made the remark on Monday as he came under attack over Sue Gray's report on Downing Street parties.\n\nHe later backed down, saying said the Labour leader \"had nothing to do personally with those decisions\".\n\nAnother senior aide, Jack Doyle, has also quit as communications director.\n\nMunira Murza said the PM he should have apologised for the misleading remarks.\n\nIn her resignation letter, published by The Spectator, she wrote: \"You are a better man than many of your detractors will ever understand, which is why it is so desperately sad that you let yourself down by making a scurrilous accusation against the leader of the opposition.\"\n\nAsked what he thought of the PM's remarks, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"Being honest, I wouldn't have said it, and I am glad that the prime minister clarified what he meant.\"\n\nAnd asked if Mr Johnson should apologise, he said: \"That's for the prime minister to decide.\"\n\nNo 10 confirmed her departure and that Tory MP Andrew Griffith had been named minister for policy and head of the prime minister's policy unit in the Cabinet Office.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman added: \"We are very sorry Munira has left No 10 and are grateful for her service and contribution to government.\n\n\"[We] will work across government and with MPs as we continue to deliver and expand on our ambitious policy agenda.\"\n\nSir Keir had a career as a lawyer before entering politics, rising to be the head of the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Johnson accused him of spending \"most of his time\" as director of public prosecutions (DPP) \"prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile\", despite having no evidence to back up the claim.\n\nDisc jockey and TV personality Savile was revealed to be a serial sexual abuser after his death in 2011, having attacked hundreds of women and children at various locations including hospitals, schools and the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sunak on PM's Savile claims: \"I wouldn't have said it.\"\n\nAt Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions, the Labour leader hit back, accusing the PM of fuelling conspiracy theories with his remarks.\n\nBut Mr Johnson replied that Sir Keir had taken \"full responsibility for what had happened on his watch\" as the DPP.\n\nBy Thursday, Mr Johnson appeared to have backed down, telling reporters he had not been talking about Sir Keir's \"personal record\" when he was DPP, adding: \"I totally understand that he had nothing to do personally with those decisions.\n\n\"I was making a point about his responsibility for the organisation as a whole.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Johnson's latest comments, Sir Keir told BBC Three Counties Radio: \"If the PM thought that, he should have kept his mouth shut.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking before Mirza's resignation, the PM sought to clarity his claims about Keir Starmer\n\nIn her resignation letter, Ms Mirza says the prime minister should have gone further and apologised to Sir Keir.\n\nThe political aide - who has worked with Mr Johnson since he became Mayor of London in 2008 - said the PM had been \"wrong\" to make the initial remarks, adding: \"There was no fair or reasonable basis for that assertion.\n\n\"This was not the usual cut and thrust of politics; it was an inappropriate and partisan reference to a horrendous case of child sex abuse.\n\nShe added: \"You tried to clarify your position today [Thursday] but, despite my urging, you did not apologise for the misleading impression you gave.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, said the PM had \"lied to the public in a very dangerous way\", and with \"no regard whatsoever\" for Savile's victims.\n\nAnd she said the resignation showed that \"even people that have been close to Boris Johnson for a very long time have seen he is not fit to be prime minister and there isn't a depth he wouldn't sink to to make cheap points\".\n\n\"I was making a point about his responsibility for the organisation as a whole.\"\n\nThis was the prime minister's defence for why he falsely claimed Sir Keir Starmer had failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions, while Boris Johnson was under pressure to take responsibility for lockdown parties that happened in No10 - his organisation - as a whole.\n\nTo his critics, this was a stretch of the logic at best; inappropriate, insensitive and misleading at worst.\n\nFor Munira Mirza - one of his closest political allies and longest serving advisers - his lack of apology was enough to trigger her resignation.\n\nTory insiders have called it a \"devastating\" personal blow for the prime minister, sending a signal even those closest to him have \"lost faith.\"\n\nThe last few weeks have seen a slow trickle of critiques of Mr Johnson's behaviour and calls for him to go from different factions of the Tory party - some less surprising than others.\n\nBut while she may not have the public recognition of some of those MPs, her resignation is proof the criticism also comes from within.\n\nAnd, in her case, right from the heart of the PM's closest ideological circle.\n\nThe top aide's exit comes as Mr Johnson is facing growing questions over his leadership from his own party.\n\nThe BBC is aware of 17 Tory MPs who have submitted letters of no confidence in the prime minister, with a total of 54 needed to trigger a leadership contest.\n\nMany have cited the PM's participation in Downing Street parties during Covid lockdowns as their motivation to challenge Mr Johnson.\n\nBut some of the most recent letter writers have also pointed to his false claims about Sir Keir, including senior backbencher and Defence Committee Chair Tobias Ellwood.\n\nMs Mirza began her career in the arts sector before becoming a cultural adviser to Mr Johnson as London mayor.\n\nShe then followed him into No 10, and was named the director of his policy unit in 2019.\n\nIn 2020, the PM named her as one of the five women who had influenced and inspired him the most, describing her as \"capable of being hip, cool, groovy and generally on trend\".\n\nIn a press conference on Thursday, Chancellor Mr Sunak called her \"a valued colleague\", adding: \"I very much enjoyed working with her and I'm sorry to see her leave government. I'll miss working with her.\"", "The UK has approved a fifth Covid-19 vaccine, developed by US company Novavax, which offers up to 89% protection against Covid illness.\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has said it is safe as a first and second dose in adults.\n\nMillions of doses are being manufactured at a plant on Teesside.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid says independent scientists on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation will now consider its use.\n\nThe vaccine could then be used immediately as part of the UK vaccination programme.\n\n\"It's a testament to the country's first-rate research and development capabilities for vaccines,\" Mr Javid said, \"with tens of thousands of people taking part in clinical trials here in the UK, contributing to the invaluable research that shows our vaccines are safe and effective.\"\n\nNovavax said it still sees a role for the jab in reaching the 16% of over-12s in the UK who have not yet had two doses.\n\nIt plans to apply for extra authorisation for use in children \"in the next few weeks\", and to submit data for use as a booster jab, either immediately or as a possible fourth dose this autumn.\n\nThe Novavax product - known by the brand name Nuvaxovid - was shown to be 89% effective against catching symptomatic Covid-19 in clinical trials.\n\nThe original research was conducted against both the earlier Wuhan and Alpha variants of the virus.\n\nPoliticians - including then Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi, Communities Minister Kemi Badenoch (pictured) and Labour MP Naz Shah - were among volunteers in the UK part of the Novavax trial\n\nIn December, Novavax said two doses were also effective in generating an immune response against the now dominant Omicron variant, first identified in South Africa.\n\nThe company has also started working on a version specific to Omicron.\n\nMHRA chief executive Dr June Raine, said: \"Our approval of Nuvaxovid follows a rigorous review of the safety, quality and effectiveness of this vaccine, and expert advice from the government's independent scientific advisory body, the Commission on Human Medicines.\"\n\nThe jab, a protein adjuvant vaccine, is based on technology used for decades to protect people from diseases such as hepatitis and shingles.\n\nIt delivers copies of the spike protein on the surface of the virus directly into a person's cells, stimulating the immune system to produce antibodies and T-cells.\n\nAn extra ingredient, an adjuvant, then helps boost the immune response.\n\nScientists say this approach makes it simpler to produce than some other vaccines and means it can be stored in a refrigerator.\n\nProf Sir Munir Pirmohamed, who chairs the independent Commission on Human Medicines, said: \"Nuvaxovid is distinct from other Covid-19 vaccines currently in use in the UK as it uses recombinant protein-based technology which has been used for many years in the development of vaccines to prevent other illnesses, for example hepatitis B.\"\n\nIn August 2020, the government agreed to buy 60 million doses of the jab. If it is recommended for use by the JCVI, then doses are initially likely to come from the Serum institute in India.\n\nA factory in Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees, has also been producing a key ingredient of the jab since February 2021, with a second site in nearby Barnard Castle expected to provide the fill-finish capacity - putting the vaccine into vials and packaging.\n\nBut setbacks to the approval process around the world have led to concerns about jobs in the area.\n\nNovavax had to delay its submission to US regulators multiple times because of development and manufacturing setbacks.\n\nIt was eventually filed on Monday.", "Amazon will accept Visa credit cards across all of its sites after the two businesses reached a global agreement.\n\nThe online retail giant had last year threatened to stop the use of Visa credit cards in the UK due to the fees Visa charged to process payments.\n\nAmazon customers in Singapore and Australia also had to pay a surcharge if they used a Visa credit card to purchase goods.\n\nHowever, Amazon and Visa said they have now struck a deal.\n\nThe Visa surcharge on Amazon's Singapore and Australia websites will be removed from Thursday, 17 February.\n\nAmazon had already postponed the ban on using Visa credit cards in the UK while negotiations continued.\n\nAmazon said: \"We've recently reached a global agreement with Visa that allows all customers to continue using their Visa credit cards in our stores,\"\n\nVisa said it was \"pleased\", adding: \"This agreement includes the acceptance of Visa at all Amazon stores and sites today, as well as a joint commitment to collaboration on new product and technology initiatives to ensure innovative payment experiences for our customers in the future.\"\n\nLast year, when it was considering the ban on accepting Visa credit cards in the UK, Amazon said that the cost of processing payments was \"an obstacle\" to providing the best prices for customers.\n\nA European Union (EU) cap on fees charged by card issuers was no longer in place in the UK following Brexit.\n\nLast October, Visa began to charge 1.5% of the value of a transaction for credit card payments made online between the UK and the EU. It had previously charged 0.3%. Mastercard also increased its fees.\n\nThe mooted UK ban by Amazon did not affect Visa debit cards. Though Visa, and Mastercard, also increased the cost of processing debit card payments from 0.2% to 1.15%, according to the UK Treasury Committee.\n\nAt the time, Visa accused Amazon of restricting customer choice. It said: \"When consumer choice is limited, nobody wins.\"\n\nLast year, the Payment Systems Regulator conducted a review into card fees which showed that they had \"increased significantly in recent months\". It is currently investigating whether any action is required on the issue.", "Russia says it has started moving troops and equipment away from Ukraine's borders\n\nRussia's claim that it is moving troops away from Ukraine's border is \"false\", according to a senior White House official, who added that 7,000 extra troops have arrived in recent days.\n\nThe US official also said that Russia could launch a \"false\" pretext to invade Ukraine \"at any moment\".\n\nMoscow says it is moving troops away from the Ukrainian border after the completion of military exercises.\n\nBut Western officials say they have seen no evidence to support the claim.\n\n\"Russia must take real steps toward de-escalation,\" US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz agreed in a phone call on Wednesday, according to the German chancellery.\n\nRussia - which has repeatedly denied planning to invade Ukraine, despite having amassed well over 100,000 troops near the border - calls Western concern over an invasion \"hysteria\".\n\nIts defence ministry has published images purportedly showing troops and equipment returning to their permanent bases after military exercises.\n\nBut according to the senior White House official, who asked to remain anonymous, thousands more troops have arrived in the area in recent days - including some on Wednesday itself.\n\nSpeaking to journalists, the official cast doubt on Russia's assertions that \"it was withdrawing troops from the border with Ukraine\".\n\n\"They received a lot of attention for that claim, both here and around the world. But we now know it was false.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt came hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC: \"We don't see any troop withdrawal yet, we just heard about it.\"\n\nHe was speaking as Ukraine marked a so-called day of unity on Wednesday, with national blue and yellow flags raised throughout the country.\n\nPresident Zelensky declared the patriotic holiday in response to US intelligence reports that Russia could attack Ukraine on the same day.\n\nNato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has also said there are no signs that Russian forces are de-escalating, saying on Wednesday that the threat from Russia had become a \"new normal\".\n\nSpeaking at a summit of Nato defence ministers in Brussels, Mr Stoltenberg said the alliance was considering setting up new battle groups - the smallest type of self-sufficient military units - in central and south-eastern Europe.\n\nHe said this was part of ongoing measures to bolster European defence - on which $270bn (£199bn) had been spent since 2014 - although he attempted to reassure Russia that Nato was not a threat.\n\nFrance had offered to lead one such battle group in Romania, he said.\n\nRussia's foreign ministry said it was \"no longer interested\" in Mr Stoltenberg's statements.\n\nThis was a bleak forecast for the future from Nato's secretary-general.\n\nJens Stoltenberg described it as the most serious security crisis in Europe since the end of the Cold War. And he made clear that the threat hadn't gone away.\n\nEven if President Putin doesn't give the order to attack, there are still signs this crisis will cast a much longer shadow.\n\nMr Stoltenberg said Russia's military build-up showed Moscow was prepared to contest European security with the use of force.\n\nThat \"new normal\" could also mean Nato increasing its military posture. Mr Stoltenberg has tasked Nato military planners to look at setting up new battle groups on the alliance's eastern flank - in Romania and the Black Sea region.\n\nHowever, no final decision has yet been taken and Nato insists reinforcements would only be sent to act as a deterrent.\n\nNato is still calling on Russia to engage in dialogue to reduce tensions. But if diplomacy doesn't work the danger is both sides will end up with their armies doing the talking.\n\nThe scepticism over Russia's claimed withdrawal was also echoed in the UK. Writing in the UK newspaper The Telegraph on Thursday, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss - who is expected to travel to Ukraine shortly - warned the West should not be lulled into a false sense of security.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson earlier told the UN Secretary-General in a phone call there was \"currently little evidence of Russia disengaging\", while his defence intelligence chief Lt-Gen Jim Hockenhull said that, on the contrary, Russia was continuing to build up its forces.\n\n\"This includes sightings of additional armoured vehicles, helicopters and a field hospital moving towards Ukraine's borders,\" he said. \"Russia has the military mass in place to conduct an invasion of Ukraine.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the US State Department warned that Russian officials were planting stories in the media aimed at influencing public opinion in the event of an invasion.\n\nSpokesman Ned Price expressed concern at Mr Putin's baseless claim that \"genocide\" was taking place in eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces have been in conflict since 2014.\n\nPreviously Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz criticised the Russian president for using the term without any evidence, while the US has called the claim a \"reprehensible falsehood\".\n\nEarly on Thursday, Russian media reported that Ukrainian forces had violated a ceasefire agreement by firing mortars at rebel forces in the Luhansk district. There has been no independent verification of the claim and Ukraine has denied shelling the area, instead alleging the rebel forces had opened fire on them.\n\nRussia and Ukraine have deep cultural and historic ties, and both were part of the former Soviet Union.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin wants assurances that Ukraine will not join Nato because he sees any expansion of it as a threat. Nato has rejected that demand.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Putin said that Russia did not want war, but demanded that the issue of Nato membership be addressed now, even though Ukraine is a long way from even starting an application to join the alliance.", "Children aged between five and 11 in England will be offered a low-dose Covid vaccine, the government says.\n\nOfficial scientific advice concludes the move would help protect the \"very small\" number of children who become seriously ill with Covid.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid says the rollout will be \"non-urgent\", with an emphasis on parental choice.\n\nNorthern Ireland also said on Wednesday it will be following Wales and Scotland in offering young children the vaccine.\n\nChildren are at a much lower risk of becoming severely ill from a Covid infection, so the health benefits of vaccinating them are smaller than in other age-groups. Also, many will have some protection from already having caught the virus.\n\nSo the scientists on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises governments across the UK, have been weighing up the evidence for immunising five to 11-year-olds.\n\nIt concluded vaccination should go ahead to prevent a \"very small number of children from serious illness and hospitalisation\" in a future wave of Covid.\n\nProf Wei Shen Lim, from the JCVI, said: \"We're offering this to five to 11-year-olds now in order to future-proof their defences against a future wave of infection.\"\n\nHe suggested parents consider getting their children vaccinated during school holidays to minimise disruption to their education from any flu-like side effects of the jab.\n\nThe full guidance says fewer than two children would develop inflamed heart muscle (myocarditis) out of every million vaccinated.\n\nHowever, it estimates vaccinating one million children would prevent:\n\nProf Lim warned other childhood vaccinations include the MMR and HPV campaigns have \"fallen behind due to the pandemic\" and it was \"vital\" that Covid jabs did not disrupt these immunisations.\n\nMr Javid said: \"The NHS will prepare to extend this non-urgent offer to all children during April so parents can, if they want, take up the offer to increase protection against potential future waves of Covid-19 as we learn to live with this virus.\"\n\nHe emphasised that children are at low risk from Covid and that the \"priority remains for the NHS to offer vaccines and boosters to adults and vulnerable young people\" and to catch-up with other childhood immunisation programmes\".\n\nThe vaccine - which contains just a third of the adult dose - has already been used widely in other countries. The US alone has given it to eight million children in this age group.\n\nHowever, the JCVI denied it had been slow to act and said the vaccine had received regulatory approval only in December.\n\nChildren aged from five to 11 who have other medical conditions that put them at greater risk are already eligible for the vaccine.\n\nIn total, about six million children in the UK in that age group will be offered the jab.\n\nTwo 10 microgram doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, with at least 12 weeks between each dose, would be administered to those whose parents decide to take up the offer.\n\nThe Welsh government announced on Tuesday that it would be offering jabs to children after seeing the JCVI ruling.\n\nIt followed reports the committee's announcement was delayed due to a disagreement with the UK government, which says it is \"reviewing the JCVI's advice as part of wider decision-making\".\n\nScotland then followed the next day, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying Scottish ministers had received and considered the same JCVI advice and were \"content to accept it\".\n\nShe told parents and carers of children in the five to 11 age group that more information would be given when plans had been finalised.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said the JCVI decision was \"important and welcome news\" but accused the government of treating children as \"an afterthought\" during the pandemic.\n\n\"Ministers must now ensure all children can access the jab to avoid further disruption to their education,\" she said.\n\nIf you are a parent, do you plan to have your child vaccinated? What are your questions about children receiving a Covid vaccine? Send us your questions and tell us about your plans by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Waves crashed on the seafront at Blackpool ahead of Storm Dudley\n\nThousands of people were left without power after Storm Dudley hit parts of the North East, Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Lancashire.\n\nAn amber warning was in place for 10 hours then a yellow wind warning from Thursday into Friday comes in as Dudley leaves and Storm Eunice arrives.\n\nParts of the Tyne and Wear Metro were stopped due to storm damage.\n\nAnd damaged overhead wires at Carlisle blocked all lines towards Glasgow and Edinburgh, Avanti West Coast said.\n\nNorthern Powergrid said on Wednesday evening that \"around 14,000 customers have been affected so far\" and its teams have been able to reconnect over 10,000 customers.\n\nBut, in a statement, it added that \"the peak is still ahead of us, and we are remaining on full alert\".\n\nBig waves hit the sea wall at Whitby in North Yorkshire\n\nAt one point nearly 1,700 homes in Wigan were without power. Electricity North West sent engineers to deal with the problem, which was caused by strong winds.\n\nAbout a thousand homes in Durham were also without electricity, with dozens of other areas affected by pockets of outages.\n\nThe Tyne and Wear Metro was suspended between Pelaw and South Shields due to a tree on the line near Tyne Dock, and between North Shields and Tynemouth due to a collapsed wall on a bridge, thought to be caused by the storm, operator Nexus said.\n\nNexus says it is working to make the wall, near Tynemouth station, secure\n\nA tree has fallen on an overhead line between Tyne Dock and Chichester, South Tyneside\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tyne and Wear Metro This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post by Tyne and Wear Metro\n\nDurham County Council urged all drivers to take care, especially those of high-sided vehicles, on busy routes such as the A1M, A19 and A66.\n\nThe Environment Agency had three flood warnings in place as of Wednesday evening at Keswick Campsite and at the River Wye, at Litton Mill, Derbyshire, and 38 flood alerts, where flooding is possible.\n\nThe third warning for the Cumbrian coastline from St Bees Head to Millom, and then along the coast from North Head to Haverigg, said the high tide could cause flooding.\n\nIt added Storm Dudley would bring \"strong winds, large waves and spray\" and \"vulnerable properties\" along the foreshore at Braystones, Nethertown and Coulderton were susceptible.\n\nAn HGV toppled over on to its side on the A696 near Otterburn, Northumberland\n\nThe weather in Redcar on Teesside was mixed for most of the day\n\nFrancis Reavley, from Kirkwhelpington, Northumberland, lost power for five days during Storm Arwen, then two days during Storm Malik.\n\nHis power went off again at about 15:00 GMT on Wednesday and after reporting it to Northern Powergrid he was told it would be back on later in the afternoon, although reconnection times have since been put back.\n\n\"I have no confidence it will be back on then because they just keep putting it back and back,\" he said.\n\n\"I am so frustrated and so fed up with all of this. It looks like we are going to have another dark, cold night.\"\n\nFrancis Reavley is at home in the dark after his power went off\n\nIn Yorkshire, the Humber Bridge was closed to high-sided vehicles while a number of trains between Leeds and London were cancelled due to damage to overhead power lines.\n\nWinds measuring 74mph were recorded at Emley Moor, between Huddersfield and Wakefield.\n\nForecasters said Eunice could also bring snow in high areas.\n\nLondon North Eastern Railway (LNER) advised customers with tickets for journeys between York or Leeds and London King's Cross on Friday to bring them forward to Thursday.\n\nStrong winds on Tynemouth Beach, North Tyneside, before the arrival of Storm Dudley\n\nDudley will affect the north of the UK bringing 60 to 70mph winds, which are not extraordinary for this time of year for those areas.\n\nBut there are travel restrictions and there will be some damage, some disruption and we need to take care and make arrangements as Storm Dudley will pack a punch.\n\nWith an amber warning there's the potential for some trees coming down, possibly on to power lines which could lead to more power cuts.\n\nBut I think we need to be more careful about Storm Eunice - it's going to come in from the South West and it's going to hit a good portion of England and Wales.\n\nWhen we're talking about gusts of wind of 70 to 80mph through inland areas of southern and central England, that is quite extraordinary and we're going to see some extremely strong winds of possibly up to 100mph around coastal areas.\n\nAs Eunice moves in we might well see quite significant snow over the hills of northern England, into southern Scotland and Northern Ireland, so it's not just the wind.\n\nOn Sunday we could see another storm, but the focus for the moment is Dudley and Eunice.\n\nThere was high demand to access Northern Powergrid's power cut map\n\nA generator has been installed at Jubilee Hall in Rothbury, Northumberland, in case the village suffers power outages as it did in Storm Arwen in November and Storm Malik in January.\n\nNorthumberland County councillor Stephen Bridgett said the hall would act as a \"warm hub\" if needed, adding: \"As soon as I see another storm come in, it is a weight on the shoulders.\"\n\nPolice in Cumbria said a \"multi-agency response\" had been prepared to tackle any impact from the storms.\n\nSupt Matt Pearman said: \"All agencies are working together to ensure that our communities have access to the help and support they may require during the storms.\n\n\"We also ask that our communities prepare themselves ahead of Dudley and Eunice and make themselves aware of the key contacts and ensure any vulnerable people within our communities are also aware and prepared.\"\n\nRichard Warren from the Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association urged people to \"stay at home\" during the storms.\n\nHe said he felt sorry for visitors who had come to the Lake District for holidays as the weather was \"appalling\", but said conditions on the hilltops would be \"horrendous\".\n\nMr Warren said there had been 87 callouts since the start of the year, compared with 40 in the same period in 2020, most of which were \"avoidable\".\n\n\"We will go out whenever we have to but even we would be at risk of being blown over and injured if we have to go out in the next couple of days,\" Mr Warren said.\n\n\"Stay at home. There'll be trees coming down and all sorts of problems.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "One of three men on trial for murdering a Londonderry man has changed his plea to guilty.\n\nDerek Creswell, 29, of Kings Lane in Ballykelly, had denied the murder of Edward Meenan.\n\nThe 52-year-old's body was found in Creggan Street on 25 November 2018.\n\nAt Londonderry Crown Court, sitting in Belfast on Thursday, his lawyer told the judge that he had an application for Creswell to be re-arraigned on the three charges he faced.\n\nWhen the clerk of the court put the charge of murdering Mr Meenan to Creswell, he replied: \"Guilty.''\n\nHe further pleaded guilty to two other charges of perverting the course justice and assaulting Mr Meenan's friend William McConnell on the same date.\n\nThe other two accused - Sean Rodgers, 34, of no fixed abode, and Ryan Walters, 22, of Station Park, Crossgar - deny murder.\n\nFollowing his guilty pleas the judge told Creswell: \"The only sentence that this court can pass in respect of a guilty plea or guilty finding in respect of murder is life imprisonment.\"\n\nAddressing the jury, the judge said: \"What that means is that you no longer have to consider the evidence against Derek Creswell because he has now pleaded guilty to each of the three counts.\n\n\"The case will continue against the remaining two defendants, Mr Rodgers and Mr Walters.\"\n\nShe said the guilty plea was a \"significant turn of events\" and that lawyers will now \"need a little bit of time to consider what evidence now needs to be presented and what does not need to be presented\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGermany's foreign minister has accused Russia of putting peace at risk with Cold War-like diplomacy, urging Moscow to take \"serious steps towards de-escalation\" of the Ukraine crisis.\n\nIt comes after the US president warned Russia could be about to stage a justification to invade Ukraine.\n\nJoe Biden said military action could begin imminently but stressed that a diplomatic solution was still possible.\n\nRussia said the claims were \"baseless\" and accused the US of stoking tensions.\n\nMoscow says it is conducting military drills and says some troops have been moved back to their permanent bases in recent days. Western powers say at least 130,000 Russian soldiers have been stationed in reach of Ukraine's borders and they have seen no evidence of a withdrawal.\n\nOn Friday, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock became the latest senior Western politician to voice concerns over Russia's massive build-up of military personnel and equipment near its border with Ukraine and in Belarus, a Russian ally - effectively encircling Ukraine on three sides.\n\nIn a statement released ahead of the annual Munich Security Conference, where world leaders will meet for three days from Friday, she warned Russia was \"challenging fundamental principles of the European peace order\" with its \"unprecedented deployment of troops\" and \"Cold War demands\".\n\nHer comments refer to a series of demands Russia has made over European security, which seek to limit Western military power in countries Russia sees as within its own sphere of influence.\n\nThe West rejects the idea that Russia has a right to influence the foreign policy of countries close to its borders, as the Soviet Union did during the Cold War.\n\nThe Cold War was the post-war period of the 20th Century when the rivalry between the West and the Soviet Union brought two global superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.\n\nMs Baerbock called for diplomacy to continue, saying \"even tiny steps towards peace are better than big steps towards war\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: This is a moment of peril, says US Secretary of State\n\nJoe Biden warned on Thursday that Russia could be about to engage in a false flag operation which would give it an excuse to invade Ukraine.\n\nA false flag is a fabricated attack a country stages against its own interests in order to justify a retaliation. Russia denies having any such plans.\n\nLater, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave more details to the United Nations Security Council of what such a move could look like.\n\nHe said it was not clear what form a pretext for an attack could take, but that possibilities include \"a fabricated so-called terrorist bombing inside Russia, the invented discovery of a mass grave, a staged drone strike against civilians, or a fake - even a real - attack using chemical weapons.\"\n\nIn the aftermath of such an incident, Mr Blinken said Russia's government would likely \"theatrically convene\" an emergency meeting about protecting ethnic Russians in Ukraine - and Russian missiles and bombs would begin striking Ukrainian targets, alongside cyber-attacks.\n\nThe US has not provided evidence for the allegation, and Mr Blinken acknowledged that some people may question the claims. \"But let me be clear. I am here today not to start a war but to prevent one,\" he said.\n\nThe concerns were echoed by other Western leaders. Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned of \"a pretext for an armed attack\", while UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Prime Minister Boris Johnson alleged that a false flag operation was being planned.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels in the country's east continued to accuse each other of shelling and other ceasefire violations on Friday.\n\nSuch breaks in the area's years-long ceasefire are not uncommon. Each side blamed the other for Thursday's violence.\n\nUkrainian officials accused Russia-backed separatists of striking a nursery in the town of Stanytsia Luhanska, smashing through a wall into a children's music room. Three adults - but no children - were injured.\n\nRussia-backed rebels, meanwhile, claimed Ukrainian forces had shelled a number of locations under rebel control and accused them of escalating the conflict.\n\nOn Thursday, Russia sent a formal response to US proposals for negotiation in the crisis which both offered a potential route to diplomacy, and threatened further action.\n\nIn the document, Russia said it was open to discussions about inspections of missile sites on both sides but said the US had failed to address its main security concerns about the expansion of Nato near its border.\n\nRussia said that if that issue was not dealt with, \"military-technical means\" would be deployed in response - though it remains unclear what that could amount to.\n\nDespite such concerns, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba earlier said that \"diplomacy is working\".\n\n\"We can never say for sure what happens tomorrow, but today we do our utmost\" to maintain peace, he said. \"We're very much ready for any situation.\"", "The IOPC said the charges related to an investigation into the phone records of Wayne Couzens, who killed Sarah Everard\n\nTwo serving Metropolitan Police officers and a former officer have been charged with sending grossly offensive messages on WhatsApp.\n\nThey will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 16 March.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said the charges arose from an investigation into the phone records of Wayne Couzens, who murdered Sarah Everard.\n\nThe Met said the serving officers had been suspended from duty.\n\nThe offences are alleged to have happened between April and August 2019 and involved discriminatory messages, the IOPC said.\n\nIn a statement the policing watchdog said: \"The IOPC's investigation began following a referral from the Metropolitan Police Service in April last year and was completed in December when we referred a file of evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\n\"The CPS has now taken the decision to authorise charges against the officers.\"\n\nRosemary Ainslie, head of the CPS special crime division, said: \"Each of the three defendants has been charged with sending grossly offensive messages on a public communications network. The alleged offences took place on a WhatsApp group chat.\"\n\nShe said the function of CPS was not to decide a person's guilt but to make fair assessments about whether it was appropriate for a court to consider charges and added that nothing should be published that could jeopardise the defendants' right to a fair trial.\n\nTypically defendants, including police officers, are identified when they are charged but the CPS said it could not currently confirm the names of the officers for operational reasons.\n\nIn a statement the Met said: \"We are aware of charges brought against two serving Metropolitan Police officers and one former officer about sending grossly offensive messages on a public communications network.\n\n\"They are suspended from duty.\"", "Ruth Dodsworth hopes to inspire other domestic abuse victims to seek help\n\nA television presenter who survived domestic abuse has revealed how she did not realise she was in an abusive relationship for nearly 18 years.\n\nRuth Dodsworth's ex-husband Jonathan Wignall was jailed in April for coercive and controlling behaviour and stalking.\n\nThe ITV Wales presenter said it had been like leading a \"double life\".\n\nShe has been shortlisted in this year's St David Awards, which recognise everyday heroes.\n\nITV Wales presenter Ms Dodsworth has been nominated alongside police officers who saved a 92-year-old woman from a burning house, a former gambler now helping other addicts and lockdown artist Makenzy Beard.\n\nShe told BBC Wales Live: \"It took someone else almost telling me, in fact it took the police handing me - almost like an idiot's guide - well this is what domestic abuse and coercive controlling behaviour is.\n\n\"It took someone else saying 'if you don't get out of this, if you don't ring the police I will'.\n\n\"It's like living a double life because the life that you want the world to see is often so very different to the life that you're going home to. I think that's probably part and parcel of admitting to yourself that something isn't quite right.\n\n\"It was almost there from day one and I was with my ex-husband for nearly 20 years and during those 20 years I hid it from everyone, I hid it from the world, my family, my colleagues. And in a sense, I probably hid it from myself too.\n\n\"To get out is the hardest thing that you will ever do.\"\n\nWhen asked what her message to other victims would be, she said: \"I never thought I could find a way out but I did.\n\n\"If I can be happy, so can you. But I would not be happy and here and alive if I hadn't made that change and that call for help.\"\n\nMakenzy Beard, 14, took up painting during the Covid lockdown\n\nThe St David Awards, which will celebrate their ninth year in 2022, recognise the extraordinary achievements of people from across Wales.\n\nThis year recognition will be given to people and companies in nine different categories, including bravery, community spirit, innovation, science and technology among others. First Minister Mark Drakeford will also give a special award.\n\nAmong the finalists is Makenzy Beard,14, from Swansea, who has been nominated in the young person category, after receiving international interest and offers of tens of thousands of pounds for portraits she painted in lockdown.\n\nPC Ian Chattun and Sgt Katy Evans, who saved a vulnerable woman from drowning on Aberystwyth seafront, have been nominated for a bravery award alongside PC Thomas Scourfield and Sergeant Geraint Jenkins, who risked their lives to attempt to save the life of a 92-year-old woman who was trapped in a burning building in Port Talbot.\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP from Nefyn, Gwynedd, has been nominated in the critical worker category. He founded the Fresh Air Wales campaign to promote the importance of ventilation, especially in schools, and mask-wearing to reduce the risk of spreading and catching Covid.\n\nAnnouncing the finalists, Mr Drakeford said: \"Some of the people shortlisted have shown extraordinary acts of bravery and determination. Others have shown incredible community spirit despite the pressures of living through the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Our finalists are astonishing people and we are very fortunate they call Wales home. I would like to congratulate all those who have been shortlisted and I want to thank everyone who took the time to nominate someone for an award - unfortunately not everyone can make the shortlist.\"\n\nThe winners will be announced in a ceremony on 7 April 2022.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland were \"a little sloppy\" and should have scored more goals against Olympic champions Canada in their opening match of the Arnold Clark Cup, says manager Sarina Wiegman.\n\nMillie Bright gave the Lionesses the lead with an excellent volley at Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium before Manchester City's Janine Beckie equalised for Canada with an equally stunning goal.\n\nIt was the first time England played a side ranked in the world's top 10 under Wiegman and, while there were plenty of positives, the Lionesses boss thought there was also room for improvement.\n\n\"I think we played a very good first half. We dominated and created chances but unfortunately only scored one,\" added Wiegman, who took charge in September 2021.\n\n\"We were a little sloppy at some points. We should have scored more. In the second half we suffered a little more and had to get connected again.\"\n\nThe Lionesses remain unbeaten in seven games under Wiegman. This was their toughest test so far, albeit against a Canada side who had several of their players in pre-season training ahead of their domestic campaign.\n\nEngland face Spain and Germany, who also drew 1-1 in their meeting, on Sunday and next Wednesday respectively.\n• None 'More like the England I know' - Canada boss Priestman\n• None Relive the action as England draw with Olympic champions Canada\n\nAgainst a side ranked sixth in the world, England showed plenty of encouragement in the first half.\n\nLauren Hemp was a threat from the first minute, linking up well with Manchester City team-mate Demi Stokes, while Fran Kirby made numerous runs in behind.\n\nLeah Williamson and Keira Walsh were lively and creative in a new-look midfield duo and England were unfortunate not to be further ahead at the break.\n\nThey had a real intent and identity to their attacking play but lacked control in the second half as Canada pushed forward and showed greater ambition.\n\nThe visitors were able to get in behind on several occasions, with Bright making some key blocks inside the box.\n\nWiegman praised the impact Bright had at both ends of the pitch.\n\n\"Her contribution was absolutely huge,\" she said. \"She scored a goal and was very important in defence. She feels really comfortable in our team.\"\n\nEngland still had opportunities in the second half, with substitute Nikita Parris having a shot blocked from close range after Hemp had raced in behind, only for her strike to be parried away by goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan.\n\nArsenal striker Parris also had a late penalty appeal rejected when she went down in the box in stoppage time.\n\nWiegman said England must use this tournament as an opportunity to learn ahead of the home European Championship in the summer and they were certainly tested more out of possession in the second half.\n\n\"Collectively, as a group, it's a new slate and a fresh journey,\" said goalscorer Bright.\n\n\"Everyone is bringing their club form into camp and playing their best. When players are comfortable and happy, that's when you see their good performances.\"\n\nThere are still tougher tests to come for England against Spain - considered one of the favourites to win the Euros - and Germany, who the Lionesses face in Wolverhampton next week.\n\nAll-in-all, the hosts showed glimpses of what they can offer under Wiegman, but essentially lacked the ruthlessness needed to claim victory at the Riverside Stadium.\n• None Attempt saved. Georgia Stanway (England) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Keira Walsh.\n• None Kadeisha Buchanan (Canada) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Keira Walsh (England) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ellen White.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nikita Parris (England) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucy Bronze with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Nichelle Prince (Canada) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jessie Fleming.\n• None Attempt blocked. Georgia Stanway (England) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nichelle Prince (Canada) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Deanne Rose. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nKamila Valieva's controversial Winter Olympics ended in tears with a fourth-place finish in the women's event after the 15-year-old fell multiple times in the free skate.\n\nRussian Olympic Committee's Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova claimed gold and silver with Japan's Kaori Sakamoto taking the bronze medal.\n\nValieva, in the spotlight after a court ruled she could compete in Beijing after a failed drugs test, sobbed while awaiting the score.\n\nShe had led going into the free skate.\n\nThose who witnessed the events questioned the wisdom of allowing her to skate in the first place - the Court of Arbitration for Sport had said it would do \"irreparable harm\" to not allow it.\n\nMany of those who witnessed it would say it may have done that by allowing it.\n\n\"I am slightly speechless for all the wrong reasons,\" said an emotional BBC commentator and 1980 gold medallist Robin Cousins.\n\n\"Someone thought having her do that was better than having her go home to her family and to wait and sort this out, knowing she could have two more Olympics ahead of her.\n\n\"To see the talent and the unquestionable quality of Valieva... To see it put into this arena in that way should never have happened.\"\n• None 'She became the face of a problem bigger than her' - anger & sympathy as Valieva breaks down under world's gaze\n\nValieva landed her opening quadruple jump but then faltered on the next triple, triggering a series of errors that had the crowd gasping in disbelief at what they were seeing.\n\nAs the mistakes mounted and the falls came, the crowd cheered her on and applauded the moves she did complete.\n\nShe threw her hands up at the end before leaving the ice in tears - for a second time this week, having also burst into tears after the short programme as the tension of recent days told.\n\nAs she left the ice Russian-flag waving supporters stood and chanted \"well done\" in Russian.\n\nThe Russian has set several world records since making her senior debut in October, including for a free skate score, but Thursday's free skate score of 141.93 fell well short and was only the fifth best of the day.\n\nThe medal-winning skaters will get their medals at an official ceremony, with the International Olympic Committee having previously said there would be no ceremony if Valieva came in the top three while the doping investigation was still ongoing.\n\nThe medals for the team event, where Valieva helped the Russian Olympic Committee to victory, will not be handed out until the case is concluded.\n\nThe talk before Thursday's skate was about the IOC's decision that there would be an asterisk against the women's result until the doping case was over, but thoughts of that quickly evaporated during a performance where the mistakes came with agonising frequency.\n• None ROC would disagree with any Valieva asterisk\n\nWhy was Valieva allowed to compete?\n\nValieva was allowed to compete in the women's event after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) ruled against re-imposing a provisional suspension on her.\n\nShe discovered on 8 February that she had tested positive for angina drug trimetazidine but then successfully appealed against a Russian Anti-Doping Agency decision to impose a provisional suspension.\n\nThat decision was upheld by Cas after appeals by the IOC and others, with the court's ruling pointing to \"exceptional circumstances\" regarding her age and the timing of the test result, which came during the Games and nearly six weeks after the sample was taken.\n\nThere were mixed reactions from her fellow competitors, with some unhappy they were knowingly skating against someone who had failed a drugs test and others sorry that a child was caught up in a doping scandal.\n\nThe attention around the Valieva situation meant that most skaters had to face questions about what they thought about her participation and potential for gold rather than their own performances.\n\nInstead it was two other Russian teenagers in the top two spots on the podium.\n\nGold medallist Shcherbakova, who is also the world champion, said she \"will not say anything about this situation\" around Valieva.\n\nInstead the 17-year-old was trying to enjoy her own success, saying: \"It's hard to say what I'm feeling right now. I still don't comprehend what has happened, I'm overwhelmed by happiness but I also feel an emptiness inside.\"\n\nSilver medallist Trusova, meanwhile, was upset that her free skate, which earned the top score of the night and featured attempts at five quadruple jumps, had not won her the gold.\n\n\"Everyone has a gold medal, everyone, but not me,\" said the 17-year-old, who was in tears before the flower ceremony. \"I hate skating. I hate it. I hate this sport. I will never skate again. Never.\"", "A judge has ruled that Donald Trump and two of his children must testify in a New York investigation\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump and two of his children must answer questions under oath in a New York investigation into their business practices, a judge has ruled.\n\nNew York's attorney general has accused the Trump Organization of obtaining tax breaks and loans through \"fraudulent or misleading asset valuations\".\n\nMr Trump must sit for sworn testimony within 21 days.\n\nHe denies the accusations, and is expected to appeal the decision.\n\nHe could also invoke his right to remain silent in any deposition.\n\nThe Trump Organization said in a statement to the BBC: \"The entire system is corrupt.\"\n\nOn Thursday, New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron said that Mr Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr, 44, and daughter Ivanka Trump, 40, must each comply with legal orders that prosecutors issued in December.\n\nNew York Attorney General Letitia James' investigation had uncovered \"copious evidence of possible financial fraud\", the judge said, giving her a \"clear right\" to question under oath the former president and two of his children involved in the business.\n\nMr Trump, 75, has called the investigation politically motivated and a \"witch-hunt\" by Ms James, a Democrat.\n\nWhether Donald Trump will actually answer questions under oath about his business practices is an open question.\n\nAn appeal is almost certainly forthcoming. And if that is unsuccessful, Mr Trump may decline to answer the questions, as his son Eric Trump did under similar circumstances in 2020.\n\nThat's what the former president's lawyers are already recommending. Having their client sit for what would surely be a multi-hour grilling by New York lawyers looking for verbal missteps or contradictory assertions is not their idea of sound legal strategy.\n\nThis is far from the end of the line, but it still was a rough day for the former president. This civil case, and the criminal probe in Manhattan, aren't going away anytime soon. And having a judge, in a written order, say that there is \"copious evidence of fraud\" isn't a good look - particularly for a man who likes to boast of his unparalleled business acumen.\n\nThe investigation, which was opened in 2019, aims to prove the government's claims that Mr Trump inflated the value of his assets to banks when seeking loans. The fraud is alleged to have taken place before he took office.\n\nAttorneys for Mr Trump had attempted to sue Ms James in a bid to prevent her from questioning the former president and his children.\n\nMs James hailed the judge's decision as a victory, saying that \"justice has prevailed\".\n\nThe civil case is separate to a Manhattan criminal investigation into the Trump Organization's practices.\n\nIn court, attorneys for Mr Trump argued that testifying in the civil case would improperly allow the state to circumvent a law that bars prosecutors from calling someone to testify before a criminal grand jury unless they are granted immunity.\n\n\"If she [Ms James] wants sworn testimony from my client, he's entitled to immunity,\" Mr Trump's defence attorney, Ronald Fischetti said.\n\n\"He gets immunity for what he says, or he gets nothing.\"", "KitKat and Nescafe-maker Nestle has warned it will increase the prices of its products due to the growing cost of producing its goods.\n\nMark Schneider, boss of the food group, said it was \"safe assumption\" that prices would rise this year.\n\nHe said there was \"no place\" in the company that was \"exempt of inflation\".\n\nReckitt Benckiser, the consumer goods company behind Durex and Dettol, also said prices would rise, but added it hoped to absorb most of the increases.\n\nReckitt's costs rose 11% in 2021, but chief executive Laxman Narasimhan said that wouldn't mean prices rising by that amount, as the company had ways to \"mitigate and manage pricing\"\n\n\"We care about the competitiveness of our brands,\" he told a conference call.\n\nJeff Carr, chief financial officer, said the firm's costs had increased \"across the board\", ranging from crude oil and plastic, to shipping and wages.\n\nBut he said that company was \"absorbing a significant part\" of higher operating costs through \"efficiency\" and \"better buying\".\n\n\"We are not passing it on to consumers,\" he said. \"We are passing some pricing onto consumers but we minimise that through the programmes we have…to absorb those cost increases.\"\n\nShares rose in the company by as much as 5.4% on Thursday.\n\nMeanwhile, Nestle said it had already lifted prices by 3.1% in the fourth quarter of its financial to offset rising operating costs.\n\n\"It is a safe assumption that our input cost increases for 2022 will be higher than 2021, that is something that we have to reflect in our pricing,\" said Mr Schneider\n\n\"There is almost no place in the company that is exempt of inflation now,\" he added. \"Some of these things you can hedge against, some not.\"\n\nConsumer goods companies have previously warned of price rises for products due the rising costs of raw materials, energy and labour.\n\nIt will raise pressure on households who are facing a cost of living crisis.\n\nRecent data showed that inflation hit a 30-year high of 5.5% in the year to January and the Bank of England forecasts that the cost of living could reach over 7% by spring - far above its 2% inflation target.\n\nGas and electricity costs are set to rise in April when the new, higher energy price cap is introduced. At the same time companies, their staff and the self-employed will pay 1.25p more in the pound for National Insurance.\n\nDanni Hewson, financial analyst at AJ Bell, said big brand owners were facing an \"important test given pressures on the cost of living\".\n\n\"Consumers may not be able to keep stomaching price increases and so there is a risk they buy less of the popular and more expensive brands and/or trade down to cheaper options,\" she added.\n\n\"The big brand companies therefore face the risk of having to cut their prices just to maintain sales volumes.\"\n\nNestle, which also makes Cheerios and Smarties, revealed total sales increased by 3.3% to SwFr87.1bn (£69.5bn) last year.\n\nThe firm's net profit grew by 38.2% to SwFr16.9bn.\n\nIt said sales had been driven by strong demand for coffee, pet products and health foods during the pandemic.\n\nMeanwhile, Reckitt said its full-year sales had increased by 3.5%, ahead of expectations, on demand for hygiene and health products.\n\nSplitting its divisions, hygiene performed best with sales up 1.6% in the year to £5.9 billion, including strong sales of Air Wick, Lysol, Finish and Vanish.\n\nSales of Durex condoms, KY lubricants and Veet hair removal products were boosted as lockdowns were lifted.\n\nThe firm added sales of US cleaning and disinfecting spray Lysol were about 90% higher than 2019.\n\nIt said it expected its health business to benefit from stronger cold and flu treatment sales.\n\nLast week, Unilever, the firm behind brands such as Marmite and Dove Soap, said it would put up its prices again this year as its overheads continue to rise.\n\nThe company, which also makes Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Hellmann's mayonnaise, said it was facing €3.5bn (£2.95bn) of extra costs in 2022 alone.", "It is the first time the government has offered guidance like this to schools\n\nSchools in England are being reminded to teach sensitive issues in a non-biased way, under new guidance.\n\nIt aims to help teachers cover complex topics, such as the history of the British Empire or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, without pushing one political view over another.\n\nThere is also a warning against teachers expressing their own views.\n\nEducation Secretary Nadhim Zahawi says no subject should be off limits, but teaching must be impartial.\n\nIt comes after a row when children at a Nottingham primary school wrote a letter criticising the prime minister.\n\nThe promotion of partisan political views in class is unlawful under the 1996 Education Act.\n\nThis means that where teachers present controversial political views in a lesson, they must offer a balanced overview of opposing views.\n\nThe Political Impartiality in Schools guidance, published by the Department for Education on Thursday, asks schools to think carefully when planning lessons and choosing class materials.\n\nIt draws a distinction between subject areas which may be part of teaching, such as racism or colonialism, and promoting support for campaigning groups, such as Black Lives Matter.\n\nIt urges teachers not to offer their own political views in class.\n\nSchools are also being asked to listen and try to resolve any concerns raised by parents who feel their children have been exposed to an uncontested political view.\n\nSchools in England have been quietly navigating their legal duty not to promote partisan political views for decades.\n\nSo be in no doubt this is a very deliberate intervention by the government which sends a signal of greater scrutiny in future.\n\nWhy now? This is the era of so called \"culture war\", where polarised views are played out in shouting matches on social media.\n\nIssues like climate change, racial injustices past and present, and food poverty are in the media streams of teenagers, not least through their heroes and influencers.\n\nThere are also the long-standing issues schools have to navigate, such as the tension between Israel and the Palestinians.\n\nThe question is whether this guidance will cool or fan the flames the next time a row blows up about what has, or hasn't, been said in a classroom.\n\nBen Miskell, a citizenship and politics teacher, says teachers continually investigate contrasting views and points of difference and help students gain skills in interpreting the political material they receive in a range of formats.\n\n\"Teachers I come into contact with across the country in my role as an ambassador for the Association for Citizenship Teaching (Act) are all doing the same thing.\n\n\"It is rare for impartiality not to be seen, and where it is this is normally down to lack of training.\"\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Dr Mary Bousted says there is already sufficient guidance under the Education Act.\n\nThe new guidance adds \"new layers of mystification and complexity\" and could increase uncertainty and put schools off engaging with political issues, she says.\n\nAssociation of School and College Leaders general secretary Geoff Barton welcomed the guidance, saying it comes at a time when \"young people are exposed to a swirl of misinformation online, and an increasingly toxic discourse on social media\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This school chooses to teach black history all year round, rather than for just one month\n\nAct chief executive Liz Moorse said training was needed for teachers to become confident in teaching about political issues and remaining impartial.\n\n\"Good citizenship teachers do this. But often we find teachers, in particular non-specialists, are concerned about getting this wrong at present.\"\n\nShe added that if young people were not able to learn in a safe classroom space, they would do so unmediated through the internet with its \"proliferation of misinformation and conspiracies\".", "Elon Musk's Twitter posts have brought him to the attention of financial regulators.\n\nTesla boss Elon Musk has accused US regulators of targeting him for \"unrelenting investigation\" because of his criticism of the government.\n\nIn a court filing, the billionaire says the Securities and Exchange Commission has engaged in \"outsized efforts\" to monitor the firm that \"seem calculated to chill his exercise\" of free speech.\n\nThe letter heightens the battle between Mr Musk and financial regulators over his social media activity.\n\nIn 2018, the SEC ordered Mr Musk to submit to increased oversight of his posts about Tesla as part of a settlement into claims that he misled investors in 2018 with a post about taking the electric car company private.\n\nThe SEC has repeatedly raised questions since about Mr Musk running afoul of the agreement, in which Mr Musk agreed to give Tesla officials pre-approval of posts about the company.\n\nIn November, regulators subpoenaed the firm, requesting information about its governance processes related to the order.\n\nThat month, Mr Musk asked his more than 70 million Twitter followers whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla shares, driving shares lower.\n\nIn the letter to Judge Alison Nathan, who is overseeing the 2018 settlement, the billionaire's attorney Alex Spiro accused regulators of \"weaponizing the consent decree by using it to try to muzzle and harass Mr. Musk and Tesla\".\n\n\"The SEC seems to be targeting Mr. Musk and Tesla for unrelenting investigation largely because Mr. Musk remains an outspoken critic of the government,\" he wrote on behalf of Mr Musk and Tesla.\n\n\"The SEC's outsized efforts seem calculated to chill his exercise of First Amendment rights rather than to enforce generally applicable laws in even-handed fashion\".\n\nHe said the SEC had opened \"serial investigations\" without seeking guidance from the court and that the agency was overdue to distribute to investors the $40m in penalties it collected as part of the 2018 settlement.\n\nMr Musk's Twitter musings on topics from Tesla to crypto currency have frequently appeared to move market prices.\n\nHe has used his perch to criticise the SEC, saying oversight at the agency was \"broken\".\n\nMr Musk has also criticised US President Joe Biden for not acknowledging the contributions of SpaceX or Tesla, most recently dismissing the president as a \"damp [sock emoji] puppet\".\n\nBut Professor James D Cox, who teaches corporate and securities law at Duke University, said the SEC is responding to Mr Musk's decision to repeatedly flout a court order, not his other antics.\n\nExecutives at publicly traded companies are bound by protocols governing disclosure of information, he said.\n\n\"This isn't a question of the SEC targeting him,\" he said. \"They're doing it because he is brazenly ignoring the order of the SEC that has the imprimatur of the federal court system.\"\n\nIn addition to the financial regulator's subpoena, Tesla faces a racial discrimination lawsuit from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing and a safety probe from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.", "Visas offering foreign investors fast-track residency in the UK are being scrapped with immediate effect, the home secretary has confirmed.\n\nPriti Patel said ending Tier 1 investor visas, for those spending at least £2m, was the start of a \"renewed crackdown on illicit finance and fraud\".\n\nThe scheme was introduced in 2008 to encourage wealthy people from outside the EU to invest in the UK.\n\nIt has been under review for some time, after concerns it is open to abuse.\n\nThe announcement had been expected next week amid pressure on ministers to cut UK ties to Russia over the threat of invasion to Ukraine, with a source confirming the decision to the BBC on Wednesday.\n\nBut the move has been brought forward, with the government saying it was part of their \"new plan for immigration\".\n\nThe Tier 1 (investor) visa, often called a \"golden visa\", offers residency to those investing £2m or more in the UK, and allows their families to join them.\n\nHolders of these visas can then apply for permanent residency in the UK, at a speed depending on how much they invest.\n\nA £2m investment allows an application within five years, shortened to three years with £5m or two years if £10m is invested.\n\nBut the route to residency is now being closed with immediate effect, with the government saying it \"failed to deliver for the UK people and gave opportunities for corrupt elites to access the UK\".\n\nMs Patel added: \"I have zero tolerance for abuse of our immigration system. Under my new plan for Immigration, I want to ensure the British people have confidence in the system, including stopping corrupt elites who threaten our national security and push dirty money around our cities.\n\n\"Closing this route is just the start of our renewed crackdown on fraud and illicit finance. We will be publishing a fraud action plan, while the forthcoming Economic Crime Bill will crackdown on people abusing our financial institutions and better protect the taxpayer.\"\n\nThe Home Office said settlement in the UK will now be conditional on applicants \"executing an investment strategy that can show genuine job creation and other tangible economic impacts - passively holding UK investments will no longer be enough to obtain settlement. \"\n\nLib Dem foreign affairs spokesperson Layla Moran said: \"Shutting the door to Putin's cronies is not enough - too many of them have already walked through it with virtually no questions asked.\"\n\nShe urged the government to publish its report into those who came to the UK on the visas.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper also called for the review to be published and said a general plan was needed to \"stop illicit finance coming into the UK\".\n\nShe said \"for years the Conservatives failed to stamp out the influence of Russian money in the UK\" adding that it had \"taken international condemnation of our failures... for the home secretary to act\".\n\nThe Home Office has issued 2,581 investor visas to Russian citizens since the scheme was introduced in 2008.\n\nSeveral changes have been made since the investor visa scheme was launched, including extra checks on how and when applicants acquired their wealth.\n\nBanks are also now required to complete certain checks before opening accounts for applicants - who are also required to submit extra paperwork if their qualifying funds are invested through a chain of different companies.\n\nIn 2020, Parliament's intelligence and security committee argued for a \"more robust\" approach to approving Tier 1 visas as part of a report on Russian influence in the UK.\n\nCorrection: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the number of Tier 1 (Investor) visas granted to Russians as 14,516. The correct figure to the end of March 2020 was 2,581.", "The protests in Ottawa have been continuing for three weeks\n\nPolice in Ottawa have detained two leaders of the trucker convoy in the Canadian capital as they move to break up the last stronghold of the protests against the nation's Covid rules.\n\nTamara Lich was arrested on Thursday evening after Chris Barber was held, with both expected to be charged criminally, according to CBC News.\n\nAuthorities have already cleared other protests located at border crossings.\n\nIt comes days after Canada invoked an emergency law for the first time.\n\nHowever, officers were not yet moving in force on the remaining demonstrators on Thursday night - although interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell warned earlier that if \"they do not peacefully leave, we have plans\".\n\nThe Emergencies Act invoked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday imposes bans on public assembly in some areas, among other measures.\n\nThe Ottawa demonstrators - many parked in some 400 heavy trucks and other vehicles on city streets around Parliament - have been warned they face arrest as well as having their trucks seized, their insurance suspended and bank accounts frozen.\n\nPolice say they are also working with child-welfare agencies to arrange how to remove the protesters' children from the site before authorities move in.\n\nMs Lich told the Canadian Press earlier that her personal bank account had already been frozen and she was resigned to going to jail.\n\n\"It is happening. I do have the numbers in front of me,\" she said.\n\nAuthorities last weekend cleared the most economically damaging blockade - of a bridge linking Windsor, Ontario, with the US state of Michigan. Trucker protests at other border crossings in Coutts, Alberta, and Emerson, Manitoba, ended this week.\n\nOttawa police have set up almost 100 police check-points around the main protest site, and a large business and residential district in the city centre.\n\nThe move comes ahead of the weekend, when a core group of protesters who remain during the week are typically joined by thousands of other demonstrators on the streets of the capital.\n\nOn Thursday, Prime Minister Trudeau defended his government's use of the Emergencies Act in the House of Commons, saying the protests threaten the national economy, public safety and US relations.\n\nOpposition politicians accused Mr Trudeau of inflaming an already tense situation.\n\nThe use of the law is an \"unprecedented sledgehammer\", said Conservative leader Candice Bergen.\n\nThe Canadian Civil Liberties Association said on Thursday it would take the government to court over its \"extreme measure\".\n\nThe protests began with a truck convoy heading to Ottawa to oppose a vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the US-Canada border, but eventually became about a broader opposition to pandemic restrictions and Mr Trudeau's government.\n\nDefenders of the \"Freedom Convoy\" are accusing Mr Trudeau of smearing their peaceful demonstration, while ignoring a violent attack by environmental activists elsewhere in the country on Thursday.\n\nA group of 20 axe-wielding anti-pipeline protesters assailed security guards and police and caused extensive damage to property at a work site in Houston, British Columbia, said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.", "A deadline to register forgotten historical paths in England by 2026 is set to be scrapped by the government.\n\nThere was a cut-off to apply to record rights of way through private land which existed before 1949 but did not appear on official maps.\n\nCampaigners said the change meant important and useful paths could be \"protected for future generations\".\n\nThe government said it was introducing measures to \"enhance the way rights of way are recorded and managed\".\n\nUsing historical evidence, people are able to apply for rights of way which have existed in the past to be added to official maps, giving them legal protection.\n\nThe 1 January 2026 deadline to apply to record paths was introduced in the Countryside Rights of Way Act 2000 by the then Labour government.\n\nAfter that date, historical routes would no longer have been able to be added to official maps, meaning public rights of way would have been lost.\n\nThe Welsh government has previously repealed the cut-off date.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the news. Walking charity the Ramblers said it was a cause for celebration after years of campaigning. The Open Spaces Society was \"delighted\".\n\nJack Cornish, head of paths for the Ramblers, said: \"This welcome decision means that, with the help of our brilliant volunteers, we'll be able to make sure the most important and useful paths are added back to the map and protected for future generations.\"\n\nMr Cornish added: \"As well as being an important part of our history, our path network makes a huge difference to our health and wellbeing.\"\n\n\"This is a step in the right direction for the government towards making it a reality for more people to enjoy the benefits of walking and connecting with nature,\" he said.\n\nRamblers said it had discovered over 41,000 miles of potential missing rights of way to be investigated and applied for in England as part of its \"Don't Lose Your Way\" campaign.\n\nOpen Spaces Society general secretary Kate Ashbrook said she was pleased Defra had taken the \"sensible and pragmatic decision\" to axe the \"2026 guillotine\".\n\nShe said: \"Now, users can carry out their work without a Sword of Damocles hanging over them, and we can ensure that valuable ways are saved.\"\n\nA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) spokeswoman said public access was key to connecting people with the environment to improve health and wellbeing.\n\n\"The government has decided to take forward a streamlined package of measures in order to help enhance the way that rights of way are recorded and managed.\"\n\nAs well as repealing the 2026 cut-off the government plans to introduce a \"right to apply\" for landowners to divert or extinguish rights of way in certain circumstances.\n\nThe Open Spaces Society said it was concerned about the right to apply and would be lobbying against it.", "The BBC has uncovered how a culture of complicity and denial conceals the true scale of clerical sex abuse in Italy. One shocking case that we delved into exposes how abusers in the Church can escape justice. This account contains descriptions which readers may find upsetting.\n\nWe'll call him \"Mario\". He pulls back slightly as we shake hands, still clearly uncomfortable with physical contact. And at my first question - \"How are you?\" - which I hoped would ease him gently into conversation, he immediately breaks down.\n\n\"This interview is taking me back to it all,\" he stutters, barely able to get the words out through his tears.\n\nMario has never spoken before to a journalist about what he calls his \"sexual slavery\" at the hands of his childhood priest.\n\nOur journey will take us from Mario's horrifying testimony, to confronting his abuser face-to-face - and finally to seeking answers from those who have allowed the priest to continue celebrating Mass to this day.\n\nHis is one of the countless stories of clerical sex abuse in Italy, which has never properly confronted the scourge. Despite having the highest number of priests of any country, and the seat of the Catholic Church in its backyard, Italy keeps no official statistics on the issue and there's been no public inquiry.\n\nIn the shadow of the Vatican, Italy's sins are hidden beneath a veil of darkness.\n\n\"Of course, I was told that it was a secret,\" Mario recalls, \"between him, me and Jesus.\"\n\nThat secret was, Mario says, 16 years of horrific abuse that he endured from the age of eight, carried out by a priest named Father Gianni Bekiaris.\n\nA summary of the case by Mario's lawyer, which includes many details too graphic to report, describes the first rape in 1996 as \"premeditated\". Bekiaris reserved a hotel room with one single bed for them both. Afterwards, the papers read, Mario was left \"in pain and bleeding… crying silently\".\n\nBekiaris later gave Mario's parents \"a gift\" of a poster showing where the hotel was - and where the rape is said to have taken place - under which he'd written the date and time of that moment, as well as the words: \"In memory of the two days we spent in the cold of the mountains.\"\n\nIt was, it seemed, a warped commemoration of the crime, and a sign of how the priest manipulated the emotionally vulnerable child, profiting from Mario's strained relationship with his father.\n\nThe case files allege Bekiaris threatened Mario to keep quiet, \"telling him what happened… was also the child's fault\".\n\n\"As I grew up, he asked my parents if I could go and sleep at his house,\" Mario remembers. \"They agreed, even though I prayed they wouldn't.\"\n\nHis parents, unaware of the horror unfolding, were naively proud that an important man of the cloth would value their son. The trauma led Mario to drugs, psychological collapse and repeated suicide attempts.\n\n\"He stole the kind soul that I used to be,\" Mario says. \"And the nightmares… my dreams are about wars with Kalashnikovs and hand grenades.\"\n\nEventually, after opening up to a therapist, Mario embarked on a quest for justice. His first step was to approach Bekiaris's superior, Bishop Ambrogio Spreafico. Bishop Spreafico initiated a trial under canon law - the law of the Catholic Church, which it uses to deal with problems internally.\n\nThe verdict that we've obtained from that canon law trial shows judges found Bekiaris \"clearly culpable of the accusations levelled against him\" and that, while he disputed some details of the abuse, he \"admitted committing the crime\". He even made a payment of €112,000 (£94,000) to Mario.\n\nBut the panel did not defrock the priest, as Mario requested, instead choosing to ban him for life from \"administering his duties with minors\".\n\nDisillusioned, Mario and his lawyer filed a criminal complaint with the Italian police.\n\nThe documents we've seen from this second trial reveal that judges had \"no doubt about the veracity of the allegations\", leaving \"no room for the acquittal of the defendant\".\n\nBut under Italy's cumbersome legal system, the case had run beyond the statute of limitations, meaning Bekiaris could not be convicted. The case illustrates the quagmire of legal obstacles that has ensnared Italy's sex abuse cases, depriving the survivors - a term most prefer to \"victims\" - of justice.\n\nItaly's statute of limitations - which begins when a crime is committed, rather than reported - is currently being reformed to stop it from being used to obstruct or string out a legal process, but the reform is not retrospective.\n\nMario's lawyer, Carla Corsetti, told us the time limit has hindered countless sex abuse cases due to the years it can take for survivors to mentally process the crime. But, she adds, the problem runs deeper - to Italy's constitution and the 1929 Lateran Pact signed by the then-ruling dictator Benito Mussolini, which gave the Vatican legal autonomy from Italy. This gives the clergy recourse to Vatican law over that of Italy, in effect potentially shielding them from Italian justice.\n\n\"Through preserving the Lateran Pact, we are a country with limited sovereignty,\" Ms Corsetti says. \"We pay for that fact every day and the ones who pay first are the victims of sexual abuse.\"\n\nThe Vatican under Pope Francis has slowly stepped up its attempts to tackle the offence, outlawing, for example, the use of a code of silence called \"pontifical secrecy\". Recently, the Italian Bishops' Conference established Italy's first national day of prayer for survivors of abuse.\n\nBut for critics, these moves are at best belated and at worst woefully inadequate.\n\nIn 2019, the United Nations called on Italy to implement an independent and impartial inquiry into clerical sex abuse. Their calls have fallen on deaf ears so far.\n\nElsewhere in the world, progress is being made to peel back the cloak of secrecy. A report in France last year found that since 1950, at least 216,000 children had been abused there by some 3,200 priests. Italy has more than twice as many priests as France - but no official tally of abuse cases.\n\nEven within Vatican walls, some have expressed consternation at Italy's inaction.\n\nFather Hans Zollner, the director of the Safeguarding Institute at Rome's Pontifical University and a member of the Vatican's Commission for the Protection of Minors, has urged Italy to follow the lead of France and other countries that have investigated these crimes.\n\nFather Hans Zollner, director of the Safeguarding Institute at Rome's Pontifical University\n\n\"In Great Britain, in Australia, in the US, in Germany, society came to a point to confront this issue and then the Church also had to confront it - but this awareness and urgency to deal with it has not come about in this country yet,\" he says.\n\nIn places that have tackled clerical abuse, Father Zollner says an average of 4-5% of priests were accused or convicted, adding that \"in all probability, there would be a similar number expected in Italy\". But in the absence of an official tally and with barely any engagement by the Italian state, it has been left to the country's one campaign group working on the issue to compile what it can.\n\nFrancesco Zanardi - a survivor himself - runs an association called The Abuse Network from his tiny flat in northern Italy. \"When we started looking for support and legal backing,\" he says, \"we hit a brick wall.\" Combining confidential tip-offs and media reports, he has mapped the country's priests who have been suspected, investigated, or convicted of abuse. And he has established a group of lawyers ready to work with survivors.\n\nMr Zanardi has calculated 163 convictions of priests in Italy in the past 15 years - but is certain that this is a gross underestimate.\n\n\"Italy is like another planet far from Europe,\" he says. \"There's a clear lack of will by the state to interfere with the Church, at the expense of children.\"\n\nPart of the problem here is cultural. Italy is often more conservative on some social issues compared with other western European countries. In a country in which more than 80% of people identify as Catholic, the Church is, for many Italians, as central to their identity as the family - and can often seem an unchallengeable authority.\n\nThat notion of silence and untouchability of the Church in Italy, as Father Zollner portrays it, has allowed some priests accused of abuse to be placed in a network of Church-run rehabilitation centres.\n\nSeveral of these centres exist across the country but little about them is known. One near Rome, to which we gained rare access, is secluded up an unmarked road, behind barbed wire. Through the gate stands a white statue of Christ.\n\nInside are bedrooms for the resident priests, a living room and a small chapel. On the wall are photos of a recent visit from Pope Francis, who stayed for an hour and a half and reportedly praised the pastoral care of the institution.\n\nPriests sent to the centres have a range of problems, including gambling and drug addiction. But some are also either accused, under investigation or on trial for sex abuse.\n\nMarco Ermes Luparia, the founder, strenuously denies that his community is \"a refuge for fugitives\", insisting that it is instead a place of treatment for priests to prevent re-offending. Abusers follow what he calls \"an individual, very intense course of two or three psychotherapy sessions a week, followed by a total restriction on movement. They cannot even have lunch outside.\"\n\nFor survivors, the obscure structures that keep abusers away from prying eyes illustrate once again a chain of complicity burying the crime.\n\nMr Luparia flatly rejects that allegation. \"The bishops have to advise the relevant authorities that the priest is coming to us,\" he says, dismissing claims the community enables the Church to protect abusers. \"Today a bishop who did that - it would be the end of him,\" he says.\n\nThere is no such dignified care for the countless survivors of abuse, including Mario, for whom the cover-up continues.\n\nHis abuser, Gianni Bekiaris, remains an active priest still in the same diocese where the crimes are alleged to have begun - and still under the leadership of Bishop Ambrogio Spreafico.\n\nWe spend weeks tracking Bekiaris online, finding how he stands in to celebrate Mass at various churches in more than one town, before appearing to lie low again. He is still listed as a priest in the diocese where the abuse took place. We even unearth photographs of him celebrating Mass with children present.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The moment the BBC confronts Father Gianni with allegations of child sex abuse\n\nFinally, in one location near Rome, we find and approach him. I show him the trial papers that we'd obtained and the photos of children present at his Mass.\n\n\"I work here,\" he replies, indicating the building where he lives, \"and there are no children.\"\n\nI then produce the photographs of him in church with minors.\n\n\"Those are people, not minors,\" he insists.\n\n\"Are you a paedophile?\" I ask.\n\n\"This is what you're saying,\" he replies.\n\n\"No, it's what your victim is saying,\" I venture, before he closes the door, with a simple \"goodbye\".\n\nI ask Father Hans Zollner, from the Safeguarding Institute, what should in theory happen to a priest whose guilt was recognised in a canon law trial, who admitted the abuse and paid damages.\n\nHe tells me that, while he is not familiar with the specific case: \"If the procedure establishes that he committed the crime, he should be dismissed, of course. And if there is any kind of activity that brings him into contact with minors, that goes obviously against the verdict.\"\n\nAnd yet, when we challenge Bekiaris's superior, Bishop Ambrogio Spreafico, on why he hadn't defrocked the priest, despite a direct plea to do so from Mario, he denies any wrongdoing.\n\nBishop Spreafico insists it was the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - the powerful Vatican department that deals with such issues and led the canon law trial - that took the decision.\n\n\"I followed the procedures,\" he says, \"and they decided in this way. It wasn't up to me.\"\n\nBut why, I ask, didn't he advise the Vatican to take a different course of action, given his knowledge of all the details, the fact that Mario had confided in him and that the canon law trial found Bekiaris guilty?\n\n\"Guilt can be based on different facts,\" he replies. \"They could turn out to be of a different scale, a different timeframe, a different reality.\"\n\nWhen I show him the photographs of Bekiaris in church with minors, he initially suggests he had checked with the Vatican and that occasional celebration of mass was not against the sentence, before assuring me: \"I will ask the Congregation [for the Doctrine of the Faith] whether this is included in the ban. But per se it's not specified in the decree.\"\n\nEven if, as he maintains, it's not against the law, I ask, isn't it against basic morality for a man with such a past to continue as a priest?\n\n\"I'll take your observation into account,\" he says, \"and I'll look into it, don't worry.\"\n\nWe look into it ourselves, asking the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for a response.\n\nThey tell us the lifetime ban on administering duties with minors imposed on Gianni Bekiaris was intended to \"heal and atone\" and that it could allow a priest to celebrate public Mass with minors, \"as long as they are never left alone\".\n\nLegal technicalities, procedural loopholes, and personal interpretations of judgements - they are what enabled Gianni Bekiaris to continue preaching the word of God; deprived Mario of justice - and could lead to him one day potentially entering a church in his diocese with his son and watching Mass celebrated by the man accused of repeatedly raping him.\n\nThat is the cost of Italy's failure to tackle the curse of abuse - and of its lack of accountability for the survivors whose faith and childhood were so cruelly robbed.\n\n\"The impact is devastating,\" Mario says, his broken soul clear to see. \"Towards the whole Church, from the Pope down to the last priest, I feel sickened by them. I'm sick to death.\"", "Storm Eunice has been causing travel chaos, with hundreds of flights cancelled, rail lines blocked and road bridges closed.\n\nA rare \"do not travel\" alert was issued earlier across Britain's railways and more than 430 flights due to take off or land at UK airports have been cancelled.\n\nSeven train operators suspended all services this afternoon - c2c, Chiltern Railways, Great Western Railway, Greater Anglia, South Western Railway, Southeastern and Transport for Wales.\n\nNetwork Rail has closed all routes in Kent, while every line in south-east London has been blocked by trees.\n\nTransport for Wales said its train services would resume tomorrow - but disruption to rail travel is likely to continue early on across the UK.\n\nQuote Message: Starting tonight and carrying on through the weekend we will be working round the clock to fix the damage that the storm has done to the railway, but passengers should be checking their journeys over the weekend as we carry out these repairs.\" Starting tonight and carrying on through the weekend we will be working round the clock to fix the damage that the storm has done to the railway, but passengers should be checking their journeys over the weekend as we carry out these repairs.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deluge of rainfall causes a landslide and flooding in Petrópolis, Brazil\n\nMore than 100 people have died in landslides and flash flooding in the Brazilian city of Petrópolis, officials say.\n\nThe city, which is located in the mountains north of Rio de Janeiro, was hit by torrential rainfall.\n\nHouses in hillside neighbourhoods were destroyed and cars swept away as floodwaters raced through the city's streets.\n\nSearch and rescue teams are combing the mud for survivors.\n\nBrazil's National Civil Defence said that 24 people had been rescued alive by Wednesday night local time.\n\nVideos shared on social media showed extensive damage and vehicles floating in the streets.\n\n\"The situation is almost like war... Cars hanging from poles, cars overturned, lots of mud and water still,\" Rio de Janeiro Governor Cláudio Castro told journalists.\n\nWith more than 30 people reported missing, he said that the search and rescue efforts would continue non-stop.\n\nResidents here are holding out hope their loved ones can be found, but it's a complicated situation with so much mud and rubble to clear. People are watching and waiting patiently.\n\nYou can see how the mudslide came crashing down through this hillside neighbourhood, wiping out everything in its path and creating a valley of mud, rubble and mangled wires.\n\nWhen we arrived there was a family in floods of tears, with a shovel in hand, trying to find where their loved one was.\n\nThis is a city in trauma - residents are trying to organise themselves to work on the rescue effort along with firefighters. I spoke to a community leader called Paulo. He said that his priority was to try to find his son who was buried in the landslide.\n\nPetrópolis is a popular tourist destination in the hills above Rio de Janeiro which used to be the summer getaway for Brazil's monarchs in the 19th Century.\n\nBut after a month's worth of rain fell on the city in just three hours - the heaviest rainfall since 1932, according to Governor Castro - much of its regal charm lay in ruins, with homes and shops destroyed by the flooding.\n\nSearch and rescue workers have been deployed to the city\n\nIn one of the worst-hit neighbourhoods, up to 80 houses were hit by landslides.\n\n\"The water came very fast and with great force. My loss was 100%. Our life was already tough with the pandemic... and this tragedy still comes,\" shopkeeper Henrique Pereira told Reuters news agency.\n\nDozens of homes were damaged by landslides after heavy rains in Petrópolis\n\nAround 300 people are being housed in schools and shelters, and charities are calling for donations of mattresses, food, clothing and face masks.\n\n\"I found a girl who was buried alive,\" Wendel Pio Lourenco, a 24-year-old resident, told the AFP news agency while heading to a local church in search of shelter.\n\n\"Everyone is saying it looks like a war zone.\"\n\nIt is the latest in a series of heavy rains to hit Brazil in the past three months, which scientists say are being made worse by climate change.\n\nPetrópolis and the surrounding region were previously hit by severe storms in January 2011, when more than 900 people died in flooding and landslides.\n\nCars and entire homes were swept away by the floodwaters", "Parts of the UK are bracing for the impact of one of the most serious storms in years after the Met Office issued a rare red warning for Friday.\n\nStorm Eunice could bring gusts of up to 90mph in south-west England and south Wales, with a risk to life from flying debris.\n\nDamage to homes, cancelled trains and power cuts are likely. Many schools are closing as a precaution.\n\nThe warning is in place from 07:00 GMT until 12:00 GMT.\n\nIt means millions of people living near the coastline of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, as well as the south coast of Wales, are being urged to stay at home during the storm.\n\nA lower amber warning for wind remains in place for the rest of Wales and most of England as far north as Manchester, from 05:00 until 21:00 on Friday.\n\nAll train services in Wales have been suspended on Friday, while rail companies are urging other customers not to travel due to expected disruption.\n\nAlmost all Welsh councils as well as Somerset County Council said their schools would close on Friday. More than a hundred schools across Devon and Cornwall will also shut and Bristol City Council said it had advised schools not to open.\n\nThe government held an emergency Cobra meeting to discuss the response to the incoming storm.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the Army was \"on standby\" to support those affected.\n\nIt comes after Storm Dudley caused widespread travel disruption and power cuts on Wednesday.\n\nThere are concerns that Storm Eunice's strong winds and a possible storm surge could combine with high spring tides to bring coastal flooding to the west, south-west and the south coast of England.\n\nTen severe flood warnings - meaning there is a danger to life - are in place on the Severn Estuary and the Wye Estuary.\n\nA government source told the BBC they were \"well-prepared\" with more than 250 high-volume pumps and 6,000 trained staff able to be deployed, adding they were not taking the threat posed by Eunice \"lightly\".\n\nThe Met Office said extremely strong winds would develop over south-west England and south Wales early on Friday, with widespread inland gusts of 70-80mph and up to 90mph near some coasts.\n\nIn the red warning zone, roofs could be blown off and power lines brought down while trees are likely to be uprooted, it said.\n\nThe winds are expected to ease from the west during the late morning, but it will remain unsettled over the weekend with more rain and strong winds.\n\nYellow warnings are in place on Saturday until 18:00 GMT, covering the whole of England's south coast, as well as coastal areas in the south-west of England and south Wales. Further strong winds could hinder recovery after the storm, the Met Office said.\n\nAidan McGivern, from the Met Office, said red warnings were not issued lightly and only when there was a significant danger to life and high confidence of a major impact.\n\n\"It is the most powerful storm we have seen in recent years and we should tie down anything loose, especially trampolines, and make plans to stay in, especially if you live in a red zone,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe last red warning was for Storm Arwen in November last year, which saw strong winds batter the east coast of Scotland and north-east England.\n\nBefore that, one had not been issued since 2018, when the so-called \"Beast from the East\" brought widespread heavy snow and freezing temperatures to many parts of the UK in late February and March.\n\nBBC Weather presenter Simon King said the wind strengths forecast for southern parts of the UK were comparable to the Burns' Day Storm of January 1990, which caused widespread damage, and the storms that hit the UK during the winter of 2013-2014.\n\nTrain companies are urging customers not to travel on Friday, with blanket speed restrictions set to be imposed on the main rail lines across the country.\n\nJake Kelly, from Network Rail, said: \"We will be doing everything we can to keep as many services as possible running safely and reliably on Friday, but with such strong winds expected we know that disruption to passengers' journeys is inevitable.\"\n\nGreat Western Railway said it expected to cut half of its services on Friday. The mainline in south Wales will be closed, with services terminating at Bristol Parkway, while some branch lines in Devon and Cornwall will also close.\n\nNetwork Rail said disruption was likely to continue into the weekend, while tracks were cleared of debris and fallen trees.\n\nHighways England urged drivers, particularly those driving high-sided lorries, caravans and motorcycles, to check the weather before setting off, especially in coastal and high-lying areas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMajor incidents have been declared in Cornwall, Gloucestershire and Avon and Somerset.\n\nCouncil and emergency services staff in Gloucestershire and Avon and Somerset were due to knock on doors on Thursday afternoon to ensure people who need to evacuate from possible floods along the Severn Estuary can do so safely.\n\nIn Cornwall and Somerset, residents are being urged to stay at home and only travel on Friday if \"absolutely necessary\".\n\nBoth councils advised people to stay back from cliffs and seafronts due to the danger of large waves, with Cornwall warning of possible flooding during the high spring tides at about 06:00 GMT.\n\nAs well as the ten severe flood warnings, less serious flood warnings and alerts have been issued for other parts of England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nSome people were just recovering from Storm Dudley on Wednesday as they braced for Storm Eunice. On the Gower Peninsula in south-west Wales, David Walis and his wife Robbie Bartington said a huge oak tree had been toppled near one of the shelters in their animal sanctuary.\n\nMr Walis said they were \"extremely worried\" for their ponies and sheep in the upcoming storm.\n\nStorm Dudley also left thousands of people in north-east England, Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Lancashire without power. Northern Powergrid said it had restored power to all of its more than 20,000 customers affected by the storm by Thursday evening.\n\nRobbie Bartington and her husband David Walis said a huge oak tree fell close to one of their animal shelters\n\nIn Scotland, all trains were cancelled on Wednesday evening but most lines were back up and running by Thursday morning.\n\nA yellow warning for wind and snow is also in place for much of Northern Ireland, northern England and Scotland as far north as Glasgow from 03:00 until 18:00 on Friday.\n\nThe Met Office said some places could see 5cm (2in) of snow at low levels away from coasts, while there could be accumulations of up to 30cm for areas above 250m.\n\nHow have you been preparing for Storm Eunice? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The money generated by rates is used to pay for public services, with bills decided against the value of a property\n\nAll of Northern Ireland's 11 councils have agreed rates increases for 2022-23.\n\nThe highest percentage increase was by Mid Ulster District Council at 3.9%.\n\nThe lowest percentage increase was agreed by the Antrim and Newtownabbey council area, which announced a 1.9% rise.\n\nThe money generated by rates is used to pay for public services, with bills decided against the value of a property.\n\nCouncils have cited the affect of the coronavirus pandemic as well as rising energy costs as factors behind the decision to increase rates.\n\nSome councils froze their rates for last year as a way of acknowledging the financial pressures facing people during the pandemic.\n\nRates are set at a regional level each year by Stormont and a rate is then also decided at a district level by each council in Northern Ireland.\n\nThey regional rate covers regional services like hospitals and roads maintenance, while the district rate covers services like leisure centre facilities and waste management.\n\nRates in the Antrim and Newtownabbey council area will increase by 1.9%.\n\nThe SDLP had proposed a rates freeze for the year ahead, but Alliance councillor for Antrim Neil Kelly said that would be \"ridiculous and irresponsible\".\n\nCouncil chief executive Jacqui Dixon said it would be \"difficult to identify\" how to freeze rates \"without having an impact on our financial sustainability\".\n\nThose in the ABC Borough Council area will see a rise of 1.97% in their rates for the next financial year.\n\nIt adds an extra £0.19 per week to bills, or £9.79 annually for the average household.\n\nFor businesses, it means an increase of £13 per month or £156 for the year.\n\nLord mayor of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Alderman Glenn Barr, said the rate struck was well below inflation and was \"marginal in comparison to the significant increase in energy costs\".\n\n\"The council has tried to absorb as much of these costs as it can and in the face of other unavoidable pressures such as the new health and care levy,\" he said.\n\nThe rate agreed by Ards and North Down councillors represents a 2.75% increase for the borough.\n\nIt equates to an increase of £1 per month for the average household (£12 a year), or £10 a month for the average business (£120 a year).\n\nThe council has said the money will go towards redevelopment plans for Bangor Waterfront, better borough-wide broadband and an Innovation Hub, among other projects.\n\nCouncillors have agreed a 2.99% increase for the district for 2022-23.\n\nThe council said on its website that the rise fell well below the inflation rate.\n\nBroken down, the costs will mean an average increase of:\n\nIt means monthly bills for households in the district will increase by £1.40 (based on a house value of £121,478).\n\nMayor of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council Richard Holmes acknowledged the rise and cited several pressures.\n\n\"Unprecedented rises in utility and energy costs along with other factors including the ongoing health crisis and uncertainty around central government funding, has meant the organisation has been faced with more than £5.1m of additional financial pressures beyond our control,\" he said.\n\nThe rates for those in the Derry City and Strabane district will rise by 3.44%.\n\nIt means the average domestic rate will increase by £0.33 per week, or £16.97 annually.\n\nMayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council Alderman Graham Warke said the decision had been \"a very challenging process in a difficult economic climate\".\n\nThe rate struck by Fermanagh and Omagh District councillors was 2.72%.\n\nThe average household (house price listed at £114,500) will pay an extra £0.23 per week or £11.96 annually.\n\nThe council said the setting of the rate would raise approximately £38m in additional revenue, with the majority (£10m) earmarked for waste management.\n\nCouncillors agreed to increase rates in the district by 3.64%.\n\nThe council said that for a house with a value of £180,000 this would mean an increase in monthly costs of £1.73, or £20.70 a year.\n\nIt cited improvements to full-fibre broadband across the district and investment in community facilities as ways in which the money gathered from rates would be used.\n\nThe rate struck for the Mid and East Antrim council area is 3.64%.\n\nIt means the average household's bill will increase by £0.34 per week or £17.50 per year.\n\nThe average business will see a £4.44 rise per week or £231 annually.\n\nAlderman Billy Ashe cited rising national insurance payments, national pay awards, fuel and energy increases, as well as insurance and landfill costs as factors behind the increase in rates bills for those in the borough.\n\nMid Ulster District Council struck the highest percentage increase for rates in Northern Ireland at 3.9%.\n\nThe council said the increase had to be factored against a rates freeze applied for the 2021-22 financial year and that despite the rise, it was confident its rates would be among the lowest in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe rates increase equates to a rise of £1.68 per month for the average household, or £16.75 per year.\n\nFactors cited for the rise in rates included £4.1m of additional financial pressures beyond the control of the council, which said it would deliver an £80m capital investment programme in the next three years.\n\nThe council agreed a 1.95% increase from last year's rates for the district.\n\nCouncillor Cathy Mason said the council was happy the figure would not increase by more than 2%.\n\n\"It is crucially important that we strike a balance between supporting our ratepayers through challenging times and continuing to invest in the future of the district,\" she said.", "Landslides and flash flooding have killed at least 71 people in the Brazilian city of Petrópolis, leaving a trail of destruction after a month's rainfall fell in three hours.\n\nFootage from the area shows destroyed hillside houses and vehicles that have been washed away by the floodwaters.\n\nOn Wednesday, officials said dozens of people had been killed. Search and rescue teams are continuing to look for survivors.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nIn the end it became one of the most uncomfortable, unpleasant moments of sport in recent memory.\n\nAfter a week of outrage following a failed drugs test, 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva left the ice in tears as her controversial Olympics came to a distressing conclusion.\n\n\"It should never have happened,\" said former Olympic champion Robin Cousins, who himself was overcome by emotion during his commentary.\n\nElsewhere, there was anger and sympathy as Valieva's Games came to an end...\n• None The Sports Desk podcast - can the Olympics recover from another doping scandal?\n\nValieva came into the Beijing Games as the biggest star in a highly-rated Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) squad.\n\nThe acclaim grew louder when, in the opening days of competition, she became the first woman to land a quadruple jump at an Olympic Games, doing so in the team event.\n\nBut soon after that jump helped ROC claim gold, the story began to change.\n\nThe medal ceremony was unusually delayed and it was later revealed Valieva had failed a drugs test in December.\n\nShe had tested positive for trimetazidine, used in the prevention of angina attacks but on the banned list because it has been proven to improve physical efficiency.\n\nWhy was Valieva still competing?\n\nBut Valieva was allowed to compete in the individual event - first in Tuesday's short programme and then the Thursday free skate - because a court ruling lifted her provisional ban following a series of appeals and re-appeals.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) pointed to \"exceptional circumstances\" regarding her age and the timing of the test result, which came during the Games and nearly six weeks after the sample was taken.\n\nIt said it would do Valieva \"irreparable harm\" if she were not allowed to compete.\n\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) said there would not be a medal ceremony if the Russian finished on the podium. The full doping investigation is yet to follow, meaning Valieva's score could still be removed.\n\nWhat happened in the final session of the event?\n\nSo to Thursday and the climax of the competition.\n\nAs the leader after the short programme, in which she stumbled but comfortably led the standings, Valieva was the last to skate - a score of 255.95 by her team-mate Anna Shcherbakova the one to beat.\n\nBut Valieva faltered early on in her routine and, with the eyes of the world on her, tumbled to the ice after one of a number of errors, the crowd gasping in disbelief.\n\n\"This is difficult to watch,\" said BBC commentator Katherine Downes.\n\n\"After her second error it was like she was going around as quick as she could,\" former Olympic champion Jayne Torvill said afterwards.\n\n\"It was like she just wanted to get it over with and get off the ice.\"\n\nWhen her routine did end the teenager was soon in tears and she sobbed while waiting for her scores. She finished fourth, outside the medal places.\n\n'Someone thought having her do that was better than going home to her family'\n\nCousins, Great Britain's 1980 figure skating Olympic champion, was also emotional while analysing the action.\n\n\"Someone thought having her do that was better than having her go home to her family and to wait and sort this out, knowing she could have two more Olympics ahead of her,\" he said, while pausing to settle his own emotions.\n\n\"I am slightly speechless for all the wrong reasons.\n\n\"The talent and the unquestionable quality of Valieva - to see it put into this arena in that way, it should never have happened.\"\n\n'What is the long-term effect on this 15-year-old child?'\n\nBBC Sport's Sonia Oxley at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing\n\nYou almost wanted to look away, it felt wrong to be watching.\n\nIf you had not followed the story for the past 10 days, you would have just seen a skater - albeit a gold-medal favourite - falling a few times.\n\nBut this was a 15-year-old, whose failed drugs test has played out very publicly, and who had already been in tears on the ice once this week.\n\nShe had a lot of Russian support in the arena and there were big gasps when she fell for the first time. But as the mistakes racked up and she fell again on the ice, it was more of a sympathetic applause of encouragement that began to ripple.\n\nShe did not immediately let her emotions show, only a throw of the hand into the air. But then the tears came and she just sobbed while awaiting the result. The chants from those on their feet of \"well done\" brought her little comfort.\n\nWatching this unfold, you could not help wonder what would be the long-term effect of having gone through all this on the world's biggest stage. Watching this unfold, all you could think was - she's a child.\n\n'She became the face of a problem bigger than her' - what next?\n\nThe next step will be the authorities dealing with the matter of Valieva's failed drugs test in full.\n\nThat will determine whether the ROC gold in the team event - and Valieva's fourth-placed finish in the individual event - will stand.\n\nThere will also be intense questions posted to the authorities - the IOC, ROC, Cas and the International Skating Union, in particular - about how this situation was allowed to develop to the stage it overshadowed the competition and left a 15-year-old in this position.\n\nThe World Anti-doping Agency (Wada) has already said it will be investigating the teenager's entourage, including coaches, doctors and other adults surrounding her.\n\nThe eventual gold medal winner, the 17-year-old Shcherbakova is, like Valieva, coached by Russian Eteri Tutberidze.\n\n\"We have been marvelling at these youngsters coming up,\" Cousins said. \"We watched them - 12 years old with the quad [quadruple jump].\n\n\"How is this happening? We know they teach them really young.\n\n\"There is obviously an issue - how and why? It is not a question of talent. It is how is that talent being nurtured or created?\"\n\nChristopher Dean, who won gold for Great Britain alongside Torvill, said the process had been \"farcical\".\n\n\"The organisation, the politics surrounding it to get to this point has been a real mess,\" he added.\n\n\"And the loser is figure skating, the women's event is suffering from it.\"\n\nThere will also be further debates given a Russian has tested positive for a banned substance when the country is already banned from international competition because of its doping past.\n\nValieva's Games may be over but this story is far from finished.\n• None 'I can't wait to get started': The remarkable story of Christian Eriksen's comeback as he returns to the Premier League", "Network Rail said Scotland's routes were \"back in business\" by 10:00 on Thursday\n\nScotland's railway lines have reopened after Storm Dudley hit the network \"really hard\".\n\nNetwork Rail said they had inspected 1,500 miles of track and only three areas were left with signalling problems - Lanark, Largs and Girvan.\n\nThe track operator said Scotland's railway was \"back in business\" by 10:00 on Thursday.\n\nA second storm, Eunice, begins at 03:00 on Friday, with a yellow warning of snow for much of Scotland.\n\nIt follows closely behind Storm Dudley, which swept across the country on Wednesday and cleared in the early morning.\n\nA yellow warning of wind has also been issued by the Met Office, affecting parts of Dumfries and Galloway, Argyll and Bute, and Ayrshire from 07:00 to 18:00 on Friday.\n\nRoad maintenance provider Bear Scotland said it had gritting trucks out in north east Scotland, where there has already been snowfall, and would be working round the clock to ensure routes remain safe.\n\nNetwork Rail route director for Scotland, Liam Sumpter, said Storm Dudley had brought a \"really tough evening and night\" with many fallen trees on the tracks, and damage to overhead lines and signalling systems\".\n\n\"Storm Dudley hit us really hard,\" he added.\n\nA flood warning put in place by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency in Ayrshire was lifted, but alerts for the area and four other parts of the country remain in place.\n\nArgyll and Bute, Dumfries and Galloway and West Central Scotland are still on alert for coastal flooding.\n\nThe Drumalbin weather station in South Lanarkshire recorded 71mph gales on Wednesday and a gust of 101mph was recorded on Aonach Mor, near Fort William.\n\nA fallen tree blocks the railway line at Beattock, Dumfries and Galloway\n\nOverhead lines were damaged on the railway at Kilwinning, North Ayrshire\n\nScotRail worked with Network Rail overnight to deal with wind damage to power supplies. A fallen tree in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire caused significant damage to power lines.\n\nAvanti West Coast and TransPennine Express warned customers that significant disruption of services was likely on Friday during Storm Eunice, and tickets booked for that day would be valid on Thursday or Saturday.\n\nFerry operator CalMac cancelled services on most of its routes on Wednesday as waves reached 12m (39ft) in some areas. Some services services were still not operating on Thursday.\n\nRain lashed down on commuters in Glasgow during Storm Dudley\n\nMammatus clouds captured during Storm Dudley over the south side of Glasgow\n\nForestry and Land Scotland said it was still clearing up damage to forestry caused by Storm Arwen and Storm Malik and urged people to avoid woodland areas during this week's storms.\n\nMeanwhile, a severe weather warning has been upgraded to red for parts of south-west England and south Wales on Friday - meaning there is a danger to life from flying debris.\n\nThe Met Office warned Storm Eunice could bring winds of up to 90mph, causing significant disruption.\n\nIt said conditions could be even more damaging than Storm Dudley, with stronger winds, heavy snow and possible blizzards in Scotland.\n\nStorm Dudley is the fourth storm to hit Scotland since November. Last month alone, storms Malik and Corrie caused power cuts for 118,000 homes in Scotland and 80,000 in northern England.\n\nScottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN), which supplies power in the north of Scotland, said it was prepared for potential damage to the network and had brought in more engineers.\n\nThe firm urged people to keep their mobile phones charged, keep battery or wind-up torches and beware of fallen power lines.\n\nIt also advised people to keep the national 105 emergency helpline on hand.\n\nSP Energy Networks, which supplies power in central and southern Scotland, issued similar advice, adding that conditions could make it extremely challenging for engineers to fix power cuts - especially if climbing poles or pylons is required.\n\nHow have you been affected by the storm? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Seeing my daughter in so much pain is killing me\"\n\n\"Seeing how much pain she's in is killing me,\" the mother of a woman waiting four years for a hip operation has said.\n\nIt is only by screaming that Marie Morgan, from Carmarthenshire, can express her level of suffering.\n\nThe 30-year-old, who has multiple brain conditions, can speak only a few words and needs round-the-clock care.\n\nSwansea Bay Health Board said it hoped to tackle the backlog by increasing capacity at one of its hospitals.\n\nIt comes as the latest figures showed the numbers on waiting lists for non-urgent hospital treatment in Wales have hit record levels again for the 20th month in a row.\n\n\"Her hip is out and is rubbing against bone... there's no socket there,\" Marie's mother Sandra said.\n\n\"She can't travel because every time I move her she's screaming in pain.\n\n\"It's horrible. I feel I can't help her and seeing her in so much pain is killing me.\"\n\nSandra worries about how much longer Marie can endure the pain\n\nMarie has cerebral palsy, severe epilepsy and fluid on the brain and the constant agony caused by the wait has meant these conditions, including her seizures, have become \"horrendous\".\n\nSandra said: \"She used to be so happy, we used to go to the pool, play music... I've got videos of her dancing it was amazing. Now she's gone downhill.\n\n\"I don't think she can last much longer to be honest with you.\"\n\nMarie, from Penygroes, is on a waiting list to have surgery in Morriston Hospital, Swansea.\n\nHer mother said staff have told her she is considered to be high priority, but despite her best efforts, she is still in the dark about when the operation will happen.\n\n\"They said because of Covid they weren't operating, now they say it's staff shortages so it's something all the time.\n\n\"I feel I'm knocking my head against a wall. It's not fair, she's only 30 and suffering the way she is.\"\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic and staff shortages have been blamed for the delay in surgery, says Sandra\n\nThe health board said it knows how distressing it is for people who have been long awaiting surgery and understands the \"devastating\" effect it can have on their lives.\n\nBut it said \"the pandemic has stretched NHS resources to the limit, leading to record waiting times\" on top of the usual emergency and winter pressures.\n\nIt plans to establish a centre of excellence for orthopaedic surgery at one of its hospitals will increase capacity by 3,000 cases a year and help tackle the backlog.\n\nNHS waiting times across Wales have been on the up for the past 19 months\n\nFigures released on Thursday showed there were 683,331 on December's waiting lists although the latest monthly rise was the smallest since the pandemic began.\n\nBut people waiting the longest - more than nine months - rose by 2,664 to a record 244,331.\n\nLast week, Health Minister Eluned Morgan confirmed that a plan to tackle long NHS waiting lists and times in Wales will be published in April.\n\nIt will include specific targets about how quickly backlogs can be reduced.\n\nHealth boards are also due to submit their local proposals to increase planned activity to the Welsh government by the end of March.\n\nJudith Paget, chief executive of NHS Wales, said the plan would also set out extra support for those people who have had to wait the longest.\n\nShe told the committee that in December the NHS in Wales was operating at 81% of its pre-covid surgical capacity and 89% of its pre-covid outpatient activity, but admitted those figures would not reflect the full disruption caused by the Omicron wave.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was spending a quarter of a billion pounds this year on NHS recovery.", "Image caption: The US embassy in Moscow\n\nRussia delivered a list of demands to the US ambassador on Thursday, accusing Washington of ignoring its security demands.\n\n“No ‘Russian invasion of Ukraine’, which the United States and its allies have officially been announcing since last fall, is happening, nor is one being planned,” says the letter from the Russian Foreign Ministry.\n\n\"In the absence of the readiness of the American side to agree on firm, legally binding guarantees of our security from the United States and its allies, Russia will be forced to respond, including through the implementation of military-technical measures,\" the lengthy document says.\n\nIt called the US refusal to commit to never allowing Ukraine to join Nato \"not constructive\" and called for Nato troops to pull back to countries that joined the alliance before 1997.\n\n\"We insist on the withdrawal of all US armed forces in Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Baltics,\" it added.\n\nThe letter adds that Russia is prepared to negotiate on arms control treaties, and the possible Russian inspection of US missile bases in Poland and Romania, but only if its security concerns are addressed.\n\n“We welcome the readiness of the United States for appropriate consultations,” the document says, adding: “This work cannot replace the settlement of the key problems posed by Russia.”\n\nThe US did not immediately respond to the list of demands.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wales was battered by heavy winds following the arrival of Storm Dudley\n\nWinds of up to 100mph could batter parts of Wales on Friday, with people warned to stay indoors.\n\nStorm Eunice is predicted to cause power cuts, damage to homes, coastal flooding and travel chaos.\n\nThe Met Office has issued an amber warning for Friday because of strong winds, with the possibility of a \"very rare\" red warning for some areas.\n\nIt comes after Storm Dudley caused power cuts, felled trees and blew a trampoline on to rail lines at Cardiff.\n\nTrain firm GWR said: \"The 14:22 Swansea to Paddington service struck an object on the line near Cardiff just after 16:00.\"\n\nLooking ahead to Friday, BBC weather presenter Sabrina Lee warned there could be winds of up to 100mph (160km/h) in coastal areas.\n\nThis could cause flying debris, large waves and falling trees, with Ms Lee saying Friday is \"not a day to venture out\".\n\nShe added: \"We're still keeping an eye on the track of the storm. There is the potential for some areas to be included in a red wind warning. These sorts of warnings are rare.\"\n\nAn amber warning has already been issued for Friday\n\nNatural Resources Wales warned there was potential for \"many\" flood warnings across all coastal areas.\n\nDuty tactical manager Ross Akers said: \"Forecasted high winds could cause a storm surge and large waves which could lead to the overtopping of flood defences along the coast.\n\n\"We are monitoring the situation very closely, but we are concerned that if the forecast does materialise, then we are likely to see significant flooding impacts in many places along our coastal areas.\n\n\"Keep a safe distance from coastal paths and promenades as large waves can sweep you off your feet or you can be hit by debris.\"\n\nA yellow \"be prepared\" warning is already in place from 13:00 GMT Wednesday until 06:00 Thursday, covering parts of north-east, north-west and mid Wales.\n\nStorm Eunice is expected to affect all of Wales from 03:00 until 21:00 on Friday.\n\nMs Lee added: \"For inland areas there is the potential for gusts 60-70mph, possibly up to 90-100mph for some coastal locations.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Wednesday the Met Office said Storm Dudley would bring 70mph winds (110km/h) to Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Anglesey, Powys and Wrexham.\n\nIt warned of damage to buildings, tree falls and power cuts.\n\nBy 17:00, Snowdonia's Capel Curig had experienced gusts of up to 81mph (130km/h).\n\nMet Office forecaster Greg Dewhurst said: \"Exposed areas in Scotland, Northern Ireland, parts of Wales and northern England have seen wind speeds largely between 60 and 70mph, but the worst affected areas have reached and even surpassed 80mph this afternoon.\"\n\nNatural Resources Wales also has flood alerts in place in south, mid and north Wales.\n\nThe M48 Severn Bridge has been closed in both directions, between junction two on the A466 Wye Valley Link Road at Chepstow and junction one on the A403 at Aust, due to the strong winds.\n\nTraffic is believed to be coping well since the closure at 12:00. A diversion is in place via the M4 Prince of Wales Bridge.\n\nTransport for Wales said a trampoline was blocking the line at Cardiff East, affecting services to and from Cardiff Central.\n\nGwent Police warned a tree was \"completely blocking\" the A4043 at Blaenavon shortly after 16:00.\n\nAt Tesco on Cardiff's Western Avenue, part of the roof was damaged and some of the car park fenced off.\n\nAlmost 600 homes were without power in Ystradgynlais on Wednesday afternoon, though this had dropped to 100 by 16:15.\n\nWestern Power also reported a number of other power cuts.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe under-18s clash between Cardiff Rugby and Newport's Dragons has been moved from Cardiff Arms Park to Ystrad Mynach because of the weather.\n\nGale force winds caused minor damage to the stadium, which could not be safely inspected in current conditions, the club said.\n\nThe river Usk in full flow at Brecon Promenade, Powys, on Tuesday afternoon\n\nOn Tuesday, there was a small landslip on the A493 between Pennal and Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, but the road remained open.\n\nThe A55 Britannia Bridge has a 30mph speed limit in north Wales because of strong winds.", "Danielle Ray's father Jonny died at the age of 63 from prostate cancer\n\nMore than 14,000 UK men are thought to need treatment for prostate cancer, but have not come forward because of the pandemic. The NHS is urging men to check their risk online as a first step to identifying a cancer that is very treatable if caught early enough.\n\n\"He was my best friend. He was - and he will always be - my best friend.\"\n\nDanielle Ray was extremely close to her father, Jonny.\n\n\"Literally, we used to say that we were each other's twin, we literally had the same mindset.\n\n\"And we were very, very close. So it's very difficult without him.\"\n\nAs Danielle - known as Dan to her father - approaches her 30th birthday, it weighs on her mind that she will reach one of life's milestones without him.\n\nShe was just 25 when Jonny died after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. Jonny himself was only 63.\n\nLosing her father to a disease, that if caught early enough is very treatable, has been hard to take.\n\n\"His diagnosis came as a shock. He did have some symptoms, now I realise.\n\n\"But sort of out of the blue he was referred, I think when the symptoms sort of became worse, and he was diagnosed in October 2015.\n\n\"It probably must have started a couple of years beforehand, but you just don't think it's ever going to happen to you, or to affect your family.\"\n\nJonny died two years after being diagnosed.\n\nDanielle feels his initial symptoms - needing to go to the toilet frequently - also weren't recognised by his doctor soon enough, and says her father didn't push for a second opinion.\n\nNot to mention that many men find talking about prostate problems difficult.\n\n\"The prognosis for the people we're yet to see will be much better the earlier we see them,\" says the NHS's Prof Peter Johnson\n\nThe charity Prostate Cancer UK and the NHS believe thousands of men could be living with the cancer, but don't yet know it.\n\nSince April 2020, more than 58,000 men have started treatment for prostate cancer, but that is 14,000 fewer than would have been expected when compared with pre-pandemic numbers.\n\nNicola Tallett, acting chief executive at Prostate Cancer UK, says the pandemic has had a real impact on the numbers seeking help.\n\n\"Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, but the pandemic has meant thousands of men have not come forward for diagnosis and could be missing out on life-saving treatment,\" she said.\n\n\"Although thousands of men are still being treated each month, if things don't change soon, the number of men missing out will continue to grow.\n\n\"Men have been telling us they haven't wanted to 'bother' their GP during the pandemic - particularly if they don't have any symptoms, which is the case for most men with early prostate cancer.\n\n\"This means men at higher risk of the disease are not having those vital conversations about their risk that can lead to a diagnosis.\"\n\nThese symptoms can be caused by other conditions, so it is important to get any changes checked by a doctor.\n\nThe charity has a 30-second online risk-checker to allow men to find out more about their risk and what they can do about it.\n\nProf Peter Johnson, national clinical director for cancer for the NHS in England, says it's important to know how you can take further action if you are at risk.\n\n\"The prognosis for the people we're yet to see will be much better the earlier we see them, but we do need to see them as soon as possible.\n\n\"It's important men understand prostate cancer often doesn't show any symptoms at an early stage, so don't delay - check your risk now. The simple check could be life-saving.\"\n\nAndrew Richardson says it was just a simple blood test that saved his life\n\nOne in eight men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime - men over 50, black men and those with a history of it in their family are at even greater risk.\n\nThat was the exactly the case for Andrew Richardson - his dad has lived with prostate cancer for years.\n\nIn 2020, Andrew himself had a routine screening blood test which revealed some worrying signs and a prostate cancer diagnosis soon followed.\n\nHis advice for other men now is simple: \"Don't just sit there thinking, it'll be all right.\n\n\"There could be something happening and the one thing I have found out since about prostate cancer is that it's very aggressive.\n\n\"Once it takes hold of the rest of your body, it can just be a chasing game.\n\n\"I mean, I was really lucky, I didn't need any radiotherapy, I didn't need any chemotherapy. The operation did it for me.\"\n\nAlthough many people do live with prostate cancer, some forms can be very aggressive.\n\nAndrew, a proud Yorkshireman and Bradford City fan, admits the road to recovery was hard at times.\n\nBut he is now back running, is about to start playing five-a-side football again, and last summer even completed the Pontefract 10km run in a not-too-shabby 52 minutes.\n\nAnd he says it was just a simple blood test that saved his life.\n\n\"I think I've used all my luck up in one go. And if that's the only luck I'm going to have in my life, I'll take that.\"\n\nOne disease, two very different outcomes.\n\nBut from Andrew and Danielle, it's the same message for thousands of men now thought to be living with prostate cancer - come forward if you are only even slightly worried, and get tested.", "Police were called to Rotherham District General Hospital on Saturday night\n\nA man has been charged with manslaughter after a patient died following a fight at a hospital in South Yorkshire at the weekend.\n\nPaul Reed, 48, died after an altercation with another male patient at Rotherham Hospital on Saturday.\n\nPaul Franks, 47, of Blackstock Road, Sheffield, has been charged in connection with the incident, South Yorkshire Police said.\n\nHe is due to appear before Sheffield Magistrates' Court later.\n\nMr Reed died of his injuries in the early hours of Sunday morning.\n\nA post-mortem examination found he had died of a subdural haemorrhage, which is a type of bleed on the brain, police said.\n\nOfficers have been supporting Mr Reed's family, the force added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Patient who died after hospital fight is named\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former UK deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg has been promoted to a new senior role at Facebook's owner Meta.\n\nA Facebook post from the company's boss Mark Zuckerberg said Sir Nick would become its president of global affairs.\n\nThe move puts the former Lib Dem leader on a par with Mr Zuckerberg himself at the recently-rebranded firm.\n\nSir Nick joined Facebook in 2018 as its head of its global affairs and communications team. His new role will see him focus on regulatory issues.\n\nMr Zuckerberg said Meta needed \"a senior leader at the level of myself... who can lead and represent us for all of our policy issues globally\".\n\nSir Nick, who served as deputy prime minister as part of the coalition government from 2010-2015, left politics after losing his Sheffield Hallam seat in the 2017 general election.\n\nAt the time of his move to California, it was reported Mr Zuckerberg and chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg were personally involved in his recruitment, hoping to capitalise on his political experience in the face of increased scrutiny of the tech industry and their use of data.\n\nSir Nick has since spearheaded the establishment of Facebook's independent content oversight board, and recently defended the company against the accusations of whistleblower - and former employee - Frances Haugen, who claimed the social media site put profit before user safety.\n\nHis promotion comes ahead of the US midterm elections in November.\n\n\"Nick will now lead our company on all our policy matters, including how we interact with governments as they consider adopting new policies and regulations, as well as how we make the case publicly for our products and our work,\" Mr Zuckerberg wrote in his post.\n\nMs Sandberg said the new role came at \"a crucial time for our company and our industry as new rules for the internet are written all over the world\".", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool took a huge step towards the Champions League quarter-finals after scoring two late goals against Inter Milan in the San Siro.\n\nThe Reds looked set for a goalless draw in the first leg in Italy until Brazil forward Roberto Firmino got on the end of Andrew Robertson's corner to head his side into the lead.\n\nMohamed Salah added a second with a deflected effort from inside the box which means Jurgen Klopp's side take a sizeable advantage into the second leg at Anfield on 8 March.\n\nItalian champions Inter hit the bar through Hakan Calhanoglu and were on top for long periods of the second half before Firmino struck in the 75th minute.\n\nLiverpool scored from their only two attempts on target and will be firm favourites to progress when the two sides meet in the deciding leg next month.\n\nIt was a particularly memorable night for midfielder Harvey Elliott, who became the youngest player ever to start a match in the competition for Liverpool at the age of 18 years and 318 days.\n\nThe only negative on an otherwise upbeat night for the Reds was an injury to Portugal forward Diogo Jota, who was replaced by goalscorer Firmino at the start of the second half after suffering an ankle injury.\n• None Go straight to all the best Liverpool content\n\nLiverpool have now won seven successive matches in all competitions, with this arguably the most impressive of the current run.\n\nBut Klopp's team had to dig deep as Inter looked the more threatening side after a strong start by the Premier League club.\n\nFormer Manchester City forward Edin Dzeko found himself clean through in the first half before a vital challenge by Virgil van Dijk, who was captaining the Reds in the absence of Jordan Henderson.\n\nThe hosts went close again when Ivan Perisic whipped in a cross, but Lautaro Martinez was unable to give Inter the lead.\n\nIn a fascinating match, Liverpool took the lead through Firmino's glancing 75th-minute header before Salah doubled the lead eight minutes later.\n\nThere is still work to do for Klopp's team but it is going to require something extra special from Inter to turn this tie around.\n\nLiverpool remain in the hunt for four trophies and could have one in the bag by the time Inter visit Merseyside, with the Reds facing Chelsea in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley on 27 February.\n\nDespite it only being half full because of Covid-19 restrictions, there was an incredible atmosphere inside the San Siro for the first meeting between these two clubs for 14 years.\n\nElliott, who does not turn 19 until April, embraced the occasion on what was his first start since suffering a serious ankle injury in September.\n\nThe teenager did not look out of place on one of the most famous stages in world football and produced a cross in the first half which was just cut out before Salah could poke it over the line.\n\nElliott was replaced in the 59th minute as part of a triple change as Klopp attempted to turn the tide as Inter threatened - a move that worked as Liverpool went on to establish a strong advantage.\n\n\"He did the job, he was working incredibly hard, but when you're 18 years old and playing one of the most experienced teams in world football, it is not a walk in the park,\" said Klopp.\n\n\"So it was an important game for him and very helpful for us as well.\"\n• None Goal! Inter Milan 0, Liverpool 2. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Simon Nellist was a diving instructor and a regular swimmer at the beach where he died\n\nA 35-year-old British man has been named as the victim of Sydney's first fatal shark attack in nearly 60 years.\n\nA friend confirmed Simon Nellist died in the attack on Wednesday.\n\nPolice have not yet formally identified the victim and his family have not commented.\n\nAustralian authorities are still searching for the great white shark, with swimmers banned from the water and most city beaches shut after Wednesday's attack.\n\nMr Nellist - who was a diving instructor - was mauled by a great white shark just off Little Bay in east Sydney. He was a member of the city's Scuba Diving Social Club and a regular swimmer at the beach, BBC Sydney correspondent Shaimaa Khalil reports.\n\nA UK foreign office spokesperson said consular staff were in touch with New South Wales Police. \"We are supporting the family of a British man and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nShark attacks in Sydney are uncommon because the city has long had nets and other deterrents in its waters.\n\nOn Thursday, surf lifesavers on jet skis patrolled a 25km (15.5 mile) stretch of water from Bondi in the city's east to Cronulla in the south to find the shark. Authorities are also using helicopters and drones.\n\nThe state government said its shark experts had estimated the predator to be a great white shark \"at least three metres\" in length based on footage of the incident taken by a member of the public.\n\nSeveral passers-by who witnessed the scene have described a vicious and frenzied attack.\n\n\"[The person] was swimming and a shark came and attacked [them] vertically,\" Kris Linto told Nine News.\n\n\"We heard a yell and turned around, it looked like a car had landed in the water, a big splash then the shark.\"\n\nOne man recounted how he had been fishing on the rocks when he saw the swimmer get dragged under.\n\n\"It was terrible. I am shaking. I keep vomiting. It's very, very upsetting,\" he told ABC News.\n\nAuthorities managed to retrieve body parts from the water two hours after the attack.\n\nOnlookers and emergency workers had gathered at the spot where the swimmer was found on Wednesday\n\nThe area's state MP Michael Daley said locals were shaken by the \"horrific\" incident. The victim had been a regular visitor. \"[He] came here and swam nearly every day,\" he told the ABC.\n\n\"It's a beautiful day at one of Sydney's most beautiful beaches, but there's a real dark pall hanging over our community today,\" he said.\n\nWednesday's incident is a horrible tragedy, and in days to come there will be questions about how the shark slipped through the protections set up.\n\nRight now we don't have any of those details. The New South Wales state government already runs a shark mitigation programme believed the largest and most sophisticated in the world.\n\nSydney beaches have been guarded by nets for nearly a century. On summer weekends, drones and helicopters hover, scanning for sharks. (It's not uncommon to be lazing around on the sand when suddenly a siren blares and lifeguards are ordering people out of the water.)\n\nAuthorities also run an extensive shark-tagging programme where the most concerning shark species - tiger, bull and great white sharks - have trackers attached to their fins.\n\nWhen they're picked up in the nets, they're tagged and relocated about a kilometre away.\n\nOn Thursday, authorities spooled out sensor drumlines - baited strings - to try to find the white shark. Authorities do find the predator most of the time, usually within days.\n\nIn the past that's led to culls. Officials haven't yet said what they'll do. But there's little community appetite for killing sharks these days.\n\nInstead shark safety is about strengthening protections; educating beachgoers.\n\nDon't swim at dawn or dusk. Stay close to shore. Swim between the marked flags. Avoid fishing areas.\n\nSharks are just a part of beach culture. And many Australians accept that entering the water will always contain some risk.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nContact between a human and a shark is rare, given there are thousands of sharks in the water at any time. Attacks usually occur in the warmer summer months (December - February) in Australia because more people are in the water.\n\nAustralia typically records about 20 shark attacks each year, with most in New South Wales and Western Australia. There have been four shark attacks so far this year, according to the Australian Shark Attack File.\n\nThere were two fatal shark attacks in 2021, and seven in 2020.\n\nHistorically, dying from a shark bite is not common. In over a century of records, Australia's shark attack mortality rate is 0.9 - less than one person per year.", "Investors are being urged to vote against a $99m (£73m) pay package awarded to Apple boss Tim Cook last year.\n\nInstitutional Shareholder Services (ISS) said it has \"significant concerns\" over the size of the award, up from $14.8m the year before.\n\nMr Cook, whose net worth is reportedly more than £1bn, received the pay in shares, salary, and for other costs.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Apple for comment.\n\nIn a letter to shareholders, the ISS said there are \"significant concerns\" over the \"design and magnitude\" of the package. \"Half of the award lacks performance criteria,\" ISS said.\n\nMr Cook, 61, who has often spoken publicly about his concerns over equality and human rights issues, said in 2015 that he would give away his entire fortune before he dies.\n\nAccording to ISS, Mr Cook's pay was 1,447 times more than the wage of an average Apple employee.\n\nHis package included $630,600 in personal security costs and $712,500 for personal use of a private jet. ISS said the cost of such perks \"significantly exceeded\" comparable companies last year.\n\nLast year, a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing showed that Mr Cook donated almost £7.4m worth of Apple shares to charity, without naming the recipient.\n\nThe company behind the iPhone, iPad and MacBook became the first company to hit a $3tn (£2.2tn) stock market value in January before dipping to its current value of $2.8tn (£2.1tn).\n\nShareholder returns are now more than 1,000% since Mr Cook took over in 2011.\n\nApple is due to hold its annual meeting for shareholders in the first week of March. However, shareholder votes are only advisory, while Apple's board decide on pay packages.\n\nAt last year's meeting, 95% of shareholder votes supported Apple's executive compensation programme.\n\nCompanies in the US, and UK, are facing stronger shareholder opposition over pay and compensation.\n\nGeneral Electric, IBM and Starbucks failed to win a majority of shareholder backing for executive pay in 2021. US oil firms ExxonMobil and Chevron also saw shareholder revolts from climate activists last year.\n\nAsset manager Blackrock, Exxon's second largest shareholder, doubled its votes against executive pay proposals in the Americas in early 2021, compared to 2020.\n\nIn the UK, more than twice as many FTSE 100 companies faced shareholder revolts than in 2020, condemning executive pay-outs when many employees faced added financial hardships in the pandemic.\n\nPresident Joe Biden and congressional Democrats have called for higher taxes on the billionaires and big business to help pay for a major social spending package. The proposal would raise about $16bn by limiting deductions for executive compensation.\n\nThe tax hike plan would pay for federally funded paid family leave, expanded education budgets and climate change problems.", "The UK Met Office has issued yellow warnings across Northern Ireland for snow and wind\n\nYellow weather warnings for snow, ice and strong winds have been issued for Northern Ireland ahead of Storm Eunice's expected arrival on Friday.\n\nSchools and colleges in a number of counties in the Republic of Ireland are set to be closed.\n\nRed storm warnings are in place for Cork, Kerry, Waterford and Clare, as well as parts of England and Wales.\n\nThe red warning means there is a danger to life from flying debris.\n\nYellow warnings have been issued by the UK Met Office for some parts of England and Scotland, as well as Northern Ireland.\n\nThe snow warning for Northern Ireland lasts from 03:00 on Friday until 18:00, with the heaviest falls on hills and mountains.\n\nBetween 10-20cm could accumulate over the highest spots such as the Sperrins and Mournes.\n\nSeveral centimetres could affect some areas closer to sea level - although not everywhere will get snow.\n\nThis could lead to transport disruption, power cuts, and rural communities temporarily cut off.\n\nStrong winds at the same time are also likely to lead to blizzard conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Barra Best\n\nFriday's wind warning for counties Londonderry, Antrim, and Down comes into force from 07:00 until 18:00.\n\nThe Met Office says gusts up to 100km/h (60mph) are likely, with stronger winds possible for more exposed areas.\n\nConditions were rough on Ireland's north coast on Thursday\n\nPeople living in Cork, Kerry, Waterford and Clare have been advised to stay indoors for the duration of Storm Eunice due to the red warning issued by the Irish national weather service, Met Éireann.\n\nMeteorologist Gerry Murphy said it would be a significant storm, and that the red warning meant people should \"completely stay at home during the period of that warning\".\n\nWinds gusting at speeds of up to 130 km/h will likely bring some coastal flooding on Friday\n\nHe told RTÉ there was \"the potential for significant fallen trees, for significant debris from buildings that may not be secure\".\n\n\"There are also significant hazards due to the potential of fallen trees if someone is driving,\" he added.\n\nA status orange warning has also been issued for more than a dozen counties.\n\nMet Éireann is warning of severe and damaging winds with some coastal flooding.\n\nMeanwhile, much of England and Wales is covered by an amber warning for severe winds.\n\nAs in Northern Ireland, yellow warnings for snow and wind have been issued for parts of northern England and Scotland.\n\nThe warnings for Friday follow the impact of Storm Dudley which resulted in travel disruption and power cuts.", "As Storm Dudley hit Wales there were power cuts, trees were felled and a trampoline was blown on to railway tracks.\n\nNow people are being warned to stay indoors on Friday as Storm Eunice threatens to batter parts of the country with winds of up to 100mph (160 km/h) between 03:00 and 21:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nBBC weather presenter Sabrina Lee said Friday was \"not a day to venture out\".", "A young girl who went missing in 2019 has been found alive in a secret room under a staircase, police in the US state of New York say.\n\nPaislee Shultis, now six, was discovered in a house in the town of Saugerties after a search on Monday.\n\nShe is in good health and has now been reunited with her legal guardian and older sister, the police say.\n\nHer non-custodial parents have been charged with custodial interference and endangering the welfare of a child.\n\nPaislee was reported missing from Tioga County, New York, in July 2019, according to a police statement. She was aged four.\n\nAuthorities at the time believed she had been abducted by her parents, Kimberly Cooper, 33, and Kirk Shultis Jr., 32.\n\nAfter receiving information that Paislee was being kept at a hidden location in the town of Saugerties, Ulster County, police obtained a warrant to search the house. The property had been searched before.\n\nKirk Shultis Sr., 57, who owns the house, was there when the police conducted the search and said he had no knowledge of Paislee's whereabouts, the police say.\n\nBut a little over an hour into the search, one of the detectives noticed that the stairs leading to the basement of the house appeared to be strangely constructed.\n\nAfter removing several boards police found Paislee and Ms Cooper hiding in what the police described as a \"small, cold, and wet\" enclosure.\n\nPaislee was examined by paramedics, and is reported to be in good health.\n\nPaislee's biological parents had lost custody of her and her older sister prior to her disappearance, and police believe that this was the motive behind abducting Paislee.\n\n\"We believe... somebody informed the parents that the older child had been picked up by the legal guardian and by county officials at the time and that caused the parents then to take Paislee and flee,\" Saugerties Police Chief Joseph Sinagra told virtual news channel WNYT.\n\nMs Cooper, Mr Shultis Jr. and Mr Shultis Sr. were all arrested and charged with Paislee's disappearance. The father and son have both been released pending trial.\n\nMs Cooper had an outstanding warrant, and therefore remains in Ulster County's jail.\n\nAn investigation is ongoing and more arrests are pending, the police statement says.\n\nMost children reported missing in the US are found safely after a relatively short period of time, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.\n\nBut it adds that in cases of family abduction, children are missing for the longest period of time for an average of over 10 months.", "Wordle went from a handful of users to millions in a matter of months\n\nWordle moved from its original web address to one run by the New York Times (NYT) last weekend and some players are not happy.\n\nThose still playing the daily word game on the original website - because they downloaded it or have not refreshed their browser - are getting different words to solve from the NYT version.\n\nThat is because the paper has removed five-letter words it deemed offensive.\n\nBut it has denied the other big fans' complaint - that it has got harder.\n\nFans have not been impressed by the switchover\n\nThe game, which asks players to find a five-letter word each day with clues along the way, has grown in popularity from fewer than 100 players in November to millions by the end of January.\n\nIts creator, Josh Wardle, initially said he didn't intend to make money from the game but later sold it to the NYT for an undisclosed seven-figure sum.\n\nMany fans took to Twitter to complain that since the NYT took over its stewardship - with words such as ultra and caulk - the puzzle appeared more challenging.\n\nComedian Trevor Noah summed up many people's feelings, tweeting: \"Wordle isn't fun since the New York Times took over. Is it just me?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Trevor Noah This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd another player, Denise Dewald, felt that the game had lost some of its original appeal - simplicity.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Denise Dewald, MD 🗽 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe NYT denied any changes to gameplay, but it did admit that it was in the process of removing \"offensive words\" which included whore, slave and wench from both the list of acceptable guesses and the answers.\n\nThat is why players of the original version are now out of sync with the NYT version.\n\nOne of the big appeals of the game was that players were all solving the same word each day. The loss of this shared experience and the fact that there are now competing versions has angered fans.\n\nIn response, the NYT is urging everyone to migrate to its version.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by NYTimes Wordplay This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs to what may happen next, the paper has said the game will remain free, for the time being at least.\n\nMeanwhile, fan Bill Fletcher called for calm in the Wordle community.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Bill Fletcher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has until 22:00 GMT on Friday to answer the Metropolitan Police's questionnaire about whether he broke lockdown rules at Downing Street parties.\n\nThe prime minister has been consulting lawyers about his response.\n\nIt is these private lawyers who are overseeing communications with the Met Police.\n\nSources close to Mr Johnson say he is funding that himself. The No 10 machine is being kept in the dark to avoid what one insider called a conflict of interest.\n\nThe prime minister has made it clear what his defence will be: that he both lived and worked in Downing Street, so had a reasonable excuse to be in the building and around the garden when controversial drinks gatherings took place.\n\nMr Johnson hopes that will be enough to get him off the hook - if it doesn't, there could be a new wave of political crises for the prime minister and more Conservative MPs could try to force him out.\n\nAmong Mr Johnson's allies, there is a frank admission that they just don't know for sure whether his explanation will work. But here's how they think it might.\n\nFirstly, there have not been many retrospective prosecutions for breaking lockdown laws.\n\nSecondly, the prime minister has argued both publicly and privately that the events he was at can be reasonably seen as work. If he makes that case, will the Met have enough evidence to conclude he is wrong? The bar, some believe, is likely to be high.\n\nSome of the argument delves a bit deeper.\n\nIt starts with the fact that the prime minister and some staff were required to be in the office to oversee the Covid response.\n\nIf they had a glass of wine at the end of the day - in an office they had a good reason to be in - was that really an illegal gathering?\n\nPart of the answer to that, some think, might rest on just how many glasses of wine a certain person had.\n\nThe argument goes: if someone can prove they were at a gathering for a short period of time, then went to a meeting or to do something else for their job, this would still be classed as being at work.\n\nThat might be judged differently if they went on to get drunk late into the night - or, for example, if they broke the prime minister's son's swing, as has been alleged happened at one event in the Downing Street garden.\n\nPolice are investigating several gatherings in Downing Street as part of their probe\n\nThat's the thinking from some of the PM's political supporters.\n\nHis lawyers will decide what legal case to make - and then it's for the Met to decide whether they buy it. That process could take a few weeks.\n\nThen there's the politics - what happens next?\n\nAt the moment, things are considerably calmer in the Conservative Party than they were a fortnight ago. That's in part because Parliament is on a week's holiday, meaning MPs are not meeting up to chat - and maybe even plot - about the PM's future.\n\nThere are, very broadly, three key groups:\n\nFormer Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith - an MP who knows how the party works and what the mood in Parliament is - has said it would be hard for any leader to survive having been found to have broken the rules.\n\nOne former cabinet minister said that if the prime minister is found to have broken the rules that he introduced, the number of MPs calling for a confidence vote is likely to increase quickly.\n\nAt least 54 MPs must write a letter to Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the backbench 1922 committee, to trigger such a vote, which could lead to a leadership contest.\n\nBut our senior Tory source also suggested the prime minister was more likely than not to find a way to get himself off the hook and last at least until May's local elections, when it could become clearer if the \"partygate\" rows have had an electoral impact.\n\nAnother MP still making their mind up agreed it was quite plausible the PM could survive, saying: \"If there is anyone who could ride it out, he can.\"\n\nThis MP went on to argue that changes to the No 10 operation - like the new chief of staff and communications director - could help steady the ship. They argued that Mr Johnson could survive even if he gets a fine.\n\nIt's worth noting that a prime minister being found to have broken the rules they introduced would be a significant blow. Some question whether even Boris Johnson, with his reputation for defying political gravity, could get past that.\n\nBut the simple fact is, nobody knows for sure what is going to happen next.\n\nAmong Mr Johnson's staunchest allies, there is a feeling that things have cooled down. But that doesn't mean they won't heat up again.\n\nIn the words of one: \"It's not passed - it's not over\".", "Simon Coveney is visiting Northern Ireland for the first time since the executive collapsed\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has played down the prospect of a breakthrough on the Northern Ireland Protocol in UK-EU talks next week.\n\nHe was speaking as he arrived in Belfast for talks with the Stormont parties.\n\nMr Coveney was asked about the next UK-EU joint committee meeting due to happen on Monday.\n\nHe said it was more likely to be a \"staging post\" for the two sides to issue a statement on progress so far.\n\nMr Coveney has previously said he believes negotiations over the Northern Ireland Protocol must conclude by the end of this month.\n\nThe Irish foreign minister also told the media in Belfast on Thursday that the Irish and British governments are not \"bystanders\" in trying to resolve the latest political crisis at Stormont.\n\nIt is the first time the minister has visited since the power-sharing executive collapsed earlier this month.\n\nHe is to have talks with four of the five main parties to discuss the political crisis, as well as negotiations over the protocol.\n\nMr Coveney said Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is travelling and would be unable to meet him in person on Thursday, but they would remain in contact.\n\nFollowing a meeting with the European Commission vice-president Maroš Šefčovič on Thursday, Sir Jeffrey warned that \"unionism is rapidly losing faith that a negotiated solution is possible\".\n\n\"It is time for the government to take action which restores fairness and reinstates Northern Ireland's access to the UK internal market,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"This is the only way to build a better future for everyone in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nMr Coveney said officials in London, Dublin and Brussels were all actively involved in trying to find solutions to the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nHowever, he added that it was up to the Stormont parties alone to return to government together and that he would continue to support them to reach a resolution.\n\nMr Coveney is also expected to meet civic society leaders in Armagh during his visit.\n\nThe minister was involved in negotiations that helped lead to the signing of the New Decade New Approach agreement in January 2020, restoring Stormont's institutions after a three-year impasse.\n\nThe UK government has insisted it wants to reach a solution urgently, in light of the latest crisis at Stormont.\n\nIts lead negotiator, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, met her EU counterpart last Friday for a further round of talks.\n\nLiz Truss said she wants to work with the EU towards solutions that deliver for people in Northern Ireland\n\nEarlier, Mr Coveney said those involved in the negotiations are \"putting in a lot of time\" to make progress before the upcoming assembly elections on 5 May.\n\n\"Liz Truss and Maroš Šefčovič were the two key negotiators on each side but are very much supported by the Irish government and many others who want to try a way forward here,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe described the decision of the DUP to withdraw Paul Givan as first minister as part of its ongoing opposition to the Irish Sea border as \"very unfortunate\".\n\nThe party has argued that unless the arrangements are changed, political institutions in Northern Ireland cannot continue as normal.\n\n\"We're trying to find a way of ensuring that the Northern Ireland Protocol, which is part of an international agreement that the UK government designed, helped to write and then ratified, can be implemented in a way that's acceptable for all sides, including unionists,\" Mr Coveney said.\n\n\"The Irish government is going to work closely with the British government and the EU to try to find a solution that everybody can live with.\"\n\nSinn Féin Vice-President Michelle O'Neill said she believed the UK government had moved back from its threat to override part of the protocol by triggering Article 16.\n\nShe said the issue had been raised during her meetings with Mr Coveney and the EU's chief negotiator, Maros Sefcovic on Thursday.\n\n\"It appears off the boil for now - but the Tory government has shown before there are many twists and turns still to go but we'll continue doing all we can to work with the EU and find a solution to make the protocol work.\"\n\nSpeaking after his meeting with Mr Coveney and Mr Šefčovič, Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie said they were \"as far away now as we were last year\" in reaching a deal on the protocol.\n\n\"We're far away from any form of solution,\" he said.\n\n\"But what I do think they want on February 21 is to finish the joint committee and come out with a positive statement of intent that we're going in a particular direction\".\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said he believed there would not be much progress before May's assembly election, warning that the DUP's decision to collapse the executive had not sparked a change in negotiations.\n\n\"This will end in tears for the DUP, what they've set out as red lines were always going to be in achievable,\" he added.\n\nWithout a first and deputy first minister in place it is not yet clear who will attend a meeting of the joint committee on behalf of the Northern Ireland institutions, but it is likely that a senior civil servant could take part instead.", "Police had said sex offender Paul Robson could be \"anywhere in the country\" and the public should not approach him\n\nA sex offender branded a \"menace to females\" has been recaptured after fleeing from an open prison.\n\nPaul Robson, 56 was given a life sentence in 2000 after he sexually assaulted a woman at knifepoint.\n\nHe walked out of HMP North Sea Camp, in Lincolnshire, on Sunday and spent four days on the run.\n\nRobson was arrested in Skegness at about 09:30 GMT on Thursday after a call from a member of the public who recognised him, police said.\n\nAnnouncing his capture, Ch Supt Kate Anderson, from Lincolnshire Police, thanked members of the public who had shared the force's appeals to find Robson and reported potential sightings.\n\n\"At this stage, we don't believe he had any accomplices or believe that he's committed further offences,\" she said.\n\nOfficers had worked \"tirelessly\" in their search for Robson, she added.\n\nFurther photos of Robson were issued as part of the force's appeals to locate him\n\nPolice had issued several appeals to locate Robson since he absconded.\n\nFurther images of him were released on Wednesday, with the force suggesting he may have changed his appearance.\n\nIt is understood Robson was returned to a closed prison and will not be eligible to apply for parole for at least a further two years.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said Robson would \"face an uphill struggle proving he can ever be trusted to move to an open prison again\".\n\nRobson, originally from Newcastle, was jailed at Oxford Crown Court for the attempted rape and indecent assault of his victim.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss says the UK is increasing its financial support for Ukraine, amid tensions with Russia.\n\nSpeaking in Kyiv, Ms Truss said the UK would be spending an additional £12m on democracy and energy independence projects in the country.\n\nWestern allies have warned Russia could try to stage an attack to justify invading Ukraine.\n\nRussia has repeatedly denied it has plans to invade despite amassing more than 100,000 troops along the border.\n\nAs part of ongoing diplomatic efforts, Ms Truss visited the Ukrainian capital, holding a press conference alongside the country's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.\n\nShe praised the country's \"fortitude in the face of Russian aggression\" and pledged UK's \"steadfast support\".\n\nMr Kuleba said Ukrainian-British relationships had \"reached an unprecedentedly high level\".\n\nIn addition to increasing funding for Ukraine's defence capabilities from £88m to £100m, Ms Truss also announced a new \"trilateral partnership\" with Ukraine and Poland to \"intensify work on defence and security, sanctions, energy security and countering disinformation\".\n\nThe foreign secretary also warned that \"false-flag\" operations were taking place in the region adding: \"We are very clear the aggressor in this situation is Russia.\"\n\nA false-flag attack is where one side stages or fabricates an attack against it in order to justify the use of force in retaliation.\n\nEarlier in the day, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Russia could be \"trying to stage a pretext for an armed attack against Ukraine\".\n\nRussia has accused the West of \"hysteria\" over such warnings in recent weeks.\n\nIt has also called on Nato to guarantee Ukraine will not be allowed to join the defence alliance.\n\nNato insists it will keep its open door policy, and has been increasingly concerned an invasion is on the cards.\n\nMr Stoltenberg, said there were \"signs from Moscow that diplomacy could continue\", but that the West had \"not seen any sign of withdrawal or de-escalation\".\n\nSpeaking from an RAF base in Waddington, Lincolnshire, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there was \"still time to avoid a catastrophe\" but said the picture from the region was \"very grim\".\n\nHe added that a Russian invasion would result in a \"bloody and protracted conflict in which, I'm afraid, there will be many casualties and including many Russian casualties\"\n\nIn a speech following the press conference in Kyiv, Ms Truss, who became foreign secretary last year, said the current crisis in the region was a \"litmus test\" for the West.\n\n\"The free world needs to draw the line under a decade of drift... we must stand up to and defuse Russian aggression now, because if we don't it will embolden not only the Kremlin, but aggressors, authoritarians and autocrats everywhere.\n\n\"The West needs to wise up. We need to work together to discredit their arguments in public.\"\n\nMs Truss is now travelling to Poland for a meeting with her Polish counterpart, before heading to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday for meetings with allies.\n\nThe UK has no troops in Ukraine but it has increased numbers in Estonia to the \"high hundreds,\" according to the Ministry of Defence, as well as sending additional helicopters, jets and warships to the region.\n\nA further 1,000 British troops are also on standby to support Nato if called upon.", "Post Office workers who successfully challenged faulty Horizon software in civil courts should be fully compensated, MPs have said.\n\nA new report from a cross-party group of MPs says the 555 people who took the Post Office to court should receive money for their losses.\n\nIt comes days after a public inquiry into the Post Office scandal began.\n\nHundreds were taken to court for fraud after Horizon led to accounting errors at branches across the UK.\n\nBut in 2019, a group of 555 subpostmasters and mistresses successfully challenged the Post Office over the Horizon system in the High Court.\n\nWhile the government has since opened a fund to compensate more than 700 wrongfully convicted former branch managers, the 555 people were not able to claim from this because of settlements with the Post Office.\n\nThey claim they are out of pocket due to legal costs, while others have since passed away.\n\nLabour MP Darren Jones, who chairs the Business Select Committee which wrote the report, described the scandal as \"one of the largest miscarriages of justice in British history\".\n\n\"It is clearly entirely unacceptable that the group of 555 victims who first brought this scandal successfully to court are being left in a worse position than those who are being compensated thanks to their action,\" he added.\n\nIn December, the government came forward with a support package to foot the bill for compensation.\n\nBut the committee called for clarity about whether this funding would be available to the 555 former branch managers who won the civil case.\n\nIts interim report said the funding the government had provided was \"far in excess of the costs incurred so far\", with estimated pay-outs of about £258m to date.\n\nMr Jones also said that it was his \"personal view\" that the families of sub-postmasters who had died without being refunded for the scandal should be able to claim compensation.\n\nSpeaking as part of the public inquiry on Wednesday, the widow of a former subpostmaster spoke of her disbelief that her husband was not given a chance to defend himself against charges of theft, fraud and false accounting.\n\nMrs Karen Wilson was appearing on behalf of her late husband, Julian, who died of bowel cancer in 2017 before his conviction was overturned. He had been a subpostmaster in Worcestershire.\n\nKaren Wilson said her husband was left broken by the investigation and conviction\n\nShe described Julian's strong business background and how the couple would work until late into the night trying to work out why the Horizon IT system would not balance.\n\nHer husband received a community service order, to clean graves, after arranging a plea bargain with the Post Office.\n\nThe couple's assets were frozen by a confiscation order and they had to borrow money from family members.\n\nMrs Wilson sold all her jewellery - including her engagement ring - to pay the mortgage.\n\nThe couple also had to pay £36,000 which the system had shown as missing and £3,000 in court costs.\n\nMrs Wilson said on Wednesday she would like to see some \"accountability\" above all.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tracy Felstead was sent to Holloway Prison for a crime she didn't commit\n\nThe public inquiry into this scandal is about establishing why this miscarriage of justice happened, and who should be held to account, but that will take time.\n\nSo this Parliamentary committee have made some quick-fix demands of the government that would make a big difference to those who have suffered so much.\n\nMany of the victims I've spoken to have told me of their fear of having to face their accusers at the Post Office once again, and re-engage with a system they have done their best to put behind them.\n\nIt's no wonder so few have come forward to request documents from a company they have lost all faith in. An independent go-between could help.\n\nThe civil court case brought by 555 sub-postmasters two years ago was the moment the tables were turned in this scandal.\n\nYet the trailblazers who spent their own money and time bringing the case to court, and creating that vital legal precedent, have been locked out of the compensation scheme.\n\nThere are clear indications from the government that it is working behind the scenes to make some kind of payment to those 555 individuals soon.\n\nBut time is not on the side of many sub-postmasters who are still suffering financial ruin with many well beyond retirement age.\n\nThe Post Office has previously said it is \"sincerely sorry for the impact of the Horizon scandal on the lives of victims and their families and we are in no doubt about the human cost\".\n\n\"In addressing the past, our first priority is that full, fair and final compensation is provided and we are making good progress,\" it added.\n\nThe committee's report also raised concerns about the time taken to make settlements to those who have had their convictions overturned.\n\nIt recommended that the government provides regular updates when compensation is refused for sub-postmasters who have had their convictions overturned, the reasons for this, and if compensation is later sought and awarded.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Business said that it acknowledged the \"devastating impact\" on postmasters and their families.\n\n\"That is why we have set up a statutory inquiry to set out exactly what went wrong, and we are providing financial support for compensation.\"\n\n\"We are eager to see all Horizon-related issues resolved fairly and quickly, including for the 555, who played a crucial role in bringing this scandal to light,\" they added.", "Mary McCann admitted causing the death of her son Smaller (pictured) and daughter Lilly\n\nA woman has admitted causing the deaths of two of her children in a crash.\n\nMary McCann, 35, of Bamford Avenue, Derby, pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by careless driving while under the influence of alcohol.\n\nDaughter Lilly, four, and son Smaller, 10, died at the scene of the collision involving a lorry and a car on the M1 near Milton Keynes on 9 August.\n\nMcCann is due to appear again at Aylesbury Crown Court for sentencing on 25 April.\n\nThe crash happened between junctions 14 and 15 at around 23:10 BST.\n\nA third passenger, a two-year-old girl, was taken to hospital with minor injuries. The lorry driver was not injured.\n\nLilly, aged four, and Smaller, aged 10, were killed in a crash with an HGV on the M1 near Milton Keynes\n\nSgt Dominic Mahon, from Thames Valley Police, said: \"This was a tragic incident in which two young children lost their lives.\n\n\"My thoughts remain with their family at this incredibly difficult time. Thankfully they will not have to go through the ordeal of a trial due to McCann's guilty pleas today.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSnow brought school closures and some travel disruption across Scotland as Storm Eunice hit the country.\n\nA yellow Met Office warning for ice is now in place for most of the country until 09:00 on Saturday. Earlier snow and wind warnings expired at 18:00.\n\nMore than 150 schools and nurseries across Scotland were closed earlier due to snow, including almost 100 in Aberdeenshire.\n\nRoads in some parts of the country were badly affected by the conditions.\n\nAnd about a dozen Aberdeen schools announced they were closing early due to the conditions.\n\nFive schools and nurseries were closed in the Highland area, with some on higher ground in Inverclyde also closed.\n\nMotorists drive through the sleet and snow along the M8 motorway near Bathgate in West Lothian as Storm Eunice sweeps across the UK\n\nThere were tailbacks near Auchterarder\n\nThe A82 south of Glencoe was partially closed due to heavy snow. And the snow gates were shut on the A93 at Braemar and at Glenshee.\n\nTraffic Scotland reported that multiple lorries were stuck in snow on the A9 northbound at Tibbermore and on the M90 between Bridge of Earn and Glenfarg.\n\nThere were reports of long tailbacks near Auchterarder after some lorries got stuck further along the A9. Some drivers reported they had been stuck in the traffic for two and a half hours.\n\nPolice in the north east warned drivers only to travel if their journey was necessary, and said there were large tailbacks and significant delays in some areas.\n\nSome minor roads roads around Angus, parts of Aberdeenshire and Argyll and Bute were also affected by heavy snow.\n\nAn ambulance rushing a baby girl to hospital in Aberdeenshire had to be rescued by members of the public after it became stuck in heavy snow.\n\nThe A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful is operating under convoy control until Saturday evening, and then from 19:00 traffic will be diverted to the Old Military Road as a safety precaution, due to the heavy rain forecasted.\n\nSnow has been falling in areas of the Borders, Aberdeenshire, Moray, the Highlands and central Scotland.\n\nBorders areas over 150m (492ft) could see 5-10cm (2-4in), and more than 10cm (4in) is possible on the highest routes.\n\nIt follows disruption caused by Storm Dudley's hurricane-force winds.\n\nRail and ferry services were cancelled, with fallen trees damaging power lines.\n\nAll ScotRail services stopped at 16:00 on Wednesday after the Met Office issued an amber warning for wind.\n\nHowever, the network was not shut down in Scotland for Storm Eunice.\n\nScotRail said that services on Friday morning were \"running very well\" with 90% of trains running on time.\n\nNetwork Rail said there were reduced services heading cross-border, but this was largely due to the expected conditions in parts of England where \"do not travel\" warnings were in place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Met Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMillions of people in the south of England and Wales have been told to stay at home as Storm Eunice is expected to be one of the worst storms in decades.\n\nA red warning - meaning there is a danger to life from flying debris - covers London, as well as much of the south coast, and south-east and east of England.\n\nPrevious storms have left passengers trapped on trains for many hours. In November, travellers from Elgin to Aberdeen were stuck on board for 17 hours during Storm Arwen.\n\nThere was a crash amid the poor driving conditions on the off slip of the A720 city bypass at the Straiton junction in Edinburgh\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said seven flood alerts were in place in areas around the Solway Firth, due to a combination of Storm Eunice and high spring tides.\n\nThe Met Office ice warning covers most parts of Scotland and is in place from 18:00 until 09:00 on Saturday.\n\nResidents are being asked to prepare for the conditions as strong winds as well as snow may lead to very poor visibility, blizzard conditions and drifting snow.\n\nThe Scottish government has also urged people to exercise caution and follow the latest travel advice.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney chaired the Scottish government's resilience room meeting on Thursday evening in response to Storms Dudley and Eunice.\n\n\"We remain in close contact with local authorities and emergency and essential services to ensure people in the affected areas receive the latest information, advice and support where needed,\" Mr Swinney said.", "Louis Thorold was pictured with his mother Rachael just hours before the crash\n\nA 74-year-old driver accused of killing a five-month old baby being walked by his mother in a pram has appeared in court.\n\nShelagh Robertson has been charged with causing the death of Louis Thorold on the A10 in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire on 22 January 2021 by careless driving.\n\nAt Cambridge Magistrates' Court Mrs Robertson, of Stables Yard, Waterbeach, gave no indication of a plea.\n\nShe is next due to appear at Cambridge Crown Court on 17 March.\n\nThe charge states Mrs Robertson was driving a Mazda 2 at the time of the collision.\n\nShelagh Robertson gave no indication of a plea at the brief hearing\n\nLouis died at the scene of the crash in January 2021\n\nLouis died at the scene after a van hit his pram, while his mother Rachael suffered serious injuries.\n\nMrs Thorold suffered multiple fractures and a brain injury in the crash.\n\nShe spent 10 days in a coma and 118 days in hospital, with her husband describing her survival as \"miraculous\", and both attended Thursday's court hearing.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parts of the UK are braced for Storm Eunice to hit. What practical things can people do to prepare themselves?\n\nRare red weather warnings - the highest level - have been issued in parts of south-west England, south Wales, London and south-east England, and the Met Office has warned of gusts of up to 90mph.\n\nBefore the storm, the Met Office recommends that you secure any loose objects such as garden furniture, ladders or anything else that could be blown around.\n\nDoors and windows should be closed firmly - particularly those to the windward side of the house - and especially large doors, like those on garages. If the property has storm shutters fitted over the windows, make sure these are fastened too.\n\nClose and secure loft trapdoors with bolts. If chimney stacks are tall and in poor condition, make sure any beds are kept away from the areas directly beneath them.\n\nVehicles should be parked in a garage, if possible - if not, make sure they are clear of trees, buildings and fences.\n\nDuring the storm, the Met Office advises that you stay indoors as much as possible. Don't go outdoors to repair damage while the storm is in progress.\n\nIf you do go out, it says, try not to walk near buildings and trees. The Met Office also recommends that you keep away from the sheltered side of boundary fences and walls - this is the side they will collapse on.\n\nIf possible, it adds, try to enter and leave your house through doors on the sheltered side and close them behind you. Internal doors should be opened only when needed and closed behind you.\n\nDrive carefully - that is, if you have to drive at all. \"If driving, the best advice is to stick to main roads if possible, slow down and expect the unexpected,\" says Edmund King, president of the AA.\n\nWhen driving in strong winds, the motoring group also advises keeping both hands on the wheel, maintaining your distance from other vehicles and avoiding the use of horseboxes and other high-sided trailers.\n\nIt also recommends watching out for twigs or small branches in the road - these could mean a fallen tree or large branch is around the next bend - and warns that partially fallen trees can be difficult to spot as they may sit above the sweep of your headlights.\n\nSean Sidley, AA Patrol of the Year, adds: \"Check the travel news before you set off and take particular care where roads dip, for example under railway bridges, which are more likely to flood.\"\n\nCall your insurer straight away if something has been damaged as a result of the storm. \"If you suffer damage to your property, contact your insurer as soon as you can for help and advice,\" says Laura Hughes of the Association of British Insurers (ABI). Most will have 24-hour emergency helplines.\n\nYou might need to arrange temporary emergency repairs to prevent any damage getting worse, but the ABI recommends that you speak to your insurer first. Keep any receipts as they will form part of your claim.\n\nAfter the storm, the Met Office warns you should be careful not to touch any telephone or electrical cables that have been blown down or that are still hanging.\n\nIt also suggests checking on vulnerable neighbours and relatives to make sure they are safe and, if necessary, helping them arrange for any repairs to be carried out.", "Storm Dudley has been forecast to bring inland winds up to 80mph\n\nA Met Office amber weather warning for Storm Dudley has been brought forward by two hours with an alert running from 14:00 until midnight.\n\nMost rail services in Scotland have been cancelled after the warning of 80mph winds during the storm.\n\nScotRail said many last services will be departing between 14:00 and 15:30.\n\nCalMac suspended a number of ferry services on Wednesday morning, and restrictions are in place on the Forth Road Bridge and Erskine Bridge.\n\nThe amber warning covers central and southern Scotland, as well as parts of England and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Scottish government and Police Scotland have warned of disruption across public transport.\n\nNational Highways, the government agency which maintains roads in England, has also urged motorists in the affected area to only travel if \"absolutely necessary\".\n\nScotRail service delivery director David Simpson told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland that people should \"make sure they're home and safe\" by 16:00 as this is when services would stop.\n\nHe said: \"We've got engineers on standby throughout the day, and have extra teams on during the night. We'll be out overnight checking routes where we can.\"\n\nMr Simpson said it was \"unlikely\" that there would be replacement bus services and urged passengers to check the ScotRail website and app for service updates.\n\nThe amber warning for wind took effect at 14:00\n\nScotRail said its services on the Far North, Kyle of Lochalsh, and Aberdeen-Inverness lines will continue to run on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nSome cross-border services will operate too at reduced speeds, though TransPennine Express warned customers that significant disruption of services was likely.\n\nNetwork Rail said the storm had the potential to cause \"significant disruption\" to infrastructure, including blowing trees onto tracks and damaging equipment.\n\nAnd Ferry operator CalMac said it was expecting waves of up to 12 metres (39ft) around the Hebrides.\n\nManaging director Robbie Drummond told the BBC: \"Our team will be working closely with local communities to understand their priorities and also ensure essential goods and services are moved where possible.\"\n\nElsewhere, the A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful in Argyll - a route infamous for landslips - has been closed with a diversion to the old military road until Thursday morning.\n\nEast Ayrshire Council has urged parents to pick up their children from nurseries by 15:35 on Wednesday, while North Ayrshire Council has cancelled all after school clubs due to the weather.\n\nLendalfoot in Ayrshire saw rough seas on Wednesday morning\n\nThe Scottish government said the Transport Scotland resilience room and the multi-agency response team would be in place for the duration of the amber warning.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Scotland, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said: \"The different players, transport providers, power companies, public authorities, are all planning where their resources will be deployed.\n\n\"The local resilience partnerships are working closely with the power companies to make sure, should there be a need for welfare support, that is put in place at the quickest opportunity.\"\n\nScottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN), which supplies power in the north of Scotland, said it was prepared for potential damage to the network and had brought in more engineers.\n\nThe firm urged people to keep their mobile phones charged, keep battery or wind-up torches and beware of fallen power lines.\n\nIt also advised people to keep the national 105 emergency helpline on hand.\n\nSP Energy Networks, which supplies power in central and southern Scotland, issued similar advice, adding that conditions could make it extremely challenging for engineers to fix power cuts - especially if climbing poles or pylons is required.\n\nMost rail services in Scotland were cancelled after the wind warning\n\nThere is also an increased risk of flooding in coastal areas, particularly along the Firth of Clyde, according to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa).\n\nPascal Lardet, Sepa's flood warning duty manager, told the BBC: \"We just want people not to take unnecessary risks.\n\n\"Very large waves can be unpredictable - when they will hit, they may submerge the area where you stand and can project debris and stones. In the past there has been casualties so we don't want that to happen.\"\n\nThe Met Office has also issued a yellow \"be aware\" warning for high winds for parts of Scotland, the north of England and Northern Ireland during Storm Dudley. It covers from 13:00 on Wednesday to 06:00 on Thursday.\n\nA second storm - Storm Eunice - is expected to bring strong winds across southern Scotland and also parts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Friday. Snow has also been forecast for parts of Scotland.\n\nAn amber warning for wind has been issued for large parts of England and Wales, and a yellow warning for high winds and snow has been issued for central and southern Scotland.\n\nTrees in Aberdeenshire fell during Storm Corrie last month\n\nLast month storms Malik and Corrie caused power cuts for 118,000 homes in Scotland and 80,000 in northern England.\n\nThere was major disruption to rail services between Edinburgh and Newcastle and several schools in Aberdeenshire, the Highlands and Moray were closed.\n\nAreas in the north of Scotland were among the worst hit by power cuts and damage during Storm Arwen in November.\n\nForestry and Land Scotland said it was still clearing up damage to forestry caused by Storm Arwen and Storm Malik and urged people to avoid woodland areas during this week's storms.", "Northern Powergrid said the line had been brought down by a falling tree.\n\nThirteen dogs have died after being electrocuted when a power line fell on to their kennel during Storm Dudley.\n\nThe animals were killed in the incident at Cuckavalda Gundogs, in Ampleforth, North Yorkshire.\n\nOwners Jack and Anna Peckitt said 11 Labradors and two Cocker Spaniels, all aged between six months and seven years, died in the \"tragic accident\".\n\nNorthern Powergrid said the power line had been brought down by a falling tree.\n\nPosting on Facebook Cuckavalda Gundogs said the incident happened at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday\n\nA Northern Powergrid spokesman said supplies were isolated in the YO61 and 62 areas after the incident, leaving around 680 customers without power, but were restored to the \"majority of customers\" by Wednesday night.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Danger to life warning as Storm Eunice heads for UK\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People have been warned about possible big waves in towns like Clevedon in Somerset\n\nTwo counties have declared an emergency as a red weather warning - suggesting a risk to life from flying debris - has been issued for Storm Eunice.\n\nForecasters predict severe flooding, wind speeds of up to 90mph (144kmh) and disruption to transport services and roads in Gloucestershire and Somerset.\n\nThe M4 Prince of Wales bridge and the M48 Severn Bridge are likely to close.\n\nAll schools in Somerset will close and Avon and Somerset Police has advised people to avoid travelling on Friday.\n\nSome schools in Wiltshire have announced closures and Bristol City Council has advised schools in the city to close too.\n\nAreas along the River Severn between Avonmouth and Sharpness in Bristol are also expected to flood.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStaff from local councils and emergency services will be knocking on doors on Thursday afternoon to help people who need to evacuate from their homes safely.\n\nThose who are being evacuated are asked to pass on the message and knock on neighbours' doors where possible.\n\nResidents have also been asked by local authorities to place any recycling boxes in a safe place.\n\nWaste collections in Bristol and Somerset on Friday have been suspended.\n\nAreas near the River Severn could be affected by flooding\n\nOfficials will be visiting homes near the River Severn to ensure they are safe\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said disruption was \"inevitable\" after the Met office released red and amber warnings for the South West of England from 05:00 to 21:00 GMT.\n\n\"The safety of passengers and staff is our top priority,\" he said.\n\nLetters have been sent to some residents in preparation\n\nIn Bristol, services on the Severn Beach line have been cancelled for Friday morning.\n\nFirst Bus has suspended all of its services in Bristol, including Metrobus, Bristol Park and Ride and Airport Flyer, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Wells until 13:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Cornwall, North Devon and Sharpness in Gloucestershire are feared to be the worst-hit areas due to the tidal impact from the storm surge and very high spring tides.\n\nNational Highways said to expect dangerous driving conditions with exceptional sidewinds and wind-blown debris.\n\nIt also warned there was a particularly big risk to high-sided vehicles and other vulnerable vehicles such as caravans and motorbikes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by The Severn Bridges This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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End of twitter post 3 by The Severn Bridges\n\nWestern Power operations director Graham Halladay said it had made storm preparations but to be prepared for power cuts.\n\n\"If members of the public see fallen lines I would urge them to stay well clear and ring 105,\" he said.\n\n\"A fallen power line could still be live and can deliver a fatal shock.\"\n\nIt will be one of the most significant storms to hit the UK in many years.\n\nThroughout the day we should be prepared for trees being uprooted, power cuts with significant travel disruption of delays and cancellations.\n\nEunice will start bringing impacts early Friday morning with particular concern around the Bristol Channel, where the Met Office red warning is in force for.\n\nThe wind strengths forecast for southern parts of the UK are comparable to the Burns' Day Storm of January 1990, which caused widespread damage, and the storms that hit the UK during the winter of 2013-2014.\n\nWest of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris encouraged residents to exercise extreme caution and take all possible precautions.\n\n\"I'm urging all local people to act sensibly and take all reasonable precautions with the approach of Storm Eunice,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the Army would be on stand-by to help those affected by Storm Eunice.\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Eunice? 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Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nGreat Britain have their first medal of the Winter Olympics after the men's curling team defeated the United States 8-4 in a nail-biting semi-final to guarantee at least silver.\n\nBruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan stole one in the penultimate end and held out.\n\nThe Scottish quartet will play Sweden for gold at 06:05 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThirteen days in, it ends concerns the British team might finish without a medal for the first time since 1992.\n\nEve Muirhead's women's side will have the chance to replicate the men's achievement when they play Sweden at 12:05 on Friday.\n\n\"The last two weeks for myself has been a bit of a rollercoaster,\" Mouat told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I'm just so excited to share this with the guys and that celebration at the end was just pure elation - I don't think I can sum it up any other way.\"\n\nHaving flown through the round-robin section with eight wins and just one defeat, Great Britain were favourites to move through to the gold-medal game.\n\nBut they were up against the defending champions and skip John Shuster, who has a habit of performing on the big occasion, as he did four years ago when winning a shock gold.\n\nThat feat looked on again when the USA stole two in just the second end, but Britain immediately took three back to settle early nerves.\n\nAnother two followed in the fifth end for a 5-4 lead at the halfway point, and then it was all about Mouat and his team holding their nerve.\n\nThe next three ends were blank as the game became cagey, but crucially in the ninth end Mouat produced a terrific draw to steal one and increase the lead to two heading into the final end.\n\nAnd in the last, Shuster could not produce the miracle shot for two that would have rescued his side.\n\nInstead, the British side will at least emulate the achievement of Dave Murdoch's rink in 2014 by securing silver - and have the chance to upgrade to gold.\n\n\"I'm excited to play that game,\" Mouat added. \"We've got a day off tomorrow but just looking forward to hopefully going for that gold. I'm shaking.\"\n\nGreat Britain have trained so hard as a team, they work well together. They don't argue with each other, they discuss shots and come to an opinion they're all happy with.\n\nEverything is just so impressive with this young team.\n• None 'I can't wait to get started': The remarkable story of Christian Eriksen's comeback as he returns to the Premier League", "Second Sight's website has stories from patients who have had the implant\n\nHundreds of people who had retinal implants to improve their sight face an uncertain future as the technology they rely on is now obsolete.\n\nSecond Sight stopped making its Argus II bionic eyes several years ago to focus on a brain implant instead.\n\nAccording to IEEE Spectrum, which broke the story, it is now hoping to merge with a biopharmaceutical firm which does not make eye implants.\n\nSecond Sight was contacted by the BBC but has not yet responded.\n\nAdam Mendelsohn, chief executive of Nano Precision Medical, with which Second Sight is planning to merge, told the BBC it would consider the issues raised by IEEE once the merger, scheduled for mid-2022 - was completed.\n\n\"I do intend to make this one of our priorities if and when I assume my leadership position in the combined company,\" Mr Mendelsohn said.\n\nAccording to Second Sight's website, its Argus II offers life-changing benefits for those with sight impairment, including \"enjoying mobility and independence\".\n\n\"Our mission is to develop neuro-stimulation technology to enhance the lives of blind individuals, while supporting our current users,\" it says.\n\nThe implant takes the place of the eye's photoreceptors\n\nBut IEEE Spectrum reports that Second Sight actually discontinued its retinal implants - which effectively take the place of photoreceptors in the eye to create a form of artificial vision - in 2019.\n\nIt says the firm nearly went out of business in 2020 and is now concentrating on a brain device - the Orion - which also provides artificial vision, while providing only limited support to the 350 or so who have the implants.\n\nSurgery to implant the device typically takes a few hours and is followed by post-op training to help users interpret the signals from their devices.\n\nThe website also promises updates. \"As technology improves, so will your Argus II implant - without the need for additional surgery. Enjoy programming flexibility and the capacity for future hardware and software upgrades.\"\n\nThe system consists of the implant, special glasses with a built-in camera and a video processing unit (VPU) that is attached around the wearer's waist.\n\nThe camera on the glasses sends video to the VPU, which converts the images to patterns of black and white pixels and sends them back to a responder in the glasses, which in turn beams them wirelessly to an antenna on the outside of the eye.\n\nAn implanted electrode array behind the retina receives the stimulation patterns from the user's glasses and stimulates the eye by creating flashes of light that correspond to the video feed and which are sent by the implant to the optic nerve to create a kind of artificial vision.\n\nIt's clever and innovative tech, which has taken decades to create and was not cheap - estimated at around $150,000 (£110,000) excluding surgery and post-surgery training.\n\nPeople using body parts from private firms are increasingly vulnerable, says an expert in technology ethics\n\nOne, Ross Doerr, said Second Sight failed to contact any of its patients after its financial difficulties in 2020.\n\n\"Those of us with this implant are figuratively and literally in the dark,\" he said.\n\nAnother user, Jeroen Perk, had problems when his VPU system broke in November 2020. \"I had no vision, no Argus, and no support from Second Sight,\" he told the publication.\n\nHe considered having the device surgically removed but decided to ask other patients and doctors familiar with the system for help, and luckily found spare parts.\n\nSecond Sight told the magazine that during its financial difficulties it had had to reduce its workforce and \"was unable to continue the previous level of support and communication for Argus II users\".\n\nIt has since contacted users and doctors, saying it will do its best to \"provide virtual support\". But no repairs or replacements are possible for the implants.\n\nElizabeth M Renieris, professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame, in the US, described the development as a cautionary tale.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"This is a prime example of our increasing vulnerability in the face of high-tech, smart and connected devices which are proliferating in the healthcare and biomedical sectors.\n\n\"These are not like off-the-shelf products or services that we can actually own or control. Instead we are dependent on software upgrades, proprietary methods and parts, and the commercial drivers and success or failure of for-profit ventures.\"\n\nEthical considerations around such technology should in future include \"autonomy, dignity, and accountability\", she added.", "All children aged between five and 11 in Northern Ireland are to be offered vaccinations against Covid-19.\n\nThe announcement by Stormont's Department of Health follows the latest advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nSome children in this age group began receiving Covid vaccines in December.\n\nBut until now, jabs were only available to children with health conditions that put them at increased risk or those who live with an immunosuppressed patient.\n\nFollowing the updated JCVI advice, all five to 11-year-old children in Northern Ireland will be offered two vaccine doses, to be administered at least 12 weeks apart.\n\nThe injections will be 10-microgram doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine.\n\nThe paediatric dose is a third of the strength of an adult dose.\n\nThe announcement comes after Wales,Scotland and England also announced they would be following JCVI guidance.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said: \"As has always been the case, our vaccination programme will continue to be guided by the expert advice.\n\n\"This announcement by the JCVI underlines the important role that the Covid-19 vaccines plays in protecting people of all ages and has only been taken after rigorous assessment of both safety and effectiveness.\"\n\nHealth trusts would work with the Public Health Agency to put the advice into operation and further details of the roll-out would be released shortly, he added.\n\nThe JCVI said: \"This advice on the offer of vaccination to 5 to 11-year-olds who are not in a clinical risk group is considered by JCVI as a one-off pandemic response programme.\n\n\"As the Covid-19 pandemic moves further towards endemicity in the UK, JCVI will review whether, in the longer term, an offer of vaccination to this, and other paediatric age groups, continues to be advised.\"\n\nThe deaths of five more people who had previously tested positive for Covid-19 were reported in Northern Ireland on Wednesday, along with another 2,889 confirmed cases of the virus.\n\nOn Wednesday morning there were 474 Covid-19 patients in hospital, 12 of whom were in intensive care.", "Clarence House said Prince Charles had \"no knowledge of the alleged offer of honours or British citizenship on the basis of donation to his charities\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is to investigate claims Prince Charles' charity offered honours help to a Saudi citizen.\n\nThe force said it is investigating alleged offences under the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925.\n\nThere have been no arrests or interviews under caution, the Met said.\n\nThe Prince's Foundation said it would be \"inappropriate to comment on an ongoing investigation\".\n\nIt is understood to be continuing to offer its full co-operation to the Metropolitan Police.\n\nClarence House reiterated its previous insistence that Prince Charles had \"no knowledge of the alleged offer of honours or British citizenship on the basis of donation to his charities\".\n\nHe is president of the foundation but is not involved with its governance, with the charity's trustees overseeing its day-to-day activities.\n\nThe Met's decision to investigate follows its assessment of a letter it received last September relating to media reports that Prince Charles' former valet Michael Fawcett allegedly offered to help secure an honour for a Saudi citizen.\n\nAnti-monarchy pressure group Republic reported the heir to the throne and Mr Fawcett to the police last September.\n\nIts chief executive Graham Smith said: \"We hope the investigation will be carried out without fear or favour and be as thorough as it needs to be.\"\n\nAfter the allegations emerged, Mr Fawcett temporarily stepped back as chief executive of The Prince's Foundation, before resigning in November. The charity announced an investigation into the allegations.\n\nThe timing couldn't have been worse.\n\nThe early headlines on Wednesday were of Prince Andrew's settlement with Virginia Giuffre, of how he pays for it and the Queen's woes.\n\nBy lunchtime, things became more complicated, with news of the Metropolitan Police's \"cash for honours\" investigation into Prince Charles's charity foundation.\n\nIt leaves the prospect of the heir to the throne being questioned by the police as part of this inquiry.\n\nThese have been a turbulent couple of days for the royal family.\n\nPrince Charles's team have reinforced their statement that the prince knew nothing of any alleged offer of cash for honours and a knighthood.\n\nThis year was supposed to be one for a celebration of royalty and the Queen's historic 70-year reign.\n\nSo far, it's not the Jubilee making the headlines.\n\nThe royal household will hope the Prince Andrew situation is now resolved and that the Met Police investigation is completed quickly.\n\nBut so far, things haven't been running according to plan.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said in a statement that its decision to investigate alleged offences followed \"assessment of a September 2021 letter. This related to media reporting alleging offers of help were made to secure honours and citizenship for a Saudi national\".\n\nIt added: \"Officers liaised with The Prince's Foundation about the findings of an independent investigation into fundraising practices.\n\n\"These documents were reviewed alongside existing information. The assessment determined an investigation will commence.\n\n\"There have been no arrests or interviews under caution.\"\n\nBusinessman Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz is reported to have donated money to restoration projects of interest to Prince Charles. Mr Mahfouz is not accused of, and denies, any wrongdoing.\n\nHonours - such as MBEs, OBEs and CBEs - publicly recognise people's achievements in public life or commitment to serving Britain and anyone in the UK can nominate a British national to receive one.\n\nHonorary awards are given to people who are not British or a national of a country where the Queen is Head of State.\n\nMost are awarded on the recommendation of an honours committee within the Cabinet Office, which is then sent to the prime minister and awarded by the Queen.", "The ferry service out of Largs managed to continue on Wednesday, despite the winds from Storm Dudley Image caption: The ferry service out of Largs managed to continue on Wednesday, despite the winds from Storm Dudley\n\nThe managing director of CalMac ferries, Robbie Drummond, has told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that the operator was seeing an improving picture today.\n\nDespite the winds from Strom Dudley, which resulted in waves as high as an eight-storey building, Calmac ran 214 sailings - more than 54% of the timetable - yesterday.\n\nMr Drummond said CalMac was looking to run more services today, but he admitted that the majority of routes would still be subject to disruption.\n\nThe sailings worst affected include Coll and Tiree and Harris and Lewis.\n\nMr Drummond added that the services were on a mix of red, amber and green alert and he urged passengers to check before travelling.\n\nQuote Message: It was very challenging conditions, but we are seeing that reduce and we are aiming to get as many sailings done today as we can before the further bad weather sets in for Friday.\" from Robbie Drummond CalMac Ferries managing director It was very challenging conditions, but we are seeing that reduce and we are aiming to get as many sailings done today as we can before the further bad weather sets in for Friday.\"", "Dame Cressida arrives at New Scotland Yard the day after her resignation\n\nThe resignation of Britain's most senior police officer comes after a series of crises has engulfed the Metropolitan Police. Why has it proved so difficult to clean up the toxic culture associated with the force?\n\nIn full dress uniform, Dame Cressida Dick delivered her resignation speech on the balcony of New Scotland Yard, a slight break in her voice as she described the \"honour and privilege\" of leading the country's biggest police force.\n\nHer grim-faced aides appeared shocked by the speed of events. Inside the force, she is well-liked. She has defended \"my Met\", as she has called it, endlessly.\n\nBut over her shoulder, on Thursday evening, the lights of London glittered - a city arguably less fond of \"its Met\", since she took over five years ago. She failed to win the friends outside, that came so easily inside her organisation. Charities representing women, the families of murder victims, and parts of the media turned against her.\n\nThere were too many moments when the first woman to run the Metropolitan Police had had to apologise for its behaviour.\n\nNine hours earlier, the commissioner hadn't been planning to resign. She told a radio phone-in that her staff backed her and even the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, had said he trusted her.\n\nThat comment about the mayor seems to have brought him to a tipping point - along with new and horrifying disclosures about Charing Cross police station. His people contacted hers and made things clear. She no longer had his support.\n\nHer five years in charge started with the horrors of the 2017 terrorist attacks and the Grenfell Tower fire, and ends with the pandemic. Crime is up by 4% with 45% fewer cases solved. Knife crime fell as Covid struck, though there has been a recent series of teenage murders and there are concerns violent crime, Dame Cressida's priority, is rising again.\n\nBut she's been brought down by crimes and bad attitudes within her own ranks. Racism, misogyny, bullying and incompetence. Rape, and in the chilling case of Sarah Everard, murder.\n\nOver a long career, former Metropolitan Police detective Shabnam Chaudhri fought against \"the culture\", which for her included racist abuse.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC the day after Dame Cressida's resignation, she described policing as a closed community.\n\nThey disguise it as banter. There’s a saying ‘know your audience' - these guys know their audience\n\n\"They get so comfortable in their own company,\" she says, \"that when new people come in, they get indoctrinated to that way of thinking.\" It is a culture of \"corridor comments\".\n\n\"They disguise it as banter. There's a saying \"know your audience\". These guys know their audience.\"\n\nToo often, she says, officers complaining about misconduct, or perceived to be \"using the race card\" are briefed against, even when they move teams. She should know. It happened to her, again and again. A constant drag on her career ambitions.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has a whistleblowing hotline. A channel for raising complaints about poor attitudes. But Ms Chaudhri said it was used to make false allegations against her, because she had spoken out.\n\nIt is possible that a toxic culture at the Met was always there, but we couldn't see it as easily.\n\nA woman holds up placard at vigil to Sarah Everard at Clapham Common\n\nThings have changed. When officers arrest people, onlookers often start filming, their pictures shared instantly on social media. Footage from police body-worn cameras is sometimes made public during legal proceedings.\n\nAnd then there are messaging groups.\n\n\"They think they're safe within a group. These people act like a pack of wolves and the only way they get exposed is because these messages come out in the investigation process.\"\n\nGroup messages provided crucial evidence for Operation Hotton, the investigation into abusive behaviour at Charing Cross police station. This case appears to have convinced the mayor that enough was enough.\n\nThe investigation uncovered messages which were \"highly sexualised and/or violent and discriminatory, generally described as 'banter' by police officers\".\n\nThe comments were claimed to be a \"joke or game, or just a 'misunderstanding',\" an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct concluded.\n\nThere are a number of features of \"The Job\" which make this sort of behaviour more likely, according to a senior figure in policing who spoke on condition of anonymity.\n\n\"They say: 'He's going to be a good officer so we'll knock the rough edges off him.'\n\n\"But a leopard doesn't change his spots, and then you've got a problem for 30 years.\" Most officers join in their early 20s and retire at 50.\n\n\"Probationary constable misbehaviour needs to be dealt with early on,\" he says.\n\nGaps in vetting are one possible reason why the Met police officer Wayne Couzens' interest in extreme pornography and drug abuse were not discovered.\n\nIn his case, according to the \"banter\", his nickname was \"the rapist\". He was one. And a killer.\n\nIn one of the Met's many apologies, it said \"vetting is a snapshot in time and, unfortunately can never 100% guarantee an individual's integrity\".\n\nHer Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary is reviewing the vetting of officers, and will report later in the year.\n\nIn the Met, experience is highly valued. The force has major investigation teams capable of solving complex cases and made up of officers respected for what they've done in the past.\n\nMost of them do not contribute to the toxic culture which is now damaging trust in the force. But there's a concern that as careers progress in some teams, bad attitudes become entrenched.\n\nLeroy Logan, a retired superintendent, says police \"middle-managers\" are failing to tackle those views.\n\nCressida Dick on the day of her resignation\n\nThe sergeants and the inspectors should be the \"checks and balances\" in the organisation, he says.\n\n\"It's not being Mr or Ms Popular. You have to have the ethical leadership to hold people to account, which they don't like. But it's what you're supposed to do.\"\n\nShabnam Chaudhri puts it another way. \"We need the good officers to call out the bad ones.\"\n\nShe believes this goes right to the top and is among those who believe Dame Cressida Dick was too defensive of the Met, and not focused enough on communicating the depth of its cultural issues.\n\nThe Met's answer to all of this is Baroness Louise Casey. She is a respected public policy trouble-shooter, who has advised governments on everything from homelessness and families in crisis, to violence during the Euros at Wembley Stadium in 2021.\n\nNow she's been brought in by the Met to hunt down bad attitudes within its ranks, and stamp them out. But she has barely started. The BBC has been told she has only been able to begin work at New Scotland Yard this week because of recent ill-health.\n\nOne issue she is expected to deal with early on is that it can be difficult to get rid of bad officers.\n\nPolice employment rights are well protected, partly because as police officers they are not allowed to go on strike.\n\nThis means everything is dealt with formally, with a process akin to a criminal investigation. While in some cases the misconduct in question is criminal, the complexity of the process means there can be a tendency not to make complaints.\n\nSome cases go to the Independent Office for Police Conduct and take months to resolve. Baroness Louise Casey will be under pressure to speed things up.\n\nBut it could be one of her toughest assignments. Ms Chaudhri believes \"the culture\" will try to block her at every turn.\n\nWe have been told that some of Baroness Casey's ideas were included in a plan sent to mayor Sadiq Khan to persuade him not to move against the commissioner. A plan which was rejected.\n\nThis leaves the Met in a difficult position. Scotland Yard sources say Baroness Casey's work is due to continue up until Christmas. Even that sounds like a small window for changing the culture of a huge organisation.\n\nThe pressure is going to grow. A police complaints investigation into the case of Bianca Williams, a black athlete and her partner pulled from their car and handcuffed by the police, is due soon.\n\nIn addition, three Met police officers are currently facing criminal prosecutions: two for rape, one for unauthorised meetings with children.\n\nThe \"bad 'uns\", as Dame Cressida Dick controversially described them, are not just damaging those they work with. The harm they do to trust between people and the police makes the job of decent officers more difficult.\n\nAnd the taint spreads beyond London. The Met is supposed to be a totemic police force. Scotland Yard, known around the world. It sets standards for smaller forces. Its officers do specialist roles such as protecting the royals, or tracking terrorists.\n\nThe scandal, and the resignation of Dame Cressida Dick, have been deeply damaging.\n\nA former officer, respected in the ex-police community, spent the day after the resignation taking the temperature among his contacts within police forces.\n\nBy the evening, he had sent a text message: \"All looking to leave policing except the last few who are pension trapped. This has really damaged morale.\"", "Gareth Hughes received a cheque for more than £2.3tn\n\nAn energy firm has apologised after 74 customers hit by power cuts during Storm Arwen accidentally received compensation cheques for trillions of pounds.\n\nNorthern Powergrid is paying tens of thousands of pounds to customers hit by days of outages in November.\n\nBut a number with Halifax and Newcastle postcodes received cheques made out for 13-figure sums.\n\nNorthern Powergrid said a clerical error was to blame.\n\nPictures of the erroneous cheques have been circulating on social media days after the firm was criticised for taking months to process compensation claims.\n\nGareth Hughes, 44, from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, shared a picture of his cheque for more than £2.3tn.\n\nMr Hughes, who was without power for more than three days, said he had been sent a previous cheque for £135 but had complained as he was told he was entitled to more.\n\nHe said the new cheque made him smile, adding: \"But I knew it wasn't a value that could be realistic.\"\n\nMr Hughes was without power for more than three days during Storm Arwen\n\nA spokeswoman for Northern Powergrid said an electricity meter reference was incorrectly quoted as the payment sum.\n\n\"As soon as we identified the clerical error we ensured all 74 customers' cheques were stopped so they could not be cashed,\" she said.\n\nThe firm said the error was being investigated and is thought to be an isolated incident.\n\n\"We thank those customers who were honest and contacted us and we have been making contact directly over the weekend with all 74 customers affected to make them aware, apologise for the error and reassure them that a correct payment will be issued to them on Monday,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nThe winds of Strom Arwen brought down trees and power lines across the network causing mass power outages, with some properties in Northumberland and County Durham taking more than a week to be reconnected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "TV producer Beryl Vertue, whose company created the series Men Behaving Badly and Sherlock, has died aged 90.\n\nThe media executive, who rose to the top of the industry after starting as a secretary, \"passed away peacefully\" on Saturday, her family said.\n\nIndustry colleagues called her one of the most influential women in British TV.\n\nDaughters Sue and Debbie, producers at the company their mother founded, said: \"She meant so much to so many.\"\n\nVertue's career began when she was asked by the writers of Steptoe and Son, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, to type up their scripts.\n\nIn the mid-1950s, she began representing figures such as sitcom scriptwriter Johnny Speight and comedian Frankie Howerd, in effect becoming a talent agent.\n\nShe also had success selling shows such as Til Death Us Do Part and Steptoe and Son to the US market.\n\nIn 1979, she founded Hartswood films, producing a series of shows including the 1990s sitcom Men Behaving Badly, which starred Martin Clunes, Neil Morrissey, Leslie Ash and Caroline Quentin.\n\nHer company was also behind the critically acclaimed drama Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch, produced by Vertue and her daughter Sue, who is married to the series co-creator Steven Moffat.\n\nSue and Debbie said in a statement that their mother had remained sharp until the end of her life, continuing to grill her daughters about work in her final days.\n\nVertue was presented with a lifetime achievement award by Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch in 2016\n\n\"I know we're not alone in thinking that somehow she'd go on forever. She meant so much to so many,\" they said.\n\n\"She wasn't just our mum, she was our best friend, our mentor, our adviser, our role model, our holiday companion, our giggle-maker and our boss!\"\n\nThey said that \"she was often the last person at a party, she didn't suffer fools, she was fair, she was kind, she was fun, she was stubborn, in fact she was the total package and we will miss her beyond words\".\n\n\"She was more than a mother to us - she was also a friend. To many in the industry she was more than a friend - she was often a mother,\" her daughters added.\n\nWriter and actor Mark Gatiss - who co-created Sherlock and played the detective's brother, Mycroft - paid tribute to her \"extraordinary legacy\", from helping to type out scripts for the Goon Show to representing Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks.\n\n\"She saw it all and did most of it,\" he said. \"But foremost - a wonderful woman, a loyal colleague and an absolute scream. She was loved.\"\n\nActor and comedian Dawn French called her \"mighty and marvellous\" and said her death was \"a huge loss\".\n\nCharlotte Moore, the BBC's chief content officer, said Vertue was \"one of the most influential women in British broadcasting\" who \"literally helped shape the TV industry as we know it today\".\n\nVertue was made an OBE in 2000 and a CBE in 2016 for her work in the TV industry.\n\nShe also received a series of industry awards, including Bafta's Alan Clarke award for outstanding creative contribution to television in 2004.\n\nIn March 2012 she was recognised for her lifetime achievement at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards, and in 2016 she was presented with a similar award from Cumberbatch at the Women in Film and TV Awards.", "Ben Garratt says the warnings from UK and US governments mean he wants to leave - but he has to wait for paperwork for his newborn son\n\nBritish and other foreign nationals in Ukraine have been warned to flee the country amid rumours of an imminent Russian invasion. It has left families grappling with difficult dilemmas.\n\nDespite the warnings of an imminent invasion, Ken Stuart can't leave Ukraine.\n\nHis wife Tatiana has just given birth to a son, Douglas.\n\nKen, who is originally from Edinburgh, tells BBC Radio 5 Live: \"He doesn't have a birth certificate yet - it takes one to two weeks to get that - and without a birth certificate, he can't have a passport and without a passport, we can't leave the country.\"\n\nAn email from the British government sent to Ken and other UK nationals told them they \"should not expect increased consular support or help with evacuating following any Russian military activity in Ukraine\".\n\n\"So we are on our own as far as they are concerned,\" he says.\n\nThe conflict with Russia has focused on the eastern regions of Ukraine since it began in 2014, when Russia seized control of the country's Crimean peninsula.\n\nKen, whose home is in Ukraine's capital in the northern central region, says his only option of fleeing if an invasion happens is to stay with his wife's relatives in the west.\n\n\"We don't have any options other than to either stay put and see what happens or to try and pre-empt things a bit and go to the west of the country,\" he says.\n\nFellow Scot Stuart McKenzie is already planning to flee with his wife and two children, after nearly 30 years in Ukraine.\n\n\"With young children in the country I've got to take their safety as priority so we're definitely looking at getting them out of the country as soon as possible,\" he tells BBC Breakfast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Expat Stuart McKenzie: \"If the British embassy aren't here to help, everybody's on their own\"\n\nHe says he will probably drive out to Poland, where he has another business. His wife doesn't have a UK visa, so flying back to the UK is impossible.\n\nBut he's worried about the obstacles he might find as he tries to get out.\n\n\"So many people will be trying to leave at the same time, there won't be flights, the roads will be blocked, are you going to be able to get fuel for your car, is there going to be cash in the banking machines?\n\n\"There is going to be so many things happening, so much chaos happening.\"\n\nStuart says the Ukrainian government have been dealing with threats from Russia for eight years and is trying to maintain calm, but adds that the tension now feels different.\n\n\"Every day there is more and more threats, and we hear that as soon as next week we could have Russian troops in the country,\" he says.\n\nStudent Haider Ali arrived in Gatwick after his university in Ukraine told him to \"get out as soon as you can\"\n\nForeigners living in Ukraine don't want to leave, Stuart says. \"We love Ukraine and we've built our lives, families, businesses here.\"\n\nBut he says: \"These things can go out of control very fast, we've got to be on the right side of the chaos. To think of a border with a million cars and panic happening would be disastrous.\"\n\nSome Britons have already made it out of Ukraine, arriving back in the UK on Saturday, just hours after the Foreign Office issued its warning.\n\nAt Gatwick, Haider Ali, a 21-year-old from Birmingham who was studying in Dnipro in central Ukraine, tells PA News his university advised international students to \"get out as soon as you can\" - so he booked a £210 one-way ticket.\n\nHe says the Ukrainians are a \"laissez-faire\" people but in the last couple of days they have started to get worried. \"When that happens, alarm bells should be ringing.\"\n\nBut he says he hopes to return by June to continue his studies.\n\nTeacher Harry Lee sees no need to flee Kharkiv, 40 miles from the Russian border, just yet\n\nMeanwhile, in Kharkiv, just 40 miles from the border with Russia, Harry Lee is not planning to go anywhere - at least for now.\n\nHe says: \"Life is continuing largely as normal. There's been no signs of any panic, there's been no signs of people stockpiling things. Whereas in England, toilet paper and water bottles would be out of stock, here life is continuing.\"\n\nHarry, who is originally from Cambridge and works as a teacher in Ukraine's second-largest city, says he has a contingency plan if the situation worsens, intending to drive west or south-west into countries such as Moldova, Romania or Turkey.\n\nBut for others, crossing the border isn't an option, even though they want to get out as soon as they can.\n\nBen Garratt and his wife Alice moved to Kyiv from north London in December because they were having a baby through a surrogate.\n\nNow baby Raphael has arrived, but they need to provide proof of his British citizenship to get an emergency travel document, a more urgent alternative to a passport.\n\nBen Garratt says it is \"frustrating\" to have to wait for travel documents amid the crisis\n\n\"It's getting frustrating because we're being told by the UK government to leave the country... and we still don't have the document we need,\" Ben tells the PA News agency.\n\nHe says the passport office in Kyiv wants him to attend a two-hour interview on Wednesday, which seems \"bizarre\" amid the urgent warnings from governments around the world.\n\nBen says: \"If we take the advice at face value, it means the UK and also the US government are worried that Russian action is imminent - that makes us want to get out.\"", "Jack Jeffery, pictured holding the ball, was taken to hospital where he later died\n\nA rugby player who was seriously hurt while scoring a try during a match has died.\n\nEvesham Rugby Club player Jack Jeffery, 27, was taken to hospital after being injured in the seniors league game against Berkswell and Balsall on Saturday.\n\nHis father Glenn said he died \"doing what he loved the most, playing rugby\".\n\nClub chairman Dave Summerfield said the players were reeling as \"it was such a terrible shock\".\n\nGlenn Jeffery posted on Facebook: \"It is with great sadness that I need to let you know we lost our beloved son Jack yesterday.\"\n\nHe described him as the \"most kind hearted, generous and beautiful son who enriched the lives of everyone who was lucky to know and have met him\".\n\n\"He will be so missed by his family and friends,\" he said.\n\nA flag was flown at half-mast at Evesham Rugby Club as a mark of respect for the \"extremely popular player\", Mr Summerfield said.\n\nHe said the accident had \"affected the players greatly\", adding: \"As a club, we have been overwhelmed by the messages of support and goodwill from the rugby community.\n\n\"Jack was calm, respected and highly thought of. Our club and community have lost such a bright light.\"\n\nA statement on the club's website said Mr Jeffery, who lived in London, was \"adding another try to his phenomenal record\" and was injured in an accident on the pitch as he scored.\n\n\"He would often return from London for training and was always at the heart of club activities,\" it added.\n\n\"He served his club, his teammates and the county with distinction and provided much satisfaction to the club supporters in knowing exactly where the whitewash [try line] was.\"\n\nPremiership side Worcester Warriors tweeted a message of condolence to his family, friends and teammates.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Worcester Warriors This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Rugby Football Union said in a tweet it extended its \"heartfelt sympathies\" to the family and friends of the player.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone in the game are with Evesham Rugby Football Club, their players, members and the wider rugby community,\" it added.\n\nNigel Huddleston, Conservative MP for Mid Worcestershire, tweeted: \"My deepest sympathies go to his family, friends and teammates. The outpouring of messages shows how incredibly popular he was.\"\n\nEvesham thanked everyone who had supported Mr Jeffery \"in his moment of need\" and for the messages of support received from other clubs.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cabinet Office minister Steve Barclay has said his appointment to chief of staff is \"an honour\"\n\nGovernment will take a \"step back\" from people's lives and pursue \"a smaller state\", the PM's new top aide has said.\n\nSteve Barclay told the Sunday Telegraph that while public health interventions and vast amounts spent in the pandemic were the right decisions, it was time for \"a more enabling approach\".\n\nThe PM made cabinet minister Mr Barclay his new chief of staff last week.\n\nNo 10 says the prime minister will focus on domestic policy on a tour of parts of the UK this week.\n\nIt comes as Boris Johnson faces continued criticism and concern from some Conservative MPs about his leadership.\n\nMr Barclay's appointment as chief of staff was part of a No 10 shake-up in the wake of civil servant Sue Gray's initial report into Downing Street lockdown parties, and the ongoing police investigation into gatherings.\n\nIn his first public comments since then, Mr Barclay writes: \"Now it is a priority to restore a smaller state - both financially and in taking a step back from people's lives.\n\n\"It's time to return to a more enabling approach. To trust the people, return power to communities, and free up business to deliver.\"\n\nAs chief of staff, Mr Barclay is the prime minister's most senior advisor with, No 10 says, responsibility for \"driving the government's agenda more efficiently and ensuring it is better aligned with the cabinet and backbenchers\".\n\nThe role is usually a political appointment rather than a civil servant position.\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he would be \"getting out of London\" this week to focus on \"the job of uniting and levelling up the country\".\n\nMr Johnson will travel to Scotland to visit a manufacturing site and meet with workers.\n\nBut the trip comes in the week he is required to respond to a police questionnaire about events in No 10 during lockdown.\n\nThe Met Police has said the questions, which have been sent by email to more than 50 people, \"must be answered truthfully\" and should be responded to within seven days.\n\nThe questionnaire has the same status as information given in an interview under caution.\n\nBut being contacted does not mean a fine would always be issued, the police have said.\n\nFormer Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said it would be \"very tough\" for Mr Johnson to cling on to power if he is fined.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said he believed Mr Johnson would \"go on and fight the next election successfully\".", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCaptain Dan Biggar kicked 15 points in his 100th international to guide Wales to victory against Scotland.\n\nBiggar sealed the win with a late drop-goal after opposite number Finn Russell had received a 68th-minute yellow card for a deliberate knock-on.\n\nScotland wing Darcy Graham and Wales prop Tomas Francis scored tries while Biggar and Russell kicked penalties as the first half ended 14-14.\n\nThere were no second-half tries but Biggar's intervention clinched the win.\n\nIt proved a captivating contest in Cardiff as Wales bounced back from the disappointment of an opening Six Nations weekend defeat against Ireland.\n\nIt was a vastly improved performance from Wayne Pivac's side as they found the physicality missing in the Dublin defeat, typified by hooker Ryan Elias being named man of the match.\n• None 'It's a horrible feeling' says Hogg after Scotland 'chucked it away'\n\nThe victory was a fitting occasion for Biggar and Jonathan Davies who both celebrated reaching the milestone of 100 internationals.\n\nIn contrast Scotland celebrated a Calcutta Cup victory against England last weekend, but their 20-year record of not winning in Cardiff goes on with a 11th successive defeat in the Welsh capital.\n\nGregor Townsend's side won away at Twickenham and Stade de France last season, but those stadiums were empty, unlike the raucous reception they received at the home of Welsh rugby.\n\nStuart Hogg's men also enjoyed success in Llanelli in October 2020 but that was also in front of an empty stadium after the match had been postponed in March that year because of Covid-19.\n\nThat major victory on the road in front of a capacity crowd remains elusive.\n\nWales coach Pivac got his tactics and changes right as he gave a debut to Ospreys flanker Jac Morgan while Ross Moriarty was also recalled in the back row alongside Taine Basham.\n\nCentre Owen Watkin replaced the injured Josh Adams, while wing Alex Cuthbert made a first Six Nations appearance in five years in place of Johnny McNicholl on the wing.\n\nScotland made five changes, with injured flanker Jamie Ritchie ruled out for the tournament and replaced by Exeter forward Sam Skinner.\n\nThe front row swapped completely, with Pierre Schoeman, Stuart McInally and WP Nel starting, while centre Sione Tuipulotu was also selected.\n\nLock Grant Gilchrist led the side out on his 50th cap and it was Matt Fagerson who led an early charge for Scotland.\n\nFull-back Liam Williams turned the ball over and released Watkin, Biggar and Tomos Williams for an incisive counter-attack.\n\nIt was only halted when Scotland captain Hogg knocked the ball forward. Australia referee Nic Berry decided it was not deliberate, which could have resulted in a yellow card for the visiting full-back.\n\nScotland were penalised at the ensuing scrum with Biggar slotting over the penalty and soon doubled the lead.\n\nLions wing Duhan van der Merwe launched the attack for the Scotland riposte with Graham reaping the benefit on the opposite wing after being the beneficiary of a long Russell pass.\n\nGraham produced a superb finish in the right corner after shrugging off the attempted tackle of Louis Rees-Zammit.\n\nRussell missed the conversion, but slotted over two penalties with the hosts punished for the kind of indiscipline that was also seen in Dublin.\n\nWales retaliated with a sustained attack that culminated in a third Biggar penalty before Russell responded with three points after outstanding breakdown work from Hamish Watson.\n\nA searching 50:22 attacking kick from Liam Williams provided the platform for prop Francis to eventually burrow over to leave the half-time score at 14-14.\n\nScotland, who were also warned for their ill-discipline, lost Fagerson to injury with Magnus Bradbury replacing the number eight.\n\nThe visitors brought on a new front row of George Turner, Rory Sutherland and Zander Fagerson as the second half started in cagey fashion.\n\nRussell broke the impasse with a penalty after Wales transgressed at a ruck.\n\nWilliams provided an impudent flick pass in his 22 before Biggar, who was battling on with a leg injury, levelled the scores with his fourth penalty.\n\nIn a raft of replacements, Aaron Wainwright and Dillon Lewis replaced Moriarty and Francis, while Scotland flanker Rory Darge made his debut from the bench.\n\nWales scrum-half Williams was becoming increasingly influential with his sniping breaks, before drama ensued after a Biggar penalty attempt.\n• None Relive the match and reaction as it happened: Wales 20-17 Scotland\n• None 'That's one of my best Wales wins' - Biggar\n\nThe ball hit the bar and was gathered by Cuthbert before the wing almost scored in the left-hand corner.\n\nThat was ruled out after the Wales wing was bundled into touch before scoring, but Russell was shown a yellow card for a deliberate knock-on earlier in the move.\n\nCentre Jonathan Davies received a huge roar as he entered the field for his 100th international when he came on as a replacement for Nick Tompkins.\n\nBiggar then nudged Wales ahead with a drop-goal as he ignored a penalty advantage and the prospect of going for a try to claim the three points.\n\nIt proved the right decision. A frantic finale saw Taine Basham give away a late penalty for a high tackle but the flanker avoided any further sanction.\n\nScotland were forced to chase victory from their own line but Wales' dogged defence stood firm.", "Police moved in on the remaining protesters in large numbers on Sunday morning\n\nPolice have cleared the remaining protesters blocking a key bridge between Canada and the United States, after a week of disruption.\n\nCanada's protests against Covid vaccine certification to cross the border have paralysed trade across the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario.\n\nA judge issued an order on Friday to break up the protest, but dozens of demonstrators remained in defiance.\n\nPolice have now cleared the road, though the bridge remains closed.\n\nIn a statement, police said Sunday's action resulted in over a dozen arrests on a charge of mischief - which refers to damage or interference with property. Multiple vehicles were also seized, police said, none of the arrests became violent.\n\nThe clearing effort first began on Saturday morning, when many of the vehicles involved left peacefully on police orders. But as news of the police action spread, more protesters turned up, temporarily swelling the crowd.\n\nBut by Sunday morning, only a few dozen people remained, and police resumed their operation.\n\nWithin hours, only a small number of stragglers remained on the sidelines, though police vehicles, rather than protesters, continue to block off the road to the Ambassador Bridge.\n\nWindsor police warned people to avoid the area of the bridge, tweeting: \"Enforcement will continue in the demonstration area and there will be zero tolerance for illegal activity.\"\n\nOfficials say they hope to reopen the bridge later on Sunday.\n\nThe police came to oust the remaining protesters in the early cold of Sunday morning, putting an end to the blockade that had ground traffic on one of Canada's most important trade routes to a halt for nearly a week.\n\nTheir numbers had dwindled overnight from a couple hundred protesters on Saturday to just about 30 stalwarts willing to brave the -17C (1F) temperature over night.\n\nPolice had erected concrete barricades, effectively boxing their encampments - located south of the Ambassador Bridge - and surrounded them in tactical gear.\n\n\"Nobody is doing anything there. We're all just standing there with our Canadian flags, we want freedom\", protester Tyler Kok told the BBC.\n\n\"I heard one of the cops say 'we're taking the trucks first' so I mean that's kind of the beginning of the end. I was hoping it wasn't going to end like this, I was hoping the police would allow us to continue to peacefully protest,\" he added.\n\nThat protest had already cost the country hundreds of millions of dollars in lost trade.\n\nAbout a kilometre down the road, after breaking up Mr Kok and his friends, police moved in to end a second small encampment.\n\nHorns honked loud in protest, but with police far outnumbering protesters, their noise was a swan song, not a rallying cry.\n\nThe protest has inspired others around the world to stage similar action, in a bid to congest city roads and attract attention - such as in France, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.\n\nParis saw hundreds of vehicles converge on the city from around France on Saturday, in a self-styled Freedom Convoy which aimed to disrupt traffic in protest against the use of Covid passes to enter bars, restaurants, and public spaces.\n\nHundreds of motorists were fined over the banned protests, and dozens of people were arrested amid volleys of tear gas near the Champs-Elysées.\n\nMany protesters planned to move on to Brussels - home to several key EU institutions - to join up with a wider European movement based on the Canadian demonstrations. Brussels has also banned the event.", "Protesters tried to argue with police\n\nPolice have started to clear a blockade of the main crossing between Canada and the United States.\n\nAfter days of protests by truckers against Covid rules at the Ambassador Bridge in Ontario, officers urged them to heed an injunction against the demonstration.\n\nTruckers' protests against Covid vaccine mandates are also ongoing at other border crossings and in Ottawa.\n\nThe self-styled \"Freedom Convoy\" movement was started by Canadian truckers opposed to a vaccinate-or-quarantine order for drivers crossing the border.\n\nFriday's court order against the blockade was filed by the city of Windsor and the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, which argued that it was losing as much as $50m ($39m; £29m) per day because of the convoy.\n\nFollowing the injunction, Windsor Police put out a statement to \"make demonstrators clearly aware that it is a criminal offence\" to block the border crossing. The police added that a criminal conviction could lead to the seizure of vehicles and the inability to enter the US.\n\nBut hours later, crowds of people waving Canadian flags flouted the order and continued to occupy the bridge.\n\nWhile police had some initial success in clearing the road on Saturday, more supporters arrived as the day went on until they once again outnumbered the officers trying to move the crowds away.\n\n\"We urge all demonstrators to act lawfully [and] peacefully,\" police said in a statement. \"Commuters are still being asked to avoid the areas affected by the demonstrations at this time.\"\n\nHundreds of other protesters continue to demonstrate in the centre of Ottawa, the nation's capital. Two other border crossings with the US are also being blocked by anti vaccine mandate protesters.\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with US President Joe Biden about the border blockades on Friday.\n\nThe week-long disruption to the bridge, which accounts for roughly 25% of US-Canada goods trade, rocked the car manufacturing industry.\n\nGeneral Motors, Ford, Toyota and Honda plants have been forced to halt production and cancel work shifts due to parts shortages caused by the blockade.\n\nIn the cold light of Saturday morning, police came in to break up the blockade at the Ambassador Bridge.\n\nArriving in city buses, they created a flank along the north side of the protest, which had blocked several lanes of traffic, preventing people - and millions of dollars of trade - from reaching the US, which is just on the other side of the border.\n\nWearing balaclavas to protect them from the bitter wind, with some carrying heavy weapons, the officers made it known that the party-protest, which had been going for almost a week, had come to an end.\n\nThe protesters were not happy, but neither were they surprised that it was coming to an end. Some thanked the police and expressed their support for law enforcement, while one man cried \"You should be ashamed!\"\n\n\"They're gonna have to move us out. We'll be peaceful and we'll lock arms and show unity,\" said Dan, a protester who declined to give his last name to the BBC.\n\n\"If that's what they need to do, give me a ticket and I'll see you in court.\"\n\nSlowly, and with the help of an armoured vehicle, police have been inching forward, encroaching on the blockade.\n\nSome have voluntarily driven away. Others began to break down the mess-hall tents.\n\nIt will likely take a few hours to move the hundred or so vehicles - most of them pickups and SUVs, with a handful of heavy commercial lorries - to disperse.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, Mr Trudeau urged the truckers \"to go home now\", saying their frustration with Covid measures had been \"heard\".\n\n\"If you join the protests because you are tired of Covid, you need to understand that you are breaking laws. The consequences are becoming more and more severe,\" he warned.\n\n\"You don't want to end up losing your licence, end up with a criminal record, which will impact your job, your livelihood, even your ability to travel internationally, including to the US.\"\n\nHe is due to meet with his advisors on an emergency committee known as the Incident Response Group on Saturday.\n\nBut many of those protesting at the bridge said they would continue to demonstrate no matter the consequences.\n\n\"Bring it,\" one of those blocking the bridge, Chris Mayville, told Canadian broadcaster CBC News.\n\n\"Do you think I care? Do you think I care about a fine? I'm going to pay a fine? No. You think I care about their mandates? No. This needs to end.\"\n\nElsewhere, in Canada's financial capital Toronto, police braced for protests by expanding a cordon in the city centre.\n\nThere were also tense scenes in France, where thousands of police officers attempted to stop anti-restriction demonstrators from disrupting traffic in Paris.", "A section of the B4242 between Ynysarwed and Aberdulais, in Neath Port Talbot was shut because of flooding, police said\n\nA man has been rescued from a car trapped in flood waters after heavy rain caused disruption across Wales.\n\nTwo people managed to escape from the car on a coastal road in Carmarthenshire before fire crews were called to rescue the third.\n\nA flood warning has also been issued for the River Towy between Llandeilo and Abergwili in Carmarthenshire.\n\nA separate Met Office weather warning was in place until 18:00 GMT, affecting 12 counties in mid and south Wales.\n\nA swift water rescue team saved the man from a car along the A4066 between St Clears and Llanybri just before 16:00 on Sunday, Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nThe road was closed on both sides of the incident because of the flood water.\n\nFlooding of a \"few homes and businesses\" was likely, along with spray and floods \"making journey times longer\", the Met Office said.\n\nThe weather warning covered 12 counties in mid and south Wales on Sunday\n\nNatural Resources Wales has issued flood alerts on rivers in parts of Ceredigion, Neath Port Talbot, Powys, Carmarthenshire, Gwynedd, Conwy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend and Pembrokeshire.\n\nStrong winds have seen restrictions imposed on M48 Severn Bridge in Monmouthshire, and on the A55 Britannia Bridge between Anglesey and Gwynedd, according to traffic analysts Inrix.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ukrainian soldiers and police have conducted a wide range of exercises in recent days\n\nUkraine has called for a meeting with Russia and other members of a key European security group over the escalating tensions on its border.\n\nForeign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Russia had ignored formal requests to explain the build-up of troops.\n\nHe said the next step was requesting a meeting within the next 48 hours for transparency about Russia's plans.\n\nRussia has denied any plans to invade Ukraine despite the build-up of some 100,000 soldiers on Ukraine's borders.\n\nBut with the US saying Moscow could begin with aerial bombardments \"at any time\" more than a dozen nations have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine.\n\nUkraine's ambassador in London, Vadym Prystaiko, has backtracked on comments he made to the BBC in which he said Ukraine was willing to be \"flexible\" on its ambition to join Nato, which would have been be a major concession to Russia.\n\nBut in a subsequent interview he said that Ukraine had a constitutional commitment to join Nato and it depended on the \"readiness of Nato itself\" whether Ukraine would be admitted.\n\nBritish Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said the UK would support whatever Ukraine decided to do.\n\nUkraine has made a request via the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) for Russia to explain its build-up of troops. Under the Vienna Document, of which Russia is party to, OSCE members can ask for information on a member's military activities.\n\n\"If Russia is serious when it talks about the indivisibility of security in the OSCE space, it must fulfil its commitment to military transparency in order to de-escalate tensions and enhance security for all,\" Mr Kuleba said.\n\nHowever, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, who criticised the \"panic\" that could spread from such claims, said he had seen no proof that Russia was planning an invasion in the coming days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Sunday, he spoke for nearly an hour by phone with US President Joe Biden. The White House said President Biden had reiterated US support for Ukraine, and that both leaders had agreed on \"the importance of continuing to pursue diplomacy and deterrence\".\n\nUkraine's statement of the call said its president had thanked the US for its \"unwavering support\" and that, at the end, President Zelensky had invited the US leader to come to Ukraine. There has been no comment on the invite from the White House.\n\nAn hour-long call between President Biden and Russian leader Vladimir Putin the day before failed to yield a breakthrough.\n\nIn the latest attempt to find a diplomatic solution, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has meetings scheduled with President Zelensky in Kyiv later on Monday and with President Putin in Moscow on Tuesday.\n\nThe chancellor, who took over the leadership of Germany from Angela Merkel in December, has warned of severe economic consequences for Russia if it should launch any invasion, echoing statements by other Western nations and members of the Nato military alliance.\n\nBut Berlin officials have downplayed any expectation of a breakthrough.\n\nMeanwhile, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to hold fresh diplomatic talks across Europe to bring Russia \"back from the brink\" of war.\n\nIn Washington, President Biden's National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said an invasion could begin \"any day now\".\n\nMr Sullivan said the US is closely monitoring for a potential \"false flag\" operation by Moscow as a pretext for a full-scale invasion so it can claim it is responding to Ukrainian aggression.\n\nRussia contends that its build-up of troops along the Ukraine border is its own concern, within its own territory. On Sunday, senior foreign policy official Yuri Ushakov characterised the US warnings of imminent invasion as \"hysteria has reached its peak\".", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nBoth of Great Britain's curling teams boosted their semi-final hopes at the Winter Olympics with wins over Denmark and China.\n\nBruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, and Hammy McMillan saw off China 7-6 and the Danes 8-2.\n\nThey sit second in the standings after five games.\n\nEve Muirhead, Vicky Wright, Jen Dodds and Hailey Duff beat Denmark 7-2 to move joint third in the women's section.\n\nThe teams each play nine matches in the round-robin stage, with the top four advancing to the semi-finals.\n\nMouat's rink return to the ice first on Monday to face fellow contenders Switzerland at 06:05 GMT, while Muirhead's side have the chance to effectively eliminate medal hopefuls Canada (12:05).\n\nSitting on two wins and one loss after Saturday's games, the men's team had the chance to build some momentum against the perceived weaker sides, but were still put to the test.\n\nThey managed to score in just two ends against the Chinese, but a four in the second and a three in the eighth was enough for victory.\n\nDenmark were winless from their previous four matches and Mouat's rink - world silver medallists and European champions - were ruthless in punishing early mistakes for a 4-1 lead at the halfway point.\n\nMikkel Krause's rink stayed within three scores until the eighth end, but conceded after losing three.\n\nThe British side now have four wins and one defeat from five games.\n\nAfter losing two of their first three matches, Muirhead's side were under pressure - and backed up their 10-5 win against the United States.\n\nThey immediately hit the front by taking two in the first end with the hammer, but Denmark kept pace all the way to the ninth end in a cagey encounter.\n\nAfter Britain emerged from a closely fought eighth end with one and a 4-2 lead, Denmark skip Madeleine Dupont was left with a difficult draw to stop Muirhead's side scoring three, but her attempt was heavy.\n\nThey now have a record of three wins and two defeats.\n\n\"We had a really strong start out there, we were going well going a couple up early on but we always felt in control,\" said third Vicky Wright.\n\n\"It was good to get two wins back-to-back but tomorrow is another day and we start fresh again.\"\n• None Two teams of petrol lovers battle against each other in their super tractors\n• None Was this just a freak accident? The story of what really happened when a ship crashed into the sandy banks of the Suez Canal", "Samantha Morton, who was homeless as a teenager, says the care system \"clearly isn't working\"\n\nThe actress Samantha Morton has accused the government of being \"neglectful\" towards 16 and 17-year-olds in care.\n\nThe law changed last September so under-16s must be in regulated settings like children's homes or foster care.\n\nThat does not apply to older teens, who can be in supported or semi-independent accommodation such as a hostel.\n\nMs Morton - who lived in care and was homeless at 16 - expressed anger that, nearly 30 years later, many still find themselves without sufficient support.\n\nIn 2020, over 6,000 teenagers were living in supported accommodation - the vast majority aged 16 and 17.\n\nFigures obtained by the charity Article 39 show that 22 children aged 16 and 17 died while living in supported accommodation between 2018 and 2020.\n\nThis week, the charity took the government to the High Court, arguing that the policy was discriminatory and ministers had not properly consulted young people who had been placed in supported accommodation. Judgment is expected in the next few weeks.\n\nThe Department for Education said councils had a \"duty to ensure children in their care have safe, stable accommodation until they reach adulthood\".\n\nIt added that \"supported accommodation can be right for some young people\" and it was bringing in checks on the quality of such provision.\n\nMs Morton, who grew up in Nottinghamshire and suffered abuse while in care, warned in 2019 that the county's system was \"still not fit for purpose\" - despite a major inquiry into historical abuse in care homes.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday, she said: \"If 22 children have died… it clearly isn't working.\"\n\nMs Morton cited the case of Caitlin Sharp, a 17-year-old girl with epilepsy who died in 2019 after being placed in supported accommodation against professional advice.\n\nAfter her death it was discovered she had not taken her medication for five months.\n\nMs Morton said the situation was \"just heart breaking\" and she was \"lost for words… that [the government] think this is OK\".\n\nShe said it \"feels criminal\" that a 15-year-old could be living in a very supportive environment, but when they turn 16 \"they'd be moved to rented, shared accommodation alongside someone who'd been released from prison with a tag\".\n\nArticle 39's director Carolyne Willow said there was extensive research showing children in this type of housing were vulnerable to criminal or sexual exploitation.\n\nShe explained that many such young people \"feel lonely and isolated and abandoned\" when placed in properties on their own.\n\nMs Willow said: \"We are the sixth richest country in the world. Our care system for very vulnerable children should be modelled on the best of family life, not designed around institutional neglect.\"\n\nMs Morton also said she worried providers were not \"accountable\" any more, as so much of children's social care was now operated by private companies.\n\nPlaces in supported accommodation are usually far cheaper for councils than children's homes, often costing several hundred pounds per week.\n\nThe current cost of a place in a home regulated by Ofsted is about £4,500 per week. If the child is vulnerable, that can rise to £10,000 or more.\n\nThe government has commissioned an independent review of children's social care which is expected to report later this year.\n\nThere has been an outcry in the last few months over the deaths of Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. Both were murdered at home - but were known to social services, who failed to protect them.\n\nMs Morton pointed out that the deaths of teenagers actually in the care of the state had received far less attention.\n\nShe said: \"If we had an image on the front page of a newspaper of 22 very cute, very small children that had died in the care of the local authority… there would be absolute uproar about this.\n\n\"But because they're a different age bracket - there isn't.\"", "Police were called to Rotherham District General Hospital on Saturday night\n\nA hospital patient has been arrested on suspicion of murdering another patient who died after a fight.\n\nPolice were called to Rotherham District General Hospital at about 20:55 GMT on Saturday to reports that two men had been fighting.\n\nOne of the patients, aged 48, died of his injuries in the early hours.\n\nA 47-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Police said they were working with the hospital to establish what had happened.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nurse Michelle Doyle says the positive feedback from those using the mobile clinic in the north west has been overwhelming\n\nAdditional healthcare services for people who are homeless are to be rolled out across Northern Ireland.\n\nSome provisions are currently in place across the region.\n\nBut the Public Health Agency (PHA) has begun work to expand those services currently on offer.\n\nIts aim is to help vulnerable people who are homeless, and who often slip through the gaps when it comes to healthcare.\n\nTwo new mobile clinics were recently set up in the north west and Belfast.\n\nThey are run by healthcare professionals for the homeless from the local trusts, alongside the Welcome Organisation, a group that provides services for the homeless community.\n\nA hub called the Belfast Inclusion Health Service, which is run by the Belfast Trust, was also permanently set up beside the Welcome Organisation's drop in centre in the city, following the success of its pilot in 2018.\n\nThe PHA has said the complex needs of people who are homeless differ in each of Northern Ireland's five trust areas, but that there was a need to develop regional homeless care.\n\nUnder the PHA plans, the Belfast Inclusion Health Service will be the main hub, with a smaller hub to be developed in Londonderry.\n\nThe other three trusts will have smaller health teams, but all of the teams will be linked for \"specialist advice and guidance, regular meetings, training and education\".\n\nThe Belfast Inclusion Health Service is based beside the Welcome Organisation's drop-in centre\n\nA PHA spokesperson said a nurse focusing on the homeless had been funded in each of the trusts, with an additional part-time podiatrist for the Western Trust area.\n\nRecruitment is under way.\n\nThe PHA said the nurses would develop an assessment of the homeless population's needs in their respective trust area.\n\nMost recent figures from the Housing Executive show that between January and June 2021, 8,610 people presented themselves as homeless in Northern Ireland.\n\nAlmost two-thirds of those were accepted as statutorily homeless.\n\nEvery year, about 18,000 households present as homeless in Northern Ireland.\n\nThat includes people who are sleeping rough, but also those affected by hidden homelessness like people in temporary accommodation, sofa surfing, people living in poor conditions and those living at risk of violence in the home.\n\nAccording to the Welcome Organisation, the life expectancy of someone sleeping rough is about 43 years old.\n\nThe new mobile unit operating in Belfast and the north west belongs to the Welcome Organisation but is run alongside staff from local health trusts.\n\nIt was the first of its kind in Northern Ireland when it first hit the streets in November 2021.\n\nThe unit travels to shelters and hostels or is often parked up on streets for harder-to-reach people who want to avail of their services.\n\nThe van used is kitted out with a bed, a fridge for transporting refrigerated pharmaceuticals including vaccines, a water system and a bench where medical staff can prepare their procedures.\n\nThe mobile health clinic has been kitted out with a range of equipment\n\nMichelle Doyle, nurse for the homeless in the Western Trust, says the mobile unit is also about getting people who are homeless back into general health services.\n\n\"As a nurse, I also do referrals to GPs and update client details because they often move around a lot and end up missing crucial appointments as their letters go out to an old address,\" she said.\n\nMs Doyle says the response to the \"invaluable\" service has been overwhelming as it has helped \"open doors\" for clients.\n\n\"The hostels and support staff are delighted to have access to the unit,\" she said.\n\nThose who use it do not have to make appointments, she added.\n\nKieran Hughes, Welcome Organisation; Bill Higgins, driver and Michelle Doyle, nurse at the western trust\n\nKieran Hughes from the Welcome Organisation said he would like to see the potentially \"life-saving\" unit made available in every part of Northern Ireland, as the existing Belfast service is not accessible to those outside the city.\n\n\"Time on the streets can lead to serious health problems like flu or a virus that can potentially be a killer,\" he said.\n\nThe existing Belfast service includes nursing and GP services, dental care, podiatry, mental health support and social work.\n\nMr Hughes said the Covid-19 pandemic and the affect it has had on job losses and people's mental health could also potentially lead to more homelessness.\n\nThe South Eastern Trust said it provides support for people who are experiencing homelessness including visits to the Simon Community and Women's Aid during the pandemic.\n\nThe trust also helps migrant families or those seeking asylum.\n\nThe Northern Trust said it has assigned a public health nurse to each of the homeless hostels registered in the trust area.", "Relatives and locals carry a coffin containing the body of a man for his funeral in Khanewal on Sunday\n\nA mob has killed a man for allegedly burning pages of the Koran in central Pakistan, police say, in the latest case of blasphemy-related violence in the country.\n\nPolice say more than 80 people have been arrested in connection with the killing on Saturday in the district of Khanewal in Punjab province.\n\nReports said the man was in police custody before a crowd snatched him.\n\nHis body was handed over to his family and a funeral held on Sunday.\n\nPakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said the case would be \"dealt with the full severity of the law\" and asked for a report on police officers accused of failing their duty to save the man.\n\nHis government, he said, had \"zero tolerance for anyone taking the law into their own hands\".\n\nPolice official Munawar Hussain said officers arrived to find the man, reportedly in his 40s, unconscious and tied to a tree. Khanewal is located 275km (170 miles) south-west of Lahore.\n\n\"The villagers armed with batons, axes and iron rods killed him and hanged his body from a tree,\" Mr Hussain told Reuters news agency.\n\nMunawar Gujjar, chief of the police station in Tulamba, where the incident happened, added to the AP news agency the victim had been \"mentally unstable for the last 15 years\".\n\nThe killing comes just over two months after a Sri Lankan factory manager was beaten to death and set ablaze by a mob over blasphemy in Sialkot city, also in Punjab province.\n\nPakistan's blasphemy laws carry a potential death sentence for anyone who insults Islam, but critics say they have been used to persecute minority faiths and unfairly target minorities.\n\nThe laws have been used to settle personal scores in cases which can appear to have little or nothing to do with religion, according to human rights groups.", "Clare Sinton is calling for midwives and health visitors to be trained to diagnose tongue-tie\n\nTongue-tie is a condition which affects about 10% of newborn babies in the UK, but parents say they can face major struggles for services and support.\n\nIt occurs when the strip of skin connecting the tongue and the floor of the mouth is shorter than usual, and can affect feeding, although not always.\n\nTwo mums have told the BBC of their problems trying to feed their newborn babies with the condition.\n\nThis is how mother-of-two Clare Sinton described her experience breastfeeding her tongue-tied baby.\n\nSome babies with the condition struggle to latch on to the breast, but awareness of it as an infant feeding issue can be poor, and tongue-tie can be hard to spot.\n\nA simple procedure available on the NHS resolves feeding issues almost immediately, but some parents seek private treatment costing up to £400 to avoid waiting, or abandon breastfeeding altogether.\n\nClare has questioned why mums are \"having to fight when you're at your lowest ebb, and be listened to when you know something isn't right?\".\n\nShe said: \"It's amazing that in this day and age you still have to fight for an assessment or diagnosis, and then still pay for an urgent procedure, despite it tearing you to shreds and risking your ability to breastfeed.\"\n\nClare said there was \"no way\" she could have continued to breastfeed if Lily's tongue-tie had not been treated\n\nWhen she had her daughter Lily in October, she knew something was not right with her feeding immediately.\n\n\"It was excruciatingly painful,\" Clare, from Westbury-on-Trym in Bristol, said. \"It felt like someone was dragging barbed wire or blades through my nipples.\n\n\"I breastfed my son for 19 months so I knew what it should feel like, and it felt wrong from the get-go.\"\n\nClare suspected Lily might have a posterior tongue-tie, but a midwife at Southmead Hospital was unable to confirm if she was correct.\n\nWhen Lily was born Clare said she knew something was not right with her feeding straight away\n\nRecalling the first few days at home, she said: \"I was crying with every feed. It felt like she (Lily) had a beak, like a turtle clamping down on me.\n\n\"I was beside myself. I was in pain constantly 24/7. I was dreading every feed and Lily was feeling the tension in my body.\"\n\nBy this point, Clare was black and blue from Lily's attempts to breastfeed. She started researching private treatment, and found a specialist in Cardiff.\n\nAfter a short assessment it was confirmed Lily had a posterior tongue-tie and not long afterwards, it was snipped. Clare said feeding her felt better \"immediately\" and a few weeks later they were breastfeeding successfully.\n\nThe 40-year-old said: \"It was really quite emotional. I just sobbed because I was so relieved. It was like a weight had come off my shoulders, it was incredible.\n\n\"Those five days [when Lily first came home] were absolute hell. It left me feeling very helpless and thinking this is so unfair that women should have to go through what I've been through.\"\n\nTongue-tie is where the strip of skin connecting the baby's tongue to the bottom of their mouth is shorter than usual\n\nTongue-tie (ankyloglossia) is diagnosed when babies have an unusually short or tight frenulum (fold of tissue) under their tongues.\n\nAbout half of babies affected will require treatment (frenulotomy) because of the difficulties caused to feeding.\n\nMothers may stop breastfeeding earlier than planned because of their baby's difficulties and experience reduced milk supply because of ineffective milk removal.\n\nThey may experience pain and/or nipple damage and develop mastitis, blocked ducts or breast abscesses.\n\nKatharine Sharlott, from Southampton, had a similar experience with her baby Quinn, having been told by a midwife that his tongue movement looked fine.\n\nShe persevered through six weeks of difficult feeding before getting help from a breastfeeding counsellor at the National Childbirth Trust (NCT) and being referred to a tongue-tie service.\n\nKatharine explained: \"My baby had a 75% tie and it was cut. This improved feeding initially, but actually we still encountered problems.\n\n\"I went back to the breastfeeding counsellor and, having ruled out other issues, agreed there could still be a problem with tongue-tie. As my baby was older by then, there would have been a longer wait to be seen on the NHS.\"\n\nLike Clare, she sought private treatment, which determined that either some of the tie had been missed or it had reattached, so it was divided again.\n\n\"This finally solved things, but my baby was almost three months old by then,\" Katherine added.\n\n\"If I had not had the previous experience of breastfeeding my eldest, the support of the NCT breastfeeding counsellor and the financial means to pay for a private midwife, I don't believe I would have continued breastfeeding.\"\n\nBoth women are calling for midwives and health visitors to be better trained to diagnose tongue-tie.\n\nClare added: \"There should be someone on hand to assess it from the get-go. It shouldn't be a wait and see, because no mother should have to go through what I went through - it's inhumane.\"\n\nDr Paul Mannix, clinical director at North Bristol NHS Trust for women and children's health, said: \"It's so important mothers get early support with breastfeeding, which is why all our midwives are trained to help with this, including how to look for tongue-tie.\n\n\"Having spoken to Ms Sinton, we are sorry that her experience did not reflect this and will ensure that all staff are clear about the support available for mums who raise concerns about tongue-tie.\"\n\nThe National Childbirth Trust is calling for a consistent NHS service to be offered across the country\n\nThe Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said training on support for women whose babies are having problems latching on to the breast, which may be because of tongue-tie, is included in training for midwives. Additional training is provided which includes recognising tongue-tie, its treatments and support.\n\nMichelle Lyne, RCM education adviser, said: \"There is clearly a need for more research around tongue-tie, so that a definitive definition of what it is and when it is present can be agreed, so that evidence-based guidelines for support and treatment can be developed.\n\n\"Often babies with tongue-tie will have no symptoms, and it may resolve spontaneously over time. It's also common that problems don't become apparent until midwifery contact has stopped, usually about 10 to 14 days after the birth.\n\n\"When it is identified, the focus is on breastfeeding support for the mother.\"\n\nShe added evidence for further treatment, such as cutting a tight frenulum, was slim and generally a last course of action, as sometimes even significant cases do not affect feeding - so mothers and their babies must be looked at individually.\n\nThe NCT has called for more research into the best care for babies with suspected tongue-tie and a consistent NHS service across the country.\n\nJoanna Daniels, NCT breastfeeding and infant feeding engagement lead, said: \"There is no common agreement among tongue-tie dividers on how to carry out the procedure or how far the membrane should be divided. This means the service that different health professionals offer varies.\"\n\nVicky Jordan, from the Association of Tongue-tie Practitioners, said: \"Awareness of tongue-tie restriction by health professionals is not universal, and this sometimes leads to tongue-tie restriction being missed and/or parents being told that their baby doesn't have a tongue-tie restriction.\n\n\"Infant feeding and frenulotomy services are variable across the country, leading to inequalities to access of appropriate treatment.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nHeavy snow has caused major disruption to the Winter Olympics schedule with temperatures set to plummet below -22C at the Beijing Games.\n\nSeveral ski slopestyle events had to be pushed back a day because of the conditions at the Genting Snow Park.\n\nThe women's freeski qualifications were postponed on Sunday because of heavy snow and poor visibility.\n\nDifficult conditions at the alpine skiing meant 33 of the 87 men's giant slalom starters were unable to finish.\n\nNorway's Henrik Kristoffersen, who finished fourth in the opening run, used an expletive when asked to describe how little he could see in the blustery snow at the National Alpine Skiing Centre in Yanqing.\n\nMore snow is forecast on Monday, with temperatures in the mountains set to drop further and reach -35C with windchill.\n\nIronically, the difficulty caused by the fresh snow came after the Games had been criticised for being the first Winter Olympics to rely almost 100% on artificial snow.\n\nArtificial snow used at Beijing 2022 \"poses tough environmental questions\" with more than 222 million litres of water needed to create snow conditions, ecological experts said last month.\n\nThe women's freeski slopestyle runs - featuring GB's Kirsty Muir and Katie Summerhayes - were pushed back to Monday.\n\nThe top 12 qualify for the finals, which have been moved to Tuesday.\n• None Follow live TV and text coverage of Winter Olympics day nine\n• None Valieva's entourage under scrutiny as IOC asks Wada to investigate\n• None GB's men's curlers earn third win of the Games\n\nThe men's qualification, with James Woods going for GB, is now scheduled for Tuesday, with the finals on Wednesday.\n\nIn the alpine skiing, the second run of the men's giant slalom was delayed by the snowfall and needed hours of maintenance on the track for the event to restart at 07:00 GMT.\n\nA training run for the women's downhill was also cancelled.\n\n\"The snow is a little uneven, so it's quite aggressive in spots, a little slick,\" said Kristoffersen.\n\n\"I think it was difficult for everyone.\"\n\nOn whether it was safe to race, he added: \"Definitely. The light is more than skiable, that's for sure, it just makes it difficult.\"\n\nAway from the mountains, there was heavy snow in central Beijing - which is unusual for the Chinese capital in February.\n\nThe city averages less than half an inch of snow in the month but was covered by a thick blanket on Sunday.\n\nHowever, the downfall did not have an impact on the Games schedule in the city. Events including curling, ice hockey and speed skating took place in indoors arenas in the Beijing zone.", "Elizabeth, 10, had her first Covid jab on Sunday\n\nClinically vulnerable five to 11-year-olds are being encouraged to get Covid vaccinations by a health board.\n\nElizabeth, 10, who had her first vaccine on Sunday, said the jab \"looks kind of fierce, but it isn't\".\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University health board is also offering inoculation to children the same age who share a home with someone at risk.\n\nThe decision was made in December to offer jabs to eligible children in that age group.\n\nBut vaccination centres still want more to get jabbed.\n\nDeputy nurse manager at Llandudno's Sector House vaccination centre, Nia Williams, said uptake has been \"slow but steady\" since invites were sent.\n\n\"It's a big decision for parents to bring their child,\" she said.\n\n\"It takes time to make a good decision, the right decision for your child... they are maybe still stalling it or still thinking about it.\n\n\"Our view is that the children should be vaccinated.\"\n\nElizabeth was given a certificate after the inoculation was done\n\nElizabeth, of Conwy county, was one of three children who visited the Llandudno clinic for her first vaccine on Sunday.\n\nThe type 1 diabetes patient believes other children should also get jabbed.\n\nThe 10-year-old said: \"It didn't hurt, you could just feel it was there.\n\n\"I blinked and it was over... A lot of the time you get injections when you go to hospital and it stings so much.\"\n\nElizabeth said having the vaccine means she will be able to visit her grandparents in Canada in summer.\n\nMs Williams said they were trying to make the experience \"easy and child friendly\".\n\n\"We want them to come back for their second vaccine,\" she said.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board in north Wales is holding the clinics for at risk 5- 11 year olds at weekends during term time.", "South Wales Police said the road could be closed for most of the day\n\nA 35-year-old man has died after being hit by a heavy goods vehicle.\n\nIt happened on the A4119 road between Coedely and Tonyrefail, Rhondda Cynon Taff, shortly after 03:00 GMT.\n\nThe road has been closed in both directions while investigations continue, and is \"likely to be closed for the majority of the day\" according to South Wales Police.\n\nThe pedestrian, from the Pentre area, died at the scene.\n\nSouth Wales Police is appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Head coach Vanden Warner says the kit was vital equipment for new players\n\nAn American football team have set up an online fundraiser after mice got into a storage unit and damaged thousands of pounds' worth of kit.\n\nNottingham Caesars head coach Vanden Warner said the kit had been in storage over winter and was hit by an infestation of mice.\n\nHe said it was vital equipment that was loaned out to new players each year.\n\nThe club is hoping to raise money to replace it ahead of the new season, which starts in April.\n\nMr Warner said: \"They've gone through and destroyed a lot of the kit.\n\n\"They've chewed through a lot of the helmets, game day jerseys, pants and pads - it's vital equipment that we need to replace.\n\n\"It's not the cheapest sport to play... so we like to help out players who are trying the sport out for the first time. Instead of having a huge outlay in their first year, we'll loan them this club kit.\"\n\nJamie Gatley said the kit was vital for rookies joining the club and helping to push for promotion\n\n\"We got everything out at the unit and it was pretty evident with the helmets, but there was one box we picked up and it just completely collapsed, and that's when we knew there was a serious problem.\"\n\nThe club are fundraising online to cover the £1,500 cost of the damaged helmets.\n\nThe team are in NFC 1 South of the British American Football Association (BAFA) and want to push for promotion this season.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sadiq Khan says recent revelations about the force remind him of the \"bad old days of the Met\" from his childhood\n\nLondon's mayor has said he will oppose the appointment of a new Met Police chief unless they have a \"robust plan\" to deal with the force's \"cultural problems\".\n\nDame Cressida Dick resigned from the role on Thursday over Sadiq Khan's lack of confidence in her plans for reform.\n\nWriting in the Observer, Mr Khan said he was \"deeply concerned\" public trust in the force had been \"shattered\".\n\nHe said the new appointment needed to make things happen fast.\n\nDame Cressida's resignation comes after a series of crises engulfed the Met Police, including cases of sexism and misogyny among some officers.\n\nLast week, the police watchdog found \"disgraceful\" examples of bullying and sexual harassment at Charing Cross police station in central London.\n\nThe mayor is due to work with Home Secretary Priti Patel to find a replacement.\n\nWhile the Conservative home secretary holds the power over the appointment, she must take the Labour mayor's preference into account.\n\nMr Khan wrote: \"I will not support the appointment of a new commissioner unless they can clearly demonstrate that they understand the scale of the cultural problems within the Met and the urgency with which they must be addressed.\n\n\"In short, they need to get it, and they need to have a proper and robust plan to deal with it.\"\n\nMr Khan warned that people's confidence in the force must be restored after the wave of recent scandals.\n\nDame Cressida Dick took the role as Met Commissioner in 2017\n\nThe mayor also said that reading the damning Charing Cross report reminded him of \"the bad old days of the Met from my childhood\".\n\nMr Khan wrote: \"Growing up in the 1970s and 80s on a council estate in south London, it was commonplace to hear stories of racist, misogynistic and abusive conduct by police officers.\n\n\"Trust in the police was at rock bottom in some communities and one of the things I remember being told as a teenager by my dad was: 'Don't make eye contact with the police, don't give them an excuse'.\"\n\nEarlier in the week, Ms Patel said the new commissioner must tackle \"policing culture and conduct\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"Be in no doubt that a new leader must tackle these institutional issues.\"\n\nMs Patel said the new commissioner must be \"focused on the basics\", including tackling the abuse of women and girls, drugs and knife crime.\n\n\"Policing culture and conduct have rightly come under scrutiny,\" she said.\n\n\"Be in no doubt that a new leader must tackle these institutional issues.\"\n\nYvette Cooper, Labour's shadow home secretary, said challenges facing policing were broader than one individual.\n\nShe told BBC One's Sunday Morning programme with Sophie Raworth: \"Once that confidence was lost then the Met Commissioner was right to resign and I support the mayor's decision.\n\n\"But what I am concerned about in all of this debate is it's all focusing on one individual, one individual new appointment, and also one police force.\n\n\"I think the challenges for policing are much broader than this and there needs to be Home Office-led reforms in this area as well.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis described how Mr Khan had pressured Dame Cressida out of her role as \"rather odd\".\n\nAsked on Times Radio whether he thought the mayor was playing politics, he responded: \"Possibly, to be frank.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Italy 0-33 England: Visitors get Six Nations campaign back on track Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nSix Nations 2022: England score five tries in bonus-point win against Italy England got their Six Nations campaign back on track as they outclassed Italy to claim a bonus-point win in Rome. Despite losing their opener in Scotland, Eddie Jones' England are now second in the table behind unbeaten France after two rounds. England almost claimed a bonus point before half-time as Marcus Smith crossed and Jamie George scored twice. Elliot Daly got the fourth try after the break and Kyle Sinckler added another after a dip in intensity.\n• None 'We left a bit out there' - Jones on England win in Rome England's old and new shine England head coach Jones had asked his players to \"light up\" Rome and they duly delivered as the visitors' pace overwhelmed their hosts. With pre-match headlines focussing on 'new England', Henry Slade showed the older heads should not be overlooked as the centre released another experienced player, Jack Nowell, down the left wing. Six Nations 2022: How 'classy operator' Smith shone for England against Italy A series of flat passes from Smith - growing into his role of England's starting 10 with every game - saw England pick their way through the Italy defence. That move ended in a try for Smith after a slick exchange with Max Malins but at times England's attempts to put on a show led to handling errors that would be punished by any other side in such a tight championship. Perennial wooden spoon side Italy, however, helped England's cause as they committed mistakes of their own and conceded eight penalties to the visitors' three in the first half. After Nowell was permanently replaced by Daly because of a failed head injury assessment, young scrum-half Harry Randall showed what he can offer. Randall's speedy work off a line-out got England on the front foot and after Maro Itoje's break, returning hooker George dived over for a try. Smith showed his all-round prowess - and for the full 80 minutes - as he made sure England's forward dominance was rewarded with points as well as doing his bit defensively, hauling brawny winger Federico Mori into touch when he was in a position to score. Smith kept on to revive attack Smith picked up after the break where he had left off as his pinpoint pass was met by Daly at full tilt for the bonus-point try that puts them in front of Ireland in the table. But then England's unshackled attack began to stutter. Jones - criticised for replacing Smith when England were ahead at Murrayfield - left the fly-half on for the whole match but introduced Ben Youngs to partner him in place of Randall. Youngs now has 114 England caps, equalling the record for England men's appearances set by Jason Leonard. However in Randall's absence the visitors' speed and intensity dropped. Jones had asked his replacements to invoke the iconic image of Muhammad Ali standing over the defeated Sonny Liston in the closing stages. Instead, England's impressive performance somewhat spluttered towards the end, with the exception of two late moves. Smith - with George Ford now next to him at inside centre - sent Malins through a gap and Sinckler was on the winger's shoulder to score under the posts. The Harlequins playmaker's impressive step nearly set up another, but Slade could not ground the ball. An immediate bounce back after the defeat in Scotland may have optimistic England fans thinking about a final-weekend showdown in Paris, but Wales and Ireland will undoubtedly pose significant hurdles at Twickenham before then. Marcus Smith did not look like a player in his first Six Nations campaign as he guided England to a comfortable victory in Rome. The fly-half beat six defenders - more than any other player - in another promising attacking performance. 'We had to put on a show' - what they said Marcus Smith on ITV: \"I've never played here before, there was a special atmosphere, with loads of England fans having come out. We had to put a show on for them, we were a bit scrappy and credit to Italy but to score 33 points is always nice. \"To play alongside Harry [Randall] is special, we have a good connection off the field and I hope we have on it as well.\" Eddie Jones told ITV: \"Italy are a tough team and they keep coming. If we were a bit tidier with some of our work, some running lines, it could have been a big score. We are happy with that, now we move on to Wales. \"They [Italy] have played New Zealand and France and in the first half been in the game - and they were not in the game today. Marcus [Smith] did well, Harry Randall did some good things at the start and [Alex] Dombrandt had a really solid game.\"\n• None Two teams of petrol lovers battle against each other in their super tractors\n• None Was this just a freak accident? The story of what really happened when a ship crashed into the sandy banks of the Suez Canal", "Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said getting back to power sharing depends on whether the Irish Sea border is removed\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said he does not believe problems with the Northern Ireland Protocol will be resolved before May's Assembly election.\n\nThe party's first minister Paul Givan resigned over the issue, causing the suspension of the Stormont Executive.\n\nThe protocol puts a trade border in the Irish Sea.\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme getting back to power sharing depends on whether that border is removed.\n\n\"I think that the likelihood of agreement being reached is actually quite small,\" he said.\n\n\"That was confirmed to me by the prime minister.\n\n\"He doesn't expect, unless something changes dramatically, that agreement will be reached this side of an election to remove the Irish Sea border.\n\n\"I wish it were otherwise. I want to see the political institutions restored and operating fully restored - we're committed to that.\n\n\"But we want to see Northern Ireland's place within the UK internal market fully restored.\"\n\nUnionists, including Sir Jeffrey and his party, oppose the Northern Ireland protocol, saying it has a placed a border in the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.\n\nSir Jeffrey reiterated his party's position that they had entered back into power sharing at the beginning of 2020, following the commitments given in the New Decade, New Approach NDNA deal.\n\nIn NDNA, the government gave a \"commitment that it would protect Northern Ireland's place within the UK internal market that it would introduce measures to afford that protection\", Sir Jeffrey said.\n\n\"Over two years later, it has not done so and so we believe the UK government has dishonoured the agreement that was the basis upon which the devolved institutions were restored in Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\nThe protocol allows lorries to deliver goods without having paperwork and goods checked when they cross the border from Northern Ireland into the Republic of Ireland\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol was negotiated between the EU and the UK government in late 2019.\n\nBut the UK government now wants significant reform of the agreement.\n\nLord Frost, who helped to negotiate the protocol, subsequently argued that the arrangement was harming the peace process in Northern Ireland.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss is now leading talks over the protocol on top of her current post.\n\n\"Well, we are absolutely clear that the rights of Northern Ireland citizens and businesses to trade freely within their own country must be upheld,\" said Sir Jeffrey.\n\n\"The Irish Sea border must go as it is wrong that people trading within the United Kingdom, businesses ordering component parts, trying to access their supply chains in Great Britain cannot do so,\" he said.\n\nAsked whether he would accept a Sinn Féin first minister, Mr Donaldson said he wanted to win the election and was \"not contemplating defeat\".\n\n\"I'm not prepared to contemplate defeat in this election in advance of an election,\" he said.\n\n\"In a democracy, parties have the right to contest an election on the basis that they want to win.\n\n\"I'm not going to commit to anything until the Irish Sea border will be removed.\"\n\nNo 10 has been contacted for comment.", "Liudmyla Bobova was displaced to Kharkiv by the war. \"I can breathe freely here,\" she said.\n\nAbout half an hour's drive from the centre of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, in a low-rise industrial area of the city, there are rows of what look like white shipping containers set back from the main road and ringed by a blue metal fence.\n\nThe rows of containers, blanketed by snow this time of year, are actually a village of temporary housing units for people who already fled the war in Ukraine once, back in 2014 when Russian-backed separatists seized much of the Donbas region by force.\n\nThe residents of the \"module city\" live in remarkably cramped conditions - imagine a portable cabin you would see on a construction site, with low ceilings and strip lights, divided into a living room, kitchen and bathroom area and occupied by families of two or three or more.\n\n\"Yes, the accommodation is depressing,\" said Liudmyla Bobova, a resident who shares a private unit with her husband and elderly mother - a relative luxury compared with their previous unit where they occupied one small room in a communal unit, sleeping on bunk beds and sharing a kitchen and toilet.\n\nAnd yet Bobova and her family are grateful to be here, she said. \"There is occupation,\" she said, referring to the separatist territory they fled. \"Life there is grey, you cannot breathe freely. Here, I can breathe freely.\"\n\nAs for her change in living conditions, she only shrugged. \"That was one life, this is a another life,\" she said.\n\nIn her previous life, Bobova lived in Molodohvardiisk, a small mining town a stone's throw from the Russian border, where there was little political activity and people were only absent-mindedly pro-Russian, she said.\n\nHer family fled the region along with thousands of others when the war began, escaping on foot and by train as shells fell \"like rumbling thunder\".\n\nResidents of Kharkiv's 'module city' live in dilapidated temporary units on the outskirts of the city.\n\nThey ended up in the module city and have lived here since. The modules - paid for by the German government - had a maximum shelf life of three and a half years for human occupation, but seven years on about 175 people remain.\n\n\"There's nothing more constant than the temporary,\" said Artur Statsenko, who oversees the units for the local council. \"The state hasn't managed these people at all. For the past eight years we have not received anything from the state budget. We have a special Ministry for Reintegration but they have not given us a penny.\"\n\nThe BBC asked the Ministry for Reintegration - created in 2016 and tasked with caring for internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Donbas - to respond, but they declined to answer questions.\n\nFor the IDPs, Russia's looming new threat to invade Ukraine brings the prospect of a double displacement. Their temporary homes, just 25 miles from the border, would be squarely in Russia's path. But an invasion appeared to be low down the list of concerns for the module city residents.\n\n\"We don't talk about the escalation, or the fact we might have to flee again,\" said Iryna Belinska, a 64-year-old grandmother of nine who lives in a unit with her unwell husband.\n\n\"We need a proper roof over our head, not a plastic little house,\" she said, gesturing to her broken ceiling and bowed floor.\n\n\"We have much more mundane things on our minds than war.\"\n\nIryna Belinska lives with her husband in a module. \"We don't talk about the escalation,\" she said.\n\nThe war in eastern Ukraine has shifted the cultural identity of Kharkiv, a historically Russian-speaking city 300 miles from Kyiv but just 30 miles from the Russian border. Belinska spoke in Russian, but Bobova only speaks Ukrainian now. She abandoned Russian overnight in 2014 when she was was forced to flee her home - a kind of personal protest against the war.\n\nThe separatists who seized Donbas attempted to seize Kharkiv too, and briefly they raised their flag on the regional government building in the city centre. The ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych fled here in search of political support, but he was met by street protests and fled again to Crimea, and Kharkiv, Ukraine's second most-populous city, remained undisputed.\n\n\"Kharkiv was always pro-Ukrainian,\" said Boris Redin, an avuncular lifelong \"Kharkiver\" who has operated a kind of pro-Ukraine protest tent opposite the local government building since 2014. \"But it has become more pro-Ukrainian since the war started, like every city,\" he said. \"If the Russians want to attack us, they are our guests, we are not afraid.\"\n\nKharkiv would be a logical destination for the Russians if they rolled over the border nearby, but Vladimir Putin's troops could face a grinding resistance from the population. Many have enrolled in volunteer battalions and trained to fight, and two weeks ago the city's streets filled with protesters again, this time chanting \"Kharkiv is Ukraine\" and \"stop Russian aggression\".\n\n\"People have joined the territorial defence, volunteers continue to go the warzone, all this is working,\" said Svitlana Gorbunova-Ruban, the deputy mayor of Kharkiv. \"We are ready to defend our city in any situation and by all means.\"\n\nBoris Redin has operated a kind of pro-Ukraine protest tent opposite the local government building since 2014\n\nThere is a lot here to defend - 38 universities, museums, a thriving tech sector and vibrant contemporary arts scene. The celebrated Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko just finished a three-week residency here.\n\n\"There was an explosion of art in Kharkiv when the war began,\" said Natalia Ivanova, director of the city's institute of contemporary art. \"It was art of resistance, protest, non-acceptance.\"\n\nDisplaced artists and opera singers from Donetsk and Luhansk were invited to join theatre companies and opera productions in Kharkiv, said Svitlana Oleshko, a local theatre director. \"They were welcomed in Kharkiv,\" she said. \"This is a city of young people and they are more and more pro-Ukrainian and less and less Russian. They can see life in Donetsk and Luhansk and Crimea and they don't want to live that way.\"\n\nThe war is felt here in a way it isn't in cities further west. Troops travel through Kharkiv on the way to the front and return to its hospitals wounded. Families have been estranged across a line that separates the city from the disputed territory, and the influx of people displaced from Donbas - somewhere between 120,000 and 350,000 - has brought its own divisions.\n\nThere were \"undoubtedly cases of discrimination\" against the displaced when they arrived in Kharkiv, said Alla Feshchenko, the head of Station Kharkiv - a local non-governmental organisation.\n\n\"People refused to lease their apartments to them for example, because they were afraid they might turn out to be pro-Russian,\" she said.\n\n\"But other Kharkivers treated the IDPs wonderfully - they understood that we could have met the same fate, only we were luckier than Luhansk and Donetsk.\"\n\nIn the early days of the war, you would occasionally see cars driving around the city with fabric stretched across the roof or side bearing the world \"children\", Feshchenko said - a sign the car belonged to someone who had driven out of the disputed territory during the fighting.\n\n\"They didn't take the fabric off because they could not believe they were no longer under threat,\" she said.\n\nWashing hangs outside a the temporary units at the module city on the outskirts of Kharkiv.\n\nOne thing was certain with regard to the displaced people who came to Kharkiv, Feshchenko said: the federal government had \"totally failed them\".\n\n\"The module city is the evilest evil,\" she said. \"People categorically should not be left in such a place. There was complete chaos there - fights, broken windows, showdowns, module vs module. It puts people on the bottom rung.\"\n\nGorbunova-Ruban, the deputy mayor, told the BBC the city had been sitting on finalised plans for four years for permanent housing on the site of the module city, after an agreement to split the costs 30% - 70% with the government, but the Ministry for Reintegration was yet to pay any of its part.\n\nThis is the primary concern of the remaining residents of the module city - getting into proper accommodation. They would like to become real Kharkivers themselves. They hold occasional council meetings to discuss their concerns, and the minister for reintegration comes up more than the prospect of war.\n\nLiudmyla Bobova doesn't really miss Molodohvardiisk, she said. Some of her distant relatives are still there, and nothing they've told her makes her want to go back. \"Before the war, my life was full. But all I need here is my own home, and life will be full again,\" she said in Ukrainian.", "The NHS trust that runs Russells Hall Hospital said it was working with police on the review\n\nTwo NHS hospital trusts are working with police after a doctor was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.\n\nStaffordshire Police has launched a major incident review of the doctor's work at hospitals in Dudley, West Midlands, and Stoke-on-Trent, The Sunday Times reported.\n\nThe force said the 34-year-old man from the West Midlands was arrested in December and released on bail.\n\nIt is reviewing an investigation into the same suspect it undertook in 2018.\n\nThe doctor was suspended from seeing patients at the Royal Stoke University Hospital in Staffordshire when the parents of a vulnerable female raised concerns about his examination of her, the Sunday Times reported.\n\nThe case was referred to police in 2018 who said there was \"insufficient evidence to take further action\" at the time.\n\nThe Staffordshire force has now reported itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nUniversity Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, which runs the Royal Stoke, said it was working with police and had set up a helpline for any patient and guardian who may have concerns.\n\nThe Royal Stoke has set up a helpline for patients who may have concerns\n\nThe Sunday Times reported the alarm was then raised about the doctor while he was working at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley, and that he was excluded from the hospital trust in March last year.\n\nJulian Hobbs, medical director of the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust which runs the hospital, said it was \"working closely\" with Staffordshire Police on the review and confirmed the individual no longer worked there.\n\nThe police review, named Operation Anzu, will be looking at hundreds of files, including those of vulnerable adults, with at least 109 identified as cases of concern, the paper said.\n\nStoke-on-Trent South MP, Jack Brereton, said the allegations were \"extremely concerning\".\n\n\"I have spoken with the chief executive of the Royal Stoke and I know that they're taking it extremely seriously,\" he said.\n\n\"They've written to all those who may have been affected already so I know they are looking into this and there is a full police investigation now under way.\"\n\nThe Care Quality Commission said it was aware of an investigation \"into a member of staff who worked at both trusts\".\n\nIts deputy chief inspector of hospitals, Fiona Allinson, said: \"We continue to liaise with the police and both trusts regarding these concerns to ensure people's safety.\"\n\nThe Sunday Times said the doctor rejected any allegations he had committed a criminal act and was co-operating with the investigations.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Law enforcement takes part in joint drills with the National Guard in the Kherson region of Ukraine on Saturday\n\nMore than a dozen countries have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine amid warnings from Western powers that an invasion by Russia could be imminent.\n\nThe US, UK and Germany are among those who told their nationals to leave.\n\nMoscow has amassed an estimated 100,000 troops along Ukraine's border but denies any intent to invade.\n\nIn a phone call, US President Joe Biden again warned Russian leader Vladimir Putin of the costs of any invasion.\n\nFor his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said invasion warnings could stoke panic, which he called \"the best friend of our enemies\".\n\nThe White House has warned that an invasion could happen at any time, and could begin with bombing from the air. Russia characterised such allegations as \"provocative speculation\".\n\nNon-essential staff have been ordered to leave the US Embassy in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, and consular services will be suspended from Sunday, although \"a small consular presence\" will remain in the western city of Lviv \"to handle emergencies\".\n\nCanada is also moving its embassy staff to Lviv, near the border with Poland, Canadian media reported. UK ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons tweeted that she and a \"core team\" are staying in Kyiv.\n\nRussia itself is also making changes, saying it will \"optimise the staffing\" of its diplomats in Ukraine, citing \"possible acts of provocation by the Kyiv regime or third countries\".\n\nThe US has also pulled some 150 troops who were training Ukrainian soldiers out of the country, citing an abundance of caution. And Dutch airline KLM announced it would stop flying to Ukraine, effective immediately, Dutch media said.\n\nMr Zelensky said that if Western powers had any firm evidence of an impending invasion, he had yet to see it.\n\n\"I think there is too much information in the media about a deep, full-scale war,\" he said.\n\n\"We understand all the risks, we understand that they exist. If you or someone else has additional 100% reliable information about the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine... please share it with us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. I’m staying in Ukraine, for now: Watch US citizen and English teacher Juan Tec explain why\n\nMany countries, including Australia, Italy, Israel, the Netherlands and Japan have told their citizens to leave Ukraine. Some have also evacuated diplomatic staff and their families.\n\nMr Biden told Mr Putin that any invasion would result in \"swift and severe costs on Russia\", White House notes about the call said.\n\n\"While the United States remains prepared to engage in diplomacy... we are equally prepared for other scenarios,\" it said.\n\nThe Kremlin described the call as taking place amid \"peak hysteria\" from the US and its allies, and said Mr Putin had again told his counterpart that they had not addressed Russia's security concerns. But both leaders would continue to talk, it said.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron also spoke to Mr Putin by phone on Saturday, telling him that \"a sincere dialogue was not compatible with escalation\", according to notes released by the French embassy.\n\nWith foreign embassies withdrawing staff and a host of countries now telling their citizens to leave Ukraine, Kyiv still doesn't feel like a city in crisis.\n\nThe government here is telling people to stay calm and united and, in the words of a statement this morning, refrain from actions that undermine stability and sow panic. President Zelensky said the country had to be ready for any eventuality.\n\nAcross Ukraine, foreign citizens are now making hurried plans. Stuart McKenzie, who's lived in Kyiv for 28 years and runs a successful business, hopes to get his wife and two sons out on a flight. But he is ready, if necessary, to pack the family into the car and drive 300 miles to Poland. He loves Ukraine and can't quite believe it's come to this.\n\nAt the British Embassy, we found tight-lipped staff loading bags into a car and driving off. No-one seemed keen to talk.\n\nNot far to the north, across the border in Belarus, Russia's war games are now well under way. Russian defence ministry pictures, released this morning, showed multiple rocket launchers being fired. Moscow still says it has no plans to invade. But there's a lot the Russians can do without ever setting foot inside Ukraine.\n\nIn Kyiv, several thousand people marched through the city on Saturday, chanting slogans pledging loyalty to Ukraine and resistance to any Russian invasion. The march was organised by a right-wing nationalist group called Gonor and anti-Zelensky far-right activist Sergiy Sternenko, but it attracted other people too.\n\nBBC reporter Eleanor Montague says the demonstration was not huge, but was the first significant manifestation of public feeling since tensions escalated, finishing at the Maidan, the city's most famous square.\n\nSasha Nizelska, who works as a nanny in Kyiv, told the BBC that she would resist a Russian attack with all means in her power. The sentiment was repeated by people of all age groups attending the demonstration.\n\nTensions have steadily increased as Russia has continued to deploy troops along Ukraine's eastern border. Russian troops are also staging military exercises in Belarus to the north, while naval exercises in the Sea of Azov in the south-east have led to accusations that Russia is blocking Ukraine's access to the sea.\n\nMeanwhile, some 7,500km (4,660 miles) away on Russia's eastern side, the Russian defence ministry says it spotted a US Navy submarine inside its territorial waters. Officials say the US submarine was near the Kuril Islands and failed to surface when instructed.\n\nThe Marshal Shaposhnikov destroyer took unspecified \"appropriate\" actions and the US submarine left the area, the ministry said. A US defence official has been summoned by Moscow over the incident.\n\nHowever, US officials later contradicted their Russian counterparts' version of events.\n\n\"There is no truth to the Russian claims of our operations in their territorial waters,\" US military spokesman Captain Kyle Raines said in a statement carried by Reuters.\n\n\"I will not comment on the precise location of our submarines but we do fly, sail, and operate safely in international waters.\"", "Prof Tahseen Jafry, from the Centre for Climate Justice, says that when disasters strike women will usually have more on their plate\n\nClimate change affects every person on the planet but studies have found it affects women more.\n\nThe Centre for Climate Justice based at Glasgow Caledonian University puts this down to two things.\n\nSecondly, women don't have good enough representation at climate talks to have their say on effective solutions.\n\nIt is well documented in UK statistics that during the Covid crisis, on average, women have been doing more unpaid housework and unpaid childcare than men.\n\nThey do this while also juggling their paid work and other challenges the pandemic has caused.\n\nProf Tahseen Jafry, from the Centre for Climate Justice, says the effects of the climate crisis are no different.\n\nShe says that when disasters strike women will usually have more on their plate because of additional unpaid roles that are often not recognised.\n\n\"So it will be harder to be able to balance the workload when there's severe weather events in Scotland,\" Prof Jafry says.\n\n\"It's important to consider what we're talking about doesn't apply to every household in Scotland. But for many households women are juggling their daily lives.\"\n\nAnd for countries already on the frontline of the climate crisis, this isn't just a concern, it is a reality right now, she says.\n\nGender and climate change expert Chimwemwe Nyambosa Ndhlovu, who is from Malawi, explains women and girls in that country will do most of the farming to feed their families, labour in the house, and collect water and wood, all unpaid, alongside making a bit of money themselves.\n\nBut these unevenly felt challenges are getting harder because of climate-related issues such as flooding and drought causing problems to their crops and water sanitation. And she told me the tension can lead to gender-based violence.\n\n\"In negotiations, we see a lot of men still at the tables, and women are still at the back. So it is difficult for [women] to present our feelings,\" she says.\n\nBack in Scotland, Prof Jafry explains we need to learn lessons from other parts of the world and women's experiences:\n\n\"My concern is that a significant level of fear and not being able to cope and deal with a climate crisis is going to play out in a Scottish context as well,\" she says.\n\nShona Seaman had her home flooded out twice\n\nIn Brechin, Shona Seaman had her home flooded out twice a few years back.\n\nI decided to revisit her story because more regular and extreme flooding is predicted as an effect of climate change.\n\nAs a childminder she had to temporarily shut her business after the flood and later she permanently closed it.\n\nAnd who was most affected? It was the mums Shona was having to call, who were juggling work and finding last-minute childcare.\n\n\"Flooding is traumatic and chaotic, and you can't plan for it,\" she says.\n\n\"And when you're running a business in your own home, and that business is caring for children, it adds another level of complexities.\n\n\"So we flooded and that night while I was trying to get my children and my family out of our house, I was also having to phone mums and let them know that I wasn't able to care for their children anymore.\"\n\nShona says the flood left her with no income but her husband was still working.\n\n\"If I was a single parent, or if our circumstances were different, it would have had a really profound affect on us,\" she says.\n\n\"And certainly women with micro-businesses and things in other parts of the world, if they lose those, then they've lost everything.\"\n\nWomen in Scotland are fighting for their place at the table in climate talks.\n\nGilded Lily in Glasgow runs workshops and programmes to empower women to have their say on climate change.\n\nSajida Rashid with a dress she made as part of the Glasgow Climate Sisters project\n\nSajida Rashid has been on a journey.\n\nHer parents originally came from Pakistan to Scotland and while she was born and brought up here, she says she's had a fear of speaking out because of her background.\n\n\"I think bigger steps need to be taken and we're maybe not given a platform to do that,\" she says.\n\n\"I worked on a climate leadership programme last year, and learned a lot from it. I found my voice. Changes have to be made.\"\n\nZarina Ahmad, a climate communicator who works with these women, says such steps are key.\n\n\"Look at women for solutions and resilience - and don't speak on behalf of women, which is what we often get, especially women of colour. Give us space, let us have our voices, and let us be heard.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Humza Yousaf says scrapping Covid measures in England should not force Scotland on how it tackles the virus\n\nPlans to lift Covid restrictions in England should not \"force the hand\" of the Scottish government to change its own virus strategy, Humza Yousaf says.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said self-isolation could end south of the border this month.\n\nBut Scotland's health secretary warned that the public health advice recommended a more cautious approach.\n\nIt comes after one expert said removing the five-day quarantine rules now would be a \"step too far\".\n\nMr Yousaf told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show that the country was on an \"absolutely improving journey\".\n\nBut he said: \"The UK government has every right to make decisions for people in England but what they can't do, and shouldn't do, is then force our hand when it comes to our response to Omicron.\"\n\nThe health secretary also said that if Mr Johnson intended to withdraw the offer of free Covid tests at the end of this month then the Scottish government may have to respond \"in a way that we don't want to at this time.\"\n\nMr Yousaf said such a move would involved setting up a procurement model for the tests, which are currently sourced on a four-nations basis, and finding a new way for paying for the kits.\n\nAnd he again emphasised that decisions in England should not put pressure on the devolved administrations in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast to follow suit.\n\nMr Yousaf added: \"If we want to respond in a slightly more cautious manner then don't pull the rug from underneath our feet.\"\n\nThe health secretary credited Scotland's progress over the last 12 months to the success of the vaccination rollout and the less severe Omicron variant.\n\nBut he said: \"We always have to follow that public health advice.\n\n\"Where we look to ease restrictions, and we will continue to do that, no doubt, in a cautious manner, it is really important to evidence the sound science behind it.\n\n\"My concern with the prime minister's announcement is that we haven't seen the public health advice, and we have been asking for it, and I haven't seen, for example, the UK government's CMO (chief medical officer) since that announcement.\"\n\nGiven the case numbers in Scotland at the moment he said it would be \"too early\" to follow England and lift the self-isolation rules at the end of the month.\n\nHe added: \"We have got thousands of cases of Omicron at the moment. Do we really think it would be wise for somebody who is positive with Covid and is a social care worker to go and work in a care home?\"\n\nThe health secretary said the Scottish government would outline its new strategic framework for dealing with Covid on 22 February.\n\nHe also told the programme \"automatic triggers\" for easing restrictions do not work in practice.\n\nTo highlight this, he said that if Omicron had been as severe as Delta then Scotland would have been in lockdown following record-breaking case numbers over the festive period.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been critical of Mr Johnson's approach and last week moved to extend the powers which underpin face covering and vaccine passport rules for another six months, although though there is no suggestion they will remain in place for this long.\n\nOn the provision of testing, a UK government spokesman said: \"Everyone can continue to get free tests and we are continuing to encourage people to use rapid tests when they need them. Record numbers of tests are being delivered to pharmacies, homes and those who need them.\"We have built up a huge testing capacity, with over 450 million tests now completed and around two billion LFD tests distributed across the UK.\"Testing continues to play an important role in helping people live their day to day lives, keep businesses running and keep young people in school.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a panel of experts also appeared on The Sunday Show to reflect on the current state of the pandemic.\n\nProf Sian Griffiths, who helped lead Hong Kong's investigation into Sars, said she would be more comfortable with a \"slow pace rather than an immediate release\" of restrictions in the UK.\n\nInfections expert Dr Christine Tait-Burkard told the programme she believed we are \"on the way out of it being a severely consequential disease\".\n\nAnd Prof Linda Bauld, of the University of Edinburgh, said while \"huge progress\" had been made in recent months there was still a need for caution.\n\nShe added: \"Despite the difference between the four nations we are all moving to a place where, of course, we will have a more open society but we have to be super alert to further waves and new variants on the horizon.\"", "Author Joe Dunthorne said there was little he could do when a fake Instagram account was set up in his name\n\nInstagram is failing to take action when people's identities are stolen on the platform, a novelist who had a fake account set up in his name has said.\n\nJoe Dunthorne said he \"literally couldn't make contact\" with the company to report the fake account.\n\nA cyber threats expert urged Instagram and other social media platforms to do more to respond to fake accounts.\n\nInstagram said it did its \"very best to prevent users becoming victims of impersonation\".\n\nA spokeswoman for Meta, the parent company of Instagram, added: \"The safety of our community is important to us and it is against our rules for accounts to impersonate someone else.\n\n\"We do our very best to prevent users becoming victims of impersonation and the posts in question have been removed from the profile.\"\n\nSwansea-born Dunthorne, whose debut novel Submarine was made into a film in 2010, said he was first alerted to the account on Twitter.\n\nSomeone got in touch to say they thought his Instagram account had been hacked - but he did not have one.\n\nHe discovered an account had been set up in his name, ripping his posts off Twitter and posting them on Instagram.\n\nHe said: \"It was spooky and disturbing, but even stranger was that they had quite a lot of followers - like almost 6,000. You're left thinking 'why me'?\"\n\nHe joined Instagram, contacted the account and asked them to stop, but said the account blocked him.\n\nHis friends began messaging the account and commenting on posts but that did not help either: \"I think he just reported those messages as abusive and they got taken away - within maybe four or five minutes of people posting they would all just disappear from his account.\n\n\"It looked authentically like my Instagram account but I couldn't really do anything to stop that.\"\n\nDunthorne set up his own fake account to make contact with the imposter\n\nHe decided to set up a fake account himself in the guise of a poet called Joanna with an avatar of the New York skyline and contacted the account saying he was a big fan.\n\n\"The first messages they sent me were really disturbing,\" he said.\n\n\"'Are you single?' and 'do you want to chat on WhatsApp?'... things that had a kind of sexual angle to it, and that was really frightening.\"\n\nDunthorne's fake account had piqued his imposter's interest, he was sent a phone number, prompting him to get a new Sim card and begin contacting the person on WhatsApp.\n\nDunthorne says some of the responses from the account were \"really frightening\"\n\nBut then one day, as he was bathing his toddler, he received a WhatsApp video call from the number.\n\n\"I didn't know whether to answer, obviously I was pretending to be someone else, I knew they were pretending to be someone,\" he said.\n\n\"I answered the phone and held it away from my face, they had their camera turned off so neither of us actually showed each other's faces.\n\n\"We spent about 20 seconds listening to each other before they hung up and blocked me.\"\n\nHe said after a few months of the fake account being set up and him \"failing to get the account taken down or get any action taken by Instagram\" the account began using his persona to convince people to buy cryptocurrency from his friend 'Tyler' - what Dunthorne believes was another fake account, again impersonating a real person, this time a crypto analyst.\n\nHe said he continued trying to contact Instagram to no avail: \"I literally couldn't make contact.\n\n\"They've got an online form, I'm sure they get however many tens of thousands [of requests] a day - I sent a couple of different messages through that system, I never heard back.\n\n\"So from those scammer's point of view it's a real free-for-all - Instagram is not going to come and get you... I can see why they're doing it, there's very little consequences.\"\n\nWhen the imposter called Dunthorne his WhatsApp avatar was of the Grim Reaper with a question mark\n\nDunthorne, who first wrote about his experience in the London Review of Books, added: \"It is the Wild West - it's unregulated, most things are just based on trusting an online account... obviously that ends up in a lot of people losing money to scams....\n\n\"If that person sets out to specifically damage your life there's really not a whole lot you can do, so it's a really powerful, dangerous thing and in the wrong hands, it could be terrible.\"\n\nHe said the account that stole his identity has now changed their account name and information and is now pretending to be a Spanish crypto millionaire.\n\nDr Sara Giro Correia, a lecturer in cyber threats at Swansea University, said platforms needed to take more responsibility for fake accounts.\n\n\"I imagine the volume of things being reported must be immense for platforms like Instagram but that is no excuse because if companies run platforms that are this big, then they have to take responsibility and find ways of acting a lot quicker when things are reported,\" she said.\n\nShe said platforms needed to employ a mix of automated tools and more people to review requests to remove content and accounts.\n\nShe said until a fake account sends a malicious communication or makes a false representation to try and get people to part with money, using a fake identity in itself is not a crime.\n\nIt is, however, in most cases against the social media platform's terms and conditions - \"which is why the first point of recourse is to engage with social media companies and try and get them to take it down\".\n\nShe advised people to visit reportharmfulcontent.com if social media companies fail to act.\n\nShe said both account takeovers where an account is hacked, which is a crime, and fake accounts were happening a lot and are very common\".\n\nShe said the hacking of accounts was the most reported cyber crime in 2020-2021 according to Action Fraud.\n\nDr Correia hopes once the Online Safety Bill, which establishes a new regulatory framework to tackle harmful content online, becomes law it will help victims who have fake accounts in their name.", "A police raid has finally put an end to the costly bridge blockade at Windsor, Ontario, with the crossing reopening for traffic on Sunday night after a six-day protest. But with the demonstrations in Ottawa still going strong, is any end in sight for the anti-mandate movement?\n\nThis was the moment the protesters had dreaded.\n\n\"I was hoping it wasn't going to end like this, I was hoping the police would allow us to continue to peacefully protest,\" Tyler Kok told the BBC as he left the site.\n\nThe officers arrived by the bus load on Sunday morning - in balaclavas and carrying long guns, ready to oust the last few protesters blocking the roads leading to the Ambassador Bridge.\n\nA week-long stalemate was about to come to an end.\n\nAbout 100 vehicles had been parked along a 2km (1.25 miles) stretch of the road for days on end.\n\nThere were pickups, SUVs and even a dog-grooming van, festooned with Canadian flags, anti-vaccination slogans and anti-Trudeau epithets, as well as some heavy commercial trucks.\n\nThe people were a mix of evangelical Christians, anti-mask mums, vaccine sceptics and local residents who are tired of lockdowns and vaccine passports.\n\nThe Freedom Convoy, as it's been called, began as a protest against a mandate requiring truckers who cross the US-Canada border to be vaccinated against Covid.\n\nPolice detain a protester as they clear the bridge\n\nBut the group is not united by any one occupation - rather, they share a distrust of vaccines, a concern for government overreach and a general dislike of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\n\nSimilar blockades have also popped up at other border crossings across the country - four people were arrested at one in British Columbia on Sunday.\n\nBut the biggest one in Windsor is no more. The police began stage one of their clearance operation on Saturday and only a few dozen remained by Sunday morning after a bitterly cold night.\n\nThat meant police could make their final and decisive move. Dozens of officers descended on the two remaining encampments located about a kilometre apart on the single road leading to the bridge.\n\nThey erected cement barricades and flanked them on all sides.\n\nBut while in France officers had fired tear gas to keep similar protests at bay, Windsor Police said they prioritised safety over speed.\n\nA court-ordered injunction had been in place since Friday, but police waited over 36 hours, mindful that there were many children among the demonstrators.\n\n\"I think that's something that speaks to our Canadian society,\" Sergeant Steve Betteridge told the BBC.\n\nPolice made about 12 arrests but the majority of protesters voluntarily left the area and drove their vehicles home. Clearly outnumbered, they honked their horns - a swan song to the blockade that had gone on far longer than anyone had anticipated.\n\nCanada has a 90% vaccination rate, far higher than the US, and in many parts of the country you need to show proof of vaccination to access bars, gyms and restaurants.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Truckers 'don't have the right to hold us hostage'\n\nAbout 750km (466 miles) east of the Ambassador Bridge, the protest group that has taken over the nation's capital was showing no signs of slowing down on Sunday.\n\nBut then came news of a breakthrough - an apparent deal struck by the city of Ottawa that would mean the convoy of trucks relocating away from residential areas. However protest leaders later said no deal had been agreed.\n\nUnlike the Windsor crowd, which was limited to one major road, the Ottawa protest has essentially taken over the centre of a major city, with thousands of people flooding the streets with Canadian flags.\n\nBarbecues are set up on the street with food being handed out to hungry demonstrators, while people play street hockey to the sounds of dance music, honking horns and chants of \"freedom\".\n\n\"This is not an anti-vax movement; this is a freedom movement. It's for choice,\" said Justin Smith, who was enjoying Beavertails - a Canadian pastry - with his wife Brandy Lawrence on the sidelines of the protests on Saturday evening. Both were wearing Canadian flags as capes.\n\n\"This nation is through and through my heart, I love Canada like you wouldn't believe,\" said Mr Smith.\n\nThey say they hate what mandates have done to their family, including their five children aged six to 16.\n\n\"I want my kids to go into a store and see a smile on someone's face. That's the saddest thing,\" said Ms Lawrence.\n\nThis wasn't the couple's first time in the Ottawa \"red zone\" - they came to support the convoy in its first weekend, and drove the five hours from their home in southern Ontario to be there a second time.\n\n\"I will do anything and everything I can do to support these people,\" says Mr Smith.\n\nThere is a police presence - but mostly on the margins.\n\nA court order silenced loud honking from the trucks earlier this week, granting respite to downtown residents aggravated by the noise.\n\nBut some residents fed up with the noise and the disruption have accused police of idling by and allowing an occupation. Some businesses - including a major shopping centre - have closed their doors or have seen a drop in traffic.\n\nWhile many of the demonstrators have been peaceful, residents have told the BBC they have been shouted at for wearing masks, and had trouble getting to and from work.\n\n\"We don't terrorise people and confront people wearing masks or barge into businesses try to harass and intimidate the staff,\" says Marika Morris. \"This is not what we do to express our political views.\"\n\nIf the Ottawa protest has caused maximum community disturbance, then the Windsor protest caused maximum economic disruption by shutting down one of the country's major trade arteries, the Ambassador Bridge linking Windsor with Detroit, Michigan.\n\nMore than $323m (£238m) in goods crosses that bridge every day, and for nearly a week, not a dollar has made it to the US or back.\n\nAlmost half of that is from the trade of car parts, says Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association.\n\nHe does not mince words when it comes to the protest.\n\n\"In Windsor we have at its core, several dozen people who are macroeconomically illiterate and absolutely disrespectful of their own community, that they would imperil the economy of the region to make a point,\" he said.\n\n\"Never has a tantrum cost so many people so much.\"\n\nAfter the clearance operation, police remained behind. The bridge will reopen on Sunday or Monday.\n\nBut Volpe said the harm to the auto-parts industry will last much longer than that, because it will take three to four days to get the supply chain fully functional. The total cost of lost production and shipments he estimates at about C$1b ($790m, £580m).\n\nHe also said the damage to Canada's reputation with its US trading partner is devastating, especially as American politicians push for protectionist policies.\n\nIn a statement, Windsor police say there will be \"zero tolerance\" for any illegal activity. But how they will stop further blockades from springing up, while still keeping the bridge open, remains to be seen.\n\nSergeant Betteridge said he hopes the occupants feel they were heard and realise that further disruption is not required.\n\n\"The protesters came wanting to get a message across, and I think they did get a message across,\" he said.\n\n\"If anyone is thinking of breaking the law, they've seen what has happened here.\"", "A military instructor teaches civilians to use Molotov cocktails in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv\n\nRussia is \"highly likely\" to invade Ukraine despite ongoing diplomatic efforts, the defence secretary says.\n\nBen Wallace said there was a \"whiff of Munich in the air\" - a reference to diplomacy that failed to prevent World War Two.\n\nMinister Brandon Lewis said Mr Wallace was expressing concern that \"Russia has continued to move troops\" during talks.\n\nMoscow has denied any plans to invade Ukraine but has amassed more than 100,000 troops near the border.\n\nIn an interview with the Sunday Times, Mr Wallace said: \"It may be that he [Putin] just switches off his tanks and we all go home but there is a whiff of Munich in the air from some in the West.\"\n\nPrior to World War Two, European powers pursued a policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany, culminating in an agreement at Munich to allow the invasion of Czechoslovakian territories - a betrayal of allies which failed in its goal of preventing war.\n\nVadym Prystaiko, Ukraine's ambassador to the UK, said the comparison of diplomatic efforts with Russia to appeasement was unhelpful.\n\nHe told the BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme: \"It's not the best time for us to offend our partners in the world, reminding them of this act which actually did not bring peace but the opposite - it bought war.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme: \"If you look back to that period of time there was a lot of diplomatic engagement, there was an optimism at the time, actually, that there may be a diplomatic way through.\n\n\"That eventually turned out not to be the case. It turned out that wasn't the intent or aim of Adolf Hitler at the time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis: \"Russia could invade (Ukraine) very, very quickly\"\n\nMr Lewis said the fact Russia had not yet invaded could indicate talks were working, but he warned there remained a risk President Vladimir Putin may not be engaging sincerely.\n\nIn his interview, Mr Wallace also said Moscow could launch an \"offensive at any time\".\n\nHe later said on Twitter that because of the \"worsening situation in Ukraine\", he had cut short a long weekend abroad with his family.\n\nOne of the unofficial rules of British politics is to avoid historical allusions. Especially those relating to World War Two. They are open to interpretation.\n\nSo it is with Ben Wallace and his reference to the 1938 Munich agreement. Some have inferred from this that the defence secretary was accusing some allies of seeking to appease President Putin. Mr Wallace's advisers insist not.\n\nThey say he was instead suggesting it was possible the Russian leader had already decided to invade Ukraine, in the same way Hitler had already decided at Munich to occupy part of Czechoslovakia.\n\nIn other words, he was suggesting that all the current diplomacy may come to naught and the West should be ready for that.\n\nAt most, Mr Wallace was implying that some allies might be better to judge Mr Putin on his actions and not his words.\n\nAll of this is not to suggest there are no differences among Western leaders. Some European countries are less forthright than the United States in their predictions of a possible invasion of Ukraine.\n\nOthers in Europe are fearful of losing access to Russian energy and are more cautious about what sanctions to impose if it were to invade.\n\nThat aside, one of the striking aspects of this crisis is how Western powers have managed to remain largely united in their broad strategy of deterrence and diplomacy, regardless of differences over individual tactics and measures.\n\nMore than a dozen countries have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine immediately, including Britain.\n\nOn Saturday, Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said advice to UK nationals in Ukraine had changed because Russia could now attack \"at no notice\".\n\nMr Heappey warned that the RAF would not be able to \"fly in\" and rescue those who chose to stay, comparing the situation to the evacuation of Afghanistan last summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says sanctions against Russia should not be underestimated\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the \"imminent\" threat of military action justifies evacuating the US embassy in Kyiv.\n\nYvette Cooper, Labour's shadow home secretary, said a \"very strong and united international response\" was needed for \"this Russian belligerence\".\n\n\"It is immensely serious and nobody should be naive about what Russia is up to, and the scale of the troops amassing on the Ukraine border,\" she told BBC One's Sunday Morning programme.\n\nMs Cooper said there had to be \"extremely strong and swift and severe\" sanctions in the face of any incursion.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nScrutiny of those around Kamila Valieva has increased after the World Anti-Doping Agency said it will investigate the adults working with the teenager.\n\nThe 15-year-old Russian's failed drugs test has cast a dark cloud over the Beijing Winter Olympics, with her age prompting questions over how a child became embroiled in suspected doping.\n\nThe figure skater was training in Beijing on Sunday, hours before a hearing to determine her Olympic fate.\n\nShe came here tipped for women's gold.\n\nThe European champion, who failed a drugs test in December, will hear on Monday if she can compete in the individual women's event in Beijing on Tuesday.\n\nA lengthy hearing concluded on Sunday and a Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) panel will decide whether to suspend her.\n\n\"It was a long hearing. Now the panel will deliberate until tomorrow morning, the end of the morning,\" said Matthieu Reeb, the general secretary of Cas.\n\n\"I cannot comment on anything at the hearing but I hope to give you a decision in a few hours.\"\n\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) had earlier called for global anti-doping body Wada to investigate her entourage.\n\nHours later, Wada said it would ask its independent intelligence and investigations department to look into the coaches, doctors and other adults surrounding her.\n• None Kamila Valieva 'entourage' investigation would be welcome - IOC\n\nValieva has continued to train amid the uncertainty and media attention, sometimes looking tearful.\n\nThe soft toys at the rink are a reminder of her tender age and the reason why this case has been even more shocking than other failed drugs tests.\n\nOlympic Games executive director Christophe Dubi said it was important to remember the \"human side of this story... to think about a person of 15 in this situation\".\n\n\"We need to treat this situation extremely carefully.\"\n\nWho could be part of Valieva's 'entourage'?\n\nAt times in practice Valieva has been embraced by one of her coaches Eteri Tutberidze, who is now under the spotlight as among those who could be considered part of the \"entourage\".\n\nIn a brief interview with Russian state television, Tutberidze said she was certain the teenager was \"clean and innocent\".\n\nAlso seen watching from the side of the rink in Beijing have been her other coaches Sergei Dudakov and Daniil Gleikhengauz, and also team doctor Filipp Shvetsky.\n\nThe coaches are all from the Sambo-70 club in Moscow, which has produced a series of successful young skaters in recent years.\n\nThey include Pyeongchang 2018 champion Alina Zagitova, who was 15 when she won gold and 2018 silver medallist Evgenia Medvedeva, who was 18. Meanwhile, Yulia Lipnitskaya, was 15 when she won team gold at Sochi 2014.\n\nRussian skaters arrived in Beijing strongly fancied to sweep the podium in the women's event - with 17-year-olds Alexandra Trusova and Anna Shcherbakova having finished behind Valieva in a Russian 1-2-3 at the European championships last month.\n\nThe trio share the same coaches and all three regularly perform quadruple jumps - the most difficult in the sport and very rare in women's figure skating in general.\n\nNeither Trusova nor Shcherbakova have had any issues with their tests.\n\nThe IOC says the Cas hearing will only be about the lifting of Valieva's provisional suspension, which was imposed by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada).\n\nThe full case will be heard by Rusada because the drug test was at a national competition, but Wada can appeal against any decision.\n\nValieva returned a positive test for the banned substance trimetazidine at the Russian Figure Skating Championships on 25 December.\n\nBut it was only reported on 8 February, the day after she became the first female skater to land a quadruple jump at an Olympics to help the Russian Olympic Committee team win gold.\n\nWhen the issue came to light, the medal ceremony was postponed at short notice.\n\nThe medals for the team event - in which the United States finished second, Japan third and Canada fourth - will not be awarded until after the outcome of the hearing.\n\nTrimetazidine is used in the prevention of angina attacks but is on the banned list because it is classed as a cardiac metabolic modulator and has been proven to improve physical efficiency.\n\nValieva has been allowed to train after a successful challenge against her provisional suspension by Rusada.\n\nBut the IOC, Wada and the International Skating Union (ISU) have now appealed to Cas against Rusada's decision to allow her to continue.\n\nThe Cas panel will consist of president Fabio Iudica of Italy and arbitrators Jeffrey Benz, of the United States, and Slovenian Vesna Bergant Rakocevic.\n• None Two teams of petrol lovers battle against each other in their super tractors\n• None Was this just a freak accident? The story of what really happened when a ship crashed into the sandy banks of the Suez Canal", "The former army general was detained last year on treason charges\n\nFormer Nicaraguan rebel leader Hugo Torres has died in prison aged 73, eight months after being detained on treason charges.\n\nThe retired army general fought alongside current President Daniel Ortega during the country's revolution, helping free him from jail in 1974.\n\nBut he later accused Mr Ortega of becoming a dictator and founded an opposition party.\n\nHe was one of the opposition figures arrested ahead of last year's election.\n\nTorres had been transferred to a hospital after his health deteriorated and died there of an undisclosed illness, the government said.\n\nTorres' children expressed their \"deep pain over the death of our beloved father\".\n\nTorres was seen as one of the heroes of the Sandinista Revolution against the brutal dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in the 1970s.\n\nHe took part in a risky operation to free Mr Ortega, who was being held by Somoza's regime.\n\nBut Torres was among 46 former rebels arrested in June in what critics called a crackdown on opponents of Mr Ortega. They were prevented from contesting elections which saw Mr Ortega elected for a fourth consecutive term.\n\nTorres - then vice-president of Unamos, an opposition party created after the spit from Mr Ortega in 1995 - was charged with \"conspiracy to undermine national integrity\".\n\nUnamos said Torres had been subjected to \"physical and psychological torture\" since he was detained. The party said it asked the government about his declining health last month, but it did not respond.\n\nTorres had been \"denied freedom in inhumane conditions and subjected to a legal process with no guarantees\", the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said.\n• None Five more opposition figures detained in Nicaragua", "Swiss voters have backed a ban on tobacco advertising anywhere young people might see it.\n\nIn effect, the Yes vote in the nationwide referendum will lead to a complete ban.\n\nThe move will bring Switzerland into line with its European neighbours, most of whom adopted strict rules on tobacco advertising years ago.\n\nDespite its healthy, environmentally friendly image, Switzerland has the most lax rules on tobacco in Europe.\n\nLong after smoking in pubs and restaurants was outlawed in the UK, France, or Germany, the Swiss were still puffing away.\n\nSupermarket shoppers would regularly be approached by smiling young women giving away free samples of the latest cigarette brand. And while those things were banned a few years ago, tobacco advertising remained.\n\nHailing Sunday's result, Social Democrat member of parliament Flavia Wasserfallen paid tribute to the doctors' and teachers' associations who campaigned for the ban.\n\n\"People worked really hard for policy that puts young people at its heart,\" she told Swiss television.\n\nThe World Health Organization's historic Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was negotiated in Geneva almost 20 years ago.\n\nSwitzerland signed it, but still has not ratified it - the only country in Europe not to - because its legislation on advertising was not, until Sunday's vote, compliant.\n\nYes-campaign posters say more children smoke because of tobacco advertising\n\nCompared with much of Europe, cigarettes here are cheap and 27% of Swiss adults smoke - higher than the European average.\n\nTime and again legislation aimed at introducing tighter restrictions was rejected in parliament. And even after campaigners gathered enough signatures to force the referendum demanding a ban, the Swiss government recommended a No vote.\n\nThose backing the ban say that is down to the presence of the world's major tobacco companies here. Philip Morris, British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco all have their headquarters in Switzerland.\n\nThe tobacco industry is estimated to contribute over $6bn (£4.5bn; €5bn) a year, and 11,000 jobs, to the Swiss economy.\n\nJust days before the vote it became clear - as many had suspected - that the tobacco companies had been funding the No campaign.\n\nOpponents argued a ban on advertising a legal product was unacceptable, and that it would open the door to restrictions on other things, like sugar or alcohol, judged to be harmful to health.\n\nPosters featuring some of Switzerland's favourite foods - cake and sausages - appeared with the bleak warning \"these will be next\".\n\nBut voters were less than impressed by the campaign.\n\nSwitzerland has 9,000 tobacco-related deaths each year and the cost of treating tobacco-related illnesses is a drain on the health system. It also pushes up the cost of health insurance, which everyone has to pay, whether they are a smoker or not.\n\nAhead of the vote, opinion polls suggested more than 60% would back the ban. In the end that was reduced to 56%, but still a clear majority.\n\n\"The people understood that health is more important than economic interests,\" Stefanie de Borba of the Swiss League against Cancer told AFP news agency.\n\nThree other decisions went before Swiss voters on Sunday as well: on banning all animal testing, on more financial subsidies for the media, and on ending stamp duty for equity capital. All three were rejected.\n\nThe animal testing was viewed as too limiting for Switzerland's world class medical research and development sector.\n\nThe media subsidies were viewed by many voters as lining the pockets of media barons, while abolishing stamp duty would, voters thought, simply have made people who were already rich even richer.\n\nThese are complex subjects for voters to decide on, but that is how Switzerland's system of direct democracy works.\n\nThere is rule of thumb about how voters should decide if they feel they do not understand the issues: take the government's advice.\n\nBut on Sunday the government urged a yes to media subsidies, and lost. It urged a yes to abolishing the stamp duty and lost, and it urged a no to the ban on tobacco advertising, and lost.\n\nMinisters may have to take some time to reflect on whether they are out of touch with voters.\n\nBut as for tobacco, as one Swiss commentator put it on Sunday: \"In the choice between economic freedom and health, the majority of voters chose the latter... Whether it's advertising bans, smoking bans or more expensive cigarettes, smoking no longer has a lobby among the people - unlike among the politicians.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Northern Ireland has banned smoking in cars with children", "Thousands more lives could be saved if people knew how to spot the early signs of a heart attack, the NHS has said.\n\nDoctors want people to be more aware of common early symptoms such as sweating and tightness in the chest - and to call 999 if they experience them.\n\nIt comes after a poll found fewer than half of people knew to dial 999 for some of the more vague signs.\n\nThere are more than 80,000 hospital admissions for heart attacks each year in England.\n\nThe overall survival rate for people experiencing a heart attack is seven in 10, rising to nine in 10 for those who seek early hospital treatment.\n\nThe new NHS campaign runs from 14 February to 31 March and tells people to dial 999 if they experience common early symptoms including sweating, uneasiness and chest tightness.\n\nIn the poll of 2,000 people, only 41% said they knew sweating was an early symptom while just 27% knew that light-headedness, feeling weak or uneasy was also common.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS England's medical director, said thousands of deaths could be prevented with earlier treatment if people recognise these vital signs.\n\n\"Sadly, cardiovascular disease causes a quarter of all deaths across the country and we have identified this as the single biggest area where we can save lives over the next decade.\"\n\nProf Powis added: \"It can be easy to dismiss early symptoms as they don't always feel severe, but it is never too early to dial 999 in this circumstance - and the faster you act, the better the chance of a full recovery.\"\n\nThe campaign also seeks to raise awareness of cardiac arrest - which is not the same as a heart attack. There is often no warning with a cardiac arrest and the person quickly loses consciousness.\n\nThose experiencing a cardiac arrest will usually die within minutes if they do not receive treatment. A heart attack can lead to a cardiac arrest.\n\nThe campaign is being supported by celebrities such as One Foot in the Grave actor Richard Wilson and Sky Sports presenter Peter Dale, known as Tubes.\n\nMr Wilson said: \"I've battled with my heart health for a while, and since experiencing a heart attack I've really opened my eyes to the impact it's had on my life.\n\n\"I got more tired, I'm able to walk around less and my memory has suffered as well. The scariest part is that at the time I did not know enough about heart attacks or heart health.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to use a defibrillator and save a life", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: People can be seen holding up slabs of wood after a floor collapsed in a Hackney bar\n\nThirteen people have been injured after a mezzanine floor collapsed at an east London pub.\n\nEmergency services were called to the Two More Years bar in Hackney Wick at about 16:50 GMT on Saturday.\n\nFirefighters rescued seven people who were trapped after the collapse. Four people were taken to hospital.\n\nOne of them told the BBC he feared he was going to die after he was trapped under the rubble.\n\n\"Everything was crushing me, I was starting to lose breath,\" said James Purdon, 30.\n\n\"It got to the point where I couldn't even cry for help because I had no energy left.\n\n\"I feel like I had seconds left of consciousness before someone managed to clear a passage for me to escape.\"\n\nAfter he was rescued, he said he could not move and he was \"in so much pain\".\n\nThe civil servant said he understands that he was the most seriously hurt of the victims, with injuries to his back, knee and ankle, but no broken bones.\n\nJames Purdon says he feared he was going to die as the rubble crushed him, but he has now been discharged from hospital\n\nA spokesman for Tower Hamlets Council said it is working with the emergency services and a structural engineer to assess the privately-owned building.\n\nOne witness, Amelia, said she was at the bar when the floor collapsed and she tried to help clear some of the rubble.\n\n\"When I saw it come down in front of me I was certain that there would be people dead,\" she said.\n\n\"So we're grateful to be safe. It's made me worry about the building safety of other similar bars in the area.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHal, a mental health worker and therapist from Stratford, was on the mezzanine floor when it collapsed and managed to escape the fall with a few scratches.\n\n\"It sounded like a rumbling, a bit like an earthquake. You can't be prepared for anything like this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe said he was \"pretty much in the middle of the upper mezzanine of the bar\" after a football friendly between Clapton CFC and Stonewall FC.\n\n\"Thankfully I was able to heave myself out,\" he said.\n\n\"We all helped each other out.\"\n\nA mezzanine floor in the single-storey pub in Roach Road collapsed\n\nBrian Jordan, strategic commander at London Ambulance Service, said the collapse was treated as a major incident and teams from the air ambulance were sent to the site.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade station commander Sacha Clement said crews found seven people who were trapped upstairs on the remaining part of the mezzanine floor.\n\n\"Crews used a ladder to bridge between the floor and the internal staircase to get them safely out of the building,\" the station commander said.\n\nLFB said crews from three fire engines from Homerton, Bethnal Green and Leyton fire stations and two rescue units from East Ham and Edmonton stations attended the scene.\n\nHarriet McMahon was sitting under the mezzanine with her boyfriend when it collapsed.\n\nShe described seeing \"clouds of dust\" and hearing \"people screaming\".\n\n\"I thought the whole place was coming down,\" she said.\n\n\"We ran out, we went back in again, we'd left our keys and our phones on the table.\n\n\"We found our stuff in the end. It was horrible. There were people and things everywhere.\"\n\nSadiq Khan thanked the emergency services for their \"swift action\"\n\nAnother man who was in the venue at the time said it was lucky there were not more people sitting directly under the mezzanine floor that came down.\n\n\"There was just this sort of cracking sort of noise and dust started coming down,\" he added.\n\n\"Me and my friend just ran to the side and the whole thing just came down in a matter of seconds.\"\n\nA statement on Two More Years' Instagram account said the venue would remain closed \"for now\" and added: \"Our thoughts are with everyone that has been affected.\"\n\nIt said \"thankfully\" no-one had sustained critical injuries.\n\nA police cordon was set up outside the bar but has since been lifted\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan thanked the ambulance service, fire brigade and police for their \"swift action\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with those affected by the incident in Hackney Wick this evening,\" he said.\n\n\"I wish all those injured a speedy recovery.\"\n\nRushanara Ali, Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, tweeted that she was \"very concerned about the collapse of part of a building at Roach Road\".\n\nA police cordon was set up in the area but has since been lifted.\n\nWere you at the bar or nearby? Did you see what happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Friends ended in 2004 after 10 seasons but has remained hugely popular worldwide since then\n\nSeveral Chinese streaming platforms have been accused of censoring LGBT plotlines from hit US sitcom Friends.\n\nThe show was re-released in China earlier this week on Tencent, Bilibili, Sohu, iQiyi and Alibaba's Youku.\n\nBut Chinese fans have complained of scenes being deleted, including those that reference a lesbian character, and another featuring a same-sex kiss.\n\nIt is unclear why the scenes have been removed, and none of the platforms have responded publicly to the accusations.\n\nThe show, which ran from 1994-2004, is based in New York City and centres around a group of friends played by Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt Le Blanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer.\n\nFriends has a massive following in China, with many Chinese millennials crediting the show with teaching them English and introducing them to US culture.\n\nSohu held broadcast rights between 2012 and 2018, and aired full, uncensored episodes at the time.\n\nBut Chinese fans shared their dismay on social media about the re-release and its omissions.\n\nIn one instance, dialogue was axed about the ex-wife of one character, Ross, who left him after she realised she was a lesbian.\n\nIncorrect subtitles were also used to downplay sexual references, the South China Morning Post reports. In one scene, the phrase \"multiple orgasms\" was translated to the Chinese phrase for \"women have endless gossips\".\n\n\"Not only does it ignore women's sexual desire and enjoyment... [it] also reinforces the gender stereotype of women,\" one user wrote on social media site Weibo, according to CNN.\n\n\"If you can't show the complete version under the current atmosphere, then don't import it,\" wrote another.\n\nSeveral users have called for a boycott of the show in protest.\n\nThe hashtag #FriendsCensored has became a popular term on Weibo in recent days. But on Sunday, searches for the hashtag and other variations produced either zero or limited results - indicating discussions may have caught the attention of Chinese censors.\n\nLady Gaga's appearance at a Friends reunion was cut from Chinese broadcasts last year\n\nIn recent years, China has shut down tens of thousands of websites and social media accounts containing \"vulgar\" and pornographic content, and other material deemed illegal or anti-Chinese.\n\nScenes featuring Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and K-Pop band BTS were cut from a Friends reunion special aired last year.\n\nIt's unclear why the musicians were removed from the final broadcast, but all three have previously been accused of insulting China. Lady Gaga, for example, has been banned from touring in the country after meeting with the Dalai Lama in 2016.", "Protesters responded to the music with their own, including Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It\n\nAuthorities in New Zealand have been playing Barry Manilow's greatest hits in an attempt to dislodge protesters camped outside the parliament building.\n\nSongs by the US singer are being played on a 15-minute loop, along with the Spanish dance tune, Macarena.\n\nThe demonstrators, who are angry at Covid-19 vaccine mandates, responded by playing songs such as Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It.\n\nThe protests began on Tuesday when a convoy of vehicles drove to parliament.\n\nInspired by large rallies against vaccine mandates in Canada, hundreds of protesters arrived in the capital, Wellington, to rally against Covid restrictions.\n\nThey adopted the name \"Convoy for Freedom\" and blocked streets in the city.\n\nBy Wednesday their numbers had dwindled to the dozens, but they increased again at the weekend.\n\nOn Thursday police arrested 122 people and charged many with trespassing or obstruction.\n\nTactics used by the authorities to try and get rid of the protesters involved turning on the water sprinklers on the lawn where they were camped on Friday.\n\nBut protesters retaliated by digging trenches and building makeshift drainpipes to re-route the water, the Associated Press news agency reports.\n\nWith sprinklers proving ineffective, Parliament Speaker Trevor Mallard settled on a new approach: blasting out Barry Manilow's greatest hits, which include Mandy and Could It Be Magic, as well as the 1990s hit Macarena and Covid vaccine messages.\n\nUK singer James Blunt tweeted about the tactics, tagging New Zealand police and joking that he might be the man for the job.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James Blunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nApparently someone was listening, as his song You're Beautiful was added to the authorities' playlist on Sunday, AFP news agency reports.\n\nNew Zealand has employed strict Covid restrictions to contain the virus for nearly two years now. Lockdowns and an international border closure have helped to keep infection and death numbers very low.\n\nBut the duration of many restrictions - including a minimum 10-day isolation and a vaccine mandate - has fuelled growing resentment in the community.\n\nPublic polls have shown increasing dissatisfaction with Jacinda Ardern's government, and there has been an increase in protest activity in recent months.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch police in Paris fire tear gas at demonstrators protesting against France's Covid measures.\n\nPolice have intercepted hundreds of vehicles trying to enter Paris as part of a protest against France's coronavirus regulations.\n\nTear gas was fired in the city as demonstrators defied an order banning the \"Freedom Convoy\".\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin said more than 300 tickets had been handed out and 54 people arrested.\n\nAuthorities have deployed more than 7,000 officers over the next three days in a bid to stop the demonstrators.\n\nDespite those efforts, some vehicles managed to arrive at the Arc de Triomphe in the city, and tear gas was fired at demonstrators on the nearby Champs-Élysées avenue.\n\nThe groups were inspired by the self-styled Canadian \"Freedom Convoy\" which has disrupted trade on the US border and occupied streets in Ottawa. Similar demonstrations have started to spread around the world.\n\nAustria and Belgium have banned such convoys from entering their capitals, with similar demonstrations also emerging in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands.\n\nOn Saturday, police in Paris said they had intercepted hundreds of vehicles heading into the city. Two were allegedly carrying knives, hammers and petrol canisters, and five were allegedly carrying slingshots.\n\nA video posted online by a journalist and shared by the police showed officers halting lines of vehicles on the city's ring road. Police close to the Arc de Triomphe were seen diverting camper vans and other vehicles away from the area.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Préfecture de Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDemonstrators who oppose France's Covid pass, which requires people to show proof of vaccination before entering public venues, want to gather and blockade the capital across the weekend - suggesting such scenes may be repeated Sunday.\n\nConvoys have organised online and appear to come from various political and ideological backgrounds, making it difficult to estimate how many vehicles might arrive in Paris each day. They have also drawn in others angry at rising prices in France.\n\nSome plan to continue on to Brussels, home of many European Union institutions, for further demonstrations on Monday. City officials there have also banned the planned demonstration.\n\nPrime Minister Jean Castex said on Friday that authorities would be \"very firm\" if the group tried to block the French capital.\n\n\"The right to demonstrate and to have an opinion are a constitutionally guaranteed right in our republic and in our democracy. The right to block others or prevent coming and going is not,\" he told France 2.\n\nMr Castex also objected to the demonstrators calling themselves a \"Freedom Convoy\".\n\nThe word freedom should not be associated with \"virulent attacks against vaccination\", he said, because freedom is not \"contaminating others\".\n\nThe convoys consisting overall of some several hundred cars and camper-vans spent the night at points outside Paris, and from early this morning began driving into the city centre - their aim, apparently, to block the Champs-Élysées.\n\nPolice have set up checkpoints at exits from the Paris ring road, and they're out in force across the capital, stopping cars that look like they're occupied by protesters. By midday they'd issued around 300 fines.\n\nTwo months ahead of presidential elections the government is anxious to avoid any scene reminiscent of the sometimes violent yellow-vest protests of three years ago.\n\nThe protest movement is ostensibly about Covid restrictions, in imitation of the so-called Freedom Convoys in Canada, but many of the participants also proclaim their allegiance to the yellow-vests.\n\nSome intend to proceed to Brussels on Sunday.\n\nFrance's protesters were inspired by the blockade in Canada, which has closed a crossing that sees $1.7bn (£1.2bn) of daily trade between Canada and the US.\n\nTruckers there, objecting to a federal Covid vaccine mandate for those crossing the border into Canada, have occupied the Ambassador Bridge and camped on the streets of the capital Ottawa for days.\n\nA court order ordering them to leave the bridge came into effect at 19:00 local time (midnight GMT) on Friday.\n\nCopycat protests have also emerged elsewhere.\n\nSome 10,000 protesters opposed to vaccine mandates arrived at Parliament House in the Australian capital Canberra on Saturday, local media reported, while police in New Zealand's capital Wellington arrested more than 100 people on Thursday who blocked roads in the city.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea manager Thomas Tuchel dedicated his side's first Club World Cup triumph to owner Roman Abramovich after an extra-time win against Brazilian side Palmeiras.\n\nA 117th-minute penalty in Abu Dhabi by Kai Havertz - who also scored their 2021 Champions League winner - means the Blues have now won every possible trophy under the ownership of the Russian billionaire\n\nRomelu Lukaku opened the scoring with a header in the second half before Raphael Veiga levelled from the spot.\n\nPalmeiras defender Luan was sent off in added time as the Blues sealed victory.\n\n\"It is for him, there is no doubt that it is for him,\" said Tuchel of Abramovich.\n\n\"We met quickly on the pitch after the final, he said 'congratulations' and I said 'congratulations, it's for you, it's your club and it's your input and your passion that made this possible' and I'm happy to be part of it.\n\n\"So of course the trophy is for him.\"\n\nMuch like in their semi-final win against Al-Hilal, Chelsea dominated possession but struggled to create chances for much of the final in the United Arab Emirates.\n\nTheir cutting edge looked unlikely to improve when Mason Mount was forced off through injury, just as he was in their FA Cup tie with Plymouth, while Lukaku continued to cut an isolated figure up front.\n\nPalmeiras were content to make the most of their threat on the counter-attack, with the pace of Rony and Dudu stretching the Blues defence, but there were very few clear-cut chances.\n\nThen nine minutes after the break, Lukaku made the breakthrough when Callum Hudson-Odoi sent in his first pinpoint cross and the Belgium striker powered a header past Weverton.\n\nChristian Pulisic, Mount's replacement, went close with a shot from distance after a smart lay-off from Lukaku as the English side looked to cement their control.\n\nBut just past the hour mark, Palmeiras equalised when Thiago Silva was adjudged to have handled in the area and, after a check on the pitch-side monitor, Veiga converted emphatically from 12 yards to send the game into extra time.\n\nWith a penalty shoot-out looming, Chelsea secured the trophy with a spot-kick of their own. Luan's handball was also checked on the monitor before Germany playmaker Havertz fired home.\n\nLuan was then dismissed for a foul on the match winner in the final minute, after the referee was told to consult the monitor for a third time.\n\n'We were running out of lights'\n\nTuchel says he only beat his Covid isolation at the \"second-to-last chance\" to coach Chelsea to their maiden Club World Cup title in person.\n\nThe Blues' German boss was frustrated by having to coach Chelsea in the FA Cup fourth round against Plymouth and the Club World Cup semi-final from his office.\n\nAnd, as time ticked down, he says he made several drives to the airport without even waiting for his Covid test result, such was his desperation to join the Chelsea squad in Abu Dhabi.\n\nHe tested negative at the penultimate chance to reach the United Arab Emirates in time though.\n\n\"We were running out of lights, with the time difference we knew the deadline was coming,\" said Tuchel.\n\n\"So it was the second-to-last chance to make it, the last one would have been to arrive today in the morning. So I'm happy that we made it.\n\n\"I was several times on my way to the airport and several times while I was driving called back because my test was not negative.\n\n\"And finally we made it, I arrived yesterday for dinner, at 8.15 in the evening. Coaching is also about feeling, on the touchline. It's not possible to coach only from the office.\"\n• None Kai Havertz (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 2, Palmeiras 1. Kai Havertz (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Luan Garcia (Palmeiras) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Penalty conceded by Luan Garcia (Palmeiras) with a hand ball in the penalty area. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Two teams of petrol lovers battle against each other in their super tractors\n• None Was this just a freak accident? The story of what really happened when a ship crashed into the sandy banks of the Suez Canal", "Carrie and Boris Johnson were married in 2021 and have two children together\n\nAttacks on Carrie Johnson are \"sexist\" and \"misogynistic\" the health secretary has said following the serialisation of a book about the PM's wife.\n\nIn his new book, Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft claims Mrs Johnson influences her husband's decision-making.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Sajid Javid argued politicians' partners should be \"off limits\" because it was the politician who had chosen a career in public life.\n\nMrs Johnson has said she is the target of a \"brutal briefing campaign\".\n\nHer spokeswoman said allegations made by former Tory chairman Lord Ashcroft were \"just the latest attempt by bitter ex-officials\" to discredit her adding: \"She is a private individual who plays no role in government.\"\n\nThe 33-year-old previously worked for the Conservative Party as a press officer and as an adviser to the then Culture Secretary John Whittingdale and Mr Javid when he was at the communities department. She currently works for a conservation group.\n\nLord Ashcroft, whose unauthorised biography is being serialised in the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, argues Mrs Johnson's behaviour was \"preventing him [Boris Johnson] from leading Britain as effectively as the voters deserve\".\n\nHis book comes amid claims Mrs Johnson was involved in rows linked to the prime minister, including suggestions she pushed for the luxury redecoration of their No 11 Downing Street flat and that she was key in the evacuation of animals from the Nowzad charity in Kabul, Afghanistan.\n\nNo 10 has denied either Mr or Mrs Johnson had any involvement in the evacuation.\n\nComing to Mrs Johnson's defence, Mr Javid said reports focusing on the prime minister's wife were \"very undignified and very unfair\".\n\n\"By all means talk about the prime minister, politicians and advisers around him,\" he said, but added partners should be \"off limits\".\n\nAsked if the attacks were sexist and misogynistic, he said \"yes\".\n\nLabour's shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth also described criticism as unfair and sexist.\n\nHe said Mrs Johnson \"should be left alone\", adding that it was her husband who was \"failing hard working people\".\n\nHis party leader Sir Keir Starmer said everyone should be treated with \"respect\". \"I do not go along with the idea we should drag everyone into the gutter,\" he added.\n\nMrs Johnson also received support from journalist Sarah Vine, the ex-wife of cabinet minister Michael Gove.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said the criticism was \"the equivalent of political slut shaming\".\n\n\"The trouble is, it's always the easiest thing to do to blame the woman and the truth is far more complicated than that.\n\n\"I know that the nickname Carrie Antoinette is witty and a good pun and we all love a good pun, but I just don't think her head deserves to be on the block in this way.\"\n\nFormer chancellor George Osborne agreed tweeting that: \"Whatever the flaws and faults of the Boris Johnson government - or indeed its successes - they are the responsibility of Boris, not his wife Carrie. Let's move on from this misogynistic Lady Macbeth nonsense.\"\n\nIn recent months, Mrs Johnson has been criticised by the prime minister's former aide Dominic Cummings.\n\nHe has described her as a \"crazy girlfriend\" and suggested in a BBC interview that she wanted to be \"pulling the strings\" in Number 10 and had tried to \"appoint complete clowns to certain key jobs\".\n\nLord Ashcroft has previously written biographies of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Chancellor Rishi Sunak, leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg and former Prime Minister David Cameron.\n\nHe has said all author royalties from his new book, First Lady, are being donated to NHS charities. The peer, a former Conservative Party treasurer and deputy chairman, has donated millions to the Tories.", "Baby Lincoln Edwards, pictured with mum Georgia Struthers and dad Kallum Edwards was born with a congenital condition\n\nA six-month-old boy who had his first life-saving heart operation at 13 days is now recovering from his second.\n\nLincoln Edwards, from Wrexham, was born with a congenital condition that meant he needed surgery to improve his blood flow.\n\nThen last month he underwent nine hours of surgery to fully repair his heart.\n\nNow his parents are raising money for a charity treating children with similar conditions in developing countries.\n\nLincoln is recovering at home with mum and dad Georgia Struthers, 22, and Kallum Edwards, 24.\n\nHis latest operation happened six months earlier than planned because he had outgrown his shunt - or tube.\n\nThe surgery was performed by Dr Ramana Dhannapuneni at Liverpool Alder Hey Children's Hospital.\n\nMs Struthers and Mr Edwards now want to help him save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nLincoln had his first life saving op at five months old\n\nThe couple are raising money for a charity Dr Dhannapuneni works with, called Healing Little Hearts.\n\nFounded in 2007, it has carried out more than 2,200 operations in 14 countries across Africa and Asia, where treatment is normally unavailable or expensive.\n\nDoctors and nurses work free in their own time.\n\nRelationship consultant Ms Struthers said funding one of the charity's foreign missions seemed a fitting way to give thanks.\n\n\"We want to give those children the chance that Lincoln's had,\" she said.\n\n\"If the shoe was on the other foot and that was us, we'd never be able to afford the treatment that Lincoln has had.\n\n\"Without that he wouldn't have a chance to live and we wouldn't have him.\"\n\nDr Dhannapuneni has just returned from a trip to Namibia, where 10 children and babies were operated on in five days.\n\nHe said in many countries parents struggled to find somewhere they could afford to have sick children treated.\n\nLincoln's parents now want to help children in developing countries\n\nHealing Little Hearts also mentors and trains medical staff so they can perform heart procedures themselves.\n\nDr Dhannapuneni said this was vital.\n\n\"That is a massive effect of our charitable missions. There are good stories of childrens' heart centres being established from scratch.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leadership issues have bubbled up throughout my time as an MP - Kwarteng\n\nThe business secretary has appealed to his party to give Boris Johnson the \"time and space to deliver\" on the government's promises as pressure continues to mount on his leadership.\n\nThe PM had another difficult week, with a critical report into No 10 lockdown parties and five senior aides quitting.\n\nMore Tory MPs also declared publicly they had no confidence in him.\n\nBut Kwasi Kwarteng said the PM was carrying out his commitment for a reset in No 10 and focused on policies.\n\nAnd he told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme the \"ongoing focus on 'partygate' is not helping anyone\".\n\nFormer Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith also told the programme he believed Mr Johnson should stay in his role as \"the prime minister is the one that has to sort this out\", adding: \"[He] bears the overall responsibility\".\n\nAnd he warned other MPs who could be vying for a leadership bid to \"temper their ambition\".\n\nBut Sir Iain said the government \"must do more\" to tackle the cost of living crisis and \"restore the sense [in the public] there is a government they can trust and respect\".\n\nThe turmoil in Mr Johnson's government has led to growing questions from Conservatives about the PM's future.\n\nOn Monday, Sue Gray's initial findings around parties held in Downing Street during Covid lockdowns said there had been \"failures of leadership and judgement\".\n\nMore detail is also expected to come out as part of a Metropolitan Police investigation into 12 of the gatherings.\n\nThe PM also faced criticism - and the distancing of some of his ministers - after making a false claim that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions.\n\nThis was followed by a string of resignations of senior aides - three of whom were caught up in the lockdown parties row, including senior civil servant Martin Reynolds who sent out an invitation to a \"bring your own booze\" party.\n\nBut one of his longest standing colleagues, Munira Mirza, quit over the Savile remarks and the PM's refusal to apologise.\n\nMr Johnson announced the appointment of two of their replacements over the weekend, with Cabinet Office minister Steve Barclay becoming chief of staff and his former colleague, Guto Harri, taking over as director of communications.\n\nThe PM said the pair would \"improve how No 10 operates\", and it is understood he is considering further changes to his top team.\n\nMr Harri tweeted that he was \"delighted\" to take up the role, alongside a picture of him with Peter Capaldi, who played Malcolm Tucker, No 10's director of communications in satire The Thick of It, and said he had \"taken advice\" from him.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner called the new appointments a farce, adding the prime minister had \"clearly run out of serious people willing to serve under his chaotic and incompetent leadership\".\n\nMr Kwarteng told the BBC the new hires were \"a step in the right direction\", adding: \"The prime minister has been very clear that he wants to reset No 10.\n\n\"And what we saw [this] week was him following through on that commitment.\"\n\nHe said the government had a \"serious agenda\" to tackle, with a potential war in Ukraine, the cost of living crisis and bouncing back from the pandemic, \"so I don't think focusing on the parties is necessarily the best way for us to get through this\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A dizzying week for the PM explained in 60 seconds\n\nBut with increasing numbers of MPs writing letters of no confidence in the PM - 54 would be needed to trigger a leadership contest - including former schools minister Nick Gibb, has Mr Johnson lost the support of his party to get on with the job?\n\n\"I don't think so at all,\" said Mr Kwarteng. \"I have been an MP for 12 years. In all that time, leadership issues have bubbled to the surface.\n\n\"A few people have said they are not happy with the direction and gave their views publicly... [but] on balance, if you look at the party in the round, I think people are just very, very focused on delivering on the manifesto.\"\n\nThe business secretary added: \"[Mr Johnson] has got a clear mandate and we have got to give him time and space to deliver on that mandate.\"\n\nOne of those unhappy with the PM's leadership is Tory peer Lord Barwell - a former MP who served as Theresa May's chief of staff when she was prime minister.\n\nHe told Sky News: \"My inclination is that the Conservative Party would be better making a change and I also think, for the good of the country in terms of trust and faith in our politics, there's a strong case for change.\"\n\nBut Lord Barwell said he did not think there was \"a chance in hell that the prime minister is going to voluntarily resign\".\n\nSir Iain - who led the Tories in opposition in the early 2000s - said the parties and the aftermath had been \"hugely damaging\" to the Conservatives and the public were \"very angry\".\n\nAsked if the PM could recover that reputation, he told the BBC: \"None of us know the answer to that question.\n\n\"Respect and trust you have to earn, and when you lose it, it's a very difficult task to get it back across the board.\"\n\nBut he said \"internecine warfare\" should not be the priority of MPs right now, and the government needed to focus on tackling the cost of living crisis.", "Environmentalists often accuse corporations of misleading consumers with greenwashing\n\nMany of the world's biggest companies are failing to meet their own targets on tackling climate change, according to a study of 25 corporations.\n\nThey also routinely exaggerate or misreport their progress, the New Climate Institute report says.\n\nGoogle, Amazon, Ikea, Apple and Nestle are among those failing to change quickly enough, the study alleges.\n\nCorporations are under pressure to cut their environmental impact as more consumers want green products.\n\nSome of the companies told BBC News they disagreed with some of the methods used in the report and said they were committed to taking action to curb climate change.\n\nThe firms analysed account for 5% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, the report says - which means although they have a huge carbon footprint, they have enormous potential to lead in the effort to limit climate change.\n\n\"The rapid acceleration of corporate climate pledges, combined with the fragmentation of approaches, means that it is more difficult than ever to distinguish between real climate leadership and unsubstantiated,\" the study says.\n\nStudy author Thomas Day told BBC News his team originally wanted to discover good practices in the corporate world, but they were \"frankly surprised and disappointed at the overall integrity of the companies' claims\".\n\nAmazon said in its statement: \"We set these ambitious targets because we know that climate change is a serious problem, and action is needed now more than ever. As part of our goal to reach net-zero carbon by 2040, Amazon is on a path to powering our operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025.\"\n\nAnd Nestle commented: \"We welcome scrutiny of our actions and commitments on climate change. However, the New Climate Institute's Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor (CCRM) report lacks understanding of our approach and contains significant inaccuracies.\"\n\nThe Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor was conducted by non-profit organisations New Climate Institute and Carbon Market Watch.\n\nIt looked at firms' publicly stated strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in order to reach net zero.\n\nNet zero, a target scientists say the world must reach by 2050 to limit global temperature rises, means not adding to the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.\n\nAchieving it means reducing emissions as much as possible, as well as balancing out any that remain by removing an equivalent amount.\n\nCompanies set their own targets. For example, Google promises to be carbon-free by 2030, while Ikea pledges to be \"climate-positive\" by 2030.\n\nEmissions are created by anything from transporting goods, to energy used in factories or shops. The carbon footprint of growing crops or cutting down trees also counts.\n\nThe study gave each firm an \"integrity\" rating. It found that some were doing relatively well in reducing emissions but that all corporations could improve. None was given a rating of \"high integrity\".\n\nIt assessed factors like annually disclosing emissions; giving a breakdown of emission sources; and disclosing information in an understandable way.\n\nIt concluded that overall, the strategies in place - if implemented - would reduce emissions by 40% at most, not the 100% implied in the term \"net zero\".\n\nJust three of the 25 companies are clearly committed to removing 90% of carbon emissions from their production and supply chains, it says. Those are Maersk, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom.\n\nThe way that businesses talk about their climate pledges is also a big problem, the study says. There is a large gap between what companies say and the reality, Mr Day says - and consumers are likely to find it difficult to determine the truth.\n\n\"Companies' ambitious-sounding headline claims all too often lack real substance,\" he explains. \"Even companies that are doing relatively well exaggerate their actions.\"\n\nMr Day, whose team spent weeks poring over documents, said the average person trying, for example, to choose a piece of furniture, technology or buy food in the supermarket would struggle to make an informed decision.\n\nHe said one of the most controversial areas was what are known as downstream or upstream emissions - ones that are created by activity indirectly linked to a company.\n\nFor example, the report says 70% of Apple's climate footprint is created by upstream emissions, including the consumption of electricity by consumers using Apple phones, laptops and other products.\n\nMany companies did not include these emissions in their climate plans.\n\nIkea told BBC News it welcomed \"dialogue and scrutiny\" of companies' climate commitments and goals, to ensure that they were \"aligned with the science of 1.5°C\".\n\n\"The new report by New Climate Institute is a constructive addition to this.\"\n\nAnd Unilever commented: \"While we share different perspectives on some elements of this report, we welcome external analysis of our progress and have begun a productive dialogue with the New Climate Institute to see how we can meaningfully evolve our approach.\n\nGoogle told BBC News: \"We clearly define the scope of our climate commitments and regularly report on our progress in our annual Environmental Report, where our energy and greenhouse gas emissions data is assured by Ernst & Young.\"\n\nApple did not respond directly to the report but told BBC News it has a plan to reduce its carbon footprint.\n\nThe Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor will continue to assess companies' pledges, releasing findings annually.\n\nThe full list of companies analysed is: Maersk, Apple, Sony, Vodafone, Amazon, Deutsche Telekom, Enel, GlaxoSmithKline, Google, Hitachi, Ikea, Vale, Volkswagen, Walmart, Accenture, BMW Group, Carrefour, CVS Health, Deutsche Post DHL, E.On SE, JBS, Nestle, Novartis, Saint-Gobain, Unilever.", "Let's take a look at the latest daily figures on the spread of Covid worldwide.\n\nThere were 5,729 deaths reported around the world, bringing the global total to 5.7 million since the pandemic began.\n\nAnd with 1.7 million new infections recorded, it means there have been 395.2 million confirmed cases since the virus first emerged.\n\nBut in many parts of the world, the spike in cases caused by the appearance of the Omicron variant has begun to subside.\n\nCases are now clearly falling in Asia, North America and Latin America. In Europe, where cases are highest, the virus is continuing to spread at a greater rate than at any other time in the pandemic.\n\nIn the US, cases have fallen sharply but the number of deaths remains high – averaging nearly 2,500 in the past seven days.\n\nMany places in the world are using booster vaccinations to top up immunity and keep the pandemic under control in the face of the Omicron variant.\n\nAmong larger countries, Chile has the highest proportion of the population who have had booster jabs, with 67% having had the extra dose.\n\nDenmark, which recently lifted all its Covid restrictions, is second on that list, with 62% having had the booster vaccination.", "New 'greenfield' homes are designed around the car - report\n\nHousing developments on former farmland are adding hundreds of thousands of extra car journeys to England’s roads, a report has found.\n\nIt says typical new 'greenfield' homes are designed around the car - with often three parking spaces per home.\n\nEssential services such as shops, schools and doctors are often almost impossible to reach on foot or by bike.\n\nThe government planning department welcomed the report, agreeing new housing should depend less on cars.\n\nThe Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said last year: “Public transport and active travel (walking and cycling) will be the natural first choice for daily activities.\n\n\"We will use our cars less.\"\n\nBut the report from Transport for New Homes – backed by the RAC Foundation - says car dependency is actually getting worse.\n\nIts researchers conducted field visits to 20 new housing developments across England – three years after a previous survey around the country.\n\nThey found that greenfield housing has become even more car-based than before. They say the trend for building with the car in mind extended beyond housing, with out-of-town retail, leisure, food outlets and employment orientated around new road systems.\n\nThey found that planners and construction firms are building in a style they refer to as ‘car-park to car-park’.\n\nThis is the opposite of Mr Shapps' stated wishes, they say. It's creating a sedentary lifestyle and isolation for new residents, as well as limited choices for people who don’t drive.\n\nDespite plans for vibrant communities with local shops, leisure facilities and community services, the visions of developers have not materialised.\n\nEqually, the excellent public transport promised was often not in place and in some cases had even been reduced.\n\nThey say that in practice, greenfield estates planned as ‘walkable vibrant communities’ were dominated by parking, driveways and roads with easy access to bypasses and major roads.\n\nIn contrast, 'brownfield' developments on previously built-up land in cities tended to be less car-based, allowing better access to local amenities by foot, cycle and public transport, the report said.\n\nThe researchers commended two greenfield developments for being far less car-dependent: Derwenthorpe, near York, and Poundbury in Dorset, which was built according to principles of architecture advocated by the Prince of Wales.\n\nThey had been designed around walkability and the needs of a local community from start to finish, without compromise. They were also well-positioned to allow residents to easily walk and cycle along overlooked streets to shops and services in their nearby town centres.\n\nJenny Raggett from Transport for New Homes, said: “We can’t go on as we have been, building many hundreds of thousands of new homes in places which are not only impossible to serve with sustainable transport, but actually promote more and more travel by car.\n\n“At a time of climate emergency and with a need to cut congestion on our roads, this is not the way we should be building for the future. We have to do things differently.\n\n“Small shops, cafes and businesses built for local living are just not there in most new greenfield estates. Local parks, community halls, playing fields and other amenities that would take people away from looking at their screens and encourage them to get out and walk or cycle, appear often not to have materialised.\n\n“Good public transport often remains aspirational with cuts to services looming. For people who cannot afford a car or cannot drive, they are essentially stuck. This cannot be a healthy vision for how people will live in the future.”\n\nReacting to the report, a spokesperson for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said: \"By 2030, we want half of all journeys in towns and cities to be walked or cycled and are investing £3 billion into bus services.\n\n\"National Planning Policy is clear that significant development should give priority to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport and we will be updating guidance later this year to promote street design that favours walkways and cycle paths over motor traffic.\"\n\nBut Steve Gooding, head of the RAC Foundation and a former director at the Department for Transport, told BBC News that what seemed like irreconcilable goals within government itself, weren't helping.\n\n\"There's long been a disconnect between the ambition of the transport department to promote alternatives to the car and pressure on the housing department to see as many homes as possible built.\"\n\nCranbrook is a new town with up to 2,900 homes and potential for expansion to 6,500. Walkability was part of the master plan but Cranbrook is still waiting for a promised high street, a children’s centre and community facilities. Residents must use a car to access many amenities. Researchers say they saw few residents during their visit.\n\nDerwenthorpe is a development of 481 homes on the outskirts of York, about two miles from the city. Researchers said it had good public transport and safe walking and cycling routes to shops and cafes. It enjoys green spaces and a variety of different-sized homes to cater for a range of ages - not just families. Car parking spaces were limited. The researchers said it felt like a friendly place with a real community.", "Boris Johnson told his new director of communications Guto Harri, \"I will survive\", by singing him lines from the Gloria Gaynor song as he appointed him to the post.\n\nMr Harri was hired after a string of resignations from No 10 amid turmoil over parties held during lockdowns.\n\nThe aide told a Welsh news website he had seen the PM on Friday afternoon.\n\nHe also said his new boss was \"not a complete clown\" but \"a very likeable character\".\n\nMr Harri told Golwg 360 that after exchanging lines from the 1970s disco hit, and \"a lot of laughing\", he and Mr Johnson had \"sat down to have a serious discussion about how to get the government back on track and how we move forward\".\n\nHe added: \"90% of our discussion was very serious but he's a character and there is fun to be had. He's not the devil like some have mischaracterised him.\"\n\nMr Johnson has been under increasing pressure from his party - including calls to resign from MPs - after revelations that numerous rule-breaking gatherings were held in Downing Street during Covid lockdowns.\n\nAn initial report into the parties by senior civil servant Sue Gray said there had been \"a failure of leadership\", leading to the PM promising a shake-up of staff.\n\nFive aides resigned from No 10 last week, three of whom had been linked to the lockdown events in Downing Street.\n\nBut Munira Mirza, one of the PM's longest standing allies, quit in objection to the PM's false claim that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile.\n\nMr Harri was one of the first new appointments to fill the roles, along with Cabinet Office Minister Steve Barclay, who has taken the chief of staff role.\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Barclay addressed No 10 staff - including cleaners and security - on Monday to set out his vision for Downing Street.\n\nHe said he wanted to focus on the prime minister's priorities and thanked staff for their hard work during \"the difficult recent weeks\".\n\nGuto Harri arrives for work in Downing Street on Monday morning\n\nAsked about the shake-up at No 10, Mr Johnson told reporters on Monday: \"Everybody at No 10 and the Treasury are working together in harmony to deal with the big problems the country faces.\"\n\nBut Sir Keir reiterated his calls for the PM to resign, saying: \"Nothing will really change until the person at the top changes as all routes lead to the prime minister and that's the change we need to see now.\"\n\nWhen asked about the uncertainty over Mr Johnson's leadership, former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt said the recent turmoil had \"affected trust people feel in the entire political process\".\n\nGuto Harri turned up for work in Downing Street for the first time brandishing a plastic bag and a grin.\n\nHe said it was full of \"healthy snacks and mineral water,\" seemingly a jokey reference to the less wholesome refreshments swigged inside earlier in the pandemic.\n\nThe bag said \"reuse and repeat\" on its side - an instruction Boris Johnson has followed in hiring Mr Harri, who worked for him when he was Mayor of London.\n\nAlready the former journalist was becoming the story, and before the morning was out he was more of it.\n\nIn sharing a private conversation and describing his new boss as \"not a complete clown\" in an interview, here's a head of communications not entirely unnerved by the prospect of publicity.\n\nBut he's also someone who has known Boris Johnson for decades, respects what he's trying to do in government and knows his strengths - and weaknesses - close up, better than most.\n\n\"Boris has always underestimated how critical it is to have a fantastic team around him,\" Mr Harri recently told the BBC's Newscast podcast.\n\nHey presto, days later - he's part of that team.\n\nIt'll be up to others to judge over time how fantastic or otherwise they are.\n\nMr Harri revealed he had seen Mr Johnson in Downing Street on Friday about his new role, entering through the Cabinet Office \"to avoid being seen in the street\".\n\nHe said the former colleagues \"picked up where we left off in terms of the tone of our friendship\", with him giving a salute upon entering the room and saying: \"Prime minister, Guto Harri reporting for duty.\"\n\nThe new director of communications said the PM \"stood up from behind his desk and started to salute, but then said, 'What am I doing? I should take the knee for you.'\"\n\nMr Harri quit GB News last year, after he was suspended for taking the knee during a discussion about racism towards England's black footballers.\n\nIn his account of Friday's interview, Mr Harri added: \"I then asked, 'are you going to survive Boris?' and he said in his deep voice, slowly and with purpose, whilst singing a little as he finished his sentence, 'I will survive'.\n\n\"Inevitably he was inviting me to say, 'you've got all your life to live', and he answered, 'I've got all my love to give', so we had a little blast of Gloria Gaynor.\n\n\"No one expects that, but that's how it was.\"\n\nIn a tweet, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon criticised the exchange, which she said wasn't \"funny\" but \"offensive\" at a time when people were struggling with Covid and the cost of living.\n\nLabour echoed those sentiments, with a spokesman saying: \"The PM's new team have decided to kick off their much-vaunted 'reset' with yet more clown-show nonsense.\"\n\nBut a No 10 spokesman said Mr Harri was \"firmly committed to the government's agenda\".\n\nGuto Harri also worked as Boris Johnson's director of communications when the PM was Mayor of London\n\nMr Harri said the PM was \"bringing in professional people\" to No 10 who were \"pragmatic and more experienced and maybe less ideological\" than those that came before him.\n\nHe also said Mr Johnson \"talks non-stop\" about his policy focuses, like \"making a success of Brexit\" and levelling up.\n\nBut he also said the PM was aware of the challenges ahead, adding: \"He's aware of the hurt the talk of parties has caused, that it has shaken people's trust in government and politics in general, and of the questions about his ability to continue as prime minister.\n\n\"He has to persuade his party and the wider public that he's still a man that won a comfortable majority as recently as two years ago.\"\n\nLabour has raised questions about hiring Mr Harri after it emerged he had worked with the Chinese technology company Huawei.\n\nMany Western countries, including the UK, are removing Huawei equipment from their telecoms networks because of the security risk posed by the firm, which has close ties to China's ruling Communist Party.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, said there needed to be full transparency about his previous roles, including as a lobbyist.\n\nBut a No 10 spokesman: \"We wouldn't exclude from government someone with valuable experience and expertise.\"\n\nThey said Mr Harri had \"provided advice to clients of a private company\" which was \"entirely legitimate and in the public domain\".\n\nAnd they said anyone coming to work in No 10 \"goes through requisite checks\" regarding security.", "Shaun Russell's wife Lin was murdered with daughter Megan (centre) and nine-year-old Josie (right) was badly injured\n\nThe man serving life for the murder of schoolgirl Millie Dowler has confessed to killing mother and daughter Lin and Megan Russell, a lawyer has said.\n\nAnother man, Michael Stone, has twice been found guilty of the murders of Ms Russell and her six-year-old daughter in Kent in July 1996.\n\nHis solicitor says he has now received a statement written by Levi Bellfield which details the killings.\n\nStone was also found guilty of trying to murder Megan's sister Josie.\n\nHe has always protested his innocence.\n\nHis solicitor Paul Bacon says he has now received a four-page statement from Bellfield in which he claims to have carried out the attacks, including details of what he was wearing and how he made his escape.\n\nMichael Stone was convicted of two counts of murder and one of attempted murder\n\nMr Bacon read part of the letter to the BBC: \"Something like this has never happened before. I committed a crime and another person has been arrested for it.\n\n\"I guess if I'm honest it was a relief. I apologise to Stone and to the Russell family for my heinous acts. I was not well in the head during my reign of violence.\n\n\"I am willing to speak to the police.\"\n\nMr Bacon added: \"I genuinely think if the police visit Levi Bellfield in prison, he will make a full statement under caution, and I believe if he's charged he'll plead guilty and the matter will be resolved.\"\n\nLin Russell and her daughters Megan and Josie, then nine, were attacked as they walked along a country lane in Chillenden, before being bound, blindfolded and bludgeoned with a claw hammer.\n\nOn the day of the murders, Dr Shaun Russell was told that he had lost his whole family. It was only when an officer at the scene noticed Josie move they realised she had survived the attack.\n\nLin Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan did not survive the attacks\n\nStone was first found guilty of two counts of murder and one of attempted murder in 1998 and again in 2001, after the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction due to doubts over a prosecution witness.\n\nAn application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) in 2010 was rejected and an attempt to seek a judicial review of the decision also failed in 2011.\n\nBellfield is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Millie, who went missing from Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in 2002.\n\nHe has also been convicted of murdering Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange, and of the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, and will never be considered for parole.\n\nLevi Bellfield will never be released from prison after being convicted of three murders and one attempted murder\n\nThe alleged confession will now be referred to the CCRC.\n\nLast year Mr Bacon said a shoelace found at the scene of the murders - and which was missing until it was found in police storage in 2020 - could provide vital DNA evidence.\n\nDet Ch Sup Paul Fotheringham, of Kent Police, said: \"Following two trials at which Stone was found guilty by a jury on both occasions, and an appeal to the High Court, Michael Stone remains convicted of the murders of Lin and Megan Russell, and the attempted murder of Josie Russell in 1996.\n\n\"Michael Stone made an application to apply for a Judicial Review in respect of his conviction in September 2012. The Honourable Mr Justice Blake ordered that permission for the application should be refused.\n\n\"The Criminal Case Review Commission commenced an extensive re-examination of the murder investigation in 2017 and has had access to all forensic evidence, documentation and exhibits from the original investigation, the review by Hampshire Police, details of the two crown court trials and appeals to the High Court.\n\n\"The shoelace which was seized as part of the original investigation was made available to the CCRC. All evidence from the examinations on the shoelace were recorded and disclosed to the CCRC.\"\n\nLin Russell and her daughters Megan and Josie were bound, blindfolded and bludgeoned with a claw hammer\n\nA spokesperson for the CCRC said: \"Mr Stone's current application is being reviewed and we remain in regular contact with his legal representatives.\n\n\"We are aware they are planning to send in further information, and when received, we will thoroughly analyse it and make any appropriate enquiries.\"\n\nA Crown Prosecution Service spokesperson said: \"This is currently not a matter for the CPS but we stand by to assist with either a new police investigation or a CCRC referral.\"\n\nThe murders and the long-running investigation shocked the small and very rural community in east Kent.\n\nJosie Russell moved to Wales with her father after the attack, and had to learn to speak again.\n\nShe has now established herself as a successful textile artist and has also bought the home in which she and her family lived before they moved to Kent.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nGreat Britain's mixed doubles curling pair missed the chance to guarantee at least a silver medal as they lost 6-5 to Norway in a tense semi-final at the Winter Olympics in Beijing.\n\nJen Dodds and Bruce Mouat will instead meet Sweden in the bronze-medal match on Tuesday (06:05 GMT).\n\nThe Scottish pair led 4-2 after five ends, but Norway edged home in the last end to set up a final with Italy.\n\nBritain beat Sweden 9-5 when the teams met in the group stage.\n\n\"We pushed them as far as we could,\" Mouat said.\n\n\"It will be tough to get over but there is a medal still up for grabs and we are hungry for it.\"\n\nMouat and Dodds were playing well and in command, but the match turned in the sixth end when their opponents - Magnus Nedregotten and Kristin Skaslien - opted to use their powerplay.\n\nA few loose shots - including a difficult takeout attempt from Dodds - left Skaslien the chance to roll in for three and turn the game around.\n\nThe Norwegians crucially restricted Britain to one on their own powerplay, when they opted for a more cautious shot to square the match at 5-5 heading into the last.\n\nWith the advantage of the final shot, Norway were able to play defensively and draw in a simple last stone to claim victory.\n\n\"I am just disappointed at my last three ends,\" Mouat added. \"Jen played amazing all day.\n\n\"I am disappointed more about what I have done for the team than myself. It is tough.\"\n\nDodds added: \"We gave ourselves a chance at the end and that is all we could ask for. We have to regroup- there is still a medal to be won out there.\"\n\nMore from day three of the Winter Olympics:\n• None 'We can say we were at the Covid Olympics and wore a mask in a game'\n• None Touch down and find all the latest news and action during the match weeks of the 2022 Six Nations\n• None 'Was it the greatest ever performance?' Listen to Steven Bunce tell the most extraordinary tales from Winter Olympics gone by", "Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust.\n\nWhen you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland.\n\nComparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible.\n\nA&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units.\n\nEach nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible.", "The NHS in Scotland reached crisis point because of a \"complete lack of planning\" during the pandemic, opposition politicians have said.\n\nWaiting times in A&E are the highest on record, while GPs have warned of unprecedented staff shortages.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives and Labour have also claimed that dentists \"are on the brink of mass exodus\".\n\nThe Scottish government insists the NHS \"has come through the worst\" crisis in its history.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf has also announced £82.6m of funding to improve services for patients at GP practices.\n\nHowever, the SNP government has been accused of \"knee-jerk reaction-making\" which has damaged the economy and people's mental health.\n\nIt comes as the UK government has also faced criticism as plans to tackle the backlog of patients on hospital waiting lists in England have been delayed.\n\nScottish Labour's health spokesperson Jackie Baillie told the BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that workforce shortages \"haven't been addressed for years\" and the service remains under acute pressure.\n\nShe said: \"What we have seen is waiting lists getting longer, cancelled operations up and real challenges for people.\n\n\"One in nine of the population of Scotland is stuck on a waiting list and there is no sign of catch-up or recovery.\n\n\"So whilst we would all want the NHS to keep people safe - and the staff work incredibly hard - remobilising the NHS has to be a key priority. At the moment, that simply isn't happening.\"\n\nDr Sandesh Gulhane, the Scottish Tory health spokesman, told the programme that ambulance waiting times - in some cases up to eight hours - were also a symptom of inaction from the Scottish government.\n\nHe added: \"What this all points to is no planning, knee-jerk reaction making then not following through.\n\n\"At the height of the pandemic, we needed to do things to protect the public and protect our global health. But it has come at a cost.\n\n\"We have to understand we were saving lives, but it was coming with unintended consequences of mental health breakdown and also our economy not doing as well.\n\n\"As the pandemic progressed, it was quite clear that decisions were being made badly.\n\n\"We were very quick to restrict but are very slow here in Scotland to relax and people are beginning to feel the mental health strain of what's going on.\n\n\"This isn't all pandemic-made - we have a complete lack of job planning for doctors and nurses.\"\n\nDentists are having to deal with a huge backlog of patients\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said the NHS in Scotland had suffered its most intense period ever at the end of December and the beginning of January.\n\nBut he insisted everything was being done to ensure patients were \"not being left behind\" as hospitals continued to deal with Covid and non-Covid patients.\n\nHe said: \"While we are through the worst of it, we should also say that there is still significant pressure on the health service.\n\n\"That comes from the continued number of patients who are in hospital with Covid.\n\n\"It also comes from the accumulative impact of almost two years of a pandemic and having to catch up with a significant backlog.\"\n\nMr Yousaf announced the new £82.6m of funding for GP practices across the country during a visit to the Dunblane Health Centre.\n\nThe health secretary said: \"We have now delivered every penny we committed to health boards and GPs as part of our ongoing commitment to help support practices deliver care.\n\n\"The NHS is facing the biggest challenge this winter and this investment will have real benefits for both patients and frontline staff.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish Labour claimed dental care could become \"the privilege of people who can afford to go private\" unless emergency funding for NHS treatment is ramped up.\n\nPractices across Scotland are still operating with full Covid infection controls while dealing with a case backlog.\n\nJackie Baillie said the government must retain emergency NHS payments after 1 April and do more to tackle the problems facing dentistry.\n\nShe said: \"Dental care is seeing 850,00 fewer patients - a lot of them from deprived communities.\n\n\"We would keep the emergency support in place beyond April so they can continue to remobilise.\n\n\"There should also be a review of the funding model, which is almost as old as the NHS itself.\n\n\"And fund things like outcomes and reward prevention, because dental care cannot become the privilege of the few who can afford to go private.\n\n\"The Scottish government needs to tackle the crisis facing dentistry and that's one way of doing so.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said it had invested an additional £50m in NHS dental care during the pandemic, while £20m had been allocated this month alone to deal with a backlog in children's treatment.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe UK and Republic of Ireland football associations have agreed not to bid for the 2030 World Cup.\n\nThey will instead focus on a joint bid to host Euro 2028.\n\nThe decision comes after the UK government committed £2.8m to a feasibility study into the bid.\n\nDigital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee chair Julian Knight had previously described the prospective World Cup bid as a \"giant, expensive vanity project\".\n\nOn Monday he said: \"It's unacceptable that £2.8m in taxpayer money was wasted on a pipe dream that was clearly doomed from the start. Football in the UK needs to sort out its reputation at home before we can go after the biggest tournament.\"\n\nThe feasibility study included an analysis of the economic impact, the political football landscape and the likely costs of hosting major international tournaments.\n\nFollowing the study, the football associations of the Republic of Ireland, England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland will focus on an official bid to host Uefa Euro 2028.\n\nA statement said: \"Hosting a Uefa Euro offers a similar return on investment, with the European tournament carrying a far lower delivery cost and the potential of the benefits being realised sooner.\n\n\"It would be an honour and a privilege to collectively host Euro 2028 and to welcome all of Europe.\n\n\"It would also be a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate the true impact of hosting a world-class football tournament by driving positive change and leaving a lasting legacy across our communities.\"\n\nThe UK government had previously said it would invest £550m in grassroots football if the 2030 bid was successful, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson hoping to \"transform lives with a legacy to match the 2012 Olympics\".\n\nEngland failed with a bid - fronted by former captain David Beckham, Prince William and former prime minister David Cameron - to host the 2018 World Cup, which was staged in Russia.\n• None Northern Ireland determined to host games should Euros bid be successful\n• None Principality Stadium to be Wales' only venue for joint Euro 2028 bid\n\nThe UK government said it supported the five football associations' decision and added that it remained \"passionate about bringing a World Cup to the UK and Ireland when the time is right\".\n\nMark Bullingham, chief executive of the English FA, identified both bids as \"brilliant\" opportunities but said after assessing the \"winnability\" a decision was made to go for the Euro 2028 bid.\n\nHe added there was also \"uncertainty\" around future World Cups - football's world governing body Fifa has proposed staging the tournament every two years as part of a revamped calendar.\n\nFA of Wales president Stephen Williams also said the impact of a successful bid for Wales would be \"immeasurable\" and would leave a \"long-lasting legacy\".\n\nAll associations say they will continue to \"collaborate\" with government partners about the next steps.\n• None Touch down and find all the latest news and action during the match weeks of the 2022 Six Nations\n• None 'Was it the greatest ever performance?' Listen to Steven Bunce tell the most extraordinary tales from Winter Olympics gone by", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Morocco holds funeral for \"little Rayan\" after failed rescue effort\n\nHundreds of Moroccans have gathered to pay their last respects to \"little Rayan\", the five-year-old boy who died after being trapped in a well for four days.\n\nRayan Oram fell down the 32m (104ft) well on 1 February, prompting painstaking efforts to rescue him.\n\nHundreds of mourners attended his funeral on Monday in his home village where the tragedy unfolded.\n\nThere were so many people that they could not all fit in the hilltop cemetery and prayer site in the northern Rif mountains.\n\n\"I am over 50 years old and [have] never seen as many people in a funeral. Rayan is the son of us all,\" one villager told Reuters news agency.\n\nMourners attended the ceremony at the cemetery near Rayan's village close to the city of Chefchaouen\n\nNot everyone could fit inside the cemetery\n\nWhen the boy was finally pulled from the well on Saturday evening, his apparent rescue was initially met with cheers from crowds by the well.\n\nBut this turned to heartbreak minutes later when it was announced that the rescue was too late, and that Rayan had died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cheers turn to tears as news of Rayan's death emerges on Saturday\n\nThe rescue mission had been watched across the world - and soon after death was announced, tributes poured in.\n\nOn social media, where the hashtag #SaveRayan had been trending, people expressed their sympathy and sadness.\n\nMorocco's King Mohammed VI called the parents of the boy and offered them his deepest condolences.\n\nPope Francis, while expressing his sadness, praised the \"beautiful\" way people had \"worked together to save a child\".\n\nAn Egypt fan holds a picture of Rayan at the Africa Cup of Nations final on Sunday\n\nPlayers and fans at Sunday's Africa Cup of Nations final in Cameroon held a moment's silence in tribute to Rayan.\n\nRayan's father, Khaled Aourram, had been preparing the well when the boy fell in.\n\nThe mixture of rocky and sandy soils at the site meant rescuers deemed opening the water well's narrow shaft to be too dangerous.\n\nInstead, bulldozers were used to cut a huge trench next to the well.\n\nRescuers tried to get oxygen, food and water to the boy, but it was unclear whether he was able to use them.\n\nFootage on Thursday from a camera lowered into the well showed that the boy was alive and conscious, but there were no updates on his condition after that.\n\n\"We thank His Majesty the King, the authorities and all those who have helped us,\" his father said on Saturday evening. \"Praise God, have mercy on the dead.\"", "An engraving of the painting was made\n\nAn international search has been launched for a missing 16th Century painting worth millions of pounds which was last recorded in an Aberdeenshire town more than 100 years ago.\n\nThe Pool of Bethesda by Paolo Veronese was last documented in a Peterhead museum in the early 1900s.\n\nExperts believe it could be worth £13m.\n\nThe University of Melbourne appealed for information on the Italian masterpiece and Aberdeenshire Council is also investigating.\n\nVeronese's religious painting hung in the Palazzo Grassi in Venice.\n\nAn engraving of it was made at that time.\n\nThe painting was at the Arbuthnot Museum in Peterhead\n\nThe painting was later bought by Catherine The Great of Russia, but it eventually made its way to the north east of Scotland.\n\nIt was gifted to Peterhead's Arbuthnot Museum and is last documented there in 1904.\n\nProf Jaynie Anderson from the University of Melbourne became interested as a colleague had a letter about the painting from the late 1800s which linked it to the National Gallery of Victoria.\n\nShe described it as an \"important Veronese\" worth \"a lot of money\" and started to look into its history.\n\n\"To my surprise we got an email saying it was probably in Peterhead\", she said. \"I had never heard of Peterhead before.\"\n\nAn image of the engraving is being used in the appeal to find the painting.\n\n\"I think it's a real problem of accountability\", Prof Anderson said. \"There must be a record of it. It's a bit of an odd one.\"\n\nHer advice to anyone who realised they perhaps knew where it was hidden away, without its significance being realised, was to take it to the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh.\n\n\"These things do happen\", she said.\"Where is it? I think it's just waiting to be discovered.\"\n\nProf Jaynie Anderson in Australia hopes the painting can be found thanks to the appeal\n\nFiona Riddell is the former curatorial assistant at the Arbuthnot Museum. She worked there for 19 years and retired last July.\n\nShe said a newspaper article from 1904 mentioned the painting being there.\n\n\"That's the last documented sighting of the painting\", she said. \"It could have still been there after 1904 but that's the only documentation I have so far.\n\n\"I truly believe nobody knew what they had. Apparently there was quite a poor restoration done on it before it arrived in Peterhead.\"\n\nShe added: \"People have been searching for it all over Europe but obviously never thinking it was just in a little fishing town. But I never imagined the backstory. There can't be too many 12ft (3.6m) by 6ft (1.8m) paintings of the Pool of Bethesda that have gone missing.\n\n\"The worst scenario is that it's been destroyed. It weighed just under a tonne and it took seven men to take it up the Arbuthnot Museum stairs. You couldn't just put it under your oxter (armpit) and off you go. Somebody must know something about it.\n\n\"It meant something to Peterhead through religious value because the area was deeply religious at that time. It was more what it represented rather than the monetary value.\"\n\nAberdeenshire Council said in a statement: \"We are one part of a puzzle to attempt to try and track down this historic artwork, a puzzle which has international significance.\n\n\"It is now clear that the piece was given to the then-Peterhead town council. That pre-dates both Aberdeenshire Council and its predecessor. The records which we have (and those which exist) from that time are being interrogated, helping us attempt to participate in finding out where it went.\"\n\nThe local authority added: \"We are doing our bit, and ask anyone with information or memories of this piece to get in touch. Perhaps family members recall seeing it hanging in the Arbuthnot over the years, or are aware of why it came to be gifted to The Blue Toon (Peterhead).\n\n\"We are hopeful the collective effort can locate it once and for all.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jasmine is a full-time gamer and streamer from Leeds\n\nFemale gamers who regularly get sexist abuse and rape threats online say more needs to be done to protect them.\n\nWomen have shared their experiences of sexual harassment while gaming, as part of a report being submitted to MPs.\n\nThe charity behind the report wants gaming companies to put more controls in place.\n\nJasmine Jada, a full-time streamer from Leeds, says: \"I've had men talk to each other trying to guess what my body's like, guess what I'm wearing.\"\n\n\"It's always worse when there's more than one,\" the 23-year-old tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"They think it's a bit of fun but they're making playing the game extremely uncomfortable.\"\n\nJasmine says the harassment women get from playing online multiplayer games with strangers \"has got to a point where girls don't want to have to speak in games anymore\".\n\n\"The chances of you getting some sort of sexist comment back when you haven't provoked them puts you off the game you were there to enjoy,\" she adds.\n\nJasmine produces content from her home alongside her dog Bear\n\nJasmine says \"nine out of 10 times\" the things people say to her online will be \"stereotypical sexist remarks, like about being in the kitchen\".\n\n\"There's no girl I know that hasn't experienced some sort of sexism or sexual harassment while playing an innocent game,\" she says.\n\nJasmine, who has over 12,000 followers, says the worst games for abuse are shooter games like Call of Duty, Counter-Strike and Valorant.\n\nCall of Duty's makers Activision say they've already taken steps to make their game safer for users.\n\nLast year they banned over 350,000 accounts for toxic behaviour and created new software to detect offensive messages in chat boxes.\n\nRiot Games' Valorant has similar safety filters, and Valve Corporation's Counter-Strike allows users to kick a person out of a game.\n\nJasmine says she often receives abuse whilst playing Call of Duty\n\nBut Jasmine says a lot more needs to be done by developers to prevent abuse from happening.\n\n\"It would be nice to have a way of monitoring what people are actually saying so that if you were to report them for comments that were massively inappropriate it's not just a 'he said/she said',\" she says.\n\n\"If someone were to say something to me and I report it there's no evidence to back it up that they've done it.\"\n\nThe report being submitted to a cross-party group of MPs, created by the Young Gamers and Gamblers Education Trust (YGAM), features gamers who have had a similar experience to Jasmine.\n\nMollie Barker, 21, is one of them.\n\nShe says the \"normality of rape threats\" to young women in the gaming world \"can warp your sense of trust in men or male presenting people\".\n\nMollie worries the fact that some male gamers have turned sexism \"into a joke\" could mean women and girls are deterred from reporting other abusive behaviour they encounter in life outside of gaming.\n\nThe report includes data from marketing research company Bryter, which suggests 40% of female gamers have experienced abuse from male gamers while playing online multiplayer games and 28% have experienced sexual harassment from male or other gamers.\n\nYGAM makes three recommendations on what could be done to prevent sexual harassment in gaming:\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Australia implemented some of the world's strictest border controls during the pandemic\n\nAustralia has announced the reopening of its borders to vaccinated tourists and other visa holders for the first time in almost two years.\n\n\"If you're double vaccinated, we look forward to welcoming you back,\" Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.\n\nThe reopening, on 21 February, will be welcome news for many sectors including international education.\n\nAustralia has had some of the world's strictest border controls throughout the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn March 2020, the government closed the borders. It barred most foreigners from entering the country and put caps on total arrivals to help combat Covid.\n\nSome international students and skilled migrants have been permitted to enter the country since last December.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Morrison said those entering Australia when the borders fully reopened would need to provide proof of vaccination: \"That's the rule. Everyone is expected to abide by it,\" he said.\n\nUnvaccinated travellers who have a medical reason for not being jabbed will still need to apply for a travel exemption and, if successful, will be required to quarantine at a hotel.\n\nMelinda de Boer, 44, from Switzerland, told the BBC that she was finally planning to travel to Melbourne to see her mum, who had breast cancer last year.\n\n\"Her grandchildren haven't seen her for nearly three years. We are looking to go in the October or December holidays,\" she said.\n\nMs De Boer said she was reluctant to book at the moment and was \"worried about the airlines and masses of people going\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Midnight rush for shops and pubs as Sydney reopens (October 2021)\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, Australia has implemented strict measures to help fight the spread of Covid infections - even banning its own people from leaving the country last year.\n\nDespite most of the country opening up, the state of Western Australia (WA) still has tight measures. It is currently closed to non-residents, including those from other Australian states, unless they have permission to enter.\n\nThere had been plans to open WA's borders to interstate and international tourists this month, but that move was postponed indefinitely due to the Omicron variant.\n\nAustralia has so far reported more than 2.7 million cases of coronavirus and more than 4,240 Covid-related deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Nearly 80% of the population is fully vaccinated.\n\nAre you planning to travel to Australia? Share your stories by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "North Korean cyber-attacks have stolen millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency to fund the country's missile programmes, a UN report briefed to media says.\n\nBetween 2020 and mid-2021 cyber-attackers stole more than $50m (£37m) of digital assets, investigators found.\n\nSuch attacks are an \"important revenue source\" for Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programme, they said.\n\nThe findings were reportedly handed to the UN's sanctions committee on Friday.\n\nThe cyber-attacks targeted at least three cryptocurrency exchanges in North America, Europe and Asia.\n\nThe report also referenced a study published last month by the security firm Chainalysis that suggested North Korean cyberattacks could have netted as much as $400m worth of digital assets last year.\n\nAnd in 2019, the UN reported that North Korea had accumulated an estimated $2bn for its weapons of mass destruction programmes by using sophisticated cyber-attacks.\n\nNorth Korea has been banned by the UN Security Council from carrying out nuclear tests and launching ballistic missiles.\n\nHowever the UN report says that despite crippling sanctions, North Korea has been able to continue developing its nuclear and ballistic missile infrastructure.\n\nIt has also continued to seek material, technology and knowhow overseas, including through cyber means and joint scientific research.\n\nThe sanctions monitors said there had been a \"marked acceleration\" of missile testing by Pyongyang.\n\nThe US said on Friday that North Korea - formally known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) - carried out nine missile tests last month alone. .\n\n\"DPRK demonstrated increased capabilities for rapid deployment, wide mobility (including at sea), and improved resilience of its missile forces,\" the sanctions monitors said.\n\nOn Friday, China and Russia refused to sign onto a statement condemning the proliferation of North Korea's missile launches.\n\nOn Sunday, the US announced that its special representative for North Korea would meet with Japanese and South Korean officials later this week to discuss the situation.\n\nThe UN report also found that the humanitarian situation in North Korea was continuing to worsen. It said this was likely to be the result of the country's decision to close its borders during the pandemic.\n\nA lack of information from North Korea meant it was hard to determine how much suffering was being caused by international sanctions, it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does North Korea keep launching missiles?", "Last updated on .From the section African\n\nSadio Mane netted the winning spot-kick as Senegal beat Egypt 4-2 on penalties to clinch their first-ever Africa Cup of Nations, after the final ended goalless following extra time.\n\nThe Liverpool forward had earlier seen a seventh-minute penalty saved by Pharaohs keeper Gabaski.\n\nChelsea's Edouard Mendy denied Mohanad Lasheen to give Mane the chance to win it in Yaounde's Olembe Stadium.\n\nGabaski had made three good saves from Senegal's Bamba Dieng in extra time.\n\nAnd in a match billed as a battle between Liverpool forwards Mane, of Senegal, and Egypt captain Mohamed Salah, it was the former who had the decisive word.\n\nAfter two previous final defeats, Senegal are Africa Cup of Nations winners at last, while Egypt missed out on a record-extending eighth continental crown that would also have been a first for Salah.\n\n\"It just shows that if you work hard, if you persevere, you will get what you want,\" Senegal coach Aliou Cisse said.\n\n\"I am very emotional because the people of Senegal have wanted this trophy for 60 years.\"\n\nAll four of Egypt's knockout games at the tournament went the distance, and the North Africans had beaten Ivory Coast and hosts Cameroon on spot-kicks en route to the final.\n\nGabaski had already saved four penalties at the tournament by the time the match went to a shootout, but on this occasion the 33-year-old ended on the losing side.\n\nEgypt were the first to err when centre-back Mohamed Abdelmonem saw his penalty hit the left-hand upright and bounce away - but Gabaski immediately denied Bouna Sarr.\n\nHowever, Lasheen saw his effort saved and Mane won it with an emphatic finish into the bottom left-hand corner.\n\nHis Liverpool team-mate Salah did not even have the chance to take a penalty, with the Pharaohs captain set to go fifth for his side.\n\nSenegal's two Nations Cup final defeats came in 2002 and 2019.\n\nAnd while the Teranga Lions will celebrate finally winning the tournament, Egypt will soon have a chance for revenge, with the two sides meeting again next month in a two-legged play-off for a spot at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nThe match saw a free-flowing Senegal side with Mane as its attacking spearhead come up against Salah's compact and defensively-minded Egyptian outfit.\n\nThe West Africans were handed an early chance to take a lead when Abdelmonem lunged in on Senegal left-back Saliou Ciss in the fourth minute.\n\nMane had words with Gabaski before placing the ball on the spot - appearing to tell the keeper to get back on his line.\n\nThe 29-year-old blasted his attempt just to the left of centre, but Gabaski dived the right way and punched the ball clear.\n\nSalah was well-marshalled by the Senegal defence and only had two efforts in the first half, forcing Mendy into a good save with the second.\n\nThe second half became somewhat fractured as record seven-time champions Egypt, with coach Carlos Quieroz absent from the touchline through suspension, looking to break up play.\n\nExtra time was more lively as Senegal took the game to their opponents, and Dieng saw a low, angled effort pushed away, and a good downward header clawed behind.\n\nThe substitute then had a long-range shot pushed behind before Mendy tipped over a fierce attempt from Marwan Hamdy with three minutes remaining.\n\nSenegal have been Africa's top-ranked side for the past three years under coach Cisse, who as a player missed a crucial penalty in the 2002 final defeat and was in the dugout for their loss three years ago.\n\nMane was instrumental in their landmark success in Cameroon, scoring three goals at the tournament and setting up another two.\n\nSalah's influence waned as the contest went on and he ended on the losing side for the second time in a Nations Cup final, having been part of the Egypt side beaten by Cameroon in 2017.\n\nThe next Afcon is due to take place in the Ivory Coast in June and July next year.\n\nThe Teranga Lions eventually ended their wait to lift the trophy after a protracted presentation which saw captain Kalidou Koulibaly go up to the VIP box in the stands alongside Confederation of African Football president Patrice Motsepe and Fifa president Gianni Infantino to greet Cameroon president Paul Biya.\n\nJermaine Jenas told BBC Three: \"Sadio Mane has put his country on his shoulders and given the title to them. This is Senegal's golden generation and they have managed to do it, it is a big moment for the country.\n\n\"Mane hit that penalty without any doubt he would score, which is incredible with the pressure he was under.\n\n\"You can see Mane is a leader. We know he is a top, top footballer, but the growth in the player over the years was very visible today in the biggest moment of his life.\"\n• None Goal! Senegal 0(4), Egypt 0(2). Sadio Mané (Senegal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Mohanad Lasheen (Egypt) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Senegal 0(3), Egypt 0(2). Bamba Dieng (Senegal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Senegal 0(2), Egypt 0(2). Marwan Hamdy (Egypt) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Bouna Sarr (Senegal) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Still Senegal 0(2), Egypt 0(1). Mohamed Abdelmonem (Egypt) hits the left post with a right footed shot.\n• None Goal! Senegal 0(2), Egypt 0(1). Abdou Diallo (Senegal) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Senegal 0(1), Egypt 0(1). Zizo (Egypt) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Senegal 0(1), Egypt 0. Kalidou Koulibaly (Senegal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Mahmoud Hamdi El Wensh (Egypt) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Zizo with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Marwan Hamdy (Egypt) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Emam Ashour. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Primark has been accused of selling kids clothing with \"hugely sexist messaging\" by a best-selling author.\n\nNovelist Kate Long shared images on social media of tops in a Chester store on Sunday which urged girls to \"be kind\", \"keep on smiling\" and to be \"always perfect\".\n\nIn contrast, items in the boys' range told them \"you are limitless\" and that they could \"make the rules\".\n\nA Primark spokesperson said: \"Inclusivity really matters to us.\"\n\nMs Long questioned the effect of the difference in messaging: \"Can anyone spot a difference in tone here? A difference in narrative? Boys are awesome in themselves and don't need to consider anyone else,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"Boys are about *doing* and girls are about *feeling*. Boys take what they want' girls consider others.\n\n\"Stop telling girls their place is to serve others! Stop telling boys they should have nothing to do with kindness and love! What are you, a throwback to the 1950s?\", she added.\n\nShe drew support from other social media users on the topic.\n\nSmall business owner Not Only Pink and Blue wrote: \"We really need the High Street to think about the expectations these messages set. Why not have all these messages across all the clothes?\"\n\nOn Monday, several children's items were also on display on the Primark website, such as hoodies branded \"fearless\" for boys and \"happy happy happy\" for girls.\n\nThe Primark spokesperson added that it offers a \"broad range of styles\" across kids' clothing in-store to cater for a mix of tastes, and that it had removed gender-specific labels on its kids and baby ranges in recent years.\n\n\"However, we are always learning, we welcome customer feedback and will continue to look at where we can do more,\" they said.\n\nThe fashion chain, which is owned by AB Foods, is best-known for its discount clothing.\n\nMs Long has previously drawn attention to differing messaging used on clothing for different genders in other stores such as Tesco and Marks & Spencer.\n\nBrands like Boden have also come under fire for choosing slogans such as \"cool to be kind\" on girls' clothing, whereas boys' items featured the words \"genius\" or \"warrior knees\".\n\nAt the time, the firm apologised and that it takes the topic of gender stereotyping very seriously, pointing towards its \"gender busting\" ranges in previous seasons.", "Police were at Parkdean's Ty Mawr Holiday Park on Saturday afternoon\n\nPolice have said they were dealing with a \"serious incident\" at a holiday park near Abergele.\n\nNorth Wales Police did not give any further details about the incident at Parkdean's Ty Mawr Holiday Park, Towyn.\n\nBut a spokesman for the park said they were \"shocked and saddened by this tragic incident\" that took place inside a caravan \"which is now a crime scene\".\n\nThe police force said its officers remained at the scene and there was \"no threat to the public\".\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"Investigations are ongoing. Apologies for any disruption caused.\n\n\"There is no threat to the public but please stay away from the area whilst we deal with the incident. Thank you for your patience.\"\n\nAn air ambulance was also seen at the holiday park on Saturday\n\nAn air ambulance was also at the scene on Saturday afternoon.\n\nA spokesperson for the park confirmed it was assisting police.\n\n\"We are shocked and saddened by this tragic incident,\" they said.\n\n\"Ty Mawr is a 100 acre family park which welcomes tens of thousands of happy holidays makers every year.\n\n\"This was an isolated and unprecedented incident which took place inside a caravan which is now a crime scene.\n\n\"Our team are assisting police with their enquiries and as it is a police matter we can't comment further at the moment.\"", "There has been a significant rise in young people in mental health crisis seeking help at hospital during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nReferrals to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) from hospital emergency departments rose by 24% from 2019-20 to 2020-21.\n\nThat is according to Northern Ireland's commissioner for children and young people, Koulla Yiasouma.\n\nThe figures come from data obtained by the commissioner from health bodies.\n\nThere has also been a sharp rise in children experiencing severe mental health problems in England.\n\nBBC News NI also previously revealed that the nine-week CAMHS target for seeing a patient after a referral had been breached hundreds of times.\n\nIn 2018, Ms Yiasouma highlighted that many children struggled to get appropriate mental health support in a report called Still Waiting.\n\nIn a progress report published on Monday, Ms Yiasouma said she was \"disappointed\" that many recommendations from that report had not yet been implemented.\n\nKoulla Yiasouma says many recommendations from a 2018 report have not been implemented\n\n\"The most significant public health issue caused by the pandemic, aside from the physical health risk from the Covid-19 virus, has been on population emotional wellbeing and mental health,\" Ms Yiasouma said.\n\n\"The evidence is now clear that children and young people have been disproportionately impacted.\n\n\"The limited statistics that are available on service activity paint a concerning picture.\"\n\nMs Yiasouma added: \"CAMHS statistics are showing an increase in referrals to CAMHS from emergency departments (ED) for young people presenting during a mental health crisis.\n\n\"Between 2019-20 and 2020-21 referrals from ED have increased by 24% from 765 to 949.\"\n\nThere has also been a rise in the number of children who have \"acute, complex and enduring mental health and emotional needs\" waiting for help, according to the commissioner.\n\nIn November 2021, 451 children with those needs were waiting more than nine weeks for their first appointment with appropriate services - a rise from March 2021 when the figure was 167.\n\nAdditionally in 2020-21, more than 1,800 children and young people \"disengaged\" from CAMHS before their treatment or intervention was complete.\n\nThere were also significant rises in the number of children waiting to access child psychology and children's learning disability services.\n\nThe commissioner said children with a learning disability or children with co-occurring mental health and alcohol and drug problems and their families \"experienced the greatest barriers to access to emotional wellbeing and mental health support\".\n\nIn a joint statement with the commissioner, the mental health champion for Northern Ireland Prof Siobhan O'Neill said young people in Northern Ireland were already 25% more likely to have depression and anxiety than those elsewhere in the UK before the pandemic.\n\n\"Research shows that their mental health has been more heavily impacted by the pandemic and the restrictions than any other age group,\" Prof O'Neil said.\n\n\"Service providers are also reporting an alarming increase in the numbers of children and young people who are seeking mental health interventions, and more young people presenting with very severe symptoms.\n\n\"Very high numbers of our children and young people are suffering right now and are unable to access interventions and support.\n\n\"The improvements to mental health services for this group are therefore extremely urgent.\"\n\nMs Yiasouma and Prof O'Neill called for improvements to mental health services and support to be made an urgent priority.\n\nThere have been a range of reports that have highlighted the negative affects of the pandemic and restrictions on children and young people.\n\nDuring the pandemic, children and young people experienced two prolonged spells out of school and other social activities - including sport - have been prohibited or restricted.\n\nSome headteachers have also expressed concerns about an increase in pupils with mental health problems.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann also previously warned that referrals to mental health services were likely to rise significantly due to \"the Covid-19 pandemic and restrictions to everyday life\".\n\nBut he said an extra £1.2bn was needed to fully implement recommendations in a new 10-year mental health strategy.", "Lord Bilimoria said this is not the time to pile tax rises onto business.\n\nThe founder of beer brand Cobra has said prices will have to rise because of a \"vicious cycle\" of cost pressures.\n\nLord Bilimoria told the BBC that \"virtually every business in every sector\" is being squeezed by inflation, interest rate rises and tax increases.\n\nThe Cobra chairman, who is also president of the CBI employers' group, said the picture had become really challenging for firms and consumers.\n\nOn Sunday, Tesco's chairman warned the worst on price rises is yet to come.\n\nJohn Allan told the BBC he expected food price inflation to reach 5% by the spring, hitting the \"hardest-up harder\".\n\nThe warnings from two of Britain's most prominent executives come as UK inflation stands at a 30-year high of 5.4%, and it is forecast to top 7% by April.\n\nMeanwhile, the cost of energy is set to soar under new price-cap rules, prompting the chancellor to unveil a support package for households last week.\n\nLord Bilimoria told BBC 5 Live's Wake up to Money programme: \"Our input costs in every way - bottling, energy - are up. Freight costs have soared, sometimes ten-times. Wages are increasing and on top of that there are labour shortages.\n\n\"It does mean that businesses have to put up prices. But the consumer is already feeling the squeeze. It is a really challenging situation for everyone,\" he said.\n\nHe declined to say have much bottles of beer would increase, but said price rises \"were a necessity. There's no running away from that.\"\n\nLord Bilimoria repeated his opposition to planned tax rises in April. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has come under pressure to scrap a planned increase in National Insurance, but has vowed the rise will go ahead.\n\n\"This is completely the wrong time to do this,\" Lord Bilimoria said. \"It will stifle investment. It will stifle growth\".\n\nHis warning about the impact of inflation was echoed by the head of the British Retail Consortium (BRC), Helen Dickinson.\n\n\"At every business I am talking to, and across lots of other industries, the picture is very similar,\" she told the BBC. \"In retail, we've got a multiple list of things that are pushing up costs which they are now needing to pass on to customers.\"\n\nA BRC report earlier this month said food inflation had accelerated to 2.7% in January, up from 2.4% in December.\n\nA report on Monday set out some of the impact of rising costs, with more people struggling to feed themselves.\n\nThe Food Foundation said 8.8% of UK households - 4.7 million adults - had experienced food insecurity in the past month. This has increased from 7.3% in July 2021.\n\nThe foundation, a think-tank that pushes for better food production, diets, and government policy, said food insecurity refers to disrupted eating, such as skipping a meal, due to lack of money.\n\nThe report said people on Universal Credit were five times more likely to have experienced food insecurity the past six months. It added that food security should be made part of the government's levelling up agenda.\n\n\"Food insecurity is a vital measure if we are to monitor severe material deprivation,\" said Anna Taylor, executive director of The Food Foundation.\n\n\"It contributes not only to health inequalities and life expectancy, but also social wellbeing.\"", "Boris Johnson's wife Carrie has said she is the target of a \"brutal briefing campaign\" by the PM's enemies.\n\nA book, serialised in the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday this weekend, alleges she has influence on the prime minister's decision-making.\n\nHer spokeswoman said allegations made by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft were \"just the latest attempt by bitter ex-officials\" to discredit her.\n\nShe added: \"She is a private individual who plays no role in government.\"\n\nLord Ashcroft has suggested Mrs Johnson's behaviour was \"preventing him [the prime minister] from leading Britain as effectively as the voters deserve\".\n\nThere have been allegations of her involvement in scandals linked to the prime minister, including suggestions she pushed for the luxury redecoration of their No 11 Downing Street flat and that she was key in the evacuation of animals from the Nowzad charity in Kabul, Afghanistan.\n\nNo 10 has denied either Mr or Mrs Johnson, who works for a conservation group, had any involvement in the evacuation.\n\nLord Ashcroft's unauthorised biography of Carrie Johnson follows similar books he has written on Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Chancellor Rishi Sunak, leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg and former prime minister David Cameron.\n\nHe has said all author royalties from his new book, First Lady, are being donated to NHS charities. The peer, a former Conservative Party treasurer and deputy chairman, has donated millions to the Tories.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said Mrs Johnson was \"under scrutiny in a way that perhaps other prime minsters' spouses weren't\".\n\n\"The reportage that somehow she's got undue influence, I don't think that's true,\" he told Times Radio. \"The prime minister has been in politics for 25 years and has a pretty strong set of ideas.\"\n\nHe said reporting about her was not sexist though, adding: \"I wouldn't say that but I do think it's interesting when the spouse is someone in their 30s and has got open positions that are well known, people feel free to criticise - I think that's interesting.\"\n\nCarrie Johnson accompanied her husband to the G7 summit last summer\n\nMichael Gove's ex-wife, the journalist Sarah Vine, said the focus on Mrs Johnson was \"the equivalent of political slut shaming\". She told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme: \"The trouble is, it's always the easiest thing to do to blame the woman and the truth is far more complicated than that.\"\n\nShe added: \"I know that the nickname Carrie Antoinette is witty and a good pun and we all love a good pun, but I just don't think her head deserves to be on the block in this way.\"\n\nFormer chancellor George Osborne said: \"Whatever the flaws and faults of the Boris Johnson government - or indeed its successes - they are the responsibility of Boris, not his wife Carrie. Let's move on from this misogynistic Lady Macbeth nonsense.\"\n\nDavid Cameron's wife Samantha said last year that descriptions of Mrs Johnson as \"princess nut nut\" by allies of former aide Dominic Cummings were sexist.\n\n\"I think it is very unfair to pick her out as having some kind of undue influence,\" she said.\n\nIn Lord Ashcroft's book, former cabinet minister John Whittingdale said the influence she was said to have was inaccurate - but that the Johnsons \"discuss things in a way that previous spouses [of prime ministers] would not, because they were much less political\".\n\nHe added that \"Carrie has a tough time\" and lives \"a pretty lonely existence\".", "Jeanna de Waal stars as Diana and Roe Hartrampf as Prince Charles in Diana the Musical\n\nNetflix's filmed version of Diana the Musical - based on Princess Diana's life story - has earned it nine Razzie nominations, with the awards calling it \"Broadway's biggest bomb of the year\".\n\nIt's up for worst film while Jeanna de Waal (Diana) and Roe Hartrampf (Charles) land worst acting nods.\n\nBruce Willis has the dubious honour of being given his own category.\n\nIt will be a win-win for the star in Worst Performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 movie.\n\nIt features eight different films, including Out of Death, Survive the Game and Cosmic Sin.\n\nThe Razzies organisers describe their awards as the \"ugly cousin to the Oscars\", and highlight what they see as the worst films of the year, revealing their winners on 26 March - the day before Oscars.\n\nDiana the Musical was critically panned and only lasted for 33 Broadway performances before it closed. Netflix streamed a film of the musical before it hit Broadway, without a live audience, as the entertainment industry was dealing with coronavirus restrictions and Broadway theatres were closed during filming.\n\nJared Leto and Amy Adams are in the running for two awards each.\n\nLeto is up for worst supporting actor for his turn in the House of Gucci as well as worst screen couple for himself and his latex face [which is the stage make-up used to transform him into Paolo Gucci], his clothes or his \"ridiculous accent\".\n\nBBC film reviewer Mark Kermode also took issue with Leto \"doing a voice\" in the film and commented on it during BBC Radio 5 Live's Kermode and Mayo show.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nLeto could have the last laugh on Tuesday though, if he gets an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor for the same film.\n\nThe film Karen - about a racist white woman on a mission to displace the new black family that has just moved in next door to her - got five nominations, including worst picture, actress and director, for Coke Daniels.\n\nPsychological thriller The Woman in the Window also received five nominations, including worst actress for Adams and worst director for Joe Wright, while both films are up for worst re-make, rip-off or sequel.\n\nAdams also got a supporting actress nod for Dear Evan Hansen.\n\nBen Affleck is up for worst supporting actor for The Last Duel, along with Mel Gibson for Dangerous.\n\nWorst actor contenders alongside Hartrampf include LeBron James for Space Jam: A New Legacy, Ben Platt for Dear Evan Hansen and Mark Wahlberg for Infinite, while Ruby Rose is up for worst actress for Vanquish, along with Megan Fox for Midnight in the Switchgrass (which is also in the Bruce Willis category). Space Jam: A New Legacy got four nominations in total.\n\nLast year singer Sia was named worst director for her controversial film Music, and the awards, now in their 41st year, have previously honoured films including Cats and Showgirls.", "The government has withdrawn a social media advert urging people to \"Stay Home. Save Lives\" after it was criticised for stereotyping women.\n\nThe image showed women home schooling children and doing domestic chores, while the only man featured was depicted relaxing on a sofa.\n\nThe infographic was withdrawn after going viral on social media and facing criticism for being \"sexist\".\n\nThe government said the ad did \"not reflect\" its \"view on women\".\n\nCarrying the slogan \"Stay Home, Save lives. The new Covid-19 variant is spreading fast\", it was widely shared on social media earlier this week.\n\nAnother depicted a family on a sofa, mother and daughter curled up beside a man who has his feet on the ground.\n\nCommenting on Instagram, Lorraine Candy, former editor of Sunday Times Style Magazine who reported on the advert, along with Glamour magazine, said: \"Are there no intelligent, smart women advising the government about this? I am perplexed by the lack of awareness.\"\n\nParenting blogger Anna Whitehouse said: \"Showing a man lounging about while women (and girls) 'do it all' may bear some truth but it can't be the blueprint from the top. How did this get signed off in 2021?\"\n\nFor Labour, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Bridget Phillipson said the advert put \"women back 'in their place'\", adding: \"How out of touch can this government get?\"\n\nConservative former minister Caroline Nokes, chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, also criticised the image, tweeting: \"Someone signed this off.\"\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said : \"We have provided information for the public throughout the pandemic.[The advert] does not reflect our view on women and we have removed it.\"\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority stipulates that campaigns \"must not include gender stereotypes that are likely to cause harm, or serious or widespread offence\".\n\nAmong scenarios it deems \"likely to be unacceptable\" is one \"that depicts a man with his feet up and family members creating mess around a home, while a woman is solely responsible for cleaning up the mess\".\n\nAnother is an \"ad that belittles a man for carrying out stereotypically 'female' roles or tasks\".\n\nA report last November by the Fawcett Society, a charity campaigning for equal rights, found the pandemic was having a \"devastating\" effect on gender equality in the workplace, with women more likely than men to lose their jobs or be left dealing with childcare.", "Many Ukrainian civilians have signed up as reservists in case war starts\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has said he thinks a deal to avoid full scale war in Ukraine is possible and that it is legitimate for Russia to raise its own security concerns.\n\nBefore talks in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, he called for a \"new balance\" to protect European states and accord Russia due respect.\n\nHe restated that the sovereignty of Ukraine was not up for discussion.\n\nRussia has massed troops on Ukraine's border but denies planning to invade.\n\nMoscow has made a string of demands, including that the Nato defence alliance rule out Ukraine becoming a member, and that it reduce its military presence in eastern Europe.\n\nWestern countries have rejected this, instead suggesting other areas of negotiation, for example talks on cutting back nuclear weaponry.\n\nMr Macron told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper that Russia's objective was \"not Ukraine, but a clarification of the rules... with Nato and the EU\".\n\nHe said he hoped his dialogue with the Russian president would be enough to prevent military conflict, and that he believed Mr Putin would be open to discussing wider issues.\n\nMr Macron, who also spoke with US President Joe Biden on Sunday, cautioned against expecting Moscow to take unilateral measures to de-escalate the situation and said Russia had the right to raise its own concerns.\n\nBut he said setting up dialogue with Russia could not \"pass through the weakening of any European state\".\n\n\"We must protect our European brothers by proposing a new balance capable of preserving their sovereignty and peace,\" he said.\n\n\"This must be done while respecting Russia and understanding the contemporary traumas of this great people and great nation.\"\n\nThe trip to Moscow and then to Ukraine's capital Kyiv the following day is being co-ordinated with German and American allies.\n\nMr Macron's appearance in the international spotlight also comes ahead of France's presidential election in April.\n\nThe French president has called for a renewed relationship with Russia before, and in January he said the EU should open its own dialogue with Moscow, rather than rely on Washington.\n\nMr Macron (right), seen here with Mr Putin in 2019, has previously called for a renewed relationship with Russia\n\nMeanwhile, the US government has again warned that Russia could invade Ukraine at any time.\n\n\"We are in the window. Any day now, Russia could take military action against Ukraine, or it could be a couple of weeks from now,\" White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told Fox News on Sunday.\n\nTwo US officials earlier told Reuters that Russia had assembled about 70% of the necessary military capability needed for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHowever, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba appeared to play down the threat of an imminent invasion, tweeting on Sunday: \"Do not believe the apocalyptic predictions. Different capitals have different scenarios, but Ukraine is ready for any development.\"\n\nThe tensions between Russia, Ukraine and the West come nearly eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backed a bloody rebellion in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nMoscow accuses the Ukrainian government of failing to implement the Minsk agreement - an international deal to restore peace to the east, where Russian-backed rebels control swathes of territory and at least 14,000 people have been killed since 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ukraine has been living with war for the past eight years, and it has changed places like the city of Dnipro", "GWR will provide nearly 20,000 seats for rugby fans leaving Cardiff, with 2,600 of those on electric trains\n\nRugby fans getting in and out of Cardiff for Six Nations games have been promised a \"big boost\" with the introduction of electric trains.\n\nEight-car Electrostars will be used for the first time after Saturday's Wales- Scotland match and will raise capacity.\n\nThey will ferry people to Newport every 30 minutes, which Great Western Railway (GWR) said will help disperse crowds.\n\nFans have often voiced frustration about overcrowding on trains and at stations for big sporting events.\n\nIn November Transport for Wales (TfW) told Welsh football fans that lessons had been learned over packed trains and increased services as a result.\n\nWith about 75,000 fans expected at Wales' first home Six Nations fixture, the train operator advised them to be prepared to stagger their journey time and constantly check for updates on queuing times.\n\nThe Principality Stadium will be filled with thousands of rugby fans on 12 February\n\nThe Electrostar trains were initially run in Wales in December but it is the first time they have been used for a so-called \"big ticket event\".\n\nThe electric-only trains differ from GWR's Hitachi Intercity Express trains which are diesel-electric hybrids.\n\nThey will provide more than 2,600 seats, making up 15% of GWR's 20,000 post-match seating capacity.\n\nFans travelling to Newport will be asked to queue on the square in front of Cardiff Central station, rather than from Riverside car park\n\nA total of 38 services will run to Newport, Swansea, Bristol and London, starting from 16:11 GMT, with the final train to Swansea departing at 22:49.\n\nBill Kelly, Wales and borders route director for Network Rail, which has been working with GWR, said: \"It's fantastic to see passengers continuing to benefit from our work to electrify the railway through the Severn Tunnel into south Wales.\n\n\"GWR's additional all-electric services will be a big boost for rail passengers on large-scale event days in Cardiff, with more options for those travelling to and from the city.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We have both hands tied behind our back'\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has said he is taking legal advice on how he can \"replace the bulk of remaining Covid-19 restrictions\", adding that \"this week\" is the right time to remove them.\n\nMr Swann was speaking after the resignation of First Minister Paul Givan.\n\nThis was in protest at the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe executive - Northern Ireland's government - was due to discuss removing remaining Covid restrictions on Thursday.\n\nHowever, Mr Swann said he was not \"prepared to allow a failure of politics to get in the way of lifting now unnecessary restrictions\".\n\n\"I am now seeking that legal guidance on how I myself can replace the bulk of the remaining restrictions, if not all of them, with clear guidance and advice,\" he told a press conference on Monday.\n\n\"When we had an executive, ministers always said we wouldn't retain restrictions for a day longer than necessary, so that same logic should still apply.\n\n\"While we must move forward carefully, we can't stay locked in emergency restrictions forever.\"\n\nHe added: \"We need to start getting normal back and that means moving cautiously out of the current legal phase of the Covid response - I hope this will be a permanent decision.\n\n\"The virus remains unpredictable, but we will take one day at a time.\"\n\nSo-called Covid passports remain in place for nightclubs as well as for indoor unseated and partially-seated events with 500 or more people in attendance.\n\nA maximum number of 30 people are permitted to gather.\n\nThe minimum self-isolation period for people testing positive for Covid-19 is five full days, subject to negative lateral flow tests on days five and six of a person's isolation.\n\nOther rules still in force include:\n\nRead more about the rules here.\n\nLast month, Northern Ireland ministers had announced a relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions that were introduced in December due to the Omicron variant.\n\nMr Swann said on Monday that while the pandemic was \"certainly not over\", it was his hope \"that we are through the worst of this current wave\".\n\nNew Covid restrictions were introduced in December after the emergence of the Omicron variant\n\n\"Whilst transmission levels are likely to remain high for some time, as a result of the vaccination programme and the high levels of natural immunity we can expect hospital numbers to continue to gradually decline.\n\n\"We have real reason to be optimistic.\"\n\nHe said the \"story this week\" should have been about public adherence to the rules and the \"sacrifice of health workers\" that had brought about the potential for restrictions to be removed.\n\nHowever, he added, \"the absence of a first or deputy first minister has removed the opportunity for those discussions at an executive meeting\".\n\nMr Swann said removing legal regulations around coronavirus \"does not mean a free for all or throwing caution to the wind\".\n\n\"We can and must keep making safer choices in our daily lives for the sake of others, as well as ourselves.\"\n\nTwo further Covid-19-related deaths were reported in Northern Ireland by the Department of Health on Monday.\n\nAnother 3,105 cases of coronavirus were reported in Northern Ireland on Monday, up from 2,694 on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths linked to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland since the start of the pandemic is 3,130.", "In 1989, a flu epidemic took hold in Scotland, causing disruption to the education of young people and the hospital care of others as many teachers and nurses were off sick.\n\nMore people in Scotland died at the height of the ’89 epidemic than at the peak of the first wave of Covid-19 in 2020. But that is only part of the story.\n\nAs part of the BBC Rewind archive project, we look back at a flu epidemic that has now largely been forgotten.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Whole villages swept away in Madagascar\n\nAt least 10 people have been killed and nearly 50,000 displaced after Cyclone Batsirai brought strong winds and rain to Madagascar on Saturday evening.\n\nBatsirai - the second major storm in two weeks - made landfall on the east coast, with gusts of 235km/h (146mph) and high waves hitting coastal areas.\n\nWhole villages are reported to be almost completely destroyed.\n\nThe cyclone has now weakened, according to the national weather service.\n\nMadagascar was already reeling from Tropical Storm Ana, which killed 55 people when it hit the Indian Ocean island nation last month.\n\nCyclone Batsirai has compounded the destruction, making landfall near the south-eastern city of Mananjary, 530km from the capital Antananarivo, at around 20:00 (17:00 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nElectricity had not been available in Mananjary for two days and the water supply had been disrupted, according to local media. One resident told Reuters that even schools and churches due to be used as evacuation centres had had their roofs torn off.\n\nIn other places, the destruction was nearly total.\n\n\"It's as if we had just been bombed. The city of Nosy Varika is almost 95% destroyed. The solid houses saw their roofs torn off by the wind. The wooden huts have, for the most part, been destroyed,\" Willy Raharijaona, an adviser to the vice president of Madagascar's Senate, told Reuters news agency.\n\nEnvironment Minister Vahinala Raharinirina told the BBC that many villages were nearly completely gone, with some being swept away by the storm.\n\nIn the east coast city of Mahanoro, the rising sea eroded a sandy hill which was part of a graveyard. Marie Viviane Rasoanandrasana, a 54-year-old widow, sat and watched as the bodies of her husband, father-in-law and daughter were exposed.\n\n\"We've already had damages at home because of the cyclone. Now this,\" she told AFP news agency.\n\nAround 48,000 people have been displaced, according to the disaster management agency, although the UN World Food Programme (WFP) estimated that as many as 150,000 people could be forced to leave their homes.\n\nSome of the displaced were moved to evacuation centres where victims of January's Tropical Storm Ana were also staying.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stav Danaos has the latest as Cyclone Batsirai makes landfall in Madagascar\n\nWhile the cyclone weakened as it moved inland, with the strongest gusts scaling back to around 110km/h, the country's meteorological agency said that the storm would cause \"significant and widespread damage\".\n\nExperts fear that Cyclone Batsirai could prove to be even more destructive than Storm Ana, which also hit Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, and officials have called on the international community to offer assistance.\n\nThe WFP has prepared food stocks to distribute to those in need, while some people have already been evacuated. The UN has put rescue aircraft on standby.\n\nThe cyclone is expected to move westwards and emerge at sea in the Mozambique Channel later on Sunday but is then forecast to head south, avoiding mainland Africa.\n\nEvacuation shelters are now providing for those displaced by Cyclone Batsirai and Storm Ana\n\nThe WFP says the recent pattern of destructive storms caused by global warming and climate change has caused failed harvests, high food prices and increased food insecurity in the region.\n\n\"The people of Southern Africa have been on the front lines of climate extremes for many years now and each passing storm sets them back, resetting the progress made,\" said senior WFP official Margaret Malu.\n\nExperts say that extreme weather events like cyclones will become more frequent because of climate change.\n\nMadagascar is also just recovering from the effects of a drought, which was also blamed on global warming.\n\nThe environment minister told the BBC that the country had submitted a plan to the COP26 climate conference, which showed it needed $1bn (£740m) a year to adapt to the effects of climate change.", "Ms Peng, seen here at the Australian Open in 2019, insisted she never disappeared from public life\n\nTennis star Peng Shuai says there has been a \"huge misunderstanding\" over a post in which she claimed she was forced into having sexual relations with a former Chinese party leader.\n\nThe November 2021 social media post was swiftly deleted and Ms Peng disappeared for weeks, sparking global concern.\n\nBut now, speaking to France's L'Equipe newspaper, Ms Peng says she never alleged she suffered a sexual assault.\n\nHowever, the interview was done in highly controlled circumstances.\n\nThe BBC's China correspondent Stephen McDonell compared it to a propaganda exercise, saying it left more questions than answers.\n\nL'Equipe had to submit questions in advance, and the interview was conducted at the Winter Olympics under the presence of a representative from China's Olympic Committee who also translated her comments from Chinese.\n\nMs Peng told the outlet she was living a normal life - a line which has also been used by Chinese state officials about her previously. She also expressed thanks for the concern directed towards her.\n\n\"I would like to know: why such concern?... I never said anyone sexually assaulted me,\" she told L'Equipe.\n\nThe 36-year-old sporting star also hinted she could retire from professional tennis.\n\n\"Considering my age, my multiple surgeries and the pandemic that forced me to stop for so long, I believe it will be very difficult to regain my physical level,\" she told L'Equipe.\n\nOn 2 November, Ms Peng had published a 1,600-word essay on Chinese social platform Weibo where she accused former Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli of forcing her to have sex with him.\n\nThe post detailed her relationship with him, but also included accusations that on at least one occasion she had felt coerced into sex. The post was shared widely on Chinese social media before it was removed less than an hour after publication.\n\nIn the months that followed, Ms Peng denied making the accusations.\n\nShe told L'Equipe interview the post had \"given rise to a huge misunderstanding from the outside world\".\n\nMs Peng also added that she had deleted the post herself because she \"wanted to\". But she did not elaborate on how the post had been misunderstood.\n\nEvery attempt by the Communist Party, at times in collusion with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), to play down the Peng Shuai controversy just seems to inflame it, leaving more questions.\n\nIn this case, French media outlet L'Equipe, in publishing these latest highly controlled comments has been as much involved in a propaganda exercise as in an \"interview\".\n\nThe paper said it agreed to publish only her answers and not include any commentary at all around them.\n\nPeng Shuai is reported to have said that she \"never said anyone had sexually assaulted me\".\n\nWell the obvious question is: In that case, what did you mean when you wrote on social media about Zhang Gaoli - former Politburo Standing Committee member - and said to him directly and publicly: \"带我去你家，逼我和你发生关系\" ?\n\nThat line could be translated as: \"You took me to your house and raped me\" or \"You took me to your house and forced me to have sex with you\" or \"You took me to your house and pressured me into having sexual relations with you\".\n\nEither way, these are serious allegations about a very senior government figure. We still don't know what the tennis star meant because L'Equipe did not ask her.\n\nThe interview was granted to the French outlet following permission from the Chinese Olympic Committee. L'Equipe said that despite submitting questions prior to the interview, it was able to ask more on the day.\n\nThe IOC on Monday also reported that the Chinese athlete had had dinner with its president, Thomas Bach, in the Chinese capital, Beijing, on Saturday, as a follow-up meeting for the pair.\n\nMr Bach had been one of the first authorities to vouch for Peng's welfare after he held a video call with her during the period of concern about her treatment by state authorities.\n\nThe IOC has been criticised by some rights groups for failing to address China's human rights record in the lead up to and during the Winter Games.\n\nThe Women's Tennis Association (WTA) led calls for the allegations in the statement to be investigated and pulled all of its events from China in protest. In a statement released on Monday evening, the WTA said the latest in-person interview had done nothing to alleviate its concerns about Ms Peng's wellbeing.\n\n\"We have called for a formal investigation into the allegations by the appropriate authorities and an opportunity for the WTA to meet with Peng - privately - to discuss her situation,\" said the body's chief executive, Steve Simon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Truckers: ‘All we want is the right to choose’\n\nTruckers in Ottawa have been ordered to stop honking their horns in an ongoing protest that has snarled up the city.\n\nThe loud and constant blare of truck horns has become one of the defining features of the movement against Canada's vaccine mandates.\n\nBut Judge Hugh McLean has now ordered they be silenced for the next 10 days.\n\n\"Tooting a horn is not an expression of any great thought I'm aware of,\" said Justice McLean in Monday's ruling which handed an interim victory to residents.\n\nThe noisy honking of some 400 to 500 trucks had prompted anger among local people and business owners.\n\nThe Freedom Convoy protest has spread to several cities and was formed against rules that truckers must be vaccinated to cross the US border.\n\nBut it's now opposed to all kinds of mandates - in parts of Canada you need to show you're vaccinated to enter indoor venues like restaurants, gyms and bars.\n\nMost of the demonstrators are doing so peacefully, but there have been reports of harassment and some have used Nazi slogans to make their point.\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is currently isolating after testing positive for Covid, has called their actions an \"insult to truth and memory\".\n\nOn Monday, Ottawa's mayor wrote an open letter to Mr Trudeau, asking for an urgent deployment of 1,800 law enforcement officers to end the \"aggressive and hateful occupation\".\n\n\"People are living in fear and terrified - and they've now been subjected to the non-stop honking of large trucks for nine days, which is tantamount to psychological warfare,\" wrote Mayor Jim Watson.\n\nIn the middle of the protest site, when multiple trucks honk their horns at once, the sound can be pretty deafening.\n\nIt can be heard, though more faintly, from blocks away.\n\nBut there seemed to be less honking on Monday than on past days.\n\nThe truckers may have realised that the constant noise has become a deep point of contention between them and Ottawa residents living nearby.\n\nProtest organisers on Sunday had also called for a temporary halt to the honks until midday as a \"gesture of goodwill\". Police have also handed out fines to some truckers for noise violations.\n\nOne trucker told me he was sorry for the disruption from the noise but said residents should join the protests \"so we can all get back to life as it should be - quiet, peaceful and not told what to do\".\n\nThe protests are far from over, but residents will be relieved by the judge's decision - and hoping for a quieter night.\n\n\"Canada has never been stronger. We see a united people that have come together,\" Rand Freeman, a 33-year veteran of the Canadian military told the BBC.\n\n\"We know that throughout history, first they ignore you, then they ridicule and mock you, then they attack you, and then you win. We're entering the attack phase\".\n\nMr Freeman said he was unconcerned by police warnings that those bringing fuel to protesters in a \"red zone\" in Ottawa's downtown could be arrested.\n\n\"They need to give the illusion that they've won,\" he added. \"But they know they've let that genie out of the bottle and can't get that genie back in.\"\n\nTrucker Lloyd Brubacher placed the blame on Mr Trudeau and the Canadian government.\n\n\"If he dropped all the mandates, all the truckers would go home as fast as we came,\" he said. \"Ottawa would be an open city.\"\n\n\"All I want is the right to choose between getting the vax or not getting the vax,\" he said.\n\nPolice said they had made seven arrests and seized \"multiple\" vehicles of fuel, with 60 criminal investigations so far opened in relation to the protests.\n\nMany Ottawa residents say that their patience with the protests has worn thin.\n\nTraffic blocked by trucks, city parks taken over by makeshift campsites, harassment and disruptions to businesses are among the residents main complaints.\n\n\"Carrying the protest on in the manner it has been, by blocking businesses from operating and earning an income, is unfair to the citizens of Ottawa,\" said Stuart, a downtown chef who declined to give his name for fear of \"extremists\" among the protesters.\n\nHe feels that workers and residents in the city's downtown core are \"being punished twice\" by the twin impact of the pandemic and the convoy.\n\n\"If the protest carries on, it will only hurt hard working-class residents of Ottawa,\" he says.\n\nVita Sgardello, an Ottawa resident, told the BBC: \"People I know have been attacked with racist slurs.\"\n\nOne of her colleagues had to run from a protester who wanted her to remove her mask, she added.\n\nA poll released by Abacus Data at the end of last week found that 68% of Canadians felt they had \"very little in common\" with the protesters, compared to 32% that said they had \"a lot in common\" with the truckers.\n\nResponding to growing unease from residents, last week Ottawa police announced a new \"surge and contain\" strategy that saw approximately 150 officers deployed to the city's centre, as well as a \"red zone\" of police barricades.\n\nSeven arrests had been made, including three for mischief and one for driving while prohibited.\n\nOver 1,000 tickets have been issued for excessive noise, fireworks, stunt driving and traffic violations.\n\nLast weekend's protests drew 1,000 trucks and 5,000 protesters, police said, down from 3,000 trucks and 10,000 to 15,000 protesters last weekend.\n\nFollowing police reports of violence last week, GoFundMe announced it would withhold millions of dollars raised for the protesting truckers and asked that donors fill out a request form to receive a refund.\n\nOn Monday, however, the crowdfunding platform reversed course and said that \"due to donor feedback\", it will automatically refund all contributions directly within seven to 10 business days.\n\nMeanwhile, Canadian officials are also calling for conservatives south of the border to stop backing the protesters after several US Republican lawmakers spoke out against GoFundMe's decision and voiced support for the truckers.", "US President Joe Biden (right) made the comments during a press conference with german Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) in Washington\n\nUS President Joe Biden has vowed to shut down a key Russian gas pipeline to Germany if Moscow invades Ukraine.\n\nSpeaking after talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington, Mr Biden said the US would \"bring an end\" to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.\n\nTheir talks came as French President Emmanuel Macron met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and expressed hope that war could be avoided.\n\nThere are growing Western fears of a Russian invasion, which Moscow denies.\n\nRussia currently has more than 100,000 troops massed on Ukraine's borders.\n\nUS officials said on Sunday that Russia has assembled 70% of military forces needed for a full-scale invasion.\n\nIn recent weeks, Moscow has demanded that the Western military alliance Nato ban Ukraine from ever becoming a member, and that the group cuts its troop numbers in eastern Europe.\n\nNato has rejected both demands. It has instead suggested talks on other areas, such as limiting nuclear weapons.\n\nThe tensions between Russia, Ukraine and the West come nearly eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backed a bloody rebellion in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nMoscow accuses the Ukrainian government of failing to implement the Minsk agreement - an international deal sponsored by Germany and France to restore peace to the east, where Russian-backed rebels control swathes of territory and at least 14,000 people have been killed since 2014.\n\nMr Biden and Mr Scholz held a press conference after their discussions in the US capital on Monday.\n\nWhen asked about Nord Stream 2, the US president said \"if Russia invades... again, then there will be longer Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.\"\n\nHowever he did not give specifics, responding to a question about how he would do this by saying: \"I promise you we will be able to do it.\"\n\nMr Scholz - on his first trip to Washington since become Chancellor and under criticism for his response to the Ukraine crisis - was more ambiguous about the pipeline.\n\nBut he did say the US and Germany were \"absolutely united\" on sanctions against Russia should it invade Ukraine, saying \"we will do the same steps and they will be very, very hard to Russia\".\n\nThe 1,225km (760-mile) Nord Stream 2 pipeline took five years to build and cost $11bn (£8bn). The energy project, which would run under the Baltic Sea, is designed to double Russia's gas exports to Germany.\n\nBut as yet it has not started operating, as regulators said in November it does not comply with German law and suspended its approval.\n\nMajor European businesses have invested heavily in Nord Stream 2. But many groups object to the plan.\n\nEnvironmentalists question how it will fit in with German efforts to cut emissions and tackle man-made climate change, while politicians at home and abroad fear it could increase Europe's dependence on Russian energy.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously described the pipeline as a \"dangerous geopolitical weapon\".\n\nGermany's new Chancellor Olaf Scholz is making his first trip to Washington amid criticism of a weak response to the Ukraine crisis.\n\nRepublican members of congress have portrayed Berlin as a brake on sanctions because of its interest in maintaining gas imports from Russia.\n\nAfter meeting the chancellor President Biden insisted that Nord Stream2 would not become operational if Moscow invaded Ukraine.\n\nMr Scholz did not go that far, citing the need for strategic ambiguity. But he stressed that the US and Germany would be absolutely united in taking the same steps in response to any invasion, and that these steps would be very hard.\n\nMr Biden went out of his way to dispel the suggestion that Germany was not a reliable ally, insisting several times he had no doubt that it was.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's like they stuck a knife in our back': Ukraine has been living with war for the past eight years", "John Allan said the cost of living squeeze will hit the \"hardest-up still harder\".\n\nThe chairman of Britain's biggest supermarket has warned \"the worst is yet to come\" on rising food prices.\n\nTesco's John Allan told the BBC he was aware people were on very tight budgets and having to choose between food and heating \"troubles us\".\n\nBut he said grocers and suppliers were not immune from rising energy costs.\n\nMr Allan also defended Tesco against claims from food poverty activist Jack Monroe that the costs of basic staples were rising faster than other goods.\n\nHe estimated supermarket prices could rise as much as 5% by the spring as energy and other costs feed through to the High Street, adding that Tesco's food price inflation in the last three months had been contained to about 1%.\n\n\"We are impacted by rising energy prices, our suppliers are impacted by rising energy prices. So the likelihood is that that inflation figure will rise,\" he said.\n\nMr Allan said he recognised the cost of food took up a bigger proportion of household budgets for people on lower incomes.\n\nPeople having to choose between heating their homes and feeding their families \"troubles us, and I'm sure troubles many people... That's clearly not a situation that any of us should tolerate,\" he said.\n\nA report earlier this month from the British Retail Consortium said food inflation accelerated to 2.7% in January, up from 2.4% in December.\n\nAnnual UK inflation is currently 5.4%, a 30-year high, and is predicted to top 7% this year. Meanwhile, the cost of energy is set to soar under new price-cap rules, prompting the chancellor to unveil a support package for households last week.\n\nMr Allan said: \"I think the combination of increasing energy prices, the impact of National Insurance increases [in April] on people's incomes, and to a much much lesser extent increasing food prices, is going to squeeze the hardest-up still harder.\"\n\nThe pressure facing poorer households was highlighted by Jack Monroe this month in analysis she said showed that everyday essentials, such as the cheapest own-brand pasta or rice, were going up in price by more than the official inflation rate.\n\nMr Allan said he could not speak for the rest of the industry, but it was untrue at Tesco. \"Price rises depend on individual products - coffee is going up, but other things like the cheapest tin of baked beans in Tesco is cheaper than it was five years ago,\" he said.\n\n\"As far as Tesco is concerned, we have 2,100 products on our lowest price. We're either price matching against Aldi, or it's our own exclusive at Tesco range. That number [of products] has been increasing in recent months rather than decreasing, so it's not true,\" Mr Allan said.\n\nSainsbury's declined to comment on whether it also expects price rises to accelerate. But it told the BBC it was \"investing in value more than ever\" to help customers manage the rising cost of living.\n\nThe BBC has also contacted Morrisons, M&S and Asda for comment.\n\nThe head of the retail industry's trade body said that across the sector firms are working hard to cut costs. But there is only so much the industry can do to shield shoppers, said Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium.\n\n\"It would be impossible to protect consumers from any future rises. As commodity prices, energy prices and transportation costs continue to rise, it is inevitable that retail prices will continue to follow in the future,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Allan also rejected suggestions from the Bank of England's governor that people should not ask for big pay rises because it was feeding into higher inflation.\n\nAndrew Bailey's comments to the BBC were branded a \"sick joke\" by the GMB union, while the TUC said the call was \"ill-founded\".\n\nTesco is the UK's largest private sector employer, with about 300,000 staff. Asked if the company would be telling employees to follow Mr Bailey's advice, Mr Allan said \"no, absolutely not. I think that's the wrong direction for people to go in,\" he said.\n\n\"We are not telling people not to take a pay rise. We think our colleagues deserve pay rises,\" Mr Allan said. \"We have given 5-6% raises to our distribution colleagues, and we're in the midst of negotiations, which will probably lead to a similar result for our store colleagues.\"", "Boris Johnson is set to make further changes to his Downing Street team this week as he seeks to ease concerns of MPs who are wavering about his future.\n\nThe shake-up comes amid the fallout from the initial findings of the Sue Gray report into events at No 10 while Covid restrictions were in place.\n\nSeveral Tory backbenchers have called for Mr Johnson to resign and have submitted letters of no confidence.\n\nThe PM has promised his MPs there would be a change in how No 10 operates.\n\nAsked if he had confidence in the prime minister, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said \"absolutely, 100%\" adding that \"despite the challenges, and of course there are many, this prime minister is delivering\".\n\nBut Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary, Jon Ashworth, said the government was \"in utter chaos\", with Mr Johnson \"more focused on saving his own skin because of the scandals and rule breaking he's been involved in\".\n\nOn Saturday Mr Johnson announced two senior appointments to his backroom staff following a string of resignations last week.\n\nCabinet Office minister and Tory MP Steve Barclay is taking over as his chief of staff, while former Johnson aide Guto Harri has started as director of communications.\n\nMr Harri was spotted arriving at No 10 on Monday morning, and asked by reporters what his first task of the day would be, he said he would \"give healthy snacks and mineral waters to staff\", waving a shopping bag at the cameras.\n\nThere are expected to be new staff appointments, and some ministers will share some of the existing responsibilities of Mr Barclay, who retains his ministerial position.\n\nAt least one current adviser - Henry Newman - will be moved out of No 10 and into a new role in government.\n\nThe prime minister is also thought to be looking to appoint a new chief whip - the person in charge of party discipline - and he is understood to have held discussions with senior figures to try to persuade them to take up the post.\n\nSenior backbencher Tom Tugendhat, who has said he would run in any contest for the leadership, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the party should wait and see how the changes panned out before making any decisions on Mr Johnson's future.\n\n\"This is a decision clearly for 360 or so members of Parliament and let's see where it goes to, but I think the point remains that we've got to be looking at the future,\" he added.\n\n\"This is a time when we need to be really focused on what politics is actually here for, and that's helping others and not getting into some sort of personal psychodrama.\"\n\nBut former senior civil servant Jill Rutter said it was \"unclear\" how Mr Barclay's appointment would work in practice, as his three roles may pull him in different directions.\n\nWriting for the Times Red Box, she said: \"It's possible that the prime minister has thought this all through in a huge amount of detail and is clear how all these relationships will function.\n\n\"Alternatively, it's a panicky stopgap pulled together at short notice to get through the weekend, with no real thought about whether it will make a dysfunctional operation more confused.\"\n\nMr Johnson, who spent the weekend at his country retreat, Chequers, called some of his colleagues over the weekend to try to persuade them of the significance of his changes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A dizzying week for the PM explained in 60 seconds\n\nHe has faced a turbulent few weeks amid allegations of parties at Downing Street, the Metropolitan Police announcing an investigation into 12 of those and criticism after making a false claim that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile.\n\nThe latter led No 10 policy chief Munira Mirza to resign, while four other aides - including his chief of staff and private secretary - also resigned last week.\n\nHer replacement in the policy unit, Tory MP Andrew Griffith, has written a piece for the Conservative Home website, outlining his priorities, including tackling the NHS backlog and dealing with the cost of living crisis.\n\nHe added: \"So long as [the public] see that we are focussing on them and their needs rather than fighting amongst ourselves, I believe that they will continue to place their trust in us.\n\n\"It is time for we Conservatives to unite, to support the prime minister and to get on with the job.\"\n\nBut several Conservative MPs have handed in letters of no confidence in the PM, including former minister Nick Gibb, with 54 needed to trigger a vote on his leadership.\n\nIt comes as Mr Johnson's wife, Carrie, has said she is the target of a \"brutal briefing campaign\" by his enemies, after a book alleged she influences the prime minister's decision-making.", "Heavy congestion on the M4 at J28 Tredegar Park, westbound\n\nFour people have been taken to hospital following a crash involving a car and a van on the M4 in south Wales.\n\nThe motorway later reopened after being closed in both directions between J28 at Tredegar Park in Newport and J30 at Cardiff Gate.\n\nCasualties were freed using cutting gear after emergency services were alerted at about 13:45 GMT.\n\nThe incident led to traffic delays as surrounding areas remained heavily congested.\n\nA total of five ambulances, three fire crews, one rapid response vehicle and two air ambulances - which have now left the scene - responded to call-out.\n\nAn ambulance Hazardous Area Response Team (HART), members of the Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service (EMRTS) and a BASICS doctor also assisted.\n\nPublic transport was also affected, with Newport Bus altering its X30 service and Stagecoach cancelling its X3 service.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The duchess chose the book because it chimed with this year's theme of \"growing together\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge will give the CBeebies Bedtime Story slot the royal treatment with an appearance to mark Children's Mental Health Week.\n\nThe duchess has chosen to read childhood classic The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson.\n\nIt follows the story of Plop, a baby owl, who is helped by others to grow in confidence and overcome his fears.\n\nThe duchess's reading will air at 6.50pm on 13 February. She will be the first royal to read a CBeebies story.\n\nChildren's Mental Health week runs from 7 to 14 February and the duchess chose the book because it chimed with this year's theme of \"growing together\".\n\nThis year children and adults are being encouraged to consider how they have grown emotionally and to recognise how challenges and setbacks can help them mature and adapt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds is the latest star to delight young audiences with a CBeebies Bedtime Story\n\nPatricia Hidalgo, director of BBC Children's and Education said: \"I couldn't be more proud to have the duchess read a CBeebies Bedtime Story as we mark the 20th anniversary of our CBeebies and CBBC channels.\n\n\"It's such a special and relevant tale and perfectly represents this years' Children's Mental Health week theme. I can't wait to see her deliver her own take on such a classic story and I'm sure our audience can't either.\"\n\nCBeebies bedtime stories have long been a lifeline for frazzled parents, whose children are told a calming story at the end of the evening to help lull them to sleep.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by CBeebies This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIn recent years, it has attracted some big names keen to lend a soothing voice, including Hollywood actors such as Tom Hardy, who got involved in 2016.\n\nReese Witherspoon was a recent addition to the list, which also features Chris Evans, Tom Hiddleston, Orlando Bloom and Eddie Redmayne, along with singing talent including Dolly Parton, Sir Elton John, Dave Grohl and Ed Sheeran - and children's television royalty such as Dame Floella Benjamin.\n\nOther big names lining up to open a CBeebies storybook include Bridgerton actor Regé-Jean Page, author Michael Rosen, Olympic athlete Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, astronaut Tim Peake (who read from space), actors Emily Watson and Ewan McGregor and TV chef Nadiya Hussain.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA paralysed man with a severed spinal cord has been able to walk again, thanks to an implant developed by a team of Swiss researchers.\n\nIt is the first time someone who has had a complete cut to their spinal cord has been able to walk freely.\n\nThe same technology has improved the health of another paralysed patient to the extent that he has been able to become a father.\n\nThe research has been published in the journal Nature Medicine.\n\nMichel Roccati was paralysed after a motorbike accident five years ago. His spinal cord was completely severed - and he has no feeling at all in his legs.\n\nBut he can now walk - because of an electrical implant that has been surgically attached to his spine.\n\nSomeone this injured has never been able to walk like this before.\n\nThe researchers stress that it isn't a cure for spinal injury and that the technology is still too complicated to be used in everyday life, but hail it nonetheless as a major step to improving quality of life.\n\nI met Michel at the lab where the implant was created. He told me that the technology \"is a gift to me\".\n\n\"I stand up, walk where I want to, I can walk the stairs - it's almost a normal life.\"\n\nIt was not the technology alone that drove Michel's recovery. The young Italian has a steely resolve. He told me that from the moment of his accident, he was determined to make as much progress as he could.\n\n\"I used to box, run and do fitness training in the gym. But after the accident, I could not do the things that I loved to do, but I did not let my mood go down. I never stopped my rehabilitation. I wanted to solve this problem.\"\n\nThe speed of Michel's recovery amazed the neurosurgeon who inserted the implant and expertly attached electrodes to individual nerve fibres, Prof Jocelyne Bloch at Lausanne University Hospital\n\n\"I was extremely surprised,\" she told me. \"Michel is absolutely incredible. He should be able to use this technology to progress and be better and better.\"\n\nThe research has been backed by Dr Ram Hariharan, a consultant at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield who is independent of the research team and also speaks for the Spinal Injuries Association.\n\n\"They have done something that has not been done before.\n\n\"I have not heard of any study where they have put in an implant [into a patient with a complete spinal cord cut] and demonstrated muscle movements and improving balance, enough to stand and walk.\"\n\nBut he added more clinical trials needed to be carried out before he could be convinced that it was an effective treatment.\n\n\"We need more numbers [of patients] to show that it is first safe and that it significantly enhances their lives. Only then can it be taken forward.\"\n\nNerves in the spinal cord send signals from the brain to the legs. Some people are paralysed when the nerves are damaged through injury.\n\nIn Michel's case there's no signal at all to his legs because the spinal cord is completely severed. But the implant sends signals directly to his legs enabling him to walk, but only when the implant is on.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo far nine people have received the implant and regained the ability to walk. None of them use it to help them walk in their everyday lives - because it's too complicated at this stage. Instead, they use it to practise walking - which exercises their muscles, improves their health - and often, restores a little bit of movement.\n\nDavid M'zee was one of the first patients to receive the implant. Like Michel, he was able to walk with the implant while using a walker. David's health improved to such an extent he has was able to have a baby girl with his partner Janine, something that was not possible after his accident in 2010.\n\nHis daughter, Zoe, is now one year old. When I was with them, she raced with her Dad with her baby walker and took great delight in beating him.\n\n\"It's really beautiful!\" he beamed with fatherly pride.\n\n\"It is great fun. It's the first time I have been walking with her in that way - she with her baby walker, I with my walker.\"\n\nHaving a family has given David a huge amount of joy. And the implant has helped him in subtle, but important ways.\n\n\"It helps with the hypotension. I had it for so long. At first I didn't realise I had it. I was getting so tired from time to time.\n\n\"Once we found out that the implant can increase the blood pressure it was like 'Wow, that's how life can be!'\"\n\n\"It's these small things that make a big difference,\" he told me.\n\nThere is still a long way to go before the technology can be used routinely to help paralysed people to walk, according to Prof Grégoire Courtine, who led the team that developed the technology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).\n\n\"This is not a cure for spinal cord injury. But it is a critical step to improve people's quality of life. We are going to empower people. We are going to give them the ability to stand, to take some steps. It is not enough, but it is a significant improvement.\"\n\nA cure would require regeneration of the spinal cord, possibly with stem cell therapies, which are still at a very early stage of research. Prof Courtine believes that his implant technology could be used in conjunction with nerve regeneration treatments once they are ready.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLata Mangeshkar, one of India's most beloved singers, has been cremated in Mumbai with full state honours.\n\nMangeshkar, whose voice was the soundtrack to hundreds of Bollywood films, died aged 92 on Sunday.\n\nPM Narendra Modi and stars of the entertainment industry attended the funeral, where large crowds gathered to pay their respects.\n\nHer extraordinary career spanned more than half a century and she recorded thousands of songs in 36 languages.\n\nTwo days of national mourning will follow the funeral and the national flag will be flown at half-mast throughout the country.\n\nCrowds gathered outside her home, where her coffin began its journey to a city park where it was publicly cremated. Mr Modi was among those who laid flowers on the pyre.\n\nOne mourner, Rajesh Kumar Ram, told the AFP news agency \"her voice touches the soul of every Indian. Her songs have been with us all through our lives.\"\n\nFew stars in India are afforded the honour of a state funeral but as crowds gathered at Mumbai's Sivaji Park, it was reminder of Lata Mangeskhar's unique appeal.\n\nHundreds of people from all ages and backgrounds lined up to get a glimpse of her funeral pyre, and say a final farewell.\n\nAs a Bollywood playback singer, Lata Mangeshkar's voice was the soundtrack to hundreds of Indian films - and to countless more lives. Her songs were played at weddings, funerals and national events, her career spanned more than seven decades.\n\nShe leaves a legacy as old as independent India itself. It's hard to name an artist as prolific - aside from her sister Asha Bhosle who was among the mourners at today's funeral. Lata Mangeshkar has recorded more songs than The Beatles and the Rolling Stones combined.\n\nAffectionately known as India's \"Didi\" or sister, for millions in this country, and around the world, this loss feels personal. If Bollywood is the soul of India, then Lata Mangeshkar was its beating heart.\n\nMangeshkar was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai in January after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nAs the news of her death became public, tributes began pouring in to the woman who was often called the \"nightingale of Bollywood\" for her role as a playback singer, recording the songs that actors would lip-sync on screen.\n\nMangeshkar sang thousands of songs which were lip-synced by Bollywood's biggest heroines\n\nPresident Ram Nath Kovind said the news was \"heart-breaking for me, as it is for millions the world over\" and added that in her songs \"generations found expression of their innermost emotions\".\n\nMr Modi, meanwhile, said Mangeshkar's death had left a \"void in our nation that cannot be filled\".\n\nMangeshkar was a huge fan of cricket, and India's former captain Virat Kohli said her songs had \"touched millions of people around the world\".\n\nSeveral Bollywood stars also expressed their condolences. Actor Hema Malini said she was \"lucky\" to have performed to several songs sung by Mangeshkar.\n\n\"No one can sing like her, she was very special. Her passing away is very saddening,\" she told the news agency ANI.\n\nMangeshkar was equally popular in neighbouring Pakistan, where TV channels broadcast rolling coverage of her death.\n\n\"The subcontinent has lost one of the truly great singers the world has known,\" Prime Minister Imran Khan said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Movies N Memories This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Indore in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on 28 September 1929, she began learning music at the age of five from her father, Deenanath Mangeshkar, who was active in the world of theatre.\n\nAfter her father's death, the family moved to Mumbai where a teenage Mangeshkar began singing for Marathi movies.\n\nShe also took bit roles in a few films to support her family, but would say later that her heart wasn't in it. \"I was happiest singing,\" she told interviewers.\n\nHer big break came in 1949 with the release of a haunting song titled Aayega Aanewala for the movie Mahal.\n\n\"Soon every female actor wanted her voice. But she was always busy and only a few fortunate music directors got the chance to make her sing,\" music director Mohammed Zahur Khayyam later recalled.\n\nOver the next few decades, Mangeshkar sang thousands of songs which were lip-synced by Bollywood's biggest heroines across generations.\n\nMangeshkar was nominated to the upper house of India's parliament in 1999, but said later that she had been reluctant to take it up and that her tenure there was \"anything but happy\".\n\nShe received India's highest honour for civilians, the Bharat Ratna, in 2001.\n\nIn 2004, when she turned 75, one of Bollywood's biggest directors, Yash Chopra, wrote for the BBC that he saw \"God's blessings in her voice\".\n\nMangeshkar, who never married, had a rich life outside her work with interests ranging from cricket to cars.\n\nHer younger sister Asha Bhosle is also a celebrated Bollywood singer. The two always dismissed any hint of sibling rivalry and even performed together occasionally.\n\n\"We're very close - we have never competed with each other,\" Bhosle told the BBC in 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Nightingale of Bollywood' Lata Mangeshkar talks about her life and career", "People with high blood pressure who take paracetamol on prescription could be increasing their risk of heart attacks and strokes, a study suggests.\n\nDoctors should think about the risks and benefits to patients taking it over many months, the University of Edinburgh researchers say.\n\nTaking the painkiller for headaches and fevers is safe, they stress.\n\nOther experts say research in more people over a longer timeframe is needed to confirm the findings.\n\nParacetamol is widely used around the world as a short-term remedy for aches and pains but also prescribed to manage chronic pain, despite little evidence of its benefit for long-term use.\n\nHalf a million people - one out of every 10 - in Scotland were prescribed the painkiller in 2018.\n\nIf they also have high blood pressure, a condition that affects one in every three people in the UK, they may be more at risk, according to this trial.\n\nIt tracked 110 volunteers, two-thirds of whom were taking drugs for high blood pressure, or hypertension.\n\nIn a randomised trial, they were asked to take 1g of paracetamol four times a day for two weeks - a common dose for patients with chronic pain - and then dummy pills, or placebo, for another two weeks.\n\nThe trial showed paracetamol increased blood pressure, \"one of the most important risk factors for heart attacks and strokes\" - much more than a placebo, Edinburgh clinical pharmacologist Prof James Dear said.\n\nThe researchers advise doctors to start patients with chronic pain on as low a dose of paracetamol as possible and keep a close eye on those with high blood pressure and at risk of heart disease.\n\nArthritis is one of the biggest causes of chronic pain in the UK. One charity, Versus Arthritis, said safer medicines to treat pain were needed as well as other help, such as mental health support and encouragement to be physically active.\n\n\"If you are concerned about the risks from pain medicines you should speak with a healthcare professional to explore your options.\" said Dr Benjamin Ellis, consultant rheumatologist at Versus Arthritis.\n\nLead investigator Dr Iain MacIntyre, clinical pharmacology consultant, at NHS Lothian, said: \"This is not about short-term use of paracetamol for headaches or fever, which is, of course, fine.\"\n\nDr Dipender Gill, clinical pharmacology and therapeutics lecturer, at St George's, University of London, said the study, published in the journal Circulation, had found \"a small but meaningful increase in blood pressure in a white Scottish population\" but \"many unknowns remain\".\n\n\"Firstly, it is not clear whether the observed increase in blood pressure would be sustained with longer term use of paracetamol,\" he said.\n\n\"Secondly, it is not known for certain whether any increase in blood pressure attributable to paracetamol use would lead to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.\"\n\nA large US study previously found a link between long-term paracetamol use and increased risk of heart attacks - but it could not prove one caused the other.\n\nAnd other smaller studies have been unable to confirm the link.\n\nThe Edinburgh team said they could not explain how paracetamol would raise blood pressure but their findings should lead to a review of long-term paracetamol prescriptions.\n\nThese were previously considered safer than non-steroidal anti-inflammatory painkillers, such as ibuprofen, which are thought to raise blood pressure in some people.\n\nThe British Heart Foundation, which funded the study, said doctors and patients should regularly rethink whether any medication, even something \"relatively harmless like paracetamol\", was needed.\n\nDr Richard Francis, from the Stroke Association, said further research in people with normal, healthy blood pressure, over a longer timeframe, was needed \"to confirm the risks and benefits of using paracetamol more widely\".", "The young princess Elizabeth, far right, with her little sister Margaret, and her parents when they were Duke and Duchess of York\n\nIt is often said that Queen Elizabeth II lived out the first decade of her life with little expectation of her royal destiny. She was a carefree child, apparently, who spent her time playing with her horses and dogs, blessedly free from the shadow of what lay ahead.\n\nThis Sunday marks the 70th anniversary of her becoming Queen. The young Princess Elizabeth has been compared to the modern-day Princess Beatrice - daughter of the second-ranking Duke of York ('Bertie' in 1926, Prince Andrew today), and hence remote from any serious prospect of succeeding to the British Crown, let alone reigning over the 500 million or so inhabitants of what was then known as the British Commonwealth and Empire.\n\nDecember 1936 thus became the dramatic turning point in this scenario when her Uncle David, King Edward VIII, stunned the world and his family by abdicating the throne to marry Wallis Simpson, his divorcée American mistress - throwing the 10-year-old Elizabeth into the direct line of succession. Her father Prince Albert took the title of King George VI, and his elder daughter now became his immediate heir - the very first in line.\n\nBaby Princess Elizabeth with her grandmother Queen Mary in 1926\n\nBut was the young princess really so unprepared?\n\n\"Papa is to be King,\" Elizabeth informed her six-year-old sister Margaret Rose that December day, explaining the sudden cheering from the crowds that were gathering outside their town house in Piccadilly.\n\n\"Does that mean you're going to be Queen?\" asked Margaret.\n\n\"Yes,\" replied Elizabeth coolly, \"I suppose it does.\"\n\n\"Poor you!\" responded her younger sister humorously as she related the incident to Elizabeth Longford in the early 1980s. But Margaret chose to omit the joke when she re-told the tale two decades later to historian Ben Pimlott. She focused rather on how the new heir had seemed disinclined to jest or dwell upon her dramatic elevation. \"She didn't mention it again,\" the princess told Pimlott.\n\nSo what did the 10-year-old Princess Elizabeth know? And when did she know it?\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's first model for what became her destiny was her beloved grandfather, the bluff and bearded King George V (1865-1936). She called him \"Grandpa England\", which showed how astutely the little girl already grasped the essence of the royal business.\n\nGeorge V was distinguished \"by no exercise of social gifts, by no personal magnetism, by no intellectual powers,\" admitted his official biographer John Gore. \"He was neither a wit nor a brilliant raconteur.\" The old king, in other words, was exactly like most of his subjects. But he had a sharp sense for survival - and also for symbolism.\n\nIt was George V who shrewdly jettisoned the royal family's Germanic surname of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1917. So it is hardly surprising that, more than a century later, the world should be in such admiration of the skills that Queen has deployed through her uniquely long and distinguished reign. She learned them first-hand from the House of Windsor's founder.\n\nSea-loving George V was the source of his granddaughter's famous family nickname 'Lilibet'. In April 1929, on her third birthday, she made it to the cover of TIME magazine as 'P'incess Lilybet'.\n\nHer grandfather's preferred spelling, however, was 'Lilibet' without the 'y', as set out in frequent fond references in his meticulously maintained diary - one of the delights of the Royal Archives at Windsor.\n\nThat spring of 1929 the old king insisted that his beloved granddaughter, just three, be brought down to see him at Bognor Regis on the Sussex coast as one of two crucial ingredients to his recovery from a near-fatal lung operation (the second was that \"he might be allowed to smoke a cigarette\").\n\nIt was in these early months of 1929 that George V first shared his hopes that his granddaughter would one day ascend to the British throne.\n\n'You'll see,' he told Lilibet's father, who was visiting him during his convalescence, \"your brother will never become King.\"\n\n\"I remember we thought 'how ridiculous'. . .\" the Queen Mother recalled in later years. \"We both looked at each other and thought 'nonsense'.\"\n\nBut the old king was adamant. \"He will abdicate,\" he insisted to one of his associates - with extraordinary prescience, considering this was seven years before the event.\n\nGeorge V was concerned not only that his eldest son David would sabotage his own reign when he inherited, but also that next-in-line Bertie, himself frail and suffering from lung congestion, would not last the course either.\n\nThe old monarch apparently worried that the stuttering Duke of York could collapse under the strain of royal responsibility, so little Lilibet might be thrust upon the throne as a child. In that event, the logical Regent was likely to be George V's stolid third son Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974).\n\nThe possibility of a still-juvenile Elizabeth ascending the throne under the tutelage of her Uncle Henry may simply have reflected the fretting of an ailing king. But staying at Balmoral the previous autumn, Winston Churchill, then Chancellor of the Exchequer (and later the Queen's first prime minister) seemed to endorse the idea that the child might be a future Queen. The young princess, he wrote to his wife Clementine, \"is a character. She has an air of authority and reflectiveness astonishing in an infant\".\n\nArtist CE Turner captured this image of the young princess with her grandfather King George in Bognor Regis in 1929\n\nAs she built sandcastles with her slowly recuperating grandfather, the child had evidently absorbed some royal gravitas from the King Emperor. Before the reign of George V came to an end in 1936, the extraordinary expansion of unsolicited public gifts to his granddaughter - and even requests for the presence of the child at public functions - had reached such a volume that a lady-in-waiting had to be engaged to take care of the affairs of young Elizabeth of York.\n\nAt Windsor Castle in the late 1920s, the young Princess Elizabeth (born 21 April 1926) was observed by the Royal Librarian Owen Morshead being wheeled out in her pram to watch the Changing of the Guard, when the officer commanding would march up to salute her smartly.\n\n\"Permission to march off, please, Ma'am?\"\n\nSitting up in her pram, the princess would incline her bonneted head, according to Morshead, then wave her hand to give permission. At this tender age the little girl who already grasped the weightiness of her grandfather's national role as \"Grandpa England\", was clearly developing some inkling of her own as well...\n\nWhat effect does it have on a three-year-old mind to discover that you only have to wave your hand and nod your head for the band to strike up and the entire platoon to march off at your behest - especially as further signals of your grandeur multiply?\n\nYoung Princess Elizabeth on a six cent stamp from Newfoundland in 1932\n\nSoon after her fourth birthday, in the summer of 1930, a waxen effigy of Princess Elizabeth made its debut at Madame Tussauds, seated on a pony. Two years later the princess was featured on a six-cent stamp in Newfoundland - and down near the South Pole the Union Jack was raised over the 350,000 square miles of \"Princess Elizabeth Land\", claimed by Australia (and a full 100,000 square miles larger than the entire United Kingdom).\n\n\"Every time she goes out for a drive in the park,' reported the Belfast News Letter in the summer of 1932, people recognised the six-year-old. \"Hats are raised and handkerchiefs raised from all quarters.\"\n\nFor her seventh birthday in April 1933, the princess sent out tea party invitations on her own stationery - blue writing paper embossed with a capital \"E\" below a royal crown. A crown!\n\nA portrait of the young princess in 1933 by artist Philip de László\n\nHer parents commissioned society artist Philip de László to paint a chocolate-box portrait of their daughter, whom the painter described as \"a most intelligent and beautiful little girl... she is enormously popular and... at present looked upon as the future Queen of Great Britain.\"\n\nThis striking news was echoed by a well-informed US report in May 1934 that the future Edward VIII was known to be \"lukewarm towards the job for which he was born. Close associates of the Prince have whispered that he does not look forward to being a king with any measure of joy\". As a result, the child princess was now receiving \"the strict education of one who is regarded as in direct succession to the crown of England\".\n\nThe likely source of these North American revelations - which were studiously ignored by Britain's still-deferential press - was the princess's recently recruited young governess Marion Crawford, who was described as \"very pretty\", \"very dour\" and \"very Scotch\".\n\nInstantly nicknamed \"Crawfie\" by her young charges, the governess would become notorious for her best-selling revelations about the upbringing of \"The Little Princesses\" - in which she disclosed, for example, how she conspired with Queen Mary to subvert their mother's wish that her daughters should spend less time inside the schoolroom.\n\nA story published in the Marysville Journal-Tribune in 1934 - more than two years before the Abdication (the captions got the names of the royal brothers the wrong way round)\n\nGoverness and grandmother worked together to inject more rigour into the sisters' education. The severe royal matriarch felt that Princess Elizabeth should only read \"the best type of children's books,\" often selecting them herself - while also dreaming up \"instructive amusements\" for the future monarch, like visits to the Tower of London.\n\n\"It would have been impossible for anyone so devoted to the monarchy as Queen Mary,\" recalled her friend the Countess of Airlie, \"to lose sight of the future Queen in this favourite grandchild.\"\n\nGrandpa England, meanwhile, set more simple targets. \"For goodness' sake,\" he boomed at the governess, \"teach Margaret and Lilibet to write a decent hand - that's all I ask you! None of my children could write properly. They all do it exactly the same way. I like a hand with some character in it.\"\n\nForeign newspapers noted how the young princess's chances of becoming \"Queen-Regnant\" were now better than had been those of the eight-year-old Queen Victoria a century earlier - the daughter of a fourth son with two uncles ahead of her. Small wonder that these grand expectations should not rub off on the alert and knowing Elizabeth.\n\n\"If I am ever Queen,\" she told Crawfie, \"I shall make a law that there must be no riding on Sundays. Horses should have a rest, too.\"\n\nQueen Mary sensed the danger. Noticing how her granddaughter was wriggling impatiently on one excursion at a concert, the Queen asked if she would not prefer to go home.\n\n\"Oh no, Granny,\" came the reply, \"we can't leave before the end. Think of all the people who'll be waiting to see us outside\" - whereupon Granny immediately instructed a lady-in-waiting to escort the child out by the back way and take her home in a taxi.\n\nQueen Mary did not want her elder granddaughter getting addicted to adulation. The Queen and her husband understood how modesty, humility and a sense of service constituted the price that royals had to pay for their grandeur in a democratic age. Duty was their watchword, and they both passed this crucial lesson on to their granddaughter - that she was less important than the system. They made sure Lilibet grew up a team player.\n\nPrince William is said to have wanted his son Prince George to enjoy a few years of relative normality before being told his future\n\nFrom all the signs and signals, it does seem likely that the future Elizabeth II had acquired a realistic idea of what lay ahead for her by the age of seven - at least three years before the abdication.\n\nInterestingly, the age of seven was when Prince William is said to have revealed the same challenging reality to his son George - at the latest moment before the boy was likely to be confronted with the truth in his London school playground.\n\nLike Charles, his father, William has voiced mixed feelings at being saddled with knowing his regal destiny from his earliest awareness. He wanted George to enjoy just a few years of relative normality - and maybe that instinct for the normal is what the Queen's early succession-free years granted her. She might have been elevated to the role of captain, but she never forgot she had started as a player in the team.\n\nComing to the throne in 1952, the Queen would preside over a reign of two halves - relatively humdrum and even drab for nearly three decades, before crackling into life-on-the-edge with the troubled 1980s marriage of Charles to Diana, the gift that kept on giving to the voracious late-century media.\n\nThis was when the childhood lessons the young Elizabeth had absorbed from her grandparents came into play. The Queen needed all the steady humility she could muster to withstand the avalanche of abdication-like tremors: Charles, Diana, Camilla, the Windsor fire, Andrew-with-Fergie, Andrew-without-Fergie - with the unexpected tweak-in-the-tail delivered by the departure to the US of grandson Harry in 2020. It was one crisis after another - and through it all, the monarchy prevailed in her safe hands.\n\nA dry sense of humour helped. In 1992 the Queen disarmed the disaster of the Windsor Fire and the breakdown of three of her children's marriages by resorting to some facetious dog Latin - 1992 had been her \"Annus Horribilis\", she explained with a smile.\n\n\"Oh dear,\" she enquired when an embarrassed Labour minister Clare Short had to stop her mobile phone from ringing during a Privy Council meeting. \"I hope it wasn't anyone important?\"\n\nFrom an early age the sharp-eyed and sharp-thinking Queen Elizabeth II seems to have grasped the comedy of the royal show in which she would be destined to play a leading role.\n\n\"Let us not take ourselves too seriously,\" she declared in her Christmas broadcast for 1991. \"None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.\"\n\nThe young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret with their parents and dogs at Windsor in 1936\n\nIn 1933, according to royal legend, Lilibet confidently informed her sister Margaret, born in 1930, \"I'm three and you're four.\"\n\nYoung and confused, but still able to do the sums, Margaret responded: \"No, you're not. I'm three, you're seven!\"\n\nIt took time to dawn on Margaret that her elder sister was not talking about age. She was referring to the two girls' respective positions in the order of succession after their grandfather - Uncle David, one; Papa, two; and Lilibet, three. The seven-year-old was right up to speed with what the rest of the world was starting to think.\n\nAfter the abdication and having been moved up two rankings to face the challenge of being number one in the line of succession, the 10-year-old princess was described by her grandmother Lady Strathmore as \"ardently praying for a brother\".\n\nBut there was no baby brother coming to the rescue. The little girl raised among her horses and dogs now had to prepare herself for the challenge of eventually becoming \"Grandma England\" - and \"Grandma\" of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland too.\n\nRobert Lacey is a British historian and biographer who has made a particular study of Britain's modern constitutional monarchy. His biography Majesty: Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor was published in 1977. Since 2015 he has been historical consultant to the Netflix TV series The Crown.", "David M’zee was 22 when an injury damaged his spine, leaving him paralysed 12 years ago. In 2017, an electrical implant to his spine enabled him to stand and walk slowly by boosting the nerve signals to his legs.\n\nHe uses the device for short periods to exercise his muscles and practise walking, and says that even when it’s not turned on, it’s brought such an improvement to his health that he’s been able to have a child.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nWales head coach Wayne Pivac says ill-discipline and losing physical battles led to their 29-7 defeat against Ireland in their Six Nations opener.\n\nOutclassed Wales arrived at the Aviva Stadium to begin their title defence, but were dominated from start to finish on a torrid afternoon in Dublin.\n\nThe only consolation was a converted try from Taine Basham.\n\n\"No-one's happy with defeat, we came here wanting to win so they're all very disappointed,\" said Pivac.\n\nDiminished Wales had travelled without a host of injured star names, including captain Alun Wyn Jones and the loss of almost 700 caps of experience, whish showed in a one-sided affair.\n\n\"We can't go back in time in terms of the players missing, we need to learn our lessons from today and this is the squad we've got,\" said Pivac.\n\n\"We talked about what we needed to do in that game from the outset and that was to match them physically and our discipline needed to be spot on.\n\n\"We didn't achieve that. In the first 20 minutes of the game, the penalty count was off and we let them into both halves very cheaply.\n\n\"We have got to make sure we are working hard, and there is no doubt the boys will want to improve in those areas.\"\n\nPivac believes those issues led to unforced errors in the struggling attacking game.\n\n\"When you make over 100 tackles in a half a bit of fatigue does set in,\" added Pivac.\n\n\"It happens to any side. I thought the boys came back very strongly in that last quarter of the game and kept fighting towards the end which we want.\"\n\nWales centre Josh Adams was shown a yellow card for a reckless challenge on Ireland captain Johnny Sexton with Ireland scoring two second-half tries with the extra man.\n\n\"Going a player down certainly doesn't help but we've got to regroup and be better,\" added Pivac.\n\n\"It's one of those things. Seeing it live the referee thought it was fine, two players colliding. The ball went one way and Josh has gone the other. He's picked up a yellow card and we move on.\"\n\nPivac insisted the experiment of playing wing Adams in the centre was justified, while he says Louis Rees-Zammit was fit to play after picking up an ankle injury in the warm-up.\n\n\"I think Josh saved us on a number of occasions,\" said Pivac.\n\n\"It's easy to talk about the people out wide but it's what goes on inside first, how quick we are to react at the first breakdown and the numbers we get on the far side of the ruck, the near side if they switch back or not. I think to single out one person is not the right thing to do.\n\n\"You'll find when you break this game down that he didn't go too badly at all.\"\n\nWales will host Scotland next Saturday looking to revive any title challenge.\n\n\"We certainly look forward to getting back home, there is no doubt about that,\" added Pivac.\n\n\"A full house at the Principality Stadium, there is nothing better and it certainly lifts the boys.\"\n\nPivac says he will consider any changes, especially in the forwards with the potential addition of Ross Moriarty helping the physicality problems.\n\n\"We will need to review the game first and foremost because I think we were a little bit better than maybe some of the stats might have indicated in that area of the game,\" added Pivac.\n\n\"Everyone's game gets looked at, and we will look to get the job done against Scotland.\"", "Val McDermid withdrew her support from Raith Rovers after the club signed David Goodwillie\n\nVal McDermid has called for an independent regulator to make checks on professional footballers, after the club she sponsored signed a rapist.\n\nDavid Goodwillie - who a judge ruled had raped a woman - joined Raith Rovers from Clyde, prompting an outcry from fans and a series of resignations.\n\nThe best-selling crime writer said an independent body could regulate who was able to play for clubs.\n\nFans wanted players on the pitch they could look up to, she added.\n\n\"I think that there needs to be some kind of independent body that regulates the whole game generally, particularly what players can play, who can be on the books, if you like, to play for clubs,\" she said.\n\n\"At the moment there is no real regulation over that. There is the supposed 'fit and proper person' regulation that comes to ownership but there is nothing about who is actually on the pitch.\n\n\"I think, to be honest, fans are saying now we want people on the pitch that we can respect and look up to.\"\n\nHowever, Dr Nick McKerrell, a senior law lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University, cast doubt on the prospect of a new independent regulator.\n\nHe said the Scottish government was unlikely to have the appetite to pass an act of parliament required because it would \"involve quite a major intervention in the essentially private sector\".\n\nDavid Goodwillie was signed by Raith Rovers after five years at Clyde\n\nLast Wednesday, Ms McDermid - a lifelong supporter of the Fife side - withdrew her support and sponsorship of Raith Rovers Football Club in protest at the signing.\n\nShe was the Scottish Championship team's main shirt sponsor but said the deal would end as a result of the signing.\n\nThe name of the author, who was also a director, was worn on the clubs' home shirt and was on the South Stand at Stark's Park.\n\nTwo of the Kirkcaldy club's directors, the captain of its women's team, staff and volunteers also left in protest.\n\nThe club later admitted it had \"got it wrong\" by signing the rapist and that it \"bitterly regretted\" signing Goodwillie - despite initially defending the decision because he was \"a proven goal scorer\".\n\nThe author watched a match between McDermid Ladies and Livingston at the weekend\n\nThe Raith Rovers women's team severed ties with the main club, are now named McDermid and are sponsored by the author.\n\nMs McDermid said: \"It makes a very strong statement about our attitude to violence against women. And that's one of the things that's also upset me most about the club's attitude.\n\n\"At no point have they said anything about David Goodwillie's victim, at no point have they said anything in support of the women who attend the club regularly who take part in club activities, who come to games.\n\n\"This is as much about all the women victims out there as it is about what Raith Rovers have done.\"\n\nAileen Campbell, chief executive of Scottish Women's Football, said there was a lot of \"trust to be rebuilt\" but the reaction to the Raith Rovers signing could be used to \"drive forward positive change\".\n\n\"I've been reaching out to colleagues in the SPFL and the SFA to work out what collectively can we do to make sure that football is seen to be a safe sport for women going forward.\"\n\nThe woman Goodwillie raped told the Sunday Post newspaper it was \"shameful\" that Goodwillie was allowed to continue playing football after the civil case in 2017, the first rape case of its kind in Scotland.\n\nDenise Clair, who waived her anonymity, hit out at the footballing authorities, accusing them of being \"complicit\" with their \"silence\".", "MSPs have called for action to bolster Scotland's health services, saying \"lives are being lost which could have been saved\" due to ambulance delays.\n\nOpposition leaders highlighted the case of Richard Brown, who died while waiting five hours for an ambulance.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney apologised to Mr Brown's family, saying he \"should not have had the experience that he had\".\n\nHe said the government had invested in the NHS to deal with the pressures.\n\nAll three opposition leaders pressed Mr Swinney about the issue at first minister's questions, where he was standing in for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon while she attends the COP26 conference.\n\nConcerns have repeatedly been raised in recent months about pressure on the health services, partly caused by the Covid pandemic, and waiting times for emergency help and admission to accident and emergency wards.\n\nSoldiers were drafted in to drive ambulances in September as ministers warned of \"the most challenging winter the NHS has ever faced\".\n\nOn Thursday, both Conservative leader Douglas Ross and Labour's Anas Sarwar raised the case of Mr Brown, a 55-year-old who died on the stairs of his tenement building in Glasgow after waiting five hours for an ambulance.\n\nAn investigation into the circumstances of the case is ongoing, but opposition parties said it illustrated broader issues with Scotland's health service.\n\nIt comes as a survey of Scottish Ambulance Service staff by the Unite trade union found that 88% of the nearly 300 who responded said they did not feel valued by the government, 79% believed the service was understaffed and 98% said measures announced in September to improve the situation were not sufficient.\n\nMore than half of the respondents - 55% - said they had witnessed \"adverse clinical events\" - patients dying or becoming seriously ill - because of lengthy waiting times.\n\nJohn Swinney said a \"whole system\" response was needed to ease pressure on the NHS\n\nMr Ross said the \"distressing case\" of Mr Brown was not unique, and that \"lives are being lost that could have been saved\".\n\nHe added: \"Doctors, medical students, paramedics, nurses, everyone in the NHS is desperately trying to save lives - but they don't have the resources they need.\n\n\"They are crying out for help - frontline staff have sent out their own 999 call to this government.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Sarwar said the \"out of touch and hopeless government\" was \"presiding over a crisis in our NHS\".\n\nHe added: \"Covid can't be the cover. These are pressures that existed in the NHS even before Covid - yes Covid has exacerbated the problems, but let's not pretend they started with Covid.\"\n\nLib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said the situation was having a \"traumatic\" impact on health staff, accusing the government of \"grasping at straws and blaming the pandemic\" instead of supporting them.\n\nMr Swinney said he recognised there was \"enormous pressure\" on Scotland's health service - pointing to a sharp increase in the number of emergency callouts.\n\nHe said: \"In August 2018, the ambulance service responded to 5,788 immediately life-threatening incidents. By October 2021 that figure had reached 10,733 - it had almost doubled.\n\n\"The government has provided increased investment of £20m to support staff, and staff recruitment is under way.\n\n\"We will continue to invest in the work of the Scottish Ambulance Service to ensure it has the capacity to undertake the tasks it needs to undertake, and to ensure that other families don't have the experience of Mr Brown's family.\"\n\nSoldiers have already been drafted in to help drive ambulances in Scotland\n\nMr Swinney said the impact of the pandemic on the health service meant that a \"series of measures\" was needed across the system to alleviate pressure.\n\nHe said: \"We have to have whole-system solutions in place. It's about boosting social care capacity, so people are better supported in their own homes and have less need to use the ambulance service.\n\n\"Or about ensuring we have improvements in the level of delayed discharges, so our hospitals are less congested - and crucially, that we can make sure people have a swift journey through accident and emergency when they require to be there.\"\n\nHe also said he valued the contribution by all healthcare staff, and that £12m had been invested in staff wellbeing due to the \"significant impact\" of Covid on the NHS.", "Following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car accident, the Royal Family grieved in private. However, the public reaction to Diana's death led to accusations the Queen was unresponsive and out of touch with the public mood. The swell of anger had shocked the Queen and she admitted there were \"lessons to be drawn from her life\" and the reaction to her death", "The couple laugh as they drink whisky given to them as a wedding gift in Caithness, Scotland\n\nThe Queen has announced she would like Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, to have the title of Queen Consort when the Prince of Wales becomes King.\n\nIt is an endorsement from the very top, say royal commentators - and one that is well-deserved after years of loyalty and hard work.\n\nPrince Charles described it as a deep honour for both him and his \"darling wife\".\n\nSince marrying into the Royal Family 17 years ago, Camilla, 74, has grown into her role as a senior royal.\n\nThe path to public acceptance has been at times rocky, and at first Camilla was a controversial figure who was blamed by some for the end of the prince's first marriage to Princess Diana.\n\nIn 1994, Charles admitted to adultery with Camilla, but said it came after his marriage to Diana had \"irretrievably broken down\".\n\nIt was not until 1999 when she and Charles went public with their romance, being photographed emerging from the Ritz as part of a carefully-planned PR campaign.\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla pictured for the first time in public, leaving the Ritz hotel in 1999\n\nSince then, Camilla has won over a cautious public. She has been praised for championing her own causes and interests, including supporting literacy charities, animal welfare and organisations helping victims of domestic abuse.\n\nThe duchess has also been outspoken on the issue of sexual violence against women. In a speech in London last year, she mentioned the murders of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa, and called for men to also be \"on board\" with tackling a culture of sexual violence.\n\n\"She's been loyal, discreet and works her socks off with her charities and supports the prince,\" says royal author Penny Junor.\n\n\"She's taken to this job at a relatively late age and she's been extraordinary.\"\n\nThe Queen smiles on as Charles and Camilla leave the chapel after their marriage blessing\n\nBorn Camilla Rosemary Shand on 17 July 1947 to an upper-class family, she grew up on the edge of the South Downs in East Sussex.\n\nShe has described having a childhood love of ponies, saying she thought of little else but \"charging about on them\".\n\nHer other interests include reading. Camilla has spoken of the importance of children's books - naming Black Beauty as one of her favourites - and is a fan of the literary Hay Festival. During the pandemic, she set up an Instagram-based book club.\n\nAnd she has also confessed to being an addict of Radio 4 serial drama the Archers - joking she suffered \"severe withdrawal symptoms\" when episodes were disrupted by Covid.\n\n\"Many people will have seen the good work the Duchess of Cornwall has done over the years, her loyalty, her discreet nature and the hard work she puts in,\" says Victoria Howard - who edits the website The Crown Chronicles. \"I think many people were pleased to see this.\"\n\nCamilla delivers a speech at the City of London Guildhall last November\n\nMany royal commentators remark that with Camilla by his side, Charles often appears more relaxed.\n\nBefore her royal marriage, the duchess's life was not one of palaces and public engagements - and sometimes that more normal experience shows.\n\nIn an interview in 2020, Camilla revealed she'd enjoyed not dressing up and living in a pair of jeans during lockdown.\n\nAnd the mother-of-two also spoke about her love of her grandchildren, saying missing them during lockdown was \"the worst\" and she just wanted to \"rush up and hug them\".\n\nShe will bring warmth to the role of Queen Consort, says Ms Junor. \"She's fun and friendly and she has a twinkle in her eye. She makes people feel good for having met her.\"\n\nWhen Camilla and Charles married in a civil ceremony in 2005, it was announced Camilla would become known as Princess Consort - rather than Queen Consort - due to public sensitivity.\n\nBut royal experts say the Queen's endorsement will now sway the public into embracing Camilla as Queen.\n\n\"For Camilla, the journey from being the third person in a marriage to queen-in-waiting is complete,\" says former royal correspondent Peter Hunt.\n\nEmily Nash from Hello! magazine agrees: \"By her giving her own royal approval to Queen Camilla, the Queen Consort, it settles an argument that's been raging for many years - and I think that that's what's going to happen now.\"\n\nThe royal wave: Camilla is driven along Edinburgh's Royal Mile after Zara Tindall's wedding in 2011\n\n\"This is the Queen's wish,\" adds Junor. \"This is not about Charles being headstrong and wanting this for the woman he loves. It is a proper endorsement from the top and it's right and well-deserved, and just as it should be.\"\n\nFor historian Robert Lacey, the timing of the Queen's message - less than a year after Prince Philip's death - is poignant.\n\n\"She has been clearly been thinking about the importance of a partner and a consort to her. She has just lost her own consort, and I think that's a big factor in why we're hearing it now,\" he tells the BBC.\n\n\"They call it the Firm - and this really brings Camilla into the Firm properly.\"", "The long-running Australian soap has launched the careers of pop stars Jason Donavan and Kylie Minogue\n\nNeighbours has been dropped by Channel 5, putting the long-running Australian soap opera's future under threat.\n\nThe UK network announced on Sunday it would stop showing the programme later this year, after airing it for more than a decade.\n\nSinger and former Neighbours star Jason Donovan said the soap \"changed the Australian television landscape\".\n\nAustralian broadcaster Network 10 said it would look for a new partner to work with to keep it on air.\n\nThe television network denied filming of the show - which began in 1985 - was being paused.\n\nThe broadcaster added it was committed to keeping the show going if a new broadcasting partner could be found.\n\nSet and filmed in Melbourne, Neighbours was first broadcast in Australia in 1985 and launched on BBC One a year later.\n\nIt became a huge hit in the UK and in Australia, and helped launch the career of numerous stars, including Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Guy Pearce and later Margot Robbie.\n\nChannel 5 said it knew the decision to axe the show - which attracts more than one million viewers per day in the UK - would disappoint many, confirming it would no longer air \"beyond this summer\".\n\nBut it added its \"current focus is on increasing our investment in original UK drama, which has strong appeal for our UK viewers\".\n\nSinger Kylie Minogue was one of the first stars to come out of the programme in the 1980s\n\nThe soap has featured many notable Australian actors, actresses and performers over the years, many of whom have gone on to have glittering careers.\n\nPerhaps the most high profile of these stars to make her name on Neighbours is singer Kylie Minogue, who acted in the early years of the soap, playing Charlene between 1986 and 1988.\n\nRussell Crowe briefly featured in the soap opera in 1987\n\nOther people to come off the Ramsay Street set include Oscar winner and Gladiator star Russell Crowe, musician Jason Donovan and actor Guy Pearce.\n\nMore recently, the show featured Suicide Squad star Margot Robbie from 2008 to 2011 and Liam Hemsworth between 2007 and 2008.\n\nMargot Robbie starred in the show before launching her Hollywood career\n\nOther people to have made their names from appearing on the show over the years include the singers Natalie Imbruglia, Holly Vallance and Delta Goodrem.\n\nActor and singer Donovan, who played Scott Robinson from 1986 to 1989, wrote on Twitter: \"It launched many careers over decades including mine.\n\n\"Engaged and entertained audiences for generations. Hoping that it will find a new home with another UK broadcaster and continue to provide opportunity and entertainment.\"\n\nFormer BBC One controller Lord Grade told Radio 4's Today programme that he initially put the soap in \"the wrong slot\" before a conversation with his school-age daughter made him think again.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement, Network 10 said: \"As outlined in the email to Neighbours cast and crew, it is our intention to continue our association with Neighbours if another broadcast partner comes forward.\n\n\"Network 10 has an ongoing commitment to the show, the cast and crew and is hopeful that Fremantle will find a new production partner. We will provide further updates as they become available.\"\n\nThe soap, which launched in 1985, has been more popular in the UK than in Australia for years - so Channel 5's announcement has thrown its future into doubt.\n\nIn Australia it has been shown on digital channel 10 Peach since 2011, when it lost a slot following the nightly news on the main Network 10 schedule, leaving it reliant on the UK broadcaster for production costs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The soap aired a special scene in January 2020 about the bushfires that were devastating Australia at the time\n\nFremantle Media, which makes the soap, is yet to comment.\n\nHowever, in an email to staff, Fremantle Media executive producer Jason Herbison said production would stop indefinitely because of the lack of a broadcast partner to provide financial backing.\n\nIn the message, seen by the Sydney Morning Herald, staff were asked to attend a meeting on Monday by Mr Herbison, who added filming would go on until 10 June.\n\nThe email said: \"Our audience remains steady and Channel Ten would love the show to continue if we could find another broadcast partner to replace [Channel 5].\n\n\"These discussions are ongoing, however there is no new broadcaster at the moment and production must end, effectively resting the show.\n\n\"We are so proud of the show, you all and everything that you've achieved. But for now, this chapter is closing and we want to work together to give Neighbours the amazing send-off it deserves.\"\n\nThe soap has featured many guest stars from the UK in recent years, including Amanda Holden, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Ryan Thomas and Janet Street-Porter.\n\nIn 2016, BBC Newsround had kids react to the show's iconic wedding scene between Scott and Charlene - played by Donovan and Minogue - from 1988.\n\nOne boy described their hair styles as \"long, shaggy and uncut\", adding he was unsure if \"they had barbers in those days\".", "When patients arrive at hospital by ambulance they should be handed over within 15 minutes. This data shows the proportion of ambulance patients who waited 30 minutes or more, in the week shown. It comes from daily situation reports which are published weekly during the winter in England. As this is fast-turnaround data, the NHS says only minimal validation can be carried out but it is considered fit for purpose.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland do not publish ambulance queue data.\n\nPatients at A&E should be seen within four hours of arrival. This data shows the proportion of patients attending A&E who waited longer than four hours to be treated, discharged or admitted.\n\nThis data is published monthly for England and Wales and weekly for Scotland. Northern Ireland publishes its data quarterly and Winter 2021 is not yet available.\n\nIf a patient at A&E needs to be admitted, the wait from decision to admit to being given a bed on a ward is recorded in England. The bed waits figure is the proportion of patients admitted via A&E who waited longer than four hours for a ward bed.\n\nIn Wales, bed wait data is not published, so the figure shown is the occupancy level in general and acute beds. Scotland and Northern Ireland do not publish bed wait or bed occupancy data.\n\nData for England is show by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities.\n\nWhen you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board.\n\nComparative data from two years ago is shown where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Bed occupancy data in Wales only goes back to April 2020.", "Amanda Selby was described as a \"loving daughter and granddaughter\" by her family\n\nA 19-year-old has admitted killing his teenage sister in a caravan on the north Wales coast.\n\nAmanda Selby, 15, died at the Ty Mawr Holiday Park in Towyn near Abergele, Conwy county, on 31 July.\n\nMatthew Selby, of Windermere Crescent, Ashton-under-Lyne, appeared at Mold Crown Court to enter his plea.\n\nHe was due to stand trial for murder this month, but has now pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.\n\nThe case has been adjourned until 18 March when sentencing will take place.\n\nSelby appeared via videolink from HMP Berwyn, near Wrexham, for the hearing, which lasted less than 10 minutes.\n\nIan Unsworth QC, prosecuting, said the Crown accepted the plea to manslaughter, based on close analysis of psychiatric reports.\n\nJudge Rhys Rowlands said: \"I too have read the reports from both psychiatrists and plainly I understand the decision taken by the Crown.\"\n\nGordon Cole QC, defending, said Selby would be seen again by a psychiatrist before his sentencing.\n\nMatthew Selby was initially charged with murder, but has admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility\n\nAt an inquest opening, Amanda's provisional cause of death was given as asphyxia as a result of neck compression and external airway obstruction and crush asphyxia.\n\nIn a tribute, Amanda's family said: \"Amanda was a loving daughter and granddaughter - she was caring, thoughtful, liked to help others and very much loved.\"\n\nAmanda's school, Droylsden Academy in Manchester, said: \"Our school family is devastated by this awful news.\n\n\"Amanda was a lovely student and she will be sorely missed by students and staff.\"\n\nMatthew Selby was due to go on trial for murder this month\n\nJiu Jitsu club Kamiza Dojo said Amanda and her mother had been a big part of the club for many years.\n\nIt said: \"Our club is saddened to hear the tragic news that one of our students, Amanda Selby, has lost her life while on holiday with her family.\n\n\"The Kamiza Dojo family is truly devastated by this awful news. We are truly heartbroken, Amanda will be sorely missed.\"\n\nPolice were initially called to the caravan park after reports of a \"domestic disturbance\".\n\nPolice were called to Ty Mawr Holiday Park on 31 July", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sajid Javid: Delay to NHS backlog plan not down to the Treasury\n\nA last minute intervention in Whitehall has delayed plans to tackle the backlog of patients on hospital waiting lists in England.\n\nDetails of the NHS England scheme were expected to be published on Monday.\n\nThe health secretary denied reports the Treasury had blocked the announcement, blaming the Omicron wave for the delay.\n\nHowever, the government has announced a new online service that will allow people needing non-urgent surgery to get information about waiting times.\n\nSajid Javid told BBC Breakfast the full plan was due to be released in early December but the emergence of the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant meant the focus shifted to the booster programme.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said during a visit to a hospital in Kent that the government would set out more details \"in the course of the week\".\n\n\"We're now working with the NHS to set some tough targets so that we are able to deliver for patients and also for the taxpayer,\" he said.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reported that the Treasury had refused to sign off the plans.\n\nBut Mr Javid denied this, saying the Treasury was \"an excellent partner\" and \"we have a great relationship\".\n\n\"There's no issue around the money at all. It's all about just making sure that when you publish something so ambitious and so important, we do want to make sure across government everything is agreed and everyone is behind the plan,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are united in our plan to clear the NHS's record backlog as we recover from the pandemic.\"\n\nA record six million patients were on waiting lists for non-urgent operations and procedures in England in November, with the suspension of routine surgery during certain periods of the pandemic adding to pressures which were already clear before it began.\n\nMr Javid said the figure would rise before it starts to fall because an estimated eight to nine million people stayed away from the NHS at the height of the pandemic - but it was difficult to know how high it could go.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive. How is the NHS in your area coping this winter? This trust does not currently supply A&E waiting time figures. When patients arrive at hospital by ambulance they should be handed over within 15 minutes. This data shows the proportion of ambulance patients who waited 30 minutes or more, in the week shown. It comes from daily situation reports which are published weekly during the winter in England. As this is fast-turnaround data, the NHS says only minimal validation can be carried out but it is considered fit for purpose. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland do not publish ambulance queue data. Patients at A&E should be seen within four hours of arrival. This data shows the proportion of patients attending A&E who waited longer than four hours to be treated, discharged or admitted. This data is published monthly for England and Wales and weekly for Scotland. Northern Ireland publishes its data quarterly and Winter 2021 is not yet available. If a patient at A&E needs to be admitted, the wait from decision to admit to being given a bed on a ward is recorded in England. The bed waits figure is the proportion of patients admitted via A&E who waited longer than four hours for a ward bed. In Wales, bed wait data is not published, so the figure shown is the occupancy level in general and acute beds. Scotland and Northern Ireland do not publish bed wait or bed occupancy data. Data for England is show by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board. Comparative data from two years ago is shown where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Bed occupancy data in Wales only goes back to April 2020.\n\nMatthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents the healthcare system, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the delay was \"frustrating\" as the plan had been agreed with NHS leaders who \"want to get on with the work\".\n\nHowever, with an unknown number of people not included in waiting list figures because they did not come forward for treatment during the pandemic, he warned that \"unrealistic\" targets could end up \"skewing clinical priorities\".\n\nTell us how you have been affected by the issues raised in this story.\n\nThere's a golden rule in politics: when two senior politicians do a joint event, or write a joint article (I've always wondered who holds the pen), the chances are they've had the lightest smattering of recent disagreements.\n\nWell, the prime minister and the chancellor are out and about together today.\n\nLast week, Rishi Sunak pointedly publicly disagreed with the prime minister's comments about Sir Keir Starmer and Jimmy Savile.\n\nMeanwhile, a big plan for sorting out the massive waiting lists in the NHS in England has been kiboshed, for now.\n\nWe understand the plan was fully written and approved by the Department of Health.\n\nBut it's currently squashed under a lever arch file somewhere in the bowels of government.\n\nSome sources are pointing fingers at the Treasury.\n\nOthers say there's still discussion - read argument - between No 10, the Treasury and Department of Health.\n\nPlenty will argue when you're talking about massive amounts of public money, of course there must be scrutiny and accountability about how it'll be spent.\n\nBut it means having to wait a bit longer before we see the plan - although perhaps only a couple of days.\n\nSaffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents health trusts, said the parts of the plan being held up included measures to free up clinician time, support for trusts working together, use of the independent sector and how funding will be allocated.\n\nShe told Today that high staff absences caused by Omicron had caused significant disruption and it was important NHS leaders saw the full plan to tackle the backlog \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nLabour's Jonathan Ashworth said the government was in \"utter chaos\" and while it was \"preoccupied\" with Boris Johnson's future \"the needs of the British people are not met\".\n\n\"We need a plan and the NHS is in a desperate crisis because of years of underfunding, years of Tory failure to recruit the doctors and nurses that we need, years of Tory cuts,\" the shadow work and pensions secretary told the BBC.\n\nWhat has been announced is an online platform called My Planned Care, which will be launched later this month, to give patients waiting for routine surgery increased transparency about their local hospitals and information they might need while preparing for their operations.\n\nThere will also be advice on prevention services, such as how to stop smoking and exercise plans, to make sure people are fit for surgery.\n\nThe platform will initially be available through the NHS website but it is expected it will become available through the NHS app in the future.\n\nA third of on-the-day cancellations of operations were due to people not being clinically ready for treatment, the Department of Health and Social Care said.", "The Queen has said she wants Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, to be known as Queen Consort when Prince Charles becomes King.\n\nIn a message marking the 70th anniversary of her reign, the Queen said it was her \"sincere wish\" that Camilla would have that title.\n\nThe Queen is the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee.\n\nShe is spending her day privately on the Sandringham estate, with national celebrations to be held in June.\n\nThe Queen's reign began when she was 25 years old, following the death of her father, George VI, on 6 February 1952.\n\nThe monarch said that, 70 years on, the day is one she remembers \"as much for the death of my father, King George VI, as for the start of my reign\".\n\nThe 95-year-old said in a written message to the nation: \"I would like to express my thanks to you all for your support. I remain eternally grateful for, and humbled by, the loyalty and affection that you continue to give me.\"\n\nThe Jubilee is the monarch's first without the Duke of Edinburgh, her husband of 73 years, who died last year.\n\nShe reflected on how much she had gained from support given \"unselfishly\" by Prince Philip and thanked the goodwill shown to her by \"all nationalities, faiths and ages in this country\".\n\nDuring her reign, she has seen 14 British prime ministers occupy No 10.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson posted on Twitter: \"I pay tribute to her many years of service and look forward to coming together as a country to celebrate her historic reign in the summer.\"\n\nFormer prime ministers Theresa May and David Cameron also expressed their gratitude to the monarch.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer echoed these sentiments, saying he would like to express his \"deepest thanks\" for 70 years of \"unparalleled public service\".\n\n\"Her Majesty The Queen has been one vital and valued constant in an ever-changing world, representing security and stability for our country, during the ups and downs of the last seven decades,\" Sir Keir said.\n\nThe Women's Institute (WI) posted several photos of the Queen over the years to social media, and congratulated her for 70 years of service. She is vice-president of the Sandringham WI.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Women's Institute This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe royal accession message, issued from her Sandringham estate in Norfolk, said the Queen still kept the promise of a lifetime of public duty, originally made in 1947 when she was 21, \"that my life will always be devoted to your service\".\n\nShe signed off the message: \"Your servant Elizabeth R.\"\n\nThe Queen has spent the anniversary of her accession in Sandringham\n\nOn the eve of her Jubilee, the Queen directly addressed the unresolved question of Camilla's future title.\n\n\"Queen Consort\" refers to the spouse of a ruling king and would mean \"Queen Camilla\" as her future title.\n\nThere had been suggestions Camilla would be known as Princess Consort.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall were \"touched and honoured\".\n\nThere has been a different practice for husbands of a female monarch, such as Prince Philip, who was prince consort.\n\nThe usual precedent would have been for Camilla to automatically become Queen when Charles was King, but because of uncertainty about public opinion it had been suggested that might not be the case.\n\nThe Queen's message has made it clear that Camilla will be known as Queen\n\nCharles and Camilla were both divorcees when they married in 2005 in a civil marriage. Charles had previously been married to Princess Diana but they divorced in 1996, a year before she died in a car crash in Paris.\n\nAt the time of their marriage the official intention was for Camilla to be known as the Princess Consort. But plans for her title became more ambiguous in recent years.\n\nThe Queen's intervention means barriers to her becoming Queen have now been removed, and will allow her to have a fully-fledged royal role beside Charles.\n\nThe Queen's personal endorsement follows her New Year announcement that Camilla would become a member of the Order of the Garter - the highest order of chivalry.\n\nCamilla, aged 74, has increasingly been involved in championing her own causes and interests, including charities supporting victims of domestic abuse.", "The Prince of Wales has paid tribute to the Queen on her Platinum Jubilee for the \"remarkable achievement\" of reaching 70 years on the throne.\n\nPrince Charles welcomed his mother's wish that Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, be known as Queen Consort when he becomes King.\n\nHe said he and his wife were \"deeply conscious of the honour\".\n\nThe Queen is the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, and is spending the day privately.\n\nIn a message marking the 70th anniversary of her reign, the Queen said it was her \"sincere wish\" that Camilla would have that title.\n\nPrince Charles said in a statement: \"The Queen's devotion to the welfare of all her people inspires still greater admiration with each passing year.\n\n\"We are deeply conscious of the honour represented by my mother's wish. As we have sought together to serve and support Her Majesty and the people of our communities, my darling wife has been my own steadfast support throughout.\"\n\nThe Queen's reign began when she was 25 years old, following the death of her father, George VI, on 6 February 1952.\n\nThe monarch said that, 70 years on, the day is one she remembers \"as much for the death of my father, King George VI, as for the start of my reign\".\n\nThe 95-year-old said in a written message to the nation: \"I would like to express my thanks to you all for your support. I remain eternally grateful for, and humbled by, the loyalty and affection that you continue to give me.\"\n\nThe Jubilee is the monarch's first without the Duke of Edinburgh, her husband of 73 years, who died last year.\n\nShe reflected on how much she had gained from support given \"unselfishly\" by Prince Philip and thanked the goodwill shown to her by \"all nationalities, faiths and ages in this country\".\n\nThe Queen signed off the message: \"Your servant Elizabeth R.\"\n\nSince marrying into the Royal Family 17 years ago, Camilla has grown into her role as a senior royal.\n\nThe path to public acceptance has been at times rocky, and at first Camilla was a controversial figure who was blamed by some for the end of the prince's first marriage to Princess Diana.\n\nIn 1994, Charles admitted to adultery with Camilla, but said it came after his marriage to Diana had \"irretrievably broken down\".\n\nIt was not until 1999 when she and Charles went public with their romance,\n\nSince then, Camilla has won over a cautious public. She has been praised for championing her own causes and interests, including supporting literacy charities, animal welfare and organisations helping victims of domestic abuse.\n\nMany have congratulated the Queen on this historic day, including Boris Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron - three of the 14 British prime ministers to occupy No 10 during her reign.\n\nMr Johnson posted on Twitter: \"I pay tribute to her many years of service and look forward to coming together as a country to celebrate her historic reign in the summer.\"\n\nHis predecessor, Mrs May, described the monarch as \"an extraordinary woman, who has dedicated her life to the service of her people and our family of nations\".\n\nMr Cameron said: \"There can be no finer example of dignified public duty and service.\"\n\nLeader of the opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, echoed these sentiments, saying he would like to express his \"deepest thanks\" for 70 years of \"unparalleled public service\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"Her Majesty The Queen has been one vital and valued constant in an ever-changing world, representing security and stability for our country, during the ups and downs of the last seven decades.\"\n\nA message from the White House said the Queen had, over her 70-year reign, \"strengthened the ties of friendship, shared ideals, and faith in democracy that forever unite our countries\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Saturday, the Queen made jokes as she cut a cake at a reception for her Platinum Jubilee\n\nThe Queen used the eve of her Jubilee to directly address the unresolved question of Camilla's future title.\n\nThere had been suggestions Camilla would be known as Princess Consort.\n\nThe usual precedent would have been for Camilla to automatically become Queen when Charles was King, but because of uncertainty about public opinion it had been suggested that might not be the case.", "Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood has been dropped by sportswear giant Nike following his arrest on suspicion of rape.\n\nThe 20-year-old was also arrested on suspicion of assault and then later on suspicion of sexual assault and making threats to kill.\n\nThe forward was later released on bail by Greater Manchester Police (GMP).\n\nNike previously said it had suspended its relationship with him but the company has now officially ended it.\n\n\"Mason Greenwood is no longer a Nike athlete,\" it said in a statement.\n\nManchester United previously said he would not return to training or matches until further notice.\n\nGMP said the player was arrested on 30 January after the force \"became aware of online social media images and videos posted by a woman reporting incidents of physical violence\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Spotify boss Daniel Ek has said that although he \"strongly\" condemns racial slurs and other comments made by US podcast host Joe Rogan, he is not removing him from the platform.\n\nEk's comments were made in a letter sent to staff, which has been seen by Reuters and Hollywood Reporter.\n\nIt follows Rogan's apology over the weekend for his past use of racist language on his popular podcast.\n\nEk said it was Rogan's decision to remove a number of past episodes.\n\nIt followed discussions with the music streaming platform, along with Rogan's own reflections on some of the content in The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, including the use of racially insensitive language.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins looks at the controversy surrounding the US podcast presenter Joe Rogan and his Spotify show\n\nRogan apologised after a widely-shared compilation video showed him repeatedly using the N-word in early episodes of his show, which has been running for over a decade. The 54-year offered his \"deepest\" apologies and called his past use of the slur \"shameful\".\n\nHe also said sorry for making a racist comment about visiting a predominantly black neighbourhood, saying he \"felt sick\" watching the compilation, and wished he could take his comments back.\n\nEk, who is chief executive officer and co-found of Spotify, said: \"While I strongly condemn what Joe has said... I want to make one point very clear - I do not believe that silencing Joe is the answer.\"\n\nHe believes Spotify should have clear boundaries around the content being published, saying: \"We should have clear lines around content and take action when they are crossed, but cancelling voices is a slippery slope,\" according to Hollywood Reporter, which has published the letter in full.\n\nSpotify will also commit $100m (£74m) for the licensing, development, and marketing of music and audio content from historically marginalised groups, according to Ek's letter. He said this is aimed at elevating \"all types of creators\".\n\nSeveral artists including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell recently quit Spotify in protest at what they allege is Rogan's role in spreading coronavirus misinformation.\n\nOn the show, the US broadcaster hosts a wide variety of guests who discuss their views on a range of topics - but some episodes have featured false and misleading claims.\n\nMuch of the controversy regards two recent episodes of Rogan's podcast, which featured the cardiologist Dr Peter McCullough and immunologist/virologist Dr Robert Malone.\n\nBoth expressed views that were contrary to the information provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\n\nRogan denied trying to spread misinformation, saying he had \"never tried to do anything with this podcast other than just talk to people\". But he also admitted \"absolutely I get things wrong\", and backed Spotify's plan to put a disclaimer at the start of controversial episodes.\n\nA week ago Rogan pledged to try harder to offer more balanced views on his podcast, following the criticism.\n\nSpotify is thought to have paid more than $100m (£74m) for exclusive rights to the podcast in 2020.", "Kirsty says she has found coping mechanisms, but would still like a cure for tinnitus\n\nThe UK urgently needs a biobank library of human tissue samples so experts can study and find better treatments, or a cure, for \"ringing in the ears\", says the British Tinnitus Association (BTA).\n\nMore than seven million adults in the UK are thought to have tinnitus.\n\nThis stressful and upsetting condition of hearing whooshing, buzzing or other intensely annoying sounds with no external source is poorly understood.\n\nFor some, it becomes difficult or impossible to lead a normal life.\n\nA survey by the charity, carried out in November with 2,600 people with tinnitus, suggests almost one in 10 living with the condition has experienced thoughts about suicide or self-harm in the past two years.\n\nOne in three thought about their condition every hour - causing them anxiety and sadness.\n\nKirsty Stewart, from Hampshire, was 28 when she developed tinnitus.\n\n\"At first, it sounded like a lawn-mower. I thought maybe a neighbour was doing their lawn, but they weren't. It was really bizarre.\"\n\nKirsty tried to ignore it, but the sound was persistent and then it changed to something even more distressing for her.\n\n\"It became a loud piercing ringing noise. It was so bad and loud that I couldn't escape it. It was constant. It was like torture.\"\n\nShe says it took a massive toll on her wellbeing.\n\n\"It sent my whole life crashing in. I stopped eating, seeing friends and family, and I didn't feel able to work because I couldn't concentrate.\n\n\"It got so bad that I spoke to my mum about not wanting to be here any more. I was so desperate.\"\n\nThe BTA says other people with tinnitus share similar experiences of feeling isolated, debilitated and stressed.\n\nIt has published the survey findings in a new report.\n\nAs one of the respondents confided: \"You don't like telling people, because you think that they will think you are crazy. And you don't want to bring people down with you when you are down and stressed with the noise 24/7.\"\n\nAnother said: \"It has made me feel that large parts of my life were stolen from me.\n\n\"From my ability to go to concerts or to enjoy music ever again, to having to give up my daily and nightly meditation practice to being fearful of any and all loud noises.\"\n\nKirsty saw a doctor who referred her to a specialist experienced with managing tinnitus. She says she has found ways to cope with the noises she still hears in both ears. Kirsty says counselling and reflexology have helped her adjust.\n\nMalcolm Hilton, an ear, nose and throat expert at University of Exeter's Medical School, says a national biobank for tinnitus would be massively beneficial, and might reveal better ways for managing the condition.\n\n\"There are many treatments available for tinnitus and it is disappointing that people still come away with the message that they have to 'learn to live with it' without support. The main issue is that there is usually no 'quick fix' and different treatment approaches are needed for different people,\" he said.\n\nHead of the BTA, David Stockdale, said: \"We know that developing cures for any condition takes time and so we need to make headway in tinnitus research.\"\n\nThe charity has information, tips and support for people affected by tinnitus.\n\nThings you can try to help cope include:\n• None BBC Two - What can I do about tinnitus?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shaun Russell's wife Lin was murdered with daughter Megan (centre) and nine-year-old Josie (right) was badly injured\n\nThe alleged confession from the man who murdered schoolgirl Millie Dowler that he also killed a mother and her young daughter is to be examined.\n\nLevi Bellfield says he murdered Lin Russell and Megan, aged six, in Kent in 1996, according to the lawyer of the man convicted of their murders.\n\nMichael Stone was found guilty in 1998 but always said he was innocent.\n\nThe Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) said it would review the evidence once it received it.\n\nLin Russell and her daughters Megan and Josie, then nine, were attacked as they walked along a country lane in Chillenden, before being bound, blindfolded and bludgeoned with a claw hammer.\n\nIt was only when an officer at the scene noticed Josie move they realised she had survived the attack.\n\nBellfield's former partner had given an alibi for him, claiming on the day of the murders in Kent, he was in London with her celebrating her birthday.\n\nBut Bellfield now claims they went out not on her actual birthday but on another day.\n\nLevi Bellfield will never be released from prison after being convicted of three murders and one attempted murder\n\nThe CCRC has been re-examining the evidence since 2017, including suggestions Bellfield had a stronger link to the Chillenden area than was previously thought.\n\nIt has also completed further forensic tests on fragments of a bloody bootlace found near the scene of the murders.\n\nThese were inconclusive when it came to linking Bellfield to the killings and the CCRC told Stone's lawyers there was insufficient evidence to send the case back to the Court of Appeal.\n\nIn an attempt to clear Stone's name, his lawyers have been meeting Bellfield in prison.\n\nBellfield is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Millie, who went missing from Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in 2002.\n\nHe has also been convicted of murdering Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange, and of the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, and will never be considered for parole.\n\nBellfield gave Stone's lawyers a signed confession which was made public on Sunday.\n\nHe gave details about the murders and the actions he took afterwards to clean himself and up and remove DNA evidence from his car.\n\nMichael Stone was convicted of two counts of murder and one of attempted murder\n\nStone's solicitor Paul Bacon confirmed he had been given the letter by Bellfield and told the BBC: \"I genuinely think if the police visit Levi Bellfield in prison, he will make a full statement under caution and I believe if he's charged he'll plead guilty and the matter will be resolved.\"\n\nIn a statement, the CCRC said it would carefully analyse material from Stone's legal team once it receives the material.\n\n\"We remain in close contact with Kent Police on this case to ensure the Russell family is kept fully informed of any developments,\" it said.\n\n\"Once the review of all material is complete, the CCRC will then determine whether there is a real possibility the Court of Appeal would quash Mr Stone's conviction.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police keep a watchful eye on protesters in Ottawa on Sunday\n\nThe mayor of Canada's capital, Ottawa, has declared a state of emergency in response to more than a week of truckers' protests against Covid restrictions.\n\nJim Watson said the city was \"losing this battle\" and \"completely out of control\".\n\nHe added the protests posed a threat to residents' safety. There have also been reports of racial attacks.\n\nOttawa's centre has been paralysed, with vehicles and tents blocking roads.\n\nThe \"Freedom Convoy\" was sparked by the introduction last month of a new rule that all truckers must be vaccinated to cross the US-Canada border, but the protests have morphed into broader challenges to Covid health restrictions.\n\nThe protesters have since gathered in central Ottawa near Parliament Hill, and their demands have grown to include ending all such mandates nationwide and opposing the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\n\nSpeaking to Canadian radio station CFRA, Mr Watson said the protesters were behaving increasingly \"insensitively\" by continuously \"blaring horns and sirens, [setting off] fireworks and turning it into a party\".\n\n\"Clearly, we are outnumbered and we are losing this battle,\" he said, adding: \"This has to be reversed - we have to get our city back.\"\n\nThe mayor did not give specific details about what measures he might impose, but police said on Sunday that they would step up enforcement, including possible arrests of those seeking to aid the protesters by bringing them supplies like fuel, toilet paper and food.\n\nA state of emergency will give the city additional powers, including access to equipment required by frontline workers and emergency services.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The protests began as a movement against vaccination requirements\n\nMany Ottawa residents have objected to the demonstrations.\n\nComplaints range from idling trucks that impede traffic and makeshift wooden structures in city parks to lost income and fears of harassment and even violence.\n\nPolice have said they are concerned about how the convoy has attracted far-right and extremist elements, and on Sunday confirmed they were dealing with more than 60 criminal investigations, with alleged offences including \"mischief, thefts, hate crimes and property damage\".\n\n\"There have been racist signs, there have been a lot of reports of people being assaulted and harassed if they wear a mask,\" Stephanie Carvon, Ottawa resident and former national security analyst for the Canadian government told the BBC.\n\nShe added that some organisers of the protest held extremist views, but had \"successfully framed their actions in the name of the pandemic and ending the mandates, so they've earned the sympathy of a lot of Canadians who may not necessarily realise where this has come from\".\n\nOne demonstrator who drove for hours to join the protest in Ottawa, Kimberly Ball, told the AFP news agency that the protest was \"about our freedom\".\n\n\"A couple of people we know, friends, lost their jobs because of these mandates,\" she said, adding she had concerns about the safety and effectiveness of Covid vaccines.\n\nCovid-19 vaccines have cut the risk of severe illness in those infected with the virus and serious side effects are extremely rare. More than 80% of the eligible population is fully vaccinated and a recent poll showed a majority of Canadians favoured imposing more restrictions on the unvaccinated.\n\nA recent opinion poll by Abacus Data suggested 68% of Canadians felt they had \"very little in common\" with the protesters, while 32% said they \"had a lot in common\" with the truckers.\n\nProtests frequently bring people together around points of legitimate political debate - how tough or long Covid restrictions should be or whether vaccination should be mandatory.\n\nScratch the surface, though, and you can quickly find more extreme views and misinformation like that shared by the convoy's organisers.\n\nVideos from 2019 show organiser Pat King discussing a plot for a \"depopulation of the Caucasian race… the ones with the strongest bloodlines\".\n\nMeanwhile, online groups with tens of thousands of followers shared posts criticising the police's handling of the convoy alongside false claims the Covid vaccine was \"poison\" and a fake report that New Zealand was planning to introduce the vaccine to its water supply.\n\nPeople joining groups in sympathy with truckers' stated grievances, for example against vaccine mandates, can quickly find themselves exposed to these more fringe or misleading sources of information.", "Gracie-Ann Wheaton has been named as the four-year-old who died following the crash\n\nA four-year-old girl who died after a crash on the M4 has been named as Gracie-Ann Wheaton.\n\nIn a tribute, her cousin said the family was \"heartbroken\".\n\nFour people were taken to hospital after the incident involving a car and a van on the M4 near Newport on Saturday, with a boy, three, still in a critical condition.\n\nMartin Newman, 41, of Croeserw, Neath Port Talbot, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nGracie-Ann, from Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, died early on Sunday morning. A woman also remains in hospital in a stable condition and a man injured in the crash has since been discharged.\n\nGracie-Ann's cousin Tiffany Lucas said: \"We're all heartbroken.\n\n\"The community has been wonderful and are trying to help the family out.\n\n\"It's been unbelievable the support we've had.\"\n\nFamily described Gracie-Ann as \"wonderful\" and \"creative\"\n\nDescribing her as a \"wonderful\" and \"creative\" four-year-old Gracie-Ann's family said she had been returning from a birthday party when the crash happened.\n\nShe was taken to the intensive care unit of Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales, but suffered a cardiac arrest due to the severity of her injuries.\n\nCousin Jamie Lucas, 19, from Abergavenny, said: \"I'm just trying to wrap my head around the fact that she's gone. It's hard to believe.\n\n\"She was so young. She had a bright future ahead of her. She was such a wonderful child.\n\nThere was heavy congestion on the M4 at J28 Tredegar Park, westbound after the crash\n\n\"I'm just lost for words really. How she was returning from a birthday party and all of a sudden she's gone.\n\n\"She was very smart, she was very creative. She had a really great imagination as well. She was just fantastic to be around.\"\n\nThe crash happened on the M4 westbound carriageway between junctions 28 and 29, prompting a huge emergency services response and causing the route to be closed for about seven hours.\n\nMr Newman appeared at Newport Magistrates' Court earlier. He has also been charged with two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and was remanded into custody to appear at Newport Crown Court on 21 February.\n• None M4 reopened as four in hospital after crash", "A 15-year-old girl has died after an incident at Ty Mawr Holiday Park, near Abergele, on Saturday\n\nA 15-year-old girl has died following a \"domestic disturbance\" at a holiday park.\n\nNorth Wales Police said a 19-year-old man had been arrested following a \"serious\" incident at Ty Mawr Holiday Park, near Abergele, on Saturday.\n\nDet Supt Mark Pierce said it was a \"tragic but isolated incident\".\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family who are being supported by specially trained officers at this time,\" he said.\n\nOn Saturday, bosses at the park in Conwy county said they were \"shocked and saddened by this tragic incident\" that took place inside a caravan \"which is now a crime scene\".\n\nDet Supt Pierce added: \"We would like to thank the staff and management of Ty Mawr, and members of the public both locally and those holidaying, for their support whilst we carry out our investigations.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family who are being supported by specially trained officers at this time.\"", "What would get you out of your car?\n\nTricky when you think most journeys in Scotland are made by car, according to Scottish Transport Statistics 2020.\n\nBut the Scottish government plans to slash car journey distances by 20% by 2030. It's to tackle climate change. Because domestic transport, including car travel, makes up Scotland's biggest chunk of emissions.\n\nThe plans are in a \"route map\". So what do you think? What do you want?\n\nI've been to southern Scotland to ask just that.\n\nAnd among the ideas and suggestions are win-win solutions, for both people and planet.\n\nImproving access to cycling is part of the government proposal. So I've met up with Aneela McKenna. As we cycle the path in Galashiels, she explains it's great that action on climate change is being taken, but people can't be left behind.\n\nShe describes herself as a diversity campaigner for cycling, working with a number of cycle groups including women, refugees, people of colour and young girls.\n\nAneela McKenna, left, cycles this route regularly but feels unsafe using it when it is dark\n\nAnd she explains one of the barriers to cycling is around safety, which for her is crucial to address to get people out of their cars and on their bikes. Better accessibility and signage too on paths.\n\nShe says: \"If you look around you and at the surroundings, this path is very narrow, and you can see that there's no lighting. And for me as a woman and a woman of colour, I don't feel safe to use the path when it's dark, and it's at night…\n\n\"What would make me feel safe is some lighting, some lighting would be fantastic. I'd love to see the path widened as well. So, when you're passing people, again, you feel safe, comfortable.\n\n\"And even if you just look at actually brightening up the environment itself, it might bring the communities here.\"\n\nIt's not just cycling - the Scottish government plans also include investment in bus and train travel. On Biggar high street I met a group of public transport campaigners.\n\nThese campaigners in Biggar believe much still needs to be done to make alternatives to the car attractive\n\n\"Having the ability to travel easily? It's going to be a massive win for anyone that's not able to travel and especially young people who can't or who don't know how to drive yet and don't want to be inconveniencing their parents all the time,\" 17-year-old school student Jake explains to me.\n\nFor people - such as him and his peers - who are aged under 22, the provision of nationwide free bus travel is part of the plan to get us out of our cars. But Jake doesn't think it solves the whole problem.\n\nHe says: \"I think it's about regularity to make the buses usable… a minimum really every hour… In cities… if buses are cancelled or aren't turning up, you've got another one in 20 minutes, if not sooner. Whereas somewhere rural like this, if you're missing a bus that's you having to wait around for a long amount of time.\"\n\nImproving online services so we don't have to travel so much and having neighbourhoods where your everyday needs are met locally within a 20-minute walk, wheel or cycle from home are also in the proposals.\n\nBut for Jen Crighton, a mum-of-four, it's all very well if you're in town, but what if you live rurally?\n\n\"My ideal scenario, most recently would have been if I had managed to get social housing within Biggar,\" she says. \"I was quite prepared to give my car up at that point because there's better links in Biggar itself… Where I live just now my car is an essential.\n\n\"So most of my remaining budget, anything at the end of the month has to go on my car and making sure that my car stays on the road. It's not only just school and social aspects, it's medical.\"\n\nAnother part of the action plan is to invest in more active travel routes that are safe to use and accessible. And that includes walking.\n\nThelma Ingram tells me she stopped driving seven years ago because of increasing sight loss. She wants this move for the environment to also work for her and others in similar positions.\n\nShe says improving accessibility to public transport and walkways would give her more independence.\n\n\"I have severe difficulties moving about certain environments here and in Biggar and will have in other towns because we do not have good pavements or crossings,\" she says. \"I would like things to be designed for people who are disabled rather than us being an after-thought which we very often are.\"\n\nAt the moment, to get to hospital appointments, it would take her four hours by public transport there and back, she explains. She puts this down to poor connections. So design for her, from timetabling to vehicles, is crucial.\n\n\"I'm a great fan of Edinburgh tram,\" she says. \"And the reason is it's the most easy piece of transport to use. It's level access… there are announcements, it's very clear where I'm going. And it is possible to get somewhere very quickly.\n\n\"And I think that kind of model needs to be thought about not necessarily a tram, but just basically designing things so that the passenger is accounted for and not just shoved about, as if they were a piece of luggage.\"\n\nThe Scottish government says the \"route map\" contains more than 30 interventions which cover many of the opinions covered, including active travel, accessibility, public transport and 20-minute neighbourhoods.\n\nThe option to have a say on cutting car travel and climate change is in place until 6 April.", "The 15-year-old girl died after an incident at Ty Mawr Holiday Park, near Abergele\n\nA man has been charged with murdering a 15-year-old girl who died following a \"domestic disturbance\" at a holiday park.\n\nNorth Wales Police said Matthew Selby, 19, from Greater Manchester, had been charged after the incident at Ty Mawr Holiday Park near Abergele, Conwy county, on Saturday.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and will appear before magistrates on Tuesday.\n\nPark bosses said they were \"shocked and saddened by this tragic incident\".\n\nOn Sunday, Det Supt Mark Pierce said it was a \"tragic but isolated incident\".", "Asda has promised to stock its budget ranges in all 581 supermarkets and online after complaints from anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe.\n\nThe retailer said it had \"taken on board\" her comments about availability of cheaper food for households struggling to make ends meet.\n\nShe had highlighted Asda in tweets critical about value ranges removed from shelves or going up in price.\n\nIn response to Asda's move, Ms Monroe tweeted: \"Well, that went rather well.\"\n\nAsda currently stocks 150 Smart Price and Farm Stores products in 300 stores.\n\nAll 200 products in these value ranges will now be available in all Asda stores by 1 March, said Meg Farren, Asda's chief customer officer.\n\n\"We want to help our customers' budgets stretch further and have taken on board the comments about the availability of our Smart Price range made by Jack Monroe.\n\nJack Monroe has said value products have to be universally available\n\n\"We are taking steps to put our full Smart Price and Farm Stores ranges in store and online to make these products as accessible as possible,\" Ms Farren said.\n\nRising inflation and the cost of living crisis is hitting low-income households particularly hard.\n\nMs Monroe, an activist and blogger on how to eat on a budget, says the cost of food staples such as cheap pasta and rice are going up in price faster than other products.\n\nShe criticised Asda for discontinuing some budget products, such as a bag of rice sold online for 45p and replaced with rice costing a minimum of £1.20. Her Twitter thread details many other Asda products no longer available in her local store, where she is a regular shopper.\n\nIn one tweet she said supermarket value products had to be \"universally available, or it's as good as useless\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jack Monroe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Sunday, the chairman of Tesco, John Allan, told the BBC that the worst of food price inflation is to come, with prices likely to rise by 5% by April.\n\nBut he said food costs make up a bigger proportion of spending for households on low-incomes, so it will hit the \"hardest up harder\".\n\nMs Monroe has been critical of the way the official UK inflation rate - currently at a 30-year high of 5.4% - is calculated, saying it does not reflect the higher cost of food staples bought by poorer people.\n\nEarlier this month, the Office for National Statistics, which publishes the monthly inflation figure, said it would also publish a wider variety of \"cost of living metrics\" to better reflect the impact of price rises on households.", "British airlines have been banned from landing at Russia's airports and from crossing its airspace, the Russian civil aviation regulator has said.\n\nRussia said the move was a response to \"the unfriendly decisions by the UK aviation authorities\".\n\nOn Thursday, the UK banned Russia's national airline Aeroflot from landing in Britain.\n\nThe measure was part of sanctions introduced following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told ITV: \"I think that's their retaliation for us yesterday banning Aeroflot from using and landing in the United Kingdom. That's their tit for tat response.\"\n\nRussia's civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia said the measure was taken \"as a response to unfriendly decisions by the UK aviation authorities regarding the restriction on regular flights of aircraft owned, leased or operated by a person associated with Russia or registered in Russia\".\n\nBritish Airways said in a statement it was notifying customers on cancelled services and would offer full refunds.\n\n\"We apologise for the inconvenience but this is clearly a matter beyond our control,\" the airline said.\n\nBritish Airways normally operates three flights per week each way between London and Moscow.\n\nFollowing Russia's announcement, Virgin Atlantic also said flight paths had been adjusted for some of its services between the UK, Pakistan and India. Flight times on these routes will be extended by between 15 minutes and an hour.\n\nVirgin Atlantic apologised for the delays, adding: \"The safety and security of our customers and people always comes first and we're monitoring the situation in Ukraine and Russia extremely carefully following the escalation of conflict.\"\n\nVirgin Atlantic's cargo-only flights between London Heathrow and Shanghai, which normally operate four times a week, have also been suspended.\n\nTracking data from Flightradar24 showed BA and Virgin Atlantic between Delhi, Islamabad and London are taking southern routes to avoid Russian airspace.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Flightradar24 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nData provider Cirium said Aeroflot and British Airways were the only carriers to have flown passengers between the UK and Russia over the past week.\n\nIn the past seven days, there had been a total of 24 passenger flights scheduled between the UK and Russia.\n\nIn January, there were 93 passenger flights scheduled between the two countries.\n\nIn a further blow to Aeroflot, football club Manchester United terminated their sponsorship deal with the Russian airline.\n\nAeroflot had been United's official carrier since 2013 and the latest deal was due to run until 2023.\n\nUnited renewed the deal in 2015, signing a five-year extension reported to be worth $40m (£29.9m).\n\nAeroflot has been running more passenger services between the UK and Russia than British Airways. So in that regard, it is more affected than its British counterpart.\n\nHowever, Russia banning British airlines from crossing its airspace means re-routing some flights, adding time and fuel costs.\n\nIt is not just about passenger services. Virgin Atlantic is still not sure if it will be able to re-route its cargo-only flights to China.\n\nOne analyst told me that overall, the impact would be less than if it had happened before the pandemic. But they added that the issues could come where airlines had planned to restart routes, as the network returned to normal.\n\nUkraine's airspace closed on Thursday after Russian forces launched a military invasion of the country.\n\nMoldova also said it was closing its airspace and Belarus shut part of its airspace on Thursday.\n\nPolish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday that his government would also prepare a resolution which will result in closing Poland's airspace for Russian airlines.\n\nThe European Union Aviation Safety Agency has warned of safety risks in flying in airspace near to Ukraine's borders, including in Russia.\n\n\"There is a risk of both intentional targeting and misidentification of civil aircraft,\" the regulator said on Thursday.\n\n\"The presence and possible use of a wide range of ground and airborne warfare systems poses a high risk for civil flights operating at all altitudes and flight levels.\"\n\nThe US Federal Aviation Administration has also expanded the area where it says US airlines cannot operate in and near Ukraine.\n\nPrior to Ukraine closing its airspace on Thursday, some carriers had already decided to divert flights from the region.\n\nDutch operator KLM was the first major airline to suspend flights to the capital Kyiv on 14 February and German airline Lufthansa followed.\n\nRyanair, the largest airline which flies between Europe and Ukraine, continued operating flights until Ukraine closed the airspace. Wizz Air, the second largest operator of flights between those routes. also stopped services on Thursday.\n\nThe industry is alert to the risks posed since the passenger flight MH17 was shot down in Ukraine airspace in 2014.\n\nA missile brought down the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane killing all 298 people on board. It was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.\n\nIt came amid heavy fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass region, which had just declared independence.\n\nInternational investigators tracked the missile that was used to Russia, which has denied any involvement.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe 2022 Champions League final will be played in Paris after Russia was stripped of the match following the nation's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe final of Europe's most prestigious club competition was due to be played in St Petersburg on 28 May.\n\nMeanwhile, Russia's Formula 1 Grand Prix, due to take place in Sochi in September, has been cancelled.\n\nF1 says it is \"impossible\" to hold the event in \"the current circumstances\".\n\nInternational sports federations should move or cancel their sports events currently planned in Russia or Belarus, says the International Olympic Committee.\n• None What sanctions are being imposed on Russia?\n\nWhat else is happening in sport?\n• Oleksandr Zinchenko to show support for his country and may face Everton at the weekend, while West Ham's Ukraine winger Andriy Yarmolenko has been given some time off by the club\n• None Uefa is looking to end its major £30m-a-year sponsorship deal with Russian state-run gas giant Gazprom\n• Vitali Klitschko said he was prepared to fight in a \"bloody war\" alongside his brother Wladimir Klitschko\n• Daniil Medvedev, soon to be the world's leading men's player, said hearing the news of his nation's invasion was \"not easy\" and wants to \"promote peace all over the world\"\n• Andrey Rublev, Hubert Hurkacz to reach the final of the Dubai Tennis Championships, signing a TV camera lens on court with the words \"no war please\"\n• None Banners stating 'No a la guerra' - which translates to 'No to war' - will be displayed at all matches in the top two divisions of Spanish football this weekend\n• Haas - a company owned by Dmitry Mazepin, a close associate of Vladimir Putin - from their equipment during the final day of pre-season testing in Barcelona. Mazepin's son, Nikita, is one of Haas' drivers\n• Elina Svitolina for help to \"stop the war\"\n• None World Cup 2023 qualifiers involving Netherlands v Russia on 27 February and Great Britain v Belarus that was scheduled a day later\n\nUefa said the Champions League final would not be held at the Gazprom Arena and would move to the Stade de France in Paris instead.\n\nUefa thanked French President Emmanuel Macron for \"his personal support and commitment\" to have the game moved to France at \"a time of unparalleled crisis\".\n\nIt added: \"Together with the French government, Uefa will fully support multi-stakeholder efforts to ensure the provision of rescue for football players and their families in Ukraine who face dire human suffering, destruction and displacement.\"\n\nIt is the third year running the venue of the Champions League final has been moved - the previous two due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe decision to strip St Petersburg of the final has been criticised by Russian sporting and political officials.\n\nWhat was the reaction to Uefa decision?\n\nManchester United interim manager Ralf Rangnick, whose side are in the Champions League last 16, said it was \"inevitable\" and the \"right\" decision.\n\nChelsea boss Thomas Tuchel, who led the club owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich to last season's Champions League title, agreed.\n\n\"Sadly I think it's the worst reason to change location. This is not good news but it had to happen. There are things more important [than football],\" said the German.\n\nWhile expressing his sorrow at the situation, Paris St-Germain coach Mauricio Pochettino said the final being held in the French capital would provide \"extra motivation\" in the club's bid to become European champions for the first time.\n\nRussian Football Union (RFU) president Alexander Dyukov, who serves on the Uefa executive committee and is the chief executive of Gazprom subsidiary Gazprom Neft, said he \"could not support\" the move.\n\n\"We believe the decision was dictated by political reasons. The RFU has always adhered to the principle of 'sport is out of politics',\" he said.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov added: \"It's a shame that such a decision has been made. St Petersburg could have provided all favourable conditions to hold this festival of soccer.\"\n\nLabour's Lucy Powell, the shadow culture secretary, agreed it was a \"welcome step\".\n\nAt its emergency meeting on Friday, Uefa also ordered Russian and Ukrainian clubs and national teams to play their home matches away from the region \"until further notice\".\n\nSpartak Moscow are the only Russian team left in European club competition this season and have been drawn against German side RB Leipzig in the last 16 of the Europa League.\n\nThat decision was also criticised by Russian football's president Alexander Dyukov as \"violating the sports principle and infringing on the interests of players, coaches and fans\".\n\nRussia and Ukraine are both scheduled to play 2022 men's World Cup play-off matches in March, with world governing body Fifa saying on Thursday it was monitoring the situation in the region.\n\nRussia are due to host Poland in Moscow on 24 March, while Ukraine travel to Scotland on the same day.\n\nIn the statement announcing its decisions, Uefa did not mention its long-term relationship with Russian state-run gas giant Gazprom.\n\nGazprom is one of Uefa's major sponsors in a deal worth about £30m each year.\n\nBut BBC Sport understands Uefa is taking legal advice as it looks at ways to end the association, which began in 2012, after recognising the concerns around the company.\n\nAs well as holding the naming rights for St Petersburg's 68,000-capacity stadium, Gazprom is also the main sponsor of German club Schalke.\n\nSchalke announced on Thursday the logo of the company would be removed from the club's shirts.\n\nAlex Phillips, a former Uefa executive and now an independent adviser to Fifa, said Uefa will have to \"seriously revise who they accept sponsorships with\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"When I was at Uefa I was head of compliance and I wrote a series of regulations recommending that this sort of relationship should be, at the very least, out in the open and regulated.\"\n• None Watch the trailer for the extraordinary new series of Killing Eve", "I woke at 03:00 and checked the news, and realised my son and I had to leave Kyiv.\n\nTanks were bearing down on the city from the north, and from other directions. It was clear that the Russian military was attempting to encircle the city and would soon be in it.\n\nAir raid warnings had told us there was a danger of attacks until 08:00. And 30 minutes after checking the news I heard distant explosions.\n\nOn Thursday many people were driving out of Kyiv to the west - towards the western city of Lviv and the Polish border.\n\nI called my husband, who is away from home at present, and made a plan to drive east, to his parents' village in the depths of the Ukrainian countryside. We made this decision partly for our 10-year-old son, who spent Thursday shaking with fear.\n\nI started packing. How much do you take when you don't know when you will return? I packed swimming costumes, in case we will still be in the country in summer. We set off at 07:30, soon after the lifting of the curfew, and drove east through Kyiv and out the other side.\n\nThe roads were empty in the direction I was travelling. Outside the city we passed Ukrainian tanks, heading in the opposite direction, towards Kyiv.\n\nI didn't know whether I would meet Russian forces, or run into a roadblock. I was really focused, thinking to myself, \"We need to get there. We need to get there.\"\n\nI stopped periodically to check my phone and learned that street fighting was reported in Obolon, a northern suburb of Kyiv. Colleagues living there were going to attempt to leave.\n\nThese terrible things were happening, yet it was a beautiful sunny morning, with the first signs of spring in the countryside. It was completely surreal.\n\nAfter a couple of hours we reached the village. I drove past the mulberry tree where last summer we were so happy gathering fruit. Today I was happy again but in a completely different way - happy to have got out of Kyiv, happy to be alive, happy to have arrived with my son in a place of safety.\n\nWith my in-laws, I ate properly for the first time in 24 hours - a comforting bowl of borshch. The talk here is of which men have gone to fight with the territorial army, but it is very quiet, and I hope it will remain so.\n\nI have an internet connection here and can work. If the electricity is cut, we have a generator.\n\nMy main priority is the safety of my BBC colleagues, some of whom are looking for places to stay outside Kyiv with friends and family. I have issued invitations to my parents-in-law's village, where there are empty houses whose owners would be glad for them to be used.\n\nWe are off the main road, and I am hoping that Russian tanks will never come here.\n\nWhen I will return to my home in Kyiv, and whether it will be standing when I get there, it is impossible to know.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Warning shots are fired to disperse crowds trying to flee at Kyiv train station\n\nA defiant Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged European countries to do more to help as he urged his citizens to halt Russia's invasion.\n\nThe second day of fighting saw tanks enter the capital, Kyiv, for the first time.\n\nUkrainian officials said they have handed out 18,000 guns to volunteers, as well as issuing instructions on how to make petrol bombs.\n\nAnalysts suggest Russia's advance has been slowed by fierce resistance.\n\nA senior US official told Reuters news agency that Russia had encountered more resistance than anticipated, robbing the Russian force of momentum.\n\nVolunteers with no combat experience have been seen queueing to join the Ukrainian defence, while age restrictions for joining the army have been dropped.\n\nThe UK's Chief of Defence Intelligence, Sir Jim Hockenhull, said that Russian forces continue to advance towards the capital - but that Ukrainian Armed Forces \"continue to offer strong resistance, focusing on the defence of key cities\".\n\nRussia is continuing its assault from the north, south and east.\n\nThe US, UK and EU have all levied financial punishment on Moscow, but stopped short of removing Russia from the international banking system, Swift.\n\nHowever, Mr Zelensky said Western nations - and nearby Europe in particular - must go further and \"act without delay\".\n\n\"Europe has enough strength to stop this aggression,\" he said.\n\n\"The columns of tanks and the air strikes are very similar to what Europe saw a long time ago, during WW2 - something about which it said 'never again',\" he said. \"But here it is, again. Now, in 2022. 75 years after World War Two ended.\"\n\nHe said all counter-measures must be considered - including throwing Russia out of Swift, imposing visa bans and closing airspace to Russia.\n\nThe Ukrainian president's appeal came as Russia offered talks with Ukraine for the first time since the crisis began, but under restrictive conditions. Mr Zelensky has been seeking talks with Vladimir Putin since before the invasion began.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia was prepared for talks with Ukraine, but only in the context of \"demilitarisation\" and about Ukraine's \"neutral status\".\n\nRussia has said that Ukraine can never be allowed to join the Nato military alliance, a long-held ambition of Ukraine's.\n\nRussia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, said earlier that no talks could take place until Ukraine's military laid down its arms.\n\nBut President Zelensky has given no indication that he would accept talks under those conditions.\n\nAddressing the armed forces, Mr Zelensky said: \"Stand strong. You are all that we have. You are all that is protecting our state.\"\n\nNato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, meanwhile, said the alliance would continue to supply weapons to Ukraine and would is deploying thousands of troops to Europe to shore up defences of member nations.\n\nA solider inspects the remains of a plane shot down over the Ukrainian capital, Kiev\n\nVladimir Putin responded with his own speech, suggesting that Ukrainian forces should turn against and overthrow Mr Zelensky's government.\n\nRepeating an often-used baseless allegation that Mr Zelensky - a Jewish man - is a \"neo-Nazi\", Mr Putin also labelled the Ukrainian leadership as terrorists and drug dealers.\n\nHe accused Ukraine of installing missiles and other heavy weaponry in civilian buildings, using residents as human shields, which he said was based on advice from foreign - particularly US - advisers.\n\nBut global human rights group Amnesty International said it was Russia, not Ukraine, that was showing \"a blatant disregard for civilian lives\".\n\nThe charity said that Mr Putin's claim of precise strikes on military targets was false, and Russia was \"using ballistic missiles and other explosive weapons with wide area effects in densely populated areas\".\n\nStrikes have hit hospitals, among other targets that Amnesty said \"can constitute war crimes\".\n\nAs we head out on to the streets of Kyiv, we find men in trainers and jeans with rifles slung across their backs - manning checkpoints, or hidden in the trees on the side of the road behind anti-tank weapons.\n\nAs we push on further, we find professional soldiers braced for a last stand. They are accompanied by Ukrainian artillery and tanks facing the Russian position, less than 30km (19 miles) from the heart of the capital.\n\nAnd we soon find signs of the battle drawing even nearer with a truck ablaze in the middle of the road.\n\nAround the corner, my colleague Abdujalil Abdurasulov and I find Olena's family, a group of five.\n\nThey've got a flat tyre at the worst possible time. They frantically try to change it as they bundle a baby into the back seat.\n\n\"We're really afraid\", Olena's mother tells us, before another loud bang silences everyone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC’s Nick Beake and his team met one family trying to flee the capital\n\nAs I ask her what she thinks of President Putin's attack on her country, an even louder blast pierces the air. She lifts her arms up and says: \"You hear that, that was him.\"\n\nAs we drive on, we spot soldiers lined along wide ridges crossing the river Dnipro. Some Ukrainian snipers are lying on their fronts, looking down their sights.\n\nWe see the faces of young men, understandably anxious. There is an undoubted fear it could be just a matter of hours before the Russians confront them face to face and try to seize their capital.\n\nTens of thousands are believed to have fled from the major cities. The United Nations refugee agency estimated on Thursday that more than 100,000 people had left their homes, and up to five million could be displaced by the invasion over time.\n\nEuropean nations are preparing for an influx of refugees, and a steady stream of people - mainly families - have arrived by car and on foot at the borders of neighbouring EU members Poland and Hungary.\n\nThe UN's refugee commissioner, Filippo Grandi, said more than 50,000 had left the country in the previous 48 hours - most to Poland and Moldova.\n\nThe European Union agreed to freeze personal assets belonging to Mr Putin and Mr Lavrov - though it is not clear if either have significant assets inside the EU. The UK said it would also put personal sanctions on both men \"imminently\", but did not provide details.\n\nLater in the day, the United States also said it would take similar action against both men. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that precise details would come later, but that a travel ban blocking entry to the US would be a standard part of such sanctions.\n\nRussia has also been banned from cultural and sporting events as a result of the invasion.\n\nIt was excluded from the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, with organisers saying Russia's presence could being the competition into disrepute.\n\nThe Formula 1 motor race in Sochi, Russia in September has now been cancelled, and Paris will host the European football Champions League final, not St Petersburg.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wallace: We'd like to throw Russia out of Swift banking system\n\nBritish troops will not be sent to Ukraine to fight Russia, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has confirmed.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Wallace said Ukraine would instead be supported to \"fight every street with every piece of equipment we can get to them\".\n\nRussia launched its invasion of Ukraine on Thursday morning and its forces have now advanced on the capital Kyiv.\n\nMr Wallace said Russia failed in its main objectives on the first day of its offensive, losing 450 of its troops.\n\nOver the past month, UK government ministers have repeatedly stressed that UK troops would be unlikely to take part in action within Ukraine.\n\nMr Wallace explained that sending UK troops to fight in Ukraine - an ally of the UK but not a member of the Nato military alliance it is part of - would trigger a European war.\n\nHe said the UK had \"done the next best thing, which is to train more than 20,000 Ukrainians, provided them with lethal capabilities, which they are using right now\".\n\nSince the invasion began in the early hours of Thursday, 194 Ukrainians - including 57 civilians - have been killed, Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday morning, pledging more support in coming days.\n\nMr Zelensky said Ukraine \"needs the support of partners more than ever\" and called for stronger sanctions.\n\nKyiv was hit by blasts overnight and tanks have been filmed entering the city for the first time.\n\nFighting has also been raging at an airfield on Kyiv's outskirts and there have been reports of gunfire inside the city. Mr Zelensky has appealed to Russia for a ceasefire.\n\nMeanwhile, UN estimates suggested more than 100,000 people have already fled their homes in Ukraine. Overnight, at least 1,000 Ukrainians arrived by train in Poland's south-eastern city of Przemysl alone.\n\nMr Heappey told the House of Commons that further troops were being sent to Estonia earlier than planned to help the Nato ally. A total of 1,000 troops are on standby to help Ukraine's neighbouring countries handle refugees fleeing Ukraine.\n\nA Royal Navy destroyer, HMS Diamond, has set sail to be on standby in the eastern Mediterranean. The Type 45 destroyer is joining offshore patrol vessel HMS Trent, with four additional RAF Typhoon jets being deployed to Cyprus to take part in patrols.\n\nHMS Diamond has also left Portsmouth Naval Base as part of the UK's response to support Nato countries in eastern Europe.\n\nMr Heappey said \"British and Nato troops should not [and] must not play an active role\" and that any miscalculation could escalate quickly.\n\nMembers of the Ukrainian National Guard in Kyiv on Friday\n\nMr Wallace warned Russian President Vladimir Putin would not stop after invading Ukraine.\n\nBut he said the decision not to \"put British service personnel in direct fighting\" was not about risk.\n\nThe defence secretary said: \"I'm not putting British troops directly to fight Russian troops. That would trigger a European war because we are a Nato country and Russia would therefore be attacking Nato.\"\n\nAsked about the possibility of a no-fly zone above Russia, he replied this would mean putting \"British fighter jets directly against Russian fighter jets\", adding: \"Nato would have to effectively declare war on Russia because that's what you would do.\"\n\nHe called Russia's assault a \"naked, aggressive, military invasion\" and said he believed diplomacy was currently \"absolutely off the table\".\n\nNato - the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - is a military alliance formed in 1949 by 12 countries, including the US, Canada, the UK and France.\n\nMembers agree to come to one another's aid in the event of an armed attack against any one member state, under its Article 5. Ukraine is not a member but wants to be - it is currently a Nato partner country, meaning there is an understanding it could be allowed to join in future.\n\nRussia had wanted assurances this would never be allowed to happen.\n\nThe UK imposed new sanctions on Russia on Thursday, including targeting major Russian banks and oligarchs.\n\nSanctions will also be applied to Belarus, a long-term ally of Russia, for its role in the assault on Ukraine. Russian military convoys crossed from Belarus into Ukraine's northern Chernihiv region.\n\nThe Belarus ambassador to the UK, Maxim Yermalovich, was summoned to the UK Foreign Office over the invasion.\n\nMinister for Europe and North America James Cleverly made clear Belarus had \"aided and abetted\" Russia's \"reckless aggression\", the Foreign Office said.\n\nMr Wallace also said work was under way to try to get the Swift international payment system \"turned off for Russia\". While that is the UK aim, the defence secretary said \"like so many things these are international organisations, and if not every country wants them to be thrown out of the Swift system, it becomes difficult\".\n\nThe prime minister is to use an extraordinary summit of leaders of Nato on Friday afternoon to press for Russia to be excluded from Swift, which allows financial transactions to be made around the world.\n\nThe UK Parliament is on standby to be recalled over the weekend as \"further measures\" and \"further sanctions\" are needed, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said.\n\nIn other developments on Friday, British airlines have been banned from travelling across Russian airspace or landing at its airports. It follows the UK decision to ban Russian airline Aeroflot from landing in the UK.", "This feels very much like the end of an era. In November 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down, we believed that the old division of the world into East versus West was just history. Because the ideological conflict between capitalism and Communism had evaporated, there was a feeling that we were all basically on the same side.\n\nThe trouble was, for Vladimir Putin, the one-time KGB officer based in East Germany, the collapse of the old Soviet Union seems to have morphed into a bitter personal resentment which grew worse as the years went by. The fact that Ukraine, once a key part of the USSR, broke away from the Russian Federation was an insult to everything Putin believed in.\n\nIt didn't matter that Russia had signed an international agreement accepting the boundaries of the new Ukrainian state. By 2014 President Putin had spotted a way of taking over Crimea, the most symbolically Russian part of Ukraine, by infiltrating his soldiers into the peninsula.\n\nThey blocked it off, and after holding a referendum of the mostly ethnic Russian population he turned it effectively into part of the Russian state. It was against international law, but the West still clung to the notion that it could do business with Putin's Russia.\n\nThere were speeches and sanctions, but nothing that made President Putin or his associates have serious second thoughts.\n\nThe same thing happened when Putin's enemies, or people the old KGB and its successor the FSB, regarded as traitors, were poisoned, shot or otherwise disposed of in Britain and Europe. The West issued warnings and imposed new sanctions, but Putin's Russia was prepared to live with them.\n\nIn the past 10 years, Russia started to form a new bloc with China - not necessarily hostile to the West, but providing support for each other in the face of Western criticism.\n\nPresident Xi Jinping and President Putin created a mutual support group. Now China is refusing to condemn Russia for its actions in Ukraine, and people in Taiwan, which China sees as a breakaway territory and which Xi Jinping has always refused to say he won't invade, are starting to wonder if it could be their turn next.\n\nAltogether, then, the world is a far more worrying place than it was a few years ago. By comparison, the old Cold War years were far simpler, and for the most part the rules were a lot more clear - if one side intruded into the other's space, there was the ever-present threat of all-out mutually assured destruction. So it never happened, even though war came uncomfortably close more than once.\n\nBut after the collapse of Communism, the old rule-book was torn up. Now the boundaries are so vague, no-one knows where the red lines run.\n\nWith hindsight, and there's starting to be a lot of that, some politicians and academics are saying that Nato should perhaps have changed its whole approach after the Berlin Wall came down - it should have avoided humiliating Moscow by taking its old satellites in Eastern Europe on board, and lining them up in a way that seemed to Putin's Russia to be confrontational.\n\nThe mere suggestion that Ukraine might one day join Nato (even though it has always been regarded as unlikely) enraged the Kremlin, and helped persuade President Putin that he must deal with Ukraine once and for all.\n\nEveryone knows this is his policy, and his alone. Various Russian politicians and even some leading military figures came out beforehand against any invasion. But Putin wouldn't be deflected. Now it's got to succeed, and Russia has got to come out as the clear victor, if his throw of the dice is to win the game. But military adventures like this are notoriously capable of going wrong.\n\nPutin did succeed in Crimea, eight years ago, and his position at home was greatly reinforced. Maybe he'll succeed again, carving through the Ukrainian armed forces, making some significant gains, then withdrawing quickly and holding a victory parade.\n\nIt's perfectly possible. But suppose it doesn't happen this way. If Russian soldiers start dying in sizeable numbers and the sanctions against Russia start to have an effect, then Putin's own position will suffer.\n\nWhat will he do then? There is only one answer - he'll clamp down on any domestic criticism even harder than he already has, in the name of national security. Russia is, even now, a surprisingly open society compared with the past.\n\nVladimir Putin might turn Russia back to the days of the USSR\n\nThat, surely, would come to an end. The Russian economy would suffer, and Chinese help wouldn't make up for the loss.\n\nSo Vladimir Putin, who seems to have launched his attack on Ukraine because of his 30-year resentment over the collapse of the old Soviet empire, might turn Russia back to the days of the USSR. And the West, which has tried for so long to pretend that Russia is just another country we can do business with, might find that the old days had come right back with a vengeance.", "Spontaneous anti-war protests in support of Ukraine have led to Russian police making hundreds of arrests in cities including St Petersburg and Moscow.", "The symptoms of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) became so difficult for one woman, she did not want to live.\n\nAngharad Medi Lewis from Carmarthenshire said \"embarrassing\" heavy periods and excess facial hair made her not want to leave home.\n\nNeuroendocrinology expert Prof Aled Rees said the impact PCOS has on mental health was under-recognised.\n\nThe Welsh government said women's wellbeing was a priority and it would publish plans on how to support women.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angharad says life improved after taking antidepressants and the contraceptive pill\n\nMrs Lewis, 41, from Llanybydder, was diagnosed with the condition 20 years ago.\n\nShe said she was suffering from the most common symptoms but did not realise the impact it had on her mental health.\n\nAngharad Medi Lewis and her husband Andrew, started trying for a family in 2006\n\n\"I was having very heavy periods, I was in serious pain for a whole week every month, growing hair on my face, I was anxious, so worried about going out because of the heavy periods that it was actually embarrassing,\" she said.\n\nOther symptoms can include irregular periods or no periods at all, difficulty getting pregnant, weight gain, thinning hair or hair loss and oily skin or acne.\n\n\"I hadn't realised how bad it had affected my mental health at the time,\" she said.\n\nMrs Lewis and her husband Andrew, started trying for a family in 2006 and needed IVF treatment.\n\nThis meant stopping her contraceptive medication which had helped to ease the PCOS symptoms.\n\nThat is when her mental state started to deteriorate.\n\n\"I reached breaking point. It was controlling my life,\" she said.\n\n\"Before seeing the doctor in 2019, I had reached a point where I didn't want to live anymore.\n\n\"My face was hairy, the pains, just functioning from day to day was difficult.\"\n\nMrs Lewis was prescribed anti-depressants in 2019 and advised to prioritise her mental health.\n\nAngharad Medi Lewis said she reached breaking point while having fertility treatment\n\nUltimately, that meant stopping the IVF treatment and returning to the medication that controlled the PCOS.\n\n\"That nurse changed my life.\" she said.\n\n\"All she did was put me on anti-depressant, Prozac, for six months and put me on the mini pill.\n\n\"The best words I heard from that nurse was 'forget about trying for a baby for now, you have to look after yourself'.\"\n\nPCOS is a common condition that affects how a woman's ovaries work.\n\nThe exact cause is unknown, but it often runs in families and is related to abnormal hormone levels in the body, including high levels of insulin.\n\nPolycystic ovaries contain a large number of harmless follicles that are up to 8mm (approximately 0.3in) in size.\n\nThe follicles are underdeveloped sacs in which eggs develop. In PCOS, these sacs are often unable to release an egg, which means ovulation does not take place.\n\nAbout one in 10 women in the UK live with PCOS.\n\nAccording to Prof Rees, a professor of endocrinology at Cardiff University's Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, the condition and its link with mental health side effects \"isn't appreciated enough\".\n\n\"PCOS is very common,\" he said.\n\n\"There's an estimate of around 8-13% of women in the UK living with the condition and it's often a cluster of problems.\n\n\"Patients often come to us at the clinic, and it's obvious from the symptoms they describe, that it's going to have an impact on their mental health.\"\n\nHe said there was a \"gap\" in the general conversation with PCOS patients.\n\n\"I think, to start, that the link is under-recognised and under-appreciated,\" he said.\n\n\"There needs to be greater emphasis for patients and doctors that any consultation they have includes a discussion about mental health because there is an effective treatment available\".\n\nThe charity Fair Treatment for Women in Wales has called on the Welsh government to put women's physical and mental health at the top of the agenda.\n\nJulie Richards, a consultant with the charity, said the mental health impacts of conditions like PCOS and endometriosis, are often forgotten.\n\n\"We're lagging behind terribly,\" she said.\n\n\"We need specialist clinics in Wales, and when it comes to women's health generally, we're lagging behind in all areas.\"\n\nShe added: \"PCOS is just one of these conditions which affects women's wellbeing and isn't dealt with correctly.\"\n\nIn response, a Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Women's wellbeing is a priority for us.\n\n\"We will soon publish our plans which will set out how we expect the Welsh NHS to support women to access the health services they need.\"", "Russia has launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine, despite previously saying that it wouldn't.\n\nWatch our video to see the most striking moments of the day.", "The government should seize the assets of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, a Labour MP has said, citing concerns about alleged links to corruption.\n\nChris Bryant told MPs he had a leaked Home Office document which suggested the Chelsea Football Club owner should not be able to base himself in the UK.\n\nMr Bryant said it was written in 2019 and \"little\" had been done since then.\n\nReplying to Mr Bryant, senior minister Mark Spencer said the government had taken \"very strong action against high-profile Russian individuals who are of concern\".\n\nDowning Street would not be drawn on the claims about Mr Abramovich made in the Commons. The PM's spokesman said: \"I couldn't comment on individuals in that way or on leaked documents of that type.\"\n\nEarlier this week the government announced it would impose sanctions on three billionaires with close links to President Vladimir Putin as part of the UK's response to Russia's actions in Ukraine.\n\nMr Abramovich is one of Russia's richest people and is believed to be close to President Putin.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Bryant urged the government to take action against Mr Abramovich, including removing his ownership of Chelsea Football Club and seizing his assets.\n\nQuoting from the leaked Home Office document, he said: \"'As part of HMG's [Her Majesty's Government] Russia strategy aimed at targeting illicit finance and malign activity, Abramovich remains of interest to HMG due to his links to the Russian state and his public association with corrupt activity and practices. An example of this is Abramovich admitting in court proceedings that he paid for political influence. Therefore HMG is focused on ensuring individuals linked to illicit finance and malign activity are unable to base themselves in the UK and will use the relevant tools at its disposal, including immigration powers to prevent this'.\"\n\nMr Bryant noted that the document had been produced three years ago and said: \"Surely Mr Abramovich should no longer be able to own a football club in this country?\n\n\"Surely we should be looking at seizing some of his assets including his £152m home?\"\n\nAs well as owning Chelsea, Mr Abramovich is also the primary owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC.\n\nHe built his fortune in oil following the collapse of the former Soviet Union in the 1990s.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Abramovich experienced delays when applying to extend his visa to stay in the UK and eventually withdrew his application.\n\nIn October 2021, the businessman's spokesperson confirmed he travelled to London as an Israeli citizen - therefore entering the United Kingdom without the need for a visa.\n\nTier 1 investor visas, offering foreign investors fast-track residency in the UK, are being scrapped with immediate effect, Home Secretary Priti Patel confirmed last week.", "Emma Caldwell's body was found in May 2005\n\nA man has been arrested over the murder of Emma Caldwell, nearly 17 years after her body was found in woods in South Lanarkshire.\n\nIain Packer, 49, was arrested in connection with her death on Thursday morning.\n\nMs Caldwell had been a sex worker in Glasgow's red-light district when she disappeared on 4 April 2005.\n\nThe 27-year-old's body was found five weeks later, 40 miles away in woods near Roberton in South Lanarkshire.\n\nPolice later said the arrested man had been charged, and was due to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday.\n\nThe unsolved case was reopened in 2015 following consideration by senior lawyers in the Crown Office and campaigning by Emma's mother Margaret.\n\nPolice Scotland said the arrest was made in the Glasgow area on Thursday following significant inquiries by detectives from the Major Investigation Team.\n\nSenior Investigating Officer, Det Supt Graeme Mackie, said: \"Police Scotland officers have undertaken a significant amount of work re-investigating all the circumstances surrounding Emma's death following instruction from the lord advocate in 2015.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a complex and challenging investigation and I would like to thank everyone involved for their efforts in getting us to this point of a man being arrested earlier today.\n\n\"Emma's family, in particular her mother Margaret, have shown incredible resilience and determination since her death in 2005 and I would like to pay tribute to that today.\n\n\"We have remained in close contact with them during this investigation and officers have updated Margaret on this significant development.\"\n\nSolicitor Aamer Anwar read out a statement on behalf of Emma as he sat beside her mother Margaret at a media briefing following the arrest.\n\nHe said that Margaret and her family were \"truly grateful to the detectives at Police Scotland and the Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain's team who have worked tirelessly in reinvestigating the murder of Emma since we met with the then Lord Advocate in 2015\".\n\nHe added: \"I also wish to pay tribute to Margaret Caldwell, a mother who through the love of a child has never given up in her struggle for justice.\n\n\"The investigation into Emma's death continues and her family would urge anyone with information, no matter how insignificant they might think it is, to please come forward and speak to Police Scotland.\"", "Chris Mullin helped expose the wrongful convictions of the Birmingham Six\n\nPolice want to force a journalist to reveal the source who made a \"full confession to murder\" over the Birmingham pub bombings, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nThe West Midlands force maintains information in Chris Mullin's notes could solve the 1974 atrocities.\n\nBut former MP Mr Mullin, 74, is challenging the police application to require him to disclose the material.\n\nHis team cites the journalistic principle of source protection.\n\nIn turn, barristers for the police say the benefit of a confession about the bombings outweighs any promise of anonymity to sources.\n\nMr Mullin helped expose the innocence of the so-called Birmingham Six, the men freed from prison in 1991 when their convictions over the deaths of 21 people were quashed.\n\nNo others have been brought to justice for the blasts at the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs on 21 November 1974, which also injured 220 people. West Midlands Police has said its investigation remains active.\n\nThe information sought by police pertains to investigations by Mr Mullin in 1985 to 1986.\n\nA book plus documentaries from Mr Mullin contributed to the release of the Birmingham Six, but he has said he cannot reveal the identity of an IRA man who helped prove the miscarriage of justice.\n\nAn \"inadequate\" IRA warning call on the night of the bombings caused or contributed to the 21 deaths, an inquest jury found in 2019.\n\nTwenty-one people were killed in two blasts in November 1974\n\nJames Lewis QC, representing West Midlands Police, told the Old Bailey on Friday that Mr Mullin had \"provided material voluntarily\" with redactions and omissions to protect the identity of the bomb planter, referred to in court as AB.\n\nMr Lewis said AB had made a confession that was voluntary, accurate and reliable, adding: \"In short it is a full confession to the murders.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police knows who AB is and his proven links to the IRA. But Mr Lewis said the force now needed Mr Mullin's unredacted notes to link the \"confession\" to him.\n\n\"The current redacted notes [provided by Mr Mullin] are not of evidential value - once they are unredacted, they are of great evidential value,\" Mr Lewis told the court.\n\nThe barrister added Mr Mullin had conducted a four-hour interview with AB and made contemporaneous notes.\n\nThe benefit of the confession, he continued, was \"enormous\" and said it would outweigh that AB had extracted \"a promise of anonymity\".\n\nThe blasts ripped apart the Mulberry Bush pub at the base of the Rotunda and the Tavern in the Town on nearby New Street\n\nIn his witness statement, Mr Mullin - former MP for Sunderland South - said it was the \"fundamental ethical obligation\" of a reporter to protect the identities of their sources.\n\n\"My intention was to rescue the six men who I believed to be innocent and who had by this time been in prison for 12 years and who had no prospect of release,\" he said.\n\n\"It was also obvious from the outset that none of those involved in the bombings would talk to me if they thought I was merely collecting evidence on behalf of the police - although it must be said that, at the time, the West Midlands Police were entirely uninterested in pursuing any such line of inquiry.\"\n\nTo win over sources, Mr Mullins said he had to assure everyone he would not do anything which might identify them, and assurances \"had to be given not merely to the guilty, but also to innocent intermediaries\".\n\nHe added: \"I am also confident that, even were I obliged to and did disclose the material being sought, it would not lead to the conviction of the perpetrator.\"\n\nThe National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is supporting Mr Mullin who said in his statement that protecting the identities of confidential sources was emphasised in the NUJ Code of Conduct \"to which I have always and will always adhere\".\n\nMichelle Stanistreet, NUJ general secretary, said the case brought by police risked \"compromising\" the core principle of protecting sources at the heart of the NUJ code.\n\nThe Recorder of London Judge Mark Lucraft will consider the police's application after hearing submissions.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rock band Maneskin won last year's Eurovision and have gone on to score top 10 hits in the US, the UK and the rest of Europe\n\nRussia will no longer be allowed to participate in this year's Eurovision Song Contest, the European Broadcasting Union has said.\n\nThe EBU, which produces the event, said Russia's inclusion could bring the competition into disrepute \"in light of the unprecedented crisis in Ukraine\".\n\nRussia launched an attack on its neighbour Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday.\n\nWestern governments have ramped up international sanctions in response.\n\nJust 24 hours ago, the contest had said Russia would be allowed to compete, so this is a rapid change in stance for the EBU.\n\nIt follows the announcement that football's 2022 Champions League final would be played in Paris, after Russia was stripped of the match following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nF1's Russian Grand Prix, due to take place in Sochi in September, was also cancelled.\n\nEarlier this week, Ukrainian broadcaster UA:PBC urged the EBU to suspend Russia's Eurovision membership and ban it from the contest.\n\nState broadcasters from countries including Iceland, Finland, Norway and the Netherlands had called for Russia to be banned from the contest.\n\nFinland said if Russia took part, it would not send a representative to the contest in Turin in May.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Eurovision Song Contest This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe EBU said it remained dedicated to \"protecting the values of a cultural competition which promotes international exchange and understanding, brings audiences together, celebrates diversity through music and unites Europe on one stage\".\n\nUK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries tweeted: \"Eurovision stands for freedom, unity and respect between countries - watched and enjoyed by tens of millions around the world. Glad to see Eurovision taking action and kicking Russia out.\"\n\nThe 66th edition of Eurovision is due to take place in Turin, after Italian rock band Maneskin won the 2021 contest.\n\nManizha represented Russia at last year's Eurovision Song Contest with an ode to female empowerment, Russian Woman\n\nRussia had not announced its act for the contest, which it last won in 2008 with Dima Bilan singing Believe.\n\nIn recent years, it has been one of the strongest Eurovision performers, with five top five finishes in the past decade.\n\nUkraine has selected hip-hop trio Kalush Orchestra, whose song Stefania was written as a tribute to their mothers.\n\nThe band replaced the country's original contestant, Alina Pash, who withdrew last week after facing scrutiny over a trip she made to Russia-controlled Crimea in 2015.\n\nWhile there is no suggestion Pash entered Crimea from Russia, she said the controversy over her visit had overshadowed her participation in the contest.\n\nThe Ukrainian government considers people who enter the territory via Russia to have crossed the border illegally.\n\nTensions between Russia and Ukraine have overshadowed previous editions of the song contest.\n\nRussia were favourites to win the competition in 2016, until Ukrainian singer Jamala stole a last-minute victory with a song that depicted the deportation of Crimean Tatars by Josef Stalin in 1944 - a horrific chapter the nation's parliament has described as tantamount to genocide.\n\nThe lyrics were widely interpreted as a criticism of Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. Jamala, who is herself a Crimean Tartar, appeared to confirm the link when she told the press: \"The main message is to remember and to know this story. When we know, we prevent.\"\n\nOn the path to victory, her song picked up several important votes from former Soviet countries who have traditionally voted for Russia. Eurovision expert John Kennedy O'Connor called the result \"a pointed slap in Russia's face\".\n\nA year later, Russian contestant Julia Samoylova was blocked from entering Ukraine, which was hosting the competition, because she had reportedly toured Crimea without entering it through the border with the Ukrainian mainland.\n\nRussian television station Channel One then announced it would not broadcast the contest or take part.\n\nJamala has now called on Eurovision fans not to ignore Russia's actions in Ukraine.\n\n\"I don't know how this is possible, but they bombed peaceful people,\" she said in an Instagram video. \"Please support Ukraine. Stop Russian aggression.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Around 4.7 million Covid vaccine doses - 4% of the total - ended up as wastage in England by the end of October 2021, a government report reveals.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO), which scrutinises spending of public money, says the wastage is far lower than projected for the country's most ambitious vaccination programme ever.\n\nExperts had assumed 20% of stocks might not be used, because of handling and storage problems or expiry dates.\n\nThe report praises the rollout overall, but says there were challenges.\n\nThat includes being left with too many expiring AstraZeneca doses, after experts recommended that people under 40 should preferably be given the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, to avoid a rare but possible link to blood clots.\n\nSome wastage was avoided by redirecting 4.5 million AstraZeneca doses to other countries, but stocks already at local sites had to be destroyed in line with regulations. Approximately 1.9 million doses were written off.\n\nThe NAO says the vaccine programme met \"stretching and unprecedented targets\" to save lives. Uptake exceeded expectations. By the end of October, it had administered around 87 million doses - about six times the number in the previous annual flu vaccine programme.\n\nDespite the success and efforts to address inequalities, lower vaccination rates persist in some groups, such as pregnant women and black and Asian communities, the report warns.\n\nAnd there are issues that could threaten the programme's continuing success next winter: \"Staffing issues, including burnout, and a lack of surplus capacity in the healthcare system, present substantial risks.\"\n\nGareth Davies, head of the NAO, said: \"The vaccine programme has been successful in getting early access to what were brand new vaccines, securing supply of them, and administering them to a large proportion of the population at unprecedented speed.\n\n\"The programme must now redouble its efforts to reach those who are not yet vaccinated, while also considering what a more sustainable model will involve as it moves out of its emergency phase.\"\n\nDr Gary Howsam, from the Royal College of GPs, said the health service had \"pulled out all the stops\" to ensure as many people as possible were protected from Covid.\n\nGPs and community pharmacists have ended up administering many more doses than originally planned - 71% up to the end of October 2021, compared with a planned 56%.\n\nDr Howsam said: \"It's a fantastic achievement that so many people have been vaccinated, with uptake exceeding initial planning assumptions - and this report does not take into account the booster programme, which has now seen more than 38m patients fully protected from the virus.\n\n\"It remains crucial that patients continue to get as much protection as possible so that we can move from a pandemic to an endemic Covid situation and GP teams will remain key to this effort.\n\n\"With that being the case, it is urgent that the government delivers on its pledges of 6,000 more GPs and 26,000 more members of the wider practice team, so that general practice can continue to utilise its expertise at delivering vaccination programmes, as well as delivering all the other care and services our patients rely on us for.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "These two friends were still trying to absorb what has happened\n\nShock, horror and bewilderment - three words that could describe the mood of many in the capital Moscow and the southern city of Rostov on Thursday. But there is division over whether President Putin's actions are to be condemned or applauded, BBC Russian reporters discover.\n\nWhen two young well-dressed men stop to chat to the BBC, one of them appears fairly relaxed about the invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"Yes, we heard something but haven't had a chance to understand what's going on,\" he says.\n\nBut he is soon interrupted by his friend, swearing as he does so.\n\n\"We are shocked,\" he says. \"We have never seen war in our lifetime and we are about to see one.\"\n\nThis man said he and his friends felt ashamed by the government's actions\n\n\"It is not clear what to do and it is very scary,\" he says. \"But apart from the fear, there is a sense of horror and a sense of shame about what our authorities are doing. In my circle of friends this is a very common feeling.\n\n\"I never voted for those who are in power now,\" he adds, \"and I did what I could, what a person in Russia is currently able to do to affect political life - went to protests. But I don't think there will be any now. Everyone is much too scared.\"\n\nThis woman said politicians were thinking of themselves rather than the public\n\nOne woman is not certain what to make of the news, although she is generally against the war. \"It's politicians trying to sort things out between themselves and ordinary people who are suffering. It won't do any good for my family.\"\n\nSome of those against the invasion have gathered in Pushkin square in the centre of Moscow to protest. The BBC Russian's Anastasia Golubeva estimates there were initially more than 200 people assembled before police instructed people to move on.\n\nAnyone starting to shout \"No to war!\" was being detained.\n\nOne young man told the BBC, \"I have been crying all day. People in Ukraine are dying. Children are dying. Men who fight are dying. And then what? We, young Russian men, 19-20 years old will be packed off to fight too?\"\n\nAsked if he and his friends were scared to come to the rally, he said, \"No. This is not frightening. What is happening in Ukraine and its borders is frightening. What we have here now is nothing.\"\n\nThis man was unusually vocal about his opposition to Putin\n\nAway from the protest, a man in a pale blue and navy coat says he supports both Ukraine and Russia but does not support Russia's President Putin. Such a bold public statement is rarely heard in Russia these days.\n\n\"This is done in order to satisfy the geopolitical ambitions of our leader,\" he says.\n\nBut three older people - two middle aged men and an elderly woman - are much more supportive of the invasion.\n\nA man in a baseball cap talks about \"protecting Russians\" in Ukraine. He blames Ukrainians themselves and says that it's \"their own fault that they ended up in this situation\".\n\n\"They have always been problematic, throughout history,\" he says.\n\nThis woman was extremely vocal about her opposition to Ukraine\n\nA woman in a pink coat and hat also refers to Russians in Ukraine. \"There are Russian people living there,\" she says.\n\nBut what about the Ukrainians living there, we ask?\n\n\"Ukrainians are mostly terrorists,\" she snaps, adding that she gets this information from state TV and YouTube.\n\n\"It's a bid for peace,\" says another elderly man. \"It's all going to be fine afterwards.\"\n\nIn Rostov, a region in the south of Russia which has been hosting evacuees from the separatist-held areas in Ukraine, the mood is even more apprehensive than in Moscow.\n\nA woman in a bright-red coat is not sure what to make of the events.\n\nThis woman in Rostov said she was afraid\n\n\"We are worried about what's happening because it is so close to us. But also we are not completely sure what happened, she adds. \"We don't really believe the news we see on TV.\"\n\nA young woman in a grey woolly hat and red parka looks glum. \"It is very scary. Makes us worried about our children.\"\n\nAn older grey-haired man with bright dark eyes cannot hide his sadness.\n\nThis man seemed devastated by the events\n\n\"We once won an immense war and we are now at war between ourselves?\" he asks rhetorically.\n\nMore certain that the chosen course of action is the right one is a young woman in a knitted hat and fur-trimmed coat. \"It is only fair,\" she says. \"What's happening now. What's been taken away is now being returned to us.\"\n\nA woman in a raspberry pink coat with her glasses perched on her face mask is also sure the invasion was a good call. \"We will survive just fine, she says. We have a big country, rich in resources. No-one will be able to bring us to our knees with sanctions.\"", "Russia has continued its full-scale assault on Ukraine, with troops said to be in the capital, Kyiv.\n\nThe city was attacked from the air overnight and now Russian forces are advancing on land.\n\nUkraine's President Zelensky has called on European citizens to protest and asked their governments to intervene to stop Russia's assault.", "Legislation that bans the discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in primary school classrooms has passed in Florida's statehouse.\n\nGovernor Ron DeSantis has indicated support for the bill - dubbed \"Don't Say Gay\" by critics - which now moves to the State Senate.\n\nMr DeSantis and others say the measure will empower parents to be more engaged in their children's education.\n\nBut activists and parents warn it could stigmatise and isolate LGBT youth.\n\nThe ban on discussing LGBT topics will apply largely to sex education at the primary grade levels, but also when \"not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students\". It passed on Thursday in the state House of Representatives in a 69-47 vote.\n\n\"Every child has a right to speak honestly about their lives, a right to have access to a history that is honest and includes them, and a right to library books that reflect and include who they are,\" said Nadine Smith, a queer mother and executive director of the Equality Florida non-profit.\n\n\"What we are seeing is the systematic erasure, or elimination of those resources for young people and a gag order imposed on educators,\" she said.\n\nThe White House has sternly rebuked the bill as \"designed to attack\" LGBT youth, but it has the support it needs to pass through the state's Republican-controlled legislature.\n\nBacking the measure, Governor DeSantis - a Republican widely touted as a possible 2024 White House contender - said schools should avoid \"entirely inappropriate\" topics and instead be teaching science, history, civics and other lessons.\n\n\"Parents must have a seat at the table when it comes to what's going on in their schools,\" he said.\n\nCritics protested last weekend against an amendment to the bill that would require schools to \"out\" - disclose a student's sexual orientation - to parents within six weeks.\n\nState Representative Joe Harding withdrew the proposal on Tuesday, saying he would focus on the bill itself \"rather than battle misinformation related to the amendment\".\n\nState laws that ban or constrain the discussion of LGBT life in classrooms - sometimes referred to as \"no promo homo\" laws - are not uncommon in the US.\n\nAccording to Clifford Rosky, a law professor at the University of Utah, anti-gay curriculum laws currently exist in as many as 20 states.\n\nThe Florida bill goes a step further, allowing parents to directly sue schools districts and seek damages if they believe an educator has broken the law.\n\nThat is a nod to last year's abortion bill passed in Texas, which permitted private citizens to sue anybody involved with an abortion taking place in the state.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nAs Ukraine came under attack from Russia on Thursday, football continued across the continent with clubs, players and fans showing their support for the Eastern European country.\n\nUkraine international Ruslan Malinovskyi scored twice in Atalanta's 3-0 win at Olympiakos and revealed a T-shirt with the message \"No War in Ukraine\".\n\nZenit St Petersburg were the only Russian club playing on Thursday, against Real Betis in Seville, and home supporters held up a Ukrainian flag inside the stadium.\n\nZenit suffered a 3-2 defeat on aggregate after having an injury-time goal disallowed by VAR, which would have taken the tie to extra time. Meanwhile, the Russian side had defender Yaroslav Rakitskiy, capped 54 times by Ukraine, on the bench.\n\nUkraine's Manchester City defender Oleksandr Zinchenko was not in action but he joined a vigil in the centre of Manchester to show his support for his country.\n\nBefore their Europa League meeting at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium, Barcelona and Napoli players stood together behind a large banner which read \"Stop War\".\n\nFans of Croatian side Dinamo Zagreb held a banner which read \"Support to the people of Ukraine\" in their 1-0 home win over Sevilla.\n\nFans of Norwegian club Bodo/Glimt held up pictures of the Ukraine flag in their match against Celtic to show their solidarity with those who have been affected.\n\nSlavia Prague players wore Ukraine T-shirts before their meeting with Turkish club Fenerbahce in the Europa Conference League, with the tops bearing the message \"We Stand with Ukraine\".\n\nSlavia also made Ukraine international defender Taras Kacharaba captain for the evening.\n• None Russia to lose Champions League final & what else has happened in sport?\n• None 'Pray for us' - 20 Brazilian footballers stranded in Ukraine appeal for help following Russian invasion\n• None Will this man be found? Two murders, one fugitive and a hunter tracking down the target\n• None Specs Gonzales and guests take you into an alternative football reality", "The Russian armed forces dwarf those of Ukraine - and they have much more hardware and air power\n\nHow hard will it be for Ukraine to defend itself now that an attack by Russia has begun? Ukraine is outgunned and outnumbered right across the board - after significant investment and modernisation in Russia's armed forces by President Putin.\n\nDr Jack Watling, of the Royal United Services Institute, says: \"I think the Ukrainians are in a very difficult position.\" He's just returned from Ukraine and says the country's military leaders now face some \"very hard choices\".\n\nWestern officials estimate that Russia had up to 190,000 troops on Ukraine's border - far more than Ukraine's entire regular army of 125,600.\n\nRussian forces are already crossing the border from multiple directions.\n\nThe military airport at Chuhuyev near Kharkiv was among targets hit first by Russia\n\nUkraine will find it hard to defend thousands of miles of its frontier - from Belarus in the north all the way down to Crimea in the south. If you think of Ukraine as a clock face, the Russians can mount attacks from 10 o'clock to 7 o'clock.\n\nBen Barry, of the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) and a former British Army brigadier, says it's a \"very difficult position for a defender\".\n\nAdded to that, Ukraine is being threatened in multiple directions and their forces are \"spread pretty thinly\", Jack Watling of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) says.\n\nBut the real disparity between Russian and Ukrainian forces is in the sky.\n\nUkraine has 105 combat aircraft on the border compared with Russia's 300, Mr Watling says. The Russians, he predicts, \"will very quickly gain air superiority\".\n\nRussia's advanced air defence systems, such as S-400 missiles, also gives its forces an advantage. In contrast, Ukraine has older and more limited air defences.\n\nMr Watling gives the example of Israel being able to defend itself from multiple directions. But he adds it's only been able to do so because of its superiority in the air. That's something Ukraine simply doesn't have.\n\nMoscow has developed its own version of \"shock and awe\" with integrated air, missile and long-range rocket artillery, says Ben Barry.\n\nIt allows the Russians to attack Ukraine's command and control centres, ammunition depots, air force and air defences from far away.\n\nThat already appears to have begun, with cruise missile attacks on targets near the capital Kyiv.\n\nMr Watling says the Russians have a very significant arsenal of modern weapons and capabilities that Ukraine doesn't have an answer to - like the Iskander cruise and ballistic missile systems.\n\nUkraine has recently received supplies of \"lethal aid\" from the US and the UK, but these are mostly short-range air-to-air missiles and anti-tank weapons.\n\nWith Russia's air superiority and long-range weapons, the danger for Ukraine's forces is that they'll soon be pinned down.\n\nUkraine's forces could be stopped from being able to manoeuvre and reposition to face the Russian advance from any other direction, Mr Watling believes.\n\nMany of Ukraine's best trained and equipped units are in the east of the country - near the line of control in Luhansk and Donetsk - where there's been fighting since 2014.\n\nWestern intelligence officials have told the BBC there's a real worry that Russia could try to encircle them.\n\nHowever, Ukraine's armed forces are better trained and equipped than they were when Russia invaded Crimea.\n\nMr Barry says units and soldiers have gained useful battle experience from the fight with Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country.\n\nBut he adds they've mainly been involved in linear trench warfare and the demands of \"manoeuvre warfare\" will be much harder.\n\nRussia's forces are able to move quickly with mobile rocket and missile launchers and air defences. Russian troops, too, have been battle hardened from its invasion of Crimea, and in Syria.\n\nIf the fighting enters Ukraine's towns and cities then that might give Ukraine's forces a chance.\n\nA well prepared defender can make urban fighting difficult and bloody for any attacker - as shown in Stalingrad in World War Two and more recently in Mosul in Iraq.\n\nA woman cleans her damaged house after artillery fire from an area of Donetsk under the control of Russian-backed rebels\n\nBen Barry believes that Russian forces may initially try to bypass towns and cities. But he believes it's very unlikely that the Russians can avoid urban combat, not least in Kyiv given its political significance.\n\nJack Watling says if Ukraine can defend its cities properly then they might be able to hold out for quite a long time.\n\nBritish-supplied light anti-tank weapons (also known as NLAWs) may help in close combat where Ukrainian forces can move around using the cover of buildings. An unknown number of civilians could also take up arms.\n\nRussia cannot just rely on airstrikes and artillery to control towns and cities.\n\nBut Mr Watling says Russia already has agents and operatives on the ground. He says \"there will be subversion and unconventional operations in Kyiv to try and destabilise the government\". Russia, he adds, will also try to encircle cities and use long-range artillery to target pockets of resistance and then try to use special forces and agents to \"essentially murder civil society leaders\".\n\nUkraine is now fighting for its survival.\n\nIt's been engaged in combat with Russian-backed forces in the east for the past eight years, but the threat is now an existential one for the entire country.\n\nHaving just visited Ukraine, Mr Watling says there is a \"grim determination to survive as a country, but there is a recognition that they are overmatched and that it's going to be exceedingly bloody\".\n\nSkip image gallery Tap or click to go through the gallery", "Animal rights groups say their footage shows several French welfare laws being broken\n\nAnimal rights groups have released footage of ducks in France being force-fed in a bid to persuade ministers not to drop plans to ban foie gras imports.\n\nActivists say the covert filming, captured in December, shows \"sickening\" mistreatment and the violation of several French welfare laws.\n\nLast week it emerged the government's plan to ban the import of fur and foie gras was likely to be scrapped.\n\nThe government says no decisions have yet been made.\n\nProducers of foie gras use a process known as \"gavage\" to force-feed ducks or geese, causing their livers to swell.\n\nSuch farms are illegal in the UK but the product, typically a mousse or pate, is still sold in some restaurants.\n\nIn 2018 the government suggested a ban on foie gras imports could be one of the potential benefits of Brexit.\n\nBut Brexit opportunities minister Jacob Rees-Mogg is among several senior Tories to object to the move on the grounds of protecting personal choice.\n\nIn footage obtained by the animal rights organisation L214, ducks in crowded, wire-mesh crates are gripped by the necks and a feeding tube is forced down their throats.\n\nThe practice can cause internal bleeding and many of the ducks inside the cages appear to have died.\n\nBritish animal charities say the farm is in breach of multiple welfare laws relating to space requirements and appropriate flooring.\n\nAbigail Penny from Animal Equality said: \"These terrified birds try frantically to escape but have nowhere to run.\n\n\"We can stop their suffering by banning imports of this vile product.\"\n\nFrance is the largest manufacturer of foie gras.\n\nThe BBC understands a proposed ban on imports to the UK - part of the draft Animals Abroad Bill - is to be scrapped.\n\nThe BBC has been told that Mr Rees-Mogg believes restrictions should not be imposed on consumers.\n\nHe has also argued the ban would have no impact on animal welfare in the UK.\n\nConnor Jackson, from animal welfare organisation Open Cages, called on Mr Rees-Mogg \"to sit down and view these images\".\n\n\"On this farm and others like it, there is a clear lack of interest in animal welfare.\n\n\"If the British government betrays these animals, millions of people will never forget it,\" he said.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg did not respond to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nA government spokesperson said it was committed to \"upholding standards in animal welfare\".\n\n\"Our Action Plan for Animal Welfare sets out the government's vision to introduce world-leading reforms to improve animal welfare and the conservation of animals\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Boris Johnson tell MPs that the UK will squeeze Russia from the global economy\n\nMajor Russian banks will be excluded from the UK financial system and oligarchs have been targeted in new sanctions announced by Boris Johnson.\n\nThe prime minister told the House of Commons they were \"the largest and most severe package of economic sanctions that Russia has ever seen\".\n\nRussia's national airline Aeroflot will also be banned from landing in the UK.\n\nIt follows Moscow's invasion of Ukraine which began with air strikes in the early hours of Thursday morning.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a \"bloodstained aggressor\" who would \"stand condemned in the eyes of the world and of history\" for invading Ukraine.\n\nAnnouncing the measures, the prime minister said the UK and its allies had \"tried every avenue for diplomacy until the final hour\", but he believed Mr Putin had always been determined to attack Ukraine.\n\nMr Johnson said the G7 group of world leaders had agreed to work in unity to \"maximise the economic price that Putin will pay for his aggression\".\n\nHe also confirmed that sanctions would be applied to Belarus for its role in the assault on Ukraine.\n\nThose being targeted by sanctions include five people deemed to be part of Mr Putin's \"inner circle\", the Foreign Office said in a statement issued after Mr Johnson's announcement.\n\nThese include Mr Putin's ex-son in law Kirill Shamalov who was previously married to his daughter Katarina and is Russia's youngest billionaire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: How Russia's invasion of Ukraine unfolded on day one\n\nOther targets include Petr Fradkov, head of the recently sanctioned Promsvyazbank and son of the former head of Russian Foreign Intelligence.\n\nBusinesses targeted include Rostec, Russia's biggest defence company, Tactical Missile Corporation, Russia's leading supplier of air and sea missiles, and Uralvagonzavod, one of the world's largest tank manufacturers, the Foreign Office said.\n\nIt also said it was moving to cut off wealthy Russians' access to UK banks, including a £50,000 limit on bank deposits.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK and its allies' mission was to ensure through diplomatic, economic, and eventually military means that the \"hideous and barbarous venture of Mr Putin\" ended in failure.\n\nThe prime minister chaired his second emergency Cobra committee of the day on Thursday evening, followed by a cabinet meeting.\n\nHe told cabinet that the Ukrainian military was fighting back in \"defiance of Putin's attempts to subjugate Ukraine\" and that advisers had given an \"ominous assessment\" of the next few days.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss said the UK would \"not rest until Russia's economy has been degraded and Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity restored\".\n\nThe new measures expand the sanctions that were announced by the UK government on Tuesday, which included targeting high-net worth individuals and Russian politicians who voted to declare Donetsk and Luhansk independent.\n\nA number of MPs and defence experts said those measures had not gone far enough.\n\nOn Thursday, US President Joe Biden also announced sanctions against Russia, including against its banks and people who \"personally gained from the Kremlin's policies\".\n\nThere was plenty of criticism that Western sanctions in the days leading up to this invasion did not go far enough, fast enough.\n\nThese new measures will hit the Russian economy much harder. But there are still potential gaps. The prime minister said sanctions will take place against major Russian banks. But one, Sberbank, was not mentioned.\n\nAnd the Ukrainian government wanted more - in particular moves to disconnect Russia from the international payment system known as Swift. The US and the UK back such a move, but some European countries fear it could damage their own banks.\n\nSuspending Russia from Swift is still under consideration, but the hesitation is a reminder that in a globalised world all sanctions tend to have an impact on the countries imposing them as well\n\nAnd the real trouble with sanctions is they don't work quickly. They do increase pressure, and they can do damage.\n\nBut the international community is not trying to damage the Russian economy just for the sake of it. It wants economic pressure to force a change in President Putin's political and military calculations.\n\nMeanwhile, the invasion of Ukraine continues.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he welcomed the sanctions outlined by Mr Johnson, and pledged opposition support for further measures.\n\nBut he said there were changes that must be made in the UK.\n\n\"For too long our country has been a safe haven for money Putin and his fellow bandits stole from the Russian people\" he said.\n\nConservative former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said that while sanctions are \"extremely welcome\" they should not only be economic and called for a \"fundamental review of our military capability\".\n\nConservative MP Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee, urged Mr Johnson to take action against those \"enabling Putin's economy\" - including individuals who sit on the boards of the businesses which finance the Russian president's regime.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the West \"cannot be complacent any longer\" and called for a reversal of proposed troop cuts to the Army.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford called for the \"complete economic isolation of Russia\", including \"clearing up the sewer of dirty Russian money\" in London and suspending Russia from the Swift payment system.\n\nOn Thursday morning Russian forces launched an assault on Ukraine, crossing its borders and bombing military targets near big cities.\n\nUkraine has announced martial law across the country, meaning the military has taken control temporarily.\n\nTraffic jams have built up as people attempt to flee the capital Kyiv.\n\nMeanwhile, the Home Office has said it will allow some Ukrainian nationals in the UK to extend their visas.\n\nThose eligible for points-based work visas will be allowed to extend their stay or to switch from visitor visas and seasonal agricultural workers will have their visas automatically extended until the end of 2022.", "In 2019 Chernobyl's reactor number four was encased in a massive steel structure to prevent further radiation leaks\n\nRussian military forces have seized control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials say.\n\nPresidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak said the \"totally pointless attack\" on Thursday amounted to \"one of the most serious threats in Europe today\".\n\nAn explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 led to the worst nuclear disaster in human history, both in cost and casualty.\n\nUkraine's president warned such a disaster could happen again if Russia continued its invasion.\n\n\"Our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated,\" President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote earlier on Twitter.\n\n\"This is a declaration of war against the whole of Europe.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also warned of the possibility of \"another ecological disaster\" at the site.\n\nUkrainian officials reported radiation levels had been \"exceeded\" in a number of places in the area, but Russia said that was not the case.\n\nChernobyl's \"exclusion zone\" - a 32-km (19-mile) radius around the plant - remains largely devoid of human life, 36 years after a flawed reactor design and series errors by its operators caused a major explosion at the plant.\n\nThe plant's three other reactors were all shut down by 2000 and it has since been decommissioned.\n\nRadiation levels in the area have remained higher than normal from the 1986 leak, chronicled in an eponymous HBO mini-series in 2019 that helped make the site a tourist attraction.\n\nRussian troops reportedly entered the exclusion zone earlier on Thursday before crossing over into Ukraine.\n\nThe White House says it has received reports that staff are being held hostage at the site by Russian soldiers.\n\nThe forces are part of Russian President Vladimir Putin's \"special military operation\" in their neighbouring country.\n\nChernobyl is located about 130 km (80 miles) north of the capital, Kyiv, and could provide a path into the city for the invading forces.\n\nSamantha Turner, a security fellow at the Truman National Security Project, says control of the area does not have \"battle-determining significance\", but gives Russian forces a corridor to the Dnipro River.\n\nThe river runs south to Kyiv from Belarus, whose president has closely aligned himself with Mr Putin.\n\n\"It's an important part of them opening up different corridors for troop movement and controlling key terrain,\" she said.\n\nShe warned that, while nobody lives in the area and the plant is no longer active, any active fighting over the territory could cause radioactive waste spillage.\n\nUkraine's parliament reported that since Russia had moved into the area, gamma radiation levels had been exceeded at a significant number of observation points, while one official said dust could have been stirred up by heavy vehicles. However, a Russian defence ministry official said background levels were normal.\n\nRussians are among the world's most experienced nuclear operators, notes Claire Corkhill, a radioactive waste materials professor from the University of Sheffield.\n\nShe has worked as part of the international clean-up effort at Chernobyl for the past six years, even visiting the site three times.\n\nThe most significant success in these collaborations was the recent construction of a 32,000-tonne dome around the radioactive reactor, funded at a cost of $1.5bn (£1.1bn) by more than 30 countries.\n\nProf Corkhill now worries the invasion of Ukraine will have the effect of pausing these operations.\n\n\"Thirty years have passed since the accident and we've still not cleaned everything up,\" she told the BBC. \"It's easily another 50-year programme.\n\n\"If people aren't properly working on that facility and progressing the decommissioning, it could be a really big problem.\"\n\nThe 1986 explosion is often linked to the subsequent fall of the Soviet Union five years later.\n\nDr Taras Kuzio, research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, says the seizure of Chernobyl is therefore best looked at as a symbolic win for President Putin.\n\n\"Putin has the mindset of somebody who cannot get over the fact the USSR disintegrated 30 years ago, and it all began to disintegrate after Chernobyl,\" said Dr Kuzio, who is of Ukrainian descent.\n\nHe fears that while Mr Putin may simply be using the threat of nuclear weaponry to ward off the West, he is operating like a \"sociopath\" and his actions should be watched closely.\n\n\"What he's doing in Ukraine is unprecedented. Why should we assume he is not going to do anything else?\" he said.", "Russian forces have launched a full-scale invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, attacking locations across the country. A number of people have been killed and thousands have fled their homes.\n\nThese maps and images help to explain what we know about what has happened so far.\n\nUkraine is in Eastern Europe and shares a border with Russia.\n\nIt used to be part of the Soviet Union but became an independent country in 1991.\n\nIn 2014, Russia invaded Crimea, in the south of Ukraine, and continues to occupy it.\n\nRussian forces crossed Ukraine's borders early on Thursday morning and began bombing military targets near big cities.\n\nAir strikes continued overnight and into the early hours of Friday, with attacks being reported across the country - including on the capital Kyiv.\n\nRussians tanks were filmed on the outskirts of Kyiv on Friday morning. A second night of attacks followed with heavy gunfire and explosions in parts of the capital.\n\nA number of civilian areas have been targeted, including one apartment complex outside of Kharkiv - a city of 1.4 million people in north-eastern Ukraine.\n\nInjured people - including a woman with bandages on her head - were seen after the air strikes.\n\nAn apartment building in Kyiv was hit by a missile on Saturday morning.\n\nSince 2014, Russian-backed separatists and Ukraine's armed forces have been fighting a war in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in which more than 14,000 people have died.\n\nPresident Putin this month recognised the two regions held by the Russian-backed separatists as independent states and ordered Russian troops there, tearing up a peace deal.\n\nUkraine says more than 100 people have been killed so far, including civilians.\n\nMany are now trying to escape the country, with UN estimates suggesting over 100,000 people have already fled from their homes.\n\nStreams of cars have been seen leaving major cities and are queuing to cross borders into neighbouring countries.\n\nSome in Kyiv are hunkering down in the city's metro stations and air raid shelters, while others are trying to escape.\n\nLithuania, Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania and Moldova have all said they expect a wave of refugees from Ukraine.\n\nTimeline: How did we get here? Satellite imagery suggests Russia is sending troops towards its border with Ukraine. Russia denies it is preparing for an invasion and accuses Nato of upping its activity in the region. This build-up of Russian forces was spotted some 300km (185 miles) from Ukraine Russia says the crisis can only be solved if the West agrees to a list of demands, including a guarantee that Ukraine will never join Nato. Russian troops begin arriving in Belarus for joint military exercises. Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko plays down their significance, saying they are “normal exercises”. Russian troops unloading tanks from a train after arriving in Belarus Nato says its forces are on standby and more ships and fighter jets are being sent to the region. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says Nato will “continue to take all necessary measures to protect and defend all allies”. The US responds to Russia’s list of demands, refusing to rule out Ukraine joining Nato in the future. In response, President Putin accuses the West of ignoring Russia’s concerns. Russia says some of its troops are being withdrawn from areas near the Ukraine border - but Nato says it can see no evidence of a withdrawal. President Putin recognises the independence of the two Russian-backed separatists areas in eastern Ukraine and says troops will be sent to support them. Mr Putin announces a “special military operation\" by Russian troops is underway in Ukraine. Ukraine says it is a \"full-scale invasion”.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the UK \"cannot and will not just look away\" at Russia's \"hideous and barbaric\" attack on Ukraine.\n\nHe said the UK and its allies will launch a \"massive package\" of sanctions - commercial and financial penalties - to \"hobble\" Russia's economy.\n\nHe also tried to reassure the British public by promising to do \"everything to keep our country safe\" and work with allies \"for however long it takes\" to restore Ukraine's independence.\n\nAs a result of the conflict, oil prices have surged past $100 (£75) a barrel to hit their highest level for more than seven years, which will impact already-rising petrol prices in the UK.\n\nEvents in Ukraine have also seen global share prices fall and the price of gold rise - as investors worry about the possible impact of the conflict.", "The Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would bring gas to Germany has shuttered amid the latest fighting Image caption: The Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would bring gas to Germany has shuttered amid the latest fighting\n\nThere was plenty of criticism that Western sanctions in the days leading up to this invasion did not go far enough, fast enough.\n\nThese new measures will hit the Russian economy much harder. But there are still potential gaps.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said sanctions against major Russian banks include one of the largest state banks, VTB, which will have all its assets frozen. But another major bank, Sberbank, was not mentioned.\n\nAnd the Ukrainian government wanted more – in particular moves to disconnect Russia from the international payment system known as Swift, which thousands of banks use to exchange information.\n\nThe US and the UK are in favour of such a move, but some European countries fear it could damage their own banks.\n\nSuspending Russia from Swift is still under consideration, but the hesitation is a reminder that in a globalised world all sanctions tend to have an impact on the countries imposing them as well.\n\nAnd the real trouble with sanctions is that they don’t work quickly.\n\nThey do increase pressure, and they can do damage.\n\nBut the international community is not trying to damage the Russian economy just for the sake of doing so.\n\nIt wants economic pressure to force a change in Putin’s political and military calculations.\n\nMeanwhile, the invasion of Ukraine continues.", "Kellerman starred in the original M*A*S*H film, but not the later TV series\n\nUS actress Sally Kellerman, whose roles included Margaret \"Hot Lips\" Houlihan in Robert Altman's 1970 film M*A*S*H, has died at the age of 84.\n\nHer role in the dark comedy about US Army medics in the Korean war earned her Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.\n\nShe worked with director Altman again on films including Brewster McCloud, The Player and Pret-a-Porter.\n\nStar Trek fans fondly remember her for the role of Dr Elizabeth Dehner in the original TV series' second pilot.\n\nCo-star William Shatner wrote on Twitter that he was \"sending condolences to the family of Sally Kellerman\".\n\nThe actress's other film roles included 1972's Last of the Red Hot Lovers opposite Alan Arkin, 1973's Slither alongside James Caan, 1976's Welcome To LA with Keith Carradine, 1979's A Little Romance with Laurence Olivier, and as Jodie Foster's mother in 1980's Foxes.\n\nOn the small screen, she starred in the major mini-series Centennial, which went out in 1978 and 79, and earned a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2015 for a guest role in US soap opera The Young and the Restless.\n\nShe also played Marc Maron's bohemian mother in his sitcom Maron. \"Sally Kellerman was radiant and beautiful and fun and so great to work with,\" Maron wrote on Twitter. \"My real mom was very flattered and a bit jealous. I'm sad she's gone.\"\n\nWhen M*A*S*H moved to TV, Kellerman didn't reprise the role of \"Hot Lips\", with Loretta Swit taking over in the series that ran from 1972 to 83.\n\nTV writer Gennefer Gross said of Kellerman on Twitter: \"Her voice, her impeccable comedic timing, her ability to shift between silly and smouldering and hold her own in barracks full of Army men. She was one of a kind.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ✌🏼rosanna arquette This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zmiinyi (Snake) Island is located 48km (30 miles) south of Ukraine's mainland in the Black Sea\n\nUkraine has honoured 13 soldiers who were killed defending a tiny island after reportedly swearing at a Russian ship that ordered them to surrender.\n\nIn unverified audio clips, the borders guards defending Zmiinyi Island in the Black Sea are told to \"lay down your weapons\" or \"be bombed\".\n\n\"Russian warship, go to hell,\" they respond.\n\nUkraine says they were then killed by air and sea strikes. Russia denies the account, saying they all surrendered.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has awarded each of the guards the posthumous title of \"Hero of Ukraine\".\n\n\"On our Zmiinyi Island, defending it to the last, all the border guards died heroically,\" Mr Zelensky said.\n\nIn the audio recordings, shared by a Ukrainian government official, the soldiers can be heard exchanging barbed comments with the Russian vessel.\n\n\"This is a Russian warship,\" one voice says in the clip. \"I propose you lay down your weapons and surrender to avoid bloodshed and unnecessary victims. Otherwise you will be bombed\"\n\nAccording to the audio, the Ukrainian soldiers can then be heard speaking amongst themselves, agreeing \"this is it\", before their final \"go to hell\".\n\nAccording to Ukrainian officials, those were the last words heard from the island before Russia began strikes and Kyiv lost contact with the island.\n\nThe official Russian account of the incident differs dramatically. Moscow said the 82 Ukrainian soldiers on the island surrendered it to them voluntarily and made no mention of carrying out strikes or inflicting casualties.\n\nSnake Island is a roughly 16-hectare (40-acre) rocky island owned by Ukraine that lies about 300km (186 miles) west of Crimea.\n\nUkraine says 137 of its civilians and military personnel were killed during Russia's invasion on Thursday.", "Downing Street was illuminated in yellow and blue on Thursday in symbolic support of Ukraine\n\nWar in Europe. Despite all the warnings, all the prime minister's war-era warnings at the weekend, all the distressing images emerging from Ukraine - that is still a sentence that's surreal to write in the UK in the 2020s.\n\nPoliticians here are universally horrified by what they see. They are vowing to stick together.\n\nDisagreements over the approach to take towards the Russian aggression are largely only over the scale and pace of the response, not the overall approach.\n\nThere is also a grisly acceptance that the UK's chosen approach to confronting Vladimir Putin will not immediately make that much difference.\n\nThe Russian leader knew there would be sanctions if he invaded. And it happened anyway.\n\nSo the application of those sanctions will not put brakes on the tanks as they roll on.\n\nThe prognosis is not certain, but sources briefed on UK intelligence say it's not unlikely that the Russians may be able to overwhelm the Ukrainian forces soon - with \"ominous assessments\" given to the cabinet on Thursday night.\n\nThe likely short-term outcome therefore is Russia messily occupying the country, with a dogged Ukrainian insurgency and the West's sanctions surely - but slowly - squeezing Russia's economy.\n\nOne minister told me that we are therefore in for a \"long and serious\" conflict. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is understood to hold this view too.\n\nAnd just as no one expects the conflict to be over soon, no one expects its effects to be here and then gone.\n\nFor our politicians - the prime minister and of course his counterparts around the West - the challenge is so huge.\n\nThey are the first political generation in decades to have to grapple with a war of this nature in our continent.\n\nUK intelligence fears Russia may overwhelm Ukraine soon - but the conflict could last much longer\n\nTheir adversary is unpredictable and they don't have easy answers, not least because the UK and its allies have no intention of putting their own boots on the ground.\n\nThe West wants to fight Mr Putin's real weapons with economic ones - it is a not a symmetrical fight. And for all of us, it shakes the stable order we have, broadly speaking, lived with for decades.\n\nThis changes the political atmosphere, and the backdrop against which the government makes all sorts of decisions on our behalf.\n\nIn really practical terms too this conflict is at once a thousand miles away and right here.\n\nWe will all feel it, in the price of petrol at the pump, even the cost of a loaf of bread. The price of oil, the price of wheat, the effect on the financial markets that feed through to our pensions, our pay.\n\nInflation is already running hot. Money is stretching less far.\n\nOur economy's still recovering from the battering of another shock, a global pandemic. This conflict might slam the brakes on the journey out of that.\n\nThe events of the last 24 hours are evidence of the real fight some in the West have long feared may come.\n\nA battle for ideas, played out in real life that others perhaps wished would never come.\n\nBut it's here now. Downing Street was bathed last night in the yellow and blue light of the Ukrainian flag.\n\nIt was a display of the UK's genuine wish to show support to Ukraine.\n\nThe UK's politicians are unusually united in the need to stand completely firm.\n\nBut few in Westminster can hope the UK's actions can bring an end quickly to what's happening.\n\nSymbols and sanctions may not be enough to make Mr Putin stop.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe O2 Arena has reopened following damage caused during Storm Eunice.\n\nSections of the fabric roof of the venue, formerly known as the Millennium Dome, were shredded by the strength of the storm's winds on 18 February.\n\nThe building in Greenwich was evacuated and shut on Friday last week, but the O2 reopened at 10:00 GMT.\n\nA number of concerts - including The Lumineers and rapper Dave - were postponed and have since been rescheduled.\n\nFormer UB40 member Ali Campbell said he planned to \"tear the roof off\" the arena again as he returns to the stage in memory of his late bandmate Astro later.\n\nThe O2 said it had carried out rigorous safety checks and deemed the venue \"safe, secure and structurally sound\".\n\nThe building was evacuated and has been shut for most of the week\n\nIn a statement released on Wednesday, the arena said the hole in the fabric would remain visible for some time while a permanent solution was put in place.\n\nDamage was isolated to an area within the O2's premium outlet shopping experience Icon Outlet, which would remain closed, the O2 said.\n\nSteve Sayer, vice president and general manager of the O2, said: \"Confirming our reopening after such a short closure is a huge testament to everyone who is working so hard to get us open again.\n\n\"Safety will always be our number one priority and as a venue, we have always been proud of the standards we hold and delivering a best in class fan and artist experience.\"\n\nThe Entertainment District, which houses London's largest cinema and more than 30 bars and restaurants, will reopen on the same day as well as Up at the O2.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "The Russian Formula 1 Grand Prix has been cancelled as a result of the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAn F1 statement said it had been agreed at a meeting of stakeholders \"that it is impossible to hold the Russian Grand Prix in the current circumstances\".\n\nIt added that F1 was watching the ongoing situation in Ukraine \"with sadness and shock and hopes for a swift and peaceful resolution\".\n\nThe Russian Grand Prix was due to take place on 25 September in Sochi.\n\nMeanwhile, Haas team boss Gunther Steiner has said the future of his driver Nikita Mazepin \"needs to resolved\".\n\nSteiner said the team had \"legal issues to go through\" in an apparent hint the US-based outfit are trying to split from Mazepin and the sponsorship money that comes from his father Dmitry - a billionaire with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nHaas had already removed the logos advertising Mazepin's company before Friday's final day of this week's pre-season test in Barcelona.\n\nSteiner said the team would work on the situation next week, but insisted the future of Haas in F1 was not in doubt.\n• None For the latest from Ukraine, follow live updates from BBC News\n• None Champions League final moved from Russia to Paris & what else is happening in sport?\n\n'I should not go, I will not go'\n\nThe Russian Grand Prix is closely associated with Putin, who was instrumental in it being established in 2014 in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi, where he has a palace.\n\nThe event is due to move to a purpose-built facility outside St Petersburg, Putin's hometown, from 2023, but the event's future in F1 must now be in serious doubt.\n\nOn Thursday, four-time champion Sebastian Vettel said he would not race in Russia if the race went ahead.\n\nThe German said: \"I should not go, I will not go. It is wrong to race in the country.\n\n\"I am sorry for the innocent people who are being killed for stupid reasons and a very strange and mad leadership.\"\n\nHis thoughts were echoed by world champion Max Verstappen, who said: \"When a country is at war it is not right to race there.\"\n\nWhat have other drivers said?\n\nPierre Gasly (Alpha Tauri): \"I am really pleased this decision was made. It is completely the right one, knowing they are in war. It's really sad to see what's happening.\n\n\"We know how powerful Russia is. It's an unfair fight and I am just very sorry and feeling very sad for all these families out there. I am also personally affected, having some people close to me in Ukraine.\n\n\"It's a very difficult situation and very scary because they don't know if they are going to be able to make it out and see their relatives. I don't see us going to Russia with the decisions they have taken lately. We are not the only sport to make such a statement and take these decisions.\"\n\nLando Norris (McLaren): \"This is a very good decision from Formula 1. Russia is not a place I would want to be going right now and I'm very sad to see what's going on and the innocent lives that are being taken.\n\n\"There is no reason we should live our lives normally and go and have a normal race in that country when those things are going on. I definitely wouldn't want to go.\"\n\nAlexander Albon (Williams): \"I think it's the right step. It's really saddening. There are much bigger things out there than racing.\"\n\nCarlos Sainz (Ferrari): \"I would have found it very difficult to catch a plane and land in a country that is at war, so I am happy everything has been cancelled for the moment and now we can just hope and pray that everything is going to be solved soon.\"\n\nLance Stroll (Aston Martin): \"It's terrible what is going on in the world right now. For innocent people just lose their lives, you have to put everything in perspective.\n\n\"It's very scary times and we definitely have to pray and hope things will be OK. But it is very hard to watch. F1 has made the right decision. We can't be going to Russia right now.\"\n\nWhat about Haas and Mazepin?\n\nHaas are owned by the US billionaire Gene Haas, who welcomed Mazepin's money before last season to reduce his own investment in the team.\n\nMazepin has been an underwhelming performer, and Putin's decision looks likely to end his F1 career.\n\nAsked about the Mazepins' involvement, Steiner said: \"It needs to be resolved. There are governments involved and I have no power over them and we need to see how the situation develops in Ukraine.\"\n\nAnd referencing the decision to remove the stickers advertising Mazepin's father's company and the colour scheme on the car, which echoed the Russian flag, Steiner said: \"We made a decision yesterday with our team partners.\n\n\"I need to work on the rest next week. There is no setback for the competition side of the team, none at all. We just have to go through the commercial issues.\n\n\"The team are not affected by this. I told them there is nothing to worry about. We took the right decision to send a message to everyone.\"\n• None Watch the trailer for the extraordinary new series of Killing Eve", "The government wants to stop a BBC programme that alleges an MI5 agent is a dangerous extremist and misogynist, who abused two former female partners.\n\nA High Court judgment published on Thursday revealed details of the previously-secret legal battle over whether the story can proceed.\n\nMr Justice Chamberlain said parts of the case must be heard in public.\n\nA full hearing of the attorney general's request for an injunction against the BBC begins on 1 March.\n\nSummarising the proposed story, Mr Justice Chamberlain said: \"The BBC wants to broadcast a programme about an individual, \"X\".\n\n\"The programme is to include the allegations that X is a dangerous extremist and misogynist who physically and psychologically abused two former female partners.\n\n\"[The BBC will allege] that X is also a covert human intelligence source (variously referred to as a 'CHIS' or an 'agent') for the Security Service, MI5, that X told one of these women that he worked for MI5 in order to terrorise and control her - and that MI5 should have known about X's behaviour and realised that it was inappropriate to use him as a CHIS.\n\n\"The BBC says that the broadcast of this story, and the identification of X by name, is in the public interest.\"\n\nThe judge said that the Attorney General, Suella Braverman QC, was seeking an injunction to prevent the BBC from broadcasting the programme while, at the same time, neither confirming nor denying in public whether X has ever worked for MI5.\n\n\"She submits, however, that irrespective of the truth of the allegation, the BBC's proposed broadcast would involve a breach of confidence... create a real and immediate risk to the life, safety and private life of X and damage the public interest and national security.\n\n\"The Attorney has also made clear that there would be no objection to a broadcast making allegations about MI5's use and management of agents without naming or otherwise identifying X or any particular individual.\n\n\"Nor would there be any problem with a broadcast making allegations about the conduct and dangerousness of X without identifying him as an alleged MI5 agent.\"\n\nMr Justice Chamberlain said he had not been convinced by arguments from the attorney general that he should ban the media and public from attending court.\n\nInstead, parts of the case will be heard behind closed doors under a legal procedure designed to allow the UK's intelligence agencies to provide evidence to a judge, and other parts of the case will now be heard in public.\n\nThe judge said this decision was influenced by the government's failure so far to dispel the possibility that it had been the source for quotes in the Daily Telegraph warning about the BBC's intentions.\n\n\"The fact that a government source, whether acting with or without authority, appears to have briefed the press about this case has an impact on the extent to which it is necessary to sit in private to secure the proper administration of justice,\" said the judge.\n\n\"It would in principle be unfair to allow one party to put its own spin on a case without allowing the other party to put before the public even the basic factual elements of its defence.\n\n\"The question of damage to national security... has to be considered against that background.\"", "This is the moment a woman confronted an armed Russian soldier in the city of Henichesk in Ukraine.\n\nThe woman approached the soldier on Thursday, who can be seen holding a large machine gun, before asking him, \"Who are you... Why did you come here with weapons?\"", "Reid Steele died at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff in August\n\nA mother has pleaded guilty to killing her two-year-old son, who died after he was submerged in water at his home.\n\nReid Steele died at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, on 12 August last year, a day after he was found injured in his bathroom.\n\nAt Cardiff Crown Court, she appeared via video link from a psychiatric unit, and will be sentenced on 3 May.\n\nNatalie Steele will be sentenced in May after admitting manslaughter by diminished responsibility\n\nThe court heard that she suffered from a \"psychosis\" and \"psychotic depression\".\n\nMichael Jones QC, prosecuting, told the court reports had been received from two psychiatrists into Steele's mental health.\n\n\"For the reasons set out in the reports of Dr Huckle and Dr Wynne that while she is fit to plead and stand trial, at the time she was suffering from a psychosis and psychotic depression.\"\n\nReid was found unresponsive on the bathroom floor of his home\n\nJudge Michael Fitton QC said he agreed with the position adopted by the prosecution.\n\n\"I make it clear I have seen the reports prepared by both experts, for each of whom I have the highest regard and who deal comprehensively with the tragic circumstances behind the commission of the offence.\n\n\"The nature and extent of her illness is obvious to anyone who has begun to read those reports.\"\n\nSteele was remanded into custody until sentencing.\n\nThe judge told her: \"I have read the reports and I understand why the prosecution have accepted the plea of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.\n\n\"There is a lot of work for you [to do] with the psychiatrists and I would urge you to fully co-operate.\"\n\nFlowers were left near Reid's Bridgend home after his death in August\n\nPaying tribute to him last year, Reid's family described him as a \"super-happy, gorgeous, wonderful and intelligent little boy who lit up everyone's lives.\"\n\nThey added: \"He loved the garden and the beach, picking raspberries and going for walks collecting shells.\n\n\"He was a very chatty little boy and would happily speak to anyone.\"\n\nAt the time of his death, Bridgend council leader Huw David said the news \"left local people shocked and saddened,\" and he called it \"extremely distressing and traumatic\".\n\nThe opening of an inquest last year into Reid's death was told that he was found unresponsive on a bathroom floor after being submerged in water.\n\nThe inquest hearing at Pontypridd coroner's court was told in September that he died from cardiac arrest.\n\nHe was discovered at his home by his grandmother on the evening of 11 August.\n\nEmergency services took him to hospital, where a CT scan was carried out, but he died the next day.\n\nHis cause of death was described at the inquest hearing as \"1a hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy 1b cardiac arrest\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What role did these police have in Floyd’s death?\n\nThree ex-Minneapolis policemen present at the death of George Floyd denied the unarmed black man of his civil rights, a jury has found.\n\nThe officers were charged with showing \"deliberate indifference to [Mr Floyd's] serious medical needs\" during the attempted arrest in May 2020.\n\nTou Thao, 36, J Alexander Kueng, 28, and Thomas Lane, 38, all testified in their own defence in the trial.\n\nThey said they did not realise Mr Floyd needed medical care at the time.\n\nViolating a person's civil rights carries various punishments but prosecutors have recommended 25 years in federal prison for each man.\n\nDerek Chauvin, the former police officer who was filmed kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, is currently serving a 22-and-a-half-year sentence.\n\nChauvin was found guilty of Mr Floyd's murder last April. He also pleaded guilty in December to his own federal civil rights charges as part of a plea agreement.\n\nVideo footage of the arrest shows Keung and Lane assisting Chauvin by helping to hold Mr Floyd down. Thao, meanwhile, kept concerned bystanders away.\n\nOver four weeks of testimony, prosecutors argued that \"human decency and common sense\" should have compelled the men to take action to prevent Mr Floyd's death.\n\n\"It wasn't a split-second use of force like a gunshot. Not 30 seconds, not a minute, several minutes - 569 seconds,\" said Assistant US Attorney Manda Sertich.\n\nBut lawyers for the defence claimed they were listening to a commander with seniority.\n\nChauvin was a field training officer to both Lane and Kueng.\n\nWhen asked why he did not tell Chauvin to get his knee off Mr Floyd's neck, Officer Thao testified: \"I think I would trust a 19-year veteran to figure it out.\"\n\nA 12-person jury deliberated for about 13 hours before returning their verdict on Thursday.\n\nIn June, the trio of defendants will be back, this time in state court, to face criminal charges for aiding and abetting Chauvin's actions.", "Lowri was introduced to skiing by her mother\n\nFor many young people watching Beijing's Winter Olympics, competing at that level might seem a world away.\n\nBut for Lowri Howie, 12, from Harlech, Gwynedd, it is far from a pipe dream.\n\nShe has been skiing since she was four, honing her skills on the dry slope in Llandudno, Conwy, in between visits to the Alps to practice on real snow.\n\nThis week her meteoric rise in the sport continued with victories at the English Alpine Championships in Bormio, Italy.\n\nThe Covid pandemic has meant long periods when ski facilities were closed and opportunities to travel abroad have been restricted, making Lowri's latest triumph all the more satisfying.\n\nMakeshift training activities were quickly adapted, from unicycling and wakeboarding to juggling and box jumps, to keep her sharp until the long-awaited return to the slopes.\n\nLowri has been skiing since she was four\n\n\"It was a bit upsetting not being able to go, but then I still kept going with my training, and Instagram posts to keep people entertained,\" said Lowri.\n\n\"When the ski resorts opened again I was pretty happy to go back and see my friends and coaches, and being on snow again - it was great to have that feeling again.\"\n\nEasing restrictions meant an opportunity for Lowri and her mother Einir to travel to Austria, where she has been training at an academy for the past few weeks in preparation for the championships.\n\n\"I enjoy watching her skiing, but it can be nerve-wracking!\" said Einir, who previously worked as a ski resort holiday rep and inspired Lowri's love of winter sports.\n\n\"We never thought a few years ago we'd be training in Austria now and competing in the Alpine Championships, so we're just taking it step by step and see what happens.\"\n\nAt Lowri's regular training slope in Llandudno, her coaches are in no doubt about her potential to reach the pinnacle of the sport.\n\n\"We're very lucky that we've got three Welsh squad members amongst us,\" said Sion Salisbury, a coach at the North Wales Snowsports Club.\n\n\"Lowri's among them, and she's one of the best placed racers of her age group in Britain.\n\n\"She's very talented, she's a natural skier, she works hard, she's got the right ethos.\"\n\nDave Ryding, 35, won Britain's first alpine skiing gold medal in the Kitzbuhel slalom in January.\n\n\"He learnt to ski at a similar age to Lowri on a dry ski slope in Pendle,\" said Sion.\n\n\"If she's willing to put in the hard work, there's no reason why she can't.\"\n\nIt is an opinion shared by fellow clubmate Molly, who is full of praise for the facility and and her fellow skier's talents.\n\n\"We always support each other here, we're like one big family. She's great in her age group, absolutely amazing,\" she said.\n\nLowri tackles her final race at the Alpine Championships on Friday, following a slalom win on Wednesday to go with an opening day victory in her favoured giant slalom event.\n\nLowri hopes to compete in the Winter Olympics\n\n\"I absolutely love the giant slalom because there's more of a gap there so it's easier [to pass through] - it's more flowy, and you can go really quick and I love going quick,\" she said\n\nAnd having already met many of Team GB's biggest skiing stars - including being complimented on her slalom by Scottish World Cup racer Charlie Guest - her aspirations of reaching those levels are clear.\n\n\"I hope to be there some day in future, and I love to watch them ski,\" said Lowri.\n\n\"I really hope my dreams will come true, and I really hope some of my team-mates will join me as well in competitions - and it'd be pretty exciting if I could race with Alex Tilley [Scottish Olympic alpine ski racer] and them in the future.\"\n\nIn the meantime she keeps her friends updated on social media with photos and videos of her skiing - including her successes and occasional mishaps.\n\n\"There's a lot of falling, but I keep on doing it and get better and better.\"", "Russian forces have launched a military assault on neighbouring Ukraine, crossing its borders and bombing targets near big cities.\n\nFootage from locations around the country shows how some of the violence has unfolded, including a fireball as missile hit an airport in western Ukraine, a Russian helicopter coming under fire and pre-dawn explosions close to the city of Kharkiv.", "The Kickstart programme was launched to help young people into work\n\nA £1.9bn scheme to help young people into work is helping far fewer than hoped, a committee of MPs has warned.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said it supported the intention of targeted help for young workers during the pandemic but the £1.9bn \"emergency intervention\" Kickstart scheme has supported far fewer than predicted.\n\n\"Early delivery was chaotic,\" the MPs said in their report on Friday.\n\nThe government said the policy had helped 130,000 young people into work.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) now forecasts that Kickstart will support 168,000 young people, fewer than the original prediction of 250,000, the report said.\n\nThe programme, which launched in September 2020, targets young people at risk of long-term unemployment.\n\nThe report said the DWP \"neglected to put in place basic management information that would be expected for a multi-billion-pound grant programme\".\n\nThe economic hit of Covid to young people was not as bad first predicted. However, the report found the DWP does not know why many young people who signed up for Universal Credit early in the pandemic have not since come off the benefit and into Kickstart jobs.\n\nDame Meg Hillier, chair of the PAC, said: \"There are very unfortunate similarities across government's Covid response schemes: rushed implementation and too little track kept of whether a scheme was delivering what it promises - even given the unprecedented pressures at the start of the pandemic.\n\n\"In this case the department simply has no idea whether this scheme was worth the money, not least because it has little idea what was delivered for it,\" she said.\n\nThe report recommended the government try to claw back the scheme's £1,500 employment support costs where the employer has not used the money as it should have.\n\nThe PAC report said the programme will likely only place 168,000 people between ages 16 and 24 into job roles\n\nUnder the Kickstart scheme, businesses apply to the DWP to create Kickstart places, which are then vetted for suitability.\n\nPeople aged between 16 and 24 who are on Universal Credit are matched to roles by their job centre work coaches.\n\nThey are then interviewed by the prospective employer, which decides whether to give them a role.\n\nFor each successful placement, the government covers the national minimum wage for a six-month period, at 25 hours per week.\n\nA further £1,500 grant is available per placement to help cover set-up costs and assist in developing skills.\n\n\"It has given more than 130,000 young people opportunities to work, earn and improve their prospects. It responded to extraordinary circumstances at unprecedented pace, as part of the wider Plan for Jobs which has defied forecasts of unemployment rising to 12% - the headline rate is actually 4.1%,\" they said.\n\n\"We will consider the PAC's conclusions as we continue our mission to get people into work so they can take home more money,\" they added.\n\nMore than one year since the scheme was launched, with \"stronger than expected economic growth\", the DWP is now forecasting that Kickstart will support far fewer young people than envisaged - 168,000 compared with the original prediction of 250,000 - and will cost £1.26bn.\n\nWhile this scheme was supposed to provide specific help during the pandemic, it could have solved a much longer-running problem - finding a route back into work for young people who've been unemployed for ages, in fact some may never have worked at all.\n\nInstead, what the committee's report suggests is a spending splurge, with little help or guidance to employers, no way of measuring success, and no way of seeing that the right young people were recruited.\n\nAt a moment in the pandemic when the government's purse-strings were loosened for all the right reasons this scheme should have had a lasting legacy of bringing left-behind young people into the world of world.\n\nThis report suggests an open goal has been bungled. An expensive price tag and little to show for it.", "The UK will introduce sanctions against Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov \"imminently\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nAccording to the UK's sanctions list they will face asset freezes - a measure also being imposed by the EU and the US - but not a travel ban.\n\nThe announcement comes after Russia invaded Ukraine, with tanks since entering the capital Kyiv.\n\nMr Johnson said the world must ensure Mr Putin's \"act of aggression\" fails.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine has provoked condemnation from countries in the West and retaliatory sanctions.\n\nSpeaking to leaders of the Nato military alliance in a virtual meeting, Mr Johnson said a \"catastrophe was engulfing Ukraine\" and Mr Putin was engaging in a mission to \"overturn the post-Cold War order\".\n\nThe prime minister warned allies the Russian president's ambitions might not stop at Ukraine, adding it was \"vital\" Nato was strengthened now in response to what was a \"Euro-Atlantic crisis with global consequences\".\n\nMr Johnson said the UK stood ready for any request from Nato to go further with military support.\n\nOn Friday evening, in a video posted on social media, he addressed the people of Russia directly, saying in Russian: \"I do not believe this war is in your name.\"\n\nHe also spoke Ukrainian after urging an end to the conflict, saying \"the world needs a free and sovereign Ukraine\".\n\nIt is unclear how significant Mr Putin and Mr Lavrov's assets in the US, EU and UK are and what practical impact the sanctions will have on them.\n\nEU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the pair joined Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in being the only world leaders to be sanctioned by the EU.\n\nThe US is also imposing a travel ban on Mr Putin and Mr Lavrov - a move the UK and EU have not adopted for now.\n\nHowever, the allies stopped short of removing Russia from the international banking system Swift - something Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson reiterated his plea for world leaders to take \"immediate action\" on removing Russia from Swift to \"inflict maximum pain on President Putin and his regime\".\n\nSome of the most stringent sanctions announced this week by Western nations include:\n\nThe announcement that Mr Putin and Mr Lavrov will be targeted comes after the UK announced a package of strengthened sanctions against Russia on Thursday.\n\nRussian banks, businesses and oligarchs were targeted in the measures.\n\nThe national airline Aeroflot was also banned from landing at UK airports or flying through its airspace - with Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announcing on Friday that the same measure would apply to all Russian private jets.\n\nThe symbolism of freezing the UK assets of President Putin himself and those of his foreign minister couldn't be plainer.\n\nAs with the EU though, which has announced the same, questions are likely to be asked about how many assets either man personally has in the UK.\n\nThe move that is believed could have a significant impact would be removing Russian banks from the international Swift system, which facilitates money transfers.\n\nThe prime minister is pushing for that but it can't be done by the UK alone, so diplomatic efforts to persuade other allies continue.\n\nMeanwhile, Western officials believe the more resistance Russians encounter from Ukrainian forces, the more brutal and indiscriminate they become.\n\nRussia has been continuing its assault from the north, south and east, but Ukrainian resistance has been inflicting casualties on Russian forces.\n\nSources suggest the brutality of Russian forces is being ramped up in the face of this resistance - an assessment experts delivered at a meeting of the UK's cabinet ministers on Thursday.\n\nMembers of the Ukrainian National Guard are pictured taking position in Ukraine's capital Kyiv\n\nThe UK ambassador to the UN has said \"Russia is isolated\" after Moscow vetoed a UN Security Council resolution urging it to halt the invasion and withdraw its troops.\n\nDame Barbara Woodward said following the vote it was \"absurd\" for Russia to claim the invasion was in self-defence.\n\n\"Russia's only act of self-defence is the vote they have cast against this resolution\" Dame Barbara said.\n\n\"Make no mistake: Russia is isolated. It has no support for the invasion of Ukraine.\"\n\nEarlier, the Belarussian ambassador to the UK, Maxim Yermalovich, was summoned to the Foreign Office over his country's role in the invasion.\n\nMinister for Europe and North America James Cleverly made clear Belarus had \"aided and abetted\" Russia's \"reckless aggression\", the Foreign Office said.\n\nThe UK has already said sanctions will be applied to Belarus, a long-term ally of Russia.\n\nAlso on Friday Mr Johnson spoke to Mr Zelensky, pledging more support in coming days.\n\nMr Zelensky said Ukraine \"needs the support of partners more than ever\" and called for stronger sanctions.\n\nNato - the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - is a military alliance originally formed in 1949 by 12 countries, including the US, Canada, the UK and France.\n\nMembers agree to come to one another's aid in the event of an armed attack against any member state. Ukraine is not in Nato but wants to join the alliance.\n\nRussia had sought assurances this would never be allowed to happen.", "The Poland-Ukraine border. Poland is setting up reception points for expected refugees\n\nMajor Western nations have reacted with outrage at Russia's invasion of Ukraine, accusing it of bringing war back to Europe.\n\nFrance's Emmanuel Macron said this was a \"turning point in the history of Europe\", with the G7 group of nations vowing to impose severe sanctions.\n\nIn eastern Europe, the fears extended to coping with a wave of refugees.\n\nBut China bridled at the word invasion and joined those nations focusing more on their citizens' safety.\n\nUkraine says Russia is carrying out a full-scale attack from many directions, but the details of the assault and the number of casualties are not yet clear.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has spoken of a \"special military operation\" aimed at the demilitarisation and \"denazification\" of Ukraine, but his overall goals also remain unclear.\n\nThe uncertainty has not stopped an angry and defiant response from Western allies.\n\nA largely united voice spoke out with condemnation and promises of sanctions.\n\nUS President Joe Biden said: \"President Putin has chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering.\"\n\nEuropean Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Mr Putin was \"responsible for bringing war back to Europe\".\n\nUK PM Boris Johnson said Mr Putin had \"chosen a path of bloodshed and destruction\" with an \"unprovoked attack\".\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz also reacted angrily, calling this \"Putin's war\" and saying the Russian leader would pay a \"bitter price\" for his \"serious error\".\n\nThe G7 - the US, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada - vowed in a joint statement to bring forward \"severe and co-ordinated\" sanctions.\n\nThe EU bloc will have more of them, which Ms Von der Leyen said would \"weaken Russia's economic base and its capacity to modernise\".\n\nBut there remains huge concern at what could happen next.\n\nOne German minister spoke of a \"land war in Europe that we thought was only to find in history books\", while another, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, said Germany would help neighbours if there was a \"large-scale influx\" of refugees.\n\nThat concern is also shared by Ukraine's neighbours, but many were also scrambling to shore up their own security.\n\nThe president of Lithuania, a Nato member, said he was going to impose a state of emergency.\n\nA similar decree has been issued by Moldova further south. Dozens of cars were reportedly queuing on the border with Ukraine, with Moldova saying it would accept tens of thousands of refugees.\n\nRomania said it could take half a million.\n\nPoland is setting up reception points for refugees. It told Russia to end its attacks and leave Ukraine alone.\n\nGeorgia - which fought Russia in 2008 over disputed regions - backed Ukraine, saying the Russian attack would have \"dire consequences\" for the international community.\n\nRussia's ally, Belarus, said it was not taking part in the military action, but would consider it if asked. Belarus has hosted Russian troops during the crisis, and they crossed from the country into Ukraine as part of the attack.\n\nUkraine has asked Nato member Turkey to close the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits to Russian ships.\n\nTurkey will consider the request but shares friendly ties with both nations, and said it was \"sincerely saddened\" that they had come \"face-to-face\".\n\nThere has been a lot of interest in how China would respond. Its initial response was to call the word invasion a \"typical Western media question method\", with the foreign ministry saying \"we won't go rushing to a conclusion\".\n\nChina and Russia now have a strategic partnership aimed at countering US influence, sealed when Mr Putin and President Xi Jinping met just before the Winter Olympics in Beijing.\n\nChina told its citizens in Ukraine to fly a Chinese flag to try to protect themselves.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Footage from Ukraine shows explosions, a missile strike and a helicopter under fire\n\nUnited Nations chief, António Guterres, urged Vladimir Putin to halt the attack \"in the name of humanity\".\n\nA US-led draft resolution will demand Russia leaves Ukraine \"immediately, completely, unconditionally\", although Moscow has the power to veto it.\n\nSouth Korea condemned the attack, saying it would join international economic sanctions.\n\nAnd Australia will expand those it has already enforced. There must be \"a cost for this violent, unacceptable and egregious behaviour\", Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.\n\nIndia has focused on trying to keep its citizens inside Ukraine safe, although media reported that PM Narendra Modi could talk later to Mr Putin in a possible role as mediator.\n\nIran called for a political solution, with its foreign minister blaming Nato provocations for the Ukraine crisis.", "Kyiv residents seek shelter in a metro station after being urged by air sirens to find safety\n\nThousands of Kyiv residents spent the night in bomb shelters and metro stations as rocket attacks and explosions rocked the city.\n\nAcross Ukraine's capital and other cities, air raid sirens urged citizens to take cover in shelters.\n\nAbove ground, the sound of gunfire and missile strikes continued into the early hours of Friday morning.\n\nKyiv residents sought safety overnight in bomb shelters around the capital\n\n\"Last time our capital experienced anything like this was in 1941 when it was attacked by Nazi Germany,\" the country's foreign minister said.\n\nOne Kyiv resident who spoke to the BBC said she decided to take shelter in a subway station out of fear for her safety.\n\nPeople hide in a Kyiv bomb shelter in the early hours of Friday morning (file photo)\n\n\"Yesterday I woke up from the noise of explosions, I saw flash fires. It was scary,\" Ksenia told the BBC.\n\nShe says she is trying not to think too much about the physical threat to her life.\n\n\"I feel very, very, very angry because it's not a normal situation. It's my country, it's my land, it's my city. And now all of us, all of Ukrainians are under attack. Multiple cities are under attack.\"\n\nSpeaking from the metro station where she is sheltering with supplies to last her as long as necessary, Ksenia pleaded for the world to give more support to Ukraine.\n\n\"All the sanctions are good, but it's not enough. This war is not about only Ukraine and our independence and safety. We are a shield for you - Europe and the world.\"\n\nInstead of following suggestions to go to bomb shelters, other residents decided to leave central Kyiv entirely.\n\nA man looks out of the window of a damaged apartment hit by an early morning missile in Kyiv, Ukraine (file photo)\n\nCampaigner Oleksandra Matviychuk, speaking to the BBC from the outskirts of the capital, says she doesn't know what she will find when she returns home.\n\n\"I plan to return to my home when the alarm sirens finish. If it's [still] a home. Last night the Russians shelled a housing block. These days will be difficult for us,\" she added.\n\nAttempts by Kyiv's 2.8 million residents to get a peaceful night's sleep were interrupted by explosions.\n\nAnother resident - Maykl - told the BBC that he was awoken in the middle of the night by a huge explosion.\n\n\"It was a missile. Ten or 12 very large noises. Of course, people feel panic and start buying necessities. Some have decided to leave Kyiv and we have a traffic jam 30 km long.\"\n\nBut having fled to the capital from Ukraine's Donetsk region himself a few years ago, Maykl says he is an \"experienced refugee\" and not in a panic.\n\n\"We have boxes with all our papers. We have some clothes, food, and we're ready to leave. But my guess is we will win, because our army is strong enough to fight.\"\n\nKyiv's metro stations have became bomb shelters for residents fleeing air strikes\n\nIn the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest, the mayor has urged residents to head to subway stations, bomb shelters and basements.\n\nOlga, who lives in the city, told the BBC she spent all day in the bathroom with her children.\n\n\"We heard gunfire and explosions all the time,\" she says, adding that she spent the day trying to stay in touch with friends and family on the internet.\n\n\"We are holding on. We don't want to be in Russia. We are independent and the free state of Ukraine, and we will stand until the end.\"", "Old footage of aircraft taking part in Victory Day celebrations over Moscow were incorrectly labelled on Twitter\n\nThe Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to false or misleading videos and photographs being posted on social media claiming to be from the conflict.\n\nSome of those checked by the BBC include footage from previous conflicts in Ukraine or elsewhere in the world, and images of troops on exercises.\n\nSocial media platforms such as Twitter seem to be taking a proactive role in confronting misleading content, removing several videos shown to be misleading by fact-checkers and researchers.\n\nIn the opening hours of the conflict, several videos claiming to be the Russian air force operating over Ukraine were posted and went viral on social media.\n\nOne clip, which has subsequently been deleted, shows a fighter jet flying over an urban area. It is accompanied by a caption which implies it was filmed in the current Ukraine conflict.\n\nThis does not show a Russian or a Ukrainian jet\n\nCloser inspection, however, reveals that the aircraft is an American-built F-16 Fighting Falcon, which has never been in service in either Russia or Ukraine.\n\nA second clip shows formations of fighters and bombers flying over an urban area to the sound of air raid sirens.\n\nThese aircraft were preparing for a military parade flypast in 2020\n\nChecks made by the BBC found that the footage showed preparations for a military parade flypast in 2020. The sound of an air raid siren had been dubbed over the original audio.\n\nAnother video clip claims to show Russian paratroopers landing near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.\n\nIt's been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Twitter, but actually first appeared on Russian-language internet in 2016.\n\nA fourth clip shared widely on Twitter and YouTube is labelled as showing a Russian jet being shot down over Ukraine.\n\nThis footage is from Libya and is over 10 years old\n\nHowever, BBC journalists have seen this footage before. It's a Libyan government aircraft being shot down by rebels over Benghazi in 2011.\n\nVoices on the video can be heard celebrating in Arabic.\n\nSome imagery does not show combat operations at all.\n\nFootage of an explosion behind some apartment blocks claims to be from the city of Mariupol in south-eastern Ukraine.\n\nAmong those sharing the clip is the Twitter account of former Ukrainian ambassador to the US, Volodymyr Yelchenko.\n\nThis footage appeared on TikTok in January\n\nHowever, a version of this video was uploaded to TikTok on 29 January, on an account which regularly posts images and film of explosions.\n\nFurther, as the caption to the video suggests in Russian, it shows the result of a lightning strike on a power station, rather than any military action.\n\nUsers have also questioned the greenery on the trees, with available data showing average February temperatures in Mariupol at around zero Celsius.\n\nSome social media users have shared an image which claims to be of Russian troops raising a flag on the municipal building in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv today.\n\nWhile the caption is correct - it does show Russians hoisting the flag on that building in Kharkiv - reverse image search tools show that the event took place in 2014, during an earlier period of unrest.\n\nFinally, a video shared by one Chinese-language Twitter account, with the caption \"Putin the Great has attacked Ukraine\" is easily recognisable as the explosion of a port building in Beirut in August 2020, which caused more than 200 deaths.\n\nThe is an image of an explosion in Beirut in 2020\n\nFast-moving events mean that misleading imagery will inevitably appear on social media.\n\nIt is easily shared, often by those who believe the images to be genuine.\n\nSocial media users can limit the spread of disinformation by taking a few seconds before hitting the \"share\" button to consider whether what they're seeing seems genuine and is from a source that they trust.\n\nMost news organisations go to great lengths to verify footage before using it in their reports, so checking with multiple trusted sources before sharing will help to prevent these images from being widely shared.", "Members of the Territorial Defence Forces of Ukraine receive weapons\n\nCabinet ministers received what one source described as an \"ominous assessment\" from defence and intelligence chiefs on Thursday night about what may lie ahead for the people of Ukraine.\n\nAnd it has now become clearer what the fears of the Western allies are.\n\nUkrainian resistance to Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces is - for the people of the country - something of a double-edged sword.\n\nIntelligence assessments suggest Russian forces are making slower progress than they had envisaged.\n\nA well-placed Western official suggested Ukrainian forces had traded control of \"empty spaces\" and \"rural areas\" to concentrate on defending the cities.\n\nThere are now significant concerns Mr Putin will look to effect his aim of regime change in the capital Kyiv \"by any means necessary\", that source said.\n\nThat could mean the indiscriminate use of violence and the indiscriminate use of artillery - with the civilian population very much in the firing line.\n\nThis view is shared in Whitehall - that the more resistance the Russian forces face, the more relentless the retaliation they will carry out.\n\nWhat was a war of choice for Mr Putin could become a war of necessity, which he has to be seen to win.\n\nIn conversation with politicians and other government sources with good links to the defence and intelligence services, it is anticipated that when Russian forces formally take control of Ukrainian cities an insurgency will be mounted against them.\n\nThis, one source predicted, would be \"bloody and brutal\".\n\nAnother went as far as to express fears the tactics adopted by Russian forces at the beginning of the century in Grozny could, if necessary, be adopted again.\n\nThe Chechen city was subjected to heavy barrages of artillery, costing at least 5,000 lives.\n\nResidential areas of Kyiv have already suffered damage\n\nThere is also an expectation that Russian FSB agents operating in Ukraine will try to suppress dissent by targeting Moscow's vocal opponents.\n\nThe hope is the cost of deploying troops and material in Ukraine, and the economic damage of sanctions, might force a change of strategy or indeed leadership.\n\nBut a protracted period of conflict and sanctions is envisaged.\n\nThose who look for a glimmer of hope amid this grim landscape would argue Mr Putin is at risk of getting the opposite of what he wants - Nato reinforcing its eastern borders, greater isolation, and a more unified Ukrainian population.\n\nThey point, too, to the bravery of those Russians who have protested against the invasion.\n\nBut some Conservative as well as opposition MPs are urging more weaponry of all kinds - from flak jacket body armour and sat-phones to anti-aircraft missiles - to be sent to Ukraine and quickly.\n\nOn the record the government is remaining tight-lipped about the level of support being provided, but off the record it is saying more is on the way.\n\nHowever, the government will not specify exactly what and some MPs who have been in touch with their Ukrainian counterparts - who fear for their own safety - are not yet convinced enough is being done.\n\nAnd there is frustration the West did not seem to read or react to Russia's hostile intentions swiftly enough.\n\nAs one MP with a military background put it: \"There has been lack of strategic foresight.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is determined to see Mr Putin fail.\n\nBut it would seem the assessment in Whitehall is that victory won't come swiftly or easily.\n\nIn the immediate future, for all their bravery, the outlook for Ukrainians is bleak.", "Sabina Nessa's body was found near her home in Kidbrooke\n\nKoci Selamaj beat and strangled the 28-year-old as she walked through a park in Kidbrooke, south-east London, on 17 September.\n\nMs Nessa had left her home to meet a friend at a bar when she was targeted by Selamaj, who was said to have travelled to London to carry out \"a predatory attack on a stranger\".\n\nThe 36-year-old admitted a charge of murder at the Old Bailey on Friday.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced on 7 April.\n\nMs Nessa had been walking through Cator Park during the evening of 17 September when she was attacked and killed by Selamaj, who did not know her.\n\nKoci Selamaj, who had no previous convictions, also took a rolling pin to the murder scene\n\nAt an earlier hearing, prosecutor Alison Morgan QC described how the Albanian national drove to London from his home in Eastbourne to carry out what she described as \"a premeditated and predatory attack on a stranger\".\n\nThe killing was carried out with \"extreme violence\", Ms Morgan said, adding that the murder involved a sexual or sadistic element.\n\nThe court heard that CCTV showed Selamaj had spotted Ms Nessa and checked to see if there was anyone else around.\n\nHe then ran towards his victim and struck her 34 times using a metal traffic triangle, before carrying her away unconscious and strangling her in the park.\n\nSelamaj was assisted by an Albanian interpreter at a previous court hearing\n\nSelamaj disposed of the weapon in a river on his way back to Eastbourne.\n\nThe court heard he had previously been violent towards his former partner, putting his hands around her throat in a strangling motion.\n\nMs Nessa's body, which was covered in grass, was discovered the following day with her tights and underwear removed and parts of her body exposed.\n\nMs Morgan said: \"Some of her movements through the park and the attack on her were captured on CCTV footage.\n\n\"The male shown on that CCTV footage is alleged to be this defendant.\"\n\nHundreds attended a vigil for the 28-year-old teacher in the days after her murder\n\nThree days before, Selamaj put his plan into action by booking a room at the five-star Grand Hotel in Eastbourne, the town where he already had accommodation.\n\nHis reservation was for the night of 17 September and he arrived earlier in the day to check in.\n\nSelamaj spoke to hotel staff and was captured walking through the lobby wearing the same clothes as the suspect later spotted on CCTV in Kidbrooke.\n\nHis Nissan Micra was tracked by ANPR cameras and evidence was gathered to identify his movements from Eastbourne to London.\n\nThe defendant entered Cator Park shortly after 20:00 BST and lay in wait for 30 minutes before Ms Nessa arrived.\n\nPeople laid tributes in Pegler Square, near where the teacher was killed\n\nMs Morgan said: \"The defendant is seen in effect loitering in locations around the park before spotting the deceased, checking to see if anyone else was nearby before turning and running after her.\n\n\"He is then seen to move towards the deceased and striking her repeatedly using a weapon which was approximately 2ft in length.\"\n\nShe added that the weapon \"appeared to break up during the course of the many strikes on the deceased\".\n\n\"The CCTV footage shows the defendant then carrying the deceased, who appeared to be unconscious by that point, up a bank and effectively out of sight.\"\n\nSelamaj's actions afterwards were out of camera shot, but Ms Nessa was not seen alive again.\n\nThe prosecutor said: \"The male did appear after 10 minutes.\n\n\"He is seen to pick up pieces of the weapon that had broken on the ground and then moved back to the area the deceased was located for another 10 minutes.\"\n\nShortly before 21:00, Selamaj was seen using wet wipes to clean a bench.\n\nHe then returned to Eastbourne, staying the night at the Grand Hotel and checking out in the morning.\n\nSelamaj was arrested on 26 September in Eastbourne.\n\nIn a police interview, he made no comment except to deny murder when asked directly if he was responsible for killing Ms Nessa.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sabina Nessa's sister, Jebina Yasmin Islam: \"We have lost an amazing, caring, beautiful sister\"\n\nIn December, a lawyer for the defendant confirmed that he accepted being the person caught on CCTV and that he had hit Ms Nessa a number of times, although Selamaj still denied murder at that point.\n\nThe killing of Ms Nessa heightened concern for the safety of women and girls in the capital following the stranger murders of Sarah Everard, and sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman.\n\nIn the days after the teacher's death hundreds of people joined a vigil in Kidbrooke, with her family leading tributes.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook said it had refused to stop fact-checking and labelling content from state-owned news organisations.\n\nRussia has limited Twitter in parts of Russia, Twitter has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, the company said \"We're aware that Twitter is being restricted for some people in Russia and are working to keep our services safe and accessible\".\n\nOn Friday Russia restricted Facebook after a clash over \"censorship\".\n\nRussia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor accused Facebook of violating \"the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens\".\n\nFacebook said it had refused to stop fact-checking and labelling content from state-owned news organisations.\n\nInternet connectivity watchers at NetBlocks say there is a total or near-total restriction on Twitter in Russia.\n\nNetBlocks said Facebook and Instagram weren't \"observably restricted per our metrics, certainly not to the extent Twitter is at present\".\n\nThe actions follow Russia's attack on Ukraine with many videos and images of the invasion going viral on social media.\n\nThe BBC's Moscow correspondent, Steve Rosenberg, said he'd had difficulty tweeting.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Steve Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCircumvention for those in Russia is currently possible using VPN services, which can work around government-imposed restrictions.\n\nNetBlocks Director Alp Toker told the BBC: \"Russia's restriction of Twitter will significantly limit the free flow of information at a time of crisis when the public most need to stay informed.\"\n\nRoskomnadzor has not announced actions against Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can a government switch off access to the web?\n\nIt is unclear what the Facebook restrictions could mean if implemented or if other Meta-owned platforms - like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram - will be hit.\n\nThe Russian regulator had demanded Facebook lift the restrictions it placed on Thursday on state news agency RIA, state TV channel Zvezda, and pro-Kremlin news sites Lenta.Ru and Gazeta.Ru.\n\nIt said that Meta had \"ignored\" these requests.\n\nSir Nick Clegg, vice-president of global affairs at Meta, said Russian authorities \"ordered us to stop the independent fact-checking and labelling\" the outlets' content.\n\nBut he made clear he wanted Russians to continue to use Meta's platforms.\n\n\"Ordinary Russians are using our apps to express themselves and organise for action\", Sir Nick said, and the company wants \"them to continue to make their voices heard\".\n\nMany state-owned media outlets in Russia have painted a largely positive picture of Russian military advances in Ukraine, calling the invasion a \"special military operation\" that had been forced on Moscow.\n\nOn Thursday Meta said it had set up a \"special operations centre\" to monitor content about the conflict in Ukraine.\n\nRussia has its own Facebook equivalents, VK and Odnoklassniki, but Facebook is also popular in the country - as is Meta-owned Instagram.\n\nOn Friday, US Senator Mark Warner said Facebook, YouTube and other social media services had \"a clear responsibility to ensure that your products are not used to facilitate human rights abuses\".\n\nMeta has been under pressure to label misinformation - and has been working with outside fact-checkers, including Reuters.\n\nMoscow has also increased pressure on domestic media, threatening to block reports that contain what it describes as \"false information\" regarding its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nTwitter also told the BBC that its safety and integrity teams were \"disrupting attempts to amplify false and misleading information and to advance the speed and scale of our enforcement\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe sound of gunfire has echoed through Ukraine's capital Kyiv as Russian tanks were filmed entering the city for the first time.\n\nUkraine's Ministry of Defence called on those living in the northern outskirts, where the tanks were seen, to make fire bombs \"to neutralise the enemy\".\n\nThe European Union has announced new sanctions to freeze Vladimir Putin's personal assets in Europe.\n\nThe Kremlin, meanwhile, says that Russia is ready for talks with Ukraine.\n\nSpokesman Dmitry Peskov said talks would have to be about Ukraine declaring a \"neutral status\" - which would include \"demilitarisation\". Russia wants Ukraine to rule out ever joining Nato.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly called for talks with Mr Putin, but has given no sign that he would agree to talks on the basis of \"demilitarisation\".\n\nOvernight, Kyiv was hit by blasts, with at least one block of flats damaged and several civilians injured.\n\nAn unnamed source at Russia's defence ministry also said a plane shot down over Kyiv was Ukrainian, Reuters news agency reports. Ukraine has said the jet was Russian.\n\nAs the second day of fighting began, Moscow - which is attacking from the east, north and south - appeared to have Kyiv firmly in its sights. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said \"the enemy\" was trying to put Kyiv \"on its knees\".\n\nOn Friday afternoon, Russia's defence ministry announced it had captured the Antonov airport, using 200 helicopters and a landing force in order to take the base to the north of Kyiv from Ukraine. Western intelligence officials warned earlier that Russia was building an \"overwhelming force\" to take control of the city.\n\nCitizens in the northern Obolon district have been told to stay at home to avoid \"active military operations\" by city officials, Reuters adds. Obolon is the same area where it appeared tanks were filmed earlier in the day.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence had already appealed to the district's residents on its Facebook page to \"inform us of troop movements, to make Molotov cocktails [firebombs] and neutralise the enemy\".\n\nOvernight, families took shelter in Kyiv's metro stations as aerial attacks struck the city, including the densely populated Pozniake area, injuring at least eight.\n\n\"Putin, we want to see you slaughtered like an animal,\" one Kyiv resident told the BBC's Nick Beake.\n\n\"How we can live through it in our time?\" Oxana Gulenko asked Reuters as she cleaned up broken glass from one blast. \"What should we think. Putin should be burnt in hell along with his whole family.\"\n\nEarlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said no talks could be held until the Ukrainian military lays down its arms.\n\nMr Lavrov is also included in the EU's move to freeze personal assets - but it not clear whether he or President Putin have any significant assets in Europe.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky had earlier said Russia was seeking to \"destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state\".\n\n\"According to the information we have, the enemy has designated me as target number one. My family is target number two,\" he said.\n\nPresident Zelensky has vowed to stay in Kyiv and to continue fighting the attacks across Ukraine - which is coming from the north, south and east - ordering the call-up of conscripts and reservists in all of Ukraine's regions. The country's defence minister urged anyone able to hold a weapon to join the effort to repel Russia.\n\nThere have already been stories of immense bravery in the face of stark odds - including that of 13 border guards on a tiny island in the Black Sea who refused to surrender to a Russian warship and were massacred in a bombardment.\n\nPresident Zelensky said they would be given posthumous war hero honours.\n\nThursday also saw fighting around the site of the former nuclear power plant in Chernobyl. Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak said the nuclear site itself had been lost following a \"fierce battle\".\n\nOn Friday, Ukraine's nuclear agency said it was recording raised radiation levels in the area. A statement released by Russia's Ministry of Defence said levels were normal, adding an agreement had been reached \"to ensure security of the power plant and sarcophagus of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant\".\n\nUkraine says at least 137 people - civilians and soldiers - have been killed. Russia has not admitted any deaths, whilst both sides claim to have inflicted heavy losses on the other.\n\nA man walks past the wreckage of a plane in Kyiv\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin - who declared war in a dramatic televised address - has threatened any country attempting to interfere with \"consequences you have never seen\".\n\nThe UK, EU and other allies vowed to impose tough new sanctions to punish Moscow, but said they would not send in troops.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron held a telephone call with his Russian counterpart, in what was Mr Putin's first conversation with a Western leader in days, demanding an \"immediate halt\" to the offensive. The Kremlin, however, simply said the pair had a \"serious and frank exchange of views\".\n\nMr Zelensky, meanwhile, hit out at the European leaders' response.\n\n\"Like World War Two, you said never again, but here it is again and you're not doing enough to respond,\" he said.\n\nMany said it couldn't, wouldn't, happen. Not in 2022.\n\nFor weeks, Western officials analysing the intelligence warned of President Putin's plan to take Kyiv.\n\nFor weeks, I've asked Ukrainians in Kyiv about it, and ran it past every foreign and defence minister, every Russia-watcher I met at last weekend's security conference in Munich.\n\nIt just didn't make sense. Just didn't add up.\n\nAnd now, with every hour, Russian forces and fighting come ever closer to Kyiv.\n\nA city where Ukrainians tell all of us to \"call it Kyiv in Ukrainian, not Kiev in Russian\", a city which feels so European, is now in Moscow's sights.\n\n\"A failure of imagination\" is how former British intelligence chief Sir Alex Younger described it, adding \"we thought history had changed in 1991\" when the Soviet empire collapsed.\n\nSkip image gallery Tap or click to go through the gallery\n\nAre you in Ukraine? If it is safe to do so, tell us about your experiences of the recent events by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Chernobyl site contains several nuclear waste containment facilities to prevent radioactive materials spreading\n\nA radiation spike has been recorded near Chernobyl's nuclear power plant which has been seized by Russian forces, monitoring data shows.\n\nInvading Russian troops took control of the plant - the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986 - on Thursday, Ukraine said.\n\nRadiation levels increased about 20-fold on Thursday, monitoring stations there reported.\n\nBut experts say another major nuclear disaster there is \"extremely unlikely\".\n\nThe rise was caused by heavy military vehicles stirring contaminated soil in the 4,000-sq-km (2,485 sq-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned plant, Ukraine's State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate reported .\n\nThe biggest spike was recorded close to the damaged reactor.\n\nRadiation levels are continuously monitored there - measured as a dose that you would receive per hour in a location.\n\nClose to the reactor, you would normally receive a dose of about three units - called microsieverts - every hour. But on Thursday, that jumped to 65 microSv/hrs - about five times more than you would get on one transatlantic flight.\n\nProf Claire Corkhill, a nuclear materials expert from Sheffield University, told the BBC the spike was \"quite localised\" and there had been increases along the main routes in and out of the zone around the reactor.\n\n\"The increased movement of people and vehicles in and around the Chernobyl zone will have kicked up radioactive dust that's on the ground,\" Prof Corkhill said.\n\n\"Provided there's no further movement, it should decrease again over the next couple of days.\"\n\nBut any military activity in the zone is concerning.\n\nRussian troops captured the plant, about 130km (80 miles) north of the capital, Kyiv, after a fierce battle with Ukrainian forces, according to Ukrainian officials.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian officers fought to defend it, \"so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated.\" He called the Russian assault on Chernobyl a \"declaration of war against the whole of Europe.\"\n\nRussian officials have not commented on the battle.\n\nThe Chernobyl site contains several nuclear waste containment facilities - including the so-called \"new safe confinement\" - a huge protective dome that covers reactor number four, the reactor that infamously exploded, causing the 1986 disaster.\n\n\"These buildings are designed for containment, to keep radioactive materials inside, but they're not necessarily armoured: they're not designed to operate in a war zone,\" Prof Corkhill said.\n\nThe radioactivity in the plant has decayed significantly since 1986. \"And the thing that released the radioactivity then was a huge fire,\" said Prof Corkhill. But she stressed a repeat of that disaster was \"extremely unlikely\".\n\nOf much more concern is any fighting close to Ukraine's other working nuclear reactors.\n\nNuclear policy expert Prof James Acton wrote on Thursday: \"Chernobyl is inside a large uninhabited space. Ukraine's other reactors are not similarly isolated.\n\n\"Nuclear power plants,\" he added, \"are not designed for war zones.\"\n\nThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Ukraine informed it on Friday that the country's nuclear power reactors were continuing to operate \"safely and securely\".", "Men, women and children were seen crossing the border to Poland on foot after missiles began to hit Ukraine\n\nCharities have urged the UK to welcome thousands of refugees from Ukraine, matching the effort made after the 1990s conflict in the former Yugoslavia.\n\nThe UK should play a leading role in providing sanctuary, Save the Children and Amnesty International, among others, said in a letter to the Times.\n\nThe UN warned five million people could be displaced by Russia's invasion.\n\nThe Home Office said its priority was British nationals and their families.\n\nBut it said it would work with international partners on issues including migration as the situation develops.\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA) said councils stood ready to work with the government to support any scheme helping families fleeing Ukraine.\n\nAs the Russian assault raged on with missile strikes, explosions and clashes between civilians and military fighters, thousands of Ukrainians were trying to flee the country.\n\nBut they faced heavy traffic jams and bus and train services were overwhelmed.\n\nAir travel is no longer an option, as the Western airlines are completely avoiding the country's airspace, and Kyiv's international airport was reportedly one of the first targets of Russian strikes.\n\nSome people walked on foot, wheeling their possessions in suitcases across the border into Poland and Hungary.\n\nUN aid agencies said on Friday that fuel, cash and medical supplies are running low in parts of Ukraine, which could drive up to five million people to flee abroad.\n\nAt least 100,000 people have already fled their homes, while several thousand have crossed into neighbouring countries including Moldova, Romania and Poland, UN refugee agency spokesperson Shabia Mantoo told a briefing in Geneva.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the humanitarian impact of the conflict \"threatens to be enormous\", but added the UK needed to do everything it could to stabilise Ukraine's economy and support its government.\n\nIn their letter, the charities - which also include the International Rescue Committee UK, the Refugee Council, and dozens of other humanitarian groups - said the Ukraine attack could be \"the most significant European conflict since the collapse of Yugoslavia\".\n\n\"A generation ago, the UK saved the lives of thousands of families from the Balkans through an evacuation and resettlement programme,\" they said.\n\n\"The government should now respond with a well-resourced initiative working with councils across the country, to welcome Ukrainians who need sanctuary.\"\n\nCllr James Jamieson, chairman of the LGA, said councils were \"deeply saddened by the tragic events unfolding in Ukraine\" and were following the situation closely.\n\n\"As shown with the recent conflicts in Syria and Afghanistan, councils have a proud history of welcoming refugees, stepping forward voluntarily to offer homes and support to new arrivals and helping resettle them in local communities,\" he said.\n\nLabour deputy leader Angela Rayner welcomed the prime minister's vow to help Ukrainian refugees saying: \"They are in need, and we should be responding to that need.\"\n\nSpeaking in Newcastle, she said: \"I'm incredibly proud of the Ukrainians and I'm proud of what our country is doing to support their freedom and their right to exist.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats foreign affairs spokesperson, Layla Moran, described the queues of people \"desperate to get out before it is too late.\"\n\nShe said LGBTQ+ people, journalists and activists feared persecution from Russian forces.\n\n\"We must not turn our backs on the people of Ukraine in their hour of need,\" she said.\n\nSmall crowds gathered at the Ukrainian border as people fleeing waited to be let into Poland\n\nThe charities also urged the government to rethink its Nationality and Borders Bill, which they said would make it harder for refugees like those from Ukraine to claim asylum in the UK.\n\nThe bill would make it a criminal offence to knowingly arrive in the UK illegally and introduce life sentences for those who facilitate illegal entry into the country, potentially penalising those seeking sanctuary.\n\nVisa applications from Ukraine for people who are not related to British nationals are currently suspended, meaning there is no legal route for them to enter the UK and claim asylum.\n\nA source told the BBC the government is \"scenario planning\" for an increase in asylum seekers from Ukraine.\n\nThe Home Office said on Thursday night it was allowing some Ukrainian nationals in the UK to extend their visas.\n\nThose on visitor visas will be able to switch to apply for family visas or the points-based immigration system without leaving the country, potentially allowing them to get a job and stay in the UK for longer.\n\nUkrainians in the UK already on the point-based system will be able to stay longer and seasonal agricultural workers will have their visas automatically extended until the end of the year.", "Woodside in Perth and Kinross captured by Weather Watcher Lara\n\nPolice have warned of \"hazardous\" conditions for travel as falling temperatures overnight may have left widespread icy patches.\n\nIt follows the Met Office issuing a yellow weather warning for overnight snow and ice across most of mainland Scotland. This has now expired.\n\nForecasters said further wintry showers were expected, with snowfall on higher ground, leading to icy surfaces.\n\nDrivers across Scotland already faced hazardous conditions when much of the country was blanketed by snow and ice on Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said the unsettled weather would stay around over the next four or five days, although conditions were not expected to be as severe as during the past week.\n\nThe snow and freezing temperatures have been of benefit to Scotland's mountain snowsports centres.\n\nHowever, some staff at Glencoe Mountain had to work through the night to get generators in place after a lightning strike knocked out the mains power.\n\nThe resort was able to make all its runs available on Friday and managing director Andy Meldrum described the conditions for skiing as \"amazing\".\n\nThursday's snow saw a total of 29 high schools, primaries and nurseries in the Highlands and 10 schools in Perth and Kinross close.\n\nSeveral schools in South Lanarkshire also delayed opening.\n\nOn the roads, Traffic Scotland said snowy conditions affected much of the central belt, the A9 around Slochd and the A90 around Dundee.\n\nA number of rail and ferry services were also hit by heavy snow.\n\nA house on the Isle of Lewis caught fire after being struck by lightning on Wednesday\n\nMeanwhile, a house in Ardroil, Uig on the Isle of Lewis, was struck by lightning and caught fire during the adverse weather.\n\nThe Met Office said there was a small chance that snow showers could be accompanied by frequent lightning, which could affect power supplies.\n\nThis could affect some places outside of the yellow warning area.\n\nThick snow lay on the roads in Aberfoyle on Thursday\n\nGritters had yet to tackle this route in Stirling in the early hours of Thursday\n\nThe latest bad weather follows a run of named storms affecting Scotland and the rest of the UK.\n\nMillions of people in the south of England and Wales were told to stay at home as Storm Eunice was expected to be one of the worst storms in decades.\n\nThree people were killed in London, Hampshire and Merseyside as fierce winds toppled trees and sent debris flying. Five others were killed in Europe.\n\nIt followed storms Malik and Corrie in January, which left 118,000 homes in Scotland and 80,000 in England without power.\n\nAnd in November, whole communities were left without power for days during Storm Arwen while travellers from Elgin to Aberdeen were stuck on board a train for 17 hours.", "Tonight, at this midnight hour, stark warnings sound of an imminent onslaught against the heart of Kyiv.\n\n“In 30-60 mins #Kyiv will be under attack never seen before. #Russia will hit us with all they have,” tweeted MP Lesia Vasylenko.\n\nAir-raid sirens have pierced the darkness, amplified by warnings in buildings and neighbourhoods for residents to immediately take to shelters. This is already a city where life has dropped underground, to basements, bomb shelters, and metro stations-turned-bunkers. A strict curfew is in force until 8am on Monday.\n\nThere’s been a chilling quiet these last three days in the heart of Kyiv. An eerie stillness on emptied streets has been shattered by occasional crackles of gunfire, a thud of artillery and a thunder clap when missiles land in the distance, on the edges of a beleaguered capital.\n\nA Russian invasion, now at the end of its third day, has seemed to stall on the edges of the city in the midst of concerted Ukrainian resistance – soldiers guarding city gates, civilians taking up arms, even taunting Russian soldiers as they advance in their tanks and armoured vehicles.\n\nReports from Moscow in recent hours spoke of orders to advance on the city “from all directions.”\n\nIn the dead of a Kyiv night, there’s an ominous sense that the battle for this city is about to be unleashed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia has begun a large-scale military attack on Ukraine, its southern neighbour, on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThere are reports of attacks on Ukrainian military infrastructure across the country, and Russian convoys entering from all directions.\n\nHere is what we know so far.\n\nIn a televised speech at 05:55 Moscow time (02:55 GMT), Mr Putin announced a \"military operation\" in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. This area is home to many Russian-speaking Ukrainians. Parts of it has been occupied and run by Russian-backed rebels since 2014.\n\nMr Putin said Russia was intervening as an act of self-defence. Russia did not want to occupy Ukraine, he said, but would demilitarise and \"de-Nazify\" the country.\n\nHe urged Ukrainian soldiers in the combat zone to lay down their weapons and go home, but said clashes were inevitable and \"only a question of time\".\n\nAnd he added that any intervention from outside powers to resist the Russian attack would be met with an \"instant\" and devastating response.\n\nBBC correspondents heard loud bangs in the capital Kyiv, as well as Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. Blasts have also been heard in the southern port city of Odesa.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had carried out missile strikes on Ukraine's infrastructure and on border guards.\n\nRussia's defence ministry has denied attacking Ukrainian cities - saying it was targeting military infrastructure, air defence and air forces with \"high-precision weapons\".\n\nTanks and troops have poured into Ukraine at points along its eastern, southern and northern borders, Ukraine says.\n\nRussian military convoys have crossed from Belarus into Ukraine's northern Chernihiv region, and from Russia into the Sumy region, which is also in the north, Ukraine's border guard service (DPSU) said.\n\nBelarus is a long-time ally of Russia. Analysts describe the small country as Russia's \"client state\".\n\nConvoys have also entered the eastern Luhansk and Kharkiv regions, and moved into the Kherson region from Crimea - a territory that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.\n\nThe Russian offensive was preceded by artillery fire and there were injuries to border guards, the DPSU said.\n\nThere have also been reports of troops landing by sea at the Black Sea port cities of Mariupol and Odesa in the south. A British resident of Odesa told the BBC many people were leaving.\n\nAbout 10 civilians are believed to have been killed, including six in an air strike in Brovary near the capital Kyiv. A man was also killed in shelling outside the major eastern city of Kharkiv.\n\nA Ukrainian presidential adviser said that more than 40 soldiers had died and dozens more were wounded. Ukraine said it had killed 50 Russian troops.\n\nThe Ukrainian armed forces said they had shot down five Russian planes and a helicopter - which Russia denies - and inflicted casualties on invading troops.\n\nBut later on Thursday President Zelensky said Ukraine had suffered losses and a lot of aircraft and armoured vehicles had been destroyed.\n\nRussia said it has destroyed more than 70 military targets in Ukraine.\n\nMuch of the fighting appears to be centred around the east of the country. But clashes have also been taking place around Kyiv and the Black Sea port cities of Odesa and Mariupol.\n\nUkraine said its Antonov aircraft had been shot down near Kyiv\n\nUkraine has declared martial law - which means the military takes control temporarily. It has cut diplomatic ties with Russia, offered weapons to anyone who wants them and declared an overnight curfew for Kyiv.\n\nMeanwhile Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba implored the world to impose devastating sanctions, including banning Russia from the international Swift bank transfer system\n\nIn Kyiv there are huge jams on expressways as people flee the city.\n\nSocial media testimonies speak to a growing sense of panic, with some saying they are being rushed into bomb shelters and into basements. Television footage has showed people praying in the streets.\n\nMany people in Kyiv have sought shelter in underground metro stations. There were long queues at petrol stations and cash machines.\n\nResidents have been sheltering in metro stations\n\nFurther east in Kramatorsk, in the eastern Donetsk region, the BBC's Eastern European Correspondent Sarah Rainsford said people did not expect such a full-on assault.\n\n\"People were out on the streets last night in this city - they were waving the Ukrainian flag. They said this was their land. They were going nowhere,\" she reported.\n\n\"This is what people have been expecting, they have been waiting for, but no-one here can quite believe it's actually happening.\"\n\nOil prices surged above $100 for the first time in more than seven years.\n\nMeanwhile Russia's currency, the rouble, fell to an all-time low against the dollar and the euro.\n\nAnd the London Stock Exchange's leading FTSE 100 index plunged more than 200 points, or 2.7%, within moments of opening.\n\nPeople have driven across fields to leave the eastern city of Kharkiv\n\nUS President Joe Biden said Mr Putin had \"chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering\".\n\nHe said he would address Americans on Thursday about consequences Russia would face.\n\nUKPrime Minister Boris Johnson said that the \"hideous and barbaric venture by Vladimir Putin must end in failure\".\n\nAddressing Russians, he said: \"I cannot believe this is being done in your name, or that you really want the pariah status it will bring to the Putin regime.\" He told Ukrainians that the UK was \"on your side\".\n\nNato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg condemned Russia's \"reckless attack\" saying it \"puts at risk countless civilian lives\".\n\nEurope was \"facing its darkest hours since World War Two\", EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.\n\nHowever former US President Donald Trump says Mr Putin took advantage of American \"weakness\".\n\nHe called Fox News to say that he didn't believe that Putin \"wanted to do this, initially\".\n\n\"I think he wanted to do something and negotiate, and it got worse and worse, and then he saw the weakness,\" Trump said.\n\nSkip image gallery Tap or click to go through the gallery\n\nAre you in Ukraine? Are you or your family affected? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk.", "Household energy bills could top £3,000 a year in England, Wales and Scotland from October, in part due to the Ukraine crisis, a report has warned.\n\nThe bank Investec said the conflict, along with surging global demand, had made gas and electricity prices soar.\n\nIt expects the energy price cap, which limits what suppliers can charge, to hit £3,238 a year for the average home when it's next adjusted in October.\n\nThe cap is already due to rise by £693 to £1,971 in April.\n\nInvestec analyst Martin Young said a further rise in October, which would impact about 22 million households in England, Wales and Scotland, would be \"devastating\".\n\nHe said such an increase would \"plunge many people into fuel poverty\", with many facing an \"eat or heat dilemma in the winter season\".\n\n\"Absent sharp and significant declines in wholesale prices, we expect a significant jump in the cap in October,\" he said.\n\nUK gas and electricity prices have been rising for months, due to surging global demand following the end of pandemic restrictions.\n\nHowever, Investec said prices had risen even higher following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and would remain elevated for months.\n\nRussia is the world's largest natural gas exporter, and there are concerns western sanctions could push President Vladimir Putin to \"weaponise\" his resources and constrict supplies to Europe.\n\nThat would drive up wholesale prices worldwide, including in the UK, which gets little of its gas from Russia directly.\n\nNathan Piper, oil and gas analyst at Investec, told the BBC: \"Disruption to the flow of gas [from Russia to Europe] would result in extremely high prices with no real alternatives.\n\n\"So, we were tight in Europe with domestic production declining and the invasion of Ukraine has raised stakes higher.\"\n\nEnergy bills have soared in the last six months due to a record increase in global gas prices.\n\nIt has led to almost 30, mostly smaller energy firms, going bust due to suppliers being unable to deliver price promises and has affected 4.3 million domestic customers.\n\nIt has come at time when the prices of food, manufactured goods and fuel are also soaring, squeezing household budgets.\n\nThe UK inflation rate is currently at a 30-year high of 5.5%.\n\nApproval of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, running from Russia's Baltic coast to north-eastern Germany, has been put on hold because of the invasion of Ukraine\n\nThe government has said millions of households will receive energy bill discounts totalling £350 from October to ease the crisis.\n\nHowever, £200 of this will be repayable, and Mr Young called the support \"little more than a poorly disguised loan\".\n\n\"Energy is likely to intensify as a political crisis for the government,\" he said.\n\n\"We suggest that a return to the drawing board is necessary to ensure support is there for those that need it, and if this means tough decisions for the chancellor then these decisions must be made.\"", "Mr Salmond has hosted a weekly show on RT since November 2017\n\nFormer First Minister Alex Salmond has suspended his talk show on Russian state broadcasting channel RT.\n\nHe had been under increased pressure to stop appearing on the channel because of the crisis in Ukraine.\n\nHis successor Nicola Sturgeon had said she was \"appalled\" that the show had continued and urged him to \"reflect\".\n\nAn episode was posted on the RT website on Thursday morning, but Mr Salmond has now said the show will end \"until peace is re-established\".\n\nHe insisted there had never been \"a single piece of editorial interference of any kind from RT\" in the programme.\n\nThe Alex Salmond Show launched on RT in 2017 as a weekly talk show produced by Slainte Media, a company set up by Mr Salmond and fellow ex-SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh.\n\nThere was criticism of the former SNP leader for appearing on the channel, which was described by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer as the \"personal propaganda tool\" of Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nOn Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government had written to broadcasting watchdog Ofcom asking for a review of RT's licence to broadcast in the UK.\n\nMs Sturgeon backed this, and said it was \"unthinkable\" that Mr Salmond's show would continue - adding that no SNP politicians would be allowed to appear on the channel.\n\nThere were calls for Mr Salmond to lose his position on the Privy Council - a group which advises the Queen - for his continued involvement with it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon has urged her predecessor Alex Salmond to re-think his involvement with Russian state broadcaster RT.\n\nThe programme did not air in its usual slot on Thursday morning, with RT running rolling news coverage of the Ukraine crisis.\n\nHowever the latest episode - a half-hour interview with former Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable - was posted on the RT website and adverts for it continued to appear on RT during the day.\n\nSir Vince later said he would not have appeared on the pre-recorded show had he known \"the invasion was about to happen\".\n\nMr Salmond said this show would be \"the last one broadcast until peace is re-established\".\n\nHe again insisted that RT had never interfered in the running of the production, hitting out at \"blatant attacks on freedom of speech from establishment political parties\".\n\nHe added: \"All wars come to an end. Let us pray that this one will not escalate even further. Now every single person's efforts should turn to supporting attempts to regain the peace.\"\n\nThe show's future was raised briefly at prime minister's questions on Wednesday, with Lib Dem MP Jamie Stone saying it was an \"absolute disgrace that an advisor to the Queen and former first minister of Scotland sees fit to broadcast his half-baked world views week after week on Russian television\".\n\nMr Johnson said this was a \"brilliant, powerful question with which I think the whole House assented\".\n\nMr Salmond now leads the Alba Party, and its MP Neale Hanvey defended in him in the Commons on Thursday saying negotiations had been \"happening in the background\" about halting the show.\n\nMr Johnson replied that \"these pleas in defence and mitigation don't cut much ice with me\".", "British Airways has apologised after cancelling all short-haul flights from Heathrow Airport on Saturday morning.\n\nThe airline said on Saturday afternoon that its IT systems were back working again after technical issues, which it said were not caused by a cyber attack.\n\nBA said there continued to be some cancellations but the majority of flights were now taking off as planned.\n\nLong-haul flights continued to operate with some delays, but all short-haul flights were cancelled until midday.\n\nPassengers travelling from Gatwick or London City Airport also faced some delays due to the issues.\n\nIn its Saturday afternoon statement, BA said it was now aiming to complete the day's flying programme and helping customers whose flights had been cancelled to rebook.\n\nThe major outage caused pile-ups of luggage and some customers were stuck on planes after landing at Heathrow.\n\nBA said it knew it had \"let customers down\" and would do everything it could \"to make this up to them\".\n\n\"But for now our focus is on getting as many customers and flights away as we can,\" the company added.\n\nIt is giving customers on cancelled services the option of getting a full refund. Passengers due to fly on short-haul services from Heathrow on Saturday could also choose to rebook for a later date, for free. BA said it would be contacting customers \"proactively\".\n\nThe Heathrow Terminal 5 departures board showing most of British Airways flights from the airport (some go from T3) was a sea of red on Saturday morning.\n\nThe airline's short-haul flights were cancelled as a result of technical issues which started on Friday.\n\nTenerife - Zurich - Grenoble - Istanbul - Salzburg were all off the cards. Only flights to the likes of New York, Doha and Mumbai were showing as boarding and on time.\n\nDomestic flights from the likes of Edinburgh and Manchester were cancelled too, because they would have started their journeys in Heathrow.\n\nBritish Airways says a perfect storm of systems issues was to blame.\n\nSo check-in systems, stand planning - the computer systems which direct the aircraft to gates - and the flight management systems, which send flight plans out to crews. As well as cabin crew allocation. On top of this, a lot of aircraft and crews were \"out of place\" because of the storm disruption last week.\n\nAll these things are possible to control manually, but they are slower.\n\nAs a result, BA said it was prioritising its long haul flights on Saturday morning because they carry more people, are less frequent and people using them have fewer other options. The company said it was trying to protect as many passengers as possible.\n\nThe issues began on Friday with BA's website and app were inaccessible for several hours, leaving customers unable to book flights or check-in online.\n\nThe latest problems come after BA apologised for \"letting people down\" last week, when storms caused delays to unloading and loading luggage.\n\nTom, his wife Michelle and their daughters Daisy and Poppy spent a few days in Naples\n\nTom O'Regan and his family were expected to return to London on Saturday after a holiday in Italy.\n\nBut their flight from Naples was among those cancelled. He said the next BA flight available would not be until next Tuesday.\n\n\"I don't see how that is acceptable really,\" he said, speaking from the airport.\n\n\"Our children are missing school because of it, we were supposed to be working on Monday.\"\n\nTom, from Liphook, Hampshire, said he had not been able to speak to anyone from the airline but he was expecting compensation for the extra costs.\n\nHe also told the BBC he was struggling to find a hotel for him, his wife and their two daughters.\n\n\"If we don't find anything the next step is to contact the embassy and see what they suggest,\" he added. \"The kids are upset, we are stressed.\"", "Department store chain John Lewis has said it will drop its \"Never Knowingly Undersold\" price pledge this summer.\n\nThe price promise, which began in 1925, means the retailer matches prices on branded products with national retailers, but not online-only sales.\n\nJohn Lewis said the pledge was becoming less relevant as shopping moves increasingly online.\n\nInstead, the employee-owned retailer says it will spend £500m on keeping prices down.\n\n\"Never Knowingly Undersold has been a cherished sign of trust for John Lewis for a century but it doesn't fit with how customers shop today as more purchases are made online,\" said executive director Pippa Wicks.\n\nJohn Lewis says it expects shoppers to become more cost conscious as budgets are squeezed by the higher cost of living.\n\nPrices are currently rising faster than at any time in the past 30 years and wages are failing to keep up, meaning people's money is not going as far.\n\nThe Bank of England expects the rate of inflation to pick up in April when a big rise in household energy bills takes effect.\n\nThe John Lewis department store business is part of the John Lewis Partnership which also owns the Waitrose supermarket chain.\n\nThe partnership is due to report full year results on 10 March after the pandemic drove it to a £517m loss in 2020-2021.\n\nBut half-year results published in September showed a return to profit.\n\nJohn Lewis said it would give customers an exact date for when Never Knowingly Undersold ends nearer the time.", "Oil giant BP is under pressure from the UK government to offload its 20% stake in the Russian state-owned oil firm Rosneft, the BBC has been told.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng spoke to BP boss Bernard Looney on Friday following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHe \"left Mr Looney in no doubt about the seriousness of government concerns about BP's overexposure to Russian interests\", an official said.\n\nBP has said it is \"closely watching the concerning developments\" in Ukraine.\n\nMr Looney and former BP chief executive Bob Dudley have a seat on Rosneft's board alongside its chairman Igor Sechin, who is a close friend and ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nUK government officials hinted a disposal of BP's stake in Rosneft looked like the only plausible option to remedy a \"deeply unsatisfactory\" arrangement.\n\nBP has owned the stake in Rosneft for more than a decade.\n\nThe PA News agency reported Mr Looney was in Russia as recently as October, when he appeared on a panel with Mr Putin, which he later described as a \"privilege\".\n\nBP's final year results, published two weeks ago, revealed Rosneft accounted for $2.7bn (£2bn) of its profits, about a fifth of its total.\n\nMr Looney said at the time Russia was \"a large member of the energy system. We avoid the politics, that serves us well in many countries around the world\".\n\nBP admitted last year sanctions on Russia could be problematic for its business and this week western allies have imposed a series of economic sanctions on Russia.\n\nBP's 20% stake in a company majority-owned by the Russian state was always uncomfortable and Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led the government to think it untenable.\n\nThe boss of BP sits on a board with close Putin friend and ally, Rosneft Chairman Igor Sechin and other sanctioned board members.\n\nSources close to the Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng suggested selling the stake seems the only palatable solution.\n\nIt's proved a valuable stake for BP as oil prices have risen and it contributed nearly $3bn to BP profits last year.\n\nIt is a stark example of a grim paradox. The higher oil and gas prices rise, the more the countries that are dependent on Russian energy provide the fuel for the very war machine they are trying to stop.\n\nIn response to questions about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, BP said: \"We are doing all we can to monitor the fast-changing situation.\n\n\"We are accounting for all our team and will continue to support them and provide any help they need.\n\n\"BP will, of course, comply with all relevant sanctions.\"\n\nFollowing the invasion on Thursday, oil prices surged past $100 (£74) a barrel to hit their highest level for more than seven years.\n\nRussia is the second biggest exporter of crude oil, and is also the world's largest natural gas exporter.\n\nEurope gets nearly a third of its oil and about 40% of its gas from Russia, much of it flowing through pipelines across Ukrainian territory.\n\nConcerns remain that sanctions could constrict supplies and drive up prices worldwide.", "Some videos, such as this clip of an aerial attack, are from previous conflicts\n\nThe second day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been accompanied by further false or misleading imagery on social media claiming to be from the conflict.\n\nSome show military action taken from older conflicts, while other viral videos have proved difficult to verify.\n\nOne video clip seen by the BBC and proven to be several years old has been viewed more than 27 million times in one day, while another showed video game footage.\n\nMisleading posts have come from \"official\" sources as well as from \"ordinary\" social media users.\n\nOne example was a tweet posted by the verified account of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence.\n\nThis dogfight footage comes from a video game\n\nFootage of an aerial dogfight is accompanied by the caption \"MiG-29 of the Air Force of the Armed Forces destroys the 'unparalleled' Su-35 of the Russian occupiers\".\n\nHowever, it's video game footage from the game Digital Combat Simulator World. This isn't the first time that game footage has been used to illustrate military action.\n\nOne clip of old and incorrectly labelled footage has been viewed over 18 million times on video-sharing platform TikTok.\n\nRussian and Ukrainian troops did face off against each other, but this happened in 2014\n\nIt claims to show Ukrainian troops \"facing off\" with Russian soldiers at an airbase.\n\nWhile it does show a confrontation between Ukrainian and Russian forces, fact-checkers Logically have ascertained that the footage was shot in 2014 during the annexation of Crimea, and was shot at the Belbek airbase near Sevastopol.\n\nThe same footage was aired by BBC Turkish at the time, after it was broadcast by Turkish television.\n\nThis is footage from the Syrian conflict\n\nOne video, which was posted on both Facebook and Twitter from an unofficial account supporting Ukraine's armed forces, claims to show the destruction of Russian personnel and equipment in Ukraine, as seen through a drone aircraft's gunsight.\n\nHowever, it's footage from Syria shot in 2020. The new version sees the image flipped, perhaps in an attempt to prevent verification through reverse-image search tools. The Twitter post was subsequently deleted.\n\nAnother incorrectly labelled clip on Twitter claims to be of a Russian airstrike on Ukraine \"that caused a chain reaction at the Luhansk power plant\".\n\nThis post incorrectly passes off the deadly Tianjin explosions as warfare in Ukraine\n\nVarious uploads of the clip have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.\n\nThe video actually shows footage of the 12 August 2015 Tianjin blasts in China, which killed around 173 people when a container containing chemicals exploded at a port. A BBC report on the Chinese incident can be viewed here.\n\nOne TikTok video has been viewed 27.5m times and shared by thousands of users who assumed that it was from Ukraine.\n\nThe clip shows some men in military fatigues shouting and laughing in Russian as they parachute over farmland.\n\nMany social media users think this clip shows Russian forces landing in Ukraine\n\nAlthough the caption just says \"Original sound - Roman\", users have assumed that the video is of Russian troops taking part in the invasion.\n\nIn fact, it's footage shot by a man who appears to be a member of the Russian armed forces, and uploaded to his Instagram channel in 2015.\n\nHe uploaded the old footage to his TikTok channel on 24 February, the day of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, leading to viewers thinking it was footage from the conflict.\n\nThis rocket barrage probably took place during military drills in 2018\n\nMore old footage on Twitter includes video of a rocket barrage, implying it is part of the Ukraine war.\n\nIn fact it's from 2018, and shows a barrage launched from Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS). A tweet from 2018 shows the same footage, although there is some doubt about the accuracy of the caption.\n\nIn some cases it has been impossible to verify the truth behind a viral post.\n\nOne example is that of a video clip of a missile being fired toward a residential area in Kyiv by a low-flying jet.\n\nThe footage has been viewed more than two million times on Twitter. However, the aircraft is travelling too fast and the video is of too poor a quality to verify which country's air force the plane belongs to.\n\nThere is also debate as to whether the residential area was deliberately targeted, or if the missile was fired in error.\n\nThere have also been conflicting claims over the identity and intention of the aircraft.\n\nFast-moving events such as war mean that misleading imagery will inevitably appear on social media.\n\nMisinformation is easily shared, often by those who believe the images to be genuine.\n\nSocial media users can limit the spread of bad information by taking a few seconds before sharing, to consider whether what they're seeing seems genuine and is from a source that they trust.\n\nChecking with multiple trusted sources can help to prevent these images from being widely shared.", "Specialist courts dealing solely with rape offences are needed to reduce a large case backlog and reduce victims' trauma, a watchdogs' report urges.\n\nThe BBC understands that Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab is taking advice on the feasibility of such courts.\n\nVictims of rape are being failed by a system beset by delays and poor communication, the report by the police and prosecution service watchdogs says.\n\nOne victim told the authors her court experience had been \"horrendous\".\n\nThe report by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and HM Crown Prosecution Inspectorate highlights that in England and Wales:\n\nAnother victim recalled 21 court delays, mostly with 24 hours' notice, and the case, which was expected to last four days, ultimately took 10 months.\n\nAll this contributes to successful prosecutions of rape remaining unacceptably low, the inspectors argue.\n\nThe report focuses on figures for the year to March 2021, which show 52,207 cases of rape were recorded by police.\n\nBut charges were brought in only 3,144 cases, and just 1,109 resulted in a successful prosecution.\n\nVictims whose cases made it to court said their experiences had been traumatic.\n\n\"I was not expecting it to be easy,\" one told the inspectors.\n\n\"But it felt as though the victim and perpetrator roles were reversed, such was the ferocity of the questioning.\n\n\"It was the most horrendous experience that I would never wish upon anyone, and it haunts me still.\"\n\n\"Victim care and support is an absolute moral imperative, and these victims have gone through extremely traumatic experiences,\" said Wendy Williams, Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary.\n\nAndrew Cayley, HM Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Inspectorate, suggested some of the government's pop-up Nightingale Courts, set up during the pandemic, could be used as specialist rape courts.\n\nJudges already have \"a great deal of discretion on how a victim of rape is questioned\", said Mr Cayley.\n\nThey can already allow victims to give evidence on video or behind a screen.\n\nThe aim would be that \"this terrifying experience that victims have often had in courts under cross-examination is not eliminated, but certainly heavily reduced\", he said.\n\nThe government said ministers would consider the report's recommendations carefully.\n\n\"We are recruiting more specialist prosecutors, investing millions to deliver justice more swiftly, transforming the response to rape cases, focusing on the alleged suspects rather than complainants' credibility, and ensuring that victims receive the support they deserve,\" said an official.\n\nThe BBC also understands that Mr Raab is taking advice on how specialist courts, dealing solely with rape cases, could work.\n\n\"This is a sobering and considered analysis,\" he said in a statement.\n\nRuth Davison, chief executive of the domestic abuse charity Refuge, welcomed the report's call for widespread reform.\n\n\"The government has committed to ensuring survivors are 'better heard, served and protected', and this report shows that those actions are desperately needed,\" she said.\n\nThe director of public prosecutions for England and Wales, Max Hill QC, said the Crown Prosecution Service was committed to making the changes needed to ensure more victims of sexual offences see justice.\n\nChief Constable Sarah Crew, National Police Chiefs' Council lead for adult sex offences, said work was under way to improve the policing response.\n\n\"We understand change isn't happening fast enough, but this is an opportunity to bring about real and sustainable change to the handling of these traumatic offences, to transform the victim experience and bring more perpetrators to justice,\" she said.", "The head of the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) has said Boris Johnson was wrong to claim more people are in work now than before the pandemic.\n\nWriting to the PM, Sir David Norgrove said the number in work was estimated to be around 660,000 fewer than before coronavirus struck.\n\nHe suggested Mr Johnson had excluded a fall in self-employment numbers when making the claim.\n\nHe warned the \"selective use of data\" would \"give a misleading impression\".\n\nThe prime minister made the statement on employment during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nResponding to a question from Labour MP Kerry McCarthy about the cost of living, he said: \"The single best thing that we have done on the cost of living is making sure that we have millions more people into work.\"\n\n\"There are 430,000 more in employment now than there were before the pandemic began,\" he added.\n\nIn his letter to the prime minister, Sir David wrote: \"According to the latest ONS (Office for National Statistics) figures, it is wrong to claim that there are now more people in work than before the pandemic began.\n\n\"The increase in the number of people who are on payrolls is more than offset by the reduction in the number of people who are self-employed.\n\n\"The number of people in work is estimated to be around 660,000 fewer than at the start of the pandemic (comparing December 2019 - February 2020 with October - December 2021).\"\n\nSir David said the prime minister's statement had referred only to an increase in the number of people on payrolls and added: \"I hope you agree that public trust requires a complete statement of this important measure of the economy.\"\n\nAsked for a response to the letter, Downing Street pointed to a previous reply Mr Johnson had given when a Labour MP questioned the figures.\n\nIn that, he said the number of people in work, according to the payroll employment measure, had reached \"a record high\" in November 2021.\n\nMr Johnson has previously been criticised for making a similar claim on employment by the Office for Statistics Regulation, which is overseen by the UKSA\n\nIn a letter on 1 February, Ed Humpherson of the organisation told No 10 the statement had been made by the prime minister to Parliament on 24 November, 15 December, 5 January, 12 January and 19 January.\n\nHe said it was \"disappointing\" that Mr Johnson had \"continued to refer to payroll employment as if describing total employment, despite contact from our office and from others\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Joe Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, calling her \"one of the nation's brightest legal minds\".\n\nShe will be the first black woman to serve in the court's 233-year history if confirmed.\n\nShe would replace liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer when he retires at the end of the court's term in June.\n\nMs Jackson, a federal appeals judge, said on Friday she was \"humbled\" by the nomination.\n\nAnnouncing the nomination on Friday, President Biden described Judge Jackson as an \"extraordinary\" candidate, with an \"independent mind, uncompromising integrity and a strong moral compass\".\n\nWith the Senate divided 50-50 between the parties, Democrats have just enough votes to confirm President Biden's choice if they all back her. Vice President Kamala Harris has the deciding vote in the case of a tie.\n\nJustice Breyer's replacement would not shift the court's current 6-3 conservative majority.\n\nThe Supreme Court plays a key role in American life and is often the final word on highly contentious laws, disputes between states and the federal government, and final appeals to stay executions.\n\nFor any Supreme Court justice nomination, the president first chooses his preferred candidate and the Senate then votes to confirm that nominee, which requires a simple majority.\n\nSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Senate Judiciary Committee will begin hearings \"in the coming weeks\".\n\nMs Jackson, 51, currently serves on the influential US Court of Appeals for the DC circuit. Three current supreme court justices previously served on that court.\n\nThe jurist has two degrees from Harvard University, which she attended as an undergraduate and as a law student, and once served as editor of the Harvard Law Review.\n\nMs Jackson has said when she told her high school guidance counsellor she wanted to attend the prestigious Ivy League school, she was warned not to set her sights so high.\n\nMr Biden first promised to nominate a black woman to the top court two years ago while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.\n\nBlack women make up about 3% of the federal judiciary, according to data from the Federal Judicial Center, the court system's research arm.\n\nMs Jackson's nomination is historic for more than one reason. If she is confirmed, four women will sit together on the nine-member court for the first time.\n\n\"For too long, our government, our court hasn't looked like America,\" Mr Biden said on Friday. \"I believe it's time that we have a court that reflects the full talent and greatness of our nation.\"\n\nThere have been just two Black Americans on the Supreme Court to date. Justice Thurgood Marshall was nominated by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967 and Justice Clarence Thomas, who still sits on the court, was nominated by President George H W Bush in 1991.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Jackson was born in Washington, DC but grew up in the Miami area.\n\nAt her 2021 confirmation to the appellate court, she credited a background of public service with her decision to work as a public defender. Her parents are both graduates of historically black colleges who began their careers as teachers, and her brother was a police officer who served in the military.\n\nWhen Ms Jackson was a young child, her father attended law school. \"Some of my earliest memories are of him sitting at the kitchen table, reading his law books,\" she said on Friday.\n\nMs Jackson also has a connection with the justice she will replace. She clerked for Justice Breyer during the Supreme Court's 1999-2000 term.\n\nOn Friday she praised her former boss for his \"civility, grace, pragmatism and generosity of spirit\".\n\n\"Justice Breyer, the members of the Senate will decide if I fill your seat, but please know I could never fill your shoes,\" she said.\n\nIn 2012, then President Barack Obama nominated Ms Jakcson to serve as a district court judge in Washington, DC.\n\nDuring the eight years she spent on the district court, she penned more than 500 opinions. Among them, she ruled that Donald F McGhan II, the former White House counsel to President Donald Trump, had to testify in the Russia meddling probe.\n\n\"Presidents are not kings,\" she wrote in the 2019 ruling.\n\nMs Jackson, a liberal justice, has a family connection to Paul Ryan, former House Speaker and ex-Republican vice-presidential candidate.\n\n\"Our politics may differ, but my praise for Ketanji's intellect, for her character, and for her integrity, is unequivocal.\" he wrote on Twitter on Friday. He is related to her by marriage.\n\nMs Jackson's husband is a surgeon and she has two children.\n\nWhile her nomination has been widely praised by Democrats, two South Carolina Republicans- Senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott - criticised the president for choosing Ms Jackson over Michelle Childs - a judge from their home state.\n\nKetanji Brown Jackson was considered the favourite to be Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee when his search began last month - and it was a position she never relinquished.\n\nThat fits with the way Mr Biden has gone about making his other key appointments, for vice-president and top Cabinet posts. He tends to opt for the safe, predictable choice.\n\nMs Jackson has already been confirmed by this US Senate once, when the president nominated her to an appellate court judgeship. Although her judicial record will be scrutinised in the days ahead, it is liberal but not extreme.\n\nHer credentials - Ivy League law school, a clerkship with retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and eight years as a federal district court judge - are high caliber.\n\nA small drama that is sure to unfold with this pick is one between the president and Jim Clyburn, the South Carolina Democrat whose support was pivotal to Mr Biden's victory in the 2020 Democratic primaries.\n\nMr Clyburn had his own favourite, South Carolina judge, J Michelle Childs. But Ms Childs was a more unconventional pick, without Ms Jackson's rarified academic pedigree. Picking her may have been politically helpful for Mr Biden, but that's not how this president works.", "PC Adam Zaman was accused of raping a woman at the Andaz Hotel in Liverpool Street\n\nA Metropolitan Police officer who was charged with rape has had his case dismissed at court.\n\nPC Adam Zaman, 28, was accused of raping a woman while off-duty at the Andaz Hotel in Liverpool Street, central London, in October last year.\n\nThe Royal Courts of Justice was told the Crown had conceded there was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction.\n\nThe Met said a misconduct review will still be carried out.\n\nPC Zaman, who has served with the Met Police since 2016, remains suspended from duty, the force added.\n\nThe 28-year-old previously denied the rape allegation during a court appearance in November 2021.\n\nAt an earlier hearing Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) lawyers alleged that PC Zaman had shown the woman his warrant card and told her he was an officer when they met at a club in Romford, before they travelled to the hotel together.\n\nThe woman had sent concerned texts to friends and British Transport Police during the journey, prosecutors said.\n\nThey added that PC Zaman showed his warrant card to hotel staff, who were concerned because the woman was intoxicated.\n\nOn Thursday, prosecutor Allison Hunter QC told the court: \"After undertaking an objective review of all of the evidence the prosecution has taken the decision to offer no further evidence in this case.\"\n\nMs Hunter said there were matters of \"significant concern\" that when \"objectively assessed\" alongside representations from PC Zaman meant there was no longer a \"realistic\" prospect of conviction.\n\nShe explained the decision had been made at the \"highest levels\".\n\nA CPS spokesman added: \"As part of our continuous review of this case, we have carefully considered material submitted to us by the police and have concluded that our legal test is no longer met.\"\n\nMrs Justice Cheema-Grubb directed that a not guilty verdict be recorded.\n\nPC Zaman was not present at the Royal Courts of Justice to hear proceedings against him had been formally dropped.\n\nThe complainant, who retains her right to anonymity, has been consulted about the decision. She has also been informed of her right to have the case reviewed, the court heard.\n\nDet Ch Insp Colin Bishop said City of London Police had carried out a \"thorough investigation\".\n\nHe added: \"The decision to discontinue the case was made by the CPS and it would not be appropriate for us to comment any further.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This MailOnline article was entirely fake\n\nOnline subscription scams, many using bogus celebrity endorsements, are costing victims tens of millions of pounds a year, a BBC Radio 4 File on 4 programme investigation has found.\n\nSome 300,000 people a year are thought to have been tricked into the schemes, many seemingly backed by celebrities such as comedian Russell Brand.\n\nBut in reality, the celebrities have never even heard of the products.\n\nMany of the scams lure victims in with fake adverts on Facebook.\n\nFile on 4 found more than 800 on the social-networking site.\n\nFacebook says it has now taken down most of the pages - adding that using public figures to scam people out of money is against its policy.\n\nDesperate to ease the fibromyalgia caused by a childhood accident - and feeling let down by doctors who dismissed her widespread pain as a symptom of depression rather than the other way round - Louisa Dyson, 40, from Doncaster, went online to find an alternative remedy.\n\nOn Facebook, she saw what she thought was a MailOnline article featuring Brand talking about the benefit of CBD gummies - a jellied sweet containing cannabidiol, found in cannabis, which some users say helps aches and pains.\n\n\"It was a really well written article,\" Louisa told File On 4.\n\n\"I could hear him talking while I was reading it and then got to the end and there were these people talking about these gummies.\n\n\"They were noticing results within a week.\"\n\nBut what she thought was a £38.99 \"buy one get one free\" offer on two bags of \"Green CBD gummies\" turned out to be a £148 payment.\n\n\"I felt that sort of overwhelming panic,\" Louisa said.\n\n\"I felt hot and a bit fizzy and thought, 'Oh God, what if it's not just this £148?\n\n\"'How do I know that overnight more is not just going to go, 'Ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching,' out of my account?'\"\n\nLouisa could not get her money back but her bank stopped any more being taken from her account.\n\nHowever, many are not so fortunate.\n\nFile on 4 has spoken to 20 victims of this scam alone.\n\nOne had money taken from her bank account for several months without knowing.\n\nAnother was unable to leave their house for weeks because of the stress.\n\nPeople eventually end up on a page like this one\n\n\"In the UK, there are in the region of 300,000 victims per year and they are losing on average around £250 - that puts it into the [region of a] £75m-a-year loss to UK victims,\" fraud investigator Gillian Schonrock, who has spent the past five years looking into online subscription scams, said.\n\n\"We're not talking here about the odd fraudster who has managed to set up one small scheme here, we're talking about thousands of scammers and huge amounts of money.\n\n\"On a global scale, we're talking $1bn [£0.7bn] a year or more.\"\n\nThe CBD gummies Louisa bought online were also advertised on Facebook using a host of other fake endorsements by celebrities, including journalist and television presenter Dame Esther Rantzen.\n\n\"I loathe them incorporating my name and therefore, if you like, my reputation to sell their products, which I know nothing about,\" Dame Esther said.\n\n\"It really is so anger making, now I feel helpless and I'm being conned myself.\n\n\"Facebook has an obligation whether they like it or not.\n\n\"Someone's got to make Facebook responsible and make them police the material they carry.\"\n\nLouisa is now more cautious about what she buys online but knows such scams will continue to prey on vulnerable victims.\n\n\"There are people that are in a really dire situation and for somebody to do this to other people at the level they're clearly doing it, they're not nice people,\" she said.\n\n\"They're cashing in on people who are struggling.", "Northern Ireland's health service is \"incredibly fragile\" and seeing \"very sick patients\", the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nIt comes after a potential major incident was declared at Antrim Area Hospital.\n\nThe incident has been stood down, but it is rare and one step from a major incident.\n\nA major incident means there are too many patients for staff to deal with safely.\n\nThe decision was made on Tuesday at 14:00 GMT, and lasted several hours.\n\nAt one point, 62 patients, mostly frail and elderly, were waiting to be admitted - the highest number ever recorded at the hospital.\n\nThat number came down to fewer than 50 as of 17:00 GMT, according to Northern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh.\n\nShe said the pressure being felt goes beyond one region.\n\nThe South Eastern Trust and the Western Trust have both made staff appeals on social media for the Ulster Hospital and Altnagelvin Hospital, with the South Eastern Trust reporting \"extreme pressures\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDespite the Antrim Area Hospital incident being stood down, the Northern Trust said it was \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nDeclaring a major incident is very rare, and it's something that no health trust wants to do.\n\nBut the fact that we had a consultant putting their arms up and saying \"we cannot cope beyond this point\" is really significant.\n\nIt's an attempt by staff to keep the service running as safely as possible.\n\nThere was a partial diversion of ambulances away from the hospital, but I was told the hospital could not instruct a full one because other hospitals are also under extreme pressure.\n\nIt's almost like rallying the troops - when they put out a message like this, it really does bring all the health trusts round to work as a region, to work almost as one hospital.\n\nIt's also a way of saying to the public, only come to us if it is an emergency.\n\nAt 16:30 GMT on Monday, there were 281 patients waiting to be admitted to emergency departments across Northern Ireland, according to Ms Welsh.\n\nShe said Covid had played a \"significant role\" in the decision to call a potential major incident at Antrim Area Hospital, but also that it was partly due to the hospital not having enough beds.\n\nAlmost a third of patients there are Covid positive.\n\nJennifer Welsh says the Antrim Area Hospital has a \"well-recognised\" bed shortage\n\nBut, even if all the patients currently at the hospital were discharged, they would still be short of beds, she told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"It is well recognised that we really do not have the beds for the population we serve,\" she said.\n\n\"We have about 28% of the population of Northern Ireland but we've only got about 12% of the bed stock in this area, so we have a very high demand and we really don't have enough beds.\"\n\nShe said Tuesday's decision \"was not taken lightly\" but would allow the hospital to get more help.\n\nMs Welsh said this pressure across emergency departments means that \"the ability to help each other out is not there in the way it would have been in the past\".", "Much more of the skeleton is evident in the excavated block\n\nThe world's largest Jurassic pterosaur - a 170-million-year-old winged reptile - has been found protruding from the rocks of the Isle of Skye.\n\nPhD student Amelia Penny spotted its sharp-toothed jaw in a layer of ancient limestone on Skye's coast.\n\nThat initial discovery, in 2017, has now been followed up with detailed examination of the fossil skeleton.\n\nThose studies, published in the journal Current Biology, show the flying lizard had a 2.5m (8ft) wingspan.\n\nThe research, led by PhD student Natalia Jagielska, also revealed the creature was a species new to science.\n\nIt has now been given the Gaelic name Dearc sgiathanach (pronounced Jark Ski-an-Ach), in honour of the Isle of Skye.\n\nPhD student Amelia Penny points to the fossil she discovered.\n\nResearchers from the Hunterian Museum, in Glasgow, and the Staffin Museum, on Skye, had to extract the rock slab entombing the fossil - a painstaking process and noisy process racing the incoming tide - and bring it to the University of Edinburgh.\n\nBut it was well worth the effort.\n\n\"Dearc is a fantastic example of why palaeontology will never cease to be astounding,\" Ms Jagielska said.\n\n\"Pterosaur fossils as complete as this are very rare.\n\n\"As flying animals, their bones are really light, just like today's birds.\n\n\"That makes them incredibly fragile and so they don't usually preserve as fossils.\"\n\nThe fossil had to be cut out of the ancient rock.\n\nThe remarkable condition and completeness of this specimen - particularly the detail preserved in its skull - has already allowed scientists from the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews and National Museums Scotland, where the fossil will be displayed and studied further, to conclude Dearc had good eyesight.\n\n\"We look forward to studying Dearc in greater detail to discover more about how it lived and its behaviour,\" Ms Jagielska added.\n\nThe pterosaur would have flown the Skye skies 170 million years ago\n\nProf Steve Brusatte, of the University of Edinburgh, who was leading the Isle of Skye field trip, called it \"a superlative Scottish fossil\".\n\n\"The preservation is amazing, far beyond any pterosaur ever found in Scotland and probably the best British skeleton found since the days of [fossil hunter] Mary Anning in the early 1800s,\" he said.\n\nAnd its size \"tells us that pterosaurs got larger much earlier than we thought, long before the Cretaceous period when they were competing with birds, and that's hugely significant\".", "The Walsall earthquake was felt across the West Midlands on Monday evening\n\nAn earthquake has shaken homes across the West Midlands.\n\nThe British Geological Survey (BGS) said the 2.8 magnitude quake hit Walsall at a depth of 4.35 miles (7km) at 22:59 GMT on Monday.\n\nIt said the effects could be felt over a 12-mile (20km) radius from the epicentre, with tremors detected in Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley.\n\nOne resident told the BGS it felt \"like a wardrobe had fallen over or an explosion blast against the window\".\n\nThe quake was approximately eight miles (12.8km) east of the 4.7 magnitude one that hit Dudley in 2002 before being felt across most of England.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJo Yarnall from Aldridge, Walsall, said she was watching TV when the house began \"shuddering\".\n\n\"It felt like we were on the flight path for Birmingham Airport and a plane had just flown extremely low to the house,\" she said, adding the experience took her back to the 2002 event.\n\nOther residents thought the quake was more stormy weather heading their way.\n\nLorraine Smith, who lives in Stone Cross, West Bromwich, said there were \"two rumbles\" which she thought was a \"truck going down the street\" or a thunderstorm.\n\nA 15-year-old Aldridge resident said: \"At first, I thought it was something falling down the stairs, then as it got louder I thought maybe it was a tree from the storm falling down.\"\n\nThe teenager added she thought she was the only one feeling the rumbles, until, she said, her friend fell off the edge of her bed during a Facetime call.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Homes, roads and rail hit by storm floods in Wales\n\nThree rivers in Wales reached record levels during Storm Franklin on Sunday, Natural Resources Wales has said.\n\nThe Severn, Teme and Vyrnwy were higher than ever in several places.\n\nThe Severn was highest at Newtown where it reached 4.509m (14ft 10in), the Teme's highpoint was 2.853m (9ft 4in) at Knighton and at Meifod the Vyrnwy reached 3.826m (12ft 7in).\n\nTheir previous highest levels at these locations were 3.77m (12ft 4in), 2.85m (9ft 4in) and 3.79m (12ft 5in).\n\nThe levels set on the River Teme broke those previously set during Storm Dennis in February 2020.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said river levels had now peaked at most locations and some flood warnings and alerts were being removed.\n\nIt added: \"Some of the warnings and alerts on the slower responding rivers, such as the Severn and Wye will remain in place for some time.\n\n\"Our main focus is now on Monmouth with river levels expected to peak late afternoon/early evening, this is currently [the] only flood warning in force although flood alerts remain in place in many other areas of Wales.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, as communities count the cost of the damage, a flood warning was issued for the River Wye at Monmouth.\n\nNRW added: \"Vast low-lying areas of mid Wales have been inundated with flood water and some properties have been affected as well.\"\n\nIn Carmarthen a sign suffered lost letters during the stormy weather\n\nThousands of homes were left without power after Storm Eunice battered the country on Friday, with Storm Franklin hitting on Sunday.\n\nHomes and businesses were flooded and some roads remain underwater with rail services also affected.\n\nTransport for Wales said a number of rail services continue to be affected with travellers using trains via Shrewsbury to Cardiff and elsewhere advised not to travel with a major incident declared in Shropshire along the River Severn.\n\nThree named storms - Dudley, Eunice and Franklin - have hit the UK within the last seven days, leaving thousands of people facing major repairs to businesses and homes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why has mid Wales been particularly affected by storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin?\n\nOn Friday, as Storm Eunice hit, the majority of schools in Wales closed, all trains were cancelled and tens of thousands were left without power as gusts of up to 92mph (148km/h) were recorded off the Pembrokeshire coast.\n\nThere was significant damage to properties as roofs were torn off and trees uprooted during the high winds.\n\nTwo lorries overturned on the M4 near Pyle on Friday, but police have confirmed neither of the drivers were seriously injured.\n\nSouth Wales Police said the drivers suffered cuts and bruising. The Owens Group, which employs one of the drivers, said they were recovering at home and \"doing well\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLlandinam in Powys was left looking like a \"disaster zone\" after the River Severn burst its banks.\n\nPowys councillor Heulwen Hulme told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast external contractors would need to be called in to help with the clean-up across the county.\n\nBut with roads still submerged, she said they did not yet know the full extent of the damage.\n\nThe River Dee bursts its banks near Bangor-on-Dee, leaving cars stranded\n\n\"Some of our road infrastructure remains underwater still, so damage is going to be identified in the future days coming,\" she said.\n\n\"Water has undercut banks in many areas... we will have to call in external contractors to help us get the roads and the bridges infrastructures back up and running and useable for our residents in the county.\n\nShe added the council had approached both the Welsh and UK governments for funding, which she said was \"vitally important to ensure we make these repairs as soon as possible\".\n\nA tree crashed down on to properties on Cathedral Road in Cardiff\n\n\"It is early days… we don't know the full extent of the damage but we are preparing for the worst, we have to.\"\n\nIn Bridgend, council crews attended several hundred incidents of blocked culverts, flooding, fallen trees, broken branches, obstructed roads, demolished structures and damaged roofs.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Trafnidiaeth Cymru Trenau Transport for Wales Rail\n\nCardiff council said it had been dealing with 50 cases of fallen trees or hanging branches obstructing roads and pavements, as well as widespread damage to homes, schools and council buildings from the storms.\n\nCouncil leader Huw Thomas said staff had been \"working tirelessly over the weekend to clean up the mess\".\n\n\"There has been a number of reports of damage to schools and council buildings and we are carrying out the necessary checks to ensure that repairs can be carried out as quickly as possible.\"\n\nIn Swansea, fallen and dangerous trees led to two road closures in Brynfield Road, Langland, and Cilonnen Road, Three Crosses on Monday and traffic was reduced to one lane on Mayals Road.\n\nExtra teams were drafted in to deal with the clear-up, but the council said \"it could be a number of weeks before all the work is completed\".\n\nIn Carmarthen a once controversial sign battered by the winds was left missing letters. The council said the letters had been found and the sign would be repaired.", "Nicola Sturgeon is to unveil the Scottish government's plans for managing the Covid-19 pandemic in a \"much less restrictive\" way in future.\n\nThe first minister will present a new \"strategic framework\" to MSPs in a Holyrood statement after 14:00.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that all legal restrictions will end in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her aim was to get back to normality while maintaining \"vigilance\" against future outbreaks.\n\nHer statement could detail when existing restrictions are to be lifted, although the first minister has cited testing and isolation as examples of measures which could continue to help keep the virus under control.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Johnson told MPs that all of England's legal restrictions would be lifted on Thursday - including the requirement to self-isolate for those who test positive - while free mass testing will stop in April.\n\nRoutine contact tracing is to end, while close contacts of English positive cases will no longer be legally required to test daily, with the government encouraging people to exercise \"personal responsibility\" instead.\n\nThe prime minister said he would \"continue to work closely with the devolved administrations as they decide how to take forward their own plans\".\n\nBut Scottish ministers have called for clarity about what his announcement means for programmes and funding north of the border, with the mass testing system a UK-wide initiative.\n\nQuestioned about funding in the Commons, Mr Johnson appeared to suggest the Scottish government would have to fund any continued free testing from its existing budgets.\n\nThe Scottish government has been drawing up its own plans for managing the pandemic with fewer restrictions in future, due to be published on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nThis could include dates for the ending of current restrictions including the vaccine passport system, along with details about testing and how any new variant could be dealt with.\n\nBoris Johnson has suggested the Scottish government would have to fund any continued free testing\n\nOn Monday, Ms Sturgeon said it was important to \"strike the right balance\" between getting back to normal and continuing to control the virus.\n\nShe said: \"There will be a lot of optimism around what I set out, but I've got to be frank with people - we are still in a pandemic of this virus, we know from past experience that new variants can come about and cause new challenges.\n\n\"We need to be vigilant and prepared for that, but we also need to manage that risk in a much less restrictive and more sustainable way for the future so we can get back to normal - and retain that sense of normality even as we maintain that sense of vigilance.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon meanwhile said certain measures should be seen as \"being part of what enables us to live with greater normality\", citing isolation and testing as being helpful in minimising the spread of Covid-19.\n\nCritics of Mr Johnson's plans for England have agreed that while there is need to pare back costly testing regimes, lifting all measures will significantly impact people in poor health and those on lower incomes.\n\nProf Alan McNally, a microbiologist at the University of Birmingham, said the decision to remove testing combined with scrapping self isolation measures would \"throw clinically vulnerable people under the bus\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, he said: \"It's going to be extremely difficult for them to go out and do anything in public with any level of confidence. I can't recall an instance where we've taken a pathogen which is so serious and just decide we're going to let it infect people and not take any action.\n\n\"If you're creating an environment where you're allowing the virus to transmit freely with no interventions, the more numbers of infection you have the higher the chance of mutation - that's just basic evolutionary biology.\"\n\nDoctors have argued free lateral flow tests will reduce the risk of further mutations and help protect the clinically vulnerable\n\nDr Andrew Buist from the British Medical Association's GPs committee also told the programme he hoped the Scottish government would retain free access to lateral flow testing in order to support people on lower or insecure incomes.\n\nHe added: \"Doing the right thing is much easier if you're in a secure job but if you're not paid if you don't go to work or if you don't have the funds to buy the test kits there will always be temptation to go to work.\n\n\"Most people with Covid symptoms go to the assessment centres - they are due to shut down by Easter so I expect we'll see more people with Covid coming into general practice. So the retention of the ability for people to easily test themselves at home is essential.\"\n\nHowever retail and hospitality figures have called for an end to certain measures including the Covid passport scheme and mandatory wearing of face masks.\n\nPub owner Gavin Stevenson, who is a member of the Night Time Industry Association, argued that venues having to use the passport scheme are seeing an impact on trade - while others which do not need passport checks have recovered to 90% of pre-pandemic trading.\n\n\"A big challenge is the real lack of uptake of vaccine passports,\" he added. \"We're still seeing lots of people not realising they needed one to get in.\"\n\nThe first minister has said MSPs will be given the chance to debate and vote on the strategic framework, giving opposition parties the chance to outline their own proposals.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have urged the government to put greater emphasis on \"trusting the public to act responsibly\", while phasing out the mass testing system and setting up long Covid clinics.\n\nHealth spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane said: \"With the data on the virus being much more encouraging, we have to move away from blanket restrictions and instead trust the public to do the right thing.\"\n\nScottish Labour stressed that \"the virus has not gone away\", urging ministers in Edinburgh and London to co-operate rather than compete.\n\nDeputy leader Jackie Baillie said: \"When the people of Scotland most need co-operation between both of Scotland's governments, we are faced with the prospect of them taking opposing positions on the easing of restrictions.\n\n\"Both governments must make decisions that are grounded in science and in the real world.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish Lib Dems want the government to drop the Covid passport scheme, with leader Alex Cole-Hamilton calling it \"illiberal and ineffective\".\n\nDo you have a question about the Covid restrictions in place in Scotland? Use the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "OnlyFans has been accused of conspiring to blacklist the social media accounts of adult performers working for rival websites, BBC News has learned.\n\nLegal documents, previously unreported, claim OnlyFans directed an unidentified social media company to disable accounts of performers by placing their content on a terrorism database.\n\nIt is alleged that OnlyFans representatives paid bribes to the firm's employees to facilitate the practice. OnlyFans says it is aware of the legal claim and it has \"no merit\".\n\nUK website OnlyFans - best known for hosting pornography - has grown hugely in recent years. It lets users share video clips and photos with subscribers in return for tips or a monthly fee.\n\nPerformers often use social media accounts - including Twitter and Instagram - to promote and link to adult websites showing their explicit content.\n\nBBC News has learned that rival adult website FanCentro has begun legal action in the US against OnlyFans' owner Leonid Radvinsky and the company which receives OnlyFans' payments, Fenix Internet LLC.\n\nThe claim was submitted to a US court in Florida last November, but has been unreported until now.\n\nIt alleges OnlyFans directed an unidentified social media company to blacklist many competitor adult websites in 2018.\n\nFanCentro claims the social media content of adult performers promoting rival websites to OnlyFans was placed on an international database - the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT). The database uses advanced technology to stop the spread of terrorist images by recording a unique digital signature for them, known as \"hashes\".\n\nThe hash database is shared between all 18 members of the forum - including YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat. If one company hashes a video or photograph, it is flagged to other members so they can moderate similar content on their platform.\n\nAccording to the legal action, FanCentro believes the database was \"manipulated\", resulting in many adult performers having social posts removed and accounts disabled - despite them not containing any terrorist content.\n\nThis happened most noticeably on Instagram, according to the filing.\n\nIt is claimed the resulting reduced visibility of performers on social media led to a marked decline in traffic being driven to rival websites of OnlyFans. FanCentro is seeking financial damages.\n\nHowever, performers who only promoted their OnlyFans accounts on social media did not face this punitive content moderation - it is alleged - leading to a big growth in traffic visiting the website.\n\nThe legal action also claims one or more employees of the unidentified social media company - including potentially a senior member of staff - may have been bribed to facilitate the scheme by OnlyFans representatives.\n\nOnlyFans has not yet issued a legal response but a spokesperson said the company was aware of the claims - describing them as having \"no merit\".\n\nFacebook is not named in the legal action but BBC News has learned that it has been issued with a subpoena - meaning it may be compelled to provide records. Facebook and Instagram both have the same parent company - Meta.\n\nThe subpoena requests copies of any internal documents showing rival websites to OnlyFans included on lists of so-called Dangerous Individual or Organizations held by Meta and any payments received from OnlyFans representatives.\n\nUnder US law, companies may be subpoenaed if they hold any relevant information to the subject matter of a claim, and not only if they have evidence which may reveal whether anyone is at fault.\n\nDo you have more information about this story?\n\nYou can reach Noel directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +44 7809 334720 or by email at noel.titheradge@bbc.co.uk\n\nOne of FanCentro's legal team - David Azar of law firm, Milberg - says the company is planning on subpoenaing other companies for evidence, including other social media firms.\n\nIn a statement, Meta said: \"These allegations are without merit and we will address them in the context of the litigation as needed.\"\n\nIt added that it had investigated and found no evidence the shared hash database had been abused.\n\nIn recent years, performers using Instagram to promote and link to their adult websites have complained that even though they have not broken the site's community guidelines - they have been served with violation notifications and had posts removed. The subsequent loss of visibility and promotion of these accounts became known as a \"shadowban\".\n\nFor performers, it remains a mystery to what extent any action taken against accounts was because of specific policy or targeted moderation of their content.\n\n\"We were seeing mass deletions without any real clear reason as to what was happening or why,\" says Alana Evans, president of a group which represents performers - the Adult Performers Actors Guild.\n\nShe says she has seen performers fall into severe financial difficulty with some even left homeless.\n\nIn 2019, some performers met Instagram representatives after claiming their accounts had been disabled. The company acknowledged that some had been incorrectly removed but denied it had been done deliberately.\n\n\"We do not have policies that target adult performers,\" a spokesperson said at the time.\n\nOne model, who we're calling Camila to protect her identity, used to have millions of followers on her Instagram account - which is verified, similar to a blue tick on Twitter. She says the removal of much of her content and eventual closure of her account had a \"devastating\" impact on her.\n\nCamila's posts regularly feature her in a bikini or underwear. Typically, she would accompany her photos with links to an adult website - an OnlyFans' rival - which hosted videos that users needed to pay to watch.\n\nIn October 2018, she began receiving violation notifications for content removed by Instagram. Soon, posts started to be taken down regularly. Some of the photos removed were mundane images - including tourist snaps when she was fully clothed.\n\n\"They started to get deleted several times a day and then several posts at a time,\" she says.\n\nBBC News has learned that Camila's Instagram account status - only visible by engineering staff - was changed to \"critical\". This meant it was not promoted as prominently any more, leading to reduced visibility.\n\n\"My page was slowly dying and losing followers because posts were getting deleted. It means nobody sees me,\" she says.\n\nCamila says she continually appealed against the removal of her pictures but only received an automated response. At one point, even her ability to appeal to Instagram was removed, she says. Her account was later closed completely.\n\nCamila says she used to earn at least $50,000 (£36,000) a month from performing on the adult site but now makes a fraction of that amount without her Instagram account driving traffic to it.\n\nThe owner of a different adult website to the one suing OnlyFans told us his company was also affected but does not know how or why. He says that in late 2018 it had felt like a \"bomb\" had been placed under his business.\n\nMore than 100 Instagram accounts which used to drive traffic to adult performers appearing on his site experienced a big loss in visibility and some were disabled altogether - he claims. He says his income dropped significantly.\n\nMeta said it was unable to comment on these claims without the usernames or names of the adult sites being promoted on their platforms.\n\nA spokesperson added that its guidelines set a high bar in recommending accounts which users were not already following.\n\nContent hashed on the database run by the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism is not independently audited. But in a statement a spokesperson said: \"We are not aware of any evidence to support the theories presented in this lawsuit between two parties with no connection to GIFCT.\"\n\n\"Our continuing work to enhance transparency and oversight of the GIFCT hash-sharing database is the result of extensive engagement with our stakeholders and has no connection to these claims.\"\n\nArtwork uses stock photos (Getty Images) posed by models - design by Zoe Barthomolew\n\nDo you have any information to share? Reach Noel directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +44 7809 334720 or by email at noel.titheradge@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "'We can always backtrack if we need to'\n\nVirologist Dr Chris Smith tells Drivetime many of the regulations that have been in place addressed last year's concerns. Dr Smith, of Cambridge University, says: \"We're in a very different place now.\" He says the population is highly immune and we're heading towards summer, therefore the odds are stacked in our favour more. \"The measures of de-escalating things moving ahead are sensible. \"At the end of the day no-one is saying abandon all common sense.\" \"We can always backtrack if we need to,\" he adds.", "Rising inflation led to government interest payments hitting a record high for the month of January, figures show.\n\nInterest payments hit £6.1bn last month, the highest amount for a January since records began in April 1997 and up from £4.5bn last year.\n\nThe payments are pegged to the Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation - which reached 7.8% in January.\n\nJanuary's interest payments were, however, below the all-time high of £9bn in June last year.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, told the BBC it was worth noting that \"overall interest payments by the government are still at remarkably low levels\" despite UK debt levels at the highest for 60 years.\n\n\"Year after year interest payments have come in below expectations and that has given the chancellor additional wiggle room,\" he said.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said government finances recorded a surplus of £2.9bn last month as the economy opened up from lockdowns and tax receipts improved.\n\nThe surplus compares with a £2.5bn deficit in January 2021 - when spending on coronavirus support measures was higher.\n\nHowever, the latest figure is still a £7bn smaller surplus than in January 2020, before the pandemic.\n\nUK finances are normally healthier in January as self-assessment income tax receipts come in. Revenues from self-assessed tax was £18.4bn last month, an increase of £2bn from a year earlier.\n\nBorrowing from the end of March to January was £138.5bn - the second highest for the period since records began in 1993.\n\nMr Johnson told the BBC the figures showed \"we are still spending an awful lot more. We are poorer than we were.\"\n\nBut he said the bigger picture was that the deficit - the gap between spending and tax receipts - was coming down quickly. Some big tax rises this year will also mean the government borrowing less, he added.\n\nJanuary is normally a month when the Treasury reaps the benefit of large tax payments from self-employed workers, with more money coming in than going out.\n\nThe public sector finances were always going to look comfortable compared with the same month last year when the lockdown over Christmas and the new year dented economic activity.\n\nBut a surplus of £2.9bn in January 2022 is still £7bn less than before the pandemic, reflecting the impact of Omicron.\n\nIt's notable that borrowing in the financial year to date has more than halved, down by £140bn, before the Chancellor Rishi Sunak's forthcoming tax rises have taken effect.\n\nThat illustrates a point already evident from the efforts in the past 13 years of successive chancellors, first Labour then Conservative, to fix the public finances by imposing austerity: namely, it's not so much what the chancellor does, but what the economy does, that most effectively cuts government borrowing.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the government had \"provided unprecedented support\" through the pandemic.\n\n\"But our debt has increased substantially and there are further pressures on the public finances, including from rising inflation,\" he said.\n\n\"Keeping the public finances on a sustainable path is crucial so we can continue helping the British people when needed, without burdening future generations with high debt repayments.\"\n\nThe ONS figures showed that total public sector debt stood at £2.32 trillion at the end of the month, or around 94.9% of gross domestic product.", "Gary Brooker, the frontman of 1960s rock band Procol Harum, has died at the age of 76, his record label has confirmed.\n\nThe London-born singer led the band throughout their 55-year history, co-writing and singing their most famous song, 1967's A Whiter Shade of Pale.\n\nHe was appointed an OBE in 2003, and A Whiter Shade of Pale was honoured by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.\n\nBrooker died at his home from cancer on Saturday, the band said in a statement.\n\n\"He lit up any room he entered, and his kindness to a multilingual family of fans was legendary,\" they wrote in tribute.\n\n\"He was notable for his individuality, integrity, and occasionally stubborn eccentricity. His mordant wit, and appetite for the ridiculous, made him a priceless raconteur.\"\n\nBrooker also toured with Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr, and played with Sir Paul McCartney, Bill Wyman, George Harrison, the Alan Parsons Project and many others.\n\nIn 1996, he appeared alongside Madonna in Alan Parker's film adaptation of Evita, playing Argentine foreign minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia.\n\nBorn in Hackney, east London, Brooker was just 14 when he formed his first band, The Paramounts, at school.\n\nAfter achieving success at local youth groups, they signed to EMI Records and scored a minor hit with their debut single, Poison Ivy, in January 1964.\n\nThe band received a major endorsement from the Rolling Stones, who gave them guest billing on several memorable shows in the early 1960s - but none of their subsequent singles troubled the charts and they eventually split up.\n\nBrooker went on to form Procol Harum in 1966, and released their best-known song the following year.\n\nOne of the anthems of the summer of love, A Whiter Shade of Pale was an unusual song - from its surreal lyrics (\"We tripped the light fandango\") to the haunting organ line, and the melancholy arrangement, loosely based on Bach's Air on the G String.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BIZARRE BAZAAR This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nNonetheless, it became one of the most commercially-successful singles of all time, selling more than 10 million copies worldwide.\n\nAt the first ever Brit Awards in 1977, it was named the joint winner (alongside Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody) of the \"best British pop single 1952-1977\". In 2009, it was named the most-played song of the last 75 years by UK radio stations.\n\n\"From the moment that we made it we knew it was special,\" Brooker said in 2017.\n\n\"Whenever I played it to anyone, it was just me sitting at the piano, and every person thought that it sounded like a hit. So we honestly believed that it was going to be a hit even before we had recorded it.\n\n\"Once we had recorded it and had captured that very characteristic sound, a rather haunting sound, we really did think that it was a good one.\"\n\nThe band promoted the record by touring with Jimi Hendrix, and followed it up with a top 10 single, Homburg.\n\nHowever, the band \"never sought to replicate\" the sound of those early records, \"preferring to forge a restlessly progressive path\", they said in the statement announcing Brooker's death.\n\nTheir third album, 1969's A Salty Dog, is regarded as their masterpiece, ushering in an era of lush, orchestrated progressive rock.\n\nFans included film director Martin Scorsese, who wrote about their \"magisterial melodies and teasing, enigmatic lyrics you could invest with your own fantasies\" in the foreword to Henry Scott-Irvine's 2012 book about the band.\n\nBut the group split in 1977 after a series of line-up changes. Brooker launched a solo career and toured with Eric Clapton's live band in the 1980s, but reformed Procol Harum for a new album, The Prodigal Stranger, in 1991.\n\nHe also fought a lengthy legal battle with former bandmate Matthew Fisher, who claimed to have written the organ riff on A Whiter Shade of Pale.\n\nThe case eventually went to the House of Lords, which ruled that Fisher was entitled to a share of royalties from the song.\n\nThe band went through several line-up changes, but Brooker (third from right) was a constant presence\n\nMeanwhile, the modern line-up of Procol Harum continued to record and tour until the Covid pandemic put their plans on hold.\n\nThey played their final gig with Brooker in Switzerland in 2019, and used the time away from touring to record a three-track EP, Missing Persons (Alive Forever), which was released in May 2021.\n\n\"Gary's voice and piano were the single defining constant of Procol's 50-year international concert career,\" the band said on Tuesday.\n\n\"Without any stage antics or other gimmicks he was invariably the most watchable musician in the show.\n\n\"But for all his other interests and skills - prize-winning angler, pub-owner, lyricist, painter, inventor - he was above all a devoted and loyal husband to Franky, whom he met in 1965 and married in 1968.\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with her, their families and friends at this extremely sad time.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The first minister has set out dates for the lifting of Covid restrictions in law in Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon told Holyrood that Scotland's coronavirus rules, including the wearing of face coverings, would end on 21 March.\n\nMeanwhile, the country's vaccine passport scheme will end on 28 February.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that the moves did not signal that Covid was no longer a risk and recommendations for voluntary compliance would form part of the way ahead.", "More than 12,500 people have died with coronavirus, since the first reported death in Scotland on 13 March 2020.\n\nHere are the stories of some of those who have lost their lives.\n\nIf you would like to pay tribute to a loved one lost to Covid, please use the form below or email newsonline-scotland@bbc.co.uk and ensure you have read our terms and conditions and privacy policy.\n\nJean was born in 1937 Maryhill and spoke often and fondly of her childhood in \"the Butney\". This involved real hardships - including war-time evacuation to Holytown - though Jean's memories were all good and Maryhill became a touchstone when dementia became a factor in recent years.\n\nWorking at Rolls-Royce Hillington, Jean was transferred to its Derby HQ where, as a young woman, she made small component parts for jet engines. Even in her 80s, Jean could still perform all the machinist actions (with sound effects).\n\nShe loved to paint landscapes and had a life-long passion for music, especially jazz (with Frankie and Ella being constants). She was a great singer and dancer, always up for fun and laughs, brightening up any party.\n\nHer family said Jean was a fabulous mum to two daughters, a brilliant friend, and a warm-hearted women with kindness for everyone and anyone. She died on 27 October 2020.\n\nRashelle Baird's family describe her as \"kind, bubbly, and always the life and soul of the party\".\n\nThe 27-year-old mother-of-three from Brechin had put off appointments to get the vaccine because she was busy with her children.\n\nHer family stressed she was not anti-vaccine. \"She wanted to get her vaccine but she put her kids first,\" her father Stephen said.\n\nRashelle, who had asthma, initially thought she had caught a cold from her children, but her symptoms worsened and she was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe died in November 2021 after several days in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, having been placed in an induced coma in the intensive care unit.\n\nDavid Trower worked as a clerical officer in the A&E department of University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie before retiring in 2016.\n\nBut he was committed to the NHS and even in retirement he chose to continue to work shifts, through NHS Lanarkshire's staff bank, right up until February. He died on 9 March 2021, aged 67.\n\nHis colleagues thought highly of him, saying: \"We have many happy memories of shifts together, laughs, nights out, and listening to all his stories of his many holidays abroad. We will miss him.\"\n\nBernadette White, his sister, said he was a caring, gentle and loving man with a wicked sense of humour.\n\nShe added: \"The last seven years, I would say, is when David started to live his life, doing the things that made him happy without having to worry about anyone else.\"\n\nStephen Stewart met his future wife, Heather, at a youth club when he was just 14. They got engaged on his 17th birthday and he had just turned 20 when they married.\n\nThe couple, who lived in Motherwell, came from \"very different\" backgrounds but they grew up together during their 25-year marriage while raising their only child.\n\nStephen took pride in his work for concrete manufacturer FP McCann, latterly as a lab technician working out what strength the concrete needed to be for certain projects.\n\nOutside work, he loved fishing, computer games, gadgets and during the first lockdown he managed to build a hot tub shelter with the help of a series of YouTube videos.\n\nHe died of Covid pneumonia at University Hospital Wishaw on 19 February 2021, aged 45.\n\nNan Douglas worked her way up from shorthand typist to headteacher during a remarkable career.\n\nShe was already a mother of three when she left her job as a school secretary at West Calder High School to enrol at Moray House in Edinburgh where she qualified as a primary school teacher.\n\nAfter losing her husband John when she was just 43, she found solace in working with disabled children and went on to be appointed head of Pinewood Special School in Blackburn, West Lothian.\n\nFollowing a spell living in Cornwall during her retirement, she returned to Scotland where she hosted a \"living wake\" with 80 friends and family on her 90th birthday.\n\nShe lived independently in Milnathort, Kinross, and was admitted to hospital for a minor issue just before Christmas 2020. But she picked up Covid and never left. She died on 19 February 2021, aged 95.\n\nGraeme McGrath's greatest passions were rowing and the River Clyde.\n\nOn the day of his funeral, fellow rowers held oars in a guard of honour at Glasgow Green in a tribute appreciated by his wife Anne and their three sons.\n\nFor 40 years Graeme volunteered with the Glasgow Humane Society and was often called on to row rescue boats on the Clyde, or to help evacuate families during floods.\n\nAfter undergoing a kidney transplant in his 50s, he was unable to get out on the river as much. He retired from his job as a Thomas Cook travel agent and moved to Prestwick in Ayrshire.\n\nBut he still felt the pull of the Clyde and regularly returned to the city to meet friends and row safety boats at regattas.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021 at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, aged 66, after being admitted for an infection affecting his heart.\n\nTommy Morrow spent most of his life in the Maryhill area of Glasgow, where he met his partner Jackie and raised their children, Demi and Mark.\n\nHis family described him as a character and not a day went by without them laughing at his jokes.\n\nHe loved camping and fishing in places like Stornoway with his friends but the most important people in his life were his family, including grandchildren, Lacey and Louden.\n\nDuring his career he worked in various well-known hotels and restaurants in Glasgow but he had not worked for some years due to poor health, including COPD.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021, aged 53. \"It was so cruel - he was so close to getting the vaccine,\" his family said.\n\nTommy Rooney was a bus driver for 36 years and hugely popular with colleagues at First Bus in Larbert.\n\nOn the day of his funeral they were among dozens of people who lined the streets and applauded as his cortege passed the depot.\n\nFirst Bus operations manager Jason Hackett told the Falkirk Herald that Tommy was the \"heart and soul\" of the Larbert station.\n\nMarried to Margaret, the Bonnybridge man had two daughters and a granddaughter who described him as a \"humble but proud family man who put everyone else's needs before his own\".\n\nAn avid Celtic fan, he spent much of the pandemic driving key workers to their essential duties. He died on 12 February 2021, aged 57.\n\nDavid Gray's first grandchild - a girl called Islay - was born in July 2020. The proud \"papa\" used to say that she was the love of his life and she gave him a reason to wake up in the morning.\n\nTragically, the 62-year-old only got to spend five months with her before falling ill with Covid. He died on 3 February 2021.\n\nDavid lived in Erskine and worked for BAE Systems for 20 years, first as a mechanical fitter then as records manager dealing with secret files for the Ministry of Defence.\n\nHis family describe him as \"music daft\" - he played guitar and he was performing a gig with his band in Glasgow when he met his wife, Joyce, 40 years ago.\n\nThey went on to have two children - Darren and Danielle - as well as his beloved Cocker Spaniels, Buster and Shimmer, who he described as his \"bairns\".\n\nHarry Osborne was a Dunkirk veteran whose life was full of adventures - his daughter said he was still able to recall stories until just a few days before he died.\n\nMr Osborne was deployed to France months after joining the Territorial Army in Glasgow, served with the 77th Highland Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery and later became a surveyor.\n\nFriends recall how upon joining, he promised his mother he would not swear and instead would say \"cricky jings\", which became his nickname in the forces.\n\nHe was also known as a keen golfer with a \"wicked sense of humour\".\n\nMr Osborne died from Covid-19 on 25 January, nine months after celebrating his 100th birthday.\n\nConnie Simpson's grandchildren say she was more like a pal than a granny - she was full of fun and laughter, and was always the first up to dance at a party.\n\nBorn in Kinning Park, Glasgow, she moved to the east end after marrying John who she met at the Barrowlands when they were teenagers.\n\nWhile John was away with the Merchant Navy, she brought up their four children in a house \"surrounded by love\", before taking work as a curtain consultant.\n\nShe was fabulous even in her 80s - she loved getting her hair, eyebrows and manicure done, meeting friends at Mecca Bingo in Parkhead and at a local pensioners' club.\n\nConnie died on 23 January 2021 at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow, aged 82.\n\nSheila Gartly was as \"bright as a button\" and the \"heart of our family\", her loved ones said.\n\nShe was born and brought up in Deskford, Moray, before marrying and moving to Keith in 1954. Widowed in 1975, she remarried but lost her second husband in 2005.\n\nDuring her working life she had jobs in a florist and in a fish shop - both of which she thoroughly enjoyed.\n\nShe loved to watch the birds in her garden, read her daily newspaper, listen to traditional Scottish music, and the spring and summer when the nights were lighter and flowers bloomed.\n\nIn 2019 she had surgery on a broken leg but she was recovering well. She died with Covid on 19 January 2021, aged 86.\n\nAlex Goldie was an electrical engineer who latterly worked as a lecturer at Stow College in Glasgow before his retirement.\n\nHis family said he was a gregarious man, always interested in other people, who took great delight and pride in the antics and education of his two great-grandsons, Charlie and Joe.\n\nDuring his long life he enjoyed skiing, tennis, pottery, sailing, golf, holidays in Europe, Australia and North America, single malts and red wine.\n\nHe had been well cared for by Randolph Hill nursing home in Dunblane for 19 months after developing dementia. Covid restrictions meant he had not seen his family, other than by Skype, for a year.\n\nHe is thought to have contracted the virus on a trip to A&E after a fall. He died on 14 January, aged 100.\n\nVincent Logan became one of the youngest bishops in the world when he was ordained Bishop of Dunkeld in 1981, aged 39.\n\nHe served the Roman Catholic diocese for almost 32 years before his retirement in 2012.\n\nThe Scottish Catholic Church said he was \"dedicated and energetic\" and had \"an energy and zeal in all he did\".\n\nBorn in Bathgate in 1941, he was ordained a priest in Edinburgh in 1964. He died on 14 January, aged 79, the day after his friend the Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia.\n\n\"Both bishops succumbed to the lethal effects of the coronavirus,\" the current Bishop of Dunkeld, Stephen Robson, added.\n\nThe Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, died suddenly at his home in the city on 13 January - the Feast of St Mungo, the Patron Saint of Glasgow.\n\nHe had been self-isolating after testing positive for Covid shortly after Christmas.\n\nBorn in Glasgow in 1951, he was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute were First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, who described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\".\n\nLiz Shingleston was a well-known figure in the village of Dunragit and her death on 13 January had a big impact on the small community near Stranraer.\n\n\"Her hearse passed the bottom of the village and the amount of people who turned out to pay their respects was overwhelming,\" said her daughter, Lisa.\n\nLiz spent her early childhood in New Luce but moved to the railway station cottage in Dunragit where her father worked as a signalman.\n\nDuring a varied working life, Liz left school to work in the laboratory of the nearby Nestle factory and later replaced her own mother as the local school's dinner lady.\n\nThe 73-year-old was devoted to her grandchildren and great-grandson but she also liked to treat herself to afternoon tea (with Prosecco) at Trump Turnberry.\n\nHugh Polland, who was known as Shug to his friends and family, was born and raised in Glasgow's Easterhouse.\n\nHe was well known in the area where he ran the Casbah Pub for many years during the 1980s and early 90s.\n\nA huge Celtic fan, he loved to play golf and took up photography later in life - becoming \"unofficial photographer\" at many friends' weddings, christening and parties.\n\n\"Everyone wanted him at their party not just to take photos but because of his personality,\" said his son, Tony McAllister. \"Everyone loved him because what you seen is what you got.\"\n\nShug died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 5 January, aged 70. His sudden death has left his family heartbroken.\n\nFor more than 75 years George Wight lived on his dairy farm in the village of Drumoak in Aberdeenshire.\n\nBut he had more than one string to his bow - as well as being a dairy farmer, for 25 years he was also the publican of his local, the Irvine Arms.\n\nA loyal Aberdeen FC fan, he was one of the lucky ones - he was in Gothenburg in 1983 to see the his beloved Dons lift the European Cup Winners Cup.\n\nHe was devoted to his family, including wife Claire and their four children, and despite suffering a series of bereavements and health setbacks, he always bounced back.\n\n\"He was an inspiration and a hardy soul who kept going no matter what life threw at him,\" they said. George died at a nursing home on 4 January 2021, aged 85.\n\nHugh Bell loved to dance. As a young man, when he doing his national service with the RAF, he was a regular at the dancing at the YMCA in Paisley.\n\nIt was there he met the love of his life, Margaret. They were married for 63 years and had two children Alan and Stuart. Margaret passed away in 2013.\n\nA keen ballroom dancer, Hugh was often first on the dance floor and in his later years he enjoyed dancing to the entertainment at Southerness caravan park, near Dumfries, where Stuart and his friend had a holiday home.\n\nHe was a bright, bubbly sociable man who spent a career in logistics before working as a lollipop man in his retirement.\n\nHugh died on 31 December at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 92.\n\nDavid Warnock was a keen sportsman who loved squash, tennis, rugby, football, cycling and climbing munros.\n\nIn fact, it was on the tennis courts in Aberdeen that he met his teenage sweetheart, Zena. He was 17 and she was 14 - they were married for 62 years.\n\nAn electrical engineer, he worked for Pye Communications, moving first to Cambridge and then Edinburgh.\n\nHe was a quiet man who never complained about anything and was happiest around his family - including four children, 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.\n\nHis second great-grandchild was born shortly after he died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 31 December. He was 85.\n\nHenry Anderson, an SNP councillor on Perth and Kinross Council, died with Covid on 27 December.\n\nHe had represented the Almond and Earn ward since 2012 and colleagues said he would be \"hugely missed\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute to the 68-year-old was Deputy First Minister John Swinney, who described him as \"a good, decent man and a faithful councillor\".\n\nMurray Lyle, the leader of Perth and Kinross Council, said Mr Anderson was an excellent advocate for his ward and \"passionate about local issues\".\n\n\"I had the pleasure of working with Henry for several years on the Local Review Body and always his enjoyed his company, good humour and sense of fun when we were out visiting planning sites.\"\n\nTeenage sweethearts Bryson Mitchell and his wife Irene were due to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary in January,\n\nThey met when he was an 18-year-old apprentice electrician and was assigned to a contract with the company where Irene, who was 16, was working.\n\nAfter marrying in 1961, Bryson spent his adult life in Paisley and 35 years working as an aircraft electrician with British Airways.\n\nThe couple had two children and four grandchildren, who described him as a quiet man with a great sense of humour. \"He was kind and generous, very hardworking, and he lived for his family,\" they said.\n\nHe was in hospital being treated for an acute illness when he contracted Covid. He died on Christmas Eve, aged 82.\n\nAs a child, Sandy Adam survived pioneering surgery to remove his voice box - an operation that left him unable to speak normally.\n\nInstead he learned a different way to communicate - oesophageal speech (swallowing air) - by drinking lots of lemonade. He had a life-long hatred of the fizzy drink after that.\n\nAfter training to be a dentist in Dundee, he returned to his hometown of Aberdeen. In addition to surgeries around the city, at one time he worked at Craiginches Prison one afternoon a week.\n\nA father and a grandfather, he loved tinkering with cars, pranking his two children and sitting in the sun with a glass of red wine.\n\nThe 81-year-old, who had dementia, died on 16 December, shortly after testing positive for Covid.\n\nDavid Barr was born and grew up in Paisley and for more than 40 years he worked in the town's Anchor Mill.\n\nAs well as being a keen bowler, a church elder, and an active member of Martyrs Church Men's Club, he had a gift for carpentry.\n\nThe dolls houses and garages that he made for his children and grandchildren were much loved and they are still treasured.\n\nHis favourite place in the world was the East Neuk of Fife, where he spent many happy holidays.\n\nDavid had an underlying respiratory condition and he was admitted to hospital with shortness of breath in December. He died within days of being diagnosed with Covid on 16 December, aged 86.\n\nAna Lisa Sayson was a nurse who moved from the Philippines to work for the NHS in Scotland.\n\nShe was a staff nurse at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow before she moved to Glasgow Royal Infirmary during the Covid crisis. The mother-of-two died on 15 December after testing positive for the virus.\n\n\"Ana Lisa was a much-loved member of the team and an incredibly compassionate nurse who was devoted to the care of her patients,\" said John Stuart, the chief nurse at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.\n\n\"Ana Lisa came to our country from the Philippines to care for our loved ones and my heart goes out to her family and especially her husband and children.\n\n\"My thoughts, and the thoughts of all of her NHS family here in Glasgow, are with them at this terribly sad time.\"\n\nBilly and May Fannin were married for 62 years after meeting at a ballroom in Glasgow in 1955.\n\nMay was a bookkeeper who gave up her job to look after her grandchildren in the 1980s. \"Her life revolved around her four grandchildren,\" their younger daughter Jennifer told BBC Scotland.\n\nBilly was a joiner by trade but his real passion was singing, performing under the name Scott Allan. And as a member of Equity, he also took on work as an extra on TV programmes like Take the High Road and Taggart.\n\nHe loved being the centre of attention and \"if he was chocolate he would have eaten himself\", Jennifer joked.\n\nWhen the couple from Barrhead caught Covid, their two daughters also fell ill with the virus and had to self-isolate. They were heartbroken they could not be with their 84-year-old mother when she died in hospital on 6 December.\n\nBut they chose not tell their 88-year-old father about her death, as he was also in hospital and had dementia. Jennifer was able to visit him to say goodbye before he slipped away just eight days after the passing of his wife.\n\nShe was president of the city's Bangladesh Association, a civil servant at Glasgow City Council and, according to her family, \"a pillar of the community\".\n\nThey said she was a \"devoted mother, daughter, aunt and friend [but] she would prefer to be remembered as a social activist, volunteer and community advocate\".\n\nBoth Mridula and her husband, Sarwar Hassan, were admitted to hospital with Covid in November. He was discharged but Mridula was moved to Aberdeen for specialist treatment.\n\nHer husband and two sons were able to spend time with her before she died at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 12 December, aged 50.\n\nBridget Turner and her husband Alan worked for years in the window blinds industry before setting up their own business, A&B Window Blinds, in 1992.\n\nThey lived next door to the shop in Paisley, where Bridget worked in the office and Alan went out to do the measuring. Their years of hard work paid off and the family business remains successful.\n\nThe mother-of-three \"loved a good gab and a good catch-up with friends\", according to her daughter, Lisa. \"She was amazing, such a good friend to lots of people.\"\n\nWhen the children were young, family holidays were spent at the Isle of Whithorn but later the couple, who moved to Greenock, spent winters in Gran Canaria where they made friends from around the world.\n\nBridget was treated for Covid at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, where she received \"amazing care\". She died, aged 71, on 7 December after saying goodbye to her family.\n\nAndrew Slorance was a civil servant in charge of the Scottish government's planning and response to crisis situations - including the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe grew up in Hawick and became a journalist before joining the Scotland Office. He led the new Scottish Parliament's media team when it opened in 1999, then became the official spokesman for First Minister Alex Salmond.\n\nA father-of-five, he was diagnosed with Mantle Cell Lymphoma in 2015. He documented his experience of the rare cancer - including six rounds of chemotherapy - in a blog he called \"The fight of my life\".\n\nHe relapsed in 2019 and a stem cell transplant scheduled for Easter 2020 was delayed by Covid. While shielding at home in Edinburgh, he spent the first part of the pandemic working on the government's response from a spare room.\n\nMr Slorance was finally admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow for his stem cell transplant in October. He tested positive for Covid shortly after that and died on 5 December, aged 49.\n\nTributes from across the political spectrum, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, have been paid to Mr Slorance. His wife, Louise, told BBC Scotland: \"He was a proud family man who was the life and soul of any party, loving and loyal.\"\n\nAllan Harper was a salesman at Topps Tiles for 23 years, mainly in the Hillington branch.\n\nHe met Caroline through a dating website 21 years ago. They were due to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in July.\n\nA father-of-one, he lived in Craigton, in the south-west of Glasgow, where he enjoyed computer games and playing pool with work colleagues.\n\nCaroline said they would spend their days off and holidays together with their three cats \"who sometimes got more attention than me\".\n\nHe was a kind man, a \"true gentleman\" and her \"forever love\", she added. He died on 1 December 2020, aged 60.\n\nEileen Terry was born and brought up in Renfrew before marrying Bob and moving to Milngavie in 1968.\n\nHe was a keen golfer and when their sons, Robert and David, reached secondary school she decided the time was right to join him on the golf course.\n\nIt led to a lifetime's love of the sport and she became the ladies captain of Clober Golf Club in 2001 - the club's centenary year.\n\nHer family say she was a kind and generous lady who was well-known in her local community, where she worked as a home help until her retirement.\n\nShe spent her final years in Mavisbank Nursing Home in Bishopbriggs after developing vascular dementia. She died in hospital on 25 November 2020, aged 84.\n\nDavie Burgess was one of 10 siblings born in the Townhead area of Glasgow, but he had a lifelong love of the fresh air and the scenery of the Scottish countryside.\n\nAs a young man, he worked as a fireman on the steam train to Crianlarich - a trip which included a two-hour stopover allowing him to explore the hills.\n\nLater in life he loved driving up to Acharacle to visit his son and his family, where he could go for long walks with his grandchildren and their dog, Mac.\n\nMarried for 60 years to May, the father-of-three worked for the Milk Marketing Board at Hogganfield Loch. He was a hard worker who even after he \"retired\" took on three jobs, including running a caravan park.\n\nHis family described him as a \"gentleman\" and a \"man of pride\". He died on 25 November, aged 86.\n\nRod Moore spent 40 years with the ambulance service, working as a technician, a paramedic, a trainer and then in managerial roles before returning to the front line and the job he loved.\n\nThe football fan from Falkirk was married to Clare for 31 years and they had a son, Craig.\n\n\"He was my best friend, he was always happy, joking around all the time, he was so funny... he made me laugh every day,\" Clare told BBC Scotland.\n\nAnd he was so close to their son \"you wouldn't have got a sheet of paper between them\", she added.\n\nAlthough they were not able to see Rod for four weeks while he was treated in hospital for Covid, they we allowed one final visit to say goodbye before he died on 21 November, aged 63.\n\nTom Kenmure was a manager at the Tesco distribution centre in Livingston, where he had worked for 28 years.\n\nThe 51-year-old was a friendly, sociable man and in normal times he liked nothing better than driving around the country exploring \"any little shop he could find\".\n\nAfter the restrictions came into force, the father-of-two from Carluke did everything he could to keep himself and his family safe from Covid.\n\nBut on the 6 October he felt a tightness in his chest on his way to work and had to get tested. It came back positive the next day.\n\nHe spent two weeks in Wishaw General before being transferred to an ECMO machine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He died on 17 November.\n\nAndrew, or \"Andra\", Kettrick was a porter at Stirling Royal Infirmary for 28 years.\n\nHe would take patients out on \"mystery tours\" in a \"big blue hospital ambulance bus\" his son, also Andrew, told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The old people loved my dad as he would often stop and buy them all fish and chips or ice cream - all this was paid for out of his pocket,\" he said.\n\nMr Kettrick's work was recognised by hospital bosses and they put him forward for a British Empire Medal which he received in 1991.\n\nThe father-of-three, from Cowie, Stirling, died at Caledonia Court care home in Larbert on 17 November. He was 86.\n\nJim - Flocky - Flockhart was the public face of the firefighters' strike in Glasgow in 1973.\n\nA leading figure in the Fire Brigade Union, he regularly appeared on TV and in newspapers during the controversial 10-day strike over pay.\n\nFirefighting was a dangerous - sometimes fatal - job in the \"tinderbox city\" and Jim was hailed a hero by colleagues after the dispute ended with a famous victory for the strikers.\n\nHe retired to Darvel in Ayrshire where he enjoyed a pint in the Black Bull and spent many years driving friends and local elderly men on trips around Scotland and to Ireland.\n\nA father and grandfather, he died with Covid on 13 November with his daughters Yvonne and Julie by his side. He was 77.\n\nTom Maley never wanted for anything, but after enduring months of Covid restrictions this year the 73-year-old retired joiner set his heart on a big Christmas tree.\n\nIt had been a tough year for the normally sociable pensioner who was renowned for his jokes (good and bad) and was devoted to his wife of 53 years, Georgina, and their family.\n\nThey usually decorate a small table-top tree for the festive season, but this year Mr Maley ordered a 5ft showstopper illuminated with multi-coloured stars to fill the window of their Grangemouth home.\n\nThe great-grandfather will never get to see the tree in its full glory. He died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert on 12 November, shortly after falling ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter Claire Taylor told BBC Scotland, said: \"My gran has made sure that the tree he ordered will go up and it will shine bright for Granda.\"\n\nTracey Donnelly was born and brought up in Edinburgh but she moved to the north-east of England after meeting her husband, George.\n\n\"I loved her the first time I saw her, and I always will,\" he said. \"She was so loving and kind - just an extra-special person in every way.\"\n\nTracey had four children, three step-children and eight grandchildren, and she worked as a support worker for the North East Autism Society.\n\nCare manager Michael Ross, said: \"She loved her family, and she loved the service-users in her care. This tragic news has ripped the heart out of the team and her colleagues are absolutely devastated.\"\n\nShe died at Sunderland General Hospital in mid-November after testing positive for coronavirus. She was 53.\n\nJim Grant was originally from Bo'ness but he spent most of his life in Grangemouth where he brought up two daughters, Margaret and Senga, with his wife Mary.\n\nHe worked as a labourer at BP before taking early retirement when he was 60.\n\nThe 88-year-old great-grandfather spent his last months at the Caledonian Court care home in Larbert before his death on 8 November. He was one of 20 residents who died in the space of a month after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter, Nicole Ritchie, said he was a gentleman who always had a huge smile on his face, and his death had had a huge impact on the family.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland \"As a family, we would like to thank Caledonian Court from the bottom of our hearts. They looked after my grandad for the last 11 months of his life and they couldn't have done a better job, he was so happy and very well looked after.\"\n\nFor more than 20 years until her retirement in February 2020, Liz Khan was a support worker for adults with learning and physical disabilities.\n\nShe also ran a drama group for them - it was always more than a job to her, her family said.\n\nLiz was also an elder at her local church, St Margaret's Parish Church in the Muirhouse area of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\n\"She devoted her life to her work, church and family,\" her children Stephen, Sonia and Lorraine told BBC Scotland.\n\nLiz died in hospital with Covid on 26 October 2020, aged 67 - eight months into her retirement.\n\nWhen Marie Ward broke her wrist in 2019, she asked her consultant whether she would be able to play the piano once it had healed.\n\nHe assured her she would, but when she replied \"that's great because I couldn't before\", the previously serious and solemn medic cracked up.\n\nShe was always laughing and joking, according to her granddaughter, Abby McNicol, and she enjoyed nothing more than knitting, shopping and a \"good blether\".\n\nMarried to Robert for 53 years, they started life together in a single-end tenement in Househillwood in Glasgow. Moving to a three-bedroom council house in Johnstone was \"like winning the lottery\".\n\nThe mother-of-three and grandmother-of-11 died on 18 October 2020, aged 83.\n\nFrances Brown spent lockdown shielding in her room in the Glasgow care home where she had lived for almost 10 years.\n\nAfter months of keeping in touch via video calls, the 76-year-old was finally able to meet up with her sister, Anne Turnbull, in August.\n\nMs Turnbull said her sister, who had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bi-polar disorder, had a special bond with staff at the David Cargill care home.\n\nAnd she praised the home which remained Covid-free until a staff member tested positive on 4 October. Frances contracted the virus and died in hospital on 13 October.\n\nIn a statement, the care home described Frances as \"the most incredible woman, a real character, and an absolute pleasure to know and care for\".\n\nAfter a long battle against illness throughout the year, great grandfather Charlie Armstrong died on 10 October.\n\nThe 82-year-old retired property manager from Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, had been allowed home after receiving treatment at Glasgow Royal Infirmary for chest problems.\n\nEight days later he was readmitted to the hospital and tested positive for coronavirus. The family say they were told he must have contracted Covid during his earlier stay at the Infirmary.\n\nHis wife, Joyce, who was also treated in hospital for the virus, said: \"He was very generous, very loving and very funny and he hated seeing anybody being put down. He didn't like to see injustice. He would stand up for people.\n\n\"We were together for 40 years and he was a very good father and a very good husband to me.\"\n\nMargaret Kerrigan was a \"force to be reckoned with\", according to her family - a matriarch who commanded respect.\n\nShe was born in Plymouth but her family moved to Glasgow when she was young. Growing up in Govan in the 1950s, she learned to be a \"tough cookie\".\n\nIt meant she must have been perfectly suited to her job as bar manager at Curlers in Byres Road in the 1960s. And it was there she met Joe, a customer at the pub, who she married in 1970.\n\nHe worked as a school janitor during many of their 50 years of marriage, and they had four sons, 12 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.\n\nClydebank Bowling Club provided Joe with a good social life, while Margaret loved having her family around her and going to the bingo.\n\nJoe had dementia and he died at Hill View care home in Dalmuir on 19 April 2020, aged 78. Margaret fell ill during the second wave and died in hospital on 8 October, aged 73.\n\nFormer ambulance technician George Cairns was a resident at LittleInch Care Home in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire.\n\nHis family said the move from his Renfrew flat to the home in January had reinvigorated him and brought out his mischievous sense of humour.\n\nDuring the lockdown period Mr Cairns, who was bipolar, even joked about topping up his tan in the garden.\n\nThe 71-year-old tested positive for Covid-19 on 8 May despite displaying no symptoms, but his condition deteriorated and he died in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley nine days later.\n\nHis daughter, Gillian, paid tribute to his caring nature, saying: \"Even if you only met him once he would tell you a story, a terrible joke or offer a supportive ear when you needed it the most.\"\n\nRetired farmer Jock Brown was a keen ice hockey player in his youth, and he represented Scotland for six years in the 1950s.\n\nHe told his family that he was selected for the team because he was the only Scotsman who played as goal tender (goalkeeper) at the time. They insist this is not true.\n\nMarried to Mary for 48 years, they had two children and four grandchildren.\n\nHe farmed near Falkirk - on land next to what is now home to The Kelpies - until his retirement in the 1980s.\n\nMr Brown's family said he was a quiet man with a great sense of humour. He had dementia and he died with Covid-19 at Burnbrae care home in Falkirk on 14 May. He was 89.\n\nIna Beaton was a well-known figure on the Isle of Skye and she lived in her own home in Balmaqueen until two years ago.\n\nShe died on 11 May aged 103, the seventh resident of Home Farm care home in Portree to die after contracting Covid-19.\n\nIna lived through the Great War and the 1919 Spanish Flu outbreak. During World War Two she moved to Glasgow to work as a conductress on the trams and survived the Clydebank blitz.\n\nHer grandson, Ailean Beaton, said his loss was shared across the island, especially the north end \"where she was mum, granny, friend to more than just the Beatons.\n\n\"Her crystal memory and broad experience of life in Skye over several generations meant that she contributed to our shared knowledge of the place we're from, its language and culture,\" he added.\n\nBetty Steele grew up in Paisley but later moved to Corby, Northamptonshire - the town known as \"little Scotland\".\n\nShe had seven children, 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, and she lived for her family, according to her granddaughter, Debbie Smiley.\n\nHer house was always the meeting point, and she was the life and soul of the party.\n\n\"She had such a zest for life, and anything she did it was done with care and love for others,\" Debbie added.\n\nJohn Angus Gordon, 83, spent the last few years of his life at the Home Farm care home in Portree on Skye.\n\nHe had dementia and the sense of touch reassured him - he liked to shake a hand or hold the hand of the person he was talking to.\n\nUnable to visit the home, his family spoke to him for the last time in a video-call a few hours before he died on 5 May.\n\nAs he listened to their voices, he reached out to the hand of the carer sitting with him, dressed in full personal protective equipment.\n\n\"We found it quite poignant that my dad put out his hand to hers and she was wearing these blue protective gloves,\" said his son, John.\n\nPaul McCaffrey was an \"amazing dad\" of two children and two step-children who was always busy, according to his partner Caroline McNultry.\n\n\"He was always helping someone, whether he was in someone's house helping them out or just on-the-go in work all the time,\" she said.\n\nThe healthy 49-year-old from Glasgow fell ill after returning home from work at a care home where he was a highly-regarded maintenance manager.\n\nRather than the traditional coronavirus symptoms, he complained of a headache and aching limbs but he was eventually admitted to hospital in Glasgow where he tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHe was transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he could be hooked up to an ECMO machine, which performs the tasks of the lungs. After three weeks, he died on 4 May.\n\nHGV driver Jim Russell kept his lorries so spotlessly clean he was known as \"Big Gorgeous\" by colleagues who joked that he must have worn his slippers in his cab.\n\nHe was a big character who loved cars, trucks, motorbikes, lorries and going to Truckfest with his fiancée Connie McCready, who he affectionately nicknamed \"Isa\" after the Still Game character.\n\nThis photograph was taken at the last concert the couple attended together on 8 March 2020.\n\nThey met online in 2014 and were due to get married last summer but Mr Russell fell ill with Covid three weeks after the concert. He died on 4 May, aged 51.\n\n\"Everyone is talking about life getting back to normal when coming out of lockdown, however for myself and many many others we are terrified as our lives will never be normal again,\" Connie said.\n\nClive Andrews was born in Trinidad and in 1967 he moved to Edinburgh where he \"immediately felt like he belonged\", according to his daughter, Nadine.\n\nThe father-of-six worked as a senior lecturer in ergonomics at Napier College, but he was also committed to the arts.\n\nDevoted to promoting and supporting artists and musicians, he held committee roles with groups including Theatre Alba and the Scottish Arts Council.\n\nHe helped establish the Edinburgh International Harp Festival and volunteered every year for decades with the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival.\n\nClive was a lover of life (and of salsa dancing), his family said. He died at The Elms Care Home in Edinburgh on 3 May 2020, aged 86.\n\nRobert Black was a paramedic but he was also a talented musician and part of the team behind Argyll FM.\n\nPaying tribute to him on social media, the community radio station said he was \"a genuine good guy... everyone was his pal\".\n\nThe Mull of Kintyre Music Festival described him as \"one of our pals\" and a \"true gent, wonderful musician\".\n\nHe was a well-known and loved character in Campbeltown, according to Kintyre Community Resilience Group.\n\nThe father-of-two died in hospital in Glasgow on 2 May.\n\nKaren Hutton was a \"much-loved\" care home nurse who died with coronavirus days after her granddaughter was born.\n\nThe 58-year-old was a staff nurse in the dementia unit at Lochleven Care Home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee.\n\nHer only daughter, Lauren, gave birth to a girl just two weeks ago, according to care home operators Thistle Healthcare.\n\nCare home manager Andrew Chalmers-Gall said: \"Karen was a tenacious advocate for her residents and she always put their needs first.\"\n\nShe died at home in Carnoustie, Angus, on 28 April after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nMark McCarron Gillan bought his wife, Jan, flowers every Friday - a small gesture but something that she still misses following his death on 27 April.\n\nThey were married for 23 years, after first meeting as teenagers, and they have three daughters - twins Ebony and Hope, who are 20, and Brenna, 19.\n\nWhen his colleagues at a soap factory in Queenslie, Glasgow, learned of his death, they stopped production for the first time since opening.\n\nThey were among dozens of people - including friends and neighbours - who lined the streets on the day of his funeral to say a final farewell to the 53-year-old.\n\nMark loved golf, football and hill walking but he was also a family man. \"There is a such a void left in each of us and every life that he touched,\" his wife said.\n\nAlastair Sinclair split his younger years between Reay in Caithness and Lanark before being called up for national service.\n\nBut his army career was cut short when he stood on a mine in Korea and lost a foot.\n\nHis son told BBC Scotland that he was persuaded to pursue a career in developing artificial limbs as he was being fitted for his own prosthetic.\n\nIn retirement, the father-of-three moved with his wife from Newtown Mearns in East Renfrewshire to Wishaw in North Lanarkshire.\n\nHe moved into Erskine Park care home in Bishopton shortly before lockdown and died, aged 87, five weeks later on 27 April.\n\nPearl Paterson grew up in Dennistoun in the east end of Glasgow and was just 10 years old when World War II broke out.\n\nShe was a teenager when she joined the Women's Land Army but it wasn't until she was in her 80s that she received official recognition - and a badge - for her efforts from the UK government.\n\nPearl spent much of her working life employed as a domestic assistant in hotels across Scotland, before settling in Largs, Ayrshire, with her daughter, Fiona.\n\nAn animal lover, she had a special Chihuahua called Flash, and she read the People's Friend magazine every week.\n\nOn her 91st birthday in March, her family was able wave to her in the conservatory at her care home in Glasgow. She died with Covid-19 on 26 April.\n\nAnnie Munro's home was always filled with people - her husband, six children and many nieces and nephews who would often come to visit.\n\nHer family used to joke that the house in Eaglesham must have \"rubber walls\" and they often had to share beds and would \"wake up with somebody's feet up their nose\".\n\nShe was a real homemaker who could as easily run up a set of curtains as make a batch of jam from fruit she had grown in her own garden. She never turned anyone away who needed help.\n\nA mild-mannered woman, she never had any need to raise her voice - a look over the top of her spectacles was enough to keep her children under control.\n\nIn later life she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and her daughter, Linda, became her main carer before she moved into a care home. Annie died on 25 April, aged 84.\n\nKnown to all as Gogs, Gordon Reid was a taxi driver from Edinburgh who loved football, played golf, enjoyed a pint and doted on his grandchildren.\n\nHe stopped working as a precaution four days before the lockdown came into force but within a week had fallen ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis wife, Elaine, and daughter Leemo Goudie, were able to spend some time with him in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary before he died on 24 April, aged 68.\n\nLeemo said: \"My dad was a normal guy, no health issues, a non-smoker, fairly fit. It can happen to anyone.\"\n\nAs only a small number of mourners could attend his funeral, people stood and applauded as his hearse passed some of his favourite places in the city.\n\nDavid Allan joined a local running club in Edinburgh in retirement, after spending 36 years as a science technician at the city's Trinity Academy.\n\nThe fit and healthy 64-year-old was training for a half marathon and was planning to take part in some Park Runs in Sydney during a trip to visit his nephew in Australia this year.\n\nWhen the holiday - including a trip to Fiji - was cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions, David was pragmatic and told his wife, Glenda, they could rearrange for a later date.\n\nIt was a shock when he tested positive for Covid-19 after being admitted to hospital with a chest infection. He died on 24 April after more than four weeks in ICU.\n\nGlenda took comfort from the funeral, when neighbours lined the streets, running club friends and former colleagues stood outside the crematorium, and hundreds watched the service online.\n\nAngie Cunningham worked for NHS Borders for more than 30 years before her death.\n\nThe 60-year-old from Tweedbank was a much-respected and valued colleague who provided \"amazing care\" to her patients, the health board said.\n\nAs well as being a much-loved mother, sister, granny and great-granny, she was proud to be a nurse, her family added.\n\nShe died in the intensive care unit at Borders General Hospital from Covid-19 on 22 April, NHS Borders confirmed.\n\nKirsty Jones, a healthcare support worker with NHS Lanarkshire, was a bubbly, larger than life character, according to her colleagues.\n\nShe joined the health board after leaving school at 17 and spent much of her career working with older patients.\n\nBut the 41-year-old recently took up a role on the frontline of the pandemic, working at an assessment centre in Airdrie.\n\nHer husband, Nigel, said she devoted her life to caring for others and was a wonderful wife and mother to their two sons.\n\nAndy McGinley used to say he didn't need to win the lottery - his family meant he was already a millionaire.\n\nHe was brought up by adoptive parents in Glasgow's Maryhill area during World War Two and went on to become a carpenter at John Brown's Shipyard.\n\nAlthough he first met his wife, Margaret, at primary school they lost touch and got together after meeting at the Barrowland Ballroom years later.\n\nThey spent almost all of their 62 years of married life in the same house in Barmulloch, where they had five children. They also had 15 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.\n\nHe loved his garden, bowls, and a sing-song at family gatherings - his party piece was \"I'm glad that I was born in Glasgow\". He died on 29 April 2020, aged 84.\n\nEvelyn Brown dedicated her life to her family and her community. Born and bred in Peterhead, she was married to Charles for 50 years and they had two children.\n\nShe gave up her job as a bank manager to care for her son Craig after he was born with Down's syndrome in the 1970s.\n\nHer daughter Emma, who was born two years later, said her mother was a selfless woman who loved spoiling her grandchildren with \"gifts and love\".\n\nMrs Brown was an adult Guide leader and later a district commissioner, she volunteered with Barnardo's and was an active member of the Church of Scotland.\n\nAfter her death at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 19 April, aged 75, her family raised £3,000 in her name for the hospital's staff garden.\n\nWaqar Hussain Choudhry was a popular shopkeeper in the north of Glasgow.\n\nThe 65-year-old ran a convenience store on Skerray Street in Milton where he was affectionately known as Wacca.\n\nFollowing his death on 17 April 2020, well-wishers left flowers outside the shop he ran for almost 40 years.\n\nThey told The Glasgow Times that the father-of-three served generations of school children and put an extra sweet in their bags.\n\nHis son Zeeshan Chaudhry told the BBC: \"My beloved father was the most amazing hardworking human and parent.\"\n\nJane Murphy was known as \"Mama Murphy\" by close friends and colleagues at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.\n\nShe worked at the city hospital for almost 30 years, first as a cleaner before retraining as a clinical support worker.\n\nThe 73-year-old, from Bonnyrigg, was placed on sick leave due to her age when the pandemic broke out.\n\nIt's understood the mother-of-two died on 16 April.\n\nHer friend Gerry Taylor said: \"She wasn't afraid to tell nurses, doctors or consultants if they were not pulling their weight and they loved her for it.\"\n\nMary McCann, 70, was a \"strong, wonderful woman\" who was dedicated to her family, according to her son, David.\n\nShe spent the last three months of her life in an East Kilbride care home, having being diagnosed with cancer last year.\n\nThe grandmother was doing well in the Whitehills home, where she was putting on weight and smiling again, David said.\n\nBut in early April she developed a urinary tract infection. Her condition deteriorated quickly and within days she was struggling to breathe.\n\nShe died in the care home on 16 April with her son, Derek, by her side.\n\nVerity Watson met her husband Adam (Adie) in a bible class and together they raised three sons, Alan, Gordon and Adam.\n\nThey lived in South Africa for a few years but returned to their beloved home of Rutherglen in 1970.\n\nShe worked at the local Coulls Bakers until retiring aged 72 but in her spare time she enjoyed bowls, knitting and - best of all - a cream cake with a cup of tea.\n\nHer family were unable to be with her when she died at Roger Park Care Home on 15 April 2020, after a short stay in hospital.\n\nHer son Adam said he couldn't thank staff enough for their \"invaluable support\", sitting with his mother in her final moments. She was 98.\n\nDavid Whittick joined the Royal Navy as a pilot on his 18th birthday in the midst of World War Two. Aged 19, as part of 835 Naval Air Squadron, he was flying off aircraft carrier HMS Nairana in the Arctic.\n\nAlmost 70 years later he received the Arctic Star for his role in Arctic Convoys - described by Sir Winston Churchill as \"the worst journey in the world\".\n\nHe survived two serious accidents during his long civilian career with Scottish Airways and later British Airways, before dedicating himself to supporting the Riding for the Disabled charity in his retirement.\n\nHis work - including helping to raise funds for a purpose-built facility at Summerston in Glasgow - led to him being appointed an OBE by the Queen for his services to charity.\n\nHe was married to Joyce for more than 60 years and they had four children. His son, Peter, said he lived a full and active life, even enjoying a trip on a seaplane in January this year. He died at Erskine care home in Bishopton on 14 April, aged 95, after falling ill with coronavirus.\n\nHer daughter Linda, a lawyer for the BBC, had hoped she would survive the virus as she was from \"strong stock\".\n\nShe last saw her mother in March when she travelled from London to warn her they may not be able to visit her during the pandemic.\n\nThe pensioner had been \"extremely distressed\" afterwards, Ms Duncan said.\n\nShe was taken to Edinburgh's Western General Hospital on 12 April and died three days later.\n\nDerek Wilkie worked for 27 years as a firefighter before retiring in December 2017.\n\nHe had senior roles in Badenoch and Strathspey, and Shetland before becoming station commander for Inverness and Nairn District.\n\nColleagues said he was a \"diligent and capable firefighter... with a larger than life personality\".\n\nHis wife and two sons - who all work for the NHS - thanked those who cared for Mr Wilkie and urged people to stay at home.\n\nHe died at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on 12 April.\n\nFormer Merchant Navy engineer Bill Campbell died of suspected Covid-19 at Erskine Park care home in Bishopton.\n\nThe 86-year-old had dementia and carers initially thought he had a chest infection but he developed a cough and a high temperature.\n\nHis condition deteriorated and he died on Easter Sunday, with his daughter, Linda Verlaque - in full protective clothing - by his side.\n\nShe praised the work of carers at the home but she said his death was \"horrific\" as undertakers came to take away his body in full hazmat gear and goggles.\n\n\"Instead of having people surrounding me and giving me a hug to say everything was all right, everyone was just standing there and we were watching my dad being taken away, which was traumatic,\" she said.\n\nProud Welshman Glyn Edwards did not learn to speak English until he was five years old, but in adulthood he made Edinburgh his home.\n\nA contemporary of Neil Kinnock at Cardiff University, he worked as a civil servant in London before marrying and moving to Scotland.\n\nHe was a regular at Robbie's Bar on Leith Walk where he was known as \"McTaffy\" but he could be a solitary character who could easily lose himself in a book or a concert.\n\nClassical music, politics and poetry were his passions - as a teenager he won a major Welsh poetry contest and his daughter, Mhairi Jarvie, treasures a ring-binder full of his poems.\n\nShe affectionately described her father as a cross between Coronation Street's Ken Barlow and Victor Meldrew - \"intelligent, opinionated, political, but grumpy and a tad anti-social\".\n\nMaths teacher Gerry McHugh was a \"true gentleman\", able to inspire every single student who walked through his door.\n\nHis death would have a \"devastating effect\" on the Notre Dame High School community in Greenock, head teacher Katie Couttie said.\n\nUnable to attend his funeral due to the lockdown, past and current pupils found a unique way to pay tribute to the 58-year-old.\n\nThey wore red and posted images on social media in memory of the lifelong Manchester United fan.\n\nEileen McCarron died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary less than 24 hours after falling ill. She had no underlying health concerns.\n\nA mother of three daughters, she spent 18 years working as a nursery teacher at Save the Children's Charles Street playgroup in Glasgow's Germiston.\n\nShe gave up the job to look after her only grandson, Patrick. Her husband of more than 35 years, also Patrick, died suddenly in 1997, aged just 57.\n\nAs well as volunteering at a Barnardo's charity shop, she liked shopping, knitting, going out for coffees and lunches, and holidays with her family.\n\nShe was 79 when she died on 9 April, leaving her family devastated and unable to comfort each other during lockdown. They had still not been able to hold a memorial service nine months later.\n\nHelen McMillan was 10 days short of her 85th birthday when she died at Almond Court care home in Glasgow's Drumchapel on 9 April.\n\nShe spent most of her life in Summerston, where she widely known as \"Auntie Ellen\" - even to those she wasn't related to.\n\n\"Everybody loved my mum,\" her daughter, Jackie Marlow, told BBC Scotland. \"She knew everybody in the community and was the life and soul of the party.\"\n\nHelen worked in McLellan's rubber factory in Maryhill until she was in her 50s.\n\nA grandmother to Hayley and Josh, she developed dementia in later life but she was still \"pretty agile and loving life\", her daughter said.\n\nMary Martin and her husband, Alex, were keen ballroom dancers.\n\nAlthough their roots were firmly in Glasgow, they spent seven years in Dunblane where they were tasked with encouraging people on to the dancefloor at the Dunblane Hydro.\n\nBefore that, Mrs Martin brought up her family in Mount Vernon, later moving to Bearsden. She had three children, six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a great-great grandchild.\n\nHer daughter, Sandra O'Neill, told BBC Scotland she was \"just a wonderful person - gentle and kind\".\n\nIn her later years she had vascular dementia and she lived at the Almond Court care home in Drumchapel. She died there on 8 April, aged 88.\n\nVic and Maureen Sharp, who were both 74, had been together since they were teenagers.\n\nUnderlying health conditions meant the couple from Oakley in Fife were both asked to shield themselves during lockdown.\n\nBut their daughter, Yvonne Sharp, believes the letter came too late and they caught the virus during a weekly trip to the supermarket.\n\nMaureen died in hospital on 8 April and then, Yvonne said, her father \"just gave up\". He died the following day.\n\nOnly six members of the family could attend their funeral but a piper led the funeral cortege through Oakley, where locals lined the streets.\n\nWhen Ann Tonner left the Nazareth House orphanage in Glasgow as teenager, she was one of the few women of colour in the city, according to her son, Tony McCaffery.\n\nShe was \"exotic-looking and quite glamourous\" and was soon in demand as a model for local shops and boutiques before working as a celebrated hot-dog girl in an Odeon cinema.\n\nHer first husband tragically died and her second was largely absent, leaving her to bring up six children and - at times - hold down five jobs at once.\n\nShe was a \"remarkable, formidable woman with a strong work ethic\", Mr McCaffery told BBC Scotland, but she was also a \"gentle soul with an incredibly child-like sense of humour\".\n\nA grandmother and great-grandmother, Mrs Tonner died at a nursing home in Glasgow where she was living with Alzheimer's, on 8 April. She was 84.\n\nMary Nixon was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was just 18 but she was determined to never let it hold her back.\n\nBorn and raised in Greenock, she was a lone parent to four children who described her as a \"strong, independent woman who lived life to the full\".\n\n\"My mum made being a single parent look easy\", her daughter Alexis said. \"We were very happy kids growing up. Everyone loved her and always said she was a 'wee gem'.\"\n\nWhen she fell seriously ill in 2014, her family was told to prepare for the worst, but their \"invincible\" mum rallied, though she lost her mobility.\n\nShe died with Covid on 7 April 2020, aged 66. After everything she had been through in life, her family said they felt \"robbed... that this awful virus has taken her from us\".\n\nJanice Graham was the first NHS worker to die with coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThe health care support worker and district nurse died at Inverclyde Royal Hospital on 6 April.\n\nOne colleague said she had a \"bright and engaging personality and razor sharp wit\".\n\nAnother said the 58-year-old was the \"most kind, caring and compassionate HCA I have had the privilege to work with\".\n\nHer son, Craig, told STV News he would miss everything about her.\n\nNewly-wed Andy Wyness developed a high temperature and a cough following a trip to Wales.\n\nWhen his symptoms worsened the 53-year-old drove himself from his Wishaw home to an appointment at an assessment centre.\n\nThat was the last time his wife, Sandra, saw him.\n\nThe grandfather, who was a keen bowler, was taken straight to hospital by ambulance. He died on 6 April.\n\n\"Even walking out the house that night, although I knew he wasn't well, I never imagined he would never walk back in,\" Sandra said.\n\nRita Hawthorn spent the first 35 years of her life in Hamilton, where she was born, grew up and had her own family.\n\nBut when her husband, Robert, lost his job as a miner the couple and their three children re-located from the west of Scotland to the far north in 1973.\n\nWhile Robert took up a new job at the Scottish Instruments Factory in Wick, she worked as a cleaner at a nearby job centre and became secretary of the Highlands and Islands Civil Service Union.\n\nShe was sadly widowed at 51 but she was \"fiercely independent\" and went on to fulfil her dreams of travelling - a trip up the Nile, a safari in South Africa, and solo bus tours to Austria and Paris.\n\nRita, who was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, fell ill during the first week of lockdown. She died at Caithness General Hospital on 6 April, aged 82.\n\nBill Paul grew up in Giffnock on the south side of Glasgow and did his national service as a radar operator with the RAF in Malta.\n\nIn his youth he was an extremely accomplished tennis player and it was through the sport that he met his first wife, Frances, who died in 1984.\n\nWith his second wife, Liz, he loved to play golf and travel - hobbies that he continued after her death in 2012.\n\nAn extremely active man, he loved to go on cruises with a group of like-minded friends. However his last cruise to the Caribbean was cut short by the pandemic in March.\n\nHe returned home to Arran and fell ill with Covid within a week. He died at Lamlash Hospital on 5 April, aged 81.\n\nMofizul Islam was beginning a new life in Scotland after relocating from Bangladesh when he fell ill with coronavirus.\n\nHis family believe the 49-year-old caught the virus on his daily three-hour journeys between their Edinburgh home and his job at a pizza outlet in Midlothian.\n\nHe died on 5 April and was buried in the Muslim section of a city cemetery but his wife and children were in isolation and unable to attend.\n\nHis death has left the family \"completely helpless\", according to a family friend as they have no documents, no bank account and they are struggling for money.\n\n\"We are very worried about our future because we don't have our father,\" said Mofizul's 19-year-old son, Azahural. \"He was everything for us. And now we are just hopeless.\"\n\nCatherine Sweeney was a \"wonderful mother, sister and beloved aunty\", her family said after her death on 4 April.\n\nBorn and raised in Dumbarton, she worked as a home carer for more than 20 years.\n\nHer family said she would be sorely missed after a \"lifetime of service\" to the community.\n\nAnd they praised the medics at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley who \"heroically\" looked after her in her final days.\n\nJimmy Andrews was 17 years old when began his career in Glasgow Corporation's finance department in 1955.\n\nBy the turn of the century, he had risen to become chief executive of Glasgow City Council and in 2001 he was appointed CBE for services to local government - a \"career highlight\".\n\nHe was born in Kilsyth but spent much of his life living in Strathblane, Stirlingshire, with his wife of 52 years, Mary.\n\nIn retirement, he \"enjoyed life to the full\", spending time with his three children and six grandchildren, and visiting horse racing courses throughout the country.\n\nA gentle, intelligent man with a great sense of humour, he died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 3 April 2020, aged 81.\n\nLord Gordon of Strathblane was a former political editor of STV and he founded Radio Clyde.\n\nHe died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 31 March after contracting coronavirus, Radio Clyde reported. He was 83.\n\nHis family paid tribute to his \"generosity, his kindness and his enthusiasm for life\".\n\nFormer First Minister Jack McConnell said Lord Gordon had \"an outstanding career in business and public service\".\n\nRyan Storrie was in Scotland to celebrate his 40th birthday with a trip to a Rangers match when he fell ill.\n\nThe father-of-two was from Ardrossan but lived in Dubai.\n\nWhen he developed symptoms, the asthmatic isolated in his hotel room and waited for the virus to run its course.\n\nHis condition deteriorated but he wouldn't let his wife, Hilary, phone 999 as he was convinced he would recover and didn't want to bother the NHS.\n\nShe found him dead in his room on 31 March.\n\nMary and Andy Leaman began self-isolating at the end of March after falling ill with flu-like symptoms.\n\nTheir son, Andy, told the Glasgow Evening Times the couple were married 50 years and doted on their only granddaughter, nine-year-old Anna.\n\nMrs Leaman died at home in Castlemilk on 30 March - four days after the death of Anna's maternal grandfather, Dougie Chambers.\n\nThe schoolgirl lost her third grandparent almost three weeks later when Mr Leaman died in hospital on 19 April.\n\nHer mother, Lynsey Chalmers, told BBC Scotland: \"For a nine-year-old girl whose three grandparents were her world... why does a wee girl need to get punished like that over and over again?\"\n\nRobert Tarbet was \"self-opinionated and witty\", according to his daughter, Paula Karoly, but also \"hardworking, loyal and beautiful\".\n\nHe spent his working life as a plumber with Glasgow City Council before retiring in the early 2000s.\n\nIn his spare time, the sociable man was a mason who was a keen follower of Rangers FC. He loved country and western music and watching musicals in the theatre.\n\nA father and a grandfather-of-three, he was being treated for cancer when he contracted coronavirus.\n\nHe died on 29 March at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 76.\n\nSchool janitor Ian Wilson was at home in Coatbridge for two weeks with a high temperature and delirium before being admitted to hospital.\n\nDespite his worsening condition, doctors initially told his wife, Sandra, she would not be able to visit the 72-year-old who had a heart condition and diabetes.\n\nStaff eventually granted access provided she wore protective equipment - a decision which meant she could be at her husband's side when he died on 29 March.\n\nAlthough nurses were unable to comfort her with a hug due to social distancing protocols, Mrs Wilson is grateful they allowed her to be with her partner at the end.\n\n\"I was able to talk to him and just say goodbye. I've got strength from that,\" she said.\n\nDougie Chambers was one of several people who fell ill after the 40th birthday party of his daughter, Wendy, on 7 March.\n\nWithin days, the 66-year-old, who had an underlying health condition, went into hospital and tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMr Chambers, who was from Castlemilk in Glasgow, died two weeks later, on 26 March.\n\nTwo other members of his extended family - Andy and Mary Leaman - also contracted the virus and later died.\n\nWendy said: \"If we knew then what we know now, we wouldn't have had the party. It wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nDanny Cairns was a healthy 68-year-old before he fell ill with coronavirus, according to his brother, Hugh.\n\nWhen he developed a cough and sore throat at the end of March, he isolated at home in Greenock.\n\nBut within days he was so ill he had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nIn a video call from his hospital bed, his last words to his brother were: \"I'm on my way out, mate\".\n\nHe died on 26 March, three days after arriving in hospital.\n\nMargaret Innes lived with her daughter, Sally McNaught, in Edinburgh for four years before her death at the very beginning of the pandemic.\n\nShe was housebound and very frail but she loved sitting with their pet cat and dog, doing crosswords and watching quiz shows.\n\nHer favourite soap was Neighbours and she used to say \"I'm off to Australia now\".\n\nMs McNaught said they stopped visitors coming to the house a week before lockdown, they washed their hands, cleaned everything and thought they would be safe.\n\nBut Ms Innes woke up on Mother's Day with severe breathing difficulties. She died on 25 March, three days after going into hospital. She was 93.\n\nHas one of your loved ones died recently after contracting Covid? We would like to pay tribute to some of them on the BBC Scotland website.\n\nIf you would like to see your relative or friend featured, use the form below to send us your details and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your details will be published, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Logan was found dead in the River Ogmore last July\n\nA five-year-old boy's body was dumped in a river after being beaten so badly his injuries were consistent with a fall from a great height or car crash, a murder trial has been told.\n\nMother Angharad Williamson, 30, step-father, John Cole, 40, both of Sarn, Bridgend county, and a 14-year-old boy, who cannot be named, all deny murder.\n\nLogan's body was pulled from the River Ogmore on 31 July 2021.\n\nThey are all charged with murdering the youngster between 28 July and 1 August.\n\nAll three are also accused of perverting the course of justice, including moving Logan's body to the river near Pandy Park, removing his clothing, washing bloodstained bed linen, and making a false missing person report to police.\n\nMs Williamson and the youth pleaded not guilty to both offences, while Mr Cole admitted perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe two adults were also charged with causing or allowing the death of a child, which they both deny.\n\nOn the first day of their trial, prosecutor Caroline Rees QC said: \"The prosecution's case is that Logan was murdered and each of these three defendants played their part in the killing of that five-year-old child.\"\n\nAngharad Williamson is accused of murdering her son\n\nShe said each of the three defendants had covered up their involvement, adding: \"Each prioritised their own self-preservation over all else, and particularly over the needs of Logan.\n\nReferring to the teenage defendant, Ms Rees said: \"The prosecution say his young age was no object to his involvement in the death and cover-up, in which we say he took full part.\"\n\nShe described him as a \"complex, troubled and violent\" boy and said he had previously made \"repeated threats that he wanted to kill Logan and wanted him dead\".\n\nThe jury of seven men and five women heard an apparently distraught Ms Williamson had reported Logan missing at 05:45 BST on 31 July, and had accused a woman against whom she held a grudge of abducting him.\n\nThe 999 call and the faked search for Logan were described by Ms Rees as a \"callous\" and \"elaborate\" attempt to cover up the trio's role in his death.\n\nPolice found Logan, wearing only mis-matched pyjamas, in the river a short time later. He was taken to the town's Princess of Wales Hospital, where he was confirmed dead.\n\nMs Rees said he had suffered \"significant injuries to his internal organs and his brain which caused his death\".\n\nShe added one pathologist described his injuries as \"so extreme you would expect to find them as a result of a fall from a great height or a high-velocity road traffic accident\".\n\nLogan had 56 external injuries to his head, face, trunk, arms and legs which were from \"blunt force trauma\", Ms Rees said.\n\nIt was apparent Logan had died before his body was placed in the river, she added.\n\n\"The prosecution say that Logan died as a result of a brutal and sustained assault upon him which happened inside the home,\" she said.\n\n\"It is the use of forceful violence which caused the catastrophic injuries found at post-mortem.\"\n\nThe jury was told Mr Cole and the 14-year-old were caught on CCTV in the early hours of 31 July leaving a house.\n\nAngharad Williamson and John Cole both deny the murder of Logan Mwangi\n\nMr Cole was carrying something in his arms which he has since confirmed was Logan's dead body, the court heard.\n\nThe pair walked along the riverside path to the spot where Logan's body was found.\n\nDuring this time, a light can be seen switching on and off in the room used by Logan, which the prosecution said proved his mother was awake and knew what had happened to her son.\n\nMr Cole and the 14-year-old boy then returned to the property before heading out again; the prosecution said this trip was to dispose of Logan's bloodied pyjama top.\n\nMs Rees QC said: \"Angharad Williamson must have been awake and up and about, fully aware Logan had died and that his body had been dumped in the river by her partner - disposed of like they were fly-tipping rubbish.\"\n\nMs Williamson began to cry, becoming more upset as the jury was shown a picture of Logan and the circumstances of the five-year-old's death was described.\n\nThe jury was told CCTV footage two days earlier showed a \"physical struggle\" between Logan's mother and the teenager, in which a witness described her as \"hysterical\".\n\nMs Rees said: \"In her [police] interview, Angharad Williamson said that there was an incident on 29 July when Logan was seriously assaulted by Cole and the youth who were acting together.\"\n\nThe prosecutor told the jury this suggested the attack on Logan had already started.\n\n\"Angharad Williamson failed to do anything to help for over a day,\" she added.\n\nMs Rees questioned why Ms Williamson failed to help Logan, describing him as a \"vulnerable five-year-old child - her own son who had been attacked by a grown man and a teenager\".\n\nMs Rees said this demonstrated \"that something serious has been going on behind closed doors\".\n\nThe court heard the following day a social worker made an unscheduled visit to Mr Cole and Ms Williamson's address but was told she could not see Logan because he had tested positive for Covid-19 and was in self-isolation.\n\nBut Ms Rees said: \"If, as Angharad Williamson claims in interview, and as we understand her defence case will be, [the youth] and John Cole had severely assaulted Logan the day before, why didn't she tell [the social worker] in her 20-minute visit to the property?\n\n\"Who was she protecting and why was she doing it?\"\n\nThe court also heard the teenager told police he did not realise Mr Cole was carrying Logan's dead body, but the prosecution said the CCTV footage on 31 July shows the pair were so close together he must have known.\n\nThe trial, which is expected to last about eight weeks, continues.", "Vladimir Putin's decision came shortly before Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared at a news conference in Downing Street\n\nThe UK government has promised to sanction Russia over President Vladimir Putin's decision to recognise two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine.\n\nRecent legislation will be used to impose restrictions on people and organisations linked to Russia, the BBC understands.\n\nGovernment sources say sanctions would be \"ratcheted up\" in the event of a Russian incursion of Ukraine.\n\nThe PM is expected to set out further details in the UK Parliament later.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid accused Russia of a \"flagrant violation\" of Ukraine's sovereignty, adding it appeared an invasion of the country had already begun.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he said Europe was waking up to a \"very dark morning\", adding \"we cannot allow this to stand\".\n\nHe added UK sanctions would be targeted at individuals and companies linked to the Russian government, and Russia's economy.\n\nSeveral of the UK's western allies, the US, France and the European Union, made similar pledges, condemning Mr Putin's move and promising sanctions.\n\nEarly on Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussed sanctions, as well as the latest intelligence, at a Cobra emergency response meeting of cabinet ministers and officials.\n\nMr Johnson told Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday evening that he believed an invasion was a real possibility in the coming hours and days, a Downing Street spokesperson said.\n\nIn a phone call, the PM told Mr Zelensky he would \"explore sending further defensive support to Ukraine\" at the request of the country's government, as well as detailing sanctions.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson added: \"The leaders agreed that the West needed to support Ukraine in the event of an invasion, but should continue to pursue a diplomatic solution until the last possible second.\"\n\nHours earlier on Monday, Mr Putin signed a decree recognising the independence of the self-declared people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.\n\nRussian-backed rebels have been fighting Ukrainian forces in those regions since 2014 in a conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 14,000 people.\n\nMr Putin's decision has been preceded by weeks of tensions and intense diplomacy over a build-up of Russian troops on Ukraine's borders.\n\nPro-Russian activists react in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk following President Putin's announcement\n\nThe decree signed by Mr Putin says Russian armed forces will perform \"peacekeeping functions\" in Donetsk and Lugansk.\n\nIn a lengthy TV address, Mr Putin, appearing visibly angry at points, claimed \"modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia\" and was part of its ancient lands.\n\nBut in recent weeks, Russia has repeatedly denied it has plans to invade Ukraine and accused the West of \"hysteria\".\n\nMr Putin delivered the speech as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was giving one of his own in Downing Street on measures to lift Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nMr Johnson said Mr Putin's decision to recognise the two separatist Ukrainian regions was \"plainly in breach of international law\" and a \"flagrant violation of the sovereignty and integrity\" of the country.\n\nSkip image gallery Tap or click to go through the gallery\n\nMr Johnson said the decision was a \"very ill omen\" that things were moving in the wrong direction in Ukraine.\n\n\"The UK will continue to do everything we can to stand by the people of Ukraine with a very robust package of sanctions,\" he said.\n\nHe said it was becoming clear there was a need to \"start applying as much pressure as we possibly can\" because it was hard to see how the situation would improve.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK government passed new legislation that expanded its powers to impose sanctions on those directly linked to Russian actions in Ukraine.\n\nThe legislation gave the government powers to impose sanctions on Russian businesses and individuals in strategically significant sectors, such as the chemical, defence, extractives, ICT and financial services industries.\n\nAre you in Ukraine? Are you or your family affected? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vladimir Putin announces that Russia will recognise Donetsk and Luhansk as independent\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops into two rebel-held regions in eastern Ukraine, after recognising them as independent states.\n\nRussia said the troops have not yet been deployed but will be \"peacekeeping\" in the regions, which it has backed since 2014.\n\nThe US said calling them peacekeepers was \"nonsense\", and accused Russia of creating a pretext for war.\n\nSeveral countries have announced sanctions in response.\n\nUkraine's president said his country was \"not afraid of anything or anyone\".\n\nIn a late-night televised address to the nation, President Volodymyr Zelensky called for \"clear and effective actions of support\" from Ukraine's international allies.\n\n\"It is very important to see now who our real friend and partner is, and who will continue to scare the Russian Federation with words only,\" he added.\n\nFears over an invasion have been rising in recent months, as Russia has massed some 150,000 troops along Ukraine's borders, according to US estimates.\n\nAt an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield dismissed Russia's claims that troops would be taking on a \"peacekeeping\" role, saying: \"We know what they really are.\"\n\nRecognising Luhansk and Donetsk as independent was part of Russia's bid to create a reason to invade Ukraine, she said.\n\nRussia has been backing a bloody armed rebellion in eastern Ukraine for the past eight years. Some 14,000 people - including many civilians - have died in fighting since then.\n\nIn recent years, Russian passports have been given out to large numbers of people in Donetsk and Luhansk.\n\nThe rebel-held areas have been evacuating women, children and the elderly to Russia since late last week.\n\nIn an hour-long address on Monday, Mr Putin said Ukraine was an integral part of his country's history, and described eastern Ukraine as \"ancient Russian lands\".\n\nRussia's UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya argued for the need to defend the rebel-held areas in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region from what he called Ukrainian aggression. \"Allowing a new bloodbath in the Donbas is something we do not intend to do,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Zelensky said Moscow's recognition of the rebel-held regions represented a threat to the security of Ukraine and other European nations.\n\n\"If we have a full-scale escalation... our neighbours would be put at risk,\" he said.\n\nWestern powers have rallied behind Ukraine, promising tough sanctions against Russia if it invades - though it is not yet clear how effective this move could be.\n\nThe US swiftly condemned Mr Putin's move, and President Joe Biden signed an executive order that prohibits new investment, trade and financing by Americans in the breakaway regions. The White House said the measures were separate to wider Western sanctions which are ready to go \"should Russia further invade Ukraine\".\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Russia had violated Ukrainian sovereignty and \"completely torn up\" international law. He said Mr Putin appeared \"bent on a full-scale invasion\", and promised a \"barrage of sanctions\".\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he was halting the process of certifying the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline because of Russia's actions. The gas pipeline between Russia and Germany was completed last September but is not yet operating. Running under the Baltic Sea, it would double Moscow's gas exports to Germany and circumvent Ukraine, which relies on existing pipelines for income.\n\nThe European Union pledged to \"react with unity, firmness and with determination in solidarity with Ukraine\".\n\nBoth Mr Scholz and France's President Emmanuel Macron spoke with the Russian leader ahead of his announcement.\n\nThis speech was Putin the angry, impatient and directly threatening. It felt like Russia's president was getting 20-odd years of hurt off his chest and hitting back.\n\n\"You didn't want us to be friends,\" was how he put it to the West, \"but you didn't have to make an enemy of us.\"\n\nThere was a lot we've heard before, repackaged for this moment when he knows he has maximum attention.\n\nHe's clearly ceding no ground on his key security demands: Nato expansion must be rolled back, and Ukrainian membership is a red line. He complained that Russia's concerns had been ignored as irrelevant for years and accused the West of trying to \"contain\" Russia as a resurgent global force.\n\nMr Putin's focus on Ukraine felt obsessive, like a man who thinks about little else. At times it sounded like a bid to run for president there, it was so detailed.\n\nAnd, of course, there was his re-writing of Ukrainian history, to claim it has never really been a state. In today's context, that had deeply ominous overtones.\n\nA Ukrainian serviceman at a position on the front line near the village of Travneve in Donetsk region\n\nGroundwork for the controversial decision was laid earlier on Monday, when Mr Putin convened Russia's security council to discuss recognising the self-declared republics as independent.\n\nMr Putin's top officials were called to a podium to deliver their views, each speaking in favour of the move. Monday's televised meeting was not entirely smooth, however.\n\nTwo officials appeared to reference a possibility to \"incorporate\" the regions into Russia. On both occasions, Mr Putin corrected them.\n\n\"We are not talking about that,\" Mr Putin said, shaking his head in response to one official's use of the phrase. \"We are talking about whether to recognise their independence or not.\"\n\nAre you in Ukraine? Are you or your family affected? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sharon Johnston had said nothing would change her mind about wanting an assisted death\n\nTwo women have been arrested on suspicion of assisting or encouraging suicide, following the death of a 60-year-old woman from Cardigan.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police has confirmed the woman who died is Sharon Johnston, a severely disabled woman who was a prominent advocate of assisted dying.\n\nMs Johnston had been reported missing from her home.\n\nBBC Wales understands she had travelled to Switzerland, with the intention of asking doctors to help end her life.\n\nPolice said a 29-year-old woman from the London area and a 69-year-old woman from Cardiff were arrested after returning to Heathrow Airport and have been released pending further investigation.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Wales Investigates programme last October, Ms Johnston said she intended to travel to Switzerland to end her life.\n\n\"I go out in the town and I can get about. It's not that like I'm trapped in bed or bedridden. But I don't want the care,\" she said.\n\n\"Physically I can't do a suicide, I can't take an overdose of medication because it's all done with the carers in a secure medical box. I don't want to do a botched suicide,\" she said.\n\nSwiss law enables doctors to assist certain patients to die, although the process remains illegal in the UK.\n\nMs Johnston was told that she would never be able to walk again, following a fall more than three years ago.", "Police officers responded to a report of a man acting suspiciously at Bow Street Mall in Lisburn\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of carrying an imitation firearm in a public place in Lisburn, County Antrim.\n\nThe 50-year-old was arrested after police responded to a report of a man acting suspiciously at Bow Street Mall in the city centre at about 14:45 GMT.\n\nThe shopping centre closed briefly due to the incident but reopened later on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nEarlier, officers said the man was also arrested on suspicion of possession of a point or blade in a public place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Businesses in Wales reveal the problems they say they are facing because of Brexit\n\nMore than a year on from Brexit Welsh companies say they are feeling the pinch from making fewer sales to Europe.\n\nHiut Denim Co. in Cardigan, Ceredigion. said European sales were 36% down, while production fuel costs are up 30%.\n\nPero Foods, in Betws-y-Coed, Conwy county, said its European turnover was down 86%.\n\nBut a UK minister said evidence Brexit had caused trade drops was \"few and far between\".\n\nLast week Minister for Brexit Opportunities Jacob Rees-Mogg said Brexit was \"already a success\" and that he would be working to \"cut through the thicket\" of red tape.\n\nIt's exactly 20 years since the closure of the Dewhirst jeans factory in Cardigan.\n\nHiut Denim Co. took on local workers' expertise and skills to produce jeans once again, earning fans including the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nThe company's co-founder Dave Hieatt said he was having to work harder because of the adverse affects of Brexit.\n\n\"It's really disappointing because business is hard anyway,\" he said.\n\n\"You've got to go and win a customer, keep a customer, but suddenly if the customer doesn't know what the charge is going to be, you're going to lose it because of a lack of clarity.\n\n\"And so Brexit unfortunately is not helping... it's just not helping.\"\n\nHiut is run by husband and wife team David and Clare Hieatt\n\nThe UK left the EU's trading regime on 1 January 2021, 11 months after it left the bloc - with its trade now governed by a post-Brexit trade deal.\n\nSince then, British businesses have experienced additional paperwork and border checks when exporting products to EU countries, something Mr Hieatt said was detrimental to business.\n\n\"Europe has been very important for us but since Brexit, our sales have been 36% down. Our production in fuel costs are 30% up, so it's definitely a little bit harder,\" he said.\n\nPero Foods director Jonathan Rees said the company had seen decline of around 86% in its turnover into Europe\n\nPero Foods said that since 2020/2021 it had lost about £750,000 worth of business to customers within the EU.\n\nJonathan Rees, director of the natural pet food manufacturer, described the attitude from Westminster as \"quite dismissive\" and said he was not convinced things would get better.\n\n\"Brexit is having an astounding effect on us as a business,\" he said.\n\n\"We've seen a decline of around 86% in our turnover into Europe.\n\n\"The Republic of Ireland was a big customer and we've lost everything that went over to Ireland.\"\n\nHe added: \"Paperwork and the administrative side is one thing but because we're a small business, we can't fill lorries and so we have to be a part of another load, and many of the transport companies don't allow combining loads in case there's a problem with the paperwork of one delivery that could stop the rest of the goods from crossing the border.\"\n\nA recent report by the Public Accounts Committee said new arrangements for the UK-EU border had added costs to exporting businesses.\n\nAccording to a cross-party committee of MPs, trade had been \"suppressed\" since the UK cut formal trade ties in January 2021, due a combination of Brexit, Covid and global economic problems.\n\nThese factors combined have led to a decline in Welsh meat exports.\n\nIn 2021, UK beef exports were down 11% on the previous year, with lamb seeing a 20% reduction.\n\nJohn Richards said the extra paperwork was hitting exporters\n\nIndustry Development and Relations Manager at Meat Promotion Wales, John Richards, said there was no denying the pandemic had a significant impact on the industry, but Brexit still raised serious challenges;\n\n\"The biggest challenge we've had over the last year or so is the extra paperwork that's required in order to get products to be exported,\" he said.\n\n\"And that extra paperwork requires more resource, more time, and all this costs exporters money.\n\n\"In the short term, unfortunately, there's no quick fix.\"\n\nHe said exporting red meat to the EU was \"vitally important\".\n\n\"We export about a third of what we produce here in Wales, and around 95% of what we export ends up going into Europe.\"\n\nWales Office Minister David TC Davies MP insisted more opportunities were now available for businesses as markets have opened for Welsh companies in places such as Asia and Australia.\n\n\"We've had a very difficult year, because of Covid and companies around the world are suffering at the moment,\" he said.\n\n\"But now, the situation is looking very good.\n\n\"The fact is that we can keep on exporting to the EU, but also have the opportunities of securing trade deals with other countries around the world.\"", "Logan was found dead in the River Ogmore last July\n\nA 999 call made by Logan Mwangi's mother on the morning her five-year-old son's body was dumped in a river has been described as \"chilling\".\n\nAngharad Williamson's plea for police to find Logan was \"all an act\", Cardiff Crown Court was told.\n\nProsecutor Caroline Rees QC said it was all part of an elaborate cover-up concocted by Ms Williamson, her partner John Cole and a 14-year-old boy.\n\nMs Williamson, 30, Mr Cole, 40, and the teenager, all deny Logan's murder.\n\nHis mum, Williamson; and step-dad Cole; both from Sarn, Bridgend county, as well as the youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are also accused of conducting a cover-up after his death.\n\nLogan's body was found in the River Ogmore, on 31 July, the prosecution said he had been dumped hours earlier like \"fly-tipped rubbish\".\n\nMs Rees told the court the 999 call \"might sound like a heartfelt call of distress from a mother reporting her child missing\".\n\n\"But with knowledge of the CCTV and the proof that Angharad Williamson knew exactly what was going on that night, the prosecution say that the 999 call is in fact chilling,\" she said.\n\n\"It demonstrates the extent to which Williamson was prepared to lie and her ability to put on a performance to save her own skin, even when dealing with the death of her own five-year-old child.\"\n\nPolice body-worn camera footage that shows officers first visiting the flat in Sarn where Logan is believed to have been killed is to be shown in court, the jury was told.\n\nLogan's mother can be seen \"wailing and shouting\" while Mr Cole is \"playing the part of the concerned stepdad\", the prosecutor said.\n\nAngharad Williamson and John Cole both deny the murder of Logan Mwangi\n\nShe added that the sound of a tumble dryer and washing machine can be heard, and asked: \"Why on earth would the family be doing the laundry as a matter of such urgency in the circumstances?\n\n\"The prosecution suggest that this was to dispose of incriminating evidence and that one of the items laundered was part of Logan's bed linen.\"\n\nA sheet, which was missing from Logan's bed, was recovered from the tumble dryer four days later when the property was searched on 4 August.\n\nLogan's Paw Patrol duvet and pillow were found to have small amounts of his blood on them consistent, the prosecution said, with him having been bleeding in bed.\n\nThe boy, whose body was discovered in the nearby River Ogmore, had suffered 56 \"catastrophic injuries\", including lacerations to his liver and a tear to his bowel, as well as traumatic brain injuries.\n\nA juror became upset as a summary of the medical evidence was read to the court.\n\nPaediatrician Dr Deborah Stalker concluded the injuries were the result of purposeful blunt force trauma and a \"forceful assault\".\n\nPathologist Dr John Williams also discovered what was described as a \"healing fracture\" to Logan's clavicle which was several weeks old.\n\n\"This finding suggests infliction of injury on different occasions over a more prolonged period of time than the days immediately before Logan's body was discovered,\" Ms Rees said.\n\nLogan is believed to have survived for several hours after the assault, meaning there was an opportunity to save him, Ms Rees said.\n\nThe last time he was seen alive was on a Facetime call on 27 July, four days before he was found dead.\n\nHe had been in self-isolation from 21 July after testing positive with Covid.\n\nThe court was told how police officer Lauren Keen had found Logan's body lying in a foetal position, climbed into the river and picked him up in her arms.\n\n\"She noted he had a head injury,\" said Ms Rees. \"His body was cold and stiff, his lips were blue and his eyes were wide open. There was no sign of life.\"\n\nAs the scene of his discovery was described to the court, Ms Williamson began to cry loudly.\n\nTributes remain at the scene near to where Logan's body was found last July\n\nAll three defendants are also accused of perverting the course of justice, including moving Logan's body to the river near Pandy Park, removing his clothing, washing bloodstained bed linen, and making a false missing person report to police.\n\nMs Williamson and the youth pleaded not guilty to both offences, while Mr Cole admitted perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe two adults were also charged with causing or allowing the death of a child, which they both deny.\n\nThe trial has heard that when Ms Williamson was taken in to see her son's body she made comments to a nurse about wishing she had taught him to swim.\n\nMs Rees said: \"The prosecution say that this must have been with the intention of causing others to believe he had met his death by drowning, even though Angharad Williamson must have known this was untrue because she was up and about when his dead body was removed from the home.\"\n\nThe nurse, who will give evidence later in the trial, said she was troubled by Ms Williamson's demeanour, believing she was \"performing\".\n\nMs Williamson had later asked another nurse why Logan was wet. When she was told it was because his body had been found in the river, she claimed it was the first time she had been made aware of this, the court heard.\n\nMs Rees said this was considered an odd comment, given her earlier statement about not teaching Logan to swim.\n\nThe court was also told that, two weeks after the five-year-old's death, a care worker heard the 14-year-old defendant singing: \"I love to punch kids in the head. It's orgasmic.\"\n\nHe later told another care worker: \"I did some bad stuff but I am not allowed to talk about it.\"\n\nThe case, which is expected to last about eight weeks, continues.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV footage shows the moments before an attack was carried out on a prison officer.\n\nThree convicted terrorists, including Hashem Abedi who is serving life for 22 murders in the Manchester Arena bombing, have been found guilty of a \"vicious attack\" on a prison officer.\n\nPaul Edwards, 57, was attacked in his office in the high security unit of Belmarsh Prison in May 2020.\n\nAbedi, with Ahmed Hassan and Muhammed Saeed, all denied assault causing actual bodily harm.\n\nAll three have been found guilty after a trial at Woolwich Crown Court.\n\nAbedi was convicted of assaulting a second prison officer who rushed to help his colleague.\n\nHe received a sentence of three years and 10 months imprisonment, which will be added to the record 55 year minimum term he is already serving.\n\nHassan and Saeed were sentenced to three years' imprisonment, to be served consecutively to their existing jail terms\n\nThe court heard that Abedi, 24, started the assault on Mr Edwards, along with Muhammed Saeed, 23, who had talked about carrying out a knife attack at London's Speaker's Corner.\n\nThey were quickly joined by Ahmed Hassan, 22, serving life for the Tube bombing at Parsons Green underground station.\n\nAll three were being held in Spur 4 of Belmarsh's high security unit which at the time had only 10 inmates.\n\nJust after 15:00 on 11 May 2020, as the men were being escorted back from the exercise yard, CCTV cameras recorded them smiling and joking as they reached the top of the stairs, then running off to carry out the attack.\n\nPaul Edwards described sitting at his desk in his office when Abedi and Saeed burst in.\n\nSaeed launched a \"karate kick\" at his head as Abedi swung an office chair at him, he said.\n\nHe fell to the floor where Abedi and Saeed started kicking and punching him, and were joined by Hassan.\n\nBombers Hashem Abedi (left) and Ahmed Hassan took part in the attack on officer Paul Edwards\n\n\"I feared for my life... and I genuinely thought that if I hadn't fought back I could end up with at least extreme injuries, or dead,\" he said.\n\nHe said it felt like a lifetime before other prison officers came to help him, even though it was only a few seconds.\n\nCCTV seen by the jury, but not released to the media, showed Mr Edwards with blood on his head and shirt after the assault.\n\nAs well as lacerations to his scalp, he had a bruised back and rib cage, and has suffered lasting damage to his hearing. His wife, who also works at HMP Belmarsh, took him to hospital.\n\nFellow prison officer Nick Barnett, who suffered a bruised shin during the fight, said there was \"utter chaos\" in the office where the assault took place.\n\n\"It was just like a pack of animals on Mr Edwards,\" he said.\n\n\"It was just a vicious attack where they were literally all over him.\"\n\nApart from the office chair, no weapons were involved in the attack, and the prisoners had been through a metal detector as they came back from exercise.\n\nAftermath of where the attack took place\n\nIn a meeting that morning Hashem Abedi had complained to the governor in charge of the unit that Muslim prisoners received different treatment to non-Muslim ones.\n\nThe trial heard that Abedi had orchestrated a series of identical complaints from prisoners on his wing, but he denied being their \"leader\".\n\nHe and Hassan had been moved from the standard privileges regime to basic because they had shaved their heads, changing their appearance without permission.\n\nThis meant loss of access to televisions and games consoles and a shorter exercise period.\n\nPaul Edwards was the officer who made this decision.\n\nThe three prisoners who assaulted him were earlier involved in a fight on 1 March 2020. At the time, Abedi was on trial for murdering the 22 victims of the Manchester Arena attack.\n\nAt his first court appearance in the assault case last year, when asked whether he pleaded guilty or not guilty, Abedi said: \"I did assault that filthy pig, but I don't see any wrongdoing.\"\n\nDuring the assault trial, Abedi represented himself, meaning he was allowed to question witnesses in court and give a defence closing speech. He did not give evidence, nor did his co-defendants.\n\nAbedi was not allowed to question the two prison officers he had assaulted and was forbidden from using his speech to talk about other issues.\n\nDespite denying any role in the Manchester Arena attack, Hashem Abedi has since admitted his involvement in a series of boasts to lawyers that are said to amount to pro-Islamic State propaganda.\n\nThe BBC has asked the Ministry of Justice why two convicted bombers and a man who aspired to carry out a terror attack were held on the same spur of the same high security unit, and were able to plan their assault on a prison officer.\n\nCourt documents show that, in chat groups infiltrated by an undercover officer, Saeed praised \"Jihadi John\" and wrote: \"There's people in Speaker's Corner who mock the Messenger of Allah Wallahi. We have a duty to kill them.\"\n\nHe said he would use a kitchen knife with a fixed blade and had, in another online conversation, discussed using a van for an attack.\n\nThe May 2020 Belmarsh assault came months after an inmate of the same unit had carried out a terror attack in Streatham, south London, days after his release, and two prisoners had carried out a terror attack on a prison officer in HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it took assaults on its staff very seriously and was giving prison officers \"body-worn cameras, police-style restraints\" and synthetic pepper spray (PAVA) \"to allow them to do their jobs more safely\".\n\n\"We will never tolerate such appalling attacks against hard-working staff and will always push for the strongest possible punishment,\" said prisons minister Victoria Atkins.\n\nPeter Clarke, former chief inspector of prisons and the former senior counter terror officer, and a senior fellow at the think tank Policy Exchange, said the prison system had not adapted well to handling prisoners who were inspired by al-Qaeda and the Islamic State Group.\n\n\"What needs to happen is that the people managing these prisoners need to be expert in the particular risks which these prisoners present,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's no good just treating them as other prisoners are treated. There needs to be a unique and tailored approach.\"", "The Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would bring gas to Germany has shuttered amid the latest fighting Image caption: The Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would bring gas to Germany has shuttered amid the latest fighting\n\nThere was plenty of criticism that Western sanctions in the days leading up to this invasion did not go far enough, fast enough.\n\nThese new measures will hit the Russian economy much harder. But there are still potential gaps.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said sanctions against major Russian banks include one of the largest state banks, VTB, which will have all its assets frozen. But another major bank, Sberbank, was not mentioned.\n\nAnd the Ukrainian government wanted more – in particular moves to disconnect Russia from the international payment system known as Swift, which thousands of banks use to exchange information.\n\nThe US and the UK are in favour of such a move, but some European countries fear it could damage their own banks.\n\nSuspending Russia from Swift is still under consideration, but the hesitation is a reminder that in a globalised world all sanctions tend to have an impact on the countries imposing them as well.\n\nAnd the real trouble with sanctions is that they don’t work quickly.\n\nThey do increase pressure, and they can do damage.\n\nBut the international community is not trying to damage the Russian economy just for the sake of doing so.\n\nIt wants economic pressure to force a change in Putin’s political and military calculations.\n\nMeanwhile, the invasion of Ukraine continues.", "An additional booster dose will be offered to all adults over-75 and the most vulnerable over-12s in the UK this spring.\n\nThe UK's vaccines advisers said an extra dose would help top up their protection against severe Covid-19.\n\nMany of the oldest received their latest shot back in the autumn and immunity may now be waning, it said.\n\nAn autumn booster programme, aimed at a wider group of people, is also planned later this year.\n\nUp until now, only people with severely weakened immune systems had been eligible for a fourth dose - three doses plus a booster.\n\nThose now being offered a second booster this spring, to be administered six months after their previous dose, are:\n\nAdults will be offered a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, while children aged 12-18 will receive Pfizer.\n\nAround 7.2 million people in the UK aged over 75, who have already had their primary course of Covid vaccines, will be eligible for the extra spring booster.\n\nAnother half a million people who are immunosuppressed, with diseases such as blood cancer or who've had an organ transplant or are receiving chemotherapy, can also have the additional booster.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said vaccinating these groups was a \"precautionary\" move and did not mean there was any current danger to their health.\n\nBut because people in these groups are at higher risk from Covid-19, have weaker immune systems than other people and were last vaccinated in September or October 2021, their protection from vaccines might be waning more quickly.\n\nData suggests that older people who have had two doses of a Covid vaccine have about 45% protection against hospital admission with Omicron, rising to 90% straight after their first booster.\n\nTen weeks later, that protection has dropped to about 88% but the JCVI believes that even a small drop-off in protection among vulnerable and older people can have a large impact, including on hospital admissions and the NHS.\n\nWinter is seen to be the season which poses the greatest threat from Covid, particularly for older adults, the NHS and care homes.\n\nProf Wei Shen Lim, chair of Covid vaccination at the JCVI, said: \"Last year's booster vaccination programme has so far provided excellent protection against severe Covid-19.\n\n\"To maintain high levels of protection for the most vulnerable individuals in the population, an extra spring dose of vaccine is advised ahead of an expected autumn booster programme later this year.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said he had accepted the JCVI's advice and asked the NHS to prepare to offer a vaccine to those eligible. He added that further details would be sent out in due course.\n\n\"It's important that everyone gets their top-up jabs as soon as they're eligible,\" he said.\n\nScotland's Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said a further dose would be offered to high priority groups from next month.\n\nThe JCVI said data showed that the risk of being admitted to hospital after being infected with Covid-19 was highest in the over-75s, but some scientists questioned why over-65s, a much larger group, were not included.\n\n\"With community infection rate still stubbornly high, there is ample opportunity yet for another variant with higher case fatality rate to emerge before the proposed autumn campaign - and if it does perhaps this advice may yet be regretted, given that it's a long time to wait for autumn,\" said Prof Penny Ward, visiting professor in pharmaceutical medicine at King's College London.\n\nHowever, Prof Jonathan Ball, professor of molecular virology at the University of Nottingham, said the boosters plan was \"a sensible thing to do\".\n\n\"We know that immunity contracts over time and that this is usually more pronounced in older people, who are also most likely to develop serious disease. Therefore, giving these people an additional boost to their immunity makes sense to help protect them disease.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Flood defences along the River Severn in Ironbridge\n\nFlooding remains a problem around the UK as communities seek to recover recent from storm devastation.\n\nThree people have died, flooding has forced evacuations and millions were left without power over the past week by storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin.\n\nNearly 90 flood warnings are in place in England, although more than 30 have been lifted over the course of Tuesday.\n\nHowever, two \"severe warnings\" for the River Severn - meaning there is a danger to life - remain in place.\n\nSome homes and businesses have already been evacuated along that river.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned that parts of the West Midlands and northern England should be prepared for significant flooding until Wednesday.\n\nThe Met Office said that although there would not be a huge amount of rain on Tuesday, rainfall in areas already affected by flooding could significantly slow down recovery work.\n\nA flood warning remains in place near Wyesham in Monmouthshire, Wales, while in Scotland four flood warnings are in effect -one in Churchill Barriers in Orkney and three in the Tayside area.\n\nIn Shropshire, people have been rescued and properties evacuated due to flooding and at Ironbridge two severe flood warnings have been issued - meaning lives are in danger and the Severn barriers are expected to be breached.\n\nThe Wharfage Road in Ironbridge - which runs alongside the river - has closed to pedestrians, as it is no longer safe behind the barriers erected there, the Environment Agency said.\n\nTelford & Wrekin councillor Shaun Davies told the PA news agency that the government had provided the town with temporary flood barriers but \"there is significant concern they will be breached\".\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Bewdley, Worcestershire, alongside one in Ironbridge.\n\nFourteen people and four dogs have been rescued from flooding in the Melverley area, close to the banks of the River Vyrnwy, Shropshire Council confirmed.\n\nIn the Shrewsbury area of the county, the River Severn appears to have peaked at 16.9ft (5.15m), 3.9 inches (10cm) - short of the record levels set in 2000 - and parts of the town centre have been under water.\n\nThe rail network in the area has seen trains in Wales and the West Midlands cancelled on Tuesday due to the floods.\n\nNational Rail said water levels at Shrewsbury had subsided and lines have reopened, but it warned customers major disruption is set to continue until the evening.\n\nStorm Franklin was the third named storm in a week - following Dudley and Eunice - the first time this has happened since the storm-naming system was introduced in 2015.\n\nThe storms left 1.4 million households without electricity, some for up to 72 hours, with wind speeds of over 100mph recorded during Eunice, in which three people died.\n\nJust a few days later, the heavy rainfall brought by Franklin saw widespread flooding across the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Homes, roads and rail hit by storm floods in Wales\n\nIn Wales, some roads in Powys are still submerged so the extent of water damage in the local area remains unknown.\n\nCounty councillor Karl Lewis said Llandinam in Powys had been left looking like a \"disaster zone\".\n\nA clean-up has begun in Matlock in Derbyshire, after the town's high street was submerged - the third time it has been hit by floods in three years.\n\nIt has since emerged a family with a baby in Nottinghamshire had to be rescued from their Land Rover on Saturday, after the four-wheel drive vehicle became stuck in flood water\n\nAn elderly couple in Leicestershire narrowly escaped injury when a large tree crashed through their thatched roof during Franklin on Monday.\n\nFlood water in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire after the River Wharfe overtopped its banks\n\nMeanwhile, latest figures from the Energy Networks Association show about 11,400 customers are still without power as of Tuesday, including in southern England, in the South West and in the East.\n\nUK Power Networks said on Tuesday that 99% of properties across the East and South East had had their power restored.\n\nIn Northern Ireland the majority of the 10,000 properties left without power by Storm Franklin have now been reconnected.\n\nTransport networks have also been severely disrupted by the storms over the course of the last week, with trains, airports, ferries, roads and bridges closed due to wind and flooding.\n\nNational Rail said people should check before travelling on the railways on Tuesday ahead of a \"small number of delays and alterations\".\n\nMost train services returned to normal on Tuesday, although some routes are still subject to disruption.\n\nRotherham Central station in Yorkshire is still closed due to flooding, with services between Doncaster and Sheffield diverting around it.\n\nNetwork Rail recorded about 200 storm-related incidents between London Paddington and Penzance in Cornwall in recent days, adding that the number of incidents was unprecedented and some of the worst the UK has experienced in three decades\n\nIn the past week rail workers faced extreme conditions to restore services - clearing trees, sheds, trampolines and various other obstructions from tracks, as well as fixing overhead electric wires.", "Wreaths are laid at the unveiled memorial plinth in Aldershot\n\nWreaths have been laid at the unveiling of a memorial to the victims of an IRA bombing in Hampshire 50 years ago.\n\nSeven people were killed when a car bomb exploded outside the headquarters of the 16th Parachute Brigade in Aldershot in the afternoon of 22 February 1972.\n\nNineteen people were also injured in the attack on the officers' mess.\n\nOn Tuesday, a service to bless the newly unveiled memorial plinth was held at the same hour as the explosion.\n\nThe attack was carried out as a reprisal for Bloody Sunday\n\nEach side of the heptagonal plinth represents one of the victims killed: Catholic army chaplain Gerard Weston, gardener John Hasler and five women who worked in catering: Mary Thelma Bosley, Jill Mansfield, Joan Lunn, Sheri Munton and Margaret Grant.\n\nFollowing the service, a parade and march was held along Aldershot's Queen's Avenue, which was closed to traffic for the first time in more than a decade for the event.\n\nThe bombing was carried out as a reprisal for Bloody Sunday, where paratroopers in Londonderry opened fire during a civil rights march, killing 13 people.\n\nThelma Bosley was one of five women who were working in the kitchens at the time of the blast\n\nJohn Bosley, whose mother Thelma Bosley was killed in the Aldershot blast, said earlier: \"It's closure - but not the closure I would have liked.\"\n\nHe has been campaigning for a memorial in the town for a decade but he and his family remain angry that there has never been a full public investigation into the bombing.\n\nMr Bosley told the BBC it is \"inexplicable\" that security had not been stepped up in Aldershot after the regiment's involvement in the shootings three weeks earlier.\n\nHe said he blames the lack of an inquiry for his brother Carl's death last year, after he had campaigned for decades for a full investigation.\n\n\"He [Carl] disappeared into a downward spiral over 20-something years of alcoholism and he was found dead last May in his house,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aldershot IRA Bombing: 'It's not the closure I would have liked'\n\nAn ex-serviceman, Mr Bosley said he owes his own life to the charity Rock2Recovery, which helps veterans affected by stress.\n\nAnd he believes people involved in tragedies today receive much better care because \"fortunately as a society we've moved on\".\n\nWelcoming the memorial unveiling, he continued: \"It's closure - but not the closure I would have liked.\n\n\"I would have liked to have seen people getting the help they should have had, I would have liked this event given the recognition it should have had, but we don't get everything we want in life.\"\n\nThe bombing in Aldershot was the first in a series of attacks by the IRA targeting British Army regiments serving in Northern Ireland at the time of the Bloody Sunday shootings, which happened just over three weeks earlier.\n\nOn Sunday 30 January 1972, 13 people were shot dead, and at least 15 others were injured, when members of the Parachute regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in the Bogside - a predominantly Catholic part of Derry.\n\nThe day became known as Bloody Sunday and is widely regarded as one of the darkest days of the Northern Ireland Troubles.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon sets out dates for the lifting of Covid restrictions in law in Scotland\n\nScotland's legal Covid-19 restrictions, including the wearing of face coverings, will end on 21 March.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said people would still be advised to wear masks in shops and on public transport.\n\nBut all legal restrictions on people and businesses will end as part of an effort to \"return to a normal way of life\".\n\nMeanwhile, the country's vaccine passport scheme will end on 28 February.\n\nThe plan is part of a new strategic framework the government has drawn up for dealing with the pandemic in the future.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it would see Scotland move away from legal restrictions, relying instead on vaccines, treatments and \"good public health behaviours\".\n\nThe move comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that England's restrictions will be lifted on Thursday, with the requirement to self-isolate dropped and free mass testing to end in April.\n\nMs Sturgeon expressed frustration at Mr Johnson's approach, calling for clarity about how the testing system - which operates UK-wide - would operate in future.\n\nHowever she said the removal of restrictions was now possible because widespread vaccination coverage and better treatments had reduced the direct harms of the virus.\n\nThe Covid certification scheme - vaccine passports which are required when attending large events including concerts and football matches - will come to an end on Monday 28 February.\n\nAnd the remaining legal restrictions will be phased out on 21 March - including the requirement for people to wear face covering in enclosed spaces and on public transport, and rules for businesses on collecting customer details and taking measures to reduce the spread of the virus.\n\nPeople will still be asked to self-isolate if they test positive for Covid-19 - although this has never been a legal requirement in Scotland - with Ms Sturgeon calling it \"one of the most fundamental public health protections that we have available to us\".\n\nThe first minister said her government was \"duty bound to remove legally imposed restrictions\" as the impact of the pandemic reduces.\n\nHowever she warned that this \"should not be taken as a signal that Covid no longer presents any risk to health\".\n\nShe said: \"Even though certain measures, for example face coverings, may not be legal requirements in future, we will still recommend voluntary compliance as part of the range of behaviours that will help keep us safe as we manage COVID in a more sustainable and less restrictive way.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said testing would remain a vital part of managing the virus, but that there would be a phased move to a \"more targeted system\" focusing on high risk settings like care homes and hospitals and rapid detection of new variants.\n\nShe said detailed plans for testing would be announced in March, adding that she hoped there would be \"more clarity from the UK government on available resources\".\n\nMr Johnson has previously suggested that the Scottish government would have to fund any continued free testing from its existing budgets.\n\nTesting will be targeted at high risk settings such as nursing homes and hospitals\n\nBusiness groups welcomed the announcement, with CBI Scotland director Tracy Black falling it \"a significant step towards normality returning\".\n\nAnd the Scottish Retail Consortium said firms would welcome the new timetable as \"light at the end of this very long tunnel\", while calling for a concerted effort to encourage shoppers back into town and city centres.\n\nMSPs will be given the chance to debate and vote on the government's new proposals for managing the virus.\n\nThese will see Scotland operate a three-level system for future outbreaks of the virus - of low, medium and high risk.\n\nShe said that in a high-risk scenario, where a new variant emerged which could evade vaccines or natural immunity, people could be advised to limit social contacts and work from home, with \"some temporary protections\" introduced by the government.\n\nMeanwhile in a medium-risk scenario - for example in the event of a variant similar to Omicron which is more transmissible but less severe - Ms Sturgeon said face mask laws could be reintroduced.\n\nMs Sturgeon urged people to continue voluntarily wearing face masks when the legal restrictions are lifted\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives welcomed the move away from blanket legal restrictions, and said they backed a system of \"personal responsibility\".\n\nBut leader Douglas Ross questioned why the government had moved to extend the powers underpinning face mask and Covid passport rules until September.\n\nHe said: \"If it is no longer necessary or justifiable to keep restrictions in place, why is it necessary or justifiable for the govt to cling on to control over those powers and keep the threat of restrictions hanging over the public?\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the government needed to have \"contingency measures\" for use in future as it was highly likely the country would face a threat from new variants of Covid-19 in future.\n\nScottish Labour's deputy leader Jackie Baillie said testing, contact tracing and isolation would remain vital in future, and called for the Scottish government to commit to funding the Test and Protect system.\n\nShe said: \"At a time when people are looking for more certainty about the future, there are not yet answers to some of these fundamental questions about what will be in place to protect Scots.\n\n\"We were promised a framework, this appears more like a progress report.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon responded by accusing the UK government of \"failing to take decisions in an orderly and competent fashion\", saying this had \"a knock-on effect on Scottish government decision making\".\n\nThe apps which underpin the vaccine passport system are to be remain live so that venues can operate voluntary systems, but Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton called for this to be dropped.\n\nHe said: \"Far from abolishing Covid ID cards, this will normalise their use by some businesses, perhaps indefinitely - from now on venues will have carte blanche to ask for private medical information without a public health imperative.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was \"proportionate\" to allow firms the choice of using vaccine passports, saying some might see an advantage in \"making people feel more confident about going and using their services\".", "Storms over the last week have wrought havoc across Wales and there are warnings of more bad weather to come.\n\nTrees have been toppled, properties had their roofs torn off and the rail network ground to a halt on Friday.\n\nBut why has mid Wales been particularly affected by storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin?\n\nBBC Wales' weather presenter, Sabrina Lee, explains what has been going on.", "Protests, such as this one in 2011, have been held outside the gallery's award ceremony\n\nEnergy giant BP's sponsorship of the National Portrait Gallery is to end, following years of protests against the funding.\n\nBP has backed the gallery's prestigious portrait prize for more than 30 years.\n\nIn 2019, past winners were among the artists who called on the gallery to cut ties with the firm, and protesters covered themselves in oil at the venue.\n\nPressure group Culture Unstained called the news \"a major win for the campaign against fossil fuel sponsorship\".\n\nNational Portrait Gallery director Nicholas Cullinan said he was \"hugely grateful to BP for its long-term support\" of the award.\n\nThe funding has \"fostered creativity, encouraged portrait painting for over 30 years and given a platform to artists from around the world, as well as providing inspiration and enjoyment for audiences across the UK\", he said.\n\nThe BP Portrait Award is not being staged in 2021 and 2022 while the London gallery is closed for redevelopment. The funds are instead being used for the gallery's other work ahead of its re-opening next year.\n\nThe sponsorship will end in December, when the current contract expires. BP said it would look for \"new ways to best use our talent, experience, and resources\" as it tried to achieve its target of becoming net-zero by 2050.\n\nThe portrait prize and its annual accompanying exhibition began in 1980\n\nIt's not clear how the competition will be funded in the future, with arts organisations and corporations tightening their belts due to the pandemic.\n\nThe sponsorship came under scrutiny in 2019, when Gary Hume, an artist and judge of that year's portrait award, said it was time to look elsewhere for money. Hume told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that BP \"was now a problem\".\n\nDozens of other artists, including Sir Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Sarah Lucas and Rachel Whiteread, signed a letter asking the gallery to end the sponsorship deal because of \"BP's role in furthering the climate crisis\".\n\nSemi-naked protestors also made their views clear when they drenched themselves in oil at the gallery in October 2019.\n\nThe Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and BP ended their partnership in 2019, while BP and The Tate cut ties in 2017. The firm still sponsors the British Museum and the Royal Opera House.\n\nBP executive Louise Kingham said on Tuesday: \"We are immensely proud of our role in championing British arts and culture for over 30 years, but the BP of today is a very different company from when we first started our partnership with the National Portrait Gallery.\"\n\nBP has pledged to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and become an \"integrated energy company\".\n\nCulture Unstained co-director Jess Worth said: \"While the gallery won't say it out loud, this is clearly a vote of no confidence in BP's business. The company spent 30 years painting a picture of itself as a responsible philanthropist but it is rapidly running out of places to clean up its toxic image.\"\n\nThe National Portrait Gallery's portrait award is arguably the world's most prestigious such prize.\n\nThe last winner was Brighton-based artist Charlie Schaffer, who won 2019's £35,000 first prize for his portrait of a close friend, titled Imara In Her Winter Coat.", "President Zelensky drinking tea as he meets Ukrainian soldiers at the frontline in Shyrokyne\n\n\"Move quickly, but watch where you put your feet,\" the soldier instructed as we pulled in behind a wall a few hundred metres from the frontline.\n\nBeside us, Ukraine's president was already climbing out of his vehicle wearing body armour and a helmet and heading across a strip of wasteland towards the trenches.\n\nThis week, as western governments escalated their warnings about the threat of all-out war with Russia, Volodymyr Zelensky decided to drop-in on some of the Ukrainian soldiers who could be right in the path of any invasion.\n\nThe visit was part of the president's own, two-pronged offensive: showing support for his country's troops on the one hand, whilst warning allies in the West that trying to \"appease\" Moscow over Ukraine was dangerous.\n\nFor two days, we followed Volodymyr Zelensky as he criss-crossed the country.\n\nBy plane and helicopter, we moved from military drills to the actual conflict line and from land into the Azov Sea as the West pumped up the volume on its war-warnings.\n\nMeant to deter Russia, its alarm appears to have been ignored.\n\nThe idea of Russia bombing Kyiv into submission still seems far-fetched - more damaging to Vladimir Putin than of any possible benefit. But violence in those parts of eastern Ukraine already controlled by Russian-backed forces has suddenly picked-up.\n\nUkrainian soldiers have been fighting Russian-backed rebels in the east of the country since 2014\n\nAt the frontline in Shyrokyne, President Zelensky shared tea and chat with soldiers in the shell of someone's ruined house.\n\nOnce a popular holiday destination, the coastal village has been shattered by eight years of fighting, its streets partly replaced by deep, muddy trenches and abandoned, shrapnel-hit buildings all around.\n\nOne soldier admitted his parents were worried about the latest spike in tensions and called constantly to check on him. He himself seemed more anxious about meeting the president: on the table, neat plates of cheese and salami sandwiches lay untouched.\n\nThat day there had been an increase in shelling along what is known as the contact line. At 09:00, up in Luhansk region, a missile smashed through the wall of a kindergarten into the sport and music room. All the signs are that it was fired from territory controlled by Russian-backed forces.\n\nSince then, the number of ceasefire violations has climbed.\n\nThe president's team told me his security detail were not happy about his high-risk travels, but Volodymyr Zelensky insisted on going ahead.\n\nA missile smashed through the wall of a kindergarten in Luhansk region on Thursday\n\nOutwardly, he managed to project calm, despite the weeks of tensions. But in our snatched conversations, his frustration with Ukraine's allies quickly surfaced.\n\nSome countries are clearly pressuring Kyiv to make compromises that it finds impossible, including renouncing its long-held goal of joining Nato.\n\n\"We can't close our eyes every day and year and say it's only Russia that doesn't want to see us there,\" Mr Zelensky told me at one point. \"There are also Nato members who support Russia in this.\"\n\nJust the other day, the German chancellor underlined how Ukraine's membership of Nato should not be an issue as it is \"not on the agenda\" for now.\n\nBut Moscow is demanding written guarantees that its neighbour will be excluded from the alliance for life. For Kyiv, agreeing to that is impossible.\n\nPresident Zelensky spoke passionately about the price Ukraine has already paid for trying to wrest itself free from Moscow's grasp: more than 14,000 lives lost as well as the Crimean Peninsula and the Donbas. Over two million people have been displaced.\n\nJoining Nato was the people's choice, he said, a guarantee of independence whilst living in Moscow's shadow, making it impossible to backtrack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe echoed all that on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference in a speech that impressed even critics back home.\n\nDriving from a section of frontline, jolted from one giant pothole to the next, Mr Zelensky's security adviser told me the very idea of Ukraine reneging on Nato membership was \"capitulation\".\n\nBut he acknowledged that pressure from some European countries was mounting.\n\n\"They think it's like the 1930s in Europe: that if we appease the aggressor with concessions, it will calm down,\" Mykhailo Podoliak warned.\n\n\"We have to keep explaining that if you appease someone, it only encourages them. If the problem is about Nato now, it will just be about the EU next or trade. Russia is the problem, not us.\"\n\nThe conflict in eastern Ukraine has resulted in more than 14,000 deaths since 2014\n\nThe way Ukraine sees this crisis, it is standing-up to Russia on behalf of the world. A soldier I met described it as defending the \"eastern flank of democracy\".\n\n\"We shouldn't have to beg; this is about your investment in European security,\" Volodymyr Zelensky told the Munich conference crowd, reminding them that Ukraine had acted as a \"shield\" for Europe, \"holding back one of the biggest armies in the world\".\n\nAt the end of our trip, we flew low over the fields in a trio of helicopters to then drive down broken roads towards another stretch of frontline.\n\nAvdiivka's loyalties are still daubed onto its lampposts in stripes of blue and yellow like Ukraine's flag.\n\nAs Volodymyr Zelensky pulled his flak jacket back over his head and set off up the road to greet more soldiers, I stood and read the names of those who have died fighting at the same spot.\n\nThe youngest soldier carved into the stone was Olesiya.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Oti Mabuse and Bill Bailey be crowned the 2020 winners\n\nOti Mabuse is to leave Strictly Come Dancing after seven years as a professional dancer on the show.\n\nThe South African star, 31, won the BBC One contest twice, with Kelvin Fletcher in 2019 and Bill Bailey in 2020.\n\n\"I can't put in to words how difficult this decision has been, but I have decided not to return for the next series,\" she said.\n\nOti, whose sister Motsi joined Strictly as a judge in 2019, is currently a judge on ITV's Dancing On Ice.\n\nDuring her time on Strictly, Oti became the only professional to have lifted the glitterball trophy two years in a row. Her unexpected victory with comedian Bailey has gone down as one of the show's greatest achievements.\n\nShe has also been partnered with celebrities Anthony Ogogo, Danny Mac, Jonnie Peacock, Graeme Swann and, last year, Ugo Monye.\n\nShe said she had loved \"lifting the glitterball twice and having the best journey with all my celebrities, but also meeting and working with the best team, crew, producers, celebs and professional dancers\".\n\nShe added: \"You are my family and I adore you all forever. I'm honestly so grateful to the BBC and will always remember that Strictly and the BBC brought me to the UK - which I now call home and I have learnt and grown so much. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.\"\n\nStrictly executive producer Sarah James said Oti had been \"a truly wonderful part of Strictly for the past seven years\".\n\nShe said: \"Her energy, creativity and talent have contributed to so many of the show's most memorable moments and she will be hugely missed, not only by viewers, but the entire team.\n\n\"We couldn't be prouder of Oti and what she has achieved on the show. She will always be at the very heart of our Strictly family and we wish her every success in her already bright future.\"\n\nAs well as appearing on Dancing On Ice, Oti was a dance captain on BBC One's The Greatest Dancer and a panellist on ITV's The Masked Dancer.\n\nShe also recently presented the BBC podcast Oti Mabuse's Dancing Legends, and has choreographed the UK production of a Cher musical, which opens in Leicester in April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angel Lynn: Woman's kidnap by then boyfriend caught on camera\n\nThe sentence given to a man who kidnapped his then girlfriend before she was seriously hurt in a fall will be reviewed, it has been confirmed.\n\nChay Bowskill bundled Angel Lynn into a van before she was found injured on the A6 near Loughborough in September 2020.\n\nBowskill's sentence of seven-and-a-half years was assessed under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.\n\nA spokesman for the Attorney General said the Court of Appeal would now decide if the term should be changed.\n\nChay Bowskill had been in a relationship with Miss Lynn at the time\n\nMiss Lynn, who was aged 19 at the time, fell from the van as it was travelling at about 60mph (97km/h) along the dual carriageway and suffered severe brain injuries, which she has still not recovered from.\n\nBowskill, of Empingham Drive, Syston, Leicestershire, and his friend Rocco Sansome, 20 - who had driven the van - were sentenced for kidnap in January.\n\nSansome, of Wanlip Lane, Birstall, was sentenced to 21 months in a young offenders' institution.\n\nHis sentence will also be reviewed.\n\nAngel Lynn has still not recovered from the severe injuries she sustained\n\nMiss Lynn, now 21, is receiving 24-hour specialist care in a rehabilitation centre.\n\nHer mother Nikki said of the pair involved: \"They have got no idea what they have done to my family.\"\n\nThe Attorney General's spokesman said: \"I can confirm the Solicitor General has referred the sentences of Chay Bowskill and Rocco Sansome to the Court of Appeal as he agrees that they appear unduly lenient.\n\n\"It is now for the court to decide whether to increase their sentences.\"\n\nThe Solicitor General, Alex Chalk QC MP, said: \"The horrendous case of Angel Lynn, who was the victim of sustained abuse by her partner, Chay Bowskill, culminated in her suffering life-changing injuries.\n\n\"I wish to express my sympathies to her family. I have referred the sentence of Chay Bowskill, and that of his accomplice Rocco Sansome, to the Court of Appeal as they appear to me to be unduly lenient.\n\n\"It is now for the Court to decide whether to increase the sentences.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Johnson is a founding member of the Taking the Initiative party\n\nThe case against four men charged over the shooting of black equal rights campaigner Sasha Johnson has been dropped.\n\nThe mother-of-two was shot in the head during a silent disco in the garden of a house on Consort Road in Peckham, south London, in May last year.\n\nShe suffered \"catastrophic\" and permanent injuries and remains in hospital.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, four men had denied conspiracy to murder.\n\nPrince Dixon, 25, of Gravesend, Kent; Troy Reid, 20 of Southwark; Cameron Deriggs, 19, of Lewisham, and Devonte Brown, 19, of Southwark, had also pleaded not guilty to having a gun and ammunition with intent to endanger life.\n\nA trial had been due to start on 7 March but at a hearing on Tuesday, the prosecution announced it would not be pursuing the case following a review.\n\nIn court, prosecutor Mark Heywood QC said he was unable to give the full reasons for the decision but had provided details to the court as to why the CPS had no option.\n\nOutlining the case, he said four males in balaclavas had approached the house and discharged a weapon at guests, with one round striking Ms Johnson in the head at \"very close range\".\n\nHe said the Crown had alleged the four males were the defendants, however the case against them was based on circumstantial evidence and there was no direct evidence identifying any of them.\n\nCCTV analysis, phone cell site and call data showed they planned and conducted surveillance before carrying out the attack with \"murderous intent\" on one or more partygoers, the court heard.\n\nThe men had denied being part of the alleged conspiracy or present on the night of the shooting.\n\nThe attack happened in the back garden of a house in Consort Road, Peckham\n\nMr Heywood said the wider background was a \"falling out\" and \"hostility\" between Mr Deriggs and Mr Brown and the two youngest occupants of the house, who were aged 18.\n\nThere had been previous incidents and a panic alarm had been installed at the family home just days before, the court heard.\n\nAccess to the party was restricted by security at a side gate and one of the attackers was carrying a handgun, probably a Glock loaded with 9mm bullets, the court heard.\n\nHe said Ms Johnson had been at the party as she was then in a relationship with the oldest son who had been living at the property.\n\nMs Johnson had been praised for her \"fearless campaigning\"\n\nMs Johnson is a prominent anti-racism campaigner and a founding member of the Taking the Initiative Party. She was heavily involved in the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.\n\nAt the time of the attack, Ms Johnson worked in community activism and community support.\n\nMany people expressed their outrage and shock when the attack happened. Vigils were held and MPs, including David Lammy and Harriet Harman, tweeted their support for her.\n\nBlack Lives Matter UK described her as a \"fearless campaigner\" and said although she was not a member of their organisation, \"she impressively founded a new Black-led political party and was dedicated to resist anti-Black racism\".\n\nThe court heard there was nothing to suggest Ms Johnson was targeted because of her anti-racism campaigning.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nUefa is almost certain to switch this season's Champions League final away from St Petersburg amid the Ukraine-Russia crisis.\n\nRussia has ordered troops into two rebel-held regions of Ukraine and there are fears an invasion is planned.\n\nSeveral countries, including the UK, have introduced sanctions against Russia in response to the move.\n\nUefa said it was \"closely monitoring the situation\" and \"any decision would be made in due course if necessary\".\n\nAgainst the backdrop of unrest, Uefa is viewed as being highly unlikely to attempt to host the game in Russia.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, speaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, said there was \"no chance of holding football tournaments in a Russia that invades sovereign countries\".\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries added that she had \"serious concerns about the sporting events due to be held in Russia, such as the Champions League final, and will discuss with the relevant governing bodies\".\n\nShe added: \"We won't allow [Russia] President [Vladimir] Putin to exploit events on the world stage to legitimise his illegal invasion of Ukraine.\"\n\nMeanwhile, former UK sports minister Tracey Crouch has told BBC Sport that Uefa should move the final \"immediately\".\n\nEuropean football's governing body is assessing the situation before making a decision but it is set to be looking for a new venue at short notice for the third year running. The past two Champions League finals were played in Portugal because of Covid-19 related issues.\n\nBBC Sport understands the game will still be played on Saturday, 28 May, which is likely to rule Wembley out as a host as the League Two and Championship play-off finals are set to be played at the stadium over that weekend.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said other venues in the British capital should be considered as he called for \"a comprehensive package of sanctions against Russia\" to be imposed.\n\n\"Hosting games should be a privilege not a right, I think the final should be taken away from St Petersburg and London stands ready to host the final,\" he told BBC London.\n\nWhat other fixtures might be looked at?\n\nUefa has already postponed the Youth League last-16 tie between Dynamo Kyiv and Sporting Lisbon which was scheduled to be played in the Ukraine capital on 2 March.\n\nThe match has been moved to 9 March, with Uefa saying they will remain \"in contact with the two clubs for any further decision\".\n\nOther Uefa competition fixtures may yet need to be moved. There are no teams from Ukraine left in any other European competition this season but Russian club Zenit St Petersburg are still in the Europa League and are set to play the second leg of their play-off round tie with Real Betis in Spain on Thursday. Zenit lost the home leg 3-2.\n\nAt international level, Russia are scheduled to host Poland in a World Cup play-off on 24 March and - if they win - would face Sweden or Czech Republic on 29 March.\n\nUkraine are also in the World Cup play-offs, and visit Scotland and then either Wales or Austria in their bid to qualify for the tournament in Qatar.\n\nTensions in the region have escalated further this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin ordering troops into two rebel-held regions in eastern Ukraine, after recognising them as independent states.\n\nFears over an invasion have been rising in recent months, as Russia has massed around 150,000 troops along Ukraine's borders, according to US estimates.\n\n\"Given the British and European condemnation of Russian action in Ukraine, Uefa should immediately move the Champions League final from the Gazprom stadium,\" added Crouch.\n\n\"The ban on politicians and officials travelling to the Russian-hosted 2018 World Cup was a soft message to President Putin which made no significant difference - so Uefa need to take a much stronger stance not least to ensure the safety of travelling fans.\"\n\nSt Petersburg was used as a venue for a number of matches at last summer's delayed Euro 2020 tournament.\n\nOn Tuesday night Manchester City defender Oleksandr Zinchenko said \"no-one will ever be able to appropriate\" Ukraine.\n\nThe 25-year-old, who has 48 international caps for Ukraine, wrote on Instagram: \"The whole civilized world is worried about the situation in my country. I can't stay away and try to convey my opinion. The country where I was born and raised. A country whose colours I defend in the international sports arena. A country that we try to glorify and develop. A country whose borders must remain inviolable.\n\n\"My country belongs to Ukrainians and no-one will ever be able to appropriate it. We will not give up! Glory to Ukraine.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Homes, roads and rail hit by storm floods in Wales\n\nMore weather disruption has hit Wales, with further warnings in place and flood alerts likely to increase.\n\nThe Met Office said gusts reached 79mph (127km/h) in Capel Curig, Conwy, and 75mph (120kmh) in Aberdaron, Gwynedd, but a weather warning has been lifted.\n\nThousands of homes were without power after damage from Friday's Storm Eunice and others were flooded when some Welsh rivers reached record levels.\n\nThe fire service had to rescue people from homes and 50 from a bus in Powys.\n\nSwansea City's home Championship game against Bournemouth on Tuesday has been postponed after storm damage at their ground.\n\nCounty councillor Karl Lewis said one person was taken to hospital as a precaution after flooding left Llandinam looking like a \"disaster zone\".\n\nMr Lewis said seven people were rescued by boat when five properties in the village were flooded with up to 2ft (0.6m) of water, after heavy rain and strong winds caused the river banks to burst at about 16:00 on Sunday.\n\nOne man, Roger Higgs, described how he rescued his 96-year-old mother in Llandinam as the waters rose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why has mid Wales been particularly affected by storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin?\n\n\"I've lived in Llandinam all my life, 41 years, and I've never seen water like that before,\" he said.\n\n\"We only had a few minutes to get people out.\"\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it dealt with 100 flood-related calls in 24 hours over the weekend, including using a boat and sled to help 50 passengers and a driver from a coach after it became stuck in water in Welshpool on Sunday night.\n\nHeavy rain led to the flooding of a football pitch in Caersws\n\nNicola Brant from Caersws lives on a flood plain and tweeted a video of what was usually \"a little babbling brook\" becoming a full-flowing river.\n\n\"It's dangerous and scary… it's getting more common.\n\n\"We only have to have heavy rain now, which can be in the middle of the summer, and it floods. It's definitely got worse over the last two or three years.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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It was literally taking people off their feet.\"\n\nThe river running high in Newtown, Powys, on Sunday night\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) issued a number of flood warnings, with the worst affected areas in mid Wales.\n\nSome of the highest river levels on record were on parts of the Severn, Vyrnwy, Teme, Wye and Usk.\n\nNRW said there is the potential for further flood warnings on the lower sections of the River Wye near Monmouth as the peak moved down stream.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWestern Power Distribution said on Monday that all power had been restored to customers, after 450 incidents in south Wales at the weekend.\n\nNetwork services manager Sean Sullivan said it was an \"extremely challenging weekend\", describing it as \"unprecedented\" in his 36-year career.\n\n\"It's been a tough weekend for some of our customers. A small number were off for quite a significant period and I'm very sorry that they had to experience that. It's been incredibly challenging.\"\n\nIn Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Sarah Davies opened up the Amman RFC clubhouse to offer help to the community.\n\nShe said there were \"lots of families, lots of houses without power overnight and into the next day\".\n\n\"We got up in the morning and decided right let's open up the club, try to help - because we had electric, we had microwaves, we had a cooker, had heating - just to try and get a bit of community spirit going,\" she said.\n\nSport Wales, the national organisation which promotes physical activity, announced that it will give grants of £300-£5,000 to fix damage to clubhouses, pitches or equipment stored outside as a direct result of the recent storms.\n\nApplications will be accepted until next Monday, 28 February.\n\nSP Energy Networks said it was dealing with several power cuts across mid and north Wales.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was dealing with about 100 fallen trees across Wales which has affected travel.\n\nThe M48 Severn Bridge remains closed in both directions, with reported wind speeds of 50mph. But the M4 Prince of Wales Bridge is open.\n\nTransport for Wales operations manager Marie Daly said it was a \"dynamically changing\" picture on the rail lines, and it was having to constantly review its services.\n\nShe warned passengers to check before travelling, adding: \"Speed restrictions will see a reduction in our timetable.\n\n\"There should be services across all of our network, if it's not by train it will be by replacement buses.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Wales & Borders This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPowys council reported road closures along the A483 at Berriew, Buttington, Llanwrtyd Wells and Dyfi Bridge, as well as on the A470 at Rhayader and Builth Wells.\n\nWrexham council said the River Dee was being monitored with localised flooding affecting roads at Bangor-on-Dee and Rossett.\n\nNeath Port Talbot council said it had received 105 calls regarding fallen trees affecting several roads, including a number of trees down on High Street, Abergwynfi.\n\nAccess was affected on other routes due to structural damage in Water Street and Eagle Street in Port Talbot.", "President Vladimir Putin has pressed one of his top spy chiefs, during a meeting with Russia's top security officials on recognition for rebel-held regions of Ukraine.\n\nAs the head of Russia's foreign intelligence service shared his views on the current situation, Putin repeatedly asked him to clarify what he was saying and told him to \"speak plainly\".\n\nIt is not clear whether Russia has sent troops into two breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine, but the US and UK say Russia's order to deploy troops amounts to the \"beginning of an invasion\".", "Health Minister Robin Swann has said he will not be \"rushed\" into taking decisions on rules around the use of free mass testing in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government in England plans to bring it to an end from 1 April.\n\nThe DUP MP Sammy Wilson said Northern Ireland should be following Number 10's lead, but Sinn Féin, Alliance and the SDLP have urged caution.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Swann said he would not base his decisions on \"timetables elsewhere\".\n\n\"I have asked officials to draw up policy options based on an appropriate, proportionate approach to testing in NI. In the meantime, there will be no changes to the current approach,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Robin Swann MLA #StopCovidNI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Swann added that testing \"will continue to have a role, especially in protecting the most vulnerable\", and that further discussions on funding would be required with London and his Stormont ministerial colleagues.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont on Tuesday, Finance Minister Conor Murphy said he wanted free testing to continue but it would come at a cost.\n\n\"We have to make a decision do we try and provide our own supply and the cost of that, in a situation where we can't take budgetary decisions, where departments only have the baseline they have to spend into the new financial year because of the absence of the executive.\n\n\"That makes it infinitely more difficult.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon said it would wrong for Northern Ireland to bring an end to free testing.\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said it was important that people are supported financially to test and self-isolate if required.\n\nHowever DUP MP Sammy Wilson said Northern Ireland should follow England's move.\n\nHe described the recent strains of the virus as being similar to the impact of the common flu and that Northern Ireland should change test and trace procedures.\n\n\"We don't do that kind of extensive test and trace for common flu, we don't ask people to self-isolate immediately, we don't ask businesses to be disrupted as a result of that.\n\n\"We ask people to engage in common sense.\n\n\"Test and trace was introduced at a time when we didn't have all of the means to combat Covid that we do today.\"\n\nMs Mallon said testing was \"an important means of controlling transmission\".\n\nThe UK Treasury would save billions of pounds by scrapping or reducing the number of free tests\n\n\"Now to be saying, particularly to low income families, that they will have to pay for that is deeply, deeply concerning,\" said the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) minister.\n\nThe justice minister said whether it is Covid-19 or other conditions, people should \"not be going into the workplace ill and passing it on to colleagues who may be vulnerable or have vulnerable members of families\".\n\n\"But for people to make that choice, they have to be able to test, they have to know they're unwell and have financial support to let them self-isolate,\" said Mrs Long.\n\nFrom Thursday, people with a positive Covid-19 test in England no longer legally need to self-isolate and routine tracing will end.\n\nRemaining Covid restrictions are also being lifted in England, and free mass testing will stop from 1 April.\n\nDr David Farren, from the British Medical Association (BMA) in Northern Ireland, said free testing should remain and the government's decision could \"come back to bite us\".\n\n\"Testing people and isolating them is the way you stop the bug from jumping from one person to another and effectively the prime minister has removed two very important protections in England with that move,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster on Tuesday.\n\nThe infection control doctor said there could be \"further spread\" because people may not be able to afford tests or take time away from work.\n\nThis risked creating a \"two-tier\" health system, he added, \"the like of which we haven't seen within our NHS\".\n\nDr David Farren said it was wrong to ask people to pay for Covid-19 tests\n\nPatricia McKeown, from the trade union Unison, said the pandemic had highlighted the importance of sick pay.\n\nBut Roger Pollen, from the Federation of Small Businesses, said there was a need to \"learn to live with\" coronavirus and ending testing \"is a choice about how we spend taxpayers' money\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of Northern Ireland's vaccination programme, Patricia Donnelly, said mass vaccine centres will not be needed for the next roll-out of the Covid jab.\n\nOver the course of the pandemic, mass vaccination centres were set up across Northern Ireland to administer Covid-19 vaccines on larger scales at locations including the SSE Arena and the Titanic Exhibition Centre in Belfast.\n\nMs Donnelly also said health officials in Northern Ireland expect the roll-out to be extended to over-50s in autumn and \"are planning for it\".\n\nShe said it had been expected there would be an annual vaccination programme, similar to how the flu vaccine is rolled out.\n\nAdditional vaccines being made available for those aged 75 and over in 2022 could be facilitated by GPs, community pharmacies and health trusts, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patricia Donnelly said additional jabs could be facilitated by GPs, community pharmacies and health trusts.\n\nAbout 155,000 people will be eligible for the booster jab, with the roll-out expected to begin in April.\n\nThere must be a gap of at least six months since a previous dose.\n\nThose eligible for the booster vaccine are:\n\nOn Monday, Stormont ministers held talks with the UK government about future funding to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nAt the weekend, ministers from Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales wrote a joint letter to Michael Gove expressing fears that funding for testing was about to be cut.", "Canada's House of Commons has backed the government's decision to impose emergency powers to deal with weeks-long protest blockades against Covid restrictions.\n\nThe motion passed with 185 votes to 151 on Monday, with the support of the Liberals and the left-leaning NDP.\n\nOver the weekend, police cleared the final protest site in Ottawa on streets around Parliament Hill.\n\nEarlier on Monday, the Liberal prime minister defended the continued use of the temporary emergency measures, saying that the situation across the country \"is still fragile\" and they are needed to prevent new blockades.\n\nHe said the powers would not be kept in place for \"a single day longer than necessary\".\n\nMembers of the Conservative Party - the official opposition - and the Bloc Quebecois voted against the Emergencies Act motion.\n\nThe never-before-used Emergencies Act, passed in 1988, gives the government added powers in times of national crisis. These expire after 30 days unless renewed.\n\nIt has been used over the past week to impose bans on public assembly in some areas of Ottawa, and to prohibit travel to protest zones, including by foreign nationals, among other measures. It also gives authorities the ability to freeze bank accounts.\n\nOn Saturday, the federal government said it had frozen at least 76 accounts linked to the protests, representing C$3.2m ($2.5m; £1.8m) under the emergency measures.\n\nThe protest began in January as a truck convoy headed to Ottawa to oppose a vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the US-Canada border, and grew into a broader opposition to pandemic restrictions and Mr Trudeau's government, with supporting protests across the country.\n\nAuthorities cleared the most economically damaging blockade - a bridge linking Windsor, Ontario, with the US state of Michigan - in mid-February. Trucker protests at other border crossings in Coutts, Alberta, Surrey, British Columbia, and Emerson, Manitoba, ended this past week.\n\nOn Friday, police moved in to clear the Ottawa protest site that had paralysed much of the city centre in the Canadian capital since 28 January. On Sunday, police said they had made 191 arrests and had removed dozens of vehicles.\n\nTwo \"police-involved\" incidents from the weekend are being reviewed, the Special Investigations Unit - a police oversight organisation - said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Boots will begin selling Covid rapid tests in store next month\n\nPharmacy Boots will begin selling single Covid tests for £5.99 from Wednesday, despite free kits being available via the NHS until 1 April.\n\nCustomers can purchase a pack of four lateral flow tests online for £17, or one test for £5.99, including delivery.\n\nNext month people can buy them in-store for £12 for a pack of five.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday announced a \"Living with Covid\" plan, which will end free testing and scrap self-isolation rules and payments.\n\nAsif Aziz, director of healthcare services at Boots UK, said: \"We are pleased to be expanding our Covid-19 testing services even further, with affordable lateral flow testing options for those who still want peace of mind from asymptomatic testing after 1 April.\"\n\nThe company said the earlier launch date was to prepare both supply chains and customers ahead of the end of free testing.\n\nHowever, there was mixed reaction to the announcement on social media, with one Twitter user pointing out the increased costs to households to act responsibly when one member catches the virus.\n\nSome countries have placed a price cap on Covid tests, such as Spain which has a £2.45 maximum price cap. In France the maximum price pharmacies can charge has fallen to €6 (£5) but the cap is due to be cut further. When France temporarily allowed kits to be sold at supermarkets until 15 February they were available for as little as €1.25\n\nAnother user, Carly Nicholls, asked about the implications for Boots staff potentially being exposed to more Covid-positive people.\n\n\"How do Boots staff feel about being point of contact for so many people, if sold in-store? Some of those testing will be suspected Covid infections.\"\n\nFree rapid tests will no longer be an option for many in England\n\nDan Shears, national health and safety director at the GMB union, described the move as \"rampant profiteering\" and said the cost would be a big sacrifice for the lowest-paid workers.\n\n\"The government should provide tests for free - they are a clear public health benefit that far outweighs cost. But if we have to pay, test provision should be subsidised to make tests affordable.\n\n\"The reality is that those who are most at risk are least able to afford testing, meaning it will not happen and low-paid workers - many of whom are key workers - will continue to take the brunt of Covid.\"\n\nBusiness groups also warned on Monday that the government must not put the cost and responsibility of testing on employers.\n\n\"Access to free testing is key to managing workplace sickness and maintaining consumer confidence,\" British Chambers of Commerce co-executive director, Claire Walker, said.\n\n\"If the government is to remove this, companies must still be able to access tests on a cost-effective basis,\" she added.\n\nPeople in England can now only order one pack of rapid tests every 72 hours, instead of every day previously, as the government winds down the service ahead of April.", "Screaming Trees frontman and former Queens of the Stone Age member Mark Lanegan has died at the age of 57.\n\nKnown for his deep, melancholy vocals, the American singer-songwriter died at his home in Killarney, Ireland, a statement on his Twitter account said.\n\nDuring his career he collaborated with musicians including Kurt Cobain, PJ Harvey, Isobel Campbell and Moby.\n\nLast year, he was in hospital for months after contracting Covid, and was put into a medically-induced coma.\n\nNo cause of death has been given.\n\nA statement said: \"Our beloved friend Mark Lanegan passed away this morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland.\n\n\"A beloved singer, songwriter, author, and musician he was 57 and is survived by his wife Shelley [Brien].\"\n\nBorn in Washington state in 1964, Lanegan joined Screaming Trees in the 1980s and went on to produce eight studio albums until the group's split in 2000.\n\nThe band pioneered a sound that combined 1960s garage rock with 1970s punk - which later became known as grunge. Although they never achieved the mainstream success of contemporaries like Soundgarden and Nirvana, they scored hits in the US with Nearly Lost You in 1992 and All I Know in 1996.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by ScreamingTreesVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nLanegan had a parallel solo career, and his debut album, The Winding Sheet, included appearances from Cobain and Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic.\n\nAfter the Screaming Trees went on hiatus in 1996, he joined the ever-changing line-up of Josh Homme's Queens of the Stone Age.\n\nHe first appeared on the rock band's Rated R album in 2000, lending his voice and songwriting talent to several songs, and also performed on their breakout album Songs for the Deaf - earning a Grammy nomination for both.\n\nHe later formed The Gutter Twins with Afghan Whigs vocalist Greg Dulli; and recorded three collaborative albums with Scottish singer-songwriter Isobel Campbell - the first of which, Ballad of the Broken Seas, was nominated for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIn 2020, he published a memoir called Sing Backwards And Weep, which covered everything from \"addiction to touring, petty crime, homelessness and the tragic deaths of his closest friends\" - among them Cobain and Alice in Chains' Layne Staley.\n\nHe followed that up with last year's Devil In A Coma, which detailed his near-death experience with Covid, which included cracked ribs after a fall and recurring hallucinations.\n\n\"I'd taken my share of well-deserved ass-kickings over the years but this thing was trying to dismantle me, body and mind, and I could see no end to it in sight,\" he wrote in an extract published in the Guardian newspaper.\n\nMark Lanegan (centre back) with Queens of the Stone Age in 2005\n\nFigures from the world of music and entertainment paid tribute to Lanegan.\n\nAddressing his late bandmate, Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel said he hoped \"the angels are taking good care of you today\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFounding member of the Velvet Underground John Cale said \"I can't process this\" at the news, adding: \"Mark Lanegan will always be etched in my heart - as he surely touched so many with his genuine self, no matter the cost, true to the end.\"\n\nIggy Pop, one of Lanegan's key influences, described himself as a \"fan\" and expressed his \"deepest respect\".\n\nOn BBC 6 Music, Marc Riley dedicated the last half-hour of his Tuesday night programme to Lanegan's music. \"Hearing the news has kind of floored me,\" he told listeners.\n\nMoby, who collaborated with the Lanegan on the 2013 track The Lonely Night, paid tribute to his \"old friend\", adding: \"More and more the best are no longer with us.\"\n\nThe Manic Street Preachers, who worked with Lanegan on their latest album The Ultra Vivid Lament, tweeted that they were devastated by the news, describing him as a \"huge talent on so many levels\", with an amazing voice, \"all those beautiful words\" and a \"unique artistic vision\".\n\nSinger-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy also paid tribute, calling the late rocker \"one of the great singers of the last 30 years\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Badly Drawn Boy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLocals in Killarney also expressed their sense of loss. Councillor and pub landlord Niall O'Callaghan said it was a tight-knit community and everyone was sad to hear of the singer's death.\n\n\"For a man of the stature of Mark Lanegan, it was a real honour that he chose to live in Killarney,\" he said.", "On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into eastern Ukraine. Thousands have been deployed near the Ukrainian border in recent months.\n\nRos Atkins looks at the key moments of Russia's military build-up in the crisis so far.", "Russia has ordered its troops into east Ukraine, but western governments believe Moscow may be planning a much bigger invasion, to take over the whole country.\n\nThe UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said: \"We think they have a huge preparation ready to go.\n\n\"Everybody can see what the potential routes in are.\"\n\nMilitary analysts agree that with up to 190,000 troops near the Ukraine border, Russia has a range of options, should it decide to strike.\n\nRussian president Vladimir Putin has recognised two Russian-backed regions in east Ukraine, the self-styled Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, as independent states.\n\nHe has ordered troops into the two regions to \"maintain peace\".\n\nIf Mr Putin decides his troops should go further than the two regions, they may head for Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, according to Seth Jones of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.\n\nAn advance through Melitopol to the south would create a land bridge between Rostov in Russia and Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.\n\nRussia could also strike from Belgorod, where thousands of troops have been gathering for months. From there, the cities of Kharkiv and Kremenchuk are likely targets.\n\nBen Barry of the International Institute for Strategic Studies says a ground war would involve \"powerful armoured columns with concentrated artillery support to attempt to advance fast into the depth of Ukraine\".\n\nHe says even a limited operation in the east could involve the bombing of air defences and other key military command infrastructures elsewhere in the country.\n\nTroops have been taking part in exercises near Rostov-on-Don\n\nA Russian strike from the east might be helped by Russian-backed separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk.\n\nThey are thought to number about 15,000. Ukraine says the number is higher.\n\nIf Russia's goal is full regime change in Ukraine, an assault from the north is highly possible, according to Michael Kofman, of the US-based Center for Naval Analyses (CNA).\n\nRussia has 30,000 troops in Belarus for extended joint military exercises, equipped with Iskander short-range missiles and a number of rocket launchers, as well as Su-25 ground attack aircraft and Su-35 fighters.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Johnson said that he had seen intelligence suggesting that Russia was planning an attack from Belarus.\n\nHe said it would see a Russian advance \"coming down from the north, coming down from Belarus, and encircling Kiev itself\".\n\nThe exercises in Belarus have been extended indefinitely.\n\nTo the east, just inside Russian territory, \"Russia's entire 41st army is waiting on the border\", says Mr Kofman.\n\nAn advance on Kyiv from Belarus may avoid the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.\n\nOn the Russian side, it could come from Novye Yurkovichi and Troebortno, according to Mr Jones.\n\nA breakout from Crimea is \"almost certain\" if Russia launches an invasion, according to Mr Barry, a former British military planner.\n\nA Russian advance towards Kyiv from Crimea could strand large numbers of Ukrainian troops east of the Dnieper river, he says.\n\nWith Russian forces to their west, east and north, and in Crimea, Ukrainian troops would be encircled.\n\nRussian troops may try to take Kherson and Odesa to their west and Melitopol and Mariupol to the east - another option for creating a land bridge between Crimea and western Russia.\n\nAn advance from Crimea could also involve naval forces currently in the Black Sea.\n\nRussian landing ships in the area are capable of deploying personnel, armoured vehicles and main battle tanks.\n\nAnalysts emphasise that it's possible that any Russian advance could involve a number of routes simultaneously, allied to cyber-attacks, disinformation warfare and missile strikes.\n\nThey say Russia's most limited option might be to launch significant cyber-attacks on Ukraine, aiming to paralyse key infrastructure without taking territory.\n\nMr Kofman believes Russia has \"maximalist aims\" and is highly likely to strike deep into Ukraine.\n\nBut in the end, says Mr Kofman, the exact details of any attack will depend on Moscow's political objectives.", "The test, for the C-reactive protein, is already used in hospitals to diagnose other conditions\n\nAn extra blood test on suspected heart-attack patients could determine if they are at high risk of dying in the next three years, researchers say.\n\nThe test, for the C-reactive protein (CRP), helps detect inflammation and is already used in hospitals to diagnose other conditions.\n\nIt could help doctors decide which patients might need more aggressive treatment and closer monitoring.\n\nAnd this, the National Heart and Lung Institute says, could help save lives.\n\nDoctors currently test for the troponin protein, released into the blood stream when the heart is damaged, according to the British Heart Foundation (BHF), which funded the research, published in PLoS Medicine journal.\n\nBut scientists at the National Heart and Lung Institute and the National Institute for Health Research Health Informatics Collaborative found CRP tests provided a more detailed picture.\n\nThey used data from more than 250,000 patients admitted to hospital with a suspected heart attack.\n\nAnd researchers now hope to test the anti-inflammatory drug colchicine - found to be effective against atherosclerosis, a build-up of fatty deposits in the arteries that increases the chance of a heart attack - on patients with high CRP levels.\n\nCardiologist Dr Ramzi Khamis, who led the research, told BBC News: \"The CRP test is not in the guidelines for a suspected heart attack yet - and therefore is not routinely ordered when a patient presents with a suspected heart attack.\n\n\"It may get proposed for consideration to be included in future [European] Society [of Cardiologists] or NICE [National Institute for Health and Care Excellence] guidelines, which would take all the data into account before issuing a recommendation for its routine use.\"\n\nProf James Leiper, from the BHF, calls the test a \"valuable new tool\".\n\n\"Every five minutes, someone is admitted to a UK hospital with a heart attack,\" he said, \"and it is estimated that there are 1.4 million people in the UK who have survived a heart attack.\n\n\"By better identifying which people are most at risk, this simple blood test could help to direct anti-inflammatory treatments to those who most need it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The River Wharfe in Otley, West Yorkshire, after bursting its banks\n\nStorm Franklin has hammered parts of the UK with strong winds and heavy rain.\n\nThere is severe flooding in parts of Northern Ireland and flood warnings remain in place across England, Scotland and Wales.\n\n\"Severe disruption\" means Network Rail is advising customers to check before they travel on the railways.\n\nFranklin comes days after Storm Eunice killed three people and left 1.4 million homes without power.\n\nThe highest wind gust speeds on Monday morning reached 79mph in Capel Curig in Wales, and 78mph in Orlock Head, Northern Ireland. On Sunday night, 87mph was recorded at the Needles on the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe Met Office issued two weather warnings for earlier on Monday: an amber warning for wind in Northern Ireland, and a milder yellow warning for wind covering Wales, Northern Ireland, most of England and parts of south-west Scotland.\n\nStorm Franklin is the third named storm in a week - following Dudley and Eunice - the first time this has happened since the storm-naming system was introduced in 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Monday evening, UK Power Networks said it had restored electricity to 98% of properties across east and south-east England but 8,500 remained without power.\n\nEnergy minister Greg Hands said power outages were a \"horrible thing\" to happen to households and lessons would be learned for the energy network.\n\nHe said: \"Quite often very significant lessons do get learned - the 105 emergency number for power outages was a lesson learned from a previous storm.\"\n\nManchester Airport diverted nine flights on Monday morning because of storm winds. It is understood the planes were holding to land before being diverted, but the airport says the weather has not affected departures.\n\nBritish Airways has said winds made it difficult to unload baggage from its planes - causing delays for passengers after landing. The airline has also struggled to land and restock planes on time, affecting inbound and outbound movements.\n\nElsewhere, the O2 arena in London will remain closed until Friday, when a UB40 concert is expected to go ahead as planned, after Storm Eunice shredded sections of the roof.\n\nGeorge Goodfellow, from BBC weather, says the forecast for the rest of the week is best described as unsettled: \"We're expecting further spells of wet and windy weather for most of the coming week, and some parts of the UK will see strong winds at times.\n\n\"It looks as though the strongest winds will generally be towards the north west of the UK. Whether the winds will be strong enough to warrant the Met Office naming another storm is a bit uncertain.\n\n\"Warnings are usually issued based on the risk of disruption/hazardous weather, so I think the question is will it become significantly windier than normal. If so then warnings are likely, and I wouldn't rule out a named storm.\"\n\nStorms have been more frequent in the last week because of a strong jet stream running across the Atlantic and the UK - the coming week sees the jet stream move \"a little further north\".\n\nNorthern Ireland has seen severe flooding with locals trying to prevent rivers from bursting their banks\n\nIn Northern Ireland, heavy rain has caused severe flooding, with counties Londonderry and Tyrone the worst hit.\n\nNorthern Ireland Electricity said at the peak there were 10,000 homes without power during the early hours of Monday morning - that number has now fallen to around 330.\n\nA car is left covered in foam in Portstewart, County Derry\n\nParts of the River Severn and the Bristol Channel coast are on flood alert and emergency teams have erected flood barriers to try to stop the waters from reaching homes.\n\nCounty councillor Karl Lewis said Llandinam in Powys, central Wales, had been left looking like a \"disaster zone\".\n\nNational Rail is advising customers to check their routes before travelling.\n\nCrossCountry trains, which runs services from Aberdeen, through Birmingham and to the South West, is \"strongly recommending\" that people do not travel on Monday.\n\nGreat Western Railway (GWR) and South Western Railway joined CrossCountry trains and \"strongly\" advised against travel on Monday, and said disruption on routes are expected.\n\nSoutheastern railway withdrew its \"do not travel\" advice but warned its customers that they should expect delays and allow extra time for their journeys.\n\nChiltern Railways warned disruption will continue into Tuesday morning, \"including trains and carriages being in the wrong places\". It said customers should only travel on Monday \"if their journey is absolutely essential\".\n\nIn West Yorkshire, the Thackley railway tunnel closed due to flooding.\n\nAnd Rotherham Central station will remain closed until at least Tuesday - a picture shared by Leeds City Station on Twitter shows the extent of the track flooding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Leeds City Station This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russian armoured vehicles in the Rostov region of Russia, near Ukraine's border\n\nGermany has put a stop to a key Russian gas pipeline following Vladimir Putin's orders to send troops into Ukraine.\n\nOn Monday the Russian president recognised two breakaway Ukrainian regions as independent states and ordered Russian troops to deploy to both.\n\nWestern nations largely see the action as a pretext for a wider invasion.\n\nIn response, Germany halted approval of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and other Western nations issued sanctions.\n\nSanctions can take various forms - the term can refer to many actions used by one country to harm another, usually to deter aggressive actions or breaches of international law.\n\nThe Nord Stream 2 pipeline has been supported by Germany despite opposition from countries such as the US, UK, Poland and Ukraine. It cost €10bn (£8.4bn), with the funding split between Russian and Western energy companies.\n\nBut following Mr Putin's order to send troops to the rebel-held Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, Germany announced it was suspending the process of giving the pipeline between it and Russia an operating licence - effectively stopping the project until further notice.\n\nThe move is notable as Russia supplies Europe with about 40% of its gas, sourced from vast supplies in Russia's east.\n\n\"This is a morally, politically and practically correct step in the current circumstances,\" Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote, welcoming the decision. \"True leadership means tough decisions in difficult times. Germany's move proves just that.\"\n\nAs European ministers and officials pored over sanctions plans today, there was a sudden bolt from Berlin.\n\nOlaf Scholz's deliberate ambiguity about the future of Nord Stream 2 meant his announcement this morning took many by surprise. Even so, there's also a view that the move was long overdue.\n\nI remember being in a room with Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in December, where he again stressed the project was a \"major mistake.\" The gas pipeline wasn't yet operational, of course, and the EU's been seeking supplies elsewhere. Nevertheless, it raises big questions about European energy security.\n\nAs for the EU's sanctions plans against Russia, it's promising to target Russian lawmakers, banks that are financing the Russian military as well as the ability of the Russian state to access the bloc's financial markets. \"Additional measures\" are also, we're told, ready to go if needed.\n\nBut the tougher the measures get, the harder they could become to agree.\n\nIt is among a number of measures taken by Western powers following Mr Putin's announcement.\n\nThe United States banned American people and companies from conducting any trade or investment in the rebel-held regions, and promised more action to follow.\n\nThe United Kingdom announced sanctions against five Russian banks and three Russian business figures, saying their UK assets will be frozen and they will be banned from the country.\n\nThe EU also unanimously agreed its first wave of measures on Tuesday, which includes targeting all members of Russia's parliament who approved the decision. Russian banks are also hit by the new measures, as is Russia's access to EU financial markets.\n\n\"This package of sanctions... will hurt Russia, and it will hurt a lot,\" EU Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell said.\n\nThe Western sanctions announced on Tuesday fall short of what had been threatened in the event of invasion. There had been speculation that Russia could have faced being cut off from the global banking system, denied access to the dollar, or even face import or export restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says Russian actions in Ukraine are a “renewed invasion of that country”\n\nThe White House made clear that its initial sanctions \"are separate from and would be in addition to the swift and severe economic measures\" it has prepared \"should Russia further invade Ukraine\". And the UK's Defence Minister Ben Wallace said there were plenty of more sanctions \"in the tank\" to be used if needed.\n\nPoland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki welcomed the blocking of Nord Stream 2 - which his country has long opposed - but said he expects much more. He had earlier said that sanctions must \"be sufficiently painful and prevent Vladimir Putin from taking additional steps\".\n\nPoland's President Andrzej Duda also called for \"serious sanctions\".\n\nIn the UK, following Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement of initial sanctions, senior Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith said Russia needs to be hit with sanctions \"hard and now\" - and asked if the UK was prepared to take further action.\n\nIn response, the prime minister said: \"We are hitting [Russia] hard now and will hit them harder in the future.\"\n\n\"We will continue to punish Russia,\" the PM added.\n\nThere has as yet been no evidence of Russian troops crossing the border into the rebel-held areas of east Ukraine, despite Mr Putin's order to conduct what he calls peacekeeping functions.\n\nRussian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko told the AFP news agency that Russia was not sending troops in \"for now\".\n\n\"No one is planning to send anything anywhere. If there is a threat, then we will provide assistance in accordance with the ratified treaties,\" he said.", "The Queen has cancelled her virtual engagements for Tuesday as she is still experiencing mild, cold-like symptoms from Covid, royal officials have said.\n\nA statement from Buckingham Palace said the 95-year-old monarch \"will continue with light duties\".\n\nIt was confirmed on Sunday that the Queen had tested positive for Covid and was experiencing mild symptoms.\n\nWhether the Queen will carry out any further engagements this week has still to be decided, suggest palace sources.\n\nThat includes events such as a weekly phone conversation with the prime minister or any video-screen diplomatic audiences with overseas ambassadors.\n\nSo far it is still planned that she will attend an in-person engagement at a diplomatic reception in Windsor Castle next week.\n\nThe announcement that the Queen had caught Covid had been accompanied by a reassurance that she was well enough to carry on with light duties, such as working on state papers.\n\nIt had been seen as a business-as-usual message to avoid any alarm about her health.\n\nSoon after the announcement on Sunday about catching Covid, the Queen signed off a message of congratulations to the Winter Olympics GB curling teams and on Monday sent a message of condolence to Brazil after fatal flooding.\n\nBuckingham Palace usually has a convention of keeping the Queen's health a private matter and gives only limited details.\n\nThis latest update reveals the Queen is not appearing for any engagements on Tuesday.\n\nBut it gives no extra information about her Covid case, repeating the description from the weekend of \"mild, cold-like symptoms\".\n\nIt is understood that a number of people have also tested positive in what appears to be a Covid outbreak at Windsor Castle.\n\nBoth Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall have recently had Covid.\n\nThe Queen, who will be 96 in April, had her first vaccine in January 2021 and is believed to be triple-vaccinated.", "Josh and Lauryn Vartan delivered baby Florence in the back of their car on the day of Storm Eunice\n\nA couple from Suffolk welcomed their baby on the side of the road as Storm Eunice blew in.\n\nLauryn Vartan was due to be induced on Friday, but baby Florence had other ideas as Mrs Vartan's contractions started at 23:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nBy 04:00 on Friday she and husband Josh were in the car on the way from Felixstowe to Ipswich Hospital, but almost immediately needed to pull over.\n\nFlorence was delivered by her dad on the hard shoulder 45 minutes later.\n\nMr Vartan said: \"It's something I didn't expect to be doing but I feel total euphoria.\n\n\"[It is] such a lovely feeling - like something you see in a movie, but never think you'll have to do anything like it; it's a bit far-fetched but actually such a lovely experience.\"\n\nBaby Florence was born just as Storm Eunice was beginning on Friday\n\nMrs Vartan was \"stressed\" but still managed to issue \"a very strict instruction 'to pull the car over now'\" to her husband.\n\n\"We live in the centre of Felixstowe. We got as far as the Dock Spur roundabout and had to pull over,\" he said.\n\n\"As soon as I looked I could see my daughter's head.\"\n\nAmbulance staff talked Mr Vartan through what he needed to do via the phone, but being in the car he did not have all the right tools, such as a shoelace, safety pin or towel.\n\n\"I said we had a dressing gown which Lauryn had for labour and they said that was perfect to catch and wrap the baby in,\" he said.\n\nFlorence was delivered at 04:45 and Mr Vartan said his wife was almost thankful for the winds, which were picking up, as the fresh air through the open door during labour made the experience \"a bit less hot\".\n\nMum and baby were both \"doing fantastic\", Mr Vartan said.\n\nMidwives did suggest naming the baby Eunice, but after careful consideration the family decided to stick with Florence.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Stephen Matthews was described by his family as a \"beloved husband and a devoted dad\"\n\nA man who died when a van was struck by debris during Storm Eunice was a \"beloved husband and a devoted dad\", his family has said.\n\nStephen Matthews, 68, was a passenger in the vehicle when the windscreen was struck on Switch Island in Netherton, Merseyside, at 14:10 GMT on Friday.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Matthews' family said he was \"a popular and well-known member of the Aintree community\".\n\nThey added he had been \"tragically taken too soon\".\n\n\"The beloved husband of Sylvia and devoted Dad to Jonathan and Robert, he will be sadly missed by all of his family and friends,\" they said.\n\nMr Matthews was pronounced dead at the scene near Dunningsbridge Road while the driver of the vehicle was not injured.\n\nA woman in her 30s in London and a man in his 20s in Hampshire were also killed in one of the worst storms to hit the UK in decades.\n\nIn Ireland, a man in his 60s was killed by a falling tree in County Wexford.\n\nFierce winds from Storm Eunice toppled trees and sent debris flying, causing widespread travel disruption with hundreds of trains and flights cancelled.\n\nCoastal areas of south-west England and south Wales, along with south-east England, had been on alert after rare red weather warnings were issued by the Met Office early on Friday, indicating a danger to life.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two police constables and an ex-officer charged with sharing \"grossly offensive\" messages with Wayne Couzens have been named by prosecutors.\n\nPC Jonathon Cobban, 35, PC William Neville, 33, and former officer Joel Borders, 45, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 16 March.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had said it could not release their names\n\nCouzens, 49, raped and murdered Sarah Everard while working for the Met, after kidnapping her in a fake arrest.\n\nPC Cobban and Mr Borders are each charged with five counts of sending grossly offensive messages on a public communications network. PC Neville faces two counts of the same offence.\n\nThe alleged offences took place between April and August 2019, two years before the murder of the 33-year-old marketing executive.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said the charges arose from an investigation into the phone records of Couzens.\n\nThe Met said the serving officers had been suspended from duty.\n\nLast week, when the charges were first announced, the CPS said that it could not release the men's names due to \"operational reasons\".\n\nBut on Monday their identities were published, as is standard in criminal cases after charges have been brought.\n\nMet Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Bas Javid said: \"I am deeply concerned to hear two serving officers and a former officer have been charged with these offences.\n\n\"I understand that the public will be very concerned too.\n\n\"Criminal proceedings must now take their course.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Jamal Edwards speaking in 2016 and 2017, sharing business advice and the reason he got into film-making\n\nPrince Charles and rappers Dave and AJ Tracey are among the many voices paying tribute to entrepreneur and YouTube star Jamal Edwards.\n\nEdwards, who has died at the age of 31, is the son of singer and presenter Brenda Edwards, who said she was \"completely devastated\".\n\nThe Prince of Wales paid tribute to his work for The Prince's Trust.\n\nDave simply wrote: \"Thank you for everything. Words can't explain\" while Tracey said he was a \"legend\".\n\nPrince Charles was among the figures paying tribute to Jamal Edwards\n\nEdwards was the founder of SBTV, an online grime and rap music platform which helped launch the careers of artists like Dave, Ed Sheeran and Skepta. He first got into film-making after his parents gave him a video camera as a Christmas present when he was 15.\n\nBorn in Luton and later moving to west London, he was appointed an MBE for services to music in 2014. A pioneering figure in British rap and grime music, Edwards attended the Brit Awards earlier this month, and was understood to have performed as a DJ at a gig in north London on Saturday night.\n\nHis company confirmed his death to the BBC on Sunday, saying he died that morning. His mother said he \"passed away after a sudden illness\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Loose Women This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Prince's Trust described him in a tweet as \"an incredible innovator and entrepreneur.\"\n\nActor Idris Elba tweeted that Edwards would \"be missed\", while businessman Sir Richard Branson, who wrote the forward for Edwards' 2013 book, Self Belief: The Vision, tweeted that the star was \"a truly extraordinary young man who made a huge difference to so many people's lives\".\n\nI May Destroy You star Michaela Coel said: \"May his passion, joy and relentless desire to platform British artists be an inspiration.\"\n\nFormer prime minister David Cameron, who is chair of the National Citizen Service's Board of Patrons, paid tribute to Edwards for \"supporting and inspiring young people to be the best they could be, leading from the front and showing what's possible with hard work and determination\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan tweeted that British music and entertainment \"has lost one of its brightest stars\", while Chelsea Football Club added that Edwards - a Chelsea fan - was \"an inspiration to many, we're honoured that he was part of our Chelsea family\".\n\nIn 2019, he directed the Chelsea FC remix video of grime artist Capo Lee's Style and Swag, and the video featured several of the team's players.\n\nIt's impossible to overstate how important Jamal Edwards was to British rap.\n\nHis YouTube channel, which was started \"on a £20 phone\" while he was still at school, has given early exposure to almost every key player in the game. Stormzy, Skepta, JME, J Hus, Lady Leshurr, Dave, AJ Tracey, Krept & Konan, Headie One… the list is endless.\n\nTo an extent, SBTV was formed out of frustration. \"Everyone in my area was an MC and I remember thinking, 'Why can't I find these online? I'm going to film people in my area and upload it to Youtube',\" Edwards told BBC Radio 1Xtra in 2017. \"And from there it just started building and growing.\"\n\nSBTV arrived at a crucial time, showing that grime could thrive online, while police were attempting to shut down gigs with the controversial risk-assessment form 696.\n\nThe channel's success meant Edwards became known as an entrepreneur and businessman - but he was a reluctant frontman. \"I wanted to be the Banksy,\" he said. \"I wanted no-one to know who I was.\"\n\nThat changed in 2011, when he featured in an advert for Google Chrome. His name was searched more than a million times. and people started approaching him for selfies.\n\nBut he put his fame to good use - raising awareness of mental health, funding youth centres and encouraging other young entrepreneurs.\n\nMusic remained his true passion, though, and he never stopped supporting the artists he loved. As recently as December, he encouraged Ed Sheeran to record a new verse for a song he'd discovered by Nigerian artist Fireboy DML. That track, Peru, climbed to number two in the UK charts, giving the African star his first international hit.\n\nEdwards took no credit - he never did - but hundreds of artists have similar stories. His loss will be felt throughout the UK music scene.\n\nBBC 1Xtra DJ and presenter Nadia Jae told Newsbeat that Edwards \"helped me with my career\", adding: \"He's helped so many people, put them in places that they never would have been and did a lot of the pushing of doors to make sure that our industry is as fruitful as it is now.\"\n\nShe added: \"He had a heart of gold, I don't know anyone who has a bad word to say about Jamal.\n\n\"He broke so many barriers, I don't know if we're ever going to get another Jamal.\"\n\nPresenter and comedian Mo Gilligan, who hosted this year's Brit awards, tweeted: \"A truly humble and blessed soul. Your legacy will live on for years and you've inspired a whole generation.\"\n\nRapper Lady Leshurr said: \"He gave me opportunity after opportunity to showcase my talent from Brum into London. We need to keep his name and brand alive.\"\n\nSinger Jessie J, whose early appearances on SBTV helped get her noticed, said her \"heart is broken\". Her Instagram post included clips of them appearing on Channel 4's Celebrity Gogglebox together.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by jessiej This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActress Linda Robson, who sits alongside Edwards' mother Brenda on the Loose Women panel, said on the ITV show on Monday that Edwards had taken her own son, the musician Louis Dunford, \"under his wing\".\n\n\"Brenda did such a good job with her son because he was a proper gentleman,\" Robson told presenter Charlene White. \"He really was the loveliest boy... Thanks to Jamal my son is now going on tour this year with Jake Bugg.\"\n\nWhite dedicated the entire show to their friend Brenda while describing her late son as \"a powerhouse\" who \"changed the UK music scene in a way that we've not seen for generations\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charlene White This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRapper Youngs Teflon, who featured on SBTV, told the BBC: \"If I had one word for Jamal it would be selfless.\n\n\"Almost every artist has a story - he just touched so many people. Rappers, singers, presenters.\"\n\nHe added: \"His thing with me was never stop, never get disheartened…. He made me feel I had a purpose. It meant a lot and it went a long way.\n\n\"He will be remembered in every conversation when it comes to pioneers. This will be the person that put me on or gave me my first opportunity.\"\n\nAt a vigil in west London, fans and friends also paid tribute.\n\n\"He was the hero of Acton. He was the guy who showed you could make it out without being a drug dealer, without getting involved in crime or anything,\" Zachary Thomas told the BBC.\n\nDominic Magliore said: \"It's hard to accept it. I heard about it yesterday and I saw him on Friday, we was hugging, laughing and having a good time & everything seemed ok.\"\n\nSam Borelli said: \"Jamal was the guy that showed kids from low-income households that you are not limited to what your grades might tell you. He made the musicians that made me, if you know what I mean, with a camera he got for Christmas.\"\n\nActor and director Adam Deacon posted that he was \"honestly heartbroken\", saying: \"Jamal was one of the nicest, most down to earth and humble men I've met in this industry,\" he said. \"He always gave me time even when no-one else would.\"\n\nSinger Gabrielle described Edwards as \"an incredible young man\", and Transport for London employees and writers All on the Board, who share inspiring quotes on social media, also paid tribute.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by All On The Board This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 3 by All On The Board\n\nThe Voice Newspaper added their whole team was \"saddened and shocked\", saying: \"Gone waaay to soon. He made an amazing contribution to promoting black music, to entrepreneurship, and so much more. An incredible talent who will be much missed. RIP.\"\n\nIn a tweet, the organisers of the Mobo Awards said they were \"deeply saddened\" to learn of Edwards' death.\n\nThey added: \"As the founder of @SBTVonline, his groundbreaking work & legacy in British music and culture will live on. Our hearts and thoughts are with his friends and family.\"\n\nBirmingham-based rapper Jaykae is an example of one of the acts that SBTV has helped to achieve success. Although he only broke through to mainstream chart success as the featured rapper on Top 20 hit Flowers two years ago, his videos have been featured on SBTV for more than a decade.\n\nDescribing Edwards as a \"legend\", Jaykae tweeted: \"I think I can speak for us all as artists and as supporters of UK grime/rap scene when I say I owe this man so much! Helped me sometimes without even speaking of it.\"\n\nIn a 2013 interview with the BBC, Edwards said he filmed friends rapping or singing and began to upload the videos to YouTube to allow other friends to see them.\n\n\"You can say my videos had mixed reviews to begin with, some people didn't get them, but others thought they were sick [good],\" he said. \"So I started to put them up on YouTube so everyone could see them, and it just grew from there.\"\n\nSBTV - his London-based platform for discovering emerging artists and named after Edwards' own rapper moniker SmokeyBarz - has now grown to 1.22 million subscribers on YouTube.\n\nIt featured early music videos from artists including J Hus, Emeli Sande and Stormzy - and dozens of other British acts who were not widely known at the time.\n\nEdwards, pictured in 2020, wrote a book in 2013 called Self Belief: The Vision: How to Be a Success on Your Own Terms\n\nAs Edwards' profile grew, he also entered the fashion world, walking the catwalk for Hermes, fronting a collection for Kurt Geiger and then posing for Primark in order to illustrate his own belief that \"affordable fashion is important\".\n\nHe wrote a book - described as a mix of a memoir and a business manual - called Self Belief: The Vision: How to Be a Success on Your Own Terms.\n\nHe often tweeted motivational tips to inspire his followers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEdwards also founded JE Delve, a grassroots charity that provides youth clubs as well as learning and work opportunities for young people in west London, where he grew up after he and his family moved there from Luton.\n\nHe worked with a handful of other youth charities and regularly made visits to speak to teenagers, including at both Acton High School and West London College where he had studied, to answer questions on business success and self-motivation.\n\nEaling MP Rupa Huq shared a selection of photos of Edwards on social media as she paid tribute to the \"local hero\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Rupa Huq MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS in England will no longer limit the number of Caesarean sections it performs, under plans to improve care for mothers and babies.\n\nMaternity units were previously encouraged to promote natural births and keep the Caesarean rate to about 20%.\n\nIt comes after one NHS trust was criticised for poor maternity care.\n\nShrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is currently being investigated for nearly 2,000 maternity incidents.\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC News, maternity staff have been told to treat cases on an individual basis and follow National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance allowing women to opt for a planned Caesarean even if it is not for medical reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Caesarean sections: Why and when are they used?\n\nCaesarean sections are when a baby is delivered through a surgical cut into the abdomen and womb and can be:\n\nMore than one out of every four babies born in England is now delivered by either elective or emergency Caesarean.\n\nNHS England chief midwife Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent and clinical director for women's health Dr Matthew Joly said in the letter they were \"concerned\" by trusts focusing on hitting targets.\n\n\"We therefore ask all maternity services to stop using total Caesarean section rates as a means of performance management, as we are concerned by the potential for services to pursue targets that may be clinically inappropriate and unsafe in individual cases,\" the letter says.\n\nHospitals had previously been following advice from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, given in 2012.\n\nRCOG vice-president Dr Jo Mountfield welcomed the clarification to end target-driven clinical decision making for Caesarean births, saying: \"These targets carry certain benefits and risks, which should be discussed with women as they choose how they wish to give birth.\n\n\"Women and people giving birth should feel supported and their choices should be respected.\"\n\nLast year, after the Health and Social Care Committee found 1,000 more babies a year would survive if England had safer maternity services, the government announced £2m was being put into research to spot early signs of distress.\n\nMaternity units were improving but newborn deaths remained too high, the committee found.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Vic Haddock boat house (right) is under water on the River Severn following high winds and wet weather in Ironbridge\n\nPeople have been rescued, properties evacuated and trains cancelled due to flooding along the River Severn.\n\nMajor incidents have been declared in Bewdley, Worcestershire, and Ironbridge, Shropshire, where severe flood warnings are in place - indicating a risk to life.\n\nLarge parts of Shrewsbury town centre are also under water.\n\nThere are also dozens of less-severe flood warnings in Herefordshire and Worcestershire.\n\nNick Green from the Environment Agency (EA) said on Tuesday evening that levels in Bewdley, Worcestershire, were in excess of 16.4 ft (5m) and a further 12in (30cm) was possible which may cause the water to go over the barriers and flood homes.\n\n\"There's a lot of water going through the system here,\" he said.\n\nPeople living near temporary flood barriers were advised to leave their homes before defences were overtopped, which may happen overnight. The Severn is set to peak in the town on Wednesday.\n\nThe flooding follows heavy rain during three storms over the last week - Dudley, Eunice and Franklin.\n\nA major incident has been declared in Ironbridge\n\nFranklin hammered parts of the UK on Monday and came days after Storm Eunice killed three people and left 1.4 million homes without power.\n\nThere were no train services between Hereford and Shrewsbury on Tuesday because of flooding on the line, with some parts blocked after a landslip. Several roads have also been closed.\n\nRiver levels were forecasted to remain high for a prolonged period due to further rainfall this week, the EA said.\n\nIn Shropshire, a series of evacuations were carried out in different parts of the county.\n\nHomes in the Ironbridge Gorge were among those to be evacuated, including properties in the Jackfield area.\n\nResident Debbie Stokes said: \"I've had to climb through people's front gardens with all my bags.\n\n\"We're going to have to look at something... to help us getting out in the future, because it's now, times like this, when you realise just how dangerous this can be.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRae Evans, from The Wharfage, was evacuated from her home for the fourth time in three years.\n\nThe councillor for Telford & Wrekin Council's Woodside ward said: \"When I bought the house it said it might flood once in 70 years, so that is quite different.\n\n\"I would say I bought the house because the barriers are there, I wouldn't have bought it otherwise.\"\n\nThe Wharfage has been closed to pedestrians. River levels there have reached 6.2m, meaning the area is no longer deemed safe.\n\nCouncil leader Shaun Davies said the authority was \"preparing for the worst\"\n\nThe peak was expected on Tuesday afternoon and an EA update at about 19:00 GMT said the temporary barriers at Ironbridge were forecast to potentially exceed their capacity and overtop, causing flooding to properties on The Wharfage.\n\nEarlier, the leader of the council, Shaun Davies, said: \"The river still has not peaked and there's still some more stressful hours ahead.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. River Severn flooding in Shropshire seen from the air\n\n\"We are doing all we can to support residents and are preparing for the worst but hoping for the best,\" Mr Davies said.\n\n\"Some properties have no protection from flood defences and are still under water, and we have evacuated properties behind defences that could be breached while supporting those who have decided to stay put.\"\n\nThe Severn's peak in Ironbridge is expected Tuesday afternoon\n\nIn Shrewsbury, the River Severn appears to have peaked at 16.9ft (5.15m), 3.9 inches (10cm) short of the record level set in 2000.\n\nOne person was rescued by the fire service from Smithfield Road in the town at about 02:45 GMT.\n\nMany roads in the town centre were under water on Tuesday morning. Abbey Foregate car park has been closed, with English Bridge and Welsh Bridge only open to pedestrians.\n\nThe River Severn as seen from Castlefields foot bridge, Shrewsbury, on Tuesday morning\n\nResidents said they were getting tired of flooding in Shrewsbury, which was becoming more regular.\n\n\"While it brings the community together, we are getting fed up of it,\" Jonnie Ashley, 37, said.\n\nShrewsbury residents said they were \"fed up\" with flooding\n\n\"Every time we flood, it's a big clean-up operation for those by the river, and as our town centre is essentially surrounded by the river, it has an effect on how people can go about day-to-day living.\"\n\nIn Worcestershire, Bewdley is braced for the breaching of flood barriers, where temporary defences at Beales Corner overtopped in 2021.\n\nThe EA said temporary defences at Beales Corner in Bewdley had been improved after flooding in 2021\n\nClare Dinnis from the EA said \"a lot of work\" had been done \"since last year to put some additional stability behind the barriers and to improve the way we've used them\".\n\nShe added: \"Really importantly, we've got approval for a permanent flood defence here which is in the early stages of design.\"\n\nThirty-two flood warnings were issued for the River Severn, including in Worcester where extra flood pumps were installed on Hylton Road, which is flooded and no longer deemed safe to use.\n\nWorcester Bridge was closed to incoming traffic from the St John's side. The Sabrina footbridge was also closed.\n\nStreets including Severn Terrace, Croft Road and Castle Street were also closed due to flooding.\n\nIn Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, the river has burst its banks and spilled out on to the flood plain. The Wye peaked in Hereford and the Old Bridge has reopened.\n\nThe EA has warned that areas around Wilton, Herefordshire, may flood. The water has reached 15.2ft (4.64m) and the highest level ever recorded at Wilton was 15.6ft (4.77m) in February 2020.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emiliano Sala had signed with Cardiff City before the crash\n\nBlood tests taken from the body of footballer Emiliano Sala showed he had been overcome by toxic levels of carbon monoxide poisoning prior to his death in a plane crash, an inquest heard.\n\nThe 28-year-old was on a private plane travelling to Cardiff when it crashed in the English Channel near Guernsey on 21 January 2019.\n\nThe body of pilot David Ibbotson, 59, has never been found.\n\nSala's inquest resumed on Tuesday after being adjourned for legal reasons.\n\nThe Argentina-born striker was joining Cardiff City in a £15m transfer from French Ligue 1 side Nantes.\n\nPathologist Dr Basil Purdue had said Sala had died from severe head and chest injuries consistent with a plane crash.\n\nBut prior to his death he had been overcome by carbon monoxide poisoning and would have been \"deeply unconscious\" at the point of impact with the sea, Dr Purdue said.\n\nHe said toxicological tests on samples of Sala's blood showed a carbon monoxide blood saturation level of 58%, which he described as \"severe poisoning\", and suggested the source was the plane's exhaust system.\n\nContinuing his evidence, Dr Purdue said two blood samples were taken from Sala - one from the iliofemoral vein and a second from the cavity of Sala's torso.\n\nSala's inquest is being held at Dorset Coroner's Court at the Town Hall in Bournemouth\n\nThe first blood sample was sent away for carbon monoxide testing and the second was used to confirm identity from DNA testing.\n\nThe second sample was later sent to Canada for further testing.\n\nDr Purdue explained that, due to decomposition, he was only able to take one blood sample from the iliofemoral vein and obtained blood for DNA testing from the cavity.\n\nHe said cavity blood was often contaminated and of \"uncertain composition\", and could not be relied upon for toxicological examination, although it was acceptable for DNA testing.\n\n\"It is not blood, it is blood with an unknown of other things - you are going to be misled,\" he said.\n\n\"If we had more blood, I would have taken more samples.\n\n\"The fact we only had one bottle is indicative of all we could get.\"\n\nForensic examiner Katherine Baldwin told the inquest the cavity blood sample was stored in a Dorset Police freezer until it was sent off to Canada for testing.\n\nShe also confirmed the first sample had been destroyed by a forensic lab after being tested, even though it was part of an ongoing investigation.\n\nThe inquest heard the Piper Malibu aircraft left Nantes airport at 19:15 GMT and radar contact was lost at 20:15.\n\nThe aircraft was located on the seabed on 3 February and Sala's body was found in the wreckage three days later.\n\nThe inquest at Dorset Coroner's Court, which is taking place at the Town Hall in Bournemouth, is due to last around a month.", "BBC journalists Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel have announced they are leaving the corporation to launch a new podcast and host a radio show together on LBC.\n\nNewsnight's Maitlis and outgoing North America editor Sopel have signed a deal with LBC's parent company Global.\n\nDetails haven't been revealed but Maitlis called it a \"major new podcast\" and Sopel said \"opportunities like this just don't come along very often\".\n\nThey follow Andrew Marr, who moved from the BBC to Global at the end of 2021.\n\nSopel and Maitlis worked together as co-hosts of the BBC's Americast podcast, which launched in 2020. Maitlis also made headlines and won awards for her 2019 interview with Prince Andrew.\n\nOn Twitter, she described the new daily podcast as an \"amazing opportunity\", adding that she and Sopel \"are so thrilled Global is giving us this opportunity to be big and ambitious with this project\".\n\nMaitlis has also covered many live events including elections and the EU referendum\n\nShe added: \"Nevertheless, it will be a wrench to leave the BBC after 20 phenomenal years. I am so grateful for the opportunities I've had there.\"\n\nSopel tweeted: \"Opportunities like this just don't come along very often. But am sad to leave the BBC which has been home for so long.\"\n\nHe described it as \"a wrench\" to be leaving the BBC after almost four decades.\n\n\"I leave with nothing but good feelings towards the Corporation, and wish all the best to my colleagues and friends there,\" he wrote.\n\nGlobal said full details of the pair's new podcast would be announced later this year.\n\nThere's a lot to unpick in this announcement that two more of the BBC's big hitters are departing the corporation.\n\nThere'll be claims that this is yet another example of the BBC's inability to hold on to its talent.\n\nAndrew Neil and Andrew Marr have already left (the latter for LBC, where he may soon be bumping into Emily and Jon in the lift). Marr said he was \"keen to get my own voice back\", away from the BBC's impartiality drive. That may be, if not a factor in the pair's decision, at least an added bonus.\n\nBut while some will read the loss of these high-profile names as a sign about the BBC's stability going forward, it may say as much about the more competitive media landscape that exists, and the companies with big pockets putting tempting offers on the table.\n\nIt's also a sign of the increasing importance of podcasts. That a big player like Global is making such a huge investment in the form may be the first time a commercial radio station has signalled so overtly what podcasting means to its brand.\n\nThe Maitlis/Sopel pairing will also do an LBC radio show and other analysis, but the podcast is front and centre of what's been announced today.\n\nThat's in large part down to the talent involved. Maitlis brings a cachet very few others offer (and what more was there to achieve at the BBC after her Prince Andrew interview?), and the combination of her and Jon Sopel on Americast has brought a hugely loyal and dedicated following.\n\nIn Dino Sofos, the \"powerhouse\" as she describes him, who was head of BBC news podcasts before recently starting his production company, they have an executive producer with a brilliant track record.\n\nWhat the podcast will actually contain is being kept under wraps for now. Perhaps there are clues in the press release. Maitlis says it will \"build on everything we've achieved with Americast\" and Sopel calls it an \"innovative news podcast\". My reading is that whatever they create, it's unlikely to be solely focused on America.\n\nJames Rea, director of broadcasting and content at Global, said of Sopel and Maitlis: \"They are both brilliant journalists and presenters and I know we're going to build something hugely exciting together.\"\n\nJonathan Munro, interim director of BBC News, thanked the pair for their work at the corporation.\n\nHe said in a statement: \"We'd like to thank both Emily and Jon for their many years of sterling service to the BBC and wish them the very best in their new endeavours at Global.\"\n\nSopel has been a familiar face outside the White House in recent years\n\nIn June last year, Maitlis was reprimanded for breaching the BBC's impartiality rules by retweeting a \"clearly controversial\" post by Piers Morgan about the government's response to the pandemic.\n\nThat came after the BBC ruled that a monologue by Maitlis on Newsnight about the row over former Downing Street adviser Dominic Cummings' trip to County Durham had breached impartiality guidelines.\n\nSopel started his career at the BBC in 1983 and went on to become chief political correspondent for BBC News before spending four years as the broadcaster's Paris correspondent.\n\nHis reporting has taken him across the globe, covering stories such as the Israel-Lebanon war and the 2004 tsunami from Sri Lanka before he later became North America editor.\n\nHe had a famous exchange with President Trump at a 2017 press conference, and found himself in the spotlight again in 2018 following a controversial off-air conversation with Radio 4 presenter John Humphrys about the BBC and equal pay.\n\nHe stood down as North America editor at the end of 2021.\n\nMaitlis joined the BBC in 2001 and went on to present the news bulletins on BBC One as well as presenting the news channel, then known as BBC News 24.\n\nShe also presented BBC Breakfast before joining Newsnight and has also fronted many live BBC News specials including election nights and the EU referendum.", "Concerns have been raised over maintenance standards at one of Scotland's biggest hospitals.\n\nNHS Lothian has started formal dispute proceedings against Consort Healthcare, the private owner and operator of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE).\n\nThe health board has handed Consort a list of infrastructure issues that it says need to be rectified.\n\nThe RIE is 20-years-old and was built under the controversial Private Finance Initiative (PFI) scheme.\n\nNHS Lothian said it was in dispute over the nature and delivery of the maintenance and upgrades required for the hospital but was \"working closely\" with Consort to address them.\n\nHowever, the health board also warned it could, if necessary, retain some of the PFI payments to Consort if the issues are not satisfactorily resolved.\n\nThe issue has been placed on NHS Lothian's risk register, where it warns there is a \"risk that facilities in the RIE are not fit for purpose because of a failure to carry out required life cycle works and maintenance of the estate\".\n\nThe risk register lists heating, ventilation, water and window maintenance as some of the \"life cycle works\" that could present a problem.\n\nNHS Lothian said the risk register entry is not a statement of actual present issues but is used to \"anticipate and mitigate worst-case scenarios\".\n\nThe Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh was built by a private consortium which runs and maintains the facility for the NHS\n\nThe PFI deal with Consort is expected to have cost the taxpayer more than £1bn by the time it expires in 2028.\n\nAt that stage the deal with Consort to run and maintain the hospital can be extended for 25 years or NHS Lothian will have to negotiate a price to buy the facility.\n\nA spokesman for the trade union Unison, which has long campaigned against PFI deals, said: \"No one should be surprised that as their opportunity to extract cash draws to a close that profiteers will try and squeeze more revenue from the public purse.\n\n\"This problem will be a recurring feature until we have public services run by the public sector for the public good rather than an ongoing cash cow for shareholders.\"\n\nSusan Goldsmith, director of finance at NHS Lothian, said: \"As part of an ongoing process of infrastructure management, we have identified areas where NHS Lothian considers maintenance or replacements are required.\n\n\"We are working closely with Consort who have proposed a programme of maintenance works and some upgrades of critical systems.\n\n\"We are currently in dispute with our PFI providers on the nature and delivery of the works programme and if successful, we can deploy contractual levers to effect resolution, such as the retention of elements of the unitary payment.\"\n\nConsort Healthcare has been approached for comment.", "Tributes have been paid at Stormont to Christopher Stalford after the DUP assembly member's sudden death aged 39.\n\nMr Stalford was principal deputy speaker and had represented South Belfast since 2016, having served previously as councillor, high sheriff of Belfast and deputy mayor.\n\nHe is survived by his wife Laura and four children.\n\nAhead of the sitting, DUP assembly members gathered in the Great Hall at Stormont to pray.\n\nThey were led by North Antrim MLA Mervyn Storey.\n\nSome then entered the chamber, with others heading to the assembly gallery which has been opened specially for other MLAs to sit and watch the tributes, because social distancing rules are still in place in the chamber limiting numbers.\n\nAfter tributes had been paid, members took part in a minute's silence to reflect on Mr Stalford's life.\n\nAhead of the sitting, DUP assembly members gathered in the Great Hall at Stormont to pray\n\nMr Stalford's death was announced on Sunday and the tributes, paid across the political spectrum, referenced his wry humour, passion for politics and debate, and love for his wife and children.\n\nDUP deputy leader Paula Bradley led a tearful tribute in the chamber on behalf of the party.\n\nShe said she wanted to \"honour and give thanks for the life of our much-loved friend and esteemed colleague\".\n\n\"Words cannot adequately explain the sense of pain and loss that is felt on these benches,\" she added.\n\nDUP deputy leader Paula Bradley led an emotional tribute to her colleague\n\nShe expressed her sympathies to Mr Stalford's family \"on the loss of a man who was so utterly devoted to them\".\n\n\"Christopher's joy came not in holding office but in how he could use that office to improve the everyday lives of those he was honoured to represent,\" she said.\n\n\"It was a mark of the man that he had friends on all sides of this chamber.\"\n\nBefore tributes began, DUP MLAs gathered together just outside the chamber in the great hall, led in prayer by the party's Mervyn Storey.\n\nThe DUP deputy leader Paula Bradley spoke tearfully as she thanked other parties for their kind tributes.\n\nOne by one, members of other parties shared their fond memories of the fierce debater, known for his wit but also his respect for the institutions and love of public service - something reflected by the Assembly Speaker Alex Maskey\n\nEvery MLA who spoke, conscious of what Stormont is now without, even more aware of the great loss felt by Christopher Stalford's family, who he was so deeply devoted to.\n\nThe former Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill has Covid so is not present.\n\nInstead, Deirdre Hargey, the communities minister, led the tributes for Sinn Féin.\n\nThe South Belfast MLA said she first met Mr Stalford at Belfast City Council and \"instantly thought he was older than me due to his mannerisms and his attire of his pinstriped suit, initially thinking this was the instructed uniform of all DUP councillors at that time\".\n\nMs Hargey said he \"enjoyed the cut and thrust\" of debate and loved talking about his family, faith and unionism.\n\n\"Whilst our politics differed, we shared similarities, growing up in working class communities in south Belfast,\" she added.\n\nSocial Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) MLA Nichola Mallon told the chamber she had known the DUP MLA for 10 years.\n\n\"In all that time, I got to know a man who was challenging, argumentative, ambitious, some may even say combative, during debates but also a man who was kind, who was quick-witted, fiercely intelligent and very, very funny,\" Ms Mallon said.\n\nShe said his love for his wife and children \"just radiated from him\".\n\nOn Sunday, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood postponed his party's conference out of respect.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, Christopher Stalford and his wife Laura in 2010\n\nUUP leader Doug Beattie told the chamber Mr Stalford was \"absolutely unique, he was a fierce debater\".\n\n\"I have no words that will quench the anguish of his party colleagues sitting here today, I have no words that will help with the pain that his family is dealing with today,\" he said.\n\n\"I didn't just like Christopher Stalford, I was jealous of Christopher Stalford as he was truly a first class politician and family man.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlliance Party leader Naomi Long said she first met Mr Stalford during their time at Belfast City Council.\n\nShe added that during his tenure as principal deputy speaker, Mr Stalford was \"fair, he could be fierce, he kept us all in order\", but \"used his wit and self-deprecating humour and you never felt that when you were stopped or challenged by him that there was any animosity or personal discord behind it\".\n\n\"We had very different political backgrounds and views but we had a lot in common,\" adding that they were \"opponents but friends\".\n\n\"We both lost our fathers at a young age, we were both fiercely proud of coming from working class backgrounds, we both had a passion for the communities we grow up in that drove us into politics and we both believed passionately that education was the route to lift people permanently out of disadvantage in life and we shared a deep faith.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said Mr Stalford was passionate about Northern Ireland\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister told the chamber that he was still having difficulty processing the shock of Mr Stalford's passing.\n\n\"That pales into total insignificance compared to the devastation that undoubtedly his beloved wife Laura and beautiful children are experiencing,\" he added, sending them his condolences.\n\nHe said Mr Stalford had come to work for him 20 years ago in his Belfast office.\n\n\"It was evident to me that he had the ability and talent which would make him the politician that he was,\" he said.\n\n\"Though our political perspectives diverged, I am pleased to say we retained a friendship and respect.\"\n\nPeople Before Profit's Gerry Carroll said he could \"only imagine the heartbreak\" Mr Stalford's family were going through.\n\nThe West Belfast MLA said that he and Mr Stalford had \"robust debate and strong disagreements\" when they first met at Belfast City Hall in 2014.\n\nMr Carroll said he was \"an absolutely fair speaker, someone who went out of his way to ensure all voices were heard in debates\".\n\nClare Sugden, an independent MLA, said his passing was \"devastating\" and that she \"felt numb\" when she heard the news of his passing, and still does.\n\n\"We have lost one of our own. He was the epitome of public service,\" she said.\n\nHe was incredibly \"funny and full of wit\" said the East Londonderry representative.\n\nShe said he was a witty man but one that, when his wit cut, it was \"never with malice, and that's how he stood out\".\n\n\"I do believe that this assembly and NI politics will miss him and I will miss him,\" she said.\n\nChristopher Stalford with his DUP colleague Carla Lockhart and former leader Arlene Foster\n\nEarlier, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said he last spoke to Mr Stalford on Friday.\n\n\"I was never to know how precious that conversation was to be,\" he told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"A young man who came a long way, from a working class background in south Belfast to the deputy principal speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly - something he was immensely proud of.\n\n\"More than anything else and with his love for politics, the one thing that stood out about Christopher was his love for his family.\n\n\"His desire to create a better future for his children was something that drove him on.\"\n\nMr Stalford sat on the board of governors at Braniel Primary School.\n\nOn Monday morning, Diane Dawson, headteacher at Braniel Primary School, said Mr Stalford was \"passionate\" about education and \"wanted the best for every single child irrespective of their background, or their creed or their colour or their denomination\".\n\n\"We have a very integrated school here in Braniel Nursery and Primary and Christopher championed that,\" she said.\n\nShe said she had the privilege of knowing him as a father and a husband.\n\n\"What I saw with Christopher was his sense of fairness and wanting equality for every child in this school.\"", "A new report on the impacts of climate change will likely be the most worrying assessment yet of how rising temperatures affect every living thing.\n\nThis will be the second of three major reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its first since November's COP26 summit.\n\nScientists and officials will publish their conclusions on 28 February.\n\nThe study will focus heavily on regional impacts as well as on cities and coastal communities.\n\nThe IPCC carries out these large-scale reviews of the latest research on warming every six or seven years on behalf of governments. This set of three is their sixth assessment report.\n\nResearchers are formed into three working groups that look at the basic science, the scale of the impacts and the options for tackling the problem.\n\nFor many major cities and developing countries, the report will highlight that tackling climate change is not about cutting emissions and hitting net zero sometime in the future, but about dealing with far more short-term threats.\n\n\"It is always the immediate, that takes precedence. So if you've got to deal with a big influx of migrants, or a massive flood event, that's where the focus is going to be,\" said Mark Watts, the executive director of the C40 group, a network of around 100 major cities that are collaborating to tackle climate change.\n\n\"In the global south, there really aren't any city climate programme funds at the moment. Of those that exist, almost none of them are about adaptation. They're all trying to get poor countries that have relatively low emissions, to reduce their emissions further, not about adapting to the impacts that they're already feeling.\"\n\nIn Kenya, prolonged drought has pushed pastoralists off their land\n\nUnder the umbrella of the IPCC, scientists working on the report, who all volunteer for this work, review and write up thousands of papers to summarise the latest findings.\n\nThey then meet with government officials to go through their findings line by line and, upon reaching consensus, a short summary of their findings is published.\n\nThe study will also outline key \"tipping points\" that are likely to be passed as the world warms - some of which are irreversible like the disintegration of the Greenland ice sheet.\n\nThe report will also look at some of the technological solutions to climate change, but is likely to be quite dismissive of efforts to manage solar radiation or even to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.\n\nOverall it will have a much broader focus than just the science of what we can do about climate change.\n\nHome to more than 24 million, Lagos in Nigeria is Africa's most populated city - but one that's hugely vulnerable to flooding and sea level rise. Making the situation worse is the problem of rubbish and waste that collects in canals and rivers. Dealing with this issue could be key to helping the city cope with the changes brought about by a changing climate.\n\n\"One of the one of the things that needs to change in Lagos to reduce that flooding impact is actually to get a grip of the waste management system,\" said Mark Watts from C40. \"Supportive investing in the city for them to get really strong municipal waste collection, proper household collection, and getting it properly treated is going to solve two things at once.\"\n\n\"The report will talk about social justice more, and it will talk about sustainable development more. It does talk about indigenous and traditional knowledge, not just published Western science,\" said Dr Stephen Cornelius from WWF.\n\n\"This is about the impacts on people and nature, the risks they face and the limits to adaptation as well.\"\n\nThe melting of Arctic sea ice in the summer may be an important tipping point for climate change\n\nBut as scientists and officials meet virtually to thrash out the final details, a tussle has emerged over the use of a key phrase in the text.\n\nFor years, developing countries have been trying to get the richer world to respond within UN climate negotiation to the issue of \"loss and damage\".\n\nThey define the phrase to mean the impacts of climate change that countries cannot adapt to, including severe weather such as major storms but also slow-onset events like sea level rise or desertification. Richer countries have long opposed the concept, fearing they could be held legally and financially responsible for centuries for the disruption caused by historic emissions of carbon dioxide. As a result this issue has become a hugely divisive political issue within global climate talks.\n\nIn this new report, the IPCC scientists are seeking to use a slightly amended version of the term, talking about \"losses and damages,\" which they say has a different, less political meaning.\n\nBut officials from several richer governments attending the approval session have objected, fearing that if the idea appears in a key report, it will give backing to those countries who want \"loss and damage\" to be the top priority for international negotiations.\n\nUltimately this report will stress urgency - that if rapid action is taken on cutting greenhouse gases and spending on helping people adapt to climate change is ramped up, then the worst risks can be avoided.\n\nBut this hope has to be measured against the reality of politics, according to co-chair Prof Hans-Otto Pörtner.\n\n\"One key message has come out of previous reports - political will, in terms of climate action, is the bottleneck for a sustainable future.\"", "Jarryd Hayne has had his two sexual assault convictions quashed\n\nFormer Australian Rugby League player Jarryd Hayne has won an appeal against his sexual assault convictions.\n\nMr Hayne, 33, was found guilty of attacking a 26-year-old woman in her New South Wales house on the night of the 2018 National Rugby League (NRL) grand final.\n\nHe was jailed for a maximum of five years and nine months last May.\n\nBut the state's court of criminal appeal has quashed his convictions and ordered a retrial.\n\nMr Hayne's legal team argued his conviction had been based on \"flawed\" directions given to the jury.\n\nThey also argued the evidence used against him was inconsistent and that an \"outburst\" from the woman in court - when she yelled \"no means no\" - was prejudicial.\n\nThe former player had been convicted at a second trial after his first ended with a hung jury.\n\nDuring his first trial, prosecutors alleged Hayne sexually assaulted the woman in her bedroom, causing two injuries.\n\nMr Hayne insisted all sexual activity was consensual and that the injuries had been accidental.\n\nIn his 2021 sentencing, Judge Helen Syme said Mr Hayne was fully aware the woman was not consenting, but went ahead anyway.\n\nMr Hayne was one of the sport's most high-profile athletes and his case came amid an intensifying debate about rape in Australia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The man is said to have threatened police officers on patrol at the station\n\nFrench police have shot dead a man wielding a knife who threatened them at Paris's Gare du Nord train station.\n\nThe man attacked two police officers on patrol at the station, with a 30cm (12in) knife, police said.\n\nAn anti-police inscription was found on the man's knife, reports say. No police officers were injured in the incident, which occurred at about 07:00 local time (06:00 GMT) on Monday.\n\nThe authorities believe the incident was not terrorism-related.\n\n\"The police used their firearms, thus eliminating all danger, both for themselves and for travellers,\" Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin wrote in a tweet (in French).\n\nAn eyewitness told BFMTV: \"I was climbing up the stairs that go up to the Eurostar platform, I heard screams on the right. I saw a man, quite tall, a large knife in his hand with a very impressive blade who threatened two or three policemen who were armed… The police made us go up on the platform, made us lie on the ground.\"\n\nTransport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari later told RMC TV the man was known to the police \"as someone who wandered around in the station\".\n\n\"He appears to have attacked the police with a knife, forcing them to use their weapon.\"\n\nA security perimeter has been set up at the departure level of mainline trains. Several trains were delayed as a result, including international Eurostar trains, BFMTV reports.\n\nAn investigation has been opened for attempted homicide, the Paris prosecutor's office is quoted as saying by Le Parisien.\n\nThe Gare du Nord station is one of Europe's busiest, serving as a hub for high-speed trains to a number of countries, including Eurostar services to and from London.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Racism is a problem in the Met Police, deputy assistant commissioner Bas Javid tells BBC Newsnight.\n\nA senior officer has admitted racism remains a problem in the Metropolitan Police, after two black colleagues told the BBC it was getting worse.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Bas Javid told BBC Two's Newsnight some officers \"have racist views and are racist\".\n\nBut he denied the Met was a \"racist organisation\".\n\nOne officer said a supervisor used a racist slur against him. Another said senior leaders suggested black people were not clever enough for the Met.\n\nMr Javid, who is the brother of Health Secretary Sajid Javid, said he was \"extremely disappointed\" to hear the allegations from the black officers - which include claims that the Met is failing to deal with complaints of racism and putting pressure on victims.\n\nHe said: \"The fact that you've had officers or staff come to you to make allegations, what I'd like to see is an organisation where people feel comfortable to come forward and report it so we can deal with it effectively.\"\n\nThe culture of London's Metropolitan Police force has come under close scrutiny, with Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick resigning after London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was not satisfied with her response to the scale of the cultural change required.\n\nAmong his concerns were the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving officer last year, and a report into abusive behaviour at Charing Cross police station published earlier this month.\n\nIt found that, between 2016 and 2018, officers shared messages that were highly sexualised, violent and discriminatory against women, ethnic minorities, LGBT people and disabled people - which they defended as \"banter\".\n\nThe two black officers interviewed by Newsnight said there needed to be changes among the Met's senior leadership to root out racism and misogyny.\n\nOne said some senior leaders refused to admit there were issues with discrimination, while the other suggested the next commissioner should be recruited from outside the force.\n\nDame Cressida Dick resigned after London Mayor Sadiq Khan said she needed to do more to root out discrimination in the Met\n\nMr Javid ruled himself out as a possible successor to Dame Cressida and said it would be for the mayor and home secretary to decide if the next commissioner should be someone from an ethnic minority.\n\nAsked if he accepted racism was a problem in the Met, he said: \"Yes, I do.\"\n\nHe added: \"What I would say is, there are people who have racist views and are racist and they are in policing. But what I won't do is describe the organisation as a racist organisation.\"\n\nMr Javid, who is responsible for professional standards, said there was \"absolutely no room for racism in policing, especially here in the Metropolitan Police\".\n\n\"If people are found to be racist or discriminatory in any way, then I will do absolutely everything I can to make sure they're removed from the police,\" he said.\n\nBut one of the officers who spoke to the BBC said racism within the force had got worse and officers accused of discrimination did not face adequate sanctions.\n\nWhen he raised a complaint, he said the Met Police \"put more pressure on the victim than the accused\".\n\nHe said he felt like he was the one who had to move departments, while the accused stayed in the same job.\n\n\"There shouldn't be any other option than for them to lose their job,\" he said.\n\n\"Until that changes, I don't think much will change in the Met.\"\n\nHe said a supervisor had referred to him as a monkey, \"one of the most derogatory terms that someone could ever refer to you as a black person\".\n\n\"It's hurtful and disgusting,\" he said.\n\nThe officer also said he had been victimised based on the way he speaks, and colleagues had called him a drug dealer or gang member.\n\nThe second officer, a black woman in a senior role, said working in the Met Police was \"incredibly traumatic\" for black officers because of the discrimination they faced.\n\nShe said it was common for people of colour to be undermined and humiliated in meetings.\n\nIn a recruitment meeting, senior leaders said black and Asian people were not joining the Met because they were not clever enough, she said.\n\nBoth officers said things could not change in the Met Police unless there was a recognition of racism and misogyny in the force.\n\n\"I'm not convinced things will change,\" the male officer said.\n\n\"Things will remain the same until there are a group of top rank bosses who are replaced, in my opinion - the bosses who refused to admit there are issues in the Met.\"\n\nThe female police officer said the next Met Commissioner should be recruited from outside the force.\n\n\"Everyone who Cressida surrounded herself with were people who mirrored what she believed. You need an outsider,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Janet Hills - who from 2013 to 2021 served as head of the Met's Black Police Association - said the force needed a \"consistent approach and zero tolerance towards people that are racist within policing\".\n\nShe added that staff found to have committed misconduct or racist behaviour should face dismissal.\n\nNewsnight reported this story on 14 February 2022 and you can watch on iPlayer for 11 months", "Gareth Hughes received a cheque for more than £2.3tn\n\nAn energy firm has apologised after 74 customers hit by power cuts during Storm Arwen accidentally received compensation cheques for trillions of pounds.\n\nNorthern Powergrid is paying tens of thousands of pounds to customers hit by days of outages in November.\n\nBut a number with Halifax and Newcastle postcodes received cheques made out for 13-figure sums.\n\nNorthern Powergrid said a clerical error was to blame.\n\nPictures of the erroneous cheques have been circulating on social media days after the firm was criticised for taking months to process compensation claims.\n\nGareth Hughes, 44, from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, shared a picture of his cheque for more than £2.3tn.\n\nMr Hughes, who was without power for more than three days, said he had been sent a previous cheque for £135 but had complained as he was told he was entitled to more.\n\nHe said the new cheque made him smile, adding: \"But I knew it wasn't a value that could be realistic.\"\n\nMr Hughes was without power for more than three days during Storm Arwen\n\nA spokeswoman for Northern Powergrid said an electricity meter reference was incorrectly quoted as the payment sum.\n\n\"As soon as we identified the clerical error we ensured all 74 customers' cheques were stopped so they could not be cashed,\" she said.\n\nThe firm said the error was being investigated and is thought to be an isolated incident.\n\n\"We thank those customers who were honest and contacted us and we have been making contact directly over the weekend with all 74 customers affected to make them aware, apologise for the error and reassure them that a correct payment will be issued to them on Monday,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nThe winds of Strom Arwen brought down trees and power lines across the network causing mass power outages, with some properties in Northumberland and County Durham taking more than a week to be reconnected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "TV producer Beryl Vertue, whose company created the series Men Behaving Badly and Sherlock, has died aged 90.\n\nThe media executive, who rose to the top of the industry after starting as a secretary, \"passed away peacefully\" on Saturday, her family said.\n\nIndustry colleagues called her one of the most influential women in British TV.\n\nDaughters Sue and Debbie, producers at the company their mother founded, said: \"She meant so much to so many.\"\n\nVertue's career began when she was asked by the writers of Steptoe and Son, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, to type up their scripts.\n\nIn the mid-1950s, she began representing figures such as sitcom scriptwriter Johnny Speight and comedian Frankie Howerd, in effect becoming a talent agent.\n\nShe also had success selling shows such as Til Death Us Do Part and Steptoe and Son to the US market.\n\nIn 1979, she founded Hartswood films, producing a series of shows including the 1990s sitcom Men Behaving Badly, which starred Martin Clunes, Neil Morrissey, Leslie Ash and Caroline Quentin.\n\nHer company was also behind the critically acclaimed drama Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch, produced by Vertue and her daughter Sue, who is married to the series co-creator Steven Moffat.\n\nSue and Debbie said in a statement that their mother had remained sharp until the end of her life, continuing to grill her daughters about work in her final days.\n\nVertue was presented with a lifetime achievement award by Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch in 2016\n\n\"I know we're not alone in thinking that somehow she'd go on forever. She meant so much to so many,\" they said.\n\n\"She wasn't just our mum, she was our best friend, our mentor, our adviser, our role model, our holiday companion, our giggle-maker and our boss!\"\n\nThey said that \"she was often the last person at a party, she didn't suffer fools, she was fair, she was kind, she was fun, she was stubborn, in fact she was the total package and we will miss her beyond words\".\n\n\"She was more than a mother to us - she was also a friend. To many in the industry she was more than a friend - she was often a mother,\" her daughters added.\n\nWriter and actor Mark Gatiss - who co-created Sherlock and played the detective's brother, Mycroft - paid tribute to her \"extraordinary legacy\", from helping to type out scripts for the Goon Show to representing Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks.\n\n\"She saw it all and did most of it,\" he said. \"But foremost - a wonderful woman, a loyal colleague and an absolute scream. She was loved.\"\n\nActor and comedian Dawn French called her \"mighty and marvellous\" and said her death was \"a huge loss\".\n\nCharlotte Moore, the BBC's chief content officer, said Vertue was \"one of the most influential women in British broadcasting\" who \"literally helped shape the TV industry as we know it today\".\n\nVertue was made an OBE in 2000 and a CBE in 2016 for her work in the TV industry.\n\nShe also received a series of industry awards, including Bafta's Alan Clarke award for outstanding creative contribution to television in 2004.\n\nIn March 2012 she was recognised for her lifetime achievement at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards, and in 2016 she was presented with a similar award from Cumberbatch at the Women in Film and TV Awards.", "Jack Jeffery, pictured holding the ball, was taken to hospital where he later died\n\nA rugby player who was seriously hurt while scoring a try during a match has died.\n\nEvesham Rugby Club player Jack Jeffery, 27, was taken to hospital after being injured in the seniors league game against Berkswell and Balsall on Saturday.\n\nHis father Glenn said he died \"doing what he loved the most, playing rugby\".\n\nClub chairman Dave Summerfield said the players were reeling as \"it was such a terrible shock\".\n\nGlenn Jeffery posted on Facebook: \"It is with great sadness that I need to let you know we lost our beloved son Jack yesterday.\"\n\nHe described him as the \"most kind hearted, generous and beautiful son who enriched the lives of everyone who was lucky to know and have met him\".\n\n\"He will be so missed by his family and friends,\" he said.\n\nA flag was flown at half-mast at Evesham Rugby Club as a mark of respect for the \"extremely popular player\", Mr Summerfield said.\n\nHe said the accident had \"affected the players greatly\", adding: \"As a club, we have been overwhelmed by the messages of support and goodwill from the rugby community.\n\n\"Jack was calm, respected and highly thought of. Our club and community have lost such a bright light.\"\n\nA statement on the club's website said Mr Jeffery, who lived in London, was \"adding another try to his phenomenal record\" and was injured in an accident on the pitch as he scored.\n\n\"He would often return from London for training and was always at the heart of club activities,\" it added.\n\n\"He served his club, his teammates and the county with distinction and provided much satisfaction to the club supporters in knowing exactly where the whitewash [try line] was.\"\n\nPremiership side Worcester Warriors tweeted a message of condolence to his family, friends and teammates.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Worcester Warriors This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Rugby Football Union said in a tweet it extended its \"heartfelt sympathies\" to the family and friends of the player.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone in the game are with Evesham Rugby Football Club, their players, members and the wider rugby community,\" it added.\n\nNigel Huddleston, Conservative MP for Mid Worcestershire, tweeted: \"My deepest sympathies go to his family, friends and teammates. The outpouring of messages shows how incredibly popular he was.\"\n\nEvesham thanked everyone who had supported Mr Jeffery \"in his moment of need\" and for the messages of support received from other clubs.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shares in IAG, owner of British Airways and Iberia, fell as much as 8%.\n\nEurope's stock markets closed sharply lower on Monday, but recouped some losses in afternoon trading on hopes of a deal to resolve Ukraine tensions.\n\nThe FTSE 100 ended 1.7% down, and the main markets in Paris and Frankfurt 2% lower, with travel stocks hard hit.\n\nReports from Russia that talks with the West over Ukraine should continue helped improve investor sentiment.\n\nThat limited losses on Wall Street, where at lunchtime in New York the Dow Jones was down 0.5% and Nasdaq up 0.7%.\n\nAccording to reports, Sergei Lavrov has suggested to Russia's President Vladimir Putin that diplomatic efforts should continue because there might be a chance of doing a deal.\n\nOn the FTSE 100, IAG, the owner of British Airways and Iberia, fell 5.6%. Shares in the major banks closed between 4% and 5% down. The biggest loser was London-listed Russian mining company Evraz, which tumbled 29%.\n\nThe FTSE 100's fall, the worst session in three weeks, followed a fall in Asian stock markets.\n\n\"The fact that the door has not been shut to further talks... is a good thing,\" said Patrick O'Hare, at Briefing.com. \"Hence, the negativity seen earlier has dissipated some, yet there is still a major cloud of uncertainty hanging over the market.\"\n\nOil initially rose sharply with Brent crude topping $95 (£70) per barrel, stoking fresh inflationary worries, although the price has eased back slightly.\n\nWith oil demand high as global economies emerge from lockdown, there are fears a war or severe sanctions on Russia will cut supplies, sending the price above $100 a barrel, something not seen since 2014.\n\n\"Just as the storm of Covid appeared to be receding, the growing expectation of an invasion of Ukraine is the fresh threat now unnerving investors, with confidence plunging in many parts of the world,\" said Hargreaves Lansdown analyst Susannah Streeter.\n\nShe added: \"With worries that inflation is already running far too hot, the possibility Russian troops could move across the border has led to another surge in the oil price. Energy markets are clearly on edge and if supplies are threatened there is a risk oil will shoot up even higher.\"\n\nAnalysts at Capital Economics estimate war or sanctions could add to inflation in Europe, forcing central banks to lift interest rates faster and further.\n\n\"Over the longer term, whether Russia ends up invading or not, this geopolitical flare-up is likely to speed up the process of Russia's decoupling from the West,\" Capital Economics said in a research note.\n\nMoscow has amassed an estimated 100,000 troops along Ukraine's border but denies any intent to invade.\n\nDespite this, more than a dozen countries have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine, with the US saying Moscow could begin an attack \"at any time\".", "Julie Williams and her son David Williams were found dead at separate addresses in Coventry in October 2020\n\nA man has admitted murdering a mother and son plus a second woman who was pregnant, whom he denies raping.\n\nAnthony Russell's \"campaign of crime\" took place over several days in October 2020 in Coventry and Warwickshire.\n\nHe had previously admitted the trio's manslaughter before admitting their murders on Monday.\n\nHe is accused at Warwick Crown Court of raping Nicole McGregor who was five months pregnant when he killed her.\n\nThe 31-year-old's body was found in dense woodland in Leamington Spa on 29 October 2020.\n\nShe died as a result of neck compression from a ligature, and a post-mortem examination confirmed she had been carrying a \"fully-formed female foetus\", the court heard.\n\nProsecutor Zoe Johnson QC said the state of her body \"gives the lie to the defendant's claim that Nicole McGregor consented to sex\".\n\nJurors have been told of Russell's murder admissions.\n\nThe court heard Ms McGregor's death came after two other murders and attacks on members of the public.\n\nBetween 21 October and his arrest nine days later, Mr Russell, a heroin addict of Riley Square, Coventry, had \"embarked on a campaign of crime\" then lied in \"callous and calculating fashion\" to cover up his offences, Ms Johnson said.\n\n\"He murdered three people, raped one of his victims before killing her, seriously attacked another, leaving him with life-changing injuries, and robbed another two people,\" she told the court.\n\nThe victim of his first murder was 32-year-old David Williams on 21 October 2020.\n\nThe pair had probably taken drugs together at Mr Williams' flat in Coventry, with Russell later telling people he killed him because he \"had sex with his girlfriend\", the court heard.\n\nMr Williams was found dead under his bed five days later, with a total of 87 injuries.\n\nHis mother, Julie Williams, was murdered at her flat in the city between 24 and 25 October after Russell likely \"duped\" his way into her home to talk about her missing son, jurors heard.\n\nThe 58-year-old woman was later found face down having been strangled and beaten in what the court was told was a \"violent and sustained attack\".\n\nShe had 113 separate injuries and died from a bleed on the brain.\n\nIn between the murders, Russell robbed two people of more than £200 before arriving in Leamington Spa where he met Nicole McGregor and Christopher White, the court heard.\n\nThe pair begged in Leamington Spa and after taking drugs together, Ms McGregor told Russell she was pregnant and \"proudly\" showed him her scan, Ms Johnson told the trial.\n\nRussell \"lured\" Ms McGregor to Newbold Comyn park \"not for sex, but more likely for drugs\", the court heard, before allegedly raping her - which Russell denies - then killing her and lying to Mr White abut where she was.\n\nMr White went to police \"in shock\" on 28 October after a friend alerted him that Russell was being sought for the two Coventry killings.\n\nHis partner's body was later found down a steep path by a search team.\n\nRussell committed a carjacking to escape, the court heard, but the vehicle was located by police in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, with Russell \"lying across the back seats\" and apprehended.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fuel prices have hit a new record high at the pump across the UK, tightening the squeeze on UK consumers, the motoring organisation the AA has said.\n\nOver the weekend petrol reached 148.02p a litre, while diesel hit a new record high of 151.57p a litre last Thursday.\n\nFuel previously hit a record in November, before wholesale and retail prices fell back.\n\n\"The cost of living crisis has been ratcheted up yet another notch,\" said Luke Bosdet of the AA.\n\nThe RAC's fuel spokesman Simon Williams said the price of filling a 55-litre family car was now an \"eye-watering\" £81.41.\n\n\"With the oil price teetering on the brink of $100 a barrel and retailers keen to pass on the increase in wholesale fuel quickly, new records could now be set on a daily basis in the coming weeks,\" he said.\n\nFuel prices at the pump are driven largely by the wholesale price of energy which has shot up due to tensions over whether Russia will invade Ukraine.\n\nOn Monday, oil prices hit their highest level since 2014, reaching $95.56 a barrel.\n\nIf the situation in Ukraine deteriorates, oil and gas supplies from Russia to Europe may be interrupted, pushing up wholesale prices further.\n\nThe supply of oil and gas has already struggled to keep up with growing demand as the global economy picked up in recent months as Covid restrictions eased.\n\nThe RAC's Mr Williams said: \"On a positive note, retailer margins - which were the reason drivers paid overly high prices in December and January - have now returned to more normal levels of around 7p a litre.\"\n\nHe said the big four supermarkets, which dominate fuel sales, should \"play fair\" with drivers by keeping their profit margins low.\n\nDay-to-day prices for food, household bills and other items such as used cars, have risen sharply in recent months, in part due to rising energy prices.\n\nThe Petrol Retailers' Association (PRA), which represents independent retailers, said it would continue to ensure that the price of fuel was \"as competitive as possible\".\n\nBut tensions between Russia and Ukraine, as well as other key factors such as tightness in the oil market and the dollar-sterling exchange rate, were likely to cause further volatility in the oil price, said Gordon Balmer, PRA's executive director.\n\nUK inflation is now at a 30-year high of 5.4%. New inflation figures for January will be released by the Office for National Statistics on Wednesday.\n\nMr Bosdet said the AA had surveyed 15,000 of its members after prices spiked at the end of last year and found higher fuel prices were leading 43% of them to cut back on the amount they used their car as well as other areas of spending.\n\nMike Johnson at the energy consultancy Portland Analytics said what happens to energy prices next depended both on the situation in Ukraine and whether the Organisation of Petrol Exporting Countries (Opec) was able to boost supply.\n\n\"Opec and its allies have struggled to increase production in line with their output targets due to a combination of production outages and technical issues, whilst demand continues to rise,\" he said.\n\nWhile oil producing nations had agreed to increase production by 400,000 barrels per day in February Mr Johnson said it seemed unlikely that target would be met.", "Dame Cressida Dick resigned last week after losing the confidence of Sadiq Khan\n\nThe Met Police Federation has declared it has \"no faith\" in Sadiq Khan after the \"very public ousting\" of Dame Cressida Dick as commissioner.\n\nShe resigned from the role on Thursday over the mayor of London's lack of confidence in her plans for reform.\n\nMore than 31,000 rank-and-file officers are represented by the Met Police Federation.\n\nChairman Ken Marsh warned that the atmosphere among Met Police officers was at \"rock bottom\".\n\nWriting in the Observer on Sunday, Mr Khan said he was \"deeply concerned\" public trust in the force had been \"shattered\". He said the next commissioner needed to make things change quickly.\n\nIn response to the Met Police Federation's comments, Mr Khan said he stood by his views, insisting it was his job to \"stand up for Londoners\".\n\nMr Marsh said that remarks made by the mayor had \"undermined the professional, dedicated and incredibly difficult work of tens of thousands of hard-working and brave police officers from across the capital\".\n\n\"We have let the mayor's office know in no uncertain terms how our brave and diligent colleagues deserve better,\" Mr Marsh said.\n\n\"Officers in London feel saddened and angry that the commissioner, Cressida Dick, has been pushed out in the way she has.\n\n\"She was reforming. She was changing. The culture is changing.\n\n\"We are deeply disappointed with the actions of the mayor.\"\n\nDame Cressida's resignation followed a series of crises engulfing the Met Police, including cases of sexism and misogyny among some officers.\n\nLast week, the police watchdog found \"disgraceful\" examples of bullying and sexual harassment at Charing Cross police station in central London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nReacting to Mr Marsh's comments, the mayor said a change of leadership was \"the only way to address\" a crisis of trust.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Khan added: \"The mayor has always made clear that there are thousands of incredibly brave and decent police officers at the Met, who we owe a huge debt of gratitude.\n\n\"But the series of scandals seen in recent years has tarnished the reputation of the police, which is so crucial to policing by consent.\n\n\"Downplaying the scale of the change required is only going to hinder, not help, the vital process of restoring Londoners' trust in the Met.\"\n\nDowning Street said on Monday that the PM has no role in the appointment of the next commissioner, which is the responsibility of Home Secretary Priti Patel\n\nThe mayor is due to work with Home Secretary Priti Patel to find a replacement for Dame Cressida.\n\nWhile the home secretary holds the power over the appointment, she must take the Labour mayor's views into account.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police moved in on the remaining protesters in large numbers on Sunday morning\n\nPolice have cleared the remaining protesters blocking a key bridge between Canada and the United States, after a week of disruption.\n\nCanada's protests against Covid vaccine certification to cross the border have paralysed trade across the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario.\n\nA judge issued an order on Friday to break up the protest, but dozens of demonstrators remained in defiance.\n\nPolice have now cleared the road, though the bridge remains closed.\n\nIn a statement, police said Sunday's action resulted in over a dozen arrests on a charge of mischief - which refers to damage or interference with property. Multiple vehicles were also seized, police said, none of the arrests became violent.\n\nThe clearing effort first began on Saturday morning, when many of the vehicles involved left peacefully on police orders. But as news of the police action spread, more protesters turned up, temporarily swelling the crowd.\n\nBut by Sunday morning, only a few dozen people remained, and police resumed their operation.\n\nWithin hours, only a small number of stragglers remained on the sidelines, though police vehicles, rather than protesters, continue to block off the road to the Ambassador Bridge.\n\nWindsor police warned people to avoid the area of the bridge, tweeting: \"Enforcement will continue in the demonstration area and there will be zero tolerance for illegal activity.\"\n\nOfficials say they hope to reopen the bridge later on Sunday.\n\nThe police came to oust the remaining protesters in the early cold of Sunday morning, putting an end to the blockade that had ground traffic on one of Canada's most important trade routes to a halt for nearly a week.\n\nTheir numbers had dwindled overnight from a couple hundred protesters on Saturday to just about 30 stalwarts willing to brave the -17C (1F) temperature over night.\n\nPolice had erected concrete barricades, effectively boxing their encampments - located south of the Ambassador Bridge - and surrounded them in tactical gear.\n\n\"Nobody is doing anything there. We're all just standing there with our Canadian flags, we want freedom\", protester Tyler Kok told the BBC.\n\n\"I heard one of the cops say 'we're taking the trucks first' so I mean that's kind of the beginning of the end. I was hoping it wasn't going to end like this, I was hoping the police would allow us to continue to peacefully protest,\" he added.\n\nThat protest had already cost the country hundreds of millions of dollars in lost trade.\n\nAbout a kilometre down the road, after breaking up Mr Kok and his friends, police moved in to end a second small encampment.\n\nHorns honked loud in protest, but with police far outnumbering protesters, their noise was a swan song, not a rallying cry.\n\nThe protest has inspired others around the world to stage similar action, in a bid to congest city roads and attract attention - such as in France, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.\n\nParis saw hundreds of vehicles converge on the city from around France on Saturday, in a self-styled Freedom Convoy which aimed to disrupt traffic in protest against the use of Covid passes to enter bars, restaurants, and public spaces.\n\nHundreds of motorists were fined over the banned protests, and dozens of people were arrested amid volleys of tear gas near the Champs-Elysées.\n\nMany protesters planned to move on to Brussels - home to several key EU institutions - to join up with a wider European movement based on the Canadian demonstrations. Brussels has also banned the event.", "Ukrainian soldiers and police have conducted a wide range of exercises in recent days\n\nUkraine has called for a meeting with Russia and other members of a key European security group over the escalating tensions on its border.\n\nForeign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Russia had ignored formal requests to explain the build-up of troops.\n\nHe said the next step was requesting a meeting within the next 48 hours for transparency about Russia's plans.\n\nRussia has denied any plans to invade Ukraine despite the build-up of some 100,000 soldiers on Ukraine's borders.\n\nBut with the US saying Moscow could begin with aerial bombardments \"at any time\" more than a dozen nations have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine.\n\nUkraine's ambassador in London, Vadym Prystaiko, has backtracked on comments he made to the BBC in which he said Ukraine was willing to be \"flexible\" on its ambition to join Nato, which would have been be a major concession to Russia.\n\nBut in a subsequent interview he said that Ukraine had a constitutional commitment to join Nato and it depended on the \"readiness of Nato itself\" whether Ukraine would be admitted.\n\nBritish Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said the UK would support whatever Ukraine decided to do.\n\nUkraine has made a request via the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) for Russia to explain its build-up of troops. Under the Vienna Document, of which Russia is party to, OSCE members can ask for information on a member's military activities.\n\n\"If Russia is serious when it talks about the indivisibility of security in the OSCE space, it must fulfil its commitment to military transparency in order to de-escalate tensions and enhance security for all,\" Mr Kuleba said.\n\nHowever, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, who criticised the \"panic\" that could spread from such claims, said he had seen no proof that Russia was planning an invasion in the coming days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Sunday, he spoke for nearly an hour by phone with US President Joe Biden. The White House said President Biden had reiterated US support for Ukraine, and that both leaders had agreed on \"the importance of continuing to pursue diplomacy and deterrence\".\n\nUkraine's statement of the call said its president had thanked the US for its \"unwavering support\" and that, at the end, President Zelensky had invited the US leader to come to Ukraine. There has been no comment on the invite from the White House.\n\nAn hour-long call between President Biden and Russian leader Vladimir Putin the day before failed to yield a breakthrough.\n\nIn the latest attempt to find a diplomatic solution, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has meetings scheduled with President Zelensky in Kyiv later on Monday and with President Putin in Moscow on Tuesday.\n\nThe chancellor, who took over the leadership of Germany from Angela Merkel in December, has warned of severe economic consequences for Russia if it should launch any invasion, echoing statements by other Western nations and members of the Nato military alliance.\n\nBut Berlin officials have downplayed any expectation of a breakthrough.\n\nMeanwhile, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to hold fresh diplomatic talks across Europe to bring Russia \"back from the brink\" of war.\n\nIn Washington, President Biden's National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said an invasion could begin \"any day now\".\n\nMr Sullivan said the US is closely monitoring for a potential \"false flag\" operation by Moscow as a pretext for a full-scale invasion so it can claim it is responding to Ukrainian aggression.\n\nRussia contends that its build-up of troops along the Ukraine border is its own concern, within its own territory. On Sunday, senior foreign policy official Yuri Ushakov characterised the US warnings of imminent invasion as \"hysteria has reached its peak\".", "The Scottish and UK governments have agreed to establish two green freeports in Scotland.\n\nThe special economic zones, offering tax breaks and lower business tariffs, are being promoted by the UK government as part of its \"levelling-up\" agenda.\n\nThe Scottish Greens, the SNP's Scottish government partners, criticised the plans as \"greenwashing\" and said it was a \"corporate giveaway\".\n\nThe deal comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Scotland.\n\nA bidding process will begin in the spring and it is hoped the new sites will open in 2023.\n\nMinisters from both the Scottish and UK governments will have a say in the assessment and selection process.\n\nThe governments were previously unable to agree plans to establish freeports north of the border, after a number of sites were announced for England.\n\nScottish ministers later said they would pursue an alternative \"green freeport\" model, with additional standards around jobs and climate targets.\n\nFreeports allow firms to import goods and then re-export them outside normal tax and customs rules\n\nScotland's Finance Secretary Kate Forbes said: \"We have been able to reach an agreement on a joint approach that enshrines the Scottish government's commitment to achieving net zero and embedding fair work practices through public investment.\n\n\"The establishment of green freeports will help us create new green jobs, deliver a just transition and support our economic transformation.\"\n\nThe UK government has committed funding of £52m to the project and bidders will have to pledge to reach net zero by 2045.\n\nHowever, in the first major split from the SNP since they signed a power-sharing deal last year, the Scottish Greens criticised the plans as \"greenwashing\".\n\nFinance spokesman Ross Greer told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that his party wanted nothing to do with \"these so-called green freeports\".\n\nHe said: \"There is nothing genuinely green about them. Freeports are a really effective way to give tax relief and throw public money at multinational companies who are already doing their best to avoid tax.\n\n\"The SNP used to oppose freeports for exactly the same reason the Scottish Greens still do.\n\n\"Internationally, freeports are associated with crime, money laundering, smuggling, low wages.\"\n\nMr Greer said that there was \"no actual solid requirements\" to meet climate targets or stick to fair work practices, and that it was \"naive\" to expect large corporations to adhere to these rules.\n\nKate Forbes told BBC Scotland that all green freeport applicants would have to stick to their commitments to net zero targets and fair work.\n\nShe said: \"If a bidder fails to do so, we would look at this very carefully. We would expect bidders who set out promises to meet those promises.\n\n\"They will be required to deliver robust decarbonisation plans, demonstrating how they will move to net zero. A bidder will not win without it.\"\n\nUnder the UK government's model, freeports are centred around at least one air, rail or sea port, but can extend up to 28 miles (45km) beyond.\n\nForth Ports - which owns and operates seven ports on the east coast of Scotland - said it would be bidding to create a Firth of Forth green freeport.\n\nWhile other bidders have not yet been announced, in July last year the Scottish government named nine areas being considered - Shetland, Orkney, Aberdeen with Peterhead, Montrose, Dundee, Cairnryan, the Firth of Forth and Glasgow city region. A Cromarty Firth consortium is also understood to be interested.\n\nFreeports are one of Boris Johnson's big ideas to \"level up\" the country.\n\nHe thinks they'll bring new investment and jobs to areas that lag behind. But he's even had to change their name - they're now \"green freeports\" here - to win backing from the Scottish government.\n\nIt sounds petty, but the name is the tip of a large iceberg. Why? Imagine what they might create.\n\nThese low tax zones could give rise to a little Singapore on the Cromarty Firth, where goods can be imported, assembled and exported without the usual taxes and paperwork. Firms inside the freeport could pay lower rates of VAT and employment tax.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's team warns that could give rise to low wage, low value zones, which water down workers' rights and rules which protect the environment.\n\nSo she's insisted that firms inside green freeports should pay the living wage, and commit to net-zero targets on climate change, and inclusive growth in local communities.\n\nYou might wonder if this compromise can work.\n\nIf freeports don't offer incentives, why would employers want to move there at all? If Scottish freeports are regulated more, will they be able to create new jobs, or compete with their English counterparts?\n\nThe Scottish government wants to avoid a stampede of firms moving into a low-tax zone, without adding anything to the Scottish economy. So it's happy to pour cold water on one of Boris Johnson's dreams.\n\nIan Murray, Labour's Shadow Scottish Secretary, said the agreement had been \"delayed for months because the two governments disagreed over the name.\n\n\"As a result of their petty point-scoring, regions in England already have a head start.\"\n\nThe Scottish government and the UK Treasury will use their tax powers, including rates relief, to support the freeports.\n\nLast year, the Scottish government said UK ministers risked undermining devolution if they set up the freeports in Scotland or Wales without the backing of devolved governments.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I am delighted that people across Scotland will reap the benefits that will come from having two new green freeports.\n\n\"Freeports will help to accelerate our plan to level up communities across the whole of the United Kingdom.\n\n\"They have the power to be truly transformational by creating jobs and investment opportunities to enable people to reach their potential.\"\n\nDundee has previously been suggested as a potential location for a freeport\n\nAlso called free trade zones, they are designated areas where the normal tax and tariff rules of the country in which they are based do not apply.\n\nThey allow goods to be imported, manufactured and re-exported without being subject to checks, paperwork, or import taxes, known as tariffs.\n\nThis means raw materials can be imported, then engineered into whole products for export.\n\nTypically, companies operating in the zone pay lower taxes, such as reduced VAT and lower rates of employment tax.\n\nCritics argue they simply defer the point when import tariffs are paid, which then still need to be paid at some stage.\n\nMr Johnson began his trip to Scotland on Monday with a visit to Rosyth dockyard in Fife.\n\nHe is not expected to meet Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross - who has called for him to stand down over parties held in Downing Street during lockdown - despite Mr Johnson being invited to address the Scottish Conservative conference in Aberdeen next month.\n\nOn his visit, Mr Johnson said he was \"working very hard with colleagues in Scotland\" on a joint agenda of \"uniting and levelling up\".\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford branded the trip \"a walking advert for Scottish independence\". He said Mr Johnson should \"apologise for the damage he has inflicted on Scotland and hand in his resignation\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Johnson's visit made \"the case for the Union harder\" and that \"this prime minister does not help that cause\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the Mauritian flag being raised for the first time on the Chagos Islands\n\nThe Mauritian flag has been raised for the first time on the Chagos Islands, an Indian Ocean archipelago controlled by Britain but claimed by Mauritius.\n\nMauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth described it as an \"historic moment\", saying it was time for the UK to cede control.\n\nThe event was the culmination of a trip to the islands organised by the Mauritian government.\n\nThe Foreign Office said the UK had \"no doubt\" as to its \"sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory\".\n\nThe ceremony, led by the Mauritian ambassador to the UN, took place on the atoll of Peros Banhos, where a pre-recorded message from Mr Jugnauth was played. A flag was also raised on Salomon, a separate atoll.\n\nThree UN bodies have ruled that the archipelago - more than 5,000 miles away from the UK - is part of Britain's old empire and should be handed to Mauritius.\n\nThe official reason given for the Mauritian government's excursion is to map reefs around the archipelago - but Mr Jugnauth described the visit as \"the first time Mauritius has led an expedition to this part of its territory\".\n\nMr Jugnauth said it was \"a very emotional moment and a very historic time for us, because we are able to rule in our own territory\".\n\nHe said if the flags were removed, it would be considered as provocation from the UK.\n\n\"We have asked them to hand over these islands to Mauritius already,\" he said. \"It's more than the right time for them to hand back the islands and abide by international law.\"\n\nMauritius says Britain is occupying the islands illegally - which the UK denies.\n\nIn 2020, following a ruling by the International Court of Justice, the UK government said it had \"a long-standing commitment, first made in 1965, to cede sovereignty of the territory to Mauritius when it is no longer required for defence purposes\".\n\nIt is half a century since Britain took control of the Chagos Islands from its then colony, Mauritius, and evicted the population of more than 1,000 people in order to make way for a US military base.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs well as scientists, a group of Chagossians evicted from the islands by the British government 50 years ago is on the trip.\n\nThey believe their removal in the early 1970s was a crime against humanity.\n\nThe Foreign Office said: \"The UK has no doubt as to our sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory, which we have held continuously since 1814. Mauritius has never held sovereignty over the territory and the UK does not recognise its claim.\n\n\"We are honouring the assurances we gave to Mauritius that we would not interfere with this survey.\"", "Astronomers believe that debris from China's lunar exploration programme Chang'e-5 Mission may hit the Moon\n\nAstronomers say that a rocket section set to crash into the Moon in March did not come from Elon Musk's space exploration company as they first thought.\n\nInstead they believe it is probably a Chinese rocket stage launched for a lunar mission in 2014.\n\nThe impact of the collision with the Moon will be minor, scientists say.\n\nAstronomers first identified a piece of machinery on course to crash into the Moon on 4 March in January.\n\nMachinery left in space that doesn't return to the Earth's atmosphere after completing missions is known as space junk.\n\nData analyst Bill Gray identified the object as a Falcon 9 booster from a 2015 launch by billionaire Elon Musk's space exploration programme SpaceX. It was subsequently reported by journalist Eric Berger. Mr Musk's company ultimately aims to get humans living on other planets.\n\nBut now Mr Gray says he made an error and instead he believes it is a rocket launched in October 2014 as part of China's Chang'e 5-T1 mission that sent a small spacecraft to the Moon.\n\nProf Jonathan McDowell from the US-based Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told BBC News he agrees with Mr Gray's re-assessment. He explained that there is a lot of \"intrinsic uncertainty\" in identifying space debris far from Earth and that mistakes happen.\n\nThere are limited resources for tracking space debris, he explained: \"We rely on a small handful of volunteers who do it on their own time. So there is limited scope for cross-checking.\"\n\nObjects close to Earth are tracked by a team at the US military's Space Force, but junk further out in deep orbit is left unobserved.\n\nThe European Space Agency commented: \"This still-evolving finding underscores the need for enhanced space tracking, and greater data sharing between spacecraft operators, launch providers and the astronomy and space surveillance communities.\"\n\nProf McDowell said he is 80% certain that the object on course to hit the Moon is from the 2014 Chinese rocket launch.\n\nWhen the object was first identified, Prof McDowell told BBC News it will be the first known uncontrolled rocket collision with the Moon.\n\nThe rocket stage will explode as it makes contact.", "The five executive parties have agreed to apologise to the victims and survivors of historical institutional abuse, BBC News NI understands.\n\nAn official apology was originally planned to come from Paul Givan and Michelle O'Neill on 11 March.\n\nBut as they are no longer first and deputy first minister, the parties met to discuss an alternative apology.\n\nIt is understood the idea of this new apology will be discussed by the families involved.\n\nThe decision was made following a cross-party virtual meeting to discuss how to resolve the issue, following Paul Givan's resignation as first minister.\n\nThe move by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) assembly member meant Michelle O'Neill, Sinn Féin vice president, was also removed as deputy first minister because of the joint nature of the office.\n\nIt ended plans for the first and deputy first ministers to issue an apology and led to the alternative suggestion of a joint statement from party leaders.\n\nThe executive parties - who make up Northern Ireland's devolved government - are the DUP, Sinn Féin, the SDLP, Ulster Unionists and Alliance.\n\nMargaret McGuckin, from the campaign group SAVIA, said she was delighted, describing Monday as a \"good day\".\n\nCampaigner Margaret McGuckin said many of those who wanted an apology have now died\n\nSpeaking to William Crawley on BBC News NI's Talkback programme, Ms McGuckin said it was significant that the apology was going to come from the five main parties.\n\n\"It's something we are looking forward to,\" she said.\n\n\"To end this whole campaign - to hear the words 'I am sorry'.\n\n\"To let people go and be free of the chains of self-blame, the pain and the shame.\"\n\nAmnesty International's director in Northern Ireland said that the survivors that he had been in contact with were \"pleased\" as the alternative would have been \"further delay to the public apology for which they have waited for so long\".\n\n\"Public apologies are an important part of reparation for harm suffered by victims of human rights abuses and we hope that the event on March 11 will bring some much-needed solace to those who have suffered for so long,\" said Patrick Corrigan.\n\nEarlier, Amnesty International said an apology from a party leader or minister would not suffice.\n\nIn a letter to the main parties ahead of the meeting, Mr Corrigan said the apology must come from the \"highest political level\".\n\nHe said an apology from a party leader or minister \"does not meet the standard of an official state apology from the executive\".\n\nMr Corrigan asked for the first and deputy first minister positions to be filled temporarily to allow the apology to go ahead as planned\n\n\"I have asked them all to ensure that the public apology has the appropriate standing, rather than something lesser,\" he added.\n\nIn another letter, Mr Corrigan also urged DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Ms O'Neill to consider temporary nominations to the posts of first minister and deputy first minister, in order to allow the apology to go ahead as planned.\n\nHe said: \"Public apologies are an important part of reparation for harm suffered by victims of human rights abuses and, in this case, is a specific obligation on the Northern Ireland Executive.\"\n\nThe meeting of parties also came amid criticism that an apology might not be made at all.\n\nUlster Unionist assembly member Mike Nesbitt, who prior to the joint meeting had called on the party leaders to collectively apologise, said an apology was \"essential for the mental health\" of the victims and survivors.\n\nHe told the assembly that victims had \"been wrapped in chains and thorns\".\n\nA public apology, he said, would mean \"the whole world\" to them.\n\nCommissioner Fiona Ryan said the reaction from survivors \"has largely been one of relief\"\n\nThe public apology was recommended in the final report of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIAI) which was published five years ago.\n\nEarlier in February, the commissioner for survivors of institutional childhood abuse Fiona Ryan said she was \"angry\" and \"disgusted\" that an apology to victims might not happen.\n\nOn Monday, Ms Ryan said that after \"almost two weeks of turmoil\" over the issue, she believed there is likely to be \"mixed emotions\" among victims and survivors.\n\n\"The main response from the victims and survivors I have been speaking with today has largely been one of relief following the anxiety of the last 11 days. There has been a broad welcome that the apology is finally moving forward,\" the commissioner said.\n\nHowever, she added there was a range of views among people who were abused as children, including \"some for whom no apology will be sufficient for what was taken from them\".\n\n\"My hope is that we keep to the spirit of the original inquiry recommendation and that the apology should be wholehearted and unconditional. As part of that wholeheartedness, the apology would need to be humbly offered to victims and survivors for their consideration,\" Ms Ryan added.\n\nMeanwhile, a group of survivors of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland are to receive £25,000 in total for having their personal details leaked.\n\nSettlements were reached on Monday in legal action taken by seven individuals.\n\nIt follows previous resolutions for nearly 40 other victims exposed in the data breach.\n\nThey have already secured combined pay-outs in excess of £100,000.\n\nIn May 2020, a newsletter circulated in an email by the HIA Interim Advocate's Office mistakenly revealed the names of around 250 survivors of abuse.\n\nAt the time, Interim Advocate Brendan McAllister issued an apology for the disclosure of their details.\n\nHe said measures were immediately taken to recall the email, with the incident also reported to the Information Commissioner.", "Nurse Michelle Doyle says the positive feedback from those using the mobile clinic in the north west has been overwhelming\n\nAdditional healthcare services for people who are homeless are to be rolled out across Northern Ireland.\n\nSome provisions are currently in place across the region.\n\nBut the Public Health Agency (PHA) has begun work to expand those services currently on offer.\n\nIts aim is to help vulnerable people who are homeless, and who often slip through the gaps when it comes to healthcare.\n\nTwo new mobile clinics were recently set up in the north west and Belfast.\n\nThey are run by healthcare professionals for the homeless from the local trusts, alongside the Welcome Organisation, a group that provides services for the homeless community.\n\nA hub called the Belfast Inclusion Health Service, which is run by the Belfast Trust, was also permanently set up beside the Welcome Organisation's drop in centre in the city, following the success of its pilot in 2018.\n\nThe PHA has said the complex needs of people who are homeless differ in each of Northern Ireland's five trust areas, but that there was a need to develop regional homeless care.\n\nUnder the PHA plans, the Belfast Inclusion Health Service will be the main hub, with a smaller hub to be developed in Londonderry.\n\nThe other three trusts will have smaller health teams, but all of the teams will be linked for \"specialist advice and guidance, regular meetings, training and education\".\n\nThe Belfast Inclusion Health Service is based beside the Welcome Organisation's drop-in centre\n\nA PHA spokesperson said a nurse focusing on the homeless had been funded in each of the trusts, with an additional part-time podiatrist for the Western Trust area.\n\nRecruitment is under way.\n\nThe PHA said the nurses would develop an assessment of the homeless population's needs in their respective trust area.\n\nMost recent figures from the Housing Executive show that between January and June 2021, 8,610 people presented themselves as homeless in Northern Ireland.\n\nAlmost two-thirds of those were accepted as statutorily homeless.\n\nEvery year, about 18,000 households present as homeless in Northern Ireland.\n\nThat includes people who are sleeping rough, but also those affected by hidden homelessness like people in temporary accommodation, sofa surfing, people living in poor conditions and those living at risk of violence in the home.\n\nAccording to the Welcome Organisation, the life expectancy of someone sleeping rough is about 43 years old.\n\nThe new mobile unit operating in Belfast and the north west belongs to the Welcome Organisation but is run alongside staff from local health trusts.\n\nIt was the first of its kind in Northern Ireland when it first hit the streets in November 2021.\n\nThe unit travels to shelters and hostels or is often parked up on streets for harder-to-reach people who want to avail of their services.\n\nThe van used is kitted out with a bed, a fridge for transporting refrigerated pharmaceuticals including vaccines, a water system and a bench where medical staff can prepare their procedures.\n\nThe mobile health clinic has been kitted out with a range of equipment\n\nMichelle Doyle, nurse for the homeless in the Western Trust, says the mobile unit is also about getting people who are homeless back into general health services.\n\n\"As a nurse, I also do referrals to GPs and update client details because they often move around a lot and end up missing crucial appointments as their letters go out to an old address,\" she said.\n\nMs Doyle says the response to the \"invaluable\" service has been overwhelming as it has helped \"open doors\" for clients.\n\n\"The hostels and support staff are delighted to have access to the unit,\" she said.\n\nThose who use it do not have to make appointments, she added.\n\nKieran Hughes, Welcome Organisation; Bill Higgins, driver and Michelle Doyle, nurse at the western trust\n\nKieran Hughes from the Welcome Organisation said he would like to see the potentially \"life-saving\" unit made available in every part of Northern Ireland, as the existing Belfast service is not accessible to those outside the city.\n\n\"Time on the streets can lead to serious health problems like flu or a virus that can potentially be a killer,\" he said.\n\nThe existing Belfast service includes nursing and GP services, dental care, podiatry, mental health support and social work.\n\nMr Hughes said the Covid-19 pandemic and the affect it has had on job losses and people's mental health could also potentially lead to more homelessness.\n\nThe South Eastern Trust said it provides support for people who are experiencing homelessness including visits to the Simon Community and Women's Aid during the pandemic.\n\nThe trust also helps migrant families or those seeking asylum.\n\nThe Northern Trust said it has assigned a public health nurse to each of the homeless hostels registered in the trust area.", "Police were called to Rotherham District General Hospital on Saturday night\n\nA hospital patient has been arrested on suspicion of murdering another patient who died after a fight.\n\nPolice were called to Rotherham District General Hospital at about 20:55 GMT on Saturday to reports that two men had been fighting.\n\nOne of the patients, aged 48, died of his injuries in the early hours.\n\nA 47-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Police said they were working with the hospital to establish what had happened.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sub-postmasters and mistresses celebrated the quashing of their convictions\n\nThe wrongful convictions of hundreds of sub-postmasters and mistresses will be examined by a public inquiry starting on Monday.\n\nBetween 2000 and 2014, more than 700 sub-postmasters were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a flaw in a computer system Horizon.\n\nA total of 72 former sub-postmasters have had their names cleared so far.\n\nThe cases constitute the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history.\n\nThe inquiry - which is expected to run for the rest of this year - will look at whether the Post Office knew about faults in the IT system and will also ask how staff shouldered the blame.\n\nIt will also examine whether staff at software firm Fujitsu, which developed the Horizon software to complete tasks such as transactions, accounting and stocktaking, knew the system had flaws while data from it was used in court to convict sub-postmasters.\n\nA judge will hear evidence on why sub-postmasters and postmistresses were singled out and whether they have been justly compensated.\n\nAhead of the inquiry, Baljit Sethi, who will be the first witness to give evidence on Monday, told the BBC he was looking forward to it.\n\n\"What the Post Office has done to us - and to many of my colleagues - is unforgiveable,\" he said. \"The people who did this should be brought to justice.\"\n\nBaljit Sethi (centre right) and his family spoke to the BBC ahead of the inquiry's start\n\nHis wife Anjana, who also helped run two branches near Romford in Essex, said she now felt \"we can see some light at the end of this dark tunnel\".\n\nOne branch had no problems at all, but the second one showed a hole in the accounts of £17,000, which they were asked to cover out of their own pocket. The Sethis were never charged but still faced a financial and emotional nightmare.\n\nTheir son Amit added: \"I want accountability and those who suffered should be compensated appropriately.\n\n\"That's it - then we'll draw a line under it.\"\n\nHarjinder Butoy, who ran the post office in the Nottinghamshire market town of Sutton-in-Ashfield along with his wife, said that he wanted to see \"someone on the other side to be charged and jailed like I was\".\n\n\"They are the ones who signed the final paper work off,\" he told the BBC. \"They are the ones who knew if there were any faults on the system or not.\"\n\nMr Butoy, who is thought to have been given the longest prison sentence at three years and four months, was wrongly convicted and jailed for stealing £208,000 and it took until last year to get his conviction overturned in the Court of Appeal.\n\nMr Butoy said he noticed the Horizon accounting software was not adding up properly.\n\n\"I was £500 short,\" he explained, even though a supervisor had been with him the entire time, making sure he got to grips in his new role. \"I didn't think anything of it. But ever since then, it happened a lot.\"\n\nThousands of others Post Office sub-postmasters lost huge sums of money as they tried to make up mysterious shortfalls at their shops, which the Post Office is only now beginning to refund.\n\nMany have described being shunned by their communities while some have since died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tracy Felstead was sent to Holloway Prison for a crime she didn't commit\n\nThe Post Office has said it is \"sincerely sorry\" for the impact of the Horizon scandal, adding it is \"in no doubt about the human cost\".\n\nIt said the inquiry would enable \"many of those who were most deeply affected by Post Office's past failings to voice their experiences and their testimonies must and will ensure all lessons are learned so that such events can never happen again\".\n\n\"In addressing the past, our first priority is that full, fair and final compensation is provided and we are making good progress,\" it added.\n\nThe government has set aside funding to facilitate compensation payments.\n\nMeanwhile, Fujitsu said it was \"committed to providing the fullest and most transparent information so that key lessons are learned for the future\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKamila Valieva was never going to have a low-key Winter Olympics.\n\nThe Russian figure skater came to the Beijing Games having set world records and after a dominant 2021, including winning the Russian and European Championships. She's still only 15, and sometimes appears at media conferences holding a favourite stuffed rabbit toy.\n\nLast week, she helped the Russian team to gold in the team event, where she became the first female skater to land a quadruple jump at the Olympics.\n\nBut she was never presented with the gold. After days of rumour, it was confirmed she had tested positive for a banned substance.\n\nValieva has been cleared to compete in the rest of the Games, where she will start as favourite in the women's individual figure skating.\n\nThe case has raised questions about the adults around her and over Russia's record of doping in elite sports competitions. But at the centre of the controversy is a teenager who made her senior debut just months ago.\n\nFor Valieva, becoming an Olympic champion fulfils a childhood dream. \"I've probably been telling my mom since I was three, 'I want to become an Olympic champion!'\" she said.\n\nBorn in Kazan, Russia's Tatarstan Republic, Valieva started skating at three, also practicing ballet and gymnastics. But her mother wanted her to choose one sport so she opted for skating. They moved to Moscow when Valieva was six.\n\nShe trains under Eteri Tutberidze, who has coached several skaters in to international success - but whose methods have been criticised as unduly harsh. Several former students retired early.\n\nValieva has spoken positively about working with Tutberidze, telling Russian magazine La Personne \"we need a coach like Eteri\".\n\nShe also gave a candid assessment of what it takes to reach the very top of competitive sport.\n\n\"Figure skating starts very early, at the age of three or four,\" she told La Personne.\n\n\"The child must be taken to training, first three times per week, then four times, and then six times per week. And this is not for a year or two. For example, I have been training for 12 years. Parents have no days off, no holidays, no vacation, that is, they practically need to give up their life.\"\n\nAs a junior competitor, she skated a routine inspired by a Picasso painting, prompting an admiring message from the painter's granddaughter Diana.\n\nAnother programme was dedicated to the memory of her late grandmother, saying the feelings she has when thinking of why she is skating give her a lot of energy to perform.\n\nValieva has admitted being uncomfortable with the attention her success has brought, telling IFS Magazine: \"I don't like that very much, but I know that it is there and I try to prepare for it\".\n\nHowever she thanked fans, one of whom gave her a Pomeranian puppy.\n\nBefore she came to the Olympics she was already a well-known in the figure skating world, combining artistry with the ability to land the most difficult moves.\n\nThe quadruple jump is a rarity in the women's sport, and was only introduced in the men's competition at the end of the 80s.\n\nIt requires competitors to jump, twist four times in less than a second and land on a single blade backwards.\n\nWhen Valieva performs the move, she stays bolt upright - it is a bit like watching a corkscrew float through the air. Biomechanist James Richards told Scientific American he does not think it is possible for a skater to turn anymore in the air.\n\nValieva has some of the most difficult moves in skating in her repertoire\n\nBeyond the ice rink, Valieva has said she hopes to travel, learn languages or ride a motorcycle. She's also said she might become a psychologist.\n\n\"But… all this and much more - later,\" she told La Personne. \"Now only figure skating.\"\n\nRussian delight that Valieva has been allowed to compete in the individual event this week has been matched by dismay among other Olympic bodies and athletes.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) cited her age as one of the reasons why it made the decision. World anti-doping agency Wada said it was \"disappointed\" by the move.\n\nStill, there remains widespread sympathy for Valieva. The Global Athlete Group said the fact she had tested positive \"is evidence of abuse of a minor. Sport should be protecting its athletes, not damaging them.\"\n\nGermany's former figure skater Katarina Witt said Valieva was \"not to blame here\".\n\n\"As an athlete, you always follow the advice of your confidants, in this case she probably followed her coach and medical team,\" Witt wrote on Facebook. \"You are taught from a very young age to trust them.\"\n\n\"No doping would have helped her to land these (quads)!!!\" she added.", "As fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine grow, some Ukrainian civilians in Mariupol have taken up basic weapon training to defend themselves.\n\nThey included 78-year-old grandmother Valentina Konstantinovska who told the BBC that \"when an invader comes, I will resist and I will be furious.\"\n\nThe trainers in Mariupol were the Azov brigade - a far-right group with a controversial history, now officially part of the National Guard.\n\nOther branches of the Ukrainian military are providing the same kind of training in locations across the country.\n\nRussia has denied any plans to invade Ukraine, despite 100,000 soldiers gathering on Ukraine's borders.", "Relatives and locals carry a coffin containing the body of a man for his funeral in Khanewal on Sunday\n\nA mob has killed a man for allegedly burning pages of the Koran in central Pakistan, police say, in the latest case of blasphemy-related violence in the country.\n\nPolice say more than 80 people have been arrested in connection with the killing on Saturday in the district of Khanewal in Punjab province.\n\nReports said the man was in police custody before a crowd snatched him.\n\nHis body was handed over to his family and a funeral held on Sunday.\n\nPakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said the case would be \"dealt with the full severity of the law\" and asked for a report on police officers accused of failing their duty to save the man.\n\nHis government, he said, had \"zero tolerance for anyone taking the law into their own hands\".\n\nPolice official Munawar Hussain said officers arrived to find the man, reportedly in his 40s, unconscious and tied to a tree. Khanewal is located 275km (170 miles) south-west of Lahore.\n\n\"The villagers armed with batons, axes and iron rods killed him and hanged his body from a tree,\" Mr Hussain told Reuters news agency.\n\nMunawar Gujjar, chief of the police station in Tulamba, where the incident happened, added to the AP news agency the victim had been \"mentally unstable for the last 15 years\".\n\nThe killing comes just over two months after a Sri Lankan factory manager was beaten to death and set ablaze by a mob over blasphemy in Sialkot city, also in Punjab province.\n\nPakistan's blasphemy laws carry a potential death sentence for anyone who insults Islam, but critics say they have been used to persecute minority faiths and unfairly target minorities.\n\nThe laws have been used to settle personal scores in cases which can appear to have little or nothing to do with religion, according to human rights groups.", "Coastal areas are expected to see the strongest winds on Wednesday\n\nParts of Scotland, England and Northern Ireland could be battered by winds gusting to 90mph during Storm Dudley on Wednesday, forecasters have warned.\n\nThe Met Office has updated an earlier amber warning to bring forward the start time to 16:00 and ending it at midnight, rather than 09:00 Thursday.\n\nThe Scottish government has warned of the risk of travel disruption.\n\nEngland's National Highways has urged motorists in the affected area to only travel if \"absolutely necessary\".\n\nStorm Dudley has been forecast to bring inland winds potentially gusting to 80mph and up to 90mph on exposed coasts and hills.\n\nPolice Scotland said there was a \"high risk\" of travel disruption.\n\nThe Scottish government said the Transport Scotland resilience room and the multi-agency response team would be active for the duration of the amber warning.\n\nIt added that it was receiving regular updates from the Met Office and Scottish Environment Protection Agency.\n\nNational Highways' head of road safety Jeremy Phillips said drivers should check the latest weather and travel conditions before setting off on journeys and to \"consider if their journey is necessary and can be delayed until conditions improve\".\n\nA second storm - Storm Eunice - is expected to bring strong winds across southern Scotland and also parts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Friday. Snow has also been forecast for parts of Scotland.\n\nA yellow warning for wind has been issued for Storm Eunice.\n\nThe amber warning covers central and southern Scotland, north east and north west England and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle and York are covered by the warning. It also includes parts of Argyll and Bute, Fife, Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders, Cumbria and County Antrim.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Weather This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Met Office said: \"Very strong westerly winds are expected to develop across western Scotland and northern Northern Ireland late Wednesday and extend eastward across southern Scotland and northern England during the evening.\n\n\"There is still some uncertainty in the timing and location of the strongest winds but there is the potential for inland wind gusts of 70-80 mph in places. Gusts of 80-90 mph are possible around exposed coasts and hills.\"\n\nThe Met Office has also issued a yellow \"be aware\" warning for high winds for parts of Scotland, the north of England and Northern Ireland during Storm Dudley. It covers from 15:00 on Wednesday to 18:00 on Thursday.\n\nThis warning was also been updated on Tuesday to shrink the size of the warning area to remove the north of Scotland and extend it southwards to cover Wales, the Midlands and East Anglia.\n\nScotland's transport minister Jenny Gilruth said south and central Scotland were expected to face the worst of the conditions on Wednesday.\n\nShe said: \"The high winds will likely bring challenges for the trunk road network, with the potential for restrictions on bridges, so travellers should make sure they plan their journey in advance, drive to the conditions and follow Police Scotland travel advice.\"\n\nPolice Scotland urged people to prepare for disruption and allow extra time for journeys.\n\nForestry and Land Scotland, which is still clearing up after two recent storms, has urged people to avoid forestry areas during this week's bad weather\n\nScottish Borders Council said residents in the local authority area should prepare for the likelihood of power cuts, road closures and damage to buildings.\n\nForestry and Land Scotland said it was still clearing up damage to forestry caused by November's Storm Arwen and January's Storm Malik.\n\nThe public body said people should avoid woodland and forestry areas during this week's storms.\n\nBEAR Scotland also announced the A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful would be closed from 18:00 on Monday with traffic being diverted to the Old Military Road due to heavy rainfall expected overnight.\n\nIt said the hillside would continue to be assessed throughout the storm period.", "Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and President Vladimir Putin sat metres apart during the televised meeting\n\nRussia has said that a diplomatic solution to its escalating standoff with the West is still possible.\n\nIn a televised meeting, President Vladimir Putin was told that diplomatic talks had not yet been been exhausted.\n\nThe comments come after more than a dozen nations urged their citizens to leave Ukraine, and the US said aerial bombardments could begin \"at any time\".\n\nRussia has always denied plans to invade Ukraine, despite massing more than 100,000 troops on the border.\n\nSeparately, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there was still time for Russia to \"step back\" from the situation with Ukraine, urging all sides to carry on talking.\n\nA statement said Mr Johnson would hold a Cobra meeting on Tuesday to discuss the UK's response to the pressures.\n\nDuring another socially-distanced TV appearance on Monday, Mr Putin asked his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov if there was a chance to reach an agreement with the West, or whether the diplomacy was \"an attempt to drag us into an endless negotiation process?\"\n\nMr Lavrov replied that the \"possibilities are far from being exhausted, they certainly should not continue indefinitely, but I would suggest continuing and ramping them up\".\n\nThe comments are being seen as a clear concession that talks could ease the tensions. But analysts say that without either side moving over the thorny issue of Ukraine potentially joining Nato, there is still deadlock.\n\nThe Kremlin says it cannot accept that Ukraine - a former Soviet republic with deep social and cultural ties with Russia - could one day join Nato, and has demanded that this be ruled out. Nato's members have rejected this request.\n\nAlso at the Kremlin meeting - in what some observers see as another possible route to easing tensions - Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told Mr Putin that some of the country's military drills near Ukraine's border had already ended and others were coming to a close.\n\nRussia is holding massive joint exercises with Belarus, Ukraine's northern neighbour. Moscow is also staging Navy shooting drills in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov - to the south of Ukraine.\n\nIn some quarters of the world, President Putin's question would have elicited a collective intake of breath.\n\nThe Russian President asked his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov whether there was a chance of reaching an agreement on Russia's security concerns or if this was simply endless negotiation. Many would fear what would happen if Mr Lavrov said no. His answer has made some feel slightly more reassured - there is a chance.\n\nThroughout the weeks of diplomacy, one of the West's biggest fears is what happens if Russia walks away from the diplomatic table.\n\nPoliticians have been arriving in sequence in Moscow, creating a metaphorical human chain to keep the diplomatic ball in the air. However, it's still unclear what both sides can agree on to break the deadlock and deescalate the situation.\n\nRussia says it wants a guarantee Nato won't allow Ukraine to join the alliance, but Nato won't give in to that. Neither side has moved on this issue so while diplomacy continues, so does the deadlock on a deal.\n\nMeanwhile, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz landed in Kyiv on Monday for crisis talks - the latest Western leader to visit the region to show unity with Ukraine.\n\nMr Scholz said there was \"no reasonable justification\" for the Russian military build-up on Ukraine's borders and that Western countries would impose \"very far-reaching and effective sanctions\" against Russia if it invaded.\n\nLater Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree declaring 16 February a day of unity. The date has been suggested by US officials as the earliest day for a potential attack by Russia.\n\nIn a rousing statement, Mr Zelensky said that Ukrainians \"want freedom and are ready to fight for it\".\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams says that the tone of the statement was markedly different from previous ones, in which the president has called for calm and warned against panic.\n\nAlso on Monday the US said it had sent eight more F-15 fighter jets to Poland to take part in Nato air patrols. The US earlier said an extra 3,000 soldiers would be sent to Poland in the next few days to boost Nato military strength in the region.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAre you in Ukraine? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Italy 0-33 England: Visitors get Six Nations campaign back on track Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nSix Nations 2022: England score five tries in bonus-point win against Italy England got their Six Nations campaign back on track as they outclassed Italy to claim a bonus-point win in Rome. Despite losing their opener in Scotland, Eddie Jones' England are now second in the table behind unbeaten France after two rounds. England almost claimed a bonus point before half-time as Marcus Smith crossed and Jamie George scored twice. Elliot Daly got the fourth try after the break and Kyle Sinckler added another after a dip in intensity.\n• None 'We left a bit out there' - Jones on England win in Rome England's old and new shine England head coach Jones had asked his players to \"light up\" Rome and they duly delivered as the visitors' pace overwhelmed their hosts. With pre-match headlines focussing on 'new England', Henry Slade showed the older heads should not be overlooked as the centre released another experienced player, Jack Nowell, down the left wing. Six Nations 2022: How 'classy operator' Smith shone for England against Italy A series of flat passes from Smith - growing into his role of England's starting 10 with every game - saw England pick their way through the Italy defence. That move ended in a try for Smith after a slick exchange with Max Malins but at times England's attempts to put on a show led to handling errors that would be punished by any other side in such a tight championship. Perennial wooden spoon side Italy, however, helped England's cause as they committed mistakes of their own and conceded eight penalties to the visitors' three in the first half. After Nowell was permanently replaced by Daly because of a failed head injury assessment, young scrum-half Harry Randall showed what he can offer. Randall's speedy work off a line-out got England on the front foot and after Maro Itoje's break, returning hooker George dived over for a try. Smith showed his all-round prowess - and for the full 80 minutes - as he made sure England's forward dominance was rewarded with points as well as doing his bit defensively, hauling brawny winger Federico Mori into touch when he was in a position to score. Smith kept on to revive attack Smith picked up after the break where he had left off as his pinpoint pass was met by Daly at full tilt for the bonus-point try that puts them in front of Ireland in the table. But then England's unshackled attack began to stutter. Jones - criticised for replacing Smith when England were ahead at Murrayfield - left the fly-half on for the whole match but introduced Ben Youngs to partner him in place of Randall. Youngs now has 114 England caps, equalling the record for England men's appearances set by Jason Leonard. However in Randall's absence the visitors' speed and intensity dropped. Jones had asked his replacements to invoke the iconic image of Muhammad Ali standing over the defeated Sonny Liston in the closing stages. Instead, England's impressive performance somewhat spluttered towards the end, with the exception of two late moves. Smith - with George Ford now next to him at inside centre - sent Malins through a gap and Sinckler was on the winger's shoulder to score under the posts. The Harlequins playmaker's impressive step nearly set up another, but Slade could not ground the ball. An immediate bounce back after the defeat in Scotland may have optimistic England fans thinking about a final-weekend showdown in Paris, but Wales and Ireland will undoubtedly pose significant hurdles at Twickenham before then. Marcus Smith did not look like a player in his first Six Nations campaign as he guided England to a comfortable victory in Rome. The fly-half beat six defenders - more than any other player - in another promising attacking performance. 'We had to put on a show' - what they said Marcus Smith on ITV: \"I've never played here before, there was a special atmosphere, with loads of England fans having come out. We had to put a show on for them, we were a bit scrappy and credit to Italy but to score 33 points is always nice. \"To play alongside Harry [Randall] is special, we have a good connection off the field and I hope we have on it as well.\" Eddie Jones told ITV: \"Italy are a tough team and they keep coming. If we were a bit tidier with some of our work, some running lines, it could have been a big score. We are happy with that, now we move on to Wales. \"They [Italy] have played New Zealand and France and in the first half been in the game - and they were not in the game today. Marcus [Smith] did well, Harry Randall did some good things at the start and [Alex] Dombrandt had a really solid game.\"\n• None Two teams of petrol lovers battle against each other in their super tractors\n• None Was this just a freak accident? The story of what really happened when a ship crashed into the sandy banks of the Suez Canal", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The UK prime minister says the situation between Russia and Ukraine is \"very dangerous\"\n\nBoris Johnson says there is \"still time\" for Russia to \"step back\" from the situation with Ukraine, urging all sides to carry on talking.\n\nTension is continuing to grow on the border between the countries, where Russia has more than 100,000 troops.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss said the latest intelligence suggested \"Russia could invade at any moment\".\n\nNo 10 said Mr Johnson would hold a Cobra meeting on Tuesday to discuss the UK's response to the pressures.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he supported the government, but wanted to introduce tougher sanctions on Russia.\n\nHe also said Parliament should be recalled if an invasion took place, adding: \"We must have a swift and strong response, a united response from the United Kingdom.\"\n\nRussia has long been opposed to the former Soviet republic of Ukraine growing closer to Europe and its institutions.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has demanded a guarantee from the West that Ukraine will not join Nato - a defensive alliance of 30 countries.\n\nBut Nato has said it will not close down any future agreement with Ukraine.\n\nWhile the diplomatic row has played out, Russia has amassed 100,000 troops along Ukraine's border, with reports that a further 30,000 are engaged in military exercises in Belarus.\n\nRussia insists it is not planning to invade Ukraine, but European countries - including the UK - and the US have been providing support, such as training and weapons, and numerous governments have told their citizens to leave the country.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on a visit to Scotland, Mr Johnson said the situation was \"very, very dangerous and difficult\", adding: \"We are on the edge of a precipice\".\n\nBut he said there was \"still time for President Putin to step back\".\n\nThe PM added: \"What we are urging is for everybody to engage in dialogue, for a conversation to take place and for the Russians to avoid what I think everybody, certainly everybody in the UK, would consider to be a disastrous mistake.\"\n\nMr Johnson has cut short planned visits in the north of England to return to London for security briefings and will hold a call with US President Joe Biden later on Monday.\n\nAfterwards, she tweeted: \"Latest information suggests Russia could invade at any moment and we urge the Kremlin to deescalate.\n\n\"Our focus is on prioritising the safety and security of British nationals in Ukraine.\"\n\nThe PM will hold another Cobra meeting on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss warns there could be a Russian invasion of Ukraine \"almost immediately\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's leader has given his backing to the government.\n\nOn a visit to Sunderland, Sir Keir told reporters: \"Russia wants to see our allies divided, it wants to see division in the United Kingdom.\n\n\"And we are not going to divide and, therefore, we support the government in what it's doing.\"\n\nBut he did urge the PM to \"go further\" with sanctions in response to \"Russian aggression\".\n\nThe government has introduced new powers to \"broaden the range\" of Russian people and businesses the UK could target with sanctions.\n\nBut opposition MPs criticised a lack of debate in the Commons on the plans, as Parliament is now in recess.\n\nSome Tory MPs are also calling for tougher sanctions, such as blocking Russian banks from financial markets.\n\nBackbench MP Kevin Hollinrake said the West could bar the country from the Swift international payments messaging system, telling BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour that if allies were determined, \"literally people would not be able to get money out of ATMs in Russia\".\n\nAre you in Ukraine? Please share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Duchess of Cornwall is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19, Clarence House has confirmed.\n\nHer husband, the Prince of Wales, tested positive for the virus on Thursday but Camilla, 74, carried out three public engagements on that day after testing negative.\n\nPrince Charles met with the Queen two days before he tested positive.\n\nLast week Buckingham Palace said the Queen had no Covid symptoms and on Monday said it had nothing to add.\n\nIt is the first time the duchess has caught coronavirus, while Prince Charles has the virus for a second time.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said they would follow government guidelines.\n\nOn Thursday, the duchess described herself as \"luckily\" negative, during a visit to Thames Valley Partnership in Buckinghamshire, saying of her testing regime: \"I've taken it so many times\".\n\nAs well as the visit to Buckinghamshire, Camilla visited the Haven Paddington sexual assault referral centre in west London and opened the Nourish Hub community kitchen in Shepherd's Bush - where she added the finishing touches to a Loobia Polo, an Iranian rice dish, that was being offered to refugees.\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall met volunteers during her visit to the UKHarvest charity's West London \"Nourish Hub\" on Thursday\n\nCamilla visited The Haven Paddington on Thursday morning, this time with everyone wearing face masks\n\nAnd she met staff at the Thames Valley Partnership charity in Aston Sandford\n\nOn Monday morning, Clarence House alerted the organisations Camilla visited and the media who covered her engagements.\n\nThe encounter between Prince Charles, 73, and his mother came when the prince visited Windsor Castle for an investiture - to meet people who had been honoured in the twice-annual honours list and officially give them their awards.\n\nBuckingham Palace has not confirmed whether the Queen has been tested, citing medical privacy, and has only said that she was showing no symptoms.\n\nWith Prince Charles and Camilla having caught Covid, it shows the pandemic still has a sting in its tail, able to disrupt and cause health worries.\n\nBut we don't really know whether there's a wider royal Covid outbreak or about any potential seriousness.\n\nBecause when it comes to health, it's seen as a private matter.\n\nThe Royal Family might have overlapping and complicated boundaries between their public roles and private identities, but for medical issues, there is a strong convention of palace aides only giving the barest of details.\n\nSo even though we know the Queen didn't have Covid symptoms last week, we don't really know even whether she had a test.\n\nAnd the reasons for the Queen's cancellation of appearances last year were never publicly explained.\n\nThere's an historical precedent for such secrecy. In the past, courts were full of rivals and monarchs didn't want to look vulnerable.\n\nNow it's about the siege of modern media, which is fended off by palace officials with a modern media cliche - that there won't be any \"running commentary\" about the state of the royals' health.\n\nPeople who develop coronavirus symptoms are asked to notify those they have been in close contact with in the previous 48 hours.\n\nIn England, contacts of positive Covid cases who are fully vaccinated should take lateral flow tests for seven days. They do not have to self-isolate unless they test positive.\n\nCamilla will have to isolate for 10 days, but could be allowed to end this early if she tests negative on day five and day six.\n\nHer positive test comes a week after the Queen said she wanted the Duchess of Cornwall to be known as Queen Consort once Prince Charles becomes king.\n\nPrince Charles last caught the virus in March 2020, when he reported mild symptoms, and Clarence House has confirmed he is triple vaccinated.", "Ahmednur Nuur died from a stab wound to the back of the chest\n\nA teenager has been charged with the murder of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed near a college.\n\nAhmednur Nuur was attacked near Milton Keynes College in Chaffron Way at about 13:30 GMT on Friday and died in hospital.\n\nJustice Will-Mamah, 18, of Coniston Way, Bletchley, is also accused of possessing a knife in a public place.\n\nHe is in police custody and is due to appear before magistrates in Milton Keynes on Tuesday.\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and perverting the course of justice.\n\nHe was taken in to police custody.\n\nThe emergency services were called to Milton Keynes College's Chaffron Way campus on Friday afternoon\n\nPolice said the family of Ahmednur, of Conniburrow, Milton Keynes, were being supported by specially-trained officers.\n\n\"Nur in Arabic means light and Ahmednur was the embodiment of the warmest, brightest shades of his name,\" the family said, in a statement released by police.\n\n\"If he wasn't making people smile, it's because he was making them laugh.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of death to be a stab wound to the back of the chest, police said.\n\nThe stabbing took place near the junction of Palace Square and Rainbow Drive in Leadenhall in Milton Keynes\n\nThames Valley Police said: \"The victim was stabbed near the junction of Palace Square and Rainbow Drive in Leadenhall.\n\n\"After being stabbed, he then moved towards the Chaffron Way campus of Milton Keynes College and collapsed on the Redway outside.\n\n\"Healthcare students and a member of staff from the college, who were in a class overlooking the Redway, made their way outside and provided immediate first aid, until emergency services arrived.\n\n\"These students are now receiving specialist support from the college and we would like to publicly commend the courage and selflessness that they have demonstrated in these tragic circumstances.\"\n\nThe college said staff and students went to the aid of the boy, and added that \"thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of all involved\".\n\nAhmednur's family was being supported by specially trained officers\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liudmyla Bobova was displaced to Kharkiv by the war. \"I can breathe freely here,\" she said.\n\nAbout half an hour's drive from the centre of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, in a low-rise industrial area of the city, there are rows of what look like white shipping containers set back from the main road and ringed by a blue metal fence.\n\nThe rows of containers, blanketed by snow this time of year, are actually a village of temporary housing units for people who already fled the war in Ukraine once, back in 2014 when Russian-backed separatists seized much of the Donbas region by force.\n\nThe residents of the \"module city\" live in remarkably cramped conditions - imagine a portable cabin you would see on a construction site, with low ceilings and strip lights, divided into a living room, kitchen and bathroom area and occupied by families of two or three or more.\n\n\"Yes, the accommodation is depressing,\" said Liudmyla Bobova, a resident who shares a private unit with her husband and elderly mother - a relative luxury compared with their previous unit where they occupied one small room in a communal unit, sleeping on bunk beds and sharing a kitchen and toilet.\n\nAnd yet Bobova and her family are grateful to be here, she said. \"There is occupation,\" she said, referring to the separatist territory they fled. \"Life there is grey, you cannot breathe freely. Here, I can breathe freely.\"\n\nAs for her change in living conditions, she only shrugged. \"That was one life, this is a another life,\" she said.\n\nIn her previous life, Bobova lived in Molodohvardiisk, a small mining town a stone's throw from the Russian border, where there was little political activity and people were only absent-mindedly pro-Russian, she said.\n\nHer family fled the region along with thousands of others when the war began, escaping on foot and by train as shells fell \"like rumbling thunder\".\n\nResidents of Kharkiv's 'module city' live in dilapidated temporary units on the outskirts of the city.\n\nThey ended up in the module city and have lived here since. The modules - paid for by the German government - had a maximum shelf life of three and a half years for human occupation, but seven years on about 175 people remain.\n\n\"There's nothing more constant than the temporary,\" said Artur Statsenko, who oversees the units for the local council. \"The state hasn't managed these people at all. For the past eight years we have not received anything from the state budget. We have a special Ministry for Reintegration but they have not given us a penny.\"\n\nThe BBC asked the Ministry for Reintegration - created in 2016 and tasked with caring for internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Donbas - to respond, but they declined to answer questions.\n\nFor the IDPs, Russia's looming new threat to invade Ukraine brings the prospect of a double displacement. Their temporary homes, just 25 miles from the border, would be squarely in Russia's path. But an invasion appeared to be low down the list of concerns for the module city residents.\n\n\"We don't talk about the escalation, or the fact we might have to flee again,\" said Iryna Belinska, a 64-year-old grandmother of nine who lives in a unit with her unwell husband.\n\n\"We need a proper roof over our head, not a plastic little house,\" she said, gesturing to her broken ceiling and bowed floor.\n\n\"We have much more mundane things on our minds than war.\"\n\nIryna Belinska lives with her husband in a module. \"We don't talk about the escalation,\" she said.\n\nThe war in eastern Ukraine has shifted the cultural identity of Kharkiv, a historically Russian-speaking city 300 miles from Kyiv but just 30 miles from the Russian border. Belinska spoke in Russian, but Bobova only speaks Ukrainian now. She abandoned Russian overnight in 2014 when she was was forced to flee her home - a kind of personal protest against the war.\n\nThe separatists who seized Donbas attempted to seize Kharkiv too, and briefly they raised their flag on the regional government building in the city centre. The ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych fled here in search of political support, but he was met by street protests and fled again to Crimea, and Kharkiv, Ukraine's second most-populous city, remained undisputed.\n\n\"Kharkiv was always pro-Ukrainian,\" said Boris Redin, an avuncular lifelong \"Kharkiver\" who has operated a kind of pro-Ukraine protest tent opposite the local government building since 2014. \"But it has become more pro-Ukrainian since the war started, like every city,\" he said. \"If the Russians want to attack us, they are our guests, we are not afraid.\"\n\nKharkiv would be a logical destination for the Russians if they rolled over the border nearby, but Vladimir Putin's troops could face a grinding resistance from the population. Many have enrolled in volunteer battalions and trained to fight, and two weeks ago the city's streets filled with protesters again, this time chanting \"Kharkiv is Ukraine\" and \"stop Russian aggression\".\n\n\"People have joined the territorial defence, volunteers continue to go the warzone, all this is working,\" said Svitlana Gorbunova-Ruban, the deputy mayor of Kharkiv. \"We are ready to defend our city in any situation and by all means.\"\n\nBoris Redin has operated a kind of pro-Ukraine protest tent opposite the local government building since 2014\n\nThere is a lot here to defend - 38 universities, museums, a thriving tech sector and vibrant contemporary arts scene. The celebrated Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko just finished a three-week residency here.\n\n\"There was an explosion of art in Kharkiv when the war began,\" said Natalia Ivanova, director of the city's institute of contemporary art. \"It was art of resistance, protest, non-acceptance.\"\n\nDisplaced artists and opera singers from Donetsk and Luhansk were invited to join theatre companies and opera productions in Kharkiv, said Svitlana Oleshko, a local theatre director. \"They were welcomed in Kharkiv,\" she said. \"This is a city of young people and they are more and more pro-Ukrainian and less and less Russian. They can see life in Donetsk and Luhansk and Crimea and they don't want to live that way.\"\n\nThe war is felt here in a way it isn't in cities further west. Troops travel through Kharkiv on the way to the front and return to its hospitals wounded. Families have been estranged across a line that separates the city from the disputed territory, and the influx of people displaced from Donbas - somewhere between 120,000 and 350,000 - has brought its own divisions.\n\nThere were \"undoubtedly cases of discrimination\" against the displaced when they arrived in Kharkiv, said Alla Feshchenko, the head of Station Kharkiv - a local non-governmental organisation.\n\n\"People refused to lease their apartments to them for example, because they were afraid they might turn out to be pro-Russian,\" she said.\n\n\"But other Kharkivers treated the IDPs wonderfully - they understood that we could have met the same fate, only we were luckier than Luhansk and Donetsk.\"\n\nIn the early days of the war, you would occasionally see cars driving around the city with fabric stretched across the roof or side bearing the world \"children\", Feshchenko said - a sign the car belonged to someone who had driven out of the disputed territory during the fighting.\n\n\"They didn't take the fabric off because they could not believe they were no longer under threat,\" she said.\n\nWashing hangs outside a the temporary units at the module city on the outskirts of Kharkiv.\n\nOne thing was certain with regard to the displaced people who came to Kharkiv, Feshchenko said: the federal government had \"totally failed them\".\n\n\"The module city is the evilest evil,\" she said. \"People categorically should not be left in such a place. There was complete chaos there - fights, broken windows, showdowns, module vs module. It puts people on the bottom rung.\"\n\nGorbunova-Ruban, the deputy mayor, told the BBC the city had been sitting on finalised plans for four years for permanent housing on the site of the module city, after an agreement to split the costs 30% - 70% with the government, but the Ministry for Reintegration was yet to pay any of its part.\n\nThis is the primary concern of the remaining residents of the module city - getting into proper accommodation. They would like to become real Kharkivers themselves. They hold occasional council meetings to discuss their concerns, and the minister for reintegration comes up more than the prospect of war.\n\nLiudmyla Bobova doesn't really miss Molodohvardiisk, she said. Some of her distant relatives are still there, and nothing they've told her makes her want to go back. \"Before the war, my life was full. But all I need here is my own home, and life will be full again,\" she said in Ukrainian.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has taken the unprecedented step of invoking the Emergencies Act to crack down on anti-vaccine mandate protests.\n\nMr Trudeau said the scope of the measures would be \"time-limited\", \"reasonable and proportionate\" and would not see the military deployed.\n\nWith no need for court orders, banks can freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests.\n\nOn Sunday, law enforcement cleared anti-mandate protesters at the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor - a critical pathway for Canada-US trade - after a week-long stalemate.\n\nWhat began as a rally against a new rule that all truckers must be vaccinated to cross the US-Canada border, or quarantine upon return, has grown into a broader challenge to all Covid health restrictions.\n\n\"This is about keeping Canadians safe, protecting people's jobs,\" Mr Trudeau told a news conference on Monday.\n\nHe said the police would be given \"more tools\" to imprison or fine protesters and protect critical infrastructure.\n\nMr Trudeau told reporters the legislation would be applied temporarily and in a highly specific manner.\n\nCritics have noted that the prime minister voiced support for farmers in India who blocked major highways to New Delhi for a year in 2021, saying at the time: \"Canada will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest.\"\n\nMr Trudeau's invoking of the Emergencies Act comes as demonstrations across Canada enter their third week.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said at Monday's news conference that banks would be able freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests without any need for a court order.\n\nVehicle insurance of anyone involved with the demonstrations can also be suspended, she added.\n\nMs Freeland said they were broadening Canada's \"Terrorist Financing\" rules to cover cryptocurrencies and crowdfunding platforms, as part of the effort.\n\nAnti-vaccine mandate protests have entered their third week\n\n\"It's all about following the money,\" she said.\n\nShe spoke after hackers released details of what they said were 93,000 donations for the truckers totalling $8.4m (£6.2m) to the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo.\n\nThe Emergencies Act, passed in 1988, requires a high legal bar to be invoked. It may only be used in an \"urgent and critical situation\" that \"seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians\". Lawful protests do not qualify.\n\nSpeaking on Monday, Canada's Justice Minister David Lametti argued these conditions had been met.\n\nBut the Canadian Civil Liberties Association disagreed, warning that the move \"threatens our democracy and our civil liberties\".\n\nOttawa protest leader Tamara Lich dismissed Mr Trudeau's move, telling AP News: \"There are no threats that will frighten us. We will hold the line.\"\n\nOntario Premier Doug Ford, a Conservative, said he supported the federal government.\n\nBut the premiers of Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan said the emergency powers were not needed in their regions.\n\nBefore Mr Trudeau's announcement, Quebec Premier Francois Legault said invoking the Emergencies Act could \"throw oil on the fire\".\n\nUnder growing pressure to bring the disruptive protests to an end - be it from the White House or increasingly frustrated Canadians - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has entered uncharted territory with the decision to invoke the never-before-used 1988 Emergencies Act, the country's most powerful tool for when it is facing a national emergency.\n\nThe powers announced by Mr Trudeau go into effect immediately - but his government has to present it to the House of Commons and the Senate within a week and needs a green-light or the proclamation would be revoked.\n\nAll main Canadian federal political party leaders have said it's time for the protests - which have had an impact on supply chains, the national economy and the country's relations with the US - to end.\n\nBut they aren't all necessarily on board with Mr Trudeau's unprecedented move.\n\nConservative leader Candice Bergen voiced concern it could inflame the situation.\n\nThe support of NDP leader Jagmeet Singh may give Mr Trudeau enough votes to pass it through the House - though the Senate could still be a hurdle.\n\nProtests are ongoing in various parts of the country.\n\nIn Ottawa, the nation's capital, between 400 to 500 trucks have been parked in the city centre for 18 days.\n\nProtesters have also been blockading border crossing at Coutts, Alberta, and Emerson, Manitoba.\n\nOn Monday, Alberta police arrested 11 people and seized a cache of guns and other weapons.\n\nWeekend protests have also taken place in cities including Toronto and Winnipeg.", "Jayden-Lee and Gracie-Ann both died after the motorway collision\n\nA three-year-old boy who died after a crash on the M4 that killed his sister has been named as Jayden-Lee Lucas.\n\nThe boy, from Tredegar, had been in hospital following the collision on 5 February involving a car and a van on the motorway near Newport.\n\nFour-year-old Gracie-Ann Wheaton died following the collision and their parents were also injured.\n\nA 41-year-old man from Neath Port Talbot was charged with causing death by dangerous driving after her death.\n\nThe children's cousin Jamie Lucas, 19, from Abergavenny, said: \"Unfortunately, after a week of fighting, Jayden has passed away.\n\n\"He was wonderful, creative and a kind soul. Turned the grey skies blue.\"\n\nThe family had been returning from a birthday party when the car in which they were travelling was in collision with a van.\n\nJayden and his older sister, Gracie-Ann, were rushed to the intensive care unit of University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.\n\nThe mother of Jayden-Lee and Gracie-Ann remains in hospital\n\nGracie-Ann suffered a cardiac arrest due to the severity of her injuries and died the following day.\n\nJayden died on Friday, his family confirmed, and the children's mother remains in hospital.\n\nIn a previous tribute to Gracie-Ann, Mr Lucas said: \"I'm just trying to wrap my head around the fact that she's gone, it's hard to believe.\n\n\"She was so young. She had a bright future ahead of her. She was such a wonderful child.\n\n\"I'm just lost for words really. How she was returning from a birthday party and all of a sudden she's gone.\"\n\nHe added: \"She was very smart, she was very creative. She had a really great imagination as well. She was just fantastic to be around.\"\n\nA 41-year-old man has appeared in court in connection with the collision\n\nA fundraising page set up for the siblings' funeral has raised more than £11,500.\n\nThe crash happened on the westbound carriageway between junctions 28 and 29, prompting a huge emergency services response and causing the route to be closed for around seven hours.\n\nThe Ford Transit driver, 41-year-old Martin Newman, of Croeserw, charged with causing death by dangerous driving and two offences of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, was remanded into custody pending a hearing at Newport Crown Court on 21 February.", "If the shops are anything to go by, it's business as usual in the port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, even though the Russian border is only 50km (31 miles) away. We found customers ambling through the well-stocked aisles of one local supermarket. There was no panic buying and no shortages.\n\nTatiana, aged 74 - who was carefully perusing the sausage selection - was adamant that fellow Slavs would not attack Ukraine. \"The invasion is just in our heads,\" she told me. \"Nobody is going to invade. Nobody will beat their brothers.\"\n\nThe tension may now be easing somewhat, but eastern Ukraine has already been a battleground for the past eight years.\n\nKremlin backed separatists are dug in about 15km for Mariupol. War is already part of the landscape. Some here say - quietly - that they are now afraid of a much bigger conflict, but there's no hint of an exodus.\n\nClose to the border we saw no sign of trouble on the horizon. The only thing coming down the road from the Russian border were tractors, not tanks. But Moscow's designs on Ukraine are a long-term project.\n\nPeople spend time at the coast of Mariupol in Ukraine despite the cold weather Image caption: People spend time at the coast of Mariupol in Ukraine despite the cold weather", "Diplomatic efforts continue to try to halt a possible Russian invasion, but Moscow denies it is planning to attack\n\nThe US and UK leaders have said not all hope is lost for a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis but warned the situation remained fragile.\n\nIn a 40-minute call, Joe Biden and Boris Johnson agreed a deal was still possible despite a chorus of warnings of imminent Russian military action.\n\nRussia has always denied plans to invade Ukraine, despite massing more than 100,000 troops on the border.\n\nOn Monday its foreign minister said diplomacy was \"far from exhausted\".\n\nAs part of diplomatic efforts to ward off a possible invasion, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz is to meet Russia's President Vladimir Putin later on Tuesday.\n\nAfter being criticised for a slow initial response, Mr Scholz met the Ukrainian president in Kyiv on Monday, saying there was \"no reasonable justification\" for the Russian military build-up.\n\nMore than a dozen nations have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine, and the US has said aerial bombardments could begin \"at any time\".\n\nBut in their conversation, Mr Biden and Mr Johnson said there remained a \"crucial window\" for diplomacy and for Russia to step back from its threats towards Ukraine, according to a Downing Street statement.\n\n\"The leaders emphasised that any further incursion into Ukraine would result in a protracted crisis for Russia, with far-reaching damage for both Russia and the world,\" the statement added.\n\nMr Johnson reportedly said that the UK was prepared to do everything it could to help, to which Mr Biden responded: \"We're not going anywhere without you pal.\"\n\nMr Johnson is expected to hold a Cobra meeting on Tuesday to discuss the UK's response to the pressures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a defiant speech to the nation on Monday, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky declared 16 February - a date cited by US officials as a possible day on which Russia could attack - a \"day of unity\", and praised the strength of the Ukrainian military.\n\n\"We have something to respond with. We have a great army... this is an army many times stronger than eight years ago.\"\n\nBut he said he wanted to resolve all issues through negotiations and diplomacy.\n\nThe Ukrainian president ended his speech on an optimistic note: \"Now you may think it's darkness all around. But tomorrow the sun will rise again over our peaceful sky.\"\n\nMr Lavrov's comments, made in a meeting with Mr Putin, are being seen as a clear concession that talks could ease the tensions. But analysts say that without either side moving over the thorny issue of Ukraine potentially joining Nato, there is still deadlock.\n\nThe Kremlin says it cannot accept that Ukraine - a former Soviet republic with deep social and cultural ties with Russia - could one day join Nato, and has demanded that this be ruled out. Nato's members have rejected this request.\n\nAre you in Ukraine? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Richard Morris's family said they were \"devastated by his loss\"\n\nA diplomat was suffering with extreme stress while working for the government's Covid taskforce before going missing and later being found dead in a forest, an inquest has heard.\n\nThe body of 52-year-old Richard Morris was discovered near his home in Bentley, Hampshire, in August 2020.\n\nHis wife told an inquest in Winchester that working on the taskforce was \"the most stressful job he had ever done\".\n\nShe added he was \"totally unprotected\" from the demands of the work.\n\nThe coroner's court heard Mr Morris, a former ambassador to Nepal, worked long hours under high pressure helping to coordinate briefings to ministers during the first wave of coronavirus.\n\nPolice said 50 officers and volunteers took part in initial searches of Alice Holt Forest\n\nMrs Morris said her husband feared there was not enough time to process information in the fast-moving period and if any error got past him the government \"would be torn apart in the press\".\n\nAs a result, he was \"desperate\" to keep on top of what was going on, working every day with \"no real time off\", she said.\n\nMr Morris was last seen running near his home on 6 May 2020 and his body was found three months later in Alice Holt Forest.\n\nThe inquest also heard Mr Morris had found moving back to the UK hard after living in Nepal for several years.\n\nHe was assigned to a case that caused a diplomatic incident with the US - that of 19-year-old Harry Dunn, who was killed when a car crashed into his motorbike outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire.\n\nMs Morris said: \"It was a double whammy... of media interest and the fact that it's somebody else's tragedy.\"\n\nShe said her husband \"never liked media interest\" in his working life and was \"fearful of being ripped apart by the UK press\".\n\nHe was later asked to assist with the government's Covid-19 taskforce at a time when Boris Johnson was in intensive care and news about the pandemic was changing every day.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coleen Rooney has been refused permission to bring a High Court claim against Rebekah Vardy's agent.\n\nIt's part of an ongoing legal battle between the footballers' wives over an online post.\n\nMrs Rooney was trying to bring a claim against Caroline Watt for misuse of private information as part of her case against Mrs Vardy.\n\nShe also ordered by the judge to pay £65,000 towards Ms Watt's legal costs following the unsuccessful attempt.\n\nThe \"Wagatha Christie\" row broke out in 2019 after Mrs Rooney said fake stories were leaked to newspapers that had only been seen by Mrs Vardy's Instagram.\n\nHowever, the judge gave the go-ahead for Mrs Rooney to amend her defence case, to include an allegation that Rebekah Vardy, through Ms Watt, provided information to The Sun about an unnamed professional footballer.\n\nShe also gave permission for disclosure of WhatsApp messages between Mrs Vardy and Ms Watt during the relevant period, and allowed Mrs Rooney's application for an order that both parties make a joint request for information to Instagram.\n\nMrs Vardy denies the accusations and is suing Mrs Rooney for libel.\n\nDuring a two-day hearing last week, the court heard the content of some WhatsApp messages exchanged between Mrs Vardy and her PR and friend Caroline Watt.\n\nMrs Rooney's lawyers previously claimed that Mrs Vardy had leaked information to The Sun newspaper either directly or through her agent Caroline Watt \"acting on her instruction or with her knowing approval\".\n\nMrs Rooney asked for permission to bring an \"additional claim\" against Ms Watt for misuse of private information and wanted it to be heard alongside the libel case.\n\nHer lawyer David Sherborne told the court Coleen Rooney would be left without \"vindication\" unless that could happen.\n\nMrs Vardy's lawyers opposed the application to add the claim against Ms Watt to the libel case.\n\nIn a ruling on Monday, the judge, Mrs Justice Steyn refused permission for the additional claim against Ms Watt and refused permission for it to be heard alongside the libel trial.\n\nRebekah Vardy's lawyers opposed the application to add the claim against Ms Watt to the libel case\n\nDuring the hearings last week, David Sherborne said that Mrs Rooney's lawyers wanted further information from the WhatsApp messages between Mrs Vardy and Ms Watt, but were told Ms Watt's phone had fallen into the sea after a boat she was on hit a wave, shortly after the last hearing.\n\n\"[It was] most unfortunate, because it was only a short time after the court ordered that the phone should be specifically searched,\" he said.\n\nRebekah Vardy's barrister Hugh Tomlinson told the court: \"That is what happened. Mrs Vardy was not present when that happened. She [Ms Watt] was on holiday, she lost her phone.\"\n\nThe trial of the libel claim is due to take place in May, but may be delayed.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nKamila Valieva can compete again at the Winter Olympics after sport's highest court ruled \"exceptional circumstances\" meant the 15-year-old Russian figure skater should not be provisionally suspended for a failed drugs test.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) pointed to age and issues around timing of the test result announcement in the reasons for its ruling.\n\nBut critics have questioned why an athlete who has failed a drugs test is being allowed to compete on the world's biggest stage.\n\nThe World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) said it was \"disappointed\" by the ruling, saying it \"appears that the Cas panel decided not to apply the terms of the Code, which does not allow for specific exceptions to be made in relation to mandatory provisional suspensions for 'protected persons', including minors.\"\n\nValieva, who returned a positive test for angina-prevention drug trimetazidine on 25 December last year, had been provisionally suspended on 8 February but challenged the decision and the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) lifted the ban the next day.\n\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC), Wada and International Skating Union launched an appeal against Rusada's decision to lift the provisional suspension, which is what Cas has now turned down.\n\nCas director general Matthieu Reeb said: \"The athlete should benefit from the following exceptional circumstances: She is under 16 and a protected person under the Wada code.\"\n\nThe ruling said \"serious issues of untimely notification of the results\" of the failed test - which came during the Games and nearly six weeks after she gave the sample - had also played a part in its decision.\n\n\"Such late notification was not her fault, in the middle of the Olympic Winter Games,\" the ruling said.\n\nAmerican 1998 Olympic champion figure skater Tara Lipinski, said she strongly disagreed with the decision, adding: At the end of the day, there was a positive test and there is no question in my mind that she should not be allowed to compete.\"\n\nValieva is now free to compete on Tuesday in the women's individual figure skating competition, where she is favourite for gold.\n\nWhile her immediate Olympic future has been resolved, this case that has overshadowed the Games and provoked outrage at how a child became embroiled in a case of suspected doping is far from over.\n\nWada has already said it will be investigating the teenager's entourage, including coaches, doctors and other adults surrounding her, while the actual matter of the failed test is yet to be resolved.\n\nThere is also the issue of the team event medals which will not be handed out during the Games, with Valieva having helped the Russian Olympic Committee to victory before the test announcement.\n\nAnd there will also be wider debates given a Russian has tested positive for a banned substance when the country is already banned from international competition because of its doping past.\n\nIts 212-strong delegation in Beijing is competing under the Russian Olympic Committee flag and without its national anthem as part of the sanctions.\n\nWhat was the Cas hearing about?\n\nThis hearing was simply to determine whether to reimpose a provisional ban or to back the Rusada decision to lift it - it was not looking at the failed test or the circumstances relating to it.\n\nEssentially, it was to decide whether to allow the young skater, who became the first female to land a quadruple jump at an Olympics in the team event earlier in the Games, to take to the ice again in Beijing.\n\nAnd it had to happen quickly because she was scheduled to compete on Tuesday in the women's individual event.\n\nThe near six-hour long Cas hearing concluded at 02:10 local time in Beijing, with the three-person panel continuing deliberations into Monday morning.\n\nIn its statement Cas said it had considered \"fundamental principles of fairness, proportionality, irreparable harm, and the relative balance of interests between the applicants and the athlete, who did not test positive during the Olympic Games ... and is still subject to a disciplinary procedure [relating to the positive drugs test]\"\n\n\"The panel considered that preventing the athlete from competing at the Olympic Games would cause her irreparable harm in these circumstances,\" it said.\n\nWithin around half an hour of the Cas ruling, Valieva was back on the rink training in front of the media.\n\nWhat has been the reaction to the ruling?\n\nThe IOC had earlier said it would follow the Cas decision \"whether we like it nor not\", while the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) said it was \"disappointed by the message this decision sends\".\n\n\"It is the collective responsibility of the entire Olympic community to protect the integrity of sport and to hold our athletes, coaches and all involved to the highest of standards,\" USOPC chief executive Sarah Hirshland said in a statement.\n\n\"Athletes have the right to know they are competing on a level playing field. Unfortunately, today that is being denied. This appears to be another chapter in the systematic and pervasive disregard for clean sport by Russia.\"\n\nThe ISU said it respected the ruling and \"needs time to assess before making any further comments\".\n\nThe Russian Olympic Committee, meanwhile, welcomed the ruling, saying: \"Tomorrow the whole country will cheer on her and all our wonderful figure skaters in the individual competition.\"\n\nAnd Russian Figure Skating Federation President Alexander Gorshkov said: \"I'm very happy for Valieva and glad that common sense and justice triumphed.\"\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nValieva is set to compete in the women's event which starts at 10:00 GMT on Tuesday with the short programme, where she is scheduled at 26th of 30 starters, and ends with the free skate on Thursday.\n\nGiven what we saw in her team performances, she is likely to shine with a series of gravity-defying quadruple jumps that are rare in women's figure skating.\n\nBut if she wins a medal there are no guarantees that she would not be stripped of it at a later date once the anti-doping process is complete.\n\nThe IOC said later on Monday that it would \"not be appropriate\" to hold the medal ceremony for the team event, while if Valieva wins a medal in the individual event, no flower or medal ceremonies will take place.\n\nSo, in the short term Valieva competes, but issues like whether she has taken up her right to ask for her B sample to be tested as part of the anti-doping process remain unresolved.\n\nThere will also be the Wada investigation into her entourage to find out how a child came to fail a drugs test in the first place.\n• None A prize-winning super horse is kidnapped from an enigmatic owner\n• None Is this a new alternative to dating apps? Find out the unusual way one man is going about finding his perfect other half", "Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed he received death threats after Boris Johnson falsely claimed that he failed to prosecute paedophile Jimmy Savile.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Newcastle, the Labour leader said the PM was \"wrong\" to repeat \"a right-wing conspiracy\".\n\nMr Johnson has not withdrawn his claim, but clarified his remarks to say Sir Keir was not personally involved in decisions over Savile.\n\nMeanwhile, the police are investigating online death threats against Sir Keir.\n\nDocuments, including messages from users of the Telegram app, were sent to Scotland Yard by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) on Friday.\n\nAsked if he felt responsible for the death threats or would like to apologise, Mr Johnson said: \"I've said more than enough about that issue.\"\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman added: \"Any sort of death threats to politicians are unacceptable.\"\n\nBefore entering politics, Sir Keir had a career as a lawyer and acted as head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) between 2008 and 2013.\n\nOn 31 January, during a stormy Commons debate about lockdown parties in No 10, Mr Johnson accused Sir Keir of spending \"most of his time\" at the CPS \"prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile\".\n\nMr Johnson subsequently faced calls from some of his own MPs to apologise for the comment.\n\nPressed on the subject three days later, Mr Johnson said: \"I totally understand that he [Sir Keir] had nothing to do personally\" with decisions not to prosecute Savile.\n\n\"I was making a point about his responsibility for the organisation as a whole.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Sir Keir said after Savile died in 2011 he ordered an audit to find out if any allegations against the TV personality had come to the CPS.\n\n\"I found out decisions had been made years earlier that I didn't know about in local offices, quite rightly, to where I think two individuals had come forward, separately.\n\n\"They had each said that they wouldn't support a prosecution against Jimmy Savile.\n\n\"I was concerned that the system hadn't worked out there were two cases and therefore there was a systems failure.\"\n\nHe said following the audit he made the decision to \"change the system\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer explains handling of Savile case in an interview on 10 February 2022\n\nA week after Mr Johnson's Savile remark in the Commons, Sir Keir was surrounded by protesters as he left Parliament, with some shouting \"Jimmy Savile\" at him.\n\nMr Johnson tweeted that the \"behaviour directed\" at the Labour leader was \"absolutely disgraceful\".\n\nSir Keir has said he believes there was a link between the protests and the prime minister's comments telling The Times: \"I have never been called a paedophile protector before.\n\n\"That happened yesterday for the first time in my life. If others want to argue that this is unconnected with precisely what the PM said one week before then let them make that case. But they'll never persuade me that there is no link.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC's Question Time last Thursday, Environment Secretary George Eustice said Sir Keir would \"obviously want to make that particular political point\" but argued it was wrong to make a connection between the protests and the prime minister's words.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked on Monday if he had received death threats as a result of the prime minister's comment, Sir Keir replied \"yes,\" adding: \"It's very important for me to say that what the prime minister said was wrong, it was very wrong. He knew exactly what he was doing.\n\n\"There has been a right-wing conspiracy theory for some time that's a complete fabrication.\n\n\"He fed into that, and that has caused difficulty, but my preference is not to talk about that because, as I say, I have got young children and I don't particularly want them to hear too much of what may or may not be said about me.\"\n\nHe later said there were \"threats to too many politicians,\" particularly woman, and that everyone had a duty to \"de-escalate these issues\".", "The NHS trust that runs Russells Hall Hospital said it was working with police on the review\n\nTwo NHS hospital trusts are working with police after a doctor was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.\n\nStaffordshire Police has launched a major incident review of the doctor's work at hospitals in Dudley, West Midlands, and Stoke-on-Trent, The Sunday Times reported.\n\nThe force said the 34-year-old man from the West Midlands was arrested in December and released on bail.\n\nIt is reviewing an investigation into the same suspect it undertook in 2018.\n\nThe doctor was suspended from seeing patients at the Royal Stoke University Hospital in Staffordshire when the parents of a vulnerable female raised concerns about his examination of her, the Sunday Times reported.\n\nThe case was referred to police in 2018 who said there was \"insufficient evidence to take further action\" at the time.\n\nThe Staffordshire force has now reported itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nUniversity Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, which runs the Royal Stoke, said it was working with police and had set up a helpline for any patient and guardian who may have concerns.\n\nThe Royal Stoke has set up a helpline for patients who may have concerns\n\nThe Sunday Times reported the alarm was then raised about the doctor while he was working at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley, and that he was excluded from the hospital trust in March last year.\n\nJulian Hobbs, medical director of the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust which runs the hospital, said it was \"working closely\" with Staffordshire Police on the review and confirmed the individual no longer worked there.\n\nThe police review, named Operation Anzu, will be looking at hundreds of files, including those of vulnerable adults, with at least 109 identified as cases of concern, the paper said.\n\nStoke-on-Trent South MP, Jack Brereton, said the allegations were \"extremely concerning\".\n\n\"I have spoken with the chief executive of the Royal Stoke and I know that they're taking it extremely seriously,\" he said.\n\n\"They've written to all those who may have been affected already so I know they are looking into this and there is a full police investigation now under way.\"\n\nThe Care Quality Commission said it was aware of an investigation \"into a member of staff who worked at both trusts\".\n\nIts deputy chief inspector of hospitals, Fiona Allinson, said: \"We continue to liaise with the police and both trusts regarding these concerns to ensure people's safety.\"\n\nThe Sunday Times said the doctor rejected any allegations he had committed a criminal act and was co-operating with the investigations.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The cost of air travel is set to rise this year as airlines face soaring overheads, the UK boss of Air France-KLM has told the BBC.\n\nFahmi Mahjoub said his airline faced significantly higher fuel and airport costs, and as a result higher air fares were \"quite unavoidable\".\n\nThe airline advised people in the UK to book early as travel rules were eased and demand picked up.\n\nIt said it was already seeing strong demand for Easter and summer.\n\nMr Mahjoub told the BBC's Today programme: \"The increase in cost of living is a very concrete issue for many households but also the airline industry.\n\n\"So I think there is an expectation that airline tickets could become more costly as we move forward and I think the advice we have for customers is simply to plan earlier to be able to avoid those prices increases.\"\n\nOn Monday, oil prices hit their highest level since 2014 on fears that a possible invasion of Ukraine by Russia could drive up costs in an already tight market.\n\nA barrel of benchmark Brent Crude reached $95.56 (£70.13) - up from under $65 a year ago.\n\nThe rising price of oil has affected everything from heating bills to petrol prices, and Mr Mahjoub said the cost of jet fuel was also going up sharply.\n\nOn top of this, Air France-KLM now has to pay 40% more to fly in and out of Heathrow airport, he said.\n\nIt is not the first travel firm to warn on prices. Last year, airline Ryanair and tour operator TUI both predicted holiday costs would be higher than in 2019 as the pandemic eased and demand rebounded.\n\nDespite the challenges, Air France-KLM says bookings from the UK have jumped since pre-departure and Day 2 Covid tests were scrapped for vaccinated travellers.\n\nMr Mahjoub said bookings for winter sun destinations such as Dubai, the US and Thailand had been strong. Demand for half-term, Easter and summer flights was also healthy.\n\nAir France acquired the Dutch airline KLM to create Air France-KLM Group in 2004, one of the largest air carriers in the world. The deal allows the two airlines to operate as separate companies.\n\nOn Sunday, KLM said it would stop services to Ukraine amid concerns Russia is preparing to invade. Germany's Lufthansa is also considering suspending flights.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Humza Yousaf says scrapping Covid measures in England should not force Scotland on how it tackles the virus\n\nPlans to lift Covid restrictions in England should not \"force the hand\" of the Scottish government to change its own virus strategy, Humza Yousaf says.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said self-isolation could end south of the border this month.\n\nBut Scotland's health secretary warned that the public health advice recommended a more cautious approach.\n\nIt comes after one expert said removing the five-day quarantine rules now would be a \"step too far\".\n\nMr Yousaf told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show that the country was on an \"absolutely improving journey\".\n\nBut he said: \"The UK government has every right to make decisions for people in England but what they can't do, and shouldn't do, is then force our hand when it comes to our response to Omicron.\"\n\nThe health secretary also said that if Mr Johnson intended to withdraw the offer of free Covid tests at the end of this month then the Scottish government may have to respond \"in a way that we don't want to at this time.\"\n\nMr Yousaf said such a move would involved setting up a procurement model for the tests, which are currently sourced on a four-nations basis, and finding a new way for paying for the kits.\n\nAnd he again emphasised that decisions in England should not put pressure on the devolved administrations in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast to follow suit.\n\nMr Yousaf added: \"If we want to respond in a slightly more cautious manner then don't pull the rug from underneath our feet.\"\n\nThe health secretary credited Scotland's progress over the last 12 months to the success of the vaccination rollout and the less severe Omicron variant.\n\nBut he said: \"We always have to follow that public health advice.\n\n\"Where we look to ease restrictions, and we will continue to do that, no doubt, in a cautious manner, it is really important to evidence the sound science behind it.\n\n\"My concern with the prime minister's announcement is that we haven't seen the public health advice, and we have been asking for it, and I haven't seen, for example, the UK government's CMO (chief medical officer) since that announcement.\"\n\nGiven the case numbers in Scotland at the moment he said it would be \"too early\" to follow England and lift the self-isolation rules at the end of the month.\n\nHe added: \"We have got thousands of cases of Omicron at the moment. Do we really think it would be wise for somebody who is positive with Covid and is a social care worker to go and work in a care home?\"\n\nThe health secretary said the Scottish government would outline its new strategic framework for dealing with Covid on 22 February.\n\nHe also told the programme \"automatic triggers\" for easing restrictions do not work in practice.\n\nTo highlight this, he said that if Omicron had been as severe as Delta then Scotland would have been in lockdown following record-breaking case numbers over the festive period.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been critical of Mr Johnson's approach and last week moved to extend the powers which underpin face covering and vaccine passport rules for another six months, although though there is no suggestion they will remain in place for this long.\n\nOn the provision of testing, a UK government spokesman said: \"Everyone can continue to get free tests and we are continuing to encourage people to use rapid tests when they need them. Record numbers of tests are being delivered to pharmacies, homes and those who need them.\"We have built up a huge testing capacity, with over 450 million tests now completed and around two billion LFD tests distributed across the UK.\"Testing continues to play an important role in helping people live their day to day lives, keep businesses running and keep young people in school.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a panel of experts also appeared on The Sunday Show to reflect on the current state of the pandemic.\n\nProf Sian Griffiths, who helped lead Hong Kong's investigation into Sars, said she would be more comfortable with a \"slow pace rather than an immediate release\" of restrictions in the UK.\n\nInfections expert Dr Christine Tait-Burkard told the programme she believed we are \"on the way out of it being a severely consequential disease\".\n\nAnd Prof Linda Bauld, of the University of Edinburgh, said while \"huge progress\" had been made in recent months there was still a need for caution.\n\nShe added: \"Despite the difference between the four nations we are all moving to a place where, of course, we will have a more open society but we have to be super alert to further waves and new variants on the horizon.\"", "The UK tax authority has seized three Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) as part of a probe into a suspected VAT fraud involving 250 alleged fake companies.\n\nHM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said three people had been arrested on suspicion of attempting to defraud it of £1.4m.\n\nThe authority said it was the first UK law enforcement to seize an NFT.\n\nNFTs are assets in the digital world that can be bought and sold, but which have no tangible form of their own.\n\nThe digital tokens, which emerged in 2014, can be thought of as certificates of ownership for virtual or physical assets. NFTs have a unique digital signature so they can be bought and sold using traditional currency or crypto currency, such as Bitcoin.\n\nWhere Bitcoin has been hailed as a digital answer to currency, NFTs have been touted as the digital answer to collectables, but plenty of sceptics fear they're a bubble waiting to burst.\n\nHMRC said the suspects in its fraud case were alleged to have used \"sophisticated methods\" to try to hide their identities including false and stolen identities, false addresses, pre-paid unregistered mobile phones, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), false invoices and pretending to engage in legitimate business activities.\n\nNick Sharp, deputy director economic crime, said the first seizure of an NFT \"serves as a warning to anyone who thinks they can use crypto assets to hide money from HMRC\".\n\n\"We constantly adapt to new technology to ensure we keep pace with how criminals and evaders look to conceal their assets.\"\n\nHMRC said it had secured a court order to detain the seized crypto assets worth about £5,000 and three digital artwork NFTs, which have not been valued, while its investigation continues.\n\nTraditional works of art such as paintings are valuable precisely because they are one of a kind, but digital files can be easily and endlessly duplicated.\n\nWith NFTs, artwork can be \"tokenised\" to create a digital certificate of ownership that can be bought and sold. The tokens can represent a range of real-world objects such as artwork, music and videos.\n\nAs with crypto-currency, a record of who owns what is stored on a shared ledger known as the blockchain.\n\nThe records cannot be forged because the ledger is maintained by thousands of computers around the world.\n\nAn image of a popular internet meme, featuring two-year-old Chloe Clem, was sold as a NFT for about $74,000 (£54,000) in September last year.", "Prof Tahseen Jafry, from the Centre for Climate Justice, says that when disasters strike women will usually have more on their plate\n\nClimate change affects every person on the planet but studies have found it affects women more.\n\nThe Centre for Climate Justice based at Glasgow Caledonian University puts this down to two things.\n\nSecondly, women don't have good enough representation at climate talks to have their say on effective solutions.\n\nIt is well documented in UK statistics that during the Covid crisis, on average, women have been doing more unpaid housework and unpaid childcare than men.\n\nThey do this while also juggling their paid work and other challenges the pandemic has caused.\n\nProf Tahseen Jafry, from the Centre for Climate Justice, says the effects of the climate crisis are no different.\n\nShe says that when disasters strike women will usually have more on their plate because of additional unpaid roles that are often not recognised.\n\n\"So it will be harder to be able to balance the workload when there's severe weather events in Scotland,\" Prof Jafry says.\n\n\"It's important to consider what we're talking about doesn't apply to every household in Scotland. But for many households women are juggling their daily lives.\"\n\nAnd for countries already on the frontline of the climate crisis, this isn't just a concern, it is a reality right now, she says.\n\nGender and climate change expert Chimwemwe Nyambosa Ndhlovu, who is from Malawi, explains women and girls in that country will do most of the farming to feed their families, labour in the house, and collect water and wood, all unpaid, alongside making a bit of money themselves.\n\nBut these unevenly felt challenges are getting harder because of climate-related issues such as flooding and drought causing problems to their crops and water sanitation. And she told me the tension can lead to gender-based violence.\n\n\"In negotiations, we see a lot of men still at the tables, and women are still at the back. So it is difficult for [women] to present our feelings,\" she says.\n\nBack in Scotland, Prof Jafry explains we need to learn lessons from other parts of the world and women's experiences:\n\n\"My concern is that a significant level of fear and not being able to cope and deal with a climate crisis is going to play out in a Scottish context as well,\" she says.\n\nShona Seaman had her home flooded out twice\n\nIn Brechin, Shona Seaman had her home flooded out twice a few years back.\n\nI decided to revisit her story because more regular and extreme flooding is predicted as an effect of climate change.\n\nAs a childminder she had to temporarily shut her business after the flood and later she permanently closed it.\n\nAnd who was most affected? It was the mums Shona was having to call, who were juggling work and finding last-minute childcare.\n\n\"Flooding is traumatic and chaotic, and you can't plan for it,\" she says.\n\n\"And when you're running a business in your own home, and that business is caring for children, it adds another level of complexities.\n\n\"So we flooded and that night while I was trying to get my children and my family out of our house, I was also having to phone mums and let them know that I wasn't able to care for their children anymore.\"\n\nShona says the flood left her with no income but her husband was still working.\n\n\"If I was a single parent, or if our circumstances were different, it would have had a really profound affect on us,\" she says.\n\n\"And certainly women with micro-businesses and things in other parts of the world, if they lose those, then they've lost everything.\"\n\nWomen in Scotland are fighting for their place at the table in climate talks.\n\nGilded Lily in Glasgow runs workshops and programmes to empower women to have their say on climate change.\n\nSajida Rashid with a dress she made as part of the Glasgow Climate Sisters project\n\nSajida Rashid has been on a journey.\n\nHer parents originally came from Pakistan to Scotland and while she was born and brought up here, she says she's had a fear of speaking out because of her background.\n\n\"I think bigger steps need to be taken and we're maybe not given a platform to do that,\" she says.\n\n\"I worked on a climate leadership programme last year, and learned a lot from it. I found my voice. Changes have to be made.\"\n\nZarina Ahmad, a climate communicator who works with these women, says such steps are key.\n\n\"Look at women for solutions and resilience - and don't speak on behalf of women, which is what we often get, especially women of colour. Give us space, let us have our voices, and let us be heard.\"", "Big banks are pumping billions into new oil and gas production despite net zero pledges, campaigners have said.\n\nBanks including HSBC, Barclays and Deutsche Bank are still backing new oil and gas despite being part of a green banking group, ShareAction said.\n\nInvestors should force banks to demand green plans from fossil fuel firms before funding them, it said.\n\nHSBC and Barclays said they were focused on achieving environmental goals.\n\n\"Net zero\" means not adding to greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere by cutting and trying to balance out emissions.\n\nIf the Earth is to avoid damaging environmental effects, including more extreme weather, it needs to limit average global warming to below 1.5 degrees centigrade.\n\nTo achieve this, we need to get to net zero by 2050, experts have said.\n\nAs part of getting to net zero, the International Energy Agency has said there should be no new oil and natural gas fields.\n\nBut big banks are continuing to fund oil and gas expansion with billions of dollars, ShareAction said, despite being part of a UN-led group called the Net Zero Banking Alliance.\n\nHSBC put an estimated $8.7bn (£6.4bn) into new oil and gas in 2021, while Barclays put in $4.5bn, and Deutsche Bank loaned $5.7bn, the campaign group estimated.\n\nThe fossil fuel giants receiving the funding included Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, and Saudi Aramco.\n\nThis is a big drop from 2020, when HSBC alone pumped more than $18bn into new oil and gas, and there were big drops in funding across the board between 2020 and 2021, according to figures from consultancy Profundo.\n\nShareAction said this was due to banks focussing on providing pandemic-related loans to keep fossil fuel firms afloat during the pandemic, and that in 2021 funding returned to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nSince joining the Net Zero Banking Alliance last year, 24 big banks have provided $33bn for new oil and gas projects, with more than half of that amount ($19bn) coming from four of the founding members - HSBC, Barclays, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank, the campaigners said.\n\nShareAction urged big investors to demand that banks restrict finance for oil and gas expansion, saying funding new oil and gas is a lose-lose for banks and investors.\n\nXavier Lerin, ShareAction senior research manager, said: \"If oil and gas demand decreases in line with 1.5C scenarios, prices will fall and assets will become stranded.\n\n\"On the other hand, if demand does not fall enough to limit global warming to 1.5C, the economy will suffer from severe physical climate impacts.\n\n\"Either way, value will be destroyed for energy companies, banks and their investors.\"\n\nThe campaign group added: \"Banks say that they want to help their clients to transition away from fossil fuels, but there is little evidence for this claim.\"\n\n\"Most banks - HSBC included - are not demanding transition plans from clients, raising doubts about their commitment to this transition,\" it added.\n\nBut an HSBC spokesman said the bank was \"committed to working with our customers to achieve a transition towards a thriving low carbon economy\".\n\nThe bank published its policy to phase out funding coal for energy production in December, and said its oil and gas net zero financing plans would be published on 22 February in its annual report.\n\nBarclays said it \"continues to engage with a broad range of stakeholders on climate and sustainability topics\".\n\n\"We continue to focus on our ambition to become a net zero bank by 2050, and our commitment to align our financing with the goals and timelines of the Paris Agreement,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nBarclays has a target of a 15% reduction in financed emissions from energy, including coal, oil and gas, by 2025.\n\n\"We also have restrictions around the direct financing of new oil and gas exploration projects in the Arctic or financing for companies primarily engaged in oil and gas exploration and production in this region,\" the spokeswoman added.\n\nA Deutsche Bank spokesman said: \"Carbon intensive sectors account for only a small share of our loan book and based on publicly available data our lending and underwriting activity in fossil fuels is significantly smaller than global peers'.\n\n\"Moreover, our aim is to support all of our customers as we transition to a net zero world.\"\n\nDeutsche Bank said it was \"well under way\" to hitting green and social targets of €200bn (£170bn) by 2023, including \"an intense dialogue with clients to move from high-carbon business models towards low and no-carbon ones\".\n\nThe spokesman added: \"We have committed to align the operational and attributable emissions from our portfolio with pathways to net-zero by 2050 or sooner.\n\n\"This includes measuring and subsequently disclosing the carbon intensity of our loan portfolio and developing and disclosing plans to adjust its footprint in accordance with national and international climate targets by end of this year.\"\n\nBNP Paribas, which was also named in the ShareAction report, said: \"As the leading bank in continental Europe, BNP Paribas is a major financier of European energy companies that are largely committed to transitioning their model through strong investments in developing renewable energies.\"\n\nThe bank said it is \"convinced that these players, due to their technical and financial capacities, have the levers necessary to accelerate transition by developing renewable energy and other transformative solutions\".\n\nMeanwhile, oil giant Exxon Mobil said that the International Energy Agency and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change \"agree that significant investment in oil and gas is still needed in Paris-aligned scenarios\".\n\nIt said that even in the IEA net zero scenario, \"additional investment of approximately $11tn through 2050 would be required in both oil and natural gas development to meet the world's energy demand\".\n\nBP said it \"has a net zero ambition and we have set out a strategy to deliver it\".\n\n\"Resilient hydrocarbons are a core part of our strategy, but we are not aiming to grow our oil and gas production - we expect to see production fall 40% from 2019 to 2030.\n\n\"We expect to hold investment in oil and gas flat over this decade as output falls, while at the same time expanding our spending in transition growth businesses - including EV charging, convenience, renewables, hydrogen and bioenergy - to around 50% of the total by 2030,\" BP added.\n\nShell declined to comment, and Saudi Aramco was approached for comment.", "Last updated on .From the section American Football\n\nThe Los Angeles Rams scored a late touchdown to beat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 in Super Bowl 56.\n\nThe Bengals looked set to win their first Super Bowl - just two years after being the NFL's worst team.\n\nBut the Rams' star-studded roster produced when it mattered most, with quarterback Matthew Stafford leading a game-winning 15-play drive.\n\nWith just one minute 25 seconds left, Cooper Kupp scored his second touchdown to give the Rams a second NFL title.\n\nThe wide receiver, 28, was named the game's Most Valuable Player, adding to the Offensive Player of the Year award he won last week.\n\nWith the game taking place at SoFi Stadium, the Rams are only the second team to win a Super Bowl in their own stadium after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers achieved the feat last year.\n\nVictory also vindicated their decision to return to Los Angeles from St Louis six years ago.\n\nAlthough they reached the NFL's championship game at the end of their third season back in California, losing to the New England Patriots, they then traded away a flurry of future draft picks to rebuild their squad.\n\nBuilt at a cost of $5bn (£3.7bn) by Rams and Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke, the SoFi Stadium earned the right to stage the first Super Bowl in the LA region since 1993 and the Rams went all in to ensure they were part of the big show.\n\nThe gamble paid off as they not only reached their fifth Super Bowl but delivered a Hollywood ending.\n\nThe Rams gave up significant draft capital to bring in Stafford, linebacker Von Miller and cornerback Jalen Ramsey, while Odell Beckham Jr was picked up as a free agent in November.\n\nStafford and Beckham, in particular, have enjoyed a new lease of life in LA after being starved of success with the Detroit Lions and New York Giants respectively.\n\nStafford tied for a career-high 41 touchdowns in the regular season before claiming his first play-off win - in his 186th NFL game - while Beckham scored his first play-off touchdown.\n\nBeckham's second opened the scoring on the Rams' second possession of Super Bowl 56, before Stafford made an 11-yard touchdown pass to Kupp to give them a 13-3 lead early in the second quarter.\n\nThe Bengals hit straight back to make it 13-10, but on the Rams' next possession Beckham dropped a catch and immediately clutched his left knee.\n\nThe receiver did not return to the game and, after the Bengals went 20-13 up early in the third quarter, the defences took charge.\n\nLA eked out a field goal and, with 6mins 13secs on the clock, Stafford knew this was the time to show the Rams were right to trade Jared Goff and three draft picks for him last March.\n\nWith the Super Bowl on the line, the 34-year-old relied on the man he helped to secure the receiving triple crown of most catches, yards and touchdowns in the regular season.\n\nStafford found Kupp five times on the drive, capped by his third touchdown pass, to put the Rams back in front and finish with 283 passing yards.\n\nDefensive tackle Aaron Donald then made a tackle to stop the Bengals getting a first down before forcing quarterback Joe Burrow to throw the ball away under pressure on fourth and one. The three-time Defensive Player of the Year finished with eight pressures, including two sacks.\n\nUnlike the Rams, Cincinnati used the draft to turn around their fortunes in the past couple of years, selecting Burrow with the first pick in 2020 and receiver Ja'Marr Chase, his former college team-mate, with the fifth pick in 2021.\n\nThe Bengals opted for Chase rather than an offensive lineman, which would have given their franchise quarterback greater protection.\n\nAlthough Cincinnati still have one of the NFL's most porous offensive lines, Burrow became the first quarterback to reach the Super Bowl after leading the league in times sacked (51).\n\nThat was mainly because of his connection with Chase, who claimed a rookie record for receiving yards this season and the Rookie of the Year award.\n\nAfter leading the Bengals to their first Super Bowl in 33 years, they connected again for 46 yards to set up a successful field-goal attempt late in the first quarter.\n\nWhen the Rams went 13-3 up, Cincinnati hit straight back with a 12-play scoring drive ending with a trick play, Burrow shovelling it off to running back Joe Mixon to find Tee Higgins for a six-yard touchdown.\n\nHiggins scored again with a huge play from the first play after half-time, although he appeared to pull Ramsey's facemask before catching Burrow's deep pass to the sideline and running in a 75-yard score.\n\nAn interception on the next play resulted in another field goal to put the Bengals 20-13 up, but then LA began to capitalise on the visitors' Achilles heel.\n\nThe Bengals offensive line allowed Burrow to be sacked seven times as defences forced a run of seven straight punts - four of them by the Bengals - before the Rams ended Cincinnati's hopes of completing their Cinderella story.\n• None Burrow was sacked 19 times in the play-offs, surpassing the previous record of 14\n• None Burrow's average time to throw was 2.41 seconds, tied for his fastest of the season\n• None Kupp claimed the most catches in a single post-season (33)\n• None Kupp is the first player to hit the triple crown, win Offensive Player of the Year and Super Bowl MVP in the same season\n• None At 36 year 20 days, Sean McVay became the youngest head coach to win a Super Bowl\n\n'Poetic' win for Stafford and Rams - what they said\n\nRams head coach Sean McVay: \"It feels outstanding. I am so proud of this team. We talk all the time about competitive greatness, about being your best when your best is required and Matt gets to finish it off - it is poetic.\n\n\"Those guys did a great job - they took over the game. World champs baby!\"\n\nRams quarterback Matt Stafford: \"I just thank the coach for saying 'you and Cooper Kupp go and get this thing done', and calling plays for him.\n\n\"I kept finding ways to get him the ball, and he kept making unbelievable plays. That is what he does.\"\n\nSuper Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp: \"I'm just so thankful. These guys here, they challenge me, they push me and they make it so much fun coming into work every day.\"\n\nAaron Donald: \"I wanted this so bad, I feel amazing. It was one last play to be world champs, and we made a play and won so that's all that matters.\"\n\nBengals quarterback Joe Burrow (on Twitter): \"Sorry we couldn't get it done. Proud of our team and our fans. Love these guys.\"\n\nWith five joint headliners, the question hanging over 2022's hip-hop half-time show was how to do justice to the stars' sizeable back catalogues.\n\nBut Dr Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J Blige and Kendrick Lamar struck the perfect balance between packing in as many monster hits as possible, while also giving each one - and each other - time to breathe.\n\nAnd as if five headliners weren't enough, 50 Cent made his Super Bowl debut by hanging upside down, a recreation of his most famous music video for his most famous song, In Da Club. He might have been a little out of breath, but the crowd went wild.\n\nCurse words were replaced with family-friendly lyrics, and the only thing vaguely approaching controversy came when Eminem took to the stage, taking the knee towards the end of his performance.\n• None A prize-winning super horse is kidnapped from an enigmatic owner\n• None Is this a new alternative to dating apps? Find out the unusual way one man is going about finding his perfect other half", "A military instructor teaches civilians to use Molotov cocktails in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv\n\nRussia is \"highly likely\" to invade Ukraine despite ongoing diplomatic efforts, the defence secretary says.\n\nBen Wallace said there was a \"whiff of Munich in the air\" - a reference to diplomacy that failed to prevent World War Two.\n\nMinister Brandon Lewis said Mr Wallace was expressing concern that \"Russia has continued to move troops\" during talks.\n\nMoscow has denied any plans to invade Ukraine but has amassed more than 100,000 troops near the border.\n\nIn an interview with the Sunday Times, Mr Wallace said: \"It may be that he [Putin] just switches off his tanks and we all go home but there is a whiff of Munich in the air from some in the West.\"\n\nPrior to World War Two, European powers pursued a policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany, culminating in an agreement at Munich to allow the invasion of Czechoslovakian territories - a betrayal of allies which failed in its goal of preventing war.\n\nVadym Prystaiko, Ukraine's ambassador to the UK, said the comparison of diplomatic efforts with Russia to appeasement was unhelpful.\n\nHe told the BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme: \"It's not the best time for us to offend our partners in the world, reminding them of this act which actually did not bring peace but the opposite - it bought war.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme: \"If you look back to that period of time there was a lot of diplomatic engagement, there was an optimism at the time, actually, that there may be a diplomatic way through.\n\n\"That eventually turned out not to be the case. It turned out that wasn't the intent or aim of Adolf Hitler at the time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis: \"Russia could invade (Ukraine) very, very quickly\"\n\nMr Lewis said the fact Russia had not yet invaded could indicate talks were working, but he warned there remained a risk President Vladimir Putin may not be engaging sincerely.\n\nIn his interview, Mr Wallace also said Moscow could launch an \"offensive at any time\".\n\nHe later said on Twitter that because of the \"worsening situation in Ukraine\", he had cut short a long weekend abroad with his family.\n\nOne of the unofficial rules of British politics is to avoid historical allusions. Especially those relating to World War Two. They are open to interpretation.\n\nSo it is with Ben Wallace and his reference to the 1938 Munich agreement. Some have inferred from this that the defence secretary was accusing some allies of seeking to appease President Putin. Mr Wallace's advisers insist not.\n\nThey say he was instead suggesting it was possible the Russian leader had already decided to invade Ukraine, in the same way Hitler had already decided at Munich to occupy part of Czechoslovakia.\n\nIn other words, he was suggesting that all the current diplomacy may come to naught and the West should be ready for that.\n\nAt most, Mr Wallace was implying that some allies might be better to judge Mr Putin on his actions and not his words.\n\nAll of this is not to suggest there are no differences among Western leaders. Some European countries are less forthright than the United States in their predictions of a possible invasion of Ukraine.\n\nOthers in Europe are fearful of losing access to Russian energy and are more cautious about what sanctions to impose if it were to invade.\n\nThat aside, one of the striking aspects of this crisis is how Western powers have managed to remain largely united in their broad strategy of deterrence and diplomacy, regardless of differences over individual tactics and measures.\n\nMore than a dozen countries have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine immediately, including Britain.\n\nOn Saturday, Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said advice to UK nationals in Ukraine had changed because Russia could now attack \"at no notice\".\n\nMr Heappey warned that the RAF would not be able to \"fly in\" and rescue those who chose to stay, comparing the situation to the evacuation of Afghanistan last summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says sanctions against Russia should not be underestimated\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the \"imminent\" threat of military action justifies evacuating the US embassy in Kyiv.\n\nYvette Cooper, Labour's shadow home secretary, said a \"very strong and united international response\" was needed for \"this Russian belligerence\".\n\n\"It is immensely serious and nobody should be naive about what Russia is up to, and the scale of the troops amassing on the Ukraine border,\" she told BBC One's Sunday Morning programme.\n\nMs Cooper said there had to be \"extremely strong and swift and severe\" sanctions in the face of any incursion.", "A senior member of the Police Federation is facing a misconduct hearing for allegedly sharing details of an interview given by Sarah Everard's killer Wayne Couzens.\n\nSgt Simon Kempton is said to have sent messages about Couzens' first court appearance in March last year.\n\nCouzens had been charged with Ms Everard's kidnap and murder.\n\nThe Met Police constable was later given a whole-life sentence at the Old Bailey after admitting both charges.\n\nMs Everard, 33, was handcuffed by Couzens as he flashed his warrant card and pretended to arrest her for breaching Covid guidelines.\n\nShe had been walking home from a friend's house in Clapham on 3 March.\n\nOn 9 March Couzens was arrested at his home in Deal, Kent.\n\nIn a brief police interview, he told a false story about being threatened by an Eastern European gang, claiming they had demanded he deliver \"another girl\" after he had underpaid a prostitute a few weeks before.\n\nHe then claimed he kidnapped Ms Everard, drove out of London and handed her over to three men in a van in a layby in Kent, while she was alive and uninjured.\n\nBut after Ms Everard's body was discovered in a pond just 130 metres from land owned by Couzens, he was charged.\n\nCCTV footage played in court showed Couzens and Sarah Everard beside a vehicle on Poynders Road in Clapham\n\nDetails of Couzens' police interviews were read out at his first court appearance at Westminster Magistrates' Court - but they were subject to strict reporting restrictions.\n\nIt is alleged that Sgt Kempton \"posted a series of messages on a group chat in which he disclosed evidence that had been revealed during the hearing\".\n\nHe is due to have a misconduct hearing at Dorset Police HQ on 22 February to answer the allegations, which could amount to gross misconduct.\n\nDorset Police said Sgt Kempton was on secondment to the Police Federation at the time of the allegations.\n\nOn the Police Federation's website, he is listed as the national treasurer.\n\nA Police Federation spokesman said: \"It would be inappropriate for us to comment on this matter while investigations are ongoing and ahead of the hearing itself.\"\n\nThe hearing in Winfrith is expected to last four days.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA four-day working week should be trialled in Wales, the Future Generations Commission has said.\n\nShorter working weeks can make staff healthier and happier and businesses more productive, Wales' commissioner Sophie Howe said.\n\nCutting hours but paying the same could help businesses retain staff and increase turnover, the report said.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was considering the progress of pilots in other countries.\n\nIt can change working patters in the public sector but not for private firms, but the report said the pilot could be used as a model there.\n\nMs Howe wants a \"national conversation\" about working less and its potential to improve people's wellbeing.\n\nShe urged the Welsh government to back pilots across different sectors.\n\nWales' commissioner, Sophie Howe, wants a \"national conversation\" about working less\n\n\"There are different challenges in different sectors but let's try it,\" she said.\n\nWales has high levels of sickness and relatively low productivity. Incomes are lower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nMany jobs have changed as a result of the pandemic and the drive to net zero - the term for when carbon emitted into the atmosphere equals that removed.\n\nThat change is expected to accelerate as more jobs become automated.\n\nThe Future Generations Commission's report argues by cutting hours but not pay absenteeism would fall and productivity increase, and a healthier population would then put less pressure on the NHS.\n\n\"The alternative is to keep working as normal, increase mental health (sickness) rates, increasing the cost of living crisis and not preparing for the changing nature of work,\" Ms Howe said.\n\nFor years Lily Champ, 24, worked five days a week in city centre hair salons.\n\n\"Usually a five-day week is chaotic, it can feel quite rushed and there's not enough time for yourself,\" she said.\n\nNow she works four eight-hour days rather than five and her pay is the same.\n\nShe said it makes a \"huge difference in and out of the salon\".\n\n\"I can suffer from anxiety a lot and it helps because I have time for myself, more time to chill but also to do things,\" Ms Champ said.\n\nShe is one of a 10-strong team at Cardiff hair salon Slunks where a four-day week was introduced as a trial there after lockdown to maintain social distancing.\n\nCo-owner Chelsea Hobson, 28, said: \"We noticed a massive difference with the team's mental health and happiness.\"\n\nShe did not expect it to make the business more successful, but added: \"Takings-wise we are actually doing better than before.\"\n\nSlunks co-owner Chelsea Hobson said reducing hours while maintaining pay rates led to increased takings\n\nRestaurants are often busiest at the weekend and staff most in demand, but Cardiff restaurant Cora closes on Friday, Saturday and Sunday so the chef can have a better work-life balance.\n\n\"I value my time with my family a lot more than I value cooking,\" said the restaurant's Lee Skeet.\n\nThe business is also closed during Easter, summer and Christmas holidays.\n\n\"I really didn't want to get into the routine that chefs do of always being busy at weekends and holidays,\" he said.\n\nHe urged others to \"focus more on themselves\".\n\nChef Lee Skeet does not work weekends to improve his work-life balance\n\nAdam Bostock, sales director for Cardiff hearing healthcare company HearFocus, said a four-day week was beneficial for staff wellbeing and helped attract new employees in a \"competitive marketplace\".\n\n\"It's not a case of us losing 20% of our income, it's a case of us gaining clinical staff that we didn't have before,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nThe report is not the first to suggest a shorter working week could benefit firms. The idea is being discussed in New Zealand, Ireland and Germany.\n\nIn September 2021 the Scottish government announced it was trialling a four-day week.\n\nBusiness group CBI Wales' director Ian Price said: \"It might work for some organisations, and they will get more productivity, but it isn't practical for others.\n\n\"Businesses are already having to deal with the challenges of hybrid working and working from home.\"\n\nHe said it would be wrong to \"overload businesses with more changes\".\n\nMs Howe said: \"The 37-hour working week hasn't changed in around 100 years.\n\n\"What I'm not saying is that suddenly overnight every business in Wales should be offering a reduced working week.\n\n\"What I'm saying is there should be some pilots across Wales with different types of businesses.\n\n\"Two years ago businesses said they couldn't afford a minimum wage, and now it's just become an absolutely standard thing.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We are considering the progress of pilots in other countries and examining the lessons Wales can learn.\n\n\"A shorter working week is just one example of flexible working and through our social partnership approach, we want to encourage more employers to provide workers with greater choice over where and when they work.\"", "A total of nine people were killed, three at the wake, and six more at the funeral service\n\nGunmen in Mexico have killed nine people mourning the death of a man who died in jail last week, officials say.\n\nThe nine were killed in two attacks in the northern city of Ciudad Juárez.\n\nAssailants first burst into a private home where friends and family had gathered for the wake of the inmate and shot dead two women and a man.\n\nHours later, the premises where the funeral service for the same man was being held, were targeted by attackers who killed six more people.\n\nWitnesses said the gunmen stormed into the home, which doubles up as an evangelical church, as a pastor was holding the funeral service. They described scenes of panic as the gunmen opened fire.\n\nAmong those killed were a 12-year-old boy and his father.\n\nInvestigators told local media there were strong indications that the same criminal group was behind both attacks.\n\nOfficials have not released the name of the inmate whose funeral was attacked - but the prosecutor's office said he had been killed on Wednesday while imprisoned in a jail in the city of Chihuahua.\n\nHis body had been returned for burial to Ciudad Juárez.\n\nCiudad Juárez, on Mexico's border with the US, is one of the Mexican cities with the highest murder rate nationwide.\n\nIn 2021, an average of four people was murdered every day in the city, according to data from the regional prosecutor's office.\n\nMost of the murders are linked to rivalries between local drugs gangs, the region's attorney general says.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mexico missing: 'If I find a body, I recover a piece of my son'", "Reitman at the premiere of Ghostbusters: Afterlife in 2021\n\nFilm-maker Ivan Reitman, who directed blockbuster comedies including the original Ghostbusters, has died at the age of 75.\n\nAfter his family fled Communist oppression in post-war Czechoslovakia, Reitman grew up in Canada, where he trained in film-making.\n\nHis big break came when he produced the 1978 frat-house comedy National Lampoon's Animal House.\n\nHis other films as director included Twins, Kindergarten Cop and Junior.\n\nHe died peacefully in his sleep at his home in California, his family said.\n\n\"Our family is grieving the unexpected loss of a husband, father and grandfather who taught us to always seek the magic in life,\" his children said in a statement.\n\n\"We take comfort that his work as a film-maker brought laughter and happiness to countless others around the world.\"\n\nReitman on the set of Animal House in 1978\n\nPaul Feig, who directed the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, wrote on Twitter: \"He directed some of my favourite comedies of all time. All of us in comedy owe him so very much.\"\n\nKnocked Up and The 40 Year-Old Virgin writer and director Judd Apatow said Reitman was \"a true legend\" who \"influenced everything we all love about film comedy\".\n\nThe Big Sick actor and writer Kumail Nanjiani agreed that he was \"a legend\" and added: \"The number of great movies he made is absurd.\"\n\nMindy Kaling, who apprared in Reitman's 2011 film No Strings Attached, said he \"was old school in the best way, and kind\", adding: \"I loved working with him.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ghostbusters This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Komarno in what is now Slovakia in 1946, Reitman's mother had survived the Auschwitz concentration camp and his father was the owner of the country's biggest vinegar factory.\n\nThe family later settled in Toronto. Reitman went to McMaster University in Hamilton, where he made short films and encountered the likes of future Ghostbusters star Rick Moranis.\n\nAfter producing two of director David Cronenberg's early horror films, his work on National Lampoon's Animal House launched a career that would see him create some of the biggest comedies of the 80s and 90s.\n\nHe directed Bill Murray in his first starring role in the 1979 firm Meatballs. He also made Arnold Schwarzenegger a comedy star with Twins (1988). They worked together again on Kindergarten Cop (1990) and Junior (1994).\n\nSchwarzenegger described Reitman as \"comedy royalty\". The actor added several pictures to Instagram, writing: \"Ivan Reitman is a legend. In Hollywood, he was bigger than life.\"\n\nHe continued: \"In life, he was a mensch - a wonderful father and husband, a fantastic friend, a great human being. He was kind, he was generous, he was smart as hell, and he was always there for you.\n\n\"If you knew him, Ivan had a way of making himself a part of your story, and he certainly wrote a chunk of mine.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by schwarzenegger This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe former body builder added that he would \"always be grateful\" to Reitman for taking a chance on him at a time when \"the studios just wanted me to focus on finding new ways to kill bad guys, blow things up, and show off some muscles\".\n\nBut Reitman's was best known for 1984's Ghostbusters. The supernatural comedy hit grossed over $200m worldwide and earned two Oscar nominations.\n\nIt also spawned a franchise that included a 1989 sequel and two new instalments. Reitman produced last year's Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which was directed by his son Jason.\n\nOn the continuing appeal of the film, he told AP: \"I always had a sort of sincere approach to the comedy. I took it seriously, even though it was a horror movie and a comedy, I felt you had to sort of deal with it in a kind of realistic and honest way.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by jasonreitman This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSharing a black-and-white photo of him as a child with his father and \"hero\", Jason Reitman implored fans to continue to \"enjoy his movies and remember his storytelling gifts\".\n\n\"Nothing would make him happier,\" he wrote.", "Baljit Sethi, pictured here with his wife Anjana, was the first witness to speak at the inquiry\n\nThe Post Office scandal that saw sub-postmasters wrongly convicted for fraud has ruined lives, a top lawyer has said.\n\nBarrister Jason Beer QC said former sub-postmasters and mistresses' stories should be at the heart of an inquiry.\n\n\"Lives were ruined, families torn apart, families were made homeless or destitute,\" he said.\n\nThe cases constitute the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history.\n\nBetween 2000 and 2014, more than 700 sub-postmasters were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a flaw in the Horizon accounting IT system.\n\nThe inquiry - which is expected to run for the rest of this year - will look at whether the Post Office knew about faults in the IT system and will also ask how staff shouldered the blame.\n\nA total of 72 former sub-postmasters have had their names cleared so far.\n\nIn his opening remarks, Sir Wyn Williams, the retired High Court judge who is leading the inquiry, expressed thanks to the 50 to 60 witnesses he expects to hear oral evidence from in the coming weeks.\n\nSir Wyn said he sought to understand \"the scale and nature of the harm\" done to so many.\n\n\"These hearings would not be taking place at all were it not for the witnesses who have agreed to give up their valuable time to publicly relive what must be very distressing memories and events.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tracy Felstead was sent to Holloway Prison for a crime she didn't commit\n\nBaljit Sethi was the first witness to give evidence on Monday. He had told the BBC beforehand he was looking forward to it.\n\nDuring his session, he described his long career spanning two decades, during which he ran two branches near Romford in Essex with his wife Anjana successfully using paper accounts.\n\nAfter Horizon was introduced, one branch had no problems at all, but the second one showed a hole in the accounts of £17,000, which they were asked to cover out of their own pocket. The Sethis were never charged, but still faced a financial and emotional nightmare.\n\nMr Sethi said he tried to communicate with the head office in Chelmsford, Essex, after noticing a problem with the system.\n\nHe broke down in tears and went on to say: \"I was the only man who ran the Post Office seven days a week.\n\n\"I used to open it at 8am and shut at 8pm. I was the only Post Office in the country running all seven days.\n\n\"I knew there was something wrong with the system but no-one wanted to know that,\" he added.\n\n\"We didn't take a single penny from the Post Office our entire life.\"\n\nMr Sethi has also told the BBC previously that the scandal meant he felt he was unable to be a good parent to his two sons and daughter.\n\nHis son Amit said ahead of the session: \"I want accountability and those who suffered should be compensated appropriately.\n\n\"That's it - then we'll draw a line under it.\"\n\nThe judge will hear evidence on why sub-postmasters and postmistresses were singled out and whether they have been justly compensated, as well as analysing at least 100 written statements.\n\nJason Beer QC said families had been \"torn apart\" because of the Post Office scandal\n\nMr Beer, the counsel to the inquiry, pointed out that some former sub-postmasters had passed away before it started.\n\n\"It is about people whose mental and physical health has been impacted, people whose marriages and partnerships have deteriorated or failed, about people who have thought about taking their own lives and in some cases took their own lives,\" he said.\n\nThe inquiry will also examine whether staff at software firm Fujitsu, which developed the Horizon software to complete tasks such as transactions, accounting and stocktaking, knew the system had flaws while data from it was used in court to convict sub-postmasters.\n\nEvidence will be heard from witnesses in Leeds and Cardiff over the coming weeks.\n\n\"I cannot stress enough the importance of me understanding the scale and nature of the harm which has bee caused to so many individuals,\" Sir Wyn said.", "The regulations that are currently in place will become guidance on Tuesday\n\nAll remaining Covid-19 restrictions in Northern Ireland will be lifted, Health Minister Robin Swann has announced.\n\nA small number of restrictions are currently in place, including the wearing of face coverings and the use of Covid certification in nightclubs.\n\nMr Swann said those remaining measures \"should no longer be set out in regulations\" and instead will be put in guidance issued to the public.\n\nHe said he would be making an order on Tuesday to revoke the remaining rules.\n\nMeasures which had previously been guidance rather than law, such as working from home where possible, have not been changed.\n\nWhile in England there is a legal requirement to self-isolate after testing positive for Covid-19, in Northern Ireland this falls under \"very strong guidance\".\n\nMr Swann said: \"This does not mean that Covid-19 has gone away or that we as a community are safe from its harm.\n\n\"It is vitally important that we continue to observe the sensible measures we have all learnt to protect ourselves and others.\"\n\nThe health minister said it was important to retain the ability to reintroduce restrictions again in case of urgent need.\n\nAs a result he said he will seek to extend the powers granted to the Department of Health by the Coronavirus Act 2020 by six months.\n\nMr Swann confirmed on Sunday afternoon that he has tested positive for Covid-19 but he is carrying out his duties remotely\n\nMr Swann had written to his ministerial colleagues asking for their views on removing remaining restrictions.\n\nThe executive collapsed earlier in February but individual ministers are still in place.\n\nThey can take some decisions, as long as the issues are not deemed \"significant or controversial\".\n\nMr Swann's letter to other ministers, seen by the BBC, said government lawyers had told him relaxing Covid rules would fall into this category.\n\nHe said the lawyers suggested he could therefore not remove the rules by himself, under the terms of Stormont's ministerial code.\n\nThe full executive cannot meet because Paul Givan resigned as first minister, forcing the resignation of Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill because of the joint nature of the office.\n\nThe move was part of an ongoing protest by Mr Givan's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) against the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nCovid-passports in some settings are among the remaining Covid restrictions in Northern Ireland\n\nMr Swann's letter to the ministers who remain in place was an attempt to gain wider approval to relax restrictions in the absence of the full executive.\n\nThe current Covid 19 regulations would have been in place until 24 March, when the legislation underpinning them expired.\n\nIt is understood ministers from the DUP, Sinn Féin, SDLP and Alliance all supported Mr Swann - who is a member of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) - and confirmed their positions.\n\n\"After nearly two long years, the hospitality industry will be relieved that they can begin to trade without pandemic restrictions limiting the viability of their businesses,\" the group's chief executive Colin Neill said.\n\nRetail NI said it was \"fantastic news for our members and the wider business community\".\n\n\"However, we are disappointed that the statement does not include a clear commitment to return to the workplace,\" said Retail NI chief executive Glyn Roberts.\n\n\"Safely reopening offices and workplaces is not only vital to boost footfall for our high streets, but also for our economy and returning our society to normal.\"\n\nOn Monday, two more Covid-related deaths were announced in Northern Ireland along with 2,465 cases.\n\nThere are currently 437 patients with the virus in hospital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: People can be seen holding up slabs of wood after a floor collapsed in a Hackney bar\n\nThirteen people have been injured after a mezzanine floor collapsed at an east London pub.\n\nEmergency services were called to the Two More Years bar in Hackney Wick at about 16:50 GMT on Saturday.\n\nFirefighters rescued seven people who were trapped after the collapse. Four people were taken to hospital.\n\nOne of them told the BBC he feared he was going to die after he was trapped under the rubble.\n\n\"Everything was crushing me, I was starting to lose breath,\" said James Purdon, 30.\n\n\"It got to the point where I couldn't even cry for help because I had no energy left.\n\n\"I feel like I had seconds left of consciousness before someone managed to clear a passage for me to escape.\"\n\nAfter he was rescued, he said he could not move and he was \"in so much pain\".\n\nThe civil servant said he understands that he was the most seriously hurt of the victims, with injuries to his back, knee and ankle, but no broken bones.\n\nJames Purdon says he feared he was going to die as the rubble crushed him, but he has now been discharged from hospital\n\nA spokesman for Tower Hamlets Council said it is working with the emergency services and a structural engineer to assess the privately-owned building.\n\nOne witness, Amelia, said she was at the bar when the floor collapsed and she tried to help clear some of the rubble.\n\n\"When I saw it come down in front of me I was certain that there would be people dead,\" she said.\n\n\"So we're grateful to be safe. It's made me worry about the building safety of other similar bars in the area.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHal, a mental health worker and therapist from Stratford, was on the mezzanine floor when it collapsed and managed to escape the fall with a few scratches.\n\n\"It sounded like a rumbling, a bit like an earthquake. You can't be prepared for anything like this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe said he was \"pretty much in the middle of the upper mezzanine of the bar\" after a football friendly between Clapton CFC and Stonewall FC.\n\n\"Thankfully I was able to heave myself out,\" he said.\n\n\"We all helped each other out.\"\n\nA mezzanine floor in the single-storey pub in Roach Road collapsed\n\nBrian Jordan, strategic commander at London Ambulance Service, said the collapse was treated as a major incident and teams from the air ambulance were sent to the site.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade station commander Sacha Clement said crews found seven people who were trapped upstairs on the remaining part of the mezzanine floor.\n\n\"Crews used a ladder to bridge between the floor and the internal staircase to get them safely out of the building,\" the station commander said.\n\nLFB said crews from three fire engines from Homerton, Bethnal Green and Leyton fire stations and two rescue units from East Ham and Edmonton stations attended the scene.\n\nHarriet McMahon was sitting under the mezzanine with her boyfriend when it collapsed.\n\nShe described seeing \"clouds of dust\" and hearing \"people screaming\".\n\n\"I thought the whole place was coming down,\" she said.\n\n\"We ran out, we went back in again, we'd left our keys and our phones on the table.\n\n\"We found our stuff in the end. It was horrible. There were people and things everywhere.\"\n\nSadiq Khan thanked the emergency services for their \"swift action\"\n\nAnother man who was in the venue at the time said it was lucky there were not more people sitting directly under the mezzanine floor that came down.\n\n\"There was just this sort of cracking sort of noise and dust started coming down,\" he added.\n\n\"Me and my friend just ran to the side and the whole thing just came down in a matter of seconds.\"\n\nA statement on Two More Years' Instagram account said the venue would remain closed \"for now\" and added: \"Our thoughts are with everyone that has been affected.\"\n\nIt said \"thankfully\" no-one had sustained critical injuries.\n\nA police cordon was set up outside the bar but has since been lifted\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan thanked the ambulance service, fire brigade and police for their \"swift action\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with those affected by the incident in Hackney Wick this evening,\" he said.\n\n\"I wish all those injured a speedy recovery.\"\n\nRushanara Ali, Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, tweeted that she was \"very concerned about the collapse of part of a building at Roach Road\".\n\nA police cordon was set up in the area but has since been lifted.\n\nWere you at the bar or nearby? Did you see what happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Friends ended in 2004 after 10 seasons but has remained hugely popular worldwide since then\n\nSeveral Chinese streaming platforms have been accused of censoring LGBT plotlines from hit US sitcom Friends.\n\nThe show was re-released in China earlier this week on Tencent, Bilibili, Sohu, iQiyi and Alibaba's Youku.\n\nBut Chinese fans have complained of scenes being deleted, including those that reference a lesbian character, and another featuring a same-sex kiss.\n\nIt is unclear why the scenes have been removed, and none of the platforms have responded publicly to the accusations.\n\nThe show, which ran from 1994-2004, is based in New York City and centres around a group of friends played by Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt Le Blanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer.\n\nFriends has a massive following in China, with many Chinese millennials crediting the show with teaching them English and introducing them to US culture.\n\nSohu held broadcast rights between 2012 and 2018, and aired full, uncensored episodes at the time.\n\nBut Chinese fans shared their dismay on social media about the re-release and its omissions.\n\nIn one instance, dialogue was axed about the ex-wife of one character, Ross, who left him after she realised she was a lesbian.\n\nIncorrect subtitles were also used to downplay sexual references, the South China Morning Post reports. In one scene, the phrase \"multiple orgasms\" was translated to the Chinese phrase for \"women have endless gossips\".\n\n\"Not only does it ignore women's sexual desire and enjoyment... [it] also reinforces the gender stereotype of women,\" one user wrote on social media site Weibo, according to CNN.\n\n\"If you can't show the complete version under the current atmosphere, then don't import it,\" wrote another.\n\nSeveral users have called for a boycott of the show in protest.\n\nThe hashtag #FriendsCensored has became a popular term on Weibo in recent days. But on Sunday, searches for the hashtag and other variations produced either zero or limited results - indicating discussions may have caught the attention of Chinese censors.\n\nLady Gaga's appearance at a Friends reunion was cut from Chinese broadcasts last year\n\nIn recent years, China has shut down tens of thousands of websites and social media accounts containing \"vulgar\" and pornographic content, and other material deemed illegal or anti-Chinese.\n\nScenes featuring Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and K-Pop band BTS were cut from a Friends reunion special aired last year.\n\nIt's unclear why the musicians were removed from the final broadcast, but all three have previously been accused of insulting China. Lady Gaga, for example, has been banned from touring in the country after meeting with the Dalai Lama in 2016.", "Staff at QUB and UU have launched 10 days of strike action\n\nSome staff at Queen's University Belfast (QUB) and Ulster University (UU) have launched 10 days of strike action.\n\nThe University and College Union (UCU), which represents lecturers and support staff, said the dispute was over pensions, pay and workload.\n\nUCU members previously walked out for three days in December 2021.\n\nIt is unclear how many classes are cancelled as members do not have to say in advance if they intend to strike.\n\nThe UCU said staff at 68 universities across the UK would be taking action.\n\nUCU members at both QUB and UU are among those who have walked out until Tuesday 22 February.\n\nThey are then set to take further action from Monday 28 February to Wednesday 2 March.\n\nIt is also not known exactly how many staff at QUB and UU are on strike, but UCU is a union with hundreds of members at both universities.\n\nThe Open University, which has thousands of students in Northern Ireland, is also likely to be affected.\n\nUCU members previously went on strike in November and December 2019 and February 2020.\n\nIn a statement posted on social media, the UCU branch at QUB said it would be holding a rally at 11:30 GMT each day of the strike at the front gate of the university.\n\nThe branch invited the QUB vice-chancellor Prof Ian Greer to attend the first rally, taking place on Monday, to speak to UCU members.\n\nThe UCU has said university staff are being asked to accept cuts of up to 35% to their pensions and called on university employers to revoke the pension cuts.\n\nStaff organised a picket outside the gates of Queen's University Belfast\n\nBut the QUB UCU branch said \"there are also other significant problems to be resolved around casualisation, pay and workload.\"\n\n\"Many of these issues - particularly casualisation and workload - can be addressed locally,\" it added.\n\nIt said that, as the first strike rally is on Valentine's Day, it would have \"a Valentine's card, chocolate and flowers\" for Prof Greer.\n\nBoth universities will remain open during the strike and some classes, lectures and tutorials are expected continue as normal.\n\nThe UCU, though, has also said it is considering the possibility of further action, including a UK-wide marking and assessment boycott later in the academic year.\n\nIn a statement, the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) criticised the strike action by the UCU and said it would leave students facing more disruption.\n\n\"Rather than continuing this disruption, UCU should engage constructively in this year's multi-employer negotiating round which is planned to begin at the end of March,\" UCEA's chief executive Raj Jethwa said.\n\nThe UCEA also said a minority of UCU members were taking action.", "Dame Cressida Dick was greeted by reporters as she arrived for the BBC Radio London interview\n\nDame Cressida Dick has \"absolutely no intention\" of leaving her post as commissioner of the Met Police.\n\nShe told BBC Radio London she wanted to root out \"disgusting behaviour\" within the Met and had told officers \"enough is enough\".\n\nIt comes a week after the police watchdog said it had found \"disgraceful\" misogyny, discrimination and sexual harassment among some PCs.\n\nThe commissioner said she was \"seething angry\" about the report's findings.\n\nDame Cressida vowed she was the right person to lead the force, but admitted the force's reputation had been \"tarnished\" in recent months.\n\nShe said 100 extra officers would be employed in the professional standards department to root out bad behaviour.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan demanded she delivered her plan to win back trust in the Met Police within days or weeks having previously said he had put her \"on notice\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio London This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResponding to how she felt about Mr Khan's move, Dame Cressida said she was \"highly accountable\" and felt she was \"doing her best\" at running the Met, adding: \"I expect to be held to account, it's a big job.\"\n\nDame Cressida said the Met had \"a very bad problem, with too much very bad behaviour\", but believed she had been leading a \"real transformation\" within the force since becoming commissioner in 2017.\n\nShe said: \"There is no place in the Met for racism and sexism and for bullying.\n\n\"In the last few days I have gone out to my colleagues and said enough is enough.\n\n\"If you have those attitudes, get out now.\"\n\nShe said the force was \"hugely capable in so many ways, but its reputation has been tarnished by the awful things [in the report] and also some other awful things that have happened and come to light in the last several months\".\n\nDisturbing messages between officers, based mostly at Charing Cross, were published last week by the police watchdog\n\nAn independent review into the Met's standards, led by Baroness Louise Casey of Blackstock, will examine the force's vetting, recruitment and training procedures following the murder of Sarah Everard.\n\nDame Cressida wants Baroness Casey's review to \"turbo charge\" the work needed to change the culture within the Met.\n\n\"Baroness Casey will help me challenge this bad behaviour,\" she said.\n\n\"If she trips across a toxic team she'll be telling me straight away.\n\n\"I accept we have cultural issues and I have an extensive plan of work.\n\n\"The Met has issues, but I cannot allow it to be said that the experience that was held in Charing Cross was common place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sadiq Khan wants to see Cressida Dick’s plan within “days and weeks”\n\n\"I'm sure there are other examples and I am trying to find them.\"\n\nShe also said: \"I'm not complacent, there could be and probably will be, over the coming months, some more examples which will be embarrassing or disgusting because we will be rooting them out.\"\n\nThe Met is currently carrying out an inquiry into lockdown parties at Downing Street and Whitehall.\n\nThe force said earlier a questionnaire would be sent to those alleged to have been at events on eight dates, between May 2020 and April 2021.\n\nDame Cressida said: \"Fifty people are being asked to account for what they are doing.\n\n\"Some, not all, may end up with a fixed penalty notice and I recognise this has disgusted many members of the public.\"\n\nShe would not say whether the police officers who protect the government's buildings knew about the gatherings.\n\n\"I would say one thing to you,\" Dame Cressida added said, \"which is that my officers are there primarily, with firearms, to keep people safe from terrorists, from armed attackers and the like.\n\n\"That is their primary job. I do not ask them, and I'm not going to start asking them, to patrol the corridors of Whitehall looking for, you know, what might be going on in offices.\n\n\"That is not appropriate. We don't do it in any other environment. We wouldn't come marching into the BBC to do that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe commissioner was also asked about a viral video that showed West Ham defender Kurt Zouma kicking and slapping one of his pet cats.\n\nShe said she was \"shocked and disgusted\" by what she had seen.\n\n\"The RSPCA are investigating; we and Essex Police are assisting them.\"\n\nOver the past few weeks I've lost count of the number of times I've spoken about various apologies the Met has made.\n\nOngoing reviews, police watchdog reports and so on - this is the first time we've heard from the commissioner and she has no intention of going.\n\nQuite a bit of fighting talk too amid mounting pressure on her.\n\nOnly yesterday, Sadiq Khan stopped short of saying he had confidence in Dame Cressida and he wanted a plan of action to root out the real issues.\n\nBut what we are hearing from Dame Cressida is an absolute determination to carry on in post and she categorically wants to fix things.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nDiogo Jota scored twice as Liverpool cut their deficit to Premier League leaders Manchester City to nine points with a dominant performance against Leicester at Anfield.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side had a host of chances and reliable Portuguese forward Jota netted in each half, pouncing on Kasper Schmeichel's parry from Virgil van Dijk's header for the first, before stroking a second late on.\n\nThe Reds still have a game in hand on champions City and another commanding display suggests the title race may not yet be a foregone conclusion.\n\nFoxes goalkeeper Schmeichel was in inspired form and made crucial saves to twice deny Roberto Firmino and Luis Diaz on his full debut.\n\nMohamed Salah came off the bench in the second half after returning from Africa Cup of Nations duty and he too was unable to find a way past Schmeichel. When he did, a sublime curling strike rattled the crossbar.\n\nLeicester will rue the missed opportunity from James Maddison at 0-0 as the Englishman found space down the left edge of the area but his rising shot was pushed over the bar by Alisson.\n\nLeicester's poor season sees them stay in 12th place in the table, 10 points adrift of a Europa Conference League spot.\n\nLiverpool's season was going to be derailed once Salah and Sadio Mane went off to the Africa Cup of Nations - well that was the theory anyway. But it has not materialised that way.\n\nKlopp's side are growing in confidence and swatted aside Leicester with ease to stretch their run to just one defeat in their last 19 games in all competitions - ironically a loss at the Foxes on 28 December.\n\nIn reaching the Carabao Cup final, still in both the Champions League and FA Cup, and sitting second in the top flight, Liverpool remain in contention for an unprecedented quadruple of trophies.\n\nAnd the options available to Klopp now mean an already fearsome attacking line is further bolstered by the arrival of Diaz, who was making his first start for the club.\n\nThe former Porto man showed good touches in the final third and was unfortunate not to get on the scoresheet in front of the Kop, seeing a swerving shot and close-range drive batted out by Schmeichel.\n\nIf the Colombian needs any inspiration from a new signing at Liverpool, he needs to look no further than Jota, who has now scored 17 goals in all competitions this season.\n\nArriving from Wolves for a hefty £45m at the start of last season, Jota's goalscoring performances are not only highlighting the depth of the team, but giving Klopp a good headache of who to select in the front three.\n\nSalah was on the bench this time after his run to the Afcon final with Egypt, beaten by team-mate Mane's Senegal on penalties, and introduced in the second half.\n\nOn another day he might have had a hat-trick, but a shot at the near post and a one-on-one effort was kept out by the impressive Schmeichel, as well as hitting the woodwork with another classy attempt.\n\nLeicester are enduring a difficult season and were humiliated by Midlands rivals Nottingham Forest on Sunday, as the holders were knocked out of the FA Cup with a 4-1 loss.\n\nAfter that game, a furious Brendan Rodgers described the performance as \"awful\" and one that left him \"embarrassed\", and suggesting \"time could be up\" for some players in the squad.\n\nAlthough Thursday's defeat was not another crushing loss, Leicester were clearly second best throughout the contest and failed to get near the opposition for large periods.\n\nThey had just one shot on target, Maddison's early effort, but familiar frailties came to the fore once more as they conceded from a set-piece yet again for Jota's 34th-minute opener.\n\nIncluding penalties, Leicester have now let in 18 goals from set-pieces this season, while Wolves have conceded just 17 times in the entire campaign.\n\nLeicester's last clean sheet away from home came at Wolves, but that was a year ago.\n\nFollowing two fifth-placed finishes in the league under Rodgers, a top-half spot might be deemed success this term, while they do still have the opportunity to win silverware in the Europa Conference League.\n• None Attempt saved. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Andrew Robertson tries a through ball, but Mohamed Salah is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 2, Leicester City 0. Diogo Jota (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Joel Matip.\n• None Attempt missed. Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Harvey Barnes tries a through ball, but James Maddison is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Luis Díaz (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.\n• None Attempt missed. Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Harvey Barnes.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Andrew Robertson.\n• None Attempt saved. Luis Díaz (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.\n• None Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) hits the bar with a left footed shot from the right side of the box. Assisted by Harvey Elliott. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the PM tell MPs that he intends to end the remaining Covid restrictions in England “a full month early”\n\nAll remaining Covid restrictions in England - including the legal rule to self-isolate - could end later this month, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nUnder the current rules, anyone who tests positive must self-isolate for at least five full days.\n\nThe current restrictions are due to expire on 24 March.\n\nBut Mr Johnson told MPs he expected the last domestic rules would end early as long as the positive trends in the data continued.\n\nHe said he intended to return after parliamentary recess - which runs from Thursday to 21 February - to outline the government's strategy for living with Covid.\n\n\"It is my intention to return on the first day after the half-term recess to present our strategy for living with Covid,\" Mr Johnson said at the start of Prime Minister's Questions.\n\n\"Provided the current encouraging trends in the data continue, it is my expectation that we will be able to end the last domestic restrictions - including the legal requirement to self-isolate if you test positive - a full month early.\"\n\nThe law will be replaced with guidance, Downing Street said - and for example people will be urged not to go to work if they have Covid.\n\nBack in January, Mr Johnson said he expected the restrictions would end for good when they expired on 24 March - and hinted they could be abolished sooner.\n\nIn contrast, the Scottish government's remaining Covid powers are set to be extended until 24 September, as legislation making face coverings mandatory and requiring vaccine passports in some settings was due to expire at the end of the month.\n\nAnnouncing the extension, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said it was important to keep options on the table, but he also stressed it did not mean curbs would definitely be in force until then.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the prime minister's announcement was merely \"a series of throwaway remarks designed to dig him out of a political hole, with absolutely no plan to back it up\", following a series of political controversies and criticism of parties held at No 10 during lockdown.\n\nMr Streeting told the BBC the government needed a \"real plan for living well with Covid\", adding Labour had published its own proposal - including provision for better sick pay and improved testing - and the prime minister was \"welcome to nick it\".\n\nDowning Street also suggested there could be an update on the remaining travel rules at the same time when Mr Johnson sets out the strategy for living with Covid later this month.\n\nAsked if the remaining travel rules would remain in place until the end of March, a spokesman said \"we will obviously make a decision when we get to that stage\".\n\nRules for travellers coming to the UK are already being relaxed on Friday 11 February.\n\nFully vaccinated people coming to the UK will not need to take any Covid tests, and unvaccinated travellers will not have to isolate but they will have to take tests. Everyone still needs to fill in a passenger locator form.\n\nBut people going abroad will still need to follow the rules that apply at their destination - and many UK families are choosing to cancel their half-term holidays to Spain because children over 12 must be jabbed to enter.\n\nDaily Covid cases have been trending steadily downwards since the end of January but remain high, with 68,214 on Wednesday.\n\nA broader survey by the Office for National Statistics suggests that more than one in 20 people in the UK had Covid in the week up to 5 February, slightly more than the previous week.\n\nBut reported deaths within 28 days of a positive test are taking longer to fall from their January peak, and are currently averaging over 250 a day, with 276 on Wednesday.\n\nThere are signs the high infection rates may be leading to more instances when someone with Covid dies of another cause, however.\n\nIn England and Wales, there are about 100 fewer deaths each day where a doctor registered Covid as the main cause of death, compared with the daily reported figure of deaths after a positive test.\n\nMinisters had always said the rule on self-isolation could end before the planned date of 24 March.\n\nThe trends are positive - hospital cases are continuing to fall and the huge wave of infections caused by Omicron has not pushed overall deaths above what would normally be seen in winter.\n\nBut this decision has still taken most by surprise - as infection levels are still high and it's unclear what this will do to the spread of the virus.\n\nIt is, though, worth bearing in mind that not every infected person was self-isolating anyway.\n\nThis winter, the testing system has only picking up half of all infections - at the peak it was missing around an estimated 200,000 cases a day.\n\nWhat's more, about one in five of those who test positive do not fully adhere to the self-isolation requirements.\n\nThe move is also likely to pave the way for the dismantling of the community testing system, with many experts believing tests will soon only be used in settings such as care homes and hospitals - or to deal with major outbreaks.\n\nEngland is fast approaching the point where it treats Covid like any other respiratory illness.\n\nThe proposal to end self-isolation rules was criticised by disability charities, with Scope saying it would mean some people with high-risk conditions would feel very anxious and \"could potentially be placed in situations that could prove deadly\".\n\nJames Taylor from Scope said: \"Nobody should be forced to gamble with their lives, and we need the government to explain to disabled people how they'll be safe when this decision is introduced.\"\n\nLorna Fillingham from Scunthorpe said her 11-year-old daughter Emily-May, who has a rare genetic disorder, had only just been offered her first dose of the vaccine.\n\n\"Our world has just got a little bit smaller again,\" Ms Fillingham said about the prospect of ending Covid restrictions.\n\nScientists said there were grounds for optimism in the data, but added the virus still presented a danger.\n\nDr Simon Clarke, a microbiologist at the University of Reading, said removing the requirement to self-isolate would be \"an experiment which will either be shown to be very brave or very stupid - but nobody knows for sure what the result will be\".\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, who advises the government on coronavirus, said he would be \"very reluctant\" to suggest this moment in the pandemic amounted to the end of Covid.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's the World at One: \"We don't know what's around the corner, there could be another variant...which could come back to bite us anytime, and I'm pretty sure that next winter we're going to see it back.\"\n\nThe rules on self-isolation differ across the four nations of the UK.\n\nIn England, Northern Ireland and Wales anyone who develops symptoms or tests positive for Covid via a PCR or lateral flow test (LFT) must immediately self-isolate.\n\nPeople are able to leave quarantine after five full days if they have two negative LFT results, 24 hours apart.\n\nIn Scotland, people must self-isolate for at least seven days - as soon as symptoms appear or they test positive - alongside the continuing requirement for face coverings and vaccine passports in some settings.", "A High Court ruling in 2021 cleared founder Camilla Batmanghelidjh and seven trustees of any personal wrongdoing\n\nThe collapsed Kids Company charity was mismanaged, a watchdog has concluded.\n\nThe charity, set up by Camila Batmanghelidjh, folded in 2015 amid financial problems. A police investigation found no evidence of criminality or safeguarding failures.\n\nA new report by the Charity Commission found Kids Company had repeatedly failed to pay tax and its workers.\n\nEx-trustees said they were pleased it found no basis for action to be taken but rejected the mismanagement finding.\n\nThe report said there was no basis for regulatory action having found \"no dishonesty, bad faith, or inappropriate gain in the operation of the charity\" but added that trustees should have acted sooner to to improve its financial stability.\n\nThe trustees said they were \"disappointed that the commission, in criticising some decisions we took, has chosen to discount the clear findings of the High Court that completely exonerated us\".\n\nMs Batmanghelidjh has said she intends to seek a judicial review, calling the report a \"corrupted attempt\" to \"justify its mistaken decision to conduct an investigation in the first place\".\n\nKids Company was founded in 1996 in south London, to provide support to up to 36,000 deprived and vulnerable inner-city children and young people.\n\nIt ran youth centres in London, Bristol and Liverpool and employed more than 600 people. BBC presenter Alan Yentob was chairman of the trustees.\n\nIn June 2015 local authorities in London were warned the charity was having financial difficulties but the government approved a £3m grant.\n\nThe following month, it emerged the charity was told it would not get more public funding unless its chief executive, Ms Batmanghelidjh, was replaced.\n\nMs Batmanghelidjh announced she would step down, but denied the charity was mismanaged.\n\nLater that month, a police investigation was triggered by an interview by Newsnight and Buzzfeed News with a former employee who made claims of physical and sexual abuse at the charity.\n\nThe charity shut down in August 2015, saying its finances had become stretched because of the number of children \"pouring\" through its doors for help.\n\nIn October of that year, the National Audit Office said Kids Company had received at least £46m of public money despite repeated concerns about how it was run.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police closed its investigation into abuse in January 2016 saying it found \"no evidence of criminality\".\n\nIn 2021, the founder and former trustees won a High Court battle against being disqualified from other organisations.\n\nThe Official Receiver argued they were \"unfit\" to hold directorships because of their handling of the charity.\n\nBut the ruling cleared former chief executive Ms Batmanghelidjh and the seven others of personal wrongdoing.\n\nThe judge said the charity might have survived had it not been for unfounded allegations of criminal activity.\n\nNow, the Charity Commission's official report has made a formal finding of \"mismanagement in the administration of the charity\".\n\nIt found the charity had repeatedly failed to pay tax it owed and had failed to pay its own workers. It owed the £850,000 to HMRC when it collapsed.\n\nIt said the charity operated a high-risk business model and the trustees had allowed spending to increase without funds to cover increased costs or a fall in fundraising. It said they should have acted sooner to improve the charity's financial stability.\n\nA statement from the former trustees said they were concerned that by criticising them and \"disregarding or dismissing\" the High Court's findings, the report would discourage good people from becoming charity trustees.\n\nMs Batmanghelidjh called the commission's report a \"travesty\", said it \"ignores clear evidence\" and has \"invented findings\".\n• None What went wrong at Kids Company?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hong Kong has some of the toughest virus restrictions in the world.\n\nHong Kong has recorded more than 1,000 Covid infections for the first time since the pandemic began - a worrying milestone for officials who are aggressively pushing for zero-Covid.\n\nThe city has some of the toughest virus restrictions in the world.\n\nThose who test positive for Covid are sent straight to hospital and there are strict curbs on dining out and social gatherings.\n\nThere are fears that the rising cases will overwhelm the health system.\n\nThe city's isolation wards are already at 90% of their capacity, with cases expected to rise exponentially over the next few days.\n\nLocal papers report that as of Wednesday evening, there were still 200 confirmed patients waiting to be transported to a hospital, with reports of people who tested positive rushing to accident and emergency units.\n\nHealth authorities say patients may have to wait up to a few days to be admitted.\n\nHong Kong news outlet the South China Morning Post reported that officials were considering using hotels to house asymptomatic patients to avoid straining the public healthcare system.\n\nThe latest surge in infections is believed to be due to extended family gatherings over the lunar new year.\n\nThe city is also expected to tighten Covid restrictions as it shows no signs on letting up on its strategy to follow China's policy of eliminating the virus rather than living with it.\n\nMost recently, city officials controversially ordered the mass culling of hamsters from a pet shop over fears of animal-to-human Covid transmission.\n\nAdditionally, not more than two people can gather in public, restaurants are shut for dine-in with only takeaways allowed, and facilities like libraries, museums and gyms have been shut.\n\nMany public facilities have been shut in Hong Kong\n\nThis has caused massive strain on business owners, with some experts saying prolonged restrictions of this nature could threaten the city's status as an Asian financial hub and drive smaller local businesses to ruin.\n\nHowever, officials are doubling down.\n\nThe BBC's Jeff Li in Hong Kong reports that one pro-Beijing Hong Kong lawmaker has said anyone advocating to live with Covid should be charged under the controversial national security law which has been used to persecute dozens of pro-democracy activists.\n\nThe lawmaker argued such a policy was akin to starting \"biological warfare\".\n\nOur correspondent adds that the city's government was quick to assert that \"general discussion\" over the effectiveness of the zero covid policy was not illegal.\n\nHowever, he says that the goal of Hong Kong's \"zero Covid\" pursuit - to allow residents quarantine-free travel to the Chinese mainland - seems further away than ever.", "Prince Charles caught coronavirus in March 2020 but only had mild symptoms\n\nThe Prince of Wales, who is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19, met the Queen two days ago in Windsor, a royal source says.\n\nThey say the monarch is not showing any symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nPrince Charles tested positive on Thursday morning - it is the second time he has contracted the virus.\n\nThe previous evening, he and the Duchess of Cornwall met Chancellor Rishi Sunak and others at a reception in the British Museum.\n\nCamilla has tested negative for coronavirus, Clarence House said.\n\nBuckingham Palace has not confirmed whether the Queen has tested positive or negative, citing medical privacy.\n\nEarlier this week, Charles held an investiture at Windsor Castle, where the Queen, 95, is currently in residence.\n\nThe 73-year-old heir to the throne last caught the virus in March 2020, when he reported only mild symptoms.\n\nClarence House confirmed he was now triple vaccinated, but would not give any detail on whether he was experiencing coronavirus symptoms this time.\n\nTuesday's investiture carried out by the prince saw Ansel Wong, a Trinidadian-born cultural activist who previously helped to organise the Notting Hill carnival, receive a CBE for services to art and culture.\n\nLondon restaurant founders and chefs Margot and Fergus Henderson were made OBEs for services to the culinary arts while Dr Nisreen Alwan, associate professor in public health at Southampton University, was made an MBE for services to medicine and public health during the pandemic.\n\nAs well as the investiture, it was a busy day for Charles with meetings and engagements including:\n\nOn Wednesday, Charles and Camilla were at a British Museum reception to celebrate the work of the British Asian Trust.\n\nEarlier that day, Charles attended London's National Gallery as its royal patron.\n\nPeople who develop coronavirus symptoms are asked to notify those they have been in close contact with in the previous 48 hours.\n\nIn England, contacts of positive Covid cases who are fully vaccinated should take lateral flow tests for seven days. They do not have to self-isolate unless they test positive.\n\nCharles must self-isolate for 10 full days, but he could be allowed to end this early if he tests negative on day five and day six.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has signalled that these rules could be lifted within weeks.\n\nPriti Patel, Rishi Sunak, Akshata Murthy, Charles and Camilla were among guests at the celebration of the British Asian Trust\n\nCharles had been due to unveil a statue of Licoricia of Winchester on Thursday, a medieval Jewish businesswoman who was a money lender and single parent in the Hampshire city.\n\nClarence House said His Royal Highness was \"deeply disappointed not to be able to attend... and will look to reschedule his visit as soon as possible\".\n\nThe announcement of Charles's positive test was made just after midday, about 12 minutes before he was due to arrive.\n\nMore than 1,000 people were gathered behind barriers in the city's Jewry Street, waiting to see the prince.\n\nThe Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, Nigel Atkinson, helped reveal the statue on behalf of the prince\n\nThe Queen's representative in Hampshire, the Lord Lieutenant Nigel Atkinson, read out a message from the prince to the disappointed crowd.\n\nCharles's message said: \"Ladies and gentlemen, I am so sorry that I cannot be with you today. I am desperately disappointed as I was so looking forward to marking this historic occasion with you.\n\n\"I hope very much that I will be able to visit at a future time but for today please accept my most heartfelt apologies and my very best wishes as you mark this memorable occasion for Winchester.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Camilla has carried on with her planned engagements, earlier visiting Paddington Haven, a sexual assault referral centre in West London.\n\nShe met former Love Island star Zara McDermott and discussed her experience of revenge porn and assault.\n\nThe Queen with Charles, her eldest son, at the opening ceremony of the Senedd in Cardiff in October\n\nThe Queen returned to Windsor Castle, where she met Charles, earlier this week after spending the anniversary of her accession day on Sunday at her Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nThe day before, she had hosted a Platinum Jubilee reception for volunteer groups and pensioners from the Sandringham community, with guests describing her as being on \"sparkling form\".", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nAmerican Nathan Chen won the men's Olympic figure skating gold to end the hurt of 2018, but defending champion Yuzuru Hanyu's jump record attempt failed at Beijing 2022.\n\nFor Chen, 22, it was redemption after nerves destroyed his jumps when he was the favourite four years ago.\n\nYuma Kagiyama took silver and Japanese compatriot Shoma Uno the bronze.\n\n\"It means the world. I'm just so happy,\" Chen said. \"It's a whirlwind right now. I had a blast out there.\"\n\nWith ground to make after after Tuesday's short programme, Hanyu, 27, had been trying to perform the first quadruple axel in competition but it ended in a fall and he came fourth.\n\nThe climax of the event took place against the backdrop of uncertainty over what might be the legal issue that has so far prevented the handing out of the medals won in Monday's team event.\n• None Follow live coverage of day six from Beijing 2022\n\nFour years ago, Chen - then aged 18 - arrived at the Pyeongchang Games as favourite for the gold medal but nerves got the better of him and he failed to land a single jump in his short programme.\n\nThat meant he was in 17th place going into the second day, and although he wowed the judges with the top score in the free skate, the damage had already been done and he could only finish fifth.\n\nThis year, the skate was firmly on the other foot.\n\nIt was Hanyu who lost ground in Tuesday's short programme, missing his opening quadruple salchow because of a \"hole\" in the ice, while Chen put in a stunning display that earned a world record score for a short programme.\n\nHaving watched Hanyu fall twice and his closest rivals perform before him on Thursday, Chen knew what he had to do when he took to the ice as the final skater.\n\nPerforming to Elton John's Rocket Man, the American nailed his jumps in a performance that was as fun as it was technically superb.\n\nHis final total of the short and free skates combined was 332.60, with Kagiyama scoring 310.05 and Uno 293.00.\n\nSince his disappointment four years ago, Chen has gone on to dominate the sport, winning three world championships in a row before finally getting his hands on Olympic gold.\n• None A British ice skating champion faces the fight of his life as he competes with the world's best", "In case you missed it at 12:12 GMT, here's our diplomatic correspondent's analysis on the Lavrov-Truss talks earlier...\n\nOn the basis of this morning’s news conference in Moscow, relations between Russia and Britain remain as cold as ever.\n\nThe exchanges began slowly. Sergei Lavrov began with a gentle recitation of Russia’s demands and said the talks had improved the UK’s understanding of those demands.\n\nLiz Truss responded by rejecting Russia’s core argument, namely that its security is somehow threatened by Nato expansion and the possibility of Ukraine joining the military alliance. “That is just not true,” she said.\n\nShe accused Russia of using aggression to try to “relitigate the past” in a way that was undermining its international standing. This lit Mr Lavrov’s fuse and he hit back.\n\nThe talks had been “disappointing”, he said, adding that it was as if the two sides were listening but not hearing. He accused the UK and the West of “hysteria” that was destabilising Ukraine. The West was demanding guarantees from Russia but offering none back in what he described as a “one sided dialogue”.\n\nOn Mr Lavrov went: \"Russia has been cheated and wronged for many years.\"\n\nMs Truss responded robustly: Russia’s 100,000 troops were threatening Ukraine, she said, Russia needed to abide by agreements it had signed not to do so, and it needed to implement a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine.\n\nMr Lavrov responded, again at length: Nato had promised not to expand but it had - the alliance had a history of being aggressive and cited the former Yugoslavia and Iraq as an example. He also compared the Ukrainian President Zelensky to the Nazi propagandist, Joseph Goebbels.\n\nSo diplomacy took place, messages were delivered and received. But there appeared little progress - and no warming of the frosty ground dividing Britain and Russia.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid doctors: \"This wasn't what I signed up for\"\n\nA lack of beds in Welsh hospitals meant it was \"inevitable\" Covid patients would come into contact with others, a doctor has said.\n\n\"Seeing patients in bed at the time of admission is becoming a rarity,\" Dr Nicky Leopold said.\n\nSome patients, including those with Covid, have had to spend nights on chairs in A&E due to a lack of beds.\n\nThe Welsh government said it aimed to deliver 12,000 more staff by 2024-25.\n\nDr Leopold, a consultant geriatrician, who is a member of the BMA union in Wales, said there had been recent improvements since the number of NHS staff testing positive for Covid fell, but the flow of patients through hospital was still a problem.\n\nShe said: \"So many patients are stranded in hospital and that's very difficult and frustrating. There just aren't the staff in the community to support the increased level of need.\"\n\nOutpatient appointments had also been affected by shortages, she added. A lot of patients were in \"dire need\" and staff were \"desperately\" trying to keep clinics running.\n\nDr Steve Kelly, a respiratory consultant, described \"really difficult working conditions\" with so many beds full of patients who had tested positive for Covid.\n\nHe said fewer patients needed as much respiratory support as before but staff were \"just overwhelmed with patient numbers\".\n\n\"Lots of people are effectively trapped because we can't sort out care packages or help because they remain Covid-positive, so they need to stay with us until they're Covid-free,\" he said.\n\n\"It just slows down the process and makes our beds more full and makes the admissions more difficult and means people coming in spend longer in the emergency department than we would like.\"\n\nDr Kelly says many patients are effectively trapped\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Phil Banfield, the chairman of the BMA Cymru Wales consultants committee, said: \"The impact of the pandemic on the NHS is the tip of the iceberg.\n\n\"This predicament is one that was years in the making, the pandemic has just exacerbated the existing issues in the system.\n\n\"Health services will not be able to ensure patient safety or protect the fragile recovery of elective services without a well-supported, healthy and safe workforce.\n\n\"It is imperative the Welsh government and NHS employers take urgent action to expand the workforce and retain the staff we have.\"\n\nWales' health minister, Eluned Morgan, said a plan to tackle waiting lists would be published in April.\n\nA similar plan for England was published by the UK government this week.\n\nMs Morgan told the Welsh government's health committee the plan could not be announced sooner as uncertainty remained about omicron's impact and how infection controls would continue to affect hospitals.\n\nWales' health minister, Eluned Morgan, said a plan to tackle waiting lists would be published in April\n\nShe said: \"Covid is still having an impact on staffing levels in the NHS... which has an impact on our capacity to increase surgical activity.\"\n\nIt's estimated about 1,000 patients in hospital beds are fit to go home but waiting for care to be arranged.\n\nLast month figures showed waiting lists for treatment in Wales had hit record levels for the 19th successive month.\n\nThe latest waiting times statistics will be published next Thursday.\n\nHealth boards are due to submit their proposals to increase planned activity to the Welsh government by the end of March.\n\nNHS Wales's chief executive, Judith Paget, said the plans would include \"specific ambitions and actions\" regarding patients who had been waiting longest.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We are committed to increasing capacity through the recruitment of a range of professions including investing record amounts of more than £260m in training places to deliver an additional 12,000 clinical staff by 2024-25.\n\n\"We know how hard our health and social care staff have been working throughout the last couple of years and we want to thank them for everything they do.\"", "Glen Sannox cannot be commissioned until hundreds of electrical cables have been replaced\n\nTwo new CalMac ferries being built at Ferguson shipyard face further delays because hundreds of electrical cables have been wrongly installed.\n\nBetween 400 and 900 wires, some of them more than 100m (109 yds) long, will have to be stripped out and replaced.\n\nThe error happened during construction of the first ship, Glen Sannox, before Ferguson Marine Engineering went into administration and was nationalised.\n\nThe current management said remedial work would affect delivery and costs.\n\nThe two ferries are already four years later and will cost more than double the £97m contract price agreed with the yard in Port Glasgow.\n\nIn an update to MSPs, the now nationalised firm said the defective cables were installed by contractors working for Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd before it went into administration in August 2019.\n\nThe cables ends had been left coiled up, ready for connection to equipment, but they have only recently been unwound and found to be too short.\n\nA survey has revealed that at least 400 cables - and possibly as many as 939 - have problems, with management believing the quickest solution is to replace them completely.\n\nThe update warns: \"At present it is not possible to determine the impact on schedule and cost.\"\n\nFerguson Marine's new chief executive David Tydeman will update MSPs on the cost and delays implications next month\n\nThe commissioning of Glen Sannox - which was due to be handed over between July and September - cannot take place until the cables are replaced, and the report warns of knock-on impact on delivery of the second ship, Hull 802.\n\nFerguson Marine's newly appointed chief executive David Tydeman will provide a new update on delivery and costs in March.\n\nScottish Conservative transport spokesman Graham Simpson said: \"This latest fiasco at Ferguson is another hammer blow for island communities, who have had to put up with a sub-standard ferry service under the SNP for far too long.\n\n\"Glen Sannox is already years late, and this blunder will leave people wondering if it will ever go into service.\"\n\nScottish Labour's Transport spokesperson Neil Bibby described it as \"another humiliating chapter\" in an \"endless fiasco\".\n\n\"Islanders have already been waiting years extra and taxpayers have coughed up millions more - and now things are set to get even worse,\" he said.\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat transport spokesperson Jill Reilly said it was a \"farce\", adding that communities were being let down by \"ageing and unreliable ferry services\".\n\nDuring First Minister's Questions, Nicola Sturgeon pointed out that the error stemmed from the period before the yard was taken into public ownership.\n\n\"The government and the finance secretary will be working closely with the yard to ensure that this is rectified as quickly as possible and as cost effectively as possible and she will of course keep parliament fully updated,\" she said.\n\nThe delays in building Glen Sannox, destined for the Arran route, and the second ship, which will serve the Skye/Outer Hebrides route, have put more pressure on CalMac services, with islanders unhappy at frequent breakdowns and disruption.\n\nComhairle nan Eilean Siar, the Western Isles council, has written to new Transport Secretary Jenny Gilruth to complain at a lack of islanders' representation on the board of CalMac.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nGreat Britain's women's curlers recovered from an opening loss to beat defending Olympic champions Sweden emphatically 8-2, as the men's side started with a win against Italy.\n\nThe men - Bruce Mouat, Hammy McMillan, Bobby Lammie and Grant Hardie - finished strongly to triumph 7-5.\n\nEve Muirhead, Vicky Wright, Jen Dodds, and Hailey Duff got by the Swedes with ease after taking an early lead.\n\nIt followed a tense extra-end defeat by Switzerland earlier on Thursday.\n\nThey return to the ice at 06:05 GMT on Friday to play Korea, while the men face the USA (01:05) and Norway (12:00) as they aim to build on a good start.\n\nIn both events, the 10 competing teams play each other once in a round-robin format, with the top four progressing to the semi-finals.\n\nBack-to-back losses - albeit against the current world champions Switzerland and Olympic champions Sweden - would have left Muirhead's rink with little margin for error in their quest to reach the play-offs.\n\nBut rather than be adversely affected by the 6-5 extra-end loss to the Swiss - during which Muirhead missed a draw to win with the last stone - they rallied.\n\nA well-constructed fourth end got them a brilliant four for a 5-1 lead against the out-of-sorts Swedes, and they increased their advantage to 8-2 in the seventh to draw the early concession from Anna Hasselborg's rink.\n\n\"It felt really good to get that first win and it was a step up from this morning, which is what we wanted,\" Duff said.\n\n\"We put the pressure on and it felt really natural out there.\"\n\nAfter a steady start, Britain's men - ranked first in the world - found their groove in the fourth end against Italy, with Mouat playing two clever shots for a score of two, to level the game at 3-3.\n\nThey added another two in the seventh, then stole one in the eighth for a 6-4 advantage and, after Italy skip Joel Retornaz cut the deficit to one, Britain held their nerve to take one in the last and clinch the match.\n\n\"We're really happy to get that first win because they are really good opposition,\" Mouat said.\n\n\"We really stuck together and played a lot of good shots to get back in the game and find the lead in the last half.\"\n• None A British ice skating champion faces the fight of his life as he competes with the world's best", "The UK must do more to insulate the country's draughty homes, warns Britain's climate change chief.\n\nChris Stark, head of the UK's Climate Change Committee, told the BBC he rates government policy on insulation as \"very poor\".\n\nInsulation, together with renewable power, is the way out of the current energy crisis, he says.\n\nTwo-thirds of homes, or 19 million, need better insulation, according to government data.\n\nThat raises an obvious question: if it is such a good idea, why aren't we all doing it?\n\nThe key issue is the cost.\n\nBritain is frequently described as having some of the oldest and least energy efficient housing in Europe. Retrofitting - adding insulation to existing homes - can be very expensive and Mr Stark says the government isn't doing enough to help fund this costly work.\n\nThe government needs to provide \"a sharper incentive for most people to make these investments in improving the energy efficiency of the home that they live in,\" he told BBC News.\n\nWhen he moved, it had an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of \"E\", putting it amongst the least energy efficient homes nationwide.\n\nRob raised the energy efficiency rating of his home by paying for insulation\n\nThe government estimates that 19 million of the UK's 29 million homes are on the bottom rungs of the Energy Performance rankings with a rating of \"D\" or below.\n\nLifting Rob's home into the \"B\" category meant improving the lagging in the roof, installing more double glazing, insulating the floors as well as putting insulated cladding on some inside and outside walls. The makeover cost £36,000.\n\nRob says they now use 40% less gas for heating, which is good news as energy prices soar. But, at current energy prices, it'll take at least 20 years to cover the cost.\n\nRetrofitting homes is an even greater challenge for the providers of social housing.\n\nI visited Jean Davidson in her one-bed council flat in Blackpool. The council has spent £2.5m making the 75 flats on her estate more energy-efficient - £33,000 a piece.\n\nThey insulated the entire block, took out her little porch and put in triple glazed windows. Her front door was changed to block draughts and some of the exterior walls of the blocks and the entrance area were insulated.\n\nJean's home is certainly very cosy now - \"perfect\", as she describes it. But the council estimates it would cost £125m to bring its 5,000 homes up to this standard.\n\nCost is not the only factor in insulation.\n\nActually finding an installer in an industry literally decimated by government grant cuts is difficult.\n\nThen, will you trust the installer in your home?\n\nThen there are choices - insulating the outside of your walls is dearer than insulating the inside.\n\nBut insulating the inside shrinks your room size by a few inches.\n\nThen comes what for many people is the biggest issue - the hassle.\n\nIn one experiment, a local council offered households a grant to insulate their homes. Many people said, \"No - too much trouble.\"\n\nSo the council offered to pay the whole bill. \"No - too much trouble.\"\n\nThen the council offered to clear out the attic and fit insulation as a bonus. \"Yes please\", came the response.\n\nSo, myriad problems - but if the government can't solve this, ministers can kiss goodbye to carbon targets.\n\n\"It's just not financially viable,\" says John Donnellon, the CEO of Blackpool Coastal Housing, which manages the town's council homes. \"There needs to be grant aid to make it happen,\" he adds.\n\nJean's council home is now insulated, saving her money on energy bills\n\nAnd remember, the benefits of lower energy bills go to tenants like Jean, not their landlords.\n\nThe government acknowledged the importance of improving energy performance in buildings in its delayed Heat and Buildings Strategy published in October last year.\n\nIt talked about the need for a \"fabric first\" approach - improving the efficiency of walls and lofts before replacing heating systems. But the report came seven months after the government cancelled its £1.5bn \"green homes grant\" scheme.\n\nThat scheme - described as \"botched\" by MPs and closed after just six months - offered people up to £10,000 towards the cost of insulation. Just 47,500 homes were improved under the scheme, far fewer than the 600,000 that was promised at launch.\n\nChris Stark, of the Climate Change Committee, believes the government will need a new scheme because most homeowners cannot afford to insulate their homes.\n\nAs things stand, just a few tens of thousands of homes will install insulation this year, he says. \"We really need to scale that up to something more like half a million a year and to do that quickly over the next four or five years.\"\n\nBut with just £3.9bn earmarked by the government to supporting low-emissions homes, that may not happen as quickly as he hopes. The total is also well below the £9.2bn the Conservative Party said it would spend on energy efficiency by 2030 in its 2019 election manifesto.\n\nInvesting in insulation is \"critical\" if Britain is to cut energy consumption and meet its climate goals, says Jan Rosenow of the Regulatory Assistance Project, a clean energy think tank.\n\n\"About 23% of our emissions are from keeping warm heating our buildings. We need to bring those down,\" he explains.\n\nFor years, low energy prices have made it more cost effective to just turn up the boiler. That's why we've been caught out in the current energy crisis.\n\n\"Our homes, which we didn't insulate because there was no need for it, are now much more expensive to run,\" explains Mr Rosenow.", "Dyfed-Powys Police said officers executed a warrant at a property in Llanelli on Thursday\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of explosives offences after a bomb disposal team was called to a house.\n\nThe 41-year-old is also being held in custody on suspicion of possessing a banned weapon.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said officers executed a warrant at a property in Llanelli on Thursday. Force vehicles were seen on Alban Road.\n\nSpecialist officers and equipment were used to ensure people and neighbouring properties were not at risk.\n\nA spokesman said: \"A specialist search took place, with the assistance of the ambulance and fire services, due to the possible presence of chemicals at the property.\"\n\nSpecialist officers and equipment were used to ensure people and neighbouring properties were not at risk", "Ruth Wainwright has been told she may have to pay up to £50,000 if funding is not made available\n\nPeople living in flats hit by the post-Grenfell fire safety crisis have said they feel \"abandoned\" by the Welsh government.\n\nAt least 248 building applications have been made for the first phase of a scheme which will fund survey work.\n\nBut the surveys are yet to begin and campaigners fear that repair work may not start until 2023 or 2024.\n\nThe Welsh government said progress had been made and details on the repair fund would be announced in the spring.\n\nThere were 248 expressions of interest in the survey up to 31 December, and the applications can cover more than one building.\n\nLeaseholders paying extra charges and living in unsellable flats after fire safety defects were identified have long felt frustrated at the pace of progress.\n\nIn response to a Freedom of Information request last week, the Welsh government said £59m of funding received as a result of spending in England on cladding remediation and building safety work was allocated to its Covid response.\n\nMinisters in Cardiff have, however, budgeted £375m up to 2024-25 for the \"remediation of blocks of flats\" via its Welsh Building Safety Fund.\n\nRedrow, the Celestia developer, says it has given significant financial support\n\nBut campaign group Welsh Cladiators said it was \"very disappointed\" the Welsh government was yet to spend \"a single penny on remediation work for unsafe private buildings in Wales when England have had buildings receive funds and completed work\".\n\nIn England, a fund opened in February 2021 and money has been available to remove cladding from buildings over 18m (59ft).\n\nLast month, Housing Secretary Michael Gove extended that fund to include those over 11m (36ft) and said he would take \"all steps necessary\" to make developers pay.\n\nThe Welsh government's fund is intended to cover buildings over 11m (36ft), and cover non-cladding fire safety defects as well.\n\nMinisters have already spent more than £15m on repairs to social housing blocks, including the removal of the now-banned ACM cladding from three blocks.\n\nThe removal of ACM cladding on 12 private blocks in Wales has been or is being paid for by developers and owners.\n\nRuth Wainwright, 71, who moved into the Celestia complex in Cardiff Bay with her husband, John, in 2011, said she felt \"let down\".\n\nAfter John died in 2020, shortly after retiring, she now lives on her pension and savings.\n\nHer service charge to cover insurance and safety measures plus her contribution to a future repair fund totals £16,600 this year, and she has been told her total contribution could run as high as £50,000 without funding.\n\nRuth Wainwright is living off her pension and savings since her husband John's death in 2020\n\nShe said: \"There is a sense of panic about what's going to happen, and just worrying about things, constantly thinking about it.\"\n\n\"It is just constantly worrying about where it's all going to end.\n\n\"The Welsh government don't seem to be listening to us, the developers don't want to know. I feel very let down by the Welsh government, I really don't feel they've done anything.\"\n\nCelestia developer Redrow said it had provided \"significant financial support\" and will also be providing funding through the Residential Property Developers Tax.\n\nOne managing agent of a development in Cardiff said waiting for the Welsh government to release funding was \"awful.\"\n\nMary-Anne Bowring from Ringley, which runs 980-flat Prospect Place, said the fire service had put in place an \"enforcement notice\" calling for the work to be done by December.\n\n\"Limbo is the worst thing in any crisis,\" she said.\n\n\"If you don't comply with an enforcement notice one of the next steps the fire service could take is to force people not to be able to enter their homes and deem them unsafe.\n\n\"It's a perfect storm, where the client is doing the right thing in the fastest available time only held up by the Welsh government, with the fire service acting completely at tangent asking things that are impossible under the current regime.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We strongly believe that people living in affected buildings should not be left to pay to put right safety standards or breaches of building regulations.\n\n\"We will continue to engage with developers and press them to take responsibility and action and commend developers that have already set aside funds for remediation in Wales - they have set an example for others to follow.\"", "Rebekah Vardy was not referring to Coleen Rooney when she called someone an expletive in a message to her agent, a court has heard.\n\nOn the second day of a two-day hearing, Mrs Vardy's barrister said the \"nasty\" message was \"about someone else\".\n\nProceedings this week will decide what evidence can be used in a May trial.\n\nThe \"Wagatha Christie\" row broke out in 2019 after Mrs Rooney said fake stories were leaked to newspapers that had only been seen by Mrs Vardy's Instagram.\n\nMrs Vardy denies the accusations and is suing Mrs Rooney for libel.\n\nOn Tuesday, the High Court heard the content of some WhatsApp messages exchanged between Mrs Vardy and her PR and friend Caroline Watt.\n\nToday the judge was told many of these messages were not supposed to be released but a software glitch meant they could be read by her rival's legal team and they want them to be included in the upcoming trial.\n\nThey include the key message \"I would love to leak those stories\", from Mrs Vardy, about Coleen Rooney's Instagram posts.\n\nMrs Rooney's lawyers have previously claimed that Mrs Vardy, who is married to Leicester City striker Jamie, had leaked information to The Sun newspaper either directly or through Ms Watt \"acting on her instruction or with her knowing approval\".\n\nIn court, her barrister David Sherborne, had said those messages \"reveal that Mrs Vardy and Ms Watt are responsible for the leaking\". But today, Mrs Vardy's lawyer, Mr Tomlinson insisted they were \"selective\", and had \"precisely the opposite effect\".\n\nHe also said a text in which she referred to someone as a \"nasty\" expletive was \"not a passage about Mrs Rooney\".\n\nDuring Tuesday's hearing, the barrister quoted messages from Mrs Vardy to Ms Watt in which she said she was \"offended\" that Mrs Rooney thought she was the person who had leaked the information.\n\nHe added: \"If one reads these messages in full, what one sees is that Mrs Vardy expresses shock at being accused and she is here communicating with the person that Mr Sherborne says is her co-conspirator.\n\n\"These are obviously candid personal messages, and if she was really concerned - 'Oh, this is terrible, we have been found out' - then it would have been completely different.\"\n\nRebekah Vardy's lawyer said an expletive message was not about Coleen Rooney\n\nMrs Rooney is also bringing a claim against Ms Watt for misuse of private information and is asking for it to be joined to the libel case.\n\nMr Sherborne told the court that if Mrs Vardy wins her claim on the basis that she was not the person who leaked the information, then Mrs Rooney will be left without \"vindication\" unless she is able to bring the claim against Ms Watt as part of the same case.\n\nDavid Sherborne also said that Mrs Rooney's lawyers wanted further information from the WhatsApp messages between Mrs Vardy and Ms Watt, but were told Ms Watt's phone had fallen into the sea after a boat she was on hit a wave, shortly after the last hearing.\n\n\"[It was] most unfortunate, because it was only a short time after the court ordered that the phone should be specifically searched,\" he said.\n\nMr Tomlinson told the court: \"That is what happened. Mrs Vardy was not present when that happened. She [Ms Watt] was on holiday, she lost her phone.\"\n\nMrs Vardy's lawyers have opposed the application to add the claim against Ms Watt to the libel case, saying in written arguments the claim \"could have been brought 15 months ago\".\n\nIan Helme, representing Ms Watt, also opposed the application and previously said she has given \"clear and consistent\" denials against the claim for misuse of private information.\n\nThe trial is due to begin in early May but is likely to be delayed.\n\nThe hearing before Mrs Justice Steyn concluded on Wednesday with judgement expected on Monday morning.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A passenger was arrested as the United Airlines flight landed at Heathrow on 31 January (file photo)\n\nA passenger was arrested at Heathrow Airport after a woman said she was raped in business class on an overnight transatlantic flight from New Jersey.\n\nThe woman said she was attacked by a 40-year-old man while others slept on the flight from Newark on 31 January.\n\nOfficers boarded the United Airlines plane after it landed at 06:39 GMT and arrested the man who has since been released under investigation.\n\nThe Met Police said the woman was being supported by specialist officers.\n\nA spokesman said the Met was aware of \"an incident on an inbound flight\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWayne Rooney says he feared he could have died or killed someone at the lowest point of his drinking problems.\n\nThe Derby County manager and record goalscorer for both Manchester United and England was speaking to BBC Breakfast's Sally Nugent before the release of a new documentary about his life.\n\nHe revealed the darkest places that alcohol and mental health issues have taken him to, and when asked what his biggest fear was in those moments, he replied: \"Probably death.\"\n\nSpeaking about the \"mistakes\" he had made, the 36-year-old added: \"That could have been girls, it could have been drink-driving, which I've done, it could have been killing someone - you could kill yourself - and that's a bad place to be.\n\n\"I knew I needed help, to save myself but also to save my family.\"\n\nRooney also revealed that he felt he had to keep many of his problems secret as a player.\n\n\"Ten, 15 years ago, I couldn't go into a dressing room and say 'I'm struggling with alcohol, I'm struggling mental health-wise'. I couldn't do that.\"\n• None Wayne Rooney: 'I would actually lock myself away and just drink'\n\n'Rooney' is released on Amazon Prime Video on Friday and covers Rooney's life from childhood until the start of his management career at Derby.\n\nHere, BBC Sport picks out seven other key talking points from the documentary.\n\nFighting and drinking could have derailed career as a teenager\n\nRooney admits in one scene that he \"wasn't the nicest kid\" as a teenager. He openly talks about getting involved in a lot of violence.\n\n\"We used to go up to Southport and fight a lot,\" he says at one point, adding: \"I've come back with my eye all stitched up. I was about 12.\"\n\nRooney also describes going to concerts as a young teen and getting involved in trouble afterwards.\n\n\"I remember I got my jaw snapped in Manchester. I was about 13.\"\n\nIn one scene, Rooney describes an embarrassing incident while he was with Everton's academy.\n\n\"There was one day I was crossing the road with a bottle of cider. My coach Colin Harvey, he stopped to let me cross over. Next day, he pulled me in in training and said, 'listen, you've got the biggest talent I've ever seen for anyone your age - don't waste it'.\"\n\nRooney was determined to be youngest Premier League goalscorer\n\nAt 16, Rooney was already a ferocious talent with the body of a man. He talks in the film about knowing he was the best player in training, even then.\n\nOn 19 October 2002, he announced himself to the rest of the world.\n\nIt was five days before Rooney's 17th birthday and Everton were playing Arsenal - who were on a 30-game unbeaten run at the time. Their team included names like Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, David Seaman and Sol Campbell.\n\nRooney remembers the impression of how massive they all were. Nevertheless, the teen wanted to make a mark on the game.\n\n\"That was my last game as a 16-year-old. I was beating myself up, thinking, 'I want to score as a 16-year-old',\" Rooney reveals.\n\nAfter coming off the bench, he says he had one thought: \"If I get a chance, I'm shooting from anywhere.\"\n\nIn the final minute, Campbell started backing off, Rooney saw that chance open up in front of him. He let rip with a screamer that sent Goodison Park wild.\n\nLeague leaders Arsenal lost their unbeaten record and commentator Clive Tyldesley encouraged us all to \"remember the name\" of Wayne Rooney.\n\nHe knew he was the best in the world at 18\n\nRooney was England's golden boy at the 2004 European Championship in Portugal, before a broken foot ended his - and arguably England's - tournament against the hosts in the quarter-finals.\n\nAt just 18 years old, in the opening game, he absolutely terrified a France team boasting the likes of Henry, Zinedine Zidane and Lilian Thuram.\n\n\"Their centre-backs were scared to go near me,\" he says. \"They could see physically I could handle myself against them.\"\n\nAt one point he floored Thuram, one of the best defenders in the world at the time, with a challenge that could well have earned a red card.\n\n\"I just banged right into him, to his jaw, and looked back at him as if to say, 'now you know who I am'.\"\n\nFrance won the match 2-1, but Henry admits England \"battered\" his side and should have won. He says of Rooney that \"you looked at him and you knew he wanted to succeed\".\n\n\"I remember thinking, 'I'm the best player in the world',\" Rooney reflects, adding: \"I believe, at that time, I was.\"\n\nColleen says they have worked through infidelities as a family\n\nBoth Rooney and wife Colleen speak openly about his well-documented infidelities.\n\n\"I put myself in a bad place,\" says Rooney, \"and when there's alcohol involved, you're going to make bad decisions and you're going to have to suffer the consequences. It doesn't take away any of my love for Colleen.\"\n\nColleen agrees that alcohol has played a negative role at times. She says at one point that it is not good for Rooney to be \"unsupervised\".\n\nShe also explains, however, how the two of them have sat down and dealt with all of their issues together.\n\n\"I know people say, 'are they just staying together to keep the family unit together?' That was part of it, but also we still love each other. Hopefully, he's learned and he doesn't get himself into those horrible situations again.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast about the importance of their relationship, Rooney added: \"We have a good relationship. We're friends obviously, as well. There's a good balance to the relationship - especially how we are now as parents with the four children.\n\n\"There could have been times when Colleen could have walked away. But we love each other.\"\n\nAsked about his drinking now, Rooney replied: \"It's fine, I'm really in control of it. I had to be.\n\n\"As I said, I was never an alcoholic, I was more of a binge drinker, where, if I got two days off, I'd literally drink for two days and then dust myself down - eye drops, chewing gum, mouth wash - to go into work and then have to run around a pitch and train. I wasn't giving the best version of me to my club at times.\n\n\"I've spoken to people. It helped. You let your feelings out. I didn't do that - I held them in and then it builds up.\"\n\nHe wanted to 'hurt someone' against Chelsea in 2006\n\nIn 2006, Jose Mourinho's Chelsea were starting to challenge Manchester United's dominance in England.\n\nOn 29 April that year, Chelsea played Manchester United at Stamford Bridge, needing only a point to secure a second successive Premier League title. They won 3-0.\n\nRooney did not cope well with the situation.\n\n\"I wore new boots, with longer studs because I wanted to hurt someone,\" he admits. \"The studs were legal, but bigger than what I'd normally wear.\"\n\nA clash with John Terry left the latter with a hole in the top of his boot and needing crutches.\n\nUltimately, whether you believe in karma or not, Rooney's decision to change his studs backfired pretty dramatically. He left the game on a stretcher, having broken three metatarsal bones in his foot. Rooney blames himself and the studs.\n\n\"If you look at it back, my front studs have got caught in the ground and my foot's got bent forward,\" he explains.\n\nThe injury very nearly ruled him out of contention for the 2006 World Cup. Rooney did everything in his power to be fit in time and managed to make the squad.\n\nHe also reveals in the film that, after coming back from the foot injury, he subsequently sustained a groin tear in England training, which he then opted not to report to physios. Rooney believes that playing through the pain hindered his performances in the competition.\n\n\"I was never right for that tournament physically. I was getting painkillers non-stop.\"\n\nHe didn't have any issue with Ronaldo's behaviour at the 2006 World Cup\n\nThe 2006 World Cup will largely be remembered by England fans for another quarter-final loss to Portugal, in which Rooney was sent off for a stamp on Ricardo Carvalho.\n\nFollowing the incident, his Manchester United team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo seemed to lobby the referee to send him off.\n\nAs Rooney was dismissed, cameras picked up Ronaldo winking at his Portugal team-mates.\n\n\"I smashed a few things up in the dressing room when I went in,\" Rooney reflects.\n\n\"It was the most lonely place I've been. I remember thinking, 'if we go through, I miss the semi-final, potentially the final. If we go out, it's my fault'.\"\n\nRooney says he told Ronaldo after the incident that he had \"no issue\" with the way he had behaved and that they should concentrate on winning the Premier League, which they went on to do.\n\nHe believes he was right to take on Sir Alex Ferguson\n\nIn October 2010, Rooney shocked the football world by putting in a transfer request to Manchester United.\n\nHe also did the unthinkable by challenging manager Sir Alex Ferguson.\n\n\"We sold [Carlos] Tevez, then we sold Ronaldo. I was the one player left with high profile,\" Rooney reflects.\n\n\"I went into Alex Ferguson's office and I said, 'what's the plan here?' His response was, 'get out of my office'.\"\n\nFormer United defenders Gary Neville and Rio Ferdinand speak in the documentary about their disappointment with the way that their team-mate handled things at the time.\n\nHowever, Rooney maintains that he was right to question Ferguson's transfer policy.\n\n\"If you look five years down the line from that meeting, Alex Ferguson knew where the club was going, he got out as quick as he could and they're still picking up the pieces now.\"\n\nAsked by BBC Breakfast's Sally Nugent about people's perceptions of footballers, Rooney replied: \"I think you can have money, you can have cars, houses, but what you lose is your freedom. I went a few days ago to Total Ninja with my children and I had to leave after 10 minutes. That's not me not wanting to connect with fans - I literally did about 100 pictures, and then I couldn't look after my children.\n\n\"You try and be normal, but you can't. I think a lot of players would say, 'I'd rather be a normal person than have this'.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, you can access information and support via the BBC Action Line website.\n• None 'It belongs to all of us': Join us in celebrating 100 years of informing, educating and entertaining\n• None From Sheffield to the Beijing mountains: Follow a group of Team GB freestylers in their preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the five-second pulse light up the JET reactor\n\nEuropean scientists say they have made a major breakthrough in their quest to develop practical nuclear fusion - the energy process that powers the stars.\n\nThe UK-based JET laboratory has smashed its own world record for the amount of energy it can extract by squeezing together two forms of hydrogen.\n\nIf nuclear fusion can be successfully recreated on Earth it holds out the potential of virtually unlimited supplies of low-carbon, low-radiation energy.\n\nThe experiments produced 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds (11 megawatts of power).\n\nThis is more than double what was achieved in similar tests back in 1997.\n\nIt's not a massive energy output - only enough to boil about 60 kettles' worth of water. But the significance is that it validates design choices that have been made for an even bigger fusion reactor now being constructed in France.\n\n\"The JET experiments put us a step closer to fusion power,\" said Dr Joe Milnes, the head of operations at the reactor lab. \"We've demonstrated that we can create a mini star inside of our machine and hold it there for five seconds and get high performance, which really takes us into a new realm.\"\n\nUltimately, the process would be used to drive steam turbines to generate electricity\n\nThe ITER facility in southern France is supported by a consortium of world governments, including from EU member states, the US, China and Russia. It is expected to be the last step in proving nuclear fusion can become a reliable energy provider in the second half of this century.\n\nOperating the power plants of the future based on fusion would produce no greenhouse gases and only very small amounts of short-lived radioactive waste.\n\n\"These experiments we've just completed had to work,\" said JET CEO Prof Ian Chapman. \"If they hadn't then we'd have real concerns about whether ITER could meet its goals.\n\n\"This was high stakes and the fact that we achieved what we did was down to the brilliance of people and their trust in the scientific endeavour,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe walls of the JET reactor were changed to a material made from beryllium and tungsten\n\nFusion works on the principle that energy can be released by forcing together atomic nuclei rather than by splitting them, as in the case of the fission reactions that drive existing nuclear power stations.\n\nIn the core of the Sun, huge gravitational pressures allow this to happen at temperatures of around 10 million Celsius. At the much lower pressures that are possible on Earth, temperatures to produce fusion need to be much higher - above 100 million Celsius.\n\nNo materials exist that can withstand direct contact with such heat. So, to achieve fusion in a lab, scientists have devised a solution in which a super-heated gas, or plasma, is held inside a doughnut-shaped magnetic field.\n\nThe Joint European Torus (JET), sited at Culham in Oxfordshire, has been pioneering this fusion approach for nearly 40 years. And for the past 10 years, it has been configured to replicate the anticipated ITER set-up.\n\nThe fusion announcement is great news but sadly it won't help in our battle to lessen the effects of climate change.\n\nThere's huge uncertainty about when fusion power will be ready for commercialisation. One estimate suggests maybe 20 years. Then fusion would need to scale up, which would mean a delay of perhaps another few decades.\n\nAnd here's the problem: the need for carbon-free energy is urgent - and the government has pledged that all electricity in the UK must be zero emissions by 2035. That means nuclear, renewables and energy storage.\n\nIn the words of my colleague Jon Amos: \"Fusion is not a solution to get us to 2050 net zero. This is a solution to power society in the second half of this century.\"\n\nThe French lab's preferred \"fuel\" to make the plasma will be a mix of two forms, or isotopes, of hydrogen called deuterium and tritium.\n\nJET was asked to demonstrate a lining for the 80-cubic-metre toroidal vessel enclosing the magnetic field that would work efficiently with these isotopes.\n\nFor its record-breaking experiments in 1997, JET had used carbon, but carbon absorbs tritium, which is radioactive. So for the latest tests, new walls for the vessel were constructed out of the metals beryllium and tungsten. These are 10 times less absorbent.\n\nThe JET science team then had to tune their plasma to work effectively in this new environment.\n\n\"This is a stunning result because they managed to demonstrate the greatest amount of energy output from the fusion reactions of any device in history,\" commented Dr Arthur Turrell, the author of The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion And The Race To Power The Planet.\n\n\"It's a landmark because they demonstrated stability of the plasma over five seconds. That doesn't sound very long, but on a nuclear timescale, it's a very, very long time indeed. And it's very easy then to go from five seconds to five minutes, or five hours, or even longer.\"\n\nFrench President François Mitterrand and the Queen formally opened JET in 1984\n\nJET can't actually run any longer because its copper electromagnets get too hot. For ITER, internally cooled superconducting magnets will be used.\n\nFusion reactions in the lab famously consume more energy to initiate than they can output. At Jet, two 500 megawatt flywheels are used to run the experiments.\n\nBut there is solid evidence that this deficit can be overcome in the future as the plasmas are scaled up. ITER's toroidal vessel volume will be 10 times that of JET. It's hoped the French lab will get to breakeven. The commercial power plants that come after should then show a net gain that could be fed into electricity grids.\n\nThis is a long game and it's significant that of the 300 or so scientists working as JET, a quarter are in the early part of their careers. They will have to carry the baton of research forward.\n\n\"Fusion takes a long time, it is complex, it is difficult,\" said Dr Athina Kappatou, who's in her thirties. \"This is why we have to ensure that from one generation to the next, there are the scientists, there are the engineers and the technical staff who can take things forward.\"\n\nMany technical challenges remain, however. In Europe, these challenges are being worked on by the Eurofusion consortium, which comprises some 5,000 science and engineering experts from across the EU, Switzerland and Ukraine.\n\nThe UK is a participant, too. Its full involvement in ITER, however, will require first for Britain to \"associate\" to certain EU science programmes, something that so far has been held up by disagreements over post-Brexit trading arrangements, particularly in relation to Northern Ireland.\n\nJET is likely to be decommissioned after 2023 with ITER beginning plasma experiments in 2025, or soon after.\n\nThe ITER reactor is under construction at Cadarache in the south of France", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nAnimal charity the RSPCA has taken West Ham defender Kurt Zouma's pet cats away after videos emerged on social media of him kicking and slapping one of them.\n\nThe Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is liaising with Essex Police about the incident.\n\n\"The two cats are now in RSPCA care,\" said a charity spokesperson.\n\nThe Premier League club say they have fined Zouma \"the maximum amount possible\" and the fee will be donated to animal welfare charities.\n\nGerman sportswear firm Adidas announced on Wednesday it had ended its deal with the 27-year-old.\n\n\"We have concluded our investigation and can confirm Kurt Zouma is no longer an Adidas-contracted athlete,\" said the company.\n\nAlso on Wednesday West Ham sponsor Experience Kissimmee said \"due to recent events\" it would end its deal with the club.\n\nMore than 150,000 people have signed an online petition calling for Zouma to be prosecuted, while one of West Ham's sponsors, Vitality, has suspended its deal with the club.\n\nWest Ham said Zouma \"willingly complied with the steps taken in the initial stage of the process, including delivering his family's two cats to the RSPCA for assessment\".\n\nThe RSPCA spokesperson added: \"Our priority is and has always been the wellbeing of these cats.\n\n\"They've been taken for a check-up at a vets and then will remain in our care while the investigation continues.\n\n\"We're grateful to everyone who expressed their concern for these cats. We were dealing with this issue before the video went viral online and are leading the investigation.\n\n\"We continue to investigate so we cannot comment further at this time.\"\n\nThe Hammers said the fine, which Zouma immediately accepted, was \"separate to the RSPCA's investigation and pending further sanction once the outcome of that process is determined\".\n\nThey added: \"Kurt is extremely remorseful and, like everyone at the club, fully understands the depth of feeling surrounding the incident and the need for action to be taken.\n\n\"West Ham United would like to reiterate our condemnation of Kurt's actions and make it clear that the matter continues to be handled with the utmost seriousness.\n\n\"However, we believe it is now important to allow the RSPCA to conduct their investigation in a fair and thorough manner, and will be making no further comment at this stage.\"\n\nWest Ham manager David Moyes played France international Zouma in their match against Watford on Tuesday, despite the controversy, and the centre-back was booed by both sets of supporters during the game.\n\nBBC Sport presenter and ex-England international Gary Lineker said he was \"shocked and appalled that West Ham played Zouma\" against Watford and called it a \"tone-deaf decision\".\n\nBT Sport pundit Joe Cole, who used to play for West Ham, called the decision a \"miscalculation\".\n\n'They clearly think they can get away with it'\n\nOne of West Ham's sponsors, Vitality, said it was \"distressed\" by the video of Zouma and \"hugely disappointed by the judgement subsequently shown by the club in response to this incident\".\n\nThe company added: \"As such, we are suspending our sponsorship of West Ham United with immediate effect. We will now be further engaging with the club to understand what actions they will be taking to address the situation.\"\n\nThe West Ham Supporters' Trust (WHUST) has said it \"condemns the actions\" of Zouma. It is understood the trust feels Zouma should have been suspended until club disciplinary procedures had been concluded.\n\n\"I think it was an unwise choice to make [to pick him against Watford],\" said WHUST chair Sue Watson. \"Kurt Zouma is a good player, I understand why he chose him but I think he shouldn't have.\n\n\"He should have taken a moral stance and said, 'until the internal investigations and disciplinary procedures at West Ham are completed, he won't be picked'.\n\n\"Whether they do cast him aside - I strongly suspect they won't - I would like to see a very rigorous re-education programme. He's said he's sorry, I wonder if he understands why people are so angry with him.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, wildlife television presenter and conservationist Chris Packham described Moyes' decision to play Zouma on Tuesday as \"disgraceful\" and said the manager \"proved he doesn't care\" about the public standards footballers set.\n\n\"It's not acceptable,\" said Packham.\n\n\"We cannot condone this behaviour. West Ham should have sent a clear message. People were disgusted by this. Fans were booing. The decision shows a complete disconnect from them.\n\n\"This isn't an internal matter. It's a crime. They clearly think they can get away with it because it's an animal and not a person.\n\n\"Look at Marcus Rashford - he's a paragon of excellence - a true role model. There's potential that kids will see how Kurt Zouma treats defenceless animals and want to emulate him.\"", "Snoop Dogg appeared on Dr. Dre's debut album, The Chronic, before making his own, Doggystyle\n\nUS rapper and entrepreneur Snoop Dogg has acquired Death Row Records, the label that launched his career.\n\nThe Californian hip-hop star shot to fame following the Death Row-release of his 1993 hit debut album, Doggystyle.\n\nIt featured hits singles such as Gin & Juice, Doggy Dogg World and Murder Was The Case.\n\nSnoop Dogg said the move was an \"extremely meaningful moment for me\" and he was looking forward to \"building the next chapter\" of the record label.\n\n\"I am thrilled and appreciative of the opportunity to acquire the iconic and culturally significant Death Row Records brand, which has immense untapped future value,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"It feels good to have ownership of the label I was part of at the beginning of my career and as one of the founding members.\n\nHe later posted an image on Instagram, alongside the caption \"Bacc on Death Row\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeath Row Records was founded in 1992 by Dr Dre, Suge Knight, the DOC and Dick Griffey.\n\nSnoop Dogg was signed after one of his early mixtapes impressed NWA co-founder Dre, who invited him to an audition and then appear on his own debut record, 1992's The Chronic.\n\nBoth debut records went multi-platform and set Death Row on its way to becoming a multi-million dollar business.\n\nSnoop Dogg and Dr Dre in the studio in 1993\n\nPrior to that a teenage Snoop Dogg had spent time in prison for a drug offence.\n\nDoggystyle sold millions of copies around the world and was followed up by Tha Doggfather in 1996.\n\nBut he left the record label in 1998, after a row about the terms of his contract and the alleged withholding of royalty payments, and went on to enjoy further success as musician, actor and media personality.\n\nDeath Row began to decline in the late 90s after the death of one of its stars Tupac Shakur, and the imprisonment of Suge Knight, as well as the departures of Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre.\n\nControversy and legal cases followed before the label filed for bankruptcy in 2006 and was auctioned to WIDEawake Entertainment for $18m (£13.2m) in 2009.\n\nThe infamous label was later sold to Entertainment One, after the owner of WIDEawake went bankrupt in 2012, and then became a division of Hasbro, until last year when One Music was sold to The Blackstone Group.\n\nSnoop Dogg and Dr Dre performing at Coachella Festival in 2012\n\nIt's now back in the hands of one its original stars, who was awarded a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in 2018.\n\nSnoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr, was previously appointed creative chairman of Priority Records in 2009.\n\nHis other business ventures include the release of the Snoopify app, as well as cannabis products called Leafs by Snoop. In 2019 he moved into esports, creating the Gangsta Gaming League.", "The boss of the Co-op's food division is taking a four-month break to support her sons during their exams.\n\nJo Whitfield, chief executive of Co-op food, said she will step away from the business from May to help her two sons study for their GCSEs and A-Levels.\n\nShe said she wanted to spend more time with her sons to \"ease the challenge\" in what was a \"big year\" for them.\n\nIt sparked a mixed reaction, with some praising her and others noting only the rich could afford the time off.\n\nMs Whitfield, who took home £1.4m in 2020 according to the company's annual report, will take four months of unpaid leave.\n\nShe said she had decided, with her family, to help her sons prepare for the \"inevitable pressure and emotional turmoil\" of their exams.\n\n\"I can take this time away reassured by the knowledge we have a strong food leadership team who will keep moving our Co-op forward,\" she added.\n\nWhile she is off, group chief executive Steve Murrells will take control of the Co-op's food business.\n\nThe opportunity to apply for an unpaid leave of absence is available to all Co-op staff, according to the company.\n\nSome praised Ms Whitfield online, with one tweeting: \"Good on her for putting her kids first.\"\n\nBut others said it was a luxury few workers could afford.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ann Power🇮🇪🇪🇺 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne tweeted: \"'The opportunity to apply for an unpaid leave of absence is available to all Co-op staff, according to the company.'\" Not the ability to afford this I guess. Equality of opportunity as tokenism?\"\n\nSarah Doole, chief executive of TV production company Red, told the BBC's Wake Up to Money programme that Ms Whitfield's decision showed \"there is more to life than the salary you bring home\".\n\n\"She's a fantastic role model for all of us,\" said Ms Doole. \"[Showing] that you can change the system and make it work for you and your family as well as doing a great job at work so good on her, I say.\"\n\nMs Doole also said home schooling during Covid lockdowns had made \"parents realise how tough education is\".\n\nHowever, some were less enthusiastic to follow Ms Whitfield's actions. Thomas Frame, founder and chairman of consultancy firm Etch UK, quipped on Twitter: \"I would rather stay at work.\"", "The Trustees of the British Museum The 5,000-year-old sculpture was found in an East Yorkshire grave, along with a bone pin and a chalk ball thought to be a child's toy\n\nA 5,000-year-old chalk sculpture found in the grave of three children has been hailed as \"the most important piece of prehistoric art\" uncovered in Britain in a century.\n\nThe \"Burton Agnes drum\" was unearthed in East Yorkshire and will go on display at the British Museum.\n\nThe museum said it was \"one of the most significant\" ancient discoveries in the UK.\n\nIt is similar to three \"Folkton drums\" found in North Yorkshire in 1889.\n\nBritish Museum curator Neil Wilkin said: \"This is a truly remarkable discovery, and is the most important piece of prehistoric art to be found in Britain in the last 100 years.\n\n\"The Folkton drums have long remained a mystery to experts for well over a century, but this new example finally begins to give us some answers.\n\n\"To my mind, the Burton Agnes drum is even more intricately carved and reflects connections between communities in Yorkshire, Stonehenge, Orkney and Ireland. Analysis of its carvings will help to decipher the symbolism and beliefs of the era in which Stonehenge was constructed.\"\n\nThe barrel-shaped cylindrical sculpture is only the fourth of its kind known to have survived and still retains elaborate motifs purveying a British and Irish artistic style, which flourished at the time Stonehenge was built, curators said.\n\nIt was unearthed, along with the burial of three children, at a country estate - about 15 miles away from where the Folkton drums were discovered - in a routine excavation as part of a planning process in 2015 and has since been the subject of extensive research.\n\nThe Trustees of the British Museum The discovery was made in 2015 at a country estate near Burton Agnes\n\nThe Trustees of the British Museum The motifs are yet to be deciphered, but are thought to have either symbolic or religious meaning\n\nThe chalk drum, which is not believed to be a musical instrument, was discovered lying above the head of a child, which was holding the other two younger ones \"in a moving scene\", and may have been intended as \"talismans\" to protect the children, archaeologists said.\n\nThree holes in the drum are thought to mark the presence of the three bodies in the grave. The two youngest were touching or holding hands.\n\nA chalk ball and polished bone pin were also found next to the drum and underneath one of the children's heads. Similar items from the same period have been uncovered elsewhere in Yorkshire.\n\nA radiocarbon date from one child's bones has identified the burial to date between 3005BC and 2890BC.\n\nScientists believe the Folkton drums could also be of similar age.\n\nThe drum was found next to three children buried close together \"in a moving scene\", archaeologists said\n\nMr Wilkin said the drum discovery was \"highly moving\" and would be seen by the public for the first time in an exhibition opening on 17 February.\n\n\"The emotions the new drum expresses are powerful and timeless, they transcend the time of Stonehenge and reflect a moment of tragedy and despair that remains undimmed after 5,000 years,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nThe Winter Olympics team figure skating medals have still not been awarded amid reports a competitor has tested positive for a banned substance.\n\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) has refused to provide details on the \"legal issue\" since the Russian Olympic Committee won gold on Monday.\n\nUnconfirmed reports in Russia named 15-year-old Kamila Valieva as the skater in question.\n\n\"I can't comment on speculation that I've seen,\" said the IOC's Mark Adams.\n\nThe Russian team won gold, ahead of the United States and Japan.\n\nThey had a mini ceremony at the venue, in which they were handed Olympic mascot Bing Dwen Dwen teddy bears.\n\nThe official medal ceremony at a plaza in Beijing should have taken place on Tuesday evening.\n\nFigure skaters who competed in the team event have continued in their individual events and have been practising. Valieva, whose world-first Olympic quadruple helped her team win gold, was at the National Indoor Stadium on Thursday.\n\n\"She is not suspended,\" Russian figure skating federation spokeswoman Olga Ermolina said, offering no further detail.\n\nRussian media reported on Wednesday that Valieva had returned a positive test, with newspapers RBC and Kommersant naming the drug as Trimetazidine, which is typically used to treat chest pain.\n\nAdams, speaking at the IOC's daily media briefing in Beijing, could not give any timeframe for when the medals would now be handed out. He would not confirm which team or athlete was involved, or whether a failed drugs test was the cause of the delay.\n\n\"We had a situation arise at short notice that has legal implications and I'm not going to comment on a legal case in a press conference,\" he added.\n\nWithout confirming if it was a suspected doping issue, he said on a general point: \"The IOC delegated testing, management and sanctioning to the Independent Testing Authority to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. It's an active legal case and I refer you to other partners.\"\n\nThe World Anti-Doping Agency code has protections for athletes aged under 18 who are found to commit doping violations, including that they may not be publicly named. On Thursday, Iran's Saveh Shemshaki was announced as the first athlete to return a positive doping test at the 2022 games.\n\nThe International Skating Union said it could not \"disclose any information about any possible anti-doping rule violation... in line with the ISU anti-doping rules and IOC anti-doping rules for Beijing 2022\".\n\nAn International Testing Agency spokesperson said: \"Any announcement connected to these events would always be publicly issued on the ITA's website and not commented on otherwise. No such announcement has been published to date.\"\n• None 'It belongs to all of us': Join us in celebrating 100 years of informing, educating and entertaining\n• None From Sheffield to the Beijing mountains: Follow a group of Team GB freestylers in their preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics", "Reports of anti-Semitic incidents reached a record high in the UK last year, according to figures from a Jewish security charity.\n\nThe Community Security Trust (CST) provides security for Britain's Jewish community, and monitors anti-Semitism.\n\nThe charity says it recorded reports of 2,255 anti-Jewish hate incidents in 2021, up 34% on 2020.\n\nIts annual report says the rise was driven by reactions to violence in Israel and Gaza.\n\n\"It is possible that the loosening of Covid restrictions, coinciding with the war in Israel and Gaza - a subject that triggers strong emotional responses - provided people with a potential release from months of lockdown-induced frustration,\" the charity said.\n\nWell over half of the incidents were in Greater London, with 1,254 cases, making it the worst year ever recorded in the city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two men were attacked in north London in January\n\nIn north London last month, two Jewish men were attacked while locking up their shop.\n\nA man has since been arrested and charged with two counts of racially aggravated actual bodily harm. He has indicated he will plead not guilty.\n\nAcross the UK, the number of violent attacks reported rose by 76% from 100 in 2020 to 176 in 2021.\n\nIncidents recorded in May and June 2021, when the conflict in the Middle East intensified, made up two-fifths of the year's total.\n\nIn May 2021, when the violence peaked, the CST recorded its highest ever monthly total of 661 anti-Semitic incidents, and June saw the fifth highest with 210 incidents.\n\nMore than a third of all anti-Semitic incidents in 2021 were linked to the conflict in the Middle East, or demonstrated anti-Zionist motivation alongside anti-Semitism, the charity said.\n\nThe report cited a number of examples of people prosecuted for anti-Semitic hate crime in 2021, including:\n\nAndrew Dymock (L) and Richard Hesketh were among those jailed last year for anti-Semitic hate crime\n\nThe CST relies on victims or witnesses to report incidents of anti-Semitism. So the higher numbers could reflect an increased willingness to report incidents, or an increased awareness of the CST's work.\n\nBut the trust's spokesman Dave Rich said because the charity had recorded anti-Semitic incidents since the 1980s, they were able to track patterns and assess whether the figures reflect actual changes in the number of incidents, or just changes in the rates of reporting.\n\nHe said they \"can say with a high degree of confidence\" that the large spike in anti-Semitic incidents during and after May 2021 represented an actual increase in incidents, similar to previous years when conflicts involving Israel have occurred.\n\nThe charity also points to 2018 research which suggested more than three-quarters of British Jews experiencing anti-Semitic harassment over the previous five years had not reported it to the police, or to any other organisation.\n\nResponding to the figures, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the Jewish community had been \"subject to appalling hatred\".\n\n\"These statistics are shocking and a stark reminder that the racism of anti-Semitism has not been eradicated,\" she said.\n\nShadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, called for \"urgent action\" to tackle anti-Semitic incidents in person or online.\n\n\"It is truly appalling that incidents of anti-Jewish hate have now reached record levels - and for this to be increasing shows just how far we have to go to remove the stain of anti-Semitism from our society,\" she said.", "Sharon Graham, the Unite General Secretary, said she was prepared to escalate the dispute\n\nThe head of the Unite union has threatened to withdraw funding for Labour over a pay dispute involving bin lorry drivers in Coventry.\n\nUnion members in the city started a two-month strike at the end of January, saying drivers deserve better pay.\n\nUnite, Labour's single biggest donor, said financial support for the party was now \"under review\".\n\nIn response, Labour said: \"These sort of threats won't work in Keir Starmer's Labour Party.\"\n\nIt would not be the first time the union has cut funding for the party since Sir Keir became leader.\n\nThe row in Coventry, which started months ago, has become increasingly bad tempered, with the union and Labour-run council each accusing the other of manipulating the truth, particularly regarding the pay drivers receive.\n\nIn a message to strikers, Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said: \"Let me be very clear - the remaining financial support of the Labour Party is now under review.\"\n\nShe said the council had \"time and again totally misrepresented the union's claims for its bin drivers\" and it \"should be ashamed of the spin it has tried to make\" about its own workers' pay rates\".\n\n\"These dreadful misrepresentations are deliberately designed to enrage the general public which directly risks the welfare of workers who are taking part in an entirely legal dispute, and this, a Labour council.\"\n\nCoventry City Council says it is one of the highest paying employers in the West Midlands and strongly disputes the union's numbers.\n\nIts decision to use a private contractor wholly owned by the local authority to do some refuse collections has further angered Unite, along with a warning on Wednesday that jobs might be at risk if the strike continues.\n\nThe two sides have recently met at independent arbitration service Acas, but for the moment remain at odds.\n\nIn a dispute that has looked increasingly intractable, this takes it to a whole new level, putting a strike over pay for bin drivers in Coventry very much on the national stage.\n\nThe official response from the Labour Party is punchy. This may be a relief to the leadership of the council who feared being forced to back-track under pressure, but is unlikely to soften Unite's position.\n\nAt the end of January, news that both sides had agreed to Acas arbitration in relation to the pay grade element of the dispute brought some hope. The council and Unite were privately making positive noises, but since then the rhetoric seems to have hardened.\n\nThere is no doubt the decision by the council to employ private drivers to break the strike enraged the union, but the council facing a month of all-out strikes, with no collections at all for its residents, said it was left with \"no option\".\n\nSettling any dispute usually comes down to both sides feeling they have succeeded in winning in some aspect. Right now it looks like no-one is winning, least of all council taxpayers in Coventry and a very high stakes game of \"who blinks first\" continues.\n\nMs Graham urged Labour to \"pick up the phone and get this sorted\", saying: \"It's utterly disgusting that this council is putting workers through this misery.\n\n\"If we have to escalate, we will escalate and I personally will be getting involved.\n\n\"Our wallet is closed to bad employers.\"\n\nIn response to the funding review, the Labour Party said it would \"always act in the public interest\".\n\n\"We would have hoped that Unite would have got the message that the Labour Party is under new management,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Unilever, the firm behind brands such as Marmite and Dove Soap, has said it will put up its prices again this year as its overheads continue to rise.\n\nThe consumer goods giant, which already raised prices in 2021, said the cost of some its goods would climb but it would vary from country to country.\n\nMany firms are struggling with rising raw material, wage and energy costs.\n\nUnilever said: \"We don't want to put prices up but we're seeing the highest inflation we've seen in a decade.\n\n\"There will be price increases on some products and in some markets but it will not be uniform across the world.\"\n\nUnilever, which also makes Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Hellmann's mayonnaise, said it was facing €3.5bn (£2.95bn) of extra costs in 2022 alone.\n\nIt said it expected strong growth in sales this year as it raises prices, but also forecast a sharp decline in its profit margins.\n\nOther big firms have already revealed price rises to offset increased costs, including High Street giant Next, which said its prices would jump by up to 6% this year.\n\nGreggs, Britain's biggest bakery chain, said it had boosted prices between 5p and 10p on items across its range of sausage rolls and cakes, while Pret a Manger is upping the price of its coffee subscription service to £25 a month from £20.\n\nFood prices are also set to rise further, with the boss of Tesco warning supermarket prices could increase by as much as 5% by the spring.\n\nIt comes as pay rises are failing to keep up with the rise in the cost of living, recent official figures show, putting the biggest squeeze on household finances in decades.\n\nHowever, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) also warned of a \"cost-of-doing-business crisis\" and called on the chancellor to help companies.\n\nHannah Essex, the co-executive director of the BCC, told the BBC's Today programme: \"These price pressures have been building over the course of the last year, and it has now reached the point where businesses are passing that cost onto other businesses and to consumers.\"\n\nIt was partly due to global issues, she said, but added that there are \"levers that the government can pull to make things better\".\n\nMs Essex called for an energy cap for smaller businesses and for the National Insurance increase set for April to be postponed for at least a year, adding that businesses could no longer absorb costs.\n\n\"It has reached the point where [firms] simply don't have a choice [but to put up prices],\" she said.\n\nShe gave examples of a laundrette in Kent that has had a 250% increase in energy costs and companies seeing a 70% increase in the cost of raw materials.\n\nAccording to a BCC survey of 1,000 of its members, three in four businesses are putting up their prices to cover higher costs.\n\nThe most commonly reported cost pressure was wages: 63% of firms overall - and 70% of manufacturers - reported rising wage demands causing pressure.\n\nThis was closely followed by energy costs. The survey found 62% of companies said soaring energy bills were creating pressure, while 90% of manufacturing firms said higher raw material costs were an issue.\n\nIn response to these pressures, 73% of firms said they were raising prices, while one in 20 respondents to the poll said they were considering ceasing trade completely.\n\nConsumer price inflation is on course to rise above 7% this year, a threat that recently prompted the boss of the Bank of England to urge workers to not ask for big pay rises, to try to stop prices rising out of control.\n\nHowever, a new report by recruiters said starting salaries for permanent and temporary staff were being driven up due to a scarcity of candidates.\n\n\"With competition for staff still hot, companies are having to raise pay rates for new starters to attract the best people, and the cost of living crisis means there is also more pressure from jobseekers who want a pay rise,\" said Neil Carberry, chief executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), which worked on the report with KPMG.\n\nThe Treasury said it was aware of the strains caused by higher energy bills and was in \"regular contact\" with business groups and energy suppliers to \"see how they can best be supported\".\n\nA spokesman said the government had backed businesses through the pandemic with \"unprecedented\" support and would \"continue to stand firmly behind them\".\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last year, a record number of migrants - like this group seen in an archive picture - crossed from France to the UK\n\nFrance's Coastguard has saved 36 people after their boat ran into difficulty off the north coast, officials say.\n\nIt said a patrol boat picked up the \"shipwrecked people\" in the North Sea off Leffrinckoucke, close to the Belgian border, and took them to the port of Dunkirk on Thursday morning.\n\nThose rescued are believed to be migrants trying to get to the UK.\n\nLast November, 27 people headed for the UK drowned in the English Channel near Calais after their boat sank.\n\nThe International Organization for Migration says it was the biggest single loss of life in the Channel since it began collecting data in 2014.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to leave \"no stone unturned\" to stop human trafficking gangs.\n\nThe UK and France have agreed to step up joint efforts to prevent such crossings and stop the gangs putting people's lives at risk.\n\nLast year, more than 25,700 people made the dangerous journey to the UK in small boats - more than three times the 2020 total.\n\nThe maritime sector between the UK and France is one of the busiest areas in the world for shipping, and has claimed many lives of people trying to cross to Britain in inflatable dinghies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "US President Joe Biden has condemned a Florida bill that would ban discussion of sexual orientation in primary schools as \"hateful\" to LGBT students.\n\nGovernor Ron DeSantis has signalled his backing for the measure and it appears to have enough support to pass through the state's Republican-led legislature.\n\nActivists have dubbed it the \"Don't Say Gay\" bill and warn it will stigmatise LGBT people and issues.\n\nBut its proponents say the legislation is about protecting parental rights.\n\nThe proposal was introduced in the state House of Representatives last month. An identical version advanced in the state Senate on Tuesday.\n\nIn a Twitter message to the LGBT community - \"especially the kids who will be impacted by this hateful bill\" - Mr Biden vowed to \"continue to fight for the protections and safety you deserve\".\n\nAt a news conference earlier, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said: \"Every parent hopes that our leaders will ensure their children's safety, protection, and freedom.\n\n\"Today, conservative politicians in Florida rejected those basic values by advancing legislation that is designed to target and attack the kids who need support the most.\"\n\nState laws that ban or constrain the discussion of LGBT life in classrooms - sometimes referred to as \"no promo homo\" laws - are not uncommon.\n\nSeveral were introduced in the 1970s and 1980s, closely correlated with anti-gay rights activism at the time, but many have long been repealed.\n\nCurrently, four US states - Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas - have laws on the books that expressly prohibit or limit sex education to heterosexual activity.\n\nLast year, Tennessee and Montana passed laws that allow parents to opt their children out of discussions on sexual orientation and gender identity.\n\nThe Florida bill goes a step further, allowing parents to directly sue schools districts and seek damages if they believe an educator has broken the law.\n\nAlthough the ban will in theory apply largely to sex education courses at the primary grade levels, it also calls on school districts to avoid LGBT topics when \"not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students\".\n\nEchoing the text of the bill, Governor DeSantis, a Republican widely touted as a possible 2024 White House contender, said schools should avoid \"entirely inappropriate\" topics and instead be teaching science, history, civics and other lessons.\n\n\"The larger issue with all of this is parents must have a seat at the table when it comes to what's going on in their schools,\" he told reporters on Monday.\n\nBut LGBT advocates have warned the legislation will harm the mental health of LGBT youth and undermine their existing protections under the law while moving Floridians away from a more inclusive school environment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rory Wade said he found \"homophobia was very normalised in daily conversation\" during his school days", "Priti Patel said a lower threat level must not make us complacent\n\nThe UK's terror threat level has been lowered from severe to substantial, meaning a terror attack on British soil is considered \"likely\".\n\nThe level was raised to severe - where an attack is \"highly likely\" - after two terror attacks late last year.\n\nIn October, Conservative MP Sir David Amess was stabbed to death in Essex. A month later, a bomb was set off outside Liverpool Women's Hospital.\n\nThe home secretary said a lower threat level must not make people complacent.\n\nIn a statement to Parliament, Priti Patel said: \"The attacks in October and November 2021 reflect the complex, volatile and unpredictable nature of the terrorist threat in the UK.\"\n\nShe said the decision was taken by security and intelligence experts from the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC), independently of ministers.\n\nThey judged that despite the two attacks, the current nature and scale of the threat was consistent with the level seen prior to them, Ms Patel said.\n\n\"JTAC keep the threat level under constant review based on the very latest intelligence and analysis of internal and external factors which drive the threat,\" she added.\n\nShe described the reduction in threat level as positive but warned \"it must never make us complacent\".\n\nIn the threat grading system, \"substantial\" is the third highest - below \"critical\" and \"severe\" but above \"low\" and \"moderate\".\n\nNext month, Ali Harbi Ali, 25, from Kentish Town, north London, will go on trial for the murder of Sir David in an alleged terror attack.\n\nThe 69-year-old MP for Southend West was holding a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea when he was stabbed multiple times. He died at the scene.\n\nAfter the Liverpool hospital explosion on Remembrance Sunday last year, police identified the man killed when his homemade bomb went off in the back of a taxi as 32-year-old Emad Al Swealmeen.\n\nHe was an asylum seeker born in Iraq, who is understood to have converted to Christianity in 2017.\n\nThe taxi driver, David Perry, escaped from the vehicle before it burst into flames, avoiding serious injury. His wife Rachel called it \"an utter miracle\".", "Women were told to wear bodycon dresses or form-fitting tops\n\nA sushi restaurant, due to open for the first time on Friday, has apologised after \"mistakenly\" publishing a dress code which specified women had to wear \"sexy\" clothing to gain entry.\n\nBeluga in Leatherhead, Surrey, said on its website that women could wear \"sexy black ankle-strap heels with a form-fitting top\", or could opt for \"skinny jeans\" or \"midi or bodycon dresses\".\n\nMen were told not to wear tracksuits.\n\nIn a post on Instagram the restaurant offered its \"sincere apologies\".\n\nIt said: \"The description was inappropriate, disrespectful and offensive and does not reflect the image we're seeking to promote.\n\n\"We wish to clarify that our policy is a smart dress code for men and women.\"\n\nThe dress code has drawn a negative reaction from the public ahead of the restaurant's opening.\n\nOn its Facebook page people said the dress code was \"disgusting\", \"sexist\" and \"gross\".\n\nOne commenter wrote: \"Congrats on doing such a terrible job before you even open.\"\n\n\"It's fine, I guess. If you wanna party like it's 1959,\" another post said.\n\nThe restaurant, due to open on Friday, acknowledged the \"offence and upset\" caused in an Instagram post\n\nAnother person asked: \"What self-respecting woman would ever want to set foot in your restaurant?\"\n\nReacting to the story on Reddit, users called it \"stale\", \"out of touch\" and \"cringe\".\n\nOne person wrote: \"Because what are women but faceless objects for filling out your aesthetic?\"\n\nWhile another Redditor observed that the dress code was \"written like Jay off the Inbetweeners opened a night club.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Betty Davis wrote songs including Get Ready for Betty and Uptown (to Harlem)\n\nBetty Davis, the pioneering US singer and musician who was dubbed the \"Godmother of Funk\", has died aged 77.\n\nDavis blazed a trail with her raw brand of funk and sexual lyrics that would go on to influence stars including Prince and Madonna.\n\nNews of her death was confirmed on her website by her friend Constance Portis.\n\nTributes have been paid to Davis by stars including US rocker Lenny Kravitz and the estate of Prince, which wrote about her influence on him.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lenny Kravitz This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrince's estate noted how the late star once referenced Davis's work in an interview, saying \"this is what we aim for\".\n\nBorn and raised as Betty Mabry in North Carolina, Davis became a mainstay on the 1960s New York music scene, with tracks like Get Ready for Betty. Her 1967 song Uptown (to Harlem), which she wrote for the Chambers Brothers, recently re-emerged in Questlove's Oscar-nominated documentary, Summer of Soul.\n\n\"I wrote about love, really, and all the levels of love,\" she told The New York Times in 2018, in a rare interview after the release of the documentary Betty - They Say I'm Different. \"When I was writing about it, nobody was writing about it. But now everybody's writing about it. It's like a cliché.\"\n\nShe was an influence on artists including Prince, Madonna, Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu\n\nShe was the second wife of jazz star Miles Davis, and although they were married for just a year, she's widely credited with helping to turn the trumpeter and bandleader on to the era's rock, introducing him to artists like Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone. His subsequent jazz-rock fusion phase brought the classic album Bitches Brew.\n\n\"Every day married to him was a day I earned the name Davis,\" she said in the documentary about their turbulent time together.\n\nThe recordings they made together were shelved after they split, but she finally released her self-titled debut album in 1973.\n\nBetty Davis (left) and husband Miles at the funeral of guitarist Jimi Hendrix\n\nBetty Davis was one of the first black women to get recognition for writing, arranging and producing her own albums, such as They Say I'm Different and Nasty Gal. But she disappeared from the music industry at the end of the 70s.\n\nWhile her music was not commercially successful, she has proved to be influential for the generations that followed.\n\nJanelle Monae has previously described Davis as \"one of the godmothers of redefining how black women in music can be viewed\", while Erykah Badu once commented: \"We just grains of sand in her Bettyness.\"\n\nMale rappers including Ice Cube and Talib Kweli have also sampled her work.\n\nAfter a brief stint living with silent monks in Japan, she moved back to the Pittsboro area of North Carolina and stayed out the limelight for most of the rest of her life. \"When I was told that it was over, I just accepted it,\" Davis told the New York Times. \"And nobody else was knocking at my door.\"\n\nIn a statement on her website, Portis, her friend of 65-years, described her as a \"a multi-talented music influencer and pioneer rock star, singer, songwriter, and fashion icon\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDavis died in her home in Homestead, Pennsylvania.", "Captain Sir Tom Moore raised almost £33m in direct donations for charities supporting the NHS\n\nThe Charity Commission says it is to review the accounts of the charity set up in honour of Capt Sir Tom Moore.\n\nGrants of £160,000 were given to four charities by the Captain Tom Foundation which paid more than £162,000 in management costs in its first year.\n\nCapt Sir Tom walked 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden at the start of lockdown, raising £33m for NHS Charities Together.\n\nThe foundation said it welcomed the Charity Commission's input.\n\nThe Army veteran, who was born in Keighley in West Yorkshire and died last year aged 100, carried out the fundraising walk at his home in Marston Moretaine when Covid restrictions were first introduced in 2020.\n\nThe £33m raised was managed and distributed by NHS Charities Together before the JustGiving account was closed down.\n\nAfter he became a national figure, his family set up a separate charity in his name called the Captain Tom Foundation.\n\nAccording to the published accounts, covering the charity's first year from 5 May 2020 to 31 May 2021, it paid out grants to four charities worth £40,000 each but spent £209,433 on support costs including £162,336 on \"management\".\n\nThe financial statement also showed reimbursement costs of £16,097 paid to Club Nook Limited, a company run by Hannah Ingram-Moore, Capt Sir Tom's daughter.\n\nThese costs were for accommodation, security and transport relating to Capt Sir Tom \"travelling around the UK to promote the charitable company\".\n\nPayments of £37,942 were also made to Maytrix Group Limited, a company run by Ms Ingram-Moore and her husband, relating to photography, office rental, telephone and third-party consultancy costs.\n\n\"These costs were initially funded by Maytrix Group Limited on behalf of the charitable company, and reimbursed when sufficient funds were available,\" the financial statement said.\n\nExpense payments of £1,686 were also made to Ms Ingram-Moore to cover \"motor, post, subscription and travel costs\".\n\nPayments were made from the charity to reimburse costs incurred by companies run by Sir Capt Tom's daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore, accounts showed\n\nThe Charity Commission, which is an independent, non-ministerial government department, said: \"We have been in ongoing contact with the trustees of the Captain Tom Foundation on its set-up and governance arrangements and as part of this work will now assess the charity's recently submitted accounts.\"\n\nIt said it had an open regulatory compliance case into the charity, but that did not mean it had made any finding of wrongdoing.\n\nStephen Jones, chair of trustees for The Captain Tom Foundation, said: \"As a young charity, we have been working closely with the Charity Commission since we launched, and we welcome their input following the publication of our recent audited annual accounts.\"\n\nThe Fundraising Regulator and Information Commissioner's Office had also looked at concerns regarding the foundation but those matters have since been resolved.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion please email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nChloe Kim won snowboard halfpipe gold with incredible ease to retain her Winter Olympic title from 2018.\n\nUnbeaten since 2019, the 21-year-old American blew away her competition with a 94.00 score on her opening run.\n\nSuch was her lead, Kim attempted 1260s - never before landed in women's halfpipe competition - on her second and third runs but fell both times.\n\nSpain's Queralt Castellet won silver with 90.25 while Japan's Sena Tomita took the bronze medal with 88.25.\n\nSpeaking about her emotional reaction to landing her first run, Kim said: \"I was so proud of myself.\n\n\"I had the worst practice ever. I probably landed my run twice when I'm used to landing it eight times, normally, and so that puts you in a weird headspace. It felt so inconsistent.\n\n\"I didn't want to feel all that pressure of having to land my first safety run [in competition]. I overflowed with emotion when I was able to land it on the first go, and it opened up a lot of opportunity for me to go try something new.\"\n• None Follow live coverage of day six from Beijing 2022\n\nIn Pyeongchang four years ago, Kim - then just 17 - became the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal.\n\nBut in the aftermath of her success, she struggled with the pressures and fame that accompanied it, and later took 19 months away from the sport in 2019-20 and enrolled at Princeton University in New Jersey.\n\nFollowing her return to snowboarding in 2021, she won a second World Championship gold before landing her sixth X-Games title.\n\n\"I am more prepared this time,\" she added. \"Luckily, it was a learning curve since the last time.\n\n\"Now that I've grown up a little more and I understand boundaries and I have an amazing therapist, so I think it will make the journey a lot more doable.\"\n\nHer victory at the Beijing Games makes her the first woman to win back-to-back snowboard halfpipe titles in Olympic history.\n\nThe event was added to the Olympic programme in 1998 - two years before Kim was born.\n\nElsewhere, Austria's Johannes Strolz won gold in the men's Alpine combined - and created a little piece of history.\n\nThe 29-year-old's success sees him emulate his father Hubert, who finished first in the same discipline in Calgary in 1988. They are the first father-son pair to win an Olympic title in the same Alpine skiing event.\n\nNorway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde followed up his bronze in the men's super-G with a silver and Canada's James Crawford took the bronze.\n\nKilde's medal follows a difficult Games so far for his partner, American Mikaela Shiffrin.\n\nShiffrin was a favourite for medals in both the giant slalom and the slalom but pulled up early in her attempts at both events. She has suggested she might make way for a team-mate to complete in her place in Friday's super G.\n\nKilde had defended Shiffrin in the wake of her shock early exits and Shiffrin duly congratulated him on his success via social media.\n\nStrolz was also thinking about his nearest and dearest after picking up his medal.\n\n\"It means the world to me because I was not on the team any more last summer, and made it back into the team, got the full support again,\" he said.\n\n\"When I think about it, all the pictures and the gold medal of my father, it's hard for me not to cry. It's just a dream coming true.\"\n\nNorway's Therese Johaug won gold in the women's 10km classic to add to an impressive medal haul.\n\nThe 33-year-old, who also won the first gold medal at this year's Winter Olympics - in the 15km skiathlon on Saturday, came into the Games with 19 World Championship medals to her name and won bronze over this distance at Sochi in 2014.\n\nFinland's Kerttu Niskanen, finished less than half a second behind to win the silver with her compatriot Krista Parmakoski securing the bronze medal.\n\nThere was a second gold of the Games too for Irene Schouten of the Netherlands, who added the speed skating 5,000m title to her victory in the 3,000m earlier in the week.\n\nSchouten, the world 5,000m champion, set an Olympic record with a winning time of six minutes 43.51 seconds.\n\nSilver went to Canada's Isabelle Weidemann, with Martina Sablikova of the Czech Republic getting bronze.\n\nIn the men's snowboard cross, Austria's Alessandro Haemmerle took the gold medal in a photo finish from Eliot Grondin of Canada, with Italy's Omar Visintin third.\n\nA star-studded quartet of Natalie Geisenberger, Johannes Ludwig and Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt helped Germany edge to gold in the luge team relay.\n\nAll four had already won across the women's singles, men's singles and doubles in Beijing and they narrowly pipped Austria, with Latvia winning the bronze medal.\n\nMeanwhile, Ashley Caldwell, Christopher Lillis and Justin Schoenefeld helped the USA win gold in the inaugural mixed team aerials.\n\nHosts China, who ended up with silver, led early on but Lillis recorded the highest score of the competition (135.00) before Schoenefeld sealed their victory. Canada held off Switzerland to win the bronze.\n• None A British ice skating champion faces the fight of his life as he competes with the world's best", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An easing to face covering rules for schools will begin from the end of February\n\nSecondary school pupils in Scotland will not need to wear face coverings in classrooms from 28 February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said scientific advisors had backed the move as part of a phased lifting of restrictions.\n\nPupils will still need to wear masks in communal areas and when moving around inside school buildings.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it would return pupils to \"a more normal experience after many months of sacrifice\".\n\nThe remaining restrictions on school assemblies and visits are also to be lifted, with other curbs to be kept \"under regular review\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said the changes had taken \"far longer than was necessary\", with young people's education \"unnecessarily disrupted for far too long\".\n\nHowever the EIS teaching union said it would have rather seen masks kept in place until the end of March.\n\nThe first minister insisted the change was being made \"at the right time and in line with expert advice\".\n\nPupils will still need to wear face coverings in indoor communal areas of schools\n\nSeveral meetings with scientific and education advisors have been held this week, with Ms Sturgeon saying she wanted to announce a decision before schools head off for the February break.\n\nShe said the changes - which will apply to pupils and staff - would \"help reduce barriers to communication in the classroom and reduce any wellbeing impacts which arise from the use of face coverings\".\n\nAnd she said anyone who still wanted to wear a mask in the classroom should be supported in doing so.\n\nPrimary school children have never had to wear masks in the classroom.\n\nPupils in some areas of Scotland have been wearing masks in classrooms since October 2020.\n\nIt's a measure which at times put teenagers in school under stricter Covid rules than the rest of society.\n\nWhenever I speak to young people about this, most say they don't mind wearing them - but they would rather they were not around.\n\nThey say it makes it harder to understand their teacher, and this can particularly be a barrier for those studying for exams.\n\nTeaching unions, although softening to the idea, would still have preferred masks to stay in classrooms a little longer, until we were completely clear of the winter months.\n\nAnnouncing the move, the government highlighted falling Covid case rates for secondary-age children, alongside falling hospital numbers and an increase in vaccination rates.\n\nScottish Tory leader Douglas Ross said the government had done a U-turn after \"weeks of refusing to budge\".\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon insisted the change was being made at the appropriate moment, and accused Mr Ross of \"deep irresponsibility\".\n\nShe said: \"Had we made this change weeks ago we would have done so at a time of soaring infection rates among school age children and put them and indeed those who work with them in schools at greater risk.\n\n\"Had we done it before today it would have been acting against expert and scientific advice. It would have been the wrong thing to do - we are doing it now at the right time and in line with scientific advice.\"\n\nEIS general secretary Larry Flanagan said he would have kept masks in place for an extra month, noting that many staff and pupils are still absent due to Covid.\n\nHe said: \"There has been a slight drop in infection levels within schools but they remain high - over 4,000 staff are off school for Covid related reasons and more than 20,000 pupils.\n\n\"Therefore enforcing the remaining mitigations around ventilation and face coverings in communal areas remains critical to school safety.\"\n\nMr Flanagan also said pupils and staff with \"heightened vulnerability\" should still be allowed to wear masks - something which was echoed at Holyrood by Green MSP Ross Greer.\n\nMs Sturgeon stressed that any pupil or member of staff who would \"feel safer\" wearing a mask should continue to do so.\n\nShe said: \"In all of the decisions we are taking its important that we balance the understandable desire to get back to to normal with understanding that those who are more clinically vulnerable have a real sense of anxiety, and we need to consider their needs and concerns as well.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said anyone who wants to continue to wear a mask should be supported in doing so\n\nFace mask rules were eased in England's schools in January, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said all legal restrictions - including the need to self-isolate - could be dropped later in February if Covid data continues to stabilise.\n\nThe Scottish government is to set out its \"strategic framework\" for dealing with the virus in future on 22 February.\n\nMs Sturgeon has said ministers will \"think quite fundamentally\" about their approach, in a bid to manage the pandemic without strict curbs.\n\nHowever she has also been critical of Mr Johnson's approach, with the Scottish government moving to extend the powers which underpin face covering and vaccine passport rules for another six months.\n\nA spokesman said that isolation and mask wearing had been \"among the most effective non-pharmaceutical interventions in suppressing Covid spread\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had a \"very different view\" from him on Britain's relations with Nato.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer says his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, was \"wrong\" on Nato and that his party's commitment to the alliance is \"unshakeable\".\n\nMr Corbyn is a long-standing critic of Nato, although pulling out of it was never Labour policy when he was leader.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Sir Keir also said he supported Boris Johnson's actions on the Ukraine crisis but urged him to make better use of sanctions.\n\nHe was speaking to the BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, in Brussels.\n\nThe Labour leader earlier held a meeting with Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg about tensions between Ukraine and Russia.\n\nHe said it was \"important for me to make clear that we stand united in the UK\".\n\n\"Whatever challenges we have with the government, when it comes to Russian aggression we stand together.\"\n\nHe said there was \"nothing\" Russia wanted to see more than division between UK political parties, or division between Nato allies.\n\nMr Johnson also held a meeting with the Nato secretary general on Thursday and later met the Polish prime minister.\n\nSpeaking from Warsaw, Mr Johnson, said the UK stood \"shoulder to shoulder\" with Nato allies. He also warned Russia \"if they want less Nato, this is entirely the wrong way to go about it.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn is to address a protest calling for an end to Nato \"expansion\"\n\nAsked whether he agreed with Mr Corbyn's stance on the military alliance, Sir Keir said: \"Jeremy Corbyn had a very different view, he was wrong about that and I spoke out at the time about that.\"\n\nBefore becoming leader of the Labour Party, Mr Corbyn described Nato as \"a major problem and a major difficulty\".\n\nWriting in the Morning Star newspaper in 2012, he argued that Nato's mission had been \"thwarting the Soviet Union\", and that the collapse of the bloc was \"the obvious time for Nato to have been disbanded\".\n\nHowever, on taking charge of the party, he did not change its policy and Labour fought the 2019 general election on a pledge to maintain membership.\n\nNato - the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - is a military alliance formed in 1949 by 12 countries including the US, France and the UK.\n\nThey agreed to come to one another's aid in the event of an armed attack against any member state.\n\nIts aim was originally to counter the threat of post-war Soviet expansion in Europe.\n\nFollowing the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, a number of former Warsaw Pact countries became Nato members. The alliance now has 30 members.\n\nSir Keir, who served in Mr Corbyn's shadow cabinet, also criticised the former leader's position on the 2018 Salisbury poisonings, arguing that he \"didn't respond appropriately\".\n\nAt the time, Mr Corbyn was questioned for seeming to cast doubt on whether Russia was responsible.\n\nIn 2018, he told the BBC that it was \"very clear\" the nerve agent was \"very similar\" to those made in Russia but added that \"absolute evidence\" was still needed.\n\nMr Corbyn, who currently sits as an independent MP, is expected to address a Stop the War Coalition protest on Thursday evening entitled \"No War in Ukraine: Stop Nato Expansion\".\n\nThe group argues that the government is \"ramping up the threat of war\" and accuses Mr Johnson of trying to \"distract from the implosion of his premiership\".\n\nSir Keir also sought to distance himself from the previous Labour leader on the topic of the UK's nuclear arsenal.\n\nPressed on whether he would be willing to use nuclear weapons, he replied: \"Of course,\" adding: \"If you believe in the deterrent, that's the whole point.\"\n\nHowever, he added it would be wrong to talk about the circumstances under which he would take such a step.\n\nOn becoming leader in 2015, Mr Corbyn said: \"I am opposed to the use of nuclear weapons. I am opposed to the holding of nuclear weapons. I want to see a nuclear-free world. I believe it is possible.\"\n\nMr Corbyn was Labour's leader for four years, stepping down after the party's defeat at the 2019 general elections.", "\"Shocking\" rates of attendance have been reported in some schools, say Assembly members\n\nTackling high rates of pupil absence is not seen as a priority issue, according to a Stormont report.\n\nAssembly members on the Public Accounts Committee said they had heard of \"shocking\" rates of attendance in some schools.\n\nThey said schools needed more support to encourage pupils to attend, especially in some disadvantaged areas.\n\nThey also said more needed to be done to ensure public money improved the education of disadvantaged children.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Audit Office (NIAO) had previously criticised the Department of Education (DE) for a similar failing.\n\nThe audit office said DE could not demonstrate that almost £1bn of funding had improved disadvantaged children's education and attainment.\n\nThe NIAO also said the education gap between poorer and more affluent pupils increased as they got older.\n\nIn 2019-20, just over half of pupils (55%) entitled to free school meals left school with at least five GCSEs at grades A*-C, including GCSE English and maths.\n\nThat compared to 83.4% of school leavers not entitled to free school meals who achieved at least those qualifications in 2019-20.\n\nThe audit office report looked specifically at how £913m of Targeting Social Need (TSN) and Sure Start funding had been spent since 2005.\n\nDE provides schools with about £75m of TSN funding each year to give additional support to pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.\n\nSure Start, meanwhile, is meant to help parents and children under the age of four living in deprived areas.\n\nThe committee recommended an overhaul of how schools were provided with money to support disadvantaged pupils\n\nThe just-published Public Accounts Committee report is linked to the NIAO report.\n\nAccording to the committee chairman, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) assembly member (MLA) William Humphrey, MLAs also had concerns that the money provided to schools to help disadvantaged pupils was actually being spent effectively.\n\n\"It is concerning that there is no requirement for schools that receive TSN funding to spend it solely on supporting pupils from socially deprived backgrounds,\" Mr Humphrey said.\n\n\"At the moment, a school may use these funds to 'top up' the general school budget.\n\n\"This is clearly inappropriate and is inconsistent with the proscribed rules around other specialist funds such as special educational needs (SEN).\"\n\n\"We believe it is vital that the department and indeed all schools should put into place mechanisms to both identify and disseminate best practice so that all children benefit from the TSN and Sure Start funding.\"\n\nThe committee recommended an overhaul of how schools were provided with money to support disadvantaged pupils and said that DE and the Education Authority (EA) needed to measure how the funding helped pupils' education.\n\nMLAs on the committee also said \"high levels of absenteeism need to be addressed\".\n\nTheir report said research suggested \"pupils with no absence from school were nearly three times more likely to achieve five A*-to-C GCSEs, including English and Maths, than pupils missing 15-20% of school across key stage four\".\n\n\"The committee heard of some shocking rates of school attendance in Northern Ireland including one disadvantaged area where 35% of post-primary pupils had less than 85% school attendance,\" they said.\n\n\"The committee is concerned that despite all schools being required to have an attendance policy and a number of departmental initiatives, tackling absenteeism is not seen as a priority issue.\"\n\nAn expert panel appointed by DE recently said that more than £180m needed to be spent on widespread measures to tackle educational underachievement over the next five years.\n\nThe Fair Start report also said much more funding was needed for early years provision.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee said the executive should provide the money to implement the expert panel's recommendations in full.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson and his officials \"broke lockdown laws\" over parties held in Downing Street, Conservative former Prime Minister Sir John Major has said.\n\nHe accused the government of feeling it \"need not obey the rules\", adding: \"Outright lies breed contempt.\"\n\nSir John's comments come while 12 gatherings are still being investigated by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nHe also said the UK's reputation was \"being shredded\", but Mr Johnson called this \"demonstrably untrue\".\n\nThe prime minister, speaking on a visit to Poland, declined to comment further on Sir John's criticisms, adding: \"I'm going to have plenty to say about all that in due course.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to concentrate on diplomacy, after talks on the Ukraine crisis with Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki.\n\nThe Met is reviewing its previous decision not to investigate a Christmas quiz in No 10 in 2020, after the Mirror published a photograph of Mr Johnson with three aides - wearing tinsel and a Santa hat - near a bottle of sparkling wine.\n\nIt also announced on Wednesday that it was emailing more than 50 people as part of its existing inquiry into lockdown parties, which could lead to fines for those found to have broken Covid rules.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister, known to have attended three gatherings, had so far not been contacted.\n\nBut, in a speech to the Institute for Government think tank, Sir John said: \"At No 10, the prime minister and officials broke lockdown laws.\n\n\"Brazen excuses were dreamed up. Day after day the public was asked to believe the unbelievable. Ministers were sent out to defend the indefensible - making themselves look gullible or foolish.\"\n\nSir John, in office from 1990 to 1997, added that current ministers thought that \"they, and they alone, need not obey the rules, traditions, conventions... of public life.\n\n\"The charge that there is one law for the government and one for everyone else is politically deadly, and it has struck home.\"\n\nSir John, who has previously criticised Mr Johnson over his handling of Brexit and called the government \"politically corrupt\" in its treatment of Parliament, urged the prime minister to introduce a \"fully independent\" guardian of ethics in politics.\n\n\"Lies can become accepted as fact, which... has consequences for policy and for reputation,\" he said.\n\n\"That is why deliberate lies to Parliament have been fatal to political careers, and must always be so.\"\n\nSir John Major has repeatedly criticised Boris Johnson and his government so the fact he is doing so again isn't going to come as a surprise.\n\nBut the words he has chosen to use are particularly strong, going as far as to state plainly that the prime minister broke the law.\n\nThat accusation, of course, is what the Met Police are currently investigating and Number 10 has repeatedly said people should wait for the outcome of that investigation.\n\nIt's also striking to hear a former Tory prime minister echoing Labour's attack line that it looks like one rule for the government and another for everyone else.\n\nSo while Sir John's intervention may not be entirely unexpected, it is yet more criticism from yet another source within the Conservative Party at a precarious time for the prime minister.\n\nIn a question-and-answer session after the speech, Sir John said he had \"little doubt\" lockdown rules had been breached, but it would not be \"prudent\" to pre-judge the police report.\n\nGiving his reaction to Sir John's comments, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"It's time for the prime minister to go. That's in the national interest. The only people that could remove him are his own MPs...\n\n\"The important thing here is the prime minister's lost the moral authority to lead.\"\n\nIf 54 Tory MPs write letters of no-confidence in Mr Johnson, this would prompt a full vote on his future, which - if lost - would see him leave office.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Sir John had shown \"bravery\", adding: \"This damning criticism should act as a wake-up call to every Conservative MP who is sitting on their hands while Boris Johnson trashes the values that underpin our democracy.\"\n\nBut Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab told BBC Wales: \"I know Sir John well. I always listen to what he's got to say. I disagree with him.\"", "There is concern that President Putin is trying hard to shift the balance of power in Europe\n\nThey say there's safety in numbers.\n\nEurope, Nato and the US find themselves looking nervously over both shoulders these days.\n\nA) At China: the ever-present shadow over Shoulder Number One, with its economic might and expanding global influence.\n\nB) At Moscow, looming over Shoulder Number Two. Not \"only\" the threat to Ukraine's national sovereignty, but also concern about President Vladimir Putin trying hard to shift the balance of power in Europe.\n\nGeopolitics is very much on the mind of Western leaders. They fear the Kremlin is using tensions over Ukraine to divide and rule.\n\nIt's a mark of just how seriously they view the situation, that oft-bickering allies are suddenly, and very publicly, in a determined \"we're all in this together, singing-from-the-same-hymn-sheet\" mode.\n\nThe fortunes of prominent EU leaders are also being affected, in the frenzied shuttle diplomacy we're witnessing across Europe, to Moscow and Washington, as Western powers try to calm the situation and avoid a military invasion into Ukraine. I'll get to that in a moment.\n\nFirstly, there are plenty of well-known divisions between Western allies for President Putin to try to exploit, should he so wish.\n\nPresident Macron infamously dismissed Nato as \"brain dead\" not that long ago. He's been the loudest EU advocate of what he calls Europe's \"strategic autonomy\". Since President Donald Trump, EU-US relations have been tense over Nato defence funding and more. EU-UK relations have been strained since Brexit. And EU member states regularly quarrel amongst themselves over all sorts of things. Very much including foreign policy.\n\nBut in recent off-the-record briefings I've had with high level EU diplomats - usually good for gleaning the real low-down - I've noticed a conscious change in tone. Co-operation with the US is \"better than it has been in decades\", I'm told. EU countries are working \"extremely well with the UK within Nato\" on how to deal with Moscow, and everyone is \"100% on board\" with a plan for tough economic sanctions on Moscow and Putin allies, should Russia take military action in Ukraine.\n\nThere are plans for tough economic sanctions on Moscow should Russia take military action in Ukraine\n\nIn fact, the European Commission is engaged in sustained internal diplomacy - as it was during the Brexit negotiations at the time - in an attempt to keep the 27 member states united over sanctions. It's whispered in EU corridors, that one of the reasons a precise, written \"menu\" of Russia sanctions for differing potential scenarios does not exist, is that Brussels hopes less detail means less fodder for member states to haggle over and complain about.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson commented in a UK newspaper article on Tuesday that, while the West was united in threatening sanctions, there were still \"shades of opinion\" between allies over what those penalties should be.\n\n\"We want our friends to have sanctions ready to go,\" writes the prime minister. \"We will continue to press for this.\"\n\nThe European Commission too has insisted that sanctions will only work if allies take a common position.\n\nYet on Monday, that seemed a struggle for the German chancellor and US president at their joint press conference in Washington.\n\nYes, there was lots of talk of unity. Both men publicly supported the idea of tough sanctions against Moscow if needed. But Olaf Scholz conspicuously declined to confirm a pledge heard from Joe Biden, that Germany's direct gas pipeline from Moscow would not go ahead should Russia invade Ukraine.\n\nEU countries are often divided over Russia. Poland and other former communist countries in Eastern and Central Europe tend to want to be tough on Moscow, which they constantly view as a potential security threat. They see the UK as being of the same mind, and openly still mourn the UK's departure from the EU because of this. Italy, France and Germany have often been accused by fellow EU members as being too \"soft\" in their dealings with Moscow; too keen on schmoozing President Putin, hungry for Russian business and - especially in the case of Germany, which has all but phased out nuclear power - Russian gas.\n\nRight now, the Kremlin insists it has no plans to invade Ukraine. But the build-up of its and Russian-allied troops on the Ukrainian border, is viewed as the biggest military build-up in Europe since World War Two.\n\nGermany raised irritated eyebrows in and outside the EU recently for refusing to send weapons to Ukraine. It was mocked by many for promising Kyiv helmets, a field hospital and 350 soldiers to be sent to Lithuania. And it's hardly helped Germany's reputation that former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, just became nominated as a board member of Gazprom, a majority Russian state-owned energy giant.\n\nBut this week, even amongst the EU's biggest Russia-critics, I was hearing that while it would be \"helpful\" for Germany to have a stronger, clearer line on Russia, Berlin was \"doing its best\" .\n\nA publicly united front to present to President Putin is clearly uppermost in EU minds.\n\nWe've only just started the week, and already we've seen a whirlwind of high-level bilaterals, planned trilaterals and quadrilaterals to discuss rising tensions with Moscow.\n\nOn Monday alone, the French president was with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, the German chancellor met Joe Biden in Washington and the foreign ministers of Slovakia, Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic headed together to Kyiv.\n\nOn Tuesday evening the so-called Weimar Triangle meets in Berlin. It's a loose grouping of France, Germany and Poland, designed to boost co-operation between the three countries in crisis zones. It was originally set up in 1991 to support Poland's emergence from communist rule.\n\nThe three leaders meeting - Polish President Duda, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz - are clear examples of how international crises - in this case, Russia-Ukraine concerns - can affect the reputation of countries and prominent politicians.\n\nEU diplomats have been approving of Macron's attempts to try to de-escalate the crisis\n\nEmmanuel Macron is known (and disliked at times by some EU leaders) for seeming ever-keen to boost France's standing on the international diplomatic stage - even while he speaks of the importance of strengthening the EU's global presence.\n\nBut, before heading to Moscow on Monday, Mr Macron made sure to speak to London, Washington and Brussels. EU diplomats I chatted to were approving of his attempts to try to de-escalate the situation.\n\nFrance currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union and President Macron will have been well-aware that a \"successful\" trip to Moscow would hardly harm his bid for re-election as France's president in April. Although he has yet to officially announce his candidacy.\n\nAfter their meeting, President Putin said the talks had been useful and substantive and that some of Mr Macron's ideas were \"realistic\" and could form the basis of further joint steps.\n\nGermany's Olaf Scholz is faring rather less well in the court of (inter)national opinion. German media headlines scream that the honeymoon period of this still relatively new chancellor is now over, because of the way he's handled the Ukraine crisis so far. Mr Scholz faces a domestic conundrum: German business and energy links with Russia are huge, and his Social Democrat Party is famously split over relations with Moscow.\n\nMr Scholz is also in a weak position in the German parliament. He only just squeezed into the Chancellery by the slimmest of margins. And while he and his closest adviser are known to be passionate Europhiles and transatlanticists, the German chancellor clearly felt he needed to tread carefully.\n\nWhile his predecessor Angela Merkel was respected on the world stage in crisis situations, Olaf Scholz has made, at best, a hesitant impression. At worst, Germany has been depicted by some, as an unreliable ally during the crisis over Ukraine.\n\nThe EU's richest and most powerful nation now defensively boasts that it is the largest single donor to help stabilise Ukraine, to the tune of approximately $2bn, since the Crimea crisis in 2014. But, in the current standoff with Russia, Chancellor Scholz heads to Moscow and Kyiv in person only next week.\n\nAnd what about President Duda?\n\nPoland currently holds the rotating chair of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the OSCE. Back in December, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, a keen Nato member and transatlanticist, told me his country could guide and advise the West over Russia and its geopolitical intentions, as it was a country Warsaw knew very well indeed.\n\nAndrzej Duda has been president of Poland since 2015\n\nPoland borders Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad to the northeast, Germany to the west and fellow EU countries Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south. It sees itself as straddling and understanding two very different worlds: east and west.\n\nThe role Poland is seen to play in the Russia-Ukraine crisis probably comes as a relief to Warsaw. It had been garnering a reputation, in quarters in and outside the EU, as a backsliding democracy, with allegations of press manipulation, not respecting the rights of minorities, or of women or guaranteeing an independent judiciary. Poland denies the accusations. For a long time now, it's been locked in a bitter battle with Brussels over what the EU calls \"the Rule of Law\" it demands all EU member states respect.\n\nThat is an intra-EU tussle that will almost certainly continue, whatever transpires with Russia-Ukraine. EU-US tensions too will still simmer away over Big Tech and Nato funding, and the EU and post-Brexit UK remain pretty far from solving their differences over Northern Ireland.\n\nDespite shared concerns about the Kremlin, the longevity of the current show of unity between Western allies isn't guaranteed.", "Last updated on .From the section National League\n\nDagenham & Redbridge have said Yoan Zouma will not play for the club until the conclusion of an RSPCA investigation into a video of his brother kicking a cat.\n\nZouma, 23, reportedly filmed West Ham defender Kurt Zouma kicking and slapping one of his pets.\n\nThe RSPCA have since taken two cats away and are liaising with Essex Police about the incident.\n\nYoan Zouma had apologised and said he regretted his involvement in the video.\n\nDagenham said Zouma was contacted by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals this week to assist with their investigation and was \"fully cooperating with them\".\n\nThe French centre-back joined the National League team in December and has featured six times.\n\n\"Dagenham & Redbridge FC would again like to reiterate that it condemns any form of cruelty towards animals and fully understands the reaction of many of its supporters,\" a club statement said.\n\n\"The club has therefore decided that until the RSPCA has completed its investigations, Yoan will not play for Dagenham & Redbridge in any competitive match.\n\n\"Any further action deemed necessary to be taken will be made at the conclusion of the RSPCA investigation.\"\n\nKurt Zouma was named in West Ham's starting XI against Watford on Tuesday, a day after the video emerged.\n\nThe 27-year-old was fined \"the maximum amount possible\" by West Ham on Wednesday, with the fee to be donated to animal welfare charities.", "Britain - like other western powers - is coming to Ukraine's aid. It's threatening economic sanctions against Russia if it invades. It's providing Ukraine with anti-tank weapons and armoured vehicles.\n\nIt's promising to deploy British forces to eastern European members of the Nato military alliance if Russian troops cross Ukraine's borders.\n\nBut why is the UK getting involved in this potential conflict?\n\nThe former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has long been criticised for describing Germany's attempted annexation of Czechoslovakia in 1938 as \"a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing\".\n\nBut his remark lives on as a challenge to all policymakers thinking about whether to engage diplomatically - and even militarily - in a potential conflict between two foreign countries. The consequences can be far-reaching.\n\nHere is why the UK is worrying about the standoff between Russia and Ukraine.\n\nUkraine is not far away. It is, after all, part of the European continent.\n\nIt may not be a member of the European Union or Nato, but it is an ally of European powers and has a pro-Western government.\n\nLike most of the rest of Europe, it is a democracy. Most of its people do not want their country to become part of Russia.\n\nAnd it has close links to the UK. After 2,000 anti-tank weapons were delivered last week and 30 British troops arrived to teach Ukrainian forces how to use them, the phrase \"God Save the Queen\" began trending on Twitter in Ukraine. Some bars and restaurants in Kyiv were offering free drinks to anyone who had a UK passport.\n\nThe UK has a legal duty to defend Ukraine's territorial integrity.\n\nIn 1994, the UK - along with the US - signed a memorandum at an international conference in Budapest promising \"to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine\". They also promised to provide assistance to Ukraine if it \"should become a victim of an act of aggression\".\n\nThis was in return for Ukraine giving up its massive arsenal of nuclear weapons, a legacy of its membership of the Soviet Union.\n\nIt's worth noting that the other signatory to the Budapest memorandum was, er, Russia.\n\nThe memorandum is not a treaty and lawyers dispute whether it is legally enforceable. But it is a formal, public and written commitment by the UK to support Ukraine.\n\nThe UK opposes the redrawing of European borders by force.\n\nA core principle of European security after World War Two was that sovereign nations have a right to make their own choices.\n\nIt is called self-determination, and perhaps the most important aspect of this principle is that borders cannot be changed by invading armies.\n\nRussia did this in 2014 when it annexed part of Ukraine, the Crimean peninsula. Many Western policymakers regret the failure to stop this and want to make sure a similar incursion does not happen again.\n\nIn a speech last week, the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said: \"To allow Russia to violate those principles with impunity would drag us all back to a much more dangerous and unstable time.\"\n\nRussia's broader demands are unacceptable to the UK.\n\nRussia wants Nato to make a legally binding promise that Ukraine will never become a member. It also wants Nato to withdraw its forces from most Eastern European countries.\n\nBut both of these demands would break key Nato principles, namely that the alliance should be open to any European country that wants to join and that all Nato members should be sovereign nations.\n\nIn other words, it is not in the UK's or Nato's interests for Eastern European allies to fall under the shadow of Russian influence.\n\nAs Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs: \"We cannot bargain away the vision of a Europe whole and free that emerged in those amazing years from 1989 to 1991.\n\n\"We will not reopen that divide by agreeing to overturn the European security order because Russia has placed a gun to Ukraine's head.\"\n\nMany analysts fear war in Ukraine could potentially spill over into other European countries.\n\nRussia might use the crisis to launch cyber and other hybrid attacks on Nato countries. It could even send troops to the three Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.\n\nFighting could spread into Belarus where Russian forces are already stationed. Nato powers are already promising to build up their own forces in the alliance's eastern flank.\n\nAs a member of Nato, Britain would be obliged in principle to come to the defence of another Nato ally. In December, the chief of the defence staff, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, said: \"The worst scenarios in terms of a full-scale invasion would be on a scale not seen in Europe since the Second World War.\"\n\nIf war broke out in Ukraine and Russian forces occupied large swathes of the country, many civilians might flee.\n\nUkraine's Defence Minister, Oleksiy Reznikov, told BBC Hard Talk several million people could leave: \"It will be a disaster not only for Ukraine, it will be a disaster for Europe.\"\n\nSome migrants might stay in neighbouring Poland and eastern European countries, but some might head further west and eventually end up in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWestern powers are acutely aware this crisis is being closely watched by the rest of the world.\n\nSome autocratic leaders are looking to see how robustly the West resists attempts to undermine the territorial integrity of a sovereign nation.\n\nMany analysts say Beijing in particular is looking on as it formulates its own plans to reunify Taiwan with mainland China. The fear is that if Russia is allowed to invade Ukraine unresisted, that might act as a signal to other leaders that the days of Western powers intervening in other conflicts are over.\n\nThe UK gets hardly any gas from Russia. Most of it comes from the North Sea and Norway.\n\nBut any conflict with Ukraine could disrupt Europe's gas supplies.\n\nPipelines that bring Russian gas to Europe through Ukraine could be damaged. Russia could also choose to withhold supplies to punish the West.\n\nEurope itself could restrict future gas flows by abandoning the Nord Stream 2 pipeline which would run under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany. That line is ready but awaiting regulatory approval.\n\nAll of this disruption could massively increase the price of gas in Europe and, consequently, the UK.", "Many health staff feel exhausted after two years of intense work during the pandemic, says the BMA\n\nThere were almost 300 consultant vacancies across Northern Ireland's five health trusts last year, according to analysis from the British Medical Association (BMA).\n\nA report published by the organisation found there were 291 posts not filled by a permanent consultant in 2021.\n\nThe Department of Health's vacancy data for the same period showed there were 126 consultant vacancies.\n\nThe BMA in Northern Ireland said its analysis was more accurate.\n\nThe head of its consultants committee, Dr David Farren, said the department's data was based on the number of vacancies actively being recruited for.\n\n\"We have about 270 consultants missing from the workforce in Northern Ireland, which means the remaining workforce has to work harder,\" he said.\n\n\"They are burnt-out from having worked so intensely over the past two years and a lot of them are now looking at retirement and saying: 'That is what I should be doing, going away a bit earlier.'\"\n\nThe BMA's Dr David Farren says a failure to plan has led to a shortage of consultants\n\nDr Farren said a failure to \"properly plan\" had led to a shortage of consultants along with a different rate of pay compared to elsewhere in the UK.\n\n\"A consultant will earn considerably less here, so it's very difficult to recruit people from the rest of the UK or bring people in from overseas and all of these things have come together now at a time when the workforce is overly stressed,\" he added.\n\nA decision to remove emergency surgery from Daisy Hill hospital was taken by the Southern Health Trust last month, as it could not recruit enough consultant surgeons in Newry.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has said a number of hospitals in Northern Ireland face an \"ongoing challenge\" in recruiting and retaining specialist clinicians, particularly those on smaller sites.\n\nThe Northern Health Trust recently launched a social media recruitment campaign for four consultant posts at the Causeway hospital in Coleraine, selling the benefits of living on the north coast.\n\nA previous campaign saw the trust fill five vacant consultant posts in the emergency department following past recruitment difficulties.\n\nOn Thursday, the Department of Health said recruitment for permanent vacancies is led by each individual health trust.\n\n\"In the longer term, it is through increased investment in pre-registration education programmes that will create the labour supply necessary to meet the growing demand for services,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"The ability to grow our workforce supply depends on the availability of significant, recurrent investment in pre and post-registration training.\n\n\"The department and minister will continue to strive to ensure that the department receives the financial resources required to make this essential investment.\"\n\nDr Fergal Dunn, a consultant in emergency medicine, said smaller hospitals needed to emphasise what they were good at, as well as marketing the surrounding area and lifestyle.\n\n\"We set out to actively recruit emergency medical consultants to the Causeway site, it wasn't easy. it was a slow process to begin with, but the interesting thing was once we started to get one or two people over the line it kind of snowballed,\" he said.\n\n\"We went from having one person on the rota to six and actually there are more people interested in coming up here to work.\n\n\"There's the golf courses, the beaches, restaurants, we've great schools so we took all that and we're trying to sell the area as much as the hospital and were trying to sell the area as much as the hospital.\"\n\nThe trust's director of medicine, Audrey Harris, said that while there were ongoing issues around recruitment and pay across the health service, it was important to make the post attractive.\n\n\"You have to make the post where those people who apply can see they can have a work-life balance, especially medical staff, it is around the job planning, it is looking at special interest, it is looking at career pathways, it is looking at career development.\"\n\nDr Fergal Dunne says smaller hospitals need to emphasise what they're good at\n\nA new medical school at Ulster University's Magee campus in Londonderry opened for 70 students last year and will provide additional doctors into the workforce from 2025.\n\nProf Louise Dubras, foundation dean of the School of Medicine, said the bulk of students would stay within 20 miles of where they trained.\n\n\"Where we choose to live and choose to work are influenced by a number of factors but certainly the quality of the working environment and the nature of the support that you get from the leadership in that environment are all really important,\" she said.\n\n\"If we send students to a placement and they have a good experience there and they can see that it's a supportive environment, then they're certainly more likely to want to go back and work,\" she added.\n\nThe Department of Health said no amount of additional funding or workplace planning could resolve the ongoing challenge in recruiting and retaining specialist clinicians.\n\n\"It is for this reason the department has commissioned a clinician-led review of general surgery to improve sustainability across the HSC system,\" said a department spokesperson.\n\n\"The department is very aware that the implementation of annual pay awards in Northern Ireland lags behind the other jurisdictions, while every effort is made to implement the awards as soon as possible, the nature of our devolved systems, with annual budgets and approvals locally for pay remits, does impact on the department's ability to respond in a more timely fashion.\"\n\nIn 2018, the department published the 2026 Strategy, a workforce plan for the HSC sector.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM says we must oppose any return to the days where \"great powers\" decide the \"fates of nations\"\n\nEurope faces \"the most dangerous moment\" in its \"biggest security crisis\" for decades, Boris Johnson has said as tensions grow between Russia and Ukraine.\n\nSpeaking in Brussels, the PM said he hoped \"strong deterrence\" and \"patient diplomacy\" could find a way through the crisis but the stakes were \"very high\".\n\nRussia denies it plans to invade but has 100,000 troops on Ukraine's border.\n\nMr Johnson is also visiting Poland to show support for Nato allies.\n\nIn a joint news conference with Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, the prime minister said he did not believe Russia had yet taken a decision on whether to invade Ukraine but the UK's intelligence \"remains grim\".\n\nAsked whether the UK would consider going further in its support for Ukraine, including military support for an insurgency if Russia invades, Mr Johnson said he would \"consider what more we can conceivably offer\".\n\n\"It's possible, I don't want to rule this out, but at the moment we think the package is the right one,\" he said.\n\nAs part of a surge of UK diplomatic activity, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss met her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, while Defence Secretary Ben Wallace will travel to Russia on Friday.\n\nDuring a tense joint news conference on Thursday, Mr Lavrov said the talks had been \"disappointing\".\n\n\"It's like we're listening but not hearing each other so our very detailed explanation fell on deaf ears,\" he said.\n\nHe said relations between the UK and Russia \"leave much to be desired\" and are at the \"lowest point over the past few years\".\n\nAsked if he had seen any concessions over Russia's concerns about Nato, Mr Lavrov said he had only heard a demand to \"remove Russian troops from Russian territory\".\n\nMs Truss accused Russia of \"Cold War rhetoric\". She later told the BBC the UK was putting its \"full diplomatic effort\" into deterring an invasion and de-escalating the situation.\n\nAsked about her meetings with Mr Lavrov, who has been Russia's foreign policy chief for 18 years, Ms Truss said he had \"been involved in a lot of the issues that have created the situation we're in now\" and that \"proper diplomatic talks\" were needed.\n\nThe reason Boris Johnson is saying the next few days are a dangerous moment is because his and other Western officials believe the confrontation is getting worse.\n\nThey say it is not just that there is no de-escalation on Russia's part; it is the fact there is escalation.\n\nThey see more troops deployed close to Ukraine's border, whether in Russia or Belarus. They see more intelligence about Russia's plans. They see what they describe as greater disinformation and threats of cyber-attacks.\n\nThat is why Western diplomacy is being stepped up, both to reinforce the warning to Moscow about the price it would pay for any invasion, but also to reassure Nato allies close to Ukraine's border and to maintain Western unity.\n\nThat is why Mr Johnson has followed his French counterpart and preceded his German counterpart in a flurry of diplomacy. What is not clear is whether Russia is listening.\n\nOn the evidence of the frosty news conference between Liz Truss and Sergei Lavrov, there was no meeting of minds.\n\nBut what is significant is that all sides seem happy for now to continue talking, however fruitlessly.\n\nDiplomats from Russia and Ukraine and elsewhere have been meeting in Berlin. Further Western leaders are due in Moscow and Kyiv.\n\nAnd while there is talking taking place, the diplomatic door to a solution remains open, even it may be only ajar.\n\nThe latest diplomatic efforts come as Russia and its ally Belarus, which borders Ukraine, prepare to start 10 days of joint military drills. The US has described the move as \"escalatory\", while France said it was a \"violent gesture\".\n\nThe current tensions come eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula. Since then, Ukraine's military has been locked in a war with Russian-backed rebels in eastern areas near Russia's borders.\n\nFurther talks involving France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia took place on Thursday. France's President Emmanuel Macron met Mr Putin for more than five hours of talks on Monday.\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major compared this with a \"brief\" phone call between Mr Johnson and President Putin last week, saying he did not think the UK's \"weight in the international community\" was \"as strong as it was or as we would wish it to be\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer backed Mr Johnson over the UK's stance on Ukraine, telling the BBC: \"I've got plenty of arguments with the prime minister on many things particularly in recent months, but when it comes to Russian aggression, we stand as one in the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe prime minister announced 1,000 more British troops will be put on alert in the UK but he has stressed that Nato is unwilling to send troops into Ukraine itself.\n\nLegislation allowing tougher sanctions to be implemented against Russian individuals, businesses and other entities if it invades came into force on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson later visited Poland, where 350 Royal Marines from 45 Commando arrived as part of support announced earlier this week, joining 150 personnel already in the country.\n\nEarlier, Liz Truss took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow\n\nDuring a news conference in Warsaw, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the UK had shown \"wonderful solidarity\" with his country, while Mr Johnson said Poland was \"absolutely critical to our collective European security\".\n\nThe UK will also offer to double the number of its troops in Estonia, deploy more RAF jets based in southern Europe, and to sail a Type 45 destroyer and HMS Trent, a patrol ship, in the eastern Mediterranean.\n\nNato's 30 members - which include the UK, US and several former Soviet republics - agree to come to another's aid in the event of an armed attack.\n\nUkraine is not a member of Nato. However, it is a \"partner country\" and may be allowed to join the military alliance sometime in the future, a move Russia sees as a direct threat to its security.", "The Met said it was \"deeply sorry\" for the findings in the IOPC report\n\n\"Disgraceful\" misogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment have been discovered within the ranks of the Met Police by the police watchdog.\n\nOfficers were found to have joked about rape and exchanged offensive social media messages, leading to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) to make 15 recommendations.\n\nMost officers investigated were police constables and based at Charing Cross Police Station, the IOPC said.\n\nThe Met said it was \"deeply sorry\".\n\nIn its report, the IOPC said: \"We believe these incidents are not isolated or simply the behaviour of a few 'bad apples'.\"\n\nThe inquiry was launched in March 2018 into nine linked independent investigations concerning serving police officers from the Met.\n\nInvestigations began after an officer allegedly had sex with a vulnerable woman in a room inside a London police station, the IOPC said - although this allegation was never proven.\n\nOf the 14 officers investigated, two were dismissed for gross misconduct and put on the barred list, preventing future employment with the police.\n\nAnother two resigned and several others faced disciplinary action, the IOPC said.\n\nNine are still serving with the force, while another is working as a contractor in a staff role.\n\nThe inquiry found evidence of messages exchanged between officers that were often highly sexualise, violent and discriminatory, and which were defended as \"banter\" by police officers.\n\nThe IOPC said the messages included:\n\nIOPC regional director for London, Sal Naseem, described the behaviour as \"disgraceful\" and that it fell below the standards of the force, but he said the Met was working to change its cultural issues.\n\n\"The learning report we are publishing today is shocking and contains language which is offensive,\" Mr Naseem said.\n\n\"Some may find it upsetting.\n\n\"However, we felt it was important to provide the context for the public, the Met and other forces for why such hard-hitting recommendations are necessary.\n\n\"While these officers predominantly worked in teams in Westminster, which have since been disbanded, we know from other recent cases that these issues are not isolated or historic.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said being a police officer was a privilege\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel described the officers as \"sickening\", adding: \"The public rightly expects the behaviour of the police to be beyond reproach - standards must be raised.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"utterly disgusted\" by the findings.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Bas Javid said the officers' actions happened between 2016 and 2018 and since then every Met Police employee had been spoken to about responsible use of social media.\n\n\"I am angry and disappointed to see officers involved in sharing sexist, racist and discriminatory messages,\" he said.\n\n\"It's clear we have a lot of work to do to ensure bullying and discrimination does not exist in any part of the Met.\n\n\"We recognise that there is need for real change in the Met and we are committed to creating an environment that is even more intolerant to those who do not uphold the high values and standards expected of us,\" he added.\n\nOf all the shocking things about this IOPC report, perhaps the most shocking is the breadth of the disgraceful conduct.\n\nThe officers were bullying and sexist. They were misogynistic and used the word \"gay\" as an insult.\n\nThey made jokes about the Black Lives Matter movement and mosques, and used derogatory words to describe disabled people.\n\nThe unit has been disbanded, but the IOPC has warned that the incidents were not isolated.\n\nIt has seen evidence of similar behaviour in more recent investigations.\n\nA Met Police statement said: \"The conduct of a team of officers at Charing Cross police station in central London does not represent the values of the Metropolitan Police Service.\n\n\"We are deeply sorry to Londoners and everyone they have failed with their appalling conduct and acknowledge how this will damage the trust and confidence of many in the Met.\n\n\"Since this reprehensible behaviour was uncovered in 2017 we have taken a series of measures to hold those responsible to account and stamp out unacceptable behaviour.\"\n\nSeparately, an independent review of culture and standards within the Met Police is currently being carried out by Baroness Louise Casey, in the wake of the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by serving police officer Wayne Couzens. It will examine the force's vetting, recruitment and training procedures.\n\nA two-part independent inquiry chaired by Dame Elish Angiolini QC will also look at Couzens' conduct during his career, and whether any red flags were missed as well as whether allegations made against him were properly handled.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Officer 'had sex with woman in station'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Super Bowl is one of the world's biggest sporting events\n\nThe US Department of Homeland Security has warned that a convoy of truckers protesting against Covid-19 vaccine mandates could impact the Super Bowl.\n\nThe department said a protest similar to ongoing demonstrations in Canada could start in California in the coming days, and then travel to Washington DC.\n\nTruckers protesting in Canada's capital Ottawa have been blocking main roads.\n\nThe Super Bowl, the final game of the US National Football League, is planned for Sunday 13 February in Los Angeles.\n\nIn a bulletin issued to law enforcement agencies across the US, the department said it had received reports of truck drivers planning to potentially block roads in major cities in protest against mandatory Covid vaccinations in their industry.\n\nFirst reported by Yahoo News, the bulletin said that action could continue until mid-March, and threaten both the Super Bowl - one of the world's biggest sporting events - and President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, scheduled for 1 March.\n\nThe department told the BBC it was \"tracking reports of a potential convoy\" but that it had \"not observed specific calls for violence\".\n\nIts bulletin added that such a convoy could \"severely disrupt transportation\" across the country and that the department would continue to monitor the situation.\n\nCanada's protests were sparked by a vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the US-Canada border, implemented by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government last month.\n\nThe so-called Freedom Convoy movement has since morphed to include anger at other Covid restrictions and at Mr Trudeau's government more generally.\n\nThe vast majority of Canadian truckers are vaccinated, and trucking organisations have distanced themselves from the protests.\n\nThe protesting truckers and their supporters have been blocking main roads in Ottawa, the national capital, for almost two weeks.\n\nThey have also been blocking border crossings including the Ambassador Bridge - the largest international suspension bridge in the world that carries about a quarter of US-Canada trade. It connects Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit, in the US state of Michigan.\n\nOn Thursday, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer urged Canadian authorities to reopen the bridge to traffic.\n\n\"The blockade is having a significant impact on Michigan's working families who are just trying to do their jobs,\" Ms Whitmer wrote in a statement posted to Twitter. She called on Canada to \"take all necessary and appropriate steps to immediately and safely reopen traffic\".\n\nOttawa police said in a statement on Thursday that 25 people had been arrested over the protests, with charges including public mischief and driving while disqualified, and that 126 separate criminal investigations were under way.\n\nThey added that several vehicles had been seized and more than 1,550 tickets issued for offences ranging from excessive noise to \"stunt driving\".", "Emmanuel Macron has led diplomatic efforts this week to defuse tensions with Russia over Ukraine\n\nRussia's EU ambassador has told the BBC his country still believes diplomacy can help de-escalate the crisis over Ukraine.\n\nVladimir Chizhov said Moscow had no intention of invading anybody, but warned it was important not to provoke Russia into changing its mind.\n\nIt comes after a flurry of diplomatic activity on Monday and Tuesday.\n\nRussia has repeatedly denied any plans to invade Ukraine.\n\nBut with well over 100,000 troops massed near the Ukrainian border, some Western countries including the US have warned that a Russian attack could come at any time.\n\nIn 2014 Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula. Since then there has been a long-running conflict in eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatists control swathes of territory and at least 14,000 people have been killed.\n\nOn Thursday Russia is set to start 10 days of joint military drills in Belarus, Ukraine's northern neighbour and a close ally of Russia. Some 30,000 Russian troops are expected to take part.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman said the joint drills were serious but he pointed out the nature of threats was higher than before.\n\nMr Chizhov, however, told the BBC that Russian troops currently stationed in Belarus would return to their permanent bases after the exercises.\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the drills were \"escalatory\" amid the high tensions in the region.\n\nAfter two days of intense diplomacy led by French President Emmanuel Macron, there is some suggestion that a renewed focus on the so-called Minsk agreements - which sought to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine - could be used as a basis to defuse the current crisis.\n\nUkraine, Russia, France and Germany backed the accords in 2014-15.\n\nSome diplomats agree that the agreements could offer a route to de-escalation, with France's ambassador to the United States, Philippe Etienne, tweeting they should be used to \"build a viable political solution\".\n\nPresident Macron said talks would be revived as early as Thursday and include Russia and Ukraine along with France and Germany - known as the Normandy quartet.\n\nMr Chizhov did not say whether Russia planned to move troops away from Russia's border with Ukraine, and instead asked why no-one was talking about the number of Ukrainian soldiers directly facing Russia.\n\nBut he was clear that further talks could still produce results.\n\n\"We certainly believe there is still room for diplomacy,\" he told the BBC's Europe Editor Katya Adler.\n\nVladimir Chizhov told Katya Adler that Nato's expansion in Eastern Europe was key to any talks\n\nRussia has made a series of demands to the West over European security, including a guarantee that Ukraine never becomes a member of the West's defensive military alliance, Nato.\n\nThis demand has been flatly rejected, with Western countries insisting that only Ukraine can make decisions about its own security arrangements.\n\nBut Russia's EU ambassador made clear that Russia still saw Nato's eastern expansion as a key point in any negotiation.\n\n\"We are not going to forget it. And we cannot afford to forget it. Five waves of Nato expansion, that was not the evolution that we expected,\" Mr Chizhov told the BBC.\n\nThe envoy's apparent optimism for continued talks followed two days of frenzied diplomacy from European leaders seeking to end Russia's military escalation.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has been at the forefront of those efforts, visiting Moscow, Kyiv and Berlin.\n\nAfter his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Tuesday, Mr Macron said both the Russian and Ukrainian leaders had recommitted to implementing the Minsk peace agreements.\n\nPresident Zelensky has in the past criticised the agreement, which was signed by his predecessor, saying that it gives too much away to the rebel groups which control parts of Ukraine's Donbas region.\n\nMoscow has long accused the Ukrainian government of failing to implement the agreements, and at Monday's news conference the Russian president urged Ukraine to respect them: \"Like it or not, my beauty, you have to put up with it,\" Mr Putin said.\n\nOn Wednesday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that there were \"positive signals that a solution to Ukraine could be based only on fulfilling the Minsk agreements\".\n\nHowever, Ukraine and Russia disagree over what the agreements mean in practice, and Kyiv fears that the accords would give too much autonomy to the eastern regions currently under rebel control, with Moscow retaining significant influence there.\n\nAt a meeting in Berlin on Tuesday, the leaders of France, Germany and Poland backed the Minsk agreements and reaffirmed their support for Ukraine's sovereignty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A teenage rock band is singing for peace near Ukraine's front line", "The man arrived at Edinburgh Sheriff Court in a wheelchair and wearing an oxygen mask.\n\nAn American said to have fled to Scotland after faking his own death has appeared in court ahead of an extradition hearing.\n\nUS authorities, who say the man is Nicholas Rossi, want to extradite him for a rape charge in the state of Utah.\n\nBut the man, who was arrested at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in December, claimed his name was Arthur Knight.\n\nThe court heard his identity would be dealt with at a full hearing in May.\n\nThe man arrived at Edinburgh Sheriff Court in a wheelchair and wearing an oxygen mask.\n\nHis lawyer John Good told the preliminary hearing that he represented Nicholas Rossi \"or Arthur Knight as he prefers to be known\".\n\nPolice Scotland made an arrest in the Woodlands area of Glasgow last month\n\nThe man was previously on remand as a \"significant flight risk\" but was granted on bail at a private hearing last week.\n\nA judge had previously revoked his bail at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on 21 January after hearing he had made repeated attempts to evade justice.\n\nHe was first arrested on 13 December after being admitted to hospital with Covid-19.\n\nHe was re-arrested at an address in the Woodlands area of Glasgow after a warrant was issued when he failed to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on 20 January.\n\nMr Rossi told US media in December 2019 that he had late-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma and had weeks to live. Several outlets reported that he had died in February 2020.\n\nBut prosecutors claim he was found while undergoing treatment at the QEUH in Glasgow.\n\nLast month prosecutor Jennifer Johnston said police and hospital staff identified the man as Mr Rossi from tattoos on his body.\n\nNicholas Rossi told US media in 2019 that he had non-Hodgkin lymphoma\n\nThey said they had information that the man who appeared before the court had as many as 16 different names.\n\nArguing that he should be held on remand, she said the man was initially granted bail because it was believed he would continue to remain in the QEUH for \"several weeks\".\n\nHowever, the court heard that he checked himself out of hospital the following day.\n\nHis previous lawyer Fred McIntosh QC, who told the court last month his client said he was not Mr Rossi, had argued there was \"a serious risk of asphyxiating in his sleep\" because of post-Covid lung scarring and difficulty in breathing.", "Family members were alarmed when 80-year-old Denyse Holt failed to send in her daily Wordle\n\nA Chicago grandmother was rescued from a 17-hour hostage ordeal after police were alerted for the unlikeliest of reasons: a missing solution to the day's Wordle challenge.\n\nDenyse Holt, 80, was alone at home in Illinois on 5 February when a naked and mentally ill suspect entered her home.\n\nHer daughter in faraway Seattle noticed something was amiss when Ms Holt failed to send her daily Wordle.\n\nThe suspect now faces several felony charges.\n\nAccording to Ms Holt, she was asleep in bed in Chicago's Lincolnwood area when 32-year-old James H. Davis III entered her home and pointed a pair of scissors at her. He was naked and bleeding after being cut by window shards while entering the house.\n\n\"I didn't think I was going to live,\" she told CBS. \"I was in shock. I was trying to survive.\"\n\nWhile Mr Davis told her he wouldn't harm her, he did force her - still wearing a nightgown - to take a warm bath with him before taking two knives from the kitchen, disconnecting phones, and locking her in a cold basement bathroom.\n\nAcross the country in Seattle, Ms Holt's daughter, Meredith Holt-Caldwell, soon noticed that her mother wasn't responding to text messages and hadn't sent in her Wordle, a popular daily word puzzle.\n\n\"That was disconcerting to her,\" Ms Holt said, because her daughter knew that this was a routine she never missed.\n\nAlarmed, Ms Holt-Caldwell alerted police, who conducted a well-being check at her home on 6 February. A stand-off with Mr Davis ensued, ending only when a police SWAT team used a stun gun to subdue him and take him into custody.\n\nPolice say that Mr Davis now faces a range of felony charges, including home invasion with a deadly weapon, aggravated kidnapping, and assault against a peace officer, a term that includes police and probation officers, prison guards and other law enforcement officials.\n\nMs Holt was unharmed during the incident.\n\n\"I never thought in a million years this is what was happening, but it was,\" she said. \"I'm very lucky\".\n\nWordle, which was purchased by the New York Times for an undisclosed seven-figure sum in January, gives players six attempts to guess a hidden five-letter word each day.", "Apple plans to introduce a number of changes to make it harder to misuse AirTags to track someone.\n\nThe button-sized devices are designed to work with Apple's 'Find My' network to locate lost items.\n\nThe company said its changes to the device will make suspicious tags easier to find, and alert users earlier that an AirTag may be travelling with them.\n\nIn January, a number of women told the BBC they had been followed using AirTags.\n\nApple launched AirTags in April last year. The small, circular devices can be attached to luggage or keys - anything you could lose.\n\nBut the devices can be misused to track people by being hidden in a car, or on a personal item such as a bag.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amber Norsworthy received a phone notification saying an unknown accessory was tracking her\n\nAs part of the changes to make misuse harder, Apple said every user setting up their AirTag for the first time will see a message warning that using the device to track people without consent is a crime in many regions around the world.\n\nCurrently, iPhone users (and Android users who download an app) receive \"unwanted tracking\" alerts if an unknown AirTag moves with them.\n\nApple announced that people will be alerted earlier that an unknown AirTag is travelling with them.\n\nAnd when people are warned of \"unwanted tracking\" by an AirTag, users of iPhone 11, iPhone 12, and iPhone 13 devices will be able to use \"precision finding\", to see the distance and direction to an unknown AirTag when it is in range. Previously only the owner of the AirTag could do this.\n\nNew warnings will appear when AirTags are first set up\n\nCurrently iOS users can send an unwanted tracking alert to make the suspect AirTag play tones and Apple has said tags will use louder tones in the future to make the tag easier to locate.\n\nThe company said it will also add to a feature that makes an AirTag that hasn't been with the person who registered it for an extended period of time, play a sound when moved.\n\nIn theory this could reveal the presence of an AirTag to a stalking victim, but recent reports revealed that AirTags with the internal speakers deactivated had been listed for sale online.\n\nTo counter this, when the sound is triggered and the AirTag is detected moving with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, an alert will also appear on that device.\n\nApple also said it will also update its support article on unwanted tracking with additional information and resources.\n\nApple AirTags are incredibly good at finding things. They can track your items down to 0.1 feet.\n\nBut that accuracy means that, in the wrong hands, they can be used as sophisticated tracking tools.\n\nThis isn't theoretical, as the BBC reported last month, there's evidence that people are using AirTags to follow people.\n\nThe AirTags themselves are relatively new, and it's clear that Apple hasn't yet worked out how best to protect people.\n\nFor example, it took six months after AirTag's launch for the company to bring out an app that would alert Android users to an unwanted AirTag.\n\nThe new updates that Apple plans to come out later this year - precision finding and AirTags that emit louder noises - are what campaigners have been calling for.\n\nBut with these iterative updates, there will be questions over whether Apple launched the product too early.\n\nApple said it designed \"products to provide a great experience, but also with safety and privacy in mind\", adding that it was \"committed to listening to feedback and innovating to make improvements that continue to guard against unwanted tracking\".\n\nIt also noted that \"based on our knowledge and on discussions with law enforcement, incidents of AirTag misuse are rare; however, each instance is one too many\".", "Christian Eriksen says it feels like a miracle to be able to resume his career with Brentford after collapsing while playing for Denmark at Euro 2020 last summer.\n\nThe 29-year-old has been fitted with an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), a type of pacemaker, after suffering cardiac arrest.\n\nHe has joined the Bees on a six-month deal after his release by Inter Milan.\n\n\"The first thing is to show the gratitude,\" Eriksen told BBC Sport.\n\n\"To the people around me, the team-mates, the doctors first on the pitch, the team doctors and paramedics and then at the hospital, to do everything and check everything.\n\n\"Then all the messages from people to show support for me and what my family have been through. It has been really lovely to see all the grateful messages.\n\n\"I am very lucky and I have told them face to face, I am very happy they did what they did otherwise I would not be here.\"\n\nHe added: \"For me it was unlucky in a lucky place. I wouldn't hope anyone to get it, I never thought I would get it myself when it happened but in the place it happened I was lucky with the people around me acting so quickly. I was really grateful the doctors were in that place.\n\n\"It was lucky I had all the possibilities around me. They had all the possibilities to get me back as quickly as they did and I am 100% grateful for that.\"\n• None Listen to the full interview with Christian Eriksen on The Sports Desk podcast\n• None Watch the full Christian Eriksen interview on the BBC iplayer\n• None Eriksen can be Brentford's greatest ever signing'\n• None What can sport learn from Eriksen's cardiac arrest?\n\nEriksen says he feels in better condition now than before the incident, will do everything he can to reach his former playing level and does not fear the challenges ahead.\n\n\"I won't change my style of play,\" added Eriksen. \"I have had the time to be disciplined for the last six months to do extras, so even now maybe I am in a better condition than before, just the football missing.\n\n\"I feel like me so don't see a reason why I can't get back to the same level.\"\n• None His memories before and after the incident\n• None What it means to be fitted with an ICD\n• None Returning to London and the Premier League\n• None Why he has no fears about playing again\n\n'I was gone from this world for five minutes'\n\nThe day of 12 June 2021 will be a date etched in Eriksen's memory, one when he remembers all but the five minutes in which he was \"gone from this world until they got my heartbeat back\".\n\nDenmark were playing Finland in their opening game of the Euros, delayed by a year because of Covid, when the midfielder collapsed on the pitch in the 41st minute.\n\nHe received CPR and after 15 minutes of treatment was carried off on a stretcher. Eriksen was awake in hospital and, after a delay of about three hours, the match resumed with Finland winning 1-0.\n\n\"I can remember everything apart from the five minutes,\" he explained. \"I was told afterwards it was five minutes, otherwise I remember everything - the throw in, the ball hitting my knee and then I don't know what happened after.\n\n\"Then I woke up with people around me and felt the pressure on my chest, trying to get my breathing back, and then I woke up - I opened my eyes and saw people around me, I didn't really understand what was going on.\n\n\"At that time I had no idea what had happened, then it goes through my head: 'Did something happen with my legs? Did I break my back? Can I lift my leg up?' - all small things I was trying to do to see what happened.\n\n\"Then in the ambulance I heard someone say 'how long was he out for' and someone said 'five minutes' and that was the first time I had heard I was gone.\"\n\nAsked if it will feel like a miracle to return, Eriksen added: \"Definitely. I think it will get more and more obvious the closer it gets to being in a real game - being in a stadium, being in a game, you get all the emotion and adrenaline from that.\"\n\n'If anything happens I am safe'\n\nEriksen's Inter Milan contract was cancelled by mutual consent in December because players fitted with an ICD cannot compete in Serie A.\n\nHowever, the Premier League does not have the same regulations.\n\nAfter leaving Inter, Eriksen started training alone at Danish side Odense Boldklub - where he was previously a youth player - and outlined his aspiration to resume his playing career in order to play for Denmark at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nBrentford boss Thomas Frank says the Dane could be the club's \"greatest signing ever\" and his arrival saw the biggest day of kit sales outside kit-launch days - 30 times the usual demand at this time of year for the Bees.\n\nEriksen says he did not think about returning to football in the few days that followed the incident but has never feared his career would be over.\n\n\"I wanted to get all the tests done and get to talk with all the doctors to see what is a possibility and what is not,\" he said.\n\n\"But then ever since, I think less than a week after, they said 'you have an ICD but otherwise nothing has changed, you can continue like a normal life and there is no limit to what you want to do'.\n\n\"It was a relief, that is true, but also weird because I wouldn't want to overdo it, I wouldn't want to take any chances with it, so that's why I am doing many tests to make sure that it is OK.\n\n\"It is not going to affect me in 30 years what I am doing now and that was the main aim, otherwise if they tell me something has changed then I will be on another page.\n\n\"I don't see any risk, no. I have an ICD, if anything would happen then I am safe.\"\n\n'I am not scared of the challenges and the bullies'\n\nEriksen says he just wants to get back to \"normal\" and returning to playing Premier League football is a major step towards that goal.\n\n\"To be honest, I didn't really go down,\" he said about his mental state after the incident.\n\n\"I was really determined step by step with the plan I made with the doctor from the time of my prognosis and the different phases I had to go through to get everything tested.\n\n\"It was a slow build up, taking all the time to get tested properly and my family was very supportive.\n\n\"They knew I wanted to get back and get the green light if it was possible, but I also know they would know if something happened in the meantime and if it was something worse then I wouldn't continue.\n\n\"I love my family and their support, from what they're going through now and what they went through before.\"\n\nEriksen says doctors believe it was a one-time occurrence, with no historical or family problems, and now he just wants to work towards a positive future.\n\n\"I have been cleared to do everything from the doctors, so in that sense it doesn't really matter what was the reason,\" he said.\n\n\"Continuously I have been given the green light that everything is OK for the future.\"\n\nThe playmaker is also not worried about his ICD and what might happen should he receive a robust challenge, given the physical nature of the Premier League.\n\n\"I don't really have any scared feelings about it, I don't feel my ICD so if it gets hit I know it is safe enough,\" he added.\n\n\"I am not scared of the challenges ahead and the bullies in the game, no.\"\n\n'It is going to be very special'\n\nWhile his physical condition is good, Eriksen says he is still a few weeks away from making his Brentford debut having only recently joined up with his team-mates in training.\n\n\"I have done a lot of running and a lot of tests, so the condition is good, but the football touch is something you get in games - to get there is still a few more weeks,\" he said.\n\n\"At the moment, when the coach sees me fit and wants me to play then I'll be able to. But at the moment we just take it day by day.\"\n\nEriksen also says he feels grateful to come back to London, having spent seven seasons at Tottenham.\n\n\"For me and for my family, for the next six months really this was the perfect situation,\" he said. \"We pretty much know the area, it is close to where we were for many years in north London.\n\n\"First of all for family and also football-wise, to get the chance to play in the Premier League and get to know the people here. Of course, I knew the coach, I knew [fellow Dane] Thomas before and a lot of team-mates I know from Denmark, so it is an easy group to join.\"\n\nAnd it will be a \"very special\" moment when he takes the pitch again for a competitive match for the first time since June last year.\n\n\"It has been a long build-up and it still is going to be a long build up from day to day,\" said Eriksen. \"It feels like it is getting closer and [I am] patient for the right timing.\n\n\"But it is going to be very special to be able to walk out on the pitch and play a match again after probably, at the time, seven or eight months since that happened. It is going to be amazing.\"\n• None Our coverage of Brentford is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Brentford - go straight to all the best content", "Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has hit out at protests by truckers around the country as \"unacceptable\".\n\nSpeaking to parliament in Ottawa, he defended the Covid restrictions that have prompted truckers to converge on the nation's capital.\n\nOttawa police meanwhile warned protesters could be arrested, and a conviction might cost them their jobs.\n\nThe protests in Ottawa and at two Canada-US border crossings have been going on for two weeks.\n\n\"Blockages, illegal demonstrations are unacceptable, and are negatively impacting businesses and manufacturers,\" Mr Trudeau said on Wednesday.\n\n\"We must do everything to bring them to an end.\"\n\nHe said the protesters are \"trying to blockade our economy, our democracy and our fellow citizens' daily lives\".\n\nMr Trudeau returned to parliament on Monday following a week-long isolation after he caught coronavirus.\n\nSince Monday drivers have been blocking the largest international suspension bridge in the world at a border crossing that makes up around a quarter of US-Canada trade.\n\nThe closure of the Ambassador Bridge by about 100 protesters in their big rigs has been denounced by trade groups. The span connects Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit, Michigan.\n\nCar manufacturers in the region say that they have had to reduce production and shift hours due to parts shortages caused by the ongoing blockade. Industry experts say that it could result in company layoffs and increase the prices that consumers pay for vehicles.\n\nThe world's biggest manufacturer, Toyota, has halted production at three factories in Ontario, saying no more vehicles will be produced there this week.\n\nThe White House has called for an end to the protests saying they risk hurting the car industry and US agricultural exports.\n\nAbout 400 trucks remain in central Ottawa after arriving there late last month. Police said on Wednesday the protesters could be charged with \"mischief to property\" because they were inhibiting local residents' \"lawful use, enjoyment and operation of their property\".\n\nOttawa police warned that \"anyone blocking streets or assisting others in the blocking of streets may be committing a criminal offence\".\n\nThey added that a criminal conviction could result in seizure of their vehicles, and an inability to enter the US. The police force also hiked penalties for noise, engine idling and other infractions in the city to C$1,000 ($790, £585) per offence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe truckers are protesting against a rule requiring truckers entering Canada to be fully immunised against coronavirus. The demonstrators have also voiced opposition to Covid passports and mask mandates.\n\nMr Trudeau has refused to budge on federal Covid measures, even as provinces begin lifting their restrictions.\n\nAlberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec and Prince Edward Island have all announced plans to lift most mitigation measures this month. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are also easing some restrictions.\n\nOn Tuesday, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said pandemic-related rules had \"disrupted and even destroyed livelihoods\" in the province.\n\nIn Coutts, Alberta, on the border with the US state of Montana, RCMP officers began issuing tickets on Wednesday to remove dozens of trucks that have been blocking that international crossing for about two weeks. No arrests have been reported, and authorities said that enforcement would take place in \"stages\" beginning with information gathering.\n\n\"Really it's going to be up to them,\" said RCMP Superintendent Roberta McKale, calling on them to move on their own.\n\n\"Up until this point it's been us asking them and this afternoon we don't have an option, we're going to have to use our enforcement options to have that happen.\"\n\nMr Trudeau has faced criticism from within his own party over his handling of the protests, which come as infections from the Omicron variant decline significantly.\n\nQuebec MP Joël Lightbound, a fellow Liberal, criticised the prime minister this week for \"demonising\" groups that disagree with Covid mandates.\n\n\"It's becoming harder and harder to know when public health stops and where politics begins,\" Mr Lightbound said. \"It's time to stop dividing Canadians and pitting one part of the population against another.\"\n\n\"The prime minister needs to put his ego aside,\" she said. \"He needs to do what's right for the country. He needs to to end the mandates. He needs to end the restrictions.\"\n\nAt a news conference on Wednesday, organisers of the Freedom Convoy said protesters were \"upbeat\". They added that the truckers were resting so as to be \"re-energised\" for weekend protests, which they likened to a \"festival\".\n\nReacting to the police warning, a lawyer for the protesters maintained in a statement that their actions were lawful.\n\n\"Noisy, inconvenient or unwanted protests are protected and must be facilitated,\" the lawyer said.\n\nThe protesters have raised $7.8m on website GiveSendGo as of Wednesday after GoFundMe cancelled their fundraiser and began refunding some $10m in donations.\n\nRepublican officials in at least two US states - Texas and Missouri - have opened investigations into GoFundMe over the decision.\n\nThe protests in Canada have inspired similar events around the world from Australia and New Zealand to France. Online chatter is building for a trucker protest in Washington DC.", "Sting has sold his entire songwriting back catalogue, including solo work and material by The Police, to the Universal Music Group (UMG).\n\nThe Tyneside-born singer's old band had hits with tracks including Every Breath You Take and Roxanne.\n\nHe then went on to enjoy solo success with songs like Fields Of Gold, and has won 17 Grammys and three Brit Awards.\n\nThe move marks the publishing group's latest big acquisition, after it struck a deal with Bob Dylan in 2020.\n\nIt also comes amidst a years-long record industry spending spree, with record labels and investment firms snapping up the rights to songs and recordings by the likes of David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac and Tina Turner, as well as Blondie, Taylor Swift, David Guetta and Shakira.\n\n\"It is absolutely essential to me that my career's body of work have a home where it is valued and respected - not only to connect with long-time fans in new ways, but also to introduce my songs to new audiences, musicians and generations,\" said 70-year-old Sting, who has been on the Universal music label for most of his career.\n\n\"Throughout my career, I have enjoyed a long and successful relationship with UMG as my label partner, under the watchful guidance of Lucian (Grainge), so it felt natural to unite everything in one trusted home, as I return to the studio, ready for the next chapter.\"\n\nSting, whose real name is Gordon Sumner, was the frontman, bass player and chief songwriter in The Police in the late 1970s and early 1980s, before going solo. The UK band won song of the year at the 1984 Grammys, for their haunting classic Every Breath You Take.\n\nSir Lucian Grainge, boss of the Universal Music Group, commented that after having had \"the privilege\" to work with Sting for more than 20 years, he was \"thrilled\" to expand their relationship to now include music publishing.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by ThePoliceVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"Sting is a songwriting genius whose music permeates global culture,\" he said. \"We are honoured that by choosing UMPG for his music publishing, Sting's entire body of work as a songwriter and recording artist will all be within the UMG family.\n\n\"It's a responsibility we don't take lightly, as well as a great validation of what we have built for artists at UMG.\"\n\nWriting in January, after the Dylan-Universal deal was struck, BBC music correspondent Mark Savage said the idea of such arrangements was to \"provide immediate financial security to the artist and their estates, while the new rights-holders will hope to profit from streams of classic songs, while building new revenue streams via film and TV licensing, merchandise, cover versions and performance royalties\".", "The Metropolitan Police will email more than 50 people as part of its inquiry into lockdown parties at Downing Street and Whitehall.\n\nA questionnaire will be sent to those alleged to have been at events on eight dates between May 2020 and April 2021.\n\nIt will ask for their account of what happened and \"must be answered truthfully\", the Met said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie are expected to be among the people being emailed.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Brussels, Mr Johnson said: \"That [investigation] process must be completed and I'm looking forward to it being completed, and that's the time to say something on that.\"\n\nAnd Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The prime minister has said he will be full and transparent. He will notify [the public] if he is receiving any form of fine et cetera.\"\n\nThe Met Police said its email must be answered in seven days, but being contacted did not mean a fine would always be issued.\n\nIts inquiry, Operation Hillman, is examining 12 gatherings on the eight dates - some of which the PM attended - to see if Covid regulations were broken.\n\nIt was launched after an inquiry by senior civil servant Sue Gray, who in her initial findings criticised \"failures of leadership and judgement\" over the gatherings in Downing Street and Whitehall and referred them to police.\n\nSeveral Tory backbenchers are calling for the prime minister to resign and and some have submitted letters of no confidence.\n\nThe Met announced on Wednesday that it would also review its decision not to investigate another event, a Christmas quiz on 15 December 2020, after a picture of Mr Johnson was leaked to the press.\n\nPublished by the Daily Mirror, it showed Mr Johnson with three aides, two in tinsel and a Santa hat, with a bottle of sparkling wine.\n\nThe Met said it had \"previously assessed this event and determined that on the basis of the evidence available at that time, it did not meet the threshold for criminal investigation. That assessment is now being reviewed.\"\n\nThe prime minister's former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, tweeted that there were \"waaaaay better pics than that floating around\", alleging that they included images of gatherings in Mr Johnson's flat.\n\nDetectives investigating the parties are continuing to examine more than 500 documents and 300 images gathered as part of Ms Gray's inquiry.\n\nThe Met said it might also contact more people if they were identified as having taken part in an event that potentially breached the regulations.\n\nWhile being contacted does not necessarily mean a fixed-penalty notice will be issued, the Met said that would \"normally\" happen where officers believed regulations had been breached without reasonable excuse.\n\nMeanwhile, lawyers for the Labour Party have written to the Met saying they have a duty to investigate Mr Johnson over the funding of his Downing Street flat refurbishment.\n\nThey claim he may have breached anti-bribery laws when he asked Tory donor Lord Brownlow in text messages to approve spending on the renovations, and said he would take action on the donor's plan for a Great Exhibition project.\n\nThe Met said it was considering the letter but no investigation had yet been opened.", "Anna De Garis has written an open letter detailing incidents of discrimination and bullying\n\nAn investigation has been launched at a Perthshire school after claims by a pupil that racial and sexual discrimination were \"rife.\"\n\nAnna De Garis, a fifth-year pupil at Crieff High School, detailed the allegations in an open letter.\n\nShe said she had received more than 100 written responses from pupils, listing incidents of discrimination, sexual assault and harassment.\n\nPerth & Kinross Council said it took the accusations \"extremely seriously.\"\n\nThe authority said pupils and staff would be interviewed as part of the two-week probe, which would focus on the \"culture, policy, and processes\" at the school.\n\nMs De Garis wrote: \"During my time at Crieff High School I have personally experienced sexual assault, regular sexual harassment and frequent racist abuse.\n\n\"I have witnessed far more aimed at others and it's clear to me that racism, sexism, sexual assault and harassment, homophobia and transphobia are all rife, and through the school's inaction, are also being normalised for many.\"\n\nAnna De Garis received 100 written responses from fellow pupils at the school\n\nMs De Garis said pupils had experienced or witnessed anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, trans students being told to kill themselves, boys slapping girls' bottoms, and homophobic language being used in front of teachers.\n\nThe open letter and complaints were sent to the school, local MPs and MSPs, Perth and Kinross Council and the Scottish government.\n\nSheena Devlin, Perth and Kinross's executive director of education and children's services, said the welfare of the children and young people was \"always our over-riding priority.\"\n\nShe said: \"We take the allegations made regarding Crieff High School extremely seriously.\n\n\"Nobody should feel victimised or harassed in any of our schools.\n\n\"I want to assure all children, young people, parents and carers that we do everything we can to tackle bullying of any kind.\"", "Kenny Reilly was murdered in the Maryhill area of Glasgow in April 2018\n\nFour men have been found guilty of the \"planned execution\" of a man as he sat in a car at a set of traffic lights.\n\nJohn Kennedy, 41, shot 29-year-old Kenny Reilly in the Maryhill area of Glasgow in April 2018.\n\nHis co-accused Morton Eadie, 56, his son Darren Eadie and Ross Fisher, both 30, were also found guilty of murder.\n\nAll four were jailed for life. Kennedy must serve at least 26 years, Darren Eadie at least 24 years, and Morton Eadie and Fisher at least 22 years.\n\nKennedy was also accused of the murder of Jamie Campbell in March 2006 but the case against him was found not proven.\n\nThe verdicts came after a three-month trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nThe judge Lord Beckett said that people who were \"prepared to engage in such meticulously planned and ruthlessly perpetrated assassination on the streets of our cities can expect substantial punishment\".\n\nThe court heard Mr Reilly's murder was linked to a feud between rival factions in the Possilpark and Maryhill areas of Glasgow.\n\nDetectives believe he was killed because Kennedy and his accomplices thought he was responsible for assaulting their friend, Ryan McAteer.\n\nAnd the court also heard claims Mr Reilly owed £100,000 to a high-profile criminal.\n\nKennedy told another inmate in Barlinnie that he had carried out the attack\n\nOne of the key witnesses in the trial said Kennedy had confessed to the killings while in prison.\n\nKevin McGinn, who shared a cell with Kennedy in Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison for 11 days in October 2018, said he had \"whispered in my ear and said to me 'it was me'.\"\n\nHe told police that Kennedy had said the attack was over \"drugs and money\".\n\nMr Reilly was a passenger in a BMW being driven by his friend Emma MacDougall when he was targeted at about 22:20 on 16 April.\n\nThe pair were travelling to a Chinese restaurant and had stopped at traffic lights at the junction at Bilsland Drive and Maryhill Road.\n\nMs MacDougall, 25, told the court a black Ford S-Max car pull up on the right hand lane.\n\nShe recalled: \"Somebody came out of the back seats wearing all black - a black balaclava - and started shooting at my car.\n\n\"I don't think I have any words for it. It was every single emotion ever. I didn't know whether to drive - I know I needed to phone the police, I knew I needed to phone an ambulance.\n\n\"I was trying to remain calm because I knew Kenny had obviously suffered a severe injury.\"\n\nPolice at the scene of the attack in Maryhill\n\nMr Reilly died in hospital two days later from a single gunshot to the head.\n\nHis attackers sped off to Craigieburn Gardens in Maryhill, where they set the car on fire.\n\nBut forensic experts found Fisher's DNA on the wreckage and the breakthrough helped officers narrow the list of suspects.\n\nThe court heard that when Kennedy was arrested in May 2018 he owned a phone which contained Encrochat software.\n\nThe secure, encrypted messaging app which was mainly used by members of organised crime gangs to plan schemes.\n\nPolice also learned that Ryan McAteer had been seriously assaulted on 8 April 2018.\n\nPolice at the scene of Kenny Reilly's murder in Maryhill\n\nThe jury was told that Darren Eadie blamed Mr Reilly, who was described in court as a \"Possil boy\", for the attack.\n\nPolice uncovered evidence which showed that Darren Eadie had started planning a revenge attack for which he recruited his father Morton, Ross Fisher and John Kennedy.\n\nOfficers recovered a mobile phone from Mr McAteer and found a number of incriminating messages in a WhatsApp group in which he and Darren Eadie had participated.\n\nDetectives found that the accused were in regular contact with each other in the days leading up to the fatal attack on Mr Reilly, but that the calls stopped afterwards.\n\nOn the day Mr Reilly died in hospital, Kennedy and his partner flew to Jamaica for a two-week holiday. In the following days Darren and Morton Eadie both left the country.\n\nThe jury heard this was an attempt to avoid police attention.\n\nProsecutor Steven Borthwick said the evidence showed that Darren Eadie organised the plot, Morton Eadie acted as the getaway driver, Fisher stole the S-Max and set fire to it following the murder, and Kennedy was the gunman.\n\nHe described Mr Reilly's death as \"a planned execution, brazenly carried out in the street in a residential area of Glasgow\".\n\nAll four were found guilty of murder and of attempting to defeat the ends of justice by setting fire to the car used in the attack. The offences were aggravated by a connection with serious organised crime.\n\nDet Supt Stevie Wallace sad it had been a \"long, complex and challenging\" police investigation.\n\n\"Kenny Reilly left behind a family who has sought answers on how and why their loved one was killed,\" he said.\n\n\"Although he cannot be brought back, I hope this result will bring some comfort to his family and friends.\"\n\nJamie Campbell was shot dead in Drumchapel in 2006\n\nAs detectives built their case against Kennedy, they believed they had made a breakthrough in an unsolved murder from March 2006.\n\nSix spent bullets were found at the scene, which contained the DNA from three different people. Analysis found that one of the forensic profiles may belong to Kennedy.\n\nA white burned-out Fiat Ducato van which was found near where Mr Campbell was shot contained items which had Kennedy's DNA on them.\n\nHis lawyers claimed Glasgow gangster Kevin \"Gerbil\" Carroll, who was shot dead in an Asda car park in Robroyston, Glasgow in 2010, had been responsible for Mr Campbell's murder.\n\nThe court heard that police had investigated the claims at the time, and that Carroll gave a statement to officers denying any involvement.\n\nBut the jury concluded that the case against Kennedy was not proven.", "Cwmystwyth offers beautiful views, but is about 30 minutes' drive away from the nearest town\n\nResidents of a remote village fear they will be effectively cut off if plans go ahead to switch off copper phone lines.\n\nBT is proposing to switch off the Victorian era network across the UK, including in Cwmystwyth, Ceredigion, and move people on to fibre.\n\nBut villagers said they were worried that a poor mobile signal would leave them with no means of communication in the event of frequent power cuts.\n\nBT said it would work with residents to resolve any issues.\n\nThe feelings in Cwmystwyth are echoed by other communities in Wales and across the UK.\n\nCwmystwyth is in one of Wales' most remote valleys, about 16 miles (25km) from Aberystwyth, and at an altitude of 300m (985ft) above sea level, poor weather conditions and power cuts are common.\n\nThe villagers said they were shocked when they found out BT was transferring customers to its Digital Voice service, which needs an electricity supply to work, by 2025.\n\nKeith Hicks said the lack of copper lines could cause problems in emergencies\n\nResident Keith Hicks received an email notifying him of the change, which he said \"didn't make any reference to any of the disadvantages except to say that in an event of a power cut you'll have to use a mobile\".\n\nHe added: \"That's assuming of course that you've got a mobile and a mobile signal, which around here you don't.\"\n\nHe said overhead cables for wind and the internet were often affected by strong winds, but currently, the copper lines keep the village connected even when the power is down.\n\nMr Hicks said this was very important in an emergency, which he crucially found out himself recently.\n\n\"Just over a year ago I had a heart attack, completely unexpected. Luckily I had a phone line at the time and was able to call the emergency services. But it did make me wonder what would've happened had that not been the case.\"\n\nSandy Neville says villagers can be cut off for days by storms\n\nAnother resident, Sandy Neville, said: \"If something happened, and it doesn't need to be the most desperate emergency, if somebody broke an ankle, did something like that, if you can't phone you can't get help.\n\n\"We're very high, so we get a lot of wind, rain and snow often,\" she added. \"We can be cut off for days.\n\n\"The emergency services have enough of a job getting through to us at the best of times. If you can't even get hold of the emergency services it could be absolutely disastrous for people.\"\n\nBut Ofcom's head of regulatory affairs in Wales, Elinor Williams, said the network needed to be upgraded.\n\nShe said: \"The copper network has reached the end of its journey. It's old, and it's very expensive to maintain. The change from analogue to digital will see consumers benefiting.\"\n\nShe said customers would have better sound quality, and there would be fewer nuisance and scam calls.\n\nCwmystwyth's copper telephone lines have been in place since Victorian times\n\nElin Jones, MS for Ceredigion, said Cwmystwyth was not the only village which would be affected by the plans.\n\nShe said: \"There will be occurrences especially in the middle of winter, with the windy storms we're getting at the moment, where electricity supplies will be down and people have depended on the copper wire connection for their phone to continue in those circumstances.\n\n\"Currently we don't know enough about any back-up solutions, and we need to have BT and Ofcom out in these communities providing advice and assurances to everybody that it can be done by 2025.\n\n\"If they can't do that and provide that confidence, then they'll need to delay that 2025 date, because they can't leave communities [and] people without the access to communications that everybody knows everybody is reliable on these days.\"\n\nBT said it was \"incredibly sorry\" to customers in Cwmystwyth who had been disconnected in recent storms.\n\nIt added: \"We recognise the move to Digital Voice is a concern for a small amount of people, who believe they are in a coverage not-spot or a high-risk power cut area. Where this is the case, we will pause their upgrade and will work with them to resolve the issue.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Openreach, which is owned by BT, has announced it will create about 250 jobs in Wales in 2022 as part of its investment in the broadband network.\n\nOpenreach says the new recruits will include more than 200 apprenticeships.", "Then assistant commissioner Cressida Dick at the memorial service for the murdered police officer Yvonne Fletcher\n\nThe career of Cressida Dick has seen her weather a number of storms that would have sunk many others. Allegations relating to an unholy trinity of dishonesty, prejudice and incompetence dogged the Met for almost all of her tenure.\n\nPerhaps the most high profile of the potentially career-ending scandals was the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met Police officer. A serving Met Police officer with a record of indecent exposure and a nickname of \"the rapist\".\n\nDame Cressida said she was \"so sorry\" and remained.\n\nAfter the heavy-handed way the force handled subsequent protests and vigils - in which clashes broke out between women and police officers trying to control the gathering, Dame Cressida said confidence in policing was damaged because of remarks made on social media rather than the actions of any Met officers.\n\nMisogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment throughout the ranks of the Met were uncovered in a damning report from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nDame Cressida Dick made a statement to the public after the sentencing of the Met officer who murdered Sarah Everard\n\nA report into the 1987 murder of Daniel Morgan - the killer remains unidentified - accused the force of institutional corruption. It found that the then-Assistant Commissioner Dame Cressida had initially refused to grant access to a police internal data system.\n\nThe shambolic Operation Midland which gave credibility to allegations of child sexual abuse by the paedophile and fantasist Carl Beech did not stop her rising through the ranks, even amid the persistent rumble of accusations against the Met of institutional racism and corruption.\n\nShe had been responsible for supervising the senior investigating officer who said allegations made by Beech were \"credible and true\". Despite hearing the officer say this, and knowing it \"was a mistake\", Dame Cressida admitted she had done nothing to correct it. The force had to pay compensation to a number of people whose reputations had been unfairly tarnished by Beech's lies.\n\nLast September it was announced by the prime minister and home secretary that Dame Cressida's contract - due to end in April - would be extended for another two years.\n\nIt spurred victims of police injustice to write an open letter accusing Dame Cressida of \"presiding over a culture of incompetence and cover-up\". Baroness Lawrence, whose son Stephen was murdered in a racist attack, and Lady Brittan, whose home was raided when her husband Lord Brittan was falsely accused of child abuse were two of the signatories.\n\nObviously, Dame Cressida is not personally responsible for the wrongs committed by her officers. But she was the head of the organisation that - however unwittingly - facilitated the crimes of Wayne Couzens.\n\nShe was head of the organisation which treated sexualised, violent and discriminatory behaviour as \"banter\".\n\nCressida Dick speaks after the verdict in the Lee Rigby murder trial\n\nFurther accusations of racism came from the mother of two women murdered in a park in Wembley. Mina Smallman believes police treated the disappearance and deaths of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry less urgently than if they had been white.\n\nShe said of the investigation: \"I knew instantly why they didn't care. They didn't care because they looked at my daughter's address and they thought they knew who she was. A black woman who lives on a council estate.\"\n\nThe disappearance of Richard Okorogheye, a teenager who was found dead two weeks after his mother reported him missing, is also subject to a review by the police watchdog, which will consider whether ethnicity played a role in the way his case was handled.\n\nAnd athlete Bianca Williams and her partner believe they were racially profiled when their car was stopped by Met officers in Maida Vale, in July 2020. The couple were handcuffed and separated from their baby son. Ms Williams said she thought her family had been targeted because \"we are black and we drive a Mercedes\".\n\nThe Met later apologised for any distress caused.\n\nThe 60-year-old has never before shown any inclination to stand down. Where did her nerves of steel come from?\n\nThe first female commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and the UK's most senior police officer, she was made a dame in Theresa May's resignation honours.\n\nDame Cressida and her deputy attend the funeral of PC Keith Palmer, killed in the March 22 Westminster terror attack\n\nShe was first thrust into the public glare when, in 2005, she headed the operation that led to the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. She co-ordinated the surveillance officers, specialist firearms teams and other police as they attempted to catch the men behind the 21 July bombings.\n\nA subsequent trial found the Met Police guilty of endangering the public, but exonerated then-Commander Dick. She later described the killing as \"an awful time\".\n\n\"I think about it quite often. I wish, wish, wish it hadn't happened, of course, but if anything it has made me a better leader, a better police officer and it has made me more resilient.\"\n\nAt the trial she had told prosecution counsel that she \"does not get anxious - I don't have anxiety\".\n\nShe was quickly promoted through both the Thames Valley force and the Met, and in 2001 she took on command roles in the police response to the 9/11 attacks and the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004.\n\nShe was promoted to deputy assistant commissioner in 2006, and in 2009 she became the first woman to become an assistant commissioner.\n\nThe first openly gay person to hold the post, Dame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 2019 her sexuality was one of the least interesting things about her, adding: \"I happen to love Helen. She's my partner. And on we go.\"\n\nNewly appointed to the top job and smiling outside Lewisham police station in 2017\n\nIt also emerged on the programme that she cannot smell cannabis - a fact her colleagues apparently found \"hilarious\" - and, perhaps appropriately for someone who has so consistently kept her hands clean despite the whiff of scandal in the air, her luxury item would be an endless supply of floral scented soaps.\n\nOriginally from Oxford and the daughter of two academics, Dame Cressida read forestry and agriculture at the university's Balliol College before joining the Met in 1983.\n\nOn her mother's side of the family, she is related to Sophia Jex-Blake, who led the fight for women's education in Britain, and is directly descended from Sophia's brother Thomas Jex-Blake, a 19th Century headmaster of Rugby School.\n\nShe took a brief career break to study criminology at Cambridge and had a short spell working in finance - but for most of her life she has been a police officer.\n\nDame Cressida left the police in 2015 to work at the Foreign Office, in an unspecified job shrouded in secrecy, but returned two years later when she assumed the mantle of Met commissioner.\n\nShe has been a police officer for most of her working life\n\nAt the time, she said it had been \"at least 25 years since I thought regularly about the fact that I was a woman, doing this job\" but added that some men were \"threatened, baffled and confused\" by it.\n\n\"I long for the day when we can all be ourselves, whoever we are, and express ourselves in whatever way we like, and we don't have these kinds of funny constraints in our heads that make us feel: 'Ooh, there's a different power relationship because that's a man and that's a woman.' And we still get that. It's not helpful.\"\n\nAnnouncing her departure, Dame Cressida said: \"It is clear that the mayor no longer has sufficient confidence in my leadership to continue. He has left me no choice but to step aside as commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service.\"\n\nShe had just hours earlier insisted that she had \"no intention of going\".\n\nHer track record shows a pattern of saying sorry and a refusal to relinquish her post.\n\nThis time, no apologies. This time, she goes.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When patients arrive at hospital by ambulance they should be handed over within 15 minutes. This data shows the proportion of ambulance patients who waited 30 minutes or more, in the week shown. It comes from daily situation reports which are published weekly during the winter in England. As this is fast-turnaround data, the NHS says only minimal validation can be carried out but it is considered fit for purpose.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland do not publish ambulance queue data.\n\nPatients at A&E should be seen within four hours of arrival. This data shows the proportion of patients attending A&E who waited longer than four hours to be treated, discharged or admitted.\n\nThis data is published monthly for England and Wales and weekly for Scotland. Northern Ireland publishes its data quarterly and Winter 2021 is not yet available.\n\nIf a patient at A&E needs to be admitted, the wait from decision to admit to being given a bed on a ward is recorded in England. The bed waits figure is the proportion of patients admitted via A&E who waited longer than four hours for a ward bed.\n\nIn Wales, bed wait data is not published, so the figure shown is the occupancy level in general and acute beds. Scotland and Northern Ireland do not publish bed wait or bed occupancy data.\n\nData for England is show by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities.\n\nWhen you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board.\n\nComparative data from two years ago is shown where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Bed occupancy data in Wales only goes back to April 2020.", "A number of women who participated in protests demanding women’s rights in Afghanistan are missing.\n\nThe Taliban deny they are holding them and also say they have granted a general amnesty to all those who worked with the previous regime.\n\nBut the UN has raised alarm about a pattern of reprisals against activists, journalists, former government officials and security forces.\n\nThe BBC has investigated multiple incidents that have taken place recently, some just in the past couple of weeks.\n\nAll identities have been hidden and voices changed to protect the people who spoke to us.\n\nFilmed and edited by Sanjay Ganguly and Aakriti Thapar", "Neanderthals were a separate species of human that populated Europe for hundreds of thousands of years until they went extinct 40,000 years ago\n\nNew fossils are challenging ideas that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals soon after arriving from Africa.\n\nA discovery of a child's tooth and stone tools in a cave in southern France suggests Homo sapiens was in western Europe about 54,000 years ago.\n\nThat is several thousands of years earlier than previously thought, indicating that the two species could have coexisted for long periods.\n\nThe research has been published in the journal Science Advances.\n\nThe finds were discovered in a cave, known as Grotte Mandrin in the Rhone Valley, by a team led by Prof Ludovic Slimak of the University of Toulouse. He was astonished when he learned that there was evidence of an early modern human settlement.\n\n\"We are now able to demonstrate that Homo sapiens arrived 12,000 years before we expected, and this population was then replaced after that by other Neanderthal populations. And this literally rewrites all our books of history.\"\n\nArchaeologists discovered modern human remains at Grotte Mandrin cave dating back to 54, 000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously thought\n\nThe Neanderthals emerged in Europe as far back as 400,000 years ago. The current theory suggests that they went extinct about 40,000 years ago, not long after Homo sapiens arrived on the continent from Africa.\n\nBut the new discovery suggests that our species arrived much earlier and that the two species could have coexisted in Europe for more than 10,000 years before the Neanderthals went extinct.\n\nAccording to Prof Chris Stringer, of the Natural History Museum in London, this challenges the current view, which is that our species quickly overwhelmed the Neanderthals.\n\n\"It wasn't an overnight takeover by modern humans,\" he told BBC News. \"Sometimes Neanderthals had the advantage, sometimes modern humans had the advantage, so it was more finely balanced.\"\n\nArchaeologists found fossil evidence from several layers at the site. The lower they dug, the further back in time they were able to see. The lowest layers showed the remains of Neanderthals who occupied the area for about 20,000 years.\n\nBut to their complete surprise, the team found a modern human child's tooth in a layer dating back to about 54,000 years ago, along with some stone tools made in a way that was not associated with Neanderthals.\n\nThe evidence suggests that this early group of humans lived at the site for a relatively brief period, of perhaps about 2,000 years after which the site was unoccupied. The Neanderthals then return, occupying the site for several more thousand years, until modern humans come back about 44,000 years ago.\n\nThe tools found with the child's tooth. There is speculation that the smaller points might be arrow heads\n\n''We have this ebb and flow,'' says Prof Stringer. ''The modern humans appear briefly, then there's a gap where maybe the climate just finished them off and then the Neanderthals come back again.''\n\nAnother key finding was the association of the stone tools found in the same layer as the child's tooth with modern humans. Tools made in the same way had been found in a few other sites - in the Rhone valley and also in Lebanon, but up until now scientists were not certain which species of humans made them.\n\nThis fragment of child’s tooth may well have changed the story of the emergence of modern humans\n\nSome of the researchers speculate that some of the smaller tools might be arrow heads. If confirmed, that would be quite a discovery: an early group of modern humans using the advanced weaponry of bows and arrows, which may have been how the group initially overcame the Neanderthals 54,000 years ago. But if that were the case, it was a temporary advantage, because the Neanderthals came back.\n\nSo, if it wasn't a case of our species wiping them out immediately, what was it that eventually gave us the advantage?\n\nMany ideas have been put forward by scientists: our capacity to produce art, language and possibly a better brain. But Prof Stringer believes it was because we were more organised.\n\n\"We were networking better, our social groups were larger, we were storing knowledge better and we built on that knowledge,\" he said.\n\nThe idea of a prolonged interaction with Neanderthals fits in with the discovery made in 2010 that modern humans have a small amount of Neanderthal DNA, indicating that the two species interbred, according to Prof Stringer.\n\n\"We don't know if it was peacefully exchanges of partners. It might have been grabbing, you know, a female from another group. It might have been even adopting abandoned or lost Neanderthal babies who had been orphaned,\" he said.\n\n\"All of those things could have happened. So we don't know the full story yet. But with more data and with more DNA, more discoveries, we will get closer to the truth about what really happened at the end of the Neanderthal era.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many households are facing a squeeze on their finances as energy bills soar and inflation rises\n\nPlans aimed at helping people in Scotland cope with the cost-of-living crisis are to be unveiled later.\n\nFinance Secretary Kate Forbes said an extra £290m will be allocated to the plans - of which £120m was previously said to be going to councils.\n\nMs Forbes will give further details on Thursday afternoon of how the money will be spent.\n\nIt will come as the Scottish government's budget for the coming year is formally approved by Holyrood.\n\nThe cost of living crisis has been caused by spiralling energy bills and rising inflation combined with flat or falling incomes.\n\nThe UK government said last week that an additional £290m would be going to Scotland as the result of Barnett consequentials from the £150 cut to council tax bands A to D announced for England by Chancellor Rishi Sunak last week as part of efforts to tackle the problem.\n\nIt said this would be on top of a £200 reduction on energy bills for customers in England, Scotland and Wales in October, which will be repaid at £40 a year over five years from April 2023.\n\nThe announcement was welcomed at the time by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon - although she said it did not go far enough towards helping the hundreds of thousands of people in Scotland who are expected to be pushed into fuel poverty by rising energy bills.\n\nHowever, Ms Forbes appeared to suggest in a tweet on Wednesday that there would actually be no additional money for Scotland as a result of the council tax cut in England.\n\nShe said the Scottish government would still \"honour our commitment to allocate £290m to deal with the cost of living crisis in Scotland\".\n\nBut she said this would \"require us to revise the latest budget position I set out to the Scottish Parliament last week.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, her claim was dismissed by the UK government, which insisted that the Scottish government \"will receive £296m of Barnett consequentials as a result of the council tax rebate announced by the chancellor.\"\n\nA spokesman added: \"This is new funding for the Scottish government.\n\n\"People in Scotland expect both governments to be working together for them, their families and communities so we will continue engage with them on this support.\"\n\nMs Forbes - who announced earlier this week that she is pregnant - also said her budget would \"provide a platform to accelerate our recovery from the pandemic, tackle inequalities, invest in the economy and public services and continue a just transition to net-zero.\"\n\nIt will include doubling the Scottish Child Payment to £20 from April 2022 for families in poverty with children under the age of six - which will be extended to under 16s by the end of 2022.\n\nThe minimum wage will rise to £10.50 an hour for social care staff and all people covered by the public sector pay policy.\n\nAnd income tax rates will remain unchanged next year - although the thresholds at which it is paid will increase for lower earners.\n\nThe UK government insists Scotland will get £296m of additional money from Rishi Sunak's council tax announcement last week\n\nCouncil leaders had hit out at the \"totally unacceptable\" settlement they were offered by the government, warning that a real-terms cut in their funding meant a mixture of council tax rises and cuts to services were inevitable.\n\nThe government later said it would give councils - who have complete control over local tax rates for the first time since the SNP came to power in 2007 - an additional £120m.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives backed the extra council funding, with finance spokeswoman Liz Smith \"warmly welcoming the actions of the UK government in assisting with this budget\".\n\nHowever she said her party would be voting against the package as a whole, as the government had \"created many more problems within this budget than it has actually solved\".\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has unveiled his party's five-point plan to tackle the cost of living crisis - including a so-called \"windfall tax\" on the profits of oil and gas firms such as Shell and BP, and a cut to VAT on energy prices.\n\nLabour also wants to see targeted support for the hardest-hit Scots by providing a £400 Scottish Fuel Payment to those in need, and for the Scottish Welfare Fund to be topped up to \"ensure local government is empowered to help those in financial difficulty\".\n\nMr Sarwar said: \"Across Scotland, people will be wondering where they are going to find the extra £693 to keep the heating and lights on; just months after bills rose by £139.\n\n\"They will look at rising travel costs, water charges and food bills and wonder why they are paying the price for government inaction.\n\n\"They are left to foot the bill because Scotland has two bad governments who would rather play politics with the cost of living crisis than take action.\"", "A BBC News investigation revealed last year there were 100 people with learning disabilities and autism who have been detained in specialist hospitals for more than 20 years. Since then, families across the UK have contacted the BBC to tell their own stories.\n\nOne of those is a woman from Northern Ireland whose brother was hospitalised 34 years ago, but has been fit for discharge for 25 years. He is in Muckamore Abbey Hospital, which is at the heart of the biggest abuse investigation in NHS history.\n\nWatch as Brigene tells the BBC's Jayne McCubbin about her fight to bring her brother home.", "Diane Stewart was found dead at the house she shared with her husband on 25 June 2010\n\nA man who murdered a children's author in 2016 has been convicted of killing his wife six years earlier.\n\nIan Stewart, 61, was found guilty of murdering Diane Stewart at their home in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire.\n\nHer death had been treated as epilepsy-related until he murdered his fiancee Helen Bailey and dumped her body in a cesspit at their Hertfordshire home.\n\nMr Justice Bryan sentenced Stewart to a whole-life order, meaning he will never be released from prison.\n\nEvidence from Mrs Stewart's brain, which was donated to medical science, was used to help convict her husband.\n\nIn 2017, Stewart was convicted of secretly drugging and suffocating Ms Bailey in Royston, in a plot to inherit her fortune of some £4m.\n\nHe was jailed for life with a minimum 34-year term, and police then began to investigate the death of his wife in the garden of their home on 25 June 2010.\n\nIn his evidence at Huntingdon Crown Court, Stewart claimed on the day of Mrs Stewart's death he had driven to the supermarket to get French bread and pate to \"celebrate\" after their son's driving test, but returned home when he realised he had forgotten his wallet.\n\nHe said he saw Mrs Stewart \"crumpled on the floor\" and gave her CPR. He then told a 999 operator: \"My wife had a fit. She's in the garden.\"\n\nHe told the operator his wife had epilepsy, but Mrs Stewart had not suffered a fit since 1992.\n\nMr Justice Bryan said: \"Knowing, as we do, that you had killed your wife, it is harrowing to listen to that 999 call, which I am sure was a charade from start to finish.\n\n\"Diane was already dead, and you had murdered her.\"\n\nThe judge said Stewart had \"in all probability\" killed his wife \"by a method that incapacitated her before she had any chance to fight back, most likely either a choke hold rendering her unconscious, or a plastic bag placed over the head from behind\".\n\nThe judge said: \"Whether or not you had drugged Diane, as you had Helen, to assist you in your killing we will never know\"\n\nThe couple's sons, Oliver and Jamie, were out of the house at the time of the killing, the court heard.\n\nIn a statement released after the verdict, they called their mother \"amazing\".\n\n\"We were privileged to have a wonderful caring upbringing and we were supported through all the activities and hobbies that we undertook,\" they said.\n\n\"It's been really upsetting the last six years to have to recall the events of the toughest time of our life.\n\n\"We now look forward to recalling the many happy moments we had growing up as a family.\"\n\nIn a statement, Mrs Stewart's sister Wendy Bellamy-Lee and brother Christopher Lem said: \"Diane was a very special, caring and capable person.\n\n\"She will always be greatly loved and hugely missed by her family and all who knew her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Stewart: Murderer's reaction to new arrest caught on camera\n\nAn inquest concluded Mrs Stewart had suffered sudden death in epilepsy (SUDEP), which kills about 600 people in the UK each year.\n\nWhile her body had been cremated, which police believe was done upon Stewart's instruction, he had consented to her brain being donated to medical science.\n\nProsecutor Stuart Trimmer QC told jurors scientists and pathologists were instructed to re-examine the circumstances, and analysis of the brain tissue indicated Mrs Stewart's death was \"most likely caused by a prolonged restriction to her breathing from an outside source\".\n\nOne consultant neurologist gave her risk of SUDEP at the time as \"extremely low - one in 100,000\", Mr Trimmer said.\n\nThe Stewarts had lived on Poplar Farm Close in Bassingbourn\n\nJurors also heard he received nearly £100,000 after Mrs Stewart died, including £28,500.21 in life insurance and the rest from her bank accounts.\n\nStewart went on to buy a red two-seater MG car, the court heard.\n\nIn evidence, Stewart claimed that he \"didn't need that money, it was for the boys' futures\" and said that type of vehicle was \"what Diane and I had up until [their son] Jamie was born\".\n\nThe judge, though, said he was satisfied that \"the major motive for Diane's murder was for financial gain\".\n\nJurors also heard from Alexandra Bailey, Mrs Stewart's friend from Salford University in the 1980s, who recalled Stewart's behaviour at the funeral as \"a little odd.\"\n\n\"He seemed totally unbothered and seemed quite aloof,\" she said. \"I just didn't feel it was right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSix years after killing his wife, Stewart would go on to murder Ms Bailey, who wrote more than 20 books, including the popular Electra Brown series.\n\nMs Bailey was also known for her blog - Planet Grief - in which she talked about the death of her husband John Sinfield in 2011.\n\nShe had met Stewart through a bereavement website.\n\nHe had reported her missing three months before her body was found in the \"foul-smelling\" cesspit under their home in Royston alongside the corpse of her dachshund Boris.\n\nSentencing Stewart on Wednesday, Mr Justice Bryan told him the two women's deaths were in \"chillingly similar circumstances\".\n\nHe told Stewart: \"You successfully passed off a murder as an epileptic fit in the circumstance I have identified, playing out an elaborate, and indeed sophisticated, charade over a period of time.\n\n\"A charade that succeeded at the time, and would have succeeded for all time but for your subsequent murder of Helen Bailey.\"\n\nDet Supt Jerome Kent, who investigated both murders, revealed that when officers arrested Stewart - who by that time was serving a life sentence - for the murder of Mrs Stewart, the killer said: \"Haven't you got anything better to do?\"\n\n\"He finds manipulating very easy to do. He can manipulate people, he can persuade people, he is extremely devious.\n\n\"I believe he is a narcissist, that it is all about him and about what he wants and the control he must have in his life.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mark Drakeford will not be taking Friday's Welsh government press conference\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating, the Welsh government has said.\n\nThe news comes a day before Mr Drakeford was due to announce his latest review of coronavirus legislation.\n\nEconomy minister Vaughan Gething will now take Friday's press conference.\n\nA Welsh government spokesman said the first minister tested positive after taking a PCR test.\n\n\"He is self-isolating and working remotely\", he added.\n\nThe rules in Wales mean anyone who tests positive for coronavirus can leave isolation after five days if they test negative on lateral flow devices on day five and day six.\n\nMembers of the Welsh government cabinet have been discussing whether to keep Wales' remaining coronavirus laws.\n\nMark Drakeford chaired a meeting of his senior ministers virtually on Thursday morning.\n\nUnder alert level zero, face coverings are still required in most public places, self-isolation is a legal requirement and Covid passes are required in nightclubs, cinemas, theatres and large events.\n\nThe outcome of the review is due to be announced on Friday, three weeks after Labour ministers scrapped limits on businesses brought in after Christmas to tackle the Omicron variant.\n\nIn England the UK government has said it could end all remaining Covid restrictions later this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In July 2020, Mark Drakeford revealed he had moved out of his home because family members were shielding\n\nDuring 2020 Mark Drakeford said he had moved out of his home to protect his family members.\n\nHe said they had \"serious conditions\" and he could have posed a danger to them.", "Saget first performed his cutting comic act over 40 years ago and was a popular figure in US comedy circles\n\nThe US actor and comedian Bob Saget died after suffering an accidental blow to the head, his family has revealed.\n\nA statement said that the Full House star had \"accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep\".\n\nThey added that authorities had concluded that drugs and alcohol were not involved in his death.\n\nSaget, 65, was found dead in his hotel room at the Ritz Carlton in Orlando, Florida last month.\n\n\"In the weeks since Bob's passing, we have been overwhelmed with the incredible outpouring of love from Bob's fans, which has been a great comfort to us and for which we are eternally grateful,\" the family statement read.\n\n\"Now that we have the final conclusions from the authorities' investigation, we felt it only proper that the fans hear those conclusions directly from us.\"\n\nSaget had been married to Kelly Rizzo Saget since 2018 and had three daughters from a previous marriage.\n\nHe was found unresponsive by hotel staff in his bed on the evening of 9 January and was later pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.\n\nAuthorities said at the time that they were not treating the Philadelphia native's death as suspicious.\n\nHis funeral, which was attended by a host of famous faces, was held last month in California.\n\nA veteran stand-up comedian, Saget had just started a new tour across the US, performing the day before his death in the city of Jacksonville, Florida.\n\nAlthough idolised by many comedians for his profane and often cutting act, he was best known in the US for his role in the heartwarming sitcom, Full House, where he starred alongside the actors John Stamos and fellow comic Dave Coulier.\n\nIn more recent years he found fame among younger generations as the narrator of the hit show How I Met Your Mother and for his guest stints as a highly fictionalised version of himself in the TV series, Entourage.\n\nHis death attracted tributes from a host of Hollywood stars.", "Sending \"genuinely threatening\" or \"knowingly false\" messages are among new criminal offences being added to proposed online safety laws.\n\nIf passed, the government's online safety bill could see social networks fined 10% of their global turnover if they fail to remove harmful content.\n\nThe changes mean they will also have to proactively remove harmful content.\n\nThe bill also covers revenge porn, human trafficking, extremism and promoting suicide online.\n\nIt already stated that websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, that host user-generated content would have to swiftly remove illegal content once it was reported to them.\n\nNow they will also have to put in place proactive measures to stop illegal activity.\n\nThe issue has become a talking point recently with the racist abuse of footballers, revenge porn and cyberflashing, and Covid disinformation being highlighted as key safety concerns for social media companies to address.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries urged online platforms to start making the changes now before the bill comes into force.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, she said: \"They can start doing what they need to do to remove those harmful algorithms and to remove much of the damage that they do, particularly to young people and to society as a whole.\"\n\nThe minister added the move would \"hold the feet to the fire\" of social media companies that have \"damaged lives\" and hold them to account for the first time.\n\nJudy Thomas, whose daughter Frankie took her own life aged 15 in September 2018, said her school tablet and computer had been used to access distressing material in the hours and months before her death.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Back in January, February, March [2018] she'd been accessing, at school, horrendous sites.\"\n\nMs Thomas called for mandatory age verification to protect children online and said all websites should be included in the scope of the bill, rather than just larger platforms.\n\n\"We need to ensure young people simply cannot access online harms, and that if companies do the wrong thing... that there is a real price to pay,\" she said.\n\nMs Thomas added these penalties must not just be financial, as many businesses could \"absorb that easily\", but the heads of these firms must also be \"held to account\".\n\nThe big technology companies say they welcome the \"clarity\" that the online safety bill brings and that they recognise the need for regulation.\n\nThey have, in many cases, not waited for governments to step in and they have invested in tech such as machine learning in order to identify harmful content at scale.\n\nHowever, while many say the bill does not go far enough, social media businesses point to free speech issues.\n\nThey say they want to ensure that new rules don't stifle people's access to information by causing companies to \"over-moderate\" by removing too much content, in order to comply with them.\n\nThe vast scope of the online safety bill means it will always have its critics.\n\nBut experts underline that its introduction will be nothing short of a revolution in how the online world is policed, and mean it will be a very different place for the next generation.\n\nAsked about age verification, Ms Dorries said the government was looking at the idea, but said there was a \"downside\" to requiring all children to verify their age to access the internet.\n\n\"And young people go on to the internet to go shopping, you know, on clothes. Do we need to ensure that they verify their age when they're doing that?\", she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fitness influencer Elle Edwards speaks about dealing with explicit messages and cyber-flashing\n\nThe government confirmed offences to have been added to the list of priority offences, which must be removed by platforms under the changes, include:\n\nPreviously, companies were only forced to take down these posts after they were reported - but will now be required to be proactive in preventing people from seeing them in the first place.\n\nThe government said naming these offences also enabled Ofcom - the proposed regulator - to take faster action.\n\nThe changes come after three separate parliamentary committee reports warned the bill required strengthening and more clarity for tech firms.\n\nIn addition, three new criminal offences have been added to the bill.\n\nThe first is sending \"genuinely threatening communications\" such as a threat to rape, kill or cause financial harm, or coercive and controlling behaviour and online stalking.\n\nSending \"harmful communications\", such as a domestic abuser sending an ex-partner a photograph of their front door to frighten them, is the second. However, offensive content with no intent to cause serious distress would not be illegal.\n\nThe final new offence is \"knowingly false communications\", which would cover messages deliberately sent to inflict harm\", such as a hoax bomb threat.\n\nThe government said the bill would not prohibit \"misinformation\", such as a social media post promoting a fake coronavirus cure, as long as those spreading it were unaware what they were saying was false.\n\nIf you or someone you know are feeling emotionally distressed, information on where you can go for support is available on BBC Action line here.\n\nHave you been affected by harmful messaging online? Tell us your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A drone captured a massive spill of dead fish in the Atlantic Ocean\n\nFrance's fisheries minister has called for an investigation after a spillage of more than 100,000 dead fish off the country's Atlantic coast.\n\nVideo footage filmed by environmental activists shows a mass of corpses floating on the sea surface.\n\nAn industry statement said the Margiris, the world's second-largest super trawler, had reported a \"fishing incident\" after its net broke.\n\nIt said the fish were blue whiting, a species of the cod family.\n\nThe lost fish would be deducted from the vessel's quota, the statement added.\n\nThe Sea Shepherd France environmental group filmed the fish on Thursday, saying they covered an area of about 3,000 sq m (32,300 sq ft).\n\nIts head Lamya Essemlali told Reuters it wanted to \"raise awareness among the French public\" about the trawler, which it said had been banned from Australian waters and frequented the Bay of Biscay.\n\nSea Shepherd filmed the bank of dead fish, which it said covered 3,000 sq m\n\nFisheries Minister Annick Girardin tweeted (in French) that she was investigating, and that the images were shocking.\n\nThe EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevicius, also said he was seeking \"exhaustive information and evidence about the case\".\n\nThe Pelagic Freezer-Trawler Association issued a statement saying a net on the Margiris had ruptured at 05:50 local time (04:50 GMT) on Thursday morning, adding that this was a \"very rare occurrence\".\n\n\"In line with EU law, this has been recorded in the vessel's log book and reported to the authorities of the vessel's flag state, Lithuania,\" it said.", "The Queen sat alone at Prince Philip's funeral, observing the Covid rules on such gatherings\n\nThe Queen's commitment to \"doing the right thing\" in sitting alone at Prince Philip's funeral has been praised by the Archbishop of Canterbury as a defining example of her sense of duty.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne on 6 February, Justin Welby said she showed \"duty, leadership and character\".\n\nHe described her Christian faith as \"the rock on which she stands\".\n\nOn Sunday she becomes the first British monarch to mark a Platinum Jubilee.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, the archbishop said the Queen had committed herself to a life of duty and public service.\n\n\"The clearest moment for me, the absolute summit of that, was that at the funeral of her husband of 70-something years, she sat alone.\n\n\"That was leadership, it was doing the right thing, it was duty, it set an example,\" said the archbishop, who officiated at the funeral, which observed Covid restrictions in place at the time.\n\nThe Queen, wearing jewellery given to her by her father, King George VI, was shown well-wishers' jubilee cards\n\nThe remarks are likely to be seen as adding to the comparisons with how Covid rules have been observed in Downing Street.\n\nThe government has faced intense pressure over events held in and around Downing Street during the pandemic, including two parties held by staff at No 10 on 16 April 2021, the night before Prince Philip's funeral.\n\nArchbishop Welby said the Queen's long reign had provided an international symbol of stability through decades of social and political upheavals.\n\nBut he said that her own character was about \"humility\" and understatement.\n\n\"She takes her duties seriously, but she doesn't take herself very seriously. She laughs in private, she has an absolutely superb sense of humour,\" said the archbishop.\n\n\"'It's not about me' almost sums up her reign,\" he said.\n\nThe Queen, aged 95, had a \"sense of self-acceptance\", said the archbishop. \"She doesn't question who or what she is.\"\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury emphasised the personal importance of religious faith to the Queen, since she took the throne after the death of King George VI, the father she \"adored\".\n\nThe archbishop says the Queen has been a symbol of stability through decades of change\n\nThe archbishop likened her role as monarch to a lifelong religious vocation and the coronation to the vows for religious ministry.\n\n\"The coronation service is a form of ordination, in a liturgical sense, and she lives that out without a grumble.\"\n\n\"It is priestly - the language, the structure, it's very similar to an ordination of a priest or a bishop,\" he said.\n\nThe Queen with her father, King George VI, in 1947, succeeded him five years later\n\nThe archbishop said the Queen had faced \"intense grief\", including the loss of her husband, but her personal thoughts remained closed.\n\n\"She's immensely private on such things. That is who she is,\" said the archbishop.\n\nThe Queen, the world's longest-serving head of state, is in Sandringham, Norfolk, for the anniversary of her accession in 1952.\n\nIt's also a poignant occasion, as this is where her father, King George VI, died, and in photographs published on Friday she is seen wearing jewellery that he gave her for her 18th birthday, in 1944.\n\nThe Queen has had many dogs, including Candy the dorgi, a cross between a corgi and a dachshund\n\nBefore leaving Windsor Castle she was shown well-wishers' cards and historic items from previous jubilees, including a fan signed by royal relatives from Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887.\n\n\"It's very well preserved. Extraordinary, isn't it?\" she said, holding up the fan, which included a signature from \"Nicky\", who became Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.\n\nQueen Victoria had previously held the record for the longest reign in Britain, with more than 63 years on the throne.\n\nOfficials at Buckingham Palace say they expect 100,000 letters and cards from well-wishers to be sent to the Queen in a jubilee year.", "The votes in the Southend West by-election will be counted at the Southend Leisure and Tennis Centre\n\nVoting in the Southend West by-election has now closed.\n\nThe election was called following the death of Sir David Amess MP, who had served the constituency in Essex since 1997.\n\nThe Conservative MP, who was 69, was fatally stabbed during a constituency surgery at Belfairs Methodist Church Hall in Leigh-on-Sea on 15 October.\n\nThe result is expected in the early hours of Friday morning. Nine candidates were on the ballot paper.\n\nOf the major parties, only the Conservatives were standing while Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party did not field candidates out of respect for Sir David.\n\nBBC political reporter Simon Dedman, who is at the count, said turnout was low at 24% from an electorate of 66,354.\n\nTurnout in Southend West for the 2019 General Election was 67%, when Sir David had a 14,459 majority.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Dedman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe lowest turnout in any by-election since World War Two was in Manchester Central in 2012, when it was just over 18%.\n\nThe Southend West by-election was held to find a replacement for Sir David Amess MP who was killed in October\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson, owes an estimated £2m to people\n\nEnglish Defence League founder Tommy Robinson will be quizzed about his finances after he failed to pay legal bills for a libel case he lost.\n\nThe 39-year-old, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was sued by Jamal Hijazi after defaming him online.\n\nIn response to a video of the then 16-year-old schoolboy being attacked, Mr Yaxley-Lennon claimed he had attacked \"young English girls\".\n\nA High Court judge ordered him to court to answer questions on his finances.\n\nMr Yaxley-Lennon was sued by Mr Hijazi after he made the accusations following a viral video clip of him being attacked at Almondbury School in Huddersfield in 2018.\n\nThe judge found in the claimant's favour and said the fake accusations and language used by Mr Yaxley-Lennon on Facebook were intended to \"inflame the situation\".\n\nAt a High Court hearing earlier, Mr Hijazi's barrister Ian Helme said Mr Yaxley-Lennon was ordered to pay £43,293 in legal costs after a pre-trial hearing in November 2020.\n\nHowever, at a further hearing in March 2021, he said he was bankrupt.\n\nThe barrister argued Mr Yaxley-Lennon, who did not attend the hearing, could be cross-examined about his finances over the debt, despite the ongoing bankruptcy process.\n\nIn written arguments, he stated: \"The claimant envisages that counsel's opportunity to cross-examine the defendant under oath, accompanied by documents provided by the defendant, will provide for a more detailed analysis of his assets than might be possible through the normal bankruptcy process.\"\n\nThe barrister said Mr Yaxley-Lennon owes a \"substantial sum\" and he intended to question him \"with a view to establishing what steps would be most proportionate to take with a view to maximising recovery\".\n\nHe told the court that Mr Hijazi's lawyers had information \"that what is stated in his bankruptcy application is not a full account of [Mr Yaxley-Lennon's] assets\".\n\nWhile damages and legal costs from the libel trial were not mentioned at the High Court hearing, Mr Yaxley-Lennon was ordered to pay £100,000 damages to Mr Hijazi and £500,000 in legal costs.\n\nThe High Court hearing about his finances is due to take place on 22 March.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "“It is absolutely vital for peace and prosperity in Northern Ireland that the executive is delivering for the people of Northern Ireland, particularly now as we emerge from the Covid pandemic,” his spokesman told PA.\n\n“The protocol is part of an international treaty agreed and ratified by the UK and EU, to protect the Good Friday Agreement in all its dimensions.\n\n“The UK has an obligation under international law, and under its own domestic law, to ensure it meets is obligations under the protocol.\n\n“The current talks between the EU and the UK and must be given every chance to succeed. The commission has put forward serious proposals which directly address the concerns about outstanding issues on implementation of the protocol.\n\n“I would urge the DUP to return to full engagement with all the institutions of the Good Friday Agreement and avoid any action that could damage peace and stability in Northern Ireland.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Hooper said he felt \"frightened and threatened\" when he removed the Corsa from his property\n\nA farmer who used a telehandler to pick up a car and dump it in a road to defend his property has been cleared of dangerous driving and criminal damage.\n\nRobert Hooper, 57, had told Durham Crown Court he felt \"frightened and threatened\" when he took the action.\n\nHe had argued an \"Englishman's home is his castle\", and he had been assaulted before he used his vehicle to remove the Corsa in County Durham last June.\n\nHis partner Kate Henderson said he had been through \"eight months of hell\".\n\nSupporters cheered the couple outside the court after the jury cleared Mr Hooper following a four-day trial.\n\nMs Henderson said: \"The overwhelming support of the local community and people from afar have kept him going during these last eight months of hell.\n\n\"We welcome the jury's verdict and are thankful for it.\"\n\nMobile phone footage shown to jurors also showed the lifting rails of Mr Hooper's farm vehicle striking shirtless Charlie Burns.\n\nThe 21-year-old, who had been visiting Low Force waterfall with friends and had drunk up to seven bottles of lager, was knocked to the floor by the rails.\n\nThe car had been parked by Mr Burns' friend, Elliott Johnson, at Mr Hooper's property in Newbiggin-in-Teesdale after suffering a double puncture.\n\nSupporters cheered as Mr Hooper and his partner Kate Henderson left court\n\nThe hill farmer had told the court he was punched by Mr Burns when he first politely asked the men to leave as they were blocking access to his property.\n\nHe was aware of an \"influx\" of youths visiting the area that summer, causing anti-social behaviour, littering and damaging walls, the jury heard.\n\nMr Hooper claimed Mr Burns had punched him twice through the window of the farm vehicle he was driving, bursting his lip.\n\n\"I thought it is time to get out of there, and I said, 'If you don't move it, I will',\" he told the court.\n\nMr Hooper said he was concerned at what the two young men might do and \"what they had in terms of weapons\".\n\n\"I thought if the car was off the property, that would be them off the property, out of the way,\" he added.\n\nThe court heard that the farmer felt he was defending his property and himself.\n\n\"I felt threatened and an Englishman's home is his castle, and my castle starts at that front gate,\" he said.\n\nMichael Rawlinson, defending, gave the origin of the saying in his closing speech to the jury, referring back to the judge Sir Edward Coke's comments which set legal precedents in 1604.\n\nWhen it was argued by the prosecution that Mr Hooper had acted \"utterly irrationally\", Mr Rawlinson also quoted the boxer Mike Tyson, saying: \"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.\"\n\nMr Hooper, who has no previous convictions, had a busy day baling silage and returned to the farm for his tea, intending to continue working afterwards.\n\nMr Burns, who had been drinking with friends, said he was intending to walk 52 miles back to South Tyneside.\n\nJudge Ray Singh had outlined routes to verdict for the jury, explaining the law surrounding self-defence and a defendant protecting himself and his property.\n\nFellow farmers who were there to support Mr Hooper welcomed the verdicts outside the court.\n\nWilliam Wearmouth said Mr Hooper was \"absolutely first-class\" and a \"hard-working man\" who \"will help anyone with anything\".\n\nAnother farmer, John Dickinson, said it was a \"really good result for the local area\".\n\n\"Robert is a very decent, upstanding man who shouldn't have to have gone through all this,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "He was jailed for five years and six months after being convicted of sexual offences against two children\n\nDisgraced former Labour peer Lord Ahmed of Rotherham has been jailed for five and a half years for sexually abusing two children in the 1970s.\n\nHe was found guilty in January of a serious sexual assault against a boy and the attempted rape of a young girl.\n\nThe abuse happened in Rotherham when he was a teenager, Sheffield Crown Court heard.\n\nPassing sentence, Mr Justice Lavender said his actions had had \"profound and lifelong effects\" on the victims.\n\nThe court heard Lord Ahmed, who was tried under his birth name Nazir Ahmed, attempted to rape the girl twice in the early 1970s, when he was aged 16 or 17 but she was much younger.\n\nThe attack on the boy, who was aged under 11 at the time, also happened during the same period.\n\nThe 64-year-old had denied the charges, calling them a \"malicious fiction\", but a phone recording of a conversation between the two victims in 2016 showed they were not \"made-up\".\n\nThe judge said the offences were \"so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified\".\n\nHe said: \"Your actions have had profound and lifelong effects on the girl and the boy, who have lived with what you did to them for between 46 and 53 years.\n\n\"The statements which they have made express more eloquently than I ever could how your actions have affected and continue to affect their lives in so many different and damaging ways.\"\n\nThe 64-year-old had told the court the claims were \"malicious fiction\"\n\nThe victim of the attempted rapes, who cannot be named due to the nature of the offences, said she had lived with \"an overwhelming feeling of shame\".\n\nShe told the court: \"It was a burden I was made to carry, and it silenced me for many years.\n\n\"It is now time for me to pass that burden to him - the paedophile who I know feels no personal shame.\"\n\nThe male victim, who also cannot be named, said in a personal statement read out in court: \"I buried the abuse and carried it with me on my own for years and years.\n\n\"I feel shame because of what these men did to me.\"\n\nIn court number seven at Sheffield Crown Court today, both the judge and defendant could technically be addressed as \"my Lord\", \"your Lordship\" or any other variation of the title.\n\nLord Ahmed sat in the dock wearing a smart suit and tie, listening to barristers and a judge discuss his sentence.\n\nOne victim came to the witness box to describe the impact the peer of the realm had on her life.\n\n\"He is a paedophile who has no personal shame. But in the end, all tyrants fall,\" she said.\n\nA statement from the second victim said: \"This is not about revenge, this is about justice.\"\n\nAnd part of that justice is wanting to see Lord Ahmed stripped of his title and known forthwith by his real name, Nazir Ahmed.\n\nThey don't want him to use his title to impress anyone again.\n\nThe judge told him his actions had a profound and lifelong effect on his victims. He stood to listen to the judge but showed no emotion.\n\nShortly afterwards, Ahmed picked up his rucksack, waved at his family and disappeared through a door to start his five-and-a-half year sentence.\n\nAhmed, who was convicted following a retrial, resigned from the House of Lords in November 2020 after a conduct committee report concluded he had sexually and emotionally exploited a vulnerable woman who sought his help.\n\nThe inquiry into his behaviour followed a BBC Newsnight investigation.\n\nThere have been calls for him to be stripped of his title. This would require an Act of Parliament but none currently exists.\n\nAhmed was charged along with his two older brothers, Mohammed Farouq, 71, and Mohammed Tariq, 65, but both were deemed unfit to stand trial.\n\nBoth had faced charges of indecent assault against the same boy abused by Ahmed.\n\nThough the men did not face a criminal trial, jurors concluded that they did commit the alleged acts after hearing evidence in the case.\n\nBoth men were given absolute discharges after the judge said the only other two options - a hospital order or a supervision order - would not be appropriate in this case.\n\nSarah Champion, Labour MP for Rotherham, paid tribute to the \"courage, bravery and determination of the victims\".\n\nShe said: \"The verdict in this case sends a clear message to offenders: no matter your power or your status, justice will be served, however long it is eluded.\n\n\"The fact Mr Ahmed is able to retain his peerage makes a mockery of our honours system. I urge the government to bring forward legislation to enable his title to be stripped from him.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo men and a 17-year-old girl have been found guilty of murdering a doctor in a homophobic attack in a park in the centre of Cardiff.\n\nLee Strickland, 36, Jason Edwards, 25, and Dionne Timms-Williams killed Dr Gary Jenkins, 54, in Bute Park in July 2021.\n\nAll three had admitted to manslaughter, but were found guilty of murder after a trial at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court.\n\nThey will all be sentenced on 25 March.\n\nFollowing the verdicts, LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall said there will be a vigil for Dr Jenkins on the steps of National Museum Wales in Cardiff on Sunday.\n\nDionne Timms-Williams, from Creigiau, who was 16 at the time of the attack, can be named for the first time after the judge in the case lifted reporting restrictions.\n\nSpeaking after the verdict, Dr Jenkins' family said in a statement: \"Gary was such a kind soul who would never hurt anyone. He was an incredibly generous and creative man who had only good intentions.\"\n\nThey added he was one of \"the most humane, kind, compassionate doctors one could ever come across\".\n\nStrickland and Edwards were on trial with Timms-Williams, who they had met on the evening of the attack\n\nMembers of the jury were told Dr Jenkins had been married and had two daughters but separated from his wife and was openly bisexual when he moved back to his home city of Cardiff about six years ago.\n\nThe prosecution, led by Dafydd Enoch QC, said the attack had been \"motivated by greed, homophobia and straight-up violence\" and that the defendants had been \"in search of vulnerable gay men who were in the park\" to rob.\n\nHe also revealed that a piece of evidence, which had not been put before the jury, was a statement from Strickland's ex-girlfriend saying he had targeted gay men in the park regularly.\n\nWitness Louis Williams said he had seen a man on the floor with three people around him, pulling at his bag and kicking and punching him.\n\nTimms-Williams was interviewed at Cardiff Bay Police Station after her arrest\n\nHe said the three were \"egging each other on, laughing and aggressive\".\n\n\"Their tone was bullying, it was like they were having fun, they think it's funny, it was just enjoyment for them,\" he told police in an interview.\n\nHe told the court he had crouched down and tried to create a barrier around Dr Jenkins, but the three defendants then turned on him.\n\nCCTV footage from around the city played a key role in the prosecution's case, building up a picture of Gary Jenkins' movements before the attack, as well as the defendants'.\n\nIt shows Dr Jenkins spending the afternoon and evening of 19 July in pubs around the city.\n\nHe visited a restaurant in the Canton area, before walking through Sophia Gardens on his way to Bute Park.\n\nThis is where he would come into contact with the three defendants.\n\nCCTV footage shows the moment the three defendants met, with Timms-Williams offered a can of cider by Edwards\n\nCCTV footage shows Timms-Williams being offered a can of cider by Edwards on Queen Street at about 23:00 BST - the first time she had met the other two.\n\nProsecutors also used audio recorded on a security camera at the Summerhouse Cafe in Bute Park, which picked up the sound of the attack, lasting 15 minutes.\n\nDr Jenkins was attacked near the Summerhouse cafe in Bute Park\n\nIn the recording, Dr Jenkins can be heard repeatedly shouting \"leave me alone\" and \"get off me\".\n\nA female voice, identified as Timms-Williams, shouts \"money\" and \"now\", then says: \"Hit him again.\"\n\nA male voice says: \" Stamp on his head. Stamp on his head too.\"\n\nA different male voice adds: \"Oh, let me stamp on him again.\"\n\nDr Jenkins is then heard pleading \"why?\" and \"please, stop it\".\n\nAt the end of the attack, the girl is heard saying: \"Yeah, I needed that.\"\n\nA large area of park was cordoned off after the attack\n\nDr Jenkins was \"deeply unconscious\" when medics arrived at the scene and symptoms suggested he had a severe brain injury.\n\nHe was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff where he remained in intensive care for 16 days before he died.\n\nA post mortem examination gave Dr Jenkins' cause of death as blunt head injury including including subdural haemorrhage, or bleeding on the brain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He was very warn and full of humanity\"\n\nDr Jenkins was a consultant for the NHS for 20 years and had been due to retire.\n\nFollowing the case, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said: \"The level of violence from all three defendants was truly shocking, with the evidence showing they appeared to enjoy the cruelty of what they were doing.\n\n\"Throughout the court process our thoughts have remained with the family and friends of Dr Jenkins, who is so clearly missed.\"\n\nProsecutor Mr Enoch had been criticised for comments made at the start of the trial, which suggested the fact the victim had been in the park for \"sexual contact with like-minded men\" was to be his \"undoing\".\n\nDr Gary Jenkins died 16 days after the attack last July\n\nThe CPS apologised, saying: \"The only people responsible for this horrific crime were those convicted today by the jury. The suggestion that Dr Jenkins was in any way to blame is completely wrong.\n\n\"We apologise for inappropriate and insensitive remarks made during the opening statement.\"\n\nAlso speaking after the verdicts, Det Insp Stuart Wales, of South Wales Police, said: \"The attack upon Dr Jenkins by the three defendants was cowardly and senseless in the extreme.\n\n\"The degree and duration of unnecessary violence inflicted upon him, together with homophobic abuse - all captured on audio, was both sickening and staggering. He did nothing whatsoever to warrant this.\n\n\"Nothing will fill the void in the lives of those who loved Gary and have suffered the heartbreak of losing him in the most devastating circumstances.\"", "Endurance set sail from Grytviken, South Georgia, on 5 December 1914 (Oil painting by George Cummings)\n\nIt is one of the most unreachable shipwrecks in the world.\n\nWe know with good accuracy where Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance vessel ended up after sinking more than 100 years ago. So far, however, all attempts to sight its wooden carcass on the Antarctic seafloor have been defeated.\n\nAlthough it's deep, some 3,000m down, that's not the major difficulty a new expedition to find the ship will face. It's the sea-ice. The cruel, evil sea-ice, as the Anglo-Irish explorer Shackleton came to think of it.\n\nThe frozen floes that squeezed, snapped and then swallowed his polar steam yacht in the Weddell Sea between October and November 1915 smother its grave and protect it from discovery.\n\nEven in this age of satellites and metal icebreakers, locating the Endurance has represented an impossible task.\n\n\"Believe me, it's quite daunting,\" says Mensun Bound, the marine archaeologist who's about to set out on yet another search attempt.\n\n\"The pack ice in the Weddell Sea is constantly on the move in a clockwise direction. It's opening, it's clenching and unclenching. It's a really vicious, lethal environment that we're going into.\"\n\nSo, why bother? Why put yourself forward again for what seems inevitable disappointment?\n\nWell, that's the fascination with Shackleton.\n\nShackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition lasted from 1914 to 1917. It was meant to make the first land crossing of Antarctica, but Endurance became trapped and then lost in that cruel sea-ice. The voyage became widely known for the amazing escape the explorer subsequently made with his men on foot and in boats.\n\nIt's the stuff of legend. That's the appeal.\n\nMensun Bound asks: \"What would it mean to find the Endurance?\"\n\nHe adds: \"This is the greatest shipwreck hunt you can undertake. To locate it - it doesn't get better than that. So, by definition, my life would be downhill afterwards.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shackleton's diary records the day the Endurance went down\n\nThe archaeologist is part of the Endurance22 project. Its hunt for Shackleton's missing ship is organised by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, and departs from Cape Town this weekend.\n\nSearch team members include key figures who came tantalisingly close to finding the wreck in 2019.\n\nOperating from the South African-registered research ship, the Agulhas II, this earlier effort actually managed to get over the sinking location, recorded by Shackleton's skipper and skilled navigator, Frank Worsley, as 68°39'30\" South and 52°26'30\" West.\n\nOnce on site during this previous expedition, they deployed an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to survey the seafloor, but after 20 hours below, the robot dropped communications and that wretched sea-ice then closed in to force the Agulhas II to retreat.\n\nEndurance22 expedition leader, Dr John Shears, says important lessons were learned and the new team goes back with a few tricks, which include the support of helicopters.\n\n\"We'll deploy our search submersible from the aft deck of the Agulhas. But we wanted to have the contingency that if we hit really severe ice conditions and we can't get over the wreck site, then we can fly an 'ice camp' to the search location,\" the veteran polar geographer tells me.\n\n\"We'd put down on the ice and drill through it, and deploy our underwater vehicle that way.\"\n\nThe team has recently been practising its hydraulic drilling technique on specially prepared 3m-thick \"ice cubes\".\n\nEven in the austral summer, the central-western Weddell Sea is covered in sea-ice\n\nThe sub technology is different this time, too.\n\nIn 2019, a Kongsberg Hugin AUV was used. When it ran its sweep of the seafloor, no data on what it was sensing was sent to the surface in real time. As a consequence, when the sub failed, all the mapping information it had collected was also lost.\n\nFor this latest search, the chosen submersible - a Saab Sabertooth - will be tethered via a fibre-optic cable. If the wreck is sighted, the survey will be halted and the process of documentation will immediately begin.\n\n\"The Sabertooth is fitted with long-range side-scan sonar which supplies images of the seabed to you on the topside (on the surface), either on board the ship or in the tent of the ice camp,\" says Nico Vincent, who'll oversee the operation.\n\n\"If a target appears beside the vehicle, we can, at the flick of a switch, interrupt the task plan and fly like a drone to the target to double-check it.\"\n\nThe entire crew survived the ship's loss in the ice\n\nEndurance22 has two Sabertooths that will work around the clock.\n\nThe search area is relatively small: just 8km by 15km (4 by 8 nautical miles). But such was Worsley's genius with a sextant and a chronometer - maritime navigation instruments - there's high confidence in his calculated coordinates.\n\nOne of the big questions concerns the likely state of the wreck. The water is too deep for the remnants to have been bulldozed by a passing Antarctic iceberg.\n\nSediment is building up slowly enough on the wreck that the timbers are probably still standing proud of the seafloor, but they could be spread out over a large distance. And, of course, there's every possibility that Endurance was wrenched wide open on impact with the bed, its contents \"exposed like a box of chocolates\", as Mensun Bound puts it.\n\nThe only known relic from Endurance is this spar (a pole that's part of the ship's rig) at the Scott Polar Research Institute\n\nWhile the type of worms that normally consume sunken wooden ships do not thrive in the cold conditions of the polar south, the Weddell's bottom-waters are almost certainly well oxygenated, which means many other types of organisms could still have colonised the wreck.\n\n\"Anything hard that sticks out above the sediment is fabulous, rare real estate,\" says Dr Michelle Taylor, a deep-sea biologist who took part in the 2019 hunt but is not involved in this latest quest.\n\n\"If you get yourself even just a few centimetres above the sediment into the flow of the current, you're more likely to feed and survive. So, like boulders dropped to the sea-floor by passing icebergs, the Endurance will probably be an oasis for life. It should attract a lot of filter feeders, such as crinoids. And I wouldn't be surprised if we see some anemones and some sea-cucumbers,\" the Essex University scientist told the BBC.\n\nShackleton (L) looks over the broken remains of his ship just before it went to the deep\n\nWhat, though, does it really add to the Shackleton story if we see its sad, shattered hull 100 years after it sank to the deep?\n\nThe drama and heroics were well documented at the time. We have the crew's diaries and there are no mysteries about what happened.\n\nSome polar researchers have told me that the money behind Endurance22 would be better spent on a dedicated science voyage in the Antarctic. It's the \"climate front line\" after all, and there's much we still need to study and learn about what is going to happen to the White Continent in a warming world.\n\nBut the allure of Shackleton is strong.\n\nA few artefacts from the expedition remain, but so much else is at the bottom of the ocean\n\nThere's no doubting there would be considerable curiosity in video of the wreck and the sight of the crewmen's belongings which may be strewn around it.\n\nSomewhere down there is the storekeeper Thomas Orde-Lees' bicycle; the honey jars in which expedition biologist Robert Clark kept his samples; and the rocks geologist James Wordie collected from the bellies of penguins.\n\n\"We may see supplies, or we may see things that connect us with the actual people who over 100 years ago had to abandon this ship, live on the ice and then take brutal small-boat journeys to safety,\" says historian Dan Snow, who will be travelling on the expedition.\n\n\"I hope and think the wreck will have lots of interest, not just for the super-geeks like me but there'll be stuff that will enrich the story for everyone.\"\n\nEven in the age of satellites and metal icebreakers, the Weddell Sea is a notoriously inhospitable place\n\nIf Endurance22 succeeds in finding the lost ship, no artefacts will be pulled up.\n\nThe vessel is a site of historic importance and has been designated as a monument under the international Antarctic Treaty. It mustn't be disturbed.\n\nMensun Bound says the team will instead make a highly detailed 3D scan.\n\n\"There's no point raising something like the Endurance, anyway. What would you do with it? There isn't a museum on Earth that could accept it. The cost of its conservation, preservation and display would be at any museum's throat forever.\"\n\nThe BFI has re-mastered the moving footage of Endurance that was captured by Shackleton's expedition photographer, Frank Hurley. SOUTH (1919) is now in cinemas. Dan Snow will be reporting on the progress of the search through his HistoryHit channels.", "Carr introduced part of his routine as being \"a career ender\"\n\nComedian Jimmy Carr has sparked outrage for a routine about the Holocaust in his latest Netflix stand-up special.\n\nCarr has been described as \"truly disturbing\" for making light of the murders of hundreds of thousands of people from Europe's traveller communities during World War Two.\n\nThe Holocaust Memorial Day Trust said it was \"absolutely appalled\".\n\nNetflix, which has been urged to remove the special, declined to comment. Carr has also not commented.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries said the comments were \"abhorrent and they just shouldn't be on television\".\n\nCarr's programme, titled His Dark Material, was released on the streaming platform on Christmas Day but the clip about the Holocaust came to light more widely when it was shared on social media.\n\nThe comedian, who introduced his show as being \"a career ender\" and warned it contained \"terrible things\", said a \"positive\" of the Holocaust was that thousands of Gypsies were murdered.\n\nThe comments were greeted with applause and laughter from the audience.\n\nBetween 200,000 and 500,000 Roma and Sinti people were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators, according to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.\n\nThe charity's chief executive Olivia Marks-Woldman said: \"We are absolutely appalled at Jimmy Carr's comment about persecution suffered by Roma and Sinti people under Nazi oppression, and horrified that gales of laughter followed his remarks.\n\n\"Hundreds of thousands of Roma and Sinti people suffered prejudice, slave labour, sterilisation and mass murder simply because of their identity - these are not experiences for mockery.\"\n\nMs Dorries suggested the government could legislate to stop comedy people find offensive being shown on streaming platforms. \"We're already looking at future legislation to bring into scope those sort of comments,\" she told the BBC.\n\nAsked about a previous Tweet where she said \"left-wing snowflakes are killing comedy\", Ms Dorries replied: \"Well, that's not comedy.\"\n\nAnti-racism campaign group Hope Not Hate said Carr \"celebrates\" the suffering of the Roma and Sinti people, and called on Netflix to \"take action\".\n\nThe Traveller Movement - a charity supporting the traveller community in the UK - also asked Netflix to remove the one-hour special. It said the segment in question was \"truly disturbing and goes way beyond humour\".\n\nIt added: \"Joking about the genocide of an ethnic minority is not funny.\"\n\nFellow comedian David Baddiel tweeted that Holocaust jokes can be \"cruel and inhumane and mean-spirited and racist\" or they can target oppressors and draw attention to its fundamental evil - saying: \"Clearly, Jimmy Carr's was the former.\"\n\nThe Auschwitz Memorial called for Carr to learn about the Roma and Sinti people deported to the concentration camp, adding on Twitter: \"It's sad to hear words that can fuel prejudice, hurt people & defile memory of their tragedy.\"\n\nSNP MP Martin Docherty-Hughes, who is co-chairman of the House of Commons All Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, wrote on Twitter that he was \"utterly speechless at this disregard for the horror of the holocaust\" and its impact on the Gypsy community of Europe.\n\nHe added: \"A community butchered by the Nazi regime. @NetflixUK care to comment?\"", "Aaron Bell said those making the laws \"needed to follow them to the letter\"\n\nTory MP Aaron Bell, who criticised Boris Johnson in Parliament over lockdown parties, says he has submitted a letter of no confidence in the PM.\n\nMr Bell made an emotional speech in the Commons on Monday.\n\nDuring that, he compared the restrictions on his grandmother's funeral in May 2020 with some of the revelations from Sue Gray's report.\n\nShe investigated 16 separate gatherings, some of which \"should not have been allowed to take place\".\n\nThese include the 20 May 2020 \"bring your own booze\" event in the Downing Street garden, which Mr Johnson has apologised for attending.\n\nPosting on Twitter, Mr Bell, MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, said the \"breach of trust\" over the No 10 rule breaking and how it had been handled made the PM's position \"untenable\".\n\nThe BBC is aware of 17 Conservative MPs who have submitted no confidence letters.\n\nAt least 54 MPs are required to write to Sir Graham Brady to trigger a vote on the PM's leadership of the party.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aaron Bell MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany of those 17 have cited the PM's participation in parties with staff in No 10 during lockdowns as their motivation to challenge Mr Johnson.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has also launched an investigation into 12 of the parties and a full report by Ms Gray is expected to be published afterwards.\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman denied he had lost control of Downing Street after a string of close aids quit their jobs.\n\nOn Monday Aaron Bell asked the Prime Minister if he had been a \"fool\" for following the rules when attending his grandmother's funeral during the first Covid lockdown.\n\nHis anger at the prime minister was clear for all to see, and so today's letter cannot be too much of a surprise. Indeed talking to him privately over the last few weeks he's been on the cusp of this many times.\n\nWhat's important to remember, I think, is that Aaron Bell is not one of the old guard, he's not a disgruntled former minister who held his nose when Boris Johnson was elected leader.\n\nThe Newcastle-under-Lyme MP supported Brexit, backed Boris, and won in a red wall seat in 2019.\n\nWhilst not everyone in his local party agrees - indeed some of his nearest neighbours in Stoke-on-Trent are some of the PM's staunchest supporters - it is significant that after taking soundings from his local association and knocking on doors in the constituency this morning he felt the time was now right to go public.\n\nMr Bell said he had made the decision to submit the letter to Sir Graham after speaking to local councillors and council candidates.\n\n\"As someone who backed Brexit and backed Boris Johnson for the leadership in 2019, I am profoundly disappointed that it has come to this,\" he said.\n\nAddressing Mr Johnson in the House of Commons earlier this week Mr Bell asked Boris Johnson if he \"took him for a fool\" for abiding by lockdown rules during his grandmother's funeral.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aaron Bell, who has now submitted a no confidence letter in Boris Johnson, asked the PM on Monday if he considered him a \"fool\".\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Mr Bell said he wanted to register his \"disgust\" at what had been going on at No 10.\n\n\"The reason I didn't go to my nan's house for a cup of tea after was because I felt that those of us who voted for those laws needed to follow them to the letter.\"\n\nHe added he \"was standing up for people, people who had much worse experiences\" and because \"the people who make the rules aren't obeying them\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "NHS Highland has contacted a small number of patients who had blood samples processed at Raigmore in Inverness\n\nNHS Highland is seeking a patient who may not be aware they are HIV-positive.\n\nThe health board has contacted a small number of patients who had blood samples processed at Inverness' Raigmore Hospital early last year.\n\nA positive HIV result was identified during routine processing of a blood sample.\n\nNHS Highland said further work revealed that the sample was possibly contaminated by another person's sample in a laboratory.\n\nThe health board said it had not yet been possible to identify the source of the positive HIV result, adding that it believed there was a patient with undiagnosed HIV infection and who could be offered treatment and support.\n\nNHS Highland said it \"sincerely apologised for any stress and anxiety this may cause to individual patients and the wider community\".\n\nMedical director Dr Boyd Peters said: \"We are offering an HIV test to patients who had blood samples tested in the laboratory during a similar timeframe via a patient notification exercise.\"Letters have been sent to those individuals included within the exercise to provide them with specific advice and to offer HIV testing.\n\n\"Testing for HIV involves a blood test which is provided free of charge with results available within a couple of days.\"\n\nDr Peters said a dedicated team of health advisors would provide practical support, guidance and advice to everyone involved in this process.\n\nNHS Highland said was estimated that there were about 500 people living in Scotland who were unaware they had the infection.\n\nIt said it would encourage anyone who had any concerns about their HIV status to take part in free HIV testing, and added that more information was available on the Highland Sexual Health website.\n• None 'My HIV got my daughter kicked out of school'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Multiple oil transport and storage companies across Europe are dealing with cyber-attacks.\n\nIT systems have been disrupted at Oiltanking in Germany, SEA-Invest in Belgium and Evos in the Netherlands.\n\nIn total dozens of terminals with oil storage and transport around the world have been affected, with firms reporting that the attacks occurred over the weekend.\n\nBut experts caution against assuming this is a co-ordinated attack.\n\nThe BBC understands that all three companies' IT systems went down or were severely disrupted.\n\nBelgian prosecutors say they are investigating the cyber-attack that's affected SEA-Invest terminals including the company's largest in Antwerp, called SEA-Tank.\n\nA spokeswoman for the company said they were hit on Sunday with every port they run in Europe and Africa affected.\n\nThe company is working to get a back-up IT system online but says that most liquid transportation is operational.\n\nThe spokeswoman said SEA-Invest is aware of the cyber-attacks against other companies but investigations have not determined if there is a link.\n\nA spokesperson for Evos in the Netherlands told the BBC that IT services at terminals in Terneuzen, Ghent and Malta have \"caused some delays in execution\".\n\nOn Monday Oiltanking Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, which stores and transports oil, vehicle fuels and other petroleum products, said it had been hacked.\n\nThe company was forced to operate at a \"limited capacity\" and was investigating the incident, it said.\n\nSome reports suggest the attack on Oiltanking is ransomware, where hackers scramble data and make computer systems inoperable until they get paid a ransom.\n\nIn May last year a ransomware attack on US oil supplier Colonial Pipeline saw supplies tighten across the US and multiple states declaring an emergency.\n\nThe Colonial Pipeline in the US was hacked in May 2021\n\nAn employee of a major barging company in the Netherlands told the BBC that port supply chains were disrupted.\n\nThe worker said they first noticed problems on Tuesday when oil deliveries started slowing down. He said \"things are moving but much slower than normal\".\n\nThe disruption comes as tensions remain high between Ukraine and Russia and as concern over rising energy prices grows.\n\nBut cyber-security experts caution against jumping to the conclusion that the multiple incidents are the result of a co-ordinated effort to disrupt the European energy sector.\n\n\"Some types of malware scoop up emails and contact lists and use them to automatically spam malicious attachments or links, so companies with shared connections can sometimes be hit in quick succession,\" said Brett Callow, Threat Analyst at cyber-security company Emsisoft.\n\n\"This is why you sometimes see sector-based or geographic-based clusters of incidents.\"\n\nAnother possible explanation could be that all the companies use the same software for operations that may have been compromised by hackers.", "Michael Avenatti outside the courthouse in December\n\nA federal jury in New York has found celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti guilty of defrauding his former client, the adult film star Stormy Daniels.\n\nAvenatti, 50, represented Ms Daniels in lawsuits against then-president Donald Trump after she went public with allegations of an affair between them.\n\nOn Friday, jurors found him guilty of stealing nearly $300,000 (£225,000) from Ms Daniels.\n\nHe now faces up to 22 years in federal prison.\n\nIt marks the second time Avenatti has been convicted in federal court, a humbling fall from grace for a man once rumoured to be considering a 2020 presidential run.\n\nThe California lawyer became a familiar face on cable news and social media after he leveraged his representation of Ms Daniels into a platform as a top Trump critic.\n\nMs Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was paid $130,000 days before the presidential election by Mr Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, in order to keep quiet.\n\nAvenatti represented her in her successful bid to throw out the non-disclosure agreement and helped negotiate an $800,000 (£591,000) advance for her 2018 book Full Disclosure.\n\nBut prosecutors showed that, unbeknownst to Ms Daniels, he forged her signature on the publishing contracts and directed almost $300,000 (£225,000) from her literary agent into his coffers.\n\nAvenatti fired his court-appointed attorneys in the case and chose to represent himself.\n\nIn dramatic testimony last week, Ms Daniels faced off against him on the witness stand, saying: \"He lied to me and stole from me\".\n\nHe was found guilty of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.\n\nPreviously, Avenatti served time in prison over an attempt to extort $25m from Nike, but was released early due to the Covid-19 pandemic.", "This mock-up image shows how someone with red/green colour deficiency may see the kits, although levels of deficiency vary\n\n\"They should be doing it for the fans. I don't see why it would make a difference what colour they wear.\"\n\nJimmy Griffin, 23, who is colour blind, is frustrated by Wales and Ireland's decision to play in their traditional jerseys in Saturday's Six Nations game, despite guidance aimed at avoiding kit clashes.\n\nHe said a kit change would make a big difference to colour-blind people.\n\nThe Welsh and Irish rugby unions said they were committed to being inclusive.\n\nRed and green kits can be hard to tell apart for some of the one in 12 men and one in 200 women worldwide who are colour blind.\n\nWorld Rugby has proposed new laws to help people affected by Colour Vision Deficiency (CVD), meaning teams may have to change kit from 2027 in the event of a colour clash.\n\nIt also published new guidelines in October to help colour-blind fans and players, but a kit change is not yet a requirement.\n\nMr Griffin, from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, is a big Wales and Scarlets fan and said he recognised most of the players by their faces.\n\nJimmy Griffin, who is affected by Colour Vision Deficiency, says kit clashes can make the game hard to follow\n\n\"But if there is a kick for touch it can be hard to identify who is where on the pitch. And it can be difficult when there is a new player on the team,\" he added.\n\n\"It can be hard to see what team they are playing for when they are in the ruck or in a maul.\"\n\nMr Griffin said it would be worse for people who did not follow the game as closely as him.\n\n\"Every year our social media feeds are full of angry colour-blind fans unable to follow the Ireland v Wales Six Nations game,\" said Kathryn Albany-Ward, founder of Colour Blind Awareness.\n\n\"We're bracing ourselves for an avalanche of complaints this year.\"\n\nThis mock-up image shows how colour blindness can affect what you see, but this level varies for each individual\n\nA Welsh Rugby Union spokesman said: \"Our plan is to grow, develop and enhance the offer of rugby union in Wales by modifying the traditional approach and ensuring we are inclusive and engaging to all people and communities.\n\n\"In terms of our current national kit offering… with our partners Macron… the next cycle of the design process for future kits will begin soon and we would hope to be able to fully assess these recent comments from World Rugby within that timeframe.\"\n\nThe Irish Rugby Union said it was \"committed to inclusivity\", adding: \"We work in two-year kit cycles and have just entered a new two-year cycle so we will use this time to gather more information on this matter from World Rugby.\"", "When patients arrive at hospital by ambulance they should be handed over within 15 minutes. This data shows the proportion of ambulance patients who waited 30 minutes or more, in the week shown. It comes from daily situation reports which are published weekly during the winter in England. As this is fast-turnaround data, the NHS says only minimal validation can be carried out but it is considered fit for purpose.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland do not publish ambulance queue data.\n\nPatients at A&E should be seen within four hours of arrival. This data shows the proportion of patients attending A&E who waited longer than four hours to be treated, discharged or admitted.\n\nThis data is published monthly for England and Wales and weekly for Scotland. Northern Ireland publishes its data quarterly and Winter 2021 is not yet available.\n\nIf a patient at A&E needs to be admitted, the wait from decision to admit to being given a bed on a ward is recorded in England. The bed waits figure is the proportion of patients admitted via A&E who waited longer than four hours for a ward bed.\n\nIn Wales, bed wait data is not published, so the figure shown is the occupancy level in general and acute beds. Scotland and Northern Ireland do not publish bed wait or bed occupancy data.\n\nData for England is show by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities.\n\nWhen you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board.\n\nComparative data from two years ago is shown where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Bed occupancy data in Wales only goes back to April 2020.", "The FBU says mixed messages about fire safety and ventilation increased fire risks in schools and homes\n\nFirefighters have called for the Scottish government to resolve concerns over school safety following reports that classroom doors could be trimmed.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has requested immediate talks to address \"mixed messaging\" around fire safety and the ventilation required to reduce coronavirus risks.\n\nCouncils have a new fund to improve classroom airflow to slow Covid spread.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said cutting the bottom off some doors was \"common sense\".\n\nThe first minister said councils would have the option to act if doors were \"inhibiting the natural flow of air\", and said health and safety would be considered in all decisions.\n\nCouncils have been given £4.3m of funding to improve air flow in about 2,000 classrooms to slow the spread of Covid.\n\nAs well as installing filters and fans, £300,000 was earmarked to \"undercut\" doors to improve airflow.\n\nBut concerns have been raised about the impact such a move could have on fire safety.\n\nThe FBU said the Scottish government needed to \"convene immediate multi-agency talks to try to find a solution to fire safety concerns in schools and the home\".\n\nThe union also wants clarity over legislation on interlinked fire alarms in the home, which came into law in Scotland on 1 February.\n\nScotland regional secretary Ian Sim said: \"At the moment there is too much uncertainty and mixed messaging over these two very important fire safety issues, in particular, the potential fire risk that comes from undercutting doors.\n\n\"We need clarity and certainty over these plans and the Scottish government must now convene immediate multi-agency talks to establish the safest way forward.\"\n\n\"The safety of school students and staff, our members and the general public is paramount,\" he added.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Our guidance already makes clear that when implementing any Covid safety measures, local authorities must continue to adhere to legal obligations with regard to health and safety, which include having fire and safety discussions with relevant authorities.\"\n\nHe added that interlinked fire alarms now required in homes would \"save more lives\".\n\nVentilation has become a key measure in efforts to reduce the spread of Covid-19, particularly in enclosed spaces like classrooms.\n\nThere have been concerns that schools are still relying on open windows rather than air filtration units, despite cold weather.\n\nEducation Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville has said the action taken to improve air flow in each school would vary, being \"informed by local circumstances and expert assessment by local authority teams\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon told Holyrood natural flow of air in a room should be maximised\n\nAt First Minister's Questions in Holyrood on Thursday, Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross told Nicola Sturgeon that the prospect of cutting classroom doors had been met with derision.\n\nThe first minister told him the government was not asking every school to chop the bottom off all doors.\n\nHowever, the option to do so was being provided for by government funding, subject to the health and safely checks required for all changes in school buildings.\n\nShe said: \"When you're trying to improve ventilation in a room, that can partly be about air filtration, partly that is about mechanical ventilation systems, and partly it's about taking measures to ensure that the natural flow of air in a room is maximised.\n\n\"If you have doors or windows that are not enabling that natural flow of air in the way you would want it to, it strikes me as basic common sense that you would take measures to rectify that.\"", "Pope Francis has appointed a new Archbishop of Glasgow following the death of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia.\n\nBishop William Nolan, the Bishop of Galloway, shares the Pope's focus on concerns for social justice.\n\nArchbishop Philip Tartaglia died after testing positive for coronavirus in 2021 after nine years as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community.\n\nBishop Nolan said he looked forward to the \"challenges that lie ahead\" after the \"initial shock\" of the appointment.\n\nThe 68-year-old bishop is from Lanarkshire, where he was educated before receiving his religious training in Aberdeenshire and Rome.\n\nHe served in several Scottish parishes before becoming the Bishop of Galloway in 2015 and is president of Justice and Peace Scotland, which advises the church on issues such as social justice, human rights, and climate change.\n\n\"I feel overwhelmed by the trust Pope Francis is putting in me by appointing me as Archbishop of Glasgow,\" he said, adding that it would be a \"wrench\" to leave Galloway Diocese.\n\n\"As I overcome my initial shock at being appointed archbishop my thoughts now turn to the challenges that lie ahead. I look forward to working with everyone in the archdiocese, laity and clergy, to carry out the mission that we share of proclaiming God's good news and of bringing the joy of the gospel into the lives of the people of today.\"\n\nThe head of Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund, where Bishop Nolan serves on the board, welcomed the news.\n\n\"We deeply appreciate his presence on SCIAF's board and his commitment to social justice,\" he said. \"SCIAF has benefited greatly from his leadership, most recently his contributions throughout COP26.\"\n\nHugh Bradly, who has been administrator of Glasgow Archdiocese since the death of Archbishop Tartaglia, said he was \"delighted\" with the appointment.\n\n\"I offer him a warm welcome to the Archdiocese of Glasgow and a promise of prayers on behalf of all the clergy, religious and laity,\" he said.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had been self-isolating at home after contracting coronavirus\n\nThe Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, died suddenly at his home in the city on 13 January last year - the Feast of St Mungo, the Patron Saint of Glasgow.\n\nHe had been self-isolating after testing positive for Covid shortly after Christmas.\n\nBorn in Glasgow in 1951, he was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute were First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, who described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 28 January and 4 February.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nPeter Ribbeck took this spectacular shot facing the storm on the Cobbler in Argyll and Bute.\n\nDora Paal sent us this photo of the Commando memorial in Spean Bridge with the Plough in the background.\n\nRichard Paton said: \"I took this photograph of a female kestrel on a thorny hedge in the countryside, half a mile from the village of St Madoes.\"\n\nIain Donnachie took this shot of a female kingfisher near Kircudbright.\n\nWilliam Bark took this dramatic photo of a brave canoeist going over the waterfall in Linn Park, Glasgow.\n\nIan Barr sent us this picture of the Clydebank waterfront sunset, saying: \"I used the the concrete plinth from the remains of John Brown's Shipyard as a focal point.\"\n\nAlana Willox captured this shot at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire during Storm Corrie.\n\nMeanwhile, David Morrish took this picture of snapped trees in the grounds of Crathes Castle, near Banchory, following the storm.\n\nMartyn Powell said: \"Taken near Kinbrace in the Highlands. I think he was stalking me.\"\n\nEmma Brockway sent in this photo of \"beach fun before a sunrise swim in Aberdeen.\"\n\nRod McLean sent us this picture of daughter Daisy on Lundie Craigs in the Sidlaw range between Dundee and Coupar Angus.\n\nDavid Henderson submitted this photo of Irish Terrier Rowan, \"enjoying the full hair-dryer treatment from Storm Malik on Cramond Beach, in Edinburgh.\"\n\nKaren Burgoyne braved a cold and early start to capture this scene on the Don Estuary, Aberdeen.\n\nAlan Affleck captured \"the quiet between the storms\" in this photo taken in Dunbar.\n\nSandy McGrattan said: \"I captured this on a visit to the Black Isle while in Inverness working with Scottish Ballet. A caption that came to mind is \"Who's looking at Ewe!\"\"\n\nAlex Mullen said: \"A wonderful pre-dawn run basked in the glow from the local street lighting on the townside path at Craigmaddie Reservoir, Milngavie.\"\n\nAdam Mitchell took this photo of mandarin ducks in Loch Lomond.\n\nFiona Borland from Ayr sent us this photo on a \"day of brilliant sunshine on the coastal walk from Garlieston to Cruggleton Castle\".\n\nKatrina McCracken took this dramatic shot in Ayrshire during the stormy weather.\n\nBobby Hughes from Barrhead said: \"A nice visit to see the beautiful Glasgow Uni lit up at night.\"\n\nJo Bicheno from Dunblane said: \"We were lucky to spot these two roe deer while walking near Carsebreck Loch Auchterarder.\"\n\nJohn Brady took this photo on a trip to Glencoe.\n\nJohn Dyer took this photo of \"old reflected on new\" in Glasgow.\n\nLesley Russell said: \"I took the photo near Ballater in the Cairngorms National Park, what a lovely place is Scotland!\"\n\nMirren Galbraith took this picture of a dramatic sky over St Andrews.\n\nCharlie Scott from New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire asks: \"Is this a water sprite in the sea at Fraserburgh?\"\n\nJacki Gordon sent in one of her miniature creations to mark Chinese New Year, the Year of the Tiger.\n\nLoreena Price captured this photo of a swan in flight at Pitfour Lake, Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire.\n\nMegan Mackie said: \"I thought the nation would enjoy this photo of Bunty the border terrier helping with the clean-up operation in Edzell after the devastation caused by Storm Corrie.\"\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Logan was found dead in the River Ogmore on 31 July\n\nA mother has pleaded not guilty to the murder of her five-year-old son who was found dead in a river last July.\n\nAngharad Williamson, of Sarn, Bridgend county, denied murdering Logan Mwangi, also known as Logan Williamson, at a hearing in Cardiff Crown Court.\n\nLogan's step-father, John Cole, 39, also appeared and denied allowing or causing the death of a child.\n\nMs Williamson, 30, also denied that charge, as well as perverting the course of justice.\n\nMr Cole, also from Sarn, admitted perverting the course of justice at a previous hearing, but denied murder.\n\nAngharad Williamson and John Cole have both been charged with Logan Mwangi's murder\n\nLogan's body was found in the River Ogmore in Bridgend county on 31 July 2021.\n\nA teenage boy, who cannot be identified due to his age, previously pleaded not guilty to Logan's murder and perverting the course of justice.\n\nHe appeared at the pre-trial hearing via video link.\n\nJudge Dame Nerys Jefford said the trial would begin on 14 February and was expected to last for about six weeks.", "Trips to virtual worlds are not always pleasant for women trying them out for the first time\n\nMeta has announced a new feature to allow more personal space for people's avatars in virtual-reality worlds.\n\nThe metaverse is still at concept stage but the latest attempts to create virtual worlds are already facing an age-old problem: harassment.\n\nBloomberg's technology columnist Parmy Olson told the BBC's Tech Tent programme about her own \"creepy\" experiences.\n\nAnd one woman likened her own traumatic experience in VR to sexual abuse.\n\nMeta has now announced a new feature, Personal Boundary, which begins rolling out on 4 February. It prevents avatars from coming within a set distance of each other, creating more personal space for people and making it easier to avoid these unwanted interactions.\n\nIt stops others \"invading your avatar's personal space\", said Meta.\n\n\"If someone tries to enter your Personal Boundary, the system will halt their forward movement as they reach the boundary.\"\n\nIt is being made available in Meta's Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues software.\n\nThe firm said it was a \"powerful example of how VR has the potential to help people interact comfortably,\" but acknowledged there was more work to be done.\n\nFor some, the news will be welcome.\n\n\"I did have some moments when it was awkward for me as a woman,\" Ms Olson said of her interactions in virtual reality (VR).\n\nShe was visiting Meta's Horizon Worlds, its virtual-reality platform where anyone 18 or older can create an avatar and hang out.\n\nTo do so, users need one of Meta's VR headsets, and the space offers the chance to play games and chat to other avatars, none of whom has legs.\n\n\"I could see straight away I was the only woman, the only female avatar. And I had these men kind of come around me and stare at me silently,\" Ms Olson told Tech Tent.\n\n\"Then they started taking pictures of me and giving the pictures to me and I had a moment when a guy zoomed up to me and said something.\n\n\"And in virtual reality, if someone is close to you, then the voice sounds like someone is literally talking into your ear. And it took me aback.\"\n\n\"I was talking to another lady and within minutes of us chatting a guy came up and started chatting to us and following us around saying inappropriate things and we had to block him,\" she said.\n\n\"I have since heard of other women who have had similar experiences.\"\n\nShe said while she wouldn't describe it as harassment, it was \"creepy and awkward\".\n\nNina Jane Patel went a lot further this week when she told the Daily Mail that she was abused in Horizon Venues, likening it to sexual assault. She described how a group of male avatars \"groped her\" and subjected her to a stream of sexual innuendo. They photographed her and sent a message reading: \"Don't pretend you didn't love it.\"\n\nMeta responded to the paper saying that it was sorry. \"We want everyone to have a positive experience and easily find the safety tools that can help in a situation like this - and help us investigate and take action.\"\n\nMeta's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, says there may have to be a trade-off between privacy and safety in virtual spaces\n\nModerating content in the nascent metaverse is going to be challenging, and Meta's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, admitted that it would offer both \"greater opportunities and greater threats\".\n\n\"It could feel a lot more real to me, if you were being abusive towards me because it feels a lot more like physical space,\" he said in an interview with the BBC late last year.\n\nBut he said people in virtual roles would have \"a great deal more power\" over their environments.\n\n\"If I were to mute you, you would cease to exist for me and your ability to do harm to me is immediately nullified.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnd he questioned whether people would want the kind of moderation that exists on platforms such as Facebook when having chats in virtual reality.\n\n\"Do you really want the system or a person standing by listening in? Probably not\"\n\n\"So I think we have a privacy trade-off - if you want to have a high degree of content, safety or what we would call integrity, well that trades off against privacy.\"\n\nAnd in Meta's vision of the metaverse, where different rooms are run by different companies, the trade-off gets even more complex as people move out of the Meta-controlled virtual world into others.\n\n\"I can give no guarantees about either the privacy, nor the integrity of that conversation,\" he said.\n\nThe rules in the Metaverse will be very different from those governing current online spaces\n\nMs Olson agreed that it was going to be \"a very difficult thing for Facebook, Microsoft and others to take care of\".\n\n\"When you are scanning text for hate speech, it's hard but doable - you can use machine-learning algorithms.\n\n\"To process visual information about an avatar or how close one is to another, that is going to be so expensive computationally, that is going to take up so much computer power, I don't know what technology can do that.\"\n\nFacebook is investing $10bn in its metaverse plans and part of that will need to go on building new ways of moderating content.\n\n\"We have learned a tremendous amount in the last 15 years of online discourse... so we're going to bring all that knowledge with us to do the best that we can to build these things from the ground up, to give people a lot of control over their own experience,\" Mr Bosworth told the BBC.\n\nMeta's legless avatars can have all sorts of experiences - private or communal - in the metaverse\n\nDr Beth Singler, an anthropologist at Cambridge University, who has studied the ethics of virtual worlds, said: \"Facebook has already failed to learn about what is happening in online spaces. Yes, they have changed some of their policies but there is still material out there that shouldn't be.\"\n\nThere is more to learn from gaming, she thinks, where the likes of Second Life and World of Warcraft have offered virtual worlds for years, limiting who avatars can talk to and the names they can choose for them.\n\nMeta's decision to use legless avatars may also be deliberate, she thinks - most likely a technical one about the lack of sensors for legs, but it could also be a way to limit \"below the belt\" issues that might arise from having a fully physical presence.\n\nBut having strict rules around what avatars can look like may bring its own problems for those \"trying to express a certain identity,\" she added.\n• None Zuckerberg wants Facebook to become online 'metaverse'", "There is \"no doubt\" longer waiting lists put cancer patients at risk, the head of services in Wales has said.\n\nMore patients with advanced cancer are coming to the NHS as emergency cases according to Prof Tom Crosby. He said they are waiting longer than ever and waiting time targets were often missed.\n\nNow Prof Crosby wants more staff and separate diagnostic and treatment hubs to deal with the backlog.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"investing heavily\" in cancer services.\n\nProf Crosby said there were about 4,500 fewer diagnoses than expected at the start of the Covid pandemic.\n\nIn the past six months he said this had changed, and was seeing more patients than ever.\n\nHe said he feared there was more demand on the system than it could cope with.\n\nIn November, 1,762 newly diagnosed cancer patients began their first treatment.\n\nThis is the highest number since comparable data was first collected in June 2019.\n\nJust 57.9% began treatment within 62 days, the second lowest percentage since 2019. The target is 75%.\n\nCathy Snape has been diagnosed with incurable cancer\n\n\"I felt terribly alone. I went for an MRI on my own and was frightened to death.\"\n\nFor most of her cancer appointments, Cathy Snape, from Anglesey, was by herself because of Covid restrictions.\n\n\"The staff were lovely, but no-one understands you better than the people that love you,\" she said.\n\nWhen she was handed medication at her first chemotherapy appointment she said she could not take in the information.\n\n\"I was staring at this one fellow who looked really, really poorly and I came out and I just cried,\" Ms Snape said.\n\nIn January last year the 56-year-old noticed she often felt tired and short of breath.\n\nThen she found a large, hard lump in her armpit.\n\nShe saw her GP the same day and was referred for a biopsy.\n\nThis was followed by ultrasound, MRI and CT scans.\n\nThey showed she had stage four secondary breast cancer and numerous lesions on her liver.\n\nAlthough Ms Snape's cancer can be treated, at this stage it cannot be cured\n\n\"It was a shock,\" she said.\n\n\"You think all cancers are treatable. Mine is treatable - but I'm incurable, so I will have to keep taking the medication until it doesn't work.\"\n\nWithin two months of her diagnosis, she and partner Sean got married.\n\n\"I was starting my chemo and I didn't want to be bald when I got married,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't know how long I was going to live, or if I was going to be really, really sick.\n\n\"I didn't want it to interfere at all in the day. So it didn't. I didn't think about my hair thinning or anything like that - it was just a wonderful day.\"\n\nA year on from her diagnosis Ms Snape is still processing it all.\n\n\"I try not to think about the future too much,\" she said.\n\n\"I get upset about things that I might not experience, especially with my daughter, who is only 18.\n\n\"We had so much we were going to do.\n\nOn Friday the Welsh government announced £11m for a breast cancer unit in Ystrad Mynach, Caerphilly.\n\nStaff from Aneurin Bevan University Health Board's Nevill Hall and Royal Gwent hospitals will be brought together at Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr.\n\n\"Demand for services was rising at about 10% a year before the pandemic,\" Prof Crosby said.\n\n\"Now because of reduced capacity and infection control measures, patients are inevitably waiting longer.\"\n\nWhile 66.6% of patients in Betsi Cadwalladr University Health Board started treatment in 62 days, in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, the figure was as low as 45.3%.\n\n\"There is significant and unacceptable variation between different cancer sites,\" said Prof Crosby.\n\nTreatment times can differ depending on the kind of cancer as well.\n\nProf Tom Crosby fears it could take years until there is a sufficient cancer care workforce in Wales\n\nHe said: \"Some of the workforce just don't exist at the moment.\"\n\nIt could take years to develop a fit-for-purpose cancer service workforce in Wales, Prof Crosby feared.\n\n\"Funding needs to be made on a recurrent basis and linked to a redesign of the system,\" he said.\n\nWales Macmillan chief, Richard Pugh, called for an 80% increase in Wales' cancer nurses by the end of the decade. This could cost £12m.\n\nHe said: \"If we don't resolve this issue, we're going to see the continuation of this over a prolonged period of time.\n\n\"We'll see worse outcomes for patients, poor patient experience and also the impact on their loved ones.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it had published plans to help NHS services recover after Covid that would be backed by almost £250million.\n\nThese plans would include funding for cancer care.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We will continue to focus on cancer services and providing the resources necessary to give people the cancer care that they deserve, including significant increases in the number of training places for doctors who specialise in cancer and diagnostic care, while continuing to grow the nursing workforce.\"", "Canada's prime minister has said sending in troops to clear protesters from the nation's capital is \"not in the cards right now\".\n\nThe city's police chief had earlier refused to rule out military intervention to remove demonstrators.\n\nThousands arrived in the city last weekend to protest vaccine mandates, gridlocking downtown Ottawa.\n\nPolice Chief Peter Sloly warned that protests could grow again this weekend.\n\n\"There may not be a policing solution\" to resolve the impasse, he said on Wednesday.\n\nThough many protesters have left over the course of the week, some 250 remain who are \"a highly determined and highly volatile group of unlawful individuals\", Chief Sloly has said.\n\nOn Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that his government had received no formal request for military assistance to remove this core group of protesters who have been camped out in and around parliament.\n\n\"One has to be very, very cautious before deploying military in situations engaging Canadians,\" he added, saying it's not something to \"enter into lightly\".\n\nMr Trudeau has told the protesters to \"go home\" - a sentiment echoed by city officials. The prime minister has refused to meet the truckers.\n\nOttawa residents have also expressed frustration over the demonstrations, complaining of constant noise, an impact on local businesses and public services, and unruly and aggressive behaviour.\n\nPolice have begun ticketing protesters, writing 30 traffic tickets for infractions like excessive noise for horn honking and disobeying street signs.\n\nOn Thursday, protesters were seen building a wooden structure in Ottawa, and gathering supplies of fuel such as propane.\n\nOrganisers representing the so-called Freedom Convoy said they don't plan to remain in Ottawa \"one day longer than necessary\", but that their departure is conditional on all Covid-19 mandates being lifted nationwide.\n\n\"We are here out of love for our families, our communities and our nation,\" said organiser Tamara Lich during a press conference on Thursday.\n\n\"These past two years, the Covid mandates have divided us,\" she added, saying that the \"movement\" grew because \"common people are tired of the mandates and restrictions in their lives that now seem to be doing more harm than good\".\n\nA fundraiser in support of the rally that had raised over C$10m ($7.9m; £5.8m) - with about C$1m released so far to organisers - was recently paused for review by GoFundMe.\n\nA lawyer working with convoy organisers said they welcome the \"heightened diligence\" by the online fundraiser and are currently refining the process for truckers and others who have been involved in the protest to be reimbursed for their costs.\n\nGoFundMe will also be called to testify before a parliamentary committee to explain safeguards put in place around donations and spending related to the convoy fundraiser.\n\nIn the province of Alberta, a second anti-vaccine mandate blockade continues to disrupt the flow of traffic across the border.\n\nThe Freedom Convoy began in response to a federal vaccine mandate imposed by the Canadian government on 15 January that requires unvaccinated truckers returning from across the US border to quarantine.\n\nBut it has spurred wider calls for a repeal of other Covid-19 restrictions supporters view as government overreach.", "Is it out with the old and in with the new at No 10?\n\nAnd the string of departures will be said, by his supporters, to show he is shaking things up. That was the promise the prime minister made, after all, to a packed room of Tory MPs on Monday. But there are considerable doubts that this is part of some kind of masterplan to overhaul Number 10. For one thing, Munira Mirza’s resignation was because of her personal unhappiness at the PM's behaviour rather than part of any obvious revamp. Given she was also such a long-standing ally, it’s been seen as a body blow to Johnson. Then there’s her replacement as head of policy, Andrew Griffith. A choice which has been described to me as a \"desperate\" by one Tory MP and \"bizarre\" by another. This is partly because Griffith's prior job was that of a parliamentary aide to… Boris Johnson. Therefore, the rationale goes, he is not best-placed to help the PM hit refresh and see things with new eyes. One Conservative MP wearily remarked that it seemed so far to be a case of \"Boris's old mates being replaced by some of Boris's slightly newer mates\".", "The UK needs to create a new motoring tax to plug the revenue gap as drivers switch to electric cars, MPs have said.\n\nThe government should tax motorists based on miles travelled as the use of petrol and diesel vehicles decreases, the Transport Select Committee said.\n\nIf no action is taken this year, the UK faces a £35bn \"black hole\" in its finances, they said.\n\nThe Treasury said tax revenues would keep pace with changes prompted by electric vehicle take-up.\n\nSales of new petrol and diesel cars and vans will be banned in the UK from 2030 and sales of electric cars are already soaring.\n\nTaken together, vehicle excise duty - better known as \"car tax\" - and fuel duty that motorists pay at the pump, raise around £35bn a year, but neither tax is levied on pure electric vehicles.\n\nThe committee warned there is likely to be no revenue from existing tax sources by 2040.\n\nThe MPs said charging people based on how much they drive, using technology to track cars' movements, should be considered.\n\nSuch a scheme could factor in the type of vehicle and congestion, and support vulnerable groups such as those with mobility issues, and people in remote areas, the committee said.\n\nMotorists should pay \"the same or less\" than they do currently, the MPs said.\n\nRoad pricing is not a new idea. But it has previously proved an unpopular one in the UK.\n\nMotoring groups believe many drivers do now support the principle of paying more tax the more you drive.\n\nBut public opinion is not the only factor - there are many outstanding questions.\n\nIf road pricing did come in, what exact technology would be used, who would provide it, and what reassurances could be offered over privacy, given the amount of data captured?\n\nHow could it work alongside the local schemes already in place, such as city congestion charges?\n\nAnd when would be the right time? Too early and it might put people off buying electric cars.\n\nToo late and cheaper driving could lead to more congestion, and electric car drivers who've grown used to not being taxed may not react positively to the belated introduction of a charge.\n\nHuw Merriman, the chair of the Transport Committee, said that unless the government acts now the \"loss of two major sources of motor taxation will leave a £35bn black hole\" in government finances.\n\n\"That's 4% of the entire tax-take, \" he said. \"Only £7bn of this goes back to the roads. Schools and hospitals could be [hit] if motorists don't continue to pay.\"\n\nHe said using road pricing technology could help ease congestion.\n\n\"By using price as a lever, we can offer better prices at less congested times and have technology compare these directly to public transport alternatives,\" he said, adding: \"Net-zero emissions should not mean zero tax revenue.\"\n\nThe committee called for the Treasury and the Department for Transport to set up an arms length body to look at future motoring taxation.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"The government has committed to ensuring that motoring tax revenues keep pace with the changes brought about by the switch to electric vehicles, whilst keeping the transition affordable for consumers.\n\n\"We will respond to the committee's recommendations in full in due course.\"\n\nFigures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show battery electric vehicles accounted for more than one in ten new cars registered in the UK last year.\n\nRAC Foundation director Steve Gooding said the \"silver lining of zero-carbon motoring comes wrapped in a cloud of trouble for the chancellor as his fuel duty income dries up\".\n\n\"Forget 2050, our analysis shows that fuel duty revenue from cars alone could be down by £5bn a year as soon as 2028 because of accelerating sales of battery-powered cars,\" he said.\n\n\"Drivers choosing to go electric deserve to know what is coming next - particularly if the promise of cheap per-mile running costs is set to be undermined by a future tax change.\n\nHe added that the Treasury needed to act promptly or risk \"a furious backlash from drivers who made the choice to go electric expecting to save money\".\n\nSilviya Barrett, head of policy at the Campaign for Better Transport, said: \"Road pricing, based on distance travelled and how polluting a vehicle is, can be a fairer system for everyone.\n\n\"It can reduce congestion, air pollution and carbon emissions and encourage a shift to greener modes where possible.\"", "(Left to right) Charles Breslin, David Powell, Philip Hill and Garry Jenkins all died inside the Gleision colliery\n\nFamilies of four men killed in a colliery disaster more than 10 years ago said they were furious at delays in deciding whether to hold an inquest.\n\nCharles Breslin, 62, David Powell, 50, Phillip Hill, 44, and Garry Jenkins, 39, were killed when water flooded Gleision drift mine in September 2011.\n\nThe mine's manager and owners were cleared of manslaughter in 2014.\n\nThe coroner's office said it was continuing to review material relating to the tragedy.\n\nSwansea and Neath Port Talbot acting coroner, Colin Phillips, received a report in September that included allegations of illegal workings at the mine near Cilybebyll, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nFamilies of the dead said they were promised an answer by Christmas and then by the end of January, but the process was \"dragging on\".\n\nOn 15 September, 2011, a total of 650,000 gallons of water flooded the mine the dead men and three others were working in.\n\nA memorial was erected after the tragedy\n\nIt followed a controlled explosion to improve air circulation.\n\nMine manager Malcolm Fyfield said he checked the old workings for water before the accident and found none.\n\nFollowing the three-month court case, Swansea's acting coroner decided not to hold full inquests for the four.\n\nLast year, survivors of the tragedy said they believed their colleagues' deaths had been swept under the carpet.\n\nJake Wyatt, 68, and Nigel Evans, 49, alleged there were illegal workings in the mine and believed the authorities had not got to the bottom of what may have caused the their colleagues' deaths.\n\nIt remains unknown whether the alleged illegal workings affected the flooding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Evans (left) and Jake Wyatt spoke about their \"survivors' guilt\" in 2011.\n\nFormer Gleision surveyor Lee Reynolds, who gave evidence in the trial, questioned whether the allegations had been noticed or acted upon by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nThe HSE previously told BBC Wales it could not comment because the investigation into the flood and trial were led by the police and Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nNone of the surviving families have full death certificates for their relatives.\n\n\"It's been stressful waiting all this time expecting an answer to those questions.\"\n\nMavis Breslin, widow of one of the dead, feels \"cheated\" by the lack of an inquest after 10 years\n\nGarry Jenkins' son Alex said the families, survivors and community needed to understand what happened.\n\n\"If four lives were lost, something went wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"There's been mistakes made and we need to understand what those mistakes were.\"\n\nMr Reynolds said a lot remained uninvestigated and the disaster's exact cause was still unknown.\n\n\"The authorities have treated them [the families] appallingly badly and it's time for answers,\" he said.\n\nGarry Jenkins' son Alex said the families needed to understand what went wrong\n\nSouth Wales West Member of the Senedd Sioned Williams has written to the acting coroner asking for an inquest, saying the families felt the court case had not covered everything.\n\n\"They feel that there are answers still to be had about the way the pit was run in the days leading up to the disaster, but also perhaps for a longer period before then,\" she said.\n\n\"A full inquest would be able to give them more of the answer that they're looking for. And would certainly help provide some sort of closure.\"\n\nFormer Gleision surveyor Lee Reynolds, questioned whether alleged illegal workings at the mine had been noticed or acted upon by the HSE\n\nThe area's MP, Christina Rees said she had written to Chloe Smith, the UK government minister responsible for the HSE, with questions and wanted an inquest \"without delay\".\n\n\"More than 10 years after the Gleision Colliery disaster there remain unanswered questions,\" Ms Rees said.\n\nThe coroner's office said it was continuing to review material and relatives of the men would be told when there was an update.", "A man wanted by the UK National Crime Agency has been arrested while jogging in the Netherlands.\n\nThe NCA confirmed James \"Jamie\" Stevenson was taken into custody after an operation with Dutch National Police and Police Scotland.\n\nIt comes just a fortnight after Stevenson, 56, featured in an appeal to trace 12 individuals believed to be hiding in Spain.\n\nHe will now face extradition proceedings.\n\nStevenson, of Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, was wanted over the seizure of a tonne of cocaine and 28 million Etizolam \"street valium\" tablets.\n\nThe cocaine was found in a shipment at the Port of Dover in September 2020 and the tablets were seized following a raid on a suspected pill factory in Kent in June 2020.\n\nStevenson was also being sought in connection with two alleged attacks on properties in the Lanarkshire and Forth Valley areas in May 2020.\n\nThe NCA said he was arrested at about midday by a Dutch tactical unit in the southern municipality of Bergen op Zoom after a period of surveillance.\n\nDean Ferguson, 28, who was wanted by Police Scotland, was arrested alongside Stevenson and will also face extradition proceedings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prime minister and the Home Office have been criticised by the UK statistics watchdog for incorrectly claiming crime has fallen.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons on Monday, Boris Johnson said crime had come down by 14%.\n\nIt followed a Home Office press release last week that claimed the government \"continues to cut crime\".\n\nThe UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) said the prime minister \"did not make clear\" the figure excluded fraud.\n\nIt also said the Home Office had presented figures in a \"misleading way\".\n\nThe authority was responding to a complaint by the Liberal Democrats, who accused Mr Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel of \"fiddling the figures\".\n\nThe government has commented several times on the stats, released this week for England and Wales, which track crime for the year ending September 2021.\n\nThe figures for all crimes estimated by the Crime Survey of England and Wales in fact showed a 14% increase for the period, including a 47% rise in fraud and computer misuse as people moved their lives online during the lockdowns.\n\nBut speaking in the Commons, the prime minister said crime had fallen by 14% without mentioning that this figure did not include the rise in fraud and computer crime.\n\nMr Johnson made the claim while taking questions from MPs following the publication of Sue Gray's report into Downing Street parties during lockdown.\n\nThe UKSA said the Home Office press release presented the statistics \"to give a positive picture of trends in crime\"\n\nResponding to the Liberal Democrats' complaint, UKSA chair Sir David Norgrove said in a letter the official statistics \"quite properly\" included fraud and computer misuse and the prime minister had excluded them but \"did not make this clear\".\n\n\"If fraud and computer misuse are counted in total crime as they should be, total crime in fact increased by 14% between the year ending September 2019 and the year ending September 2021,\" he wrote.\n\nHe added the Home Office press release presented the statistics \"to give a positive picture of trends in crime in England and Wales\".\n\nHe said the omission of fraud and computer misuse was \"stated\" in the release but in the title and two other places it had not been made clear crime had only fallen if these offences were not included.\n\nSir David also noted the Home Office had suggested the fall in other types of crime was related to the government's so-called Beating Crime Plan.\n\nHe said \"it would have been helpful\" if it had been made clear the Office of National Statistics actually believed falls in the relevant crime types were due to the pandemic.\n\nLiberal Democrat home affairs spokesperson Alistair Carmichael MP said: \"This is a damning verdict from the official watchdog. Yet more distortions from Boris Johnson and his cabinet to play down the extent of crime.\n\n\"When the government's record on crime is so bad that both the prime minister and home secretary feel the need to fiddle the figures, it is clear we need a new approach.\n\n\"The prime minister must come before Parliament to apologise for his latest lie and set the record straight.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat chief whip Wendy Chamberlain raised the issue in the Commons on Thursday, prompting deputy speaker Dame Rosie Winterton to respond: \"If an error has been made I am sure the minister will seek to correct it as quickly as possible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Conservatives have retained the seat of Southend West in a parliamentary by-election prompted by the fatal stabbing of MP Sir David Amess.\n\nAnna Firth won with 12,792 votes in a contest that saw a low turnout of 24%.\n\nThe election was not contested by Labour, the Liberal Democrats or the Greens.\n\nJason Pilley of the Psychedelic Movement came second with 512 votes. UKIP's Steve Laws was third with 400.\n\nSir David was attacked during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea on 15 October.\n\nAli Harbi Ali, 25, from Kentish Town in north London, denies his murder and is due to stand trial next month.\n\nSir David Amess was first elected as an MP in Basildon in 1983, before moving to Southend West for the 1997 general election\n\nIn her victory speech, Ms Firth paid tribute to Sir David, who had represented the seat for 24 years, describing him as a \"truly exceptional MP\".\n\nThe barrister from Leigh-on-Sea vowed to \"work tirelessly to build on everything\" achieved by him during his lengthy tenure.\n\n\"It is the honour of my life to represent the people of Southend West and the place where I was born,\" she said.\n\n\"He was a friend to all and had a huge impact on everyone who lives here.\n\n\"For Sir David's family and his friends... [this] will be a sad and painful day and I would like to pay tribute to Lady Amess and their children.\n\n\"We are thinking of you\".\n\nThe PA Media news agency said it had seen a number of the spoilt ballot papers containing messages directed against Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nOne featured the comment \"Boris do a Brexit - get out\", while another member of the electorate scrawled \"Get Boris out\".\n\nMr Johnson is under scrutiny over the \"partygate\" controversy following gatherings at Downing Street during lockdowns, while four of his senior aides resigned on Thursday.\n\nAfter Thursday's vote, Anna Firth was congratulated at the count at Southend Leisure and Tennis Centre\n\nThe turnout of 24% was just below that of the Batley and Spen by-election in 2016, which was held in similar circumstances after Labour MP Jo Cox was killed.\n\nThe other major parties did not stand against the Labour candidate who succeeded her.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Essex, Ms Firth said subjects raised by voters during her campaign included \"night flights, knife crime, litter\" and \"all sorts of local issues\" but not the growing pressure on the prime minister.\n\n\"This isn't the number one issue on the doorsteps and it isn't my number one focus,\" she said.\n\n\"I have got to get my feet under the table and work out how I can best deliver for people here. It's way above my pay grade as the newest MP, literally hours old, to be speculating about what's happening at the top of the Conservative Party.\"\n\nOn the subject of spoilt ballot papers, she said that \"you would expect a high number of spoilt ballots in an election where there is actually no left wing candidate standing at all\".\n\nTurnout: 14,858 (24% of the electorate of 66,462, if spoilt ballot papers are added)\n\nThe Southend West seat has been held by the Conservatives since it was created for the 1950 general election.\n\nIn the December 2019 general election, when all the main parties stood, Sir David had a majority of 14,459 - securing 59.2% on a turnout of 67.4%.\n\nLabour came second with 28.1%; the Lib Dems were third with 11.4%.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has sent his congratulations to the newest MP.\n\nIn a tweet, he said: \"I look forward to welcoming you to Parliament next week and working together to deliver for the people of Southend West.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOliver Dowden, chairman of the Conservative Party, who had been out campaigning with Ms Firth, was also among those congratulating her on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Oliver Dowden This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is no surprise the Conservatives hung on with a large majority in Southend West, given the absence of the other main parties.\n\nTurnout at just 24% was one of the lowest for a Westminster by-election since World War Two, while the number of spoilt ballot papers rose four-fold to more than 1,000 - a figure higher than the number of votes any of the minor parties and independent candidates attracted.\n\nSome chose to write messages including \"Boris do a Brexit - get out\" - a sign that events in Westminster have played out here at the polls.\n\nBut when I asked Ms Firth if she would be taking some of the messages to Prime Minister Boris Johnson when she was in Westminster next week, she said her job was now to \"focus on local priorities\".\n\nThere will be no letter of no confidence in the prime minister from her. She backs Boris Johnson and says she is going to be focussing on making the most of Southend's impending city status.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Jacob Rees-Mogg referred to the morning after pill in the Commons as an abortifacient, but the drug does not induce abortions\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg has been accused by a Labour MP of perpetuating a \"harmful clinical falsehood\" about the morning after pill.\n\nAsked if he would make time for a debate on sexual and reproductive health, the minister said he would not \"speak in favour of abortifacients\".\n\nBut the World Health Organization says the pill does not induce an abortion, so would not come under that label.\n\nDame Diana Johnson called for Mr Rees-Mogg to correct the record.\n\nThe issue was raised by the Labour MP in the Commons on Thursday after a campaign by the women's parliamentary Labour party, journalist Rose Stokes and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service led to Boots cutting the price of the emergency contraception from £15.99 to £10.99.\n\nDame Diana said the move had \"removed the sexist surcharge that is attached to that medication\", but claimed cuts to public health budgets and the fragmentation of the NHS meant it was \"more difficult for women to access contraception advice\".\n\nShe asked Mr Rees-Mogg - who is leader of the House - whether he could designate some time in the Commons to debate an MPs' report on sexual and reproductive health in the UK, and its recommendations for \"proper funding and accessibility for women's contraceptive health services\".\n\nBut the minister - who is Catholic and has spoken publicly against abortion - replied: \"The right honourable lady cannot expect me to speak in favour of abortifacients [substances that induce an abortion].\"\n\nHis remark led to a backlash on social media, with campaigners and charities calling on him to correct the record.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDame Diana has echoed those calls, telling the BBC: \"To quote the World Health Organization, 'emergency contraceptive pills prevent pregnancy by preventing or delaying ovulation and they do not induce an abortion - emergency contraception cannot interrupt an established pregnancy or harm a developing embryo'.\n\n\"The leader of the House needs to correct the record as to the harmful clinical falsehood he perpetuated in answer to my question.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Rees-Mogg and he has declined to comment.", "A woman has alleged she was raped during the production of a new BBC TV cooking show.\n\nPolice said the assault is alleged to have happened in London last September, and they are reviewing the evidence.\n\nBBC Studios said it had \"robust processes in place\" for supporting staff or freelancers who may have been victims of crime.\n\nBBC Three cookery contest Hungry For It, hosted by Stacey Dooley, will see 10 aspiring chefs testing their skills.\n\nIn a statement, City of London Police said: \"On Sunday 19 September 2021, City of London Police was contacted by another police force, which had received a late report of a rape that took place in September 2021.\n\n\"The evidence in the case is currently being reviewed and the female victim has been supported by specifically-trained officers.\"\n\nA BBC Studios statement said: \"BBC Studios has robust processes in place to ensure that any of our staff or freelancers who may have been the victim of a crime are given all the appropriate support needed and that the matter is handled with the utmost seriousness and care.\"\n\nIn Hungry For It, the amateur chefs will be seen living together in a house while competing in challenges for industry experts and mentors.", "Washington alleged that the staged attack could show Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine targeting Russians\n\nThe US has claimed Russia is planning to stage a fake Ukrainian attack that it would use to justify an invasion.\n\nIt alleged Moscow was likely to release a graphic video showing the attack on Russian territory or against Russian-speaking people in eastern Ukraine.\n\nRussia denied it was planning to fabricate an attack, and the US did not provide evidence to support the claim.\n\nThe build-up of tens of thousands of Russian troops on Ukraine's borders has escalated fears of an invasion.\n\nMoscow says they are there for military drills, but Ukraine and its Western allies remain concerned that Russia is planning to launch an assault.\n\n\"We do have information that the Russians are likely to want to fabricate a pretext for an invasion,\" Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Thursday.\n\n\"As part of this fake attack, we believe that Russia would produce a very graphic propaganda video, which would include corpses and actors that would be depicting mourners and images of destroyed locations,\" he said.\n\nBut senior US officials said the video was just one of several ideas Russia has to provide a pretext to invade its neighbour.\n\nThey added that the alleged plan was being revealed in an effort to dissuade Russia from invading.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to the reports later on Thursday.\n\n\"This is not the first promise of its kind [to release details about Russian provocation],\" he said. \"Something similar was also said before, but nothing came of it.\"\n\nRussia has repeatedly denied that it is planning an attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Understand the Ukraine crisis with Ros Atkins in less than six minutes\n\nNews of the alleged plot came a day after the US said it was sending more troops to eastern Europe to support allies in the Nato defensive alliance.\n\nRussia said the move was \"destructive\" and showed that its concerns about Nato's eastward expansion were justified.\n\nAlso on Thursday, Nato expressed concerns that Russia was likely to deploy up to 30,000 troops - including special forces, fighter jets and short-range ballistic missiles - in Belarus, Ukraine's northern neighbour.\n\n\"This is the biggest Russian deployment there since the Cold War,\" Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.\n\nRivalry between Russia and the US, which still possess the world's biggest nuclear arsenals, dates back to the Cold War. Ukraine was then a crucial part of the communist Soviet Union.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin is currently in the Chinese capital, Beijing, for the Winter Olympics, and on Friday met his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, for their first face-to-face meeting since June 2019, because of the pandemic.\n\nThe two nations have a close relationship - President Xi has previously praised Mr Putin as his \"best friend\", and it is widely expected that Russia will be looking for diplomatic support from China as tensions build with Ukraine and the West.\n\nMeanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Russia and Ukraine next week to try and de-escalate the tensions. He will meet Mr Putin in the Russian capital, Moscow, on Monday, then Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky the next day.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in Ukraine earlier this week in an effort to \"avoid further bloodshed\".", "Typhoons and a fuel tanker are involved in Thursday's quick reaction alert\n\nRAF jets have intercepted Russian military aircraft for the second day in a row.\n\nTyphoons from RAF Lossiemouth in Moray and a Voyager air-to-air fuel tanker from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire were involved in the mission.\n\nOn Wednesday, Lossiemouth pilots tracked four Russian military aircraft off the north of Scotland.\n\nIncidents like this - known as quick reaction alerts (QRAs) - are not uncommon.\n\nQRAs involve RAF crews shadowing Russian military aircraft near UK airspace and have occurred since the Cold War era but this week's incidents have come amid mounting tensions in eastern Europe.\n\nThe US and its allies have accused Russia of planning to invade Ukraine, something Russia has repeatedly denied.\n\nConfirming the latest QRA, the RAF said: \"Quick reaction alert Typhoon fighters based at RAF Lossiemouth supported by a Voyager from RAF Brize Norton were scrambled today against aircraft approaching the UK area of interest.\n\n\"Subsequently we intercepted and escorted two Russian Tu-95 Bear F aircraft.\"\n\nThe incident is understood to have taken place off Scotland.\n\nThe RAF jets shadowed the Russian aircraft as they travelled through international airspace \"within the UK's area of interest\". They did not enter UK airspace.\n\nOn Wednesday, two Russian Tu-95 Bear H, which are long-range bombers, and two Tu-142 Bear F aircraft were tracked by the RAF.", "Seamus Maguire's case is the commission's first case in more than 10 years\n\nThe commission established to find the remains of murder victims buried in secret graves during the Troubles is taking on a new case for the first time in more than 10 years.\n\nSeamus Maguire disappeared after leaving his home at Aghagallon, near Lurgan, about 50 years ago.\n\nThe Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) said it was not clear \"which wing of the IRA was involved\".\n\nHe is the commission's 17th case.\n\nThe Disappeared are those who were abducted, murdered and secretly buried by republicans during Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nMr Maguire vanished in or around 1973-74, according to a statement from the commission, when he was about 26.\n\nIt is believed republican paramilitaries were behind his murder - both the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA were active at the time.\n\nThe ICLVR said it was taking on the case \"on the basis of information received from the PSNI\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Maguire family said: \"Seamus was a much loved eldest son. His mother looked for him for many years.\n\nGeoff Knupfer, who is leading the commission's investigation, appealed for more information\n\n\"The family's wish is that he is brought home and given a Christian burial.\"\n\nThe ICLVR's lead investigator, Geoff Knupfer, said: \"As with all our cases, our sole aim is to locate and recover the remains to return them to Seamus' family.\n\n\"It is a purely humanitarian cause.\n\n\"I would appeal to anyone who knows anything about the disappearance of Seamus to come forward to the commission, safe in the knowledge that any information will be treated in the strictest confidence.\n\n\"With the right information we will find Seamus and return his remains to his family\".\n\nInformation given to the ICLVR is not passed to other agencies or used in prosecutions.\n\nIt is understood the PSNI and the commission have had ongoing discussions about the case for several years.\n\n\"This case currently sits within the workload of Legacy Investigation Branch for formal review in due course,\" a PSNI statement read.\n\n\"The commission believe the case meets their criteria and the police will share all relevant information to assist their investigation.\"\n\nThe ICLVR has located the remains of 13 people since it was established by the British and Irish governments in 1999.\n\nThe majority of the murders took place in the 1970s, with victims abducted in Northern Ireland and mostly killed and buried at locations in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe Provisional IRA has admitted responsibility for 13 of the murders and the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) one.\n\nNo attribution has been given to the others.\n\nSeamus Maguire now joins Joe Lynskey, Columba McVeigh and Army officer Robert Nairac as the 'Disappeared' whose remains have yet to be found.\n\nA reward of more than £44,000 is being offered for new information that results in finding any or all of their remains by the independent UK charity Crimestoppers.\n• None Who were the Disappeared?", "Keen ice skater Yiyi (right) won't be able to attend any of the events - no tickets will be sold to the general public\n\nThe most divided Olympic Games in decades gets under way in China on Friday as Beijing becomes the only city to host both the Summer and now the Winter Games. As well as tight Covid-19 controls, the Games are fraught with political tensions over allegations of human rights abuses and boycotts.\n\nMost of the snow on the slopes where the Olympic events will take place is artificial.\n\nBut inside an indoor rink where the icy climate is maintained by massive freezers at the side of the dome, six-year-old ice skater Yiyi doesn't care how Beijing is making the Winter Games happen.\n\nShe just can't wait to see it. She wasn't even born the first time the Olympics came to town. Now she's inspired by it.\n\n\"It's very exhausting but she presses on,\" her mum told me, after we'd watched her daughter in a lesson with a coach. \"She won't leave until she learns how to do all the moves. She doesn't quit.\"\n\nBut this is as close to the action as she is going to get.\n\nYiyi and her mum can't go to any of the events. The Winter Olympics is happening in Beijing, but almost everyone here is excluded from it.\n\nChina is in the middle of a renewed effort to maintain \"zero Covid\".\n\nSo authorities have decided that no tickets will go on sale to the general public. Only members of the ruling Communist Party or staff from government-controlled companies are being invited, and even they have to abide by strict testing and restrictions.\n\nAs Yiyi's mum was telling me how disappointed she was that they could only watch the Games on TV, the six-year-old jumped in, making sure I knew that she was definitely going to be watching.\n\nDespite the restrictions, Yiyi has been inspired by the Beijing Olympics\n\nSpectators are just one part of China's strict Covid prevention measures.\n\nThe athletes and officials are all inside strictly managed \"bubbles\" to try to stop any spread. They can't leave. Anyone travelling between bubbles in official cars or coaches has been told that, in the event of a crash with a member of the public, they must stay in their vehicle. They must not make contact.\n\nBut it's not just Covid that makes these games unusual.\n\nThere's confrontation over China's human rights record. Senior officials from the US, the UK and more than a dozen other governments aren't coming. China's leaders, and state media, have dismissed the diplomatic boycott as \"politicisation\".\n\nA dad who was watching his son at the ice rink where we met Yiyi shared that view. He told us the Games is just about sport.\n\n\"I think sports are sports and they shouldn't be mixed with politics,\" he said, speaking from behind his mask, wrapped up in his thick coat. \"The Games belong to everyone and we should a participate and watch. Politics is just politics.\"\n\nFive words make up the official slogan of Beijing 2022: Together for a shared future. It's similar to one of President Xi Jinping's buzz phrases, if you can call it that - building a shared future for the human race.\n\nYou see the slogan on posters at bus stops and attached to walls around the city. It's in propaganda videos from state media too. We found a \"Together\" video online with smiling children, singing and dancing.\n\nIt was released last month by the government in Xinjiang - the place where China denies it's committed genocide against its Uyghur minority.\n\nA Xinjiang government video showed children dancing and singing with the official Beijing 2022 slogan on screen\n\nA former Olympian who is close to US athletes this time told me why some of them are nervous about \"sharing\" this moment.\n\n\"I don't think a single athlete is going to speak out at the Games and nor do I think they should,\" Noah Hoffman told the BBC. \"If I were there I would be keeping my mouth shut.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old skier represented the USA in 2014 and 2018. Now he advocates for sportsmen and women.\n\n\"The risk is just too great... this is a failure of the International Olympic Committee, it's a failure of leadership that athletes are in this position,\" he said when we spoke from his base on the US east coast.\n\nHe said he's been talking to teammates who are at these Games and they've told him the build-up experience is \"nothing like what we've experienced before\".\n\nOne athlete told him they'd not had a single meeting about \"sport or their athletic performance\". The preparatory meetings with the US Olympic authorities had focused on Covid-19 measures and personal safety for competitors while they are in China.\n\nThere are updated rules in place to allow athletes to express their concerns, but well away from the tracks, slopes, rinks and podiums. Chinese officials have warned athletes they must adhere to Chinese law at all times. Noah Hoffman thinks the idea that athletes are \"at liberty to speak out\" about China's mass incarceration and so-called \"egregious\" abuse of thousands of minority Muslim Uyghurs \"is just false\".\n\nChina's leader Xi Jinping has promised an efficient and safe Games. In many ways this looks like a normal Olympics. The torch relay in the days before the flame is lit. The universal branding emblazoned across a city. The Olympic rings popping up on myriad goods or services in shops.\n\nBut what is always a cold gathering feels much frostier this time round. This is a Games defined by the big fissure on the world stage, with China on one side and the US on the other.\n\nInside the bubble, athletes are just trying to get on with their sport.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Beijing is enforcing enormous, strict separation bubbles to combat the risk of Covid.", "The peer was convicted under his real name, Nazir Ahmed, in January\n\nA victim of convicted sex offender Lord Ahmed of Rotherham has demanded the government strip him of his title.\n\nThe former Labour peer was found guilty in January of a serious sexual assault against a boy and the attempted rape of a young girl in the 1970s.\n\nOnly an Act of Parliament can remove his title, but none currently exists.\n\n\"That title is bestowed upon people that have got some honour, some dignity, and he's got none of that,\" the male victim told BBC Newsnight.\n\nThe government said Ahmed had resigned from the Lords and was \"no longer a member of the legislature\".\n\nDuring a Sheffield Crown Court trial, jurors heard Ahmed carried out the repeated sexual assaults as a teenager in Rotherham.\n\nThe male victim, known as Mr B to protect his anonymity, said the abuse had started when he was a young child and he had spent much of his life since trying to \"to bury it\".\n\n\"You try to lead a normal life, but you can never lead a normal life,\" he said.\n\nAhmed, who was tried under his real name Nazir Ahmed, is due to be sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday.\n\nHe resigned from the House of Lords in 2020, days before he could be expelled over the findings of a conduct committee that concluded he had sexually and emotionally exploited a vulnerable woman. He stepped down from the Labour Party in 2013.\n\nDespite both investigations and his conviction, he will retain his title.\n\n\"I'm demanding the government take that peerage away from him,\" said Mr B.\n\n\"He's a convicted paedophile and there's no justice in that.\"\n\nThe call is being supported by crossbench peer Lord Carlisle, the charity Muslim Women's Network UK and Conservative Rother Valley MP Alexander Stafford.\n\nOnly an Act of Parliament can remove a peer's title\n\nLord Carlisle said it was \"offensive\" and \"illogical\" that Ahmed could retain his title and that the system needed updating to retain the House of Lord's credibility.\n\n\"We need to be able to expel from their titles as well as from the House, those who have been convicted of serious criminal offences,\" he said.\n\nMr Stafford, whose constituency includes parts of Rotherham, agreed the law needed overhauling and has urged the government to take action.\n\nThe charity Muslim Women's Network UK has written to Lord Chancellor Dominic Raab calling for action.\n\nCo-chair Shaista Gohir said it was wrong that Ahmed could continue to use his title and its associations of privilege.\n\n\"Once he's completed his sentence, he could go up and down the country, speak at events, use that title to influence,\" she said.\n\n\"What kind of message does that send to victims that somebody that's committed such an appalling crime can continue to use that privilege and that title?\"\n\nLord Ahmed, pictured arriving at court in late November 2021 resigned from the House of Lords in November 2020\n\nMr B said reporting Ahmed had been daunting, and he was initially put off due to his abuser's \"political clout\" and his doubts about securing a conviction.\n\n\"He knows powerful people, he knows prime ministers,\" he said.\n\n\"I was quite worried in terms of the consequences of going to make a complaint against him in terms of what he might be able to do to me.\"\n\nThe trial heard he was encouraged to come forward by the female complainant in the case, who urged him to \"seek justice for the little boy who could not protect himself\".\n\n\"If I can challenge somebody that sits in the House of Lords as a peer, and I can win, then there is hope for everybody,\" Mr B said.\n\n\"I think I can move on from this dirty little secret that I've been carrying for decades.\n\n\"I can sleep at night now.\"\n\nIn response to a question about Ahmed, a spokesperson said the government was \"committed to helping the police and local agencies prevent and disrupt this type of offending\" through the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy\n\n\"Nazir Ahmed resigned from the House of Lords in November 2020 and is no longer a member of the legislature,\" they added.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight at 22: 30 GMT on BBC 2 and afterwards on the iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bank of England boss: 'Don’t ask for a big pay rise'\n\nWorkers should not ask for big pay rises, to try and stop prices rising out of control, the Bank of England governor has told the BBC.\n\nPrices are expected to climb faster than pay, putting the biggest squeeze on household finances in decades.\n\nAndrew Bailey said the Bank raised rates to 0.5% from 0.25% to prevent rising prices becoming \"ingrained\".\n\nAsked if the Bank was also implicitly asking workers not to demand big pay rises, he said: \"Broadly, yes\".\n\nInflation is on course to rise above 7% this year, leaving households facing the biggest income squeeze in decades.\n\nPost-tax incomes are forecast to fall 2% this year, after taking into account the rising cost of living.\n\nThis represents the biggest fall in living standards since records began in 1990.\n\nMr Bailey said that while it would be \"painful\" for workers to accept that prices would rise faster than their wages, he added that some \"moderation of wage rises\" was needed to prevent inflation becoming entrenched.\n\n\"In the sense of saying, we do need to see a moderation of wage rises, now that's painful. I don't want to in any sense sugar that, it is painful. But we need to see that in order to get through this problem more quickly,\" he added.\n\nWorkers are currently enjoying pay rises of just below 5% on average, according to a Bank survey.\n\nHowever, in sectors with big labour shortages, such as IT, construction and engineering firms have started paying workers \"ad-hoc\" bonuses in order to keep them.\n\nIn the year from 1 March 2020, Mr Bailey was paid £575,538 including pension.\n\nThat is more than 18 times higher than the median annual pay for full-time employees of £31,285 for the tax year ending 5 April 2021.\n\nInflation, as measured by the consumer prices index (CPI), is expected to peak at 7.25% in April, and average close to 6% in 2022.\n\nThis would be the fastest price growth since 1991 and is well above the Bank's 2% target.\n\nThere are also increasing signs of broader price pressures across the economy.\n\nPrices of household appliances such as fridges climbed almost 10% over the past year.\n\nGoods shortages also meant retailers were offering fewer bargains in the January sales compared with previous years.\n\nThe price of services such as getting a haircut or a trip to the vet had also become more expensive as companies passed on higher wage costs to consumers, the Bank warned.\n\nMr Bailey described the jobs market as \"extraordinarily tight\", adding that labour shortages were the \"first, second and third thing people want to talk about\" when he visited businesses across the country.\n\nThe Bank's Monetary Policy Committee that sets interest rates suggested that further rate rises would be needed \"in the coming months\" if the economy continued to bounce back from the slowdown caused by the Omicron variant,.\n\nHowever, Mr Bailey cautioned that the economic outlook was particularly \"uncertain\"\n\nThis may not necessarily be the start of a \"long march upwards\" in interest rates, he added.\n\nThe worst squeeze on the income of households since 1990 is what the Bank predicts.\n\nRecord energy bill rises from April will take inflation to a peak of 7.25% in April, more than treble the Bank's normal target.\n\nSome have called it \"Black Thursday\" for living standards.\n\nIn raising interest rates again and signalling more rate rises in the coming months, and nearly voting for even more on Thursday, the Bank is putting the nation on the couch in an exercise in mass psychology.\n\nInflation rises can be self-fulfilling. If workers, consumers and businesses expect 7% rises to persist, they will pre-emptively put up prices and ask for wage rises that then bring this about.\n\nWhat the Bank is trying to do is to confine what is happening right now to being a one-off shock.\n\nTo stop the inflation becoming \"ingrained\" as Bank governor Andrew Bailey put it today.\n\nThere is a presentational issue here.\n\nIn ordinary circumstances interest rates are raised to temper booming or bubbly growth - to take the punch bowl away from the party. But there is no punch bowl. There is no party.\n\nIn fact the Bank lowered its forecasts for growth of the economy to 3.75% from 5%, even though Omicron was not as damaging as feared.\n\nThe Bank's answer is that this series of rate rises will be enough to stop a spiral of inflation, but will not go so high as to kill off the recovery. It is a delicate balancing act indeed.", "Some customers have been warned to expect water bills to rise by almost 7%\n\nHouseholders are facing steep rises in their water bills in 2022 and 2023, Welsh Water has warned.\n\nThe not for profit company said some customers should expect to pay almost 7% more from April.\n\nIt blamed the \"significant\" inflation rate rise, highlighting costs of power, chemicals and materials to make drinking water and treat wastewater.\n\nIt said \"most household customers\" would see an increase between 3.8% and 6.6% from April.\n\nWelsh Water's chief financial officer, Mike Davis, said: \"We would encourage all customers who are struggling to make ends meet at this difficult time to contact us.\"\n\nWales chairman of the Consumer Council for Water, Rhodri Williams, said some customers could save hundreds of pounds by switching to a water meter.\n\n\"Households are facing a wave of rising living costs so it's vital that customers ask for help now.\"\n\nHowever, the firm said the average rise would be 0.1% and support was available to customers in difficulty.\n\nThe company said the reason that average figure was so low was because 130,000 people were on social tariffs which reduced the amount they paid.\n\nIt said it already helped 130,000 people pay their bill and had earmarked £12.4m to help another 54,000.", "The meeting between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping was the first face-to-face talks they have had since June 2019\n\nChina has joined Russia in opposing further Nato expansion as the two countries move closer together in the face of Western pressure.\n\nMoscow and Beijing issued a statement showcasing their agreement on a raft of issues during a visit by Russia's Vladimir Putin for the Winter Olympics.\n\nMr Putin claims Western powers are using the Nato defence alliance to undermine Russia.\n\nIt comes amid tensions over Ukraine, which he denies planning to invade.\n\nSome 100,000 Russian troops remain at the border with Ukraine, which is a former Soviet republic. Mr Putin, who has written that Russians and Ukrainians are \"one nation\", has demanded that Ukraine be barred from joining Nato.\n\nWhile the lengthy joint statement did not refer directly to Ukraine, the two countries accused Nato of espousing a Cold War ideology.\n\nThe talks, which the Kremlin said were \"very warm\", were held ahead of the Games opening ceremony. It was the first time the leaders have met face-to-face since the start of the pandemic.\n\n\"Friendship between [Russia and China] has no limits, there are no 'forbidden' areas of cooperation,\" the statement reads.\n\nThe two countries said they were \"seriously concerned\" about the Aukus security pact between the US, UK and Australia.\n\nAnnounced last year, Aukus will see Australia build nuclear-powered submarines as part of efforts to boost security in the Asia-Pacific region. It is largely seen as an effort to counter China, which has been accused of raising tensions in disputed territories such as the South China Sea.\n\nMeanwhile Russia said it supported Beijing's One China policy, which asserts that self-ruled Taiwan is a breakaway province that will eventually be part of China again.\n\nHowever, Taiwan sees itself as an independent country, with its own constitution and democratically-elected leaders.\n\nThey had lunch, they had talks then they went off to see a show together - a big show.\n\nVladimir Putin is the star guest in Beijing for the start of the winter games. Of more significance to this visit is the increased co-operation and shared view of the world that Presidents Xi and Putin are keen to show.\n\nAlthough Ukraine wasn't mentioned it was clearly hinted at when they both said they oppose the enlargement of the Nato alliance.\n\nFor China this is a delicate balance. Beijing has relations with Ukraine - political and economic. Any Russia invasion or military attack there could be damaging for President Xi's standing.\n\nAmid a growing war of words, the US on Wednesday accused Russia of planning to stage a fake Ukrainian attack that it would use to justify an invasion.\n\nRussia denied it was planning to fabricate an attack, and the US did not provide evidence to support the claim.\n\nEarlier the US said it was sending more troops to eastern Europe to support Nato allies. Russia said the move was \"destructive\" and showed that its concerns about Nato's eastward expansion were justified.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah Capper, from Rhyl, Denbighshire, was targeted by fraudsters last month\n\nVictims of a WhatsApp scam have been left thousands of pounds poorer after being tricked into handing over cash.\n\nCon artists have been sending texts claiming to be relatives with new numbers, then asking for help with bills or other costs.\n\nMany start with: \"Hello mum, I've got a new phone, please save the number.\"\n\nNorth Wales Police said victims in Wales had lost an average of almost £2,500 each in the UK-wide fraud.\n\nWhatsApp said people should request a voice note or call if they received a suspicious message.\n\nSarah Capper, from Rhyl, Denbighshire, was targeted last month and said the messages seemed \"completely genuine\".\n\nShe added: \"I got a message which started 'Hi mum', saying their old phone had crashed and could I save this new number.\n\n\"We chatted for a while and the scammer was even talking with me about being stressed at work as if they were my daughter.\"\n\nFraudsters have been texting victims claiming to be relatives needing financial help\n\nShe was asked to help pay an invoice as her \"daughter\" did not have mobile banking on her new phone and was promised she would be repaid straight away.\n\nWhen she spoke to her daughter the next day and she had no idea what she was talking about, Ms Capper \"burst into tears\" as she had handed over £2,100, including £1,800 borrowed from her partner.\n\n\"I would have sworn blind that I was talking to my daughter, but it was a complete stranger. It's frightening and very upsetting.\"\n\nBut Ms Capper got lucky as the payment bounced - police think the bank already considered the scammer's account suspicious.\n\nScammers told Ms Capper they had no access to online banking on a new phone\n\nZoe Burrell, from Anglesey, saved a number in her daughter's name after getting a WhatsApp message that said: \"Mum…… this is my new number, you can delete my old number xx.\"\n\nAll the scammer's messages then bore her daughter's name and \"a little thing that makes it seem more genuine,\" Ms Burrell said.\n\n\"I've lent my daughter money before, and I've always had it all back.\n\n\"She's changed her phone number in the past as well, so it all seemed very legit to begin with.\"\n\nNorth Wales Police said many of the victims were women\n\nThe fraudster claimed Ms Burrell's daughter needed cash quickly so sense went \"out of the window\" and she transferred £4,800.\n\nThe last of Ms Burrell's four transfers did not go through as the bank became suspicious.\n\n\"You just feel like you've been taken for a fool. They're very clever and the personal thing, masquerading as a loved one, it pulls you in.\"\n\nBoth women wanted to speak out to stop others being ripped off.\n\nZoe Burrell transferred £4,800 as sense went \"out of the window\"\n\nNorth Wales Police Det Con Rachel Roberts said many victims were women with adult children.\n\nInvestigators are trying to figure out if the fraudsters research their victims or whether they are using a confidence trick.\n\nDet Con Roberts said officers were seeing a new victim every day: \"In just two weeks at the start of January, we saw scammers try to steal £24,000 from people in north Wales alone.\n\n\"It's a particularly nasty scam because the criminals are often posing as someone's son or daughter.\n\n\"WhatsApp is a messenger platform that people use to talk to close friends and family, and people naturally take their children on face value.\"\n\nShe advised people getting requests for cash to consider whether they are genuine, taking time to think about what they are being asked and calling people back on a different number to check it is actually them.\n\nKathryn Harnett, from WhatsApp, said: \"WhatsApp protects our users' personal messages with end-to-end encryption, but we want to remind people that we all have a role to play in keeping our accounts safe by remaining vigilant to the threat of scammers.\n\n\"If you receive a suspicious message (even if you think you know who it's from), calling or requesting a voice note is the fastest and simplest way to check someone is who they say they are - a friend in need is a friend worth calling.\"", "Rescuers have dug a huge hole next to the well (front, centre)\n\nRescuers who are desperately trying to reach a five-year-old boy who fell into a deep well in Morocco are entering the final stages of their operation.\n\nThey worked through the night to reach the boy, named by local media as Rayan, who plunged 32m (104ft) through the well's narrow opening four days ago.\n\nRescuers said they were in an access tunnel less than a metre from the boy.\n\nFears of a possible landslide have complicated the task. A rescue official was unsure Rayan was still alive.\n\nChief rescuer Abdelhadi Tamrani told AFP that the camera showed him from behind lying on his side.\n\n\"It is not possible to determine the child's condition at all at this time. But we hope to God that the child is alive,\" he told local TV.\n\nFootage on Thursday from a camera lowered into the well showed that the boy was alive and conscious, although he appeared to be suffering from some minor head injuries.\n\nRescue workers have lowered an oxygen mask, food and water into the well but it was unclear whether the boy had been able to use the supplies.\n\nA medical team is also on site, ready to treat the boy. A helicopter has also arrived at the scene.\n\nThe rescue effort has gripped the North African country for days, and thousands have gathered at the scene and have been encouraging rescuers.\n\nThe mixture of rocky and sandy soils has meant rescuers deem opening the water well's narrow shaft to be too dangerous.\n\nInstead, bulldozers were used to cut a huge trench next to the well. Rescuers then started digging horizontally to reach the boy.\n\n\"We're almost there,\" said one of the operation's leaders, Abdesalam Makoudi, on Friday afternoon. \"We've been working non-stop for three days and tiredness is kicking in, but the whole rescue team is hanging on.\"\n\nLed by Morocco's Civil Protection Directorate, rescue operations in the small northern town of Tamorot, around 100km (62 miles) from the city of Chefchaouen, have been ongoing since Tuesday evening.\n\nRayan's father was repairing the well at the time of the accident, and has said he and Rayan's mother were \"devastated and very worried\".\n\n\"In that one moment I took my eyes off him, the little one fell into the well. I haven't slept a wink\", he told news site le360 on Wednesday.\n\nSpeaking to Moroccan media with tears in her eyes, Rayan's mother said: \"The whole family went out to look for him. Then we realised that he'd fallen down the well. I'm still keeping up hope that we'll get him out alive.\"\n\nOn Moroccan social media, the #SaveRayan has been trending across the country as thousands of people have followed updates from local media and onlookers at the scene.\n\nMohamed Yassin El Quahabi, president of the Chefchaouen Association of Caving and Mountain Activities, has been helping with the rescue and he told the BBC that the narrowness of the well had hampered rescue efforts.\n\nHe added that several attempts by local volunteers and rescue workers to gain access through the well's opening have already failed.\n\n\"The problem of this rescue is that the hole diameter is very, very small, about 25cm (9.8 inches),\" Mr El Quahabi said. \"At the depth of 28 metres it became smaller so we couldn't reach him.\"\n\nCrowds gathered to watch the rescue operation on Saturday\n\nOne of the rescue team explained: \"The closer we get, the hole gets narrow and hard to pass through - which makes it very hard to save the child through volunteers. That's why we had to come up with another technique - which is digging.''\n\nBut authorities remain concerned that any interference with the well could accidentally hurt the five-year-old by triggering a landslide.", "Millions of households will typically pay an extra £693 a year on their energy bills from April, but chancellor Rishi Sunak said his support plan would take the \"sting\" out of the rise.\n\nThe sharp rise in energy bills will put a further squeeze on people already facing higher prices and rising taxes.\n\nThe chancellor said help of £350 per household would \"ease\" people's anxiety over the increase.\n\nBut the scheme was criticised for not being targeted on those most in need.\n\nDespite costing the government £9bn this year the average earner was still likely to be £400 worse off than last year, Paul Johnson, director of the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies said, due to a combination of tax rises and inflation.\n\nMore than half of the support package was \"effectively a loan\", Mr Johnson added.\n\nWholesale gas prices have been rising sharply over the last few months, which meant the regulator Ofgem was obliged to announce a rise in the cap that limits what companies can charge consumers in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nThe higher cap means a typical household will pay £1,971 a year from April, 54% more than they pay now, with a further rise expected in October.\n\nThe £693 a year rise will affect 22 million households, with 4.5 million customers on prepayment meters facing an even bigger increase of £708 a year.\n\nMr Sunak said the majority of families would receive a total of £350 to help them adjust to higher prices. However, only £150 will arrive by the time energy bills rise in April.\n\n\"I really believe that what we're doing, £350, it's a significant amount of money that will make a big difference to the vast majority of households, and I think people, I hope actually, will be reassured by us stepping in,\" the chancellor said.\n\nThe council tax rebate applies to homes in bands A to D, covering about 80% of households, which Mr Johnson said meant it was only \"very loosely\" targeted at lower-income households.\n\nThe other £200 will be taken off energy bills from October, but households will pay that back in instalments from 2023.\n\nHigher energy bills are set to play a key role in what the Resolution Foundation think tank has described as a \"cost of living catastrophe\" facing people across the UK this year.\n\nAlthough wages are rising, they are not growing fast enough to make up for prices that are rising at their fastest pace for 30 years. Tax changes in April, including a higher rate of National Insurance, will slim pay packets further.\n\nPost-tax incomes are now forecast to fall 2% this year, after taking into account the rising cost of living. This represents the biggest fall in take-home pay since records began in 1990.\n\nOn Thursday the Bank of England increased interest rates from 0.25% to 0.5% to try to dampen the pace of price rises over the longer term but the Bank said inflation could still reach 7.25% in April.\n\nMany people say they are already having to adapt to cope with higher prices, including 24-year-old Michael Ball, from Kirkcaldy,\n\nHe pays for his electricity via a pre-payment meter in the flat where he lives, but he goes back to his parents' house to wash his clothes to save money.\n\nMichael Ball says he is anxious about the price rise\n\n\"I do worry about money a lot. It's a big burden and this news is something that makes me feel anxious,\" he said.\n\nHe said he might have to move back in with his parents if his energy bills continued to rise.\n\n\"If I lose my independence, my own space, I worry about how it might affect my finances and mental health.\"\n\nTell us how you have been affected by the issues raised in this story.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said the £200 rebate would have an upfront cost of £5.6bn while the council tax discount would cost the government £3.6bn in 2022-23.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves criticised Mr Sunak for not scrapping VAT on energy bills.\n\nShe said that despite the chancellor's pledges the \"uncomfortable truth\" was that families in Britain would still be paying hundreds of pounds more for energy after April.\n\nShe described the plan as a \"buy now pay later scheme that loads up costs for tomorrow\".\n\nThe cap, which is announced every six months, sets the prices that suppliers can charge for each unit of energy as well as the standing charge. This is then translated into the expected annual bill for a household that uses the typical amount of gas and electricity.\n\nThat does not mean there is a limit to how much people can pay. The more gas and electricity that is used, the higher the bill.\n\nAnyone who is on a standard variable tariff, whose fixed deal has come to an end (or is about to), and those moved because their old supplier went bust will be affected by the new higher cap.\n\nAnalysts suggest the next change in the cap, scheduled for October, could add hundreds of pounds more on to a typical bill this coming winter.\n\nThere is a separate cap for 4.5 million people on prepayment meters, for whom there will be a rise from £1,309 a year to £2,017 in April for a typical household bill.\n\nEnergy firms are struggling under the weight of surging wholesale gas prices. The new cap will allow them to pass some of that cost onto customers.\n\nOfgem's announcement was brought forward as part of a coordinated approach of announcements about the cost of living.", "The collapse of 28 energy suppliers during the gas price crisis has cost each household about £68, the boss of the energy regulator Ofgem has said.\n\nJonathan Brearley told the BBC that about 10% of the energy price cap rise covered the cost of firms going bust.\n\nThe watchdog now wants to review the price cap every three months, instead of every six months at present.\n\nIt reckons the change would help bring some stability for consumers and firms in fast-moving market.\n\nAsked how much of the £693 rise in the energy price cap announced on Thursday covered the cost of suppliers going bust, Mr Brearley told the BBC's Today programme: \"About 10% of the rise was focused on the gas crisis. That's £68 per household.\"\n\nHe added: \"That money was focused on making sure everyone in the country, even if their supplier went bust, had access to energy at that price cap. That price cap has protected customers over the course of winter.\"\n\nSome 28 energy companies have stopped trading in the UK since last August leaving more than 4 million customers seeing their energy firm collapse,\n\nAsked if customers were paying the price for a failure of regulation, Mr Brearley said Ofgem was working with the sector and the market needed to be more resilient.\n\nOfgem has been widely criticised for failing to control the market and putting consumers at risk.\n\nIts move to double the number of energy cap price reviews to four a year from two is part of its proposed plan to get the energy market back under control.\n\nThe regulator is also consulting on reducing the advance notice it gives to suppliers of the updated price cap level, from two months to one.\n\n\"We are confident that these changes will increase the resilience of the price cap in the interests of consumers,\" it said. \"It would significantly reduce volume risk in falling and rising markets\".\n\nWe now know that, in April, the typical energy bill will rise by about £700 a year, or 54%.\n\nIrrespective of these new proposals, the next price cap announcement we get from Ofgem will be in six months' time and no sooner.\n\nAnalysts predict that we should expect another rise in October, of something like £400 a year. Ofgem's boss says it is too early to make those estimates, but there is little to suggest it would come down.\n\nIn summary, this is no short-term financial shock. The cost of living clouds are set in.\n\nPerhaps there is one silver lining for householders. If reviews of the price cap do become more frequent, then when wholesale prices start to fall again that should be reflected more quickly in our bills.\n\nMeanwhile, the chancellor's measures to help people facing high energy bills announced on Thursday have come under fire.\n\nBill Bullen, boss of prepayment specialist Utilita, told the BBC's Wake Up To Money programme that the chancellor's measures were \"not targeted enough\".\n\nHe said that while the support package would \"slow down the impact of these high prices\" low income households will be hit \"really hard\" next October.\n\n\"If it was more targeted towards low income households, I think it would be fine. But to give everybody £200... if they can't afford these bills this year, what makes you think they're going to be able to afford them next year?\"\n\nLabour's shadow climate secretary, Ed Miliband, accused the government of siding with oil and gas companies over families.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"The £200 is like a buy now, pay later scheme. But at the same time we saw Shell yesterday announcing £20bn profits. We should have a windfall tax on those profits and done much more for the poorest.\n\n\"The chancellor didn't side with ordinary people, he sided with the big gas and oil companies.\"\n\nMeanwhile E.On's UK boss Michael Lewis said the government must focus on getting the UK off the gas grid and improve energy efficiency to reduce energy bills.\n\n\"If we're really going to tackle long-term energy prices, what we really need to do is drive hard on zero carbon, get ourselves off the global gas market and invest massively in energy efficiency,\" he told the BBC.", "TfL said it had reduced annual running costs by more than £1bn in the past five years\n\nTransport for London's (TfL) emergency funding deal with the government has been extended by a fortnight.\n\nThe current financial deal was due to run out on 4 February, but negotiations have been given a short grace period.\n\nTfL is facing a £1.9bn budget black hole and has warned of massive cuts to bus, Tube and road services.\n\nThere have been repeated rows over funding for TfL and the cause of its financial crisis.\n\nTfL said discussions were continuing with the government as it aimed to secure \"long-term funding\".\n\nTfL has said that cutting all \"uncommitted\" Healthy Streets funding, such as for cycling schemes, would save about £500m\n\nA spokesperson added: \"There is no UK recovery from the pandemic without a London recovery and there is no London recovery without a properly funded transport network in the capital.\n\n\"It is essential London receives the sustained long-term government funding that is vital for the coming years if a period of 'managed decline' of London's transport network is to be avoided.\n\n\"We have agreed with the government that our existing funding agreement will be extended until 18 February so that these discussions can be concluded.\"\n\nUnions have warned public transport across the capital will grind to a halt without a long-term financial plan.\n\nOn Thursday, TfL said that cutting all \"uncommitted\" Healthy Streets funding, such as walking and cycling schemes, would save about £500m.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) has insisted it has \"repeatedly shown its commitment\" to supporting TfL.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there was \"now an opportunity for the government and the EU to step up to the mark\"\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said it will be \"difficult\" for his party to form a government after an election if issues around the NI Protocol are not addressed.\n\nHe was speaking after Paul Givan resigned as first minister on Thursday.\n\nIt took effect at midnight and meant Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill of Sinn Féin also lost her post.\n\nMr Donaldson said there was \"now an opportunity for the government and the EU to step up to the mark\".\n\nThe move by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) was part of their opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol, which places a trade border in the Irish Sea.\n\nOn Wednesday the DUP's agriculture minister, Edwin Poots, ordered officials to halt post-Brexit checks at Northern Ireland's ports on goods arriving from Great Britain.\n\nHowever, that direction has been suspended by the High Court, pending the outcome of legal challenges.\n\n\"I have withdrawn the first minister on the basis that the protocol issues have not been addressed despite clear commitments and promises given by the prime minister that they would be addressed,\" Sir Jeffrey told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"If the protocol issues are not resolved by the time of the election, then of course it is difficult for us to form a government, because of the instability that the protocol creates.\"\n\nMr Donaldson said that last week Boris Johnson told him the prospect of an agreement being reached with the EU on the protocol within the next few weeks was \"20 to 30%\".\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald (centre) called for an early election on Thursday\n\nSinn Féin have called for an early election.\n\nThe party's finance minister described the DUP's decision to resign from the post of first minister as \"cynical and reckless\".\n\nConor Murphy reiterated his party president's call for an early election and said the assembly could sit extra days if parties were willing to get legislation through.\n\n\"Let's get the parties together, let's get the legislation completed in the next number of weeks however long that takes to sit in the assembly, let's go to the people and ask them their verdict on what the DUP have done,\" he said.\n\n\"We can't sit by and pretend it is business as usual and that things are OK, I think we need to give the people their verdict in all of this.\"\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin said \"no one party should have a veto\" over the future of Stormont.\n\n\"I believe that decision is very damaging to politics itself, and to people's trust in politics,\" he added.\n\nConor Burns said the DUP should return Paul Givan to the role of first minister\n\nNorthern Ireland Office (NIO) minister Conor Burns urged the DUP to return Stormont to a stable government.\n\n\"We want Sir Jeffrey to reconsider, to put Paul Givan back in and get it stabilised and up and running again,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We'll spend time now thinking about what happens if that doesn't actually come to pass and we'll make those decisions.\"\n\nMr Burns said he did not want to speculate about the NIO's next actions but confirmed the Northern Ireland secretary does have the power to call an early election.\n\nInfrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon of the SDLP said her party were \"not going to fall into this trap that the DUP have set where we fall into an early election\".\n\n\"It's all about creating this toxic, hostile environment where they can terrify people to the polls by telling them their identity is in crisis,\" she said.\n\n\"There are real concerns within loyalism and within unionism, we are listening to that, we want to work through it but this is being manipulated by the DUP and it is shameful,\" she added.\n\nAlliance assembly member Andrew Muir said his party was up for an election \"at any time\", but said MLAs were there to do a job and \"they should get it done\".\n\nMeanwhile, a virtual meeting of several of the NI Executive party leaders has taken place.\n\nThe politicians discussed how the assembly and the executive might operate after Mr Givan's resignation.\n\nThere was some confusion earlier if the meeting would take place after the DUP leader was not originally invited by Sinn Féin.\n\nPaul Givan resigned as first minister on Thursday\n\nThe UUP and Alliance said the DUP should have been invited.\n\nIt is understood the party whips at Stormont are to meet to discuss how assembly business can be handled in the days ahead.\n\nUUP leader Doug Beattie was invited to the meeting but due to other commitments was unable to attend.\n\nHowever, he called on the secretary of state to say if he intended to call an early election \"because if we know when it's coming, we know how we can deal with the legislation\".\n\n\"But right now, we simply don't know what to do.\",\" he added.\n\nAs the dust settles after Paul Givan's resignation - the parties and pressure groups lobbying for legislation must now assess what can be rescued in the coming days.\n\nThe difficulty in holding a cross-party meeting is an example of how difficult it is to chart a way forward.\n\nLooking ahead there is also much talk about an early election and there is a clear divide.\n\nSinn Féin and the DUP want one, but the Alliance, the SDLP and the UUP say voters should go to the polls as scheduled in May.\n\nSome are now asking if full devolution can be restored after an election.\n\nWhilst the DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says that depends on what happens to the protocol.\n\nThere are also questions if a DUP MLA would serve as deputy first minster if Sinn Féin take the first minster's role.\n\nNot for the first time the long term future of how we are governed is shrouded in doubt.\n\nAn election for the Northern Ireland Assembly is currently scheduled for May.\n\nDue to Northern Ireland's power-sharing arrangements, the roles of first and deputy first ministers are a joint office shared between the two biggest parties at Stormont.\n\nNeither leader can stay in power if the other person resigns.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Assembly continues in shadow form, but the executive - effectively Northern Ireland's government - will no longer meet.\n\nMinisters in charge of departments will be able to stay in post, but they will be limited in terms of what they can do.\n\nAhead of the midnight deadline on Thursday, the outgoing first and deputy first ministers made a number of appointments, including naming Ian Jeffers as Northern Ireland's new victims' commissioner, and keeping in place for another three years Brenda King as Northern Ireland's attorney general.\n\nThere are questions over key pieces of legislation requiring executive approval, including a multi-year budget and the lifting of Northern Ireland's remaining Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said he would be seeking legal advice on his powers as health minister\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said he was \"deeply concerned about the consequences\" of Mr Givan's resignation.\n\nMr Swann said he had sought \"urgent legal clarification\" on the possible easing of remaining Covid-19 restrictions, in the absence of the executive.\n\nAlex Maskey, assembly speaker, said the Northern Ireland Act 1998 calls for the first and deputy first minister offices to be filled within seven days, by 12:01 on Friday 11 February.\n\nMr Maskey also said he was aware that legislation due to be completed at Westminster next week may leave that situation subject to change, but said he could only deal with the \"legal position which exists now\".\n\nThe party's current leader, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has been threatening to withdraw DUP ministers from Stormont for months over its opposition to the protocol.\n\nUnionists have argued that Northern Ireland's place in the UK is being undermined by the protocol as it is being treated differently from Great Britain.\n\nSir Jeffrey first delivered the ultimatum in September last year, warning that the DUP may quit Stormont \"within weeks\" if its protocol demands were not met.\n\nTalks between the EU and the UK government - which is seeking changes to the protocol - have been ongoing for months but have intensified in recent weeks.", "Munira Mirza, the prime minister's policy chief, was one of four senior aides to quit on Thursday\n\nThe chief of staff, the chief of communications, the official who runs the prime minister's private office, and his policy chief - all gone. A quartet of departures from No 10.\n\nIn the words of one senior backbencher, not just a nightmare on Downing Street but a total meltdown.\n\nYet two different things happened on a turbulent day. The first three paid the price for the fiasco over lockdown gatherings - one sending the invite to the garden drinks, the other two crafting Boris Johnson's bungled response to weeks of damaging claims.\n\nMr Johnson's backers claim it's evidence that he'll keep his vow - \"I get it, I will fix it\" - that No 10 can become the home to a new and improved operation.\n\nThe resignation of Munira Mirza is of a very different order. For more than 10 years she's been one of Mr Johnson's true political friends - described as \"Boris' brain\" by one former colleague, an ally of ideas.\n\nHer choice to take a public stand after staying loyal during so many controversies sends a message loud and clear - even one of the prime minister's closest backers believes it is enough.\n\nIt's suggested the three men's departures were fast forwarded to help soften the sharpness of Ms Mirza's attack, MPs cajoled to display their pleasure in tweets online that Mr Johnson was sticking to his promise to clear out No 10.\n\nYet those obvious political plays don't mask the sense of instability around No 10. Tory MPs who wanted to be reassured are likely to be rattled instead. His allies who have rallied support for him in the last couple of weeks have bolstered his operation.\n\nBut some MPs are privately turning against their approaches, one joking they are wannabe \"Peaky Blinders\" trying to threaten colleagues to behave. The almost immediate leak of their plea to MPs to welcome the No 10 changes show as much.\n\nAnd all the while those who want the prime minister gone gather and prepare. There seems no one grand plot to oust the PM from office. Alliances are shifting. There's no one clear alternative, let alone one unifying idea.\n\nAnd the Tories' long-standing reputation for ruthless removals of leaders does not always ring true. Older heads remind restive colleagues how long it took for Theresa May to go, even after losing a majority, even after a confidence vote.\n\nOthers fear a bungled attempt to force Mr Johnson out would trap the party in a terrible limbo. Others believe that when it comes to campaigning it would be insane to lose Mr Johnson's clout.\n\nBut every mistake or misjudgement provides more evidence to those who want him gone.\n\nAnd for the prime minister's backers, it becomes harder for them to argue that he ought to stay.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bank of England boss: 'Don’t ask for a big pay rise'\n\nUnions have reacted with fury after the Bank of England boss urged workers not to ask for big pay rises, to help stop prices rising out of control.\n\nAndrew Bailey told the BBC wage rises needed to be moderate with firms showing \"restraint\" in pay talks.\n\nWhen asked whether the Bank was asking workers not to demand big pay rises, Mr Bailey, said: \"Broadly, yes.\"\n\nDowning Street and the Treasury distanced themselves from Mr Bailey's comments.\n\nThe GMB union branded the comments a \"sick joke\", while the TUC said calls for pay restraint were \"ill-founded\".\n\n\"Telling the hard-working people who carried this country through the pandemic they don't deserve a pay rise is outrageous. It's a sick joke,\" said Gary Smith, GMB's general secretary.\n\nTUC head of economics Kate Bell said increasing pay at a slower rate would \"make the squeeze on family budgets even tighter\".\n\n\"Energy prices are pushing up inflation - not wage demands. Britain needs a pay rise - not another decade of lost pay and living standards,\" she added.\n\nAnd Unite lead Sharon Graham said workers did not need \"lectures\" from Mr Bailey \"on exercising pay restraint\".\n\n\"Let's be clear, pay restraint is nothing more than a call for a national pay cut.\"\n\nWhen asked about Mr Bailey's comments, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"Well, it's not something the prime minister is calling for. We obviously want a high growth economy and we want people's wages to increase.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said on Thursday that it was not his job to set private sector wages, and that the right way to achieve higher wages was through greater productivity.\n\nInflation, the rate at which prices are rising, is on course to rise above 7% this year and average close to 6% in 2022.\n\nThis means prices are expected to climb faster than pay, putting the biggest squeeze on household finances in decades, with workers set to experience the biggest hit to their take-home income since 1990.\n\nWorkers are currently getting pay rises of just below 5% on average.\n\nMr Bailey was paid £575,538 including pension, in the year from 1 March 2020, more than 18 times higher the median annual pay of £31,285 for full-time employees.\n\nHe said that while it would be \"painful\" for workers to accept that prices would rise faster than their wages, he added that some \"moderation of wage rises\" was needed to prevent the rise in the cost of living becoming entrenched.\n\n\"I'm not saying don't give yourself a pay rise. This is about the size of it [any rise]... we do need to see restraint,\" he added.\n\nThe Treasury supported Mr Bailey, with chief secretary Simon Clarke saying it was \"important that pay restraint is observed\".\n\nThe boss of British Gas owner Centrica, Chris O'Shea, told the BBC he could see both sides.\n\n\"If this is a temporary spike in inflation and wages rise to meet that temporary spike, then the people paying those wages have to pass on that cost and that's where you get into the wage price inflation spiral.\n\n\"But if you are trying to figure out how to pay for your groceries at Aldi, then its not enough to sit and say well I'm not going to do this... you are worried about paying your bills, you're worried about feeding your family, you're worried about heating your home. \"\n\nMeanwhile, the High Pay Centre think tank said Mr Bailey's comments \"while not ill intentioned\" were \"frankly absurd\" and \"insulting\".\n\nIt said the cost of living hike followed more than a decade of wages stagnating, during which the top executives were paid 86 times more than the average worker.\n\n\"It's time that those with the broadest shoulders genuinely start to take on more of the burden of the economic challenges we face,\" it said.\n\nCertain industries and professions are seeing bigger pay increases due to labour shortages. For example, lorry drivers, who are in high demand, have received wage hikes of up to 20%.\n\nHow is the rising cost of living affecting you? Get in touch.\n\nOlaf Dziewirz, transport manager at haulage firm The Best Solutions Hull, told the BBC he increased the wages of his lorry drivers twice last year to retain his 34-strong workforce and attract new drivers.\n\nIn total, his drivers received a £7,000 rise, taking average salaries to £39,000 a year and pushing up what his business spends on wages to between 30% to 40% of its total costs.\n\nMr Dziewirz said \"big blue chip companies\" were paying \"extremely big amounts\", especially in the run-up to Christmas, with some offering as much as £44 an hour.\n\nHe said his firm's wage rises had been covered by increasing its prices, but added \"ultimately it [the cost] comes back to the end consumer\".\n\nMr Bailey said the rise in living costs would not ease until next year, with the UK facing a \"difficult period\" ahead.\n\n\"We're going to start coming out of it in 2023, and two years from now, we expect inflation back to a more stable position,\" he added.\n\nThe Bank increased interest rates from 0.25% to 0.5% on Thursday, the same day millions of households were informed they will have to pay an extra £693 a year on energy bills from April.\n\nRising gas and electricity costs are the main factors pushing up prices across the economy.\n\nThe rise in energy bills has led the government to announce measures to cut energy costs for many households by £350 through a combination of rebates and council tax cuts to ease the impact.\n\nHowever, Mike Brewer, chief economist at the Resolution Foundation, said by not targeting \"families most in need of support, and by trying to minimise the cost of support to the public purse\", households would still face significant bill rises and higher bills \"for many years to come\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said on Thursday that it was \"not sustainable to keep holding the price of energy artificially low\".\n\n\"For me to stand here and pretend we don't have to adjust to paying higher prices would be wrong and dishonest,\" he said.", "DUP Minister Edwin Poots' directions to halt Irish Sea border checks will be suspended, the High Court has ordered.\n\nMr Justice Colton confirmed inspections on goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain must continue pending the outcome of legal challenges.\n\nAgriculture Minister Mr Poots had ordered his officials to halt Irish Sea border checks on Wednesday.\n\nHe had threatened the action as part of the DUP's ongoing opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe protocol was agreed by the UK and EU to ensure free movement of trade across the Irish land border after Brexit.\n\nBut unionist politicians have been critical of the arrangements, saying they are damaging Northern Ireland's place in the UK.\n\nThe High Court development came on Friday as an unidentified member of Sinn Féin and a second applicant named Edward Rooney.\n\nChecks on goods coming from Great Britain will continue\n\nMr Justice Colton said: \"There shouldn't be any doubt or confusion hanging over those civil servants who have to comply with the law.\n\n\"I propose to make an order, suspending the order or instruction given by the Minister for Agriculture until further order of this court or completion of these proceedings.\"\n\nChecks on goods along the Irish Sea border have continued despite Mr Poots' order, Downing Street said on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said checks were continuing, and that \"we are reviewing the legal position\".\n\nPaul Givan also announced his resignation as first minister of Northern Ireland on Thursday.\n\nThe move was also part of the DUP's protest against the protocol.", "Winter Olympics: Games officially under way after opening ceremony in Beijing Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five tips to boost your child's wellbeing\n\nThere has been a 77% rise in the number of children needing specialist treatment for severe mental health crisis, analysis for the BBC shows.\n\nSome 409,347 under-18s were referred to the NHS in England for specialist care for issues such as suicidal thoughts and self harm between April and October 2021.\n\nHead teachers also report a huge rise in less severe mental health issues.\n\nThe government plans 400 mental health teams to support schools by 2023.\n\nThe NHS Digital referrals data analysed by the Royal College of Psychiatrists for the BBC, includes the most serious and urgent cases where the child faces an immediate risk from an eating disorder, self-harm or suicidal thoughts. In the same six month period in 2019, there were 230,591 referrals for under-18s.\n\nThere were 349,449 under-18s in touch with NHS child and adolescent psychiatric teams at the end of October 2021, the highest number on record.\n\nOnly those with the most serious mental health problems are referred for specialist care. But schools are reporting a surge in mental health problems below this high threshold, with pupils needing extra support such as counselling.\n\nAlmost 1,000 teaching and support staff who responded to a survey from the children's mental health charity, Place2Be, and the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), described seeing an increase in emotional and mental health issues among pupils since the pandemic, including anxiety.\n\n\"Covid is trash,\" says Isaac, 7, as he shows me his drawing of flies buzzing around a bin on fire. It illustrates his feelings about coronavirus.\n\nHe's drawn himself \"feeling sad because I feel like I'm trapped in the telly\", while his grandma tries \"to scare Covid away\".\n\nPupils at Seascape Primary School have been taking part in mental health workshops\n\nIsaac's drawing is a task as part of a mental health workshop he's in with other Year 3 and Year 4 pupils at Seascape Primary School in Peterlee, County Durham.\n\nGrace, 8, remembers her parents telling her about the pandemic beginning.\n\nShe's drawn herself \"curled in the corner\" of a prison cell, \"because I felt trapped in lockdown\".\n\nIn a normal year the team of counsellors that work at the school would see about 100 children but in just the autumn term almost as many asked for help.\n\nMany are anxious or struggling to manage with being back in a busy school.\n\nAs well as providing mental health support, Seascape is bringing back music lessons, football tournaments and school trips as part of its effort to boost children's wellbeing.\n\nBut there are different pressures for teenagers - especially those who face exams this summer for GCSEs.\n\nAlmost half of secondary schools (46%) said pupils' mental and emotional health was the biggest challenge in helping them catch up with learning, in recent government research.\n\nAmong the Year 11 pupils feeling the pressure is Harley who has had extra support from his school, Horizon Community College in Barnsley.\n\nHarley's self-esteem plummeted after coming out of lockdown in 2021.\n\n\"It was very uncomfortable for the first two or three months. Some of us had put on weight and it felt awkward,\" he tells me.\n\n\"The time I lost with my friends didn't help and it took me a long, long road to get back.\"\n\nSchools say the pressures of the pandemic have made mental health an even greater priority, with longer waits for specialist help.\n\nHarley's school has encouraged him to open up about his low self-esteem\n\nAn extra £79m for improving mental health support in England was committed by the government last year.\n\nIt has also promised 400 mental health support teams by 2023, to work with schools to provide extra counselling.\n\nThe BBC has learned at least 183 are up and running, with more staff in training.\n\nThese teams have been welcomed, but the charities in the Children and Young People's Mental Health Coalition warn they will only cover about a third of England's pupils.\n\nIn the meantime, pupils such as Harley have to rely on the school for support - which he says is helping.\n\n\"Talking just gives you time to breathe, and it helps me control what's going on in my head,\" he says.\n\n\"It's a weight off my chest.\"\n\nWhat is your experience of children's physical and mental health services during the pandemic? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Peter Swailes had denied modern slavery but changed his plea on the first day of his trial\n\nA modern slaver whose disabled victim was exploited for 40 years has been given a suspended prison sentence.\n\nPeter Swailes' victim was made to work on farms for little pay and slept in a shed, Carlisle Crown Court heard.\n\nSwailes admitted conspiring to facilitate travel of another with a view to exploitation. His father, also called Peter Swailes, 81, faced the same charge but died in 2021.\n\nSwailes, 56, was jailed for nine months, suspended for 18 months.\n\nSwailes, of Low Harker, Carlisle, had initially denied the charge against him but changed his plea on the agreed basis of his \"limited\" involvement with the victim and that he had not been made aware of his living conditions.\n\nJudge Richard Archer accepted Swailes' father had been a \"controlling influence on him\" and the younger man was not responsible for the living conditions the victim was found in.\n\nBut Swailes admitting paying the man as little as £10 a day while being given thousands of pounds for the jobs he was carrying out.\n\n\"[The man] had little understanding of the world around him,\" prosecutor Barbara Webster told the court as she described the victim being found.\n\nShe said: \"He was ill equipped to deal with adult life, could not manage alone and had no clue as to the complexities of the value of money, wages, taxes or anything else.\n\n\"He was found by the police living in a rotten shed, with water pouring through it, with a make-shift bed, and congealed vomit in the corner.\"\n\nThe shed the man was kept in had no lights or heating\n\nHe had, over time, lived in a horse box, disused caravan and, for the five years up to 2018, the shed which had no heating, lighting or proper flooring.\n\nThis was In \"stark contrast\" to an adjacent shed in far better condition which housed the family dog, the court heard\n\nHe was vulnerable and had an IQ of 59, which was in the lowest 1% of the population.\n\nThe man was rescued at the age of 58 by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) after a tip-off in 2018.\n\nMs Webster said: \"He had few possessions to show for his 40 years' hard work. A wash bag, three second-hand coats, a few stained duvets and compact discs.\n\n\"The only food was a half-eaten Pot Noodle, a bowl of sweets, yogurts and crisps. The odour of the shed was overwhelming.\"\n\nCity Hearts, a modern slavery charity that is supporting Swailes' victim, said the man, who had learning difficulties, did not realise the \"severity of what had happened to him\".\n\nAccommodation manager Kyle France said the man, who the charity is calling Chris, clearly \"hadn't had a wash in a very, very long time\" and needed medical attention \"due to a number of fresh and old injuries that had been left untreated\".\n\nMr France said Swailes' treatment of the man \"shows a level of hatred that I just can't get my head around\".\n\nIn a statement released by City Hearts, Chris said Swailes and his father found him jobs as a painter and labourer on nearby farms.\n\nHe was driven there and back each day with his pay pocketed by the Swailes.\n\nOn one occasion he fell from a ladder while painting and broke his back and ribs, but the Swailes removed him from hospital before he was discharged and \"dragged back to his life of drudgery\", City Hearts said.\n\n\"I didn't run away, because I had nowhere else to go,\" Chris, who had been encouraged to drink to excess by his captors as a way of controlling him, said.\n\nWhen not working, Chris was kept in a dark shed which had \"no kitchen, shower or heating, and only a bucket as a toilet\".\n\nA raid at Hadrian's Caravan Park in Carlisle took place in 2018\n\nGLAA senior investigating officer Martin Plimmer said it had been a \"truly harrowing and traumatic case\" and he could not remember another where \"the exploitation of a vulnerable worker has taken place over such a long period of time\".\n\nThe court previously heard the man had been sleeping on the floor with a soiled duvet next to a metered TV.\n\nThere was only one window which could not be fully closed and it was in complete darkness when the doors were shut.\n\nAn old electric heater with damaged wiring had been left in the corner of the shed, and there was no other heating inside.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amazon is raising the price of its Prime service for US customers after reporting record sales and profits.\n\nThe e-commerce giant said it was hiking the price by 17% to $139 for annual membership.\n\nThe firm, which cited increased wage and shipping costs, said it had no announcements to make about other countries \"at this time\".\n\nIt is the first increase since 2018 for Prime, which gives subscribers access to benefits like faster shipping.\n\nMore than 200 million people globally pay for the service, many of them in the US.\n\nAmazon shares soared almost 15% in after hours trade on the news, which accompanied the release of its end of 2021 performance.\n\nSales for the last three months of 2021 expanded by 10% year-on-year to $137.4bn. But those gains were driven by growth in areas like its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, and advertising, while its e-commerce sales dipped from 2020, when the pandemic propelled blockbuster gains.\n\nThe firm's profits in the quarter also jumped, to $14.3bn - almost double the prior year. Its investment in electric vehicle maker Rivian, which floated on the stock market in November, drove those increases.\n\nFor the year, sales rose 22% to $469.8 billion, sending profits to $33.4bn.\n\nAnalysts had been worried about how the firm would fare, after executives warned last year they were seeing higher costs due to supply issues and difficulty hiring workers.\n\nAmazon said those challenges had hurt - and were likely to continue this year. It forecast sales growth of 3%-8% in the first three months of 2022.\n\n\"As expected over the holidays, we saw higher costs driven by labour supply shortages and inflationary pressures, and these issues persisted into the first quarter due to Omicron,\" chief executive Andy Jassy said.\n\n\"Despite these short-term challenges, we continue to feel optimistic and excited about the business as we emerge from the pandemic.\"\n\nThe company said inflation, including higher wages, drove $4bn more in costs in the final months of 2021. With the increase in the Prime fees, the firm is moving to shift some of those costs to customers.\n\nAmazon's chief financial officer, Brian Olsavsky, said some may quit Prime due to the fee increase, which goes into effect on 18 February for new members and will apply after 25 March to existing subscribers.\n\nBut he said that hadn't been a problem in the past.\n\nConsumer spending in the US has remained strong, despite prices rising at a 7% rate last year - the fastest inflation in nearly four decades.", "A coroner due to hold inquests into the deaths at Shoreham air crash has lost her High Court bid to obtain video footage from the pilot's cockpit.\n\nThe Hawker Hunter aircraft flown by Andrew Hill crashed on a dual carriageway in West Sussex on 22 August 2015, killing 11 men.\n\nMr Hill was acquitted of gross negligence manslaughter in 2019.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) had opposed using the footage at the inquest.\n\nThe AAIB inquiry concluded that the crash could have been avoided and was caused by pilot error when Mr Hill flew too low and too slowly while carrying out a manoeuvre.\n\nAt his Old Bailey trial, Mr Hill's defence raised the issue of whether he had suffered a cognitive impairment which caused him to fly the plane in the manner he did.\n\nPart of the evidence produced was the video from the cockpit recorded on Mr Hill's Go-Pro camera.\n\nAfter the trial, the AAIB reviewed their investigation and concluded there was \"no new and significant evidence of cognitive impairment\" and that their findings were valid.\n\nPilot Andrew Hill was cleared of 11 charges of manslaughter by gross negligence at a criminal trial\n\nThe senior coroner for West Sussex, Penelope Schofield, had asked for the footage to assess whether a report from a doctor - a paediatric oncologist who is a friend of the pilot - could be evidence the AAIB probe was incomplete, flawed or deficient in considering cognitive impairment.\n\nLawyers for the coroner had argued that the report made a credible suggestion the AAIB's investigation of cognitive impairment was incomplete, but said she did not have credible evidence.\n\nMr Hill and the families of three of the men who died supported the coroner's request for the footage.\n\nTop row, left to right: Matt Jones, Matthew Grimstone, Jacob Schilt, Maurice Abrahams, Richard Smith. Bottom row, left to right: Mark Reeves, Tony Brightwell, Mark Trussler, Daniele Polito, Dylan Archer, Graham Mallinson\n\nThe AAIB had argued that handing over the footage would have a \"significant potential adverse impact on future safety investigations\".\n\nThe High Court had previously heard that cockpit recordings are protected from being disclosed unless being used in safety investigations.\n\nIt was told the AAIB cannot compel people or organisations to co-operate with their inquiries and protecting material helps encourage people involved in air accidents to cooperate.\n\nIn a judgment on Friday, two senior judges dismissed the bid.\n\nDame Victoria Sharp, sitting with Mr Justice Saini, ruled there \"is neither credible evidence nor, even adopting her approach, a credible suggestion that the AAIB investigations were incomplete, flawed or deficient on the issue of cognitive impairment\".\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michael Ross was found guilty of murder in 2008\n\nA former Army sniper serving a life sentence for a murder on Orkney has admitted attempting to escape from one of Scotland's highest security prisons.\n\nMichael Ross, 43, tried to climb a fence at HMP Shotts in Lanarkshire in 2018 - his third escape attempt.\n\nAppearing via video link at Hamilton Sheriff Court, he was sentenced to two years to run alongside his life term.\n\nRoss was convicted in 2008 of murdering waiter Shamsuddin Mahmood, 26, in 1994 but maintains his innocence.\n\nHis lawyer Aamer Anwar said Ross knew the escape attempt would not be successful but had wanted to attract attention to his conviction appeal.\n\nIt is the third time Ross, whose earliest release date is in 2035, has tried to escape from jail.\n\nPrison guards intervened when he attempted to use a homemade ladder to scale the perimeter fence of a sports field while other prisoners were exercising.\n\nA hi-vis jacket he was wearing was searched and found to contain food, clothing and a toothbrush.\n\nHe was placed into solitary confinement for weeks and banned from contacting his family.\n\nDepute fiscal Jennifer McCabe said: \"He had a homemade ladder which had wooden grapples at either end over the fence and he was attempting to climb said ladder.\n\n\"Only one end was thrown over the fence and acted as a climbing rope.\n\n\"Officers attended where the accused was standing and he was immediately removed to the segregation unit.\"\n\nSheriff Thomas Millar told Ross, who appeared from HMP Low Moss: \"It is a serious matter to attempt to escape from custody and it has to be marked by a custodial sentence.\n\n\"It is now on your record and will possibly affect any parole proceedings in the future.\"\n\nMr Mahmood was shot in full view of a room full of diners, including families with children, by a masked gunman in Kirkwall in 1994.\n\nRoss, who was 15 at the time of the killing, was found guilty of the murder after a trial at the High Court in Glasgow 14 years later.\n\nPolice had received an anonymous letter identifying him as the gunman.\n\nBefore his arrest, the father-of-two had been decorated for his military service in Iraq and was made sergeant of the Black Watch sniper platoon.\n\nWhen the guilty verdict was delivered after the murder trial, he fled from the dock before being caught by a court official and police.\n\nA hired car with a cache of guns and ammunition was later found in a nearby Tesco car park.\n\nMr Mahmood was shot at the Mumutaz restaurant in Kirkwall\n\nRoss tried to escape on a second occasion while being taken to hospital in 2014 after he failed in a bid to have his murder conviction re-examined.\n\nMr Anwar said Ross's latest escape attempt was a protest over his 25-year sentence for a \"wrongful-conviction\".\n\n\"The incident at HMP Shotts on 13 July 2018 was to draw attention to his case and highlight his innocence,\" Mr Anwar said.\n\n\"He states that he was punished by the Scottish Prison Service after the event and still to this day he is being punished for his actions nearly four years on.\n\n\"Mr Ross wishes to convey his sorrow to the family of Shamsuddin for their loss, but appreciates they will not want to hear his words.\"\n\nHe also said Ross \"maintains that there will be people on the island who know the truth\" about what had happened.", "Caroline Flack was briefly engaged to Andrew Brady, a former contestant on BBC show The Apprentice\n\nThe former fiance of late TV presenter Caroline Flack has been jailed for harassing a journalist.\n\nAndrew Brady, 31, used social media to send threats and abuse to Dan Wootton, including messages branding him a sex offender and murderer.\n\nSheffield Crown Court heard Brady had admitted harassing the GB News presenter between February and April last year.\n\nBrady, a former Apprentice contestant, was jailed for four months.\n\nThe court heard how he started harassing Mr Wootton, a Daily Mail columnist and former executive editor of The Sun, around a year after Miss Flack's death on 15 February 2020.\n\nHe had faced more serious allegations of putting Mr Wootton in fear of violence, but changed his plea to admit an alternative, lesser charge of harassment.\n\nPassing sentence, Judge Jeremy Richardson QC told Brady his claims that Mr Wootton was in some way responsible for Miss Flack's death were \"wholly irrational\", noting that Mr Wootton was actually a friend of the Love Island presenter.\n\nHe told Brady the attacks on Mr Wootton had \"everything to do with your craving for celebrity status and your irritation that the press were not in the least interested in your somewhat uninteresting life\".\n\nThe judge described some of Brady's comments as \"utterly outrageous\".\n\nBrady, from Sheffield, admitted using social media and video platforms to cause distress by:\n\nMr Wootton left his roles as executive editor and columnist at The Sun to join GB News\n\nJudge Richardson also imposed a 10-year restraining order banning Brady from contacting Mr Wootton, posting anything about him online, or going within 200 yards of his home or workplace.\n\n\"You must move on with your life,\" the judge told him.\n\nIn a statement read to the court, Mr Wootton - who watched the proceedings by video-link - said he \"adored\" the \"late, great Caroline Flack\".\n\nHe said he had a close working relationship with her, and added: \"I only ever wrote stories about Caroline that she wanted to be published.\"\n\n\"She knew I had her back,\" he added.\n\nMr Wootton said the late presenter called him after ending her relationship with Brady, who had appeared on The Apprentice and Celebrity Big Brother, in 2018.\n\nMr Wootton said in his statement: \"The public should be aware that he [Brady] has no credibility to speak on behalf of Caroline.\"\n\nHowever, he added: \"I hope he gets the help he needs.\"\n\nLaura Marshall, prosecuting, said other journalists were included in the defendant's messaging, including one who said Brady had demanded she pay him £40,000 for a \"tell all\" story about his former fiancée.\n\nShe said Brady also made numerous attempts to sell stories about himself.\n\nMs Marshall said one message Brady posted about Mr Wootton said: \"Felt like getting rid of him once and for all.\"\n\nA voice message left for Mr Wootton included comments like: \"You are culpable for people's deaths\" and \"you are an evil man who needs to be dealt with\".\n\nBrady was arrested and bailed in February 2021 but continued his campaign against the journalist, the court was told.\n\nWhen he was arrested again, in April 2021, Brady livestreamed the event on Instagram, saying: \"You're going to have to put a bullet in my head.\"\n\nJudge Richardson said he would not \"sully\" his sentencing remarks by repeating some of the \"kaleidoscope of invective laced with high-octane expletives\".\n\n\"Put simply, you must stop doing what you do,\" he said, adding if Brady resumed his campaign, he faced a prison sentence measured in years rather than months.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Methane leaks have been systemically mapped from space\n\nHuge plumes of the warming gas methane have been mapped globally for the first time from oil and gas fields using satellites.\n\nPlugging these leaks would be an important step in buying extra time to curb climate change.\n\nThe new research found plumes covering vast areas, sometimes stretching to 200 miles - the leaks are thought to be mostly unintended.\n\nLast year, about 100 countries promised to cut methane emissions by 2030.\n\n\"We knew about individual gas blow-outs before, but this work shows the true methane footprint of oil and gas operations around the planet,\" explains Riley Duren, an author of the paper and CEO of Carbon Mapper which tracks methane emissions.\n\nMethane usually leaks from oil and gas facilities during maintenance operations, while fixing a valve or pipeline, for example, or from compressor stations - facilities that maintain the flow and pressure of natural gas.\n\nIt is also produced by landfill, agriculture and in coal production. This research focused on detecting oil and gas leaks that can be plugged if companies invest in prevention.\n\nScientists believe that cutting methane emissions is an \"easy win\" in tackling climate change, because it's a very potent gas usually released by humans in leaks that can be stopped relatively easily.\n\nAn IPCC study last year suggested that 30-50% of the current rise in temperatures is down to methane.\n\nThe lead scientist in the research, Thomas Lauvaux at LSCE CEA-Saclay in France, told BBC News that calculating greenhouse gas emissions usually relies on countries or companies self-reporting.\n\nBut collecting data from the atmosphere \"offers a more rigorous approach to emissions accounting, more independent and more transparent\", he explains.\n\nThe three countries with the largest plumes identified in the latest research were Turkmenistan, Russia and the US.\n\nPlumes seen from space can stretch hundreds of miles - including here in the US\n\nBut the satellites did not measure leaks in areas with thick cloud cover or at high altitude, including most of Canada and China. They also only measured plumes from land facilities.\n\nThe data was collected in 2019-20 by the Tropomi instrument on the EU's Sentinel-5P satellite. It identified the largest of leaks among what are known as ultra-emitters, accounting for about 12% of all methane leaks by oil and gas companies.\n\n\"I was shocked but not surprised by the widespread nature of these ultra-emitters. They are the tip of the iceberg,\" professor of geosciences Paul Palmer, at the University of Edinburgh, told BBC News.\n\nAs more satellites are deployed in the next five years, some will detect methane at much higher resolution, meaning that individual oil and gas facilities can be identified.\n\n\"Soon enough, with upcoming sensors, it will be more difficult for the oil and gas industry to claim ignorance about leaks, unintended or otherwise,\" Prof Palmer explains.\n\nBy plugging these leaks, countries could save billions - including $6bn for Turkmenistan, $4bn for Russia and $1.6bn for the US, the research suggests.\n\nIn terms of benefits for the environment, the scientists estimate that stopping the leaks would prevent between 0.005C and 0.002C of warming.\n\nThat is equivalent to removing all emissions from Australia since 2005 from the atmosphere, or the emissions from 20 million cars for a year, they suggest.\n\n\"Capping these very large leaks might seem like it would play only a negligible role, but the societal implications are significant,\" explains Prof Palmer.\n\n\"Every molecule counts as we try to minimise future warming.\"\n\nIn November, more than 100 governments at the climate change conference COP26 in Glasgow signed up to the Global Methane Pledge. It aims to limit methane emissions by 30% compared with 2020 levels.\n\nThe ultra-emitter research is published in the research journal Science.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chancellor agrees that No 10 party claims have damaged the public’s confidence in the government\n\nRishi Sunak has said controversy over Downing Street parties has damaged public trust in the government, but Boris Johnson has his \"full support\".\n\nThe chancellor told the BBC he believed the prime minister had always told the truth about parties in No 10.\n\nAnd he dismissed talk of him replacing Mr Johnson as Tory leader, saying he was focused on his current job.\n\nMr Johnson is facing growing calls to stand down from the opposition and Conservative MPs.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is investigating 12 gatherings in Downing Street and other government buildings that took place when the country was in lockdown - including at least three that the PM was at.\n\nMr Sunak, who lives next door to the prime minister in Downing Street, is reported to have attended a surprise birthday party for Mr Johnson in No 10's Cabinet Room in June 2020.\n\nBut, in an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, he said he had been in that room \"100, 200, God knows how many times\" for Covid meetings during he pandemic, adding: \"You're asking me about something that happened almost two years ago.\"\n\nAsked whether he had been aware of multiple gatherings during lockdown, Mr Sunak, speaking in his office overlooking the Downing Street garden, replied: \"People seem to think that I'm spending all my time there staring out of this window behind me... [But] I spent half my time in the Treasury, as well as working here.\"\n\nOn Thursday, the chancellor also announced a package of measures to help households cope with a huge surge in energy bills from April. The rise comes amid a cost-of-living crisis, that also includes tax rises and higher food prices.\n\nAsked by Laura Kuenssberg if he worried that reporting of Downing Street parties had damaged the public's confidence in the government, Mr Sunak replied: \"Yes, I think it has. I can appreciate people's frustration. And I think it's now the job of all of us in government, all politicians, to restore people's trust.\"\n\nAnd, asked if Mr Johnson always told the truth, Mr Sunak - who has previously made little comment on the Downing Street gatherings - replied: \"Yes, of course he does. He's the prime minister of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThe BBC is aware of 17 Tory MPs who have submitted letters of no confidence in the prime minister to Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservatives' 1922 Backbench Committee.\n\nIf 54 of them do so, it will trigger a vote on Mr Johnson's future, potentially leading to a leadership contest.\n\nSome of the most recent MPs to submit their letters also cited the PM's false claim that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute serial sex offender Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions (DPP) as one of their reasons for trying to oust him.\n\nMr Johnson made the accusation in the Commons on Monday, but had no evidence to back it up, and it has been widely debunked since.\n\nAt Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir accused Mr Johnson of fuelling conspiracy theories. Mr Johnson replied that Sir Keir had taken \"full responsibility for what had happened on his watch\".\n\nBut on Thursday, the PM appeared to back down, telling reporters he had not been talking about Sir Keir's \"personal record\" when he was DPP, adding: \"I totally understand that he had nothing to do personally with those decisions.\n\n\"I was making a point about his responsibility for the organisation as a whole.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Johnson's latest comments, Sir Keir told BBC Three Counties Radio: \"If the PM thought that, he should have kept his mouth shut.\"\n\nSome Tory MPs say Mr Sunak, as one of the most powerful figures in the government, would be a frontrunner to replace the PM, should he go.\n\n\"Well, that's very kind of them to suggest that,\" Mr Sunak said. \"But what I think people want from me is to focus on my job...\n\n\"I know a few of my colleagues have said that and they'll have their reasons for doing that. But I don't think that's the situation we're in. The prime minister has my full support.\"\n\nAsked if he would run to be the next Tory leader and prime minister, should there be a vacancy, Mr Sunak said: \"No, that's that's not what I'm focused on.\"\n\nThe MP for Richmond, North Yorkshire, who has been chancellor since just before the pandemic started, said his job was \"stressful and tiring\" but an \"enormous privilege\".\n\nLabour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP are all calling for the prime minister to resign, accusing him of lying over the gatherings.", "Munira Mirza has worked with Boris Johnson since his time as London mayor\n\nBoris Johnson's top policy aide has quit over the PM's false claim that Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute serial sex offender Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions.\n\nThe PM made the remark on Monday as he came under attack over Sue Gray's report on Downing Street parties.\n\nHe later backed down, saying said the Labour leader \"had nothing to do personally with those decisions\".\n\nAnother senior aide, Jack Doyle, has also quit as communications director.\n\nMunira Murza said the PM he should have apologised for the misleading remarks.\n\nIn her resignation letter, published by The Spectator, she wrote: \"You are a better man than many of your detractors will ever understand, which is why it is so desperately sad that you let yourself down by making a scurrilous accusation against the leader of the opposition.\"\n\nAsked what he thought of the PM's remarks, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"Being honest, I wouldn't have said it, and I am glad that the prime minister clarified what he meant.\"\n\nAnd asked if Mr Johnson should apologise, he said: \"That's for the prime minister to decide.\"\n\nNo 10 confirmed her departure and that Tory MP Andrew Griffith had been named minister for policy and head of the prime minister's policy unit in the Cabinet Office.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman added: \"We are very sorry Munira has left No 10 and are grateful for her service and contribution to government.\n\n\"[We] will work across government and with MPs as we continue to deliver and expand on our ambitious policy agenda.\"\n\nSir Keir had a career as a lawyer before entering politics, rising to be the head of the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Johnson accused him of spending \"most of his time\" as director of public prosecutions (DPP) \"prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile\", despite having no evidence to back up the claim.\n\nDisc jockey and TV personality Savile was revealed to be a serial sexual abuser after his death in 2011, having attacked hundreds of women and children at various locations including hospitals, schools and the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sunak on PM's Savile claims: \"I wouldn't have said it.\"\n\nAt Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions, the Labour leader hit back, accusing the PM of fuelling conspiracy theories with his remarks.\n\nBut Mr Johnson replied that Sir Keir had taken \"full responsibility for what had happened on his watch\" as the DPP.\n\nBy Thursday, Mr Johnson appeared to have backed down, telling reporters he had not been talking about Sir Keir's \"personal record\" when he was DPP, adding: \"I totally understand that he had nothing to do personally with those decisions.\n\n\"I was making a point about his responsibility for the organisation as a whole.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Johnson's latest comments, Sir Keir told BBC Three Counties Radio: \"If the PM thought that, he should have kept his mouth shut.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking before Mirza's resignation, the PM sought to clarity his claims about Keir Starmer\n\nIn her resignation letter, Ms Mirza says the prime minister should have gone further and apologised to Sir Keir.\n\nThe political aide - who has worked with Mr Johnson since he became Mayor of London in 2008 - said the PM had been \"wrong\" to make the initial remarks, adding: \"There was no fair or reasonable basis for that assertion.\n\n\"This was not the usual cut and thrust of politics; it was an inappropriate and partisan reference to a horrendous case of child sex abuse.\n\nShe added: \"You tried to clarify your position today [Thursday] but, despite my urging, you did not apologise for the misleading impression you gave.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, said the PM had \"lied to the public in a very dangerous way\", and with \"no regard whatsoever\" for Savile's victims.\n\nAnd she said the resignation showed that \"even people that have been close to Boris Johnson for a very long time have seen he is not fit to be prime minister and there isn't a depth he wouldn't sink to to make cheap points\".\n\n\"I was making a point about his responsibility for the organisation as a whole.\"\n\nThis was the prime minister's defence for why he falsely claimed Sir Keir Starmer had failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions, while Boris Johnson was under pressure to take responsibility for lockdown parties that happened in No10 - his organisation - as a whole.\n\nTo his critics, this was a stretch of the logic at best; inappropriate, insensitive and misleading at worst.\n\nFor Munira Mirza - one of his closest political allies and longest serving advisers - his lack of apology was enough to trigger her resignation.\n\nTory insiders have called it a \"devastating\" personal blow for the prime minister, sending a signal even those closest to him have \"lost faith.\"\n\nThe last few weeks have seen a slow trickle of critiques of Mr Johnson's behaviour and calls for him to go from different factions of the Tory party - some less surprising than others.\n\nBut while she may not have the public recognition of some of those MPs, her resignation is proof the criticism also comes from within.\n\nAnd, in her case, right from the heart of the PM's closest ideological circle.\n\nThe top aide's exit comes as Mr Johnson is facing growing questions over his leadership from his own party.\n\nThe BBC is aware of 17 Tory MPs who have submitted letters of no confidence in the prime minister, with a total of 54 needed to trigger a leadership contest.\n\nMany have cited the PM's participation in Downing Street parties during Covid lockdowns as their motivation to challenge Mr Johnson.\n\nBut some of the most recent letter writers have also pointed to his false claims about Sir Keir, including senior backbencher and Defence Committee Chair Tobias Ellwood.\n\nMs Mirza began her career in the arts sector before becoming a cultural adviser to Mr Johnson as London mayor.\n\nShe then followed him into No 10, and was named the director of his policy unit in 2019.\n\nIn 2020, the PM named her as one of the five women who had influenced and inspired him the most, describing her as \"capable of being hip, cool, groovy and generally on trend\".\n\nIn a press conference on Thursday, Chancellor Mr Sunak called her \"a valued colleague\", adding: \"I very much enjoyed working with her and I'm sorry to see her leave government. I'll miss working with her.\"", "Joe and Connie Elson: Around four babies are born with the disorder in England every year\n\nThe NHS has struck a confidential deal for what's thought to be the most expensive drug ever developed.\n\nThe gene therapy Libmeldy is used to treat an extremely rare condition, MLD, which causes severe damage to a child's nervous system and organs.\n\nAround five babies are born with the disorder in England every year.\n\nThe one-off treatment has a list price of £2.8 million but can be offered on the NHS after the health service negotiated a confidential discount.\n\nNHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard said: \"This revolutionary drug is a life-saver for the babies and young children who suffer from this devastating hereditary disorder and will spare their families untold heartache and grief.\"\n\nNicola Elson's daughter, Connie, first displayed symptoms of the condition as a toddler - tripping up and losing her concentration more easily.\n\n\"It was not long after that, that we got the diagnosis of MLD,\" she said. \"It was completely out of the blue, there was nothing like this in my family or my husband's family.\"\n\nNicola, from Cumbria, was told there was a one-in-four chance any child she had with her husband would be affected. She had Connie's younger brother Joe tested and was told he was also carrying the defective gene.\n\n\"It's the most unimaginable situation you can ever think of being in,\" said Nicola. \"For too long, doctors were saying, we're sorry but there is no hope and there's nothing we can do.\"\n\nMLD, or Metachromatic Leukodystrophy, is an extremely rare hereditary disorder caused by a crucial enzyme deficiency. Over time the nerves in the brain and other parts of the body stop working properly.\n\nIt can develop in babies and toddlers younger than 30 months and lead to loss of sight, speech and hearing, as well as difficulty moving and seizures. Average life expectancy is between just five and eight years old.\n\nBoth of Nicola's children were referred onto an early clinical trial in Italy for a new experimental treatment. By then Connie's condition had deteriorated and she was not well enough to be given the drug - which needs to be taken at a very early stage after symptoms develop.\n\nThat treatment, now called Libmeldy, works by replacing the faulty gene that causes the disorder.\n\nOn 5 December 2014 - on what his family now call his re-birthday - Joe had an operation to remove stem cells from his bone marrow. They were treated and re-injected back into his body as part of the clinical trial.\n\nJoe Elson at 11 years old, seven years after experimental gene therapy\n\nSeven years later, his mum says he is a typical 11-year-old boy now helping to look after his older sister.\n\n\"If you were a stranger on the street, you wouldn't know Joe even had this condition,\" says Nicola. \"He swims, he is in mainstream school, and he plays far too many computer games for my liking.\"\n\nThe long-term prognosis for children given the drug is still unknown, and Joe will need to be monitored for years to come, but both doctors and families are hopeful it could offer a permanent cure for the condition.\n\nLibmeldy is a so-called orphan drug - a pharmaceutical agent developed to treat a medical condition which, because it is so rare, may not be profitable to produce without some form of government assistance.\n\nLast year, it was reviewed and rejected by the drug price watchdog for England. In draft guidance, the National Institute for Health Care Excellence (NICE) said it was too expensive and yet to be proven in the long term.\n\nCosting £2.8 million at its list price, the watchdog said it was the most expensive single treatment it has ever evaluated.\n\nBut following discussions, specialist drugmaker Orchard Therapeutics increased a confidential discount to the price the NHS actually pays. It has now been recommended for children with no symptoms or who can still walk independently.\n\nIt will be delivered by a specialist service through the Centre for Genomic Medicine at Saint Mary's hospital in Manchester, one of five European sites that will administer the treatment.\n\nProfessor Simon Jones, a consultant at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, described the announcement as a \"major deal\".\n\n\"These kinds of therapies are going to be expensive, they are going to be hard to deliver and only a few centres are going to be able to do that,\" he said.\n\n\"There are probably quite a few different disorders which can be treated with this approach, but Libmeldy is the first to really break ground.\"\n\nThe drug has been recommended for use by Nice in England only at this stage. Patients from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland would need their national health systems to fund the treatment in Manchester.\n\nYou can follow Jim on twitter.", "Ukrainian forces have offered strong resistance to the Russians, say the UK and US\n\nThe mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, has ordered citizens to stay indoors until Monday morning as Russian forces close in on the city.\n\nA curfew imposed at 15:00 GMT on Saturday is to stay in force until 06:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nAll those venturing out \"will be considered members of sabotage groups of the enemy\", authorities warned.\n\nThe UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) also said that Russian saboteurs were thought to be in Kyiv.\n\nThe latest developments came on the third day of the Russian assault on Ukraine, as Russian forces continued to bombard the capital and other cities with artillery and missiles.\n\nHowever, Western intelligence sources pointed to evidence that the invaders were not making as much progress as they had expected.\n\n\"The speed of the Russian advance has temporarily slowed, likely as a result of acute logistical difficulties and strong Ukrainian resistance,\" the MoD said in a tweet.\n\n\"Russian forces are bypassing major Ukrainian population centres while leaving forces to encircle and isolate them.\n\n\"Overnight clashes in Kyiv are likely to have involved limited numbers of pre-positioned Russian sabotage groups.\"\n\nThe capture of Kyiv remained Russia's main objective, the ministry added.\n\nAccording to US sources, Russia has so far fired more than 250 missiles, mostly short-range, at Ukrainian targets, some of which have hit civilian infrastructure.\n\nEarly on Saturday, an apartment building in Kyiv was struck by a missile, leaving a hole covering at least five floors. It is thought that most of the occupants were in shelters.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had been fighting Russian troops in Kyiv, as well as Odesa in the south and Kharkiv in the north-east, but the capital was still in Ukrainian hands.\n\n\"The occupiers wanted to block the centre of our state,\" the president said. \"We broke their plan.\"\n\nWestern analysts estimate that Russia's initial assault involved about half of the more than 150,000 troops it had massed on the border in the run-up to the invasion.\n\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale says Russia has also not used its artillery and air strikes as intensively as expected.\n\nHowever, our correspondent adds that it is normal for militaries to keep reserves as they adjust plans. Russia may need them for later phases of the invasion, he says.", "Ukraine has been handing out weapons to civilians to defend Kyiv\n\nThe man tightly clutching a rifle at one roadblock could easily have been in his early 60s.\n\nWe saw other men, in jeans and trainers, taking up position: the luxury of camouflage protection not possible in this moment of crisis.\n\nAs we ventured out into the streets of Kyiv on Friday, we encountered these men and others who had answered the call to defend their nation.\n\nWe found a tractor and a delivery truck parked at strategic angles to block the path of any incoming attacker.\n\nIn other cities, steelworkers are reported to have welded new obstructions into place: forging their own defences.\n\nAnd workers in a sewing factory who normally stitch uniforms have been making sandbags.\n\nAcross the country, patriotic Ukrainians are weaving their own narrative and hoping their collective effort will count for something in the face of Moscow's military might.\n\nThe urgency of all this tells you many fear it is a question of when - not if - they'll be face-to-face with the advancing Russian forces.\n\nToday, in the heart of the capital, the streets are mostly deserted. There are few people to enjoy the church bells.\n\nOne man who may have well heard the soothing chimes in this darkest hour is Ukraine's president.\n\nIn the midst of what feels like an existential battle, Volodymyr Zelensky has been carrying out a personal mission of his own: touring the landmarks of this great city recording defiant video messages to the Ukrainian people, vowing to stay and fight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAcross this vast country, families have been sending their own hastily made films to their loved ones, reassuring them they are safe.\n\nBut there are no impressive architectural backdrops as in the president's videos. Instead you see the new subterranean existence many are being forced to endure: makeshift beds, piles of possessions, frightened pets.\n\nCar parks, basements, metro stations are all now home for so many.\n\nDaily life has been upended as they wait anxiously for the arrival of their would-be Russian occupiers.\n\nHowever, it was new life that gave hope in one makeshift underground basement: a baby, delivered overnight, entering a world which has changed beyond recognition in barely 36 hours.\n\nThe sense this brutal conflict is a gruesome relic of a bygone age is shared by those enduring it first hand as well as those looking on in horror from afar.\n\nAn assault on a sovereign nation - a grim theme of 20th Century history - is unfolding before our eyes.\n\nIn it, a solitary figure shuffles round a tank trying to halt its path.\n\nThis is not 1989 and a Chinese tank. But a Russian instrument of war in 2022.\n\nAnother video I've just seen is too brutal to describe. So I won't try.\n\nBut let me tell you it shows the human cost - in sickening detail - of the aerial assault Vladimir Putin is inflicting on the military of his neighbour.\n\nThere are considerable losses on the Russian side too: far greater than the Kremlin had anticipated or would acknowledge, is the latest assessment of the UK Ministry of Defence.\n\nEarlier in the week, when it looked like a strike would indeed finally come, we found cheerful defiance in Kyiv.\n\nIn hindsight, most thought Putin may look to expand his control in the Donbas region, hundreds of miles to the east.\n\nAs we know now, it was so much bigger than that.\n\nOn Tuesday, we watched a group of history students gather on a bridge and sing their national song, some with the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag draped over their shoulders.\n\nThere were broads smiles and a joyful unity.\n\nThat unity has not shattered but the ready smiles are much harder to find.\n\nBut there is not despair.\n\nAs well as the joy of new life arriving in one bunker, there are stories of basic human kindness beneath the city's streets.\n\nOn Thursday morning, before the fog of disbelief at the size and scale of Moscow's offensive had lifted, I met Mark, a sales manager outside one metro station.\n\nHe had been woken by the first round of explosions and then helped his neighbours evacuate their building.\n\nMark is preparing for the long haul\n\nIn my latest exchange of messages with him, he tells me he's now formed his own subterranean band of brothers and sisters.\n\nThey've been encouraged by the Kyiv authorities to make petrol bombs to repel any Russian advance.\n\nBut for now, Mark's makeshift army is not on the frontline, but the platform edge.\n\nHe tells me they're helping each other in their new surroundings and in particular, have been searching for people who are alone.\n\n\"There are tears - lots of them,\" he writes.\n\n\"But I can say with joy in my heart that that everyone here has faith in Ukraine.\"\n\nHe says last night they sang hymns.\n\n\"There will be victory and everyone will contribute to this victory.\"\n\nKyiv is a city under strain and under fearsome attack.\n\nBut it feels united in spirit and strength and an indominable determination to survive.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland survived a threatening second-half comeback to record a fifth successive home Six Nations win over Wales in an untidy game at Twickenham.\n\nMarcus Smith's boot built a 12-0 lead by the end of the first half before Alex Dombrandt went over.\n\nWales rallied as Josh Adams raced in and Nick Tompkins squirmed between white shirts to make it 17-12.\n\nEngland scored a pair of penalties, but Kieran Hardy's try kept the contest in doubt until the final play.\n\nWales, 23-19 down, gamely took on the search for a game-snatching score with the clock in the red, but it proved a phase too far, an ending too far-fetched even for the history of this fixture.\n\nMaro Itoje stole a turnover and Ben Youngs, off the bench to win an England men's record 115th cap, gleefully booted the ball into the stands.\n\nIt brought to an end a contest that played out in three acts: England dominance, Wales resistance, and the hosts finally prevailing with the game in the balance.\n\nBut neither side will have struck fear into France. Fabien Galthie's side swatted aside Scotland earlier in the day, playing with a fluency and flair that Wales and England, the sides that separate them from a clean sweep, fell far short of.\n\nIt will take a shock result, possibly two, to prevent them inheriting the Six Nations crown that is lost to Wales now.\n• None England in limbo as new side battles to emerge\n• None England cap record yet to sink in - Youngs\n\nThe England second row had snaffled the ball from Smith's kick-off as England started at a clip and Wales, once again in this championship, were caught cold.\n\nScrum-half Harry Randall shuttled between breakdowns at break-neck speed as England probed and stretched deep in Wales' half.\n\nItoje clamped down over an isolated Alex Cuthbert to force a penalty. Ross Moriarty was off his feet for another. Smith punished both from the tee to give England a six-point lead after as many minutes.\n\nIt could have been worse for Wales. It should have been better for England.\n\nSmith screwed a straightforward penalty wide on 17 minutes. Wales, down to 14 men after Liam Williams was sin-binned for a sleight of hand at the bottom of a ruck, survived an England scrum five out.\n\nBut, short of ball and time in the England 22m, Wales hung in the fight, Cuthbert's power and pace reminding the hosts that their slender lead left them vulnerable to a sucker punch.\n\nAnd the visitors ducked and dived all the way to the interval with Taulupe Faletau and Wyn Jones derailing a rolling maul that seemed destined for the tryline, and England had only two more penalties to show for their superiority.\n\nWales' tightrope walk suffered a slip within three minutes of the restart. Hooker Ryan Elis and his jumpers got their wires crossed five metres out and a grateful Dombrandt swerved and stretched to beat Cuthbert and score.\n\nAt 17-0 down, it seemed the contest might be over. But Wales, as captain Dan Biggar had requested earlier in the week, belatedly found the spirit of their famous Rugby World Cup win over England in 2015.\n\nOn that occasion, the visitors fought back from 10 points down to shock Twickenham.\n\nThis time, they set nerves jangling as Tomos Williams' whipped cut-out pass beat England's blind-side defence and Adams tiptoed down the touchline to score.\n\nSeven minutes later, Tompkins, who played for England at age-group and second-string level, hit a carving line to cross.\n\nWelsh belief bloomed. English voices shrank in the stands. This time though, in contrast to the opening-round defeat by Scotland, England coach Eddie Jones opted to keep Smith in place rather than switch in the more experienced George Ford off the bench.\n\nHe was rewarded as Smith, in combination with Youngs, saw out victory. Jack Nowell's strength at the breakdown secured a penalty that steadied the ship and, despite Hardy's late dart and some late adventure from deep, Wales ultimately paid dearly for their slow start.\n\nWhat they said\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones: \"It was a very good win for us - plenty of resilience, plenty of toughness.\n\n\"The last five or six minutes I thought we were exceptional, for a young team that is developing I thought there were some good signs out there tonight.\n\n\"We have to be more ruthless when we get into the opposition's 22.\"\n\nWales head coach Wayne Pivac: \"In the first half we were disappointed with the discipline, we gave away eight penalties at the breakdown, with and without the ball.\n\n\"Some of them were silly penalties and it's an area we are working hard on.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Warning shots are fired to disperse crowds trying to flee at Kyiv train station\n\nA defiant Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged European countries to do more to help as he urged his citizens to halt Russia's invasion.\n\nThe second day of fighting saw tanks enter the capital, Kyiv, for the first time.\n\nUkrainian officials said they have handed out 18,000 guns to volunteers, as well as issuing instructions on how to make petrol bombs.\n\nAnalysts suggest Russia's advance has been slowed by fierce resistance.\n\nA senior US official told Reuters news agency that Russia had encountered more resistance than anticipated, robbing the Russian force of momentum.\n\nVolunteers with no combat experience have been seen queueing to join the Ukrainian defence, while age restrictions for joining the army have been dropped.\n\nThe UK's Chief of Defence Intelligence, Sir Jim Hockenhull, said that Russian forces continue to advance towards the capital - but that Ukrainian Armed Forces \"continue to offer strong resistance, focusing on the defence of key cities\".\n\nRussia is continuing its assault from the north, south and east.\n\nThe US, UK and EU have all levied financial punishment on Moscow, but stopped short of removing Russia from the international banking system, Swift.\n\nHowever, Mr Zelensky said Western nations - and nearby Europe in particular - must go further and \"act without delay\".\n\n\"Europe has enough strength to stop this aggression,\" he said.\n\n\"The columns of tanks and the air strikes are very similar to what Europe saw a long time ago, during WW2 - something about which it said 'never again',\" he said. \"But here it is, again. Now, in 2022. 75 years after World War Two ended.\"\n\nHe said all counter-measures must be considered - including throwing Russia out of Swift, imposing visa bans and closing airspace to Russia.\n\nThe Ukrainian president's appeal came as Russia offered talks with Ukraine for the first time since the crisis began, but under restrictive conditions. Mr Zelensky has been seeking talks with Vladimir Putin since before the invasion began.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia was prepared for talks with Ukraine, but only in the context of \"demilitarisation\" and about Ukraine's \"neutral status\".\n\nRussia has said that Ukraine can never be allowed to join the Nato military alliance, a long-held ambition of Ukraine's.\n\nRussia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, said earlier that no talks could take place until Ukraine's military laid down its arms.\n\nBut President Zelensky has given no indication that he would accept talks under those conditions.\n\nAddressing the armed forces, Mr Zelensky said: \"Stand strong. You are all that we have. You are all that is protecting our state.\"\n\nNato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, meanwhile, said the alliance would continue to supply weapons to Ukraine and would is deploying thousands of troops to Europe to shore up defences of member nations.\n\nA solider inspects the remains of a plane shot down over the Ukrainian capital, Kiev\n\nVladimir Putin responded with his own speech, suggesting that Ukrainian forces should turn against and overthrow Mr Zelensky's government.\n\nRepeating an often-used baseless allegation that Mr Zelensky - a Jewish man - is a \"neo-Nazi\", Mr Putin also labelled the Ukrainian leadership as terrorists and drug dealers.\n\nHe accused Ukraine of installing missiles and other heavy weaponry in civilian buildings, using residents as human shields, which he said was based on advice from foreign - particularly US - advisers.\n\nBut global human rights group Amnesty International said it was Russia, not Ukraine, that was showing \"a blatant disregard for civilian lives\".\n\nThe charity said that Mr Putin's claim of precise strikes on military targets was false, and Russia was \"using ballistic missiles and other explosive weapons with wide area effects in densely populated areas\".\n\nStrikes have hit hospitals, among other targets that Amnesty said \"can constitute war crimes\".\n\nAs we head out on to the streets of Kyiv, we find men in trainers and jeans with rifles slung across their backs - manning checkpoints, or hidden in the trees on the side of the road behind anti-tank weapons.\n\nAs we push on further, we find professional soldiers braced for a last stand. They are accompanied by Ukrainian artillery and tanks facing the Russian position, less than 30km (19 miles) from the heart of the capital.\n\nAnd we soon find signs of the battle drawing even nearer with a truck ablaze in the middle of the road.\n\nAround the corner, my colleague Abdujalil Abdurasulov and I find Olena's family, a group of five.\n\nThey've got a flat tyre at the worst possible time. They frantically try to change it as they bundle a baby into the back seat.\n\n\"We're really afraid\", Olena's mother tells us, before another loud bang silences everyone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC’s Nick Beake and his team met one family trying to flee the capital\n\nAs I ask her what she thinks of President Putin's attack on her country, an even louder blast pierces the air. She lifts her arms up and says: \"You hear that, that was him.\"\n\nAs we drive on, we spot soldiers lined along wide ridges crossing the river Dnipro. Some Ukrainian snipers are lying on their fronts, looking down their sights.\n\nWe see the faces of young men, understandably anxious. There is an undoubted fear it could be just a matter of hours before the Russians confront them face to face and try to seize their capital.\n\nTens of thousands are believed to have fled from the major cities. The United Nations refugee agency estimated on Thursday that more than 100,000 people had left their homes, and up to five million could be displaced by the invasion over time.\n\nEuropean nations are preparing for an influx of refugees, and a steady stream of people - mainly families - have arrived by car and on foot at the borders of neighbouring EU members Poland and Hungary.\n\nThe UN's refugee commissioner, Filippo Grandi, said more than 50,000 had left the country in the previous 48 hours - most to Poland and Moldova.\n\nThe European Union agreed to freeze personal assets belonging to Mr Putin and Mr Lavrov - though it is not clear if either have significant assets inside the EU. The UK said it would also put personal sanctions on both men \"imminently\", but did not provide details.\n\nLater in the day, the United States also said it would take similar action against both men. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that precise details would come later, but that a travel ban blocking entry to the US would be a standard part of such sanctions.\n\nRussia has also been banned from cultural and sporting events as a result of the invasion.\n\nIt was excluded from the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, with organisers saying Russia's presence could being the competition into disrepute.\n\nThe Formula 1 motor race in Sochi, Russia in September has now been cancelled, and Paris will host the European football Champions League final, not St Petersburg.", "I'm writing this in a bomb shelter several storeys below ground with a crowd of people, four dogs and a pet rabbit.\n\nHotel staff ran round banging on doors soon after midnight before herding us down multiple flights of stairs at high speed.\n\nIt looks like they've overreacted to a rumour about a landing of Russian paratroopers but it's hardly surprising; everyone's on edge here.\n\nEarlier in the evening we visited Hanna Syva and her family in a giant apartment block across the road.\n\nWhen the Russian invasion of Ukraine began two days ago, she moved the whole family into the living room to sleep behind the sofa.\n\nHer husband brought out his gun. It now lies beside a big stuffed toy on their window ledge.\n\nThe mother-of-two seems upbeat, describing all her preparations. But she admits she's putting on a smile not to worry her children.\n\n\"They cried yesterday, they're very nervous, so I can't afford to be scared,\" Hanna says.\n\nHanna Syva ordered her two children emergency bracelets, which include their blood group\n\nBoth her boys are wearing emergency bracelets she ordered a week ago printed with their names, a mobile number and their blood group.\n\n\"That was unbelievable for me when I put their blood group for the paramedics. As a mother, it just freaks me out,\" she says.\n\nSo far, the only explosions near Dnipro came in the earliest hours of this Russian assault; the city has been calm ever since. But Russian forces are battling to the south, north and east of here.\n\nSo Hanna is distracting herself with practicalities.\n\nShe and her neighbours cleaned up their basement and kitted it out so they can shelter there from any shelling. She has grab-bags standing ready by the front door with a change of clothes, snacks and water.\n\nThe basement is too small for everyone, but some residents have already headed further west seeking safety.\n\nA flow of other people from the Donbas is replacing them.\n\nA rabbit is amongst the pets people have brought into a bomb shelter several storeys below ground\n\nUkrainian troops have been fighting Russian-backed forces in the eastern Donbas since 2014 but since Thursday Russia's military began fighting openly on their side, trying to break through the frontline.\n\nLocals who've stayed describe things as \"lively\" but say the Ukrainians are holding firm.\n\nI met Liza in a long queue outside a blood donation centre. The student nurse moved to Dnipro eight years ago, when the conflict first began.\n\nShe can't bear the thought of being displaced again: she remembers the struggle to find housing and settle the first time.\n\nBut she does want to help Ukraine's soldiers so she's come to donate blood for the wounded.\n\nThe queue is about 90 minutes long in the cold and rain.\n\nVlad, who's 20, says he's come to support the troops because he's worried Russia is on a land grab and he doesn't want Vladimir Putin as his president.\n\n\"It's quite shocking for me, I'm thinking of taking weapon to my hands, at least to defend my local districts,\" he says, a tuft of red hair poking from beneath his hat.\n\nBut there's some frustration in the queue, too.\n\n\"Sanctions are OK, they will help. But we need more, it's not enough,\" Hanna insisted. \"We're relying on Europe now to stop this.\"\n\nAnother student sought me out specially to say he was \"angry\" that western sanctions against Russia hadn't some sooner and been tougher.\n\nHe felt Ukraine had been abandoned.\n\nSo he, like the long queue of others, was doing his bit.\n\n\"It's important to help the injured so they know they're not alone. That we're ready to help, and we're doing it.\"", "Video has emerged of the apartment building near Kyiv's Zhuliany airport that was struck earlier on Saturday.\n\nThe pictures show a hole covering at least five floors.\n\nAuthorities say the number of casualties is \"being specified\" while an evacuation is under way.", "The symptoms of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) became so difficult for one woman, she did not want to live.\n\nAngharad Medi Lewis from Carmarthenshire said \"embarrassing\" heavy periods and excess facial hair made her not want to leave home.\n\nNeuroendocrinology expert Prof Aled Rees said the impact PCOS has on mental health was under-recognised.\n\nThe Welsh government said women's wellbeing was a priority and it would publish plans on how to support women.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angharad says life improved after taking antidepressants and the contraceptive pill\n\nMrs Lewis, 41, from Llanybydder, was diagnosed with the condition 20 years ago.\n\nShe said she was suffering from the most common symptoms but did not realise the impact it had on her mental health.\n\nAngharad Medi Lewis and her husband Andrew, started trying for a family in 2006\n\n\"I was having very heavy periods, I was in serious pain for a whole week every month, growing hair on my face, I was anxious, so worried about going out because of the heavy periods that it was actually embarrassing,\" she said.\n\nOther symptoms can include irregular periods or no periods at all, difficulty getting pregnant, weight gain, thinning hair or hair loss and oily skin or acne.\n\n\"I hadn't realised how bad it had affected my mental health at the time,\" she said.\n\nMrs Lewis and her husband Andrew, started trying for a family in 2006 and needed IVF treatment.\n\nThis meant stopping her contraceptive medication which had helped to ease the PCOS symptoms.\n\nThat is when her mental state started to deteriorate.\n\n\"I reached breaking point. It was controlling my life,\" she said.\n\n\"Before seeing the doctor in 2019, I had reached a point where I didn't want to live anymore.\n\n\"My face was hairy, the pains, just functioning from day to day was difficult.\"\n\nMrs Lewis was prescribed anti-depressants in 2019 and advised to prioritise her mental health.\n\nAngharad Medi Lewis said she reached breaking point while having fertility treatment\n\nUltimately, that meant stopping the IVF treatment and returning to the medication that controlled the PCOS.\n\n\"That nurse changed my life.\" she said.\n\n\"All she did was put me on anti-depressant, Prozac, for six months and put me on the mini pill.\n\n\"The best words I heard from that nurse was 'forget about trying for a baby for now, you have to look after yourself'.\"\n\nPCOS is a common condition that affects how a woman's ovaries work.\n\nThe exact cause is unknown, but it often runs in families and is related to abnormal hormone levels in the body, including high levels of insulin.\n\nPolycystic ovaries contain a large number of harmless follicles that are up to 8mm (approximately 0.3in) in size.\n\nThe follicles are underdeveloped sacs in which eggs develop. In PCOS, these sacs are often unable to release an egg, which means ovulation does not take place.\n\nAbout one in 10 women in the UK live with PCOS.\n\nAccording to Prof Rees, a professor of endocrinology at Cardiff University's Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, the condition and its link with mental health side effects \"isn't appreciated enough\".\n\n\"PCOS is very common,\" he said.\n\n\"There's an estimate of around 8-13% of women in the UK living with the condition and it's often a cluster of problems.\n\n\"Patients often come to us at the clinic, and it's obvious from the symptoms they describe, that it's going to have an impact on their mental health.\"\n\nHe said there was a \"gap\" in the general conversation with PCOS patients.\n\n\"I think, to start, that the link is under-recognised and under-appreciated,\" he said.\n\n\"There needs to be greater emphasis for patients and doctors that any consultation they have includes a discussion about mental health because there is an effective treatment available\".\n\nThe charity Fair Treatment for Women in Wales has called on the Welsh government to put women's physical and mental health at the top of the agenda.\n\nJulie Richards, a consultant with the charity, said the mental health impacts of conditions like PCOS and endometriosis, are often forgotten.\n\n\"We're lagging behind terribly,\" she said.\n\n\"We need specialist clinics in Wales, and when it comes to women's health generally, we're lagging behind in all areas.\"\n\nShe added: \"PCOS is just one of these conditions which affects women's wellbeing and isn't dealt with correctly.\"\n\nIn response, a Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Women's wellbeing is a priority for us.\n\n\"We will soon publish our plans which will set out how we expect the Welsh NHS to support women to access the health services they need.\"", "Roman Abramovich gives Chelsea 'stewardship' to trustees of charitable arm Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nChelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovich says he is \"giving trustees of Chelsea's charitable foundation the stewardship and care\" of the club. Abramovich, who will remain the club's owner, has made the move amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The decision was made on the eve of Chelsea's Carabao Cup final match against Liverpool at Wembley. \"I have always taken decisions with the club's best interest at heart,\" Abramovich said in a statement. \"I remain committed to these values. That is why I am today giving trustees of Chelsea's charitable Foundation the stewardship and care of Chelsea FC. \"I believe that currently they are in the best position to look after the interests of the club, players, staff, and fans.\" Following Abramovich's statement which did not reference the invasion of Ukraine, Chelsea released another statement on Sunday which said the situation was \"horrific and devastating\". \"Chelsea FC's thoughts are with everyone in Ukraine. Everyone at the club is praying for peace,\" said the west London club. The Chelsea Supporters' Trust said it was \"seeking urgent clarification\" on what Abramovich's statement on Saturday means for the running of the club. It is not known yet if Abramovich will be sanctioned as part of the UK government's measures against Russia. BBC Sport understands Chelsea are not for sale, and the £1.5bn loan their owner gave to the club is not being called in. Abramovich is one of Russia's richest people and is believed to be close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He added: \"During my nearly 20-year ownership of Chelsea FC, I have always viewed my role as a custodian of the club, whose job it is ensuring that we are as successful as we can be today, as well as build for the future, while also playing a positive role in our communities.\" The Chelsea Foundation runs the club's community and education departments as well as other charitable activities. Its chairman is US lawyer Bruce Buck, who is also chairman of the club as a whole. The foundation's other trustees are Chelsea women's team manager Emma Hayes, the club's director of finance Paul Ramos, British Olympic Association chair Sir Hugh Robertson, Fare (Football Against Racism in Europe) chief Piara Powar and lawyer John Devine. During Abramovich's time at Chelsea, the club have won the Champions League twice, both the Premier League and FA Cup five times, the Europa League twice and the League Cup three times. In August 2021, they won the Uefa Super Cup and they recently won their first Club World Cup, meaning the Blues have won every possible trophy under Abramovich's ownership. Earlier in the week, Labour's Chris Bryant told MPs he had a leaked Home Office document that suggested Abramovich should not be able to base himself in the UK. Downing Street would not be drawn on the claims about Abramovich made in the House of Commons. In a tweet on Sunday, Bryant wrote: \"Unless and until he condemns the criminal invasion of Ukraine I will continue to call for the UK to sanction him and seize/freeze assets.\" UK foreign secretary Liz Truss said on Sunday she had a \"hit list\" of Russian oligarchs who will face sanctions, but would not say if Abramovich was on it. Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel had said on Friday there were \"so many uncertainties around the situation of our club\" following Russia's invasion of a neighbouring country. The Chelsea Supporters' Trust said it was \"ready to work with the trustees of the Chelsea Foundation in order to ensure the long-term interests of the club and supporters\". It added: \"We stand with the people of Ukraine.\" The words Roman Abramovich has used are not ones we would normally use from a legal perspective. He has said he is handing across control to the club's charitable foundation so he will no longer be the person making the final decisions in regards to the transfer budget, the manager and other key elements of the club. He does own the club. Chelsea FC is owned by a company called Fordstam, and Fordstam has borrowed £1.5bn from a company called Camberley International, which is based in the British Virgin Islands, and that company is controlled by Roman Abramovich, so it is already a fairly convoluted structure. How the Chelsea Foundation will be funded, we are not certain. I think Abramovich will be concerned - if the UK government tries to seize his assets then those assets would include Chelsea Football Club and that could have implications if this conflict drags on for a long period of time in terms of how the club would be funded. Clearly, there would be reluctance for it to be funded by the taxpayer. By transferring it to the foundation, which is a charitable arm and he is not one of the trustees - although some people with long business connections are on the foundation - his legal team would be able to say Chelsea could not be seized by the government.\n• None The Fast and the Farmer-ish: Who will prove victorious and take home the tractor trophy?\n• None Every brand has a story, even the ones that don't exist...", "Moves to shut Russia out of the main global bank payments system have gained ground after Germany's government softened its stance.\n\nCountries including the UK have lobbied for Russia to be blocked from the Swift system, which makes it possible to move money across frontiers.\n\nNow Germany, which opposed the move, has said it favours \"targeted and functional\" restrictions.\n\nThe economy and foreign ministers said they wanted to hit \"the right people\".\n\nThe change of heart opens the way to further economic sanctions against Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nUntil now, Germany had argued that simply ejecting Russia from Swift would damage Western economies massively and bring widespread suffering to ordinary Russian people, rather than the government.\n\nSo far, sanctions have included freezing the assets of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, as well as halting Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.\n\nSwift is used by more than 11,000 banks and financial institutions worldwide to carry out transactions worth trillions of dollars.\n\nExcluding Russia from Swift would not stop its banks sending and receiving cross-border payments, but it would make the process much more difficult and expensive.\n\nGermany's new stance was signalled in a joint statement by Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Economy Minister Robert Habeck.\n\n\"We are urgently working on how to limit the collateral damage of decoupling from Swift in such a way that it affects the right people,\" they said.\n\n\"What we need is a targeted and functional restriction of Swift.\"", "The German government has come under public pressure to get tough on Russia\n\nGermany's Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has announced that Germany will deliver weapons directly to Ukraine.\n\nHe said Germany would be sending 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 Stinger missiles.\n\nBerlin has also dropped some restrictions on German-made weapons being sent to conflict zones, meaning that third countries will be able to send more arms to Ukraine.\n\nThe move reverses Germany's long-standing policy of banning weapon exports to conflict zones.\n\nAt the same time, German ministers have said they are working on restricting Russia's access to the Swift global interbank payment system in a \"targeted\" way that \"hits the right people\" and avoids collateral damage.\n\nGermany's three-party coalition government, made up of socialists, liberals and Greens, has faced challenges in formulating a coherent response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nBut there is a dawning realisation here that Germany may have to rely not just on trade and diplomacy for its security, but also on military might.\n\nAnd those public figures who in the past have expressed sympathy for Moscow have either fallen silent or said they were wrong.\n\nForeign Minister Annalena Baerbock, herself a Green, tweeted: \"Our world is different after Putin's war of aggression. While we are stunned by this breach of international law, we are not powerless.\n\n\"That's why we will help the Ukrainian soldiers fighting for their country with anti-tank weapons and Stinger missiles.\"\n\nGermans have been shocked by Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine and have been demanding that their government take tougher action against the Kremlin.", "Chris Mullin helped expose the wrongful convictions of the Birmingham Six\n\nPolice want to force a journalist to reveal the source who made a \"full confession to murder\" over the Birmingham pub bombings, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nThe West Midlands force maintains information in Chris Mullin's notes could solve the 1974 atrocities.\n\nBut former MP Mr Mullin, 74, is challenging the police application to require him to disclose the material.\n\nHis team cites the journalistic principle of source protection.\n\nIn turn, barristers for the police say the benefit of a confession about the bombings outweighs any promise of anonymity to sources.\n\nMr Mullin helped expose the innocence of the so-called Birmingham Six, the men freed from prison in 1991 when their convictions over the deaths of 21 people were quashed.\n\nNo others have been brought to justice for the blasts at the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs on 21 November 1974, which also injured 220 people. West Midlands Police has said its investigation remains active.\n\nThe information sought by police pertains to investigations by Mr Mullin in 1985 to 1986.\n\nA book plus documentaries from Mr Mullin contributed to the release of the Birmingham Six, but he has said he cannot reveal the identity of an IRA man who helped prove the miscarriage of justice.\n\nAn \"inadequate\" IRA warning call on the night of the bombings caused or contributed to the 21 deaths, an inquest jury found in 2019.\n\nTwenty-one people were killed in two blasts in November 1974\n\nJames Lewis QC, representing West Midlands Police, told the Old Bailey on Friday that Mr Mullin had \"provided material voluntarily\" with redactions and omissions to protect the identity of the bomb planter, referred to in court as AB.\n\nMr Lewis said AB had made a confession that was voluntary, accurate and reliable, adding: \"In short it is a full confession to the murders.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police knows who AB is and his proven links to the IRA. But Mr Lewis said the force now needed Mr Mullin's unredacted notes to link the \"confession\" to him.\n\n\"The current redacted notes [provided by Mr Mullin] are not of evidential value - once they are unredacted, they are of great evidential value,\" Mr Lewis told the court.\n\nThe barrister added Mr Mullin had conducted a four-hour interview with AB and made contemporaneous notes.\n\nThe benefit of the confession, he continued, was \"enormous\" and said it would outweigh that AB had extracted \"a promise of anonymity\".\n\nThe blasts ripped apart the Mulberry Bush pub at the base of the Rotunda and the Tavern in the Town on nearby New Street\n\nIn his witness statement, Mr Mullin - former MP for Sunderland South - said it was the \"fundamental ethical obligation\" of a reporter to protect the identities of their sources.\n\n\"My intention was to rescue the six men who I believed to be innocent and who had by this time been in prison for 12 years and who had no prospect of release,\" he said.\n\n\"It was also obvious from the outset that none of those involved in the bombings would talk to me if they thought I was merely collecting evidence on behalf of the police - although it must be said that, at the time, the West Midlands Police were entirely uninterested in pursuing any such line of inquiry.\"\n\nTo win over sources, Mr Mullins said he had to assure everyone he would not do anything which might identify them, and assurances \"had to be given not merely to the guilty, but also to innocent intermediaries\".\n\nHe added: \"I am also confident that, even were I obliged to and did disclose the material being sought, it would not lead to the conviction of the perpetrator.\"\n\nThe National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is supporting Mr Mullin who said in his statement that protecting the identities of confidential sources was emphasised in the NUJ Code of Conduct \"to which I have always and will always adhere\".\n\nMichelle Stanistreet, NUJ general secretary, said the case brought by police risked \"compromising\" the core principle of protecting sources at the heart of the NUJ code.\n\nThe Recorder of London Judge Mark Lucraft will consider the police's application after hearing submissions.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPoland will boycott their World Cup play-off against Russia because of the invasion of Ukraine, with captain Robert Lewandowski saying \"we can't pretend that nothing is happening\".\n\nPolish football association president Cezary Kulesza has said the team \"does not intend\" to play the game.\n\nRussia are due to host Poland in Moscow on 24 March, while Ukraine travel to Scotland on the same day.\n• None Abramovich hands over 'stewardship and care' of Chelsea\n\nOn Thursday, Fifa said it would monitor the situation after Poland, Sweden and the Czech Republic said in a joint statement that play-off matches should not be played in Russia.\n\n\"No more words, time to act,\" tweeted Kulesza on Saturday.\n\nThe winner of the play-off tie between Sweden and the Czech Republic could meet Russia for a place at the World Cup finals, which get under way in Qatar in November.\n\nSweden have joined Poland in saying they will not play against Russia regardless of where the match is played because of the \"illegal and deeply unjust invasion of Ukraine\".\n\nThe country's football association also urged Fifa to cancel the play-off matches involving Russia.\n\nThe Scottish FA is in talks with Uefa over the home World Cup play-off semi-final against Ukraine and the planned women's World Cup qualifier in Kyiv in April.\n\nMeanwhile, former world heavyweight boxer Wladimir Klitschko, whose older brother Vitali is now mayor of Kyiv, urged people across the world to help Ukraine to \"stop Russian aggression\".\n\n\"I'm addressing the entire world to stop this war which Russia has started. There is no time to wait because it is going to bleed into a humanitarian catastrophe,\" he said.\n\n\"You need to act now. An hour or by tomorrow will be too late. Please get into action now, don't wait. Stop this war.\"\n\nHow else has sport responded to Russia's invasion of Ukraine?\n\nMany sports governing bodies, clubs and players have reacted to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by cancelling or postponing events due to be held in the region.\n• None The 2022 Champions League final will be played in Paris after Uefa - European football's governing body -\n• None Uefa also ordered Russian and Ukrainian clubs and national teams to play their home matches away from the region \"until further notice\"\n• None Uefa is looking to end its major £30m-a-year sponsorship deal with Russian state-run gas giant Gazprom\n• None Russia's Formula 1 Grand Prix, due to take place in Sochi in September,\n• None International sports federations were urged to move or cancel events currently planned in Russia or Belarus by the International Olympic Committee\n• None The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has postponed World Cup 2023 qualifiers involving Netherlands v Russia on 27 February and Great Britain v Belarus on 28 February\n\n'My conscience won't let me play' - what else did the Poland players say?\n\nBayern Munich striker Lewandowski, 33, who is his country's all-time highest goalscorer, said: \"I can't imagine playing a match with the Russian national team in a situation when armed aggression in Ukraine continues. Russian footballers and fans are not responsible for this, but we can't pretend that nothing is happening.\"\n\nPolish FA president Kulesza added: \"Due to the escalation of the aggression of the Russian Federation towards Ukraine, the Polish national team does not intend to play the play-off match against Russia.\n\n\"This is the only right decision. We are in talks with the Sweden and Czech Republic to present a common position to Fifa.\"\n\nPoland goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, who plays for Italian champions Juventus, said his \"conscience\" would not let him play.\n\n\"I refuse to stand on the pitch, wearing the colours of my country and listen to the national anthem of Russia,\" wrote the 31-year-old former Arsenal player, whose wife was born in Ukraine.\n\n\"I refuse to take part in a sporting event that legitimises the actions of the Russian government.\"\n\nOther members of the Poland squad, including Leeds United midfielder Mateusz Klich, Southampton defender Jan Bednarek and Aston Villa defender Matty Cash posted messages on social media which outlined their position.\n\n\"It is not an easy decision but there are more important things than football,\" read the collective statement.\n\nThe Poland players also highlighted the case of team-mate Tomasz Kedziora, who plays for Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv and is still in the Ukrainian capital.\n\nBBC Sport has learned that the UK government plans to conduct meetings with UK sports bodies early next week to explore what else could be done to intensify Russia's sporting isolation.\n\nMinisters have already welcomed Uefa's decision to strip St Petersburg of the Champions League final.\n\nNow they are likely to ask the FA to hold talks with other countries' football associations to see if more can be done to put pressure on Fifa to expel Russia from World Cup qualifying.\n\nMeanwhile, the International Paralympic Committee will hold an executive board meeting on Wednesday when the crisis will be discussed.\n\nAt this stage it is understood IPC bosses believe their rules do not allow for Russia to be excluded, and that any such move would be successfully challenged by Russia in court. But further talks are set to take place at the meeting next week.", "Russia has continued its full-scale assault on Ukraine, with troops said to be in the capital, Kyiv.\n\nThe city was attacked from the air overnight and now Russian forces are advancing on land.\n\nUkraine's President Zelensky has called on European citizens to protest and asked their governments to intervene to stop Russia's assault.", "The EU, US and their allies have agreed to cut off a number of Russian banks from the main international payment system, Swift.\n\nThe assets of Russia's central bank will also be frozen, limiting Russia's ability to access its overseas reserves.\n\nThe intention is to \"further isolate Russia from the international financial system\", a joint statement said.\n\nRussia is heavily reliant on the Swift system for its key oil and gas exports.\n\nThe joint sanctions are the harshest measures imposed to date on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nSwift, or the \"Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication\", is a secure messaging system that makes fast, cross-border payments possible, enabling international trade.\n\nBased in Belgium, it facilitates transactions between more than 11,000 banks and financial institutions across the globe.\n\nIt plays a pivotal role in supporting the global economy, but has no authority to make sanction decisions itself.\n\nThe banks affected were not immediately named, but the German spokesman said they would include \"all those already sanctioned by the international community, as well as other institutions, if necessary\".\n\nRemoval from Swift is deemed to be a severe curb because almost all banks use the system.\n\nThe measures were agreed by the US, UK, Europe and Canada.\n\nExcluding certain Russian banks from the Swift system used for trillions of dollars-worth of transactions will hit the economy hard - and in the words of the White House, it will make the country rely on \"the telephone or a fax machine\" to make payments.\n\nThis is only a slight exaggeration. There are workarounds to Swift but none which are as efficient.\n\nWhen Iran was cut out of the system in 2012, as part of sanctions over its nuclear programme, it lost 30% of its foreign trade.\n\nPicking certain Russian banks will ensure the sanctions have the maximum impact on Russia, while preventing too much impact on Europe. European businesses will be able to continue to collect money owed and buy Russian energy.\n\nOther measures are equally powerful. Curbs on Russia's central bank will stop it using its currency to limit the effect of sanctions.\n\nRussia has been building up a cushion of foreign currency to protect its banks, but this new measure will significantly decrease the reserves available.\n\nThe impact of these measures may take a while to show - but they do express an immediate intent from Western nations.\n\nUrsula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said the decision to paralyse the assets of Russia's central bank would stop the Kremlin from \"using its war chest\".\n\nThe EU and its partners agreed to freeze the bank's transactions and prevent it from liquidating its assets.\n\nShe added there would be a crackdown on so-called \"golden passports\" that \"let wealthy Russians connected to the Russian government become citizens of our countries and gain access to our financial systems\".\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain had taken \"decisive action\", tweeting: \"We will keep working together to ensure Putin pays the price for his aggression.\"\n\nResponding to the announcement, Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal tweeted his appreciation for the sanctions, calling them a \"real help during this dark time\".\n\nEU foreign ministers are set to meet on Sunday to co-ordinate member states' military aid to Ukraine, and discuss humanitarian assistance for the country and those fleeing the conflict.", "The Ukrainian military has been putting up fierce resistance\n\nHistory shows that it's much easier to start a war than to end one.\n\nThat's certainly true of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003. And it might turn out to be the same for President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.\n\nThere's an old axiom that military plans never survive the first contact with the enemy. It certainly appears to be true for Russia's forces in Ukraine.\n\nEd Arnold, an expert on European security at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), describes Russia's initial assault as \"underwhelming\" and \"slower than expected\".\n\nHe points to a number of reasons. Military doctrine for an invasion, he says, is usually \"to go for overwhelming force\". While Russia had massed between 150,000 and 190,000 troops on the border, so far it hasn't used them all.\n\nThat might be because Russia will need them for later phases of the invasion. It's normal for militaries to keep reserves as they adjust plans.\n\nWestern officials estimate that the initial assault involved about half of the forces it's massed. The initial invasion has been further complicated by attacks from multiple directions.\n\nRussia also hasn't used its artillery and air strikes as intensively as expected. But Mr Arnold adds: \"A key point is that they are facing very stiff Ukrainian resistance, which I don't think they expected.\"\n\nThat said, he believes that Russia's military commander will quickly adapt to any setbacks. Gen Sir Richard Barrons, a former senior British military commander, says it still appears that the Russians \"are going to secure their military objectives quite quickly\".\n\nGen Barrons says it's quite clear the initial objectives of Russia's offensive are to \"break the Ukrainian military, remove the central government and annex an element of Ukraine to be absorbed into a wider Russia\".\n\nOn some of those goals, Russia appears to have already made progress. It's made advances from the south. Russian forces have now created a land bridge into Ukraine from Crimea, which they invaded in 2014.\n\nEd Arnold describes this as a \"modest objective\". But from here, they can try to encircle Ukraine's forces defending in the east.\n\nSome of Ukraine's most experienced troops are dug in along the line of contact, where they've been fighting Russian-backed separatists for the past eight years.\n\nSo far, they appear to have bravely fought off Russian efforts to break through their lines from the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk. But they will find it much harder if they become surrounded.\n\nThe fact is that a significant portion of Ukraine's armed forces are already tied down in the fighting and will find it hard to reposition.\n\nRussia has also made significant advances on Kyiv. Taking the capital is the other main objective, not least because it's the centre of government and leading the resistance.\n\nPresident Putin wants to replace President Zelensky's democratically elected authority with his own, more compliant, regime. Ed Arnold of Rusi says \"anything less than the capture of Kyiv would not achieve Russia's objectives\".\n\nThe question now is, how easy will that be? Russian forces appear to be making an attempt to encircle the city. But they're likely to face stiffer resistance the deeper they push in.\n\nUrban warfare often gives the defender the advantage. Attacking forces will find it harder to manoeuvre from street to street, where buildings become defensive positions. Civilians, too, can become part of the resistance and potential targets. Urban warfare is the most difficult and bloody for any advancing army and requires more forces.\n\nThe Dnieper river forms a natural barrier between east and west Ukraine. Ed Arnold describes it as a potential \"limit of exploitation\" for Russian forces.\n\nIf they can capture Kyiv and the rest of the country, then Mr Arnold suggests there may be little advantage in pushing further west. President Putin may hope that after his forces have captured the capital and defeated Ukraine's army, the resistance will crumble.\n\nBut while 190,000 troops may be enough to carry out an invasion, military experts doubt whether it's enough to occupy Europe's second-largest country. Ukraine is larger than France. Gen Barrons, who was a British military commander in Iraq, says: \"If Mr Putin's intent was to occupy the whole of Ukraine with a force of around 150,000, that would only conceivably work if it had the consent of the population.\"\n\nHe says that, while there is an element of the population that cleaves to Russia in the east, any Russian-installed government would struggle to rule by consent a population of some 40 million.\n\nGen Barrons believes that while Russia has the forces in place to defeat Ukraine's army eventually, that could be replaced by a \"very resilient insurgency\". Any expectation by President Putin that he can control the entire country, he says, \"may be a major miscalculation\".", "Drivers have been warned of about five miles of congestion on the M6 in Staffordshire\n\nA man has died in a crash on the M6 after a car being pursued by police collided with his vehicle.\n\nThe victim was in a stationary traffic management vehicle when it was hit on the northbound side between junctions 14 at Stafford and 15 for Stoke-on-Trent at about 05:00 GMT, police said.\n\nOfficers had been trying to stop the Audi, Staffordshire Police added.\n\nA 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and remains in custody.\n\nThe M6 has been closed for several hours following the collision with delays of at least 60 minutes in the area, National Highways tweeted.\n\nThe man who died was in his 40s and was the only person in the traffic vehicle, detectives said.\n\nThey said they believed the Audi had previously been involved in an incident elsewhere in the West Midlands.\n\nThe crash has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct due to the police activity before the collision.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Russian armed forces dwarf those of Ukraine - and they have much more hardware and air power\n\nHow hard will it be for Ukraine to defend itself now that an attack by Russia has begun? Ukraine is outgunned and outnumbered right across the board - after significant investment and modernisation in Russia's armed forces by President Putin.\n\nDr Jack Watling, of the Royal United Services Institute, says: \"I think the Ukrainians are in a very difficult position.\" He's just returned from Ukraine and says the country's military leaders now face some \"very hard choices\".\n\nWestern officials estimate that Russia had up to 190,000 troops on Ukraine's border - far more than Ukraine's entire regular army of 125,600.\n\nRussian forces are already crossing the border from multiple directions.\n\nThe military airport at Chuhuyev near Kharkiv was among targets hit first by Russia\n\nUkraine will find it hard to defend thousands of miles of its frontier - from Belarus in the north all the way down to Crimea in the south. If you think of Ukraine as a clock face, the Russians can mount attacks from 10 o'clock to 7 o'clock.\n\nBen Barry, of the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) and a former British Army brigadier, says it's a \"very difficult position for a defender\".\n\nAdded to that, Ukraine is being threatened in multiple directions and their forces are \"spread pretty thinly\", Jack Watling of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) says.\n\nBut the real disparity between Russian and Ukrainian forces is in the sky.\n\nUkraine has 105 combat aircraft on the border compared with Russia's 300, Mr Watling says. The Russians, he predicts, \"will very quickly gain air superiority\".\n\nRussia's advanced air defence systems, such as S-400 missiles, also gives its forces an advantage. In contrast, Ukraine has older and more limited air defences.\n\nMr Watling gives the example of Israel being able to defend itself from multiple directions. But he adds it's only been able to do so because of its superiority in the air. That's something Ukraine simply doesn't have.\n\nMoscow has developed its own version of \"shock and awe\" with integrated air, missile and long-range rocket artillery, says Ben Barry.\n\nIt allows the Russians to attack Ukraine's command and control centres, ammunition depots, air force and air defences from far away.\n\nThat already appears to have begun, with cruise missile attacks on targets near the capital Kyiv.\n\nMr Watling says the Russians have a very significant arsenal of modern weapons and capabilities that Ukraine doesn't have an answer to - like the Iskander cruise and ballistic missile systems.\n\nUkraine has recently received supplies of \"lethal aid\" from the US and the UK, but these are mostly short-range air-to-air missiles and anti-tank weapons.\n\nWith Russia's air superiority and long-range weapons, the danger for Ukraine's forces is that they'll soon be pinned down.\n\nUkraine's forces could be stopped from being able to manoeuvre and reposition to face the Russian advance from any other direction, Mr Watling believes.\n\nMany of Ukraine's best trained and equipped units are in the east of the country - near the line of control in Luhansk and Donetsk - where there's been fighting since 2014.\n\nWestern intelligence officials have told the BBC there's a real worry that Russia could try to encircle them.\n\nHowever, Ukraine's armed forces are better trained and equipped than they were when Russia invaded Crimea.\n\nMr Barry says units and soldiers have gained useful battle experience from the fight with Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country.\n\nBut he adds they've mainly been involved in linear trench warfare and the demands of \"manoeuvre warfare\" will be much harder.\n\nRussia's forces are able to move quickly with mobile rocket and missile launchers and air defences. Russian troops, too, have been battle hardened from its invasion of Crimea, and in Syria.\n\nIf the fighting enters Ukraine's towns and cities then that might give Ukraine's forces a chance.\n\nA well prepared defender can make urban fighting difficult and bloody for any attacker - as shown in Stalingrad in World War Two and more recently in Mosul in Iraq.\n\nA woman cleans her damaged house after artillery fire from an area of Donetsk under the control of Russian-backed rebels\n\nBen Barry believes that Russian forces may initially try to bypass towns and cities. But he believes it's very unlikely that the Russians can avoid urban combat, not least in Kyiv given its political significance.\n\nJack Watling says if Ukraine can defend its cities properly then they might be able to hold out for quite a long time.\n\nBritish-supplied light anti-tank weapons (also known as NLAWs) may help in close combat where Ukrainian forces can move around using the cover of buildings. An unknown number of civilians could also take up arms.\n\nRussia cannot just rely on airstrikes and artillery to control towns and cities.\n\nBut Mr Watling says Russia already has agents and operatives on the ground. He says \"there will be subversion and unconventional operations in Kyiv to try and destabilise the government\". Russia, he adds, will also try to encircle cities and use long-range artillery to target pockets of resistance and then try to use special forces and agents to \"essentially murder civil society leaders\".\n\nUkraine is now fighting for its survival.\n\nIt's been engaged in combat with Russian-backed forces in the east for the past eight years, but the threat is now an existential one for the entire country.\n\nHaving just visited Ukraine, Mr Watling says there is a \"grim determination to survive as a country, but there is a recognition that they are overmatched and that it's going to be exceedingly bloody\".\n\nSkip image gallery Tap or click to go through the gallery", "The Queen has cancelled a diplomatic reception on the advice of the Foreign Office, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe event had been set to take place at Windsor Castle on Wednesday.\n\nIt would have been the 95-year-old monarch's first engagement since testing positive for Covid.\n\nAsked whether there were any health grounds for the cancellation, a palace source reiterated that the decision had been taken following advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nThe reception is an annual event and is normally attended by ambassadors and high commissioners from every diplomatic mission in London.\n\nThe news that it will not go ahead comes two days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe Queen has had to cancel three virtual engagements since her positive Covid test was announced last Sunday.\n\nA statement issued on Thursday said the Queen was continuing with \"light duties\".\n\nHer next scheduled public engagements are the annual Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey on 14 March, and a memorial service for the Duke of Edinburgh on 29 March.", "In 2019 Chernobyl's reactor number four was encased in a massive steel structure to prevent further radiation leaks\n\nRussian military forces have seized control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials say.\n\nPresidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak said the \"totally pointless attack\" on Thursday amounted to \"one of the most serious threats in Europe today\".\n\nAn explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 led to the worst nuclear disaster in human history, both in cost and casualty.\n\nUkraine's president warned such a disaster could happen again if Russia continued its invasion.\n\n\"Our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated,\" President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote earlier on Twitter.\n\n\"This is a declaration of war against the whole of Europe.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also warned of the possibility of \"another ecological disaster\" at the site.\n\nUkrainian officials reported radiation levels had been \"exceeded\" in a number of places in the area, but Russia said that was not the case.\n\nChernobyl's \"exclusion zone\" - a 32-km (19-mile) radius around the plant - remains largely devoid of human life, 36 years after a flawed reactor design and series errors by its operators caused a major explosion at the plant.\n\nThe plant's three other reactors were all shut down by 2000 and it has since been decommissioned.\n\nRadiation levels in the area have remained higher than normal from the 1986 leak, chronicled in an eponymous HBO mini-series in 2019 that helped make the site a tourist attraction.\n\nRussian troops reportedly entered the exclusion zone earlier on Thursday before crossing over into Ukraine.\n\nThe White House says it has received reports that staff are being held hostage at the site by Russian soldiers.\n\nThe forces are part of Russian President Vladimir Putin's \"special military operation\" in their neighbouring country.\n\nChernobyl is located about 130 km (80 miles) north of the capital, Kyiv, and could provide a path into the city for the invading forces.\n\nSamantha Turner, a security fellow at the Truman National Security Project, says control of the area does not have \"battle-determining significance\", but gives Russian forces a corridor to the Dnipro River.\n\nThe river runs south to Kyiv from Belarus, whose president has closely aligned himself with Mr Putin.\n\n\"It's an important part of them opening up different corridors for troop movement and controlling key terrain,\" she said.\n\nShe warned that, while nobody lives in the area and the plant is no longer active, any active fighting over the territory could cause radioactive waste spillage.\n\nUkraine's parliament reported that since Russia had moved into the area, gamma radiation levels had been exceeded at a significant number of observation points, while one official said dust could have been stirred up by heavy vehicles. However, a Russian defence ministry official said background levels were normal.\n\nRussians are among the world's most experienced nuclear operators, notes Claire Corkhill, a radioactive waste materials professor from the University of Sheffield.\n\nShe has worked as part of the international clean-up effort at Chernobyl for the past six years, even visiting the site three times.\n\nThe most significant success in these collaborations was the recent construction of a 32,000-tonne dome around the radioactive reactor, funded at a cost of $1.5bn (£1.1bn) by more than 30 countries.\n\nProf Corkhill now worries the invasion of Ukraine will have the effect of pausing these operations.\n\n\"Thirty years have passed since the accident and we've still not cleaned everything up,\" she told the BBC. \"It's easily another 50-year programme.\n\n\"If people aren't properly working on that facility and progressing the decommissioning, it could be a really big problem.\"\n\nThe 1986 explosion is often linked to the subsequent fall of the Soviet Union five years later.\n\nDr Taras Kuzio, research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, says the seizure of Chernobyl is therefore best looked at as a symbolic win for President Putin.\n\n\"Putin has the mindset of somebody who cannot get over the fact the USSR disintegrated 30 years ago, and it all began to disintegrate after Chernobyl,\" said Dr Kuzio, who is of Ukrainian descent.\n\nHe fears that while Mr Putin may simply be using the threat of nuclear weaponry to ward off the West, he is operating like a \"sociopath\" and his actions should be watched closely.\n\n\"What he's doing in Ukraine is unprecedented. Why should we assume he is not going to do anything else?\" he said.", "Heavy snow has fallen in parts of Northern Ireland, especially across counties Fermanagh, Tyrone, Londonderry and Antrim.\n\nA Met Office warning for snow and lightning ended at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but an ice warning remains until 09:00 on Friday.\n\nSeveral schools closed on Thursday and there was some disruption to bus and rail services.\n\nThere were reports of thunder and lightning to the west of Fermanagh.\n\nReports suggested that 7cm of snow was lying in the Sperrins and about 3cm at lower levels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA small number of schools in counties Londonderry, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Antrim closed.\n\nThere was some disruption and delays due to lying snow, reduced visibility in the heavy snows showers and ice.\n\nOn Thursday morning, Translink said its Ulsterbus services were subject to delays and some cancellations due to the snow, \"particularly on rural roads\".\n\nOn its website, Translink also warned that disruption to its services would continue into Friday.\n\nA lorry gritted the streets in Crumlin ,County Antrim, after heavy snow on Thursday\n\nTranslink added that it was working hard to keep services operating and apologised to customers for any inconvenience.\n\nIt added: \"Passengers are advised to allow extra time for their journeys and to keep up to date with timetable information through Translink's social media channels, journey planner and contact centre.\"\n\nAll buses, including local, school and express services, were suspended in Dungannon for a period of time while some minor routes in Ballymena and Londonderry were also not serviced.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs advised the public not to visit forests, country parks and nature reserves in affected areas while the weather warning was in place.\n\nDifficult driving conditions could be experienced in Omagh, County Tyrone, due to the snow\n\nThe Met Office yellow weather warning explains there could be a risk that some rural communities could be cut off, while there is a small risk that some buildings and structures could be damaged.\n\nIt also informs the public there is \"a small chance of injuries and danger to life from lightning strikes\".\n\nSheep sheltered from the Snow in Crumlin, County Antrim", "I was awake at night when I got a message from a colleague about Vladimir Putin's speech announcing an invasion.\n\nThen immediately the explosions began. I could hear them from my home, and people in different parts of the city started sending messages to our WhatsApp group, about explosions happening close to them.\n\nTo realise that Kyiv itself was under attack, not the front line in the east of the country, was a big shock.\n\nThere is no safe place in Ukraine any more.\n\nThe biggest fear for ordinary people here is running out of electricity and the internet not working - then we would be really isolated. Another fear is that bridges over the Dnieper river will be bombed, dividing the eastern and western halves of the city.\n\nThe explosions continued for about 30 minutes.\n\nI dressed my 10-year-old son. We had some breakfast, sitting as far from the windows as we could, but he was so scared he vomited. We took a candle and some water to our cellar, which will be our refuge if things get worse.\n\nThere are huge queues outside the supermarkets near my home and at ATMs, many of which have run out of money. Some petrol stations too have now run out and closed. There is an air of panic, now that we know the entire country is under attack.\n\nThe roads out of the city are blocked with traffic, but it's a perilous journey - sitting in long, slow-moving queues of traffic you could easily run out of fuel far from home. Trains are operating, but there are big crowds of people trying to get a seat. Ukrainian airspace is closed, under the martial law introduced by President Zelensky.\n\nIt's not only military targets that have been destroyed - we have photographs of residential buildings in a number of cities around the country that have taken direct hits.\n\nThe Russian bombardment has affected all regions of the country. Even in Lviv, close to the Polish border, sirens went off this morning and a colleague had to take refuge in a bomb shelter.\n\nOne colleague has taken his family out of Kyiv in the hope of avoiding the attacks from the air. The countryside may be safer than the city, but in a country under attack from north, east and south, there is no truly safe place here any more.\n\nThe traffic gridlock as residents flee Kyiv - it's a perilous journey", "Zmiinyi (Snake) Island is located 48km (30 miles) south of Ukraine's mainland in the Black Sea\n\nUkraine has honoured 13 soldiers who were killed defending a tiny island after reportedly swearing at a Russian ship that ordered them to surrender.\n\nIn unverified audio clips, the borders guards defending Zmiinyi Island in the Black Sea are told to \"lay down your weapons\" or \"be bombed\".\n\n\"Russian warship, go to hell,\" they respond.\n\nUkraine says they were then killed by air and sea strikes. Russia denies the account, saying they all surrendered.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has awarded each of the guards the posthumous title of \"Hero of Ukraine\".\n\n\"On our Zmiinyi Island, defending it to the last, all the border guards died heroically,\" Mr Zelensky said.\n\nIn the audio recordings, shared by a Ukrainian government official, the soldiers can be heard exchanging barbed comments with the Russian vessel.\n\n\"This is a Russian warship,\" one voice says in the clip. \"I propose you lay down your weapons and surrender to avoid bloodshed and unnecessary victims. Otherwise you will be bombed\"\n\nAccording to the audio, the Ukrainian soldiers can then be heard speaking amongst themselves, agreeing \"this is it\", before their final \"go to hell\".\n\nAccording to Ukrainian officials, those were the last words heard from the island before Russia began strikes and Kyiv lost contact with the island.\n\nThe official Russian account of the incident differs dramatically. Moscow said the 82 Ukrainian soldiers on the island surrendered it to them voluntarily and made no mention of carrying out strikes or inflicting casualties.\n\nSnake Island is a roughly 16-hectare (40-acre) rocky island owned by Ukraine that lies about 300km (186 miles) west of Crimea.\n\nUkraine says 137 of its civilians and military personnel were killed during Russia's invasion on Thursday.", "Ukrainian servicemen patrol during a curfew as Russian forces continue to advance on the third day in Kyiv. The capital's Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced the curfew from between 17:00 on 26 February and 08:00 local time on 28 February.", "This is the moment a woman confronted an armed Russian soldier in the city of Henichesk in Ukraine.\n\nThe woman approached the soldier on Thursday, who can be seen holding a large machine gun, before asking him, \"Who are you... Why did you come here with weapons?\"", "Sergei Lavrov and Vladimir Putin are \"responsible for the deaths of innocent people in Ukraine\", Germany says\n\nWestern nations have ordered personal sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov over the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe men's assets in the US, EU, UK and Canada will be frozen and, in the case of the US, a travel ban imposed.\n\nThe announcement came on the second day of the Russian attack on its neighbour.\n\nSuch punitive measures against leaders are rare. The EU has only ever imposed sanctions on the presidents of Syria and Belarus, for instance.\n\nThe US, for its part, has previously announced measures against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in addition to Syria's Bashar al-Assad.\n\nIt is unclear how significant the assets of Mr Putin and Mr Lavrov are in the US, EU, UK and Canada, and what practical impact the sanctions will have.\n\nRussia said they showed the West's \"absolute impotence\" on foreign policy.\n\nRussia later vetoed a draft UN resolution to condemn the invasion of Ukraine after a debate at the UN Security Council.\n\nIndia, China and the UAE all abstained from voting, while 11 other members voted in favour.\n\nSpeaking after the vote, the US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said, \"Russia has abused its power today to veto our strong resolution, but Russia cannot veto our words.\"\n\n\"President Putin is the aggressor here, there is no middle ground.\"\n\nThe sanctions come as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia would try to \"storm\" Kyiv on Friday night.\n\nIn a video statement, Mr Zelensky said \"this night will be hard, very hard, but morning will come.\n\n\"This night the enemy will be using all available means to break our resistance. This night they will launch an assault.\n\n\"This night we must persevere. The fate of Ukraine is being decided right now.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our main goal is to finish this bloodbath.\"\n\nWhile Mr Zelensky acknowledged Russian forces had inflicted casualties, he maintained \"the enemy has sustained very serious casualties\", too. The BBC cannot verify this claim.\n\nHis words came after a day which saw Russian tanks enter the capital for the first time with large blasts heard across the city.\n\nRussian troops also reportedly entered the southern Ukrainian city of Melitopol, according to Russian news agency Tass. The BBC cannot independently verify this, but earlier Mr Zelensky said that there was heavy fighting in the city.\n\nEarlier on Friday evening a spokesperson for Mr Zelensky said the country was prepared to hold ceasefire and peace talks with Russia immediately and were discussing a place and time to hold talks.\n\nAnalysts suggest Russia's advance has been slowed by fierce resistance.\n\nGerman Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the Russian president and his top diplomat were \"responsible for the deaths of innocent people in Ukraine, and for trampling on the international system\".\n\n\"We, as Europeans, do not accept that,\" she said, after a meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels.\n\nEU leaders have decided not to impose a European travel ban on them for now.\n\nAs Russian troops close in on Kyiv, Ukraine has been pleading with the West for faster and tougher sanctions to punish Moscow for its attack.\n\nHe wants leaders to cut off Russia from Swift - the system used for global business transactions.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has also urged the West to block Russia from the payments system to \"inflict maximum pain on President Putin and his regime\".\n\nBut the EU has so far opted not to cut off Russia from Swift - reportedly due to objections from some member states, including Germany and Italy, who are worried the impact on their own economies.\n\nThe two countries say, however, that they remain open to the idea.\n\nFrance's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said removing Russia from Swift remained an option, but only as a last-resort \"financial nuclear weapon\".\n\nMr Borrell said the latest round of EU sanctions - the second since Russia launched its offensive - would be followed by a third, if it was needed.\n\nThe EU's latest round of sanctions also target Russian elites and make its harder for its diplomats to travel.\n\nRussia has responded with tit-for-tat measures against Western sanctions, banning British flights to and over its territory in retaliation to a UK ban on the Russian airline Aeroflot.\n\nRussia's invasion has also prompted a response in the sporting world.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nValve's new handheld PC, the Steam Deck, has officially been released - but only to a select few people.\n\nThe hardware was originally slated for release in December 2021, but was pushed back due to supply chain issues.\n\nDespite the hardware having been released, many orders are only available \"after Q2 2022\".\n\nWhen asked if it would be able to fulfil these pre-orders, Valve president Gabe Newell pointed to unexpected high demand.\n\n\"The shortages are not due to supply shock, they're due to a demand shock,\" he said.\n\n\"It's just this huge uptake in silicon consumption that caught everybody more or less flat-footed.\"\n\nOn Friday, Valve started contacting people who pre-ordered Steam Decks on a first-come, first-served basis.\n\nCustomers have three days from receipt of the email from Valve to complete their purchase or lose their spot in the queue.\n\nIt is unclear when customers will receive their hardware, but Valve said it will begin shipping on 28 February.\n\nThe base version of the Steam Deck costs £349 and comes with 64GB flash storage, while the top-end version costs £569 and has 512GB of faster internal storage.\n\nThere are three variants of the handheld available, though the only hardware difference between them is the storage\n\nOne of the clear selling points of the Steam Deck is its vast library of more than 62,000 games, with many titles playable in some form or another.\n\nGreg Coomer, a designer at Valve, said this library was at the heart of the product's inception.\n\n\"Our goal was to bring all the games on Steam to a handheld form factor, to be able to play even the triple A games in the library,\" he said.\n\nUnlike buying a new console, players who have accrued hundreds of PC games over their life will find many of them are immediately playable on the Steam Deck.\n\nOne section on the home screen will show you just how many of the games you own are considered to be \"Great on Deck\", meaning the games fully support the hardware.\n\nBut this is not foolproof, as we experienced severe stuttering and slowdown in one of the selected games, the 2011 title Sonic Generations.\n\nMeanwhile, many older titles are playable with issues. For example, Persona 4 Golden runs well on the handheld - as you would expect of a game originally released on PlayStation 2 and remastered for Sony's handheld PlayStation Vita. However, it currently does not play audio during cut scenes, and has extended black screen delays exiting battles.\n\nDespite having limited internal storage space, all versions of the Steam Deck are expandable by a MicroSD card. Mr Coomer said the hardware would not only support a 1TB MicroSD card, but he believed it would support any size that exists.\n\nA feature of the handheld is its battery life. Valve says it can hold charge for up to eight hours depending on use, although we were unable to find a game which ran for this length of time on default settings.\n\nThe battery time varies from game to game, with hit title Grand Theft Auto V lasting just under five hours with default graphics settings.\n\nHow a selection of games fared with battery life on default settings:\n\nAccording to Mr Coomer, parts of the Steam Deck - such as the battery - are \"technically upgradeable\", while other parts are replaceable if players have an issue.\n\n\"But there's a limit,\" he said. \"For example, it's really hard to get the battery out if you need to replace that.\n\n\"You can upgrade parts, you can swap parts. Some parts are easier to swap than others. Mostly we don't recommend that anyone do that themselves at home if they're not already a pro at doing those kinds of things.\"\n\nValve has said in the past it is \"technically possible\" the Steam Deck will support an external VR headset, but it is not optimised for it. And Mr Coomer would not elaborate on which VR games would run on the device.\n\n\"We have tried it out only just to vet whether some of the peripherals will light up,\" he said. \"We knew from the outset that we're not going to have a fantastic experience with VR games running on Deck today.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nValve has released several products in the hardware realm in the past, such as its 2015 Steam Machines.\n\nThe prebuilt gaming PCs were intended to compete with home consoles such as the Xbox and PlayStation, but were quietly removed from the Steam store in 2018, and are no longer available for sale.\n\nIt also released the Steam Controller and Steam Link, which Mr Newell points out are still supported despite being discontinued.\n\n\"All of those things have continued to be the building blocks for what we're doing with Deck,\" he said. \"I think Deck is going to be an enormously popular product.\n\n\"We'd expect customers to be excited their Steam library is going to work on their desktop, even if they stop using their Deck. That's a big advantage.\"\n\nHe called the Steam Deck \"the first stage of the next generation\".\n\n\"I'm playing Final Fantasy XIV on my Deck,\" he said. \"That's something that traditionally would have been absurd.\n\n\"You're not going to play that on your phone, right? It would be impossible that you throw away everything that makes it a fun game in order to get it to run in that kind of environment.\"\n\nAnd he said Valve isn't too concerned about big sales figures, comparing the hardware to its 2020 VR release Half-Life: Alyx.\n\n\"Was Alyx a huge financial success? No,\" he said. \"Because the number of devices where you can play it is a vast subset of the number of PC titles.\n\n\"Does that mean in any way, shape, or form that we're disappointed with Alyx? Not at all, because we're in this for the long haul.\n\n\"Our view is, narrowly viewing everything in terms of strict unit volumes precludes a lot of interesting choices.\"\n\nThe Steam Deck seems destined to be compared to the wildly popular Nintendo Switch, which has surpassed 100 million sales worldwide.\n\nBut from a consumer's point of view, the handheld PC does offer something dramatically different - every single game that can be purchased on the Steam Deck remains in your Steam library to be played in the future long after the hardware no longer functions.\n\nSo perhaps the most intriguing thing about the Steam Deck that separates it from other consoles is not just that it already has a vast library - it's that its library will live on.", "The UK will introduce sanctions against Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov \"imminently\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nAccording to the UK's sanctions list they will face asset freezes - a measure also being imposed by the EU and the US - but not a travel ban.\n\nThe announcement comes after Russia invaded Ukraine, with tanks since entering the capital Kyiv.\n\nMr Johnson said the world must ensure Mr Putin's \"act of aggression\" fails.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine has provoked condemnation from countries in the West and retaliatory sanctions.\n\nSpeaking to leaders of the Nato military alliance in a virtual meeting, Mr Johnson said a \"catastrophe was engulfing Ukraine\" and Mr Putin was engaging in a mission to \"overturn the post-Cold War order\".\n\nThe prime minister warned allies the Russian president's ambitions might not stop at Ukraine, adding it was \"vital\" Nato was strengthened now in response to what was a \"Euro-Atlantic crisis with global consequences\".\n\nMr Johnson said the UK stood ready for any request from Nato to go further with military support.\n\nOn Friday evening, in a video posted on social media, he addressed the people of Russia directly, saying in Russian: \"I do not believe this war is in your name.\"\n\nHe also spoke Ukrainian after urging an end to the conflict, saying \"the world needs a free and sovereign Ukraine\".\n\nIt is unclear how significant Mr Putin and Mr Lavrov's assets in the US, EU and UK are and what practical impact the sanctions will have on them.\n\nEU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the pair joined Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in being the only world leaders to be sanctioned by the EU.\n\nThe US is also imposing a travel ban on Mr Putin and Mr Lavrov - a move the UK and EU have not adopted for now.\n\nHowever, the allies stopped short of removing Russia from the international banking system Swift - something Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson reiterated his plea for world leaders to take \"immediate action\" on removing Russia from Swift to \"inflict maximum pain on President Putin and his regime\".\n\nSome of the most stringent sanctions announced this week by Western nations include:\n\nThe announcement that Mr Putin and Mr Lavrov will be targeted comes after the UK announced a package of strengthened sanctions against Russia on Thursday.\n\nRussian banks, businesses and oligarchs were targeted in the measures.\n\nThe national airline Aeroflot was also banned from landing at UK airports or flying through its airspace - with Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announcing on Friday that the same measure would apply to all Russian private jets.\n\nThe symbolism of freezing the UK assets of President Putin himself and those of his foreign minister couldn't be plainer.\n\nAs with the EU though, which has announced the same, questions are likely to be asked about how many assets either man personally has in the UK.\n\nThe move that is believed could have a significant impact would be removing Russian banks from the international Swift system, which facilitates money transfers.\n\nThe prime minister is pushing for that but it can't be done by the UK alone, so diplomatic efforts to persuade other allies continue.\n\nMeanwhile, Western officials believe the more resistance Russians encounter from Ukrainian forces, the more brutal and indiscriminate they become.\n\nRussia has been continuing its assault from the north, south and east, but Ukrainian resistance has been inflicting casualties on Russian forces.\n\nSources suggest the brutality of Russian forces is being ramped up in the face of this resistance - an assessment experts delivered at a meeting of the UK's cabinet ministers on Thursday.\n\nMembers of the Ukrainian National Guard are pictured taking position in Ukraine's capital Kyiv\n\nThe UK ambassador to the UN has said \"Russia is isolated\" after Moscow vetoed a UN Security Council resolution urging it to halt the invasion and withdraw its troops.\n\nDame Barbara Woodward said following the vote it was \"absurd\" for Russia to claim the invasion was in self-defence.\n\n\"Russia's only act of self-defence is the vote they have cast against this resolution\" Dame Barbara said.\n\n\"Make no mistake: Russia is isolated. It has no support for the invasion of Ukraine.\"\n\nEarlier, the Belarussian ambassador to the UK, Maxim Yermalovich, was summoned to the Foreign Office over his country's role in the invasion.\n\nMinister for Europe and North America James Cleverly made clear Belarus had \"aided and abetted\" Russia's \"reckless aggression\", the Foreign Office said.\n\nThe UK has already said sanctions will be applied to Belarus, a long-term ally of Russia.\n\nAlso on Friday Mr Johnson spoke to Mr Zelensky, pledging more support in coming days.\n\nMr Zelensky said Ukraine \"needs the support of partners more than ever\" and called for stronger sanctions.\n\nNato - the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - is a military alliance originally formed in 1949 by 12 countries, including the US, Canada, the UK and France.\n\nMembers agree to come to one another's aid in the event of an armed attack against any member state. Ukraine is not in Nato but wants to join the alliance.\n\nRussia had sought assurances this would never be allowed to happen.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross will not be sanctioned after failing to declare earnings while serving as an MP.\n\nMr Ross reported himself in November for not recording his full MSP salary and earnings as a match official for the Scottish Football Association.\n\nThe Standards Commissioner at Westminster has now ruled there was \"no deliberate attempt to mislead\".\n\nMr Ross has apologised and \"guaranteed\" the mistake will not be repeated.\n\nAs an MSP who is also an MP for Moray, Mr Ross receives a top-up payment from the Scottish Parliament of £21,490 for a whole year.\n\nHowever, since he only became a list MSP for the Highlands and Islands last May, his failure to declare was for six months' worth of earnings totalling £10,745.\n\nA further £6,728.57 income from 16 football matches in 2020 and 2021 was also undeclared.\n\nDouglas Ross works part-time as a match official for the SFA\n\nFollowing the judgement by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Mr Ross said he had \"accepted full responsibility for getting this badly wrong\".\n\nHe said: \"As soon as I realised this error, I provided the UK Parliament with all relevant details, and reported it myself to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.\n\n\"I also apologised at the outset for making this mistake and accepted full responsibility for getting this badly wrong. I want to repeat that apology today and guarantee that it won't happen again. I have taken steps to stop these failings occurring again.\n\n\"My MSP salary continues to be donated to charity and has been declared on time since November, as will any future payments received for football games.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Russian State Ballet had been due to appear at the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from Monday\n\nPerformances by the Russian State Ballet at theatres in Northampton and Wolverhampton have been cancelled following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe decision \"is absolutely the right thing to do given the circumstances\", the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre said in a statement.\n\nThe ballet company had been due to appear for three days from Monday.\n\nThe Royal and Derngate in Northampton said it had cancelled Saturday's performances by the company.\n\nMembers of the Ukrainian community in Wolverhampton had previously been calling for the visit to the city to be cancelled.\n\n\"We would have thought they would have shown some compassion to our community,\" Andrew Duda, branch chairman of the Association of Ukrainians said before the cancellation.\n\nThe theatre said discussions between management, producers and agents had been taking place since Thursday.\n\nThe cancellation will have \"a significant financial impact\", it added, following its closure during the pandemic.\n\nAll customers who bought tickets for the ballet in Wolverhampton and Northampton have been promised a full refund.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Royal & Derngate This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesperson for Raymond Gubbay Ltd, promoter for the ballet company's appearances, said the cancellations were \"as to be expected\" and they were in regular contact with venues and the government.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A long queue lies behind - and a long and uncertain wait to cross into the unknown\n\nTens of thousands of Ukrainians are pouring towards neighbouring countries to flee the Russian invasion.\n\nIn the three days since the invasion began, more than 115,000 have crossed into Poland alone - some travelling for more than two days, others joining queues 15km (10 miles) long at border points.\n\nThose fleeing are mostly women and children, as all Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 are being told to stay and fight - in some cases separated from their families. BBC correspondents met them at the borders.\n\nAna had to leave her husband behind in Ukraine\n\nSeen from the Moldovan border, Ukraine is a nation of women. Mothers and grandmothers, wheeling suitcases to safety, leading their children into the unknown.\n\nAna arrived at the Palanca crossing point after more than 24 hours waiting in a queue on the Ukrainian side of the border - her little yellow car stuffed with bags, her six-year-old granddaughter singing to herself in the backseat.\n\nAna and her stepdaughter had driven straight from the southern city of Odesa - some 50km away and now a key target for Russia in the war.\n\nBut Ana's calm smiling manner crumbled as soon as she began to speak. Breaking down in tears, she described how she'd had to leave her husband behind to defend their country.\n\n\"I hope the West will help us get out of this terrible situation, because right now we're facing the Russian aggressor alone.\"\n\nAround her, local volunteers from Moldova's towns and villages waited to offer lifts to Ukrainians arriving here on foot.\n\nBut, like Ana, many who turn up here have thought only of escaping Ukraine, and have little idea of what happens now - for their country or themselves.\n\nTea, coffee and guidance at makeshift stalls at the Ukraine-Moldova border\n\nThe overnight train from Kyiv, via Lviv, pulled in carrying Europe's new refugees. They arrived at the 19th Century train station at Przemysl, which is now a modern-day reception centre.\n\nKateryna Leontieva's journey was long - her return to Ukraine could be a lot longer\n\n\"It took us 52 hours to get here,\" said Kateryna Leontieva, who had travelled from Kharkiv with her teenage daughter. Clutching their Ukrainian passports, and carrying a rucksack of belongings, they stepped out into eastern Poland - and safety.\n\nWhen I asked how it felt to be here, Kateryna welled up with emotion. \"I don't know yet - the tears are just coming,\" she said. \"I didn't feel anything - but now I'm starting to realise. I hope it's just a short trip and we'll be back soon.\"\n\nIn the waiting room, we found Irene and her two young children. Her husband had remained in Lviv to defend their homeland.\n\n\"Only women and children are allowed to go,\" she said. \"The men want to stay, fight, and give blood. They are heroes.\"\n\nHow did she feel about her husband staying behind, I asked?\n\n\"I'm afraid,\" she replied, her voice beginning to break. \"We believe everything will be alright. And we're praying for them.\"\n\nWomen say they are afraid, but proud their men are staying behind to fight\n\nVictoria came from Irshava, in western Ukraine.\n\n\"I came to Hungary with my two daughters. I'm leaving them with relatives who are waiting here at the border and returning to my husband,\" she says amidst nervous laughter.\n\nAre you afraid to go back?\n\n\"Honestly, I'm not afraid. I only worry about my daughters, that's all. I see that things are not good for Ukraine, but I cannot leave my country. We have to be patriotic.\"\n\n\"My husband is ready if necessary to protect Ukraine for the future, for our children. I don't want it but we must save our country.\n\n\"He will go to the military office because he has received a letter.\"\n\nIn the tiny village of Velke Slamence, the latest gaggle of refugees walked briskly down the road, eyes searching anxiously for a familiar face, followed by a shout of recognition, a hug, a kiss.\n\nFor a fleeting moment the scene felt joyful - light-hearted almost. But then it was punctured by a sharp, piercing cry. A woman's face crumpled in anguish before she was led swiftly away.\n\n\"Uzhhorod,\" said a teenage girl, when I asked where she was from, a city of 100,000 just across the border. Before World War Two that city was part of Czechoslovakia. There are bonds of kinship and solidarity in these plains beneath the Carpathian Mountains that go back a century.\n\nThat was almost all she would tell me. She clutched the hand of her little brother, a shy boy. Their parents had stayed behind. It was unclear who they were waiting for.\n\nThe men are the ones waiting for the displaced Ukrainians to come\n\nTanya left Kyiv 20 years ago, and now lives with her partner in Stuttgart. But here she was, standing by the roadside, waiting to rescue an old friend as their home city was engulfed by chaos.\n\n\"They're not letting men leave, Putin or Zelensky,\" he told me. \"It's a catastrophe.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Only if it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Defiant Ukrainian president asks Europe to do more", "Protests and demonstrations in support of Ukraine have been held around the UK as Russia continues its invasion.\n\nThousands have joined various rallies, including outside the Russian embassy and Downing Street in London, and in Manchester and Edinburgh.\n\nEggs were thrown at the embassy and messages written in chalk were scrawled over the outer walls.\n\nAnd the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have said they \"stand\" with the people of Ukraine as they \"bravely fight\".\n\nIn a tweet, Prince William and Catherine said they had met President Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife in 2020 and said: \"Today we stand with the president and all of Ukraine's people as they bravely fight for that future.\"\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan also released a statement saying they stood with the people of Ukraine \"against this breach of international and humanitarian law\" and encouraged global leaders to do the same.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenska in 2020\n\nEarlier Boris Johnson hailed plans to send extra military support and humanitarian aid to Ukraine as it remains under attack from Russia.\n\nHe later tweeted that he had spoken to Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte to discuss defensive aid for Ukraine and the \"need for urgent action to exclude Russia\" from the Swift system of international banking payments.\n\nOne of the demonstrations saw large crowds of people gathering outside the Russian embassy in London throughout the day. There were chants of \"Russia stop the war\", \"Putin stop the war\" and \"leave Ukraine alone\".\n\nAmong them was Elena Shevchenko, who is half-Russian, half-Ukrainian, and said her father is currently in Kyiv, with his family.\n\nShe said he had been sleeping in a shelter to escape the bombing.\n\nElena Shevchenko, who is half-Russian and half-Ukrainian, said she has been unable to sleep since Russia invaded Ukraine\n\n\"I feel desperate and there's not a lot I can do,\" she said. \"But being here at least is something and I can show my position and show my support.\"\n\nAsked her first reaction to the invasion earlier this week, she said: \"We didn't believe it would happen until the end. I cried a lot. I don't sleep at all. I feel so helpless.\"\n\nOne Russian woman, who gave her name as Alla, said she had been in tears all day after the invasion. \"I couldn't believe it was happening, the feeling of shame, guilt, horror. I felt helpless I didn't know what to do,\" she said.\n\nShe added that it felt like \"fighting with yourself\" and said her generation did not support the invasion.\n\nMick Antoniw, a minister in the Welsh government who had been in Kyiv just before the invasion, was also at the protest and called on the government to introduce \"sanctions which isolate Russia, economically, socially, politically and culturally\" - and said they must be \"so severe that the people around Putin want to remove Putin\".\n\nMore than 100 people had already gathered outside the Russian embassy early on Saturday\n\nChants of \"Putin stop the war\" could be heard at the rally outside the Russian embassy\n\nAt a protest in Caernarfon in Wales Nataliia Roberts, originally from the Ukrainian city of Poltava, said she felt \"horrible\" and \"hopeless\".\n\n\"My friends, my family, are all struggling,\" she said. \"They are asking for help, their houses are under attack. They are innocent, they don't want this war.\"\n\nAt St Mary's Ukrainian School, in Holland Park, London, pupils held up placards as they protested against the Russian invasion.\n\nStudents at St Mary's Ukrainian school hold a protest against the invasion\n\nSupporters of Ukraine also gathered elsewhere in the UK on Saturday, including in Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens where around 1,000 people gathered.\n\nIn Scotland, people gathered near the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh to urge politicians to do more to support Ukraine.\n\nDemonstrators passed a megaphone around, sharing personal stories about relatives hiding in basements in Kyiv to avoid shelling and gunfire.\n\nAnd people showed their support for Ukraine by laying flowers and writing messages on the pavement outside the Consulate General of Russia in Edinburgh.\n\nThere were also demonstrations in smaller towns and cities, including in Middlesbrough and Gloucester.\n\nIn Bristol protesters gathered by the cathedral to make their voices heard in support of Ukraine\n\nFans held up Ukrainian flags at Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium during their match against Watford\n\nAhead of their Premier League match against Watford, Manchester United players posed for a picture alongside a poster saying \"peace\" in several languages, while fans displayed Ukrainian flags in Old Trafford.\n\nThe club has already cut its ties with Russian airline Aeroflot - which has been banned from landing at UK airports or flying through its airspace, as have all Russian private jets.\n\nMeanwhile in Liverpool there was an emotional embrace between Ukrainian internationals Vitalii Mykolenko, of Everton, and Manchester City's Oleksandr Zinchenko, with the latter in tears before kick-off.\n\nManchester City's Oleksandr Zinchenko and Everton's Vitalii Mykolenko shared a hug before their match\n\nThe Everton players were draped in Ukrainian flags while Manchester City players wore white shirts with the flag on the front and \"No War\" on the back.\n\nA number of buildings across the country, including the London Eye, 10 Downing Street and Lincoln Cathedral, have been brightly lit in yellow and blue this week in a display of solidarity with Ukraine.\n\nProtesters have written messages in chalk outside the Russian embassy\n\nThere was also a rally outside Downing Street\n\nBritain is among more than 25 countries to pledge to continue to supply arms, as capital Kyiv remains under attack.\n\nRussian assaults on the capital have been met with fierce resistance on the third day of the invasion, and there is also fighting in or near several other cities.\n\nBritish Challenger 2 tanks and armoured vehicles from the Royal Welsh battlegroup have been arriving in Estonia as part of Nato moves to strengthen its eastern flank, the MoD said.\n\nUkraine faces \"days, weeks, months more\" of heavy fighting, armed forces minister James Heappey has warned.\n\n\"It is going to be brutal,\" he told the BBC. \"We are going to see some horrendous things on our TV screens.\"\n\nMr Heappey told the BBC that the UK is continuing to press for Russia to be excluded from the Swift system, but more diplomacy was needed to get international agreement.\n\nHe also said the MoD was working on plans to support a resistance movement and a government in exile if Ukraine were to be finally overrun.", "Members of the Territorial Defence Forces of Ukraine receive weapons\n\nCabinet ministers received what one source described as an \"ominous assessment\" from defence and intelligence chiefs on Thursday night about what may lie ahead for the people of Ukraine.\n\nAnd it has now become clearer what the fears of the Western allies are.\n\nUkrainian resistance to Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces is - for the people of the country - something of a double-edged sword.\n\nIntelligence assessments suggest Russian forces are making slower progress than they had envisaged.\n\nA well-placed Western official suggested Ukrainian forces had traded control of \"empty spaces\" and \"rural areas\" to concentrate on defending the cities.\n\nThere are now significant concerns Mr Putin will look to effect his aim of regime change in the capital Kyiv \"by any means necessary\", that source said.\n\nThat could mean the indiscriminate use of violence and the indiscriminate use of artillery - with the civilian population very much in the firing line.\n\nThis view is shared in Whitehall - that the more resistance the Russian forces face, the more relentless the retaliation they will carry out.\n\nWhat was a war of choice for Mr Putin could become a war of necessity, which he has to be seen to win.\n\nIn conversation with politicians and other government sources with good links to the defence and intelligence services, it is anticipated that when Russian forces formally take control of Ukrainian cities an insurgency will be mounted against them.\n\nThis, one source predicted, would be \"bloody and brutal\".\n\nAnother went as far as to express fears the tactics adopted by Russian forces at the beginning of the century in Grozny could, if necessary, be adopted again.\n\nThe Chechen city was subjected to heavy barrages of artillery, costing at least 5,000 lives.\n\nResidential areas of Kyiv have already suffered damage\n\nThere is also an expectation that Russian FSB agents operating in Ukraine will try to suppress dissent by targeting Moscow's vocal opponents.\n\nThe hope is the cost of deploying troops and material in Ukraine, and the economic damage of sanctions, might force a change of strategy or indeed leadership.\n\nBut a protracted period of conflict and sanctions is envisaged.\n\nThose who look for a glimmer of hope amid this grim landscape would argue Mr Putin is at risk of getting the opposite of what he wants - Nato reinforcing its eastern borders, greater isolation, and a more unified Ukrainian population.\n\nThey point, too, to the bravery of those Russians who have protested against the invasion.\n\nBut some Conservative as well as opposition MPs are urging more weaponry of all kinds - from flak jacket body armour and sat-phones to anti-aircraft missiles - to be sent to Ukraine and quickly.\n\nOn the record the government is remaining tight-lipped about the level of support being provided, but off the record it is saying more is on the way.\n\nHowever, the government will not specify exactly what and some MPs who have been in touch with their Ukrainian counterparts - who fear for their own safety - are not yet convinced enough is being done.\n\nAnd there is frustration the West did not seem to read or react to Russia's hostile intentions swiftly enough.\n\nAs one MP with a military background put it: \"There has been lack of strategic foresight.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is determined to see Mr Putin fail.\n\nBut it would seem the assessment in Whitehall is that victory won't come swiftly or easily.\n\nIn the immediate future, for all their bravery, the outlook for Ukrainians is bleak.", "Facebook said it had refused to stop fact-checking and labelling content from state-owned news organisations.\n\nRussia has limited Twitter in parts of Russia, Twitter has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, the company said \"We're aware that Twitter is being restricted for some people in Russia and are working to keep our services safe and accessible\".\n\nOn Friday Russia restricted Facebook after a clash over \"censorship\".\n\nRussia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor accused Facebook of violating \"the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens\".\n\nFacebook said it had refused to stop fact-checking and labelling content from state-owned news organisations.\n\nInternet connectivity watchers at NetBlocks say there is a total or near-total restriction on Twitter in Russia.\n\nNetBlocks said Facebook and Instagram weren't \"observably restricted per our metrics, certainly not to the extent Twitter is at present\".\n\nThe actions follow Russia's attack on Ukraine with many videos and images of the invasion going viral on social media.\n\nThe BBC's Moscow correspondent, Steve Rosenberg, said he'd had difficulty tweeting.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCircumvention for those in Russia is currently possible using VPN services, which can work around government-imposed restrictions.\n\nNetBlocks Director Alp Toker told the BBC: \"Russia's restriction of Twitter will significantly limit the free flow of information at a time of crisis when the public most need to stay informed.\"\n\nRoskomnadzor has not announced actions against Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can a government switch off access to the web?\n\nIt is unclear what the Facebook restrictions could mean if implemented or if other Meta-owned platforms - like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram - will be hit.\n\nThe Russian regulator had demanded Facebook lift the restrictions it placed on Thursday on state news agency RIA, state TV channel Zvezda, and pro-Kremlin news sites Lenta.Ru and Gazeta.Ru.\n\nIt said that Meta had \"ignored\" these requests.\n\nSir Nick Clegg, vice-president of global affairs at Meta, said Russian authorities \"ordered us to stop the independent fact-checking and labelling\" the outlets' content.\n\nBut he made clear he wanted Russians to continue to use Meta's platforms.\n\n\"Ordinary Russians are using our apps to express themselves and organise for action\", Sir Nick said, and the company wants \"them to continue to make their voices heard\".\n\nMany state-owned media outlets in Russia have painted a largely positive picture of Russian military advances in Ukraine, calling the invasion a \"special military operation\" that had been forced on Moscow.\n\nOn Thursday Meta said it had set up a \"special operations centre\" to monitor content about the conflict in Ukraine.\n\nRussia has its own Facebook equivalents, VK and Odnoklassniki, but Facebook is also popular in the country - as is Meta-owned Instagram.\n\nOn Friday, US Senator Mark Warner said Facebook, YouTube and other social media services had \"a clear responsibility to ensure that your products are not used to facilitate human rights abuses\".\n\nMeta has been under pressure to label misinformation - and has been working with outside fact-checkers, including Reuters.\n\nMoscow has also increased pressure on domestic media, threatening to block reports that contain what it describes as \"false information\" regarding its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nTwitter also told the BBC that its safety and integrity teams were \"disrupting attempts to amplify false and misleading information and to advance the speed and scale of our enforcement\".", "Tonight, at this midnight hour, stark warnings sound of an imminent onslaught against the heart of Kyiv.\n\n“In 30-60 mins #Kyiv will be under attack never seen before. #Russia will hit us with all they have,” tweeted MP Lesia Vasylenko.\n\nAir-raid sirens have pierced the darkness, amplified by warnings in buildings and neighbourhoods for residents to immediately take to shelters. This is already a city where life has dropped underground, to basements, bomb shelters, and metro stations-turned-bunkers. A strict curfew is in force until 8am on Monday.\n\nThere’s been a chilling quiet these last three days in the heart of Kyiv. An eerie stillness on emptied streets has been shattered by occasional crackles of gunfire, a thud of artillery and a thunder clap when missiles land in the distance, on the edges of a beleaguered capital.\n\nA Russian invasion, now at the end of its third day, has seemed to stall on the edges of the city in the midst of concerted Ukrainian resistance – soldiers guarding city gates, civilians taking up arms, even taunting Russian soldiers as they advance in their tanks and armoured vehicles.\n\nReports from Moscow in recent hours spoke of orders to advance on the city “from all directions.”\n\nIn the dead of a Kyiv night, there’s an ominous sense that the battle for this city is about to be unleashed.", "The Chernobyl site contains several nuclear waste containment facilities to prevent radioactive materials spreading\n\nA radiation spike has been recorded near Chernobyl's nuclear power plant which has been seized by Russian forces, monitoring data shows.\n\nInvading Russian troops took control of the plant - the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986 - on Thursday, Ukraine said.\n\nRadiation levels increased about 20-fold on Thursday, monitoring stations there reported.\n\nBut experts say another major nuclear disaster there is \"extremely unlikely\".\n\nThe rise was caused by heavy military vehicles stirring contaminated soil in the 4,000-sq-km (2,485 sq-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned plant, Ukraine's State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate reported .\n\nThe biggest spike was recorded close to the damaged reactor.\n\nRadiation levels are continuously monitored there - measured as a dose that you would receive per hour in a location.\n\nClose to the reactor, you would normally receive a dose of about three units - called microsieverts - every hour. But on Thursday, that jumped to 65 microSv/hrs - about five times more than you would get on one transatlantic flight.\n\nProf Claire Corkhill, a nuclear materials expert from Sheffield University, told the BBC the spike was \"quite localised\" and there had been increases along the main routes in and out of the zone around the reactor.\n\n\"The increased movement of people and vehicles in and around the Chernobyl zone will have kicked up radioactive dust that's on the ground,\" Prof Corkhill said.\n\n\"Provided there's no further movement, it should decrease again over the next couple of days.\"\n\nBut any military activity in the zone is concerning.\n\nRussian troops captured the plant, about 130km (80 miles) north of the capital, Kyiv, after a fierce battle with Ukrainian forces, according to Ukrainian officials.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian officers fought to defend it, \"so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated.\" He called the Russian assault on Chernobyl a \"declaration of war against the whole of Europe.\"\n\nRussian officials have not commented on the battle.\n\nThe Chernobyl site contains several nuclear waste containment facilities - including the so-called \"new safe confinement\" - a huge protective dome that covers reactor number four, the reactor that infamously exploded, causing the 1986 disaster.\n\n\"These buildings are designed for containment, to keep radioactive materials inside, but they're not necessarily armoured: they're not designed to operate in a war zone,\" Prof Corkhill said.\n\nThe radioactivity in the plant has decayed significantly since 1986. \"And the thing that released the radioactivity then was a huge fire,\" said Prof Corkhill. But she stressed a repeat of that disaster was \"extremely unlikely\".\n\nOf much more concern is any fighting close to Ukraine's other working nuclear reactors.\n\nNuclear policy expert Prof James Acton wrote on Thursday: \"Chernobyl is inside a large uninhabited space. Ukraine's other reactors are not similarly isolated.\n\n\"Nuclear power plants,\" he added, \"are not designed for war zones.\"\n\nThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Ukraine informed it on Friday that the country's nuclear power reactors were continuing to operate \"safely and securely\".", "Sabina Nessa's body was found near her home in Kidbrooke\n\nKoci Selamaj beat and strangled the 28-year-old as she walked through a park in Kidbrooke, south-east London, on 17 September.\n\nMs Nessa had left her home to meet a friend at a bar when she was targeted by Selamaj, who was said to have travelled to London to carry out \"a predatory attack on a stranger\".\n\nThe 36-year-old admitted a charge of murder at the Old Bailey on Friday.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced on 7 April.\n\nMs Nessa had been walking through Cator Park during the evening of 17 September when she was attacked and killed by Selamaj, who did not know her.\n\nKoci Selamaj, who had no previous convictions, also took a rolling pin to the murder scene\n\nAt an earlier hearing, prosecutor Alison Morgan QC described how the Albanian national drove to London from his home in Eastbourne to carry out what she described as \"a premeditated and predatory attack on a stranger\".\n\nThe killing was carried out with \"extreme violence\", Ms Morgan said, adding that the murder involved a sexual or sadistic element.\n\nThe court heard that CCTV showed Selamaj had spotted Ms Nessa and checked to see if there was anyone else around.\n\nHe then ran towards his victim and struck her 34 times using a metal traffic triangle, before carrying her away unconscious and strangling her in the park.\n\nSelamaj was assisted by an Albanian interpreter at a previous court hearing\n\nSelamaj disposed of the weapon in a river on his way back to Eastbourne.\n\nThe court heard he had previously been violent towards his former partner, putting his hands around her throat in a strangling motion.\n\nMs Nessa's body, which was covered in grass, was discovered the following day with her tights and underwear removed and parts of her body exposed.\n\nMs Morgan said: \"Some of her movements through the park and the attack on her were captured on CCTV footage.\n\n\"The male shown on that CCTV footage is alleged to be this defendant.\"\n\nHundreds attended a vigil for the 28-year-old teacher in the days after her murder\n\nThree days before, Selamaj put his plan into action by booking a room at the five-star Grand Hotel in Eastbourne, the town where he already had accommodation.\n\nHis reservation was for the night of 17 September and he arrived earlier in the day to check in.\n\nSelamaj spoke to hotel staff and was captured walking through the lobby wearing the same clothes as the suspect later spotted on CCTV in Kidbrooke.\n\nHis Nissan Micra was tracked by ANPR cameras and evidence was gathered to identify his movements from Eastbourne to London.\n\nThe defendant entered Cator Park shortly after 20:00 BST and lay in wait for 30 minutes before Ms Nessa arrived.\n\nPeople laid tributes in Pegler Square, near where the teacher was killed\n\nMs Morgan said: \"The defendant is seen in effect loitering in locations around the park before spotting the deceased, checking to see if anyone else was nearby before turning and running after her.\n\n\"He is then seen to move towards the deceased and striking her repeatedly using a weapon which was approximately 2ft in length.\"\n\nShe added that the weapon \"appeared to break up during the course of the many strikes on the deceased\".\n\n\"The CCTV footage shows the defendant then carrying the deceased, who appeared to be unconscious by that point, up a bank and effectively out of sight.\"\n\nSelamaj's actions afterwards were out of camera shot, but Ms Nessa was not seen alive again.\n\nThe prosecutor said: \"The male did appear after 10 minutes.\n\n\"He is seen to pick up pieces of the weapon that had broken on the ground and then moved back to the area the deceased was located for another 10 minutes.\"\n\nShortly before 21:00, Selamaj was seen using wet wipes to clean a bench.\n\nHe then returned to Eastbourne, staying the night at the Grand Hotel and checking out in the morning.\n\nSelamaj was arrested on 26 September in Eastbourne.\n\nIn a police interview, he made no comment except to deny murder when asked directly if he was responsible for killing Ms Nessa.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sabina Nessa's sister, Jebina Yasmin Islam: \"We have lost an amazing, caring, beautiful sister\"\n\nIn December, a lawyer for the defendant confirmed that he accepted being the person caught on CCTV and that he had hit Ms Nessa a number of times, although Selamaj still denied murder at that point.\n\nThe killing of Ms Nessa heightened concern for the safety of women and girls in the capital following the stranger murders of Sarah Everard, and sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman.\n\nIn the days after the teacher's death hundreds of people joined a vigil in Kidbrooke, with her family leading tributes.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Watch how Friday unfolded - from early morning explosions over the capital to a defiant message from Ukraine's president.", "The health board has apologised for the failures\n\nThe deaths of two patients have sparked damning reports into the failings of mental health services in north Wales.\n\nThey died at two separate units run by Betsi Cadwaladr health board - patient D killed herself and patient A died after suffering abdominal distress.\n\nThe reports flagged mixed cohort units, and observations not being carried out often enough which led to \"catastrophic\" outcomes.\n\nThe first report said patient D took her own life at Hergest Unit, in Ysbyty Gwynedd hospital, on 20 April, 2021.\n\nStaff had reduced her observations from every 10 minutes to every hour.\n\nThe report said this was not \"appropriate based on the risk information available\" and \"is likely to have contributed to the likelihood and catastrophic outcome of this incident\".\n\nIt added: \"Staff could reasonably be expected to have intervened sooner in response to self-harm if D was subject to more frequent observations every 10 minutes.\"\n\nThe report also said \"mixed cohorting\", where frail, elderly patients are cared for on the same wards as younger patients, was a contributory factor.\n\nThe second report refers to patient A who died at Ty Llewelyn, Llanfairfechan, Conwy, after complaining of abdominal pain and discomfort.\n\nPatient A slept from 22:00 BST on September 30 until 09:40 the following day, when nurses on the early shift opened the bedroom door to check on the patient.\n\n\"There is no evidence to suggest that any staff had a physical interaction with patient A in those 11 hours,\" the report said.\n\nNurses only observed the patient's position in bed.\n\nThis was despite the patient being pale, having a racing pulse rate and low oxygen levels, and there being a \"strong aroma\" coming from their bedroom.\n\n\"Unfortunately, these indicators were not recognised as warning signs of their physical health deteriorating, and was left undisturbed by staff for the remainder of the night,\" the report said.\n\nThe problem of mixed cohorts at the Hergest Unit was highlighted in the Holden Report back in 2013, but those findings were only made public in November 2021.\n\nGeoff Ryall-Harvey, from the watchdog North Wales CHC, wants mental health services at Betsi put back into special measures.\n\nHe said: \"There were failures around observation. There were failures to identify a risk of suicide. It is deeply distressing that someone so vulnerable could be placed in that situation.\n\n\"The issue of toxic mix has never really been addressed.\"\n\nHe added: \"It also highlights issues around staff training. The young man who died was left unobserved for over 11 hours.\n\n\"I think special measures for mental health services would be justified. I think these reports show that there needs to be a level of intervention, and a level of monitoring, that the Welsh government need to be involved in.\"\n\nTeresa Owen, Executive Director of Public Health and BCUHB's Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Division, said: \"On behalf of the health board I want to reiterate how deeply sorry I am for the failures in their care and for the way we communicated with their loved ones.\n\n\"We are determined to leave no stone unturned in order to learn lessons from these tragic incidents. That is why we commissioned these external reports, which we have made public in line with our commitment to openness and transparency.\n\n\"We are determined to deliver further improvements, at pace, over the coming weeks and months.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said: \"Our sympathy is with all those affected by these two tragic deaths. Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board has accepted the recommendations in these reports and we expect them to be implemented with urgency.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservative's Darren Millar said: \"These reports make for extremely distressing reading and my heart goes out to the loved ones of those who died as a result of yet more failings in the NHS in north Wales.\n\n\"We need an urgent and rapid plan of action from the Welsh government to hold those responsible for these failings to account and to resolve the problems in mental health care in the region once and for all.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Llyr Gruffydd said: \"Urgent action is needed to ensure nothing like this happens again.\n\n\"It's clear that taking mental health services out of special measures was a mistake and the minister who made the decision should apologise to the families.\"", "Scotland's Josh Taylor clung on to his status as undisputed light-welterweight world champion with a controversial split-decision victory against Jack Catterall in Glasgow.\n\nThe English challenger looked to have claimed a stunning upset in Taylor's first defence of his WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO belts.\n\nBut two judges scored in favour of the Scot, who was floored in the eighth round, as they delivered a verdict met with widespread disbelief and described as \"disgusting\" by the Catterall camp.\n\nThe judges' scorecards seemed almost certain to confirm that Catterall was the new undisputed super-lightweight champion. Taylor had been outboxed and dethroned in his own backyard, surely?\n\nThe questions were already forming as to why Taylor fell so far short of the lofty standards he's set in his career. Was he drained at the weight? Did he have half-an-eye on future lucrative fights?\n\nOr maybe Catterall is far better than many realised. El Gato put in the performance of a lifetime, and will wonder how he is not now the man standing atop the light-welterweight division with all the options in the world.\n\nBut instead, Taylor survived, extending his perfect record to 19 wins as Catterall suffered a first loss in 27 bouts. The home favourite acknowledged the performance \"wasn't my best\" but insisted: \"I know I won the fight\".\n\nTaylor added to Sky Sports: \"I think I put a little bit too much pressure [on myself] with being the heavy favourite and to put on a good show in front of my home fans.\n\n\"I believe I got the win 100% but Jack did very well. It was close, I let him have a little too much success, but overall I scored the bigger and better shots, the more meaningful shots.\"\n\nCatterall's trainer Jamie Moore said his fighter was \"heartbroken\", adding: \"It's difficult to put into words. You're talking about a kid that's worked all his life to wait for that moment.\n\n\"He performs like that, beats the champion in his own back yard and gets robbed. It's disgusting.\"\n\nThis was 31-year-old Taylor's first fight on home soil since capturing his maiden world title against Ivan Baranchyk at the same venue in 2019. Since then, the Tartan Tornado has come through stern tests against Regis Prograis and Jose Ramirez to clean up the division.\n\nCatterall, 28, played the long game to get his shot at the big time, stepping aside from his mandatory position to allow Taylor and Ramirez to have their shootout to become undisputed champion. Now in his first foray at world level, the Chorley man had a chance to claim all four light-welterweight belts.\n\nThe atmosphere inside the Hydro was electric as Taylor made his ring entrance, but any notion Catterall may have been overwhelmed by the occasion was dispelled within 20 seconds as the Englishman rocked Taylor back on his heels with a big overhand left.\n\nCatterall had settled quicker, getting off a succession of stiff jabs, and Taylor's frustration was clear as he received two warnings for shots to the back of the head. Taylor responded with a solid hook that connected in round three, but Catterall's sharp combinations kept the champion at bay.\n\nThe Scot looked to impose himself in the fourth but Catterall landed cleanly towards the end of the round and was now involved in a serious examination.\n\nThe home crowd drew breath sharply in the fifth when Taylor was caught flush with a beautiful left-right-left combination, and the distress signals were becoming obvious in the sixth as a nasty cut opened up below Taylor's right eye.\n\nThis was not in the script. Catterall was boxing beautifully, his shots getting through almost at will and a shake of the head from Taylor after another crunching left connected with his face spoke volumes.\n\nThe challenger was surely leading at the halfway stage and while Taylor managed to draw Catterall into close-quarter exchanges, the Englishman's left cross was still finding joy.\n\nTrouble developed into a full-blown crisis as another stinging combination sent Taylor to the canvas for the first time in his professional career. As he trudged back to his corner at the end of the eighth, the swelling under Taylor's eye looked worrying.\n\nThe champion landed his most meaningful shot of the fight early in the ninth with a big left hand and Catterall seemed to be taking a round off after banking a 10-8 in the previous.\n\nTaylor was stalking his opponent looking to close the distance as he searched desperately for a way back into the fight, but the ramrod right jab of Catterall was knocking him back on his heels in nearly every exchange. Catterall was deducted a point for excessive holding, though another sharp one-two snapped Taylor's head back.\n\nThe crowd roared to try and rouse their out-of-sorts hero as it became clear Taylor needed a big final two rounds to hold onto his titles, but a crunching uppercut from Catterall again caught the eye.\n\nA point deduction for Taylor for an exchange after the bell meant he surely needed a stoppage in the final round, but Catterall, so slick, so assured all evening, was never likely to allow himself to walk onto a shot.\n\nHe didn't, and yet… the judges' scorecards were split and Taylor somehow survived with his status intact.\n• None The Fast and the Farmer-ish: Who will prove victorious and take home the tractor trophy?\n• None Every brand has a story, even the ones that don't exist...", "The Baltic Leader ship is being held in Boulogne\n\nFrance has intercepted and impounded a Russian-flagged cargo ship suspected of breaching sanctions imposed because of the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe ship, the Baltic Leader, was heading from the north-western French city of Rouen to St Petersburg in Russia with a cargo of new cars.\n\nIt is being held at the Channel port of Boulogne.\n\nRussian state media say the vessel is owned by a subsidiary of a bank targeted in recent EU and US sanctions.\n\nA regional French official said such a measure was rare, but called it a sign of firmness.\n\nThe US Treasury Department has issued blocking sanctions against the vessel, saying it is owned by a subsidiary of Promsvyazbank, one of the Russian financial institutions hit by sanctions.\n\nHowever, the bank has said it no longer owns the Baltic Leader. It told Reuters news agency that the ship was sold to another firm before the sanctions were imposed.\n\nFrench officials said they were checking whether the vessel was linked to Russian financial interests and that the crew were \"being co-operative\".\n\nThe process could take up to 48 hours, they added.\n\nThe Russian embassy in Paris said it would send a note of protest to the French foreign ministry over the seizure.", "Boris Johnson says Ukrainians are \"fighting heroically\" and with \"great success\" in some places.\n\nFollowing a call with the Ukrainian president, the prime minister said things \"are not going all the way of President [Vladimir] Putin\".\n\nBut he said more had to be done to \"change the heavy odds that Ukraine faces\" from the Russian invasion.\n\nTougher sanctions, including a move to shut Russia out of the global payments system Swift, were needed, he said.\n\nShortly after Mr Johnson's comments on Saturday night the European Commission alongside the US, Canada and UK announced that selected Russian banks would be removed from the Swift messaging system.\n\nOn Sunday morning, local officials reported Russian troops had entered Ukraine's second city Kharkiv, where they are battling Ukrainian forces in the streets. Residents have been urged to stay indoors.\n\nThe advance came after missiles rained down across the city overnight. A nearby natural gas pipeline and an oil terminal outside Kyiv have also been hit by the Russians.\n\nA strict curfew is in place in capital Kyiv until Monday - only police, military and volunteers are currently on the streets.\n\nSo far, the fighting across Ukraine has resulted in at least 240 civilian casualties, including 64 deaths, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.\n\nIreland and Finland are the most recent countries to announce they are closing their airspace to Russian planes. Ireland's foreign affairs minister Simon Coveney urged other EU partners to do the same, and called for \"new wide-ranging sanctions to be agreed\" on Sunday.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Saturday, Boris Johnson said the UK was sending humanitarian, military and financial supplies to Ukraine.\n\nHe added that 1,000 troops were being sent to the region to help with the influx of refugees and he said the government would \"of course help people fleeing for their lives\".\n\n\"Things are not going all the way of President Putin. Very far from it, the Ukrainians are fighting heroically, and in some places with great success,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson said some \"terrible atrocities\" were being committed and there would be some \"very grim days ahead for Ukraine\".\n\nHe added Europe had to face the \"hideous reality\" that previous attempts at diplomacy with Mr Putin were \"a charade\".\n\nPeople take cover as an air-raid siren sounds near an apartment building damaged by shelling in Kyiv on Saturday\n\nDuring a call with Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday evening, Mr Johnson paid tribute to the \"incredible heroism and bravery\" of the Ukrainian president and his people, Downing Street said.\n\nThey expressed concern for the role Belarus was playing in the violence and agreed on the need for \"the international community to isolate Russia completely diplomatically and financially\".\n\nIn a tweet Mr Zelensky said he was grateful to Mr Johnson and said they had agreed on further steps to \"counter the aggressor\".\n\nSo far, sanctions have included freezing the assets of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, as well as halting Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.\n\nLiz Truss announced that the Foreign Office is preparing a \"hit list\" of Russian oligarchs to be targeted by sanctions in the coming months, with new names added every few weeks.\n\nThe foreign secretary told the Sunday Times: \"We have to make it deeply painful for the oligarchs that support the Putin regime. There are over 100 Russian billionaires.\n\n\"Nothing is off the table in terms of who or what we are targeting. We are very clear about that - we are very prepared to do what it takes.\"\n\nIt comes days after Mr Johnson targeted a handful of oligarchs and said major Russian banks will be excluded from the UK financial system.\n\nUkrainian servicemen have a meal at the military airbase Vasylkiv in the Kyiv region\n\nMr Johnson also said that \"of course\" the UK would take Ukrainian refugees, saying the country had a \"historic and proud role of taking refugees from all conflicts\".\n\nIt comes after some criticism from opposition MPs that the government had continued to apply the existing rules for Ukrainians seeking to come to the country. Mr Johnson suggested that there was \"fake news\" on the internet about the government's willingness to help refugees.\n\nImmigration minister Kevin Foster was criticised on social media after writing, in a later deleted tweet, that there were a number of routes to the UK which Ukrainians could qualify for, \"not least our seasonal worker scheme\".\n\nThe prime minister also said that it was \"inconceivable\" to imagine that normal sporting relations could continue with \"Putin's Russia\" after Poland and Sweden refused to play world cup play-off fixtures with Russia.\n\nIt comes after Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich handed over \"stewardship\" of the football club to the trustees of its charitable foundation.", "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is standing firm following the invasion of his country by Russia.", "British Airways has apologised after cancelling all short-haul flights from Heathrow Airport on Saturday morning.\n\nThe airline said on Saturday afternoon that its IT systems were back working again after technical issues, which it said were not caused by a cyber attack.\n\nBA said there continued to be some cancellations but the majority of flights were now taking off as planned.\n\nLong-haul flights continued to operate with some delays, but all short-haul flights were cancelled until midday.\n\nPassengers travelling from Gatwick or London City Airport also faced some delays due to the issues.\n\nIn its Saturday afternoon statement, BA said it was now aiming to complete the day's flying programme and helping customers whose flights had been cancelled to rebook.\n\nThe major outage caused pile-ups of luggage and some customers were stuck on planes after landing at Heathrow.\n\nBA said it knew it had \"let customers down\" and would do everything it could \"to make this up to them\".\n\n\"But for now our focus is on getting as many customers and flights away as we can,\" the company added.\n\nIt is giving customers on cancelled services the option of getting a full refund. Passengers due to fly on short-haul services from Heathrow on Saturday could also choose to rebook for a later date, for free. BA said it would be contacting customers \"proactively\".\n\nThe Heathrow Terminal 5 departures board showing most of British Airways flights from the airport (some go from T3) was a sea of red on Saturday morning.\n\nThe airline's short-haul flights were cancelled as a result of technical issues which started on Friday.\n\nTenerife - Zurich - Grenoble - Istanbul - Salzburg were all off the cards. Only flights to the likes of New York, Doha and Mumbai were showing as boarding and on time.\n\nDomestic flights from the likes of Edinburgh and Manchester were cancelled too, because they would have started their journeys in Heathrow.\n\nBritish Airways says a perfect storm of systems issues was to blame.\n\nSo check-in systems, stand planning - the computer systems which direct the aircraft to gates - and the flight management systems, which send flight plans out to crews. As well as cabin crew allocation. On top of this, a lot of aircraft and crews were \"out of place\" because of the storm disruption last week.\n\nAll these things are possible to control manually, but they are slower.\n\nAs a result, BA said it was prioritising its long haul flights on Saturday morning because they carry more people, are less frequent and people using them have fewer other options. The company said it was trying to protect as many passengers as possible.\n\nThe issues began on Friday with BA's website and app were inaccessible for several hours, leaving customers unable to book flights or check-in online.\n\nThe latest problems come after BA apologised for \"letting people down\" last week, when storms caused delays to unloading and loading luggage.\n\nTom, his wife Michelle and their daughters Daisy and Poppy spent a few days in Naples\n\nTom O'Regan and his family were expected to return to London on Saturday after a holiday in Italy.\n\nBut their flight from Naples was among those cancelled. He said the next BA flight available would not be until next Tuesday.\n\n\"I don't see how that is acceptable really,\" he said, speaking from the airport.\n\n\"Our children are missing school because of it, we were supposed to be working on Monday.\"\n\nTom, from Liphook, Hampshire, said he had not been able to speak to anyone from the airline but he was expecting compensation for the extra costs.\n\nHe also told the BBC he was struggling to find a hotel for him, his wife and their two daughters.\n\n\"If we don't find anything the next step is to contact the embassy and see what they suggest,\" he added. \"The kids are upset, we are stressed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video of the Kyiv apartment building struck earlier on Saturday\n\nRussian assaults on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, have been met with fierce resistance as the Ukrainian military says it fought off several attacks.\n\nThe military said in a Facebook post early on Saturday that an army unit managed to repel Russian forces near its base on a major city street.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky said: \"The occupiers wanted to block the centre of our state... We broke their plan.\"\n\nMeanwhile, fighting continues near several other Ukrainian cities.\n\nA total of 198 Ukrainians, including three children, have been killed since Russia invaded, said the country's Health Minister, Viktor Lyashko.\n\nAccording to a report by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency, a curfew will start in Kyiv at 17:00 (15:00 GMT) on Saturday and last until 08:00 on Monday.\n\nIn an address, Mr Zelensky said: \"We are defending the country, the land of our future children. Kyiv and key cities around the capital are controlled by our army.\n\n\"The occupiers wanted to block the centre of our state and put their puppets here, as in Donetsk. We broke their plan.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a self-shot video, Mr Zelensky was earlier seen walking around Kyiv's government district in an apparent effort to dispel rumours he had called on the army to surrender to Russian troops.\n\n\"I'm here. We won't lay down our arms. We will defend our state,\" he said.\n\nVitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, said a missile had hit a block of flats in the city, posting a picture on Facebook showing at least four apartments destroyed.\n\nHe added on Telegram that 35 people, including two children, had been wounded as of 06:00 local time (04:00 GMT).\n\n\"There are no Russian troops in the city,\" he claimed, adding that people should stay in shelters as more air attacks were expected.\n\nKyiv is a city bathed in sunlight and a suffocating layer of tension.\n\nThe attack on the apartment building looks like a scene from a disaster movie - a chunk of it ripped away. It seems miraculous that there are no reports of deaths.\n\n\"It's no miracle,\" a local man called Yuri tells me. \"Most people were in the shelters or have left already.\"\n\nIn the wreckage, there are fragments of normal lives - a book, a child's photograph, a keyboard.\n\nOne family with small children rushes past, struggling with bags and a stroller, then cramming into a van to get away. In this European capital city, there is a real sense that nowhere is safe.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Ukraine's air force command also reported heavy fighting near the Vasylkiv air base, southwest of Kyiv, adding that it was under attack by Russian paratroopers.\n\nSeparately it claimed one of its fighters had shot down a Russian transport plane. The BBC was unable to verify this.\n\nMr Zelensky acknowledged Russian forces had inflicted casualties, he maintained \"the enemy has sustained very serious casualties\", too. The BBC cannot verify this claim.\n\nAs Russian troops closed in on Kyiv, Ukraine urged the West to take faster and tougher sanctions to punish Moscow for its attack.\n\nAmong the demands was an effort to cut off Russia from Swift - the system used for global business transactions.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has also urged the West to block Russia from the payments system to \"inflict maximum pain on President Putin and his regime\".\n\nIt comes after Ukraine's defence minister urged anyone able to hold a weapon to join the effort to repel Russia.\n\nHanna Syva, a mother of two, told the BBC she was prepared to run to the basement in the event of shelling - but was also making plans to defend Ukraine.\n\nAs her husband prepares to fight, she lives with a rifle and pistol on a window ledge next to her children's toys.\n\n\"I'm scared for my life, for my kids, I'm scared for my country. But this is the fear that is transformed into anger that makes you do something to defend your country and protect yourself,\" she said.\n\nAre you in Ukraine? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian who had no experience of politics when elected less than three years ago, has suddenly emerged as a convincing war leader.\n\nHe has rallied the nation with his addresses and video selfies and given voice to Ukrainian anger and defiance of Russian aggression.\n\nWhile Russian President Vladimir Putin has appeared increasingly erratic - accusing Ukraine of \"genocide\" in the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk republics, and talking of the need to \"de-Nazify\" the country - President Zelensky, from a Russian-speaking Jewish family, has remained dignified, resolute and articulate.\n\nThese pronouncements have revealed a side that many critics - including a large chunk of the intelligentsia - had not seen coming.\n\nA key moment in the transformation from a leader floundering in the polls, who sometimes appeared out of his depth, into a national figurehead came in the early hours of Thursday, a few hours before Russia's invasion. In a sober address posted on social media, speaking partly in Russian, he said he had tried to call Vladimir Putin to avert a war and had been met by silence.\n\nThe two countries didn't need a war, \"not a Cold War, not a hot war, not a hybrid war\", he said, wearing a dark suit as he stood in front of a map of Ukraine. But he added that if Ukrainians came under attack they would defend themselves. \"When you attack us you will see our faces - not our backs, but our faces.\"\n\nSoon afterwards the invasion began, and for his next broadcast, in the middle of the day, he wore military fatigues, reflecting the country's David-versus-Goliath struggle. That evening he made another address, warning Western leaders that if they did not provide assistance then tomorrow \"war will knock on your doors\".\n\n\"This is the sound of a new iron curtain, which has come down, and is cutting Russia off from the civilised world.\"\n\nZelensky as commander-in-chief appeared to strike all the right notes on Ukrainian Twitter.\n\nYulia McGuffie, editor-in-chief of the Novoye Vremya news website, says she was upset when he was elected president in April 2019, as she had no faith in his ability to lead a government.\n\nBut Ukrainians have rapidly warmed to their president in the past week, she says.\n\n\"Full support and respect came, I think after Russia started its war - all Ukrainians have closed ranks around Zelensky. He is playing a uniting and I would say inspiring role, partly by his own example. He is leading a government that is repelling Putin's army, and for that many sincerely admire and respect him.\"\n\nZelensky's arrival on the political scene was a case of life imitating art. His most celebrated role as a comic actor was in the TV series, Servant of the People, in which he played a school teacher catapulted into the presidency after a student posted a viral video of him ranting about corruption in politics.\n\nHis candidacy in the 2019 presidential election was initially seen by some as a joke - his political party is called the Servant of the People party. But he went on to win with 73% of the vote, promising to fight corruption and bring peace in the east of the country.\n\nThe Ukrainian president has significant powers, but delivering on these promises was always going to be tough, communications consultant Yaryna Klyuchkovska notes. And for someone starting a presidency with such a high approval rating, the only way was down.\n\n\"It's one thing to make such broad-ranging promises and another thing to execute these policies,\" she says.\n\nZelensky had enjoyed the support of oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky during his presidential campaign, leading many to fear he would turn out to be a puppet leader, controlled by a man who is under investigation in the US for possible fraud and money-laundering.\n\nHe had in fact proved to be more independent than the sceptics thought, refusing for example to allow the re-privatisation of PrivatBank, which was owned by Kolomoisky before it was nationalised.\n\nOn the other hand corruption remains deep-rooted in Ukraine, and there are concerns that a new anti-oligarch law could be used to restrict the activities of some oligarchs and not others. Corruption charges aimed at Zelensky's main rival, Petro Poroshenko, his predecessor as president, are regarded by some Western officials as politically motivated.\n\nZelensky's attempts to negotiate with Russia in order to find a solution to the conflict in the east, which has left more than 14,000 people dead, also had only limited success. There were prisoner exchanges and moves towards implementing parts of a peace process, known as the Minsk agreements, but no breakthrough. Throughout 2020 his approval rating steadily fell.\n\nZelensky subsequently struck a more assertive tone in pushing for membership of the European Union and the Nato military alliance, a move that was bound to anger the Russian president.\n\nBut Yaryna Klyuchkovska says Zelensky's rhetoric on the conflict in the east and relations with Russia continued to be too timid for many Ukrainians, until recent days.\n\nAs the drumbeat of war grew louder he declared a Day of Peace, and continued to emphasise his hopes for a diplomatic solution even while Ukraine was reporting a rapid increase in ceasefire violations along the front line.\n\n\"He avoided the subject of war, warfare, anything military. It was a topic outside his comfort zone and he was not willing to go there in his public rhetoric,\" Klyuchkovska says.\n\nHe also took issue with the daily warnings from the US and other Western governments of an imminent Russian attack, saying that the US communication strategy was \"very expensive for Ukraine\".\n\nZelensky has been accused of being a puppet of controversial business mogul Ihor Kolomoisky\n\nThe big change of tack came with a speech he made to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday 19 February, Klyuchkovska says, converting her too from a sceptic to a fan. He began by describing a visit to a kindergarten in the east of the country that had days earlier been hit by a missile.\n\n\"When a bomb crater appears in a school playground, children have a question: 'Has the world forgotten the mistakes of the 20th Century?'\" he said.\n\n\"Indifference makes you an accomplice,\" he told the guests from the West's diplomatic and defence elites. He reminded them of Vladimir Putin's rejection of a US-led world order at the same conference exactly 15 years earlier, and his assertion of Russia's resurgence. \"How did the world respond? With appeasement.\"\n\nKlyuchkovska says no Ukrainian leader had spoken so bluntly to the West before.\n\n\"For me the moment of pride in Zelensky came during his brilliant speech at the security conference in Munich,\" says Yulia McGuffie. \"It was then that many of Zelensky's political opponents in Ukraine decided that now is not the time for rows and conflicts.\"\n\nWestern intelligence claims that Zelensky's name is the first on a list of people Russian forces aim to kill. He says his family is second on the list, but that he and they remain in Ukraine.\n\nHis presence is confirmed by the video selfies he has been shooting outside the presidential administration and the very distinctive House of Chimeras opposite it, adorned with representations of exotic animals and hunting scenes.\n\nIn response to one of these, British writer Ben Judah tweeted: \"If you'd told many of our great-grandparents in the Pale [the area of the Russian empire in which Jews were mostly confined] that a Jewish man would be a Ukrainian war leader against a Russian invasion they would have blinked incredulously.\"\n\n\"Of course, he is an actor. I don't know whether it's his true persona or not. But whatever he's doing, it's working,\" says Yaryna Klyuchkovska. \"His speech writers have found their stride. They come from the entertainment business, but even writing a Netflix show is different from writing presidential speeches.\"\n\nUkraine still faces overwhelming odds. Russia's invasion force is huge and well-armed. But the 44-year-old law graduate, a political newbie, has found a voice that has helped to bolster Ukrainian morale.\n\n\"One of my good friends has just written, 'Zelensky has suddenly grown cojones of cosmic proportions',\" says McGuffie. \"And this really reflects the attitude to him right now.\"", "Oil giant BP is under pressure from the UK government to offload its 20% stake in the Russian state-owned oil firm Rosneft, the BBC has been told.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng spoke to BP boss Bernard Looney on Friday following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHe \"left Mr Looney in no doubt about the seriousness of government concerns about BP's overexposure to Russian interests\", an official said.\n\nBP has said it is \"closely watching the concerning developments\" in Ukraine.\n\nMr Looney and former BP chief executive Bob Dudley have a seat on Rosneft's board alongside its chairman Igor Sechin, who is a close friend and ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nUK government officials hinted a disposal of BP's stake in Rosneft looked like the only plausible option to remedy a \"deeply unsatisfactory\" arrangement.\n\nBP has owned the stake in Rosneft for more than a decade.\n\nThe PA News agency reported Mr Looney was in Russia as recently as October, when he appeared on a panel with Mr Putin, which he later described as a \"privilege\".\n\nBP's final year results, published two weeks ago, revealed Rosneft accounted for $2.7bn (£2bn) of its profits, about a fifth of its total.\n\nMr Looney said at the time Russia was \"a large member of the energy system. We avoid the politics, that serves us well in many countries around the world\".\n\nBP admitted last year sanctions on Russia could be problematic for its business and this week western allies have imposed a series of economic sanctions on Russia.\n\nBP's 20% stake in a company majority-owned by the Russian state was always uncomfortable and Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led the government to think it untenable.\n\nThe boss of BP sits on a board with close Putin friend and ally, Rosneft Chairman Igor Sechin and other sanctioned board members.\n\nSources close to the Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng suggested selling the stake seems the only palatable solution.\n\nIt's proved a valuable stake for BP as oil prices have risen and it contributed nearly $3bn to BP profits last year.\n\nIt is a stark example of a grim paradox. The higher oil and gas prices rise, the more the countries that are dependent on Russian energy provide the fuel for the very war machine they are trying to stop.\n\nIn response to questions about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, BP said: \"We are doing all we can to monitor the fast-changing situation.\n\n\"We are accounting for all our team and will continue to support them and provide any help they need.\n\n\"BP will, of course, comply with all relevant sanctions.\"\n\nFollowing the invasion on Thursday, oil prices surged past $100 (£74) a barrel to hit their highest level for more than seven years.\n\nRussia is the second biggest exporter of crude oil, and is also the world's largest natural gas exporter.\n\nEurope gets nearly a third of its oil and about 40% of its gas from Russia, much of it flowing through pipelines across Ukrainian territory.\n\nConcerns remain that sanctions could constrict supplies and drive up prices worldwide.", "Teacher Paul Hodgson said Ukraine was now his home\n\nA British teacher is trying to evacuate colleagues from Ukraine's capital city in a school bus.\n\nPaul Hodgson, originally from Washington, Tyne and Wear but now living in Kyiv with his fiancée, rescued a group on Friday and was preparing to return for more.\n\nMr Hodgson, who teaches at Kyiv's British International School, said most pupils and parents had left the city.\n\nHowever, he said many of his colleagues remained trapped there.\n\nSpeaking to BBC 5 Live, Mr Hodgson said the route into and out of Kyiv was \"quite risky\" and he did not know if he would be able to get back through roadblocks.\n\nHe said he was working out a strategy for safely bringing staff to his current base in Cherkasy, to the east.\n\n\"Even in Cherkasy there's reports of gunfire and aerial bombardment,\" he said.\n\n\"I haven't heard much of it but I know it's on the outskirts.\n\n\"Even here we're only going to be safe for so long so we have to consider our next steps.\"\n\nBuildings in Kyiv have been damaged by shelling\n\nThe Ukrainian military said it had fought off several Russian attacks on Kyiv, while fighting continues near several other cities.\n\nNearly 200 Ukrainians, including three children, have been killed since Russia invaded, the country's Health Minister Viktor Lyashko said.\n\nMr Hodgson, who teaches A-Level mathematics, said he had seen a lot of military transport going towards Kyiv, where many colleagues remained, as he left on Friday.\n\n\"So it's whether or not we can go and get them, whether we can get there and whether they can actually get to where we're going to pick them up from, this is the big question,\" he said.\n\nPaul Hodgson had lived in Kyiv with his fiancée Nadia\n\nMr Hodgson, who has also studied and taught in Greater Manchester, said he eventually planned to get as far west as he could and possibly return to the UK, but said his home was now Ukraine.\n\n\"This is my home - Nadia's home - it's her son's home, this is somewhere we want to come back to, this is where we belong,\" he said.\n\n\"Whether that's going to be possible, I don't know.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Some videos, such as this clip of an aerial attack, are from previous conflicts\n\nThe second day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been accompanied by further false or misleading imagery on social media claiming to be from the conflict.\n\nSome show military action taken from older conflicts, while other viral videos have proved difficult to verify.\n\nOne video clip seen by the BBC and proven to be several years old has been viewed more than 27 million times in one day, while another showed video game footage.\n\nMisleading posts have come from \"official\" sources as well as from \"ordinary\" social media users.\n\nOne example was a tweet posted by the verified account of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence.\n\nThis dogfight footage comes from a video game\n\nFootage of an aerial dogfight is accompanied by the caption \"MiG-29 of the Air Force of the Armed Forces destroys the 'unparalleled' Su-35 of the Russian occupiers\".\n\nHowever, it's video game footage from the game Digital Combat Simulator World. This isn't the first time that game footage has been used to illustrate military action.\n\nOne clip of old and incorrectly labelled footage has been viewed over 18 million times on video-sharing platform TikTok.\n\nRussian and Ukrainian troops did face off against each other, but this happened in 2014\n\nIt claims to show Ukrainian troops \"facing off\" with Russian soldiers at an airbase.\n\nWhile it does show a confrontation between Ukrainian and Russian forces, fact-checkers Logically have ascertained that the footage was shot in 2014 during the annexation of Crimea, and was shot at the Belbek airbase near Sevastopol.\n\nThe same footage was aired by BBC Turkish at the time, after it was broadcast by Turkish television.\n\nThis is footage from the Syrian conflict\n\nOne video, which was posted on both Facebook and Twitter from an unofficial account supporting Ukraine's armed forces, claims to show the destruction of Russian personnel and equipment in Ukraine, as seen through a drone aircraft's gunsight.\n\nHowever, it's footage from Syria shot in 2020. The new version sees the image flipped, perhaps in an attempt to prevent verification through reverse-image search tools. The Twitter post was subsequently deleted.\n\nAnother incorrectly labelled clip on Twitter claims to be of a Russian airstrike on Ukraine \"that caused a chain reaction at the Luhansk power plant\".\n\nThis post incorrectly passes off the deadly Tianjin explosions as warfare in Ukraine\n\nVarious uploads of the clip have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.\n\nThe video actually shows footage of the 12 August 2015 Tianjin blasts in China, which killed around 173 people when a container containing chemicals exploded at a port. A BBC report on the Chinese incident can be viewed here.\n\nOne TikTok video has been viewed 27.5m times and shared by thousands of users who assumed that it was from Ukraine.\n\nThe clip shows some men in military fatigues shouting and laughing in Russian as they parachute over farmland.\n\nMany social media users think this clip shows Russian forces landing in Ukraine\n\nAlthough the caption just says \"Original sound - Roman\", users have assumed that the video is of Russian troops taking part in the invasion.\n\nIn fact, it's footage shot by a man who appears to be a member of the Russian armed forces, and uploaded to his Instagram channel in 2015.\n\nHe uploaded the old footage to his TikTok channel on 24 February, the day of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, leading to viewers thinking it was footage from the conflict.\n\nThis rocket barrage probably took place during military drills in 2018\n\nMore old footage on Twitter includes video of a rocket barrage, implying it is part of the Ukraine war.\n\nIn fact it's from 2018, and shows a barrage launched from Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS). A tweet from 2018 shows the same footage, although there is some doubt about the accuracy of the caption.\n\nIn some cases it has been impossible to verify the truth behind a viral post.\n\nOne example is that of a video clip of a missile being fired toward a residential area in Kyiv by a low-flying jet.\n\nThe footage has been viewed more than two million times on Twitter. However, the aircraft is travelling too fast and the video is of too poor a quality to verify which country's air force the plane belongs to.\n\nThere is also debate as to whether the residential area was deliberately targeted, or if the missile was fired in error.\n\nThere have also been conflicting claims over the identity and intention of the aircraft.\n\nFast-moving events such as war mean that misleading imagery will inevitably appear on social media.\n\nMisinformation is easily shared, often by those who believe the images to be genuine.\n\nSocial media users can limit the spread of bad information by taking a few seconds before sharing, to consider whether what they're seeing seems genuine and is from a source that they trust.\n\nChecking with multiple trusted sources can help to prevent these images from being widely shared.", "Christopher Stalford's widow Laura (centre in black) and mother Karen follow behind his coffin\n\nDUP MLA Christopher Stalford was \"humble, forgiving, loving and kind\", mourners at his funeral have been told.\n\nThe Reverend Marty Gray paid tribute to Mr Stalford as a family man who put his four children ahead of his career.\n\nMr Stalford was the principal deputy speaker at the Northern Ireland Assembly. He held a seat in South Belfast.\n\nHis service was held at Ravenhill Presbyterian Church, after his sudden death a week ago.\n\nMr Gray said Mr Stalford adored his four children - Trinity, Oliver, Cameron and Abigail.\n\nHe met his wife, Laura, when they were children and began dating as teenagers, the service on Saturday heard. They were later married by the late Reverend Ian Paisley.\n\nMourners were told Mr Stalford adored his four children - Trinity, Oliver, Cameron and Abigail\n\n\"Today we grieve for the years ahead he will not see, and for the ambitions he will not get to fulfil,\" Mr Gray said.\n\nNorth Belfast assembly member (MLA) William Humphrey said the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had lost a most able and valued colleague.\n\nChristopher Stalford's political friends and foes came together under the same roof to say goodbye.\n\nAmid the devastation at his sudden death, there were lighter moments as mourners remembered a politician known for his good humour and quick wit as well as his political principles.\n\nHe was a unionist to the core, but among the congregation were leading members of Sinn Féin.\n\nThere were also Ulster Unionists with whom he had many political battles within Belfast City Hall and Stormont.\n\nOne of the reasons for the widespread respect for him was that when it came to a political jibe, he could take it as well give it.\n\nAs the traffic was stopped, and his coffin was slowly carried down the Ravenhill Road in south Belfast after the service, one of his party colleagues remarked: \"We are going to miss him. Every political party needs a Christopher Stalford.\"\n\nMr Stalford's \"outstanding young life has been taken far too soon\", Mr Humphrey told mourners.\n\n\"He was a strong, articulate and consummate performer,\" he added.\n\n\"He was unique, a true character with a huge intellect, an acerbic wit with an infectious laugh. He was a man of considerable talent.\"\n\nDUP MLAs and MPs, including Paul Givan, Mervyn Storey, Ian Paisley and Gregory Campbell, were among the first to arrive for the service.\n\nAssembly Speaker Alex Maskey and his Sinn Féin party colleagues John O'Dowd and Deirdre Hargey were also in attendance.\n\nAlso at the service were Ulster Unionist (UUP) leader Doug Beattie, Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister, Alliance leader Naomi Long, Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) MP Claire Hanna, former DUP leader Peter Robinson, PSNI deputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton, loyalist Jackie McDonald and the grand secretary of the Orange Order, the Reverend Mervyn Gibson.\n\nThe UK government was represented by Northern Ireland Office minister Lord Caine.\n\nOutside the church, two election posters used previously by Mr Stalford were tied to the railings.\n\nAfter his death, there were tributes from politicians on all sides at Stormont and also from Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Taoiseach Micheál Martin.\n\nFollowing his death, Mr Stalford's family issued a statement saying \"Laura and the Stalford family thank everyone for their kind messages and lovely words in recent days, they have been so comforting to the family at this incredibly sad time.\"\n\nBefore being elected to Stormont in 2016, Mr Stalford served on Belfast City Council, where he was deputy mayor and high sheriff of the city.", "The EU has imposed a blanket flight ban on Russian planes, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has announced.\n\n\"We are shutting down EU airspace for Russian-owned, Russian-registered or Russian-controlled aircraft,\" she said.\n\nAll such planes, including the private jets of oligarchs, will now be unable to land in, take off from or fly over any EU nation.\n\nRussian planes have also been banned from UK airspace.\n\nRussia's biggest airline, Aeroflot, said it would cancel all flights to European destinations until further notice in a retaliatory move on Sunday.\n\nAhead of the decision, European countries had been closing their airspace one by one. Germany said its ban would last three months.\n\nDeparture boards at Moscow's Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo airports showed dozens of cancellations on Sunday, including flights to Paris, Vienna and Kaliningrad.\n\nRussia's S7 Airlines said on Facebook it would cancel flights to many of its European destinations until at least 13 March.\n\nRussia has been responding with tit-for-tat restrictions on countries banning its flights.\n\nThe Commission president said that the EU was also going to ban Russia's state-owned news outlets Sputnik and Russia Today, widely seen as a mouthpiece for the Kremlin. \"We are developing tools to ban their toxic and harmful disinformation in Europe,\" she said.\n\nThe restrictions on flights will require Russian airlines to take circuitous routes, resulting in longer flight times.\n\nCommercial airlines are also avoiding airspace around Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus following Russia's invasion.\n\nIn the US, Delta Air Lines said it would suspend a flight booking agreement with Russia's Aeroflot.\n\nAll Russian-registered planes will be affected by the flight ban\n\nThe UK's ban on Russian flights led Moscow to retaliate with a similar curb on British planes.\n\nVirgin Atlantic said avoiding Russia would add between 15 minutes and an hour to its flights between the UK and India and Pakistan.\n\nAustralian airline Qantas said it would use a longer route for its direct flight between Darwin and London that does not overfly Russia.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the Russian invasion of Ukraine?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA veteran former Minnesota police officer has been sentenced to two years in prison over the fatal shooting of a black motorist last April.\n\nIn December, a jury convicted Kim Potter, 49, of manslaughter after she killed Daunte Wright, 20, during a traffic stop.\n\nHe was shot dead when she mistakenly fired her gun instead of her Taser.\n\nThe Wright family criticised the sentence as \"a slap on the wrist\".\n\nRelatives had earlier delivered emotional victim impact statements calling for Potter to face the maximum possible sentence of 15 years.\n\nWright's mother Katie said she could never forgive Potter, claiming the ex-officer never once said her son's name during the trial.\n\n\"She referred to Daunte over and over again as 'the driver' as if killing him wasn't enough to dehumanise him,\" she said through tears.\n\nA distraught Potter addressed the Wright family in court - turning to face them directly - before her sentence was handed down.\n\n\"You said that I didn't look at you during the trial. I don't believe I had a right to,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't even have a right to be in the same room with you. I am so sorry that I hurt you so badly and my heart is devastated for all of you.\"\n\nAs she read out her sentencing decision on Friday, Judge Regina Chu described it as \"one of the saddest cases I've had in my 20 years on the bench\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How did Daunte Wright die? Key moments from the trial\n\nProsecutors initially sought a sentence of seven years in prison - the presumed penalty under the state's guidelines - but Judge Chu ruled that there were not aggravating factors in this case.\n\nShe said she had been \"profoundly moved by the comments of the Wright family\" and knew that the lighter sentence would be a disappointment to many in the community.\n\nThe former officer will spend 16 months behind bars and serve the rest of her sentence under supervised release.\n\nPotter must be held accountable for her reckless actions, the judge said, but ultimately Daunte Wright's death had been a \"tragic mistake\". She added that she believed Potter was remorseful.\n\nPotter and a trainee officer pulled Mr Wright over on 11 April 2021 in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis.\n\nPolice claimed Mr Wright had expired licence plate tags and an air freshener unlawfully hanging from his vehicle's rear view mirror. During the traffic stop, they found he had an outstanding warrant on a weapons violation.\n\nPotter's defence team claimed the shooting took place as Wright was resisting arrest. Police bodycam footage shows Potter repeatedly yelling \"Taser\" before firing a single shot from her pistol.\n\nAfter the sentencing, the Wright family said they were \"very disappointed\" by the outcome.\n\n\"I walked out of this courthouse feeling like people are laughing at us because this lady got a slap on the wrist,\" Wright's father, Arbuey, told reporters.\n\n\"Kim Potter murdered my son. He died April 11,\" Katie Wright added. \"Today, the justice system murdered him all over again.\"\n\nMinnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement that he accepted the judge's sentencing and urged the community to do the same.\n\n\"I don't ask you to agree with her decision, which takes nothing away from the truth of the jury's verdict,\" he said.\n\nDaunte Wright's death occurred at a time of high tensions in Minneapolis, with the trial over George Floyd's murder taking place nearby.", "Working from home for part of the week has become the norm for some employees, a survey of managers has suggested.\n\nMore than 80% said their firms had adopted hybrid working - most since the pandemic, a survey for the Chartered Institute of Management (CMI) found.\n\nBut senior leaders are also actively encouraging employees to return to the workplace, a majority of managers said.\n\nThe institute said firms should embrace hybrid work as \"best practice\".\n\n\"It would be very short sighted of bosses not to see some correlation in the shift in the working world, and the move towards hybrid [working],\" said CMI chief executive Ann Francke.\n\n\"We are experiencing an uptick in productivity, and an uptick in many companies results. We're not saying everyone should work from home 100% of the time, we're saying the best practice is to have a blend, so when you come into the office you can do those things that are very difficult to do remotely.\"\n\nThe survey for the professional body, exclusively shared with the BBC, found that 84% of managers said their firms had adopted hybrid working and two-thirds said this had been prompted by the Covid pandemic.\n\nLarge companies were more likely than small ones to have brought in hybrid working practices, while jobs in factories, transport and trades were less likely to offer the option.\n\nThe survey found that firms offered staff flexibility to choose which days they came into the office.\n\nWork from home guidance in England, which was put in place in December to try to curb the spread of the Omicron variant, was lifted in January.\n\nSimilar guidance was relaxed in Scotland, but remains in place in Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nAs Covid restrictions have eased, commuter numbers have risen.\n\nBut more than a fifth of train services that were running before the Covid pandemic have not returned.\n\nThe survey polled 1,237 managers, with 41% working in the private sector, and 59% the public and non-profit sectors.\n\nAoife Fitzmaurice, chief of staff at Sage, which provides accounting, payroll and payment systems, plans to keep hybrid working in place.\n\nWhile there was \"huge demand\" from employees to have the option to work from home, Ms Fitzmaurice said they were also \"missing the human connection\".\n\nMs Fitzmaurice explained that a \"framework of flexibility\" was necessary so that agreements could be made by each team to set the \"sweet spot\" of a combination of home and office work.", "Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nIt was \"chilling\" to see the \"cold\" way distraught Kamila Valieva was treated by her Russian coach after falls in her figure skating routine at Beijing 2022, says International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach.\n\nValieva, weighed down by a doping scandal and questions over the wisdom of allowing her to compete, came fourth on Thursday after several mistakes.\n\nThere was no hug and no comfort for the 15-year-old from coach Eteri Tutberidze when she immediately came off the ice, instead she was asked \"why did you stop fighting?\"\n\nValieva was favourite to win the women's event, having set several world records in the short time since she made her senior debut in October. She had led after Tuesday's short programme but the series of falls and messy landings on Thursday ruled her out of a podium finish.\n\n\"When I saw how she was received by her closest entourage with what appeared to be a tremendous coldness, it was chilling to see this, rather than giving her comfort, rather than to try to help her,\" said Bach.\n\nTutberidze, whose training methods were already under the spotlight, did put her arm around the young Russian while she waited for her score. But moments before that had demanded to know: \"Why did you let it go? Explain it to me, why?\"\n\nBach said he was \"very, very disturbed\" by what he had seen when watching the competition on television.\n\n\"All of this does not give me much confidence in this closest entourage of Kamila, neither with regard to what happened in the past, nor as far as it concerns the future,\" he added.\n\n\"How to deal, how to address, how to treat a minor athlete at the age of 15 under such an obvious mental stress.\"\n\nValieva is the subject of an anti-doping investigation after testing positive for angina drug trimetazidine. The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has also said it will be investigating Valieva's entourage, including coaches, doctors and other adults surrounding her.\n\nBefore discovering she had failed a test, she had helped the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) win the team event at Beijing 2022, but the medals for that will only be handed out once the doping case has concluded.\n\nIn response to Bach, the deputy prime minister of Russia, Dmitry Chernyshenko, said: \"We are deeply disappointed to see an IOC President weave his own fictional narrative on the feelings of our athletes, and then present these publicly as the voice of the IOC.\n\n\"This is frankly inappropriate and wrong.\n\n\"Win or lose we know our athletes are world-beating, and they do too.\"\n• None The Sports Desk podcast - can the Olympics recover from another doping scandal?\n\nThroughout the events of the past 11 days, Tutberidze has been present at the ice rink while Valieva continued training amid the uncertainty over whether she would be able to compete.\n\nIn the early days when news of the failed drugs test broke, Valieva was pictured hugging the coach during emotional practices and in her athlete biography on the Olympics information service, the youngster names Tutberidze as her \"hero\".\n\nTutberidze has overseen something of a production line in successful young Russian skaters in recent years at the Sambo-70 club in Moscow - including new Olympic champion Anna Shcherbakova and silver medallist Alexandra Trusova, who are both 17.\n\nBefore them, there was 2018 champion Alina Zagitova, who was 15 when she won gold and 2018 silver medallist Evgenia Medvedeva, who was 18. Meanwhile, Yulia Lipnitskaya, was 15 when she won team gold at Sochi 2014.\n\nThey have either all retired while still teenagers or gone on a break from the sport with no return imminent.\n\nAnd from the way Trusova was speaking on Thursday after her silver medal, she may soon be another name to add to the list of early retirements.\n\n\"I hate this sport, I hate this sport, I hate all of it. I won't go to the medal ceremony... I don't want to go,\" she was overheard saying angrily before later composing herself at a news conference and adding: \"Of course these were only emotions and I'll think it over and later on I'll take a decision what I'm going to do in the future.\"\n\nValieva, Shcherbakova and Trusova are dubbed the 'quad squad' because they all perform quadruple jumps, which are rare in women's figure skating. Of the 25 athletes competing in the women's free skate on Thursday, only this trio attempted them.\n\nThere is no doubt that the coaching is producing high-scoring skaters, but there will surely now be many wondering at what cost given two left the ice in tears on Thursday.\n\nBach said the IOC could not do much to control an athlete's entourage.\n\n\"We see we have extremely limited means to address it,\" he said. \"We are not the police, we cannot interrogate and have a formal prosecution procedure; and our sanctions are extremely limited.\n\n\"In the end, it's a question where we need the support of governments.\"\n\nRussians are competing at these Games under the flag of the ROC as their country is banned from international sporting events under sanctions relating to its doping past.\n\nPressure on Valieva 'beyond my imagination' - Bach\n\nValieva's participation in the event had been controversial and had meant she had been under the media spotlight for 10 days in Beijing.\n\nShe was allowed to compete in the women's event after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) ruled against re-imposing a provisional suspension on her.\n\nShe discovered on 8 February - the day after helping ROC win the team event - that she had tested positive for angina drug trimetazidine but then successfully appealed against a Russian Anti-Doping Agency decision to impose a provisional suspension.\n\nThat decision was upheld by Cas after appeals by the IOC, Wada and International Skating Union, with the court's ruling pointing to \"exceptional circumstances\" regarding her age and the timing of the test result, which came during the Games and nearly six weeks after the sample was taken.\n\nThe IOC did not hide its displeasure at the fact she was being allowed to compete, saying it would put an asterisk next to the results if she finished in the top three until her case was resolved.\n\nWada, meanwhile, says Cas ignored the \"clear and unambiguous terms\" of its code regarding the criteria for lifting a mandatory provisional suspension.\n\nIt said Cas had effectively \"rewritten\" the code to say a mandatory suspension was now optional in the case of 'protected persons'.\n\n\"[Such a move] risks undermining the integrity of sporting competition and the confidence of athletes that they are competing on a level playing field,\" the global anti-doping body said in a statement on Friday.\n\n\"It is surprising and of serious concern to Wada that a Cas panel would see fit to depart from the clear terms of the code.\"\n\nThe Cas ruling said it would do \"irreparable harm\" to not allow her to compete, but many were left questioning on Thursday whether it had in fact been worse to let her compete.\n\nBach, who won a fencing gold medal at the 1976 Olympics, said he could not even imagine the pressure she had been under.\n\n\"I know from my athlete time a little bit about pressure. But this pressure is beyond my imagination,\" he added.\n\n\"To see her there struggling on the ice, seeing how she tries to compose herself again, how then she tries to finish her programme, you could in every movement in the body language, you could feel that this is immense mental stress and maybe she would have preferred just to leave the ice and try to leave this story behind her.\"\n\nBut even now she will not be able to leave it behind as she still faces the doping investigation and is yet to request the testing of the B sample as is her right under Wada rules.\n\nAnd who knows whether she will even make another Olympics given the track record of those who have come through the system before her.\n\n\"I can only wish for her that she has the support of her family, the support of her friends and the support of people who help her over this extremely difficult situation,\" Bach added.\n\n\"And we can then only hope for her to see that this is addressed in the right way and there is not a dramatic experience for such a young woman.\n• None What's the worst that could happen?\n• None He's back and exploring the detrimental impact of the internet on American society", "One of three men on trial for murdering a Londonderry man has changed his plea to guilty.\n\nDerek Creswell, 29, of Kings Lane in Ballykelly, had denied the murder of Edward Meenan.\n\nThe 52-year-old's body was found in Creggan Street on 25 November 2018.\n\nAt Londonderry Crown Court, sitting in Belfast on Thursday, his lawyer told the judge that he had an application for Creswell to be re-arraigned on the three charges he faced.\n\nWhen the clerk of the court put the charge of murdering Mr Meenan to Creswell, he replied: \"Guilty.''\n\nHe further pleaded guilty to two other charges of perverting the course justice and assaulting Mr Meenan's friend William McConnell on the same date.\n\nThe other two accused - Sean Rodgers, 34, of no fixed abode, and Ryan Walters, 22, of Station Park, Crossgar - deny murder.\n\nFollowing his guilty pleas the judge told Creswell: \"The only sentence that this court can pass in respect of a guilty plea or guilty finding in respect of murder is life imprisonment.\"\n\nAddressing the jury, the judge said: \"What that means is that you no longer have to consider the evidence against Derek Creswell because he has now pleaded guilty to each of the three counts.\n\n\"The case will continue against the remaining two defendants, Mr Rodgers and Mr Walters.\"\n\nShe said the guilty plea was a \"significant turn of events\" and that lawyers will now \"need a little bit of time to consider what evidence now needs to be presented and what does not need to be presented\".", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nGreat Britain have been stripped of the silver medal won in the 4x100m relay at last summer's Tokyo Olympics after team member CJ Ujah was found to have committed a doping violation.\n\nThe British team finished second to Italy by one-hundredth of a second.\n\nUjah tested positive for ostarine and S-23 after the event on 6 August.\n\nThe 27-year-old says he \"unknowingly consumed a contaminated substance\" and the situation is one he \"will regret for the rest of my life\".\n\nUjah was joined in the 4x100m relay team by Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake.\n\nLondon-born Ujah added: \"I would like to apologise to my team-mates, their families and support teams for the impact which this has had on them. I'm sorry that this situation has cost my team-mates the medals they worked so hard and so long for, and which they richly deserved.\n\n\"I would also like to apologise to both British Athletics and Team GB. British Athletics has supported the relay athletes for years and this has been difficult for everyone involved in the programme.\n\n\"Representing my country at a second Olympic Games surpassed my childhood sporting ambitions and I will forever be devastated that this situation has marred the success achieved by the men's 4x100 relay team in Tokyo.\"\n\nThe loss of the silver means Great Britain's medal tally at the Tokyo Games falls to 64, one fewer than the team achieved at London 2012.\n\nIt is only the third time Great Britain have lost a medal at a summer or winter Games.\n\nJudoka Kerrith Brown at the 1988 Seoul Games and skier Alain Baxter at Salt Lake in 2002 both lost bronze medals after testing positive for a banned substance.\n\n'You will get caught'\n\nThe British Olympic Association said it welcomed Ujah's \"contrition\" but added: \"This should act as a salutary message for anyone - British or otherwise - who is doping or considering doping as a way of boosting their athletic performance. You will get caught. You are not welcome on our team and nor are you representative of our values, or of our nation.\"\n\nUjah did not challenge the decision over his violation, which was made by the Anti-Doping Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).\n\nCas requested World Athletics - the sport's governing body - should consider its own actions, including the possibility of handing Ujah a ban from competition.\n\nThe UK Anti-Doping website states ostarine is \"not approved for human consumption in the UK or anywhere else in the world\", adding the substance is designed to have similar effects to testosterone in that it can aid muscle-building.\n\nBoth Ostarine and S-23 are known as selective androgen receptor modulators (Sarms).\n\nUS Anti-Doping (Usada) says Sarms have \"similar anabolic properties to anabolic steroids\".\n\nThe Usada website offers athletes access to the Global Dro website where substances can be searched in order to check on regulations.\n\nS-23 is listed as an anabolic agent and prohibited both in and out of competition.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGermany's foreign minister has accused Russia of putting peace at risk with Cold War-like diplomacy, urging Moscow to take \"serious steps towards de-escalation\" of the Ukraine crisis.\n\nIt comes after the US president warned Russia could be about to stage a justification to invade Ukraine.\n\nJoe Biden said military action could begin imminently but stressed that a diplomatic solution was still possible.\n\nRussia said the claims were \"baseless\" and accused the US of stoking tensions.\n\nMoscow says it is conducting military drills and says some troops have been moved back to their permanent bases in recent days. Western powers say at least 130,000 Russian soldiers have been stationed in reach of Ukraine's borders and they have seen no evidence of a withdrawal.\n\nOn Friday, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock became the latest senior Western politician to voice concerns over Russia's massive build-up of military personnel and equipment near its border with Ukraine and in Belarus, a Russian ally - effectively encircling Ukraine on three sides.\n\nIn a statement released ahead of the annual Munich Security Conference, where world leaders will meet for three days from Friday, she warned Russia was \"challenging fundamental principles of the European peace order\" with its \"unprecedented deployment of troops\" and \"Cold War demands\".\n\nHer comments refer to a series of demands Russia has made over European security, which seek to limit Western military power in countries Russia sees as within its own sphere of influence.\n\nThe West rejects the idea that Russia has a right to influence the foreign policy of countries close to its borders, as the Soviet Union did during the Cold War.\n\nThe Cold War was the post-war period of the 20th Century when the rivalry between the West and the Soviet Union brought two global superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.\n\nMs Baerbock called for diplomacy to continue, saying \"even tiny steps towards peace are better than big steps towards war\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: This is a moment of peril, says US Secretary of State\n\nJoe Biden warned on Thursday that Russia could be about to engage in a false flag operation which would give it an excuse to invade Ukraine.\n\nA false flag is a fabricated attack a country stages against its own interests in order to justify a retaliation. Russia denies having any such plans.\n\nLater, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave more details to the United Nations Security Council of what such a move could look like.\n\nHe said it was not clear what form a pretext for an attack could take, but that possibilities include \"a fabricated so-called terrorist bombing inside Russia, the invented discovery of a mass grave, a staged drone strike against civilians, or a fake - even a real - attack using chemical weapons.\"\n\nIn the aftermath of such an incident, Mr Blinken said Russia's government would likely \"theatrically convene\" an emergency meeting about protecting ethnic Russians in Ukraine - and Russian missiles and bombs would begin striking Ukrainian targets, alongside cyber-attacks.\n\nThe US has not provided evidence for the allegation, and Mr Blinken acknowledged that some people may question the claims. \"But let me be clear. I am here today not to start a war but to prevent one,\" he said.\n\nThe concerns were echoed by other Western leaders. Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned of \"a pretext for an armed attack\", while UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Prime Minister Boris Johnson alleged that a false flag operation was being planned.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels in the country's east continued to accuse each other of shelling and other ceasefire violations on Friday.\n\nSuch breaks in the area's years-long ceasefire are not uncommon. Each side blamed the other for Thursday's violence.\n\nUkrainian officials accused Russia-backed separatists of striking a nursery in the town of Stanytsia Luhanska, smashing through a wall into a children's music room. Three adults - but no children - were injured.\n\nRussia-backed rebels, meanwhile, claimed Ukrainian forces had shelled a number of locations under rebel control and accused them of escalating the conflict.\n\nOn Thursday, Russia sent a formal response to US proposals for negotiation in the crisis which both offered a potential route to diplomacy, and threatened further action.\n\nIn the document, Russia said it was open to discussions about inspections of missile sites on both sides but said the US had failed to address its main security concerns about the expansion of Nato near its border.\n\nRussia said that if that issue was not dealt with, \"military-technical means\" would be deployed in response - though it remains unclear what that could amount to.\n\nDespite such concerns, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba earlier said that \"diplomacy is working\".\n\n\"We can never say for sure what happens tomorrow, but today we do our utmost\" to maintain peace, he said. \"We're very much ready for any situation.\"", "The IOPC said the charges related to an investigation into the phone records of Wayne Couzens, who killed Sarah Everard\n\nTwo serving Metropolitan Police officers and a former officer have been charged with sending grossly offensive messages on WhatsApp.\n\nThey will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 16 March.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said the charges arose from an investigation into the phone records of Wayne Couzens, who murdered Sarah Everard.\n\nThe Met said the serving officers had been suspended from duty.\n\nThe offences are alleged to have happened between April and August 2019 and involved discriminatory messages, the IOPC said.\n\nIn a statement the policing watchdog said: \"The IOPC's investigation began following a referral from the Metropolitan Police Service in April last year and was completed in December when we referred a file of evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\n\"The CPS has now taken the decision to authorise charges against the officers.\"\n\nRosemary Ainslie, head of the CPS special crime division, said: \"Each of the three defendants has been charged with sending grossly offensive messages on a public communications network. The alleged offences took place on a WhatsApp group chat.\"\n\nShe said the function of CPS was not to decide a person's guilt but to make fair assessments about whether it was appropriate for a court to consider charges and added that nothing should be published that could jeopardise the defendants' right to a fair trial.\n\nTypically defendants, including police officers, are identified when they are charged but the CPS said it could not currently confirm the names of the officers for operational reasons.\n\nIn a statement the Met said: \"We are aware of charges brought against two serving Metropolitan Police officers and one former officer about sending grossly offensive messages on a public communications network.\n\n\"They are suspended from duty.\"", "Ava White was taken to hospital after the attack but died a short time later\n\nA 14-year-old boy has pleaded not guilty to murdering a schoolgirl who was stabbed to death at a Christmas lights switch-on event.\n\nAva White, 12, was with friends when she was attacked in Liverpool city centre on 25 November.\n\nShe was taken to Alder Hey Children's Hospital where she later died.\n\nThe boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons due to his age, pleaded not guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to her murder.\n\nHe admitted possessing an offensive weapon, a knife, in Church Alley in Liverpool on 25 November.\n\nA trial, which is expected to last for three weeks, is due to start on 9 May.\n\nAbout a dozen of Ava's relatives were in court for the 30-minute hearing, with some in tears as the teenager entered his pleas.\n\nBalloons were released at a vigil in memory of Ava White in December\n\nIn December, a coroner said the cause of Ava's death was a stab wound to the neck.\n\nAva's father Robert Martin previously said the family were \"completely devastated and heartbroken\".\n\nHundreds of people paid tribute to Ava at a vigil in December, while a minute's applause was held by Everton and Liverpool fans at the Merseyside derby.\n\nThree other boys were also arrested following the schoolgirl's death.\n\nMerseyside Police said a 16-year-old was released on bail, a 14-year-old was released under investigation and no further action was taken against a 13-year-old.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson could announce an end to free testing and the self-isolation period on Monday\n\nA group that represents NHS bosses has called for free Covid testing to remain, despite speculation that it could be scrapped.\n\nThe NHS Confederation also said 75% of senior staff in England did not want self-isolation rules to end.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce new relaxations to Covid rules in England on Monday.\n\nThis could include scrapping PCR test centres and free lateral flow tests as part of a \"living with Covid\" strategy.\n\nThe government has spent billions of pounds on testing throughout the pandemic. Experts believe in future it could be used only in hospitals and care settings, or to deal with major outbreaks.\n\nIn the survey of more than 300 NHS leaders, four-fifths said they disagreed with the expected plan to end free testing.\n\nAnd they also expressed the need for regular testing to continue for health staff and key workers.\n\nAsked on Thursday if free Covid tests would be scrapped next week, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said: \"We are looking at how we learn to live with Covid. And that does mean the protections we've enjoyed over the last few months, that they all should be reviewed.\n\n\"So we're looking at the very latest data and next week we'll have more to say about it.\"\n\nMatthew Taylor, chief executive of the confederation, said: \"Hospital admissions and deaths linked to coronavirus continue to fall nationally and this is allowing the NHS to bring back many routine services that it was asked to de-prioritise during the peaks of the pandemic, including some non-urgent elective procedures.\n\n\"With the success of the vaccine and new Covid treatments, this offers real hope as we learn to live with the virus.\n\n\"But the government cannot wave a magic wand and pretend the threat has disappeared entirely.\"\n\nHe said not enough was yet known about how much long-term protection vaccines provided and there was still the uncertainty of future strains developing.\n\nProfessor Dame Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, says the change being proposed by the government \"feels very sudden\".\n\n\"We do have to learn to live safely with Covid in the medium term. That does not mean pretending the threat to our health, and in some cases life, simply no longer exists,\" she said.\n\n\"We should take a more gradual, phased approach to relaxing the rules and carefully watch what happens to the rates of infection - particularly in healthcare settings or other environments where people are particularly at risk.\"\n\nLateral-flow tests are currently free for everyone\n\nA group of charities representing the 500,000 people in the UK with impaired immune systems have also called for free Covid testing to remain.\n\nFredi Cavander-Attwood, from the MS Society, said: \"It is not our goal for blanket restrictions to be reinstated. We simply want all 500,000 immunocompromised people, including some with MS, to be protected and supported to manage their risk so they can live normal lives.\n\n\"That's why the government's plan must include sensible, simple measures, like maintaining free testing, strengthening employment protections for people at risk, making sure they get treatment quickly if they get Covid-19 and having a plan for the use of preventative treatments.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC in January that there were no plans to ask people to pay for lateral-flow test kits - but more newspaper reports that the government is considering the idea have emerged since then.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says it is continually monitoring the risks to protect the most vulnerable. People with weakened immune systems are currently advised to \"consider extra precautions to reduce their chance of catching Covid-19\".\n\n\"We are hugely grateful to all NHS and care staff who have gone above and beyond, and we continue to support them,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Thanks to our phenomenal vaccine rollout, antivirals and testing programme, we are one of the freest countries in Europe.\n\n\"We continue to monitor the data closely and next week we will set out our plans on how we will live with Covid-19 in the long term.\"", "A judge has ruled that Donald Trump and two of his children must testify in a New York investigation\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump and two of his children must answer questions under oath in a New York investigation into their business practices, a judge has ruled.\n\nNew York's attorney general has accused the Trump Organization of obtaining tax breaks and loans through \"fraudulent or misleading asset valuations\".\n\nMr Trump must sit for sworn testimony within 21 days.\n\nHe denies the accusations, and is expected to appeal the decision.\n\nHe could also invoke his right to remain silent in any deposition.\n\nThe Trump Organization said in a statement to the BBC: \"The entire system is corrupt.\"\n\nOn Thursday, New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron said that Mr Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr, 44, and daughter Ivanka Trump, 40, must each comply with legal orders that prosecutors issued in December.\n\nNew York Attorney General Letitia James' investigation had uncovered \"copious evidence of possible financial fraud\", the judge said, giving her a \"clear right\" to question under oath the former president and two of his children involved in the business.\n\nMr Trump, 75, has called the investigation politically motivated and a \"witch-hunt\" by Ms James, a Democrat.\n\nWhether Donald Trump will actually answer questions under oath about his business practices is an open question.\n\nAn appeal is almost certainly forthcoming. And if that is unsuccessful, Mr Trump may decline to answer the questions, as his son Eric Trump did under similar circumstances in 2020.\n\nThat's what the former president's lawyers are already recommending. Having their client sit for what would surely be a multi-hour grilling by New York lawyers looking for verbal missteps or contradictory assertions is not their idea of sound legal strategy.\n\nThis is far from the end of the line, but it still was a rough day for the former president. This civil case, and the criminal probe in Manhattan, aren't going away anytime soon. And having a judge, in a written order, say that there is \"copious evidence of fraud\" isn't a good look - particularly for a man who likes to boast of his unparalleled business acumen.\n\nThe investigation, which was opened in 2019, aims to prove the government's claims that Mr Trump inflated the value of his assets to banks when seeking loans. The fraud is alleged to have taken place before he took office.\n\nAttorneys for Mr Trump had attempted to sue Ms James in a bid to prevent her from questioning the former president and his children.\n\nMs James hailed the judge's decision as a victory, saying that \"justice has prevailed\".\n\nThe civil case is separate to a Manhattan criminal investigation into the Trump Organization's practices.\n\nIn court, attorneys for Mr Trump argued that testifying in the civil case would improperly allow the state to circumvent a law that bars prosecutors from calling someone to testify before a criminal grand jury unless they are granted immunity.\n\n\"If she [Ms James] wants sworn testimony from my client, he's entitled to immunity,\" Mr Trump's defence attorney, Ronald Fischetti said.\n\n\"He gets immunity for what he says, or he gets nothing.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Joe Biden says he is 'convinced' Putin will invade Ukraine\n\nUS President Joe Biden has said he is convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to launch an invasion of Ukraine, and that an assault could happen in the \"coming days\".\n\nMr Biden said the assessment was based on US intelligence, which suggested the capital Kyiv would be targeted.\n\nRussia denies it is planning to invade.\n\nWestern nations accuse Russia of trying to stage a fake crisis in breakaway eastern regions of Ukraine to give it a reason to launch an offensive.\n\nThe US estimates there are 169,000-190,000 Russian personnel massed in and near Ukraine, a figure that includes Russian-backed fighters in the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.\n\nIn a televised address from the White House, President Biden said the US had \"reason to believe\" that Russian forces were \"planning to and intend to attack Ukraine in the coming week, in the coming days\".\n\n\"As of this moment I am convinced that he has made the decision,\" he added, referring to President Putin. Previously, the president and his top officials have said they did not know whether this was the case.\n\nBut, he said, Russia could \"still choose diplomacy\" and that it was \"not too late to de-escalate and return to the negotiating table\".\n\nEarlier on Friday, in another sign of rising tensions, leaders of the two separatist areas announced an evacuation of residents, saying Ukraine had intensified shelling and was planning an attack.\n\nUkraine has repeatedly said it is not planning any attack, and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba dismissed what he called \"Russian disinformation reports\".\n\nDenis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), announced the evacuation in a video purported to have been filmed on Friday. However, a BBC analysis of the metadata showed it was recorded two days ago, before the flare-up in hostilities.\n\nThe Kremlin said President Putin had ordered that refugee camps be set up near the border and \"emergency\" aid paid to people arriving from the separatist areas. Russian state media reported that several buses carrying local residents had made their way to Russia.\n\nThe US state department called the announcement of evacuations a \"cynical\" move by Moscow \"to distract the world from the fact that Russia is building up its forces in preparation for an attack\". The White House said the evacuations were an example of Moscow using misinformation as a pretext for war.\n\nThe announcement by Denis Pushilin that women, children and the elderly will be evacuated to Russia is, potentially, a very troubling development. The idea that an evacuation is needed because Ukraine is planning an attack on the two Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics is baseless.\n\nWith a vast chunk of Russia's military might positioned around Ukraine's borders, such an attack would be an act of lunacy. It is, quite simply, unthinkable.\n\nBut the separatists, and Moscow, want to create the impression of imminent danger. On Thursday, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said the situation around Russia's borders could ignite at any moment.\n\nPresident Putin this week repeated his allegation, entirely without foundation, that Ukraine was responsible for genocide in eastern Ukraine.\n\nWith Western leaders warning of possible false flag operations, and crudely made videos circulating on the internet purporting to show Ukrainian saboteurs at work, these are dangerous moments in a crisis that already feels dangerous enough.\n\nOn Friday night, Ukraine's military intelligence service said it had received information that explosives had been planted at infrastructure facilities in Donetsk in preparation for a so-called false flag attack - an operation carried out with the intention of blaming an opponent for it.\n\nEarlier, separatist authorities said a parked jeep had been blown up near a government building in Donetsk. US and Ukrainian officials said it was a staged attack designed to stoke tensions.\n\nRussia has been backing an armed rebellion in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region since 2014. About 14,000 people - including many civilians - have died in fighting.\n\nThe remains of a military vehicle were pictured following an explosion in Donetsk\n\nMr Putin, meanwhile, said the situation in eastern Ukraine was deteriorating. At a news conference, he made unsubstantiated accusations of \"mass and systematic violations of human rights\" and enshrining in law \"discrimination of the Russian speaking population\" in Ukraine.\n\nHe said he remained willing to discuss the crisis with Western leaders, but accused them of ignoring Russia's security concerns, and warned that any deal must include a legally binding pledge that the Nato security alliance will stop its eastward expansion.\n\nOn Saturday, President Putin is expected to oversee major drills of Russia's strategic nuclear missile forces.\n\nMeanwhile Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to travel to Germany to meet Western leaders at a security conference, with talks between him and US Vice-President Kamala Harris expected.", "Former Titans members told the BBC they had stopped participating in the sport they loved\n\nAn elite swimming club is to be wound down after an investigation found widespread failures to protect child members who had suffered eating disorders, bullying and serious mental health issues.\n\nFormer members of Ellesmere College Titans, where several world-class athletes trained, have told the BBC a toxic environment had ruined their love of the sport.\n\nAn investigation into the club, based at independent boarding school Ellesmere College, in Shropshire, began in 2020 when parents contacted governing body Swim England concerned about children's welfare.\n\nA year-long probe by a child safeguarding expert uncovered more than 70 separate complaints concerning some coaches' behaviour and the club management's failure to deal with multiple serious issues concerning the children.\n\nAllegations in the confidential report, which the BBC has seen and is publishing excerpts from in the public interest, include a number of children's attempted suicides not being reported as well as incidents of self-harm.\n\nWarning: This article contains details some people may find distressing\n\nDerogatory comments were allegedly made towards swimmers, including sexual and personal remarks, the July 2021 report found.\n\nSome girls developed eating disorders which were linked to a controversial regime of weighing the children as young as 10, with the results publicised among teammates.\n\nFormer members have told the BBC they were fat-shamed by their coaches, leading them to become \"obsessed\" with losing weight.\n\n\"Swimming was my life and I only spoke out about what happened to me so I could stop other young people experiencing eating disorders and the anxiety that I suffered with for years,\" one swimmer said.\n\nTitans' director of swimming, world silver medallist Alan Bircher, was suspended and subsequently stopped from forming part of Team GB's Tokyo 2020 coaching squad last year.\n\nCoach Danny Proffitt was also suspended for four months and has recently returned to work at the club.\n\nAlan Bircher, pictured in his competing days, helped to run Ellesmere College Titans\n\nEllesmere College Titans was formed in 2008 and has had huge success nurturing young talent.\n\nElite swimmers who trained there before representing their country include Freya Anderson, who won Olympic gold in the mixed relay at Tokyo 2020; Hector Pardoe, who made his Olympic open water swimming debut for Team GB at those games; and backstroke specialist Cassie Wild.\n\nTitans' reputation for producing world-class swimmers means children come from all over the UK to train there, with about two-thirds of club members, some as young as 10, attending Ellesmere College.\n\nSome families relocate to Shropshire to make life easier for their sons and daughters at the school, which costs up to £35,000 a year to attend.\n\nThe passion of the youngsters is evident - many dream of competing for their country, while others simply have a love of the sport and want to progress as far as they can.\n\nThe club takes its name from the Titans in Greek mythology - a race of \"godlike giants\", says its website - and swimmers train before and after lessons; the top squad are in the pool for more than 20 hours a week.\n\n\"Many people have had good experiences at Titans,\" said a former swimmer. \"If you were swimming well, then you were OK. But the favourites did not have the same experience as some of the rest of us.\"\n\nMany Titans swimmers, including Olympic gold medallist Freya Anderson, have gone on to have hugely successful careers\n\nThe BBC has spoken to multiple complainants who have voiced serious concerns about practices at the club.\n\nThree of those have shared their stories concerning their time at Titans when they were teenagers.\n\nThey include being body-shamed in front of others, regularly sworn and shouted at, forced to train while injured and highly-offensive sexual comments being made about female swimmers.\n\nZara* said she had developed an eating disorder after becoming fixated with losing weight following comments made by Mr Bircher.\n\n\"We were weighed by Alan every week from an early age,\" she said. \"It was in front of the whole squad and our names were on a white board.\n\n\"It was noted if we put on any weight at all - even 0.2kg,\" she said. \"And then if we didn't swim well, he'd suggest it was because we'd put weight on.\n\n\"We were young women, our bodies were changing all the time, but Alan made it feel like, if you lost weight, you'd be the best.\"\n\nIt was when she didn't think she was losing weight quickly enough that Zara's eating disorder became very serious.\n\n\"It became such an obsession - I just wanted to be a better swimmer,\" she said.\n\nSwim England changed its policy on weighing swimmers after hearing the testimonies of Ellesmere members\n\nShe eventually told a senior member of Titans about the severity of her condition but said she had never received any help from the club and her problems had continued for some years.\n\n\"Alan wasn't there as a coach, he wasn't supportive,\" she said. \"I had no idea why but he made me feel like [not losing weight] was my fault.\n\n\"I was really damaged by it all and suffered anxiety attacks. I still struggle with body image today and it's taken a lot of support for me to get over it.\"\n\nAnother swimmer, Rachel*, said she too was traumatised by having her weight publicised and also developed eating issues.\n\n\"One week I was told I needed to lose 10kg,\" she said. \"Alan would give us tips on how to lose weight - such as chew your food 100 times, that sort of thing.\n\n\"He'd also watch us in the dining room. We'd go and have breakfast after training and he'd turn up to see what we were eating. If it was a hash brown, he'd say we shouldn't be having it.\n\n\"I lost a lot of weight really quickly. At my previous club we had food logs, where our coaches would see if we were getting the right nutrition for our training.\n\n\"But at Titans you felt like you had to eat as little as possible and that you were constantly being watched. It's left a lasting impression on me.\"\n\nAfter his suspension, many swimmers came out in support of Alan Bircher\n\nRachel said offensively swearing at the swimmers was part of Mr Bircher's regime, especially when he did not think a student had performed well in the pool.\n\n\"Even if he thought he was doing it to motivate us, you just can't speak to a 12 or 13-year-old girl like that.\n\n\"I felt so alone, there was just no support. And you felt like you couldn't say anything about what was happening because you'd be kicked out.\"\n\nLouise* said she remembered regularly crying while speaking to her mum following training, after being constantly put down by her coach Danny Proffitt.\n\n\"It reached a point so bad that we were exploring the option of pulling me out of boarding, renting a cottage and mum moving hours away from our family to support me,\" she said.\n\nHer optimism at training with Titans, she said, had been \"shattered\" by Mr Proffitt, who she said would often resort to \"shouting abuse, harsh punishments, constant criticisms and negative comparisons\".\n\n\"I dreaded going to training and crossed my fingers every day that Danny would be in a good mood, which meant less mental anguish and abuse for us,\" she said.\n\nShe too had comments made about her weight, she said.\n\n\"He would say things such as 'you're looking a bit big there' or 'you need to eat a bit less and train harder'.\n\n\"I lost a lot of weight very quickly as a result.\"\n\nThe Titans website said Mr Proffitt began coaching at 18\n\nLouise also said Mr Proffitt did not take the swimmers' injuries or illnesses seriously.\n\nShe said while recovering from one injury, he had been \"pushing me way beyond my physical abilities and punishing me or others with excruciating physical punishments if we didn't make turn-around times.\n\n\"One was wall sits for many minutes until we were screaming with pain.\"\n\nEven when highly inappropriate comments were made, Louise said she was still fearful of reporting Mr Proffitt, who she described as unprofessional and immature.\n\nShe was told by other swimmers Mr Proffitt had made an offensive and insulting sexual comment about her and some of the other girls.\n\nWhen they confronted him, Louise said he had started laughing and made another sexual remark.\n\n\"The boys started laughing uncontrollably and the girls of the squad stood in utter disbelief,\" said Louise.\n\n\"It was completely and utterly unacceptable and inappropriate.\"\n\nShe said Mr Proffitt had later apologised when the girls complained, but she wished action had been taken against him.\n\n\"I was continuously threatened they could remove me from the club, so I kept quiet so that I could keep my scholarship.\"\n\nWhen Alan Bircher and Danny Proffitt were suspended, more than 80 past and current swimmers signed a letter of support saying none of them had experienced \"any hurtful or damaging behaviour\" from them.\n\nThe letter said Mr Bircher created a \"fun, exciting and elite training environment\".\n\nThere is still a widely held belief among some club supporters the complaints have been instigated by vindictive parents whose children did not progress as far as they had wished.\n\nHector Pardoe, who was injured during his Olympic debut, was among more than 80 swimmers backing the coaches\n\nFor those who had raised serious concerns with Swim England, the letter was a devastating blow.\n\n\"I know that other people saw how we were treated,\" said Rachel.\n\n\"Just because it didn't happen to them doesn't mean it didn't happen. They knew how upsetting it was for others.\"\n\nRachel said she had had such high hopes of being a part of Titans.\n\n\"It was once an incredible club to be part of, but I watched it crumble. I could not function as a swimmer.\n\n\"Alan Bircher destroyed any hopes of some of these swimmers and the goals they wanted to reach.\n\n\"He took away something I loved and turned it into something I hated.\"\n\nThe BBC put all these allegations to the two coaches. Mr Proffitt said he had been advised not to comment.\n\nMr Bircher issued a statement through the British Swimming Coaches Association which said: \"Alan Bircher proactively participated in a Swim England investigation into concerns raised at Ellesmere Titans.\n\n\"This investigation and its findings were confidential. Mr Bircher's involvement in related matters concluded in October 2021 and he is no longer involved in swimming in any capacity.\n\n\"He will make no further comment.\"\n\nSwim England recently changed its guidance on weighing swimmers following its investigation into Titans and now says only those under 18 on a \"nationally-supported pathway\" should be weighed as part of their training.\n\nNo welfare concerns about swimmers were ever escalated from the Titans club to Swim England, the report said\n\nTitans swimming club was formed due to a \"meeting of minds\" between Ellesmere College and the parents of top swimmers to create \"an ambitious, positive and competitive swimming programme\", the club's website states.\n\nThe two are run separately but there were \"clear overlaps\" due to the college's deputy head of pastoral, Ranjit Chatterjee, being chairman of Titans and other college staff on the club committee, the Swim England report found.\n\nMr Chatterjee was also welfare officer of the club at the time many of the complaints by pupils and parents are said to have been made.\n\nThe report found the swimming club's systems for dealing with safeguarding concerns raised were \"woefully inadequate\" and key members were untrained.\n\nNo welfare concerns about swimmers were escalated to Swim England, it added.\n\nMr Chatterjee was suspended from all Swim England activity for two years following the investigation.\n\nEllesmere College gives out scholarships to young swimmers from across the country\n\nLast year the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) assessed Ellesmere College and as part of this looked into the care of its students who swim with Titans.\n\nIt concluded the school \"fails to ensure it provides a safe environment in which children can learn while they are taking part in the activities of the swimming club\".\n\nIt also found the school's annual review of safeguarding \"does not include adequate consideration of the safeguarding of pupils\" who are members of Titans, and that it fails to make \"effective assessment of the potential risks\" in the swimming club.\n\nThe college has been asked to make changes to its processes which will be reviewed, the ISI said.\n\nNeither headmaster Brendan Wignall nor Mr Chatterjee wished to comment publicly when approached by the BBC.\n\nHowever, the school has told the BBC Titans was not run by Ellesmere College and it now intended to establish its own swimming academy. But without accreditation to Swim England, it will rule children out of recognised competitions.\n\nThe school added it was not aware of any incidents related to the Titans club.\n\nSwim England, which had been reviewing Titans' progress since its investigation concluded, said \"further and ongoing concerns\" had been raised which had resulted in its decision to dissolve the club.\n\n\"Following further careful consideration of all the information available, Swim England (alongside statutory agencies) have determined that there will be no affiliated club based at Ellesmere College going forward,\" it said.\n\nThere are up to 60 children who are currently members of Titans and now face having to move clubs if they intend to compete.\n\nMany parents have contacted the BBC to say how worried they are about the impact of the changes on their children's education and swimming pursuits.\n\nSwim England said it would \"provide total support to the swimmers in transitioning to another affiliated club\".\n\nSome former swimmers are still having counselling years after leaving Titans, the Swim England report found\n\nIt added: \"The welfare and wellbeing of all Swim England club members is of paramount importance, as is ensuring that all of our members have a positive experience in all of our aquatic sports.\n\n\"Our affiliated clubs are required to operate to high safeguarding standards at all times and critically to ensure they maintain a safe child-centred environment that is embedded into its culture.\n\n\"We are deeply troubled and saddened by any negative experiences children have in our sports and it is something we take extremely seriously and will continue to do so.\"\n\nIt asked anyone with safeguarding concerns in the sport to report them.\n\nThe new committee of Titans, formed in the summer of 2021, said it was \"very disappointed\" with Swim England's decision.\n\n\"We've addressed the concerns of Swim England's original findings and completed any remediation activities required by them,\" it said.\n\n\"We are shocked given the hard work that has been put in across the club over many months. We've worked closely with Swim England and Ellesmere College throughout this period to enable our talented swimmers to continue to pursue their ambitions as Ellesmere College Titans.\n\n\"As a committee, we would like to thank the interim and new coaching staff, poolside assistants, parent volunteers and officials who have allowed the club to continue to operate throughout this period, drawing a clear line under the historical allegations made against the club.\"\n\nIt added it was \"proud\" of the current swimmers dealing with the impact of the decision on \"the club that they love\".\n\nShropshire Council said it was \"liaising with Swim England and Ellesmere College to manage and resolve any allegations\".\n\nChildren's charity the NSPCC said it had been made aware of the investigation into Ellesmere College Titans.\n\n\"Coaches, above all else, must safeguard young people while all organisations should set minimum professional standards whether they are affiliated to a national governing body or not.\n\n\"Any breaches of these should be reported and robustly investigated alongside statutory child protection agencies and appropriate action taken, if necessary.\"\n\n*All names of swimmers have been changed\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Visas offering foreign investors fast-track residency in the UK are being scrapped with immediate effect, the home secretary has confirmed.\n\nPriti Patel said ending Tier 1 investor visas, for those spending at least £2m, was the start of a \"renewed crackdown on illicit finance and fraud\".\n\nThe scheme was introduced in 2008 to encourage wealthy people from outside the EU to invest in the UK.\n\nIt has been under review for some time, after concerns it is open to abuse.\n\nThe announcement had been expected next week amid pressure on ministers to cut UK ties to Russia over the threat of invasion to Ukraine, with a source confirming the decision to the BBC on Wednesday.\n\nBut the move has been brought forward, with the government saying it was part of their \"new plan for immigration\".\n\nThe Tier 1 (investor) visa, often called a \"golden visa\", offers residency to those investing £2m or more in the UK, and allows their families to join them.\n\nHolders of these visas can then apply for permanent residency in the UK, at a speed depending on how much they invest.\n\nA £2m investment allows an application within five years, shortened to three years with £5m or two years if £10m is invested.\n\nBut the route to residency is now being closed with immediate effect, with the government saying it \"failed to deliver for the UK people and gave opportunities for corrupt elites to access the UK\".\n\nMs Patel added: \"I have zero tolerance for abuse of our immigration system. Under my new plan for Immigration, I want to ensure the British people have confidence in the system, including stopping corrupt elites who threaten our national security and push dirty money around our cities.\n\n\"Closing this route is just the start of our renewed crackdown on fraud and illicit finance. We will be publishing a fraud action plan, while the forthcoming Economic Crime Bill will crackdown on people abusing our financial institutions and better protect the taxpayer.\"\n\nThe Home Office said settlement in the UK will now be conditional on applicants \"executing an investment strategy that can show genuine job creation and other tangible economic impacts - passively holding UK investments will no longer be enough to obtain settlement. \"\n\nLib Dem foreign affairs spokesperson Layla Moran said: \"Shutting the door to Putin's cronies is not enough - too many of them have already walked through it with virtually no questions asked.\"\n\nShe urged the government to publish its report into those who came to the UK on the visas.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper also called for the review to be published and said a general plan was needed to \"stop illicit finance coming into the UK\".\n\nShe said \"for years the Conservatives failed to stamp out the influence of Russian money in the UK\" adding that it had \"taken international condemnation of our failures... for the home secretary to act\".\n\nThe Home Office has issued 2,581 investor visas to Russian citizens since the scheme was introduced in 2008.\n\nSeveral changes have been made since the investor visa scheme was launched, including extra checks on how and when applicants acquired their wealth.\n\nBanks are also now required to complete certain checks before opening accounts for applicants - who are also required to submit extra paperwork if their qualifying funds are invested through a chain of different companies.\n\nIn 2020, Parliament's intelligence and security committee argued for a \"more robust\" approach to approving Tier 1 visas as part of a report on Russian influence in the UK.\n\nCorrection: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the number of Tier 1 (Investor) visas granted to Russians as 14,516. The correct figure to the end of March 2020 was 2,581.", "The protests in Ottawa have been continuing for three weeks\n\nPolice in Ottawa have detained two leaders of the trucker convoy in the Canadian capital as they move to break up the last stronghold of the protests against the nation's Covid rules.\n\nTamara Lich was arrested on Thursday evening after Chris Barber was held, with both expected to be charged criminally, according to CBC News.\n\nAuthorities have already cleared other protests located at border crossings.\n\nIt comes days after Canada invoked an emergency law for the first time.\n\nHowever, officers were not yet moving in force on the remaining demonstrators on Thursday night - although interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell warned earlier that if \"they do not peacefully leave, we have plans\".\n\nThe Emergencies Act invoked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday imposes bans on public assembly in some areas, among other measures.\n\nThe Ottawa demonstrators - many parked in some 400 heavy trucks and other vehicles on city streets around Parliament - have been warned they face arrest as well as having their trucks seized, their insurance suspended and bank accounts frozen.\n\nPolice say they are also working with child-welfare agencies to arrange how to remove the protesters' children from the site before authorities move in.\n\nMs Lich told the Canadian Press earlier that her personal bank account had already been frozen and she was resigned to going to jail.\n\n\"It is happening. I do have the numbers in front of me,\" she said.\n\nAuthorities last weekend cleared the most economically damaging blockade - of a bridge linking Windsor, Ontario, with the US state of Michigan. Trucker protests at other border crossings in Coutts, Alberta, and Emerson, Manitoba, ended this week.\n\nOttawa police have set up almost 100 police check-points around the main protest site, and a large business and residential district in the city centre.\n\nThe move comes ahead of the weekend, when a core group of protesters who remain during the week are typically joined by thousands of other demonstrators on the streets of the capital.\n\nOn Thursday, Prime Minister Trudeau defended his government's use of the Emergencies Act in the House of Commons, saying the protests threaten the national economy, public safety and US relations.\n\nOpposition politicians accused Mr Trudeau of inflaming an already tense situation.\n\nThe use of the law is an \"unprecedented sledgehammer\", said Conservative leader Candice Bergen.\n\nThe Canadian Civil Liberties Association said on Thursday it would take the government to court over its \"extreme measure\".\n\nThe protests began with a truck convoy heading to Ottawa to oppose a vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the US-Canada border, but eventually became about a broader opposition to pandemic restrictions and Mr Trudeau's government.\n\nDefenders of the \"Freedom Convoy\" are accusing Mr Trudeau of smearing their peaceful demonstration, while ignoring a violent attack by environmental activists elsewhere in the country on Thursday.\n\nA group of 20 axe-wielding anti-pipeline protesters assailed security guards and police and caused extensive damage to property at a work site in Houston, British Columbia, said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.", "A deadline to register forgotten historical paths in England by 2026 is set to be scrapped by the government.\n\nThere was a cut-off to apply to record rights of way through private land which existed before 1949 but did not appear on official maps.\n\nCampaigners said the change meant important and useful paths could be \"protected for future generations\".\n\nThe government said it was introducing measures to \"enhance the way rights of way are recorded and managed\".\n\nUsing historical evidence, people are able to apply for rights of way which have existed in the past to be added to official maps, giving them legal protection.\n\nThe 1 January 2026 deadline to apply to record paths was introduced in the Countryside Rights of Way Act 2000 by the then Labour government.\n\nAfter that date, historical routes would no longer have been able to be added to official maps, meaning public rights of way would have been lost.\n\nThe Welsh government has previously repealed the cut-off date.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the news. Walking charity the Ramblers said it was a cause for celebration after years of campaigning. The Open Spaces Society was \"delighted\".\n\nJack Cornish, head of paths for the Ramblers, said: \"This welcome decision means that, with the help of our brilliant volunteers, we'll be able to make sure the most important and useful paths are added back to the map and protected for future generations.\"\n\nMr Cornish added: \"As well as being an important part of our history, our path network makes a huge difference to our health and wellbeing.\"\n\n\"This is a step in the right direction for the government towards making it a reality for more people to enjoy the benefits of walking and connecting with nature,\" he said.\n\nRamblers said it had discovered over 41,000 miles of potential missing rights of way to be investigated and applied for in England as part of its \"Don't Lose Your Way\" campaign.\n\nOpen Spaces Society general secretary Kate Ashbrook said she was pleased Defra had taken the \"sensible and pragmatic decision\" to axe the \"2026 guillotine\".\n\nShe said: \"Now, users can carry out their work without a Sword of Damocles hanging over them, and we can ensure that valuable ways are saved.\"\n\nA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) spokeswoman said public access was key to connecting people with the environment to improve health and wellbeing.\n\n\"The government has decided to take forward a streamlined package of measures in order to help enhance the way that rights of way are recorded and managed.\"\n\nAs well as repealing the 2026 cut-off the government plans to introduce a \"right to apply\" for landowners to divert or extinguish rights of way in certain circumstances.\n\nThe Open Spaces Society said it was concerned about the right to apply and would be lobbying against it.", "Haileigh Ashton Lamont said she feels \"duty bound to speak up and help others\" after her own court case\n\nLast year, Haileigh Ashton Lamont saw her abuser jailed.\n\nThe Belfast woman waived her anonymity to speak about the decade of childhood sexual abuse she had suffered at the hands of her stepfather.\n\nTommy Harris received a 16-year sentence - eight to be spent in prison and eight on licence - after admitting 42 charges of sexual assault.\n\nNow, Haileigh wants to help other victims and survivors navigate the court system.\n\nShe says the criminal justice system must change, and believes that change must start within society.\n\n\"By not speaking about child sexual abuse, the perpetrators are getting away with it,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"There's absolutely no shame in talking about it and raising awareness to make people who are suffering feel supported.\n\n\"I'm never going to stop talking about this and I'm doing it because I don't want anyone to suffer the way I did because it was so tough.\n\n\"I feel duty bound to speak up and help others.\"\n\nHaileigh believes that victims being given more information on the legal process, and being more involved, would improve the experience.\n\n\"Having gone through each stage of the process myself, I understand why some victims want to wash their hands of the process because it is re-traumatising,\" she said.\n\n\"And not knowing what to expect is hard. If victims were better prepared and had more knowledge, they could go to court with insight and support.\"\n\nHaileigh is also calling for two legal changes.\n\nShe does not think that defendants who plead guilty in historic abuse cases should be given reduced sentences.\n\n\"For me, the people who carried out this abuse had time to come forward. They're only in court because they were brought there, years later, so why should they get credit?\" she said.\n\nShe also wants victims to be given the chance to deliver what is known as a victim impact statement in court.\n\nDuring her case, Haileigh was not allowed to read her statement in front of her abuser.\n\n\"That was so important for me, to face him like that, and I wasn't allowed to do it. And I felt brave and empowered to do it, but I wasn't allowed to,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not so much the words that you would say. It's the sound of your voice in a courtroom in front of other people saying: 'I've exposed you, you didn't get away with it. There are consequences.'\n\n\"We're not nameless or faceless statistics, and there's no shame so I think that victims should be able to stand in court and read out a statement and then choose, if they want to, to leave, never want to talk about it again - or confidently use their voice and be supported in doing that.\n\n\"We're not weak. What was done to us hasn't made us weak.\n\n\"Other people will want their anonymity and of course they should have that, but the choice should be there.\"\n\nHaileigh Ashton Lamont last spoke to BBC News NI on the day her stepfather was jailed for abusing her\n\nHaileigh's case ended with a conviction but many other cases involving sexual abuse do not have the same outcome.\n\nThe last available figures from the Public Prosecution Service show that between 2020 and 2021:\n\n\"My message has never been to encourage other victims to come forward,\" Haileigh said.\n\n\"I'm not saying you will go to police and your journey will be the same as mine, I know that's not the reality, and the statistics reflect that it's not going to be the same as my journey.\n\n\"All I want to do is to share my story to give other people hope and to better prepare victims for what to expect, if and when they do come forward.\n\n\"Whenever people hear a victim's story, I feel as though those sympathetic eyes need to turn to - what can we do to help? How are we going to change this? What can we do to come together and make a change?\n\n\"I respect that change will take time, but it does need to happen.\"\n\nHaileigh has met Justice Minister Naomi Long to discuss her concerns.\n\nNaomi Long said the experience of abuse victims is crucial in shaping legislation to improve the justice system\n\nThe minister told BBC News NI her department had introduced a two-year pilot scheme providing victims of sexual assault with sexual offences legal advisors to help guide them through the legal process.\n\nMs Long said change takes time, but she is listening.\n\n\"We need to hear those real lived-in experiences that are sometimes less than perfect in order to challenge ourselves to do better,\" she said.\n\n\"Genuinely sitting down and listening to what victims have been through, working with them to try to address any deficit in the system, is to me one of the most important things we do as a department.\n\n\"It leads to real change, and I hope that Haileigh will see that too.\"\n\nAfter all that she has been through, would Haileigh go to court again?\n\n\"Every day I get up and I ask myself - if you'd have known everything you know now - back on the seventh of July 2020, when you walked into the police station, would you have still walked in?\" she said.\n\n\"And the answer is always, absolutely.\"", "Lawyers for Prince Harry say the UK will always be his home, amid a row over whether he can have police security when he visits from the US.\n\nIn a first hearing of his action against the home secretary, lawyers told the High Court he didn't feel safe visiting under current arrangements.\n\nHe wants to pay for police security for himself and his family while in the UK.\n\nGovernment lawyers said his offer was \"irrelevant\" to how officials took decisions over Royal Family security.\n\nDuring Friday's hearing, which was focused on what parts of the case should be kept confidential, Prince Harry's barrister Shaheed Fatima QC said his ties to the UK remained strong.\n\n\"It goes without saying that he does want to come back to see family and friends and to continue to support the charities that are so close to his heart,\" said Ms Fatima.\n\n\"Most of all, this is and always will be his home.\"\n\nBut she said that he did not feel safe in the UK, under the type of security arrangements that had been in place when he visited last summer.\n\nThe prince returned briefly in June and July 2021 for the unveiling of a memorial statue to his mother. He also attended a garden party for seriously-ill children and young people, as a patron of the charity Wellchild.\n\nAccording to some reports, his car was chased by photographers as he left the event. Prince Harry's legal action began in the wake of that visit and following correspondence with the Home Office.\n\nDecisions over Prince Harry's personal security in the UK are taken by the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures, also known as Ravec.\n\nThis secret body answering to the home secretary is responsible for deciding who should be protected by the police - and how much they need.\n\nDetails of its work are never made public to prevent potential attackers learning more about the protective measures it places around public figures.\n\nAccording to court papers, after Prince Harry and Meghan stepped back from public life as working members of the Royal Family and moved to the USA in 2020, Ravec placed him in an \"exceptional category\", meaning his future police protection in the UK would depend on the specific circumstances of each visit.\n\nIn his claim, Prince Harry says that Ravec reached this decision unlawfully and unreasonably - including because he has offered to pay for the police time needed and was still in the immediate line of succession to the throne.\n\nHe further argues that his private protection team do not have all the powers they would need to act in the UK, including access to police intelligence about threats to him and his family.\n\nPrince Harry briefly visited the UK in July 2021, when he and the Duke of Cambridge unveiled a statue to his mother\n\nBut in written submissions to the court, lawyers for the home secretary said that Prince Harry's claim was completely without merit - and it should be thrown out because it wasn't for the court to second-guess complex decisions about personal security.\n\nRobert Palmer QC, for the home secretary, wrote: \"The claimant has failed to afford the necessary measure of respect to the defendant and Ravec as the expert, and democratically accountable, decision-maker on matters of protective security and associated risk assessment.\n\n\"It is the role of Ravec to consider whether an individual such as the claimant falls within its cohort qualifying for publicly funded personal protection security at all and if so, the extent to which any such protection security should be provided.\n\n\"The claimant's grounds... rely upon a set of circumstance which the claimant considers are sufficient to warrant his receiving personal protective security by the police for life, regardless of what, if any, duties he carries out on behalf of the state.\"\n\nMr Palmer said the offer to pay for the police's protection was irrelevant because personal protective security by the police \"is not available on a privately financed basis\".\n\nMr Justice Swift will rule at a later date on what parts of the case will become public, before a subsequent decision on whether the claim will be heard in full.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Meet the man behind the Big Jet TV phenomenon\n\nA live YouTube stream of planes trying to land at Heathrow during Storm Eunice has become an unexpected online hit.\n\nAviation enthusiast Jerry Dyer has been streaming aircraft's attempts to land at the London airport in winds of up to 70mph on his Big Jet TV channel.\n\nHis lively commentary plus the footage as planes approach, sometimes having to abort, have been attracting more than 200,000 live viewers at times.\n\nDyer told the BBC the feed was \"the most exciting stuff you can get\".\n\nFor several hours on Friday, Dyer has been running the live stream from the roof of a specially adapted van, shouting \"go on son\", \"nicely done\" and \"fair play mate\" at pilots who land successfully.\n\nFor trickier landings, he advised pilots to \"go around again\", and as one pilot abandoned an attempt to touch down at the last second amid strong winds, Dyer exclaimed: \"Ooh, he did not like that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Easy, easy... OK, tippy-toe!\" Watch a clip from Big Jet TV's livestream showing pilots battling strong winds to land at Heathrow\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 2, Dyer said the compelling footage was \"the best scenario you could image\" for entertainment value.\n\n\"Big kudos to the pilots and the crews working at the airports,\" he said. \"Normally the conditions are calm and we have great shows we do for hours on end, people watching from all over the world.\n\n\"But right now, these conditions with 70mph gusting winds, it's pretty intense. And what's great is you get the see the skill of the pilot, and how they manage to handle it.\"\n\nHe noted that planes must divert if they cannot land within three attempts, something he said had happened several times on Friday.\n\n\"Many planes are having to abort their landings,\" he said. \"It's a bumpy ride, You have to think of all those folks who are on the aircraft.\"\n\nMany social media users and celebrities have been glued to the footage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Caitlin Moran This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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Skip twitter post 3 by Greg James This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Richard Osman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Jamie East This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to a 2020 interview, Dyer developed a love of planes at an early age, growing up near Heathrow.\n\nHe got into live streaming plane landings by accident in about 2015, after his nephew told him Iron Maiden lead singer Bruce Dickinson, a pilot, was flying his plane into London. Dyer raced to the airport and streamed the plane's landing live on Twitter.\n\nThe interest and positive feedback led him to keep posting similar content, eventually moving to YouTube, where his audience really took off, and where he has been broadcasting since.", "Dr Towler said he felt a connection with his attacker\n\nA doctor stabbed nine times by a stranger has said he \"is not angry\" with his attacker.\n\nDr Adam Towler was dragged from his house and attacked by Chanz Maximen in Clifton, Bristol, in 2019.\n\nAt the end of Maximen's trial, Dr Towler read out a witness impact statement saying: \"I don't think you owe me an apology.\"\n\nMaximen, now 19, was jailed for life at Bristol Crown Court this week for that attack and two others.\n\nMaximen, from Sea Mills, was 17 when he chose Dr Towler at random and left him bleeding in the street in October 2019.\n\nThe trial heard Dr Towler initially thought it was a Halloween prank when Maximen knocked on his door, but he was then dragged into the street and stabbed multiple times.\n\nChanz Maximen has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 12 years\n\nOne blow missed his heart by two centimetres before Maximen left and his victim managed to crawl back inside.\n\nDuring Dr Towler's 999 call Maximen could be heard throwing himself against the door to try and get back in.\n\nA former trauma specialist, Dr Towler said: \"When I was struggling to get help, with a previous background in trauma, I was thinking, did (the knife) get this, or did it get that.\n\n\"My breathing was getting worse and that was probably the most scary part of the whole event.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his witness statement to the court Dr Towler said he felt a \"sense of connection\" with Maximen.\n\nHe added: \"I feel bad that I had this great freedom but you didn't. I wondered if you had just made a mistake, albeit a big one, or been unlucky.\"\n\nTalking further on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday, Dr Towler elaborated by saying: \"I got lucky, I'm living a quite normal life, a comfortable life. My immediate outlook is rather more comfortable than Chanz Maximen's position.\n\n\"One of the things about this is the randomness,\" Dr Towler added.\n\n\"No-one knows what he [Maximen] thought, what he does think. No-one knows if he'll ever be judged safe to return to society. But his whole life turned on that event.\n\n\"Prior to that there was no mental history, he was on a good course. And that may be difficult for him\"\n\nMaximen was arrested at Clifton Down train station after a police chase\n\nDuring the unprovoked attack, Maximen had said \"you killed the girl\", a phrase that has never been explained and that meant nothing to the victim or investigators.\n\n\"Neither of us can unwind the clock on those events so now I have the rest of my life before me and he does too. I know it's difficult for his family who've supported him with great tenacity and loyalty through the legal process,\" added Dr Towler.\n\nIn his victim statement, he expressed concern for the defendant and his future.\n\nA jury found Maximen, who also stabbed a man walking home from a night shift and also tried to break into the house of a young woman, guilty of attempted murder, GBH and three counts of possessing a bladed article.\n\nJailing him for life with a minimum term of 12 years on Wednesday, Judge William Hart praised Dr Towler's response to the disturbing attack, saying: \"Whether it is the effect of intellect, or faith, or kindness and understanding, I don't know.\n\n\"If it is the consequence of intellect, I admire it. If it is the consequence of faith, I envy it.\"\n\nSpeaking of his approach on BBC Radio 4, Towler said: \"If (my approach) stimulates a thought in some other people, perhaps gives them some tools to think differently about a difficult situation they're experiencing, then that's cool.\n\n\"I think in these situations, there's no right, so go with it.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parts of the UK are bracing for the impact of one of the most serious storms in years after the Met Office issued a rare red warning for Friday.\n\nStorm Eunice could bring gusts of up to 90mph in south-west England and south Wales, with a risk to life from flying debris.\n\nDamage to homes, cancelled trains and power cuts are likely. Many schools are closing as a precaution.\n\nThe warning is in place from 07:00 GMT until 12:00 GMT.\n\nIt means millions of people living near the coastline of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, as well as the south coast of Wales, are being urged to stay at home during the storm.\n\nA lower amber warning for wind remains in place for the rest of Wales and most of England as far north as Manchester, from 05:00 until 21:00 on Friday.\n\nAll train services in Wales have been suspended on Friday, while rail companies are urging other customers not to travel due to expected disruption.\n\nAlmost all Welsh councils as well as Somerset County Council said their schools would close on Friday. More than a hundred schools across Devon and Cornwall will also shut and Bristol City Council said it had advised schools not to open.\n\nThe government held an emergency Cobra meeting to discuss the response to the incoming storm.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the Army was \"on standby\" to support those affected.\n\nIt comes after Storm Dudley caused widespread travel disruption and power cuts on Wednesday.\n\nThere are concerns that Storm Eunice's strong winds and a possible storm surge could combine with high spring tides to bring coastal flooding to the west, south-west and the south coast of England.\n\nTen severe flood warnings - meaning there is a danger to life - are in place on the Severn Estuary and the Wye Estuary.\n\nA government source told the BBC they were \"well-prepared\" with more than 250 high-volume pumps and 6,000 trained staff able to be deployed, adding they were not taking the threat posed by Eunice \"lightly\".\n\nThe Met Office said extremely strong winds would develop over south-west England and south Wales early on Friday, with widespread inland gusts of 70-80mph and up to 90mph near some coasts.\n\nIn the red warning zone, roofs could be blown off and power lines brought down while trees are likely to be uprooted, it said.\n\nThe winds are expected to ease from the west during the late morning, but it will remain unsettled over the weekend with more rain and strong winds.\n\nYellow warnings are in place on Saturday until 18:00 GMT, covering the whole of England's south coast, as well as coastal areas in the south-west of England and south Wales. Further strong winds could hinder recovery after the storm, the Met Office said.\n\nAidan McGivern, from the Met Office, said red warnings were not issued lightly and only when there was a significant danger to life and high confidence of a major impact.\n\n\"It is the most powerful storm we have seen in recent years and we should tie down anything loose, especially trampolines, and make plans to stay in, especially if you live in a red zone,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe last red warning was for Storm Arwen in November last year, which saw strong winds batter the east coast of Scotland and north-east England.\n\nBefore that, one had not been issued since 2018, when the so-called \"Beast from the East\" brought widespread heavy snow and freezing temperatures to many parts of the UK in late February and March.\n\nBBC Weather presenter Simon King said the wind strengths forecast for southern parts of the UK were comparable to the Burns' Day Storm of January 1990, which caused widespread damage, and the storms that hit the UK during the winter of 2013-2014.\n\nTrain companies are urging customers not to travel on Friday, with blanket speed restrictions set to be imposed on the main rail lines across the country.\n\nJake Kelly, from Network Rail, said: \"We will be doing everything we can to keep as many services as possible running safely and reliably on Friday, but with such strong winds expected we know that disruption to passengers' journeys is inevitable.\"\n\nGreat Western Railway said it expected to cut half of its services on Friday. The mainline in south Wales will be closed, with services terminating at Bristol Parkway, while some branch lines in Devon and Cornwall will also close.\n\nNetwork Rail said disruption was likely to continue into the weekend, while tracks were cleared of debris and fallen trees.\n\nHighways England urged drivers, particularly those driving high-sided lorries, caravans and motorcycles, to check the weather before setting off, especially in coastal and high-lying areas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMajor incidents have been declared in Cornwall, Gloucestershire and Avon and Somerset.\n\nCouncil and emergency services staff in Gloucestershire and Avon and Somerset were due to knock on doors on Thursday afternoon to ensure people who need to evacuate from possible floods along the Severn Estuary can do so safely.\n\nIn Cornwall and Somerset, residents are being urged to stay at home and only travel on Friday if \"absolutely necessary\".\n\nBoth councils advised people to stay back from cliffs and seafronts due to the danger of large waves, with Cornwall warning of possible flooding during the high spring tides at about 06:00 GMT.\n\nAs well as the ten severe flood warnings, less serious flood warnings and alerts have been issued for other parts of England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nSome people were just recovering from Storm Dudley on Wednesday as they braced for Storm Eunice. On the Gower Peninsula in south-west Wales, David Walis and his wife Robbie Bartington said a huge oak tree had been toppled near one of the shelters in their animal sanctuary.\n\nMr Walis said they were \"extremely worried\" for their ponies and sheep in the upcoming storm.\n\nStorm Dudley also left thousands of people in north-east England, Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Lancashire without power. Northern Powergrid said it had restored power to all of its more than 20,000 customers affected by the storm by Thursday evening.\n\nRobbie Bartington and her husband David Walis said a huge oak tree fell close to one of their animal shelters\n\nIn Scotland, all trains were cancelled on Wednesday evening but most lines were back up and running by Thursday morning.\n\nA yellow warning for wind and snow is also in place for much of Northern Ireland, northern England and Scotland as far north as Glasgow from 03:00 until 18:00 on Friday.\n\nThe Met Office said some places could see 5cm (2in) of snow at low levels away from coasts, while there could be accumulations of up to 30cm for areas above 250m.\n\nHow have you been preparing for Storm Eunice? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nicola Park befriended the girl when she was 15\n\nA teacher at a private school in Glasgow has pleaded guilty to having a sexual relationship with a pupil for more than two years.\n\nNicola Park, 42, befriended the girl when she was 15 as her own marriage broke down.\n\nThe girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, regularly stayed at Park's home between 2016 and 2019.\n\nShe ended contact in 2020 when she went to university and spoke to her doctor before a police probe was sparked.\n\nWhen officers later searched Park's home, they made a number of discoveries linking the pair, including photos of a sexual nature.\n\nAt Glasgow Sheriff Court, Park pled guilty to engaging in a sexual relationship with the pupil while in a position of trust between 9 December 2016 and 14 April 2019.\n\nShe continues to be employed at the Glasgow school, but her lawyer said she was set to resign from her post.\n\nSheriff John McCormick told Park: \"This was an abuse of trust by a teacher over a number of years. A custodial sentence is almost inevitable.\"\n\nHe said with \"hesitation\" he was continuing bail until sentencing in April.\n\nPark, from Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire, was also put on the sex offenders list.\n\nThe court had heard she was assistant housemistress at the school while also teaching maths and social education.\n\nIn December 2016, the girl became upset and spoke to Park after complaining of feeling \"alone\".\n\nProsecutor Jennifer McKee told the court: \"She said Park would not understand how she felt.\n\n\"She replied that she did understand having recently separated from her husband.\n\n\"Park offered the girl support which helped her cope with how she was feeling.\"\n\nThe teacher said the teenager could contact her outside school hours.\n\nRegular emails were then exchanged, including on Christmas Day and New Year's Day.\n\nPark went on to call herself \"Auntie Nic\" and would sign off with a number of kisses.\n\nThe teenager - who is now 20 - eventually moved to start university and believed the relationship had ended.\n\nBut the court was told that Park struggled with the \"breakdown\" and \"displayed manipulative behaviour\" towards the girl.\n\nThis led to the teenager suffering from stress, losing more than a stone in weight and ending up in hospital.\n\nIn September 2020, she went to her GP and revealed what had been happening with Park.\n\nThe girl went on to block contact with her before contacting the NSPCC.\n\nIn October 2020, Park's home was searched by police. Officers seized a number of photos of the pair together, including some on an iPhone.\n\nPark later said there had been contact with the girl outside school, but denied anything \"inappropriate\".", "The money generated by rates is used to pay for public services, with bills decided against the value of a property\n\nAll of Northern Ireland's 11 councils have agreed rates increases for 2022-23.\n\nThe highest percentage increase was by Mid Ulster District Council at 3.9%.\n\nThe lowest percentage increase was agreed by the Antrim and Newtownabbey council area, which announced a 1.9% rise.\n\nThe money generated by rates is used to pay for public services, with bills decided against the value of a property.\n\nCouncils have cited the affect of the coronavirus pandemic as well as rising energy costs as factors behind the decision to increase rates.\n\nSome councils froze their rates for last year as a way of acknowledging the financial pressures facing people during the pandemic.\n\nRates are set at a regional level each year by Stormont and a rate is then also decided at a district level by each council in Northern Ireland.\n\nThey regional rate covers regional services like hospitals and roads maintenance, while the district rate covers services like leisure centre facilities and waste management.\n\nRates in the Antrim and Newtownabbey council area will increase by 1.9%.\n\nThe SDLP had proposed a rates freeze for the year ahead, but Alliance councillor for Antrim Neil Kelly said that would be \"ridiculous and irresponsible\".\n\nCouncil chief executive Jacqui Dixon said it would be \"difficult to identify\" how to freeze rates \"without having an impact on our financial sustainability\".\n\nThose in the ABC Borough Council area will see a rise of 1.97% in their rates for the next financial year.\n\nIt adds an extra £0.19 per week to bills, or £9.79 annually for the average household.\n\nFor businesses, it means an increase of £13 per month or £156 for the year.\n\nLord mayor of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Alderman Glenn Barr, said the rate struck was well below inflation and was \"marginal in comparison to the significant increase in energy costs\".\n\n\"The council has tried to absorb as much of these costs as it can and in the face of other unavoidable pressures such as the new health and care levy,\" he said.\n\nThe rate agreed by Ards and North Down councillors represents a 2.75% increase for the borough.\n\nIt equates to an increase of £1 per month for the average household (£12 a year), or £10 a month for the average business (£120 a year).\n\nThe council has said the money will go towards redevelopment plans for Bangor Waterfront, better borough-wide broadband and an Innovation Hub, among other projects.\n\nCouncillors have agreed a 2.99% increase for the district for 2022-23.\n\nThe council said on its website that the rise fell well below the inflation rate.\n\nBroken down, the costs will mean an average increase of:\n\nIt means monthly bills for households in the district will increase by £1.40 (based on a house value of £121,478).\n\nMayor of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council Richard Holmes acknowledged the rise and cited several pressures.\n\n\"Unprecedented rises in utility and energy costs along with other factors including the ongoing health crisis and uncertainty around central government funding, has meant the organisation has been faced with more than £5.1m of additional financial pressures beyond our control,\" he said.\n\nThe rates for those in the Derry City and Strabane district will rise by 3.44%.\n\nIt means the average domestic rate will increase by £0.33 per week, or £16.97 annually.\n\nMayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council Alderman Graham Warke said the decision had been \"a very challenging process in a difficult economic climate\".\n\nThe rate struck by Fermanagh and Omagh District councillors was 2.72%.\n\nThe average household (house price listed at £114,500) will pay an extra £0.23 per week or £11.96 annually.\n\nThe council said the setting of the rate would raise approximately £38m in additional revenue, with the majority (£10m) earmarked for waste management.\n\nCouncillors agreed to increase rates in the district by 3.64%.\n\nThe council said that for a house with a value of £180,000 this would mean an increase in monthly costs of £1.73, or £20.70 a year.\n\nIt cited improvements to full-fibre broadband across the district and investment in community facilities as ways in which the money gathered from rates would be used.\n\nThe rate struck for the Mid and East Antrim council area is 3.64%.\n\nIt means the average household's bill will increase by £0.34 per week or £17.50 per year.\n\nThe average business will see a £4.44 rise per week or £231 annually.\n\nAlderman Billy Ashe cited rising national insurance payments, national pay awards, fuel and energy increases, as well as insurance and landfill costs as factors behind the increase in rates bills for those in the borough.\n\nMid Ulster District Council struck the highest percentage increase for rates in Northern Ireland at 3.9%.\n\nThe council said the increase had to be factored against a rates freeze applied for the 2021-22 financial year and that despite the rise, it was confident its rates would be among the lowest in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe rates increase equates to a rise of £1.68 per month for the average household, or £16.75 per year.\n\nFactors cited for the rise in rates included £4.1m of additional financial pressures beyond the control of the council, which said it would deliver an £80m capital investment programme in the next three years.\n\nThe council agreed a 1.95% increase from last year's rates for the district.\n\nCouncillor Cathy Mason said the council was happy the figure would not increase by more than 2%.\n\n\"It is crucially important that we strike a balance between supporting our ratepayers through challenging times and continuing to invest in the future of the district,\" she said.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nIn the end it became one of the most uncomfortable, unpleasant moments of sport in recent memory.\n\nAfter a week of outrage following a failed drugs test, 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva left the ice in tears as her controversial Olympics came to a distressing conclusion.\n\n\"It should never have happened,\" said former Olympic champion Robin Cousins, who himself was overcome by emotion during his commentary.\n\nElsewhere, there was anger and sympathy as Valieva's Games came to an end...\n• None The Sports Desk podcast - can the Olympics recover from another doping scandal?\n\nValieva came into the Beijing Games as the biggest star in a highly-rated Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) squad.\n\nThe acclaim grew louder when, in the opening days of competition, she became the first woman to land a quadruple jump at an Olympic Games, doing so in the team event.\n\nBut soon after that jump helped ROC claim gold, the story began to change.\n\nThe medal ceremony was unusually delayed and it was later revealed Valieva had failed a drugs test in December.\n\nShe had tested positive for trimetazidine, used in the prevention of angina attacks but on the banned list because it has been proven to improve physical efficiency.\n\nWhy was Valieva still competing?\n\nBut Valieva was allowed to compete in the individual event - first in Tuesday's short programme and then the Thursday free skate - because a court ruling lifted her provisional ban following a series of appeals and re-appeals.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) pointed to \"exceptional circumstances\" regarding her age and the timing of the test result, which came during the Games and nearly six weeks after the sample was taken.\n\nIt said it would do Valieva \"irreparable harm\" if she were not allowed to compete.\n\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) said there would not be a medal ceremony if the Russian finished on the podium. The full doping investigation is yet to follow, meaning Valieva's score could still be removed.\n\nWhat happened in the final session of the event?\n\nSo to Thursday and the climax of the competition.\n\nAs the leader after the short programme, in which she stumbled but comfortably led the standings, Valieva was the last to skate - a score of 255.95 by her team-mate Anna Shcherbakova the one to beat.\n\nBut Valieva faltered early on in her routine and, with the eyes of the world on her, tumbled to the ice after one of a number of errors, the crowd gasping in disbelief.\n\n\"This is difficult to watch,\" said BBC commentator Katherine Downes.\n\n\"After her second error it was like she was going around as quick as she could,\" former Olympic champion Jayne Torvill said afterwards.\n\n\"It was like she just wanted to get it over with and get off the ice.\"\n\nWhen her routine did end the teenager was soon in tears and she sobbed while waiting for her scores. She finished fourth, outside the medal places.\n\n'Someone thought having her do that was better than going home to her family'\n\nCousins, Great Britain's 1980 figure skating Olympic champion, was also emotional while analysing the action.\n\n\"Someone thought having her do that was better than having her go home to her family and to wait and sort this out, knowing she could have two more Olympics ahead of her,\" he said, while pausing to settle his own emotions.\n\n\"I am slightly speechless for all the wrong reasons.\n\n\"The talent and the unquestionable quality of Valieva - to see it put into this arena in that way, it should never have happened.\"\n\n'What is the long-term effect on this 15-year-old child?'\n\nBBC Sport's Sonia Oxley at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing\n\nYou almost wanted to look away, it felt wrong to be watching.\n\nIf you had not followed the story for the past 10 days, you would have just seen a skater - albeit a gold-medal favourite - falling a few times.\n\nBut this was a 15-year-old, whose failed drugs test has played out very publicly, and who had already been in tears on the ice once this week.\n\nShe had a lot of Russian support in the arena and there were big gasps when she fell for the first time. But as the mistakes racked up and she fell again on the ice, it was more of a sympathetic applause of encouragement that began to ripple.\n\nShe did not immediately let her emotions show, only a throw of the hand into the air. But then the tears came and she just sobbed while awaiting the result. The chants from those on their feet of \"well done\" brought her little comfort.\n\nWatching this unfold, you could not help wonder what would be the long-term effect of having gone through all this on the world's biggest stage. Watching this unfold, all you could think was - she's a child.\n\n'She became the face of a problem bigger than her' - what next?\n\nThe next step will be the authorities dealing with the matter of Valieva's failed drugs test in full.\n\nThat will determine whether the ROC gold in the team event - and Valieva's fourth-placed finish in the individual event - will stand.\n\nThere will also be intense questions posted to the authorities - the IOC, ROC, Cas and the International Skating Union, in particular - about how this situation was allowed to develop to the stage it overshadowed the competition and left a 15-year-old in this position.\n\nThe World Anti-doping Agency (Wada) has already said it will be investigating the teenager's entourage, including coaches, doctors and other adults surrounding her.\n\nThe eventual gold medal winner, the 17-year-old Shcherbakova is, like Valieva, coached by Russian Eteri Tutberidze.\n\n\"We have been marvelling at these youngsters coming up,\" Cousins said. \"We watched them - 12 years old with the quad [quadruple jump].\n\n\"How is this happening? We know they teach them really young.\n\n\"There is obviously an issue - how and why? It is not a question of talent. It is how is that talent being nurtured or created?\"\n\nChristopher Dean, who won gold for Great Britain alongside Torvill, said the process had been \"farcical\".\n\n\"The organisation, the politics surrounding it to get to this point has been a real mess,\" he added.\n\n\"And the loser is figure skating, the women's event is suffering from it.\"\n\nThere will also be further debates given a Russian has tested positive for a banned substance when the country is already banned from international competition because of its doping past.\n\nValieva's Games may be over but this story is far from finished.\n• None 'I can't wait to get started': The remarkable story of Christian Eriksen's comeback as he returns to the Premier League", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton says the controversial end to last year's title fight made him consider his future but he does not want it to define his career.\n\nThe Mercedes driver lost out on an eighth world title in controversial circumstances at last year's final race in Abu Dhabi.\n\n\"There was a moment when I lost a little bit of faith in the system,\" said Hamilton.\n\n\"But I am generally a very determined person.\n\n\"And while moments like this might define careers, I refuse to let this define mine.\"\n\nHamilton was leading in Abu Dhabi and on course for a record eighth world title when race director Michael Masi failed to operate the rules correctly during a late safety-car period.\n\nThat resulted in Hamilton being passed by Red Bull's Max Verstappen on one final lap of racing after a restart.\n\nThe FIA has conducted an inquiry into what happened and on Thursday announced a series of changes to address it - including removing Masi as race director.\n\nHamilton said he had retreated to the comfort of his family as he sought to process what had happened.\n\n\"I never said I was going to stop,\" he said. \"But it was a difficult time for me and I really needed to step back.\n\n\"It was a time where I really needed to step back, focus on being present. I had my family all around me creating great moments.\n\n\"Eventually I got to a point where I decided I was going to be attacking again coming into another season.\"\n• None Hamilton 'had title taken away from him' - Russell\n\nHamilton welcomed the FIA's moves, but added that they had to be converted into concrete actions.\n\n\"It's good to see the FIA are making changes,\" he said. \"Accountability is key. We have to use this moment to make sure this never happens to anyone ever again.\n\n\"We have to make sure we are seeing those changes, and (that) rules are applied fairly, and accurate and consistently.\"\n\nHe said he did not bear any ill feelings towards Verstappen.\n\n\"This has nothing to do with Max,\" he said. \"Max did everything a driver would do given the opportunity he was given.\n\n\"He's a great competitor and we will go into another battle like we did last year and we will grow from our races and experiences we had last year.\n\n\"I don't hold any grudges with anyone. That is never a good thing to carry around with you. I move forward. I don't dwell on the past.\"\n\nHe admitted that it was \"still difficult to fully understand everything\" that happened in Abu Dhabi, but said he wanted \"to come back stronger\".\n\n\"Through these experiences, you can turn these emotions into power and strength and that's what I'm doing,\" he said.\n\n\"If you think what you saw at the end of last year was my best, wait till you see this year.\"\n\nWhat did Mercedes say?\n\nTeam principal Toto Wolff told BBC Radio 5 Live that Abu Dhabi was \"in the past\" but admitted: \"It's not something we will ever in a way recover from.\"\n\nHe denied that Masi's removal was a condition for Hamilton's return and said he was never worried the 37-year-old would quit.\n\n\"I have known Lewis for such a long time and I wasn't (worried),\" he said. \"But obviously this has had such an impact on him when everything about it was about fairness and justice and when that happens to you it is quite difficult to, I understand, to cope with that.\"\n\nWolff added at the car launch that the FIA had taken \"the right steps\" to address the failures in Abu Dhabi.\n\nHamilton is joined at Mercedes this year by fellow Briton George Russell, one of the brightest rising stars of the new generation of drivers.\n\nThe seven-time world champion said Russell \"fits like a glove\" at Mercedes, where he has been a protege since 2016.\n\n\"It's surreal,\" said Russell, who spent the first three years of his career at Williams.\n\n\"We've all seen the photo of me and Lewis when I was 10 years old. We have both changed quite a lot since then. It's incredible to see.\n\n\"I was a young kid aspiring to reach F1 and he was world champion at the time, he was a superhero to me. You see these incredible people and you don't think they're human.\n\n\"Having the opportunity to race alongside Lewis is a real privilege for me. I have such a great opportunity to see how the best do it.\"\n\nWolff said he expected a tough battle between Hamilton and Russell but said he expected it would be conducted in good spirit.\n\n\"You want to have the two best possible drivers,\" he said. \"But we've seen that in the past we've handled it. The two guys have great personalities and I have no doubt that sometimes it will not be easy but that's the name of the game.\"\n\nWhat about the car?\n\nLike all 2022 cars, the new Mercedes W13 has been designed to comply with revolutionary new regulations aimed at making the racing closer and more competitive.\n\nThe car features very tightly packed bodywork, on which significant effort has clearly been made on securing the best possible airflow.\n\nThere is also an upgraded engine for the start of a four-year engine freeze in F1.\n\nMercedes have reverted to their traditional silver after two years of a black livery in support of diversity.\n\nThe new livery blends some black elements with the predominant silver, which the team said reflected its \"clear mission to become a more diverse and inclusive team\", including a commitment that at least 25% of all new recruits until 2025 will be from under-represented groups.\n\nThat figure was 38% in 2021, Mercedes said.\n\n\"The hopes are we will have a competitive car,\" Wolff said. \"We don't know whether we are even in the hunt for another title.\"\n\nHamilton said: \"I haven't really set any goals initially. Naturally everyone is working towards the ultimate goal of winning the championship and the target of doing something we have never done before. We've done eight, now it's time to move on to the next one.\"\n\nDespite the strong winds associated with Storm Eunice, both drivers are due to test the car for the first time in a so-called shakedown at Silverstone on Friday, with Russell trying it first, before Hamilton.\n• None What's the worst that could happen?\n• None He's back and exploring the detrimental impact of the internet on American society", "Euphoria which stars Hunter Schafer (left) and Zendaya (right) is described as an LGBT-inclusive series\n\nA new report has found LGBT representation on US TV is at a high, with nearly 12% of regular characters who are LGBT, up 2.8% from last year.\n\nThe numbers come from a study by LGBT media advocacy group GLAAD.\n\nBut the study also found there were shortfalls and missing opportunities to tell a wider range of stories about LGBT characters.\n\nThe \"Where We Are on TV\" analysis looked at overall diversity of shows, focusing on the US.\n\nThe report examined broadcast TV, which is free, cable TV, which is paid for and streaming platforms - mentioning popular shows such as Sex Education, Euphoria and Killing Eve for positive representation.\n\nOut of 775 series-regular characters on broadcast TV, 11.9% are LGBT, making up 92 characters, with an additional 49 in recurring roles.\n\nLesbian characters, such as Batwoman on CW, represented the majority of LGBT characters on broadcast and cable.\n\nGay men on screen saw a decrease by 5% on broadcast and 3% on cable compared to last year.\n\nBisexual representation such as Loki in Disney+'s Marvel series Loki, made up 29% of all the LGBT characters on broadcast, cable and streaming - an increase of 1%.\n\nKilling Eve was given as an example of an LGBT inclusive series with \"bisexual significant characters\"\n\nFor a fourth year in a row, the report found that LGBT people from ethnic minority backgrounds outweighed white LGBT people on broadcast.\n\nThe streaming services analysed this year expanded from Amazon, Netflix and Hulu to include Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, Paramount+ and Peacock as well.\n\nOn these platforms, there were 358 LGBT regular and recurring characters, with representation of LGBT people from ethnic minorities increasing to 49%.\n\nStreaming services also surpassed broadcast and cable networks in portraying transgender characters, with 26 trans characters, \"triple the number of characters appearing on either broadcast or cable\", in streaming shows, according to the report.\n\nIn total, there were 42 regular and recurring transgender characters tracked across all three platforms - up from 29 last year.\n\nThe report mentioned the new season of Sex Education on Netflix which introduced Cal, a new non-binary student played by non-binary actor Dua Saleh.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut it wasn't all good news, as there were missed opportunities to tell a wider range of stories about LGBT characters.\n\nCharacters with HIV were found to be rarely represented, with the report saying only two recurring TV characters on any scripted show have HIV, despite more than a million Americans living with the virus.\n\nIt also noted that many series can often include one LGBT character among several straight characters, and wanted to see shows with a majority LGBT cast.\n\nGLAAD found shows such as Brooklyn Nine-Nine included multiple LGBT characters in its ensemble\n\n\"The growing state of LGBTQ representation on television is a signal that Hollywood is truly starting to recognise the power of telling LGBTQ stories that audiences around the world connect with,\" Sarah Kate Ellis, the GLAAD President and CEO said.\n\nShe added it was \"cultural institutions like television that take on the crucial role of changing hearts and minds through diverse and inclusive storytelling\".\n\nLooking at diversity in other areas, GLAAD found regular characters with disabilities fell to 2.8% from 3.5% last year.\n\nOf the 775 series regulars on primetime scripted broadcast series, 360 characters are women.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "St Thomas's Church spire, in Wells, Somerset, fell on Friday morning as people watched from neighbouring houses.\n\nThe Grade II-listed church, on St Thomas Street, was built in the 1850s.\n\nStorm Eunice, which has generated extremely high winds, has caused travel disruption across the south of England and led to two rare red weather warnings.", "Thomas was diagnosed with leukaemia when he was five years old\n\nThomas Hebbron is one of the forgotten victims of the pandemic.\n\nHe was diagnosed with leukaemia in February 2019 - a year before Covid hit the UK.\n\nThe eight-year-old, from Leeds, has been treated with chemotherapy which has continued throughout the pandemic, but his health has suffered in other ways - and his mother believes the unrelenting focus on the virus is to blame.\n\nPre-pandemic he was seen in person by doctors every two weeks. But that changed to monthly video calls, and liver and urinary problems went undetected.\n\nHis treatment also affected his fine motor skills and has weakened his legs, but he has not seen an occupational therapist since before the pandemic.\n\n\"I want to take this pain away from him,\" says his mother, Gemma. \"I don't want to sit and watch him in this pain, but I can't do anything. I just feel completely helpless.\"\n\nThomas's story is not unique. An analysis by the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation, shared exclusively with the BBC, has for the first time laid bare how access to core health services in England has been squeezed, threatening to leave behind a generation of young people.\n\nThe review has looked at both physical and mental health services and come to the same conclusion - support has been badly disrupted and the plight of children overlooked.\n\nKeris, 13, had an operation on her left leg cancelled twice\n\nAnother child who has been affected is Keris Keen, from Nottingham. The 13-year-old was born with hip dysplasia and as a result her left leg is longer than her right.\n\nTwo years ago she had plates fitted to try to slow down the growth of her left leg.\n\nBut then complications developed and her leg became infected. She needed another operation and was put on a waiting list in August.\n\nIt was first cancelled in October and then again in November - both times she had to isolate for two days, before it was cancelled at short notice. It finally went ahead in January.\n\nHer mother, Keri, said: \"She was in pain, she kept getting infections in her knee, sometimes she couldn't walk.\n\n\"It wasn't nice to see, she was getting angry, crying sometimes. She isolated herself as well, which was hard because we've always been quite close - it's hard when you just want to help her as much as you can.\"\n\nDemand for mental health services has also risen, with researchers saying lockdowns and the disruption caused to education and social activities have taken a huge toll.\n\nFifteen-year-old Sam (not his real name) is one of those who has struggled. He had anxiety before the pandemic, but became very isolated during the first lockdown and stopped eating, becoming - in the words of his family - painfully thin.\n\nThey have struggled to get him help and he was recently admitted to hospital for two weeks.\n\nHis mother said: \"We're terrified and we don't know what to do as we cannot keep him safe. He needs to be in a specialist children's unit, but there are no beds.\n\n\"We cannot watch him 24 hours a day and I fear he will end up dying.\"\n\nThe Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation have been joined by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) in calling for a dedicated plan for children to help them recover from the pandemic.\n\nDr Camilla Kingdon, RCPCH president, said the figures \"do not take into account the many other 'hidden' waiting lists of children waiting for community therapies and diagnostic assessments, especially for autism\".\n\nShe added that children are \"struggling\" and, despite services being stretched, no-one should be deterred from speaking to a health professional.\n\nJessica Morris, from the Nuffield Trust, says: \"In many ways, the wider effects of the pandemic and nationwide lockdowns on children and young people have been greater than the Covid infection itself.\n\n\"Despite being much less at risk of hospitalisation from the virus, the youngest members of our society have not escaped unscathed and we can see a heavy toll on their mental wellbeing and access to health services.\"\n\nIn response to Thomas's case, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust told the BBC it is committed to achieving timely and safe care for all patients.\n\nThe Department of Health says it is investing billions of pounds into recovering the backlog of care built up during the pandemic.\n\nIt said it was investing in staff and services with the creation of school-based mental health services.\n\nA government spokesman said improving health outcomes for children was \"fundamental\" to their plans to recover from the pandemic.\n\nThe report looked at data for England only, but the other UK nations have said child health also continues to be a priority and they are investing in mental and physical health services too.\n\nHave you been affected by this story? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAround 200,000 homes have been left without power and the transport network continues to be severely affected as Storm Eunice lashes the UK.\n\nHigh winds led to school closures, flight cancellations, and stay-at-home warnings across the country.\n\nOne person has died in Ireland and a number of people have been injured in the UK.\n\nA gust of 122mph - measured at an exposed point on the Isle of Wight - set a provisional record for England.\n\nIf confirmed, it will beat the previous record of a 118mph gust set in 1979 at Gwennap Head in Cornwall.\n\nA Met Office amber warning - meaning there is a potential danger to life - remains in place across the Midlands, southern England, and Wales.\n\nAn amber weather warning means there is a good chance flying debris could cause a danger to life, as well as that roofs could be blown off buildings and power lines brought down.\n\nRed warnings - which are very rare - were issued earlier across much of southern and eastern England and south Wales, but have now been lifted.\n\nA man in County Wexford, in the Republic of Ireland, was killed by a falling tree during the storm, while a person in Henley-on-Thames suffered serious injuries after being hit by debris from a roof.\n\nA number of others have been admitted to hospital following separate incidents involving trees and falling debris in London and Wiltshire.\n\nMillions of people were urged to stay at home on Friday, while the storm has also brought widespread travel disruption, with cancellations and severe delays on many transport networks.\n\nTrain operators closed routes across the country, with many lines blocked by trees and other debris.\n\nIndustry body the Rail Delivery Group said the storm was causing widespread damage, adding: \"We're telling people not to travel today and instead to claim a fee-free refund or use their ticket over the weekend.\"\n\nIn London, the South Eastern Main Line announced the closure of its whole network, and pictures showed a major tear to the roof of the Millennium Dome.\n\nThe O2 Arena is an entertainment complex that houses a music venue as well as shops and restaurants\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said 200,000 homes were without power and around 250,000 had had power restored.\n\nMeanwhile, major incidents have been declared in several areas including Cornwall, Gloucestershire, Avon and Somerset and Hampshire.\n\nIn Cornwall and Somerset, residents were urged to stay at home and only travel if \"absolutely necessary\", while both councils advised people to stay back from cliffs and seafronts due to the danger of large waves.\n\nMany airports have urged customers to check their flights status, with many departures and arrivals to UK airports cancelled or delayed by the winds.\n\nAn EasyJet flight from Bordeaux to London Gatwick unsuccessfully tried to land twice before being forced to return to the French city.\n\nNational Highways - which is in charge of England's motorways and major A-roads - said there was a \"particularly high risk\" that high-sided vehicles, caravans and motorbikes could be blown over and has urged drivers of those vehicles not to travel on bridges and viaducts.\n\nThe RAC said people should only travel if absolutely necessary and anyone who must should be vigilant, slow down, leave extra space behind the vehicle in front and keep both hands firmly on the steering wheel.\n\nHigh winds have also led to:\n\nThe storm has brought significant snowfall to parts of northern England and Scotland\n\nThe Environment Agency has now lifted several severe flood warnings that were previously in place for the Severn Estuary and the Wye Estuary in south-west England.\n\nLess serious flood warnings remain in place in the area as well as in other parts of England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nRiver flooding in the Pennines, North Yorkshire and Lancashire is expected during the weekend. The water level in rivers, lakes and streams is likely to rise and overflow due to a combination of after-effects of Storm Dudley and snow melting.\n\nA government source told the BBC they were \"well-prepared\" with more than 250 high-volume pumps and 6,000 trained staff able to be deployed, adding they were not taking the threat posed by Eunice \"lightly\".\n\nThe Army is also on stand-by to support those affected, the PM said on Thursday. And the government was due to hold a second emergency Cobra meeting about the storm on Friday.\n\nEunice is the second storm in a week to hit the UK after Storm Dudley battered parts of Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland, leaving thousands of homes without power.\n\nNorthern Powergrid said it had restored power to all of its more than 20,000 customers affected by the storm by Thursday evening.\n\nThe UK's last red warning was for Storm Arwen in November last year, but before that one had not been issued since the so-called \"Beast from the East\" in 2018.\n\nRobbie Bartington and her husband David Walis said a huge oak tree fell close to one of their animal shelters", "There was snow on the Glenshane pass in County Londonderry in the early hours\n\nFlights and ferries have been cancelled as Storm Eunice sweeps across Northern Ireland.\n\nThere were a number of crashes on the Glenshane Road in County Londonderry after heavy snowfall.\n\nA yellow weather warning remains in place until 09:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nA man was killed in the Republic of Ireland after being hit by a falling tree, but red and orange warnings in parts of the country have now been lifted.\n\nAbout 80,000 properties are without power in the Republic, mainly in Cork, Kerry and Clare.\n\nMet Éireann has extended a yellow snow and ice warning for the entire country until 10:00 local time on Saturday.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said there had been several crashes on the Glenshane Road in County Londonderry due to the weather but no-one required hospital treatment.\n\nOfficers said the road remained open and was passable with care.\n\nESB Networks said gale force winds had caused damage in the Republic of Ireland, with gusts of more than 130 km/h (80mph) reported\n\nThe yellow snow warning for parts of counties Londonderry, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Antrim is in force until 18:00, with the worst expected on hills and mountains.\n\nA yellow warning for wind for County Antrim and parts of counties Londonderry and Down is also in force until 18:00, with a yellow warning for ice in place for the whole of Northern Ireland until 09:00 on Friday.\n\nBetween 10-20cm of snow accumulate over the highest spots such as the Sperrins and Mournes.\n\nSeveral centimetres could affect some areas closer to sea level - although not everywhere will get snow.\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure said all roads remained open after gritters and snow ploughs were deployed.\n\nStrong winds have been making waves on the north coast of Northern Ireland\n\nDonegal County Council said a number of cars had become stuck in snow on Friday morning and described some roads as impassable. Gritters are working to clear the affected roads, the council added.\n\nThis could lead to transport disruption, power cuts, and rural communities temporarily cut off.\n\nThe Met Office says gusts up to 100km/h (60mph) are likely, with stronger winds possible for more exposed areas.\n\nThe strong winds combined with snow are likely to lead to blizzard conditions.\n\nSome ferry sailings and flight have been cancelled - passengers are advised to check before departure.\n\nAt City of Derry Airport, Friday morning flights to Stansted and Edinburgh were cancelled, while a number of flights from Belfast City Airport and Belfast International Airport have also fallen foul of the weather.\n\nA number of ferry sailings between Northern Ireland and Scotland have also been cancelled.\n\nParts of Cork and Kerry were hit by gusts of over 130km/h (81mph), with the highest gust recorded at 137 kmh/h (85mph) at Roches Point in Cork.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nGreat Britain's women's curlers will play for Olympic gold after edging past Sweden 12-11 in an extra end after a tense and compelling semi-final.\n\nBritish skip Eve Muirhead pulled off a remarkable score of four in the ninth end for an 11-8 lead, but counterpart Anna Hasselborg showed incredible nerve to secure three with her last stone.\n\nThat forced a decider, and Britain took one for victory.\n\n\"I'm pretty speechless right now but what a moment,\" Muirhead said.\n\nShe told BBC Sport: \"It sounds amazing to say we're in an Olympic final.\n\n\"It is third time lucky. I've lost two semi-finals before and I was desperate for it. These moments and opportunities don't come around very often.\n\n\"I'm so proud of these girls. It is such a team game and all week we have dug so deep.\n\nBritain will face Japan in Sunday's final at 01:05 GMT.\n\nBefore that, the men's team will play Sweden in their gold-medal match at 06:45 on Saturday.\n\nIt means the British team will end the Olympics with at least two medals after fears there would be no podium finishes for the first time since 1992.\n\nThe women's team got off to a nightmare start as Sweden took a 4-0 lead in the opening end, but pulled three back in the next end to set up what proved a gripping match.\n\nThe team of Muirhead, Vicky Wright, Jen Dodds, and Hailey Duff played an amazing penultimate end when 8-7 down, culminating in a fantastic tap shot from the British skip to register an amazing four - and a three-score lead.\n\nBut Hasselborg's Swedish rink got the better of them at this stage of the last Olympics, and looked to have ruined the party with the very last stone of the end.\n\nHasselborg delivered a perfect take out to score three, make it 11-11 and earn a chance to salvage the match.\n\nHowever, the saving grace for Britain was they had last-stone advantage, and they showed the required nerve to keep the house wide open to ensure a crucial final score of one for victory.\n\nMuirhead, 31, began her fourth Olympics by carrying the flag for the British team, and was determined to end it with the gold medal that had eluded her after bronze in Sochi in 2014, and fourth place in Pyeongchang four years later.\n\nShe will now get the chance to emulate Rhona Howie's gold-medal feat in Salt Lake City 20 years ago, against a Japanese side who stunned world champions Switzerland in the other semi-final.\n\n'Just keep going and never give up' - reaction\n\nVicky Wright, Team GB's women's third: \"First end, I was like: Here we go, buckle up. I fully believed in all of us and we could get it back. You just have to go for it and we did. We got there in the end.\"\n\nJen Dodds, Team GB women's second: \"The aim of that second end was just to get ourselves back in the game so a three was an absolute bonus.\n\n\"We knew it was going to be tough. If you're going to lose a four, then lose it in the first end. We did but I think that just sums up our team so well.\n\n\"Just keeping going and going and never giving up. Such an important part of curling is supporting your team mates.\"\n\nHailey Duff, Team GB women's lead: \"There was a little bit of an adrenaline rush when we got the four [in the penultimate end] but we really had to focus going into the last end and do everything we could to make sure we got the win.\"\n• None What's the worst that could happen?\n• None He's back and exploring the detrimental impact of the internet on American society", "Simon Nellist was a diving instructor and a regular swimmer at the beach where he died\n\nA 35-year-old British man has been named as the victim of Sydney's first fatal shark attack in nearly 60 years.\n\nA friend confirmed Simon Nellist died in the attack on Wednesday.\n\nPolice have not yet formally identified the victim and his family have not commented.\n\nAustralian authorities are still searching for the great white shark, with swimmers banned from the water and most city beaches shut after Wednesday's attack.\n\nMr Nellist - who was a diving instructor - was mauled by a great white shark just off Little Bay in east Sydney. He was a member of the city's Scuba Diving Social Club and a regular swimmer at the beach, BBC Sydney correspondent Shaimaa Khalil reports.\n\nA UK foreign office spokesperson said consular staff were in touch with New South Wales Police. \"We are supporting the family of a British man and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nShark attacks in Sydney are uncommon because the city has long had nets and other deterrents in its waters.\n\nOn Thursday, surf lifesavers on jet skis patrolled a 25km (15.5 mile) stretch of water from Bondi in the city's east to Cronulla in the south to find the shark. Authorities are also using helicopters and drones.\n\nThe state government said its shark experts had estimated the predator to be a great white shark \"at least three metres\" in length based on footage of the incident taken by a member of the public.\n\nSeveral passers-by who witnessed the scene have described a vicious and frenzied attack.\n\n\"[The person] was swimming and a shark came and attacked [them] vertically,\" Kris Linto told Nine News.\n\n\"We heard a yell and turned around, it looked like a car had landed in the water, a big splash then the shark.\"\n\nOne man recounted how he had been fishing on the rocks when he saw the swimmer get dragged under.\n\n\"It was terrible. I am shaking. I keep vomiting. It's very, very upsetting,\" he told ABC News.\n\nAuthorities managed to retrieve body parts from the water two hours after the attack.\n\nOnlookers and emergency workers had gathered at the spot where the swimmer was found on Wednesday\n\nThe area's state MP Michael Daley said locals were shaken by the \"horrific\" incident. The victim had been a regular visitor. \"[He] came here and swam nearly every day,\" he told the ABC.\n\n\"It's a beautiful day at one of Sydney's most beautiful beaches, but there's a real dark pall hanging over our community today,\" he said.\n\nWednesday's incident is a horrible tragedy, and in days to come there will be questions about how the shark slipped through the protections set up.\n\nRight now we don't have any of those details. The New South Wales state government already runs a shark mitigation programme believed the largest and most sophisticated in the world.\n\nSydney beaches have been guarded by nets for nearly a century. On summer weekends, drones and helicopters hover, scanning for sharks. (It's not uncommon to be lazing around on the sand when suddenly a siren blares and lifeguards are ordering people out of the water.)\n\nAuthorities also run an extensive shark-tagging programme where the most concerning shark species - tiger, bull and great white sharks - have trackers attached to their fins.\n\nWhen they're picked up in the nets, they're tagged and relocated about a kilometre away.\n\nOn Thursday, authorities spooled out sensor drumlines - baited strings - to try to find the white shark. Authorities do find the predator most of the time, usually within days.\n\nIn the past that's led to culls. Officials haven't yet said what they'll do. But there's little community appetite for killing sharks these days.\n\nInstead shark safety is about strengthening protections; educating beachgoers.\n\nDon't swim at dawn or dusk. Stay close to shore. Swim between the marked flags. Avoid fishing areas.\n\nSharks are just a part of beach culture. And many Australians accept that entering the water will always contain some risk.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nContact between a human and a shark is rare, given there are thousands of sharks in the water at any time. Attacks usually occur in the warmer summer months (December - February) in Australia because more people are in the water.\n\nAustralia typically records about 20 shark attacks each year, with most in New South Wales and Western Australia. There have been four shark attacks so far this year, according to the Australian Shark Attack File.\n\nThere were two fatal shark attacks in 2021, and seven in 2020.\n\nHistorically, dying from a shark bite is not common. In over a century of records, Australia's shark attack mortality rate is 0.9 - less than one person per year.", "The UK Met Office has issued yellow warnings across Northern Ireland for snow and wind\n\nYellow weather warnings for snow, ice and strong winds have been issued for Northern Ireland ahead of Storm Eunice's expected arrival on Friday.\n\nSchools and colleges in a number of counties in the Republic of Ireland are set to be closed.\n\nRed storm warnings are in place for Cork, Kerry, Waterford and Clare, as well as parts of England and Wales.\n\nThe red warning means there is a danger to life from flying debris.\n\nYellow warnings have been issued by the UK Met Office for some parts of England and Scotland, as well as Northern Ireland.\n\nThe snow warning for Northern Ireland lasts from 03:00 on Friday until 18:00, with the heaviest falls on hills and mountains.\n\nBetween 10-20cm could accumulate over the highest spots such as the Sperrins and Mournes.\n\nSeveral centimetres could affect some areas closer to sea level - although not everywhere will get snow.\n\nThis could lead to transport disruption, power cuts, and rural communities temporarily cut off.\n\nStrong winds at the same time are also likely to lead to blizzard conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Barra Best\n\nFriday's wind warning for counties Londonderry, Antrim, and Down comes into force from 07:00 until 18:00.\n\nThe Met Office says gusts up to 100km/h (60mph) are likely, with stronger winds possible for more exposed areas.\n\nConditions were rough on Ireland's north coast on Thursday\n\nPeople living in Cork, Kerry, Waterford and Clare have been advised to stay indoors for the duration of Storm Eunice due to the red warning issued by the Irish national weather service, Met Éireann.\n\nMeteorologist Gerry Murphy said it would be a significant storm, and that the red warning meant people should \"completely stay at home during the period of that warning\".\n\nWinds gusting at speeds of up to 130 km/h will likely bring some coastal flooding on Friday\n\nHe told RTÉ there was \"the potential for significant fallen trees, for significant debris from buildings that may not be secure\".\n\n\"There are also significant hazards due to the potential of fallen trees if someone is driving,\" he added.\n\nA status orange warning has also been issued for more than a dozen counties.\n\nMet Éireann is warning of severe and damaging winds with some coastal flooding.\n\nMeanwhile, much of England and Wales is covered by an amber warning for severe winds.\n\nAs in Northern Ireland, yellow warnings for snow and wind have been issued for parts of northern England and Scotland.\n\nThe warnings for Friday follow the impact of Storm Dudley which resulted in travel disruption and power cuts.", "Storm Eunice has swept across the UK - with a provisional record gust of 122mph measured on the Isle of Wight.\n\nWatch our video to see the impact of one of the worst storms to hit the UK in decades.\n\nMore on this story: Storm leaves 400,000 without power", "Some of the boys were wearing school shoes and trainers to walk through the snow\n\nA school has been fined £30,000 for taking a group of teenage pupils on a dangerous mountain hike.\n\nStaff from Gateshead Cheder, an Orthodox Jewish school, led 13 boys up Helvellyn in the Lake District in March 2020 amid ice and snow.\n\nA mountain rescue team eventually found the group in darkness and led them to safety after one boy slipped on ice and another had become separated.\n\nThe school said \"mistakes were made\" and health and safety had improved.\n\nNewcastle Magistrates' Court heard some boys were in school shoes and trainers.\n\nOne of the boys fell several metres on ice and sustained minor cuts\n\nThe group of Year 10 pupils, aged 14 and 15, were on an organised trip led by a teacher and a teaching assistant.\n\nBefore setting off, supervisors reviewed the Lake District weather report, which stressed the dangers of ascending above the snow line, but decided to press ahead, the court heard.\n\nThe adults had no formal qualifications in mountain leadership or experience in wintery conditions and were relying on a smartphone app for guidance.\n\nDuring the ascent, at least two members of the public warned the teaching staff to turn back, but they carried on and reached the 3,117ft (950m) summit.\n\nHelvellyn is the third highest peak in England\n\nHowever, as they made their descent they lost their way and ended up on steep terrain which included vertical rock faces with drops of 20 metres, the hearing was told.\n\nOne of the boys fell several metres on ice and sustained minor cuts. Another teenager \"panicked\", ran off and was eventually guided down by a member of the public.\n\nThe group was eventually found after dark by the Keswick Mountain Rescue Team who cut steps in the snow to get them back to the path.\n\nThe school, in Sunderland Road, Gateshead, admitted health and safety breaches and was fined following a prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nIt was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £181 and pay costs of £4,547.\n\nThe school, based at Bede House in Gateshead, was rated inadequate in its most recent Ofsted inspection\n\nA school spokesman said it had \"clear and robust safety measures in place\" and it fully accepted the court's judgement.\n\n\"The health and safety of our pupils and staff is always of the utmost importance,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"We have conducted a thorough investigation into what happened two years ago and have made a number of improvements to our health and safety policy and practice.\n\n\"This includes a thorough review of our risk assessment policies and procedures.\"\n\nStephen Garner of the HSE, said: \"On this occasion, none of the party came to serious harm, however, the school was aware of the weather and ground conditions, but decided to proceed without the appropriate planning, equipment, or suitably trained leaders.\n\n\"Those taking part in the trek that day were placed in serious danger and there was a clear failing by the school to adopt sensible precautions to ensure their safety.\n\n\"Excursions into mountains, particularly in winter, need to be led by people with the appropriate skills, knowledge and experience.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "As Storm Eunice hits the UK, airline pilots are having to use all their skill to land planes safely.\n\nA YouTube livestream from Big Jet TV showing planes struggling to touch down at Heathrow has become an unexpected hit - partly down to some lively commentary.\n\nMore on this story: Big Jet TV turns plane-watching into a phenomenon", "A former high-ranking US national security official believes that Russia is working to manipulate media perceptions at home and abroad ahead of a potential invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAndrea Kendall-Taylor, an ex-senior analyst at the CIA and Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said she believes Russia is \"accelerating its efforts in the information domain\" to build the case for conflict.\n\nAs examples, she pointed to Russian media coverage of purported mass graves discovered in separatist areas or the recent shelling of a kindergarten, which Russian-backed separatists blamed on Ukraine.\n\n\"The Russian media is really trying to spin this all up as Ukraine mounting an offensive,\" she said. \"It creates justification.\"\n\nKendall-Taylor added that Russian military doctrine views the \"information space\" as a key part of their competition with the US and the West.\n\nShe added that this sort of media is aimed both at the Russian public and at external observers across the world.\n\n\"They're going to flood the information space with fabricated stories and half-truths in order to confuse and disorient, and make it hard for outside observers to discern the truth,\" she said.", "The couple were jailed at Sheffield Crown Court\n\nA mother and stepfather who kept their starving autistic son locked in \"abject squalor and filth\" in an attic for seven months have been jailed.\n\nMatthew Langley, 22, weighed just 6st 2lbs (39kg) and was \"days away from death\" when he was found in June 2020.\n\nLorna Hewitt, 43, and husband Craig Hewitt, 42, were found guilty of false imprisonment by keeping him captive at their Sheffield home.\n\nThe pair, of Walkley Road, were sentenced to six years in prison.\n\nA trial at Sheffield Crown Court heard Mr Langley had learning difficulties and suffered from irritable bowel syndrome, double-incontinence and arthritis.\n\nHe was severely dehydrated when he was found in the bedroom, which rescuers described as littered with piles of rubbish and soiled with vomit and faeces.\n\nJudge Michael Slater, sentencing, said A&E staff had to take the \"unprecedented\" step of washing Mr Langley upon his arrival at hospital.\n\nProsecutors had alleged that Mr Langley's complex needs were a \"drain on resources\" and they had been trying to \"have him taken off their hands\".\n\nJurors heard that the couple had prevented him from attending college and cancelled a string of medical appointments in the seven months he spent locked away.\n\nLorna and Craig Hewitt denied locking her vulnerable son for seven months in a vomit and faeces-covered attic bedroom\n\nThe judge described Lorna Hewitt's actions as \"a grave abuse of trust from a mother to her son\".\n\nIn mitigation, her defence counsel said she had been suffering with PTSD from a childhood experience, which had impacted her adult life.\n\nJailing Craig Hewitt, the judge conceded he was \"not a deliberately cruel man\" but he had been complicit in effectively switching off Mr Langley's care in a plot hatched by the couple.\n\nThe couple were also convicted of causing or allowing a vulnerable adult to suffer serious physical harm.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A photo of people helping the ambulance was shared on Fubar News Facebook page where hundreds of people wished the family well\n\nAn ambulance rushing a baby girl to hospital in Aberdeenshire was rescued by members of the public after it became stuck in heavy snow.\n\nTen-month-old Jessica Louise Macleod, who spent the first six months of her life in hospital with a congenital heart defect, became ill after developing breathing difficulties on Friday.\n\nAt the same time, heavy snow from Storm Eunice was causing massive disruption to roads in the north east.\n\nThe ambulance became stuck in snow as it raced to hospital in Aberdeen.\n\nJessica Louise's mum, Melissa, 32, was amazed at how the public jumped immediately to help.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It got stuck in the snow on the A96 while trying to get past other vehicles that were at a standstill.\n\nJessica Louise Macleod was being taken to hospital in the ambulance when it became stuck\n\n\"Prior to this, there were vehicles not moving out of the way for the ambulance, so a lorry driver got out his vehicle and started walking down the road in the snow to tell people to move.\n\n\"Then the road went down to one treated lane and to get past, the ambulance had to drive on the untreated part of the road, where it became stuck. Literally within seconds there were people pushing the ambulance to free it.\"\n\nThey were freed quickly but the worry continued as a journey that would usually take 45 minutes in a car on a normal day, took the ambulance two hours with flashing lights and siren.\n\nMelissa added: \"I worried how long it was going to take to get there, but at that point Jessica Louise was stable and getting oxygen, plus she had been given some nebulisers at the GP which helped her breathe easier so she wasn't in any discomfort - thankfully.\"\n\nJessica Louise had been fighting a bug for the past two weeks. Her cough worsened on Tuesday and by Friday, Melissa called the doctor. The GP asked them to come to the surgery and it was on the car journey there that the baby deteriorated.\n\nThe doctor diagnosed a respiratory infection and called an ambulance for oxygen support as the baby was transferred to hospital.\n\nAfter a dramatic journey, she is now on the mend at Aberdeen Children's hospital.\n\nMelissa and Donald Macleod are now looking after their daughter Jessica Louise in hospital\n\nMelissa said: \"Since we've been here a few hours and she has been started on medications she has perked up a bit, however I foresee us being in here for a few days to a week.\n\n\"But we went through a lot with Jessica Louise when she was born, so we are a little used to medical dramatics. Thankfully, this one is nowhere near anything like what we have been through with her before.\"\n\nJessica Louise's dad Donald took four hours to battle the snow on the A96 to bring things from home for the hospital stay.\n\nThe relieved mum wanted to thank those who went the extra mile.\n\n\"Thank you to the paramedics for getting us there safely against all odds. Thank you to everyone who cleared the way for the ambulance to get past and the lorry driver who got out his vehicle to tell people to move over even though he was wearing shorts.\n\n\"And a special thank you to all of those who pushed the ambulance when it was stuck in the snow, had you not done this I'm not sure when we would have got to the hospital.\"\n\nStorm Eunice cased the closure of hundreds of schools on Friday with Aberdeenshire hit the worst.\n\nMost of Scotland was under a Met Office yellow weather warning for snow from the early hours until 18:00.\n\nA yellow warning for ice then took over and will be in place until 09:00 on Saturday.\n\nThree people died as fierce winds swept across the UK.\n\nPolice in the north east of Scotland warned drivers only to travel if their journey was necessary, and said there were large tailbacks and significant delays in some areas.\n\nSome minor roads roads around Angus, parts of Aberdeenshire and Argyll and Bute were also affected by heavy snow.\n\nThe Scottish government also urged people to exercise caution and follow the latest travel advice.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney chaired the Scottish government's resilience room meeting on Thursday evening in response to Storms Dudley and Eunice.", "Boris Johnson has returned his questionnaire about allegations of Downing Street lockdown breaches to the police, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe PM was one of more than 50 people to be sent the document by the Metropolitan Police, which is looking at potential Covid rule-breaking.\n\nMr Johnson had until 22:00 GMT on Friday to answer the survey.\n\nHe has said he did not believe he was breaking any rules, but apologised \"for the things we simply didn't get right\".\n\nMr Johnson has received legal advice about his response.\n\nThe investigation, Operation Hillman, is examining 12 gatherings on eight dates - some of which the PM has already said he attended - to see if Covid regulations were broken.\n\nThe Met has said a fine would be issued to anyone found to have breached Covid regulations. A decision is not expected for weeks.\n\nThe force previously said the questionnaires would ask what had happened and \"must be answered truthfully\".\n\nThe documents, which were sent by email, require an \"account and explanation of the recipient's participation in an event\", the Met said.\n\nBut it added that being contacted did not mean a fine would always be issued.\n\nThe questionnaire has the same status as information given in an interview under caution.\n\nThe police investigation was launched in late January after an internal inquiry led by civil servant Sue Gray passed information to the force.\n\nDetectives investigating the parties have been handed more than 500 documents and 300 images gathered as part of Ms Gray's inquiry.\n\nThe initial findings of Ms Gray's inquiry criticised \"failures of leadership and judgement\" over the gatherings in Downing Street and Whitehall.", "The neighbourhood of Morro da Oficina was all but destroyed by a mudslide\n\nAlarms rang out across the Brazilian city of Petrópolis on Thursday, warning of more heavy rain to come after floods and landslides killed at least 117 people with more than 100 missing.\n\nThe rescue mission has been temporarily called off and some people, fearing more destruction, are fleeing the city.\n\nOne volunteer rescuer said that finding survivors under the rubble was now \"practically impossible\".\n\nThis week's rainfall in Petrópolis was the heaviest in nearly a century.\n\nThe downpours on Tuesday alone exceeded the average for the whole of February, triggering landslides and floods in the city north of Rio and turning streets into rivers of mud. Homes were engulfed and vehicles swept away.\n\nThe first funerals took place on Thursday for the victims who had been formally identified, with the stories of those who died starting to come to light - like that of Helena, who had started at nursery just a few days before the landslide destroyed the home she shared with her family.\n\n\"I enjoyed my baby's company for little more than one year,\" her mother Giselli Carvalho, who also lost her mother and niece in the disaster, told Brazilian news channel Globo TV.\n\nIn Morro da Oficina, the BBC found residents struggling to comprehend the landslide which had swept through the middle of their once-crowded neighbourhood, wiping out everything in its wake.\n\nNilson de Oliveira Vargas Jr and his brother had been waiting for news of their sister, Marilene, for two days.\n\n\"She was in the kitchen with my niece,\" he told the BBC's Katy Watson. \"When she heard the roar coming down the hill, she pushed her daughter out of the door and told her to run. My niece was saved, but my sister was left behind.\"\n\nAt the bottom of the destroyed area, a mother arrives to recover her daughter's body, flanked by a family with shovels in hand.\n\nFamilies and authorities worked in unison as they searched through the rubble, picking apart the mangled steel and broken concrete mixed in with metres of thick red mud.\n\nResidents need the experts to dig safely, but the rescue workers can't do it without the local knowledge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deluge of rainfall causes a landslide and flooding in Petrópolis, Brazil\n\nHowever, hopes are fading: the death toll slowly rose through the day, but no more survivors were pulled from the wreckage, according to Brazil's National Civil Defence, which has been providing updates on Twitter.\n\nAnd while relatives don't want to let go of hope in finding people alive, many were realistic this is a recovery operation now, not a rescue mission. The local morgue, already under strain, has been forced to use a refrigerated truck for extra space.\n\n\"Unfortunately, it is going to be difficult to find survivors,\" volunteer Luciano Goncalves told AFP, completely covered in mud.\n\n\"It is practically impossible. But we must do our utmost to be able to return the bodies to the families.\"\n\nNilson is one of those saying that help didn't come soon enough.\n\n\"I know my sister's case isn't the only one,\" he said. \"We all deserve attention but for that very reason, we need to spread everyone out in an organised manner and start work.\"\n\nFor others, the alarms warning residents of more downpours indicated it was time to leave.\n\nNataly and her family carried plastic bags with food and their belongings. They were getting out of danger's way.\n\nThe deadly mudslide in Morro da Oficina had narrowly missed their house, but it was terrifying, she told our correspondent. She doesn't want to go through that again.\n\nCaique da Silva Vieira and his partner Pamella want to find somewhere safer to live with their baby\n\nCaique da Silva Vieira and his partner Pamella are also now looking to move somewhere safer with their eight-month-old daughter, after they decided to stay put during Tuesday's downpours, witnessing the disaster for themselves.\n\n\"We heard a bang and we thought it was the electricity cables,\" Caique explained. \"When we went out on to the terrace we saw everything coming down; it was a horrific scene.\"\n\nPetrópolis, usually a popular tourist getaway to escape the summer heat, is now a city in trauma.\n\nThe neighbourhood has been ripped apart, yet brought together in the worst possible circumstances, united in grief and pain.\n\nSearch and rescue workers have been deployed to the city", "Fears are growing that some Afghan refugees evacuated to the UK last summer are on the verge of being treated like illegal immigrants because they have not received updated papers.\n\nSolicitors say it's unclear how many Afghans are missing documents they need to legally work and rent homes.\n\nThey say they have heard nothing about their status, days before temporary visas will expire.\n\nThe Home Office has hit back saying the warning is needless scaremongering.\n\nWhen the UK evacuated some 15,000 Afghans to the UK last August, the Home Office issued six-month visas to the refugees, with a view to giving them a permanent right to settle later on.\n\nThat commitment still stands as part of the resettlement plan.\n\nBut the Law Society, which represents solicitors, said firms across the UK are now receiving calls for help from people whose temporary legal status expires in the coming week - meaning they have no means of proving they are lawfully in the country.\n\nIn each case, Afghans are saying they have not received any updated papers or they are struggling to get answers from officials.\n\nIt is not clear how many Afghans are affected.\n\nDespite two recent parliamentary questions, ministers have not revealed how many of the evacuees have been granted their final permanent status - but they have said they \"aim\" to conclude the process before current visas expire.\n\nHowever, under the law, immigrants must be able to show on request a valid visa to rent a home, work or claim benefits, open a bank account and use all of the NHS.\n\nIf they cannot produce a valid visa whenever it is requested, they can be denied services. These laws were introduced in the last decade to put pressure on illegal migrants and over-stayers - a policy that faced damning criticism when it led to unjust treatment in the Windrush scandal.\n\nOne Afghan, who was evacuated after working for the UK and its allies for almost 20 years, told BBC News that he was increasingly concerned about his status.\n\nThe fluent English speaker has found himself a new home and begun applying for jobs - but employers have repeatedly refused to take him on amid uncertainty about his long-term right to be in the UK.\n\n\"Since the end of September, I haven't heard anything from the Home Office,\" he said.\n\n\"My visa will expire on 26 February. I have tried to contact them - sending emails to the Afghan resettlement scheme people.\n\n\"But I haven't received any response. It's almost six months.\n\n\"I really don't know what will happen to me. By the law, they have to give me a visa before the expiration of this visa. But I don't know what's the government's plan. What will they do with us?\"\n\nI. Stephanie Boyce, president of the Law Society, said solicitors were appealing urgently for more information from the Home Office.\n\nShe said they had been trying to get clarity for months and feared their clients would become overstayers by omission - facing possible homelessness and destitution.\n\n\"The Home Office must urgently provide every one of these people with evidence of their continued right to work, study and rent accommodation,\" she said.\n\n\"The UK's 'warm welcome' is meaningless if the government does not provide concrete assurances which could allay the fears of thousands of people and give them the legal certainty they need.\"\n\nIn some cases, Afghans say they have received verbal assurances from officials that their paperwork will eventually come - and a spokesman for the Home Office accused lawyers of \"needless scaremongering\".\n\n\"The Afghan nationals resettled here already have the right to work, access to education, healthcare and can apply for public funds,\" he said.\n\n\"While we are in the process of granting all indefinite leave to remain, all have valid leave while this is ongoing, so to suggest they are at risk of losing their rights is completely wrong.\"", "Wordle went from a handful of users to millions in a matter of months\n\nWordle moved from its original web address to one run by the New York Times (NYT) last weekend and some players are not happy.\n\nThose still playing the daily word game on the original website - because they downloaded it or have not refreshed their browser - are getting different words to solve from the NYT version.\n\nThat is because the paper has removed five-letter words it deemed offensive.\n\nBut it has denied the other big fans' complaint - that it has got harder.\n\nFans have not been impressed by the switchover\n\nThe game, which asks players to find a five-letter word each day with clues along the way, has grown in popularity from fewer than 100 players in November to millions by the end of January.\n\nIts creator, Josh Wardle, initially said he didn't intend to make money from the game but later sold it to the NYT for an undisclosed seven-figure sum.\n\nMany fans took to Twitter to complain that since the NYT took over its stewardship - with words such as ultra and caulk - the puzzle appeared more challenging.\n\nComedian Trevor Noah summed up many people's feelings, tweeting: \"Wordle isn't fun since the New York Times took over. Is it just me?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Trevor Noah This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd another player, Denise Dewald, felt that the game had lost some of its original appeal - simplicity.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Denise Dewald, MD 🗽 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe NYT denied any changes to gameplay, but it did admit that it was in the process of removing \"offensive words\" which included whore, slave and wench from both the list of acceptable guesses and the answers.\n\nThat is why players of the original version are now out of sync with the NYT version.\n\nOne of the big appeals of the game was that players were all solving the same word each day. The loss of this shared experience and the fact that there are now competing versions has angered fans.\n\nIn response, the NYT is urging everyone to migrate to its version.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by NYTimes Wordplay This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs to what may happen next, the paper has said the game will remain free, for the time being at least.\n\nMeanwhile, fan Bill Fletcher called for calm in the Wordle community.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Bill Fletcher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEleven people are missing after a ferry burst into flames near the Greek island of Corfu on Friday, authorities say.\n\nRescue boats rushed to evacuate the 290 people on board the Euroferry Olympia, including two lorry drivers trapped inside the hold.\n\nThe ferry had left Igoumenitsa in Greece for the Italian port of Brindisi when a fire broke out on a car deck.\n\nThe captain told everyone to leave as the ferry was engulfed in flames and began billowing thick plumes of smoke.\n\nThe Greek coastguard said 239 passengers and 51 crew had been on the ferry, owned by Italian firm Grimaldi Lines. Most of the passengers were Italian nationals, according to Ionian islands governor Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, while the crew were both Greek and Italian.\n\nItalian officials said 277 of those on board were brought to safety and 10 of them were being treated in hospital for breathing problems and minor injuries. Hours later, rescuers managed to reach two men who were stranded in the hold and airlift them off the ship.\n\nThere was no word on the missing 11, but throughout the day officials have been trying to confirm how many people were able to leave the ferry when the order was given to abandon ship.\n\nGreek and Italian boats rushed to put out the fire on the 183m (600ft) ferry\n\nThe ferry left the port of Igoumenitsa on Greece's western coast at about 01:50 (23:50 GMT on Thursday). The fire was thought to have started on one of the car decks in the hold. The crew initially tried to put it out before the captain gave the order to abandon ship at around 04:20.\n\n\"Within an hour we had left the ship, we were saved by the crew,\" one passenger told Greek TV.\n\nBoth passengers and crew boarded lifeboats near the island of Ereikousa before being picked up by ships in the area. A passing Italian customs ship was first on the scene.\n\nCustoms police said their patrol vessel Monte Sperone had rescued 243 of those on board.\n\nGreek officials said everyone on board was successfully evacuated from the ferry\n\nThe fire was still burning on Friday evening, but a specialised Greek rescue team was able to board the vessel more than 12 hours after the fire broke out.\n\nOne passenger told Greek media that some people had been sleeping in their vehicles when the alarm was raised.", "Simon Coveney is visiting Northern Ireland for the first time since the executive collapsed\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has played down the prospect of a breakthrough on the Northern Ireland Protocol in UK-EU talks next week.\n\nHe was speaking as he arrived in Belfast for talks with the Stormont parties.\n\nMr Coveney was asked about the next UK-EU joint committee meeting due to happen on Monday.\n\nHe said it was more likely to be a \"staging post\" for the two sides to issue a statement on progress so far.\n\nMr Coveney has previously said he believes negotiations over the Northern Ireland Protocol must conclude by the end of this month.\n\nThe Irish foreign minister also told the media in Belfast on Thursday that the Irish and British governments are not \"bystanders\" in trying to resolve the latest political crisis at Stormont.\n\nIt is the first time the minister has visited since the power-sharing executive collapsed earlier this month.\n\nHe is to have talks with four of the five main parties to discuss the political crisis, as well as negotiations over the protocol.\n\nMr Coveney said Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is travelling and would be unable to meet him in person on Thursday, but they would remain in contact.\n\nFollowing a meeting with the European Commission vice-president Maroš Šefčovič on Thursday, Sir Jeffrey warned that \"unionism is rapidly losing faith that a negotiated solution is possible\".\n\n\"It is time for the government to take action which restores fairness and reinstates Northern Ireland's access to the UK internal market,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"This is the only way to build a better future for everyone in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nMr Coveney said officials in London, Dublin and Brussels were all actively involved in trying to find solutions to the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nHowever, he added that it was up to the Stormont parties alone to return to government together and that he would continue to support them to reach a resolution.\n\nMr Coveney is also expected to meet civic society leaders in Armagh during his visit.\n\nThe minister was involved in negotiations that helped lead to the signing of the New Decade New Approach agreement in January 2020, restoring Stormont's institutions after a three-year impasse.\n\nThe UK government has insisted it wants to reach a solution urgently, in light of the latest crisis at Stormont.\n\nIts lead negotiator, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, met her EU counterpart last Friday for a further round of talks.\n\nLiz Truss said she wants to work with the EU towards solutions that deliver for people in Northern Ireland\n\nEarlier, Mr Coveney said those involved in the negotiations are \"putting in a lot of time\" to make progress before the upcoming assembly elections on 5 May.\n\n\"Liz Truss and Maroš Šefčovič were the two key negotiators on each side but are very much supported by the Irish government and many others who want to try a way forward here,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe described the decision of the DUP to withdraw Paul Givan as first minister as part of its ongoing opposition to the Irish Sea border as \"very unfortunate\".\n\nThe party has argued that unless the arrangements are changed, political institutions in Northern Ireland cannot continue as normal.\n\n\"We're trying to find a way of ensuring that the Northern Ireland Protocol, which is part of an international agreement that the UK government designed, helped to write and then ratified, can be implemented in a way that's acceptable for all sides, including unionists,\" Mr Coveney said.\n\n\"The Irish government is going to work closely with the British government and the EU to try to find a solution that everybody can live with.\"\n\nSinn Féin Vice-President Michelle O'Neill said she believed the UK government had moved back from its threat to override part of the protocol by triggering Article 16.\n\nShe said the issue had been raised during her meetings with Mr Coveney and the EU's chief negotiator, Maros Sefcovic on Thursday.\n\n\"It appears off the boil for now - but the Tory government has shown before there are many twists and turns still to go but we'll continue doing all we can to work with the EU and find a solution to make the protocol work.\"\n\nSpeaking after his meeting with Mr Coveney and Mr Šefčovič, Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie said they were \"as far away now as we were last year\" in reaching a deal on the protocol.\n\n\"We're far away from any form of solution,\" he said.\n\n\"But what I do think they want on February 21 is to finish the joint committee and come out with a positive statement of intent that we're going in a particular direction\".\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said he believed there would not be much progress before May's assembly election, warning that the DUP's decision to collapse the executive had not sparked a change in negotiations.\n\n\"This will end in tears for the DUP, what they've set out as red lines were always going to be in achievable,\" he added.\n\nWithout a first and deputy first minister in place it is not yet clear who will attend a meeting of the joint committee on behalf of the Northern Ireland institutions, but it is likely that a senior civil servant could take part instead.", "Pitt and Jolie bought Chateau Miraval, comprising a home and vineyard in the south of France, in 2008\n\nBrad Pitt is suing his ex-wife Angelina Jolie for selling her stake in the French vineyard they bought together.\n\nThe couple purchased a controlling interest in Chateau Miraval in 2008 and got married there six years later.\n\nPitt says he and his former wife agreed not to sell their stakes in the venue without the permission of the other.\n\nBut Jolie sold her share to a spirits manufacturer owned by a Russian oligarch, according to the lawsuit. Jolie has not yet commented.\n\nLawyers for the Oscar-winning actor said Chateau Miraval, comprising a home and vineyard in the south of France, had \"become Pitt's passion\" and, under his stewardship, had grown into a \"multimillion-dollar international success story\".\n\nThe Miraval estate is in the village of Correns in south-east France\n\nThe legal documents, filed in Los Angeles on Thursday, said Pitt helped ensure the profitability of vineyard, which was \"one of the world's most highly regarded producers of rose wine\".\n\nHe said Jolie sold her stake without his knowledge to a Luxembourg-based spirits manufacturer controlled by Russian businessman Yuri Shefler.\n\n\"She sold her interest with the knowledge and intention that Shefler and his affiliates would seek to control the business to which Pitt had devoted himself and to undermine Pitt's investment in Miraval,\" the lawsuit claimed.\n\nHis lawyers said the move had intended to cause \"gratuitous harm\" to Pitt, who had \"poured money and sweat equity into the wine business\".\n\nJolie and Pitt got divorced in 2016\n\nThe Miraval estate, in the village of Correns in south-east France, was reportedly bought by the couple for around 25 million euros (£20.9m).\n\nPitt and Jolie dated for 10 years before marrying in 2014. She filed for divorce in 2016.\n\nJolie \"informed Pitt in writing\" of her decision to sell to Shefler in January 2021, saying she had reached a \"painful decision, with a heavy heart\", the suit alleges.\n\nLawyers for Pitt have requested a trial by jury. The BBC has contacted Jolie's representatives for comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSnow brought school closures and some travel disruption across Scotland as Storm Eunice hit the country.\n\nA yellow Met Office warning for ice is now in place for most of the country until 09:00 on Saturday. Earlier snow and wind warnings expired at 18:00.\n\nMore than 150 schools and nurseries across Scotland were closed earlier due to snow, including almost 100 in Aberdeenshire.\n\nRoads in some parts of the country were badly affected by the conditions.\n\nAnd about a dozen Aberdeen schools announced they were closing early due to the conditions.\n\nFive schools and nurseries were closed in the Highland area, with some on higher ground in Inverclyde also closed.\n\nMotorists drive through the sleet and snow along the M8 motorway near Bathgate in West Lothian as Storm Eunice sweeps across the UK\n\nThere were tailbacks near Auchterarder\n\nThe A82 south of Glencoe was partially closed due to heavy snow. And the snow gates were shut on the A93 at Braemar and at Glenshee.\n\nTraffic Scotland reported that multiple lorries were stuck in snow on the A9 northbound at Tibbermore and on the M90 between Bridge of Earn and Glenfarg.\n\nThere were reports of long tailbacks near Auchterarder after some lorries got stuck further along the A9. Some drivers reported they had been stuck in the traffic for two and a half hours.\n\nPolice in the north east warned drivers only to travel if their journey was necessary, and said there were large tailbacks and significant delays in some areas.\n\nSome minor roads roads around Angus, parts of Aberdeenshire and Argyll and Bute were also affected by heavy snow.\n\nAn ambulance rushing a baby girl to hospital in Aberdeenshire had to be rescued by members of the public after it became stuck in heavy snow.\n\nThe A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful is operating under convoy control until Saturday evening, and then from 19:00 traffic will be diverted to the Old Military Road as a safety precaution, due to the heavy rain forecasted.\n\nSnow has been falling in areas of the Borders, Aberdeenshire, Moray, the Highlands and central Scotland.\n\nBorders areas over 150m (492ft) could see 5-10cm (2-4in), and more than 10cm (4in) is possible on the highest routes.\n\nIt follows disruption caused by Storm Dudley's hurricane-force winds.\n\nRail and ferry services were cancelled, with fallen trees damaging power lines.\n\nAll ScotRail services stopped at 16:00 on Wednesday after the Met Office issued an amber warning for wind.\n\nHowever, the network was not shut down in Scotland for Storm Eunice.\n\nScotRail said that services on Friday morning were \"running very well\" with 90% of trains running on time.\n\nNetwork Rail said there were reduced services heading cross-border, but this was largely due to the expected conditions in parts of England where \"do not travel\" warnings were in place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Met Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMillions of people in the south of England and Wales have been told to stay at home as Storm Eunice is expected to be one of the worst storms in decades.\n\nA red warning - meaning there is a danger to life from flying debris - covers London, as well as much of the south coast, and south-east and east of England.\n\nPrevious storms have left passengers trapped on trains for many hours. In November, travellers from Elgin to Aberdeen were stuck on board for 17 hours during Storm Arwen.\n\nThere was a crash amid the poor driving conditions on the off slip of the A720 city bypass at the Straiton junction in Edinburgh\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said seven flood alerts were in place in areas around the Solway Firth, due to a combination of Storm Eunice and high spring tides.\n\nThe Met Office ice warning covers most parts of Scotland and is in place from 18:00 until 09:00 on Saturday.\n\nResidents are being asked to prepare for the conditions as strong winds as well as snow may lead to very poor visibility, blizzard conditions and drifting snow.\n\nThe Scottish government has also urged people to exercise caution and follow the latest travel advice.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney chaired the Scottish government's resilience room meeting on Thursday evening in response to Storms Dudley and Eunice.\n\n\"We remain in close contact with local authorities and emergency and essential services to ensure people in the affected areas receive the latest information, advice and support where needed,\" Mr Swinney said.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 11 and 18 February.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\n\"Our regular visitor,\" said Jim Loudon, of Comrie, Perthshire, of his photo of this cute squirrel.\n\nThe Aurora Borealis captured at Milarrochy Bay, Loch Lomond, by John Cuthbert.\n\nPaul Darroch said of his shot: \"A brisk walk on the beach at Loch Morlich searching for snow.\"\n\nDavid Hendry's picture is one of several sent in this week of striking mammatus clouds that were seen over some parts of Scotland during Storm Dudley.\n\nStevie Carenduff's picture of mammatus clouds blown in on Storm Dudley over Clarkston.\n\nValerie Maule sent in this picture of approaching Storm Dudley. She said: \"My daughter Lucy turned down the road to her farm in East Lothian and suddenly the blue skies disappeared under the approaching storm under-lit by the sunset.\"\n\nKatie Bogie, of Edinburgh, said of her photo: \"The beautiful Murdo at Castle Roy, Nethybridge.\"\n\nAlex Ash took this picture after spotting a squall moving across Loch Torridon. Alex said: \"I rushed out to capture the wind sucking the water off the loch, getting it just as a sliver of sunshine hit to create a bit of a rainbow.\"\n\nJanina Dolny's picture of the Trumpet Flowers installation at Aberdeen's Spectra festival.\n\nSheila Carswell said of her photo: \"Some welcome signs of spring at Lamlash on the Isle of Arran.\"\n\nCurlews at River Lossie Estuary. Colin Little, from Elgin, said: \"The flock were on the embankment between river and dunes and raised as together flying back and fore along rivers edge before settling back to the embankment.\"\n\nGordon Waddell said of his picture of Clovenfords in the Borders: \"Saturday afternoon dog walk up to Whytbank Tower before the rugby with daughter Kerry.\"\n\nMark Reynolds' submission to the gallery. He said: \"A snap of some beautiful swans and ducks gliding on the Caledonian Canal with Ben Nevis in the background covered in snow.\"\n\nJane Chilton said “optimistic” described this ice cream van in the pouring rain on Glasgow’s Great Western Road.\n\nThe Lomondgate stag in Dumbarton in a picture by David Elder.\n\nHailey Beaupre's photo of The Old Bridge at the Sligachan River on Skye. Hailey said: \"Legend has it that if one dips their face in the waters, they shall be granted the gift of eternal beauty. Tempting, no?\"\n\nAberdeenshire skipper John Clark said of his picture from the trawler Reliance BF800: \"Finally a bonny day at sea and a nice view from the office.\"\n\nBrian Battensby took this picture from his home in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, while self-isolating. He said: \"I needed something to do during my 'internment' and I've been photographing the birds that have been coming to the feeders in the back garden.\"\n\nJane Reith, of Johnston, took this image of the steps on Cambridge Street at Fleming House, Glasgow, while on her way home from work.\n\nRon Lumsden's shot of early-morning winter sun on the 13th green at Culcabock Golf Course, Inverness.\n\nDave Stewart, of Leith, captured this scene of an oystercatcher in a fight for its lunch at Musselburgh.\n\nArthur Campbell's image of a stormy scene, looking towards the Isle of Eigg.\n\nRoxy Elgar's photo was taken at the top of a Munro called Na Gruagaichean near Kinlochleven.\n\nBruce Carrington's photograph of greylag geese near Crailing in the Scottish Borders.\n\nRachel Jenkinson said her regular visitor, nicknamed Gallus, came by one morning to say \"hello\". Rachel said: \"We live just a mile from Princes Street in Edinburgh.\"\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Parts of the UK are braced for Storm Eunice to hit. What practical things can people do to prepare themselves?\n\nRare red weather warnings - the highest level - have been issued in parts of south-west England, south Wales, London and south-east England, and the Met Office has warned of gusts of up to 90mph.\n\nBefore the storm, the Met Office recommends that you secure any loose objects such as garden furniture, ladders or anything else that could be blown around.\n\nDoors and windows should be closed firmly - particularly those to the windward side of the house - and especially large doors, like those on garages. If the property has storm shutters fitted over the windows, make sure these are fastened too.\n\nClose and secure loft trapdoors with bolts. If chimney stacks are tall and in poor condition, make sure any beds are kept away from the areas directly beneath them.\n\nVehicles should be parked in a garage, if possible - if not, make sure they are clear of trees, buildings and fences.\n\nDuring the storm, the Met Office advises that you stay indoors as much as possible. Don't go outdoors to repair damage while the storm is in progress.\n\nIf you do go out, it says, try not to walk near buildings and trees. The Met Office also recommends that you keep away from the sheltered side of boundary fences and walls - this is the side they will collapse on.\n\nIf possible, it adds, try to enter and leave your house through doors on the sheltered side and close them behind you. Internal doors should be opened only when needed and closed behind you.\n\nDrive carefully - that is, if you have to drive at all. \"If driving, the best advice is to stick to main roads if possible, slow down and expect the unexpected,\" says Edmund King, president of the AA.\n\nWhen driving in strong winds, the motoring group also advises keeping both hands on the wheel, maintaining your distance from other vehicles and avoiding the use of horseboxes and other high-sided trailers.\n\nIt also recommends watching out for twigs or small branches in the road - these could mean a fallen tree or large branch is around the next bend - and warns that partially fallen trees can be difficult to spot as they may sit above the sweep of your headlights.\n\nSean Sidley, AA Patrol of the Year, adds: \"Check the travel news before you set off and take particular care where roads dip, for example under railway bridges, which are more likely to flood.\"\n\nCall your insurer straight away if something has been damaged as a result of the storm. \"If you suffer damage to your property, contact your insurer as soon as you can for help and advice,\" says Laura Hughes of the Association of British Insurers (ABI). Most will have 24-hour emergency helplines.\n\nYou might need to arrange temporary emergency repairs to prevent any damage getting worse, but the ABI recommends that you speak to your insurer first. Keep any receipts as they will form part of your claim.\n\nAfter the storm, the Met Office warns you should be careful not to touch any telephone or electrical cables that have been blown down or that are still hanging.\n\nIt also suggests checking on vulnerable neighbours and relatives to make sure they are safe and, if necessary, helping them arrange for any repairs to be carried out.", "Northern Powergrid said the line had been brought down by a falling tree.\n\nThirteen dogs have died after being electrocuted when a power line fell on to their kennel during Storm Dudley.\n\nThe animals were killed in the incident at Cuckavalda Gundogs, in Ampleforth, North Yorkshire.\n\nOwners Jack and Anna Peckitt said 11 Labradors and two Cocker Spaniels, all aged between six months and seven years, died in the \"tragic accident\".\n\nNorthern Powergrid said the power line had been brought down by a falling tree.\n\nPosting on Facebook Cuckavalda Gundogs said the incident happened at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday\n\nA Northern Powergrid spokesman said supplies were isolated in the YO61 and 62 areas after the incident, leaving around 680 customers without power, but were restored to the \"majority of customers\" by Wednesday night.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Danger to life warning as Storm Eunice heads for UK\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The O2 hosted events at the 2012 Olympics\n\nSections of the fabric roof of London's O2 arena have been shredded by the strength of Storm Eunice's winds, causing the venue to close.\n\nOpened in 2000, and formerly known as the Millennium Dome, the landmark in Greenwich, south-east London, has been damaged by gusts of up to 80mph.\n\nThe building has been evacuated and will be shut for the rest of Friday.\n\n\"The safety of our visitors remains of paramount importance,\" the O2 said in a statement.\n\n\"We will continue to assess the ongoing situation and act accordingly,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe venue was renamed the O2 in 2007 and hosts concerts and sporting events. It contains a cinema and a range of shops and restaurants.\n\nPrimary school teacher Lucy Sloman described hearing a \"big bang\" before being ushered away by security.\n\nThe building has been evacuated and will be shut for the rest of Friday\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I looked up to see part of the roof had ripped. My parents were quite shaken.\"\n\nThe band Simply Red, who had been scheduled to play a concert this weekend which was cancelled due to Covid, described the developments as \"tragic\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Hubbard This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOriginally intended as an \"international icon\" when opened by Tony Blair's Labour government, the Millennium Dome project cost £789m - and tens of millions more to maintain following its closure at the end of 2000.\n\nThe structure, which later transferred into private hands, was the scene of a foiled diamond robbery, which police said would have been the world's biggest.\n\nThe dome also featured in dramatic opening scenes to the 1999 James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nAn O2 spokesperson said: \"Due to today's adverse weather conditions, we can confirm that there has been some damage caused to the tent fabric in our roof at the O2. The affected areas have been cleared and the O2 will remain closed for the rest of the day.\"\n\nHow have you been preparing for Storm Eunice? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Storm Eunice has been causing travel chaos, with hundreds of flights cancelled, rail lines blocked and road bridges closed.\n\nA rare \"do not travel\" alert was issued earlier across Britain's railways and more than 430 flights due to take off or land at UK airports have been cancelled.\n\nSeven train operators suspended all services this afternoon - c2c, Chiltern Railways, Great Western Railway, Greater Anglia, South Western Railway, Southeastern and Transport for Wales.\n\nNetwork Rail has closed all routes in Kent, while every line in south-east London has been blocked by trees.\n\nTransport for Wales said its train services would resume tomorrow - but disruption to rail travel is likely to continue early on across the UK.\n\nQuote Message: Starting tonight and carrying on through the weekend we will be working round the clock to fix the damage that the storm has done to the railway, but passengers should be checking their journeys over the weekend as we carry out these repairs.\" Starting tonight and carrying on through the weekend we will be working round the clock to fix the damage that the storm has done to the railway, but passengers should be checking their journeys over the weekend as we carry out these repairs.\"", "People have been warned about possible big waves in towns like Clevedon in Somerset\n\nTwo counties have declared an emergency as a red weather warning - suggesting a risk to life from flying debris - has been issued for Storm Eunice.\n\nForecasters predict severe flooding, wind speeds of up to 90mph (144kmh) and disruption to transport services and roads in Gloucestershire and Somerset.\n\nThe M4 Prince of Wales bridge and the M48 Severn Bridge are likely to close.\n\nAll schools in Somerset will close and Avon and Somerset Police has advised people to avoid travelling on Friday.\n\nSome schools in Wiltshire have announced closures and Bristol City Council has advised schools in the city to close too.\n\nAreas along the River Severn between Avonmouth and Sharpness in Bristol are also expected to flood.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStaff from local councils and emergency services will be knocking on doors on Thursday afternoon to help people who need to evacuate from their homes safely.\n\nThose who are being evacuated are asked to pass on the message and knock on neighbours' doors where possible.\n\nResidents have also been asked by local authorities to place any recycling boxes in a safe place.\n\nWaste collections in Bristol and Somerset on Friday have been suspended.\n\nAreas near the River Severn could be affected by flooding\n\nOfficials will be visiting homes near the River Severn to ensure they are safe\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said disruption was \"inevitable\" after the Met office released red and amber warnings for the South West of England from 05:00 to 21:00 GMT.\n\n\"The safety of passengers and staff is our top priority,\" he said.\n\nLetters have been sent to some residents in preparation\n\nIn Bristol, services on the Severn Beach line have been cancelled for Friday morning.\n\nFirst Bus has suspended all of its services in Bristol, including Metrobus, Bristol Park and Ride and Airport Flyer, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Wells until 13:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Cornwall, North Devon and Sharpness in Gloucestershire are feared to be the worst-hit areas due to the tidal impact from the storm surge and very high spring tides.\n\nNational Highways said to expect dangerous driving conditions with exceptional sidewinds and wind-blown debris.\n\nIt also warned there was a particularly big risk to high-sided vehicles and other vulnerable vehicles such as caravans and motorbikes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by The Severn Bridges This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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End of twitter post 3 by The Severn Bridges\n\nWestern Power operations director Graham Halladay said it had made storm preparations but to be prepared for power cuts.\n\n\"If members of the public see fallen lines I would urge them to stay well clear and ring 105,\" he said.\n\n\"A fallen power line could still be live and can deliver a fatal shock.\"\n\nIt will be one of the most significant storms to hit the UK in many years.\n\nThroughout the day we should be prepared for trees being uprooted, power cuts with significant travel disruption of delays and cancellations.\n\nEunice will start bringing impacts early Friday morning with particular concern around the Bristol Channel, where the Met Office red warning is in force for.\n\nThe wind strengths forecast for southern parts of the UK are comparable to the Burns' Day Storm of January 1990, which caused widespread damage, and the storms that hit the UK during the winter of 2013-2014.\n\nWest of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris encouraged residents to exercise extreme caution and take all possible precautions.\n\n\"I'm urging all local people to act sensibly and take all reasonable precautions with the approach of Storm Eunice,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the Army would be on stand-by to help those affected by Storm Eunice.\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Eunice? If it is safe to do so, please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Justin Trudeau said he would send whatever support was needed to Ottawa, after the city's mayor asked for an extra 1,800 police officers\n\nCanada's prime minister has said a protest by truckers that has paralysed the capital Ottawa \"has to stop\".\n\nJustin Trudeau said Canadians were \"shocked and frankly disgusted\" by some protesters' behaviour, which has reportedly included vandalism and racial abuse.\n\nLorry drivers have been rallying against Canada's Covid vaccine rules.\n\nTheir vehicles have gridlocked Ottawa and a state of emergency has been declared in the city.\n\nFor nearly two weeks, hundreds of lorries have brought the city centre to a standstill, forcing many local businesses to close.\n\nResident's nerves were also being frayed by constantly blaring air horns. On Monday, however, they had a small victory when an Ottawa judge ruled that the truckers must stop honking their horns for 10 days.\n\nWhile most of the protest has been peaceful, Ottawa police have said they are concerned about the extremist rhetoric coming from far-right groups at the rally. As well as reported racial and homophobic abuse, Nazi symbols have been displayed and protesters danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial.\n\nOttawa police have said they are investigating more than 60 incidents, including alleged hate crimes and property damage.\n\n\"I want to be very clear - we are not intimidated by those who hurl insults and abuse at small business workers and steal food from the homeless,\" Mr Trudeau told MPs at an emergency debate in Canada's House of Commons on Monday.\n\n\"We won't give in to those who fly racist flags, we won't cave to those who engage in vandalism or dishonour the memory of our veterans.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Justin Trudeau This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Sunday, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson declared a state of emergency in the capital, and said the protests were \"out of control.\"\n\nHe asked the federal government to send an extra 1,800 police officers and a mediator to work with the protesters to \"end this siege\".\n\nMr Trudeau has pledged to send whatever the city needs, but did not elaborate on what that could be. Last week, he ruled out deploying the army to the city, saying one must be \"very, very cautious\" about doing that.\n\nThe so-called Freedom Convoy began on 9 January in western Canada as truckers protested against a new rule that requires them to be vaccinated against Covid-19 to cross the US-Canada border. The demonstrations have now morphed to include anger at a raft of Covid-19 restrictions and at Mr Trudeau's government generally.\n\nDemonstrations have also spread to several other Canadian cities, including Toronto and Vancouver. Internationally, there have been rallies of support in New Zealand's capital Wellington and Canberra in Australia.\n\nAt the weekend, police seized \"thousands of litres\" of fuel cans and propane from the truck drivers in Ottawa, and warned that anyone caught bringing supplies to them, including basic necessities like food and toilet paper, could be arrested.\n\nSome Ottawa residents had said the police response was weak, and the weekend crackdown came too late.\n\nOne trucker, John Van Vleet, told the BBC it was \"completely wrong\" and there was \"nothing but love, unity and peace\" at the rally.\n\nPolice Chief Peter Sloly said officials were continuing to \"aggressively go after\" any individuals or organisations funding the protest, after a GoFundMe page which had raised C$10m ($7.9m; £5.8m) was shut down and the donations frozen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the BBC's Ros Atkins explain why truck drivers protesting against a vaccine mandate are blocking roads in Ottawa\n\nFor city blocks, in the centre of the national capital, massive trucks are parked, many decorated with signs calling for an end to vaccine mandates - or simply \"Freedom\".\n\nUp to 500 such trucks are estimated to be in Ottawa's downtown right now and many have been there for going on 12 days.\n\nThe fences in front of the parliament building are covered in hundreds of handwritten protest signs expressing support for their cause.\n\nThe protesters say that theirs is a cause all Canadians should applaud - but after nearly a fortnight of blaring horns and streets shut by blockaders and police, many residents of Ottawa see it differently.\n\n\"They've done their protest and should have been sent home a long time ago,\" David, a local business owner said.\n\nHolding a sign opposing the protests, he said he has got some supportive honks and thumbs up from passers-by. But he's also been yelled at by protesters, or bumped into and pushed, and they've tried to take his sign.", "Rebekah Vardy said it was \"war\" after Coleen Rooney publicly accused her of leaking stories, a court has heard.\n\nA trial is due to start in May, and the two-day hearing this week is to decide what evidence can be used when that comes around.\n\nThe \"Wagatha Christie\" row broke out in 2019 when Mrs Rooney said fake stories were leaked to the press after only being seen by Mrs Vardy's Instagram.\n\nMrs Vardy denies the accusations and is suing Mrs Rooney for libel.\n\nOn Tuesday, the High Court heard that WhatsApp messages between Mrs Vardy and her PR and friend Caroline Watt had been disclosed ahead of the trial.\n\nAnd it's what's in those messages that has been discussed in court today.\n\nOn the day Mrs Rooney, the wife of former England star Wayne, published a post on Twitter which ended, \"It's.......... Rebekah Vardy's account\", Mrs Vardy sent a message to Ms Watt, stating: \"That's war.\"\n\nThe messages also revealed Mrs Vardy referred to Mrs Rooney and her husband Wayne with offensive language.\n\nMrs Rooney's lawyers have previously claimed that Mrs Vardy, who is married to Leicester City striker Jamie, had leaked information to The Sun newspaper either directly or through Ms Watt \"acting on her instruction or with her knowing approval\".\n\nIn written arguments, Mrs Rooney's barrister David Sherborne said: \"From the outset, Mrs Vardy has always claimed that neither she nor Ms Watt were involved in the leaking of private information from Mrs Rooney's Instagram account.\n\n\"The recent disclosure has shown that this is emphatically not the case,\" he added - referring to those WhatsApp messages.\n\nMrs Rooney's lawyers have presented messages between Mrs Vardy and her friend as evidence in court\n\nAccording to Mrs Rooney's written case, messages between Mrs Vardy and Ms Watt in January 2019 showed them discussing a post on Mrs Rooney's private Instagram where her car had been damaged.\n\nMrs Vardy told Ms Watt she \"would love to leak those stories x\".\n\nMr Sherborne said Ms Watt was later responsible for the leak of the story to the newspaper, with Mrs Vardy's approval.\n\nAfter the story was published in The Sun Mrs Rooney tweeted it was \"sad\" someone who followed her was \"betraying\" her.\n\nOn the first day of the court case, Mrs Vardy posted this photo on her Instagram story\n\nAccording to written submissions, while discussing the tweet in a private WhatsApp conversation, Ms Watt told Mrs Vardy \"It wasn't someone she trusted. It was me\", in a message accompanied by a laughing emoji.\n\nIn written arguments Mrs Rooney's barrister said this \"conspicuously elicits neither surprise, contradiction or criticism from Mrs Vardy, who was plainly aware and approved of this leak\".\n\nAt the hearing on Tuesday, which is due to last two days, Mr Sherborne said Mrs Rooney had brought a claim against Ms Watt for misuse of private information, which Ms Watt denies.\n\nHe added that Mrs Rooney's legal team had wanted more information from the WhatsApp messages between Mrs Vardy and Ms Watt, but said Ms Watt's phone had \"regrettably\" fallen into the North Sea after a boat she was on hit a wave, shortly after the last court hearing.\n\n\"[It was] most unfortunate, because it was only a short time after the court ordered that the phone should be specifically searched,\" he said.\n\nHugh Tomlinson QC, representing Mrs Vardy, said the denied allegations have caused her \"huge damage and distress\".\n\nIn written arguments, the barrister said the information and messages disclosed \"provides no evidence that the claimant leaked the three fake posts\".\n\nHe said Mrs Rooney \"relies upon selective and incomplete WhatsApp exchanges... conveniently ignoring the messages which demonstrate beyond doubt that the claimant was not responsible for leaking the defendant's private information to The Sun\".\n\nIn further WhatsApp messages between her and Ms Watt, Mrs Vardy said she had supported Mrs Rooney and suggested it was Mrs Rooney's own PR who had leaked stories.\n\nIan Helme, for Ms Watt, said she had given \"clear and consistent\" denials against the claim for misuse of private information.\n\nThe barrister said in written arguments that it was not only Mrs Vardy's Instagram account that had viewed the post about Mrs Rooney's car, adding that the incident also took place in public.\n\n\"It is difficult to see how there could be said to be any reasonable expectation of privacy in relation to such information,\" Mr Helme said.\n\nHe later said that Mrs Rooney's lawyers had taken \"an extremely aggressive\" approach and added it can be inferred that Mrs Rooney's primary concern is \"public opinion, or vindication\".\n\nThe trial is due to start in early May.\n\nThe hearing before Mrs Justice Steyn is due to finish on Wednesday.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst (left) and director Jane Campion are all recognised for The Power of the Dog\n\nJane Campion's The Power of the Dog, an intense Western starring Benedict Cumberbatch, leads this year's Oscar board with 12 nominations.\n\nIt is closely followed by Dune, which has 10, and Belfast and West Side Story, which have seven each.\n\nOlivia Colman, Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrew Garfield are among the UK nominees in the lead acting categories.\n\nDame Judi Dench and Ciarán Hinds are nominated for their supporting roles in Sir Kenneth Branagh's Belfast.\n\nHis autobiographical black-and-white film about a family in Northern Ireland during The Troubles is one of 10 films in the running for best picture.\n\nSir Kenneth, who is also nominated for best director, said in a statement: \"It's a long way from the streets of Belfast to the Academy Awards.\n\nDame Judi Dench is nominated for her performance in Belfast, while Sir Kenneth Branagh is up for best director\n\n\"Today, I think of my mother and father, and my grandparents - how proud they were to be Irish, how much this city meant to them. They would have been overwhelmed by this incredible honour - as am I.\n\n\"Given a story as personal as this one, it's a hell of a day for my family, and the family of our film. I thank Academy voters for their incredible and generous recognition.\"\n\nSir Kenneth becomes the first person to be nominated in seven different Oscar categories throughout his career. He already has director, actor, supporting actor, adapted screenplay and live action short nominations, but can now add best original screenplay and best picture. He is yet to win, however.\n\nWith her nomination, New Zealand director Jane Campion becomes the first woman to have been nominated for best director twice, having been recognised for The Piano in 1993.\n\nHer film, The Power of the Dog, is a slow and suspenseful western which also scored nominations for three of its supporting actors - Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Kirsten Dunst.\n\nDune, which stars Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet, is one of 10 nominees for best picture\n\nAndrew Garfield (right) is nominated for his performance in Tick Tick... Boom!, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda (left)\n\nMany nominees shared their joy on social media after the Academy unveiled its shortlists on Tuesday.\n\nJessica Chastain, nominated for her leading performance in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, tweeted: \"This morning felt like a dream\".\n\nAustralian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee said he was \"deeply honoured\" to have been recognised as a best supporting actor nominee in the Power of the Dog.\n\nBelfast star Ciarán Hinds, another nominee in that category, said in a statement: \"Having worked in this industry for nearly 50 years, I thought there wasn't much that could surprise me still. Today, I can honestly say, I am astounded, thrilled and deeply grateful.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jessica Chastain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBritish actor Andrew Garfield said he was \"deeply humbled\" to be recognised for his portrayal of the late composer Jonathan Larson in Tick Tick... Boom!\n\n\"All I long for is to tell stories that remind us of how to live,\" Garfield said in a statement. \"Jonathan's story offers us a treasure map. Thank you for keeping his song reverberating through our universe.\"\n\nJessie Buckley told RTÉ she was in \"complete shock\" after being nominated for best supporting actress, adding: \"The Lost Daughter is so special to me... To be recognised for anything connected to it is just a wild dream come true.\"\n\nAnd Ariana DeBose, who is also a strong contender for best supporting actress for her role as Anita in West Side Story, shared her excitement over her nomination.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ariana DeBose This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwo couples are nominated within the 20 acting places that were available.\n\nPenelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers) and Javier Bardem (Being The Ricardos) have been married since 2010, while Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst are engaged.\n\nIn a statement, Dunst said: \"To be honored by the Academy is a truly humbling experience. For both Jesse and I to get our first nominations together is beyond our wildest dreams.\"\n\nDenzel Washington's nomination for The Tragedy of Macbeth is his 10th, extending the record he already holds as the most nominated black actor ever.\n\nWill Smith has been nominated for best actor for his performance in King Richard\n\nThere is no overlap between the best actress and best picture categories - all five women nominated for a leading role appeared in films which did not make it into the top category.\n\nThis is common at the Oscars. While Frances McDormand and Nomadland synced their wins last year, that was the first time in 15 years that the winner of best actress appeared in the film that also won best picture.\n\nEfforts to nominate more popular films and make the Oscars more relevant to young people were only partly successful, as fans of James Bond and Spider-Man were left disappointed.\n\nDenis Villeneuve's sci-fi saga Dune was the most successful film to get a best picture nod, after taking $400m (£294m) at the box office worldwide.\n\nHouse of Gucci's Lady Gaga (far right) and Jared Leto (second left) both missed out in their respective acting categories\n\nWith far more films in the awards season race this year and only a limited number of slots available in each category, it was inevitable that some films and stars would miss out.\n\nThe voting system means that, while the Academy does not choose to actively reject a particular movie, director or actor, a heavily-tipped contender can miss out if they don't get as many votes as some of their peers.\n\nFor example, the red carpet will have to do without without Lady Gaga and her Oscars outfit this year. She had been tipped for a best actress nomination for House of Gucci, but has missed out.\n\nIt's not a good year to be both a musician and an actor. Gaga's co-star Jared Leto, who is also the singer with Thirty Seconds To Mars, and Alana Haim, who has gone from the band Haim to starring in Licorice Pizza, were both in contention but have been overlooked.\n\nKristen Stewart did make it on to the best actress list, though, for playing Princess Diana in Spencer. Her first Oscar nomination, the former Twilight star was the frontrunner to win a few months ago, but Spencer has rapidly fallen out of favour and it wasn't certain that she would be nominated.\n\nOn the best supporting actress list, Dame Judi had been an outsider to be nominated for Belfast - but she is loved by the Oscars, and has now received her eighth career nomination. Her on-screen daughter-in-law Caitriona Balfe, who was thought to have been Belfast's more likely representative in that category, was not recognised.\n\nThe Lost Daughter has scored acting nominations for Jessie Buckley (far left) and Olivia Colman (second right)\n\nIrish star Jessie Buckley was also something of a surprise in the best supporting actress category. She plays the younger version of Olivia Colman's character in The Lost Daughter - with Colman herself up for best actress, days after being snubbed in the Bafta nominations.\n\nOverall, Oscar voters liked The Power of the Dog a bit more than expected, and liked Dune a bit less than expected - typified by the fact that, although Dune has 10 nominations, Denis Villeneuve didn't make the cut for best director.\n\nTracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan announced the nominations in Los Angeles on Tuesday.\n\nThere is pressure to make the Oscars more popular with and relevant to young audiences, after 2021's pared-down ceremony tanked in the ratings, partly due to the absence of big film releases during lockdown.\n\nThe Academy has confirmed the ceremony will have a host this year, but has not yet revealed who it will be.\n\nThe ceremony hasn't had a host since Jimmy Kimmel was at the helm in 2018. Instead, a variety of celebrity guests have introduced individual categories and announced winners.\n\nThis year's ceremony will take place on Sunday 27 March.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Kurt Zouma: West Ham condemn defender as video emerges of him hitting pet cat Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nKurt Zouma signed for West Ham from Chelsea in the summer West Ham have \"unreservedly condemned\" Kurt Zouma after a video emerged of the France defender kicking his cat across the floor and slapping it in the face. Zouma, who has apologised, was named in the starting line-up for Tuesday's Premier League game with Watford. Essex Police are liaising with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) and say \"urgent enquiries are ongoing\". The club have said they will deal with the incident internally. West Ham boss David Moyes said of the decision to start Zouma in Tuesday's home game: \"He is one of our better players. But it is ongoing and the club are dealing with it, so that is a separate matter.\" In a statement, Zouma, 27, said: \"I want to apologise for my actions. There are no excuses for my behaviour, which I sincerely regret. \"I also want to say how deeply sorry I am to anyone who was upset by the video. I would like to assure everyone that our two cats are perfectly fine and healthy. \"They are loved and cherished by our entire family, and this behaviour was an isolated incident that will not happen again.\"\n• None 'Players must understand their responsibility in influencing society' Further footage, first published by The Sun and reportedly filmed by Zouma's brother Yoan, shows the player throwing shoes at the pet and chasing it around a room. \"West Ham United unreservedly condemns the actions of Kurt Zouma in the video that has circulated,\" said the club, who signed the defender in the summer from Chelsea for £29.8m. \"We have spoken to Kurt and will be dealing with the matter internally, but we would like to make it clear that we in no way condone cruelty towards animals.\" Yoan Zouma plays for Dagenham & Redbridge and the National League side said it \"has had discussions with Yoan and we will now take some time to consider our response\". The club added: \"In the meantime, we would like to make it completely clear that we in no way condone any form of cruelty towards animals and take this matter very seriously.\" Yoan Zouma said: \"I deeply regret my involvement in the video that has been widely circulated and unreservedly apologise, not only for my actions, but for the upset and distress this will have caused to so many people. \"I am now taking time to reflect on what I have done but wish to assure everyone that this was an isolated incident and not something that I am proud of.\" An Essex Police spokesperson said: \"We are aware of a video circulating on social media relating to an incident involving a cat which members of our communities may find distressing. \"We have recently been made aware that this incident may have taken place in Essex and we are liaising with the RSPCA and urgent enquiries are ongoing.\" The RSPCA said: \"This is a very upsetting video and we'd like to reassure the public that we are investigating. \"We cannot comment further at this time but we're grateful to everyone who has brought this to our attention.\" Kurt Zouma was also criticised by Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Maheta Molango as he gave evidence to a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee on Tuesday. \"It is not for us to discipline him, it is for the employer to discipline, but our role is to tell the player this type of behaviour is not acceptable,\" he said.\n• None 'It belongs to all of us': Join us in celebrating 100 years of informing, educating and entertaining the UK\n• None From Sheffield to the Beijing Mountains : Follow a group of Team GB freestylers in their preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics", "Cabinet reshuffles are not uncommon for any government and usually happen about once a year.\n\nSometimes prime ministers move ministers around to signal shifts in policy; other shake-ups are about party management.\n\nOn this occasion, Boris Johnson promised changes to his top team following weeks of political turbulence and threats to his leadership from within his own party.\n\nHe made the announcement in parliament after the publication of a highly critical interim report into parties held in Downing Street during Covid restrictions.\n\n“I get it and I will fix it,” Johnson told MPs, some of whom had called for him to resign.\n\nDowning Street says the reshuffle would improve links between No 10 and Parliament.\n\nIt said changes to the whips office would \"improve engagement\" with MPs and the new Brexit role for Jacob Rees-Mogg would make the changes needed now the UK has left the EU.", "Ed Sheeran and Adele joined other musicians on the red carpet ahead of the ceremony. Fans are awaiting to hear who will win best artist after the Brits took the decision to scrap gendered awards. The show is being hosted at the O2 in London by comedian Mo Gilligan.", "Hafan y Môr park in north Wales is already fully booked for its opening week\n\nHolidaymakers still want a staycation this year - despite many pandemic restrictions easing, tourism leaders have said.\n\nOne major holiday park destination in Wales said it was already fully booked ahead of its opening week in March.\n\nTourism bosses across Snowdonia said demand was buoyant - with bookings expected to exceed last summer.\n\nBut the sector said managing to recruit enough staff to meet holidaymakers' expectations was challenging.\n\n\"Already in our early bookings, our park is full,\" said Denise Bossons, the general manager overseeing operations at Hafan y Môr in Pwllheli.\n\nThe park on Gwynedd's Llŷn peninsula is one of the largest in the Haven holiday group's portfolio, and for more than 40 years was known as Butlin's Pwllheli.\n\nHafan y Môr park boss Denise Bossons says they are continuing to invest millions of pounds in their staycation destination\n\nAt the height of the holiday season, the park now employs about 650 people - the vast majority local to the area.\n\nIn November, a £15m redevelopment programme for the park was approved by planners, reflecting the company's confidence in the staycation market.\n\nThe staycation confidence is echoed by the Snowdonia 360 partnership, which brings together and promotes about 30 visitor destinations around the national park and north Wales coast.\n\nIt said there had already been a surge in advance bookings for this year - and also next year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Snowdon has seen a sharp increase in visitors since the start of the pandemic\n\n\"The figures are looking very promising,\" said Sian Pritchard at Snowdonia 360.\n\n\"Some of our accommodation providers are fully booked for February half-term, some also fully booked over Easter, and we are also finding people want to come to the area now, which is out of season.\"\n\nShe said staycations in north Wales were \"here to stay\" for this year and next year, with many of the visitors making a return journey, after enjoying experiences on their doorstep during the pandemic.\n\nSnowdonia 360's Sian Pritchard says they are expecting an incredibly busy 2022 season\n\n\"Those with families especially, and those who have invested in having their pets over lockdown, they are looking for dog-friendly, family friendly holidays, and I think north Wales is the perfect destination for that,\" she added.\n\nBut demand to holiday closer to home, alongside the pandemic, has brought other challenges - especially when it comes to recruiting hospitality staff.\n\nThe Italianate village of Portmeirion near Porthmadog is expecting to cater for up to 3,000 visitors a day, alongside a thriving hotel business on the site made famous by the cult 1960s television show The Prisoner.\n\nThe picturesque Italianate village of Portmeirion continues to fly the flag for holidays on your doorstep\n\nLocation manager Meurig Jones said they would had to be creative in how they deal with that demand, and would be holding job fairs at the attraction in the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think there are less people around, and the tourism industry isn't the easiest to work in,\" he said, adding: \"It's long hours, and it can be long nights.\"\n\nBeing put through their paces: New recruits to Haven's chef academy\n\nBack at Hafan y Môr, the teams there need to recruit 350 new staff working across its entire operations, from catering and bar staff, to running site supermarkets and cleaning teams.\n\nIn the kitchens of its main Coast House restaurant, it has come up with a new approach to tackling the shortage in chefs and cooks - and that is to train them from scratch.\n\nThis year, about 25 new recruits, some without any catering experience, are being taught at Haven's inhouse chef academy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The holiday camps are packed, the sun is shining and the phrase \"staycation\" is yet to be invented. Welcome to 1971\n\nOne of those putting them through their paces is chef Billy Butcher: \"We've got a lot variety of people among the new recruits, with a lot of different levels of where they are at - some of them don't even know how to cook an egg.\n\n\"Through this training process they are starting to learn skills they never thought they never thought they'd be able to learn,\" he added.\n\nBy the end of February, the trainees will begin a guaranteed 18 month placement, finding themselves working in live kitchens, and ready to serve up food for real holidaymakers at Hafan y Mor, and other Haven parks across the UK.\n\nBut have firms such as Haven put all their eggs - and bacon in this case - in one basket, banking on another bumper staycation summer?\n\nTravel agent Gwen Elen Morgan does not think so.\n\nStay and away - travel agent Gwen Morgan says holidaymakers are choosing both options\n\nBased at independent travel firm Nico Travel in the Conwy Valley town of Llanrwst, she said while they are seeing the return of the international traveller, holidaying near to home remains popular.\n\n\"I think people are definitely enjoying staycations this year,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a win-win for us, because we can offer both - it's great for everybody.\"", "Boris Johnson told his new director of communications Guto Harri, \"I will survive\", by singing him lines from the Gloria Gaynor song as he appointed him to the post.\n\nMr Harri was hired after a string of resignations from No 10 amid turmoil over parties held during lockdowns.\n\nThe aide told a Welsh news website he had seen the PM on Friday afternoon.\n\nHe also said his new boss was \"not a complete clown\" but \"a very likeable character\".\n\nMr Harri told Golwg 360 that after exchanging lines from the 1970s disco hit, and \"a lot of laughing\", he and Mr Johnson had \"sat down to have a serious discussion about how to get the government back on track and how we move forward\".\n\nHe added: \"90% of our discussion was very serious but he's a character and there is fun to be had. He's not the devil like some have mischaracterised him.\"\n\nMr Johnson has been under increasing pressure from his party - including calls to resign from MPs - after revelations that numerous rule-breaking gatherings were held in Downing Street during Covid lockdowns.\n\nAn initial report into the parties by senior civil servant Sue Gray said there had been \"a failure of leadership\", leading to the PM promising a shake-up of staff.\n\nFive aides resigned from No 10 last week, three of whom had been linked to the lockdown events in Downing Street.\n\nBut Munira Mirza, one of the PM's longest standing allies, quit in objection to the PM's false claim that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile.\n\nMr Harri was one of the first new appointments to fill the roles, along with Cabinet Office Minister Steve Barclay, who has taken the chief of staff role.\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Barclay addressed No 10 staff - including cleaners and security - on Monday to set out his vision for Downing Street.\n\nHe said he wanted to focus on the prime minister's priorities and thanked staff for their hard work during \"the difficult recent weeks\".\n\nGuto Harri arrives for work in Downing Street on Monday morning\n\nAsked about the shake-up at No 10, Mr Johnson told reporters on Monday: \"Everybody at No 10 and the Treasury are working together in harmony to deal with the big problems the country faces.\"\n\nBut Sir Keir reiterated his calls for the PM to resign, saying: \"Nothing will really change until the person at the top changes as all routes lead to the prime minister and that's the change we need to see now.\"\n\nWhen asked about the uncertainty over Mr Johnson's leadership, former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt said the recent turmoil had \"affected trust people feel in the entire political process\".\n\nGuto Harri turned up for work in Downing Street for the first time brandishing a plastic bag and a grin.\n\nHe said it was full of \"healthy snacks and mineral water,\" seemingly a jokey reference to the less wholesome refreshments swigged inside earlier in the pandemic.\n\nThe bag said \"reuse and repeat\" on its side - an instruction Boris Johnson has followed in hiring Mr Harri, who worked for him when he was Mayor of London.\n\nAlready the former journalist was becoming the story, and before the morning was out he was more of it.\n\nIn sharing a private conversation and describing his new boss as \"not a complete clown\" in an interview, here's a head of communications not entirely unnerved by the prospect of publicity.\n\nBut he's also someone who has known Boris Johnson for decades, respects what he's trying to do in government and knows his strengths - and weaknesses - close up, better than most.\n\n\"Boris has always underestimated how critical it is to have a fantastic team around him,\" Mr Harri recently told the BBC's Newscast podcast.\n\nHey presto, days later - he's part of that team.\n\nIt'll be up to others to judge over time how fantastic or otherwise they are.\n\nMr Harri revealed he had seen Mr Johnson in Downing Street on Friday about his new role, entering through the Cabinet Office \"to avoid being seen in the street\".\n\nHe said the former colleagues \"picked up where we left off in terms of the tone of our friendship\", with him giving a salute upon entering the room and saying: \"Prime minister, Guto Harri reporting for duty.\"\n\nThe new director of communications said the PM \"stood up from behind his desk and started to salute, but then said, 'What am I doing? I should take the knee for you.'\"\n\nMr Harri quit GB News last year, after he was suspended for taking the knee during a discussion about racism towards England's black footballers.\n\nIn his account of Friday's interview, Mr Harri added: \"I then asked, 'are you going to survive Boris?' and he said in his deep voice, slowly and with purpose, whilst singing a little as he finished his sentence, 'I will survive'.\n\n\"Inevitably he was inviting me to say, 'you've got all your life to live', and he answered, 'I've got all my love to give', so we had a little blast of Gloria Gaynor.\n\n\"No one expects that, but that's how it was.\"\n\nIn a tweet, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon criticised the exchange, which she said wasn't \"funny\" but \"offensive\" at a time when people were struggling with Covid and the cost of living.\n\nLabour echoed those sentiments, with a spokesman saying: \"The PM's new team have decided to kick off their much-vaunted 'reset' with yet more clown-show nonsense.\"\n\nBut a No 10 spokesman said Mr Harri was \"firmly committed to the government's agenda\".\n\nGuto Harri also worked as Boris Johnson's director of communications when the PM was Mayor of London\n\nMr Harri said the PM was \"bringing in professional people\" to No 10 who were \"pragmatic and more experienced and maybe less ideological\" than those that came before him.\n\nHe also said Mr Johnson \"talks non-stop\" about his policy focuses, like \"making a success of Brexit\" and levelling up.\n\nBut he also said the PM was aware of the challenges ahead, adding: \"He's aware of the hurt the talk of parties has caused, that it has shaken people's trust in government and politics in general, and of the questions about his ability to continue as prime minister.\n\n\"He has to persuade his party and the wider public that he's still a man that won a comfortable majority as recently as two years ago.\"\n\nLabour has raised questions about hiring Mr Harri after it emerged he had worked with the Chinese technology company Huawei.\n\nMany Western countries, including the UK, are removing Huawei equipment from their telecoms networks because of the security risk posed by the firm, which has close ties to China's ruling Communist Party.\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, said there needed to be full transparency about his previous roles, including as a lobbyist.\n\nBut a No 10 spokesman: \"We wouldn't exclude from government someone with valuable experience and expertise.\"\n\nThey said Mr Harri had \"provided advice to clients of a private company\" which was \"entirely legitimate and in the public domain\".\n\nAnd they said anyone coming to work in No 10 \"goes through requisite checks\" regarding security.", "19-year-old Zhu Yi sobbed openly after her error-riddled skate on Monday\n\nChinese figure skater Zhu Yi has faced increasing criticism on Chinese social media, after falling several times during her Olympic team event skates.\n\nThe debut of the US-born athlete on Sunday saw her fail to land jumps, pushing Team China out of the medals.\n\nA second performance on Monday, where she fell twice, earned more criticism.\n\nHer performance was called shameful and embarrassing by some, with personal attacks made on her background and her poor grasp of Mandarin.\n\nThe criticism also appeared to be linked to discontent that the skater, who was raised in the US, was allegedly chosen for the team event over Chinese-born skaters.\n\nMany questioned why the 19-year-old had been chosen and made groundless claims that Ms Zhu had been favoured because her father is a prominent scientist.\n\nThe hashtag #ZhuYiFellDown also reportedly trended on Weibo, before it was later taken down. However, searches for her name remain visible.\n\nThe vicious level of attack led to Weibo deleting over 300 posts and suspending accounts.\n\nZhu, who gave up her US citizenship to join Team China in 2018, had appeared visibly tense on the ice even before she fell on an early jump, crashing into the wall. After her performance on Sunday, she said she felt upset and embarrassed.\n\n\"I guess I felt a lot of pressure because I know everybody in China was pretty surprised with the selection for ladies' singles, and I just really wanted to show them what I was able to do, but unfortunately I didn't.\"\n\nOn Monday the criticism erupted again after Zhu, looking for redemption, fell on consecutive jumps and struggled through the rest of the routine.\n\nHolding back tears on the ice, she sobbed openly after finishing.\n\nZhu Yi fell twice on turns in her second skate for the team competition\n\nWhile her teammates on the sidelines welcomed her back warmly, online the reception was largely negative.\n\n\"She has no strength and it seems like she has no passion and enthusiasm on the stage,\" one social media user wrote.\n\nOthers ridiculed her distress. \"I hate that she's crying. Can crying solve anything?\" one wrote.\n\nBut many have also condemned the backlash, defending and expressing sympathy for the young athlete.\n\n\"To vent emotions on this young athlete, using social media to throw rocks down a well when she makes mistakes - that's cyber-bullying and no matter what it's going too far,\" said Hu Xijin, a well known former editor-in-chief of the nationalist Global Times newspaper. His post was widely shared.\n\nTeam China athletes often face great scrutiny from the Chinese public and immense pressure to win medals for national glory. Zhu was one of about a dozen athletes recruited by China for its Winter Games medal campaign.\n\nStill, others have drawn comparisons between the treatment of Zhu to Eileen Gu, another American-born athlete who chose to compete for China - and won a dramatic gold in the women's freestyle skiing big air final on Tuesday.\n\nGu is widely adored in China and even given the nickname of China's \"Snow Princess\". She has been praised for not only her athletic ability but also her Mandarin skills and embrace of Chinese culture.\n\nCommenting on the row around Zhu, Gu said that \"90% of comments are positive and uplifting\" on Chinese social platforms.\n\n\"It's part of the sport and everyone understands that,\" she added.", "Scots are still being asked to do a lateral flow test before meeting up with people from other households\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have called for the country's Covid-19 contact tracing system to be wound up.\n\nThe Tories said Test and Protect had been \"incredibly useful\" in the early stages of the pandemic, but had become \"increasingly redundant\" of late.\n\nThey want it replaced with a much cheaper sampling system, with remaining funds redistributed around the NHS.\n\nBut First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said contact tracing remained a key tool in keeping the virus under control.\n\nShe told MSPs that the government would \"think quite fundamentally\" about future approaches, but that testing remained crucial in the immediacy.\n\nScottish Labour has also backed continued use of testing and contact tracing, with extra capacity built into the system.\n\nThe Scottish government has committed funding to keep Test and Protect in place until September, and wants lateral flow tests to continue to be available free of charge.\n\nPeople are still encouraged to take a test before meeting up with people from other households, but ministers are drawing up longer-term plans for how to \"live with the virus\" in a less restrictive way.\n\nIn a new paper, the Scottish Conservatives advocated a \"more targeted\" approach to the pandemic, with emphasis on protecting the most vulnerable while \"trusting the public\" with other measures.\n\nThe party has called for mass contact tracing to be phased out and replaced with \"representative sampling\" to keep track of infection levels in the community.\n\nThe Tories claimed the performance of the system \"declined rapidly\" during the Omicron outbreak, with many people still only being contacted by text message.\n\nContact tracers had to prioritise high-risk cases when case numbers hit peak levels\n\nHealth spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane said Test and Protect had been \"incredibly useful in the earlier stages of the pandemic\", but said it \"has become increasingly redundant in recent months\".\n\nHe added: \"We are nearing the point where Test and Protect is no longer an effective use of scarce NHS resources. As we start to move beyond the pandemic, our approach must adapt to fit the new situation.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs on Tuesday that the government would \"think carefully about the medium to long-term approach\", but that testing remained important for now.\n\nA new \"strategic framework\" is to be published after Holyrood's February recess detailing how the virus will be managed in the remaining phases of the pandemic, with Ms Sturgeon saying it would take a \"fundamental\" look at future plans.\n\nShe said: \"There is a temptation to say that now Covid is more under control we should lift all the basic protections, but in actual fact it's some of those basic protections that have helped us get it under control and which will help us keep it under control.\n\n\"That is true of Test and Protect. Of course there are decisions to be taken about it for the longer term, but right now contact tracing and the universal testing offer is a key way in which we are helping keep infection under control, and crucially to help give additional assurance to those who are most vulnerable.\"\n\nThe Conservatives have also called for an end to the use of face coverings in secondary school classrooms, and Ms Sturgeon said officials would meet to consider the situation again on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nShe said any decisions would be confirmed \"as quickly as possible and in advance of the return to school after the February break\".\n\nScottish Labour has also set out a blueprint for \"living well with Covid\", in which it backed the Test and Protect system.\n\nThe party said the testing and tracing system had too often been \"beset by shortages, slow turnarounds or been overwhelmed by the volume of cases\".\n\nHowever, Labour said Test and Protect could be used to support a safe return to normal life, calling for surge capacity built in so it can \"keep pace with infections, monitor the spread, and notify close contacts within the recommended 72 hours\".", "When patients arrive at hospital by ambulance they should be handed over within 15 minutes. This data shows the proportion of ambulance patients who waited 30 minutes or more, in the week shown. It comes from daily situation reports which are published weekly during the winter in England. As this is fast-turnaround data, the NHS says only minimal validation can be carried out but it is considered fit for purpose.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland do not publish ambulance queue data.\n\nPatients at A&E should be seen within four hours of arrival. This data shows the proportion of patients attending A&E who waited longer than four hours to be treated, discharged or admitted.\n\nThis data is published monthly for England and Wales and weekly for Scotland. Northern Ireland publishes its data quarterly and Winter 2021 is not yet available.\n\nIf a patient at A&E needs to be admitted, the wait from decision to admit to being given a bed on a ward is recorded in England. The bed waits figure is the proportion of patients admitted via A&E who waited longer than four hours for a ward bed.\n\nIn Wales, bed wait data is not published, so the figure shown is the occupancy level in general and acute beds. Scotland and Northern Ireland do not publish bed wait or bed occupancy data.\n\nData for England is show by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities.\n\nWhen you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board.\n\nComparative data from two years ago is shown where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Bed occupancy data in Wales only goes back to April 2020.", "Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has said the Church of England is taking too long to remove memorials linked to the slave trade.\n\nMr Welby criticised delays in taking down a plaque to slavery financier Tobias Rustat at a Cambridge college chapel.\n\n\"Why is it so much agony to remove a memorial to slavery?\" he said.\n\nEarlier at the General Synod, the head of a Church racial justice body said the lack of change was \"a scandal\".\n\nA Church court is considering whether a plaque to 17th Century courtier Mr Rustat, who invested in the Royal African Company, can be removed from the wall of a chapel at Jesus College, Cambridge.\n\nThe college, which proposed the removal, says Mr Rustat's financial involvement in the company helped it to enslave 150,000 African men, women and children over 50 years - more than any other institution.\n\nMr Welby pointed out that Jesus College now has a black woman as its master, Sonita Alleyne, who has to look at a memorial to a man who financed slavery \"every time she sits in her stall\".\n\nThe archbishop questioned why it was \"so difficult\" to remove the marble plaque, when the college only wanted to move it to another location where it can be interpreted and explained.\n\n\"We need to change our practices,\" he said.\n\nTobias Rustat, a major benefactor of Jesus College, commissioned the memorial plaque himself\n\nMr Welby was responding after Labour peer Lord Boateng - chair of the Archbishops' Racial Justice Commission, which aims to identify and root out systemic racism in the church - drew applause as he said the Church's lack of action on race issues was \"chilling\".\n\nHe said statues and monuments to people involved in the slave trade caused him hurt, while the failure to improve diversity meant \"the government front bench looks better\" than the Church's leadership.\n\nOnly one out of 42 senior bishops is from an ethnic minority, compared to six out of 23 members of the cabinet.\n\n\"Imagine what it is to go into a place of worship to look up and to see a monument to someone who was a party to the enslavement of your ancestors,\" said Lord Boateng.\n\n\"We are members in churches which have themselves benefitted from the horrors of the slave trade. That is the reality.\"\n\nHe referred to the church's missionary organisation, the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel, which owned a plantation in the 18th Century - and which branded the word \"Society\" on the skins of the people they enslaved.", "Dáithí MacGabhann on the steps of Stormont after the bill passed\n\nCampaigners have welcomed the \"life-saving\" legislation to bring opt-out organ donation to Northern Ireland.\n\nThe legislation, which will align Northern Ireland with the rest of the UK, passed its final stage in the assembly on Tuesday.\n\nIt means people will automatically become donors unless they specifically state otherwise.\n\nMáirtín MacGabhann, whose son Dáithí is waiting on a heart transplant, said it was \"phenomenal\".\n\nThe bill is to be known as 'Dáithí's Law' after the five-year-old whose family have campaigned for the law change.\n\nMr MacGabhann said it was an emotional day for them.\n\nHe told BBC NI's Evening Extra programme: \"The most important thing, regardless of the name, is that it's passed its final stage and that life-saving legislation will go through.\"\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the delay in the legislation \"going live\" would allow for awareness campaigns and to train health service staff involved.\n\nThere had been fears the change would be jeopardised with the collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive last week.\n\nOpening today's debate, Mr Swann told members it was an \"important moment\" for future patients who will benefit from the change.\n\nSpeaking after the bill was put to an oral vote Speaker Alex Maskey said: \"I think Dáithí has punched well above his weight to ensure this bill becomes law.\"\n\nThe statement was met with applause from assembly members.\n\nThe bill, which has been a long-awaited move at Stormont, will still need to receive royal assent before it can come into force.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BHF Northern Ireland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAimee Duncan's father died before he could see the law changes he campaigned for passed - but she and her brother could still benefit.\n\nHer father had dilated cardiomyopathy and died waiting for a transplant in 2014.\n\nShe told Evening Extra their father had \"campaigned as much as he could possibly, even being so sick\".\n\n\"He tried his best. We were all hoping for it to come in when he would have had the benefit of it, obviously that didn't happen, but we're glad that it's coming in now.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's very possible that both me and my brother could develop the disease and end up needing a heart transplant so it hits close to home for us.\"\n\nDáithí with Paul Givan and Michelle O'Neill in June 2021\n\nThis change to Northern Ireland's organ donation law has been a long time coming.\n\nIt was debated in the assembly as far back as 2012 when then Ulster Unionist assembly member Jo-Anne Dobson introduced a private member's bill on organ donation.\n\nWhile that failed, the conversation picked up again in 2018 when a young Belfast boy called Dáithí MacGabhann burst on the scene and his family began campaigning for a soft opt-out law.\n\nThe opt-out legislation means it is assumed that everyone has agreed to donate their organs unless they have registered a decision not to.\n\nThe move brings Northern Ireland in line with the rest of the UK and campaigners say it's an example of what can be achieved when politics works in Northern Ireland.\n\nUntil June 2021, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had blocked attempts to change the law.\n\nFollowing talks between the DUP's Paul Givan who was then first minister, Mr Swann, who proposed the legislation, and campaigners, Mr Givan announced he had given approval for the legislation to proceed to the assembly.\n\nMr Swann said about 180 lives could be \"changed\" each year by overhauling the rules.\n\nRobin Swann said he was relieved the bill had reached its final stages\n\nCurrently donation only proceeds in Northern Ireland if a person has given their express consent, usually by signing on to the NHS Organ Donor Register or by speaking to their family.\n\nIn the absence of that, the family is asked to decide on behalf of the patient.\n\nSome of Northern Ireland's most senior clinicians had in the past warned that Northern Ireland was not ready for such a system.\n\nThe Department of Health said between 10 and 15 people die waiting for a transplant each year in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 2020/21 there were about 115 people here on the waiting list.", "The NHS in Scotland reached crisis point because of a \"complete lack of planning\" during the pandemic, opposition politicians have said.\n\nWaiting times in A&E are the highest on record, while GPs have warned of unprecedented staff shortages.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives and Labour have also claimed that dentists \"are on the brink of mass exodus\".\n\nThe Scottish government insists the NHS \"has come through the worst\" crisis in its history.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf has also announced £82.6m of funding to improve services for patients at GP practices.\n\nHowever, the SNP government has been accused of \"knee-jerk reaction-making\" which has damaged the economy and people's mental health.\n\nIt comes as the UK government has also faced criticism as plans to tackle the backlog of patients on hospital waiting lists in England have been delayed.\n\nScottish Labour's health spokesperson Jackie Baillie told the BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that workforce shortages \"haven't been addressed for years\" and the service remains under acute pressure.\n\nShe said: \"What we have seen is waiting lists getting longer, cancelled operations up and real challenges for people.\n\n\"One in nine of the population of Scotland is stuck on a waiting list and there is no sign of catch-up or recovery.\n\n\"So whilst we would all want the NHS to keep people safe - and the staff work incredibly hard - remobilising the NHS has to be a key priority. At the moment, that simply isn't happening.\"\n\nDr Sandesh Gulhane, the Scottish Tory health spokesman, told the programme that ambulance waiting times - in some cases up to eight hours - were also a symptom of inaction from the Scottish government.\n\nHe added: \"What this all points to is no planning, knee-jerk reaction making then not following through.\n\n\"At the height of the pandemic, we needed to do things to protect the public and protect our global health. But it has come at a cost.\n\n\"We have to understand we were saving lives, but it was coming with unintended consequences of mental health breakdown and also our economy not doing as well.\n\n\"As the pandemic progressed, it was quite clear that decisions were being made badly.\n\n\"We were very quick to restrict but are very slow here in Scotland to relax and people are beginning to feel the mental health strain of what's going on.\n\n\"This isn't all pandemic-made - we have a complete lack of job planning for doctors and nurses.\"\n\nDentists are having to deal with a huge backlog of patients\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said the NHS in Scotland had suffered its most intense period ever at the end of December and the beginning of January.\n\nBut he insisted everything was being done to ensure patients were \"not being left behind\" as hospitals continued to deal with Covid and non-Covid patients.\n\nHe said: \"While we are through the worst of it, we should also say that there is still significant pressure on the health service.\n\n\"That comes from the continued number of patients who are in hospital with Covid.\n\n\"It also comes from the accumulative impact of almost two years of a pandemic and having to catch up with a significant backlog.\"\n\nMr Yousaf announced the new £82.6m of funding for GP practices across the country during a visit to the Dunblane Health Centre.\n\nThe health secretary said: \"We have now delivered every penny we committed to health boards and GPs as part of our ongoing commitment to help support practices deliver care.\n\n\"The NHS is facing the biggest challenge this winter and this investment will have real benefits for both patients and frontline staff.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish Labour claimed dental care could become \"the privilege of people who can afford to go private\" unless emergency funding for NHS treatment is ramped up.\n\nPractices across Scotland are still operating with full Covid infection controls while dealing with a case backlog.\n\nJackie Baillie said the government must retain emergency NHS payments after 1 April and do more to tackle the problems facing dentistry.\n\nShe said: \"Dental care is seeing 850,00 fewer patients - a lot of them from deprived communities.\n\n\"We would keep the emergency support in place beyond April so they can continue to remobilise.\n\n\"There should also be a review of the funding model, which is almost as old as the NHS itself.\n\n\"And fund things like outcomes and reward prevention, because dental care cannot become the privilege of the few who can afford to go private.\n\n\"The Scottish government needs to tackle the crisis facing dentistry and that's one way of doing so.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said it had invested an additional £50m in NHS dental care during the pandemic, while £20m had been allocated this month alone to deal with a backlog in children's treatment.", "That's the end of this morning's live page, looking at reaction after the Labour leader was targeted by protesters near Parliament on Monday.\n\nOvernight, some Tory MPs urged the PM to apologise for his false claims in Parliament last week regarding Sir Keir Starmer and Jimmy Savile.\n\nThe PM has no intention of apologising, No 10 said this morning.\n\nBoris Johnson did condemn the harassment of the leader of the opposition , but the No 10 source said it was unreasonable to suggest what happened on Monday \"was Boris's fault and not the mob's fault\".", "An engraving of the painting was made\n\nAn international search has been launched for a missing 16th Century painting worth millions of pounds which was last recorded in an Aberdeenshire town more than 100 years ago.\n\nThe Pool of Bethesda by Paolo Veronese was last documented in a Peterhead museum in the early 1900s.\n\nExperts believe it could be worth £13m.\n\nThe University of Melbourne appealed for information on the Italian masterpiece and Aberdeenshire Council is also investigating.\n\nVeronese's religious painting hung in the Palazzo Grassi in Venice.\n\nAn engraving of it was made at that time.\n\nThe painting was at the Arbuthnot Museum in Peterhead\n\nThe painting was later bought by Catherine The Great of Russia, but it eventually made its way to the north east of Scotland.\n\nIt was gifted to Peterhead's Arbuthnot Museum and is last documented there in 1904.\n\nProf Jaynie Anderson from the University of Melbourne became interested as a colleague had a letter about the painting from the late 1800s which linked it to the National Gallery of Victoria.\n\nShe described it as an \"important Veronese\" worth \"a lot of money\" and started to look into its history.\n\n\"To my surprise we got an email saying it was probably in Peterhead\", she said. \"I had never heard of Peterhead before.\"\n\nAn image of the engraving is being used in the appeal to find the painting.\n\n\"I think it's a real problem of accountability\", Prof Anderson said. \"There must be a record of it. It's a bit of an odd one.\"\n\nHer advice to anyone who realised they perhaps knew where it was hidden away, without its significance being realised, was to take it to the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh.\n\n\"These things do happen\", she said.\"Where is it? I think it's just waiting to be discovered.\"\n\nProf Jaynie Anderson in Australia hopes the painting can be found thanks to the appeal\n\nFiona Riddell is the former curatorial assistant at the Arbuthnot Museum. She worked there for 19 years and retired last July.\n\nShe said a newspaper article from 1904 mentioned the painting being there.\n\n\"That's the last documented sighting of the painting\", she said. \"It could have still been there after 1904 but that's the only documentation I have so far.\n\n\"I truly believe nobody knew what they had. Apparently there was quite a poor restoration done on it before it arrived in Peterhead.\"\n\nShe added: \"People have been searching for it all over Europe but obviously never thinking it was just in a little fishing town. But I never imagined the backstory. There can't be too many 12ft (3.6m) by 6ft (1.8m) paintings of the Pool of Bethesda that have gone missing.\n\n\"The worst scenario is that it's been destroyed. It weighed just under a tonne and it took seven men to take it up the Arbuthnot Museum stairs. You couldn't just put it under your oxter (armpit) and off you go. Somebody must know something about it.\n\n\"It meant something to Peterhead through religious value because the area was deeply religious at that time. It was more what it represented rather than the monetary value.\"\n\nAberdeenshire Council said in a statement: \"We are one part of a puzzle to attempt to try and track down this historic artwork, a puzzle which has international significance.\n\n\"It is now clear that the piece was given to the then-Peterhead town council. That pre-dates both Aberdeenshire Council and its predecessor. The records which we have (and those which exist) from that time are being interrogated, helping us attempt to participate in finding out where it went.\"\n\nThe local authority added: \"We are doing our bit, and ask anyone with information or memories of this piece to get in touch. Perhaps family members recall seeing it hanging in the Arbuthnot over the years, or are aware of why it came to be gifted to The Blue Toon (Peterhead).\n\n\"We are hopeful the collective effort can locate it once and for all.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Justin Trudeau said he would send whatever support was needed to Ottawa, after the city's mayor asked for an extra 1,800 police officers\n\nOttawa police have said \"volatile\" and \"determined\" demonstrators remain in Canada's capital after nearly two weeks of a trucker-led anti-vaccine mandate protest.\n\nOttawa is under a state of emergency after protesters blockaded the city centre with trucks and cars.\n\nPolice have seized thousands of litres of fuel in recent days.\n\nUp to 25% of the vehicles contain children who could be at risk during operations, police said on Tuesday.\n\nThe so-called Freedom Convoy began on 9 January in western Canada, as truckers protested against a rule that requires them to be vaccinated against Covid-19 to cross the US-Canada border. The demonstrations have morphed to include anger at Covid restrictions and at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government generally.\n\nThough the rally has been mostly peaceful, police have expressed concern about extremist rhetoric coming from far-right groups among the protesters. As well as reported racial and homophobic abuse, one individual danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial.\n\nNearly 80 criminal investigations have been opened in relation to the protests, including for alleged hate crimes and property damage. Some two dozen people have been arrested.\n\nOne officer was reportedly attacked while attempting to seize fuel from a protest truck.\n\nSpeaking to press on Tuesday, deputy police chief Steve Bell said: \"Our message to the demonstrators remains the same: Don't come. If you do, there will be consequences.\"\n\nHe said police had found about 100 trucks with children in them and had contacted the Children's Aid Society over concerns about the noise, fumes and hygiene in the convoy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Truckers 'don't have the right to hold us hostage'\n\nSome 756km (469 miles) away from Ottawa, Canada's busiest border crossing - the Ambassador Bridge - was partially reopened on Tuesday after protesters ground traffic there to a standstill.\n\nThe bridge runs between the Canadian province of Ontario and the US state of Michigan, and more than 40,000 people and $323m (£238m) worth of goods cross it daily.\n\nTruckers rallying in solidarity with those in Ottawa had blocked it on Monday night, forcing vehicles into long detours.\n\nThe bridge has reopened for travel from Canada into the US.\n\nBut on the US side, Michigan Department of Transportation said it remained closed, and advised drivers to divert to nearby Port Huron to head into Canada.\n\nJustin Trudeau said he would send whatever support was needed to Ottawa, after the city's mayor asked for an extra 1,800 police officers\n\nAs traffic continued to clog the area, demonstrators in Ottawa faced anger from local residents even as many insisted that they were protesting peacefully.\n\n\"There's been nothing but love, unity and peace out here,\" said John Van Vleet, a trucker from Ontario. \"It's important for me to come down here to fight for my freedoms.\"\n\nHowever, some Ottawans have said the atmosphere has been tense, especially at weekends when thousands of protesters have descended upon the city's downtown core, spilling into nearby streets and forcing businesses to close.\n\n\"We're all fed up,\" said Marika Morris, a resident. \"They don't have a right to take us hostage.\"\n\nResidents' nerves were also being frayed by constantly blaring air horns. On Monday, an Ottawa judge ruled that the truckers must stop honking their horns for 10 days.\n\nDemonstrations have also spread to other Canadian cities, including Toronto and Vancouver. Internationally, there have been rallies of support in New Zealand's capital Wellington and Canberra in Australia.\n\nThe Canadian province of Alberta announced on Tuesday that some of its Covid restrictions - including its controversial vaccine passport - would be lifted from midnight.\n\nMasking requirements for school students will also end from Monday, and children under 12 will be exempt from all mask mandates.\n\nAlberta Premier Jason Kenney denied the move was a response to the trucker protests.\n\n\"We'll never be able to do a full accounting of the extent of the pain and hardship that restrictions have caused,\" Mr Kenney said.\n\n\"We cannot remain at a heightened state of emergency forever. We have to begin to heal.\"\n\nBut he also argued that \"for the rest of our lives we're probably going to need to take an annual Covid shot, much like the annual flu shot\".\n\nSaskatchewan, in the country's west, also said it was ready to lift all Covid restrictions.\n\n\"We want things to be as normal as they possibly can,\" Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said.", "The 2022 Winter Olympics in China have finished after a record 109 gold medals were awarded in 15 disciplines.\n\nTeam GB, consisting of 50 athletes, participated in 11 of the disciplines, winning one gold medal and one silver medal, both in curling.\n• None All the best stats from the Games", "Isabel and Paulson say their loss brought them closer together - and they were married the same year\n\nResearch shows black women are at a 40% higher risk of pregnancy loss than white women.\n\nIt is an urgent problem, which the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists says needs greater attention, with many complex reasons driving this higher risk.\n\nThese include a lack of quality research involving all ethnicities - but RCOG head Dr Edward Morris says implicit racial bias is also affecting some women's experience of care.\n\nIsabel Gomes Obasi and her husband, Paulson, from Coventry, are expecting a baby boy in March.\n\nThey are excited but extremely anxious. Almost a year ago, their baby boy Andre died four months into Isabel's pregnancy.\n\nShe also had stillborn twins, in 2012.\n\nGiving birth to Andre was extremely traumatic, Isabel says, but how she was treated when in severe pain and bleeding, in the days before her loss, made the experience worse.\n\n\"We knew something was wrong, so we went into hospital and waited five hours to be seen by a doctor,\" she says. \"I remember being laughed at by one of the nurses, who said, 'Just go home. Why do you keep coming in?'\"\n\nIsabel was checked over and told the baby was fine but says her intuition and pain were belittled and ignored.\n\n\"It got to the point where I started questioning myself,\" she says. \"'Am I going crazy? Am I making these symptoms up?'\"\n\nWithin 48 hours of going home, Isabel began bleeding heavily.\n\nThere is little doctors can do at this relatively early stage of pregnancy to save a baby's life. But the feeling of not being listened to has stayed with Isabel ever since.\n\n\"I just shut down,\" she says. \"The experience made me anxious and depressive, if not suicidal.\"\n\nAsked why she was not listened to, her shaky voice becomes steely.\n\n\"The colour of my skin,\" she says - the attitude of some staff was: \"'You have black skin - you are not from here - you can wait.'\"\n\nAbout one in five pregnancies ends in miscarriage. About half of all losses are thought to involve severe chromosomal issues affecting a baby's genetic code, meaning the baby would never have survived.\n\nConditions including high blood pressure, some infections and gynaecological conditions such as endometriosis can contribute to higher risks.\n\nBut other potential causes remain unclear.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnd while all ethnicities can have difficult experiences of pregnancy and care, black women are four times more likely to die in childbirth than white women and face higher rates of stillbirth and miscarriage.\n\nMiscarriage Association trustee Natasha Necati, from Essex, who has had eight miscarriages, says there was no \"blatant racism\" in her care - but, like Isabel, there were times she was not listened to.\n\n\"I haven't always felt I have been taken seriously,\" she says. \"I have, in some cases, complained about serious amounts of pain during miscarriages and it was kind of pooh-poohed.\"\n\nOne of Natasha's key concerns is little research is funded into why black women face higher risks.\n\n\"Surely if it was deemed important, tens of thousands of pounds would be being spent on getting answers,\" she says. \"It makes you question whether it is seen as important - and if it is not important, why not?\"\n\nDr Morris says it is \"unacceptable\" women belonging to ethnic minorities face worse outcomes than white women - especially in maternity care.\n\n\"Implicit racial bias from medical staff can hinder consultations and negatively influence treatment options,\" he says.\n\nAnd this can stop some women engaging with healthcare.\n\nDr Christine Ekechi, who co-leads an RCOG taskforce launched in 2020 to tackle these inequalities, says more needs to be done to include black women's experiences in conversations and research around miscarriage and raise awareness among ethnic minorities.\n\nBut she warns against reducing the reasons for the higher rates of miscarriage to ethnicity alone.\n\n\"The thing that needs greater consideration is the understanding that every woman irrespective of their ethnicity, or race, is of value,\" Dr Ekechi says. \"I really push against the homogenisation or the grouping of all black women as one, that their thoughts and their beliefs and experiences are all the same - they are not.\n\n\"And so really where the problem occurs is when we don't see black women as equal to any other women.\n\n\"We want all women to feel heard and valued and treated with kindness - but in understanding better the causes of miscarriage in all women, we may get closer in understanding why we see this stark difference for black women.\"\n\nProf Quenby is researching some of the many unknowns about miscarriages\n\nLeading researcher Prof Siobhan Quenby, who runs the Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research at University Hospital Coventry, says there is a lot to investigate - black and Asian women have higher rates of gestational diabetes, for example, and may have higher blood sugar levels in early pregnancy.\n\nStudies also show the balance of bacteria in the vagina may differ between ethnicities.\n\n\"We have also not worked out yet whether, for example, black and Asian women respond differently to the hormone progesterone,\" Prof Quenby says.\n\nProf Quenby's team are working on an app where people add details such as ethnicity, weight and whether they have had previous miscarriages and then receive evidence-based advice on how to lower risks - such as taking certain medications or maintaining a healthy weight.\n\nSome feel the issue so complex, with so many factors, it is unsolvable, she says, but there are solutions - and many women will one day be given the right treatment and care for what is currently unknown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ryan O'Connor, 26, from Alway in Newport, died from stab wounds after the attack in Newport\n\nPhotographs of three defendants in a murder trial posing with knives and a machete have been shown to a jury.\n\nRyan O'Connor, 26, died after being stabbed in the heart and both lungs for his designer Gucci bag on Balfe Road, Newport, on 10 June last year.\n\nFive men deny murder, manslaughter and robbery at Cardiff Crown Court.\n\nThey are Lewis Aquilina, 20, Ethan Strickland, 19, Kyle Rasis, 18, from Cardiff, Elliot Fiteni, 20, of no fixed abode, and Joseph Jeremy, 18.\n\nKyle Raisis and Ethan Strickland seen posing with knives\n\nOn Tuesday, jurors were shown photographs of Mr Strickland, Mr Rasis and Mr Jeremy brandishing the weapons which were also released by Gwent Police.\n\nThey have previously been told that the men had travelled from Cardiff to Newport in a Ford Fiesta, which had been stolen earlier that day.\n\nJoseph Jeremy, Ethan Strickland and Kyle Rasis are among five men on trial for murder\n\nMichael Brady QC, prosecuting, told the jury they saw Mr O'Connor, a father from Alway, Newport, wearing the Gucci bag and decided to rob him in a \"swift and brutal\" attack that resulted in significant blood loss.\n\nRyan O'Connor, 26, from Alway in Newport, died from stab wounds after the attack in Newport\n\nGiving evidence, Mr Jeremy said he had nothing to do with the attack and that two co-defendants got out of the car but he did not see what happened.\n\nThe trial has also been told that Mr Jeremy had bought hunting knives online for himself and Mr Rasis who he said had been attacked by someone with a machete.\n\nHe said they also bought a machete between them.\n\nA knife found inside the vehicle was also shown to the jury\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Putin hinted that progress had been made during his first Moscow summit with a Western leader since the crisis started\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has said the coming days will be crucial to de-escalating the Ukraine standoff, after five hours of talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin.\n\nMr Putin hinted progress had been made during his first Moscow summit with a Western leader since Russian troops massed close to Ukraine's borders.\n\nMoscow has denied any plans to invade.\n\nHowever, Western powers have become increasingly concerned by the possibility of a conflict.\n\nPresident Macron, who travelled to Ukraine on Tuesday morning, earlier told reporters in Moscow the coming days would be \"decisive\" and \"require intensive discussions which we will pursue together\".\n\nMr Putin said some of Mr Macron's proposals \"could form the basis of further joint steps\", stating that they were \"probably still too early to talk about\".\n\nA source at the Elysée Palace said Russia had made a commitment not take any new military initiatives to enable a potential de-escalation. Further talks could then take place on key points including Russia's military units and strategic issues.\n\nHowever, the Kremlin said on Tuesday that such assertions were \"not right\".\n\nThe two leaders were due to speak again after the French president met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Mr Putin said Russia would then \"determine our own further steps\".\n\nA frantic day of diplomacy is due to conclude later in Berlin, when President Macron sees the German chancellor and Polish President Andrzej Duda.\n\nPresident Joe Biden met German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington on Monday and threatened to shut down a key Russian gas pipeline to Germany if Moscow invaded Ukraine.\n\nUS officials believe Russia has assembled 70% of military forces needed for a full-scale invasion.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has also indicated his support for sanctions. Writing in The Times newspaper on Tuesday, he added that the UK was considering deploying Royal Air Force fighters and Royal Navy warships \"to protect south-eastern Europe\".\n\nWestern countries have already rejected a number of Moscow's demands, including that the Nato defence alliance rule out Ukraine becoming a member, and that it reduce its military presence in eastern Europe.\n\nThey have instead suggested other areas of negotiation, for example talks on cutting back nuclear weaponry.\n\nDuring a tense news conference with the French leader in Moscow on Monday night, Mr Putin repeated earlier warnings that should Ukraine join the Western military alliance Nato and attempt to take back Crimea - which Russia annexed eight years ago - Europe could get sucked into a major conflict.\n\n\"Do you want France to fight with Russia?\" he asked French reporters. \"That's what will happen. And there will be no winners.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's like they stuck a knife in our back': Ukraine has been living with war for the past eight years\n\nIn Washington, Chancellor Scholz told reporters it was important for \"Russia to understand that a lot more could happen than they've perhaps calculated with themselves\", according to news agency AP.\n\nMr Scholz - on his first trip to Washington since becoming chancellor and facing criticism for his response to the Ukraine crisis - added that the US and Germany were \"absolutely united\" on sanctions against Russia should it invade Ukraine, saying \"we will do the same steps and they will be very, very hard to Russia\".\n\nHowever, he was more ambiguous about Nord Stream 2 than US President Biden, who said the US \"will bring an end\" to the controversial pipeline - which will double Moscow's gas exports to Germany - \"if Russia invades\".\n\nMr Biden did not give specifics, responding to a question about how he would do this by saying: \"I promise you we will be able to do it.\"\n\nThe 1,225km (760-mile) Nord Stream 2 pipeline took five years to build and cost $11bn (£8bn), but as yet has not started operating, after regulators said in November it does not comply with German law and suspended its approval.", "Primark has been accused of selling kids clothing with \"hugely sexist messaging\" by a best-selling author.\n\nNovelist Kate Long shared images on social media of tops in a Chester store on Sunday which urged girls to \"be kind\", \"keep on smiling\" and to be \"always perfect\".\n\nIn contrast, items in the boys' range told them \"you are limitless\" and that they could \"make the rules\".\n\nA Primark spokesperson said: \"Inclusivity really matters to us.\"\n\nMs Long questioned the effect of the difference in messaging: \"Can anyone spot a difference in tone here? A difference in narrative? Boys are awesome in themselves and don't need to consider anyone else,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"Boys are about *doing* and girls are about *feeling*. Boys take what they want' girls consider others.\n\n\"Stop telling girls their place is to serve others! Stop telling boys they should have nothing to do with kindness and love! What are you, a throwback to the 1950s?\", she added.\n\nShe drew support from other social media users on the topic.\n\nSmall business owner Not Only Pink and Blue wrote: \"We really need the High Street to think about the expectations these messages set. Why not have all these messages across all the clothes?\"\n\nOn Monday, several children's items were also on display on the Primark website, such as hoodies branded \"fearless\" for boys and \"happy happy happy\" for girls.\n\nThe Primark spokesperson added that it offers a \"broad range of styles\" across kids' clothing in-store to cater for a mix of tastes, and that it had removed gender-specific labels on its kids and baby ranges in recent years.\n\n\"However, we are always learning, we welcome customer feedback and will continue to look at where we can do more,\" they said.\n\nThe fashion chain, which is owned by AB Foods, is best-known for its discount clothing.\n\nMs Long has previously drawn attention to differing messaging used on clothing for different genders in other stores such as Tesco and Marks & Spencer.\n\nBrands like Boden have also come under fire for choosing slogans such as \"cool to be kind\" on girls' clothing, whereas boys' items featured the words \"genius\" or \"warrior knees\".\n\nAt the time, the firm apologised and that it takes the topic of gender stereotyping very seriously, pointing towards its \"gender busting\" ranges in previous seasons.", "Gascoigne presented University Challenge throughout its original run on ITV between 1962 and 1987\n\nFormer University Challenge presenter and author Bamber Gascoigne has died at the age of 87.\n\nGascoigne was the original presenter of the TV quiz show from 1962 to 1987. He also presented TV documentaries and wrote several books.\n\nHis wife Christina said he was \"an incredibly generous man and everything he did was pointed towards sharing the gifts of his own life with others\".\n\nStephen Fry led the tributes, saying he was \"such an elegant, intelligent man\".\n\nFry, who took part in University Challenge in 1980, wrote on Twitter: \"Oh no, not Bamber. He was so kind and warm to us students who sat nervously at those desks.\"\n\nGascoigne, who died after a short illness, became best known for his famous University Challenge catchphrases such as \"Fingers on buzzers\", \"Your starter for 10\", and \"I'll have to hurry you\".\n\nBamber Gascoigne on the University Challenge set in 1968\n\nPaul Sinha, star of ITV's quiz show The Chase, tweeted: \"[Gascoigne's] effortless erudition, making whole swathes of impenetrable knowledge seem cheerfully accessible, was totally inspiring to this kid of the 80s. Sadly we may never see his like on our screens again.\"\n\nFormer University Challenge contestant Bobby Seagull wrote: \"Farewell Bamber Gascoigne... He set the tone for one of the best UK TV quiz shows. Scholarly, gentle and yet commanding, he joins the pantheon of great gameshow hosts. We shall miss you. RIP Bamber.\"\n\nOnly Connect presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell said: \"No quiz host has ever seemed more like they could answer all the questions themselves.\"\n\nUniversity Challenge aired on ITV for 25 years before being revived on the BBC in 1994 with Jeremy Paxman as the quiz master.\n\nGascoigne also found cult fame after an episode of anarchic sitcom The Young Ones was named after him - titled Bambi - in 1984.\n\nGascoigne died at his home in Richmond following a short illness\n\nThe League of Gentleman star and Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss played Gascoigne in the 2006 film Starter for Ten.\n\nAuthor David Nicholls, who wrote the book the film was based on, posted on Twitter: \"Very sad to see this. Bamber was a big part of my TV childhood and was very gracious about his fictional cameo in Starter For Ten. He came to the book launch and left me quite starstruck.\"\n\nGascoigne also presented 1977 ITV documentary series The Christians and the 1990 Channel 4 TV series The Great Moghuls, and created an online history encyclopaedia called HistoryWorld.\n\nMore recently, his Surrey home has become familiar to fans of the BBC comedy Ghosts.\n\nHe inherited West Horsley Place - which is known as Button House in the series - from his aunt, the Duchess of Roxburghe, in 2014.\n\nBamber and Christina Gascoigne were together for 62 years and married for 55\n\nThe 15th Century house is also home to Grange Park Opera's summer festival.\n\nIn a statement, Christina Gascoigne said: \"Bamber and I had a fantastic 62 years together full of friends and adventures. We never had a quarrel, not even when I turned the car over while we were driving to India.\n\n\"He was an incredibly generous man and everything he did was pointed towards sharing the gifts of his own life with others - he was even instrumental in the creation of a new Thames boat: the skerry (a cross between the skiff and the wherry) so that schoolchildren could enjoy the river as much as he did.\n\n\"For 30 years, we swam in the river every day possible (only in the summer). He loved opera and was thrilled that he could have an opera house in the garden he inherited from his aunt Mary Roxburghe.\n\n\"It was 50 years ago that he hosted University Challenge, but that is what everyone remembers. That and his limitless thirst for knowledge, which he retained like a sponge.\"\n\nBamber Gascoigne was made a CBE by the Queen in 2018\n\nGascoigne was born in London and won scholarships to Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he met his wife.\n\nHe also co-wrote the 1950s musical revue Share My Lettuce, which showcased rising stars Kenneth Williams and Dame Maggie Smith.\n\nThe TV host was appointed CBE in 2018 for services to the arts.\n\nIn a statement, Peter Gwyn, executive producer of University Challenge, said everyone on the show \"has been deeply saddened to hear of Bamber's death, and our thoughts and sympathy go to his family and friends\".\n\n\"Bamber was unlike anyone else on television when the programme started back in 1962 - he was utterly charming, erudite and, at times, seemingly omniscient, and his 25 years spent presenting the programme established it firmly as the institution it is now. He was a unique presence in British broadcasting and he'll be very sadly missed.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nThree weeks after catching Covid-19 and suffering \"quite badly\", Andrew Young is just pleased he managed to make it to the Olympic start line.\n\nBeijing 2022 is the 29-year-old cross-country skier's fourth Olympics, and he was coming into the Games feeling in the best shape of his life, with a medal his target.\n\nBut exactly three weeks before his first event, those double lines struck. Covid positive, his Olympic participation was under threat and a change of mindset was needed.\n\n\"I had five or six days where I was really quite bad,\" he told BBC Sport. \"I missed a week of training, then I had a week where I was on quite strict orders from the doctor to take it pretty easy.\n\n\"Now, I feel healthy and I feel good, the body is responding well and I feel good when I'm skiing, but obviously I'm missing that top speed.\n\n\"It's the Olympic Games, you have to be in peak physical condition if you want to compete with the best guys. It's the Olympics, it's the pinnacle of the sport.\n\n\"You can't turn up here, not be at your best and expect to perform really well.\"\n• None All the action from day four of the Winter Olympics\n\n'It's been really difficult' - Young\n\nYoung had to temper his expectations as soon as the positive test came through. He arrived at the Games on Saturday, just 72 hours before his first competition, and having passed China's hyper-sensitive requirements to get the all-clear.\n\nCome Tuesday, he was content with his 36th-placed finish in the sprint free event as he looked at the bigger picture despite not making it through the qualification round.\n\n\"It's been a really difficult three weeks, so I was actually quite surprised at how well I was feeling,\" he said. \"The body feels quite good, I'm responding quite well to training, and it's getting better every day.\n\n\"I'm obviously a good way away from my goals and my aspirations for this event, this is my best event historically, and I wanted to come here to fight for a medal and I've gone out in the qualification.\n\n\"But considering the last three weeks, I'm really pleased with how it felt and how it went.\"\n\nBritish team-mate James Clugnet, who will compete in the team sprint with Young on 16 February, placed 40th, with the top 30 progressing.\n\nNorwegian Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo retained his men's sprint title for his fourth Olympic gold, with 2018 runner-up Italian Federico Pellegrino again taking silver, and Russian Olympic Committee's Alexander Terentev winning bronze.\n\nIn the women's event, Jonna Sundling led Maja Dahlqvist for a Swedish 1-2, with American Jessie Diggins in third.\n• None 'It belongs to all of us': Join us in celebrating 100 years of informing, educating and entertaining the UK\n• None From Sheffield to the Beijing Mountains : Follow a group of Team GB freestylers in their preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics", "The details emerged via a document asking a security firm for help\n\nThe UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) was the target of a \"serious cyber-security incident\", it has emerged.\n\nThe details came via a tender document published on a government website, seemingly by mistake.\n\nIt revealed that cyber-security firm BAE Systems Applied Intelligence was called on for \"urgent support\".\n\nThe BBC understands unidentified hackers got inside the FCDO systems, but were detected.\n\nA spokesperson for the FCDO told the BBC: \"We do not comment on security but have systems in place to detect and defend against potential cyber incidents.\"\n\nIt is not believed that any classified or highly sensitive material was breached. It is also not clear when the incident took place, but the contract finished on 12 January of this year.\n\nThe contract was valued at £467,325.\n\nThe tender details were first reported by the publication The Stack. It says that BAE Systems was \"the Authority's long-term service management integrator\".\n\n\"Due to the urgency and criticality of the work, the Authority was unable to comply with the time limits for the open or restricted procedures or competitive procedures with negotiation.\"\n\nA number of foreign states have been accused of major espionage campaigns in the past, including Russia and China, and foreign ministries of a number of states are regularly targeted - and often breached.\n\nForeign governments are frequently the target of cyber-espionage campaigns by other states seeking access to information about diplomacy and current events.\n\nRussia and China have been accused of espionage campaigns by western countries in the past, such as the significant Solar Winds campaign by Russia unearthed a year ago.\n\nUS and UK intelligence agencies have also been accused of carrying out similar activity around the world, as revealed by former US National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden in 2014.\n\nLast month it emerged that the Canadian Foreign Ministry had been targeted.\n\nThe US and UK have separately also issued warnings of the risk of the conflict of Ukraine spilling over into cyber-attacks against businesses and government systems.\n\nThe first known breach of a UK government network occurred in 2003 when the Foreign Office was hit by hackers, thought to be linked to China, using an email relating to Tibet to get inside government systems.", "Jacob Rees-Mogg has been given a new role in government as the minister for Brexit opportunities, as Boris Johnson carries out a cabinet reshuffle.\n\nThe PM promised a rejig in No 10 amid ongoing pressure over parties held in Downing Street during lockdown.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris becomes the new chief whip, in charge of disciplining Conservative MPs - some of whom have called on Mr Johnson to resign.\n\nHis predecessor, Mark Spencer, replaces Mr Rees-Mogg as leader of the Commons.\n\nBut some Tory MPs have privately expressed concern about Mr Spencer's new post.\n\nThe role includes the responsibility for standards of behaviour in Westminster, but he is currently being investigated over accusations of Islamophobia, raised by fellow MP Nusrat Ghani - claims he has denied.\n\nAfter the announcement, Ms Ghani retweeted her statement from January - when the story became public - in which she said she had told the PM: \"All I want is for this to be taken seriously and for him to investigate.\"\n\nA spokesman for No 10 said it was right to allow the investigation to conclude \"without pre-empting it or drawing conclusions while that work is ongoing\".\n\nDowning Street also confirmed Paymaster General Michael Ellis would take on the additional role of minister for the Cabinet Office.\n\nThe job had been held by Tory MP Steve Barclay, who had said he would stay in his post at the Cabinet Office, alongside his new role as chief of staff in No 10.\n\nEarlier this week, Labour questioned how Mr Barclay would be able to carry out all three roles.\n\nBut No 10 later said Mr Ellis would only take on \"some elements\" of his role, rather than directly replacing him.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg, a prominent Leave campaigner during the 2016 EU referendum, will now be a full member of the cabinet, with his full title being minister for Brexit opportunities and government efficiency.\n\nA source close to the prime minister said he had wanted Mr Rees-Mogg to have a \"proper economic role\" in cabinet.\n\nMr Spencer will continue to attend cabinet and Mr Ellis will join him.\n\nAnother source described Mr Heaton-Harris as \"more carrot than stick\" in his style of persuading MPs to toe the party line.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said it was \"important we make immediate changes to improve how the No 10 operation works\", and the changes would help towards \"improving relations with MPs\".\n\nBut Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said the prime minister should instead be focusing on \"an inflation crisis created in Downing Street and supporting the mental health of our children and young people\".\n\n\"What was Boris Johnson doing? Reshuffling the deckchairs when he's already hit an iceberg,\" she added.\n\nFootball refereeing and dad jokes are two specialisms of the man whose new job is trying to persuade Conservative MPs to back the prime minister.\n\nEvery day, Chris Heaton-Harris used to tweet a joke and it would be reasonable to say they were so bad, they were good.\n\n\"I admit most of my jokes are rubbish,\" he once said, \"although some were funny, mainly sent by others.\"\n\nHe is a personable, self-deprecating Brexiteer - and takes on, arguably, one of the toughest job in politics.\n\nNow it's Mr Heaton-Harris's role to stack up the numbers in the Commons to keep Boris Johnson in his job.\n\nIn normal times, that would be easy enough with an 80-seat majority. But these are... you can finish that sentence yourself.\n\nIn her report on gatherings that took place in Downing Street during lockdowns, published last week, senior civil servant Sue Gray criticised \"failures of leadership and judgement\".\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson promised a change in culture and to consult Conservative MPs more on setting policy, which could involve prominent roles for Mr Rees-Mogg, Mr Spencer and Mr Heaton-Harris.\n\nMark Spencer takes over from Jacob Rees-Mogg as Commons leader\n\nMeanwhile, No 10 has said the prime minister has no intention of apologising after falsely claiming that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer had failed to prosecute serial sex offender Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions.\n\nFifteen Conservative MPs have called for Mr Johnson to go.\n\nIf 54 MPs write letters to Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative Party's 1922 Committee, declaring no confidence in his leadership, this will prompt a full vote on his future.\n\nIf Mr Johnson lost this, there would be a leadership contest, in which Mr Johnson would be prohibited from running.\n\nAt the last cabinet reshuffle, in September last year, Nadine Dorries became culture secretary and Liz Truss became foreign secretary, while Dominic Raab was moved from the Foreign Office to become deputy prime minister.", "Boris Johnson became prime minister in December 2019 and immediately faced the UK's looming exit from the EU and the start of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe health crisis has been described as perhaps the biggest challenge the country has faced since World War Two.\n\nMr Johnson’s election win secured him the largest Tory majority in Parliament since 1987.\n\nHe succeeded Theresa May as prime minister. His only previous cabinet post was foreign secretary, which he quit over differences with Mrs May over Brexit.\n\nSince being at 10 Downing Street, he married his fiancee Carrie Symonds and the couple have had two children.", "The Police Ombudsman found \"collusive behaviour\" by police in 11 loyalist murders, including the 1992 attack at the Sean Graham betting shop\n\nThe term collusion has been raised in several official reports and inquiries related to the Northern Ireland Troubles over the past two decades.\n\nIt is worth stating there is no offence of collusion, although it may involve a criminal act. It has been said to have many faces.\n\nGenerally, it covers a broad range of behaviours, from deliberate wilful actions to \"a look the other way\" approach.\n\nThere is no universally-accepted definition of collusion, but from 2003 onwards judges and others have spelled out what it means in a Northern Ireland context.\n\nTwo opinions became heavily relied upon at an early stage.\n\nSir John (now Lord) Stevens investigated allegations of collusion in several murders when he was police commissioner\n\nSir John (now Lord) Stevens, when he was commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, was among the first to investigate ties between state security forces and loyalists.\n\nHe said collusion ranged from \"the wilful failure to keep records, the absence of accountability, the withholding of intelligence and evidence, through to the extreme of agents being involved in murder\".\n\nShortly after this, Canadian judge Peter Cory was appointed to examine collusion allegations in six specific cases.\n\nHe formed the view that any definition needed to be reasonably broad \"because of the necessity of public confidence\" in state forces such as the police.\n\nFor Judge Cory, it covered \"ignoring or turning a blind eye to the wrongful acts of (state) servants or agents\".\n\nHe also cited supplying agents with information to \"assist in wrongful acts\", or \"encouraging them\" to commit offences.\n\nThe views of Judge Peter Smithwick are also worth noting.\n\nCh Supt Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan were murdered by an IRA gang in 1989\n\nHe headed a tribunal of inquiry in the Republic of Ireland which found collusion between garda (Irish police) officers and the IRA in the murders of two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers.\n\nHe said collusion was not just the commissioning of an act, but also an \"unawareness of something that one ought morally, legally or officially to oppose\".\n\nDifferent holders of the office of Police Ombudsman have adopted varying definitions.\n\nMarie Anderson, the current ombudsman, has previously said she favoured a broad interpretation, reflecting the views of Lord Stevens and Judge Cory.\n\nBut there has been a tweak in phraseology.\n\nHer particular terminology is \"collusive behaviour\" and this has its roots in a court case brought in 2020 by retired Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers around the ombudsman's powers.\n\nIn 2022, a group of officers were granted a judicial review of the ombudsman's legal right to make findings of collusive behaviour by the High Court.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Retired Police Officers Association wants statements issued by Marie Anderson to be declared unlawful.", "In 1989, a flu epidemic took hold in Scotland, causing disruption to the education of young people and the hospital care of others as many teachers and nurses were off sick.\n\nMore people in Scotland died at the height of the ’89 epidemic than at the peak of the first wave of Covid-19 in 2020. But that is only part of the story.\n\nAs part of the BBC Rewind archive project, we look back at a flu epidemic that has now largely been forgotten.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Truckers: ‘All we want is the right to choose’\n\nTruckers in Ottawa have been ordered to stop honking their horns in an ongoing protest that has snarled up the city.\n\nThe loud and constant blare of truck horns has become one of the defining features of the movement against Canada's vaccine mandates.\n\nBut Judge Hugh McLean has now ordered they be silenced for the next 10 days.\n\n\"Tooting a horn is not an expression of any great thought I'm aware of,\" said Justice McLean in Monday's ruling which handed an interim victory to residents.\n\nThe noisy honking of some 400 to 500 trucks had prompted anger among local people and business owners.\n\nThe Freedom Convoy protest has spread to several cities and was formed against rules that truckers must be vaccinated to cross the US border.\n\nBut it's now opposed to all kinds of mandates - in parts of Canada you need to show you're vaccinated to enter indoor venues like restaurants, gyms and bars.\n\nMost of the demonstrators are doing so peacefully, but there have been reports of harassment and some have used Nazi slogans to make their point.\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is currently isolating after testing positive for Covid, has called their actions an \"insult to truth and memory\".\n\nOn Monday, Ottawa's mayor wrote an open letter to Mr Trudeau, asking for an urgent deployment of 1,800 law enforcement officers to end the \"aggressive and hateful occupation\".\n\n\"People are living in fear and terrified - and they've now been subjected to the non-stop honking of large trucks for nine days, which is tantamount to psychological warfare,\" wrote Mayor Jim Watson.\n\nIn the middle of the protest site, when multiple trucks honk their horns at once, the sound can be pretty deafening.\n\nIt can be heard, though more faintly, from blocks away.\n\nBut there seemed to be less honking on Monday than on past days.\n\nThe truckers may have realised that the constant noise has become a deep point of contention between them and Ottawa residents living nearby.\n\nProtest organisers on Sunday had also called for a temporary halt to the honks until midday as a \"gesture of goodwill\". Police have also handed out fines to some truckers for noise violations.\n\nOne trucker told me he was sorry for the disruption from the noise but said residents should join the protests \"so we can all get back to life as it should be - quiet, peaceful and not told what to do\".\n\nThe protests are far from over, but residents will be relieved by the judge's decision - and hoping for a quieter night.\n\n\"Canada has never been stronger. We see a united people that have come together,\" Rand Freeman, a 33-year veteran of the Canadian military told the BBC.\n\n\"We know that throughout history, first they ignore you, then they ridicule and mock you, then they attack you, and then you win. We're entering the attack phase\".\n\nMr Freeman said he was unconcerned by police warnings that those bringing fuel to protesters in a \"red zone\" in Ottawa's downtown could be arrested.\n\n\"They need to give the illusion that they've won,\" he added. \"But they know they've let that genie out of the bottle and can't get that genie back in.\"\n\nTrucker Lloyd Brubacher placed the blame on Mr Trudeau and the Canadian government.\n\n\"If he dropped all the mandates, all the truckers would go home as fast as we came,\" he said. \"Ottawa would be an open city.\"\n\n\"All I want is the right to choose between getting the vax or not getting the vax,\" he said.\n\nPolice said they had made seven arrests and seized \"multiple\" vehicles of fuel, with 60 criminal investigations so far opened in relation to the protests.\n\nMany Ottawa residents say that their patience with the protests has worn thin.\n\nTraffic blocked by trucks, city parks taken over by makeshift campsites, harassment and disruptions to businesses are among the residents main complaints.\n\n\"Carrying the protest on in the manner it has been, by blocking businesses from operating and earning an income, is unfair to the citizens of Ottawa,\" said Stuart, a downtown chef who declined to give his name for fear of \"extremists\" among the protesters.\n\nHe feels that workers and residents in the city's downtown core are \"being punished twice\" by the twin impact of the pandemic and the convoy.\n\n\"If the protest carries on, it will only hurt hard working-class residents of Ottawa,\" he says.\n\nVita Sgardello, an Ottawa resident, told the BBC: \"People I know have been attacked with racist slurs.\"\n\nOne of her colleagues had to run from a protester who wanted her to remove her mask, she added.\n\nA poll released by Abacus Data at the end of last week found that 68% of Canadians felt they had \"very little in common\" with the protesters, compared to 32% that said they had \"a lot in common\" with the truckers.\n\nResponding to growing unease from residents, last week Ottawa police announced a new \"surge and contain\" strategy that saw approximately 150 officers deployed to the city's centre, as well as a \"red zone\" of police barricades.\n\nSeven arrests had been made, including three for mischief and one for driving while prohibited.\n\nOver 1,000 tickets have been issued for excessive noise, fireworks, stunt driving and traffic violations.\n\nLast weekend's protests drew 1,000 trucks and 5,000 protesters, police said, down from 3,000 trucks and 10,000 to 15,000 protesters last weekend.\n\nFollowing police reports of violence last week, GoFundMe announced it would withhold millions of dollars raised for the protesting truckers and asked that donors fill out a request form to receive a refund.\n\nOn Monday, however, the crowdfunding platform reversed course and said that \"due to donor feedback\", it will automatically refund all contributions directly within seven to 10 business days.\n\nMeanwhile, Canadian officials are also calling for conservatives south of the border to stop backing the protesters after several US Republican lawmakers spoke out against GoFundMe's decision and voiced support for the truckers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sian Griffiths says her goal is to simply be able to live a \"normal life\" again\n\nSian Griffiths is desperate to get back to work but feels \"ashamed\" the \"fog of long Covid\" has kept her off for the past 18 months.\n\n\"I can't drive far, I forget to close doors, I burn food and when I'm reading my brain turns some words into others. I lose concentration,\" she said.\n\nSian is one of a record 1.3 million people in the UK living with long Covid - more than 2% of the population.\n\nThe only thing that lifts the cloud of long Covid for her is wild swimming.\n\n\"It feels like the fog disappears, I can think a bit more clearly,\" said Sian.\n\n\"It lasts for about an hour and a half after I come out and the hope is the more I do it, the effect will last a bit longer.\"\n\nLong Covid is not fully understood, and there is no internationally-agreed definition - so measures of how common it is or what symptoms are involved vary.\n\nSian, who caught Covid in May 2020 while working as an NHS physiotherapist, said she was advised by a specialist that swimming would help her recovery.\n\nSian Griffiths swims for 20 minutes, three times a week to help with her long Covid recovery\n\nBut the 43-year-old felt the heat after being in a leisure centre would make her \"likely to faint\" so she has taken up swimming three times a week in open water, usually off the north Wales coast near her home on Anglesey.\n\n\"I go in a wetsuit because that helps the compression of the blood and oxygen to the brain,\" she said, after a lake swim in the dramatic surroundings of Llyn Padarn in Snowdonia.\n\n\"The pressure of the water helps with blood and oxygen to the brain too.\n\n\"I feel ashamed as what do people think of me because I can go in water but I can't go to work - that just doesn't sit right with me although I have been told to do it.\"\n\nOfficial data suggests about 1.3 million people in the UK have \"long Covid\" - symptoms lasting more than four weeks - with symptoms like extreme tiredness, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, joint pain or changes to taste and smell.\n\nIt affects more than 60,000 people in Wales and Sian, whose memory and concentration problems are another main long Covid symptom, is one of 26,000 in Wales who are still having symptoms more than a year after getting coronavirus.\n\n\"I can't lead a normal life,\" she said.\n\n\"I was fine before, had a full-time job and was biking up mountains and riding 40 miles (64km) on the road.\n\n\"Now I've got to have my mum and dad basically trying to remind me to do things all of the time. It's heart breaking.\"\n\nSian has joined an open water swimming group to help her with her long Covid recovery\n\nSian said her recovery had been helped after paying to see a consultant in Stoke-on-Trent - a two-and-a-half-hour drive from her home in Llandegfan, near Menai Bridge - instead of waiting 12 months on the Welsh NHS.\n\nShe was diagnosed with Postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS), a heart condition where symptoms can include dizziness and fainting, and thinks Wales, like England, should also have specialist long Covid treatment centres in hospitals.\n\nShe feels a \"consultant-led, joined-up and under one roof\" solution should be considered in Wales, because \"you need to know if something happening with your organs\" before people start rehab.\n\nSian used to bike regularly and work as an NHS physio before getting Covid in May 2020\n\nBut the Welsh government thinks local support is better, with rehabilitation run by GPs, nurses and physiotherapists and their £5m Adferiad programme is working.\n\nSian was so frustrated she contacted her local politician who is also the health spokesperson for Plaid Cymru in the Welsh Parliament.\n\n\"She had to travel long distances, had to pay significant amounts of money and put huge pressure on her on her family in order to get a diagnosis,\" said Rhun ap Iorwerth, Member of the Senedd (MS) for Ynys Mon.\n\n\"It's not acceptable that should happen to anybody, it's even worse when it happens to somebody who's a health and care worker who was infected in the line of duty.\"\n\nMr ap Iorwerth said \"it's not right\" for a Welsh NHS employee to have to go private and pay for treatment \"so she can aim to get back to work.\"\n\n\"We should be looking after those health workers were infected,\" he added.\n\n\"As we should be looking after everybody who's suffering the consequences of long Covid feeling that they're not being taken seriously still. There are many, many people in a similar situation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The mystery of how long Covid damages our memory\n\nThe Welsh government said health professionals were \"still learning\" about long Covid, but added almost 90% of users of its rehab programme would recommend it to other sufferers, according to a review of 600 patients.\n\n\"In Wales we are committed to ensuring every person suffering from long Covid receives support and care tailored to their particular needs and symptoms rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, as close to home as possible,\" said Health Minister Eluned Morgan.\n\n\"We know it affects everyone differently. Not everyone suffering from long Covid will need to see a specialist and this model will stop people waiting a long time for treatment.\n\n\"We are still learning about long Covid and this review will help us improve services further. We will continue to monitor the support required and adapt accordingly as we learn more to ensure services are available to all those who need support.\"\n\nAt Tuesday's Welsh government briefing, Health minister Eluned Morgan told journalists she has \"no intention of stopping\" the Adferiad programme.\n\n\"It would be, I think, remiss of us to take away this programme, when it was so highly successful,\" she said, \"when clearly there is still very much a demand for it.\"", "The French president (right) held talks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky after his visit to Moscow\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has told reporters that President Vladimir Putin assured him that Russian forces would not ramp up the crisis near Ukraine's borders.\n\n\"I secured an assurance there would be no deterioration or escalation,\" he said before meeting Ukraine's leader.\n\nHowever, Russia said any suggestion of a guarantee was \"not right\".\n\nRussia has denied any plans to invade Ukraine, but it has assembled more than 100,000 troops near its borders.\n\nUS officials believe Russia has assembled 70% of military forces needed for a full-scale invasion.\n\nThe tensions between Russia, Ukraine and the West come nearly eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula.\n\nMoscow accuses the Ukrainian government of failing to implement the Minsk agreement - an international deal sponsored by Germany and France to restore peace to the east, where Russian-backed rebels control swathes of territory and at least 14,000 people have been killed since 2014.\n\nPresident Macron this week is on a diplomatic tour of national capitals. He arrived in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Tuesday after almost six hours of talks with Mr Putin in Moscow on Monday.\n\nAt a news conference with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Mr Macron said there was now the chance to \"make these negotiations move forward\" between Russia and Ukraine, and that he could see \"concrete solutions\" to reducing tensions.\n\nMr Zelensky meanwhile called on Mr Putin to take serious measures to reduce tensions. \"I do not really trust words, I believe that every politician can be transparent by taking concrete steps,\" he said.\n\nMr Macron then flew to Berlin, where he joined the leaders of Germany and Poland in expressing their joint support for Ukrainian sovereignty.\n\nThe leaders met as part of a summit of the Weimar Triangle group, formed 31 years ago after the end of the Cold War, to help deal with challenges now facing Europe.\n\nPutin hinted that progress had been made during his first Moscow summit with a Western leader since the crisis started\n\nMr Putin hinted on Monday that some of Mr Macron's proposals \"could form the basis of further joint steps\" - although they were \"probably still too early to talk about\".\n\nA French official later told reporters that the two leaders had agreed that Russia would pull troops out of Belarus at the end of exercises taking place near Ukraine's northern borders.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov however denied any deal had occurred - although the troops were expected to return to Russia at some point, he said.\n\nPresident Macron's diplomatic push later moved to Berlin for a meeting with the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and Polish President Andrzej Duda.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's like they stuck a knife in our back': Ukraine has been living with war for the past eight years\n\nUS President Joe Biden met the German leader in Washington on Monday and threatened to shut down a key Russian gas pipeline to Germany, called Nord Stream 2, if Moscow invaded Ukraine.\n\nChancellor Scholz - on his first trip to Washington since becoming chancellor and facing criticism for his response to the Ukraine crisis - was however more ambiguous about the pipeline than Mr Biden.\n\nWestern countries have already rejected a number of Moscow's demands, including that the Nato defence alliance rule out Ukraine becoming a member, and that it reduce its military presence in eastern Europe.\n\nThe Ukrainian president absolutely doesn't trust Mr Putin. \"Openness in a leader is fine\", he responded when Mr Macron talked about his frank discussions with the Russian leader. \"But only if it's not a game.\"\n\nMr Zelensky welcomed Emmanuel Macron's support and said the two men had a \"common vision\" regarding the challenges facing Ukraine, Europe and the world. But there were awkward moments. Mr Macron had to deny he'd cited Finland as a possible model for Ukraine's relationship with Nato (close, but not a member). Mr Zelensky appeared to make light of it but didn't sound impressed.\n\nMr Putin says he wants to invigorate the 2014 Minsk Agreement, and this is also a challenge for Mr Zelensky. Signed by his predecessor, in the middle of the war, he fears - as do most Ukrainians - that implementing Minsk in its current form will serve to enhance the authority of the pro-Russia separatists who currently control parts of the Donbas.\n\nMr Zelensky is basking in a growing measure of international support. Foreign dignitaries are coming in and out of town in a way that Kyiv has rarely seen. This crisis has yet to ease, but seems marginally less acute.\n\nIn the words of the Kremlin, President Macron may have arrived in Moscow with some \"seeds of reason\", but they haven't yet flowered into an agreement. Russia is keeping its powder dry, calling the talks long but informative.\n\nAny suggestion that France had secured a deal were also quickly slapped down; Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said that it would be impossible for Moscow and Paris to do a deal as France is not the leader of Nato.\n\nRussia's main focus, it seems, is still on the US. Crucially, Russia has yet again emphasised that it feels its security concerns around potential Nato expansion have not been answered. Continuing to put this front and centre in the diplomatic discussions makes negotiations difficult as neither side have shown any sign of giving ground.\n\nWhile both sides talk and then plan for more talks, troops continue to build on Ukraine's border and on Nato's eastern flank. The wait continues.", "US President Joe Biden (right) made the comments during a press conference with german Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) in Washington\n\nUS President Joe Biden has vowed to shut down a key Russian gas pipeline to Germany if Moscow invades Ukraine.\n\nSpeaking after talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington, Mr Biden said the US would \"bring an end\" to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.\n\nTheir talks came as French President Emmanuel Macron met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and expressed hope that war could be avoided.\n\nThere are growing Western fears of a Russian invasion, which Moscow denies.\n\nRussia currently has more than 100,000 troops massed on Ukraine's borders.\n\nUS officials said on Sunday that Russia has assembled 70% of military forces needed for a full-scale invasion.\n\nIn recent weeks, Moscow has demanded that the Western military alliance Nato ban Ukraine from ever becoming a member, and that the group cuts its troop numbers in eastern Europe.\n\nNato has rejected both demands. It has instead suggested talks on other areas, such as limiting nuclear weapons.\n\nThe tensions between Russia, Ukraine and the West come nearly eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backed a bloody rebellion in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nMoscow accuses the Ukrainian government of failing to implement the Minsk agreement - an international deal sponsored by Germany and France to restore peace to the east, where Russian-backed rebels control swathes of territory and at least 14,000 people have been killed since 2014.\n\nMr Biden and Mr Scholz held a press conference after their discussions in the US capital on Monday.\n\nWhen asked about Nord Stream 2, the US president said \"if Russia invades... again, then there will be longer Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.\"\n\nHowever he did not give specifics, responding to a question about how he would do this by saying: \"I promise you we will be able to do it.\"\n\nMr Scholz - on his first trip to Washington since become Chancellor and under criticism for his response to the Ukraine crisis - was more ambiguous about the pipeline.\n\nBut he did say the US and Germany were \"absolutely united\" on sanctions against Russia should it invade Ukraine, saying \"we will do the same steps and they will be very, very hard to Russia\".\n\nThe 1,225km (760-mile) Nord Stream 2 pipeline took five years to build and cost $11bn (£8bn). The energy project, which would run under the Baltic Sea, is designed to double Russia's gas exports to Germany.\n\nBut as yet it has not started operating, as regulators said in November it does not comply with German law and suspended its approval.\n\nMajor European businesses have invested heavily in Nord Stream 2. But many groups object to the plan.\n\nEnvironmentalists question how it will fit in with German efforts to cut emissions and tackle man-made climate change, while politicians at home and abroad fear it could increase Europe's dependence on Russian energy.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously described the pipeline as a \"dangerous geopolitical weapon\".\n\nGermany's new Chancellor Olaf Scholz is making his first trip to Washington amid criticism of a weak response to the Ukraine crisis.\n\nRepublican members of congress have portrayed Berlin as a brake on sanctions because of its interest in maintaining gas imports from Russia.\n\nAfter meeting the chancellor President Biden insisted that Nord Stream2 would not become operational if Moscow invaded Ukraine.\n\nMr Scholz did not go that far, citing the need for strategic ambiguity. But he stressed that the US and Germany would be absolutely united in taking the same steps in response to any invasion, and that these steps would be very hard.\n\nMr Biden went out of his way to dispel the suggestion that Germany was not a reliable ally, insisting several times he had no doubt that it was.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's like they stuck a knife in our back': Ukraine has been living with war for the past eight years", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nPlayers wore face masks during an ice hockey match at the Winter Olympics that was delayed for nearly an hour by confusion over Covid-19 tests.\n\nMonday's match between Canada and the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) started late because of \"safety and security concerns\" over pending test results.\n\nSix ROC squad members had to isolate after testing positive last week.\n\n\"We wanted to make sure their results came back and we were safe to play,\" said Canada forward Natalie Spooner.\n\n\"Once they came back, we were comfortable. Our coaches and medical staff were not going to put us in a situation where we would not feel safe.\n\n\"This is probably a cool story in the long run. We can say we were at the Covid Olympics and we even wore a mask in a game.\"\n\nFour-time champions Canada, who have won a medal at every Olympics since the women's game was introduced in 1998, won the preliminary round match 6-1 at Beijing's Wukesong Sports Centre.\n\nForward Brianne Jenner said the Canadian squad danced to stay loose during the delay, adding: \"We didn't know when the puck was going to drop, we just wanted to stay ready.\"\n\nThe International Olympic Committee said the teams had agreed \"the match would start with both sides wearing masks\".\n\nThe ROC wore masks for the first two periods but removed them during the third and final period, when it was reported their tests had come back negative.\n\nROC player Anna Shibanova said it was \"not a nice feeling\" to play in a mask, adding: \"There's not enough air.\"\n• None Touch down and find all the latest news and action during the match weeks of the 2022 Six Nations\n• None 'Was it the greatest ever performance?' Listen to Steven Bunce tell the most extraordinary tales from Winter Olympics gone by", "Boris Johnson is set to make further changes to his Downing Street team this week as he seeks to ease concerns of MPs who are wavering about his future.\n\nThe shake-up comes amid the fallout from the initial findings of the Sue Gray report into events at No 10 while Covid restrictions were in place.\n\nSeveral Tory backbenchers have called for Mr Johnson to resign and have submitted letters of no confidence.\n\nThe PM has promised his MPs there would be a change in how No 10 operates.\n\nAsked if he had confidence in the prime minister, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said \"absolutely, 100%\" adding that \"despite the challenges, and of course there are many, this prime minister is delivering\".\n\nBut Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary, Jon Ashworth, said the government was \"in utter chaos\", with Mr Johnson \"more focused on saving his own skin because of the scandals and rule breaking he's been involved in\".\n\nOn Saturday Mr Johnson announced two senior appointments to his backroom staff following a string of resignations last week.\n\nCabinet Office minister and Tory MP Steve Barclay is taking over as his chief of staff, while former Johnson aide Guto Harri has started as director of communications.\n\nMr Harri was spotted arriving at No 10 on Monday morning, and asked by reporters what his first task of the day would be, he said he would \"give healthy snacks and mineral waters to staff\", waving a shopping bag at the cameras.\n\nThere are expected to be new staff appointments, and some ministers will share some of the existing responsibilities of Mr Barclay, who retains his ministerial position.\n\nAt least one current adviser - Henry Newman - will be moved out of No 10 and into a new role in government.\n\nThe prime minister is also thought to be looking to appoint a new chief whip - the person in charge of party discipline - and he is understood to have held discussions with senior figures to try to persuade them to take up the post.\n\nSenior backbencher Tom Tugendhat, who has said he would run in any contest for the leadership, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the party should wait and see how the changes panned out before making any decisions on Mr Johnson's future.\n\n\"This is a decision clearly for 360 or so members of Parliament and let's see where it goes to, but I think the point remains that we've got to be looking at the future,\" he added.\n\n\"This is a time when we need to be really focused on what politics is actually here for, and that's helping others and not getting into some sort of personal psychodrama.\"\n\nBut former senior civil servant Jill Rutter said it was \"unclear\" how Mr Barclay's appointment would work in practice, as his three roles may pull him in different directions.\n\nWriting for the Times Red Box, she said: \"It's possible that the prime minister has thought this all through in a huge amount of detail and is clear how all these relationships will function.\n\n\"Alternatively, it's a panicky stopgap pulled together at short notice to get through the weekend, with no real thought about whether it will make a dysfunctional operation more confused.\"\n\nMr Johnson, who spent the weekend at his country retreat, Chequers, called some of his colleagues over the weekend to try to persuade them of the significance of his changes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A dizzying week for the PM explained in 60 seconds\n\nHe has faced a turbulent few weeks amid allegations of parties at Downing Street, the Metropolitan Police announcing an investigation into 12 of those and criticism after making a false claim that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile.\n\nThe latter led No 10 policy chief Munira Mirza to resign, while four other aides - including his chief of staff and private secretary - also resigned last week.\n\nHer replacement in the policy unit, Tory MP Andrew Griffith, has written a piece for the Conservative Home website, outlining his priorities, including tackling the NHS backlog and dealing with the cost of living crisis.\n\nHe added: \"So long as [the public] see that we are focussing on them and their needs rather than fighting amongst ourselves, I believe that they will continue to place their trust in us.\n\n\"It is time for we Conservatives to unite, to support the prime minister and to get on with the job.\"\n\nBut several Conservative MPs have handed in letters of no confidence in the PM, including former minister Nick Gibb, with 54 needed to trigger a vote on his leadership.\n\nIt comes as Mr Johnson's wife, Carrie, has said she is the target of a \"brutal briefing campaign\" by his enemies, after a book alleged she influences the prime minister's decision-making.", "Adele gave her first performance at the Brit Awards since 2016\n\nAdele won three out the four main prizes at the Brit Awards on Tuesday, where she also put in an assured performance of her track I Drink Wine.\n\nThe singer won best artist, album and song of the year for Easy on Me.\n\nEd Sheeran was crowned songwriter of the year too at London's O2 Arena, and he performed his hit Bad Habits alongside rockers Bring Me the Horizon.\n\nDua Lipa won the night's other big prize, as TikTok users voted for her and not Adele as the best pop/R&B act.\n\nIt means that for now at least, Robbie Williams is still one gong ahead of Adele as the most-awarded artist in Brits history with 13.\n\nAfter winning the first of her three awards, for best song, Adele beamed: \"I can't believe a piano ballad won up against that many bangers.\"\n\nHer so-called \"divorce album\", 30, was the biggest-seller of 2021, shifting more than 600,000 copies in just six weeks, and the star dedicated her award for it to her son and ex-husband.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The biggest moments from the Brit Awards 2022\n\nThe winner of the Brits' first-ever genderless award for overall artist of the year added: \"I understand why the name of this award has changed but I really love being a woman and being a female artist. I'm really proud of us.\"\n\nThe move attracted some criticism from figures including Piers Morgan and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries - who said she was concerned about how the new system \"would work in terms of fair gender representation\".\n\nIn the end, more women were nominated than at any time in the past decade, and female artists or female-fronted bands won two-thirds of the awards.\n\nLittle Simz brought her mother on stage as she collected her award for best new artist\n\nAdele's hat-trick came just weeks after she tearfully postponed her entire Las Vegas residency. She didn't reference that setback during the ceremony, though, and tabloids seemed more interested in whether she was sporting a new diamond ring on her engagement finger.\n\nThe ceremony was hosted for the first time by Mo Gilligan, who took over (at the \"Mo-2 Arena\", as he re-named it) from Jack Whitehall.\n\nThe comedian took a swipe at Prime Minister Boris Johnson over the well-documented party-gate controversy. \"Boris, I know you're watching,\" he said into the camera. \"I know you love a party.\n\n\"Come on my guy, come down man - I know you like a cheeseboard. Look at you, looking for the Dairylea.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Mo Gilligan predicted he'd host the Brits in 2011\n\nOne of the best performances of the night came right at the end from best hip-hop/grime/rap-winner Dave, demonstrating his musical prowess once again by strapping on a six-string and shredding out a guitar solo; after having been joined on a flame-filled stage for a rendition of In the Fire, by fellow rappers Fredo, Ghetts, Meekz, Giggs, and a gospel choir.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BRIT Awards This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother came courtesy of best new artist winner, Little Simz, who was joined on-stage by The Crown actress Emma Corrin, during a medley of tracks from her critically-acclaimed album, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert.\n\nHer smart, funky record was music critics' favourite album of 2021, and ahead of the Brits her producer, Inflo - who Adele said also \"changed my life\" - was named as producer of the year.\n\n\"Look what you've done mum,\" said Simz, collecting her award while accompanied by her mother.\n\n\"I am living proof that if you work hard at something, no matter where you come from, no matter your background and your race, you can do something extraordinary.\"\n\nElsewhere on the night, Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood was on hand to give the best rock/alternative award to Sam Fender.\n\nThe North Shields rocker thanked his manager for \"walking into that pub 10 years ago\" and discovering him.\n\nAbba were last nominated for a Brit Award in 1977, losing out to Simon & Garfunkel and a similar fate befell them on Tuesday, as Silk Sonic - aka Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak - took the best international group.\n\nBillie Eilish fended off competition from Olivia Rodrigo to win best international artist. But 18-year-old Rodrigo, who made her live debut at last year's awards, made up for it by winning best international song for her pop-punk anthem Good 4U.\n\nOther winners included Wolf Alice for best group, and Becky Hill for best dance.\n\nHolly Humberstone knew before she arrived she had won the rising star award. She told the BBC that her rapid ascent, which has happened during the pandemic, has been \"very strange to me\" so far. \"I feel like I'm in some kind of alternate universe, but I feel just so lucky,\" she said.\n\nAnne-Marie stumbled briefly down some stairs during her performance of Don't Play, with YouTuber and rapper KSI and Digital Farm Animals. But she recovered herself quickly, and later tweeted: \"Didn't need my left ankle anyway.\"\n\nLiam Gallagher brought some rock 'n' roll to the Brits\n\nLast but not least, Liam Gallagher belted out his new track, Everything's Electric, while donning a trapper hat.\n\nLast year's Brit Awards took place as part of the government's pilot scheme for the return of live events. Covid restrictions necessitated a mixture of live and virtual performances, with artists like Coldplay, The Weeknd and Elton John appearing on tape.\n\nThis year, organisers vowed to \"keep everything in the room\" - even when that meant scrapping a planned performance from US star Doja Cat, after members of her team tested positive for Covid.\n\nThey also took the decision to scrap gendered awards, falling in line with other major music prizes like the Grammys, the MTV Awards and Australia's Arias.\n\nBrits chairman Tom March said the move away from best male and female prizes \"felt right\".\n\nSpeaking on the red carpet beforehand, best newcomer nominee Self Esteem told BBC music correspondent Mark Savage: \"It's crazy to me it already wasn't the case. You know?\n\n\"We're still living in this terribly gendered society even though everything is like, 'live, laugh, love' and everyone's fine.\"\n\nShe added: \"I constantly feel second or discriminated against because of being a woman, and isn't that insane? The zeitgeist makes you think it isn't like that anymore.\n\n\"So well done Brits for doing it, but I'm not gonna be like, clapping for them!\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kate Forbes: \"I will definitely be taking maternity leave and trying to figure out how on earth to be a mother.\"\n\nScotland's finance secretary Kate Forbes is pregnant and will be taking maternity leave in the summer, it has been announced.\n\nIt will be the first time a serving Scottish cabinet secretary has taken maternity leave.\n\nArrangements to cover her ministerial responsibilities while she is on leave will be set out by the first minister.\n\nMs Forbes has been finance secretary for two years, and has been tipped as a possible future first minister.\n\nShe has been working on finalising the Scottish government's budget plans for the coming year, which are due to be passed by MSPs on Thursday.\n\nThe government said she will remain as finance secretary while she is on maternity leave and will resume her duties upon her return on a date that has not yet been agreed.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Forbes said she and her husband Alasdair MacLennan - who she married in Dingwall in July of last year - were expecting their first child together later this year, and were \"looking forward to welcoming a new member of our family\".\n\nShe confirmed that she planned to take maternity leave from Holyrood, but said her office and team would still be available to help residents in her Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch constituency.\n\nMs Forbes, 31, said her pregnancy had given her an \"even deeper admiration for the thousands of women across the country who balance both work and personal responsibilities\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe added: \"There might be particular challenges with being a politician in the public eye, whilst combating the side effects of pregnancy, but it is an experience which is familiar to countless women.\n\n\"Politics, like many workplaces, is often not renowned for being a supportive environment for parents.\n\n\"Hopefully I can play a small part in changing that, and demonstrating that it is possible to have children and a career, with the right support in place.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was pleased that Ms Forbes \"will be able to enjoy those precious early months with her new arrival and her wider family\".\n\nShe added: \"This should never be a barrier to someone's career, especially women in senior leadership roles.\n\n\"That is why we are clear Kate is not leaving government. She will remain Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy while on leave and take up her duties again upon her return.\"\n\nMs Forbes - who is the only woman to have ever served as finance secretary - is a member of the Free Church of Scotland, which follows a strict interpretation of the Bible.\n\nShe described last year how she had often had to \"tiptoe around\" her Christian faith because of a \"fear and a sense that the public will think we only speak for our own rather than speak for everybody\".\n\nAlthough Ms Forbes will be the first cabinet secretary to take maternity leave, Aileen Campbell took maternity leave while serving as minister for children and young people in December 2014.", "The duchess chose the book because it chimed with this year's theme of \"growing together\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge will give the CBeebies Bedtime Story slot the royal treatment with an appearance to mark Children's Mental Health Week.\n\nThe duchess has chosen to read childhood classic The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson.\n\nIt follows the story of Plop, a baby owl, who is helped by others to grow in confidence and overcome his fears.\n\nThe duchess's reading will air at 6.50pm on 13 February. She will be the first royal to read a CBeebies story.\n\nChildren's Mental Health week runs from 7 to 14 February and the duchess chose the book because it chimed with this year's theme of \"growing together\".\n\nThis year children and adults are being encouraged to consider how they have grown emotionally and to recognise how challenges and setbacks can help them mature and adapt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds is the latest star to delight young audiences with a CBeebies Bedtime Story\n\nPatricia Hidalgo, director of BBC Children's and Education said: \"I couldn't be more proud to have the duchess read a CBeebies Bedtime Story as we mark the 20th anniversary of our CBeebies and CBBC channels.\n\n\"It's such a special and relevant tale and perfectly represents this years' Children's Mental Health week theme. I can't wait to see her deliver her own take on such a classic story and I'm sure our audience can't either.\"\n\nCBeebies bedtime stories have long been a lifeline for frazzled parents, whose children are told a calming story at the end of the evening to help lull them to sleep.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by CBeebies This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIn recent years, it has attracted some big names keen to lend a soothing voice, including Hollywood actors such as Tom Hardy, who got involved in 2016.\n\nReese Witherspoon was a recent addition to the list, which also features Chris Evans, Tom Hiddleston, Orlando Bloom and Eddie Redmayne, along with singing talent including Dolly Parton, Sir Elton John, Dave Grohl and Ed Sheeran - and children's television royalty such as Dame Floella Benjamin.\n\nOther big names lining up to open a CBeebies storybook include Bridgerton actor Regé-Jean Page, author Michael Rosen, Olympic athlete Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, astronaut Tim Peake (who read from space), actors Emily Watson and Ewan McGregor and TV chef Nadiya Hussain.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA paralysed man with a severed spinal cord has been able to walk again, thanks to an implant developed by a team of Swiss researchers.\n\nIt is the first time someone who has had a complete cut to their spinal cord has been able to walk freely.\n\nThe same technology has improved the health of another paralysed patient to the extent that he has been able to become a father.\n\nThe research has been published in the journal Nature Medicine.\n\nMichel Roccati was paralysed after a motorbike accident five years ago. His spinal cord was completely severed - and he has no feeling at all in his legs.\n\nBut he can now walk - because of an electrical implant that has been surgically attached to his spine.\n\nSomeone this injured has never been able to walk like this before.\n\nThe researchers stress that it isn't a cure for spinal injury and that the technology is still too complicated to be used in everyday life, but hail it nonetheless as a major step to improving quality of life.\n\nI met Michel at the lab where the implant was created. He told me that the technology \"is a gift to me\".\n\n\"I stand up, walk where I want to, I can walk the stairs - it's almost a normal life.\"\n\nIt was not the technology alone that drove Michel's recovery. The young Italian has a steely resolve. He told me that from the moment of his accident, he was determined to make as much progress as he could.\n\n\"I used to box, run and do fitness training in the gym. But after the accident, I could not do the things that I loved to do, but I did not let my mood go down. I never stopped my rehabilitation. I wanted to solve this problem.\"\n\nThe speed of Michel's recovery amazed the neurosurgeon who inserted the implant and expertly attached electrodes to individual nerve fibres, Prof Jocelyne Bloch at Lausanne University Hospital\n\n\"I was extremely surprised,\" she told me. \"Michel is absolutely incredible. He should be able to use this technology to progress and be better and better.\"\n\nThe research has been backed by Dr Ram Hariharan, a consultant at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield who is independent of the research team and also speaks for the Spinal Injuries Association.\n\n\"They have done something that has not been done before.\n\n\"I have not heard of any study where they have put in an implant [into a patient with a complete spinal cord cut] and demonstrated muscle movements and improving balance, enough to stand and walk.\"\n\nBut he added more clinical trials needed to be carried out before he could be convinced that it was an effective treatment.\n\n\"We need more numbers [of patients] to show that it is first safe and that it significantly enhances their lives. Only then can it be taken forward.\"\n\nNerves in the spinal cord send signals from the brain to the legs. Some people are paralysed when the nerves are damaged through injury.\n\nIn Michel's case there's no signal at all to his legs because the spinal cord is completely severed. But the implant sends signals directly to his legs enabling him to walk, but only when the implant is on.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo far nine people have received the implant and regained the ability to walk. None of them use it to help them walk in their everyday lives - because it's too complicated at this stage. Instead, they use it to practise walking - which exercises their muscles, improves their health - and often, restores a little bit of movement.\n\nDavid M'zee was one of the first patients to receive the implant. Like Michel, he was able to walk with the implant while using a walker. David's health improved to such an extent he has was able to have a baby girl with his partner Janine, something that was not possible after his accident in 2010.\n\nHis daughter, Zoe, is now one year old. When I was with them, she raced with her Dad with her baby walker and took great delight in beating him.\n\n\"It's really beautiful!\" he beamed with fatherly pride.\n\n\"It is great fun. It's the first time I have been walking with her in that way - she with her baby walker, I with my walker.\"\n\nHaving a family has given David a huge amount of joy. And the implant has helped him in subtle, but important ways.\n\n\"It helps with the hypotension. I had it for so long. At first I didn't realise I had it. I was getting so tired from time to time.\n\n\"Once we found out that the implant can increase the blood pressure it was like 'Wow, that's how life can be!'\"\n\n\"It's these small things that make a big difference,\" he told me.\n\nThere is still a long way to go before the technology can be used routinely to help paralysed people to walk, according to Prof Grégoire Courtine, who led the team that developed the technology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).\n\n\"This is not a cure for spinal cord injury. But it is a critical step to improve people's quality of life. We are going to empower people. We are going to give them the ability to stand, to take some steps. It is not enough, but it is a significant improvement.\"\n\nA cure would require regeneration of the spinal cord, possibly with stem cell therapies, which are still at a very early stage of research. Prof Courtine believes that his implant technology could be used in conjunction with nerve regeneration treatments once they are ready.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People with high blood pressure who take paracetamol on prescription could be increasing their risk of heart attacks and strokes, a study suggests.\n\nDoctors should think about the risks and benefits to patients taking it over many months, the University of Edinburgh researchers say.\n\nTaking the painkiller for headaches and fevers is safe, they stress.\n\nOther experts say research in more people over a longer timeframe is needed to confirm the findings.\n\nParacetamol is widely used around the world as a short-term remedy for aches and pains but also prescribed to manage chronic pain, despite little evidence of its benefit for long-term use.\n\nHalf a million people - one out of every 10 - in Scotland were prescribed the painkiller in 2018.\n\nIf they also have high blood pressure, a condition that affects one in every three people in the UK, they may be more at risk, according to this trial.\n\nIt tracked 110 volunteers, two-thirds of whom were taking drugs for high blood pressure, or hypertension.\n\nIn a randomised trial, they were asked to take 1g of paracetamol four times a day for two weeks - a common dose for patients with chronic pain - and then dummy pills, or placebo, for another two weeks.\n\nThe trial showed paracetamol increased blood pressure, \"one of the most important risk factors for heart attacks and strokes\" - much more than a placebo, Edinburgh clinical pharmacologist Prof James Dear said.\n\nThe researchers advise doctors to start patients with chronic pain on as low a dose of paracetamol as possible and keep a close eye on those with high blood pressure and at risk of heart disease.\n\nArthritis is one of the biggest causes of chronic pain in the UK. One charity, Versus Arthritis, said safer medicines to treat pain were needed as well as other help, such as mental health support and encouragement to be physically active.\n\n\"If you are concerned about the risks from pain medicines you should speak with a healthcare professional to explore your options.\" said Dr Benjamin Ellis, consultant rheumatologist at Versus Arthritis.\n\nLead investigator Dr Iain MacIntyre, clinical pharmacology consultant, at NHS Lothian, said: \"This is not about short-term use of paracetamol for headaches or fever, which is, of course, fine.\"\n\nDr Dipender Gill, clinical pharmacology and therapeutics lecturer, at St George's, University of London, said the study, published in the journal Circulation, had found \"a small but meaningful increase in blood pressure in a white Scottish population\" but \"many unknowns remain\".\n\n\"Firstly, it is not clear whether the observed increase in blood pressure would be sustained with longer term use of paracetamol,\" he said.\n\n\"Secondly, it is not known for certain whether any increase in blood pressure attributable to paracetamol use would lead to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.\"\n\nA large US study previously found a link between long-term paracetamol use and increased risk of heart attacks - but it could not prove one caused the other.\n\nAnd other smaller studies have been unable to confirm the link.\n\nThe Edinburgh team said they could not explain how paracetamol would raise blood pressure but their findings should lead to a review of long-term paracetamol prescriptions.\n\nThese were previously considered safer than non-steroidal anti-inflammatory painkillers, such as ibuprofen, which are thought to raise blood pressure in some people.\n\nThe British Heart Foundation, which funded the study, said doctors and patients should regularly rethink whether any medication, even something \"relatively harmless like paracetamol\", was needed.\n\nDr Richard Francis, from the Stroke Association, said further research in people with normal, healthy blood pressure, over a longer timeframe, was needed \"to confirm the risks and benefits of using paracetamol more widely\".", "Cameron Kalani was lucky not to have been killed by police, the judge said\n\nA man found with a knife and drugs in the grounds of Buckingham Palace has been given a suspended jail term.\n\nCameron Kalani, 44, was spotted scaling a wall into the Royal Mews - which houses royal horses - in the early hours of 10 May.\n\nHe admitted at Westminster Magistrates' Court to trespassing on a protected site, possession of a bladed article and possession of a wrap of cocaine.\n\nHe was sentenced to 24 weeks in jail suspended for 12 months.\n\nDeputy District Judge Roy Brown told him he was lucky not to have been killed by police.\n\nHe said: \"You are a very fortunate man indeed. It is just good luck and good fortune that neither you nor anyone else was either seriously injured or killed in the course of your escapade in May last year.\n\n\"The police were extremely restrained in the way they behaved with you in the face of an ongoing threat.\"\n\nThe court heard Kalani is a talented wildlife photographer with a keen interest in mathematics and physics who has never shown any interest in the royal family.\n\nHe said he had travelled to London from his home in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, while in a state of psychosis in a bid \"to be arrested\".\n\nKalani, who was supported in court by his mother and aunt, said he had packed his bag with a knife in an envelope and the drugs, scaling the fence after seeing a sign reading: \"Do not climb\".\n\n\"I did not know the fence was attached to or formed part of the Buckingham Palace estate,\" he said.\n\n\"My sole intention was to be arrested. I did not seek to do anyone harm or damage any property.\"\n\nThe Royal Mews houses the horses of the royal family\n\nBen Lay, defending, said his client was in a \"severe mental health crisis, an episode of psychosis\" at the time of the offences.\n\n\"In that state, Mr Kalani's only intention was to get help and thought the best way to do this was to get arrested.\"\n\nThe judge said he did not accept Kalani had carried the knife and drugs \"simply to get arrested\", adding: \"There are easier locations to attend if you want to draw the attention of the police.\"\n\nBut he added: \"Your behaviour at that time was largely due to your psychiatric state.\"\n\nAs part of Kalani's suspended sentence, he must attend a 30-day rehabilitation programme and cannot enter the SW1A postal area. He was also ordered to pay £213 costs.\n\nMr Brown told him: \"Behave yourself and you won't go to prison.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nGreat Britain's wait for their first medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics goes on after curling mixed doubles pair Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat lost their bronze-medal match 9-3 to Sweden.\n\nThe Swedes surged into a 7-1 lead after just three ends and never let up.\n\nScots Dodds and Mouat - the world champions - were one of the key hopes for Team GB, who have targeted between three and seven medals in Beijing.\n\nThey will get another chance when the team events begin on Wednesday.\n\n\"It got off to a bad start and that punished us the most and we had to fight back from there,\" Mouat told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We're going to have to console ourselves because we're got a big week with both of our teams. We're both ready for that but it's a quick turnaround.\"\n\nItaly took gold, completing a flawless 11-match campaign with victory over Norway.\n\nTeam GB's next big medal chance looks to be on Wednesday, when world champion Charlotte Bankes competes in the women's snowboard cross.\n\nSweden were one of the favourites for gold in the mixed doubles, but Oskar Eriksson and Almida de Val only squeezed into the play-offs when Canada lost their final match, and were trounced 8-1 by Italy in their semi-final.\n\nBut they barely missed a shot in the bronze-medal match, putting Britain under huge pressure from the off.\n\nThe Swedes stormed to a 4-1 lead in the second end when Eriksson's superb take-out set up partner De Val to chip out Britain's stone for four, and they stole three more in the next when Dodds' difficult take-out attempt did not come off.\n\nAnother one came in the next when a GB chip could not remove Sweden's stone.\n\nWhen Britain fell further behind on their powerplay as Dodds gambled to try to score more than one, there was an inevitability about the outcome.\n\nIndeed the match was conceded after the next end - despite Britain scoring two - to cap another disappointing day for Mouat and Dodds, who lost in the final end to Norway in Monday's semi-final.\n\n\"I don't think either of them made a mistake,\" Dodds said of the Swedes.\n\n\"It's hard to fight back when your opposition is playing that well. Congratulations to them for winning the bronze they played amazingly.\"\n\nMouat will turn his attention to leading his men's team, who start their campaign on Thursday against Italy, while Dodds will link up with Eve Muirhead's rink, who face Switzerland earlier the same day.\n\nMore from day four of the Winter Olympics:\n• None An Olympic dream realised - after 45 PCR tests and on borrowed skates\n• None 'I gave everything I had and maybe too much' - USA's O'Brien breaks leg\n• None 'It belongs to all of us': Join us in celebrating 100 years of informing, educating and entertaining\n• None From Sheffield to the Beijing mountains: Follow a group of Team GB freestylers in their preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics", "Up to a third of UK children - mostly young teens - consume at least one energy drink a week, while some are having them almost daily, new research suggests.\n\nThose who drink lots may get headaches and sleep problems, warn the authors of a report in the BMJ Open.\n\nHigh consumption is also linked to worse educational outcomes.\n\nMany shops already stop under-16s from buying the drinks, which can be high in caffeine, sugar and other stimulants.\n\nA single can might contain more caffeine than an espresso.\n\nThe UK government has already said it will soon ban sales to children, because advice and warning labels have not been enough of a deterrent for some.\n\nThe latest study, commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care, analysed data on thousands of UK children, as well as consumption by youngsters in other countries from around the world, including the US and Canada.\n\nLead researcher Claire Khouja, from the University of York, said: \"Our research has uncovered consistent evidence of links between the regular consumption of these drinks and harmful effects on children's overall wellbeing. These findings offer support for a government policy banning the sale of energy drinks to children.\n\n\"Our study also indicates that children who are better informed about the contents of energy drinks, drink less, suggesting that an education campaign and/or more prominent warnings on packaging could reduce consumption.\"\n\nThe researchers stress that their findings rely on surveys, and so cannot prove that energy drinks cause problems for children.\n\nLast year, medics writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) warned of the dangers of energy drinks, after a student who drank too many developed heart failure.\n\nThe 21-year-old university student spent 58 days in hospital after consuming four 500ml energy drinks every day for two years.\n\nEnergy drinks and their ingredients have been deemed safe by regulatory authorities around the world.\n\nThe British Soft Drinks Association's director general, Gavin Partington, said: \"Our members do not market or promote energy drinks to under-16s, nor do they sample products with this age group.\n\n\"In addition, energy drinks carry an advisory note stating 'not recommended for children'.\n\n\"The BSDA code of practice on energy drinks was introduced by and for our members in 2010 and contains a number of stringent points on responsible marketing. We remain committed to supporting the responsible sale of energy drinks.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Five people were killed and several others were injured in the 1992 gun attack\n\nSeveral hundred people have attended a memorial event for the victims of the Ormeau Road bookmakers murders in 1992.\n\nIt took place at Sean Graham's bookmakers at 14:20 GMT, the exact moment Ulster Defence Association (UDA) gunmen struck 30 years ago.\n\nFive people were murdered in the attack and seven others were injured when two masked UDA gunmen opened fire indiscriminately.\n\nFlowers were placed at a memorial plaque by relatives of the victims.\n\nSurvivors were also in attendance.\n\nThe five people killed were all Catholics: Jack Duffin, 66; Willie McManus, 54; Christy Doherty, 52; Peter Magee, 18; and James Kennedy, 15.\n\nBosco Kennedy's brother James was killed in the attack\n\nOn Friday, settlements were reached in High Court actions over alleged state collusion.\n\nBosco Kennedy's 15-year-old brother James was one of those killed in the attack.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI he said: \"My mother died within two years, my mother died of a broken heart.\n\n\"My dad only died seven years ago and he was the one who took over the mantle and was always looking for the truth.\n\n\"When he died it was myself that took over and tried to go along with the rest of the families and get the truth for all of us.\"\n\nA long-awaited report into the attack will be published by the police ombudsman on Tuesday.\n\nIt has previously emerged that one of the weapons used had been given to a police agent within the UDA by the Royal Ulster Constabulary's Special Branch.\n\nMr Kennedy said while the report \"won't make the families happy\", he believes it will be a \"stepping stone\" towards justice.\n\nThe police ombudsman has been investigating allegations of collusion for many years and the report will also deal with seven other attacks.", "Porn websites in the UK will be legally required to verify the age of their users under new internet safety laws.\n\nThe legislation, which is part of the draft Online Safety Bill, aims to give children better protection from explicit material.\n\nThe measures, to ensure users are 18 or over, could see people asked to prove they own a credit card or confirm their age via a third-party service.\n\nSites that fail to act could be fined up to 10% of their global turnover.\n\nThe Online Safety Bill is expected to be introduced to parliament over the next few months and is designed to protect users from harmful content.\n\nChildren's safety groups have long been calling for age verification on porn sites, over fears it is too easy for minors to access publically available material online.\n\nSimilar measures were proposed previously but dropped in 2019.\n\nStudies show that half of 11 to 13-year-olds have seen pornography at some point.\n\nExperts who work with children say it gives them unhealthy views of sex and consent, putting them at risk from predators and possibly stopping them reporting abuse.\n\nAnnouncing the age verification plans, Digital Economy Minister Chris Philp said: \"Parents deserve peace of mind that their children are protected online from seeing things no child should see.\"\n\nAs well as being able to fine websites that do not follow the rules, the regulator Ofcom could block them from being accessible in the UK.\n\nThe bosses of these websites could also be held criminally liable if they fail to cooperate with Ofcom.\n\nPreviously, only commercial porn sites that allowed user-generated content were in the scope of the Online Safety Bill, but all commercial porn sites will now be covered.\n\nAndy Burrows, of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), welcomed the strengthening of the Online Harms Bill but said it didn't go far enough.\n\n\"It's right the government has listened to calls to fix one of the gaps in the Online Safety Bill and protect children from pornography wherever it's hosted,\" he said.\n\n\"Crucially, they have also acted on our concerns and closed the 'Only Fans loophole' that would have let some of the riskiest sites off the hook despite allowing children access to extremely damaging material.\n\n\"But the legislation still falls short of giving children comprehensive protection from preventable abuse and harmful content and needs significant strengthening to match the government's rhetoric and focus minds at the very top of tech companies on child safety.\"\n\nProposals to make people confirm their age before accessing explicit content online were first introduced under the Digital Economy Act in 2017, but the government never enforced them.\n\nThey were officially dropped in 2019, with ministers pledging \"other measures\" would achieve the same results.\n\nWhen the first draft of the Online Safety Bill was announced last year, campaigners were shocked it did not contain these long-promised checks.\n\nIt will be up to companies to decide how best to comply with the new rules, but Ofcom may recommend the use of certain age verification technologies.\n\nHowever, the government says firms should not process or store data that is irrelevant to the purpose of checking someone's age.\n\nDespite the widespread use of age verification technology in sectors such as online gambling, there are still fears it poses privacy risks.\n\nCampaigners have warned that a database of pornography users would be a huge hacking target for blackmailers.\n\nJim Killock of the Open Rights Group, which campaigns to preserve digital rights and freedoms, said the rules would benefit age verification companies while offering \"little practical benefit for child safety, and much harm to people's privacy\".\n\n\"There is no indication that this proposal will protect people from tracking and profiling porn viewing,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We have to assume the same basic mistakes about privacy and security may be about to be made again.\"\n\nBut Iain Corby, executive director of the Age Verification Providers Association, said firms he represented had developed a wide range of methods to prove someone's age online without disclosing their identity to the websites they visit.\n\n\"By using independent, third-party organisations which are audited and certified to comply with the highest standards of data protection and security, adults can be confident their own privacy will be preserved while their children are protected.\"", "Pay-as-you-go customers are already going without gas and electricity in greater numbers ahead of big price rises, an energy supply boss has said.\n\nBill Bullen, chief executive of Utilita, said twice the usual number of prepayment meter customers were \"self-disconnecting\" when accounts ran dry.\n\nThese customers typically face a £708 a year increase in their bill from April, a bigger rise than other households.\n\nMr Bullen said a \"big proportion\" would be unable to pay.\n\n\"It's going to be tough on an awful lot of families,\" he said.\n\nHe called for specific help for seven or eight million households who were going to be really stretched rather than the government's plan to \"subsidise everyone's energy consumption\".\n\nUtilita is the leading prepayment energy supplier, with 827,000 customers.\n\nMr Bullen told the BBC that typically at this time of year, about 2 or 3% of these customers would \"self-disconnect\", running out of money, but that now stands between 5 and 7%.\n\nPrepayment meters require customers to pay for their energy use in advance, often online, but also from credit bought in convenience stores.\n\nFrom April, the typical domestic energy bill for 4.5 million prepayment meter customers - often the poorest in society - will go up by £708 a year to a total of £2,017, under the regulator's price cap.\n\nJennifer Quigley says it's not easy for prepayment customers to shop around\n\nJennifer Quigley is a prepayment meter customer and has found her top-ups are not going nearly as far. The idea costs could rise more are bringing on a feeling of panic.\n\n\"When £10 would've lasted you four or five days, now it's only lasting two or three,\" she said.\n\n\"It's difficult to budget because the changes happen so often. When you're counting pennies and pounds it makes a big difference.\"\n\nA few years ago, she got into hot water with her credit card bills. At that time, she found the meter useful to help her plan her spending. Now she feels trapped.\n\n\"People say shop around, but when you're on prepayment it's not that easy,\" she said.\n\n\"As soon as a company sees you're on a prepayment they go 'oh right well we can't offer you this or that'. It's not any better.\"\n\nThe bill for typical usage on a prepayment meter from April, under the price cap will be £46 more a year than those who pay for their gas and electricity by direct debit. The rise in April is also £15 higher than the £693 rise for the 18 million households not on prepayment meters.\n\n\"Our job is to make sure what the cost is reflected fairly in the bill,\" he said.\n\n\"Prepayment customers do have infrastructure that other customers don't use,\" he said. \"The cost of serving those customers is higher and that's why unfortunately prepayment customers pay more.\"\n\nWhen a prepayment meter runs out of credit, most suppliers include a function to add emergency funds.\n\nThis amount - typically between £5 and £10 - is automatically added by the customer and repaid as they top up. It means someone's supply should never be cut off, but can also mean they rack up debt.\n\nThere are additional voucher schemes in place already that hard-up households can apply for further emergency funding when they cannot afford their bills.\n\nAuriga Services is a private business that provides these vouchers for some suppliers. They have seen demand for vouchers increase 800%, from 1,634 in March 2020 to 14,663 a year later.\n\nBritish Gas has the highest number of prepayment customers in the UK and they told the BBC they have given out 1,800 Emergency Utility Vouchers this winter. The company's Winter Fund, for those in fuel poverty, still has £1.7m unused for this year and they are urging their customers to contact them if they need help.\n\nThe BBC also contacted E.ON, EDF, Ovo-SSE, Octopus and Shell Energy, who have similar emergency credit schemes or funding set aside for customers. All said customers should talk to their supplier if they were worried about their bills.\n\nA spokesperson for HM Treasury said: \"We understand that people are concerned about pressures on household budgets which is why the chancellor announced a £9bn package to protect millions against the impact of rising global energy prices.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled plans to support households, with a £200 reduction, given in October and repaid in instalments from April 2023, as well as an additional £150 council tax rebate for properties in bands A to D in England.\n\nHowever, the the Institute of Fiscal Studies think-tank described the support as \"broad based\", adding that there was \"little direct targeting of resources on the poorest and those most in need\".\n\nMr Bullen, of Utilita, said the package of measures was not targeted enough, and also failed to recognise specific complications with his customers.\n\n\"Customers move house, particularly in the rented sector. You are potentially getting one person seeing the benefit of the £200 subsidy putting the debt on the prepayment meter, and if you change the tenancy someone else ends up picking up the tab,\" he said.\n\nThe Treasury described the policy package as \"progressive overall\" and said that it would benefit lower-income households the most when it comes to a proportion of their household income.\n\nAre you a pay-as-you-go energy customer who has been going without gas and electricity ahead of the big price rises? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was heckled by protesters in Westminster on Monday\n\nProtest is familiar in Westminster and always has been. It's an important part of our political tradition. But in 2022, very angry gatherings are common.\n\nSmall bands of furious members of the public are often spotted on the corner of Parliament Square, or outside Portcullis House, where many MPs work and gather.\n\nThey sometimes hold placards and are normally carrying camera phones to record and share their exploits, carefully watching who goes past.\n\nOn Monday such a group spotted the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. He became the latest, along with the shadow foreign secretary and Labour's leader in the Lords, to be personally targeted and swarmed, before being bundled into the back of a police car for his own safety.\n\nThe experience, inevitably filmed and posted online in minutes, was another ugly reminder of what many politicians encounter in the name of this modern form of protest - abusive, personal, edgy.\n\nBut it's also reignited the anger inside the Conservative Party at the prime minister's false claims in Parliament a week ago.\n\nSir Keir was bundled into a police car for his own protection after being surrounded by protesters\n\nMr Johnson misleadingly suggested the Labour leader had been involved in the decision not to prosecute serial sex offender Jimmy Savile, a political attack that attracted criticism from some Conservatives straight away.\n\nIt led later in the week to the resignation of one of his closest political confidants, and was one of the reasons why concern was spreading in Conservative ranks last week about Mr Johnson's leadership.\n\nHis refusal to apologise, and partial retraction, made some MPs queasy and was the trigger for at least one of them to add their private letter to those already submitted in an effort to oust him.\n\nSince then the prime minister has been trying to demonstrate that he would make good on his promise to the party to change - to sharpen up No 10, to end the missteps and mistakes.\n\nSome of the protesters who surrounded Sir Keir were heard to be shouting \"Jimmy Savile\" among the frenzied accusations they were hurling at him.\n\nIt's impossible to say categorically that they had been driven by the prime minister's comments last week. But the ugly event has stirred calls again among Tory MPs for the PM to take back his comments completely, and to acknowledge the danger of what he'd said.\n\nThere is no sign as I write that No 10 has any intention of doing so.\n\nMr Johnson has condemned the behaviour of the protesters but made no comment about the content of their accusations, far less addressed suggestions that his own conduct may have had something to do with it.\n\nSo the prime minister may find himself accused of stirring up an unpleasant episode of modern protest just at the point when No 10 had been trying to calm things down.", "ScotRail has said its peak-time commuter services will not return to pre-pandemic levels - despite 150 services being added from May.\n\nThe rail operator previously announced it would drop from its pre-Covid number of 2,400 services a day to 2,100.\n\nIt said the move was in line with new travel patterns and overcapacity on some routes.\n\nThat figure has now been revised, but returning services will be during the day rather than at traditional peaks.\n\nThe Scottish government's advice on working from home changed last month, with employers asked to implement a phased return to hybrid working - at home, and in the office.\n\nHowever, ScotRail's operations director David Simpson said evidence gathered during a consultation process suggested hybrid working would mean there would continue to be \"plenty of space\" on commuter services.\n\nHe told the BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"People's commuting habits are changing hugely.\n\n\"Most people who used to do five days a week to the office now say they are going to be doing two, three or four days of hybrid working.\n\n\"What we are doing is altering the travel patterns, but also reflecting the ways where people are travelling more, such as leisure, weekends shopping and so on.\"\n\nThe timetable switch will come after Dutch-based Abellio - which currently runs the ScotRail franchice - is stripped of its contract from 1 April.\n\nScotRail, which covers all passenger services in Scotland except those run by other operators which cross the border, will then be brought under Scottish government control.\n\nThe rail operator has defended its decision to review services, saying revenue has been slashed since March 2020 while costs have stayed the same.\n\nMr Simpson said: \"The service is only being used by about 50% of the number of customers who used it before the pandemic.\n\n\"There is absolutely plenty of space on the current service levels to cope with the commuter and leisure demand.\n\n\"We are monitoring that on a daily basis and if there is any need to lengthen trains or put more services on, we will do so. But so far there has been no evidence of that.\n\n\"The peak, commuter services won't see a return to pre-pandemic levels.\n\n\"What are doing is focusing services on the middle of the day and at the weekends, where the evidence is showing that people really want to travel.\"\n\nRailway unions have accused the company of using Covid as a cover for cuts.\n\nScotRail said it had not had to lay off a single member of staff and wanted to work with trade unions \"to provide a safe and reliable railway\".", "Shaun Russell's wife Lin was murdered with daughter Megan (centre) and nine-year-old Josie (right) was badly injured\n\nThe alleged confession from the man who murdered schoolgirl Millie Dowler that he also killed a mother and her young daughter is to be examined.\n\nLevi Bellfield says he murdered Lin Russell and Megan, aged six, in Kent in 1996, according to the lawyer of the man convicted of their murders.\n\nMichael Stone was found guilty in 1998 but always said he was innocent.\n\nThe Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) said it would review the evidence once it received it.\n\nLin Russell and her daughters Megan and Josie, then nine, were attacked as they walked along a country lane in Chillenden, before being bound, blindfolded and bludgeoned with a claw hammer.\n\nIt was only when an officer at the scene noticed Josie move they realised she had survived the attack.\n\nBellfield's former partner had given an alibi for him, claiming on the day of the murders in Kent, he was in London with her celebrating her birthday.\n\nBut Bellfield now claims they went out not on her actual birthday but on another day.\n\nLevi Bellfield will never be released from prison after being convicted of three murders and one attempted murder\n\nThe CCRC has been re-examining the evidence since 2017, including suggestions Bellfield had a stronger link to the Chillenden area than was previously thought.\n\nIt has also completed further forensic tests on fragments of a bloody bootlace found near the scene of the murders.\n\nThese were inconclusive when it came to linking Bellfield to the killings and the CCRC told Stone's lawyers there was insufficient evidence to send the case back to the Court of Appeal.\n\nIn an attempt to clear Stone's name, his lawyers have been meeting Bellfield in prison.\n\nBellfield is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Millie, who went missing from Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in 2002.\n\nHe has also been convicted of murdering Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange, and of the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, and will never be considered for parole.\n\nBellfield gave Stone's lawyers a signed confession which was made public on Sunday.\n\nHe gave details about the murders and the actions he took afterwards to clean himself and up and remove DNA evidence from his car.\n\nMichael Stone was convicted of two counts of murder and one of attempted murder\n\nStone's solicitor Paul Bacon confirmed he had been given the letter by Bellfield and told the BBC: \"I genuinely think if the police visit Levi Bellfield in prison, he will make a full statement under caution and I believe if he's charged he'll plead guilty and the matter will be resolved.\"\n\nIn a statement, the CCRC said it would carefully analyse material from Stone's legal team once it receives the material.\n\n\"We remain in close contact with Kent Police on this case to ensure the Russell family is kept fully informed of any developments,\" it said.\n\n\"Once the review of all material is complete, the CCRC will then determine whether there is a real possibility the Court of Appeal would quash Mr Stone's conviction.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do people think of Llandudno's roaming wild goats?\n\nA pair of fighting goats blocked off the entrance to a supermarket car park.\n\nA herd of Great Orme goats were seen at Asda in Llandudno, Conwy county, with one pair locking horns at the traffic lights.\n\nNurse Michelle Evans, who saw them, said: \"They were having a right scrap and making a heck of a noise. It sounded like one was hurt.\"\n\nConwy council said it could not remove the goats as they were on private property.\n\nMs Evans added: \"They were really going at it. The two goats fighting had their horns locked while the rest of the herd was just watching.\n\n\"People were beeping their horns because they couldn't get in or out of Asda. In the end, people just drove around them. You don't expect to see that when you go to pick up your shopping!\"\n\nShopper Claire Gaines, from Penrhyn Bay, added: \"There were about 10 goats stopping cars getting in and out of the car park.\n\n\"The drivers were getting frustrated.\"\n\nThe Local Democracy Reporting Service said furious drivers beeped their horns attempting to scare off the goats but they were too busy scrapping or watching the fight to move.\n\nGoats butt heads to establish their dominance or their place in the herd.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The curious goats had free rein in Llandudno during the first Covid lockdown\n\nThe council said it acted \"in the interests of the goats' welfare when they are on our land\" but was not responsible for any damage they caused and could not \"become involved in removing goats from private property\".\n\nThe Kashmiri goats were originally a gift to Lord Mostyn from Queen Victoria and have roamed in a wild state for about 100 years.\n\nAlthough once in the ownership of Lord Mostyn, they are now regarded as wild animals and no-one is legally responsible for them.\n\nThe goats shot to international fame when they took to the deserted streets of Llandudno during the height of the pandemic in 2020.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland's Ashes campaign ended with another crushing defeat by Australia in the final one-day international in Melbourne.\n\nThe tourists, who had already lost the series, collapsed again to 163 all out before Australia cantered to a eight-wicket victory with 13.4 overs to spare.\n\nDebutant Emma Lamb was bowled for a second-ball duck and captain Heather Knight was castled by a Tahlia McGrath yorker, leaving England 19-2.\n\nTammy Beaumont and Nat Sciver rebuilt with a partnership of 88 but did so cautiously and when Beaumont fell for 50 from 101 balls England were 107-3 in the 35th over.\n\nBeaumont's wicket sparked a sorry slump as the last eight wickets fell for 56 runs, the innings ending after 49.3 overs.\n\nAustralia raced to 74-0 in their chase before Alyssa Healy, dropped by wicketkeeper Amy Jones on 24, was caught off a leading edge for a 56-ball 42.\n\nFellow opener Rachael Haynes fell in the next over without adding to the score but captain Meg Lanning with 57 not out and all-rounder Ellyse Perry's unbeaten 31 blunted any hope of an England fightback.\n\nThe tourists briefly flickered into life during the drawn Test but they have otherwise been outclassed in the series - Australia unbeaten, ending 12-4 winners on the points-based system.\n\nEngland's only points came in the draw and two washouts meaning they end the series without a win, the first time that has happened in a multi-format Ashes series.\n\nIt also means England's women's and men's sides have played 12 matches in Australia this winter and won none.\n• None Star names, a new generation and the bravest of the brave - why Australia's juggernaut looks unstoppable\n\nWorryingly, England, who failed to bat out their overs for the third successive match, now look a batting side bereft of confidence.\n\nWith the Ashes gone, England's attention has turned to preparing for their World Cup defence, which begins in 26 days in New Zealand. But debutant Lamb, replacing the out-of-form Lauren Winfield-Hill, missed a straight ball from Perry in the second over and thereafter it was a curious, conservative batting effort from England.\n\nAfter three maidens in the first four overs, Beaumont and Sciver showed minimal aggression in their partnership, with only four boundaries in the first 30 overs and little rotation of strike.\n\nBeaumont hit left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen for a six in the 31st over - the first flash of attacking intent - but her dismissal, caught at mid-off off leg-spinner Alana King, set in motion a familiar collapse.\n\nHer fifty was her slowest in ODIs and the stand with Sciver, during which they scored at 3.5 runs per over in 152 balls, put too much pressure on those who followed to accelerate.\n\nDanni Wyatt was promoted to number five in an attempt to up the ante but was caught at deep extra cover. Sciver fell lbw to a Megan Schutt inswinger on review for 46 and the lower order followed in a procession, Charlie Dean the only other batter to make double figures with 18 not out.\n\nEngland head to New Zealand, where they must quarantine for 10 days before the World Cup, with plenty to ponder.\n\nIn contrast, Australia have only strengthened their position as overwhelming favourites for the World Cup with three dominant ODI wins.\n\nAgain they showed their fearsome bowling depth. Annabel Sutherland, who was rested for the first ODI, took 4-31 leaving Perry - the match-winner from the second game - able to take a back seat with the ball.\n\nRachael Haynes took a fine diving catch at backward point to dismiss Anya Shrubsole, reinforcing the gulf in the fielding levels between the two sides - a difference shown again later when Jones put down a relatively straightforward chance to dismiss Healy diving to her right.\n\nAfter England's struggles, Healy cut the first ball of Australia's chase for four. Australia flashed past England's powerplay total of 19 after just 20 balls, having none of the difficulty scoring England did.\n\nHealy made two ducks in the one-off Test but looked to be finding form before falling to Freya Davies, having brought Australia's target within 100 by capitalising on the width regularly provided by her opponents.\n\nSeamer Davies, recalled with Katherine Brunt and Kate Cross managing niggles, was the only England player to come out of the game having advanced their case for selection.\n\nAustralia could have eased home after the loss of their openers but, after briefly playing themselves in, Lanning and Perry stamped their authority with a stand of 90, Lanning winning the game with a towering six.\n\n'Not a reflection of us as a side' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Heather Knight: \"The way we started the series with the bat was outstanding. We will be a bit frustrated there were a few opportunities missed. The last two games aren't a reflection of us as a side. We were a bit fatigued and a bit tired.\n\n\"Bar today our bowling has been in a really good place. We are looking forward to getting to New Zealand and starting again.\"\n\nAustralia captain Meg Lanning: \"We have had so many contributors. That holds us in good stead moving forwards. Today was a complete performance with bat and ball.\"\n\nFormer England spinner Alex Hartley: \"That was the most comprehensive win of them all. England came out and made it look like they were batting on a really tricky wicket. They just didn't have enough runs on the board. Australia played aggressive cricket, lost two wickets but with the skill of Lanning and Perry were able to rebuild.\"\n• None 'It belongs to all of us': Join us in celebrating 100 years of informing, educating and entertaining\n• None From Sheffield to the Beijing mountains: Follow a group of Team GB freestylers in their preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nKnown as China's 'Snow Princess', Eileen Gu clearly has ice in her veins. Under huge pressure to win her first Olympic gold medal at her home Games, the 18-year-old attempted and landed a 1620 - four and a half rotations - for the first time in her competitive career.\n\nThat Gu needed to debut the trick in the Olympic big air final, where she lay in the bronze medal position after two runs, was a measure of the expectations of the US-born teenager in China.\n\nAnd her risk-taking paid off in style as she scored 94.50 in her third jump to beat France's Tess Ledeux - the only other woman to have achieved a 1620 in an event, including in the first run of Tuesday's final.\n\n\"I felt pretty confident [to try the 1620],\" Gu told a packed media conference as she became China's youngest Winter Olympic gold medallist.\n\n\"I played piano for nine years so I have a sense of rhythm and all my tricks are about rhythm and change of tempo, and I visualise them.\n\n\"My motto is to break your own barriers. That is my character.\"\n• None The Sport Desk podcast: Can GB become a top-five snowsport nation?\n\nThe crowd at Shougang Park - a former steelworks in western Beijing - included Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, who was accompanied by International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach.\n\nHer well-being has been a matter of global concern since she alleged on social media in November that former Chinese vice premier, Zhang Gaoli, had sexually assaulted her.\n\nGu speaks confidently and fluently in both English and Mandarin, and answered all questions put to her - albeit some of them very diplomatically.\n\nShe said she was \"happy Peng was here today\" to watch her compete and was grateful she was \"happy and healthy and out here doing her thing\".\n\nThen it was on to her nationality.\n\nIn 2019, Gu switched from representing the United States, where she was born in 2003 to a Chinese mother and an American father, to China.\n\nThe switch preceded China's first staging of the Winter Olympics, a Games made controversial by China's alleged human rights abuses, with the US one of several countries to announce a diplomatic boycott of Beijing 2022 in consequence, as well as by the geopolitical tensions between the two global powerhouses.\n\nGu would not answer directly whether she was still a US citizen but said she felt American when she was in the United States and Chinese when she was in China.\n\nIn September, she will be back in California, an undergraduate at Stanford University. In China she is a household name. Her face adorns billboards and magazine covers and she has nearly two million followers on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, plus multiple sponsors and brand deals and a parallel career as a fashion model.\n\nAnd her standing in the host nation looks like it will only increase. With two more events to come in Beijing - slopestyle and halfpipe - she could feasibly come away with three gold medals in her home Games.\n\n\"I'm just an 18-year-old, living her best life,\" she said.\n\nAnd it's an extraordinary one at that.\n• None 'It belongs to all of us': Join us in celebrating 100 years of informing, educating and entertaining\n• None From Sheffield to the Beijing mountains: Follow a group of Team GB freestylers in their preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics", "Children get less specialist support for mental health than adults do, a wellbeing expert says\n\nGovernment plans for mental health support teams in a third of schools in England by 2022-23 lack ambition and need to be stepped up, MPs have heard.\n\nChildren's wellbeing expert Lord Layard urged the Commons education committee to push for a national rollout before the end of this Parliament.\n\nHe also said only a third of children with diagnosable mental ill health get support from specialist NHS services.\n\nThe figure was \"shocking\" and the situation was \"unbelievable\", he said.\n\nThe government aims to have 400 mental health support teams covering a third of pupils by 2023.\n\nThe teams offer lower level mental health support in groups of schools, mainly via NHS wellbeing practitioners who have received bespoke training.\n\nBut the demand for support has risen substantially recently. Last week, the BBC revealed a 77% increase in referrals to specialist services.\n\nThe committee heard there were serious problems in accessing support at this end of the spectrum.\n\nLord Layard told the committee: \"The young people in the most trouble are the people who are diagnosable - we are talking about 10% of our children.\n\n\"The shocking thing is that only about a third of these children get any form of specialist support. This is much worse than for adults.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's unbelievable that we have that situation, we have CAMHS (child and adolescent mental health services) that has such a high threshold - unless you're stabbing your sister, or something like, that you're assessed not to be bad enough.\n\n\"And until recently there have been no resources for anyone below the CAMHS threshold.\"\n\nThis figure is in line with the latest report from England's children's commissioner, which analysed children's access to treatment and found 32% of children with a diagnosable mental health need were accessing treatment in 2020-21.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five tips to boost your child's wellbeing\n\nDr Rosena Allin-Khan, Shadow Minister for Mental Health, told the Commons in an opposition day debate that the children coming into A&E where she works were getting younger and younger.\n\nShe said: \"Imagine if we treated childhood cancer like we do children's mental illness, waiting for symptoms to get worse before they see a specialist. waiting for months or even years for treatment, leaving patients and parents to rely on charity - there would be an outcry.\"\n\nThis is what the government is doing, she claimed.\n\nHealth Minister Maggie Throup said the government had been investing record sums into children's mental health.\n\n\"We now have a foundation from which we can build the necessary levels of care and support and we know we need to be more ambitious.\"\n\nThis was why the government planned to have an extra 345,000 children accessing support by 2023-24 and has rapidly expanded the children's mental health workforce, she said.\n\nMouhssin Ismail, principal of Newham Collegiate Sixth Form in east London, which has its own counsellors in school, said demand was out-stripping supply.\n\n\"Even when we refer to CAMHS, the waiting lists are significant and the students that need the help are not getting it in a timely manner,\" he said.\n\nCatherine Roche, chief executive of Place2Be children's mental health charity - which has teams embedded in schools - said children were coming forward with really severe needs.\n\nShe said the government's mental health support teams were a good initiative, but they needed to be everywhere.\n\nGordon Knott says thresholds for specialist services have been rising consistently over recent years\n\nGordon Knott, director of children's mental health charity, Croydon Drop-In, which also runs a mental health support team in the south London borough, says his organisation works with very serious cases.\n\nSome 35% of the children it sees are presenting with self-harm, while 45% come with suicidal thoughts or plans, he said.\n\nHe told the BBC the decision on whether a self-harming child is seen by specialist services can come down to how deep their cuts are, because thresholds for treatment have become progressively higher.\n\nHe agrees mental health support teams are a good scheme, but that their spread is not wide enough.\n\n\"Young people say to us: 'We saw a Nightingale Hospital built in a week, we housed the homeless overnight during the pandemic, why can't we be more ambitious in terms of looking after young people's mental health?'\"", "This is the first EuroMillions jackpot won in the UK this year\n\nA UK ticket-holder has made a claim for the £109.9m EuroMillions jackpot from Friday's draw.\n\nThe winning numbers were 3, 25, 38, 43, 49 and the lucky star numbers were 3 and 7.\n\nA single UK player matched all seven numbers to scoop the top prize, which would put them in the top 10 of National Lottery winners.\n\nOnce the ticket has been validated and paid, the ticket-holder will decide whether to go public with their news.\n\nThere will be no information on whether they are an individual or syndicate winner, or where the ticket was purchased, unless the ticket-holder decides to go public, operator Camelot added.\n\nIt is the first EuroMillions jackpot won in the UK this year.\n\nAndy Carter, senior winners' adviser at The National Lottery, said he was \"delighted\" the prize had now been claimed.\n\n\"Our focus now is on supporting the ticket-holder through the process and helping them start to enjoy their truly life-changing win,\" he said.\n\nFriday's £109.9m prize would put the ticketholder in 10th place on the National Lottery's rich list.\n\nIt is more than the estimated net worth of song-writer Gary Barlow (£90m) and actor and singer Harry Styles (£75m), and is just shy of boxer Anthony Joshua (£115m), according to the 2021 Sunday Times rich list.\n\nThe record EuroMillions jackpot was £170m and claimed by an anonymous UK player.\n\nThe highest named winners are Colin and Chris Weir, from North Ayrshire, who won £161m in 2011.\n• None £170mBritain's richest ever lottery winner stayed anonymous after their win in October 2019.\n• None £161mColin and Chris Weir (pictured) from North Ayrshire, Scotland in 2011.\n• None £148mAdrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, in 2012.\n\nThe EuroMillions draw is held twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, and is played in nine European countries.", "A hacker allegedly made off with nearly 120,000 Bitcoin - now valued at about $5bn - in 2016 after breaching the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange\n\nStolen Bitcoin worth more than $4bn (£2.9bn) has been seized by the US Department of Justice - the largest ever confiscation of its kind.\n\nOfficials also charged two people on Tuesday with attempting to launder the money, stolen by a hacker who breached a cryptocurrency platform in 2016.\n\nThe hacker allegedly made off with nearly 120,000 Bitcoin. Then valued at about $71m, its value now exceeds $5bn.\n\nAbout 94,000 Bitcoin have been recovered.\n\nAssistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite Jr said the seizure was proof the government \"will not allow cryptocurrency to be a safe haven for money laundering or a zone of lawlessness within our financial system\".\n\nThe money originates from the 2016 hack of a crypto exchange known as Bitfinex.\n\nAccording to Justice Department officials, a hacker breached the platform, made more than 2,000 unauthorised transactions and then funnelled the money into a digital wallet allegedly run by Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, of New York.\n\nA criminal complaint alleges Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31, laundered about 25,000 of the stolen Bitcoin through various accounts over the past five years and used various methods to cover their tracks, from fake identities to converting their Bitcoin into other digital currencies.\n\nInvestigators from Washington DC, New York, Chicago and Ansbach, Germany collaborated on the lengthy probe.\n\nIn a statement, Bitfinex said it had cooperated with the inquiry and was \"pleased\" the stolen funds had been recovered.\n\nLichtenstein and Morgan will appear before a federal judge later on Tuesday, on counts of conspiracy to defraud the US and conspiracy to commit money laundering.\n\nIf found guilty, they could each serve up to 25 years in prison.\n\nThe asset seizure comes four months after the launch of a National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team at the Justice Department.\n\nIn what is believed to be its previous largest financial seizure, the team seized some $2.3m in cryptocurrency last year, recovering the ransom paid by the Colonial Pipeline company to end a crippling cyberattack.\n\nCorrection 9th February: This article originally reported that the record seizure by the US Department of Justice amounted to $5bn in stolen Bitcoin. In fact 94,000 of the 120,000 stolen Bitcoin have been recovered, at a value of $4bn (£2.9bn) and so we have amended the article to make this clear.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Courtney Peterson paid to see a psychologist privately as an NHS referral was taking too long\n\nWhen Courtney Peterson lost her unborn daughter, Lillian, a few months before the pandemic, her medical care was \"cold and clinical\".\n\nShe felt like she was \"just a number\" and she didn't get the support she needed.\n\nMs Peterson shared her story as a committee of MSPs said women and families in similar situations must be given help to cope with their experiences as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nThey found there was currently no specific support in Scotland for those suffering from birth trauma.\n\nThe term is used to describe trauma during or after birth that can include post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\nThe Scottish government said it would take time to fully consider the comments and recommendations of the committee and respond in due course.\n\nMs Peterson told BBC Scotland's The Nine that she would have been discharged from hospital on the day she lost her baby, had it not been for the protests of her friend.\n\n\"I definitely feel like you are just a number,\" she said.\n\n\"You don't want personalisation but you want someone to support you as you. Not as 'You are one in four women who has a miscarriage'.\n\n\"You want someone to look at it and say 'I'm really sorry this has happened' and support you nicely through it.\"\n\nAs she struggled to come to terms with her loss, Ms Peterson contacted her GP and asked to be put on a waiting list to see a psychologist.\n\nBut she added: \"I heard back maybe six to seven months later and by that point it was far too late and I had already gone privately.\"\n\nHer experience led to her moving from Aberdeen to Shropshire. She said: \"I will always have my daughter with me, no matter where I am.\n\n\"But to be able to get away from a place where I was constantly in a negative space, to be able to help myself positively, has been a really nice breath of fresh air.\"\n\nHarri Lidher said families who experience the loss of a baby need more support\n\nHarri Lidher lost her baby at full term last autumn, after picking up Sepsis from a medical procedure - a membrane sweep - to induce labour.\n\nShe told The Nine that she later woke up from a nap and knew something was wrong when she couldn't feel her son move.\n\nHusband Steve took her to hospital but medics were unable to find a heartbeat.\n\nShe said: \"It felt really unbearable to live when I've been going through it. It's just been too hard.\n\n\"I think there definitely needs to be more to help people, especially that initial six months to a year.\"\n\nIn a report published on Tuesday, the committee said it heard that \"there are no services that directly address birth trauma\".\n\nIt also heard of a \"sharp rise\" in cases during the pandemic.\n\nOne woman revealed she was told her baby did not have a heartbeat while her partner waited in the car outside the hospital.\n\nIt added: \"The committee urges the Scottish government to develop and support birth trauma prevention work as a matter of urgency and to work across all NHS health boards to implement resulting measures.\"\n\nThe MSPs said it was \"unacceptable\" that parents who had lost babies had to wait until 2024 for the establishment of specialist baby loss units and called for the timetable to be accelerated.\n\nThe committee said national protocols should be devised to allow for care to be provided for parents who had lost a baby in a separate area from maternity wards.\n\nOne witness described bereaved parents having to \"run a gauntlet of balloons, teddies and all these things saying 'congratulations'\".\n\nCat Berry, the group facilitator and volunteer co-ordinator at Juno Perinatal Mental Health Support, said women who go to hospital in the knowledge that they are going through miscarriage or that they will have a stillbirth are told in advance they will be greeted by a specialist bereavement midwife.\n\nBut she added: \"That is not happening.\n\n\"They are actually pressing the buzzer to the maternity ward, and they are then greeted at the door by happy fathers with balloons saying 'congratulations' or 'welcome to the world'.\"\n\nCommittee convener Gillian Martin said: \"Up to 20% of women in Scotland experience negative mental health impacts before, during and after giving birth and the aim of our inquiry was to shine a spotlight on this important issue and to see what more should be done to support these women.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish government said it was committed to providing \"equitable, coordinated access\" to mental health provision for women, infants and their families throughout pregnancy and afterwards.\n\nIt has invested more than £16m in perinatal and infant mental health since 2019, he added.\n\n\"Experiencing the loss of a baby at any stage of pregnancy is devastating for the families involved, and they need to be supported and treated with care, empathy and kindness,\" he said.\n\n\"Our national Bereavement Care Pathway that are currently being piloted in Scotland have the voices of bereaved parents at the heart of their development.\n\n\"We also welcome the committee's support for specialist mother and baby Units. Women and families from across Scotland can access this care if it is clinically appropriate and there is a fund to support women and families with the cost of travel and expenses to these units.\n\n\"Later this month we will also launch a public consultation on how best to take forward our commitment to increase the number of mother and baby beds available.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know is struggling with issues raised by this story, find support through BBC Action Line.", "The prime minister visited Kyiv last week amid the escalating tensions\n\nThe UK \"will not flinch\" over Ukraine and sanctions would be introduced if Russia invades, the PM has said.\n\nBoris Johnson told Moscow that support to Europe and Nato \"will remain unconditional and immovable\".\n\nWriting in the Times, he said the government would ask for new powers to target \"individuals and entities\" linked to the Russian state.\n\nTalks aimed at de-escalating the crisis have been held in Kyiv, where Emmanuel Macron is meeting Ukraine's president.\n\nThe French president met Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, and said his Russian counterpart assured him Russian forces would not be ramping up the crisis near Ukraine's borders.\n\nMoscow has denied any plans to invade Ukraine but the West has become increasingly concerned by the possibility of a conflict.\n\nMr Johnson also wrote in the Times that the UK is considering deploying RAF fighters and Royal Navy warships to the region but said he hoped diplomacy could defuse the crisis.\n\nWestern countries have rejected a number of Moscow's demands, including ruling out Ukraine becoming a member of the Nato defence alliance, and that it reduce its military presence in eastern Europe.\n\nThe prime minister said the immediate priority was \"to stand with our allies and combine deterrence with dialogue to de-escalate this crisis and prevent the catastrophe of another Russian invasion of Ukraine\".\n\nIt is an urgent task, he added, as Moscow mounts the biggest military build-up in Europe since the Cold War.\n\nRussia has massed an estimated 100,000 troops, tanks, artillery and missiles near its borders with Ukraine.\n\nMr Johnson said he wanted Europe and the US to have its economic sanctions ready \"the moment the first toecap of the first Russian soldier crosses further into Ukraine's sovereign territory\".\n\n\"For our part, British sanctions and other measures will be ready for any renewed Russian attack,\" he wrote. \"The government will ask Parliament for new powers to sanction a wider range of Russian individuals and entities, including any company linked to the Russian state or operating in a sector of strategic importance to the Kremlin.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Understand the Ukraine crisis with Ros Atkins in less than six minutes\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss had said the new powers would not impose sanctions automatically, but \"in the event of any further Russian incursion into Ukraine\". The measures would allow the UK to freeze assets and ban travel, the Foreign Office said.\n\nIn addition, the UK - along with Nato - is \"willing to send more forces to guarantee the security of our allies on the eastern flank\", said Mr Johnson.\n\nHe said Estonia had asked for further support and \"we stand ready to provide it\", with the deployment of RAF Typhoon fighters and warships being considered, and aircraft carrier the HMS Prince of Wales acting as the command ship of Nato's Maritime High Readiness Force.\n\nBoris Johnson attended a military briefing while he was in Kyiv\n\nThe prime minister said he did not understand how threatening to invade Ukraine would advance President Putin's goals of keeping Nato forces from Russia.\n\n\"If he launches another invasion, he will force the West to bring about much of what he seeks to prevent,\" he wrote.\n\nAnd he said Ukraine wanted to be able to choose its destiny and seek its own alliances, adding: \"Britain has always stood for these principles and we will not flinch now.\"\n\nMr Johnson met Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv last week, saying the pair would work together to find a diplomatic solution to the row with Russia and \"avoid further bloodshed\".\n\nAhead of his visit, the UK government announced it was giving Ukraine £88m to promote stable governance and energy independence from Russia.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Welsh Tory leader has said Boris Johnson is not responsible for the actions of protesters who surrounded Labour's Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nThere are calls for the PM to apologise for a false claim the Labour leader failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile.\n\nComments about Savile were among the things heard shouted by the protesters.\n\nAndrew RT Davies said Mr Johnson had said Sir Keir did not have a personal role in deciding whether Savile was charged.\n\nWelsh Labour's Jo Stevens said the \"slur\" should be \"unequivocally withdrawn\" - the BBC has been told No.10 has no intention of apologising.\n\nBoris Johnson has condemned the harassment, but a No.10 source said it was unreasonable to suggest that what happened on Monday \"was Boris's fault and not the mob's fault\".\n\nSir Keir was shown being escorted into a police car during the incident in Westminster on Monday evening.\n\nProtesters were heard shouting \"traitor\", and criticising the Labour leader for backing vaccinations. Shouts were also heard about protecting paedophiles, naming Savile.\n\nAt the beginning of last week, in response to Sir Keir's criticism over the Sue Gray report, Mr Johnson said that Sir Keir \"spent most of his time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile\".\n\nMr Johnson later sought to clarify his comments, saying Sir Keir \"had nothing to do personally\" with the decision not to prosecute Savile when he was director of public prosecutions.\n\nInstead, he said he was \"making a point about [Sir Keir's] responsibility for the organisation as a whole\".\n\nSeven Tory MPs have linked the incident to the prime minister's response. Prior to the protest, one of Mr Johnson's longest serving aides had quit over his refusal to apologise.\n\nWork by BBC Reality Check has found no evidence the Labour leader was involved in deciding not to charge Savile.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Speaker addresses \"intimidating and threatening\" behaviour outside Parliament\n\nAndrew RT Davies, Welsh Conservative Senedd leader, said the protest was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"We live in a democracy. Politicians of all colours should be able to go out, argue their calls in a safe environment so people can make their own decisions.\"\n\nBut Mr Davies pointed to Mr Johnson's later clarification of the comments.\n\nAsked if the prime minister should apologise, Mr Davies said: \"I don't accept the point that the prime minister's remarks fuel the protests last night. As I understand it, those protesters have been going around the Westminster complex, attacking politicians of all colours.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShadow Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens said the protest was \"very shocking\".\n\n\"I think had the PM not said what he said at the despatch box last week and had he not refused to apologise for what he said, which was a slur, we wouldn't have seen what happened yesterday.\n\n\"The least that people can expect across Wales and the UK from the PM is that they are a person that will tell the truth, that they're honest and have integrity. We're not seeing any of that from Boris Johnson.\n\n\"I'd like him to make an apology on the floor of the house - he can do that in PMQs [Prime Minister's Questions] tomorrow.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Hywel Williams said he had thought there would be consequences when he heard the comments made in the Commons.\n\n\"It's completely unacceptable that people can be harassed in such an extreme way,\" he said.\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford tweeted on Monday evening: \"We have a duty to conduct political debate responsibly. Words and actions should never incite intimidation.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nAfter 45 PCR tests in three weeks, a missed event and his luggage being lost, Casey Dawson was finally able to realise his Olympic dream - on borrowed skates.\n\nThe 21-year-old speed skater tested positive for Covid-19 last month, and a mix-up over testing further delayed his arrival in Beijing.\n\nWhen clearance finally came, Dawson made the 6,000-mile journey from Salt Lake City to Beijing - via Atlanta and Paris - and arrived just hours before stepping onto the ice for the 1500m.\n\nThe American finished second last, but if medals were given out for overcoming the odds, he would surely be taking one home.\n\n\"I'm just so happy to finally be here, because I didn't think I would be,\" he said.\n\nThe mix-up occurred when Dawson thought he needed two consecutive negative tests in order to travel, but the regulations had been changed so four were required.\n\nThe delay meant he missed the 5,000m, but he refused to give up on being in Beijing for the 1500m.\n\nHis problems did not end when the fourth negative test result came, though.\n\n\"I came to the airport and all my baggage wasn't there,\" he said. \"They had all my blades and skin suits in.\n\n\"Luckily I had a spare skin suit in my hand luggage but all my blades were in the baggage that was missing.\n\n\"I was lucky enough another competitor in the 1500m - Haralds Silovs - loaned me his blades. So I couldn't be more grateful to have that going into this race.\"\n\nWhen he stepped on the track, Dawson was six seconds off his best time and only Mathias Voste of Belgium was slower. This, though, was about more than that.\n\n\"It wasn't my best race or result but I couldn't be happier just to be skating in the Olympics,\" he said.\n• None 'I gave everything I had and maybe too much' - USA's O'Brien breaks leg\n\nDawson was not the only competitor realising a dream, with Cornelius Kersten becoming Team GB's first male Olympic long track speed skater since 1992.\n\nKersten, whose girlfriend Ellia Smeding finished 27th in the women's 1500m on Monday, came 19th.\n\n\"I've said before that it's a childhood dream come true to be here,\" he said.\n\n\"At that start line I was a bit emotional. I was thinking back to everything we'd worked for.\n\n\"And also, just helping to put long track back on the map [for Team GB] again, I'm really proud to be able to do that.\"\n\nKjel Nuis of the Netherlands took gold in an Olympic record time of one minute 43.21 seconds, ahead of compatriot Thomas Krol, with South Korean Minseok Kim taking bronze.\n• None 'It belongs to all of us': Join us in celebrating 100 years of informing, educating and entertaining\n• None From Sheffield to the Beijing mountains: Follow a group of Team GB freestylers in their preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics", "Adults struggling with their weight could soon be offered a weekly injection to help shed unhealthy fat.\n\nThe treatment, semaglutide, branded Wegovy, makes people feel fuller, so they eat less, and not as hungry.\n\nIn trials, used alongside a healthy diet and exercise, it helped obese people lose a 10th of their body weight - about two stone (13kg) on average.\n\nAnd the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is recommending it should be made available on the NHS.\n\nNICE's draft guidelines for England and Wales, not yet fully approved, say it should be prescribed:\n\nPeople would inject themselves, using pre-filled pens.\n\nObese people should speak to their GP about losing weight safely.\n\nSome manage it through diet and exercise alone.\n\nObesity affects about one in four adults in the UK and increases the risk of other serious health conditions.\n\nIn 2018-19, 11,117 hospital admissions in England were directly attributable to obesity.\n\nHelen Knight, from NICE, said: \"We know that management of overweight and obesity is one of the biggest challenges our health service is facing.\n\n\"It is a lifelong condition that needs medical intervention, has psychological and physical effects, and can affect quality of life.\"\n• None Appetite drug could mark 'new era' in obesity\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Banksy's move followed a dispute between the council and the owner of the art\n\nAn original Banksy has been removed from a Welsh town and is being moved to an undisclosed location.\n\nSeason's Greetings was bought by gallery owner John Brandler after it appeared on the side of a garage in Port Talbot in 2018.\n\nIt was later taken to a building in the town centre so the public could visit.\n\nBut an agreement to keep it there has expired and Mr Brandler has now moved it out of Wales, with the University of Suffolk thought to be its destination.\n\nThe mural, which appeared on the garage of former steel worker Ian Lewis, depicts a child enjoying what he thinks is snow on one side, while the other half reveals it is actually ash from a bin fire.\n\nMr Lewis struggled to cope with the numbers flocking to the artwork, and film star Michael Sheen, who grew up in the area, stepped in to help pay for its security.\n\nJohn Brandler bought the original Banksy artwork after it appeared on a garage in Port Talbot\n\nAbout 20,000 people visited it in one month alone and there were concerns about its safety before it was sold to Mr Brandler for a six-figure sum.\n\nMr Brandler said his offer to buy the painting from Mr Lewis was the lowest of five, but he had intended to keep it in the town in the hopes of creating an international street art museum.\n\nThe Welsh government then paid to move it to an unoccupied shop in Ty'r Orsaf.\n\nNeath Port Talbot council said the arrangement to keep it at the shop ended on 14 January.\n\nMr Brandler claimed the decision to remove it from Port Talbot had been \"forced upon him\" by the council.\n\nThe logistics company have been in Port Talbot for a number of days preparing the artwork for moving day\n\nThe work's owner, John Brandler, said he intended to create an international street art museum in Port Talbot, but the work is now leaving Wales\n\nJohn Frankiewicz, chairman of logistics and building company, Egg Group, said the removal was a \"five-hour programme\" with workers taking about two hours to remove the shop window.\n\nHe explained the artwork had been pulled out of the building by a forklift and lifted on to a loader and transported from the town.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The artwork was moved to be displayed in the town centre in 2019\n\nMr Brandler, a gallery owner from Brentwood in Essex, said: \"Since Season's Greetings appeared three years ago, fanatics have tried to destroy this amazing piece of art.\n\n\"We're moving it to preserve it for future generations, where it can be seen and enjoyed, but not vandalised.\"\n\nA 42-year-old man was given a 14-month suspended sentence in January after admitting attempted burglary and criminal damage after breaking his way into Ty'r Orsaf.\n\nThe university has declined to comment.\n\nMr Brandler previously said he would like to move it 270 miles (435km) to the University of Suffolk in Ipswich.\n\nAlthough Banksy is allegedly from Bristol, a series of artwork appeared around the east coast of England last summer.\n\nThe artist confirmed he was behind the series of spray painted stencils by way of posting them on his Instagram and naming the collection A Great British Spraycation.", "The co-founder of exercise brand Peloton is to step down from leading the company as it plans to cut thousands of jobs.\n\nJohn Foley, chief executive of the firm for 10 years, will be replaced by Barry McCarthy, the former chief financial officer of Spotify.\n\nDespite the change, one of Peloton's biggest investors doubled down on its calls for the company to be sold.\n\nAmazon, Nike and Apple are rumoured to be interested in bidding for the firm.\n\nThe company, which pairs its equipment with streaming and live exercise classes, had seen sales of its bikes and treadmills soar during the pandemic, but the post-lockdown return to gyms has left the firm worth less than a fifth of its peak $50bn valuation.\n\nMr Foley said Mr McCarthy was the \"right leader to take the company into its next phase of growth\". Mr Foley will become Peloton's executive chairman.\n\nAfter announcing the change in leadership, US-based Peloton also said it will cut about 2,800 jobs globally due to a drop in demand for its products.\n\nShares in the firm jumped by as much as 19% on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday.\n\nJohn Foley is stepping down as Peloton's chief executive\n\nBut one of Peloton's top investors, Blackwells Capital, which owns a near 5% stake in the company, said the changes did not address the concerns of investors and renewed its calls from last month for the company to be sold.\n\n\"Mr Foley has proven he is not suited to lead Peloton, whether as CEO or executive chair, and he should not be hand-picking directors, as he appears to have done today,\" added Jason Aintabi, chief investment officer at Blackwells.\n\nIn a presentation sent by Blackwells to Peloton on Monday, the investment firm said the company had been \"horribly mismanaged, with unbridled enthusiasm taking the place of disciplined leadership\".\n\nThe presentation attacked Mr Foley's abilities as a leader, saying he had made \"a series of poor decisions relating to product, pricing, demand, safety and capital allocation\".\n\nBlackwells has previously said Peloton and its customer base were \"extremely attractive\" to companies such as Nike, Apple, Disney and Sony, which are looking to boost their presence in the home, health and wellness sectors.\n\nMr Foley told The Wall Street Journal, that the company was \"open to exploring any opportunity that could create value for Peloton shareholders\" but declined to comment further.\n\nAnalysts at Wedbush Securities said that the leadership change made it more likely that Peloton would ultimately be sold.\n\n\"If a bidding process begins, we view Apple as the likely acquirer due to the clear strategic fit with its healthcare/fitness/subscription initiatives, while Amazon and Nike among others could be potential bidders in the mix,\" they added.\n\n\"The reality is that Foley was the pilot on the Peloton growth plane and him leaving paints a bleak picture with the main visionary no longer in charge.\"\n\nAnalysts have estimated that Peloton could be valued between $12bn and $15bn, depending on timing and the competition.\n\nSetting out its plans to cut costs on Tuesday, Peloton said along with worker cuts, around 20% of its corporate staff would made redundant.\n\nMr Foley said the decision was \"not taken lightly\". The company expects its restructuring programme to cost about $130m, which will be related to severance packages.\n\nThe company also said it was \"winding down\" the development of the Peloton Output Park - a factory in Ohio where it had hoped to make its exercise equipment and create 2,000 jobs. Shelving the plant will cost $60m.\n\nPeloton reported its \"connected fitness\" subscriptions in the second quarter of its financial year grew by 66% from a year earlier, while its paid digital members rose 38%. Total revenue in the quarter grew 6% to $1.1bn.\n\nThe company, which previously expected sales of $4.4bn to $4.8bn this financial year, has revised down its forecast to $3.7bn to $3.8bn.\n\nAside from demand falling for its products, there have also been recent PR disasters for the company, including when TV characters had heart attacks when using Peloton machines.\n\nA fictional character in the Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That died of a heart attack using a Peloton machine, and there was also a brush with death in Billions.\n\nAfter the And Just Like That death, Peloton tried to recover the PR narrative with a parody advert featuring Chris Noth alive and well, and benefitting from exercise. But that backfired after allegations of sexual assault, which he denied.\n\nMeanwhile in August the US Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security said they were investigating the company after a child was pulled under one of its treadmills and killed, while other customers had reported injuries.\n\nWeeks after the reports, Peloton recalled 125,000 of its Tread+ running machines after initially saying there was \"no reason\" to stop using the machine before changing its stance.", "This week the government published its eagerly awaited White Paper, setting out plans to reduce regional inequality. Levelling up aims to revitalise communities in places like Rhyl, where BBC News has been tracking progress of this key policy.\n\nBut lessons from previous efforts are not being learnt, claim critics. And the focus should be on people rather than \"shiny new buildings\", says the former head of a flagship scheme in Newcastle.\n\nFlorist Carol Parr clips the ends of flower stems on a bouquet as she explains the dilemma she faced. \"I had a little battle with myself. Do I stay? Do I commit to Rhyl?\" she says. \"Not many people say good things about Rhyl, which I can understand based on crime, there's a lot of trouble.\"\n\nDespite that, Carol opted to move into a larger shop on the high street three years ago. \"I'm very optimistic and over the last two or three years I have seen a change in Rhyl. I think it's an up-and-coming town again.\"\n\nSuch optimism is not always evident in the seaside town, which was struggling long before its economy was pounded by the pandemic. But Carol's act of faith may be repaid.\n\nThe local MP and the county council want to transform the town centre and recently prepared a £10m bid from the UK government's levelling up fund.\n\nMoney from the £4.8bn fund aims to narrow the gap between richer and poorer parts of the UK. It will allow overlooked and undervalued communities to take back control of their destiny, the levelling up minister, Michael Gove, told parliament on Wednesday. But there are concerns that vital lessons from the past are being ignored.\n\nA generation ago, West Newcastle was undergoing a radical plan for change. It was one of 39 English communities that received funds under Labour's New Deal for Communities (NDC). Within a few years levels of deprivation fell.\n\nGraeme Williams ran the scheme and on a freezing cold January afternoon he gives us a tour of the area. We walk in shadows cast by the tower blocks of Cruddas Park, not far from the city centre. Twenty years ago \"they looked awful\", says Mr Williams. \"They were awful.\"\n\nSome of the blocks were refurbished, others demolished as part of the £55m spent in West Newcastle during a decade of regeneration. But most of the money didn't go on capital projects, such as buildings.\n\nOver the last two or three years I have seen a change in Rhyl. I think it's an up-and-coming town again\n\nHis team appointed eight people who knew the area well to work with residents to prioritise what changes were needed. Decisions were taken by a management board made up mostly of residents.\n\nThe emphasis was \"around training, education and supporting people to move into employment\", says Mr Williams. \"People recognised they had agency where they could actually generate change.\" It gave them hope.\n\nAn independent assessment of the New Deal for Communities by academics at Sheffield Hallam University concluded \"in many respects these neighbourhoods have been transformed\". It said: \"The biggest improvements were for indicators of people's feelings about their neighbourhoods.\"\n\nMr Williams still works in the city. He is now a director of the Centre West charity. And while proud of some of his achievements, he says a lot of work was \"undone by austerity\" which \"hammered areas like the west end of Newcastle\".\n\n\"It's massively disheartening and incredibly frustrating because we seem to take two steps forward and then two or three steps back as far as urban regeneration is concerned,\" he says. \"There's an awful lot of really good evaluation work that's been done to identify what works and how we can do things better and it's not being used. \"\n\nLevelling up \"might produce some nice shiny new buildings. But I don't think it will necessarily improve the lives and prospects of people living in them communities\".\n\nSupporters of what the Labour government policy achieved include a former Tory speech writer for Theresa May. Will Tanner, now director of the Onward think tank, assessed 60 years of regeneration projects by previous governments. \"This isn't a party-political point. This is just about the right policy based on the evidence,\" he says.\n\nHe said putting power in the hands of communities worked best, \"so they are pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps, rather than relying on a top-down government programme\".\n\nHe says the government is right to want to change the economic geography of the UK and is supportive of its plans. But adds: \"The most important thing for the levelling up fund to do is to let go of power from Whitehall and to empower community organisations right down at the hyper-local level.\"\n\nThe White Paper acknowledges the importance of local decision-making and promises more regional mayors. It isn't yet clear what role will be played by people at a neighbourhood level.\n\nBack in Rhyl, we stroll around the town centre with Conservative MP James Davies, walking past boarded up and shuttered shops. He agrees. \"Just building things, bricks and mortar is not the answer. It needs to be a cleverly thought through scheme that's going to boost economic activity.\"\n\nWe pause outside the derelict Queen's Market, which is being bulldozed. It's hoped a new food hall with flats and offices will be developed on the site through a mix of funding from the Welsh government, Denbighshire County Council, the levelling up fund and private businesses.\n\nThere's this sense of hopelessness amongst the people. If you walk down the High Street, you can just see it in people's eyes\n\nThe plans would also see the town reconnected to the seafront. Incredibly, though an expansive sandy beach is just yards away, you can't see it from the high street. Dr Davies says there is local backing. A master plan went out to consultation and has \"the support of local councils, residents, businesses\".\n\nBut a potential obstacle is the number of high street shops owned by absentee landlords. A sample of Land Registry documents seen by BBC News show only five out of 25 High Street properties are owned by people local to Rhyl.\n\n\"That's a real challenge,\" Dr Davies acknowledges. \"All you can do is invest in the areas that the local authority and willing partners own as a priority. And then you hope that economic activity will encourage others to follow over time.\"\n\nThe BBC is tracking progress of the government's key levelling up policy in towns and cities around the UK. You can read more of our reporting from Rhyl here:\n\nHow do locals out and about on a beautiful, bright winter's morning feel about their town centre and the plans to regenerate it?\n\n\"I'm not quite sure how to put this. It's appalling,\" says a man who moved to Rhyl seven years ago. \"Shops closing, shutting arcades. Rhyl just isn't what it used to be. I don't think it will ever come back.\"\n\nBut octogenarian former mayor, Diana Hannan, out on her mobility scooter, loves the town so much she moved back after emigrating to Australia. \"We've got the best seaside resort in Wales,\" she says.\n\n\"We get all this negative press about drugs and alcohol and all the rest of it, but we've got a lovely community living here. Rhyl is going to boom. You wait until all of these stores go up.\"\n\nOn the road out of town we stop off at a food bank run out of the back of the Wellspring church. Amid shelves straining under the weight of tins of baked beans, pastor Mark Jones explains how Rhyl is full of \"fabulous people\". But he says \"there's a lack of energy, a lack of enthusiasm\". \"There's this sense of hopelessness amongst the people. If you walk down the high street, you can just see it in people's eyes.\"\n\nMr Jones, who has lived in the town for more than 40 years, supports the levelling up plans but says the proposals \"need to show the people of Rhyl that there is a hope and a future for them\".\n\n\"It's OK to invest,\" he says. \"But you also need to inspire.\"", "The Duke of York will give evidence under oath next month as part of the ongoing civil sexual assault case against him.\n\nVirginia Giuffre is suing Prince Andrew in the US, and the prince - the Queen's third child - has repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nHe will face a deposition, which means giving evidence to lawyers for use in court.\n\nA date has been set for 10 March in London.\n\nMs Giuffre says the duke sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was 17 and being trafficked by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nShe says the duke abused her at Ghislaine Maxwell's home in London, in Epstein's mansion in New York and on Epstein's private island in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nEpstein, a convicted sex offender, died in prison in 2019 while awaiting a sex trafficking trial.\n\nPrince Andrew, 61, has denied all of the allegations, and his lawyers have said he is ready to go before a jury to fight the claim. He is not facing any legal action in the UK.\n\nAccording to the Daily Telegraph - which first reported the news - his deposition will be conducted by Ms Giuffre's lawyers, David Boies and Sigrid McCawley, and is expected to last two days.\n\nThe deposition will be the point at which the prince puts his account on the record and he is likely to face personal questions.\n\nNews of the deposition comes as the Queen held an event to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee - which officially begins on Sunday when she marks 70 years on the throne.\n\nVirginia Giuffre, now 38 and living in Australia, seen with her lawyer David Boies in 2019\n\nThe US judge in the civil damages cases - Judge Lewis Kaplan - has set a clear timeline, with a deadline of the middle of May for both sides to declare their witnesses.\n\nAnd by mid-July, Judge Kaplan wants all evidence exchanged and deposition to be completed.\n\nEarlier this week, the judge formally asked the British courts for help to get testimony from Prince Andrew's former assistant Robert Olney.\n\nHe also sent a request asking for a statement to be taken from Shukri Walker, who has said she saw Prince Andrew at Tramps night club in London in March 2001 with a young woman who may have been Ms Giuffre.", "Sending \"genuinely threatening\" or \"knowingly false\" messages are among new criminal offences being added to proposed online safety laws.\n\nIf passed, the government's online safety bill could see social networks fined 10% of their global turnover if they fail to remove harmful content.\n\nThe changes mean they will also have to proactively remove harmful content.\n\nThe bill also covers revenge porn, human trafficking, extremism and promoting suicide online.\n\nIt already stated that websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, that host user-generated content would have to swiftly remove illegal content once it was reported to them.\n\nNow they will also have to put in place proactive measures to stop illegal activity.\n\nThe issue has become a talking point recently with the racist abuse of footballers, revenge porn and cyberflashing, and Covid disinformation being highlighted as key safety concerns for social media companies to address.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries urged online platforms to start making the changes now before the bill comes into force.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, she said: \"They can start doing what they need to do to remove those harmful algorithms and to remove much of the damage that they do, particularly to young people and to society as a whole.\"\n\nThe minister added the move would \"hold the feet to the fire\" of social media companies that have \"damaged lives\" and hold them to account for the first time.\n\nJudy Thomas, whose daughter Frankie took her own life aged 15 in September 2018, said her school tablet and computer had been used to access distressing material in the hours and months before her death.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Back in January, February, March [2018] she'd been accessing, at school, horrendous sites.\"\n\nMs Thomas called for mandatory age verification to protect children online and said all websites should be included in the scope of the bill, rather than just larger platforms.\n\n\"We need to ensure young people simply cannot access online harms, and that if companies do the wrong thing... that there is a real price to pay,\" she said.\n\nMs Thomas added these penalties must not just be financial, as many businesses could \"absorb that easily\", but the heads of these firms must also be \"held to account\".\n\nThe big technology companies say they welcome the \"clarity\" that the online safety bill brings and that they recognise the need for regulation.\n\nThey have, in many cases, not waited for governments to step in and they have invested in tech such as machine learning in order to identify harmful content at scale.\n\nHowever, while many say the bill does not go far enough, social media businesses point to free speech issues.\n\nThey say they want to ensure that new rules don't stifle people's access to information by causing companies to \"over-moderate\" by removing too much content, in order to comply with them.\n\nThe vast scope of the online safety bill means it will always have its critics.\n\nBut experts underline that its introduction will be nothing short of a revolution in how the online world is policed, and mean it will be a very different place for the next generation.\n\nAsked about age verification, Ms Dorries said the government was looking at the idea, but said there was a \"downside\" to requiring all children to verify their age to access the internet.\n\n\"And young people go on to the internet to go shopping, you know, on clothes. Do we need to ensure that they verify their age when they're doing that?\", she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fitness influencer Elle Edwards speaks about dealing with explicit messages and cyber-flashing\n\nThe government confirmed offences to have been added to the list of priority offences, which must be removed by platforms under the changes, include:\n\nPreviously, companies were only forced to take down these posts after they were reported - but will now be required to be proactive in preventing people from seeing them in the first place.\n\nThe government said naming these offences also enabled Ofcom - the proposed regulator - to take faster action.\n\nThe changes come after three separate parliamentary committee reports warned the bill required strengthening and more clarity for tech firms.\n\nIn addition, three new criminal offences have been added to the bill.\n\nThe first is sending \"genuinely threatening communications\" such as a threat to rape, kill or cause financial harm, or coercive and controlling behaviour and online stalking.\n\nSending \"harmful communications\", such as a domestic abuser sending an ex-partner a photograph of their front door to frighten them, is the second. However, offensive content with no intent to cause serious distress would not be illegal.\n\nThe final new offence is \"knowingly false communications\", which would cover messages deliberately sent to inflict harm\", such as a hoax bomb threat.\n\nThe government said the bill would not prohibit \"misinformation\", such as a social media post promoting a fake coronavirus cure, as long as those spreading it were unaware what they were saying was false.\n\nIf you or someone you know are feeling emotionally distressed, information on where you can go for support is available on BBC Action line here.\n\nHave you been affected by harmful messaging online? Tell us your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The woman was struck by a bus in Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, near the junction with Curtain Road\n\nA woman has died after being hit by a bus in east London.\n\nThe pedestrian was struck by the 135 double-decker bus in Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, at about 08:56 GMT on Friday.\n\nThe woman, in her 30s, was injured in the collision and later died at the scene, the Met Police said. The force said there had been no arrests.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said a full investigation was underway.\n\nMet Police, London Fire Brigade and London Ambulance Service all attended the scene.\n\nThe Met is appealing for anyone who may have dashcam footage or witnessed the collision to come forward.\n\nLouise Cheeseman, TfL's director of bus operations, said: \"We are extremely saddened that a woman died after a collision with a bus in Shoreditch and our thoughts are with her family and friends.\n\n\"We have support available to anyone affected by this incident and a full investigation is under way.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The results were posted to candidates' homes and are expected to be delivered on Saturday\n\nThousands of primary seven pupils in Northern Ireland have received their transfer test results.\n\nThe tests are run by two private firms and are used by some schools to help decide which pupils to offer a place to on the basis of academic selection.\n\nThis year, 8,280 children chose to take a transfer test set by the Association for Quality Education (AQE).\n\nThere were also 5,450 entries for the GL Assessment test run by the Post-Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC).\n\nThe exams were held on various Saturdays in November and December last year.\n\nThey were the first transfer tests to take place since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, as the 2020/21 exams were cancelled due to public health concerns.\n\nThose cancellations meant many grammar schools used non-academic criteria to admit pupils last year, but that contributed to a 200% rise in the number of appeals by families of children who did not get a place at the school of their choice.\n\nThis year's P7 pupils have also faced significant disruption to their education because of teaching staff shortages and high levels of Covid-related absences.\n\nP7 pupils can choose to take one of the transfer tests, both of them or neither\n\nThe organisers of this year's tests made a number of changes to take account of that disruption, such as telling candidates in advance which topics they would not be tested on.\n\nTransfer tests are used by about 60 schools in Northern Ireland but selecting pupils solely on academic criteria has been a controversial issue for decades.\n\nThe government policy of academic selection at the age of 11 was abolished in Northern Ireland in 2008, with the last official 11+ tests taking place in November of that year.\n\nBut there was opposition from many grammar schools and educationalists to the scrapping of the exam and unofficial tests were set up in 2009 by private companies without the involvement of the Department of Education.\n\nAt present, primary school children aged 10 and 11 years can choose to sit either the AQE or PPTC tests.\n\nThey can also opt to take both tests or they can ignore the exams completely as they are not compulsory.\n\nA significant number of children choose to participate in both tests each year, which means they have to sit at least five exams over several weekends in the run up to Christmas.\n\nHowever, there are plans in place to hold a single common post-primary transfer test by November 2023.", "What do you get a ninety-something monarch who has already received pretty much everything, from a gold-plated horse comb to carvings of pygmy hippos?\n\nA committee of MPs and peers has been set up to choose a gift \"fit\" for the Queen to mark the 70th anniversary of her accession, in 2022.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said it would be a \"token of our respect\".\n\nFor her Diamond Jubilee in 2012, the Queen had a stained-glass window created for her in Westminster Hall.\n\nThe Golden Jubilee of 2002 saw a sundial installed in Westminster's Old Palace Yard, while the 1977 Silver Jubilee resulted in a fountain being built in nearby New Palace Yard.\n\nThe cross-party Project Committee - whose members include Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle and Lords Speaker Lord Fowler - is expected to follow this understated tradition.\n\nBut the Queen is used to receiving more exotic gifts from the UK, Commonwealth and beyond.\n\nThese have included a wine cooler in the shape of a grasshopper, a marzipan statue and, more appetisingly perhaps, a tin of pineapple.\n\nWell-wishers have also given Her Majesty animals such as cows, jaguars, kangaroos and a sloth - which have remained in their own habitats, for fear of ecological disruption and damaging the lawns of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.\n\nIn 2013, BBC chairman Lord Patten presented the Queen with a framed selection of Radio Times covers on which she had appeared\n\nA governor-general of the Bahamas once presented the Queen with a painting of a swimming pig, while the Liberian ambassador proffered three mantelpiece-friendly wood carvings of pygmy hippos.\n\nDuring the 2009 G20 summit in London, US President Barack Obama added a personal touch with his present - an iPod featuring coverage of her American tour two years earlier.\n\nAnd a state visit by the Queen to the US in 1991 resulted in the gift of six pairs of cowboy boots - fine for a sun-drenched Texas ranch, but of more questionable use for long January walks around Sandringham.\n\nThe Project Committee is unlikely to opt for a second royal sloth\n\nThe 70th anniversary of the accession - the Queen's Platinum Jubilee - occurs on 6 February 2022.\n\nHowever, the main celebrations, including a four-day bank holiday weekend, will take place in June, the month in which the Coronation took place in 1953.\n\nSir Lindsay, who like the Queen is known for his love of animals, said: \"To celebrate a Platinum Jubilee is a unique and historic first, so it is only right that we Parliamentarians mark this significant occasion with a token of our respect, affection, appreciation and thanks.\"\n\nLord Fowler said that, despite the UK's current travails, \"we still have much to look forward to, including celebrating 70 years of Her Majesty's reign in June 2022\".\n\nSolicitor-General Michael Ellis, who organised the Queen's Diamond Jubilee gift, will lead the search for its successor, funded by donations from members of both Houses.\n\nIn a debate marking the Queen's 90th birthday in 2016, Mr Ellis told the House of Commons of his horror at discovering, shortly before the stained glass was placed in situ in Westminster Hall in 2010, \"that the chain on the unicorn was the wrong way round\".\n\nThis was rectified in time for installation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A drone captured a massive spill of dead fish in the Atlantic Ocean\n\nFrance's fisheries minister has called for an investigation after a spillage of more than 100,000 dead fish off the country's Atlantic coast.\n\nVideo footage filmed by environmental activists shows a mass of corpses floating on the sea surface.\n\nAn industry statement said the Margiris, the world's second-largest super trawler, had reported a \"fishing incident\" after its net broke.\n\nIt said the fish were blue whiting, a species of the cod family.\n\nThe lost fish would be deducted from the vessel's quota, the statement added.\n\nThe Sea Shepherd France environmental group filmed the fish on Thursday, saying they covered an area of about 3,000 sq m (32,300 sq ft).\n\nIts head Lamya Essemlali told Reuters it wanted to \"raise awareness among the French public\" about the trawler, which it said had been banned from Australian waters and frequented the Bay of Biscay.\n\nSea Shepherd filmed the bank of dead fish, which it said covered 3,000 sq m\n\nFisheries Minister Annick Girardin tweeted (in French) that she was investigating, and that the images were shocking.\n\nThe EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevicius, also said he was seeking \"exhaustive information and evidence about the case\".\n\nThe Pelagic Freezer-Trawler Association issued a statement saying a net on the Margiris had ruptured at 05:50 local time (04:50 GMT) on Thursday morning, adding that this was a \"very rare occurrence\".\n\n\"In line with EU law, this has been recorded in the vessel's log book and reported to the authorities of the vessel's flag state, Lithuania,\" it said.", "Jacob Rees-Mogg referred to the morning after pill in the Commons as an abortifacient, but the drug does not induce abortions\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg has been accused by a Labour MP of perpetuating a \"harmful clinical falsehood\" about the morning after pill.\n\nAsked if he would make time for a debate on sexual and reproductive health, the minister said he would not \"speak in favour of abortifacients\".\n\nBut the World Health Organization says the pill does not induce an abortion, so would not come under that label.\n\nDame Diana Johnson called for Mr Rees-Mogg to correct the record.\n\nThe issue was raised by the Labour MP in the Commons on Thursday after a campaign by the women's parliamentary Labour party, journalist Rose Stokes and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service led to Boots cutting the price of the emergency contraception from £15.99 to £10.99.\n\nDame Diana said the move had \"removed the sexist surcharge that is attached to that medication\", but claimed cuts to public health budgets and the fragmentation of the NHS meant it was \"more difficult for women to access contraception advice\".\n\nShe asked Mr Rees-Mogg - who is leader of the House - whether he could designate some time in the Commons to debate an MPs' report on sexual and reproductive health in the UK, and its recommendations for \"proper funding and accessibility for women's contraceptive health services\".\n\nBut the minister - who is Catholic and has spoken publicly against abortion - replied: \"The right honourable lady cannot expect me to speak in favour of abortifacients [substances that induce an abortion].\"\n\nHis remark led to a backlash on social media, with campaigners and charities calling on him to correct the record.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDame Diana has echoed those calls, telling the BBC: \"To quote the World Health Organization, 'emergency contraceptive pills prevent pregnancy by preventing or delaying ovulation and they do not induce an abortion - emergency contraception cannot interrupt an established pregnancy or harm a developing embryo'.\n\n\"The leader of the House needs to correct the record as to the harmful clinical falsehood he perpetuated in answer to my question.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Rees-Mogg and he has declined to comment.", "The Queen sat alone at Prince Philip's funeral, observing the Covid rules on such gatherings\n\nThe Queen's commitment to \"doing the right thing\" in sitting alone at Prince Philip's funeral has been praised by the Archbishop of Canterbury as a defining example of her sense of duty.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne on 6 February, Justin Welby said she showed \"duty, leadership and character\".\n\nHe described her Christian faith as \"the rock on which she stands\".\n\nOn Sunday she becomes the first British monarch to mark a Platinum Jubilee.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, the archbishop said the Queen had committed herself to a life of duty and public service.\n\n\"The clearest moment for me, the absolute summit of that, was that at the funeral of her husband of 70-something years, she sat alone.\n\n\"That was leadership, it was doing the right thing, it was duty, it set an example,\" said the archbishop, who officiated at the funeral, which observed Covid restrictions in place at the time.\n\nThe Queen, wearing jewellery given to her by her father, King George VI, was shown well-wishers' jubilee cards\n\nThe remarks are likely to be seen as adding to the comparisons with how Covid rules have been observed in Downing Street.\n\nThe government has faced intense pressure over events held in and around Downing Street during the pandemic, including two parties held by staff at No 10 on 16 April 2021, the night before Prince Philip's funeral.\n\nArchbishop Welby said the Queen's long reign had provided an international symbol of stability through decades of social and political upheavals.\n\nBut he said that her own character was about \"humility\" and understatement.\n\n\"She takes her duties seriously, but she doesn't take herself very seriously. She laughs in private, she has an absolutely superb sense of humour,\" said the archbishop.\n\n\"'It's not about me' almost sums up her reign,\" he said.\n\nThe Queen, aged 95, had a \"sense of self-acceptance\", said the archbishop. \"She doesn't question who or what she is.\"\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury emphasised the personal importance of religious faith to the Queen, since she took the throne after the death of King George VI, the father she \"adored\".\n\nThe archbishop says the Queen has been a symbol of stability through decades of change\n\nThe archbishop likened her role as monarch to a lifelong religious vocation and the coronation to the vows for religious ministry.\n\n\"The coronation service is a form of ordination, in a liturgical sense, and she lives that out without a grumble.\"\n\n\"It is priestly - the language, the structure, it's very similar to an ordination of a priest or a bishop,\" he said.\n\nThe Queen with her father, King George VI, in 1947, succeeded him five years later\n\nThe archbishop said the Queen had faced \"intense grief\", including the loss of her husband, but her personal thoughts remained closed.\n\n\"She's immensely private on such things. That is who she is,\" said the archbishop.\n\nThe Queen, the world's longest-serving head of state, is in Sandringham, Norfolk, for the anniversary of her accession in 1952.\n\nIt's also a poignant occasion, as this is where her father, King George VI, died, and in photographs published on Friday she is seen wearing jewellery that he gave her for her 18th birthday, in 1944.\n\nThe Queen has had many dogs, including Candy the dorgi, a cross between a corgi and a dachshund\n\nBefore leaving Windsor Castle she was shown well-wishers' cards and historic items from previous jubilees, including a fan signed by royal relatives from Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887.\n\n\"It's very well preserved. Extraordinary, isn't it?\" she said, holding up the fan, which included a signature from \"Nicky\", who became Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.\n\nQueen Victoria had previously held the record for the longest reign in Britain, with more than 63 years on the throne.\n\nOfficials at Buckingham Palace say they expect 100,000 letters and cards from well-wishers to be sent to the Queen in a jubilee year.", "The Queen has said she wants Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, to be known as Queen Consort when Prince Charles becomes King.\n\nIn a message marking the 70th anniversary of her reign, the Queen said it was her \"sincere wish\" that Camilla would have that title.\n\nThe Queen is the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee.\n\nShe is spending her day privately on the Sandringham estate, with national celebrations to be held in June.\n\nThe Queen's reign began when she was 25 years old, following the death of her father, George VI, on 6 February 1952.\n\nThe monarch said that, 70 years on, the day is one she remembers \"as much for the death of my father, King George VI, as for the start of my reign\".\n\nThe 95-year-old said in a written message to the nation: \"I would like to express my thanks to you all for your support. I remain eternally grateful for, and humbled by, the loyalty and affection that you continue to give me.\"\n\nThe Jubilee is the monarch's first without the Duke of Edinburgh, her husband of 73 years, who died last year.\n\nShe reflected on how much she had gained from support given \"unselfishly\" by Prince Philip and thanked the goodwill shown to her by \"all nationalities, faiths and ages in this country\".\n\nDuring her reign, she has seen 14 British prime ministers occupy No 10.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson posted on Twitter: \"I pay tribute to her many years of service and look forward to coming together as a country to celebrate her historic reign in the summer.\"\n\nFormer prime ministers Theresa May and David Cameron also expressed their gratitude to the monarch.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer echoed these sentiments, saying he would like to express his \"deepest thanks\" for 70 years of \"unparalleled public service\".\n\n\"Her Majesty The Queen has been one vital and valued constant in an ever-changing world, representing security and stability for our country, during the ups and downs of the last seven decades,\" Sir Keir said.\n\nThe Women's Institute (WI) posted several photos of the Queen over the years to social media, and congratulated her for 70 years of service. She is vice-president of the Sandringham WI.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Women's Institute This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe royal accession message, issued from her Sandringham estate in Norfolk, said the Queen still kept the promise of a lifetime of public duty, originally made in 1947 when she was 21, \"that my life will always be devoted to your service\".\n\nShe signed off the message: \"Your servant Elizabeth R.\"\n\nThe Queen has spent the anniversary of her accession in Sandringham\n\nOn the eve of her Jubilee, the Queen directly addressed the unresolved question of Camilla's future title.\n\n\"Queen Consort\" refers to the spouse of a ruling king and would mean \"Queen Camilla\" as her future title.\n\nThere had been suggestions Camilla would be known as Princess Consort.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall were \"touched and honoured\".\n\nThere has been a different practice for husbands of a female monarch, such as Prince Philip, who was prince consort.\n\nThe usual precedent would have been for Camilla to automatically become Queen when Charles was King, but because of uncertainty about public opinion it had been suggested that might not be the case.\n\nThe Queen's message has made it clear that Camilla will be known as Queen\n\nCharles and Camilla were both divorcees when they married in 2005 in a civil marriage. Charles had previously been married to Princess Diana but they divorced in 1996, a year before she died in a car crash in Paris.\n\nAt the time of their marriage the official intention was for Camilla to be known as the Princess Consort. But plans for her title became more ambiguous in recent years.\n\nThe Queen's intervention means barriers to her becoming Queen have now been removed, and will allow her to have a fully-fledged royal role beside Charles.\n\nThe Queen's personal endorsement follows her New Year announcement that Camilla would become a member of the Order of the Garter - the highest order of chivalry.\n\nCamilla, aged 74, has increasingly been involved in championing her own causes and interests, including charities supporting victims of domestic abuse.", "Rescuers have dug a huge hole next to the well (front, centre)\n\nRescuers who are desperately trying to reach a five-year-old boy who fell into a deep well in Morocco are entering the final stages of their operation.\n\nThey worked through the night to reach the boy, named by local media as Rayan, who plunged 32m (104ft) through the well's narrow opening four days ago.\n\nRescuers said they were in an access tunnel less than a metre from the boy.\n\nFears of a possible landslide have complicated the task. A rescue official was unsure Rayan was still alive.\n\nChief rescuer Abdelhadi Tamrani told AFP that the camera showed him from behind lying on his side.\n\n\"It is not possible to determine the child's condition at all at this time. But we hope to God that the child is alive,\" he told local TV.\n\nFootage on Thursday from a camera lowered into the well showed that the boy was alive and conscious, although he appeared to be suffering from some minor head injuries.\n\nRescue workers have lowered an oxygen mask, food and water into the well but it was unclear whether the boy had been able to use the supplies.\n\nA medical team is also on site, ready to treat the boy. A helicopter has also arrived at the scene.\n\nThe rescue effort has gripped the North African country for days, and thousands have gathered at the scene and have been encouraging rescuers.\n\nThe mixture of rocky and sandy soils has meant rescuers deem opening the water well's narrow shaft to be too dangerous.\n\nInstead, bulldozers were used to cut a huge trench next to the well. Rescuers then started digging horizontally to reach the boy.\n\n\"We're almost there,\" said one of the operation's leaders, Abdesalam Makoudi, on Friday afternoon. \"We've been working non-stop for three days and tiredness is kicking in, but the whole rescue team is hanging on.\"\n\nLed by Morocco's Civil Protection Directorate, rescue operations in the small northern town of Tamorot, around 100km (62 miles) from the city of Chefchaouen, have been ongoing since Tuesday evening.\n\nRayan's father was repairing the well at the time of the accident, and has said he and Rayan's mother were \"devastated and very worried\".\n\n\"In that one moment I took my eyes off him, the little one fell into the well. I haven't slept a wink\", he told news site le360 on Wednesday.\n\nSpeaking to Moroccan media with tears in her eyes, Rayan's mother said: \"The whole family went out to look for him. Then we realised that he'd fallen down the well. I'm still keeping up hope that we'll get him out alive.\"\n\nOn Moroccan social media, the #SaveRayan has been trending across the country as thousands of people have followed updates from local media and onlookers at the scene.\n\nMohamed Yassin El Quahabi, president of the Chefchaouen Association of Caving and Mountain Activities, has been helping with the rescue and he told the BBC that the narrowness of the well had hampered rescue efforts.\n\nHe added that several attempts by local volunteers and rescue workers to gain access through the well's opening have already failed.\n\n\"The problem of this rescue is that the hole diameter is very, very small, about 25cm (9.8 inches),\" Mr El Quahabi said. \"At the depth of 28 metres it became smaller so we couldn't reach him.\"\n\nCrowds gathered to watch the rescue operation on Saturday\n\nOne of the rescue team explained: \"The closer we get, the hole gets narrow and hard to pass through - which makes it very hard to save the child through volunteers. That's why we had to come up with another technique - which is digging.''\n\nBut authorities remain concerned that any interference with the well could accidentally hurt the five-year-old by triggering a landslide.", "DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there was \"now an opportunity for the government and the EU to step up to the mark\"\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said it will be \"difficult\" for his party to form a government after an election if issues around the NI Protocol are not addressed.\n\nHe was speaking after Paul Givan resigned as first minister on Thursday.\n\nIt took effect at midnight and meant Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill of Sinn Féin also lost her post.\n\nMr Donaldson said there was \"now an opportunity for the government and the EU to step up to the mark\".\n\nThe move by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) was part of their opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol, which places a trade border in the Irish Sea.\n\nOn Wednesday the DUP's agriculture minister, Edwin Poots, ordered officials to halt post-Brexit checks at Northern Ireland's ports on goods arriving from Great Britain.\n\nHowever, that direction has been suspended by the High Court, pending the outcome of legal challenges.\n\n\"I have withdrawn the first minister on the basis that the protocol issues have not been addressed despite clear commitments and promises given by the prime minister that they would be addressed,\" Sir Jeffrey told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"If the protocol issues are not resolved by the time of the election, then of course it is difficult for us to form a government, because of the instability that the protocol creates.\"\n\nMr Donaldson said that last week Boris Johnson told him the prospect of an agreement being reached with the EU on the protocol within the next few weeks was \"20 to 30%\".\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald (centre) called for an early election on Thursday\n\nSinn Féin have called for an early election.\n\nThe party's finance minister described the DUP's decision to resign from the post of first minister as \"cynical and reckless\".\n\nConor Murphy reiterated his party president's call for an early election and said the assembly could sit extra days if parties were willing to get legislation through.\n\n\"Let's get the parties together, let's get the legislation completed in the next number of weeks however long that takes to sit in the assembly, let's go to the people and ask them their verdict on what the DUP have done,\" he said.\n\n\"We can't sit by and pretend it is business as usual and that things are OK, I think we need to give the people their verdict in all of this.\"\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin said \"no one party should have a veto\" over the future of Stormont.\n\n\"I believe that decision is very damaging to politics itself, and to people's trust in politics,\" he added.\n\nConor Burns said the DUP should return Paul Givan to the role of first minister\n\nNorthern Ireland Office (NIO) minister Conor Burns urged the DUP to return Stormont to a stable government.\n\n\"We want Sir Jeffrey to reconsider, to put Paul Givan back in and get it stabilised and up and running again,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We'll spend time now thinking about what happens if that doesn't actually come to pass and we'll make those decisions.\"\n\nMr Burns said he did not want to speculate about the NIO's next actions but confirmed the Northern Ireland secretary does have the power to call an early election.\n\nInfrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon of the SDLP said her party were \"not going to fall into this trap that the DUP have set where we fall into an early election\".\n\n\"It's all about creating this toxic, hostile environment where they can terrify people to the polls by telling them their identity is in crisis,\" she said.\n\n\"There are real concerns within loyalism and within unionism, we are listening to that, we want to work through it but this is being manipulated by the DUP and it is shameful,\" she added.\n\nAlliance assembly member Andrew Muir said his party was up for an election \"at any time\", but said MLAs were there to do a job and \"they should get it done\".\n\nMeanwhile, a virtual meeting of several of the NI Executive party leaders has taken place.\n\nThe politicians discussed how the assembly and the executive might operate after Mr Givan's resignation.\n\nThere was some confusion earlier if the meeting would take place after the DUP leader was not originally invited by Sinn Féin.\n\nPaul Givan resigned as first minister on Thursday\n\nThe UUP and Alliance said the DUP should have been invited.\n\nIt is understood the party whips at Stormont are to meet to discuss how assembly business can be handled in the days ahead.\n\nUUP leader Doug Beattie was invited to the meeting but due to other commitments was unable to attend.\n\nHowever, he called on the secretary of state to say if he intended to call an early election \"because if we know when it's coming, we know how we can deal with the legislation\".\n\n\"But right now, we simply don't know what to do.\",\" he added.\n\nAs the dust settles after Paul Givan's resignation - the parties and pressure groups lobbying for legislation must now assess what can be rescued in the coming days.\n\nThe difficulty in holding a cross-party meeting is an example of how difficult it is to chart a way forward.\n\nLooking ahead there is also much talk about an early election and there is a clear divide.\n\nSinn Féin and the DUP want one, but the Alliance, the SDLP and the UUP say voters should go to the polls as scheduled in May.\n\nSome are now asking if full devolution can be restored after an election.\n\nWhilst the DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says that depends on what happens to the protocol.\n\nThere are also questions if a DUP MLA would serve as deputy first minster if Sinn Féin take the first minster's role.\n\nNot for the first time the long term future of how we are governed is shrouded in doubt.\n\nAn election for the Northern Ireland Assembly is currently scheduled for May.\n\nDue to Northern Ireland's power-sharing arrangements, the roles of first and deputy first ministers are a joint office shared between the two biggest parties at Stormont.\n\nNeither leader can stay in power if the other person resigns.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Assembly continues in shadow form, but the executive - effectively Northern Ireland's government - will no longer meet.\n\nMinisters in charge of departments will be able to stay in post, but they will be limited in terms of what they can do.\n\nAhead of the midnight deadline on Thursday, the outgoing first and deputy first ministers made a number of appointments, including naming Ian Jeffers as Northern Ireland's new victims' commissioner, and keeping in place for another three years Brenda King as Northern Ireland's attorney general.\n\nThere are questions over key pieces of legislation requiring executive approval, including a multi-year budget and the lifting of Northern Ireland's remaining Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said he would be seeking legal advice on his powers as health minister\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said he was \"deeply concerned about the consequences\" of Mr Givan's resignation.\n\nMr Swann said he had sought \"urgent legal clarification\" on the possible easing of remaining Covid-19 restrictions, in the absence of the executive.\n\nAlex Maskey, assembly speaker, said the Northern Ireland Act 1998 calls for the first and deputy first minister offices to be filled within seven days, by 12:01 on Friday 11 February.\n\nMr Maskey also said he was aware that legislation due to be completed at Westminster next week may leave that situation subject to change, but said he could only deal with the \"legal position which exists now\".\n\nThe party's current leader, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has been threatening to withdraw DUP ministers from Stormont for months over its opposition to the protocol.\n\nUnionists have argued that Northern Ireland's place in the UK is being undermined by the protocol as it is being treated differently from Great Britain.\n\nSir Jeffrey first delivered the ultimatum in September last year, warning that the DUP may quit Stormont \"within weeks\" if its protocol demands were not met.\n\nTalks between the EU and the UK government - which is seeking changes to the protocol - have been ongoing for months but have intensified in recent weeks.", "Munira Mirza, the prime minister's policy chief, was one of four senior aides to quit on Thursday\n\nThe chief of staff, the chief of communications, the official who runs the prime minister's private office, and his policy chief - all gone. A quartet of departures from No 10.\n\nIn the words of one senior backbencher, not just a nightmare on Downing Street but a total meltdown.\n\nYet two different things happened on a turbulent day. The first three paid the price for the fiasco over lockdown gatherings - one sending the invite to the garden drinks, the other two crafting Boris Johnson's bungled response to weeks of damaging claims.\n\nMr Johnson's backers claim it's evidence that he'll keep his vow - \"I get it, I will fix it\" - that No 10 can become the home to a new and improved operation.\n\nThe resignation of Munira Mirza is of a very different order. For more than 10 years she's been one of Mr Johnson's true political friends - described as \"Boris' brain\" by one former colleague, an ally of ideas.\n\nHer choice to take a public stand after staying loyal during so many controversies sends a message loud and clear - even one of the prime minister's closest backers believes it is enough.\n\nIt's suggested the three men's departures were fast forwarded to help soften the sharpness of Ms Mirza's attack, MPs cajoled to display their pleasure in tweets online that Mr Johnson was sticking to his promise to clear out No 10.\n\nYet those obvious political plays don't mask the sense of instability around No 10. Tory MPs who wanted to be reassured are likely to be rattled instead. His allies who have rallied support for him in the last couple of weeks have bolstered his operation.\n\nBut some MPs are privately turning against their approaches, one joking they are wannabe \"Peaky Blinders\" trying to threaten colleagues to behave. The almost immediate leak of their plea to MPs to welcome the No 10 changes show as much.\n\nAnd all the while those who want the prime minister gone gather and prepare. There seems no one grand plot to oust the PM from office. Alliances are shifting. There's no one clear alternative, let alone one unifying idea.\n\nAnd the Tories' long-standing reputation for ruthless removals of leaders does not always ring true. Older heads remind restive colleagues how long it took for Theresa May to go, even after losing a majority, even after a confidence vote.\n\nOthers fear a bungled attempt to force Mr Johnson out would trap the party in a terrible limbo. Others believe that when it comes to campaigning it would be insane to lose Mr Johnson's clout.\n\nBut every mistake or misjudgement provides more evidence to those who want him gone.\n\nAnd for the prime minister's backers, it becomes harder for them to argue that he ought to stay.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nThree-time Winter Olympic snowboarding champion Shaun White will retire from the sport after the Games in Beijing.\n\nAmerican White, 35, who won his first gold in 2006 in Turin, said he is \"enjoying every moment\" of his final Games.\n\nThe five-time Olympian, the world's most decorated snowboarder, also took gold in Vancouver and Pyeongchang.\n\nIn addition, White has won 15 gold medals at the Winter X Games, 13 of them in snowboarding.\n• None Shaun White on staying on top at 35 as he bids for fourth title at Beijing 2022\n• None Hosts China win their first gold of the Games\n\nWhite, who is chasing a fourth Olympic halfpipe gold medal at Genting Snow Park, attributed his decision to lingering knee and back problems.\n\n\"It's this and it's that, all these things are major things that brought me to this conclusion,\" he said.\n\nNicknamed 'The Flying Tomato' because of his long red hair, White became a global star as the sport rose in popularity, having been first included at the Winter Games in 1998.\n\n\"The thing I'm the most proud of would be staying on top of a sport that's ever-changing for as long as I have,\" he said.\n\n\"It's almost like fashion, it's ever changing - you're trying to guess the trend of what's going to happen and have your finger on the pulse.\"\n\nWhite added that watching other riders - some half his age - pull off \"heavier and heavier\" tricks was also a factor in his decision and that \"everyone is catching up\" to his level.\n\nMaking the Games in Beijing was an achievement in itself, he said, but added that he was \"still incredibly competitive in any situation\".\n\nHe is one of only six athletes to have won at least two medals in the discipline.\n• None Is this the ultimate test of endurance? How a rower with incurable cancer broke an Atlantic record\n• None This Is Going To Hurt: Ben Whishaw stars in an adaptation of Adam Kay's hit memoir of life as a junior doctor", "The Queen spent Christmas in Windsor with a small group, including the Prince of Wales\n\nThe Queen travelled to Sandringham on Sunday, a month after cancelling her traditional Christmas plans in Norfolk due to the rapid spread of Omicron.\n\nHer Majesty flew by helicopter from Windsor Castle to Sandringham, where she is expected to spend a few weeks.\n\nPrior to the pandemic, the Queen had spent 32 consecutives Christmases at her Norfolk home with family members.\n\nBut she took the decision earlier last month to remain at Windsor as a precaution, amid rising Covid cases.\n\nIt marked the second year in a row the pandemic had led to the cancellation of the Queen's traditional Christmas plans at Sandringham.\n\nIt was also the 95-year-old monarch's first Christmas without the Duke of Edinburgh, her husband of more than 73 years, whom she paid tribute to in the annual Queen's Speech on Christmas Day.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall were among a small party who joined the Queen on 25 December at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe Queen typically spends Christmas at her estate in Sandringham\n\nTypically, close members of the Royal Family gather at the Queen's Norfolk estate for the festive period where they attend the local church of St Mary Magdalene on Christmas morning - and are greeted by public well-wishers.\n\nIn a statement issued in December, Buckingham Palace said it was a personal decision not to travel to Norfolk at Christmas and reflected \"a precautionary approach\".\n\nThe monarch, who will mark 70 years on the throne in February, spent much of last year at Windsor Castle, where she and Prince Philip had shielded throughout the lockdowns.\n\nHaving arrived in Norfolk on Sunday, she is expected to remain at Sandringham for some weeks.\n\nNormally her winter break ends some time after accession day on 6 February - the day her father George VI died in 1952.\n\nThis year, 6 February will herald the start of the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations, which will culminate in a four-day UK bank holiday weekend from 2 to 5 June.\n\nThe celebrations will be marked by concerts, street parties and a Platinum Jubilee Pageant, with the private estates of Sandringham and Balmoral open to visitors across the long weekend in June.\n\nThe Queen's move to Sandringham in Norfolk comes ahead of the 70th anniversary of the beginning of her reign - her \"accession\" to the throne.\n\nSandringham was where her father George VI died at the age of 56, on 6 February 1952. So it's a poignant time and place, remembering her father and his long influence on her life.\n\nIt's also a relatively rare trip away from Windsor, with a mixture of the Queen's health worries and Covid disruptions keeping her there much of the time.\n\nWhile the Queen's long reign will be marked through the year by Platinum Jubilee events, this anniversary is likely to be a more reflective moment.\n\nThe first anniversary of the death of Prince Philip is also approaching in the spring.\n\nIf the jubilee will be about public celebrations, this will be a more private moment, marking the virtues of lifelong duty and understated service, and to think about how much has changed in those seven decades.\n\nIt is not clear which events the Queen will attend herself. There were concerns for the Queen's health during autumn last year after she spent a night in hospital and was ordered to rest by royal doctors.\n\nIt led the monarch to withdraw from a series of public events, including the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow and the Remembrance Sunday service.", "Camilla says victims of sexual violence can face a misplaced sense of stigma\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall has called for more urgent action to tackle sexual violence against women.\n\nShe spoke of her shock at Sarah Everard's murder and warned \"on average, one woman is killed by a man every three days\" in the UK.\n\nIn a speech in London, Camilla said men also needed to be \"on board\" with tackling a culture of sexual violence.\n\nAnd she questioned whether people had become \"indoctrinated into believing that violence against women is normal\".\n\nThe duchess spoke of the \"unimaginable torment\" facing female victims of violent sexual attacks and how their families, such as those of Sarah Everard, \"continue to suffer in the wake of their deaths\".\n\nSarah Everard was murdered earlier this year by Wayne Couzens, then a police officer, who had abducted her as she walked home in south London.\n\nAnd the duchess warned of a pervasive, underlying culture of sexual harassment.\n\n\"On the same day that Wayne Couzens was arrested, a survey was published stating that 86% of young women in the UK have been sexually harassed in a public space,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Cornwall speaking in London: \"How many more women must be harassed, raped or murdered?\"\n\nCamilla was speaking at the launch of a project called Shameless, supported by the Women of the World Foundation and Birkbeck, University of London, and aimed at changing attitudes to sexual violence.\n\nThe duchess said a high proportion of women who had been harassed did not report what had happened - and pointed to an unfair sense of \"shame\" among victims.\n\n\"Often, this sense of shame causes the victim to blame herself, mistakenly take responsibility for the crime, and want to hide away from others - and yet she has done nothing wrong,\" she said.\n\n\"Let us resolve to support survivors to be 'shameless' and not to take on misplaced feelings of stigma,\" the duchess told an audience including Carrie Johnson, wife of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nMrs Johnson, then Carrie Symonds, had given evidence against \"black-cab rapist\" John Worboys, jailed in 2009.\n\nThe duchess warned of a \"culture of silence\" around sexual violence and said it was important men were engaged in efforts to change attitudes.\n\n\"It takes an entire community, male and female, to dismantle the lies, words and actions that foster a culture in which sexual assault is seen as normal,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Hooper said he felt \"frightened and threatened\" when he removed the Corsa from his property\n\nA farmer who used a telehandler to pick up a car and dump it in a road to defend his property has been cleared of dangerous driving and criminal damage.\n\nRobert Hooper, 57, had told Durham Crown Court he felt \"frightened and threatened\" when he took the action.\n\nHe had argued an \"Englishman's home is his castle\", and he had been assaulted before he used his vehicle to remove the Corsa in County Durham last June.\n\nHis partner Kate Henderson said he had been through \"eight months of hell\".\n\nSupporters cheered the couple outside the court after the jury cleared Mr Hooper following a four-day trial.\n\nMs Henderson said: \"The overwhelming support of the local community and people from afar have kept him going during these last eight months of hell.\n\n\"We welcome the jury's verdict and are thankful for it.\"\n\nMobile phone footage shown to jurors also showed the lifting rails of Mr Hooper's farm vehicle striking shirtless Charlie Burns.\n\nThe 21-year-old, who had been visiting Low Force waterfall with friends and had drunk up to seven bottles of lager, was knocked to the floor by the rails.\n\nThe car had been parked by Mr Burns' friend, Elliott Johnson, at Mr Hooper's property in Newbiggin-in-Teesdale after suffering a double puncture.\n\nSupporters cheered as Mr Hooper and his partner Kate Henderson left court\n\nThe hill farmer had told the court he was punched by Mr Burns when he first politely asked the men to leave as they were blocking access to his property.\n\nHe was aware of an \"influx\" of youths visiting the area that summer, causing anti-social behaviour, littering and damaging walls, the jury heard.\n\nMr Hooper claimed Mr Burns had punched him twice through the window of the farm vehicle he was driving, bursting his lip.\n\n\"I thought it is time to get out of there, and I said, 'If you don't move it, I will',\" he told the court.\n\nMr Hooper said he was concerned at what the two young men might do and \"what they had in terms of weapons\".\n\n\"I thought if the car was off the property, that would be them off the property, out of the way,\" he added.\n\nThe court heard that the farmer felt he was defending his property and himself.\n\n\"I felt threatened and an Englishman's home is his castle, and my castle starts at that front gate,\" he said.\n\nMichael Rawlinson, defending, gave the origin of the saying in his closing speech to the jury, referring back to the judge Sir Edward Coke's comments which set legal precedents in 1604.\n\nWhen it was argued by the prosecution that Mr Hooper had acted \"utterly irrationally\", Mr Rawlinson also quoted the boxer Mike Tyson, saying: \"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.\"\n\nMr Hooper, who has no previous convictions, had a busy day baling silage and returned to the farm for his tea, intending to continue working afterwards.\n\nMr Burns, who had been drinking with friends, said he was intending to walk 52 miles back to South Tyneside.\n\nJudge Ray Singh had outlined routes to verdict for the jury, explaining the law surrounding self-defence and a defendant protecting himself and his property.\n\nFellow farmers who were there to support Mr Hooper welcomed the verdicts outside the court.\n\nWilliam Wearmouth said Mr Hooper was \"absolutely first-class\" and a \"hard-working man\" who \"will help anyone with anything\".\n\nAnother farmer, John Dickinson, said it was a \"really good result for the local area\".\n\n\"Robert is a very decent, upstanding man who shouldn't have to have gone through all this,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A coroner due to hold inquests into the deaths at Shoreham air crash has lost her High Court bid to obtain video footage from the pilot's cockpit.\n\nThe Hawker Hunter aircraft flown by Andrew Hill crashed on a dual carriageway in West Sussex on 22 August 2015, killing 11 men.\n\nMr Hill was acquitted of gross negligence manslaughter in 2019.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) had opposed using the footage at the inquest.\n\nThe AAIB inquiry concluded that the crash could have been avoided and was caused by pilot error when Mr Hill flew too low and too slowly while carrying out a manoeuvre.\n\nAt his Old Bailey trial, Mr Hill's defence raised the issue of whether he had suffered a cognitive impairment which caused him to fly the plane in the manner he did.\n\nPart of the evidence produced was the video from the cockpit recorded on Mr Hill's Go-Pro camera.\n\nAfter the trial, the AAIB reviewed their investigation and concluded there was \"no new and significant evidence of cognitive impairment\" and that their findings were valid.\n\nPilot Andrew Hill was cleared of 11 charges of manslaughter by gross negligence at a criminal trial\n\nThe senior coroner for West Sussex, Penelope Schofield, had asked for the footage to assess whether a report from a doctor - a paediatric oncologist who is a friend of the pilot - could be evidence the AAIB probe was incomplete, flawed or deficient in considering cognitive impairment.\n\nLawyers for the coroner had argued that the report made a credible suggestion the AAIB's investigation of cognitive impairment was incomplete, but said she did not have credible evidence.\n\nMr Hill and the families of three of the men who died supported the coroner's request for the footage.\n\nTop row, left to right: Matt Jones, Matthew Grimstone, Jacob Schilt, Maurice Abrahams, Richard Smith. Bottom row, left to right: Mark Reeves, Tony Brightwell, Mark Trussler, Daniele Polito, Dylan Archer, Graham Mallinson\n\nThe AAIB had argued that handing over the footage would have a \"significant potential adverse impact on future safety investigations\".\n\nThe High Court had previously heard that cockpit recordings are protected from being disclosed unless being used in safety investigations.\n\nIt was told the AAIB cannot compel people or organisations to co-operate with their inquiries and protecting material helps encourage people involved in air accidents to cooperate.\n\nIn a judgment on Friday, two senior judges dismissed the bid.\n\nDame Victoria Sharp, sitting with Mr Justice Saini, ruled there \"is neither credible evidence nor, even adopting her approach, a credible suggestion that the AAIB investigations were incomplete, flawed or deficient on the issue of cognitive impairment\".\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nManchester United crashed out of the FA Cup as Championship side Middlesbrough came from behind at Old Trafford and then emerged victorious in a nail-biting 16-shot penalty shootout.\n\nYoung striker Anthony Elanga ballooned his shot over the bar to give Chris Wilder's side a win that was celebrated in enthusiastic fashion by a 9,000-strong visiting support.\n\nUnited will complain about Middlesbrough's controversial equaliser, scored by Matt Crooks, who tapped home despite Duncan Watmore clearly handling in the build-up.\n\nHowever, they only had themselves to blame after failing to take numerous chances in a game where they had 30 shots at goal, the clearest of which came when Cristiano Ronaldo missed a penalty in the first half.\n\nJadon Sancho seemed to have put United on the road to the last 16 when he marked his FA Cup debut with a goal.\n\nInstead, United's most realistic chance of silverware has now disappeared.\n\nThe draw for the FA Cup fifth round will take place at 11:40 GMT on Sunday.\n• None FA Cup magic alive and kicking after Middlesbrough win, but what next for Manchester United?\n\nWho could have known an alteration to the handball rule would have such an impact on the outcome of this match?\n\nFollowing a revision of the interpretation of the rule by IFAB during the summer, accidental handball is only penalised if the player in question then scores a goal.\n\nSo, although the ball clearly hit Watmore's hand before he lobbed the decisive pass to Crooks, referee Anthony Taylor deemed it to be accidental, as the ball had flicked up off the Middlesbrough man's body. This was subsequently checked by VAR Stuart Attwell, who endorsed Taylor's view.\n\nGiven Ralf Rangnick had spent the previous few seconds tapping his arm and did so again as Taylor pointed to the centre circle, desperately looking round for someone to appeal to, it is fair to assume United's interim manager did not agree with the officials.\n\nUnited only had themselves to blame for the mess they ended up in.\n\nTheir profligacy started in the opening two minutes, a horrendous mix-up in the Boro defence ending with Sancho lobbing against the bar from the edge of the area before Bruno Fernandes fired over when it seemed easier to score.\n\nFernandes did not have a great night. He thought he was offside when, unmarked, he headed over from eight yards. But TV replays showed the goal would have stood. That miss was about the same level as when he hit the post in the second half with the goal at his mercy.\n\nAnd then there was Ronaldo, whose night was summed up deep into extra time when United were trying to counter and he attempted a 10-yard pass to Fred, which he overhit straight to an opponent, forcing the Brazilian to make a crude challenge at the expense of a yellow card to ensure the home goal did not come under threat.\n\nThe noise when Ronaldo missed his penalty was louder than when Boro equalised.\n\nIn a game of fine margins, the Portuguese's attempt to find the bottom corner after Anfernee Dijksteel had slipped and fallen into Paul Pogba was only out by a couple of inches. It was enough though.\n\nSancho did find the net with the aid of a deflection but United's wastefulness kept the visitors in the game, meaning the VAR controversy really mattered and by the end it was Dean Henderson who was needed to ensure the match went to penalties when he blocked Aaron Connolly's goalbound effort.\n\nAnd if United's evening was not miserable enough on the pitch, they suffered embarrassment off it as well, when a technical fault meant no food or beverages could be provided at half-time, triggering chants of 'we want Glazers out' from a section of the United support.\n\nThis was not the first time recently Wilder had left Old Trafford as a winner.\n\nIn January 2021, Sheffield United were fancied even less than Middlesbrough were tonight and secured a 2-1 win.\n\nOn this occasion, though Middlesbrough's defending was poor initially, they grew into the game.\n\nGoalkeeper Joe Lumley recovered from a couple of early errors and got his positioning right to make some decisive saves.\n\nThe introduction of Watmore, a local boy who started his career at nearby Altrincham, gave Middlesbrough's attack a focus and it was a bitter irony that United academy product Crooks should score against the club he supported as a boy.\n\nThere was confidence in the visitors' penalties too, with Henderson only coming close to stopping one, Middlesbrough's second, from Martin Payero, which went under his body.\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Anthony Elanga (Manchester United) right footed shot is too high. Anthony Elanga should be disappointed.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1(7), Middlesbrough 1(8). Lee Peltier (Middlesbrough) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1(7), Middlesbrough 1(7). Diogo Dalot (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1(6), Middlesbrough 1(7). Dael Fry (Middlesbrough) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1(6), Middlesbrough 1(6). Scott McTominay (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1(5), Middlesbrough 1(6). Duncan Watmore (Middlesbrough) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1(5), Middlesbrough 1(5). Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1(4), Middlesbrough 1(5). Sol Bamba (Middlesbrough) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1(4), Middlesbrough 1(4). Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1(3), Middlesbrough 1(4). Marcus Tavernier (Middlesbrough) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1(3), Middlesbrough 1(3). Fred (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1(2), Middlesbrough 1(3). Jonny Howson (Middlesbrough) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1(2), Middlesbrough 1(2). Harry Maguire (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1(1), Middlesbrough 1(2). Martín Payero (Middlesbrough) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1(1), Middlesbrough 1(1). Juan Mata (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1, Middlesbrough 1(1). Patrick McNair (Middlesbrough) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Scotland secured successive Calcutta Cup wins for the first time since 1984 after a dramatic late penalty try helped them claim a nerve-shredding Six Nations victory over England.\n\nThe visitors dominated possession and territory in the sides' tournament opener at Murrayfield, and led going into the final quarter thanks to a 17-point haul by Marcus Smith.\n\nBut Scotland - who were in front at the break after Ben White's debut score - were awarded seven points after Luke Cowan-Dickie deliberately slapped a Finn Russell cross-kick into touch, and edged to victory with a late Russell penalty.\n\nIt was a statement win for Gregor Townsend's side, who have won three of the past five meetings and journey to Wales next Saturday with their Six Nations Championship aspirations burnished.\n\nEddie Jones' England, meanwhile, have now lost four of their last six matches in the competition and travel to Italy the following day needing a win to salvage any hopes of being contenders.\n• None Cowan-Dickie 'not to blame' for England loss says Jones\n\nMercifully the biblical weather forecast never quite lived up to the doomsday predictions. Murrayfield was packed and heaving and, then, hushed.\n\nIf the home crowd was expecting thunder and lightning from their boys from the start, what they saw instead was waves of England possession and territory.\n\nJones' team didn't do a whole lot with it, but they piled it on none the less. Scotland could hardly get anywhere near the ball as this young England - stripped of so much experience through injury - set the tempo.\n\nStuart Hogg had to scramble to get Max Malins into touch, then Smith banged over a penalty when Jonny Gray played Ben Youngs illegally.\n\nScotland lost Ali Price to a HIA soon after. What a moment that was for his replacement White on his debut.\n\nThe new scrum-half appeared, lit up Murrayfield with the opening try, and then departed again when Price got the all-clear. In the short history of HIAs there can't have been many greater cameos than White's.\n\nIt began with a quick Scottish line-out from George Turner, then a Sam Johnson surge. At last, some Scottish urgency.\n\nHogg took it on, drew Maro Itoje and found Graham. The wing was terrific, bamboozling Joe Marchant before finding White on his shoulder. Wonderful. Russell made it 7-3 to Scotland, a lead they scarcely warranted.\n\nEngland carried on dominating possession and territory, carried on trying to pin the Scots back without showing the penetration needed to breach what has been the best Six Nations defence over the past two championships. They prodded away.\n\nSmith floated a cross kick to Henry Slade but it flew just above the centre's head. England launched a maul and drove it over the Scottish line but Slade got held up.\n\nThey got some kind of reward for their dominance of the ball when Smith landed another penalty to put them within one.\n\nRussell cancelled that one out just before the break. A four-point advantage at half-time? The Scots were blessed. They'd had one attack, one decent bout of possession. England had 76% of the ball - and a deficit.\n\nAll of that flipped early in the new half. England began strongly again, but this time they put points on the board, Smith firing over a penalty to make it 10-9 and then adding that try four minutes later.\n\nAgain it was an England maul that had Scotland in trouble. Left woefully short of defenders down the blind-side, Youngs and Smith executed with ease. Smith failed with the conversion but made amends with another penalty just after the hour.\n\nEngland by seven. The Murrayfield crowd quieter than church mice. The sight of Jamie Ritchie leaving with a serious-looking injury did nothing for their mood.\n\nBut that mood altered dramatically. Cometh the hour, cometh the man, Russell cross-kicked right to left for Duhan van der Merwe to stretch England one way, then cross-kicked left to right to stretch them the other. The pivotal moment of the day had arrived.\n\nGraham and Cowan-Dickie competed for it practically on the try-line, the hooker done for batting it into touch deliberately. The tension was off the scale. Penalty try Scotland, yellow card Cowan-Dickie, a game levelled, a crowd in delirium.\n\nScotland went again, Russell put them in front with a penalty and, incredibly, they'd hit the front.\n\nIt looked like they'd put it to bed when they got another penalty in front of the posts, but it was reversed. It looked like England were about to launch a major attack in the last seconds but they coughed up a line-out. Prop Joe Marler unwisely threw the ball in. Why didn't Jones bring on Jamie George for that potentially crucial set piece.\n\nEven still, England had a scrum and reset upon reset in the final play. The visitors were desperate for a penalty, the Scots desperate to survive. The Scots prevailed. Remarkable.\n\nBack-to-back Calcutta Cup wins for the first time in almost 40 years and huge momentum going to Wales next week. For England, more misery at the hands of a resurgent Scotland.\n\nWhat they said\n\nScotland head coach Gregor Townsend: \"I was so nervous for that set of scrums at the end. It was crossing my mind what England might do if they got a penalty, but fortunately it was decided on an error rather than a penalty.\n\n\"[Our self-belief] is excellent, as is our character. We were behind and came back. Some of our best rugby was in the last 15 minutes in tricky conditions.\n\n\"Finn Russell was superb all game. It means so much to Scotland as a nation. We know we can improve going forward.\"\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones: \"Scotland were a bit better than us and took their chances. There wasn't much in it, but congratulations to Scotland.\n\n\"We don't apportion any blame to Luke [Cowan-Dickie] - the referee adjudged it was a yellow card and we have to get on with it. We had opportunities to kick on, but we just weren't clinical enough.\n\n\"Given the quality of the competition, we just have to go to Italy and win.\"", "Four people from the UK have won the EuroMillions jackpot this year\n\nThe winning numbers were 3, 25, 38, 43, 49 and the lucky star numbers were 3 and 7.\n\nA UK player matched all seven numbers to scoop the top prize and lottery firm Camelot is urging players to check their tickets to see if they have won.\n\nWhile it is a huge sum of money, the win is not in the top five highest UK winners, with a British record of £170m claimed in October 2019.\n\nAndy Carter, senior winners' adviser at The National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing night for a single UK ticket-holder who has scooped tonight's whopping £109.9 million special EuroMillions Super Jackpot.\n\n\"Players are urged to check their tickets and give us a call if they think they are tonight's lucky winner.\"\n\nThe winner has 180 days to claim their prize.\n\nThe record £170m was claimed by an anonymous UK player and the highest named winners are Colin and Chris Weir, from North Ayrshire, who won £161m in 2011.\n• None £170mBritain's richest ever lottery winner stayed anonymous after their win in October 2019.\n• None £161mColin and Chris Weir (pictured) from North Ayrshire, Scotland in 2011.\n• None £148mAdrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, in 2012.\n\nThe EuroMillions draw is held twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, and is played in nine European countries.", "The US podcast host Joe Rogan has issued an apology over his past use of racist language on his popular show.\n\nA widely-shared compilation video showed him repeatedly using the N-word in early episodes of his show, which has been running for over a decade.\n\nThe 54-year offered his \"deepest\" apologies and called his past use of the slur \"shameful\".\n\nRogan also apologised for making a racist comment about visiting a predominantly black neighbourhood.\n\nHe said he \"felt sick\" watching the compilation, and wished he could take his comments back.\n\nDuring a six minute video posted to his Instagram page, the MMA commentator also said that he hoped his errors could help to educate others.\n\n\"I do hope that this can be a teachable moment for anybody that doesn't know how offensive that word can be coming out of a white person's mouth,\" the Spotify star said.\n\nBut Rogan also sought to defend himself, saying that many of the clips had been \"taken out of context of twelve years of conversations on my podcast\".\n\nHe said that he had often used the slur while quoting comedians such as Paul Mooney and Lenny Bruce, or while discussing the use of the word in movies directed by the filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.\n\nIndia Arie, the Grammy-winning artist who first posted the compilation video on her Instagram page, condemned Rogan's use of the slur and said she would remove her music from Spotify in protest.\n\n\"He shouldn't even be uttering the word. Don't even say it, under any context. Don't say it. That's where I stand. I have always stood there,\" Arie said.\n\nSeveral artists have recently quit Spotify in protest at what they allege is Rogan's role in spreading coronavirus misinformation.\n\nSpotify is thought to have paid more than $100m (£74m) for exclusive rights to the podcast in 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins looks at the controversy surrounding the US podcast presenter Joe Rogan and his Spotify show", "He was jailed for five years and six months after being convicted of sexual offences against two children\n\nDisgraced former Labour peer Lord Ahmed of Rotherham has been jailed for five and a half years for sexually abusing two children in the 1970s.\n\nHe was found guilty in January of a serious sexual assault against a boy and the attempted rape of a young girl.\n\nThe abuse happened in Rotherham when he was a teenager, Sheffield Crown Court heard.\n\nPassing sentence, Mr Justice Lavender said his actions had had \"profound and lifelong effects\" on the victims.\n\nThe court heard Lord Ahmed, who was tried under his birth name Nazir Ahmed, attempted to rape the girl twice in the early 1970s, when he was aged 16 or 17 but she was much younger.\n\nThe attack on the boy, who was aged under 11 at the time, also happened during the same period.\n\nThe 64-year-old had denied the charges, calling them a \"malicious fiction\", but a phone recording of a conversation between the two victims in 2016 showed they were not \"made-up\".\n\nThe judge said the offences were \"so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified\".\n\nHe said: \"Your actions have had profound and lifelong effects on the girl and the boy, who have lived with what you did to them for between 46 and 53 years.\n\n\"The statements which they have made express more eloquently than I ever could how your actions have affected and continue to affect their lives in so many different and damaging ways.\"\n\nThe 64-year-old had told the court the claims were \"malicious fiction\"\n\nThe victim of the attempted rapes, who cannot be named due to the nature of the offences, said she had lived with \"an overwhelming feeling of shame\".\n\nShe told the court: \"It was a burden I was made to carry, and it silenced me for many years.\n\n\"It is now time for me to pass that burden to him - the paedophile who I know feels no personal shame.\"\n\nThe male victim, who also cannot be named, said in a personal statement read out in court: \"I buried the abuse and carried it with me on my own for years and years.\n\n\"I feel shame because of what these men did to me.\"\n\nIn court number seven at Sheffield Crown Court today, both the judge and defendant could technically be addressed as \"my Lord\", \"your Lordship\" or any other variation of the title.\n\nLord Ahmed sat in the dock wearing a smart suit and tie, listening to barristers and a judge discuss his sentence.\n\nOne victim came to the witness box to describe the impact the peer of the realm had on her life.\n\n\"He is a paedophile who has no personal shame. But in the end, all tyrants fall,\" she said.\n\nA statement from the second victim said: \"This is not about revenge, this is about justice.\"\n\nAnd part of that justice is wanting to see Lord Ahmed stripped of his title and known forthwith by his real name, Nazir Ahmed.\n\nThey don't want him to use his title to impress anyone again.\n\nThe judge told him his actions had a profound and lifelong effect on his victims. He stood to listen to the judge but showed no emotion.\n\nShortly afterwards, Ahmed picked up his rucksack, waved at his family and disappeared through a door to start his five-and-a-half year sentence.\n\nAhmed, who was convicted following a retrial, resigned from the House of Lords in November 2020 after a conduct committee report concluded he had sexually and emotionally exploited a vulnerable woman who sought his help.\n\nThe inquiry into his behaviour followed a BBC Newsnight investigation.\n\nThere have been calls for him to be stripped of his title. This would require an Act of Parliament but none currently exists.\n\nAhmed was charged along with his two older brothers, Mohammed Farouq, 71, and Mohammed Tariq, 65, but both were deemed unfit to stand trial.\n\nBoth had faced charges of indecent assault against the same boy abused by Ahmed.\n\nThough the men did not face a criminal trial, jurors concluded that they did commit the alleged acts after hearing evidence in the case.\n\nBoth men were given absolute discharges after the judge said the only other two options - a hospital order or a supervision order - would not be appropriate in this case.\n\nSarah Champion, Labour MP for Rotherham, paid tribute to the \"courage, bravery and determination of the victims\".\n\nShe said: \"The verdict in this case sends a clear message to offenders: no matter your power or your status, justice will be served, however long it is eluded.\n\n\"The fact Mr Ahmed is able to retain his peerage makes a mockery of our honours system. I urge the government to bring forward legislation to enable his title to be stripped from him.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sites will be created at Wrexham's sprawling Erddig country estate, as well in Carmarthenshire and south east Wales\n\nNew woodlands are to be created in memory of people who died from coronavirus during the pandemic.\n\nTwo will be planted at the National Trust's Erddig estate in Wrexham, and at a site at Brownhill in Carmarthenshire's Tywi Valley.\n\nA memorial woodland is also set to be created in south east Wales after a location has been identified.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said they would be a \"living memorial to all those who have died\".\n\n\"They will also be a symbol of the strength the people of Wales have shown over the past two years,\" he said.\n\nA total of 9,477 deaths involving Covid have occurred during the pandemic in Wales - with 79 actually occurring, rather than just being registered, over the most recent week.\n\nThe woodland sites are to become part of a planned National Forest for Wales.\n\nNatural Resources Wales chief executive Clare Pillman pledged to \"engage with local communities and our partners to plan and design the woodland, shaping with them safe and accessible spaces, where people of all ages can come to remember and reflect for years to come\".\n\n\"Our ambition for this commemorative woodland is for it to become a living, growing area for all the community to enjoy,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cheers turn to tears as news of Rayan's death emerges\n\nA five-year-old Moroccan boy who was trapped in a well for four days has died, despite painstaking efforts to rescue him.\n\nA royal statement announced his death soon after his removal from the well.\n\nThe bid to free the boy, Rayan Oram, had gripped the country, with hundreds of people gathered at the well and thousands more following online.\n\nThe boy plunged 32m (104ft) through the well's narrow opening. The rescue had been hampered by fears of a landslide.\n\nRescuers finally brought the boy out of the well on Saturday evening.\n\nNo word had been given at the time about his condition, and the apparent rescue was initially met with cheers from the crowds.\n\nOn social media, people using the hashtag #SaveRayan, which had been trending across the country and around the world, expressed their jubilation.\n\nBut this turned to heartbreak minutes later when the statement came announcing that Rayan had died.\n\nTwitter users then began paying tribute and expressing sadness using the same hashtag.\n\n\"Rayan's courage will stay in our memories and continue to inspire us,\" AC Milan's Algerian midfielder Ismael Bennacer tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ismaël Bennacer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a Facebook post, French President Emmanuel Macron wrote: \"Tonight, I want to tell the family of little Rayan and the Moroccan people that we share their pain.\"\n\nThe statement from Morocco's royal palace described Rayan's death as a \"tragic accident\", adding: \"His Majesty King Mohammed VI called the parents of the boy who died after falling down the well.\"\n\nThe king had expressed his deepest condolences and sincere compassion, it added.\n\nRayan's father was repairing the well at the time of the accident on Tuesday. He told local media the following day that his son had fallen down the shaft at \"that one moment I took my eyes off him\", adding: \"I haven't slept a wink.\"\n\nRayan's parents leaving the scene after their son's body is taken away by ambulance\n\nLed by Morocco's Civil Protection Directorate, rescue operations in the small northern town of Tamorot, around 100km (62 miles) from the city of Chefchaouen, began on Tuesday evening.\n\nFootage on Thursday from a camera lowered into the well showed that the boy was alive and conscious, but there had been no update on his condition since then.\n\nRescuers tried to get oxygen, food and water to the boy but it was unclear whether he was able to use them.\n\nThe mixture of rocky and sandy soils meant rescuers deemed opening the water well's narrow shaft to be too dangerous.\n\nInstead, bulldozers were used to cut a huge trench next to the well.\n\nRescuers then started digging horizontally to reach the boy. Some worked round the clock, using powerful floodlights during the night.\n\nThe operation had to be paused briefly several times to allow crews to check that the hillside was safe from collapsing and that no soil was entering the well. Large pipes were also used to protect rescue teams by providing a secure passage to the shaft.\n\nRescuers dug a huge hole next to the well (front, centre)\n\nHundreds of people gathered to watch the operation, singing religious songs, praying and chanting \"Allahu Akbar (God is greatest)\". Some even camped at the site.\n\nOne local resident, Hafid El-Azzouz, told AFP news agency that he was there to show \"solidarity with this child, who is dear to Morocco and the whole world\".\n\nThe incident is reminiscent of a similar tragedy in Spain in 2019, in which a two-year-old boy died after falling into a borehole near the city of Malaga.", "The Queen will be 96 when the main Jubilee celebrations kick off in June\n\nBuckingham Palace has unveiled the full line-up of celebrations to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee this year.\n\nStreet parties, a concert with some of the world's \"biggest entertainment stars\" and a chance to see the Queen's homes up close are all part of the plan to mark her 70 years on the throne.\n\nIt will culminate in a four-day UK bank holiday weekend from 2 to 5 June.\n\nThe first event begins on Monday, with a competition to invent a new pudding to celebrate the Queen's reign.\n\nFinalists will be judged by an expert panel including Dame Mary Berry and Masterchef's Monica Galetti.\n\nThe winning recipe will be made available to the public and the pudding will be enjoyed at Big Jubilee Lunches during the bank holiday weekend.\n\nOn 6 February the Queen will become the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking a 70-year reign.\n\nA series of celebrations will take place throughout the year.\n\nThe Queen marked 50 years on the throne in 2002, with the Duke of Edinburgh by her side\n\nShe rode in the Golden State Coach as part of the celebrations\n\nAs with the Queen's Golden and Diamond Jubilees, the first week in June has been chosen for the celebratory weekend, with the summer offering a better chance of good weather than February.\n\nTo create the four-day weekend, the late May Spring Bank Holiday will be moved to 2 June and an additional one-off bank holiday on 3 June created.\n\nIt is not clear which events the Queen will attend herself. She was advised by her medical team to rest for several weeks after an overnight hospital stay in October.\n\nThe majority of the jubilee duties will probably be given to the rest of the family, including the heir to the throne, the Prince of Wales, alongside his wife the Duchess of Cornwall.\n\nThis jubilee will be the Queen's first without her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died in April last year.\n\nIt's going to be puddings, parties, parades and pageants, in honour of the platinum jubilee.\n\nThere isn't really a template for celebrating a British monarch's 70-year reign, because it's not happened before.\n\nThe nearest was Queen Victoria's 63 years and elsewhere you have to go back to 18th-Century France and Louis XIV, who reached 72 years.\n\nIn this current bleak mid-Covid winter, the jubilee offers the warming prospect of a four-day bank holiday in June, with concerts, parties and pubs open until 1am.\n\nThe \"platinum pudding\" competition is in the tradition of royal-related dishes like Coronation Chicken, invented for the Queen's coronation in 1953. So expect a lot of trifling puns.\n\nThe celebrations are also a reminder of how much the Queen has been a constant figure. A recent study showed for 85% of the population she's the only monarch they've ever known.\n\nThis will be a marker for memories in many people's lives.\n\nPrince Philip joined the Queen on board the Royal Barge Spirit of Chartwell as part of the celebrations in 2012\n\nThe Queen taking part in a Silver Jubilee walkabout in 1977\n\nDuring the festivities, Sandringham and Balmoral will be open for visitors to enjoy the celebrations across the long weekend in June.\n\nAnd during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, a River Of Hope - made up of 200 silk flags decorated with images of hope drawn by children - will make its way along the Mall in central London.\n\nAs part of the Queen's Green Canopy initiative, some 60,000 trees have already been planted to mark the year, as people have been encouraged to \"plant a tree for the jubilee\".\n\nOn 10 January the Platinum Pudding Competition starts. Members of the public are invited to create a dish to dedicate to the Queen's reign.\n\nFrom 12 to 15 May, more than 500 horses and 1,000 performers will take part in a 90-minute show at Windsor Castle, taking the audience on a journey through history from Elizabeth I to present day.\n\nThe first day of the long weekend is Thursday 2 June and will see Trooping the Colour held in full for the first time since the pandemic. There will be more than 1,400 parading soldiers, 200 horses and 400 musicians taking part. Tickets are available to the public from next week on this site.\n\nAlso that day, Platinum Jubilee beacons will be lit in more than 1,500 locations across the UK, the Channel Islands, Isle of Man and UK Overseas Territories. For the first time, the capital cities of Commonwealth countries will also light beacons.\n\nOn Friday 3 June - the second day of the Bank Holiday weekend - a Service of Thanksgiving for the Queen's reign will be held at St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nOn Saturday 4 June the Queen will be joined by members of the Royal Family at the Derby, held at Epsom Downs. There will also be a Platinum Party at Buckingham Palace, with members of the public invited to apply to attend a live concert. Performers have yet to be named, but it is billed as bringing together some of the world's biggest stars to celebrate the most significant moments from the Queen's seven-decade reign. The ballot for UK residents to secure tickets will be launched in February.\n\nOn Sunday 5 June people across the country will be invited to sit down together to take part in the Big Jubilee Lunch, with street parties held across the UK. That day's events will also include the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, which will feature 5,000 people from the UK and the Commonwealth performing around the area of Buckingham Palace. The palace promises \"pomp and ceremony, street arts, theatre, music, circus, costumes as well as cutting-edge visual technology\".\n\nPrimary and secondary school children are invited to create a picture of their hopes and aspirations for the planet over the next 70 years. A selection of these will be transferred on to silk flags, which will carried by secondary school pupils in the pageant.\n\nIn July, three displays marking the Queen's accession to the throne, the coronation and jubilees will be put on at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse. It will include portraits as well as the jewellery and outfits worn for each occasion.\n\nWhat are your plans for the Jubilee? Or if you have a pudding recipe you'd be willing to share, please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Ricki turned away for just a few seconds and his little sister was taken. She would never be seen again. For five decades he has wrestled with his guilt. Now he has opened up to the BBC's Jon Kay in a new true-crime podcast Fairy Meadow.\n\n\"People tell me it wasn't my fault. I've been told that thousands of times. I know I was only seven years old, but I shouldn't have left her.\"\n\nRicki is walking a personal pilgrimage. His waterproof trousers are splattered with mud and ripped from barbed wire fences. His boots have started to leak and his feet are covered in blisters. But still, he is walking.\n\nHe was planning to hang photos of his little sister onto trees as he walked in her memory, but suddenly the idea is too painful. He puts the black and white pictures back inside his rucksack.\n\n\"I can't leave her out in the cold. I just can't do it. I can't bear the idea of her smiling face being out here. Not in the wind and rain.\"\n\nHe has brought the ribbon-tied bundles more than 16,000km (10,000 miles) - from his home in Melbourne, Australia - to northern Spain. He is trekking 200km through the chilly Cantabrian Mountains along part of the Camino pilgrim route.\n\n\"I'm not a religious person. Not at all. I mean, what kind of religion would allow it to happen? She was only three years old.\"\n\nHearing his accent, other walkers ask why he has come to Europe to hike alone in the depths of winter. It must be summer back home. Wouldn't he rather be on the beach? Ricki's smile becomes a wrinkled frown. Now in his late 50s, he tells them he doesn't like the beach.\n\nCheryl - Ricki's three-year-old sister - vanished in broad daylight from Fairy Meadow beach in New South Wales in early 1970.\n\nFamily snapshot of Cheryl on the beach\n\nThe family had recently arrived in Australia having emigrated from the UK. He was only seven years old at the time, but Ricki has always blamed himself for what happened - because he was looking after Cheryl when she disappeared from the changing rooms at the top of the beach. He turned away for just a few seconds. The police have always been convinced the toddler was abducted, but nobody has ever been convicted.\n\nRicki stops walking for a moment and looks out across the rugged Spanish landscape. \"When I go to my grave, I'll take with me what my eyes have seen and we can share those sights together. I've been talking to her this whole journey - my whole life.\"\n\nA few yards off the main pathway, we come across an ancient stone chapel. Inside, Ricki places his bundle of pictures on the altar next to some candles. He sits in silence for a few minutes, staring at the images of his smiling little sister.\n\nWhen I walked that section of the Camino with Ricki in 2018, he had never really spoken to a journalist before. He had made the occasional appearance at police press conferences asking for information, but had never opened up about what had happened to Cheryl - and the impact on his life. He wanted to talk to me because, suddenly, this cold case seemed to be moving again.\n\nCheryl with one of her brothers by a swimming pool in the sunshine\n\nPolice in Australia had recently found a confession in an old box of evidence. It was made by a teenage boy a year after the toddler disappeared. After a new public appeal, detectives tracked down the \"boy\" - who was now a man in his sixties - and charged him with murder. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nTrekking through Spain was Ricki's way of clearing his head and preparing for the trial. \"I need to know. For Cheryl. For all of us. We need answers.\"\n\nHowever, when Ricki returned to Australia, a judge ruled the confession could not be used as evidence after all. The prosecution was dropped and the former defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, walked free from court.\n\n\"We couldn't believe it. We never knew about the confession,\" Ricki told me after the case collapsed. \"For years, we didn't even know there had been a suspect. Our lives could have been so different. Did we have to go through all this pain and suffering? I don't want any other family to go through what our family has been through. I'm angry. Angry at myself. Angry at the world. Just angry.\"\n\nThe next time I see Ricki in person is in Australia, shortly after the 2019 judgment. He's agreed to work with me on a BBC podcast series about Cheryl's case. We talk about when he first arrived in New South Wales with his family all those years ago.\n\n\"We were all so excited,\" he recalls. \"We'd left cold, wet, England to live in the Aussie sunshine. We couldn't believe our luck. It was a fresh start. A new beginning. A new life.\"\n\nListen to the Fairy Meadow podcast on BBC Sounds\n\nJon Kay tracks down people who were on Fairy Meadow beach when Cheryl Grimmer disappeared - and speaks to detectives on the case in the 1970s and more recently. He investigates possible sightings of the toddler and the bizarre ransom note sent to the family shortly after she vanished.\n\nThe Grimmer family's new home, Fairy Meadow, was an idyllic-sounding beachside community on the outskirts of Wollongong, New South Wales, an hour south of Sydney. They were among more than a million \"Ten Pound Poms\" who headed Down Under after World War Two on the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme. The Australian Government was offering foreign families the opportunity to emigrate for just a tenner, to help build the country's population and economy.\n\nRicki takes me to the beach where he last saw Cheryl. From the car park, he points over to what remains of the old migrant hostel where the Grimmers stayed.\n\nFairy Meadow beach today - the open-air ladies' changing rooms, where Cheryl was last seen, are closest to the camera\n\nA couple of accommodation huts have been preserved by a local history group. \"It was like a huge holiday camp. There were thousands of us - mums, dads and kids from all over the world. A real melting pot. There was entertainment at the weekend, a big canteen to eat in. We spent most of our time outdoors - playing cricket and riding bikes. We couldn't believe our luck.\"\n\nPhotos from those early days show hopeful, happy smiles. Carol and Vince Grimmer had four children. Ricki was the eldest. He was followed by brothers Stephen and Paul. Cheryl was the couple's youngest child. Their only daughter.\n\nCheryl with her father Vince, who got a job in the Australian Army\n\nRicki remembers her constant smile: \"The best way to describe Cheryl was cheeky and cute. She was always cheerful. Our little princess. She was also a rascal.\"\n\nBut, on 12 January 1970, the Grimmers' dreams fell apart.\n\nIt's a boiling hot mid-summer's day. The accommodation huts are stifling and full of bugs. After lunch, Ricki begs his mum to take him and his three younger siblings down to Fairy Meadow beach for a refreshing splash in the sea.\n\nAt around two o'clock in the afternoon, the wind suddenly changes. Locals call it a \"southerly buster\". Sand blows everywhere. Families race to pack up and leave. The children's mum, Carol, tells Ricki to take his brothers and sister up to the changing block at the top of the beach and to wait for her there. It's only a short walk.\n\nThree-year-old Cheryl runs giggling into the ladies' changing rooms. Ricki and his brothers are too embarrassed to follow her. So, after pleading with her to come out, they decide to go back to the beach to get their mum.\n\n\"It happened so fast. It took us about 90 seconds to find mum and bring her up to the shower block,\" Ricki remembers. \"But, by the time we returned, there was no sign of Cheryl. She was there - and then she was gone. It was so quick.\n\n\"My mother looked around and then she started shaking me and shouting, 'Where did you leave her?' It went crazy after that. Everybody started calling out her name. There was panic. Complete chaos.\"\n\nDespite one of the biggest searches in the history of New South Wales - involving thousands of police officers and soldiers - Cheryl was never found.\n\nMore than 50 years later, that single moment still dominates every aspect of Ricki's life: \"Try putting yourself in my shoes. I'm haunted by it. Consumed by it. I can still see her standing there, laughing and smiling. I still see her running up and down the shoreline. Those images will never go away.\"\n\nInitially, I thought this story would make a short news bulletin piece. I had no idea how my investigation would develop into our eight-part Fairy Meadow podcast. I've spent a lot of time listening to Ricki. He has told me how that single moment in his childhood has ruined the rest of his life. Flashbacks and nightmares still torment him. There have been broken marriages, fractured relationships with his kids and times when he has felt unable to carry on.\n\n\"Before they died, I promised my mum and dad I would find Cheryl - or at least find out what happened to her. I will.\"\n\nCarol Grimmer with her three sons (Ricki centre) the day after Cheryl disappeared\n\nAs part of his quest for answers, Ricki has also come back to the UK. Back to the city of Bristol where he and his family lived before they emigrated to Australia. It's also the city where I live and work as a BBC reporter.\n\nHere, in a hotel room, Ricki shows me a leather-bound journal which he keeps in his travel bag. It is filled with drawings and letters which he still writes to his missing sister every day. \"My psychologist said it might help. I tell Cheryl about my life and what the family is up to. I ask her about her life. What she might be doing. I scribble little stick figures - trying to make sense of things. This book goes with me everywhere. Every plane trip. Every holiday. Everywhere. It never leaves my side. If I die, it dies with me.\"\n\nFor Ricki, Bristol is a place where he feels he can maintain his connection with his sister. A place filled with memories from the time before she was taken. He shows me the small terraced house where the Grimmer children were born. He remembers their suitcases floating down the hallway in floodwater just before they headed to the New South Wales sunshine. He shows me the playground where he would push Cheryl on the swing.\n\nRicki's treasured photo of him holding hands with Cheryl\n\nOver the decades, the pain of losing his sister meant Ricki cut himself off. He tried to move on. He tried to forget. He refused to confront his past. But the reopening of the police investigation in 2016, the rediscovery of the confession and the case coming to court forced him to face things and mend some of the relationships he had ignored.\n\nIn a Bristol pub, he meets some of the English cousins he didn't speak to for years. Now close again, they tease him about his choice of Australian Shiraz, rather than local beer. Ricki updates them on his campaign for justice and thanks them for their continued support: \"We can't let this go. We are going to keep fighting. We can never give up.\"\n\nThe disappointments and frustrations of the past few years have at least reunited the Grimmer family on both sides of the world. They hope the New South Wales Government's recent offer of a A$1m reward (£528,000) for information will persuade somebody to come forward.\n\nDriving Ricki from Bristol to Heathrow Airport, to catch a flight back to Australia, he asks me if we can stop at a local cemetery for a few minutes.\n\nThe wooden cross in memory of Cheryl\n\nIn the far corner of this quiet, rural graveyard, beneath some pine trees, he shows me the Grimmer family plot where his grandparents are buried. Then, he tells me to look more closely. A small wooden sign has been nailed onto the headstone by one of his relatives. It says: \"Cheryl Grimmer. Rest in Peace.\"\n\nRicki places some flowers on the grave. The ornamental teddy bear he left here on his last trip to Bristol has faded a little, but it makes him smile.\n\n\"It's nice to have somewhere to come. Somewhere to remember.\"\n\nListen to the Fairy Meadow podcast on BBC Sounds", "The Queen has cut a cake to mark her Platinum Jubilee as she met members of the Sandringham community on the eve of the 70th anniversary of her reign.\n\nAhead of Accession Day, she hosted a reception for volunteer groups, pensioners and fellow members of the local Women's Institute (WI) group.\n\nGuests included a former cookery student who helped create the original Coronation chicken recipe.\n\nThe Queen was described as being on \"sparkling\" form at the reception.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Saturday, The Queen made jokes as she cut a cake at a reception for her Platinum Jubilee\n\nOn Sunday, she will have reigned for 70 years, excluding Accession Day.\n\nIt also marks the day her father George VI died in 1952.\n\nThe event at Sandringham House was the largest in-person public engagement the Queen had attended since a reception at Windsor Castle in October.\n\nThere had been concerns for her health last autumn after she spent a night in hospital and was ordered to rest by royal doctors.\n\nVice-president of the Sandringham WI Yvonne Browne said the Queen, who laughed and joked with guests, was on \"sparkling\" form on Saturday.\n\n\"Seventy years on the throne shows the Queen has been a moving example to absolutely everyone in all walks of life,\" said Ms Browne.\n\n\"She's been a constant, compassionate and stoic, everything that makes a perfect human being, and has a great strength of character and has overcome so many things.\"\n\nThe Queen has been a member of the Sandringham branch of the WI since 1943 and its president since 2003.\n\nThe Queen with Angela Wood, who helped make Coronation chicken for the first time\n\nDuring the reception, the Queen met Angela Wood, who was 19 when she helped create the dish that became known as Coronation chicken - a mix of cold cooked chicken, mayonnaise, curry powder and apricot.\n\nThe recipe, originally known as Poulet Reine Elizabeth - chicken Queen Elizabeth - was developed to mark the coronation in 1953, a year after her reign began.\n\nMrs Wood made the Queen laugh when she told her she spent \"days and days altering it\" for the cooks who created it.\n\nThe Queen, 95, commented that the recipe has likely evolved in the intervening years, saying: \"It's probably changed because in those days we did some things quite differently.\"\n\nJunior sous chef Shaun Mason created a modern take on the dish for Saturday's reception with a Coronation chicken tartlet, which he offered to the Queen and Mrs Wood.\n\nThe Queen caused laughter when she said she would \"go away\" while the former cookery student tried it, adding: \"You can tell me [what you think] when I come back.\"\n\nThe Queen met some younger members of the local community during the event\n\nThe Queen, wearing a pale blue dress with white brocade and carrying her black handbag, cut an iced Victoria Sponge featuring the Platinum Jubilee logo as its decoration at the reception.\n\nWhen Lady Dannatt, Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk, told her the cake had been turned upside down so press photographers could get a good shot, the Queen joked: \"I don't matter?\"\n\n\"I think I might just put a knife in it,\" the Queen said, adding it \"went in beautifully\", but that she would leave it to someone else to finish cutting the cake, baked by a local resident.\n\nShe was also given a posy featuring flowers that formed part of her coronation bouquet, thanking the young girl and saying \"aren't they pretty?\".\n\nThe reception saw the Queen meet Sandringham Estate pensioners and their families as well as representatives from local charities Little Discoverers and West Norfolk Befriending.\n\nLittle Discoverers is an early education provider for pre-school children with movement difficulties and delayed development while the befriending group matches isolated older people with trained volunteers.\n\nThe Queen reminisced with a group of former Sandringham Estate workers about devastating floods in Norfolk in 1953.\n\n\"I remember sitting at dinner, the fire alarm went off - no fire, the sea was coming in,\" she said. \"It's a very nasty experience.\"\n\nThis is a poignant weekend for the Queen, as well as a celebration.\n\nThere is the unprecedented 70th anniversary. But the hereditary principle also means that marking the start of one reign comes at the same time as remembering the demise of another.\n\nSo this has usually been a low-key, reflective moment, under the Norfolk winter skies.\n\nFor the Queen it's the anniversary of the death of her father George VI, a profound influence on her sense of duty.\n\nPhotographs for the accession weekend showed her wearing the jewellery her father gave her for her 18th birthday - and as a reminder of her long life, that was several weeks before the D-Day landings in 1944.\n\nBut the jubilee events at Sandringham are also something of a re-emergence for the Queen after a series of public appearances cancelled in the autumn because of health worries.\n\nIf not a big official event, the reception for local community groups was the nearest thing to meeting the public since October, rather than appearing on screen.\n\nSuch carefully managed appearances could set the pattern for the jubilee year ahead.\n\nSchool children from across West Norfolk made a mosaic to mark the jubilee that was presented to the Queen by Mayor of King's Lynn Harry Humphrey, and music was provided by the Hunstanton Concert Band. They played Congratulations for the Queen as she left the reception.\n\nThe Queen is thought to have been staying in the Duke of Edinburgh's cottage, Wood Farm, while at Sandringham. She said her late husband \"loved it\" because the \"sea was so close\".\n\nNew pictures of the Queen were released this week, showing her looking at memorabilia from previous jubilees\n\nOne of her childhood friends, Lady Glenconner, said the Queen knew she would become a monarch \"from a very young age\" and was given a \"wonderful example\" by her father.\n\nAnne Tennant, who was a maid of honour at the coronation, told Radio 4's Today programme the Queen would probably \"look back very sadly\" on the anniversary of the day she became Queen, as it also marked the death of George VI.\n\nLady Glenconner added he had led by example as he had put his \"duty first\".\n\nEvents to mark the jubilee will be held around the Commonwealth - this one is in Sydney\n\nAn Aboriginal smoking ceremony was held in Sydney to mark the accession\n\nThe Queen is set to become the first British monarch in history to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee.\n\nSunday marks the start of the jubilee celebrations, which will culminate in a four-day UK bank holiday weekend from 2 to 5 June.\n\nThe celebrations will be marked by concerts, street parties and a Platinum Jubilee Pageant, with the private estates of Sandringham and Balmoral open to visitors across the long weekend in June.\n\nThe Queen flew to Sandringham at the end of January, a month after cancelling her traditional Christmas plans at her Norfolk estate due to the rapid spread of Omicron. Normally her winter break ends some time after accession day.", "The government has faced intense pressure over gatherings held in and around Downing Street during Covid lockdowns. A police investigation into several of the events has now concluded, with more than 100 fines having been issued to attendees. Here is what we know about the gatherings and the restrictions in place at the time:\n\nA photo from May 2020 showed the prime minister and his staff with bottles of wine and a cheeseboard in the Downing Street garden. When asked about it, Boris Johnson said \"those people were at work talking about work\". Boris Johnson was pictured with his wife Carrie as well as Downing Street staff Legal restrictions at the time said you could not leave your house without a reasonable excuse and government guidance was that you could meet one person outside of your household in an outdoor setting while exercising. This event was not investigated by the police. About 100 people were invited by email to \"socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden this evening\". Witnesses told the BBC the PM and his wife were among about 30 people who attended. Boris Johnson apologised to MPs for attending the event, saying he spent 25 minutes thanking staff, before returning to his office. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering took place in the Cabinet Office to mark the departure of a No 10 private secretary. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least one fine has been issued after the government's former head of ethics admitted receiving one and apologised for attending the event. On Boris Johnson’s birthday, up to 30 people gathered in the Cabinet Room at No 10 to present the prime minister with a birthday cake and sing Happy Birthday, according to a report by ITV News. No 10 said staff had \"gathered briefly\" to \"wish the prime minister a happy birthday\", adding that he had been there \"for less than 10 minutes\". Restrictions at the time banned most indoor gatherings involving more than two people. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. We know at least three attendees have received fines from the police, with the PM, his wife Carrie Symonds and Chancellor Rishi Sunak all confirming they have paid fixed penalty notices. Two gatherings are understood to have taken place in Downing Street on this date: one to mark the departure of a special adviser and one in the Downing Street flat. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the gathering in the flat where Mr Johnson and his wife live was to celebrate the departure of Dominic Cummings, the PM's former senior adviser. A spokesman for Mrs Johnson denies the party took place. Boris Johnson pictured at a party, according to ITV News Eight days earlier Boris Johnson had announced a new lockdown in England. Indoor gatherings with other households were banned, unless they were for work purposes. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. A leaving event was held for No 10 aide, Cleo Watson, where people were drinking, and Mr Johnson made a speech, according to sources. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Education has confirmed it had an office gathering to thank staff for their work during the pandemic. It says drinks and snacks were brought by those who attended and no outside guests or support staff were invited. Eight days earlier, London had been placed in restrictions which banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Conservative Party has admitted that an \"unauthorised gathering\" took place at its HQ in Westminster. It was held by the team of the party's London-mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey, who has since stepped down as chair of the London Assembly police and crime committee. In December, police said they would be contacting two people who attended the party. The gathering at the Conservative Party headquarters was described as ‘raucous’ This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. Multiple sources have told the BBC there was a Christmas quiz for No 10 staff last year. A photo - published by the Sunday Mirror - shows Boris Johnson taking part and sitting between two colleagues in No 10. Mr Johnson has denied any wrongdoing. Mr Johnson was pictured in the No 10 library under a portrait of Margaret Thatcher The rules: At this time, the rules in London banned two or more people from different households from meeting indoors, unless \"reasonably necessary\" for work purposes. This event was not investigated by the police. The Department for Transport has apologised after confirming reports of a party in its offices, calling it \"inappropriate\" and an \"error of judgment\" by staff. This event was not included in Sue Gray's report. A leaving party was held at the Cabinet Office for the outgoing head of the civil service Covid taskforce - the team responsible for drawing up coronavirus restrictions. Kate Josephs, now chief executive of Sheffield City Council, apologised for the event, saying she was \"truly sorry that I did this and for the anger that people will feel as a result\". A second gathering was held in the Cabinet Office to hold an online Christmas quiz for the Cabinet Secretary’s private office. A third gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of a No 10 official The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or all of the events. Downing Street originally denied a report by the Daily Mirror that a party took place in Downing Street on this date. However, a video obtained by ITV News showed the prime minister's then-press secretary Allegra Stratton joking about reports of the event, saying: \"This fictional party was a business meeting and it was not socially distanced.\" The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. A gathering was held in No 10 Downing Street to mark the departure of two private secretaries. The police investigation determined that this event did breach the rules in place at the time. Two parties were held by Downing Street staff at No 10, the night before Prince Philip's funeral. One of the events was a leaving party for the PM's then director of communications James Slack, who has apologised for the event and acknowledged it \"should not have happened at the time that it did\". Boris Johnson was not at either party. The rules had been eased in England on 12 April, but working from home continued to be recommended and socialising indoors with people from other households was not allowed. Meeting others outdoors was limited to groups of six people or two households. The police investigation determined that an event on this date did breach the rules in place at the time but they have not confirmed whether it was one or both of the events. We know fines have been issued to some people who attended Mr Slack’s leaving party, but we do not know who they were issued to.", "The Queen has cut a cake to mark her Platinum Jubilee as she met members of the Sandringham community on the eve of the 70th anniversary of her reign.\n\nAhead of Accession Day, she hosted a reception for volunteer groups, pensioners and fellow members of the local Women's Institute group.\n\nWatch as the monarch makes a joke to members of the press.", "Barnaby Joyce said he had \"unreservedly apologised\" to the prime minister\n\nAustralia's Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has said he offered to quit after calling the prime minister \"a hypocrite and a liar\" in a text.\n\nMr Joyce apologised after learning that the message - sent last year and passed to a former staffer of Scott Morrison's Liberal Party - was being made public.\n\nThe text was dated 22 March, before Mr Joyce took on his current role.\n\nRejecting his resignation, Mr Morrison said: \"We all have our frailties and none of us are perfect.\"\n\nMr Joyce, 54, told reporters on Saturday: \"I want to apologise to the prime minister... I should have never written the text that I did.\n\n\"My view from the backbench about the prime minister was based on assumptions and commentary, not from a one-on-one working relationship.\"\n\nIn a screenshot of the text message, which was leaked earlier this week, Mr Joyce describes Mr Morrison as \"a hypocrite and a liar from my observations, and that is over a long time\", adding: \"I dislike how he earnestly rearranges the truth to a lie.\"\n\nHe further says he \"never trusted\" and did not \"get along\" with Mr Morrison.\n\nIt was sent by a third party to Brittany Higgins, a former political adviser who worked for Mr Morrison's Liberal Party.\n\nMs Higgins had spoken out about her alleged rape in parliament in 2019 in a case that sparked anger over a culture of sexism and misogyny in Australian politics.\n\nMr Morrison said he had \"immediately accepted\" Mr Joyce's apology, and that he understood \"relationships change over time\".\n\nIt is not the first time Mr Joyce, one of Australia's many colourful political figures, has been caught up in controversy.\n\nIn 2018, he resigned as leader of the Nationals, the junior government partner, following a politically damaging saga that began with his affair with a former staffer.\n\nMr Joyce made headlines in 2015 after he spoke about the Australian government's quarantining and seeking the removal - or possible extermination - of pet dogs brought to Australia by Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.", "Carr introduced part of his routine as being \"a career ender\"\n\nComedian Jimmy Carr has sparked outrage for a routine about the Holocaust in his latest Netflix stand-up special.\n\nCarr has been described as \"truly disturbing\" for making light of the murders of hundreds of thousands of people from Europe's traveller communities during World War Two.\n\nThe Holocaust Memorial Day Trust said it was \"absolutely appalled\".\n\nNetflix, which has been urged to remove the special, declined to comment. Carr has also not commented.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries said the comments were \"abhorrent and they just shouldn't be on television\".\n\nCarr's programme, titled His Dark Material, was released on the streaming platform on Christmas Day but the clip about the Holocaust came to light more widely when it was shared on social media.\n\nThe comedian, who introduced his show as being \"a career ender\" and warned it contained \"terrible things\", said a \"positive\" of the Holocaust was that thousands of Gypsies were murdered.\n\nThe comments were greeted with applause and laughter from the audience.\n\nBetween 200,000 and 500,000 Roma and Sinti people were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators, according to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.\n\nThe charity's chief executive Olivia Marks-Woldman said: \"We are absolutely appalled at Jimmy Carr's comment about persecution suffered by Roma and Sinti people under Nazi oppression, and horrified that gales of laughter followed his remarks.\n\n\"Hundreds of thousands of Roma and Sinti people suffered prejudice, slave labour, sterilisation and mass murder simply because of their identity - these are not experiences for mockery.\"\n\nMs Dorries suggested the government could legislate to stop comedy people find offensive being shown on streaming platforms. \"We're already looking at future legislation to bring into scope those sort of comments,\" she told the BBC.\n\nAsked about a previous Tweet where she said \"left-wing snowflakes are killing comedy\", Ms Dorries replied: \"Well, that's not comedy.\"\n\nAnti-racism campaign group Hope Not Hate said Carr \"celebrates\" the suffering of the Roma and Sinti people, and called on Netflix to \"take action\".\n\nThe Traveller Movement - a charity supporting the traveller community in the UK - also asked Netflix to remove the one-hour special. It said the segment in question was \"truly disturbing and goes way beyond humour\".\n\nIt added: \"Joking about the genocide of an ethnic minority is not funny.\"\n\nFellow comedian David Baddiel tweeted that Holocaust jokes can be \"cruel and inhumane and mean-spirited and racist\" or they can target oppressors and draw attention to its fundamental evil - saying: \"Clearly, Jimmy Carr's was the former.\"\n\nThe Auschwitz Memorial called for Carr to learn about the Roma and Sinti people deported to the concentration camp, adding on Twitter: \"It's sad to hear words that can fuel prejudice, hurt people & defile memory of their tragedy.\"\n\nSNP MP Martin Docherty-Hughes, who is co-chairman of the House of Commons All Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, wrote on Twitter that he was \"utterly speechless at this disregard for the horror of the holocaust\" and its impact on the Gypsy community of Europe.\n\nHe added: \"A community butchered by the Nazi regime. @NetflixUK care to comment?\"", "Aaron Bell said those making the laws \"needed to follow them to the letter\"\n\nTory MP Aaron Bell, who criticised Boris Johnson in Parliament over lockdown parties, says he has submitted a letter of no confidence in the PM.\n\nMr Bell made an emotional speech in the Commons on Monday.\n\nDuring that, he compared the restrictions on his grandmother's funeral in May 2020 with some of the revelations from Sue Gray's report.\n\nShe investigated 16 separate gatherings, some of which \"should not have been allowed to take place\".\n\nThese include the 20 May 2020 \"bring your own booze\" event in the Downing Street garden, which Mr Johnson has apologised for attending.\n\nPosting on Twitter, Mr Bell, MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, said the \"breach of trust\" over the No 10 rule breaking and how it had been handled made the PM's position \"untenable\".\n\nThe BBC is aware of 17 Conservative MPs who have submitted no confidence letters.\n\nAt least 54 MPs are required to write to Sir Graham Brady to trigger a vote on the PM's leadership of the party.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aaron Bell MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany of those 17 have cited the PM's participation in parties with staff in No 10 during lockdowns as their motivation to challenge Mr Johnson.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has also launched an investigation into 12 of the parties and a full report by Ms Gray is expected to be published afterwards.\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman denied he had lost control of Downing Street after a string of close aids quit their jobs.\n\nOn Monday Aaron Bell asked the Prime Minister if he had been a \"fool\" for following the rules when attending his grandmother's funeral during the first Covid lockdown.\n\nHis anger at the prime minister was clear for all to see, and so today's letter cannot be too much of a surprise. Indeed talking to him privately over the last few weeks he's been on the cusp of this many times.\n\nWhat's important to remember, I think, is that Aaron Bell is not one of the old guard, he's not a disgruntled former minister who held his nose when Boris Johnson was elected leader.\n\nThe Newcastle-under-Lyme MP supported Brexit, backed Boris, and won in a red wall seat in 2019.\n\nWhilst not everyone in his local party agrees - indeed some of his nearest neighbours in Stoke-on-Trent are some of the PM's staunchest supporters - it is significant that after taking soundings from his local association and knocking on doors in the constituency this morning he felt the time was now right to go public.\n\nMr Bell said he had made the decision to submit the letter to Sir Graham after speaking to local councillors and council candidates.\n\n\"As someone who backed Brexit and backed Boris Johnson for the leadership in 2019, I am profoundly disappointed that it has come to this,\" he said.\n\nAddressing Mr Johnson in the House of Commons earlier this week Mr Bell asked Boris Johnson if he \"took him for a fool\" for abiding by lockdown rules during his grandmother's funeral.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aaron Bell, who has now submitted a no confidence letter in Boris Johnson, asked the PM on Monday if he considered him a \"fool\".\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Mr Bell said he wanted to register his \"disgust\" at what had been going on at No 10.\n\n\"The reason I didn't go to my nan's house for a cup of tea after was because I felt that those of us who voted for those laws needed to follow them to the letter.\"\n\nHe added he \"was standing up for people, people who had much worse experiences\" and because \"the people who make the rules aren't obeying them\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Two people have been taken to hospital after a single-car crash closed a section of the M80 in central Scotland.\n\nPolice said a male driver and a female passenger were injured, the man critically, when their white Mitsubishi pick-up crashed at about 13:30.\n\nThe motorway was shut northbound from junctions 5, Cumbernauld, until after junction 7, Haggs.\n\nOfficers said it was likely to remain closed for several hours for investigation work.\n\nThe M80 northbound remained closed from J5, Cumbernauld, into Saturday evening while officers carried out investigations.\n\nThe 52-year-old male driver of the white Mitsubishi L200 pick-up and his female passenger, 47, were taken by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.\n\nThe man suffered a serious head injury. Medical staff described his condition as critical. The woman is not believed to be seriously injured, Police Scotland said.\n\nAcross Scotland, high winds and heavy rain resulted in difficult driving conditions.\n\nFlooding on the Kingston Bridge in Glasgow led to a lane closure for a period and resulted in significant delays.\n\nThe Met Office issued a yellow warning for possible snow showers across much of central and north west Scotland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkrainian forces say they have repelled an attack on the country's second city Kharkiv after fierce clashes with Russian forces.\n\nRegional governor Oleh Synehubov said the city was now rid of Russian troops - after street-to-street fighting.\n\nThousands spent the night in basements and shelters, with intense shelling described by one resident as \"something like Star Wars above your head\".\n\n\"The wave of the blast was so strong that my ears popped,\" another said.\n\nA nine-storey residential tower was hit, emergency services said, killing an elderly woman while about 60 people survived after hiding in the basement.\n\nRussian troops also blew up a natural gas pipeline nearby, according to a Ukrainian state communications agency.\n\nKharkiv residents who spoke to the BBC told of their fear and apprehension as the attack raged on, as well as their pride in Ukrainian forces and reservists in holding back Russian troops.\n\nJust before an explosion in the Saltivka district, one woman said her neighbour was instructing their young children on what to do in the event of a blast.\n\n\"Listening to this was horrific, my hairs were standing on end at the thought that three-year-old children were having to be taught what to do during shelling,\" she said.\n\n\"Throughout the night one young girl kept waking up her mum. She'd sit up crying screaming: 'Mom, I'm scared, please save me, save me now.'\n\n\"She only calmed down by the morning after her mum had sat holding her all through the night.\"\n\nThe 34-year-old, who requested anonymity, added: \"Right now, the offensive against the city is still going on. I hear the blasts all the time - even though I know Kharkiv is controlled by Ukraine, 100%.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian military repelled Russian forces, with light vehicles destroyed in some parts of the city\n\nFor university professor Dmitry Shabanov, the fighting came uncomfortably close.\n\n\"Tanks were fighting only a few kilometres from our home, and the operation to counter some saboteurs that entered Kharkiv was just next to our yard,\" he said.\n\n\"We are staying in our house with a cellar, it's my wife and me, two sons who are seven and 11 years old, and my 80-year-old mum. We keep the boys in the cellar most of the time,\" he added.\n\nMaria Avdeev, another resident, said groups of Russian troops were eliminated \"one by one\" by the Ukrainian military.\n\n\"Also, a number of Russian soldiers and officers were captured, so they did not basically fight back, when they saw that they had no other option,\" she said.\n\nOleksii Svid, 30, managed to travel to buy food for his family and his pets, Kuzya the cat and Larry the dog, on Saturday but found supplies were running low.\n\nNonetheless, he said many local people remained resilient - with talk about how to prevent Russian troops from entering the city and ways to help the Ukrainian army.\n\n\"The main issue right now it to gain access to the food, as most shops don't have a way to refill stock of sugar, flour, dairy, and meat,\" he said. \"There's also a shortage of fuel in gas stations in the city.\"\n\nThe BBC has verified a video on the Telegram messaging platform which shows Russian trucks driving into Kharkiv early on Sunday.\n\nAnother video verified by the BBC showed a group of Ukrainian soldiers taking cover behind a wall, while one launched a shoulder-fired missile.\n\nIn the north-eastern city of Okhtyrka, 100km (60 miles) from Kharkiv, the local governor said at least six Ukrainians - including a seven-year-old girl - had died as a result of a Russian attack on Friday.\n\nA kindergarten and an orphanage were among the buildings reportedly hit, which Russia has denied.\n\nThe full extent of casualties in Ukraine is very hard to confirm. The country's human rights commissioner says 210 civilians have been killed.\n\nSo far the United Nations has recorded 64 confirmed civilian deaths and many more wounded, and says it expects the true number to be much higher.\n\nMilitary deaths are also very hard to verify. The UN said by Saturday at least 134 Ukrainian military had been killed. Russia conceded on Sunday that it has suffered losses, but has not released a figure. Ukraine says 4,300 Russian servicemen have so far died.\n\nIn other developments, as the Russian invasion neared the end of its fourth day:\n\nWhat questions do you have about the Russian invasion of Ukraine?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Last updated on .From the section Leeds United\n\nHead coach Marcelo Bielsa has been sacked by Leeds United after a run of poor form that saw his side suffer several heavy defeats.\n\nThe 66-year-old Argentine, appointed in June 2018, leaves with the Whites two points above the relegation zone.\n\nFormer RB Leipzig coach Jesse Marsch is the overwhelming favourite to replace him.\n\nUnder Bielsa, Leeds finished ninth last season on their return to the Premier League after a 16-year absence.\n\nBut Saturday's 4-0 defeat by Tottenham meant they had lost their past four games by an aggregate score of 17-2.\n\n\"This has been the toughest decision I have had to make during my tenure at Leeds United, taking into account all the success Marcelo has had at the club,\" said Leeds United chairman Andrea Radrizzani.\n\n\"With Marcelo as our head coach, we had three incredible campaigns and the good times returned to Elland Road. He changed the culture of the club and brought a winning mentality to us all.\"\n\nLeeds had finished mid-table in the Championship in six of the previous seven seasons before Bielsa's arrival.\n\nAfter they lost in the play-offs to Derby in the 2018-19 season, Bielsa's team was promoted as champions in July 2020 when the following season restarted after the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nRadrizzani added: \"I have to act in the best interest of the club and I believe a change is required now in order to secure our Premier League status. Recent results and performances have not met our expectations.\n\n\"We find ourselves in a precarious league position and I feel now is the right time to bring in a new head coach, in order to have an impact in the decisive stage of the season.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Kalvin Phillips, who became an England international under Bielsa's guidance, thanked the former Argentina, Chile and Athletic Bilbao coach for transforming his career.\n\n\"You saw in me what I didn't even see in myself,\" said Phillips.\n\nMany other Leeds players expressed their gratitude to Bielsa on social media, with striker Patrick Bamford - who also made his England debut last season - saying Bielsa \"changed everything for everyone\".\n\nMarsch is the overwhelming favourite to replace Bielsa.\n\nOn Sunday night the Elland Road club were remaining tight-lipped over the announcement of Bielsa's replacement, which they have said will take place on Monday.\n\nHowever, Marsch has been on Leeds' radar for some time, in the belief he would be a strong candidate to take over from Bielsa at the end of the season.\n\nThat timescale has changed dramatically over the past few weeks as results have sent Leeds' campaign into a tailspin, culminating in Bielsa's dismissal.\n\nThe 48-year-old American, who has also coached New York Red Bulls and Red Bull Salzburg, left the German club in December after a five-month spell ended by mutual consent.\n\nWhile preserving their top-flight status is the overwhelming priority, Leeds want someone who will work within the structure so painstakingly put in place around Bielsa. Marsch is seen as someone who fits that criteria.\n\nOther candidates have been mentioned, including former Barcelona manager Ernesto Valverde and Huddersfield boss Carlos Corberan, a former Leeds coach who has guided the Terriers into third spot in the Championship.\n\nHowever, it would be a major surprise if Marsch was overlooked for the role, given he also qualifies for a work permit under new regulations as he has spent three of the past five years working in 'top leagues', which Major League Soccer and both the Austrian and German top flights are listed as.\n\nHow did Bielsa's fortunes turn this season?\n\nBefore Saturday's match against Spurs, Bielsa said he was \"very worried\" about Leeds' form, having lost four of their five Premier League games before the visit of Antonio Conte's side.\n\nThe team's defensive deficiencies were clear again as Spurs scored three goals in the opening 27 minutes, creating more opportunities before adding a late fourth.\n\nThat loss came on the back of a 3-0 defeat at relegation rivals Everton, a 4-2 home loss to Manchester United and a 6-0 thrashing at Liverpool.\n\nBielsa - who has previously been called the \"best coach in the world\" by both Pep Guardiola and Mauricio Pochettino - oversaw just five league wins in 26 games this season.\n\nLong-term injuries to key players - influential midfielder Phillips, captain Liam Cooper and top-scorer Bamford - were detrimental.\n\nDespite Leeds having conceded the most goals in the Premier League this term, Bielsa had said that playing with a more defensive approach was \"not an option\".\n\nDefeat by Spurs was Leeds' third consecutive home loss, and also means they have lost all nine league matches this season against the established 'big six' clubs by an aggregate score of 34-7.\n\n* Includes only bosses who managed more than 50 games\n\nIt was never meant to end like this.\n\nMarcelo Bielsa, the romantic who restored Leeds United to the Premier League playing the purest of football, has the saddest of farewells.\n\nHis legacy will shine far beyond the scenes of some of his staff in tears in the stand and the club in peril of relegation after a fourth consecutive defeat.\n\nMake no mistake, despite the calls for his departure in some quarters, the Argentine leaving Leeds will feel like a devastating blow for the majority of the supporters.\n\nWithout his ever having wanted to be the focus of attention, his humility, philosophy and ability immediately endeared him to the fanbase and put him at the epicentre of a beautiful revolution.\n\nThat change began in earnest in the pre-season of 2018, by the end of which he had revitalised a squad who put newly relegated Stoke City to the sword in his first competitive fixture.\n\n'Bielsa-ball' was born and the players, stands and city were bouncing. Early in that first campaign I recall supporters applauding Bielsa at the services on the way home from a 3-0 win over Norwich. They were smitten already. His ability to convince his charges of his methods was swift too.\n\nGetting them to go again and secure promotion after the heartbreak of play-off semi-final defeat is testament to his extraordinary coaching.\n• None Our coverage of Leeds United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Leeds - go straight to all the best content", "Ukrainian forces have offered strong resistance to the Russians, say the UK and US\n\nThe mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, has ordered citizens to stay indoors until Monday morning as Russian forces close in on the city.\n\nA curfew imposed at 15:00 GMT on Saturday is to stay in force until 06:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nAll those venturing out \"will be considered members of sabotage groups of the enemy\", authorities warned.\n\nThe UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) also said that Russian saboteurs were thought to be in Kyiv.\n\nThe latest developments came on the third day of the Russian assault on Ukraine, as Russian forces continued to bombard the capital and other cities with artillery and missiles.\n\nHowever, Western intelligence sources pointed to evidence that the invaders were not making as much progress as they had expected.\n\n\"The speed of the Russian advance has temporarily slowed, likely as a result of acute logistical difficulties and strong Ukrainian resistance,\" the MoD said in a tweet.\n\n\"Russian forces are bypassing major Ukrainian population centres while leaving forces to encircle and isolate them.\n\n\"Overnight clashes in Kyiv are likely to have involved limited numbers of pre-positioned Russian sabotage groups.\"\n\nThe capture of Kyiv remained Russia's main objective, the ministry added.\n\nAccording to US sources, Russia has so far fired more than 250 missiles, mostly short-range, at Ukrainian targets, some of which have hit civilian infrastructure.\n\nEarly on Saturday, an apartment building in Kyiv was struck by a missile, leaving a hole covering at least five floors. It is thought that most of the occupants were in shelters.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had been fighting Russian troops in Kyiv, as well as Odesa in the south and Kharkiv in the north-east, but the capital was still in Ukrainian hands.\n\n\"The occupiers wanted to block the centre of our state,\" the president said. \"We broke their plan.\"\n\nWestern analysts estimate that Russia's initial assault involved about half of the more than 150,000 troops it had massed on the border in the run-up to the invasion.\n\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale says Russia has also not used its artillery and air strikes as intensively as expected.\n\nHowever, our correspondent adds that it is normal for militaries to keep reserves as they adjust plans. Russia may need them for later phases of the invasion, he says.", "Excluding Russian banks from Swift and the Russian central bank from international operations has, up until now, been considered a last resort.\n\nShutting it out of Swift, the international payment system, creates potentially substantial collateral damage for companies and financial institutions owed money - either now or in longer term financial contracts - by Russian counterparties.\n\nIn 2018, America managed to force Swift to ditch Iranian banks but even that was a far smaller economy and was opposed at the time by most European governments.\n\nGermany is particularly sensitive as it has relies on Russia for two thirds of its gas supply. It also feels it has already \"taken one for the team\" by suspending the certification of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, built to transport gas from Russia to Germany.\n\nAuthorities in US, Europe and the UK appear to have agreed a way to minimise these vulnerabilities by excluding the banks least involved in energy transactions or finding a way of filtering transactions to allow through energy and food payments.\n\nThe details of how they will do this have not been disclosed.\n\nAlthough it would be very disruptive to Russia, there is an alternative system called SPFS - or System for Transfer of Financial Messages - that Russia set up after Crimea in 2014.\n\nChina also has a secondary system called the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System or CIPS.\n\nMany have thought that expelling Russia might push it closer to China and play into the hands of a Xi administration keen to undermine the dominance of the global US dollar-based financial architecture. This would accelerate that trend and/or ambition.\n\nHaving said that, one banking contact told me that China might be unwilling at this stage to help Russia given its import-export relationship with the rest of the world is enormous - unlike Russia's.\n\nPerhaps even more damaging to Russia than shutting it out of Swift is a move to isolate Russia's central bank. Preventing it from using its $630bn international dollar reserves to support the rouble could see its value collapse with dire consequences for the Russian economy.\n\nWhat seems clear is that the UK government has acknowledged it can no longer be seen to be soft pedalling on its approach to Russian financial interests in the UK.\n\nThe government recently turned down an application to build an electricity pipeline between Northern France and the UK on the basis that other alternatives had not been fully explored but sources close to the process told the BBC that the escalating situation in Ukraine had a bearing on the decision given the project was backed by one Ukrainian and one Russian born backer. This decision is now the subject of a legal challenge.\n\nHMRC is also being encouraged to make the most of its powers to seize assets of individuals which fail Unexplained Wealth Orders.\n\nRoman Abramovich's decision to transfer \"stewardship\" of Chelsea FC to a charitable foundation is more symbolic than legally significant but it shows he understands which way the wind is now blowing in the UK.\n\nThis story was updated on 15 March to add that there has been a legal challenge to the government's decision to turn down an application to build an electricity pipeline.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn the day Vladimir Putin ordered his soldiers into Ukraine, Arina had planned a dance class after work and then a party. Three days later, the English teacher was making Molotov cocktails in a park.\n\nI found her crouching on the grass with dozens of other women, grating polystyrene chunks as if they were cheese and ripping sheets into rags for homemade bottle-bombs.\n\nSuch scenes are unimaginable to most in Europe. They were unthinkable here too, once.\n\nBut Dnipro is now preparing to defend itself against advancing Russian troops.\n\n\"No-one thought this is how we'd spend our weekend, but it seems like the only important thing to do now,\" Arina told me, the young teacher's face and hair sprinkled in white dust from the polystyrene.\n\n\"It's pretty terrifying. I think we don't really realise what it is we're doing; we just need to be doing something,\" she said.\n\nA few metres away, Elena and Yulia told me they'd left their children with grandparents in order to come and help make these weapons.\n\n\"Sitting home doing nothing would be even scarier,\" Elena said, not pausing her grating even for a second.\n\nShe laughs that she's a good cook and this process is not so different.\n\n\"I can't believe this is happening to us, but what choice do we have? No-one consulted us on anything,\" Elena said.\n\nEnglish teacher Arina is now spending her weekend making Molotov cocktails in a park\n\nIt feels like this whole city has been jolted into action.\n\nThe steps of a nearby hall are heaped with donated clothes, blankets and buckwheat. A stream of people keep arriving with more - including petrol, water and toiletries - as volunteers yell instructions on where to take it all.\n\nThe supplies are for Ukrainian fighters, as well as anyone forced to flee to Dnipro from fighting elsewhere.\n\nBut it's also a stockpile for if the strategic city comes under siege itself.\n\nThe giant effort was launched by five women and a handful of social media posts.\n\nNow, dozens of people are coordinating a major aid effort that looks chaotic but is anything of the sort.\n\nThere's a whole separate area for those who want to get a weapon and sign up to fight; that queue stretches far off into the distance.\n\n\"The official organisations couldn't cope, so we created this centre,\" Katerina Leonova told me, her phone unglued from her ear for a brief moment.\n\n\"Does [Putin] really believe he can take over Ukraine, and make Russia out of Ukraine? We are not scared here. We are angry,\" she said.\n\nDonations for the city's war effort - including petrol, water and toiletries - and the volunteers who are coordinating it all\n\nDnipro has already felt the cost of this war.\n\nAll 400 beds at the military hospital are full and staff are now receiving hundreds of casualties every day. They've set up camp beds in the corridors to cope with the influx.\n\n\"We're at a peak, I think. There's fighting on all sides of us,\" hospital spokesman Sergei Bachinsky told me, his voice quietly urgent.\n\n\"Before, we used to know exactly where the clashes were taking place and could prepare to receive the injured even before they were evacuated to us. Now, the flow is constant.\"\n\nThe military can't use helicopters - Russian forces will shoot them down. By road, it takes much longer to reach urgent care.\n\nBut Sergei insisted that morale was high, even among the injured.\n\n\"Even men with burns or concussion want to go back to their units to carry on the fight,\" he said.\n\nAs we spoke, two buses pulled out of the hospital gates full of soldiers. The walking wounded were being transferred to facilities elsewhere in Ukraine, freeing up beds closer to the front lines.\n\nThere's no shortage of supplies for them. People bring bags of medicines, syringes and bandages to the hospital, non-stop. I saw one man handing over an old set of crutches. Nothing was refused.\n\nDnipro is coping. A whole city is rallying round. But the pressure on everyone is increasing.", "The NS Champion is expected at Flotta oil terminal on Tuesday\n\nRussian ships could have their access to UK ports restricted, under plans being considered at Westminster.\n\nIt follows concerns that a Russian-owned tanker is due at an Orkney oil terminal within days.\n\nOrkney Islands Council has said it is powerless to prevent the NS Champion accessing Flotta oil terminal, despite growing anger on the islands.\n\nThe tanker is owned by Sovcomflot (SCF Group), a large shipping company majority-owned by the Russian state.\n\nIt is due at Flotta to collect crude oil on Tuesday.\n\nThe prime minister has been urged to take action to deny Russian-owned vessels access to all UK ports.\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"We are aware of concerns about Russian-connected ships potentially docking in the UK and we are working rapidly to explore a range of measures to restrict access for them.\n\n\"We are already discussing this issue with the Scottish government and the sanctions being considered are part of a wider package being worked up across the UK government.\"\n\nRussia has been subject to a series of increasingly severe sanctions since invading Ukraine, including a ban on its planes in EU and UK airspace.\n\nSovcomflot is also currently subject to US sanctions limiting its ability to raise money through the US markets.\n\nHowever Orkney Islands Council, which is responsible for the islands' ports and harbours, said it had been advised by the UK government that the tanker was not covered by current UK sanctions.\n\n\"As a council we are in an extremely difficult position,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We recognise the strength of feeling around this - feelings that we share - but we are bound by our legal obligations to accept the vessel, until such a time as the UK government tells us otherwise.\"\n\nAt an anti-war demonstration in Orkney on Saturday, locals voiced their anger about the oil tanker\n\nAngus Robertson, Scotland's cabinet secretary for external affairs, told BBC Scotland's Sunday Show: \"The UK authorities have got a big decision to take, on whether we are going to allow Russian-owned or charted vessels to dock in UK ports.\n\n\"The Scottish government is in discussions with the UK authorities about this particular case but there will be others.\n\n\"This is a very fast moving situation and we're going to have to act decisively in my view.\"\n\nAt a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Orkney on Saturday, demonstrators spoke of their anger over the Russian tanker plans.\n\nNataliia Kuzmina, a Ukrainian living in Orkney, said her parents will not leave Ukraine. Her 56-year-old father has volunteered to join the fight to defend his town - but they don't have any weapons.\n\nShe said she was disgusted that the oil tanker was due to arrive in the islands.\n\n\"I feel that we have to do something about it,\" she added.\n\n\"This is a very real way for Orcadians to play their role in this whole situation and to show that they support Ukraine in this way.\n\n\"Every little thing matters now. Hundreds of people around Europe will do some small act like this, stopping buying Russian products, stopping tankers being filled up with oil.\n\n\"It matters and I feel it's my duty to turn away this tanker from Scapa Flow.\"\n\nOrkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael has written to Boris Johnson urging him to take action.\n\n\"Like right thinking people across the United Kingdom, the people of Orkney have been sickened by what we have seen on our television screens of the Russian attack on Ukraine,\" he wrote.\n\n\"We expect you, as our prime minister, to act to stop this continued trade that is earning money to fund the slaughter of Ukrainian citizens.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is imperative... that you should act without delay to ensure that Sovcomflot is sanctioned and denied access for their vessels to British ports.\"\n\nThe NS Champion is due at the Flotta oil terminal on Tuesday\n\nScapa Flow played a key role during World War Two, and it is where 835 men and boys drowned when the Royal Oak was torpedoed by a German U-boat.\n\nMr Carmichael said: \"To allow Sovcomflot to operate without let or hindrance in Scapa Flow would be to dishonour the memory of the sacrifice that the crew of the Royal Oak made in their fight against fascism of the sort that is currently engaged in attacking the people of Ukraine.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Repsol Sinopec, which operates the Flotta oil terminal said the NS Champion was due to arrive on Tuesday.\n\n\"We are liaising with regulatory authorities regarding the appropriate provision of access to facilities,\" she added.\n\nSovcomflot has been approached for a comment.", "Ukraine has been handing out weapons to civilians to defend Kyiv\n\nThe man tightly clutching a rifle at one roadblock could easily have been in his early 60s.\n\nWe saw other men, in jeans and trainers, taking up position: the luxury of camouflage protection not possible in this moment of crisis.\n\nAs we ventured out into the streets of Kyiv on Friday, we encountered these men and others who had answered the call to defend their nation.\n\nWe found a tractor and a delivery truck parked at strategic angles to block the path of any incoming attacker.\n\nIn other cities, steelworkers are reported to have welded new obstructions into place: forging their own defences.\n\nAnd workers in a sewing factory who normally stitch uniforms have been making sandbags.\n\nAcross the country, patriotic Ukrainians are weaving their own narrative and hoping their collective effort will count for something in the face of Moscow's military might.\n\nThe urgency of all this tells you many fear it is a question of when - not if - they'll be face-to-face with the advancing Russian forces.\n\nToday, in the heart of the capital, the streets are mostly deserted. There are few people to enjoy the church bells.\n\nOne man who may have well heard the soothing chimes in this darkest hour is Ukraine's president.\n\nIn the midst of what feels like an existential battle, Volodymyr Zelensky has been carrying out a personal mission of his own: touring the landmarks of this great city recording defiant video messages to the Ukrainian people, vowing to stay and fight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAcross this vast country, families have been sending their own hastily made films to their loved ones, reassuring them they are safe.\n\nBut there are no impressive architectural backdrops as in the president's videos. Instead you see the new subterranean existence many are being forced to endure: makeshift beds, piles of possessions, frightened pets.\n\nCar parks, basements, metro stations are all now home for so many.\n\nDaily life has been upended as they wait anxiously for the arrival of their would-be Russian occupiers.\n\nHowever, it was new life that gave hope in one makeshift underground basement: a baby, delivered overnight, entering a world which has changed beyond recognition in barely 36 hours.\n\nThe sense this brutal conflict is a gruesome relic of a bygone age is shared by those enduring it first hand as well as those looking on in horror from afar.\n\nAn assault on a sovereign nation - a grim theme of 20th Century history - is unfolding before our eyes.\n\nIn it, a solitary figure shuffles round a tank trying to halt its path.\n\nThis is not 1989 and a Chinese tank. But a Russian instrument of war in 2022.\n\nAnother video I've just seen is too brutal to describe. So I won't try.\n\nBut let me tell you it shows the human cost - in sickening detail - of the aerial assault Vladimir Putin is inflicting on the military of his neighbour.\n\nThere are considerable losses on the Russian side too: far greater than the Kremlin had anticipated or would acknowledge, is the latest assessment of the UK Ministry of Defence.\n\nEarlier in the week, when it looked like a strike would indeed finally come, we found cheerful defiance in Kyiv.\n\nIn hindsight, most thought Putin may look to expand his control in the Donbas region, hundreds of miles to the east.\n\nAs we know now, it was so much bigger than that.\n\nOn Tuesday, we watched a group of history students gather on a bridge and sing their national song, some with the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag draped over their shoulders.\n\nThere were broads smiles and a joyful unity.\n\nThat unity has not shattered but the ready smiles are much harder to find.\n\nBut there is not despair.\n\nAs well as the joy of new life arriving in one bunker, there are stories of basic human kindness beneath the city's streets.\n\nOn Thursday morning, before the fog of disbelief at the size and scale of Moscow's offensive had lifted, I met Mark, a sales manager outside one metro station.\n\nHe had been woken by the first round of explosions and then helped his neighbours evacuate their building.\n\nMark is preparing for the long haul\n\nIn my latest exchange of messages with him, he tells me he's now formed his own subterranean band of brothers and sisters.\n\nThey've been encouraged by the Kyiv authorities to make petrol bombs to repel any Russian advance.\n\nBut for now, Mark's makeshift army is not on the frontline, but the platform edge.\n\nHe tells me they're helping each other in their new surroundings and in particular, have been searching for people who are alone.\n\n\"There are tears - lots of them,\" he writes.\n\n\"But I can say with joy in my heart that that everyone here has faith in Ukraine.\"\n\nHe says last night they sang hymns.\n\n\"There will be victory and everyone will contribute to this victory.\"\n\nKyiv is a city under strain and under fearsome attack.\n\nBut it feels united in spirit and strength and an indominable determination to survive.", "BP is to offload its 19.75% stake in Russian state-owned oil firm Rosneft after Russia's \"act of aggression in Ukraine\".\n\nThe oil giant had come under pressure from the UK government to make the move since Thursday's invasion.\n\nIt has held the shareholding in the Russian company since 2013.\n\nMeanwhile, Norwegian energy giant Equinor says it will start the process of divesting from its joint ventures in Russia.\n\nBP chief executive Bernard Looney has resigned \"with immediate effect\" from the Rosneft board, as has fellow BP-nominated director Bob Dudley.\n\nRosneft said thirty years of successful cooperation had been ruined and blamed BP's decision on \"unprecedented political pressure\", according to reports from Russian news agencies.\n\nMr Looney had been on the Rosneft board since 2020, alongside its chairman Igor Sechin, who is a close friend and ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe PA News agency reported Mr Looney was in Russia as recently as October, when he appeared on a panel with Mr Putin, which he later described as a \"privilege\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng spoke to the BP boss on Friday and left him in \"no doubt about the seriousness of government concerns about BP's overexposure to Russian interests\" according to an official.\n\nBP chairman Helge Lund said that, while BP had operated in Russia for more than 30 years and had \"brilliant Russian colleagues\", Russia's attack on Ukraine was \"having tragic consequences across the region\" and represented a fundamental change.\n\n\"It has led the BP board to conclude, after a thorough process, that our involvement with Rosneft, a state-owned enterprise, simply cannot continue.\"\n\nBP's share in Russian state oil giant Rosneft has long felt uncomfortable; this week under heavy political pressure it became untenable.\n\nThe chairman of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, is a close ally of President Putin. Rosneft supplies fuel to the Russian army.\n\nImmediately offloading the stake to a potentially inappropriate buyer was not an option.\n\nThe company has decided to \"divest\" - meaning it will sever its financial ties with Rosneft, stop taking a dividend and step back from its two seats on the board.\n\nCompany officials say it is too soon to say exactly how this stake will be disposed of.\n\nIt could potentially be seized, or sold.\n\nIt will mean a significant financial hit, but a price BP had little choice but to pay.\n\nMr Looney said that he had been \"deeply shocked and saddened\" by the situation in Ukraine and it had caused BP to fundamentally rethink its position with Rosneft.\n\n\"I am convinced that the decisions we have taken as a board are not only the right thing to do, but are also in the long-term interests of BP,\" he said.\n\nMr Kwarteng welcomed the move, saying: \"Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine must be a wake-up call for British businesses with commercial interests in Putin's Russia.\"\n\nA Rosneft oil rig drilling the first exploration well in the Khatanga Bay, Russia\n\nBP's latest annual results, published two weeks ago, revealed Rosneft accounted for $2.7bn (£2bn) of its profits, about a fifth of its total.\n\nThe multinational, which has its headquarters in London, admitted last year that sanctions on Russia could be problematic for its business and the relinquishing of the Rosneft stake comes after western countries imposed a series of economic sanctions on Russia - including several banks being excluded from the Swift international payment system.\n\nBP said it is too early to say how or to whom its stake in Rosneft will be offloaded. The firm will pay a $11bn charge when it writes off foreign exchange losses that have accumulated over the last few years and another charge relating to the value of its stake.\n\nRosneft has been under sanctions from the US and EU since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.\n\nOn Monday, Norwegian energy group Equinor became the second major European oil and gas producer to announce its exit from Russia, as it said it would begin the process of divesting from its joint ventures in the country.\n\n\"In the current situation, we regard our position as untenable,\" Equinor's chief executive Anders Opedal said in a statement.\n\nIt came after Norway's $1.3 trillion (£970bn) sovereign wealth fund, which is the world's largest, also announced on Sunday that it would freeze and divest its Russian assets.\n\n\"We have decided to freeze the fund's investments and have begun a process of selling out,\" Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said.\n\nThe fund's Russian assets were worth $2.83bn (£2.11bn) at the end of 2021. It is the fourth largest shareholder in Russian bank Sberbank and has stakes in Russian energy firms Gazprom and Lukoil.\n\nOil prices surged past $100 (£74) a barrel to hit their highest level for more than seven years after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe shipping firms FedEx and UPS have also suspended all their services in and out of Russia. United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) said that packages in transit to Ukraine and Russia will be returned to their senders for no additional cost where possible.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the Russian invasion of Ukraine?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Video has emerged of the apartment building near Kyiv's Zhuliany airport that was struck earlier on Saturday.\n\nThe pictures show a hole covering at least five floors.\n\nAuthorities say the number of casualties is \"being specified\" while an evacuation is under way.", "Roman Abramovich gives Chelsea 'stewardship' to trustees of charitable arm Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nChelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovich says he is \"giving trustees of Chelsea's charitable foundation the stewardship and care\" of the club. Abramovich, who will remain the club's owner, has made the move amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The decision was made on the eve of Chelsea's Carabao Cup final match against Liverpool at Wembley. \"I have always taken decisions with the club's best interest at heart,\" Abramovich said in a statement. \"I remain committed to these values. That is why I am today giving trustees of Chelsea's charitable Foundation the stewardship and care of Chelsea FC. \"I believe that currently they are in the best position to look after the interests of the club, players, staff, and fans.\" Following Abramovich's statement which did not reference the invasion of Ukraine, Chelsea released another statement on Sunday which said the situation was \"horrific and devastating\". \"Chelsea FC's thoughts are with everyone in Ukraine. Everyone at the club is praying for peace,\" said the west London club. The Chelsea Supporters' Trust said it was \"seeking urgent clarification\" on what Abramovich's statement on Saturday means for the running of the club. It is not known yet if Abramovich will be sanctioned as part of the UK government's measures against Russia. BBC Sport understands Chelsea are not for sale, and the £1.5bn loan their owner gave to the club is not being called in. Abramovich is one of Russia's richest people and is believed to be close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He added: \"During my nearly 20-year ownership of Chelsea FC, I have always viewed my role as a custodian of the club, whose job it is ensuring that we are as successful as we can be today, as well as build for the future, while also playing a positive role in our communities.\" The Chelsea Foundation runs the club's community and education departments as well as other charitable activities. Its chairman is US lawyer Bruce Buck, who is also chairman of the club as a whole. The foundation's other trustees are Chelsea women's team manager Emma Hayes, the club's director of finance Paul Ramos, British Olympic Association chair Sir Hugh Robertson, Fare (Football Against Racism in Europe) chief Piara Powar and lawyer John Devine. During Abramovich's time at Chelsea, the club have won the Champions League twice, both the Premier League and FA Cup five times, the Europa League twice and the League Cup three times. In August 2021, they won the Uefa Super Cup and they recently won their first Club World Cup, meaning the Blues have won every possible trophy under Abramovich's ownership. Earlier in the week, Labour's Chris Bryant told MPs he had a leaked Home Office document that suggested Abramovich should not be able to base himself in the UK. Downing Street would not be drawn on the claims about Abramovich made in the House of Commons. In a tweet on Sunday, Bryant wrote: \"Unless and until he condemns the criminal invasion of Ukraine I will continue to call for the UK to sanction him and seize/freeze assets.\" UK foreign secretary Liz Truss said on Sunday she had a \"hit list\" of Russian oligarchs who will face sanctions, but would not say if Abramovich was on it. Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel had said on Friday there were \"so many uncertainties around the situation of our club\" following Russia's invasion of a neighbouring country. The Chelsea Supporters' Trust said it was \"ready to work with the trustees of the Chelsea Foundation in order to ensure the long-term interests of the club and supporters\". It added: \"We stand with the people of Ukraine.\" The words Roman Abramovich has used are not ones we would normally use from a legal perspective. He has said he is handing across control to the club's charitable foundation so he will no longer be the person making the final decisions in regards to the transfer budget, the manager and other key elements of the club. He does own the club. Chelsea FC is owned by a company called Fordstam, and Fordstam has borrowed £1.5bn from a company called Camberley International, which is based in the British Virgin Islands, and that company is controlled by Roman Abramovich, so it is already a fairly convoluted structure. How the Chelsea Foundation will be funded, we are not certain. I think Abramovich will be concerned - if the UK government tries to seize his assets then those assets would include Chelsea Football Club and that could have implications if this conflict drags on for a long period of time in terms of how the club would be funded. Clearly, there would be reluctance for it to be funded by the taxpayer. By transferring it to the foundation, which is a charitable arm and he is not one of the trustees - although some people with long business connections are on the foundation - his legal team would be able to say Chelsea could not be seized by the government.\n• None The Fast and the Farmer-ish: Who will prove victorious and take home the tractor trophy?\n• None Every brand has a story, even the ones that don't exist...", "The German government has come under public pressure to get tough on Russia\n\nGermany's Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has announced that Germany will deliver weapons directly to Ukraine.\n\nHe said Germany would be sending 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 Stinger missiles.\n\nBerlin has also dropped some restrictions on German-made weapons being sent to conflict zones, meaning that third countries will be able to send more arms to Ukraine.\n\nThe move reverses Germany's long-standing policy of banning weapon exports to conflict zones.\n\nAt the same time, German ministers have said they are working on restricting Russia's access to the Swift global interbank payment system in a \"targeted\" way that \"hits the right people\" and avoids collateral damage.\n\nGermany's three-party coalition government, made up of socialists, liberals and Greens, has faced challenges in formulating a coherent response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nBut there is a dawning realisation here that Germany may have to rely not just on trade and diplomacy for its security, but also on military might.\n\nAnd those public figures who in the past have expressed sympathy for Moscow have either fallen silent or said they were wrong.\n\nForeign Minister Annalena Baerbock, herself a Green, tweeted: \"Our world is different after Putin's war of aggression. While we are stunned by this breach of international law, we are not powerless.\n\n\"That's why we will help the Ukrainian soldiers fighting for their country with anti-tank weapons and Stinger missiles.\"\n\nGermans have been shocked by Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine and have been demanding that their government take tougher action against the Kremlin.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPoland will boycott their World Cup play-off against Russia because of the invasion of Ukraine, with captain Robert Lewandowski saying \"we can't pretend that nothing is happening\".\n\nPolish football association president Cezary Kulesza has said the team \"does not intend\" to play the game.\n\nRussia are due to host Poland in Moscow on 24 March, while Ukraine travel to Scotland on the same day.\n• None Abramovich hands over 'stewardship and care' of Chelsea\n\nOn Thursday, Fifa said it would monitor the situation after Poland, Sweden and the Czech Republic said in a joint statement that play-off matches should not be played in Russia.\n\n\"No more words, time to act,\" tweeted Kulesza on Saturday.\n\nThe winner of the play-off tie between Sweden and the Czech Republic could meet Russia for a place at the World Cup finals, which get under way in Qatar in November.\n\nSweden have joined Poland in saying they will not play against Russia regardless of where the match is played because of the \"illegal and deeply unjust invasion of Ukraine\".\n\nThe country's football association also urged Fifa to cancel the play-off matches involving Russia.\n\nThe Scottish FA is in talks with Uefa over the home World Cup play-off semi-final against Ukraine and the planned women's World Cup qualifier in Kyiv in April.\n\nMeanwhile, former world heavyweight boxer Wladimir Klitschko, whose older brother Vitali is now mayor of Kyiv, urged people across the world to help Ukraine to \"stop Russian aggression\".\n\n\"I'm addressing the entire world to stop this war which Russia has started. There is no time to wait because it is going to bleed into a humanitarian catastrophe,\" he said.\n\n\"You need to act now. An hour or by tomorrow will be too late. Please get into action now, don't wait. Stop this war.\"\n\nHow else has sport responded to Russia's invasion of Ukraine?\n\nMany sports governing bodies, clubs and players have reacted to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by cancelling or postponing events due to be held in the region.\n• None The 2022 Champions League final will be played in Paris after Uefa - European football's governing body -\n• None Uefa also ordered Russian and Ukrainian clubs and national teams to play their home matches away from the region \"until further notice\"\n• None Uefa is looking to end its major £30m-a-year sponsorship deal with Russian state-run gas giant Gazprom\n• None Russia's Formula 1 Grand Prix, due to take place in Sochi in September,\n• None International sports federations were urged to move or cancel events currently planned in Russia or Belarus by the International Olympic Committee\n• None The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has postponed World Cup 2023 qualifiers involving Netherlands v Russia on 27 February and Great Britain v Belarus on 28 February\n\n'My conscience won't let me play' - what else did the Poland players say?\n\nBayern Munich striker Lewandowski, 33, who is his country's all-time highest goalscorer, said: \"I can't imagine playing a match with the Russian national team in a situation when armed aggression in Ukraine continues. Russian footballers and fans are not responsible for this, but we can't pretend that nothing is happening.\"\n\nPolish FA president Kulesza added: \"Due to the escalation of the aggression of the Russian Federation towards Ukraine, the Polish national team does not intend to play the play-off match against Russia.\n\n\"This is the only right decision. We are in talks with the Sweden and Czech Republic to present a common position to Fifa.\"\n\nPoland goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, who plays for Italian champions Juventus, said his \"conscience\" would not let him play.\n\n\"I refuse to stand on the pitch, wearing the colours of my country and listen to the national anthem of Russia,\" wrote the 31-year-old former Arsenal player, whose wife was born in Ukraine.\n\n\"I refuse to take part in a sporting event that legitimises the actions of the Russian government.\"\n\nOther members of the Poland squad, including Leeds United midfielder Mateusz Klich, Southampton defender Jan Bednarek and Aston Villa defender Matty Cash posted messages on social media which outlined their position.\n\n\"It is not an easy decision but there are more important things than football,\" read the collective statement.\n\nThe Poland players also highlighted the case of team-mate Tomasz Kedziora, who plays for Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv and is still in the Ukrainian capital.\n\nBBC Sport has learned that the UK government plans to conduct meetings with UK sports bodies early next week to explore what else could be done to intensify Russia's sporting isolation.\n\nMinisters have already welcomed Uefa's decision to strip St Petersburg of the Champions League final.\n\nNow they are likely to ask the FA to hold talks with other countries' football associations to see if more can be done to put pressure on Fifa to expel Russia from World Cup qualifying.\n\nMeanwhile, the International Paralympic Committee will hold an executive board meeting on Wednesday when the crisis will be discussed.\n\nAt this stage it is understood IPC bosses believe their rules do not allow for Russia to be excluded, and that any such move would be successfully challenged by Russia in court. But further talks are set to take place at the meeting next week.", "Customers of Russia's Sberbank last week queued outside a branch in Prague to withdraw their money\n\nRussia's central bank has issued an appeal for calm amid fears that new financial sanctions could spark a run on its banks.\n\nIt said it \"has the necessary resources and tools to maintain financial stability and ensure the operational continuity of the financial sector\".\n\nThe EU, the US, the UK and Canada have announced that the assets of Russia's central bank will be frozen.\n\nSome Russian banks will also be excluded from the Swift payment system.\n\nA run on Russian banks would see too many people trying to withdraw money. On Friday, Russia's central bank was forced to increase the amount of money it supplies to ATMs after demand for cash reached the highest level since March 2020.\n\nRussia's central bank has reserves of around $630bn (£470bn).\n\nThe aim of sanctions against the Bank of Russia would stop it from selling assets overseas to support its own banks and companies.\n\nAnnouncing the measures, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said: \"The European Union and its partners are working to cripple Putin's ability to finance his war machine.\"\n\nMarket analysts predict that on Monday the value of the rouble will drop and Russians may rush to remove their money from banks.\n\n\"These new sanctions are likely to cause serious damage to the Russian economy and its banking system\", said Clay Lowery, executive vice president at the Institute of International Finance. \"This will most likely exacerbate ongoing bank runs... causing a sharp sell-off and a drain on reserves.\"\n\nBut on Sunday, the Bank of Russia insisted: \"The Russian banking system is stable, has sufficient capital and liquidity to function smoothly in any situation. All customer funds on the accounts are saved and available at any time.\"\n\nIt also said that it will use its own network, called the System for Transfer of Financial Messages (STFS) , for payments within Russia.\n\nOn Saturday, leaders from the EU, the UK, the US and Canada announced that some Russian banks will be excluded from Swift, an international payment system that is used by thousands of financial institutions across the world, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe system is key for the smooth transactions of money globally.\n\nKarl Schamotta, chief market strategist at financial consultancy Corpay, said: \"With newly announced sanctions likely to cripple the Russian economy and diminish the attractiveness of anything that can be traced back to Moscow, investors will abandon ship en masse.\n\n\"And with the central bank likely to face severe constraints on currency intervention, the rouble will struggle to find a bottom. No-one wants to catch a falling knife.\"\n\nPrior to the most recent measures, Western states had announced sanctions against Russian banks and some individuals.\n\nRussia's central bank said that customers of sanctioned banks would be unable to use their bank cards outside Russia. It also said it will be \"impossible\" to use cards issued by sanctioned banks for Google Pay or Apple Pay.\n\nLast week, customers of Sberbank, the Russian state-owned bank, queued outside a branch in Prague to withdraw their money after it was named as one of a number of lenders to face sanctions.\n\nSberbank temporarily closed its branches in the Czech Republic, citing security concerns for its staff.", "The EU, US and their allies have agreed to cut off a number of Russian banks from the main international payment system, Swift.\n\nThe assets of Russia's central bank will also be frozen, limiting Russia's ability to access its overseas reserves.\n\nThe intention is to \"further isolate Russia from the international financial system\", a joint statement said.\n\nRussia is heavily reliant on the Swift system for its key oil and gas exports.\n\nThe joint sanctions are the harshest measures imposed to date on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nSwift, or the \"Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication\", is a secure messaging system that makes fast, cross-border payments possible, enabling international trade.\n\nBased in Belgium, it facilitates transactions between more than 11,000 banks and financial institutions across the globe.\n\nIt plays a pivotal role in supporting the global economy, but has no authority to make sanction decisions itself.\n\nThe banks affected were not immediately named, but the German spokesman said they would include \"all those already sanctioned by the international community, as well as other institutions, if necessary\".\n\nRemoval from Swift is deemed to be a severe curb because almost all banks use the system.\n\nThe measures were agreed by the US, UK, Europe and Canada.\n\nExcluding certain Russian banks from the Swift system used for trillions of dollars-worth of transactions will hit the economy hard - and in the words of the White House, it will make the country rely on \"the telephone or a fax machine\" to make payments.\n\nThis is only a slight exaggeration. There are workarounds to Swift but none which are as efficient.\n\nWhen Iran was cut out of the system in 2012, as part of sanctions over its nuclear programme, it lost 30% of its foreign trade.\n\nPicking certain Russian banks will ensure the sanctions have the maximum impact on Russia, while preventing too much impact on Europe. European businesses will be able to continue to collect money owed and buy Russian energy.\n\nOther measures are equally powerful. Curbs on Russia's central bank will stop it using its currency to limit the effect of sanctions.\n\nRussia has been building up a cushion of foreign currency to protect its banks, but this new measure will significantly decrease the reserves available.\n\nThe impact of these measures may take a while to show - but they do express an immediate intent from Western nations.\n\nUrsula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said the decision to paralyse the assets of Russia's central bank would stop the Kremlin from \"using its war chest\".\n\nThe EU and its partners agreed to freeze the bank's transactions and prevent it from liquidating its assets.\n\nShe added there would be a crackdown on so-called \"golden passports\" that \"let wealthy Russians connected to the Russian government become citizens of our countries and gain access to our financial systems\".\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain had taken \"decisive action\", tweeting: \"We will keep working together to ensure Putin pays the price for his aggression.\"\n\nResponding to the announcement, Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal tweeted his appreciation for the sanctions, calling them a \"real help during this dark time\".\n\nEU foreign ministers are set to meet on Sunday to co-ordinate member states' military aid to Ukraine, and discuss humanitarian assistance for the country and those fleeing the conflict.", "The Ukrainian military has been putting up fierce resistance\n\nHistory shows that it's much easier to start a war than to end one.\n\nThat's certainly true of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003. And it might turn out to be the same for President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.\n\nThere's an old axiom that military plans never survive the first contact with the enemy. It certainly appears to be true for Russia's forces in Ukraine.\n\nEd Arnold, an expert on European security at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), describes Russia's initial assault as \"underwhelming\" and \"slower than expected\".\n\nHe points to a number of reasons. Military doctrine for an invasion, he says, is usually \"to go for overwhelming force\". While Russia had massed between 150,000 and 190,000 troops on the border, so far it hasn't used them all.\n\nThat might be because Russia will need them for later phases of the invasion. It's normal for militaries to keep reserves as they adjust plans.\n\nWestern officials estimate that the initial assault involved about half of the forces it's massed. The initial invasion has been further complicated by attacks from multiple directions.\n\nRussia also hasn't used its artillery and air strikes as intensively as expected. But Mr Arnold adds: \"A key point is that they are facing very stiff Ukrainian resistance, which I don't think they expected.\"\n\nThat said, he believes that Russia's military commander will quickly adapt to any setbacks. Gen Sir Richard Barrons, a former senior British military commander, says it still appears that the Russians \"are going to secure their military objectives quite quickly\".\n\nGen Barrons says it's quite clear the initial objectives of Russia's offensive are to \"break the Ukrainian military, remove the central government and annex an element of Ukraine to be absorbed into a wider Russia\".\n\nOn some of those goals, Russia appears to have already made progress. It's made advances from the south. Russian forces have now created a land bridge into Ukraine from Crimea, which they invaded in 2014.\n\nEd Arnold describes this as a \"modest objective\". But from here, they can try to encircle Ukraine's forces defending in the east.\n\nSome of Ukraine's most experienced troops are dug in along the line of contact, where they've been fighting Russian-backed separatists for the past eight years.\n\nSo far, they appear to have bravely fought off Russian efforts to break through their lines from the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk. But they will find it much harder if they become surrounded.\n\nThe fact is that a significant portion of Ukraine's armed forces are already tied down in the fighting and will find it hard to reposition.\n\nRussia has also made significant advances on Kyiv. Taking the capital is the other main objective, not least because it's the centre of government and leading the resistance.\n\nPresident Putin wants to replace President Zelensky's democratically elected authority with his own, more compliant, regime. Ed Arnold of Rusi says \"anything less than the capture of Kyiv would not achieve Russia's objectives\".\n\nThe question now is, how easy will that be? Russian forces appear to be making an attempt to encircle the city. But they're likely to face stiffer resistance the deeper they push in.\n\nUrban warfare often gives the defender the advantage. Attacking forces will find it harder to manoeuvre from street to street, where buildings become defensive positions. Civilians, too, can become part of the resistance and potential targets. Urban warfare is the most difficult and bloody for any advancing army and requires more forces.\n\nThe Dnieper river forms a natural barrier between east and west Ukraine. Ed Arnold describes it as a potential \"limit of exploitation\" for Russian forces.\n\nIf they can capture Kyiv and the rest of the country, then Mr Arnold suggests there may be little advantage in pushing further west. President Putin may hope that after his forces have captured the capital and defeated Ukraine's army, the resistance will crumble.\n\nBut while 190,000 troops may be enough to carry out an invasion, military experts doubt whether it's enough to occupy Europe's second-largest country. Ukraine is larger than France. Gen Barrons, who was a British military commander in Iraq, says: \"If Mr Putin's intent was to occupy the whole of Ukraine with a force of around 150,000, that would only conceivably work if it had the consent of the population.\"\n\nHe says that, while there is an element of the population that cleaves to Russia in the east, any Russian-installed government would struggle to rule by consent a population of some 40 million.\n\nGen Barrons believes that while Russia has the forces in place to defeat Ukraine's army eventually, that could be replaced by a \"very resilient insurgency\". Any expectation by President Putin that he can control the entire country, he says, \"may be a major miscalculation\".", "Drivers have been warned of about five miles of congestion on the M6 in Staffordshire\n\nA man has died in a crash on the M6 after a car being pursued by police collided with his vehicle.\n\nThe victim was in a stationary traffic management vehicle when it was hit on the northbound side between junctions 14 at Stafford and 15 for Stoke-on-Trent at about 05:00 GMT, police said.\n\nOfficers had been trying to stop the Audi, Staffordshire Police added.\n\nA 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and remains in custody.\n\nThe M6 has been closed for several hours following the collision with delays of at least 60 minutes in the area, National Highways tweeted.\n\nThe man who died was in his 40s and was the only person in the traffic vehicle, detectives said.\n\nThey said they believed the Audi had previously been involved in an incident elsewhere in the West Midlands.\n\nThe crash has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct due to the police activity before the collision.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nLiverpool won a dramatic penalty shoot-out to secure the first domestic trophy of the season after a classic Carabao Cup final against Chelsea at Wembley.\n\nKepa Arrizabalaga, brought on in the closing moments of extra time as a penalty specialist, missed the decisive spot-kick after a magnificent game came down to a shoot-out between Chelsea's keeper and his Liverpool counterpart Caoimhin Kelleher.\n\nKelleher made it 11 penalties from 11 for Liverpool but Kepa blazed wildly over the top as a high-class showpiece was decided by the finest of margins after 21 successful attempts.\n\nChelsea, who had three goals disallowed for offside, were left to rue two big misses by Mason Mount but they were also grateful for a magnificent display from keeper Edouard Mendy, who produced a string of outstanding saves.\n\nLiverpool created a host of chances and had a Joel Matip goal ruled out for a foul and offside in an incident-packed game that went right down to the wire before Jurgen Klopp's side prevailed, for a record ninth League Cup success.\n\nManager Jurgen Klopp made it clear as soon as Liverpool reached Wembley that Kelleher would retain his place as the Reds' goalkeeper in this competition ahead of first-choice Alisson.\n\nIt was a decision laced with an element of risk but the 23-year-old repaid Klopp with a complete performance that included scoring Liverpool's 11th and final penalty.\n\nThis was a small element of a remarkably assured performance that started with a crucial early save from Christian Pulisic and also saw him deny Chelsea a last-gasp win with a near-post block from Romelu Lukaku in the closing seconds of extra time.\n\nKelleher was composed in every aspect of his game as he dominated his area and handled everything that came his way, confirming his growing reputation as a goalkeeper of high promise.\n\nLiverpool had to go all the way to win this trophy for the first time since 2012.\n\nKlopp was forced into a late reshuffle after a tearful Thiago Alcantara was injured in the warm-up, drafting in Naby Keita as a late replacement.\n\nLiverpool traded near misses with Chelsea as both teams refused to take a backward step and it was right that only penalties could separate the sides after an outstanding Wembley occasion.\n\nMount will have a sleepless night after this EFL Cup final after missing two glorious chances either side of half-time that could have proved pivotal.\n\nHe somehow steered wide with the goal at his mercy just before the interval then, with time and space to spare, struck a finish against the post with Kelleher badly exposed.\n\nOn such small details this game was decided, although Chelsea will also look back on the most marginal of offside decisions that saw substitute Lukaku have a goal disallowed.\n\nManager Thomas Tuchel took an understandable gamble when he sent on Kepa in the final moments in the hope he would live up to his reputation as a penalty expert but he could not stop 11 spot-kicks from Liverpool before sending his own effort horribly high into the celebrating supporters behind Kelleher's goal.\n\nTuchel may wonder whether he should have kept the unbeatable Mendy on for penalties after his heroic performance but it is easy to be wise after the event and Kepa has proved his quality from penalties in the past.\n\nThere can be no complaints about the quality and effort in Chelsea's performance other than the failure to take the chances that came their way.\n\nThey demonstrated they belong in the Premier League's elite company alongside Liverpool and Manchester City and no-one would dismiss their chances of making amends for this disappointment by winning a different piece of silverware this season.\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Kepa Arrizabalaga (Chelsea) right footed shot is too high. Kepa Arrizabalaga should be disappointed.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(10), Liverpool 0(11). Caoimhin Kelleher (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(10), Liverpool 0(10). Trevoh Chalobah (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(9), Liverpool 0(10). Ibrahima Konaté (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(9), Liverpool 0(9). Thiago Silva (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(8), Liverpool 0(9). Harvey Elliott (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(8), Liverpool 0(8). Timo Werner (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(7), Liverpool 0(8). Andrew Robertson (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(7), Liverpool 0(7). N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(6), Liverpool 0(7). Divock Origi (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(6), Liverpool 0(6). Antonio Rüdiger (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(5), Liverpool 0(6). Diogo Jota (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(5), Liverpool 0(5). Jorginho (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(4), Liverpool 0(5). Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(4), Liverpool 0(4). Reece James (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(3), Liverpool 0(4). Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(3), Liverpool 0(3). Kai Havertz (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 0(2), Liverpool 0(3). Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Russian armed forces dwarf those of Ukraine - and they have much more hardware and air power\n\nHow hard will it be for Ukraine to defend itself now that an attack by Russia has begun? Ukraine is outgunned and outnumbered right across the board - after significant investment and modernisation in Russia's armed forces by President Putin.\n\nDr Jack Watling, of the Royal United Services Institute, says: \"I think the Ukrainians are in a very difficult position.\" He's just returned from Ukraine and says the country's military leaders now face some \"very hard choices\".\n\nWestern officials estimate that Russia had up to 190,000 troops on Ukraine's border - far more than Ukraine's entire regular army of 125,600.\n\nRussian forces are already crossing the border from multiple directions.\n\nThe military airport at Chuhuyev near Kharkiv was among targets hit first by Russia\n\nUkraine will find it hard to defend thousands of miles of its frontier - from Belarus in the north all the way down to Crimea in the south. If you think of Ukraine as a clock face, the Russians can mount attacks from 10 o'clock to 7 o'clock.\n\nBen Barry, of the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) and a former British Army brigadier, says it's a \"very difficult position for a defender\".\n\nAdded to that, Ukraine is being threatened in multiple directions and their forces are \"spread pretty thinly\", Jack Watling of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) says.\n\nBut the real disparity between Russian and Ukrainian forces is in the sky.\n\nUkraine has 105 combat aircraft on the border compared with Russia's 300, Mr Watling says. The Russians, he predicts, \"will very quickly gain air superiority\".\n\nRussia's advanced air defence systems, such as S-400 missiles, also gives its forces an advantage. In contrast, Ukraine has older and more limited air defences.\n\nMr Watling gives the example of Israel being able to defend itself from multiple directions. But he adds it's only been able to do so because of its superiority in the air. That's something Ukraine simply doesn't have.\n\nMoscow has developed its own version of \"shock and awe\" with integrated air, missile and long-range rocket artillery, says Ben Barry.\n\nIt allows the Russians to attack Ukraine's command and control centres, ammunition depots, air force and air defences from far away.\n\nThat already appears to have begun, with cruise missile attacks on targets near the capital Kyiv.\n\nMr Watling says the Russians have a very significant arsenal of modern weapons and capabilities that Ukraine doesn't have an answer to - like the Iskander cruise and ballistic missile systems.\n\nUkraine has recently received supplies of \"lethal aid\" from the US and the UK, but these are mostly short-range air-to-air missiles and anti-tank weapons.\n\nWith Russia's air superiority and long-range weapons, the danger for Ukraine's forces is that they'll soon be pinned down.\n\nUkraine's forces could be stopped from being able to manoeuvre and reposition to face the Russian advance from any other direction, Mr Watling believes.\n\nMany of Ukraine's best trained and equipped units are in the east of the country - near the line of control in Luhansk and Donetsk - where there's been fighting since 2014.\n\nWestern intelligence officials have told the BBC there's a real worry that Russia could try to encircle them.\n\nHowever, Ukraine's armed forces are better trained and equipped than they were when Russia invaded Crimea.\n\nMr Barry says units and soldiers have gained useful battle experience from the fight with Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country.\n\nBut he adds they've mainly been involved in linear trench warfare and the demands of \"manoeuvre warfare\" will be much harder.\n\nRussia's forces are able to move quickly with mobile rocket and missile launchers and air defences. Russian troops, too, have been battle hardened from its invasion of Crimea, and in Syria.\n\nIf the fighting enters Ukraine's towns and cities then that might give Ukraine's forces a chance.\n\nA well prepared defender can make urban fighting difficult and bloody for any attacker - as shown in Stalingrad in World War Two and more recently in Mosul in Iraq.\n\nA woman cleans her damaged house after artillery fire from an area of Donetsk under the control of Russian-backed rebels\n\nBen Barry believes that Russian forces may initially try to bypass towns and cities. But he believes it's very unlikely that the Russians can avoid urban combat, not least in Kyiv given its political significance.\n\nJack Watling says if Ukraine can defend its cities properly then they might be able to hold out for quite a long time.\n\nBritish-supplied light anti-tank weapons (also known as NLAWs) may help in close combat where Ukrainian forces can move around using the cover of buildings. An unknown number of civilians could also take up arms.\n\nRussia cannot just rely on airstrikes and artillery to control towns and cities.\n\nBut Mr Watling says Russia already has agents and operatives on the ground. He says \"there will be subversion and unconventional operations in Kyiv to try and destabilise the government\". Russia, he adds, will also try to encircle cities and use long-range artillery to target pockets of resistance and then try to use special forces and agents to \"essentially murder civil society leaders\".\n\nUkraine is now fighting for its survival.\n\nIt's been engaged in combat with Russian-backed forces in the east for the past eight years, but the threat is now an existential one for the entire country.\n\nHaving just visited Ukraine, Mr Watling says there is a \"grim determination to survive as a country, but there is a recognition that they are overmatched and that it's going to be exceedingly bloody\".\n\nSkip image gallery Tap or click to go through the gallery", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says changes could allow 100,000 more Ukrainians to come to the UK\n\nUkrainians fleeing Russia's invasion can come to the UK if they have relatives who are British nationals, under changes announced by ministers.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said an extension of visa rules to \"immediate family members\" would allow Ukrainians to \"seek sanctuary\" in the UK.\n\nThe PM said the UK would not \"turn our backs in Ukraine's hour of need\".\n\nBut Labour says the visa rules are \"unclear\" and confusing for Ukrainians.\n\nIn Parliament on Monday, the home secretary said the first phase of a \"bespoke humanitarian route\" had been created for Ukrainians to enter the UK.\n\nMs Patel and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said changes to visa rules would allow \"any person settled in the UK\" to bring over their immediate Ukrainian family members.\n\nLater, in a letter to MPs, Ms Patel said Ukrainians \"already settled in the UK\" could now bring over their \"immediate Ukrainian family members\".\n\nShe said that relatives not falling within the government's definition of immediate family \"can apply ordinarily under the points-based immigration system\".\n\nMs Patel said she would not waive the visa requirement, citing \"the strongest security advice\" around concerns the Russian military was \"infiltrating\" Ukrainian forces and posed a security threat to the UK.\n\n\"We know all too well what Putin's Russia is willing to do, even on our soil, as we saw through the Salisbury attack,\" Ms Patel said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Nataliya Rumyantseva tells how her mother made the journey from Ukraine to Hungary and Paris but failed to get to the UK\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the details of Ms Patel's changes were \"extremely unclear\" and asked for clarification.\n\n\"The UK has always done its bit to help those fleeing war in Europe. But I have to say to her: why is there so much confusion about this?\" Ms Cooper said.\n\nElsewhere, the EU has supported plans to accept Ukrainian refugees for up to three years, without asking them to apply for asylum.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast earlier, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the government would study the EU's offer and decide on next steps.\n\nThe government has been facing growing calls to waive visa rules for Ukrainians seeking sanctuary in the UK amid the ongoing Russian invasion.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a group of 44 Conservative MPs have urged the government to \"go further\" and \"act jointly\" with European allies to help Ukrainian refugees.\n\nThey said they hoped ministers would \"seek a flexible and pragmatic approach to those Ukrainians wishing to seek temporary refuge in the UK\".\n\nHundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been displaced by Russian's invasion\n\nHome Office guidance was updated on Sunday evening for British nationals who want to bring their Ukrainian family to the UK.\n\nFamily members can apply for a family migration visa for free. The processing centre in Kyiv is closed, but the office in the western city of Lviv is open, and people can apply from nearby countries.\n\nFamily members eligible to apply for these visas are a spouse or civil partner, an unmarried partner of at least two years, children under the age of 18, a parent if their grandchild is under the age of 18, or adult relatives who are carers.\n\nHome Office sources have told the BBC the same criteria will apply to the relatives of people who are settled in the UK.\n\nSpeaking to the media, Mr Johnson said: \"We want to be as generous as we possibly can, and certainly we want people who have relatives in Ukraine to be able to bring them over as fast as possible.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we have routes for people fleeing disaster, war, persecution in Ukraine to come here.\"\n\nHe also said the UK would be \"partnering up with some of the countries in the immediate vicinity of Ukraine to help bring people over\".\n\nMr Johnson also announced a further £40m of humanitarian aid for the country.\n\nBritain finds itself well behind Europe in its offer of sanctuary to Ukrainians fleeing the war.\n\nThe prime minister has insisted the UK is \"way out in front\" in its willingness to help, and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the government was \"urgently\" looking at what more it could do.\n\nBut what has emerged is a scheme to assist family members of Ukrainians already in the UK, far short of the open-door approach of countries in the EU.\n\nThe Refugee Council has said the UK government's response looks mean-spirited and unwelcoming to desperate people.\n\nThe Home Office has been resisting calls to establish a safe route, saying Ukrainians fleeing the war should get visas to work and study in the UK in the normal way, through the points-based immigration system.\n\nEarlier Ms Cooper expressed concern the changes would not apply to wider family members.\n\n\"What are they thinking? What about people struggling to get elderly parents here, or Ukrainians who can't come stay with sister or brother here,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe said it was \"shameful of the government to refuse to even help other relatives in a terrible European war like this\" and urged ministers to extend the offer to wider family members and \"set out a broader sanctuary route so UK also does its bit to help other Ukrainians too\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the Home Office should give entry now on humanitarian grounds \"to any Ukrainian seeking refuge in the UK\", and to \"sort paperwork later\".\n\nConservative MP and chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Tom Tugendhat said, having spoken to ministers, that he felt it was \"likely\" the UK would move to a position similar to the EU that has said it will take all Ukrainian refugees for three years \"with no questions asked\".", "Cryptocurrency analysts say at least $13.7m (£10.2m) has so far been donated to the Ukrainian war effort through anonymous Bitcoin donations.\n\nResearchers at Elliptic, a blockchain analysis company, say the Ukrainian government, NGOs and volunteer groups have raised the money by advertising their Bitcoin wallet addresses online.\n\nMore than 4,000 donations have been made so far, with one unknown donor gifting Bitcoin worth $3m to an NGO.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, the official Twitter account of the Ukraine government posted a message: \"Stand with the people of Ukraine. Now accepting cryptocurrency donations. Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT.\"\n\nIt posted addresses for two cryptocurrency wallets which collected $5.4m in Bitcoin, Ether and other coins within eight hours.\n\nThe Ukrainian Digital Ministry says the latest call for donations is to \"help Ukraine armed forces\", but would not elaborate on how the money would be spent.\n\nElliptic founder Tom Robinson told the BBC: \"Whereas some crowdfunding and payments companies have refused to allow donations to be made to groups supporting the Ukrainian military, cryptocurrencies have emerged as a powerful alternative.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Are crypto-currencies the future of money?\n\nOn Friday, fundraising platform Patreon announced that it had suspended the donation page for \"Come Back Alive\", a Ukrainian NGO that has been raising money for Ukrainian forces in conflict zones since 2014.\n\nPatreon said the page violated the company's policies, saying in a statement: \"We don't allow Patreon to be used for funding weapons or military activity.\"\n\nCryptocurrency fund raising is becoming an increasingly prominent part of modern conflicts around the world.\n\nScammers appear to be also be taking advantage of the current situation in Ukraine, though, by tricking unsuspecting users.\n\nElliptic says at least one social media post was found to copy a legitimate tweet from an NGO, but with the author swapping the Bitcoin address, presumably for one of their own.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Almaz Magaz, an employee at the Enegix crypto-mine near Ekibastuz, northern Kazakhstan", "The Queen has cancelled a diplomatic reception on the advice of the Foreign Office, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe event had been set to take place at Windsor Castle on Wednesday.\n\nIt would have been the 95-year-old monarch's first engagement since testing positive for Covid.\n\nAsked whether there were any health grounds for the cancellation, a palace source reiterated that the decision had been taken following advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nThe reception is an annual event and is normally attended by ambassadors and high commissioners from every diplomatic mission in London.\n\nThe news that it will not go ahead comes two days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe Queen has had to cancel three virtual engagements since her positive Covid test was announced last Sunday.\n\nA statement issued on Thursday said the Queen was continuing with \"light duties\".\n\nHer next scheduled public engagements are the annual Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey on 14 March, and a memorial service for the Duke of Edinburgh on 29 March.", "Mr Putin described Western economic sanctions against his country as illegal\n\nVladimir Putin has ordered Russia's military to put its deterrence forces, which include nuclear weapons, on \"special alert\".\n\nHe told defence chiefs it was because of \"aggressive statements\" by the West, amid widespread condemnation of his invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe announcement does not mean Russia intends to use the weapons.\n\nThe US immediately condemned his decision, calling it an \"unacceptable escalation\".\n\nLast week, Mr Putin had warned that \"whoever tries to hinder us\" in Ukraine would see consequences \"you have never seen in your history\".\n\nThose words were widely interpreted as signalling a threat to use nuclear weapons if the West stood in his way.\n\nThat warning became sharper on Sunday when he ordered the Russian defence minister and the chief of the military's general staff to put the nuclear deterrent forces on a \"special regime of combat duty\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Russian police carry an anti-war protester into a vehicle parked on the streets of St Petersburg\n\nThe US permanent representative to the United Nations said Mr Putin's nuclear deterrent order showed he was escalating the Ukraine conflict in an unacceptable manner, while the White House said Russia had not been under threat from Nato at any point.\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told the BBC on Monday that the heightened alert was an attempt by the Kremlin to remind the world that it had a nuclear deterrent and to distract from what was going wrong on the ground in Ukraine.\n\n\"We will not do anything to escalate in that area... but at the moment this is a battle of rhetoric that President Putin is deploying,\" he said.\n\nMr Wallace added that Mr Putin knew that \"anything involving a nuclear weapon has a greater or equal response from the West\".\n\nThe very public shift to high alert status is a way for Moscow to send a warning.\n\nMoving to alert status likely makes it easier to launch weapons more quickly. But it does not mean there is a current intent to use them.\n\nRussia has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world but also knows that Nato has enough to destroy Russia if they were used.\n\nBut Vladimir Putin's aim is likely to try to deter Nato support for Ukraine by creating fears over how far he is willing to go - and creating ambiguity over what kind of support for Ukraine he would consider to be too much.\n\nAfter Mr Putin's announcement, the EU announced an unprecedented new raft of sanctions and actions against Russia, including\n\nAlso on Sunday, the government of Belarus said a referendum had approved constitutional changes that would allow Russian forces and nuclear weapons to be stationed in the country.\n\nWestern powers have accused Belarus of supporting and facilitating its ally's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nRussian troops have crossed its southern border to attack Kyiv and Ukrainian officials have said that Russia is launching ballistic missiles towards Ukraine from Belarusian territory.\n\nUS media have cited senior US officials as saying that Belarus is expected to send troops into Ukraine as soon as Monday. \"It's very clear Minsk is now an extension of the Kremlin,\" one official told the Washington Post.\n\nPresident Alexander Lukashenko denied last week that Belarusian troops were involved in the Russian operation, but he also said that they could take part \"if necessary\".\n\nWhat questions do you have about the Russian invasion of Ukraine?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "IS militants seized control of Mosul in June 2014 before advancing across northern Iraq\n\nThe telecoms company Ericsson put contractors' lives at risk by insisting they continued working in territory controlled by the Islamic State [IS] group in Iraq, according to a leaked Ericsson report seen by BBC News Arabic. This resulted in them being kidnapped by IS militants, the report finds.\n\nEricsson is one of the world's biggest telecoms companies and a key player in the rollout of 5G networks in the UK, having replaced Chinese telecoms firm Huawei after security concerns.\n\nThe latest revelations follow last week's admission by Ercisson Chief executive Borje Ekholm - in response to the leaked document - that money had been paid by the company to access quicker transport routes in Iraq at the time, and that IS may have been the recipients. More than $5bn was wiped from Ericsson's market value after Mr Ekholm's comments.\n\nThe document, obtained by the International Consortium of International Journalists [ICIJ] and shared with the BBC and 29 other media partners, is from a 2019 internal investigation into corrupt activities and bribery in 10 countries. The most serious findings centred on its operations in Iraq.\n\nWhen IS seized Iraq's second-city, Mosul, in June 2014, a senior Ericsson lawyer recommended shutting down the company's operation in Iraq, but senior managers ignored this, the report found. They felt such an action was \"premature\", and would \"destroy\" Ericsson's business in the country, the document says.\n\nIts insistence that the company's contractors continued to work in IS-held territory put lives at risk because the militant group then took a number of contractors hostage, the report found.\n\nAffan was among a group of engineers doing fieldwork for Ericsson at the time IS took over the city. He was sent with a letter on behalf of the company seeking permission from the terror group for them to continue working there.\n\nBut as soon as he arrived, they were met by a pick-up truck full of gunmen who seized him, he told German public broadcaster NDR, another of ICIJ's media partners.\n\nThen an IS fighter used his phone to call Ericsson managers and demanded the company pay $2.4m to work in the area, he says.\n\n\"He [the IS member] said that if you [Ericsson] do not pay, this person you sent and everyone else who works for you will be hunted down by us, we will bring them here. One by one\".\n\nAffan was placed under house arrest and says an Ericsson manager then stopped answering his calls. \"He abandoned me, he turned off the phone and disappeared.\"\n\nThe BBC and ICIJ contacted the Ericsson managers - one of whom still works with the company - who received the call from IS, but they refused to comment.\n\nAffan, who is named in the Ericsson report, was released after a month. While Affan maintains he was abandoned by Ericsson, the report says that one of the company's partners \"made arrangements\" with IS to secure his release and let the company continue its work in Mosul. The report doesn't identify what those arrangements were.\n\nThis wasn't Ericsson's only possible interaction with IS. The company's transport contractor used a fast route through the country called the \"Speedway\" which avoided government checkpoints but passed through IS territory, the report found. Ericsson investigators said they found evidence of likely bribe payments to militants along this route.\n\nOne senior government telecoms official in Mosul who doesn't want to be named for fear of losing his job told the ICIJ: \"Ericsson knew well what was going on. There is not a sane person who would deal directly with IS, they all do it through the subcontractors. Militants would take a percentage from every cent paid in Mosul on any project or work. This is how they accumulated millions.\"\n\nThe internal Ericsson document reveals a widespread culture of corrupt activities and paying bribes totalling millions of dollars in 10 separate countries. The corruption extended to a slush fund for Lebanese officials over a number of years totalling nearly $1m alongside gifts such as a $50,000 luxury trip to Stockholm for the former Lebanese Minister of Telecoms, Boutros Harb.\n\nMr Harb told the BBC he had gone on a three-day business trip to Sweden paid for by Ericsson. But he hasn't received any gifts or benefits. He added that he was unaware of any internal investigation by Ericsson.\n\nInvestigators also uncovered a $50,000 payment to a charity connected to the billionaire Barzani family, who rule the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan and own the mobile phone network Korek. The report couldn't establish where the money went. A spokesman for the Sirwan Barzani didnt respond to our specific questions but said \"Sirwan Barzani looks forward to the day when Daesh (IS) no longer pose a threat and he and his fellow Peshmerga can spend more time with their families.\"\n\nIn 2019, Ericsson reached a $1bn settlement with the US authorities following allegations of widespread corruption in five countries. Ericsson has not clarified whether the new revelations were disclosed to the US Department of Justice at the time of the settlement.\n\nThe Department of Justice declined to comment on the Ericsson case. Ericsson did not respond to the BBC's specific questions but said it is continuing to work with external counsel - to review the findings and remediation resulting from the 2019 investigation to identify any additional measures that the company should take.", "Rita was last seen on Saturday morning\n\nPolice are \"increasingly concerned\" for a 96-year-old woman who has gone missing.\n\nRita - whose surname has not been released by officers - is from Brecon, Powys, and was last seen at 10:20 GMT on Saturday.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said there would be more officers than usual in the town.\n\nFirefighters, mountain rescue, and the National Police Air Service are now looking for her. Rita is believed to be travelling on foot.\n\nShe may be wearing a fleece jumper with a leaf design.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The European Union says it will begin shipping arms to Ukraine - the first time in its history it has supplied arms in a conflict.\n\nRos Atkins looks at how Western military aid for Ukraine has escalated, including a historic policy shift from Germany.", "Heavy snow has fallen in parts of Northern Ireland, especially across counties Fermanagh, Tyrone, Londonderry and Antrim.\n\nA Met Office warning for snow and lightning ended at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but an ice warning remains until 09:00 on Friday.\n\nSeveral schools closed on Thursday and there was some disruption to bus and rail services.\n\nThere were reports of thunder and lightning to the west of Fermanagh.\n\nReports suggested that 7cm of snow was lying in the Sperrins and about 3cm at lower levels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA small number of schools in counties Londonderry, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Antrim closed.\n\nThere was some disruption and delays due to lying snow, reduced visibility in the heavy snows showers and ice.\n\nOn Thursday morning, Translink said its Ulsterbus services were subject to delays and some cancellations due to the snow, \"particularly on rural roads\".\n\nOn its website, Translink also warned that disruption to its services would continue into Friday.\n\nA lorry gritted the streets in Crumlin ,County Antrim, after heavy snow on Thursday\n\nTranslink added that it was working hard to keep services operating and apologised to customers for any inconvenience.\n\nIt added: \"Passengers are advised to allow extra time for their journeys and to keep up to date with timetable information through Translink's social media channels, journey planner and contact centre.\"\n\nAll buses, including local, school and express services, were suspended in Dungannon for a period of time while some minor routes in Ballymena and Londonderry were also not serviced.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs advised the public not to visit forests, country parks and nature reserves in affected areas while the weather warning was in place.\n\nDifficult driving conditions could be experienced in Omagh, County Tyrone, due to the snow\n\nThe Met Office yellow weather warning explains there could be a risk that some rural communities could be cut off, while there is a small risk that some buildings and structures could be damaged.\n\nIt also informs the public there is \"a small chance of injuries and danger to life from lightning strikes\".\n\nSheep sheltered from the Snow in Crumlin, County Antrim", "Their city has been shelled with Grad rockets, hit by cruise missiles and air bombardment.\n\nBut life goes on for the children of the Kharkiv Hippocrates centre where they treat patients with the most serious nervous system conditions.\n\nThe centre is a hospice and a rehabilitation facility. Its head, Dr Roman Marabyan, had been called up to the army, so I spoke to his deputy, Valentyna Drokina.\n\nShe seems overoptimistic for a doctor stuck with her patients in a city that’s been seeing no reprieve from Russia.\n\nIn more peaceful times, the centre used to care for dozens of young patients from the Kharkiv region and north-eastern Ukraine.\n\nSome children were orphans - their parents abandoned them in state facilities after learning their diagnoses. The centre’s nurses and doctors have become not just children’s carers, but parental figures. Other children usually had mothers by their side.\n\nThe war has brought all of them together.\n\n“We are one family now,” says Valentyna Drokina. Her centre welcomes all abandoned children with life-threatening conditions and those with their parents who didn’t have enough time to flee Kharkiv.\n\nOut of 21 children that are being treated in this facility, only three can walk on their feet. Valentyna tells me the centre’s professionals had equipped its basement so that the children could spend the most dangerous hours down there.\n\n“When it’s needed, every adult comes up to the kids, each takes one child and runs with them to the cellar,\" she says.\n\nQuote Message: \"Children have no idea of what’s going on. They think we are playing with them\" \"Children have no idea of what’s going on. They think we are playing with them\"\n\nThe centre is home not just to its young patients and their parents, but also to the staff who work there. Valentyna says they even found room for three ordinary families who couldn’t find a safe place to stay.\n\n“We are OK as long as there are no power outages.” She says the area hasn’t been shelled with Grad rockets, so they’re staying strong.\n\nBut then her voice breaks. She’s starts crying and adds:\n\nQuote Message: My optimism is gone\"", "Sergei Lavrov and Vladimir Putin are \"responsible for the deaths of innocent people in Ukraine\", Germany says\n\nWestern nations have ordered personal sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov over the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe men's assets in the US, EU, UK and Canada will be frozen and, in the case of the US, a travel ban imposed.\n\nThe announcement came on the second day of the Russian attack on its neighbour.\n\nSuch punitive measures against leaders are rare. The EU has only ever imposed sanctions on the presidents of Syria and Belarus, for instance.\n\nThe US, for its part, has previously announced measures against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in addition to Syria's Bashar al-Assad.\n\nIt is unclear how significant the assets of Mr Putin and Mr Lavrov are in the US, EU, UK and Canada, and what practical impact the sanctions will have.\n\nRussia said they showed the West's \"absolute impotence\" on foreign policy.\n\nRussia later vetoed a draft UN resolution to condemn the invasion of Ukraine after a debate at the UN Security Council.\n\nIndia, China and the UAE all abstained from voting, while 11 other members voted in favour.\n\nSpeaking after the vote, the US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said, \"Russia has abused its power today to veto our strong resolution, but Russia cannot veto our words.\"\n\n\"President Putin is the aggressor here, there is no middle ground.\"\n\nThe sanctions come as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia would try to \"storm\" Kyiv on Friday night.\n\nIn a video statement, Mr Zelensky said \"this night will be hard, very hard, but morning will come.\n\n\"This night the enemy will be using all available means to break our resistance. This night they will launch an assault.\n\n\"This night we must persevere. The fate of Ukraine is being decided right now.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our main goal is to finish this bloodbath.\"\n\nWhile Mr Zelensky acknowledged Russian forces had inflicted casualties, he maintained \"the enemy has sustained very serious casualties\", too. The BBC cannot verify this claim.\n\nHis words came after a day which saw Russian tanks enter the capital for the first time with large blasts heard across the city.\n\nRussian troops also reportedly entered the southern Ukrainian city of Melitopol, according to Russian news agency Tass. The BBC cannot independently verify this, but earlier Mr Zelensky said that there was heavy fighting in the city.\n\nEarlier on Friday evening a spokesperson for Mr Zelensky said the country was prepared to hold ceasefire and peace talks with Russia immediately and were discussing a place and time to hold talks.\n\nAnalysts suggest Russia's advance has been slowed by fierce resistance.\n\nGerman Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the Russian president and his top diplomat were \"responsible for the deaths of innocent people in Ukraine, and for trampling on the international system\".\n\n\"We, as Europeans, do not accept that,\" she said, after a meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels.\n\nEU leaders have decided not to impose a European travel ban on them for now.\n\nAs Russian troops close in on Kyiv, Ukraine has been pleading with the West for faster and tougher sanctions to punish Moscow for its attack.\n\nHe wants leaders to cut off Russia from Swift - the system used for global business transactions.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has also urged the West to block Russia from the payments system to \"inflict maximum pain on President Putin and his regime\".\n\nBut the EU has so far opted not to cut off Russia from Swift - reportedly due to objections from some member states, including Germany and Italy, who are worried the impact on their own economies.\n\nThe two countries say, however, that they remain open to the idea.\n\nFrance's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said removing Russia from Swift remained an option, but only as a last-resort \"financial nuclear weapon\".\n\nMr Borrell said the latest round of EU sanctions - the second since Russia launched its offensive - would be followed by a third, if it was needed.\n\nThe EU's latest round of sanctions also target Russian elites and make its harder for its diplomats to travel.\n\nRussia has responded with tit-for-tat measures against Western sanctions, banning British flights to and over its territory in retaliation to a UK ban on the Russian airline Aeroflot.\n\nRussia's invasion has also prompted a response in the sporting world.", "Russian troops are now inside the country’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, where they are fighting Ukrainian soldiers on the streets.\n\nThe Ukrainian soldiers are seen firing rocket-propelled grenades on street corners.", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nThe trustees of Chelsea's charitable foundation have not yet agreed to take control of the club, BBC Sport has learned.\n\nOn Saturday, Chelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovich announced he was handing them \"the stewardship and care\" of the club.\n\nThe billionaire, who would remain the club's owner, made the move amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMembers of the charitable foundation met on Sunday to discuss the situation.\n\nBut some have concerns over whether Charity Commission rules would allow them to run the club, and the foundation's lawyers are now exploring what can be done.\n\nThere are also understood to be some members of the foundation concerned about their legal liability if they agree to take on responsibility for running the club.\n\nThe announcement from Abramovich was made on the eve of Chelsea's Carabao Cup final defeat against Liverpool at Wembley.\n\n\"I have always taken decisions with the club's best interest at heart,\" Abramovich said on Saturday.\n\n\"I remain committed to these values. That is why I am today giving trustees of Chelsea's charitable Foundation the stewardship and care of Chelsea FC.\n\n\"I believe that currently they are in the best position to look after the interests of the club, players, staff, and fans.\"\n\nFollowing Abramovich's statement, which did not reference the invasion of Ukraine, Chelsea released another statement on Sunday which said the situation was \"horrific and devastating\".\n\n\"Chelsea FC's thoughts are with everyone in Ukraine. Everyone at the club is praying for peace,\" said the west London club.\n\nThe Chelsea Supporters' Trust said it was \"seeking urgent clarification\" on what Abramovich's statement on Saturday means for the running of the club.\n\nIt is not known yet if Abramovich will be sanctioned as part of the UK Government's measures against Russia.\n\nBBC Sport understands Chelsea are not for sale, and the £1.5bn loan their owner gave to the club is not being called in.\n\nAbramovich is one of Russia's richest people and is believed to be close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe Chelsea Foundation runs the club's community and education departments as well as other charitable activities. Its chairman is US lawyer Bruce Buck, who is also chairman of the club as a whole.\n\nThe foundation's other trustees are Chelsea women's team manager Emma Hayes, the club's director of finance Paul Ramos, British Olympic Association chair Sir Hugh Robertson, Fare (Football Against Racism in Europe) chief Piara Powar and lawyer John Devine.\n\nDuring Abramovich's time at Chelsea, the club have won the Champions League twice, both the Premier League and FA Cup five times, the Europa League twice and the League Cup three times.\n\nEarlier in the week, Labour's Chris Bryant told MPs he had a leaked Home Office document that suggested Abramovich should not be able to base himself in the UK. He said the government should remove his ownership of Chelsea FC and seize his assets.\n\nOn Sunday, Bryant tweeted: \"Unless and until he condemns the criminal invasion of Ukraine I will continue to call for the UK to sanction him and seize/freeze assets.\"\n\nDowning Street would not be drawn on the claims about Abramovich made in the House of Commons.\n\nThe Chelsea Supporters' Trust said it was \"ready to work with the trustees of the Chelsea Foundation in order to ensure the long-term interests of the club and supporters\".\n\nIt added: \"We stand with the people of Ukraine.\"", "A boy died when this block of flats was shelled in north-eastern Ukraine\n\nThe number of civilians killed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine is rising by the day. By Sunday, Ukraine's human rights commissioner put the number of civilian victims alone at 210, including several children.\n\nA seven-year-old girl died in an attack on a kindergarten, there have been fatalities in the capital Kyiv, and 10 members of Ukraine's ethnic Greek community were killed when their villages came under fire in the south.\n\nAlisa Hlans was one of six people who died when her kindergarten was hit on the second day of the Russian invasion on Friday in the small town of Okhtyrka, an hour's drive from Ukraine's north-east border.\n\nAlisa was three months away from her eighth birthday. She was fatally wounded and Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova said she died in hospital on Saturday.\n\nThe prosecutor general posted this image on Facebook announcing Alisa Hlans's death in hospital\n\nDoctors were fighting to save the life of a second wounded child, she added in a message on social media, above a picture with the message \"we need peace!\"\n\nSeveral other children have been killed in the Russian advance, including a girl called Polina, who was in the final year of primary school in Kyiv.\n\nAccording to Kyiv's local authority she and her parents were shot dead by a Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group on a street in the north-west of the capital.\n\nPolina was with her family when their car came under fire\n\nPolina's brother and sister were taken to hospital. Her sister was in intensive care and her brother was taken to a separate children's hospital.\n\nThe majority of civilians have not yet been named but their stories are equally distressing.\n\nA boy was killed when a block of flats was shelled in north-eastern Ukraine on the second day of Russia's invasion. The blast started fires in several flats in Chuhuiv, a small town outside Ukraine's second city Kharkiv.\n\nFive members of the same family died in southern Ukraine on the first day of the war, as Russian troops pushed towards the city of Kherson from Crimea, which they seized from Ukraine eight years ago. Details of the attack were first revealed by the head of Ukraine's patrol police, Yevhen Zhukov, who said it involved the family of a police colleague.\n\nThe circumstances are unclear, but the family had reportedly been trying to escape the Russian advance in two cars when they came under fire near Nova Kakhovka just outside Kherson.\n\nOleg Fedko had decided to move his family away from the area, but as he was on shift in Kherson his father, also called Oleg Fedko, drove over to help and the family left in two cars.\n\nThe patrolman's brother, Denis, described how he had been talking to his mother when she started shouting that there were children in the car. Then he heard shots ring out.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lara Fain This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe children's two grandparents aged 56 died, along with the patrolman's wife Irina and two children: Sofia who was six, and Ivan who was only a few weeks old.\n\nMore than 450km (280 miles) away, in two villages not far from the Russian border in Ukraine's south-east, the country's ethnic Greek population suffered a double tragedy.\n\nGreeks have lived in Ukraine since ancient times and the government in Athens says they are around 150,000 in number.\n\nOn Saturday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke of his sadness and anger that 10 civilians of Greek origin had been killed by Russian air strikes close to the port city of Mariupol.\n\nTwo villages were hit: Sartana on the outskirts of Mariupol and Buhas some 65km to the north.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere was outrage in Greece at the loss of civilian life and the foreign minister made a strong protest to the Russian ambassador.\n\nThe Russian embassy in Athens pinned the blame for the attack instead on Ukrainian forces, claiming that Russia's \"special military operations\" only targeted military units and infrastructure.", "A long queue lies behind - and a long and uncertain wait to cross into the unknown\n\nTens of thousands of Ukrainians are pouring towards neighbouring countries to flee the Russian invasion.\n\nIn the three days since the invasion began, more than 115,000 have crossed into Poland alone - some travelling for more than two days, others joining queues 15km (10 miles) long at border points.\n\nThose fleeing are mostly women and children, as all Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 are being told to stay and fight - in some cases separated from their families. BBC correspondents met them at the borders.\n\nAna had to leave her husband behind in Ukraine\n\nSeen from the Moldovan border, Ukraine is a nation of women. Mothers and grandmothers, wheeling suitcases to safety, leading their children into the unknown.\n\nAna arrived at the Palanca crossing point after more than 24 hours waiting in a queue on the Ukrainian side of the border - her little yellow car stuffed with bags, her six-year-old granddaughter singing to herself in the backseat.\n\nAna and her stepdaughter had driven straight from the southern city of Odesa - some 50km away and now a key target for Russia in the war.\n\nBut Ana's calm smiling manner crumbled as soon as she began to speak. Breaking down in tears, she described how she'd had to leave her husband behind to defend their country.\n\n\"I hope the West will help us get out of this terrible situation, because right now we're facing the Russian aggressor alone.\"\n\nAround her, local volunteers from Moldova's towns and villages waited to offer lifts to Ukrainians arriving here on foot.\n\nBut, like Ana, many who turn up here have thought only of escaping Ukraine, and have little idea of what happens now - for their country or themselves.\n\nTea, coffee and guidance at makeshift stalls at the Ukraine-Moldova border\n\nThe overnight train from Kyiv, via Lviv, pulled in carrying Europe's new refugees. They arrived at the 19th Century train station at Przemysl, which is now a modern-day reception centre.\n\nKateryna Leontieva's journey was long - her return to Ukraine could be a lot longer\n\n\"It took us 52 hours to get here,\" said Kateryna Leontieva, who had travelled from Kharkiv with her teenage daughter. Clutching their Ukrainian passports, and carrying a rucksack of belongings, they stepped out into eastern Poland - and safety.\n\nWhen I asked how it felt to be here, Kateryna welled up with emotion. \"I don't know yet - the tears are just coming,\" she said. \"I didn't feel anything - but now I'm starting to realise. I hope it's just a short trip and we'll be back soon.\"\n\nIn the waiting room, we found Irene and her two young children. Her husband had remained in Lviv to defend their homeland.\n\n\"Only women and children are allowed to go,\" she said. \"The men want to stay, fight, and give blood. They are heroes.\"\n\nHow did she feel about her husband staying behind, I asked?\n\n\"I'm afraid,\" she replied, her voice beginning to break. \"We believe everything will be alright. And we're praying for them.\"\n\nWomen say they are afraid, but proud their men are staying behind to fight\n\nVictoria came from Irshava, in western Ukraine.\n\n\"I came to Hungary with my two daughters. I'm leaving them with relatives who are waiting here at the border and returning to my husband,\" she says amidst nervous laughter.\n\nAre you afraid to go back?\n\n\"Honestly, I'm not afraid. I only worry about my daughters, that's all. I see that things are not good for Ukraine, but I cannot leave my country. We have to be patriotic.\"\n\n\"My husband is ready if necessary to protect Ukraine for the future, for our children. I don't want it but we must save our country.\n\n\"He will go to the military office because he has received a letter.\"\n\nIn the tiny village of Velke Slamence, the latest gaggle of refugees walked briskly down the road, eyes searching anxiously for a familiar face, followed by a shout of recognition, a hug, a kiss.\n\nFor a fleeting moment the scene felt joyful - light-hearted almost. But then it was punctured by a sharp, piercing cry. A woman's face crumpled in anguish before she was led swiftly away.\n\n\"Uzhhorod,\" said a teenage girl, when I asked where she was from, a city of 100,000 just across the border. Before World War Two that city was part of Czechoslovakia. There are bonds of kinship and solidarity in these plains beneath the Carpathian Mountains that go back a century.\n\nThat was almost all she would tell me. She clutched the hand of her little brother, a shy boy. Their parents had stayed behind. It was unclear who they were waiting for.\n\nThe men are the ones waiting for the displaced Ukrainians to come\n\nTanya left Kyiv 20 years ago, and now lives with her partner in Stuttgart. But here she was, standing by the roadside, waiting to rescue an old friend as their home city was engulfed by chaos.\n\n\"They're not letting men leave, Putin or Zelensky,\" he told me. \"It's a catastrophe.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Defiant Ukrainian president asks Europe to do more", "50-year-old Gregory Wallace is charged in connection with an incident at Bow Street Mall in Lisburn on Tuesday\n\nA 50-year-old man who was arrested in a busy shopping centre allegedly with guns, a smoke grenade and a knife has been remanded into custody.\n\nIt follows an incident at Bow Street Mall in Lisburn on Tuesday.\n\nGregory Wallace is charged with 10 offences including carrying a firearm or imitation in public and possessing a handgun with intent to cause fear of violence.\n\nThe offences are alleged to have been committed on 22 and 23 February.\n\nDue to mental health problems, Mr Wallace, from Howard Place in Lisburn, did not appear in court.\n\nBut a police officer said she believed she could connect him to the charges.\n\nDuring a contested bail application, the officer outlined to the court how security staff at Bow Street Mall alerted police when the defendant approached staff at a coffee shop apparently \"armed with a knife and a firearm\".\n\nOfficers from the Armed Response Unit (ARU) found Wallace sitting at a table speaking with a member of the public.\n\nThe court heard that when he \"reached his arm behind his back as if holding something in his waistband\", he was \"brought to the ground by ARU who felt that the members of the public were in immediate danger\".\n\nA knife and loaded air pistol were taken from Mr Wallace and the court heard that he also had a sports bag with him containing a handgun, a rifle and a smoke grenade.\n\nThe court heard that follow up searches were carried out at Mr Wallace's home and police seized a further 20 firearms including five handguns and 12 assault rifles.\n\nWhen asked by the judge if the weapons were real or fake, the police officer said they had to be sent for examination but were \"possibly air soft weapons\".\n\nAnother knife was recovered when the accused was taken to the Ulster Hospital in Belfast, where he was found to have sustained a punctured lung and \"several broken ribs\".\n\nDuring police interviews Mr Wallace confirmed he left his house with the bag that morning, claiming he had the guns \"for air soft\" and that he had the knives \"for his own protection\" as he is under threat.\n\nThe officer added that Mr Wallace told interviewing police he could not recall having a gun or knife in the waistband of his trousers and could not recall reaching for it before he was arrested.\n\nA defence lawyer said Mr Wallace had been having an \"annus horribilis\" but conceded that had the incident occurred \"in other parts of the world\" he may well have been shot.\n\nThe judge remanded Mr Wallace into custody and made an order that he be psychiatrically assessed on an emergency basis.\n\nThe case was adjourned to 24 March.", "Protests and demonstrations in support of Ukraine have been held around the UK as Russia continues its invasion.\n\nThousands have joined various rallies, including outside the Russian embassy and Downing Street in London, and in Manchester and Edinburgh.\n\nEggs were thrown at the embassy and messages written in chalk were scrawled over the outer walls.\n\nAnd the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have said they \"stand\" with the people of Ukraine as they \"bravely fight\".\n\nIn a tweet, Prince William and Catherine said they had met President Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife in 2020 and said: \"Today we stand with the president and all of Ukraine's people as they bravely fight for that future.\"\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan also released a statement saying they stood with the people of Ukraine \"against this breach of international and humanitarian law\" and encouraged global leaders to do the same.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenska in 2020\n\nEarlier Boris Johnson hailed plans to send extra military support and humanitarian aid to Ukraine as it remains under attack from Russia.\n\nHe later tweeted that he had spoken to Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte to discuss defensive aid for Ukraine and the \"need for urgent action to exclude Russia\" from the Swift system of international banking payments.\n\nOne of the demonstrations saw large crowds of people gathering outside the Russian embassy in London throughout the day. There were chants of \"Russia stop the war\", \"Putin stop the war\" and \"leave Ukraine alone\".\n\nAmong them was Elena Shevchenko, who is half-Russian, half-Ukrainian, and said her father is currently in Kyiv, with his family.\n\nShe said he had been sleeping in a shelter to escape the bombing.\n\nElena Shevchenko, who is half-Russian and half-Ukrainian, said she has been unable to sleep since Russia invaded Ukraine\n\n\"I feel desperate and there's not a lot I can do,\" she said. \"But being here at least is something and I can show my position and show my support.\"\n\nAsked her first reaction to the invasion earlier this week, she said: \"We didn't believe it would happen until the end. I cried a lot. I don't sleep at all. I feel so helpless.\"\n\nOne Russian woman, who gave her name as Alla, said she had been in tears all day after the invasion. \"I couldn't believe it was happening, the feeling of shame, guilt, horror. I felt helpless I didn't know what to do,\" she said.\n\nShe added that it felt like \"fighting with yourself\" and said her generation did not support the invasion.\n\nMick Antoniw, a minister in the Welsh government who had been in Kyiv just before the invasion, was also at the protest and called on the government to introduce \"sanctions which isolate Russia, economically, socially, politically and culturally\" - and said they must be \"so severe that the people around Putin want to remove Putin\".\n\nMore than 100 people had already gathered outside the Russian embassy early on Saturday\n\nChants of \"Putin stop the war\" could be heard at the rally outside the Russian embassy\n\nAt a protest in Caernarfon in Wales Nataliia Roberts, originally from the Ukrainian city of Poltava, said she felt \"horrible\" and \"hopeless\".\n\n\"My friends, my family, are all struggling,\" she said. \"They are asking for help, their houses are under attack. They are innocent, they don't want this war.\"\n\nAt St Mary's Ukrainian School, in Holland Park, London, pupils held up placards as they protested against the Russian invasion.\n\nStudents at St Mary's Ukrainian school hold a protest against the invasion\n\nSupporters of Ukraine also gathered elsewhere in the UK on Saturday, including in Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens where around 1,000 people gathered.\n\nIn Scotland, people gathered near the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh to urge politicians to do more to support Ukraine.\n\nDemonstrators passed a megaphone around, sharing personal stories about relatives hiding in basements in Kyiv to avoid shelling and gunfire.\n\nAnd people showed their support for Ukraine by laying flowers and writing messages on the pavement outside the Consulate General of Russia in Edinburgh.\n\nThere were also demonstrations in smaller towns and cities, including in Middlesbrough and Gloucester.\n\nIn Bristol protesters gathered by the cathedral to make their voices heard in support of Ukraine\n\nFans held up Ukrainian flags at Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium during their match against Watford\n\nAhead of their Premier League match against Watford, Manchester United players posed for a picture alongside a poster saying \"peace\" in several languages, while fans displayed Ukrainian flags in Old Trafford.\n\nThe club has already cut its ties with Russian airline Aeroflot - which has been banned from landing at UK airports or flying through its airspace, as have all Russian private jets.\n\nMeanwhile in Liverpool there was an emotional embrace between Ukrainian internationals Vitalii Mykolenko, of Everton, and Manchester City's Oleksandr Zinchenko, with the latter in tears before kick-off.\n\nManchester City's Oleksandr Zinchenko and Everton's Vitalii Mykolenko shared a hug before their match\n\nThe Everton players were draped in Ukrainian flags while Manchester City players wore white shirts with the flag on the front and \"No War\" on the back.\n\nA number of buildings across the country, including the London Eye, 10 Downing Street and Lincoln Cathedral, have been brightly lit in yellow and blue this week in a display of solidarity with Ukraine.\n\nProtesters have written messages in chalk outside the Russian embassy\n\nThere was also a rally outside Downing Street\n\nBritain is among more than 25 countries to pledge to continue to supply arms, as capital Kyiv remains under attack.\n\nRussian assaults on the capital have been met with fierce resistance on the third day of the invasion, and there is also fighting in or near several other cities.\n\nBritish Challenger 2 tanks and armoured vehicles from the Royal Welsh battlegroup have been arriving in Estonia as part of Nato moves to strengthen its eastern flank, the MoD said.\n\nUkraine faces \"days, weeks, months more\" of heavy fighting, armed forces minister James Heappey has warned.\n\n\"It is going to be brutal,\" he told the BBC. \"We are going to see some horrendous things on our TV screens.\"\n\nMr Heappey told the BBC that the UK is continuing to press for Russia to be excluded from the Swift system, but more diplomacy was needed to get international agreement.\n\nHe also said the MoD was working on plans to support a resistance movement and a government in exile if Ukraine were to be finally overrun.", "The Russian State Ballet had been due to appear at the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from Monday\n\nPerformances by the Russian State Ballet at theatres in Northampton and Wolverhampton have been cancelled following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe decision \"is absolutely the right thing to do given the circumstances\", the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre said in a statement.\n\nThe ballet company had been due to appear for three days from Monday.\n\nThe Royal and Derngate in Northampton said it had cancelled Saturday's performances by the company.\n\nMembers of the Ukrainian community in Wolverhampton had previously been calling for the visit to the city to be cancelled.\n\n\"We would have thought they would have shown some compassion to our community,\" Andrew Duda, branch chairman of the Association of Ukrainians said before the cancellation.\n\nThe theatre said discussions between management, producers and agents had been taking place since Thursday.\n\nThe cancellation will have \"a significant financial impact\", it added, following its closure during the pandemic.\n\nAll customers who bought tickets for the ballet in Wolverhampton and Northampton have been promised a full refund.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Royal & Derngate This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesperson for Raymond Gubbay Ltd, promoter for the ballet company's appearances, said the cancellations were \"as to be expected\" and they were in regular contact with venues and the government.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tonight, at this midnight hour, stark warnings sound of an imminent onslaught against the heart of Kyiv.\n\n“In 30-60 mins #Kyiv will be under attack never seen before. #Russia will hit us with all they have,” tweeted MP Lesia Vasylenko.\n\nAir-raid sirens have pierced the darkness, amplified by warnings in buildings and neighbourhoods for residents to immediately take to shelters. This is already a city where life has dropped underground, to basements, bomb shelters, and metro stations-turned-bunkers. A strict curfew is in force until 8am on Monday.\n\nThere’s been a chilling quiet these last three days in the heart of Kyiv. An eerie stillness on emptied streets has been shattered by occasional crackles of gunfire, a thud of artillery and a thunder clap when missiles land in the distance, on the edges of a beleaguered capital.\n\nA Russian invasion, now at the end of its third day, has seemed to stall on the edges of the city in the midst of concerted Ukrainian resistance – soldiers guarding city gates, civilians taking up arms, even taunting Russian soldiers as they advance in their tanks and armoured vehicles.\n\nReports from Moscow in recent hours spoke of orders to advance on the city “from all directions.”\n\nIn the dead of a Kyiv night, there’s an ominous sense that the battle for this city is about to be unleashed.", "The Chernobyl site contains several nuclear waste containment facilities to prevent radioactive materials spreading\n\nA radiation spike has been recorded near Chernobyl's nuclear power plant which has been seized by Russian forces, monitoring data shows.\n\nInvading Russian troops took control of the plant - the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986 - on Thursday, Ukraine said.\n\nRadiation levels increased about 20-fold on Thursday, monitoring stations there reported.\n\nBut experts say another major nuclear disaster there is \"extremely unlikely\".\n\nThe rise was caused by heavy military vehicles stirring contaminated soil in the 4,000-sq-km (2,485 sq-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned plant, Ukraine's State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate reported .\n\nThe biggest spike was recorded close to the damaged reactor.\n\nRadiation levels are continuously monitored there - measured as a dose that you would receive per hour in a location.\n\nClose to the reactor, you would normally receive a dose of about three units - called microsieverts - every hour. But on Thursday, that jumped to 65 microSv/hrs - about five times more than you would get on one transatlantic flight.\n\nProf Claire Corkhill, a nuclear materials expert from Sheffield University, told the BBC the spike was \"quite localised\" and there had been increases along the main routes in and out of the zone around the reactor.\n\n\"The increased movement of people and vehicles in and around the Chernobyl zone will have kicked up radioactive dust that's on the ground,\" Prof Corkhill said.\n\n\"Provided there's no further movement, it should decrease again over the next couple of days.\"\n\nBut any military activity in the zone is concerning.\n\nRussian troops captured the plant, about 130km (80 miles) north of the capital, Kyiv, after a fierce battle with Ukrainian forces, according to Ukrainian officials.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian officers fought to defend it, \"so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated.\" He called the Russian assault on Chernobyl a \"declaration of war against the whole of Europe.\"\n\nRussian officials have not commented on the battle.\n\nThe Chernobyl site contains several nuclear waste containment facilities - including the so-called \"new safe confinement\" - a huge protective dome that covers reactor number four, the reactor that infamously exploded, causing the 1986 disaster.\n\n\"These buildings are designed for containment, to keep radioactive materials inside, but they're not necessarily armoured: they're not designed to operate in a war zone,\" Prof Corkhill said.\n\nThe radioactivity in the plant has decayed significantly since 1986. \"And the thing that released the radioactivity then was a huge fire,\" said Prof Corkhill. But she stressed a repeat of that disaster was \"extremely unlikely\".\n\nOf much more concern is any fighting close to Ukraine's other working nuclear reactors.\n\nNuclear policy expert Prof James Acton wrote on Thursday: \"Chernobyl is inside a large uninhabited space. Ukraine's other reactors are not similarly isolated.\n\n\"Nuclear power plants,\" he added, \"are not designed for war zones.\"\n\nThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Ukraine informed it on Friday that the country's nuclear power reactors were continuing to operate \"safely and securely\".", "Chelsea and Liverpool will meet in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley on Sunday to decide who wins the first domestic trophy of 2022.\n\nThomas Tuchel and Jurgen Klopp have both been crowned European champions with their respective sides, but neither has won a cup in English football.\n\nChelsea last won the competition in 2015 but it is a decade since Liverpool got their hands on the prize.\n\nThere will also be a different name on the trophy for the first time since 2017, with today's final kicking off at 16:30 GMT.\n\nThat is because Manchester City have won the competition for the past four years - beating Chelsea on penalties in the 2019 final - but were knocked out this season in the fourth round by West Ham.\n\nThis is the first of four potential trophies Liverpool could win this season, after closing the gap on Premier League leaders City to three points and progressing in the Champions League and FA Cup.\n\n\"It's second time for me in this competition and I have lost so many finals in my life, but the few I won and the ones I lost didn't hold me back to try again,\" Liverpool boss Klopp told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"We realised how big it is during the ride - each round we made, it was always really, really nice.\n\n\"If we could win it then it will be a proper trophy for the whole club because we used players from the under-18s, under-23s and it makes a really nice journey and a really nice story and I hope we can bring it back and celebrate it with the academy.\n\n\"In 20 years if you want to talk about this team, I would not be surprised if people would then say if we don't win anything any more, 'yeah they were good, but they should have won more'.\n\n\"That's why we should try now to win a few things. And the next chance, the best chance we have this weekend, is against Chelsea when it's really tricky.\"\n\nBut Champions League holders Chelsea could complete an early hat-trick of titles this season too, having already lifted the European Super Cup and Club World Cup.\n\nKlopp has already put his faith in back-up goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher, who is expected to replace first-choice Alisson Becker for the final.\n\nThe 23-year-old Republic of Ireland international has played the majority of Liverpool's games in the competition this season and kept a clean sheet in the semi-final second-leg win over Arsenal.\n\n\"Kelleher is a really good example,\" said Liverpool assistant manager Pep Lijnders. \"Him reaching the final, it shows that there's an inside path for young goalkeepers at the club.\n\n\"A compliment for the goalkeeper department, that is what I like. It's possible a young keeper can make the final, it's nice to see.\"\n\nChelsea have their own goalkeeping conundrum, with Kepa Arrizabalaga playing in every round so far instead of Blues number one Edouard Mendy.\n\nTuchel says the Spaniard \"absolutely deserves\" to start the final but would not confirm whether that will happen at Wembley.\n\n\"This is very easy to say - Kepa absolutely deserves to play and I also cannot get sentimental about it,\" added the German. \"I have to do what in the end is, in my opinion, the very best solution for the team.\n\n\"I know that this position is a very sensitive position. If Kepa was a player in the other 10 positions we would not have these discussions, we would just be full of praise and he would feel that praise in minutes on the pitch.\"\n\nThe Carabao Cup may not have been high on Liverpool's agenda in the past decade but it remains surprising to learn they have not won a domestic cup since 2012.\n\nKenny Dalglish led the Reds to a League Cup triumph at Wembley that year, beating Cardiff City on penalties.\n\nMartin Skrtel levelled after Joe Mason had opened the scoring for the Bluebirds, with Cardiff's Ben Turner than cancelling out Dirk Kuyt's goal in extra time to take the final to a spot-kick shootout.\n\nSteven Gerrard and Charlie Adam both missed penalties but, with Cardiff failing with three of their own, Liverpool claimed success after Kuyt, man-of-the-match Stewart Downing and Glen Johnson all converted.\n\nThe Reds lost to Chelsea in the FA Cup final later that year and were beaten on penalties by Manchester City in the League Cup in 2016, with this their first final since then.\n\nThey have, of course, been busy winning other trophies.\n\nKlopp led the Merseyside outfit to Champions League glory in 2019, won the Uefa Super Cup and Fifa Club World Cup and followed up by Liverpool's first Premier League title in 2020.\n\nCan this be Lukaku's moment?\n\nTuchel has said it is not \"not the time to laugh\" about out-of-form striker Romelu Lukaku and left the club's record £97.5m summer signing on the bench during Chelsea's 2-0 win over Lille in the Champions League in midweek.\n\nHowever, the suggestion was the German wanted to take the Belgian forward out of the firing line rather than rest the 28-year-old for Saturday's showdown at Wembley.\n\nLukaku played 90 minutes in both legs of the semi-final win over Tottenham last month although he did not score or assist in either.\n\nThe frontman has netted 10 times in 28 games in all competitions since making his return to Stamford Bridge, scoring in both Chelsea's games as they won the Club World Cup earlier this month and in a 5-1 FA Cup third-round rout of Chesterfield.\n\nBut Lukaku is yet to hit the target in the Premier League in 2022, and his last game under Tuchel has become infamous for only making seven touches in 90 minutes during a 1-0 win against Crystal Palace, one of which was from the kick-off.\n\n\"He played a lot of matches,\" said Tuchel. \"We had a similar situation with Jorginho, one of our captains, because we feel he's a little mentally tired. The focus is on Romelu, that I understand, but it's a similar situation as Jorginho.\n\n\"The decisions are made clear and the players accept. Once you play for Chelsea, you accept the team goes first and that's why there are no hard feelings, not from Romelu or from me.\"\n\nOops you can't see this activity! To enjoy Newsround at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on.\n\n'I was dreaming of doing this at school'\n\nTrent Alexander-Arnold was 13 the last time Liverpool won a domestic cup and the Reds right-back says he used to dream of winning silverware at Wembley while he was at school.\n\n\"It'll be an exciting game for the whole club,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"It's always a good day out when you go down to Wembley and to be able to celebrate with the fans and be part of it with them. So it's important for us to go there and try to win it.\n\n\"We've performed really well, we've rotated, we've had different teams, young lads, senior players that have mixed and matched this season in this competition, but I think on Sunday it will be a strong squad to go out there and win it.\n\n\"We have won our own trophies as a team, but yes we're still to win domestic cup competitions - our motivation is to go and win it and write another chapter in our history.\"\n\nAlexander-Arnold sees no reason why Liverpool cannot win all four trophies this season.\n\n\"The emphasis is on all four competitions and go as far as we can,\" he added. \"In our mind we don't see any reason why we can't win all four, to be honest.\n\n\"I was dreaming of doing this in 2012 at school. I never thought I would be in this position but I've been very lucky and fortunate so far. I've been blessed with the path that I have been put on.\n\n\"I always feel there is a buzz around this time of the season, for me especially. I enjoy these big games, the ones you need to win. The ones that are either going to win you trophies or lose you trophies. These are the games we want to be playing in.\"\n\nChoose your Chelsea formation and starting line-up. It's up to you how to approach it - you could go for the team you WANT the boss to pick or the one you THINK he will.\n\nChoose your Liverpool formation and starting line-up. It's up to you how to approach it - you could go for the team you WANT the boss to pick or the one you THINK he will.\n• None The Fast and the Farmer-ish: Who will prove victorious and take home the tractor trophy?\n• None Every brand has a story, even the ones that don't exist...", "Scotland's Josh Taylor clung on to his status as undisputed light-welterweight world champion with a controversial split-decision victory against Jack Catterall in Glasgow.\n\nThe English challenger looked to have claimed a stunning upset in Taylor's first defence of his WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO belts.\n\nBut two judges scored in favour of the Scot, who was floored in the eighth round, as they delivered a verdict met with widespread disbelief and described as \"disgusting\" by the Catterall camp.\n\nThe judges' scorecards seemed almost certain to confirm that Catterall was the new undisputed super-lightweight champion. Taylor had been outboxed and dethroned in his own backyard, surely?\n\nThe questions were already forming as to why Taylor fell so far short of the lofty standards he's set in his career. Was he drained at the weight? Did he have half-an-eye on future lucrative fights?\n\nOr maybe Catterall is far better than many realised. El Gato put in the performance of a lifetime, and will wonder how he is not now the man standing atop the light-welterweight division with all the options in the world.\n\nBut instead, Taylor survived, extending his perfect record to 19 wins as Catterall suffered a first loss in 27 bouts. The home favourite acknowledged the performance \"wasn't my best\" but insisted: \"I know I won the fight\".\n\nTaylor added to Sky Sports: \"I think I put a little bit too much pressure [on myself] with being the heavy favourite and to put on a good show in front of my home fans.\n\n\"I believe I got the win 100% but Jack did very well. It was close, I let him have a little too much success, but overall I scored the bigger and better shots, the more meaningful shots.\"\n\nCatterall's trainer Jamie Moore said his fighter was \"heartbroken\", adding: \"It's difficult to put into words. You're talking about a kid that's worked all his life to wait for that moment.\n\n\"He performs like that, beats the champion in his own back yard and gets robbed. It's disgusting.\"\n\nThis was 31-year-old Taylor's first fight on home soil since capturing his maiden world title against Ivan Baranchyk at the same venue in 2019. Since then, the Tartan Tornado has come through stern tests against Regis Prograis and Jose Ramirez to clean up the division.\n\nCatterall, 28, played the long game to get his shot at the big time, stepping aside from his mandatory position to allow Taylor and Ramirez to have their shootout to become undisputed champion. Now in his first foray at world level, the Chorley man had a chance to claim all four light-welterweight belts.\n\nThe atmosphere inside the Hydro was electric as Taylor made his ring entrance, but any notion Catterall may have been overwhelmed by the occasion was dispelled within 20 seconds as the Englishman rocked Taylor back on his heels with a big overhand left.\n\nCatterall had settled quicker, getting off a succession of stiff jabs, and Taylor's frustration was clear as he received two warnings for shots to the back of the head. Taylor responded with a solid hook that connected in round three, but Catterall's sharp combinations kept the champion at bay.\n\nThe Scot looked to impose himself in the fourth but Catterall landed cleanly towards the end of the round and was now involved in a serious examination.\n\nThe home crowd drew breath sharply in the fifth when Taylor was caught flush with a beautiful left-right-left combination, and the distress signals were becoming obvious in the sixth as a nasty cut opened up below Taylor's right eye.\n\nThis was not in the script. Catterall was boxing beautifully, his shots getting through almost at will and a shake of the head from Taylor after another crunching left connected with his face spoke volumes.\n\nThe challenger was surely leading at the halfway stage and while Taylor managed to draw Catterall into close-quarter exchanges, the Englishman's left cross was still finding joy.\n\nTrouble developed into a full-blown crisis as another stinging combination sent Taylor to the canvas for the first time in his professional career. As he trudged back to his corner at the end of the eighth, the swelling under Taylor's eye looked worrying.\n\nThe champion landed his most meaningful shot of the fight early in the ninth with a big left hand and Catterall seemed to be taking a round off after banking a 10-8 in the previous.\n\nTaylor was stalking his opponent looking to close the distance as he searched desperately for a way back into the fight, but the ramrod right jab of Catterall was knocking him back on his heels in nearly every exchange. Catterall was deducted a point for excessive holding, though another sharp one-two snapped Taylor's head back.\n\nThe crowd roared to try and rouse their out-of-sorts hero as it became clear Taylor needed a big final two rounds to hold onto his titles, but a crunching uppercut from Catterall again caught the eye.\n\nA point deduction for Taylor for an exchange after the bell meant he surely needed a stoppage in the final round, but Catterall, so slick, so assured all evening, was never likely to allow himself to walk onto a shot.\n\nHe didn't, and yet… the judges' scorecards were split and Taylor somehow survived with his status intact.\n• None The Fast and the Farmer-ish: Who will prove victorious and take home the tractor trophy?\n• None Every brand has a story, even the ones that don't exist...", "", "The Baltic Leader ship is being held in Boulogne\n\nFrance has intercepted and impounded a Russian-flagged cargo ship suspected of breaching sanctions imposed because of the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe ship, the Baltic Leader, was heading from the north-western French city of Rouen to St Petersburg in Russia with a cargo of new cars.\n\nIt is being held at the Channel port of Boulogne.\n\nRussian state media say the vessel is owned by a subsidiary of a bank targeted in recent EU and US sanctions.\n\nA regional French official said such a measure was rare, but called it a sign of firmness.\n\nThe US Treasury Department has issued blocking sanctions against the vessel, saying it is owned by a subsidiary of Promsvyazbank, one of the Russian financial institutions hit by sanctions.\n\nHowever, the bank has said it no longer owns the Baltic Leader. It told Reuters news agency that the ship was sold to another firm before the sanctions were imposed.\n\nFrench officials said they were checking whether the vessel was linked to Russian financial interests and that the crew were \"being co-operative\".\n\nThe process could take up to 48 hours, they added.\n\nThe Russian embassy in Paris said it would send a note of protest to the French foreign ministry over the seizure.", "Boris Johnson says Ukrainians are \"fighting heroically\" and with \"great success\" in some places.\n\nFollowing a call with the Ukrainian president, the prime minister said things \"are not going all the way of President [Vladimir] Putin\".\n\nBut he said more had to be done to \"change the heavy odds that Ukraine faces\" from the Russian invasion.\n\nTougher sanctions, including a move to shut Russia out of the global payments system Swift, were needed, he said.\n\nShortly after Mr Johnson's comments on Saturday night the European Commission alongside the US, Canada and UK announced that selected Russian banks would be removed from the Swift messaging system.\n\nOn Sunday morning, local officials reported Russian troops had entered Ukraine's second city Kharkiv, where they are battling Ukrainian forces in the streets. Residents have been urged to stay indoors.\n\nThe advance came after missiles rained down across the city overnight. A nearby natural gas pipeline and an oil terminal outside Kyiv have also been hit by the Russians.\n\nA strict curfew is in place in capital Kyiv until Monday - only police, military and volunteers are currently on the streets.\n\nSo far, the fighting across Ukraine has resulted in at least 240 civilian casualties, including 64 deaths, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.\n\nIreland and Finland are the most recent countries to announce they are closing their airspace to Russian planes. Ireland's foreign affairs minister Simon Coveney urged other EU partners to do the same, and called for \"new wide-ranging sanctions to be agreed\" on Sunday.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Saturday, Boris Johnson said the UK was sending humanitarian, military and financial supplies to Ukraine.\n\nHe added that 1,000 troops were being sent to the region to help with the influx of refugees and he said the government would \"of course help people fleeing for their lives\".\n\n\"Things are not going all the way of President Putin. Very far from it, the Ukrainians are fighting heroically, and in some places with great success,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson said some \"terrible atrocities\" were being committed and there would be some \"very grim days ahead for Ukraine\".\n\nHe added Europe had to face the \"hideous reality\" that previous attempts at diplomacy with Mr Putin were \"a charade\".\n\nPeople take cover as an air-raid siren sounds near an apartment building damaged by shelling in Kyiv on Saturday\n\nDuring a call with Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday evening, Mr Johnson paid tribute to the \"incredible heroism and bravery\" of the Ukrainian president and his people, Downing Street said.\n\nThey expressed concern for the role Belarus was playing in the violence and agreed on the need for \"the international community to isolate Russia completely diplomatically and financially\".\n\nIn a tweet Mr Zelensky said he was grateful to Mr Johnson and said they had agreed on further steps to \"counter the aggressor\".\n\nSo far, sanctions have included freezing the assets of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, as well as halting Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.\n\nLiz Truss announced that the Foreign Office is preparing a \"hit list\" of Russian oligarchs to be targeted by sanctions in the coming months, with new names added every few weeks.\n\nThe foreign secretary told the Sunday Times: \"We have to make it deeply painful for the oligarchs that support the Putin regime. There are over 100 Russian billionaires.\n\n\"Nothing is off the table in terms of who or what we are targeting. We are very clear about that - we are very prepared to do what it takes.\"\n\nIt comes days after Mr Johnson targeted a handful of oligarchs and said major Russian banks will be excluded from the UK financial system.\n\nUkrainian servicemen have a meal at the military airbase Vasylkiv in the Kyiv region\n\nMr Johnson also said that \"of course\" the UK would take Ukrainian refugees, saying the country had a \"historic and proud role of taking refugees from all conflicts\".\n\nIt comes after some criticism from opposition MPs that the government had continued to apply the existing rules for Ukrainians seeking to come to the country. Mr Johnson suggested that there was \"fake news\" on the internet about the government's willingness to help refugees.\n\nImmigration minister Kevin Foster was criticised on social media after writing, in a later deleted tweet, that there were a number of routes to the UK which Ukrainians could qualify for, \"not least our seasonal worker scheme\".\n\nThe prime minister also said that it was \"inconceivable\" to imagine that normal sporting relations could continue with \"Putin's Russia\" after Poland and Sweden refused to play world cup play-off fixtures with Russia.\n\nIt comes after Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich handed over \"stewardship\" of the football club to the trustees of its charitable foundation.", "Explosions were however heard near the city and an oil depot in Vasylkiv to the south of the capital was hit and set ablaze.\n\nThe fire prompted fears of toxic fumes and residents were warned to close their windows and stay indoors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian who had no experience of politics when elected less than three years ago, has suddenly emerged as a convincing war leader.\n\nHe has rallied the nation with his addresses and video selfies and given voice to Ukrainian anger and defiance of Russian aggression.\n\nWhile Russian President Vladimir Putin has appeared increasingly erratic - accusing Ukraine of \"genocide\" in the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk republics, and talking of the need to \"de-Nazify\" the country - President Zelensky, from a Russian-speaking Jewish family, has remained dignified, resolute and articulate.\n\nThese pronouncements have revealed a side that many critics - including a large chunk of the intelligentsia - had not seen coming.\n\nA key moment in the transformation from a leader floundering in the polls, who sometimes appeared out of his depth, into a national figurehead came in the early hours of Thursday, a few hours before Russia's invasion. In a sober address posted on social media, speaking partly in Russian, he said he had tried to call Vladimir Putin to avert a war and had been met by silence.\n\nThe two countries didn't need a war, \"not a Cold War, not a hot war, not a hybrid war\", he said, wearing a dark suit as he stood in front of a map of Ukraine. But he added that if Ukrainians came under attack they would defend themselves. \"When you attack us you will see our faces - not our backs, but our faces.\"\n\nSoon afterwards the invasion began, and for his next broadcast, in the middle of the day, he wore military fatigues, reflecting the country's David-versus-Goliath struggle. That evening he made another address, warning Western leaders that if they did not provide assistance then tomorrow \"war will knock on your doors\".\n\n\"This is the sound of a new iron curtain, which has come down, and is cutting Russia off from the civilised world.\"\n\nZelensky as commander-in-chief appeared to strike all the right notes on Ukrainian Twitter.\n\nYulia McGuffie, editor-in-chief of the Novoye Vremya news website, says she was upset when he was elected president in April 2019, as she had no faith in his ability to lead a government.\n\nBut Ukrainians have rapidly warmed to their president in the past week, she says.\n\n\"Full support and respect came, I think after Russia started its war - all Ukrainians have closed ranks around Zelensky. He is playing a uniting and I would say inspiring role, partly by his own example. He is leading a government that is repelling Putin's army, and for that many sincerely admire and respect him.\"\n\nZelensky's arrival on the political scene was a case of life imitating art. His most celebrated role as a comic actor was in the TV series, Servant of the People, in which he played a school teacher catapulted into the presidency after a student posted a viral video of him ranting about corruption in politics.\n\nHis candidacy in the 2019 presidential election was initially seen by some as a joke - his political party is called the Servant of the People party. But he went on to win with 73% of the vote, promising to fight corruption and bring peace in the east of the country.\n\nThe Ukrainian president has significant powers, but delivering on these promises was always going to be tough, communications consultant Yaryna Klyuchkovska notes. And for someone starting a presidency with such a high approval rating, the only way was down.\n\n\"It's one thing to make such broad-ranging promises and another thing to execute these policies,\" she says.\n\nZelensky had enjoyed the support of oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky during his presidential campaign, leading many to fear he would turn out to be a puppet leader, controlled by a man who is under investigation in the US for possible fraud and money-laundering.\n\nHe had in fact proved to be more independent than the sceptics thought, refusing for example to allow the re-privatisation of PrivatBank, which was owned by Kolomoisky before it was nationalised.\n\nOn the other hand corruption remains deep-rooted in Ukraine, and there are concerns that a new anti-oligarch law could be used to restrict the activities of some oligarchs and not others. Corruption charges aimed at Zelensky's main rival, Petro Poroshenko, his predecessor as president, are regarded by some Western officials as politically motivated.\n\nZelensky's attempts to negotiate with Russia in order to find a solution to the conflict in the east, which has left more than 14,000 people dead, also had only limited success. There were prisoner exchanges and moves towards implementing parts of a peace process, known as the Minsk agreements, but no breakthrough. Throughout 2020 his approval rating steadily fell.\n\nZelensky subsequently struck a more assertive tone in pushing for membership of the European Union and the Nato military alliance, a move that was bound to anger the Russian president.\n\nBut Yaryna Klyuchkovska says Zelensky's rhetoric on the conflict in the east and relations with Russia continued to be too timid for many Ukrainians, until recent days.\n\nAs the drumbeat of war grew louder he declared a Day of Peace, and continued to emphasise his hopes for a diplomatic solution even while Ukraine was reporting a rapid increase in ceasefire violations along the front line.\n\n\"He avoided the subject of war, warfare, anything military. It was a topic outside his comfort zone and he was not willing to go there in his public rhetoric,\" Klyuchkovska says.\n\nHe also took issue with the daily warnings from the US and other Western governments of an imminent Russian attack, saying that the US communication strategy was \"very expensive for Ukraine\".\n\nZelensky has been accused of being a puppet of controversial business mogul Ihor Kolomoisky\n\nThe big change of tack came with a speech he made to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday 19 February, Klyuchkovska says, converting her too from a sceptic to a fan. He began by describing a visit to a kindergarten in the east of the country that had days earlier been hit by a missile.\n\n\"When a bomb crater appears in a school playground, children have a question: 'Has the world forgotten the mistakes of the 20th Century?'\" he said.\n\n\"Indifference makes you an accomplice,\" he told the guests from the West's diplomatic and defence elites. He reminded them of Vladimir Putin's rejection of a US-led world order at the same conference exactly 15 years earlier, and his assertion of Russia's resurgence. \"How did the world respond? With appeasement.\"\n\nKlyuchkovska says no Ukrainian leader had spoken so bluntly to the West before.\n\n\"For me the moment of pride in Zelensky came during his brilliant speech at the security conference in Munich,\" says Yulia McGuffie. \"It was then that many of Zelensky's political opponents in Ukraine decided that now is not the time for rows and conflicts.\"\n\nWestern intelligence claims that Zelensky's name is the first on a list of people Russian forces aim to kill. He says his family is second on the list, but that he and they remain in Ukraine.\n\nHis presence is confirmed by the video selfies he has been shooting outside the presidential administration and the very distinctive House of Chimeras opposite it, adorned with representations of exotic animals and hunting scenes.\n\nIn response to one of these, British writer Ben Judah tweeted: \"If you'd told many of our great-grandparents in the Pale [the area of the Russian empire in which Jews were mostly confined] that a Jewish man would be a Ukrainian war leader against a Russian invasion they would have blinked incredulously.\"\n\n\"Of course, he is an actor. I don't know whether it's his true persona or not. But whatever he's doing, it's working,\" says Yaryna Klyuchkovska. \"His speech writers have found their stride. They come from the entertainment business, but even writing a Netflix show is different from writing presidential speeches.\"\n\nUkraine still faces overwhelming odds. Russia's invasion force is huge and well-armed. But the 44-year-old law graduate, a political newbie, has found a voice that has helped to bolster Ukrainian morale.\n\n\"One of my good friends has just written, 'Zelensky has suddenly grown cojones of cosmic proportions',\" says McGuffie. \"And this really reflects the attitude to him right now.\"", "Some questioned Eddie Redmayne's casting as the Emcee in Cabaret\n\nEddie Redmayne, Lily Allen and James McAvoy were among the award winners at a ceremony to recognise the \"brilliance and resilience\" of British theatre.\n\nRedmayne won the WhatsOnStage Award for best performer in a male-identifying role in a musical, for his part in the West End musical Cabaret.\n\nAllen won best female-identifying role in a play for her theatre debut, while McAvoy won the male equivalent.\n\nThe categories have been renamed this year to make them \"fully inclusive\".\n\nRedmayne earned rave reviews for playing the Emcee in the revival of Cabaret, although his casting also attracted criticism because the character is usually portrayed as gay or queer, which Redmayne is not.\n\nHis co-star in the show, Jessie Buckley, lost out in the female category to Carrie Hope Fletcher, the star of Andrew Lloyd Webber's new take on Cinderella.\n\nElsewhere, Allen is best-known as a singer but made the move into acting last year, as a woman who is convinced her house is haunted in 2:22 - A Ghost Story.\n\nThe Evening Standard said Lily Allen made \"a spellbinding stage debut\" in 2:22 - A Ghost Story\n\nShe won best performer in a female identifying role in a play, while her co-star, the former EastEnders actor Jake Wood, won best supporting performer in a male identifying role in a play. 2:22 - A Ghost Story was also named best new play.\n\nMcAvoy was crowned best performer in a male identifying role in a play for his take on Cyrano de Bergerac, which also won best play revival.\n\nThe awards were voted for by theatre audiences, and the musical adaptation of Disney's Frozen led the pack overall with seven prizes.\n\nHowever, Back to the Future the Musical beat it to the title of best new musical, while Six the Musical won a separate prize for best West End show by just seven votes.\n\nThe 120-seat Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester won best regional production for Rent.\n\nFrozen the Musical won the most awards overall, with seven\n\nA full ceremony was not held last year, with 2020 the last time the best actor and actress category titles were used.\n\n\"The decision to change the titles of the acting categories is to represent everyone within in the theatre community - these are first steps as we evolve the awards in the coming years to truly make them fully inclusive,\" a WhatsOnStage spokesperson said.\n\nAnd the change follows the Brit Awards merging their male and female awards to have an artist of the year prize instead.\n\nThis year's WhatsOnStage ceremony was held at London's Prince of Wales Theatre on Sunday.\n\n\"Today's awards are testament to the brilliance and resilience of an industry, who even in the bleakest moments of the past two years kept faith and kept going,\" WhatsOnStage's Sarah Coleman said.\n\n\"The breadth of talent honoured today - in the first major theatre awards to return in full post-pandemic - demonstrates that theatre is back, and then some.\"", "The US and UK have been training Ukrainian troops on how to resist a Russian invasion for years. Now a full-scale invasion is under way, there is a debate over how far to support longer-term resistance.\n\nUkraine's defence ministry has called on residents to make Molotov cocktails to target incoming Russian troops, and a spirit of resistance is evident among many in the country.\n\nAlthough it has been wary of any direct military engagement with Russia which could spiral into war, the West has been openly supplying military material - such as anti-tank weapons - to fight an initial invasion.\n\nAnd more secretly over a period of years, British and US intelligence and special forces have also been training Ukrainian counterparts.\n\nThis includes in techniques of so-called irregular or guerrilla warfare, one source told the BBC, likening it to the kind of work undertaken by the Special Operations Executive in World War Two.\n\nAnother parallel, they say, is the \"stay-behind\" plans in the early Cold War, in which secret arms dumps were prepared in the event of Soviet tanks rolling across Europe.\n\n\"It's classic World War Two stuff,\" said one person with knowledge of the work. Those plans are now probably being activated to try to slow a Russian advance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut decisions will also need to be made in London and Washington over how far to go in supporting any longer-term resistance that emerges.When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan more than four decades ago, the West supplied weapons and training to Afghan fighters - the Mujahideen - who sought to fight the Red Army through ambushes and attacks.\n\nMI6 teams trekked into Afghanistan to work with commanders. The CIA supplied massive amounts of weaponry, eventually including Stinger missiles, which shot down Soviet gunships.\n\nIt took a decade, but eventually Soviet forces were forced to leave. There was a steady toll of casualties, which caused deep disquiet in the Soviet Union, and many believe the defeat contributed to its collapse.\n\nThe West also knows what it is like to be on the receiving end, as it became mired in more recent insurgencies in both Afghanistan and Iraq.\n\nThere are former military and intelligence officers who openly and strongly advocate supporting resistance in Ukraine.\n\nAnd when Boris Johnson talks about the need to impose costs on Russia and prove their invasion was not a success, he may not just be talking about the economic cost of sanctions, but also the human cost in the form of the lives of Russian soldiers.\n\nThat has made supporting resistance a major topic for debate.\n\nSo could something like the Afghan programme happen again? There are a number of things which make it complicated.\n\nOne is Russian strategy. Moscow says it does not want an occupation, and that may well be true. It probably understands the risks that this involves and may prefer to install a pliant government. But events could change that calculation.\n\nFor a resistance to be effective, it needs a safe haven.\n\nIn the 1980s, the Americans and British could use Pakistan as a deniable base of operations. Depending on how events unfold, repeating the feat in Ukraine might require using a neighbouring country which is part of Nato.\n\nThe risk would be that Russia could see that as an aggressive move and responds. That could trigger a wider conflict.\n\nIt may be different if Russia divides Ukraine in two, though, offering other options.\n\nA related problem is that it is harder to keep things secret, or at least \"deniable\". That might have been possible in 1980s Afghanistan, but is a lot harder in 2020s Europe, in which phone cameras and satellites are everywhere.\n\nRussia and its intelligence agencies - particularly the FSB, which has the lead on Ukraine - will also be prepared.\n\nThey are already alleged to have drawn up capture-or-kill lists of those who might be involved in any resistance to prevent it developing.\n\nIn the early parts of the Cold War, efforts by the CIA and MI6 to back resistance in countries behind the Iron Curtain, such as Ukraine, the Baltics and Albania, all ended in abject disaster. The groups were penetrated by Moscow, which knew exactly what was going on thanks to its spies.\n\nAn attempt by the US to train groups to fight in Syria in the last decade also failed.\n\nA \"support the resistance\" strategy could well be bloody and nasty and Russia has the track record of using brutal methods to suppress such activity - as witnessed in Chechnya. That means the costs may be carried by the people of Ukraine as well as Russia.\n\nBacking a resistance may well be seen as one of the only options available to impose costs on Moscow for its invasion, but Western policymakers will also know it may not be straightforward.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh\n\nFormer Wales manager John Toshack is no longer in intensive care after being admitted to hospital in Spain having contracted Covid-19.\n\nThe 72-year-old was hospitalised in February, reportedly suffering from pneumonia brought on by coronavirus.\n\nToshack, who managed Real Madrid twice, Real Sociedad and Swansea City, is now breathing without the aid of a ventilator.\n\nHe has also been able to speak to members of his family.\n\nA former Liverpool striker, he also played for both Cardiff City and Swansea.\n\nToshack scored 13 times in 40 games for Wales before twice becoming the national team manager, in 1994 and from 2004 to 2010.\n\nIn all he has taken charge of more than a dozen clubs around the world and famously took Swansea from the old Division Four to the First Division.\n\nHis most recent job was as manager of Persian Gulf Pro League side Tractor, which he left in September 2018 after just three months in charge.", "Northern Ireland's health service \"is still reeling from the pandemic\", the health minister has said.\n\nRobin Swann said health pressures are \"only going to get worse despite the best efforts of staff\".\n\nIt comes after Antrim Area hospital declared a potential major incident on Tuesday.\n\nMr Swann said the failure of Stormont to agree a three-year budget meant patients had been \"cruelly robbed\" of a chance to resolve the health crisis.\n\nThe collapse of the power-sharing executive - which means Stormont cannot strike a proposed budget for 2022-2025 - would have seen a 10% cash uplift for the Department of Health.\n\n\"The fact that we have limped from one single-year budget to the next for the last seven to eight years was just another reason our health service has been unable to keep up with demand,\" Mr Swan said.\n\nMr Swann pointed to the damage caused by the loss of additional funding that the draft budget would have provided.\n\nHe said he still hoped that some budget certainty can be \"raised from those ashes\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robin Swann says waiting lists crisis in the health service has been exacerbated by Covid.\n\nHe added that capacity cannot be rebuilt without the \"certainty of funding\" and without \"training and recruiting the necessary numbers of staff\".\n\nMeanwhile, official figures from the Department of Health have shown a slight fall from the previous quarter in the numbers waiting for a first consultant-led outpatient appointment.\n\nHowever, they also show that number has risen nearly 10% from the previous year.\n\nIn a report published on Tuesday outlining updated actions to tackle waiting lists, Mr Swann said significant progress had been made in some areas.\n\n\"This isn't going to be solved overnight; this is about a long-term solution to the crisis that we've seen brewing in the health service - not caused by Covid but exacerbated by Covid,\" he said.\n\nOn 31 December 2021, a total of 354,756 people were waiting to be seen - that's 1% fewer than at the end of the previous quarter, September 2021 (3,590).\n\nHowever, that figure is almost 10% more on the previous December (31,582).\n\nMore than half those people, 52.6% (186,745) were waiting for more than 52 weeks for that first appointment - that figure remains largely unchanged from the previous quarter (52.5%) or in fact the previous year (51.9%).\n\nThe health minister's target is that no patient should wait longer than 52 weeks for a first consultant-led appointment.\n\nRobin Swann the waiting lists crisis that was brewing in the health service has been exacerbated by Covid\n\nOn Thursday, it emerged a patient had been discharged after being treated in a side room at the emergency department (ED) at Antrim Area Hospital for almost a week.\n\nBBC News NI understands there were no available beds in a specialist ward.\n\nThe Northern Trust said \"sadly these days it is not unusual for patients to be waiting a long time for beds to become available in wards\".\n\nThe rare incident emerged after the hospital ran out of bed space, but was stood down that evening.\n\nIt is one step below a major incident, which means there are too many patients for staff to deal with safely.\n\nThe emergency department's manager, Bronagh Gilmore, told BBC News NI on Wednesday that some staff had been \"traumatised\" by the pressure.\n\nShe outlined there was \"no physical space to stand, never mind to receive critically ill patients\".\n\nDr Eimhear Kearney, a consultant in the department, added that the hospital had been operating at full capacity for months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Eimhear Kearney, an emergency department consultant, says the potential major incident was \"a flare for help\"\n\nThe Irish News first reported the case of a patient who, as of Wednesday, had been waiting for six days in Antrim's emergency department.\n\nIt is understood the woman received one-to-one treatment throughout her stay and has since been discharged.\n\nIn response, the trust said: \"As we have stressed, the added complication of Covid means that we must do all that we can to keep those who are positive separate from other patients.\n\n\"Where possible, particularly long-wait patients will invariably be on hospital beds in side rooms in the emergency department and will be managed by the relevant specialist medical team and ED nurses until such times as a bed becomes available or they can be discharged when acute consultant-led care is no longer required.\"\n\nPatients at other hospitals have faced similar waits in emergency department side rooms, some lasting for several days.\n\nThere are similar side rooms at both Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry and the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald which also have patients waiting to be admitted.\n\nIn recent days a number of health trusts in Northern Ireland have warned of increasing pressure from patient numbers, including calls for help in discharges to free up bed space.\n\nThe medical director with the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, Dr Nigel Ruddell, said crews were now often faced with long delays when transferring patients to hospital.\n\n\"This is not the fault of emergency departments, it reflects the pressures right throughout the hospital system,\" Dr Ruddell told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"We normally expect ambulance crews to handover patients to hospital staff within about 15 minutes and clear shortly afterwards.\n\n\"Only one in 11 of our ambulances is able to do that at the minute, we are having ambulances waiting anything from one up to nearly nine hours to do that,\" he said.", "The EU has imposed a blanket flight ban on Russian planes, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has announced.\n\n\"We are shutting down EU airspace for Russian-owned, Russian-registered or Russian-controlled aircraft,\" she said.\n\nAll such planes, including the private jets of oligarchs, will now be unable to land in, take off from or fly over any EU nation.\n\nRussian planes have also been banned from UK airspace.\n\nRussia's biggest airline, Aeroflot, said it would cancel all flights to European destinations until further notice in a retaliatory move on Sunday.\n\nAhead of the decision, European countries had been closing their airspace one by one. Germany said its ban would last three months.\n\nDeparture boards at Moscow's Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo airports showed dozens of cancellations on Sunday, including flights to Paris, Vienna and Kaliningrad.\n\nRussia's S7 Airlines said on Facebook it would cancel flights to many of its European destinations until at least 13 March.\n\nRussia has been responding with tit-for-tat restrictions on countries banning its flights.\n\nThe Commission president said that the EU was also going to ban Russia's state-owned news outlets Sputnik and Russia Today, widely seen as a mouthpiece for the Kremlin. \"We are developing tools to ban their toxic and harmful disinformation in Europe,\" she said.\n\nThe restrictions on flights will require Russian airlines to take circuitous routes, resulting in longer flight times.\n\nCommercial airlines are also avoiding airspace around Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus following Russia's invasion.\n\nIn the US, Delta Air Lines said it would suspend a flight booking agreement with Russia's Aeroflot.\n\nAll Russian-registered planes will be affected by the flight ban\n\nThe UK's ban on Russian flights led Moscow to retaliate with a similar curb on British planes.\n\nVirgin Atlantic said avoiding Russia would add between 15 minutes and an hour to its flights between the UK and India and Pakistan.\n\nAustralian airline Qantas said it would use a longer route for its direct flight between Darwin and London that does not overfly Russia.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the Russian invasion of Ukraine?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Britain's human rights watchdog faces a legal challenge to its status over a row about transgender rights.\n\nIn documents shared exclusively with the BBC, campaigners say they want the Equality and Human Rights Commission's status as an independent group revoked.\n\nIt comes after the EHRC was criticised for asking Scotland to pause its plans to make it easier for people to change their sex on their birth certificate.\n\nThe EHRC said critics were \"aiming at the wrong target\".\n\nLGBT charity Stonewall, backed by the Good Law Project, has drawn up a submission to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, calling for the EHRC to lose its \"A rating\".\n\nThis would prevent it from being able to make representations at the UN Human Rights Council, or its committees on human rights.\n\nThe 19-page submission accuses the EHRC of being \"excessively\" influenced by the UK government in the appointments of the chair and board members.\n\nThe EHRC told the BBC it takes all decisions impartially and \"based on evidence in the UK and internationally\".\n\n\"All appointments to our non-executive and executive roles are made through a fair, open and transparent recruitment process.\n\n\"The way the commission is governed and commissioners appointed is set out in the Equality Act, and has not changed since the commission was established.\"\n\nThe EHRC is funded by the Government Equalities Office, but says it operates independently of ministerial control.\n\nJolyon Maugham, of The Good Law Project, told BBC News: \"The EHRC is subject to a level of oversight and micro-management from the department which is just not consistent with being a UN Human Rights Institution.\"\n\nThe submission accuses Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who is also the women and equalities minister, of making \"politically motivated\" appointments to the EHRC.\n\nSince Ms Truss's appointments took up their posts, the submission letter alleges there has been a marked change in the EHRC's stance on Scotland's planned changes to the Gender Recognition Act.\n\nA spokesperson for the government's Equality Hub insisted the EHRC remains an independent public body, adding that the government is \"fully committed to advancing LGBT rights\".\n\n\"In recent years we have taken great strides, including reducing the cost of applying for a Gender Recognition Certification.\"\n\nThere has been controversy over the proposals, with campaign groups and some politicians questioning how they could affect women-only services.\n\nIn a 2018 statement, still available on its website, the EHRC said it was its \"firm legal view\" that the reform of the Gender Recognition Act would not affect those services.\n\nThis position was re-iterated in 2020, when the EHRC said there is \"no reason\" why making it simpler for people to legally change their gender would have an impact on protected spaces or services.\n\nHowever, in a statement published in January 2022, the EHRC called for the plans to be paused, and noted \"concerns\" around single-sex services, but did not elaborate on what those concerns were.\n\nIn response to the legal challenge, the EHRC's chief executive told BBC News that campaign groups should be working with, rather than against them.\n\n\"The EHRC has the power to prosecute people and companies that discriminate against trans people - we have done so,\" said Marcial Boo.\n\n\"Instead of criticising the statutory regulator that exists to protect the rights of everyone in Britain, campaign groups should work with us to identify discrimination against LGBT people, so we can take action together to stop it.\"\n\nNancy Kelley, CEO of Stonewall, told the BBC she believed there was \"credible evidence\" that the EHRC no longer met the criteria of a national human rights institution.\n\n\"The politicisation of the UK's human rights body has placed trans people in the firing line, but this attempt to create a hierarchy of human rights in the UK is a very real threat to everyone, particularly those of us protected by the Equality Act.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nKamila Valieva, the 15-year-old Russian figure skating star who helped her team win Winter Olympic gold in Beijing, failed a drugs test in December.\n\nValieva, who was the first female skater to land a quadruple jump at an Olympics as her team won last Monday, had a sample collected on 25 December at the Russian Figure Skating Championships in St Petersburg.\n\nBut the positive result was only reported on Tuesday - the day after she helped to win team gold, but before the medal ceremony had taken place.\n\nValieva tested positive for trimetazidine, which is used in the prevention of angina attacks, but is on the banned list because it is classed as a cardiac metabolic modulator and has been proven to improve physical efficiency.\n\nA series of appeals means this case will now be taken to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) to make a final ruling - with International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams saying he wanted a resolution \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nThe medals for the team event - in which the United States finished second, Japan third and Canada fourth - will not be awarded until the outcome of the Cas hearing.\n\nA spokesman for the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) said it will \"take comprehensive measures in order to protect the rights and interests of the members of the ROC team and to preserve the honestly won Olympic gold medal\".\n\nRusada - the Russian anti-doping agency - said on Friday that it is investigating Valieva's support team to \"identify all the circumstances of a possible anti-doping rule violation\".\n\nCas will now hear the case before Valieva's scheduled appearance in the individual women's figure skating event, which starts next Tuesday, 15 February.\n\nThe International Testing Agency (ITA) said Valieva had a sample collected on 25 December at the Russian Figure Skating Championships in St Petersburg.\n\nThe sample was sent to the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada)-accredited laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden.\n\nValieva competed in the European Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, in January - which was between the positive test and the Winter Olympics - and won the women's singles, with Russian claiming a clean sweep of the gold medals.\n\nThe ROC pointed out that Valieva's samples taken at the Europeans and before the Beijing Winter Olympics were both negative, adding: \"Taking into account that the positive doping sample of the athlete was not collected during the Olympic Games, the results of the athlete and the results of the team event during the Olympic Games are not automatically subject to review.\"\n\nThe adverse finding was reported on 7 February and Valieva was notified of the positive result on 8 February.\n\nValieva was provisionally suspended but she challenged the decision and the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) agreed to lift it on 9 February - enabling her to continue at the Beijing Games.\n\nBecause of her age, Valieva was not confirmed as the athlete at the centre of \"legal issues\" delaying the medal ceremony, until it was widely reported in the media on 10 February. The ITA confirmed those reports on 11 February because of \"heightened public interest\".\n\nThe International Olympic Committee, Wada and the International Skating Union (ISU) have all now appealed against Rusada's lifting of the provisional ban, with the ISU calling on the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) to reinstate it.\n\nThe ITA said the \"reasoned decision, including the grounds for which the provisional suspension was lifted, will be issued shortly to all concerned parties\".\n\nRussian Olympic Committee president Stanislav Pozdnyakov told the Tass News Agency that the long gap between the 25 December test and the 8 February result looked suspicious and that he had \"serious questions about the process\".\n\nRusada, the Russian anti-doping agency, claimed that the delay in processing Valieva's sample was due to Covid-19 cases at the Swedish laboratory that was analysing them.\n\nValieva, who is favourite for the women's singles, has been seen training at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing.\n\nEric Myles, chief sport officer of the Canadian Olympic Committee, said: \"We have the same questions as everyone else about the team figure skating case.\n\n\"It's important that a fair process unfolds and the integrity of sport is protected. Our hope is that this is resolved quickly and the medallists get the medal moment they've earned here in Beijing.\"\n\nRussian athletes are competing under the name of the Russian Olympic Committee because Russia received a two-year ban from Wada in 2019 for its state-sponsored doping programme.\n\nBetween 17 December 2020 and 17 December 2022, no athlete can represent Russia at the Olympics, Paralympics or World Championships.\n\nThe ban was originally for four years but was reduced to two by Cas.\n\nGermany's Katarina Witt, a two-time Olympic figure skating champion, said: \"What they knowingly did to her, if true, cannot be surpassed in inhumanity and makes my athlete's heart cry infinitely.\n\n\"Kamila Valieva is a young girl and child prodigy, whose highly difficult performances and grace enchanted the whole world at only 15, a minor, depending on adults and she is not to blame here.\"\n\nUnited States Anti-Doping Agency head Travis Tygart said: \"It is a catastrophic failure of the system to allow the star of the Games to have her sample not reported back close to five weeks, and then it gets reported the day after they won the team event.\"\n\nAfter days of intense media speculation, the ITA have confirmed that the 15-year-old prodigy Kamila Valieva from Russia tested positive for a banned substance.\n\nValieva is the favourite for gold in the women's singles figure skating event which begins on Tuesday (15 February) which means this whole process needs to be expedited.\n\nAt the heart of this is a 15-year-old athlete. There are concerns over her welfare and the potential involvement of others in this.\n\nBut viewers would be forgiven for feeling a sense of depressing deja vu that once again we are at an Olympics, there is a doping controversy and it involves Russia.\n\nRussia is still serving sanctions, but for many people they are Russia in all but name. Many people will be questioning whether they should have been allowed to compete at all, given the country's past with doping issues.", "The Trustees of the British Museum The 5,000-year-old sculpture was found in an East Yorkshire grave, along with a bone pin and a chalk ball thought to be a child's toy\n\nA 5,000-year-old chalk sculpture found in the grave of three children has been hailed as \"the most important piece of prehistoric art\" uncovered in Britain in a century.\n\nThe \"Burton Agnes drum\" was unearthed in East Yorkshire and will go on display at the British Museum.\n\nThe museum said it was \"one of the most significant\" ancient discoveries in the UK.\n\nIt is similar to three \"Folkton drums\" found in North Yorkshire in 1889.\n\nBritish Museum curator Neil Wilkin said: \"This is a truly remarkable discovery, and is the most important piece of prehistoric art to be found in Britain in the last 100 years.\n\n\"The Folkton drums have long remained a mystery to experts for well over a century, but this new example finally begins to give us some answers.\n\n\"To my mind, the Burton Agnes drum is even more intricately carved and reflects connections between communities in Yorkshire, Stonehenge, Orkney and Ireland. Analysis of its carvings will help to decipher the symbolism and beliefs of the era in which Stonehenge was constructed.\"\n\nThe barrel-shaped cylindrical sculpture is only the fourth of its kind known to have survived and still retains elaborate motifs purveying a British and Irish artistic style, which flourished at the time Stonehenge was built, curators said.\n\nIt was unearthed, along with the burial of three children, at a country estate - about 15 miles away from where the Folkton drums were discovered - in a routine excavation as part of a planning process in 2015 and has since been the subject of extensive research.\n\nThe Trustees of the British Museum The discovery was made in 2015 at a country estate near Burton Agnes\n\nThe Trustees of the British Museum The motifs are yet to be deciphered, but are thought to have either symbolic or religious meaning\n\nThe chalk drum, which is not believed to be a musical instrument, was discovered lying above the head of a child, which was holding the other two younger ones \"in a moving scene\", and may have been intended as \"talismans\" to protect the children, archaeologists said.\n\nThree holes in the drum are thought to mark the presence of the three bodies in the grave. The two youngest were touching or holding hands.\n\nA chalk ball and polished bone pin were also found next to the drum and underneath one of the children's heads. Similar items from the same period have been uncovered elsewhere in Yorkshire.\n\nA radiocarbon date from one child's bones has identified the burial to date between 3005BC and 2890BC.\n\nScientists believe the Folkton drums could also be of similar age.\n\nThe drum was found next to three children buried close together \"in a moving scene\", archaeologists said\n\nMr Wilkin said the drum discovery was \"highly moving\" and would be seen by the public for the first time in an exhibition opening on 17 February.\n\n\"The emotions the new drum expresses are powerful and timeless, they transcend the time of Stonehenge and reflect a moment of tragedy and despair that remains undimmed after 5,000 years,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Beer sales plunged in the UK during the Covid pandemic as people avoided pubs and drank wine and spirits at home instead, industry analysis found.\n\nPubs, bars and restaurants lost £5.7bn of revenue from beer sales in 2021 alone, the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) said.\n\nIt called on the government to cut beer duty to help it recover from the effects of the pandemic restrictions.\n\nThe Treasury said it froze beer duty for a fourth year saving brewers £900m.\n\nPeople started drinking at home more during the pandemic, splashing out on wine and spirits while pubs, bars and restaurants had to grapple with changing Covid restrictions, the BBPA said.\n\nIn 2021, pubs, bars, restaurants and clubs served the equivalent of 1.4 billion pints less, the trade body said.\n\nEmma McClarkin, chief executive of the BBPA, said every unsold pint was \"a stark reminder of the dislocating effect Covid restrictions had on our sector and the communities our pubs sit at the heart of\".\n\nThe industry group also analysed alcohol taxes collected from March 2020, when the first lockdowns started in the UK, to October 2021, when some of the restrictions were relaxed.\n\nIt found beer receipts fell by £681m to £5.4bn, while wine receipts increased £583m to £7.7bn and spirits receipts rose £784m to £6.9bn.\n\nThe BBPA also called for taxes to be linked to the strength of the alcoholic drink, with lower-alcohol drinks being taxed less.\n\n\"Our analysis showing falling beer consumption supports the Treasury's stated objective to incentivise lower-strength products and differentiate beer from stronger wine and spirits as part of planned reforms to the alcohol duty system,\" Ms McClarkin added.\n\n\"We must again ask ministers to go further and support our recovery by continuing to reduce the punitive tax burden on our sector to ensure the sustainability of brewing and pubs.\"\n\nHowever, Richard Piper, chief executive of charity and campaign group Alcohol Change UK, said \"Alcohol duty overall must rise faster than inflation every year, so we reduce, not increase, alcohol harm\".\n\nHe argued lowering the taxes on beer would not benefit pubs either.\n\n\"It would apply equally to the supermarkets, and because of purchasing volumes this in fact makes the differential between pub and supermarket prices even bigger - harming pubs,\" he said.\n\n\"Beer duty cuts are primarily called for from the huge manufacturers, not pub landlords. These massive beer producers, many of them not even based in the UK, love to hide behind the pub image, while behind the scenes they are raking in millions in profit from alcohol harm.\"\n\nHe said Alcohol Change supported the Treasury's proposals, along with the BBPA, to bring in a cut to duty on draught beer and cider. The \"draught relief\", he said, would support pubs \"far more effectively than a blanket reduction in beer duty, which would only subsidise the already dirt-cheap supermarket prices\".\n\nThe Treasury said draught relief - aimed at supporting pubs by cutting taxes on their most popular products - would see the duty on a pint fall by 5%.\n\nUnder the new plans, a pint of 3.4% alcohol beer will attract 25p less in duty and VAT.\n\nA spokesman said the government had \"comprehensively backed pubs and brewers alike throughout the pandemic\" through the furlough scheme, grants, reduced VAT and business rates relief.\n\n\"We welcomed views from the industry on the qualifying criteria for our proposed alcohol duty reforms as part of a consultation process and we're currently analysing responses,\" he added.", "Economy minister Vaughan Gething said the Welsh government was \"being honest about the fact that this really is supported by the latest public health advice\".\n\nMr Gething said he thinks \"lots of people\" will continue to wear face coverings when they are no longer legally required to do so.\n\n\"We know from the polling evidence that not only is the gradual approach of the Welsh government supported by people in Wales in overwhelming numbers, but a majority of people in England prefer the Welsh approach too,\" he said.\n\n\"If anything people are more concerned that we're moving too quickly.\n\n\"So this is about moving in time, with the advice we get, taking the public with us.\"", "Dame Cressida Dick resigned after Mayor of London Sadiq Khan made it clear to her he had no confidence in her leadership\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel is understood to have clashed with the Labour mayor of London over the resignation of Dame Cressida Dick.\n\nDame Cressida quit as Metropolitan Police Commissioner on Thursday after losing the backing of Mr Khan.\n\nShe is thought to have offered her resignation after declining to meet him to discuss her plan to reform the Met.\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Khan did not inform Home Secretary Priti Patel about the meeting.\n\nA mayoral source, however, insisted Ms Patel knew Mr Khan intended to meet Dame Cressida and it was up to her to inform the home secretary about her resignation.\n\nLast week, Mr Khan said he had put Dame Cressida \"on notice\" after the police watchdog found \"disgraceful\" misogyny, discrimination and sex harassment among some Met officers.\n\nHe ordered Dame Cressida to \"come up with an effective plan urgently\" to address \"the clear examples of racist, sexist, misogynistic, discriminatory practices\" within the police force.\n\nBut Home Office sources told the BBC they were \"astounded\" that the \"days and weeks\" for Cressida Dick to sort out the Met turned into \"less than 48 hours\".\n\nThe sources said no decision has been taken on the process of finding a replacement and the details will be set out when they have been agreed.\n\nWriting in London's Evening Standard, Ms Patel said she was starting the process of choosing Dame Cressida's successor, who would face \"stark\" challenges.\n\nFormer shadow home secretary and Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, Diane Abbott tweeted that Ms Patel \"did not seem to accept\" there was a \"rotten culture at the Met\" under Dame Cressida's leadership.\n\nIn another tweet, Labour's shadow foreign secretary David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, dismissed claims by Home Office sources that Mr Khan had been \"rude and unprofessional\" in his approach to Dame Cressida's departure as \"ludicrous\".\n\nBut Susan Hall, the Conservative leader in the London Assembly, accused Mr Khan of leaving a \"void\" at the top of the Met and handling Dame Cressida's departure \"extremely badly\".\n\n\"Confidence in the police at the moment is at an all-time low and this won't help,\" Ms Hall told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nDame Cressida's successor will be appointed by Ms Patel, in consultation with the mayor of London. Contenders include Matt Jukes and Neil Basu, who are both assistant Met commissioners.\n\nPrime ministers have no formal role in appointing a Met Police commissioner, but Boris Johnson has nevertheless faced calls to stay out of the process entirely, as he is the subject of a Met investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe force is investigating 12 events, including three Mr Johnson attended, in Downing Street when Covid-19 restrictions were in force.\n\nThe Met is expected to email Mr Johnson and his wife Carrie to ask for their accounts of what happened at those events as part of its inquiry.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said anyone \"under criminal investigation by the Met should not be able to choose who's in charge of it\".\n\nWhen asked what Dame Cressida's resignation meant for the inquiry, transport minister Robert Courts told Sky News it would \"not be affected by the role at the top of the Met\".\n\nHe said the circumstances of Dame Cressida's resignation were \"a shame\" but the relationship between her and Mr Khan had clearly \"broken down\".\n\nDame Cressida Dick successor will be appointed by Home Secretary Priti Patel\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, has previously reported tensions between the home secretary and Downing Street over Dame Cressida's leadership of the Met Police.\n\nMs Patel and No 10 had discussed whether or not to try to find a new commissioner over concerns about the force's handling of the Sarah Everard case.\n\nThe home secretary did consider a recruitment process but was \"overruled\" by Downing Street, two sources familiar with the discussions told our political editor.\n\nAnother source disputed that account and said Dame Cressida's recent two-year contract extension was a compromise.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had a \"very different view\" from him on Britain's relations with Nato.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer says his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, was \"wrong\" on Nato and that his party's commitment to the alliance is \"unshakeable\".\n\nMr Corbyn is a long-standing critic of Nato, although pulling out of it was never Labour policy when he was leader.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Sir Keir also said he supported Boris Johnson's actions on the Ukraine crisis but urged him to make better use of sanctions.\n\nHe was speaking to the BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, in Brussels.\n\nThe Labour leader earlier held a meeting with Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg about tensions between Ukraine and Russia.\n\nHe said it was \"important for me to make clear that we stand united in the UK\".\n\n\"Whatever challenges we have with the government, when it comes to Russian aggression we stand together.\"\n\nHe said there was \"nothing\" Russia wanted to see more than division between UK political parties, or division between Nato allies.\n\nMr Johnson also held a meeting with the Nato secretary general on Thursday and later met the Polish prime minister.\n\nSpeaking from Warsaw, Mr Johnson, said the UK stood \"shoulder to shoulder\" with Nato allies. He also warned Russia \"if they want less Nato, this is entirely the wrong way to go about it.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn is to address a protest calling for an end to Nato \"expansion\"\n\nAsked whether he agreed with Mr Corbyn's stance on the military alliance, Sir Keir said: \"Jeremy Corbyn had a very different view, he was wrong about that and I spoke out at the time about that.\"\n\nBefore becoming leader of the Labour Party, Mr Corbyn described Nato as \"a major problem and a major difficulty\".\n\nWriting in the Morning Star newspaper in 2012, he argued that Nato's mission had been \"thwarting the Soviet Union\", and that the collapse of the bloc was \"the obvious time for Nato to have been disbanded\".\n\nHowever, on taking charge of the party, he did not change its policy and Labour fought the 2019 general election on a pledge to maintain membership.\n\nNato - the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - is a military alliance formed in 1949 by 12 countries including the US, France and the UK.\n\nThey agreed to come to one another's aid in the event of an armed attack against any member state.\n\nIts aim was originally to counter the threat of post-war Soviet expansion in Europe.\n\nFollowing the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, a number of former Warsaw Pact countries became Nato members. The alliance now has 30 members.\n\nSir Keir, who served in Mr Corbyn's shadow cabinet, also criticised the former leader's position on the 2018 Salisbury poisonings, arguing that he \"didn't respond appropriately\".\n\nAt the time, Mr Corbyn was questioned for seeming to cast doubt on whether Russia was responsible.\n\nIn 2018, he told the BBC that it was \"very clear\" the nerve agent was \"very similar\" to those made in Russia but added that \"absolute evidence\" was still needed.\n\nMr Corbyn, who currently sits as an independent MP, is expected to address a Stop the War Coalition protest on Thursday evening entitled \"No War in Ukraine: Stop Nato Expansion\".\n\nThe group argues that the government is \"ramping up the threat of war\" and accuses Mr Johnson of trying to \"distract from the implosion of his premiership\".\n\nSir Keir also sought to distance himself from the previous Labour leader on the topic of the UK's nuclear arsenal.\n\nPressed on whether he would be willing to use nuclear weapons, he replied: \"Of course,\" adding: \"If you believe in the deterrent, that's the whole point.\"\n\nHowever, he added it would be wrong to talk about the circumstances under which he would take such a step.\n\nOn becoming leader in 2015, Mr Corbyn said: \"I am opposed to the use of nuclear weapons. I am opposed to the holding of nuclear weapons. I want to see a nuclear-free world. I believe it is possible.\"\n\nMr Corbyn was Labour's leader for four years, stepping down after the party's defeat at the 2019 general elections.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Elon Musk has a vision for getting people and cargo to Mars\n\nElon Musk is hopeful he can launch his new monster rocket system in perhaps a couple of months from now.\n\nIn a presentation made while standing in front of what he calls the Starship, the US entrepreneur said the vehicle was close technically to being ready.\n\nMuch depends now on the Federal Aviation Administration. It's the licensing authority and it will not issue a permission to fly until an environmental assessment is complete.\n\nThis should report back by March.\n\n\"I think we're tracking to have the regulatory approval and hardware readiness around the same time,\" he told the audience at his SpaceX company's R&D facility in Boca Chica, Texas.\n\n\"Hopefully, you know, basically a couple of months for both.\"\n\nAnd Mr Musk added: \"I feel at this point highly confident that we'll get to orbit this year.\"\n\nMr Musk said that if the FAA process demanded further investigations, it would lead to a delay of many months as flight operations were shifted to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where another launch pad for Starship is under construction.\n\nThursday's presentation was the first formal update Mr Musk had given on the progress of Starship's development in two years.\n\nAnd while the level of activity at Boca Chica in the intervening time has been intense, Mr Musk didn't reveal much that wasn't already public knowledge.\n\nHe discussed niche engineering details on rocket engine design, which will have delighted super-fans, and there was a glossy new animation that envisaged a crewed Starship mission to Mars, but the SpaceX CEO was shy about talking through the business opportunities that were emerging for the new launch system.\n\nThe stacked Starship rocket system (L) and how it would look in flight (R)\n\nBoca Chica has seen rapid prototyping with some hardware even making short-hop flights\n\n\"There's going to be some future announcements that I think people will be pretty fired up about,\" he said. \"There are a lot of additional customers that will want to use Starship [but] I don't want to steal their thunder; they're going to make their own announcements.\"\n\nAt just under 120m (390ft) in height, the new SpaceX rocket system is the biggest ever devised.\n\nWhen it eventually takes to the sky, it will get off the pad with more than twice the thrust of the vehicles that sent men to the Moon in the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nThe main engines on the Apollo Saturn V rockets delivered some 35 meganewtons (nearly 8 million pounds of force) when ignited. The first stage of Starship, which is called Super Heavy, should achieve around 75 meganewtons.\n\nThe inaugural test flight - whenever it happens - will see the Super Heavy booster hurl the Starship into space for a 90-minute, once-around-the-Earth trip, which will end with a disposal \"landing\" in waters off the Hawaiian islands in the Pacific. The Super Heavy itself will be ditched in the Gulf of Mexico.\n\nUltimately, though, SpaceX wants both segments of future vehicles to make controlled touchdowns, on land or on sea platforms, so they can be re-used.\n\nAt Boca Chica, the launch tower sports enormous mechanical arms, nicknamed \"chopsticks\", that would endeavour to catch Super Heavy as it hovered near the ground. These arms would then place the booster straight back on its launch mount, ready for the next mission.\n\nMr Musk says the Starship system, once fully developed, will be more than capable of taking humans to the Moon and Mars, and the US space agency (Nasa) has already contracted SpaceX to provide a version of Starship to place astronauts on the lunar surface later this decade.\n\nThe rocket system could also ferry people and cargo quickly around the globe. Putting satellites in orbit is another obvious application. Indeed, Mr Musk sees Starship as central to the ongoing deployment of his Starlink orbital broadband network.\n\n\"Once we make this work, it's an utterly profound breakthrough in access to orbit,\" he said.\n\n\"When aircraft first came along, they were viewed as toys. When the Wright Brothers first took off, most people were just riding horses; they would not have imagined that there would be tens of thousands of aircraft flying to every corner of the world. So, this really could be a profound situation and we really can't even imagine all the use-cases at this point.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SN15 Starship prototype made a successful short hop in May last year", "Interest rates have risen for the second time in three months as the Bank of England tries to curb a rapid rise in the cost of living.\n\nThe hike to 0.5% from 0.25% came as the Bank warned that price rises could speed up.\n\nPrices are expected to climb faster than pay, putting the biggest squeeze on household finances in decades.\n\nIt comes as the chancellor unveiled a support package to help households cope with a 54% jump in energy bills.\n\nRising gas and electricity costs are the main factors pushing up prices across the economy.\n\nInflation, as measured by the consumer prices index (CPI), is expected to peak at 7.25% in April, and average close to 6% in 2022.\n\nThis would be the fastest price growth since 1991 and is well above the Bank's 2% target.\n\nDespite that, the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has suggested workers need to accept pay restraint, and should not ask for higher wages, in order for inflation to be tamed more quickly.\n\nThere are also increasing signs of broader price pressures across the economy.\n\nPrices of household appliances such as fridges climbed almost 10% over the past year.\n\nGoods shortages also meant retailers were offering fewer bargains in the January sales compared with previous years.\n\nFood prices and rents were also likely to creep up in the short term, the Bank warned.\n\nPay increases are not expected to keep pace with rising prices.\n\nPost-tax incomes are forecast to fall 2% this year, after taking into account the rising cost of living.\n\nThis represents the biggest fall in take-home pay since records began in 1990.\n\nDespite this, the Bank said there had been a \"material pick-up in pay settlements\" this year, with the average worker enjoying a 5% pay rise.\n\n\"Acute\" staff shortages in sectors such as hospitality, engineering, construction and IT also meant many employers were offering staff \"ad-hoc\" bonuses to keep them.\n\nThe pandemic meant other workers had retired early, stayed in education or cut down their hours for a better work life balance. The Bank said this had created other labour shortages that could take \"many years to be resolved\".\n\nBank of England governor Andrew Bailey said the jobs market was \"extraordinarily tight\", adding that when he speaks to businesses up and down the UK, labour shortages are the \"first, second and third thing people want to talk about\".\n\nThe Bank's decision to raise interest rates will make borrowing more expensive, potentially hitting some households harder.\n\nThe Bank cannot do much to ease the energy price shock or rapid price rises in some consumer goods, so it is sticking to its job by trying to keep inflation stable, the Bank's deputy governor for monetary policy Ben Broadbent said.\n\nThe rates rise coupled with soaring prices will make it more difficult for some people to afford mortgage repayments.\n\nNaomi Mellor said her and her husband were \"tightening their belts\" due to rising energy costs\n\nNaomi Mellor, a vet who lives in Hatfield with her husband, sold their house in April, but their next purchase fell through, so they're renting.\n\nShe said rising mortgage rates have had a big impact on what they can afford.\n\n\"We're looking at a rise in our energy bills, a rise in our fuel bills and a rise in our mortgage repayments, which altogether is going to contribute to probably £200 to £300 a month more in our monthly bills.\n\n\"We're trying to buy a house and the rising mortgage rates have had a big impact on what we can afford and how much we're going to be repaying on a monthly basis,\" she said.\n\nThe Bank's rates decision will add just over £25 to the typical monthly repayment for people on a tracker mortgage.\n\nThose who have a standard variable rate mortgage will pay an extra £15 per month on average.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have one of these two types of mortgage.\n\nWhile savers will hope for higher returns, many big banks failed to pass on the full increase in December, when interest rates were increased from a record low of 0.1%.\n\nThe worst squeeze on the income of households since 1990 is what the Bank predicts.\n\nRecord energy bill rises from April will take inflation to a peak of 7.25% in April, more than treble the Bank's normal target.\n\nSome have called it \"Black Thursday\" for living standards.\n\nIn raising interest rates again and signalling more rate rises in the coming months, and nearly voting for even more on Thursday, the Bank is putting the nation on the couch in an exercise in mass psychology.\n\nInflation rises can be self-fulfilling. If workers, consumers and businesses expect 7% rises to persist, they will pre-emptively put up prices and ask for wage rises that then bring this about.\n\nWhat the Bank is trying to do is to confine what is happening right now to being a one-off shock.\n\nTo stop the inflation becoming \"ingrained\" as Bank governor Andrew Bailey put it today.\n\nThere is a presentational issue here.\n\nIn ordinary circumstances interest rates are raised to temper booming or bubbly growth - to take the punch bowl away from the party. But there is no punch bowl. There is no party.\n\nIn fact the Bank lowered its forecasts for growth of the economy to 3.75% from 5%, even though Omicron was not as damaging as feared.\n\nThe Bank's answer is that this series of rate rises will be enough to stop a spiral of inflation, but will not go so high as to kill off the recovery. It is a delicate balancing act indeed.\n\nThe recent rapid rise in prices led to some members of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to call for a bigger rate rise.\n\nFour of the nine members voted to increase rates to 0.75% to ward off fears that price rises could become more sustained.\n\nThe MPC voted unanimously to end new purchases as part of its £895bn bond buying programme to support the economy.\n\nThe Bank also forecast that the rapid spread of the Omicron Covid variant will hit growth this year.\n\nThe economy is forecast to stagnate in the first three months of this year, while the Bank also cut its annual growth forecast for 2022 from 5% to 3.75%.\n\nPolicymakers expect the economy to grow by around 1.25% in 2023.\n\nWhile consumers are expected to dip into their savings to maintain living standards, this is expected to slow down later this year, weighing on growth.", "A keen gardener was saved by his lunch when a camper van plunged through a wall and fell onto the greenhouse where he had been working.\n\nColin Townsend, 78, had just popped inside for a meal with his wife when the smash happened.\n\nThe van driver, neighbour Bob Gray, was also unscathed after the accident in Johnshaven, Aberdeenshire.\n\nMr Gray thinks he hit the wrong pedal during a manoeuvre while wearing wider shoes than he was used to.\n\nEileen Townsend, 76, said her husband had been in the greenhouse shortly before the crash on Thursday afternoon.\n\n\"He spends most of his time there, and had come in for lunch\", she told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"We were just finishing when the dogs started to bark. We thought it was just the postie.\n\n\"Colin went out to greet him but it was Bob, who was as white as a sheet and said 'something terrible has happened'.\"\n\nThe fire service was called to crash in Johnshaven\n\nShe said the the vehicle was \"precariously balanced\" and the greenhouse - made of bricks and wood - was \"totally demolished\".\n\nMrs Townsend said: \"The fire brigade attended and said they'd never seen anything like it.\n\n\"The main thing is Bob was unscathed. It was an accident-and-a-half.\n\n\"We we just mighty relieved at the end of the day. He was OK, how on Earth he walked away I'll never know.\"\n\nMr Gray 70, told BBC Scotland: \"I was wearing wider shoes than usual, I must have hit the accelerator and it surged forward.\n\n\"The wall crumbled. It happened in a second. I then just stepped out.\"\n\nThe best way to remove the vehicle is being assessed.", "Deforestation usually slows down in January because the rainy season prevents loggers accessing the forest\n\nThe number of trees cut down in the Brazilian Amazon in January far exceeded deforestation for the same month last year, according to government satellite data.\n\nThe area destroyed was five times larger than 2021, the highest January total since records began in 2015.\n\nProtecting the Amazon is essential if we are to tackle climate change.\n\nTrees are felled for their wood as well as to clear spaces to plant crops to supply global food companies.\n\nAt the climate change summit COP26 in Glasgow last year, more than 100 governments promised to stop and reverse deforestation by 2030.\n\nThe latest satellite data from Brazil's space agency Inpe again calls into question the Brazilian government's commitment to protecting its huge rainforest, say environmentalists.\n\n\"The new data yet again exposes how the government's actions contradict its greenwashing campaigns,\" explains Cristiane Mazzetti of Greenpeace Brazil.\n\nGreenpeace are calling on supermarkets in the UK and elsewhere to drop suppliers who are involved in deforestation from their meat and dairy supply chains suppliers.\n\nDeforestation totalled 430 square kilometres (166 square miles) in January - an area more than seven times the size of Manhattan, New York.\n\nFelling large numbers of trees at the start of the year is unusual because the rainy season usually stops loggers from accessing dense forest.\n\nBrazil's vast rainforest absorbs huge amounts of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, acting as what's known as a carbon sink. But the more trees cut down, the less the forest can soak up emissions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A logger, an environmental policeman, a cattle rancher and an environmentalist share their views on the Amazon's future\n\nBut the area is also home to communities who say they need to use the forest for mining and commercial farming in order to make a living.\n\nAt the same time, indigenous communities living in the Amazon fight to protect the rainforest and their ways of life.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has weakened environmental protections for the region and argued that the government should exploit the area to reduce poverty.\n\nThere are a number of factors driving this level of deforestation.\n\nStrong global demand for agricultural commodities such as beef and soya beans is fuelling some of these illegal clearances - Another is the expectation that a new law will soon be passed in Brazil to legitimise and forgive land grabbing.\n\nThe Brazilian government argues that in the period between August last year and January 2022, overall deforestation was lower compared to the same period twelve months ago.\n\nEnvironmentalists say that they are not surprised by the record January felling, given that President Bolsonaro has significantly weakened legal protections since he took office in 2019.\n\nAt the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow last year, Mr Bolsonaro was one of the world leaders who promised to halt and reverse deforestation by the end of this decade.\n\nPolitical observers argue that despite this change in tone, the policies on the ground remain the same.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Russia is in a position to \"mount a major military action\" says US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan\n\nRussia could invade Ukraine \"at any time\" and American citizens should leave immediately, the US has warned.\n\nAn invasion could start with aerial bombing that would make departures difficult and endanger civilians, the White House said on Friday.\n\nMoscow has repeatedly denied any plans to invade Ukraine despite massing more than 100,000 troops near the border.\n\nThe US statement prompted countries around the world to issue fresh warnings to nationals in Ukraine.\n\nNon-essential staff have been ordered to leave the US Embassy in Kyiv, the State Department announced in a release. Consular services will be suspended from Sunday, although the US \"will maintain a small consular presence\" in the western city of Lviv \"to handle emergencies\".\n\nUK ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons has tweeted that she and a core team are staying in Kyiv.\n\nMeanwhile, Russia said it has decided to \"optimise\" its diplomatic staff numbers in Ukraine. A foreign ministry spokeswoman cited fears of \"provocations\" by Kyiv or other parties.\n\nAttempts to de-escalate tensions through diplomacy are set to continue on Saturday, with both US President Joe Biden and France's President Emmanuel Macron due to speak to Russia's Vladimir Putin by phone.\n\nMoscow has accused Western countries of stirring up hysteria.\n\nUS National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Russian forces were now \"in a position to be able to mount a major military action\" in remarks seen as a clear escalation in the urgency of warnings from US officials.\n\n\"We obviously cannot predict the future, we don't know exactly what is going to happen, but the risk is now high enough and the threat is now immediate enough that [leaving] is prudent,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. I’m staying in Ukraine, for now: Watch US citizen and English teacher Juan Tec explain why\n\nMr Sullivan added that the administration did not know if Russian President Vladimir Putin had made a final decision to invade, but said that the Kremlin was looking for a pretext to justify military action, which he said could start with intense aerial bombardment.\n\nHis comments came as US officials warned of a further build-up of Russian troops at Ukraine's borders over the past week and planned Russian military exercises in the Black Sea in the coming days.\n\nPresident Biden has said that he would not send troops to rescue any citizens left stranded in the event of Russian action.\n\nOn Friday, the US president hosted a video call with transatlantic leaders in which they agreed on co-ordinated action to inflict severe economic consequences on Russia if it invaded Ukraine.\n\nThe US also said it was deploying a further 3,000 troops from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Poland, and that they were expected to arrive there next week. The troops will not fight in Ukraine, but will ensure the defence of US allies.\n\nThe US has been out in front of its European allies with warnings about the possibility of a Russian attack on Ukraine. But this was a notable increase in urgency.\n\nThe Americans are worried by the continued build-up of Russian troops, the way they are positioned, and the beginning of military exercises that could serve as a rolling start to an invasion.\n\nThe latest intelligence assessments prompted President Biden to convene close allies on Friday to tell them he believed President Putin may well soon give a final \"go order,\" according to US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.\n\nMr Biden's top military adviser, Gen Mark Milley, made an unusual number of phone calls in rapid succession - to his counterparts in Russia, Canada, the UK and Europe.\n\nThe administration has been accused by some of contributing to the escalation with its rhetoric. But it has decided to be \"as transparent as possible\" with the sharing of information, Mr Sullivan said, clearly calculating this to be part of its deterrent strategy.\n\nRussian naval drills took place in Crimea on Friday, while 10 days of military exercises continued in Belarus, to the north of Ukraine. Ukraine has accused Russia of blocking its access to the sea.\n\nThere are fears that if Russia tries to invade Ukraine, the exercises put the Russian military close to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, making an attack on the city easier. Russia says its troops will return to their permanent bases after the drills end.\n\nThe current tensions come eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula. Since then, Ukraine's military has been locked in a war with Russian-backed rebels in eastern areas near Russia's borders.\n\nThe Kremlin says it wants to enforce \"red lines\" to make sure that its former Soviet neighbour does not join Nato.\n\nNato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the bloc was \"united and prepared for any scenario\".", "The outgoing commissioner enjoyed widespread support within the Met Police\n\nDame Cressida Dick's resignation as Metropolitan Police commissioner has been welcomed by her critics. But what do figures in the policing community make of the imminent exit of the first female commissioner of the UK's largest police force?\n\nDame Cressida resigned on Thursday after being unable to convince London's Mayor Sadiq Khan that she would be able to lead a positive transformation of the force's culture.\n\nScrutiny of Scotland Yard has intensified following a litany of controversies, particularly during the past 12 months.\n\nThe handling of the Sarah Everard vigil, the delay in investigating Downing Street parties, and the discovery last week of a culture of misogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment uncovered by the police watchdog at one central London station, have all cast the force in a poor light.\n\nNonetheless, the mood within the Met Police about Dame Cressida's resignation is seemingly one of dismay.\n\n\"This has been horrific and a waste of the best police leader I have known,\" one senior serving officer has told the BBC. It is a view that seems to reflect what many within policing think.\n\nDame Cressida Dick has lost the backing of London Mayor Sadiq Khan\n\nShabnam Chaudhri, who rose to the rank of superintendent during her time at the Met, described Dame Cressida's departure as a \"very, very sad day for policing\".\n\nThe former officer told the BBC: \"There is a culture that has been embedded in policing for many, many years, long before Cressida Dick took over as the commissioner for the Metropolitan Police.\n\n\"However, she's had a terrible last two years with a catalogue of catastrophic incidents that have taken place.\"\n\nJohn Sutherland, who has written a book on the problems facing the police, was among the many former Met officers to offer his support.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKen Marsh, chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation, described the body and its officers as being \"saddened\" by the news that Dame Cressida had been denied \"the opportunity and the necessary time to build back trust\" in the force.\n\nHe said that although it was \"of course a challenging time\" for the Met, \"policing and police officers are an easy target for critics who have never spent a day in our shoes or dealt with the daily challenges we face\".\n\nMr Marsh added: \"Whilst the federation did not always agree with Commissioner Cressida Dick, we think she was doing a good job in difficult circumstances. She genuinely cares about London, its citizens and - importantly, from our perspective - her officers and their families.\n\n\"Her removal leaves a void in the leadership of London and UK policing at what is a critical time. She should have been treated better.\"\n\nJust hours before her resignation, Dame Cressida told BBC London she had no intention of stepping down\n\nHowever, Ms Chaudhri said she felt that public trust in policing in the capital could be restored by bringing in a replacement with new ideas.\n\nShe added: \"I think it's time for the organisation to look outside and to bring somebody fresh in so that they come in with an independent oversight without having to be tarnished or influenced by anybody else.\n\n\"Of course, there will be some influences, but the bottom line is I think it's time to start looking further afield.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A High Court ruling in 2021 cleared founder Camilla Batmanghelidjh and seven trustees of any personal wrongdoing\n\nThe collapsed Kids Company charity was mismanaged, a watchdog has concluded.\n\nThe charity, set up by Camila Batmanghelidjh, folded in 2015 amid financial problems. A police investigation found no evidence of criminality or safeguarding failures.\n\nA new report by the Charity Commission found Kids Company had repeatedly failed to pay tax and its workers.\n\nEx-trustees said they were pleased it found no basis for action to be taken but rejected the mismanagement finding.\n\nThe report said there was no basis for regulatory action having found \"no dishonesty, bad faith, or inappropriate gain in the operation of the charity\" but added that trustees should have acted sooner to to improve its financial stability.\n\nThe trustees said they were \"disappointed that the commission, in criticising some decisions we took, has chosen to discount the clear findings of the High Court that completely exonerated us\".\n\nMs Batmanghelidjh has said she intends to seek a judicial review, calling the report a \"corrupted attempt\" to \"justify its mistaken decision to conduct an investigation in the first place\".\n\nKids Company was founded in 1996 in south London, to provide support to up to 36,000 deprived and vulnerable inner-city children and young people.\n\nIt ran youth centres in London, Bristol and Liverpool and employed more than 600 people. BBC presenter Alan Yentob was chairman of the trustees.\n\nIn June 2015 local authorities in London were warned the charity was having financial difficulties but the government approved a £3m grant.\n\nThe following month, it emerged the charity was told it would not get more public funding unless its chief executive, Ms Batmanghelidjh, was replaced.\n\nMs Batmanghelidjh announced she would step down, but denied the charity was mismanaged.\n\nLater that month, a police investigation was triggered by an interview by Newsnight and Buzzfeed News with a former employee who made claims of physical and sexual abuse at the charity.\n\nThe charity shut down in August 2015, saying its finances had become stretched because of the number of children \"pouring\" through its doors for help.\n\nIn October of that year, the National Audit Office said Kids Company had received at least £46m of public money despite repeated concerns about how it was run.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police closed its investigation into abuse in January 2016 saying it found \"no evidence of criminality\".\n\nIn 2021, the founder and former trustees won a High Court battle against being disqualified from other organisations.\n\nThe Official Receiver argued they were \"unfit\" to hold directorships because of their handling of the charity.\n\nBut the ruling cleared former chief executive Ms Batmanghelidjh and the seven others of personal wrongdoing.\n\nThe judge said the charity might have survived had it not been for unfounded allegations of criminal activity.\n\nNow, the Charity Commission's official report has made a formal finding of \"mismanagement in the administration of the charity\".\n\nIt found the charity had repeatedly failed to pay tax it owed and had failed to pay its own workers. It owed the £850,000 to HMRC when it collapsed.\n\nIt said the charity operated a high-risk business model and the trustees had allowed spending to increase without funds to cover increased costs or a fall in fundraising. It said they should have acted sooner to improve the charity's financial stability.\n\nA statement from the former trustees said they were concerned that by criticising them and \"disregarding or dismissing\" the High Court's findings, the report would discourage good people from becoming charity trustees.\n\nMs Batmanghelidjh called the commission's report a \"travesty\", said it \"ignores clear evidence\" and has \"invented findings\".\n• None What went wrong at Kids Company?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe new Metropolitan Police commissioner must tackle police culture and conduct, Priti Patel has said.\n\nIn a statement the home secretary said \"strong and decisive new leadership will be required to restore public confidence\" in London's police force.\n\nOn Thursday Cressida Dick said she had to resign from the role after London's mayor made it clear to her he had no confidence in her leadership.\n\nIt followed cases of sexism and misogyny among some Met officers.\n\nLast week, the police watchdog found \"disgraceful\" examples of bullying and sexual harassment at Charing Cross police station in central London.\n\nDame Cressida, the first woman to lead the UK's biggest police force, also faced criticism over the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met officer last year, and a series of other scandals.\n\nBeyond London, the Met is also responsible for national counter-terrorism policing, and Ms Patel said the Met commissioner was \"a national leader, with a critical national role\".\n\nDame Cressida's successor will be appointed by the home secretary, in consultation with the mayor of London.\n\nPrime ministers have no formal role in appointing the commissioner, but Boris Johnson has nevertheless faced calls to stay out of the process entirely because of the ongoing Met investigation into lockdown parties at Downing Street.\n\nHome affairs committee chairwoman Diana Johnson, a Labour MP, said she hoped Mr Johnson would \"completely stand aside from any discussion about who the new commissioner should be\".\n\nContenders include Matt Jukes and Neil Basu, who are both assistant Met commissioners.\n\nMs Patel said the new commissioner must be \"focused on the basics\", including tackling the abuse of women and girls, drugs and knife crime.\n\n\"Policing culture and conduct have rightly come under scrutiny,\" she added. \"Be in no doubt that a new leader must tackle these institutional issues.\"\n\nBut Sir Peter Fahy, a former chief constable for Greater Manchester Police, said the idea that replacing one commissioner would change policing culture was \"naive\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme Dame Cressida's resignation would be \"a blow\" to female officers who saw her as a role model - and could put people off applying for senior positions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal accuses Cressida Dick of a \"sense of denial\" over Met Police controversies\n\nFormer Met Police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson told LBC \"we should be casting the net as wide as possible\" to find the best candidate for the role, including outside policing.\n\nFormer chief constable Dr Tim Brain said the Met had often looked within to someone \"brought up through the system\" when recruiting for the top job in the past but the next commissioner could come from outside.\n\nChief Constable Andy Marsh, chief executive of the College of Policing which sets standards for training in policing, told BBC News it would be wrong to say that issues of culture were confined to London and said \"policing must respond to this collectively\" across England and Wales.\n\nHe said the recruitment process would start quickly, probably \"in the next few weeks\".\n\nInspector Andy George, president of the National Black Police Association, told BBC News that while Dame Cressida had done an \"awful lot of good\" in her time it was right that she resigned so that there could be wholesale change across the Met and policing in general.\n\nHe added there should be an independent system for internal grievances to help improve the culture within forces.\n\nThe BBC has been told the home secretary has clashed with the Labour mayor over the resignation.\n\nHome Office sources said they were \"astounded\" that Mr Khan's previous comment that Dame Cressida had \"days and weeks\" to sort out the Met turned into \"less than 48 hours\".\n\nDame Cressida is thought to have offered her resignation after declining to meet Mr Khan to discuss her plans for reforming the Met - but the BBC understands he did not inform Ms Patel about the meeting.\n\nShe said she had \"agreed to stay for a short period to ensure the stability of the Met\".\n\nSusan Hall, leader of the Greater London Assembly Conservatives, said Mr Khan had handled the situation \"extremely badly\".\n\nIn her resignation statement, Dame Cressida, who served in the role for almost five years and was recently given a two-year contract extension, said that the murder of Ms Everard and \"many other awful cases recently\" had damaged confidence in the force.\n\n\"There is much to do - and I know that the Met has turned its full attention to rebuilding public trust and confidence,\" she said.\n\nSome people have welcomed her resignation, including Jamie Klingler, co-founder of campaign group Reclaim These Streets, which is bringing a legal challenge against the Met over its handling of a Sarah Everard vigil.\n\nShe said Dame Cressida's resignation came \"11 months too late\" and said reform and change had not been possible under her leadership.\n\nJohn Pape, a friend of Stephen Port murder victim Gabriel Kovari said he was \"gratified\" Dame Cressida was leaving. An inquest found that police failings contributed to the deaths of Port's final three victims.", "British nationals in Ukraine are being told to leave the country now while commercial means are still available.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office's warning came as the US said that Russia could invade \"any day now\" and told its own citizens to leave in the next 48 hours.\n\nRussia has denied any plans to invade Ukraine despite massing more than 100,000 troops near the border.\n\nBoris Johnson said he feared for the security of Europe as he joined a call of world leaders on Friday.\n\nMr Johnson urged allies to have a \"heavy package of economic sanctions ready to go\" should Russia make the \"devastating and destructive decision\" to invade Ukraine, Downing Street said.\n\nArmed forces minister James Heappey said the advice to Britons in Ukraine had changed because Russia was at a stage where it could attack \"at no notice\".\n\nMr Heappey told BBC Breakfast: \"We are now confident that the artillery systems, the missile systems and the combat air are all in place that would allow Russia to launch - at no notice - an attack on Ukraine.\"\n\nAnd he warned that the Royal Air Force would not be \"in a position\" to go in and fly people out at a later date if they remained in the country.\n\nUS national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Russia was in the position \"to be able to mount a major military operation in Ukraine any day now\" and it could start with an intense aerial bombing. But he stressed the US did not know whether President Vladimir Putin had made a final decision.\n\nHowever, Tobias Ellwood, Conservative MP and chair of the defence select committee, has raised concerns about the rhetoric being used by Washington, saying it was \"bordering on panic\".\n\nMr Ellwood told the BBC's Newsnight programme: \"Absolutely, you've got a duty of care to your citizens, particularly when the threat picture does change.\n\n\"But it's almost bordering on panic and that absolutely fits into Putin's objective. He'll be delighted to see the West and the Nato alliance crumbling in this way.\"\n\nHe said a division of Nato should have been moved into Ukraine months ago, adding: \"The least we can do now is provide a no fly zone.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office, which also now advises against all travel to Ukraine, estimates there are a few thousand British nationals in Ukraine.\n\nIt said that, due to this increased threat, further embassy staff would be withdrawn from Kyiv - although the embassy would remain open but would be unable to provide in-person consular assistance to any Britons who remain.\n\nA UK government source said the safety of Britons was the \"number one priority\" and said the decision was \"the right precaution to take\".\n\nStuart McKenzie, a British man who has lived in the country for 28 years with his Ukrainian wife and children, told BBC Breakfast he was considering options for leaving.\n\n\"Any parent wouldn't want to put their children into any danger whatsoever,\" he said. \"There seem to be more and more threats, and we hear as soon as next week we could have Russian troops in the country.\"\n\nMr McKenzie is considering driving to the border with Poland, but said he was concerned about access to fuel, food, hotels, and cashpoints, as well as the poor weather conditions on the roads.\n\n\"These things can get out of control very fast and we've got to be on the right side of the chaos, to think of a border with a million cars and panic happening would be disastrous,\" he said.\n\nHe also requested that the government open a hotline to give people practical advice on travel options.\n\nSeveral other countries have also advised their nationals to leave the country, including the Netherlands, Japan and South Korea.\n\nIt comes after Moscow began massive military drills with neighbouring Belarus. These are believed to be Russia's largest deployment to Belarus since the Cold War.\n\nFrance called the drills a \"violent gesture\", while Ukraine said they amounted to \"psychological pressure\". Ukraine has also accused Russia of blocking its access to the sea.\n\nBoth French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Joe Biden are due to speak with Mr Putin on Saturday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Russia is in a position to \"mount a major military action\" says US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan\n\nSpeaking from the White House, Mr Sullivan warned there were signs of Russian escalation including new forces arriving at the Ukrainian border and said an invasion could include a \"rapid assault on the city of Kyiv\" or on other parts of the country.\n\nHe said if a Russian invasion proceeded it was likely \"to begin with aerial bombing and missile attacks that could obviously kill civilians without regard to their nationality\".\n\nThis could lead to communications being severed and commercial transit being halted, he said.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that \"an invasion could begin at any time, and to be clear, that includes during the Olympics\". The Winter Olympics in China are scheduled to end on 20 February.\n\nThe US also said it was sending a further 3,000 troops to Poland, and that they were expected to arrive there next week. The troops will not fight in Ukraine, but will ensure the defence of US allies.\n\nThe current tensions come eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula. Since then, Ukraine's military has been locked in a war with Russian-backed rebels in eastern areas near Russia's borders.\n\nThe Kremlin says it cannot accept that Ukraine - a former Soviet republic with deep social and cultural ties with Russia - could one day join the Western defence alliance Nato and has demanded that this be ruled out.\n\nEarlier on Friday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace met his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu and said at a news conference that an invasion of Ukraine would have \"tragic consequences\" for both countries.\n\nMr Wallace said Russian forces were in the position to invade \"at any time\" but said Mr Shoigu had given him security assurances.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Lord Darroch, a former British ambassador to the US and national security adviser, said the build-up could be an attempt by Russia to raise pressure and extract concessions from the West and Ukraine, but added there were not \"any new messages… the West can give to Russia\" to de-escalate the situation.", "Gordon Lyons has contradicted the legal advice relayed by Robin Swann\n\nNorthern Ireland Health Minister Robin Swann does have the authority to lift Covid-19 restrictions, the economy minister has said.\n\nMr Swann told other ministers he had received legal advice indicating he cannot lift all of the regulations in the absence of the executive.\n\nThe executive collapsed after the resignation of Paul Givan from the post of first minister.\n\nBut Gordon Lyons said Mr Swann does not need to take it to the executive.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MLA was responding to a letter from Mr Swann to ministers, which outlined the advice from Stormont lawyers about lifting restrictions.\n\nMr Lyons told BBC News NI ministers were only \"obligated to take issues to the executive if they are controversial, significant or cross cutting.\n\n\"I don't believe the minor easing of restrictions that he has proposed falls into those categories.\"\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said he has received detailed legal advice\n\nOn Monday, Robin Swann said hsaid he hoped to remove the bulk of the rules this week, in the absence of a functioning executive.\n\nBut in the letter, he advised that without an executive, he cannot act alone to amend or revoke the regulations.\n\nThe letter, seen by the BBC, states government lawyers have suggested the issue would be \"significant\" and therefore, under the terms of Stormont's ministerial code, require executive approval.\n\nThe code states that ministers have a duty to bring any matter to the executive which could be deemed significant, controversial or cut across the responsibility of another department.\n\nIt is understood, however, that Mr Swann has also been advised that if other ministers agree that changing the regulations would not fall into one of those three categories, he could proceed to lift the rules with minimal risk.\n\nAlthough the Covid regulations were drafted by the Department of Health, any decision to alter them since the pandemic began had been taken collectively by the five-party executive.\n\nThe executive collapse meant a scheduled meeting of all ministers to review the remaining rules could not take place on Thursday, as it must be chaired by the first and deputy first ministers.\n\nIn the letter, Mr Swann said he had already stated publicly earlier this week that decisions on amending executive restrictions may not be \"straight-forward\".\n\nHe added: \"That has proven to be the case.\n\n\"This is a situation not of my making and it is matter of deep regret that we do not have collective executive leadership to take our society forward to a new phase in the pandemic response.\"\n\nThe minister said the advice he received meant he may have the power to amend only some of the restrictions without executive approval, because they \"do not individually meet the threshold\" for referral.\n\nThe letter also states that Mr Swann has been advised that he should assess whether the decisions being proposed are ones he would have been obliged to bring to the executive if it was still in place.\n\nStormont lawyers gave the health minister legal advice around the lifting of restrictions on Thursday\n\n\"I would emphasise that this is a different test to simply considering whether practice has been to bring such matters to the executive,\" he added.\n\nMr Swann has now asked other ministers to consider the extent to which they believe changing the restrictions meets the criteria of a decision reserved for the whole executive.\n\nHe has asked for responses by 13:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nAlliance MLA Paula Bradshaw said her party colleague, Justice Minister Naomi Long, was talking to officials about this issue.\n\nMs Bradshaw, who sits on Stormont's Health Committee said, \"we don't want restrictions to stay in place for any longer than they have to\".\n\nMeanwhile Belfast Chamber of Commerce chief executive and former DUP minister has said instability at Stormont is a \"complete disgrace\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSocial Democratic and Labour Party Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon said she did not believe there was a justification for keeping the current measures in place.\n\nSDLP Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon says she does not believe there is a justification for keeping the Covid-19 measures in place\n\n\"I want restrictions lifted but the truth is the restrictions can be lifted if the DUP nominated a first minister and allowed the executive to do its job.\"\n\nThe Covid-19 regulations are legally in force until 24 March, but the executive had previously been carrying out a review of the rules every three weeks.\n\nSo-called Covid passports remain in place for nightclubs as well as for indoor unseated and partially-seated events with 500 or more people in attendance.\n\nA maximum number of 30 people are permitted to gather.\n\nThe minimum self-isolation period for people testing positive for Covid-19 is five full days, subject to negative lateral flow tests on days five and six of a person's isolation.\n\nOther rules still in force include:\n\nRead more about the rules here.\n\nMeanwhile, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill has said the finance minister was exploring how to get approval at Stormont for the draft budget in the absence of the executive.\n\nThe collapse of the executive last week also means ministers are unable to approve the multi-year budget.\n\nThe budget would allow Stormont departments to plan for the next three years.\n\nMinisters had previously agreed to prioritise health and use most of the funding to deal with the crisis including waiting lists.\n\nBut some parties were unhappy about the cuts being proposed to their respective budgets, with the DUP voting against it when it came to the executive for approval in December.\n\nWhile the Stormont executive can no longer meet, new laws passed at Westminster this week means the assembly can continue to scrutinise and pass laws until it is dissolved for the election next month.", "Prince Charles caught coronavirus in March 2020 but only had mild symptoms\n\nThe Prince of Wales, who is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19, met the Queen two days ago in Windsor, a royal source says.\n\nThey say the monarch is not showing any symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nPrince Charles tested positive on Thursday morning - it is the second time he has contracted the virus.\n\nThe previous evening, he and the Duchess of Cornwall met Chancellor Rishi Sunak and others at a reception in the British Museum.\n\nCamilla has tested negative for coronavirus, Clarence House said.\n\nBuckingham Palace has not confirmed whether the Queen has tested positive or negative, citing medical privacy.\n\nEarlier this week, Charles held an investiture at Windsor Castle, where the Queen, 95, is currently in residence.\n\nThe 73-year-old heir to the throne last caught the virus in March 2020, when he reported only mild symptoms.\n\nClarence House confirmed he was now triple vaccinated, but would not give any detail on whether he was experiencing coronavirus symptoms this time.\n\nTuesday's investiture carried out by the prince saw Ansel Wong, a Trinidadian-born cultural activist who previously helped to organise the Notting Hill carnival, receive a CBE for services to art and culture.\n\nLondon restaurant founders and chefs Margot and Fergus Henderson were made OBEs for services to the culinary arts while Dr Nisreen Alwan, associate professor in public health at Southampton University, was made an MBE for services to medicine and public health during the pandemic.\n\nAs well as the investiture, it was a busy day for Charles with meetings and engagements including:\n\nOn Wednesday, Charles and Camilla were at a British Museum reception to celebrate the work of the British Asian Trust.\n\nEarlier that day, Charles attended London's National Gallery as its royal patron.\n\nPeople who develop coronavirus symptoms are asked to notify those they have been in close contact with in the previous 48 hours.\n\nIn England, contacts of positive Covid cases who are fully vaccinated should take lateral flow tests for seven days. They do not have to self-isolate unless they test positive.\n\nCharles must self-isolate for 10 full days, but he could be allowed to end this early if he tests negative on day five and day six.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has signalled that these rules could be lifted within weeks.\n\nPriti Patel, Rishi Sunak, Akshata Murthy, Charles and Camilla were among guests at the celebration of the British Asian Trust\n\nCharles had been due to unveil a statue of Licoricia of Winchester on Thursday, a medieval Jewish businesswoman who was a money lender and single parent in the Hampshire city.\n\nClarence House said His Royal Highness was \"deeply disappointed not to be able to attend... and will look to reschedule his visit as soon as possible\".\n\nThe announcement of Charles's positive test was made just after midday, about 12 minutes before he was due to arrive.\n\nMore than 1,000 people were gathered behind barriers in the city's Jewry Street, waiting to see the prince.\n\nThe Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, Nigel Atkinson, helped reveal the statue on behalf of the prince\n\nThe Queen's representative in Hampshire, the Lord Lieutenant Nigel Atkinson, read out a message from the prince to the disappointed crowd.\n\nCharles's message said: \"Ladies and gentlemen, I am so sorry that I cannot be with you today. I am desperately disappointed as I was so looking forward to marking this historic occasion with you.\n\n\"I hope very much that I will be able to visit at a future time but for today please accept my most heartfelt apologies and my very best wishes as you mark this memorable occasion for Winchester.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Camilla has carried on with her planned engagements, earlier visiting Paddington Haven, a sexual assault referral centre in West London.\n\nShe met former Love Island star Zara McDermott and discussed her experience of revenge porn and assault.\n\nThe Queen with Charles, her eldest son, at the opening ceremony of the Senedd in Cardiff in October\n\nThe Queen returned to Windsor Castle, where she met Charles, earlier this week after spending the anniversary of her accession day on Sunday at her Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nThe day before, she had hosted a Platinum Jubilee reception for volunteer groups and pensioners from the Sandringham community, with guests describing her as being on \"sparkling form\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson and his officials \"broke lockdown laws\" over parties held in Downing Street, Conservative former Prime Minister Sir John Major has said.\n\nHe accused the government of feeling it \"need not obey the rules\", adding: \"Outright lies breed contempt.\"\n\nSir John's comments come while 12 gatherings are still being investigated by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nHe also said the UK's reputation was \"being shredded\", but Mr Johnson called this \"demonstrably untrue\".\n\nThe prime minister, speaking on a visit to Poland, declined to comment further on Sir John's criticisms, adding: \"I'm going to have plenty to say about all that in due course.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to concentrate on diplomacy, after talks on the Ukraine crisis with Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki.\n\nThe Met is reviewing its previous decision not to investigate a Christmas quiz in No 10 in 2020, after the Mirror published a photograph of Mr Johnson with three aides - wearing tinsel and a Santa hat - near a bottle of sparkling wine.\n\nIt also announced on Wednesday that it was emailing more than 50 people as part of its existing inquiry into lockdown parties, which could lead to fines for those found to have broken Covid rules.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister, known to have attended three gatherings, had so far not been contacted.\n\nBut, in a speech to the Institute for Government think tank, Sir John said: \"At No 10, the prime minister and officials broke lockdown laws.\n\n\"Brazen excuses were dreamed up. Day after day the public was asked to believe the unbelievable. Ministers were sent out to defend the indefensible - making themselves look gullible or foolish.\"\n\nSir John, in office from 1990 to 1997, added that current ministers thought that \"they, and they alone, need not obey the rules, traditions, conventions... of public life.\n\n\"The charge that there is one law for the government and one for everyone else is politically deadly, and it has struck home.\"\n\nSir John, who has previously criticised Mr Johnson over his handling of Brexit and called the government \"politically corrupt\" in its treatment of Parliament, urged the prime minister to introduce a \"fully independent\" guardian of ethics in politics.\n\n\"Lies can become accepted as fact, which... has consequences for policy and for reputation,\" he said.\n\n\"That is why deliberate lies to Parliament have been fatal to political careers, and must always be so.\"\n\nSir John Major has repeatedly criticised Boris Johnson and his government so the fact he is doing so again isn't going to come as a surprise.\n\nBut the words he has chosen to use are particularly strong, going as far as to state plainly that the prime minister broke the law.\n\nThat accusation, of course, is what the Met Police are currently investigating and Number 10 has repeatedly said people should wait for the outcome of that investigation.\n\nIt's also striking to hear a former Tory prime minister echoing Labour's attack line that it looks like one rule for the government and another for everyone else.\n\nSo while Sir John's intervention may not be entirely unexpected, it is yet more criticism from yet another source within the Conservative Party at a precarious time for the prime minister.\n\nIn a question-and-answer session after the speech, Sir John said he had \"little doubt\" lockdown rules had been breached, but it would not be \"prudent\" to pre-judge the police report.\n\nGiving his reaction to Sir John's comments, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"It's time for the prime minister to go. That's in the national interest. The only people that could remove him are his own MPs...\n\n\"The important thing here is the prime minister's lost the moral authority to lead.\"\n\nIf 54 Tory MPs write letters of no-confidence in Mr Johnson, this would prompt a full vote on his future, which - if lost - would see him leave office.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Sir John had shown \"bravery\", adding: \"This damning criticism should act as a wake-up call to every Conservative MP who is sitting on their hands while Boris Johnson trashes the values that underpin our democracy.\"\n\nBut Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab told BBC Wales: \"I know Sir John well. I always listen to what he's got to say. I disagree with him.\"", "An Oregon man took his own life after accidentally shooting his brother while loading a gun to fire at a bear on their property, police have said.\n\nThe man called 911 to report the tragedy, but turned the gun on himself before police arrived.\n\nThe incident took place on Tuesday morning in the community of Sunny Valley in rural Josephine County, just north of the border with California.\n\nNeither of the men involved has been identified.\n\nSome 25,000 black bears live in Oregon and homeowners are typically urged to avoid confrontations with them.\n\nAccording to the Josephine County Sheriff's Office, the 911 caller said he had been loading his weapon with the intent of shooting at the bear.\n\nWhen police got to the home, they found both men dead, each with a single gunshot wound.\n\nThe case is currently under investigation by the sheriff's office and Oregon state police.\n\nTheir findings will be forwarded to the state medical examiner's office.\n\nRising gun ownership in the US has been accompanied by higher rates of death and injury caused by unintended discharge.\n\nNearly 500 people die every year in unintentional shootings, data from the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence shows.\n\nIf you need help, you can call the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.\n\nIn the UK, you can call the Samaritans Helpline on 116 123 or visit samaritans.org.", "The price of pasta, tinned tomatoes and strawberry jam jumped last year as the cost of supermarket staples rose, new figures for the BBC suggest.\n\nOverall, the price of a basket filled with 15 standard food items rose by £1.32, or 8%, in just one year.\n\nChanges in the average cost of the food items at Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Tesco were tracked by retail research firm Assosia.\n\nSome items fell in price, with carrots and mild cheddar seeing small declines.\n\nThe same basket of food made up of items from the cheaper \"value\" ranges at the supermarkets recorded an overall fall in price, down 45p, or 4%. But within that, items such as pasta and vanilla ice cream saw rises of more than 6%.\n\nOther items the firm tracked in the new research for BBC News included tortilla chips, fish fingers, honey, blueberries, carrots and lemons.\n\nAlthough official figures suggest that the overall cost of living increased by 5.4% in the year to December, this number - known as the inflation rate - can mask some steep rises seen at the tills, especially on everyday items.\n\nThere are many factors that can make it difficult to track how prices are changing for households, such as promotions at supermarkets or a lack of availability of certain products.\n\nAsda, for example, recently pledged to stock its budget ranges in all of its 581 supermarkets and online after complaints from anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe.\n\n\"Looking at food prices is a bit of a minefield\", says Kay Staniland, director at Assosia. Her company selected a snapshot of popular products that were comparable across the value and standard ranges.\n\n\"I think the figures show that retailers are trying to avoid the biggest increases to value lines as much as possible. But these value lines do make up a small part of total ranges. The standard mid-tier range is where the largest volume of sales come from,\" she says.\n\nAdam Leyland, editor of The Grocer magazine, also tracks a weekly basket of goods and how prices differ across the supermarket aisles. He says \"we're now in a 'once in a generation' moment for food inflation in the UK\".\n\n\"We've not seen anything like this since the financial crash in 2008. And this is just the start. It's going to go on for two or two and a half years, probably as various costs and problems filter through into the system.\"\n\nInflation is everywhere in the food supply chain, he says, from rising energy and labour costs to raw materials and packaging.\n\nThe supermarkets are now grappling with how much of these costs to pass on.\n\n\"The food market is incredibly competitive and if you put your prices up ahead of the competition, the shopper will notice. Right now, more than ever, price is the major focus for the shopper. And they will vote with their feet,\" he says.\n\nShoppers such as Fernanda Almeida have already been feeling the pinch, though.\n\nFernanda Almeida says she now cooks meals from scratch to save money\n\nShe lives with her partner in Worcester and the pair used to purchase ready-meals, or pots of instant porridge, which he could take along to his military barracks where cooking space is limited.\n\nBut after the shopping bill went up by about £20 a week, they introduced some changes.\n\n\"Our shopping has changed completely... we're definitely cooking from scratch a lot more now because it just works out cheaper,\" Fernanda says.\n\nShe says she feels \"worried\". \"I've gone from someone who has a budget per month but goes to the shop without a list, picks up things that I fancy eating, to planning each meal, checking items off against the list.\"\n\nShe's noticed that tinned items in particular have gone up in price and it can often be cheaper to buy individual items for recipes in larger supermarkets, even in comparison with discount stores like Aldi or Lidl.\n\nVimbai Gwata-St John in Bexley has seen her food shop go up by about £20 a week, too.\n\nVimbai Gwata-St John: \"The one thing you can't compromise on is food\"\n\nAs a mum to an 18-week-old baby with food intolerances she has had to chop and change what they are buying from week to week.\n\nShe says she used to follow a budget strictly until she became ill during her pregnancy.\n\n\"Because of that, we didn't have time or ability to track our expenses, we just bought what we needed out of desperation because of the other problems at that point in our lives.\"\n\nNow she is trying to get the budget back on track and is looking at couponing or starting to buy items such as toilet paper or nappies in bulk.\n\nAlthough prices are going up across the board, she says: \"The one thing you can't compromise on is food.\"\n\nHow supermarkets manage their own inflationary pressures will have consequences for millions of households. And the least well-off, which spend a bigger share of income on essentials such as food and energy, are less able to absorb soaring prices in the aisles.\n\nThe big four supermarket chains have learned from the mistakes they made in 2008, when they put prices up. Aldi and Lidl swooped, stealing customers and market share. Their businesses have since doubled in size and are still opening new stores.\n\n\"The battleground is value. And they are determined to stop them (the discounters) making further grounds. For instance, Tesco and Sainsbury's are price-matching Aldi.\n\nCost cutting, shrinkflation - reducing the size of a product but not the price - and cutting back on expensive ingredients are just some of the tactics that retailers are using to mitigate the rising cost of groceries. But the trend is clear.\n\nAssosia recorded more than 17,000 price increases across the main supermarkets last month, more than double the number in the same month last year, and across every category.\n\n\"Inflation is everywhere\" says Mr Leyland. And he agrees with the recent warning from John Allan, the chairman of Tesco, that the worst is yet to come.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds of birds were seen falling from the sky onto a road and into hedges\n\nAbout 200 birds have died overnight in mysterious circumstances near a village.\n\nThe birds believed to be starlings were found between Waterston and Hazelbeach, Pembrokeshire on Thursday evening.\n\nPembrokeshire Herald editor Tom Sinclair said: \"There were 50 plus birds on the road and you could hear them all in the hedges, squawking and making noises.\"\n\nThe RSPB said the birds may have been disturbed from their evening roost.\n\nThe wildlife charity said: \"When this happens during night-time, it can cause them to collide with the ground as they become disorientated.\n\nMr Sinclair said he thinks quite a few hundred if not a thousand birds have died\n\n\"However, further examinations will be needed to confirm the cause of this incident.\"\n\nPembrokeshire council confirmed 200 starlings had been found dead in the road and said it was not known how they had died.\n\nMr Sinclair added: \"In the first wave people told me the council collected 10 bin bags, and I was there later on so I think quite a few hundred, if not a 1,000 have died.\n\n\"I was there at around 11.30pm, they were still falling from the sky. It was as if they were dead before they hit the ground.\"\n\nThey were found on the road between Waterston and Hazelbeach\n\nMr Sinclair said someone phoned him at home and it took him half an hour to get there. He said the council had been and gone by that point.\n\nHe believes the birds were starlings.\n\nClaire said she took a stunned bird home and hopes to to release it once it recovers\n\n\"I got the impression they were falling from a height, I was worried about my car but I had parked a bit further away,\" he added.\n\n\"It was on single track towards Hazelbeach and there were people in two or three cars when I was there, watching it.\n\nThere are electric cables near the village but the cause of death is not known\n\n\"I don't know what happened, really no idea, I can't think it was a bird of prey, they weren't flying and hitting the road, they were falling dead.\n\n\"I wondered if they were poisoned, or maybe it was birds who migrate and it was really cold, maybe they froze and died.\"\n\nResident Claire Eaton went to the area at about 23:00 GMT.\n\nShe said: \"It was really traumatic, on the road there were quite a few dead birds. Blood splattered everywhere. I saw a flash in the sky about an hour previously.\n\n\"It was like something out of a horror film. I think the cause of this is man made, and people need to respect our wildlife.\"\n\nShe took a stunned bird home and is planning to release it this morning.\n\nPembrokeshire County Council said it had received a call at about 21:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Officers attended the site and there were around 200 starlings found dead on the road.\n\n\"The authority undertook a clean-up and removed the dead birds from site. There is no clear indication as to the cause of these deaths. We have reported the incident to the Animal and Plant Health Agency.\"\n\nThe council is reported to have taken away dozens of the birds from the road", "Neil Coyle is the Labour MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, in London\n\nMP Neil Coyle has been suspended by the Labour Party after allegations he made racist comments.\n\nPolitical journalist Henry Dyer has made a formal complaint to the parliamentary authorities about the MP.\n\nMr Dyer, who is of British-Chinese heritage, says Mr Coyle used racial slurs and made him feel uncomfortable at an incident in a Commons bar.\n\nFollowing his suspension, Mr Coyle said he was \"very sorry for my insensitive comments\".\n\nHe said he had \"apologised to everyone involved\" and would be cooperating with the investigation.\n\nIn a later statement he said he was \"devastated to be in this situation through my own fault\" and would \"take every step necessary to improve myself\".\n\n\"I hope to re-prove my Labour values and have the whip restored in due course.\"\n\nMr Dyer later confirmed Mr Coyle had \"offered his apologies for his inappropriate actions... and reiterated that he will be complying with the Labour Party's investigation\".\n\nThe incident between Mr Coyle and Mr Dyer took place in one of the bars in Parliament\n\nA Labour spokesman said: \"The Labour Party expects the highest standards of behaviour from all our MPs and we take allegations of this sort very seriously.\n\n\"Accordingly the chief whip has now suspended the Labour whip from Neil Coyle pending an investigation.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told Mr Coyle has also been suspended from the membership of the Labour Party, as well as the parliamentary Labour Party.\n\nIt is also understood the party intends to talk to Mr Dyer as part of their investigation.\n\nThe initial complaint about Mr Coyle was made to the Commons Speaker, and Labour launched their investigation once the allegations were made public.\n\nWriting in the Insider, where he works as a political reporter, Mr Dyer said the MP made a racially insensitive remark during a conversation in the Strangers' Bar about Barry Gardiner, the Labour MP who received funding from a suspected Chinese spy.\n\nMr Dyer claims Mr Coyle used a racial stereotype, a comment the journalist says \"struck me at the time as not right\".\n\nHe says he \"gently pushed back at Coyle about this\" but the MP suggested he was being \"over-sensitive\".\n\n\"I responded by saying that I am British-Chinese, to which Coyle responded that he could tell, \"from how you look like you've been giving renminbi [the Chinese currency] to Barry Gardiner.\"\n\nMr Dyer says as he left the bar later that evening he waved at Mr Coyle to \"defuse the tension\" but the MP responded by \"putting two fingers up at me\".\n\nLater that week, Mr Dyer reported the exchange to Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle, who he said \"took immediate action\".\n\nThe Speaker is understood to be \"very concerned\" about the incident.\n\nChair of the Home Affairs Committee, and Labour MP, Diana Johnson said Mr Coyle's comments were \"totally unacceptable\".\n\nIn a statement, the East and South East Asians for Labour group praised Mr Dyer for \"speaking out\".\n\n\"No one should face racism in the workplace especially in Parliament which should be setting the highest example for the rest of the country\".\n\nLast week, the Daily Mail reported Mr Coyle had launched an angry expletive-laden anti-Brexit rant in the Strangers' Bar.\n\nMr Coyle has since been banned from the bars on the parliamentary estate for six months.", "Then assistant commissioner Cressida Dick at the memorial service for the murdered police officer Yvonne Fletcher\n\nThe career of Cressida Dick has seen her weather a number of storms that would have sunk many others. Allegations relating to an unholy trinity of dishonesty, prejudice and incompetence dogged the Met for almost all of her tenure.\n\nPerhaps the most high profile of the potentially career-ending scandals was the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met Police officer. A serving Met Police officer with a record of indecent exposure and a nickname of \"the rapist\".\n\nDame Cressida said she was \"so sorry\" and remained.\n\nAfter the heavy-handed way the force handled subsequent protests and vigils - in which clashes broke out between women and police officers trying to control the gathering, Dame Cressida said confidence in policing was damaged because of remarks made on social media rather than the actions of any Met officers.\n\nMisogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment throughout the ranks of the Met were uncovered in a damning report from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nDame Cressida Dick made a statement to the public after the sentencing of the Met officer who murdered Sarah Everard\n\nA report into the 1987 murder of Daniel Morgan - the killer remains unidentified - accused the force of institutional corruption. It found that the then-Assistant Commissioner Dame Cressida had initially refused to grant access to a police internal data system.\n\nThe shambolic Operation Midland which gave credibility to allegations of child sexual abuse by the paedophile and fantasist Carl Beech did not stop her rising through the ranks, even amid the persistent rumble of accusations against the Met of institutional racism and corruption.\n\nShe had been responsible for supervising the senior investigating officer who said allegations made by Beech were \"credible and true\". Despite hearing the officer say this, and knowing it \"was a mistake\", Dame Cressida admitted she had done nothing to correct it. The force had to pay compensation to a number of people whose reputations had been unfairly tarnished by Beech's lies.\n\nLast September it was announced by the prime minister and home secretary that Dame Cressida's contract - due to end in April - would be extended for another two years.\n\nIt spurred victims of police injustice to write an open letter accusing Dame Cressida of \"presiding over a culture of incompetence and cover-up\". Baroness Lawrence, whose son Stephen was murdered in a racist attack, and Lady Brittan, whose home was raided when her husband Lord Brittan was falsely accused of child abuse were two of the signatories.\n\nObviously, Dame Cressida is not personally responsible for the wrongs committed by her officers. But she was the head of the organisation that - however unwittingly - facilitated the crimes of Wayne Couzens.\n\nShe was head of the organisation which treated sexualised, violent and discriminatory behaviour as \"banter\".\n\nCressida Dick speaks after the verdict in the Lee Rigby murder trial\n\nFurther accusations of racism came from the mother of two women murdered in a park in Wembley. Mina Smallman believes police treated the disappearance and deaths of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry less urgently than if they had been white.\n\nShe said of the investigation: \"I knew instantly why they didn't care. They didn't care because they looked at my daughter's address and they thought they knew who she was. A black woman who lives on a council estate.\"\n\nThe disappearance of Richard Okorogheye, a teenager who was found dead two weeks after his mother reported him missing, is also subject to a review by the police watchdog, which will consider whether ethnicity played a role in the way his case was handled.\n\nAnd athlete Bianca Williams and her partner believe they were racially profiled when their car was stopped by Met officers in Maida Vale, in July 2020. The couple were handcuffed and separated from their baby son. Ms Williams said she thought her family had been targeted because \"we are black and we drive a Mercedes\".\n\nThe Met later apologised for any distress caused.\n\nThe 60-year-old has never before shown any inclination to stand down. Where did her nerves of steel come from?\n\nThe first female commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and the UK's most senior police officer, she was made a dame in Theresa May's resignation honours.\n\nDame Cressida and her deputy attend the funeral of PC Keith Palmer, killed in the March 22 Westminster terror attack\n\nShe was first thrust into the public glare when, in 2005, she headed the operation that led to the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. She co-ordinated the surveillance officers, specialist firearms teams and other police as they attempted to catch the men behind the 21 July bombings.\n\nA subsequent trial found the Met Police guilty of endangering the public, but exonerated then-Commander Dick. She later described the killing as \"an awful time\".\n\n\"I think about it quite often. I wish, wish, wish it hadn't happened, of course, but if anything it has made me a better leader, a better police officer and it has made me more resilient.\"\n\nAt the trial she had told prosecution counsel that she \"does not get anxious - I don't have anxiety\".\n\nShe was quickly promoted through both the Thames Valley force and the Met, and in 2001 she took on command roles in the police response to the 9/11 attacks and the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004.\n\nShe was promoted to deputy assistant commissioner in 2006, and in 2009 she became the first woman to become an assistant commissioner.\n\nThe first openly gay person to hold the post, Dame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 2019 her sexuality was one of the least interesting things about her, adding: \"I happen to love Helen. She's my partner. And on we go.\"\n\nNewly appointed to the top job and smiling outside Lewisham police station in 2017\n\nIt also emerged on the programme that she cannot smell cannabis - a fact her colleagues apparently found \"hilarious\" - and, perhaps appropriately for someone who has so consistently kept her hands clean despite the whiff of scandal in the air, her luxury item would be an endless supply of floral scented soaps.\n\nOriginally from Oxford and the daughter of two academics, Dame Cressida read forestry and agriculture at the university's Balliol College before joining the Met in 1983.\n\nOn her mother's side of the family, she is related to Sophia Jex-Blake, who led the fight for women's education in Britain, and is directly descended from Sophia's brother Thomas Jex-Blake, a 19th Century headmaster of Rugby School.\n\nShe took a brief career break to study criminology at Cambridge and had a short spell working in finance - but for most of her life she has been a police officer.\n\nDame Cressida left the police in 2015 to work at the Foreign Office, in an unspecified job shrouded in secrecy, but returned two years later when she assumed the mantle of Met commissioner.\n\nShe has been a police officer for most of her working life\n\nAt the time, she said it had been \"at least 25 years since I thought regularly about the fact that I was a woman, doing this job\" but added that some men were \"threatened, baffled and confused\" by it.\n\n\"I long for the day when we can all be ourselves, whoever we are, and express ourselves in whatever way we like, and we don't have these kinds of funny constraints in our heads that make us feel: 'Ooh, there's a different power relationship because that's a man and that's a woman.' And we still get that. It's not helpful.\"\n\nAnnouncing her departure, Dame Cressida said: \"It is clear that the mayor no longer has sufficient confidence in my leadership to continue. He has left me no choice but to step aside as commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service.\"\n\nShe had just hours earlier insisted that she had \"no intention of going\".\n\nHer track record shows a pattern of saying sorry and a refusal to relinquish her post.\n\nThis time, no apologies. This time, she goes.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Adele won three prizes at this week's Brit Awards\n\nAdele has said the Las Vegas residency she recently postponed will \"absolutely 100%\" happen later this year.\n\nLast month, the singer posted a tearful video the day before her first show, saying it wasn't ready.\n\nShe has now told TV host Graham Norton she and her team are working extremely hard to prepare and confirm new dates.\n\n\"It has to happen this year because I've got plans for next year,\" she told him. \"Imagine if I have to cancel because I am having a baby!\"\n\nAdele, who has a nine-year-old son Angelo with ex-husband Simon Konecki, told Norton's BBC One chat show she would like to have more children.\n\nBut she declined to say whether a diamond ring she wore at the Brit Awards earlier this week meant she was engaged to boyfriend Rich Paul. \"If I was, would I ever tell anyone if I was or wasn't?\" she said.\n\nThe singer showed off a diamond ring on the red carpet\n\nThe singer won best song, best album and best artist at the ceremony, and performed her single I Drink Wine.\n\n\"I am very happy, really chuffed,\" she said of her Brits success. \"In my speech I wanted to acknowledge other people and my son, who is old enough now.\n\n\"I don't share too much of him, but they are my little soulmates - Angelo and Simon. Our family is separated but we're nailing it and doing a really, really good job.\"\n\nIn January, she told fans she was \"gutted\" to have to postpone the 12-week Las Vegas run because of Covid cases in her team and delivery delays.\n\nMany fans had already travelled for the first night and were left out of pocket. There has been speculation about when the shows will now take place, and even whether they will happen at all.\n\nIn the interview, which will be broadcast later on Friday. she said: \"I tried my hardest and really thought I would be able to pull something together in time.\n\n\"I regret that I kept going until that late in the day. It would have been a really half-arsed show and I can't do that. People will see straight through me up on the stage and know I didn't want to be doing it. I've never done anything like that in my life and I'm not going to start now.\n\n\"We are now working our arses off, but I don't want to announce a new set of dates until I know everything will definitely be ready. The sooner I can announce the better, but I just can't in case we are not ready in time. It is absolutely 100% happening this year.\"\n\nThe interview was recorded on Thursday, and later that night the singer was seen at the G-A-Y event at Heaven nightclub in London, where she judged a contest on stage before performing an impromptu pole dance.\n\nThe Graham Norton Show is on BBC One at 22:35 on Friday and on iPlayer.", "Last updated on .From the section National League\n\nDagenham & Redbridge have said Yoan Zouma will not play for the club until the conclusion of an RSPCA investigation into a video of his brother kicking a cat.\n\nZouma, 23, reportedly filmed West Ham defender Kurt Zouma kicking and slapping one of his pets.\n\nThe RSPCA have since taken two cats away and are liaising with Essex Police about the incident.\n\nYoan Zouma had apologised and said he regretted his involvement in the video.\n\nDagenham said Zouma was contacted by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals this week to assist with their investigation and was \"fully cooperating with them\".\n\nThe French centre-back joined the National League team in December and has featured six times.\n\n\"Dagenham & Redbridge FC would again like to reiterate that it condemns any form of cruelty towards animals and fully understands the reaction of many of its supporters,\" a club statement said.\n\n\"The club has therefore decided that until the RSPCA has completed its investigations, Yoan will not play for Dagenham & Redbridge in any competitive match.\n\n\"Any further action deemed necessary to be taken will be made at the conclusion of the RSPCA investigation.\"\n\nKurt Zouma was named in West Ham's starting XI against Watford on Tuesday, a day after the video emerged.\n\nThe 27-year-old was fined \"the maximum amount possible\" by West Ham on Wednesday, with the fee to be donated to animal welfare charities.", "Ukrainian forces have been carrying out exercises amid concerns of a Russian invasion\n\nUS President Joe Biden has called on all American citizens remaining in Ukraine to leave the country immediately, citing increased threats of Russian military action.\n\nMr Biden said he would not send troops to rescue Americans if Moscow invades Ukraine.\n\nSeveral other countries, including the UK, also urged their citizens to leave.\n\nRussia has repeatedly denied any plans to invade Ukraine despite massing more than 100,000 troops near the border.\n\nBut it has just begun massive military drills with neighbouring Belarus, and Ukraine has accused Russia of blocking its access to the sea.\n\nThe Kremlin says it wants to enforce \"red lines\" to make sure that its former Soviet neighbour does not join Nato.\n\n\"We're dealing with one of the largest armies in the world. It's a very different situation and things could go crazy quickly.\"\n\nAsked whether there was a scenario that could prompt him to send troops to rescue fleeing Americans, Mr Biden replied: \"There's not. That's a world war when Americans and Russia start shooting at one another. We're in a very different world than we've ever been.\"\n\nA host of other countries, including the Netherlands, Japan and South Korea have also told their citizens to leave Ukraine. In its warning Latvia cited \"a serious threat to security posed by Russia\".\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on a visit to Australia, said on Friday that \"an invasion could begin at any time, and to be clear, that includes during the Olympics\". The Winter Olympics in China are scheduled to end on 20 February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. I’m staying in Ukraine, for now: Watch US citizen and English teacher Juan Tec explain why\n\nDiplomatic efforts are under way to defuse the current crisis over Ukraine.\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warned his counterpart in Moscow that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would have \"tragic consequences\" for both countries. But Sergei Shogiu said growing military tensions in Europe were \"not our fault\".\n\nThe current tensions come eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula. Since then, Ukraine's military has been locked in a war with Russian-backed rebels in eastern areas near Russia's borders.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine accused Russia of blocking its access to the sea as Russia prepared for naval exercises.\n\nUkrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the Sea of Azov had been completely blocked and the Black Sea almost fully cut off by Russian forces.\n\nRussia's naval exercises were due to take place next week in the two seas to the south of Ukraine, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.\n\nHowever, Ukraine's Border Guard Service said on Friday that Russia had told them it had cancelled its drill in the Sea of Azov, an internal sea bordered by both Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine's port authority later said restrictions there had been lifted.\n\nRussian naval drills were already taking place in Crimea on Friday, while 10 days of military exercises continued in Belarus, to the north of Ukraine.\n\nThere are fears that if Russia tries to invade Ukraine, the exercises put the Russian military close to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, making an attack on the city easier. Russia says its troops will return to their permanent bases after the drills end.\n\nUkraine has launched its own 10-day military exercises, though officials have given few details.\n\nMoscow says it cannot accept that Ukraine - a former Soviet republic with deep social and cultural ties with Russia - could one day join the Western defence alliance Nato and has demanded that this be ruled out.\n\nRussia has been backing a bloody armed rebellion in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region since 2014. Some 14,000 people - including many civilians - have died in fighting since then.\n\nThere is some suggestion that a renewed focus on the so-called Minsk agreements - which sought to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine - could be used as a basis to defuse the current crisis.\n\nUkraine, Russia, France and Germany backed the accords in 2014-2015.\n\nAre you in Ukraine and affected by what's happening? Are you a US citizen in Ukraine? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Ontario has declared a state of emergency in response to two weeks of protests against Covid restrictions.\n\nThe order came as protests continue to restrict traffic on a border bridge that is vital for US-Canada trade.\n\nBlocking crucial infrastructure would be made \"illegal\" under the order, punishable by up to a year in jail and C$100,000 ($79,000; £58,000) in fines.\n\nOn Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with US President Joe Biden about the border blockades.\n\nThe pair discussed their \"shared challenges at the border\", Mr Trudeau said, with the prime minister promising quick action to resume trade.\n\nAddressing Canadians on Friday, Mr Trudeau applauded Ontario's measure and said that \"everything is on the table\" to ensure the demonstrations are brought to an end.\n\n\"It is it is time to go home,\" he said. \"The consequences are becoming more and more severe.\"\n\nMr Trudeau insisted that the \"unlawful activity\" would end, but said military intervention has not yet been seriously considered.\n\nAbout 100 vehicles - pickup trucks, SUVs and articulated lorries - were parked along the road leading up to the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, festooned with Canadian Flags and signs proclaiming \"Freedom\".\n\nThe atmosphere was noticeably more subdued on Friday than previous evenings, protesters told the BBC.\n\nIf the Ottawa protest has made national headlines for its noise and bluster, then the Windsor bridge blockade has left its mark by making millions of dollars of daily trade come to a halt. The area was mostly quiet, save for the occasional honking horn and the stereo sound of Bruce Springsteen's \"Dancing in the Dark.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, former cross-border truck driver Hank, who did not want to give his last name, said he was there to support his friends who've lost their jobs.\n\n\"We want our freedoms back, we want mandates lifted,\" he said. \"We want life to go back to the old normal not the new normal.\"\n\nWith a judge considering an injunction, and a state of emergency declared, most protesters are waiting to see if police make their move.\n\nHank says he thinks their time in Windsor is running out: \"We can't fight behind bars. We have to keep it peaceful,\" he said.\n\nOntario Premier Doug Ford said the province's emergency order would apply to anyone impeding the movement of goods, people and services along international border crossings, airports, ports and major highways.\n\nThe Canadian province will also provide additional authority so that the personal and commercial licences of protesters who do not comply may be cancelled.\n\n\"Your right to make a political statement does not outweigh the right of hundreds of thousands of workers to earn their living,\" Mr Ford said.\n\nThe country-wide protests against Covid-19 vaccine mandates are poised to enter their third weekend.\n\nA \"Freedom Convoy\" was organised last month in response to the introduction of a new rule that all truckers must be vaccinated to cross the US-Canada border, or quarantine upon their return. The protest has since grown into a broader challenge to all Covid health restrictions.\n\nThe vast majority of Canadian truckers are vaccinated and trucking associations have distanced themselves from the protests, noting most drivers are still working.\n\nThousands of demonstrators have congregated in central Ottawa, others have blocked the Ambassador Bridge - which links Windsor, Ontario, with Detroit, Michigan - and a handful of other border crossings.\n\nAuthorities have warned members of the public to avoid Emerson, a small border town in Manitoba, where trucks and farm equipment are currently clogging the US border.\n\nThe trade disruption has been estimated to cost some C$380m ($300m; £221m) each day.\n\nSmaller protests have been held in Toronto and Quebec City, as well as near provincial legislatures in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and British Columbia.\n\nThe mayors of Ontario's biggest cities issued a joint statement on Monday, condemning the \"irresponsible and damaging\" actions of the protesters, calling for all governments to bring the demonstrations to a peaceful end.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, Canada's capital city filed an injunction with Ontario's Superior Court against people continuing to violate Ottawa's bylaws, aimed at those making noise, idling, fireworks, and encroachments on highways.\n\nAlso on Friday, the Superior Court justice delayed hearing an application for another injunction that would stop protesters blocking Canada-bound traffic at the Ambassador Bridge.\n\nUS officials have urged Canada's government to use its federal powers to end the blockade - especially of the Ambassador Bridge - which has already hit the automobile industry either side of the border.\n\nThe White House said this week that US officials had been engaged with their Canadian counterparts to help resume trade along the border.\n\nPremier Ford's Friday announcement marks the first state of emergency in the province since April, when Ontario implemented its third emergency order over Covid-19 transmission.\n\nIn recent days Mr Ford had faced criticism for not doing more to stop the convoy blockade in Ottawa.\n\nAnd while he repeatedly denounced the weeks-long demonstration on Friday, he also indicated the province would be moving to lift existing Covid-19 restrictions, including the vaccine \"passport\" system which requires proof of vaccination to enter indoor public settings like gyms and restaurants.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dylan McEwan's rap video showed him in a car with the words \"big whips\" superimposed on top\n\nA teenage burglar who recorded a boastful rap about his exploits has been given a three-year sentence.\n\nDylan McEwan, 19, who styled himself as MC McEwan and the B-Town Grafter, was involved in the thefts of four cars from homes in Leeds.\n\nIn a mobile phone clip found by police, McEwan launches into a rap where he brags of \"getting paid out for brand new cars\".\n\nHe pleaded guilty to burglary and car theft charges at Leeds Crown Court.\n\nMcEwan and two younger accomplices stole four vehicles from two houses in Pudsey and Bramley last December.\n\nChristmas presents were also stolen during one of the raids.\n\nOfficers discovered the rap video after the trio were arrested following a police pursuit through Bradford.\n\nIn the clip, McEwan is seen driving as the caption \"big whips\" - slang for an expensive car - flashes up on screen.\n\nAfter encouragement from two passengers, he starts rapping, referring to himself as the B-Town Grafter.\n\n\"I creep through your yard. Getting paid out for your brand new cars,\" he says.\n\n\"But I can't lie,\" he continues, and goes on to opine that \"graft life\" - his criminal existence - is \"hard\".\n\n\"Spend half your time sitting behind bars,\" he adds.\n\nMcEwan, of Barncroft Drive, Seacroft, was sentenced alongside his accomplices, who cannot be named due to their age, on 4 February.\n\nAll three admitted two counts each of burglary and car theft.\n\nThe younger defendants were each given community rehabilitation orders.\n\nDet Insp Vicky Vessey, of Leeds District Crime Team, said McEwan had \"brought misery to his victims who have had to suffer the indignity of having their homes invaded and their property stolen.\n\n\"The utter disdain he has for the people he targets to steal from is abundantly clear from the lyrics in his social media post.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last year, a record number of migrants - like this group seen in an archive picture - crossed from France to the UK\n\nFrance's Coastguard has saved 36 people after their boat ran into difficulty off the north coast, officials say.\n\nIt said a patrol boat picked up the \"shipwrecked people\" in the North Sea off Leffrinckoucke, close to the Belgian border, and took them to the port of Dunkirk on Thursday morning.\n\nThose rescued are believed to be migrants trying to get to the UK.\n\nLast November, 27 people headed for the UK drowned in the English Channel near Calais after their boat sank.\n\nThe International Organization for Migration says it was the biggest single loss of life in the Channel since it began collecting data in 2014.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to leave \"no stone unturned\" to stop human trafficking gangs.\n\nThe UK and France have agreed to step up joint efforts to prevent such crossings and stop the gangs putting people's lives at risk.\n\nLast year, more than 25,700 people made the dangerous journey to the UK in small boats - more than three times the 2020 total.\n\nThe maritime sector between the UK and France is one of the busiest areas in the world for shipping, and has claimed many lives of people trying to cross to Britain in inflatable dinghies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Artist's impression of a planet orbiting a white dwarf star. Could it sustain life?\n\nResearchers believe there may be a planet that could sustain life, in the vicinity of a dying sun.\n\nIf confirmed, this would be the first time that a potentially life-supporting planet has been found orbiting such a star, called a \"white dwarf\".\n\nThe planet was detected in the star's \"habitable zone\", where it's neither too cold nor too hot to sustain life.\n\nThe study is published in the monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.\n\nProf Jay Farihi of University College London, who led the study, said the observation was completely new to astronomers.\n\n\"This is the first time that anything has been seen in the habitable zone of a white dwarf. And thus there is a possibility of life on another world orbiting it,\" he told BBC News.\n\nWhile very large stars become black holes when they die, smaller ones like our own Sun become white dwarves - stars that have used up all their nuclear fuel and lost their outer layers.\n\nThey are usually the size of a planet, and emit a bluish-white light when first formed.\n\nThe possible planet, which is 117 light years away from Earth, is thought to be 60 times closer to the star than our planet is to the Sun.\n\nThe research team do not have direct evidence of the planet's existence - but the movements of 65 Moon-sized structures orbiting the white dwarf's habitable zone, suggest it is there. The structures' distance in relation to each other does not change, suggesting that they are under the influence of the gravity of a planet in the vicinity.\n\n\"It was a shock to the team,\" said Prof Farihi. \"The motion was so eerily precise you couldn't make this stuff up.\"\n\nThe habitable zone is a band around the star where liquid water could exist on a planet, and therefore support life. It is often referred to as the \"Goldilocks zone\", because if the planet is too close to the star it will be too hot, and if too far it would be too cold, whereas inside the band conditions are \"just right\".\n\nThe results should act as a spur for astronomers to actively search for direct evidence of planets around white dwarfs.\n\n\"Usually in astronomy, if we find one, it usually means that it's common,\" said Prof Farihi.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM says we must oppose any return to the days where \"great powers\" decide the \"fates of nations\"\n\nEurope faces \"the most dangerous moment\" in its \"biggest security crisis\" for decades, Boris Johnson has said as tensions grow between Russia and Ukraine.\n\nSpeaking in Brussels, the PM said he hoped \"strong deterrence\" and \"patient diplomacy\" could find a way through the crisis but the stakes were \"very high\".\n\nRussia denies it plans to invade but has 100,000 troops on Ukraine's border.\n\nMr Johnson is also visiting Poland to show support for Nato allies.\n\nIn a joint news conference with Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, the prime minister said he did not believe Russia had yet taken a decision on whether to invade Ukraine but the UK's intelligence \"remains grim\".\n\nAsked whether the UK would consider going further in its support for Ukraine, including military support for an insurgency if Russia invades, Mr Johnson said he would \"consider what more we can conceivably offer\".\n\n\"It's possible, I don't want to rule this out, but at the moment we think the package is the right one,\" he said.\n\nAs part of a surge of UK diplomatic activity, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss met her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, while Defence Secretary Ben Wallace will travel to Russia on Friday.\n\nDuring a tense joint news conference on Thursday, Mr Lavrov said the talks had been \"disappointing\".\n\n\"It's like we're listening but not hearing each other so our very detailed explanation fell on deaf ears,\" he said.\n\nHe said relations between the UK and Russia \"leave much to be desired\" and are at the \"lowest point over the past few years\".\n\nAsked if he had seen any concessions over Russia's concerns about Nato, Mr Lavrov said he had only heard a demand to \"remove Russian troops from Russian territory\".\n\nMs Truss accused Russia of \"Cold War rhetoric\". She later told the BBC the UK was putting its \"full diplomatic effort\" into deterring an invasion and de-escalating the situation.\n\nAsked about her meetings with Mr Lavrov, who has been Russia's foreign policy chief for 18 years, Ms Truss said he had \"been involved in a lot of the issues that have created the situation we're in now\" and that \"proper diplomatic talks\" were needed.\n\nThe reason Boris Johnson is saying the next few days are a dangerous moment is because his and other Western officials believe the confrontation is getting worse.\n\nThey say it is not just that there is no de-escalation on Russia's part; it is the fact there is escalation.\n\nThey see more troops deployed close to Ukraine's border, whether in Russia or Belarus. They see more intelligence about Russia's plans. They see what they describe as greater disinformation and threats of cyber-attacks.\n\nThat is why Western diplomacy is being stepped up, both to reinforce the warning to Moscow about the price it would pay for any invasion, but also to reassure Nato allies close to Ukraine's border and to maintain Western unity.\n\nThat is why Mr Johnson has followed his French counterpart and preceded his German counterpart in a flurry of diplomacy. What is not clear is whether Russia is listening.\n\nOn the evidence of the frosty news conference between Liz Truss and Sergei Lavrov, there was no meeting of minds.\n\nBut what is significant is that all sides seem happy for now to continue talking, however fruitlessly.\n\nDiplomats from Russia and Ukraine and elsewhere have been meeting in Berlin. Further Western leaders are due in Moscow and Kyiv.\n\nAnd while there is talking taking place, the diplomatic door to a solution remains open, even it may be only ajar.\n\nThe latest diplomatic efforts come as Russia and its ally Belarus, which borders Ukraine, prepare to start 10 days of joint military drills. The US has described the move as \"escalatory\", while France said it was a \"violent gesture\".\n\nThe current tensions come eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula. Since then, Ukraine's military has been locked in a war with Russian-backed rebels in eastern areas near Russia's borders.\n\nFurther talks involving France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia took place on Thursday. France's President Emmanuel Macron met Mr Putin for more than five hours of talks on Monday.\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major compared this with a \"brief\" phone call between Mr Johnson and President Putin last week, saying he did not think the UK's \"weight in the international community\" was \"as strong as it was or as we would wish it to be\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer backed Mr Johnson over the UK's stance on Ukraine, telling the BBC: \"I've got plenty of arguments with the prime minister on many things particularly in recent months, but when it comes to Russian aggression, we stand as one in the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe prime minister announced 1,000 more British troops will be put on alert in the UK but he has stressed that Nato is unwilling to send troops into Ukraine itself.\n\nLegislation allowing tougher sanctions to be implemented against Russian individuals, businesses and other entities if it invades came into force on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson later visited Poland, where 350 Royal Marines from 45 Commando arrived as part of support announced earlier this week, joining 150 personnel already in the country.\n\nEarlier, Liz Truss took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow\n\nDuring a news conference in Warsaw, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the UK had shown \"wonderful solidarity\" with his country, while Mr Johnson said Poland was \"absolutely critical to our collective European security\".\n\nThe UK will also offer to double the number of its troops in Estonia, deploy more RAF jets based in southern Europe, and to sail a Type 45 destroyer and HMS Trent, a patrol ship, in the eastern Mediterranean.\n\nNato's 30 members - which include the UK, US and several former Soviet republics - agree to come to another's aid in the event of an armed attack.\n\nUkraine is not a member of Nato. However, it is a \"partner country\" and may be allowed to join the military alliance sometime in the future, a move Russia sees as a direct threat to its security.", "Christian Eriksen says it feels like a miracle to be able to resume his career with Brentford after collapsing while playing for Denmark at Euro 2020 last summer.\n\nThe 29-year-old has been fitted with an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), a type of pacemaker, after suffering cardiac arrest.\n\nHe has joined the Bees on a six-month deal after his release by Inter Milan.\n\n\"The first thing is to show the gratitude,\" Eriksen told BBC Sport.\n\n\"To the people around me, the team-mates, the doctors first on the pitch, the team doctors and paramedics and then at the hospital, to do everything and check everything.\n\n\"Then all the messages from people to show support for me and what my family have been through. It has been really lovely to see all the grateful messages.\n\n\"I am very lucky and I have told them face to face, I am very happy they did what they did otherwise I would not be here.\"\n\nHe added: \"For me it was unlucky in a lucky place. I wouldn't hope anyone to get it, I never thought I would get it myself when it happened but in the place it happened I was lucky with the people around me acting so quickly. I was really grateful the doctors were in that place.\n\n\"It was lucky I had all the possibilities around me. They had all the possibilities to get me back as quickly as they did and I am 100% grateful for that.\"\n• None Listen to the full interview with Christian Eriksen on The Sports Desk podcast\n• None Watch the full Christian Eriksen interview on the BBC iplayer\n• None Eriksen can be Brentford's greatest ever signing'\n• None What can sport learn from Eriksen's cardiac arrest?\n\nEriksen says he feels in better condition now than before the incident, will do everything he can to reach his former playing level and does not fear the challenges ahead.\n\n\"I won't change my style of play,\" added Eriksen. \"I have had the time to be disciplined for the last six months to do extras, so even now maybe I am in a better condition than before, just the football missing.\n\n\"I feel like me so don't see a reason why I can't get back to the same level.\"\n• None His memories before and after the incident\n• None What it means to be fitted with an ICD\n• None Returning to London and the Premier League\n• None Why he has no fears about playing again\n\n'I was gone from this world for five minutes'\n\nThe day of 12 June 2021 will be a date etched in Eriksen's memory, one when he remembers all but the five minutes in which he was \"gone from this world until they got my heartbeat back\".\n\nDenmark were playing Finland in their opening game of the Euros, delayed by a year because of Covid, when the midfielder collapsed on the pitch in the 41st minute.\n\nHe received CPR and after 15 minutes of treatment was carried off on a stretcher. Eriksen was awake in hospital and, after a delay of about three hours, the match resumed with Finland winning 1-0.\n\n\"I can remember everything apart from the five minutes,\" he explained. \"I was told afterwards it was five minutes, otherwise I remember everything - the throw in, the ball hitting my knee and then I don't know what happened after.\n\n\"Then I woke up with people around me and felt the pressure on my chest, trying to get my breathing back, and then I woke up - I opened my eyes and saw people around me, I didn't really understand what was going on.\n\n\"At that time I had no idea what had happened, then it goes through my head: 'Did something happen with my legs? Did I break my back? Can I lift my leg up?' - all small things I was trying to do to see what happened.\n\n\"Then in the ambulance I heard someone say 'how long was he out for' and someone said 'five minutes' and that was the first time I had heard I was gone.\"\n\nAsked if it will feel like a miracle to return, Eriksen added: \"Definitely. I think it will get more and more obvious the closer it gets to being in a real game - being in a stadium, being in a game, you get all the emotion and adrenaline from that.\"\n\n'If anything happens I am safe'\n\nEriksen's Inter Milan contract was cancelled by mutual consent in December because players fitted with an ICD cannot compete in Serie A.\n\nHowever, the Premier League does not have the same regulations.\n\nAfter leaving Inter, Eriksen started training alone at Danish side Odense Boldklub - where he was previously a youth player - and outlined his aspiration to resume his playing career in order to play for Denmark at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nBrentford boss Thomas Frank says the Dane could be the club's \"greatest signing ever\" and his arrival saw the biggest day of kit sales outside kit-launch days - 30 times the usual demand at this time of year for the Bees.\n\nEriksen says he did not think about returning to football in the few days that followed the incident but has never feared his career would be over.\n\n\"I wanted to get all the tests done and get to talk with all the doctors to see what is a possibility and what is not,\" he said.\n\n\"But then ever since, I think less than a week after, they said 'you have an ICD but otherwise nothing has changed, you can continue like a normal life and there is no limit to what you want to do'.\n\n\"It was a relief, that is true, but also weird because I wouldn't want to overdo it, I wouldn't want to take any chances with it, so that's why I am doing many tests to make sure that it is OK.\n\n\"It is not going to affect me in 30 years what I am doing now and that was the main aim, otherwise if they tell me something has changed then I will be on another page.\n\n\"I don't see any risk, no. I have an ICD, if anything would happen then I am safe.\"\n\n'I am not scared of the challenges and the bullies'\n\nEriksen says he just wants to get back to \"normal\" and returning to playing Premier League football is a major step towards that goal.\n\n\"To be honest, I didn't really go down,\" he said about his mental state after the incident.\n\n\"I was really determined step by step with the plan I made with the doctor from the time of my prognosis and the different phases I had to go through to get everything tested.\n\n\"It was a slow build up, taking all the time to get tested properly and my family was very supportive.\n\n\"They knew I wanted to get back and get the green light if it was possible, but I also know they would know if something happened in the meantime and if it was something worse then I wouldn't continue.\n\n\"I love my family and their support, from what they're going through now and what they went through before.\"\n\nEriksen says doctors believe it was a one-time occurrence, with no historical or family problems, and now he just wants to work towards a positive future.\n\n\"I have been cleared to do everything from the doctors, so in that sense it doesn't really matter what was the reason,\" he said.\n\n\"Continuously I have been given the green light that everything is OK for the future.\"\n\nThe playmaker is also not worried about his ICD and what might happen should he receive a robust challenge, given the physical nature of the Premier League.\n\n\"I don't really have any scared feelings about it, I don't feel my ICD so if it gets hit I know it is safe enough,\" he added.\n\n\"I am not scared of the challenges ahead and the bullies in the game, no.\"\n\n'It is going to be very special'\n\nWhile his physical condition is good, Eriksen says he is still a few weeks away from making his Brentford debut having only recently joined up with his team-mates in training.\n\n\"I have done a lot of running and a lot of tests, so the condition is good, but the football touch is something you get in games - to get there is still a few more weeks,\" he said.\n\n\"At the moment, when the coach sees me fit and wants me to play then I'll be able to. But at the moment we just take it day by day.\"\n\nEriksen also says he feels grateful to come back to London, having spent seven seasons at Tottenham.\n\n\"For me and for my family, for the next six months really this was the perfect situation,\" he said. \"We pretty much know the area, it is close to where we were for many years in north London.\n\n\"First of all for family and also football-wise, to get the chance to play in the Premier League and get to know the people here. Of course, I knew the coach, I knew [fellow Dane] Thomas before and a lot of team-mates I know from Denmark, so it is an easy group to join.\"\n\nAnd it will be a \"very special\" moment when he takes the pitch again for a competitive match for the first time since June last year.\n\n\"It has been a long build-up and it still is going to be a long build up from day to day,\" said Eriksen. \"It feels like it is getting closer and [I am] patient for the right timing.\n\n\"But it is going to be very special to be able to walk out on the pitch and play a match again after probably, at the time, seven or eight months since that happened. It is going to be amazing.\"\n• None Our coverage of Brentford is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Brentford - go straight to all the best content", "A suspect was arrested 30 minutes after the woman contacted the wrong police force more than 3,000 miles away\n\nPolice call handlers saved a woman from an intruder 3,000 miles away in Canada after she contacted the wrong force.\n\nThe team at Durham Police, England, were contacted via online chat by a woman who reported an intruder in her home in Durham, Canada.\n\nShe had typed \"I need help, he is in the house\" before falling silent.\n\nRealising the woman's mistake, Durham Police contacted their Canadian counterparts and a man was arrested 30 minutes later near her home.\n\nA spokeswoman for Durham Police said the call handlers kept the live chat open while contacting Canadian officers from the Ontario province, who were immediately sent to the scene in the town of Ajax.\n\nA 35-year-old man was cornered in a nearby yard and Tasered.\n\nPolice said the woman had been attacked and needed medical treatment.\n\nA man has now been charged with breaking and entering, assault and forcible confinement.\n\nInsp Andrea Arthur, head of Durham Police's control room, said: \"This was an unusual incident and a very distressing situation for the victim, but the team remained calm and managed to help our Canadian colleagues resolve the situation quickly and professionally.\n\n\"If we can assist in rescuing a vulnerable victim in immediate danger, regardless of where they live, we will do all we can to help.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A BBC News investigation revealed last year there were 100 people with learning disabilities and autism who have been detained in specialist hospitals for more than 20 years. Since then, families across the UK have contacted the BBC to tell their own stories.\n\nOne of those is a woman from Northern Ireland whose brother was hospitalised 34 years ago, but has been fit for discharge for 25 years. He is in Muckamore Abbey Hospital, which is at the heart of the biggest abuse investigation in NHS history.\n\nWatch as Brigene tells the BBC's Jayne McCubbin about her fight to bring her brother home.", "A Russian invasion of Ukraine would have \"tragic consequences\" for both countries, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has warned his counterpart in Moscow.\n\nIn talks with Sergei Shogiu, Mr Wallace said he urged dialogue to resolve the crisis in eastern Ukraine.\n\nBut Mr Shogiu said growing military tensions in Europe were \"not our fault\".\n\nRussia denies it plans to invade but has 100,000 troops on Ukraine's border.\n\nAt a news conference on Friday, Mr Wallace said that Russian forces were in a position to invade \"at any time\", but he had been given security assurances by Mr Shogiu.\n\n\"I was clear about the tragic consequences that any invasion of Ukraine could have for all people - both Ukrainian, Russian and the security of Europe,\" Mr Wallace said of his meeting with the Russian defence minister.\n\n\"We listened to the assurances given by minister Shoigu that they would not invade Ukraine.\"\n\nSecurity concerns have grown in recent days after Russia started huge military drills with neighbouring Belarus and was accused of blocking Ukraine's access to the sea.\n\nUS President Joe Biden has also called on all American citizens remaining in Ukraine to leave the country immediately, citing increased threats of Russian military action.\n\nRussia has made a series of security proposals, including a demand to rule out Ukraine's membership of the Nato defence alliance.\n\nWestern countries have rejected this and instead put forward other suggestions, such as cutting back nuclear weaponry.\n\nMr Shogiu said the counter-proposals submitted by Nato and the US had now been reviewed and promised \"our response will follow shortly\".\n\nThe talks between Mr Wallace and Mr Shogiu were the latest in a period of frenzied diplomacy intended to defuse the current crisis in eastern Ukraine.\n\nThe current tensions come eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula. Since then, Ukraine's military has been locked in a war with Russian-backed rebels in eastern areas near Russia's borders.\n\nThe UK's relations with Russia have deteriorated in recent years after a string of diplomatic disputes, including the poisoning of Sergei Skripal in 2018.\n\nMr Shogiu said Russia's ties with the UK were \"close to zero\". But when asked about the state of UK-Russia relations, Mr Wallace said they were \"a lot better than 0%\" after Friday's talks.\n\nBen Wallace's trip to Moscow does not signal any significant shift in the balance of this crisis. But his meeting with Russian defence chiefs does seem to have been a calmer affair than Thursday's frosty exchanges between the foreign ministers, Liz Truss and Sergei Lavrov.\n\nMr Wallace states the UK government's position in the minor key compared to the fortissimo of the foreign secretary.\n\nIn diplomatic confrontations like this, improved communications between defence ministers and senior officers can sometimes help avoid miscalculation.\n\nThe military element can take some of the politics out of the relationship. And if there is to be any common ground between Nato and Russia, it may well be found in military matters, such as improving transparency about each other's missiles and exercises, and reviving lapsed arms control agreements.\n\nAlso of note was Mr Wallace's emphasis - again - that restoring the Minsk accords could be a potential diplomatic route out of the stand-off. The problem with that is the accords - signed in 2014 and 2015 to try to establish a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine - are much disputed and have failed to achieve their aim.\n\nFriday's talks appeared more constructive than those of a day earlier between UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Thursday.\n\nThey proved to be ill-tempered as Ms Truss urged Russia to move its troops away from the Ukrainian border and accused it of \"Cold War rhetoric\".\n\nMr Lavrov said he was disappointed with the talks, accusing Ms Truss of not listening to Russia's concerns and describing their conversation as \"a dialogue between a deaf person and someone who was mute\".\n\nWhen asked about these comments, Mr Wallace said Mr Lavrov was \"a master at these types of engagements and making those type of comments\", but that there had been no deafness or blindness in his talks with Mr Shoigu.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Poland and Brussels as part of a surge of UK diplomatic activity.\n\nIn a joint news conference with Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, Mr Johnson said Europe faced its biggest security crisis in decades.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM says we must oppose any return to the days where \"great powers\" decide the \"fates of nations\"\n\nMoscow says it cannot accept that Ukraine - a former Soviet republic with deep social and cultural ties with Russia - could one day join the Western defence alliance Nato and has demanded that this be ruled out.\n\nRussia has been backing a bloody armed rebellion in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region since 2014. Some 14,000 people - including many civilians - have died in fighting since then.\n\nThere is some suggestion that a renewed focus on the so-called Minsk agreements - which sought to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine - could be used as a basis to defuse the current crisis.\n\nUkraine, Russia, France and Germany backed the accords in 2014-2015.\n\nEarlier this week, French President Emmanuel Macron said he thought a deal to avoid full-scale war in Ukraine was possible.", "The Met said it was \"deeply sorry\" for the findings in the IOPC report\n\n\"Disgraceful\" misogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment have been discovered within the ranks of the Met Police by the police watchdog.\n\nOfficers were found to have joked about rape and exchanged offensive social media messages, leading to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) to make 15 recommendations.\n\nMost officers investigated were police constables and based at Charing Cross Police Station, the IOPC said.\n\nThe Met said it was \"deeply sorry\".\n\nIn its report, the IOPC said: \"We believe these incidents are not isolated or simply the behaviour of a few 'bad apples'.\"\n\nThe inquiry was launched in March 2018 into nine linked independent investigations concerning serving police officers from the Met.\n\nInvestigations began after an officer allegedly had sex with a vulnerable woman in a room inside a London police station, the IOPC said - although this allegation was never proven.\n\nOf the 14 officers investigated, two were dismissed for gross misconduct and put on the barred list, preventing future employment with the police.\n\nAnother two resigned and several others faced disciplinary action, the IOPC said.\n\nNine are still serving with the force, while another is working as a contractor in a staff role.\n\nThe inquiry found evidence of messages exchanged between officers that were often highly sexualise, violent and discriminatory, and which were defended as \"banter\" by police officers.\n\nThe IOPC said the messages included:\n\nIOPC regional director for London, Sal Naseem, described the behaviour as \"disgraceful\" and that it fell below the standards of the force, but he said the Met was working to change its cultural issues.\n\n\"The learning report we are publishing today is shocking and contains language which is offensive,\" Mr Naseem said.\n\n\"Some may find it upsetting.\n\n\"However, we felt it was important to provide the context for the public, the Met and other forces for why such hard-hitting recommendations are necessary.\n\n\"While these officers predominantly worked in teams in Westminster, which have since been disbanded, we know from other recent cases that these issues are not isolated or historic.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said being a police officer was a privilege\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel described the officers as \"sickening\", adding: \"The public rightly expects the behaviour of the police to be beyond reproach - standards must be raised.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"utterly disgusted\" by the findings.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Bas Javid said the officers' actions happened between 2016 and 2018 and since then every Met Police employee had been spoken to about responsible use of social media.\n\n\"I am angry and disappointed to see officers involved in sharing sexist, racist and discriminatory messages,\" he said.\n\n\"It's clear we have a lot of work to do to ensure bullying and discrimination does not exist in any part of the Met.\n\n\"We recognise that there is need for real change in the Met and we are committed to creating an environment that is even more intolerant to those who do not uphold the high values and standards expected of us,\" he added.\n\nOf all the shocking things about this IOPC report, perhaps the most shocking is the breadth of the disgraceful conduct.\n\nThe officers were bullying and sexist. They were misogynistic and used the word \"gay\" as an insult.\n\nThey made jokes about the Black Lives Matter movement and mosques, and used derogatory words to describe disabled people.\n\nThe unit has been disbanded, but the IOPC has warned that the incidents were not isolated.\n\nIt has seen evidence of similar behaviour in more recent investigations.\n\nA Met Police statement said: \"The conduct of a team of officers at Charing Cross police station in central London does not represent the values of the Metropolitan Police Service.\n\n\"We are deeply sorry to Londoners and everyone they have failed with their appalling conduct and acknowledge how this will damage the trust and confidence of many in the Met.\n\n\"Since this reprehensible behaviour was uncovered in 2017 we have taken a series of measures to hold those responsible to account and stamp out unacceptable behaviour.\"\n\nSeparately, an independent review of culture and standards within the Met Police is currently being carried out by Baroness Louise Casey, in the wake of the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by serving police officer Wayne Couzens. It will examine the force's vetting, recruitment and training procedures.\n\nA two-part independent inquiry chaired by Dame Elish Angiolini QC will also look at Couzens' conduct during his career, and whether any red flags were missed as well as whether allegations made against him were properly handled.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Officer 'had sex with woman in station'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liz Truss and Maroš Šefčovič met at Carlton Gardens in London on Friday\n\nThe UK and EU will hold \"intensive discussions\" in the coming days after another round of negotiations between Liz Truss and her EU counterpart Maroš Šefčovič came to an end on Friday.\n\nThe chief Brexit negotiator previously said fixing the Northern Ireland Protocol was an \"absolute priority\".\n\nA joint statement indicated the pair had agreed on the need for progress \"in the interest of people in NI\".\n\nThey said they will \"keep in close touch\".\n\nThe UK foreign secretary and EU Commission vice president spoke via video-conference last week, but no breakthrough was reached.\n\nA meeting of the Joint Committee, the formal body overseeing the protocol, will happen on 21 February.\n\nThat will be the first such meeting of the committee in more than six months.\n\nThe government has insisted it wants to reach a solution urgently, after the collapse of the power-sharing executive at Stormont last week.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) withdrew Paul Givan as first minister as part of its ongoing opposition to the Irish Sea border.\n\nThe party has argued that unless the arrangements are changed, political institutions in Northern Ireland cannot continue as normal.\n\nLiz Truss said she wants to work with the EU towards solutions that deliver for people in Northern Ireland\n\nAhead of the meeting, Ms Truss said: \"Fixing the Northern Ireland Protocol is an absolute priority for me.\n\n\"We have a shared responsibility with the EU to work towards solutions as quickly as possible that deliver for the people of Northern Ireland.\n\nThe protocol keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and EU customs rules are enforced at its ports.\n\nThat arrangement has prevented a hardening of the Irish land border, but it means new paperwork and processes when importing goods from Great Britain.\n\nUnionist politicians have criticised the arrangements and say the Irish Sea border undermines Northern Ireland's position in the UK as well as causing difficulties for some businesses.\n\nThe fact that a statement is \"joint\" would usually be taken as a good sign.\n\nBut today's readout, from the UK's Liz Truss and the EU's Maroš Šefčovič, was also very brief - with a good chunk of the word count used up describing the logistics of the meeting, rather than its actual substance.\n\nRumours that the UK would use today to make a \"big\" new offer have been downplayed by both sides although I am told ideas are always being batted about.\n\nCustoms is the area where there has been the most progress but it is slow-going.\n\nAll eyes now turn to the \"joint committee\" on 21 February - where senior politicians and representatives will meet in Brussels.\n\nIt is a moment to take stock and see what, if anything, can be formally agreed in this period of heightened political sensitivity in Northern Ireland, ahead of the assembly elections in May.\n\nSpeaking after an anti-protocol rally in Dromore, County Down, on Thursday night, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said it was \"the single greatest threat to Northern Ireland's place in the UK in a generation\".\n\n\"The presence of trade barriers within our own country has the grave potential to succeed where decades of terrorism failed, by driving an irrevocable wedge between Northern Ireland and other parts of the UK,\" Sir Jeffrey said.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said the EU should act immediately to \"resolve the problems created by the protocol\"\n\n\"If the EU really care about political stability in Northern Ireland, then they should act immediately to resolve the problems created by the protocol.\"\n\nThe rally also featured TUV leader Jim Allister and Ulster Unionist assembly member Robbie Butler alongside Baroness Kate Hoey and former Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib.\n\nOn Thursday, former prime minister John Major described the protocol as \"arguably one of the worst pieces of negotiation we have seen in recent history\".\n\n\"It is causing an enormous amount of trouble,\" he said.\n\n\"Whether anyone deliberately misled about that I can't say - certainly they were mistaken.\n\n\"But it does help, if you sign treaties, if you understand them before you sign them.\"\n\nFormer prime minister John Major described the protocol as \"arguably one of the worst pieces of negotiation we have seen in recent history\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson repeated his view that the government would trigger a mechanism to override part of the deal, if a breakthrough cannot be reached.\n\nArticle 16 allows either the UK or EU to temporarily suspend the protocol, if it is deemed to be causing significant economic, societal or environmental difficulties.\n\nOver the past seven months the UK government has been attempting to renegotiate the deal.\n\nIn July, it proposed an arrangement in which goods from Great Britain, which are due to stay in Northern Ireland, would not be checked and would have minimal paperwork.\n\nGoods which are due to move onwards to the Republic of Ireland would be checked at Northern Ireland's ports.\n\nThe EU published its own proposals in October, which it said would significantly reduce, but not eliminate, checks on goods.\n\nIt has previously said that the easiest way to reduce checks would be for the UK to sign up to a Swiss-style agri-food agreement.\n\nThat would involve all of the UK following the relevant EU rules, something the government has said it could not accept.", "A claim by a committee of MPs that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) looks \"soft on fraud\" has been met by a robust response by the tax authority.\n\nInaction over tracking down fraudulent claims for Covid support risked \"rewarding the unscrupulous\", the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said.\n\nBut HMRC said that it rejected many of the statements in the PAC report.\n\nTreasury minister Lord Agnew recently resigned over what he called schoolboy errors relating to Covid grants.\n\nHe said that there had been woeful efforts to stop abuse of pandemic support schemes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Agnew accuses the Treasury of having \"little interest in the consequences of fraud to our society\"\n\nThe PAC report into the performance of HMRC suggested the tax authority was already facing challenges from Brexit and modernising the tax system before the pandemic.\n\nWhile MPs said it had done well in setting up and operating Covid response schemes, the knock-on effect had been \"poor performance, delays and backlogs in key aspects of tax administration\". This included a decline in customer service.\n\nMeanwhile, the department now faced tackling \"an avalanche of error and fraud\" on Covid scheme payments.\n\nMeg Hillier, who chairs the committee, said the committee was concerned about how long it would take for the tax authority to catch up.\n\n\"The level of fraud and error in furlough that employers will get away with is a real concern. What signal does it send when HMRC rolls over on billions of pounds of fraud and error directly related to Covid support packages? With the current parlous state of the public finances we can ill-afford to be so cavalier over so much taxpayers' money,\" she said.\n\n\"Every taxpayers' pound lost to a fraudster will lead to honest ordinary people feeling the post-pandemic pinch harder and harder.\"\n\nThe committee said that the cost of error and fraud in Covid schemes was £6bn, and HMRC's plan - even if successful - gave the impression it would fail to recover £4bn of that money.\n\nThe government had already disputed that it had written off £4.3bn of loans, and HMRC said that nothing had been written off.\n\n\"While we acknowledge lessons that need to be learned in this report, we reject many of the statements made by the PAC. No fraudulent payments have been written off and we are taking action on multiple fronts to recover overpayments,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"The vast majority of payments in the schemes were made correctly to employers, and most error and fraud was legitimate claimants making mistakes or inflating their claims, often small amounts per case.\n\n\"Our Covid support schemes were implemented at unprecedented speed to protect millions of jobs and businesses at a time when families needed it the most.\"\n\nHMRC also rejected criticism of its customer service, saying the services were maintained \"while delivering the Covid support schemes, the UK's smooth transition from the European Union and the essential services that keep the tax system running\".", "An exclusive look into the Olympics as a spectator\n\nDespite pursuing a tough \"dynamic-zero\" policy to contain coronavirus - and unlike Japan during last summer's games - China has found a way to put some spectators in the stands during the Winter Olympics. Through a complicated configuration dividing arenas into sections, authorities have been able to invite fans to events and avoid them coming into contact with those in the two bubble zones - the teams competing and the locked-in sports media. To be chosen as a spectator for these Olympic events, you are most likely to be from a Communist Party organisation, a state company, or a student group. There are also local government officials with tickets to the Games, sponsors, and a smattering of diplomats. The planners have decided that such groups can be easily counted on to do what needs to be done (especially when compared to the general public). Then there is another category of people, of which I am one, who are being allowed in to see these supreme athletes compete: foreign correspondents. We have to do a Covid test 96-hours prior to any event, then a second test 24 hours before. According to the rules, this is then followed up with a third test three days after and a fourth test a week later. Read more about how China is managing the games here.", "Unvaccinated British teenagers will be allowed into Spain from Monday with a negative PCR test, Spanish tourism minister Fernando Valdés has told the BBC.\n\nAt the moment everyone over 12 has to be double-jabbed to enter the country.\n\nSome families had already cancelled half term holidays to Spain and the Canary Islands because their children had not yet had their second jab.\n\nPeople aged 18 and over must still be vaccinated to get into the country.\n\nMr Valdés said that 12-to-17 year-olds who have not been vaccinated against Covid will be allowed into the country from Monday 14 February, if they present a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours of arrival to Spain.\n\nThe restrictions will be lifted from 23:00 GMT on 13 February.\n\n\"Great Britain is our main market,\" said Mr Valdés. \"We've been always very keen in easing the restrictions between both countries.\"\n\nAll other UK travellers, excluding children under 12, will need to present a Covid certificate showing proof of being fully vaccinated at least 14 days before arrival in Spain.\n\nIf more than 270 days have passed since vaccination, proof of a booster jab is also required.\n\nPrior to travelling, air passengers have to show a QR code, which they get by filling in a Spanish health control form.\n\nThe announcement comes after many UK families cancelled half-term trips to mainland Spain and the Canary Islands due to the jab restrictions.\n\nHoteliers in the islands said the restrictions had lost them millions of pounds' worth of trade.\n\nHowever, hundreds of thousands of people are embarking on half-term winter sun and ski trips, according to industry body Abta.\n\nHave you been affected by Spain's rule change? Get in touch.\n\nThe UK scrapped coronavirus testing for fully vaccinated travellers from 04:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps described this as \"good news\" for families.\n\n\"The UK has eased international travel measures for Covid-19 and now has one of the most free-flowing borders in the world - sending a clear message that we are open for business,\" he said.\n\nThe Canary Islands, Egypt, Portugal and Turkey are popular destinations for British holidaymakers, Abta said, as are the Caribbean, Dubai, Florida and Mexico.\n\nBookings to ski resorts in France, Italy and Switzerland have also picked up, it said.\n\nThe easing of restrictions on Friday came as Gatwick Airport announced that it would reopen its south terminal on 27 March.\n\nThe terminal has been mothballed since 15 June 2020 as the airport tried to contain costs during the slump in international travel caused by the Covid pandemic.\n\nNow the terminal is reopening as airlines are starting to increase the number of flights they are operating.\n\nBritish Airways is to restart short-haul flights from Gatwick from 29 March and sister airline Vueling will add five new short-haul routes from the airport.\n\nEasyjet and Hungarian carrier Wizz Air have also added more slots.\n\nGatwick chief executive Stewart Wingate said: \"After an incredibly challenging two years for the airport, our partners, local communities and the entire aviation industry, we are delighted to be reopening our south terminal next month.\n\nThe airport has been \"recruiting for some time\", it said, and is still looking for 2,000 staff in roles including security officers, IT specialists, engineers, shop and restaurant workers, ground and cargo handlers and cabin crew.\n\nDespite signs of recovery in the travel industry, Heathrow Airport gave a downbeat assessment of passenger confidence on Friday.\n\nIt said that demand for travel had been weaker than expected in January - 56% down on pre-pandemic levels - \"as the hangover from Omicron continued to suppress passenger confidence\".\n\n\"While bookings for outbound tourism are recovering, inbound tourism and business travel remain weak due to Covid-19 levels in the UK and other countries, international testing requirements and the risk of new border closures in the event of a new variant of concern,\" it said.\n\nHeathrow's chief executive John Holland-Kaye said the removal of restrictions for vaccinated passengers in and out of the UK \"offers a ray of hope, but the Omicron hangover proves demand remains fragile\".\n\nBut some travel firms are more optimistic. This week Tui chief executive Fritz Joussen said the firm expected \"a strong summer\", adding that \"demand for travel is high across all markets\".\n\nNew bookings for the summer were above pre-Covid crisis levels Tui and the group expects summer bookings as a whole to be close to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nJet2 boss Steve Heapy predicted the Spanish government's relaxation of restrictions would lead to an increase in bookings from the UK.\n\n\"The removal of the requirement for 12-17 year olds to be double-vaccinated tells families that travelling to Spain is returning to normal, and after two years of missing out we know how much everyone wants to experience that famous Spanish sunshine again,\" Mr Heapy said.\n\nThe chair of Hays Travel, Dame Irene Hays, told the Today programme this week that the independent travel agent had seen a spike in bookings.\n\n\"In the last week of January we were back to the same levels of bookings as we were in January 2020,\" she said.", "Flamur Beqiri is the brother of Misse Beqiri, who appeared in Real Housewives Of Cheshire\n\nA Swedish hitman has been found guilty of murdering a man in front of his family in a tit-for-tat gang war.\n\nFlamur Beqiri, 36, was shot in the back of the head on the doorstep of his home in Battersea, south-west London, in front of his wife and toddler on Christmas Eve 2019.\n\nThe gunman, 24-year-old kickboxer Anis Hemissi, was convicted following a two-week trial at Southwark Crown Court.\n\nTobias Andersson, 32, and Bawer Karaer, 23, also from Sweden, were acquitted of both charges.\n\nEsteven-Alexis Pino-Munizaga (l) was found guilty of manslaughter, while Anis Fouad Hemissi (r) was convicted of murder\n\nThe court heard that Mr Beqiri was a kingpin in an international drugs gang and had been targeted as part of a feud with a rival organised crime group. He was shot a number of times in a killing that had been six months in the planning.\n\nThe killers came to London from Sweden before returning. A local team - Clifford Rollox, 31, from Islington, north London, and Dutch national Claude Isaac Castor, 31, from Sint Maarten in the Caribbean, who were hired to \"tidy up\" the aftermath, were found guilty of perverting the course of justice.\n\nClifford Rollox (l) and Claude Isaac (r) were both found guilty of perverting the course of justice\n\nHemissi was caught on CCTV wearing a latex mask as he opened fire 10 times with a pistol, hitting Mr Beqiri with eight bullets from behind.\n\nHe had earlier disguised himself as a litter picker to carry out reconnaissance.\n\nHemissi, wearing a latex mask, posed as a street cleaner in the days before the shooting, Southwark Crown Court heard\n\nThe following day he was filmed wearing a different mask\n\nThe jury was not told that he had previously been a suspect in the murder of a man shot dead in Malmo, but had never been charged.\n\nLouise Attrill, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said the \"international assassination\", was \"a shocking, cold-blooded and brutal murder of a man in front of his young family on Christmas Eve.\n\n\"The intention was clear - to kill.\"\n\nShe added that \"multiple shots\" had been \"fired at close range\", and the murder had been \"deliberately carried out in a way that would cause maximum terror and trauma given the date, place and circumstances\".\n\nFlowers were left in Battersea Church Road after the shooting\n\nMr Beqiri, who had joint Swedish and Albanian nationality, claimed to be in the music business but had been involved in the international drugs trade since 2007.\n\nHe was the brother of The Real Housewives Of Cheshire reality television participant, Misse Beqiri.\n\nMrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said she would sentence those found guilty over his killing on 18 February.\n• None Murder accused came to UK to 'Netflix and chill'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kurt Zouma: West Ham boss David Moyes says defender available for Leicester City game Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nZouma will get some help - Moyes West Ham boss David Moyes says Kurt Zouma is available for Sunday's game at Leicester amid the controversy of the defender being filmed kicking his cat. Animal charity the RSPCA has removed the 27-year-old's two cats as they investigate the incident. Moyes was criticised for picking Zouma against Watford on Tuesday after the video of the defender emerged. \"There are different views whether he should be available. We decided he should. I stand by that,\" said Moyes. Zouma has been fined the maximum amount possible by the Hammers, with the club \"currently in the process of identifying the appropriate animal welfare charities\" to benefit from the funds. \"I don't think a club could have taken action any quicker than they've done at the moment. West Ham have done a really good job,\" added Moyes. \"I'm not condoning him, his actions were terrible. They were diabolical but we've chosen to play him and we stand by that. \"He's incredibly remorseful. Like everybody else, in life sometimes you need a bit of forgiveness. He's hoping he is forgiven for a bad action. \"We will get him some help. We are trying to do as much as we can as a club, as a team, to help him. \"Like people who maybe have drink-driving offences, most of them have to go to classes to learn the reasons and the damage that can be done. \"I think RSPCA are going to provide us some courses for Kurt to understand about animals and how to treat them.\" However, the RSPCA said in a statement on Saturday that \"there have been no plans made for animal welfare courses to be undertaken\". It added: \"Our focus remains entirely on our experienced officers carrying out a full and thorough investigation.\" The RSPCA said it has also \"not been offered or accepted a donation\". The video also showed Zouma slapping his cat and was reportedly filmed by his brother Yoan. Yoan is at Dagenham & Redbridge, who have said he will not play for the National League club until the conclusion of an RSPCA investigation. The fallout from the incident has resulted in German sportswear firm Adidas ending its deal with the Hammers player. West Ham sponsor Experience Kissimmee has also ended its deal with the club, while Vitality, another sponsor, has suspended its contract with the club. The Hammers signed Zouma for £29.8m from Chelsea in August 2021 and he has helped them to fourth place going into the game against the Foxes. \"I've never had [an incident] like this. As a football manager it shows you never know what you're going to get,\" said Moyes. \"That's part of being in this job. We'd rather we weren't making news. West Ham have made really, really good news in the last two years. \"We've a really good side. I'm sad the focus has been taken away from what is, at the moment, a really good season.\"\n• None Our coverage of West Ham United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Hammers - go straight to all the best content", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 4 and 11 February.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nLike sheeps that pass in the night: Hazel Dempsey, who took this picture in Colpy Road, Aberdeenshire, said: \"They were very still and quiet as they filed past pausing to peer at me in the driver's seat with my camera.\"\n\nI would kiln for this job: Colin Hattersley took this photograph of ceramicists Heather Wilson and Nicholas Stenhouse in a pottery in a converted garage at Marchmont House near Duns in the Scottish Borders.\n\nMonumental undertaking: Alex Orr snapped the statue of Sir Walter Scott which forms part of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh. He said: \"It is one of the largest monuments dedicated to a writer anywhere in the world.\"\n\nRiveting: Robert Jackson Supworth captured this reflective look at artist John McKenna's shipyard sculpture in Port Glasgow.\n\nHit the nail on the head: John Rodgers was one of many to submit pictures of John McKenna's shipyard sculpture in Port Glasgow.\n\nTreemendous: Jim Hughes took this during a walk around Dalmahoy Hill in Edinburgh. He said it is his \"favourite lone tree\".\n\nIt dawned on me: Mitchell McMinn took this picture at sunrise through the beech trees at the entry to Carnsalloch House, near Dumfries.\n\nRaise the roof: Iain McGarry photographed this old dilapidated shepherd's house just outside Letham in Fife.\n\nStrike a pose: Jon Rowe captured his four-year-old daughter imitating a dancer on a poster at the V&A in Dundee\n\nStone cold: Mark Grant took this picture of his son Hamish making a den at Sandhaven in Fraserburgh despite the freezing weather.\n\nEthereal: Andrew Coleman took this shot from Glascarnoch dam with An Teallach.\n\nA penny fur your thoughts: Ron MacDonald took this photo of a mountain hare high up in the Cairngorms.\n\nCloud and clear: Abdul Hakeem captured this scene from Neist Point on the Isle of Skye.\n\nLife is a beach: Michelle Robson took this picture of the sunset at Dunnet Bay.\n\nUnder the weather: Alistair Duthie took this very atmospheric picture of a beach walk with friends at Forvie Sands, Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.\n\nLooking at ewe: Rosie Gray took this picture of muddy sheep on a snowy day near Errogie, south of Inverness.\n\nBalancing act: Penny Tindle said the squirrel found it very difficult to reach the nuts due to the strength of the wind blowing its tail and the nut holders in Brig o' Turk.\n\nOn the fence: Andy Macrae took this photograph at an Inverness scrapyard. He said: \"This Rolls Royce Silver Spirit is hoisted high at the entrance and provides the finest gate guard.\"\n\nTowards the light: Sam McArdle captured Stark's Park - the home of Raith Rovers.\n\nTake to the stage: Craig Fuller took this picture of Monica McGhee and Dan Shelvey rehearsing for their tour of Scotland with Opera Highlights.\n\nKeep calm and carrion: Glenys Norquay saw this kestrel sheltering in the trees beside the Wee Braids golf course in Liberton, Edinburgh.\n\nA bit of a stretch: Jill Johnston came across the Master of the Universe by Eduardo Paolozzi in the grounds of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern Two. The sculpture is based on a drawing by William Blake depicting Isaac Newton.\n\nGod rays: Stewart Paul took this photo of crepuscular rays at Cruden Bay beach.\n\nAll suns blazing: Paul McCartney took this picture of the sunrise reflecting off the sand in Golspie.\n\nYou go, gulls: Christine Montgomery took this picture in Govan, Glasgow.\n\nYeah buoy: Colin Denholm captured this scene during a wander at Stonehaven Harbour.\n\nYou have the key to my heart: Elaine Malone took this picture of a a Valentine's display on a door in Edinburgh.\n\nBirds of a feather flock together: David Jackson took this image of some bickering goldfinches around his garden bird-feeders at Bishopton in Renfrewshire.\n\nOn reflection: Sheila Carswell captures her sister watching the sunset at Lamlash, Isle of Arran.\n\nAurora Borealis: Shona Mackay shot the Northern Lights dancing near Stirling. She said: \"It was amazing to be able to see it with our naked eyes, although the camera did a much better job.\"\n\nNeed a light? Gary Mclean captured the Cloch lighthouse in Gourock at sunset.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Boris Johnson has received a questionnaire from the Metropolitan Police as part of the inquiry into parties at Downing Street and Whitehall during the Covid lockdowns.\n\nNo 10 confirmed that the prime minister had been contacted by the police and said he would \"respond as required\".\n\nPolice are sending the questionnaire by email to more than 50 people.\n\nThe Met has said the questionnaires will ask what happened and \"must be answered truthfully\".\n\nThe force said on Wednesday its email must be responded to within seven days - and the documents ask for an \"account and explanation of the recipient's participation in an event\".\n\nBut being contacted does not mean a fine would always be issued, the Met added.\n\nThe questionnaire has the same status as information given in an interview under caution.\n\nThe prime minister has come under pressure over the allegations of parties during lockdowns, with several Tory backbenchers calling for him to resign and submitting letters of no confidence in his leadership.\n\nMr Johnson has previously said he was looking forward to the police investigation being concluded and has apologised \"for the things we simply didn't get right\" over the party row.\n\nBoth Mr Johnson and his wife Carrie were expected to be among those emailed, although it has not yet been confirmed if Mrs Johnson has received one.\n\nThe fact Boris Johnson has received one shows the police believe he now needs to account for his actions, and what he was doing at these events, to see whether or not he has broken the law.\n\nGetting a questionnaire doesn't necessarily mean the police will issue him with a fine, or find him to have broken the law.\n\nAllies expect him to draw on how Downing Street is both the prime minister's workplace and private residence. Remember, he previously apologised for being at the 20 May 2020 drinks in the Downing Street garden by claiming he \"believed implicitly that this was a work event.\"\n\nBut politically this is an incredibly damaging situation to be in for a serving prime minister regardless.\n\nWhile some allies have said they would support him even if he received a fixed penalty notice, many Tory MPs think his position would be untenable if he's found to have broken the law.\n\nOn Friday evening, Business minister Lord Callanan told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions the prime minister should continue in his role and would have his support even if he received a fixed penalty notice.\n\nBut former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said it would be \"very tough\" for Mr Johnson to cling on to power if he is fined.\n\n\"It will be difficult, he knows that,\" the senior MP told the i newspaper.\n\nSir Iain added: \"If you've set the laws, and you break them and the police decide you have broken them... and then there's the unredacted [Sue Gray] report - the two things will come together.\"\n\nMeanwhile, former minister Tobias Ellwood - one of the Conservative MPs to have submitted a letter of no confidence in the PM - said the matter needed to be \"resolved\".\n\nHe told BBC Newsnight: \"The nation is looking at this. There's a massive level of trust to be regained. We need to move forward, this is a mess.\"\n\nThe investigation, Operation Hillman, is examining 12 gatherings on eight dates - some of which the PM has already said he attended - to see if Covid regulations were broken.\n\nOutgoing Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick earlier this week suggested that some \"but probably not all\" of those being contacted by officers will end up with fines.\n\nThe initial findings of a separate inquiry by senior civil servant Sue Gray criticised \"failures of leadership and judgement\" over the gatherings in Downing Street and Whitehall.\n\nDetectives investigating the parties have been handed more than 500 documents and 300 images gathered as part of Ms Gray's inquiry.\n\nOf the dates being investigated by the police, Mr Johnson is known to have been present at three gatherings:\n\nThe Met has said it would review a decision not to investigate a Christmas quiz at No 10 after a picture of the prime minister was leaked to the press showing him next to a bottle of fizzy wine.\n\nAmid the fallout from the row, five Downing Street aides have resigned, with Mr Johnson promising MPs he would shake up his No 10 team as a result.", "Apple plans to introduce a number of changes to make it harder to misuse AirTags to track someone.\n\nThe button-sized devices are designed to work with Apple's 'Find My' network to locate lost items.\n\nThe company said its changes to the device will make suspicious tags easier to find, and alert users earlier that an AirTag may be travelling with them.\n\nIn January, a number of women told the BBC they had been followed using AirTags.\n\nApple launched AirTags in April last year. The small, circular devices can be attached to luggage or keys - anything you could lose.\n\nBut the devices can be misused to track people by being hidden in a car, or on a personal item such as a bag.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amber Norsworthy received a phone notification saying an unknown accessory was tracking her\n\nAs part of the changes to make misuse harder, Apple said every user setting up their AirTag for the first time will see a message warning that using the device to track people without consent is a crime in many regions around the world.\n\nCurrently, iPhone users (and Android users who download an app) receive \"unwanted tracking\" alerts if an unknown AirTag moves with them.\n\nApple announced that people will be alerted earlier that an unknown AirTag is travelling with them.\n\nAnd when people are warned of \"unwanted tracking\" by an AirTag, users of iPhone 11, iPhone 12, and iPhone 13 devices will be able to use \"precision finding\", to see the distance and direction to an unknown AirTag when it is in range. Previously only the owner of the AirTag could do this.\n\nNew warnings will appear when AirTags are first set up\n\nCurrently iOS users can send an unwanted tracking alert to make the suspect AirTag play tones and Apple has said tags will use louder tones in the future to make the tag easier to locate.\n\nThe company said it will also add to a feature that makes an AirTag that hasn't been with the person who registered it for an extended period of time, play a sound when moved.\n\nIn theory this could reveal the presence of an AirTag to a stalking victim, but recent reports revealed that AirTags with the internal speakers deactivated had been listed for sale online.\n\nTo counter this, when the sound is triggered and the AirTag is detected moving with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, an alert will also appear on that device.\n\nApple also said it will also update its support article on unwanted tracking with additional information and resources.\n\nApple AirTags are incredibly good at finding things. They can track your items down to 0.1 feet.\n\nBut that accuracy means that, in the wrong hands, they can be used as sophisticated tracking tools.\n\nThis isn't theoretical, as the BBC reported last month, there's evidence that people are using AirTags to follow people.\n\nThe AirTags themselves are relatively new, and it's clear that Apple hasn't yet worked out how best to protect people.\n\nFor example, it took six months after AirTag's launch for the company to bring out an app that would alert Android users to an unwanted AirTag.\n\nThe new updates that Apple plans to come out later this year - precision finding and AirTags that emit louder noises - are what campaigners have been calling for.\n\nBut with these iterative updates, there will be questions over whether Apple launched the product too early.\n\nApple said it designed \"products to provide a great experience, but also with safety and privacy in mind\", adding that it was \"committed to listening to feedback and innovating to make improvements that continue to guard against unwanted tracking\".\n\nIt also noted that \"based on our knowledge and on discussions with law enforcement, incidents of AirTag misuse are rare; however, each instance is one too many\".", "A health worker in Sierra Leone pictured with a rodent, which can spread the virus to humans by contaminating food or household items\n\nA person being treated for Lassa fever in the East of England has died, a hospital trust has confirmed.\n\nThe patient died at Luton and Dunstable Hospital, run by the Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the person who died was being treated for the animal-borne disease, which is endemic in parts of West Africa.\n\nIt said the risk to the public was \"very low\".\n\nThe death comes as the third case of Lassa fever was identified in the UK in the last few days.\n\nAll three cases were within the same family and were linked to recent travel to West Africa, said Dr Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at UKHSA.\n\nThe cases are the first of the disease to be confirmed in the UK in more than a decade.\n\nNHS East of England has now declared a \"regional major incident\".\n\nThe BBC understands this is because two of the patients were treated at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge before being transferred to a London hospital.\n\nA cousin of Ebola, Lassa fever is endemic in a number of West African countries\n\nIn a statement, the NHS said: \"UKHSA advice is that some staff at the hospitals where the patients have been treated may need to undergo testing and wear more personal protective equipment (PPE) than normal.\n\n\"Staff in direct contact with confirmed cases will have to self-isolate for a period of time. This is standard procedure and precautionary only.\n\n\"Because of the impact this will have on staffing key services in our region, we have declared a regional major incident. This allows the region's healthcare systems to work together to keep services running safely.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the UKHSA said: \"We are contacting the individuals who have had close contact with the cases prior to confirmation of their infection, to provide appropriate assessment, support and advice.\"\n\nA Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust spokesperson said: \"We confirm the sad death of a patient at our trust, who had confirmed Lassa fever.\n\n\"We will continue to support the patient's family and our staff and are working closely with colleagues from the UK Health Security Agency to undertake a robust contact tracing exercise.\"\n\nBefore the three recent cases, eight cases of Lassa fever had been identified in the UK since 1980.\n\nThe recent cases are the first of the disease to be confirmed in the UK since 2009.\n\nDr Hopkins said: \"Cases of Lassa fever are rare in the UK and it does not spread easily between people. The overall risk to the public is very low.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Brandon Lewis said he was \"disappointed\" by the current crisis\n\nUnionist parties should commit to returning to power-sharing if Sinn Féin is returned as the largest party after the election, Brandon Lewis has said.\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary said he was \"disappointed\" by the current crisis, sparked by the resignation of First Minister Paul Givan.\n\nThe move means the Northern Ireland Executive can no longer meet.\n\nMr Lewis said he hoped the executive could be reinstated after the election on 5 May.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has refused to say whether it would nominate for deputy first minister, if Sinn Féin wins the most seats, entitling it to the first minister role for the first time.\n\nUnder Stormont's power-sharing arrangements, the first and deputy first ministers are chosen by each of the largest unionist and nationalist parties - most recently the DUP and Sinn Féin.\n\nBoth ministers have equal powers, and one cannot be in office without the other.\n\nMr Lewis was asked about the scenario by Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nSpeaking from Washington, he said: \"I would like to see parties - both nationalist and unionist parties - whatever the result in May, that they will nominate.\n\n\"The right thing for Northern Ireland is to have the devolved authority of the executive and assembly back as soon as possible after 5 May.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's assembly election is due to be held on 5 May\n\nMr Givan resigned in protest against the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThis is an element of the UK government's Brexit deal with the European Union (EU), keeping Northern Ireland aligned with the EU single market for goods as a means of retaining an open Irish border.\n\nHowever, it has resulted in some additional checks for goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, prompting unionist criticism.\n\nAs Mr Givan's resignation meant Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill was also removed from her role as deputy first minister, the Stormont executive can no longer meet.\n\nNew laws to allow the assembly to continue without a functioning executive were passed by MPs on Monday night.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Lewis ruled out calling an early assembly election at Stormont.\n\nHe said \"it is right\" that the election date remains 5 May.", "Covid-19 restrictions in Northern Ireland are no longer legally binding as of 17:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nThe need for Covid certificates in nightclubs, face coverings, track and trace requirements and the cap on 30 people in private homes are no longer legal requirements.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the remaining measures would instead be issued as guidance to the public.\n\nHe warned Covid-19 had not gone away and remained a threat.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Mr Swann said: \"It is vitally important that we continue to observe the sensible measures we have all learnt to protect ourselves and others.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The NI public has \"a role to play\" in protecting others, Prof Ian Young says\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief scientific adviser Professor Ian Young said Northern Ireland had reached a key milestone in the pandemic but said it was \"not freedom day\".\n\n\"There is still a lot of Covid out there, we all need to do our bit to continue to protect the most vulnerable and wearing face coverings in appropriate settings is an important part of that,\" he said.\n\n\"I hope this is a day when people will move from feeling that their behaviours are covered by regulation to using exactly the same behaviours through choice in response to guidance.\"\n\nMeasures, which had previously been guidance rather than law, such as working from home where possible, have not been changed.\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged that in Northern Ireland the need to self-isolate after testing positive for Covid-19 falls under \"very strong guidance\".\n\nHowever, in England, there is a legal requirement to self isolate.\n\nIt took many journalists by surprise when we learned that self-isolating, following a positive test, falls under guidance rather than a legal requirement.\n\nDuring a press conference on Tuesday, Prof Ian Young answered many questions about what is meant by guidance as opposed to restrictions.\n\nTo all our surprise the answer was no - instead we were informed that has always come under \"very strong guidance\" except when it was required by law to isolate after taking an international flight.\n\nAccording to the Department of Health 'no one ever asked'.\n\nThe restrictions had been due to expire on 24 March, when the legislation underpinning them expired.\n\nThe health minister made an order on Tuesday, which revoked the restrictions.\n\nMr Swann also said it was important to retain the ability to reintroduce restrictions again in case a new variant causes concern.\n\nHe said he would seek to extend the powers granted to the Department of Health by the Coronavirus Act 2020 by six months.\n\nRobin Swann warned that the pandemic is still not over\n\nBBC News NI political editor Enda McClafferty said businesses remained frustrated that there has been no change to guidance on working from home.\n\nThis was beyond Mr Swann's control and he has called for the guidance to be reviewed.\n\nIf individual businesses wish they will still be able to ask people to wear face coverings and enforce measures such as social distancing.\n\nSome have said they intend to do so.\n\nHospitality businesses are hoping that trade will return to normal\n\nSome hospitality business owners have hailed the easing of regulations as the \"beginning of the end\" of the pandemic and said that they hoped trade would now return to normal.\n\nA bar owner said this was a good day for the hospitality industry, but major challenges remained in rebuilding consumer confidence.\n\nStephen Magorrian of the Horatio Group, said: \"We are conscious of the fact that the pandemic hasn't ended, so we still need to be cautious but it is good to see the start of the end.\n\n\"The rebuilding of confidence will be the main thing. We need to make sure that our customers still feel safe,\" he said.\n\nAaron Chism, co-owner of Belfast city centre clothes shop Fuzz Vintage, said his hope was for brighter days ahead.\n\nHe started the business in the middle of the pandemic in October 2020.\n\n\"Hopefully there's going to be more people knocking about Belfast and they'll feel more comfortable to go into shops and we'll get more customers,\" he said.\n\n\"It's been quiet with lockdowns and stuff and then having to be closed. We opened in the middle of things before a second lockdown - it was a harsh time to open a shop but hopefully it's going back to normal now.\"\n\nTranslink is to continue to encourage passengers to wear face coverings.\n\nMeanwhile, train and bus company, Translink, is to continue to encourage passengers to wear face coverings.\n\n\"To help keep everyone safe and in line with the latest guidance, we are encouraging our passengers to wear a face covering, if they can, in stations and on-board buses and trains,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) in Northern Ireland, which represents doctors, advised caution especially given that those most vulnerable in society will be worried about the decision.\n\nDr Alan Stout, from the BMA, welcomed the lifting of remaining restrictions.\n\n\"I think we've got to look at what's in front of us and what we're dealing with,\" he said.\n\n\"The link with the infection and with hospitalisation, with intensive care admission and with death has definitely been weakened. So it puts us in a much more confident position that we can start this journey back to some sort of normality.\"\n\nThe full Northern Ireland Executive cannot meet because Paul Givan resigned as first minister, forcing the resignation of Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill because of the joint nature of the office.\n\nBut individual ministers are still in place and can make some decisions, as long as the issues are not deemed \"significant or controversial\".\n\nIt is understood ministers from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Sinn Féin, SDLP and Alliance all supported Mr Swann - who is a member of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) - in his bid to remove remaining restrictions.\n\nOn Tuesday, four more Covid-19 related deaths were announced in Northern Ireland, along with 2,987 cases.\n\nThere are 476 patients with the virus in hospital.", "The man is said to have threatened police officers on patrol at the station\n\nFrench police have shot dead a man wielding a knife who threatened them at Paris's Gare du Nord train station.\n\nThe man attacked two police officers on patrol at the station, with a 30cm (12in) knife, police said.\n\nAn anti-police inscription was found on the man's knife, reports say. No police officers were injured in the incident, which occurred at about 07:00 local time (06:00 GMT) on Monday.\n\nThe authorities believe the incident was not terrorism-related.\n\n\"The police used their firearms, thus eliminating all danger, both for themselves and for travellers,\" Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin wrote in a tweet (in French).\n\nAn eyewitness told BFMTV: \"I was climbing up the stairs that go up to the Eurostar platform, I heard screams on the right. I saw a man, quite tall, a large knife in his hand with a very impressive blade who threatened two or three policemen who were armed… The police made us go up on the platform, made us lie on the ground.\"\n\nTransport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari later told RMC TV the man was known to the police \"as someone who wandered around in the station\".\n\n\"He appears to have attacked the police with a knife, forcing them to use their weapon.\"\n\nA security perimeter has been set up at the departure level of mainline trains. Several trains were delayed as a result, including international Eurostar trains, BFMTV reports.\n\nAn investigation has been opened for attempted homicide, the Paris prosecutor's office is quoted as saying by Le Parisien.\n\nThe Gare du Nord station is one of Europe's busiest, serving as a hub for high-speed trains to a number of countries, including Eurostar services to and from London.", "Flammable cladding panels have been blamed for the rapid spread of the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, which led to 72 deaths\n\nA cladding system similar to the one used at Grenfell Tower spectacularly failed safety tests in 2001, the public inquiry into the disaster has heard.\n\nTests had resulted in a \"very rapid, very large fire\" and had to be stopped.\n\nFor the first time the Building Research Establishment (BRE) confirmed publicly the tests had resulted in 20m (65ft) flames.\n\nThe BBC revealed the existence of the tests last year. They had not been made public before.\n\nSarah Colwell from the BRE told the inquiry the results were passed to the government to \"alert and identify\" the problem.\n\nThe test of the aluminium cladding with a plastic layer took place in 2001 - 16 years before the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nIf the results had been widely disseminated, it is possible the Grenfell cladding would not have been installed.\n\nIn the first report of the Grenfell Inquiry, the cladding was cited as the main cause of flames rapidly spreading up the building, leaving residents trapped.\n\nThe 2001 test involved a mock-up of a building on a 9m (30ft) test rig. This was the standard test of its type.\n\nWhen engineers set light to the mock-up, flames spread rapidly, according to results from the test shown at the inquiry.\n\nWithin three minutes the maximum acceptable temperature levels were reached on the outside of the structure, and just over a minute later, internal limits were also reached.\n\nAfter five minutes the flames had reached 20m (65ft) - twice the height of the rig - and the test was stopped.\n\nNormally the rig would be allowed to burn for 30 minutes.\n\nGiving evidence, Dr Colwell said: \"It was very rapid, very large fire growth.\"\n\nShe agreed the test was \"catastrophic\" and experts watching were \"shocked\".\n\nDespite the test, the aluminium cladding had the best national rating for fire spread - Class zero - a standard which has been discredited since the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nThe Building Research Establishment passed the results of the 2001 tests to the government, which had commissioned its work.\n\nDespite the obvious fire risks the aluminium cladding was not specifically banned, and continued to be used on buildings such as Grenfell right up to the fire in 2017 which resulted in the loss of 72 lives.\n\nThe government has a £4bn fund in place intended to remove unsafe cladding on residential buildings 18 metres and over\n\nAsked whether anyone warned the construction industry, DrColwell said: \"I made the department aware of the outcomes. They were obviously in a position to take the dissemination route.\"\n\nA 2004 document summarising the results was leaked to the BBC last year. It had been circulated to an industry group marked \"commercial, in confidence\".\n\nFollowing the Grenfell fire, cladding companies claimed they had been horrified by how fast the flames spread, and that they had not been aware of the risks of aluminium and plastic cladding.\n\nA document produced by the BRE in 2006 following the tests did not mention the 2001 test results.\n\nCounsel to the inquiry asked Dr Colwell which brand of cladding was used in the tests. She said she did not know.\n\nThe product used at Grenfell was Reynobond PE55 made by the multinational firm Arconic.\n\nResidents in more than 1,000 buildings in London still rely on 24-hour monitoring due to potentially unsafe building materials, the fire service has said.\n\nGovernment officials and former ministers will be questioned about what they knew over the coming weeks.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK wage growth continued to lag behind the rising cost of living between October and December, figures show.\n\nWages rose, but when taking inflation into account, pay showed a 0.8% fall from a year earlier, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nLatest figures also show that the unemployment rate fell to 4.1% while job vacancies hit a fresh record high.\n\nThere are signs that these pressures might feed through to faster wage growth in the coming months.\n\nAccording to the ONS, employees' regular pay, excluding bonuses, grew by 3.7% between October and December from a year earlier - which is high compared with rates seen over the last decade.\n\nHowever, the rising cost of food, energy and household goods has pushed inflation up by 5.4% in the 12 months to December. The ONS said real wages in the October to December period fell by 0.8% from a year earlier.\n\nThe Bank of England has warned this squeeze on workers will get worse, with inflation set to rise above 7% this year.\n\nBut the ONS said early estimates suggest employers are starting to push up wages further and faster in response.\n\nIt said that for workers on payrolls in January, median monthly wages increased by 6.3% compared with the same month last year, and they were 10.3% higher than before the pandemic in February 2020.\n\nIt added that wage rises for payrolled workers last month appeared to easily outpace inflation in some industries, such as science, finance and insurance, information and communication, and hotels.\n\nEmployers are having to increase salaries as they face a continuing shortage of workers.\n\nMeanwhile the number of job vacancies between November and January hit another record of 1.3 million, the ONS said, with most industries finding it harder to recruit.\n\n\"The good news is that the UK economy is continuing to create jobs,\" said Matthew Percival, director for people and skills at the CBI.\n\n\"The bad news is that businesses are struggling to hire and pay is failing to keep up with inflation.\"\n\nLee Powell, chief executive of GMI Construction Group, which employs 200 people in Leeds, told the BBC that the combination of inflation and skills shortages was a \"headache at the moment\".\n\n\"In the construction industry we've seen unbelievably rapid inflation across materials... and we're in a situation now where the demands for wage increases are somewhat eye-watering.\n\nConstruction firms have seen the costs of raw materials soar\n\n\"You'd automatically assume you could pass those prices straight on to the developer or to the end user but it's not as easy as that.\"\n\nThe governor of the Bank of England recently sparked controversy when he urged workers not to ask for big pay rises, to help stop inflation from rising out of control.\n\nAndrew Bailey said that while it would be \"painful\" for workers to accept that prices would rise faster than their wages, he added that some \"moderation of wage rises\" was needed to prevent inflation becoming entrenched.\n\nThe GMB union branded the idea a \"sick joke\" while the government distanced itself from the comments.\n\nEarlier this month, the Bank of England raised interest rates to 0.5% in an attempt to tame inflation.\n\nPaul Dales, chief UK economist for Capital Economics, said the Bank was likely to take a more aggressive approach to rate increases this year and next given the economic picture.\n\n\"Employment has recouped the falls after the furlough scheme, the unemployment rate has fallen to pre-Covid levels, job vacancies are at a record high and wage growth is rising,\" he said.\n\n\"That's a recipe for more interest rate hikes, perhaps from 0.5% now to 1.25% this year and to 2% next year.\"\n\nThe latest estimates of wage increases for payrolled employees appear to confirm the Bank of England's fear that pay rises are taking off - one of the biggest reasons they've raised interest rates twice in a row.\n\nWhile they are early estimates and subject to revision, they suggest that pay in January was up by just over 10% compared with February 2020. That is the first time we've heard of double-digit pay rises, even over two years, in a very long time.\n\nPart of the reason is the tightest labour market we've had in living memory. Staff quit their jobs at record rates to take a better offer from another employer. Firms that want to keep people are having to pay more to retain them.\n\nThis is hard to reconcile with the more reliable but less up-to-date quarterly figures, showing pay rises at 3.7%, lagging price inflation. But statistical confusion will work itself out over time. Meanwhile, these figures will do nothing to discourage the Bank of England from raising interest rates a third time the next time its interest rate setters meet.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Racism is a problem in the Met Police, deputy assistant commissioner Bas Javid tells BBC Newsnight.\n\nA senior officer has admitted racism remains a problem in the Metropolitan Police, after two black colleagues told the BBC it was getting worse.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Bas Javid told BBC Two's Newsnight some officers \"have racist views and are racist\".\n\nBut he denied the Met was a \"racist organisation\".\n\nOne officer said a supervisor used a racist slur against him. Another said senior leaders suggested black people were not clever enough for the Met.\n\nMr Javid, who is the brother of Health Secretary Sajid Javid, said he was \"extremely disappointed\" to hear the allegations from the black officers - which include claims that the Met is failing to deal with complaints of racism and putting pressure on victims.\n\nHe said: \"The fact that you've had officers or staff come to you to make allegations, what I'd like to see is an organisation where people feel comfortable to come forward and report it so we can deal with it effectively.\"\n\nThe culture of London's Metropolitan Police force has come under close scrutiny, with Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick resigning after London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was not satisfied with her response to the scale of the cultural change required.\n\nAmong his concerns were the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving officer last year, and a report into abusive behaviour at Charing Cross police station published earlier this month.\n\nIt found that, between 2016 and 2018, officers shared messages that were highly sexualised, violent and discriminatory against women, ethnic minorities, LGBT people and disabled people - which they defended as \"banter\".\n\nThe two black officers interviewed by Newsnight said there needed to be changes among the Met's senior leadership to root out racism and misogyny.\n\nOne said some senior leaders refused to admit there were issues with discrimination, while the other suggested the next commissioner should be recruited from outside the force.\n\nDame Cressida Dick resigned after London Mayor Sadiq Khan said she needed to do more to root out discrimination in the Met\n\nMr Javid ruled himself out as a possible successor to Dame Cressida and said it would be for the mayor and home secretary to decide if the next commissioner should be someone from an ethnic minority.\n\nAsked if he accepted racism was a problem in the Met, he said: \"Yes, I do.\"\n\nHe added: \"What I would say is, there are people who have racist views and are racist and they are in policing. But what I won't do is describe the organisation as a racist organisation.\"\n\nMr Javid, who is responsible for professional standards, said there was \"absolutely no room for racism in policing, especially here in the Metropolitan Police\".\n\n\"If people are found to be racist or discriminatory in any way, then I will do absolutely everything I can to make sure they're removed from the police,\" he said.\n\nBut one of the officers who spoke to the BBC said racism within the force had got worse and officers accused of discrimination did not face adequate sanctions.\n\nWhen he raised a complaint, he said the Met Police \"put more pressure on the victim than the accused\".\n\nHe said he felt like he was the one who had to move departments, while the accused stayed in the same job.\n\n\"There shouldn't be any other option than for them to lose their job,\" he said.\n\n\"Until that changes, I don't think much will change in the Met.\"\n\nHe said a supervisor had referred to him as a monkey, \"one of the most derogatory terms that someone could ever refer to you as a black person\".\n\n\"It's hurtful and disgusting,\" he said.\n\nThe officer also said he had been victimised based on the way he speaks, and colleagues had called him a drug dealer or gang member.\n\nThe second officer, a black woman in a senior role, said working in the Met Police was \"incredibly traumatic\" for black officers because of the discrimination they faced.\n\nShe said it was common for people of colour to be undermined and humiliated in meetings.\n\nIn a recruitment meeting, senior leaders said black and Asian people were not joining the Met because they were not clever enough, she said.\n\nBoth officers said things could not change in the Met Police unless there was a recognition of racism and misogyny in the force.\n\n\"I'm not convinced things will change,\" the male officer said.\n\n\"Things will remain the same until there are a group of top rank bosses who are replaced, in my opinion - the bosses who refused to admit there are issues in the Met.\"\n\nThe female police officer said the next Met Commissioner should be recruited from outside the force.\n\n\"Everyone who Cressida surrounded herself with were people who mirrored what she believed. You need an outsider,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Janet Hills - who from 2013 to 2021 served as head of the Met's Black Police Association - said the force needed a \"consistent approach and zero tolerance towards people that are racist within policing\".\n\nShe added that staff found to have committed misconduct or racist behaviour should face dismissal.\n\nNewsnight reported this story on 14 February 2022 and you can watch on iPlayer for 11 months", "The Blue River in Tunis has one of the highest pharmaceutical concentrations, the study shows.\n\nPollution of the world's rivers from medicines and pharmaceutical products poses a \"threat to environmental and global health\", a report says.\n\nParacetamol, nicotine, caffeine and epilepsy and diabetes drugs were widely detected in a University of York study.\n\nThe research is among the most extensive undertaken on a global scale.\n\nRivers in Pakistan, Bolivia and Ethiopia were among the most polluted. Rivers in Iceland, Norway and the Amazon rainforest fared the best.\n\nThe impact of many of the most common pharmaceutical compounds in rivers is still largely unknown.\n\nBut it is already well established that dissolved human contraceptives can impact the development and reproduction of fish, and scientists fear the increased presence of antibiotics in rivers could limit their effectiveness as medicines.\n\nThis section of the Nam Khan river in Laos generally has low concentrations of pharmaceuticals\n\nThe study sampled water from more than 1,000 test sites in more than 100 countries.\n\nOverall, more than a quarter of the 258 rivers sampled had what are known as \"active pharmaceutical ingredients\" present at a level deemed unsafe for aquatic organisms.\n\n\"Typically, what happens is, we take these chemicals, they have some desired effects on us and then they leave our bodies,\" Dr John Wilkinson, who led the research, told BBC News.\n\n\"What we know now is that even the most modern efficient wastewater treatment plants aren't completely capable of degrading these compounds before they end up in rivers or lakes.\"\n\nThe two most frequently detected pharmaceuticals were carbamazepine, which is used to treat epilepsy and nerve pain, and metformin, used to treat type 2 diabetes.\n\nHigh concentrations were also found of so-called \"lifestyle consumables\" like caffeine [coffee] and nicotine [cigarettes] as well as the painkiller paracetamol.\n\nIn Africa, artemisinin - used in anti-malarial medicine - was also found in high concentrations.\n\n\"We can say [the impact of the presence of such pharmaceuticals in rivers] is likely to be negative but you have to do individual tests with each one and there are relatively few studies,\" Dr Veronica Edmonds-Brown, an aquatic ecologist from the UK's University of Hertfordshire told BBC News.\n\n\"This is only going to get worse as we are increasingly using pharmacological solutions to any illness whether physical or mental.\"\n\nThe report says the increased presence of antibiotics in rivers could also lead to the development of resistant bacteria, damaging the effectiveness of medicines and ultimately posing \"a global threat to environmental and global health\".\n\nThe most polluted sites were largely in low- to middle-income countries, and in areas where there was sewage dumping, poor wastewater management and pharmaceutical manufacturing.\n\nThe Nairobi River in Kenya - among the world's waterways most contaminated by pharmaceuticals\n\n\"We have seen contaminated rivers in Nigeria and in South Africa with very high concentrations of pharmaceuticals and this is basically down to the lack of infrastructure in wastewater treatment,\" said Dr Mohamed Abdallah, associate professor of emerging contaminants at the UK's Birmingham University.\n\n\"This is most concerning because you have the most vulnerable populations with the least access to healthcare exposed to this.\"\n\nOn the question of what can be done, the lead author of the report, Dr Wilkinson, has a somewhat depressing outlook.\n\n\"It's going to take many people who are a lot smarter than me to tackle the problem,\" he said. \"One of the few things that could have an effect right now is the proper use of medicines.\"\n\nThat would mean making it harder to get hold of medicines like antibiotics, and tighter restrictions on doses.\n\nThe full report has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.", "Alec Baldwin \"recklessly shot and killed\" cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust last year, a lawsuit from her family has alleged.\n\nMs Hutchins, 42, died last year during a scene rehearsal after a gun held by Baldwin discharged a live round.\n\nBaldwin is one of several defendants named in the wrongful death lawsuit.\n\nLawyers for the Hutchins family said she would still be alive if crew members had not cut corners.\n\nTuesday's lawsuit was filed in the First Judicial District Court of New Mexico on behalf of Ms Hutchins' husband Matthew and son Andros, and seeks unspecified damages.\n\nAt a news conference, lawyers for the Hutchins family also presented an animated re-enactment of the shooting.\n\nThey claimed Baldwin and others \"failed to perform industry standard safety checks and follow basic gun safety rules\".\n\nThe lawsuit also faults producers for \"cutting corners on safety procedures where human lives were at stake, rushing to stay on schedule and ignoring numerous complaints of safety violations\".\n\nMr Halls and Ms Gutierrez-Reed have both faced complaints in the past that they did not adhere to on-set safety measures.\n\nThis could be very serious for Alec Baldwin.\n\nA wrongful death lawsuit will focus not on what was done, but on what was not done.\n\nAs both producer and star of the now defunct Rust, he will have to defend himself on several fronts and show that he met safety procedures that should be in place on all film sets and that he fulfilled his duty of care.\n\nThere have been reports that a number of crew members had left the Rust set because they felt safety standards were not up to scratch before the tragedy happened.\n\nThe lawsuit alleges that he recklessly discharged a lethal weapon. That is a criminal offence in New Mexico where the shooting happened.\n\nThe criminal investigation into the incident is still ongoing with the Santa Fe Sherriff's Office, which is trying to determine how live ammunition got on to the set. Investigators have not ruled out criminal charges.\n\nThe weapon that wounded Ms Hutchins was a .45 Colt revolver that was supposed to contain dummy rounds.\n\nBaldwin - the Western film's star and co-producer - had been practising drawing the gun and pointing it at the camera when it fired a single live round.\n\nMs Hutchins, who was setting up for the next scene, was hit in the chest.\n\nThe film's director Joel Souza was also hit in the shoulder but survived.\n\nAround 500 rounds of ammunition - a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and live rounds - were later located on the set.\n\nIn the aftermath of the incident, Baldwin expressed \"shock and sadness\" over what he called a \"tragic accident\".\n\nBut in December, he told ABC News that he had never pulled the trigger of the gun.\n\nLast month, he turned over his mobile phone to investigators after they had accused him of blocking their probe.\n\nSeveral lawsuits relating to the film set have been filed, and Baldwin was previously named in one filing over negligence.\n\nNo criminal charges have yet emerged, but police have not ruled it out. Baldwin has not yet responded to the latest lawsuit.", "Emergency crews were called to the property in Whickham Street on Tuesday afternoon\n\nTwo men have been taken to hospital after a gas explosion at a house in Sunderland.\n\nEmergency response crews were called to Whickham Street in Roker at about 15:45 GMT.\n\nNorth East Ambulance Service confirmed the patients were being treated for \"blast injuries\".\n\nPictures of the damaged house show its roof and part of the front of the property missing, with bricks and debris strewn across the street.\n\nOne of the injured men was flown to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary by the Great North Air Ambulance Service, the other was driven to Sunderland Royal Hospital.\n\nTheir injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nA cordon is in place at the scene and emergency vehicles remain outside the house.\n\nAn investigation will be carried out into the exact cause of the explosion.\n\nA witness said he saw a man being retrieved from the loft space\n\nWitness Walter Taylor was at home making a cup of tea and described hearing \"more of a woosh, than a bang\".\n\nHe said: \"I looked out the window and I saw the smoke - there was no fire.\n\n\"All the lads from the garage went straight to clear the rubble.\n\n\"There was someone taken out the loft space by the fire brigade.\"\n\nImages from the fire service showed the damage to the back of the house\n\n\"I can see there has been some sort of collapse of a house.\n\n\"The wall has sort of caved in at the front and fallen to the ground and the roof tiling has completely come off.\n\n\"There are a lot of fire engines around and police cars, as well as well as a number of ambulances.\"\n\nFire crews will remain at the scene on Tuesday night to assess the site\n\nTyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service confirmed four engines were at the scene and it was called after reports of a gas explosion at a property.\n\nIts chief fire officer Chris Lowther tweeted that \"a significant gas explosion\" had occurred and search and rescue teams had responded to the incident.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The first crew was on the scene in a matter of minutes where emergency services found two men had suffered injuries,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Nobody else has been reported to be injured at this time.\"\n\nSome residents in the immediate vicinity have also been evacuated \"as a precaution,\" the service said.\n\nDeputy chief fire officer Peter Heath said crews will remain in the area on Tuesday evening alongside Northumbria Police officers to ensure the site is safe.\n\n\"This has been a significant explosion and there has been substantial damage caused to the property,\" he added.\n\nTyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service said it was \"still trying to establish the circumstances\" of the blast\n\nNorthumbria Police said: \"At 15:45 we received a report of a suspected gas explosion at an address on Whickham Street, Sunderland.\n\n\"Emergency services are at the scene.\n\n\"Two men have been taken to hospital with injuries that are not deemed to be life-threatening at this time.\n\n\"Officers remain in the area alongside Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service and anyone with concerns is asked to speak to them.\"\n\nTwo people were taken to hospital with blast injuries, the North East Ambulance Service said\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donald Trump's accounting firm says a decade of financial statements should not be relied upon\n\nDonald Trump's accounting firm has cut ties with the former president and said a decade of financial reports should \"no longer be relied upon\".\n\nThe firm, Mazars, said in a letter to the Trump Organization that it could not stand behind statements it had prepared for Mr Trump from 2011-20.\n\nBut Mazars said it had not concluded they contained material discrepancies.\n\nThe letter was revealed in a court filing as part of a fraud investigation into the Trump Organization.\n\nIn the filing, New York Attorney General Letitia James repeated her request that the former president and his daughter, Ivanka, give evidence under oath. Her office has already questioned Mr Trump's son, Eric Trump.\n\nMs James last month said her civil inquiry into the Trump family firm had uncovered what she claimed was \"significant evidence\" of misleading business practices, including over-valuing certain assets.\n\nIn its letter, Mazars wrote that the findings of Ms James' investigation had contributed to the conclusion that the statements should no longer be relied upon.\n\nThe firm also said it performed its work in \"accordance with professional standards\", and compiled the reports based on information provided by the Trump Organization.\n\n\"While we have not concluded that the various financial statements, as a whole, contain material discrepancies, based upon the totality of the circumstances, we believe our advice to you to no longer rely upon those financial statements is appropriate,\" the letter said.\n\nIt added that the firm would no longer be working with the Trump Organization.\n\nThe financial documents are at the heart of the New York attorney general's civil investigation and a second, criminal inquiry by the Manhattan District Attorney's office.\n\nIn January Ms James, a Democrat, accused the Trump Organization of using \"fraudulent or misleading asset valuations\" to get loans, insurance and tax breaks.\n\nMr Trump's lawyers are trying to stop Ms James from questioning the former US president and his children, and he has sued her to try to halt the probe.\n\nA spokesperson for the Trump Organization said the letter from Mazars renders the investigations moot, because it suggests that the financial statements do not contain material discrepancies, according to CBS News.\n\nMr Trump, a Republican, has previously said both inquiries are politically motivated and has referred to Ms James' investigation as a \"hoax\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A flashback through four turbulent years of Trump", "Abigail Parker worked all her life before losing her job last year\n\nA woman who lost everything in a house fire says government benefit cuts will be \"catastrophic\" for people like her who are already struggling to survive.\n\nAbi Parker, from Swanage, Dorset, is among the millions who are losing a £20-a-week uplift added to universal credit payments during the pandemic.\n\nMs Parker, who also lost her job due to the pandemic, said the cut will leave her with £234 a month to live on.\n\nThe government said the £20 uplift was always meant to be temporary.\n\nMs Parker moved to Dorset at the start of 2020 to start a new job but ended up out of work after the country went into lockdown due to Covid-19.\n\nThen in January this year, a house fire destroyed her possessions and she has been living in temporary accommodation ever since.\n\nUniversal credit is claimed by more than 5.8 million people in Great Britain\n\nShe said: \"It's catastrophic because I already don't have enough money to live on to get through the month - I can't buy fresh food - so removing the £20 will affect how I pay my gas or electrics.\n\n\"There really just isn't enough to survive.\n\n\"It's a constant state of stress and anxiety, added to what I've been through with the fire and losing everything.\"\n\nMs Parker said she was only surviving thanks to the help of food banks and the Citizens Advice Bureau.\n\n\"The idea that the government is there to assist you when you need it the most, if you have spent your whole life working like I have, is very much a delusional mindset,\" she added.\n\nUniversal credit is claimed by more than 5.8 million people in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nJustice secretary Dominic Raab defended the withdrawal of the booster payment, insisting the government wanted to \"avoid the benefits and welfare trap\" and universal credit was designed to encourage people back into work.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Julie Williams and her son David Williams were found dead at separate addresses in Coventry in October 2020\n\nA man has admitted murdering a mother and son plus a second woman who was pregnant, whom he denies raping.\n\nAnthony Russell's \"campaign of crime\" took place over several days in October 2020 in Coventry and Warwickshire.\n\nHe had previously admitted the trio's manslaughter before admitting their murders on Monday.\n\nHe is accused at Warwick Crown Court of raping Nicole McGregor who was five months pregnant when he killed her.\n\nThe 31-year-old's body was found in dense woodland in Leamington Spa on 29 October 2020.\n\nShe died as a result of neck compression from a ligature, and a post-mortem examination confirmed she had been carrying a \"fully-formed female foetus\", the court heard.\n\nProsecutor Zoe Johnson QC said the state of her body \"gives the lie to the defendant's claim that Nicole McGregor consented to sex\".\n\nJurors have been told of Russell's murder admissions.\n\nThe court heard Ms McGregor's death came after two other murders and attacks on members of the public.\n\nBetween 21 October and his arrest nine days later, Mr Russell, a heroin addict of Riley Square, Coventry, had \"embarked on a campaign of crime\" then lied in \"callous and calculating fashion\" to cover up his offences, Ms Johnson said.\n\n\"He murdered three people, raped one of his victims before killing her, seriously attacked another, leaving him with life-changing injuries, and robbed another two people,\" she told the court.\n\nThe victim of his first murder was 32-year-old David Williams on 21 October 2020.\n\nThe pair had probably taken drugs together at Mr Williams' flat in Coventry, with Russell later telling people he killed him because he \"had sex with his girlfriend\", the court heard.\n\nMr Williams was found dead under his bed five days later, with a total of 87 injuries.\n\nHis mother, Julie Williams, was murdered at her flat in the city between 24 and 25 October after Russell likely \"duped\" his way into her home to talk about her missing son, jurors heard.\n\nThe 58-year-old woman was later found face down having been strangled and beaten in what the court was told was a \"violent and sustained attack\".\n\nShe had 113 separate injuries and died from a bleed on the brain.\n\nIn between the murders, Russell robbed two people of more than £200 before arriving in Leamington Spa where he met Nicole McGregor and Christopher White, the court heard.\n\nThe pair begged in Leamington Spa and after taking drugs together, Ms McGregor told Russell she was pregnant and \"proudly\" showed him her scan, Ms Johnson told the trial.\n\nRussell \"lured\" Ms McGregor to Newbold Comyn park \"not for sex, but more likely for drugs\", the court heard, before allegedly raping her - which Russell denies - then killing her and lying to Mr White abut where she was.\n\nMr White went to police \"in shock\" on 28 October after a friend alerted him that Russell was being sought for the two Coventry killings.\n\nHis partner's body was later found down a steep path by a search team.\n\nRussell committed a carjacking to escape, the court heard, but the vehicle was located by police in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, with Russell \"lying across the back seats\" and apprehended.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sports psychologist Bradley Busch has some interesting thoughts on the mindset of elite athletes in relation to the Djokovic interview.\n\nHe says there’s something about the nature of sportsmen and sportswomen that makes them more likely to follow “alternative remedies”.\n\nAthletes at the top of their sport are “constantly searching for this extra 1%”.\n\nBusch says “survivorship bias” comes into play. They are very fit and healthy individuals and decisions they have made have paid off in their career, so it’s easy for them to fall into this “bubble” that makes them believe they “know better than modern medicine”.\n\nBut Busch wonders if Djokovic's single-mindedness \"might be part of his downfall over the next future years\".", "A video link showed Navalny in a prison uniform at the hearing\n\nA new trial against jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has begun inside the maximum-security prison east of the capital, Moscow, where he is held.\n\nNavalny is accused of fresh fraud charges. He has already spent a year behind bars after surviving a poison attack that he blames on the Kremlin.\n\nHe is currently serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence.\n\nThis latest trial could see his prison time extended by more than a decade.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the new charges \"dubious\", and said Navalny and his associates are \"targeted for their work to shine a light on official corruption\". He called on the Russian authorities to release the prisoner.\n\nNavalny, 45, was detained when he returned to Russia in January 2021, after months of treatment in Germany for a near-fatal Novichok nerve agent attack in Siberia.\n\nThe following month he was jailed for three-and-a-half years for violating the conditions of a suspended sentence in an embezzlement case. Navalny insists the charges were politically motivated but he could not have met the conditions anyway as he was in a coma for some of the time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny: what you need to know (February 2021)\n\nThe new charges allege that he stole $4.7m (£3.5m) of donations given to his political organisations.\n\nThey carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.\n\n\"You're going to increase my term indefinitely. What can we do about it?\" Navalny said during the court hearing.\n\n\"The activities of people are more important than the fate of one individual. I'm not afraid.\"\n\nHis wife, Yuliya Navalnaya, was at the hearing at the jail in Pokrov, having demanded access to the closed-door proceedings a day earlier.\n\nA prosecutor accused Navalny and his allies of \"misleading citizens\" with the \"deliberate\" aim of stealing funds.\n\nNavalny's wife Yulia was seen hugging him at the start of the trial in the jail in Pokrov\n\nHis close colleague Leonid Volkov tweeted that for a change Navalny was not being tried inside the usual \"cage\". That was because the whole court was a cage as it was inside his penal colony, he said.\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the new case was \"incompatible\" with the rule of law, speaking at a news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.\n\nAmnesty International described the hearing as a \"sham trial, attended by prison guards rather than the media\".\n\n\"It's obvious that the Russian authorities intend to ensure that Mr Navalny doesn't leave prison any time soon,\" it said in a statement on Monday.\n\nNavalny spearheaded an anti-corruption foundation called FBK that highlighted graft in Mr Putin's United Russia party and published a widely viewed video alleging that the president's rich associates gave him a luxurious Black Sea palace.\n\nLast year, a court in Moscow banned FBK and political organisations linked to him, classifying them as \"extremist\".\n\nDozens of his foundation's regional staff have faced criminal charges and many of his colleagues have left Russia to go into exile.", "Fuel prices have hit a new record high at the pump across the UK, tightening the squeeze on UK consumers, the motoring organisation the AA has said.\n\nOver the weekend petrol reached 148.02p a litre, while diesel hit a new record high of 151.57p a litre last Thursday.\n\nFuel previously hit a record in November, before wholesale and retail prices fell back.\n\n\"The cost of living crisis has been ratcheted up yet another notch,\" said Luke Bosdet of the AA.\n\nThe RAC's fuel spokesman Simon Williams said the price of filling a 55-litre family car was now an \"eye-watering\" £81.41.\n\n\"With the oil price teetering on the brink of $100 a barrel and retailers keen to pass on the increase in wholesale fuel quickly, new records could now be set on a daily basis in the coming weeks,\" he said.\n\nFuel prices at the pump are driven largely by the wholesale price of energy which has shot up due to tensions over whether Russia will invade Ukraine.\n\nOn Monday, oil prices hit their highest level since 2014, reaching $95.56 a barrel.\n\nIf the situation in Ukraine deteriorates, oil and gas supplies from Russia to Europe may be interrupted, pushing up wholesale prices further.\n\nThe supply of oil and gas has already struggled to keep up with growing demand as the global economy picked up in recent months as Covid restrictions eased.\n\nThe RAC's Mr Williams said: \"On a positive note, retailer margins - which were the reason drivers paid overly high prices in December and January - have now returned to more normal levels of around 7p a litre.\"\n\nHe said the big four supermarkets, which dominate fuel sales, should \"play fair\" with drivers by keeping their profit margins low.\n\nDay-to-day prices for food, household bills and other items such as used cars, have risen sharply in recent months, in part due to rising energy prices.\n\nThe Petrol Retailers' Association (PRA), which represents independent retailers, said it would continue to ensure that the price of fuel was \"as competitive as possible\".\n\nBut tensions between Russia and Ukraine, as well as other key factors such as tightness in the oil market and the dollar-sterling exchange rate, were likely to cause further volatility in the oil price, said Gordon Balmer, PRA's executive director.\n\nUK inflation is now at a 30-year high of 5.4%. New inflation figures for January will be released by the Office for National Statistics on Wednesday.\n\nMr Bosdet said the AA had surveyed 15,000 of its members after prices spiked at the end of last year and found higher fuel prices were leading 43% of them to cut back on the amount they used their car as well as other areas of spending.\n\nMike Johnson at the energy consultancy Portland Analytics said what happens to energy prices next depended both on the situation in Ukraine and whether the Organisation of Petrol Exporting Countries (Opec) was able to boost supply.\n\n\"Opec and its allies have struggled to increase production in line with their output targets due to a combination of production outages and technical issues, whilst demand continues to rise,\" he said.\n\nWhile oil producing nations had agreed to increase production by 400,000 barrels per day in February Mr Johnson said it seemed unlikely that target would be met.", "A cousin of Ebola, Lassa fever is endemic in a number of West African countries\n\nA patient who died from Lassa fever was a newborn baby, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe child, who died at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital last week, was one of three confirmed cases of the disease, all within the same family.\n\nHundreds of staff there, and at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, have been identified as potential contacts.\n\nNHS England and the UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) would not comment on the death but confirmed contact tracing was under way.\n\nIn an email to staff, seen by the BBC, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Addenbrooke's, said: \"Colleagues identified through our staff contact tracing exercise have been required to undertake a precautionary isolation period of 14 days, and not have patient contact for 21 days.\n\n\"As expected, this is impacting on our staffing levels and has required the temporary closure of a substantial portion of our critical care capacity - with impact on our clinical services.\n\n\"We want to assure you all that cases of Lassa fever are rare in the UK and it does not spread easily between people. The overall risk to healthcare staff and other patients is very low.\"\n\nThe neo-natal unit at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital has also been closed to new admissions, sources told the BBC.\n\nA health worker in Sierra Leone pictured with a rodent, which can spread the virus to humans by contaminating food or household items\n\nNHS East of England declared a \"regional major incident\" last week after news emerged of the infections, the first cases of the disease in the UK for more than a decade.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at UKHSA, had said the cases were linked to recent travel to West Africa, where the animal-borne disease is endemic.\n\nMost people with Lassa fever recover but some can come down with severe illness.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid, on a visit to Clacton, Essex, on Monday, said the situation was \"very much under control\".\n\nPrior to these new cases, only eight had been identified in the UK since 1980, with the last two occurring in 2009, according to the UKHSA.\n\nIts guidance states infections are usually through exposure to food or household items contaminated with urine or faeces of infected rats.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Doherty says he is \"anxious and depressed\" waiting on a call from the hospital\n\nA County Tyrone man who has been waiting six years for a gall bladder operation has said he feels forgotten about by the health service.\n\nJohn Doherty, 55, said he could not understand why he was unable to get updates on his operation.\n\nBBC News NI can reveal almost 475,000 people are waiting for surgery or to see a consultant for the first time.\n\nThe Royal College of Surgeons wants patients to be told how long they will have to wait for treatment.\n\nA spokesperson for the Western Health and Social Care Trust said they were unable to comment on an individual patient's care, but apologised for current delays.\n\nNorthern Ireland's waiting list statistics are the worst in the UK.\n\nNew figures coming out at the end of February covering the December Omicron surge are expected to be much higher.\n\nMark Taylor, a consultant surgeon, said the situation would not improve until services were delivered differently across Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Doherty said he felt anxious and depressed waiting for a telephone call from his local hospital and blamed the government for \"letting him down\".\n\n\"I feel forgotten about, they don't even get in touch with you, not even a letter to say it could happen three months down the line... they say they'll phone back but never do,\" he added.\n\nMr Doherty, who has diabetes, said having a named nurse as a point of contact had helped him, but the wait had taken its toll.\n\n\"I am waiting six years and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. They kept in contact with me about my Covid injections, but no reply about my gall bladder operation, \" he said.\n\n\"There has been nothing since 2020.\n\n\"I am trying to help myself, I am trying to get out and about - walking. I watch what I am eating, I am trying to keep well in case I am called in and I will be ready.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's waiting lists are the worst in the UK\n\nMr Taylor said people who had been languishing for years on lists deserved to know when to expect their surgery so they could attempt to get in shape for it.\n\nHe said about a one third of operations had to be cancelled daily as a result of people not being ready, either their blood pressure was too high, they were overweight or their diabetic control was not right.\n\n\"Pre-habilitation schemes can help to get patients ready for their operation as much as possible, a more personalised pre operation plan is required,\" he said.\n\nThe Royal College of Surgeons said hospitals needed to be used differently.\n\nMr Taylor called on the government to have a proper conversation with the public about how hospitals might look in the future.\n\n\"This is not about closure, this is about the redesign and re-profiling of hospitals to get maximum gain,\" he said.\n\n\"Doing more elective [planned] surgery on named sites and emergency surgery on fewer sites.\n\n\"It's not about some of the public losing out depending on where they live - having to travel a little further is a small price to pay. \"\n\nFormer health chief John Compton said waiting lists were \"out of control\" and that many people were \"suffering real harm and misery as a consequence\".\n\nMr Compton, who published the biggest reform of services in Northern Ireland in 2011, described the current waits as an \"absolute disgrace\".\n\n\"In all these years little has really changed. And today's figures cannot be blamed on the pandemic, it is a flagship of convenience to blame everything on the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nJohn Compton says the pandemic cannot be blamed for waiting lists\n\nMr Compton said someone needed to be appointed to solely look after waiting lists and to have \"executive control and accountability to take decisions\" in how waiting lists were handled.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Mr Compton also said the problem was too big to fix on its own and Northern Ireland needed to partner with the rest of the UK, the Republic of Ireland and the independent sector.\n\nA spokesperson for the Western Health and Social Care Trust said: \"The trust continues to chronologically manage all routine referrals from GPs, and urgent referrals are prioritised after review by clinical staff.\n\n\"Similarly patients waiting for treatment are reviewed by clinical staff and clinically prioritised, and this often means that patients requiring routine treatments can wait a long time because clinically urgent patients take priority.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the Mauritian flag being raised for the first time on the Chagos Islands\n\nThe Mauritian flag has been raised for the first time on the Chagos Islands, an Indian Ocean archipelago controlled by Britain but claimed by Mauritius.\n\nMauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth described it as an \"historic moment\", saying it was time for the UK to cede control.\n\nThe event was the culmination of a trip to the islands organised by the Mauritian government.\n\nThe Foreign Office said the UK had \"no doubt\" as to its \"sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory\".\n\nThe ceremony, led by the Mauritian ambassador to the UN, took place on the atoll of Peros Banhos, where a pre-recorded message from Mr Jugnauth was played. A flag was also raised on Salomon, a separate atoll.\n\nThree UN bodies have ruled that the archipelago - more than 5,000 miles away from the UK - is part of Britain's old empire and should be handed to Mauritius.\n\nThe official reason given for the Mauritian government's excursion is to map reefs around the archipelago - but Mr Jugnauth described the visit as \"the first time Mauritius has led an expedition to this part of its territory\".\n\nMr Jugnauth said it was \"a very emotional moment and a very historic time for us, because we are able to rule in our own territory\".\n\nHe said if the flags were removed, it would be considered as provocation from the UK.\n\n\"We have asked them to hand over these islands to Mauritius already,\" he said. \"It's more than the right time for them to hand back the islands and abide by international law.\"\n\nMauritius says Britain is occupying the islands illegally - which the UK denies.\n\nIn 2020, following a ruling by the International Court of Justice, the UK government said it had \"a long-standing commitment, first made in 1965, to cede sovereignty of the territory to Mauritius when it is no longer required for defence purposes\".\n\nIt is half a century since Britain took control of the Chagos Islands from its then colony, Mauritius, and evicted the population of more than 1,000 people in order to make way for a US military base.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs well as scientists, a group of Chagossians evicted from the islands by the British government 50 years ago is on the trip.\n\nThey believe their removal in the early 1970s was a crime against humanity.\n\nThe Foreign Office said: \"The UK has no doubt as to our sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory, which we have held continuously since 1814. Mauritius has never held sovereignty over the territory and the UK does not recognise its claim.\n\n\"We are honouring the assurances we gave to Mauritius that we would not interfere with this survey.\"", "Russia says it is pulling back some of its troops from near Ukraine after a build-up raised fears of an invasion.\n\nThe defence ministry said that large-scale drills continued but that some units were returning to their bases.\n\nThere has been no independent confirmation of the withdrawal and international powers have reacted cautiously to the announcement.\n\nMore than 100,000 Russian troops have massed at Ukraine's border. Russia has always denied it is planning an attack.\n\nRussia has deep cultural and historic ties with Ukraine, and has been seeking guarantees it will not join the Nato military alliance, something the bloc has refused to promise.\n\nTroops began gathering in large numbers last November, bringing increasingly dire warnings about Russia's intentions. In recent days the US warned an invasion could be imminent, and moved its embassy out of the capital Kyiv.\n\nNato said the Russian announcement gave cause for \"cautious optimism\" but that they had not seen evidence of de-escalation on the ground.\n\nIn its statement, Russia's defence ministry said it was withdrawing some of the troops conducting exercises in military districts bordering Ukraine.\n\n\"A number of combat training exercises, including drills, have been conducted as planned,\" defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.\n\nSome exercises are continuing, such as a large joint Russia-Belarus drill, due to end on 20 February.\n\nA British government source said it was waiting to see the scale of the withdrawal, saying it would have to make a difference to the ability to invade to be meaningful.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the announcement was enough for both Ukraine and Russia to claim victory in the stand-off.\n\nUkraine's Foreign Minister Dymytro Kuleba said he would believe the withdrawal when he sees it but \"we have managed together with our partners to deter Russia from any further escalation\".\n\nA Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said the day \"will go into history as the day western war propaganda failed. They have been disgraced and destroyed without a single shot being fired.\"\n\nFor weeks there have been regular reports of Russia increasing troop numbers near the border with Ukraine.\n\nNow Moscow has announced that - drills over - some units are returning to base.\n\nA sign of de-escalation? Possibly. But caution is required. The number of troops packing up and moving back is unclear.\n\nMoscow, of course, has insisted all along it has no plans for a military escalation in Ukraine. The Russian authorities have dismissed claims by Western governments that a Russian invasion is imminent.\n\nPresident Putin's spokesman said the Kremlin leader had mocked such assertions.\n\n\"Sometimes [Putin] even jokes about it,\" Dmitry Peskov told journalists. \"He asks us to check whether they [in the West] have published the exact time that war will start.\"\n\nIn another development, the Russian parliament has voted in favour of asking Mr Putin to recognise the two self-declared republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine as independent.\n\nRussia has granted citizenship to at least 720,000 people in the two areas, which are in the Donbas region where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian forces since 2014.\n\nBut if Mr Putin were to approve the decision and recognise the two breakaway regions, it would violate peace agreements.\n\n\"If that happens, that will be a blatant violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty once again, because there is no doubt that Donetsk and Luhansk are part of Ukraine within internationally recognised borders,\" Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels.\n\nMeanwhile, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz is in Moscow for talks with President Putin as part of diplomatic efforts aimed at warding off a potential crisis.\n\nMr Scholz has faced criticism for his response to the tensions.\n\nHe has refused to commit publicly to scrapping the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline connecting Russia and Germany in the event of Russian aggression against Ukraine, saying only that all sanctions options remain on the table.\n\nThis is in contrast to US President Joe Biden, who has said the scheme would be halted if Russia invades.", "The five executive parties have agreed to apologise to the victims and survivors of historical institutional abuse, BBC News NI understands.\n\nAn official apology was originally planned to come from Paul Givan and Michelle O'Neill on 11 March.\n\nBut as they are no longer first and deputy first minister, the parties met to discuss an alternative apology.\n\nIt is understood the idea of this new apology will be discussed by the families involved.\n\nThe decision was made following a cross-party virtual meeting to discuss how to resolve the issue, following Paul Givan's resignation as first minister.\n\nThe move by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) assembly member meant Michelle O'Neill, Sinn Féin vice president, was also removed as deputy first minister because of the joint nature of the office.\n\nIt ended plans for the first and deputy first ministers to issue an apology and led to the alternative suggestion of a joint statement from party leaders.\n\nThe executive parties - who make up Northern Ireland's devolved government - are the DUP, Sinn Féin, the SDLP, Ulster Unionists and Alliance.\n\nMargaret McGuckin, from the campaign group SAVIA, said she was delighted, describing Monday as a \"good day\".\n\nCampaigner Margaret McGuckin said many of those who wanted an apology have now died\n\nSpeaking to William Crawley on BBC News NI's Talkback programme, Ms McGuckin said it was significant that the apology was going to come from the five main parties.\n\n\"It's something we are looking forward to,\" she said.\n\n\"To end this whole campaign - to hear the words 'I am sorry'.\n\n\"To let people go and be free of the chains of self-blame, the pain and the shame.\"\n\nAmnesty International's director in Northern Ireland said that the survivors that he had been in contact with were \"pleased\" as the alternative would have been \"further delay to the public apology for which they have waited for so long\".\n\n\"Public apologies are an important part of reparation for harm suffered by victims of human rights abuses and we hope that the event on March 11 will bring some much-needed solace to those who have suffered for so long,\" said Patrick Corrigan.\n\nEarlier, Amnesty International said an apology from a party leader or minister would not suffice.\n\nIn a letter to the main parties ahead of the meeting, Mr Corrigan said the apology must come from the \"highest political level\".\n\nHe said an apology from a party leader or minister \"does not meet the standard of an official state apology from the executive\".\n\nMr Corrigan asked for the first and deputy first minister positions to be filled temporarily to allow the apology to go ahead as planned\n\n\"I have asked them all to ensure that the public apology has the appropriate standing, rather than something lesser,\" he added.\n\nIn another letter, Mr Corrigan also urged DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Ms O'Neill to consider temporary nominations to the posts of first minister and deputy first minister, in order to allow the apology to go ahead as planned.\n\nHe said: \"Public apologies are an important part of reparation for harm suffered by victims of human rights abuses and, in this case, is a specific obligation on the Northern Ireland Executive.\"\n\nThe meeting of parties also came amid criticism that an apology might not be made at all.\n\nUlster Unionist assembly member Mike Nesbitt, who prior to the joint meeting had called on the party leaders to collectively apologise, said an apology was \"essential for the mental health\" of the victims and survivors.\n\nHe told the assembly that victims had \"been wrapped in chains and thorns\".\n\nA public apology, he said, would mean \"the whole world\" to them.\n\nCommissioner Fiona Ryan said the reaction from survivors \"has largely been one of relief\"\n\nThe public apology was recommended in the final report of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIAI) which was published five years ago.\n\nEarlier in February, the commissioner for survivors of institutional childhood abuse Fiona Ryan said she was \"angry\" and \"disgusted\" that an apology to victims might not happen.\n\nOn Monday, Ms Ryan said that after \"almost two weeks of turmoil\" over the issue, she believed there is likely to be \"mixed emotions\" among victims and survivors.\n\n\"The main response from the victims and survivors I have been speaking with today has largely been one of relief following the anxiety of the last 11 days. There has been a broad welcome that the apology is finally moving forward,\" the commissioner said.\n\nHowever, she added there was a range of views among people who were abused as children, including \"some for whom no apology will be sufficient for what was taken from them\".\n\n\"My hope is that we keep to the spirit of the original inquiry recommendation and that the apology should be wholehearted and unconditional. As part of that wholeheartedness, the apology would need to be humbly offered to victims and survivors for their consideration,\" Ms Ryan added.\n\nMeanwhile, a group of survivors of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland are to receive £25,000 in total for having their personal details leaked.\n\nSettlements were reached on Monday in legal action taken by seven individuals.\n\nIt follows previous resolutions for nearly 40 other victims exposed in the data breach.\n\nThey have already secured combined pay-outs in excess of £100,000.\n\nIn May 2020, a newsletter circulated in an email by the HIA Interim Advocate's Office mistakenly revealed the names of around 250 survivors of abuse.\n\nAt the time, Interim Advocate Brendan McAllister issued an apology for the disclosure of their details.\n\nHe said measures were immediately taken to recall the email, with the incident also reported to the Information Commissioner.", "Astronomers believe that debris from China's lunar exploration programme Chang'e-5 Mission may hit the Moon\n\nAstronomers say that a rocket section set to crash into the Moon in March did not come from Elon Musk's space exploration company as they first thought.\n\nInstead they believe it is probably a Chinese rocket stage launched for a lunar mission in 2014.\n\nThe impact of the collision with the Moon will be minor, scientists say.\n\nAstronomers first identified a piece of machinery on course to crash into the Moon on 4 March in January.\n\nMachinery left in space that doesn't return to the Earth's atmosphere after completing missions is known as space junk.\n\nData analyst Bill Gray identified the object as a Falcon 9 booster from a 2015 launch by billionaire Elon Musk's space exploration programme SpaceX. It was subsequently reported by journalist Eric Berger. Mr Musk's company ultimately aims to get humans living on other planets.\n\nBut now Mr Gray says he made an error and instead he believes it is a rocket launched in October 2014 as part of China's Chang'e 5-T1 mission that sent a small spacecraft to the Moon.\n\nProf Jonathan McDowell from the US-based Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told BBC News he agrees with Mr Gray's re-assessment. He explained that there is a lot of \"intrinsic uncertainty\" in identifying space debris far from Earth and that mistakes happen.\n\nThere are limited resources for tracking space debris, he explained: \"We rely on a small handful of volunteers who do it on their own time. So there is limited scope for cross-checking.\"\n\nObjects close to Earth are tracked by a team at the US military's Space Force, but junk further out in deep orbit is left unobserved.\n\nThe European Space Agency commented: \"This still-evolving finding underscores the need for enhanced space tracking, and greater data sharing between spacecraft operators, launch providers and the astronomy and space surveillance communities.\"\n\nProf McDowell said he is 80% certain that the object on course to hit the Moon is from the 2014 Chinese rocket launch.\n\nWhen the object was first identified, Prof McDowell told BBC News it will be the first known uncontrolled rocket collision with the Moon.\n\nThe rocket stage will explode as it makes contact.", "Police said Paul Robson could be \"anywhere in the country\"\n\nA sex offender who has absconded from an open prison had been refused parole five times, it has emerged.\n\nA manhunt continues for Paul Robson, jailed for life in 2000 for violent sex assaults including one where he entered a woman's home through a cat flap.\n\nThe 56-year-old, described as a \"menace to women\", walked out of HMP North Sea Camp, Lincolnshire, on Sunday.\n\nDuring his fifth parole review, Robson was refused release but a move to a category D open prison was recommended.\n\nThe Newcastle-born sex offender was jailed at Oxford Crown Court for the attempted rape and indecent assault of his victim.\n\nHe had tied her up, put a pillow case over her head and assaulted her while holding a knife to her throat, the court had heard.\n\nHe had only been released from prison three weeks before the attack and was on licence.\n\nPaul Robson was moved to HMP North Sea Camp in January\n\nIn February 2021, a board ruled Robson should be rejected for parole, but recommended to the Justice Secretary that he was \"suitable for a move to open conditions to test whether he would eventually be safe for release\".\n\nThe board said it was a \"recommendation only\" and that the \"Secretary of State for Justice considers the advice before making the final decision on whether a prisoner is suitable for open conditions\".\n\nOn Monday, Labour's Shadow Justice Secretary Steve Reed said he had written to the Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab seeking reassurances over public safety following Robson's escape.\n\nMr Reed said he had sought clarification from Mr Raab over \"why such a dangerous criminal was deemed fit to be in an open prison where he could abscond\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said Mr Raab had since toughened procedures, with greater scrutiny of parole board recommendations on open prison moves.\n\nDet Ch Supt Andy Cox, from Lincolnshire Police, said officers were \"working tirelessly\" to locate Robson and said he could be \"anywhere in the country\".\n\nHe said: \"Robson is a dangerous sex offender and while he presents a particular danger to women and young children, I believe he can cause real harm to anyone he comes across.\"\n\nPolice said he may be wearing a black long-sleeved Berghaus top, a grey \"French\" t-shirt, dark bottoms, a dark coloured woollen beanie and a light grey donkey-style jacket with orange on the shoulder area.\n\nDet Ch Supt Cox asked the public to contact police with any potential sightings, but urged people not to approach him and to instead call 999.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking after a Cobra meeting, Boris Johnson says intel on Ukraine is not encouraging\n\nBoris Johnson has said there are \"mixed signals\" from Russia, after it said it was pulling back some of its troops from near Ukraine.\n\nThe PM said talks between Russia and Western powers has shown \"signs of a diplomatic opening\" to avert conflict.\n\nBut he added latest intelligence on Russian military activity was \"not encouraging\".\n\nRussia denies it is planning an attack, despite having more than 100,000 troops at Ukraine's border.\n\nThe build-up has brought increasingly grave warnings in recent days, with the UK joining the US in saying an invasion could come at any time.\n\nSpeaking to reporters after an emergency meeting of UK ministers to discuss the situation, Mr Johnson said Russia had shown an \"openness to conversations\" about resolving the crisis diplomatically.\n\nBut he added that intelligence on Tuesday showed Russian forces were \"being brought closer to the border\" with Ukraine.\n\nIntelligence suggests Russia is also constructing field hospitals near the border, he added, in what could only be interpreted as \"as preparation for an invasion\".\n\nHe said the West wanted to see a \"programme of de-escalation\" from Russia, and had a \"very tough\" set of sanctions \"ready to go\" in the event an invasion takes place.\n\nHe added that the UK was prepared to target Russian banks and companies, and stop them raising money on London's financial markets.\n\nHe also said British ministers had made the \"balanced decision\" to keep the UK's embassy open in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv - after the US announced it was relocating its embassy operations to the western city of Lviv.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK had to \"face the fact that there is a risk,\" but added that keeping the embassy going \"for as long as possible\" is \"an important symbol\" of the UK's continued support for Ukraine.\n\nHe also warned a programme of sanctions was ready to go if Russia did go ahead with an invasion - warning the UK was ready to target ownership of companies and the ability of Russians to raise capital on London's markets.\n\nSince 2015, the UK had sent dozens of troops to Ukraine to help train their armed forces.\n\nBut the remaining UK forces, consisting of about 100 personnel, are now out of Ukraine, the BBC has been told. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace is understood to have confirmed this to MPs on a briefing call on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nUkrainian Armed Forces hold a drill in the eastern part of the country\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to take a \"very tough line on sanctions,\" arguing that Russia needs to know there would be \"serious consequences\" if they took action against Ukraine.\n\nRussia's defence minister has said that some of the country's troops positioned on the border with Ukraine would be returning to their bases.\n\nNato's secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said there had been no signs of \"reduced Russian military presence on the borders of Ukraine\".\n\nBut he added that Moscow's \"willingness to continue to engage in diplomatic efforts\" gave \"reason for cautious optimism\".\n\nIn a letter to MPs, Foreign Office Secretary Liz Truss said the government judged that an invasion was \"highly likely\" but she also warned \"this stalemate could continue for an extended period\".\n\nConservative MP and former British army officer Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, warned against trusting Russian statements about the situation in Ukraine.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's World at One, he said: \"Let's not pretend we can believe anything that comes out of Moscow - they have lied and lied and lied.\"", "Death registrations involving Covid in the UK fell slightly in the week ending 4 February, according to the latest Office for National Statistics figures.\n\nThere were 13,472 deaths registered in total in the UK during that week - 9% below the five-year average.\n\nA total of 1,390 of these involved Covid - a fall of 155 compared with the previous week.\n\nIf a death certificate mentions Covid, it will not always be the main cause of death but may be a contributory factor.\n\nCurrently, fewer than two in every three Covid-related deaths are estimated to be caused by the infection.\n\nA doctor can certify the involvement of Covid based on symptoms and clinical findings - a positive test result is not always required.\n\nA total of 183,502 deaths have occurred in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.\n\nThe ONS figures are different from the daily Covid data published by the government. The latter also show Covid deaths are going down.\n\nBetween 8 February 2022 and 14 February 2022, there have been 1,243 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, government data shows. This shows a decrease of a quarter compared to the previous seven days.\n\nHospital admissions and newly-recorded Covid cases are also down.\n\nMeanwhile, most people aged 12 or older in the UK have had at least one dose of Covid vaccine. The jabs protect against illness, as well as reducing the risk of people spreading the disease.", "Elizabeth, 10, had her first Covid jab on Sunday\n\nClinically vulnerable five to 11-year-olds are being encouraged to get Covid vaccinations by a health board.\n\nElizabeth, 10, who had her first vaccine on Sunday, said the jab \"looks kind of fierce, but it isn't\".\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University health board is also offering inoculation to children the same age who share a home with someone at risk.\n\nThe decision was made in December to offer jabs to eligible children in that age group.\n\nBut vaccination centres still want more to get jabbed.\n\nDeputy nurse manager at Llandudno's Sector House vaccination centre, Nia Williams, said uptake has been \"slow but steady\" since invites were sent.\n\n\"It's a big decision for parents to bring their child,\" she said.\n\n\"It takes time to make a good decision, the right decision for your child... they are maybe still stalling it or still thinking about it.\n\n\"Our view is that the children should be vaccinated.\"\n\nElizabeth was given a certificate after the inoculation was done\n\nElizabeth, of Conwy county, was one of three children who visited the Llandudno clinic for her first vaccine on Sunday.\n\nThe type 1 diabetes patient believes other children should also get jabbed.\n\nThe 10-year-old said: \"It didn't hurt, you could just feel it was there.\n\n\"I blinked and it was over... A lot of the time you get injections when you go to hospital and it stings so much.\"\n\nElizabeth said having the vaccine means she will be able to visit her grandparents in Canada in summer.\n\nMs Williams said they were trying to make the experience \"easy and child friendly\".\n\n\"We want them to come back for their second vaccine,\" she said.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board in north Wales is holding the clinics for at risk 5- 11 year olds at weekends during term time.", "Roads and gardens in Crickhowell, Powys, were turned into lakes, after the River Usk burst its banks\n\nRecord-breaking flooding is becoming \"the new reality\" for communities, according to Natural Resources Wales (NRW).\n\nTwo years after storms wreaked havoc across Wales, the environmental watchdog warned urgent action was needed to prepare for climate change.\n\n\"The need to act now to prepare for climate impacts is more pressing than ever,\" it said.\n\nStorms Chiara, Dennis and Jorge led to record rainfall in February 2020.\n\nEleri Griffiths, Plaid Cymru councillor for the Rhondda ward in Rhondda Cynon Taf where 44 houses were flooded, said people had been traumatised by the impact of the storms, just before the pandemic hit Wales.\n\n\"Large parts of Rhondda Cynon Taf were completely unrecognisable... and of course the clean-up operation took months, into the period where we entered the Covid lockdowns,\" she said.\n\n\"So it was certainly a time of extreme trauma for many people.\"\n\nMs Griffiths told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people in her own ward who had been flooded were still \"none the wiser\" about any measures taken to make sure it would not happen again.\n\n\"Trehafod people are still waiting for answers. I spoke to one resident in Trehafod yesterday who was flooded and he described to me how him and his wife worry and have anxiety every time it's raining.\n\n\"The children are worried. They have conversations about whether should they move half of the furniture upstairs whenever there's any sort of flood alert.\n\n\"And he said 'Well we still haven't had answers, have we? What's changed? Nothing's changed'.\"\n\nShe added that public bodies needed to \"react a lot smarter and a lot quicker to the climate changing\".\n\nA family is rescued from flooding in Nantgarw\n\n\"We know that there's risks of this happening again, as Natural Resources Wales reported,\" she said.\n\nStorms Chiara, Dennis and Jorge resulted in record rainfall and river levels across Wales, and some of the most significant and devastating flooding seen since the 1970s with 3,130 properties affected across the country.\n\nNRW said these and subsequent storms experienced in Wales since, serve as \"a stark warning that record-breaking flooding is becoming a harsh new reality for Welsh communities in the future\".\n\nIt warned that \"the need to act now to prepare for climate impacts is more pressing than ever\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe news from NRW came as Wales was braced for Storm Dudley and Storm Eunice, with winds of 70mph (113km/hr) expected to cause \"significant disruption\".\n\nChief executive Clare Pillman said: \"Flooding is a deeply personal tragedy, and our thoughts continue to be with those still recovering and rebuilding.\n\n\"But as more and more communities affected by flooding each year count the cost of lost belongings, ruined homes and businesses, and as people live with lingering fears of future storms, we know that so much more needs to be done to prepare ourselves to face our future reality.\"\n\nShe added that COP26 and the 'code red' signals from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report gave\" renewed impetus for governments to tackling this pressing issue\".\n\n\"The central focus given to climate change in the Welsh government's programme for government, and the emphasis placed on mitigating future flood risk in the Co-operation Agreement between Labour and Plaid Cymru are all welcome strides forward.\n\n\"But while progress has certainly been made, the climate problem has also accelerated. Which is why our thinking and our actions to help mitigate and adapt to its impacts needs to go further and faster if we're to secure the improved flood-risk outcomes we need for the people of Wales.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heavy rain caused \"multiple\" floods and landslides, according to South Wales Police\n\nNRW said it has continued to invest in flood defences and response teams, inspecting and repairing where needed, and carrying out maintenance work to increase resilience to future floods.\n\n\"Climate scientists have underlined that record floods are not anomalous, they are the beginning of a new normal, and the new records will continue to be exceeded, year after year,\" Ms Pillman added.\n\n\"That is why it's crucial that people trust in the data and the knowledge we share, to understand their flood risk and understand the actions they can take to lessen the impacts should the waters start to rise.\n\n\"While we welcome the additional funding NRW has received to increase our own capacity to prepare for and respond to these eventualities, we accept that we will never win the war against the forces of nature alone.\n\n\"But by working together, we have greater potential to mitigate against the impacts. Difficult decisions will need to be made, and it will take time, significant effort and a cultural and a behavioural shift to make the difference required.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nRussian figure skater Kamila Valieva has argued her positive drugs test was due to contamination with her grandad's medicine, an Olympic official says.\n\nThe 15-year-old failed a test but is being allowed to compete at Beijing 2022 after a court ruled on Monday ruled that a provisional suspension should not be re-imposed.\n\n\"Her argument was this contamination happened with a product her grandfather was taking,\" the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Denis Oswald told reporters.\n\nValieva discovered a week ago that she had failed a drugs test but then successfully appealed against a Russian Anti-Doping Agency decision to impose a provisional suspension.\n\nThat decision was upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday after appeals by the IOC and others.\n\nIt cleared the way for Valieva to continue participating at the Games and she will launch her bid for gold in the women's figure skating competition on Tuesday.\n\nShe says she is \"happy\" but \"emotionally tired\" after the past week.\n\nThe pre-Games favourite, who had already wowed judges to help the Russian Olympic Committee to victory in the team event, continued training - in front of the cameras - amid uncertainty over whether she would be able to carry on competing.\n\n\"These [past] days have been very difficult for me,\" Valieva, who sometimes looked tearful at the training rink, told Russia's Channel One television.\n\n\"It's as if I don't have any emotions left. I am happy but at the same time I am emotionally tired.\"\n• None What now for Valieva after failed drugs test?\n\nRussia, which is banned from competing at the Games under its own flag because of its doping history, has come under the spotlight once again because of this case.\n\nBut Oswald, who chaired the IOC commission that looked into doping violations by Russian athletes at the 2014 Sochi Games, said that at this stage it looked like there was \"no connection with the institutionalised doping we had in Sochi\" but that it was difficult to have an opinion yet without all the details.\n\nValieva already knows that if she were to win a medal in the women's event, which starts on Tuesday with the short programme and concludes on Thursday with the free skate, the IOC has decided there will be no medal ceremony.\n\n\"We want to allocate the medal to the right person,\" Oswald, the permanent chair of the IOC's disciplinary commission, said.\n\n\"As long as the decision regarding the doping case of this athlete has not been clarified - she has delivered a positive sample - until we have a clear situation then we will not allocate the medals.\"\n\nThe World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) is investigating Valieva's entourage, including coaches, doctors and other adults surrounding her, with Oswald adding that a \"15-year-old would not do something wrong alone\".\n\nMeanwhile, she is still the subject of an anti-doping investigation for the failed test. Oswald said she had not yet requested the testing of her B sample, which forms part of that process.\n\nUnder Wada rules athletes whose A sample tests positive are entitled to ask for their B sample to be tested.\n\nThe case still has a long way to run and there are many questions to answer, but we will get one answer later on Tuesday to the question over how this will have all affected Valieva's performances on the ice.\n\nThe Russian says she has been supported by messages on social media, adding: \"When I open Instagram, I can see so many good wishes and so much belief. I've seen that in Moscow there are even billboards which say 'Kamila, we're with you'. It is very nice.\n\n\"And in these difficult moments this support is very important for me.\"\n• None A prize-winning super horse is kidnapped from an enigmatic owner\n• None Is this a new alternative to dating apps? Find out the unusual way one man is going about finding his perfect other half", "The MP for Bridgend has been fined for a road traffic offence.\n\nJamie Wallis, 37, of Cowbridge, admitted to failing to comply with solid white line road markings.\n\nThe charge relates to an incident in August last year on the A48 and the case was dealt with via the Single Justice Procedure at Cardiff Magistrates' Court.\n\nMr Wallis was fined a total of £270 and had three penalty points added to his licence.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Novak Djokovic gave an exclusive interview to the BBC's Amol Rajan\n\nNovak Djokovic should \"reflect on his decision\" not to get a Covid jab, the Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said.\n\nThe men's world number one told the BBC he was prepared to miss top tournaments to defend his freedom of choice.\n\nMr Javid said the only reason Djokovic was able to return to playing tennis \"and earn millions again\" was because of the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe French Tennis Federation said it was \"too early\" to say if Djokovic could compete in May's French Open.\n\n\"We will take a decision, based on the health situation, as soon as possible,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nWatch the full interview, in the UK, on BBC iPlayer and on BBC One at 20:30 GMT.\n\nSpeaking exclusively to the BBC, Djokovic said missing major competitions, such as the French Open, was \"the price that I'm willing to pay\" for the \"freedom to choose what you put in your body\".\n\nThe 20-time Grand Slam winner was deported from Australia last month after the government cancelled his visa in a row over his vaccine status.\n\nResponding to Djokovic's interview, Mr Javid said the reason sports such as tennis had reopened to millions of spectators around the world was because of the success of vaccination programmes.\n\nHe said: \"It's interesting to note that Mr Djokovic thinks it's OK for sport spectators, all his fans, to take the vaccine that allows him to get back to play the sport in front of them and earn millions again, it's OK for him to have them take the vaccine, but the vaccine is not OK for him.\n\n\"I think he should reflect on his decision.\"\n\nFormer British number one Tim Henman, who is on the committee of the All England Club, which organises Wimbledon, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he thought it was unlikely Djokovic would be stopped from playing there as the tournament was planning to follow government guidance.\n\nBut he said by taking himself out of the chance to compete in some Grand Slams Djokovic was \"certainly jeopardising his chances of being the greatest male player of all time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Novak Djokovic describe how his time in a detention centre in Australia left him feeling \"powerless\"\n\nHenman added: \"I think that speaks volumes to his courage, conviction and belief that this is what is best for him.\"\n\nFive-time Wimbledon women's doubles champion Pam Shriver said she hoped the \"right trusted person\" could sit down with Djokovic and \"walk him through all of the steps that make the science and the medicine trustworthy\".\n\nShe said him not getting the vaccine was \"terrible for tennis\" and said he was seen as a leader by many people both in his home country of Serbia and throughout the world.", "Neuralink, the firm set up by Tesla boss Elon Musk to develop a device which connects our brains to computers, has denied animal cruelty claims.\n\nA complaint filed last week to the US Department of Agriculture alleged cruel treatment of macaque monkeys which are being used to test the technology.\n\nIn a blog, Neuralink said it worked with animals in the \"most humane and ethical way possible\".\n\nThe firm hopes to begin human trials of the device later this year.\n\nIn the blog - posted in response to recent criticism - Neuralink emphasises its commitment to animal welfare: \"Our central mission is to design an animal care program prioritising the needs of the animals, rather than the typical strategy of building for human convenience alone.\"\n\n\"The use of every animal was extensively planned and considered to balance scientific discovery with the ethical use of animals,\" it stated.\n\nAt the start of the research, Neuralink partnered with Davis National Primate Research Center - part of the University of California - but in 2020 built its own vivarium to house the monkeys, with the stated intention of \"improving upon\" current standards.\n\nThe complaint was filed last week by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine against UC Davis, and related to \"invasive and deadly brain experiments conducted on 23 monkeys\".\n\nIt claims: \"Most of the animals had portions of their skulls removed to implant electrodes in their brains.\"\n\nIt also alleges that macaque monkeys used in the experiment were caged alone, suffered \"facial trauma\" and had seizures and infections local to the site of the implant.\n\nSome were euthanised before they were used in experiments, it claims.\n\nThe Committee said it acquired the information from 600 pages of documents released after it filed a public records legal action last year.\n\nIt has now filed a second legal action to compel the university to release videos and photos of the monkeys.\n\nThe BBC has asked UC Davis for comment.\n\nIn its rebuttal of the claims, Neuralink acknowledged that two animals were put to death \"at planned end dates to gather important histological data\".\n\nAnother six monkeys were euthanised on the medical advice of the veterinary team at UC Davis, it said.\n\n\"These reasons included one surgical complication involving the use of the FDA-approved product, BioGlue, one device failure and four suspected device-association infections,\" it said.\n\nIt added: \"While the facilities and care at UC Davis did, and continue to meet, federally-mandated standards, we absolutely wanted to improve upon these standards as we transitioned animals to our in-house facilities.\n\nIn 2020, the firm opened a 6,000 square ft vivarium, housing farm animals and rhesus macaques. In the blog, it posted pictures of the unit, showing toys, food and what it called \"enrichment devices\" to allow animals to forage.\n\nIn 2021, Neuralink showed monkey Pager playing Pong with a joystick and being rewarded with a smoothie via a metal straw\n\nNeuralink was set up in 2016 and is privately funded by Musk.\n\nThe device the firm is working on consists of a tiny probe made up of thousands of electrodes attached to flexible threads - thinner than a human hair - which can monitor the activity of neurons.\n\nInitially, it is hoped any successful device can be used to help patients with severe neurological conditions, but Mr Musk also envisions a future of \"superhuman cognition\".\n\nSo far the firm has successfully implanted microchips into the brain of a pig called Gertrude and a monkey named Pager.", "The Duchess of Cornwall is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19, Clarence House has confirmed.\n\nHer husband, the Prince of Wales, tested positive for the virus on Thursday but Camilla, 74, carried out three public engagements on that day after testing negative.\n\nPrince Charles met with the Queen two days before he tested positive.\n\nLast week Buckingham Palace said the Queen had no Covid symptoms and on Monday said it had nothing to add.\n\nIt is the first time the duchess has caught coronavirus, while Prince Charles has the virus for a second time.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said they would follow government guidelines.\n\nOn Thursday, the duchess described herself as \"luckily\" negative, during a visit to Thames Valley Partnership in Buckinghamshire, saying of her testing regime: \"I've taken it so many times\".\n\nAs well as the visit to Buckinghamshire, Camilla visited the Haven Paddington sexual assault referral centre in west London and opened the Nourish Hub community kitchen in Shepherd's Bush - where she added the finishing touches to a Loobia Polo, an Iranian rice dish, that was being offered to refugees.\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall met volunteers during her visit to the UKHarvest charity's West London \"Nourish Hub\" on Thursday\n\nCamilla visited The Haven Paddington on Thursday morning, this time with everyone wearing face masks\n\nAnd she met staff at the Thames Valley Partnership charity in Aston Sandford\n\nOn Monday morning, Clarence House alerted the organisations Camilla visited and the media who covered her engagements.\n\nThe encounter between Prince Charles, 73, and his mother came when the prince visited Windsor Castle for an investiture - to meet people who had been honoured in the twice-annual honours list and officially give them their awards.\n\nBuckingham Palace has not confirmed whether the Queen has been tested, citing medical privacy, and has only said that she was showing no symptoms.\n\nWith Prince Charles and Camilla having caught Covid, it shows the pandemic still has a sting in its tail, able to disrupt and cause health worries.\n\nBut we don't really know whether there's a wider royal Covid outbreak or about any potential seriousness.\n\nBecause when it comes to health, it's seen as a private matter.\n\nThe Royal Family might have overlapping and complicated boundaries between their public roles and private identities, but for medical issues, there is a strong convention of palace aides only giving the barest of details.\n\nSo even though we know the Queen didn't have Covid symptoms last week, we don't really know even whether she had a test.\n\nAnd the reasons for the Queen's cancellation of appearances last year were never publicly explained.\n\nThere's an historical precedent for such secrecy. In the past, courts were full of rivals and monarchs didn't want to look vulnerable.\n\nNow it's about the siege of modern media, which is fended off by palace officials with a modern media cliche - that there won't be any \"running commentary\" about the state of the royals' health.\n\nPeople who develop coronavirus symptoms are asked to notify those they have been in close contact with in the previous 48 hours.\n\nIn England, contacts of positive Covid cases who are fully vaccinated should take lateral flow tests for seven days. They do not have to self-isolate unless they test positive.\n\nCamilla will have to isolate for 10 days, but could be allowed to end this early if she tests negative on day five and day six.\n\nHer positive test comes a week after the Queen said she wanted the Duchess of Cornwall to be known as Queen Consort once Prince Charles becomes king.\n\nPrince Charles last caught the virus in March 2020, when he reported mild symptoms, and Clarence House has confirmed he is triple vaccinated.", "Ms Palin seen arriving at court on Tuesday\n\nA jury in New York City has ruled unanimously against ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in her defamation lawsuit against the New York Times newspaper.\n\nMs Palin argued the Times defamed her in 2017 by linking her to a shooting that left six people dead.\n\nThe verdict comes after the judge threw out the case on Monday, saying her lawyers had not presented the evidence required for public figures to sue.\n\nMs Palin is expected to appeal the case to a higher court.\n\n\"The New York Times welcomes today's decision,\" said a newspaper spokeswoman.\n\n\"It is a reaffirmation of a fundamental tenet of American law: public figures should not be permitted to use libel suits to punish or intimidate news organisations that make, acknowledge and swiftly correct unintentional errors.\"\n\nMs Palin originally filed her lawsuit in 2017, arguing her reputation was damaged by an opinion piece written by its editorial board, which said her political rhetoric helped incite the 2011 shooting in Arizona that severely wounded US congresswoman Gabby Giffords and killed six other people.\n\nA fundraising group for Ms Palin had circulated a map of electoral districts that put Ms Giffords and 19 other Democrats under \"stylised crosshairs\", the newspaper said.\n\nIt later corrected the editorial and conceded the wording used in it was flawed.\n\nDuring her witness testimony, Ms Palin accused the New York Times of trying to \"score political points\" with the editorial, which she said left her feeling \"powerless\" and \"mortified\". She also said the newspaper's correction was insufficient - and didn't include her name.\n\nOn Monday, US District Judge Jed Rakoff dismissed the case, saying that Ms Palin's lawyers had failed to show that the newspaper acted with \"actual malice\".\n\nHowever, he made the unusual decision of allowing the jury to continue deliberating. If they ruled in Ms Palin's favour, he would have thrown out the case, but given the likelihood of appeal, he decided that another court \"would greatly benefit from knowing how the jury would decide it\".\n\nThe jury of nine had been deliberating since Friday before given their verdict on Tuesday.\n\n\"We reached the same bottom line, but on different grounds,\" Judge Rakoff told the jurors on Tuesday. \"You decided the facts. I decided the law.\"\n\nIn January, the court case was delayed after Ms Palin - a 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee - tested positive for Covid-19.", "Liudmyla Bobova was displaced to Kharkiv by the war. \"I can breathe freely here,\" she said.\n\nAbout half an hour's drive from the centre of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, in a low-rise industrial area of the city, there are rows of what look like white shipping containers set back from the main road and ringed by a blue metal fence.\n\nThe rows of containers, blanketed by snow this time of year, are actually a village of temporary housing units for people who already fled the war in Ukraine once, back in 2014 when Russian-backed separatists seized much of the Donbas region by force.\n\nThe residents of the \"module city\" live in remarkably cramped conditions - imagine a portable cabin you would see on a construction site, with low ceilings and strip lights, divided into a living room, kitchen and bathroom area and occupied by families of two or three or more.\n\n\"Yes, the accommodation is depressing,\" said Liudmyla Bobova, a resident who shares a private unit with her husband and elderly mother - a relative luxury compared with their previous unit where they occupied one small room in a communal unit, sleeping on bunk beds and sharing a kitchen and toilet.\n\nAnd yet Bobova and her family are grateful to be here, she said. \"There is occupation,\" she said, referring to the separatist territory they fled. \"Life there is grey, you cannot breathe freely. Here, I can breathe freely.\"\n\nAs for her change in living conditions, she only shrugged. \"That was one life, this is a another life,\" she said.\n\nIn her previous life, Bobova lived in Molodohvardiisk, a small mining town a stone's throw from the Russian border, where there was little political activity and people were only absent-mindedly pro-Russian, she said.\n\nHer family fled the region along with thousands of others when the war began, escaping on foot and by train as shells fell \"like rumbling thunder\".\n\nResidents of Kharkiv's 'module city' live in dilapidated temporary units on the outskirts of the city.\n\nThey ended up in the module city and have lived here since. The modules - paid for by the German government - had a maximum shelf life of three and a half years for human occupation, but seven years on about 175 people remain.\n\n\"There's nothing more constant than the temporary,\" said Artur Statsenko, who oversees the units for the local council. \"The state hasn't managed these people at all. For the past eight years we have not received anything from the state budget. We have a special Ministry for Reintegration but they have not given us a penny.\"\n\nThe BBC asked the Ministry for Reintegration - created in 2016 and tasked with caring for internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Donbas - to respond, but they declined to answer questions.\n\nFor the IDPs, Russia's looming new threat to invade Ukraine brings the prospect of a double displacement. Their temporary homes, just 25 miles from the border, would be squarely in Russia's path. But an invasion appeared to be low down the list of concerns for the module city residents.\n\n\"We don't talk about the escalation, or the fact we might have to flee again,\" said Iryna Belinska, a 64-year-old grandmother of nine who lives in a unit with her unwell husband.\n\n\"We need a proper roof over our head, not a plastic little house,\" she said, gesturing to her broken ceiling and bowed floor.\n\n\"We have much more mundane things on our minds than war.\"\n\nIryna Belinska lives with her husband in a module. \"We don't talk about the escalation,\" she said.\n\nThe war in eastern Ukraine has shifted the cultural identity of Kharkiv, a historically Russian-speaking city 300 miles from Kyiv but just 30 miles from the Russian border. Belinska spoke in Russian, but Bobova only speaks Ukrainian now. She abandoned Russian overnight in 2014 when she was was forced to flee her home - a kind of personal protest against the war.\n\nThe separatists who seized Donbas attempted to seize Kharkiv too, and briefly they raised their flag on the regional government building in the city centre. The ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych fled here in search of political support, but he was met by street protests and fled again to Crimea, and Kharkiv, Ukraine's second most-populous city, remained undisputed.\n\n\"Kharkiv was always pro-Ukrainian,\" said Boris Redin, an avuncular lifelong \"Kharkiver\" who has operated a kind of pro-Ukraine protest tent opposite the local government building since 2014. \"But it has become more pro-Ukrainian since the war started, like every city,\" he said. \"If the Russians want to attack us, they are our guests, we are not afraid.\"\n\nKharkiv would be a logical destination for the Russians if they rolled over the border nearby, but Vladimir Putin's troops could face a grinding resistance from the population. Many have enrolled in volunteer battalions and trained to fight, and two weeks ago the city's streets filled with protesters again, this time chanting \"Kharkiv is Ukraine\" and \"stop Russian aggression\".\n\n\"People have joined the territorial defence, volunteers continue to go the warzone, all this is working,\" said Svitlana Gorbunova-Ruban, the deputy mayor of Kharkiv. \"We are ready to defend our city in any situation and by all means.\"\n\nBoris Redin has operated a kind of pro-Ukraine protest tent opposite the local government building since 2014\n\nThere is a lot here to defend - 38 universities, museums, a thriving tech sector and vibrant contemporary arts scene. The celebrated Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko just finished a three-week residency here.\n\n\"There was an explosion of art in Kharkiv when the war began,\" said Natalia Ivanova, director of the city's institute of contemporary art. \"It was art of resistance, protest, non-acceptance.\"\n\nDisplaced artists and opera singers from Donetsk and Luhansk were invited to join theatre companies and opera productions in Kharkiv, said Svitlana Oleshko, a local theatre director. \"They were welcomed in Kharkiv,\" she said. \"This is a city of young people and they are more and more pro-Ukrainian and less and less Russian. They can see life in Donetsk and Luhansk and Crimea and they don't want to live that way.\"\n\nThe war is felt here in a way it isn't in cities further west. Troops travel through Kharkiv on the way to the front and return to its hospitals wounded. Families have been estranged across a line that separates the city from the disputed territory, and the influx of people displaced from Donbas - somewhere between 120,000 and 350,000 - has brought its own divisions.\n\nThere were \"undoubtedly cases of discrimination\" against the displaced when they arrived in Kharkiv, said Alla Feshchenko, the head of Station Kharkiv - a local non-governmental organisation.\n\n\"People refused to lease their apartments to them for example, because they were afraid they might turn out to be pro-Russian,\" she said.\n\n\"But other Kharkivers treated the IDPs wonderfully - they understood that we could have met the same fate, only we were luckier than Luhansk and Donetsk.\"\n\nIn the early days of the war, you would occasionally see cars driving around the city with fabric stretched across the roof or side bearing the world \"children\", Feshchenko said - a sign the car belonged to someone who had driven out of the disputed territory during the fighting.\n\n\"They didn't take the fabric off because they could not believe they were no longer under threat,\" she said.\n\nWashing hangs outside a the temporary units at the module city on the outskirts of Kharkiv.\n\nOne thing was certain with regard to the displaced people who came to Kharkiv, Feshchenko said: the federal government had \"totally failed them\".\n\n\"The module city is the evilest evil,\" she said. \"People categorically should not be left in such a place. There was complete chaos there - fights, broken windows, showdowns, module vs module. It puts people on the bottom rung.\"\n\nGorbunova-Ruban, the deputy mayor, told the BBC the city had been sitting on finalised plans for four years for permanent housing on the site of the module city, after an agreement to split the costs 30% - 70% with the government, but the Ministry for Reintegration was yet to pay any of its part.\n\nThis is the primary concern of the remaining residents of the module city - getting into proper accommodation. They would like to become real Kharkivers themselves. They hold occasional council meetings to discuss their concerns, and the minister for reintegration comes up more than the prospect of war.\n\nLiudmyla Bobova doesn't really miss Molodohvardiisk, she said. Some of her distant relatives are still there, and nothing they've told her makes her want to go back. \"Before the war, my life was full. But all I need here is my own home, and life will be full again,\" she said in Ukrainian.", "Ahmednur Nuur died from a stab wound to the back of the chest\n\nA teenager has been charged with the murder of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed near a college.\n\nAhmednur Nuur was attacked near Milton Keynes College in Chaffron Way at about 13:30 GMT on Friday and died in hospital.\n\nJustice Will-Mamah, 18, of Coniston Way, Bletchley, is also accused of possessing a knife in a public place.\n\nHe is in police custody and is due to appear before magistrates in Milton Keynes on Tuesday.\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and perverting the course of justice.\n\nHe was taken in to police custody.\n\nThe emergency services were called to Milton Keynes College's Chaffron Way campus on Friday afternoon\n\nPolice said the family of Ahmednur, of Conniburrow, Milton Keynes, were being supported by specially-trained officers.\n\n\"Nur in Arabic means light and Ahmednur was the embodiment of the warmest, brightest shades of his name,\" the family said, in a statement released by police.\n\n\"If he wasn't making people smile, it's because he was making them laugh.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of death to be a stab wound to the back of the chest, police said.\n\nThe stabbing took place near the junction of Palace Square and Rainbow Drive in Leadenhall in Milton Keynes\n\nThames Valley Police said: \"The victim was stabbed near the junction of Palace Square and Rainbow Drive in Leadenhall.\n\n\"After being stabbed, he then moved towards the Chaffron Way campus of Milton Keynes College and collapsed on the Redway outside.\n\n\"Healthcare students and a member of staff from the college, who were in a class overlooking the Redway, made their way outside and provided immediate first aid, until emergency services arrived.\n\n\"These students are now receiving specialist support from the college and we would like to publicly commend the courage and selflessness that they have demonstrated in these tragic circumstances.\"\n\nThe college said staff and students went to the aid of the boy, and added that \"thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of all involved\".\n\nAhmednur's family was being supported by specially trained officers\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jade Crane, photographed here with the twins at four weeks, said she hopes to bring the twins home soon\n\nA mum to babies thought to be the most premature twins to survive in the UK has called them \"little fighters\".\n\nHarley and Harry Crane were born at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham on 26 October at 22 weeks and five days.\n\nThe pair, now 16 weeks old, have been treated in the neonatal unit since and their parents have been sharing the journey on Instagram.\n\nTheir mother Jade Crane, from Heanor, in Derbyshire, said they hope to bring them home in the \"very near future\".\n\nThe twins may be able to leave hospital on 24 February, their original due date, she said.\n\nIn 2018, twins from Brighton were born at 22 weeks and six days.\n\nMs Crane and her husband Steve had tried to have children for 11 years with multiple IVFs, spending £50,000 on fertility treatments.\n\nThey suffered a few miscarriages and two ectopic pregnancies before falling pregnant with Harry and his sister Harley.\n\nMs Crane said the medical team have been \"absolutely incredible\"\n\nWhen she went into labour with Harry and Harley, who weighed 520g (1.14lb) and 500g (1.10lb) respectively when they were born, she was \"so scared\".\n\n\"But I had a sense of peace and I prayed and prayed for them to make it, for them to cry to show signs of life, which they did\".\n\nThe babies were put into the bereavement suite for parents because doctors expected at least one of them not to make it.\n\nMs Crane said the twins' strength gives her strength\n\nThe twins are \"little fighters\" who \"are surprising everyone\", their mother said adding they have had six operations between them and have suffered sepsis, eye problems, brain bleeds, and lung bleeds.\n\n\"We have got a little way to go still. They have shown their strength all the way through so I have got no doubt we'll be bringing them home in the very near future.\n\n\"The twins keep me going - if they can get through this, I can get through anything.\n\n\"But it is definitely a traumatic experience.\"\n\nMs Crane said the twins' journey has been a roller coaster\n\nMatron Cheryl Griffiths and consultant Chantelle Tomlinson, from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, said: \"We are delighted to have been able to provide neonatal intensive care for Harley and Harry and to support them and their parents, Jade and Steve, in their journey.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has taken the unprecedented step of invoking the Emergencies Act to crack down on anti-vaccine mandate protests.\n\nMr Trudeau said the scope of the measures would be \"time-limited\", \"reasonable and proportionate\" and would not see the military deployed.\n\nWith no need for court orders, banks can freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests.\n\nOn Sunday, law enforcement cleared anti-mandate protesters at the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor - a critical pathway for Canada-US trade - after a week-long stalemate.\n\nWhat began as a rally against a new rule that all truckers must be vaccinated to cross the US-Canada border, or quarantine upon return, has grown into a broader challenge to all Covid health restrictions.\n\n\"This is about keeping Canadians safe, protecting people's jobs,\" Mr Trudeau told a news conference on Monday.\n\nHe said the police would be given \"more tools\" to imprison or fine protesters and protect critical infrastructure.\n\nMr Trudeau told reporters the legislation would be applied temporarily and in a highly specific manner.\n\nCritics have noted that the prime minister voiced support for farmers in India who blocked major highways to New Delhi for a year in 2021, saying at the time: \"Canada will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest.\"\n\nMr Trudeau's invoking of the Emergencies Act comes as demonstrations across Canada enter their third week.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said at Monday's news conference that banks would be able freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests without any need for a court order.\n\nVehicle insurance of anyone involved with the demonstrations can also be suspended, she added.\n\nMs Freeland said they were broadening Canada's \"Terrorist Financing\" rules to cover cryptocurrencies and crowdfunding platforms, as part of the effort.\n\nAnti-vaccine mandate protests have entered their third week\n\n\"It's all about following the money,\" she said.\n\nShe spoke after hackers released details of what they said were 93,000 donations for the truckers totalling $8.4m (£6.2m) to the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo.\n\nThe Emergencies Act, passed in 1988, requires a high legal bar to be invoked. It may only be used in an \"urgent and critical situation\" that \"seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians\". Lawful protests do not qualify.\n\nSpeaking on Monday, Canada's Justice Minister David Lametti argued these conditions had been met.\n\nBut the Canadian Civil Liberties Association disagreed, warning that the move \"threatens our democracy and our civil liberties\".\n\nOttawa protest leader Tamara Lich dismissed Mr Trudeau's move, telling AP News: \"There are no threats that will frighten us. We will hold the line.\"\n\nOntario Premier Doug Ford, a Conservative, said he supported the federal government.\n\nBut the premiers of Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan said the emergency powers were not needed in their regions.\n\nBefore Mr Trudeau's announcement, Quebec Premier Francois Legault said invoking the Emergencies Act could \"throw oil on the fire\".\n\nUnder growing pressure to bring the disruptive protests to an end - be it from the White House or increasingly frustrated Canadians - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has entered uncharted territory with the decision to invoke the never-before-used 1988 Emergencies Act, the country's most powerful tool for when it is facing a national emergency.\n\nThe powers announced by Mr Trudeau go into effect immediately - but his government has to present it to the House of Commons and the Senate within a week and needs a green-light or the proclamation would be revoked.\n\nAll main Canadian federal political party leaders have said it's time for the protests - which have had an impact on supply chains, the national economy and the country's relations with the US - to end.\n\nBut they aren't all necessarily on board with Mr Trudeau's unprecedented move.\n\nConservative leader Candice Bergen voiced concern it could inflame the situation.\n\nThe support of NDP leader Jagmeet Singh may give Mr Trudeau enough votes to pass it through the House - though the Senate could still be a hurdle.\n\nProtests are ongoing in various parts of the country.\n\nIn Ottawa, the nation's capital, between 400 to 500 trucks have been parked in the city centre for 18 days.\n\nProtesters have also been blockading border crossing at Coutts, Alberta, and Emerson, Manitoba.\n\nOn Monday, Alberta police arrested 11 people and seized a cache of guns and other weapons.\n\nWeekend protests have also taken place in cities including Toronto and Winnipeg.", "Diplomatic efforts continue to try to halt a possible Russian invasion, but Moscow denies it is planning to attack\n\nThe US and UK leaders have said not all hope is lost for a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis but warned the situation remained fragile.\n\nIn a 40-minute call, Joe Biden and Boris Johnson agreed a deal was still possible despite a chorus of warnings of imminent Russian military action.\n\nRussia has always denied plans to invade Ukraine, despite massing more than 100,000 troops on the border.\n\nOn Monday its foreign minister said diplomacy was \"far from exhausted\".\n\nAs part of diplomatic efforts to ward off a possible invasion, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz is to meet Russia's President Vladimir Putin later on Tuesday.\n\nAfter being criticised for a slow initial response, Mr Scholz met the Ukrainian president in Kyiv on Monday, saying there was \"no reasonable justification\" for the Russian military build-up.\n\nMore than a dozen nations have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine, and the US has said aerial bombardments could begin \"at any time\".\n\nBut in their conversation, Mr Biden and Mr Johnson said there remained a \"crucial window\" for diplomacy and for Russia to step back from its threats towards Ukraine, according to a Downing Street statement.\n\n\"The leaders emphasised that any further incursion into Ukraine would result in a protracted crisis for Russia, with far-reaching damage for both Russia and the world,\" the statement added.\n\nMr Johnson reportedly said that the UK was prepared to do everything it could to help, to which Mr Biden responded: \"We're not going anywhere without you pal.\"\n\nMr Johnson is expected to hold a Cobra meeting on Tuesday to discuss the UK's response to the pressures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a defiant speech to the nation on Monday, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky declared 16 February - a date cited by US officials as a possible day on which Russia could attack - a \"day of unity\", and praised the strength of the Ukrainian military.\n\n\"We have something to respond with. We have a great army... this is an army many times stronger than eight years ago.\"\n\nBut he said he wanted to resolve all issues through negotiations and diplomacy.\n\nThe Ukrainian president ended his speech on an optimistic note: \"Now you may think it's darkness all around. But tomorrow the sun will rise again over our peaceful sky.\"\n\nMr Lavrov's comments, made in a meeting with Mr Putin, are being seen as a clear concession that talks could ease the tensions. But analysts say that without either side moving over the thorny issue of Ukraine potentially joining Nato, there is still deadlock.\n\nThe Kremlin says it cannot accept that Ukraine - a former Soviet republic with deep social and cultural ties with Russia - could one day join Nato, and has demanded that this be ruled out. Nato's members have rejected this request.\n\nAre you in Ukraine? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "If the shops are anything to go by, it's business as usual in the port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, even though the Russian border is only 50km (31 miles) away. We found customers ambling through the well-stocked aisles of one local supermarket. There was no panic buying and no shortages.\n\nTatiana, aged 74 - who was carefully perusing the sausage selection - was adamant that fellow Slavs would not attack Ukraine. \"The invasion is just in our heads,\" she told me. \"Nobody is going to invade. Nobody will beat their brothers.\"\n\nThe tension may now be easing somewhat, but eastern Ukraine has already been a battleground for the past eight years.\n\nKremlin backed separatists are dug in about 15km for Mariupol. War is already part of the landscape. Some here say - quietly - that they are now afraid of a much bigger conflict, but there's no hint of an exodus.\n\nClose to the border we saw no sign of trouble on the horizon. The only thing coming down the road from the Russian border were tractors, not tanks. But Moscow's designs on Ukraine are a long-term project.\n\nPeople spend time at the coast of Mariupol in Ukraine despite the cold weather Image caption: People spend time at the coast of Mariupol in Ukraine despite the cold weather", "What comes next for Prince Andrew after he settles the claims against him?\n\nIf Prince Andrew had gone to court in the US to fight it out with Virginia Giuffre, it would have made headlines as tall as a New York skyscraper.\n\nThat royal disaster zone has been averted by an out-of-court settlement.\n\nBut it comes with high costs to Prince Andrew, both financial and reputational, and it will be a long road back before there is any chance of clearing his name in terms of public opinion.\n\nHe won't get back any of the royal patronages, military links or the HRH title that were taken away from him.\n\nAnd the many questions raised by his BBC Newsnight interview - about his connections with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein and details such as his inability to sweat - will be left unanswered.\n\nIf not a smoking gun, there is still the unexplained smoke from a Woking pizza oven.\n\nThe implication of this deal means he is potentially paying millions of dollars to someone he still contends he has no memory of ever meeting.\n\nThe deal says that Prince Andrew \"regrets his association with Epstein\", but that picture of the prince with the sex offender will continue to haunt him.\n\nThat even more famous picture of Ms Giuffre, Prince Andrew and Maxwell, taken in London almost 21 years ago, will always be there when his name is mentioned, frozen in digital aspic.\n\nLong shadows have been cast which will be hard to shift.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew says he cannot recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts\n\nPrince Andrew spoke to BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis in 2019 about his relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Watch the full interview on the BBC's YouTube channel.\n\nLegal experts had been predicting that a settlement was the most likely outcome from this civil court case, in which Ms Giuffre had brought sexual assault claims against Prince Andrew.\n\n\"It was the best of the bad options available to him,\" said Gideon Benaim, a partner at law firm Simkins, who specialises in protecting high-profile reputations.\n\n\"If it had continued it would have inevitably damaged him even further,\" said Mr Benaim.\n\nAnna Rothwell at law firm Corker Binning said Prince Andrew's Newsnight interview on its own \"would have given Ms Giuffre's lawyers a wealth of material to use in cross examination\".\n\nBut where does it leave Prince Andrew now?\n\nA few weeks ago his legal team was full of fighting talk about being ready to battle it out in court and wanting to knock down Ms Giuffre's allegations.\n\nNow the tone has changed completely to recognising that Ms Giuffre has \"suffered both as an established victim of abuse and as a result of unfair public attacks\".\n\nThe civil claims against Prince Andrew had already produced damaging headlines for the royals\n\nBut Mr Benaim says the deal avoids any admission of guilt and any personal wrongdoing and stops a case which threatened an endless supply of negative headlines.\n\n\"Reputationally he had to get rid of this - almost regardless of the cost,\" said the lawyer.\n\nPrince Andrew can maintain his innocence, with nothing proven against him, and he could argue that he was paying a price to protect his family from any further damaging coverage.\n\nThe number of zeroes in that payment remains confidential, but it's likely to look like a long row of those emojis of popping eyes.\n\nThere is also some ambiguity about whether it is one or two payments being made.\n\n\"The parties will file a stipulated dismissal upon Ms Giuffre's receipt of the settlement (the sum of which is not being disclosed).\n\n\"Prince Andrew intends to make a substantial donation to Ms Giuffre's charity in support of victims' rights,\" says the joint statement accompanying the deal.\n\nWhether that means separate payments to Ms Giuffre and the charity has not been clarified by Prince Andrew's representatives.\n\nWho is paying for the pay-out could be another issue.\n\nKate Macnab, a lawyer at Reeds Solicitors, says: \"It is likely there will be some demands to know where the payment is coming from - public or private purse?\"\n\nIn terms of what comes next, the settlement contains a line suggesting how he might try to begin restoring his reputation.\n\n\"He pledges to demonstrate his regret for his association with Epstein by supporting the fight against the evils of sex trafficking, and by supporting its victims.\"\n\nAlthough at the moment he might be at risk of losing more links with organisations, than making new ones - particularly anything connected to sex trafficking.\n\nThere will still be constitutional roles. Prince Andrew remains a counsellor of state, unless legislation is passed to change that, which means he is one of four senior royals who could act in place of the Queen if illness meant she was unable to carry out official duties.\n\nFrom the wider Royal Family there might be relief that the case is over, rather than facing a Platinum Jubilee year clouded by allegations and more revelations.\n\nBut for Prince Andrew it's hard to see any way back to public life.\n\nWill he be able to take part in jubilee events or official royal family occasions?\n\nEven with no admission of guilt, or any concessions to the claims against him, his future relationship with the public, and any appearances at royal events, will be awkward to say the least.", "Coleen Rooney has been refused permission to bring a High Court claim against Rebekah Vardy's agent.\n\nIt's part of an ongoing legal battle between the footballers' wives over an online post.\n\nMrs Rooney was trying to bring a claim against Caroline Watt for misuse of private information as part of her case against Mrs Vardy.\n\nShe also ordered by the judge to pay £65,000 towards Ms Watt's legal costs following the unsuccessful attempt.\n\nThe \"Wagatha Christie\" row broke out in 2019 after Mrs Rooney said fake stories were leaked to newspapers that had only been seen by Mrs Vardy's Instagram.\n\nHowever, the judge gave the go-ahead for Mrs Rooney to amend her defence case, to include an allegation that Rebekah Vardy, through Ms Watt, provided information to The Sun about an unnamed professional footballer.\n\nShe also gave permission for disclosure of WhatsApp messages between Mrs Vardy and Ms Watt during the relevant period, and allowed Mrs Rooney's application for an order that both parties make a joint request for information to Instagram.\n\nMrs Vardy denies the accusations and is suing Mrs Rooney for libel.\n\nDuring a two-day hearing last week, the court heard the content of some WhatsApp messages exchanged between Mrs Vardy and her PR and friend Caroline Watt.\n\nMrs Rooney's lawyers previously claimed that Mrs Vardy had leaked information to The Sun newspaper either directly or through her agent Caroline Watt \"acting on her instruction or with her knowing approval\".\n\nMrs Rooney asked for permission to bring an \"additional claim\" against Ms Watt for misuse of private information and wanted it to be heard alongside the libel case.\n\nHer lawyer David Sherborne told the court Coleen Rooney would be left without \"vindication\" unless that could happen.\n\nMrs Vardy's lawyers opposed the application to add the claim against Ms Watt to the libel case.\n\nIn a ruling on Monday, the judge, Mrs Justice Steyn refused permission for the additional claim against Ms Watt and refused permission for it to be heard alongside the libel trial.\n\nRebekah Vardy's lawyers opposed the application to add the claim against Ms Watt to the libel case\n\nDuring the hearings last week, David Sherborne said that Mrs Rooney's lawyers wanted further information from the WhatsApp messages between Mrs Vardy and Ms Watt, but were told Ms Watt's phone had fallen into the sea after a boat she was on hit a wave, shortly after the last hearing.\n\n\"[It was] most unfortunate, because it was only a short time after the court ordered that the phone should be specifically searched,\" he said.\n\nRebekah Vardy's barrister Hugh Tomlinson told the court: \"That is what happened. Mrs Vardy was not present when that happened. She [Ms Watt] was on holiday, she lost her phone.\"\n\nThe trial of the libel claim is due to take place in May, but may be delayed.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The payment will go to all households in council tax bands A to D, plus those in the council tax reduction scheme in all tax bands\n\nMost households in Wales will receive a £150 payment as part of plans to tackle the rising cost of living.\n\nThe Welsh government said it would match the council tax rebate planned in England for homes in bands A to D.\n\nThe payments in Wales will also be for people living in all bands who do not pay the tax, unlike across the border.\n\nThe Bevan Foundation think tank said the money could have been targeted better to help those most in need.\n\nBut Welsh Economy Minister Rebecca Evans said a million households could benefit from the scheme.\n\nThis year's £200 winter fuel payment scheme will also be repeated next year, as part of a £330m package of measures.\n\nNick Davies (back right) has taken on extra work as a football referee to help top up the family funds\n\nSammy Davies, 33, lives with her husband Nick and two children in Newtown, Powys.\n\nThe family have switched to purchasing food from a cheaper supermarket, reduced their TV package and changed energy supplier after calculating their energy bill would increase by a minimum of £70 a month.\n\n\"It's kind of like our income comes in one hand and it's going straight out the other to cover for food, childcare and living costs\", she said.\n\n\"So we don't really have anything extra that we can take the kids away for a weekend for a treat.\"\n\nThe older people's commissioner for Wales said current plans meant tens of thousands of older people in Wales living on the lowest incomes would miss out.\n\nAge Cymru said its adviceline dealt with a record number of inquiries in January with some older people asking for help about energy and benefits entitlement.\n\nCharity chief executive Victoria Lloyd said the concern was the extra payments \"won't go far enough with the rising cost of energy bills\".\n\n\"People are telling us that this could be the straw that breaks the camel's back,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nWelsh Labour ministers said their plans go further than those announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak for England earlier this month.\n\nRebecca Evans said Mr Sunak's offer \"fell short of what people needed\".\n\nBut HM Treasury said Wales was \"receiving £180m in relation to the council tax rebate alongside the £200 energy bill discount\" as a result of UK government funding.\n\n\"This is on top of spending review 2021 providing the Welsh government with the biggest annual funding settlement since devolution,\" it said.\n\nThe £150 payments to homes in bands A to D in England were part of a set of measures the chancellor set out in response to the rise in the energy cap.\n\nA £200 discount on electricity bills for homes in October, paid back over five years, will apply in Wales and Scotland as well as England.\n\nThe Welsh government will match the England council tax rebate, providing a £150 payment to all properties in council tax bands A to D, which covers the majority of homes.\n\nBut those who are in the council tax reduction scheme in all tax bands will also get the payment, unlike in England where individuals who do not pay council tax would not receive the rebate.\n\nCitizens Advice Cymru had warned that 230,000 households in Wales would not have benefited from a rebate similar to the UK government's in England.\n\nThe money will be paid as soon as possible, and will cost ministers £152m.\n\nA total of 73.3% of residential properties are rated as being in bands A to D for council tax. The Welsh government said it will work with councils to provide more detail on how the scheme will operate.\n\nThe Discretionary Assistance Fund will also be extended to a wider group of people\n\nAt a Welsh government briefing Ms Evans revealed that only half of households eligible for the winter fuel payment had applied.\n\nThe scheme, which gives £200 to homes on working-age benefits, remains open until 28 February - applications should be made through local councils.\n\nVictoria Winckler, director of the Bevan Foundation, said: \"Nobody, I'm sure, will be disappointed to get the payment but when people are really, really struggling, I think it could have been targeted more effectively.\"\n\nShe said with 73% of households eligible, the money was \"spread very thin\".\n\n\"It could have given a £1 top-up every day for secondary school pupils who are on free school meals so they could buy breakfast or a snack,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"I think for the well-off people who happen to live in a band A to D home, it will be a meal out. I think for people on low incomes, it's four weeks shopping.\"\n\nJames Hall, from charity People and Work in Rhondda, said people who needed help often had to turn to the internet but had to chose between \"data and dinner\", so it was offering data sims to provide support.\n\n\"People are saying it is getting tougher by the day,\" he said.\n\nA further £25m will be provided so councils can offer help for specific families they know may be struggling.\n\nThe chancellor's announcement triggered extra cash worth £180m, which became the subject of a row over the amount of money coming to Wales.\n\nOlder People's Commissioner for Wales, Helena Herklot said the payments did not go far enough.\n\n\"I am disappointed that despite my calls, and calls from a growing number of other organisations, for the Welsh government to widen the eligibility of its Winter Fuel Support Scheme, current plans seem to continue to exclude older people claiming pension credit,\" she said.\n\n\"This means that tens of thousands of older people in Wales living on the lowest incomes will miss out.\"\n\nSioned Williams, Plaid Cymru's spokesperson for Social Justice and Equalities, also welcomed the announcement, but said the \"broad brush approach of giving £150 to all households in council tax bands A-D is not the best way to ensure those who are in the most need, those who will be facing the choice between heating and eating, receive the most help\".\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies said he was \"pleased to see the new money that has come from the Conservative UK government has been put to good use by Cardiff Bay ministers as Welsh Conservatives have been calling for.\n\n\"It is just a shame Labour couldn't help themselves and have a pop at British ministers who have led the way in finding a resolution to this.\"\n\nThe Welsh government's winter fuel payment scheme, which was recently doubled to provide one-off payments of £200 to people on universal credit and other working-age benefits, will be re-run next winter.\n\nThe Discretionary Assistance Fund, which helps people pay for essential costs such as food, gas, electricity, clothing or emergency travel, will also be extended to a wider group of people.\n\nApplications can be made on the Welsh government website.\n\nMs Evans said: \"The chancellor's offer at the start of the month fell short of what people needed. We have been able to go above and beyond to provide Welsh households with more help in paying bills, heating homes and putting food on the table.\n\n\"In total we are more than doubling the equivalent support provided by the UK government for those who need it the most, reflecting our priority of creating a fairer Wales in which no-one is left behind.\"\n\nThe cost of living crisis is being fuelled by steep rises in the price of oil and gas as well as food.\n\nThe struggle to make ends meet goes well beyond the poorest with many families, who had been managing, now on a tight budget.\n\nAround three-quarters of households in Wales will benefit from the £150 payments announced but it goes nowhere near covering the massive increases they have been in fuel bills.\n\nGiving financial support for everyday essential bills through council tax band is a blunt tool.\n\nIt is dangerous to presume that patterns for income and house-size match. But it is at least a mechanism that the Welsh government has in its control.", "More on this story: Russia pulls some troops back from border", "Police said the clothes Leah Croucher was wearing in this photo most closely resembled the ones she was wearing when she was last seen, aged 19\n\nThe parents of a woman missing for three years have spoken of the \"upsetting and hurtful\" rumours about their teenage daughter spread by trolls on social media.\n\nLeah Croucher was last seen on CCTV on 15 February 2019 in Milton Keynes.\n\nHer parents said it was \"soul-destroying\" not knowing what happened, and people setting up fake accounts claiming to be Leah was \"vile\".\n\nA £20,000 reward has been offered for information.\n\nMs Croucher was 19 when she was last seen by her parents at the family home in Quantock Crescent, at 22:00 GMT on 14 February.\n\nThe next day, CCTV footage showed her walking down Buzzacott Lane in Furzton at 08:16. She was thought to be going to work, but she never arrived.\n\nCCTV footage showed Leah Croucher walking to work on the day she disappeared\n\nNo trace of Ms Croucher has been found.\n\nLeah's parents John and Claire Croucher said they were \"broken\" by not knowing where their daughter was\n\nSpeaking on the third anniversary of her disappearance, her mother, Claire Croucher, said: \"I think it's actually getting harder... at the beginning I had lots of people around me saying she's going to show up any minute, it's all going to be fine, but obviously three years down the line we're still totally unaware of what happened to her.\"\n\nShe said there were now \"even more unanswered questions as we've had a lot longer to think... it's soul-destroying\".\n\nBoth she and her husband spoke about the many rumours circulating on social media about what might have happened to their daughter.\n\n\"The nastiness comes out,\" her father John Croucher said.\n\n\"There are some people who are genuinely trying to help, but then you get these people who want to focus on rubbish that just isn't true.\"\n\nPolice used divers, dogs and drones to try to find evidence of Ms Croucher\n\nIn a joint statement released for the anniversary appeal, Mr and Mrs Croucher said: \"Our family read everything that is written about Leah, both in the press and on social media.\n\n\"We are aware of the fake profiles that have been made claiming that Leah was pregnant and has run away... aware of the speculation that she is buried on farmland on Eaton Bray.\n\n\"We find this upsetting, hurtful and disrespectful. None of this is true, all of it is vicious rumour and speculation.\n\n\"We would appreciate that if people have nothing pleasant to say, that they say nothing at all.\n\n\"Our daughter has done nothing to deserve this and neither have her family, who are forced to tolerate this vile behaviour.\"\n\nA photograph has emerged of a person near a lake, who police believe could have been Leah Croucher\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Howard, who has led the investigation, asked people to be mindful of what they were saying on social media, and to speak to police if they had information.\n\nHe said officers \"have had to speak to a small number of people directly\" about what he described as \"malicious messages\" and one person had been given a police caution.\n\n\"Essentially they created a fake profile pretending to be Leah,\" he said.\n\n\"Think about the impact that must have on Leah's family to receive a message from someone purporting to be their daughter or their sister.\"\n\nOn the anniversary, police have issued an image that had previously been circulating on social media in the continuing search for Ms Croucher.\n\nA number of people had reported possibly seeing her \"apparently upset\" by Furzton Lake between 09:30 and 11:15 on the day she disappeared.\n\nA distant and blurred photo has emerged showing a person at the lake wearing clothing that could be similar to that worn by Ms Croucher on that day.\n\nDet Ch Insp Howard said although it was \"impossible to say\" if the picture was of Ms Croucher, it was the first time reports of someone near the lake could be corroborated.\n\nHe admitted the case remained \"bewildering\", as there was so little evidence of what might have happened to Ms Croucher.\n\n\"We are essentially no further forward in terms of Leah's movements,\" he said.\n\n\"Again, I appeal to the public. Somebody out there... knows something. Please, please come forward as the family deserves nothing less.\"\n\nAsked if Ms Croucher could still be alive, he said: \"The lack of information of what's happened to Leah is actually what gives me, and allows me to retain, some hope; we retain an open mind about what has happened.\n\n\"At this stage there is no evidence or credible information to indicate that somebody else is involved in Leah's disappearance.\"\n\nAppealing for information, or for their daughter to get in touch, the Crouchers said: \"We love you too much to give up and stop looking for answers.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emiliano Sala's inquest is expected to last up to five weeks\n\nEmiliano Sala felt pressurised into completing a multimillion-pound transfer to the Premier League before he died, an inquest has heard.\n\nThe 28-year-old was killed in a plane crash in the English Channel in January 2019 after being bought by Cardiff City from Nantes in a £15m transfer deal.\n\nPilot David Ibbotson, 59, also died but his body has never been found.\n\nSala's mother, Mercedes Taffarel, told the hearing the weeks before her son's death \"seemed very intense\".\n\n\"Cardiff put a lot of pressure on him to complete the sale quickly, but Nantes asked for more money and Emi felt in the middle of the dispute,\" she said.\n\n\"It seemed to him that the Nantes management was also pushing his exit from the club because they needed the money.\"\n\nSala's transfer from the French Ligue 1 side was the most expensive in the club's history.\n\nEmiliano Sala had just signed with Cardiff City before the crash\n\nMrs Taffarel said her son had always dreamed of becoming a professional footballer, and despite pressures \"felt he was achieving his dream\" by getting to play in the Premier League.\n\nShe now wants justice for him and to prevent future similar deaths.\n\nSenior coroner Rachael Griffin told jurors that the inquest will focus on the arrangements for the flight, the condition of the aircraft and the cause of the accident.\n\nSala's brother, Dario, has flown from Argentina for the hearing at Bournemouth Coroner's Court.\n\nMrs Taffarel's statement said she spoke to her son regularly and, when she did not hear from him on the day of the flight, she assumed he had gone to bed early after arriving in Wales.\n\nThe following day she learned the plane carrying her son was missing.\n\nThe wreckage of the plane was found a month after the crash\n\nHer family organised their own sea search and the plane was located with Sala's body inside.\n\n\"We were completely desperate, all the media in the world wanted to speak with us. The situation overwhelmed us,\" she said.\n\nThe jury were told the family travelled to Wales from Argentina and that as time passed with no news, it was \"extremely distressing\".\n\n\"No-one can bring Emi [Emiliano] back to us, but we ask for justice so that Emi can rest in peace and give us a little bit of peace of mind knowing that we did everything we could so similar deaths are prevented in the future,\" she said.\n\nThe coroner told the inquest jury the Piper Malibu aircraft had left Nantes airport at 19:15 GMT on 21 January 2019 for the flight to Cardiff but radar contact was lost near Guernsey at 20:15.\n\nShe said the plane was located on the seabed on 3 February and Sala's body was found in the wreckage three days later.\n\nThe jury was told the footballer had high levels of carbon monoxide in his blood, indicating he would have been unconscious or near to death when the plane crashed into the sea.\n\nSala had multiple injuries with \"obvious severe damage to the head\" and significant injuries to his chest and torso, forensic pathologist Dr Basil Purdue said.\n\nThe injuries, he said, were \"entirely in keeping with those to be expected from a high altitude plane crash into the sea\".\n\nThe jury inquest could take five weeks.", "Virginia Giuffre has filed a civil case against Prince Andrew in the US\n\nAmerican Virginia Giuffre says she was the victim of sex trafficking and abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful associates when she was a teenager.\n\nShe is now at the centre of one of the world's most high-profile legal battles, after launching a civil case against Britain's Prince Andrew.\n\nThe royal has consistently denied her allegations of sexual abuse. But his lawyers' efforts to have the case thrown out at an early stage have so far failed, putting a civil trial in New York in the autumn on the horizon.\n\nHere's what we know about Virginia Giuffre.\n\nMs Giuffre was born as Virginia Roberts in 1983 in the US state of California. Her family later relocated to Florida.\n\nAt the age of seven, she says she was sexually abused by a family friend, and her \"childhood was quickly taken away\".\n\n\"I was just so mentally scarred already at such a young age, and I ran away from that,\" she told the BBC's Panorama in 2019.\n\nLater in her childhood, she was in and out of foster care. And by the age of 14, she was living on the streets where she says she found nothing \"except for hunger and pain and [more] abuse\".\n\nIt was in the year 2000, while attempting to rebuild her life, that she met British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Virginia Giuffre: \"I implore the people in the UK... to not accept this as being OK\"\n\nMs Giuffre was working as a locker room attendant at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, and says Maxwell offered her an interview for the chance to train as a massage therapist.\n\n\"I ran over to my dad who works on the tennis courts at Mar-a-Lago, and he knows I'm trying to fix my life up at that point, which is why he got me the job there. I said: 'You're not going to believe it dad',\" she recalled.\n\nWhen Ms Giuffre arrived at Epstein's home in Palm Beach, she says he was lying down naked and she was instructed by Maxwell on how to massage him.\n\n\"Through that time they were asking me questions about who I was.\n\n\"They seemed like nice people so I trusted them, and I told them I'd had a really hard time in my life up until then - I'd been a runaway, I'd been sexually abused, physically abused… That was the worst thing I could have told them because now they knew how vulnerable I was,\" she told the BBC.\n\nMs Giuffre said what she had expected to be a job interview soon turned into the beginning of years of abuse.\n\nMaxwell was found guilty last month of recruiting and trafficking young girls for Epstein to abuse, and is awaiting sentencing.\n\nWhile Ms Giuffre was referenced on many occasions in court, she was not one of the four women who testified in that case. Maxwell has denied assaulting her.\n\nIn 2015, Ms Giuffre filed a defamation case against Maxwell after she accused her of being a liar. The case has since been settled.\n\nMs Giuffre says she went from being abused by Epstein to being \"passed around like a platter of fruit\" among his powerful associates, as she was taken around the world on private jets.\n\nIn 2001, then aged 17, she says Epstein brought her to London and introduced her to Prince Andrew. A now famous photograph that she says was taken on that night shows the prince with his arm around Ms Giuffre, as Maxwell smiles in the background.\n\nVirginia Giuffre says she asked Jeffrey Epstein to take this picture of her with Prince Andrew\n\nAfter going to a nightclub, Ms Giuffre says she was told by Maxwell that she \"had to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey\".\n\n\"It was a really scary time in my life… I wasn't chained to a sink, but these powerful people were my chains,\" she told the BBC.\n\nIn her civil case, Ms Giuffre alleges that the prince sexually abused her three times - at Maxwell's London home that night, and later at Epstein's homes in Manhattan and Little St James in the Virgin Islands.\n\nPrince Andrew, the Queen's second son, said in an interview with BBC Newsnight in 2019 that he had no recollection of ever meeting Ms Giuffre, and, in response to her account of them having sex in the US and UK, that it \"didn't happen\".\n\nMs Giuffre told the Miami Herald that by 2003 Epstein had lost interest in her because she was too old for him.\n\nShe said she convinced the wealthy financier to pay for her to get training to become a real professional masseuse and he arranged for her to take a class in Thailand. But she was also expected to bring home a Thai girl that Epstein had arranged to come to the US.\n\nInstead, Ms Giuffre met a man on the trip whom she fell in love with and married 10 days later. She moved with him to Australia to start a family.\n\nMs Giuffre now lives in a large house on the coast of Perth with her husband and three children.\n\nShe has founded a non-profit organisation called Speak Out, Act, Reclaim (SOAR), aimed at \"educating and advocating for victims of trafficking\".\n\nFollowing the ruling against Maxwell last month, Ms Giuffre told New York Magazine \"it's definitely not over\".\n\n\"There are so many more people involved with this,\" she said.", "Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nAn emotional Kamila Valieva launched her bid for Olympic figure skating gold after a court cleared her to compete despite a positive drugs test.\n\nAll eyes were on the Russian 15-year-old as she stepped on to the ice for a two-minute 40-second routine where the focus was briefly on her skating and not the doping scandal around her.\n\nShe stumbled on a jump, had tears at the end but went top with 82.16.\n\nShe then left the ice to face the inevitable cameras and questions.\n\nHowever, she walked past reporters, shaking her head and saying \"thank you\" in Russian and then later did not attend a news conference for the three highest-placed skaters of the day.\n\nValieva, whose continued presence at the Games was proving divisive among her fellow competitors and beyond on Tuesday, will return on Thursday for the free skate that will decide the medals.\n\nNot that there will be any medals or a medal ceremony that day if she finishes in the top three, with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) having decided it wants to wait until the outcome of an anti-doping investigation into Valieva's positive test for trimetazidine, which is used in angina treatment.\n\nIOC official Denis Oswald said earlier in the day that the Russian had argued her positive drugs test was because of contamination with her grandad's medicine.\n\nValieva is being allowed to compete at Beijing 2022 after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) ruled on Monday that a provisional suspension should not be re-imposed.\n\nShe discovered a week ago that she had failed a drugs test but then successfully appealed against a Russian Anti-Doping Agency decision to impose a provisional suspension.\n\nThat decision was upheld by Cas after appeals by the IOC and others.\n\nEmotions come to surface after turbulent week\n\nValieva took to the ice to a mixture of cheers, camera shutters on overdrive and some stony faces as she prepared to perform her short programme.\n\nThe first time we saw this routine at these Games was just over a week ago - we oohed and ahhed over a flawless performance that fell just shy of her own world record score.\n\nHer music of choice, In Memoriam by Kirill Richter, is in memory of her grandma who died in 2019. Now it felt like it could also be in memory of a time before an apparent mix-up with her grandad's heart medication.\n\nAnd it was far from the perfect display we had seen as the Russian made a mistake on her opening triple axel. That said, she also boasted some of the same sublime spins and step sequences that had made her the pre-Games gold-medal favourite.\n\nBut it was at the end of the routine that the strain of the past week was visible, with Valieva hunching over and fighting back tears before leaving to wait for her score in the aptly named 'kiss and cry' area.\n\nSeeing a child cry in front of a huge global audience is heart-breaking.\n\nSo is knowing they have failed a drugs test.\n\nWada is investigating Valieva's entourage, including coaches, doctors and other adults around her.\n\nNo other topic of conversation\n\nIt was inevitable for the other competitors that the day was never going to be about their Olympic debuts, their season's bests or even their mistakes.\n\nTheir moment on the big stage became all about what they thought about the fact they were knowingly competing against someone who had failed a drugs test when they and their coaches walked past the waiting reporters.\n\nAdam Rippon, coach of US figure skater Mariah Bell, said it was \"shocking\" and \"disappointing\" that Valieva was being allowed to compete.\n\n\"I don't think, in the history of the Olympics, somebody with a positive test has been allowed to compete,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I think it ruins the integrity of the Olympics. I think a lot of people at home are left scratching their heads, knowing that there's someone with a positive test out there.\n\n\"I think, on top of it, it's so layered because I think all of our hearts are breaking that this is a 15-year-old girl. It's a really sad situation for her and it's a sad situation for all of the competitors here in this event.\"\n\nBritish skater Natasha McKay, who finished 28th and does not qualify for the free skate, said it was \"not a level playing field\".\n\n\"In figure skating, and every sport, it should be a level playing field. We don't get the opportunity here, but that's the decision they've made and we have to stick with that,\" McKay said.\n\n\"I feel sorry for anyone who gets on the podium here. They won't be able to get that experience of being on the podium.\"\n\nBut Valieva also had her supporters, with Ukrainian Anastasiia Shabotova saying: \"They are just talented and work hard. No-one should have an issue about that.\n\n\"I hope that she wins, finishes in the top three. Even if no-one receives a medal, everyone will still know who has won.\"\n\nValieva stands one skate from gold - but may never get medal\n\nDespite the less-than-perfect display, Valieva still goes into Thursday's free skate poised for victory.\n\nHer score put her ahead of compatriot Anna Shcherbakova, the world champion (80.20), and Japan's Kaori Sakamoto (79.84).\n\nThe third Russian, Alexandra Trusova, is fourth (74.60), which means the Russian Olympic Committee could well claim a 1-2-3 as they did at the European Championships in January.\n\nThe IOC's decision that there would be no medal ceremony if Valieva finishes in the top three was taken so that it can \"allocate the medal to the right person\".\n\nIt wants the full anti-doping process to be complete rather than awarding a medal and then potentially having to strip it away and reallocate others if Valieva is found guilty and banned.\n\nSo that means Valieva will skate for gold on Thursday but may never see the medal.", "Finland has just completed a major basic income experiment where 2,000 unemployed people were given €560 (£490) a month for two years, instead of their unemployment benefit.\n\nThe basic income was paid with no strings attached. Recipients weren't required to seek or accept jobs but still received the payment if they found a job.\n\nThe Finnish government wanted to see if this financial incentive encouraged people to get jobs or start businesses.\n\nThe BBC followed two participants, Tanja and Tuomas, for two years to see what impact free money had on their lives.\n\nYou can see more on this story on Our World: The Finnish Experiment on the BBC iPlayer.", "Social workers at a council criticised over the Star Hobson case were left struggling to cope as bosses failed to fill vacancies, a report has found.\n\nCommissioner Steve Walker launched a review of Bradford children's services following the toddler's murder in 2020.\n\nHis recently published findings highlighted a reliance on agency staff and a steep rise in caseloads.\n\nMr Walker said improvements had been too slow, but praised council leaders' commitment to investing in the service.\n\nHe commenced his report last September, a year after 16-month-old Star died following months of \"neglect, cruelty and injury\" by her mother and her partner.\n\nRelatives criticised the social services response to a number of referrals raising alarm over Star's treatment, with her great-grandmother saying she had warned Bradford Council it faced \"another Baby P\" if no action was taken.\n\nAfter Star's mother and her partner were jailed over her death, the authority was stripped of control over its children's services department, which will be run by a council-owned trust led by an independent board.\n\nThe move was among recommendations made in Mr Walker's report, which was handed to Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi last month.\n\nMr Walker found that the city's children's services - rated inadequate by Ofsted in 2018 - had faced ongoing struggles to recruit and retain social workers.\n\nWhen he began writing his report, he said, there were 124 vacancies filled by 173 members of agency staff.\n\nThis, combined with a 38% increase in caseload since 2018, had affected the stability of the workforce, he said.\n\nMore also needed to be done to secure a permanent leadership team, he said, noting that the department's director and deputy director both resigned towards the end of last year.\n\nBoth positions were still being filled by less senior members acting up, he said.\n\nWhile the positions remained unfilled it was \"unsettling for staff and impacts on the ability of children's services to build effective working relationships with partners\", Mr Walker said.\n\nBradford children's services was rated inadequate by Ofsted in 2018\n\nMr Walker praised the commitment of the council's leadership and their willingness to prioritise requests for extra children's services funding.\n\nHowever, he said spending had outstripped the department's core budget, mainly due to the high use of agency staff and costs of care placements for children.\n\nMr Walker said Bradford had some of the most disadvantaged communities in the country, which have been disproportionately affected by Covid-19, and child poverty rates were rising faster than the national trend.\n\nThe authority has higher levels of childhood obesity, teenage pregnancy and accidental injury. Infant mortality rates in Bradford are also significantly higher than the comparative value for England, the report said.\n\nMr Walker said improvement had been too slow, and recommended the council work alongside an Executive Commissioner, who would have increased powers to drive improvement.\n\nHowever, the council has told the Department for Education it would prefer to create a trust to run children's services on its behalf.\n\nSavannah Brockhill (left) was jailed for life for Star's murder and Frankie Smith was handed an eight-year term for causing or allowing her death\n\nCouncil leader Susan Hinchcliffe said Mr Walker's report highlighted many strengths such as \"the commitment of staff, extra resources, strong political and leadership support and strong safeguarding arrangements\".\n\nBut it also highlighted challenges such as \"recruiting a stable workforce\", she said, and overcoming these to \"provide better outcomes for children and families and support our front-line staff\" was the authority's \"key focus\".\n\n\"We are working closely with the government to deliver the recommendations within the report and to set up a children's company in Bradford that will provide the extra impetus to deliver the improvements we need,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Criminals are deploying \"psychological tactics\" to con people out of cash amid a rise in scams, Barclays bank says.\n\nThe tricks include creating illusions of product scarcity or pretending to be an authority to \"socially engineer\" victims, the bank's chief behavioural scientist Dr Pete Brooks warned.\n\nHe said scammers used dating apps to target people over weeks in some cases to establish \"emotional connections\".\n\nDr Brooks added they preyed on people's biases and personality traits.\n\nHe told the BBC although the types of scams hadn't changed over decades, criminals were becoming more sophisticated and could use \"many more channels\" to target people.\n\nUsing dating apps as an example, Dr Brooks said scammers would connect with people they matched with, develop a relationship over time, and then exploit people's personality traits to get them to transfer them money.\n\n\"Most of us by default are trusting,\" said Dr Brooks.\n\nDr Brooks said so-called \"purchase scams\", where goods bought online don't exist or never arrive, were the most common type.\n\nHe said such crimes involved fraudsters creating a \"perceived scarcity and therefore 'value' in what they are selling to motivate consumers to act quickly and not rely on their better judgment\".\n\nThis might be advertising something as a one-time offer, he added, or a product with a limited-edition price or availability, or \"rushing us into buying something that 'has' to be bought now - even if you've never seen the product in real life\".\n\nBarclays said the average amount a person loses through purchase scams totalled £980; however, research found scams targeting people investing led to the most money being lost.\n\nFigures showed a 17% rise in all reported scams in the last three months, while attempts at conning people increased by 70% in the final three months of 2021.\n\nImpersonation scams, Dr Brooks said, involved criminals exploiting a trait found in more than two-thirds of Brits surveyed, as being more likely to comply with a request if they believed it to be from a well-known institution, such as a bank, the police or the NHS.\n\n\"In these situations, scammers will harness that sense of authority to instil fear in their victims,\" he said.\n\n\"Perhaps suggesting their bank account has been compromised, they are overdue a payment or that they will be fined if they do not pay the full amount. Psychologically, many of us will take these at face-value if they're coming from what we believe to be a reputable institution.\"\n\nMeanwhile, investment scams, Barclays said, saw a victim lose on average £15,788 the last three months of 2021.\n\nDr Brooks said scammers were \"experts at exploiting the fact people want to grow their assets, and that we can sometimes put our better judgement aside for a high return opportunity\".\n\nBarclays said that was reflected in its research, with three in 10 people admitting they would be willing to go with an investment or savings provider they'd never heard of if they thought the returns would be higher than their existing provider.\n\nBarclays said real phone calls from a bank will never ask customers to share their pin number or security information or to transfer money to a \"safe account\".\n\nThe bank said its advice was \"always to question whether something appears too good to be true, and not to be afraid to be suspicious\".\n\nBut it warned \"worryingly\", almost a third of 2,002 people it polled admitted they \"wouldn't know what to do if they found themselves being targeted\".\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by fraud, help and support is available from Action Fraud and at BBC Action Line.", "The regulations that are currently in place will become guidance on Tuesday\n\nAll remaining Covid-19 restrictions in Northern Ireland will be lifted, Health Minister Robin Swann has announced.\n\nA small number of restrictions are currently in place, including the wearing of face coverings and the use of Covid certification in nightclubs.\n\nMr Swann said those remaining measures \"should no longer be set out in regulations\" and instead will be put in guidance issued to the public.\n\nHe said he would be making an order on Tuesday to revoke the remaining rules.\n\nMeasures which had previously been guidance rather than law, such as working from home where possible, have not been changed.\n\nWhile in England there is a legal requirement to self-isolate after testing positive for Covid-19, in Northern Ireland this falls under \"very strong guidance\".\n\nMr Swann said: \"This does not mean that Covid-19 has gone away or that we as a community are safe from its harm.\n\n\"It is vitally important that we continue to observe the sensible measures we have all learnt to protect ourselves and others.\"\n\nThe health minister said it was important to retain the ability to reintroduce restrictions again in case of urgent need.\n\nAs a result he said he will seek to extend the powers granted to the Department of Health by the Coronavirus Act 2020 by six months.\n\nMr Swann confirmed on Sunday afternoon that he has tested positive for Covid-19 but he is carrying out his duties remotely\n\nMr Swann had written to his ministerial colleagues asking for their views on removing remaining restrictions.\n\nThe executive collapsed earlier in February but individual ministers are still in place.\n\nThey can take some decisions, as long as the issues are not deemed \"significant or controversial\".\n\nMr Swann's letter to other ministers, seen by the BBC, said government lawyers had told him relaxing Covid rules would fall into this category.\n\nHe said the lawyers suggested he could therefore not remove the rules by himself, under the terms of Stormont's ministerial code.\n\nThe full executive cannot meet because Paul Givan resigned as first minister, forcing the resignation of Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill because of the joint nature of the office.\n\nThe move was part of an ongoing protest by Mr Givan's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) against the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nCovid-passports in some settings are among the remaining Covid restrictions in Northern Ireland\n\nMr Swann's letter to the ministers who remain in place was an attempt to gain wider approval to relax restrictions in the absence of the full executive.\n\nThe current Covid 19 regulations would have been in place until 24 March, when the legislation underpinning them expired.\n\nIt is understood ministers from the DUP, Sinn Féin, SDLP and Alliance all supported Mr Swann - who is a member of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) - and confirmed their positions.\n\n\"After nearly two long years, the hospitality industry will be relieved that they can begin to trade without pandemic restrictions limiting the viability of their businesses,\" the group's chief executive Colin Neill said.\n\nRetail NI said it was \"fantastic news for our members and the wider business community\".\n\n\"However, we are disappointed that the statement does not include a clear commitment to return to the workplace,\" said Retail NI chief executive Glyn Roberts.\n\n\"Safely reopening offices and workplaces is not only vital to boost footfall for our high streets, but also for our economy and returning our society to normal.\"\n\nOn Monday, two more Covid-related deaths were announced in Northern Ireland along with 2,465 cases.\n\nThere are currently 437 patients with the virus in hospital.", "Vladimir Putin has said that \"of course\" Russia does not want war in Europe, but that his security concerns must be addressed and taken seriously.\n\nThe Russian president's comments came as the military said that some troops were withdrawing from the border near Ukraine - the first sign from Moscow of a possible de-escalation of tensions.\n\nHowever Western leaders say there is no evidence of the withdrawal yet.\n\nMr Putin has always denied he is planning an incursion, but tensions have been rising since November, when Russian troops started massing near the border with Ukraine.\n\nRussia has deep cultural and historic ties with Ukraine, which is a former Soviet republic. Mr Putin wants assurances that it will not join the Western Nato military alliance because he sees any expansion of it as a threat to Russia. Nato has rejected that demand.\n\nMr Putin was speaking in Moscow following a four-hour meeting with Germany's Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, who is the latest Western leader to visit the region to try to de-escalate tensions.\n\nWhen asked about the prospect of war, Mr Putin told reporters: \"Do we want this or not? Of course, not. That is exactly why we put forward proposals for a process of negotiations.\"\n\nBut the two men clashed when Mr Putin said there was a precedent for war in Europe - the conflict in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s - which he said was waged by Nato against Serbia without UN Security Council approval.\n\nMr Scholz said the situation was different because there was a danger of genocide by Serbs against non-Serbs, to which Mr Putin said what was happening in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region - where Russia is backing separatists was also a genocide, against ethnic Russians.\n\nThe German chancellor later told reporters that Mr Putin was wrong to use the word genocide in this case.\n\nMr Putin also said that Nato had so far failed to address Russia's \"basic\" security concerns. He is demanding that the issue of Ukraine joining Nato be addressed now - even through Ukraine is a long way from even starting an application to join the alliance.\n\nMr Scholz said the build up of troops was \"incomprehensible\", but there was still a chance that diplomatic solutions could ease the tensions.\n\n\" I expressed that the troop build up is seen as a threat,\" Mr Scholz said at the media briefing. \"Of course we are very concerned, there are more than a 100,000 Russian troops on the border with Ukraine, and we find this incomprehensible.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe leaders were speaking hours after Russia's military announced that some of its troops had pulled back from the border with Ukraine.\n\nNato said the Russian announcement gave cause for \"cautious optimism\", but so far there has been no evidence of the de-escalation on the ground.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in a call on Tuesday that the US needed to see \"verifiable, credible, meaningful de-escalation.\"\n\nEarlier, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that there were \"mixed signals\" coming from Russia, because UK intelligence showed Russian field hospitals were being built near the border which could \"only be construed as a preparation for an invasion\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The spill happened off the north Wales coast on Monday\n\nAbout 500 barrels of oil has leaked from a pipe off the north Wales coast.\n\nThe pipe, which runs between two platforms named Conwy and Douglas, was shut off following the leak on Monday and remains closed.\n\nOperator ENI UK said details of what happened about 20 miles (33km) north of Rhyl, Denbighshire, were still being confirmed, but no-one was affected.\n\nThe firm said there would be updates as details emerged but the Welsh secretary said no oil should reach Wales' shores.\n\nA leak of about 500 barrels is just under 80,000 litres.\n\nThe Douglas complex consists of three platforms and is located about 15 miles (24km) off the north Wales coast.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency said its counter pollution and salvage team, together with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, was monitoring ENI's response and was \"assisting partner local authorities in an ongoing response\".\n\nThe spill happened off the north Wales coast on Monday\n\nEnvironment body Natural England said it was monitoring the incident and had \"plans in place\" if any action was needed.\n\nGreg Hands, UK minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change, said he was \"being kept regularly updated\" on the situation and was making sure the ENI fulfilled its legal obligation.\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart added: \"Any residual oil is not expected to beach on the north Wales coastline and teams are in place on the Lancashire coast ready to respond if any oil beaches there.\"\n\nENI is involved with oil and natural gas exploration, field development and production, as well as in the supply, trading and shipping of natural gas, LNG, electricity and fuels.\n\nThrough refineries and chemical plants, it processes crude oil to produce fuels, lubricants and chemical products.\n\nDr Peter Robins said oil spills could disperse back and forth with tides\n\nDr Peter Robins, senior lecturer in physical oceanography at Bangor University, said: \"An oil spill will tend to spread out over the surface of the ocean and it'll spread naturally through the mixing of the ocean waters.\n\n\"Where it's spilt in the middle of Liverpool Bay, there tends to be stronger flood tides so it might tend to drift eastwards, maybe towards the English coast there.\n\n\"At the moment we're experiencing quite strong south-westerly winds and they're going to also tend to push the oil eastwards towards the English coast, I think.\"", "Kelly, on the left, and Farrell, abused boys at St Ninian's while working there in the 70s and 80s\n\nA man who was abused by monks at a school in Fife run by Christian Brothers has secured £1.4m in damages.\n\nIt is believed to be the highest sum ever to be awarded to a survivor.\n\nThe victim was sexually assaulted and beaten by three Christian Brothers while staying at St Ninian's School in Falkland in 1980 and 81.\n\nThe man, who was named in courts as AB to protect his identity, said he hoped his award would inspire others in their quest for justice.\n\nA year ago, the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, being conducted by Lady Smith, said St Ninian's residential school had been \"a place of abuse and deprivation\".\n\nLady Smith said children suffered physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and described the evidence as \"shocking and distressing\".\n\nThe inquiry chairwoman also concluded that members of the Catholic religious order were able to \"pursue their abusive practices with impunity\".\n\nJudge Lady Smith has led the inquiry since 2015\n\nLady Smith concluded children at the school, which opened in 1951 and closed in 1983, were failed by a system that should have protected them.\n\nIn 2016 two former teachers at the school were jailed for a total of 15 years after being convicted of the physical and sexual abuse of pupils.\n\nFormer headmaster John Farrell, 73, from Motherwell, was jailed for five years and Paul Kelly, 64, from Plymouth, for 10 years.\n\nPaul Kelly, on the left, and John Farrell were jailed for abusing pupils at St Ninian's in Fife\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard their victims were aged between 11 and 15, when they were abused between 1979 and 1983.\n\nAnother monk, Brother Ryan, died in July 2013 before he could be investigated.\n\nAB's evidence did not play a part in the convictions but a sheriff's ruling, which was disclosed this week, said the abuse did occur due to the volume of supporting evidence gathered during a historical abuse claim made by solicitors Digby Brown.\n\nAB was sent to St Ninian's in February 1980 when he was 12 years old and stayed there until April 1981.\n\nWhile at the school AB said he was raped, molested and beaten by all three men and was forced to watch attacks on other children.\n\nAB said that Brothers Kelly, Farrell and Ryan commonly targeted children from a dormitory they referred to as \"the favourite boys room\".\n\nSt Ninian's in Falkland, Fife, opened in 1951 and closed in 1983\n\nThe monks would also frequently play the record 'Ashes to Ashes' by David Bowie during their attacks - a song that continues to elicit harmful flashbacks.\n\nAB, who is now 54, admitted he kept his past secret from his wife and daughter until he opened up for the first time in November 2013 when he spoke to police officers.\n\nHe said: \"I just broke down in tears. Until then I'd been living in my head for 30 years.\n\n\"I used to hide all my emotions. If there was something about abuse on the TV then I'd go to the toilet and hide so no-one would see any reaction on my face.\"\n\nThe Christian Brothers order, which ran St Ninian's at the time of the abuse, tried to have the civil action thrown out as the death of Brother Ryan meant they could not investigate AB's allegations.\n\nBut Sheriff Christopher Dickson dismissed this argument and ordered the Christian Brothers to pay £1.39m in damages in recognition of the lifelong impact on AB, including on his ability to work.\n\nWelcoming the court decision, AB said: \"Even though the Crown couldn't prosecute anyone in relation to my evidence I am glad the Sheriff and court believed me.\n\n\"When it comes to justice in cases like mine people often ask things like 'It must have been worth the wait?'\n\n\"I know what they mean but no - it's never worth the wait. Not when you remember why we've been waiting.\n\n\"I'll always feel the pain. I'll always have flashbacks.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support can be found at BBC Action Line.\n• None School 'was a place of abuse and deprivation'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"The US will defend every inch of Nato territory.\"\n\nA Russian attack on Ukraine is \"still very much a possibility\" and the human cost would be \"immense\", US President Joe Biden has said.\n\nIn remarks televised nationally, he said the US was ready to respond decisively to such a move.\n\nMr Biden said Russia had massed some 150,000 troops on Ukraine's borders.\n\nRussia says it is pulling back some of its troops. On Wednesday, it announced that military drills in Moscow-annexed Crimea had ended.\n\n\"Units of the Southern Military District, having completed their participation in tactical exercises, are moving to their permanent deployment points,\" the defence ministry said in a statement, without detailing how many troops were leaving.\n\nFootage broadcast on state television appeared to show military vehicles crossing the bridge to leave Crimea.\n\nBut Western leaders remain wary, with Nato saying there were no signs yet of a de-escalation.\n\n\"On the contrary,\" secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said, \"it appears that Russia continues their military build-up\".\n\nHis comments, ahead of a meeting of the military alliance's defence ministers, echoed Mr Biden's remarks on Tuesday, when he said Russia's withdrawal \"would be good\" but had not yet been verified.\n\n\"Indeed, our analysts indicate that they remain very much in a threatening position,\" the president said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video released by Russia's defence ministry appears to show tanks crossing the Crimean Bridge\n\nAlso on Tuesday, Ukraine said the websites of its defence ministry and two banks came under a cyber-attack. The cause is not clear but Ukraine has suffered large-scale attacks before on its online infrastructure and has pointed the finger at Russia.\n\nRussia's government, however, has denied any involvement.\n\nThere has long been concern that, rather than a full-scale invasion, Russia could use less obvious means to destabilise Ukraine, for example through cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure. President Biden said the US was prepared to respond to any such move.\n\nMr Biden's speech came hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow's security concerns should be addressed and taken seriously.\n\nMr Putin has always denied planning an incursion, and said Russia did not want another war in Europe. However, tensions have been rising since November.\n\nFollowing earlier reports that US intelligence believed Russia could attack Ukraine on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared it to be a day of unity, calling on citizens to wave the country's flag and wear blue and yellow ribbons - Ukraine's national colours.\n\nRussia has deep cultural and historic ties with Ukraine, which is a former Soviet republic.\n\nMr Putin wants assurances that it will not join Nato because he sees any expansion of it as a threat to Russia. Nato has rejected that demand.\n\nMr Biden said he agreed with a proposal by the Russian government to continue diplomacy.\n\nThe US president also warned the American economy could suffer from disruption to energy supply and sharp price increases in the likely event that sanctions were levied on Russia in response to any invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"The American people understand that defending democracy and liberty is never without cost,\" the US president said. \"I will not pretend this will be painless.\"\n\nHe said the administration was working on contingency plans with energy producers and shippers to avert potential supply issues.\n\nMr Biden warned the proposed Russian Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline to Europe \"will not happen\" if a Ukraine invasion goes ahead.\n\nThe US president continued: \"To the citizens of Russia: you are not our enemy, and I don't believe you want a bloody, destructive war against Ukraine.\"\n\nNato expressed \"cautious optimism\" on Tuesday about the Russian military's announcement that it had pulled back some of its troops from the border with Ukraine.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in a call that the US needed to see \"verifiable, credible, meaningful de-escalation\".\n\nEarlier, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that there were \"mixed signals\" coming from Russia, because UK intelligence showed Russian field hospitals were being built near the border which could \"only be construed as a preparation for an invasion\".\n\nVladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia did not want war. He spoke following a four-hour meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.\n\nMr Putin also said Nato had so far failed to address Russia's \"basic\" security concerns. He is demanding that the issue of Ukraine joining Nato be addressed now, even through Ukraine is a long way from even starting an application to join the alliance.\n\nMr Scholz said at the joint press conference that the build-up of Russian troops was \"incomprehensible\", but there was still a chance that diplomatic solutions could ease the tensions.\n\n\"I expressed that the troop build-up is seen as a threat,\" Mr Scholz said at a media briefing. \"Of course we are very concerned.\"", "The Queen used a video link from Windsor to meet with two new ambassadors to the UK, who came to Buckingham Palace for the visit\n\nThe Queen has carried out her first official engagements since coming into contact with the Prince of Wales, days before he tested positive for Covid.\n\nLast week Buckingham Palace said the Queen had shown no Covid symptoms and she continued with her work diary by holding virtual audiences from Windsor Castle on Tuesday.\n\nShe spoke to the new Spanish and Estonian ambassadors via video-link.\n\nThey attended Buckingham Palace for the event.\n\nPrince Charles met the Queen two days before he tested positive last week, while the Duchess of Cornwall has also tested positive for the virus and is self-isolating.\n\nLast week Buckingham Palace declined to say if the Queen had the virus on medical privacy grounds, only stating she had no symptoms.\n\nThe Queen met with new Estonian ambassador Viljar Lubi, who placed his credential on an antique wooden table in front of the flat screen monitor.\n\nShe also spoke with the new Spanish ambassador José Pascual Marco Martínez, seen here dressed in diplomatic uniform\n\nDuring the virtual engagement, the new Estonian ambassador Viljar Lubi and Spanish counterpart José Pascual Marco Martínez were greeted by the Queen and presented their Letters of Credence to her.\n\nIt has not been revealed whether the Queen is self-isolating at Windsor - where she has spent much of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, carrying out engagements virtually has become a routine part of her life since the pandemic necessitated such precautionary measures.\n\nShe has been meeting newly appointed ambassadors via video link for much of the pandemic, indicating these two was also pre-planned virtual engagements.\n\nIn October she met virtually with the South Korean and Swiss ambassadors after being treated in hospital and being told to rest, but records show online meetings with new diplomatic appointments as far back as December 2020.\n\nIn England, contacts of positive Covid cases who are fully vaccinated are advised to take lateral flow tests for seven days. They do not have to self-isolate unless they test positive.", "Northern Ireland's health service is \"incredibly fragile\" and seeing \"very sick patients\", the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nIt comes after a potential major incident was declared at Antrim Area Hospital.\n\nThe incident has been stood down, but it is rare and one step from a major incident.\n\nA major incident means there are too many patients for staff to deal with safely.\n\nThe decision was made on Tuesday at 14:00 GMT, and lasted several hours.\n\nAt one point, 62 patients, mostly frail and elderly, were waiting to be admitted - the highest number ever recorded at the hospital.\n\nThat number came down to fewer than 50 as of 17:00 GMT, according to Northern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh.\n\nShe said the pressure being felt goes beyond one region.\n\nThe South Eastern Trust and the Western Trust have both made staff appeals on social media for the Ulster Hospital and Altnagelvin Hospital, with the South Eastern Trust reporting \"extreme pressures\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by South Eastern Trust This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDespite the Antrim Area Hospital incident being stood down, the Northern Trust said it was \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nDeclaring a major incident is very rare, and it's something that no health trust wants to do.\n\nBut the fact that we had a consultant putting their arms up and saying \"we cannot cope beyond this point\" is really significant.\n\nIt's an attempt by staff to keep the service running as safely as possible.\n\nThere was a partial diversion of ambulances away from the hospital, but I was told the hospital could not instruct a full one because other hospitals are also under extreme pressure.\n\nIt's almost like rallying the troops - when they put out a message like this, it really does bring all the health trusts round to work as a region, to work almost as one hospital.\n\nIt's also a way of saying to the public, only come to us if it is an emergency.\n\nAt 16:30 GMT on Monday, there were 281 patients waiting to be admitted to emergency departments across Northern Ireland, according to Ms Welsh.\n\nShe said Covid had played a \"significant role\" in the decision to call a potential major incident at Antrim Area Hospital, but also that it was partly due to the hospital not having enough beds.\n\nAlmost a third of patients there are Covid positive.\n\nJennifer Welsh says the Antrim Area Hospital has a \"well-recognised\" bed shortage\n\nBut, even if all the patients currently at the hospital were discharged, they would still be short of beds, she told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"It is well recognised that we really do not have the beds for the population we serve,\" she said.\n\n\"We have about 28% of the population of Northern Ireland but we've only got about 12% of the bed stock in this area, so we have a very high demand and we really don't have enough beds.\"\n\nShe said Tuesday's decision \"was not taken lightly\" but would allow the hospital to get more help.\n\nMs Welsh said this pressure across emergency departments means that \"the ability to help each other out is not there in the way it would have been in the past\".", "Facebook has been accused of colluding with OnlyFans to blacklist rival adult websites in a lawsuit filed in the US.\n\nThis week, BBC News revealed that OnlyFans was being sued over claims it directed a social media company to disable accounts of adult entertainers by placing their content on a terrorism database.\n\nFacebook has now been named as the company alleged to have conspired with OnlyFans in a class action filing. Its parent company, Meta, says the claims are \"without merit\".\n\nUK website OnlyFans - best known for hosting pornography - has grown hugely in recent years. It lets users share video clips and photos with subscribers in return for a monthly fee.\n\nPerformers often use social media accounts to promote and link to adult websites showing their explicit content.\n\nOn Tuesday, BBC News revealed that rival adult website FanCentro is suing OnlyFans in the US.\n\nThe legal action claims that social media content of adult performers promoting rival websites to OnlyFans was placed on a database of extremist material shared between tech companies that is run by the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT).\n\nThe database - used by Facebook, YouTube and Twitter - flags terror content to other members so they can moderate similar content on their platform.\n\nOnlyFans has not yet issued a legal response but a spokesperson said the company was aware of the claims and they had \"no merit\".\n\nNow, a class action lawsuit has been launched which names Facebook as the company accused of colluding with OnlyFans.\n\nDo you have more information about this story?\n\nYou can reach Noel directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +44 7809 334720 or by email at noel.titheradge@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe lawsuit, made on behalf of three adult entertainers, lists both Facebook and OnlyFans' parent company as defendants. It was made by the same US legal firm, Milberg, which is suing OnlyFans directly.\n\nThe filing claims that performers' content was placed on the GIFCT's database despite not being terrorist in nature, and this led to reduced visibility on social media and a marked decline in traffic being driven to OnlyFans' rival websites.\n\nPerformers who only promoted their OnlyFans accounts on social media did not face this punitive content moderation - it is alleged - leading to a big growth in traffic visiting the website.\n\nIn recent years, performers using Instagram to promote and link to their adult websites have complained that even though they have not broken the site's community guidelines - they have been served with violation notifications and had posts removed.\n\nThe subsequent loss of visibility and promotion of these accounts became known as a \"shadowban\".\n\nBBC News has spoken to a performer and adult website owner who say their incomes fell significantly after posts on Instagram - also owned by Meta - began being taken down in late 2018.\n\nBoth say they do not know how or why this happened. The performer says some of her posts - which typically feature her in a bikini or underwear - included tourist snaps when she was fully clothed.\n\nIn a statement, a Meta spokesperson said: \"These allegations are without merit and we will address them in the context of the litigation as needed.\"\n\nIt said it had investigated and found no evidence the terrorism database had been abused, and added it could not comment on the performer and business owner claims without their usernames or website names.\n\nContent hashed on the database run by the GIFCT is not independently audited.\n\nIn a statement, a GIFCT spokesperson said: \"We are not aware of any evidence to support the theories presented in this lawsuit between two parties with no connection to GIFCT.\"\n\nArtwork uses stock photos (Getty Images) posed by models - design by Zoe Barthomolew\n\nDo you have any information to share? Reach Noel directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +44 7809 334720 or by email at noel.titheradge@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A woman has died in flash flooding that has lashed Australia's east coast.\n\nSome areas have received up to 400mm of rain within 24 hours, prompting warnings in multiple states.", "RT broadcasts in more than 100 countries\n\nThe government has asked media watchdog Ofcom to review the Russia Today (RT) news channel's broadcasts in the UK.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries told Ofcom the channel \"is demonstrably part of Russia's global disinformation campaign\" during the Ukraine crisis.\n\n\"It is essential that the UK looks to limit Russia's ability to spread their propaganda at home,\" she said.\n\nOfcom said it has \"already stepped up our oversight of coverage\" of the crisis by broadcasters in the UK.\n\nThe Russian foreign ministry said it would take retaliatory steps against British journalists if the UK restricts Russian media.\n\nThe Kremlin-backed channel, which is available to millions of homes in the UK, said the UK government was interfering in institutions like Ofcom that were supposedly free from political pressure.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described the channel as the \"personal propaganda tool\" of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and called on Boris Johnson to review its licence.\n\nThe prime minister replied that the culture secretary \"has already asked Ofcom to review that matter\".\n\nHe added: \"But what I will say is that we live in a in a democracy, and we live in a country that believes in in free speech. And I think it's important that we should leave it up to Ofcom rather than to politicians to decide which media organisations to ban. That's what Russia does.\"\n\nIn her letter to the regulator, Ms Dorries said she was concerned that the channel would \"look to spread harmful disinformation about the ongoing crisis in Ukraine here in the UK\".\n\nRT describes itself as an autonomous operation financed by the Russian Federation\n\nOfcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes replied: \"Recognising the serious nature of the crisis in Ukraine, we have been keeping the situation under close review and have already stepped up our oversight of coverage of these events by broadcasters in the UK.\n\n\"We are expediting complaints in this area as a matter of urgency and we will not hesitate to take swift action where necessary. I am confident that we have the full range of enforcement tools at our disposal and our track record shows that when we find a breach of our rules, we can and do take action.\"\n\nIn 2019, Ofcom fined RT £200,000 for \"a serious breach\" of impartiality rules in its reporting of the Salisbury poisonings and the conflict in Syria.\n\nThe channel claimed Ofcom's decisions were \"a disproportionate interference with RT's right to freedom of expression\".\n\nThe Russian broadcaster is widely seen as a mouthpiece for the Kremlin and was taken off the air in Latvia and Lithuania in 2020. Its German outlet RT DE was banned earlier this month because German regulators said it did not have an EU licence.\n\nOn Wednesday, RT deputy editor-in-chief Anna Belkina said: \"Always a joy to see Western and particularly British politicians finally drop their hypocritical disguise in favour of open interference in institutions they touted as supposedly totally independent and wholly free from political pressure and interference.\"\n\nIn the digital age, information is super-abundant. Cyber war, misinformation and propaganda have never been more prevalent. This puts huge strain on the commitment liberal democracies feel toward the principle of free speech - something the prime minister, a former journalist, reiterated today.\n\nFor Ofcom, the question is whether the heightened importance of winning hearts and minds on either side of the Ukraine conflict means RT is unfit to broadcast. RT's track record is clear.\n\nFor Britain, a judgement needs to be made on the issue of harm. Allowing RT to propagandise on Russia's behalf keeps Britain on the moral high ground and upholds a key democratic principle - the right of people to say what you do not want to hear. Taking RT off air would also provoke retaliation.\n\nBut misinformation has consequences. Ofcom is independent, but doesn't exist in a political vacuum. The culture secretary's letter gives Ofcom political cover for a strong intervention.\n\nRT says it is an \"autonomous\" operation financed by the Russian Federation. It is available in the UK via Freeview and subscription services, and also broadcasts in more than 100 countries.\n\nIts presenters include former SNP leader Alex Salmond. On Wednesday, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"appalled\" that her predecessor still hosts a talk show on the channel.\n\nMedia relations have been a source of tension between the Russia and Western countries in recent months.\n\nLast August, BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford was forced to leave Russia when her visa was not renewed, with Moscow authorities saying Russian journalists had been denied UK visas.\n\nIn December, German media authorities said RT's German-language branch could not operate in the country because it didn't have the proper licence.\n\nThat led Russia to shut the Moscow bureau of German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak told an audience today that not all tax cuts \"pay for themselves\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged to \"deliver a low tax, higher growth economy\" amid criticism from MPs over rises to National Insurance.\n\nMr Sunak told an audience at the Bayes Business School on Thursday that he would cut taxes \"sustainably\".\n\nIt comes as National Insurance rates are set to rise from 1 April to help fund health and social care.\n\nThe rise means employees, employers and the self-employed will all pay 1.25p more in the pound.\n\n\"I am going to deliver a lower tax economy but I am going to do so in a responsible way, and in a way that tackles our long term challenges,\" Mr Sunak said in his speech.\n\nHowever, the chancellor also argued that taxes should not be cut if spending plans are unfunded.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the Conservative Party was \"now the party of high tax\".\n\n\"The chancellor may say he 'believes' in low taxes in his lecture - but the hard facts are that Sunak has hit households and business with 15 tax rises in two years in post - with an unfair National Insurance rise down the line,\" Ms Reeves said.\n\n\"He has raised the most tax on average per budget than any chancellor in the last 50 years.\"\n\nLabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer was set to deliver a speech in Huddersfield outlining his party's approach to taxation and ending insecure employment, but it was cancelled due to the Ukraine crisis.\n\nSir Keir had planned to say that a Labour government would end the \"economic fatalism\" of the Conservatives and build \"a new economy of security, where stable employment will be the bedrock of a better future for the next generation\".\n\nMr Sunak said he was \"disheartened when I hear the flippant claim that 'tax cuts always pay for themselves'\".\n\n\"They do not,\" he added. \"Cutting tax sustainably requires hard work, prioritisation, and the willingness to make difficult and often unpopular arguments elsewhere.\"\n\nIn Mr Sunak's two years in his role he has overseen hundreds of billions in Covid-related government spending through furlough payments, business grants and testing.\n\nHe has also been at the helm as taxation as a share of the economy has risen to its highest level since the 1950s.\n\nUnder the government's plans, employees, employers and the self-employed will all pay 1.25p more in the pound for National Insurance from April for a year.\n\nAfter that, the extra tax will be collected as a new Health and Social Care Levy.\n\nThe changes will see an employee on £20,000 a year pay an extra £89 in tax, while someone on £50,000 will pay £464 more.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats and some backbench Tory MPs have called for the chancellor to scrap the incoming NI hike to ease the financial burden on households and businesses at a time of rising costs.\n\nIn the speech Mr Sunak also set out his priorities to increase the UK's economic growth, and argued that \"what government does is far less important than creating the conditions for private businesses and individuals to thrive\".\n\nTony Danker, director general of the business group the CBI, said setting out how firms could \"achieve sustainable growth for the long term\" was \"vital\" at a period of volatility in the economy.\n\n\"Government enabling firms to invest, thrive and deliver prosperity is absolutely the right direction of travel,\" he added.\n\nMr Danker has called for a permanent \"super-deduction\" tax break to boost business investment in the UK.\n\nThe super-deduction allowance currently gives businesses investing in certain types of equipment, like machinery, a much higher tax reduction than usual but will expire in March next year.", "Former Northern Ireland international footballer Paddy McCourt has appeared in court charged with sexually assaulting a woman.\n\nHe is accused of committing the assault on 30 January.\n\nThe 38-year-old, who was capped 18 times and also played for Celtic and Derry City, denies the charge.\n\nAppearing at Londonderry Magistrates' Court via videolink on Wednesday, Mr McCourt replied \"definitely not guilty\" when the charge was put to him.\n\nMr McCourt, of Wheatfield Court in Muff, County Donegal, was released on bail.\n\nHe is due to appear again at the same court on 23 March.", "The crisis in Ukraine has led to renewed focus on London's role as a centre for Russian money\n\nLabour is urging the government to fast-track plans to clamp down on economic crime, amid pressure over UK links to Russia.\n\nSir Keir Starmer called for long-promised legislation to be introduced in the coming days, adding there's \"no reason to delay\".\n\nThe Economic Crime Bill is expected to bring in new transparency measures for UK firms and property.\n\nBoris Johnson said the bill would be put forward within the next year.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, he said he was \"proud\" of the government's attempts to \"root out corrupt Russian money\".\n\nThe bill has reportedly been under consideration for some time, but has come under greater focus amid tensions with Russia over Ukraine.\n\nThe UK has joined other Western countries in introducing sanctions after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into two rebel-held regions of eastern Ukraine he recognised as independent on Monday.\n\nMinisters have since faced increasing calls from opposition parties to take action against Russians accused of financial crime or with links to the Kremlin.\n\nDuring PMQs, Sir Keir called on the prime minister to introduce the bill before the current session of Parliament is due to end in a few weeks' time.\n\nHe added: \"He will have our support - there's no reason to delay this,\" telling MPs Russia had already \"invaded\" Ukraine and it was \"time to act\".\n\nThe prime minister replied that the legislation would be introduced in the next parliamentary session, which begins in the spring.\n\nMr Johnson said it would allow the UK to \"peel back the façade\" of who ultimately owns properties and companies based in the UK.\n\n\"It's gone on for far too long, we are going to tackle it under this government,\" he added.\n\nPresident Putin's decision to order troops into Donetsk and Luhansk has sparked outrage from Western allies\n\nThe government has never given a precise timetable of when the bill would be introduced - or details of what it will contain.\n\nAfter he quit as a Treasury minister last month over the government's record in tackling Covid fraud, Tory peer Lord Agnew wrote in the Financial Times that the government had recently \"foolishly rejected\" introducing it next year.\n\nThe government has said since 2016 it plans a new register of the beneficial owners of UK property - an idea it also recommitted to as part of a foreign policy review published in March 2021.\n\nAs part of that review, it also said it was looking at reform of Companies House - the body responsible for registering UK companies.\n\nTransparency campaigners have long called for the body to get greater powers to monitor and investigate firms, amid concern the UK is becoming a haven for the registration of shell companies.\n\nMinisters have previously said they were looking at requiring more information from people registering companies, as well as additional checks.\n\nBut speaking in the Commons during a debate on economic crime on Wednesday, Labour shadow Treasury minister Pat McFadden said there was an \"enormous gulf\" between ministers' \"rhetoric\" and their actions so far.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nAnthony Elanga says he has \"dreamt of moments\" like his late equaliser in the the first leg of Manchester United's Champions League last-16 draw at Atletico Madrid.\n\nThe 19-year-old had been on the pitch less than six minutes after replacing Marcus Rashford, when he raced onto Bruno Fernandes' perfectly-weighted pass to roll the ball past home goalkeeper Jan Oblak with his first touch to earn his side a 1-1 draw.\n\n\"I told you how calm and cool I am and whenever I am given a opportunity. I want to repay the manager and give 150% every time I step onto the pitch,\" Elanga told BT Sport.\n\n\"I just do what I can do, I want to be the best player on the pitch and I appreciate the boss.\n\n\"He [Ralf Rangnick] said to me to make the defenders scared and run in behind when I get the opportunity.\n\n\"I have dreamt of moments like this, scoring in the Champions League against top European teams like Atletico Madrid, [it is] a dream come true.\"\n\nUntil that point it appeared as though Diego Simeone's Spanish champions were going to take a narrow advantage to Old Trafford after delivering a masterclass in controlling the game without the ball.\n\nJoao Felix's early header from Renan Lodi's inviting cross gave the hosts a dream start with United looking ragged on their right, where interim boss Rangnick's deployment of Victor Lindelof at full-back failed badly.\n\nRangnick later conceded that his plan \"was in the dustbin\" after seven minutes with the Swedish central defender, who was uncomfortable throughout, being booked for a tug on Felix before his second-half withdrawal.\n\nBy then Atletico should have been two goals ahead with Sime Vrsaljko heading the ball off Lindelof and onto the United bar in the closing moments of the first half after some more dismal defending.\n\nWhile Rangnick's side enjoyed plenty of the ball, they were slow and indecisive in possession and barely looked capable of carving open their well-drilled opponents who repeatedly picked off every sloppy United pass in midfield.\n\nAtletico were also unlucky to not score late on themselves when Antoine Griezmann rattled the visitors crossbar.\n\nHowever, Elanga, who missed the crucial penalty when Rangnick's side lost in the FA Cup to Middlesbrough earlier this month, followed up his goal at Leeds on Sunday with another important intervention to change the complexion of the tie before the second leg in Manchester in three weeks time.\n\n\"He is playing as though it is a dream come true,\" Rangnick added. \"It is a joy and fun to watch him play, I wish a few other players would take him as an example and as a role model.\"\n• None Relive Manchester United's draw at Atletico Madrid in the Champions League\n• None Go straight to all the best United content\n\nUnited stumble into second leg all square\n\nFor long periods of this encounter United served up the sort of fare that has typified Rangnick's three-month reign as boss.\n\nDisjointed in possession, misplaced and overhit passes were produced with alarming frequency as Fred, Paul Pogba and Fernandes failed to impose themselves on the game and the athleticism of Scott McTominay was sorely missed in midfield.\n\nThere were also several elementary mistakes at the back, such as Fred's charge out towards the ball and the lack of communication as Felix stole past Harry Maguire to head the opening goal.\n\nLindelof's unfamiliarity with his adopted position hardly helped and it was notable that United's main improvement came after the likes of Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Alex Telles and Elanga were introduced.\n\nElanga in particular provided the pace to run in behind - an option that had barely been utilised with the visitors until then.\n\nAnd it reaped immediate dividends, with the Sweden under-21 international registering United's first shot on target with his goal to become the club's youngest goalscorer in the knockout stages of the Champions League.\n\nFormer Everton midfielder Leon Osman on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It was exactly what I have been saying [all night]. Elanga has come on and made runs off the ball and probably for the first time all evening long Bruno Fernandes gets his pass right.\n\n\"For 75 minutes of this game you felt that Manchester United would have been happy to take a 2-0 defeat back to Old Trafford but they hung in there and those substitutions gave them that bit more control and Elanga got the goal.\"\n\nFormer Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand on BT Sport: \"Man United would have taken your hand off for that result. They were lucky tonight and were poor tonight.\n\n\"David de Gea did not have much to do [but] you are looking for a better performance.\"\n\nFormer Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes: \"Ralf Rangnick's record is very good and his subs have been very good. It is not strange for me, it is a typical Manchester United performance under this manager.\"\n\nFormer Manchester United midfielder Owen Hargreaves: \"Anthony Elanga gave them some urgency, young kids are fearless and he galvanised United. They will be delighted by that result, they were not great today.\"\n• None Attempt saved. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fred.\n• None Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid) hits the bar with a left footed shot from the right side of the box. Assisted by Marcos Llorente following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. José Giménez (Atletico Madrid) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Stefan Savic with a headed pass following a set piece situation.\n• None Alex Telles (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Atletico Madrid 1, Manchester United 1. Anthony Elanga (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a through ball. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "Mistakes, waste and fraud that led to billions of pounds of Covid loan support being lost were \"unacceptable\", the head of a group of MPs has said.\n\nMeg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), said taxpayers will be exposed to financial risks for decades.\n\nPrevious official figures estimated the government is unlikely to recoup up to £21bn of Covid loans to business.\n\nThe Treasury said it rejects the claims made in the PAC report.\n\nMs Hillier said repeated PAC reports had made clear that a \"lack of preparedness and planning, combined with weaknesses in existing systems across government, have led to an unacceptable level of mistakes, waste, loss and openings for fraudsters\".\n\nShe said this would end up robbing current and future taxpayers of billions of pounds, and that the \"government must be held accountable\".\n\n\"It is essential that for as long as we will be paying the costs of Covid-19, which is at least the next 20 years just in some of the loan repayment terms, the Treasury and all of government continue to account specifically for what it has spent in response to the pandemic.\n\n\"Crucially this must ensure lessons are learned for when the next big crisis hits - be it climate, health or financial.\"\n\nBut the Treasury rejected the claims in the report, saying that no fraudulent payments have been written off and the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce it has set up is expected to recover up to £1bn from fraudulent or incorrect payments.\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme - commonly known as furlough - alone is estimated to have lost £5.3bn to fraud and error. That's almost 9% of the total funding distributed through the programme.\n\nThe estimated loss to fraud and error across all Covid-19 response measures is not known but is expected to be at least £15bn across the schemes and loans implemented by various government departments.\n\nIn September, spending watchdog the National Audit Office said the government had spent £261bn on 374 measures in response to the pandemic. These measures are expected to cost a total of about £370bn over their lifetime.\n\nThat same month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that a provision of nearly £21bn had been made for defaults under loan schemes for companies, such as the Covid bounce-back loan policy.\n\nThe PAC said the Treasury should state what it has learned from the Covid response and what it is doing to collect lessons across government departments.\n\nIt should also find out how much money has been lost in error and to fraudsters, how much of this will be recovered and how much it will cost to recover it, the committee added.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"Our Covid support schemes were rolled out at a time of national crisis, protecting millions of jobs and businesses when they needed it most.\n\n\"Thanks to the speed and scale of our intervention, the economy is back to pre-pandemic levels and growing at the fastest rate in the G7.\"\n\nThey argued that the \"cost of inaction\" could have had a big impact on jobs and livelihoods.", "Inventing Anna has notched up the most viewing hours for an English-language series in a week since the service began a new ratings system last summer.\n\nIt was watched for 196 million hours last week, on top of 77 million hours of viewing on the weekend of its release on 11 February.\n\nThe previous highest was psychological thriller show You, whose third season achieved 179 million hours in October.\n\nNext on the list of the top English-language series are The Witcher, Maid and Sex Education.\n\nBut Squid Game, the Korean-language survival drama, remains Netflix's most-watched show overall, peaking at almost 572 million hours in a single week.\n\nAnother South Korean show, All of Us Are Dead, and Spanish crime drama Money Heist have scored 236 million and 202 million hours respectively.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anna Sorokin in March 2021: \"I never thought I was cheating\"\n\nInventing Anna is based on a New York magazine investigation into Sorokin, who, going by the name of Anna Delvey, convinced people she was a wealthy European heiress.\n\nIn fact, she turned out to have conned friends, hotels and banks out of eye-watering amounts of money and was eventually convicted on multiple fraud charges in 2019.\n\nThe series follows the tenacious journalist Vivian Kent, played by Anna Chlumsky, in her attempts to discover the truth.\n\nThe stranger-than-fiction story has been adapted by producer/screenwriter Shonda Rhimes and her company Shondaland, the creators of Bridgerton, Grey's Anatomy and Scandal.\n\nThe cast also includes Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black), Arian Moayed (Succession) and Terry Kinney (Billions).\n\nWhile it has been a hit with viewers, the show has also courted controversy, after real-life journalist Rachel DeLoache Williams, who is played by Katie Lowes, criticised its \"shocking\" portrayal of her.\n\nWilliams became friends with Sorokin when she was a photojournalist at Vanity Fair. Speaking to her former publication, she condemned what she described as \"dangerous half-truths\" in the show and said the series created \"problematic\" empathy for a \"sociopathic, narcissistic, proven criminal\".\n\n\"Having had a front-row seat for far too long, I've studied the way a con works more than anybody needs to,\" said Williams, who was herself conned out of $62,000 (£45,500) by Sorokin. \"You watch the spectacle, but you're not paying attention to what's being marketed.\"\n\nSorokin is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody but responded on Instagram, criticising Williams' \"flexible moral standards\" and \"blatant hypocrisy\".", "Extreme wildfires are set to become more frequent, increasing by around 50% by the end of this century, according to a new UN report.\n\nThe report finds there's an elevated risk in the Arctic and other regions previously unaffected by fires.\n\nThe scientists define extreme fires as extraordinary conflagrations that occur roughly once in a hundred years.\n\nResearchers say that rising temperatures and changes to the way we use land will drive the increase.\n\nThe new study calls for a radical reallocation of financial resources from fighting fires to prevention.\n\nThe scientists from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) say that large fires that burn for weeks are already becoming hotter and burning longer in many parts of the planet where wildfires have always occurred.\n\nBut they are now beginning to flare up in remote northern areas, in drying peatlands and on thawing permafrost.\n\nA fire in a forest in Siberia - researchers are worried about the spread of extreme fires in the Arctic\n\nThis latest study says that there will be a global increase in extreme fires of up to 14% by 2030, compared to the number recorded in 2010-2020. The increase could reach 30% by 2050 and 50% by the end of the century.\n\n\"The analysis was based on the definition of a catastrophic fire being one that would occur once every 100 years, so it's a very low frequency fire event,\" said Dr Andrew Sullivan from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Canberra, Australia.\n\n\"The result was that the potential for that sort of fire would increase by a factor of 1.3 to 1.5 times, based on global analysis of fire frequency.\"\n\nThe results were similar in a low or high carbon emissions scenario.\n\nThe study defines extreme conflagrations as fires that are extraordinary or unusual - but this definition can differ markedly depending on your location.\n\n\"If you imagine a peat fire in the Arctic, it's spreading at centimetres an hour. It's not necessarily a raging inferno, but it's unusual and spreading over immense areas because there's no one there to do anything about it,\" said Dr Sullivan.\n\n\"A fire like this in the peatlands is an extreme fire, but it's not what you would envisage as being an extreme fire if you lived in California.\"\n\nAnd even though the study only makes projections on extreme events, the authors believe that lesser incidents of wildfire will also increase as land use changes and populations increase. This could have significant implications for climate change as the extra burning will increase the amount of carbon emitted into the atmosphere.\n\nResearchers say that technology by itself is not a solution to extreme fires\n\nBut the change in frequency will vary depending on a number of local factors. The world is likely to see more fires in Arctic regions because climate change is having such a major impact in the region.\n\nHowever in Africa, where about two thirds of the world's wildfires now occur, there are likely to be fewer fires in the coming decades as a growing population is clearing more forest areas for farmland.\n\n\"In Africa, the number of fires is decreasing, because of the change in land use and the intensification of agriculture,\" said Dr Glynis Humphrey from the University of Cape Town.\n\n\"Our percentage of area burned is actually decreasing, and our fires are becoming smaller and smaller, because of the reduction in fuel load.\"\n\nThe authors are calling on governments to change their model of spending on large fires.\n\nRight now, the study says that planning and prevention receives less than 1% of funding while firefighting takes over half of the available budget.\n\nA villager fights a fire in Portugal in 2017 - the extreme fires that hit the country killed over 100 people\n\nMany governments have good intentions in terms of spending more on planning and prevention - but the reality on the ground is different.\n\n\"We need to invest more in fire prevention, in full management, also in allowing fires to fulfil their ecological roles,\" said Prof Paulo Fernandes, from the Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro in Portugal, one of the report's authors.\n\n\"But then, when things get hot, their response will be to deviate from the policy that's supposed to be in place. In places like California they talk a lot, but then in terms of action, they put the money always in the same place, in firefighting.\"", "Keeping the Commons and Lords in Parliament while the building is refurbished around them could drive up costs of the multi-billion restoration by at least 40%, according to the most extensive study yet.\n\nMany MPs, including new Commons leader Mark Spencer, argue repair works should continue with MPs, peers and staff still working there.\n\nBut a new report said that would mean dramatic increases in both the time needed to complete the work, and the total cost.\n\nThe review, by the body set up to oversee the project, estimates the basic cost of essential repairs to the Victorian Palace of Westminster at £7-13 billion.\n\nIt said these works would take between 19 and 28 years, with the building fully vacated for between 12 and 20 years.\n\nBut the key finding is that those figures would dramatically increase if the politicians stay put.\n\nIf the Commons chamber were kept running until MPs are relocated to another venue within the building (probably the House of Lords chamber, which they used for much of World War Two after their own chamber was bombed), the works would be prolonged by 7-15 years.\n\nThe report found this would increase costs to £9.5-18.5 billion, or 40%.\n\nIf the Commons chamber were kept in action throughout the works, the time required was estimated to increase by 27-48 years, with the cost ballooning to £11-22bn, a 60% increase.\n\nThe range in the estimates reflects the continuing uncertainties over the state of the building, even after extensive surveys.\n\nLike any restoration project, the real extent of the work can only be gauged when floorboards are lifted and walls are exposed.\n\nThese figures would only increase with VAT and inflation thrown in, the report found - with increased risks of a catastrophic failure, like a fire, or a flood of sewage if politicians stay put.\n\nThe essential repairs cover things like asbestos removal, improved fire safety, renewing wiring, plumbing and data systems, as well as dealing with the backlog of conservation work in the world-heritage building and improving security and accessibility.\n\nEssential work on the parliamentary estate would include replacing old cabling\n\nThis is a very live debate in Parliament, with senior voices arguing strongly both for moving out - \"decanting\" in Commons-speak, and staying put.\n\nMPs voted in 2019 to accept the principle of vacating the building while the restoration work was completed, but the rising projected cost and the increasing duration of their period of exile have produced a backlash.\n\nMany believe the money cannot be justified to their constituents, and hate the idea of moving out for such a long period.\n\nThe House of Commons Commission, the administrative body of the Commons, has voted for the Restoration and Renewal Sponsor Body, which is supposed to act as the \"client\" in the project, to be scrapped, and for MPs to take back control.\n\nBut that would require a vote in the Commons, and given the sums of money involved, the government would be forced to take an interest in what is, theoretically, a \"House Matter\".\n\nThis could get very messy - watch out for questions to Mark Spencer on the issue, from influential MPs on both sides of the argument.", "Mick Antoniw and Adam Price (picture centre right and right) travelled to Kyiv with former BBC journalist Paul Mason (left)\n\nThe UK government has expressed \"deep concern\" over a recent visit to the Ukraine by two senior Welsh politicians.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price and Welsh Labour government minister Mick Antoniw arrived in the capital Kyiv on Saturday, against official advice.\n\nThe trip sparked letters from the UK Foreign Office.\n\nThe Welsh government said it \"noted\" the letter and the visit was made \"in a personal capacity\".\n\nPlaid Cymru said the group left after the situation became more severe, while Mr Antoniw said they never \"gambled\" with their safety.\n\nThe pair returned to the UK on Wednesday.\n\nForeign Office Minister Amanda Milling wrote to Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Labour government to \"underline the seriousness of the situation\", advising them to \"leave Ukraine immediately\".\n\nIn the letters, seen by the BBC, Ms Milling writes: \"The Foreign Office has been advising against all travel to the Ukraine since the 11th of February and recommending that all British nationals in the country should leave now.\n\n\"This advice applies equally to Members of Parliament and the Senedd.\"\n\nSpeaking during a meeting of the Welsh Affairs Committee on Wednesday, the Welsh Secretary Simon Hart said it was an \"absolutely stinging letter\".\n\nMick Antoniw and Adam Price returned from Kyiv on Wednesday\n\nWriting on 21 February, Ms Milling asked for her concerns to be passed on to Mr Price and Mr Antoniw, who were in the country for four days as part of a UK delegation.\n\n\"I want to underline the seriousness of the situation: we have temporarily relocated our Embassy staff out of Kyiv and stress that any Russian military action in Ukraine would severely affect the British Government's ability to provide consular assistance to any British people there.\n\n\"The situation on the ground is unpredictable and is changing rapidly.\"\n\nAdam Price, Member of the Senedd for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, said he was there in a personal capacity and had paid for the trip out of his own pocket.\n\nA Plaid Cymru spokesperson said: \"Adam Price travelled to Kyiv to show solidarity with the Ukrainian people and endeavour to get an accurate, first-hand picture of the reality on the ground.\n\n\"Intelligence suggested that the potential gravity of the situation became more severe on Monday and the delegation left Ukraine the following day.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales, Pontypridd Labour MS Mick Antoniw said his controversial trip to Ukraine never gambled with their group's safety, and they left a day early.\n\n\"I think in these situations, you have to weigh up the risk,\" he said.\n\n\"There was a lot of criticism in Ukraine that the UK government pulled out and evacuated far earlier than was necessary and it sent out signs, I think, of weakness and abandonment.\n\n\"And every organisation, every person that we've actually met, every single one of them said to us, 'we are glad you are here because we can now tell you what is happening, we can tell you ourselves'.\"\n\nHe said some of the criticisms were a \"pathetic form of attempting to distract attention of what I think is the serious issue of the Conservative party, and that is the weakness of the sanctions that have been imposed\".\n\nMr Antoniw has family in Ukraine - some in the armed forces, and others in the reservists who are being called up. Some have asked him for help to get family members to Wales.\n\n\"We do really have to start making preparations for support for refugees\" he said, \"and perhaps even to start now ensuring people have got visas so they can come here and stay with families.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesman said: \"The letter has been received and noted. The visit was made in a personal capacity.\"", "The Supreme Court ruled James Craig's human rights had been breached\n\nThe UK Supreme Court has halted the extradition of a Scottish man wanted by the United States over a £1.2m fraud.\n\nFive judges found James Craig's human rights had been breached as a legal measure which could have helped him had not been introduced in Scotland.\n\nThe UK government did not bring in a measure north of the border allowing an extradition to be blocked if a trial could take place in the UK.\n\nIt made the decision at the Scottish government's request.\n\nThe Supreme Court's ruling will set a precedent for other extradition cases.\n\nHowever, it is not immediately clear how many will now be open to challenge as a result.\n\nMr Craig, from Dunragit in Dumfries and Galloway, has fought a marathon legal battle against his extradition to the US over a crime he denies committing.\n\nThe US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused him of tweeting false information about two American companies in 2013, costing investors $1.6m.\n\nHe was alleged to have made $97 by buying shares at a lower price and then reselling them. He later repaid the cash plus $120 interest without admitting that he had done anything wrong.\n\nThe extradition process against Mr Craig began in 2017\n\nPolice Scotland searched Mr Craig's house at the request of the FBI in 2014. A warrant for his arrest was issued by the SEC in 2015. The extradition process began in 2017.\n\nHad Mr Craig been from England, Wales or Northern Ireland, he could have opposed his extradition on the grounds of \"forum bar.\"\n\nIt allows an extradition to be blocked on the basis that a trial could \"fairly and effectively\" take place in the UK and not abroad.\n\nThe UK government introduced the measure in 2013 following the case of Gary McKinnon, a computer hacker who successfully fought extradition to the US.\n\nHowever, the Scottish government asked that it should not apply to Scottish cases over fears that it would interfere with the independence of Scottish prosecutors.\n\nThat meant Mr Craig could not use forum bar as an argument against his extradition.\n\nFollowing a legal challenge by Mr Craig in 2018, the Court of Session declared that the UK government had acted unlawfully by failing to introduce forum bar in Scotland.\n\nA sheriff then ruled that Mr Craig's extradition could still go ahead, a judgement backed by the Appeal Court, which said the forum bar failure had not rendered the entire process unlawful.\n\nThe UK Supreme Court has now ruled that the failure to bring in the forum bar in Scotland had breached Mr Craig's human rights.\n\nAnnouncing the decision, judge Lord Reed said: \"The Supreme Court unanimously allows the appeal.\n\n\"A new extradition hearing may be held before a different sheriff, at which Mr Craig will be able to rely on the forum bar provisions in addition to any other arguments properly available to him.\"\n\nForum bar was finally introduced in Scotland in September 2021.\n\nThe Supreme Court's ruling means the case is being brought back to Scotland to start all over again, nine years after the original alleged offence.\n\nMr Craig has declined to comment on the judgement on the advice of his lawyers.\n\nHis solicitor Paul Dunne said his client was \"very pleased\" with the Supreme Court's decision.\n\n\"He has felt all along that what has gone on hasn't been right,\" he said.\n\n\"For seven years he has had his life on hold due to a procedure that we knew in 2018 was unlawful.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"When the UK government determined that extradition law should be changed to introduce a forum bar, this was a decision for them, as extradition is a reserved matter.\n\n\"But the Scottish government indicated it would be preferable for this provision not to apply in Scotland because of concerns it would potentially impact on the independence of the role of the Lord Advocate in making prosecutorial decisions.\n\n\"Instead of not including provision for Scotland, the UK government decided to extend the forum bar provision to Scotland in legislation, but then did not commence the relevant provision for Scotland. This was entirely a matter for the UK government.\"\n• None Craig (Appellant) v Her Majesty's Advocate (for the Government of the United States of America) and another (Respondents) (Sc The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Next month, a report will be published into one of the biggest scandals in the history of the NHS, the failures of maternity care at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust. The BBC's Michael Buchanan who helped uncover the problems examines why so many failures were allowed to happen for so long.\n\nIt began with an email from one mother to another. The two were strangers - \"I hope you don't mind me contacting you and I hope I don't cause any upset.\" But almost immediately, a bond was formed - a spark rekindled in a couple who just two months earlier had vowed to move on with their lives.\n\nIt was a Monday evening in June 2016, when Kayleigh Griffiths in a moment of clarity amid the fog of grief, wrote the email. She and her husband Colin had welcomed their second daughter Pippa into the world in late April.\n\nThey had decided on a home birth because of what she said was the \"appalling state\" of the birthing centre in Shrewsbury. Pippa arrived safely but struggled to feed almost immediately. Kayleigh spoke to her midwifery team on four occasions about her concerns, including a frantic call around 03:00 after her daughter coughed up brown liquid. She was repeatedly told not to worry.\n\nBy 11:30 the following morning, Pippa became unresponsive. \"I went still and watched her chest and it wasn't moving,\" recalls Kayleigh. \"I put my hand under her nose to feel the breath and there was nothing. At which point utter panic set in.\" She screamed for Colin who desperately started trying to resuscitate his daughter while an ambulance was called.\n\nPippa died that afternoon. She was just 31 hours old. The cause of death, the couple were later told, was an infection - Group B Strep. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust told the family they would carry out an investigation. But after several weeks of silence, Kayleigh contacted the trust to be told it was an internal investigation and the couple's input wouldn't be required. Kayleigh, an NHS auditor at a different trust, feared the truth was being hidden from her. That's when she decided to send the email.\n\nRhiannon Davies was on holiday in Pembrokeshire with her husband Richard Stanton when she received the message. Kayleigh had seen some of the significant local media coverage about the couple's seven-year effort to uncover the truth about their daughter's death under the care of the same Shropshire trust.\n\nOver a frenetic few hours the sheer elation of new life became overwhelmed by the grief of sudden loss. Rhiannon had become pregnant with the couple's first child in 2008. She had been assessed as being a low-risk pregnancy and was advised to have her child at a midwife-led birthing centre run by the Shropshire trust in Ludlow, her home town.\n\nIn the days leading up to the birth, she noticed her baby's movements had reduced. She reported her concerns to clinicians at the trust, but was told she simply had a lazy baby. So when Rhiannon went into labour on 1 March 2009, she headed to the midwife-led unit. \"Kate was delivered at 10:03 in the morning,\" recalls Richard. \"It's just hard to describe the happiness that you feel.\"\n\nRhiannon says Kate started to make a strange noise. \"It's called grunting but it's not, it's a murmuring. The midwife said she was trying to cry. She wasn't - this is a distinct clear sign, if you know what you're doing, that the baby is in respiratory distress. She opened her eyes once, beautiful blue eyes.\"\n\nKate was seriously ill and needed urgent medical attention. But the nearest doctors were 45 minutes away. The midwives \"lost control of the situation,\" said Richard, but eventually an air ambulance arrived to take Kate to a hospital in Birmingham. The couple followed, but Rhiannon collapsed and was taken to hospital in Worcester.\n\nRichard raced to his daughter's side. \"Kate was in an incubation cot with cables and tubes,\" he recalls. \"There was no recovery from this situation. So six hours after holding my new born baby, I cradled Kate in my arms dying. The overriding memory I have from that one day is hearing Rhiannon arrive to be told that Kate was no longer with us, and the cries of pain from Rhiannon.\"\n\nThe initial report from the trust noted the death but described it as a \"no harm\" event. In 2012, an inquest jury concluded, however, that Kate's death was preventable - those reduced movements should have seen Rhiannon deliver in a hospital, with doctors on hand. In a written response however, the trust said the care \"given to Ms Davies was in line with both the local and national guidance\".\n\nBut the couple continued to fight, pushing for two independent reports, which were published over the next four years. Finally, in April 2016, the board of the trust held an extraordinary meeting, in which they apologised and accepted Kate's death was avoidable. \"It was a very emotional experience,\" says Rhiannon, \"but it was one that was very, very, very much for us the end.\"\n\nRhiannon could easily have ignored the email in June, but there was something about Kayleigh, she says, that meant she had to respond. In many ways, the two are polar opposites - Kayleigh is quiet and analytical, Rhiannon energetic and passionate. The Griffiths family needed practical advice on how to hold the trust to account. Richard and Rhiannon provided that, and in April 2017 a coroner ruled that Pippa's death was preventable as the trust had failed to give the family information that would have allowed them to recognise the seriousness of the infant's deteriorating condition.\n\nAs the bond between the mothers deepened, their conversations morphed into something else. Armed with little more than a gnawing suspicion, they started to scour the internet, coroner's records and death notices to see if any other families had received poor maternity care at the Shropshire trust.\n\nThese are amongst the most serious cases that we have seen in our careers\n\nThey collated 23 cases dating back to 2000 - including stillbirths, neonatal deaths, maternal deaths and babies born with brain injuries. Appalled by what they had found, they wrote to the then health secretary Jeremy Hunt in December 2016, asking him to order an investigation. He agreed and in May 2017, senior midwife Donna Ockenden was appointed to lead the review.\n\n\"We sat looking through the case notes of the original 23, and our opinion was these are really, really serious cases,\" Ms Ockenden told Panorama. \"These are amongst the most serious cases that we have seen in our careers. The likelihood would be that when one tried to put together the full jigsaw there would be other cases but we didn't know that at the outset.\"\n\nBy now I was aware of significant problems at the trust. I'd met Richard and Rhiannon in late 2016, and when they outlined their concerns, I started investigating. In April 2017, I revealed there had been at least seven avoidable deaths at the trust in just 20 months. That initial story set me off on a five-year quest, an investigation that has helped unravel years of failure and grief.\n\nAs I revealed more failures, the number of families approaching Donna Ockenden escalated rapidly. It was initially an investigation into 23 cases - but the review team has now examined the care that 1862 families received.\n\nMaternity Scandal: Fighting for the Truth is on BBC One on Wednesday 23 February at 21:00 or watch later on BBC iPlayer\n\nOne of the themes the inquiry has already noted, in an interim report published in December 2020, is that in many cases the trust failed to investigate after something went wrong, or simply carried out its own inquiry. Panorama has discovered the trust even developed its own investigation system, what they called a High Risk Case Review.\n\nIt was outside any national framework that has been used to help learn lessons from incidents and doesn't appear to be a system that's used in any other NHS organisation. Another consequence of the unorthodox system was that fewer incidents were reported to NHS regulators, limiting the opportunity to learn lessons.\n\nOne of the earliest cases on the original list of 23 compiled by the two couples was the death of Kathryn Leigh in 2000. Panorama has investigated the case and discovered that a theme identified almost two decades ago was to come up repeatedly in subsequent incidents.\n\nKathryn was delivered in a poor condition following an emergency caesarean section after her mother had been in labour all night. She needed to be resuscitated but the medics used the wrong equipment, and the baby died within 21 minutes of her birth. The trust admitted that error but refused to accept criticism of its maternity care at the inquest into Kathryn's death, held in April 2003.\n\nAn expert witness called by the coroner told the court, \"In my opinion, Kathryn Leigh's need for resuscitation arose from incompetent management of her mother's pregnancy and labour\".\n\nThat criticism, Panorama can reveal, did lead the family's lawyer to raise in court whether there was \"any kind of inbuilt policy or inbuilt bias towards trying to achieve natural births in as many cases as possible\". The question also built on inquiries made by Kathryn's parents, Phil and Sonia. \"I wondered about the fact that I'd been left so long before going to C-section,\" said Sonia. \"I did a lot of research and found out that Shrewsbury Hospital had the lowest rate of C-sections in the whole of the UK.\"\n\nMost of the cases the Ockenden review is examining date from 2000-2019. In their interim report, the essence of Sonia Leigh's concerns was strongly highlighted. The inquiry found that rates of caesarean sections at the trust in Shropshire were up to 12% lower than the England average for the period they are examining.\n\nThe trust's reputation for unusually high numbers of vaginal births was known. Panorama has discovered that just a month before Kathryn Leigh's inquest, a parliamentary hearing was held to discuss concerns about the rising number of caesarean births across England.\n\nThere was concern that child birth was being over-medicalised, and that too many women were having to undergo unnecessary surgical procedures, which like any operation carries risk. It also costs more money.\n\nOne hospital was praised for its approach however - the Royal Shrewsbury. At the time, its caesarean levels were half the England average, and a team from the hospital travelled to London.\n\nIn the evidence session, seen by Panorama, the then clinical director of the Royal Shrewsbury told MPs: \"The culture of our organisation is that we have low intervention rates and once that is known we attract both midwives and obstetricians who like to practise in that way.\"\n\nHis colleague, the manager of women's service at the time, added that midwives who had worked elsewhere \"almost need retraining to be able to work in Shropshire. We have recruited people who are like minded. If you want to keep something going and you believe in it, you do not want to employ people who do not believe in what you believe in.\"\n\nDiscussing the initial findings of her inquiry, Donna Ockenden told Panorama, \"There were cases where an earlier recourse to caesarean section rather than a persistence towards a normal delivery may well have led to a better outcome for mother or baby or both. Low caesarean section rates were a prize.\" And the trust had been lauded for them.\n\nAs the Griffiths and the Stanton-Davies families were striving to bring rigorous external scrutiny to the Shrewsbury and Telford trust, inside the organisation Bernie Bentick was also agitating for change. A consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist for nearly 30 years at the Shrewsbury and Telford trust until he retired in 2020, he's the first former staff member to speak openly about what was happening on the inside.\n\nI believed that some of the ways they responded to problems were to try to preserve the reputation of the organisation rather than to do anything practical Bernie Bentick\n\nFormer consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the trust\n\nHe told Panorama that he wrote to senior management on several occasions highlighting problems.\n\n\"I was supported by a number of my clinical colleagues and wrote a long email to my line managers, to the chief executive, outlining the severity of the problems as I saw it - incidents of dysfunctional culture, of bullying, of the imposition of changes in clinical practice that many clinicians felt was unsafe.\"\n\nHe says that while there was a \"genuine attempt to try to ensure the best standards were achieved\" within the maternity department, the deteriorating culture made staff increasingly \"anxious\" and \"cautious\", making their performance \"less than ideal\".\n\n\"Because resources were scarce,\" said Dr Bentick, \"there was a tendency to blame individuals for not following guidelines rather than look at the underlying factors which may have led to a particular problem, and in particular staffing levels in the midwifery department. There were frequently not enough.\"\n\nA lack of both midwives and consultants was a problem for years at the trust according to former employees that Panorama has spoken to. But there are too few staff in maternity wards across the country, according to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG). They say thousands more midwives and hundreds more obstetricians are needed now. Maternity services, they say, need additional funding of up to £300m a year.\n\nIn response to his complaints, Bernie Bentick said some \"cursory\" investigations were launched, but he felt that management never got to the heart of the problems. \"I believed that some of the ways they responded to problems were to try to preserve the reputation of the organisation rather than to do anything practical.\n\n\"They were prepared to make small, what they regarded as proportionate, changes to try to improve the situation. But I don't think they really understood the gravity of the cultural problems within the trust.\"\n\nIn recent years, he said, a gap developed between the management of the trust and its clinicians, which he says was mainly caused by a problem the whole NHS faces - the lack of good quality, trained managers who have as much professional accountability as clinicians.\n\n\"If the resources had been made available to employ adequate numbers, then the situation may have been profoundly different. I feel intense sorry and sadness for the families and I would hope that the NHS responds in a way that ensures that quality of care is at the forefront of what we provide in the NHS.\"\n\nThe Ockenden team, which at one point grew to more than 80 clinicians, has now spoken to more than 800 families. Their interim report found nine areas where the trust had repeatedly failed. As well as low caesarean rates, they highlighted the excessive use of forceps, the repeated misuse of a labour inducing drug, a failure to escalate concerns to senior clinicians and a lack of compassion and kindness in the delivery of care.\n\n\"I've heard of accounts where mothers were told quite clearly that it was their fault,\" said Donna Ockenden. \"And heard from fathers who have carried a tremendous amount of guilt that they should have been able to stand up for their wives and partners. And what I say to them is, it isn't your guilt to carry.\"\n\nOne recurring theme the Ockenden team picked up on was a failure by staff to properly monitor the baby's heart rate. The problem raises significant questions for all NHS bodies charged with overseeing trusts because the issue was highlighted as a problem at the Shropshire trust as far back as 2007.\n\nAfter the failure had been noted as a contributory factor in two babies being born with severe brain damage, in 2004 and 2005, the Healthcare Commission, the regulator at the time, wrote to the trust demanding action to ensure the problems \"are not repetitive and that learning is taking place\". But there's no evidence the regulator followed up, with repeated catastrophic consequences:\n\nDespite the errors, the new regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), didn't pick up on the problem. Its reports, following inspections of the trust in October 2014 and December 2016, make no mention of a problem with monitoring baby's heart rates. It wasn't until November 2018, when the CQC rated the trust as inadequate, that the need for training in monitoring baby's heart rates is mentioned.\n\nChief Inspector of Hospitals at the CQC, Professor Ted Baker, robustly defended his organisation's handling of the trust. \"The families of Shrewsbury and Telford have been really important in driving forward the improvements,\" he told Panorama. \"The regulators identified problems in the maternity service and have subsequently taken enforcement action. I don't accept that [we didn't spot the problems].\"\n\nIn a statement, the trust told the BBC they took \"full responsibility\" for the failings in maternity care. \"We offer our sincere apologies for all the distress and hurt we know this caused.\n\n\"Apologies alone are not enough and must be backed up with clear and meaningful action. We have made strong progress, including significant investment in additional staff and staff training. We have completed more than 80% of the recommendations in the interim Ockenden Report.\"\n\nThey added that the term High Risk Case Review is \"no longer used\", adding that its \"aligning\" its investigation systems with those \"being developed across the NHS in England.\"\n\nThe sheer scale of the maternity errors in Shropshire means the well of grief may run deeper here, but it's not the only area to have failed women and babies. In recent years, independent investigations have been ordered into maternity services in Cumbria, East Kent, Nottingham and South Wales.\n\nSince 2017, the CQC has been rating the safety of maternity services in England. Its latest figures show that 41% of units need to improve their safety, while just 1% are rated as outstanding. The CQC says the rate of improvement is not good enough and Jo Mountfield, vice president of the RCOG, says it's \"probably\" because the patients are women. \"I think women's health and research in this country should be given much higher priority. I think women's voices need to be heard much more loudly.\"\n\nThe interim Ockenden report led to a near £100m investment in maternity services in England. NHS England wrote to all health trusts last week telling them to no longer limit the number of caesarean sections they offer women. They also said they were committed to providing safe, compassionate maternity services.\n\nThe publication of the final report by Donna Ockenden next month will be a watershed moment in the history of the NHS - the revelation of multiple instances of maternity failures in a rural corner of England. Pippa Griffiths and Kate Stanton-Davies lived fewer than 40 hours between them, but their legacy, in terms of improved maternity care, could last decades.", "Police officers responded to a report of a man acting suspiciously at Bow Street Mall in Lisburn\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of carrying an imitation firearm in a public place in Lisburn, County Antrim.\n\nThe 50-year-old was arrested after police responded to a report of a man acting suspiciously at Bow Street Mall in the city centre at about 14:45 GMT.\n\nThe shopping centre closed briefly due to the incident but reopened later on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nEarlier, officers said the man was also arrested on suspicion of possession of a point or blade in a public place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US has hit Russia with wide-ranging sanctions over what President Joe Biden called \"the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine\".\n\n\"We've cut off Russia's government from Western financing,\" Mr Biden said.\n\nIt came after Russian politicians authorised President Vladimir Putin to send troops into two rebel-held parts of eastern Ukraine.\n\nRussia has recognised the regions as independent - a move Ukraine said attacks its sovereignty.\n\nWestern nations largely see the action as a pretext for a wider invasion. On Monday Mr Putin ordered soldiers into the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk regions, to \"keep the peace\" - a description the US called \"nonsense\".\n\nSatellite imagery over the past 24 hours has shown several new troop and equipment deployments in western Russia, and more than 100 vehicles at an airfield in Belarus near Ukraine's border, according to US space technology company Maxar.\n\nRussia's military has not commented, and it is not clear if any Russian troops have yet been sent into eastern Ukraine.\n\nA handout satellite image made available by Maxar Technologies shows troop tents and a housing area in Pochep, Russia\n\nAnnouncing his \"first tranche\" of measures directly targeting the Russian state, Mr Biden said on Tuesday: \"To put it simply, Russia just announced that it is carving out a big chunk of Ukraine.\"\n\nThe moves include sanctions on Russia's foreign debt, meaning the country can no longer raise money for its state financing from Western financial institutions.\n\nThe US is also punishing high-ranking \"elites\" from Russia.\n\n\"They share the corrupt gains of the Kremlin policies, and should share in the pain as well,\" Mr Biden said.\n\nThe US had already banned American companies from dealing with the rebel-held Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk - but few companies do.\n\nThe UK and European Union also announced a wave of sanctions against Russian banks and individuals earlier on Tuesday.\n\nNone of the sanctions went as far as what had been threatened in the event of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, though both US and European officials stressed that more action would follow if the situation deteriorated.\n\nThe US is also moving troops into Nato member states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - which are on or near Russia's border - an official said.\n\nThe military redeployment from Italy involves some 800 infantry troops along with a number of F-35 fighter jets and 20 attack helicopters, some of which will go to Poland.\n\nDiplomatic efforts to avert the Ukraine crisis have so far failed, and in Russia on Tuesday President Putin said the Minsk agreements - the peace deals aimed at averting years-long conflict in eastern Ukraine - \"do not exist\".\n\nThe agreements \"were killed long before yesterday's recognition of the people's republics of Donbas,\" he said, using the administrative name for the two regions of eastern Ukraine. \"And not by us, not by representatives of these republics, but by the current Kyiv authorities.\"\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken followed Mr Biden's speech by announcing he had cancelled a planned Thursday meeting with his Russian counterpart.\n\n\"Now that we see the invasion is beginning and Russia has made clear its wholesale rejection of diplomacy, it does not make sense to go forward with that meeting at this time,\" he said.\n\nBut he added that the US would engage with Russia if it changed its approach.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier said he would consider cutting off diplomatic ties with Russia altogether over the crisis.\n\nIn an evening address to the nation, he said he was calling up military reserve members for training - but also said Ukraine would still pursue a diplomatic solution.\n\nThere was \"no need\" for a full military mobilisation, Mr Zelensky said.\n\nRussian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine have seized large swathes of territory since fierce fighting broke out in 2014. An estimated 14,000 people - including many civilians - have since died.", "Emma Raducanu was left feeling like she was \"constantly looking over her shoulder\", magistrates heard\n\nA stalker who walked 23 miles to the London home of British tennis star Emma Raducanu has been handed a five-year restraining order.\n\nAmrit Magar, 35, left the 19-year-old US Open Champion feeling she was \"constantly looking over her shoulder\", Bromley Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nHe was arrested after her father Ian was alerted by a doorbell camera.\n\nMagar, from Harrow, north-west London, was also ordered to wear an electronic tag.\n\nAmrit Magar told police he had been drawn to Raducanu because of her high-profile status\n\nThe former delivery driver turned up three times at the world number 12's home in Bromley, south-east London, once decorating a tree in the front garden with Christmas lights and leaving other decorations in a gift bag on the porch.\n\nOn one occasion, he posted a card including a hand-drawn map to show the 23 miles he had walked from his home to the British number one's.\n\nMagar, originally from Nepal, was spotted by Ms Raducanu's father, Ian, who noticed a trainer he had left in the porch was missing, then followed him in his car.\n\nMagar told police he had been \"drawn\" to the tennis star \"because of her high-profile status after her victory in the US Open\" and had taken the shoe, believing it belonged to her, as a \"souvenir\".\n\nMagar sketched a map of his 23-mile route to her home\n\nOn a separate occasion, he left a bouquet of flowers with a note reading \"nothing to say but you deserve love\".\n\nHe was found guilty of stalking between November 1 and 4 December after a trial last month.\n\nThe order imposed by District Judge Sushil Kumar bans Magar from contacting Ms Raducanu or her parents, coming within a mile of their street and attending any sports ground, stadium or training facility where she is in competition or attending to train.\n\nHe was also sentenced to an 18-month community order, including 200 hours of unpaid work, and an eight-week curfew between 9pm and 6am monitored by an electronic tag.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "When patients arrive at hospital by ambulance they should be handed over within 15 minutes. This data shows the proportion of ambulance patients who waited 30 minutes or more, in the week shown. It comes from daily situation reports which are published weekly during the winter in England. As this is fast-turnaround data, the NHS says only minimal validation can be carried out but it is considered fit for purpose.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland do not publish ambulance queue data.\n\nPatients at A&E should be seen within four hours of arrival. This data shows the proportion of patients attending A&E who waited longer than four hours to be treated, discharged or admitted.\n\nThis data is published monthly for England and Wales and weekly for Scotland. Northern Ireland publishes its data quarterly and Winter 2021 is not yet available.\n\nIf a patient at A&E needs to be admitted, the wait from decision to admit to being given a bed on a ward is recorded in England. The bed waits figure is the proportion of patients admitted via A&E who waited longer than four hours for a ward bed.\n\nIn Wales, bed wait data is not published, so the figure shown is the occupancy level in general and acute beds. Scotland and Northern Ireland do not publish bed wait or bed occupancy data.\n\nData for England is show by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities.\n\nWhen you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board.\n\nComparative data from two years ago is shown where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Bed occupancy data in Wales only goes back to April 2020.", "The brand is one of Europe's largest producers of smoothies and fruit juices\n\nAdverts for drinks firm Innocent have been banned after the advertising regulator ruled they \"misled\" customers over the firm's environmental impact.\n\nThe adverts show animated characters encouraging people to \"get fixing up the planet\" by buying Innocent drinks.\n\nThe regulator said it implied buying Innocent drinks \"was a choice which would have a positive environmental impact when that was not the case\",\n\nInnocent said it had aimed to show \"the need for collective action\".\n\nBut the Advertising Standards Authority said the adverts did not show that Innocent's single-use plastic products had a \"net positive\" environmental impact over their full life cycles.\n\nTwenty-six viewers, one of whom identified themselves as representing environmental group Plastics Rebellion, complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) that the adverts misled customers by exaggerating the \"total environmental benefits\" of the drinks.\n\nThe ASA said the extraction of raw materials and subsequent processing in order to produce its bottles would also have a negative impact on the environment.\n\nInnocent is owned by Coca-Cola. The bottles that Innocent sells in the UK contain 50% recycled plastic and 50% virgin material, not including the caps and labels.\n\nThe regulator said that because the ads \"implied that purchasing Innocent products was a choice which would have a positive environmental impact when that was not the case\", it concluded that the ads were \"misleading.\"\n\nIn the ruling, Innocent responded that there was no suggestion in the ads that buying Innocent products would lead to a positive environmental impact. Instead, the ruling states that Innocent said the ad was a \"call to action\", asking for their drinkers to join them in making changes happen, which was demonstrated by the change of leadership from the man to the otter.\n\nInnocent said: \"Our advert was always intended to highlight important global environmental issues and the need for collective action to make a change. We transparently share more about the work that we do on sustainability on our website.\n\n\"As with any new guidelines, we'd like to work with the ASA and other brands to understand how to align to them to continue the conversation on these important topics.\"\n\nMother advertising agency declined to comment when approached by the BBC.\n\nIn a statement, Plastics Rebellion said that Innocent were being \"disingenuous\" about the dangers of plastic's threat to human health and environment, as well as \"trivialising the horrific scale of the problem by repeating the mantra: 'Reduce, re-use, recycle'\".\n\nCoca-Cola, owner of Innocent, produces about three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year - equivalent to 200,000 bottles a minute.\n\nIn 2019, it was found to be the most polluting brand in a global audit of plastic waste by the charity Break Free From Plastic.\n\nEnvironmental groups have repeatedly campaigned for single-use plastic to be drastically reduced to prevent pollution.\n\nScotland has announced it will ban most single-use plastic from June 2022.\n\nIn January an advert for Lipton Ice Tea was also banned after the ASA ruled it \"misleadingly implied\" that all of the Lipton bottle was made from 100% recycled plastic.\n\nThe watchdog also banned an Aqua Pura advert earlier this year for the claim \"100% recycled bottle\" because not all of the parts of the bottle were recycled and warned the firm to ensure they did not \"overstate the environmental benefit\" of their brand and products, and did not claim that products made of plastic were \"eco-friendly\" or \"nature friendly\".", "Logan was found dead in the River Ogmore last July\n\nA 999 call made by Logan Mwangi's mother on the morning her five-year-old son's body was dumped in a river has been described as \"chilling\".\n\nAngharad Williamson's plea for police to find Logan was \"all an act\", Cardiff Crown Court was told.\n\nProsecutor Caroline Rees QC said it was all part of an elaborate cover-up concocted by Ms Williamson, her partner John Cole and a 14-year-old boy.\n\nMs Williamson, 30, Mr Cole, 40, and the teenager, all deny Logan's murder.\n\nHis mum, Williamson; and step-dad Cole; both from Sarn, Bridgend county, as well as the youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are also accused of conducting a cover-up after his death.\n\nLogan's body was found in the River Ogmore, on 31 July, the prosecution said he had been dumped hours earlier like \"fly-tipped rubbish\".\n\nMs Rees told the court the 999 call \"might sound like a heartfelt call of distress from a mother reporting her child missing\".\n\n\"But with knowledge of the CCTV and the proof that Angharad Williamson knew exactly what was going on that night, the prosecution say that the 999 call is in fact chilling,\" she said.\n\n\"It demonstrates the extent to which Williamson was prepared to lie and her ability to put on a performance to save her own skin, even when dealing with the death of her own five-year-old child.\"\n\nPolice body-worn camera footage that shows officers first visiting the flat in Sarn where Logan is believed to have been killed is to be shown in court, the jury was told.\n\nLogan's mother can be seen \"wailing and shouting\" while Mr Cole is \"playing the part of the concerned stepdad\", the prosecutor said.\n\nAngharad Williamson and John Cole both deny the murder of Logan Mwangi\n\nShe added that the sound of a tumble dryer and washing machine can be heard, and asked: \"Why on earth would the family be doing the laundry as a matter of such urgency in the circumstances?\n\n\"The prosecution suggest that this was to dispose of incriminating evidence and that one of the items laundered was part of Logan's bed linen.\"\n\nA sheet, which was missing from Logan's bed, was recovered from the tumble dryer four days later when the property was searched on 4 August.\n\nLogan's Paw Patrol duvet and pillow were found to have small amounts of his blood on them consistent, the prosecution said, with him having been bleeding in bed.\n\nThe boy, whose body was discovered in the nearby River Ogmore, had suffered 56 \"catastrophic injuries\", including lacerations to his liver and a tear to his bowel, as well as traumatic brain injuries.\n\nA juror became upset as a summary of the medical evidence was read to the court.\n\nPaediatrician Dr Deborah Stalker concluded the injuries were the result of purposeful blunt force trauma and a \"forceful assault\".\n\nPathologist Dr John Williams also discovered what was described as a \"healing fracture\" to Logan's clavicle which was several weeks old.\n\n\"This finding suggests infliction of injury on different occasions over a more prolonged period of time than the days immediately before Logan's body was discovered,\" Ms Rees said.\n\nLogan is believed to have survived for several hours after the assault, meaning there was an opportunity to save him, Ms Rees said.\n\nThe last time he was seen alive was on a Facetime call on 27 July, four days before he was found dead.\n\nHe had been in self-isolation from 21 July after testing positive with Covid.\n\nThe court was told how police officer Lauren Keen had found Logan's body lying in a foetal position, climbed into the river and picked him up in her arms.\n\n\"She noted he had a head injury,\" said Ms Rees. \"His body was cold and stiff, his lips were blue and his eyes were wide open. There was no sign of life.\"\n\nAs the scene of his discovery was described to the court, Ms Williamson began to cry loudly.\n\nTributes remain at the scene near to where Logan's body was found last July\n\nAll three defendants are also accused of perverting the course of justice, including moving Logan's body to the river near Pandy Park, removing his clothing, washing bloodstained bed linen, and making a false missing person report to police.\n\nMs Williamson and the youth pleaded not guilty to both offences, while Mr Cole admitted perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe two adults were also charged with causing or allowing the death of a child, which they both deny.\n\nThe trial has heard that when Ms Williamson was taken in to see her son's body she made comments to a nurse about wishing she had taught him to swim.\n\nMs Rees said: \"The prosecution say that this must have been with the intention of causing others to believe he had met his death by drowning, even though Angharad Williamson must have known this was untrue because she was up and about when his dead body was removed from the home.\"\n\nThe nurse, who will give evidence later in the trial, said she was troubled by Ms Williamson's demeanour, believing she was \"performing\".\n\nMs Williamson had later asked another nurse why Logan was wet. When she was told it was because his body had been found in the river, she claimed it was the first time she had been made aware of this, the court heard.\n\nMs Rees said this was considered an odd comment, given her earlier statement about not teaching Logan to swim.\n\nThe court was also told that, two weeks after the five-year-old's death, a care worker heard the 14-year-old defendant singing: \"I love to punch kids in the head. It's orgasmic.\"\n\nHe later told another care worker: \"I did some bad stuff but I am not allowed to talk about it.\"\n\nThe case, which is expected to last about eight weeks, continues.", "Prosecutors say former detective Brett Hankison fired 10 shots during the raid that killed Breonna Taylor\n\nA jury is deciding whether a former detective showed \"extreme indifference to human life\" during the raid that led to the death of Breonna Taylor.\n\nBrett Hankison allegedly fired 10 shots blindly into a neighbour's flat in the melee that followed a \"no-knock\" search of the black woman's Kentucky home.\n\nHe is now standing trial on three charges of endangerment.\n\nOfficers had forced their way into the 26-year old paramedic's Louisville home during a narcotics raid using the \"no-knock\" warrant - which meant they did not have to announce themselves.\n\nHer boyfriend shot and wounded one of the officers. In response, officers fired 32 shots, six of which struck Ms Taylor.\n\nProsecutors allege that in the raid some of the shots fired by Hankison entered a neighbouring flat, endangering three people inside: Cody Etherson, his pregnant wife Chelsey Napper and their five-year-old son.\n\n\"This is not a case to decide who is responsible for the death of Breonna Taylor,\" Kentucky assistant attorney general Barbara Maines Whaley said during her opening remarks on Wednesday, but more whether Hankison had showed \"extreme indifference to human life\" during the raid.\n\nBut Hankison's team sought to portray him as an experienced officer who was facing a confusing situation. Defence attorney Steve Matthews described it as a scene of \"total chaos\".\n\nAt the trial, Mr Etherson said he believed the raid was \"reckless\" and described a chaotic scene with bullets shredding through a wall his apartment shared with Ms Taylor's, covering him in debris and only narrowly missing him and his son.\n\nHe said he woke that March night to a \"boom\", then heard several shots and felt debris falling on him.\n\nWhen his glass patio door shattered, Mr Etherton said he went to see what was happening - but was faced with officers pointing guns at him.\n\nThe case, in Jefferson County Circuit Court, is expected to take about two weeks.\n\nIt is the only trial stemming from the death of Ms Taylor. In 2020, her family sued Louisville police and reached a $12m (£8.8m) settlement.\n\nA grand jury cleared the two white officers who actually shot Taylor but charged Hankison for endangering neighbours in the adjacent apartment.\n\nHe has pleaded not guilty but if convicted could face up to five years in prison.\n\nMs Taylor's death, along with that of George Floyd in Minneapolis, sparked nationwide protests against police brutality and racism against black Americans.", "Stars including Cheryl, Gurrumul, Sir Paul McCartney, Peter Kay and Sir Elton John appeared at the Diamond Jubilee concert a decade ago\n\nA ballot for tickets to a star-studded concert at Buckingham Palace, to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, opened to the public on Thursday morning.\n\nTen thousand free tickets are now available for the Platinum Party at the Palace on 4 June.\n\nThe ballot, announced on Wednesday, will close at 23:59 on 23 March.\n\nGeorge Ezra is the first performer to be named on the line-up, which the BBC said it would range from \"pop stars to rock royalty to opera singers\".\n\nThere will be a full live orchestra, while \"stars from film, TV and the stage will also tell the story and celebrate some of the most significant cultural moments from the Queen's reign\", a statement said.\n\nGeorge Ezra said it was \"an incredible honour to be asked\" to perform\n\nFive thousand pairs of tickets will be available via the event's official website. Some tickets will also be handed out to selected charities.\n\nThe show will take place in front of the palace and will be broadcast live on BBC One and Radio 2.\n\nIt will be among the celebrations to mark the Queen becoming the first British monarch to reign for 70 years.\n\nCharlotte Moore, the BBC's chief content officer, said in a statement: \"The Platinum Party at the Palace is set to be one of the highlights of Her Majesty The Queen's landmark Jubilee festivities weekend and one of the biggest concerts in a generation.\n\n\"The BBC is honoured to be bringing every moment of this live event to millions watching and listening at home, and on outdoor screens across the UK and around the world.\"\n\nRobbie Williams, Kylie Minogue and Sir Elton John performed at a Diamond Jubilee concert in 2012, while Queen guitarist Brian May famously played on the roof of Buckingham Palace at a concert 10 years earlier to mark 50 years on the throne.\n\nThe latest announcement comes after the palace confirmed on Sunday that the 95-year-old monarch had tested positive for Covid and was experiencing \"mild cold-like symptoms\".", "Roky the German Shepherd came to no harm\n\nA chunk of Mars, some of the space rock that splattered a quiet English town and a dog kennel pierced by an object that came out of the sky.\n\nAll three items go under the hammer on Wednesday when London auction house Christie's holds its annual sale of rare and unusual meteorites.\n\nLots in the online auction are expected to fetch well in excess of £2m ($2.7m).\n\nUK interest will be on a 15g fragment of the meteorite that fell over the Cotswold town of Winchcombe last year.\n\nIt could go for up to £50,000 ($70,000) - or more than 70 times the value of its weight in gold.\n\nIt will be among the largest pieces ever to be held in private hands.\n\nIn total, 602g of Winchombe meteorite were recovered. This sale fragment is 15g\n\nThe Winchcombe meteorite is regarded scientifically as the most important meteorite ever to be recovered in the UK.\n\nIt's what's known as a CM2 carbonaceous chondrite and contains chemistry that existed at the formation of the Solar System some 4.6 billion years ago.\n\nThe vast majority of what was collected in and around Winchcombe - over 90% of it - is in the UK's national collection, curated by London's Natural History Museum.\n\nChristie's actually has two pieces for sale, although the second item is much smaller at 1.7g.\n\nNWA 12690 is the third largest piece of Mars on Earth\n\nWhatever the final price these rocky splinters fetch, it underscores the great generosity of those Cotswold families that had material land on their properties on 28 February, 2021, but who then decided to donate their finds to science. They could easily have sought a big personal payday.\n\nChristie's has been running a meteorite event every year since 2014. It pulls in lots from across the world. Some items come from existing private collections, others have been newly sourced by professional meteorite hunters.\n\nStar items this year, alongside the Winchcombe fragments, include a big 9kg Martian meteorite, which has an estimated value of up to £590,000 ($800,000).\n\nCalled NWA 12690, the rock would have been blasted off the surface of the Red Planet by a colossal asteroid or comet impact. It would then have spent time travelling through space before falling to Earth in Mali, in northwest Africa, where it was picked up by a nomad.\n\nThe Chelyabinsk event lit up the sky\n\nOne lot contains more than 100 tiny shards from the meteoroid that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in 2013. The event is remembered for the spectacular streak of light in the sky that accompanied the incoming rock, and which was captured on countless vehicle dashcam recorders.\n\nAnd of particular interest in this sale will be the Costa Rican dog kennel belonging to Roky the German Shepherd. The tin roof of his wooden house was holed by a meteorite in 2019.\n\nRemarkably, the estimated value of £150,000-£220,000 ($200,000-$300,000) is more than for the actual space rock that did the damage.\n\n\"To value all the items in the auction, I work to the four S's - size, shape, science and story,\" explained James Hyslop, head of the science and natural history department at Christie's.\n\n\"The story and its provenance play a very important role in determining the value,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"My first question when I was offered the dog shed for auction was: 'Was Roky okay?'. I'm pleased to report that other than now being 'sans' dog shed, he's doing just fine.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Timelapse video shows how the Wilcock driveway was lifted for display\n\nObjects hit by meteorites have a history of fetching big sums at auction.\n\nA mailbox torn off its post in Claxton, Georgia, US, was sold at auction in 2007 for £61,000 ($83,000). And an old Chevrolet Malibu car struck by a meteorite in Peekskill, New York, in 1992 changed hands for £170,000 ($230,000) nearly 20 years later.\n\nWinchcombe made headlines in part because the fall left a sizeable dent in the driveway of the Wilcock family. The square metre of asphalt was subsequently lifted to go on display at the Natural History Museum. Were this scarred section of driveway ever to come up for auction, it too would likely command a very high price.\n\nAs far as the science of Winchcombe is concerned, there is ample material (over 500g) in the national collection to enable researchers to investigate the origins of the Solar System.\n\n\"The Japanese Hayabusa mission returned 5.4g from the asteroid Ryugu and that's keeping hundreds of scientists busy. But we have much to thank the Winchcombe families for in making their donations to the national collection. They are real heroes of science,\" said Prof Sara Russell from the Natural History Museum.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon sets out dates for the lifting of Covid restrictions in law in Scotland\n\nScotland's legal Covid-19 restrictions, including the wearing of face coverings, will end on 21 March.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said people would still be advised to wear masks in shops and on public transport.\n\nBut all legal restrictions on people and businesses will end as part of an effort to \"return to a normal way of life\".\n\nMeanwhile, the country's vaccine passport scheme will end on 28 February.\n\nThe plan is part of a new strategic framework the government has drawn up for dealing with the pandemic in the future.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it would see Scotland move away from legal restrictions, relying instead on vaccines, treatments and \"good public health behaviours\".\n\nThe move comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that England's restrictions will be lifted on Thursday, with the requirement to self-isolate dropped and free mass testing to end in April.\n\nMs Sturgeon expressed frustration at Mr Johnson's approach, calling for clarity about how the testing system - which operates UK-wide - would operate in future.\n\nHowever she said the removal of restrictions was now possible because widespread vaccination coverage and better treatments had reduced the direct harms of the virus.\n\nThe Covid certification scheme - vaccine passports which are required when attending large events including concerts and football matches - will come to an end on Monday 28 February.\n\nAnd the remaining legal restrictions will be phased out on 21 March - including the requirement for people to wear face covering in enclosed spaces and on public transport, and rules for businesses on collecting customer details and taking measures to reduce the spread of the virus.\n\nPeople will still be asked to self-isolate if they test positive for Covid-19 - although this has never been a legal requirement in Scotland - with Ms Sturgeon calling it \"one of the most fundamental public health protections that we have available to us\".\n\nThe first minister said her government was \"duty bound to remove legally imposed restrictions\" as the impact of the pandemic reduces.\n\nHowever she warned that this \"should not be taken as a signal that Covid no longer presents any risk to health\".\n\nShe said: \"Even though certain measures, for example face coverings, may not be legal requirements in future, we will still recommend voluntary compliance as part of the range of behaviours that will help keep us safe as we manage COVID in a more sustainable and less restrictive way.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said testing would remain a vital part of managing the virus, but that there would be a phased move to a \"more targeted system\" focusing on high risk settings like care homes and hospitals and rapid detection of new variants.\n\nShe said detailed plans for testing would be announced in March, adding that she hoped there would be \"more clarity from the UK government on available resources\".\n\nMr Johnson has previously suggested that the Scottish government would have to fund any continued free testing from its existing budgets.\n\nTesting will be targeted at high risk settings such as nursing homes and hospitals\n\nBusiness groups welcomed the announcement, with CBI Scotland director Tracy Black falling it \"a significant step towards normality returning\".\n\nAnd the Scottish Retail Consortium said firms would welcome the new timetable as \"light at the end of this very long tunnel\", while calling for a concerted effort to encourage shoppers back into town and city centres.\n\nMSPs will be given the chance to debate and vote on the government's new proposals for managing the virus.\n\nThese will see Scotland operate a three-level system for future outbreaks of the virus - of low, medium and high risk.\n\nShe said that in a high-risk scenario, where a new variant emerged which could evade vaccines or natural immunity, people could be advised to limit social contacts and work from home, with \"some temporary protections\" introduced by the government.\n\nMeanwhile in a medium-risk scenario - for example in the event of a variant similar to Omicron which is more transmissible but less severe - Ms Sturgeon said face mask laws could be reintroduced.\n\nMs Sturgeon urged people to continue voluntarily wearing face masks when the legal restrictions are lifted\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives welcomed the move away from blanket legal restrictions, and said they backed a system of \"personal responsibility\".\n\nBut leader Douglas Ross questioned why the government had moved to extend the powers underpinning face mask and Covid passport rules until September.\n\nHe said: \"If it is no longer necessary or justifiable to keep restrictions in place, why is it necessary or justifiable for the govt to cling on to control over those powers and keep the threat of restrictions hanging over the public?\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the government needed to have \"contingency measures\" for use in future as it was highly likely the country would face a threat from new variants of Covid-19 in future.\n\nScottish Labour's deputy leader Jackie Baillie said testing, contact tracing and isolation would remain vital in future, and called for the Scottish government to commit to funding the Test and Protect system.\n\nShe said: \"At a time when people are looking for more certainty about the future, there are not yet answers to some of these fundamental questions about what will be in place to protect Scots.\n\n\"We were promised a framework, this appears more like a progress report.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon responded by accusing the UK government of \"failing to take decisions in an orderly and competent fashion\", saying this had \"a knock-on effect on Scottish government decision making\".\n\nThe apps which underpin the vaccine passport system are to be remain live so that venues can operate voluntary systems, but Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton called for this to be dropped.\n\nHe said: \"Far from abolishing Covid ID cards, this will normalise their use by some businesses, perhaps indefinitely - from now on venues will have carte blanche to ask for private medical information without a public health imperative.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was \"proportionate\" to allow firms the choice of using vaccine passports, saying some might see an advantage in \"making people feel more confident about going and using their services\".", "Binevenagh Forest near Limavady was carpeted with snow last weekend and there is more on the way\n\nHeavy snow showers and lightning are forecast for northern and western counties of Northern Ireland from later on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThe Met Office has updated its yellow warning for wind and snow to snow and lightning in counties Antrim, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Londonderry.\n\nThe warnings come into force at 17:00 GMT and will last until 20:00 on Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some of the areas may be affected by lightning.\n\nFollowing windy weather and rain during the day, temperatures are expected to drop sharply in the evening.\n\nShowers will turn increasingly wintry, with snow initially on high ground dropping to lower levels through the night.\n\nBy Thursday morning, a covering of snow is expected in some areas, with several centimetres possible at some lower levels and more over hills and mountains.\n\nThe gusty winds will mean blizzard-like conditions are likely on some high-level roads, for example the Glenshane Pass and the Coleraine to Limavady Road.\n\nTemperatures will drop below 0C in places, leading to icy stretches through the rush hour on Thursday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe combination of heavy snow showers and gusty winds will mean treacherous conditions for commuters.\n\nThe showers will turn to a mix of rain, sleet, hail and hill snow by Thursday afternoon.\n\nWinds will gust close to 50mph (80km/h) in exposed areas and as showers move through but winds will not be as strong as they were with Storm Franklin\n\nMore windy weather is expected on Thursday night, and at times over the weekend, but Friday will be a recovery day.\n\nEarlier in February, named storms hit the UK and Ireland bringing strong winds, snow and rain.\n\nHeavy rainfall ahead of Storm Franklin's arrival caused severe flooding in parts of Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Friday, Storm Dudley brought heavy rain and strong winds and hundreds of homes in counties Londonderry and Armagh were left without electricity.\n\nThis was followed by Storm Eunice, which saw flights and ferries cancelled and snow in some parts of the country.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a council worker died while trying to clear fallen trees during Storm Eunice.", "People have described the state of the road as looking like the aftermath of an earthquake\n\nA ripped up road likened to being hit by an earthquake could take up to a year to fix and cost millions of pounds, a council has said.\n\nThe B4069 near Lyneham in Wiltshire has buckled in places, leaving huge cracks in the road, due to subsidence.\n\nAn emergency road closure was put in place on 17 February but police said some drivers were ignoring it, putting themselves and workers in danger.\n\nWiltshire Council said it was awaiting a report from geotechnical specialists.\n\nLocal residents claim the subsidence has been getting worse over the last year and that a landslip was inevitable. An investigation is under way into the cause.\n\nPolice said some drivers have been ignoring the closure signs\n\nDr Mark McClelland, Wiltshire Council cabinet member for transport, told BBC Radio Wiltshire: \"It could costs hundreds of thousands or up into the millions [to fix].\n\n\"There is significant damage to the road. It could be up to 12 months in total. It's not something that can be resolved in a matter of days or weeks.\"\n\nDr McClelland said people's description of it looking like an earthquake or the San Andreas Fault were \"accurate\", with the road \"buckled three to four feet in places\".\n\nDr Mark McClelland said they had never seen anything like it before\n\nHe said the council would wait until it had the report before deciding the next steps and asked drivers to obey the signs in place.\n\n\"The underlying ground has slipped and we need to understand why that has happened,\" he said.\n\n\"This road has been subject to remedial works in the past and it has been a difficult road to deal with, but we've never seen anything like this before.\n\n\"The police have been very clear that it's very dangerous for motorists to ignore signage.\"\n\nBrendan Watkins, who runs the nearby Peterborough Arms pub, said the closure is already having an impact on trade.\n\n\"It's been quite bad. We lost about 50% of our restaurant bookings this weekend,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a big job but it needs to be done as quickly as possible because local businesses are suffering.\"\n\nLocal businesses said the closure is having an impact on trade\n\nJay Collings, director of 3Sixty Bodyworx, a car body workshop on the B4069, said the road has been an issue for many years.\n\n\"I'm surprised it's not been shut earlier. All they've been doing is patching it up and not addressing the problem.\n\n\"I think they should put a weight limit in or put money into it and do it correctly. They need to invest in the safety of the road,\" he said.\n\nThe road will remain closed while further investigations take place and motorists have been urged to follow the diversion.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Armed specialist officers were deployed to the scene\n\nA 27-year-old man who launched an hours-long hostage standoff at an Apple store in Amsterdam has died in hospital from his injuries.\n\nThe armed man had entered the store on Tuesday, taking one person hostage and demanding some €200m (£165m; $230m) in cryptocurrency.\n\nThe suspect was deliberately hit by a police car after running out of the building to chase the hostage, who had managed to escape.\n\nPolice have not publicly named the suspect but said he was a resident of Amsterdam with a criminal record. They have not yet established a motive.\n\nThey said an investigation had found that the suspect had explosives on his body, but that they were not ready to detonate.\n\nOfficers were first called to the Apple store in the Dutch capital's Leidseplein area at about 17:40 local time (16:40 GMT) on Tuesday, after the camouflage-wearing suspect entered the building. Dozens of people fled the shop, while four hid in a cupboard.\n\nImages circulated on Dutch media appeared to show a man waving a firearm in one hand while holding a person in his other arm. The gunman sent photos to Amsterdam TV channel AT5 appearing to show explosives strapped to his body.\n\nAfter nearly five hours, the hostage managed to escape when water was delivered to the store at the request of the gunman.\n\nAmsterdam police chief Frank Paauw said the hostage - a Bulgarian man, not a Briton as previously reported - had played a \"heroic role by forcing a breakthrough\" in the stand-off.\n\nIn a statement, Apple said it was \"incredibly grateful and relieved that our employees and customers in Amsterdam are safe after this terrifying experience\".", "On the subject of suspense, filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock once advised: \"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.\"\n\nIt feels as if Vladimir Putin has been watching a lot of Hitchcock.\n\nFor months the Russian leader has been keeping the world guessing. Will he or won't he launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine? Is he or is he not planning to demolish the post-Cold War security order in Europe?\n\nHis decision to recognise the independence of two breakaway republics in eastern Ukraine took many by surprise.\n\nBut what will President Putin's next move be?\n\n\"Suspense is Putin's favourite tool,\" says Lilia Shevtsova, author of the book Putin's Russia.\n\n\"He will maintain the tension, turning the fire on and off.\n\n\"If he retains his mental logic, he won't attempt a full invasion. But he has a variety of possible actions available to him, such as cyber-attacks and squeezing Ukraine economically like a boa constrictor. A Russian military incursion to seize the whole of Donetsk and Luhansk regions is also possible. He will be like a cat playing with mice.\"\n\nFathoming what's going on behind the Kremlin walls is difficult enough. Reading Putin's mind is more challenging still.\n\nBut his statements and speeches provide clues to his motivation. President Putin is deeply resentful of the way the Cold War ended, with Russia losing power, territory and influence. Nato enlargement to the east has left him feeling bitter. What's more, he sounds, increasingly, like a man on a Messianic mission to force Ukraine back into Moscow's orbit.\n\n\"He's looking more like an Ayatollah than an FSB security officer,\" says Vladimir Pastukhov, senior research associate at University College London. \"He has an almost religious belief in his special place in history.\"\n\n\"He will go by stages. First, he recognised the [separatist] regions. Then he will put troops in. Next, those regions might announce a referendum on joining Russia according to the Crimea scenario. Then, maybe, there will be a local military operation to extend their territory up to their pre-2014 boundaries.\n\n\"If he's allowed to play the game by his rules, he will do this for as long as possible. He will cook the meat on a slow fire.\"\n\nWestern leaders are hoping that a new round of sanctions against Moscow will be a game-changer. But Russia is talking tough.\n\n\"We think these sanctions are illegal,\" Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, told me.\n\n\"We understood long ago that this is the only tool the West can use against us, to contain our development… we knew that there would be sanctions no matter what. It doesn't matter what we'd have done or how we'd have behaved. Sanctions were inevitable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"But does Russia not care that its international reputation, in the West, is getting lower and lower?\" I asked. \"Your country is seen increasingly as an aggressor.\"\n\n\"You're inventing this reputation,\" Ms Zakharova replied. \"What do you think of the West's reputation? It's covered in blood.\"\n\nThe EU has reportedly included Ms Zakharova on its new sanctions list.\n\nRussian tanks and troops have been massing near Ukraine's borders for months\n\nA Hitchcock thriller entertains. But Putin's Ukraine thriller is making the Russian public nervous.\n\n\"Most people don't want to know what going on there,\" says Denis Volkov of the Levada public opinion agency.\n\n\"It's too frightening for them. They don't want to listen. People are scared of a war: around half of the people we survey think war is a possibility.\"\n\nFew Russians publicly oppose the government line. But some leading Russian intellectuals have signed a petition to avoid an \"immoral, irresponsible and criminal\" war in Ukraine. They claim that \"Russians have become hostages to criminal adventurism\".\n\n\"In Russia we have no possibility to influence our government or our parliament,\" explains Professor Andrei Zubov, who has added his name to the petition. \"But I signed so that I could express my opinion and distance myself from Russia's ruling elite, which is breaking international law.\"\n\nBut Kremlin muscle-flexing has its supporters, too.\n\n\"It's not just Ukraine that will return to Russia's orbit,\" says Alexei, a former Soviet army commander. \"Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, as well. All the countries that used to be on our side.\"\n\nAlexei remembers the economic chaos of the 1990s, but believes that Russia has now risen from its knees.\n\n\"It's a biological process. After a child's been sick, he becomes more resistant to illness. What Russia suffered in the 1990s was like a disease. But it made us stronger. We don't need to persuade Nato to move away. It will give up all by itself.\"", "Barclays has suspended millions of pounds in bonus share awards to former boss Jes Staley amid an investigation by regulators into his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nMr Staley left the bank last November after watchdogs began a probe into his links to the dead sex trafficker.\n\nBut Barclays has announced that in the meantime it is freezing long-term bonus and share payments for Mr Staley.\n\nMr Staley's share awards that have been suspended are worth nearly £22m based on Barclays' share price on Wednesday.\n\nThe bank said in a statement: \"In line with its normal procedures, the committee exercised its discretion to suspend the vesting of all of Mr Staley's unvested awards, pending further developments in respect of the regulatory and legal proceedings related to the ongoing Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) investigation regarding Mr Staley.\"\n\nRegulators are investigating whether Mr Staley's relationship with Epstein was closer than he described to the board.\n\nAccording to Barclays latest annual report, Mr Staley holds 9 million unvested shares - stock that has been promised but not yet paid out - which are subject to performance targets, and an additional 2.1 million shares not subject to targets.\n\nHe also holds an additional 6.7 million shares that he owns outright. These are worth £13.1m.\n\nBarclays revealed the move as it published its full-year results which showed a sharp rise in pre-tax profits to £8.4bn for 2021 compared to £3.1bn the previous year. Barclays' share price rose by 3.3% to 196p in early trading.\n\nProfits were lifted by the release of £700m that Barclays had set aside to cover anticipated losses on Covid loans. That compares to £4.8bn the bank set aside in 2020 for Covid loan losses.\n\nMr Staley's relationship with Epstein can be traced back to US investment bank JP Morgan where the former Barclays boss used to work and where the sex offender was a client.\n\nJes Staley visited Jeffrey Epstein on his private island - Little St James - in 2015\n\nMr Staley has characterised his relationship with Epstein as professional. He said that his contact with Epstein - who took his own life in 2019 - began to \"taper off\" around 2013 when he left JP Morgan.\n\nMr Staley had already admitted he maintained contact with Epstein for about seven years after his 2008 conviction for solicitation of prostitution involving a minor.\n\nIt is also known that Mr Staley visited Little St James, a retreat owned by Epstein in the US Virgin Islands in 2015, months before taking the top job at Barclays.\n\nThe investigation by the FCA and the PRA began in 2019 after JP Morgan handed over 1,200 emails - initially to US regulators - sent between Mr Staley and Epstein mostly around 2008 to 2012, according to the Financial Times.\n\nRegulators were concerned that the emails showed a closer relationship between the two men than was characterised in a previous letter from Barclays which had described it as professional.\n\nMr Staley resigned late last year after the regulators sent their conclusions of the investigation to Barclays' board.\n\nHe said he was \"shell-shocked, angry and upset\" at the findings and that he would contest them.\n\nAt the time, Barclays said: \"It should be noted that the investigation makes no findings that Mr Staley saw, or was aware of, any of Epstein's alleged crimes, which was the central question underpinning Barclays' support for Mr Staley following the arrest of Mr Epstein in the summer of 2019.\"\n\nIn its annual report for 2021, Barclays chairman Nigel Higgins praised Mr Staley, stating that the bank's performance for the year \"was in no small way a credit to Jes Staley... and the team he assembled\".\n\nHe said Barclays is \"grateful for the hard work that he put in for the company\".", "Ms Johnson is a founding member of the Taking the Initiative party\n\nThe case against four men charged over the shooting of black equal rights campaigner Sasha Johnson has been dropped.\n\nThe mother-of-two was shot in the head during a silent disco in the garden of a house on Consort Road in Peckham, south London, in May last year.\n\nShe suffered \"catastrophic\" and permanent injuries and remains in hospital.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, four men had denied conspiracy to murder.\n\nPrince Dixon, 25, of Gravesend, Kent; Troy Reid, 20 of Southwark; Cameron Deriggs, 19, of Lewisham, and Devonte Brown, 19, of Southwark, had also pleaded not guilty to having a gun and ammunition with intent to endanger life.\n\nA trial had been due to start on 7 March but at a hearing on Tuesday, the prosecution announced it would not be pursuing the case following a review.\n\nIn court, prosecutor Mark Heywood QC said he was unable to give the full reasons for the decision but had provided details to the court as to why the CPS had no option.\n\nOutlining the case, he said four males in balaclavas had approached the house and discharged a weapon at guests, with one round striking Ms Johnson in the head at \"very close range\".\n\nHe said the Crown had alleged the four males were the defendants, however the case against them was based on circumstantial evidence and there was no direct evidence identifying any of them.\n\nCCTV analysis, phone cell site and call data showed they planned and conducted surveillance before carrying out the attack with \"murderous intent\" on one or more partygoers, the court heard.\n\nThe men had denied being part of the alleged conspiracy or present on the night of the shooting.\n\nThe attack happened in the back garden of a house in Consort Road, Peckham\n\nMr Heywood said the wider background was a \"falling out\" and \"hostility\" between Mr Deriggs and Mr Brown and the two youngest occupants of the house, who were aged 18.\n\nThere had been previous incidents and a panic alarm had been installed at the family home just days before, the court heard.\n\nAccess to the party was restricted by security at a side gate and one of the attackers was carrying a handgun, probably a Glock loaded with 9mm bullets, the court heard.\n\nHe said Ms Johnson had been at the party as she was then in a relationship with the oldest son who had been living at the property.\n\nMs Johnson had been praised for her \"fearless campaigning\"\n\nMs Johnson is a prominent anti-racism campaigner and a founding member of the Taking the Initiative Party. She was heavily involved in the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.\n\nAt the time of the attack, Ms Johnson worked in community activism and community support.\n\nMany people expressed their outrage and shock when the attack happened. Vigils were held and MPs, including David Lammy and Harriet Harman, tweeted their support for her.\n\nBlack Lives Matter UK described her as a \"fearless campaigner\" and said although she was not a member of their organisation, \"she impressively founded a new Black-led political party and was dedicated to resist anti-Black racism\".\n\nThe court heard there was nothing to suggest Ms Johnson was targeted because of her anti-racism campaigning.", "The judge at Leeds Crown Court described Austin Osayande as a \"sexual predator\"\n\nA rapist who carried his victim to a secluded spot before attacking her and telling her he was HIV positive has been jailed for life.\n\nThe woman - then aged 24 - was walking to get a taxi home in Leeds city centre when she was targeted by Austin Osayande in August 2015.\n\nPolice released CCTV footage after the attack, but he was not caught until he assaulted another woman last year.\n\nHe was jailed for life at Leeds Crown Court with a minimum term of 16 years.\n\nOsayande, who is now 40, of Sissons Road, Leeds, had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault and one count of rape.\n\nSentencing him, the judge said he was a \"sexual predator\" and a danger to women.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The footage shows the suspect carrying a woman along a street\n\nThe rape victim, who spoke directly to Osayande during his appearance at court, said the attack had led her to \"drinking, self-harm and suicide attempts\".\n\nShe added that what Osayande had told her after the rape, when he \"laughed and said he was HIV positive was mentally and physically harrowing\".\n\nShe continued: \"I have endured so much pain over the years that I will never overcome the torture you put me through. No matter how much therapy I have, it will never fully take it away.\n\n\"You had intentions that night to ruin someone's life and that life was mine.\"\n\nProsecuting, Christine Egerton said the woman recalled just wanting \"to get home to her own bed\" when Osayande approached her as she walked for a taxi along Kirkgate in the early hours of 14 August 2015.\n\nHe picked her up in his arms and carried her to a secluded doorway in nearby Mark Lane where he put her into a \"physical lock\" and raped her, the court heard.\n\nShe screamed for him to \"get off\", but he replied it \"wouldn't take long\".\n\nAfterwards, he let go of her and \"laughed and told her he was HIV positive\", the court was told.\n\nDNA was recovered as part of the investigation, but the rape remained unsolved for more than six years until Osayande sexually assaulted another woman in her own home.\n\nOn that occasion, he was working as a Hermes driver and knew the woman because of deliveries he had made to her house.\n\nMs Egerton said on the day of the attack, 10 September 2021, Osayande had delivered a parcel to her and said he was going to \"come and knock on her door for a coffee later\".\n\nHe did return and the pair chatted for a while before he sexually assaulted her, the court was told.\n\nMs Egerton said the victim tried to push Osayande off, \"but he was bigger than her and it was not possible\".\n\nPolice later linked him to the 2015 attack through his DNA.\n\nA statement from the second victim said she had been left an \"emotional wreck\" by the ordeal.\n\nShe said: \"I am not sure I will be able to be emotional or physical with anyone ever again, and most of all I hate myself for making a stupid choice.\"\n\nMitigating, Robert Mochrie said Osayande \"does wish to express his genuine remorse for both sets of offending\".\n\nHe told the court: \"There is no explanation for what he has done, but he accepts that what he has done is very, very wrong indeed.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police described the CCTV footage as \"shocking\" and said it \"clearly makes for disturbing viewing\"\n\nSentencing him, Judge Guy Kearl QC, Recorder of Leeds, told Osayande: \"You are a danger to women, whether known to you or strangers in situations where you can get them alone and then force yourself on them.\n\n\"This danger has continued for at least six years. There is no reason to think it will not continue.\"\n\nThe judge said Osayande would serve at least nine years and six months before he was eligible for parole and would be on licence for the rest of his life.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Temporary Assistant Chief Constable Pat Twiggs said Osayande was \"the absolute embodiment of a dangerous sexual predator\".\n\nHe said his \"appalling actions\" had caused trauma to his victims and it was \"likely\" there were other victims who he urged to contact police.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The entrance to a virtual strip club, accessed by the VRChat app\n\nSome apps in the virtual-reality metaverse are \"dangerous by design\", the NSPCC has warned in response to a BBC News investigation.\n\nA researcher posing as a 13-year-old girl witnessed grooming, sexual material, racist insults and a rape threat in the virtual-reality world.\n\nThe children's charity said it was \"shocked and angry\" at the findings.\n\nHead of online child safety policy Andy Burrows added the investigation had found \"a toxic combination of risks\".\n\nThe BBC News researcher - using an app with a minimum age rating of 13 - visited virtual-reality rooms where avatars were simulating sex. She was shown sex toys and condoms, and approached by numerous adult men.\n\nThe metaverse is the name given to games and experiences accessed by people wearing virtual reality headsets. The technology, previously confined to gaming, could be adapted for use in many other areas - from work to play, concerts to cinema trips.\n\nMark Zuckerberg thinks it could be the future of the internet - so much so, he recently rebranded Facebook as Meta, with the company investing billions developing its Oculus Quest headset.\n\nThat headset - now rebranded the Meta Quest - is thought to have as much as 75% of the market share. It was one of these headsets which the BBC News researcher used to explore an app, and part of the metaverse. The app, called VRChat, is an online virtual platform which users can explore with 3D avatars.\n\nWhile it is not made by Facebook, it can be downloaded from an app store on Facebook's Meta Quest headset, with no age verification checks - the only requirement being a Facebook account.\n\nThe BBC News researcher created a fake profile to set up her account - and her real identity was not checked.\n\nInside VRChat, there are rooms where users can meet: some are innocent and everyday - such as a McDonald's restaurant, for example - but there are also pole-dancing and strip clubs.\n\nOne man told our researcher that avatars can \"get naked and do unspeakable things\". Others talked about \"erotic role-play\".\n\nFollowing the BBC News investigation, the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) said improvements in online safety are a matter of urgency.\n\nMr Burrows, from the NSPCC, told us what we had found was \"extraordinary\".\n\n\"It's children being exposed to entirely inappropriate, really incredibly harmful experiences,\" he said.\n\nHe believes technology companies have learned little from mistakes made with the first generation of social media.\n\n\"This is a product that is dangerous by design, because of oversight and neglect. We are seeing products rolled out without any suggestion that safety has been considered,\" he said.\n\nMeta says it does have tools that allow players to block other users, and is looking to make safety improvements \"as it learns how people interact in these spaces\".\n\nThere are pole dancing clubs and dungeons\n\nBBC News also spoke to a safety campaigner who has spent months investigating VRChat and who now posts his videos on YouTube.\n\nHe has spoken to children who say they were groomed on the platform and forced to take part in virtual sex. He chooses to remain anonymous because he is concerned for the safety of his family.\n\nThe safety campaigner explained because VR is so immersive, children actually have to act out sexual movements.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI was surprised how totally immersed in the spaces you are. I started to feel like a child again. So when grown men were asking why I wasn't in school and encouraging me to engage in VR sex acts, it felt all the more disturbing.\n\nVRChat definitely felt more like an adult's playground than a child's. A lot of the rooms were overtly sexualised in pink neon, similar to what you might see in the red light district in Amsterdam or in the more seedy parts of London's Soho at night. Inside, sex toys were on display.\n\nThe music playing in the rooms, which can be controlled by the players, adds to the impression that it is not a space that is suitable for children.\n\nEverything about the rooms feels unnerving. There are characters simulating sex acts on the floor in big groups, speaking to one another like children play-acting at being adult couples.\n\nIt's very uncomfortable, and your options are to stay and watch, move on to another room where you might see something similar, or join in - which, on many occasions, I was instructed to do.\n\nPeople whose job it is to observe developments in VR are also concerned.\n\nCatherine Allen runs the consultancy Limina Immersive and is currently writing a report about VR for the Institute of Engineering and Technology.\n\nShe says her research team has found many of their experiences in VR \"fun and surreal\", but others have been \"quite traumatic and disturbing\".\n\nShe described one incident in a Meta-owned app where she encountered a seven-year-old girl.\n\nA group of men surrounded them both and joked about raping them. Ms Allen said she had to step between the men and the child to protect her.\n\n\"I shouldn't have had to do that, but that's because there's no moderation, or apparently very little moderation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVR and the metaverse are not specifically mentioned in the UK's forthcoming Online Safety Bill, which is due before parliament in the coming months.\n\nBut in evidence to Parliament last year, Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries made it clear the legislation would cover the technology.\n\nThe bill, when passed, would impose a duty of care on platforms and providers to protect children from harmful content.\n\nVRChat told us it was \"working hard to make itself a safe and welcoming place for everyone.\" It said \"predatory and toxic behaviour has no place on the platform\".\n\nMeta's product manager for VR integrity Bill Stillwell said in a statement: \"We want everyone using our products to have a good experience and easily find the tools that can help in situations like these, so we can investigate and take action.\"\n\nHe added: \"For cross platform apps…we provide tools that allow players to report and block users.\n\n\"We will continue to make improvements as we learn more about how people interact in these spaces.\"\n\nCharities advise parents to check which apps their children are using on VR Headsets and, where possible, try them out for themselves, to assess whether they're appropriate.\n\nMany apps allow users to simultaneously \"cast\" their experience to a phone or laptop, so a parent can watch what's going on at the same time as their child plays.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Miriam Siddiqi says her brother's death has left her family living with \"a wound that won't heal\"\n\nOne of Europe's most wanted men, suspected of being the mastermind in the mistaken identity killing of a schoolboy, has been to many countries while on the run, it has emerged.\n\nMohammed Ali Ege is wanted by police in connection with Aamir Siddiqi's murder.\n\nTwo hitmen were convicted of the 17-year-old's murder in a killing for hire which went wrong at his Cardiff home in front of his parents in 2010.\n\nAfter escaping custody in India five years ago Mohammed Ali Ege is thought to have travelled across three continents.\n\nAamir's mother and father, Parveen and Sheikh Iqbal Ahmed, were also injured in the attack that killed their son\n\nBut the fugitive known as Wales' most wanted man is still at large despite police appeals after fleeing capture in 2017 as he awaited extradition.\n\nAamir's sister said the family \"won't rest easy\" until the 44-year-old \"faces justice\".\n\nAamir believed he was opening the door to a teacher in April 2010 when he was stabbed to death in a frenzied drug-fuelled attack by contract killers Jason Richards and Ben Hope.\n\nBen Hope and Jason Richards were convicted of murder at Swansea Crown Court\n\nThey burst screeching into Aamir's home wearing balaclavas, and stabbed him in the hallway. His parents were injured as they fought the attackers in vain as they tried to save their son.\n\nThe two heroin addicts were paid £1,000 to kill an innocent businessman and father-of-four who lived in a neighbouring street in the Roath area of Cardiff - but they went to the wrong house and killed Aamir.\n\nBoth hitmen were given a minimum of 40 years in prison each, but the man accused of hiring them was Mohammed Ali Ege, who a court heard was angry over a collapsed property deal.\n\nFive months after Aamir's murder, South Wales Police offered a £10,000 reward for information on his whereabouts.\n\nAamir Siddiqi was studying law and was also interested in politics when he was killed\n\nHe was arrested in India in October 2011 on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.\n\nBut after being taken to court in April 2017 to await extradition, he escaped from Indian police at a New Delhi railway station after removing a grill from a toilet window.\n\nMiriam Siddiqi wants to see the man said to be behind her brother's death face justice\n\nNow Miriam Siddiqi, Aamir's older sister has shed fresh light on the \"multiple countries\" he is believed to have travelled to after escaping Indian authorities.\n\nThe Siddiqi family has been receiving updates from detectives.\n\nPolice in Wales are still waiting to question Mohammed Ali Ege about Aamir Siddiqi's murder\n\n\"He's a man of means, he's a man of power and to be able to evade police for so many years, you cannot do that alone just by having a few false passports,\" said Ms Siddiqi.\n\n\"You need to be able to have a network that supports you and it felt as if he was using that time very wisely.\n\n\"When he escaped from India he left the country very quickly\".\n\nMs Siddiqi said he was last thought to be in the Middle East and there were \"recent updates\" on the effort to make him face justice.\n\n\"I know that for a fact he travelled to multiple countries before we've heard that he's in Dubai,\" she said.\n\nShe said he is believed to have travelled to Sri Lanka, and several countries in Africa, including Morocco or Tunisia, before eventually travelling to Dubai, where he was thought to have been as recently as last year.\n\n\"He's still at large, he's still living some sort of life,\" she said.\n\nAamir Siddiqi was stabbed to death at his family home in Ninian Road in Roath, Cardiff\n\nShe said detectives believed as recently as last year that he was in Dubai.\n\nShe said: \"I know that he hasn't stayed in one place for very long\".\n\nAamir's sister says her parents 'can't rest easy' until Mohammed Ali Ege 'has been brought to justice'\n\nMohammed Ali Ege was born in Dubai in October 1977, and later settled in Wales.\n\nHe is known to have used different names, identities and passports.\n\nIn 2019 South Wales Police said they believed he may have been receiving financial support from within Wales.\n\nOfficers searched several addresses in Cardiff at the time.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it \"continues to work with the National Crime Agency and international law enforcement agencies to trace Mohammed Ali Ege and return him to the UK\".\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"From our ongoing investigation to trace him we know that he has travelled\".\n\nIt added: \"His current whereabouts remain unknown but if and when Mohammed Ali Ege is arrested anywhere in the world, current arrangements are in place to ensure that South Wales Police would be notified immediately.\"\n\nDet Insp Stuart Wales from the force's Major Crime Investigations Team said: \"Nearly 12 years may have passed but until Mohammed Ali Ege is located and brought back to the UK, this remains a live and priority investigation for South Wales Police.\".\n\nMohammed Ali Ege escaped police custody before he was due to be extradited from India\n\nMs Siddiqi has praised the work of Welsh detectives, but said she was \"frustrated\" by elements of the international appeal for Mr Ege.\n\nShe has criticised the fact that there is no public appeal from the UK for him on the global police agency, Interpol's 'wanted person' list.\n\nThere is a public Interpol appeal from Indian Police, known as a public facing red notice, but that is for passport and forgery charges he faces in India.\n\nShe said: \"Maybe this has been a missed opportunity...\n\n\"Had it been on there I don't know what the results could have been, could he have been in the UK by now?\"\n\nPolice released new images in 2021 of Mohammed Ali Ege while he was in police custody in India\n\nBBC Wales understands a red notice from South Wales Police does exist, and has been shared with police forces, but has not been made public.\n\nHowever, Ms Siddiqi believes this should be made public given how far Mohammed Ali Ege is said to have travelled, and how long he has managed to evade police.\n\nSouth Wales Police said: \"Red notice status is a matter for the Home Office and Interpol\".\n\nDet Insp Wales added: \"There are numerous appeals for information in relation to Mohammed Ali Ege on Interpol, the Major Investigation Public Portal, Crimestoppers, the South Wales Police website and many local, national and international media reports.\".\n\nInterpol said that \"every red notice request is checked by a specialised task force to ensure it is compliant\" and added that the \"review takes into account information available at the time of publication\".\n\nThe Home Office said: \"We can't comment on individual Interpol red notices.\"\n\nMs Siddiqi said: \"It is important that you find him - he has the most serious charges waiting for him in the UK.\"\n\nShe said her family would \"forever be indebted to South Wales Police\" for catching Aamir's killers, but the only way her parents \"will be able to rest easy in their lifetime\" is if Mr Ege faces justice in Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mohammed Ali Ege is wanted by police in connection to Aamir Siddiqi's murder\n\n\"I don't think I'll ever stop grieving because I don't think I'll ever stop loving Aamir.\"\n\nIn a direct appeal to Mr Ege, she said: \"If he had no involvement in this, tell us that you didn't.\n\n\"My parents are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, my parents suffer from trauma and they have to live with that for the rest of their lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by South Wales Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Vladimir Putin has pressed one of his top spy chiefs, during a meeting with Russia's top security officials on recognition for rebel-held regions of Ukraine.\n\nAs the head of Russia's foreign intelligence service shared his views on the current situation, Putin repeatedly asked him to clarify what he was saying and told him to \"speak plainly\".\n\nIt is not clear whether Russia has sent troops into two breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine, but the US and UK say Russia's order to deploy troops amounts to the \"beginning of an invasion\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. River Severn flooding in Shropshire seen from the air\n\nCommunities along the River Severn have been urged to remain wary as water levels begin to subside in some areas.\n\nA danger to life warning remains in Bewdley, Worcestershire, but the one issued for Ironbridge in Shropshire was lifted on Wednesday evening.\n\nThe Severn peaked in Worcester earlier but flooding is \"increasingly drawn out\", the Environment Agency said.\n\nThe situation could \"get worse before it gets better\", Worcestershire County Council warned.\n\nThe peak reached Worcester at around 17:00 GMT but while the situation was \"gradually improving\", water levels would remain high for a number of days, Ian Jones from the Environment Agency tweeted.\n\nIn Bewdley, the Severn overtopped defences at Beales Corner following heavy rain on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nDan Bond, from the Environment Agency, said: \"We are still facing a significant flooding risk, and we are urging people to remain vigilant and take extreme care.\n\n\"Last weekend's heavy rainfall on already wet areas continues to cause river flooding along the River Severn and is likely to continue over the next few days.\"\n\nHis colleague Nick Green said the recent events had been \"incredibly frightening\" for people in Bewdley, where search and rescue crews have been checking properties after dozens were evacuated.\n\nFire and rescue workers have been helping those flooded in Bewdley\n\nSome residents have criticised the government's response, including Maxine Preece who said it was \"very disappointing\" that she did not see any rescue workers near her home in Bewdley.\n\n\"I think they have just decided we were going to flood, it feels that way, and just told us to prepare ourselves and left,\" she added.\n\nThe temporary barriers at Beales Corner in the town were also breached in 2021 and while the Environment Agency intends to submit a planning proposal for permanent defences later this year, they are unlikely to be in use until at least 2024.\n\nIn Bewdley, the River Severn breached the flood defences on Tuesday\n\nIn Shrewsbury, where large parts of the town were underwater, residents have also expressed disdain.\n\nPaul Fairhurst and Sarah Jackaman have been flooded about 15 times but said the past three years had been the worst.\n\n\"This is the third year we've seen these unprecedented levels of water,\" Ms Jackaman said.\n\n\"We were promised millions of pounds for this region and the Severn catchment to come up with solutions for flooding and we've yet to see any of the benefits.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nResponding to the criticism, the Environment Agency said: \"We prioritise our resources, and will assist householders if we have the resources to do so once public-maintained assets are operational.\n\n\"Where defences are outflanked we undertake pumping were possible and safe, as well as usual providing warning, informing and - in cases such as Bewdley - supporting other responders in evacuation.\"\n\nThe River Severn as seen from Castlefields foot bridge, Shrewsbury, on Tuesday morning\n\nData from Environment Agency monitoring stations near the Worcestershire town suggest river levels exceeded the normal range at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday.\n\nOfficials say levels are forecast to remain high for a long period due to further rainfall this week, though current estimates suggest they will not reach the historic high of about 5.5m.\n\nSeveral properties in Worcester have flooded, particularly in the Diglis area.\n\nSam McCarthy from Worcester Business Improvement District said flood warnings had impacted footfall in the city.\n\n\"Businesses have been through a really difficult period over the last 18 months, so this is something they really could do without at this point in time,\" she said.\n\nIn Ironbridge, water levels were still high against barriers so the Wharfage remained closed to vehicles and pedestrians, Telford & Wrekin Council said.\n\nLevels peaked in the early hours of Wednesday morning at 21.65ft (6.6m), but were \"now slowly retreating\", it said.\n\nThe Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust said the Museum of The Gorge and Coalport China Museum were both flooded.\n\nAs a result of the flooding in Ironbridge, it had also had to close the Tollhouse and the Jackfield Tile Museum.\n\nAbout 60 properties were evacuated in Ironbridge on Tuesday\n\nKaren Davies, from the trust, said: \"We have just redecorated Coalport after the floods of 2020, we were just starting renovation work, significant renovation work, on the Museum of the Gorge, and it will take team spirit to get in there and get the museums open.\"\n\nThe river has also burst its banks at Bridgnorth, where a flood reception centre was opened to help those affected.\n\nLevels peaked in the town at about 06:00 GMT when the water reached heights of 5.12m.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVillagers in Melverley near the Welsh border had been out in a boat collecting \"vital medication for neighbours and feed for animals\", Shropshire Council said.\n\nIt said residents told them that it was \"the worst flooding for at least 20 years\".\n\nMr Green said although some areas had peaked, river levels would not retreat for some time.\n\n\"Any rain that now falls on the Welsh mountains, because the ground's so soggy, will not be soaked up,\" he said.\n\n\"So it just goes straight into the river system and then it has to work its way down through Shropshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and out into the sea.\"\n\nThe River Wye has peaked in Herefordshire and flood water has been slowly falling.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Health Minister Robin Swann has said he will not be \"rushed\" into taking decisions on rules around the use of free mass testing in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government in England plans to bring it to an end from 1 April.\n\nThe DUP MP Sammy Wilson said Northern Ireland should be following Number 10's lead, but Sinn Féin, Alliance and the SDLP have urged caution.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Swann said he would not base his decisions on \"timetables elsewhere\".\n\n\"I have asked officials to draw up policy options based on an appropriate, proportionate approach to testing in NI. In the meantime, there will be no changes to the current approach,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Swann added that testing \"will continue to have a role, especially in protecting the most vulnerable\", and that further discussions on funding would be required with London and his Stormont ministerial colleagues.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont on Tuesday, Finance Minister Conor Murphy said he wanted free testing to continue but it would come at a cost.\n\n\"We have to make a decision do we try and provide our own supply and the cost of that, in a situation where we can't take budgetary decisions, where departments only have the baseline they have to spend into the new financial year because of the absence of the executive.\n\n\"That makes it infinitely more difficult.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon said it would wrong for Northern Ireland to bring an end to free testing.\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said it was important that people are supported financially to test and self-isolate if required.\n\nHowever DUP MP Sammy Wilson said Northern Ireland should follow England's move.\n\nHe described the recent strains of the virus as being similar to the impact of the common flu and that Northern Ireland should change test and trace procedures.\n\n\"We don't do that kind of extensive test and trace for common flu, we don't ask people to self-isolate immediately, we don't ask businesses to be disrupted as a result of that.\n\n\"We ask people to engage in common sense.\n\n\"Test and trace was introduced at a time when we didn't have all of the means to combat Covid that we do today.\"\n\nMs Mallon said testing was \"an important means of controlling transmission\".\n\nThe UK Treasury would save billions of pounds by scrapping or reducing the number of free tests\n\n\"Now to be saying, particularly to low income families, that they will have to pay for that is deeply, deeply concerning,\" said the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) minister.\n\nThe justice minister said whether it is Covid-19 or other conditions, people should \"not be going into the workplace ill and passing it on to colleagues who may be vulnerable or have vulnerable members of families\".\n\n\"But for people to make that choice, they have to be able to test, they have to know they're unwell and have financial support to let them self-isolate,\" said Mrs Long.\n\nFrom Thursday, people with a positive Covid-19 test in England no longer legally need to self-isolate and routine tracing will end.\n\nRemaining Covid restrictions are also being lifted in England, and free mass testing will stop from 1 April.\n\nDr David Farren, from the British Medical Association (BMA) in Northern Ireland, said free testing should remain and the government's decision could \"come back to bite us\".\n\n\"Testing people and isolating them is the way you stop the bug from jumping from one person to another and effectively the prime minister has removed two very important protections in England with that move,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster on Tuesday.\n\nThe infection control doctor said there could be \"further spread\" because people may not be able to afford tests or take time away from work.\n\nThis risked creating a \"two-tier\" health system, he added, \"the like of which we haven't seen within our NHS\".\n\nDr David Farren said it was wrong to ask people to pay for Covid-19 tests\n\nPatricia McKeown, from the trade union Unison, said the pandemic had highlighted the importance of sick pay.\n\nBut Roger Pollen, from the Federation of Small Businesses, said there was a need to \"learn to live with\" coronavirus and ending testing \"is a choice about how we spend taxpayers' money\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of Northern Ireland's vaccination programme, Patricia Donnelly, said mass vaccine centres will not be needed for the next roll-out of the Covid jab.\n\nOver the course of the pandemic, mass vaccination centres were set up across Northern Ireland to administer Covid-19 vaccines on larger scales at locations including the SSE Arena and the Titanic Exhibition Centre in Belfast.\n\nMs Donnelly also said health officials in Northern Ireland expect the roll-out to be extended to over-50s in autumn and \"are planning for it\".\n\nShe said it had been expected there would be an annual vaccination programme, similar to how the flu vaccine is rolled out.\n\nAdditional vaccines being made available for those aged 75 and over in 2022 could be facilitated by GPs, community pharmacies and health trusts, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patricia Donnelly said additional jabs could be facilitated by GPs, community pharmacies and health trusts.\n\nAbout 155,000 people will be eligible for the booster jab, with the roll-out expected to begin in April.\n\nThere must be a gap of at least six months since a previous dose.\n\nThose eligible for the booster vaccine are:\n\nOn Monday, Stormont ministers held talks with the UK government about future funding to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nAt the weekend, ministers from Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales wrote a joint letter to Michael Gove expressing fears that funding for testing was about to be cut.", "Boots will begin selling Covid rapid tests in store next month\n\nPharmacy Boots will begin selling single Covid tests for £5.99 from Wednesday, despite free kits being available via the NHS until 1 April.\n\nCustomers can purchase a pack of four lateral flow tests online for £17, or one test for £5.99, including delivery.\n\nNext month people can buy them in-store for £12 for a pack of five.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday announced a \"Living with Covid\" plan, which will end free testing and scrap self-isolation rules and payments.\n\nAsif Aziz, director of healthcare services at Boots UK, said: \"We are pleased to be expanding our Covid-19 testing services even further, with affordable lateral flow testing options for those who still want peace of mind from asymptomatic testing after 1 April.\"\n\nThe company said the earlier launch date was to prepare both supply chains and customers ahead of the end of free testing.\n\nHowever, there was mixed reaction to the announcement on social media, with one Twitter user pointing out the increased costs to households to act responsibly when one member catches the virus.\n\nSome countries have placed a price cap on Covid tests, such as Spain which has a £2.45 maximum price cap. In France the maximum price pharmacies can charge has fallen to €6 (£5) but the cap is due to be cut further. When France temporarily allowed kits to be sold at supermarkets until 15 February they were available for as little as €1.25\n\nAnother user, Carly Nicholls, asked about the implications for Boots staff potentially being exposed to more Covid-positive people.\n\n\"How do Boots staff feel about being point of contact for so many people, if sold in-store? Some of those testing will be suspected Covid infections.\"\n\nFree rapid tests will no longer be an option for many in England\n\nDan Shears, national health and safety director at the GMB union, described the move as \"rampant profiteering\" and said the cost would be a big sacrifice for the lowest-paid workers.\n\n\"The government should provide tests for free - they are a clear public health benefit that far outweighs cost. But if we have to pay, test provision should be subsidised to make tests affordable.\n\n\"The reality is that those who are most at risk are least able to afford testing, meaning it will not happen and low-paid workers - many of whom are key workers - will continue to take the brunt of Covid.\"\n\nBusiness groups also warned on Monday that the government must not put the cost and responsibility of testing on employers.\n\n\"Access to free testing is key to managing workplace sickness and maintaining consumer confidence,\" British Chambers of Commerce co-executive director, Claire Walker, said.\n\n\"If the government is to remove this, companies must still be able to access tests on a cost-effective basis,\" she added.\n\nPeople in England can now only order one pack of rapid tests every 72 hours, instead of every day previously, as the government winds down the service ahead of April.", "Average UK petrol and diesel prices have hit new highs as the Ukraine crisis continues to affect oil prices, the RAC has said.\n\nOn Wednesday, petrol prices rose to 149.30p per litre amid warnings it could soon pass £1.50.\n\nOil prices jumped after Russia ordered troops into two Ukrainian regions this week to \"maintain peace\".\n\nWholesale gas prices also continue to climb, threatening to further push up heating bills.\n\nRussia is the world's second-largest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia and the top producer of natural gas globally.\n\nThe UK only gets 6% of its crude oil and 5% of its gas from Russia, but there are concerns sanctions could constrict supplies and drive up prices worldwide.\n\nUK consumers are already paying a high price for energy and fuel, with demand surging following the easing of Covid restrictions.\n\nFormer National Grid boss Steve Holliday told the BBC's Today programme: \"For the UK, it's a price issue, it's not a security supply issue.\n\n\"We already know that we've got consumers that are already experiencing huge jumps in their energy bills, so this is really very unwelcome.\"\n\nThe price of Brent crude oil, an international benchmark, hit a seven-year high of more than $99 (£73) on Tuesday before falling back on Wednesday.\n\nHowever, fuel pump prices lag behind oil prices and the RAC has warned petrol could go higher than £1.50 a litre in the coming days.\n\nDiesel has also risen, hitting 152.68p a litre on Wednesday.\n\nMatt Williams, 30, runs Williams & Yates, a removals company that operates across the UK and Europe with a fleet of 11 vans and lorries.\n\nRising fuel costs have forced it to put up its prices and he fears it might impact the business in the months ahead.\n\n\"Unfortunately, we do have to pass [these costs] onto the customer,\" he told the BBC. \"All the competition has to do the same, but I think it does make some consumers reconsider their moving options.\"\n\nThe firm offers basic and bespoke services, and he expects more customers to choose the cheaper option in the coming months rather than \"paying loads of money\".\n\nGordon Balmer, executive director of the Petrol Retailers Association, a trade body for independent UK forecourts, said whether fuel prices continue to rise depends on a number of factors.\n\n\"If [conflict] really sparks off in Ukraine, we could prices escalating dramatically,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he added that the US is in the process of negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran which could see more oil come onto the market.\n\nUK wholesale gas prices also jumped following Germany's decision on Tuesday to halt the final approval of Nord Stream 2 - a new gas pipeline connecting the country with Russia.\n\nThat decision drew a swift response from Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president and now deputy chairman of its Security Council.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Well, welcome to the brave new world where Europeans are very soon going to pay €2,000 for 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas!\" he tweeted - suggesting prices were set to double.\n\nUK gas prices for delivery in March rose by 13.5p to 200p per therm, though that is still much lower than the highs of December last year, when it peaked at over 400p per therm.\n\nWestern nations and Japan on Tuesday punished Russia with new sanctions for ordering troops into separatist regions of eastern Ukraine.\n\nThe UK said it was ready to impose further sanctions in the event of a full invasion of Ukraine, targeting more Russian banks and individuals as well as companies in the energy, defence, technology and chemical sectors.\n\nAfter a volatile trading session on Tuesday, global stock markets climbed on Wednesday before falling back again.\n\nTowards the end of the day, the UK's FTSE 100 was flat while France's CAC-40 and Germany's Dax had lost between 0.2% and 0.5%. The main three US indexes were all in the red.\n\nHigh energy prices in the UK have played a major part in pushing up the cost of living recently, while wages have lagged behind price rises.\n\nInflation currently stands at 5.5% - its highest level in 30 years.\n\nSpeaking to the Treasury Select Committee of MPs on Wednesday, Jonathan Haskel, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, said energy prices accounted for nearly half of the rise in inflation over the last year.\n\nThat is likely to rise to 70% in the first three months of 2022, according to Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey.\n\nThe Bank deputy governor, Ben Broadbent, said: \"If you look at the increase in energy bills this year, it is just about twice as big as any single year in the 1970s - it is enormous.\"\n\nThe Bank expects inflation to hit 7% in spring when the price cap on household energy bills is raised. This is far above the Bank of England's 2% target.\n\nFrom April, about 18 million homes on standard tariffs will see an average increase of £693. Meanwhile, 4.5 million prepayment customers can expect their energy costs to rise by an average £708.\n\nConsumers are also being squeezed by rising prices on goods as many companies pass on higher costs such as fuel, shipping and wages to their customers.\n\nAs well as the rise in energy prices in April, staff, companies and the self-employed will also have to pay an extra 1.25p on the pound in National Insurance. The rise is being introduced by the government to fund health and social care.", "On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into eastern Ukraine. Thousands have been deployed near the Ukrainian border in recent months.\n\nRos Atkins looks at the key moments of Russia's military build-up in the crisis so far.", "Screaming Trees frontman and former Queens of the Stone Age member Mark Lanegan has died at the age of 57.\n\nKnown for his deep, melancholy vocals, the American singer-songwriter died at his home in Killarney, Ireland, a statement on his Twitter account said.\n\nDuring his career he collaborated with musicians including Kurt Cobain, PJ Harvey, Isobel Campbell and Moby.\n\nLast year, he was in hospital for months after contracting Covid, and was put into a medically-induced coma.\n\nNo cause of death has been given.\n\nA statement said: \"Our beloved friend Mark Lanegan passed away this morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland.\n\n\"A beloved singer, songwriter, author, and musician he was 57 and is survived by his wife Shelley [Brien].\"\n\nBorn in Washington state in 1964, Lanegan joined Screaming Trees in the 1980s and went on to produce eight studio albums until the group's split in 2000.\n\nThe band pioneered a sound that combined 1960s garage rock with 1970s punk - which later became known as grunge. Although they never achieved the mainstream success of contemporaries like Soundgarden and Nirvana, they scored hits in the US with Nearly Lost You in 1992 and All I Know in 1996.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by ScreamingTreesVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nLanegan had a parallel solo career, and his debut album, The Winding Sheet, included appearances from Cobain and Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic.\n\nAfter the Screaming Trees went on hiatus in 1996, he joined the ever-changing line-up of Josh Homme's Queens of the Stone Age.\n\nHe first appeared on the rock band's Rated R album in 2000, lending his voice and songwriting talent to several songs, and also performed on their breakout album Songs for the Deaf - earning a Grammy nomination for both.\n\nHe later formed The Gutter Twins with Afghan Whigs vocalist Greg Dulli; and recorded three collaborative albums with Scottish singer-songwriter Isobel Campbell - the first of which, Ballad of the Broken Seas, was nominated for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIn 2020, he published a memoir called Sing Backwards And Weep, which covered everything from \"addiction to touring, petty crime, homelessness and the tragic deaths of his closest friends\" - among them Cobain and Alice in Chains' Layne Staley.\n\nHe followed that up with last year's Devil In A Coma, which detailed his near-death experience with Covid, which included cracked ribs after a fall and recurring hallucinations.\n\n\"I'd taken my share of well-deserved ass-kickings over the years but this thing was trying to dismantle me, body and mind, and I could see no end to it in sight,\" he wrote in an extract published in the Guardian newspaper.\n\nMark Lanegan (centre back) with Queens of the Stone Age in 2005\n\nFigures from the world of music and entertainment paid tribute to Lanegan.\n\nAddressing his late bandmate, Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel said he hoped \"the angels are taking good care of you today\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFounding member of the Velvet Underground John Cale said \"I can't process this\" at the news, adding: \"Mark Lanegan will always be etched in my heart - as he surely touched so many with his genuine self, no matter the cost, true to the end.\"\n\nIggy Pop, one of Lanegan's key influences, described himself as a \"fan\" and expressed his \"deepest respect\".\n\nOn BBC 6 Music, Marc Riley dedicated the last half-hour of his Tuesday night programme to Lanegan's music. \"Hearing the news has kind of floored me,\" he told listeners.\n\nMoby, who collaborated with the Lanegan on the 2013 track The Lonely Night, paid tribute to his \"old friend\", adding: \"More and more the best are no longer with us.\"\n\nThe Manic Street Preachers, who worked with Lanegan on their latest album The Ultra Vivid Lament, tweeted that they were devastated by the news, describing him as a \"huge talent on so many levels\", with an amazing voice, \"all those beautiful words\" and a \"unique artistic vision\".\n\nSinger-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy also paid tribute, calling the late rocker \"one of the great singers of the last 30 years\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Badly Drawn Boy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLocals in Killarney also expressed their sense of loss. Councillor and pub landlord Niall O'Callaghan said it was a tight-knit community and everyone was sad to hear of the singer's death.\n\n\"For a man of the stature of Mark Lanegan, it was a real honour that he chose to live in Killarney,\" he said.", "Neil McEvoy was a Member of the Senedd until last May\n\nA former Senedd member has been asked to repay £3,450 after he was found to have wrongly used taxpayers' resources for a council election campaign.\n\nIt is one of four investigations where Neil McEvoy was found to have broken the Welsh Parliament's code of conduct.\n\nThe newly published reports find he also brought the Senedd into disrepute when he made secret recordings of a probe into his behaviour.\n\nMr McEvoy said: \"I owe no money, so there's nothing to repay.\"\n\nHe said the process was \"rotten\" and was a \"stitch-up\".\n\nThe Senedd's standards committee's findings, complete with details of investigations by the standards commissioner Douglas Bain, were completed in February 2021.\n\nThey have only been published now, eight months since Mr McEvoy lost his seat in last May's elections.\n\nThey were delayed after Mr McEvoy made an appeal, which eventually found Mr McEvoy had a \"fair hearing\" in all four investigations.\n\nIt meant recommended sanctions, excluding Mr McEvoy from the Senedd for a total of 42 days, were never implemented.\n\nMr McEvoy was elected as a Plaid Cymru assembly member in 2016, before being expelled from the party.\n\nNow leader of Propel, he failed to be re-elected as a Member of the Senedd (MS) in 2021 but continues to represent Cardiff council's Fairwater ward.\n\nSir Roderick Evans resigned as standards commissioner after the recordings emerged\n\nIt took over three years for the complaint about the misuse of resources to come to a conclusion - with the original complaint made in November 2017.\n\nThe committee, then led by Jayne Bryant MS, said it was a matter of \"great regret\".\n\nThe delay was in part due to a separate investigation by South Wales Police into the secret recording, where the police decided to take no further action.\n\nThe complaint was also examined by two standards commissioners - Mr Bain, and former commissioner Sir Roderick Evans, who resigned after Mr McEvoy revealed he secretly recorded him during the process.\n\nThe investigation found that thousands of election leaflets were printed in his office in Cardiff; that a staff member was used to do translation work for a campaign, and a campaign organiser was allowed to be based in the office.\n\nIt found a total of 22 breaches of rules prohibiting the use of Welsh Parliament resources for election campaigning, as reported by BBC Wales following a leak last year.\n\nMr Bain could not come to an exact cost to the taxpayer for the campaigning breaches, but made a \"low level\" estimate of £3,450.\n\nThe standards committee of the last Senedd term, said it did not have the power to require a repayment, but invited Mr McEvoy to repay the estimated loss.\n\nOne of the reports related to how his office in Cardiff was used\n\nThe committee said it was \"extremely concerned\" after the commissioner found that an unnamed employee of Neil McEvoy had sent \"two abusive messages\" to someone likely to be a witness in the investigation, and asked a third party to send a message to someone else making clear they did not need to give evidence.\n\nDespite the \"distress caused\", neither person took notice of the attempt \"to suborn them,\" Mr Bain wrote.\n\nThe previous committee called for the law to be changed to make it an offence to interfere with a standards investigation.\n\nOne of the three reports deals with a complaint by the presiding officer Elin Jones about Mr McEvoy's secret recordings of Sir Roderick Evans.\n\nMr McEvoy began recording Sir Roderick and his team after he asked for audio recordings of the hearings into the complaint about his use of Senedd resources.\n\nThe recordings included a private conversation where Sir Roderick referred to Mr McEvoy as having \"sociopathic tendencies\".\n\nUsing a mobile phone, Mr McEvoy made recordings on four occasions of further hearings into the case.\n\n\"It was his practice to enter the room where the hearing was to take place before it was due to start and leave his phone, set to record, on a table, in his jacket or in a bag,\" Mr Bain wrote.\n\nIn November 2019 Mr McEvoy passed transcripts of the meetings to the media, and Sir Roderick subsequently resigned.\n\nThe standards committee acknowledged Sir Roderick's comments were likely to have caused distress and were \"ill-judged\", but said it was \"wholly inappropriate\" to make covert recordings.\n\n\"The actions undertaken by Neil McEvoy in covertly recording conversations on the Senedd estate had a significant negative impact on a wide range of people across the Senedd and beyond,\" the report said.\n\n\"It undermined the public confidence in the Senedd, and particularly in the standards regime.\"\n\nTwo other investigations which found Mr McEvoy breached the rules said:\n\nBefore the last election the standards committee recommended Mr McEvoy be excluded from the Senedd without pay for a total of 42 days.\n\nBut the recommendations - seven days for the covert recording, 14 days for the misuse of Senedd resources and 21 days for the emails - were never implemented, and the Senedd can no longer sanction him.\n\nThe 21 day exclusion was recommended because it was the sixth report where he was found to have breached the code, and the fourth where he failed to co-operate with the standards commissioner.\n\nNeil McEvoy said the Senedd process \"is rotten to the core, as my secret phone recordings proved\".\n\n\"The public see the real story here: an establishment stitch up.\"\n\nThe Senedd was asked for comment.", "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country was ready for a Russian attack, vowing, \"We will defend ourselves\".\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that Russia could start \"a major war in Europe\" any day now, and called on Russians to oppose it.\n\nIn a late-night address, he said he had unsuccessfully sought talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\n\"I initiated a telephone call with the president of the Russian federation. Result: silence,\" Mr Zelensky said.\n\nHe said Russia had almost 200,000 troops and thousands of combat vehicles on Ukraine's borders.\n\nAnd switching from Ukrainian into Russian, Mr Zelensky made an emotional appeal to Russians to reject an attack, saying they were being lied to about Ukraine.\n\n\"Who can stop (the war)? People. These people are among you, I am sure,\" he said.\n\nUkraine's leader said his country was ready for a Russian attack, vowing: \"If they [Russia] attack, if they try to take our county - our freedom, our lives, the lives of our children - we will be defending ourselves.\"\n\n\"As you attack, it will be our faces you see, not our backs,\" the Ukrainian president said.\n\nIt came as Russian troops, ordered into Ukraine's two rebel-held regions, were reportedly edging closer to the border.\n\nMoscow said the breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine had asked for military support.\n\nEarly on Thursday, Ukraine said it had restricted civilian flights in its airspace due to \"potential hazard\". The move followed warnings from the conflict zone monitor Safe Airspace, which said planes risked being shot down unintentionally or affected by cyber attacks.\n\nIt was not initially clear if the notice amounted to an outright ban on civilian flights. It is due to expire at 2359 GMT on Thursday, unless extended further.\n\nRussia has also issued a civil aviation notice warning that it is closing virtually all of eastern Ukrainian airspace on the border with Russia, according to a monitoring group.\n\nThe Open Source Intelligence Monitor says no \"limit or ending time\" has been provided so far by Moscow.\n\nThe United Nations Security Council is holding an emergency session from 02:30 GMT to discuss the deteriorating situation.\n\nUkraine has declared a state of emergency and told millions of its citizens living in Russia to return home. The 30-day emergency status allows authorities to adopt heightened security measures, including curfews.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Fear and frustration as families arrive in Russia from eastern Ukraine\n\nWestern countries have announced a series of sanctions against Russia since it tore up a 2014-15 peace deal for eastern Ukraine and recognised the so-called people's republics of Luhansk and Donetsk as independent states. Moscow's claims that troops would be sent in for \"peacekeeping\" operations have been rejected by the UN secretary-general and decried as nonsense by the West.\n\nRussia has been backing a bloody armed rebellion in eastern Ukraine for the past eight years. Some 14,000 people - including many civilians - have died in fighting since then.\n\nThe US has described Moscow's actions as marking the beginning of an invasion. A senior US defence official on Wednesday said Russian troops were \"uncoiled and ready to go\", with a large-scale invasion possible at any moment.\n\nFears of a Russian attack have been rising for months, with more than 150,000 troops massed along Ukraine's borders, according to US estimates.\n\nUkraine's state of emergency was overwhelmingly approved by lawmakers on Wednesday, and is now in force nationwide.\n\nIt introduces personal document checks, blocks military reservists from leaving the country, bans mass gatherings and places restrictions on radio communication systems. Kyiv's mayor said checkpoints would be set up in roads into the city, and access to government buildings would be restricted.\n\nUkraine earlier said it was ordering its citizens to leave Russia because \"escalating Russian aggression\" could limit consular assistance. As many as two million Ukrainians are believed to be living permanently in Russia and another one to two million more are thought to be staying there as migrant workers.\n\nThe military in Kyiv is also calling up all reservists aged 18 to 60 for a maximum of one year.\n\nUkraine's latest measures came as it was targeted by a large-scale cyber-attack on Wednesday, affecting government websites and banks.\n\nA minister told Interfax-Ukraine news agency that services for several Ukrainian institutions, including the health, security and foreign ministries, were taken offline in a denial of service (DDOS) attack. Such attacks aim to overwhelm websites by flooding a network with fake traffic and preventing it from communicating normally.\n\nIt is not clear if any Russian troops have yet crossed the border into Ukraine. However, US satellite imagery has highlighted several new troop and equipment deployments in western Russia, and more than 100 vehicles at an airfield in Belarus near Ukraine's border.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: On the front line of the Ukraine-Russia crisis\n\nOn Wednesday night, the Kremlin said Donetsk and Luhansk had asked Russian forces for protection, citing what it described as Ukrainian aggression.\n\nAnalysts have suggested the request could be a pretext for a full-scale invasion\n\nSeparatist leader Denis Pushilin last week accused Ukraine of planning an imminent offensive and ordered an evacuation of civilians.\n\nUkraine said no offensive had been planned and it later emerged Mr Pushilin's order had been recorded two days earlier.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has said his country's interests and security are non-negotiable while insisting that Moscow is \"open for direct and honest dialogue\".\n\nNo further talks are planned, with France's foreign minister and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken both cancelling planned meetings with Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov.\n\nEU leaders have been invited for an extraordinary summit in Brussels on Thursday to discuss the crisis, while UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the world was facing a \"moment of peril\" as he called for de-escalation.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will consider cutting off diplomatic ties with Russia altogether over the crisis.\n\nSkip image gallery Tap or click to go through the gallery\n• Ukraine is in Eastern Europe and shares a border with Russia. It used to be part of the Soviet Union but became an independent country in 1991.\n• It also borders several other countries that are members of Nato, a defensive military alliance formed after World War Two.\n• President Putin sees Ukraine as historically part of Russia. In 2014, Russia invaded Crimea, in the south of Ukraine, and continues to occupy it.\n• Since 2014, Russian-backed separatists and Ukraine’s armed forces have been fighting a war in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in which more than 14,000 people have died.\n• President Putin has now recognised the two regions held by the Russian-backed separatists as independent states and ordered Russian troops there, tearing up a peace deal.\n• On Thursday 24 February, President Putin authorised airstrikes across Ukraine and ordered his troops to advance into the country.\n\nAre you in Ukraine? Are you or your family affected? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please", "Free Covid testing will continue in Scotland at some level beyond April, the deputy first minister has said.\n\nThe Scottish government is seeking clarity from the UK government about how testing is funded after mass free testing ends in England on 1 April.\n\nJohn Swinney said Scottish ministers would set out in March how free PCR and lateral flow tests would be allocated.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said Nicola Sturgeon should fund testing from existing budgets.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab later said Scotland had been granted an additional £6.5bn to finance its Covid recovery.\n\nOn Tuesday the first minister announced Scotland's legal Covid-19 restrictions would end on 21 March and the country would rely instead on vaccines, treatments and \"good public health behaviours\".\n\nThe move comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that England's restrictions will be lifted on Thursday, with the requirement to self-isolate dropped and free mass testing ending in April.\n\nMs Sturgeon expressed frustration at Mr Johnson's approach, calling for clarity about how the testing system - which operates UK-wide - would operate in future.\n\nSpeaking to BBC radio's Good Morning Scotland, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said he did not yet know whether people would still be able to pick up free lateral flow tests (LFTs) at a pharmacy after 1 April.\n\n\"We think that where there is a requirement for testing to be undertaken, that should be delivered as part of the overall commitment of the National Health Service [and] that these services should be provided free of charge,\" he said.\n\nIn the meantime, he said, the Scottish government was advising people to test a \"couple of times a week\", as they had done before the emergence of Omicron increased the guidance on frequency.\n\nSome high street pharmacies in England are planning to sell the tests for £2.50 each or £5.99 online from April, with supermarkets also expected to stock them.\n\nThe Scottish government's transition plan, which is being prepared for March, will set out the \"circumstances and conditions\" which would allow people access to free testing.\n\nThis was likely to be a combination of PCR and lateral flow testing, Mr Swinney said, and would \"reflect the settlement provided by the UK government\".\n\nMr Swinney said the UK government indicated it wanted to do sufficient testing to \"maintain the intelligence that requires it to pick up where there are new strains of the virus emerging\".\n\n\"That approach sounds to me as if it requires testing to be continued within England,\" he said. \"We need to understand the financing of all of that.\"\n\nHe said all four nations needed clarity on the implications of that funding coming from the Treasury - which would allow for a proportionate amount of funding coming to the Scottish government - or if the Department of Health was expected to find the money from its existing budget for England.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf, speak to BBC Scotland's The Nine on Tuesday, said: \"Those tests, as we know, are procured on a four nations basis. If the UK government chooses not to give us additional funding... then we would have to look within existing budgets to fund that.\"\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab praised the team effort of the devolved administrations and said collaborative working had enabled the UK to come through the pandemic.\n\nMr Raab said Scotland had been allocated an additional £6.5bn from the Treasury, on top of the block grant, to fund its recovery from the crisis.\n\nDuring a visit to Edinburgh he told BBC Scotland: \"It is for the Scottish people and government and parliament to decide the best allocation, whether it is for testing or other measures, but I think that is the right approach to take.\n\n\"We would not stay in emergency measures indefinitely.\"\n\nMSP Sandesh Gulhane, the Scottish Conservatives' health spokesman, told the BBC that testing had to continue while Scotland maintained restrictions, but that the Scottish government should fund it.\n\nDr Gulhane said: \"Because we've started in such a restricted position compared to everyone else, it is only right and proper that Nicola Sturgeon funds the positions that we're in and accepts that the decisions that she has made, despite it not making any difference to her case numbers.\"\n\nShe should \"fund increased testing whilst we are coming out of the problem that she has created\", he added.\n\nHowever, he added it was right to move to allowing people to make their own decisions about Covid risks and said: \"It was never law to isolate in Scotland but people did it because we trust the Scottish people to do the right thing\".\n\nDaniel Johnson, Scottish Labour's finance spokesman, told Good Morning Scotland he still needed clarity about how the virus was going to be managed in Scotland.\n\nHe added: \"I think it is grossly irresponsible of the UK government to withdraw this funding, collapsing what has definitely been a pillar of our response to this virus, before we have vanquished this virus.\"\n\nProf Cindy Gray, who studies health and behaviour at the University of Glasgow, told to BBC Radio Scotland's Lunchtime Live that abolishing free testing would create problems for many people.\n\nShe said: \"People who can't afford it will not be able to access testing and won't know whether or not they have Covid. I think the calls that testing should be retained and discussions around whether we can do that in Scotland, are really, really important.\n\n\"I do think free testing should be accessible for everybody.\"", "A taskforce has been set up to tackle disparities in maternity care experienced by women belonging to ethnic minorities and those living in deprived areas.\n\nBlack women are 40% more likely to miscarry than white, studies suggest. Maternal death rates are also higher among black and Asian women.\n\nExperts say the reasons are complex but urgently need addressing.\n\nBBC News has been highlighting the issue with a series of reports.\n\nRoyal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists head Dr Edward Morris told BBC News implicit racial bias was affecting some women's care.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Natasha Necati, from Essex, had eight miscarriages\n\nMiscarriage Association trustee Natasha Necati, from Essex, who has had eight miscarriages, says there was no \"blatant racism\" in her care - but there were times she was not listened to.\n\n\"I haven't always felt I have been taken seriously,\" she says. \"I have, in some cases, complained about serious amounts of pain during miscarriages and it was kind of pooh-poohed.\"\n\nOne of Natasha's key concerns is little research is funded into why black women face higher risks.\n\n\"Surely if it was deemed important, tens of thousands of pounds would be being spent on getting answers,\" she says. \"It makes you question whether it is seen as important - and if it is not important, why not?\"\n\nPatient Safety and Primary Care Minister Maria Caulfield said: \"For too long disparities have persisted which mean women living in deprived areas or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to get the care they need and, worse, lose their child.\n\n\"We must do better to understand and address the causes of this.\n\n\"The Maternity Disparities Taskforce will help level-up maternity care across the country, bringing together a wide range of experts to deliver real and ambitious change so we can improve care for all women - and I will be monitoring progress closely.\n\n\"As a nurse, I know how incredibly challenging the last two years have been and would like to thank all our dedicated maternity staff for their hard work and commitment throughout the pandemic.\"\n\nChief midwifery officer Prof Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, who will co-chair the taskforce, said: \"The NHS's ambition is to be the safest place in the world to be pregnant, give birth and transition into parenthood - all women who use our maternity services should receive the best care possible.\"\n\nThe taskforce will meet every two months and focus on:", "Russian armoured vehicles in the Rostov region of Russia, near Ukraine's border\n\nGermany has put a stop to a key Russian gas pipeline following Vladimir Putin's orders to send troops into Ukraine.\n\nOn Monday the Russian president recognised two breakaway Ukrainian regions as independent states and ordered Russian troops to deploy to both.\n\nWestern nations largely see the action as a pretext for a wider invasion.\n\nIn response, Germany halted approval of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and other Western nations issued sanctions.\n\nSanctions can take various forms - the term can refer to many actions used by one country to harm another, usually to deter aggressive actions or breaches of international law.\n\nThe Nord Stream 2 pipeline has been supported by Germany despite opposition from countries such as the US, UK, Poland and Ukraine. It cost €10bn (£8.4bn), with the funding split between Russian and Western energy companies.\n\nBut following Mr Putin's order to send troops to the rebel-held Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, Germany announced it was suspending the process of giving the pipeline between it and Russia an operating licence - effectively stopping the project until further notice.\n\nThe move is notable as Russia supplies Europe with about 40% of its gas, sourced from vast supplies in Russia's east.\n\n\"This is a morally, politically and practically correct step in the current circumstances,\" Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote, welcoming the decision. \"True leadership means tough decisions in difficult times. Germany's move proves just that.\"\n\nAs European ministers and officials pored over sanctions plans today, there was a sudden bolt from Berlin.\n\nOlaf Scholz's deliberate ambiguity about the future of Nord Stream 2 meant his announcement this morning took many by surprise. Even so, there's also a view that the move was long overdue.\n\nI remember being in a room with Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in December, where he again stressed the project was a \"major mistake.\" The gas pipeline wasn't yet operational, of course, and the EU's been seeking supplies elsewhere. Nevertheless, it raises big questions about European energy security.\n\nAs for the EU's sanctions plans against Russia, it's promising to target Russian lawmakers, banks that are financing the Russian military as well as the ability of the Russian state to access the bloc's financial markets. \"Additional measures\" are also, we're told, ready to go if needed.\n\nBut the tougher the measures get, the harder they could become to agree.\n\nIt is among a number of measures taken by Western powers following Mr Putin's announcement.\n\nThe United States banned American people and companies from conducting any trade or investment in the rebel-held regions, and promised more action to follow.\n\nThe United Kingdom announced sanctions against five Russian banks and three Russian business figures, saying their UK assets will be frozen and they will be banned from the country.\n\nThe EU also unanimously agreed its first wave of measures on Tuesday, which includes targeting all members of Russia's parliament who approved the decision. Russian banks are also hit by the new measures, as is Russia's access to EU financial markets.\n\n\"This package of sanctions... will hurt Russia, and it will hurt a lot,\" EU Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell said.\n\nThe Western sanctions announced on Tuesday fall short of what had been threatened in the event of invasion. There had been speculation that Russia could have faced being cut off from the global banking system, denied access to the dollar, or even face import or export restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says Russian actions in Ukraine are a “renewed invasion of that country”\n\nThe White House made clear that its initial sanctions \"are separate from and would be in addition to the swift and severe economic measures\" it has prepared \"should Russia further invade Ukraine\". And the UK's Defence Minister Ben Wallace said there were plenty of more sanctions \"in the tank\" to be used if needed.\n\nPoland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki welcomed the blocking of Nord Stream 2 - which his country has long opposed - but said he expects much more. He had earlier said that sanctions must \"be sufficiently painful and prevent Vladimir Putin from taking additional steps\".\n\nPoland's President Andrzej Duda also called for \"serious sanctions\".\n\nIn the UK, following Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement of initial sanctions, senior Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith said Russia needs to be hit with sanctions \"hard and now\" - and asked if the UK was prepared to take further action.\n\nIn response, the prime minister said: \"We are hitting [Russia] hard now and will hit them harder in the future.\"\n\n\"We will continue to punish Russia,\" the PM added.\n\nThere has as yet been no evidence of Russian troops crossing the border into the rebel-held areas of east Ukraine, despite Mr Putin's order to conduct what he calls peacekeeping functions.\n\nRussian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko told the AFP news agency that Russia was not sending troops in \"for now\".\n\n\"No one is planning to send anything anywhere. If there is a threat, then we will provide assistance in accordance with the ratified treaties,\" he said.", "The test, for the C-reactive protein, is already used in hospitals to diagnose other conditions\n\nAn extra blood test on suspected heart-attack patients could determine if they are at high risk of dying in the next three years, researchers say.\n\nThe test, for the C-reactive protein (CRP), helps detect inflammation and is already used in hospitals to diagnose other conditions.\n\nIt could help doctors decide which patients might need more aggressive treatment and closer monitoring.\n\nAnd this, the National Heart and Lung Institute says, could help save lives.\n\nDoctors currently test for the troponin protein, released into the blood stream when the heart is damaged, according to the British Heart Foundation (BHF), which funded the research, published in PLoS Medicine journal.\n\nBut scientists at the National Heart and Lung Institute and the National Institute for Health Research Health Informatics Collaborative found CRP tests provided a more detailed picture.\n\nThey used data from more than 250,000 patients admitted to hospital with a suspected heart attack.\n\nAnd researchers now hope to test the anti-inflammatory drug colchicine - found to be effective against atherosclerosis, a build-up of fatty deposits in the arteries that increases the chance of a heart attack - on patients with high CRP levels.\n\nCardiologist Dr Ramzi Khamis, who led the research, told BBC News: \"The CRP test is not in the guidelines for a suspected heart attack yet - and therefore is not routinely ordered when a patient presents with a suspected heart attack.\n\n\"It may get proposed for consideration to be included in future [European] Society [of Cardiologists] or NICE [National Institute for Health and Care Excellence] guidelines, which would take all the data into account before issuing a recommendation for its routine use.\"\n\nProf James Leiper, from the BHF, calls the test a \"valuable new tool\".\n\n\"Every five minutes, someone is admitted to a UK hospital with a heart attack,\" he said, \"and it is estimated that there are 1.4 million people in the UK who have survived a heart attack.\n\n\"By better identifying which people are most at risk, this simple blood test could help to direct anti-inflammatory treatments to those who most need it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Putin's video message took place on a public holiday to mark Defend the Fatherland Day\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has insisted that Russia's interests and security are non-negotiable, amid reports of more Russian troops moving closer towards Ukraine's borders.\n\nMr Putin gave a video address, hours after US President Joe Biden warned of \"the beginning of a Russian invasion\".\n\nRussia was always \"open for direct and honest dialogue\", Mr Putin said, but he had full confidence in the military.\n\nThe West has announced a range of sanctions on Russian interests.\n\n\"We've cut off Russia's government from Western financing,\" Mr Biden said, after Russia's upper house of parliament authorised the president to send troops into two parts of eastern Ukraine controlled by Russian-backed separatists.\n\nMr Putin declared on Monday night that Russia had recognised the independence of the so-called people's republics of Luhansk and Donetsk, tearing up a peace accord with Ukraine.\n\nUkraine's foreign ministry urged all its citizens to leave Russia, warning that the \"escalating Russia aggression against Ukraine\" could limit consular assistance. The military in Kyiv also announced it was immediately calling up all reservists aged 18 to 60, both officers and privates for a maximum of a year.\n\nMeanwhile, in the rebel-held areas, separatist leader Denis Pushilin said military mobilisation was gathering pace to counter what he described as Ukrainian aggression, adding that he could also ask Russia for help. Appearing alongside him, a senior official from Russia's ruling United Russia party said 93,000 people had been evacuated to Russia.\n\nMoscow has also begun evacuating its embassy in Kyiv and has lowered its flag there, reports say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Putin's claim that the military would go to \"maintain peace\" was derided as nonsense by the West. Rejecting his spurious claim of genocide in eastern Ukraine, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he was concerned about \"the perversion of the concept of peacekeeping\".\n\nMr Biden said \"to put it simply, Russia just announced that it is carving out a big chunk of Ukraine\".\n\nDespite Mr Putin's insistence that he was still open to diplomacy, France's foreign minister and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken both cancelled planned meetings with Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Yves Le Drian later said Mr Putin's aim was to \"negate\" Ukraine as a sovereign country. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Mr Putin was trying to turn back the wheel of history. But both said they were open to further negotiations with Moscow.\n\nIt is not yet clear if any Russian troops have yet crossed the border into Ukraine. However, US satellite imagery has highlighted several new troop and equipment deployments in western Russia, and more than 100 vehicles at an airfield in Belarus near Ukraine's border.\n\nA handout satellite image made available by Maxar Technologies shows troop tents and a housing area in Pochep, Russia\n\nMr Biden said he was announcing an initial tranche of measures, targeting high-ranking Russia's \"elites\" and its foreign debt, to prevent it raising state financing from Western financial institutions.\n\nThe European Union and UK also announced a wave of sanctions against Russian banks and individuals on Tuesday:\n\nEuropean Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said it was a mistake to exclude the Russian leader. \"Vladimir Putin should be first on the list,\" she told Czech daily Hospodarske Noviny.\n\nBritish Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the UK would use \"every lever at our disposal\" to stop Russia's threats against Ukraine. Responding to criticism from some MPs that the UK government had not gone far enough Ms Truss wrote in The Times that G7 allies had agreed on further sanctions and \"nothing is off the table\".\n\nSkip image gallery Tap or click to go through the gallery\n• Ukraine is in Eastern Europe and shares a border with Russia. It used to be part of the Soviet Union but became an independent country in 1991.\n• It also borders several other countries that are members of Nato, a defensive military alliance formed after World War Two.\n• President Putin sees Ukraine as historically part of Russia. In 2014, Russia invaded Crimea, in the south of Ukraine, and continues to occupy it.\n• Since 2014, Russian-backed separatists and Ukraine’s armed forces have been fighting a war in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in which more than 14,000 people have died.\n• President Putin has now recognised the two regions held by the Russian-backed separatists as independent states and ordered Russian troops there, tearing up a peace deal.\n• On Thursday 24 February, President Putin authorised airstrikes across Ukraine and ordered his troops to advance into the country.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will consider cutting off diplomatic ties with Russia altogether over the crisis.\n\nRussian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine have seized large swathes of territory since fierce fighting broke out in 2014. An estimated 14,000 people - including many civilians - have since died.\n\nAre you in Ukraine? Are you or your family affected? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Mask-wearing will still be \"strongly encouraged\"\n\nPassengers will no longer be required to wear face coverings on the London transport network from Thursday.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said it would no longer be a condition of carriage for masks to be worn, to tie in with the government's lifting of restrictions in England.\n\nTfL said it made the decision after data showed a fall in Covid infection rates in London.\n\nBut it \"strongly encouraged\" people to wear masks.\n\nAlthough the legal requirement for mask-wearing on public transport, in shops and schools was lifted across England last month, London's mayor Sadiq Khan chose to keep mask-wearing as a requirement on the TfL network.\n\nIt meant people could be asked to leave the network for not wearing masks, although they could not be issued with fixed penalty notices.\n\nTfL's finances have been severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic\n\nRecent figures showed 57,279 passengers were stopped before getting on TfL services between 30 November and 25 January.\n\nMost complied by wearing a face covering, but TfL data shows 2,757 commuters were stopped from boarding TfL services while 1,056 people were told to leave stations.\n\nA total of 1,948 passengers were reported for fines, the mayor of London said.\n\nPublic transport use has grown in recent weeks as London recovers from the pandemic.\n\nLast week, there were about 2.2m to 2.5m journeys each weekday on the Tube, which was about 60% of pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAnd weekday bus ridership is now regularly at around 4.5m journeys a day, about 75% of pre-pandemic levels.\n\nLast weekend, Tube and bus numbers were even closer to pre-pandemic levels, with the Tube reaching 75% of the figures seen before the first Covid restrictions were imposed.\n\nLilli Matson, chief safety, health and environment officer for TfL, said: \"We have seen increasing numbers of customers return to our network as they begin to return to offices and workplaces, as well as to bars, theatres, restaurants and other cultural venues.\n\n\"That return is due in part to the confidence that Londoners have in our ongoing work to ensure that the transport network is clean, reliable and safe.\n\n\"All customers should be assured that the public transport network is as safe as other similar settings, and that independent testing has found no trace of coronavirus on our network since September 2020.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Students who lack English and maths GCSEs, or two A-levels at grade E, would not qualify for a student loan in England, under new plans.\n\nMinisters will set out details for new minimum university entry requirements, on Thursday, as part of a shake-up.\n\nThere will also be a a consultation on plans to limit the number of university places available in England.\n\nUniversities said placing a cap on aspiration was bad for individuals, the economy and society.\n\nThe new government plans are part of a response to the Augar review of post-18 education.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said there would be a consultation on the proposals, and that it was considering entry grade exemptions for student loan qualification for certain types of students, such as mature ones.\n\nThe government's intention is to restrict entry on to courses which it believes do not offer a good route into graduate jobs.\n\nAnd to prevent universities from recruiting students into higher education before they are ready.\n\nUniversities have already been told they will have some responsibility for courses leading to good jobs.\n\nMinisters argue the reforms should encourage more young people to consider apprenticeships and other higher qualifications.\n\nAlistair Jarvis, chief executive of universities umbrella group Universities UK, said: \"Government should expand opportunity, not constrain it.\n\n\"Placing a cap on aspiration by reducing the number of places for people to study at university is bad for individuals, the economy and society.\n\n\"Government should ensure that anyone with the potential to succeed at university has opportunity to do so.\"\n\nHe added that universities would oppose measures which \"turn the clock back\" on progress in getting more people from disadvantaged backgrounds into higher education.\n\nThe number of applicants to UK universities has increased in recent years, with the latest data showing 320,000 candidates had applied this year, so far compared with 306,000 in 2021.\n\nThe number of poorer pupils applying has also risen, with 28% of 18-year-olds from the most disadvantaged areas applying this autumn, compared with just under 18% in 2013.\n\nThe DfE is concerned that \"not all students receive the same high quality of teaching\" and that many become saddled with debt for courses with poor job prospects.\n\nA DfE spokesperson said: \"We need to ensure that we are creating opportunities that will not only open doors, but will develop the talent our country needs to prosper now and in the future.\"\n\nSir Peter Lampl, founder and executive chair of the Sutton Trust education charity, said: \"Universities are the key route to social mobility, so it is crucial that young people who have the potential to benefit from higher education are able to do so, whatever their background.\n\n\"The introduction of any minimum grade requirement is always going to have the biggest impact on the poorest young people, as they are more likely to have lower grades because of the disadvantages they have faced in their schooling.\"\n\nHowever, analysis by the University and College Application Service, suggests that about 10% of university applicants do not have English and maths GCSE passes when they leave school.\n\nMost students going on to college are required to resit these exams as a condition of their course of study.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said colleges and universities work hard to improve access to those who are currently under-represented in higher education.\n\n\"Our understanding is that a relatively small number without grade 4 at GCSE English and maths currently study at higher education institutions. Nevertheless, denying them this opportunity will remove an option,\" he said.", "What happens when you die? A new study may give some ideas\n\nNew data from a scientific \"accident\" has suggested that life may actually flash before our eyes as we die.\n\nA team of scientists set out to measure the brainwaves of an 87-year-old patient who had developed epilepsy. But during the neurological recording, he suffered a fatal heart attack - offering an unexpected recording of a dying brain.\n\nIt revealed that in the 30 seconds before and after, the man's brainwaves followed the same patterns as dreaming or recalling memories.\n\nBrain activity of this sort could suggest that a final \"recall of life\" may occur in a person's last moments, the team wrote in their study, published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience on Tuesday.\n\nDr Ajmal Zemmar, a co-author of the study, said that what the team, then based in Vancouver, Canada, accidentally got, was the first-ever recording of a dying brain.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"This was actually totally by chance, we did not plan to do this experiment or record these signals.\"\n\nSo will we get a glimpse back at time with loved ones and other happy memories? Dr Zemmar said it was impossible to tell.\n\n\"If I were to jump to the philosophical realm, I would speculate that if the brain did a flashback, it would probably like to remind you of good things, rather than the bad things,\" he said.\n\n\"But what's memorable would be different for every person.\"\n\nDr Zemmar, now a neurosurgeon at the University of Louisville, said in the 30 seconds before the patient's heart stopped supplying blood to the brain, his brainwaves followed the same patterns as when we carry out high-cognitive demanding tasks, like concentrating, dreaming or recalling memories.\n\nIt continued 30 seconds after the patient's heart stopped beating - the point at which a patient is typically declared dead.\n\n\"This could possibly be a last recall of memories that we've experienced in life, and they replay through our brain in the last seconds before we die.\"\n\nThe study also raises questions about when, exactly, life ends - when the heart stops beating, or the brain stops functioning.\n\nDr Zemmar and his team have cautioned that broad conclusions can't be drawn from a study of one. The fact that the patient was epileptic, with a bleeding and swollen brain, complicates things further.\n\n\"I never felt comfortable to report one case,\" Dr Zemmar said. And for years after the initial recording in 2016, he looked for similar cases to help strengthen the analysis but was unsuccessful.\n\nBut a 2013 study - carried out on healthy rats - may offer a clue.\n\nIn that analysis, US researchers reported high levels of brainwaves at the point of the death until 30 seconds after the rats' hearts stopped beating - just like the findings found in Dr Zemmar's epileptic patient.\n\nThe similarities between studies are \"astonishing\", Dr Zemmar said.\n\nThey now hope the publication of this one human case may open the door to other studies on the final moments of life.\n\n\"I think there's something mystical and spiritual about this whole near-death experience,\" Dr Zemmar said. \"And findings like this - it's a moment that scientists lives for.\"", "The Vic Haddock boat house (right) is under water on the River Severn following high winds and wet weather in Ironbridge\n\nPeople have been rescued, properties evacuated and trains cancelled due to flooding along the River Severn.\n\nMajor incidents have been declared in Bewdley, Worcestershire, and Ironbridge, Shropshire, where severe flood warnings are in place - indicating a risk to life.\n\nLarge parts of Shrewsbury town centre are also under water.\n\nThere are also dozens of less-severe flood warnings in Herefordshire and Worcestershire.\n\nNick Green from the Environment Agency (EA) said on Tuesday evening that levels in Bewdley, Worcestershire, were in excess of 16.4 ft (5m) and a further 12in (30cm) was possible which may cause the water to go over the barriers and flood homes.\n\n\"There's a lot of water going through the system here,\" he said.\n\nPeople living near temporary flood barriers were advised to leave their homes before defences were overtopped, which may happen overnight. The Severn is set to peak in the town on Wednesday.\n\nThe flooding follows heavy rain during three storms over the last week - Dudley, Eunice and Franklin.\n\nA major incident has been declared in Ironbridge\n\nFranklin hammered parts of the UK on Monday and came days after Storm Eunice killed three people and left 1.4 million homes without power.\n\nThere were no train services between Hereford and Shrewsbury on Tuesday because of flooding on the line, with some parts blocked after a landslip. Several roads have also been closed.\n\nRiver levels were forecasted to remain high for a prolonged period due to further rainfall this week, the EA said.\n\nIn Shropshire, a series of evacuations were carried out in different parts of the county.\n\nHomes in the Ironbridge Gorge were among those to be evacuated, including properties in the Jackfield area.\n\nResident Debbie Stokes said: \"I've had to climb through people's front gardens with all my bags.\n\n\"We're going to have to look at something... to help us getting out in the future, because it's now, times like this, when you realise just how dangerous this can be.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRae Evans, from The Wharfage, was evacuated from her home for the fourth time in three years.\n\nThe councillor for Telford & Wrekin Council's Woodside ward said: \"When I bought the house it said it might flood once in 70 years, so that is quite different.\n\n\"I would say I bought the house because the barriers are there, I wouldn't have bought it otherwise.\"\n\nThe Wharfage has been closed to pedestrians. River levels there have reached 6.2m, meaning the area is no longer deemed safe.\n\nCouncil leader Shaun Davies said the authority was \"preparing for the worst\"\n\nThe peak was expected on Tuesday afternoon and an EA update at about 19:00 GMT said the temporary barriers at Ironbridge were forecast to potentially exceed their capacity and overtop, causing flooding to properties on The Wharfage.\n\nEarlier, the leader of the council, Shaun Davies, said: \"The river still has not peaked and there's still some more stressful hours ahead.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. River Severn flooding in Shropshire seen from the air\n\n\"We are doing all we can to support residents and are preparing for the worst but hoping for the best,\" Mr Davies said.\n\n\"Some properties have no protection from flood defences and are still under water, and we have evacuated properties behind defences that could be breached while supporting those who have decided to stay put.\"\n\nThe Severn's peak in Ironbridge is expected Tuesday afternoon\n\nIn Shrewsbury, the River Severn appears to have peaked at 16.9ft (5.15m), 3.9 inches (10cm) short of the record level set in 2000.\n\nOne person was rescued by the fire service from Smithfield Road in the town at about 02:45 GMT.\n\nMany roads in the town centre were under water on Tuesday morning. Abbey Foregate car park has been closed, with English Bridge and Welsh Bridge only open to pedestrians.\n\nThe River Severn as seen from Castlefields foot bridge, Shrewsbury, on Tuesday morning\n\nResidents said they were getting tired of flooding in Shrewsbury, which was becoming more regular.\n\n\"While it brings the community together, we are getting fed up of it,\" Jonnie Ashley, 37, said.\n\nShrewsbury residents said they were \"fed up\" with flooding\n\n\"Every time we flood, it's a big clean-up operation for those by the river, and as our town centre is essentially surrounded by the river, it has an effect on how people can go about day-to-day living.\"\n\nIn Worcestershire, Bewdley is braced for the breaching of flood barriers, where temporary defences at Beales Corner overtopped in 2021.\n\nThe EA said temporary defences at Beales Corner in Bewdley had been improved after flooding in 2021\n\nClare Dinnis from the EA said \"a lot of work\" had been done \"since last year to put some additional stability behind the barriers and to improve the way we've used them\".\n\nShe added: \"Really importantly, we've got approval for a permanent flood defence here which is in the early stages of design.\"\n\nThirty-two flood warnings were issued for the River Severn, including in Worcester where extra flood pumps were installed on Hylton Road, which is flooded and no longer deemed safe to use.\n\nWorcester Bridge was closed to incoming traffic from the St John's side. The Sabrina footbridge was also closed.\n\nStreets including Severn Terrace, Croft Road and Castle Street were also closed due to flooding.\n\nIn Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, the river has burst its banks and spilled out on to the flood plain. The Wye peaked in Hereford and the Old Bridge has reopened.\n\nThe EA has warned that areas around Wilton, Herefordshire, may flood. The water has reached 15.2ft (4.64m) and the highest level ever recorded at Wilton was 15.6ft (4.77m) in February 2020.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Britain will provide a \"further package of military support\" to help Ukraine says the PM\n\nBoris Johnson has defended his sanctions against Russia, saying the UK is \"out in front\" globally when it comes to action against Vladimir Putin.\n\nHe promised a \"further package of military support\" for Ukraine, with the assets of five Russian banks and three Russian billionaires already frozen.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the PM to bring in laws to stop oligarchs buying UK firms and property.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said no government could \"conceivably be doing more\".\n\nRussian President Mr Putin ordered troops into the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine on Monday, after recognising them as independent.\n\nIt is not clear if any new Russian troops have yet been sent into the two regions, which are run by Moscow-backed separatists.\n\nEarlier, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said Mr Putin had gone \"full tonto\" in escalating the Ukraine crisis, adding that he had \"no friends, no alliances\" internationally.\n\nIn comments made to serving military personnel, the former Scots Guards officer added that his regiment had \"kicked the backside\" of Russia's Tsar Nicolas I in the Crimean war in the mid-19th Century, arguing that \"we can always do it again\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Defence Secretary Ben Wallace say that Vladimir Putin has gone \"full tonto\" over Russian actions in Ukraine\n\nAmid a largely sombre atmosphere at Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said: \"We all want to deter aggression in Europe.\n\n\"We are not dealing with breakaway republics. Putin is not a peacekeeper. A sovereign nation has been invaded.\n\n\"The prime minister promised that in the event of an invasion he would unleash a full package of sanctions. If not now, then when?\"\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"I don't think people quite realise the UK is out in front. We have sanctioned 275 individuals already.\"\n\nHe added: \"There is more to come and we will be stopping Russia from raising sovereign debt, stopping companies from raising money and stopping Russian companies... even clearing in sterling and dollars on international markets.\"\n\nMr Johnson also confirmed that media watchdog Ofcom was reviewing Russia Today's licence to broadcast in the UK.\n\nAnd he said an Economic Crime Bill would be brought forward in the next parliamentary session to \"peel back the facade\" of beneficial ownership by Russians and others of UK property and companies.\n\nBut Sir Keir said this should be brought forward to the current session, adding that Labour would support such a move.\n\nDowning Street would not provide further details on the equipment being provided to Ukraine, for \"operational security reasons\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK has also promised to impose sanctions on the members of Russia's parliament who voted in support of the breakaway states in eastern Ukraine.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said on Wednesday: \"We can do this under existing legislation.\n\n\"We are finalising the evidence to bring forward new designations against the 351 members of the Russian State Assembly [or Duma] and the members of the Federation Council who voted in that way.\"\n\nThe EU has also said parliamentarians who backed Mr Putin over Ukraine will face sanctions.\n\nAnd it is extending them to 27 more \"high-profile individuals and entities\", taking the total number affected to 555 individuals and 52 entities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The SNP's Ian Blackford accuses the Tories of taking money from Russian oligarchs\n\nIn addition, Germany has said it will freeze approval of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Russia.\n\nEarlier, Downing Street held a summit with finance chiefs and regulators to discuss how to make UK sanctions effective.\n\nThis included discussions of how Russia's access to UK financial services could be further limited \"if that becomes necessary,\" a No 10 spokesperson added.\n\nSources have told the BBC that Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has written up a \"long list\" of Russian individuals and organisations, including more oligarchs and banks close to the Kremlin, to be sanctioned if the situation in Ukraine gets worse.\n\nThe Foreign Office is also likely to target Russian companies in the defence, energy, technology and chemical sectors.\n\nAre you in Ukraine? Are you or your family affected? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "BBC journalists Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel have announced they are leaving the corporation to launch a new podcast and host a radio show together on LBC.\n\nNewsnight's Maitlis and outgoing North America editor Sopel have signed a deal with LBC's parent company Global.\n\nDetails haven't been revealed but Maitlis called it a \"major new podcast\" and Sopel said \"opportunities like this just don't come along very often\".\n\nThey follow Andrew Marr, who moved from the BBC to Global at the end of 2021.\n\nSopel and Maitlis worked together as co-hosts of the BBC's Americast podcast, which launched in 2020. Maitlis also made headlines and won awards for her 2019 interview with Prince Andrew.\n\nOn Twitter, she described the new daily podcast as an \"amazing opportunity\", adding that she and Sopel \"are so thrilled Global is giving us this opportunity to be big and ambitious with this project\".\n\nMaitlis has also covered many live events including elections and the EU referendum\n\nShe added: \"Nevertheless, it will be a wrench to leave the BBC after 20 phenomenal years. I am so grateful for the opportunities I've had there.\"\n\nSopel tweeted: \"Opportunities like this just don't come along very often. But am sad to leave the BBC which has been home for so long.\"\n\nHe described it as \"a wrench\" to be leaving the BBC after almost four decades.\n\n\"I leave with nothing but good feelings towards the Corporation, and wish all the best to my colleagues and friends there,\" he wrote.\n\nGlobal said full details of the pair's new podcast would be announced later this year.\n\nThere's a lot to unpick in this announcement that two more of the BBC's big hitters are departing the corporation.\n\nThere'll be claims that this is yet another example of the BBC's inability to hold on to its talent.\n\nAndrew Neil and Andrew Marr have already left (the latter for LBC, where he may soon be bumping into Emily and Jon in the lift). Marr said he was \"keen to get my own voice back\", away from the BBC's impartiality drive. That may be, if not a factor in the pair's decision, at least an added bonus.\n\nBut while some will read the loss of these high-profile names as a sign about the BBC's stability going forward, it may say as much about the more competitive media landscape that exists, and the companies with big pockets putting tempting offers on the table.\n\nIt's also a sign of the increasing importance of podcasts. That a big player like Global is making such a huge investment in the form may be the first time a commercial radio station has signalled so overtly what podcasting means to its brand.\n\nThe Maitlis/Sopel pairing will also do an LBC radio show and other analysis, but the podcast is front and centre of what's been announced today.\n\nThat's in large part down to the talent involved. Maitlis brings a cachet very few others offer (and what more was there to achieve at the BBC after her Prince Andrew interview?), and the combination of her and Jon Sopel on Americast has brought a hugely loyal and dedicated following.\n\nIn Dino Sofos, the \"powerhouse\" as she describes him, who was head of BBC news podcasts before recently starting his production company, they have an executive producer with a brilliant track record.\n\nWhat the podcast will actually contain is being kept under wraps for now. Perhaps there are clues in the press release. Maitlis says it will \"build on everything we've achieved with Americast\" and Sopel calls it an \"innovative news podcast\". My reading is that whatever they create, it's unlikely to be solely focused on America.\n\nJames Rea, director of broadcasting and content at Global, said of Sopel and Maitlis: \"They are both brilliant journalists and presenters and I know we're going to build something hugely exciting together.\"\n\nJonathan Munro, interim director of BBC News, thanked the pair for their work at the corporation.\n\nHe said in a statement: \"We'd like to thank both Emily and Jon for their many years of sterling service to the BBC and wish them the very best in their new endeavours at Global.\"\n\nSopel has been a familiar face outside the White House in recent years\n\nIn June last year, Maitlis was reprimanded for breaching the BBC's impartiality rules by retweeting a \"clearly controversial\" post by Piers Morgan about the government's response to the pandemic.\n\nThat came after the BBC ruled that a monologue by Maitlis on Newsnight about the row over former Downing Street adviser Dominic Cummings' trip to County Durham had breached impartiality guidelines.\n\nSopel started his career at the BBC in 1983 and went on to become chief political correspondent for BBC News before spending four years as the broadcaster's Paris correspondent.\n\nHis reporting has taken him across the globe, covering stories such as the Israel-Lebanon war and the 2004 tsunami from Sri Lanka before he later became North America editor.\n\nHe had a famous exchange with President Trump at a 2017 press conference, and found himself in the spotlight again in 2018 following a controversial off-air conversation with Radio 4 presenter John Humphrys about the BBC and equal pay.\n\nHe stood down as North America editor at the end of 2021.\n\nMaitlis joined the BBC in 2001 and went on to present the news bulletins on BBC One as well as presenting the news channel, then known as BBC News 24.\n\nShe also presented BBC Breakfast before joining Newsnight and has also fronted many live BBC News specials including election nights and the EU referendum.", "Last updated on .From the section Everton\n\nEverton have signed Dele Alli from Tottenham on a two-and-a-half-year deal for a fee that could reach £40m.\n\nNew Everton boss Frank Lampard made the signing of midfielder Alli a priority and believes he can rebuild a career that has stalled in recent years.\n\nThe 25-year-old, who has played 37 times for England, made six appearances under Spurs boss Antonio Conte after the Italian's arrival in November.\n\nThe first £10m of his transfer fee will be payable after 20 appearances.\n• None Deadline-day done deals as they happen\n\n\"I'm delighted to have signed for Everton, a huge club with a great fanbase and history,\" said Alli, who scored 67 goals in 269 games at Spurs.\n\n\"I'm eager to get started and can't wait for my first game in an Everton shirt.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to helping the team and the opportunity to work with the new manager Frank Lampard.\"\n\nHe is cup-tied for Everton's FA Cup fourth round match against Brentford on Saturday, but could make his debut against Newcastle in the Premier League on 8 February.\n\nEverton were forced to make the deal permanent because their loan quota is full after adding Manchester United's Donny van de Beek to the recent signing of Anwar El Ghazi from Aston Villa.\n\nAlli, who won the most recent of his England caps in 2019, joined Tottenham from MK Dons in 2015.\n\nHe scored 10 goals in 33 Premier League games during his debut campaign before hitting 18 in the 2016-17 season, earning him two PFA Young Player of the Year awards.\n\nHaving been a regular under Mauricio Pochettino, however, Alli fell out of favour following Jose Mourinho's appointment, starting only seven league games last season.\n\nThe attacking midfielder started the opening six Premier League games of the current campaign during Nuno Espirito Santo's brief spell in charge, but struggled for game time under Conte.\n\nEverton Under-23s signed England Under-20 goalkeeper Billy Crellin from League One side Fleetwood Town on a two-and-a-half-year deal for an undisclosed fee.\n\nCrellin, 21, was part of England's Under-17 World Cup winning side in 2017 and played 16 matches on loan at Bolton last season as they won promotion from League Two.\n\nEverton have also loaned midfielder Lewis Warrington to Tranmere until the end of the season.\n• None Our coverage of Everton is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Everton - go straight to all the best content", "Senior civil servant Sue Gray has blamed a \"failure of leadership\" for allowing parties to take place in Downing Street when the country was under strict lockdown.", "It was only 12 pages, but there was one very damaging and difficult conclusion in the terse summary of Sue Gray's report.\n\nIt is there now in black and white for all to see - there was rule breaking at the top of government when the country was living through lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister's original claim that all the guidelines were followed seem almost farcical now.\n\nDowning Street's early dismissals of the claims, even some of Mr Johnson's allies admit, now seem ill-advised. The Tory leader was savaged in the Commons, including by some of his own side, the disbelief and despair led by the former occupant of his address.\n\nThe publication, however, has not toppled over an overwhelming set of dominoes.\n\nThere are Conservative MPs who are incandescent. There are also a band of loyalists who are determined to help him stay on, almost whatever happens next.\n\nAnd late on Monday, they were not suddenly full of new panic that it was all about to fall apart - indeed, after what they believe was a better outing for Mr Johnson in private in front of his MPs on Monday night, they believe the would-be rebels who want to see him gone don't have any meaningful new momentum.\n\nRemember the process that Tory MPs can use to trigger a contest for their leader is secret, so no-one can be sure how near or far the malcontents are from the threshold of 54 private letters which would press the button on a contest.\n\nIt cannot have been easy for many of them to endure Keir Starmer's stand-out speech in the Commons on Monday, when he quoted Thatcher at them, urging them to act to end what seems to him, and some of them, a sorry saga.\n\nYet Boris Johnson's helped by the fact the report has not yet named any specific names. The verdict was damning, but not personal, the criticisms sharp but general.\n\nAnd those who want him gone are also hindered by the fact that they don't yet agree on who or what should come next if they summon up the courage to take action. One minister who is certainly in that camp described it as 'the battle of the Alamo, we can see what's coming, and we know the captain is leading us badly, but we don't yet know who to pass the baton to'.\n\nYet Downing Street is not clear of danger. Sue Gray's findings put this whole mess back under the public's nose. How the polls shift in the coming days and weeks will help shape Downing Street's fortunes, for good or for ill.\n\nThe embarrassment of the coming police report could dramatically make things even worse. Events that we know he attended are now officially under police investigation, including one in his own home, the Downing Street flat. And extraordinarily the police are even confirming publicly how many photographs and pieces of evidence they have.\n\nBoris Johnson has reduced the fever in his party by making his MPs a set of promises - to change his team in Number 10, potentially some expect a new chief whip, a few ministerial moves as well as departures of some of his backroom staff.\n\nHe's promised the return of the campaigner Lynton Crosby, which doesn't at this stage seem like a formal new appointment, more like a vow that he'll take stronger advice.\n\nMany rational MPs seem to have resolved to leave Mr Johnson on probation - break the commitments he made to them and that could quickly change. For now it seems the prime minister has survived the day. Yet in time, his MPs will judge whether just getting through is enough.", "A pilot was forced to make a ''touch and go'' landing after encountering strong winds caused by Storm Corrie.\n\nThe British Airways flight from Aberdeen got into trouble as it was trying to land at London Heathrow Airport.\n\nThe rear of the plane appears to brush the runway before returning to the skies and then attempt a second landing.", "Boris Johnson has promised the government will \"publish everything that we can\" about parties in Downing Street during lockdown.\n\nThe comments follow confusion earlier over whether any potential fine for Covid rule-breaking imposed on the PM himself would be made public.\n\nNo 10 initially refused to \"speculate\" over this but later said it would \"provide what updates we can\".\n\nLabour said the public had a \"right to know\" about any punishment of the PM.\n\nThe party's deputy leader Angela Rayner, tweeted: \"This shouldn't be a big deal... An ounce of transparency shouldn't be this hard to get from Boris Johnson.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police, which is looking into possible rule-breaking at 12 gatherings, has itself ruled out itself naming anyone who is given a fixed-penalty notice for wrongdoing.\n\nBut the force added that it would reveal the total number of penalties issued for each identified event, and explain what they were issued for.\n\nLabour complained that this meant Mr Johnson - who attended three of the gatherings and has refused to say whether he attended a fourth - could potentially be fined without being named.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman would said he would not \"speculate\" on whether Mr Johnson and any staff found by the Met to have broken Covid rules would be named by the government.\n\nBut, at a later briefing, journalists were told: \"Obviously we are aware of the significant public interest. with regards to the prime minister, and we would always look to provide what updates we can on him specifically. But beyond that I can't get into individuals.\"\n\nAsked if that \"hypothetically\", should Mr Johnson be fined, No 10 would make this public, the spokesman replied: \"Hypothetically, yes.\"\n\nQuestioned during a visit to Ukraine as to whether the full details of senior civil servant Sue Gray's findings about the gatherings would be revealed, Mr Johnson said: \"Of course we will publish everything that we can when the process has been completed.\"\n\nAngela Rayner said the public needed to know if the PM was fined\n\nMs Gray handed over the details of her findings to the Met last week, but published a restricted version of her own report on Monday, after police asked her to do so for fear of \"prejudice\" to their own investigation.\n\nThe prime minister has admitted attending three of the gatherings under investigation by the police:\n\nHe has refused to say whether he was at an alleged party in his own flat also on 13 November 2020, the day his senior aide Dominic Cummings left Downing Street.\n\nIn a Q&A session on his blog on Tuesday, Mr Cummings claimed he had spoken to people who were in No 10 on that date.\n\nWhen asked if there were photos of the prime minister at parties under police investigation, Mr Cummings wrote: \"I've spoken to people who say they've seen photos of parties in the flat.\"\n\nOn Monday the Met Police said officers investigating parties in Downing Street had been handed more than 300 photos and 500 pages of documents by Ms Gray's team.\n\nDominic Cummings left his role in Downing Street on the day of two parties under police investigation\n\nConservative MP Mark Harper, a former chief whip, told the BBC that any senior civil servants or ministerial advisers who are fined over the Downing Street gatherings should be named.\n\nThe same applied to Mr Johnson and his wife Carrie, should they be punished, he added, but not junior staff.\n\nLabour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP are calling for Mr Johnson to resign, with some Tory MPs doing the same.\n\nFifty-four of them must write to the chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbench MPs to trigger a vote of no confidence in Mr Johnson, and a potential leadership challenge.\n\nIt is not known how many have done so, but Conservative MP Peter Aldous revealed on Tuesday that he had written a letter, declaring this to be in the \"best interests of the country, the government and the Conservative Party\".\n\nBut Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"[The PM] recognised that, as Sue Gray said, the standards expected in No 10 were not as they should have been.\n\n\"He said he did take responsibility and he apologised, and he provided a plan of action.\"\n\nAsked if Mr Johnson had admitted to breaking any of the rules himself, Mr Raab said: \"The prime minister has been very clear that he acted in good faith at all times.\"", "Marks & Spencer and Aldi have reached a settlement in a trademark dispute over caterpillar cakes.\n\nM&S had accused the German discounter of copying its Colin the Caterpillar cake.\n\nThe supermarkets confirmed they had reached a settlement, but declined to give details.\n\nM&S said it was \"pleased\" with the outcome, and Aldi said its Cuthbert the Caterpillar cake was \"free\" and \"looking forward\" to seeing his fans.\n\nAldi stopped selling its cake in February 2021, and in April last year M&S accused the supermarket of infringing its Colin the Caterpillar trademark.\n\nThe discounter later brought out a limited edition for charity.\n\nBoth supermarkets confirmed on Tuesday that an agreement has been struck but declined to release details of the \"confidential\" deal.\n\nAs first reported by the Telegraph, High Court Judge Timothy John Bowles allowed the legal claim to be withdrawn on Thursday, and it emerged that the retailers had signed a \"confidential agreement\" over the claim in November.\n\nAn M&S spokesman said: \"The objective of the claim was to protect the [intellectual property] in our Colin the Caterpillar cake and we are very pleased with the outcome.\"\n\nAldi Stores UK said in a tweet: \"Getting out early on good behaviour, keep an eye out for Cuthy B this spring\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aldi Stores UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn Aldi spokesperson said: \"Cuthbert is free and looking forward to seeing all his fans again very soon.\"\n\nFans of the party food favourite celebrated the end of the dispute on social media too.\n\nColin the Caterpillar was launched by M&S more than 30 years ago, and has had substantially the same appearance since about 2004, apart from Halloween and Christmas versions.\n\nM&S also has related products such as Connie the Caterpillar.\n\nColin has been used in charity work, and is central to M&S's partnership with cancer campaign group Macmillan.\n\nThe M&S caterpillar is made of sponge cake with milk chocolate and buttercream, decorated with chocolate sweets and a white chocolate face.\n\nM&S was the first retailer to sell a caterpillar cake, but many supermarkets have since come up with similar products.\n\nAldi launched the Cuthbert cake in 2019 and has sold limited editions to fundraise for Macmillan, as well as Teenage Cancer Trust.\n\nAldi's Cuthbert has performed a skydive to raise money for charity\n\nOther cakes include Waitrose's Cecil, Sainsbury's Wiggles, Tesco's Curly and Asda's Clyde the Caterpillar.\n\nM&S and Aldi are also involved in a separate dispute over allegations the discounter copied an M&S \"light-up\" gin liqueur product.\n\nThe M&S spokesman added: \"Like many other UK businesses, large and small, we know the true value and cost of innovation and the enormous time, passion, creativity, energy and attention to detail that goes into designing, developing and bringing a product to market, and building its brand over many years.\n\n\"So it is understandable that we want to defend our intellectual property and protect our suppliers, many of them small businesses that have worked with us for decades.\"", "More than one in 10 school entry-age children in England are at risk of measles because they have not had their vaccine jabs, data reveals.\n\nCoverage for the two doses of MMR that helps protect five-year-olds against measles, mumps and rubella is currently at 85.5%.\n\nThat is the lowest for a decade, and well below the 95% target recommended to stop a resurgence of measles.\n\nMeasles is highly contagious, more than Covid, and can cause serious illness.\n\nNine in every 10 people can catch it if they are unjabbed and exposed.\n\nAs well as a distinctive rash, measles can lead to severe complications, such as pneumonia and brain inflammation, and sometimes can be fatal.\n\nVaccination can remove almost all of these risks.\n\nTwo doses of the MMR vaccine give 99% protection against measles and rubella and about 88% protection against mumps.\n\nWhen a high percentage of the population is protected through vaccination, it becomes harder for the disease to pass between people.\n\nBut since the start of the Covid pandemic, there has been a concerning drop in the number of children receiving these vaccines on time.\n\nExperts say some parents may not have realised doctors were still offering appointments, or did not want to burden the NHS.\n\nCoverage of the first dose of the MMR vaccine in two-year-olds has now fallen below 90%. This means that more than one in 10 children under the age of five are not fully protected from measles and are at risk of catching it.\n\nAmong all five-year-olds in England, 93.7% have had one dose and 85.5% have had the recommended two doses.\n\nIn 2017 the World Health Organization declared that the UK had eliminated measles - meaning that although some cases could still occur, the disease was not widely circulating and spreading.\n\nMeasles remains more common in some other countries, meaning it can return to the UK and spread in people who are unvaccinated, if given the chance.\n\nThe UK lost its elimination status after cases ticked up again in 2018, with 991 confirmed ones in England and Wales, compared with 284 in 2017.\n\nMeasles cases have plummeted during the Covid pandemic, largely because of social distancing and less travel.\n\nBut the UK Health Security Agency is concerned that measles could make a comeback in the unvaccinated when restrictions are fully lifted.\n\nIt is asking parents and carers to make sure children are up to date with their jabs.\n\nThe MMR vaccine is free on the NHS when a child turns one, with a second dose offered at about three-and-a-half, before they start nursery or school.\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, from NHS England, said: \"If your child has missed a vaccination, please contact your GP practice to book an appointment as soon as you can to make sure they have maximum protection against disease.\"\n\nVaccines minister Maggie Throup added: \"If you are unsure whether your child has had their full course of the MMR vaccine, check their red book or talk to your GP. The vaccine is safe, it will protect your child and their school friends and is very easy to access.\"\n\nUnvaccinated teenagers and adults are eligible too.\n\nProf Helen Bedford, an expert from London's Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, said: \"It is never too late for children, young people and young adults to have their MMR vaccine and they can have a second dose even where there has been a long gap since the first.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ever tried doing a jigsaw which has half the pieces missing?\n\nIt's frustrating. It's confusing. You never see the full picture.\n\nWelcome to the world of Kremlin politics.\n\nPuzzling out what Vladimir Putin is thinking and planning is challenging, to say the least. That's how the Kremlin likes it: keeping everyone guessing.\n\nWhat is President Putin's plan for Ukraine? Is Moscow preparing a full-scale invasion? A more limited operation? Or is the sabre-rattling simply brinkmanship, coercive diplomacy (at its most coercive)?\n\nThe pieces of the puzzle we do have are causing concern in the West:\n\nWashington has now replied in writing to Moscow's security demands. The Kremlin says it will analyse America's response.\n\nIn the meantime, the tough talking continues.\n\n\"Do not put Nato infrastructure on Ukrainian territory. We ask our 'partners' in Nato countries to get out. Get out from our borders. Get out from post-Soviet countries, because it's threatening to Russian people,\" says Yevgeny Popov.\n\nMr Popov, who hosts a talk show on state TV, is also an MP from the party of power, United Russia.\n\n\"Time is running out,\" Mr Popov warns me. \"You have to make a decision. Fast.\"\n\n\"Otherwise it will be a tremendously dangerous reaction for the whole world. Some Western officials said that Russia has no balls. Guys, do you really want to see it?\"\n\nRussia has been staging military drills near Ukraine's borders\n\nIn public, Russian officials insist that Nato is a danger to Russia's national security.\n\nI'm sceptical. I find it hard to believe that Moscow truly sees the alliance is a threat.\n\nOnly 6% of Russia's borders touch Nato countries; the Kremlin has good relations with some Nato members, like Italy and Hungary; it's even sold weapons systems to Nato member Turkey.\n\nAnd keep in mind that Nato (in the shape of Norway) has been on Russia's border for more than 70 years.\n\nPlus, there is no sign whatsoever of Ukraine, Georgia or other former Soviet states being accepted into Nato in the near future.\n\nSo why is the Kremlin fixating on the Nato alliance?\n\nPartly for domestic reasons: to get the Russian people to unite against an alleged external enemy.\n\nBut also, perhaps, as an excuse to use this moment to reshape the European security order to Moscow's benefit; to re-establish Russia's sphere of influence and try to rewrite the results of the Cold War.\n\n\"Putin believes the West exploited Russian weakness in the 1990s, that Russia wasn't treated fairly and didn't get what it deserved. He wants to change that,\" believes Andrei Kortunov, director general of the Russian International Affairs Council, a think-tank linked to the authorities.\n\n\"His argument is very simple. Now the balance of powers has shifted, it's no longer the West-centred unipolar world. You should listen to us and take our concerns seriously.\"\n\nSo what will Moscow's next step be?\n\nWithout all the pieces of the jigsaw, we can only guess. It may depend on whether America's offer to negotiate with Russia on some aspects of European security will be enough to satisfy Vladimir Putin.\n\nIf it's not, if the Kremlin leader is determined to dismantle the current European security architecture, military confrontation is possible and long-term friction between East and West.\n\n\"I hope Putin will be satisfied with what he got so far,\" Mr Kortunov tells me. \"I think to some extent he was successful. He enforced a dialogue on the West. So, he could argue his mission was accomplished; that keeping tensions on the Ukrainian border helped him incentivise the West to consider Russian proposals.\n\n\"But he may have a different interpretation. He may say the West is trying to engage Russia in endless and pointless negotiations and that Western penetration into Ukraine will continue.\n\n\"Domestically, though, Russian society is not eager for a big war on its doorstep. Russians are not eager to participate in a major military operation in Ukraine,\" Mr Kortunov adds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ukrainian Marta Yuzkiv is preparing to defend her country but says she doesn't want war", "The souvenirs are being sold as having a \"slight typo mistake\"\n\nA spelling mistake on thousands of pieces of Platinum Jubilee merchandising, calling it the \"Platinum Jubbly\", is proving a challenge for souvenir sellers.\n\nThe cups and plates were meant to mark the Queen's 70-year reign.\n\nClearance website boss Karl Baxter said - \"in classic Del Boy-style\" - he will pitch them as collectors' items.\n\n\"What could be more unique than our limited-edition misprinted crockery?\" he said.\n\nMore than 10,000 pieces of the jubilee memorabilia were produced in China and sent to be sold in the UK, said the clearance firm - except for the slight problem of a misprint, which says \"the Platinum Jubbly of Queen Elizabeth II\".\n\nMore than 10,000 \"Jubbly\" commemorative pieces have been produced\n\nWholesale Clearance, which deals in bankrupt stock and discontinued lines, said it stepped in to sell the commemorative items - with the products advertised as \"Souvenir Stock with Slight Typo Mistake\".\n\n\"This could be your chance to get your hands on a novelty souvenir for a fraction of the price,\" claimed Mr Baxter, with a 90% discount on offer.\n\nInvoking the spirit of market traders from the TV comedy, the firm's website promises: \"Become an Only Fools and Horses fan and wow your friends with your Lovely Jubbly set!\"\n\nThe importer didn't quite get the product they were expecting\n\nThe wholesale firm is advertising the misprinted cups, mugs and commemorative plates as a single lot to retailers - with a spokesman saying: \"There's a market for everything\".\n\nThe Platinum Jubilee will be marked with a four-day holiday in June, with concerts, parties, pageants - and maybe some jubilee bubbly.", "A cancer charity welcomed the new laws as a \"significant move to a tobacco-free Northern Ireland\"\n\nA new law making it illegal to smoke in a car with children has come into force in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt brings the law into line with other regions of the UK and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt is already illegal to smoke on public transport or to smoke in work vehicles used by more than one person.\n\nAnother new law, banning the sale of e-cigarettes and other nicotine inhaling products to anyone aged under 18, has also come into force.\n\nFines of up to £2,500 will be imposed by the PSNI and environmental health officers.\n\nThe PSNI has said police will take an educational, advisory and non-confrontational approach when enforcing the new legislation until the end of February 2022.\n\nCh Insp Graham Dodds said this would \"see people initially given warnings rather than being issued with fines, which would give time for public awareness of the offences to build\".\n\nA cancer charity has welcomed the new laws as a \"significant move to a tobacco-free Northern Ireland\".\n\nNaomi Thompson, from Cancer Focus NI, said the laws would \"protect children's health\" and reduce the perception for children that smoking is normal behaviour.\n\n\"We know that children who regularly see adults smoke are more likely to try smoking,\" she added.\n\nPreviously, Health Minister Robin Swann said tobacco use remained a primary cause of preventable ill-health and premature death in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe minister said the number of young people taking up smoking in Northern Ireland had been \"steadily decreasing in recent years\" but he did not want to see this trend being replaced by vaping.\n\nA ban on smoking in vehicles carrying children has been in force in England and Wales since October 2015.\n\nIn Scotland and the Republic of Ireland, a ban took effect in 2016.", "The agricultural sector is a significant part of the economy in Northern Ireland\n\nAgri-food business groups have urged assembly members to back a new law that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 82% by 2050.\n\nBut a coalition of environmental groups are calling on assembly members to set a tougher net-zero target.\n\nThe business groups say the tougher target would result in \"significant damage\" to the rural economy.\n\nThe draft law, known as Climate Change (No.2) Bill, will be considered by the assembly on Tuesday.\n\nIt is one of two climate change draft laws currently before the assembly.\n\nThe Climate Change (No.1) Bill proposes to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045.\n\nIt is a private members bill brought forward by Green Party leader Clare Bailey.\n\nThe second bill, brought by the Agriculture and Environment Minister Edwin Poots, sets a target of an 82% reduction in emissions by 2050.\n\nThat figure is aligned with what the government's climate advisory body, the Committee on Climate Change, says is practically possible given Northern Ireland's relativity large agriculture sector.\n\nA short-lived bid to find a compromise between the two bills foundered in the autumn.\n\nAssembly members from the Green Party, Sinn Féin and Alliance have proposed amendments to Mr Poots' bill, which would effectively bring it in line with Ms Bailey's bill.\n\nThe business groups, which include the Ulster Farmers' Union and NI Food & Drink, have written to assembly members asking them to reject the amendments.\n\nThey say the target of 82% is \"extremely challenging\" for the sector but they support it because it is \"grounded in science and based on the concept of everyone doing their fair share\".\n\nHowever, they say a net-zero target would lead to the livestock sector becoming a \"cottage industry\" and mean \"large job losses in food processing, and rural communities ruined, while our food will have to be imported from countries with much higher emissions and at higher cost\".\n\nEdwin Poots' bill is one of two climate bills making their way through the Northern Ireland Assembly\n\nThey describe amendments aimed at providing protections for agri-food under net zero as having \"no substance or value\".\n\nA coalition of environmental groups, including the RSPB and Friends of the Earth, are urging assembly members to support the amendments.\n\nFriends of the Earth say the amendments will make the legislation \"stronger, fairer and more independent - including a just transition, a zero-carbon target, independent oversight and clear policies across government departments\".\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only part of the UK without its own climate legislation, though it is contributing to wider UK reduction targets.\n\nIn 2020, the Committee on Climate Change suggested an 82% reduction by 2050 would be \"an equitable contribution\" for Northern Ireland to the UK's net-zero ambition.\n\nIt said the economic reliance on agriculture, Northern Ireland's biggest emitting sector, would make it difficult to go further and faster without a significant reduction in agricultural output.", "The Amazon is a treasure trove of rare plants\n\nThere are 14% more tree species than previously thought, according to what researchers are calling the first \"scientifically credible\" estimate.\n\nOf the 73,300 estimated species, the researchers predict there are 9,200 that are yet to be discovered.\n\nBut most rare species are in tropical forests, fast disappearing because of climate change and deforestation.\n\nThe study is based on a database of tens of millions of trees in more than 100,000 forest plots around the world.\n\nThe researchers used statistical techniques to predict the likely number of tree species, correcting for gaps in existing data.\n\nThe findings suggest more must be done to protect the incredible life forms needed for food, timber and medicine and to fight climate change by sucking carbon dioxide from the air.\n\nLead researcher Dr Peter Reich, of the University of Minnesota in St Paul, said the findings highlighted the vulnerability of global forest biodiversity.\n\n\"Our data will help us assess where biodiversity is the most threatened,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"This is in the tropics and subtropics of South America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania and those are places where we discovered hotspots of known and unknown rare species.\n\n\"Knowing about these hotspots, hopefully, can help prioritise future conservation efforts.\"\n\nHigh numbers of known and unknown rare trees are found in mangrove forests\n\nSouth America - the continent with the most \"missing\" species - has about 43% of the total number, followed by:\n\nThe Congo River basin has many undiscovered rare plants\n\nDiverse natural forests are the most healthy and productive, important to the global economy and to nature.\n\nThe vast majority are in tropical countries where deforestation is largely driven by:\n\nMore than 140 international researchers worked on the study, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.\n\nDr Yadvinder Malhi, of the University of Oxford, said tropical forests were the \"global treasure chests of biodiversity\" and significant absorbers of carbon dioxide emissions, slowing global warming.\n\n\"This study shows that tropical forests are even more diverse in their trees than we had previously imagined,\" he said.", "Payments to help people on Universal Credit and other working-age benefits to pay fuel bills will be doubled by the Welsh government.\n\nPayments from the Winter Fuel Support Scheme will rise from £100 to £200.\n\nPeople who have already received the payments will get the extra money in the coming weeks.\n\nIt comes ahead of an expected significant rise in the energy price cap, due to be announced on 7 February.\n\nIt is thought the cap, which is the most energy companies can charge for typical bill, could be increased by 50%, taking average costs for residents from £1,277 to almost £2,000 a year.\n\nThe Welsh Tories and Plaid Cymru welcomed the announcement, although Plaid said the payment \"clearly won't help everyone in need\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Minister Jane Hutt: \"There’s little sign of hope coming from Whitehall at the moment\"\n\nIn launching the expansion of the scheme, Welsh Labour Social Justice minister Jane Hutt criticised the UK government, alleging it was more focused on the prime minister than tackling the cost of living crisis.\n\nThe scheme is open to households where at least one person is on a working-age means-tested benefit, and is responsible for paying the property's energy bills.\n\nClaimants must have been claiming any one of the following benefits between 1 December 2021 and 31 January 2022:\n\nApplications are open until 28 February, although councils should have contacted people they believe are eligible.\n\nAlthough the cash is aimed at helping people pay their fuel bills, there are no restrictions on how the money is spent.\n\nLast year the Welsh government said the scheme was costing £38m and was targeting 350,000 households.\n\nIt was unclear on Tuesday evening what officials now expect to spend on the payments, although the Welsh government said the cash is part of its £51m Household Support Fund.\n\nBBC Wales was told no cost could be given as it will depend on how many ultimately apply.\n\nIn a briefing with journalists, Jane Hutt said that 40% have so far taken up the scheme, with 106,000 payments already made from a total of 146,000 applications.\n\nMost welfare benefits are not controlled by Cardiff, and Ms Hutt criticised the UK government's new way-to-work scheme as being a \"short-cut to slash spending on welfare while driving people into insecure short-term work\".\n\nClaimants will have just four weeks to find a job in their preferred sector under the new rules, and could face part of their Universal Credit benefits being withdrawn if they fail to make \"reasonable efforts\" to secure work or turn down offers.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there's little sign of hope coming from Whitehall at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"Instead of practical solutions to help millions in crisis now, we have a government more focused on supporting just one person - the prime minister. When they have acted, they've made problems worse.\"\n\nA DWP spokesperson said: \"With a record number of jobs available, it's right that people who can work are encouraged to take up available roles.\n\n\"Our new approach will help claimants get quickly back into work while ensuring businesses get the people they and the economy need.\"\n\nWhat have opposition parties said?\n\nSioned Williams, Plaid Cymru spokeswoman on social justice and equalities, said the Welsh scheme is \"welcome additional support for the thousands of people in Wales who are facing that impossible choice between heating and eating.\n\n\"But for the many households who are already in debt as a result of the cost of living crisis, and for the vast majority of those who live in fuel poverty who are not in receipt of benefits, it can only be seen as a starting point. Clearly the payment won't help everyone in need.\"\n\nHer Welsh Conservative counterpart Mark Isherwood added: \"Governments across the world are having to grapple with rising inflation and energy costs, and it's a genuine concern for people across Wales and the rest of the UK.\n\n\"One of the reasons behind this is the fact economies have reopened quickly after coronavirus and that's placed immense pressure on global supply chains.\n\n\"Welsh Conservatives welcome this announcement and the fact the Labour administration in Cardiff Bay has used the largest ever financial settlement from the Conservative government to increase support payment for those who need it most, and we look forward to future Conservative action across the UK on this issue soon.\"\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Millions of people start celebrating the beginning of the Lunar New Year on 1 February. This year marks the change from the Year of the Ox to the Year of the Tiger.\n\nA man makes an offering of joss sticks at a temple in Hong Kong\n\nFestive street lights have drawn crowds in China's Handan city, in the northern Hebei province\n\nA person cracks an egg on a tiger sculpture for blessings at a Chinese temple in Phnom Penh, Cambodia\n\nCai Shen Ye, the God of Fortune, walks around the Kapasan Chinese village in Surabaya, Indonesia\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.", "There was a restraining order in place to protect Yasmin Chkaifi from her abusive ex-husband\n\nA driver who used his car to try to stop a woman being stabbed by her stalker ex-husband in west London has been released without charge.\n\nHe was arrested on suspicion of murder and later bailed after Leon McCaskie, 41, died when he was hit while killing Yasmin Chkaifi, 43, in Maida Vale.\n\nThe Met Police said it had been decided the 26-year-old would face no further action after a review of the evidence.\n\nThe man said he was grateful and thanked those who had supported him.\n\nMs Chkaifi was attacked near both her and her abusive ex-husband's homes on the morning of 24 January.\n\nIn an update to the case, Det Ch Insp Neil Rawlinson said it was \"vitally important that when a person dies there is a thorough investigation into all of the circumstances and this has taken place\".\n\nHe added that the driver was now considered to be a \"vital witness\" to the investigation and he had been \"offered support from professionals to help him come to terms with the terrifying situation he was confronted with\".\n\nLeon McCaskie was killed at the scene of his ex-wife's stabbing\n\nThe man released a statement through his lawyer in which he said the Met had taken a \"sensible course of action\", and that he would continue to help them.\n\n\"I hope that in my actions a message has been sent to society: should you see an evil it is a duty upon you to stop it with your hands,\" the statement said.\n\n\"If you cannot, then you should stop it by speaking out; if you cannot, then at the very least you should hate it with your heart.\"\n\nPost-mortem examinations found that Ms Chkaifi died from multiple stab injuries, while McCaskie's cause of death was multiple injuries.\n\nAn arrest warrant had been issued for McCaskie, who also used the surname McCaskre, on 4 January - nearly three weeks before he stabbed his ex-wife to death - after he failed to appear in court having been accused of breaching an interim stalking protection order.\n\nAt an inquest hearing earlier on Tuesday, Det Ch Insp Rawlinson told Westminster Coroner's Court: \"Leon McCaskie and Yasmin Chkaifi had been in a relationship that ended several years ago. There were allegations of domestic abuse, and a stalking prevention order had been put in place against Leon.\"\n\nThe coroner, Prof Fiona Wilcox, gave her sympathy to her family, saying: \"This is a truly shocking and distressing death and I cannot imagine what you must be going through at this time.\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct has begun an investigation into the Met's contact with Ms Chkaifi in the weeks leading up to her death, following a referral from the force.\n\nThe inquests into the deaths of Ms Chkaifi and McCaskie are to be reviewed on 25 July.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amy Davies (centre) says Oliver (right) has been \"let down\" by the sentence handed to Congreve\n\nThe family of an 11-year-old boy seriously injured in a hit-and-run incident are \"disgusted\" the drug-driver has been spared jail.\n\nOliver Davies, of Tredegar, was left with a fractured spine, numerous broken bones and a punctured lung after he was hit by a car last June.\n\nDriver Samuel Congreve, of Blackwood, was handed a four-month suspended sentence by Newport magistrates.\n\nNow Oliver's family want the \"unduly lenient\" sentence reviewed.\n\nOliver was crossing a road as he walked home from a local shop with friends when he was struck by the car being driven by 24-year-old Congreve.\n\n\"His friend said he was flung 30ft (9.1m) up in the air,\" said his mother Amy Davies.\n\n\"I was crying my eyes out. I didn't know at that point whether Ollie was still alive. It was horrendous. We just felt physically sick.\"\n\nOliver was left with multiple serious injuries\n\nSeven months on, Oliver's injuries have not yet fully healed. He remains in pain and has difficulty doing many of the things he enjoyed before the crash.\n\n\"We can't do stuff that we used to now, because Oliver can't walk very far,\" said Mrs Davies.\n\n\"He doesn't go out now really. I can't remember the last time he went out with his friends. They're out playing football and rugby and Oliver can't do it\n\n\"He can just be sitting down or standing and all of a sudden he'll scream out in pain.\n\n\"We went on holiday in August and his father had to carry him.\n\n\"We can't say long-term what it's going to be like.\"\n\nHe also broke several other bones as well as a punctured lung\n\nAs well as the suspended sentence, Congreve was also made subject to a three-month curfew, a 20-day rehabilitation course and ordered to pay court costs and a victim surcharge.\n\nHowever Oliver's family want the court's decision earlier this month to be reviewed.\n\n\"We're just disgusted,\" said Mrs Davies.\n\n\"The only thing we can get out of this now is him actually getting a prison sentence. That's the only closure we can hope for really.\n\n\"But I'm not confident at all. We've been let down\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice would not comment, but referred the BBC to guidance which states sentencing is decided by independent judges, who have access to all evidence in each case.", "One in every five pupils were absent from school during the last week in January\n\nThe number of pupils in school during the last full week of January was the lowest of the 2021-22 academic year so far, according to the Department of Education.\n\nJust under 20% of pupils were not in school in the week from Monday 24 to Friday 28 January.\n\nDepartment data showed 82.2% of pupils were educated in school that week.\n\nHowever, about one in every 30 pupils (3.5%) was self-isolating and learning from home so were not marked absent.\n\nJust over one in every 20 pupils (5.2%) was not in school due to Covid-19, the highest rate of the 2021-22 academic year.\n\nHowever, the majority of absences (8.5%) recorded by schools were for unspecified non-Covid reasons.\n\nSpecial schools and non-grammar post-primaries had the highest rate of pupil absences.\n\nThe Department of Education data was based on information provided by schools.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, 41% of all cases in the past seven days have been in people under the age of 20, accounting for almost 12,000 recorded infections.\n\nThe greatest number of cases were in people aged 10 to 14 (15.3%).\n\nThe highest infection rate among all age bands was in girls aged 10 to 14, with 3,515 positive cases per 100,000.\n\nBy contrast, people aged over 60 make up just 6% of all cases recorded in the past week.\n\nJust under one in every 10 teachers on average was also absent for Covid-related reasons over the week 24 to 28 January.\n\nThat is according to data on the attendance of the school workforce, which is also published by the Department of Education.\n\nThe absence rate for classroom assistants was slightly higher, although about one in every 20 teachers and a similar proportion of classroom assistants was out of school for non-Covid reasons.\n\nAccording to information provided by schools, just over half of teacher absences due to Covid-19 were covered by substitute teachers.\n\nA minority of schools have had to send some classes home for remote learning\n\nHowever, the vast majority of teacher absences in special schools (86%) were covered by substitute teachers.\n\nSome schools have reported difficulty getting substitute teachers when staff are off.\n\nSome post-primaries have also reported problems in getting \"subject-specific\" cover for pupils taking GCSEs, AS and A-Levels.\n\nA minority of schools have had to send some classes home for remote learning on specific days due to staff absences.\n\nHowever, according to the most recent department remote learning survey only six primary schools had to send the whole school home for remote learning for at least a day", "The 20-year-old Manchester United footballer was arrested on Sunday\n\nPolice have been granted more time to question Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood who was arrested on suspicion of rape and assault.\n\nThe 20-year-old footballer was arrested on Sunday following allegations on social media.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said he would remain in custody for questioning.\n\nManchester United earlier said the forward would not return to training or matches until further notice.\n\nGreenwood has not responded to the social media allegations.\n\nGMP said: \"Detectives have been granted additional time to speak to a man in his 20s who is being held on suspicion of rape and assault of a woman.\n\n\"Inquiries are ongoing and the victim is being offered specialist support.\"\n\nThe force added: \"We remind people to avoid any commentary or sharing of images that could compromise the victim's right to lifelong anonymity, or risk prejudicing a live investigation with active proceedings.\"\n\nGreenwood, who made his debut for the club in March 2019, signed a four-year deal in February 2021 after rising through the ranks of the academy.\n\nManchester United said on Sunday the club \"did not condone violence of any kind\" and had been made aware of the allegations on social media but would make no further comment until the \"facts have been established\".\n\nNike released a statement saying: \"We have suspended our relationship with Mason Greenwood.\n\n\"We are deeply concerned by the disturbing allegations and will continue to closely monitor the situation.\"\n\nGreenwood apologised after being dropped by England manager Gareth Southgate for a breach of coronavirus protocols while on international duty in Iceland in September 2020.\n\nA month later, his United manager at the time, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, defended Greenwood amid media speculation of his being late for training.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBBC Three returns as a TV channel on Tuesday, with a RuPaul's Drag Race spin-off and hit shows like Fleabag.\n\nRuPaul's Drag Race: UK Versus The World will see Drag Race alumni compete to be the Drag Race Superstar.\n\nNew shows coming soon include The Fast and the Farmer-ish featuring farmers from Northern Ireland racing tractors.\n\nBBC Three moved online in 2016. BBC research found in 2020 that there was a \"strong case\" for it to return as a TV channel, focusing on younger audiences.\n\nThe returning TV channel's opening night will also include a new series of Eating with My Ex.\n\nOther new shows set to arrive further down the line include Peacock, a new gym-based comedy series about toxic masculinity from People Just Do Nothing's Allan 'Seapa' Mustafa.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: BBC Three's news bulletin, The Catch Up, presented by Levi Jouavel\n\nAnother is The Drop, a streetwear competition filmed in Manchester with Clara Amfo and singer Miguel.\n\nBBC Three controller Fiona Campbell described the new channel's style as \"unfiltered, unapologetic and extraordinary\".\n\n\"Our channel is all about a concentrated experience of how tough it is to be super young in the UK today and that show epitomises and embodies that tough emotion and feeling.\"\n\nTractor racing with young farmers on The Fast and the Farmer-ish\n\nAhead of the relaunch, she said that BBC Three would provide \"regional creative opportunities and a pipeline of experience for the future\".\n\nShe added that they also hoped to develop a new BBC Three soap opera set in a city such as Belfast, Aberdeen or Newcastle, to help emerging local actors and writers to establish themselves.\n\n\"That's where I'm trying to take this channel, because then you're relevant to people and important to them and you mean something to them,\" Campbell explained.\n\n\"In terms of the UK, you can't be relevant to your audience unless you're making content that's very close to your audience,\" Campbell said.\n\n\"I think people's mobility, in terms of geographic mobility, has obviously gone down in recent years [due to the pandemic] so the relevance of where they come from has gone up.\"\n\nBimini Bon Boulash was a runner-up in series two of RuPaul's Drag Race UK\n\nCampbell stressed that in an age of on-demand streaming services, linear TV was still an important medium for creating \"a moment\" among viewers.\n\nMP Julian Knight said the move online showed the BBC had \"failed\" those viewers, after the plan was first announced in March last year.\n\n\"I question whether putting the clock back five years is the right way to win over 18-35s,\" said Mr Knight, who chairs the select committee for the department for digital, culture, media and sport.\n\nBut BBC Three's return to TV was given the green light by the broadcasting watchdog Ofcom in November, which said it would help the BBC reach younger viewers, particularly those outside of London.\n\nIt stipulated that \"75% of hours broadcast each year must be original programmes\", commissioned by the BBC.\n\nIt will air each night from 19:00 GMT on Freeview, Sky, Virgin and Freesat and will also still be available on the iPlayer.\n\nBBC Three originally launched on TV in 2003 but was moved online to save money in 2016. Alongside the likes of Drag Race UK and Fleabag, its hits include Normal People and Gavin and Stacey.", "Anne Frank's diary, written in hiding from the Nazis, is widely read more than 70 years after her death\n\nA Dutch publishing house has apologised for printing a book which identifies a person who may have betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis.\n\nThe book's investigating team suggested a Jewish man called Arnold van den Bergh was responsible for her and her family's arrests during World War Two.\n\nMany people have criticised the book since its publication.\n\nAnne Frank was a Jewish girl who died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945 after spending two years in hiding.\n\nHer diary, published after her death, is the most famous first-hand account of Jewish life during the war.\n\nThe BBC has approached Dutch publisher Ambo Anthos for comment, as well as the book's author and its English-language publisher.\n\nThe recent publication about who betrayed Anne and her family said Jewish notary Van den Bergh had probably given up the Franks' hiding location to save his own family.\n\nThe investigating team, made up of historians and other experts, including an ex-FBI agent, spent six years using modern investigative techniques including AI technology to try to crack the \"cold case\".\n\nBut the book has gained criticism from many since its publication. For example, the Swiss-based Anne Frank Fund, talking to the Swiss press, said the investigation was \"full of errors\".\n\nFollowing the criticism, the Dutch publisher wrote in an internal email to the book's Canadian author, Rosemary Sullivan, that it should have taken a more \"critical stance\" on the book.\n\n\"We await the answers from the researchers to the questions that have emerged and are delaying the decision to print another run,\" it said.\n\n\"We offer our sincere apologies to anyone who might feel offended by the book.\"\n\nQuoted by Dutch public broadcaster NOS, one of the investigators used in the book, Pieter van Twisk, said he was perplexed by the email and had been unaware of how Ambo Anthos felt about the book's reception.\n\nHe added that the investigating team had never claimed to have uncovered the complete truth. He estimated that their theory had a \"probability percentage of at least 85%\" and they hoped their research would help fill the gaps in the existing research.\n\nAnne and seven other Jews had hidden in a secret annex above a warehouse in Amsterdam before being discovered by the Nazis.\n\nThey were all deported and Anne died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.\n\nHer diary, first published in 1947, has been translated into 70 languages.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn almost 500-mile long bolt of lightning that lit up the sky across three US states has set a new world record for longest flash, scientists have confirmed.\n\nThe bolt in 2020, extended a total of 477.2 miles (768 km) and spread across Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.\n\nThe previous record was 440.6 miles (709 km) and recorded in Brazil in 2018.\n\nLightning rarely extends over 10 miles and usually lasts under a second.\n\nAnother lightning flash recorded in 2020 - in Uruguay and Argentina - has also set a new record for duration at 17.1 seconds. The previous record was 16.7 seconds.\n\n\"These are extraordinary records from lightning flash events,\" Professor Randall Cerveny, the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) rapporteur of weather and climate extremes, said.\n\nAccording to the WMO, both records took place in areas prone to intense storms that produce \"megaflashes\".\n\nSatellite imagery of the lightning strike from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\n\nProfessor Cerveny added that greater extremes are likely to exist and are likely to be recorded in the future thanks to advances in space-based lightning detection technology.\n\nThe WMO warned that lightning was a hazard and urged people in both regions and around the world to take caution during storms.\n\n\"These extremely large and long-duration lightning events were not isolated but happened during active thunderstorms,\" lightning specialist Ron Holle said in a WMO statement.\n\n\"Any time there is thunder heard, it is time to reach a lightning-safe place\".\n\nPreviously accepted WMO 'lightning extremes' include a 1975 incident in which 21 people were killed by a single flash of a lightning as they huddled inside a tent in Zimbabwe.\n\nIn another incident, 469 people were killed when lightning struck the Egyptian town of Dronka in 1994, causing burning oil to flood the town.\n\nThe WMO notes that the only lightning-safe locations are \"substantial\" buildings with wiring and plumbing, rather than structures such as bus stops or those found at beaches.", "This wooded area outside of Edzell has been devastated\n\nThousands of people still remain without power after storms hit Scotland, with some being warned they may not be reconnected until Wednesday.\n\nThe worst impact of Storm Malik on Saturday then Storm Corrie on Sunday was in the north east and Highlands.\n\nScottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said the number of customers off supply was now 4,800.\n\nThe firm said most were expected to have power restored by Tuesday evening, with pockets off until Wednesday.\n\nSSEN said customers still off supply were mostly in rural Aberdeenshire and Angus, as well as Moray coast, the Highlands, Perthshire and the Western Isles.\n\nWelfare facilities continue to be offered for those without electricity and access to hot meals and drinks.\n\nSSEN said further windy weather on Tuesday, including gusts of up to 65mph across the north east of Scotland, had slowed down progress in reconnecting households.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn aerial photo showed a wooded area outside Edzell in Angus left devastated.\n\nRichard Gough, director of distribution system operations at SSEN, said power has been restored to 115,000 customers, and apologised for the continuing issues.\n\nFood has been offered to those without power\n\nHe said: \"Our teams have continued to make significant progress restoring power to customers impacted by Storms Malik and Corrie and all available resources have been deployed to support with restoration efforts.\n\n\"Although the cumulative impact of Storms Malik and Corrie has compounded the challenge, we have started our final push and aim to restore power to the vast majority of customers today.\n\n\"For the pockets of customers that will remain without supply into Wednesday, we are prioritising welfare and support, working closely with local resilience partners.\"\n\nOpenreach has been working in areas including Aboyne\n\nCommunications regulator Ofcom said the number of homes without broadband was still in the thousands in the wake of the storms in Scotland.\n\nDigital network Openreach said there had been \"significant damage\" to the overhead network and engineers were working to repair faults.\n\nThe company said the Deeside area had seen many homes and businesses affected, and engineers were experiencing difficulties getting access to the network due to fallen trees blocking roads.\n\nSeveral Aberdeenshire schools are again closed, with some others delaying opening for safety checks.\n\nOn Tuesday morning, the A96 was closed in both directions between Huntly and Inverurie due to debris on the road amid reports that a roof had blown off a filling station.", "Mark and Louise Roberts said Johnson's lockdown breaches were \"all there in the report\" Image caption: Mark and Louise Roberts said Johnson's lockdown breaches were \"all there in the report\"\n\nAt the 2019 general election, the Conservatives won Birmingham Northfield from Labour for the first time since 1992. Its MP, Gary Sambrook, is the secretary of the backbench 1922 committee.\n\nTwo weeks ago, he said the prime minister must consider resigning if he broke the law. Last night, after the publication of Sue Gray's report , he tweeted his support for Boris Johnson.\n\nShoppers in the high street of his Northfield constituency today seem split about whether this was a resignation matter.\n\nLabour supporter, Olivia Barnes says the PM has to go: “He’s just been completely selfish and not thought about anyone else”.\n\nTrue blue Ruby Keats (pictured with her granddaughter Cheryl) didn’t think the is was a resigning matter. “He’s done a brilliant job with the corona and all that,” she says.\n\nMark and Louise Roberts think he should resign because of the lockdown breaches: “This woman’s written the report and it’s all there in the first few pages.”\n\nBut others agree with Ruby: Simone, a lifelong Labour voter, thinks the prime minister is doing a good job, and David - who says he never voted Conservative - thinks there is no good enough alternative to take Johnson’s place.", "Government plans would see 55 local-authority areas in England with weak education offered extra investment.\n\nStruggling schools would be offered more support and new specialist sixth-form colleges created.\n\nA target for 90% of Year 6 pupils, by 2030, to pass their national curriculum tests, often known as Sats, in literacy and maths, is also planned. In 2019, two-thirds reached this level.\n\nThe plans are being set out in the government's Levelling Up White Paper.\n\nThe White Paper is backed by £560m of investment, announced in the last Spending Review.\n\nSchools in the 55 new Education Investment Areas - a third of all the local-authority areas in England and all outside the South East - would be funded to offer retention payments to in-demand teachers in high-priority subjects.\n\nThey would also be given support to address wider issues.\n\nFor instance, those struggling with attendance would be encouraged to join a new pilot programme to tackle the issue.\n\nAnd those with successive Ofsted ratings of less than good could be moved into strong multi-academy trusts, to attract more support and the best teachers.\n\nEducation Secretary Nadhim Zahawi said his White Paper plans were a \"blueprint for putting skills, schools and families at the heart of levelling up\".\n\n\"It focuses on putting great schools in every part of the country, training that sets you up for success in a high-skilled, well paid career and ensuring no-one misses out on opportunities simply because of where they live or their family background,\" he added.\n\nBut much of this new promise to \"level up\" education builds on schemes already in place.\n\nAlready, 12 designated Opportunity Areas receive modest funds to tackle issues preventing children from making the most of education.\n\nAll 12 would be absorbed into the new Education Investment Areas, which together cover more of the country - but it is not yet clear how they will be substantially different.\n\nThe policy of large academy chains taking over struggling schools is also already in place.\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Kevin Courtney said while his union welcomed any new investment in schools, many of the areas now targeted for support had been among the hardest hit by education cuts over the past decade.", "The Met Police are investigating alleged Covid-rule breaking at 12 gatherings in Downing Street and Whitehall held during the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson was at three of the events and has refused to say whether he was at a fourth, in his own flat.\n\nHe said MPs must wait for the outcome of the Met's investigation, as he rejected opposition calls to resign.\n\nHe was commenting after Sue Gray published a limited report into lockdown parties in Downing Street.\n\nThe senior civil servant said there had been a \"serious failure\" to meet the high standards expected of those working at the heart of government.\n\nShe blamed \"failures of leadership and judgment\" at No 10 and the Cabinet Office.\n\nBut she added that she had been \"severely limited\" in what she could say by the Metropolitan Police's own inquiry, launched last week.\n\nTwelve of the 16 gatherings highlighted in the Gray report - on eight separate dates - are being investigated by the Met, after Ms Gray passed details to the force.\n\n20 May 2020 \"Bring your own booze\" party in the Downing Street garden, which the PM has apologised for attending\n\n19 June 2020 A gathering in the Cabinet room at No 10, with Mr Johnson, to celebrate the PM's birthday\n\nThe police are also looking at an alleged party in Mr Johnson's own flat on 13 November 2020, the day that the PM's senior aide Dominic Cummings left Downing Street.\n\nTwo parties were held in Downing Street on the night Dominic Cummings left\n\nMr Johnson was pictured with Mr Cain, a close ally of Dominic Cummings, at his leaving do.\n\nAsked repeatedly by opposition MPs if he was also at the party in the No 10 flat on the same night, Mr Johnson said he would not give a \"running commentary\" on events being investigated by the police.\n\nHe said he accepted Sue Gray's findings in full and promised a shake-up of the way Downing Street is run.\n\nPolice are also investigating three events which were not previously known about.\n\n18 June 2020 A gathering in the Cabinet Office, 70 Whitehall, on the departure of a No 10 private secretary\n\n17 December 2020 A gathering in No 10 Downing Street on the departure of a No 10 official\n\n14 January 2021 A gathering in No 10 Downing Street on the departure of two No 10 private secretaries\n\nCatherine Roper, who leads the Met's Central Specialist Crime Command, said: \"The offences under investigation, where proven, would normally result in the issuing of a fixed penalty notice.\"\n\nShe said investigating officers have been handed \"well over\" 500 pieces of paper, and more than 300 photographs so far.\n\nThey expect to approach in writing, or via email, individuals \"identified as having potentially breached\", Commander Roper added.\n\nThe Met have not given a timescale for when their investigation will be complete.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the prime minister of \"hiding behind a police investigation into criminality at his home and his office\".\n\n\"He gleefully treats what should be a mark of shame as a welcome shield,\" added Sir Keir.\n\nConservative former prime minister Theresa May said the Gray report shows Downing Street \"was not observing the regulations they had imposed on members of the public\" , so either Mr Johnson \"had not read the rules or didn't understand what they meant and others around him, or they didn't think the rules applied to Number 10. Which was it?\"\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"No, Mr Speaker that is not what the Gray report says, I suggest that she waits to see the conclusion of the inquiry.\"", "Whoopi Goldberg made the comments on the talk show The View\n\nWhoopi Goldberg is facing a backlash after she said on a US talk show that the Holocaust \"was not about race\".\n\nThe actress and television personality said on ABC's The View that the Nazi genocide of the Jews involved \"two groups of white people\".\n\nShe apologised - but in a muddled attempt to clarify her comments, ended up having to say sorry again.\n\nThe Nazis, who believed themselves an Aryan \"master race\", murdered six million Jews in the Holocaust.\n\nMonday's discussion was sparked by a Tennessee school board's ban of a graphic novel about Nazi death camps during World War Two.\n\nMaus, which depicts Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, has won a number of literary awards.\n\nThe school board said it banned the book because its profanity, nudity and depiction of suicide was inappropriate for 13-year-olds.\n\nGoldberg, a 66-year-old Oscar-winning actress who has been on The View since 2007, told her co-hosts: \"I'm surprised that's what made you uncomfortable, the fact that there was some nudity.\n\n\"I mean, it's about the Holocaust, the killing of six million people, but that didn't bother you?\n\n\"If you're going to do this, then let's be truthful about it. Because the Holocaust isn't about race. No, it's not about race.\"\n\nCo-host Joy Behar pointed out that the Nazis said the Jews were a different race.\n\nGoldberg said: \"But it's not about race. It's not. It's about man's inhumanity to other man.\"\n\n\"But it's about white supremacy,\" responded co-host Ana Navarro. \"It's about going after Jews and Gypsies and Roma.\"\n\n\"But these are two white groups of people,\" countered Goldberg.\n\nCo-host Sara Haines pointed out that the Nazis \"didn't see them as white\".\n\nGoldberg continued: \"But you're missing the point! The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley. Let's talk about it for what it is. It's how people treat each other. It's a problem.\"\n\nShe nodded to someone behind the camera as the show's theme music played to signal an ad break.\n\nJonathan Greenblatt, leader of the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish anti-hate watchdog, tweeted: \"No @WhoopiGoldberg, the #Holocaust was about the Nazi's systematic annihilation of the Jewish people - who they deemed to be an inferior race.\n\n\"They dehumanised them and used this racist propaganda to justify slaughtering six million Jews. Holocaust distortion is dangerous.\"\n\nMeghan McCain, a former co-host of the The View, tweeted: \"Antisemitism is a cancer and a poison that is increasingly excused in our culture and television - and permeates spaces that should shock us all.\"\n\nConservative commentator Ben Shapiro tweeted a quote from Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, who wrote in Mein Kampf: \"Is not their very existence founded on one great lie, namely, that they are a religious community, whereas in reality they are a race?\"\n\nThe US Holocaust Museum, in what was interpreted as a subtweet at Goldberg, wrote: \"Racism was central to Nazi ideology. Jews were not defined by religion, but by race. Nazi racist beliefs fuelled genocide and mass murder.\"\n\n\"On today's show, I said the Holocaust 'is not about race, but about man's inhumanity to man'. I should have said it is about both,\" Goldberg wrote in a Twitter post.\n\n\"The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver. I'm sorry for the hurt I have caused,\" she added.\n\nBut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert while attempting to clarify her comments she said the Nazis had lied and actually had issues with ethnicity not race, which caused further offence and prompted another apology on The View on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Health Secretary Sajid Javid explain why the mandatory Covid vaccination policy will now be reviewed\n\nMinisters plan to scrap a legal requirement for front-line NHS staff in England to be vaccinated against Covid, Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said.\n\nHe told MPs ending the policy, which also affects social care staff, was now under consultation in light of the fast-spreading Omicron variant.\n\nThe policy, announced last year, meant front-line NHS workers in England would have had to be fully vaccinated by 1 April, needing a first jab by Thursday.\n\nThis deadline is no longer applicable.\n\nStaff had faced redeployment or dismissal, prompting protests against the policy and some NHS workers considering moves to other UK nations.\n\nThe health secretary defended the policy of initially introducing mandatory Covid vaccinations for NHS and social care workers, insisting the government \"makes no apology for it\".\n\nBut he told MPs ministers would now launch a consultation due to \"dramatic changes\" in the virus since the original policy was devised last year.\n\nHe added: \"Subject to the responses and the will of this house, the government will revoke the regulations.\n\n\"I have always been clear that our rules must remain proportionate and balanced, and of course, should we see another dramatic change in the virus, it would be only responsible to review this policy again.\"\n\nThere are no plans in Scotland and Wales to make Covid jabs mandatory for NHS workers or care home staff, while there will be a public consultation on the issue in Northern Ireland.\n\nSince September there has been a \"net increase of 127,000\" people working across the NHS who have \"done the right thing and got jabbed\", and a net increase of 32,000 people vaccinated in social care, Mr Javid said.\n\nThe government has been under pressure from some within the health service to scrap the mandate, arguing that it would lead to a staffing crisis.\n\nThe Royal College of Midwives - which welcomed the suspension of the policy - had warned it could have a \"catastrophic impact\" on maternity services, while the Royal College of GPs and Royal College of Nursing had called for the deadline to be delayed.\n\nBut the Department of Health and Social Care has previously insisted the policy was \"the right thing to do to protect patients\".\n\nThe government says it will push ahead with dropping the requirement for frontline NHS staff in England to be vaccinated - this will technically require consultation and a change in the law, although with Labour support it looks like a formality.\n\nMinisters say they will do the same for social care staff in England, who from last November were legally required to be vaccinated to hold down their jobs.\n\nThere were predictions that thousands of care workers would leave.\n\nThose who did quit are now free to reapply for their jobs.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid argued in the Commons that the landscape had changed significantly with Omicron proving less severe than Delta.\n\nHigher vaccination take-up, he added, meant that the balance of risks had altered with the need to hold on to staff more of a priority.\n\nThere has been a welcome from some Royal Colleges who opposed the policy from the start, but a sense of irritation amongst health leaders.\n\nIn a joint statement the NHS Confederation and NHS Providers, representing trusts in England, said there was frustration at the 11th-hour policy change given all the hard work on meeting the government deadline.\n\nThe groups also said there was concern at the implications for wider messaging to the public about the importance of vaccination.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether what looks like a short term fix has more worrying longer term implications.\n\nThe chief executives of the NHS Confederation and NHS Providers, Matthew Taylor and Chris Hopson, said NHS leaders were \"frustrated\" at the 11th-hour policy change as they and their teams raced to meet the 3 February deadline for first doses.\n\nIn a joint statement, they said: \"They recognise the reasons the government has given for the changes, the risk to services and the different risk from Omicron compared to previous variants.\n\n\"But there would be concern at what this means for wider messaging about the importance of vaccination for the population as a whole.\"\n\nThe pair also said the consultation would cause similar frustration for the care home sector \"given the disruption to service delivery that resulted from loss of staff last November\".\n\nCare home staff had to be double vaccinated by 11 November last year.\n\nHome care or domiciliary staff would have had to be double vaccinated at the same time as NHS staff.\n\nMany working in care homes or supporting people in their own homes will be relieved at the government announcement that it now plans to scrap mandatory vaccinations in the health and care sector.\n\nFrom the start, care bosses have said that persuasion, not compulsion, is the most effective way to get hesitant staff to be vaccinated.\n\nMaking vaccinations mandatory was an unnecessary headache, they argued, when the demand for care was rising and they were already losing staff exhausted by Covid and with better pay offered elsewhere.\n\nCare homes had to sack staff unwilling to be jabbed last November, just before the intense pressures of the Omicron wave of the virus.\n\nWith a similar deadline looming for those supporting people in the own homes, some care companies, had feared they could lose 10% or more of their frontline care workers.\n\nThe government says it reviewed its policy because the population is better protected now and Omicron is less severe than previous variants, but ongoing staffing shortages will also have focused minds.\n\nThe Homecare Association - which represents providers of care in people's homes - said it was pleased there would be a consultation but urged immediate clarity, given the deadline for the first dose of the vaccine was Thursday and employers were poised to start dismissal procedures with unvaccinated staff.\n\nIn a letter to NHS trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups, NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard asked employers not to serve notice of termination to employees affected by the regulations.\n\nLabour backed Mr Javid's decision, with shadow health secretary Wes Streeting saying: \"Clearly things have now moved on both in terms of our overall levels of infection and in terms of understanding of the latest variant.\"", "Tesco has warned 1,600 jobs are at risk as it ends overnight restocking at some stores and converts some petrol sites to pay-at-pump during the night.\n\nThe supermarket's plans come a day after it announced the closure of its Jack's discount stores.\n\nIt said restocking shelves during the day would mean more staff could be on the shop floor at peak times.\n\nTesco boss Jason Tarry said the move would help it to run the business as \"simply and efficiently as possible\".\n\nOvernight restocking will switch to the daytime in 36 big stores and 49 convenience stores.\n\nThe chain also plans to convert petrol stations in 36 stores to pay-at-pump only during overnight hours.\n\n\"We operate in a highly competitive and fast-paced market, and our customers are shopping differently, especially since the start of the pandemic,\" said Mr Tarry.\n\n\"We are always looking at how we can run our business as simply and efficiently as possible, so that we can reinvest in the things that matter most to customers.\"\n\nThis is just the latest in a series of restructurings at Tesco.\n\nOver the last few years it's changed or axed thousands of roles as it overhauls the way it runs its stores to try to create a simpler business. All its big rivals have done the same as they try to compete with Aldi and Lidl.\n\nAnd, of course, our shopping habits have changed.\n\nTesco, and all the grocers, have enjoyed bumper sales at Christmas and throughout the pandemic but they're all facing rising costs ranging from raw materials and freight to wage increases.\n\nLast autumn Tesco announced it would make one billion pounds of savings over three years, to help offset inflation and to invest in the business to stay competitive.\n\nManaging costs is going to be one of the biggest headaches for retailers this year and, like Tesco, they will all be looking at ways to become more efficient.\n\nNews of the shake-up comes after Tesco's announcement on Monday that it planned to close its Jack's discount stores and shut meat, fish and deli counters in 315 Tesco stores.\n\nDaniel Adams, national officer at retail trade union Usdaw, said: \"Tesco has informed us that they are looking to undertake a number of restructures across the business that could put around 1,600 jobs at risk. Clearly this will be incredibly unsettling for those who may be affected.\"\n\n\"We should not forget the role that key workers have played throughout the Coronavirus pandemic and to receive this news is devastating.\"\n\nIn a statement, Tesco said it had about 3,000 vacancies elsewhere in the business and it aimed to \"offer alternative roles at Tesco for as many colleagues as we can\".\n\nIs your job at risk? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Maria is stationed on Ukraine's eastern front line. \"We are standing our ground,\" she said\n\nThe front lines of Eastern Ukraine are snow-laden and the big guns are largely silent. But snipers are bedded into this winter white wasteland. Ukrainian troops who forget to stay low in their World War One-style trenches risk a bullet to the head.\n\nThe conflict here has been frozen in place since 2014, when separatists, backed by Moscow, seized parts of the Donbas region. At least 13,000 people have been killed, both combatants and civilians. Now Western leaders are warning of something much worse - a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. If it comes, the eastern front would be an easy place to start, with the pro-Russian rebels here paving the way.\n\nMaria was trying not to stress about all that. The 26-year-old Ukrainian soldier, talkative and slight, was in her trench, armed with a Kalashnikov and a perfect manicure. She's part of Ukraine's 56th infantry brigade. (The army asked us to stick to her first name, to prevent trolling on social media.)\n\n\"I try to avoid politics and not to watch TV, I try not to get too worried,\" Maria said. \"But we are ready. We have had a lot of training. I understand that it won't be like a training exercise, it will be hard for everyone. But our morale is high and we are standing our ground.\"\n\nMaria has a band of brothers. Two served in Ukraine's national guard. Her youngest brother will soon be heading to the front line, as a tank gunner. Back home her retired parents are caring for her four-year-old son.\n\n\"It was very hard to leave him,\" she said. \"But since I was six years old my dream was to join the army. I didn't think that I would end up on the front line, but I don't regret that I am here.\" Nearby, one of her brothers in arms chopped wood with an axe. The cold is a constant threat, like the separatists about a kilometre away.\n\nA Ukrainian soldier prepares food in a makeshift kitchen near the front lines\n\nMaria walked through a warren of tunnels to her home away from home, a berth below ground. Brightly coloured children's drawings were stuck to the mud walls. \"These come from different schools, as a thank you,\" she said. \"It helps to boost our morale.\"\n\nMaria's war is about the future of her homeland, but there may be far more at stake than the fate of Ukraine. Russia is drawing battle lines in a new Cold war. At issue now is the future shape of Nato, and the established security order in Europe.\n\nUS President Joe Biden has warned of a \"distinct possibility\" that Russia will invade in February and by doing so \"change the world\". The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson has invoked the horrors of Chechnya and Bosnia. But the soaring international concern is at odds with what you hear from some Ukrainians.\n\n\"I don't believe the Russians will come,\" said a social worker in the east, who did not want us to use her name. \"I believe my eyes and my ears. It's actually quieter here now than last month. This is just an information war.\" This 'nothing-to-see-here' refrain is echoed regularly by Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nBut some here are afraid. \"Every time I hear a noise my heart pounds,\" said Ludmilla Momot, a 64-year-old great grandmother with a gold-tipped front tooth. Momot knows only too well what Moscow and its allies can do. Her home of 30 years, in the village of Nevilske, was destroyed last November by separatist shelling. She returned to Nevilske, now a ghost town, to show us the wreckage.\n\n\"This is a wound that will last for the rest of my life,\" she said through tears, glancing at the gaping hole where her front door used to be. \"I had to crawl out over the rubble in my nightgown. My feet were bloody. It is the eighth year of the war, how long can our suffering continue?\"\n\nCivilians like Ludmilla Momot have lived with war since 2014. \"How long can our suffering continue?\" she said\n\nI asked the retired milk maid if there was anything she would like to say to President Putin. \"Make peace,\" she said. \"Reach an agreement. You are all adults, educated people. Make peace so that people can live freely, without tears and suffering.\"\n\nIn the modern-day version of war and peace, the Russian leader's end game remains unclear. Has he massed around 100,000 troops along the Ukrainian border to force concessions from NATO - for which read the United States - or to seize another chunk of the country?\n\nOne possible scenario is a limited incursion, with forces only sent into Eastern Ukraine. The Kremlin would likely try to present them as \"peacekeepers\", protecting Russian passport holders. Moscow has been busy issuing hundreds of thousands of passports in separatist held territory.\n\nUkrainian troops insist that if the Russians come, it won't be as easy as annexing the Crimean peninsula in 2014. \"We are better prepared this time,\" said Alyona, a soldier stationed in the East. \"I doubt the Russians will invade. They want to create panic and use it as leverage,\" she said.\n\nEven if there is no ground invasion - and Moscow insists there won't be - damage has already been done. The international chorus of concern about a possible invasion is destabilising this vast Western-looking nation.\n\nPresident Putin has already achieved a victory, without firing a shot, by weakening the neighbouring state he covets, and forcing the international community to hang on his every word.\n\nBut many Western leaders fear he won't be satisfied with that.", "The first minister says there are three further issues she wants to highlight today, starting with the sub-type of Omicron - known as BA.2 - which was recently designated as a variant under investigation.\n\nMs Sturgeon reminds MSPs that a PCR test would use the absence of what's known as the S Gene to identify the Omicron variant.\n\nHowever, she notes in BA.2 cases the S Gene shows up.\n\nShe says: \"In the last week, the proportion of PCR tests with an S Gene dropout - which indicates the main Omicron variant - has declined, with a corresponding increase in the proportion of tests showing S Gene positive results.\"\n\nThe first minister adds this could be accounted for by Delta cases - which also show positive S Gene results - or it may indicate \"increasing transmission\" of the BA.2 sub variant.\n\nGenomic sequencing is being used to investigate this further but, so far, Ms Sturgeon says 26 cases of BA.2 have been confirmed in Scotland.", "The game became extremely popular in just a few months\n\nThe inventor of word game sensation Wordle has spoken of being overwhelmed by its success, following a sale to the New York Times (NYT).\n\nSoftware engineer Josh Wardle released the free simple online game in October, and has now sold it for an undisclosed seven-figure sum.\n\nHe said the game, which has millions of players, \"has gotten bigger than I ever imagined. It has been incredible.\"\n\nThe NYT wants to use the game to boost its online subscriptions.\n\nThe media group said it will \"initially remain free\" to play, raising questions that the intention in the long term is to charge.\n\nMr Wardle always wanted the game to remain free, but the unexpected success of something he devised during lockdown for just two people - him and his partner - has come as a shock.\n\nHe took to Twitter to thank users for sharing touching stories about the effect the game has had on their lives and relationships, adding that he was \"thrilled\" about the takeover.\n\nHe said: \"It has been incredible to watch the game bring so much joy to so many and I feel so grateful for the personal stories some of you have shared with me - from Wordle uniting distant family members, to provoking friendly rivalries, to supporting medical recoveries.\n\n\"On the flip side, I'd be lying if I said this hasn't been overwhelming. After all, I am just one person, and it is important to me that, as Wordle grows, it continues to provide a great experience to everyone.\n\n\"Given this, I am incredibly pleased to announce that I've reached an agreement with The New York Times for them to take over running Wordle going forward.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Countdown star Susie Dent says she hopes the game will remain free\n\nThe game challenges players to find a five-letter word in six guesses.\n\nA new puzzle is published every day and players can post how quickly they solved the colourful grid on social media - but in a way that does not spoil the answer for those still playing - which is why, Mr Wardle said, it managed to capture the imagination of so many users.\n\nMr Wardle announced the deal in a statement posted on Twitter, saying he had \"long admired the NYT's approach to their games and the respect with which they treat their players\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Josh Wardle This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe New York Times said it bought the hit word game from its creator for a price \"in the low seven figures\".\n\n\"The Times remains focused on becoming the essential subscription for every English-speaking person seeking to understand and engage with the world. New York Times Games are a key part of that strategy,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Our games already provide original, high-quality content and experiences every single day. Wordle will now play a part in that daily experience, giving millions more people around the world another reason to turn to The Times to meet their daily news and life needs,\" it added.\n\nThe game can be played in just a few minutes. Players begin by guessing any five-letter word.\n\nWordle fan Matthew Robertson said he only discovered the game a few weeks ago after reading about it in the media.\n\nLike most players who discover Wordle, it becomes a bit of an addiction. \"I'm not great at it, but it's still fun and gets me thinking,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I think the set-up and how it works is very clever. It's something to do every day, as well.\"\n\nHaving only just discovered the game, Sheffield-based Mr Robertson is really hoping the New York Times doesn't put Wordle behind a paywall.\n\nHe does volunteering, including at his local library. \"I hope that the New York Times doesn't charge, as that will make it difficult for me to play,\" he said. \"Apart from that, I see no issue with them taking it over.\"\n\nThe word game explains the rules at the start\n\nWales-born Mr Wardle, who graduated from university in London in 2006 and moved to the US for a masters degree in 2008, worked as a software engineer at Reddit.\n\nHe said he had \"really got into\" the New York Times crossword and spelling games during the pandemic.\n\nThe New York Times Games, Mr Wardle said, played a \"big part\" in Wordle's origins, \"so this step feels very natural\".\n\nIn January, Mr Wardle told the BBC's Today programme he had come up with a prototype for the game in 2013 but his friends had not been keen on it.\n\n\"Last year, my partner and I got really into crosswords and word games and I wanted a game for us to play each morning as part of our routine,\" he said.\n\nHe then shared it with his family on WhatsApp before opening it up to the public.\n\nAsked whether he planned to make money from it, he said: \"I don't understand why something can't just be fun. I don't have to charge people money for this and ideally would like to keep it that way.\"", "Neodymium-iron-boron is the strongest permanent magnet material in wide-scale use today\n\nName a technology that is all around us, underpins our modern way of living but is hardly recognised for its contribution. How about the magnet?\n\nThe Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering hopes our awareness and appreciation will be raised by making Masato Sagawa its 2022 laureate.\n\nThis is the strongest permanent magnet in wide-scale use today, found in everything from cars to computers.\n\nNd-Fe-B is one of those indispensable materials, without which everyday life would be a lot less efficient.\n\nAnd the magnet's centrality is only going to increase as the green revolution takes hold. That's because the material will be at the operational heart of many renewables systems, such as wind turbines.\n\nThe market for Nd-Fe-B magnets is expected to be worth some $20bn by the middle of this decade.\n\nDr Masato Sagawa regards the QEPrize as his greatest award\n\nThe QEPrize has traditionally been a biennial award but has now become an annual event. It's been called the \"Nobel for engineering\" and the recipient gets a cheque for £500,000, along with a trophy that is presented by the Queen or her representative.\n\nDr Sagawa has won many awards for his innovation but he said this one topped the lot.\n\n\"This is the biggest prize that I have received so far,\" he told BBC News. \"As you may know I have previously received the Japan Prize, which is a very big award, but the QEPrize has influence around the world and that makes it very important.\"\n\nDr Sagawa made his breakthrough in the early 1980s. At the time, a samarium-cobalt (Sm-Co) combination produced the strongest permanent magnet. But cobalt metal is a rare resource and the scientist recognised that if a solution could be found based on iron, it would provide for a much cheaper and more useful product.\n\nThis he managed by combining iron with neodymium, which is the third most abundant rare-earth element - a set of 17 metals found in the Earth's crust that have diverse applications. The addition of the element boron raises the so-called Curie temperature - the point at which magnetic properties are lost.\n\nThis is important in motor cars, for example, where conditions can get very hot, especially in an engine compartment.\n\nIndeed, vehicles are among the biggest uses for magnets. From the pump that pushes screen wash on to the windscreen to the sensor that enables an anti-lock braking system - a magnet is being used either as part of a motor or to initiate an electric current.\n\nMagnets help sweep the read-write arm across a computer's hard storage disk\n\nAway from the automotive sector, the Nd-Fe-B technology has been critical to the rise of personal computing. The strength of the magnetic field that can be delivered in a compact volume was fundamental to the development of lightweight hard disk drives. Nd-Fe-B magnets are part of the mechanism that sweeps the read-write heads across the disk.\n\nBut many everyday items within easy reach will very probably have Nd-Fe-B magnets inside them - from mobile phones and electric power tools to jewellery clasps and door latches.\n\n\"I'm a real fan of magnets. I actually wanted this to be the prize-winner last year,\" said Ilya Marotta, the marine engineer who led the Panama Canal expansion project and who sits on the QEPrize judging panel.\n\n\"Sometimes, we take things for granted. People may relate to magnets as the little souvenirs that you stick to the refrigerator door. But magnets are far more impressive than that, and neodymium magnets in particular have enabled a lot of technologies to move forward.\"\n\nIt's impossible to laud the achievements of Dr Sagawa without also mentioning Dr John Croat. The American independently arrived at the same material solution at the same time when working with General Motors. And Sagawa and Croat will actually share the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) 2022 Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies.\n\nBut Lord Browne of Madingley, who chairs the QEPrize, said Sagawa's manufacturing process gave him the edge - in the view of the judges.\n\nThe electrical generator in a wind turbine will use strong permanent magnets\n\nHis powdered, or sintered, process is more expensive than the American's melt-spun and bonded product and doesn't have quite the same versatility of application, but the end magnet is significantly stronger, unit for unit.\n\n\"You can have a great idea on paper but to be successful you have to prove you can make something at scale, and at a price that people will get behind,\" Lord Browne told BBC News.\n\n\"The essence of engineering is that you have to deliver. Scientists come up with lots of great ideas; the Higgs Boson, fantastic. But engineering has to do something, and Sagawa's innovation did this very successfully.\"\n\nThe 78 year-old continues to hone his technology. He's currently trying to reduce the amount of another rare-earth element that is used in trace amounts. This is dysprosium (Dy), which further improves a magnet's resistance to heat. But Dy is very scarce.\n\n\"We want to lower dysprosium's use to less than 1% of composition, and preferably not use it at all,\" Dr Sagawa explained.\n\n\"If we can do this, it will see neodymium magnets applied even more widely into the marketplace, especially around electric vehicles.\"\n\nThe magnet pioneer will be formally honoured at a special ceremony later in the year. His QEPrize trophy, as for past laureates, has been designed by a young competition winner. This year it is Anshika Agarwal, aged 17, from India.\n\nThis year's trophy has been designed by 17-year-old Anshika Agarwal from India", "The New York Times has purchased the popular online word game Wordle for an undisclosed seven-figure sum.\n\nThe free and simple game was created by software engineer Josh Wardle. It was released last October and now boasts millions of players.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Ben Boulos, Countdown star Susie Dent said she hoped the game would remain free to play.\n\nRead more on this story.", "Russian state TV is flooded with news reports and talk shows discussing tension around Ukraine. They all claim that Russia is only responding to provocation from the West.\n\n\"Under the pretext of threat of aggression from Russia, Kyiv is not only asking for weapons but for financial aid as well,\" says one channel.\n\nA report on another state channel shows Donetsk - the biggest city in the rebel-held territory. Officials of the unrecognised republic claim that they found an improvised explosive device, which they say has been planted by the Ukrainian special services.\n\nAnd then come statements of Russian diplomats, also accusing the West of provocations.\n\n\"It's like you're calling for [an invasion], wanting it and waiting for it to happen. As if you want to make your speculations real,” Russia's official representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia said on Monday.\n\nThese statements are confusing for the Russian audiences, many of whom struggle to understand what is happening and why.\n\nMeanwhile, Kremlin’s main objective is to show that whatever happens next is not Russia’s fault.", "A councillor found to have used bullying behaviour has failed to get his three-month suspension overturned.\n\nIndependent Chirk town councillor Gareth Baines appealed against Wrexham council's standards committee's ruling, but it has now upheld its decision.\n\nHe breached the code of conduct by contacting a woman's employers after she raised a grievance against him.\n\nLast year he apologised for derogatory social media comments about A&E patients.\n\nThe code of conduct requires councillors to show respect and to not use bullying behaviour or use their position to create a disadvantage for other people.\n\nFollowing Mr Baines's hearing about his bullying behaviour, the committee issued a three-month suspension along with two other sanctions - that he carry out code of conduct training and write letters of apology.\n\nAlthough he accepted the findings, he appealed to the Adjudication Panel Wales (APW) that the suspension sanction imposed was \"excessive\".\n\nIn December, the APW decided to refer the case back to the standards committee with a recommendation the period of suspension be reduced to two months.\n\nBut after revisiting the matter, Wrexham's standards committee decided to stand by the three-month suspension, which will begin on Wednesday.\n\nIn a separate matter, Mr Baines stepped down from his role as chair of the Clwyd South Conservative Association last year, after making comments on social media, calling A&E patients \"fat mums in pot noodle-stained leggings/pjs\", but he remained on Chirk town council.\n\nHe posted on New Year's Eve 2020 that parents were \"taking their kids for a day out at A&E\".\n\nHe continued they wanted to \"harvest Facebook likes because their darling little snot-covered Asbo fell over\".\n\nIn a statement issued through the Conservative Party at the time, he said: \"Whilst I feel my comments have been taken out of context, I do offer my sincere apologies for any offence they may have caused.\"", "Tesco launched Jack's in 2018 to tackle the threat from rivals Aldi and Lidl\n\nTesco has said it will close down seven of its Jack's stores, while the remaining six branches will be converted into Tesco superstores.\n\nThe move will affect 130 jobs but Tesco said it will try and find alternative roles for the staff affected.\n\nTesco also said that meat, fish and deli counters at 317 store sites would be also be shut down because of changes in customer demand.\n\nIt launched Jack's in 2018 to tackle the threat from rivals Aldi and Lidl.\n\nTesco said that Jack's had enabled it to bring in new customers from other supermarkets.\n\nJason Tarry, chief executive of Tesco UK and Ireland, said: \"We have learnt a huge amount from Jack's and this has helped Tesco become more competitive, more efficient and strengthened our value proposition, including through the launch of Aldi price match.\"\n\n\"In turn, this has enabled us to consistently attract new customers to Tesco from our competitors over the last two years and we know they increasingly recognise the value they can find at Tesco,\" he added.\n\nChief executive Dave Lewis claimed that Jack's - named after Tesco founder Sir Jack Cohen - would be cheaper than Aldi or Lidl.\n\nJack's stores sold 2,600 products - far fewer than the 35,000 carried by a Tesco supermarket - with 1,800 branded \"Jack's\".\n\nIn the first six months after the launch, Tesco had planned between 10 and 15 Jack's stores for new locations, next to existing Tesco stores, and a small number of converted Tesco stores but a total of 13 were built.\n\nThe seven sites which will be closed are in Hull, St Helen's, Walton, Castle Bromwich, Middlewich, Barnsley and Liverpool North.\n\nThe sites which will be transferred to large Tesco stores are in Chatteris, Immingham, Edgehill, Rubery, Sheffield and Wakefield.\n\nStaff working on the meat, fish and hot deli counters listed for closure in 317 of Tesco's stores will also be offered different roles.\n\nThe supermarket chain said the changes will \"ensure\" Tesco remains \"focused and competitive in a fast-changing market\".\n\n\"With the learnings from Jack's now applied, the time is right to focus on ensuring we continue to deliver the best possible value for customers in our core business,\" Mr Tarry added.\n\nTesco saw sales soar over Christmas and forecasted strong full-year profits in January. It said it expects annual income to hit the top end of forecasts at £2.6bn. Tesco's Christmas sales in the UK rose by 0.3% compared to the previous year and were 9.2% higher than the pre-pandemic festive period in 2019.", "The Chinese government has encouraged people to spend their Lunar New Year locally to stem a further spread of Covid-19\n\nCovid-19 has dampened the travel plans of millions of Chinese for the Lunar New Year for a third straight year.\n\nPre-pandemic, the celebration would see as many as 3 billion trips made across China, and was the world's largest annual migration of people.\n\nBut resurgent virus outbreaks have forced many to cancel their plans.\n\nChinese officials - still pursuing a zero-Covid strategy - have enforced strict measures with days to go before the 2022 Winter Olympics begin.\n\nThe Lunar New Year - also known as the Spring Festival in China - falls on 1 February this year.\n\nWidely regarded as the most important time to be with family, hundreds of millions of people who have carved out a livelihood in cities make their way back to their hometowns to celebrate together.\n\nThe Chinese Ministry of Transportation estimates that 1.18 billion trips will be made this year.\n\nWhile the figure remains a far cry from pre-pandemic numbers, there are still worries that it may turn into a super-spreader event.\n\nChinese citizens have been placed under strict government surveillance, with a colour-coded system determining whether they can travel. They are required to display a green health code on their phone - which indicates they have not been in Covid-infected areas - before boarding public transport and passing through highway points.\n\nChina's insistence on pursuing a virus elimination policy has seen officials carry out rounds of mass testing and impose sudden lockdowns affecting millions of people in response to sporadic outbreaks across the country.\n\nThe Winter Olympics, which is scheduled to kick off on the first day of the Spring Festival, has further intensified pressure on local officials, who have shut down local municipalities and entire towns to battle the spread of the virus.\n\nThe measures have been met with dismay.\n\nMigrant workers especially remain the hardest-hit, as the Spring Festival represents the few precious days a year where they can return to see their loved ones back home.\n\n\"Is it wrong for a migrant worker who toils day and night, who lives far away from home, to return to his hometown and reunite with his family during his only few days of annual holiday?\" wrote a user on Chinese social media platform Weibo.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Linda Thomas-Greenfield (R) warned of more Russian troops arriving in Belarus\n\nThere have been angry clashes between Russian and US envoys at the UN Security Council, after the US called a meeting to discuss Moscow's troop build-up on its borders with Ukraine.\n\nUS Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the mobilisation was the biggest Europe had seen in decades.\n\nHer Russian counterpart accused the US of fomenting hysteria and unacceptable interference in Russia's affairs.\n\nThe US and UK have promised further sanctions if Russia invades Ukraine.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said legislation was being prepared which would target a wider range of individuals and businesses close to the Kremlin than is currently possible.\n\nA US official said Washington's sanctions meant individuals close to the Kremlin would be cut off from the international financial system.\n\nRussia has placed an estimated 100,000 troops, tanks, artillery and missiles near Ukraine's frontiers.\n\nDiplomatic efforts continue, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken due to hold talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov later on Tuesday.\n\nThe US said it had received a written response from Russia to a US proposal aimed at de-escalating the crisis in Ukraine. But hours later Russia's deputy foreign minister said that was not true and a source told Ria news agency it was still preparing a response.\n\nA state department spokesperson said the US remained fully committed to dialogue and would continue to consult closely with its allies and partners, including Ukraine.\n\nMeanwhile a number of European leaders are travelling to Ukraine on Tuesday for talks. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is flying to Kyiv after promising to work with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to find a diplomatic solution to arguments with Moscow and \"avoid further bloodshed\".\n\nPolish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte are also heading to the Ukrainian capital.\n\nAt Monday's UN Security Council meeting, Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya said there was no proof that Russia was planning military action against Ukraine, and that its troop build-up was not confirmed by the UN.\n\nHe said Russia often deployed troops on its own territory and that this was none of Washington's business.\n\nRussia had tried to block the open session of the UN body but was outvoted by 10 votes to two.\n\nThe Biden administration was \"whipping up tensions and rhetoric, and provoking escalation\", Mr Nebenzya said.\n\n\"This isn't just unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of our state, it's also an attempt to mislead the international community about the true situation in the region and the reasons for the current global tensions,\" he said.\n\nMs Thomas-Greenfield said the US continued to believe there was a diplomatic solution but warned that the US would act decisively if Russia invaded Ukraine, the consequences of which would be \"horrific\".\n\n\"This is the largest... mobilisation of troops in Europe in decades,\" she said.\n\n\"And as we speak, Russia is sending even more forces and arms to join them.\"\n\nMoscow was planning to increase its force deployed in neighbouring Belarus, on Ukraine's northern border, to 30,000, she added.\n\nLate on Monday, the US ordered the departure of family members of American government employees from Belarus, citing the \"unusual and concerning Russian military build-up\". A similar order was earlier issued to families of US government personnel in the American embassy in Ukraine's capital Kyiv.\n\nUkrainian forces have been fighting Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine for eight years\n\nMoscow wants the West to promise Ukraine will never join the Nato alliance - in which members promise to come to another's aid in the event of an armed attack - but the US has rejected that demand.\n\nNato's 30 members include the US and UK, as well as Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - former Soviet republics which border Russia. Moscow sees Nato troops in eastern Europe as a direct threat to its security.\n\nMr Putin has long argued the US broke a guarantee it made in 1990 that Nato would not expand further east, though interpretations differ over exactly what was promised.\n\nRussia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula in 2014. It is also backing rebels who seized large swathes of the eastern Donbas region soon afterwards, and some 14,000 people have died in fighting there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Understand the Ukraine crisis with Ros Atkins in less than six minutes", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London elites \"haven't really understood all of the problems\" faced by people in Grimsby and Cleethorpes, says Michael Gove\n\nThe government will \"fail\" people who voted Conservative in the 2019 election unless it fulfils its promise to \"level-up\" the UK, Michael Gove has said.\n\nThe levelling-up secretary told the BBC the government was on a \"moral mission\" to boost prosperity in poorer areas.\n\nIt will set out its plan in a long-awaited policy paper on Wednesday.\n\nBut critics say the government's flagship agenda lacks funding and uses \"recycled money\".\n\nThe government has allocated a £4.8bn fund to support regeneration, transport projects, and education across the UK as part of its levelling-up programme.\n\nWednesday's policy white paper will outline how these funds will be spent and plans to expand devolution in England, with more elected local leaders.\n\nThe paper comes at a time when the government is attempting to seize the initiative after weeks of damaging headlines about parties held in Downing Street, when strict Covid lockdowns were in force.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Grimsby, one of the constituencies the Tories won from Labour in 2019, Mr Gove said the country had been \"over-centralised\" for too long, with \"elites in London\" not understanding the problems of people in \"overlooked\" communities.\n\n\"Unless we are the government for levelling up, then we will fail the people who voted for us in 2019,\" he added.\n\nIn the white paper the government will set three targets to be achieved by 2030:\n\nMichael Gove was clear: failure when it comes to \"levelling-up\" isn't an option.\n\nBig promises were made to people who voted Conservative for the first time in 2019 - and he acknowledged the government had to deliver.\n\nHe said it came with a \"moral price\" - interesting language in the current political climate.\n\nBut the challenge is huge - addressing deep-rooted regional inequalities in the wake of a pandemic, with serious questions about the cost of living.\n\nThe centrepiece of the white paper is expected to be the idea of shifting power and money from London to communities around the country, with the creation of more elected leaders - mayors like those in Birmingham or Manchester.\n\nWhile there's support for the idea of meaningful devolution in England, the fear for some is it will mean years of wrangling about local government structures.\n\nCritics, including Labour, say the whole thing lacks vision and funding.\n\nThe government points to work already started, and the promise of regeneration to come.\n\nMr Gove acknowledged people wanted to see improvements quickly - but real change would take time, perhaps years.\n\nFor a government trying to reset after recent turmoil in Westminster, time and patience might be short\n\nMany voters turned to the Conservatives for the first time at the 2019 election, as Mr Johnson won seats traditionally held by Labour in northern areas of England.\n\nBut repeated delays to the government's levelling-up white paper have frustrated some Tory MPs, particularly those elected in parts of the country historically dominated by Labour.\n\nIn 2021, the prime minister appointed Mr Gove to the new role of levelling-up secretary to fulfil that campaign promise and turn election promises on levelling up into a strategy.\n\nCritics say the government's levelling-up policy lacks vision and funding, with Labour claiming communities will be left worse off after years of austerity under successive Conservative governments.\n\nLabour has set out its own five-point plan, including better broadband for towns and villages, action to tackle anti-social behaviour in city centres, and more affordable housing.\n\nWhen asked if there was any new money in the policy paper, Mr Gove said he was making use of funds made \"available to my department and to others in the Spending Review and tilting it\".\n\nBut he denied that the Treasury had refused him more money ahead of the paper.\n\nHe said change needed to happen quickly and visibly - but it was also \"a long haul\" and levelling up wasn't just a \"hanging basket here or there\".\n\n\"It's a moral mission, and it's an economic mission, and it's one that the prime minister is committed to,\" Mr Gove said.\n\nAsked about the recent turmoil in Westminster over lockdown-busting parties, Mr Gove insisted the prime minister was doing a \"brilliant job\".\n\nAsked if he'd stand in any upcoming leadership contest he said \"forget about it\", adding: \"There's not going to be a leadership contest.\"", "The 20-year-old striker, who made his debut for the club in March 2019, was arrested on Sunday\n\nManchester United footballer Mason Greenwood has been further arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and making threats to kill.\n\nThe 20-year-old was arrested on suspicion of rape and assault on Sunday.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said it had been granted more time to question him having previously been given an extension on Monday.\n\nManchester United have said he will not play for the club until further notice.\n\nGMP said the player was arrested on Sunday after the force \"became aware of online social media images and videos posted by a woman reporting incidents of physical violence\".\n\nIt said magistrates had granted a second extension to keep him in custody until Wednesday.\n\nA force spokesman said inquiries were ongoing and a woman was being \"offered specialist support\".\n\nManchester United said the club \"did not condone violence of any kind\"\n\nVideo game developer EA Sports said the forward had been removed from FIFA products.\n\nA statement said Greenwood had been removed from active squads in FIFA 22 and also suspended from appearing in FIFA Ultimate Team packs and Ultimate Draft.\n\nSportswear firm Nike previously said it had suspended its relationship with the footballer.\n\n\"We are deeply concerned by the disturbing allegations and will continue to closely monitor the situation,\" a spokesman said.\n\nGreenwood, who made his debut for the club in March 2019, signed a four-year deal in February 2021 after rising through the ranks of the academy.\n\nOn Sunday Manchester United said the club \"did not condone violence of any kind\" and had been made aware of the allegations but would make no further comment until the \"facts have been established\".\n\nIn a further statement, the club said it \"reiterates its strong condemnation of violence of any kind\".\n\n\"As previously communicated, Mason Greenwood will not train with, or play for, the club until further notice,\" a spokesman added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Putin was speaking after talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Moscow\n\nRussia's President Vladimir Putin has accused the US of trying to draw his country into a war in Ukraine.\n\nHe said America's goal was to use a confrontation as a pretext to impose more sanctions on Russia.\n\nMr Putin also said the US was ignoring Russia's concerns about the expansion of Nato, the Western military alliance which Ukraine is seeking to join.\n\nThe US and its allies accuse Russia of planning to invade Ukraine, something Russia has repeatedly denied.\n\nOn Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted that the US was \"committed to preventing a conflict that is in no one's interest\".\n\nMeanwhile, Spanish newspaper El Pais has released what it says are confidential documents the US and Nato sent to Russia last week - including offers of talks on cutting back on nuclear weaponry and trust-building measures in exchange for reducing tensions over Ukraine.\n\nA Nato official told the BBC the alliance never comments on alleged leaks. President Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow was aware of the report, but that they did not publish it and did not want to comment on it, according to AFP news agency.\n\nIn recent weeks Russia has moved about 100,000 troops - equipped with everything from tanks and artillery to ammunition and air power - to Ukraine's border.\n\nIt comes eight years after the country annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backed a bloody rebellion in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nMoscow in turn accuses the Ukrainian government of failing to implement an international deal to restore peace to the east, where at least 14,000 people have been killed and Russian-backed rebels control swathes of territory.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky however warned on Tuesday that a Russian invasion would \"not be a war between Ukraine and Russia - this would be a war in Europe, a full-scale one\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Understand the Ukraine crisis with Ros Atkins in less than six minutes\n\nSpeaking after talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Moscow, Mr Putin said: \"It seems to me that the United States is not so much concerned about the security of Ukraine... but its main task is to contain Russia's development. In this sense Ukraine itself is just a tool to reach this goal.\"\n\nRivalry between Russia and the US, which still possess the world's biggest nuclear arsenals, dates back to the Cold War (1947-89). Ukraine was then a crucial part of the communist Soviet Union, second only to Russia.\n\nMr Putin said the US had ignored Moscow's concerns in its response to Russian demands for legally binding security guarantees, including a block on the Nato alliance's further expansion to the east.\n\nHe suggested that if Ukraine were granted its wish to join Nato, it could drag the other members into a war with Russia.\n\n\"Imagine that Ukraine is a Nato member and a military operation [to regain Crimea] begins,\" the Russian leader said. \"What - are we going to fight with Nato? Has anyone thought about this? It seems like they haven't.\"\n\nThe US meanwhile insists it is fully committed to dialogue. Speaking after a call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday, Mr Blinken said he had emphasised US willingness to continue discussing \"mutual security concerns\".\n\nEarlier this week, the US said it had received a written response from Russia to a US proposal aimed at de-escalating the crisis in Ukraine. But hours later Russia's deputy foreign minister said that was not true and a source told Ria news agency it was still preparing a response.\n\nAccording to the documents published by El Pais, the US proposal suggested \"reciprocal commitments by both the United States and Russia to refrain from deploying offensive ground-launched missile systems and permanent forces with a combat mission in the territory of Ukraine\".\n\nIt included a pledge to hold talks about reducing nuclear weaponry and missile launchers, on condition that Russia reduces its threat to Ukraine.\n\nThe US also suggested a \"transparency mechanism\" to address Russia's concerns about US missiles in Europe. The US proposed a way for Russia to confirm there are no cruise missiles at Nato bases in Romania and Bulgaria, in exchange for the US doing the same at two Russian bases of its choice.\n\nThe documents said the US would discuss all issues that affect European security with its allies.\n\nFor months, Ukraine's Western allies have been pointing to Russian troops massing on the border.\n\nUkrainians who would be in the direct line of any such incursion are far less convinced it will happen. But all the war talk is unsettling.\n\n\"Last week I was pretty disturbed; I even went to my psychologist for help,\" Dmytro Dubas admits.\n\nIn 2014, he joined the flood of volunteer soldiers pouring east when heavy fighting against Russian-backed forces erupted.\n\nDmytro had returned to civilian life, storing the reminders of his time in the trenches in an old ammunition box painted and re-fashioned as a coffee table in his living room.\n\nNow he's calmed his nerves by preparing for the worst possible scenario: filling his car with fuel, buying emergency food supplies and signing-up with the territorial defence force to brush-up his skills.", "Actress Melissa Cowan said Moseley (pictured) was \"truly one of a kind and a class act\"\n\nStars and makers of The Walking Dead have paid tribute to actor Moses J Moseley, who has died at the age of 31.\n\nMoseley played the armless and jawless Mike, a pet zombie on the hit post-apocalyptic TV horror show.\n\nCo-star Jeremy Palko described the late actor as \"an absolute kind and wonderful human being\".\n\nFellow The Walking Dead star Addy Miller said she was \"so heartbroken to hear about the passing of this bright, kind soul\".\n\nAnother of the show's stars, Melissa Cowan, wrote on Facebook that Moseley was \"truly one of a kind and a class act\", and was \"always nice, funny and [had] a smile to light any room\".\n\nThe show's official Twitter account also offered a tribute.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Walking Dead on AMC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Walking Dead on AMC\n\nMoseley was born in South Carolina and his family settled in Georgia, where he studied law. He once said he was not planning to become an actor but was approached after class one day and asked if he would like to appear in a film.\n\nThat film turned out to be 2012's Joyful Noise, starring Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton, in which he was billed as a club goer, which led to more castings.\n\nHe went on to land parts in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, HBO's Watchmen and 2016 film Volumes of Blood: Horror Stories.\n\nHe also published a book of inspirational quotes and slogans.\n\nTalent agency Avery Sisters Entertainment said in a statement on Facebook: \"Moses was a phenomenal actor who has appeared in movies such as The Walking Dead, Queen of the South, and American Soul, but MUCH more than that, he was an AMAZING person!\n\n\"For those who knew him, he was the kindest, sweetest, most generous person you would ever meet. We will miss you dearly!\"\n\nAgent Tabatha Minchew of Established Artists said in a statement: \"Moses was a very talented person, with a bright light around him.\n\n\"He will be missed deeply by his friends, family and fans. Always a ball of happy energy around him.\"\n\nTMZ reported that his family had reported him missing last week and that police are investigating the circumstances of his death.", "Gas supplier Firmus energy has announced its prices will increase by more than a third in its Ten Towns Network.\n\nThe 33.57% increase will take effect from 24 February 2022, and is the fourth increase by the company since last spring.\n\nThe Utility Regulator said it would bring the average household gas bill in the Ten Towns area to £1,293 a year.\n\nIn April 2021, the average bill was £518.\n\nThe move will affect about 55,000 customers in the Ten Towns area, which includes Antrim, Armagh, Ballymena, Coleraine, Craigavon, Londonderry and Newry.\n\nDr David Dobbin, chairman of Firmus Energy, said the company had no choice but to make a further increase due to the sustained high prices in wholesale gas markets.\n\n\"Very low gas stocks, reduced Russian supplies and concerns about the Ukraine situation are all combining to keep European gas prices high,\" he said.\n\n\"The market crisis has been well publicised, and markets look increasingly like they are going to remain high for some time.\"\n\nIt was not just a Firmus issue, but a challenge by every local and national supplier of gas and electricity, he added.\n\n\"Regrettably, we, in Northern Ireland, are at the mercy of the global wholesale gas market and are unable to influence these prices,\" he said.\n\n\"We know this is another unwelcome increase which will have a disproportionate effect on those of our customers who are the most vulnerable.\"\n\nHe said the company had been providing financial support to a Department for Communities scheme to help those in need.\n\nThe Utility Regulator previously warned that gas prices would increase in the coming weeks.\n\nThe wholesale price of gas makes up more than half of consumers' bills.\n\nThe Utility Regulator approved the tariff increase, with chief executive John French saying there was no sign of prices falling.\n\n\"This will regrettably mean that the average annual household gas bill in the Ten Towns area will increase to £1,293 per year,\" he said.\n\n\"The unparalleled increases in the cost of wholesale energy at a global level have persisted and continue to impact on supplier costs.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there appears to be no end in sight during 2022 for significantly above trend wholesale prices.\n\n\"However, if wholesale prices begin to reduce, our system of regulation in Northern Ireland allows us to act to make sure that reductions are fully passed onto consumers as quickly as possible.\"\n\nSchool principal Paddy McCabe said the rise in gas prices had seen bills at St Oliver Plunkett Primary School in West Belfast rise from just under £10,000 in October, November and December 2020, to more than £30,000 in the same months of last year.\n\nHis school has not yet been hit by the next price increase to come from Firmus as it is in Belfast, outside the Ten Towns area.\n\nSt Oliver Plunkett Primary School has seen its gas bills jump form £10,000 to £30,000\n\n\"We will have to make very, very difficult decisions in the near future,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"I've been very fortunate and our budget's been relatively healthy - after this, it won't be.\n\n\"It's not something to look forward to and it does cause sleepless nights.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch former PM Theresa May question Boris Johnson on lockdown rules\n\nFormer Prime Minister Theresa May has led Tory MPs' criticism of Boris Johnson over Downing Street parties, asking whether he had \"read the rules\".\n\nFollowing the publication of Sue Gray's report on gatherings under Covid restrictions, she said her successor had to \"set an example\".\n\nAnd fellow ex-cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell said he had lost confidence in Mr Johnson.\n\nBut other Tory MPs rallied round the PM in a stormy House of Commons.\n\nLater, Mr Johnson addressed backbench MPs in a party meeting for over an hour, but reports about the mood of the meeting varied.\n\nPotential rebel Gary Sambrook tweeting that he had listened to Mr Johnson, saying: \"He's made promises on how he wants to change how he does things, how he wants to deliver for my constituents and the UK and I support him in doing that. Let's get on with the job.\"\n\nBut another senior former minister told the BBC: \"I think he [Mr Johnson] ends the day weaker than he started.\"\n\nSenior civil servant Ms Gray's findings said that police were investigating 12 gatherings over alleged Covid rule-breaking and criticised a \"failure of leadership\" within Downing Street.\n\nAfter the document - restricted in scope so as not to deal in detail with allegations under investigation by the Metropolitan Police - was published, Mr Johnson gave a statement to the Commons.\n\nHe accepted Ms Gray's findings in full, promised to fix the culture within Downing Street and review the Civil Service's code of conduct.\n\nBut Mrs May, prime minister from 2016 to 2019, stood behind Mr Johnson and told the Commons: \"What the Gray report does show is that No 10 Downing Street was not observing the regulations they had imposed on members of the public.\n\n\"So either my right honourable friend had not read the rules or didn't understand what they meant and others around him, or they didn't think the rules applied to Number 10. Which was it?\"\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"No... that is not what the Gray report says. I suggest that she waits to see the conclusion of the inquiry.\"\n\nNadine Dorries said those Tory MPs attacking the PM had been longstanding critics\n\nMr Mitchell, a former international development secretary, said Mr Johnson had always enjoyed his \"full-throated support\" but he was now \"deeply concerned\".\n\n\"When he kindly invited me to see him 10 days ago, I told him that I thought he should think very carefully about what was now in the best interests of our country and of the Conservative Party, and I have to tell him he no longer enjoys my support,\" he said.\n\nAnother Tory MP, Aaron Bell, said he had attended his grandmother's funeral during the first lockdown, adding: \"I didn't hug my siblings. I didn't hug my parents. I gave the eulogy and then afterwards I didn't even go to her house for cup of tea. I drove back three hours from Kent to Staffordshire. Does the prime minister think I'm a fool?\"\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"very, very sorry for misjudgements that may have been made by me or anybody else in Number 10 and the Cabinet Office\" over gatherings during Covid restrictions.\n\nFormer Conservative chief whip Mark Harper called for Ms Gray's full report - rather than the version put out after the Met asked it to be restricted - to be released.\n\nAnd backbench MP Tobias Ellwood tweeted that \"if the PM fails to publish the report in full, then he will no longer have my support\".\n\nAngela Richardson, MP for Guildford, revealed on Facebook that she had resigned last week as a ministerial aide over the No 10 parties and said Ms Gray's report \"clearly states that there were failings at No 10 Downing Street that let us all down\".\n\nHowever, many other Conservative MPs defended the prime minister following his statement.\n\nSir Bernard Jenkin said he commended his \"determination to restore cabinet government and it is on results over the next few months on which he will be judged\".\n\nFormer justice secretary Robert Buckland added: \"I heard today a proper acknowledgement that he needs to look in the mirror and I am glad to hear about reforms to the centre of government that I think are timely.\"\n\nSuzanne Webb said politicians from other parties had \"used up far too much parliamentary time debating this\" and that her constituents in Stourbridge, in the West Midlands, \"want the prime minister to focus on the matters that they care about\".\n\nAnd long-serving MP Sir Bill Cash said: \"I'd also like to draw attention to the historic achievements of this prime minister in relation to, not only delivering Brexit, in relation to delivering the vaccine rollout, and in relation to his dealings with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin.\"\n\nOne of Mr Johnson's firmest allies, Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, told the BBC News Channel that those criticising Mr Johnson were \"the same people who have been calling for the prime minister to go virtually since he was elected\".\n\nFifty-four Tory MPs must sign a letter declaring no confidence in the prime minister before a vote on his future - leading to a possible leadership challenge - can take place.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPremier League clubs completed the second-highest spending January in history - with a total of £295m spent - as Tottenham made the biggest moves on deadline day.\n\nA total of 12 Premier League transfers on deadline day took spending to the highest total since 2018's £430m as clubs appear to have recovered from the effects Covid had on finances.\n\nPremier League clubs only spent £70m in January 2021, and less than £10m on deadline day.\n\nTwelve months on - and with capacity crowds now back in stadiums this season - Spurs signed two Juventus players for at least £24m, sold England midfielder Dele Alli to Frank Lampard's Everton for a fee of up to £40m and loaned out three players.\n\nNewcastle brought in two Premier League defenders, while Manchester City and Burnley recruited strikers for more than £10m.\n\nPierre-Emerick Aubameyang left Arsenal for Barcelona on a free transfer, while Juventus loaned Aaron Ramsey to Scottish champions Rangers.\n\nOver half of the money spent by Premier League clubs (£150m) came from the bottom five clubs - Everton, Norwich, Newcastle, Watford and Burnley. Last year the bottom five spent a total of £5m.\n\nDan Jones, partner and head of the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, said: \"This transfer window indicates that the financial pressures of Covid on Premier League clubs are easing, with spending firmly back to pre-pandemic levels and remarkably among the highest we've ever seen in January.\n\n\"The Premier League continues to lead the way globally, retaining its status as the world's biggest domestic football league in financial terms, once again supported by full stadia and securing strong overseas broadcast deals.\"\n\nEurope's other top four leagues combined spent 380m euros (£317m), only £2m more than the Premier League and EFL combined.\n\nPremier League clubs' net spending (the cost of purchases minus sales) of £180m is the highest since the January transfer window was introduced in 2003.\n• None See all the deadline day moves here\n• None How deadline day played out on social media\n\nUruguay midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur joins Spurs for £15.9m (which could rise by £5m) and Antonio Conte's side have paid an £8.3m loan fee for Sweden winger Dejan Kulusevski with an option to buy for £29.2m.\n\nRecord signing Tanguy Ndombele (Lyon), Bryan Gil (Valencia) and Giovani lo Celso (Villarreal) have all left on a temporary basis.\n\nNewcastle signed Brighton's Dan Burn for £13m and Aston Villa's Matt Targett on loan to end an impressive month of recruitment.\n\nManchester City signed River Plate striker Julian Alvarez for £14.1m - although he will go back on loan to the Argentine club until the summer.\n\nHis Netherlands team-mate Donny van de Beek became Lampard's first signing as Everton boss, completing a loan move from Manchester United, and Alli became his first permanent recruit on an initial free transfer.\n\nCrystal Palace signed two strikers - Jean-Philippe Mateta, who had been on loan from Mainz, for £9m and £1m Luke Plange, who goes back on loan to old club Derby.\n\nBrighton signed Royale Union Saint-Gilloise forward Deniz Undav for a reported £6m but loaned him back to the Belgian club.\n\nBrentford made the first signing of the day when they recruited Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen on a free transfer.\n\nChampionship promotion chasers Bournemouth were very busy with five signings. They signed Norwich midfielder Todd Cantwell, Liverpool defender Nat Phillips and Newcastle goalkeeper Freddie Woodman on loan, plus forwards Kieffer Moore and Siriki Dembele for undisclosed fees.\n\nOther Premier League players to move to the second tier on loan were Tino Anjorin (Chelsea to Huddersfield), Jed Steer (Aston Villa to Luton) and Charlie Goode (Brentford to Sheffield United).\n\nWhat happened in the rest of January?\n\nLiverpool made the biggest signing of the window in England the day before deadline day, with Porto's Colombia winger Luis Diaz joining in a deal worth 45m euros (£37.5m), with a further 15m euros (£12.5m) in potential bonuses.\n\nNewcastle had already sealed a deal for Lyon's Brazilian midfielder Bruno Guimaraes for £35m with £6.6m in add-ons, Burnley striker Chris Wood for £25m and Atletico Madrid and England right-back Kieran Trippier for £12m.\n\nThere were four other Premier League signings worth £10m or more.\n\nAston Villa signed Everton left-back Lucas Digne for £25m, while Everton bought two defenders for a combined £27m - Rangers' Nathan Patterson and Dynamo Kyiv's Vitalii Mykolenko.\n\nWolves made the loan signing of RB Leipzig forward Hwang Hee-chan permanent for £14m.\n\nThe biggest signing in Europe came when Juventus signed Fiorentina forward Dusan Vlahovic - who had been a target for several Premier League sides - for an initial £58m.\n\nVilla signed Barcelona's Philippe Coutinho on loan, while Adama Traore (Wolves to Barcelona), Anthony Martial (Manchester United to Sevilla) and Amad Diallo (Manchester United to Rangers) all left the Premier League on temporary deals.\n• None See all the January signings here\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Britain - like other western powers - is coming to Ukraine's aid. It's threatening economic sanctions against Russia if it invades. It's providing Ukraine with anti-tank weapons and armoured vehicles.\n\nIt's promising to deploy British forces to eastern European members of the Nato military alliance if Russian troops cross Ukraine's borders.\n\nBut why is the UK getting involved in this potential conflict?\n\nThe former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has long been criticised for describing Germany's attempted annexation of Czechoslovakia in 1938 as \"a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing\".\n\nBut his remark lives on as a challenge to all policymakers thinking about whether to engage diplomatically - and even militarily - in a potential conflict between two foreign countries. The consequences can be far-reaching.\n\nHere is why the UK is worrying about the standoff between Russia and Ukraine.\n\nUkraine is not far away. It is, after all, part of the European continent.\n\nIt may not be a member of the European Union or Nato, but it is an ally of European powers and has a pro-Western government.\n\nLike most of the rest of Europe, it is a democracy. Most of its people do not want their country to become part of Russia.\n\nAnd it has close links to the UK. After 2,000 anti-tank weapons were delivered last week and 30 British troops arrived to teach Ukrainian forces how to use them, the phrase \"God Save the Queen\" began trending on Twitter in Ukraine. Some bars and restaurants in Kyiv were offering free drinks to anyone who had a UK passport.\n\nThe UK has a legal duty to defend Ukraine's territorial integrity.\n\nIn 1994, the UK - along with the US - signed a memorandum at an international conference in Budapest promising \"to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine\". They also promised to provide assistance to Ukraine if it \"should become a victim of an act of aggression\".\n\nThis was in return for Ukraine giving up its massive arsenal of nuclear weapons, a legacy of its membership of the Soviet Union.\n\nIt's worth noting that the other signatory to the Budapest memorandum was, er, Russia.\n\nThe memorandum is not a treaty and lawyers dispute whether it is legally enforceable. But it is a formal, public and written commitment by the UK to support Ukraine.\n\nThe UK opposes the redrawing of European borders by force.\n\nA core principle of European security after World War Two was that sovereign nations have a right to make their own choices.\n\nIt is called self-determination, and perhaps the most important aspect of this principle is that borders cannot be changed by invading armies.\n\nRussia did this in 2014 when it annexed part of Ukraine, the Crimean peninsula. Many Western policymakers regret the failure to stop this and want to make sure a similar incursion does not happen again.\n\nIn a speech last week, the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said: \"To allow Russia to violate those principles with impunity would drag us all back to a much more dangerous and unstable time.\"\n\nRussia's broader demands are unacceptable to the UK.\n\nRussia wants Nato to make a legally binding promise that Ukraine will never become a member. It also wants Nato to withdraw its forces from most Eastern European countries.\n\nBut both of these demands would break key Nato principles, namely that the alliance should be open to any European country that wants to join and that all Nato members should be sovereign nations.\n\nIn other words, it is not in the UK's or Nato's interests for Eastern European allies to fall under the shadow of Russian influence.\n\nAs Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs: \"We cannot bargain away the vision of a Europe whole and free that emerged in those amazing years from 1989 to 1991.\n\n\"We will not reopen that divide by agreeing to overturn the European security order because Russia has placed a gun to Ukraine's head.\"\n\nMany analysts fear war in Ukraine could potentially spill over into other European countries.\n\nRussia might use the crisis to launch cyber and other hybrid attacks on Nato countries. It could even send troops to the three Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.\n\nFighting could spread into Belarus where Russian forces are already stationed. Nato powers are already promising to build up their own forces in the alliance's eastern flank.\n\nAs a member of Nato, Britain would be obliged in principle to come to the defence of another Nato ally. In December, the chief of the defence staff, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, said: \"The worst scenarios in terms of a full-scale invasion would be on a scale not seen in Europe since the Second World War.\"\n\nIf war broke out in Ukraine and Russian forces occupied large swathes of the country, many civilians might flee.\n\nUkraine's Defence Minister, Oleksiy Reznikov, told BBC Hard Talk several million people could leave: \"It will be a disaster not only for Ukraine, it will be a disaster for Europe.\"\n\nSome migrants might stay in neighbouring Poland and eastern European countries, but some might head further west and eventually end up in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWestern powers are acutely aware this crisis is being closely watched by the rest of the world.\n\nSome autocratic leaders are looking to see how robustly the West resists attempts to undermine the territorial integrity of a sovereign nation.\n\nMany analysts say Beijing in particular is looking on as it formulates its own plans to reunify Taiwan with mainland China. The fear is that if Russia is allowed to invade Ukraine unresisted, that might act as a signal to other leaders that the days of Western powers intervening in other conflicts are over.\n\nThe UK gets hardly any gas from Russia. Most of it comes from the North Sea and Norway.\n\nBut any conflict with Ukraine could disrupt Europe's gas supplies.\n\nPipelines that bring Russian gas to Europe through Ukraine could be damaged. Russia could also choose to withhold supplies to punish the West.\n\nEurope itself could restrict future gas flows by abandoning the Nord Stream 2 pipeline which would run under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany. That line is ready but awaiting regulatory approval.\n\nAll of this disruption could massively increase the price of gas in Europe and, consequently, the UK.", "MPs in the Rada held up flags of countries that had offered help to Ukraine\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has praised Western backing in the face of Russia's military build-up and announced an expansion of the army.\n\n\"Support for Ukraine is the biggest since 2014,\" he told MPs on a day of visits by British, Polish and Dutch leaders.\n\nTop US and Russian officials are due to hold fresh talks on the crisis.\n\nMr Zelensky told parliament a new \"format of political co-operation\" was being created with the UK and Poland.\n\nUkrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said it would cover security as well as trade, investment and energy.\n\nSpeaking in Kyiv, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki promised defensive weaponry including drones and anti-aircraft missiles but also humanitarian aid. Poland has said it is preparing for a potential big influx of Ukrainian refugees if Russia attacks.\n\nRussia has repeatedly denied planning any invasion of Ukraine, but has deployed an estimated 100,000 troops as well as tanks, artillery and missiles within reach of its borders.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday, with a promise of £88m ($118m) to promote stable governance and energy independence from Russia.\n\nWhile Poland and the UK are part of Nato's mutual defensive alliance, Ukraine is not, and no Nato member has offered to send troops in the event of a Russian military attack.\n\nMr Zelensky told Ukraine's parliament, the Rada, that he had signed a decree to increase the size of the Ukrainian army by 100,000 active soldiers, with the formation of 20 new brigades over three years while phasing out compulsory military service. Ukraine's professional army is vastly outnumbered by Russia's.\n\n\"The decree is not because a war is coming soon. I am saying this to everyone. The decree is for peace in Ukraine soon and onwards,\" he stressed.\n\nEuropean leaders were also talking to Russia's Vladimir Putin. Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi stressed the need for de-escalation during a phone conversation, his officials said. Meanwhile, Hungary's Viktor Orban assured the Russian leader in person that no EU leader wanted war.\n\nHowever, there were angry clashes between Russian and US envoys during a meeting of the UN Security Council late on Monday.\n\nUS Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield described Russia's mobilisation as the biggest Europe had seen in decades. \"And as we speak, Russia is sending even more forces and arms to join them,\" she said, accusing Russia of planning to increase its force on Ukraine's northern border in Belarus to 30,000.\n\nLinda Thomas-Greenfield (R) warned of more Russian troops arriving in Belarus\n\nHer Russian counterpart, Vasily Nebenzya, accused the US of \"whipping up tensions and rhetoric, and provoking escalation\" as well as of unacceptable interference in Russia's internal affairs.\n\nRussia often deployed troops on its own territory and that this was none of Washington's business, he added.\n\nDespite the angry rhetoric, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to speak by phone with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday.\n\nThe US said it had received a written response from Russia to a US proposal aimed at de-escalating the crisis in Ukraine. But hours later Russia's deputy foreign minister said that was not true and a source told Ria news agency it was still preparing a response.\n\nLate on Monday, the US ordered the departure of family members of American government employees from Belarus, citing the \"unusual and concerning Russian military build-up\". A similar order was earlier issued to families of US government personnel in the American embassy in Ukraine's capital Kyiv.\n\nRussia has demanded a series of \"security guarantees\" from the West, including a promise that Ukraine will never be allowed to join the 30-member Nato alliance.\n\nThat demand has been rejected, along with Russia's insistence that Nato allies stop deploying troops and military equipment in Eastern Europe.\n\nIn reality, President Vladimir Putin is seeking to roll Nato back to pre-1997 borders, so no combat units are deployed in Poland or the Baltics, all former members of Russia's communist-era Warsaw Pact defence alliance.\n\nRussia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula in 2014. It is also backing rebels who seized large swathes of the eastern Donbas region soon afterwards, and more than 14,000 people have been killed in the conflict.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Understand the Ukraine crisis with Ros Atkins in less than six minutes", "Police and councils are still failing to properly identify and investigate child grooming gangs, a report warns.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said officials often denied the scale of the issue, thinking incorrectly that it was \"on the wane\".\n\nData such as the ethnicity of abusers and victims was not collected and could have helped identify offenders.\n\nIn its report the inquiry, which covers England and Wales, said child victims were often blamed by authorities.\n\nIICSA examined abuse in St Helens, Tower Hamlets in London, Swansea, Durham, Bristol and Warwickshire.\n\nIt found signs of abuse in the six areas studied but said there were \"extensive failures\" in how authorities tackled child exploitation, with police often unable to provide evidence on the extent of the problem.\n\nThe inquiry concluded that abuse of children by grooming gangs occurred in all parts of England and Wales.\n\nIts recommendations include improving the advice and guidance given to police and local authorities, a tighter definition of the problem, and the collection of ethnicity data.\n\nThere was a \"flawed assumption\" that this form of child sexual abuse was on the wane, the inquiry's chair Prof Alexis Jay said.\n\nOfficials in two areas said there was no data suggesting abuse, but in at least one, Swansea, the inquiry found examples which \"should have been identified by the police\".\n\nThere was also disagreement among agencies working with police about the definition of organised child abuse, the report found.\n\nThe inquiry found children as young as 10 were being labelled as only \"at risk\", despite clear evidence they were contracting sexually-transmitted diseases, going missing with adults and turning up late from \"house parties\".\n\nThe report said that in some cases authorities might be potentially downplaying the scale of abuse over concerns about the negative publicity.\n\nIt said local authorities \"don't want to be labelled another Rochdale or Rotherham\" - referring to high-profile grooming gangs.\n\nOne woman, abused as a child by a notorious gang in Rochdale told the BBC: \"I was a child. I always pictured rape as being pinned down, as being tied up.\n\n\"Because I got drunk and I woke up with no underwear on I didn't actually think I'd been raped. I always kind of blamed myself in that situation.\"\n\n\"The school knew that I was pregnant at 14 and used to see me get picked up and dropped off by Asian males.\n\n\"The hospital knew because they carried out an abortion without my parent's consent.\"\n\n\"The police knew because I was arrested every other week.\n\n\"All the authorities knew, but they never did anything.\"\n\nInquiry chairwoman, Prof Alexis Jay, led the investigation into child abuse in Rotherham\n\nConcerns about so-called grooming gangs have been growing since the late 2000s following a string of horrifying cases in Rotherham, Rochdale, Derby, Oxford, Bristol and Cornwall.\n\nThey involved a clear pattern in which groups of adult men befriended children, plying them with drink and drugs before sexually abusing them over months.\n\nThere has been repeated criticism of the police and child protection agencies for failing to take account of the fact that in some of the most serious cases the perpetrators were a distinct ethnic or religious community, while the victims were from another.\n\nNone of the areas examined by IICSA kept data on the ethnicity of all victims and perpetrators.\n\n\"This makes it impossible to know whether any particular ethnic group is over-represented as perpetrators of child sexual exploitation by networks,\" the report concludes.\n\nThis is despite the Home Office regularly publishing general data about the ethnicity of criminals and victims.\n\nChild sexual exploitation has been a designated strategic policing priority since 2015, giving it the same significance as terrorism and serious organised crime.\n\nYet today's report finds that none of the police forces or local authorities in the six areas they chose to look at \"had an accurate understanding of networks sexually exploiting children in their area\".\n\nThese failings are not limited to the places they chose to focus upon, the report makes clear. Inadequacies in performance apply to police across England and Wales.\n\nWherever the inquiry scratched the surface, they found unacceptable and widespread failures.\n\nThe performance of the Metropolitan Police in Tower Hamlets is particularly troubling.\n\nThe force told the inquiry there were no cases or issues with child sexual exploitation by networks in the borough.\n\n\"This cannot be right\", the report states, citing evidence of vulnerable children in Tower Hamlets attending parties in hotels with adult men where they were plied with alcohol and drugs and expected to take part in sexual acts.\n\nThis cannot be right, indeed.\n\nThe inquiry found most children involved had experienced parental neglect, substance misuse, domestic violence and family breakdown.\n\nBut there was a continuing problem with children who were being abused being prosecuted for low level crimes or anti-social behaviour, while their abusers were left alone.\n\nA charity in St Helens, Catch 22, told the inquiry that child protection professionals were still describing children as \"promiscuous\" and \"putting themselves at risk\".\n\nIn Swansea, a child was said to have had \"sexual partners from the age of 11\". Legally, there are no circumstances where a child under the age of 13 can consent to sex with an adult.\n\nOther examples of abused children in the report include:\n\nProf Jay described abuse by grooming gangs as \"a crime which involves the sexual abuse of children in the most degrading and destructive ways by multiple perpetrators\".\n\nShe added such abuse had become \"even more of a hidden problem and increasingly underestimated\".", "House prices have risen at the fastest annual pace for a January in 17 years, amid \"robust\" demand and low supply, according to lender Nationwide.\n\nThe building society said prices rose by 11.2% year-on-year and by 0.8% between December and January.\n\nAffordability is already a key issue with house prices rising much faster than wages throughout the pandemic.\n\nNationwide said a deposit now constitutes a record percentage of a first-time buyer's salary.\n\n\"A 10% deposit on a typical first-time buyer home is now equivalent to 56% of total gross annual earnings, a record high,\" said the building society's chief economist, Robert Gardner.\n\n\"Similarly, a typical mortgage payment as a share of take-home pay is now above the long-run average, despite mortgage rates remaining close to all-time lows.\"\n\nThe average price of a property in the UK was £255,556 in last month - up from £254,822 in December - as demand remained \"robust,\" Mr Gardner said.\n\n\"Mortgage approvals for house purchase have continued to run slightly above pre-pandemic levels, despite the surge in activity in 2021 as a result of the stamp duty holiday, which encouraged buyers to bring forward their transactions to avoid additional tax.\n\n\"Indeed, the total number of property transactions in 2021 was the highest since 2007 and around 25% higher than in 2019, before the pandemic struck.\n\n\"At the same time, the stock of homes on estate agents' books has remained extremely low, which is contributing to the continued robust pace of house price growth.\"\n\nHowever, the Nationwide predicts the increase in house prices will slow this year as property becomes less affordable.\n\nMr Gardner said the outlook for the housing market \"remains uncertain\", but house price growth had \"outstripped earnings growth by a wide margin since the pandemic struck\".\n\nHe added that with interest rates expected to rise in the coming months affordability could be hit further.\n\nThe Bank of England raised its key interest rate to 0.25% in December, and it is expected to make further increases this year. The Bank's Monetary Policy Committee is due to make its next announcement on rates on Thursday.\n\n\"This will further reduce housing affordability if it feeds through to higher mortgage rates, although to date a significant proportion of the rise in longer term interest rates seen in recent months has been absorbed by lenders,\" Mr Gardner said.\n\nMr Gardner said reduced affordability would be likely to dampen market activity and house price growth this year \"especially since household finances are also coming under pressure from sharp increases in the cost of living\"- with inflation hitting 5.4% in December, its fastest pace since 1992, and set to rise further in the coming months as energy prices go up.", "The Derbyshire woman was tried and convicted of causing public mischief in Cyprus\n\nA British woman who reported being gang-raped in Cyprus has had her conviction for allegedly lying about the attack overturned.\n\nThe woman, then 19, told Cypriot police she had been raped by 12 Israeli men and boys in Ayia Napa in July 2019.\n\nThe Derbyshire teenager retracted the allegation after being held without a lawyer, and was then tried and convicted of causing public mischief.\n\nHer conviction was overturned at the Supreme Court in Cyprus.\n\nThe woman's case had outraged women's rights campaigners, who gathered outside court ahead of the decision being handed down on Monday.\n\nThe appeal succeeded on the grounds that the original conviction for public mischief was unsafe.\n\nThe woman, who is now 21, did not have to serve her original four-month sentence in prison as it had been suspended by the judge.\n\nHowever, barrister Michael Polak, from Justice Abroad, said she had wanted to get the conviction overturned in order to clear her name.\n\nThe woman's family now want the original rape allegations she made to be investigated, in order for her to get \"true justice\".\n\nMr Polak, who co-ordinated the appeal against the conviction, said the teenager and her female lawyers had been shouted at and \"treated with contempt\" during the trial.\n\n\"We have always maintained that our client was not given a fair trial and today the Supreme Court of Cyprus has agreed with us,\" he said.\n\n\"Important fair trial provisions, which are in place to prevent miscarriages of justice, were totally disregarded in this case.\n\n\"A young and vulnerable woman was not only mistreated when she reported the rape to the police, but then she was just put through a trial process that was manifestly unfair, as the Supreme Court has recognised.\"\n\nMr Polak said the trial judge had shouted \"this is not a rape case\" at least seven times when her female lawyers tried to put forward evidence that supported the woman's case that she had been raped.\n\nThe woman's legal team will now push for the original rape allegations to be investigated\n\nThere were thumbs up, smiles and embraces on the wooden benches in courtroom one as the verdict was read out. On the steps outside, her lawyer told me he was \"surprised\" by the result.\n\nWithin the space of a few days the British student had gone from being treated as a victim to the accused.\n\nDuring the trial I watched the vulnerable teenager subjected to intense cross-examination, and the judge's refusal to hear any reference to evidence of an alleged rape. Her legal team successfully argued she did not get a fair hearing.\n\nThe woman's mother, who spent days supporting her in court, said she hopes her daughter's suffering would at least bring positive changes in the way that victims of crime were treated.\n\nThe success of this appeal amounts to an indictment of the Cypriot authorities' handling of the original case.\n\nActivists said it was a bittersweet victory. Her family agreed, adding that for true justice to be done, the rape allegation would now also have to be properly investigated.\n\nSupporters described it as a victory for justice, but a travesty the case ever came this far.\n\nIn a statement, the woman's family said they were relieved the authorities in Cyprus had \"recognised the flaws in their legal process\".\n\n\"Whilst this decision doesn't excuse the way she was treated by the police or the judge or those in authority, it does bring with it the hope that my daughter's suffering will at least bring positive changes in the way that victims of crime are treated,\" they said.\n\n\"Of course, if justice is to be done, an authority would need to pick up on the evidence that was gathered in Cyprus and do with it what should have happened at the outset.\"\n\nCypriot lawyer Nicoletta Charalambidou, who is part of the legal team, said: \"This is a very important day for women's rights and in particular for victims of rape or other forms of sexual violence in Cyprus.\n\n\"The acquittal by the Supreme Court... points to the failure of the authorities to effectively investigate the rape claims she reported. This is what we will now pursue.\"\n\nThe decision has been described as a \"watershed moment\"\n\nThe Israeli men and boys arrested over the incident, aged between 15 and 20 at the time, denied any wrongdoing, were freed and returned home.\n\nThe woman was sentenced in January 2020 and flew home to the UK immediately afterwards.\n\nAn appeal hearing was then held at the Cypriot Supreme Court on 16 September 2021.\n\nSpeaking after the decision was handed down four-and-a-half months later, Mr Polak said: \"This is a watershed moment, not just for our client who has always maintained her innocence even when doing so caused her the hardship of not being able to return home during the lengthy trial proceedings, but also for others around the world in similar positions.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Met said it was \"deeply sorry\" for the findings in the IOPC report\n\n\"Disgraceful\" misogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment have been discovered within the ranks of the Met Police by the police watchdog.\n\nOfficers were found to have joked about rape and exchanged offensive social media messages, leading to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) to make 15 recommendations.\n\nMost officers investigated were police constables and based at Charing Cross Police Station, the IOPC said.\n\nThe Met said it was \"deeply sorry\".\n\nIn its report, the IOPC said: \"We believe these incidents are not isolated or simply the behaviour of a few 'bad apples'.\"\n\nThe inquiry was launched in March 2018 into nine linked independent investigations concerning serving police officers from the Met.\n\nInvestigations began after an officer allegedly had sex with a vulnerable woman in a room inside a London police station, the IOPC said - although this allegation was never proven.\n\nOf the 14 officers investigated, two were dismissed for gross misconduct and put on the barred list, preventing future employment with the police.\n\nAnother two resigned and several others faced disciplinary action, the IOPC said.\n\nNine are still serving with the force, while another is working as a contractor in a staff role.\n\nThe inquiry found evidence of messages exchanged between officers that were often highly sexualise, violent and discriminatory, and which were defended as \"banter\" by police officers.\n\nThe IOPC said the messages included:\n\nIOPC regional director for London, Sal Naseem, described the behaviour as \"disgraceful\" and that it fell below the standards of the force, but he said the Met was working to change its cultural issues.\n\n\"The learning report we are publishing today is shocking and contains language which is offensive,\" Mr Naseem said.\n\n\"Some may find it upsetting.\n\n\"However, we felt it was important to provide the context for the public, the Met and other forces for why such hard-hitting recommendations are necessary.\n\n\"While these officers predominantly worked in teams in Westminster, which have since been disbanded, we know from other recent cases that these issues are not isolated or historic.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said being a police officer was a privilege\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel described the officers as \"sickening\", adding: \"The public rightly expects the behaviour of the police to be beyond reproach - standards must be raised.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"utterly disgusted\" by the findings.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Bas Javid said the officers' actions happened between 2016 and 2018 and since then every Met Police employee had been spoken to about responsible use of social media.\n\n\"I am angry and disappointed to see officers involved in sharing sexist, racist and discriminatory messages,\" he said.\n\n\"It's clear we have a lot of work to do to ensure bullying and discrimination does not exist in any part of the Met.\n\n\"We recognise that there is need for real change in the Met and we are committed to creating an environment that is even more intolerant to those who do not uphold the high values and standards expected of us,\" he added.\n\nOf all the shocking things about this IOPC report, perhaps the most shocking is the breadth of the disgraceful conduct.\n\nThe officers were bullying and sexist. They were misogynistic and used the word \"gay\" as an insult.\n\nThey made jokes about the Black Lives Matter movement and mosques, and used derogatory words to describe disabled people.\n\nThe unit has been disbanded, but the IOPC has warned that the incidents were not isolated.\n\nIt has seen evidence of similar behaviour in more recent investigations.\n\nA Met Police statement said: \"The conduct of a team of officers at Charing Cross police station in central London does not represent the values of the Metropolitan Police Service.\n\n\"We are deeply sorry to Londoners and everyone they have failed with their appalling conduct and acknowledge how this will damage the trust and confidence of many in the Met.\n\n\"Since this reprehensible behaviour was uncovered in 2017 we have taken a series of measures to hold those responsible to account and stamp out unacceptable behaviour.\"\n\nSeparately, an independent review of culture and standards within the Met Police is currently being carried out by Baroness Louise Casey, in the wake of the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by serving police officer Wayne Couzens. It will examine the force's vetting, recruitment and training procedures.\n\nA two-part independent inquiry chaired by Dame Elish Angiolini QC will also look at Couzens' conduct during his career, and whether any red flags were missed as well as whether allegations made against him were properly handled.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Officer 'had sex with woman in station'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The National Crime Agency can seize £5.6m from a sophisticated global money laundering scheme involving UK companies, a court has ruled.\n\nFinancial investigators can take the money from the London-based family of Javanshir Feyziyev, an MP in the Azerbaijan parliament.\n\nThe NCA had hoped to seize over £15m but hailed Monday's ruling a success.\n\nIt comes as campaigners criticise the government for delaying new laws to target allegedly dirty money in the UK.\n\nThe investigation was launched after the exposure of a corruption scandal dubbed the Azerbaijani laundromat.\n\nThe NCA pored over thousands of leaked documents from Den Danske Bank, in Estonia, obtained by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and other media organisations in 2017.\n\nThere is evidence linking the \"laundromat\" scheme to Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, international investigators say\n\nThey showed $2.9bn (£2bn) had been moved into Western Europe by some of the Azeri elite, while UK shell companies - largely existing only on paper - hid the true sources of the cash.\n\nSome of it was used as a slush fund to bribe European politicians and make luxury purchases.\n\n\"Having exhaustively considered the evidence filed,\" district judge John Zani told Westminster Magistrates' Court, \"I am entirely satisfied that there was a significant money laundering scheme in existence in Azerbaijan, Estonia and Latvia, at the relevant time.\"\n\nDuring the case, the NCA said cash had been funnelled out of Azerbaijan by Baktelekom - a \"clone company\" set up to look like the state-owned telecoms provider.\n\n\"It has no known employees, no website and no accounts have ever been traced,\" the court was told.\n\nYet Baktelekom somehow managed to pay Hilux Services LLP, registered in Glasgow, $1.3bn for steel pipes.\n\nThe money-laundering operation created bogus records for pipes that were never bought\n\nHilux never filed accounts to Companies House, was unknown to Revenue & Customs, and the steel pipes were \"bogus\", according to the NCA.\n\nJudge Zani said invoices the company had filed to banks in Estonia and Latvia were \"entirely fictitious and were produced in order to deceive the bank into opening accounts and allowing the later flow of very significant sums into and out of their accounts so as to mask the underlying money laundering activities of those orchestrating the accounts\".\n\nOne of the primary beneficiaries of payments from Hilux was a company called Avromed, the NCA said.\n\nThe judge said there was no suggestion Mr Feyziyev and his family had been engaged in corruption.\n\nBut \"there have been unhealthy, corrupt links between the 'ruling elite' of Azerbaijan and those at the helm of Avromed Company LLC\".\n\nHe ruled the NCA could seize £4.4m from the account of Mr Feyziyev's wife, Parvana, and £1m from their son Orkhan Javanshir.\n\nA further £240,000 must be forfeited by the couple's nephew Elman Javanshir.\n\nThe family, who own a mansion overlooking Regent's Park, in central London, denied the funds obtained by Mr Feyziyez had been obtained by criminal conduct.\n\n\"The adverse findings in this matter relate to money which, before it was paid to Dr Feyziyev, flowed through various intermediaries of which the family had neither knowledge, nor control,\" a spokesman said.\n\nWhile they were disappointed any of the frozen funds had been forfeited, he added: \"The Feyziyev family are relieved that the judge has ordered the release of approximately £10m, of which the NCA sought forfeiture, and that this long-running matter has at last been resolved, for the most part, in the family's favour.\"\n\nBut NCA civil-recovery head Andy Lewis said: \"This is a substantial forfeiture of money laundered through the Azerbaijan laundromat - and our success highlights the risk to anyone who uses these schemes.\"\n\nNevertheless, campaigners against corruption say the fight against allegedly dirty money is being undermined.\n\n\"There is over £700m that we've identified in real estate owned here by the ruling elite of Azerbaijan,\" Transparency UK policy director Duncan Hames said.\n\n\"There is an awful lot more to go after.\n\n\"If they had the resources to pursue more cases, it could make a bigger dent in Britain's dirty money problem.\"\n\nMr Hames criticised the government for backtracking on promising \"a register to lift the veil of secrecy over who really owns the foreign companies that hold real estate in the UK\".\n\nLast week, the prime minister's anti-corruption champion, junior minister Lord Agnew, resigned, complaining the government had made a \"foolish\" decision to kill off legislation during the next parliamentary year that would require those holding property through shell companies to declare who they were.\n\n\"The well of excuses after three or four years of promising this piece of legislation, or its related pieces, has now run dry,\" he said.", "For Boris Johnson, this trip to Ukraine was a change of subject, a change of place.\n\nFor a few hours on Tuesday the political difficulties of the last few days could be left behind and replaced by the more grave matters of European security.\n\nHe arrived in Kyiv to make a show of support for a country facing the threat of invasion, a country where political survival has a more visceral, existential meaning, far removed from the exaggerated metaphors of Westminster.\n\nMr Johnson told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky that Britain would always stand up for his country's freedom.\n\nHe promised him £88m in aid and he had a clear warning for Moscow: if a single Russian toe cap crossed the border, they would be met by a resolute Ukrainian army that would put up \"a very fierce and bloody resistance. I think that parents, mothers in Russia should reflect on that.\"\n\nMr Johnson also warned Moscow there would be an \"automaticity\" about any economic sanctions that would be levelled against Russia if it invaded Ukraine.\n\nSo the messaging was clear - robust support for Ukraine, robust deterrence for Russia.\n\nThe question is whether this message was tempered by Mr Johnson's political preoccupations at home, all of which are being followed closely by diplomats overseas.\n\nIt has not gone unnoticed that while President Macron of France has been having regular telephone calls with President Putin, Mr Johnson's call with the Russian leader on Monday was postponed by the row over lockdown parties in Downing Street.\n\nIn fact, one of the noteworthy aspects of this crisis so far has been how much the West has managed to stick together with a united message, even though there are differences over policy.\n\nMr Johnson has his difficulties, the new German government is finding its feet, Mr Macron is in a tough electoral fight, the Americans have a president whose tongue occasionally slips.\n\nBut despite that, analysts say Russia has been surprised at its inability to divide its opponents.\n\nMr Johnson was not the only European leader in Kyiv on Tuesday - the Polish prime minister was there. Others are expected shortly.\n\nThere is a realisation - as Mr Zelensky pointed out - that if fighting breaks out, this would not be a conflict just between Ukraine and Russia; it could become a fully-fledged European war.\n\nMr Johnson's critics have accused him of using the crisis to try to look statesmanlike amid a damaging domestic controversy.\n\nBut perhaps they might also have criticised him if he had chosen not to come to Kyiv to engage in a confrontation in which the stakes remain high.", "Prince Andrew's former assistant could give a sworn statement as part of the civil sexual assault case against the duke, after a formal request from a New York judge.\n\nLawyers for Virginia Giuffre - Prince Andrew's accuser in the case - had requested help to obtain testimony from Robert Olney.\n\nMr Olney previously worked for the prince as his equerry.\n\nShe says the duke sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was 17 and being trafficked by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nEpstein, a convicted sex offender, died in prison in 2019 while awaiting a sex trafficking trial.\n\nMs Giuffre's lawyers say Mr Olney's name and phone number were in the contacts book of Epstein and that the former assistant would have knowledge of his relationship with Prince Andrew.\n\nUS judge Lewis A Kaplan released his correspondence sent to London's High Court, formally asking for assistance in the civil case brought by Ms Giuffre, on Monday evening,\n\nThe request, under an international legal convention between co-operating courts, means that the British court must now decide whether to become involved in Prince Andrew's battle.\n\nIn the letter to Senior Master Elizbeth Fontaine, the official who manages requests from foreign courts for assistance, Judge Kaplan said any evidence obtained from Mr Olney would be used in Ms Giuffre's civil damages claim against the prince.\n\nAs Prince Andrew's former equerry, Judge Kaplan said Mr Olney was likely to have \"relevant information\" about travel to and from Epstein's properties and about the duke's relationship with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who was found guilty last month of grooming underage girls.\n\nThe judge said that if his request was accepted, Mr Olney should be questioned about any communications that touch on Ms Giuffre, given that Prince Andrew claims he has never met her or sexually abused her.\n\nHe has also sent a request asking for a statement to be taken from Shukri Walker, who has said she saw Prince Andrew at Tramps night club in London in March 2001 with a young woman who may have been Ms Giuffre.\n\nVirginia Giuffre, now 38 and living in Australia, seen with her lawyer David Boies in 2019\n\nTwo more requests have been sent to the Australian attorney general, fulfilling applications from Prince Andrew's team.\n\nThe first is a request for Australian authorities to take a statement from Robert Giuffre, Ms Giuffre's husband, concerning what she may have told him in the past. The second is a request to obtain the co-operation of Ms Giuffre's therapist Dr Judith Lightfoot.\n\nThe judge asked for Mr Giuffre's testimony to include how he met his wife, his discussions with her about Andrew, her alleged childhood trauma and abuse, and her relationship with Epstein and Maxwell.\n\nThe letter also asks for his testimony to include all claims Ms Giuffre has made against the duke, her alleged emotional and psychological harm and damages, her role in trafficking and recruiting young girls for Epstein and the Giuffre household's finances.\n\nA separate letter to Dr Lightfoot has asked her evidence to include Ms Giuffre's medical treatment and diagnosis, as well as issues discussed during their sessions and claims made about Prince Andrew.\n\nIt also seeks testimony on Dr Lightfoot's opinions of the alleged psychological harm suffered by Ms Giuffre, a theory of false memories and the consequences of her childhood trauma.\n\nJudge Kaplan has requested that the testimony of all four witnesses be completed by 29 April.\n\nEarlier this month, Buckingham Palace stripped Prince Andrew of his military titles and patronages, and said he would contest the case as a private individual.", "In the months before Linda Maggs' death, her husband David Maggs told three different people he wanted to kill her\n\nA man has been found guilty of murdering his wife, stabbing her as she lay in bed.\n\nLinda Maggs, 74, was stabbed at least 15 times to her neck, chest and hands on Saturday 6 February, 2021.\n\nAfterwards, David Maggs, 71, of Sebastopol, Pontypool, told a 999 operator, \"I just killed the wife\".\n\nMaggs had earlier admitted manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility, but the jury found him guilty of murder.\n\nHe claimed he \"blanked out\" and did not recall what happened.\n\nCardiff Crown Court was told the couple had been in the midst of an acrimonious divorce, after 28 years together.\n\nBoth had refused to leave the family home and disagreements about money meant tensions were running high.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey had been living separate lives under the same roof after their relationship ended in March 2020.\n\nWhen police arrived at Maggs' home, he told them he had \"had enough\".\n\nThe retired accountant described how he went into his estranged wife's bedroom to talk to her about their divorce, taking two large kitchen kitchen knives upstairs with him.\n\nBody cam footage of Maggs being arrested by police inside the marital home captured him telling officers: \"I've just had enough. She tried to steal two houses from me, two houses.\"\n\nFurther comments made by the him inside Ystrad Mynach police station, include him saying: \"Thirty years I've been married to her and she doesn't know how to keep her mouth shut, so I topped her.\"\n\nIn the months before Mrs Maggs' death, her husband told three different people he wanted to kill her.\n\nOne was so concerned she told the police and officers spoke to the couple separately.\n\nLinda Maggs suffered at least 15 stab wounds to her neck, chest and hands\n\nMaggs' defence claimed he had suffered from long term ill health, including depression.\n\nAfter deliberating for just under nine hours, the jury found him guilty.\n\nFollowing Maggs' conviction, Lisa James from the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"Linda's family have our deepest condolences over their loss and our thanks for their support throughout the court process.\"\n\nJudge Michael Fitton QC said Maggs will be sentenced in March.", "Hannah Lowe was named the winner at a ceremony in London on Tuesday\n\nA collection of modern sonnets inspired by poet Hannah Lowe's decade teaching in an inner London school has been named the Costa Book of the Year.\n\nLowe's book The Kids was described as \"a joy to read\" by the chair of judges, BBC journalist Reeta Chakrabarti.\n\nLowe has won £30,000 for her \"poignant, witty, thoughtful and universal\" work.\n\nIts 66 sonnets convey the highs and lows of teaching A-level English, and offer fictionalised portraits of some of her adolescent students.\n\nThe collection also draws on Lowe's own experiences as an teenager and a mother.\n\n\"It is fresh, it is original,\" Chakrabarti said. \"When I first picked it up, I thought, goodness me, I haven't read anything like this before.\n\n\"It's a book of poetry that is written in the sonnet form, but it is so fresh and immediate and modern that you sometimes don't feel like you're reading poetry. You just feel like she's speaking to you.\"\n\n\"Boredom hangs like a low cloud in the classroom.\" That is the opening line from one of the many memorable sonnets in The Kids, and demonstrates how thoroughly modern they are.\n\nThey are engaging and entertaining too. The poems are divided into three sections. First, Lowe writes about teaching. \"If gloom / has a sound, it's the voice of Leroy reading / Frankenstein aloud.\"\n\nThe second reflects on her own school days with unforgettable lines on adolescent desire: \"His voice was like a shirt unbuttoning.\" The final poems are about motherhood and splitting up with her partner.\n\nLowe's book was chosen from the five individual category winners, which were announced last month\n\nThey offer a particularly fascinating glimpse into Lowe's experience teaching English at an inner-city London sixth form in the 2000s. The majority of her pupils were from minority backgrounds, and one poem is called The Only English Kid.\n\nAnother girl was hostile for months, with \"the late strut-in, teeth-kissing, rolling eyes\", until she discovered Lowe's father was \"half Jamaican, half Chinese\". Lowe can only conclude that the \"whiteness of her skin\" had caused \"confusion, chaos\", and after that the girl was \"nicer\".\n\nThere are also some bold and disconcerting poems. Lowe takes her pupils to see the film Notes on a Scandal, starring Cate Blanchett as a teacher who has an affair with a schoolboy. Another poem, titled Boy, is about a pupil who would \"ignite a little flame\" whenever he waved at her.\n\nThe sonnet, with its 14 lines and strict rhyme scheme, dates back centuries. But in this collection, Hannah Lowe has taken it to unexpected places - with richly rewarding results.\n\nLowe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday that sonnets have \"a particular energy\", and having to fit a structure \"pushes your imagination to a new place\".\n\n\"So often you'll find yourself going beyond the memory and beyond the documentary truth, even,\" she said.\n\n\"And then the sonnet, it just seemed like the right form for these poems, because I was often having to teach the sonnet.\"\n\nShe also explained: \"I started writing poetry because I enthused myself about poetry through teaching it. I sometimes felt I was the only person getting enthused in some of my lessons.\n\n\"But there's a direct relationship, which is why, in a way, it made sense for me to then write about teaching.\"\n\nFrom Ilford in east London, she left teaching in schools in 2012 and now lectures in creative writing at Brunel University.\n\nLast month, The Kids won the Costa Poetry Award, one of the five individual categories in the Costa Book Awards. Those five then went forward to be considered for the overall book of the year accolade.\n\nThe final deliberations took several hours, Chakrabarti said. \"We really found it a difficult decision because the quality of the entrants was very high.\n\n\"It was a decision that we were all behind because it most fulfilled the sort of book that we were looking for - something that speaks to the moment but that's also timeless. We think this is a collection that will last a long time and we hope will become a classic because it fully deserves to.\"\n\nThe Costa Book Awards are among the UK's most prestigious book prizes and have been going for 50 years. The Kids was also shortlisted for this year's TS Eliot Prize.\n\nThe other Costa Book Award winners were:", "Last updated on .From the section American Football\n\nTom Brady, one of the greatest players in the history of the NFL, has confirmed his retirement.\n\nThe Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback, 44, won seven Super Bowls in an astonishing career spanning 22 seasons.\n\nBrady won six titles with the New England Patriots before his final triumph with the Buccaneers last year.\n\nThe five-time Super Bowl Most Valuable Player is retiring after deciding he could no longer make the \"competitive commitment\" to continue.\n\nHis final game in the NFL was a 30-27 loss to the Los Angeles Rams in the play-offs, when his heroics narrowly failed to pull off a sensational comeback from 27-3 down.\n\nBrady, a three-time NFL season MVP, had a year remaining on his contract with the Bucs.\n• None From Pick 199 to the greatest of all time - the Tom Brady story\n\nIn a statement posted on social media, he said: \"I have always believed the sport of football is an 'all-in' proposition - if a 100% competitive commitment isn't there, you won't succeed, and success is what I love so much about our game.\n\n\"My playing career has been such a thrilling ride, and far beyond my imagination, and full of ups and downs. When you're in it every day, you really don't think about any kind of ending.\n\n\"As I sit here now, however, I think of all the great players and coaches I was privileged to play with and against - the competition was fierce and deep, just how we like it.\n\n\"But the friendships and relationships are just as fierce and deep. I will remember and cherish these memories and revisit them often.\n\n\"I feel like the luckiest person in the world.\"\n\nFollowing Brady's announcement, the Patriots tweeted: \"It was quite the ride. Thank you and congratulations, Tom Brady.\"\n\nThe Buccaneers said: \"Memories to last a lifetime. Thank you.\"\n\nBrady did not mention the Patriots in his retirement statement, but later responded to a tweet from the team, saying: \"Thank You Patriots Nation, I'm beyond grateful.\"\n\nBrady played in 10 Super Bowls, including an incredible comeback from 28-3 down against the Atlanta Falcons in 2017, and had a perfect 16-0 regular season with the Patriots in 2007.\n\nHe won a Super Bowl in three different decades and retires after amassing a career-high 5,316 passing yards in his final season.\n\nBrady leads the all-time passing statistics, with 84,520 yards - more than 4,000 clear of his nearest rival, the retired Drew Brees.\n\nIn 2015 Brady was given a four-game suspension for allegedly colluding to deflate balls during a play-off game, but the ban was overturned after US judge ruled it had \"legal deficiencies\", allowing him to play the entire 2015-16 season.\n\nIt was reinstated for the start of 2016 and he missed the first four games of the campaign.\n\nHis announcement on Tuesday comes after conflicting reports over the weekend about his future.\n\nIt was widely reported on Saturday evening that he had decided to retire, but his company TB12 Sports then deleted a tweet appearing to confirm the news.\n\nAnd later, speaking to the NFL Network, Brady's father Tom Brady Sr said his son had not yet \"made a final decision\".\n\nOn Monday, the former Patriots superstar said he was considering his future on a day-to-day basis.\n\nNFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Brady would be remembered \"as one of the greatest to ever play in the NFL\".\n\nHe added: \"An incredible competitor and leader, his stellar career is remarkable for its longevity but also the sustained excellence he displayed year after year.\n\n\"Tom made everyone around him better and always seemed to rise to the occasion in the biggest moments.\"\n\nNew England Patriots chairman and CEO Robert Kraft said: \"Words cannot describe the feelings I have for Tom Brady, nor adequately express the gratitude my family, the New England Patriots and our fans have for Tom for all he did during his career.\n\n\"A generation of football fans have grown up knowing only an NFL in which Tom Brady dominated.\"\n\nTwo-time Super Bowl winner Peyton Manning paid tribute to his former rival, saying: \"Congratulations to my friend Tom on an unbelievable football career.\n\n\"To do it as long as he did, at the highest of levels, is absolutely incredible. It was an honour and a privilege to compete against him on the field, and I truly appreciate his friendship off the field.\n\n\"I have always admired and respected his competitiveness, his dedication, his discipline, and his commitment to being the best. I wish him the best in his next chapter. Congratulations again, pal!\"\n• None Adam Peaty reveals what he's had to sacrifice in pursuit of Olympic gold\n• None The truth behind 'The Purple One': Will Prince now be known as evil or genius?", "The hearts on the memorial wall commemorate lives lost during the pandemic\n\n\"Appalling, but not particularly surprising,\" says Safiah Ngah, as her immediate response to Sue Gray's report into allegations of gatherings at Downing Street during Covid restrictions.\n\nIt was \"incredibly traumatic\" for the 29-year-old from north London to lose her father during the pandemic.\n\nHe was an NHS worker who died of Covid and \"followed the rules to a tee\", and whose family were only able to see him for a single video call from hospital.\n\nBut the delays, disruption and gaps in Ms Gray's report into rule-breaking have made it even more hurtful, she says.\n\n\"It speaks volumes about who the priority is here... it's those who are in power,\" Safiah says.\n\nSafiah (second right) with her family, including her father (second left)\n\nThe report and its handling shows a deep lack of respect for the bereaved of the Covid pandemic, she argues, a tone-deafness towards people's loss.\n\n\"It's very much about how they can stay in power,\" she believes.\n\nMs Gray's initial findings about behaviour in Downing Street are \"pretty damning\", says Safiah.\n\n\"It's incredibly frustrating and painful for families like myself who lost people.\"\n\nSafiah feels let down about the death of her dad, a clinical psychotherapist who worked for the NHS for almost 40 years.\n\n\"The government hasn't been taking the experiences of real people seriously,\" she says.\n\nShe'd like Boris Johnson to resign as prime minister, but even then doubts that much would change, in a system she thinks is driven by self-interest rather than public interest.\n\nSafiah as a baby with her father\n\nShe doesn't want to be told to \"move on\", even if it is politically convenient, and sees the findings of the report as more evidence of an avoidance of acknowledging the scale of the loss from Covid.\n\nSafiah supports the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign - and its Facebook page shows much anger about the party allegations.\n\n\"All of those attending should be shamed and punished,\" says Julie. \"Everyone knew it was wrong. If you had invited me I would have said no... so should all of those attending. If those invited had done this, problem solved.\"\n\n\"I was mourning the death of my mum in a care home while they stood there enjoying themselves,\" says Helen.\n\nBrenda's mother died of Covid in hospital, without her family allowed to be there.\n\nBoris Johnson has faced questions in the House of Commons over party claims\n\n\"I didn't argue or fight with the fact we couldn't be there. We as a family accepted it like so many others. We accepted that we couldn't bring her home and have the funeral mum deserved like thousands more families,\" she says.\n\nHer views on the behaviour in Downing Street are unambiguous. \"A prime minister with a shred of dignity would step down.\"\n\nClaire was \"absolutely heartbroken\" about the death of her father, who she described as her best friend. But it was \"even harder hearing the government were having parties whilst I couldn't even be with my nan while she was grieving\".\n\nSue Gray's report has warned of \"failures of leadership\"\n\nAs well as the reaction of those who lost loved ones, there are also recriminations over fines for breaches of Covid rules.\n\nMore than 100,000 fixed penalty notices have been issued by the police in England - most for breaking rules on gatherings.\n\nIn the week of one of the gatherings, 14 January, there were about 4,000 fines issued, according to figures from the National Police Chiefs Council.\n\n\"If they don't pursue everybody - why should my son not have his money back?\" says former head teacher John Tomsett, whose son at Newcastle University was fined for meeting seven other students indoors.\n\nIt was 21:00 when the police raided the students and issued fines of £100 - and John says he is incredulous at how this compares to the response so far to reports of gatherings in Westminster.\n\nFamilies have added messages to those lost in the pandemic\n\n\"My son was terrified. He's a good lad, they're not law-breaking kids, he's never been in trouble in his life. And he faced the full weight of the law,\" says John.\n\n\"It was a horrendous experience for him - and that was going on all across the country.\"\n\nMore than three-quarters of Covid fines went to under-35s and John says that a failure to apply the rules fairly undermines the public's trust in the law.\n\n\"If they don't pursue everyone, I don't see how they can get away with keeping the fines,\" he says.\n\nAt the National Covid Memorial on London's Embankment there are long, crowded lines of hearts drawn on the wall, each commemorating a life lost to Covid.\n\nIt's strikingly poignant how much time it takes to walk past them all.\n\nIt reflects on the huge amount of collective grief from the pandemic, a scale that can be too big to grasp sometimes.\n\n\"I love you to the moon and back,\" is written on one heart. \"Babe I miss you so much,\" says another, in a wall surrounded by heartfelt messages to people's missing family and loved ones.\n\nSome of the hearts are beginning to fade, but the feelings are still raw.\n\nYou can see the Houses of Parliament from the memorial, and people are looking in that direction for answers.", "Boris Johnson has arrived in Ukraine for talks with the country's president amid rising concerns over a possible Russian invasion.\n\nThe UK prime minister promised to work with Volodymyr Zelensky to find a diplomatic solution to arguments with Moscow and \"avoid further bloodshed\".\n\nRussia has massed an estimated 100,000 troops, tanks, artillery and missiles near its borders with Ukraine.\n\nBut President Vladimir Putin denies he is planning an attack.\n\nHowever, his government has warned Ukraine not to make any further moves towards joining Nato, arguing that this threatens Russia's own security.\n\nThe US has rejected this demand and Western countries are threatening to expand sanctions against Moscow if there is an invasion.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said legislation was being prepared to target a wider range of individuals and businesses associated with Mr Putin, while a US official said Washington's sanctions meant people close to the Kremlin would be cut off from the international financial system.\n\nAhead of Mr Johnson's visit to Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, the UK government announced it was giving £88m to promote stable governance and energy independence from Russia.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"It is the right of every Ukrainian to determine how they are governed. As a friend and a democratic partner, the UK will continue to uphold Ukraine's sovereignty in the face of those who seek to destroy it.\n\n\"We urge Russia to step back and engage in dialogue to find a diplomatic resolution and avoid further bloodshed.\"\n\nMr Johnson hopes also to speak to Mr Putin later this week, having cancelled a call with the Russian president on Monday as he faced questions from MPs over parties held in Downing Street during the pandemic.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss had been due to accompany the PM to Ukraine, but she announced on Monday that she had been diagnosed with Covid and was self-isolating.\n\nUS President Joe Biden has warned there is a \"distinct possibility\" of Russia invading Ukraine within the next month.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has praised Western backing in the face of Russia's military build-up and announced an expansion of the army.\n\nAs British, Polish and Dutch leaders visited the country, top US and Russian officials are due to hold fresh talks on the crisis.\n\nBut on Monday there were angry clashes between Russian and US envoys at the UN Security Council, after the US called a meeting to discuss Moscow's troop build-up on its borders with Ukraine.\n\nUS Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the mobilisation was the biggest Europe had seen in decades.\n\nShe said the US continued to believe there was a diplomatic solution, but warned the US would act decisively in the event of an invasion - the consequences of which would be \"horrific\".\n\nHowever, her Russian counterpart Vasily Nebenzya accused the US of fomenting hysteria and \"unacceptable interference\" in Russia's affairs.\n\nHe said there was no proof that Russia was planning military action against Ukraine, adding that Russia often deployed troops on its own territory and this was none of Washington's business.\n\nRussia wants the West to promise Ukraine will never join Nato - a military alliance where members promise to come to another's aid in the event of an armed attack.\n\nMoscow sees Nato troops in eastern Europe as a direct threat to its security, but the US has already rejected this demand.\n\nPresident Putin has long argued the US broke a 1990 guarantee, amid the collapse of the Soviet Union, that Nato would not expand further east - though interpretations differ over exactly what was promised.\n\nNato's 30 members include the US and UK, as well as Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - former Soviet republics which border Russia.\n\nMoscow's forces annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula in 2014 and it is backing rebels who seized large swathes of the eastern Donbas region soon afterwards.\n\nSome 14,000 people have died in fighting there.", "Ahmaud Arbery was chased \"because he was black\", court told\n\nA US judge has rejected a plea deal between federal prosecutors and two of the three white men convicted of murdering black jogger Ahmaud Arbery.\n\nDistrict Judge Lisa Wood said she was not willing to be bound to the clause that allowed them to serve time in a federal, and not state, prison.\n\nHer ruling comes after Travis McMichael admitted for the first time race was his motivation for chasing Mr Arbery.\n\nMr Arbery's mother was said to be \"devastated\" about the deal.\n\nTravis and Gregory McMichael and their neighbour William Bryan were found guilty of his murder in November.\n\nThe three also faced a fresh federal trial on hate crimes charges and had all pleaded not guilty. That trial was due to begin next month.\n\nBut it emerged on Sunday that US federal prosecutors had reached plea agreements with the McMichaels, according to court papers.\n\nWanda Cooper-Jones, Mr Arbery's mother, vehemently rejected the notion of a deal as she said it was \"about serving time in a safer, less crowded prison\" since it recommended the McMichaels be transferred to a federal prison for 30 years before returning them to the custody of the Georgia prison system for the rest of their lives.\n\nFederal prisons are generally perceived as less brutal environments than typical state prisons.\n\n\"Please listen to me: granting these men their preferred conditions of confinement will defeat me. It gives them one last chance to spit in my face after murdering my son,\" Ms Cooper-Jones told the court.\n\n\"The state of Georgia already gave these men exactly what they deserve. Please leave it that way.\"\n\nThe three white men faced five federal charges, including interfering with Mr \"Arbery's right to use a public street because of his race\".\n\nCivil rights activists believe a federal trial would have been a key moment in the country's reckoning with racial injustice.\n\nMr Arbery's killing in February 2020 sparked outrage across the United States.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the full story: What a young jogger's murder exposes about America\n\nHe was shot while jogging following a confrontation with Gregory and Travis McMichael. It took more than two months for the men to be arrested, along with Bryan, their neighbour who filmed the death.\n\nThe McMichaels argued they were defending themselves while trying to make a \"citizen's arrest\".\n\nIn January, the McMichaels were sentenced to life in prison without parole, while Bryan was told he could seek parole after 30 years in prison.\n\nMs Cooper-Jones' impassioned six minute-long appeal to the judge about the plea deal had been allowed under the Crime Victims' Right Act which guarantees \"the right to be reasonably heard at any public proceeding involving a plea offer\".", "Cells collected during smear tests for cervical cancer might be useful for detecting early tumours elsewhere, such as in the breasts and ovaries, research suggests.\n\nScientists say they have found tell-tale signatures in these neck-of-the-womb cells linked to other cancers.\n\nLooking for these patterns could provide a warning doctors can act on, they say in the journal Nature Communications.\n\nWomen are already invited for routine cervical-cancer checks and, every few years after the age of 50, breast-screening mammogram scans.\n\nBut despite much research, there is still no reliable screening test for early ovarian cancer. These tumours are often more advance and harder to treat when they are found.\n\nCells that turn cancerous often show distinctive early changes at the molecular level.\n\nAnd researchers believe they have found some in smear-test samples that could help identify women at higher risk of specific other cancers, not just cancer of the cervix.\n\nTo identify down the most important ones linked to breast and ovarian cancer, Prof Martin Widschwendter and colleagues analysed cervical smear cell samples from:\n\nThey now recommend studies with more women to confirm their results.\n\nProf Widschwendter told BBC News: \"What we are talking about is identifying women at higher risk who might not otherwise know it.\n\n\"They can then have additional cancer checks.\n\n\"It's a bit like checking blood pressure to see who is at risk of heart problems.\"\n\nThe work was funded by The Eve Appeal research charity that hopes to drive improved treatments for gynaecological cancers.\n\nDr Julie Sharp, from Cancer Research UK, said: \"Screening for cervical cancer is already an invaluable tool, so it's interesting to see if cell samples taken through screening could be used in future to detect other cancers.\n\n\"However, we need further research to see how accurate this method is at detecting women with ovarian and breast cancer.\n\n\"Like the authors of this research, we look forward to seeing larger trials over longer periods to establish whether cervical cells could diagnose other cancers at an earlier stage.\"\n\nAbout 20 women a day are diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the UK\n\nIt often causes symptoms similar to other more common and less serious conditions, including:\n\nIf you regularly have one or more of these symptoms, which are not normal for you, it is important to book an appointment with your GP.\n\nBreast and cervical screening is also recommended for some trans or non-binary people. Talk to your GP or gender-identity clinic about this.\n\nMen can develop breast cancer too and should not ignore symptoms such as a lump.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Keir Starmer says Boris Johnson should resign \"in the national interest\"\n\nBoris Johnson is focused on \"saving his own skin\" rather than key issues, after findings into No 10 lockdown parties were published, Sir Keir Starmer says.\n\nThe update delivered by Sue Gray blamed a \"failure of leadership\" for rule breaking in Downing Street.\n\nMr Johnson met Tory MPs on Monday to reassure them about his premiership and to promise a shake-up in No 10.\n\nA number of MPs have said they are waiting for Ms Gray's full report to decide on the PM's leadership.\n\nBut the issue was not raised at Tuesday morning's cabinet meeting, with Mr Johnson's spokesman saying ministers were \"focused on the situation in Ukraine and the domestic priority of levelling up\".\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab defended his boss, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme he had \"expressed contrition for his overall responsibility\", and had a plan to fix the running of No 10.\n\nBut fellow Tory MP Andrew Mitchell told the same programme the PM was running government like a \"medieval court\", and he was doing \"great damage\" to his party.\n\nMeanwhile, Tory peer and former minister Lord Duncan called for Mr Johnson to resign and stand for re-election if he wants to remain in office.\n\nHe told the Daily Record the PM should \"put himself before the people who put him there in the first place\" to \"break the deadlock\" over the parties.\n\nAnd former Tory leader, William Hague, said Mr Johnson had \"failed to grasp the opportunity to make a fresh start\", writing in the Times that the PM \"should be worried by the reaction of his own MPs\".\n\nMetropolitan Police officers are looking into 12 events for alleged breaches of lockdown rules, including three the PM reportedly attended and one in his flat.\n\nReports said his wife, Carrie Johnson, hosted the event in their Downing Street home, an event Mrs Johnson's spokesperson previously denied happened.\n\nIn her partial report, released on Monday, senior civil servant Ms Gray said she had been \"extremely limited\" by the police investigation in how much she could say, so a \"meaningful\" report could not be released yet.\n\nShe will publish an updated report on lockdown parties in No 10 once police finish their inquiries, Downing Street has said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Sir Keir said the Mr Johnson had become distracted by trying to save his own premiership.\n\nHe said: \"So many people are worried about issues such as their energy bills, which are going through the roof, and the prime minister is spending all of his time saving his own skin.\n\n\"We now know that he had a meeting planned with the chancellor last week to discuss energy bills, but that was cancelled because he was having meetings to save his own job.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Dominic Raab says the government is \"getting on with the job\"\n\nBut Mr Raab insisted the government was \"getting on with the job\", despite the ongoing investigation.\n\n\"[The PM] recognised that, as Sue Gray said, the standards expected in No 10 were not as they should have been,\" he told Today.\n\n\"He said he did take responsibility and he apologised, and he provided a plan of action.\n\n\"But if you look at the big judgement calls... the prime minister has got these right. This government has got a plan.\"\n\nAsked if Mr Johnson had admitted to breaking any of the rules himself, Mr Raab said: \"The prime minister has been very clear that he acted in good faith at all times.\"\n\nIt was only 12 pages, but there was one very damaging and difficult conclusion in the terse summary of Sue Gray's report.\n\nIt is there now in black and white for all to see - there was rule breaking at the top of government when the country was living through lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister's original claim that all the guidelines were followed seems almost farcical now.\n\nDowning Street's early dismissals of the claims, even some of Mr Johnson's allies admit, now seem ill-advised. The Tory leader was savaged in the Commons, including by some of his own side, the disbelief and despair led by the former occupant of his address.\n\nThe publication, however, has not toppled over an overwhelming set of dominoes.\n\nThere are Conservative MPs who are incandescent. There is also a band of loyalists determined to help him stay on, almost whatever happens next.\n\nOn Monday in the Commons, some of the PM's backbenchers expressed support for him - but others issued stinging rebukes in light of the findings.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Theresa May asked if he had read or understood the Covid rules created by his government, or whether he \"believed they did not apply\" to No 10, while ex-cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell said the PM no longer had his support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch former PM Theresa May question Boris Johnson on lockdown rules\n\nSpeaking to Today on Tuesday, Mr Mitchell warned the issue of parties was \"a crisis that is not going to go away and is doing very great damage to the party\", saying: \"It is more corrosive in my judgement than the expenses scandal was and it will break the coalition that is the Conservative Party.\"\n\nThe former government whip also criticised the PM's running of No 10, telling the BBC: \"I think the problem is that Boris [Johnson] is running a modern government like a medieval court.\n\n\"Many of us thought he would govern in the way he did when he was Mayor Of London, through being a chairman of a board, running a very good team - that is not what has happened here.\"\n\nFellow Tory MP Maria Miller said the PM had announced \"significant and overdue changes\" to the running of Downing Street in light of Ms Gray's report, and he had \"rightly apologised to the nation\".\n\nBut in a statement on her website, the former minister issued a warning, saying: \"People made extraordinary sacrifices throughout the pandemic, and it is crucial that anyone who broke the rules is subject to the sanctions agreed by Parliament.\"\n\nHowever, a Tory councillor, Charlie Edwards, claimed there were \"much more important things to worry about\" than the parties, telling BBC Radio Lancashire: \"In the middle of an unprecedented pandemic, every single person you speak to will have broken a rule in some way.\"\n\nLeader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg claimed the \"mood was positive\" in the party after Mr Johnson addressed Conservative backbench MPs on Monday evening.\n\nIn that meeting, the prime minister promised he would make changes to his political operation, perhaps later this week.\n\nThis is expected to include the departure of some back room staff, and possibly a new chief whip to replace Mark Spencer, with some limited ministerial moves, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said.\n\nNo 10 has also indicated that it will support the formation of new policy groups of backbenchers to feed views more directly into government.\n\nMr Johnson also told MPs that the Australian pollster, Lynton Crosby, would be making a return to the operation. There is no detail from Downing Street on what his role will be.", "The government has written off £8.7bn it spent on protective equipment bought during the pandemic, accounts show.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care documents show items costing £673m were unusable, while £750m of equipment was not used before its expiry date.\n\nThe largest write-off - £4.7bn - was because the government paid more for it than it is currently worth, now that global supplies have recovered.\n\nNo 10 said the purchases were justified - with 97% of items suitable for use.\n\nA further £2.6bn of equipment was judged to be unsuitable for use in the NHS, the 2020/21 accounts show, but the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) believes it could still be sold or given to charities.\n\nAt the start of the pandemic, countries around the world were clamouring for personal protective equipment (PPE), sending prices soaring.\n\nNo 10 said \"we stand by the decision to purchase the items that we did\", saying the approach was \"justified\" to get PPE to the front line.\n\n\"We were acting in a highly competitive global market with many countries imposing export bans and obviously we were seeking to secure PPE for frontline clinicians,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman gave the example of protective aprons, saying they were now worth about a third of the price they were selling at in the earlier stages of the pandemic.\n\nBut he said it was important to ensure there were sufficient supplies at the time.\n\nThe spokesman said that \"97% of PPE ordered was suitable for use and we're seeking to recover costs from suppliers wherever and whenever possible\".\n\nNo 10 said the government was now able to \"mitigate\" similar problems in the future by \"massively increasing our onshore-based PPE production\".\n\nLabour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Pat McFadden, said that coming after disputed reports of billions written off due to fraud in Covid support funds, this would be \"galling to hard-working households\" facing tax rises.\n\n\"These levels of waste destroy any claim the Conservatives have to be careful stewards of the public finances,\" he said.\n\nLiberal Democrat health spokeswoman Daisy Cooper said the government was \"inept\", adding: \"They cannot be trusted with our money and are totally out of touch.\"", "A fresh deal has been struck to keep supplies of vital industrial-grade carbon dioxide (CO2) flowing by keeping a key production site open.\n\nWhen CF Industries' plant at Billingham shut briefly last year, it caused a crisis, threatening CO2 supplies to the food, medical and nuclear sectors.\n\nAt the time, the company said that high natural gas prices made the plant unviable.\n\nA three-month deal allowing it to continue operating expired on Monday.\n\nBut the government said major CO2 users have now reached a new agreement with CF Industries.\n\nDetails of the deal have not been disclosed, but the BBC understands it will last until at least spring and come at no cost to the taxpayer.\n\n\"The carbon dioxide industry has come to an agreement to ensure UK businesses have access to a sustainable supply of CO2 - an essential component of the national economy,\" the business department said in a statement.\n\n\"The deal will enable CF Fertilisers' Billingham plant to continue to operate while global gas prices remain high. It means key sectors, including food processing and nuclear power, are ensured supplies of CO2.\"\n\nIn September, the government provided financial support to reopen Billingham. A deal was then struck between CF Industries and its customers to keep the plant open for three months without further subsidies.\n\nThe Food and Drink Federation (FDF) had warned that without an extension of that deal, CO2 supplies could be interrupted, leading to food shortages on shelves.\n\n\"UK food and drink manufacturers welcome the deal that will ensure continuity of CO2 supply, keeping our shops, pubs and restaurants stocked with our favourite food and drink,\" said Kate Halliwell, Chief Scientific Officer at the FDF.\n\nCO2 is used in fizzy drinks, to keep packaged food fresh and to stun livestock before slaughter.\n\nThe UK continues to face soaring wholesale gas prices which have driven up costs for businesses and households.\n\nThe price of ammonia - which CF Industries uses to generate CO2 as a by-product - is currently at a record high, nearly double the level seen in September.\n\nThe deal guarantees supply for the next few months, but it doesn't resolve fundamental issues with the UK's supply of carbon dioxide.\n\nIndustrial-grade CO2 is made as a by-product of other industrial processes, such as the production of ammonia for fertiliser production, or bioethanol for fuel.\n\nThe UK relies on CF Industries for 60% of its CO2 needs, and most of that comes from the Billingham plant on Teesside. When that goes down, it is difficult to replace.\n\nThe UK faced a CO2 supply crisis in 2018, and another last year.\n\nIndustrial-grade CO2 is difficult to store, and expensive to transport. And while many industrial processes produce CO2, few generate a stream pure and reliable enough to use in food.\n\nThe government said it would like to see \"the market take measures to improve resilience\", and the Food and Drink Federation said it would boost its \"efforts to build resilience\".\n\nUnless those efforts succeed, the UK may well face another CO2 supply crisis.", "Val McDermid has withdrawn her support and sponsorship of Raith Rovers football club\n\nThe author Val McDermid has withdrawn her support and sponsorship of Raith Rovers football club after it signed David Goodwillie.\n\nThe striker was ruled to be a rapist and ordered to pay damages in a civil case in 2017.\n\nHe never faced a criminal trial over the rape accusation after prosecutors said there was not enough evidence.\n\nMs McDermid, known for her popular crime fiction novels, has been a lifelong fan of the Fife club.\n\nTwo of the Kirkcaldy club's directors - one of whom was once chairman - and the captain of its women's team have also resigned in protest.\n\nScotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, and former UK prime minister Gordon Brown have also condemned the signing.\n\nBut the club defended its decision, which it said was primarily based on Goodwillie's abilities on the pitch.\n\nMs McDermid was the Scottish Championship team's main shirt sponsor but said that deal would now end as a result of the signing.\n\nThe name of the author, who was also a director, is worn on the clubs' home shirt and the South Stand at Stark's Park.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWriting on Twitter on Tuesday morning, Ms McDermid said: \"The thought of the rapist David Goodwillie running out on the pitch at Starks Park in a @RaithRovers shirt with my name on it makes me feel physically sick.\"\n\nShe added that she had \"ended my lifelong support\" of the club and cancelled next season's shirt sponsorship \"over this disgusting and despicable move\".\n\n\"I'll be tearing up my season ticket too,\" she said.\n\nThe signing \"shatters any claim to be a community or family club\", and that Goodwillie's presence was a \"stain on the club\".\n\n\"Goodwillie has never expressed a shred of remorse for the rape he committed,\" she added.\n\nThe captain of the club's women's team, Tyler Rattray, also said she had quit in protest.\n\nShe tweeted: \"After 10 long years playing for Raith, it's gutting I have given up now because they have signed someone like this and I want nothing to do with it!\"\n\nDavid Goodwillie joins Raith Rovers after five years at Clyde\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon backed Ms McDermid and Ms Rattray's stances, and said society had to have zero tolerance for sexual violence.\n\nShe applauded them for being \"principled\", adding: \"The fact they're in this position at all reminds us that our society still has a way to go to make zero tolerance of sexual violence a reality.\"\n\nFormer prime minister Gordon Brown is a well-known supporter of the Fife club, but said he \"cannot support this signing\", adding that he condemned rape and all violence against women.\n\nAndrew Mill, who has been the club's support director since 2018, submitted his resignation and said he felt unable to continue in his role.\n\nBill Clark resigned as a director over the signing of David Goodwillie\n\nAnother director, Bill Clark, said he had also resigned over Goodwillie's signing.\n\nMr Clark - who was once club chairman - said it \"didn't feel right\".\n\n\"How could I go out and speak to people in the community with young daughters, girls, boys, whatever and say 'we're a great community club, come in and join us' - it just wasn't going to work.\"\n\nHe said a majority of board members voted on Monday to sign the player, but he and a minority of the others on the board had raised concerns.\n\nWhile some had claimed that Goodwillie deserved a second chance, Mr Clark said the striker also had two convictions for assault.\n\nHe warned that fans were already voting with their feet.\n\nThe club's supporter liaison officer, Margie Robertson, also resigned, saying: \"My values and that of the club are now on a divergent path.\"\n\nDavid Goodwillie is a player whose on-field abilities have rarely been questioned. Quite simply, he does what managers want from strikers - he scores goals.\n\nIt was this ability that tempted Raith Rovers to make their move and deal with the consequences.\n\nIn his five years with Clyde, he was their captain and top goal scorer.\n\nHis former manager Danny Lennon has come out in support, saying that he will be missed.\n\nBut his skills as a professional are irrelevant for others, who think that community clubs should be about more than just winning.\n\nA judge in a civil court found that he is a rapist - for many, that can never be dismissed for the sake of footballing success.\n\nThe question about whether a football player with that kind of past should also have a future in the game is a debate for fans but a gamble for clubs.\n\nRaith Rovers are now paying the consequences for making the call.\n\nRape Crisis Scotland said it was \"surprised and disappointed\" that Raith had signed Goodwillie and called for the decision to be reversed.\n\nIt said the move sent \"a clear message of disregard to survivors of rape and sexual violence\".\n\nIn a statement, the club said they had signed Goodwillie because he was \"a proven goal scorer\".\n\nIt said his \"foremost consideration\" was \"his footballing ability\".\n\n\"While acknowledging the gravity of what happened 10 years ago, as a club we fully support and encourage rehabilitation, and many factors influenced our signing. But first and foremost, this was a football-related decision,\" it said.\n\nThe statement added that it respected the differing views about Goodwillie's signing and that it had divided opinion, adding that it wanted to rebuild trust with loyal fans and commercial stakeholders.\n\nBBC Scotland has approached Goodwillie for comment. The player was not involved in the Raith Rovers game against Queen of the South on Tuesday.\n\nRaith Rovers manager John McGlynn told BBC Radio's Sportsound programme: \"The club have made a statement and that's as far as I'm going to talk about it.\n\n\"David has arrived with a tight hamstring and if he was to play and give it 100% he'd likely make it worse and there's no point risking that. I'm just focusing on the game and that is all I can do as a football manager.\"\n\nGoodwillie was at Stark's Park to watch Raith Rovers' 3-3 draw with Queen of the South\n\nBefore the court case the 32-year-old spent time at Dundee United and Aberdeen and played for Scotland.\n\nGoodwillie's signing for Clyde in 2017 also attracted criticism, but the club defended its decision and said people should be allowed to rebuild their lives after mistakes.\n\nSome Clyde fans said they were sorry to see him go and praised him for his contribution to the club.\n\nDenise Clair said she was raped by Goodwillie and another player at a flat in Armadale, West Lothian, in 2011 after a night out in nearby Bathgate.\n\nBoth Goodwillie and Dundee United player David Robertson accepted that they had sex with her but maintained it was consensual.\n\nPolice investigated the incident but no criminal prosecution took place.\n\nMs Clair, who waived her right to anonymity, maintained in a subsequent civil action that she had been raped by both men.\n\nLord Armstrong ruled that because of her \"excessive intake of alcohol and, because her cognitive functioning and decision making processes were so impaired\" that she \"was incapable of giving meaningful consent, and that they each raped her\".\n\nHe ordered them to pay her £100,000 in damages.\n\nIt was the first civil rape case of its kind in Scotland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steven Williams, 36, said his fit, active life was \"totally devastated\" by the struggle for answers.\n\nAthletic Steven Williams spent £25,000 on tests and treatments before being diagnosed with Lyme disease.\n\nThe 36-year-old, of Maesteg, Bridgend county, was in good health when he was struck down with anxiety and left bed-ridden and shaking for 18 hours a day.\n\nLyme Disease UK called for more research into the best protocol for treatment.\n\nThe Welsh government said guidance on the illness had been issued.\n\nFootball-loving Mr Williams said his battle to get a diagnosis for Lyme disease, which can be difficult to identify, had \"totally devastated\" his life.\n\nHis symptoms started in March last year.\n\n\"Over the course of one week, everything changed,\" he said.\n\n\"I suddenly started having very extreme anxiety. It really came on suddenly and really, really floored me. Yeah, it was quite a horrific time.\"\n\nMr Williams said his battle to get a diagnosis had \"totally devastated\" his life.\n\n\"I'd wake up shaking at maybe two or three in the morning,\" Mr Williams said.\n\n\"I'd be unable to get out of bed for most of the day.\n\n\"It's put a huge strain on my personal life and my relationships. There was a lot of pain and a lot of fear, it was terrifying.\"\n\nThere is guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for GPs on the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease in the UK, with antibiotics usually helping most people to recover.\n\nMr Williams went to his GP, but wanted to speed up diagnosis during the pandemic, so he went private.\n\n\"I was checked for tumours in the adrenal glands and tumours in the brain,\" he said.\n\n\"I was back and forth to London for tests there. I was also referred on for ketamine therapy for treatment resistant depression and anxiety, which, unfortunately, didn't help and made things worse.\"\n\nHe takes numerous medications and supplements every day\n\nAfter spending £25,000 on scans, consultations and treatments he was diagnosed with late-stage Lyme disease in November.\n\nThere are around 900 cases of Lyme disease reported in the UK each year, according to the Health and Safety Executive.\n\nIt is estimated the actual number could be two or three times that.\n\nJulia Knight, of Lyme Disease UK, a campaigning charity founded by patients, said Lyme disease can affect the joints, the heart and the nervous system if it was not diagnosed and treated quickly.\n\n\"The patient is producing so many different symptoms that everybody is totally baffled,\" she said.\n\n\"They're bounced around between neurologists, rheumatologists, orthopaedics, sometimes psychologists, and nobody ever gets to the bottom of what this person has actually been infected with.\"\n\nDr Tim Brooks, of the UK Health Security Agency, said it was important to be aware of the symptoms to get an early diagnosis, and that GPs were able to promptly prescribe antibiotics when patients had the characteristic \"bullseye\" rash.\n\nHe added: \"If your doctor does not immediately diagnose you, we recommend you exercise caution, and speak to your doctor for advice before spending money on private tests or treatments, as some private laboratories offer tests and treatment for Lyme disease which may not be supported by scientific evidence.\"\n\nSteven Williams enjoyed playing football before he became ill\n\nHe has been told he has late-stage Lyme disease and is trying to raise a further £30,000 for private treatment in Germany.\n\nThe NHS says some symptoms can persist if Lyme disease is left untreated and diagnosed late.\n\nA few people who are diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease continue to have symptoms that can last for years, according to the NHS.\n\nThere is controversy around the existence of so-called \"Chronic Lyme disease\", a distinct condition said to resist treatment.\n\nThe Welsh government said NICE guidance on Lyme disease had been issued to make healthcare professionals and patients aware of the symptoms.\n\n\"People with Lyme disease may experience a very wide range of symptoms and will be directed to the right investigation, assessment, treatment and rehabilitation to meet their specific needs,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"These services include multi-professional treatment, self-help and advice, online tools to support recovery, investigations, rehabilitation and specialist consultations as required.\"\n\nLyme Disease UK said the joints, heart and nervous system can be affected if Lyme disease is not diagnosed and treated quickly\n\nLyme disease is a bacterial infection that can be spread to humans by infected ticks.\n\nA circular or oval shape rash around a tick bite can be an early symptom of Lyme disease in some people. The rash can appear up to three months after being bitten by an infected tick, but usually appears within one to four weeks.\n\nLyme disease is spread to humans by ticks\n\nSome people also get flu-like symptoms a few days or weeks after they were bitten by an infected tick.\n\nTreatment for Lyme disease is a course of antibiotics, most people recover after treatment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A house in Bensham, Gateshead, where the roof was blown off during Storm Malik\n\nThousands of households are still without power in Scotland and north-east England, after two storms hit the UK at the weekend.\n\nStorms Malik and Corrie caused power cuts for 118,000 homes in Scotland and 80,000 in northern England.\n\nOn Monday evening, around 18,100 remained without power.\n\nOn Saturday, two people were killed by falling trees - a boy in Staffordshire and a woman in Aberdeen.\n\nSeveral schools in Aberdeenshire, the Highlands and Moray were closed on Monday due to storm damage or power outages.\n\nAnd there has been major disruption to rail services between Edinburgh and Newcastle - with some lines closed on Monday morning.\n\nMuch of Scotland, Northern Ireland and parts of northern England was under a yellow Met Office warning for wind over the weekend.\n\nGusts of 92mph were recorded on Sunday night at Stornoway in the Western Isles.\n\nThere is another yellow warning in place for parts of northern Scotland on Tuesday between 06:00 GMT and 18:00, with gusts of up to 65mph expected.\n\nBut the Met Office said the next few days would be much calmer before a brief cold snap on Thursday.\n\nScottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said about 16,900 were still without power on Monday evening, mostly in rural Aberdeenshire and the Angus border, while Northern Powergrid said 1,200 customers were without power across Northumberland, County Durham and Tyne & Wear.\n\nSSEN said restoration efforts would continue into Tuesday, with the possibility that for \"small clusters\" of customers this may extend into Wednesday.\n\nA van at Apperley Bridge near Bradford was crushed by a fallen tree during Storm Malik. No-one was hurt.\n\nDouglas Morrison, 51, who lives two miles from Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he had \"never seen this level of devastation\" to forest areas - \"I'm talking hundreds and hundreds of trees absolutely flattened and snapped like matchsticks\".\n\nHe said his house had lost power at 08:00 GMT on Saturday and had come back on for a few hours on Sunday before being cut again.\n\n\"I just hope it comes on again today because as time passes it gets harder and harder because you lose your hot water, you lose the heat in your house, so let's just hope it comes on today,\" he said.\n\nLook at the map of power cuts in north-east England and you would be forgiven for thinking there's an alarming lack of electricity in the region. But this is very different from the chaos of Storm Arwen last November.\n\nThis time only a small number of properties are without supply and more and more are being reconnected by the hour.\n\nStorm Arwen swept in from the north, an unusual direction for such weather. Storm Malik came from the west, where we are used to getting our weather from. Trees in particular are more resilient to a westerly as it's the prevailing wind direction.\n\nWith Arwen, whole communities were left without power for several days - the aim for those without power now is to get them back on by the end of the day.\n\nA few areas cut off by Arwen have been hit again this weekend - but the message from Northern Powergrid is the length of time to fix should be much quicker.\n\nThe damage is not comparable to what happened late last year.\n\nPeter Isgate, 65, who lives in Finchale Abbey Village in County Durham, told the PA news agency power had been off at the residential park where he lived since 10:00 on Saturday.\n\nHe said that the average age there was around 70 and there were people with no heating and that nobody had been to see them.\n\n\"It's about heat and cold, old people feel it, and it just seems like they're getting ignored,\" he said.\n\nDisruption to trains continued into Monday, with ScotRail replacing a number of services with buses.\n\nThe storms brought back memories of Storm Arwen which left thousands of homes without power for more than a week in Scotland and the north of England.\n\nStewart Sexton, 58, from Alnwick, Northumberland, lost power for 35 hours over the weekend, having previously been badly affected by Storm Arwen, and said he was \"enraged\".\n\n\"This situation never happened before Arwen yet we did get storms,\" he said, blaming a lack of maintenance of the infrastructure and a resilience plan.\n\nScotland's Deputy First Minister John Swinney said it was clear there had been a \"much stronger join-up between the power companies and the local resilience partnerships\" over the weekend.\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme there was an \"improving situation\" but said power companies and others had to explore how to build more resilience in the system.\n\nA number of welfare centres have been opened in Aberdeenshire for people needing showers and power, while hot food is being served at various school canteens.\n\nAre you in the affected areas? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Theresa Norton, Diana Warner, El Litten, and Steve Pritchard, along with 16 others, had been charged with contempt of court\n\nFour Insulate Britain protesters who left a hearing and glued themselves to the steps of the Royal Courts of Justice have been taken into custody.\n\nTheresa Norton, 63, Diana Warner, 62, El Litten, 35 and Steve Pritchard, 62, along with 16 others, were due to answer charges of contempt of court.\n\nThey are accused of ignoring an injunction aimed at preventing protests on the M25 in October.\n\nThey described their walkout as \"a show of resistance\".\n\nOnce glued in place, the front gates of the building were locked, shutting the four inside. Police later unstuck them one by one before taking them into custody as fellow protesters cheered.\n\nIn court, Lord Justice William Davis read out a note from the four protesters, which said: \"We feel we have to continue our resistance today because we don't want to cooperate with a system which is causing so much death and hardship.\"\n\nHe issued a bench warrant for the four.\n\nA bench warrant is an order issued by a judge for a defendant who is missing, which requires them to be arrested and brought before court.\n\nA number of High Court injunctions against Insulate Britain's road blockades have been previously granted to National Highways and Transport for London to prevent protests.\n\nThe court is expected to sentence the remaining 16 protesters at 15:00 GMT on Wednesday, following a hearing in the morning to deal with the four who refused to attend the proceedings on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Germany's refusal to send weapons to Ukraine has puzzled and angered some allies. But the reasons why Europe's most powerful country is standing back are historical and complex.\n\nThere's a great grassy plain to the east of Berlin where the soil tells terrible stories.\n\nAs farmers plough, their blades disturb human bones, weapons; the fragments of one of the most brutal battles of World War Two.\n\nIt was spring 1945. Hitler was hiding in a bunker in Berlin, his troops in retreat. Soviet forces advanced from the east across the plain but, above them on a hill called the Seelow Heights, the Nazis had taken up a defensive position.\n\nIt was, by all accounts, a muddy, chaotic bloodbath. The Soviets eventually prevailed, hastening the end of the war, but it's estimated up to 30,000 of their soldiers were killed.\n\nTo visit the memorial at Seelow Heights is to understand how deeply entrenched this country's history remains in the minds of many Germans - and how the horrors of the 20th Century still influence its foreign policy today.\n\nIt is one of the reasons Germany has refused to send weapons to Ukraine, prompting a furious response from politicians there.\n\nThis is, by and large, a nation of pacifists.\n\nAn annual survey reveals that most Germans believe diplomatic negotiation is the best way to resolve conflict. German troops rarely participate in anything other than peacekeeping missions; there are few exceptions - and they were controversial - including the Balkans in the 90s and, more recently, Afghanistan.\n\nIt's also, ironically, one of the world's biggest arms exporters (though its output is dwarfed by that of the US and Russia). And it has strict controls over where weapons are sent, even if Angela Merkel's government was sometimes accused of not sticking to those rules.\n\n\"Germany has a longstanding policy of restraint when it comes to military conflict of all sorts and weapons export is seen as fuelling conflict rather than reducing conflict,\" says Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff from the German Marshall Fund. \"This longstanding policy says that Germany does not export arms into conflict zones.\"\n\nGermany has departed from that principle, to arm Peshmerga fighters battling IS in Northern Iraq. But the situation in Ukraine is different, he says. The reason is history - the Nazi killings of millions of people in Ukraine and Russia.\n\n\"To export arms into the bloodlands that Germany helped to create, to supply one part of the bloodlands with arms… against the other part of the bloodlands… is an anathema in the German political debate.\"\n\nThe situation on the Ukrainian border is testing Germany's new coalition government.\n\nChancellor Olaf Scholz - who probably thought Covid would be his greatest challenge - is now under pressure from his international allies to shift his country to a new, more hawkish position.\n\nHis government - a coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and Free Democrats - came to power at the end of last year promising a values-based foreign policy and even stricter constraints on arms exports.\n\nResisting calls - even from some within that government - to send weapons to Kiev, Chancellor Scholz has instead paid for a field hospital, offered to treat wounded soldiers in Germany and is sending 5,000 helmets to Ukraine.\n\nBecause there's another reason for Germany's reluctance - many here simply don't believe that sending weapons will solve the crisis.\n\nScholz's foreign minister, Green politician Annalena Baerbock, points out that Germany is a financial donor to Ukraine and believes that is more effective than sending arms.\n\n\"I do not think it's realistic to believe such weapons exports could turn around the military imbalance. The best protection is to prevent further aggression. The strongest weapon, if you want to use that word, is that we, united as Nato members, as EU states, as the G7, make clear every new aggression will have massive consequences.\"\n\nChancellor Scholz favours the dialogue-based approach pursued by his predecessor. Angela Merkel was instrumental, along with President Emmanuel Macron of France, in setting up the so-called Normandy format under which Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia aimed to establish a ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine. It's hoped that same format might work now.\n\nNils Schmidt, foreign affairs spokesman for the chancellor's social democrats, says \"France and Germany are mediators and I think it's not very appropriate for a mediator nation to send weapons to Ukraine, to one conflict party, because we are trying to promote a diplomatic solution.\"\n\nAnd Germany is well placed for such diplomacy. Chancellor Scholz may not have Mrs Merkel's clout with President Putin. But, thanks to their histories, Germany's relationship to Russia is unlike that of many other Western countries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ukrainian Marta Yuzkiv is preparing to defend her country but says she doesn't want war\n\nThousands of German firms do business there. Many Germans - including Angela Merkel - grew up behind the Iron Curtain, learning Russian at school. Her ability to communicate regularly with Vladimir Putin when other leaders could not, was often attributed to their shared experience of life in the Communist East.\n\nWhat puzzles - and angers - many around the world (and a fair few in Germany too) is why Chancellor Scholz isn't playing his most obvious card.\n\nThe two countries' economic ties are perhaps most controversially embodied in the Nordstream 2 pipeline, which, if and when it comes online, would double the amount of Russian gas coming into Europe via Germany.\n\nChancellor Scholz is under pressure to scrap the project by way of a sanction against Russia. That he has not yet done so is, critics argue, emblematic of Germany's self-interest.\n\nIt's a sore topic for his government. His social democrats, who say the pipeline is a private economic project, are behind it. But his partners, the FDP, say it's political and the Greens would dearly love to let it go.\n\nMr Scholz has indicated that, should Russia invade Ukraine, all options will be on the table, including the pipeline. But, in his quietly spoken way, has gone no further, prompting some to wonder whether history will judge him canny or weak and hesitant.\n\n\"It's wise to have a certain level of strategic ambiguity so that Putin cannot start calculating which price he would have to pay in case of doing this or that,\" says Nils Schmidt. \"That's why is so important to have all these options on the table.\"\n\nAnd, in the meantime, as Vladimir Putin tests the nerves of the West, Germany faces fundamental questions about its pacifist instincts.\n\nEven towards the end of the Merkel era, calls were growing for Germany to take on a more substantial military role on the world stage.\n\nAnd, as visitors to Seelow Heights, who imagine the screams of Katyusha rockets and the shouts of dying men, will understand, Germany knows very well what is at stake - and the cost of getting it wrong.", "An updated report on lockdown parties in No 10 will be published by Sue Gray once police finish their inquiries, Downing Street has said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson met with Tory MPs on Monday to reassure them and promise a shake-up of how No 10 is run.\n\nSenior civil servant Ms Gray concluded there was a \"failure of leadership\" over the 16 events she examined.\n\nHowever, the full report has not been published while the police investigate alleged Covid rule breaking.\n\nMetropolitan Police officers are looking into 12 events for alleged breaches of lockdown rules, including three the PM reportedly attended and one in his flat.\n\nThe force has confirmed it has received more than 500 pages of documents and 300 pictures as part of its investigation, adding that it expects to conduct interviews with people who have \"potentially breached\" the rules.\n\nMs Gray said she had been \"extremely limited\" by the police investigation in how much she could say, so a \"meaningful\" report could not be released yet.\n\nIn the published update that came out on Monday, she criticised the culture in Downing Street among senior civil servants and staff, arguing that some of the gatherings did not observe the high standards \"expected of the entire British population at the time\".\n\n\"There were failures of leadership and judgement by different parts of No 10 and the Cabinet Office at different times,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Some of the events should not have been allowed to take place. Other events should not have been allowed to develop as they did.\"\n\nIt was only 12 pages, but there was one very damaging and difficult conclusion in the terse summary of Sue Gray's report.\n\nIt is there now in black and white for all to see - there was rule breaking at the top of government when the country was living through lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister's original claim that all the guidelines were followed seems almost farcical now.\n\nDowning Street's early dismissals of the claims, even some of Mr Johnson's allies admit, now seem ill-advised. The Tory leader was savaged in the Commons, including by some of his own side, the disbelief and despair led by the former occupant of his address.\n\nThe publication, however, has not toppled over an overwhelming set of dominoes.\n\nThere are Conservative MPs who are incandescent. There is also a band of loyalists determined to help him stay on, almost whatever happens next.\n\nMs Gray had to rewrite her report after the Met asked last week for only \"minimal reference\" to be made to events they are looking at, in order to \"avoid any prejudice to our investigation\".\n\nThe events being looked at by the police force include the 20 May 2020 \"bring your own booze\" event in the Downing Street garden, which Mr Johnson has apologised for attending, as well as the PM's birthday party on 19 June 2020.\n\nAnd police are also investigating a gathering on 13 November 2020 at his Downing Street flat.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons on Monday, Mr Johnson initially declined to answer whether the report would be published in full.\n\nHowever, Downing Street later confirmed the PM would \"ask Sue Gray to update her work in light of what is found\" by the police after their inquiries conclude, adding they would publish the result of this work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch former PM Theresa May question Boris Johnson on lockdown rules\n\nMany Conservative MPs had said they were waiting for Ms Gray's full report to decide whether to try to remove the PM from office.\n\nIf at least 54 of them submit letters of no confidence to the 1922 Committee, which represents backbench Tory MPs, they can trigger a vote on his position as leader of the Conservative Party.\n\nMr Johnson addressed a meeting of that committee on Monday evening, after which cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg said the \"mood was positive\".\n\nPeterborough MP Paul Bristow acknowledged it had been a \"difficult day\" but said there was support for Mr Johnson.\n\nEarlier in the Commons, some of the PM's backbenchers expressed support for Mr Johnson - but others issued stinging rebukes in light of the findings.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Theresa May asked if he had read or understood the Covid rules created by his government, or whether he \"believed they did not apply\" to No 10, while ex-cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell said the PM no longer had his support.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the British people believed Mr Johnson should \"do the decent thing and resign\".\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, was ordered to leave the Commons chamber after accusing the PM of lying to MPs about the No 10 events. Under parliamentary rules, MPs are not allowed to accuse each other of lying in the Commons.\n\nWriting in The Times, ex-Tory leader William Hague criticised the PM's Commons apology.\n\nHe wrote: \"The prime minister could have got on the front foot, advancing his position on a broader front of ensuring integrity in government.\n\n\"Yet for some reason, this very intuitive politician decided to do the minimum in responding to the report rather than go further in his apology and his proposals.\"", "Met police chief Cressida Dick (L) was given a two-year contract renewal last September\n\nThere was tension between the home secretary and Downing Street over whether to try to recruit a successor for Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick in the wake of the controversy over the Sarah Everard case, multiple sources have told the BBC.\n\nPriti Patel and No 10 both had concerns about leadership at the Met, and discussed whether or not to try to find a new commissioner.\n\nThere was widespread anger over the force's handling of the case and the treatment of female protestors holding a vigil for Ms Everard, who was killed by a former Met officer Wayne Couzens.\n\nBut it's understood that both Ms Patel and Boris Johnson were unenthusiastic about the likely internal candidate, senior Met officer Neil Basu, who had previously criticised the PM's comments and was seen in No 10 as \"too political\", sources say.\n\nHowever, the home secretary did consider going through the recruitment process where a civil service panel interviews candidates, before recommending the candidate to her.\n\nTwo sources familiar with the discussions said Ms Patel was \"overruled\" by Downing Street, and the decision was taken to extend Dame Cressida's contract for two years.\n\nAnother source disputed that account, and said once the Home Office and No 10 had \"worked through all the options\", extending the commissioner's contract was the compromise.\n\nIt is understood the home secretary wants to begin the search for the next Met commissioner - the most powerful policing job in the UK - this summer and is keen to look to candidates outside the force.\n\nThe relationship between the most senior politicians in the country, and the most senior police officers in the country is rarely easy.\n\nUnder this government, and this Met Commissioner, it has been tricky indeed.\n\nThere's unhappiness again in the last 24 hours over how some Met officers were revealed to have behaved, and tensions and accusations of cover up around the Met's investigations into parties in Downing Street which has held up the full investigation into what exactly what went on in Number 10.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"In September 2021, following consultation with the Mayor of London, the home secretary extended the commissioner's term until April 2024.\n\n\"This extension was agreed in order to provide continuity and stability as we emerge from the coronavirus pandemic and deliver on our promise to recruit more police officers while driving down crime in the capital.\"\n\nThe Met would not comment.", "Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has hit out at protests by truckers around the country as \"unacceptable\".\n\nSpeaking to parliament in Ottawa, he defended the Covid restrictions that have prompted truckers to converge on the nation's capital.\n\nOttawa police meanwhile warned protesters could be arrested, and a conviction might cost them their jobs.\n\nThe protests in Ottawa and at two Canada-US border crossings have been going on for two weeks.\n\n\"Blockages, illegal demonstrations are unacceptable, and are negatively impacting businesses and manufacturers,\" Mr Trudeau said on Wednesday.\n\n\"We must do everything to bring them to an end.\"\n\nHe said the protesters are \"trying to blockade our economy, our democracy and our fellow citizens' daily lives\".\n\nMr Trudeau returned to parliament on Monday following a week-long isolation after he caught coronavirus.\n\nSince Monday drivers have been blocking the largest international suspension bridge in the world at a border crossing that makes up around a quarter of US-Canada trade.\n\nThe closure of the Ambassador Bridge by about 100 protesters in their big rigs has been denounced by trade groups. The span connects Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit, Michigan.\n\nCar manufacturers in the region say that they have had to reduce production and shift hours due to parts shortages caused by the ongoing blockade. Industry experts say that it could result in company layoffs and increase the prices that consumers pay for vehicles.\n\nThe world's biggest manufacturer, Toyota, has halted production at three factories in Ontario, saying no more vehicles will be produced there this week.\n\nThe White House has called for an end to the protests saying they risk hurting the car industry and US agricultural exports.\n\nAbout 400 trucks remain in central Ottawa after arriving there late last month. Police said on Wednesday the protesters could be charged with \"mischief to property\" because they were inhibiting local residents' \"lawful use, enjoyment and operation of their property\".\n\nOttawa police warned that \"anyone blocking streets or assisting others in the blocking of streets may be committing a criminal offence\".\n\nThey added that a criminal conviction could result in seizure of their vehicles, and an inability to enter the US. The police force also hiked penalties for noise, engine idling and other infractions in the city to C$1,000 ($790, £585) per offence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe truckers are protesting against a rule requiring truckers entering Canada to be fully immunised against coronavirus. The demonstrators have also voiced opposition to Covid passports and mask mandates.\n\nMr Trudeau has refused to budge on federal Covid measures, even as provinces begin lifting their restrictions.\n\nAlberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec and Prince Edward Island have all announced plans to lift most mitigation measures this month. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are also easing some restrictions.\n\nOn Tuesday, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said pandemic-related rules had \"disrupted and even destroyed livelihoods\" in the province.\n\nIn Coutts, Alberta, on the border with the US state of Montana, RCMP officers began issuing tickets on Wednesday to remove dozens of trucks that have been blocking that international crossing for about two weeks. No arrests have been reported, and authorities said that enforcement would take place in \"stages\" beginning with information gathering.\n\n\"Really it's going to be up to them,\" said RCMP Superintendent Roberta McKale, calling on them to move on their own.\n\n\"Up until this point it's been us asking them and this afternoon we don't have an option, we're going to have to use our enforcement options to have that happen.\"\n\nMr Trudeau has faced criticism from within his own party over his handling of the protests, which come as infections from the Omicron variant decline significantly.\n\nQuebec MP Joël Lightbound, a fellow Liberal, criticised the prime minister this week for \"demonising\" groups that disagree with Covid mandates.\n\n\"It's becoming harder and harder to know when public health stops and where politics begins,\" Mr Lightbound said. \"It's time to stop dividing Canadians and pitting one part of the population against another.\"\n\n\"The prime minister needs to put his ego aside,\" she said. \"He needs to do what's right for the country. He needs to to end the mandates. He needs to end the restrictions.\"\n\nAt a news conference on Wednesday, organisers of the Freedom Convoy said protesters were \"upbeat\". They added that the truckers were resting so as to be \"re-energised\" for weekend protests, which they likened to a \"festival\".\n\nReacting to the police warning, a lawyer for the protesters maintained in a statement that their actions were lawful.\n\n\"Noisy, inconvenient or unwanted protests are protected and must be facilitated,\" the lawyer said.\n\nThe protesters have raised $7.8m on website GiveSendGo as of Wednesday after GoFundMe cancelled their fundraiser and began refunding some $10m in donations.\n\nRepublican officials in at least two US states - Texas and Missouri - have opened investigations into GoFundMe over the decision.\n\nThe protests in Canada have inspired similar events around the world from Australia and New Zealand to France. Online chatter is building for a trucker protest in Washington DC.", "Rhys Langford's mother, Catherine Langford, described her son as a warrior and a hero\n\nA teenager who helped raise more than £60,000 for a six-year-old boy with cancer after discovering his own condition was terminal has died.\n\nRhys Langford, 19, from Ebbw Vale, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in October 2020.\n\nIn a Facebook post, his mother said he died peacefully at home with his family around him on Tuesday evening.\n\nHe donated £1,000 and raised more than £60,000 for Jacob, who also lives in the Blaenau Gwent town.\n\nHis mother, Catherine Langford, wrote: \"My warrior, my hero, my son, my baby, has given up his fight.\n\n\"He lay down his sword and died peacefully at home with all his family around him.\n\n\"We are heartbroken. My life will never be the same again.\"\n\nWhen Rhys read about Jacob, he told his parents: \"If there's nothing that can be done for me, I want to try and help save this little boy.\"\n\nRhys's family were with him at the end, his mother said in a Facebook message\n\nJacob was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in 2017 and, after treatment, was found to be cancer free in 2019.\n\nBut his parents were told in December it was \"highly likely\" a new tumour on his liver was cancer.\n\nThe money raised by Rhys will go towards future treatment for Jacob, who may have to travel to America for experimental treatment not available on the NHS.\n\nJacob's Fight Facebook page posted a message saying thoughts were with Rhys' family \"at this sad time\".\n\n\"Fly high Rhys and we are all so proud and thankful for what you did for our Jacob,\" it said.\n\nMoney raised by Rhys will be used to help pay for future treatment for Jacob", "Baby Lincoln Edwards, pictured with mum Georgia Struthers and dad Kallum Edwards was born with a congenital condition\n\nA six-month-old boy who had his first life-saving heart operation at 13 days is now recovering from his second.\n\nLincoln Edwards, from Wrexham, was born with a congenital condition that meant he needed surgery to improve his blood flow.\n\nThen last month he underwent nine hours of surgery to fully repair his heart.\n\nNow his parents are raising money for a charity treating children with similar conditions in developing countries.\n\nLincoln is recovering at home with mum and dad Georgia Struthers, 22, and Kallum Edwards, 24.\n\nHis latest operation happened six months earlier than planned because he had outgrown his shunt - or tube.\n\nThe surgery was performed by Dr Ramana Dhannapuneni at Liverpool Alder Hey Children's Hospital.\n\nMs Struthers and Mr Edwards now want to help him save the lives of children in developing countries.\n\nLincoln had his first life saving op at five months old\n\nThe couple are raising money for a charity Dr Dhannapuneni works with, called Healing Little Hearts.\n\nFounded in 2007, it has carried out more than 2,200 operations in 14 countries across Africa and Asia, where treatment is normally unavailable or expensive.\n\nDoctors and nurses work free in their own time.\n\nRelationship consultant Ms Struthers said funding one of the charity's foreign missions seemed a fitting way to give thanks.\n\n\"We want to give those children the chance that Lincoln's had,\" she said.\n\n\"If the shoe was on the other foot and that was us, we'd never be able to afford the treatment that Lincoln has had.\n\n\"Without that he wouldn't have a chance to live and we wouldn't have him.\"\n\nDr Dhannapuneni has just returned from a trip to Namibia, where 10 children and babies were operated on in five days.\n\nHe said in many countries parents struggled to find somewhere they could afford to have sick children treated.\n\nLincoln's parents now want to help children in developing countries\n\nHealing Little Hearts also mentors and trains medical staff so they can perform heart procedures themselves.\n\nDr Dhannapuneni said this was vital.\n\n\"That is a massive effect of our charitable missions. There are good stories of childrens' heart centres being established from scratch.\"", "The French president (right) held talks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky after his visit to Moscow\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has told reporters that President Vladimir Putin assured him that Russian forces would not ramp up the crisis near Ukraine's borders.\n\n\"I secured an assurance there would be no deterioration or escalation,\" he said before meeting Ukraine's leader.\n\nHowever, Russia said any suggestion of a guarantee was \"not right\".\n\nRussia has denied any plans to invade Ukraine, but it has assembled more than 100,000 troops near its borders.\n\nUS officials believe Russia has assembled 70% of military forces needed for a full-scale invasion.\n\nThe tensions between Russia, Ukraine and the West come nearly eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula.\n\nMoscow accuses the Ukrainian government of failing to implement the Minsk agreement - an international deal sponsored by Germany and France to restore peace to the east, where Russian-backed rebels control swathes of territory and at least 14,000 people have been killed since 2014.\n\nPresident Macron this week is on a diplomatic tour of national capitals. He arrived in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Tuesday after almost six hours of talks with Mr Putin in Moscow on Monday.\n\nAt a news conference with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Mr Macron said there was now the chance to \"make these negotiations move forward\" between Russia and Ukraine, and that he could see \"concrete solutions\" to reducing tensions.\n\nMr Zelensky meanwhile called on Mr Putin to take serious measures to reduce tensions. \"I do not really trust words, I believe that every politician can be transparent by taking concrete steps,\" he said.\n\nMr Macron then flew to Berlin, where he joined the leaders of Germany and Poland in expressing their joint support for Ukrainian sovereignty.\n\nThe leaders met as part of a summit of the Weimar Triangle group, formed 31 years ago after the end of the Cold War, to help deal with challenges now facing Europe.\n\nPutin hinted that progress had been made during his first Moscow summit with a Western leader since the crisis started\n\nMr Putin hinted on Monday that some of Mr Macron's proposals \"could form the basis of further joint steps\" - although they were \"probably still too early to talk about\".\n\nA French official later told reporters that the two leaders had agreed that Russia would pull troops out of Belarus at the end of exercises taking place near Ukraine's northern borders.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov however denied any deal had occurred - although the troops were expected to return to Russia at some point, he said.\n\nPresident Macron's diplomatic push later moved to Berlin for a meeting with the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and Polish President Andrzej Duda.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's like they stuck a knife in our back': Ukraine has been living with war for the past eight years\n\nUS President Joe Biden met the German leader in Washington on Monday and threatened to shut down a key Russian gas pipeline to Germany, called Nord Stream 2, if Moscow invaded Ukraine.\n\nChancellor Scholz - on his first trip to Washington since becoming chancellor and facing criticism for his response to the Ukraine crisis - was however more ambiguous about the pipeline than Mr Biden.\n\nWestern countries have already rejected a number of Moscow's demands, including that the Nato defence alliance rule out Ukraine becoming a member, and that it reduce its military presence in eastern Europe.\n\nThe Ukrainian president absolutely doesn't trust Mr Putin. \"Openness in a leader is fine\", he responded when Mr Macron talked about his frank discussions with the Russian leader. \"But only if it's not a game.\"\n\nMr Zelensky welcomed Emmanuel Macron's support and said the two men had a \"common vision\" regarding the challenges facing Ukraine, Europe and the world. But there were awkward moments. Mr Macron had to deny he'd cited Finland as a possible model for Ukraine's relationship with Nato (close, but not a member). Mr Zelensky appeared to make light of it but didn't sound impressed.\n\nMr Putin says he wants to invigorate the 2014 Minsk Agreement, and this is also a challenge for Mr Zelensky. Signed by his predecessor, in the middle of the war, he fears - as do most Ukrainians - that implementing Minsk in its current form will serve to enhance the authority of the pro-Russia separatists who currently control parts of the Donbas.\n\nMr Zelensky is basking in a growing measure of international support. Foreign dignitaries are coming in and out of town in a way that Kyiv has rarely seen. This crisis has yet to ease, but seems marginally less acute.\n\nIn the words of the Kremlin, President Macron may have arrived in Moscow with some \"seeds of reason\", but they haven't yet flowered into an agreement. Russia is keeping its powder dry, calling the talks long but informative.\n\nAny suggestion that France had secured a deal were also quickly slapped down; Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said that it would be impossible for Moscow and Paris to do a deal as France is not the leader of Nato.\n\nRussia's main focus, it seems, is still on the US. Crucially, Russia has yet again emphasised that it feels its security concerns around potential Nato expansion have not been answered. Continuing to put this front and centre in the diplomatic discussions makes negotiations difficult as neither side have shown any sign of giving ground.\n\nWhile both sides talk and then plan for more talks, troops continue to build on Ukraine's border and on Nato's eastern flank. The wait continues.", "Rebekah Vardy said it was \"war\" after Coleen Rooney publicly accused her of leaking stories, a court has heard.\n\nA trial is due to start in May, and the two-day hearing this week is to decide what evidence can be used when that comes around.\n\nThe \"Wagatha Christie\" row broke out in 2019 when Mrs Rooney said fake stories were leaked to the press after only being seen by Mrs Vardy's Instagram.\n\nMrs Vardy denies the accusations and is suing Mrs Rooney for libel.\n\nOn Tuesday, the High Court heard that WhatsApp messages between Mrs Vardy and her PR and friend Caroline Watt had been disclosed ahead of the trial.\n\nAnd it's what's in those messages that has been discussed in court today.\n\nOn the day Mrs Rooney, the wife of former England star Wayne, published a post on Twitter which ended, \"It's.......... Rebekah Vardy's account\", Mrs Vardy sent a message to Ms Watt, stating: \"That's war.\"\n\nThe messages also revealed Mrs Vardy referred to Mrs Rooney and her husband Wayne with offensive language.\n\nMrs Rooney's lawyers have previously claimed that Mrs Vardy, who is married to Leicester City striker Jamie, had leaked information to The Sun newspaper either directly or through Ms Watt \"acting on her instruction or with her knowing approval\".\n\nIn written arguments, Mrs Rooney's barrister David Sherborne said: \"From the outset, Mrs Vardy has always claimed that neither she nor Ms Watt were involved in the leaking of private information from Mrs Rooney's Instagram account.\n\n\"The recent disclosure has shown that this is emphatically not the case,\" he added - referring to those WhatsApp messages.\n\nMrs Rooney's lawyers have presented messages between Mrs Vardy and her friend as evidence in court\n\nAccording to Mrs Rooney's written case, messages between Mrs Vardy and Ms Watt in January 2019 showed them discussing a post on Mrs Rooney's private Instagram where her car had been damaged.\n\nMrs Vardy told Ms Watt she \"would love to leak those stories x\".\n\nMr Sherborne said Ms Watt was later responsible for the leak of the story to the newspaper, with Mrs Vardy's approval.\n\nAfter the story was published in The Sun Mrs Rooney tweeted it was \"sad\" someone who followed her was \"betraying\" her.\n\nOn the first day of the court case, Mrs Vardy posted this photo on her Instagram story\n\nAccording to written submissions, while discussing the tweet in a private WhatsApp conversation, Ms Watt told Mrs Vardy \"It wasn't someone she trusted. It was me\", in a message accompanied by a laughing emoji.\n\nIn written arguments Mrs Rooney's barrister said this \"conspicuously elicits neither surprise, contradiction or criticism from Mrs Vardy, who was plainly aware and approved of this leak\".\n\nAt the hearing on Tuesday, which is due to last two days, Mr Sherborne said Mrs Rooney had brought a claim against Ms Watt for misuse of private information, which Ms Watt denies.\n\nHe added that Mrs Rooney's legal team had wanted more information from the WhatsApp messages between Mrs Vardy and Ms Watt, but said Ms Watt's phone had \"regrettably\" fallen into the North Sea after a boat she was on hit a wave, shortly after the last court hearing.\n\n\"[It was] most unfortunate, because it was only a short time after the court ordered that the phone should be specifically searched,\" he said.\n\nHugh Tomlinson QC, representing Mrs Vardy, said the denied allegations have caused her \"huge damage and distress\".\n\nIn written arguments, the barrister said the information and messages disclosed \"provides no evidence that the claimant leaked the three fake posts\".\n\nHe said Mrs Rooney \"relies upon selective and incomplete WhatsApp exchanges... conveniently ignoring the messages which demonstrate beyond doubt that the claimant was not responsible for leaking the defendant's private information to The Sun\".\n\nIn further WhatsApp messages between her and Ms Watt, Mrs Vardy said she had supported Mrs Rooney and suggested it was Mrs Rooney's own PR who had leaked stories.\n\nIan Helme, for Ms Watt, said she had given \"clear and consistent\" denials against the claim for misuse of private information.\n\nThe barrister said in written arguments that it was not only Mrs Vardy's Instagram account that had viewed the post about Mrs Rooney's car, adding that the incident also took place in public.\n\n\"It is difficult to see how there could be said to be any reasonable expectation of privacy in relation to such information,\" Mr Helme said.\n\nHe later said that Mrs Rooney's lawyers had taken \"an extremely aggressive\" approach and added it can be inferred that Mrs Rooney's primary concern is \"public opinion, or vindication\".\n\nThe trial is due to start in early May.\n\nThe hearing before Mrs Justice Steyn is due to finish on Wednesday.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst (left) and director Jane Campion are all recognised for The Power of the Dog\n\nJane Campion's The Power of the Dog, an intense Western starring Benedict Cumberbatch, leads this year's Oscar board with 12 nominations.\n\nIt is closely followed by Dune, which has 10, and Belfast and West Side Story, which have seven each.\n\nOlivia Colman, Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrew Garfield are among the UK nominees in the lead acting categories.\n\nDame Judi Dench and Ciarán Hinds are nominated for their supporting roles in Sir Kenneth Branagh's Belfast.\n\nHis autobiographical black-and-white film about a family in Northern Ireland during The Troubles is one of 10 films in the running for best picture.\n\nSir Kenneth, who is also nominated for best director, said in a statement: \"It's a long way from the streets of Belfast to the Academy Awards.\n\nDame Judi Dench is nominated for her performance in Belfast, while Sir Kenneth Branagh is up for best director\n\n\"Today, I think of my mother and father, and my grandparents - how proud they were to be Irish, how much this city meant to them. They would have been overwhelmed by this incredible honour - as am I.\n\n\"Given a story as personal as this one, it's a hell of a day for my family, and the family of our film. I thank Academy voters for their incredible and generous recognition.\"\n\nSir Kenneth becomes the first person to be nominated in seven different Oscar categories throughout his career. He already has director, actor, supporting actor, adapted screenplay and live action short nominations, but can now add best original screenplay and best picture. He is yet to win, however.\n\nWith her nomination, New Zealand director Jane Campion becomes the first woman to have been nominated for best director twice, having been recognised for The Piano in 1993.\n\nHer film, The Power of the Dog, is a slow and suspenseful western which also scored nominations for three of its supporting actors - Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Kirsten Dunst.\n\nDune, which stars Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet, is one of 10 nominees for best picture\n\nAndrew Garfield (right) is nominated for his performance in Tick Tick... Boom!, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda (left)\n\nMany nominees shared their joy on social media after the Academy unveiled its shortlists on Tuesday.\n\nJessica Chastain, nominated for her leading performance in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, tweeted: \"This morning felt like a dream\".\n\nAustralian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee said he was \"deeply honoured\" to have been recognised as a best supporting actor nominee in the Power of the Dog.\n\nBelfast star Ciarán Hinds, another nominee in that category, said in a statement: \"Having worked in this industry for nearly 50 years, I thought there wasn't much that could surprise me still. Today, I can honestly say, I am astounded, thrilled and deeply grateful.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jessica Chastain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBritish actor Andrew Garfield said he was \"deeply humbled\" to be recognised for his portrayal of the late composer Jonathan Larson in Tick Tick... Boom!\n\n\"All I long for is to tell stories that remind us of how to live,\" Garfield said in a statement. \"Jonathan's story offers us a treasure map. Thank you for keeping his song reverberating through our universe.\"\n\nJessie Buckley told RTÉ she was in \"complete shock\" after being nominated for best supporting actress, adding: \"The Lost Daughter is so special to me... To be recognised for anything connected to it is just a wild dream come true.\"\n\nAnd Ariana DeBose, who is also a strong contender for best supporting actress for her role as Anita in West Side Story, shared her excitement over her nomination.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ariana DeBose This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwo couples are nominated within the 20 acting places that were available.\n\nPenelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers) and Javier Bardem (Being The Ricardos) have been married since 2010, while Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst are engaged.\n\nIn a statement, Dunst said: \"To be honored by the Academy is a truly humbling experience. For both Jesse and I to get our first nominations together is beyond our wildest dreams.\"\n\nDenzel Washington's nomination for The Tragedy of Macbeth is his 10th, extending the record he already holds as the most nominated black actor ever.\n\nWill Smith has been nominated for best actor for his performance in King Richard\n\nThere is no overlap between the best actress and best picture categories - all five women nominated for a leading role appeared in films which did not make it into the top category.\n\nThis is common at the Oscars. While Frances McDormand and Nomadland synced their wins last year, that was the first time in 15 years that the winner of best actress appeared in the film that also won best picture.\n\nEfforts to nominate more popular films and make the Oscars more relevant to young people were only partly successful, as fans of James Bond and Spider-Man were left disappointed.\n\nDenis Villeneuve's sci-fi saga Dune was the most successful film to get a best picture nod, after taking $400m (£294m) at the box office worldwide.\n\nHouse of Gucci's Lady Gaga (far right) and Jared Leto (second left) both missed out in their respective acting categories\n\nWith far more films in the awards season race this year and only a limited number of slots available in each category, it was inevitable that some films and stars would miss out.\n\nThe voting system means that, while the Academy does not choose to actively reject a particular movie, director or actor, a heavily-tipped contender can miss out if they don't get as many votes as some of their peers.\n\nFor example, the red carpet will have to do without without Lady Gaga and her Oscars outfit this year. She had been tipped for a best actress nomination for House of Gucci, but has missed out.\n\nIt's not a good year to be both a musician and an actor. Gaga's co-star Jared Leto, who is also the singer with Thirty Seconds To Mars, and Alana Haim, who has gone from the band Haim to starring in Licorice Pizza, were both in contention but have been overlooked.\n\nKristen Stewart did make it on to the best actress list, though, for playing Princess Diana in Spencer. Her first Oscar nomination, the former Twilight star was the frontrunner to win a few months ago, but Spencer has rapidly fallen out of favour and it wasn't certain that she would be nominated.\n\nOn the best supporting actress list, Dame Judi had been an outsider to be nominated for Belfast - but she is loved by the Oscars, and has now received her eighth career nomination. Her on-screen daughter-in-law Caitriona Balfe, who was thought to have been Belfast's more likely representative in that category, was not recognised.\n\nThe Lost Daughter has scored acting nominations for Jessie Buckley (far left) and Olivia Colman (second right)\n\nIrish star Jessie Buckley was also something of a surprise in the best supporting actress category. She plays the younger version of Olivia Colman's character in The Lost Daughter - with Colman herself up for best actress, days after being snubbed in the Bafta nominations.\n\nOverall, Oscar voters liked The Power of the Dog a bit more than expected, and liked Dune a bit less than expected - typified by the fact that, although Dune has 10 nominations, Denis Villeneuve didn't make the cut for best director.\n\nTracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan announced the nominations in Los Angeles on Tuesday.\n\nThere is pressure to make the Oscars more popular with and relevant to young audiences, after 2021's pared-down ceremony tanked in the ratings, partly due to the absence of big film releases during lockdown.\n\nThe Academy has confirmed the ceremony will have a host this year, but has not yet revealed who it will be.\n\nThe ceremony hasn't had a host since Jimmy Kimmel was at the helm in 2018. Instead, a variety of celebrity guests have introduced individual categories and announced winners.\n\nThis year's ceremony will take place on Sunday 27 March.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Canary Island hoteliers want restrictions eased to allow in more British travellers\n\nMany UK families have cancelled half-term trips to mainland Spain and the Canary Islands because children over 12 must be double vaccinated to enter.\n\nHoteliers in the islands say the restrictions have lost them millions of pounds' worth of trade.\n\nThey have called on the Spanish government to relax its restrictions to allow in more British travellers.\n\nEurope's largest tour operator TUI says Mexico and Turkey are proving popular alternatives.\n\nFrom Friday, people travelling to the UK will no longer need to take any Covid tests if they are fully vaccinated. However, Britons going on holiday overseas still need to follow the rules which apply at their destination.\n\nIt is thought more than 80 holiday destinations around the world will still require travellers from the UK to take a pre-departure PCR test before entering.\n\nTravel agents are having to keep up with a fast-changing international patchwork of restrictions.\n\nTravel operator Hazel Bryant: Many families are changing their plans\n\nHazel Bryant from Travel with Kitts, an independent agency in Hertfordshire, said the Omicron variant meant a lot of people re-arranged Christmas trips for half-term instead.\n\nIn February, the Canary Islands is popular with families seeking good weather without too long a flight.\n\nHowever, Hazel says that because the Canaries and mainland Spain require British children over the age of 12 to be double-jabbed, half the families she is dealing with have changed their plans.\n\n\"The reasons are, they're not double vaccinated or because they've had Covid in the last six weeks - which means they haven't gone for their second jab. Spain will not allow them in\".\n\nShe said many affected families were switching destinations or postponing break plans until Easter.\n\n\"It is paramount to plan early, because so many people have moved holidays a year or even two years, so it will be busy and full.\"\n\nBen Fishlock and his family in Gran Canaria two years ago\n\nBen Fishlock booked a trip to Gran Canaria for February last year for himself, his wife and three children.\n\nTravel restrictions meant that trip had to be postponed to this February half-term - that is now off too.\n\nMr Fishlock said: \"The 12-year-old has only just turned 12 so doesn't have his second vaccination yet. The fact he couldn't get vaccinated in time just meant that we had to abort the mission.\n\n\"We only cancelled a few days ago. We thought we'd hold out until the first of February in case anything changed but unfortunately we've had to pull the plug.\"\n\nHe says his children were disappointed to learn the holiday would once again not happen. He's hoping to try again later in the year, though.\n\nJorge Marichal from the Tenerife Hoteliers Association wants Spain's Covid rules to be eased\n\nTourism businesses in the Canary Islands say they have lost a significant number of bookings at what is usually a crucial time of year.\n\nJorge Marichal, president of the Tenerife Hoteliers Association, wants the Spanish government to change its rules so that more British families can come.\n\nHe said: \"The loss could be nearly 400 million euros in the Canary Islands. That's only talking about the hotels - if we take into account the restaurant economy [too] it is a huge impact.\n\n\"For us the British market is the biggest one. We have more than 2.5 millon British citizens coming to Tenerife every normal year. For us this part of the year is one of the most important. All these profits will be lost.\"\n\nTour operator TUI said recent rule changes were \"a huge leap forwards in getting travel back to normal\".\n\n\"We're already seeing a trend of 'test-free holidays' for customers who are fully vaccinated, as people look to go abroad with ease and without the added expense of testing.\"\n\nThe firm said bookings for February half-term and Easter holidays are comparable to 2019, with Mexico, Dominican Republic, Cape Verde and the Canaries the most popular destinations.\n\nHave your half-term travel plans been affected? Get in touch.\n\nSpain is not the only country with strict entry requirements for UK visitors, although travel agents say that country's policy on children is proving particularly disruptive.\n\nIt is not only entry rules people need to pay attention to. In France, for example, over-16s need to prove they are vaccinated to gain access to certain activities, including getting a ski pass. Unvaccinated 12-15-year-olds can take a daily Covid test.\n\nPortugal and Greece have both announced an easing of their entry rules this week.\n\nTravel association Abta said it was working with its European counterparts to try and encourage greater consistency, and pressing the UK government to lead international efforts to align rules.\n\nDespite the travel complications, holiday bookings are rising fast, with the boss of one of Britain's biggest tour firms seeing a huge spike in recent weeks.\n\nDame Irene says customers are flocking back to High Street travel agents\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner of Hays Travel, told the BBC that in the last week of January bookings were back to the level of January 2020, before the pandemic hit.\n\nSpain, Greece, Turkey and the US were particularly popular, she said, adding that the average price per booking was up by £482 from 2019, with people wanting to treat themselves and stay longer.\n\nDame Irene said customers were also flocking back to High Street travel agents rather booking online, driven by the concerns and complications caused by restrictions and form-filling.\n\n\"They want to speak to a human being,\" she said. \"They want to make sure they are getting the best advice before they book. They also need to know somebody will be there for them while they are on their holiday.\"\n• None Covid map: Where are cases the highest?\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "Ed Sheeran and Adele joined other musicians on the red carpet ahead of the ceremony. Fans are awaiting to hear who will win best artist after the Brits took the decision to scrap gendered awards. The show is being hosted at the O2 in London by comedian Mo Gilligan.", "Adele gave her first performance at the Brit Awards since 2016\n\nAdele won three out the four main prizes at the Brit Awards on Tuesday, where she also put in an assured performance of her track I Drink Wine.\n\nThe singer won best artist, album and song of the year for Easy on Me.\n\nEd Sheeran was crowned songwriter of the year too at London's O2 Arena, and he performed his hit Bad Habits alongside rockers Bring Me the Horizon.\n\nDua Lipa won the night's other big prize, as TikTok users voted for her and not Adele as the best pop/R&B act.\n\nIt means that for now at least, Robbie Williams is still one gong ahead of Adele as the most-awarded artist in Brits history with 13.\n\nAfter winning the first of her three awards, for best song, Adele beamed: \"I can't believe a piano ballad won up against that many bangers.\"\n\nHer so-called \"divorce album\", 30, was the biggest-seller of 2021, shifting more than 600,000 copies in just six weeks, and the star dedicated her award for it to her son and ex-husband.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The biggest moments from the Brit Awards 2022\n\nThe winner of the Brits' first-ever genderless award for overall artist of the year added: \"I understand why the name of this award has changed but I really love being a woman and being a female artist. I'm really proud of us.\"\n\nThe move attracted some criticism from figures including Piers Morgan and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries - who said she was concerned about how the new system \"would work in terms of fair gender representation\".\n\nIn the end, more women were nominated than at any time in the past decade, and female artists or female-fronted bands won two-thirds of the awards.\n\nLittle Simz brought her mother on stage as she collected her award for best new artist\n\nAdele's hat-trick came just weeks after she tearfully postponed her entire Las Vegas residency. She didn't reference that setback during the ceremony, though, and tabloids seemed more interested in whether she was sporting a new diamond ring on her engagement finger.\n\nThe ceremony was hosted for the first time by Mo Gilligan, who took over (at the \"Mo-2 Arena\", as he re-named it) from Jack Whitehall.\n\nThe comedian took a swipe at Prime Minister Boris Johnson over the well-documented party-gate controversy. \"Boris, I know you're watching,\" he said into the camera. \"I know you love a party.\n\n\"Come on my guy, come down man - I know you like a cheeseboard. Look at you, looking for the Dairylea.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Mo Gilligan predicted he'd host the Brits in 2011\n\nOne of the best performances of the night came right at the end from best hip-hop/grime/rap-winner Dave, demonstrating his musical prowess once again by strapping on a six-string and shredding out a guitar solo; after having been joined on a flame-filled stage for a rendition of In the Fire, by fellow rappers Fredo, Ghetts, Meekz, Giggs, and a gospel choir.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BRIT Awards This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother came courtesy of best new artist winner, Little Simz, who was joined on-stage by The Crown actress Emma Corrin, during a medley of tracks from her critically-acclaimed album, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert.\n\nHer smart, funky record was music critics' favourite album of 2021, and ahead of the Brits her producer, Inflo - who Adele said also \"changed my life\" - was named as producer of the year.\n\n\"Look what you've done mum,\" said Simz, collecting her award while accompanied by her mother.\n\n\"I am living proof that if you work hard at something, no matter where you come from, no matter your background and your race, you can do something extraordinary.\"\n\nElsewhere on the night, Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood was on hand to give the best rock/alternative award to Sam Fender.\n\nThe North Shields rocker thanked his manager for \"walking into that pub 10 years ago\" and discovering him.\n\nAbba were last nominated for a Brit Award in 1977, losing out to Simon & Garfunkel and a similar fate befell them on Tuesday, as Silk Sonic - aka Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak - took the best international group.\n\nBillie Eilish fended off competition from Olivia Rodrigo to win best international artist. But 18-year-old Rodrigo, who made her live debut at last year's awards, made up for it by winning best international song for her pop-punk anthem Good 4U.\n\nOther winners included Wolf Alice for best group, and Becky Hill for best dance.\n\nHolly Humberstone knew before she arrived she had won the rising star award. She told the BBC that her rapid ascent, which has happened during the pandemic, has been \"very strange to me\" so far. \"I feel like I'm in some kind of alternate universe, but I feel just so lucky,\" she said.\n\nAnne-Marie stumbled briefly down some stairs during her performance of Don't Play, with YouTuber and rapper KSI and Digital Farm Animals. But she recovered herself quickly, and later tweeted: \"Didn't need my left ankle anyway.\"\n\nLiam Gallagher brought some rock 'n' roll to the Brits\n\nLast but not least, Liam Gallagher belted out his new track, Everything's Electric, while donning a trapper hat.\n\nLast year's Brit Awards took place as part of the government's pilot scheme for the return of live events. Covid restrictions necessitated a mixture of live and virtual performances, with artists like Coldplay, The Weeknd and Elton John appearing on tape.\n\nThis year, organisers vowed to \"keep everything in the room\" - even when that meant scrapping a planned performance from US star Doja Cat, after members of her team tested positive for Covid.\n\nThey also took the decision to scrap gendered awards, falling in line with other major music prizes like the Grammys, the MTV Awards and Australia's Arias.\n\nBrits chairman Tom March said the move away from best male and female prizes \"felt right\".\n\nSpeaking on the red carpet beforehand, best newcomer nominee Self Esteem told BBC music correspondent Mark Savage: \"It's crazy to me it already wasn't the case. You know?\n\n\"We're still living in this terribly gendered society even though everything is like, 'live, laugh, love' and everyone's fine.\"\n\nShe added: \"I constantly feel second or discriminated against because of being a woman, and isn't that insane? The zeitgeist makes you think it isn't like that anymore.\n\n\"So well done Brits for doing it, but I'm not gonna be like, clapping for them!\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Rhys's family said they have gained strength from seeing how brave he has been\n\nA teenager with just months to live is carrying out his \"final wish\" by helping to raise money for a six-year-old who also has cancer.\n\nRhys Langford, 19, from Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in October 2020.\n\nWhen he read about Jacob, who also lives in the town, he donated £1,000 and fundraised more than £28,000.\n\nRhys told his parents: \"If there's nothing that can be done for me, I want to try and help save this little boy.\"\n\nAfter finishing treatment last summer, Rhys found out this month that his cancer had returned and spread dramatically, meaning he has just months to live.\n\nRhys hopes his donation will help Jacob\n\nThe money donated through the fundraising page will go towards future treatment for Jacob who is also suffering from a rare cancer, Rhys's mum Catherine Langford said.\n\nShe said: \"For Rhys to be thinking of a little boy like that even though Rhys has been dealing with his own terminal prognosis, it takes my breath away.\n\n\"To think of what he's doing and what he's achieved so far from lying in his bed.\"\n\nRhys rang the bell at Cardiff's Velindre Hospital to say he had completed his treatment - before his cancer returned\n\nRhys, who was fit and active and loved martial arts before he became unwell, is now bed bound.\n\nThe first sign that he was ill came in October 2020 when he was 18 and he started complaining of a pain in his leg.\n\nAfter his diagnosis, he had months of chemotherapy and immunotherapy, followed by surgery.\n\nJacob and Rhys both live in Ebbw Vale\n\nIn August 2021 he \"rang the bell\" at Velindre Hospital in Cardiff, meaning his treatment had finished.\n\nBut by October, he became unwell again and was recently told he had months to live.\n\nIt has been a devastating time for his parents and brother Charlie, nine, with dad Paul saying he cannot sleep at night.\n\nRhys's mother says the family spent the first fortnight \"grieving for the life that Rhys will never have\"\n\nMs Langford said it \"hurts to breathe\".\n\n\"It's the unknown. But all this (fundraising) has swept Rhys off his feet and has taken his mind off it a little bit, I think.\n\n\"And seeing Rhys show courage and strength is given us courage and strength.\"\n\nMr Langford said Rhys has been \"overwhelmed\" by the reaction, adding: \"He's regularly in tears. Especially when he hears the stories that people are leaving, and the messages.\n\n\"It's his final wish - he says 'if they can't save me, perhaps I can help save little Jacob and give him his life back'.\"\n\nRhys hopes his donation can help Jacob, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2017\n\nJacob was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in 2017 and, after treatment, was found to be cancer free in 2019.\n\nBut last month his parents were told it was \"highly likely\" a new tumour on his liver was cancer and they are waiting for tests to confirm.\n\nThe money raised by Rhys will go towards future treatment for Jacob, who may have to travel to America for experimental treatment not available on the NHS.\n• None Couple fundraising for 40 years close in on £1m", "The Metropolitan Police will email more than 50 people as part of its inquiry into lockdown parties at Downing Street and Whitehall.\n\nA questionnaire will be sent to those alleged to have been at events on eight dates between May 2020 and April 2021.\n\nIt will ask for their account of what happened and \"must be answered truthfully\", the Met said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie are expected to be among the people being emailed.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Brussels, Mr Johnson said: \"That [investigation] process must be completed and I'm looking forward to it being completed, and that's the time to say something on that.\"\n\nAnd Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The prime minister has said he will be full and transparent. He will notify [the public] if he is receiving any form of fine et cetera.\"\n\nThe Met Police said its email must be answered in seven days, but being contacted did not mean a fine would always be issued.\n\nIts inquiry, Operation Hillman, is examining 12 gatherings on the eight dates - some of which the PM attended - to see if Covid regulations were broken.\n\nIt was launched after an inquiry by senior civil servant Sue Gray, who in her initial findings criticised \"failures of leadership and judgement\" over the gatherings in Downing Street and Whitehall and referred them to police.\n\nSeveral Tory backbenchers are calling for the prime minister to resign and and some have submitted letters of no confidence.\n\nThe Met announced on Wednesday that it would also review its decision not to investigate another event, a Christmas quiz on 15 December 2020, after a picture of Mr Johnson was leaked to the press.\n\nPublished by the Daily Mirror, it showed Mr Johnson with three aides, two in tinsel and a Santa hat, with a bottle of sparkling wine.\n\nThe Met said it had \"previously assessed this event and determined that on the basis of the evidence available at that time, it did not meet the threshold for criminal investigation. That assessment is now being reviewed.\"\n\nThe prime minister's former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, tweeted that there were \"waaaaay better pics than that floating around\", alleging that they included images of gatherings in Mr Johnson's flat.\n\nDetectives investigating the parties are continuing to examine more than 500 documents and 300 images gathered as part of Ms Gray's inquiry.\n\nThe Met said it might also contact more people if they were identified as having taken part in an event that potentially breached the regulations.\n\nWhile being contacted does not necessarily mean a fixed-penalty notice will be issued, the Met said that would \"normally\" happen where officers believed regulations had been breached without reasonable excuse.\n\nMeanwhile, lawyers for the Labour Party have written to the Met saying they have a duty to investigate Mr Johnson over the funding of his Downing Street flat refurbishment.\n\nThey claim he may have breached anti-bribery laws when he asked Tory donor Lord Brownlow in text messages to approve spending on the renovations, and said he would take action on the donor's plan for a Great Exhibition project.\n\nThe Met said it was considering the letter but no investigation had yet been opened.", "The collection contains a hoodie with the Greggs logo\n\nFast food and fast fashion may not seem like natural bedfellows, but that is set to change.\n\nRetailer Primark has announced it will launch an exclusive clothing range with the bakery chain Greggs, sparking a mixed response on social media.\n\nA limited-edition, 11-piece clothing collection will be available in 60 Primark stores later this month.\n\nGreggs will also open a 130-seater café in Primark's flagship Birmingham store.\n\nMore details of what will be included in the clothing range will be shared nearer the launch date, but photos of a hoodie featuring the Greggs logo and the message \"It's a pastry thing\" written along one arm have been published.\n\nThe two retailers teased the tie-up last week, when mannequins at several Primark stores were seen adorned with Greggs' sausage rolls and steak bakes.\n\nIt has attracted a mixed response on social media, with some people asking if it was a parody and one tweeting: \"PR Stunt of the Day\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ian Windsor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers, however, said they looked forward to seeing the tie-up.\n\n\"Greggs and Primark 'joining forces on a clothing collection'? Looking forward to bake-inis, sausage rollnecks and handbag(uette)s,\" one tweeted.\n\nRaymond Reynolds, business development director at Greggs said: \"Greggs clothing is something our customers have continually asked for, so it's great that together with Primark we can now make our first official range available across the UK.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Adam Clery This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTim Kelly, director of New Business Development at Primark, added: \"We want to give our customers incredible experiences in our stores and offer collections they can't find anywhere else, with brands we know they love.\"\n\nThe firms will also display their collection from 17-18 February at a pop-up boutique in Soho.", "The University of California has agreed to pay nearly $250m (£185m) to over 200 women who allege they were sexually assaulted by a campus gynaecologist.\n\nMultiple women accuse the university's Los Angeles site (UCLA) of deliberately hiding James Heaps' alleged sexual abuse of patients.\n\nMr Heaps was based at the UCLA student health centre during his 35-year career between 1983 and 2018.\n\nHundreds of women, some of whom had cancer, say they were abused by him.\n\nThe university did not begin investigating complaints against Mr Heaps until 2017. It has been accused in hundreds of lawsuits of deliberately hiding the gynaecologist's alleged sexual abuse of patients.\n\nHis medical licence was suspended by a judge in 2019 for the duration of the sex abuse case.\n\nThe university said it hoped the financial settlement would provide \"healing and closure\" for the women involved.\n\nMr Heaps faces 21 criminal counts of sexual abuse against seven women and has pleaded not guilty.\n\n\"The conduct alleged to have been committed by Heaps is reprehensible and contrary to the University's values,\" a UCLA statement said on Tuesday. \"Our first and highest obligation will always be to the communities we serve, and we hope this settlement is one step toward providing healing and closure for the plaintiffs involved.\"\n\nBut Kara Cagle, a breast cancer survivor who reported Mr Heaps while she was undergoing treatment at the university, told the Los Angeles Times: \"Today, after eight long years, I received recognition of what happened to me.\n\n\"Although there is some consolation in that, my heart breaks for all the women who were not spared, all the women who suffered after me, because UCLA refused to act.\"\n\nTuesday's settlement does not halt an ongoing lawsuit by more than 300 patients.\n\nLast July, a federal judge approved a $73m settlement against Mr Heaps, which was brought by more than 5,500 women.\n\nAccording to lawyers in the case, he was once the highest paid doctor in the entire University of California system.\n\nJohn C Manley, a lawyer representing one of the women who has filed criminal charges against Mr Heaps, alleged he was a sophisticated predator who committed abuse under the guise of normal medical examinations.\n\n\"He was a board-certified gynaecologist and a board-certified oncologist. Most of the women... were there because they had cancer or they thought they had cancer,\" Mr Manley told the BBC.\n\nThe federal lawsuits said that Mr Heaps was not properly investigated until the university received a complaint in 2017, and that he was allowed to continue seeing patients during the inquiry into his actions, and even after the university told him that his contract would not be renewed.\n\nThe latest payout follows a series of a large settlements with US universities over patient abuse by campus doctors.\n\nLast month, the University of Michigan reached a $490m settlement with more than 1,000 people who say they were abused by a sports doctor during his four-decade career.\n\nMeanwhile, three women are suing another of America's most prestigious colleges, Harvard, on the grounds it also ignored sexual harassment allegations.\n\nProfessor John Comaroff, an anthropologist, denies their allegations that he kissed and groped them.", "Protesters in Minneapolis are demanding justice after a no-knock warrant resulted in the death of a 22-year-old man during a police raid.\n\nBodycam shows police entered the apartment and fired three shots in a matter of seconds. Amir Locke was not the target of the warrant and was armed with a gun for which he had a permit.\n\nPolice later arrested Locke's cousin in connection with the homicide investigation for which the warrant was issued.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the PM tell MPs that he intends to end the remaining Covid restrictions in England “a full month early”\n\nAll remaining Covid restrictions in England - including the legal rule to self-isolate - could end later this month, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nUnder the current rules, anyone who tests positive must self-isolate for at least five full days.\n\nThe current restrictions are due to expire on 24 March.\n\nBut Mr Johnson told MPs he expected the last domestic rules would end early as long as the positive trends in the data continued.\n\nHe said he intended to return after parliamentary recess - which runs from Thursday to 21 February - to outline the government's strategy for living with Covid.\n\n\"It is my intention to return on the first day after the half-term recess to present our strategy for living with Covid,\" Mr Johnson said at the start of Prime Minister's Questions.\n\n\"Provided the current encouraging trends in the data continue, it is my expectation that we will be able to end the last domestic restrictions - including the legal requirement to self-isolate if you test positive - a full month early.\"\n\nThe law will be replaced with guidance, Downing Street said - and for example people will be urged not to go to work if they have Covid.\n\nBack in January, Mr Johnson said he expected the restrictions would end for good when they expired on 24 March - and hinted they could be abolished sooner.\n\nIn contrast, the Scottish government's remaining Covid powers are set to be extended until 24 September, as legislation making face coverings mandatory and requiring vaccine passports in some settings was due to expire at the end of the month.\n\nAnnouncing the extension, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said it was important to keep options on the table, but he also stressed it did not mean curbs would definitely be in force until then.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the prime minister's announcement was merely \"a series of throwaway remarks designed to dig him out of a political hole, with absolutely no plan to back it up\", following a series of political controversies and criticism of parties held at No 10 during lockdown.\n\nMr Streeting told the BBC the government needed a \"real plan for living well with Covid\", adding Labour had published its own proposal - including provision for better sick pay and improved testing - and the prime minister was \"welcome to nick it\".\n\nDowning Street also suggested there could be an update on the remaining travel rules at the same time when Mr Johnson sets out the strategy for living with Covid later this month.\n\nAsked if the remaining travel rules would remain in place until the end of March, a spokesman said \"we will obviously make a decision when we get to that stage\".\n\nRules for travellers coming to the UK are already being relaxed on Friday 11 February.\n\nFully vaccinated people coming to the UK will not need to take any Covid tests, and unvaccinated travellers will not have to isolate but they will have to take tests. Everyone still needs to fill in a passenger locator form.\n\nBut people going abroad will still need to follow the rules that apply at their destination - and many UK families are choosing to cancel their half-term holidays to Spain because children over 12 must be jabbed to enter.\n\nDaily Covid cases have been trending steadily downwards since the end of January but remain high, with 68,214 on Wednesday.\n\nA broader survey by the Office for National Statistics suggests that more than one in 20 people in the UK had Covid in the week up to 5 February, slightly more than the previous week.\n\nBut reported deaths within 28 days of a positive test are taking longer to fall from their January peak, and are currently averaging over 250 a day, with 276 on Wednesday.\n\nThere are signs the high infection rates may be leading to more instances when someone with Covid dies of another cause, however.\n\nIn England and Wales, there are about 100 fewer deaths each day where a doctor registered Covid as the main cause of death, compared with the daily reported figure of deaths after a positive test.\n\nMinisters had always said the rule on self-isolation could end before the planned date of 24 March.\n\nThe trends are positive - hospital cases are continuing to fall and the huge wave of infections caused by Omicron has not pushed overall deaths above what would normally be seen in winter.\n\nBut this decision has still taken most by surprise - as infection levels are still high and it's unclear what this will do to the spread of the virus.\n\nIt is, though, worth bearing in mind that not every infected person was self-isolating anyway.\n\nThis winter, the testing system has only picking up half of all infections - at the peak it was missing around an estimated 200,000 cases a day.\n\nWhat's more, about one in five of those who test positive do not fully adhere to the self-isolation requirements.\n\nThe move is also likely to pave the way for the dismantling of the community testing system, with many experts believing tests will soon only be used in settings such as care homes and hospitals - or to deal with major outbreaks.\n\nEngland is fast approaching the point where it treats Covid like any other respiratory illness.\n\nThe proposal to end self-isolation rules was criticised by disability charities, with Scope saying it would mean some people with high-risk conditions would feel very anxious and \"could potentially be placed in situations that could prove deadly\".\n\nJames Taylor from Scope said: \"Nobody should be forced to gamble with their lives, and we need the government to explain to disabled people how they'll be safe when this decision is introduced.\"\n\nLorna Fillingham from Scunthorpe said her 11-year-old daughter Emily-May, who has a rare genetic disorder, had only just been offered her first dose of the vaccine.\n\n\"Our world has just got a little bit smaller again,\" Ms Fillingham said about the prospect of ending Covid restrictions.\n\nScientists said there were grounds for optimism in the data, but added the virus still presented a danger.\n\nDr Simon Clarke, a microbiologist at the University of Reading, said removing the requirement to self-isolate would be \"an experiment which will either be shown to be very brave or very stupid - but nobody knows for sure what the result will be\".\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, who advises the government on coronavirus, said he would be \"very reluctant\" to suggest this moment in the pandemic amounted to the end of Covid.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's the World at One: \"We don't know what's around the corner, there could be another variant...which could come back to bite us anytime, and I'm pretty sure that next winter we're going to see it back.\"\n\nThe rules on self-isolation differ across the four nations of the UK.\n\nIn England, Northern Ireland and Wales anyone who develops symptoms or tests positive for Covid via a PCR or lateral flow test (LFT) must immediately self-isolate.\n\nPeople are able to leave quarantine after five full days if they have two negative LFT results, 24 hours apart.\n\nIn Scotland, people must self-isolate for at least seven days - as soon as symptoms appear or they test positive - alongside the continuing requirement for face coverings and vaccine passports in some settings.", "It's a good job it wasn't too chilly on the red carpet for Tuesday's Brit Awards, with several stars turning up wearing a cut-out-black dress, or at least a version of it.\n\nPacked award ceremonies still feel like quite a novelty, and the chance to dress up is also an opportunity to be daringly on-trend, wearing what Vogue has called an \"undeniably sexy aesthetic\".\n\nNot everyone turned up in an outfit reminiscent of Halle Berry as Catwoman, of course, which meant there were also plenty of pops of colour on what turned out to be quite a catwalk.\n\nMaya Jama's outfit was reminiscent of Cher's famous Oscars outfit of 1986. The presenter was welcoming award nominees during the red carpet show.\n\nSinger, dancer and Pussycat Doll Ashley Roberts kept her hands warm with some very long gloves.\n\nSinger Anne-Marie looked fierce in a cut-away top under her tailored jacket.\n\nActress Jaime Winstone accessorised her outfit with colourful ostrich feathers and matching eye make up.\n\nSinger Lola Young also opted for a jacket over her cut-away outfit, and flares and boots Abba would have been proud of.\n\nAdele was also fully in black, but went for a classic, old-school glamour look with nude nails and her hair swept off her shoulders.\n\nOti Mabuse shimmered in gold, with her dress featuring frills and tiny straps.\n\nDoctor Who star Jodie Whittaker also blazed a trail on the red carpet in orange and white.\n\nLittle Simz went for a cool but casual look, with chunky-soled shoes and red sunglasses.\n\nTrigger Point and Line of Duty star Vicky McClure wore a striking grey corset-style top which she teamed with trousers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ministers had always said the rule on self-isolation could end before the planned date of 24 March.\n\nThe trends are positive - hospital cases are continuing to fall and the huge wave of infections caused by Omicron has not pushed overall deaths above what would normally be seen in winter.\n\nBut this decision has still taken most by surprise - as infection levels are still high and it's unclear what this will do to the spread of the virus.\n\nIt is, though, worth bearing in mind that not every infected person was self-isolating anyway.\n\nThis winter, the testing system has only picking up half of all infections - at the peak it was missing around an estimated 200,000 cases a day.\n\nWhat's more, about one in five of those who test positive do not fully adhere to the self-isolation requirements.\n\nThe move is also likely to pave the way for the dismantling of the community testing system, with many experts believing tests will soon only be used in settings such as care homes and hospitals - or to deal with major outbreaks.\n\nEngland is fast approaching the point where it treats Covid like any other respiratory illness.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's given me something to do... other than golf\"\n\nA couple have raised £960,000 for Cancer Research, and hope to soon break through the £1m mark.\n\nMichael, 90, and Bridget Locke, 88, from Newport, began fundraising in the 1980s after their daughter finished chemotherapy treatment.\n\nThey have since dedicated their lives to finding a cure for cancer.\n\nThe plan had been to reach the target by Mr Locke's 90th birthday, but the coronavirus pandemic put a number of events on hold.\n\nIt was as they travelled home following their daughter's final chemotherapy session 40 years ago they decided to join the fight against the disease.\n\n\"She was still in school and had wonderful treatment in London,\" Mr Locke told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"We were on the way back after her final surgery and chemotherapy and she said 'mum, I'm one of the lucky ones, I'd like to give something back'.\n\nThe couple then set up a group, with coffee mornings, a walk from their home city of Newport to Cardiff and raffles taking place before things \"just blossomed\".\n\nMichael Locke, 90, has been focused on fundraising full-time for 30 years\n\nWhen Mr Locke retired 30 years ago at aged 60, he focused on fundraising full-time, saying it gave him \"a purpose in life\".\n\nAn annual golf day alone was bringing in at least £15,000 each time and over 20 years had raised a quarter of a million.\n\nMr Locke added: \"I had drawn a graph of what we were raising when I was 87 and said if I live to 90 and can still add up, we should be able to get to £1m.\n\n\"But the pandemic almost stopped things dead. We are very determined to get there.\"\n\nThe annual golf day is returning in July, while Mr Locke has also sold more than 2,000 jars of a homemade marmalade.\n\nHe was awarded an MBE in 2007 for services to Cancer Research, and explains it as his whole ethos to the couple's fundraising.\n\n\"M is for me, Mike, B for Bridget, my wife and founder, and E is for everyone else who helps,\" he said.", "The details emerged via a document asking a security firm for help\n\nThe UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) was the target of a \"serious cyber-security incident\", it has emerged.\n\nThe details came via a tender document published on a government website, seemingly by mistake.\n\nIt revealed that cyber-security firm BAE Systems Applied Intelligence was called on for \"urgent support\".\n\nThe BBC understands unidentified hackers got inside the FCDO systems, but were detected.\n\nA spokesperson for the FCDO told the BBC: \"We do not comment on security but have systems in place to detect and defend against potential cyber incidents.\"\n\nIt is not believed that any classified or highly sensitive material was breached. It is also not clear when the incident took place, but the contract finished on 12 January of this year.\n\nThe contract was valued at £467,325.\n\nThe tender details were first reported by the publication The Stack. It says that BAE Systems was \"the Authority's long-term service management integrator\".\n\n\"Due to the urgency and criticality of the work, the Authority was unable to comply with the time limits for the open or restricted procedures or competitive procedures with negotiation.\"\n\nA number of foreign states have been accused of major espionage campaigns in the past, including Russia and China, and foreign ministries of a number of states are regularly targeted - and often breached.\n\nForeign governments are frequently the target of cyber-espionage campaigns by other states seeking access to information about diplomacy and current events.\n\nRussia and China have been accused of espionage campaigns by western countries in the past, such as the significant Solar Winds campaign by Russia unearthed a year ago.\n\nUS and UK intelligence agencies have also been accused of carrying out similar activity around the world, as revealed by former US National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden in 2014.\n\nLast month it emerged that the Canadian Foreign Ministry had been targeted.\n\nThe US and UK have separately also issued warnings of the risk of the conflict of Ukraine spilling over into cyber-attacks against businesses and government systems.\n\nThe first known breach of a UK government network occurred in 2003 when the Foreign Office was hit by hackers, thought to be linked to China, using an email relating to Tibet to get inside government systems.", "Robin Swann says he hopes to have received up to date legal advice on his department easing restrictions by Thursday\n\nThe Health Minister Robin Swann has said he is still waiting to receive legal advice about removing Northern Ireland's remaining Covid regulations.\n\nThe Department of Health is due to review the measures in the absence of the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nMr Swann has indicated he wants to lift most of, it not all, of the remaining rules and replace them with guidance.\n\nThey include the wearing of face coverings and track-and-trace requirements.\n\nThe executive - Northern Ireland's government - was due to discuss removing restrictions on Thursday, but it can no longer meet after the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) Paul Givan resigned as first minister last week.\n\n\"Thursday 10 February is the legal review point,\" the health minister said.\n\n\"My department must make a review of current regulations that are in place but I haven't received the legal advice up to date yet.\n\n\"I'll hopefully have an update on Thursday.\"\n\nIt is still a legal requirement to wear face coverings and for businesses to take measures to ensure people comply\n\nSo-called Covid passports remain in place for nightclubs, as well as for indoor unseated and partially-seated events with 500 or more people in attendance.\n\nA maximum number of 30 people are permitted to gather.\n\nThe minimum self-isolation period for people testing positive for Covid-19 is five full days, subject to negative lateral flow tests on days five and six of a person's isolation.\n\nOther rules still in force include:\n\nRead more about the rules here.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Swann said he was not \"prepared to allow a failure of politics to get in the way of lifting unnecessary restrictions\" as he confirmed he was seeking legal guidance.\n\nHe said the virus \"remains unpredictable\", but that \"we'll take on a day at a time\".\n\n\"We need to start getting normal back and that means moving cautiously out of the current legal phase of the Covid response - I hope this will be a permanent decision,\" he added.\n\nSome of the restrictions brought in in December due to the Omicron variant were relaxed last month.", "William's mum says her son needs a kidney transplant to live\n\nThe mother of an autistic teenager at the centre of a legal battle has launched an urgent appeal for a kidney donor in a bid to save his life.\n\nAmi McLennan, from Lancaster, said a transplant represented her son William's only chance and, without it, he would have just 12 months to live.\n\nRoyal Manchester Children's Hospital argued a transplant was not in the 17-year-old's best interests.\n\nThe BBC successfully challenged an anonymity order to name him.\n\n\"He deserves that chance,\" Ms McLennan said. \"I'm just fighting for what he and everybody else with a learning disability should be entitled to.\n\n\"Nothing will ever stop me fighting for my son.\"\n\nWilliam's future is in the hands of a Court of Protection judge who must decide on the best course of treatment.\n\nWilliam, who has only 5% kidney function, can articulate his wishes and has said very clearly he does \"not want to die\", Ms McLennan said.\n\nThe keen golfer has a rare kidney disease Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) which means he needs to receive dialysis for four hours, four times a week.\n\nAt one stage he was hooked up to various machines for 10 hours a day.\n\nEven with dialysis, his condition means he only has a life expectancy of 19 years.\n\nA successful transplant could extend his life by another 20 years.\n\nHis autism and ADHD make the treatment more difficult because he struggles to cope with the wires, tubes and various medical procedures.\n\nEven if a suitable donor is found, medics said there was very little guarantee a transplant operation would be successful, his condition could reoccur in a new kidney, and he may not be able to tolerate the procedure because of his autism.\n\nThey fear he would have to spend six weeks sedated and ventilated in intensive care to ensure he complies with the interventions after the operation.\n\nWilliam's mother said her son had already proven on repeated occasions that with time, patience and the necessary reasonable adjustments, he could cope with such complex procedures.\n\nAmi McLennan says her son should not be denied an operation \"because of his autism\"\n\nShe said: \"He is an active 17-year-old boy. He shouldn't be denied an operation anyone else would have the right to just because of his autism.\n\n\"We feel we have had to fight for William at every stage of his life.\n\n\"Without lifting the reporting restrictions, we had nothing.\"\n\nAt a remote hearing on Tuesday, the BBC overturned the court order which had prevented Ms McLennan being able to raise the profile of his case, and make this plea for a living donor.\n\nLifting the reporting restrictions, Mrs Justice Arbuthnot recognised time was running out for William and that the family needed to be able to speak out.\n\nShe told the court: \"It will take time and no doubt the best option is a live donor rather than a dead donor if a transplant is found to be in William's best interests.\"\n\nWilliam's family are not suitable donors because of their own health conditions, so they are desperately searching for a live donor.\n\nThat would allow them the time to plan the operation and psychologically prepare William for any procedure that followed.\n\nMs McLennan said: \"Now we can try and find a donor and we'll get ready to fight the next battle.\"\n\nA Court of Protection hearing to decide whether William should be added to the transplant list will be heard in the next three weeks.\n\nManchester University NHS Foundation Trust, which manages the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, said it recognised it was a \"very difficult time\" for William and his family.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"Our clinicians have worked very hard to enable William's treatment to take place so far, and he continues to have his haemodialysis, as agreed with his family, subject to any change in his clinical condition.\n\n\"The decision on whether a transplant would be in his best interest is a very complex one, requiring consideration of a range of very difficult issues including significant risks and the possibility that his transplant would fail, which is why the Court of Protection is being asked to make a decision on the best care for William going forward.\"\n\nLiz Davis, from Irwin Mitchell, who is representing Ms McLennan, said: \"While we are encouraged the trust has been working with the family to try to reach agreement on William's care we're determined to ensure their voice is heard on the incredibly important matter, including putting forward strong legal arguments as to why a kidney transplant is in William's best interests.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has been put \"on notice\" by the London mayor after \"shocking\" behaviour by some officers was found.\n\nA report by the police watchdog found \"disgraceful\" misogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment among PCs based mainly at Charing Cross.\n\nA mayoral spokesperson said Sadiq Khan told Dame Cressida of his anger at \"a return to the bad days of the Met of his childhood in the 1970s and 80s\".\n\nAmong the findings, the report by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) found the officers had joked about rape, domestic violence and killing black children.\n\nThe mayoral spokesperson said Mr Khan and Dame Cressida Dick had taken part in a \"very frank discussion which lasted for well over 90 minutes\" about the force and the changes needed.\n\n\"The mayor made clear to the commissioner how angry he is with a return to the bad days of the Met of his childhood in the 1970s and 80s, and that neither he nor Londoners will put up with this.\n\n\"He has put the commissioner on notice. He said the Met needs to urgently show it has an effective plan for restoring the trust and confidence of Londoners in the police and to drive out the culture of racism, homophobia, bullying and misogyny which clearly still exists within its ranks.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a source close to Mr Khan said: \"If the commissioner is not able to do so, then the mayor will have to consider whether she is the right person to lead the change needed at the Met.\"\n\nIn its report published on Tuesday, the IOPC made 15 recommendations and said: \"We believe these incidents are not isolated or simply the behaviour of a few 'bad apples'.\"\n\nThe IOPC London regional director, Sal Naseem, described the officers' behaviour as \"disgraceful\" and \"shocking\", adding: \"We know from other recent cases that these issues are not isolated or historic.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel \"appalled and sickened\" by a report showing misogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment in Met Police\n\nThe Met Police commissioner is appointed by the Queen following a recommendation from the home secretary, although the views of London's mayor are considered as part of the process.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said earlier she had been left \"appalled and sickened\" by the report.\n\nFollowing the report's findings, the Met said it was \"deeply sorry\" about the revelations and a \"series of measures\" had been taken \"to hold those responsible to account and stamp out unacceptable behaviour\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kenny Reilly was murdered in the Maryhill area of Glasgow in April 2018\n\nFour men have been found guilty of the \"planned execution\" of a man as he sat in a car at a set of traffic lights.\n\nJohn Kennedy, 41, shot 29-year-old Kenny Reilly in the Maryhill area of Glasgow in April 2018.\n\nHis co-accused Morton Eadie, 56, his son Darren Eadie and Ross Fisher, both 30, were also found guilty of murder.\n\nAll four were jailed for life. Kennedy must serve at least 26 years, Darren Eadie at least 24 years, and Morton Eadie and Fisher at least 22 years.\n\nKennedy was also accused of the murder of Jamie Campbell in March 2006 but the case against him was found not proven.\n\nThe verdicts came after a three-month trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nThe judge Lord Beckett said that people who were \"prepared to engage in such meticulously planned and ruthlessly perpetrated assassination on the streets of our cities can expect substantial punishment\".\n\nThe court heard Mr Reilly's murder was linked to a feud between rival factions in the Possilpark and Maryhill areas of Glasgow.\n\nDetectives believe he was killed because Kennedy and his accomplices thought he was responsible for assaulting their friend, Ryan McAteer.\n\nAnd the court also heard claims Mr Reilly owed £100,000 to a high-profile criminal.\n\nKennedy told another inmate in Barlinnie that he had carried out the attack\n\nOne of the key witnesses in the trial said Kennedy had confessed to the killings while in prison.\n\nKevin McGinn, who shared a cell with Kennedy in Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison for 11 days in October 2018, said he had \"whispered in my ear and said to me 'it was me'.\"\n\nHe told police that Kennedy had said the attack was over \"drugs and money\".\n\nMr Reilly was a passenger in a BMW being driven by his friend Emma MacDougall when he was targeted at about 22:20 on 16 April.\n\nThe pair were travelling to a Chinese restaurant and had stopped at traffic lights at the junction at Bilsland Drive and Maryhill Road.\n\nMs MacDougall, 25, told the court a black Ford S-Max car pull up on the right hand lane.\n\nShe recalled: \"Somebody came out of the back seats wearing all black - a black balaclava - and started shooting at my car.\n\n\"I don't think I have any words for it. It was every single emotion ever. I didn't know whether to drive - I know I needed to phone the police, I knew I needed to phone an ambulance.\n\n\"I was trying to remain calm because I knew Kenny had obviously suffered a severe injury.\"\n\nPolice at the scene of the attack in Maryhill\n\nMr Reilly died in hospital two days later from a single gunshot to the head.\n\nHis attackers sped off to Craigieburn Gardens in Maryhill, where they set the car on fire.\n\nBut forensic experts found Fisher's DNA on the wreckage and the breakthrough helped officers narrow the list of suspects.\n\nThe court heard that when Kennedy was arrested in May 2018 he owned a phone which contained Encrochat software.\n\nThe secure, encrypted messaging app which was mainly used by members of organised crime gangs to plan schemes.\n\nPolice also learned that Ryan McAteer had been seriously assaulted on 8 April 2018.\n\nPolice at the scene of Kenny Reilly's murder in Maryhill\n\nThe jury was told that Darren Eadie blamed Mr Reilly, who was described in court as a \"Possil boy\", for the attack.\n\nPolice uncovered evidence which showed that Darren Eadie had started planning a revenge attack for which he recruited his father Morton, Ross Fisher and John Kennedy.\n\nOfficers recovered a mobile phone from Mr McAteer and found a number of incriminating messages in a WhatsApp group in which he and Darren Eadie had participated.\n\nDetectives found that the accused were in regular contact with each other in the days leading up to the fatal attack on Mr Reilly, but that the calls stopped afterwards.\n\nOn the day Mr Reilly died in hospital, Kennedy and his partner flew to Jamaica for a two-week holiday. In the following days Darren and Morton Eadie both left the country.\n\nThe jury heard this was an attempt to avoid police attention.\n\nProsecutor Steven Borthwick said the evidence showed that Darren Eadie organised the plot, Morton Eadie acted as the getaway driver, Fisher stole the S-Max and set fire to it following the murder, and Kennedy was the gunman.\n\nHe described Mr Reilly's death as \"a planned execution, brazenly carried out in the street in a residential area of Glasgow\".\n\nAll four were found guilty of murder and of attempting to defeat the ends of justice by setting fire to the car used in the attack. The offences were aggravated by a connection with serious organised crime.\n\nDet Supt Stevie Wallace sad it had been a \"long, complex and challenging\" police investigation.\n\n\"Kenny Reilly left behind a family who has sought answers on how and why their loved one was killed,\" he said.\n\n\"Although he cannot be brought back, I hope this result will bring some comfort to his family and friends.\"\n\nJamie Campbell was shot dead in Drumchapel in 2006\n\nAs detectives built their case against Kennedy, they believed they had made a breakthrough in an unsolved murder from March 2006.\n\nSix spent bullets were found at the scene, which contained the DNA from three different people. Analysis found that one of the forensic profiles may belong to Kennedy.\n\nA white burned-out Fiat Ducato van which was found near where Mr Campbell was shot contained items which had Kennedy's DNA on them.\n\nHis lawyers claimed Glasgow gangster Kevin \"Gerbil\" Carroll, who was shot dead in an Asda car park in Robroyston, Glasgow in 2010, had been responsible for Mr Campbell's murder.\n\nThe court heard that police had investigated the claims at the time, and that Carroll gave a statement to officers denying any involvement.\n\nBut the jury concluded that the case against Kennedy was not proven.", "Then assistant commissioner Cressida Dick at the memorial service for the murdered police officer Yvonne Fletcher\n\nThe career of Cressida Dick has seen her weather a number of storms that would have sunk many others. Allegations relating to an unholy trinity of dishonesty, prejudice and incompetence dogged the Met for almost all of her tenure.\n\nPerhaps the most high profile of the potentially career-ending scandals was the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met Police officer. A serving Met Police officer with a record of indecent exposure and a nickname of \"the rapist\".\n\nDame Cressida said she was \"so sorry\" and remained.\n\nAfter the heavy-handed way the force handled subsequent protests and vigils - in which clashes broke out between women and police officers trying to control the gathering, Dame Cressida said confidence in policing was damaged because of remarks made on social media rather than the actions of any Met officers.\n\nMisogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment throughout the ranks of the Met were uncovered in a damning report from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nDame Cressida Dick made a statement to the public after the sentencing of the Met officer who murdered Sarah Everard\n\nA report into the 1987 murder of Daniel Morgan - the killer remains unidentified - accused the force of institutional corruption. It found that the then-Assistant Commissioner Dame Cressida had initially refused to grant access to a police internal data system.\n\nThe shambolic Operation Midland which gave credibility to allegations of child sexual abuse by the paedophile and fantasist Carl Beech did not stop her rising through the ranks, even amid the persistent rumble of accusations against the Met of institutional racism and corruption.\n\nShe had been responsible for supervising the senior investigating officer who said allegations made by Beech were \"credible and true\". Despite hearing the officer say this, and knowing it \"was a mistake\", Dame Cressida admitted she had done nothing to correct it. The force had to pay compensation to a number of people whose reputations had been unfairly tarnished by Beech's lies.\n\nLast September it was announced by the prime minister and home secretary that Dame Cressida's contract - due to end in April - would be extended for another two years.\n\nIt spurred victims of police injustice to write an open letter accusing Dame Cressida of \"presiding over a culture of incompetence and cover-up\". Baroness Lawrence, whose son Stephen was murdered in a racist attack, and Lady Brittan, whose home was raided when her husband Lord Brittan was falsely accused of child abuse were two of the signatories.\n\nObviously, Dame Cressida is not personally responsible for the wrongs committed by her officers. But she was the head of the organisation that - however unwittingly - facilitated the crimes of Wayne Couzens.\n\nShe was head of the organisation which treated sexualised, violent and discriminatory behaviour as \"banter\".\n\nCressida Dick speaks after the verdict in the Lee Rigby murder trial\n\nFurther accusations of racism came from the mother of two women murdered in a park in Wembley. Mina Smallman believes police treated the disappearance and deaths of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry less urgently than if they had been white.\n\nShe said of the investigation: \"I knew instantly why they didn't care. They didn't care because they looked at my daughter's address and they thought they knew who she was. A black woman who lives on a council estate.\"\n\nThe disappearance of Richard Okorogheye, a teenager who was found dead two weeks after his mother reported him missing, is also subject to a review by the police watchdog, which will consider whether ethnicity played a role in the way his case was handled.\n\nAnd athlete Bianca Williams and her partner believe they were racially profiled when their car was stopped by Met officers in Maida Vale, in July 2020. The couple were handcuffed and separated from their baby son. Ms Williams said she thought her family had been targeted because \"we are black and we drive a Mercedes\".\n\nThe Met later apologised for any distress caused.\n\nThe 60-year-old has never before shown any inclination to stand down. Where did her nerves of steel come from?\n\nThe first female commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and the UK's most senior police officer, she was made a dame in Theresa May's resignation honours.\n\nDame Cressida and her deputy attend the funeral of PC Keith Palmer, killed in the March 22 Westminster terror attack\n\nShe was first thrust into the public glare when, in 2005, she headed the operation that led to the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. She co-ordinated the surveillance officers, specialist firearms teams and other police as they attempted to catch the men behind the 21 July bombings.\n\nA subsequent trial found the Met Police guilty of endangering the public, but exonerated then-Commander Dick. She later described the killing as \"an awful time\".\n\n\"I think about it quite often. I wish, wish, wish it hadn't happened, of course, but if anything it has made me a better leader, a better police officer and it has made me more resilient.\"\n\nAt the trial she had told prosecution counsel that she \"does not get anxious - I don't have anxiety\".\n\nShe was quickly promoted through both the Thames Valley force and the Met, and in 2001 she took on command roles in the police response to the 9/11 attacks and the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004.\n\nShe was promoted to deputy assistant commissioner in 2006, and in 2009 she became the first woman to become an assistant commissioner.\n\nThe first openly gay person to hold the post, Dame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 2019 her sexuality was one of the least interesting things about her, adding: \"I happen to love Helen. She's my partner. And on we go.\"\n\nNewly appointed to the top job and smiling outside Lewisham police station in 2017\n\nIt also emerged on the programme that she cannot smell cannabis - a fact her colleagues apparently found \"hilarious\" - and, perhaps appropriately for someone who has so consistently kept her hands clean despite the whiff of scandal in the air, her luxury item would be an endless supply of floral scented soaps.\n\nOriginally from Oxford and the daughter of two academics, Dame Cressida read forestry and agriculture at the university's Balliol College before joining the Met in 1983.\n\nOn her mother's side of the family, she is related to Sophia Jex-Blake, who led the fight for women's education in Britain, and is directly descended from Sophia's brother Thomas Jex-Blake, a 19th Century headmaster of Rugby School.\n\nShe took a brief career break to study criminology at Cambridge and had a short spell working in finance - but for most of her life she has been a police officer.\n\nDame Cressida left the police in 2015 to work at the Foreign Office, in an unspecified job shrouded in secrecy, but returned two years later when she assumed the mantle of Met commissioner.\n\nShe has been a police officer for most of her working life\n\nAt the time, she said it had been \"at least 25 years since I thought regularly about the fact that I was a woman, doing this job\" but added that some men were \"threatened, baffled and confused\" by it.\n\n\"I long for the day when we can all be ourselves, whoever we are, and express ourselves in whatever way we like, and we don't have these kinds of funny constraints in our heads that make us feel: 'Ooh, there's a different power relationship because that's a man and that's a woman.' And we still get that. It's not helpful.\"\n\nAnnouncing her departure, Dame Cressida said: \"It is clear that the mayor no longer has sufficient confidence in my leadership to continue. He has left me no choice but to step aside as commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service.\"\n\nShe had just hours earlier insisted that she had \"no intention of going\".\n\nHer track record shows a pattern of saying sorry and a refusal to relinquish her post.\n\nThis time, no apologies. This time, she goes.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There could be delays at the UK's borders later this year without prompt government action to prepare for new border checks, MPs have warned.\n\nA report from the Public Accounts Committee said there was potential for disruption as passenger volumes returned to normal.\n\nLogistics UK backed the committee's findings saying traffic could \"grind to a halt\" if more wasn't done soon.\n\nThe government said there had been minimal border disruption so far.\n\nIt continued to ensure businesses received the support they needed to trade effectively with Europe and seize new opportunities, a government spokesperson said.\n\nBut Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Select Committee said there was \"much more work that government should be doing\" to ensure the border was operating effectively and to minimise the current burden on firms trading with the EU.\n\nLogistics UK said it was calling on the government to \"take action now\" to ensure new post-Brexit border controls, including checks on agricultural and food products entering the UK, and biometric checks on passengers entering the EU, could be implemented smoothly in the second half of the year.\n\n\"We have just enough time,\" said Sarah Laouadi head of European policy at the trade body. But she said firms urgently needed more information about which ports would process which products after 1 July.\n\n\"Of course you need advance notice to act on this information,\" said Ms Laouadi.\n\nWithout it \"the system could potentially grind to halt\" she said, with up to 29-mile-long queues at UK ports this summer.\n\nIn January new post-Brexit checks on goods contributed to tail-backs in Kent, due to teething troubles around the new paperwork required, Ms Laouadi said.\n\nContainer lorries queuing at the Port of Dover\n\nThe MPs' report said increased costs, delays and paperwork were making it harder for UK businesses to trade as before, and while it was difficult to disentangle the impact of Covid and global economic problems, the cross party committee found Brexit had reduced the UK's trade with the EU.\n\nJohn Grayson said things were already \"verging on the impossible, logistically and financially\" for his business, Earth Natural Foods in London.\n\nHe has given up importing directly from EU suppliers and has dropped some specific products altogether, like one particular brand of olive oil.\n\nHe relies on importers instead, but an order takes three weeks to arrive instead of one.\n\n\"A one tonne pallet of goods that used to cost £200, is now near to £600,\" he added.\n\nMary Quicke, an artisan cheesemaker based in Devon said she now worries that her EU customers will run out of patience and stop taking her products if these kinds of problems persist.\n\n\"There are just all of these barriers to doing what used to be really, really simple which was agreeing to make a sale and then calling the haulier and off it went and you got paid,\" she told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"Of course they want our cheese, but how long do you carry on doing something you want when it's really tedious and costly and you get charged much more money?\"\n\nFrom 1 July extra checks on agricultural and food imports from the EU will take place at ports around the UK, but with products varying from cut flowers to ready-made lasagne, firms need to know which ports will be authorised to process which products, what the operating hours will be and how they fit with ferry schedules, Logistics UK said.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee noted that some of the required infrastructure will not be completed in time and there were still concerns around staffing, including vets.\n\nIn addition, later this year travellers including HGV drivers entering the EU will need to go through biometric passport checks, involve facial recognition and fingerprint scans, as part of the EU's Entry and Exit System.\n\nPorts such as Dover, where EU-entry checks take place on the UK side, therefore need to be adapted to avoid drivers having to get out of their vehicles and walk across lanes of traffic, Ms Laouadi said.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee said it was particularly concerned about what would happen when passenger traffic across the UK border returns to normal levels as the pandemic subsides.\n\nThe PAC report urges the government to write to the committee, within six months, setting out the timetable for its planned programme of work on the \"noteworthy ambition\" to create the world's most effective border by 2025.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Traders have adapted well to the introduction of full customs controls on 1 January, with minimal disruption at the border and inbound freight flowing effectively through ports.\n\n\"We are continuing to ensure that businesses get the support they need to trade effectively with Europe and seize new opportunities as we strike trade deals with the world's fastest growing markets, including one-to-one advice through the free-to-use Export Support Service.\"\n\nThis report serves as a reminder that in leaving the European Union, the UK did something that no other modern economy has really done before.\n\nIt created permanent barriers to trade with its nearest neighbours.\n\nThat may not have been the motivation for Brexit, not its intended purpose. But it has been the practical effect.\n\nIt means small businesses in particular, which used to trade with the rest of Europe as easily as they trade with other parts of the country, have suddenly been caught in a thicket of bureaucracy.\n\nBut this is not just about companies that are finding it more difficult to trade. It's about companies that have given up exporting altogether.\n\nThere is less trade now between Britain and Europe than there used to be, and it hasn't bounced back from Covid lockdowns in the way that trade between other countries has.\n\nThe government says it's time to look at new markets on the other side of the world instead. But that is a very long-term plan.", "A hacker allegedly made off with nearly 120,000 Bitcoin - now valued at about $5bn - in 2016 after breaching the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange\n\nStolen Bitcoin worth more than $4bn (£2.9bn) has been seized by the US Department of Justice - the largest ever confiscation of its kind.\n\nOfficials also charged two people on Tuesday with attempting to launder the money, stolen by a hacker who breached a cryptocurrency platform in 2016.\n\nThe hacker allegedly made off with nearly 120,000 Bitcoin. Then valued at about $71m, its value now exceeds $5bn.\n\nAbout 94,000 Bitcoin have been recovered.\n\nAssistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite Jr said the seizure was proof the government \"will not allow cryptocurrency to be a safe haven for money laundering or a zone of lawlessness within our financial system\".\n\nThe money originates from the 2016 hack of a crypto exchange known as Bitfinex.\n\nAccording to Justice Department officials, a hacker breached the platform, made more than 2,000 unauthorised transactions and then funnelled the money into a digital wallet allegedly run by Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, of New York.\n\nA criminal complaint alleges Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31, laundered about 25,000 of the stolen Bitcoin through various accounts over the past five years and used various methods to cover their tracks, from fake identities to converting their Bitcoin into other digital currencies.\n\nInvestigators from Washington DC, New York, Chicago and Ansbach, Germany collaborated on the lengthy probe.\n\nIn a statement, Bitfinex said it had cooperated with the inquiry and was \"pleased\" the stolen funds had been recovered.\n\nLichtenstein and Morgan will appear before a federal judge later on Tuesday, on counts of conspiracy to defraud the US and conspiracy to commit money laundering.\n\nIf found guilty, they could each serve up to 25 years in prison.\n\nThe asset seizure comes four months after the launch of a National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team at the Justice Department.\n\nIn what is believed to be its previous largest financial seizure, the team seized some $2.3m in cryptocurrency last year, recovering the ransom paid by the Colonial Pipeline company to end a crippling cyberattack.\n\nCorrection 9th February: This article originally reported that the record seizure by the US Department of Justice amounted to $5bn in stolen Bitcoin. In fact 94,000 of the 120,000 stolen Bitcoin have been recovered, at a value of $4bn (£2.9bn) and so we have amended the article to make this clear.", "When patients arrive at hospital by ambulance they should be handed over within 15 minutes. This data shows the proportion of ambulance patients who waited 30 minutes or more, in the week shown. It comes from daily situation reports which are published weekly during the winter in England. As this is fast-turnaround data, the NHS says only minimal validation can be carried out but it is considered fit for purpose.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland do not publish ambulance queue data.\n\nPatients at A&E should be seen within four hours of arrival. This data shows the proportion of patients attending A&E who waited longer than four hours to be treated, discharged or admitted.\n\nThis data is published monthly for England and Wales and weekly for Scotland. Northern Ireland publishes its data quarterly and Winter 2021 is not yet available.\n\nIf a patient at A&E needs to be admitted, the wait from decision to admit to being given a bed on a ward is recorded in England. The bed waits figure is the proportion of patients admitted via A&E who waited longer than four hours for a ward bed.\n\nIn Wales, bed wait data is not published, so the figure shown is the occupancy level in general and acute beds. Scotland and Northern Ireland do not publish bed wait or bed occupancy data.\n\nData for England is show by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities.\n\nWhen you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board.\n\nComparative data from two years ago is shown where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Bed occupancy data in Wales only goes back to April 2020.", "Neanderthals were a separate species of human that populated Europe for hundreds of thousands of years until they went extinct 40,000 years ago\n\nNew fossils are challenging ideas that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals soon after arriving from Africa.\n\nA discovery of a child's tooth and stone tools in a cave in southern France suggests Homo sapiens was in western Europe about 54,000 years ago.\n\nThat is several thousands of years earlier than previously thought, indicating that the two species could have coexisted for long periods.\n\nThe research has been published in the journal Science Advances.\n\nThe finds were discovered in a cave, known as Grotte Mandrin in the Rhone Valley, by a team led by Prof Ludovic Slimak of the University of Toulouse. He was astonished when he learned that there was evidence of an early modern human settlement.\n\n\"We are now able to demonstrate that Homo sapiens arrived 12,000 years before we expected, and this population was then replaced after that by other Neanderthal populations. And this literally rewrites all our books of history.\"\n\nArchaeologists discovered modern human remains at Grotte Mandrin cave dating back to 54, 000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously thought\n\nThe Neanderthals emerged in Europe as far back as 400,000 years ago. The current theory suggests that they went extinct about 40,000 years ago, not long after Homo sapiens arrived on the continent from Africa.\n\nBut the new discovery suggests that our species arrived much earlier and that the two species could have coexisted in Europe for more than 10,000 years before the Neanderthals went extinct.\n\nAccording to Prof Chris Stringer, of the Natural History Museum in London, this challenges the current view, which is that our species quickly overwhelmed the Neanderthals.\n\n\"It wasn't an overnight takeover by modern humans,\" he told BBC News. \"Sometimes Neanderthals had the advantage, sometimes modern humans had the advantage, so it was more finely balanced.\"\n\nArchaeologists found fossil evidence from several layers at the site. The lower they dug, the further back in time they were able to see. The lowest layers showed the remains of Neanderthals who occupied the area for about 20,000 years.\n\nBut to their complete surprise, the team found a modern human child's tooth in a layer dating back to about 54,000 years ago, along with some stone tools made in a way that was not associated with Neanderthals.\n\nThe evidence suggests that this early group of humans lived at the site for a relatively brief period, of perhaps about 2,000 years after which the site was unoccupied. The Neanderthals then return, occupying the site for several more thousand years, until modern humans come back about 44,000 years ago.\n\nThe tools found with the child's tooth. There is speculation that the smaller points might be arrow heads\n\n''We have this ebb and flow,'' says Prof Stringer. ''The modern humans appear briefly, then there's a gap where maybe the climate just finished them off and then the Neanderthals come back again.''\n\nAnother key finding was the association of the stone tools found in the same layer as the child's tooth with modern humans. Tools made in the same way had been found in a few other sites - in the Rhone valley and also in Lebanon, but up until now scientists were not certain which species of humans made them.\n\nThis fragment of child’s tooth may well have changed the story of the emergence of modern humans\n\nSome of the researchers speculate that some of the smaller tools might be arrow heads. If confirmed, that would be quite a discovery: an early group of modern humans using the advanced weaponry of bows and arrows, which may have been how the group initially overcame the Neanderthals 54,000 years ago. But if that were the case, it was a temporary advantage, because the Neanderthals came back.\n\nSo, if it wasn't a case of our species wiping them out immediately, what was it that eventually gave us the advantage?\n\nMany ideas have been put forward by scientists: our capacity to produce art, language and possibly a better brain. But Prof Stringer believes it was because we were more organised.\n\n\"We were networking better, our social groups were larger, we were storing knowledge better and we built on that knowledge,\" he said.\n\nThe idea of a prolonged interaction with Neanderthals fits in with the discovery made in 2010 that modern humans have a small amount of Neanderthal DNA, indicating that the two species interbred, according to Prof Stringer.\n\n\"We don't know if it was peacefully exchanges of partners. It might have been grabbing, you know, a female from another group. It might have been even adopting abandoned or lost Neanderthal babies who had been orphaned,\" he said.\n\n\"All of those things could have happened. So we don't know the full story yet. But with more data and with more DNA, more discoveries, we will get closer to the truth about what really happened at the end of the Neanderthal era.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Priti Patel said a lower threat level must not make us complacent\n\nThe UK's terror threat level has been lowered from severe to substantial, meaning a terror attack on British soil is considered \"likely\".\n\nThe level was raised to severe - where an attack is \"highly likely\" - after two terror attacks late last year.\n\nIn October, Conservative MP Sir David Amess was stabbed to death in Essex. A month later, a bomb was set off outside Liverpool Women's Hospital.\n\nThe home secretary said a lower threat level must not make people complacent.\n\nIn a statement to Parliament, Priti Patel said: \"The attacks in October and November 2021 reflect the complex, volatile and unpredictable nature of the terrorist threat in the UK.\"\n\nShe said the decision was taken by security and intelligence experts from the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC), independently of ministers.\n\nThey judged that despite the two attacks, the current nature and scale of the threat was consistent with the level seen prior to them, Ms Patel said.\n\n\"JTAC keep the threat level under constant review based on the very latest intelligence and analysis of internal and external factors which drive the threat,\" she added.\n\nShe described the reduction in threat level as positive but warned \"it must never make us complacent\".\n\nIn the threat grading system, \"substantial\" is the third highest - below \"critical\" and \"severe\" but above \"low\" and \"moderate\".\n\nNext month, Ali Harbi Ali, 25, from Kentish Town, north London, will go on trial for the murder of Sir David in an alleged terror attack.\n\nThe 69-year-old MP for Southend West was holding a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea when he was stabbed multiple times. He died at the scene.\n\nAfter the Liverpool hospital explosion on Remembrance Sunday last year, police identified the man killed when his homemade bomb went off in the back of a taxi as 32-year-old Emad Al Swealmeen.\n\nHe was an asylum seeker born in Iraq, who is understood to have converted to Christianity in 2017.\n\nThe taxi driver, David Perry, escaped from the vehicle before it burst into flames, avoiding serious injury. His wife Rachel called it \"an utter miracle\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM says we must oppose any return to the days where \"great powers\" decide the \"fates of nations\"\n\nEurope faces \"the most dangerous moment\" in its \"biggest security crisis\" for decades, Boris Johnson has said as tensions grow between Russia and Ukraine.\n\nSpeaking in Brussels, the PM said he hoped \"strong deterrence\" and \"patient diplomacy\" could find a way through the crisis but the stakes were \"very high\".\n\nRussia denies it plans to invade but has 100,000 troops on Ukraine's border.\n\nMr Johnson is also visiting Poland to show support for Nato allies.\n\nIn a joint news conference with Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, the prime minister said he did not believe Russia had yet taken a decision on whether to invade Ukraine but the UK's intelligence \"remains grim\".\n\nAsked whether the UK would consider going further in its support for Ukraine, including military support for an insurgency if Russia invades, Mr Johnson said he would \"consider what more we can conceivably offer\".\n\n\"It's possible, I don't want to rule this out, but at the moment we think the package is the right one,\" he said.\n\nAs part of a surge of UK diplomatic activity, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss met her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, while Defence Secretary Ben Wallace will travel to Russia on Friday.\n\nDuring a tense joint news conference on Thursday, Mr Lavrov said the talks had been \"disappointing\".\n\n\"It's like we're listening but not hearing each other so our very detailed explanation fell on deaf ears,\" he said.\n\nHe said relations between the UK and Russia \"leave much to be desired\" and are at the \"lowest point over the past few years\".\n\nAsked if he had seen any concessions over Russia's concerns about Nato, Mr Lavrov said he had only heard a demand to \"remove Russian troops from Russian territory\".\n\nMs Truss accused Russia of \"Cold War rhetoric\". She later told the BBC the UK was putting its \"full diplomatic effort\" into deterring an invasion and de-escalating the situation.\n\nAsked about her meetings with Mr Lavrov, who has been Russia's foreign policy chief for 18 years, Ms Truss said he had \"been involved in a lot of the issues that have created the situation we're in now\" and that \"proper diplomatic talks\" were needed.\n\nThe reason Boris Johnson is saying the next few days are a dangerous moment is because his and other Western officials believe the confrontation is getting worse.\n\nThey say it is not just that there is no de-escalation on Russia's part; it is the fact there is escalation.\n\nThey see more troops deployed close to Ukraine's border, whether in Russia or Belarus. They see more intelligence about Russia's plans. They see what they describe as greater disinformation and threats of cyber-attacks.\n\nThat is why Western diplomacy is being stepped up, both to reinforce the warning to Moscow about the price it would pay for any invasion, but also to reassure Nato allies close to Ukraine's border and to maintain Western unity.\n\nThat is why Mr Johnson has followed his French counterpart and preceded his German counterpart in a flurry of diplomacy. What is not clear is whether Russia is listening.\n\nOn the evidence of the frosty news conference between Liz Truss and Sergei Lavrov, there was no meeting of minds.\n\nBut what is significant is that all sides seem happy for now to continue talking, however fruitlessly.\n\nDiplomats from Russia and Ukraine and elsewhere have been meeting in Berlin. Further Western leaders are due in Moscow and Kyiv.\n\nAnd while there is talking taking place, the diplomatic door to a solution remains open, even it may be only ajar.\n\nThe latest diplomatic efforts come as Russia and its ally Belarus, which borders Ukraine, prepare to start 10 days of joint military drills. The US has described the move as \"escalatory\", while France said it was a \"violent gesture\".\n\nThe current tensions come eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula. Since then, Ukraine's military has been locked in a war with Russian-backed rebels in eastern areas near Russia's borders.\n\nFurther talks involving France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia took place on Thursday. France's President Emmanuel Macron met Mr Putin for more than five hours of talks on Monday.\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major compared this with a \"brief\" phone call between Mr Johnson and President Putin last week, saying he did not think the UK's \"weight in the international community\" was \"as strong as it was or as we would wish it to be\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer backed Mr Johnson over the UK's stance on Ukraine, telling the BBC: \"I've got plenty of arguments with the prime minister on many things particularly in recent months, but when it comes to Russian aggression, we stand as one in the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe prime minister announced 1,000 more British troops will be put on alert in the UK but he has stressed that Nato is unwilling to send troops into Ukraine itself.\n\nLegislation allowing tougher sanctions to be implemented against Russian individuals, businesses and other entities if it invades came into force on Thursday.\n\nMr Johnson later visited Poland, where 350 Royal Marines from 45 Commando arrived as part of support announced earlier this week, joining 150 personnel already in the country.\n\nEarlier, Liz Truss took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow\n\nDuring a news conference in Warsaw, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the UK had shown \"wonderful solidarity\" with his country, while Mr Johnson said Poland was \"absolutely critical to our collective European security\".\n\nThe UK will also offer to double the number of its troops in Estonia, deploy more RAF jets based in southern Europe, and to sail a Type 45 destroyer and HMS Trent, a patrol ship, in the eastern Mediterranean.\n\nNato's 30 members - which include the UK, US and several former Soviet republics - agree to come to another's aid in the event of an armed attack.\n\nUkraine is not a member of Nato. However, it is a \"partner country\" and may be allowed to join the military alliance sometime in the future, a move Russia sees as a direct threat to its security.", "On the approach into Dover, there are queues of lorries parked in one lane of the A20, stretching back for miles.\n\nThey're being held along this road to avoid congesting the town, as they wait to board ferries across the Channel.\n\nQueues are not uncommon close to Britain's main trading hub with the EU, but they've been really long in recent weeks.\n\nAnd a month after more post-Brexit border bureaucracy came into force, many businesses, smaller ones especially, are struggling to cope.\n\nDrivers waiting at a customs facility in Dover - most of them from elsewhere in Europe - are phlegmatic, but fed up.\n\n\"I'm waiting maybe one hour, next week maybe five hours, it's always different,\" said one.\n\n\"When we're waiting, there's no money,\" said another.\n\nFor drivers who are paid by the kilometre that's a real concern and it means some will be reluctant to come back.\n\nThe drivers blame cancelled ferry crossings - there are temporarily fewer ferries in operation than normal.\n\nBut they also cite the post-Brexit rules that now govern their working lives.\n\nLast year, which was Britain's first outside the EU single market and customs union, companies had 60 days to fill in UK customs documents after exporting goods to the EU.\n\nBut since 1 January, those forms have to completed in full, before lorries and vans can board ferries heading for Europe every day.\n\nThousands of drivers need to get their documents checked and the process is taking time.\n\n\"For us, the government is staging Brexit bit-by-bit,\" says John Shirley, who's run a freight-forwarding company in Dover for 25 years.\n\n\"That's caused all sorts of headaches for people, they don't know the paperwork properly or haven't prepared themselves - that's what's causing the delays here.\"\n\nJohn Shirley says he suspects the situation will not improve\n\nHe recounts meeting a driver earlier in the week who had been stuck in Dover for four days, with a lorry going to Germany in a journey which used to be routine.\n\nWon't it get better with time, I suggest, as companies get used to a new system?\n\n\"I don't know, I suspect it won't do,\" he replies. \"And in July we get an additional set of controls on foodstuffs.\"\n\nThat is a development David Pavon is having to prepare for.\n\nAt the small Spanish deli he runs in Bristol, he relies on imports from his homeland.\n\nDavid Pavon says extra checks could mean he has to either raise prices or close his shop\n\nAll businesses bringing goods into the country from Europe have also been dealing with new bureaucracy over the last few weeks.\n\nThat means each individual consignment of the olives, chorizos or serrano ham that David imports now needs separate customs forms, where there used to be none at all.\n\nBut later in the year, most of the food products he imports will need to be physically inspected as well, when they arrive in the UK.\n\n\"We will need to do more paperwork, and pay more, and we might need to increase the prices,\" he says.\n\n\"It's certainly more difficult, but there is no other way unless we close the doors and shut the business. We need to do it.\"\n\nSo, what happens in places like Dover will have a wider impact. The smoother the system can become, the better for businesses across the country.\n\nBut while those who still believe they can make a profit are finding new ways to trade, and to cope with bureaucracy and delay, others have concluded that it is no longer worth the hassle.\n\nGlobal trade rebounded pretty well last year from the slump produced by the Covid pandemic in 2020.\n\nBut there was not much bounce back for British trade with the EU.\n\nMany European exporters who used to trade into Great Britain seem to have decided to focus their attention elsewhere in the single market instead, or further afield.\n\nGerman exports to the rest of the EU, for example, grew by 17% in the first eleven months of last year, compared to the same period in 2020. They also rose by 18% to the US.\n\nBut exports to the UK fell by 2%.\n\nThat's a massive difference. Britain is doing much less trade with Europe than it used to.\n\nFrom the cliffs above Dover, you can watch ferries coming and going on a constant basis.\n\nThe government says traders need to get used to new rules here, and also take advantage of new trade deals it is negotiating on the other side of the world.\n\nBut two years after Britain left the EU, the idea of seamless trade across the narrow stretch of water beneath the white cliffs?\n\nThat ship seems to have already sailed.", "Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has said the Church of England is taking too long to remove memorials linked to the slave trade.\n\nMr Welby criticised delays in taking down a plaque to slavery financier Tobias Rustat at a Cambridge college chapel.\n\n\"Why is it so much agony to remove a memorial to slavery?\" he said.\n\nEarlier at the General Synod, the head of a Church racial justice body said the lack of change was \"a scandal\".\n\nA Church court is considering whether a plaque to 17th Century courtier Mr Rustat, who invested in the Royal African Company, can be removed from the wall of a chapel at Jesus College, Cambridge.\n\nThe college, which proposed the removal, says Mr Rustat's financial involvement in the company helped it to enslave 150,000 African men, women and children over 50 years - more than any other institution.\n\nMr Welby pointed out that Jesus College now has a black woman as its master, Sonita Alleyne, who has to look at a memorial to a man who financed slavery \"every time she sits in her stall\".\n\nThe archbishop questioned why it was \"so difficult\" to remove the marble plaque, when the college only wanted to move it to another location where it can be interpreted and explained.\n\n\"We need to change our practices,\" he said.\n\nTobias Rustat, a major benefactor of Jesus College, commissioned the memorial plaque himself\n\nMr Welby was responding after Labour peer Lord Boateng - chair of the Archbishops' Racial Justice Commission, which aims to identify and root out systemic racism in the church - drew applause as he said the Church's lack of action on race issues was \"chilling\".\n\nHe said statues and monuments to people involved in the slave trade caused him hurt, while the failure to improve diversity meant \"the government front bench looks better\" than the Church's leadership.\n\nOnly one out of 42 senior bishops is from an ethnic minority, compared to six out of 23 members of the cabinet.\n\n\"Imagine what it is to go into a place of worship to look up and to see a monument to someone who was a party to the enslavement of your ancestors,\" said Lord Boateng.\n\n\"We are members in churches which have themselves benefitted from the horrors of the slave trade. That is the reality.\"\n\nHe referred to the church's missionary organisation, the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel, which owned a plantation in the 18th Century - and which branded the word \"Society\" on the skins of the people they enslaved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson's premiership is past the point of no return and he should resign, a financier who has given the Conservatives more than £3m says.\n\nJohn Armitage told the BBC that challenges facing the West demanded \"serious, engaged\" politicians.\n\nHe has given the Tories more than £500,000 since Mr Johnson became PM but donated £12,500 last year to Labour.\n\nA Conservative spokesperson said the government remained \"fully focused on delivering for the British people\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Johnson carried out a mini-reshuffle of his cabinet, as he attempts to reconnect with MPs questioning his future following revelations of parties held in Downing Street during Covid-19 lockdowns.\n\nLabour, the Liberal Democrats, the SNP and some of his own MPs are calling on him to resign.\n\nBut Mr Johnson has insisted he will change the culture within No 10 and focus on delivering the agenda that won him a landslide in the 2019 election.\n\nMr Armitage, co-founder of the hedge fund firm Egerton Capital, told the BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, he found the current political situation \"tremendously upsetting\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's leadership has come under sustained political pressure in recent weeks\n\nDescribing himself as a \"middle-of-the-road conservative\", Mr Armitage said he admired politicians on the left and right, and said current global challenges to the West required ''very serious, engaged politicians with a sense of purpose\".\n\n\"Politicians should go into politics to do good for their country,\" Mr Armitage added. \"That is the overwhelming reason to be in politics. I don't think it's about your own personal sense of getting to the top of a snakes-and-ladders game.\n\n\"And I feel that, if you lose moral authority, and if you do things which the average person - your mother, someone you try to explain to, someone who you admire - if you do something or say something, which on the front page of the Sunday Times looks terrible, and you do that consistently, and you betray a sense of not really caring, I think you should leave\n\n\"And I find the lack of honour inherent in modern politics, incredibly distressing.\"\n\nAsked if Mr Johnson was \"past the point of no return\", he replied: \"Well, personally yes.\"\n\nMr Armitage has given £3.1m to the Conservatives although he described himself as a \"very low-profile person\" who does not seek political influence.\n\nHe has also given much smaller amounts of money to Labour, made individual donations to the former Labour MP Frank Field, and contributed to the Remain campaign in 2016.\n\nThere's an important community, watching carefully what is going on - party donors, the group that pays the bills.\n\nMost of them rarely speak out, if at all. And beyond a few warning shots, they have mainly kept their counsel about the recent chaos.\n\nOne of their number, though, now feels so strongly that he decided to go public with their concerns. The hedge-fund boss, John Armitage, is perhaps not a tribal Tory.\n\nHe's no prominent loyalist like, for example, Lord Bamford, whose diggers and huge machines have graced many a Tory photo opportunity.\n\nHe has also given some small donations to Labour of late. But Mr Armitage has given the Conservatives more than £3m in recent years, including more than £500,000 during Mr Johnson's time in charge.\n\nHe is also still a member of the party, so his very candid words are going to hurt.\n\nIt has been a turbulent few months for Mr Johnson, whose government has been dogged by a series of political controversies.\n\nThe turmoil deepened at the end of January following the publication of a highly critical interim report by senior civil servant Sue Gray, who was investigating lockdown parties in Downing Street.\n\nIn long-awaited findings, Ms Gray said there were \"failures of leadership and judgment\" and a culture of \"excessive\" alcohol consumption within Downing Street.\n\nSince then, several of Mr Johnson's senior advisers have resigned, leading to the appointment of a new communications director and chief of staff.\n\nTuesday's cabinet reshuffle marked the latest attempt to improve the operation in Downing Street and move on from weeks of political discord within his party.\n\nBut expressing concern about the standards of leadership in No 10, Mr Armitage said: \"It's about more than like, 'if I'm failing, I've done a few things wrong, oh gosh, I'm going to change my advisers, God above!'.\n\n\"What about a sense of personal responsibility? You know, 'I'm going to change my chief of staff and it will all be fine.' Oh, really?\"\n\nMr Armitage said he had told the Conservative Party he would not be giving them any more financial support as things stand, but he does plan to remain a member to retain his vote.\n\nHe said there were \"competent\" members of the current cabinet, but declined to name a potential successor to Mr Johnson.", "Jacob Rees-Mogg has been given a new role in government as the minister for Brexit opportunities, as Boris Johnson carries out a cabinet reshuffle.\n\nThe PM promised a rejig in No 10 amid ongoing pressure over parties held in Downing Street during lockdown.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris becomes the new chief whip, in charge of disciplining Conservative MPs - some of whom have called on Mr Johnson to resign.\n\nHis predecessor, Mark Spencer, replaces Mr Rees-Mogg as leader of the Commons.\n\nBut some Tory MPs have privately expressed concern about Mr Spencer's new post.\n\nThe role includes the responsibility for standards of behaviour in Westminster, but he is currently being investigated over accusations of Islamophobia, raised by fellow MP Nusrat Ghani - claims he has denied.\n\nAfter the announcement, Ms Ghani retweeted her statement from January - when the story became public - in which she said she had told the PM: \"All I want is for this to be taken seriously and for him to investigate.\"\n\nA spokesman for No 10 said it was right to allow the investigation to conclude \"without pre-empting it or drawing conclusions while that work is ongoing\".\n\nDowning Street also confirmed Paymaster General Michael Ellis would take on the additional role of minister for the Cabinet Office.\n\nThe job had been held by Tory MP Steve Barclay, who had said he would stay in his post at the Cabinet Office, alongside his new role as chief of staff in No 10.\n\nEarlier this week, Labour questioned how Mr Barclay would be able to carry out all three roles.\n\nBut No 10 later said Mr Ellis would only take on \"some elements\" of his role, rather than directly replacing him.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg, a prominent Leave campaigner during the 2016 EU referendum, will now be a full member of the cabinet, with his full title being minister for Brexit opportunities and government efficiency.\n\nA source close to the prime minister said he had wanted Mr Rees-Mogg to have a \"proper economic role\" in cabinet.\n\nMr Spencer will continue to attend cabinet and Mr Ellis will join him.\n\nAnother source described Mr Heaton-Harris as \"more carrot than stick\" in his style of persuading MPs to toe the party line.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said it was \"important we make immediate changes to improve how the No 10 operation works\", and the changes would help towards \"improving relations with MPs\".\n\nBut Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said the prime minister should instead be focusing on \"an inflation crisis created in Downing Street and supporting the mental health of our children and young people\".\n\n\"What was Boris Johnson doing? Reshuffling the deckchairs when he's already hit an iceberg,\" she added.\n\nFootball refereeing and dad jokes are two specialisms of the man whose new job is trying to persuade Conservative MPs to back the prime minister.\n\nEvery day, Chris Heaton-Harris used to tweet a joke and it would be reasonable to say they were so bad, they were good.\n\n\"I admit most of my jokes are rubbish,\" he once said, \"although some were funny, mainly sent by others.\"\n\nHe is a personable, self-deprecating Brexiteer - and takes on, arguably, one of the toughest job in politics.\n\nNow it's Mr Heaton-Harris's role to stack up the numbers in the Commons to keep Boris Johnson in his job.\n\nIn normal times, that would be easy enough with an 80-seat majority. But these are... you can finish that sentence yourself.\n\nIn her report on gatherings that took place in Downing Street during lockdowns, published last week, senior civil servant Sue Gray criticised \"failures of leadership and judgement\".\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson promised a change in culture and to consult Conservative MPs more on setting policy, which could involve prominent roles for Mr Rees-Mogg, Mr Spencer and Mr Heaton-Harris.\n\nMark Spencer takes over from Jacob Rees-Mogg as Commons leader\n\nMeanwhile, No 10 has said the prime minister has no intention of apologising after falsely claiming that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer had failed to prosecute serial sex offender Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions.\n\nFifteen Conservative MPs have called for Mr Johnson to go.\n\nIf 54 MPs write letters to Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative Party's 1922 Committee, declaring no confidence in his leadership, this will prompt a full vote on his future.\n\nIf Mr Johnson lost this, there would be a leadership contest, in which Mr Johnson would be prohibited from running.\n\nAt the last cabinet reshuffle, in September last year, Nadine Dorries became culture secretary and Liz Truss became foreign secretary, while Dominic Raab was moved from the Foreign Office to become deputy prime minister.", "Boris Johnson became prime minister in December 2019 and immediately faced the UK's looming exit from the EU and the start of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe health crisis has been described as perhaps the biggest challenge the country has faced since World War Two.\n\nMr Johnson’s election win secured him the largest Tory majority in Parliament since 1987.\n\nHe succeeded Theresa May as prime minister. His only previous cabinet post was foreign secretary, which he quit over differences with Mrs May over Brexit.\n\nSince being at 10 Downing Street, he married his fiancee Carrie Symonds and the couple have had two children.", "Captain Sir Tom Moore raised almost £33m in direct donations for charities supporting the NHS\n\nThe Charity Commission says it is to review the accounts of the charity set up in honour of Capt Sir Tom Moore.\n\nGrants of £160,000 were given to four charities by the Captain Tom Foundation which paid more than £162,000 in management costs in its first year.\n\nCapt Sir Tom walked 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden at the start of lockdown, raising £33m for NHS Charities Together.\n\nThe foundation said it welcomed the Charity Commission's input.\n\nThe Army veteran, who was born in Keighley in West Yorkshire and died last year aged 100, carried out the fundraising walk at his home in Marston Moretaine when Covid restrictions were first introduced in 2020.\n\nThe £33m raised was managed and distributed by NHS Charities Together before the JustGiving account was closed down.\n\nAfter he became a national figure, his family set up a separate charity in his name called the Captain Tom Foundation.\n\nAccording to the published accounts, covering the charity's first year from 5 May 2020 to 31 May 2021, it paid out grants to four charities worth £40,000 each but spent £209,433 on support costs including £162,336 on \"management\".\n\nThe financial statement also showed reimbursement costs of £16,097 paid to Club Nook Limited, a company run by Hannah Ingram-Moore, Capt Sir Tom's daughter.\n\nThese costs were for accommodation, security and transport relating to Capt Sir Tom \"travelling around the UK to promote the charitable company\".\n\nPayments of £37,942 were also made to Maytrix Group Limited, a company run by Ms Ingram-Moore and her husband, relating to photography, office rental, telephone and third-party consultancy costs.\n\n\"These costs were initially funded by Maytrix Group Limited on behalf of the charitable company, and reimbursed when sufficient funds were available,\" the financial statement said.\n\nExpense payments of £1,686 were also made to Ms Ingram-Moore to cover \"motor, post, subscription and travel costs\".\n\nPayments were made from the charity to reimburse costs incurred by companies run by Sir Capt Tom's daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore, accounts showed\n\nThe Charity Commission, which is an independent, non-ministerial government department, said: \"We have been in ongoing contact with the trustees of the Captain Tom Foundation on its set-up and governance arrangements and as part of this work will now assess the charity's recently submitted accounts.\"\n\nIt said it had an open regulatory compliance case into the charity, but that did not mean it had made any finding of wrongdoing.\n\nStephen Jones, chair of trustees for The Captain Tom Foundation, said: \"As a young charity, we have been working closely with the Charity Commission since we launched, and we welcome their input following the publication of our recent audited annual accounts.\"\n\nThe Fundraising Regulator and Information Commissioner's Office had also looked at concerns regarding the foundation but those matters have since been resolved.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion please email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Wrexham\n\nWrexham are set to regain the Racecourse Stadium freehold, co-chairmen Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have confirmed.\n\nWrexham's chairmen say talks with owners Wrexham Glyndwr University are at an advanced stage with the purchase expected to be completed before April.\n\nThe Hollywood actors announced the news on the day they celebrated one year in charge of the National League club.\n\nWrexham have not owned the ground's freehold since 2011.\n\n\"It was clear even before we bought Wrexham that bringing the Racecourse Ground back to the club was massively important for the fans,\" said the co-chairmen.\n\n\"There is nothing more symbolic that owning your own home and while Wrexham Glyndwr University have always been supportive of our ambition, we are delighted to now have control of our own destiny.\"\n\nWrexham's Hollywood owners said in June 2021 that they wanted the National League club to regain the freehold of their Racecourse Stadium, the oldest football stadium in the world still hosting international games.\n\nThere are plans to redevelop the Kop as part of the wider Wrexham Gateway Project.\n\nIt was one year ago that Deadpool actor Reynolds and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator McElhenney invested an immediate £2m into Wrexham after completing their takeover.\n\n\"The year has gone in the blink of an eye, we have learned so much and more importantly feel like we are fully integrated into everything Wrexham,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"There can be no doubt that the highlight of the year was our visit in October.\n\n\"The reception, experience and general feel of warmth moved both of us beyond anything we could have possibly imagined and made us even more determined to be successful.\n\n\"We have provided the manager with the playing resources to give ourselves the best chance of gaining promotion.\"\n\nWrexham broke their transfer record to sign striker Ollie Palmer from League One AFC Wimbledon for £300,000 during the January transfer window.\n\nTom O'Connor and Callum McFadzean were also signed from EFL clubs in January following the high profile summer signings of Paul Mullin, Ben Tozer and Aaron Hayden.\n\nPhil Parkinson's side are currently seventh in the National League, eight points behind leaders Stockport County.\n\nEarly 2020: Wrexham director Spencer Harris is approached by an intermediary about a potential change in ownership of the club.\n\nSummer 2020: Harris and his fellow directors agree to sign a non-disclosure agreement with the interested parties, not realising the need for secrecy was due to the prospective investors being Hollywood stars.\n\n23 September 2020: Members of the Wrexham Supporters Trust (WST) vote overwhelmingly to allow talks that could lead to an entire takeover of the club to go ahead at a special general meeting.\n\n24 September 2020: Reynolds and McElhenney are announced by Wrexham as the potential investors.\n\n8 November 2020: Reynolds and McElhenney present their vision for the club to the Wrexham Supporters Trust over Zoom, saying they want to turn the club into \"a global force\".\n\n16 November 2020: Over 98% of supporters vote in favour of the takeover.\n\n22 November 2020: Wrexham boss Dean Keates reveals he has spoken to Reynolds and McElhenney and predicts they will \"take the club to the next level\".\n\n30 November 2020: Former Liverpool chief executive Peter Moore says he is to work as an adviser at Wrexham.\n\n15 December 2020: Moore tells BBC Sport Wales that Reynolds and McElhenney are \"in it for the long haul\".\n\n19 January 2021: Wrexham announce that the board have concluded negotiation of the Share Purchase Agreement and have exchanged contracts.\n\n27 January 2021: Reynolds and McElhenney donate money to strengthen the Wrexham squad despite the takeover not being complete.\n\n5 February 2021:The Financial Conduct Authority approves the proposed takeover of Wrexham by McElhenney and Reynolds.\n\n12 March, 2021:Fleur Robinson is confirmed as Wrexham's new CEO.\n\n29 May, 2021: Wrexham finish eighth in the National League, missing out on the play-offs.\n\n1 June, 2021: Les Reed is announced as a new advisor to the board.\n\n30 June, 2021:TikTok is announced as new shirt sponsor, as the new home shirt is launched.\n\n1 July, 2021: Phil Parkinson is appointed as the new Wrexham manager.\n\n18 July, 2021:Jake Hyde signs for Wrexham, their first signing for a transfer fee in four years.\n\n23 July, 2021: League Two top scorer Paul Mullin signs for Wrexham in a shock move.\n\n12 September, 2021: Wrexham announce EA Sports partnership and become first non-league side to feature in video game Fifa.\n\n26 October, 2021: Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds' visit for first time.\n\n9 February, 2022: Wrexham's chairmen say talks with owners Wrexham Glyndwr University are at an advanced stage for the the purchase of the freehold of the Racecourse Ground.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Truckers 'don't have the right to hold us hostage'\n\nTruck drivers are blocking a key border crossing between the US and Canada, sparking fears of economic disruption.\n\nWhile limited US-bound traffic is being allowed to cross the Ambassador Bridge in Ontario, Canada-bound lanes from Detroit remain closed.\n\nBusiness associations have called for the bridge to be immediately cleared to ensure the steady flow of goods.\n\nThe protests across Canada against vaccine rules and Covid restrictions are now two weeks old.\n\nTruckers are demonstrating against a rule that requires them to be vaccinated to cross the US-Canada border. But the protests have grown to include anger at restrictions and at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government generally.\n\nThey have mostly centred on the capital, Ottawa, and another border crossing between Montana and Alberta has also been blocked.\n\nThe closure of the Ambassador Bridge is particularly significant because nearly 30% of annual trade between the US and Canada comes through it.\n\n\"I've already heard from automakers and food grocers,\" Canadian Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said on Tuesday. \"This is really a serious cause for concern\".\n\nOn Wednesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that the White House was watching the situation \"very closely\". She noted that authorities were tracking potential disruptions that the blockade could cause to agricultural exports from Michigan to Canada and the movement of workers back and forth across the border.\n\nLorry drivers rallying in solidarity with the demonstrators in Ottawa first blocked the bridge on Monday afternoon.\n\nWhile the bridge was reopened to limited traffic from Canada into the US by Tuesday morning, authorities in Michigan have said that traffic flows into Canada remain blocked.\n\nThey continue to advise drivers to divert to nearby Port Huron to cross the border.\n\nWindsor Police told the BBC that no arrests have so far been made in relation to the protests, but between seven and 10 tickets had been issued, primarily for moving violations.\n\n\"The Windsor Police Service wants to resolve this situation through the use of diplomacy and negotiation, seeking a solution that is safe and sustainable for our community,\" the police force said in a statement.\n\nOn Tuesday night, dozens of business associations based on both sides of the border called for a swift re-opening of the bridge, as well as the Alberta-Montana crossing.\n\n\"The disruption of the Ambassador Bridge is an attack on the well-being of our citizens and the businesses that employ them,\" a statement from the organisations said.\n\n\"As our economies emerge from the impacts of the pandemic, we cannot allow any group to undermine the cross-border trade that supports families on both sides of the border.\"\n\nLate on Tuesday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said that protesters had also blocked the border crossing between Alberta and Montana for the second time in less than a week.\n\nOver the weekend, the RCMP said that while most of the protesters have been respectful of officers and followed their directions, a number of investigations have been opened in relation to the blockade at the Alberta border.\n\nIn Alberta, the province's proof-of-vaccination system expires on Wednesday at midnight. Additionally, from next Monday the province will drop a requirement that students wear masks in schools. Children under 12 will not be required to wear masks anywhere.\n\nOn Tuesday, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said that pandemic-related restrictions had \"disrupted and even destroyed livelihoods\" in the province.", "Diane Stewart was found dead at the house she shared with her husband on 25 June 2010\n\nA man who murdered a children's author in 2016 has been convicted of killing his wife six years earlier.\n\nIan Stewart, 61, was found guilty of murdering Diane Stewart at their home in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire.\n\nHer death had been treated as epilepsy-related until he murdered his fiancee Helen Bailey and dumped her body in a cesspit at their Hertfordshire home.\n\nMr Justice Bryan sentenced Stewart to a whole-life order, meaning he will never be released from prison.\n\nEvidence from Mrs Stewart's brain, which was donated to medical science, was used to help convict her husband.\n\nIn 2017, Stewart was convicted of secretly drugging and suffocating Ms Bailey in Royston, in a plot to inherit her fortune of some £4m.\n\nHe was jailed for life with a minimum 34-year term, and police then began to investigate the death of his wife in the garden of their home on 25 June 2010.\n\nIn his evidence at Huntingdon Crown Court, Stewart claimed on the day of Mrs Stewart's death he had driven to the supermarket to get French bread and pate to \"celebrate\" after their son's driving test, but returned home when he realised he had forgotten his wallet.\n\nHe said he saw Mrs Stewart \"crumpled on the floor\" and gave her CPR. He then told a 999 operator: \"My wife had a fit. She's in the garden.\"\n\nHe told the operator his wife had epilepsy, but Mrs Stewart had not suffered a fit since 1992.\n\nMr Justice Bryan said: \"Knowing, as we do, that you had killed your wife, it is harrowing to listen to that 999 call, which I am sure was a charade from start to finish.\n\n\"Diane was already dead, and you had murdered her.\"\n\nThe judge said Stewart had \"in all probability\" killed his wife \"by a method that incapacitated her before she had any chance to fight back, most likely either a choke hold rendering her unconscious, or a plastic bag placed over the head from behind\".\n\nThe judge said: \"Whether or not you had drugged Diane, as you had Helen, to assist you in your killing we will never know\"\n\nThe couple's sons, Oliver and Jamie, were out of the house at the time of the killing, the court heard.\n\nIn a statement released after the verdict, they called their mother \"amazing\".\n\n\"We were privileged to have a wonderful caring upbringing and we were supported through all the activities and hobbies that we undertook,\" they said.\n\n\"It's been really upsetting the last six years to have to recall the events of the toughest time of our life.\n\n\"We now look forward to recalling the many happy moments we had growing up as a family.\"\n\nIn a statement, Mrs Stewart's sister Wendy Bellamy-Lee and brother Christopher Lem said: \"Diane was a very special, caring and capable person.\n\n\"She will always be greatly loved and hugely missed by her family and all who knew her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Stewart: Murderer's reaction to new arrest caught on camera\n\nAn inquest concluded Mrs Stewart had suffered sudden death in epilepsy (SUDEP), which kills about 600 people in the UK each year.\n\nWhile her body had been cremated, which police believe was done upon Stewart's instruction, he had consented to her brain being donated to medical science.\n\nProsecutor Stuart Trimmer QC told jurors scientists and pathologists were instructed to re-examine the circumstances, and analysis of the brain tissue indicated Mrs Stewart's death was \"most likely caused by a prolonged restriction to her breathing from an outside source\".\n\nOne consultant neurologist gave her risk of SUDEP at the time as \"extremely low - one in 100,000\", Mr Trimmer said.\n\nThe Stewarts had lived on Poplar Farm Close in Bassingbourn\n\nJurors also heard he received nearly £100,000 after Mrs Stewart died, including £28,500.21 in life insurance and the rest from her bank accounts.\n\nStewart went on to buy a red two-seater MG car, the court heard.\n\nIn evidence, Stewart claimed that he \"didn't need that money, it was for the boys' futures\" and said that type of vehicle was \"what Diane and I had up until [their son] Jamie was born\".\n\nThe judge, though, said he was satisfied that \"the major motive for Diane's murder was for financial gain\".\n\nJurors also heard from Alexandra Bailey, Mrs Stewart's friend from Salford University in the 1980s, who recalled Stewart's behaviour at the funeral as \"a little odd.\"\n\n\"He seemed totally unbothered and seemed quite aloof,\" she said. \"I just didn't feel it was right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSix years after killing his wife, Stewart would go on to murder Ms Bailey, who wrote more than 20 books, including the popular Electra Brown series.\n\nMs Bailey was also known for her blog - Planet Grief - in which she talked about the death of her husband John Sinfield in 2011.\n\nShe had met Stewart through a bereavement website.\n\nHe had reported her missing three months before her body was found in the \"foul-smelling\" cesspit under their home in Royston alongside the corpse of her dachshund Boris.\n\nSentencing Stewart on Wednesday, Mr Justice Bryan told him the two women's deaths were in \"chillingly similar circumstances\".\n\nHe told Stewart: \"You successfully passed off a murder as an epileptic fit in the circumstance I have identified, playing out an elaborate, and indeed sophisticated, charade over a period of time.\n\n\"A charade that succeeded at the time, and would have succeeded for all time but for your subsequent murder of Helen Bailey.\"\n\nDet Supt Jerome Kent, who investigated both murders, revealed that when officers arrested Stewart - who by that time was serving a life sentence - for the murder of Mrs Stewart, the killer said: \"Haven't you got anything better to do?\"\n\n\"He finds manipulating very easy to do. He can manipulate people, he can persuade people, he is extremely devious.\n\n\"I believe he is a narcissist, that it is all about him and about what he wants and the control he must have in his life.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The victim was taken to hospital after the shooting on Springhill Road in the Carbane Industrial Estate on Tuesday\n\nMasked gunmen who shot a man in the legs in Newry on Tuesday were waiting for the victim for an hour before the shooting, police have said.\n\nThe victim visited a business premises in the Carbane Industrial Estate and was shot as he returned to his vehicle at about 11:55 GMT.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said the gunmen were in the car park outside the business beforehand.\n\nIt is believed three gunmen were involved.\n\nThe victim is still in hospital. Northern Ireland Assembly member Justin McNulty said he did not believe the man's life was in danger.\n\nThe getaway car was found burned after the gunmen escaped towards the border.\n\n\"They were travelling in a Silver Audi S4 with the registration DA55WVE, which was abandoned a short time after the shooting on Old Dublin Road and set on fire,\" said a PSNI detective inspector.\n\n\"The men were then seen to get into a dark-coloured saloon vehicle which made off in the direction of the border.\"\n\nPolice have reissued their appeal for anyone who witnessed the gun attack, or who has dash cam footage of the scene, to contact them.\n\n\"We wish to establish the movements of the Silver Audi S4 in the time before and after the shooting and are keen to speak with anyone who may have witnessed any dark-coloured saloon vehicle loitering or driving away from the area of the Old Dublin Road at around midday,\" the detective inspector added.\n• None Man shot in the legs in Newry industrial estate", "Rebekah Vardy was not referring to Coleen Rooney when she called someone an expletive in a message to her agent, a court has heard.\n\nOn the second day of a two-day hearing, Mrs Vardy's barrister said the \"nasty\" message was \"about someone else\".\n\nProceedings this week will decide what evidence can be used in a May trial.\n\nThe \"Wagatha Christie\" row broke out in 2019 after Mrs Rooney said fake stories were leaked to newspapers that had only been seen by Mrs Vardy's Instagram.\n\nMrs Vardy denies the accusations and is suing Mrs Rooney for libel.\n\nOn Tuesday, the High Court heard the content of some WhatsApp messages exchanged between Mrs Vardy and her PR and friend Caroline Watt.\n\nToday the judge was told many of these messages were not supposed to be released but a software glitch meant they could be read by her rival's legal team and they want them to be included in the upcoming trial.\n\nThey include the key message \"I would love to leak those stories\", from Mrs Vardy, about Coleen Rooney's Instagram posts.\n\nMrs Rooney's lawyers have previously claimed that Mrs Vardy, who is married to Leicester City striker Jamie, had leaked information to The Sun newspaper either directly or through Ms Watt \"acting on her instruction or with her knowing approval\".\n\nIn court, her barrister David Sherborne, had said those messages \"reveal that Mrs Vardy and Ms Watt are responsible for the leaking\". But today, Mrs Vardy's lawyer, Mr Tomlinson insisted they were \"selective\", and had \"precisely the opposite effect\".\n\nHe also said a text in which she referred to someone as a \"nasty\" expletive was \"not a passage about Mrs Rooney\".\n\nDuring Tuesday's hearing, the barrister quoted messages from Mrs Vardy to Ms Watt in which she said she was \"offended\" that Mrs Rooney thought she was the person who had leaked the information.\n\nHe added: \"If one reads these messages in full, what one sees is that Mrs Vardy expresses shock at being accused and she is here communicating with the person that Mr Sherborne says is her co-conspirator.\n\n\"These are obviously candid personal messages, and if she was really concerned - 'Oh, this is terrible, we have been found out' - then it would have been completely different.\"\n\nRebekah Vardy's lawyer said an expletive message was not about Coleen Rooney\n\nMrs Rooney is also bringing a claim against Ms Watt for misuse of private information and is asking for it to be joined to the libel case.\n\nMr Sherborne told the court that if Mrs Vardy wins her claim on the basis that she was not the person who leaked the information, then Mrs Rooney will be left without \"vindication\" unless she is able to bring the claim against Ms Watt as part of the same case.\n\nDavid Sherborne also said that Mrs Rooney's lawyers wanted further information from the WhatsApp messages between Mrs Vardy and Ms Watt, but were told Ms Watt's phone had fallen into the sea after a boat she was on hit a wave, shortly after the last hearing.\n\n\"[It was] most unfortunate, because it was only a short time after the court ordered that the phone should be specifically searched,\" he said.\n\nMr Tomlinson told the court: \"That is what happened. Mrs Vardy was not present when that happened. She [Ms Watt] was on holiday, she lost her phone.\"\n\nMrs Vardy's lawyers have opposed the application to add the claim against Ms Watt to the libel case, saying in written arguments the claim \"could have been brought 15 months ago\".\n\nIan Helme, representing Ms Watt, also opposed the application and previously said she has given \"clear and consistent\" denials against the claim for misuse of private information.\n\nThe trial is due to begin in early May but is likely to be delayed.\n\nThe hearing before Mrs Justice Steyn concluded on Wednesday with judgement expected on Monday morning.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A health minister has apologised for continuing a meeting despite discovering she had tested positive for Covid.\n\nGillian Keegan said she found out her result during a visit on Tuesday, after taking a \"precautionary\" lateral flow test beforehand.\n\nShe added she briefly continued her meeting, with a group of bereaved fathers, with their consent.\n\nBut she said \"on reflection\" this was \"an error of judgment on my part\".\n\nOne of the fathers told the BBC they agreed to keep talking whilst she moved further away, and Ms Keegan had \"nothing to apologise for\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Ms Keegan tweeted: \"When I was told my test was positive, I was listening to three fathers who had tragically lost their daughters to suicide.\n\n\"I told them the result and took further precautions but with their consent, I stayed for a short period to hear their stories,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"I should have immediately ended the meeting, and on reflection this was an error of judgment on my part.\n\n\"I fully recognise the importance of following the letter and spirit of the policies, so want to be upfront about what happened and to apologise for the mistake I made.\"\n\nMs Keegan was meeting bereaved fathers Andy Airey, Mike Palmer and Tim Owen about their campaign for suicide awareness classes in schools.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Palmer confirmed to the BBC that she had informed them of her positive result during the meeting.\n\nHe added: \"She put her coat on and started to prepare to leave. We were already at a social distance but decided to move a little further away to be even safer.\n\n\"We agreed to keep talking to her as she waited for her car, and as she stood in the doorway.\n\n\"She has nothing to apologise for as far as we're concerned. It was a very positive meeting, and she was charming.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Manchester, he said that \"masks were put on\" during the meeting.\n\nIn her tweets, Ms Keegan, the Conservative MP for Chichester, added that she was now isolating at home and \"fortunately feel fine\".\n\nFirst elected in 2017, she was made a care minister at the health department as part of Boris Johnson's cabinet reshuffle last September.\n\nGuidance published on the NHS website says people should begin self-isolating \"straight away\" if they receive a positive Covid test result.\n\nA spokesman for Health Secretary Sajid Javid said he had spoken to Ms Keegan, who \"has taken responsibility for her actions and made a full apology\".\n\n\"He accepts her apology and continues to support her in her role,\" the spokesman added.\n• None What to do if you have Covid", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jamie has autism and has been in locked hospital units for more than five years\n\nThree mothers whose sons have been locked in hospital psychiatric units in Scotland for years have spoken to BBC Scotland because they are desperate to get them out.\n\nThe three young men did not break the law but have autism and learning disabilities.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was unacceptable to hold people with complex needs in hospital when they could be cared for in the community.\n\nJamie McMahon has autism and has been in locked hospital units for more than five years despite doctors saying it was not appropriate for him.\n\nHe was recorded as a delayed discharge in January 2017, meaning he should have been moved into the community, but no appropriate options were found.\n\nHis mum, Sylvia McMahon, says her son has become stuck in the system and she is speaking out now because he has been \"left to rot\".\n\nShe is desperate to get Jamie out but is terrified she could be silenced or lose her visiting rights as a result of highlighting his case - something she says has happened to other parents.\n\nAnother woman, Mhairi, not her real name, believes she has lost the right to visit her son because she raised concerns on social media. She told the BBC she feels \"silenced\".\n\nHer son is autistic. He has been in an a locked hospital unit for six years after his mental health deteriorated when he was a teenager. He was detained under the Mental Health Act for his own safety.\n\nMhairi thought he would be home within months but cannot get him out.\n\n\"When I went on social media, just after that all contact with my son was stopped,\" she says. \"The last phone call I had with him he said I'll speak to you tonight mum and he never called again. And we're not allowed to see him.\n\n\"We had a close loving relationship, a very close relationship and he loved his visits, loved his family and it's just devastating.\"\n\nHer son says he wants to get out and does not want to see her in the institute he is in.\n\nShe has not seen him for more than a year.\n\nSally's son has been held in a secure hospital for more than a decade. She says she is too afraid to use her real name in case she loses her rights to visit him.\n\nSylvia McMahon's autistic son Jamie has been in a psychiatric hospital for six years\n\nShe says: \"It's worrying because you think, are there going to be repercussions? Will I get to see my son if I do speak out about them? Because they take it very personally. But it's got to be spoken about. At the end of the day, my son's stuck there.\"\n\nShe says her son used to love volunteering, he worked with animals and loved being outside. She says people find it hard to believe that someone who has not broken the law could be locked in a unit for so long.\n\nDespite being his parent she cannot get him home.\n\n\"It doesn't matter what age they are. You never stop being a mother,\" she says. \"But these places want to discard you, you're no longer in charge, you're not the mum anymore.\n\n\"It's so distressing when you lose every right to your son and it's just so wrong.\"\n\nShe says patients are often held in excessive security because of a lack of alternative places and relations can easily break down between staff and parents.\n\n\"I think there's been situations where families have spoken out to the media, or posted things on social media and essentially the professionals who have been involved in the care of their loved one have really used that against them and it's led to a breakdown in the professional relationships,\" she says. \"I know that some people would say it's led to them being prohibited from seeing their family members.\"\n\nSylvia McMahon says Jamie, who is now 24, used to love hillwalking and spending time with his family. At weekends they would walk for hours then stop for a pub lunch.\n\nSylvia McMahon says her son Jamie is \"stuck in the system\"\n\nNow he spends all his time locked in a ward for psychiatric patients.\n\nJamie does not speak but instead writes words down to express himself.\n\nSylvia says he just keeps writing down \"pub lunch\" and his home address because he wants to go home.\n\nShe adds that in 2016 Jamie was put into the \"wrong environment\" - a house on his own where he did not have the right support. His mental health deteriorated and he was sectioned.\n\n\"After three months of being sectioned he was free to leave the hospital but what happened was there was nowhere to put him,\" she says.\n\nSylvia says he waited from 2017 to 2020 for suitable accommodation to be found and then the Covid pandemic meant his family could no longer visit and he was not allowed out.\n\nBecause of the change to his routine, his behaviour deteriorated.\n\n\"It was months and months and months without seeing him and his behaviour got really bad,\" she says.\n\nJamie assaulted two people in the ward during lockdown and is therefore no longer considered a delayed discharge.\n\nPeople with complex needs, who may have times when they are not coping with autism or learning difficulties, should not have to be put in psychiatric hospitals, she says.\n\n\"It's not where they should be. It makes them worse.\"\n\nSylvia says she is nervous about speaking out.\n\n\"I know I have to do it because I need to get my boy out. It's destroying him. I don't want him suffering because I've done this, but I need to do it.\"\n\nShe adds that if they keep waiting for his behaviour to improve he will never get out because he will not improve unless he gets his routine back, including regular access to his family.\n\nThree years ago the Scottish government commissioned a review of mental health laws in Scotland.\n\nProfessor Colin Mckay is a member of the review group. He said the review would be highlighting that leaving people with learning disabilities and autism in institutions is no longer acceptable and is a breach of human rights law.\n\n\"All disabled people should have a right to independent living, to live independently in the community, with the right supports that they need,\" he said.\n\n\"Up until now, that's been a kind of statement of intention, I think what we need to turn it into is something which has real teeth. It's not just 'we're doing our best, but we can't do everything' - this is a human right which is being breached.\"\n\nReports by the Mental Welfare Commission have found a number of people in Scotland being held in excessive security.\n\nOfficial figures show dozens of people with learning disabilities are recorded as delayed discharge. But many more are not even assessed as being delayed because their behaviour has deteriorated whilst inside a secure setting.\n\nThe Scottish government said it had already set up a working group to improve delayed discharge for people with complex needs.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"It is completely unacceptable for people with learning disabilities and more complex needs to spend long periods of time in hospital when they could be supported in the community.\"\n\nCaroline Cameron, director of North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership which runs Jamie's facility, told BBC Scotland: \"We are sorry that Jamie's family are not happy with the care he has received and continues to receive.\n\n\"We would encourage them to make contact with his care team to discuss any concerns.\n\n\"Due to patient confidentiality, we are unable to provide any information.\"\n\nSome names have been changed to protect identities.", "A passenger was arrested as the United Airlines flight landed at Heathrow on 31 January (file photo)\n\nA passenger was arrested at Heathrow Airport after a woman said she was raped in business class on an overnight transatlantic flight from New Jersey.\n\nThe woman said she was attacked by a 40-year-old man while others slept on the flight from Newark on 31 January.\n\nOfficers boarded the United Airlines plane after it landed at 06:39 GMT and arrested the man who has since been released under investigation.\n\nThe Met Police said the woman was being supported by specialist officers.\n\nA spokesman said the Met was aware of \"an incident on an inbound flight\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emmanuel Macron has led diplomatic efforts this week to defuse tensions with Russia over Ukraine\n\nRussia's EU ambassador has told the BBC his country still believes diplomacy can help de-escalate the crisis over Ukraine.\n\nVladimir Chizhov said Moscow had no intention of invading anybody, but warned it was important not to provoke Russia into changing its mind.\n\nIt comes after a flurry of diplomatic activity on Monday and Tuesday.\n\nRussia has repeatedly denied any plans to invade Ukraine.\n\nBut with well over 100,000 troops massed near the Ukrainian border, some Western countries including the US have warned that a Russian attack could come at any time.\n\nIn 2014 Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula. Since then there has been a long-running conflict in eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatists control swathes of territory and at least 14,000 people have been killed.\n\nOn Thursday Russia is set to start 10 days of joint military drills in Belarus, Ukraine's northern neighbour and a close ally of Russia. Some 30,000 Russian troops are expected to take part.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman said the joint drills were serious but he pointed out the nature of threats was higher than before.\n\nMr Chizhov, however, told the BBC that Russian troops currently stationed in Belarus would return to their permanent bases after the exercises.\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the drills were \"escalatory\" amid the high tensions in the region.\n\nAfter two days of intense diplomacy led by French President Emmanuel Macron, there is some suggestion that a renewed focus on the so-called Minsk agreements - which sought to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine - could be used as a basis to defuse the current crisis.\n\nUkraine, Russia, France and Germany backed the accords in 2014-15.\n\nSome diplomats agree that the agreements could offer a route to de-escalation, with France's ambassador to the United States, Philippe Etienne, tweeting they should be used to \"build a viable political solution\".\n\nPresident Macron said talks would be revived as early as Thursday and include Russia and Ukraine along with France and Germany - known as the Normandy quartet.\n\nMr Chizhov did not say whether Russia planned to move troops away from Russia's border with Ukraine, and instead asked why no-one was talking about the number of Ukrainian soldiers directly facing Russia.\n\nBut he was clear that further talks could still produce results.\n\n\"We certainly believe there is still room for diplomacy,\" he told the BBC's Europe Editor Katya Adler.\n\nVladimir Chizhov told Katya Adler that Nato's expansion in Eastern Europe was key to any talks\n\nRussia has made a series of demands to the West over European security, including a guarantee that Ukraine never becomes a member of the West's defensive military alliance, Nato.\n\nThis demand has been flatly rejected, with Western countries insisting that only Ukraine can make decisions about its own security arrangements.\n\nBut Russia's EU ambassador made clear that Russia still saw Nato's eastern expansion as a key point in any negotiation.\n\n\"We are not going to forget it. And we cannot afford to forget it. Five waves of Nato expansion, that was not the evolution that we expected,\" Mr Chizhov told the BBC.\n\nThe envoy's apparent optimism for continued talks followed two days of frenzied diplomacy from European leaders seeking to end Russia's military escalation.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has been at the forefront of those efforts, visiting Moscow, Kyiv and Berlin.\n\nAfter his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Tuesday, Mr Macron said both the Russian and Ukrainian leaders had recommitted to implementing the Minsk peace agreements.\n\nPresident Zelensky has in the past criticised the agreement, which was signed by his predecessor, saying that it gives too much away to the rebel groups which control parts of Ukraine's Donbas region.\n\nMoscow has long accused the Ukrainian government of failing to implement the agreements, and at Monday's news conference the Russian president urged Ukraine to respect them: \"Like it or not, my beauty, you have to put up with it,\" Mr Putin said.\n\nOn Wednesday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that there were \"positive signals that a solution to Ukraine could be based only on fulfilling the Minsk agreements\".\n\nHowever, Ukraine and Russia disagree over what the agreements mean in practice, and Kyiv fears that the accords would give too much autonomy to the eastern regions currently under rebel control, with Moscow retaining significant influence there.\n\nAt a meeting in Berlin on Tuesday, the leaders of France, Germany and Poland backed the Minsk agreements and reaffirmed their support for Ukraine's sovereignty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A teenage rock band is singing for peace near Ukraine's front line", "A BBC investigation has raised fresh doubts about the evidence used to throw thousands of people out of the UK for allegedly cheating in an English language test.\n\nWhistleblower testimony and official documents obtained by Newsnight reveal the Home Office has continued to try to remove people based on the claims of the international testing organisation ETS - despite knowing of serious concerns about its conduct and flaws in its data.\n\nMore than 2,500 people were deported and at least 7,200 more were forced to leave Britain after ETS accused them of cheating in an exam it set and marked. Others who remain in the UK continue to fight to clear their names after enduring years of hardship.\n\nThe crackdown was sparked by a 2014 BBC Panorama investigation that revealed two London test centres were running fraudulent exams so people could falsely obtain a pass they could use to apply for a visa.\n\nFollowing those revelations, the government asked ETS to assess the scale of student cheating across more than 100 independent centres, which were contracted as test venues.\n\nETS gave them a massive list of alleged cheats - but despite proof that this included some innocent people who had been wrongly accused, the Home Office continues to stand by ETS's evidence.\n\nLabour MP Stephen Timms said: \"Clearly, ETS was a discredited witness and yet the Home Office relied on them totally.\"\n\nNewsnight has also uncovered further evidence - much of which has been known to the department for several years - which raises additional questions about why ETS has been trusted to investigate what went on.\n\nIn the new investigation - by the same journalists who exposed the original fraud - the BBC can reveal:\n\nThe chair of the Public Accounts Committee, Labour MP Meg Hillier, told the BBC: \"Given what you found, I think the Home Office can no longer rely on this ETS data.\"\n\nThey should hang their heads in shame for not apologising, not just to me but all the other innocent students\n\nDame Meg said the government's actions have created \"huge injustice\" and it should now drop outstanding legal action against alleged cheats, most of whom came to Britain as international students. She suggested they should instead be allowed to sit fresh English tests for new visas.\n\nWahidur Rahman, who won a seven-year battle to overturn the Home Office's allegations against him, said: \"They should hang their heads in shame for not apologising, not just to me but all the other innocent students.\"\n\nMany alleged cheats were thrown out of Britain without any opportunity to challenge or even see the evidence against them.\n\nThe Home Office simply cancelled their visas, with no right to appeal in Britain.\n\nNomi Raja was 22 when immigration officers raided his student house in June 2014. \"They asked me for my ID. Then this guy had a radio and he was like: 'Target achieved.'\"\n\nOnly when he arrived at a detention centre at Gatwick Airport did an officer reveal why he had been arrested: \"She's like, 'You've done Toeic, you have cheated and then we are sending you back to Pakistan'.\" Toeic -Test of English for International Communication - was the name of the exam set by ETS.\n\nMr Raja managed to halt his deportation and was released after 125 days. But like others who protested their innocence, he was banned from working, studying or using the NHS.\n\nMany became estranged from relatives who didn't believe the British government would make such shameful allegations without good reason.\n\nFinding themselves unwelcome both in Britain and back home was devastating for those affected, said Nazek Ramadan, director of the charity Migrant Voice. \"Most of them have mental health issues and some were on medication to stop them killing themselves,\" she said.\n\nThe 2014 Panorama followed a tip-off that bogus students who spoke virtually no English were being offered \"guaranteed\" Toeic exam passes at two London test centres.\n\nAn undercover researcher secretly filmed an exam in East London where test centre staff provided every candidate with a paid cheat, or proxy, who spoke good English. The tests were then uploaded to ETS in the US for marking.\n\nPanorama's undercover footage shocked then Home Secretary Theresa May. \"I want to do something about it,\" she said at the time.\n\nHer department had revoked the licences of hundreds of colleges to sponsor international students to come to the UK, because they were suspected of being a cover for immigration fraud. Investigations were now launched into Toeic fraud.\n\nETS, also now under scrutiny, offered to help with voice recognition software. It looked to see if the same voice turned up on multiple test recordings, indicating the same proxy had faked exams for several people.\n\nIf a test was flagged and two ETS staff agreed, it was classified as \"invalid\" - meaning the candidate had definitely cheated. Even if that didn't indicate cheating, ETS might designate a test as \"questionable\" if it was taken at a centre with many \"invalid\" results.\n\nThe final results were startling: 97% of 58,000 Toeics taken in Britain between 2011 and 2014 were judged suspicious - 33,663 were invalid and 22,476 questionable.\n\nIf that had been accurate, it would have represented the largest exam cheating scandal in British history.\n\nLabour MP Stephen Timms believes the figures weren't challenged because they suited the government's agenda of creating a \"hostile environment\" for illegal immigrants. \"They saw here an opportunity, tragically, to do that and thousands of innocent people have paid a very high price as a result,\" he said.\n\nLord Willetts, universities minister in 2014, says although the 97% figure was \"implausibly high\" officials believed them. \"The Home Office assumed this whole thing was totally abused and corrupt, and so they didn't get into the detail,\" he said.\n\nA huge list of names was passed to the Home Office which revoked the visa of anybody with an invalid test. It wasn't until 2017 that people in Toeic cases won the right to appeal in Britain.\n\nIn 2016, two years after the deportations started, ETS began providing alleged cheats with their test recordings.\n\nShakil Rathore's story raises the question of how many before then might have proved their innocence if they had also been given this key evidence. The audio, which supposedly showed the 50-year-old civil engineer had cheated, actually proved the opposite.\n\nWhen we listened to his test recording there was no mistaking the distinctive stutter. \"Yes, it's my voice,\" he exclaimed.\n\nShakil Rathore and Richard Watson listen back to the recording of Shakil's test\n\nMr Rathore struggled for three years to get hold of the recording. Even then the Home Office only withdrew its allegation after he had paid for an expert report confirming it was his voice.\n\nAnother man waited six years for his test recording to be played in court. The judge ruled it was obviously his voice and criticised officials for never having compared the two.\n\nIn fact, most people who received a test recording found it didn't contain their voice, which appeared to support claims that they had cheated. Digital forensics expert Professor Peter Sommer said: \"What seems to have happened is that the voice files became somehow separated from the individuals.\"\n\nHowever, it was impossible to verify the files were what ETS said they were because they contained no electronic metadata showing when and where they were created.\n\nNomi Raja discovered significant errors in the allegations against him: \"It says that I'm a Bangladeshi national. But I'm from Pakistan. It also says the test centre was in Leicester, and I gave my exam in London.\"\n\nWhen after five years his appeal was heard the judge ruled there was \"no case for him to answer\".\n\nIn addition to concerns about the reliability of ETS's data there are also worrying questions about what the Home Office knows about the organisation itself.\n\nThe BBC can reveal that inspectors from the international arm of ETS - ETS Global BV, which oversaw the British operation - had been finding significant evidence of organised cheating at some test centres for almost two years before it was publicly exposed by Panorama.\n\nTwo people who worked for ETS in the UK say the Home Office was kept in the dark about the fraud at the time to ensure Toeic kept its government licence for visa applications.\n\nFollowing the Panorama broadcast, they were interviewed by Home Office investigators and the department learned shocking details about what had been known about the scale of the fraud in some locations.\n\nMP Stephen Timms is appalled that despite those revelations the Home Office continued to base its enforcement action on ETS's evidence: \"What Newsnight has shown is that the Home Office knew that ETS was behaving appallingly. And that makes it even more extraordinary that the Home Office relied totally on ETS's claims.\"\n\nThe BBC interviewed former inspector Richard Shury, whose testimony has been used by the Home Office in immigration cases, but who has not spoken to the media before. His account is supported by a 2018 statement made by his former boss Ahmad Bdour, who still works for ETS Global BV.\n\nThat document recently became public when it was disclosed by the Home Office and used as evidence in an immigration appeal by two students known as DK and RK.\n\nMr Bdour was so concerned about organised cheating that around May 2012 he suggested that the company \"needed to stop working in the UK\".\n\nMr Shury says when he joined ETS in December 2012, Mr Bdour warned him some test centres were riddled with fraud.\n\n\"He said they would often see people waiting outside the locations and when they saw him coming, would make a call or dart back inside, which would essentially serve as a warning to the location to swap the test takers - proxies - out and bring the real test takers back.\"\n\nBoth Mr Shury and Mr Bdour allege that while a few fraudulent test centres had their contracts cancelled, their efforts to close others were blocked by bosses. Innocent people would have no clue they were booking a test at a centre which, months earlier, might have been discovered to have been riddled with fraud.\n\nMr Shury said: \"As an ordinary member of the public, you would have had no way to differentiate between one which was proper and one which wasn't.\"\n\nMr Bdour said there was no whistleblower policy in place and he was told if he kept recommending closing test centres he would lose his job. He did not respond to our request for comment.\n\nIn a statement ETS said it took prompt action when it was made aware of serious allegations about UK tests in 2014, including significant changes to the management team of ETS Global BV.\n\nMr Shury said he also gave the Home Office his eyewitness account of \"remote testing\" - a method of faking tests which potentially further undermines the ETS voice recognition evidence.\n\nInspectors believed some centres had remote access software that allowed test computers to be secretly controlled from other rooms.\n\nImmigration barrister Nick Armstrong said it would have been simpler for fraudsters to discard all the test entries from the exam hall - including those by genuine candidates - and just upload those from a secret room. The same faked test could be sent for multiple candidates, he believes.\n\nThis meant that when the recordings were scrutinised with voice recognition software, people who thought they had passed on their own merits would be wrongly branded cheats.\n\n\"It is an explanation for why the numbers of so-called fraudulent tests were as high as they were found to be,\" Mr Armstrong said.\n\nMr Shury told the BBC he saw evidence of remote testing at several locations. \"We've seen a test taker sitting at a computer not typing anything and words appearing on the screen,\" he says.\n\nHe and Mr Bdour were tipped-off about allegations of remote testing at Queensway College in Walthamstow, but found nothing suspicious in the exam room. Then, he said, Mr Bdour went to a secret room they had been told about, where he \"saw people hunched shoulder-to-shoulder and controlling the test with what looked like remote testing software\".\n\nIn May 2015 the inspectors' experiences were summarised in reports by the Home Office investigators. These reports are still presented at immigration appeals as part of the case against students.\n\nWe have obtained the reports for two test centres, including Queensway College, which state evidence of remote testing was found at both. But in 2019 Home Office civil servants denied there was any such evidence when MPs on the Public Accounts Committee raised the issue.\n\nDame Meg said she was shocked to learn from the BBC that officials had apparently been unaware of its existence when they gave evidence to her committee. \"We now need to get the full set of documents,\" she said.\n\nIn a statement the Home Office said it \"has been, and continues to be, completely transparent with select committee requests for information\".\n\nIn 2018 ETS Global BV paid a £1.6m settlement to the department, but by then the Toeic scandal had already cost taxpayers £21m. Twenty-five people who faked tests have been convicted, including 11 involved with the frauds Panorama filmed.\n\nThe government is continuing to contest Immigration appeals against accusations based on ETS's evidence. But by 2019 more than 3700 people had won their cases. Immigration barrister Paul Turner says: \"I think the government will die in a ditch defending ETS's data. But the courts are finding that an awful lot of people did not cheat.\"\n\nIn February 2021 the Home Secretary Priti Patel told MPs she accepted some innocent people had been wrongly accused. \"We need to find a resolution and actually to bring not just clarification, but some justice around what has happened.\"\n\nShe promised to look at solutions after the conclusion of a test case, but a year on that judgement is still awaited.\n\nHowever, the Home Office doesn't accept there are major flaws in ETS's evidence.\n\nIn a statement it said it had consistently been found that the evidence it had at the time was sufficient to take immigration enforcement action. \"Where somebody's test has been identified as having been taken by use of a proxy test taker, they are able to challenge a consequent adverse decision by taking it to either judicial review or appeal, which is independent of the Government.\"\n\nThe department added that it had made significant improvements to ensure large-scale abuse could never happen again.\n\nThe BBC asked ETS if it has reviewed the reliability of its evidence. ETS didn't directly respond but in a statement it said it had taken prompt action when it was made aware of serious allegations about UK tests in 2014.\n\nIt said these were conducted by third-party contractors and overseen by its UK office.\n\n\"ETS shared our methodology and findings with the UK Home Office but did not make any recommendations in relation to the same nor was ETS involved in determining how such information was utilised by the Home Office in its subsequent actions.\"\n\nETS added that it would continue to improve test security.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the five-second pulse light up the JET reactor\n\nEuropean scientists say they have made a major breakthrough in their quest to develop practical nuclear fusion - the energy process that powers the stars.\n\nThe UK-based JET laboratory has smashed its own world record for the amount of energy it can extract by squeezing together two forms of hydrogen.\n\nIf nuclear fusion can be successfully recreated on Earth it holds out the potential of virtually unlimited supplies of low-carbon, low-radiation energy.\n\nThe experiments produced 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds (11 megawatts of power).\n\nThis is more than double what was achieved in similar tests back in 1997.\n\nIt's not a massive energy output - only enough to boil about 60 kettles' worth of water. But the significance is that it validates design choices that have been made for an even bigger fusion reactor now being constructed in France.\n\n\"The JET experiments put us a step closer to fusion power,\" said Dr Joe Milnes, the head of operations at the reactor lab. \"We've demonstrated that we can create a mini star inside of our machine and hold it there for five seconds and get high performance, which really takes us into a new realm.\"\n\nUltimately, the process would be used to drive steam turbines to generate electricity\n\nThe ITER facility in southern France is supported by a consortium of world governments, including from EU member states, the US, China and Russia. It is expected to be the last step in proving nuclear fusion can become a reliable energy provider in the second half of this century.\n\nOperating the power plants of the future based on fusion would produce no greenhouse gases and only very small amounts of short-lived radioactive waste.\n\n\"These experiments we've just completed had to work,\" said JET CEO Prof Ian Chapman. \"If they hadn't then we'd have real concerns about whether ITER could meet its goals.\n\n\"This was high stakes and the fact that we achieved what we did was down to the brilliance of people and their trust in the scientific endeavour,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe walls of the JET reactor were changed to a material made from beryllium and tungsten\n\nFusion works on the principle that energy can be released by forcing together atomic nuclei rather than by splitting them, as in the case of the fission reactions that drive existing nuclear power stations.\n\nIn the core of the Sun, huge gravitational pressures allow this to happen at temperatures of around 10 million Celsius. At the much lower pressures that are possible on Earth, temperatures to produce fusion need to be much higher - above 100 million Celsius.\n\nNo materials exist that can withstand direct contact with such heat. So, to achieve fusion in a lab, scientists have devised a solution in which a super-heated gas, or plasma, is held inside a doughnut-shaped magnetic field.\n\nThe Joint European Torus (JET), sited at Culham in Oxfordshire, has been pioneering this fusion approach for nearly 40 years. And for the past 10 years, it has been configured to replicate the anticipated ITER set-up.\n\nThe fusion announcement is great news but sadly it won't help in our battle to lessen the effects of climate change.\n\nThere's huge uncertainty about when fusion power will be ready for commercialisation. One estimate suggests maybe 20 years. Then fusion would need to scale up, which would mean a delay of perhaps another few decades.\n\nAnd here's the problem: the need for carbon-free energy is urgent - and the government has pledged that all electricity in the UK must be zero emissions by 2035. That means nuclear, renewables and energy storage.\n\nIn the words of my colleague Jon Amos: \"Fusion is not a solution to get us to 2050 net zero. This is a solution to power society in the second half of this century.\"\n\nThe French lab's preferred \"fuel\" to make the plasma will be a mix of two forms, or isotopes, of hydrogen called deuterium and tritium.\n\nJET was asked to demonstrate a lining for the 80-cubic-metre toroidal vessel enclosing the magnetic field that would work efficiently with these isotopes.\n\nFor its record-breaking experiments in 1997, JET had used carbon, but carbon absorbs tritium, which is radioactive. So for the latest tests, new walls for the vessel were constructed out of the metals beryllium and tungsten. These are 10 times less absorbent.\n\nThe JET science team then had to tune their plasma to work effectively in this new environment.\n\n\"This is a stunning result because they managed to demonstrate the greatest amount of energy output from the fusion reactions of any device in history,\" commented Dr Arthur Turrell, the author of The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion And The Race To Power The Planet.\n\n\"It's a landmark because they demonstrated stability of the plasma over five seconds. That doesn't sound very long, but on a nuclear timescale, it's a very, very long time indeed. And it's very easy then to go from five seconds to five minutes, or five hours, or even longer.\"\n\nFrench President François Mitterrand and the Queen formally opened JET in 1984\n\nJET can't actually run any longer because its copper electromagnets get too hot. For ITER, internally cooled superconducting magnets will be used.\n\nFusion reactions in the lab famously consume more energy to initiate than they can output. At Jet, two 500 megawatt flywheels are used to run the experiments.\n\nBut there is solid evidence that this deficit can be overcome in the future as the plasmas are scaled up. ITER's toroidal vessel volume will be 10 times that of JET. It's hoped the French lab will get to breakeven. The commercial power plants that come after should then show a net gain that could be fed into electricity grids.\n\nThis is a long game and it's significant that of the 300 or so scientists working as JET, a quarter are in the early part of their careers. They will have to carry the baton of research forward.\n\n\"Fusion takes a long time, it is complex, it is difficult,\" said Dr Athina Kappatou, who's in her thirties. \"This is why we have to ensure that from one generation to the next, there are the scientists, there are the engineers and the technical staff who can take things forward.\"\n\nMany technical challenges remain, however. In Europe, these challenges are being worked on by the Eurofusion consortium, which comprises some 5,000 science and engineering experts from across the EU, Switzerland and Ukraine.\n\nThe UK is a participant, too. Its full involvement in ITER, however, will require first for Britain to \"associate\" to certain EU science programmes, something that so far has been held up by disagreements over post-Brexit trading arrangements, particularly in relation to Northern Ireland.\n\nJET is likely to be decommissioned after 2023 with ITER beginning plasma experiments in 2025, or soon after.\n\nThe ITER reactor is under construction at Cadarache in the south of France", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nAnimal charity the RSPCA has taken West Ham defender Kurt Zouma's pet cats away after videos emerged on social media of him kicking and slapping one of them.\n\nThe Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is liaising with Essex Police about the incident.\n\n\"The two cats are now in RSPCA care,\" said a charity spokesperson.\n\nThe Premier League club say they have fined Zouma \"the maximum amount possible\" and the fee will be donated to animal welfare charities.\n\nGerman sportswear firm Adidas announced on Wednesday it had ended its deal with the 27-year-old.\n\n\"We have concluded our investigation and can confirm Kurt Zouma is no longer an Adidas-contracted athlete,\" said the company.\n\nAlso on Wednesday West Ham sponsor Experience Kissimmee said \"due to recent events\" it would end its deal with the club.\n\nMore than 150,000 people have signed an online petition calling for Zouma to be prosecuted, while one of West Ham's sponsors, Vitality, has suspended its deal with the club.\n\nWest Ham said Zouma \"willingly complied with the steps taken in the initial stage of the process, including delivering his family's two cats to the RSPCA for assessment\".\n\nThe RSPCA spokesperson added: \"Our priority is and has always been the wellbeing of these cats.\n\n\"They've been taken for a check-up at a vets and then will remain in our care while the investigation continues.\n\n\"We're grateful to everyone who expressed their concern for these cats. We were dealing with this issue before the video went viral online and are leading the investigation.\n\n\"We continue to investigate so we cannot comment further at this time.\"\n\nThe Hammers said the fine, which Zouma immediately accepted, was \"separate to the RSPCA's investigation and pending further sanction once the outcome of that process is determined\".\n\nThey added: \"Kurt is extremely remorseful and, like everyone at the club, fully understands the depth of feeling surrounding the incident and the need for action to be taken.\n\n\"West Ham United would like to reiterate our condemnation of Kurt's actions and make it clear that the matter continues to be handled with the utmost seriousness.\n\n\"However, we believe it is now important to allow the RSPCA to conduct their investigation in a fair and thorough manner, and will be making no further comment at this stage.\"\n\nWest Ham manager David Moyes played France international Zouma in their match against Watford on Tuesday, despite the controversy, and the centre-back was booed by both sets of supporters during the game.\n\nBBC Sport presenter and ex-England international Gary Lineker said he was \"shocked and appalled that West Ham played Zouma\" against Watford and called it a \"tone-deaf decision\".\n\nBT Sport pundit Joe Cole, who used to play for West Ham, called the decision a \"miscalculation\".\n\n'They clearly think they can get away with it'\n\nOne of West Ham's sponsors, Vitality, said it was \"distressed\" by the video of Zouma and \"hugely disappointed by the judgement subsequently shown by the club in response to this incident\".\n\nThe company added: \"As such, we are suspending our sponsorship of West Ham United with immediate effect. We will now be further engaging with the club to understand what actions they will be taking to address the situation.\"\n\nThe West Ham Supporters' Trust (WHUST) has said it \"condemns the actions\" of Zouma. It is understood the trust feels Zouma should have been suspended until club disciplinary procedures had been concluded.\n\n\"I think it was an unwise choice to make [to pick him against Watford],\" said WHUST chair Sue Watson. \"Kurt Zouma is a good player, I understand why he chose him but I think he shouldn't have.\n\n\"He should have taken a moral stance and said, 'until the internal investigations and disciplinary procedures at West Ham are completed, he won't be picked'.\n\n\"Whether they do cast him aside - I strongly suspect they won't - I would like to see a very rigorous re-education programme. He's said he's sorry, I wonder if he understands why people are so angry with him.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, wildlife television presenter and conservationist Chris Packham described Moyes' decision to play Zouma on Tuesday as \"disgraceful\" and said the manager \"proved he doesn't care\" about the public standards footballers set.\n\n\"It's not acceptable,\" said Packham.\n\n\"We cannot condone this behaviour. West Ham should have sent a clear message. People were disgusted by this. Fans were booing. The decision shows a complete disconnect from them.\n\n\"This isn't an internal matter. It's a crime. They clearly think they can get away with it because it's an animal and not a person.\n\n\"Look at Marcus Rashford - he's a paragon of excellence - a true role model. There's potential that kids will see how Kurt Zouma treats defenceless animals and want to emulate him.\"", "Justin Trudeau said he would send whatever support was needed to Ottawa, after the city's mayor asked for an extra 1,800 police officers\n\nOttawa police have said \"volatile\" and \"determined\" demonstrators remain in Canada's capital after nearly two weeks of a trucker-led anti-vaccine mandate protest.\n\nOttawa is under a state of emergency after protesters blockaded the city centre with trucks and cars.\n\nPolice have seized thousands of litres of fuel in recent days.\n\nUp to 25% of the vehicles contain children who could be at risk during operations, police said on Tuesday.\n\nThe so-called Freedom Convoy began on 9 January in western Canada, as truckers protested against a rule that requires them to be vaccinated against Covid-19 to cross the US-Canada border. The demonstrations have morphed to include anger at Covid restrictions and at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government generally.\n\nThough the rally has been mostly peaceful, police have expressed concern about extremist rhetoric coming from far-right groups among the protesters. As well as reported racial and homophobic abuse, one individual danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial.\n\nNearly 80 criminal investigations have been opened in relation to the protests, including for alleged hate crimes and property damage. Some two dozen people have been arrested.\n\nOne officer was reportedly attacked while attempting to seize fuel from a protest truck.\n\nSpeaking to press on Tuesday, deputy police chief Steve Bell said: \"Our message to the demonstrators remains the same: Don't come. If you do, there will be consequences.\"\n\nHe said police had found about 100 trucks with children in them and had contacted the Children's Aid Society over concerns about the noise, fumes and hygiene in the convoy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Truckers 'don't have the right to hold us hostage'\n\nSome 756km (469 miles) away from Ottawa, Canada's busiest border crossing - the Ambassador Bridge - was partially reopened on Tuesday after protesters ground traffic there to a standstill.\n\nThe bridge runs between the Canadian province of Ontario and the US state of Michigan, and more than 40,000 people and $323m (£238m) worth of goods cross it daily.\n\nTruckers rallying in solidarity with those in Ottawa had blocked it on Monday night, forcing vehicles into long detours.\n\nThe bridge has reopened for travel from Canada into the US.\n\nBut on the US side, Michigan Department of Transportation said it remained closed, and advised drivers to divert to nearby Port Huron to head into Canada.\n\nJustin Trudeau said he would send whatever support was needed to Ottawa, after the city's mayor asked for an extra 1,800 police officers\n\nAs traffic continued to clog the area, demonstrators in Ottawa faced anger from local residents even as many insisted that they were protesting peacefully.\n\n\"There's been nothing but love, unity and peace out here,\" said John Van Vleet, a trucker from Ontario. \"It's important for me to come down here to fight for my freedoms.\"\n\nHowever, some Ottawans have said the atmosphere has been tense, especially at weekends when thousands of protesters have descended upon the city's downtown core, spilling into nearby streets and forcing businesses to close.\n\n\"We're all fed up,\" said Marika Morris, a resident. \"They don't have a right to take us hostage.\"\n\nResidents' nerves were also being frayed by constantly blaring air horns. On Monday, an Ottawa judge ruled that the truckers must stop honking their horns for 10 days.\n\nDemonstrations have also spread to other Canadian cities, including Toronto and Vancouver. Internationally, there have been rallies of support in New Zealand's capital Wellington and Canberra in Australia.\n\nThe Canadian province of Alberta announced on Tuesday that some of its Covid restrictions - including its controversial vaccine passport - would be lifted from midnight.\n\nMasking requirements for school students will also end from Monday, and children under 12 will be exempt from all mask mandates.\n\nAlberta Premier Jason Kenney denied the move was a response to the trucker protests.\n\n\"We'll never be able to do a full accounting of the extent of the pain and hardship that restrictions have caused,\" Mr Kenney said.\n\n\"We cannot remain at a heightened state of emergency forever. We have to begin to heal.\"\n\nBut he also argued that \"for the rest of our lives we're probably going to need to take an annual Covid shot, much like the annual flu shot\".\n\nSaskatchewan, in the country's west, also said it was ready to lift all Covid restrictions.\n\n\"We want things to be as normal as they possibly can,\" Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said.", "The Metropolitan Police will review its decision not to investigate a Christmas quiz in No 10 after a picture of Boris Johnson was leaked to the press.\n\nThe photo, published by the Daily Mirror, showed the PM standing next to a bottle of bubbly alongside staff.\n\nThe newspaper said the photo was taken on 15 December 2020 - while Covid restrictions were in place - during a No 10 \"virtual\" Christmas quiz.\n\nBut it is not one of the parties currently under police investigation.\n\nThe Met said its inquiry into alleged breaches of Covid-19 regulations in Downing Street and Whitehall has been named Operation Hillman.\n\nOfficers will send formal questionnaires to more than 50 people, starting by the end of this week, in relation to eight dates that are being investigated between 20 May 2020 and 16 April 2021.\n\n\"This document, which asks for an account and explanation of the recipient's participation in an event, has formal legal status and must be answered truthfully,\" the Met said.\n\nIn most cases the questionnaire will be sent by email and must be answered in seven days, the force said.\n\nLabour MPs called on Mr Johnson to refer the virtual quiz to the Met after the photo surfaced, but the PM said the force had already examined the event as part of their investigations.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman later insisted to reporters that the gathering in the picture was a \"virtual quiz\".\n\nBut the police then released a statement, saying: \"The [Met] previously assessed this event and determined that on the basis of the evidence available at that time, it did not meet the threshold for criminal investigation.\n\n\"That assessment is now being reviewed.\"\n\nThe Met is currently investigating 12 parties in Downing Street and Whitehall over the course of the pandemic - some of which the PM attended - to see if Covid regulations were broken.\n\nBut the event on 15 December 2020 is not one of them, having previously not been considered by the force to have reached the threshold.\n\nIt was looked into as part of the independent inquiry into the parties by senior civil servant Sue Gray, who has only published her initial findings while the Met carries out its work.\n\nNo 10 was unable to say whether the photograph had been submitted to Ms Gray in evidence, adding: \"I'm not going to get into precise evidence but she obviously had access to all the evidence she needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Labour MP Fabian Hamilton ask Boris Johnson to explain a new photo appearing to show him at a No 10 Christmas quiz\n\nA picture from the same event was leaked to the Mirror last December, showing the PM sitting at a table with two colleagues, but without any alcohol.\n\nAt the time, No 10 said the PM only \"briefly took part virtually\" to thank staff for their work during the pandemic.\n\nSources told the BBC invites were sent out in advance via email and, while some joined virtually, others were grouped together in a room.\n\nAt the time of the event, London was under Tier Two restrictions, which banned mixing of households indoors - apart from support bubbles - and allowed a maximum of six people to meet outside.\n\nOfficial guidance said: \"Although there are exemptions for work purposes, you must not have a work Christmas lunch or party, where that is a primarily social activity and is not otherwise permitted by the rules in your tier.\"\n\nMr Johnson's former advisor, Dominic Cummings, claimed on Twitter there were worse photos \"floating around\" which could still come to light.\n\nLabour MP Fabian Hamilton raised the picture with Mr Johnson during Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nHe said: \"At the height of the lockdown restrictions in 2020, my constituent - who has worked for the NHS for over 30 years - was diagnosed with a tumour on her spine.\n\n\"Whilst in hospital, undergoing painful surgery, her family obeyed the rules and didn't visit her.\"\n\nHe asked the PM if as a result of the picture surfacing, and \"for the sake of my constituent and the sacrifices she made\", would he refer it to the police.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"very sorry\" about Mr Hamilton's constituent and \"the difficulties she has been through\", but added: \"What he has just said he is completely in error.\"\n\nPrime Minister's Questions has proven politically dangerous for Boris Johnson in recent weeks, so no doubt he was hoping to get through the last session before a parliamentary break unscathed - perhaps even bolster a bit of backbench support.\n\nAt the start, he made his announcement about ending Covid regulations early - which was bound to go down well with some Tory MPs.\n\nHowever, half way through the Q&A MPs started to stare at their phones as news of the latest photograph of a Downing Street event started to spread.\n\nTwo Labour MPs asked the prime minister about the picture, which shows him in front of a computer near a tinsel-wearing official and an open bottle of booze.\n\nThe event - which Number 10 says was a virtual quiz - was already known about and is not one of those being investigated by the police.\n\nBut this photograph just goes to show however much No 10 might want to move on, there's no escape from the ongoing saga that has proved so damaging.\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street is to get its first chief operating officer as part of the overhaul of the No 10 operation.\n\nSamantha Jones, the PM's expert adviser on the NHS and social care, has been appointed as the new Downing Street permanent secretary on an interim basis.", "Mared Foulkes took her own life hours after being wrongly told she had failed an exam and would not be able to sit her third year\n\nCardiff University has apologised to the family of a student who took her own life hours after being told she had failed an exam she had passed.\n\nMared Foulkes, 21, from Menai Bridge, Anglesey, received a results email that did not take account of her resit mark.\n\nThe university said it will simplify its exams process after a coroner said it was \"complex\" and \"confusing\".\n\nIona and Glyngwyn Foulkes said they were sad it took their daughter's death to make changes.\n\nThey said they would have \"wished for the courtesy and humanity of a personal apology\".\n\nActing North West Wales Coroner, Katie Sutherland, wrote to Cardiff University urging them to clarify the system for sharing results after an inquest into Mared's death returned a conclusion of suicide.\n\nMared Foulkes was a pharmacy student at Cardiff University when she died\n\nMared had failed a practical assessment as part of the second year of her studies in March 2020, but she passed a resit a month later.\n\nBut the automated email she received on 8 July 2020 referred only to the original result and indicated that she would not be able to proceed to her third year of study.\n\nThat evening, Mared drove to a bridge near her home in north Wales, where her body was found.\n\nVice Chancellor of Cardiff University Prof Colin Riordan said the correct process had been followed at the time, which meant resit marks were not confirmed until later.\n\nHowever, he acknowledged there was \"room for confusion\" which had since been \"corrected\" and all marks would now be confirmed at the same time.\n\n\"Exam results will be communicated in a way which leaves no room for confusion in the future\", he said.\n\nThe university said it had set up a group to work on the tone and language used when sharing results, as well as making sure students were directed to support about their results, if they needed it.\n\nBut Prof Riordan said it would be difficult to give prior notice to students if they were going to get a fail, despite the coroner raising it as a matter of concern.\n\n\"You have to be fair and you have to be consistent\", Prof Riordan said, \"so that means we have to inform all students in the same way at the same time of their results and we will need to continue to do that\".\n\nProf Colin Riordan said he was \"deeply sorry for this sequence of events\"\n\nIn response to Cardiff University's report to the coroner, Iona and Glyngwyn Foulkes said they believed that \"all students will benefit\" from changing the way exam results are shared and it \"may even save some young lives.\"\n\nBut they also questioned why key information about Mared's wellbeing had not been shared with her personal tutor.\n\nThey added that Cardiff University should consider an opt-in system, similar to Bristol University, where students can consent to a parent or \"trusted person\" being contacted if there are serious concerns about wellbeing.\n\n\"Cardiff University can be better because of Mared,\" they said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We entrusted her wellbeing to the university,\" said Mared's parents in a statement in October\n\nExpressing \"deep condolences\" to Mared's parents, Professor Riordan apologised on behalf of the university.\n\n\"I apologise now, absolutely\", he said, speaking to BBC Wales.\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for this sequence of events. It's a devastating set of circumstances and I absolutely understand the family's need for answers to their questions.\n\n\"I'm very happy of course to speak to Mared's parents, if that's what they would like.\"\n\nIn a statement her parents said: \"We are dismayed that Cardiff University has chosen to publicly share the actions it has taken since our daughter's death, with the BBC, without any reference to us.\n\n\"The university has chosen to go to the media with its account of the actions it has taken without waiting for our comments and reflections following our receipt of its submission to the coroner on 31 January 2022.\n\n\"We would have wished for the courtesy and humanity of a personal apology and not one shared with viewers in what appears to be a PR exercise.\"\n\nThe Vice Chancellor said the university had increased mental health support for students during the pandemic, and it took wellbeing and student support \"extremely seriously\".\n\n\"I acknowledge we have improvements to make, we have learned from the coroner's report and we will make sure those improvements are made\", he said.\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by the issues raised in this article, information on the support available can be found at the BBC Action Line.", "The co-founder of exercise brand Peloton is to step down from leading the company as it plans to cut thousands of jobs.\n\nJohn Foley, chief executive of the firm for 10 years, will be replaced by Barry McCarthy, the former chief financial officer of Spotify.\n\nDespite the change, one of Peloton's biggest investors doubled down on its calls for the company to be sold.\n\nAmazon, Nike and Apple are rumoured to be interested in bidding for the firm.\n\nThe company, which pairs its equipment with streaming and live exercise classes, had seen sales of its bikes and treadmills soar during the pandemic, but the post-lockdown return to gyms has left the firm worth less than a fifth of its peak $50bn valuation.\n\nMr Foley said Mr McCarthy was the \"right leader to take the company into its next phase of growth\". Mr Foley will become Peloton's executive chairman.\n\nAfter announcing the change in leadership, US-based Peloton also said it will cut about 2,800 jobs globally due to a drop in demand for its products.\n\nShares in the firm jumped by as much as 19% on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday.\n\nJohn Foley is stepping down as Peloton's chief executive\n\nBut one of Peloton's top investors, Blackwells Capital, which owns a near 5% stake in the company, said the changes did not address the concerns of investors and renewed its calls from last month for the company to be sold.\n\n\"Mr Foley has proven he is not suited to lead Peloton, whether as CEO or executive chair, and he should not be hand-picking directors, as he appears to have done today,\" added Jason Aintabi, chief investment officer at Blackwells.\n\nIn a presentation sent by Blackwells to Peloton on Monday, the investment firm said the company had been \"horribly mismanaged, with unbridled enthusiasm taking the place of disciplined leadership\".\n\nThe presentation attacked Mr Foley's abilities as a leader, saying he had made \"a series of poor decisions relating to product, pricing, demand, safety and capital allocation\".\n\nBlackwells has previously said Peloton and its customer base were \"extremely attractive\" to companies such as Nike, Apple, Disney and Sony, which are looking to boost their presence in the home, health and wellness sectors.\n\nMr Foley told The Wall Street Journal, that the company was \"open to exploring any opportunity that could create value for Peloton shareholders\" but declined to comment further.\n\nAnalysts at Wedbush Securities said that the leadership change made it more likely that Peloton would ultimately be sold.\n\n\"If a bidding process begins, we view Apple as the likely acquirer due to the clear strategic fit with its healthcare/fitness/subscription initiatives, while Amazon and Nike among others could be potential bidders in the mix,\" they added.\n\n\"The reality is that Foley was the pilot on the Peloton growth plane and him leaving paints a bleak picture with the main visionary no longer in charge.\"\n\nAnalysts have estimated that Peloton could be valued between $12bn and $15bn, depending on timing and the competition.\n\nSetting out its plans to cut costs on Tuesday, Peloton said along with worker cuts, around 20% of its corporate staff would made redundant.\n\nMr Foley said the decision was \"not taken lightly\". The company expects its restructuring programme to cost about $130m, which will be related to severance packages.\n\nThe company also said it was \"winding down\" the development of the Peloton Output Park - a factory in Ohio where it had hoped to make its exercise equipment and create 2,000 jobs. Shelving the plant will cost $60m.\n\nPeloton reported its \"connected fitness\" subscriptions in the second quarter of its financial year grew by 66% from a year earlier, while its paid digital members rose 38%. Total revenue in the quarter grew 6% to $1.1bn.\n\nThe company, which previously expected sales of $4.4bn to $4.8bn this financial year, has revised down its forecast to $3.7bn to $3.8bn.\n\nAside from demand falling for its products, there have also been recent PR disasters for the company, including when TV characters had heart attacks when using Peloton machines.\n\nA fictional character in the Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That died of a heart attack using a Peloton machine, and there was also a brush with death in Billions.\n\nAfter the And Just Like That death, Peloton tried to recover the PR narrative with a parody advert featuring Chris Noth alive and well, and benefitting from exercise. But that backfired after allegations of sexual assault, which he denied.\n\nMeanwhile in August the US Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security said they were investigating the company after a child was pulled under one of its treadmills and killed, while other customers had reported injuries.\n\nWeeks after the reports, Peloton recalled 125,000 of its Tread+ running machines after initially saying there was \"no reason\" to stop using the machine before changing its stance.", "Eugene McCormack died in hospital on Tuesday as a result of injuries he sustained in the assault\n\nA murder investigation has been launched after a man died from injuries he sustained in an assault in Lisburn last week.\n\nMr McCormack was assaulted at a house in Donard Drive at about 15:30 GMT on 1 February. He was taken to hospital where he passed away earlier today.\n\nPolice said a 30-year-old man, charged on 4 February in connection with the incident, is on remand in prison.\n\n\"Our enquiries are continuing at this time and I would appeal to anyone with any information or footage that could be of use to our investigation, to contact detectives,\" said Det Insp Gina Quinn", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA veteran former Minnesota police officer has been sentenced to two years in prison over the fatal shooting of a black motorist last April.\n\nIn December, a jury convicted Kim Potter, 49, of manslaughter after she killed Daunte Wright, 20, during a traffic stop.\n\nHe was shot dead when she mistakenly fired her gun instead of her Taser.\n\nThe Wright family criticised the sentence as \"a slap on the wrist\".\n\nRelatives had earlier delivered emotional victim impact statements calling for Potter to face the maximum possible sentence of 15 years.\n\nWright's mother Katie said she could never forgive Potter, claiming the ex-officer never once said her son's name during the trial.\n\n\"She referred to Daunte over and over again as 'the driver' as if killing him wasn't enough to dehumanise him,\" she said through tears.\n\nA distraught Potter addressed the Wright family in court - turning to face them directly - before her sentence was handed down.\n\n\"You said that I didn't look at you during the trial. I don't believe I had a right to,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't even have a right to be in the same room with you. I am so sorry that I hurt you so badly and my heart is devastated for all of you.\"\n\nAs she read out her sentencing decision on Friday, Judge Regina Chu described it as \"one of the saddest cases I've had in my 20 years on the bench\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How did Daunte Wright die? Key moments from the trial\n\nProsecutors initially sought a sentence of seven years in prison - the presumed penalty under the state's guidelines - but Judge Chu ruled that there were not aggravating factors in this case.\n\nShe said she had been \"profoundly moved by the comments of the Wright family\" and knew that the lighter sentence would be a disappointment to many in the community.\n\nThe former officer will spend 16 months behind bars and serve the rest of her sentence under supervised release.\n\nPotter must be held accountable for her reckless actions, the judge said, but ultimately Daunte Wright's death had been a \"tragic mistake\". She added that she believed Potter was remorseful.\n\nPotter and a trainee officer pulled Mr Wright over on 11 April 2021 in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis.\n\nPolice claimed Mr Wright had expired licence plate tags and an air freshener unlawfully hanging from his vehicle's rear view mirror. During the traffic stop, they found he had an outstanding warrant on a weapons violation.\n\nPotter's defence team claimed the shooting took place as Wright was resisting arrest. Police bodycam footage shows Potter repeatedly yelling \"Taser\" before firing a single shot from her pistol.\n\nAfter the sentencing, the Wright family said they were \"very disappointed\" by the outcome.\n\n\"I walked out of this courthouse feeling like people are laughing at us because this lady got a slap on the wrist,\" Wright's father, Arbuey, told reporters.\n\n\"Kim Potter murdered my son. He died April 11,\" Katie Wright added. \"Today, the justice system murdered him all over again.\"\n\nMinnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement that he accepted the judge's sentencing and urged the community to do the same.\n\n\"I don't ask you to agree with her decision, which takes nothing away from the truth of the jury's verdict,\" he said.\n\nDaunte Wright's death occurred at a time of high tensions in Minneapolis, with the trial over George Floyd's murder taking place nearby.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice in Canada's capital Ottawa have cleared a main protest site in front of parliament that had been occupied by demonstrators for over three weeks.\n\nMore than 170 people have been arrested and 38 vehicles seized as officers, some on horseback, continued the second day of a massive crackdown.\n\nSome protesters who resisted were thrown to the ground and had their hands zip-tied behind their backs.\n\nPolice said, however, that operations were ongoing in Ottawa.\n\n\"We won't commit to any end time,\" interim police chief Steve Bell said, adding \"We are in this until it is over.\"\n\nMr Bell said that some protesters had moved from the heart of the protest area near Parliament Hill to surrounding neighbourhoods and that those areas would also be cleared.\n\nIt is one of the biggest police operations in Canada's history.\n\nPolice confirmed on Twitter they had used pepper spray on some protesters, saying: \"You will have seen officers use a chemical irritant in an effort to stop the assaultive behaviour and for officer safety.\"\n\nThe crackdown on the self-styled Freedom Convoy began on Friday morning, when hundreds of police, some holding riot batons, descended into the protesters' encampment in downtown Ottawa.\n\nBut some protesters refused to leave, forming a line in front of approaching officers, linking arms and singing the national anthem, O Canada.\n\n\"PROTESTORS: We told you to leave,\" Ottawa Police tweeted. \"We gave you time to leave. We were slow and methodical, yet you were assaultive and aggressive with officers and the horses.\n\n\"Based on your behaviour, we are responding by including helmets and batons for our safety.\"\n\nPolice said they had made more than 40 arrests on Saturday\n\nPolice said some of those arrested had been wearing body armour and carrying fireworks and smoke grenades. And they criticised people for bringing children to the protest, saying anyone bringing a minor to an illegal protest site could be jailed for five years or fined.\n\nPolice have also accused protesters of launching gas canisters at officers.\n\nA statement released on Saturday by Freedom Convoy organisers said they had asked remaining truckers to move from the protest site \"to avoid further brutality\".\n\nMr Bell said police had the \"mechanisms\" to review all arrests to ensure they were made according to procedure but that protesters had repeatedly been warned they would be forcibly removed if they chose not to leave.\n\nA stand-off between protesters and police on Saturday\n\nHe also said that the investigation into the protests was not over and \"will go on for months to come\".\n\n\"We will hold people accountable for taking our streets over,\" he said.\n\nOttawa police set up almost 100 police check-points on Thursday around the main protest site as well as a large business and residential district to prevent more protesters from entering the area.\n\nThe protest began in January as a truck convoy headed to Ottawa to oppose a vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the US-Canada border and grew into a broader opposition to pandemic restrictions and Mr Trudeau's government, with supporting protests across the country.\n\nAuthorities last weekend cleared the most economically damaging blockade - a bridge linking Windsor, Ontario, with the US state of Michigan. Trucker protests at other border crossings in Coutts, Alberta, Surrey, British Columbia, and Emerson, Manitoba, ended this week.\n\nOnly the blockade in Ottawa, which began on 28 January and paralysed a large part of the city centre, remained.\n\nParliamentarians returned on Saturday to Canada's House of Commons - after cancelling Friday's sitting because of the nearby police action - to debate the decision by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week to invoke a never-before-used emergencies law to resolve the protests.\n\nThe law grants government added powers in times of crisis. It has been used to impose bans on public assembly in some areas of Ottawa and has prohibited travel to the protest zone, among other measures.\n\nPolice removed drivers from their vehicles and towed some trucks away\n\nOn Saturday, the federal government said it had frozen at least 76 bank accounts linked to the protests representing C$3.2m ($2.5m; £1.8m) under the temporary emergency measures.\n\nEarlier in the week, an Ontario Superior Court Judge approved a court order freezing millions of dollars - including some held in crypto-currency - raised from around the world to support the protests.\n\nThe freeze is part of a class-action lawsuit filed by residents and business owners in Ottawa against protest organisers and participants, as well as against all those who donated funds after 4 February.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore strong winds could hamper clean-up work after 92mph (148km/h) gusts battered parts of Wales on Friday.\n\nThousands of homes are still without power after Storm Eunice caused widespread disruption. Trees were felled, lorries toppled over, and all trains were cancelled.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for wind covering south and mid Wales was in place until 18:00 GMT.\n\n\"These conditions on Saturday may hamper any clear-up,\" it said.\n\nA further yellow warning for wind for the whole of Wales is in place from noon on Sunday until 15:00 on Monday.\n\nAlmost 4,000 homes are still without power, according to Western Power, with Scottish Power restoring electricity to all its customers in north and mid Wales by midday Saturday.\n\nRhys ap Tegwyn, from Llandyfriog in Ceredigion, said he hoped to have power restored by Saturday evening, after losing supply on Friday morning.\n\n\"It was a bit of a shock for our teenage girls - they're so used to Wi-Fi, but they stayed the night with relatives,\" he said.\n\n\"We have a huge stock of candles and our oven uses bottled gas.\n\n\"At the end of the day we have a roof over us and we're thankful for that.\"\n\nWinifred Morgan, 87, has been staying with her friend since losing power at her home in Porthcawl, Bridgend county, on Friday at about 11:00.\n\n\"Luckily my friend Linda has taken me in until the power is restored so I can stay warm as I have no form of heating in my house,\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh Premiership rugby games involving Aberavon and Llanelli, and Ebbw Vale versus Carmarthen Quins have also been postponed because of waterlogged pitches.\n\nMeanwhile, warm drinks and biscuits are being offered to anyone without power by Amman United RFC in Glanamman, Carmarthenshire.\n\nAmman United is offering warm drinks and snacks to people whose power has been cut off by the storm\n\nSarah Davies, of the rugby club, said: \"It's a community we should all be helping each other out to be honest with you.\n\n\"A lot of other people are reaching out to offer help over Facebook. There are homes in the community, doing similar things - we aren't the only ones; but a lot of families were really grateful we were able to step in.\"\n\nSlates blew from many seafront properties in Aberystwyth\n\nThe clean-up is also underway in Aberystwyth, where slates were blown off buildings, according to Richard Griffiths of the Richmond Hotel.\n\nHe said: \"We were lucky. When they fly, they fly everywhere, and they're just like bits of confetti.\n\n\"As a result we're very fortunate nobody got injured.\"\n\nSeveral roofs were torn from buildings, with damage at the Co-op petrol station in Pontypridd Road in Barry, Carmarthen railway station, the gym at Merthyr Tydfil's Bishop Hedley school, and a school at Manorbier, Pembrokeshire.\n\nAnd clean up work is continuing at Tywyn in south Gwynedd where 16 residents had to evacuated when Storm Eunice ripped off the roofing on two blocks of flats.\n\nAn Asda supermarket in Merthyr Tydfil had to be evacuated on Friday after cladding came loose from the front of the shop's entrance.\n\nCardiff Council said Victoria Park was due to reopen on Saturday following clean-up work after the storm.\n\nProf Liz Bentley, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, said imposing a rare red weather warning for parts of Wales on Friday allowed people and local authorities to \"batten down the hatches\".\n\n\"Damage and disruption was pretty widespread,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nHigh winds caused two lorries to blow over on the M4\n\nThis tree narrowly avoided landing on two cars after falling on Heathwood Road in Cardiff\n\nSaturday's less severe yellow warning for winds of up to 60mph (97km/h) covers Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Swansea, Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nIoan Williams, from Natural Resources Wales, said people should \"continue to be vigilant\", with more windy weather to come as well as heavy rain on Saturday and Sunday.\n\n\"That could trigger some flood alerts and some flood warnings,\" he said.\n\nBefore and after.... Huw Evans' static caravan was destroyed during the storm in Croesyceiliog, Carmarthenshire, but it was empty at the time\n\nBill Kelly, route director for Wales and borders for Network Rail, said there was \"substantial damage\" across the rail system.\n\n\"We are endeavouring to get as many routes open as we can... so please do check before you travel,\" he said.\n\nTransport for Wales also advised travellers to check its rail schedule via journeycheck.com with \"significant disruption\" expected to continue into Sunday.\n\nA tree came down over a vehicle and blocked a road in The Mumbles\n\nBoth Severn bridges between Wales and England were forced to close on Friday, although the M4 Prince of Wales Bridge has since reopened.\n\nBut other roads still remain closed due to fallen trees and debris, according traffic analysts Inrix.\n\nMultiple trees have blocked the A484 between Cynwyl Elfed and Bronwydd Arms in Carmarthenshire.\n\nFallen power cables have closed Swansea's Bishopston Road from Church Lane to Pyle Road.\n\nAnd traffic lights have \"collapsed\" on Swansea's A483 Fabian Way, near the Amazon distribution centre.\n\nCoast roads at Deganwy in Conwy county have also been hit by flooding\n\nMeanwhile, volunteers have come forward to help with a clean-up at Greenacres Rescue, in Little Haven, Pembrokeshire, where rabbit and geese enclosures were blown around \"like they were dolls houses\".\n\nA roof blew off a stable and the main office - a static caravan - was \"torn apart\" but no animals were hurt and well-wishers pledged more than £2,000 to help with costs.\n\nThere was substantial damage to a number of the organisation's buildings\n\nStaff and volunteers have been at the site trying to repair the damage\n\n\"We have had many offers of physical help and we now feel we have enough to get through the first few days of clean up,\" a post on the group's Facebook page said.\n\n\"We are thankful no-one was hurt and we've managed to keep all the animals safe and well.\"\n\nPeople in parts of mid and north Wales woke up to snow on Saturday.\n\nPhotos posted by BBC Weather Watchers showed coverings in Conwy county, Denbighshire, Wrexham and Powys.\n\nSnow covering the road near The Sportsmans Arms, near Cerrigydrudion, Conwy county", "The conflict in eastern Ukraine has intensified but there have been several suspicious incidents\n\nAs the conflict in eastern Ukraine intensifies, Britain and the US suspect Russia of planning \"false flag\" attacks to create an excuse for an invasion.\n\nRussian-backed separatists have already accused Ukraine's military of a series of highly dubious attacks and are now calling for civilians in the occupied areas to leave.\n\nA false flag is a political or military action carried out with the intention of blaming an opponent for it.\n\nNations have often done this by staging a real or simulated attack on their own side and saying the enemy did it, as a pretext for going to war.\n\nThe term was first used in the 16th Century to describe how pirates flew the flag of a friendly nation to deceive merchant ships into allowing them to draw near.\n\nThe night before Germany invaded Poland, seven German SS soldiers pretending to be Polish stormed the Gleiwitz radio tower on the German side of the border with Poland. They broadcast a short message to say the station was now in Polish hands.\n\nThe Gleiwitz radio tower was stormed by SS troops in disguise in 1939\n\nThe soldiers also left behind the body of a civilian dressed up as a Polish soldier to make it look as though he had been killed in the raid.\n\nAdolf Hitler made a speech the next day citing the Gleiwitz attack and other similarly orchestrated incidents to justify the invasion of Poland.\n\nIn the same year, the Russian village of Mainila came under shell fire. It was close to the Finnish border, and the Soviet Union used the alleged attack to break its non-aggression pact with Finland, starting the so-called Winter War.\n\nHistorians have now concluded that the shelling of the village was not carried out by the Finnish army but was a fabrication carried out by the Soviet NKVD state security agency.\n\nBoris Yeltsin, the first President of the Russian Federation, admitted in 1994 that the Winter War was a Soviet war of aggression.\n\nOn 2 August 1964, a sea battle occurred between a US destroyer and North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the Vietnamese coast.\n\nBoth sides experienced damage to their vessels and the North Vietnamese lost four men and suffered six other casualties.\n\nThe US National Security Agency claimed that two days later another similar battle occurred.\n\nThe Gulf of Tonkin incident allowed the US to increase air attacks on North Vietnam\n\nHowever, it is now likely the second attack by the North Vietnamese never happened.\n\nThe captain of a US naval destroyer initially reported he was being surrounded and fired on by enemy torpedo boats but later said that because of bad weather and low visibility that he could not be sure he had been.\n\nDeclassified documents released in 2005 suggest the North Vietnamese navy was not attacking the US ship but trying to salvage two of the boats damaged on 2 August.\n\nHowever, President Lyndon B. Johnson and staff decided to believe the initial version of events and presented the incidents to Congress as two unprovoked attacks on US forces by North Vietnam.\n\nIt led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which allowed President Johnson to start bombing raids on North Vietnam and greatly escalate US military involvement in the Vietnam War.\n\nIn the early days of Russia's annexation of Crimea, people started to appear on the streets who were dressed and armed exactly like Russian soldiers but without Russian insignia on their uniforms.\n\nThe Kremlin insisted they were members of local \"self-defence groups\" who wanted the territory to be returned from Ukrainian control to Russia.\n\nThe \"little green men\" in Crimea wore no identification, but their uniforms and weapons were Russian\n\nThe Kremlin said they had bought their clothing and equipment from shops.\n\nRussian journalists took to calling these people \"polite men\", while local residents in Crimea called them \"little green men\", referring both to the colour of their uniforms and their unconfirmed origin.\n\nIndia and Pakistan have often accused each other of mounting false flag attacks along the disputed Kashmir border in order to provoke a military conflict.\n\nIn 2020, Pakistan's foreign ministry accused Indian troops of firing on a vehicle containing UN observers on the Pakistan side of the border, hoping the UN might think Pakistani troops were responsible.\n\nIndia and Pakistan often accuse each other of false flag attacks on the Kashmir border\n\nIt said India was trying to sow discord between Pakistan and the international community and Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan called the move \"reckless\".\n\nIndia denied the accusation and in turn blamed Pakistan for failing to keep its own side of the border safe.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nGreat Britain have been stripped of the silver medal won in the 4x100m relay at last summer's Tokyo Olympics after team member CJ Ujah was found to have committed a doping violation.\n\nThe British team finished second to Italy by one-hundredth of a second.\n\nUjah tested positive for ostarine and S-23 after the event on 6 August.\n\nThe 27-year-old says he \"unknowingly consumed a contaminated substance\" and the situation is one he \"will regret for the rest of my life\".\n\nUjah was joined in the 4x100m relay team by Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake.\n\nLondon-born Ujah added: \"I would like to apologise to my team-mates, their families and support teams for the impact which this has had on them. I'm sorry that this situation has cost my team-mates the medals they worked so hard and so long for, and which they richly deserved.\n\n\"I would also like to apologise to both British Athletics and Team GB. British Athletics has supported the relay athletes for years and this has been difficult for everyone involved in the programme.\n\n\"Representing my country at a second Olympic Games surpassed my childhood sporting ambitions and I will forever be devastated that this situation has marred the success achieved by the men's 4x100 relay team in Tokyo.\"\n\nThe loss of the silver means Great Britain's medal tally at the Tokyo Games falls to 64, one fewer than the team achieved at London 2012.\n\nIt is only the third time Great Britain have lost a medal at a summer or winter Games.\n\nJudoka Kerrith Brown at the 1988 Seoul Games and skier Alain Baxter at Salt Lake in 2002 both lost bronze medals after testing positive for a banned substance.\n\n'You will get caught'\n\nThe British Olympic Association said it welcomed Ujah's \"contrition\" but added: \"This should act as a salutary message for anyone - British or otherwise - who is doping or considering doping as a way of boosting their athletic performance. You will get caught. You are not welcome on our team and nor are you representative of our values, or of our nation.\"\n\nUjah did not challenge the decision over his violation, which was made by the Anti-Doping Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).\n\nCas requested World Athletics - the sport's governing body - should consider its own actions, including the possibility of handing Ujah a ban from competition.\n\nThe UK Anti-Doping website states ostarine is \"not approved for human consumption in the UK or anywhere else in the world\", adding the substance is designed to have similar effects to testosterone in that it can aid muscle-building.\n\nBoth Ostarine and S-23 are known as selective androgen receptor modulators (Sarms).\n\nUS Anti-Doping (Usada) says Sarms have \"similar anabolic properties to anabolic steroids\".\n\nThe Usada website offers athletes access to the Global Dro website where substances can be searched in order to check on regulations.\n\nS-23 is listed as an anabolic agent and prohibited both in and out of competition.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as US Vice-President Kamala Harris warns Russia of consequences if it invades Ukraine\n\nMen of fighting age in the self-declared people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk are being put on stand-by.\n\nUS President Joe Biden says he is convinced Russia will invade Ukraine, an allegation Moscow denies.\n\nWestern nations have accused Russia of trying to stage a fake crisis in the eastern regions as a pretext to invade.\n\nInternational monitors report a \"dramatic increase\" in attacks along the line dividing rebel and government forces.\n\nTwo Ukrainian soldiers were killed and four injured by shelling on Saturday, the first deaths to be reported in weeks.\n\nMr Biden's Defence Secretary, Lloyd Austin, said Russian forces were beginning to \"uncoil and move closer\" to the border with Ukraine.\n\nIn the German city of Munich, US Vice-President Kamala Harris told a security conference that if Russia did invade, the US and its allies would impose a \"significant and unprecedented economic cost\", targeting its financial institutions and key industries, as well as those who aided and abetted such an invasion.\n\nEchoing her remarks, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that, in the event of an invasion, his country would \"open up the Matryoshka dolls\" of strategic Russian-owned companies and make it impossible for them to raise finance in London.\n\nMr Johnson had talks in Munich with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was visiting for the security conference against the advice of President Biden, who had said it might not be a \"wise choice\" for the Ukrainian leader to be out of his country at this time.\n\nThe US estimates there are 169,000-190,000 Russian personnel massed along Ukraine's borders, a figure that includes separatist fighters in Donetsk and Luhansk.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin, who oversaw major drills of Russia's strategic nuclear missile forces from Moscow on Saturday, has said the situation in eastern Ukraine is deteriorating.\n\nHe said he remained willing to discuss the crisis with Western leaders, but accused them of ignoring Russia's security concerns.\n\nAs we climbed the viewing platform, gale-force winds and hail storms were sweeping across the vast Obuz-Lesnovsky Military Range, around 100 miles (160km) from the border with Ukraine. Fluttering furiously, side by side, the flags of Belarus and Russia.\n\nThe skies cleared and an announcement came over the loudspeaker: \"These are purely defensive drills.\"\n\nFor the next half an hour, Russian and Belarusian forces rehearsed repelling an attacker, with tanks, fighter jets and rocket launchers. Nato considers this the largest Russian military deployment in Belarus since the Cold War. The numbers we've been hearing range from 10,000 to 30,000 Russian troops.\n\nUkraine views the exercises as part of Moscow's \"psychological pressure\" on Kyiv. The drills are due to end on Sunday. When they do, a key question will be how quickly will the Russian soldiers pack up and go home?\n\nUkraine, a former Soviet republic with historic ties to Russia, is not a member of Nato or the European Union but has close relations with both.\n\nRussia is insisting Ukraine should not be allowed to join Nato, which it sees as a threat to its security.\n\nAccurate figures are difficult to establish but as many as 3.5 million people live in the two rebel territories, which broke away in 2014 after Ukraine's pro-Russian government was overthrown. Since then, at least 720,000 have acquired Russian citizenship, according to Russian media.\n\nA number of civilians have been evacuated from the rebel territories to neighbouring Russia, with at least 6,500 leaving Donetsk, according to the separatists.\n\nIn Luhansk, the first train to Russia since 2014 left with 650 evacuees aboard, Russian media report.\n\nOne person in rebel-controlled Luhansk told BBC News on condition of anonymity that the separatists were trying to stir panic deliberately and said local people were wary of evacuating.\n\nA children's home was evacuated from Luhansk across the border to Russia on Friday\n\nAnother in rebel-controlled Donetsk confirmed that some people were leaving and added, \"People just want that somebody finally can take control and responsibility for these separatist-held territories whoever it would be - Russia or Ukraine\".\n\nDetails of the Ukrainian soldier's death were not given but it was contained in a report that spoke of artillery, mortar and grenade attacks by the separatists.\n\nThere were also reports of attacks or attempted attacks inside separatist-held territory which could not be independently verified:\n\nIn another development, two shells reportedly exploded on Russian territory in Rostov region, about a kilometre from the Ukrainian border. Russia opened a criminal investigation.\n\nUkrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba denied shells had hit Russian territory and called for an \"immediate and impartial international investigation of the incidents reported by Russian media\".\n\nInternational observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe have been monitoring a truce between the separatists and government forces, who have fought a bloody war at a cost of at least 14,000 lives.\n\nOn Friday, the observer mission reported \"a dramatic increase in kinetic activity along the contact line in eastern Ukraine, equal to the numbers of ceasefire violations reported\" before July 2020.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe search is continuing for 12 people missing after a ferry burst into flames near the Greek island of Corfu.\n\nThey are all thought to be lorry drivers from Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and Lithuania, Greek authorities said.\n\nFirefighters have spent a second day tackling the flames and the continuing fire has hampered rescue attempts but the ship has been towed closer to land.\n\nA total of 280 people were evacuated and two airlifted from the ferry after being trapped in the hold.\n\nThe Euroferry Olympia, owned by Italian firm Grimaldi Lines, had left Igoumenitsa in Greece for the Italian port of Brindisi when the fire broke out on a car deck.\n\nThe ferry was officially carrying 239 passengers and 51 crew, according to the company. But two Afghan nationals who were not registered as passengers on the ship were also rescued on Friday, the Greek coastguard told AFP news agency.\n\nFirefighters continued to tackle the blaze for hours on Saturday\n\nDozens of people rescued from the ferry have been taken to a hotel on Corfu. One of them, lorry driver Danilo Carlucci, told Reuters: \"We saw death in front of us.\"\n\nThe cause of the fire remains unknown but the Greek coastguard told Reuters a prosecutor had ordered an inquiry into the incident, adding the captain and two first mates had been briefly detained to testify before being released.\n\nAuthorities will have more evidence about the cause of the fire once the fire is out and the ship can be tugged to a safe place, Shipping Minister Giannis Plakiotakis told Greek television. He said when the fire was out, fuel would be pumped out in an attempt to avoid marine pollution.\n\nBut AFP reported the Italian environment ministry said a \"possible spill\" had been detected by an Italian coastguard air crew.\n\nA specialised Greek rescue team was able to board the vessel more than 12 hours after the fire broke out, but smoke has continued to billow from the ferry on Saturday as strong winds rekindled the fire.\n\nAuthorities have given details about the 12 people missing, saying they are likely to be lorry drivers. Seven are from Bulgaria, three are from Greece, one is from Turkey and one is from Lithuania.\n\nBulgaria's Foreign Ministry said 127 Bulgarians had been on board the ferry.\n\nRelatives of missing people have bee waiting for news at the port in Corfu\n\nIt is thought that the drivers may have chosen to sleep in their vehicles rather than the ship's overcrowded cabins, according to truckers interviewed by Greek state TV on Saturday.\n\nDrivers and relatives of the missing people have criticised conditions on the Euroferry Olympia in interviews with Greek media.\n\nThe ferry's operator said the 27-year-old vessel had last completed a safety check on Wednesday.", "A US Navy engineer's wife has pleaded guilty to helping her husband try to sell secrets about nuclear-powered submarines to a foreign country.\n\nDiana Toebbe, 46, acted as a lookout while her husband left information at a \"dead drop\" spot, once hiding a data card inside a peanut butter sandwich.\n\nA former teacher, she will go to prison for up to three years under her plea deal with federal prosecutors.\n\nUnder his plea deal, he will receive a sentence of about 12-17 years.\n\nBoth of the Toebbes pleaded guilty in federal court in Martinsburg, West Virginia, to conspiring to communicate restricted data.\n\nThe crime carried the possibility of a life sentence.\n\nJonathan Toebbe was an expert in nuclear-propulsion systems on submarines, one of the nation's most closely guarded secrets.\n\nHe tried to sell the information to a foreign government, sending messages to someone who he believed was a foreign official, according to the justice department. In fact, the individual was an undercover FBI agent.\n\nBefore their arrest in October, the Toebbes lived with their two children in Annapolis, Maryland, home of the US Naval Academy.\n\nDiana Toebbe taught history and English at a private school. She has a PhD in anthropology from Emory University in Atlanta.\n\nJonathan Toebbe served in the Navy before becoming a member of the military reserve. He worked in the office of the chief of naval operations in Arlington, Virginia.\n\nProsecutors had argued the Toebbes were a flight risk, citing messages between the couple about quickly fleeing the US.\n\nDiana Toebbe's lawyers said those messages were about her dislike of then-President Donald Trump and had nothing to do with the plot to sell classified information to a foreign nation.\n\nFor years, according to the investigators, Jonathan Toebbe collected information on nuclear submarines, smuggling documents out of work, a few pages at a time, so that he could get past security checkpoints.\n\n\"I was extremely careful to gather the files I possess slowly and naturally in the routine of my job, so nobody would suspect my plan,\" he wrote to the investigator, the individual who he believed worked for the foreign government.\n\nToebbe, unaware he had fallen into the trap, came to trust the investigator.\n\nThe couple tried to sell secrets about US nuclear submarines\n\nIn one of the notes, Toebbe wrote about their friendship and his hopes for the future: \"One day, when it is safe, perhaps two old friends will have a chance to stumble into each other at a cafe, share a bottle of wine and laugh over stories of their shared exploits.\"\n\nA plea bargain in this kind of case is unusual, but they can be reached. Federal investigators take these cases very seriously, say legal experts, yet they may be willing to support a lesser sentence for defendants in exchange for information from them.\n\nSometimes, says Daniel Richman, a Columbia law professor in New York, \"prosecutors back off the maximum sentence for a defendant in order to get them to say things that might assist them in counterintelligence operations\".\n\nIn this case, the investigators certainly wanted to find something out from the defendants: Jonathan Toebbe had asked for $100,000, paid in cryptocurrency, according to an affidavit drawn up by the federal investigators, in exchange for the nuclear secrets.\n\nAs part of their plea deal, the Toebbes said that they would help the FBI recover the cryptocurrency that was sent to them during the federal investigation that led to their arrest.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Joe Biden says he is 'convinced' Putin will invade Ukraine\n\nUS President Joe Biden has said he is convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to launch an invasion of Ukraine, and that an assault could happen in the \"coming days\".\n\nMr Biden said the assessment was based on US intelligence, which suggested the capital Kyiv would be targeted.\n\nRussia denies it is planning to invade.\n\nWestern nations accuse Russia of trying to stage a fake crisis in breakaway eastern regions of Ukraine to give it a reason to launch an offensive.\n\nThe US estimates there are 169,000-190,000 Russian personnel massed in and near Ukraine, a figure that includes Russian-backed fighters in the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.\n\nIn a televised address from the White House, President Biden said the US had \"reason to believe\" that Russian forces were \"planning to and intend to attack Ukraine in the coming week, in the coming days\".\n\n\"As of this moment I am convinced that he has made the decision,\" he added, referring to President Putin. Previously, the president and his top officials have said they did not know whether this was the case.\n\nBut, he said, Russia could \"still choose diplomacy\" and that it was \"not too late to de-escalate and return to the negotiating table\".\n\nEarlier on Friday, in another sign of rising tensions, leaders of the two separatist areas announced an evacuation of residents, saying Ukraine had intensified shelling and was planning an attack.\n\nUkraine has repeatedly said it is not planning any attack, and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba dismissed what he called \"Russian disinformation reports\".\n\nDenis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), announced the evacuation in a video purported to have been filmed on Friday. However, a BBC analysis of the metadata showed it was recorded two days ago, before the flare-up in hostilities.\n\nThe Kremlin said President Putin had ordered that refugee camps be set up near the border and \"emergency\" aid paid to people arriving from the separatist areas. Russian state media reported that several buses carrying local residents had made their way to Russia.\n\nThe US state department called the announcement of evacuations a \"cynical\" move by Moscow \"to distract the world from the fact that Russia is building up its forces in preparation for an attack\". The White House said the evacuations were an example of Moscow using misinformation as a pretext for war.\n\nThe announcement by Denis Pushilin that women, children and the elderly will be evacuated to Russia is, potentially, a very troubling development. The idea that an evacuation is needed because Ukraine is planning an attack on the two Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics is baseless.\n\nWith a vast chunk of Russia's military might positioned around Ukraine's borders, such an attack would be an act of lunacy. It is, quite simply, unthinkable.\n\nBut the separatists, and Moscow, want to create the impression of imminent danger. On Thursday, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said the situation around Russia's borders could ignite at any moment.\n\nPresident Putin this week repeated his allegation, entirely without foundation, that Ukraine was responsible for genocide in eastern Ukraine.\n\nWith Western leaders warning of possible false flag operations, and crudely made videos circulating on the internet purporting to show Ukrainian saboteurs at work, these are dangerous moments in a crisis that already feels dangerous enough.\n\nOn Friday night, Ukraine's military intelligence service said it had received information that explosives had been planted at infrastructure facilities in Donetsk in preparation for a so-called false flag attack - an operation carried out with the intention of blaming an opponent for it.\n\nEarlier, separatist authorities said a parked jeep had been blown up near a government building in Donetsk. US and Ukrainian officials said it was a staged attack designed to stoke tensions.\n\nRussia has been backing an armed rebellion in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region since 2014. About 14,000 people - including many civilians - have died in fighting.\n\nThe remains of a military vehicle were pictured following an explosion in Donetsk\n\nMr Putin, meanwhile, said the situation in eastern Ukraine was deteriorating. At a news conference, he made unsubstantiated accusations of \"mass and systematic violations of human rights\" and enshrining in law \"discrimination of the Russian speaking population\" in Ukraine.\n\nHe said he remained willing to discuss the crisis with Western leaders, but accused them of ignoring Russia's security concerns, and warned that any deal must include a legally binding pledge that the Nato security alliance will stop its eastward expansion.\n\nOn Saturday, President Putin is expected to oversee major drills of Russia's strategic nuclear missile forces.\n\nMeanwhile Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to travel to Germany to meet Western leaders at a security conference, with talks between him and US Vice-President Kamala Harris expected.", "Former Titans members told the BBC they had stopped participating in the sport they loved\n\nAn elite swimming club is to be wound down after an investigation found widespread failures to protect child members who had suffered eating disorders, bullying and serious mental health issues.\n\nFormer members of Ellesmere College Titans, where several world-class athletes trained, have told the BBC a toxic environment had ruined their love of the sport.\n\nAn investigation into the club, based at independent boarding school Ellesmere College, in Shropshire, began in 2020 when parents contacted governing body Swim England concerned about children's welfare.\n\nA year-long probe by a child safeguarding expert uncovered more than 70 separate complaints concerning some coaches' behaviour and the club management's failure to deal with multiple serious issues concerning the children.\n\nAllegations in the confidential report, which the BBC has seen and is publishing excerpts from in the public interest, include a number of children's attempted suicides not being reported as well as incidents of self-harm.\n\nWarning: This article contains details some people may find distressing\n\nDerogatory comments were allegedly made towards swimmers, including sexual and personal remarks, the July 2021 report found.\n\nSome girls developed eating disorders which were linked to a controversial regime of weighing the children as young as 10, with the results publicised among teammates.\n\nFormer members have told the BBC they were fat-shamed by their coaches, leading them to become \"obsessed\" with losing weight.\n\n\"Swimming was my life and I only spoke out about what happened to me so I could stop other young people experiencing eating disorders and the anxiety that I suffered with for years,\" one swimmer said.\n\nTitans' director of swimming, world silver medallist Alan Bircher, was suspended and subsequently stopped from forming part of Team GB's Tokyo 2020 coaching squad last year.\n\nCoach Danny Proffitt was also suspended for four months and has recently returned to work at the club.\n\nAlan Bircher, pictured in his competing days, helped to run Ellesmere College Titans\n\nEllesmere College Titans was formed in 2008 and has had huge success nurturing young talent.\n\nElite swimmers who trained there before representing their country include Freya Anderson, who won Olympic gold in the mixed relay at Tokyo 2020; Hector Pardoe, who made his Olympic open water swimming debut for Team GB at those games; and backstroke specialist Cassie Wild.\n\nTitans' reputation for producing world-class swimmers means children come from all over the UK to train there, with about two-thirds of club members, some as young as 10, attending Ellesmere College.\n\nSome families relocate to Shropshire to make life easier for their sons and daughters at the school, which costs up to £35,000 a year to attend.\n\nThe passion of the youngsters is evident - many dream of competing for their country, while others simply have a love of the sport and want to progress as far as they can.\n\nThe club takes its name from the Titans in Greek mythology - a race of \"godlike giants\", says its website - and swimmers train before and after lessons; the top squad are in the pool for more than 20 hours a week.\n\n\"Many people have had good experiences at Titans,\" said a former swimmer. \"If you were swimming well, then you were OK. But the favourites did not have the same experience as some of the rest of us.\"\n\nMany Titans swimmers, including Olympic gold medallist Freya Anderson, have gone on to have hugely successful careers\n\nThe BBC has spoken to multiple complainants who have voiced serious concerns about practices at the club.\n\nThree of those have shared their stories concerning their time at Titans when they were teenagers.\n\nThey include being body-shamed in front of others, regularly sworn and shouted at, forced to train while injured and highly-offensive sexual comments being made about female swimmers.\n\nZara* said she had developed an eating disorder after becoming fixated with losing weight following comments made by Mr Bircher.\n\n\"We were weighed by Alan every week from an early age,\" she said. \"It was in front of the whole squad and our names were on a white board.\n\n\"It was noted if we put on any weight at all - even 0.2kg,\" she said. \"And then if we didn't swim well, he'd suggest it was because we'd put weight on.\n\n\"We were young women, our bodies were changing all the time, but Alan made it feel like, if you lost weight, you'd be the best.\"\n\nIt was when she didn't think she was losing weight quickly enough that Zara's eating disorder became very serious.\n\n\"It became such an obsession - I just wanted to be a better swimmer,\" she said.\n\nSwim England changed its policy on weighing swimmers after hearing the testimonies of Ellesmere members\n\nShe eventually told a senior member of Titans about the severity of her condition but said she had never received any help from the club and her problems had continued for some years.\n\n\"Alan wasn't there as a coach, he wasn't supportive,\" she said. \"I had no idea why but he made me feel like [not losing weight] was my fault.\n\n\"I was really damaged by it all and suffered anxiety attacks. I still struggle with body image today and it's taken a lot of support for me to get over it.\"\n\nAnother swimmer, Rachel*, said she too was traumatised by having her weight publicised and also developed eating issues.\n\n\"One week I was told I needed to lose 10kg,\" she said. \"Alan would give us tips on how to lose weight - such as chew your food 100 times, that sort of thing.\n\n\"He'd also watch us in the dining room. We'd go and have breakfast after training and he'd turn up to see what we were eating. If it was a hash brown, he'd say we shouldn't be having it.\n\n\"I lost a lot of weight really quickly. At my previous club we had food logs, where our coaches would see if we were getting the right nutrition for our training.\n\n\"But at Titans you felt like you had to eat as little as possible and that you were constantly being watched. It's left a lasting impression on me.\"\n\nAfter his suspension, many swimmers came out in support of Alan Bircher\n\nRachel said offensively swearing at the swimmers was part of Mr Bircher's regime, especially when he did not think a student had performed well in the pool.\n\n\"Even if he thought he was doing it to motivate us, you just can't speak to a 12 or 13-year-old girl like that.\n\n\"I felt so alone, there was just no support. And you felt like you couldn't say anything about what was happening because you'd be kicked out.\"\n\nLouise* said she remembered regularly crying while speaking to her mum following training, after being constantly put down by her coach Danny Proffitt.\n\n\"It reached a point so bad that we were exploring the option of pulling me out of boarding, renting a cottage and mum moving hours away from our family to support me,\" she said.\n\nHer optimism at training with Titans, she said, had been \"shattered\" by Mr Proffitt, who she said would often resort to \"shouting abuse, harsh punishments, constant criticisms and negative comparisons\".\n\n\"I dreaded going to training and crossed my fingers every day that Danny would be in a good mood, which meant less mental anguish and abuse for us,\" she said.\n\nShe too had comments made about her weight, she said.\n\n\"He would say things such as 'you're looking a bit big there' or 'you need to eat a bit less and train harder'.\n\n\"I lost a lot of weight very quickly as a result.\"\n\nThe Titans website said Mr Proffitt began coaching at 18\n\nLouise also said Mr Proffitt did not take the swimmers' injuries or illnesses seriously.\n\nShe said while recovering from one injury, he had been \"pushing me way beyond my physical abilities and punishing me or others with excruciating physical punishments if we didn't make turn-around times.\n\n\"One was wall sits for many minutes until we were screaming with pain.\"\n\nEven when highly inappropriate comments were made, Louise said she was still fearful of reporting Mr Proffitt, who she described as unprofessional and immature.\n\nShe was told by other swimmers Mr Proffitt had made an offensive and insulting sexual comment about her and some of the other girls.\n\nWhen they confronted him, Louise said he had started laughing and made another sexual remark.\n\n\"The boys started laughing uncontrollably and the girls of the squad stood in utter disbelief,\" said Louise.\n\n\"It was completely and utterly unacceptable and inappropriate.\"\n\nShe said Mr Proffitt had later apologised when the girls complained, but she wished action had been taken against him.\n\n\"I was continuously threatened they could remove me from the club, so I kept quiet so that I could keep my scholarship.\"\n\nWhen Alan Bircher and Danny Proffitt were suspended, more than 80 past and current swimmers signed a letter of support saying none of them had experienced \"any hurtful or damaging behaviour\" from them.\n\nThe letter said Mr Bircher created a \"fun, exciting and elite training environment\".\n\nThere is still a widely held belief among some club supporters the complaints have been instigated by vindictive parents whose children did not progress as far as they had wished.\n\nHector Pardoe, who was injured during his Olympic debut, was among more than 80 swimmers backing the coaches\n\nFor those who had raised serious concerns with Swim England, the letter was a devastating blow.\n\n\"I know that other people saw how we were treated,\" said Rachel.\n\n\"Just because it didn't happen to them doesn't mean it didn't happen. They knew how upsetting it was for others.\"\n\nRachel said she had had such high hopes of being a part of Titans.\n\n\"It was once an incredible club to be part of, but I watched it crumble. I could not function as a swimmer.\n\n\"Alan Bircher destroyed any hopes of some of these swimmers and the goals they wanted to reach.\n\n\"He took away something I loved and turned it into something I hated.\"\n\nThe BBC put all these allegations to the two coaches. Mr Proffitt said he had been advised not to comment.\n\nMr Bircher issued a statement through the British Swimming Coaches Association which said: \"Alan Bircher proactively participated in a Swim England investigation into concerns raised at Ellesmere Titans.\n\n\"This investigation and its findings were confidential. Mr Bircher's involvement in related matters concluded in October 2021 and he is no longer involved in swimming in any capacity.\n\n\"He will make no further comment.\"\n\nSwim England recently changed its guidance on weighing swimmers following its investigation into Titans and now says only those under 18 on a \"nationally-supported pathway\" should be weighed as part of their training.\n\nNo welfare concerns about swimmers were ever escalated from the Titans club to Swim England, the report said\n\nTitans swimming club was formed due to a \"meeting of minds\" between Ellesmere College and the parents of top swimmers to create \"an ambitious, positive and competitive swimming programme\", the club's website states.\n\nThe two are run separately but there were \"clear overlaps\" due to the college's deputy head of pastoral, Ranjit Chatterjee, being chairman of Titans and other college staff on the club committee, the Swim England report found.\n\nMr Chatterjee was also welfare officer of the club at the time many of the complaints by pupils and parents are said to have been made.\n\nThe report found the swimming club's systems for dealing with safeguarding concerns raised were \"woefully inadequate\" and key members were untrained.\n\nNo welfare concerns about swimmers were escalated to Swim England, it added.\n\nMr Chatterjee was suspended from all Swim England activity for two years following the investigation.\n\nEllesmere College gives out scholarships to young swimmers from across the country\n\nLast year the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) assessed Ellesmere College and as part of this looked into the care of its students who swim with Titans.\n\nIt concluded the school \"fails to ensure it provides a safe environment in which children can learn while they are taking part in the activities of the swimming club\".\n\nIt also found the school's annual review of safeguarding \"does not include adequate consideration of the safeguarding of pupils\" who are members of Titans, and that it fails to make \"effective assessment of the potential risks\" in the swimming club.\n\nThe college has been asked to make changes to its processes which will be reviewed, the ISI said.\n\nNeither headmaster Brendan Wignall nor Mr Chatterjee wished to comment publicly when approached by the BBC.\n\nHowever, the school has told the BBC Titans was not run by Ellesmere College and it now intended to establish its own swimming academy. But without accreditation to Swim England, it will rule children out of recognised competitions.\n\nThe school added it was not aware of any incidents related to the Titans club.\n\nSwim England, which had been reviewing Titans' progress since its investigation concluded, said \"further and ongoing concerns\" had been raised which had resulted in its decision to dissolve the club.\n\n\"Following further careful consideration of all the information available, Swim England (alongside statutory agencies) have determined that there will be no affiliated club based at Ellesmere College going forward,\" it said.\n\nThere are up to 60 children who are currently members of Titans and now face having to move clubs if they intend to compete.\n\nMany parents have contacted the BBC to say how worried they are about the impact of the changes on their children's education and swimming pursuits.\n\nSwim England said it would \"provide total support to the swimmers in transitioning to another affiliated club\".\n\nSome former swimmers are still having counselling years after leaving Titans, the Swim England report found\n\nIt added: \"The welfare and wellbeing of all Swim England club members is of paramount importance, as is ensuring that all of our members have a positive experience in all of our aquatic sports.\n\n\"Our affiliated clubs are required to operate to high safeguarding standards at all times and critically to ensure they maintain a safe child-centred environment that is embedded into its culture.\n\n\"We are deeply troubled and saddened by any negative experiences children have in our sports and it is something we take extremely seriously and will continue to do so.\"\n\nIt asked anyone with safeguarding concerns in the sport to report them.\n\nThe new committee of Titans, formed in the summer of 2021, said it was \"very disappointed\" with Swim England's decision.\n\n\"We've addressed the concerns of Swim England's original findings and completed any remediation activities required by them,\" it said.\n\n\"We are shocked given the hard work that has been put in across the club over many months. We've worked closely with Swim England and Ellesmere College throughout this period to enable our talented swimmers to continue to pursue their ambitions as Ellesmere College Titans.\n\n\"As a committee, we would like to thank the interim and new coaching staff, poolside assistants, parent volunteers and officials who have allowed the club to continue to operate throughout this period, drawing a clear line under the historical allegations made against the club.\"\n\nIt added it was \"proud\" of the current swimmers dealing with the impact of the decision on \"the club that they love\".\n\nShropshire Council said it was \"liaising with Swim England and Ellesmere College to manage and resolve any allegations\".\n\nChildren's charity the NSPCC said it had been made aware of the investigation into Ellesmere College Titans.\n\n\"Coaches, above all else, must safeguard young people while all organisations should set minimum professional standards whether they are affiliated to a national governing body or not.\n\n\"Any breaches of these should be reported and robustly investigated alongside statutory child protection agencies and appropriate action taken, if necessary.\"\n\n*All names of swimmers have been changed\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sven and Dominic Good describe the moment a 400-year-old oak tree fell on their house\n\nA huge 400-year-old oak tree uprooted by Storm Eunice came crashing down on top of a family home.\n\nSven Good said he was working in his parents' detached house in Brentwood, Essex, when he \"heard a creak and then a massive bang\".\n\nMoments later the tree smashed through several rooms, causing extensive damage to the property on Friday morning.\n\nAfter shedding a few tears, Mr Good said, the family \"did the very British thing and went to the pub\".\n\nHe said the protected ancient oak in the front garden had shown no signs of instability before, but it came down with its full force.\n\n\"I was on a conference call when I heard a huge breath of wind, a creak, and then a massive bang,\" he said.\n\n\"My girlfriend was working in another room and told me she had heard something, and asked if a window had smashed.\n\n\"I said: 'No, the house has just been destroyed'.\"\n\nSven Good said he heard \"a creak and a massive bang\" when the tree fell\n\nThe tree took part of the roof and badly damaged several rooms on the first and ground floors.\n\nMr Good said his car, which his mother had advised him to move amid storm warnings the previous evening, was also wrecked.\n\n\"Ironically, if I'd left it where I'd originally parked it, it would have been fine,\" he said.\n\n\"We stood outside looking at what the storm had done, and my dad had a tear in his eye - and then we did the very British thing, and said, 'Let's go to the pub for a pint'.\"\n\nSven Good and his partner Anna Parnanen inspected the tree's roots after it fell\n\nMr Good said the fallen tree could actually be holding parts of the house up\n\nA second bedroom was not quite so badly damaged but has been rendered unusable\n\nFriday was spent retrieving important items from the home, but the tree remains where it landed.\n\nThe family has moved back into the parts of the house that escaped damage - albeit with hard hats on.\n\nThey are waiting for a structural engineer and their insurance company to assess the extent of the damage.\n\nMr Good's car was also crushed by the tree\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nGreat Britain's men's curlers had to settle for Olympic silver as Sweden triumphed 5-4 in a nerve-shredding final to claim gold.\n\nBruce Mouat's team took a compelling match to an extra end, but Sweden were able to use their last-stone advantage to score one.\n\nMouat's final shot to try and force a steal did not come off and left Swedish skip Niklas Edin celebrating victory.\n\nHowever, it is Team GB's first medal of the Games and the women's side have the chance to win gold when they face Japan at 01:05 GMT on Sunday.\n\n\"It's still pretty raw,\" Mouat told BBC Sport. \"That's going to be the case for quite a while.\n\n\"I'm trying to think how great our week was and [feel] proud how we went about it.\n\n\"We topped the table and had a really good semi-final performance so I'm trying to think about the other things apart from that game.\n\n\"I do feel proud of myself and my guys. I'm sure down the line I will feel proud of this medal but right now I'm just trying to soak it in.\"\n\nSwedish skip Edin had billed this as the \"clash of the titans\" in men's curling as the two sides met in their third consecutive major championship final.\n\nSweden had claimed the 2021 world title before Bruce Mouat's Scotland team took revenge in the European final in December, and the two sides could barely be separated once again in a match of very high quality.\n\nBritain went behind early on when Sweden took two in the second end and then added a steal of one in the third for a 3-1 lead.\n\nAt that stage it looked ominous for Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan, but after clinging to one with the hammer in the next by millimetres, they built their way back into the game.\n\nTrailing 4-3 in the ninth end, they needed a score of two or more to unsettle Sweden, who were set for last-stone advantage in the final end.\n\nBut when Edin shut off the chance of two with a magnificent shot, Mouat chose to blank and take the hammer into the last.\n\nAnd although the British skip rolled in for one to force the extra end, the odds were stacked against them with Sweden having the buffer of the last stone in the decider.\n\nIn the end, after tense timeouts from both teams, Mouat was left with a difficult hit and roll shot to try to steal one and the match, but it fell short.\n\nInstead Swedish skip Edin - considered one of the best players of all time - now has the gold medal that eluded him when taking silver and bronze at the past two Olympics.\n\n'This will sting for a while' - reaction\n\nLead Hammy McMillan: \"It's not how we wanted to end it. We'll all look back on this and we will be proud, but right now it kind of sucks. We probably weren't our best at the start but we fought back hard.\"\n\nSecond Bobby Lammie: \"I'm gutted for the boys. We fought back well but couldn't get over the line. Looking back it will be a strong week. But right now it hurts.\"\n\nThird Grant Hardie: \"Losing the final is going to sting for a while. Losing any final does but this one is going to take a little bit longer. You need to give those [Sweden] guys a lot of credit especially under the pressure of having not won that gold yet - they played amazing.\"\n\n'They've got years ahead of them' - analysis\n\nBritain came up against Team Sweden who were top of their game. I'm not sure I've seen Niklas ever play so well. Bruce and the guys applied themselves really well but a few mistakes early on gave Sweden the advantage.\n\nThey fought back though and the momentum changed. But it is really difficult going into the extra end without the last stone.\n\nThey've got years ahead of them. I know it seems a long long way ahead but every year just passes and they're going to get stronger and stronger so they have to think about that.\n\nPut the disappointment away - they gave it their all and I applaud them; they are a great team. But a well deserved gold for Niklas Edin.\n• None What's the worst that could happen?\n• None He's back and exploring the detrimental impact of the internet on American society", "Haileigh Ashton Lamont said she feels \"duty bound to speak up and help others\" after her own court case\n\nLast year, Haileigh Ashton Lamont saw her abuser jailed.\n\nThe Belfast woman waived her anonymity to speak about the decade of childhood sexual abuse she had suffered at the hands of her stepfather.\n\nTommy Harris received a 16-year sentence - eight to be spent in prison and eight on licence - after admitting 42 charges of sexual assault.\n\nNow, Haileigh wants to help other victims and survivors navigate the court system.\n\nShe says the criminal justice system must change, and believes that change must start within society.\n\n\"By not speaking about child sexual abuse, the perpetrators are getting away with it,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"There's absolutely no shame in talking about it and raising awareness to make people who are suffering feel supported.\n\n\"I'm never going to stop talking about this and I'm doing it because I don't want anyone to suffer the way I did because it was so tough.\n\n\"I feel duty bound to speak up and help others.\"\n\nHaileigh believes that victims being given more information on the legal process, and being more involved, would improve the experience.\n\n\"Having gone through each stage of the process myself, I understand why some victims want to wash their hands of the process because it is re-traumatising,\" she said.\n\n\"And not knowing what to expect is hard. If victims were better prepared and had more knowledge, they could go to court with insight and support.\"\n\nHaileigh is also calling for two legal changes.\n\nShe does not think that defendants who plead guilty in historic abuse cases should be given reduced sentences.\n\n\"For me, the people who carried out this abuse had time to come forward. They're only in court because they were brought there, years later, so why should they get credit?\" she said.\n\nShe also wants victims to be given the chance to deliver what is known as a victim impact statement in court.\n\nDuring her case, Haileigh was not allowed to read her statement in front of her abuser.\n\n\"That was so important for me, to face him like that, and I wasn't allowed to do it. And I felt brave and empowered to do it, but I wasn't allowed to,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not so much the words that you would say. It's the sound of your voice in a courtroom in front of other people saying: 'I've exposed you, you didn't get away with it. There are consequences.'\n\n\"We're not nameless or faceless statistics, and there's no shame so I think that victims should be able to stand in court and read out a statement and then choose, if they want to, to leave, never want to talk about it again - or confidently use their voice and be supported in doing that.\n\n\"We're not weak. What was done to us hasn't made us weak.\n\n\"Other people will want their anonymity and of course they should have that, but the choice should be there.\"\n\nHaileigh Ashton Lamont last spoke to BBC News NI on the day her stepfather was jailed for abusing her\n\nHaileigh's case ended with a conviction but many other cases involving sexual abuse do not have the same outcome.\n\nThe last available figures from the Public Prosecution Service show that between 2020 and 2021:\n\n\"My message has never been to encourage other victims to come forward,\" Haileigh said.\n\n\"I'm not saying you will go to police and your journey will be the same as mine, I know that's not the reality, and the statistics reflect that it's not going to be the same as my journey.\n\n\"All I want to do is to share my story to give other people hope and to better prepare victims for what to expect, if and when they do come forward.\n\n\"Whenever people hear a victim's story, I feel as though those sympathetic eyes need to turn to - what can we do to help? How are we going to change this? What can we do to come together and make a change?\n\n\"I respect that change will take time, but it does need to happen.\"\n\nHaileigh has met Justice Minister Naomi Long to discuss her concerns.\n\nNaomi Long said the experience of abuse victims is crucial in shaping legislation to improve the justice system\n\nThe minister told BBC News NI her department had introduced a two-year pilot scheme providing victims of sexual assault with sexual offences legal advisors to help guide them through the legal process.\n\nMs Long said change takes time, but she is listening.\n\n\"We need to hear those real lived-in experiences that are sometimes less than perfect in order to challenge ourselves to do better,\" she said.\n\n\"Genuinely sitting down and listening to what victims have been through, working with them to try to address any deficit in the system, is to me one of the most important things we do as a department.\n\n\"It leads to real change, and I hope that Haileigh will see that too.\"\n\nAfter all that she has been through, would Haileigh go to court again?\n\n\"Every day I get up and I ask myself - if you'd have known everything you know now - back on the seventh of July 2020, when you walked into the police station, would you have still walked in?\" she said.\n\n\"And the answer is always, absolutely.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Meet the man behind the Big Jet TV phenomenon\n\nA live YouTube stream of planes trying to land at Heathrow during Storm Eunice has become an unexpected online hit.\n\nAviation enthusiast Jerry Dyer has been streaming aircraft's attempts to land at the London airport in winds of up to 70mph on his Big Jet TV channel.\n\nHis lively commentary plus the footage as planes approach, sometimes having to abort, have been attracting more than 200,000 live viewers at times.\n\nDyer told the BBC the feed was \"the most exciting stuff you can get\".\n\nFor several hours on Friday, Dyer has been running the live stream from the roof of a specially adapted van, shouting \"go on son\", \"nicely done\" and \"fair play mate\" at pilots who land successfully.\n\nFor trickier landings, he advised pilots to \"go around again\", and as one pilot abandoned an attempt to touch down at the last second amid strong winds, Dyer exclaimed: \"Ooh, he did not like that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Easy, easy... OK, tippy-toe!\" Watch a clip from Big Jet TV's livestream showing pilots battling strong winds to land at Heathrow\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 2, Dyer said the compelling footage was \"the best scenario you could image\" for entertainment value.\n\n\"Big kudos to the pilots and the crews working at the airports,\" he said. \"Normally the conditions are calm and we have great shows we do for hours on end, people watching from all over the world.\n\n\"But right now, these conditions with 70mph gusting winds, it's pretty intense. And what's great is you get the see the skill of the pilot, and how they manage to handle it.\"\n\nHe noted that planes must divert if they cannot land within three attempts, something he said had happened several times on Friday.\n\n\"Many planes are having to abort their landings,\" he said. \"It's a bumpy ride, You have to think of all those folks who are on the aircraft.\"\n\nMany social media users and celebrities have been glued to the footage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Caitlin Moran This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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Skip twitter post 3 by Greg James This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Richard Osman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Jamie East This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to a 2020 interview, Dyer developed a love of planes at an early age, growing up near Heathrow.\n\nHe got into live streaming plane landings by accident in about 2015, after his nephew told him Iron Maiden lead singer Bruce Dickinson, a pilot, was flying his plane into London. Dyer raced to the airport and streamed the plane's landing live on Twitter.\n\nThe interest and positive feedback led him to keep posting similar content, eventually moving to YouTube, where his audience really took off, and where he has been broadcasting since.", "Lawyers for Prince Harry say the UK will always be his home, amid a row over whether he can have police security when he visits from the US.\n\nIn a first hearing of his action against the home secretary, lawyers told the High Court he didn't feel safe visiting under current arrangements.\n\nHe wants to pay for police security for himself and his family while in the UK.\n\nGovernment lawyers said his offer was \"irrelevant\" to how officials took decisions over Royal Family security.\n\nDuring Friday's hearing, which was focused on what parts of the case should be kept confidential, Prince Harry's barrister Shaheed Fatima QC said his ties to the UK remained strong.\n\n\"It goes without saying that he does want to come back to see family and friends and to continue to support the charities that are so close to his heart,\" said Ms Fatima.\n\n\"Most of all, this is and always will be his home.\"\n\nBut she said that he did not feel safe in the UK, under the type of security arrangements that had been in place when he visited last summer.\n\nThe prince returned briefly in June and July 2021 for the unveiling of a memorial statue to his mother. He also attended a garden party for seriously-ill children and young people, as a patron of the charity Wellchild.\n\nAccording to some reports, his car was chased by photographers as he left the event. Prince Harry's legal action began in the wake of that visit and following correspondence with the Home Office.\n\nDecisions over Prince Harry's personal security in the UK are taken by the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures, also known as Ravec.\n\nThis secret body answering to the home secretary is responsible for deciding who should be protected by the police - and how much they need.\n\nDetails of its work are never made public to prevent potential attackers learning more about the protective measures it places around public figures.\n\nAccording to court papers, after Prince Harry and Meghan stepped back from public life as working members of the Royal Family and moved to the USA in 2020, Ravec placed him in an \"exceptional category\", meaning his future police protection in the UK would depend on the specific circumstances of each visit.\n\nIn his claim, Prince Harry says that Ravec reached this decision unlawfully and unreasonably - including because he has offered to pay for the police time needed and was still in the immediate line of succession to the throne.\n\nHe further argues that his private protection team do not have all the powers they would need to act in the UK, including access to police intelligence about threats to him and his family.\n\nPrince Harry briefly visited the UK in July 2021, when he and the Duke of Cambridge unveiled a statue to his mother\n\nBut in written submissions to the court, lawyers for the home secretary said that Prince Harry's claim was completely without merit - and it should be thrown out because it wasn't for the court to second-guess complex decisions about personal security.\n\nRobert Palmer QC, for the home secretary, wrote: \"The claimant has failed to afford the necessary measure of respect to the defendant and Ravec as the expert, and democratically accountable, decision-maker on matters of protective security and associated risk assessment.\n\n\"It is the role of Ravec to consider whether an individual such as the claimant falls within its cohort qualifying for publicly funded personal protection security at all and if so, the extent to which any such protection security should be provided.\n\n\"The claimant's grounds... rely upon a set of circumstance which the claimant considers are sufficient to warrant his receiving personal protective security by the police for life, regardless of what, if any, duties he carries out on behalf of the state.\"\n\nMr Palmer said the offer to pay for the police's protection was irrelevant because personal protective security by the police \"is not available on a privately financed basis\".\n\nMr Justice Swift will rule at a later date on what parts of the case will become public, before a subsequent decision on whether the claim will be heard in full.", "Nicola Park befriended the girl when she was 15\n\nA teacher at a private school in Glasgow has pleaded guilty to having a sexual relationship with a pupil for more than two years.\n\nNicola Park, 42, befriended the girl when she was 15 as her own marriage broke down.\n\nThe girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, regularly stayed at Park's home between 2016 and 2019.\n\nShe ended contact in 2020 when she went to university and spoke to her doctor before a police probe was sparked.\n\nWhen officers later searched Park's home, they made a number of discoveries linking the pair, including photos of a sexual nature.\n\nAt Glasgow Sheriff Court, Park pled guilty to engaging in a sexual relationship with the pupil while in a position of trust between 9 December 2016 and 14 April 2019.\n\nShe continues to be employed at the Glasgow school, but her lawyer said she was set to resign from her post.\n\nSheriff John McCormick told Park: \"This was an abuse of trust by a teacher over a number of years. A custodial sentence is almost inevitable.\"\n\nHe said with \"hesitation\" he was continuing bail until sentencing in April.\n\nPark, from Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire, was also put on the sex offenders list.\n\nThe court had heard she was assistant housemistress at the school while also teaching maths and social education.\n\nIn December 2016, the girl became upset and spoke to Park after complaining of feeling \"alone\".\n\nProsecutor Jennifer McKee told the court: \"She said Park would not understand how she felt.\n\n\"She replied that she did understand having recently separated from her husband.\n\n\"Park offered the girl support which helped her cope with how she was feeling.\"\n\nThe teacher said the teenager could contact her outside school hours.\n\nRegular emails were then exchanged, including on Christmas Day and New Year's Day.\n\nPark went on to call herself \"Auntie Nic\" and would sign off with a number of kisses.\n\nThe teenager - who is now 20 - eventually moved to start university and believed the relationship had ended.\n\nBut the court was told that Park struggled with the \"breakdown\" and \"displayed manipulative behaviour\" towards the girl.\n\nThis led to the teenager suffering from stress, losing more than a stone in weight and ending up in hospital.\n\nIn September 2020, she went to her GP and revealed what had been happening with Park.\n\nThe girl went on to block contact with her before contacting the NSPCC.\n\nIn October 2020, Park's home was searched by police. Officers seized a number of photos of the pair together, including some on an iPhone.\n\nPark later said there had been contact with the girl outside school, but denied anything \"inappropriate\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Boris Johnson says people need to understand the \"sheer cost in human life\" war could entail\n\nEvidence suggests Russia is planning \"the biggest war in Europe since 1945\", Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nHe told the BBC's Sophie Raworth in an interview: \"All the signs are that the plan has already in some senses begun.\"\n\nIntelligence suggests Russia intends to launch an invasion that will encircle Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"People need to understand the sheer cost in human life that could entail,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister was speaking from Munich, where world leaders are meeting for an annual security conference.\n\nThe latest estimates by the US government suggests that between 169,000 and 190,000 Russian troops are stationed along Ukraine's border, both in Russia and neighbouring Belarus - but this figure also includes Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine.\n\nMr Johnson warned that any conflict could be \"bloody and protracted\", saying Russian President Vladimir Putin was possibly \"thinking illogically about this\" and did not \"see the disaster ahead\".\n\n\"I think it's vital for us all now to get over what a catastrophe it would be for Russia,\" he added.\n\nHe indicated that the UK and US would bring further sanctions against Russia than have been suggested before, including stopping its companies \"trading in pounds and dollars\" - a move that he said would \"hit very, very hard\".\n\nMr Johnson added: \"The lesson of [the Russian seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in] 2014 is that you can't just let Vladimir Putin get away with it.\"\n\nAn invasion of Ukraine would strengthen, rather than weaken, Nato, he predicted, saying Western countries could not allow opposition forces to come to \"the false conclusion that might is right\".\n\n\"If [Mr Putin] thinks he's going to get less Nato as a result of this, he's totally wrong,\" Mr Johnson said. \"He's going to get more Nato.\"\n\nWhile a full-blown Russian invasion of Ukraine is yet to materialise, Boris Johnson's latest comments ratchet up the war of words.\n\nThe prime minister raising the prospect of a conflict as devastating as World War II is designed to focus minds.\n\nThe ongoing tensions in eastern Europe have given Mr Johnson, who's faced a myriad of problems at home, a chance to show leadership on the world stage.\n\nAnd on the sidelines of the Munich security conference, he seems to have made some progress on the question of sanctions.\n\nStopping Russian companies' ability to trade in pounds and dollars is a new proposal designed to do serious damage to the country's finances.\n\nUkraine is not a member of Nato or the European Union but has close relations with both.\n\nRussia is insisting its neighbour should not be allowed to join Nato, which it sees as a threat to its security.\n\nWestern nations have accused Russia of trying to stage a fake crisis on Ukraine's border, warning in recent weeks Mr Putin's forces could be preparing to invade at any time.\n\nBut Russia has denied the claims, saying the massed troops are just conducting military exercises.\n\nAsked whether a Russian invasion was still thought to be imminent, Mr Johnson said: \"I'm afraid that that is what the evidence points to. There's no burnishing it.\"\n\nThe prime minister said US President Joe Biden had told Western leaders that intelligence suggested Russian forces were not just planning on entering Ukraine from the east, via Donbas, but down from Belarus and the area surrounding Kyiv.\n\n\"I'm afraid to say that the plan we are seeing is for something that could be really the biggest war in Europe since 1945, just in terms of sheer scale,\" he said.\n\nPeople needed to not only consider the potential loss of life of Ukrainians, but also of \"young Russians\", he added.\n\nMr Johnson was speaking after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and telling world leaders in a speech that any invasion of Ukraine by Russia would \"echo around the world\".\n\nDuring a phone call on Sunday, the prime minister and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed the next week would be \"crucial for diplomacy\".\n\nA No 10 spokeswoman said the two leaders updated one another on their \"respective diplomatic efforts\", including Mr Macron's call with Mr Putin on Sunday.\n\n\"The prime minister noted that President Putin's commitments to President Macron were a welcome sign that he might still be willing to engage in finding a diplomatic solution,\" the spokeswoman added.\n\nShe said Mr Johnson stressed Ukraine's \"voice must be central\" in any talks, and that the two leaders \"underscored the need for President Putin to step back from his current threats and withdraw troops from Ukraine's border\".\n\nLabour said it stood \"four-square behind the UK government and Nato, with shadow health secretary Wes Streeting telling Sky News: \"There should be no doubt on the resolve of the UK, on a cross-party basis, and the resolve of Nato across the alliance.\"\n\nBut he also urged the government to do more to prevent the City of London being a \"centre\" for \"Russian kleptocrats and money laundering\".\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Home Secretary Priti Patel warned the crisis could bring an increased risk of cyber attacks in Britain.\n\nShe said past Russian cyber activity had included interference with UK media, telecommunications, and energy infrastructure, and the government expected to see an escalation of similar operations in the coming months.\n\nIn the same paper, Lindy Cameron, head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), said that \"attacks targeting Ukraine's digital infrastructure could be felt here in Britain\".\n\nShe said that, in 2017, malware used by the Russian military to target infrastructure in Ukraine \"spiralled recklessly out of control to affect many other countries, including the UK'.", "Amazon's UK chief executive has been nominated to take over as president of the leading UK business organisation, the CBI.\n\nBrian McBride started his business life selling photocopiers for Xerox in the 1970s.\n\nHe then joined IBM before being hired by Michael Dell to run Dell's operations in UK and Northern Europe.\n\nHe built his career in digital and tech, first as boss of T-Mobile, where he launched 3G in the UK.\n\nHe then moved to Amazon as UK chief executive, where he was responsible for building up its UK operations.\n\nMr McBride, who grew up in Glasgow, was a non-executive director of Celtic between 2005 and 2009.\n\nSince his retirement, he has undertaken numerous portfolio roles, including chairman of Asos and, most recently, Trainline, as well as being on the board of the BBC.\n\nCBI director-general Tony Danker said he was \"hugely excited\" by Mr McBride's nomination.\n\n\"His career journey makes him an unmistakably authentic business leader who understands the challenges facing local SMEs and global listed firms alike,\" he said.\n\n\"His typical Glaswegian candour combined with his experience in some of the most prestigious boardrooms in the corporate world will prove invaluable to CBI and our members as we work to help them grasp the exciting opportunities in the decade ahead.\"\n\nMr McBride's nomination for the role of president will now go forward for a vote among members at the CBI's AGM on 28 June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Foie gras is controversial because it involves force-feeding ducks to fatten their liver\n\nThe UK government is likely to drop plans to ban imports of fur and foie gras, amid cabinet opposition.\n\nThe measures were due to be included in the Animals Abroad Bill, to be introduced soon.\n\nBut several cabinet ministers have raised different concerns about the proposals.\n\nThe government said a final decision had not been taken but sources said the measures look set to be parked to allow other elements of the bill to progress.\n\nA spokesperson for the government said it was \"united in its commitment to upholding its world-leading standards in animal welfare\".\n\nBritish farmers are already banned from producing foie gras, a liver-based luxury French food opposed by animal rights campaigners because its production involves force-feeding ducks or geese.\n\nFur farming has also been illegal in the UK since 2000, but campaigners have long been pushing for an import ban on fur farmed abroad.\n\nThe Animals Abroad Bill is one of three pieces of legislation the government has drafted in a bid to improve animal welfare.\n\nIt will include measures to crack down on hunting animals for trophies, as well as holidays that lead to the neglect of animals like elephants.\n\nBut the bill has been delayed, amid debate over how parts of the legislation would be enforced.\n\nThe UK imports almost all of its foie gras from France, where it is considered a heritage product\n\nMinisters have confirmed in recent weeks that they intend to ban importing hunting trophies from threatened species like lions, elephants and rhinos.\n\nBut it's understood a ban on foie gras and fur imports is now likely to be dropped from the legislation, after a number of concerns raised by cabinet ministers.\n\nSome - including Brexit opportunities minister Jacob Rees Mogg - have raised concerns about personal choice.\n\nThe BBC has been told that Mr Rees Mogg believes the government should not be imposing restrictions on consumers.\n\nHe has also argued the planned ban would have no impact on animal welfare in the UK.\n\nOther ministers - including Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis - raised concerns the measures would not have included Northern Ireland, creating different rules in different parts of the UK.\n\nThere were concerns over problems relating to the Northern Ireland protocol, the part of the UK's Brexit deal under which Northern Ireland continues to follow product rules from the EU - where foie gras is traded freely.\n\nDefence secretary Ben Wallace also raised concerns about banning the bear fur used by the military for the hats worn by Guardsmen.\n\nMr Wallace argues this is responsibly sourced under a cull run by the Canadian government - though campaigners say that process still involves cruelty.\n\nThe use of bearskin hats in the British Army has proved controversial with animal rights groups\n\nTowards the end of last year, Environment minister Lord Goldsmith told the BBC the government would legislate to ban imports at \"the earliest possible slot\".\n\nClaire Bass, executive director at the Humane Society International UK, said the government has said \"warm words\" about a ban, \"but the question is will they follow through with action\".\n\n\"I think a very large number of people will be disappointed if they don't,\" she said.\n\nShe said the public backed action on animal welfare, but \"there can be a small number of influential Conservatives who perhaps want to be eating foie gras while wearing fur and going hunting, who apparently sway the government's decision-making\".\n\nAbigail Penny, executive director at Animal Equality UK, told the BBC that foie gras was an \"immensely cruel\" food product that could lead to liver disease in ducks and geese.\n\nShe added: \"The UK government has been claiming for many years now that they would be looking to ban the importation.\n\n\"I think the ban matters a lot to those animals that are currently suffering and struggling. \"\n\nFur has long been used in hats and coats, but has attracted controversy in the fashion world\n\nFrank Zilberkweit from the British Fur Trade Association said it would be difficult to enforce a ban - and the industry was transparent and sustainable.\n\nHe said: \"The UK public will decide for themselves whether they wish to purchase fur. If the public agree that fur is not a suitable product to wear, they won't buy it.\"\n\nHe added: \"The fur trade is always happy to liaise with the government about ways to improve standards in the industry, and to explain what we are doing\"\n\nA government spokesperson emphasised no final decision on imports had been made.\n\nThey added that under its Action plan for Animal Welfare, the government was committed to \"world-leading reforms\" to improve animal welfare in the UK and abroad, and planned to \"legislate further to protect animals abroad as soon as parliamentary time allows\".\n\nThe spokesman added that the government had committed to building a \"clear evidence base to inform decisions on the import of foie gras\".\n\nThey added that a recent call for evidence on fur products would be published \"soon\" and would inform \"any future decisions on the fur trade\".", "Most of Scotland is covered by a warning for ice which could lead to treacherous driving conditions after a day of snow disruption.\n\nStorm Eunice brought heavy snow and problems on the roads for much of Friday before a yellow Met Office warning for ice began at 18:00.\n\nWintry showers and clear spells could lead to icy patches on untreated roads overnight.\n\nThe alert is in place until 09:00 on Saturday.\n\nHundreds of schools were closed on Friday with Aberdeenshire hit the worst by snow.\n\nPolice in the north east of Scotland warned drivers only to travel if their journey was necessary, and said there were large tailbacks and significant delays in some areas.\n\nAn ambulance rushing a baby girl to hospital in Aberdeenshire was rescued by members of the public after it became stuck in heavy snow.\n\nTen-month-old Jessica Louise Macleod, who spent the first six months of her life in hospital with a congenital heart defect, became ill after developing breathing difficulties on Friday.\n\nThe ambulance became stuck in snow as it tried to reach a hospital in Aberdeen.\n\nSome minor roads roads around Angus, parts of Aberdeenshire and Argyll and Bute were also affected by heavy snow.\n\nThe ice warning covers most of Scotland\n\nThree people died as the storm's fierce winds swept across the UK.\n\nSnow showers continued to fall into Friday night and Traffic Scotland warned of hazardous driving conditions.\n\nThe A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful is operating under convoy control until Saturday evening, and then from 19:00 traffic will be diverted to the Old Military Road as a safety precaution, due to the heavy rain forecast.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScotRail said it was planning to run a full service on Saturday, but that high winds might mean train speeds would be limited.\n\nOverhead wires were damaged at Beattock when a large tree fell on the railway line.\n\nNetwork Rail said the extent of the damage was considerable and repairs would continue all night and into Saturday morning.\n\nFerry passengers faced disruption on Friday due to adverse weather and Caledonian MacBrayne warned that services would continue to be affected over the weekend.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Railcam UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe ferry operator said passengers should continue to check the status of their sailing and that situations could change quickly.\n\nScottish Mountain Rescue warned there was a risk of dangerous conditions, including the possibility of avalanches.\n\nThe organisation's vice chairman Kev Mitchell said: \"The weekend forecast is for very unsettled and, at times, dangerous conditions.\n\n\"With the arrival of Storm Eunice on Friday, hills will see high winds and the potential for snowfall to low levels meaning the avalanche forecast will be likely to worsen.\n\n\"Good decision-making is key in these situations and often the decision not to go, whilst correct, is the hardest one to make.\"\n\nSpecialist mountain weather forecasts are predicting sustained periods of gales or hurricane-force winds on higher terrain for the next week, with snow, rain and hail expected most days.", "Simon Nellist was a diving instructor and a regular swimmer at the beach where he died\n\nThe family of a British man killed by a shark in Australia have paid tribute to him, saying he had a \"rare gift\" in connecting with people.\n\nSimon Nellist, 35, died in the attack on Wednesday off Little Bay - the first fatal attack in Sydney for 60 years.\n\nThe diving instructor grew up in the west Cornwall village of Ludgvan before emigrating.\n\nHis family released a tribute calling him a \"wonderful human being\" and \"very talented photographer\".\n\n\"Simon was a gentle, kind and wonderful human being. He was a cherished fiancée, son, brother, uncle and friend,\" they said.\n\n\"Simon was funny, compassionate and always had time for people. He had a rare gift of instantly being able to connect with others, gaining their trust and respect.\"\n\nMr Nellist's family said he was a \"proud Cornishman\" who had made Australia his home with his fiancée Jessie.\n\n\"Simon had a great passion for nature and the sea, as well as being a very talented photographer,\" they said, adding that they were very proud of him and would \"miss him terribly\".\n\nMost city beaches were shut after the attack with swimmers banned from the water.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "St Thomas's Church spire, in Wells, Somerset, fell on Friday morning as people watched from neighbouring houses.\n\nThe Grade II-listed church, on St Thomas Street, was built in the 1850s.\n\nStorm Eunice, which has generated extremely high winds, has caused travel disruption across the south of England and led to two rare red weather warnings.", "There was snow on the Glenshane pass in County Londonderry in the early hours\n\nFlights and ferries have been cancelled as Storm Eunice sweeps across Northern Ireland.\n\nThere were a number of crashes on the Glenshane Road in County Londonderry after heavy snowfall.\n\nA yellow weather warning remains in place until 09:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nA man was killed in the Republic of Ireland after being hit by a falling tree, but red and orange warnings in parts of the country have now been lifted.\n\nAbout 80,000 properties are without power in the Republic, mainly in Cork, Kerry and Clare.\n\nMet Éireann has extended a yellow snow and ice warning for the entire country until 10:00 local time on Saturday.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said there had been several crashes on the Glenshane Road in County Londonderry due to the weather but no-one required hospital treatment.\n\nOfficers said the road remained open and was passable with care.\n\nESB Networks said gale force winds had caused damage in the Republic of Ireland, with gusts of more than 130 km/h (80mph) reported\n\nThe yellow snow warning for parts of counties Londonderry, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Antrim is in force until 18:00, with the worst expected on hills and mountains.\n\nA yellow warning for wind for County Antrim and parts of counties Londonderry and Down is also in force until 18:00, with a yellow warning for ice in place for the whole of Northern Ireland until 09:00 on Friday.\n\nBetween 10-20cm of snow accumulate over the highest spots such as the Sperrins and Mournes.\n\nSeveral centimetres could affect some areas closer to sea level - although not everywhere will get snow.\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure said all roads remained open after gritters and snow ploughs were deployed.\n\nStrong winds have been making waves on the north coast of Northern Ireland\n\nDonegal County Council said a number of cars had become stuck in snow on Friday morning and described some roads as impassable. Gritters are working to clear the affected roads, the council added.\n\nThis could lead to transport disruption, power cuts, and rural communities temporarily cut off.\n\nThe Met Office says gusts up to 100km/h (60mph) are likely, with stronger winds possible for more exposed areas.\n\nThe strong winds combined with snow are likely to lead to blizzard conditions.\n\nSome ferry sailings and flight have been cancelled - passengers are advised to check before departure.\n\nAt City of Derry Airport, Friday morning flights to Stansted and Edinburgh were cancelled, while a number of flights from Belfast City Airport and Belfast International Airport have also fallen foul of the weather.\n\nA number of ferry sailings between Northern Ireland and Scotland have also been cancelled.\n\nParts of Cork and Kerry were hit by gusts of over 130km/h (81mph), with the highest gust recorded at 137 kmh/h (85mph) at Roches Point in Cork.", "The case was heard at the Court of Session in Edinburgh\n\nA women's group has convinced judges that an attempt by the Scottish government to expand the definition of \"woman\" to include transwomen breaches equality law.\n\nFor Women Scotland appealed against a 2021 ruling that backed the government.\n\nThe Court of Session ruled that the definition in the Gender Representation on Public Boards Scotland Act 2018 could only cover biological women.\n\nThe act's purpose is to ensure greater gender balance on public sector boards.\n\nHe said the Scottish government's proposals to help transgender people gain greater representation on public boards undermined the rights of women under the Equality Act.\n\nIn a judgment, Lady Dorrian and her colleagues upheld Mr O'Neill's submissions.\n\nLady Dorrian, who delivered the decision, wrote that by incorporating those living as women into the definition of woman, the 2018 Act \"conflates and confuses two separate and distinct protected characteristics\".\n\nShe said the Scottish Parliament could have included an equal opportunities objective to encourage representation of women on boards, and separately for any other protected characteristic. However, this had not been done.\n\nLady Dorrian also said that changing the definition of protected characteristics was not permitted and was not within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nLawyers for the Scottish government denied the Holyrood administration had acted unlawfully.\n\nAt the proceedings last year, For Women Scotland had argued that the Scottish government could not legislate on equalities law as it was reserved to the UK Parliament.\n\nHowever, Scottish government lawyer Ruth Crawford QC said the law allowed for the government to legislate on the matter.\n\nShe said the proposed redefinition of the word \"woman\" would broaden the term to include transgender women, who have the protected characteristic of gender reassignment under the Equality Act 2010.\n\nAt the time, Judge Lady Wise said the proposed changes did not breach the Equality Act 2010 and that the Scottish government could legislate on the matter.\n\nIn her judgment, Lady Dorrian added that the judges had heard submissions critical of the process involved in obtaining a gender recognition certificate. She said policy issues around, for example, the Gender Recognition Act 2004 were beyond the scope of the case.\n\nThe ruling comes the day after Lord Sandison ruled a government plan to allow people to \"self-identify\" when answering a question about their sex in this year's census was lawful.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kara McIvor pressed the panic button after a customer became aggressive towards her\n\nStaff running high street pharmacies in Scotland say they are increasingly being abused by aggressive customers.\n\nThey have told the BBC that a combination of Covid pandemic pressure and unrealistic expectations is causing customers to become increasingly angry.\n\nHarry McQuillan, of Community Pharmacy Scotland, said a rise in aggression had been seen across Scotland.\n\nHe said an increasing number of owners felt they needed to employ security guards to protect staff.\n\nEarlier this month, Kara McIvor, who works at a pharmacy in Glenrothes in Fife, had to call the police when a customer lost his temper.\n\nShe said the man had been sitting down and she had not realised he was waiting to be served.\n\n\"He was very angry from the beginning of our interaction,\" Ms McIvor said.\n\n\"I did everything in my power to calm down the situation but he wasn't for listening.\"\n\nMs McIvor then pressed the \"panic button\" behind the counter which alerts the police because she did not know how the customer was going to react next.\n\nHer mother Bernadette Brown, who runs the pharmacy, said a shortage of face-to-face appointments with GPs and hospitals was pushing more patients her way.\n\nPublic health campaigns are also encouraging people to make the pharmacist their first port of call.\n\nMs Brown said: \"We have noticed since lockdown that our customers are behaving differently, especially elderly people.\n\n\"They are getting more easily upset than they did prior to lockdown. They are getting anxious and concerned so they are taking that out in being more aggressive towards our counter staff.\"\n\nSimon Wilson said people did not understand the pressures the system was under\n\nOn Dalry Road in Edinburgh, pharmacist Simon Wilson said the barrier he put in place in his reception area to prevent the transmission of Covid had protected his staff from violence on at least three occasions.\n\n\"We do see increasing levels of frustration,\" he said.\n\n\"People do not understand the pressures the system is under. All they understand is 'I have not got what I am meant to have'.\"\n\nMr Wilson gives the example of a man who was visiting from London and got extremely angry when his medication did not get delivered by the wholesaler.\n\n\"The gentleman then appeared with his two brothers who were basically threatening me with violence unless I gave them what they were meant to have,\" he said.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said it was completely unacceptable for pharmacy staff to be targeted by aggressive behaviour from members of the public.", "Storm Eunice has swept across the UK - with a provisional record gust of 122mph measured on the Isle of Wight.\n\nWatch our video to see the impact of one of the worst storms to hit the UK in decades.\n\nMore on this story: Storm leaves 400,000 without power", "Some of the boys were wearing school shoes and trainers to walk through the snow\n\nA school has been fined £30,000 for taking a group of teenage pupils on a dangerous mountain hike.\n\nStaff from Gateshead Cheder, an Orthodox Jewish school, led 13 boys up Helvellyn in the Lake District in March 2020 amid ice and snow.\n\nA mountain rescue team eventually found the group in darkness and led them to safety after one boy slipped on ice and another had become separated.\n\nThe school said \"mistakes were made\" and health and safety had improved.\n\nNewcastle Magistrates' Court heard some boys were in school shoes and trainers.\n\nOne of the boys fell several metres on ice and sustained minor cuts\n\nThe group of Year 10 pupils, aged 14 and 15, were on an organised trip led by a teacher and a teaching assistant.\n\nBefore setting off, supervisors reviewed the Lake District weather report, which stressed the dangers of ascending above the snow line, but decided to press ahead, the court heard.\n\nThe adults had no formal qualifications in mountain leadership or experience in wintery conditions and were relying on a smartphone app for guidance.\n\nDuring the ascent, at least two members of the public warned the teaching staff to turn back, but they carried on and reached the 3,117ft (950m) summit.\n\nHelvellyn is the third highest peak in England\n\nHowever, as they made their descent they lost their way and ended up on steep terrain which included vertical rock faces with drops of 20 metres, the hearing was told.\n\nOne of the boys fell several metres on ice and sustained minor cuts. Another teenager \"panicked\", ran off and was eventually guided down by a member of the public.\n\nThe group was eventually found after dark by the Keswick Mountain Rescue Team who cut steps in the snow to get them back to the path.\n\nThe school, in Sunderland Road, Gateshead, admitted health and safety breaches and was fined following a prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nIt was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £181 and pay costs of £4,547.\n\nThe school, based at Bede House in Gateshead, was rated inadequate in its most recent Ofsted inspection\n\nA school spokesman said it had \"clear and robust safety measures in place\" and it fully accepted the court's judgement.\n\n\"The health and safety of our pupils and staff is always of the utmost importance,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"We have conducted a thorough investigation into what happened two years ago and have made a number of improvements to our health and safety policy and practice.\n\n\"This includes a thorough review of our risk assessment policies and procedures.\"\n\nStephen Garner of the HSE, said: \"On this occasion, none of the party came to serious harm, however, the school was aware of the weather and ground conditions, but decided to proceed without the appropriate planning, equipment, or suitably trained leaders.\n\n\"Those taking part in the trek that day were placed in serious danger and there was a clear failing by the school to adopt sensible precautions to ensure their safety.\n\n\"Excursions into mountains, particularly in winter, need to be led by people with the appropriate skills, knowledge and experience.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "A former high-ranking US national security official believes that Russia is working to manipulate media perceptions at home and abroad ahead of a potential invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAndrea Kendall-Taylor, an ex-senior analyst at the CIA and Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said she believes Russia is \"accelerating its efforts in the information domain\" to build the case for conflict.\n\nAs examples, she pointed to Russian media coverage of purported mass graves discovered in separatist areas or the recent shelling of a kindergarten, which Russian-backed separatists blamed on Ukraine.\n\n\"The Russian media is really trying to spin this all up as Ukraine mounting an offensive,\" she said. \"It creates justification.\"\n\nKendall-Taylor added that Russian military doctrine views the \"information space\" as a key part of their competition with the US and the West.\n\nShe added that this sort of media is aimed both at the Russian public and at external observers across the world.\n\n\"They're going to flood the information space with fabricated stories and half-truths in order to confuse and disorient, and make it hard for outside observers to discern the truth,\" she said.", "US court documents allege Jean-Luc Brunel (far right) procured girls for Jeffrey Epstein\n\nA French modelling agent and close associate of the late US financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead in his prison cell in Paris.\n\nJean-Luc Brunel was found hanged in his cell in La Santé prison at 01:00 on Saturday, prosecutors told the BBC.\n\nThe 76-year-old had been held for over a year as he was investigated on suspicion of the rape of minors and trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation.\n\nBrunel's lawyers said he had been \"crushed\" by the allegations, and blamed a \"media-judicial system\".\n\nBrunel co-founded French modelling agency Karin Models in 1977, and MC2 Model Management in the US with funding from Epstein.\n\nBrunel was detained at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport in December 2020 as he was trying to board a flight to Senegal.\n\nHis arrest was part of a French inquiry into sex trafficking and sexual assault allegations against Epstein, focusing on potential crimes committed against French victims and suspects who are French citizens.\n\nProsecutors suspected Brunel of raping, sexually assaulting and sexually harassing multiple minors and adults. They also suspected him of transporting and housing young girls or young women for Epstein.\n\nEpstein was found dead in a New York prison in 2019 as he awaited trial over allegations he ran a network using underage girls for sex. A medical examiner ruled his death was suicide by hanging.\n\nEpstein was already a convicted sex offender, having pleaded guilty to prostitution charges involving a minor in Florida in 2008.\n\nA frequent companion of Epstein, Brunel was considered key to the French probe into alleged sexual exploitation of women and girls by the financier and his circle.\n\nBrunel's alleged victims spoke of their disappointment at the news of his death.\n\nDutch former model Thysia Huisman, who has said Brunel drugged and raped her when she was 18, told the BBC it was frustrating that his alleged victims would never have their day in court.\n\n\"After more than two and a half years of fighting for justice, since I reported Brunel in September 2019, it's a huge disappointment he will never face a judge,\" she said.\n\nOne of Epstein's main accusers, Virginia Giuffre, who has alleged she had been forced into sex with Brunel, said his death had ended \"another chapter\".\n\nShe tweeted: \"I'm disappointed that I wasn't able to face him in a final trial to hold him accountable, but gratified that I was able to testify in person last year to keep him in prison.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The secret lives of Maxwell and Epstein", "A photo of people helping the ambulance was shared on Fubar News Facebook page where hundreds of people wished the family well\n\nAn ambulance rushing a baby girl to hospital in Aberdeenshire was rescued by members of the public after it became stuck in heavy snow.\n\nTen-month-old Jessica Louise Macleod, who spent the first six months of her life in hospital with a congenital heart defect, became ill after developing breathing difficulties on Friday.\n\nAt the same time, heavy snow from Storm Eunice was causing massive disruption to roads in the north east.\n\nThe ambulance became stuck in snow as it raced to hospital in Aberdeen.\n\nJessica Louise's mum, Melissa, 32, was amazed at how the public jumped immediately to help.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It got stuck in the snow on the A96 while trying to get past other vehicles that were at a standstill.\n\nJessica Louise Macleod was being taken to hospital in the ambulance when it became stuck\n\n\"Prior to this, there were vehicles not moving out of the way for the ambulance, so a lorry driver got out his vehicle and started walking down the road in the snow to tell people to move.\n\n\"Then the road went down to one treated lane and to get past, the ambulance had to drive on the untreated part of the road, where it became stuck. Literally within seconds there were people pushing the ambulance to free it.\"\n\nThey were freed quickly but the worry continued as a journey that would usually take 45 minutes in a car on a normal day, took the ambulance two hours with flashing lights and siren.\n\nMelissa added: \"I worried how long it was going to take to get there, but at that point Jessica Louise was stable and getting oxygen, plus she had been given some nebulisers at the GP which helped her breathe easier so she wasn't in any discomfort - thankfully.\"\n\nJessica Louise had been fighting a bug for the past two weeks. Her cough worsened on Tuesday and by Friday, Melissa called the doctor. The GP asked them to come to the surgery and it was on the car journey there that the baby deteriorated.\n\nThe doctor diagnosed a respiratory infection and called an ambulance for oxygen support as the baby was transferred to hospital.\n\nAfter a dramatic journey, she is now on the mend at Aberdeen Children's hospital.\n\nMelissa and Donald Macleod are now looking after their daughter Jessica Louise in hospital\n\nMelissa said: \"Since we've been here a few hours and she has been started on medications she has perked up a bit, however I foresee us being in here for a few days to a week.\n\n\"But we went through a lot with Jessica Louise when she was born, so we are a little used to medical dramatics. Thankfully, this one is nowhere near anything like what we have been through with her before.\"\n\nJessica Louise's dad Donald took four hours to battle the snow on the A96 to bring things from home for the hospital stay.\n\nThe relieved mum wanted to thank those who went the extra mile.\n\n\"Thank you to the paramedics for getting us there safely against all odds. Thank you to everyone who cleared the way for the ambulance to get past and the lorry driver who got out his vehicle to tell people to move over even though he was wearing shorts.\n\n\"And a special thank you to all of those who pushed the ambulance when it was stuck in the snow, had you not done this I'm not sure when we would have got to the hospital.\"\n\nStorm Eunice cased the closure of hundreds of schools on Friday with Aberdeenshire hit the worst.\n\nMost of Scotland was under a Met Office yellow weather warning for snow from the early hours until 18:00.\n\nA yellow warning for ice then took over and will be in place until 09:00 on Saturday.\n\nThree people died as fierce winds swept across the UK.\n\nPolice in the north east of Scotland warned drivers only to travel if their journey was necessary, and said there were large tailbacks and significant delays in some areas.\n\nSome minor roads roads around Angus, parts of Aberdeenshire and Argyll and Bute were also affected by heavy snow.\n\nThe Scottish government also urged people to exercise caution and follow the latest travel advice.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney chaired the Scottish government's resilience room meeting on Thursday evening in response to Storms Dudley and Eunice.", "The couple were jailed at Sheffield Crown Court\n\nA mother and stepfather who kept their starving autistic son locked in \"abject squalor and filth\" in an attic for seven months have been jailed.\n\nMatthew Langley, 22, weighed just 6st 2lbs (39kg) and was \"days away from death\" when he was found in June 2020.\n\nLorna Hewitt, 43, and husband Craig Hewitt, 42, were found guilty of false imprisonment by keeping him captive at their Sheffield home.\n\nThe pair, of Walkley Road, were sentenced to six years in prison.\n\nA trial at Sheffield Crown Court heard Mr Langley had learning difficulties and suffered from irritable bowel syndrome, double-incontinence and arthritis.\n\nHe was severely dehydrated when he was found in the bedroom, which rescuers described as littered with piles of rubbish and soiled with vomit and faeces.\n\nJudge Michael Slater, sentencing, said A&E staff had to take the \"unprecedented\" step of washing Mr Langley upon his arrival at hospital.\n\nProsecutors had alleged that Mr Langley's complex needs were a \"drain on resources\" and they had been trying to \"have him taken off their hands\".\n\nJurors heard that the couple had prevented him from attending college and cancelled a string of medical appointments in the seven months he spent locked away.\n\nLorna and Craig Hewitt denied locking her vulnerable son for seven months in a vomit and faeces-covered attic bedroom\n\nThe judge described Lorna Hewitt's actions as \"a grave abuse of trust from a mother to her son\".\n\nIn mitigation, her defence counsel said she had been suffering with PTSD from a childhood experience, which had impacted her adult life.\n\nJailing Craig Hewitt, the judge conceded he was \"not a deliberately cruel man\" but he had been complicit in effectively switching off Mr Langley's care in a plot hatched by the couple.\n\nThe couple were also convicted of causing or allowing a vulnerable adult to suffer serious physical harm.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price and the Labour Welsh government's Counsel General Mick Antoniw arrived in Kyiv on Saturday evening\n\nTwo Welsh politicians have travelled to Ukraine as the country stands on the brink of war with Russia.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price and Counsel General Mick Antoniw arrived in the capital Kyiv on Saturday evening.\n\nWestern nations have warned Russia, with 130,000 troops near the border, could invade the country imminently.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has advised against all travel to Ukraine and told all British nationals to leave.\n\nIn a further update on Saturday, the FCDO said: \"British nationals should leave while commercial options remain.\n\n\"In the event of a military incursion, it is likely that commercial routes out of Ukraine will be severely disrupted and roads across Ukraine could be closed.\"\n\nUkrainians take part in military training for civilians in Kyiv\n\nOn Friday, US president Joe Biden said he was convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin had decided to launch an invasion of Ukraine which could start in the coming days, with Kyiv a potential key target.\n\nOn Saturday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he did not know what Russian President Vladimir Putin intends, but said the \"omens are grim\".\n\nMr Price and Labour's Mr Antoniw, who comes from a Ukrainian family, are in the country for four days as part of a UK delegation, which also includes former Labour MEP Julie Ward and general secretary of the ASLEF union Mick Whelan.\n\nTheir stated aim is to show solidarity with workers and minorities.\n\nAfter landing, Mr Price tweeted it was important to \"stand shoulder to shoulder\" with the Ukrainian people.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDuring their stay they will meet Ukrainian workers, LGBTQ+ people, ethnic minorities and human rights defenders.\n\nThey plan to report back to grassroots organisations at home, with Mr Price saying the visit also reflects the historic ties between Wales and Ukraine going back to the foundation of Donetsk by Welsh migrants in the 19th century.\n\n\"The more the Ukrainian people are threatened by Russian aggression and imperialism the more urgent it becomes for socialists, democrats and internationalist to stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity with them - in defence of their right to national self-determination and in defiance of Putin's warmongering,\" Mr Price said.\n\nHe is on the trip in a personal capacity, as is Pontypridd MS Mr Antoniw.\n\nMr Antoniw said: \"In too many of the discussions about the situation in Ukraine, it is the people themselves who are being bypassed. We want to listen to what the Ukrainian people say and to show our solidarity with them. We stand by them and their right to determine their own future and to defend their country from Russian aggression and imperialism.\"", "Police are appealing for witnesses following the death on the M4 between Penllergaer and Llangyfelach\n\nA 41-year-old man has died after being hit by a vehicle on the M4.\n\nIt happened between junctions 46 and 47, Llangyfelach and Penllergaer, near Swansea, shortly before 20:35 GMT on Friday.\n\nThe man, who was from Swansea, died at the scene \"despite best efforts\", South Wales Police said.\n\nThe force is appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage. A silver Nissan Qashqai was involved in the crash.", "Boris Johnson has returned his questionnaire about allegations of Downing Street lockdown breaches to the police, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe PM was one of more than 50 people to be sent the document by the Metropolitan Police, which is looking at potential Covid rule-breaking.\n\nMr Johnson had until 22:00 GMT on Friday to answer the survey.\n\nHe has said he did not believe he was breaking any rules, but apologised \"for the things we simply didn't get right\".\n\nMr Johnson has received legal advice about his response.\n\nThe investigation, Operation Hillman, is examining 12 gatherings on eight dates - some of which the PM has already said he attended - to see if Covid regulations were broken.\n\nThe Met has said a fine would be issued to anyone found to have breached Covid regulations. A decision is not expected for weeks.\n\nThe force previously said the questionnaires would ask what had happened and \"must be answered truthfully\".\n\nThe documents, which were sent by email, require an \"account and explanation of the recipient's participation in an event\", the Met said.\n\nBut it added that being contacted did not mean a fine would always be issued.\n\nThe questionnaire has the same status as information given in an interview under caution.\n\nThe police investigation was launched in late January after an internal inquiry led by civil servant Sue Gray passed information to the force.\n\nDetectives investigating the parties have been handed more than 500 documents and 300 images gathered as part of Ms Gray's inquiry.\n\nThe initial findings of Ms Gray's inquiry criticised \"failures of leadership and judgement\" over the gatherings in Downing Street and Whitehall.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch this video to see how The O2's roof looks a day after Storm Eunice hit\n\nEnergy companies are working to restore power to thousands of homes, as forecasters issue new yellow weather warnings for parts of the UK.\n\nGusts of up to 70mph are predicted in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Sunday, while heavy rain is due in Cumbria, Lancashire and West Yorkshire.\n\nIt comes after one of the worst storms to hit the UK in decades killed three people on Friday.\n\nStorm Eunice tore through the UK, toppling trees and destroying roofs.\n\nThe Met Office's Greg Dewhurst said there would be \"a slight easing in the wind\" on Saturday night, but added \"it's not long before they pick up again tomorrow to lead to another windy day across the UK\".\n\n\"This will have an impact on the clearing up process over the course of the day.\"\n\nA yellow warning for wind has been issued for England and Wales on Sunday from midday until 15:00 GMT on Monday, while Northern Ireland and north-west England are covered by the same warning until midnight Sunday.\n\nIn addition, there is a yellow warning in place for rain, from midnight Saturday until 18:00 GMT on Sunday, for Cumbria, Lancashire and West Yorkshire.\n\nIn an update on Saturday, the Energy Networks Association said about 155,000 customers remained without power in the south and east of England and Wales, while some 1.22 million had been reconnected.\n\nPeople braved wet and windy weather in Westminster in central London on Saturday\n\nThere was ongoing \"major disruption\" to rail services \"across most of Great Britain\" on Saturday, as operators cleared debris from the tracks and brought trains back to the intended destination.\n\nSome routes operated a limited service, but most continued to advise customers not to travel unless essential.\n\nGatwick, Heathrow and Manchester airports said operations were mostly back to normal, after more than 500 flights to and from the UK were cancelled on Friday - on a weekend likely to be busy with half term traffic.\n\nFriday's Storm Eunice was preceded by a rare red weather warnings for coastal areas of south-west England and south Wales, along with south-east England, indicating a danger to life\n\nFive flood warnings were still in place in England on Saturday afternoon.\n\nInsurance payouts for damage caused by the storm could total between £200m and £350m, according to early estimates from the consultancy firm PwC.\n\nMohammad Khan, General Insurance Leader at PwC UK, said insurance losses would mainly relate to \"damage to homes, commercial properties and vehicles from falling trees and flying debris\".\n\nLast year, the Association of British Insurers estimated the cost to the insurance industry from Storms Dennis and Ciara at a combined £360m.\n\nPolice forces and local authorities across the country reported being inundated with phone calls related to the storm.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade declared a major incident - receiving 1,958 calls on Friday, three times more than the previous day.\n\nThe South Central England ambulance service declared a critical incident due to demand on its emergency services.\n\nThe rooftops of three houses in Kilburn Park Road, in north-west London, were torn off by strong winds on Friday, leaving the road filled with debris\n\nA female passenger in her 30s died in Highgate, north London after a tree fell on a car on Friday afternoon, police said. The driver, a man in his 30s, was taken to hospital.\n\nA man died in Merseyside after debris hit the windscreen of a car he was a passenger in. The driver was not injured.\n\nIn Alton, Hampshire, two men were in a pickup truck when it was crushed by a falling tree. The passenger died at the scene while the driver was taken to hospital with serious injuries.\n\nWaves crash against the sea wall and Porthcawl Lighthouse in Porthcawl, Bridgend, Wales\n\nAmong those injured were a woman with her baby, who was hit by a tree in Bedford - hurting her but leaving the baby unharmed.\n\nA driver in Wiltshire was in a serious condition and two passengers were taken to hospital after a car collided with a fallen tree, while others were injured in south London and Henley-on-Thames by falling trees and debris.\n\nThe O2 remains closed across the weekend \"whilst urgent repairs take place\" - with rapper Dave's concerts, due to take place on Monday and Tuesday night, also postponed.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to reschedule the shows to play as soon as humanly possible,\" said Dave, in a statement issued by the venue.\n\n\"I'll be back with a plan as soon as I have it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Meet the man behind the Big Jet TV phenomenon\n\nEunice is the second storm in a week to hit the UK, after parts of Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland were battered by Storm Dudley.\n\nEunice also brought dangerous conditions to areas across north-west Europe.\n\nIn Ireland, a man in his 60s was killed by a falling tree in County Wexford. Three people also died in the Netherlands after being hit by falling trees, and a 79-year-old man was killed in Belgium.\n\nTwo people have died in Poland after trees fell onto their cars, a fire service spokesman said.\n\nUpdate 21st February: An earlier version of this article included a picture of what purported to be a trampoline flying in mid-air during Storm Eunice in Builth Wells, Wales. It has since come to our attention that the picture is not genuine and so we have removed it from the article.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nEilish McColgan broke Paula Radcliffe's 21-year-old British half marathon record with a stunning run at Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates.\n\nThe 31-year-old Scot finished sixth in one hour six minutes 26 seconds, eclipsing Radcliffe's mark of 1:06:47.\n\nMcColgan's milestone in just her second competitive half marathon also beat her mother Liz's best of 1:07:11.\n\nEthiopia's Girmawit Gebrzihair Gebru emerged from a strong field to take victory in a course record 1:04:14.\n\nElsewhere, Adam Clayton beat his own Scottish indoor 200m record, clocking 20.86 seconds at Texas Tech Track & Field.", "Lulu Lakatos posed as a gem valuer to gain access to the diamonds worth £4.2m\n\nA thief who posed as a gem expert to switch diamonds worth £4.2m for pebbles has been ordered to pay back less than £250.\n\nLulu Lakatos, 60, told Mayfair jewellers Boodles she had been sent to value seven precious stones on behalf of Russian buyers.\n\nShe used sleight of hand to swap them for the duplicates, and was jailed.\n\nA proceeds of crime hearing was told Lakatos' only asset was the €293 (£245) in cash found when she was arrested.\n\nJudge Alexander Milne QC noted the \"striking contrast\" between the value of the stolen diamonds and Lakatos' available assets.\n\nSince the money had already been seized, he set a one-day default sentence and gave her a month to pay the debt.\n\nFriday's hearing was also told Romanian-born Lakatos, from Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, was expected to be extradited back to France.\n\nShe was previously sentenced to five and a half years for conspiracy to steal.\n\nLakatos inspected seven diamonds before replacing them with small pebbles\n\nLakatos, who was convicted at Southwark Crown Court last July, was caught on CCTV as she switched a padlocked purse containing the diamonds in March 2016.\n\nShe left the shop and handed the gems off to an unknown woman linked to an international criminal gang which fled the UK for France within three hours.\n\nThe purse containing the pebbles was placed in Boodles' safe and the ruse was only detected the next day. The real diamonds have never been recovered.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss says the UK is increasing its financial support for Ukraine, amid tensions with Russia.\n\nSpeaking in Kyiv, Ms Truss said the UK would be spending an additional £12m on democracy and energy independence projects in the country.\n\nWestern allies have warned Russia could try to stage an attack to justify invading Ukraine.\n\nRussia has repeatedly denied it has plans to invade despite amassing more than 100,000 troops along the border.\n\nAs part of ongoing diplomatic efforts, Ms Truss visited the Ukrainian capital, holding a press conference alongside the country's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.\n\nShe praised the country's \"fortitude in the face of Russian aggression\" and pledged UK's \"steadfast support\".\n\nMr Kuleba said Ukrainian-British relationships had \"reached an unprecedentedly high level\".\n\nIn addition to increasing funding for Ukraine's defence capabilities from £88m to £100m, Ms Truss also announced a new \"trilateral partnership\" with Ukraine and Poland to \"intensify work on defence and security, sanctions, energy security and countering disinformation\".\n\nThe foreign secretary also warned that \"false-flag\" operations were taking place in the region adding: \"We are very clear the aggressor in this situation is Russia.\"\n\nA false-flag attack is where one side stages or fabricates an attack against it in order to justify the use of force in retaliation.\n\nEarlier in the day, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Russia could be \"trying to stage a pretext for an armed attack against Ukraine\".\n\nRussia has accused the West of \"hysteria\" over such warnings in recent weeks.\n\nIt has also called on Nato to guarantee Ukraine will not be allowed to join the defence alliance.\n\nNato insists it will keep its open door policy, and has been increasingly concerned an invasion is on the cards.\n\nMr Stoltenberg, said there were \"signs from Moscow that diplomacy could continue\", but that the West had \"not seen any sign of withdrawal or de-escalation\".\n\nSpeaking from an RAF base in Waddington, Lincolnshire, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there was \"still time to avoid a catastrophe\" but said the picture from the region was \"very grim\".\n\nHe added that a Russian invasion would result in a \"bloody and protracted conflict in which, I'm afraid, there will be many casualties and including many Russian casualties\"\n\nIn a speech following the press conference in Kyiv, Ms Truss, who became foreign secretary last year, said the current crisis in the region was a \"litmus test\" for the West.\n\n\"The free world needs to draw the line under a decade of drift... we must stand up to and defuse Russian aggression now, because if we don't it will embolden not only the Kremlin, but aggressors, authoritarians and autocrats everywhere.\n\n\"The West needs to wise up. We need to work together to discredit their arguments in public.\"\n\nMs Truss is now travelling to Poland for a meeting with her Polish counterpart, before heading to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday for meetings with allies.\n\nThe UK has no troops in Ukraine but it has increased numbers in Estonia to the \"high hundreds,\" according to the Ministry of Defence, as well as sending additional helicopters, jets and warships to the region.\n\nA further 1,000 British troops are also on standby to support Nato if called upon.", "The club said Whizzy was so low to the ground, she did not see \"the man in green\"\n\nA mascot who drove off with the match ball at a Super League match, instead of delivering it to the centre spot, had her family \"crying with laughter\".\n\nThe six-year-old, known as Whizzy Rascal, was meant to take the ball out in a mini BMW before Warrington Wolves' win against Castleford on Thursday.\n\nHowever, she drove straight past the referee twice, leading to much laughter around the stadium and on social media.\n\nHer aunt said her appearance \"has really given everyone a good lift\".\n\nThe girl, whose real name is being kept under wraps by the Warrington rugby league club ahead of a reveal later in the season, was supposed to deliver the ball to the referee but stole the show when she carried on driving.\n\nAfter turning round, she decided it would be more fun to cross the pitch again, much to the delight of the crowd and TV viewers, many of whom took to social media to sing her praises.\n\nThankfully, the ball was wrestled from her by club mascot Wolfie and kicked out to the waiting teams, both of which saw the funny side of her appearance.\n\nWolves' new coach Daryl Powell said it brought big smiles all round.\n\n\"It created a bit of theatre which everybody enjoyed,\" he said.\n\nA club spokesman said Whizzy's appearance was inspired by the remote control car which delivered the ball at football's Euro 2020 championship last summer.\n\n\"We wanted to do something special for the first home game of the season,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said confusion over where they had told Whizzy to stop caused by her being so low to the ground meant she had missed her mark.\n\n\"Whizzy Rascal was supposed to deliver the ball to the man in green, but she said she couldn't find him, so just kept going,\" he said.\n\n\"When she got out of the car, she was waving to the crowds - it was brilliant.\"\n\nThe club said Whizzy would be back for the next home game - after some driving lessons\n\nWhizzy's aunt said her family, who were life-long Wolves fans, were watching in the stands and thought the whole thing was \"absolutely brilliant\".\n\nShe said they were \"crying with laughter, thinking 'where's she going?'\".\n\n\"We are so proud of her, she loved every minute in front of the crowd,\" she added.\n\n\"It has really given everyone a good lift.\"\n\nFans reacting to a clip of Wizzy's star turn on social media said it was \"absolutely outstanding\" and a \"fantastic bit of light-hearted humour\", while club sponsor Halliwell Jones, who provided Whizzy's car, tweeted that she was \"definitely our player of the match\".\n\nBBC Radio 1's Greg James said it was \"comedy gold\".\n\nThe Wolves spokesman said Whizzy would now be attending driving classes, but would be back for the next home game against Catalan Dragons on 4 March.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reservists in the Ukrainian Territorial Defence take part in military exercises on Saturday\n\nUkraine's president has said his nation will not respond to provocations amid a deadly escalation in fighting in rebel Russian-backed eastern territories.\n\nBut Volodymyr Zelensky told world leaders Ukraine would defend itself against Russian aggression.\n\nTwo Ukrainian soldiers were killed on a third day of clashes between Ukraine's military and Russian-backed rebels.\n\nUS President Joe Biden said he was convinced Russia would invade Ukraine, but Moscow has denied this.\n\nWestern nations have accused Russia of trying to stage a fake crisis in the eastern regions as a pretext to invade.\n\nBut speaking to a security conference in Munich, President Zelensky said Ukrainians were \"not panicking, we want to live our lives\".\n\nHe accused Western leaders of a \"policy of appeasement\" towards Moscow and demanded Ukraine be given new security guarantees. President Zelensky travelled to Munich despite being warned by US officials that it was unsafe to leave his country.\n\nHis comments came as monitors reported a \"dramatic increase\" in attacks along the line dividing rebel and government forces in eastern Ukraine. There were more than 1,400 explosions in the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk regions on Saturday alone, monitors said.\n\nSome people boarded buses after residents in the city of Donetsk were ordered to evacuate\n\nDenys Monastyrsky, the Ukrainian interior minister, had to be hurried into a bomb shelter after coming under shellfire while he was touring the front lines.\n\nRebels in the self-declared people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk have ordered a mobilisation of all men of fighting age and urged other civilians to evacuate to Russia. The separatists claimed, without providing evidence, that Ukraine was planning to attack.\n\nMany did not comply with the evacuation order, instead remaining at their homes.\n\nRussian media released a series of unverified reports of attacks or attempted attacks inside rebel-held territory on Saturday.\n\nRussia launched a criminal investigation into reports, denied by Ukraine, that shells exploded on Russian territory in the Rostov region, about 1km (0.6 mile) from the Ukrainian border.\n\nAs reports of shelling continued, Germany and France became the latest Western countries to urge their citizens to leave Ukraine. The German airliner Lufthansa will suspend flights to Ukraine for a week from Monday.\n\nAs Western leaders met in Munich, Russia was putting on another demonstration of its military capabilities. It says it launched advanced hypersonic missiles as part of strategic nuclear drills, which were overseen by President Vladimir Putin.\n\nRussia has been holding military exercises in Belarus, close to the border with Ukraine. The drills followed a build-up of Russian troops - estimated by the US to be between 169,000 and 190,000, which includes rebels in eastern Ukraine - along Ukraine's borders.\n\nUS Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said Russian forces were beginning to \"uncoil and move closer\" to the border with Ukraine.\n\nIn an earlier speech to the conference, US Vice-President Kamala Harris accused Moscow of trying to create a fake pretext for invading Ukraine and warned the consequences for Russia would be \"severe and swift\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as US Vice-President Kamala Harris warns Russia of consequences if it invades Ukraine\n\nUkraine, a former Soviet republic with historic ties to Russia, is not a member of Nato or the European Union but has close relations with both.\n\nRussia is insisting Ukraine should not be allowed to join Nato, which it sees as a threat to its security.", "The NHS will stop taking money from the gambling industry to treat people with addiction, the NHS England national mental health director has said.\n\nWriting to charity GambleAware, Claire Murdoch said the NHS would instead fund its own gambling services from 1 April.\n\nThe gambling industry paid £16m to GambleAware between April and December to help fund treatment services.\n\nOf this, £1.2m was awarded in grants to NHS-run gambling clinics.\n\nBut Ms Murdoch said patients were uncomfortable about using services paid for by the gambling industry - and she said that had \"heavily influenced\" her decision to reject future funding from GambleAware.\n\nShe said industry funding \"has allowed us to roll out treatment services faster than would have otherwise been possible\", but there was a desire to move the funding into general NHS funding.\n\n\"Additionally, our clinicians feel there are conflicts of interest in their clinics being part-funded by resources from the gambling industry,\" Ms Murdoch wrote.\n\nIt comes less than a year after Ms Murdoch told the Guardian that gambling firms should be hit with a compulsory levy to fund treatment, as the NHS had been left to \"pick up the pieces\".\n\nIn her latest letter to GambleAware, she said the health service cannot address the \"harms\" brought by gambling alone, and neither is it the NHS's \"job\" to do so.\n\nMs Murdoch said the NHS would continue to work closely with GambleAware to develop a treatment system that is \"fit for purpose\".\n\nLast year, the overall voluntary pledges to GambleAware included £1m from William Hill, £4m from Entain and just over £4m from Bet365.\n\nAs well as the NHS treatment centres, that money is used to fund the 24-hour National Gambling Helpline.\n\nThe NHS is facing rising demand to help problem gamblers.\n\nTwo new gambling addiction clinics will open in Southampton and Stoke from May, bringing the number of specialist clinics in England to seven.\n\nAccording to NHS England, between April and December last year, 668 people with the most severe gambling addiction issues were referred to NHS specialist clinics.\n\nThat is a 16.2% increase from 575 during the same period in 2020.\n\nThe gambling industry makes profits of more than £14bn a year in the UK.\n\nA spokesperson for the Betting and Gaming Council said the betting industry has been a \"majority funder\" of research, education and treatment for gambling harm for more than 20 years.\n\nIt is estimated that around 246,000 people - about 0.5% of the UK adult population - are likely to have some form of gambling addiction, with 2.2 million at risk.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nKell Brook (left) came out on top in his grudge match with Amir Khan Kell Brook sensationally beat Amir Khan in the sixth round, with the referee stopping the contest, to settle one of the most bitter and long-running feuds in British boxing. A packed-out Manchester Arena witnessed a demolition job from Sheffield's Brook, 35, who showcased timing and power to win in emphatic fashion. A fight which had been in the making for over 17 years - with the two former world champions having traded words but never punches - ended with Khan and Brook embracing. The thrilling encounter might mark the end of both men's fighting careers, with Brook admitting that, although he felt he was back in top form, retirement was on his mind. \"I can live at peace with Amir Khan on my record,\" Brook said. \"My mojo is back and I love this game. We will listen to loved ones and see, but I'm back, baby. \"I can walk away but I could fight [Chris] Eubank [Jr]. I don't like Eubank. If the fight is right I will fight - I'm a prize fighter.\" Khan, also 35, admitted after the sixth defeat of his career that he had struggled to switch on during the fight. \"Forty fights is a lot of fights. Winning two world titles, going to America... I need to sit down with my family, but it's more towards the end of my career,\" he said. \"That love of the sport is not there any more. When I was in the ring [before] I had that excitement, but I didn't have it. I felt quite flat and maybe that's a sign I should be calling it a day.\"\n• None 'I'm an old man' - Khan considers retirement after loss Barnstormer from the first bell Brook dominated the contest from the first bell The bout may have taken place with both fighters in the twilight of their careers, but a raucous crowd of over 22,000 - which included former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher and Manchester City footballer Jack Grealish - showed just how big a draw Khan and Brook still are. Brook looked focused as he strutted to the ring to Kanye West's 'All of the Lights', his trademark entrance music almost drowned out by the boos of the crowd. Khan - in a white and gold robe - looked slightly more relaxed as he made his ring walk, accompanied by stablemate, former opponent and current world champion Terence Crawford. Khan and Brook locked eyes in the final seconds before the first bell and after all the wait, there was no caution from either fighter as fans were treated to a thrilling opening round. Khan demonstrated he still had hand speed in his arsenal with quick combinations in the opening half of the round. But Brook continued to stalk his opponent across the ring and caught Khan with a shot which wobbled the Bolton fighter. Khan was then on unsteady legs again towards the end of the round. The referee stepped in to stop the fight in the sixth Rounds two, three and four followed a similar pattern. Khan would start well, coming quickly out of the blocks, throwing feints and jabs, making his opponent miss and occasionally connecting with a single shot. But Brook's relentless, brutal attack continued in the fifth round. He was dragging a marked-up Khan - who seemed to have lost his defence and hand speed - around the ring like a rag doll. By now it was one-way traffic and in the sixth round, two right uppercuts followed by a left hook - all connecting - forced referee Victor Loughlin to intervene. Should Khan and Brook hang up their gloves? While a loss to his most bitter rival will be a tough pill for Khan to swallow, it should not define a career of which he, his loved ones and fans of British boxing can be proud. The manner of his defeats by Breidis Prescott, Danny Garcia and Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez - all vicious, stomach-churning knockouts - often made Khan, and the supposed fragility of his chin, the butt of jokes among boxing fans. Khan (right, 40 fights) and Brook (left, 43 fights) have both had long careers in the pro game But his talent, achievements and impact on the sport surpass that of most boxers. Khan is a fighter who single-handedly carried the torch for Team GB's boxing squad at the 2004 Olympics, winning silver in Athens. He is a fighter who paved the way for future Olympic stars such as Anthony Joshua, Nicola Adams and James DeGale. And he is a fighter who, after being thrust into the limelight of professional boxing aged just 17, went on to beat quality champions such as Marcos Maidana, Zab Judah and Devon Alexander and become a unified world champion. For Brook, retiring on a high could be a satisfying way to leave such a gruelling sport, but he has suggested he will take time before confirming his next move. Should he hang up the gloves, he too can leave the sport with his head held high. While Khan is often praised for never ducking a challenge, Brook too has dared to be great. In 2014 he travelled to the champion's home city when he beat American Shawn Porter on points in California to become IBF welterweight champion. Brook also moved up weight divisions when he lost to Kazakhstan's ferocious puncher Gennady Golovkin, and eight months later was defeated by pound-for-pound American star Errol Spence Jr. If Brook does continue, he will not be short of options, and leading the pack could be a blockbuster bout between Brook and Eubank Jr, one that is likely to capture the imagination of both boxing aficionados and casual fans.\n• None What's the worst that could happen?\n• None He's back and exploring the detrimental impact of the internet on American society", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"If Ukraine is invaded, the shock will echo around the world\" - UK PM Boris Johnson\n\nThe shock of any invasion of Ukraine by Russia would \"echo around the world\", Boris Johnson has told world leaders.\n\nHe said we must be \"unflinchingly honest\" about the situation in Ukraine and should not \"underestimate the gravity of this moment\".\n\nIn a speech at a security conference in Munich, Mr Johnson said he does not know what Russian President Vladimir Putin intends, but \"omens are grim\".\n\n\"And that is why we must stand strong together,\" he said.\n\nWestern nations have warned Russia could invade Ukraine imminently, with over 130,000 of its troops near the border.\n\nThey accuse Russia of trying to stage a fake crisis in a breakaway eastern region of Ukraine to give it a reason to invade.\n\nBut Russia has repeatedly denied having plans to invade, saying troops are conducting military exercises in the region, accusing the West of \"hysteria\".\n\nMr Johnson stressed the UK still hoped diplomacy and dialogue would succeed in resolving the crisis.\n\nUrging unity among the UK's Western allies, he said: \"Every time that Western ministers have visited Kyiv, we have assured the people of Ukraine and their leaders that we stand foursquare behind their sovereignty and independence.\n\n\"How hollow, how meaningless, how insulting those words would seem, if at the very moment when their sovereignty and independence is imperilled, we simply look away.\"\n\nIf Ukraine were invaded, Mr Johnson said \"we will witness the destruction of a democratic state, a country that has been free for a generation, with a proud history of elections\".\n\nUkraine is a former Soviet republic with historic ties to Russia and shares borders with both the EU and Russia.\n\nRussia has long resisted Ukraine's move towards Western institutions, including Nato, seeing the eastward expansion of the military alliance as a threat to its security.\n\nBoris Johnson warned \"we will witness the destruction of a democratic state\" if Ukraine is invaded\n\nThe prime minister warned that any invasion would also be met with sanctions on Russian individuals and companies.\n\nHe said the UK would \"open up the Matryoshka dolls\" of certain Russian-owned companies and make it impossible for them to raise finance in London.\n\nHis comments follow the announcement of new legislation allowing the UK to widen its sanctions against the country.\n\n\"If Ukraine is invaded, the shock will echo around the world, and those echoes will be heard in East Asia they will be heard in Taiwan,\" he told the Munich Security Conference.\n\nMr Johnson met Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky, who said they had agreed \"joint next steps\" and remained united in the pursuit of de-escalation and diplomacy.\n\nIn a statement, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the party was \"steadfast in our support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine\".\n\n\"We stand in solidary with the Ukrainian people and in unity with our international partners and Nato allies in warning President Putin that any attack will lead to immediate, severe and extensive sanctions,\" he said.\n\nHe said Labour supported the actions the government was taking to bring about an end to the stand-off, adding that \"diplomacy can still succeed\".\n\nWriting on Twitter, former Prime Minister Theresa May said Boris Johnson was \"right to press the case for continued diplomacy, while preparing the most severe sanctions for Russia if Putin chooses the catastrophe of war\".\n\nMr Zelensky and Mr Johnson met at the security conference\n\nIn a joint statement, foreign ministers from the G7 group of wealthy nations said they had seen \"no evidence\" that Russia has withdrawn some of its forces, as it has claimed, and that they remained \"gravely concerned\" by the situation.\n\n\"We call on Russia to choose the path of diplomacy, to de-escalate tensions, to substantively withdraw military forces from the proximity of Ukraine's borders and to fully abide by international commitments,\" the statement said.\n\n\"As a first step, we expect Russia to implement the announced reduction of its military activities along Ukraine's borders. We will judge Russia by its deeds.\"\n\nUS Vice-President Kamala Harris is also attending the conference in Munich, and said in a speech that Russia faced \"swift, severe and united\" economic consequences if it were to invade.\n\nShe accused Russia of narrowing the avenues for diplomacy, saying \"their simply do not match their words\".\n\nHer remarks come after Moscow said some of its troops had moved away from the border in recent days - but Western powers said there was no evidence of withdrawal.\n\nOn Friday, US President Joe Biden said he is convinced Mr Putin has decided to invade and that an assault could happen in the \"coming days\".\n\nMr Biden said the assessment was based on US intelligence, which suggested the capital Kyiv would be targeted.\n\nOther Western politicians taking part in the three-day security conference include German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US Vice-President Kamala Harris.\n\nBut Russia will not be officially represented at the summit for the first time since 1999 amid the rising tensions over the situation at Ukraine's borders.\n\nMeanwhile, the Home Office has scrapped a visa scheme offering rich foreign investors fast-track residency, amid pressure on ministers over UK links to Russia.\n\nLabour has demanded the immediate publication of an ongoing review into visas granted between 2008 - when the scheme was introduced - and 2015 when checks on applicants were tightened.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have also demanded a \"clear timetable\" for revoking visas issued to any Russians \"who have been flagged as posing a national security risk\".\n\nThe security conference in Germany comes as Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels in the country's east continued to accuse each other of shelling and other ceasefire violations on Friday.\n\nSuch breaks in the area's years-long ceasefire are not uncommon, and each side blamed the other for the violence on Thursday.\n\nOn Friday, Washington increased its estimate of the number of Russian troops deployed around Ukraine to between 169,000 and 190,000.", "Carcasses of thousands of crabs were found at beaches including Seaton Carew\n\nThe government is investigating after new reports of dead crabs and lobsters along the North East coast.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is to \"undertake additional sampling\" after fishermen reported further deaths.\n\nTens of thousands of the crustaceans first washed up on shores from Seaton Carew down to Whitby in October.\n\nDefra previously said it had \"completed a thorough investigation\" which found a natural \"algal bloom\" was responsible.\n\nThousands of crabs and other marine animals washed up dead along the Teesside coast last year\n\nThat finding, which Whitby and Scarborough's Conservative MP and former fisheries minister Robert Goodwill said he was \"inclined to believe, having seen the evidence\", has been disputed by many fishermen, as well as a marine pollution expert.\n\nChemical pollution and dredging have been repeatedly ruled out by Defra as likely causes.\n\nIt said it had now received reports of \"further dead or dying lobsters and crabs found in a small number of pots along the North East coast\" and that it would be taking samples in the area to investigate.\n\nAdrian Noble, a Whitby fisherman of more than 40 years, said he believed there was \"not a chance in the world\" the deaths were caused by a naturally-occurring algae, adding the industry has been \"decimated\".\n\n\"The way things are at the moment, we don't know if we can go on for much longer,\" he said.\n\n\"There's a few fishermen having to go to food banks now. I'm just surviving off my savings.\"\n\nStockton North Labour MP Alex Cunningham is calling for financial aid for fishermen across the region.\n\n\"Fishermen using food banks - that shouldn't be happening in 21st Century Britain,\" he said.\n\n\"I hope others will get behind the fight to get the compensation they need to keep their businesses afloat.\n\n\"I've had fishermen in touch with me and I think it's important that we work right across the Tees Valley where livelihoods are in danger.\"\n\nFishermen say their catches have been badly hit\n\nMr Cunningham said he believed the Environment Agency had \"got it right\", but continuous testing was vital in case it had \"got it a little wrong\".\n\n\"If it's natural, or unnatural, the government should be paying out to make sure fishermen aren't accessing food banks,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 17,000 chain store outlets closed across Britain last year, according to new research.\n\nThe figures, compiled for the accountancy firm PwC, reflect the rise of online shopping and the impact of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, the data suggests the rate of closures is slowing as more independent firms take on space.\n\n\"The worst could now be over,\" said Lisa Hooker, head of consumer markets at PwC.\n\nThe research was compiled by the Local Data Company, which has been tracking more than 200,000 outlets on High Streets, shopping centres and retail parks operated by businesses with more than five shops.\n\nThe figures include retailers, restaurants, bars and gyms as well as banks, takeaways and hairdressers.\n\nAs the chart below shows, there was a slight reduction in the number of closures last year, to 17,219. That's an average of 47 stores shutting every day and down from 48 in 2020.\n\nBut there was also another sharp drop in the number of openings, which led to a net loss of 10,059 outlets, the biggest fall since 2014.\n\n\"There's no doubt that the numbers are stark and 2021 saw an acceleration in net closures across this sector, which in isolation looks dramatic,\" said Lucy Stainton, commercial director at the Local Data Company.\n\nThe pandemic has accelerated the changes already under way across retail, causing upheaval for many High Streets and town centres.\n\nBut it's not the death of the High Street, insists Ms Stainton, but rather a final shake-out of some of the heritage brands.\n\nThe last two years have seen the fall of some of big household names, such as Sir Philip Green's retail empire, Arcadia, and Debenhams. These closures, along with a host of other retail restructurings, are captured in the figures.\n\nMeanwhile, some locations continue to do better than others.\n\nYet again, retail parks - clusters of large stores often on the edge of town - have proved to be the most resilient.\n\nThey've become more popular with shoppers during Covid thanks to easier access and parking. In contrast, shopping centres have gone from being the most popular retail locations in 2015 to the worst performing over the last two years.\n\nThey've been hit hard by a swathe of closures of fashion shops, department store chains and casual dining outlets.\n\n\"Location matters most to consumers,\" said PwC's Lisa Hooker. \"Retail parks and standalone sites have broad appeal. Multiple operators are taking note of this changing consumer behaviour and are relocating stores to where their customers need them to be.\"\n\nSo what are the kinds of businesses stepping in to fill the huge gaps right across our High Streets and town centres?\n\nWhen it comes to chain outlets, there has been growth among takeaways, cake shops and job centres. But this expansion is nowhere near enough to make up for the wave of closures led by fashion retailers and banks that have accelerated during the pandemic.\n\nAlthough 2021 was extremely challenging for retailers, Lucy Stainton says vacancy rates have started to stabilise and that the number of empty shops is no longer increasing.\n\nShe said: \"The rental tone is softening, and more space has become available in prime locations previously occupied by bigger brands, paving the way for new and upcoming operators.\n\n\"There's been a big uptick in independent retail and leisure firms taking on empty sites,\" she added.\n\nThese businesses are not included in the figures. But the numbers do highlight the huge challenges ahead, with many places still blighted by vacant units and shop fronts.\n\nThere's now a pressing need to radically reshape or even repurpose some of our towns and city centres, says Lisa Hooker.\n\n\"The last two years have been tumultuous for retailers.\n\n\"To regain lost footfall, High Streets must understand why retail parks are so attractive to consumers or look for ways to better serve local needs, encouraging independent retailers and entrepreneurs to take this opportunity to grow into the gaps that are emerging.\"", "The Duke of York will give evidence under oath next month as part of the ongoing civil sexual assault case against him.\n\nVirginia Giuffre is suing Prince Andrew in the US, and the prince - the Queen's third child - has repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nHe will face a deposition, which means giving evidence to lawyers for use in court.\n\nA date has been set for 10 March in London.\n\nMs Giuffre says the duke sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was 17 and being trafficked by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nShe says the duke abused her at Ghislaine Maxwell's home in London, in Epstein's mansion in New York and on Epstein's private island in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nEpstein, a convicted sex offender, died in prison in 2019 while awaiting a sex trafficking trial.\n\nPrince Andrew, 61, has denied all of the allegations, and his lawyers have said he is ready to go before a jury to fight the claim. He is not facing any legal action in the UK.\n\nAccording to the Daily Telegraph - which first reported the news - his deposition will be conducted by Ms Giuffre's lawyers, David Boies and Sigrid McCawley, and is expected to last two days.\n\nThe deposition will be the point at which the prince puts his account on the record and he is likely to face personal questions.\n\nNews of the deposition comes as the Queen held an event to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee - which officially begins on Sunday when she marks 70 years on the throne.\n\nVirginia Giuffre, now 38 and living in Australia, seen with her lawyer David Boies in 2019\n\nThe US judge in the civil damages cases - Judge Lewis Kaplan - has set a clear timeline, with a deadline of the middle of May for both sides to declare their witnesses.\n\nAnd by mid-July, Judge Kaplan wants all evidence exchanged and deposition to be completed.\n\nEarlier this week, the judge formally asked the British courts for help to get testimony from Prince Andrew's former assistant Robert Olney.\n\nHe also sent a request asking for a statement to be taken from Shukri Walker, who has said she saw Prince Andrew at Tramps night club in London in March 2001 with a young woman who may have been Ms Giuffre.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leadership issues have bubbled up throughout my time as an MP - Kwarteng\n\nThe business secretary has appealed to his party to give Boris Johnson the \"time and space to deliver\" on the government's promises as pressure continues to mount on his leadership.\n\nThe PM had another difficult week, with a critical report into No 10 lockdown parties and five senior aides quitting.\n\nMore Tory MPs also declared publicly they had no confidence in him.\n\nBut Kwasi Kwarteng said the PM was carrying out his commitment for a reset in No 10 and focused on policies.\n\nAnd he told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme the \"ongoing focus on 'partygate' is not helping anyone\".\n\nFormer Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith also told the programme he believed Mr Johnson should stay in his role as \"the prime minister is the one that has to sort this out\", adding: \"[He] bears the overall responsibility\".\n\nAnd he warned other MPs who could be vying for a leadership bid to \"temper their ambition\".\n\nBut Sir Iain said the government \"must do more\" to tackle the cost of living crisis and \"restore the sense [in the public] there is a government they can trust and respect\".\n\nThe turmoil in Mr Johnson's government has led to growing questions from Conservatives about the PM's future.\n\nOn Monday, Sue Gray's initial findings around parties held in Downing Street during Covid lockdowns said there had been \"failures of leadership and judgement\".\n\nMore detail is also expected to come out as part of a Metropolitan Police investigation into 12 of the gatherings.\n\nThe PM also faced criticism - and the distancing of some of his ministers - after making a false claim that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions.\n\nThis was followed by a string of resignations of senior aides - three of whom were caught up in the lockdown parties row, including senior civil servant Martin Reynolds who sent out an invitation to a \"bring your own booze\" party.\n\nBut one of his longest standing colleagues, Munira Mirza, quit over the Savile remarks and the PM's refusal to apologise.\n\nMr Johnson announced the appointment of two of their replacements over the weekend, with Cabinet Office minister Steve Barclay becoming chief of staff and his former colleague, Guto Harri, taking over as director of communications.\n\nThe PM said the pair would \"improve how No 10 operates\", and it is understood he is considering further changes to his top team.\n\nMr Harri tweeted that he was \"delighted\" to take up the role, alongside a picture of him with Peter Capaldi, who played Malcolm Tucker, No 10's director of communications in satire The Thick of It, and said he had \"taken advice\" from him.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner called the new appointments a farce, adding the prime minister had \"clearly run out of serious people willing to serve under his chaotic and incompetent leadership\".\n\nMr Kwarteng told the BBC the new hires were \"a step in the right direction\", adding: \"The prime minister has been very clear that he wants to reset No 10.\n\n\"And what we saw [this] week was him following through on that commitment.\"\n\nHe said the government had a \"serious agenda\" to tackle, with a potential war in Ukraine, the cost of living crisis and bouncing back from the pandemic, \"so I don't think focusing on the parties is necessarily the best way for us to get through this\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A dizzying week for the PM explained in 60 seconds\n\nBut with increasing numbers of MPs writing letters of no confidence in the PM - 54 would be needed to trigger a leadership contest - including former schools minister Nick Gibb, has Mr Johnson lost the support of his party to get on with the job?\n\n\"I don't think so at all,\" said Mr Kwarteng. \"I have been an MP for 12 years. In all that time, leadership issues have bubbled to the surface.\n\n\"A few people have said they are not happy with the direction and gave their views publicly... [but] on balance, if you look at the party in the round, I think people are just very, very focused on delivering on the manifesto.\"\n\nThe business secretary added: \"[Mr Johnson] has got a clear mandate and we have got to give him time and space to deliver on that mandate.\"\n\nOne of those unhappy with the PM's leadership is Tory peer Lord Barwell - a former MP who served as Theresa May's chief of staff when she was prime minister.\n\nHe told Sky News: \"My inclination is that the Conservative Party would be better making a change and I also think, for the good of the country in terms of trust and faith in our politics, there's a strong case for change.\"\n\nBut Lord Barwell said he did not think there was \"a chance in hell that the prime minister is going to voluntarily resign\".\n\nSir Iain - who led the Tories in opposition in the early 2000s - said the parties and the aftermath had been \"hugely damaging\" to the Conservatives and the public were \"very angry\".\n\nAsked if the PM could recover that reputation, he told the BBC: \"None of us know the answer to that question.\n\n\"Respect and trust you have to earn, and when you lose it, it's a very difficult task to get it back across the board.\"\n\nBut he said \"internecine warfare\" should not be the priority of MPs right now, and the government needed to focus on tackling the cost of living crisis.", "The 2022 Winter Olympics in China have finished after a record 109 gold medals were awarded in 15 disciplines.\n\nTeam GB, consisting of 50 athletes, participated in 11 of the disciplines, winning one gold medal and one silver medal, both in curling.\n• None All the best stats from the Games", "Sending \"genuinely threatening\" or \"knowingly false\" messages are among new criminal offences being added to proposed online safety laws.\n\nIf passed, the government's online safety bill could see social networks fined 10% of their global turnover if they fail to remove harmful content.\n\nThe changes mean they will also have to proactively remove harmful content.\n\nThe bill also covers revenge porn, human trafficking, extremism and promoting suicide online.\n\nIt already stated that websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, that host user-generated content would have to swiftly remove illegal content once it was reported to them.\n\nNow they will also have to put in place proactive measures to stop illegal activity.\n\nThe issue has become a talking point recently with the racist abuse of footballers, revenge porn and cyberflashing, and Covid disinformation being highlighted as key safety concerns for social media companies to address.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries urged online platforms to start making the changes now before the bill comes into force.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, she said: \"They can start doing what they need to do to remove those harmful algorithms and to remove much of the damage that they do, particularly to young people and to society as a whole.\"\n\nThe minister added the move would \"hold the feet to the fire\" of social media companies that have \"damaged lives\" and hold them to account for the first time.\n\nJudy Thomas, whose daughter Frankie took her own life aged 15 in September 2018, said her school tablet and computer had been used to access distressing material in the hours and months before her death.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Back in January, February, March [2018] she'd been accessing, at school, horrendous sites.\"\n\nMs Thomas called for mandatory age verification to protect children online and said all websites should be included in the scope of the bill, rather than just larger platforms.\n\n\"We need to ensure young people simply cannot access online harms, and that if companies do the wrong thing... that there is a real price to pay,\" she said.\n\nMs Thomas added these penalties must not just be financial, as many businesses could \"absorb that easily\", but the heads of these firms must also be \"held to account\".\n\nThe big technology companies say they welcome the \"clarity\" that the online safety bill brings and that they recognise the need for regulation.\n\nThey have, in many cases, not waited for governments to step in and they have invested in tech such as machine learning in order to identify harmful content at scale.\n\nHowever, while many say the bill does not go far enough, social media businesses point to free speech issues.\n\nThey say they want to ensure that new rules don't stifle people's access to information by causing companies to \"over-moderate\" by removing too much content, in order to comply with them.\n\nThe vast scope of the online safety bill means it will always have its critics.\n\nBut experts underline that its introduction will be nothing short of a revolution in how the online world is policed, and mean it will be a very different place for the next generation.\n\nAsked about age verification, Ms Dorries said the government was looking at the idea, but said there was a \"downside\" to requiring all children to verify their age to access the internet.\n\n\"And young people go on to the internet to go shopping, you know, on clothes. Do we need to ensure that they verify their age when they're doing that?\", she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fitness influencer Elle Edwards speaks about dealing with explicit messages and cyber-flashing\n\nThe government confirmed offences to have been added to the list of priority offences, which must be removed by platforms under the changes, include:\n\nPreviously, companies were only forced to take down these posts after they were reported - but will now be required to be proactive in preventing people from seeing them in the first place.\n\nThe government said naming these offences also enabled Ofcom - the proposed regulator - to take faster action.\n\nThe changes come after three separate parliamentary committee reports warned the bill required strengthening and more clarity for tech firms.\n\nIn addition, three new criminal offences have been added to the bill.\n\nThe first is sending \"genuinely threatening communications\" such as a threat to rape, kill or cause financial harm, or coercive and controlling behaviour and online stalking.\n\nSending \"harmful communications\", such as a domestic abuser sending an ex-partner a photograph of their front door to frighten them, is the second. However, offensive content with no intent to cause serious distress would not be illegal.\n\nThe final new offence is \"knowingly false communications\", which would cover messages deliberately sent to inflict harm\", such as a hoax bomb threat.\n\nThe government said the bill would not prohibit \"misinformation\", such as a social media post promoting a fake coronavirus cure, as long as those spreading it were unaware what they were saying was false.\n\nIf you or someone you know are feeling emotionally distressed, information on where you can go for support is available on BBC Action line here.\n\nHave you been affected by harmful messaging online? Tell us your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The woman was struck by a bus in Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, near the junction with Curtain Road\n\nA woman has died after being hit by a bus in east London.\n\nThe pedestrian was struck by the 135 double-decker bus in Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, at about 08:56 GMT on Friday.\n\nThe woman, in her 30s, was injured in the collision and later died at the scene, the Met Police said. The force said there had been no arrests.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said a full investigation was underway.\n\nMet Police, London Fire Brigade and London Ambulance Service all attended the scene.\n\nThe Met is appealing for anyone who may have dashcam footage or witnessed the collision to come forward.\n\nLouise Cheeseman, TfL's director of bus operations, said: \"We are extremely saddened that a woman died after a collision with a bus in Shoreditch and our thoughts are with her family and friends.\n\n\"We have support available to anyone affected by this incident and a full investigation is under way.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Energy Secretary Michael Matheson says lives could be lost in energy crisis\n\nThe Scottish government's energy secretary has said there is a \"real risk that lives could be lost\" as a result of the hike in energy prices.\n\nMichael Matheson told the BBC's The Sunday Show that the action proposed by the UK government was wholly inadequate to deal with the scale of the financial crisis facing many households.\n\nThe average energy bill is set to increase by £693 a year from April.\n\nUK Energy Minister Greg Hands said the UK government was providing support.\n\nThe Bank of England has issued a warning that rising prices meant the UK was about to endure the biggest fall in living standards since comparable records began three decades ago.\n\nIt comes as inflation is on course to rise above 7% this year, leaving households facing the biggest income squeeze in decades.\n\nThe Scottish government will receive about £290m through Barnett consequentials after Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a council tax cut in England.\n\nThe UK chancellor announced the measures to help households after regulator Ofgem raised the energy price cap.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has already told MSPs that \"every penny\" of the £290m will go towards helping ease the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nBut on The Sunday Show, Mr Matheson said this was \"insufficient\" to deal with the scale and nature of the crisis being faced by those on low incomes and called for further action from the UK government to help struggling families.\n\nHe said the 54% rise in the average energy bill would be compounded by the increase in National Insurance contributions and the cut in universal credit.\n\n\"There is a real crisis building here,\" he said. \"It has been on the cards for some time now and action from the UK government is wholly inadequate to deal with it sufficiently.\n\n\"There is the real risk that lives will be lost this year.\"\n\nAudrey Flanagan, who helps run a foodbank, believes people will die as a result of the increased costs\n\nThe programme earlier heard from Audrey Flanagan, from Glasgow South East Foodbank, who said she was seriously concerned about those on low incomes.\n\n\"Not only will it be heat or eat but actually we will see people die and, believe me, I don't use that term lightly,\" she said.\n\n\"I sat in tears watching what was happening because you can just see the rollout of this. I am gobsmacked, absolutely gobsmacked.\"\n\nMr Matheson also said a £200 discount the UK government had announced on energy bills for homes in Scotland, England and Wales should be a grant instead of a loan.\n\nThe discount will be automatically recovered from people's bills in equal £40 instalments over a five-year period from 2023, when it is hoped global wholesale gas prices will have come down.\n\nThe energy secretary said: \"There is a very serious risk that if fuel prices stay high over the course of the next couple of years, and that could be the case, it could actually end up forcing more homes into poverty because households are not only having to face high fuel prices but they are also having to face paying back the loan.\"\n\nHe also said the warm homes scheme - which offers those in receipt of certain benefits the option to apply for a one-off £140 payment - should be expanded.\n\nMr Matheson highlighted the Scottish government's winter funding package - about £41m to help families experiencing difficulty during the winter months - and a specific payment within that to help with fuel costs, particularly helping those on pre-payment meters.\n\nLast week, the Scottish government also gave local government an extra £120m next year in a bid to ward off big increases in council tax bills. Finance Secretary Kate Forbes said she now had some \"additional flexibility\" due to funding from the UK government.\n\nMr Matheson said fuel poverty was estimated to increase by more than 200,000 homes to almost 900,000 and added that some of those homes would be facing extreme fuel poverty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Energy minister Greg Hands says ‘a lot is being done’ to tackle rising prices\n\nUK government energy minister Greg Hands told the programme the UK government was already bringing in a number of measures to support those on low incomes.\n\nHe said: \"We totally recognise the difficulties that many households will be facing with a rise in prices,\" he said. \"In terms of gas and energy prices, those are global prices but we are doing a lot to make sure households are in a better position.\"\n\nHe claimed there were some things that benefited Scotland, including its geography.\n\n\"Being closer to the sources of power generation make bills, in some cases, cheaper,\" he said. \"The transmission costs of that energy, for example from renewables - offshore wind in Scotland - will be lower for Scottish consumers than they would for consumers in the south of England.\"\n\nHe said the UK government needed to balance support with fiscal responsibility as it had to spend billions of pounds supporting the economy during the pandemic.\n\nHe said the £200 loan, available from October, was designed to assist people into next winter and would be \"clawed back\" over a five-year period.\n\nHe added that the national living wage had been increased and that there were \"a lot of important, positive changes coming in\".", "The Queen sat alone at Prince Philip's funeral, observing the Covid rules on such gatherings\n\nThe Queen's commitment to \"doing the right thing\" in sitting alone at Prince Philip's funeral has been praised by the Archbishop of Canterbury as a defining example of her sense of duty.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne on 6 February, Justin Welby said she showed \"duty, leadership and character\".\n\nHe described her Christian faith as \"the rock on which she stands\".\n\nOn Sunday she becomes the first British monarch to mark a Platinum Jubilee.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, the archbishop said the Queen had committed herself to a life of duty and public service.\n\n\"The clearest moment for me, the absolute summit of that, was that at the funeral of her husband of 70-something years, she sat alone.\n\n\"That was leadership, it was doing the right thing, it was duty, it set an example,\" said the archbishop, who officiated at the funeral, which observed Covid restrictions in place at the time.\n\nThe Queen, wearing jewellery given to her by her father, King George VI, was shown well-wishers' jubilee cards\n\nThe remarks are likely to be seen as adding to the comparisons with how Covid rules have been observed in Downing Street.\n\nThe government has faced intense pressure over events held in and around Downing Street during the pandemic, including two parties held by staff at No 10 on 16 April 2021, the night before Prince Philip's funeral.\n\nArchbishop Welby said the Queen's long reign had provided an international symbol of stability through decades of social and political upheavals.\n\nBut he said that her own character was about \"humility\" and understatement.\n\n\"She takes her duties seriously, but she doesn't take herself very seriously. She laughs in private, she has an absolutely superb sense of humour,\" said the archbishop.\n\n\"'It's not about me' almost sums up her reign,\" he said.\n\nThe Queen, aged 95, had a \"sense of self-acceptance\", said the archbishop. \"She doesn't question who or what she is.\"\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury emphasised the personal importance of religious faith to the Queen, since she took the throne after the death of King George VI, the father she \"adored\".\n\nThe archbishop says the Queen has been a symbol of stability through decades of change\n\nThe archbishop likened her role as monarch to a lifelong religious vocation and the coronation to the vows for religious ministry.\n\n\"The coronation service is a form of ordination, in a liturgical sense, and she lives that out without a grumble.\"\n\n\"It is priestly - the language, the structure, it's very similar to an ordination of a priest or a bishop,\" he said.\n\nThe Queen with her father, King George VI, in 1947, succeeded him five years later\n\nThe archbishop said the Queen had faced \"intense grief\", including the loss of her husband, but her personal thoughts remained closed.\n\n\"She's immensely private on such things. That is who she is,\" said the archbishop.\n\nThe Queen, the world's longest-serving head of state, is in Sandringham, Norfolk, for the anniversary of her accession in 1952.\n\nIt's also a poignant occasion, as this is where her father, King George VI, died, and in photographs published on Friday she is seen wearing jewellery that he gave her for her 18th birthday, in 1944.\n\nThe Queen has had many dogs, including Candy the dorgi, a cross between a corgi and a dachshund\n\nBefore leaving Windsor Castle she was shown well-wishers' cards and historic items from previous jubilees, including a fan signed by royal relatives from Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887.\n\n\"It's very well preserved. Extraordinary, isn't it?\" she said, holding up the fan, which included a signature from \"Nicky\", who became Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.\n\nQueen Victoria had previously held the record for the longest reign in Britain, with more than 63 years on the throne.\n\nOfficials at Buckingham Palace say they expect 100,000 letters and cards from well-wishers to be sent to the Queen in a jubilee year.", "The Queen has said she wants Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, to be known as Queen Consort when Prince Charles becomes King.\n\nIn a message marking the 70th anniversary of her reign, the Queen said it was her \"sincere wish\" that Camilla would have that title.\n\nThe Queen is the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee.\n\nShe is spending her day privately on the Sandringham estate, with national celebrations to be held in June.\n\nThe Queen's reign began when she was 25 years old, following the death of her father, George VI, on 6 February 1952.\n\nThe monarch said that, 70 years on, the day is one she remembers \"as much for the death of my father, King George VI, as for the start of my reign\".\n\nThe 95-year-old said in a written message to the nation: \"I would like to express my thanks to you all for your support. I remain eternally grateful for, and humbled by, the loyalty and affection that you continue to give me.\"\n\nThe Jubilee is the monarch's first without the Duke of Edinburgh, her husband of 73 years, who died last year.\n\nShe reflected on how much she had gained from support given \"unselfishly\" by Prince Philip and thanked the goodwill shown to her by \"all nationalities, faiths and ages in this country\".\n\nDuring her reign, she has seen 14 British prime ministers occupy No 10.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson posted on Twitter: \"I pay tribute to her many years of service and look forward to coming together as a country to celebrate her historic reign in the summer.\"\n\nFormer prime ministers Theresa May and David Cameron also expressed their gratitude to the monarch.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer echoed these sentiments, saying he would like to express his \"deepest thanks\" for 70 years of \"unparalleled public service\".\n\n\"Her Majesty The Queen has been one vital and valued constant in an ever-changing world, representing security and stability for our country, during the ups and downs of the last seven decades,\" Sir Keir said.\n\nThe Women's Institute (WI) posted several photos of the Queen over the years to social media, and congratulated her for 70 years of service. She is vice-president of the Sandringham WI.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Women's Institute This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe royal accession message, issued from her Sandringham estate in Norfolk, said the Queen still kept the promise of a lifetime of public duty, originally made in 1947 when she was 21, \"that my life will always be devoted to your service\".\n\nShe signed off the message: \"Your servant Elizabeth R.\"\n\nThe Queen has spent the anniversary of her accession in Sandringham\n\nOn the eve of her Jubilee, the Queen directly addressed the unresolved question of Camilla's future title.\n\n\"Queen Consort\" refers to the spouse of a ruling king and would mean \"Queen Camilla\" as her future title.\n\nThere had been suggestions Camilla would be known as Princess Consort.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall were \"touched and honoured\".\n\nThere has been a different practice for husbands of a female monarch, such as Prince Philip, who was prince consort.\n\nThe usual precedent would have been for Camilla to automatically become Queen when Charles was King, but because of uncertainty about public opinion it had been suggested that might not be the case.\n\nThe Queen's message has made it clear that Camilla will be known as Queen\n\nCharles and Camilla were both divorcees when they married in 2005 in a civil marriage. Charles had previously been married to Princess Diana but they divorced in 1996, a year before she died in a car crash in Paris.\n\nAt the time of their marriage the official intention was for Camilla to be known as the Princess Consort. But plans for her title became more ambiguous in recent years.\n\nThe Queen's intervention means barriers to her becoming Queen have now been removed, and will allow her to have a fully-fledged royal role beside Charles.\n\nThe Queen's personal endorsement follows her New Year announcement that Camilla would become a member of the Order of the Garter - the highest order of chivalry.\n\nCamilla, aged 74, has increasingly been involved in championing her own causes and interests, including charities supporting victims of domestic abuse.", "Eileen Harding died in hospital following the crash\n\nA woman has died after she was hit by a lorry on the Upper Newtownards Road in Belfast on Thursday morning.\n\nEileen Harding, 75, was taken to hospital after the collision but died later from her injuries.\n\nEmergency services attended the scene at the junction of the Upper Newtownards Road and Grampian Avenue at about 09:15 GMT.\n\nPolice have said they want to speak to two women who came to Ms Harding's assistance.\n\nDetectives have also asked anyone with dash cam footage or other information to contact them.", "John Allan said the cost of living squeeze will hit the \"hardest-up still harder\".\n\nThe chairman of Britain's biggest supermarket has warned \"the worst is yet to come\" on rising food prices.\n\nTesco's John Allan told the BBC he was aware people were on very tight budgets and having to choose between food and heating \"troubles us\".\n\nBut he said grocers and suppliers were not immune from rising energy costs.\n\nMr Allan also defended Tesco against claims from food poverty activist Jack Monroe that the costs of basic staples were rising faster than other goods.\n\nHe estimated supermarket prices could rise as much as 5% by the spring as energy and other costs feed through to the High Street, adding that Tesco's food price inflation in the last three months had been contained to about 1%.\n\n\"We are impacted by rising energy prices, our suppliers are impacted by rising energy prices. So the likelihood is that that inflation figure will rise,\" he said.\n\nMr Allan said he recognised the cost of food took up a bigger proportion of household budgets for people on lower incomes.\n\nPeople having to choose between heating their homes and feeding their families \"troubles us, and I'm sure troubles many people... That's clearly not a situation that any of us should tolerate,\" he said.\n\nA report earlier this month from the British Retail Consortium said food inflation accelerated to 2.7% in January, up from 2.4% in December.\n\nAnnual UK inflation is currently 5.4%, a 30-year high, and is predicted to top 7% this year. Meanwhile, the cost of energy is set to soar under new price-cap rules, prompting the chancellor to unveil a support package for households last week.\n\nMr Allan said: \"I think the combination of increasing energy prices, the impact of National Insurance increases [in April] on people's incomes, and to a much much lesser extent increasing food prices, is going to squeeze the hardest-up still harder.\"\n\nThe pressure facing poorer households was highlighted by Jack Monroe this month in analysis she said showed that everyday essentials, such as the cheapest own-brand pasta or rice, were going up in price by more than the official inflation rate.\n\nMr Allan said he could not speak for the rest of the industry, but it was untrue at Tesco. \"Price rises depend on individual products - coffee is going up, but other things like the cheapest tin of baked beans in Tesco is cheaper than it was five years ago,\" he said.\n\n\"As far as Tesco is concerned, we have 2,100 products on our lowest price. We're either price matching against Aldi, or it's our own exclusive at Tesco range. That number [of products] has been increasing in recent months rather than decreasing, so it's not true,\" Mr Allan said.\n\nSainsbury's declined to comment on whether it also expects price rises to accelerate. But it told the BBC it was \"investing in value more than ever\" to help customers manage the rising cost of living.\n\nThe BBC has also contacted Morrisons, M&S and Asda for comment.\n\nThe head of the retail industry's trade body said that across the sector firms are working hard to cut costs. But there is only so much the industry can do to shield shoppers, said Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium.\n\n\"It would be impossible to protect consumers from any future rises. As commodity prices, energy prices and transportation costs continue to rise, it is inevitable that retail prices will continue to follow in the future,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Allan also rejected suggestions from the Bank of England's governor that people should not ask for big pay rises because it was feeding into higher inflation.\n\nAndrew Bailey's comments to the BBC were branded a \"sick joke\" by the GMB union, while the TUC said the call was \"ill-founded\".\n\nTesco is the UK's largest private sector employer, with about 300,000 staff. Asked if the company would be telling employees to follow Mr Bailey's advice, Mr Allan said \"no, absolutely not. I think that's the wrong direction for people to go in,\" he said.\n\n\"We are not telling people not to take a pay rise. We think our colleagues deserve pay rises,\" Mr Allan said. \"We have given 5-6% raises to our distribution colleagues, and we're in the midst of negotiations, which will probably lead to a similar result for our store colleagues.\"", "The Prince of Wales has paid tribute to the Queen on her Platinum Jubilee for the \"remarkable achievement\" of reaching 70 years on the throne.\n\nPrince Charles welcomed his mother's wish that Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, be known as Queen Consort when he becomes King.\n\nHe said he and his wife were \"deeply conscious of the honour\".\n\nThe Queen is the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, and is spending the day privately.\n\nIn a message marking the 70th anniversary of her reign, the Queen said it was her \"sincere wish\" that Camilla would have that title.\n\nPrince Charles said in a statement: \"The Queen's devotion to the welfare of all her people inspires still greater admiration with each passing year.\n\n\"We are deeply conscious of the honour represented by my mother's wish. As we have sought together to serve and support Her Majesty and the people of our communities, my darling wife has been my own steadfast support throughout.\"\n\nThe Queen's reign began when she was 25 years old, following the death of her father, George VI, on 6 February 1952.\n\nThe monarch said that, 70 years on, the day is one she remembers \"as much for the death of my father, King George VI, as for the start of my reign\".\n\nThe 95-year-old said in a written message to the nation: \"I would like to express my thanks to you all for your support. I remain eternally grateful for, and humbled by, the loyalty and affection that you continue to give me.\"\n\nThe Jubilee is the monarch's first without the Duke of Edinburgh, her husband of 73 years, who died last year.\n\nShe reflected on how much she had gained from support given \"unselfishly\" by Prince Philip and thanked the goodwill shown to her by \"all nationalities, faiths and ages in this country\".\n\nThe Queen signed off the message: \"Your servant Elizabeth R.\"\n\nSince marrying into the Royal Family 17 years ago, Camilla has grown into her role as a senior royal.\n\nThe path to public acceptance has been at times rocky, and at first Camilla was a controversial figure who was blamed by some for the end of the prince's first marriage to Princess Diana.\n\nIn 1994, Charles admitted to adultery with Camilla, but said it came after his marriage to Diana had \"irretrievably broken down\".\n\nIt was not until 1999 when she and Charles went public with their romance,\n\nSince then, Camilla has won over a cautious public. She has been praised for championing her own causes and interests, including supporting literacy charities, animal welfare and organisations helping victims of domestic abuse.\n\nMany have congratulated the Queen on this historic day, including Boris Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron - three of the 14 British prime ministers to occupy No 10 during her reign.\n\nMr Johnson posted on Twitter: \"I pay tribute to her many years of service and look forward to coming together as a country to celebrate her historic reign in the summer.\"\n\nHis predecessor, Mrs May, described the monarch as \"an extraordinary woman, who has dedicated her life to the service of her people and our family of nations\".\n\nMr Cameron said: \"There can be no finer example of dignified public duty and service.\"\n\nLeader of the opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, echoed these sentiments, saying he would like to express his \"deepest thanks\" for 70 years of \"unparalleled public service\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"Her Majesty The Queen has been one vital and valued constant in an ever-changing world, representing security and stability for our country, during the ups and downs of the last seven decades.\"\n\nA message from the White House said the Queen had, over her 70-year reign, \"strengthened the ties of friendship, shared ideals, and faith in democracy that forever unite our countries\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Saturday, the Queen made jokes as she cut a cake at a reception for her Platinum Jubilee\n\nThe Queen used the eve of her Jubilee to directly address the unresolved question of Camilla's future title.\n\nThere had been suggestions Camilla would be known as Princess Consort.\n\nThe usual precedent would have been for Camilla to automatically become Queen when Charles was King, but because of uncertainty about public opinion it had been suggested that might not be the case.", "Last updated on .From the section African\n\nSadio Mane netted the winning spot-kick as Senegal beat Egypt 4-2 on penalties to clinch their first-ever Africa Cup of Nations, after the final ended goalless following extra time.\n\nThe Liverpool forward had earlier seen a seventh-minute penalty saved by Pharaohs keeper Gabaski.\n\nChelsea's Edouard Mendy denied Mohanad Lasheen to give Mane the chance to win it in Yaounde's Olembe Stadium.\n\nGabaski had made three good saves from Senegal's Bamba Dieng in extra time.\n\nAnd in a match billed as a battle between Liverpool forwards Mane, of Senegal, and Egypt captain Mohamed Salah, it was the former who had the decisive word.\n\nAfter two previous final defeats, Senegal are Africa Cup of Nations winners at last, while Egypt missed out on a record-extending eighth continental crown that would also have been a first for Salah.\n\n\"It just shows that if you work hard, if you persevere, you will get what you want,\" Senegal coach Aliou Cisse said.\n\n\"I am very emotional because the people of Senegal have wanted this trophy for 60 years.\"\n\nAll four of Egypt's knockout games at the tournament went the distance, and the North Africans had beaten Ivory Coast and hosts Cameroon on spot-kicks en route to the final.\n\nGabaski had already saved four penalties at the tournament by the time the match went to a shootout, but on this occasion the 33-year-old ended on the losing side.\n\nEgypt were the first to err when centre-back Mohamed Abdelmonem saw his penalty hit the left-hand upright and bounce away - but Gabaski immediately denied Bouna Sarr.\n\nHowever, Lasheen saw his effort saved and Mane won it with an emphatic finish into the bottom left-hand corner.\n\nHis Liverpool team-mate Salah did not even have the chance to take a penalty, with the Pharaohs captain set to go fifth for his side.\n\nSenegal's two Nations Cup final defeats came in 2002 and 2019.\n\nAnd while the Teranga Lions will celebrate finally winning the tournament, Egypt will soon have a chance for revenge, with the two sides meeting again next month in a two-legged play-off for a spot at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nThe match saw a free-flowing Senegal side with Mane as its attacking spearhead come up against Salah's compact and defensively-minded Egyptian outfit.\n\nThe West Africans were handed an early chance to take a lead when Abdelmonem lunged in on Senegal left-back Saliou Ciss in the fourth minute.\n\nMane had words with Gabaski before placing the ball on the spot - appearing to tell the keeper to get back on his line.\n\nThe 29-year-old blasted his attempt just to the left of centre, but Gabaski dived the right way and punched the ball clear.\n\nSalah was well-marshalled by the Senegal defence and only had two efforts in the first half, forcing Mendy into a good save with the second.\n\nThe second half became somewhat fractured as record seven-time champions Egypt, with coach Carlos Quieroz absent from the touchline through suspension, looking to break up play.\n\nExtra time was more lively as Senegal took the game to their opponents, and Dieng saw a low, angled effort pushed away, and a good downward header clawed behind.\n\nThe substitute then had a long-range shot pushed behind before Mendy tipped over a fierce attempt from Marwan Hamdy with three minutes remaining.\n\nSenegal have been Africa's top-ranked side for the past three years under coach Cisse, who as a player missed a crucial penalty in the 2002 final defeat and was in the dugout for their loss three years ago.\n\nMane was instrumental in their landmark success in Cameroon, scoring three goals at the tournament and setting up another two.\n\nSalah's influence waned as the contest went on and he ended on the losing side for the second time in a Nations Cup final, having been part of the Egypt side beaten by Cameroon in 2017.\n\nThe next Afcon is due to take place in the Ivory Coast in June and July next year.\n\nThe Teranga Lions eventually ended their wait to lift the trophy after a protracted presentation which saw captain Kalidou Koulibaly go up to the VIP box in the stands alongside Confederation of African Football president Patrice Motsepe and Fifa president Gianni Infantino to greet Cameroon president Paul Biya.\n\nJermaine Jenas told BBC Three: \"Sadio Mane has put his country on his shoulders and given the title to them. This is Senegal's golden generation and they have managed to do it, it is a big moment for the country.\n\n\"Mane hit that penalty without any doubt he would score, which is incredible with the pressure he was under.\n\n\"You can see Mane is a leader. We know he is a top, top footballer, but the growth in the player over the years was very visible today in the biggest moment of his life.\"\n• None Goal! Senegal 0(4), Egypt 0(2). Sadio Mané (Senegal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Mohanad Lasheen (Egypt) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Senegal 0(3), Egypt 0(2). Bamba Dieng (Senegal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Senegal 0(2), Egypt 0(2). Marwan Hamdy (Egypt) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Bouna Sarr (Senegal) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Still Senegal 0(2), Egypt 0(1). Mohamed Abdelmonem (Egypt) hits the left post with a right footed shot.\n• None Goal! Senegal 0(2), Egypt 0(1). Abdou Diallo (Senegal) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Senegal 0(1), Egypt 0(1). Zizo (Egypt) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! Senegal 0(1), Egypt 0. Kalidou Koulibaly (Senegal) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Mahmoud Hamdi El Wensh (Egypt) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Zizo with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Marwan Hamdy (Egypt) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Emam Ashour. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The political crisis at Stormont is like a \"balloon being burst\" for the opportunity to rebuild healthcare post-pandemic, the deputy chair of the British Medical Association has said.\n\nDr Alan Stout said he had hoped a three-year budget could have been passed to boost the system.\n\nOn Thursday, Paul Givan announced his resignation as first minister.\n\nStormont's draft budget proposed a 10% increase in health funding, with a squeeze on other departments.\n\nMr Givan's decision was part of the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) protest at the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nDue to the nature of the joint office, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill lost her post when Mr Givan resigned.\n\nIt means the executive cannot meet to sign off on a budget.\n\nWhen Finance Minister Conor Murphy announced the budget plans in December, he said the priority had been to \"support health, to get waiting lists down, to support mental health provision and cancer provision\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said such a budget would be the start of the \"transformation process\" for the health service.\n\nMr Givan said he supported increased health funding, however he had expressed concern about the level of detail included in the paper.\n\nDr Stout told BBC News NI's Sunday Politics that the current impasse leaves healthcare \"in such a difficult position\".\n\n\"We know how people are suffering on a daily basis, on waiting lists, on access to general practice, on EDs (emergency departments).\"\n\nDr Alan Stout said healthcare had received a tantalising glimpse of hopes for transformation\n\nHe added: \"It is the absolute priority for all of us to make sure that we work out ways around this.\n\n\"I think this is so frustrating because we have this tantalising glimpse of how things can be done well and then we take a massive step backwards.\"\n\nAsked if he believed Health Minister Robin Swann had the power to unilaterally change Covid-19 restrictions without it requiring executive approval, Dr Stout said it was right the minister was seeking legal clarity.\n\n\"That would be the most sensible way forward,\" he said.\n\n\"We are optimistic and it is great that there is this level of optimism that we are potentially moving out of the pandemic, but there still is uncertainty.\n\n\"Whenever we speak to our experts there still is uncertainty as to what we might face next.\"\n\nDr Stout said it was important the health minister had authority and \"the power to act whenever and as quickly as he needs to\".\n\nMeanwhile, a Fine Gael TD (member of the Irish parliament) has accused the DUP of \"desperate attempts at distraction\" over the first minister's resignation.\n\nNeale Richmond, the party's European Affairs spokesperson, said Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney had been \"open and engaging with all strands of political and civic unionism\" and the Irish government's focus was to \"support political stability in Northern Ireland\".\n\nSpeaking after Mr Givan's announcement on Thursday, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said the Irish government had taken a \"partisan\" approach and had \"abandoned the principle of consensus\" with its support of the protocol.\n\nMr Richmond denied a claim by Sir Jeffrey that the concerns of unionists, adding that \"stakeholders on all sides should be focused on calming tensions now, rather than inflaming the situation\".", "Chris Eubank Jr produced a dazzling display as he proved a class above Welshman Liam Williams to move closer to a world title shot in 2022.\n\nEubank had Williams on the canvas three times in the opening four rounds as he backed up his pre-fight confidence with arguably a career-best performance.\n\nWilliams showed tremendous heart and bravery to battle on but was again sent to the canvas in the 11th round.\n\nEubank took a unanimous decision 116-109, 116-108 and 117-109 on the cards.\n\n\"I am happy with the performance, I wanted to teach that man a lesson, he said some quite menacing things to me in the lead-up to this fight,\" Eubank said.\n\n\"I wanted to punish him. I didn't want to knock him out in one round, I wanted to punish him.\n\n\"Headbutts, headlocks, I am surprised he didn't get disqualified. But I took it like a man and I punished him like I said I would. It was a fun night.\n\n\"I think I showed some of my critics a different side to me. There was no danger, if I had stepped on the gas at any point in the fight he would have been gone.\n\n\"There are levels to this game. Don't be a big mouth against guys you can get hurt against.\"\n\nHome advantage does not pay for Williams\n\nThis was the biggest indoor arena boxing show in Cardiff in over 20 years with the Motorpoint full to capacity for the first time since the heyday of one of Wales' greatest ever, Joe Calzaghe, who drew the sold out signs for a WBO super middleweight title defence in 2001 against Mario Veit.\n\nThe atmosphere was electric in the Welsh capital with a live rendition of Delilah pumping the volume up to 11 in the first major boxing show of the year in the UK.\n\nEubank predictably entered the arena to a chorus of boos but seemed to relish his status as the bad guy in Cardiff as he looked calm and relaxed with Williams prowling and snarling throughout the pre-fight introductions.\n• None Eubank Jr beats Williams - round by round as it happened\n\nAn extremely cautious first round exploded into life when Eubank tagged Williams with a jab that caused the Welshman to lose his footing and take a standing count and things soon went from bad to worse for Williams.\n\nHis corner were massaging his left leg after the first round, but Eubank again dropped the Welshman in the second round as he produced a left hook that saw Williams' legs buckle as his left leg appeared to completely give way.\n\nTo his credit Williams again answered the count and he enjoyed an even share of the third round before being rocked by a Eubank shot after the bell that angered his corner.\n\nHowever, Eubank put Williams down again following a slick combination in the fourth as a weary Williams struggled to convince the referee not to wave things off.\n\nWilliams responded and improved in the middle rounds, but by then faced a mountain to climb on the scorecards.\n\nThis was a genuine grudge match after much trash talking ahead of the fight, with two fighters who clearly don't like one another meeting to settle their issues, but the stakes were higher than that with the UK's number one and number two-ranked middleweights meeting for the first time.\n\nBoth combatants knew the winner was almost certain to move onto bigger and better things in 2022 as two fighters who have fallen short on the biggest stage look to make amends with another world title opportunity.\n\nEubank and Williams both had everything to prove having fallen short in their biggest fights to date, but it is Eubank who can now look forward to a potential world title shot later this year.\n\nIn total control of the contest thanks to his succession of early knockdowns and slipping away from Williams' biggest shots, Eubank taunted Williams throughout and again floored his opponent in the 11th round as Williams appealed in vain that he had slipped.\n\nEubank drew some boos for showboating in the final session, but there was no doubting he was a clear and decisive victor.\n\nOn the undercard there was some Welsh success as former British and Commonwealth welterweight champion Chris Jenkins returned to action with a comfortable 78-75 points victory over former world champion Julius Indongo, while stablemate Rhys Edwards was also victorious.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nThree-time Winter Olympic snowboarding champion Shaun White will retire from the sport after the Games in Beijing.\n\nAmerican White, 35, who won his first gold in 2006 in Turin, said he is \"enjoying every moment\" of his final Games.\n\nThe five-time Olympian, the world's most decorated snowboarder, also took gold in Vancouver and Pyeongchang.\n\nIn addition, White has won 15 gold medals at the Winter X Games, 13 of them in snowboarding.\n• None Shaun White on staying on top at 35 as he bids for fourth title at Beijing 2022\n• None Hosts China win their first gold of the Games\n\nWhite, who is chasing a fourth Olympic halfpipe gold medal at Genting Snow Park, attributed his decision to lingering knee and back problems.\n\n\"It's this and it's that, all these things are major things that brought me to this conclusion,\" he said.\n\nNicknamed 'The Flying Tomato' because of his long red hair, White became a global star as the sport rose in popularity, having been first included at the Winter Games in 1998.\n\n\"The thing I'm the most proud of would be staying on top of a sport that's ever-changing for as long as I have,\" he said.\n\n\"It's almost like fashion, it's ever changing - you're trying to guess the trend of what's going to happen and have your finger on the pulse.\"\n\nWhite added that watching other riders - some half his age - pull off \"heavier and heavier\" tricks was also a factor in his decision and that \"everyone is catching up\" to his level.\n\nMaking the Games in Beijing was an achievement in itself, he said, but added that he was \"still incredibly competitive in any situation\".\n\nHe is one of only six athletes to have won at least two medals in the discipline.\n• None Is this the ultimate test of endurance? How a rower with incurable cancer broke an Atlantic record\n• None This Is Going To Hurt: Ben Whishaw stars in an adaptation of Adam Kay's hit memoir of life as a junior doctor", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nZoi Sadowski-Synnott was jumped on by the women she beat after a sensational slopestyle run saw her win New Zealand's first Winter Olympics gold.\n\nThe 20-year-old landed a huge 1080 spin with her final trick on the final run of the women's snowboard slopestyle competition to score a massive 92.88.\n\n\"It was the best run of my life,\" she said.\n\nAmerican Julia Marino, who had led, was the first to leap on Sadowksi-Synnott, recognising the brilliance of the run.\n\nAustralia's Tess Coady, who claimed bronze, also joined in the celebration.\n\nThe three medallists ended up in a heap on the floor in a wonderful show of sportsmanship after Sadowski-Synnott claimed the first of seven gold medals on offer on day two.\n\nShe previously won bronze in the big air competition at Pyeongchang 2018.\n\nThe Kiwi lauded the progression of women's snowboarding, saying: \"It's been pretty crazy for years and you know what it's going to take to be on the top of the podium, but I owe it to all the other girls for pushing me.\n\n\"It's going in the right direction and it's not really slowing down.\"\n\nMarino finished second on 87.68 points, while Coady took bronze on 84.15.\n\nSweden's Nils van der Poel set a new Olympic record when he secured his first gold medal in a blistering last lap in the men's 5,000m speed skating final.\n\nThe world record holder was 0.99 seconds behind Patrick Roest of the Netherlands with just one lap remaining.\n\nBut in a dramatic turn of events, Roest was bumped into silver medal position when Van der Poel clocked 28.8secs in his final lap and claimed gold.\n\nHallgeir Engebraaten of Norway took bronze, with three-time champion Sven Kramer finishing sixth.\n\nDutchman Kramer was hoping to add to an exclusive group of only six athletes who have won four Olympic gold medals in the same individual event, having already said he will retire later in 2022.\n\nKramer said: \"I knew it was going to be my last one. When I went to the rink, I knew this was the last time I would skate the 5,000m. That didn't work out the way I wanted. I tried to go for all or nothing.\"\n• None The Sports Desk - Can Britain become a top-5 snowsports nation?\n• None Australian curlers win after being cleared to play in Beijing\n\nRyoyu Kobayashi took Japan's first Olympic ski jumping gold in 50 years in the men's individual normal hill event.\n\nThe 25-year-old started the final round at the top of the leaderboard, after scoring 145.4 with his first jump.\n\nHe registered a score of 129.6 in the final round, finishing with 275.0 in total.\n\nAustria's Manuel Fettner took silver with 270.8 and Poland's Dawid Kubacki won bronze with 265.9.\n\nThe men's downhill was not able to take place on Sunday because of the windy conditions at the Yanqing National Alpine Centre.\n\nThe jury put back the start time from the original 03:00 GMT but it was eventually called off at 05:00 GMT (13:00 local).\n\nIn a statement the organisers said the decision was taken \"in the best interest of safety and fairness for the racers\".\n\nThey will try again at 04:00 GMT on Monday, sandwiched in between the two runs of the women's giant slalom.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLata Mangeshkar, one of India's most beloved singers, has been cremated in Mumbai with full state honours.\n\nMangeshkar, whose voice was the soundtrack to hundreds of Bollywood films, died aged 92 on Sunday.\n\nPM Narendra Modi and stars of the entertainment industry attended the funeral, where large crowds gathered to pay their respects.\n\nHer extraordinary career spanned more than half a century and she recorded thousands of songs in 36 languages.\n\nTwo days of national mourning will follow the funeral and the national flag will be flown at half-mast throughout the country.\n\nCrowds gathered outside her home, where her coffin began its journey to a city park where it was publicly cremated. Mr Modi was among those who laid flowers on the pyre.\n\nOne mourner, Rajesh Kumar Ram, told the AFP news agency \"her voice touches the soul of every Indian. Her songs have been with us all through our lives.\"\n\nFew stars in India are afforded the honour of a state funeral but as crowds gathered at Mumbai's Sivaji Park, it was reminder of Lata Mangeskhar's unique appeal.\n\nHundreds of people from all ages and backgrounds lined up to get a glimpse of her funeral pyre, and say a final farewell.\n\nAs a Bollywood playback singer, Lata Mangeshkar's voice was the soundtrack to hundreds of Indian films - and to countless more lives. Her songs were played at weddings, funerals and national events, her career spanned more than seven decades.\n\nShe leaves a legacy as old as independent India itself. It's hard to name an artist as prolific - aside from her sister Asha Bhosle who was among the mourners at today's funeral. Lata Mangeshkar has recorded more songs than The Beatles and the Rolling Stones combined.\n\nAffectionately known as India's \"Didi\" or sister, for millions in this country, and around the world, this loss feels personal. If Bollywood is the soul of India, then Lata Mangeshkar was its beating heart.\n\nMangeshkar was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai in January after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nAs the news of her death became public, tributes began pouring in to the woman who was often called the \"nightingale of Bollywood\" for her role as a playback singer, recording the songs that actors would lip-sync on screen.\n\nMangeshkar sang thousands of songs which were lip-synced by Bollywood's biggest heroines\n\nPresident Ram Nath Kovind said the news was \"heart-breaking for me, as it is for millions the world over\" and added that in her songs \"generations found expression of their innermost emotions\".\n\nMr Modi, meanwhile, said Mangeshkar's death had left a \"void in our nation that cannot be filled\".\n\nMangeshkar was a huge fan of cricket, and India's former captain Virat Kohli said her songs had \"touched millions of people around the world\".\n\nSeveral Bollywood stars also expressed their condolences. Actor Hema Malini said she was \"lucky\" to have performed to several songs sung by Mangeshkar.\n\n\"No one can sing like her, she was very special. Her passing away is very saddening,\" she told the news agency ANI.\n\nMangeshkar was equally popular in neighbouring Pakistan, where TV channels broadcast rolling coverage of her death.\n\n\"The subcontinent has lost one of the truly great singers the world has known,\" Prime Minister Imran Khan said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Movies N Memories This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Indore in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on 28 September 1929, she began learning music at the age of five from her father, Deenanath Mangeshkar, who was active in the world of theatre.\n\nAfter her father's death, the family moved to Mumbai where a teenage Mangeshkar began singing for Marathi movies.\n\nShe also took bit roles in a few films to support her family, but would say later that her heart wasn't in it. \"I was happiest singing,\" she told interviewers.\n\nHer big break came in 1949 with the release of a haunting song titled Aayega Aanewala for the movie Mahal.\n\n\"Soon every female actor wanted her voice. But she was always busy and only a few fortunate music directors got the chance to make her sing,\" music director Mohammed Zahur Khayyam later recalled.\n\nOver the next few decades, Mangeshkar sang thousands of songs which were lip-synced by Bollywood's biggest heroines across generations.\n\nMangeshkar was nominated to the upper house of India's parliament in 1999, but said later that she had been reluctant to take it up and that her tenure there was \"anything but happy\".\n\nShe received India's highest honour for civilians, the Bharat Ratna, in 2001.\n\nIn 2004, when she turned 75, one of Bollywood's biggest directors, Yash Chopra, wrote for the BBC that he saw \"God's blessings in her voice\".\n\nMangeshkar, who never married, had a rich life outside her work with interests ranging from cricket to cars.\n\nHer younger sister Asha Bhosle is also a celebrated Bollywood singer. The two always dismissed any hint of sibling rivalry and even performed together occasionally.\n\n\"We're very close - we have never competed with each other,\" Bhosle told the BBC in 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Nightingale of Bollywood' Lata Mangeshkar talks about her life and career", "Camilla says victims of sexual violence can face a misplaced sense of stigma\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall has called for more urgent action to tackle sexual violence against women.\n\nShe spoke of her shock at Sarah Everard's murder and warned \"on average, one woman is killed by a man every three days\" in the UK.\n\nIn a speech in London, Camilla said men also needed to be \"on board\" with tackling a culture of sexual violence.\n\nAnd she questioned whether people had become \"indoctrinated into believing that violence against women is normal\".\n\nThe duchess spoke of the \"unimaginable torment\" facing female victims of violent sexual attacks and how their families, such as those of Sarah Everard, \"continue to suffer in the wake of their deaths\".\n\nSarah Everard was murdered earlier this year by Wayne Couzens, then a police officer, who had abducted her as she walked home in south London.\n\nAnd the duchess warned of a pervasive, underlying culture of sexual harassment.\n\n\"On the same day that Wayne Couzens was arrested, a survey was published stating that 86% of young women in the UK have been sexually harassed in a public space,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Cornwall speaking in London: \"How many more women must be harassed, raped or murdered?\"\n\nCamilla was speaking at the launch of a project called Shameless, supported by the Women of the World Foundation and Birkbeck, University of London, and aimed at changing attitudes to sexual violence.\n\nThe duchess said a high proportion of women who had been harassed did not report what had happened - and pointed to an unfair sense of \"shame\" among victims.\n\n\"Often, this sense of shame causes the victim to blame herself, mistakenly take responsibility for the crime, and want to hide away from others - and yet she has done nothing wrong,\" she said.\n\n\"Let us resolve to support survivors to be 'shameless' and not to take on misplaced feelings of stigma,\" the duchess told an audience including Carrie Johnson, wife of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nMrs Johnson, then Carrie Symonds, had given evidence against \"black-cab rapist\" John Worboys, jailed in 2009.\n\nThe duchess warned of a \"culture of silence\" around sexual violence and said it was important men were engaged in efforts to change attitudes.\n\n\"It takes an entire community, male and female, to dismantle the lies, words and actions that foster a culture in which sexual assault is seen as normal,\" she said.", "Shaun Russell's wife Lin was murdered with daughter Megan (centre) and nine-year-old Josie (right) was badly injured\n\nThe man serving life for the murder of schoolgirl Millie Dowler has confessed to killing mother and daughter Lin and Megan Russell, a lawyer has said.\n\nAnother man, Michael Stone, has twice been found guilty of the murders of Ms Russell and her six-year-old daughter in Kent in July 1996.\n\nHis solicitor says he has now received a statement written by Levi Bellfield which details the killings.\n\nStone was also found guilty of trying to murder Megan's sister Josie.\n\nHe has always protested his innocence.\n\nHis solicitor Paul Bacon says he has now received a four-page statement from Bellfield in which he claims to have carried out the attacks, including details of what he was wearing and how he made his escape.\n\nMichael Stone was convicted of two counts of murder and one of attempted murder\n\nMr Bacon read part of the letter to the BBC: \"Something like this has never happened before. I committed a crime and another person has been arrested for it.\n\n\"I guess if I'm honest it was a relief. I apologise to Stone and to the Russell family for my heinous acts. I was not well in the head during my reign of violence.\n\n\"I am willing to speak to the police.\"\n\nMr Bacon added: \"I genuinely think if the police visit Levi Bellfield in prison, he will make a full statement under caution, and I believe if he's charged he'll plead guilty and the matter will be resolved.\"\n\nLin Russell and her daughters Megan and Josie, then nine, were attacked as they walked along a country lane in Chillenden, before being bound, blindfolded and bludgeoned with a claw hammer.\n\nOn the day of the murders, Dr Shaun Russell was told that he had lost his whole family. It was only when an officer at the scene noticed Josie move they realised she had survived the attack.\n\nLin Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan did not survive the attacks\n\nStone was first found guilty of two counts of murder and one of attempted murder in 1998 and again in 2001, after the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction due to doubts over a prosecution witness.\n\nAn application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) in 2010 was rejected and an attempt to seek a judicial review of the decision also failed in 2011.\n\nBellfield is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Millie, who went missing from Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in 2002.\n\nHe has also been convicted of murdering Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange, and of the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, and will never be considered for parole.\n\nLevi Bellfield will never be released from prison after being convicted of three murders and one attempted murder\n\nThe alleged confession will now be referred to the CCRC.\n\nLast year Mr Bacon said a shoelace found at the scene of the murders - and which was missing until it was found in police storage in 2020 - could provide vital DNA evidence.\n\nDet Ch Sup Paul Fotheringham, of Kent Police, said: \"Following two trials at which Stone was found guilty by a jury on both occasions, and an appeal to the High Court, Michael Stone remains convicted of the murders of Lin and Megan Russell, and the attempted murder of Josie Russell in 1996.\n\n\"Michael Stone made an application to apply for a Judicial Review in respect of his conviction in September 2012. The Honourable Mr Justice Blake ordered that permission for the application should be refused.\n\n\"The Criminal Case Review Commission commenced an extensive re-examination of the murder investigation in 2017 and has had access to all forensic evidence, documentation and exhibits from the original investigation, the review by Hampshire Police, details of the two crown court trials and appeals to the High Court.\n\n\"The shoelace which was seized as part of the original investigation was made available to the CCRC. All evidence from the examinations on the shoelace were recorded and disclosed to the CCRC.\"\n\nLin Russell and her daughters Megan and Josie were bound, blindfolded and bludgeoned with a claw hammer\n\nA spokesperson for the CCRC said: \"Mr Stone's current application is being reviewed and we remain in regular contact with his legal representatives.\n\n\"We are aware they are planning to send in further information, and when received, we will thoroughly analyse it and make any appropriate enquiries.\"\n\nA Crown Prosecution Service spokesperson said: \"This is currently not a matter for the CPS but we stand by to assist with either a new police investigation or a CCRC referral.\"\n\nThe murders and the long-running investigation shocked the small and very rural community in east Kent.\n\nJosie Russell moved to Wales with her father after the attack, and had to learn to speak again.\n\nShe has now established herself as a successful textile artist and has also bought the home in which she and her family lived before they moved to Kent.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The young princess Elizabeth, far right, with her little sister Margaret, and her parents when they were Duke and Duchess of York\n\nIt is often said that Queen Elizabeth II lived out the first decade of her life with little expectation of her royal destiny. She was a carefree child, apparently, who spent her time playing with her horses and dogs, blessedly free from the shadow of what lay ahead.\n\nThis Sunday marks the 70th anniversary of her becoming Queen. The young Princess Elizabeth has been compared to the modern-day Princess Beatrice - daughter of the second-ranking Duke of York ('Bertie' in 1926, Prince Andrew today), and hence remote from any serious prospect of succeeding to the British Crown, let alone reigning over the 500 million or so inhabitants of what was then known as the British Commonwealth and Empire.\n\nDecember 1936 thus became the dramatic turning point in this scenario when her Uncle David, King Edward VIII, stunned the world and his family by abdicating the throne to marry Wallis Simpson, his divorcée American mistress - throwing the 10-year-old Elizabeth into the direct line of succession. Her father Prince Albert took the title of King George VI, and his elder daughter now became his immediate heir - the very first in line.\n\nBaby Princess Elizabeth with her grandmother Queen Mary in 1926\n\nBut was the young princess really so unprepared?\n\n\"Papa is to be King,\" Elizabeth informed her six-year-old sister Margaret Rose that December day, explaining the sudden cheering from the crowds that were gathering outside their town house in Piccadilly.\n\n\"Does that mean you're going to be Queen?\" asked Margaret.\n\n\"Yes,\" replied Elizabeth coolly, \"I suppose it does.\"\n\n\"Poor you!\" responded her younger sister humorously as she related the incident to Elizabeth Longford in the early 1980s. But Margaret chose to omit the joke when she re-told the tale two decades later to historian Ben Pimlott. She focused rather on how the new heir had seemed disinclined to jest or dwell upon her dramatic elevation. \"She didn't mention it again,\" the princess told Pimlott.\n\nSo what did the 10-year-old Princess Elizabeth know? And when did she know it?\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's first model for what became her destiny was her beloved grandfather, the bluff and bearded King George V (1865-1936). She called him \"Grandpa England\", which showed how astutely the little girl already grasped the essence of the royal business.\n\nGeorge V was distinguished \"by no exercise of social gifts, by no personal magnetism, by no intellectual powers,\" admitted his official biographer John Gore. \"He was neither a wit nor a brilliant raconteur.\" The old king, in other words, was exactly like most of his subjects. But he had a sharp sense for survival - and also for symbolism.\n\nIt was George V who shrewdly jettisoned the royal family's Germanic surname of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1917. So it is hardly surprising that, more than a century later, the world should be in such admiration of the skills that Queen has deployed through her uniquely long and distinguished reign. She learned them first-hand from the House of Windsor's founder.\n\nSea-loving George V was the source of his granddaughter's famous family nickname 'Lilibet'. In April 1929, on her third birthday, she made it to the cover of TIME magazine as 'P'incess Lilybet'.\n\nHer grandfather's preferred spelling, however, was 'Lilibet' without the 'y', as set out in frequent fond references in his meticulously maintained diary - one of the delights of the Royal Archives at Windsor.\n\nThat spring of 1929 the old king insisted that his beloved granddaughter, just three, be brought down to see him at Bognor Regis on the Sussex coast as one of two crucial ingredients to his recovery from a near-fatal lung operation (the second was that \"he might be allowed to smoke a cigarette\").\n\nIt was in these early months of 1929 that George V first shared his hopes that his granddaughter would one day ascend to the British throne.\n\n'You'll see,' he told Lilibet's father, who was visiting him during his convalescence, \"your brother will never become King.\"\n\n\"I remember we thought 'how ridiculous'. . .\" the Queen Mother recalled in later years. \"We both looked at each other and thought 'nonsense'.\"\n\nBut the old king was adamant. \"He will abdicate,\" he insisted to one of his associates - with extraordinary prescience, considering this was seven years before the event.\n\nGeorge V was concerned not only that his eldest son David would sabotage his own reign when he inherited, but also that next-in-line Bertie, himself frail and suffering from lung congestion, would not last the course either.\n\nThe old monarch apparently worried that the stuttering Duke of York could collapse under the strain of royal responsibility, so little Lilibet might be thrust upon the throne as a child. In that event, the logical Regent was likely to be George V's stolid third son Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974).\n\nThe possibility of a still-juvenile Elizabeth ascending the throne under the tutelage of her Uncle Henry may simply have reflected the fretting of an ailing king. But staying at Balmoral the previous autumn, Winston Churchill, then Chancellor of the Exchequer (and later the Queen's first prime minister) seemed to endorse the idea that the child might be a future Queen. The young princess, he wrote to his wife Clementine, \"is a character. She has an air of authority and reflectiveness astonishing in an infant\".\n\nArtist CE Turner captured this image of the young princess with her grandfather King George in Bognor Regis in 1929\n\nAs she built sandcastles with her slowly recuperating grandfather, the child had evidently absorbed some royal gravitas from the King Emperor. Before the reign of George V came to an end in 1936, the extraordinary expansion of unsolicited public gifts to his granddaughter - and even requests for the presence of the child at public functions - had reached such a volume that a lady-in-waiting had to be engaged to take care of the affairs of young Elizabeth of York.\n\nAt Windsor Castle in the late 1920s, the young Princess Elizabeth (born 21 April 1926) was observed by the Royal Librarian Owen Morshead being wheeled out in her pram to watch the Changing of the Guard, when the officer commanding would march up to salute her smartly.\n\n\"Permission to march off, please, Ma'am?\"\n\nSitting up in her pram, the princess would incline her bonneted head, according to Morshead, then wave her hand to give permission. At this tender age the little girl who already grasped the weightiness of her grandfather's national role as \"Grandpa England\", was clearly developing some inkling of her own as well...\n\nWhat effect does it have on a three-year-old mind to discover that you only have to wave your hand and nod your head for the band to strike up and the entire platoon to march off at your behest - especially as further signals of your grandeur multiply?\n\nYoung Princess Elizabeth on a six cent stamp from Newfoundland in 1932\n\nSoon after her fourth birthday, in the summer of 1930, a waxen effigy of Princess Elizabeth made its debut at Madame Tussauds, seated on a pony. Two years later the princess was featured on a six-cent stamp in Newfoundland - and down near the South Pole the Union Jack was raised over the 350,000 square miles of \"Princess Elizabeth Land\", claimed by Australia (and a full 100,000 square miles larger than the entire United Kingdom).\n\n\"Every time she goes out for a drive in the park,' reported the Belfast News Letter in the summer of 1932, people recognised the six-year-old. \"Hats are raised and handkerchiefs raised from all quarters.\"\n\nFor her seventh birthday in April 1933, the princess sent out tea party invitations on her own stationery - blue writing paper embossed with a capital \"E\" below a royal crown. A crown!\n\nA portrait of the young princess in 1933 by artist Philip de László\n\nHer parents commissioned society artist Philip de László to paint a chocolate-box portrait of their daughter, whom the painter described as \"a most intelligent and beautiful little girl... she is enormously popular and... at present looked upon as the future Queen of Great Britain.\"\n\nThis striking news was echoed by a well-informed US report in May 1934 that the future Edward VIII was known to be \"lukewarm towards the job for which he was born. Close associates of the Prince have whispered that he does not look forward to being a king with any measure of joy\". As a result, the child princess was now receiving \"the strict education of one who is regarded as in direct succession to the crown of England\".\n\nThe likely source of these North American revelations - which were studiously ignored by Britain's still-deferential press - was the princess's recently recruited young governess Marion Crawford, who was described as \"very pretty\", \"very dour\" and \"very Scotch\".\n\nInstantly nicknamed \"Crawfie\" by her young charges, the governess would become notorious for her best-selling revelations about the upbringing of \"The Little Princesses\" - in which she disclosed, for example, how she conspired with Queen Mary to subvert their mother's wish that her daughters should spend less time inside the schoolroom.\n\nA story published in the Marysville Journal-Tribune in 1934 - more than two years before the Abdication (the captions got the names of the royal brothers the wrong way round)\n\nGoverness and grandmother worked together to inject more rigour into the sisters' education. The severe royal matriarch felt that Princess Elizabeth should only read \"the best type of children's books,\" often selecting them herself - while also dreaming up \"instructive amusements\" for the future monarch, like visits to the Tower of London.\n\n\"It would have been impossible for anyone so devoted to the monarchy as Queen Mary,\" recalled her friend the Countess of Airlie, \"to lose sight of the future Queen in this favourite grandchild.\"\n\nGrandpa England, meanwhile, set more simple targets. \"For goodness' sake,\" he boomed at the governess, \"teach Margaret and Lilibet to write a decent hand - that's all I ask you! None of my children could write properly. They all do it exactly the same way. I like a hand with some character in it.\"\n\nForeign newspapers noted how the young princess's chances of becoming \"Queen-Regnant\" were now better than had been those of the eight-year-old Queen Victoria a century earlier - the daughter of a fourth son with two uncles ahead of her. Small wonder that these grand expectations should not rub off on the alert and knowing Elizabeth.\n\n\"If I am ever Queen,\" she told Crawfie, \"I shall make a law that there must be no riding on Sundays. Horses should have a rest, too.\"\n\nQueen Mary sensed the danger. Noticing how her granddaughter was wriggling impatiently on one excursion at a concert, the Queen asked if she would not prefer to go home.\n\n\"Oh no, Granny,\" came the reply, \"we can't leave before the end. Think of all the people who'll be waiting to see us outside\" - whereupon Granny immediately instructed a lady-in-waiting to escort the child out by the back way and take her home in a taxi.\n\nQueen Mary did not want her elder granddaughter getting addicted to adulation. The Queen and her husband understood how modesty, humility and a sense of service constituted the price that royals had to pay for their grandeur in a democratic age. Duty was their watchword, and they both passed this crucial lesson on to their granddaughter - that she was less important than the system. They made sure Lilibet grew up a team player.\n\nPrince William is said to have wanted his son Prince George to enjoy a few years of relative normality before being told his future\n\nFrom all the signs and signals, it does seem likely that the future Elizabeth II had acquired a realistic idea of what lay ahead for her by the age of seven - at least three years before the abdication.\n\nInterestingly, the age of seven was when Prince William is said to have revealed the same challenging reality to his son George - at the latest moment before the boy was likely to be confronted with the truth in his London school playground.\n\nLike Charles, his father, William has voiced mixed feelings at being saddled with knowing his regal destiny from his earliest awareness. He wanted George to enjoy just a few years of relative normality - and maybe that instinct for the normal is what the Queen's early succession-free years granted her. She might have been elevated to the role of captain, but she never forgot she had started as a player in the team.\n\nComing to the throne in 1952, the Queen would preside over a reign of two halves - relatively humdrum and even drab for nearly three decades, before crackling into life-on-the-edge with the troubled 1980s marriage of Charles to Diana, the gift that kept on giving to the voracious late-century media.\n\nThis was when the childhood lessons the young Elizabeth had absorbed from her grandparents came into play. The Queen needed all the steady humility she could muster to withstand the avalanche of abdication-like tremors: Charles, Diana, Camilla, the Windsor fire, Andrew-with-Fergie, Andrew-without-Fergie - with the unexpected tweak-in-the-tail delivered by the departure to the US of grandson Harry in 2020. It was one crisis after another - and through it all, the monarchy prevailed in her safe hands.\n\nA dry sense of humour helped. In 1992 the Queen disarmed the disaster of the Windsor Fire and the breakdown of three of her children's marriages by resorting to some facetious dog Latin - 1992 had been her \"Annus Horribilis\", she explained with a smile.\n\n\"Oh dear,\" she enquired when an embarrassed Labour minister Clare Short had to stop her mobile phone from ringing during a Privy Council meeting. \"I hope it wasn't anyone important?\"\n\nFrom an early age the sharp-eyed and sharp-thinking Queen Elizabeth II seems to have grasped the comedy of the royal show in which she would be destined to play a leading role.\n\n\"Let us not take ourselves too seriously,\" she declared in her Christmas broadcast for 1991. \"None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.\"\n\nThe young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret with their parents and dogs at Windsor in 1936\n\nIn 1933, according to royal legend, Lilibet confidently informed her sister Margaret, born in 1930, \"I'm three and you're four.\"\n\nYoung and confused, but still able to do the sums, Margaret responded: \"No, you're not. I'm three, you're seven!\"\n\nIt took time to dawn on Margaret that her elder sister was not talking about age. She was referring to the two girls' respective positions in the order of succession after their grandfather - Uncle David, one; Papa, two; and Lilibet, three. The seven-year-old was right up to speed with what the rest of the world was starting to think.\n\nAfter the abdication and having been moved up two rankings to face the challenge of being number one in the line of succession, the 10-year-old princess was described by her grandmother Lady Strathmore as \"ardently praying for a brother\".\n\nBut there was no baby brother coming to the rescue. The little girl raised among her horses and dogs now had to prepare herself for the challenge of eventually becoming \"Grandma England\" - and \"Grandma\" of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland too.\n\nRobert Lacey is a British historian and biographer who has made a particular study of Britain's modern constitutional monarchy. His biography Majesty: Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor was published in 1977. Since 2015 he has been historical consultant to the Netflix TV series The Crown.", "Boris Johnson's wife Carrie has said she is the target of a \"brutal briefing campaign\" by the PM's enemies.\n\nA book, serialised in the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday this weekend, alleges she has influence on the prime minister's decision-making.\n\nHer spokeswoman said allegations made by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft were \"just the latest attempt by bitter ex-officials\" to discredit her.\n\nShe added: \"She is a private individual who plays no role in government.\"\n\nLord Ashcroft has suggested Mrs Johnson's behaviour was \"preventing him [the prime minister] from leading Britain as effectively as the voters deserve\".\n\nThere have been allegations of her involvement in scandals linked to the prime minister, including suggestions she pushed for the luxury redecoration of their No 11 Downing Street flat and that she was key in the evacuation of animals from the Nowzad charity in Kabul, Afghanistan.\n\nNo 10 has denied either Mr or Mrs Johnson, who works for a conservation group, had any involvement in the evacuation.\n\nLord Ashcroft's unauthorised biography of Carrie Johnson follows similar books he has written on Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Chancellor Rishi Sunak, leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg and former prime minister David Cameron.\n\nHe has said all author royalties from his new book, First Lady, are being donated to NHS charities. The peer, a former Conservative Party treasurer and deputy chairman, has donated millions to the Tories.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said Mrs Johnson was \"under scrutiny in a way that perhaps other prime minsters' spouses weren't\".\n\n\"The reportage that somehow she's got undue influence, I don't think that's true,\" he told Times Radio. \"The prime minister has been in politics for 25 years and has a pretty strong set of ideas.\"\n\nHe said reporting about her was not sexist though, adding: \"I wouldn't say that but I do think it's interesting when the spouse is someone in their 30s and has got open positions that are well known, people feel free to criticise - I think that's interesting.\"\n\nCarrie Johnson accompanied her husband to the G7 summit last summer\n\nMichael Gove's ex-wife, the journalist Sarah Vine, said the focus on Mrs Johnson was \"the equivalent of political slut shaming\". She told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme: \"The trouble is, it's always the easiest thing to do to blame the woman and the truth is far more complicated than that.\"\n\nShe added: \"I know that the nickname Carrie Antoinette is witty and a good pun and we all love a good pun, but I just don't think her head deserves to be on the block in this way.\"\n\nFormer chancellor George Osborne said: \"Whatever the flaws and faults of the Boris Johnson government - or indeed its successes - they are the responsibility of Boris, not his wife Carrie. Let's move on from this misogynistic Lady Macbeth nonsense.\"\n\nDavid Cameron's wife Samantha said last year that descriptions of Mrs Johnson as \"princess nut nut\" by allies of former aide Dominic Cummings were sexist.\n\n\"I think it is very unfair to pick her out as having some kind of undue influence,\" she said.\n\nIn Lord Ashcroft's book, former cabinet minister John Whittingdale said the influence she was said to have was inaccurate - but that the Johnsons \"discuss things in a way that previous spouses [of prime ministers] would not, because they were much less political\".\n\nHe added that \"Carrie has a tough time\" and lives \"a pretty lonely existence\".", "The man was stabbed at a house in Harcourt Drive in January\n\nA murder investigation has been launched after a man died from injuries he suffered when he was stabbed in north Belfast in January.\n\nPolice responded to a report of a stabbing at a house in Harcourt Drive at about 06:15 GMT on Friday 7 January.\n\nThe 47-year-old victim was taken to hospital but died from his injuries on Sunday, police said.\n\nPolice said they had made a number of arrests in connection with the incident and inquiries were ongoing.", "The Royal family at Balmoral just months before the death of the Queen's father George VI - (left to right) Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother; Princess Margaret; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; King George VI and Princess Elizabeth with her children Prince Charles (left) and Princess Anne.\n\nThe Queen is celebrating being the first British monarch to reach a Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years on the throne.\n\nHer father, King George VI, died on 6 February 1952 when she was 25. She became queen of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Austrialia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon, as well as head of the Commonwealth.\n\nHowever, her jubilee is usually celebrated around 2 June, the date of her coronation the following year.\n\nThe landmarks of her long reign have been celebrated in Scotland from the very start.\n\nThe new Queen on a visit to the Scottish Craft Centre in Edinburgh in July 1952. The royal visit was the first to Edinburgh by a reigning monarch in 50 years and also the first time Queen Elizabeth had stayed at Holyrood palace.\n\nA group of women peer through the railings during the Royal trip to Edinburgh in July 1952.\n\nIn 1952, Queen Elizabeth receives Scots veterans of the 'Wet Review' of 1881, when the entire company was drenched while receiving Queen Victoria.\n\nTwenty five years later, as part of Royal Silver Jubilee tour, the 51-year-old Queen is still greeting crowds of well-wishers.\n\nThe Queen on a walkabout among the crowds during her Silver Jubilee Tour.\n\nThe Queen goes walkabout in the Green Faulds area of Glasgow in May 1977.\n\nThe Queen looks at some of the trophies on display at Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh during her 1977 jubilee tour.\n\nThe Queen inspects a guard of honour during her Silver Jubilee visit to Scotland in May 1977.\n\nThe Queen leaving the Woodhill House in Aberdeen, the headquarters of Grampian Regional Council, after officially opening the building in May 1977 as part of Silver Jubilee tour.\n\nThe Queen delivers a speech during her Silver Jubilee visit to Scotland in May 1977.\n\nIn 2002, The Queen celebrated 50 years as monarch and her Golden Jubilee visits included Portree on Skye.\n\nQueen Elizabeth is greeted by school children with Scotland's First Minister Jack McConnell (centre left) at Duthie Park in Aberdeen in May 2002 as part of the Golden Jubilee.\n\nThe 76-year-old Queen meets young shinty players as she tours the square in Portree in 2002.\n\nThe Queen checks for rain as she attends a garden party at the palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh during her Golden Jubilee year visit.\n\nThe final day of the Golden Jubilee tour ends with a Garden Party in the grounds of the Queen's home at Balmoral Castle.\n\nIn 2012, the Queen celebrated her Diamond Jubilee. She inspected soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Scotland, during the Ceremony Of The Keys at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh in July, as part of the jubilee events.\n\nThe Queen meets well-wishers in George Square, Glasgow, during a visit to Scotland as part of her Diamond Jubilee, celebrating 60 years on throne.", "Scotland secured successive Calcutta Cup wins for the first time since 1984 after a dramatic late penalty try helped them claim a nerve-shredding Six Nations victory over England.\n\nThe visitors dominated possession and territory in the sides' tournament opener at Murrayfield, and led going into the final quarter thanks to a 17-point haul by Marcus Smith.\n\nBut Scotland - who were in front at the break after Ben White's debut score - were awarded seven points after Luke Cowan-Dickie deliberately slapped a Finn Russell cross-kick into touch, and edged to victory with a late Russell penalty.\n\nIt was a statement win for Gregor Townsend's side, who have won three of the past five meetings and journey to Wales next Saturday with their Six Nations Championship aspirations burnished.\n\nEddie Jones' England, meanwhile, have now lost four of their last six matches in the competition and travel to Italy the following day needing a win to salvage any hopes of being contenders.\n• None Cowan-Dickie 'not to blame' for England loss says Jones\n\nMercifully the biblical weather forecast never quite lived up to the doomsday predictions. Murrayfield was packed and heaving and, then, hushed.\n\nIf the home crowd was expecting thunder and lightning from their boys from the start, what they saw instead was waves of England possession and territory.\n\nJones' team didn't do a whole lot with it, but they piled it on none the less. Scotland could hardly get anywhere near the ball as this young England - stripped of so much experience through injury - set the tempo.\n\nStuart Hogg had to scramble to get Max Malins into touch, then Smith banged over a penalty when Jonny Gray played Ben Youngs illegally.\n\nScotland lost Ali Price to a HIA soon after. What a moment that was for his replacement White on his debut.\n\nThe new scrum-half appeared, lit up Murrayfield with the opening try, and then departed again when Price got the all-clear. In the short history of HIAs there can't have been many greater cameos than White's.\n\nIt began with a quick Scottish line-out from George Turner, then a Sam Johnson surge. At last, some Scottish urgency.\n\nHogg took it on, drew Maro Itoje and found Graham. The wing was terrific, bamboozling Joe Marchant before finding White on his shoulder. Wonderful. Russell made it 7-3 to Scotland, a lead they scarcely warranted.\n\nEngland carried on dominating possession and territory, carried on trying to pin the Scots back without showing the penetration needed to breach what has been the best Six Nations defence over the past two championships. They prodded away.\n\nSmith floated a cross kick to Henry Slade but it flew just above the centre's head. England launched a maul and drove it over the Scottish line but Slade got held up.\n\nThey got some kind of reward for their dominance of the ball when Smith landed another penalty to put them within one.\n\nRussell cancelled that one out just before the break. A four-point advantage at half-time? The Scots were blessed. They'd had one attack, one decent bout of possession. England had 76% of the ball - and a deficit.\n\nAll of that flipped early in the new half. England began strongly again, but this time they put points on the board, Smith firing over a penalty to make it 10-9 and then adding that try four minutes later.\n\nAgain it was an England maul that had Scotland in trouble. Left woefully short of defenders down the blind-side, Youngs and Smith executed with ease. Smith failed with the conversion but made amends with another penalty just after the hour.\n\nEngland by seven. The Murrayfield crowd quieter than church mice. The sight of Jamie Ritchie leaving with a serious-looking injury did nothing for their mood.\n\nBut that mood altered dramatically. Cometh the hour, cometh the man, Russell cross-kicked right to left for Duhan van der Merwe to stretch England one way, then cross-kicked left to right to stretch them the other. The pivotal moment of the day had arrived.\n\nGraham and Cowan-Dickie competed for it practically on the try-line, the hooker done for batting it into touch deliberately. The tension was off the scale. Penalty try Scotland, yellow card Cowan-Dickie, a game levelled, a crowd in delirium.\n\nScotland went again, Russell put them in front with a penalty and, incredibly, they'd hit the front.\n\nIt looked like they'd put it to bed when they got another penalty in front of the posts, but it was reversed. It looked like England were about to launch a major attack in the last seconds but they coughed up a line-out. Prop Joe Marler unwisely threw the ball in. Why didn't Jones bring on Jamie George for that potentially crucial set piece.\n\nEven still, England had a scrum and reset upon reset in the final play. The visitors were desperate for a penalty, the Scots desperate to survive. The Scots prevailed. Remarkable.\n\nBack-to-back Calcutta Cup wins for the first time in almost 40 years and huge momentum going to Wales next week. For England, more misery at the hands of a resurgent Scotland.\n\nWhat they said\n\nScotland head coach Gregor Townsend: \"I was so nervous for that set of scrums at the end. It was crossing my mind what England might do if they got a penalty, but fortunately it was decided on an error rather than a penalty.\n\n\"[Our self-belief] is excellent, as is our character. We were behind and came back. Some of our best rugby was in the last 15 minutes in tricky conditions.\n\n\"Finn Russell was superb all game. It means so much to Scotland as a nation. We know we can improve going forward.\"\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones: \"Scotland were a bit better than us and took their chances. There wasn't much in it, but congratulations to Scotland.\n\n\"We don't apportion any blame to Luke [Cowan-Dickie] - the referee adjudged it was a yellow card and we have to get on with it. We had opportunities to kick on, but we just weren't clinical enough.\n\n\"Given the quality of the competition, we just have to go to Italy and win.\"", "Craig believes his father first came across the posters when he was married to a German girl called Margit\n\n\"What do you expect in a loft? Some ancient Christmas decorations, maybe an obsolete computer… but definitely not Nazi propaganda posters.\"\n\nYet that's what faced Craig Lambert from Barry, when he had to clear out his father's attic after his death in 2019.\n\nBetween 1951 and 1955 Royal Welch Fusiliers Sergeant Major Colin Lambert was detailed to guard Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, during his life-long sentence at Spandau Prison in Berlin.\n\nSome of the artefacts with which he returned from Germany would remain a secret until his death.\n\nDating from 1942, they include scenes justifying the London Blitz, and others extolling the amount of Allied shipping the German U-boat campaign had succeeded in sinking.\n\nNow Craig has donated the war posters he's unearthed to the Barry War Museum for display and preservation.\n\n\"Dad always loved to talk about his time in the army; we'd call him Uncle Albert, after the Only Fools and Horses character,\" said Mr Lambert.\n\n\"He loved telling us about his time guarding Rudolph Hess, but he rarely mentioned the things he'd brought back from Germany with him.\"\n\nCraig Lambert would call his dad Uncle Albert after the Only Fools and Horses character\n\nHitler's deputy throughout the 1930s, Hess was a key architect of the Third Reich.\n\nIn 1941 he mysteriously parachuted into Scotland, claiming to be seeking a peaceful end to the War.\n\nHe was imprisoned in Britain until the end of the conflict, when he was transported back to Germany to be sentenced to a full-life term at the Nuremburg War Trials.\n\nMr Lambert said: \"Dad had only one prisoner - Hess - to guard on an entire wing at Spandau.\n\n\"He'd get bored, because he loved chatting, and one night he was caught gossiping and sharing a cigarette with Rudolph Hess.\"\n\nIncredibly, it was Hess himself who reported Colin, and as communicating with Hess was strictly forbidden for Allied guards, Colin was sentenced to a fortnight in military prison.\n\nRudolph Hess was Colin Lambert's only prisoner on an entire wing at Spandau\n\nHowever Craig joked that this was far from the only blemish on his father's army record.\n\n\"Dad had barely got off the ship at the Hook of Holland in 1950 when he was written-up for breaking out of barracks late at night, being arrested for getting drunk in town, and swearing at a senior officer.\"\n\nA year later Colin had married a German woman, Margit, in a whirlwind romance.\n\nHer parents were secret Nazi sympathisers, and in the basement of their home they hid a shrine to Adolf Hitler.\n\nCraig believes that it was here, rather than in the prison, that his father first came across the posters.\n\nCraig Lambert found the Nazi propaganda when he was clearing out his father's attic\n\n\"My Dad found out that Margit had been cheating on him, and in a fit of rage he smashed up all her parents' Nazi memorabilia, but for some reason he kept these three posters.\n\n\"He had a son - my half-brother - with Margit, so possibly he kept some leverage in case she stopped him seeing him?\"\n\nCraig can only guess what conversation his father and Rudolph Hess held over that cigarette.\n\nHowever, one possibility was the three years Hess spent in detention near Abergavenny, at Maindiff Court Hospital.\n\nHe arrived there on 26 June 1942 having previously been held in Scotland where he landed, then the Tower of London and onwards to a fortified mansion in Surrey - Mytchett Place - where he spent 13 months.\n\nAt Maindiff Court Hess had his own room but he was guarded at all times.\n\nHe was allowed a fair degree of freedom, often being driven about the local countryside, such as the local landmark, the Skirrid Mountain, where he loved to paint.\n\nGlamorgan Archives encapsulated the posters with Archival Polyester and sealed them in a microchamber so they couldn't deteriorate any further\n\nVolunteer historian at the Barry War Museum, Rosemary Chaloner explains just how rare Colin's legacy is.\n\n\"There is virtually nothing left of Spandau, Hess was the only prisoner there from 1966 until his death in 1987, when the entire site was demolished and ground into powder and dumped in the North Sea, to prevent it from becoming a Nazi shrine.\n\n\"All that we know that exists is a set of keys in a Scottish museum, and possibly these posters, if we are ever able to prove they came from the prison,\" she said.\n\nRosemary outlined the painstaking work undertaken by Glamorgan Archives in order to preserve the posters.\n\n\"We couldn't have managed this if it hadn't have been for the back-breaking work put in by Glamorgan Archives, in particular [chief conservator] Lydia, who organised everything and Mike who restored the Posters.\n\n\"They encapsulated them with Archival Polyester and sealed them in a microchamber so they couldn't deteriorate any further.\"\n\nHowever, Colin's life of intrigue wasn't over, after leaving the army in 1970, he became a carpet salesman, and as a business associate of John Le Mesurier, was called to give evidence against then-Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe.", "The young princess Elizabeth, far right, with her little sister Margaret, and her parents when they were Duke and Duchess of York\n\nIt is often said that Queen Elizabeth II lived out the first decade of her life with little expectation of her royal destiny. She was a carefree child, apparently, who spent her time playing with her horses and dogs, blessedly free from the shadow of what lay ahead.\n\nThis Sunday marks the 70th anniversary of her becoming Queen. The young Princess Elizabeth has been compared to the modern-day Princess Beatrice - daughter of the second-ranking Duke of York ('Bertie' in 1926, Prince Andrew today), and hence remote from any serious prospect of succeeding to the British Crown, let alone reigning over the 500 million or so inhabitants of what was then known as the British Commonwealth and Empire.\n\nDecember 1936 thus became the dramatic turning point in this scenario when her Uncle David, King Edward VIII, stunned the world and his family by abdicating the throne to marry Wallis Simpson, his divorcée American mistress - throwing the 10-year-old Elizabeth into the direct line of succession. Her father Prince Albert took the title of King George VI, and his elder daughter now became his immediate heir - the very first in line.\n\nBaby Princess Elizabeth with her grandmother Queen Mary in 1926\n\nBut was the young princess really so unprepared?\n\n\"Papa is to be King,\" Elizabeth informed her six-year-old sister Margaret Rose that December day, explaining the sudden cheering from the crowds that were gathering outside their town house in Piccadilly.\n\n\"Does that mean you're going to be Queen?\" asked Margaret.\n\n\"Yes,\" replied Elizabeth coolly, \"I suppose it does.\"\n\n\"Poor you!\" responded her younger sister humorously as she related the incident to Elizabeth Longford in the early 1980s. But Margaret chose to omit the joke when she re-told the tale two decades later to historian Ben Pimlott. She focused rather on how the new heir had seemed disinclined to jest or dwell upon her dramatic elevation. \"She didn't mention it again,\" the princess told Pimlott.\n\nSo what did the 10-year-old Princess Elizabeth know? And when did she know it?\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's first model for what became her destiny was her beloved grandfather, the bluff and bearded King George V (1865-1936). She called him \"Grandpa England\", which showed how astutely the little girl already grasped the essence of the royal business.\n\nGeorge V was distinguished \"by no exercise of social gifts, by no personal magnetism, by no intellectual powers,\" admitted his official biographer John Gore. \"He was neither a wit nor a brilliant raconteur.\" The old king, in other words, was exactly like most of his subjects. But he had a sharp sense for survival - and also for symbolism.\n\nIt was George V who shrewdly jettisoned the royal family's Germanic surname of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1917. So it is hardly surprising that, more than a century later, the world should be in such admiration of the skills that Queen has deployed through her uniquely long and distinguished reign. She learned them first-hand from the House of Windsor's founder.\n\nSea-loving George V was the source of his granddaughter's famous family nickname 'Lilibet'. In April 1929, on her third birthday, she made it to the cover of TIME magazine as 'P'incess Lilybet'.\n\nHer grandfather's preferred spelling, however, was 'Lilibet' without the 'y', as set out in frequent fond references in his meticulously maintained diary - one of the delights of the Royal Archives at Windsor.\n\nThat spring of 1929 the old king insisted that his beloved granddaughter, just three, be brought down to see him at Bognor Regis on the Sussex coast as one of two crucial ingredients to his recovery from a near-fatal lung operation (the second was that \"he might be allowed to smoke a cigarette\").\n\nIt was in these early months of 1929 that George V first shared his hopes that his granddaughter would one day ascend to the British throne.\n\n'You'll see,' he told Lilibet's father, who was visiting him during his convalescence, \"your brother will never become King.\"\n\n\"I remember we thought 'how ridiculous'. . .\" the Queen Mother recalled in later years. \"We both looked at each other and thought 'nonsense'.\"\n\nBut the old king was adamant. \"He will abdicate,\" he insisted to one of his associates - with extraordinary prescience, considering this was seven years before the event.\n\nGeorge V was concerned not only that his eldest son David would sabotage his own reign when he inherited, but also that next-in-line Bertie, himself frail and suffering from lung congestion, would not last the course either.\n\nThe old monarch apparently worried that the stuttering Duke of York could collapse under the strain of royal responsibility, so little Lilibet might be thrust upon the throne as a child. In that event, the logical Regent was likely to be George V's stolid third son Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974).\n\nThe possibility of a still-juvenile Elizabeth ascending the throne under the tutelage of her Uncle Henry may simply have reflected the fretting of an ailing king. But staying at Balmoral the previous autumn, Winston Churchill, then Chancellor of the Exchequer (and later the Queen's first prime minister) seemed to endorse the idea that the child might be a future Queen. The young princess, he wrote to his wife Clementine, \"is a character. She has an air of authority and reflectiveness astonishing in an infant\".\n\nArtist CE Turner captured this image of the young princess with her grandfather King George in Bognor Regis in 1929\n\nAs she built sandcastles with her slowly recuperating grandfather, the child had evidently absorbed some royal gravitas from the King Emperor. Before the reign of George V came to an end in 1936, the extraordinary expansion of unsolicited public gifts to his granddaughter - and even requests for the presence of the child at public functions - had reached such a volume that a lady-in-waiting had to be engaged to take care of the affairs of young Elizabeth of York.\n\nAt Windsor Castle in the late 1920s, the young Princess Elizabeth (born 21 April 1926) was observed by the Royal Librarian Owen Morshead being wheeled out in her pram to watch the Changing of the Guard, when the officer commanding would march up to salute her smartly.\n\n\"Permission to march off, please, Ma'am?\"\n\nSitting up in her pram, the princess would incline her bonneted head, according to Morshead, then wave her hand to give permission. At this tender age the little girl who already grasped the weightiness of her grandfather's national role as \"Grandpa England\", was clearly developing some inkling of her own as well...\n\nWhat effect does it have on a three-year-old mind to discover that you only have to wave your hand and nod your head for the band to strike up and the entire platoon to march off at your behest - especially as further signals of your grandeur multiply?\n\nYoung Princess Elizabeth on a six cent stamp from Newfoundland in 1932\n\nSoon after her fourth birthday, in the summer of 1930, a waxen effigy of Princess Elizabeth made its debut at Madame Tussauds, seated on a pony. Two years later the princess was featured on a six-cent stamp in Newfoundland - and down near the South Pole the Union Jack was raised over the 350,000 square miles of \"Princess Elizabeth Land\", claimed by Australia (and a full 100,000 square miles larger than the entire United Kingdom).\n\n\"Every time she goes out for a drive in the park,' reported the Belfast News Letter in the summer of 1932, people recognised the six-year-old. \"Hats are raised and handkerchiefs raised from all quarters.\"\n\nFor her seventh birthday in April 1933, the princess sent out tea party invitations on her own stationery - blue writing paper embossed with a capital \"E\" below a royal crown. A crown!\n\nA portrait of the young princess in 1933 by artist Philip de László\n\nHer parents commissioned society artist Philip de László to paint a chocolate-box portrait of their daughter, whom the painter described as \"a most intelligent and beautiful little girl... she is enormously popular and... at present looked upon as the future Queen of Great Britain.\"\n\nThis striking news was echoed by a well-informed US report in May 1934 that the future Edward VIII was known to be \"lukewarm towards the job for which he was born. Close associates of the Prince have whispered that he does not look forward to being a king with any measure of joy\". As a result, the child princess was now receiving \"the strict education of one who is regarded as in direct succession to the crown of England\".\n\nThe likely source of these North American revelations - which were studiously ignored by Britain's still-deferential press - was the princess's recently recruited young governess Marion Crawford, who was described as \"very pretty\", \"very dour\" and \"very Scotch\".\n\nInstantly nicknamed \"Crawfie\" by her young charges, the governess would become notorious for her best-selling revelations about the upbringing of \"The Little Princesses\" - in which she disclosed, for example, how she conspired with Queen Mary to subvert their mother's wish that her daughters should spend less time inside the schoolroom.\n\nA story published in the Marysville Journal-Tribune in 1934 - more than two years before the Abdication (the captions got the names of the royal brothers the wrong way round)\n\nGoverness and grandmother worked together to inject more rigour into the sisters' education. The severe royal matriarch felt that Princess Elizabeth should only read \"the best type of children's books,\" often selecting them herself - while also dreaming up \"instructive amusements\" for the future monarch, like visits to the Tower of London.\n\n\"It would have been impossible for anyone so devoted to the monarchy as Queen Mary,\" recalled her friend the Countess of Airlie, \"to lose sight of the future Queen in this favourite grandchild.\"\n\nGrandpa England, meanwhile, set more simple targets. \"For goodness' sake,\" he boomed at the governess, \"teach Margaret and Lilibet to write a decent hand - that's all I ask you! None of my children could write properly. They all do it exactly the same way. I like a hand with some character in it.\"\n\nForeign newspapers noted how the young princess's chances of becoming \"Queen-Regnant\" were now better than had been those of the eight-year-old Queen Victoria a century earlier - the daughter of a fourth son with two uncles ahead of her. Small wonder that these grand expectations should not rub off on the alert and knowing Elizabeth.\n\n\"If I am ever Queen,\" she told Crawfie, \"I shall make a law that there must be no riding on Sundays. Horses should have a rest, too.\"\n\nQueen Mary sensed the danger. Noticing how her granddaughter was wriggling impatiently on one excursion at a concert, the Queen asked if she would not prefer to go home.\n\n\"Oh no, Granny,\" came the reply, \"we can't leave before the end. Think of all the people who'll be waiting to see us outside\" - whereupon Granny immediately instructed a lady-in-waiting to escort the child out by the back way and take her home in a taxi.\n\nQueen Mary did not want her elder granddaughter getting addicted to adulation. The Queen and her husband understood how modesty, humility and a sense of service constituted the price that royals had to pay for their grandeur in a democratic age. Duty was their watchword, and they both passed this crucial lesson on to their granddaughter - that she was less important than the system. They made sure Lilibet grew up a team player.\n\nPrince William is said to have wanted his son Prince George to enjoy a few years of relative normality before being told his future\n\nFrom all the signs and signals, it does seem likely that the future Elizabeth II had acquired a realistic idea of what lay ahead for her by the age of seven - at least three years before the abdication.\n\nInterestingly, the age of seven was when Prince William is said to have revealed the same challenging reality to his son George - at the latest moment before the boy was likely to be confronted with the truth in his London school playground.\n\nLike Charles, his father, William has voiced mixed feelings at being saddled with knowing his regal destiny from his earliest awareness. He wanted George to enjoy just a few years of relative normality - and maybe that instinct for the normal is what the Queen's early succession-free years granted her. She might have been elevated to the role of captain, but she never forgot she had started as a player in the team.\n\nComing to the throne in 1952, the Queen would preside over a reign of two halves - relatively humdrum and even drab for nearly three decades, before crackling into life-on-the-edge with the troubled 1980s marriage of Charles to Diana, the gift that kept on giving to the voracious late-century media.\n\nThis was when the childhood lessons the young Elizabeth had absorbed from her grandparents came into play. The Queen needed all the steady humility she could muster to withstand the avalanche of abdication-like tremors: Charles, Diana, Camilla, the Windsor fire, Andrew-with-Fergie, Andrew-without-Fergie - with the unexpected tweak-in-the-tail delivered by the departure to the US of grandson Harry in 2020. It was one crisis after another - and through it all, the monarchy prevailed in her safe hands.\n\nA dry sense of humour helped. In 1992 the Queen disarmed the disaster of the Windsor Fire and the breakdown of three of her children's marriages by resorting to some facetious dog Latin - 1992 had been her \"Annus Horribilis\", she explained with a smile.\n\n\"Oh dear,\" she enquired when an embarrassed Labour minister Clare Short had to stop her mobile phone from ringing during a Privy Council meeting. \"I hope it wasn't anyone important?\"\n\nFrom an early age the sharp-eyed and sharp-thinking Queen Elizabeth II seems to have grasped the comedy of the royal show in which she would be destined to play a leading role.\n\n\"Let us not take ourselves too seriously,\" she declared in her Christmas broadcast for 1991. \"None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.\"\n\nThe young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret with their parents and dogs at Windsor in 1936\n\nIn 1933, according to royal legend, Lilibet confidently informed her sister Margaret, born in 1930, \"I'm three and you're four.\"\n\nYoung and confused, but still able to do the sums, Margaret responded: \"No, you're not. I'm three, you're seven!\"\n\nIt took time to dawn on Margaret that her elder sister was not talking about age. She was referring to the two girls' respective positions in the order of succession after their grandfather - Uncle David, one; Papa, two; and Lilibet, three. The seven-year-old was right up to speed with what the rest of the world was starting to think.\n\nAfter the abdication and having been moved up two rankings to face the challenge of being number one in the line of succession, the 10-year-old princess was described by her grandmother Lady Strathmore as \"ardently praying for a brother\".\n\nBut there was no baby brother coming to the rescue. The little girl raised among her horses and dogs now had to prepare herself for the challenge of eventually becoming \"Grandma England\" - and \"Grandma\" of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland too.\n\nRobert Lacey is a British historian and biographer who has made a particular study of Britain's modern constitutional monarchy. His biography Majesty: Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor was published in 1977. Since 2015 he has been historical consultant to the Netflix TV series The Crown.", "Four people from the UK have won the EuroMillions jackpot this year\n\nThe winning numbers were 3, 25, 38, 43, 49 and the lucky star numbers were 3 and 7.\n\nA UK player matched all seven numbers to scoop the top prize and lottery firm Camelot is urging players to check their tickets to see if they have won.\n\nWhile it is a huge sum of money, the win is not in the top five highest UK winners, with a British record of £170m claimed in October 2019.\n\nAndy Carter, senior winners' adviser at The National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing night for a single UK ticket-holder who has scooped tonight's whopping £109.9 million special EuroMillions Super Jackpot.\n\n\"Players are urged to check their tickets and give us a call if they think they are tonight's lucky winner.\"\n\nThe winner has 180 days to claim their prize.\n\nThe record £170m was claimed by an anonymous UK player and the highest named winners are Colin and Chris Weir, from North Ayrshire, who won £161m in 2011.\n• None £170mBritain's richest ever lottery winner stayed anonymous after their win in October 2019.\n• None £161mColin and Chris Weir (pictured) from North Ayrshire, Scotland in 2011.\n• None £148mAdrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, in 2012.\n\nThe EuroMillions draw is held twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, and is played in nine European countries.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nWelcome to behind the scenes at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics - welcome to the future.\n\nInside the Olympic bubble, Covid-19 measures mean Star Wars R2-D2-esque robots are a familiar sight in media centres and hotels, cleaning and reminding people to wear their masks.\n\nAnd in scenes resembling a science fiction movie, temperature checks, cooking and delivering food are all offered as an automated service.\n\nIt even extends to mixology - meaning you can be sipping your favourite cocktail without even having to tip the bartender.\n\nHave a look at some of these videos for a glimpse into the 2030s and beyond...\n• None 'It's not good for the rest of us' - GB's Musgrave on missing rivals\n• None Hosts China win their first gold of Games in short track mixed team relay", "The US podcast host Joe Rogan has issued an apology over his past use of racist language on his popular show.\n\nA widely-shared compilation video showed him repeatedly using the N-word in early episodes of his show, which has been running for over a decade.\n\nThe 54-year offered his \"deepest\" apologies and called his past use of the slur \"shameful\".\n\nRogan also apologised for making a racist comment about visiting a predominantly black neighbourhood.\n\nHe said he \"felt sick\" watching the compilation, and wished he could take his comments back.\n\nDuring a six minute video posted to his Instagram page, the MMA commentator also said that he hoped his errors could help to educate others.\n\n\"I do hope that this can be a teachable moment for anybody that doesn't know how offensive that word can be coming out of a white person's mouth,\" the Spotify star said.\n\nBut Rogan also sought to defend himself, saying that many of the clips had been \"taken out of context of twelve years of conversations on my podcast\".\n\nHe said that he had often used the slur while quoting comedians such as Paul Mooney and Lenny Bruce, or while discussing the use of the word in movies directed by the filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.\n\nIndia Arie, the Grammy-winning artist who first posted the compilation video on her Instagram page, condemned Rogan's use of the slur and said she would remove her music from Spotify in protest.\n\n\"He shouldn't even be uttering the word. Don't even say it, under any context. Don't say it. That's where I stand. I have always stood there,\" Arie said.\n\nSeveral artists have recently quit Spotify in protest at what they allege is Rogan's role in spreading coronavirus misinformation.\n\nSpotify is thought to have paid more than $100m (£74m) for exclusive rights to the podcast in 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ros Atkins looks at the controversy surrounding the US podcast presenter Joe Rogan and his Spotify show", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cheers turn to tears as news of Rayan's death emerges\n\nA five-year-old Moroccan boy who was trapped in a well for four days has died, despite painstaking efforts to rescue him.\n\nA royal statement announced his death soon after his removal from the well.\n\nThe bid to free the boy, Rayan Oram, had gripped the country, with hundreds of people gathered at the well and thousands more following online.\n\nThe boy plunged 32m (104ft) through the well's narrow opening. The rescue had been hampered by fears of a landslide.\n\nRescuers finally brought the boy out of the well on Saturday evening.\n\nNo word had been given at the time about his condition, and the apparent rescue was initially met with cheers from the crowds.\n\nOn social media, people using the hashtag #SaveRayan, which had been trending across the country and around the world, expressed their jubilation.\n\nBut this turned to heartbreak minutes later when the statement came announcing that Rayan had died.\n\nTwitter users then began paying tribute and expressing sadness using the same hashtag.\n\n\"Rayan's courage will stay in our memories and continue to inspire us,\" AC Milan's Algerian midfielder Ismael Bennacer tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ismaël Bennacer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a Facebook post, French President Emmanuel Macron wrote: \"Tonight, I want to tell the family of little Rayan and the Moroccan people that we share their pain.\"\n\nThe statement from Morocco's royal palace described Rayan's death as a \"tragic accident\", adding: \"His Majesty King Mohammed VI called the parents of the boy who died after falling down the well.\"\n\nThe king had expressed his deepest condolences and sincere compassion, it added.\n\nRayan's father was repairing the well at the time of the accident on Tuesday. He told local media the following day that his son had fallen down the shaft at \"that one moment I took my eyes off him\", adding: \"I haven't slept a wink.\"\n\nRayan's parents leaving the scene after their son's body is taken away by ambulance\n\nLed by Morocco's Civil Protection Directorate, rescue operations in the small northern town of Tamorot, around 100km (62 miles) from the city of Chefchaouen, began on Tuesday evening.\n\nFootage on Thursday from a camera lowered into the well showed that the boy was alive and conscious, but there had been no update on his condition since then.\n\nRescuers tried to get oxygen, food and water to the boy but it was unclear whether he was able to use them.\n\nThe mixture of rocky and sandy soils meant rescuers deemed opening the water well's narrow shaft to be too dangerous.\n\nInstead, bulldozers were used to cut a huge trench next to the well.\n\nRescuers then started digging horizontally to reach the boy. Some worked round the clock, using powerful floodlights during the night.\n\nThe operation had to be paused briefly several times to allow crews to check that the hillside was safe from collapsing and that no soil was entering the well. Large pipes were also used to protect rescue teams by providing a secure passage to the shaft.\n\nRescuers dug a huge hole next to the well (front, centre)\n\nHundreds of people gathered to watch the operation, singing religious songs, praying and chanting \"Allahu Akbar (God is greatest)\". Some even camped at the site.\n\nOne local resident, Hafid El-Azzouz, told AFP news agency that he was there to show \"solidarity with this child, who is dear to Morocco and the whole world\".\n\nThe incident is reminiscent of a similar tragedy in Spain in 2019, in which a two-year-old boy died after falling into a borehole near the city of Malaga.", "Scottish crime writer Val McDermid with the new McDermid Ladies team\n\nThe women's football team formerly known as Raith Rovers have played their first match since breaking away from the club after a rapist was signed.\n\nThe ladies team severed ties with the main club after David Goodwillie - who a judge ruled had raped a woman - was signed for the men's side last week.\n\nThe team are now playing under the name the McDermid Ladies.\n\nThey are named after Val McDermid, the author who moved her sponsorship to the new team in protest.\n\nAt their debut match in Fife on Sunday afternoon, Ms McDermid said she was heartbroken by the decision to sign Goodwillie, and that she had shed many tears during the week.\n\nHowever, she said she had also been \"uplifted and amazed\" by the support for those who took a stand.\n\nThe author told BBC Scotland: \"The club's position has been woeful, embarrassing, disgraceful.\"\n\nShe said while Goodwillie remained on Raith Rovers' payroll and the people who decided to sign him were still in charge she would not return to the club.\n\nThere should be a \"clean sweep\" of the board, she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Val McDermid said the club's position had been \"woeful, embarrassing, disgraceful\"\n\nOn Wednesday, McDermid - a lifelong supporter of the Fife side - withdrew her support and sponsorship of Raith Rovers Football Club in protest at the signing.\n\nShe was the Scottish Championship team's main shirt sponsor but said the deal would end as a result of the signing.\n\nThe name of the author, who was also a director, was worn on the clubs' home shirt and was on the South Stand at Stark's Park.\n\nVal McDermid had been the Scottish Championship team's main shirt sponsor but said the deal would end as a result of Goodwillie's signing\n\nThe McDermid Ladies' first match was played at Windmill Community Campus in Kirkcaldy, Fife, instead of Raith Rovers' ground.\n\nThey wore new McDermid Ladies tops, with the Rovers' crest removed.\n\nThe team captain said at the match that a badge or name would not define who the team were, and thanked everyone who had supported the women's side through a difficult week.\n\nAfter widespread condemnation, the club admitted it had \"got it wrong\" by signing the rapist and that it \"bitterly regretted\" signing Goodwillie - despite initially defending the signing because Goodwillie was \"a proven goal scorer\".\n\nThe U-turn came after two of the Kirkcaldy club's directors - one of whom was once chairman - and the captain of its women's team resigned in protest.\n\nDavid Goodwillie has played for Clyde for the last five years\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon and the former prime minister Gordon Brown also condemned the signing.\n\nThe club said Goodwillie, 32, would not be selected to play and that it was reviewing his contract.\n\nBefore the civil case where he was found to have raped a woman, Goodwillie spent time at Dundee United and Aberdeen and played for Scotland.\n\nFor the last five years he has been playing for Clyde.\n\nThe woman Goodwillie raped - Denise Clair - told the Sunday Post newspaper that outrage at his signing was justified, but it was many years too late.\n\nShe said was \"shameful\" that Goodwillie was allowed to continue playing football after the civil case.\n\nMs Clair hit out at the footballing authorities, accusing them of being \"complicit\" with their \"silence\".\n\nBut Ms Clair criticised them over their stance, saying: \"Their silence deafened me.\"\n\nShe told the newspaper: \"It's shameful they have allowed Goodwillie to continue playing all these years without taking any action. They are just as complicit as [he is] with their silence and looking the other way.\"\n\nShe insisted: \"It is not enough for the footballing authorities, the league, the SFA (Scottish Football Association) to stay silent on this.\n\n\"They talk so much about equality and respect but when faced with actual reality instead of waffle, their silence deafened me.\n\n\"There needs to be officials who do nothing but ensure players and clubs are properly made aware of their responsibilities.\n\n\"They should be developing educational programmes about sexual violence. Practical measures, not warm words about nothing, could promote real change.\"\n\nThe SFA have been contacted for comment.\n\nAileen Campbell, chief executive of Scottish Women's Football, told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show that across football there had to be \"pause for thought\" about how the culture should be changed in the sport.\n\nMs Campbell said people had to feel empowered to speak out if they had concerns, and that had to be supported across the wider football family.\n\nDenise Clair said she was raped by Goodwillie and another player at a flat in Armadale, West Lothian, in 2011 after a night out in nearby Bathgate.\n\nBoth Goodwillie and Dundee United player David Robertson accepted that they had sex with her but maintained it was consensual.\n\nPolice investigated the incident but no criminal prosecution took place.\n\nMs Clair, who waived her anonymity, maintained in a subsequent civil action that she had been raped by both men.\n\nLord Armstrong ruled that because of her \"excessive intake of alcohol and, because her cognitive functioning and decision-making processes were so impaired\" that she \"was incapable of giving meaningful consent, and that they each raped her\".\n\nHe ordered them to pay her £100,000 in damages.\n\nIt was the first civil rape case of its kind in Scotland.", "Russian troops held drills in the Rostov region late last month\n\nRussia has assembled about 70% of the military capability needed for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in the coming weeks, US officials say.\n\nThe ground is expected to freeze and harden from mid-February, enabling Moscow to bring in more heavy equipment, the unnamed officials said.\n\nRussia is said to have more than 100,000 troops near Ukraine's borders but denies planning to attack.\n\nThe US officials did not provide evidence for their assessment.\n\nThey said the information was based on intelligence but that they were unable to give details due to its sensitivity, US media report.\n\nThe officials also said they did not know if Russian President Vladimir Putin had decided to take such a step, adding that a diplomatic solution was still possible.\n\nSpeaking on condition of anonymity, two US officials told Reuters news agency that weather conditions would provide a peak window for Russia to move equipment forward between about 15 February and the end of March.\n\nAccording to reports, the officials warned that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could cause as many as 50,000 civilian deaths. They also estimated that an attack could see the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, fall within days and prompt a refugee crisis in Europe as millions of people flee.\n\nAdditional US troops have been arriving in Poland as part of a new deployment to bolster the Western military alliance Nato's forces in the region.\n\nThe first group landed at Rzeszow in the south-east of the country on Saturday. The Biden administration announced days ago that it would send nearly 3,000 additional troops to Eastern Europe.\n\nMoscow says its troops are in the region for military drills, but Ukraine and its Western allies remain concerned that the Kremlin is planning to launch an assault.\n\nThe tensions come nearly eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backed a bloody rebellion in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nMoscow accuses the Ukrainian government of failing to implement the Minsk agreement - an international deal to restore peace to the east, where Russian-backed rebels control swathes of territory and at least 14,000 people have been killed since 2014.\n\nRussia is insisting that Ukraine should not be allowed to join Nato.\n\nRivalry between Russia and the US, which still possess the world's biggest nuclear arsenals, dates back to the Cold War. Ukraine was then a crucial part of the communist Soviet Union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car accident, the Royal Family grieved in private. However, the public reaction to Diana's death led to accusations the Queen was unresponsive and out of touch with the public mood. The swell of anger had shocked the Queen and she admitted there were \"lessons to be drawn from her life\" and the reaction to her death", "Ricki turned away for just a few seconds and his little sister was taken. She would never be seen again. For five decades he has wrestled with his guilt. Now he has opened up to the BBC's Jon Kay in a new true-crime podcast Fairy Meadow.\n\n\"People tell me it wasn't my fault. I've been told that thousands of times. I know I was only seven years old, but I shouldn't have left her.\"\n\nRicki is walking a personal pilgrimage. His waterproof trousers are splattered with mud and ripped from barbed wire fences. His boots have started to leak and his feet are covered in blisters. But still, he is walking.\n\nHe was planning to hang photos of his little sister onto trees as he walked in her memory, but suddenly the idea is too painful. He puts the black and white pictures back inside his rucksack.\n\n\"I can't leave her out in the cold. I just can't do it. I can't bear the idea of her smiling face being out here. Not in the wind and rain.\"\n\nHe has brought the ribbon-tied bundles more than 16,000km (10,000 miles) - from his home in Melbourne, Australia - to northern Spain. He is trekking 200km through the chilly Cantabrian Mountains along part of the Camino pilgrim route.\n\n\"I'm not a religious person. Not at all. I mean, what kind of religion would allow it to happen? She was only three years old.\"\n\nHearing his accent, other walkers ask why he has come to Europe to hike alone in the depths of winter. It must be summer back home. Wouldn't he rather be on the beach? Ricki's smile becomes a wrinkled frown. Now in his late 50s, he tells them he doesn't like the beach.\n\nCheryl - Ricki's three-year-old sister - vanished in broad daylight from Fairy Meadow beach in New South Wales in early 1970.\n\nFamily snapshot of Cheryl on the beach\n\nThe family had recently arrived in Australia having emigrated from the UK. He was only seven years old at the time, but Ricki has always blamed himself for what happened - because he was looking after Cheryl when she disappeared from the changing rooms at the top of the beach. He turned away for just a few seconds. The police have always been convinced the toddler was abducted, but nobody has ever been convicted.\n\nRicki stops walking for a moment and looks out across the rugged Spanish landscape. \"When I go to my grave, I'll take with me what my eyes have seen and we can share those sights together. I've been talking to her this whole journey - my whole life.\"\n\nA few yards off the main pathway, we come across an ancient stone chapel. Inside, Ricki places his bundle of pictures on the altar next to some candles. He sits in silence for a few minutes, staring at the images of his smiling little sister.\n\nWhen I walked that section of the Camino with Ricki in 2018, he had never really spoken to a journalist before. He had made the occasional appearance at police press conferences asking for information, but had never opened up about what had happened to Cheryl - and the impact on his life. He wanted to talk to me because, suddenly, this cold case seemed to be moving again.\n\nCheryl with one of her brothers by a swimming pool in the sunshine\n\nPolice in Australia had recently found a confession in an old box of evidence. It was made by a teenage boy a year after the toddler disappeared. After a new public appeal, detectives tracked down the \"boy\" - who was now a man in his sixties - and charged him with murder. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nTrekking through Spain was Ricki's way of clearing his head and preparing for the trial. \"I need to know. For Cheryl. For all of us. We need answers.\"\n\nHowever, when Ricki returned to Australia, a judge ruled the confession could not be used as evidence after all. The prosecution was dropped and the former defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, walked free from court.\n\n\"We couldn't believe it. We never knew about the confession,\" Ricki told me after the case collapsed. \"For years, we didn't even know there had been a suspect. Our lives could have been so different. Did we have to go through all this pain and suffering? I don't want any other family to go through what our family has been through. I'm angry. Angry at myself. Angry at the world. Just angry.\"\n\nThe next time I see Ricki in person is in Australia, shortly after the 2019 judgment. He's agreed to work with me on a BBC podcast series about Cheryl's case. We talk about when he first arrived in New South Wales with his family all those years ago.\n\n\"We were all so excited,\" he recalls. \"We'd left cold, wet, England to live in the Aussie sunshine. We couldn't believe our luck. It was a fresh start. A new beginning. A new life.\"\n\nListen to the Fairy Meadow podcast on BBC Sounds\n\nJon Kay tracks down people who were on Fairy Meadow beach when Cheryl Grimmer disappeared - and speaks to detectives on the case in the 1970s and more recently. He investigates possible sightings of the toddler and the bizarre ransom note sent to the family shortly after she vanished.\n\nThe Grimmer family's new home, Fairy Meadow, was an idyllic-sounding beachside community on the outskirts of Wollongong, New South Wales, an hour south of Sydney. They were among more than a million \"Ten Pound Poms\" who headed Down Under after World War Two on the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme. The Australian Government was offering foreign families the opportunity to emigrate for just a tenner, to help build the country's population and economy.\n\nRicki takes me to the beach where he last saw Cheryl. From the car park, he points over to what remains of the old migrant hostel where the Grimmers stayed.\n\nFairy Meadow beach today - the open-air ladies' changing rooms, where Cheryl was last seen, are closest to the camera\n\nA couple of accommodation huts have been preserved by a local history group. \"It was like a huge holiday camp. There were thousands of us - mums, dads and kids from all over the world. A real melting pot. There was entertainment at the weekend, a big canteen to eat in. We spent most of our time outdoors - playing cricket and riding bikes. We couldn't believe our luck.\"\n\nPhotos from those early days show hopeful, happy smiles. Carol and Vince Grimmer had four children. Ricki was the eldest. He was followed by brothers Stephen and Paul. Cheryl was the couple's youngest child. Their only daughter.\n\nCheryl with her father Vince, who got a job in the Australian Army\n\nRicki remembers her constant smile: \"The best way to describe Cheryl was cheeky and cute. She was always cheerful. Our little princess. She was also a rascal.\"\n\nBut, on 12 January 1970, the Grimmers' dreams fell apart.\n\nIt's a boiling hot mid-summer's day. The accommodation huts are stifling and full of bugs. After lunch, Ricki begs his mum to take him and his three younger siblings down to Fairy Meadow beach for a refreshing splash in the sea.\n\nAt around two o'clock in the afternoon, the wind suddenly changes. Locals call it a \"southerly buster\". Sand blows everywhere. Families race to pack up and leave. The children's mum, Carol, tells Ricki to take his brothers and sister up to the changing block at the top of the beach and to wait for her there. It's only a short walk.\n\nThree-year-old Cheryl runs giggling into the ladies' changing rooms. Ricki and his brothers are too embarrassed to follow her. So, after pleading with her to come out, they decide to go back to the beach to get their mum.\n\n\"It happened so fast. It took us about 90 seconds to find mum and bring her up to the shower block,\" Ricki remembers. \"But, by the time we returned, there was no sign of Cheryl. She was there - and then she was gone. It was so quick.\n\n\"My mother looked around and then she started shaking me and shouting, 'Where did you leave her?' It went crazy after that. Everybody started calling out her name. There was panic. Complete chaos.\"\n\nDespite one of the biggest searches in the history of New South Wales - involving thousands of police officers and soldiers - Cheryl was never found.\n\nMore than 50 years later, that single moment still dominates every aspect of Ricki's life: \"Try putting yourself in my shoes. I'm haunted by it. Consumed by it. I can still see her standing there, laughing and smiling. I still see her running up and down the shoreline. Those images will never go away.\"\n\nInitially, I thought this story would make a short news bulletin piece. I had no idea how my investigation would develop into our eight-part Fairy Meadow podcast. I've spent a lot of time listening to Ricki. He has told me how that single moment in his childhood has ruined the rest of his life. Flashbacks and nightmares still torment him. There have been broken marriages, fractured relationships with his kids and times when he has felt unable to carry on.\n\n\"Before they died, I promised my mum and dad I would find Cheryl - or at least find out what happened to her. I will.\"\n\nCarol Grimmer with her three sons (Ricki centre) the day after Cheryl disappeared\n\nAs part of his quest for answers, Ricki has also come back to the UK. Back to the city of Bristol where he and his family lived before they emigrated to Australia. It's also the city where I live and work as a BBC reporter.\n\nHere, in a hotel room, Ricki shows me a leather-bound journal which he keeps in his travel bag. It is filled with drawings and letters which he still writes to his missing sister every day. \"My psychologist said it might help. I tell Cheryl about my life and what the family is up to. I ask her about her life. What she might be doing. I scribble little stick figures - trying to make sense of things. This book goes with me everywhere. Every plane trip. Every holiday. Everywhere. It never leaves my side. If I die, it dies with me.\"\n\nFor Ricki, Bristol is a place where he feels he can maintain his connection with his sister. A place filled with memories from the time before she was taken. He shows me the small terraced house where the Grimmer children were born. He remembers their suitcases floating down the hallway in floodwater just before they headed to the New South Wales sunshine. He shows me the playground where he would push Cheryl on the swing.\n\nRicki's treasured photo of him holding hands with Cheryl\n\nOver the decades, the pain of losing his sister meant Ricki cut himself off. He tried to move on. He tried to forget. He refused to confront his past. But the reopening of the police investigation in 2016, the rediscovery of the confession and the case coming to court forced him to face things and mend some of the relationships he had ignored.\n\nIn a Bristol pub, he meets some of the English cousins he didn't speak to for years. Now close again, they tease him about his choice of Australian Shiraz, rather than local beer. Ricki updates them on his campaign for justice and thanks them for their continued support: \"We can't let this go. We are going to keep fighting. We can never give up.\"\n\nThe disappointments and frustrations of the past few years have at least reunited the Grimmer family on both sides of the world. They hope the New South Wales Government's recent offer of a A$1m reward (£528,000) for information will persuade somebody to come forward.\n\nDriving Ricki from Bristol to Heathrow Airport, to catch a flight back to Australia, he asks me if we can stop at a local cemetery for a few minutes.\n\nThe wooden cross in memory of Cheryl\n\nIn the far corner of this quiet, rural graveyard, beneath some pine trees, he shows me the Grimmer family plot where his grandparents are buried. Then, he tells me to look more closely. A small wooden sign has been nailed onto the headstone by one of his relatives. It says: \"Cheryl Grimmer. Rest in Peace.\"\n\nRicki places some flowers on the grave. The ornamental teddy bear he left here on his last trip to Bristol has faded a little, but it makes him smile.\n\n\"It's nice to have somewhere to come. Somewhere to remember.\"\n\nListen to the Fairy Meadow podcast on BBC Sounds", "Many Ukrainian civilians have signed up as reservists in case war starts\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has said he thinks a deal to avoid full scale war in Ukraine is possible and that it is legitimate for Russia to raise its own security concerns.\n\nBefore talks in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, he called for a \"new balance\" to protect European states and accord Russia due respect.\n\nHe restated that the sovereignty of Ukraine was not up for discussion.\n\nRussia has massed troops on Ukraine's border but denies planning to invade.\n\nMoscow has made a string of demands, including that the Nato defence alliance rule out Ukraine becoming a member, and that it reduce its military presence in eastern Europe.\n\nWestern countries have rejected this, instead suggesting other areas of negotiation, for example talks on cutting back nuclear weaponry.\n\nMr Macron told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper that Russia's objective was \"not Ukraine, but a clarification of the rules... with Nato and the EU\".\n\nHe said he hoped his dialogue with the Russian president would be enough to prevent military conflict, and that he believed Mr Putin would be open to discussing wider issues.\n\nMr Macron, who also spoke with US President Joe Biden on Sunday, cautioned against expecting Moscow to take unilateral measures to de-escalate the situation and said Russia had the right to raise its own concerns.\n\nBut he said setting up dialogue with Russia could not \"pass through the weakening of any European state\".\n\n\"We must protect our European brothers by proposing a new balance capable of preserving their sovereignty and peace,\" he said.\n\n\"This must be done while respecting Russia and understanding the contemporary traumas of this great people and great nation.\"\n\nThe trip to Moscow and then to Ukraine's capital Kyiv the following day is being co-ordinated with German and American allies.\n\nMr Macron's appearance in the international spotlight also comes ahead of France's presidential election in April.\n\nThe French president has called for a renewed relationship with Russia before, and in January he said the EU should open its own dialogue with Moscow, rather than rely on Washington.\n\nMr Macron (right), seen here with Mr Putin in 2019, has previously called for a renewed relationship with Russia\n\nMeanwhile, the US government has again warned that Russia could invade Ukraine at any time.\n\n\"We are in the window. Any day now, Russia could take military action against Ukraine, or it could be a couple of weeks from now,\" White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told Fox News on Sunday.\n\nTwo US officials earlier told Reuters that Russia had assembled about 70% of the necessary military capability needed for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHowever, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba appeared to play down the threat of an imminent invasion, tweeting on Sunday: \"Do not believe the apocalyptic predictions. Different capitals have different scenarios, but Ukraine is ready for any development.\"\n\nThe tensions between Russia, Ukraine and the West come nearly eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backed a bloody rebellion in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nMoscow accuses the Ukrainian government of failing to implement the Minsk agreement - an international deal to restore peace to the east, where Russian-backed rebels control swathes of territory and at least 14,000 people have been killed since 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ukraine has been living with war for the past eight years, and it has changed places like the city of Dnipro", "The couple laugh as they drink whisky given to them as a wedding gift in Caithness, Scotland\n\nThe Queen has announced she would like Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, to have the title of Queen Consort when the Prince of Wales becomes King.\n\nIt is an endorsement from the very top, say royal commentators - and one that is well-deserved after years of loyalty and hard work.\n\nPrince Charles described it as a deep honour for both him and his \"darling wife\".\n\nSince marrying into the Royal Family 17 years ago, Camilla, 74, has grown into her role as a senior royal.\n\nThe path to public acceptance has been at times rocky, and at first Camilla was a controversial figure who was blamed by some for the end of the prince's first marriage to Princess Diana.\n\nIn 1994, Charles admitted to adultery with Camilla, but said it came after his marriage to Diana had \"irretrievably broken down\".\n\nIt was not until 1999 when she and Charles went public with their romance, being photographed emerging from the Ritz as part of a carefully-planned PR campaign.\n\nPrince Charles and Camilla pictured for the first time in public, leaving the Ritz hotel in 1999\n\nSince then, Camilla has won over a cautious public. She has been praised for championing her own causes and interests, including supporting literacy charities, animal welfare and organisations helping victims of domestic abuse.\n\nThe duchess has also been outspoken on the issue of sexual violence against women. In a speech in London last year, she mentioned the murders of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa, and called for men to also be \"on board\" with tackling a culture of sexual violence.\n\n\"She's been loyal, discreet and works her socks off with her charities and supports the prince,\" says royal author Penny Junor.\n\n\"She's taken to this job at a relatively late age and she's been extraordinary.\"\n\nThe Queen smiles on as Charles and Camilla leave the chapel after their marriage blessing\n\nBorn Camilla Rosemary Shand on 17 July 1947 to an upper-class family, she grew up on the edge of the South Downs in East Sussex.\n\nShe has described having a childhood love of ponies, saying she thought of little else but \"charging about on them\".\n\nHer other interests include reading. Camilla has spoken of the importance of children's books - naming Black Beauty as one of her favourites - and is a fan of the literary Hay Festival. During the pandemic, she set up an Instagram-based book club.\n\nAnd she has also confessed to being an addict of Radio 4 serial drama the Archers - joking she suffered \"severe withdrawal symptoms\" when episodes were disrupted by Covid.\n\n\"Many people will have seen the good work the Duchess of Cornwall has done over the years, her loyalty, her discreet nature and the hard work she puts in,\" says Victoria Howard - who edits the website The Crown Chronicles. \"I think many people were pleased to see this.\"\n\nCamilla delivers a speech at the City of London Guildhall last November\n\nMany royal commentators remark that with Camilla by his side, Charles often appears more relaxed.\n\nBefore her royal marriage, the duchess's life was not one of palaces and public engagements - and sometimes that more normal experience shows.\n\nIn an interview in 2020, Camilla revealed she'd enjoyed not dressing up and living in a pair of jeans during lockdown.\n\nAnd the mother-of-two also spoke about her love of her grandchildren, saying missing them during lockdown was \"the worst\" and she just wanted to \"rush up and hug them\".\n\nShe will bring warmth to the role of Queen Consort, says Ms Junor. \"She's fun and friendly and she has a twinkle in her eye. She makes people feel good for having met her.\"\n\nWhen Camilla and Charles married in a civil ceremony in 2005, it was announced Camilla would become known as Princess Consort - rather than Queen Consort - due to public sensitivity.\n\nBut royal experts say the Queen's endorsement will now sway the public into embracing Camilla as Queen.\n\n\"For Camilla, the journey from being the third person in a marriage to queen-in-waiting is complete,\" says former royal correspondent Peter Hunt.\n\nEmily Nash from Hello! magazine agrees: \"By her giving her own royal approval to Queen Camilla, the Queen Consort, it settles an argument that's been raging for many years - and I think that that's what's going to happen now.\"\n\nThe royal wave: Camilla is driven along Edinburgh's Royal Mile after Zara Tindall's wedding in 2011\n\n\"This is the Queen's wish,\" adds Junor. \"This is not about Charles being headstrong and wanting this for the woman he loves. It is a proper endorsement from the top and it's right and well-deserved, and just as it should be.\"\n\nFor historian Robert Lacey, the timing of the Queen's message - less than a year after Prince Philip's death - is poignant.\n\n\"She has been clearly been thinking about the importance of a partner and a consort to her. She has just lost her own consort, and I think that's a big factor in why we're hearing it now,\" he tells the BBC.\n\n\"They call it the Firm - and this really brings Camilla into the Firm properly.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nGreat Britain curling mixed doubles pair are through to the semi-finals at the Winter Olympics despite a 6-2 defeat by Norway.\n\nJen Dodds and Bruce Mouat missed the chance to seal their own place, but defeats for Sweden and Canada put them through to the next stage anyway.\n\nThey qualified because of their head-to-head record against other nations.\n\nIt means their final group match against the USA on Monday will only determine their final placing.\n• None 'I was ripping clothes out left, right and centre' - Australia curlers on 'crazy 24 hours'\n• None Sadowski-Synnott jumped on by rivals after gold\n\nItaly are already through as group winners, but Britain, Canada and Norway all have five wins and three losses with a match left to play, while Sweden's campaign has concluded with five wins and four defeats.\n\nWith Scottish pair Mouat and Dodds having already beaten the Canadians and the Swedes, as well as sitting second in the tiebreaker known as the draw shot Challenge rankings, even defeat by the USA (01:05 GMT) would not deny them a shot at a medal.\n\n\"We've just had a hug,\" Mouat said. \"We are obviously very excited. We've still got a job to do and we want to finish the round robin with a win; that'll set us up well for the semi-finals.\"\n\nDodds added: \"We know it's going to be tough whoever we play in the semis, we just want to go out tomorrow and string out eight ends like we know we can.\"\n\nProgress comes as a relief for Britain, having struggled to find their best form against the team they defeated in the final of the World Championships last year.\n\nMagnus Nedregotten and Kristin Skaslien were consistent throughout, and delivered the decisive blow in the penultimate end with a score of two to take an unassailable 6-2 advantage. They are also through to the last four.\n\nIn their first match on Sunday, Dodds and Mouat beat China 6-5 in a nail-biting contest.\n\nThey trailed 4-1 but drew level with a superb three before securing the winning point in the final end.\n\nThe result of their final match against the USA will decide whether they face unbeaten Italy or not in the last four.\n\nThe Italians will play the fourth-placed side, while the nations ranked second and third will meet one another.", "The Queen has cut a cake to mark her Platinum Jubilee as she met members of the Sandringham community on the eve of the 70th anniversary of her reign.\n\nAhead of Accession Day, she hosted a reception for volunteer groups, pensioners and fellow members of the local Women's Institute (WI) group.\n\nGuests included a former cookery student who helped create the original Coronation chicken recipe.\n\nThe Queen was described as being on \"sparkling\" form at the reception.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Saturday, The Queen made jokes as she cut a cake at a reception for her Platinum Jubilee\n\nOn Sunday, she will have reigned for 70 years, excluding Accession Day.\n\nIt also marks the day her father George VI died in 1952.\n\nThe event at Sandringham House was the largest in-person public engagement the Queen had attended since a reception at Windsor Castle in October.\n\nThere had been concerns for her health last autumn after she spent a night in hospital and was ordered to rest by royal doctors.\n\nVice-president of the Sandringham WI Yvonne Browne said the Queen, who laughed and joked with guests, was on \"sparkling\" form on Saturday.\n\n\"Seventy years on the throne shows the Queen has been a moving example to absolutely everyone in all walks of life,\" said Ms Browne.\n\n\"She's been a constant, compassionate and stoic, everything that makes a perfect human being, and has a great strength of character and has overcome so many things.\"\n\nThe Queen has been a member of the Sandringham branch of the WI since 1943 and its president since 2003.\n\nThe Queen with Angela Wood, who helped make Coronation chicken for the first time\n\nDuring the reception, the Queen met Angela Wood, who was 19 when she helped create the dish that became known as Coronation chicken - a mix of cold cooked chicken, mayonnaise, curry powder and apricot.\n\nThe recipe, originally known as Poulet Reine Elizabeth - chicken Queen Elizabeth - was developed to mark the coronation in 1953, a year after her reign began.\n\nMrs Wood made the Queen laugh when she told her she spent \"days and days altering it\" for the cooks who created it.\n\nThe Queen, 95, commented that the recipe has likely evolved in the intervening years, saying: \"It's probably changed because in those days we did some things quite differently.\"\n\nJunior sous chef Shaun Mason created a modern take on the dish for Saturday's reception with a Coronation chicken tartlet, which he offered to the Queen and Mrs Wood.\n\nThe Queen caused laughter when she said she would \"go away\" while the former cookery student tried it, adding: \"You can tell me [what you think] when I come back.\"\n\nThe Queen met some younger members of the local community during the event\n\nThe Queen, wearing a pale blue dress with white brocade and carrying her black handbag, cut an iced Victoria Sponge featuring the Platinum Jubilee logo as its decoration at the reception.\n\nWhen Lady Dannatt, Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk, told her the cake had been turned upside down so press photographers could get a good shot, the Queen joked: \"I don't matter?\"\n\n\"I think I might just put a knife in it,\" the Queen said, adding it \"went in beautifully\", but that she would leave it to someone else to finish cutting the cake, baked by a local resident.\n\nShe was also given a posy featuring flowers that formed part of her coronation bouquet, thanking the young girl and saying \"aren't they pretty?\".\n\nThe reception saw the Queen meet Sandringham Estate pensioners and their families as well as representatives from local charities Little Discoverers and West Norfolk Befriending.\n\nLittle Discoverers is an early education provider for pre-school children with movement difficulties and delayed development while the befriending group matches isolated older people with trained volunteers.\n\nThe Queen reminisced with a group of former Sandringham Estate workers about devastating floods in Norfolk in 1953.\n\n\"I remember sitting at dinner, the fire alarm went off - no fire, the sea was coming in,\" she said. \"It's a very nasty experience.\"\n\nThis is a poignant weekend for the Queen, as well as a celebration.\n\nThere is the unprecedented 70th anniversary. But the hereditary principle also means that marking the start of one reign comes at the same time as remembering the demise of another.\n\nSo this has usually been a low-key, reflective moment, under the Norfolk winter skies.\n\nFor the Queen it's the anniversary of the death of her father George VI, a profound influence on her sense of duty.\n\nPhotographs for the accession weekend showed her wearing the jewellery her father gave her for her 18th birthday - and as a reminder of her long life, that was several weeks before the D-Day landings in 1944.\n\nBut the jubilee events at Sandringham are also something of a re-emergence for the Queen after a series of public appearances cancelled in the autumn because of health worries.\n\nIf not a big official event, the reception for local community groups was the nearest thing to meeting the public since October, rather than appearing on screen.\n\nSuch carefully managed appearances could set the pattern for the jubilee year ahead.\n\nSchool children from across West Norfolk made a mosaic to mark the jubilee that was presented to the Queen by Mayor of King's Lynn Harry Humphrey, and music was provided by the Hunstanton Concert Band. They played Congratulations for the Queen as she left the reception.\n\nThe Queen is thought to have been staying in the Duke of Edinburgh's cottage, Wood Farm, while at Sandringham. She said her late husband \"loved it\" because the \"sea was so close\".\n\nNew pictures of the Queen were released this week, showing her looking at memorabilia from previous jubilees\n\nOne of her childhood friends, Lady Glenconner, said the Queen knew she would become a monarch \"from a very young age\" and was given a \"wonderful example\" by her father.\n\nAnne Tennant, who was a maid of honour at the coronation, told Radio 4's Today programme the Queen would probably \"look back very sadly\" on the anniversary of the day she became Queen, as it also marked the death of George VI.\n\nLady Glenconner added he had led by example as he had put his \"duty first\".\n\nEvents to mark the jubilee will be held around the Commonwealth - this one is in Sydney\n\nAn Aboriginal smoking ceremony was held in Sydney to mark the accession\n\nThe Queen is set to become the first British monarch in history to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee.\n\nSunday marks the start of the jubilee celebrations, which will culminate in a four-day UK bank holiday weekend from 2 to 5 June.\n\nThe celebrations will be marked by concerts, street parties and a Platinum Jubilee Pageant, with the private estates of Sandringham and Balmoral open to visitors across the long weekend in June.\n\nThe Queen flew to Sandringham at the end of January, a month after cancelling her traditional Christmas plans at her Norfolk estate due to the rapid spread of Omicron. Normally her winter break ends some time after accession day.", "The long-running Australian soap has launched the careers of pop stars Jason Donavan and Kylie Minogue\n\nNeighbours has been dropped by Channel 5, putting the long-running Australian soap opera's future under threat.\n\nThe UK network announced on Sunday it would stop showing the programme later this year, after airing it for more than a decade.\n\nSinger and former Neighbours star Jason Donovan said the soap \"changed the Australian television landscape\".\n\nAustralian broadcaster Network 10 said it would look for a new partner to work with to keep it on air.\n\nThe television network denied filming of the show - which began in 1985 - was being paused.\n\nThe broadcaster added it was committed to keeping the show going if a new broadcasting partner could be found.\n\nSet and filmed in Melbourne, Neighbours was first broadcast in Australia in 1985 and launched on BBC One a year later.\n\nIt became a huge hit in the UK and in Australia, and helped launch the career of numerous stars, including Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Guy Pearce and later Margot Robbie.\n\nChannel 5 said it knew the decision to axe the show - which attracts more than one million viewers per day in the UK - would disappoint many, confirming it would no longer air \"beyond this summer\".\n\nBut it added its \"current focus is on increasing our investment in original UK drama, which has strong appeal for our UK viewers\".\n\nSinger Kylie Minogue was one of the first stars to come out of the programme in the 1980s\n\nThe soap has featured many notable Australian actors, actresses and performers over the years, many of whom have gone on to have glittering careers.\n\nPerhaps the most high profile of these stars to make her name on Neighbours is singer Kylie Minogue, who acted in the early years of the soap, playing Charlene between 1986 and 1988.\n\nRussell Crowe briefly featured in the soap opera in 1987\n\nOther people to come off the Ramsay Street set include Oscar winner and Gladiator star Russell Crowe, musician Jason Donovan and actor Guy Pearce.\n\nMore recently, the show featured Suicide Squad star Margot Robbie from 2008 to 2011 and Liam Hemsworth between 2007 and 2008.\n\nMargot Robbie starred in the show before launching her Hollywood career\n\nOther people to have made their names from appearing on the show over the years include the singers Natalie Imbruglia, Holly Vallance and Delta Goodrem.\n\nActor and singer Donovan, who played Scott Robinson from 1986 to 1989, wrote on Twitter: \"It launched many careers over decades including mine.\n\n\"Engaged and entertained audiences for generations. Hoping that it will find a new home with another UK broadcaster and continue to provide opportunity and entertainment.\"\n\nFormer BBC One controller Lord Grade told Radio 4's Today programme that he initially put the soap in \"the wrong slot\" before a conversation with his school-age daughter made him think again.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement, Network 10 said: \"As outlined in the email to Neighbours cast and crew, it is our intention to continue our association with Neighbours if another broadcast partner comes forward.\n\n\"Network 10 has an ongoing commitment to the show, the cast and crew and is hopeful that Fremantle will find a new production partner. We will provide further updates as they become available.\"\n\nThe soap, which launched in 1985, has been more popular in the UK than in Australia for years - so Channel 5's announcement has thrown its future into doubt.\n\nIn Australia it has been shown on digital channel 10 Peach since 2011, when it lost a slot following the nightly news on the main Network 10 schedule, leaving it reliant on the UK broadcaster for production costs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The soap aired a special scene in January 2020 about the bushfires that were devastating Australia at the time\n\nFremantle Media, which makes the soap, is yet to comment.\n\nHowever, in an email to staff, Fremantle Media executive producer Jason Herbison said production would stop indefinitely because of the lack of a broadcast partner to provide financial backing.\n\nIn the message, seen by the Sydney Morning Herald, staff were asked to attend a meeting on Monday by Mr Herbison, who added filming would go on until 10 June.\n\nThe email said: \"Our audience remains steady and Channel Ten would love the show to continue if we could find another broadcast partner to replace [Channel 5].\n\n\"These discussions are ongoing, however there is no new broadcaster at the moment and production must end, effectively resting the show.\n\n\"We are so proud of the show, you all and everything that you've achieved. But for now, this chapter is closing and we want to work together to give Neighbours the amazing send-off it deserves.\"\n\nThe soap has featured many guest stars from the UK in recent years, including Amanda Holden, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Ryan Thomas and Janet Street-Porter.\n\nIn 2016, BBC Newsround had kids react to the show's iconic wedding scene between Scott and Charlene - played by Donovan and Minogue - from 1988.\n\nOne boy described their hair styles as \"long, shaggy and uncut\", adding he was unsure if \"they had barbers in those days\".", "A 12-year-old boy who has spent more than 670 nights camping outside for charity said he did not have his \"best night's sleep\" when a storm collapsed his tent.\n\nMax Woosey, from Braunton, Devon, has been camping outside since March 2020 to raise money for a local hospice.\n\nHis tent suffered a broken pole on Friday night and collapsed.\n\nMax said he had switched to an \"old\" tent in the meantime to be able to continue his challenge.\n\nIn a video he put up on social media after the tent pole gave out, he said it was \"unfortunate, but I'm going to have to live with it\", adding it was: \"Wind 1, tent 0.\"\n\nHe told BBC Radio Devon on Sunday: \"I had to go through with [staying in] it, but it wasn't my best night's sleep ever. A lot of my stuff did get wet.\n\n\"I've had to put an old tent up, which isn't the best.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Max Woosey BEM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMax was 10 years old when he was inspired to raise money for North Devon Hospice after it cared for his neighbour Rick Abbott before he died from cancer.\n\nThe 74-year-old gave Max his first tent and told him to \"promise me you'll have an adventure in here\".\n\nHe was awarded the British Empire Medal in the New Year's Honours list for his fundraising.\n\nHis mother Rachael Woosey said he has raised an estimated £700,000, including contributions topped up with Gift Aid tax relief.\n\nMax said when he received his honour that he would \"definitely hit the two-year mark\" and \"would love to raise £1m\".\n\nSince starting his adventure, he has camped at London Zoo, pitched his tent in the garden of 10 Downing Street and been joined by about 1,000 children for a \"big camp-out\".\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "Carr introduced part of his routine as being \"a career ender\"\n\nComedian Jimmy Carr has sparked outrage for a routine about the Holocaust in his latest Netflix stand-up special.\n\nCarr has been described as \"truly disturbing\" for making light of the murders of hundreds of thousands of people from Europe's traveller communities during World War Two.\n\nThe Holocaust Memorial Day Trust said it was \"absolutely appalled\".\n\nNetflix, which has been urged to remove the special, declined to comment. Carr has also not commented.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries said the comments were \"abhorrent and they just shouldn't be on television\".\n\nCarr's programme, titled His Dark Material, was released on the streaming platform on Christmas Day but the clip about the Holocaust came to light more widely when it was shared on social media.\n\nThe comedian, who introduced his show as being \"a career ender\" and warned it contained \"terrible things\", said a \"positive\" of the Holocaust was that thousands of Gypsies were murdered.\n\nThe comments were greeted with applause and laughter from the audience.\n\nBetween 200,000 and 500,000 Roma and Sinti people were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators, according to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.\n\nThe charity's chief executive Olivia Marks-Woldman said: \"We are absolutely appalled at Jimmy Carr's comment about persecution suffered by Roma and Sinti people under Nazi oppression, and horrified that gales of laughter followed his remarks.\n\n\"Hundreds of thousands of Roma and Sinti people suffered prejudice, slave labour, sterilisation and mass murder simply because of their identity - these are not experiences for mockery.\"\n\nMs Dorries suggested the government could legislate to stop comedy people find offensive being shown on streaming platforms. \"We're already looking at future legislation to bring into scope those sort of comments,\" she told the BBC.\n\nAsked about a previous Tweet where she said \"left-wing snowflakes are killing comedy\", Ms Dorries replied: \"Well, that's not comedy.\"\n\nAnti-racism campaign group Hope Not Hate said Carr \"celebrates\" the suffering of the Roma and Sinti people, and called on Netflix to \"take action\".\n\nThe Traveller Movement - a charity supporting the traveller community in the UK - also asked Netflix to remove the one-hour special. It said the segment in question was \"truly disturbing and goes way beyond humour\".\n\nIt added: \"Joking about the genocide of an ethnic minority is not funny.\"\n\nFellow comedian David Baddiel tweeted that Holocaust jokes can be \"cruel and inhumane and mean-spirited and racist\" or they can target oppressors and draw attention to its fundamental evil - saying: \"Clearly, Jimmy Carr's was the former.\"\n\nThe Auschwitz Memorial called for Carr to learn about the Roma and Sinti people deported to the concentration camp, adding on Twitter: \"It's sad to hear words that can fuel prejudice, hurt people & defile memory of their tragedy.\"\n\nSNP MP Martin Docherty-Hughes, who is co-chairman of the House of Commons All Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, wrote on Twitter that he was \"utterly speechless at this disregard for the horror of the holocaust\" and its impact on the Gypsy community of Europe.\n\nHe added: \"A community butchered by the Nazi regime. @NetflixUK care to comment?\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Whole villages swept away in Madagascar\n\nAt least 10 people have been killed and nearly 50,000 displaced after Cyclone Batsirai brought strong winds and rain to Madagascar on Saturday evening.\n\nBatsirai - the second major storm in two weeks - made landfall on the east coast, with gusts of 235km/h (146mph) and high waves hitting coastal areas.\n\nWhole villages are reported to be almost completely destroyed.\n\nThe cyclone has now weakened, according to the national weather service.\n\nMadagascar was already reeling from Tropical Storm Ana, which killed 55 people when it hit the Indian Ocean island nation last month.\n\nCyclone Batsirai has compounded the destruction, making landfall near the south-eastern city of Mananjary, 530km from the capital Antananarivo, at around 20:00 (17:00 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nElectricity had not been available in Mananjary for two days and the water supply had been disrupted, according to local media. One resident told Reuters that even schools and churches due to be used as evacuation centres had had their roofs torn off.\n\nIn other places, the destruction was nearly total.\n\n\"It's as if we had just been bombed. The city of Nosy Varika is almost 95% destroyed. The solid houses saw their roofs torn off by the wind. The wooden huts have, for the most part, been destroyed,\" Willy Raharijaona, an adviser to the vice president of Madagascar's Senate, told Reuters news agency.\n\nEnvironment Minister Vahinala Raharinirina told the BBC that many villages were nearly completely gone, with some being swept away by the storm.\n\nIn the east coast city of Mahanoro, the rising sea eroded a sandy hill which was part of a graveyard. Marie Viviane Rasoanandrasana, a 54-year-old widow, sat and watched as the bodies of her husband, father-in-law and daughter were exposed.\n\n\"We've already had damages at home because of the cyclone. Now this,\" she told AFP news agency.\n\nAround 48,000 people have been displaced, according to the disaster management agency, although the UN World Food Programme (WFP) estimated that as many as 150,000 people could be forced to leave their homes.\n\nSome of the displaced were moved to evacuation centres where victims of January's Tropical Storm Ana were also staying.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stav Danaos has the latest as Cyclone Batsirai makes landfall in Madagascar\n\nWhile the cyclone weakened as it moved inland, with the strongest gusts scaling back to around 110km/h, the country's meteorological agency said that the storm would cause \"significant and widespread damage\".\n\nExperts fear that Cyclone Batsirai could prove to be even more destructive than Storm Ana, which also hit Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, and officials have called on the international community to offer assistance.\n\nThe WFP has prepared food stocks to distribute to those in need, while some people have already been evacuated. The UN has put rescue aircraft on standby.\n\nThe cyclone is expected to move westwards and emerge at sea in the Mozambique Channel later on Sunday but is then forecast to head south, avoiding mainland Africa.\n\nEvacuation shelters are now providing for those displaced by Cyclone Batsirai and Storm Ana\n\nThe WFP says the recent pattern of destructive storms caused by global warming and climate change has caused failed harvests, high food prices and increased food insecurity in the region.\n\n\"The people of Southern Africa have been on the front lines of climate extremes for many years now and each passing storm sets them back, resetting the progress made,\" said senior WFP official Margaret Malu.\n\nExperts say that extreme weather events like cyclones will become more frequent because of climate change.\n\nMadagascar is also just recovering from the effects of a drought, which was also blamed on global warming.\n\nThe environment minister told the BBC that the country had submitted a plan to the COP26 climate conference, which showed it needed $1bn (£740m) a year to adapt to the effects of climate change.", "North Korean cyber-attacks have stolen millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency to fund the country's missile programmes, a UN report briefed to media says.\n\nBetween 2020 and mid-2021 cyber-attackers stole more than $50m (£37m) of digital assets, investigators found.\n\nSuch attacks are an \"important revenue source\" for Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programme, they said.\n\nThe findings were reportedly handed to the UN's sanctions committee on Friday.\n\nThe cyber-attacks targeted at least three cryptocurrency exchanges in North America, Europe and Asia.\n\nThe report also referenced a study published last month by the security firm Chainalysis that suggested North Korean cyberattacks could have netted as much as $400m worth of digital assets last year.\n\nAnd in 2019, the UN reported that North Korea had accumulated an estimated $2bn for its weapons of mass destruction programmes by using sophisticated cyber-attacks.\n\nNorth Korea has been banned by the UN Security Council from carrying out nuclear tests and launching ballistic missiles.\n\nHowever the UN report says that despite crippling sanctions, North Korea has been able to continue developing its nuclear and ballistic missile infrastructure.\n\nIt has also continued to seek material, technology and knowhow overseas, including through cyber means and joint scientific research.\n\nThe sanctions monitors said there had been a \"marked acceleration\" of missile testing by Pyongyang.\n\nThe US said on Friday that North Korea - formally known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) - carried out nine missile tests last month alone. .\n\n\"DPRK demonstrated increased capabilities for rapid deployment, wide mobility (including at sea), and improved resilience of its missile forces,\" the sanctions monitors said.\n\nOn Friday, China and Russia refused to sign onto a statement condemning the proliferation of North Korea's missile launches.\n\nOn Sunday, the US announced that its special representative for North Korea would meet with Japanese and South Korean officials later this week to discuss the situation.\n\nThe UN report also found that the humanitarian situation in North Korea was continuing to worsen. It said this was likely to be the result of the country's decision to close its borders during the pandemic.\n\nA lack of information from North Korea meant it was hard to determine how much suffering was being caused by international sanctions, it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does North Korea keep launching missiles?", "The Queen has postponed engagements for the second time in a week following her positive Covid test.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the monarch, who tested positive for the virus on Sunday, would continue with \"light duties\".\n\nThursday's virtual audiences will now take place at a later date, it added.\n\nThe Queen, 95, also cancelled virtual engagements on Tuesday, but she did have her telephone audience with the prime minister on Wednesday.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokesman said: \"The two virtual audiences that had previously been scheduled to take place today will now be rescheduled for a later date.\n\n\"Her Majesty is continuing with light duties. No other engagements are scheduled for this week.\"\n\nWhile on light duties it is likely the Queen will be reading documents from UK government ministers and Commonwealth representatives sent to her every day, approving and signing them where necessary.\n\nIn a statement announcing the Queen's positive test on the weekend, the palace said the monarch was experiencing \"mild cold-like symptoms\".\n\nIt is understood a number of people tested positive at Windsor Castle, where the Queen resides.\n\nFor a second time in three days, the Queen's engagements have been cancelled. How much alarm should there be?\n\nWord from within the palace is the equivalent of 'keep calm and carry on' - that there is nothing to panic about.\n\nMuch of the concern comes because it is so rare that this kind of thing happens - so rare in fact that many might have forgotten that the Queen is 95 years old. At this age nearly everyone else has stopped working entirely.\n\nEspecially if they have Covid, even if it is only with what the palace calls \"mild cold-like symptoms\".\n\nIt is testament to the Queen's extraordinary sense of duty that she hoped to continue to hold virtual audiences and engagements while unwell; many in the same condition would welcome the chance to rest in a warm room with a box-set and a hot drink.\n\nThe Queen has chosen to focus on getting better rather than receiving ambassadors' credentials. The surprise is that anyone is surprised.\n\nThe Queen still has a run of engagements scheduled in the next few weeks.\n\nNext Wednesday, 2 March, she is due to host a reception for diplomats at Windsor. The Queen is also due to attend the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey on 14 March, and a memorial service for the Duke of Edinburgh on 29 March.\n\nThe Queen, who will be 96 in April, had her first vaccine in January 2021 and is believed to be triple-vaccinated.\n\nThe Prince of Wales has returned to royal duties following his Covid infection\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall also recently tested positive for Covid.\n\nPrince Charles, who announced he was infected on 10 February, has since returned to royal duties.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Footage from Ukraine shows explosions, a missile strike and a helicopter under fire\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine is a \"catastrophe for our continent\", Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nHe chaired an emergency Cobra meeting earlier and will give a televised statement later on the UK's response to Russia's \"unprovoked attack\".\n\nMr Putin has insisted he does not plan to occupy Ukraine, but Ukraine has branded it a \"full-scale invasion\".\n\nMr Johnson will outline new sanctions against Russia in the Commons at 17:00 GMT.\n\nHe said on Twitter he would also speak to his fellow G7 leaders and called for an urgent meeting of all Nato leaders as soon as possible.\n\nRussian forces have launched an assault on Ukraine, crossing its borders and bombing military targets near big cities.\n\nMartial law - which means the military takes control temporarily - has been imposed across the whole of Ukraine and traffic jams built up as people fled the capital city of Kyiv.\n\nIn a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky early on Thursday morning, Mr Johnson vowed the West \"would not stand by as President Putin waged his campaign against the Ukrainian people\".\n\nMr Johnson had tweeted earlier: \"President Putin has chosen a path of bloodshed and destruction by launching this unprovoked attack on Ukraine.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss said she had summoned the Russian ambassador to explain Russia's \"illegal, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine\" and that the UK would be \"imposing severe sanctions\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer warned Putin's attack on Ukraine would \"have horrendous and tragic consequences that will echo throughout the world and throughout history\", and called for the \"hardest possible sanctions\" against the Russian leader and his associates.\n\nHe added: \"There can be no space for equivocation when faced with the evil that Putin has unleashed. His actions pose a grave threat to the international order on which we all depend.\"\n\nRussian military vehicles are reported to have breached Ukraine's border in a number of places, in the north, south and east, including from Belarus.\n\nAt least seven people are known to have been killed by Russian shelling, including civilians. A Ukrainian presidential adviser said that more than 40 soldiers had died and dozens more were wounded, but this has not been independently confirmed.\n\nIt comes after President Putin announced a \"special military operation\" in Ukraine's Donbas region in a televised address to the Russian people earlier and said the Ukrainian people would be able \"to choose freely\" who ran the country.\n\nMr Putin also urged Ukrainian soldiers in the combat zone in the east of the country to lay down their weapons and return to their homes, warning that Moscow's response would be \"instant\" if anyone tried to take on Russia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK announced a package of sanctions against Russia as part of a co-ordinated Western response to the crisis.\n\nMr Johnson announced that five Russian banks had had their assets frozen and three Russian billionaires would have travel bans imposed.\n\nIt followed the Kremlin ordering troops into the rebel-held Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk on recognising them as independent.\n\nForeign Office minister James Cleverly warned Mr Putin's comments in recent days suggested he wanted to create \"a wider Russian empire in all but name\".\n\n\"We do fear that this is the start of quite an extensive military operation. This is not just limited to the east. There have been military strikes across a number of parts of Ukraine,\" he told the BBC on Thursday morning.\n\nHe said new UK sanctions against Russia would be announced \"in waves\" and warned it would be \"the largest and most severe economic sanctions\" package Russia had ever seen.\n\nAsked about the prospect of UK boots on the ground in Ukraine, Mr Cleverly said that while Ukraine was a \"good friend\" of the UK, it was not a member of the Nato military alliance - which obliges members to come to one another's aid in the event of an armed attack against a member state.\n\nThe UK is providing additional military support to eastern Nato member states and will support Ukrainians in their defence of their homeland, he added.\n\nUK nationals were advised two weeks ago to leave Ukraine while commercial flights were still available. Those remaining have again been urged to leave Ukraine immediately - if they judge it is safe to do so.\n\nUkraine has closed its airspace to civilian flights. The only airlines still flying from the UK, Wizz Air and Ryanair, have suspended all flights to the country.\n\nTobias Ellwood, chairman of the defence select committee, said the West had failed to alter the trajectory of the Russian invasion.\n\nHe said the UK's \"baffling\" decision to hold back sanctions until after Russia's incursion into Ukraine had not deterred Mr Putin.\n\nHe said Ukraine needed tangible support including weapons and communication systems, counter cyber capabilities and that a Nato no-fly zone would be a \"gamechanger\" in deterring Russia.\n\nA stream of cars left Kyiv after Russia announced it was launching its military operation\n\nTom Tugendhat, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, described the scenes of people abandoning their homes in Ukraine as \"a human tragedy\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"To see these columns of people forced out by naked aggression by Russia and by Vladimir Putin is horrific and extremely painful, and we should be thinking very clearly about the families torn apart, the lives separated.\"\n\nThe latest move by Russia has drawn international condemnation, with US President Joe Biden denouncing Russia's military action as an \"unprovoked and unjustified attack\", declaring \"the world will hold Russia accountable\".\n\nWriting on Twitter, he added the US and its allies and partners would impose \"severe sanctions on Russia\" and continue to provide support to Ukraine and its people.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen accused Mr Putin of \"bringing war back to Europe\" and warned a raft of \"massive\" sanctions would be proposed later aimed at Russia's economic base and its \"capacity to modernise\".\n\nNato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg criticised Russia's \"reckless\" attack on Ukraine and said despite weeks of tireless international diplomacy, Russia had chosen \"the path of aggression\".\n\nMr Stoltenberg has called an emergency meeting of the North Atlantic Council this morning. A news conference is expected to be held in Brussels at 12:00 local time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: On the front line of the Ukraine-Russia crisis\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace branded Russia's actions \"naked aggression against a democratic country\" and said no one had been fooled by the Kremlin's \"false flags and fake narratives\".\n\nFears of a Russian invasion into Ukraine have been rising for months.\n\nMr Putin has accused the West of ignoring Russia's demands to prevent Ukraine from joining the western Nato military alliance and offer Moscow security guarantees.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLet's cut right to the chase here: are we witnessing the prelude to World War 3?\n\nBecause let's face it, that is what a lot of people are understandably asking and thinking in the light of the Kremlin's recent actions over Ukraine - actions and statements that have triggered a deluge of denouncements and sanctions from the West.\n\nNo. As bad as the situation on the Russia-Ukraine border is right now, it does not currently involve a direct military confrontation between Nato and Russia.\n\nIn fact, when the US and Britain watched in dismay as Russia built up a force capable of invading Ukraine, they swiftly pulled out their small number of military trainers and advisers.\n\n\"That's a world war when Americans and Russians start shooting at each other,\" said US President Joe Biden earlier this month, vowing he would not deploy American troops to Ukraine under any circumstances.\n\nBut western leaders still fear Russia could be poised to make a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHow worried you should be still depends on a number of factors - like who you are, where you are, and what Russia does next.\n\nIf you are a frontline Ukrainian soldier in eastern Ukraine then clearly the situation is extremely dangerous. And for millions of Ukrainian people the fears over how the crisis will impact their daily lives is ever present.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ukrainian Marta Yuzkiv is preparing to defend her country but says she doesn't want war\n\nOnly President Putin and his trusted inner circle know how deep into Ukraine he intends to send his troops.\n\nAs long as Russia's potential invasion force remains massed on the borders then even the bustling Ukrainian capital Kyiv, and other cities, will not be safe from attack.\n\nBut the absolute red line for Nato and the West is if Russia threatens a Nato member state.\n\nUnder Nato's Article 5 the entire western military alliance is obliged to come to the defence of any member state that comes under attack.\n\nUkraine is not a member of Nato, although it has said it wants to join - something President Putin is determined to block.\n\nEastern European countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania or Poland - once part of Moscow's orbit in Soviet times - are all now Nato members.\n\nThey are feeling distinctly nervous that Russian forces might not stop at Ukraine and instead use some pretext to \"come to the aid\" of the ethnic Russian minorities in the Baltics and invade.\n\nHence Nato has recently sent reinforcements to bolster its Eastern European members as a deterrent.\n\nSo how worried should you be? As long as there is no direct conflict between Russia and Nato then there is no reason for this crisis, bad as it is, to descend into a full-scale world war.\n\nRussian servicemen and armoured vehicles stand on the road in the Rostov region of Russia\n\nLet's not forget that Russia and America have, between them, over 8,000 deployable nuclear warheads so the stakes here are stratospherically high. The old Cold War maxim of \"MAD\" - Mutually Assured Destruction - still applies.\n\n\"Putin,\" said a senior British military source on Tuesday, \"is not about to attack Nato. He just wants to turn Ukraine into a vassal state like Belarus.\"\n\nBut the wild card here is the state of Putin's mind. Often described as coldly calculating, like the chess player and judo fighter that he is, his speech on Monday resembled more that of an angry dictator than a shrewd strategist.\n\nCalling Nato \"evil\", he effectively told Ukraine it had no right to exist as a sovereign nation independent from Russia. This is worrying.\n\nBritain is not the only country to be punishing Russia with sanctions - the US has gone further and Germany, for example, has now postponed giving the green light to the massive Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia - but the UK is in the forefront of pushing for penalties.\n\nRussia will certainly retaliate in some form. Western businesses in Russia will likely suffer but it could go further, much further, if Putin decides.\n\n\"Revenge\" could take the form of cyber attacks - something the National Cyber Security Centre has already warned about. Often hard to attribute, these could target banks, businesses, individuals and even critical national infrastructure.\n\nThe problem now is that after years of declining relations with Moscow, including over the poisoning of Russian dissidents on UK soil, there is almost zero mutual trust remaining between Russia and the West.\n\nAnd that is a dangerous backdrop against which to have a blazing public row over who is to blame for the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.", "Climate advisers say that renewable power is a more reliable way to lower energy bills\n\nThe best way to ease consumers' pain from high energy prices is to stop using fossil fuels rather than drill for more of them, the government's climate advisers say.\n\nSome Tory MPs want the government to expand production of shale and North Sea gas, saying it would lower bills.\n\nBut advisers said UK-produced gas would be sold internationally and barely reduce the consumer price.\n\nThey said wind and solar power, as well as home insulation, is a better route.\n\nThe report from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) comes at a time when household energy bills are rising quickly. There is also international uncertainty over gas supplies due to the Russia-Ukraine crisis.\n\nThe committee warned that new fossil fuel projects in the North Sea would, in some cases, not deliver gas until 2050.\n\nThat’s the date when climate laws stipulate that the UK must be almost completely weaned off gas.\n\nThe committee said it favours tighter restrictions on drilling in the North Sea, and it favours a \"presumption against exploration\".\n\nBut it won’t go so far as recommending these actions to ministers because it said there are finely-balanced arguments for and against drilling.\n\nBritish-produced gas, for instance, is extracted causing less damage to the climate than imports, although it’s impossible to say whether other exporters will reduce their own emissions in future.\n\nWhat’s more, a so-called windfall tax might be imposed on the rising profits of oil firms – and the cash given back to consumers.\n\nThese uncertainties mean that decisions on whether to drill more in the North Sea must be left to ministers, the committee says.\n\nThe oil and gas industry feels it has a strong case because of its lower-than-average emissions.\n\nEnvironmentalists are angry that the committee hasn’t followed the recommendation of the International Energy Agency (IEA) and ruled out further fossil fuel exploration because enough has been discovered already.\n\n“We think the UK - with its diversified economy and its large historic emissions - should be the ones leading the way on recommending no further oil and gas exploration,” Doug Parr from Greenpeace told BBC News.\n\nChris Stark, chief executive of the CCC, said the committee was disappointed with the UK oil and gas industry's ambitions to cut its own operational emissions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it take to live on renewable energy?\n\nIt said the industry could lower pollution by reducing methane venting and electrifying oil platforms. And it warned that over-supply of hydro-carbons globally would “blow the Paris climate agreement out of the water.”\n\nLord Deben, the committee’s chairman, was emphatic about the need to continue on the path away from burning gas. He said if the UK followed through with green policies outlined by the prime minister, it would cut £100 off bills in the future.\n\nHe said average home bills would have been £40 lower now if the former PM David Cameron hadn’t scrapped schemes to insulate the UK as part of his initiative to “cut the green crap” – a remark ascribed to one of his aides, which led to an assault against energy-saving programmes.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) welcomed the report as an \"acknowledgement that carbon budgets can still be met if new oil and gas fields are developed in the UK\".\n\n\"There will continue to be ongoing demand for oil and gas over the coming decades as we transition to cleaner and cheaper forms of energy generated in this country,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nCraig Mackinlay, one of the most vocal MPs calling for increased North Sea drilling, said the CCC advice had \"finally acknowledged\" that UK \"domestic gas production creates jobs, can reduce energy prices and helps towards energy security\".\n\nThe report comes a day after a think tank, Green Alliance, accused the government of wasting millions of pounds on propping up North Sea oil and gas.\n\n\"Tax relief and subsidies have made the UK one of the most skewed tax environments in the world for oil and gas production,\" it said.\n\nThe report estimated that fossil fuel companies received nearly £10bn in tax relief for new exploration in the North Sea between 2016 and 2020, while £3.7bn was granted in tax relief for decommissioning costs.\n\nBut the report warned that revenue is expected to drop from the mature basin, as remaining resources become harder to extract.", "BBC reporter Abdujalil Abdurasulov reports from Kyiv as residents queue for supplies and others leave the city by road.", "Prosecutors say former detective Brett Hankison fired 10 shots during the raid that killed Breonna Taylor\n\nA jury is deciding whether a former detective showed \"extreme indifference to human life\" during the raid that led to the death of Breonna Taylor.\n\nBrett Hankison allegedly fired 10 shots blindly into a neighbour's flat in the melee that followed a \"no-knock\" search of the black woman's Kentucky home.\n\nHe is now standing trial on three charges of endangerment.\n\nOfficers had forced their way into the 26-year old paramedic's Louisville home during a narcotics raid using the \"no-knock\" warrant - which meant they did not have to announce themselves.\n\nHer boyfriend shot and wounded one of the officers. In response, officers fired 32 shots, six of which struck Ms Taylor.\n\nProsecutors allege that in the raid some of the shots fired by Hankison entered a neighbouring flat, endangering three people inside: Cody Etherson, his pregnant wife Chelsey Napper and their five-year-old son.\n\n\"This is not a case to decide who is responsible for the death of Breonna Taylor,\" Kentucky assistant attorney general Barbara Maines Whaley said during her opening remarks on Wednesday, but more whether Hankison had showed \"extreme indifference to human life\" during the raid.\n\nBut Hankison's team sought to portray him as an experienced officer who was facing a confusing situation. Defence attorney Steve Matthews described it as a scene of \"total chaos\".\n\nAt the trial, Mr Etherson said he believed the raid was \"reckless\" and described a chaotic scene with bullets shredding through a wall his apartment shared with Ms Taylor's, covering him in debris and only narrowly missing him and his son.\n\nHe said he woke that March night to a \"boom\", then heard several shots and felt debris falling on him.\n\nWhen his glass patio door shattered, Mr Etherton said he went to see what was happening - but was faced with officers pointing guns at him.\n\nThe case, in Jefferson County Circuit Court, is expected to take about two weeks.\n\nIt is the only trial stemming from the death of Ms Taylor. In 2020, her family sued Louisville police and reached a $12m (£8.8m) settlement.\n\nA grand jury cleared the two white officers who actually shot Taylor but charged Hankison for endangering neighbours in the adjacent apartment.\n\nHe has pleaded not guilty but if convicted could face up to five years in prison.\n\nMs Taylor's death, along with that of George Floyd in Minneapolis, sparked nationwide protests against police brutality and racism against black Americans.", "Binevenagh Forest near Limavady was carpeted with snow last weekend and there is more on the way\n\nHeavy snow showers and lightning are forecast for northern and western counties of Northern Ireland from later on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThe Met Office has updated its yellow warning for wind and snow to snow and lightning in counties Antrim, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Londonderry.\n\nThe warnings come into force at 17:00 GMT and will last until 20:00 on Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some of the areas may be affected by lightning.\n\nFollowing windy weather and rain during the day, temperatures are expected to drop sharply in the evening.\n\nShowers will turn increasingly wintry, with snow initially on high ground dropping to lower levels through the night.\n\nBy Thursday morning, a covering of snow is expected in some areas, with several centimetres possible at some lower levels and more over hills and mountains.\n\nThe gusty winds will mean blizzard-like conditions are likely on some high-level roads, for example the Glenshane Pass and the Coleraine to Limavady Road.\n\nTemperatures will drop below 0C in places, leading to icy stretches through the rush hour on Thursday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe combination of heavy snow showers and gusty winds will mean treacherous conditions for commuters.\n\nThe showers will turn to a mix of rain, sleet, hail and hill snow by Thursday afternoon.\n\nWinds will gust close to 50mph (80km/h) in exposed areas and as showers move through but winds will not be as strong as they were with Storm Franklin\n\nMore windy weather is expected on Thursday night, and at times over the weekend, but Friday will be a recovery day.\n\nEarlier in February, named storms hit the UK and Ireland bringing strong winds, snow and rain.\n\nHeavy rainfall ahead of Storm Franklin's arrival caused severe flooding in parts of Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Friday, Storm Dudley brought heavy rain and strong winds and hundreds of homes in counties Londonderry and Armagh were left without electricity.\n\nThis was followed by Storm Eunice, which saw flights and ferries cancelled and snow in some parts of the country.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a council worker died while trying to clear fallen trees during Storm Eunice.", "Hours before Russia began its invasion in Ukraine, President Zelensky spoke in Russian to make a direct appeal to Russian people to reject an attack.", "On the subject of suspense, filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock once advised: \"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.\"\n\nIt feels as if Vladimir Putin has been watching a lot of Hitchcock.\n\nFor months the Russian leader has been keeping the world guessing. Will he or won't he launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine? Is he or is he not planning to demolish the post-Cold War security order in Europe?\n\nHis decision to recognise the independence of two breakaway republics in eastern Ukraine took many by surprise.\n\nBut what will President Putin's next move be?\n\n\"Suspense is Putin's favourite tool,\" says Lilia Shevtsova, author of the book Putin's Russia.\n\n\"He will maintain the tension, turning the fire on and off.\n\n\"If he retains his mental logic, he won't attempt a full invasion. But he has a variety of possible actions available to him, such as cyber-attacks and squeezing Ukraine economically like a boa constrictor. A Russian military incursion to seize the whole of Donetsk and Luhansk regions is also possible. He will be like a cat playing with mice.\"\n\nFathoming what's going on behind the Kremlin walls is difficult enough. Reading Putin's mind is more challenging still.\n\nBut his statements and speeches provide clues to his motivation. President Putin is deeply resentful of the way the Cold War ended, with Russia losing power, territory and influence. Nato enlargement to the east has left him feeling bitter. What's more, he sounds, increasingly, like a man on a Messianic mission to force Ukraine back into Moscow's orbit.\n\n\"He's looking more like an Ayatollah than an FSB security officer,\" says Vladimir Pastukhov, senior research associate at University College London. \"He has an almost religious belief in his special place in history.\"\n\n\"He will go by stages. First, he recognised the [separatist] regions. Then he will put troops in. Next, those regions might announce a referendum on joining Russia according to the Crimea scenario. Then, maybe, there will be a local military operation to extend their territory up to their pre-2014 boundaries.\n\n\"If he's allowed to play the game by his rules, he will do this for as long as possible. He will cook the meat on a slow fire.\"\n\nWestern leaders are hoping that a new round of sanctions against Moscow will be a game-changer. But Russia is talking tough.\n\n\"We think these sanctions are illegal,\" Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, told me.\n\n\"We understood long ago that this is the only tool the West can use against us, to contain our development… we knew that there would be sanctions no matter what. It doesn't matter what we'd have done or how we'd have behaved. Sanctions were inevitable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"But does Russia not care that its international reputation, in the West, is getting lower and lower?\" I asked. \"Your country is seen increasingly as an aggressor.\"\n\n\"You're inventing this reputation,\" Ms Zakharova replied. \"What do you think of the West's reputation? It's covered in blood.\"\n\nThe EU has reportedly included Ms Zakharova on its new sanctions list.\n\nRussian tanks and troops have been massing near Ukraine's borders for months\n\nA Hitchcock thriller entertains. But Putin's Ukraine thriller is making the Russian public nervous.\n\n\"Most people don't want to know what going on there,\" says Denis Volkov of the Levada public opinion agency.\n\n\"It's too frightening for them. They don't want to listen. People are scared of a war: around half of the people we survey think war is a possibility.\"\n\nFew Russians publicly oppose the government line. But some leading Russian intellectuals have signed a petition to avoid an \"immoral, irresponsible and criminal\" war in Ukraine. They claim that \"Russians have become hostages to criminal adventurism\".\n\n\"In Russia we have no possibility to influence our government or our parliament,\" explains Professor Andrei Zubov, who has added his name to the petition. \"But I signed so that I could express my opinion and distance myself from Russia's ruling elite, which is breaking international law.\"\n\nBut Kremlin muscle-flexing has its supporters, too.\n\n\"It's not just Ukraine that will return to Russia's orbit,\" says Alexei, a former Soviet army commander. \"Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, as well. All the countries that used to be on our side.\"\n\nAlexei remembers the economic chaos of the 1990s, but believes that Russia has now risen from its knees.\n\n\"It's a biological process. After a child's been sick, he becomes more resistant to illness. What Russia suffered in the 1990s was like a disease. But it made us stronger. We don't need to persuade Nato to move away. It will give up all by itself.\"", "50-year-old Gregory Wallace is charged in connection with an incident at Bow Street Mall in Lisburn on Tuesday\n\nA 50-year-old man who was arrested in a busy shopping centre allegedly with guns, a smoke grenade and a knife has been remanded into custody.\n\nIt follows an incident at Bow Street Mall in Lisburn on Tuesday.\n\nGregory Wallace is charged with 10 offences including carrying a firearm or imitation in public and possessing a handgun with intent to cause fear of violence.\n\nThe offences are alleged to have been committed on 22 and 23 February.\n\nDue to mental health problems, Mr Wallace, from Howard Place in Lisburn, did not appear in court.\n\nBut a police officer said she believed she could connect him to the charges.\n\nDuring a contested bail application, the officer outlined to the court how security staff at Bow Street Mall alerted police when the defendant approached staff at a coffee shop apparently \"armed with a knife and a firearm\".\n\nOfficers from the Armed Response Unit (ARU) found Wallace sitting at a table speaking with a member of the public.\n\nThe court heard that when he \"reached his arm behind his back as if holding something in his waistband\", he was \"brought to the ground by ARU who felt that the members of the public were in immediate danger\".\n\nA knife and loaded air pistol were taken from Mr Wallace and the court heard that he also had a sports bag with him containing a handgun, a rifle and a smoke grenade.\n\nThe court heard that follow up searches were carried out at Mr Wallace's home and police seized a further 20 firearms including five handguns and 12 assault rifles.\n\nWhen asked by the judge if the weapons were real or fake, the police officer said they had to be sent for examination but were \"possibly air soft weapons\".\n\nAnother knife was recovered when the accused was taken to the Ulster Hospital in Belfast, where he was found to have sustained a punctured lung and \"several broken ribs\".\n\nDuring police interviews Mr Wallace confirmed he left his house with the bag that morning, claiming he had the guns \"for air soft\" and that he had the knives \"for his own protection\" as he is under threat.\n\nThe officer added that Mr Wallace told interviewing police he could not recall having a gun or knife in the waistband of his trousers and could not recall reaching for it before he was arrested.\n\nA defence lawyer said Mr Wallace had been having an \"annus horribilis\" but conceded that had the incident occurred \"in other parts of the world\" he may well have been shot.\n\nThe judge remanded Mr Wallace into custody and made an order that he be psychiatrically assessed on an emergency basis.\n\nThe case was adjourned to 24 March.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Boris Johnson call the Ukraine invasion \"wanton and reckless aggression\" by Russia.\n\nThe UK \"cannot and will not just look away\" at Russia's \"hideous and barbaric\" attack on Ukraine, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe PM said President Vladimir Putin had launched a \"vast invasion by land, by sea and by air\" without provocation.\n\nHe said the UK and allies will launch a \"massive package\" of sanctions to \"hobble\" Russia's economy.\n\nThe prime minister will outline the further economic sanctions against Russia in the Commons at 17:00 GMT.\n\nHe will lead another meeting of the government's Cobra emergencies committee to discuss the Ukraine crisis at 19:30 GMT, followed by a meeting of the cabinet at 20:30 GMT, Downing Street has said.\n\nIn a pre-recorded TV statement, Mr Johnson stressed that Ukraine was \"not some faraway country of which we know little\".\n\nHe added: \"We have Ukrainian friends in this country, neighbours, co-workers. Ukraine is a country that for decades has enjoyed freedom and democracy and the right to choose its own destiny.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the UK and its allies would agree a \"massive package of economic sanctions\" in a bid to \"hobble\" the Russian economy, warning that the West would need to cease its dependence on Russian oil and gas.\n\n\"Our mission is clear: diplomatically, politically, economically and eventually militarily, this hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in failure,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nThere are around 35,000 Ukrainian-born people living in the UK, according to the most-recent ONS data\n\nEarlier Russian forces launched an assault on Ukraine, crossing its borders and bombing military targets near big cities.\n\nRussian military vehicles are reported to have breached Ukraine's border in a number of places, in the north, south and east, including from Belarus.\n\nThe UK's Ministry of Defence said Russian forces based in Belarus were advancing towards Ukraine's capital Kyiv.\n\nUkraine has imposed martial law across the country, meaning the military has taken control temporarily, and traffic jams have built up as people attempt to flee Kyiv.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Footage from Ukraine shows explosions, a missile strike and a helicopter under fire\n\nAddressing the Ukrainian people directly, Mr Johnson said: \"In this moment of agony, we're with you, we're praying for you and your families and we are on your side.\"\n\nThe prime minister also sought to reassure the British public, pledging to do \"everything to keep our country safe\" and work with allies \"for however long it takes\" to restore Ukraine's sovereignty and independence.\n\n\"Because this act of wanton and reckless aggression is an attack not just on Ukraine, it's an attack on democracy and freedom in eastern Europe and around the world.\"\n\nUkrainian protesters gathered outside Downing Street on Thursday afternoon to call for more action from the UK and the international community.\n\nNatalia Ravlyuk, a volunteer who helped organise the protest, said: \"We feel very angry, we feel very anxious and we feel betrayed by democratic states because we have been talking about this war for eight years.\"\n\nMr Johnson was among leaders of the G7 group of wealthy nations who met to discuss the situation. Earlier, the prime minister said on Twitter that the invasion was a \"catastrophe for our continent\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the UK should brace itself for the \"economic pain\" the country will experience by imposing sanctions against Russia.\n\nIn a televised address, Sir Keir said: \"We will see economic pain as we free Europe from dependence on Russian gas and clean our institutions from money stolen from the Russian people.\n\n\"But the British public have always been willing to make sacrifices to defend democracy on our continent and we will again.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss summoned Russia's ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin, for the second time this week to ask him to explain the \"illegal, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine\".\n\nA source told BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley the meeting was \"tempestuous\" and ended early after Ms Truss said the ambassador should be \"ashamed\" of Russia's behaviour in Ukraine, adding that the Kremlin had lied repeatedly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Putin government must face hardest possible sanctions, says Sir Keir Starmer\n\nMeanwhile the head of the Western defensive alliance Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, condemned the invasion as a \"blatant violation\" of international law and said he is calling a virtual summit of alliance leaders on Friday to discuss the \"serious threat\" to security in the region.\n\n\"This is a grave moment for the security of Europe. Russia's unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine is putting countless lives at risk,\" he said.\n\nIn a pre-dawn TV statement on Thursday, President Putin said Russia did not plan to occupy Ukraine, but demanded its soldiers lay down their weapons, before warning that Moscow's response would be \"instant\" if anyone tried to take on Russia.\n\nThe prospect of further UK sanctions against Russia comes a day after the prime minister announced that five Russian banks had had their assets frozen and three Russian billionaires would have travel bans imposed.\n\nUK nationals were advised two weeks ago to leave Ukraine while commercial flights were still available. Those remaining have again been urged to leave Ukraine immediately - if they judge it is safe to do so.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Average UK petrol and diesel prices have hit new highs as the Ukraine crisis continues to affect oil prices, the RAC has said.\n\nOn Wednesday, petrol prices rose to 149.30p per litre amid warnings it could soon pass £1.50.\n\nOil prices jumped after Russia ordered troops into two Ukrainian regions this week to \"maintain peace\".\n\nWholesale gas prices also continue to climb, threatening to further push up heating bills.\n\nRussia is the world's second-largest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia and the top producer of natural gas globally.\n\nThe UK only gets 6% of its crude oil and 5% of its gas from Russia, but there are concerns sanctions could constrict supplies and drive up prices worldwide.\n\nUK consumers are already paying a high price for energy and fuel, with demand surging following the easing of Covid restrictions.\n\nFormer National Grid boss Steve Holliday told the BBC's Today programme: \"For the UK, it's a price issue, it's not a security supply issue.\n\n\"We already know that we've got consumers that are already experiencing huge jumps in their energy bills, so this is really very unwelcome.\"\n\nThe price of Brent crude oil, an international benchmark, hit a seven-year high of more than $99 (£73) on Tuesday before falling back on Wednesday.\n\nHowever, fuel pump prices lag behind oil prices and the RAC has warned petrol could go higher than £1.50 a litre in the coming days.\n\nDiesel has also risen, hitting 152.68p a litre on Wednesday.\n\nMatt Williams, 30, runs Williams & Yates, a removals company that operates across the UK and Europe with a fleet of 11 vans and lorries.\n\nRising fuel costs have forced it to put up its prices and he fears it might impact the business in the months ahead.\n\n\"Unfortunately, we do have to pass [these costs] onto the customer,\" he told the BBC. \"All the competition has to do the same, but I think it does make some consumers reconsider their moving options.\"\n\nThe firm offers basic and bespoke services, and he expects more customers to choose the cheaper option in the coming months rather than \"paying loads of money\".\n\nGordon Balmer, executive director of the Petrol Retailers Association, a trade body for independent UK forecourts, said whether fuel prices continue to rise depends on a number of factors.\n\n\"If [conflict] really sparks off in Ukraine, we could prices escalating dramatically,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he added that the US is in the process of negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran which could see more oil come onto the market.\n\nUK wholesale gas prices also jumped following Germany's decision on Tuesday to halt the final approval of Nord Stream 2 - a new gas pipeline connecting the country with Russia.\n\nThat decision drew a swift response from Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president and now deputy chairman of its Security Council.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Well, welcome to the brave new world where Europeans are very soon going to pay €2,000 for 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas!\" he tweeted - suggesting prices were set to double.\n\nUK gas prices for delivery in March rose by 13.5p to 200p per therm, though that is still much lower than the highs of December last year, when it peaked at over 400p per therm.\n\nWestern nations and Japan on Tuesday punished Russia with new sanctions for ordering troops into separatist regions of eastern Ukraine.\n\nThe UK said it was ready to impose further sanctions in the event of a full invasion of Ukraine, targeting more Russian banks and individuals as well as companies in the energy, defence, technology and chemical sectors.\n\nAfter a volatile trading session on Tuesday, global stock markets climbed on Wednesday before falling back again.\n\nTowards the end of the day, the UK's FTSE 100 was flat while France's CAC-40 and Germany's Dax had lost between 0.2% and 0.5%. The main three US indexes were all in the red.\n\nHigh energy prices in the UK have played a major part in pushing up the cost of living recently, while wages have lagged behind price rises.\n\nInflation currently stands at 5.5% - its highest level in 30 years.\n\nSpeaking to the Treasury Select Committee of MPs on Wednesday, Jonathan Haskel, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, said energy prices accounted for nearly half of the rise in inflation over the last year.\n\nThat is likely to rise to 70% in the first three months of 2022, according to Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey.\n\nThe Bank deputy governor, Ben Broadbent, said: \"If you look at the increase in energy bills this year, it is just about twice as big as any single year in the 1970s - it is enormous.\"\n\nThe Bank expects inflation to hit 7% in spring when the price cap on household energy bills is raised. This is far above the Bank of England's 2% target.\n\nFrom April, about 18 million homes on standard tariffs will see an average increase of £693. Meanwhile, 4.5 million prepayment customers can expect their energy costs to rise by an average £708.\n\nConsumers are also being squeezed by rising prices on goods as many companies pass on higher costs such as fuel, shipping and wages to their customers.\n\nAs well as the rise in energy prices in April, staff, companies and the self-employed will also have to pay an extra 1.25p on the pound in National Insurance. The rise is being introduced by the government to fund health and social care.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA four-day working week should be trialled in Wales, the Future Generations Commission has said.\n\nShorter working weeks can make staff healthier and happier and businesses more productive, Wales' commissioner Sophie Howe said.\n\nCutting hours but paying the same could help businesses retain staff and increase turnover, the report said.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was considering the progress of pilots in other countries.\n\nIt can change working patters in the public sector but not for private firms, but the report said the pilot could be used as a model there.\n\nMs Howe wants a \"national conversation\" about working less and its potential to improve people's wellbeing.\n\nShe urged the Welsh government to back pilots across different sectors.\n\nWales' commissioner, Sophie Howe, wants a \"national conversation\" about working less\n\n\"There are different challenges in different sectors but let's try it,\" she said.\n\nWales has high levels of sickness and relatively low productivity. Incomes are lower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nMany jobs have changed as a result of the pandemic and the drive to net zero - the term for when carbon emitted into the atmosphere equals that removed.\n\nThat change is expected to accelerate as more jobs become automated.\n\nThe Future Generations Commission's report argues by cutting hours but not pay absenteeism would fall and productivity increase, and a healthier population would then put less pressure on the NHS.\n\n\"The alternative is to keep working as normal, increase mental health (sickness) rates, increasing the cost of living crisis and not preparing for the changing nature of work,\" Ms Howe said.\n\nFor years Lily Champ, 24, worked five days a week in city centre hair salons.\n\n\"Usually a five-day week is chaotic, it can feel quite rushed and there's not enough time for yourself,\" she said.\n\nNow she works four eight-hour days rather than five and her pay is the same.\n\nShe said it makes a \"huge difference in and out of the salon\".\n\n\"I can suffer from anxiety a lot and it helps because I have time for myself, more time to chill but also to do things,\" Ms Champ said.\n\nShe is one of a 10-strong team at Cardiff hair salon Slunks where a four-day week was introduced as a trial there after lockdown to maintain social distancing.\n\nCo-owner Chelsea Hobson, 28, said: \"We noticed a massive difference with the team's mental health and happiness.\"\n\nShe did not expect it to make the business more successful, but added: \"Takings-wise we are actually doing better than before.\"\n\nSlunks co-owner Chelsea Hobson said reducing hours while maintaining pay rates led to increased takings\n\nRestaurants are often busiest at the weekend and staff most in demand, but Cardiff restaurant Cora closes on Friday, Saturday and Sunday so the chef can have a better work-life balance.\n\n\"I value my time with my family a lot more than I value cooking,\" said the restaurant's Lee Skeet.\n\nThe business is also closed during Easter, summer and Christmas holidays.\n\n\"I really didn't want to get into the routine that chefs do of always being busy at weekends and holidays,\" he said.\n\nHe urged others to \"focus more on themselves\".\n\nChef Lee Skeet does not work weekends to improve his work-life balance\n\nAdam Bostock, sales director for Cardiff hearing healthcare company HearFocus, said a four-day week was beneficial for staff wellbeing and helped attract new employees in a \"competitive marketplace\".\n\n\"It's not a case of us losing 20% of our income, it's a case of us gaining clinical staff that we didn't have before,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nThe report is not the first to suggest a shorter working week could benefit firms. The idea is being discussed in New Zealand, Ireland and Germany.\n\nIn September 2021 the Scottish government announced it was trialling a four-day week.\n\nBusiness group CBI Wales' director Ian Price said: \"It might work for some organisations, and they will get more productivity, but it isn't practical for others.\n\n\"Businesses are already having to deal with the challenges of hybrid working and working from home.\"\n\nHe said it would be wrong to \"overload businesses with more changes\".\n\nMs Howe said: \"The 37-hour working week hasn't changed in around 100 years.\n\n\"What I'm not saying is that suddenly overnight every business in Wales should be offering a reduced working week.\n\n\"What I'm saying is there should be some pilots across Wales with different types of businesses.\n\n\"Two years ago businesses said they couldn't afford a minimum wage, and now it's just become an absolutely standard thing.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We are considering the progress of pilots in other countries and examining the lessons Wales can learn.\n\n\"A shorter working week is just one example of flexible working and through our social partnership approach, we want to encourage more employers to provide workers with greater choice over where and when they work.\"", "Civilians shelter in a metro station in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in a photo taken by Victoria Vota. \"We are trying to stay strong,\" she said.", "Northern Ireland's health service \"is still reeling from the pandemic\", the health minister has said.\n\nRobin Swann said health pressures are \"only going to get worse despite the best efforts of staff\".\n\nIt comes after Antrim Area hospital declared a potential major incident on Tuesday.\n\nMr Swann said the failure of Stormont to agree a three-year budget meant patients had been \"cruelly robbed\" of a chance to resolve the health crisis.\n\nThe collapse of the power-sharing executive - which means Stormont cannot strike a proposed budget for 2022-2025 - would have seen a 10% cash uplift for the Department of Health.\n\n\"The fact that we have limped from one single-year budget to the next for the last seven to eight years was just another reason our health service has been unable to keep up with demand,\" Mr Swan said.\n\nMr Swann pointed to the damage caused by the loss of additional funding that the draft budget would have provided.\n\nHe said he still hoped that some budget certainty can be \"raised from those ashes\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robin Swann says waiting lists crisis in the health service has been exacerbated by Covid.\n\nHe added that capacity cannot be rebuilt without the \"certainty of funding\" and without \"training and recruiting the necessary numbers of staff\".\n\nMeanwhile, official figures from the Department of Health have shown a slight fall from the previous quarter in the numbers waiting for a first consultant-led outpatient appointment.\n\nHowever, they also show that number has risen nearly 10% from the previous year.\n\nIn a report published on Tuesday outlining updated actions to tackle waiting lists, Mr Swann said significant progress had been made in some areas.\n\n\"This isn't going to be solved overnight; this is about a long-term solution to the crisis that we've seen brewing in the health service - not caused by Covid but exacerbated by Covid,\" he said.\n\nOn 31 December 2021, a total of 354,756 people were waiting to be seen - that's 1% fewer than at the end of the previous quarter, September 2021 (3,590).\n\nHowever, that figure is almost 10% more on the previous December (31,582).\n\nMore than half those people, 52.6% (186,745) were waiting for more than 52 weeks for that first appointment - that figure remains largely unchanged from the previous quarter (52.5%) or in fact the previous year (51.9%).\n\nThe health minister's target is that no patient should wait longer than 52 weeks for a first consultant-led appointment.\n\nRobin Swann the waiting lists crisis that was brewing in the health service has been exacerbated by Covid\n\nOn Thursday, it emerged a patient had been discharged after being treated in a side room at the emergency department (ED) at Antrim Area Hospital for almost a week.\n\nBBC News NI understands there were no available beds in a specialist ward.\n\nThe Northern Trust said \"sadly these days it is not unusual for patients to be waiting a long time for beds to become available in wards\".\n\nThe rare incident emerged after the hospital ran out of bed space, but was stood down that evening.\n\nIt is one step below a major incident, which means there are too many patients for staff to deal with safely.\n\nThe emergency department's manager, Bronagh Gilmore, told BBC News NI on Wednesday that some staff had been \"traumatised\" by the pressure.\n\nShe outlined there was \"no physical space to stand, never mind to receive critically ill patients\".\n\nDr Eimhear Kearney, a consultant in the department, added that the hospital had been operating at full capacity for months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Eimhear Kearney, an emergency department consultant, says the potential major incident was \"a flare for help\"\n\nThe Irish News first reported the case of a patient who, as of Wednesday, had been waiting for six days in Antrim's emergency department.\n\nIt is understood the woman received one-to-one treatment throughout her stay and has since been discharged.\n\nIn response, the trust said: \"As we have stressed, the added complication of Covid means that we must do all that we can to keep those who are positive separate from other patients.\n\n\"Where possible, particularly long-wait patients will invariably be on hospital beds in side rooms in the emergency department and will be managed by the relevant specialist medical team and ED nurses until such times as a bed becomes available or they can be discharged when acute consultant-led care is no longer required.\"\n\nPatients at other hospitals have faced similar waits in emergency department side rooms, some lasting for several days.\n\nThere are similar side rooms at both Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry and the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald which also have patients waiting to be admitted.\n\nIn recent days a number of health trusts in Northern Ireland have warned of increasing pressure from patient numbers, including calls for help in discharges to free up bed space.\n\nThe medical director with the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, Dr Nigel Ruddell, said crews were now often faced with long delays when transferring patients to hospital.\n\n\"This is not the fault of emergency departments, it reflects the pressures right throughout the hospital system,\" Dr Ruddell told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"We normally expect ambulance crews to handover patients to hospital staff within about 15 minutes and clear shortly afterwards.\n\n\"Only one in 11 of our ambulances is able to do that at the minute, we are having ambulances waiting anything from one up to nearly nine hours to do that,\" he said.", "This feels very much like the end of an era. In November 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down, we believed that the old division of the world into East versus West was just history. Because the ideological conflict between capitalism and Communism had evaporated, there was a feeling that we were all basically on the same side.\n\nThe trouble was, for Vladimir Putin, the one-time KGB officer based in East Germany, the collapse of the old Soviet Union seems to have morphed into a bitter personal resentment which grew worse as the years went by. The fact that Ukraine, once a key part of the USSR, broke away from the Russian Federation was an insult to everything Putin believed in.\n\nIt didn't matter that Russia had signed an international agreement accepting the boundaries of the new Ukrainian state. By 2014 President Putin had spotted a way of taking over Crimea, the most symbolically Russian part of Ukraine, by infiltrating his soldiers into the peninsula.\n\nThey blocked it off, and after holding a referendum of the mostly ethnic Russian population he turned it effectively into part of the Russian state. It was against international law, but the West still clung to the notion that it could do business with Putin's Russia.\n\nThere were speeches and sanctions, but nothing that made President Putin or his associates have serious second thoughts.\n\nThe same thing happened when Putin's enemies, or people the old KGB and its successor the FSB, regarded as traitors, were poisoned, shot or otherwise disposed of in Britain and Europe. The West issued warnings and imposed new sanctions, but Putin's Russia was prepared to live with them.\n\nIn the past 10 years, Russia started to form a new bloc with China - not necessarily hostile to the West, but providing support for each other in the face of Western criticism.\n\nPresident Xi Jinping and President Putin created a mutual support group. Now China is refusing to condemn Russia for its actions in Ukraine, and people in Taiwan, which China sees as a breakaway territory and which Xi Jinping has always refused to say he won't invade, are starting to wonder if it could be their turn next.\n\nAltogether, then, the world is a far more worrying place than it was a few years ago. By comparison, the old Cold War years were far simpler, and for the most part the rules were a lot more clear - if one side intruded into the other's space, there was the ever-present threat of all-out mutually assured destruction. So it never happened, even though war came uncomfortably close more than once.\n\nBut after the collapse of Communism, the old rule-book was torn up. Now the boundaries are so vague, no-one knows where the red lines run.\n\nWith hindsight, and there's starting to be a lot of that, some politicians and academics are saying that Nato should perhaps have changed its whole approach after the Berlin Wall came down - it should have avoided humiliating Moscow by taking its old satellites in Eastern Europe on board, and lining them up in a way that seemed to Putin's Russia to be confrontational.\n\nThe mere suggestion that Ukraine might one day join Nato (even though it has always been regarded as unlikely) enraged the Kremlin, and helped persuade President Putin that he must deal with Ukraine once and for all.\n\nEveryone knows this is his policy, and his alone. Various Russian politicians and even some leading military figures came out beforehand against any invasion. But Putin wouldn't be deflected. Now it's got to succeed, and Russia has got to come out as the clear victor, if his throw of the dice is to win the game. But military adventures like this are notoriously capable of going wrong.\n\nPutin did succeed in Crimea, eight years ago, and his position at home was greatly reinforced. Maybe he'll succeed again, carving through the Ukrainian armed forces, making some significant gains, then withdrawing quickly and holding a victory parade.\n\nIt's perfectly possible. But suppose it doesn't happen this way. If Russian soldiers start dying in sizeable numbers and the sanctions against Russia start to have an effect, then Putin's own position will suffer.\n\nWhat will he do then? There is only one answer - he'll clamp down on any domestic criticism even harder than he already has, in the name of national security. Russia is, even now, a surprisingly open society compared with the past.\n\nVladimir Putin might turn Russia back to the days of the USSR\n\nThat, surely, would come to an end. The Russian economy would suffer, and Chinese help wouldn't make up for the loss.\n\nSo Vladimir Putin, who seems to have launched his attack on Ukraine because of his 30-year resentment over the collapse of the old Soviet empire, might turn Russia back to the days of the USSR. And the West, which has tried for so long to pretend that Russia is just another country we can do business with, might find that the old days had come right back with a vengeance.", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak told an audience today that not all tax cuts \"pay for themselves\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged to \"deliver a low tax, higher growth economy\" amid criticism from MPs over rises to National Insurance.\n\nMr Sunak told an audience at the Bayes Business School on Thursday that he would cut taxes \"sustainably\".\n\nIt comes as National Insurance rates are set to rise from 1 April to help fund health and social care.\n\nThe rise means employees, employers and the self-employed will all pay 1.25p more in the pound.\n\n\"I am going to deliver a lower tax economy but I am going to do so in a responsible way, and in a way that tackles our long term challenges,\" Mr Sunak said in his speech.\n\nHowever, the chancellor also argued that taxes should not be cut if spending plans are unfunded.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the Conservative Party was \"now the party of high tax\".\n\n\"The chancellor may say he 'believes' in low taxes in his lecture - but the hard facts are that Sunak has hit households and business with 15 tax rises in two years in post - with an unfair National Insurance rise down the line,\" Ms Reeves said.\n\n\"He has raised the most tax on average per budget than any chancellor in the last 50 years.\"\n\nLabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer was set to deliver a speech in Huddersfield outlining his party's approach to taxation and ending insecure employment, but it was cancelled due to the Ukraine crisis.\n\nSir Keir had planned to say that a Labour government would end the \"economic fatalism\" of the Conservatives and build \"a new economy of security, where stable employment will be the bedrock of a better future for the next generation\".\n\nMr Sunak said he was \"disheartened when I hear the flippant claim that 'tax cuts always pay for themselves'\".\n\n\"They do not,\" he added. \"Cutting tax sustainably requires hard work, prioritisation, and the willingness to make difficult and often unpopular arguments elsewhere.\"\n\nIn Mr Sunak's two years in his role he has overseen hundreds of billions in Covid-related government spending through furlough payments, business grants and testing.\n\nHe has also been at the helm as taxation as a share of the economy has risen to its highest level since the 1950s.\n\nUnder the government's plans, employees, employers and the self-employed will all pay 1.25p more in the pound for National Insurance from April for a year.\n\nAfter that, the extra tax will be collected as a new Health and Social Care Levy.\n\nThe changes will see an employee on £20,000 a year pay an extra £89 in tax, while someone on £50,000 will pay £464 more.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats and some backbench Tory MPs have called for the chancellor to scrap the incoming NI hike to ease the financial burden on households and businesses at a time of rising costs.\n\nIn the speech Mr Sunak also set out his priorities to increase the UK's economic growth, and argued that \"what government does is far less important than creating the conditions for private businesses and individuals to thrive\".\n\nTony Danker, director general of the business group the CBI, said setting out how firms could \"achieve sustainable growth for the long term\" was \"vital\" at a period of volatility in the economy.\n\n\"Government enabling firms to invest, thrive and deliver prosperity is absolutely the right direction of travel,\" he added.\n\nMr Danker has called for a permanent \"super-deduction\" tax break to boost business investment in the UK.\n\nThe super-deduction allowance currently gives businesses investing in certain types of equipment, like machinery, a much higher tax reduction than usual but will expire in March next year.", "Former Northern Ireland international footballer Paddy McCourt has appeared in court charged with sexually assaulting a woman.\n\nHe is accused of committing the assault on 30 January.\n\nThe 38-year-old, who was capped 18 times and also played for Celtic and Derry City, denies the charge.\n\nAppearing at Londonderry Magistrates' Court via videolink on Wednesday, Mr McCourt replied \"definitely not guilty\" when the charge was put to him.\n\nMr McCourt, of Wheatfield Court in Muff, County Donegal, was released on bail.\n\nHe is due to appear again at the same court on 23 March.", "The government should seize the assets of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, a Labour MP has said, citing concerns about alleged links to corruption.\n\nChris Bryant told MPs he had a leaked Home Office document which suggested the Chelsea Football Club owner should not be able to base himself in the UK.\n\nMr Bryant said it was written in 2019 and \"little\" had been done since then.\n\nReplying to Mr Bryant, senior minister Mark Spencer said the government had taken \"very strong action against high-profile Russian individuals who are of concern\".\n\nDowning Street would not be drawn on the claims about Mr Abramovich made in the Commons. The PM's spokesman said: \"I couldn't comment on individuals in that way or on leaked documents of that type.\"\n\nEarlier this week the government announced it would impose sanctions on three billionaires with close links to President Vladimir Putin as part of the UK's response to Russia's actions in Ukraine.\n\nMr Abramovich is one of Russia's richest people and is believed to be close to President Putin.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Bryant urged the government to take action against Mr Abramovich, including removing his ownership of Chelsea Football Club and seizing his assets.\n\nQuoting from the leaked Home Office document, he said: \"'As part of HMG's [Her Majesty's Government] Russia strategy aimed at targeting illicit finance and malign activity, Abramovich remains of interest to HMG due to his links to the Russian state and his public association with corrupt activity and practices. An example of this is Abramovich admitting in court proceedings that he paid for political influence. Therefore HMG is focused on ensuring individuals linked to illicit finance and malign activity are unable to base themselves in the UK and will use the relevant tools at its disposal, including immigration powers to prevent this'.\"\n\nMr Bryant noted that the document had been produced three years ago and said: \"Surely Mr Abramovich should no longer be able to own a football club in this country?\n\n\"Surely we should be looking at seizing some of his assets including his £152m home?\"\n\nAs well as owning Chelsea, Mr Abramovich is also the primary owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC.\n\nHe built his fortune in oil following the collapse of the former Soviet Union in the 1990s.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Abramovich experienced delays when applying to extend his visa to stay in the UK and eventually withdrew his application.\n\nIn October 2021, the businessman's spokesperson confirmed he travelled to London as an Israeli citizen - therefore entering the United Kingdom without the need for a visa.\n\nTier 1 investor visas, offering foreign investors fast-track residency in the UK, are being scrapped with immediate effect, Home Secretary Priti Patel confirmed last week.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex in New York\n\nPrince Harry has begun a High Court libel action against the publisher of the Daily Mail, his spokesperson has confirmed to the BBC.\n\nCourt documents show the Duke of Sussex filed a claim against Associated Newspapers Limited on Wednesday.\n\nIt is understood the claim relates to an article published by the Mail on Sunday.\n\nThe BBC has asked Associated Newspapers for a comment.\n\nIt comes after it was revealed last month that his wife, The Duchess of Sussex, was to receive £1 in damages from Associated Newspapers, after the Mail on Sunday was found to have invaded her privacy.\n\nThe nominal sum was set out in court documents which formally confirmed the newspaper had accepted defeat.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday published a handwritten letter that Meghan sent to her father Thomas Markle in 2018.\n\nThe media company, it transpired, will also pay an unspecified sum for a separate case of infringing her copyright.\n\nLast week, lawyers for Prince Harry said the UK will always be his home, amid a row over whether he can have police security when he visits from the US.", "The BBC's Nick Beake reports on the ground from the Ukrainian Kyiv capital after Russian President Putin announced a \"military operation\" in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.", "Drivers across Scotland are facing hazardous conditions as much of the country has been blanketed by snow.\n\nThe Met Office has a yellow weather warning for snow and ice in place until 09:30 on Friday, affecting most of mainland Scotland.\n\nSome schools in Moray and Stirling were closed due to heavy snow overnight.\n\nPolice Scotland has urged people to take extra caution on the roads across the country.\n\nForecasters said frequent heavy snow showers were expected, along with very gusty winds and a chance of frequent lightning affecting some places.\n\nA further yellow weather warning for snow and lightning for north western and central areas is in place until 20:00 on Thursday.\n\nThat warning covers Central Scotland, Tayside and Fife, the Highlands and Western Isles, South West Scotland, Lothian and Borders, Strathclyde and Northern Ireland.\n\nWeather Watcher Elinor Harp took this shot in Edinburgh city centre\n\nWoodside in Perth and Kinross captured by Weather Watcher Lara\n\nAbout 3-7cm of snow was expected at low levels in some areas, with up to 20cm on higher ground.\n\nA total of 29 high schools, primaries and nurseries in the Highlands and 10 schools in Perth and Kinross have been closed.\n\nMoray Council said Tomintoul school and nursery and Knockando Primary School would be closed and Angus Council confirmed closures of Auchterhouse and Birkhill primary schools.\n\nPupils at Balfron High and Dunblane High schools in Stirling were told to learn remotely while Crianlarich Primary was also closed.\n\nSeveral schools in South Lanarkshire delayed opening until 10:00.\n\nA house on the Isle of Lewis caught fire after being struck by lightning on Wednesday\n\nMeanwhile, a house in Ardroil, Uig on the Isle of Lewis, was struck by lightning and caught fire during the adverse weather.\n\nFirefighters tackled the blaze at about 01:50 on Wednesday - no-one was injured.\n\nThe Met Office said there was a small chance that snow showers could be accompanied by frequent lightning, which could impact power supplies.\n\nThis could affect some places outside of the yellow warning area.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn the roads, Traffic Scotland said snowy conditions affected much of the central belt, the A9 around Slochd and the A90 around Dundee, and urged people to drive according to the conditions.\n\nDelays caused by accidents and breakdowns were affecting the late afternoon rush hour in the central belt, where the snow had already melted away.\n\nBear Scotland, which maintains trunk roads in the north east, reported heavy snow on roads including the A9, M90, A92, A90, A95 and A96.\n\nIt said gritters had been out continuously since Wednesday night through challenging conditions.\n\nThey continued gritting roads across the whole of Scotland through out the day, with \"double treatments\" on many routes.\n\nTwo tractors, for the A9 Drumochter and the A82 at Glencoe, would be added to the 29 frontline gritters and 12 patrol gritters in north-west Scotland and the south of Scotland's full fleet would be out overnight.\n\nPolice Scotland tweeted: \"Warnings are in place for much of the day. Please be prepared and drive according to the conditions if you are travelling.\"\n\nThick snow lay on the roads in Aberfoyle overnight\n\nGritters had yet to tackle this route in Stirling in the early hours\n\nA number of rail and ferry services have also been impacted by heavy snow.\n\nScotRail said some services from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness and Perth were affected by a broken-down train between Stirling and Bridge of Allan.\n\nFerry operator CalMac said some services were liable to disruption or cancellation at short notice.\n\nPublic transport was significantly hit last week during storms Dudley and Eunice with blanket cancellations across the rail network.\n\nAt the time, more than 150 schools and nurseries across Scotland were closed due to snow, including almost 100 in Aberdeenshire.\n\nMillions of people in the south of England and Wales were told to stay at home as Storm Eunice was expected to be one of the worst storms in decades.\n\nThree people were killed in London, Hampshire and Merseyside as fierce winds toppled trees and sent debris flying. Five others were killed in Europe.\n\nIt followed storms Malik and Corrie in January, which left 118,000 homes in Scotland and 80,000 in England without power.\n\nAnd in November, whole communities were left without power for days during Storm Arwen while travellers from Elgin to Aberdeen were stuck on board a train for 17 hours.", "Cristina Nestares has been Admiral's UK CEO since 2017\n\nCity centre offices are going to be \"more important than ever\" for companies with hybrid working plans, the boss of insurer Admiral has said.\n\nThe FTSE 100 company's UK CEO Cristina Nestares said offices must be attractive for staff to \"make an effort, commute, come to the office\".\n\nThe company has sites in Cardiff, Swansea and Newport and is offering staff a mix of home and office working.\n\nMeanwhile desks are appearing in gyms as alternatives to working from home.\n\nLockdown home working \"was tough and it did cause some problems\" for younger colleagues at Admiral, Ms Nestares said.\n\nSince being established in Cardiff in 1993, Admiral has grown to employ about 7,000 staff in south Wales and a further 4,000 at other locations in the UK, Europe and the USA.\n\nMs Nestares said the city centre office spaces have \"always been important - location, location, location - but it is going to be even more so in the future\".\n\nShe added: \"We are going to ask our staff, a lot of whom are very comfortable working from home, we are going to say: 'Make an effort, commute, come to the office'.\"\n\nBookable desks, break-out areas and re-designed floors are currently being introduced at the company's headquarters in Cardiff city centre.\n\nAdmiral employs about 7,000 staff in south Wales and a further 4,000 at other locations in the UK, Europe and the USA\n\n\"We want the office experience to be fantastic, in the office and outside,\" Ms Nestares said.\n\nAdmiral is regularly ranked among the best employers for staff satisfaction and wellbeing, but Ms Nestares said the immediate switch to home working at the start of the pandemic caused issues for some employees.\n\n\"We soon realised that for the younger segment of our staff, it was actually harder,\" she said.\n\n\"They were the ones who maybe lived by themselves, or they didn't have a big house, and it was a bit too much - they were missing the social interaction.\n\n\"So as long as the rules allowed us, we tried to organise events in parks. We had some people come into the office if they had problems at home, or they had some mental health issues.\"\n\nAdmiral said it would continue to develop its hybrid model and respond to feedback from staff.\n\nOther companies are pursuing similar strategies, while some staff seek alternatives to working from a spare room or on the kitchen table.\n\nRebekah Windsor catches up on emails while at the gym\n\nRebekah Windsor, 27, is always at the gym, so it made sense for her to take her laptop with her to catch up on her to-do list between workouts.\n\nShe is a personal trainer and uses One Gym in Newport for her own workouts.\n\nThe gym recently added hot-desks, giving her somewhere other than home to catch up on the paperwork that comes with her job.\n\n\"Going back and forth to home to do my admin would not be beneficial to me at all,\" she said.\n\n\"Coming here to train and then quickly catch up on my admin is ideal.\"\n\nPersonal trainer Rebekah Windsor says some of her clients who work from home struggle with motivation\n\nIt's not just for gym types. Managers said they had attracted a regular crowd who want desk space without the office commute.\n\nMs Windsor thinks other gyms should invest in work spaces.\n\n\"More people are working at home now, a lot of my clients are working from home and they are struggling a lot with motivation,\" she said.\n\n\"So I think coming here to train and then knowing you can get an extra hour of work in, get your to-dos done, I think it is definitely something that they should start introducing.\"\n\nWhile workers are making the most of flexible options, the future of city centre offices seems secure.\n\nAdmiral has reduced the number of buildings it uses across south Wales from seven to five, but is otherwise committed to the future of offices.\n\nIn Cardiff, many of the newest buildings around the city's Central Station are owned by pension fund manager Legal and General.\n\n\"You have always got to look at the fundamentals,\" said Tom Roberts, who is the firm's head of strategic investment.\n\n\"Where are the right opportunities to focus on? Where are the best places to invest? Where do people want to be?\n\n\"But I think certainly for the long-term, the amenities that city centres offer and the public transport connectivity are such important considerations.\n\n\"That's why we think city centres will continue to thrive.\"", "Armed specialist officers were deployed to the scene\n\nA 27-year-old man who launched an hours-long hostage standoff at an Apple store in Amsterdam has died in hospital from his injuries.\n\nThe armed man had entered the store on Tuesday, taking one person hostage and demanding some €200m (£165m; $230m) in cryptocurrency.\n\nThe suspect was deliberately hit by a police car after running out of the building to chase the hostage, who had managed to escape.\n\nPolice have not publicly named the suspect but said he was a resident of Amsterdam with a criminal record. They have not yet established a motive.\n\nThey said an investigation had found that the suspect had explosives on his body, but that they were not ready to detonate.\n\nOfficers were first called to the Apple store in the Dutch capital's Leidseplein area at about 17:40 local time (16:40 GMT) on Tuesday, after the camouflage-wearing suspect entered the building. Dozens of people fled the shop, while four hid in a cupboard.\n\nImages circulated on Dutch media appeared to show a man waving a firearm in one hand while holding a person in his other arm. The gunman sent photos to Amsterdam TV channel AT5 appearing to show explosives strapped to his body.\n\nAfter nearly five hours, the hostage managed to escape when water was delivered to the store at the request of the gunman.\n\nAmsterdam police chief Frank Paauw said the hostage - a Bulgarian man, not a Briton as previously reported - had played a \"heroic role by forcing a breakthrough\" in the stand-off.\n\nIn a statement, Apple said it was \"incredibly grateful and relieved that our employees and customers in Amsterdam are safe after this terrifying experience\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What role did these police have in Floyd’s death?\n\nThree ex-Minneapolis policemen present at the death of George Floyd denied the unarmed black man of his civil rights, a jury has found.\n\nThe officers were charged with showing \"deliberate indifference to [Mr Floyd's] serious medical needs\" during the attempted arrest in May 2020.\n\nTou Thao, 36, J Alexander Kueng, 28, and Thomas Lane, 38, all testified in their own defence in the trial.\n\nThey said they did not realise Mr Floyd needed medical care at the time.\n\nViolating a person's civil rights carries various punishments but prosecutors have recommended 25 years in federal prison for each man.\n\nDerek Chauvin, the former police officer who was filmed kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, is currently serving a 22-and-a-half-year sentence.\n\nChauvin was found guilty of Mr Floyd's murder last April. He also pleaded guilty in December to his own federal civil rights charges as part of a plea agreement.\n\nVideo footage of the arrest shows Keung and Lane assisting Chauvin by helping to hold Mr Floyd down. Thao, meanwhile, kept concerned bystanders away.\n\nOver four weeks of testimony, prosecutors argued that \"human decency and common sense\" should have compelled the men to take action to prevent Mr Floyd's death.\n\n\"It wasn't a split-second use of force like a gunshot. Not 30 seconds, not a minute, several minutes - 569 seconds,\" said Assistant US Attorney Manda Sertich.\n\nBut lawyers for the defence claimed they were listening to a commander with seniority.\n\nChauvin was a field training officer to both Lane and Kueng.\n\nWhen asked why he did not tell Chauvin to get his knee off Mr Floyd's neck, Officer Thao testified: \"I think I would trust a 19-year veteran to figure it out.\"\n\nA 12-person jury deliberated for about 13 hours before returning their verdict on Thursday.\n\nIn June, the trio of defendants will be back, this time in state court, to face criminal charges for aiding and abetting Chauvin's actions.", "Russian forces have launched a military assault on neighbouring Ukraine, crossing its borders and bombing targets near big cities.\n\nFootage from locations around the country shows how some of the violence has unfolded, including a fireball as missile hit an airport in western Ukraine, a Russian helicopter coming under fire and pre-dawn explosions close to the city of Kharkiv.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe sound of gunfire has echoed through Ukraine's capital Kyiv as Russian tanks were filmed entering the city for the first time.\n\nUkraine's Ministry of Defence called on those living in the northern outskirts, where the tanks were seen, to make fire bombs \"to neutralise the enemy\".\n\nThe European Union has announced new sanctions to freeze Vladimir Putin's personal assets in Europe.\n\nThe Kremlin, meanwhile, says that Russia is ready for talks with Ukraine.\n\nSpokesman Dmitry Peskov said talks would have to be about Ukraine declaring a \"neutral status\" - which would include \"demilitarisation\". Russia wants Ukraine to rule out ever joining Nato.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly called for talks with Mr Putin, but has given no sign that he would agree to talks on the basis of \"demilitarisation\".\n\nOvernight, Kyiv was hit by blasts, with at least one block of flats damaged and several civilians injured.\n\nAn unnamed source at Russia's defence ministry also said a plane shot down over Kyiv was Ukrainian, Reuters news agency reports. Ukraine has said the jet was Russian.\n\nAs the second day of fighting began, Moscow - which is attacking from the east, north and south - appeared to have Kyiv firmly in its sights. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said \"the enemy\" was trying to put Kyiv \"on its knees\".\n\nOn Friday afternoon, Russia's defence ministry announced it had captured the Antonov airport, using 200 helicopters and a landing force in order to take the base to the north of Kyiv from Ukraine. Western intelligence officials warned earlier that Russia was building an \"overwhelming force\" to take control of the city.\n\nCitizens in the northern Obolon district have been told to stay at home to avoid \"active military operations\" by city officials, Reuters adds. Obolon is the same area where it appeared tanks were filmed earlier in the day.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence had already appealed to the district's residents on its Facebook page to \"inform us of troop movements, to make Molotov cocktails [firebombs] and neutralise the enemy\".\n\nOvernight, families took shelter in Kyiv's metro stations as aerial attacks struck the city, including the densely populated Pozniake area, injuring at least eight.\n\n\"Putin, we want to see you slaughtered like an animal,\" one Kyiv resident told the BBC's Nick Beake.\n\n\"How we can live through it in our time?\" Oxana Gulenko asked Reuters as she cleaned up broken glass from one blast. \"What should we think. Putin should be burnt in hell along with his whole family.\"\n\nEarlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said no talks could be held until the Ukrainian military lays down its arms.\n\nMr Lavrov is also included in the EU's move to freeze personal assets - but it not clear whether he or President Putin have any significant assets in Europe.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky had earlier said Russia was seeking to \"destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state\".\n\n\"According to the information we have, the enemy has designated me as target number one. My family is target number two,\" he said.\n\nPresident Zelensky has vowed to stay in Kyiv and to continue fighting the attacks across Ukraine - which is coming from the north, south and east - ordering the call-up of conscripts and reservists in all of Ukraine's regions. The country's defence minister urged anyone able to hold a weapon to join the effort to repel Russia.\n\nThere have already been stories of immense bravery in the face of stark odds - including that of 13 border guards on a tiny island in the Black Sea who refused to surrender to a Russian warship and were massacred in a bombardment.\n\nPresident Zelensky said they would be given posthumous war hero honours.\n\nThursday also saw fighting around the site of the former nuclear power plant in Chernobyl. Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak said the nuclear site itself had been lost following a \"fierce battle\".\n\nOn Friday, Ukraine's nuclear agency said it was recording raised radiation levels in the area. A statement released by Russia's Ministry of Defence said levels were normal, adding an agreement had been reached \"to ensure security of the power plant and sarcophagus of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant\".\n\nUkraine says at least 137 people - civilians and soldiers - have been killed. Russia has not admitted any deaths, whilst both sides claim to have inflicted heavy losses on the other.\n\nA man walks past the wreckage of a plane in Kyiv\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin - who declared war in a dramatic televised address - has threatened any country attempting to interfere with \"consequences you have never seen\".\n\nThe UK, EU and other allies vowed to impose tough new sanctions to punish Moscow, but said they would not send in troops.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron held a telephone call with his Russian counterpart, in what was Mr Putin's first conversation with a Western leader in days, demanding an \"immediate halt\" to the offensive. The Kremlin, however, simply said the pair had a \"serious and frank exchange of views\".\n\nMr Zelensky, meanwhile, hit out at the European leaders' response.\n\n\"Like World War Two, you said never again, but here it is again and you're not doing enough to respond,\" he said.\n\nMany said it couldn't, wouldn't, happen. Not in 2022.\n\nFor weeks, Western officials analysing the intelligence warned of President Putin's plan to take Kyiv.\n\nFor weeks, I've asked Ukrainians in Kyiv about it, and ran it past every foreign and defence minister, every Russia-watcher I met at last weekend's security conference in Munich.\n\nIt just didn't make sense. Just didn't add up.\n\nAnd now, with every hour, Russian forces and fighting come ever closer to Kyiv.\n\nA city where Ukrainians tell all of us to \"call it Kyiv in Ukrainian, not Kiev in Russian\", a city which feels so European, is now in Moscow's sights.\n\n\"A failure of imagination\" is how former British intelligence chief Sir Alex Younger described it, adding \"we thought history had changed in 1991\" when the Soviet empire collapsed.\n\nSkip image gallery Tap or click to go through the gallery\n\nAre you in Ukraine? If it is safe to do so, tell us about your experiences of the recent events by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country was ready for a Russian attack, vowing, \"We will defend ourselves\".\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that Russia could start \"a major war in Europe\" any day now, and called on Russians to oppose it.\n\nIn a late-night address, he said he had unsuccessfully sought talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\n\"I initiated a telephone call with the president of the Russian federation. Result: silence,\" Mr Zelensky said.\n\nHe said Russia had almost 200,000 troops and thousands of combat vehicles on Ukraine's borders.\n\nAnd switching from Ukrainian into Russian, Mr Zelensky made an emotional appeal to Russians to reject an attack, saying they were being lied to about Ukraine.\n\n\"Who can stop (the war)? People. These people are among you, I am sure,\" he said.\n\nUkraine's leader said his country was ready for a Russian attack, vowing: \"If they [Russia] attack, if they try to take our county - our freedom, our lives, the lives of our children - we will be defending ourselves.\"\n\n\"As you attack, it will be our faces you see, not our backs,\" the Ukrainian president said.\n\nIt came as Russian troops, ordered into Ukraine's two rebel-held regions, were reportedly edging closer to the border.\n\nMoscow said the breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine had asked for military support.\n\nEarly on Thursday, Ukraine said it had restricted civilian flights in its airspace due to \"potential hazard\". The move followed warnings from the conflict zone monitor Safe Airspace, which said planes risked being shot down unintentionally or affected by cyber attacks.\n\nIt was not initially clear if the notice amounted to an outright ban on civilian flights. It is due to expire at 2359 GMT on Thursday, unless extended further.\n\nRussia has also issued a civil aviation notice warning that it is closing virtually all of eastern Ukrainian airspace on the border with Russia, according to a monitoring group.\n\nThe Open Source Intelligence Monitor says no \"limit or ending time\" has been provided so far by Moscow.\n\nThe United Nations Security Council is holding an emergency session from 02:30 GMT to discuss the deteriorating situation.\n\nUkraine has declared a state of emergency and told millions of its citizens living in Russia to return home. The 30-day emergency status allows authorities to adopt heightened security measures, including curfews.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Fear and frustration as families arrive in Russia from eastern Ukraine\n\nWestern countries have announced a series of sanctions against Russia since it tore up a 2014-15 peace deal for eastern Ukraine and recognised the so-called people's republics of Luhansk and Donetsk as independent states. Moscow's claims that troops would be sent in for \"peacekeeping\" operations have been rejected by the UN secretary-general and decried as nonsense by the West.\n\nRussia has been backing a bloody armed rebellion in eastern Ukraine for the past eight years. Some 14,000 people - including many civilians - have died in fighting since then.\n\nThe US has described Moscow's actions as marking the beginning of an invasion. A senior US defence official on Wednesday said Russian troops were \"uncoiled and ready to go\", with a large-scale invasion possible at any moment.\n\nFears of a Russian attack have been rising for months, with more than 150,000 troops massed along Ukraine's borders, according to US estimates.\n\nUkraine's state of emergency was overwhelmingly approved by lawmakers on Wednesday, and is now in force nationwide.\n\nIt introduces personal document checks, blocks military reservists from leaving the country, bans mass gatherings and places restrictions on radio communication systems. Kyiv's mayor said checkpoints would be set up in roads into the city, and access to government buildings would be restricted.\n\nUkraine earlier said it was ordering its citizens to leave Russia because \"escalating Russian aggression\" could limit consular assistance. As many as two million Ukrainians are believed to be living permanently in Russia and another one to two million more are thought to be staying there as migrant workers.\n\nThe military in Kyiv is also calling up all reservists aged 18 to 60 for a maximum of one year.\n\nUkraine's latest measures came as it was targeted by a large-scale cyber-attack on Wednesday, affecting government websites and banks.\n\nA minister told Interfax-Ukraine news agency that services for several Ukrainian institutions, including the health, security and foreign ministries, were taken offline in a denial of service (DDOS) attack. Such attacks aim to overwhelm websites by flooding a network with fake traffic and preventing it from communicating normally.\n\nIt is not clear if any Russian troops have yet crossed the border into Ukraine. However, US satellite imagery has highlighted several new troop and equipment deployments in western Russia, and more than 100 vehicles at an airfield in Belarus near Ukraine's border.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: On the front line of the Ukraine-Russia crisis\n\nOn Wednesday night, the Kremlin said Donetsk and Luhansk had asked Russian forces for protection, citing what it described as Ukrainian aggression.\n\nAnalysts have suggested the request could be a pretext for a full-scale invasion\n\nSeparatist leader Denis Pushilin last week accused Ukraine of planning an imminent offensive and ordered an evacuation of civilians.\n\nUkraine said no offensive had been planned and it later emerged Mr Pushilin's order had been recorded two days earlier.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has said his country's interests and security are non-negotiable while insisting that Moscow is \"open for direct and honest dialogue\".\n\nNo further talks are planned, with France's foreign minister and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken both cancelling planned meetings with Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov.\n\nEU leaders have been invited for an extraordinary summit in Brussels on Thursday to discuss the crisis, while UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the world was facing a \"moment of peril\" as he called for de-escalation.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will consider cutting off diplomatic ties with Russia altogether over the crisis.\n\nSkip image gallery Tap or click to go through the gallery\n• Ukraine is in Eastern Europe and shares a border with Russia. It used to be part of the Soviet Union but became an independent country in 1991.\n• It also borders several other countries that are members of Nato, a defensive military alliance formed after World War Two.\n• President Putin sees Ukraine as historically part of Russia. In 2014, Russia invaded Crimea, in the south of Ukraine, and continues to occupy it.\n• Since 2014, Russian-backed separatists and Ukraine’s armed forces have been fighting a war in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in which more than 14,000 people have died.\n• President Putin has now recognised the two regions held by the Russian-backed separatists as independent states and ordered Russian troops there, tearing up a peace deal.\n• On Thursday 24 February, President Putin authorised airstrikes across Ukraine and ordered his troops to advance into the country.\n\nAre you in Ukraine? Are you or your family affected? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please", "Mr Salmond has hosted a weekly show on RT since November 2017\n\nFormer First Minister Alex Salmond has suspended his talk show on Russian state broadcasting channel RT.\n\nHe had been under increased pressure to stop appearing on the channel because of the crisis in Ukraine.\n\nHis successor Nicola Sturgeon had said she was \"appalled\" that the show had continued and urged him to \"reflect\".\n\nAn episode was posted on the RT website on Thursday morning, but Mr Salmond has now said the show will end \"until peace is re-established\".\n\nHe insisted there had never been \"a single piece of editorial interference of any kind from RT\" in the programme.\n\nThe Alex Salmond Show launched on RT in 2017 as a weekly talk show produced by Slainte Media, a company set up by Mr Salmond and fellow ex-SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh.\n\nThere was criticism of the former SNP leader for appearing on the channel, which was described by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer as the \"personal propaganda tool\" of Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nOn Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government had written to broadcasting watchdog Ofcom asking for a review of RT's licence to broadcast in the UK.\n\nMs Sturgeon backed this, and said it was \"unthinkable\" that Mr Salmond's show would continue - adding that no SNP politicians would be allowed to appear on the channel.\n\nThere were calls for Mr Salmond to lose his position on the Privy Council - a group which advises the Queen - for his continued involvement with it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon has urged her predecessor Alex Salmond to re-think his involvement with Russian state broadcaster RT.\n\nThe programme did not air in its usual slot on Thursday morning, with RT running rolling news coverage of the Ukraine crisis.\n\nHowever the latest episode - a half-hour interview with former Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable - was posted on the RT website and adverts for it continued to appear on RT during the day.\n\nSir Vince later said he would not have appeared on the pre-recorded show had he known \"the invasion was about to happen\".\n\nMr Salmond said this show would be \"the last one broadcast until peace is re-established\".\n\nHe again insisted that RT had never interfered in the running of the production, hitting out at \"blatant attacks on freedom of speech from establishment political parties\".\n\nHe added: \"All wars come to an end. Let us pray that this one will not escalate even further. Now every single person's efforts should turn to supporting attempts to regain the peace.\"\n\nThe show's future was raised briefly at prime minister's questions on Wednesday, with Lib Dem MP Jamie Stone saying it was an \"absolute disgrace that an advisor to the Queen and former first minister of Scotland sees fit to broadcast his half-baked world views week after week on Russian television\".\n\nMr Johnson said this was a \"brilliant, powerful question with which I think the whole House assented\".\n\nMr Salmond now leads the Alba Party, and its MP Neale Hanvey defended in him in the Commons on Thursday saying negotiations had been \"happening in the background\" about halting the show.\n\nMr Johnson replied that \"these pleas in defence and mitigation don't cut much ice with me\".", "Working from home for part of the week has become the norm for some employees, a survey of managers has suggested.\n\nMore than 80% said their firms had adopted hybrid working - most since the pandemic, a survey for the Chartered Institute of Management (CMI) found.\n\nBut senior leaders are also actively encouraging employees to return to the workplace, a majority of managers said.\n\nThe institute said firms should embrace hybrid work as \"best practice\".\n\n\"It would be very short sighted of bosses not to see some correlation in the shift in the working world, and the move towards hybrid [working],\" said CMI chief executive Ann Francke.\n\n\"We are experiencing an uptick in productivity, and an uptick in many companies results. We're not saying everyone should work from home 100% of the time, we're saying the best practice is to have a blend, so when you come into the office you can do those things that are very difficult to do remotely.\"\n\nThe survey for the professional body, exclusively shared with the BBC, found that 84% of managers said their firms had adopted hybrid working and two-thirds said this had been prompted by the Covid pandemic.\n\nLarge companies were more likely than small ones to have brought in hybrid working practices, while jobs in factories, transport and trades were less likely to offer the option.\n\nThe survey found that firms offered staff flexibility to choose which days they came into the office.\n\nWork from home guidance in England, which was put in place in December to try to curb the spread of the Omicron variant, was lifted in January.\n\nSimilar guidance was relaxed in Scotland, but remains in place in Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nAs Covid restrictions have eased, commuter numbers have risen.\n\nBut more than a fifth of train services that were running before the Covid pandemic have not returned.\n\nThe survey polled 1,237 managers, with 41% working in the private sector, and 59% the public and non-profit sectors.\n\nAoife Fitzmaurice, chief of staff at Sage, which provides accounting, payroll and payment systems, plans to keep hybrid working in place.\n\nWhile there was \"huge demand\" from employees to have the option to work from home, Ms Fitzmaurice said they were also \"missing the human connection\".\n\nMs Fitzmaurice explained that a \"framework of flexibility\" was necessary so that agreements could be made by each team to set the \"sweet spot\" of a combination of home and office work.", "Facebook has been accused of colluding with OnlyFans to blacklist rival adult websites in a lawsuit filed in the US.\n\nThis week, BBC News revealed that OnlyFans was being sued over claims it directed a social media company to disable accounts of adult entertainers by placing their content on a terrorism database.\n\nFacebook has now been named as the company alleged to have conspired with OnlyFans in a class action filing. Its parent company, Meta, says the claims are \"without merit\".\n\nUK website OnlyFans - best known for hosting pornography - has grown hugely in recent years. It lets users share video clips and photos with subscribers in return for a monthly fee.\n\nPerformers often use social media accounts to promote and link to adult websites showing their explicit content.\n\nOn Tuesday, BBC News revealed that rival adult website FanCentro is suing OnlyFans in the US.\n\nThe legal action claims that social media content of adult performers promoting rival websites to OnlyFans was placed on a database of extremist material shared between tech companies that is run by the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT).\n\nThe database - used by Facebook, YouTube and Twitter - flags terror content to other members so they can moderate similar content on their platform.\n\nOnlyFans has not yet issued a legal response but a spokesperson said the company was aware of the claims and they had \"no merit\".\n\nNow, a class action lawsuit has been launched which names Facebook as the company accused of colluding with OnlyFans.\n\nDo you have more information about this story?\n\nYou can reach Noel directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +44 7809 334720 or by email at noel.titheradge@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe lawsuit, made on behalf of three adult entertainers, lists both Facebook and OnlyFans' parent company as defendants. It was made by the same US legal firm, Milberg, which is suing OnlyFans directly.\n\nThe filing claims that performers' content was placed on the GIFCT's database despite not being terrorist in nature, and this led to reduced visibility on social media and a marked decline in traffic being driven to OnlyFans' rival websites.\n\nPerformers who only promoted their OnlyFans accounts on social media did not face this punitive content moderation - it is alleged - leading to a big growth in traffic visiting the website.\n\nIn recent years, performers using Instagram to promote and link to their adult websites have complained that even though they have not broken the site's community guidelines - they have been served with violation notifications and had posts removed.\n\nThe subsequent loss of visibility and promotion of these accounts became known as a \"shadowban\".\n\nBBC News has spoken to a performer and adult website owner who say their incomes fell significantly after posts on Instagram - also owned by Meta - began being taken down in late 2018.\n\nBoth say they do not know how or why this happened. The performer says some of her posts - which typically feature her in a bikini or underwear - included tourist snaps when she was fully clothed.\n\nIn a statement, a Meta spokesperson said: \"These allegations are without merit and we will address them in the context of the litigation as needed.\"\n\nIt said it had investigated and found no evidence the terrorism database had been abused, and added it could not comment on the performer and business owner claims without their usernames or website names.\n\nContent hashed on the database run by the GIFCT is not independently audited.\n\nIn a statement, a GIFCT spokesperson said: \"We are not aware of any evidence to support the theories presented in this lawsuit between two parties with no connection to GIFCT.\"\n\nArtwork uses stock photos (Getty Images) posed by models - design by Zoe Barthomolew\n\nDo you have any information to share? Reach Noel directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +44 7809 334720 or by email at noel.titheradge@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Emma Caldwell's body was found in May 2005\n\nA man has been arrested over the murder of Emma Caldwell, nearly 17 years after her body was found in woods in South Lanarkshire.\n\nIain Packer, 49, was arrested in connection with her death on Thursday morning.\n\nMs Caldwell had been a sex worker in Glasgow's red-light district when she disappeared on 4 April 2005.\n\nThe 27-year-old's body was found five weeks later, 40 miles away in woods near Roberton in South Lanarkshire.\n\nPolice later said the arrested man had been charged, and was due to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday.\n\nThe unsolved case was reopened in 2015 following consideration by senior lawyers in the Crown Office and campaigning by Emma's mother Margaret.\n\nPolice Scotland said the arrest was made in the Glasgow area on Thursday following significant inquiries by detectives from the Major Investigation Team.\n\nSenior Investigating Officer, Det Supt Graeme Mackie, said: \"Police Scotland officers have undertaken a significant amount of work re-investigating all the circumstances surrounding Emma's death following instruction from the lord advocate in 2015.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a complex and challenging investigation and I would like to thank everyone involved for their efforts in getting us to this point of a man being arrested earlier today.\n\n\"Emma's family, in particular her mother Margaret, have shown incredible resilience and determination since her death in 2005 and I would like to pay tribute to that today.\n\n\"We have remained in close contact with them during this investigation and officers have updated Margaret on this significant development.\"\n\nSolicitor Aamer Anwar read out a statement on behalf of Emma as he sat beside her mother Margaret at a media briefing following the arrest.\n\nHe said that Margaret and her family were \"truly grateful to the detectives at Police Scotland and the Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain's team who have worked tirelessly in reinvestigating the murder of Emma since we met with the then Lord Advocate in 2015\".\n\nHe added: \"I also wish to pay tribute to Margaret Caldwell, a mother who through the love of a child has never given up in her struggle for justice.\n\n\"The investigation into Emma's death continues and her family would urge anyone with information, no matter how insignificant they might think it is, to please come forward and speak to Police Scotland.\"", "Keeping the Commons and Lords in Parliament while the building is refurbished around them could drive up costs of the multi-billion restoration by at least 40%, according to the most extensive study yet.\n\nMany MPs, including new Commons leader Mark Spencer, argue repair works should continue with MPs, peers and staff still working there.\n\nBut a new report said that would mean dramatic increases in both the time needed to complete the work, and the total cost.\n\nThe review, by the body set up to oversee the project, estimates the basic cost of essential repairs to the Victorian Palace of Westminster at £7-13 billion.\n\nIt said these works would take between 19 and 28 years, with the building fully vacated for between 12 and 20 years.\n\nBut the key finding is that those figures would dramatically increase if the politicians stay put.\n\nIf the Commons chamber were kept running until MPs are relocated to another venue within the building (probably the House of Lords chamber, which they used for much of World War Two after their own chamber was bombed), the works would be prolonged by 7-15 years.\n\nThe report found this would increase costs to £9.5-18.5 billion, or 40%.\n\nIf the Commons chamber were kept in action throughout the works, the time required was estimated to increase by 27-48 years, with the cost ballooning to £11-22bn, a 60% increase.\n\nThe range in the estimates reflects the continuing uncertainties over the state of the building, even after extensive surveys.\n\nLike any restoration project, the real extent of the work can only be gauged when floorboards are lifted and walls are exposed.\n\nThese figures would only increase with VAT and inflation thrown in, the report found - with increased risks of a catastrophic failure, like a fire, or a flood of sewage if politicians stay put.\n\nThe essential repairs cover things like asbestos removal, improved fire safety, renewing wiring, plumbing and data systems, as well as dealing with the backlog of conservation work in the world-heritage building and improving security and accessibility.\n\nEssential work on the parliamentary estate would include replacing old cabling\n\nThis is a very live debate in Parliament, with senior voices arguing strongly both for moving out - \"decanting\" in Commons-speak, and staying put.\n\nMPs voted in 2019 to accept the principle of vacating the building while the restoration work was completed, but the rising projected cost and the increasing duration of their period of exile have produced a backlash.\n\nMany believe the money cannot be justified to their constituents, and hate the idea of moving out for such a long period.\n\nThe House of Commons Commission, the administrative body of the Commons, has voted for the Restoration and Renewal Sponsor Body, which is supposed to act as the \"client\" in the project, to be scrapped, and for MPs to take back control.\n\nBut that would require a vote in the Commons, and given the sums of money involved, the government would be forced to take an interest in what is, theoretically, a \"House Matter\".\n\nThis could get very messy - watch out for questions to Mark Spencer on the issue, from influential MPs on both sides of the argument.", "The Russian armed forces dwarf those of Ukraine - and they have much more hardware and air power\n\nHow hard will it be for Ukraine to defend itself now that an attack by Russia has begun? Ukraine is outgunned and outnumbered right across the board - after significant investment and modernisation in Russia's armed forces by President Putin.\n\nDr Jack Watling, of the Royal United Services Institute, says: \"I think the Ukrainians are in a very difficult position.\" He's just returned from Ukraine and says the country's military leaders now face some \"very hard choices\".\n\nWestern officials estimate that Russia had up to 190,000 troops on Ukraine's border - far more than Ukraine's entire regular army of 125,600.\n\nRussian forces are already crossing the border from multiple directions.\n\nThe military airport at Chuhuyev near Kharkiv was among targets hit first by Russia\n\nUkraine will find it hard to defend thousands of miles of its frontier - from Belarus in the north all the way down to Crimea in the south. If you think of Ukraine as a clock face, the Russians can mount attacks from 10 o'clock to 7 o'clock.\n\nBen Barry, of the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) and a former British Army brigadier, says it's a \"very difficult position for a defender\".\n\nAdded to that, Ukraine is being threatened in multiple directions and their forces are \"spread pretty thinly\", Jack Watling of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) says.\n\nBut the real disparity between Russian and Ukrainian forces is in the sky.\n\nUkraine has 105 combat aircraft on the border compared with Russia's 300, Mr Watling says. The Russians, he predicts, \"will very quickly gain air superiority\".\n\nRussia's advanced air defence systems, such as S-400 missiles, also gives its forces an advantage. In contrast, Ukraine has older and more limited air defences.\n\nMr Watling gives the example of Israel being able to defend itself from multiple directions. But he adds it's only been able to do so because of its superiority in the air. That's something Ukraine simply doesn't have.\n\nMoscow has developed its own version of \"shock and awe\" with integrated air, missile and long-range rocket artillery, says Ben Barry.\n\nIt allows the Russians to attack Ukraine's command and control centres, ammunition depots, air force and air defences from far away.\n\nThat already appears to have begun, with cruise missile attacks on targets near the capital Kyiv.\n\nMr Watling says the Russians have a very significant arsenal of modern weapons and capabilities that Ukraine doesn't have an answer to - like the Iskander cruise and ballistic missile systems.\n\nUkraine has recently received supplies of \"lethal aid\" from the US and the UK, but these are mostly short-range air-to-air missiles and anti-tank weapons.\n\nWith Russia's air superiority and long-range weapons, the danger for Ukraine's forces is that they'll soon be pinned down.\n\nUkraine's forces could be stopped from being able to manoeuvre and reposition to face the Russian advance from any other direction, Mr Watling believes.\n\nMany of Ukraine's best trained and equipped units are in the east of the country - near the line of control in Luhansk and Donetsk - where there's been fighting since 2014.\n\nWestern intelligence officials have told the BBC there's a real worry that Russia could try to encircle them.\n\nHowever, Ukraine's armed forces are better trained and equipped than they were when Russia invaded Crimea.\n\nMr Barry says units and soldiers have gained useful battle experience from the fight with Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country.\n\nBut he adds they've mainly been involved in linear trench warfare and the demands of \"manoeuvre warfare\" will be much harder.\n\nRussia's forces are able to move quickly with mobile rocket and missile launchers and air defences. Russian troops, too, have been battle hardened from its invasion of Crimea, and in Syria.\n\nIf the fighting enters Ukraine's towns and cities then that might give Ukraine's forces a chance.\n\nA well prepared defender can make urban fighting difficult and bloody for any attacker - as shown in Stalingrad in World War Two and more recently in Mosul in Iraq.\n\nA woman cleans her damaged house after artillery fire from an area of Donetsk under the control of Russian-backed rebels\n\nBen Barry believes that Russian forces may initially try to bypass towns and cities. But he believes it's very unlikely that the Russians can avoid urban combat, not least in Kyiv given its political significance.\n\nJack Watling says if Ukraine can defend its cities properly then they might be able to hold out for quite a long time.\n\nBritish-supplied light anti-tank weapons (also known as NLAWs) may help in close combat where Ukrainian forces can move around using the cover of buildings. An unknown number of civilians could also take up arms.\n\nRussia cannot just rely on airstrikes and artillery to control towns and cities.\n\nBut Mr Watling says Russia already has agents and operatives on the ground. He says \"there will be subversion and unconventional operations in Kyiv to try and destabilise the government\". Russia, he adds, will also try to encircle cities and use long-range artillery to target pockets of resistance and then try to use special forces and agents to \"essentially murder civil society leaders\".\n\nUkraine is now fighting for its survival.\n\nIt's been engaged in combat with Russian-backed forces in the east for the past eight years, but the threat is now an existential one for the entire country.\n\nHaving just visited Ukraine, Mr Watling says there is a \"grim determination to survive as a country, but there is a recognition that they are overmatched and that it's going to be exceedingly bloody\".\n\nSkip image gallery Tap or click to go through the gallery", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Footage from Ukraine shows explosions, a missile strike and a helicopter under fire\n\nRussian forces have launched a major assault on Ukraine, firing missiles on cities and military targets.\n\nThe invasion by land, air and sea began after a pre-dawn TV address where Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that Ukraine's military lay down its arms.\n\nInitial reports of casualties included Ukrainian civilians and soldiers, and Russian troops.\n\nUkraine's leader said his country \"won't give up its freedom\".\n\n\"Russia has embarked on a path of evil, but Ukraine is defending itself,\" President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted.\n\nUkraine has declared martial law and severed all diplomatic relations with Russia. It says weapons will be given to anyone who wants them.\n\nIn the capital Kyiv, home to almost three million people, warning sirens blared out as traffic queued to leave the city and crowds sought shelter in metro stations. \"We don't understand what we should do now,\" one woman called Svetlana told the BBC. \"We're now going to a place where we can be safe and we hope we can leave safely.\"\n\nMark, a 27-year-old sales executive, said he was ready to be called up to fight. \"We don't have another way,\" he said.\n\nSeveral neighbouring countries have begun preparations to take in a large number of refugees. Moldova alone said more than 4,000 people had come over the border from Ukraine.\n\nThursday's invasion followed weeks of escalating tensions, as Russia massed troops along Ukraine's borders.\n\nThe UK, EU and other Western allies have vowed to impose tough new sanctions to punish Moscow, but say they will not send in troops.\n\n\"These are among the darkest hours of Europe since the Second World War,\" EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said.\n\nDozens of people have been killed, including about 10 civilians. Six died in an air strike in Brovary near the capital Kyiv. A man was also killed in shelling outside the major north-eastern city of Kharkiv.\n\nA Ukrainian presidential adviser said that more than 40 soldiers had died and many more were wounded. Ukraine said it had killed 50 Russian troops and shot down six Russian aircraft, but this has not been verified.\n\nMr Zelensky said Russia had positioned almost 200,000 troops and thousands of combat vehicles on Ukraine's borders ahead of Thursday's invasion.\n\nMoscow first struck Ukraine's military infrastructure and border guard units. Then Ukrainian forces said Russian military vehicles had crossed the border near Kharkiv in the north, Luhansk in the east, Russian-annexed Crimea in the south and from Belarus too. Belarus's authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko said his country's military were not involved but could be if needed.\n\nRussian tanks were later seen on the outskirts of Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million people. Russian forces also reportedly landed by sea at Ukraine's major port cities of Odesa on the Black Sea and Mariupol on the internal Sea of Azov.\n\nMuch of the fighting appears to be centred around the east.\n\nResidents of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, say windows in apartment blocks were shaking from constant blasts as the Ukrainian military and Russian forces exchanged shellfire.\n\nBut clashes have have also been taking place around the capital Kyiv in the north and the southern ports of Odesa and Mariupol.\n\nUkraine's army said Kyiv's Boryspil international airport was among a number of airfields that had been bombed, along with military headquarters and warehouses in the big cities of Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv and Mariupol.\n\nFootage verified by the BBC showed missiles slamming into an airport in the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk.\n\nRussia claimed to have destroyed more than 70 military targets.\n\nThe Russian leader launched the \"special military operation\" by repeating a number of unfounded claims he has made this week, including alleging that Ukraine's democratically elected government had been responsible for eight years of genocide.\n\nPresident Putin announced the military attack on Ukraine in a pre-recorded TV address\n\nHe said the goal was demilitarisation and \"denazification\" of Ukraine. Hours earlier Ukraine's president had asked how a people who lost eight million of its citizens fighting Nazis could support Nazism. \"How could I be a Nazi?\" said Mr Zelensky, who is himself Jewish.\n\nMr Putin also warned that any outside power intervening on Ukraine's behalf would face an \"instant\" response.\n\nNeighbouring countries have reacted to the crisis.\n\nIn the Baltic republic of Estonia, which borders Russia, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said a number of Nato allies that shared borders with Russia had agreed to launch consultations under Nato's Article 4. Under the defensive alliance's treaty, Nato can be brought together if any member fears their independence or territory is under threat.\n\n\"Russia's widespread aggression is a threat to the entire world and to all Nato countries,\" she said.\n\nAs cars queued on Ukraine's border with Moldova, the country's pro-EU president, Maia Sandu said she was declaring a state of emergency and was prepared to give help to tens of thousands of Ukrainians. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda also said he was signing a state of emergency to be approved by parliament.\n\n\"President Putin, in the name of humanity, bring your troops back to Russia,\" said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.\n\nUkraine's Western allies had repeatedly warned that Russia was poised to invade, despite repeated denials from Moscow. The US, EU, UK and Japan imposed sanctions against leading Russians, Russian banks and MPs who backed the move.\n\nIn a televised address, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the \"hideous and barbaric venture by Vladimir Putin must end in failure\".\n\nAddressing Russians, he said: \"I cannot believe this is being done in your name, or that you really want the pariah status it will bring to the Putin regime.\" He told Ukrainians that the UK was \"on your side\".\n\nUS President Joe Biden said the world would hold Russia accountable. He is expected to address Americans on Thursday about consequences Russia will face.\n\nFrance's President Emmanuel Macron said the attack would have \"deep, lasting consequences for our lives\".\n\nThere are long queues as Kyiv residents try to leave\n\nEarlier this week Russia's president announced he was recognising the independence of two self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.\n\nThe breakaway regions were seized by Russian-backed rebels after Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. Mr Putin launched that attack after mass street protests in Ukraine that ousted pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.\n\nSince then more than 14,000 people have died in the east in a conflict between the rebels and Ukrainian forces. A shaky ceasefire had held but there has been a surge in violations in recent days.\n\nMr Putin said the military operation's objective was to defend the people in the breakaway areas.\n\nKyiv and its Western allies have repeatedly rejected as absurd Mr Putin's claims that Ukraine was being run by neo-Nazis, instead pointing out that Ukraine was now a nation with growing democratic institutions, unlike an authoritarian Russia.\n\nFears of a Russian attack have been rising for months.\n\nMr Putin has repeatedly accused the US and its allies of ignoring Russia's demands to prevent Ukraine from joining the Nato military alliance and offer Moscow security guarantees.\n\nSkip image gallery Tap or click to go through the gallery\n\nAre you in Ukraine? Are you or your family affected? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Boris Johnson tell MPs that the UK will squeeze Russia from the global economy\n\nMajor Russian banks will be excluded from the UK financial system and oligarchs have been targeted in new sanctions announced by Boris Johnson.\n\nThe prime minister told the House of Commons they were \"the largest and most severe package of economic sanctions that Russia has ever seen\".\n\nRussia's national airline Aeroflot will also be banned from landing in the UK.\n\nIt follows Moscow's invasion of Ukraine which began with air strikes in the early hours of Thursday morning.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a \"bloodstained aggressor\" who would \"stand condemned in the eyes of the world and of history\" for invading Ukraine.\n\nAnnouncing the measures, the prime minister said the UK and its allies had \"tried every avenue for diplomacy until the final hour\", but he believed Mr Putin had always been determined to attack Ukraine.\n\nMr Johnson said the G7 group of world leaders had agreed to work in unity to \"maximise the economic price that Putin will pay for his aggression\".\n\nHe also confirmed that sanctions would be applied to Belarus for its role in the assault on Ukraine.\n\nThose being targeted by sanctions include five people deemed to be part of Mr Putin's \"inner circle\", the Foreign Office said in a statement issued after Mr Johnson's announcement.\n\nThese include Mr Putin's ex-son in law Kirill Shamalov who was previously married to his daughter Katarina and is Russia's youngest billionaire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: How Russia's invasion of Ukraine unfolded on day one\n\nOther targets include Petr Fradkov, head of the recently sanctioned Promsvyazbank and son of the former head of Russian Foreign Intelligence.\n\nBusinesses targeted include Rostec, Russia's biggest defence company, Tactical Missile Corporation, Russia's leading supplier of air and sea missiles, and Uralvagonzavod, one of the world's largest tank manufacturers, the Foreign Office said.\n\nIt also said it was moving to cut off wealthy Russians' access to UK banks, including a £50,000 limit on bank deposits.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK and its allies' mission was to ensure through diplomatic, economic, and eventually military means that the \"hideous and barbarous venture of Mr Putin\" ended in failure.\n\nThe prime minister chaired his second emergency Cobra committee of the day on Thursday evening, followed by a cabinet meeting.\n\nHe told cabinet that the Ukrainian military was fighting back in \"defiance of Putin's attempts to subjugate Ukraine\" and that advisers had given an \"ominous assessment\" of the next few days.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss said the UK would \"not rest until Russia's economy has been degraded and Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity restored\".\n\nThe new measures expand the sanctions that were announced by the UK government on Tuesday, which included targeting high-net worth individuals and Russian politicians who voted to declare Donetsk and Luhansk independent.\n\nA number of MPs and defence experts said those measures had not gone far enough.\n\nOn Thursday, US President Joe Biden also announced sanctions against Russia, including against its banks and people who \"personally gained from the Kremlin's policies\".\n\nThere was plenty of criticism that Western sanctions in the days leading up to this invasion did not go far enough, fast enough.\n\nThese new measures will hit the Russian economy much harder. But there are still potential gaps. The prime minister said sanctions will take place against major Russian banks. But one, Sberbank, was not mentioned.\n\nAnd the Ukrainian government wanted more - in particular moves to disconnect Russia from the international payment system known as Swift. The US and the UK back such a move, but some European countries fear it could damage their own banks.\n\nSuspending Russia from Swift is still under consideration, but the hesitation is a reminder that in a globalised world all sanctions tend to have an impact on the countries imposing them as well\n\nAnd the real trouble with sanctions is they don't work quickly. They do increase pressure, and they can do damage.\n\nBut the international community is not trying to damage the Russian economy just for the sake of it. It wants economic pressure to force a change in President Putin's political and military calculations.\n\nMeanwhile, the invasion of Ukraine continues.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he welcomed the sanctions outlined by Mr Johnson, and pledged opposition support for further measures.\n\nBut he said there were changes that must be made in the UK.\n\n\"For too long our country has been a safe haven for money Putin and his fellow bandits stole from the Russian people\" he said.\n\nConservative former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said that while sanctions are \"extremely welcome\" they should not only be economic and called for a \"fundamental review of our military capability\".\n\nConservative MP Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee, urged Mr Johnson to take action against those \"enabling Putin's economy\" - including individuals who sit on the boards of the businesses which finance the Russian president's regime.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the West \"cannot be complacent any longer\" and called for a reversal of proposed troop cuts to the Army.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford called for the \"complete economic isolation of Russia\", including \"clearing up the sewer of dirty Russian money\" in London and suspending Russia from the Swift payment system.\n\nOn Thursday morning Russian forces launched an assault on Ukraine, crossing its borders and bombing military targets near big cities.\n\nUkraine has announced martial law across the country, meaning the military has taken control temporarily.\n\nTraffic jams have built up as people attempt to flee the capital Kyiv.\n\nMeanwhile, the Home Office has said it will allow some Ukrainian nationals in the UK to extend their visas.\n\nThose eligible for points-based work visas will be allowed to extend their stay or to switch from visitor visas and seasonal agricultural workers will have their visas automatically extended until the end of 2022.", "Severe warnings, meaning danger to life, for people living in flood-hit River Severn areas, have been removed.\n\nThe warnings were issued for Ironbridge in Shropshire and Bewdley in Worcestershire on Monday.\n\nA major incident was declared for those areas and defences at Beales Corner in Bewdley were breached on Tuesday, with dozens of properties evacuated.\n\nFlooding continues to cause disruption elsewhere in Worcestershire.\n\nMany routes around the city centre closed on Thursday morning, however, the majority of businesses have been open and the city's Light Night festival is set to take place later.\n\nWater levels will stay high in Worcester in the short term but the peak has passed, the Environment Agency (EA) says.\n\nTwenty seven flood warnings along the river remain on Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said areas \"experiencing flood impacts\" could expect things to stay the same for the next two days.\n\nIt added while more rain was due, there would not be \"huge amounts\".\n\nLevels peaked in the early hours of Wednesday morning at 21.65ft (6.6m) in Ironbridge\n\nThis is the fourth consecutive year Bewdley has flooded, with temporary flood defences breached during Storm Christoph in January 2021.\n\nPlans for permanent flood defences at Beales Corner are under way, the EA says.\n\nThe main bridge over the Teme in Tenbury, Worcestershire, has been reopened following Wednesday's closure to allow for the removal of flood debris.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. River Severn flooding in Shropshire seen from the air\n\nIronbridge saw rescues and evacuations earlier this week as rain brought by recent storms saw the Severn rise in Shropshire too. A severe warning for the town was removed on Wednesday evening.\n\nLike Bewdley, flooding in Ironbridge has become a regular occurrence, with one community leader calling it \"the new normal\".\n\nThe leaders of Shropshire Council and Telford & Wrekin Council have issued a joint statement asking the government for emergency funding to support the local flooding response.\n\nCouncillors Lezley Picton and Shaun Davies also called for urgent action to provide both short term and long term solutions to flooding problems.\n\n\"We need an urgent River Severn conference with government ministers and all interested partners and representatives of key stakeholders to put plans in place that will stop this annual cycle of misery for our residents and businesses,\" Mr Davies said.\n\nMs Picton added: \"Flooding is becoming the new normal, so our residents and businesses need to be more protected and better prepared.\"\n\nShropshire Council asked people thinking of driving into Shrewsbury town centre to use park and ride services instead\n\nElsewhere in the county, major routes into Shrewsbury have reopened, but the bus station remains shut because of an electrical fault although it will reopen on Friday, officials said.\n\nShropshire Council said for safety, temporary bus terminals would be used at Abbey Foregate, by Theatre Severn and New Park Road.\n\nThe theatre will provide an extended park-and-ride service for theatre ticketholders until 19:30 GMT and resume at 21:30.\n\nDue to \"the significant reduction in town centre parking\", the authority asked people to use the park-and-ride system. Raven Meadows, St Julian's, Frankwell Main, and Frankwell Riverside car parks have been closed.\n\nTrains between Shrewsbury and Newtown were cancelled, with a replacement bus service offered.\n\nThe line between Shrewsbury and Hereford is open following a landslip.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Heavy snow has fallen in parts of Northern Ireland, especially across counties Fermanagh, Tyrone, Londonderry and Antrim.\n\nA Met Office warning for snow and lightning ended at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but an ice warning remains until 09:00 on Friday.\n\nSeveral schools closed on Thursday and there was some disruption to bus and rail services.\n\nThere were reports of thunder and lightning to the west of Fermanagh.\n\nReports suggested that 7cm of snow was lying in the Sperrins and about 3cm at lower levels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA small number of schools in counties Londonderry, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Antrim closed.\n\nThere was some disruption and delays due to lying snow, reduced visibility in the heavy snows showers and ice.\n\nOn Thursday morning, Translink said its Ulsterbus services were subject to delays and some cancellations due to the snow, \"particularly on rural roads\".\n\nOn its website, Translink also warned that disruption to its services would continue into Friday.\n\nA lorry gritted the streets in Crumlin ,County Antrim, after heavy snow on Thursday\n\nTranslink added that it was working hard to keep services operating and apologised to customers for any inconvenience.\n\nIt added: \"Passengers are advised to allow extra time for their journeys and to keep up to date with timetable information through Translink's social media channels, journey planner and contact centre.\"\n\nAll buses, including local, school and express services, were suspended in Dungannon for a period of time while some minor routes in Ballymena and Londonderry were also not serviced.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs advised the public not to visit forests, country parks and nature reserves in affected areas while the weather warning was in place.\n\nDifficult driving conditions could be experienced in Omagh, County Tyrone, due to the snow\n\nThe Met Office yellow weather warning explains there could be a risk that some rural communities could be cut off, while there is a small risk that some buildings and structures could be damaged.\n\nIt also informs the public there is \"a small chance of injuries and danger to life from lightning strikes\".\n\nSheep sheltered from the Snow in Crumlin, County Antrim", "I was awake at night when I got a message from a colleague about Vladimir Putin's speech announcing an invasion.\n\nThen immediately the explosions began. I could hear them from my home, and people in different parts of the city started sending messages to our WhatsApp group, about explosions happening close to them.\n\nTo realise that Kyiv itself was under attack, not the front line in the east of the country, was a big shock.\n\nThere is no safe place in Ukraine any more.\n\nThe biggest fear for ordinary people here is running out of electricity and the internet not working - then we would be really isolated. Another fear is that bridges over the Dnieper river will be bombed, dividing the eastern and western halves of the city.\n\nThe explosions continued for about 30 minutes.\n\nI dressed my 10-year-old son. We had some breakfast, sitting as far from the windows as we could, but he was so scared he vomited. We took a candle and some water to our cellar, which will be our refuge if things get worse.\n\nThere are huge queues outside the supermarkets near my home and at ATMs, many of which have run out of money. Some petrol stations too have now run out and closed. There is an air of panic, now that we know the entire country is under attack.\n\nThe roads out of the city are blocked with traffic, but it's a perilous journey - sitting in long, slow-moving queues of traffic you could easily run out of fuel far from home. Trains are operating, but there are big crowds of people trying to get a seat. Ukrainian airspace is closed, under the martial law introduced by President Zelensky.\n\nIt's not only military targets that have been destroyed - we have photographs of residential buildings in a number of cities around the country that have taken direct hits.\n\nThe Russian bombardment has affected all regions of the country. Even in Lviv, close to the Polish border, sirens went off this morning and a colleague had to take refuge in a bomb shelter.\n\nOne colleague has taken his family out of Kyiv in the hope of avoiding the attacks from the air. The countryside may be safer than the city, but in a country under attack from north, east and south, there is no truly safe place here any more.\n\nThe traffic gridlock as residents flee Kyiv - it's a perilous journey", "Jamal Edwards helped to launch the careers of the likes of Ed Sheeran (pictured), Dave, Skepta and Jessie J\n\nEd Sheeran has paid tribute to Jamal Edwards, the late music entrepreneur and YouTube star, saying he played a big role in helping to forge his pop career.\n\nTributes flooded in earlier this week, after news broke of the death of the influential 31-year-old.\n\nPosting on Instagram on Wednesday evening, Brit Award-winner Sheeran said he \"would not be here without him\".\n\n\"Jamal is my brother,\" wrote Sheeran, alongside a picture of the two of them.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSheeran added that Edwards, who also helped to launch the careers of stars like Dave, Skepta and Jessie J, \"only used it to illuminate others and never asked for anything in return\".\n\n\"A stars light shines for millions of years after they go, and his will continue to light up every dark moment, we are all witnessing his power,\" he continued.\n\n\"I would not be here without him, professionally and personally.\n\n\"There will never be anything close to what he is, but I'm so grateful to have existed within his orbit.\"\n\nJamal Edwards wrote a book in 2013 called Self Belief: The Vision: How to Be a Success on Your Own Terms\n\nEdwards gained fame after setting up the trailblazing grime and rap music platform SBTV in 2006. His company confirmed his death to the BBC on Sunday, saying he had died that morning.\n\nHis mother, singer and TV presenter Brenda Edwards said he \"passed away after a sudden illness\", adding that she was \"completely devastated\".\n\nOn Wednesday, the Loose Women star shared a family picture of her enjoying a laugh with her late son, and daughter Tanisha, at a photoshoot.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by brendaedwardsglobal This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier this week, Prince Charles paid tribute to Edwards for his work for The Prince's Trust.\n\nDave simply wrote: \"Thank you for everything. Words can't explain\", while fellow rapper AJ Tracey said he was a \"legend\".\n\nAt a vigil in his native west London, fans and friends also paid their respects.\n\n\"He was the hero of Acton. He was the guy who showed you could make it out without being a drug dealer, without getting involved in crime or anything,\" Zachary Thomas told the BBC.", "Stars including Cheryl, Gurrumul, Sir Paul McCartney, Peter Kay and Sir Elton John appeared at the Diamond Jubilee concert a decade ago\n\nA ballot for tickets to a star-studded concert at Buckingham Palace, to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, opened to the public on Thursday morning.\n\nTen thousand free tickets are now available for the Platinum Party at the Palace on 4 June.\n\nThe ballot, announced on Wednesday, will close at 23:59 on 23 March.\n\nGeorge Ezra is the first performer to be named on the line-up, which the BBC said it would range from \"pop stars to rock royalty to opera singers\".\n\nThere will be a full live orchestra, while \"stars from film, TV and the stage will also tell the story and celebrate some of the most significant cultural moments from the Queen's reign\", a statement said.\n\nGeorge Ezra said it was \"an incredible honour to be asked\" to perform\n\nFive thousand pairs of tickets will be available via the event's official website. Some tickets will also be handed out to selected charities.\n\nThe show will take place in front of the palace and will be broadcast live on BBC One and Radio 2.\n\nIt will be among the celebrations to mark the Queen becoming the first British monarch to reign for 70 years.\n\nCharlotte Moore, the BBC's chief content officer, said in a statement: \"The Platinum Party at the Palace is set to be one of the highlights of Her Majesty The Queen's landmark Jubilee festivities weekend and one of the biggest concerts in a generation.\n\n\"The BBC is honoured to be bringing every moment of this live event to millions watching and listening at home, and on outdoor screens across the UK and around the world.\"\n\nRobbie Williams, Kylie Minogue and Sir Elton John performed at a Diamond Jubilee concert in 2012, while Queen guitarist Brian May famously played on the roof of Buckingham Palace at a concert 10 years earlier to mark 50 years on the throne.\n\nThe latest announcement comes after the palace confirmed on Sunday that the 95-year-old monarch had tested positive for Covid and was experiencing \"mild cold-like symptoms\".", "Debbie Leitch was found dead at her home in Blackpool\n\nA mother who starved her daughter to death has been jailed for nine years and seven months.\n\nDebbie Leitch, 24, who had Down's syndrome, died at her home in South Shore, Blackpool, on 29 August 2019.\n\nA post-mortem examination found she died of neglect and severe emaciation with extensive scabies skin infection.\n\nHer mother Elaine Clarke, 49, pleaded guilty to gross negligence manslaughter 10 days before she was due to stand trial at Preston Crown Court.\n\nSentencing Clarke, Mrs Justice Yip said Miss Leitch's condition had \"deteriorated dramatically\" in the months leading up to her death.\n\n\"Nothing was done to halt her decline. Debbie was starved, her scabies was allowed to run out of control, she became more and more weakened until she died,\" she said.\n\n\"In her last days, she was denied even the most basic care and dignity.\n\n\"Anyone entering her room and seeing her towards the end of her life could have been left with no doubt that her life was in real danger.\"\n\nThe judge said Clarke \"ignored that risk and left Debbie to die in her squalid room\".\n\nThe court heard Clarke, of Garden Terrace in South Shore, had received weekly benefit payments of £215 to care for her daughter.\n\nA family member who visited the house in July 2019 and went into Miss Leitch's room later told police the room smelled of filth and had plates of mouldy food on the floor.\n\nMiss Leitch's cousin told the court Clarke had \"always been a lazy and selfish mother\"\n\nA few weeks later the same family member returned to the property where Miss Leitch's skin condition had worsened again, with the relative later telling police she appeared \"half-dead\" and her room \"resembled a horror movie\".\n\nShe was so concerned she phoned Miss Leitch's doctor who made a home visit but had no safeguarding concerns as she was sitting on the sofa and had been showered.\n\nSocial services attended the address twice on 29 July 2019, but were prevented from entering.\n\nA third visit on 1 August 2019 \"noted nothing of concern\", police said.\n\nIn January, Blackpool Council confirmed a formal safeguarding adults review will take place.\n\nMiss Leitch weighed 10st 1lb (64kg) when she lived in Leeds in 2016, but only weighed 3st 10lb (24kg) at the time of her death.\n\nThe court heard the scene that greeted emergency services was \"truly shocking\", as Miss Leitch's face was \"completely encrusted with scabs and thickened skin, such that she was no longer recognisable as being a young female\".\n\nLancashire Police said Clarke knew her daughter had died by about 20:00 but waited before calling 999, with paramedics arriving at 22:40.\n\nThe court heard Miss Leitch had died some time between eight and 36 hours before the ambulance crews attended.\n\nIn a victim statement read out to the court, Miss Leitch's cousin Sammy Muggridge said her death had had \"a profound effect on me and my family\".\n\n\"All she wanted was the love and affection of her mother,\" she said.\n\nShe said Clarke had \"always been a lazy and selfish mother\", who would \"buy handbags and shoes, but would not get out of bed\".\n\nShe added that the last time she saw Miss Leitch was in her bedroom and the \"stench of death\" in the room would \"live with me forever\".\n\nSpeaking after sentencing, Det Ch Insp Lee Wilson said the death was \"wholly avoidable\" and Clarke was \"truly a despicable individual\".\n\nHe said Miss Leitch \"craved affection and love\" from a mother \"she clearly doted on and loved\".\n\n\"That support was coldly withheld as Clarke prioritised her own needs,\" he added.\n\n\"When she knew visitors were coming from social services, or local doctors, Clarke would tidy up, wash Debbie and make it appear all was well. When they left, she would leave Debbie in her room, often crying, calling for her mummy.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government wants to stop a BBC programme that alleges an MI5 agent is a dangerous extremist and misogynist, who abused two former female partners.\n\nA High Court judgment published on Thursday revealed details of the previously-secret legal battle over whether the story can proceed.\n\nMr Justice Chamberlain said parts of the case must be heard in public.\n\nA full hearing of the attorney general's request for an injunction against the BBC begins on 1 March.\n\nSummarising the proposed story, Mr Justice Chamberlain said: \"The BBC wants to broadcast a programme about an individual, \"X\".\n\n\"The programme is to include the allegations that X is a dangerous extremist and misogynist who physically and psychologically abused two former female partners.\n\n\"[The BBC will allege] that X is also a covert human intelligence source (variously referred to as a 'CHIS' or an 'agent') for the Security Service, MI5, that X told one of these women that he worked for MI5 in order to terrorise and control her - and that MI5 should have known about X's behaviour and realised that it was inappropriate to use him as a CHIS.\n\n\"The BBC says that the broadcast of this story, and the identification of X by name, is in the public interest.\"\n\nThe judge said that the Attorney General, Suella Braverman QC, was seeking an injunction to prevent the BBC from broadcasting the programme while, at the same time, neither confirming nor denying in public whether X has ever worked for MI5.\n\n\"She submits, however, that irrespective of the truth of the allegation, the BBC's proposed broadcast would involve a breach of confidence... create a real and immediate risk to the life, safety and private life of X and damage the public interest and national security.\n\n\"The Attorney has also made clear that there would be no objection to a broadcast making allegations about MI5's use and management of agents without naming or otherwise identifying X or any particular individual.\n\n\"Nor would there be any problem with a broadcast making allegations about the conduct and dangerousness of X without identifying him as an alleged MI5 agent.\"\n\nMr Justice Chamberlain said he had not been convinced by arguments from the attorney general that he should ban the media and public from attending court.\n\nInstead, parts of the case will be heard behind closed doors under a legal procedure designed to allow the UK's intelligence agencies to provide evidence to a judge, and other parts of the case will now be heard in public.\n\nThe judge said this decision was influenced by the government's failure so far to dispel the possibility that it had been the source for quotes in the Daily Telegraph warning about the BBC's intentions.\n\n\"The fact that a government source, whether acting with or without authority, appears to have briefed the press about this case has an impact on the extent to which it is necessary to sit in private to secure the proper administration of justice,\" said the judge.\n\n\"It would in principle be unfair to allow one party to put its own spin on a case without allowing the other party to put before the public even the basic factual elements of its defence.\n\n\"The question of damage to national security... has to be considered against that background.\"", "The Poland-Ukraine border. Poland is setting up reception points for expected refugees\n\nMajor Western nations have reacted with outrage at Russia's invasion of Ukraine, accusing it of bringing war back to Europe.\n\nFrance's Emmanuel Macron said this was a \"turning point in the history of Europe\", with the G7 group of nations vowing to impose severe sanctions.\n\nIn eastern Europe, the fears extended to coping with a wave of refugees.\n\nBut China bridled at the word invasion and joined those nations focusing more on their citizens' safety.\n\nUkraine says Russia is carrying out a full-scale attack from many directions, but the details of the assault and the number of casualties are not yet clear.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has spoken of a \"special military operation\" aimed at the demilitarisation and \"denazification\" of Ukraine, but his overall goals also remain unclear.\n\nThe uncertainty has not stopped an angry and defiant response from Western allies.\n\nA largely united voice spoke out with condemnation and promises of sanctions.\n\nUS President Joe Biden said: \"President Putin has chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering.\"\n\nEuropean Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Mr Putin was \"responsible for bringing war back to Europe\".\n\nUK PM Boris Johnson said Mr Putin had \"chosen a path of bloodshed and destruction\" with an \"unprovoked attack\".\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz also reacted angrily, calling this \"Putin's war\" and saying the Russian leader would pay a \"bitter price\" for his \"serious error\".\n\nThe G7 - the US, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada - vowed in a joint statement to bring forward \"severe and co-ordinated\" sanctions.\n\nThe EU bloc will have more of them, which Ms Von der Leyen said would \"weaken Russia's economic base and its capacity to modernise\".\n\nBut there remains huge concern at what could happen next.\n\nOne German minister spoke of a \"land war in Europe that we thought was only to find in history books\", while another, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, said Germany would help neighbours if there was a \"large-scale influx\" of refugees.\n\nThat concern is also shared by Ukraine's neighbours, but many were also scrambling to shore up their own security.\n\nThe president of Lithuania, a Nato member, said he was going to impose a state of emergency.\n\nA similar decree has been issued by Moldova further south. Dozens of cars were reportedly queuing on the border with Ukraine, with Moldova saying it would accept tens of thousands of refugees.\n\nRomania said it could take half a million.\n\nPoland is setting up reception points for refugees. It told Russia to end its attacks and leave Ukraine alone.\n\nGeorgia - which fought Russia in 2008 over disputed regions - backed Ukraine, saying the Russian attack would have \"dire consequences\" for the international community.\n\nRussia's ally, Belarus, said it was not taking part in the military action, but would consider it if asked. Belarus has hosted Russian troops during the crisis, and they crossed from the country into Ukraine as part of the attack.\n\nUkraine has asked Nato member Turkey to close the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits to Russian ships.\n\nTurkey will consider the request but shares friendly ties with both nations, and said it was \"sincerely saddened\" that they had come \"face-to-face\".\n\nThere has been a lot of interest in how China would respond. Its initial response was to call the word invasion a \"typical Western media question method\", with the foreign ministry saying \"we won't go rushing to a conclusion\".\n\nChina and Russia now have a strategic partnership aimed at countering US influence, sealed when Mr Putin and President Xi Jinping met just before the Winter Olympics in Beijing.\n\nChina told its citizens in Ukraine to fly a Chinese flag to try to protect themselves.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Footage from Ukraine shows explosions, a missile strike and a helicopter under fire\n\nUnited Nations chief, António Guterres, urged Vladimir Putin to halt the attack \"in the name of humanity\".\n\nA US-led draft resolution will demand Russia leaves Ukraine \"immediately, completely, unconditionally\", although Moscow has the power to veto it.\n\nSouth Korea condemned the attack, saying it would join international economic sanctions.\n\nAnd Australia will expand those it has already enforced. There must be \"a cost for this violent, unacceptable and egregious behaviour\", Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.\n\nIndia has focused on trying to keep its citizens inside Ukraine safe, although media reported that PM Narendra Modi could talk later to Mr Putin in a possible role as mediator.\n\nIran called for a political solution, with its foreign minister blaming Nato provocations for the Ukraine crisis.", "Students who start university next year could be paying off their loans for 40 years after graduating, under new government plans for England.\n\nUnder the current system, loans are written off after 30 years.\n\nThe government says extending the repayment period, as part of a student finance shake-up, will reduce the bill for taxpayers.\n\nBut Labour says it will \"hit those on low incomes hardest\", with lower-earning graduates affected more.\n\nThe plans - part of a response to the 2019 Augar review of post-18 education - apply to students in England starting courses from September 2023.\n\nThe government has also said:\n\nThe government is proposing these changes because more students than ever are going to university, and only 25% of those who started full-time undergraduate degrees in 2020 are expected to pay back their loans in full.\n\nThe average debt among those who finished studying in 2020 was £45,000, government figures suggest.\n\nAnd at the end of March 2021, £161bn was yet to be paid back in student loans - a figure forecast to rise to £500bn by 2043.\n\nBy requiring graduates to start paying back at £25,000, and to continue paying for an extra 10 years, the government hopes more will repay their loans in full.\n\nThe proposal to slash interest rates follows a 2019 Conservative manifesto pledge to reduce \"the burden of debt on students\".\n\nHaya, Sonal and Maryam will leave school later this year.\n\nIn Hounslow, west London, a group of Year 13 students are weighing up who's got the best deal - pupils like Sonal and Maryam, who are hoping to go to university this year, or those who, like Haya, are taking gap years and starting university in September 2023.\n\n\"It's quite unfair because she's going to uni one year later and this policy has come in quickly and out of the blue,\" says Sonal.\n\n\"The debt's going to be a long time,\" adds Haya.\n\nBut for Maryam, there are \"no winners from the situation\".\n\n\"If [people in Haya's year] have to pay for an extra 10 years, but we have to pay every year with extra interest, it raises the question: 'who actually pays the most?'\" she asks.\n\nMaryam thinks some good can come of the government's focus on ending growth of what it has called poor quality degrees.\n\nHowever, all three are worried about the idea of minimum grades being needed in order to receive student loans - and Sonal is particularly concerned about people who speak English as a second language.\n\n\"If they come into the country and they take their GCSEs when their English is still not that good... they're at a disadvantage,\" she says.\n\nUnder the current system, students' interest is RPI plus up to 3% while they are at university, and varies depending on income from the April after they graduate.\n\nThe government says its plans would mean a student enrolling on a three-year course at the end of next year could see their debt reduced by up to £11,500 - if and when they earn £25,000.\n\nEducation Secretary Nadhim Zahawi said £900m of investment was being reinforced by reforms to make student finance \"fairer\".\n\nAt an event on Thursday, hosted by the Centre for Policy Studies, he said: \"The cost of higher education is rising, so we want to ensure that the student loans system is on a sustainable footing, so that it provides that value for money for the student but also for the taxpayer.\"\n\nStart paying earlier, pay longer, pay more: that's what these plans will mean for many.\n\nHardest hit will be middle earners paying longer - while the most highly-paid graduates are the biggest winners.\n\nThese high earners already pay off their loans in full, but currently pay interest of up to 3% plus the RPI after university. That will fall to just RPI, for all students and graduates.\n\nThe highest lifetime earners will pay back 26% less under the new system.\n\nSo while this will reduce the bill to taxpayers from unpaid loans, it carries political risk for a government promising to level up.\n\nIn turn, that creates a potential space for Labour to reframe its policies around tuition fees and maintenance grants, to appeal to future students.\n\nAsked at the same event about the impact on middle earners, Universities Minister Michelle Donelan told the BBC: \"It will mean that any student graduating in the future won't pay any more in real terms than we've borrowed. Because that's fair.\"\n\nMs Donelan urged students to contribute to a consultation announced on Wednesday on plans, for England, to:\n\nShe said any minimum eligibility requirements would aim to stop students being pushed \"towards university before they're ready for it\", adding that the government was capping the cost of foundation years to assist students.\n\nMs Donelan denied there would be any \"cap\" on student numbers, but said there were \"pockets of some poor quality in our universities\" and that the government was considering \"targeted student number controls for individual courses just to stop them from growing at the expense of high quality courses\".\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson called the changes to student finance a \"stealth tax for new graduates starting out on their working lives, which will hit those on low incomes hardest\".\n\n\"Instead of fixing the broken system, these changes simply store up problems for the future,\" she said.\n\nMs Phillipson added: \"Instead of focusing on supporting more students to succeed at school or widening access to university, the government is slamming the door on opportunity.\"\n\nSir Philip Augar, who chaired the 2019 review, said the plans were \"consistent with the spirit of the report\" and form \"the basis of a properly connected further and higher education sector\".\n\n\"That connection is long overdue,\" he added.\n\nBut Association of School and College Leaders general secretary Geoff Barton pointed out the government's plans \"stop some way short\" of the recommendations in the Augar review, which included reducing tuition fees to £7,500 per year and reintroducing maintenance grants.\n\n\"This latter omission is particularly disappointing in terms of improving social mobility and access to university,\" Mr Barton said.\n\nHe welcomed the steps to reduce interest rates - but added the plans would come \"with a sting\" because of the lengthier payment window.\n\nThe government is also consulting on plans for a Lifelong Loan Entitlement, which would make loans worth the equivalent of four years of post-18 education (£37,000 in today's fees) available to students at any stage in their lives.\n\nMs Donelan also confirmed the government would not be introducing post-qualification admissions - an idea that had been under consultation and which would have meant university offers were made after students had received their A-level or equivalent grades.", "A group of Conservatives have urged the UK government not to abandon its plans to ban imports of foie gras and fur.\n\nThe BBC revealed on Saturday that the measure is likely to be dropped from a new law, amid opposition from some cabinet ministers.\n\nBut in a letter to the Times, a group including six Tory MPs said the products were cruel and a ban should go ahead.\n\nThe government said no final decisions have been made.\n\nBut sources have previously said the measures are likely to be shelved for now, provoking anger among animal welfare campaigners.\n\nBritish farmers are already banned from producing foie gras, a liver-based luxury French food opposed by campaigners because it is made by force-feeding ducks or geese.\n\nFur farming has also been illegal in the UK since 2000, but campaigners have long been pushing for an import ban on fur farmed abroad.\n\nA UK import ban was meant to be included in the Animals Abroad Bill, one of three laws the government says will boost animal welfare.\n\nBut cabinet ministers opposing a ban include Brexit opportunities minister Jacob Rees-Mogg, who believes ministers should not restrict consumer choice.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace has also raised concerns about banning the bear fur used by some British soldiers in ceremonial uniforms.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis also said a ban might not be allowed in Northern Ireland, which continues to follow product rules from the EU - where foie gras is traded freely - under the UK's Brexit deal.\n\nThe Grenadier Guards wear hats made from the fur of Canadian black bears\n\nIn their Times letter, the Conservatives argue fur and foie gras production involved \"inhumane practices\" that are \"rightly banned in the UK\".\n\nThey wrote that products derived from \"such cruel industries\" should also not be allowed - and said polling showed the public support an import ban.\n\n\"It is right to limit the choice of a tiny minority of consumers when failing to do so causes great harm,\" they added.\n\n\"Fur and foie gras bans would uphold a commitment to high animal welfare standards both here and overseas.\"\n\nThe letter was signed by Tory MPs Bob Blackman, Tracey Crouch, Louie French, Sir Roger Gale, Tim Loughton, and Chris Loder - as well as Tory peer Lord Randall of Uxbridge and former Tory MEP John Flack.\n\nIt was also signed by the co-founders of the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation - a pressure group that counts the prime minister's father Stanley Johnson and his wife Carrie Johnson among its prominent backers.\n\nEnvironment minister Zac Goldsmith, another supporter of the group, told the Guardian this week the public is \"strongly in favour of measures to curb the fur trade and foie gras\".\n\nHe added: \"There are some who view the issue as a matter of personal choice, but no one would extend that principle to things like dog-fighting or bear-baiting, so it's not clear why fur farming or force-feeding geese, which arguably are associated with far greater levels of cruelty, should be any different.\"\n\nThe government said it was committed to \"world-leading\" reforms \"at home and abroad\" as part of its action plan for animal welfare.\n\nA spokesperson added that a summary of responses to a recent call for evidence on the current fur sector would be published soon.", "A missile sparked a fireball as it hit Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport in western Ukraine.\n\nRussian forces have launched a major military assault on the country, with reports of missile strikes and explosions near several cities.", "Russia has ordered its troops into east Ukraine, but western governments believe Moscow may be planning a much bigger invasion, to take over the whole country.\n\nThe UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said: \"We think they have a huge preparation ready to go.\n\n\"Everybody can see what the potential routes in are.\"\n\nMilitary analysts agree that with up to 190,000 troops near the Ukraine border, Russia has a range of options, should it decide to strike.\n\nRussian president Vladimir Putin has recognised two Russian-backed regions in east Ukraine, the self-styled Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, as independent states.\n\nHe has ordered troops into the two regions to \"maintain peace\".\n\nIf Mr Putin decides his troops should go further than the two regions, they may head for Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, according to Seth Jones of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.\n\nAn advance through Melitopol to the south would create a land bridge between Rostov in Russia and Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.\n\nRussia could also strike from Belgorod, where thousands of troops have been gathering for months. From there, the cities of Kharkiv and Kremenchuk are likely targets.\n\nBen Barry of the International Institute for Strategic Studies says a ground war would involve \"powerful armoured columns with concentrated artillery support to attempt to advance fast into the depth of Ukraine\".\n\nHe says even a limited operation in the east could involve the bombing of air defences and other key military command infrastructures elsewhere in the country.\n\nTroops have been taking part in exercises near Rostov-on-Don\n\nA Russian strike from the east might be helped by Russian-backed separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk.\n\nThey are thought to number about 15,000. Ukraine says the number is higher.\n\nIf Russia's goal is full regime change in Ukraine, an assault from the north is highly possible, according to Michael Kofman, of the US-based Center for Naval Analyses (CNA).\n\nRussia has 30,000 troops in Belarus for extended joint military exercises, equipped with Iskander short-range missiles and a number of rocket launchers, as well as Su-25 ground attack aircraft and Su-35 fighters.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Johnson said that he had seen intelligence suggesting that Russia was planning an attack from Belarus.\n\nHe said it would see a Russian advance \"coming down from the north, coming down from Belarus, and encircling Kiev itself\".\n\nThe exercises in Belarus have been extended indefinitely.\n\nTo the east, just inside Russian territory, \"Russia's entire 41st army is waiting on the border\", says Mr Kofman.\n\nAn advance on Kyiv from Belarus may avoid the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.\n\nOn the Russian side, it could come from Novye Yurkovichi and Troebortno, according to Mr Jones.\n\nA breakout from Crimea is \"almost certain\" if Russia launches an invasion, according to Mr Barry, a former British military planner.\n\nA Russian advance towards Kyiv from Crimea could strand large numbers of Ukrainian troops east of the Dnieper river, he says.\n\nWith Russian forces to their west, east and north, and in Crimea, Ukrainian troops would be encircled.\n\nRussian troops may try to take Kherson and Odesa to their west and Melitopol and Mariupol to the east - another option for creating a land bridge between Crimea and western Russia.\n\nAn advance from Crimea could also involve naval forces currently in the Black Sea.\n\nRussian landing ships in the area are capable of deploying personnel, armoured vehicles and main battle tanks.\n\nAnalysts emphasise that it's possible that any Russian advance could involve a number of routes simultaneously, allied to cyber-attacks, disinformation warfare and missile strikes.\n\nThey say Russia's most limited option might be to launch significant cyber-attacks on Ukraine, aiming to paralyse key infrastructure without taking territory.\n\nMr Kofman believes Russia has \"maximalist aims\" and is highly likely to strike deep into Ukraine.\n\nBut in the end, says Mr Kofman, the exact details of any attack will depend on Moscow's political objectives.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia has begun a large-scale military attack on Ukraine, its southern neighbour, on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThere are reports of attacks on Ukrainian military infrastructure across the country, and Russian convoys entering from all directions.\n\nHere is what we know so far.\n\nIn a televised speech at 05:55 Moscow time (02:55 GMT), Mr Putin announced a \"military operation\" in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. This area is home to many Russian-speaking Ukrainians. Parts of it has been occupied and run by Russian-backed rebels since 2014.\n\nMr Putin said Russia was intervening as an act of self-defence. Russia did not want to occupy Ukraine, he said, but would demilitarise and \"de-Nazify\" the country.\n\nHe urged Ukrainian soldiers in the combat zone to lay down their weapons and go home, but said clashes were inevitable and \"only a question of time\".\n\nAnd he added that any intervention from outside powers to resist the Russian attack would be met with an \"instant\" and devastating response.\n\nBBC correspondents heard loud bangs in the capital Kyiv, as well as Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. Blasts have also been heard in the southern port city of Odesa.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had carried out missile strikes on Ukraine's infrastructure and on border guards.\n\nRussia's defence ministry has denied attacking Ukrainian cities - saying it was targeting military infrastructure, air defence and air forces with \"high-precision weapons\".\n\nTanks and troops have poured into Ukraine at points along its eastern, southern and northern borders, Ukraine says.\n\nRussian military convoys have crossed from Belarus into Ukraine's northern Chernihiv region, and from Russia into the Sumy region, which is also in the north, Ukraine's border guard service (DPSU) said.\n\nBelarus is a long-time ally of Russia. Analysts describe the small country as Russia's \"client state\".\n\nConvoys have also entered the eastern Luhansk and Kharkiv regions, and moved into the Kherson region from Crimea - a territory that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.\n\nThe Russian offensive was preceded by artillery fire and there were injuries to border guards, the DPSU said.\n\nThere have also been reports of troops landing by sea at the Black Sea port cities of Mariupol and Odesa in the south. A British resident of Odesa told the BBC many people were leaving.\n\nAbout 10 civilians are believed to have been killed, including six in an air strike in Brovary near the capital Kyiv. A man was also killed in shelling outside the major eastern city of Kharkiv.\n\nA Ukrainian presidential adviser said that more than 40 soldiers had died and dozens more were wounded. Ukraine said it had killed 50 Russian troops.\n\nThe Ukrainian armed forces said they had shot down five Russian planes and a helicopter - which Russia denies - and inflicted casualties on invading troops.\n\nBut later on Thursday President Zelensky said Ukraine had suffered losses and a lot of aircraft and armoured vehicles had been destroyed.\n\nRussia said it has destroyed more than 70 military targets in Ukraine.\n\nMuch of the fighting appears to be centred around the east of the country. But clashes have also been taking place around Kyiv and the Black Sea port cities of Odesa and Mariupol.\n\nUkraine said its Antonov aircraft had been shot down near Kyiv\n\nUkraine has declared martial law - which means the military takes control temporarily. It has cut diplomatic ties with Russia, offered weapons to anyone who wants them and declared an overnight curfew for Kyiv.\n\nMeanwhile Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba implored the world to impose devastating sanctions, including banning Russia from the international Swift bank transfer system\n\nIn Kyiv there are huge jams on expressways as people flee the city.\n\nSocial media testimonies speak to a growing sense of panic, with some saying they are being rushed into bomb shelters and into basements. Television footage has showed people praying in the streets.\n\nMany people in Kyiv have sought shelter in underground metro stations. There were long queues at petrol stations and cash machines.\n\nResidents have been sheltering in metro stations\n\nFurther east in Kramatorsk, in the eastern Donetsk region, the BBC's Eastern European Correspondent Sarah Rainsford said people did not expect such a full-on assault.\n\n\"People were out on the streets last night in this city - they were waving the Ukrainian flag. They said this was their land. They were going nowhere,\" she reported.\n\n\"This is what people have been expecting, they have been waiting for, but no-one here can quite believe it's actually happening.\"\n\nOil prices surged above $100 for the first time in more than seven years.\n\nMeanwhile Russia's currency, the rouble, fell to an all-time low against the dollar and the euro.\n\nAnd the London Stock Exchange's leading FTSE 100 index plunged more than 200 points, or 2.7%, within moments of opening.\n\nPeople have driven across fields to leave the eastern city of Kharkiv\n\nUS President Joe Biden said Mr Putin had \"chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering\".\n\nHe said he would address Americans on Thursday about consequences Russia would face.\n\nUKPrime Minister Boris Johnson said that the \"hideous and barbaric venture by Vladimir Putin must end in failure\".\n\nAddressing Russians, he said: \"I cannot believe this is being done in your name, or that you really want the pariah status it will bring to the Putin regime.\" He told Ukrainians that the UK was \"on your side\".\n\nNato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg condemned Russia's \"reckless attack\" saying it \"puts at risk countless civilian lives\".\n\nEurope was \"facing its darkest hours since World War Two\", EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.\n\nHowever former US President Donald Trump says Mr Putin took advantage of American \"weakness\".\n\nHe called Fox News to say that he didn't believe that Putin \"wanted to do this, initially\".\n\n\"I think he wanted to do something and negotiate, and it got worse and worse, and then he saw the weakness,\" Trump said.\n\nSkip image gallery Tap or click to go through the gallery\n\nAre you in Ukraine? Are you or your family affected? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk.", "Household energy bills could top £3,000 a year in England, Wales and Scotland from October, in part due to the Ukraine crisis, a report has warned.\n\nThe bank Investec said the conflict, along with surging global demand, had made gas and electricity prices soar.\n\nIt expects the energy price cap, which limits what suppliers can charge, to hit £3,238 a year for the average home when it's next adjusted in October.\n\nThe cap is already due to rise by £693 to £1,971 in April.\n\nInvestec analyst Martin Young said a further rise in October, which would impact about 22 million households in England, Wales and Scotland, would be \"devastating\".\n\nHe said such an increase would \"plunge many people into fuel poverty\", with many facing an \"eat or heat dilemma in the winter season\".\n\n\"Absent sharp and significant declines in wholesale prices, we expect a significant jump in the cap in October,\" he said.\n\nUK gas and electricity prices have been rising for months, due to surging global demand following the end of pandemic restrictions.\n\nHowever, Investec said prices had risen even higher following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and would remain elevated for months.\n\nRussia is the world's largest natural gas exporter, and there are concerns western sanctions could push President Vladimir Putin to \"weaponise\" his resources and constrict supplies to Europe.\n\nThat would drive up wholesale prices worldwide, including in the UK, which gets little of its gas from Russia directly.\n\nNathan Piper, oil and gas analyst at Investec, told the BBC: \"Disruption to the flow of gas [from Russia to Europe] would result in extremely high prices with no real alternatives.\n\n\"So, we were tight in Europe with domestic production declining and the invasion of Ukraine has raised stakes higher.\"\n\nEnergy bills have soared in the last six months due to a record increase in global gas prices.\n\nIt has led to almost 30, mostly smaller energy firms, going bust due to suppliers being unable to deliver price promises and has affected 4.3 million domestic customers.\n\nIt has come at time when the prices of food, manufactured goods and fuel are also soaring, squeezing household budgets.\n\nThe UK inflation rate is currently at a 30-year high of 5.5%.\n\nApproval of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, running from Russia's Baltic coast to north-eastern Germany, has been put on hold because of the invasion of Ukraine\n\nThe government has said millions of households will receive energy bill discounts totalling £350 from October to ease the crisis.\n\nHowever, £200 of this will be repayable, and Mr Young called the support \"little more than a poorly disguised loan\".\n\n\"Energy is likely to intensify as a political crisis for the government,\" he said.\n\n\"We suggest that a return to the drawing board is necessary to ensure support is there for those that need it, and if this means tough decisions for the chancellor then these decisions must be made.\"", "Thomas and Daniel had been due to be born a day earlier\n\nA mum who gave birth to twins on the 22nd day of the second month of 2022 says the date has to be lucky.\n\nLaura, 30, and her partner Jon, 38, from Fleckney, Leicestershire, became parents of two boys - Thomas and Daniel - on 22/2/22 - which was celebrated on social media as \"Twosday\".\n\nThe boys - Thomas and Daniel - had been due to be delivered a day earlier but there was a delay at the hospital.\n\nLaura said the boys, born just before 37 weeks, were doing really well.\n\nThe boys were due to be delivered by Caesarean on Monday but the operation at Leicester Royal Infirmary was pushed back.\n\nThe twins were born just before 37 weeks\n\nLaura said her step-daughters had already mentioned how good it would be if the twins were born on 22 February.\n\nShe said she thought she was \"never going to get to that date\".\n\n\"It's got to be good luck hasn't it? To have twins on all the twos - on a Tuesday as well,\" she said.\n\nLaura and the twins are still in hospital but she said they were doing \"really well\"\n\nA second baby, Kioyn, was born at the same hospital on the same day at 14:02 GMT - or 2:02pm.\n\nHis father Frederick, 37, said his son's timing made him a \"special child\".\n\nHe had been due to be born by Caesarean on Friday but his delivery was brought forward.\n\nFrederick said his new son was a \"very good boy\"\n\nFrederick said he and his wife, from Newbold Verdon, Leicestershire, had not realised the significance of the new date until after their son was born.\n\n\"We were just excited. The date didn't really matter to us,\" he said.\n\n\"They are doing well. Kioyn is a very good boy. He's been sleeping all night and he doesn't cry at all.\"\n\nThe couple already have two daughters and Frederick said he was now \"the happiest man you can imagine\".\n\nFiona Ford, midwifery matron at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, said: \"It's always a privilege being part of the team bringing new babies into the world but it's extra special to think those born on Tuesday will share such a unique date of birth.\n\n\"And we were lucky enough to have twins, and one baby born at 2:02pm - what are the chances?\n\n\"Congratulations to all of the families.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Twins thought to be UK's most premature to survive", "Schools in Northern Ireland are exempt from laws outlawing religious discrimination\n\nThe exemption of teachers from fair employment legislation \"is no longer appropriate or required,\" according to a Catholic bishop.\n\nBut Bishop Donal McKeown told Stormont there were concerns the move could be used as a \"Trojan horse\" to remove a Catholic ethos in schools.\n\nHe said it was \"bizarre\" to assume everyone was either Catholic or Protestant in 2022.\n\nPrevious research from Ulster University (UU) has suggested relatively few Protestant teachers are employed in Catholic schools or Catholic teachers in many controlled schools.\n\nTeaching unions, a number of assembly members (MLAs) and the former first minister Arlene Foster have previously criticised the exemption.\n\nBut both Bishop McKeown and the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS) told MLAs on Stormont's executive committee that they supported its removal.\n\nThe Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act in 1976 exempted teachers and clergy as \"the essential nature of the job requires it be done by a person holding, or not holding, a particular religious belief\".\n\nThat was maintained in the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order (FETO) 1998.\n\nThe exemption allows schools to use religious background or belief in deciding which teachers to recruit, and also means schools have no legal obligation to monitor the community background of their teaching staff.\n\nAlliance MLA Chris Lyttle has put forward a private member's bill proposing the exemption is removed.\n\nBoth Bishop McKeown, representing the Catholic Schools' Trustee Service, and CCMS chief executive Gerry Campbell told MLAs they supported the removal of the exemption.\n\nBishop Donal McKeown says the bill must not be \"Trojan horse\" to affect Catholic schools' ethos\n\nBishop McKeown claimed \"there's never been any suggestion that I know of that a teacher failed to be appointed to a Catholic school because of their religion or political opinion\".\n\n\"The trustees of Catholic schools and CCMS continue to believe that the values and ethos of a Catholic education are critical to the identity of a Catholic school but we consider that the exemption in the 1998 order is no longer appropriate or required,\" he said.\n\n\"All that legislation at that stage in the 1998 time always worked on the assumption everybody was Catholic or Protestant.\n\n\"That's a bizarre assumption for any political decisions in 2022.\n\n\"However, the trustees and CCMS will want to have the right to promote our ethos and will want to ensure that the ethos and values of Catholic education continue to permeate those schools.\n\n\"We will of course wish to negotiate the post-FETO arrangements but I think we have the right to expect that all teachers understand and are committed to the ethos of the Catholic schools in which they wish to teach.\"\n\nWhen questioned by the committee chair, SDLP MLA Sinead McLaughlin, Bishop McKeown said, though, that there was concern the removal of the exemption could be used as \"a Trojan horse in order to try to remove any ability of Catholic schools to say they are different in their ethos from other sectors\".\n\n\"As long as boards of governors are entitled to say 'do you understand the ethos of this school and are you prepared to work within that and support it?' we have no need whatever to say that you appoint someone just because of their perceived religious affiliation,\" he added.\n\nBishop McKeown also said some teachers in Catholic schools may continue to need a certificate in Religious Education depending on their role.\n\nDUP MLA Diane Dodds said \"we have got to the stage where most people believe the exemption doesn't sit easily with a modern Northern Ireland\".\n\nThat was echoed by Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan who called it \"an anachronism that should be done away with\".\n\nBut Ulster Unionist MLA John Stewart asked CCMS why teachers applying to be a principal in a Catholic school could be ranked on their commitment to Catholic education?\n\nPatricia Carville, from CCMS, replied that was \"under review\".\n\nStormont would have to change the law to remove the exemption of teachers from fair employment legislation\n\nChief executive of CCMS Gerry Campbell said the world was \"a different place than what it was 45 years ago\".\n\n\"Things have moved on,\" he said.\n\n\"We do believe that the landscape has totally changed, it's a different world we live in now from 1976 and indeed from 1998.\"\n\nHowever, the Stormont assembly would have to change the law to remove the exemption of teachers from fair employment legislation.\n\nMLAs are also due to resume debates on a proposed Integrated Education Bill on Thursday.\n\nThe bill, brought forward by Alliance MLA Kellie Armstrong, has attracted both support and opposition from schools, MLAs and others.\n\nThe Governing Bodies Association, which represents 50 voluntary grammar schools in Northern Ireland, has said it has \"serious concerns\" about the bill.\n\n\"If enacted, this bill will create significant disparities in terms of levels of support, resourcing, training, and funding and lead to unfairness for the majority of our children and young people,\" they claimed in a statement on Thursday.", "Jason Kenny, Great Britain's most successful Olympian of all time, has retired to take up a coaching job with British Cycling.\n\nThe 33-year-old won seven gold medals and two silvers between 2008 and 2021.\n\n\"A massive part of me would love to continue and try to get to Paris and I'm a little bit sad in a way to not do that,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"The opportunity at British Cycling to be a coach might not be there in three years. I thought I'd take it now.\"\n\nKenny, who was knighted in the New Year Honours list, won team sprint gold in Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016, individual sprint in 2012 and 2016 and the keirin in 2016 and Tokyo 2020.\n\n\"That keirin in Tokyo was special to me,\" he said. \"It was an amazing race. If you could pick one to end on, that would always be. That did play a small part in it. That will be my last ever race, to finish on something so special on the last day of the Olympics.\"\n\nThat win made him the most successful cyclist in Olympic history from any country. He also won silver in sprint in 2008 and team sprint last year.\n\nHis wife, Laura Kenny, 29, who was also made a Dame in the New Year Honours, is the joint most decorated female athlete for Team GB, with five golds and one silver medal.\n\nWhy has he made the decision now?\n\nKenny had previously said he was \"not very optimistic\" of being at Paris 2024 because of injuries.\n\n\"It's a combination of things,\" he told the BBC. \"The opportunity came up at British Cycling to be a coach and it's something I wanted to do when I stopped anyway and it might not be there in three years so I thought for the sake of three years, I don't know if I can do three more years anyway, I thought I'd take the opportunity now.\n\n\"I'm really sad. It's all I've ever known is racing and training. I'm sad on that front but excited to start this new journey.\n\n\"It's a step into the unknown. I've worked with amazing coaches and I'm trying to unlock my memories of what I remember as a rider and what I liked.\"\n\nBritish Cycling - one of the country's best-funded and most successful sports - was also one of several sporting organisations criticised by a 2017 review for its culture in pursuit of success, including Olympic medals.\n\nEx-riders spoke of \"a culture of fear\", there was an apology over bullying and doping claims, and a 39-point action plan was introduced to improve athlete welfare.\n\nAnd last year, former British Cycling and Team Sky chief doctor Richard Freedman was found guilty by a medical tribunal of ordering a banned substance to help an unnamed rider to cheat.\n\nAsked about British Cycling now, Kenny replied: \"I'd say it's at a crossroads. If we take the right road we can be successful, a good organisation moving forward.\n\n\"Hopefully a sustainable organisation. We've had turbulence in the last few years, restructure, new staff coming in. It's important we look after performance but do it in the right way. The next few years are really important.\n\n\"Being an athlete is really hard. There's a misconception they're treated like gods and paid millions. For the most part, being an athlete is really unpleasant. We want to make it as positive as possible. They're happy to go through it because everyone has that dream of winning. We have to be behind them, supporting them as best we can.\n\n\"That's where British Cycling needs to be on the high-performance side. That's the key - where we position ourselves. It's important we produce as many happy champions as we can. Everyone is here because they love the sport. We want to nurture that. We don't want people walking away hating cycling which has happened in the past.\"\n\nKenny says he aims to be a \"positive\" coach, adding: \"When I look back at the coaches who got the best out of me, they were positive. It's contagious when someone is positive. You can't bash someone into being the best in the world or get the best out of themselves.\"\n\nHow does he reflect on his career?\n\n\"I just did my best and loved the process of getting to that point where you can have that special moment every four years,\" said Kenny. \"That's always been my passion.\n\n\"Even now, I'm diving straight into this next role and trying to help support the lads, most of whom are at the start of their journeys. Hopefully I can help give them as good an experience as I've had.\"\n\nKenny overtook his friend Chris Hoy's British record Olympic haul of seven medals in total - and six golds - last year.\n\nOn which of his medals stuck out, he said: \"The last one was very special because I know it's the last one now. But the team ones are always the most fun because you get to enjoy it with your mates.\"\n\n\"When you're riding, you have a lot of free time,\" he said. \"You can only train so much, but you can't use it for anything. It's recovery.\n\n\"I'll be hopefully less tired all the time.\n\n\"I can have a pasty for lunch because later while I'm working I'm not going on the track and won't throw it up. I can go and do gardening without thinking I'll be knackered at training.\"\n\nKenny is still cycling for fun. \"I always struggled going out for a loop on my bike, it felt so pointless,\" he said.\n\nKenny said it helped his career being married to another elite Olympic athlete.\n\n\"That's going to change now Laura's carrying on and I'm stopping,\" he said. \"That's going to be a new dynamic in our house.\n\n\"Living with a competing athlete is always challenging but it's also been good that we've been able to go through it together, grow together and go to the races together and spend all that really special time that's normally away from your family.\n\n\"It's been really special, we've been really lucky.\"", "Russia has launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine, despite previously saying that it wouldn't.\n\nWatch our video to see the most striking moments of the day.", "The Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would bring gas to Germany has shuttered amid the latest fighting Image caption: The Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would bring gas to Germany has shuttered amid the latest fighting\n\nThere was plenty of criticism that Western sanctions in the days leading up to this invasion did not go far enough, fast enough.\n\nThese new measures will hit the Russian economy much harder. But there are still potential gaps.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said sanctions against major Russian banks include one of the largest state banks, VTB, which will have all its assets frozen. But another major bank, Sberbank, was not mentioned.\n\nAnd the Ukrainian government wanted more – in particular moves to disconnect Russia from the international payment system known as Swift, which thousands of banks use to exchange information.\n\nThe US and the UK are in favour of such a move, but some European countries fear it could damage their own banks.\n\nSuspending Russia from Swift is still under consideration, but the hesitation is a reminder that in a globalised world all sanctions tend to have an impact on the countries imposing them as well.\n\nAnd the real trouble with sanctions is that they don’t work quickly.\n\nThey do increase pressure, and they can do damage.\n\nBut the international community is not trying to damage the Russian economy just for the sake of doing so.\n\nIt wants economic pressure to force a change in Putin’s political and military calculations.\n\nMeanwhile, the invasion of Ukraine continues.", "Loury Mooruth, 62, is one of the first patients in England to receive crizanlizumab\n\nSickle cell patients have begun receiving the first new treatment for the blood disorder in over 20 years.\n\nThe inherited condition can cause severe pain and organ failure, often requiring hospital admissions.\n\nCrizanlizumab is given as a monthly infusion and is thought to cut visits to A&E by 40%.\n\nLoury Mooruth, 62, received the treatment at Birmingham City Hospital, having suffered repeated periods of intense pain for decades.\n\nThese are called sickle cell crises and are common in people with the condition.\n\n\"To have a crisis is pain beyond what you could ever experience,\" Loury says.\n\n\"They give you a scale of one to 10 - but it is way beyond that.\"\n\nSickle cell disease causes red blood cells to distort and become sticky, blocking vessels and restricting oxygen supply, which triggers excruciating pain.\n\nCrizanlizumab, a monoclonal antibody, binds to a protein on blood cells, preventing them from clumping.\n\nThe treatment stops red blood cells from clumping together and causing pain\n\nDuring a crisis, patients often need powerful opioid painkillers but Loury, like many others, has faced suspicion when at A&E.\n\n\"You know the protocol when you go in, which needles and so on. They think straight away you are a drug addict - they don't believe you,\" she says.\n\nShe has refused to go to hospital during a crisis for the past two years because of her negative experiences.\n\nA report from MPs last year found \"serious failings\" in sickle cell care with some evidence of discrimination against patients.\n\nDr Shivan Pancham, a consultant haematologist at Birmingham City Hospital, told the BBC: \"Our patients often find the experience in emergency departments challenging with a lack of understanding of the severity of pain.\n\n\"It is hoped with these new therapies if we reduce the likelihood of attending emergency departments, ultimately this will be much better for the patients.\"\n\nTen specialist treatment centres have been set up across England which doctors hope will improve outcomes for sickle cell patients.\n\nEach vial of the drug costs £1,000 but NHS England has negotiated a confidential discount and hopes to treat up to 5,000 patients over the next three years.\n\nLoury is optimistic about the future, saying: \"This is a bright new dawn.\"\n\n\"Hopefully this will take the crises and put them to one side, and I will see my haematologist a lot less.\"\n\nDr Bola Owolabi, NHS director of health inequalities, who also works as a GP in the Midlands, said: \"It's fantastic that our first NHS patients have been given this ground-breaking and historic new treatment for sickle cell disease - the first in over two decades.\n\n\"This revolutionary treatment will allow patients to have a better quality of life, reduce trips to A&E by almost half and ultimately help to save lives.\"\n\nKye Gbagbo, chair of the Sickle Cell Society, said: \"We are delighted to see the first sickle cell patients are now getting access to this life-changing new treatment.\n\n\"We encourage others that are eligible to do similar. Sickle cell crises cause extreme pain and are a huge disruption to daily life.\n\n\"We hope that this new treatment will bring a new lease of life to many living with sickle cell.\"", "Old footage of aircraft taking part in Victory Day celebrations over Moscow were incorrectly labelled on Twitter\n\nThe Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to false or misleading videos and photographs being posted on social media claiming to be from the conflict.\n\nSome of those checked by the BBC include footage from previous conflicts in Ukraine or elsewhere in the world, and images of troops on exercises.\n\nSocial media platforms such as Twitter seem to be taking a proactive role in confronting misleading content, removing several videos shown to be misleading by fact-checkers and researchers.\n\nIn the opening hours of the conflict, several videos claiming to be the Russian air force operating over Ukraine were posted and went viral on social media.\n\nOne clip, which has subsequently been deleted, shows a fighter jet flying over an urban area. It is accompanied by a caption which implies it was filmed in the current Ukraine conflict.\n\nThis does not show a Russian or a Ukrainian jet\n\nCloser inspection, however, reveals that the aircraft is an American-built F-16 Fighting Falcon, which has never been in service in either Russia or Ukraine.\n\nA second clip shows formations of fighters and bombers flying over an urban area to the sound of air raid sirens.\n\nThese aircraft were preparing for a military parade flypast in 2020\n\nChecks made by the BBC found that the footage showed preparations for a military parade flypast in 2020. The sound of an air raid siren had been dubbed over the original audio.\n\nAnother video clip claims to show Russian paratroopers landing near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.\n\nIt's been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Twitter, but actually first appeared on Russian-language internet in 2016.\n\nA fourth clip shared widely on Twitter and YouTube is labelled as showing a Russian jet being shot down over Ukraine.\n\nThis footage is from Libya and is over 10 years old\n\nHowever, BBC journalists have seen this footage before. It's a Libyan government aircraft being shot down by rebels over Benghazi in 2011.\n\nVoices on the video can be heard celebrating in Arabic.\n\nSome imagery does not show combat operations at all.\n\nFootage of an explosion behind some apartment blocks claims to be from the city of Mariupol in south-eastern Ukraine.\n\nAmong those sharing the clip is the Twitter account of former Ukrainian ambassador to the US, Volodymyr Yelchenko.\n\nThis footage appeared on TikTok in January\n\nHowever, a version of this video was uploaded to TikTok on 29 January, on an account which regularly posts images and film of explosions.\n\nFurther, as the caption to the video suggests in Russian, it shows the result of a lightning strike on a power station, rather than any military action.\n\nUsers have also questioned the greenery on the trees, with available data showing average February temperatures in Mariupol at around zero Celsius.\n\nSome social media users have shared an image which claims to be of Russian troops raising a flag on the municipal building in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv today.\n\nWhile the caption is correct - it does show Russians hoisting the flag on that building in Kharkiv - reverse image search tools show that the event took place in 2014, during an earlier period of unrest.\n\nFinally, a video shared by one Chinese-language Twitter account, with the caption \"Putin the Great has attacked Ukraine\" is easily recognisable as the explosion of a port building in Beirut in August 2020, which caused more than 200 deaths.\n\nThe is an image of an explosion in Beirut in 2020\n\nFast-moving events mean that misleading imagery will inevitably appear on social media.\n\nIt is easily shared, often by those who believe the images to be genuine.\n\nSocial media users can limit the spread of disinformation by taking a few seconds before hitting the \"share\" button to consider whether what they're seeing seems genuine and is from a source that they trust.\n\nMost news organisations go to great lengths to verify footage before using it in their reports, so checking with multiple trusted sources before sharing will help to prevent these images from being widely shared.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Cornwall and Diana Parkes talk about their work tackling domestic abuse\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall has said having the title of Queen Consort will help to highlight causes she supports, such as preventing domestic violence.\n\nIn a BBC interview, Camilla said it was a \"great honour\" when the Queen said she wanted her to receive the title when the Prince of Wales becomes King.\n\nCamilla vowed to campaign for victims of domestic violence throughout her lifetime.\n\nThe duchess also called for a \"culture change\" to stop violence against women.\n\nShe was speaking at Clarence House where she was reunited with Diana Parkes, whose daughter Joanna Simpson was killed by her estranged husband within earshot of her two children in 2010.\n\nA foundation set up by Mrs Parkes in her daughter's honour now offers support to young people traumatised by domestic abuse.\n\nThe duchess said Mrs Parkes's story inspired her to become a domestic abuse campaigner when they first met in 2016, leaving the duchess visibly moved and pledging to do \"anything I can\" to help raise the issue.\n\nDuring the interview with Emma Barnett for Woman's Hour and BBC Breakfast, the duchess said the title of Queen Consort - endorsed by the Queen in a public statement earlier this month - would aid her campaigning.\n\n\"Of course it's a great honour, it couldn't be anything else. But it does help it. I'm going to keep up with these causes,\" she said.\n\n\"You know if I start something like this, I'm not going to, to give up mid-channel, I'm just going to keep going to try and help people like Diana. I hope I should be doing it for a lifetime.\"\n\nThe duchess said a culture change to tackle violence against women should begin early in life.\n\n\"I think children at school have got to be taught respect,\" she said. \"We have got to go back to the beginnings and just build up this idea that you have to have respect for human beings, it's lack of respect. It's treating women like chattels and people thinking they can get away with it.\"\n\nShe said lockdown was \"terrible\" for domestic abuse victims because they could not escape. Calls to helplines surged by 60% and campaigners described it as an epidemic beneath the pandemic.\n\n\"But on the other hand, I think it's drawn a lot of people's attention to it. I think it's talked about much more now,\" she added.\n\n\"[Lockdown] also brought out things into the open that we wouldn't have necessarily talked about before… and I think, with domestic abuse, this is exactly what happened.\"\n\nCamilla also said the Queen's Jubilee marked an opportunity for people to celebrate.\n\n\"It's always lovely to have something happy to look forward to, isn't it? I mean, we've all been through hard times. We've all been locked away from our family and friends. And now we could all get together again and celebrate.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by domestic abuse or violence, these organisations may be able to help.", "Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said he turned down an offer to re-join the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) last year.\n\nHe was responding to reports by The Nolan Show that he had held talks with UUP leader Doug Beattie after losing the DUP leadership election in May.\n\nSir Jeffrey was narrowly beaten in a leadership contest by Edwin Poots.\n\nBut Mr Poots held the top job for just 21 days and, by the end of June, Sir Jeffrey was party leader.\n\nNow fresh questions are being raised about whether he had, at one point, considered moving back to the party he quit in 2003.\n\nSir Jeffrey said he spoke to UUP leader Doug Beattie, and \"respectfully declined\" an offer to join the party\n\nIn a statement to the Nolan Show, Sir Jeffrey claimed he had been approached by the Ulster Unionists - but said he respectfully declined the offer.\n\nHe also said any of his discussions with Mr Beattie had focused on the future of unionism and closer cooperation.\n\nIt is not clear when the two men met or how far any conversations may have got.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a tweet on Wednesday night, Sir Jeffrey said the \"portrayal\" he had sought to re-join his old party was \"nonsense\".\n\n\"I never had any such intentions or plans,\" he wrote.\n\n\"At that time, I was approached, and it was made clear I would be welcome in the UUP but I respectfully declined.\"\n\nThe UUP said in a statement: \"The DUP are mourning the terrible loss of their much beloved colleague Christopher Stalford.\n\n\"We will not be making any comment.\"\n\nDuring a three-week period last year, there was a great sense of disillusionment within the party - we knew that tensions were simmering behind the scenes.\n\nThose wounds were laid bare in a pretty graphic way; first of all following the ousting of Arlene Foster by party MLAs and the ousting of Edwin Poots as leader, by the party officers.\n\nThere was that three-week period where Edwin Poots served as leader and there were many within the party who were questioning their future position.\n\nWe have Sir Jeffrey Donaldson's account of what happened in that engagement, but we do not have an account from the other unionist leader, Doug Beattie about what happened and we may well get to see or hear that next week.\n\nJeffrey Donaldson is clear in his mind that he's simply going to dust himself down and try to move on.\n\nIt's difficult to assess how it's going to play out within the party and among the electorate - we are still 70 days away from polling day and a lot is going to pop up on the political radar.\n\nIt's something the party's political opponents might cash in on in the run up to the election.\n\nThose within the party will be thinking \"we do not want to revisit these troubled times within the party\".\n\nTheir focus is very much on looking at survival now because they know that a tricky election is coming down the track.\n\nThey will not want to reopen old wounds by picking over the wreckage of what happened in April and May last year.\n\nSir Jeffrey disagreed with his UUP party leader David Trimble over the Good Friday Agreement and left the party five years after its signing\n\nThe Lagan Valley MP left the UUP in 2003 along with Arlene Foster, having been a vocal critic of leader David Trimble and the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nHe plans to run in Lagan Valley in the May Stormont election, which will allow him to become first minister if his party returns a majority.", "What happens when you die? A new study may give some ideas\n\nNew data from a scientific \"accident\" has suggested that life may actually flash before our eyes as we die.\n\nA team of scientists set out to measure the brainwaves of an 87-year-old patient who had developed epilepsy. But during the neurological recording, he suffered a fatal heart attack - offering an unexpected recording of a dying brain.\n\nIt revealed that in the 30 seconds before and after, the man's brainwaves followed the same patterns as dreaming or recalling memories.\n\nBrain activity of this sort could suggest that a final \"recall of life\" may occur in a person's last moments, the team wrote in their study, published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience on Tuesday.\n\nDr Ajmal Zemmar, a co-author of the study, said that what the team, then based in Vancouver, Canada, accidentally got, was the first-ever recording of a dying brain.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"This was actually totally by chance, we did not plan to do this experiment or record these signals.\"\n\nSo will we get a glimpse back at time with loved ones and other happy memories? Dr Zemmar said it was impossible to tell.\n\n\"If I were to jump to the philosophical realm, I would speculate that if the brain did a flashback, it would probably like to remind you of good things, rather than the bad things,\" he said.\n\n\"But what's memorable would be different for every person.\"\n\nDr Zemmar, now a neurosurgeon at the University of Louisville, said in the 30 seconds before the patient's heart stopped supplying blood to the brain, his brainwaves followed the same patterns as when we carry out high-cognitive demanding tasks, like concentrating, dreaming or recalling memories.\n\nIt continued 30 seconds after the patient's heart stopped beating - the point at which a patient is typically declared dead.\n\n\"This could possibly be a last recall of memories that we've experienced in life, and they replay through our brain in the last seconds before we die.\"\n\nThe study also raises questions about when, exactly, life ends - when the heart stops beating, or the brain stops functioning.\n\nDr Zemmar and his team have cautioned that broad conclusions can't be drawn from a study of one. The fact that the patient was epileptic, with a bleeding and swollen brain, complicates things further.\n\n\"I never felt comfortable to report one case,\" Dr Zemmar said. And for years after the initial recording in 2016, he looked for similar cases to help strengthen the analysis but was unsuccessful.\n\nBut a 2013 study - carried out on healthy rats - may offer a clue.\n\nIn that analysis, US researchers reported high levels of brainwaves at the point of the death until 30 seconds after the rats' hearts stopped beating - just like the findings found in Dr Zemmar's epileptic patient.\n\nThe similarities between studies are \"astonishing\", Dr Zemmar said.\n\nThey now hope the publication of this one human case may open the door to other studies on the final moments of life.\n\n\"I think there's something mystical and spiritual about this whole near-death experience,\" Dr Zemmar said. \"And findings like this - it's a moment that scientists lives for.\"", "The head of the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) has said Boris Johnson was wrong to claim more people are in work now than before the pandemic.\n\nWriting to the PM, Sir David Norgrove said the number in work was estimated to be around 660,000 fewer than before coronavirus struck.\n\nHe suggested Mr Johnson had excluded a fall in self-employment numbers when making the claim.\n\nHe warned the \"selective use of data\" would \"give a misleading impression\".\n\nThe prime minister made the statement on employment during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nResponding to a question from Labour MP Kerry McCarthy about the cost of living, he said: \"The single best thing that we have done on the cost of living is making sure that we have millions more people into work.\"\n\n\"There are 430,000 more in employment now than there were before the pandemic began,\" he added.\n\nIn his letter to the prime minister, Sir David wrote: \"According to the latest ONS (Office for National Statistics) figures, it is wrong to claim that there are now more people in work than before the pandemic began.\n\n\"The increase in the number of people who are on payrolls is more than offset by the reduction in the number of people who are self-employed.\n\n\"The number of people in work is estimated to be around 660,000 fewer than at the start of the pandemic (comparing December 2019 - February 2020 with October - December 2021).\"\n\nSir David said the prime minister's statement had referred only to an increase in the number of people on payrolls and added: \"I hope you agree that public trust requires a complete statement of this important measure of the economy.\"\n\nAsked for a response to the letter, Downing Street pointed to a previous reply Mr Johnson had given when a Labour MP questioned the figures.\n\nIn that, he said the number of people in work, according to the payroll employment measure, had reached \"a record high\" in November 2021.\n\nMr Johnson has previously been criticised for making a similar claim on employment by the Office for Statistics Regulation, which is overseen by the UKSA\n\nIn a letter on 1 February, Ed Humpherson of the organisation told No 10 the statement had been made by the prime minister to Parliament on 24 November, 15 December, 5 January, 12 January and 19 January.\n\nHe said it was \"disappointing\" that Mr Johnson had \"continued to refer to payroll employment as if describing total employment, despite contact from our office and from others\".", "The BBC's eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford reports from Kramatorsk in Ukraine's Donbas region shortly after President Putin announced a Russian military operation in the region.", "PC Adam Zaman was accused of raping a woman at the Andaz Hotel in Liverpool Street\n\nA Metropolitan Police officer who was charged with rape has had his case dismissed at court.\n\nPC Adam Zaman, 28, was accused of raping a woman while off-duty at the Andaz Hotel in Liverpool Street, central London, in October last year.\n\nThe Royal Courts of Justice was told the Crown had conceded there was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction.\n\nThe Met said a misconduct review will still be carried out.\n\nPC Zaman, who has served with the Met Police since 2016, remains suspended from duty, the force added.\n\nThe 28-year-old previously denied the rape allegation during a court appearance in November 2021.\n\nAt an earlier hearing Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) lawyers alleged that PC Zaman had shown the woman his warrant card and told her he was an officer when they met at a club in Romford, before they travelled to the hotel together.\n\nThe woman had sent concerned texts to friends and British Transport Police during the journey, prosecutors said.\n\nThey added that PC Zaman showed his warrant card to hotel staff, who were concerned because the woman was intoxicated.\n\nOn Thursday, prosecutor Allison Hunter QC told the court: \"After undertaking an objective review of all of the evidence the prosecution has taken the decision to offer no further evidence in this case.\"\n\nMs Hunter said there were matters of \"significant concern\" that when \"objectively assessed\" alongside representations from PC Zaman meant there was no longer a \"realistic\" prospect of conviction.\n\nShe explained the decision had been made at the \"highest levels\".\n\nA CPS spokesman added: \"As part of our continuous review of this case, we have carefully considered material submitted to us by the police and have concluded that our legal test is no longer met.\"\n\nMrs Justice Cheema-Grubb directed that a not guilty verdict be recorded.\n\nPC Zaman was not present at the Royal Courts of Justice to hear proceedings against him had been formally dropped.\n\nThe complainant, who retains her right to anonymity, has been consulted about the decision. She has also been informed of her right to have the case reviewed, the court heard.\n\nDet Ch Insp Colin Bishop said City of London Police had carried out a \"thorough investigation\".\n\nHe added: \"The decision to discontinue the case was made by the CPS and it would not be appropriate for us to comment any further.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dame Cressida arrives at New Scotland Yard the day after her resignation\n\nThe resignation of Britain's most senior police officer comes after a series of crises has engulfed the Metropolitan Police. Why has it proved so difficult to clean up the toxic culture associated with the force?\n\nIn full dress uniform, Dame Cressida Dick delivered her resignation speech on the balcony of New Scotland Yard, a slight break in her voice as she described the \"honour and privilege\" of leading the country's biggest police force.\n\nHer grim-faced aides appeared shocked by the speed of events. Inside the force, she is well-liked. She has defended \"my Met\", as she has called it, endlessly.\n\nBut over her shoulder, on Thursday evening, the lights of London glittered - a city arguably less fond of \"its Met\", since she took over five years ago. She failed to win the friends outside, that came so easily inside her organisation. Charities representing women, the families of murder victims, and parts of the media turned against her.\n\nThere were too many moments when the first woman to run the Metropolitan Police had had to apologise for its behaviour.\n\nNine hours earlier, the commissioner hadn't been planning to resign. She told a radio phone-in that her staff backed her and even the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, had said he trusted her.\n\nThat comment about the mayor seems to have brought him to a tipping point - along with new and horrifying disclosures about Charing Cross police station. His people contacted hers and made things clear. She no longer had his support.\n\nHer five years in charge started with the horrors of the 2017 terrorist attacks and the Grenfell Tower fire, and ends with the pandemic. Crime is up by 4% with 45% fewer cases solved. Knife crime fell as Covid struck, though there has been a recent series of teenage murders and there are concerns violent crime, Dame Cressida's priority, is rising again.\n\nBut she's been brought down by crimes and bad attitudes within her own ranks. Racism, misogyny, bullying and incompetence. Rape, and in the chilling case of Sarah Everard, murder.\n\nOver a long career, former Metropolitan Police detective Shabnam Chaudhri fought against \"the culture\", which for her included racist abuse.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC the day after Dame Cressida's resignation, she described policing as a closed community.\n\nThey disguise it as banter. There’s a saying ‘know your audience' - these guys know their audience\n\n\"They get so comfortable in their own company,\" she says, \"that when new people come in, they get indoctrinated to that way of thinking.\" It is a culture of \"corridor comments\".\n\n\"They disguise it as banter. There's a saying \"know your audience\". These guys know their audience.\"\n\nToo often, she says, officers complaining about misconduct, or perceived to be \"using the race card\" are briefed against, even when they move teams. She should know. It happened to her, again and again. A constant drag on her career ambitions.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has a whistleblowing hotline. A channel for raising complaints about poor attitudes. But Ms Chaudhri said it was used to make false allegations against her, because she had spoken out.\n\nIt is possible that a toxic culture at the Met was always there, but we couldn't see it as easily.\n\nA woman holds up placard at vigil to Sarah Everard at Clapham Common\n\nThings have changed. When officers arrest people, onlookers often start filming, their pictures shared instantly on social media. Footage from police body-worn cameras is sometimes made public during legal proceedings.\n\nAnd then there are messaging groups.\n\n\"They think they're safe within a group. These people act like a pack of wolves and the only way they get exposed is because these messages come out in the investigation process.\"\n\nGroup messages provided crucial evidence for Operation Hotton, the investigation into abusive behaviour at Charing Cross police station. This case appears to have convinced the mayor that enough was enough.\n\nThe investigation uncovered messages which were \"highly sexualised and/or violent and discriminatory, generally described as 'banter' by police officers\".\n\nThe comments were claimed to be a \"joke or game, or just a 'misunderstanding',\" an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct concluded.\n\nThere are a number of features of \"The Job\" which make this sort of behaviour more likely, according to a senior figure in policing who spoke on condition of anonymity.\n\n\"They say: 'He's going to be a good officer so we'll knock the rough edges off him.'\n\n\"But a leopard doesn't change his spots, and then you've got a problem for 30 years.\" Most officers join in their early 20s and retire at 50.\n\n\"Probationary constable misbehaviour needs to be dealt with early on,\" he says.\n\nGaps in vetting are one possible reason why the Met police officer Wayne Couzens' interest in extreme pornography and drug abuse were not discovered.\n\nIn his case, according to the \"banter\", his nickname was \"the rapist\". He was one. And a killer.\n\nIn one of the Met's many apologies, it said \"vetting is a snapshot in time and, unfortunately can never 100% guarantee an individual's integrity\".\n\nHer Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary is reviewing the vetting of officers, and will report later in the year.\n\nIn the Met, experience is highly valued. The force has major investigation teams capable of solving complex cases and made up of officers respected for what they've done in the past.\n\nMost of them do not contribute to the toxic culture which is now damaging trust in the force. But there's a concern that as careers progress in some teams, bad attitudes become entrenched.\n\nLeroy Logan, a retired superintendent, says police \"middle-managers\" are failing to tackle those views.\n\nCressida Dick on the day of her resignation\n\nThe sergeants and the inspectors should be the \"checks and balances\" in the organisation, he says.\n\n\"It's not being Mr or Ms Popular. You have to have the ethical leadership to hold people to account, which they don't like. But it's what you're supposed to do.\"\n\nShabnam Chaudhri puts it another way. \"We need the good officers to call out the bad ones.\"\n\nShe believes this goes right to the top and is among those who believe Dame Cressida Dick was too defensive of the Met, and not focused enough on communicating the depth of its cultural issues.\n\nThe Met's answer to all of this is Baroness Louise Casey. She is a respected public policy trouble-shooter, who has advised governments on everything from homelessness and families in crisis, to violence during the Euros at Wembley Stadium in 2021.\n\nNow she's been brought in by the Met to hunt down bad attitudes within its ranks, and stamp them out. But she has barely started. The BBC has been told she has only been able to begin work at New Scotland Yard this week because of recent ill-health.\n\nOne issue she is expected to deal with early on is that it can be difficult to get rid of bad officers.\n\nPolice employment rights are well protected, partly because as police officers they are not allowed to go on strike.\n\nThis means everything is dealt with formally, with a process akin to a criminal investigation. While in some cases the misconduct in question is criminal, the complexity of the process means there can be a tendency not to make complaints.\n\nSome cases go to the Independent Office for Police Conduct and take months to resolve. Baroness Louise Casey will be under pressure to speed things up.\n\nBut it could be one of her toughest assignments. Ms Chaudhri believes \"the culture\" will try to block her at every turn.\n\nWe have been told that some of Baroness Casey's ideas were included in a plan sent to mayor Sadiq Khan to persuade him not to move against the commissioner. A plan which was rejected.\n\nThis leaves the Met in a difficult position. Scotland Yard sources say Baroness Casey's work is due to continue up until Christmas. Even that sounds like a small window for changing the culture of a huge organisation.\n\nThe pressure is going to grow. A police complaints investigation into the case of Bianca Williams, a black athlete and her partner pulled from their car and handcuffed by the police, is due soon.\n\nIn addition, three Met police officers are currently facing criminal prosecutions: two for rape, one for unauthorised meetings with children.\n\nThe \"bad 'uns\", as Dame Cressida Dick controversially described them, are not just damaging those they work with. The harm they do to trust between people and the police makes the job of decent officers more difficult.\n\nAnd the taint spreads beyond London. The Met is supposed to be a totemic police force. Scotland Yard, known around the world. It sets standards for smaller forces. Its officers do specialist roles such as protecting the royals, or tracking terrorists.\n\nThe scandal, and the resignation of Dame Cressida Dick, have been deeply damaging.\n\nA former officer, respected in the ex-police community, spent the day after the resignation taking the temperature among his contacts within police forces.\n\nBy the evening, he had sent a text message: \"All looking to leave policing except the last few who are pension trapped. This has really damaged morale.\"", "Ben Garratt says the warnings from UK and US governments mean he wants to leave - but he has to wait for paperwork for his newborn son\n\nBritish and other foreign nationals in Ukraine have been warned to flee the country amid rumours of an imminent Russian invasion. It has left families grappling with difficult dilemmas.\n\nDespite the warnings of an imminent invasion, Ken Stuart can't leave Ukraine.\n\nHis wife Tatiana has just given birth to a son, Douglas.\n\nKen, who is originally from Edinburgh, tells BBC Radio 5 Live: \"He doesn't have a birth certificate yet - it takes one to two weeks to get that - and without a birth certificate, he can't have a passport and without a passport, we can't leave the country.\"\n\nAn email from the British government sent to Ken and other UK nationals told them they \"should not expect increased consular support or help with evacuating following any Russian military activity in Ukraine\".\n\n\"So we are on our own as far as they are concerned,\" he says.\n\nThe conflict with Russia has focused on the eastern regions of Ukraine since it began in 2014, when Russia seized control of the country's Crimean peninsula.\n\nKen, whose home is in Ukraine's capital in the northern central region, says his only option of fleeing if an invasion happens is to stay with his wife's relatives in the west.\n\n\"We don't have any options other than to either stay put and see what happens or to try and pre-empt things a bit and go to the west of the country,\" he says.\n\nFellow Scot Stuart McKenzie is already planning to flee with his wife and two children, after nearly 30 years in Ukraine.\n\n\"With young children in the country I've got to take their safety as priority so we're definitely looking at getting them out of the country as soon as possible,\" he tells BBC Breakfast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Expat Stuart McKenzie: \"If the British embassy aren't here to help, everybody's on their own\"\n\nHe says he will probably drive out to Poland, where he has another business. His wife doesn't have a UK visa, so flying back to the UK is impossible.\n\nBut he's worried about the obstacles he might find as he tries to get out.\n\n\"So many people will be trying to leave at the same time, there won't be flights, the roads will be blocked, are you going to be able to get fuel for your car, is there going to be cash in the banking machines?\n\n\"There is going to be so many things happening, so much chaos happening.\"\n\nStuart says the Ukrainian government have been dealing with threats from Russia for eight years and is trying to maintain calm, but adds that the tension now feels different.\n\n\"Every day there is more and more threats, and we hear that as soon as next week we could have Russian troops in the country,\" he says.\n\nStudent Haider Ali arrived in Gatwick after his university in Ukraine told him to \"get out as soon as you can\"\n\nForeigners living in Ukraine don't want to leave, Stuart says. \"We love Ukraine and we've built our lives, families, businesses here.\"\n\nBut he says: \"These things can go out of control very fast, we've got to be on the right side of the chaos. To think of a border with a million cars and panic happening would be disastrous.\"\n\nSome Britons have already made it out of Ukraine, arriving back in the UK on Saturday, just hours after the Foreign Office issued its warning.\n\nAt Gatwick, Haider Ali, a 21-year-old from Birmingham who was studying in Dnipro in central Ukraine, tells PA News his university advised international students to \"get out as soon as you can\" - so he booked a £210 one-way ticket.\n\nHe says the Ukrainians are a \"laissez-faire\" people but in the last couple of days they have started to get worried. \"When that happens, alarm bells should be ringing.\"\n\nBut he says he hopes to return by June to continue his studies.\n\nTeacher Harry Lee sees no need to flee Kharkiv, 40 miles from the Russian border, just yet\n\nMeanwhile, in Kharkiv, just 40 miles from the border with Russia, Harry Lee is not planning to go anywhere - at least for now.\n\nHe says: \"Life is continuing largely as normal. There's been no signs of any panic, there's been no signs of people stockpiling things. Whereas in England, toilet paper and water bottles would be out of stock, here life is continuing.\"\n\nHarry, who is originally from Cambridge and works as a teacher in Ukraine's second-largest city, says he has a contingency plan if the situation worsens, intending to drive west or south-west into countries such as Moldova, Romania or Turkey.\n\nBut for others, crossing the border isn't an option, even though they want to get out as soon as they can.\n\nBen Garratt and his wife Alice moved to Kyiv from north London in December because they were having a baby through a surrogate.\n\nNow baby Raphael has arrived, but they need to provide proof of his British citizenship to get an emergency travel document, a more urgent alternative to a passport.\n\nBen Garratt says it is \"frustrating\" to have to wait for travel documents amid the crisis\n\n\"It's getting frustrating because we're being told by the UK government to leave the country... and we still don't have the document we need,\" Ben tells the PA News agency.\n\nHe says the passport office in Kyiv wants him to attend a two-hour interview on Wednesday, which seems \"bizarre\" amid the urgent warnings from governments around the world.\n\nBen says: \"If we take the advice at face value, it means the UK and also the US government are worried that Russian action is imminent - that makes us want to get out.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nCaptain Dan Biggar kicked 15 points in his 100th international to guide Wales to victory against Scotland.\n\nBiggar sealed the win with a late drop-goal after opposite number Finn Russell had received a 68th-minute yellow card for a deliberate knock-on.\n\nScotland wing Darcy Graham and Wales prop Tomas Francis scored tries while Biggar and Russell kicked penalties as the first half ended 14-14.\n\nThere were no second-half tries but Biggar's intervention clinched the win.\n\nIt proved a captivating contest in Cardiff as Wales bounced back from the disappointment of an opening Six Nations weekend defeat against Ireland.\n\nIt was a vastly improved performance from Wayne Pivac's side as they found the physicality missing in the Dublin defeat, typified by hooker Ryan Elias being named man of the match.\n• None 'It's a horrible feeling' says Hogg after Scotland 'chucked it away'\n\nThe victory was a fitting occasion for Biggar and Jonathan Davies who both celebrated reaching the milestone of 100 internationals.\n\nIn contrast Scotland celebrated a Calcutta Cup victory against England last weekend, but their 20-year record of not winning in Cardiff goes on with a 11th successive defeat in the Welsh capital.\n\nGregor Townsend's side won away at Twickenham and Stade de France last season, but those stadiums were empty, unlike the raucous reception they received at the home of Welsh rugby.\n\nStuart Hogg's men also enjoyed success in Llanelli in October 2020 but that was also in front of an empty stadium after the match had been postponed in March that year because of Covid-19.\n\nThat major victory on the road in front of a capacity crowd remains elusive.\n\nWales coach Pivac got his tactics and changes right as he gave a debut to Ospreys flanker Jac Morgan while Ross Moriarty was also recalled in the back row alongside Taine Basham.\n\nCentre Owen Watkin replaced the injured Josh Adams, while wing Alex Cuthbert made a first Six Nations appearance in five years in place of Johnny McNicholl on the wing.\n\nScotland made five changes, with injured flanker Jamie Ritchie ruled out for the tournament and replaced by Exeter forward Sam Skinner.\n\nThe front row swapped completely, with Pierre Schoeman, Stuart McInally and WP Nel starting, while centre Sione Tuipulotu was also selected.\n\nLock Grant Gilchrist led the side out on his 50th cap and it was Matt Fagerson who led an early charge for Scotland.\n\nFull-back Liam Williams turned the ball over and released Watkin, Biggar and Tomos Williams for an incisive counter-attack.\n\nIt was only halted when Scotland captain Hogg knocked the ball forward. Australia referee Nic Berry decided it was not deliberate, which could have resulted in a yellow card for the visiting full-back.\n\nScotland were penalised at the ensuing scrum with Biggar slotting over the penalty and soon doubled the lead.\n\nLions wing Duhan van der Merwe launched the attack for the Scotland riposte with Graham reaping the benefit on the opposite wing after being the beneficiary of a long Russell pass.\n\nGraham produced a superb finish in the right corner after shrugging off the attempted tackle of Louis Rees-Zammit.\n\nRussell missed the conversion, but slotted over two penalties with the hosts punished for the kind of indiscipline that was also seen in Dublin.\n\nWales retaliated with a sustained attack that culminated in a third Biggar penalty before Russell responded with three points after outstanding breakdown work from Hamish Watson.\n\nA searching 50:22 attacking kick from Liam Williams provided the platform for prop Francis to eventually burrow over to leave the half-time score at 14-14.\n\nScotland, who were also warned for their ill-discipline, lost Fagerson to injury with Magnus Bradbury replacing the number eight.\n\nThe visitors brought on a new front row of George Turner, Rory Sutherland and Zander Fagerson as the second half started in cagey fashion.\n\nRussell broke the impasse with a penalty after Wales transgressed at a ruck.\n\nWilliams provided an impudent flick pass in his 22 before Biggar, who was battling on with a leg injury, levelled the scores with his fourth penalty.\n\nIn a raft of replacements, Aaron Wainwright and Dillon Lewis replaced Moriarty and Francis, while Scotland flanker Rory Darge made his debut from the bench.\n\nWales scrum-half Williams was becoming increasingly influential with his sniping breaks, before drama ensued after a Biggar penalty attempt.\n• None Relive the match and reaction as it happened: Wales 20-17 Scotland\n• None 'That's one of my best Wales wins' - Biggar\n\nThe ball hit the bar and was gathered by Cuthbert before the wing almost scored in the left-hand corner.\n\nThat was ruled out after the Wales wing was bundled into touch before scoring, but Russell was shown a yellow card for a deliberate knock-on earlier in the move.\n\nCentre Jonathan Davies received a huge roar as he entered the field for his 100th international when he came on as a replacement for Nick Tompkins.\n\nBiggar then nudged Wales ahead with a drop-goal as he ignored a penalty advantage and the prospect of going for a try to claim the three points.\n\nIt proved the right decision. A frantic finale saw Taine Basham give away a late penalty for a high tackle but the flanker avoided any further sanction.\n\nScotland were forced to chase victory from their own line but Wales' dogged defence stood firm.", "Protesters tried to argue with police\n\nPolice have started to clear a blockade of the main crossing between Canada and the United States.\n\nAfter days of protests by truckers against Covid rules at the Ambassador Bridge in Ontario, officers urged them to heed an injunction against the demonstration.\n\nTruckers' protests against Covid vaccine mandates are also ongoing at other border crossings and in Ottawa.\n\nThe self-styled \"Freedom Convoy\" movement was started by Canadian truckers opposed to a vaccinate-or-quarantine order for drivers crossing the border.\n\nFriday's court order against the blockade was filed by the city of Windsor and the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, which argued that it was losing as much as $50m ($39m; £29m) per day because of the convoy.\n\nFollowing the injunction, Windsor Police put out a statement to \"make demonstrators clearly aware that it is a criminal offence\" to block the border crossing. The police added that a criminal conviction could lead to the seizure of vehicles and the inability to enter the US.\n\nBut hours later, crowds of people waving Canadian flags flouted the order and continued to occupy the bridge.\n\nWhile police had some initial success in clearing the road on Saturday, more supporters arrived as the day went on until they once again outnumbered the officers trying to move the crowds away.\n\n\"We urge all demonstrators to act lawfully [and] peacefully,\" police said in a statement. \"Commuters are still being asked to avoid the areas affected by the demonstrations at this time.\"\n\nHundreds of other protesters continue to demonstrate in the centre of Ottawa, the nation's capital. Two other border crossings with the US are also being blocked by anti vaccine mandate protesters.\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with US President Joe Biden about the border blockades on Friday.\n\nThe week-long disruption to the bridge, which accounts for roughly 25% of US-Canada goods trade, rocked the car manufacturing industry.\n\nGeneral Motors, Ford, Toyota and Honda plants have been forced to halt production and cancel work shifts due to parts shortages caused by the blockade.\n\nIn the cold light of Saturday morning, police came in to break up the blockade at the Ambassador Bridge.\n\nArriving in city buses, they created a flank along the north side of the protest, which had blocked several lanes of traffic, preventing people - and millions of dollars of trade - from reaching the US, which is just on the other side of the border.\n\nWearing balaclavas to protect them from the bitter wind, with some carrying heavy weapons, the officers made it known that the party-protest, which had been going for almost a week, had come to an end.\n\nThe protesters were not happy, but neither were they surprised that it was coming to an end. Some thanked the police and expressed their support for law enforcement, while one man cried \"You should be ashamed!\"\n\n\"They're gonna have to move us out. We'll be peaceful and we'll lock arms and show unity,\" said Dan, a protester who declined to give his last name to the BBC.\n\n\"If that's what they need to do, give me a ticket and I'll see you in court.\"\n\nSlowly, and with the help of an armoured vehicle, police have been inching forward, encroaching on the blockade.\n\nSome have voluntarily driven away. Others began to break down the mess-hall tents.\n\nIt will likely take a few hours to move the hundred or so vehicles - most of them pickups and SUVs, with a handful of heavy commercial lorries - to disperse.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, Mr Trudeau urged the truckers \"to go home now\", saying their frustration with Covid measures had been \"heard\".\n\n\"If you join the protests because you are tired of Covid, you need to understand that you are breaking laws. The consequences are becoming more and more severe,\" he warned.\n\n\"You don't want to end up losing your licence, end up with a criminal record, which will impact your job, your livelihood, even your ability to travel internationally, including to the US.\"\n\nHe is due to meet with his advisors on an emergency committee known as the Incident Response Group on Saturday.\n\nBut many of those protesting at the bridge said they would continue to demonstrate no matter the consequences.\n\n\"Bring it,\" one of those blocking the bridge, Chris Mayville, told Canadian broadcaster CBC News.\n\n\"Do you think I care? Do you think I care about a fine? I'm going to pay a fine? No. You think I care about their mandates? No. This needs to end.\"\n\nElsewhere, in Canada's financial capital Toronto, police braced for protests by expanding a cordon in the city centre.\n\nThere were also tense scenes in France, where thousands of police officers attempted to stop anti-restriction demonstrators from disrupting traffic in Paris.", "A US woman whose boyfriend killed her son while she was at work has been sentenced to 16 months in jail.\n\nRebecca Hogue, 29, was convicted in November of the first-degree murder of her two-year-old son Ryder, under Oklahoma's \"failure to protect\" laws.\n\nA jury recommended she be sentenced to life in prison, but a judge has suspended the sentence to 16 months.\n\nIt means she will spend 13 months behind bars, due to time already served.\n\nSpeaking at her sentencing, Hogue said she would do anything to go back and prevent her son's death.\n\n\"I was so proud of having such a beautiful, strong, smart, healthy child,\" Hogue said, according to the Norman Transcript.\n\n\"The only thing in two years that has brought me peace is that the man who did this is dead. I know my child is in heaven and that [former boyfriend Trent] is nowhere near him.\"\n\nSentencing Hogue, Judge Michael Tupper told her she did \"not deserve to die in prison\".\n\n\"You are not a monster,\" the judge continued. \"You have value and you have worth.\"\n\nHogue's case drew significant attention from media and women's rights groups after she was charged with first-degree murder under the state's controversial \"failure to protect\" law. In Oklahoma, parents who fail to protect their children from child abuse can be charged with the same crimes as the actual abuser.\n\nRyder was found dead on New Year's Day 2020. Hogue - who had returned from a 12-hour shift at a bar in the early hours of the morning - woke to find him not breathing. Her boyfriend, Christopher Trent, had disappeared.\n\nFour days after Ryder's death, police found Trent's body in the Wichita Mountains after an apparent suicide. The words \"Rebecca is innocent\" were carved into a tree nearby.\n\nA coroner's report concluded Ryder's cause of death was blunt-force trauma, and prosecutors later said it was clear Trent had killed him.\n\nHogue said she had no idea Trent was abusing Ryder until his death, though she had begun to notice the boy had minor unexplained injuries.\n\nBut prosecutors said Hogue searched on her phone for warning signs that a child might be being abused, suggesting she felt her son might be in harm's way.\n\nThe jury was barred from seeing an image of the tree carving during the trial, which was deemed hearsay, or listening to a recording of the lead investigating detective saying he doubted whether Hogue had committed a crime.\n\nHogue's lawyer Andrew Casey told the BBC her family were \"unbelievably relieved\" at the \"just sentence\".\n\n\"We are heartbroken that this case ever made it this far and wholeheartedly are frustrated that this charge ever made it to court,\" he said.\n\n\"We are grateful that we get Rebecca back to us again soon.\"", "A section of the B4242 between Ynysarwed and Aberdulais, in Neath Port Talbot was shut because of flooding, police said\n\nA man has been rescued from a car trapped in flood waters after heavy rain caused disruption across Wales.\n\nTwo people managed to escape from the car on a coastal road in Carmarthenshire before fire crews were called to rescue the third.\n\nA flood warning has also been issued for the River Towy between Llandeilo and Abergwili in Carmarthenshire.\n\nA separate Met Office weather warning was in place until 18:00 GMT, affecting 12 counties in mid and south Wales.\n\nA swift water rescue team saved the man from a car along the A4066 between St Clears and Llanybri just before 16:00 on Sunday, Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nThe road was closed on both sides of the incident because of the flood water.\n\nFlooding of a \"few homes and businesses\" was likely, along with spray and floods \"making journey times longer\", the Met Office said.\n\nThe weather warning covered 12 counties in mid and south Wales on Sunday\n\nNatural Resources Wales has issued flood alerts on rivers in parts of Ceredigion, Neath Port Talbot, Powys, Carmarthenshire, Gwynedd, Conwy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend and Pembrokeshire.\n\nStrong winds have seen restrictions imposed on M48 Severn Bridge in Monmouthshire, and on the A55 Britannia Bridge between Anglesey and Gwynedd, according to traffic analysts Inrix.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Samantha Morton, who was homeless as a teenager, says the care system \"clearly isn't working\"\n\nThe actress Samantha Morton has accused the government of being \"neglectful\" towards 16 and 17-year-olds in care.\n\nThe law changed last September so under-16s must be in regulated settings like children's homes or foster care.\n\nThat does not apply to older teens, who can be in supported or semi-independent accommodation such as a hostel.\n\nMs Morton - who lived in care and was homeless at 16 - expressed anger that, nearly 30 years later, many still find themselves without sufficient support.\n\nIn 2020, over 6,000 teenagers were living in supported accommodation - the vast majority aged 16 and 17.\n\nFigures obtained by the charity Article 39 show that 22 children aged 16 and 17 died while living in supported accommodation between 2018 and 2020.\n\nThis week, the charity took the government to the High Court, arguing that the policy was discriminatory and ministers had not properly consulted young people who had been placed in supported accommodation. Judgment is expected in the next few weeks.\n\nThe Department for Education said councils had a \"duty to ensure children in their care have safe, stable accommodation until they reach adulthood\".\n\nIt added that \"supported accommodation can be right for some young people\" and it was bringing in checks on the quality of such provision.\n\nMs Morton, who grew up in Nottinghamshire and suffered abuse while in care, warned in 2019 that the county's system was \"still not fit for purpose\" - despite a major inquiry into historical abuse in care homes.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday, she said: \"If 22 children have died… it clearly isn't working.\"\n\nMs Morton cited the case of Caitlin Sharp, a 17-year-old girl with epilepsy who died in 2019 after being placed in supported accommodation against professional advice.\n\nAfter her death it was discovered she had not taken her medication for five months.\n\nMs Morton said the situation was \"just heart breaking\" and she was \"lost for words… that [the government] think this is OK\".\n\nShe said it \"feels criminal\" that a 15-year-old could be living in a very supportive environment, but when they turn 16 \"they'd be moved to rented, shared accommodation alongside someone who'd been released from prison with a tag\".\n\nArticle 39's director Carolyne Willow said there was extensive research showing children in this type of housing were vulnerable to criminal or sexual exploitation.\n\nShe explained that many such young people \"feel lonely and isolated and abandoned\" when placed in properties on their own.\n\nMs Willow said: \"We are the sixth richest country in the world. Our care system for very vulnerable children should be modelled on the best of family life, not designed around institutional neglect.\"\n\nMs Morton also said she worried providers were not \"accountable\" any more, as so much of children's social care was now operated by private companies.\n\nPlaces in supported accommodation are usually far cheaper for councils than children's homes, often costing several hundred pounds per week.\n\nThe current cost of a place in a home regulated by Ofsted is about £4,500 per week. If the child is vulnerable, that can rise to £10,000 or more.\n\nThe government has commissioned an independent review of children's social care which is expected to report later this year.\n\nThere has been an outcry in the last few months over the deaths of Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. Both were murdered at home - but were known to social services, who failed to protect them.\n\nMs Morton pointed out that the deaths of teenagers actually in the care of the state had received far less attention.\n\nShe said: \"If we had an image on the front page of a newspaper of 22 very cute, very small children that had died in the care of the local authority… there would be absolute uproar about this.\n\n\"But because they're a different age bracket - there isn't.\"", "Protesters are still occupying a main crossing at Canada's border with the United States, despite a court ruling ordering them to leave.\n\nThe injunction came into effect at 19:00 local time (midnight GMT) on Friday to end days of protests.\n\nTruckers are blockading Ambassador Bridge, a vital trade link between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan.\n\nTruckers' protests against Covid restrictions are also ongoing at other border crossings and in Ottawa.\n\nThe injunction was filed by the city of Windsor and the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, which argued that they were losing as much as $50m ($39m; £29m) per day because of the convoy.\n\nFollowing the court order, Windsor Police put out a statement to \"make demonstrators clearly aware that it is a criminal offence\" to block the border crossing. The police added that a criminal conviction could lead to the seizure of vehicles and the inability to enter the US.\n\nBut hours later, crowds of people waving Canadian flags flouted the order and continued to occupy the bridge.\n\nHundreds of other protesters continue to demonstrate in the centre of Ottawa, the nation's capital. Two other border crossings with the US are also being blocked by anti-vaccine mandate protesters.\n\nOn Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with US President Joe Biden about the border blockades.\n\nThe pair discussed their \"shared challenges at the border\", Mr Trudeau said, with the prime minister promising quick action to resume trade.\n\nMr Trudeau added that he and Mr Biden also discussed US phone calls that have flooded police emergency call centres in Canada, and the donations and assistance that protesters are getting from American citizens.\n\nLess than an hour before the injunction took effect on Friday, the protesters at the Ambassador Bridge had a vote.\n\nDo they obey the court order to vacate the roads? Or do they keep their trucks and automobiles in park, and stand their ground?\n\nThe vote - by a resounding cry of \"Freedom!\" - was clear: they're not going anywhere.\n\nThat leaves the ball in law enforcement's court. As of 21:00 local time, no arrests had been made and no fines issued. The blockade has cost millions of dollars in lost trade each day; during the court proceedings, representatives from the automotive industry, who have several plants in the area and rely on shipping parts back and forth across the border, estimated the Windsor blockade had cost them about C$600m since it began.\n\nThe crowd had grown since the afternoon and the atmosphere grew merrier - pop music blared on the speakers, while a spluttering traffic light provided an almost disco-like atmosphere.\n\nThe question is, when will the party end?\n\nAddressing Canadians on Friday, Mr Trudeau said: \"If you join the protests because you are tired of Covid you need to understand that you are breaking laws. The consequences are becoming more and more severe.\n\n\"You don't want to end up losing your licence, end up with a criminal record, which will impact your job, your livelihood, even your ability to travel internationally, including to the US.\n\n\"We've heard your frustration with Covid, with the measures that are there to keep people safe. We've heard you. It's time to go home now.\"\n\nThe Liberal leader added that \"we are a long way from ever having to call in the military, although of course we have to be ready for any eventuality\".\n\nMr Trudeau's rhetoric comes a day after US officials spoke to their Canadian counterparts to urge them to use their federal powers to end the \"Freedom Convoy\" protests.\n\nAlso on Friday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the protests were illegal as he declared a state of emergency for the province.\n\nThe order increases the penalty for blocking crucial infrastructure, making an offence punishable by up to a year in jail and C$100,000 in fines.\n\nAhead of the injunction on Friday, Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens told CNN the next step was now to ask the protesters to leave.\n\nIf they refuse, \"one by one we'll start towing the cars if required\", he said.\n\n\"All of us respect that the hallmark of our respective democracies is that we have the right to express ourselves, to protest and to demonstrate, that's OK,\" Mr Dilkens said. \"What's not OK is deciding to choke off the busiest commercial border crossing between our two nations.\"\n\nThe week-long disruption to the bridge, which accounts for roughly 25% of US-Canada annual trade, has rocked the car manufacturing industry. General Motors, Ford, Toyota and Honda plants have been forced to halt production and cancel work shifts due to parts shortages caused by the blockade.\n\nFord, the second largest car maker in the US, said on Friday it was temporarily closing production at a plant in Ohio and warned of widespread problems for both nations should the protests continue.\n\nThe protest has sparked similar convoys in Australia, New Zealand and France.\n\nOn Friday, protesters drove around Paris in an effort to close the capital, despite a police ban.\n\nThe US Department of Homeland Security has warned that a convoy may depart from California this weekend, bound for Washington DC.", "Deforestation usually slows down in January because the rainy season prevents loggers accessing the forest\n\nThe number of trees cut down in the Brazilian Amazon in January far exceeded deforestation for the same month last year, according to government satellite data.\n\nThe area destroyed was five times larger than 2021, the highest January total since records began in 2015.\n\nProtecting the Amazon is essential if we are to tackle climate change.\n\nTrees are felled for their wood as well as to clear spaces to plant crops to supply global food companies.\n\nAt the climate change summit COP26 in Glasgow last year, more than 100 governments promised to stop and reverse deforestation by 2030.\n\nThe latest satellite data from Brazil's space agency Inpe again calls into question the Brazilian government's commitment to protecting its huge rainforest, say environmentalists.\n\n\"The new data yet again exposes how the government's actions contradict its greenwashing campaigns,\" explains Cristiane Mazzetti of Greenpeace Brazil.\n\nGreenpeace are calling on supermarkets in the UK and elsewhere to drop suppliers who are involved in deforestation from their meat and dairy supply chains suppliers.\n\nDeforestation totalled 430 square kilometres (166 square miles) in January - an area more than seven times the size of Manhattan, New York.\n\nFelling large numbers of trees at the start of the year is unusual because the rainy season usually stops loggers from accessing dense forest.\n\nBrazil's vast rainforest absorbs huge amounts of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, acting as what's known as a carbon sink. But the more trees cut down, the less the forest can soak up emissions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A logger, an environmental policeman, a cattle rancher and an environmentalist share their views on the Amazon's future\n\nBut the area is also home to communities who say they need to use the forest for mining and commercial farming in order to make a living.\n\nAt the same time, indigenous communities living in the Amazon fight to protect the rainforest and their ways of life.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has weakened environmental protections for the region and argued that the government should exploit the area to reduce poverty.\n\nThere are a number of factors driving this level of deforestation.\n\nStrong global demand for agricultural commodities such as beef and soya beans is fuelling some of these illegal clearances - Another is the expectation that a new law will soon be passed in Brazil to legitimise and forgive land grabbing.\n\nThe Brazilian government argues that in the period between August last year and January 2022, overall deforestation was lower compared to the same period twelve months ago.\n\nEnvironmentalists say that they are not surprised by the record January felling, given that President Bolsonaro has significantly weakened legal protections since he took office in 2019.\n\nAt the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow last year, Mr Bolsonaro was one of the world leaders who promised to halt and reverse deforestation by the end of this decade.\n\nPolitical observers argue that despite this change in tone, the policies on the ground remain the same.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Russia is in a position to \"mount a major military action\" says US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan\n\nRussia could invade Ukraine \"at any time\" and American citizens should leave immediately, the US has warned.\n\nAn invasion could start with aerial bombing that would make departures difficult and endanger civilians, the White House said on Friday.\n\nMoscow has repeatedly denied any plans to invade Ukraine despite massing more than 100,000 troops near the border.\n\nThe US statement prompted countries around the world to issue fresh warnings to nationals in Ukraine.\n\nNon-essential staff have been ordered to leave the US Embassy in Kyiv, the State Department announced in a release. Consular services will be suspended from Sunday, although the US \"will maintain a small consular presence\" in the western city of Lviv \"to handle emergencies\".\n\nUK ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons has tweeted that she and a core team are staying in Kyiv.\n\nMeanwhile, Russia said it has decided to \"optimise\" its diplomatic staff numbers in Ukraine. A foreign ministry spokeswoman cited fears of \"provocations\" by Kyiv or other parties.\n\nAttempts to de-escalate tensions through diplomacy are set to continue on Saturday, with both US President Joe Biden and France's President Emmanuel Macron due to speak to Russia's Vladimir Putin by phone.\n\nMoscow has accused Western countries of stirring up hysteria.\n\nUS National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Russian forces were now \"in a position to be able to mount a major military action\" in remarks seen as a clear escalation in the urgency of warnings from US officials.\n\n\"We obviously cannot predict the future, we don't know exactly what is going to happen, but the risk is now high enough and the threat is now immediate enough that [leaving] is prudent,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. I’m staying in Ukraine, for now: Watch US citizen and English teacher Juan Tec explain why\n\nMr Sullivan added that the administration did not know if Russian President Vladimir Putin had made a final decision to invade, but said that the Kremlin was looking for a pretext to justify military action, which he said could start with intense aerial bombardment.\n\nHis comments came as US officials warned of a further build-up of Russian troops at Ukraine's borders over the past week and planned Russian military exercises in the Black Sea in the coming days.\n\nPresident Biden has said that he would not send troops to rescue any citizens left stranded in the event of Russian action.\n\nOn Friday, the US president hosted a video call with transatlantic leaders in which they agreed on co-ordinated action to inflict severe economic consequences on Russia if it invaded Ukraine.\n\nThe US also said it was deploying a further 3,000 troops from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Poland, and that they were expected to arrive there next week. The troops will not fight in Ukraine, but will ensure the defence of US allies.\n\nThe US has been out in front of its European allies with warnings about the possibility of a Russian attack on Ukraine. But this was a notable increase in urgency.\n\nThe Americans are worried by the continued build-up of Russian troops, the way they are positioned, and the beginning of military exercises that could serve as a rolling start to an invasion.\n\nThe latest intelligence assessments prompted President Biden to convene close allies on Friday to tell them he believed President Putin may well soon give a final \"go order,\" according to US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.\n\nMr Biden's top military adviser, Gen Mark Milley, made an unusual number of phone calls in rapid succession - to his counterparts in Russia, Canada, the UK and Europe.\n\nThe administration has been accused by some of contributing to the escalation with its rhetoric. But it has decided to be \"as transparent as possible\" with the sharing of information, Mr Sullivan said, clearly calculating this to be part of its deterrent strategy.\n\nRussian naval drills took place in Crimea on Friday, while 10 days of military exercises continued in Belarus, to the north of Ukraine. Ukraine has accused Russia of blocking its access to the sea.\n\nThere are fears that if Russia tries to invade Ukraine, the exercises put the Russian military close to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, making an attack on the city easier. Russia says its troops will return to their permanent bases after the drills end.\n\nThe current tensions come eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula. Since then, Ukraine's military has been locked in a war with Russian-backed rebels in eastern areas near Russia's borders.\n\nThe Kremlin says it wants to enforce \"red lines\" to make sure that its former Soviet neighbour does not join Nato.\n\nNato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the bloc was \"united and prepared for any scenario\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe new Metropolitan Police commissioner must tackle police culture and conduct, Priti Patel has said.\n\nIn a statement the home secretary said \"strong and decisive new leadership will be required to restore public confidence\" in London's police force.\n\nOn Thursday Cressida Dick said she had to resign from the role after London's mayor made it clear to her he had no confidence in her leadership.\n\nIt followed cases of sexism and misogyny among some Met officers.\n\nLast week, the police watchdog found \"disgraceful\" examples of bullying and sexual harassment at Charing Cross police station in central London.\n\nDame Cressida, the first woman to lead the UK's biggest police force, also faced criticism over the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met officer last year, and a series of other scandals.\n\nBeyond London, the Met is also responsible for national counter-terrorism policing, and Ms Patel said the Met commissioner was \"a national leader, with a critical national role\".\n\nDame Cressida's successor will be appointed by the home secretary, in consultation with the mayor of London.\n\nPrime ministers have no formal role in appointing the commissioner, but Boris Johnson has nevertheless faced calls to stay out of the process entirely because of the ongoing Met investigation into lockdown parties at Downing Street.\n\nHome affairs committee chairwoman Diana Johnson, a Labour MP, said she hoped Mr Johnson would \"completely stand aside from any discussion about who the new commissioner should be\".\n\nContenders include Matt Jukes and Neil Basu, who are both assistant Met commissioners.\n\nMs Patel said the new commissioner must be \"focused on the basics\", including tackling the abuse of women and girls, drugs and knife crime.\n\n\"Policing culture and conduct have rightly come under scrutiny,\" she added. \"Be in no doubt that a new leader must tackle these institutional issues.\"\n\nBut Sir Peter Fahy, a former chief constable for Greater Manchester Police, said the idea that replacing one commissioner would change policing culture was \"naive\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme Dame Cressida's resignation would be \"a blow\" to female officers who saw her as a role model - and could put people off applying for senior positions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal accuses Cressida Dick of a \"sense of denial\" over Met Police controversies\n\nFormer Met Police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson told LBC \"we should be casting the net as wide as possible\" to find the best candidate for the role, including outside policing.\n\nFormer chief constable Dr Tim Brain said the Met had often looked within to someone \"brought up through the system\" when recruiting for the top job in the past but the next commissioner could come from outside.\n\nChief Constable Andy Marsh, chief executive of the College of Policing which sets standards for training in policing, told BBC News it would be wrong to say that issues of culture were confined to London and said \"policing must respond to this collectively\" across England and Wales.\n\nHe said the recruitment process would start quickly, probably \"in the next few weeks\".\n\nInspector Andy George, president of the National Black Police Association, told BBC News that while Dame Cressida had done an \"awful lot of good\" in her time it was right that she resigned so that there could be wholesale change across the Met and policing in general.\n\nHe added there should be an independent system for internal grievances to help improve the culture within forces.\n\nThe BBC has been told the home secretary has clashed with the Labour mayor over the resignation.\n\nHome Office sources said they were \"astounded\" that Mr Khan's previous comment that Dame Cressida had \"days and weeks\" to sort out the Met turned into \"less than 48 hours\".\n\nDame Cressida is thought to have offered her resignation after declining to meet Mr Khan to discuss her plans for reforming the Met - but the BBC understands he did not inform Ms Patel about the meeting.\n\nShe said she had \"agreed to stay for a short period to ensure the stability of the Met\".\n\nSusan Hall, leader of the Greater London Assembly Conservatives, said Mr Khan had handled the situation \"extremely badly\".\n\nIn her resignation statement, Dame Cressida, who served in the role for almost five years and was recently given a two-year contract extension, said that the murder of Ms Everard and \"many other awful cases recently\" had damaged confidence in the force.\n\n\"There is much to do - and I know that the Met has turned its full attention to rebuilding public trust and confidence,\" she said.\n\nSome people have welcomed her resignation, including Jamie Klingler, co-founder of campaign group Reclaim These Streets, which is bringing a legal challenge against the Met over its handling of a Sarah Everard vigil.\n\nShe said Dame Cressida's resignation came \"11 months too late\" and said reform and change had not been possible under her leadership.\n\nJohn Pape, a friend of Stephen Port murder victim Gabriel Kovari said he was \"gratified\" Dame Cressida was leaving. An inquest found that police failings contributed to the deaths of Port's final three victims.", "A woman who was born with no ears and who underwent ground-breaking surgery 20 years ago to have prosthetic ones fitted has described how it changed her life.\n\nUp until the age of 47, Janet Craven could barely hear and would cover her face with her long hair because she was so self-conscious about her appearance.\n\nJanet, from Wakefield, was born with rare genetic disorder Treacher Collins syndrome, which affects the way the face develops, especially the cheekbones, jaws, ears and eyelids.\n\nWhen she was young, she underwent several pioneering operations to rebuild her facial structure.\n\nBut the most life-changing surgery was carried out much later when prosthetic ears made out of silicone were magnetically attached to her head via titanium implants in the bone.\n\nThe ears fix on to Janet's head via magnets in the back which attach to implants in her skull\n\nShe also had a bone-anchored hearing aid put into her skull which meant she could hear properly for the first time.\n\nJanet, who is now 67, said before her operations her hearing aid was very poor and her experience of sounds was like being in a \"tunnel\".\n\nShe explained: \"I'd be talking to people and they could tell me something, but I wouldn't hear until 10 minutes after, so I was always behind on conversations.\"\n\nJanet's sister, Jackie Blackall, said: \"Because of her condition, mum was very protective of her. So all Janet's life she was covered up and that's how it used to be.\"\n\nJanet added that she always felt \"closed in and shy\", but physically having ears meant she was finally able to cut her long hair, \"feel more normal\" and wear earrings.\n\nShe admitted that now she \"never stops talking\".\n\nSister Jackie (left) says Janet always stayed covered up before she underwent the surgery to fit prosthetic ears\n\nWhen the surgery was carried out in 2002, Janet was thought to be one of only a few people in the country to have undergone the prosthetic ear procedure, which was carried out by surgeon Richard Loukota at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield.\n\nMr Loukota, who has since retired, said fitting Janet's ears - which were based on a mould of her niece's ears - was \"from a surgical point of view, very easy\", with them being clipped on via strong magnets.\n\n\"Surgery is really just a bit of high class carpentry,\" he said.\n\n\"The really clever people in my opinion are the technicians who spend hours carving out the ears which is what everyone sees.\"\n\nAfter the surgery, Janet said she remembered being on \"cloud nine\", although she was suddenly thrust into a world of noise which she at first found overwhelming.\n\n\"There were all these noises around me and I didn't know where they were coming from.\n\n\"I was stood at the traffic lights and I just froze because there was the sound of the traffic and things like the wind, which I'd never heard before,\" she said.\n\nAfter surgery which was carried out by Richard Loukota Janet started fundraising for charities\n\nJanet said it took her a bit of time to adjust and her prosthetic ears did not come without problems.\n\nShe recalled one incident when her Yorkshire terrier, Kirby, ate them.\n\n\"I'd had a few drinks and went to bed and forgot to take my ears off. The dog must have jumped up on the bed in the middle of the night and had a good chew on one of them.\n\n\"I woke up the next morning and there were all these bits of silicone everywhere. My earring was still there but the magnets had gone. I just looked at Kirby and said, 'you haven't'.\"\n\nWorried about how her pet would react to the magnets she took him to the vets, but much to her relief he was unharmed.\n\nJanet said another memorable moment was when she went on her first holiday abroad and the magnets and implants triggered the alarm on the airport security scanner.\n\nShe recalled: \"The security lady said to me, 'why's your head bleeping?' and I said, 'do you really want to know?'\n\n\"I told her about my ears and took them off. She was so shocked she fainted.\"\n\nJanet says at one point her pet dog Kirby ate one of her ears\n\nThe first 12 months after having her ears fitted were \"a bit of a nightmare\", she said.\n\nDepending on wear and tear, new ears are made for Janet every two to three years.\n\nShe said she planned on getting her next set to come complete with double piercings so she can wear more earrings.\n\nShe has also had several upgrades to her hearing implant, with the current device linked up to and controlled via her mobile phone.\n\nJanet said her hope now was to raise money for a charity, the Institute of Maxillofacial Facial Prosthetics and Technologists, as well as Bradford Teaching Hospitals, which she is under the care of.\n\nShe said: \"I really want to help and give something back to those who have helped me so much.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk", "British nationals in Ukraine are being told to leave the country now while commercial means are still available.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office's warning came as the US said that Russia could invade \"any day now\" and told its own citizens to leave in the next 48 hours.\n\nRussia has denied any plans to invade Ukraine despite massing more than 100,000 troops near the border.\n\nBoris Johnson said he feared for the security of Europe as he joined a call of world leaders on Friday.\n\nMr Johnson urged allies to have a \"heavy package of economic sanctions ready to go\" should Russia make the \"devastating and destructive decision\" to invade Ukraine, Downing Street said.\n\nArmed forces minister James Heappey said the advice to Britons in Ukraine had changed because Russia was at a stage where it could attack \"at no notice\".\n\nMr Heappey told BBC Breakfast: \"We are now confident that the artillery systems, the missile systems and the combat air are all in place that would allow Russia to launch - at no notice - an attack on Ukraine.\"\n\nAnd he warned that the Royal Air Force would not be \"in a position\" to go in and fly people out at a later date if they remained in the country.\n\nUS national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Russia was in the position \"to be able to mount a major military operation in Ukraine any day now\" and it could start with an intense aerial bombing. But he stressed the US did not know whether President Vladimir Putin had made a final decision.\n\nHowever, Tobias Ellwood, Conservative MP and chair of the defence select committee, has raised concerns about the rhetoric being used by Washington, saying it was \"bordering on panic\".\n\nMr Ellwood told the BBC's Newsnight programme: \"Absolutely, you've got a duty of care to your citizens, particularly when the threat picture does change.\n\n\"But it's almost bordering on panic and that absolutely fits into Putin's objective. He'll be delighted to see the West and the Nato alliance crumbling in this way.\"\n\nHe said a division of Nato should have been moved into Ukraine months ago, adding: \"The least we can do now is provide a no fly zone.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office, which also now advises against all travel to Ukraine, estimates there are a few thousand British nationals in Ukraine.\n\nIt said that, due to this increased threat, further embassy staff would be withdrawn from Kyiv - although the embassy would remain open but would be unable to provide in-person consular assistance to any Britons who remain.\n\nA UK government source said the safety of Britons was the \"number one priority\" and said the decision was \"the right precaution to take\".\n\nStuart McKenzie, a British man who has lived in the country for 28 years with his Ukrainian wife and children, told BBC Breakfast he was considering options for leaving.\n\n\"Any parent wouldn't want to put their children into any danger whatsoever,\" he said. \"There seem to be more and more threats, and we hear as soon as next week we could have Russian troops in the country.\"\n\nMr McKenzie is considering driving to the border with Poland, but said he was concerned about access to fuel, food, hotels, and cashpoints, as well as the poor weather conditions on the roads.\n\n\"These things can get out of control very fast and we've got to be on the right side of the chaos, to think of a border with a million cars and panic happening would be disastrous,\" he said.\n\nHe also requested that the government open a hotline to give people practical advice on travel options.\n\nSeveral other countries have also advised their nationals to leave the country, including the Netherlands, Japan and South Korea.\n\nIt comes after Moscow began massive military drills with neighbouring Belarus. These are believed to be Russia's largest deployment to Belarus since the Cold War.\n\nFrance called the drills a \"violent gesture\", while Ukraine said they amounted to \"psychological pressure\". Ukraine has also accused Russia of blocking its access to the sea.\n\nBoth French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Joe Biden are due to speak with Mr Putin on Saturday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Russia is in a position to \"mount a major military action\" says US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan\n\nSpeaking from the White House, Mr Sullivan warned there were signs of Russian escalation including new forces arriving at the Ukrainian border and said an invasion could include a \"rapid assault on the city of Kyiv\" or on other parts of the country.\n\nHe said if a Russian invasion proceeded it was likely \"to begin with aerial bombing and missile attacks that could obviously kill civilians without regard to their nationality\".\n\nThis could lead to communications being severed and commercial transit being halted, he said.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that \"an invasion could begin at any time, and to be clear, that includes during the Olympics\". The Winter Olympics in China are scheduled to end on 20 February.\n\nThe US also said it was sending a further 3,000 troops to Poland, and that they were expected to arrive there next week. The troops will not fight in Ukraine, but will ensure the defence of US allies.\n\nThe current tensions come eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula. Since then, Ukraine's military has been locked in a war with Russian-backed rebels in eastern areas near Russia's borders.\n\nThe Kremlin says it cannot accept that Ukraine - a former Soviet republic with deep social and cultural ties with Russia - could one day join the Western defence alliance Nato and has demanded that this be ruled out.\n\nEarlier on Friday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace met his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu and said at a news conference that an invasion of Ukraine would have \"tragic consequences\" for both countries.\n\nMr Wallace said Russian forces were in the position to invade \"at any time\" but said Mr Shoigu had given him security assurances.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Lord Darroch, a former British ambassador to the US and national security adviser, said the build-up could be an attempt by Russia to raise pressure and extract concessions from the West and Ukraine, but added there were not \"any new messages… the West can give to Russia\" to de-escalate the situation.", "Gordon Lyons has contradicted the legal advice relayed by Robin Swann\n\nNorthern Ireland Health Minister Robin Swann does have the authority to lift Covid-19 restrictions, the economy minister has said.\n\nMr Swann told other ministers he had received legal advice indicating he cannot lift all of the regulations in the absence of the executive.\n\nThe executive collapsed after the resignation of Paul Givan from the post of first minister.\n\nBut Gordon Lyons said Mr Swann does not need to take it to the executive.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MLA was responding to a letter from Mr Swann to ministers, which outlined the advice from Stormont lawyers about lifting restrictions.\n\nMr Lyons told BBC News NI ministers were only \"obligated to take issues to the executive if they are controversial, significant or cross cutting.\n\n\"I don't believe the minor easing of restrictions that he has proposed falls into those categories.\"\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said he has received detailed legal advice\n\nOn Monday, Robin Swann said hsaid he hoped to remove the bulk of the rules this week, in the absence of a functioning executive.\n\nBut in the letter, he advised that without an executive, he cannot act alone to amend or revoke the regulations.\n\nThe letter, seen by the BBC, states government lawyers have suggested the issue would be \"significant\" and therefore, under the terms of Stormont's ministerial code, require executive approval.\n\nThe code states that ministers have a duty to bring any matter to the executive which could be deemed significant, controversial or cut across the responsibility of another department.\n\nIt is understood, however, that Mr Swann has also been advised that if other ministers agree that changing the regulations would not fall into one of those three categories, he could proceed to lift the rules with minimal risk.\n\nAlthough the Covid regulations were drafted by the Department of Health, any decision to alter them since the pandemic began had been taken collectively by the five-party executive.\n\nThe executive collapse meant a scheduled meeting of all ministers to review the remaining rules could not take place on Thursday, as it must be chaired by the first and deputy first ministers.\n\nIn the letter, Mr Swann said he had already stated publicly earlier this week that decisions on amending executive restrictions may not be \"straight-forward\".\n\nHe added: \"That has proven to be the case.\n\n\"This is a situation not of my making and it is matter of deep regret that we do not have collective executive leadership to take our society forward to a new phase in the pandemic response.\"\n\nThe minister said the advice he received meant he may have the power to amend only some of the restrictions without executive approval, because they \"do not individually meet the threshold\" for referral.\n\nThe letter also states that Mr Swann has been advised that he should assess whether the decisions being proposed are ones he would have been obliged to bring to the executive if it was still in place.\n\nStormont lawyers gave the health minister legal advice around the lifting of restrictions on Thursday\n\n\"I would emphasise that this is a different test to simply considering whether practice has been to bring such matters to the executive,\" he added.\n\nMr Swann has now asked other ministers to consider the extent to which they believe changing the restrictions meets the criteria of a decision reserved for the whole executive.\n\nHe has asked for responses by 13:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nAlliance MLA Paula Bradshaw said her party colleague, Justice Minister Naomi Long, was talking to officials about this issue.\n\nMs Bradshaw, who sits on Stormont's Health Committee said, \"we don't want restrictions to stay in place for any longer than they have to\".\n\nMeanwhile Belfast Chamber of Commerce chief executive and former DUP minister has said instability at Stormont is a 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSocial Democratic and Labour Party Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon said she did not believe there was a justification for keeping the current measures in place.\n\nSDLP Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon says she does not believe there is a justification for keeping the Covid-19 measures in place\n\n\"I want restrictions lifted but the truth is the restrictions can be lifted if the DUP nominated a first minister and allowed the executive to do its job.\"\n\nThe Covid-19 regulations are legally in force until 24 March, but the executive had previously been carrying out a review of the rules every three weeks.\n\nSo-called Covid passports remain in place for nightclubs as well as for indoor unseated and partially-seated events with 500 or more people in attendance.\n\nA maximum number of 30 people are permitted to gather.\n\nThe minimum self-isolation period for people testing positive for Covid-19 is five full days, subject to negative lateral flow tests on days five and six of a person's isolation.\n\nOther rules still in force include:\n\nRead more about the rules here.\n\nMeanwhile, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill has said the finance minister was exploring how to get approval at Stormont for the draft budget in the absence of the executive.\n\nThe collapse of the executive last week also means ministers are unable to approve the multi-year budget.\n\nThe budget would allow Stormont departments to plan for the next three years.\n\nMinisters had previously agreed to prioritise health and use most of the funding to deal with the crisis including waiting lists.\n\nBut some parties were unhappy about the cuts being proposed to their respective budgets, with the DUP voting against it when it came to the executive for approval in December.\n\nWhile the Stormont executive can no longer meet, new laws passed at Westminster this week means the assembly can continue to scrutinise and pass laws until it is dissolved for the election next month.", "June, Jack, Owain and Grant Thomas on holiday in 2011 - the last picture taken of all four together\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old sportsman who died suddenly 10 years ago has said not knowing exactly how her son died is the worst part.\n\nJack Thomas, of Oakdale, Caerphilly county, died from an undiagnosed heart condition while watching rugby on TV.\n\nHe had represented Wales at taekwondo, was an accomplished rugby player and cricketer and had secured a scholarship at Cardiff Sixth Form College.\n\nJack stopped breathing while watching a Six Nations game on 12 February 2012.\n\nThe 10th anniversary of the Oakdale Comprehensive School pupil's death on Saturday will see the same fixture - Wales v Scotland - being held in Cardiff.\n\nThe Welsh Rugby Union has confirmed it will note his death at the Principality Stadium during half time.\n\n\"I think it's harder this time because everything's the same,\" said June Thomas, Jack's mother.\n\n\"It's like déjà vu and that's not something you want.\"\n\nJack had no obvious medical problems at the time of his death\n\nMrs Thomas received a phone call during half time on that fateful day to say Jack had collapsed while at his girlfriend's house.\n\nHe was taken to hospital in an ambulance where his parents insisted on being by his bedside as staff worked to resuscitate him.\n\n\"I was telling him to wake up, 'prove them wrong', and I even started singing You'll Never Walk Alone to him because he was a massive Liverpool fan. But he was gone,\" Mrs Thomas told BBC Cymru Fyw.\n\nAt his inquest, a coroner ruled Jack died of natural causes but said the specific cause could not be identified and his death certificate lists \"possible arrhythmia\" as a potential cause.\n\n\"The post-mortem said Jack died of natural causes but there's nothing natural about a fit 15-year-old dropping dead while sat on a sofa,\" said Mrs Thomas.\n\nSince Jack's death, his family have campaigned tirelessly in his memory to raise awareness of undiagnosed heart conditions.\n\nAbout 1,500 young people have benefitted from free heart screenings held by the Jack Thomas Memorial Fund and the Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) charity.\n\nJune and Grant Thomas with Jack's friends, who regularly meet up to remember their friend, who was an avid Liverpool fan\n\nEllie Davies, who was 14 at the time and a pupil at the same school as Jack, discovered she had a hole in her heart and was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome after it was detected at a screening organised by Mrs Thomas.\n\nIn another instance, a young member of Blackwood Town's under-15 football team had to get an operation on his heart after the same condition was picked up at a screening event.\n\n\"Obviously it's like 'we've saved someone' and then I think 'I wish I'd have known about this when Jack was here',\" said Mrs Thomas.\n\nSince her first free screening event in 2014, Mrs Thomas continues to organise them twice annually free of charge and needs to raise about £11,000 a year to cover the cost.\n\n\"I'd hate to think there's a family out there who've got a child with an undiagnosed heart condition and they couldn't come to a screening because they couldn't afford it,\" she said.\n\n\"That's why it's important to me to provide these screenings free of charge. There's no way I'd charge and that will never change.\"\n\nAs of September, more than £118,000 had been raised by the Jack Thomas Memorial Fund, while nearly £200,000 has been raised towards the Jack's Appeal defibrillator campaign, in co-operation with the Aneurin Bevan health board.\n\nAs a result, more than a 100 defibrillators have been installed in schools and sports clubs, mainly in south-east Wales, with a further 100 or more public access defibrillators distributed in the area.\n\nOne of these donated defibrillators saved the life of a parent who went into cardiac arrest during a parents' evening.\n\nMrs Thomas has since been awarded the British Empire Medal for her fundraising efforts.\n\nShe has also spoken in the Senedd to advocate Jack's Law, which could make defibrillators mandatory in every secondary school in Wales.\n\nMeanwhile, the family still hope St George's Hospital in London, which specialises in cardiology, will provide them with long-awaited answers about Jack's untimely death.\n\nGrant and June Thomas with their son, Owain, who is now 22\n\n\"We're going down the genetic side to see if we can find anything out,\" said Mrs Thomas, who now fundraises full-time.\n\n\"When someone asks how Jack died I say 'I don't know'. I've got nothing - that's the worst bit, there's no reason.\n\n\"But I know it's not natural - something happened and the cardiologists know it happened but they don't know why and this is where the research comes in.\n\n\"We've been trying for this for 10 years. We went through a lot of tests, [my son] Owain twice a year until he was 18 and then another one afterwards - but we're all fine. It's the genetic side we've just got to find out.\"\n\nMrs Thomas said her youngest son, Owain, who now lives and works away with the RAF, has been a real source of strength to her and husband Grant.\n\nJack's friends raised more than £8,000 in his memory by taking part in a 24-hour cycling challenge\n\n\"As Owain's grown he's morphed into his brother,\" she said.\n\n\"His mannerisms - he can take Jack off to the tee, he has us in stitches, does impressions of Jack.\n\n\"We're keeping Jack's memory alive in the house, the laughing as well as the crying, of course, but Owain is just a tonic.\n\n\"When Jack died my world crumbled around me but a hand of a 12-year-old pulled me out of the rubble - he has been our strength.\"", "The price of pasta, tinned tomatoes and strawberry jam jumped last year as the cost of supermarket staples rose, new figures for the BBC suggest.\n\nOverall, the price of a basket filled with 15 standard food items rose by £1.32, or 8%, in just one year.\n\nChanges in the average cost of the food items at Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Tesco were tracked by retail research firm Assosia.\n\nSome items fell in price, with carrots and mild cheddar seeing small declines.\n\nThe same basket of food made up of items from the cheaper \"value\" ranges at the supermarkets recorded an overall fall in price, down 45p, or 4%. But within that, items such as pasta and vanilla ice cream saw rises of more than 6%.\n\nOther items the firm tracked in the new research for BBC News included tortilla chips, fish fingers, honey, blueberries, carrots and lemons.\n\nAlthough official figures suggest that the overall cost of living increased by 5.4% in the year to December, this number - known as the inflation rate - can mask some steep rises seen at the tills, especially on everyday items.\n\nThere are many factors that can make it difficult to track how prices are changing for households, such as promotions at supermarkets or a lack of availability of certain products.\n\nAsda, for example, recently pledged to stock its budget ranges in all of its 581 supermarkets and online after complaints from anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe.\n\n\"Looking at food prices is a bit of a minefield\", says Kay Staniland, director at Assosia. Her company selected a snapshot of popular products that were comparable across the value and standard ranges.\n\n\"I think the figures show that retailers are trying to avoid the biggest increases to value lines as much as possible. But these value lines do make up a small part of total ranges. The standard mid-tier range is where the largest volume of sales come from,\" she says.\n\nAdam Leyland, editor of The Grocer magazine, also tracks a weekly basket of goods and how prices differ across the supermarket aisles. He says \"we're now in a 'once in a generation' moment for food inflation in the UK\".\n\n\"We've not seen anything like this since the financial crash in 2008. And this is just the start. It's going to go on for two or two and a half years, probably as various costs and problems filter through into the system.\"\n\nInflation is everywhere in the food supply chain, he says, from rising energy and labour costs to raw materials and packaging.\n\nThe supermarkets are now grappling with how much of these costs to pass on.\n\n\"The food market is incredibly competitive and if you put your prices up ahead of the competition, the shopper will notice. Right now, more than ever, price is the major focus for the shopper. And they will vote with their feet,\" he says.\n\nShoppers such as Fernanda Almeida have already been feeling the pinch, though.\n\nFernanda Almeida says she now cooks meals from scratch to save money\n\nShe lives with her partner in Worcester and the pair used to purchase ready-meals, or pots of instant porridge, which he could take along to his military barracks where cooking space is limited.\n\nBut after the shopping bill went up by about £20 a week, they introduced some changes.\n\n\"Our shopping has changed completely... we're definitely cooking from scratch a lot more now because it just works out cheaper,\" Fernanda says.\n\nShe says she feels \"worried\". \"I've gone from someone who has a budget per month but goes to the shop without a list, picks up things that I fancy eating, to planning each meal, checking items off against the list.\"\n\nShe's noticed that tinned items in particular have gone up in price and it can often be cheaper to buy individual items for recipes in larger supermarkets, even in comparison with discount stores like Aldi or Lidl.\n\nVimbai Gwata-St John in Bexley has seen her food shop go up by about £20 a week, too.\n\nVimbai Gwata-St John: \"The one thing you can't compromise on is food\"\n\nAs a mum to an 18-week-old baby with food intolerances she has had to chop and change what they are buying from week to week.\n\nShe says she used to follow a budget strictly until she became ill during her pregnancy.\n\n\"Because of that, we didn't have time or ability to track our expenses, we just bought what we needed out of desperation because of the other problems at that point in our lives.\"\n\nNow she is trying to get the budget back on track and is looking at couponing or starting to buy items such as toilet paper or nappies in bulk.\n\nAlthough prices are going up across the board, she says: \"The one thing you can't compromise on is food.\"\n\nHow supermarkets manage their own inflationary pressures will have consequences for millions of households. And the least well-off, which spend a bigger share of income on essentials such as food and energy, are less able to absorb soaring prices in the aisles.\n\nThe big four supermarket chains have learned from the mistakes they made in 2008, when they put prices up. Aldi and Lidl swooped, stealing customers and market share. Their businesses have since doubled in size and are still opening new stores.\n\n\"The battleground is value. And they are determined to stop them (the discounters) making further grounds. For instance, Tesco and Sainsbury's are price-matching Aldi.\n\nCost cutting, shrinkflation - reducing the size of a product but not the price - and cutting back on expensive ingredients are just some of the tactics that retailers are using to mitigate the rising cost of groceries. But the trend is clear.\n\nAssosia recorded more than 17,000 price increases across the main supermarkets last month, more than double the number in the same month last year, and across every category.\n\n\"Inflation is everywhere\" says Mr Leyland. And he agrees with the recent warning from John Allan, the chairman of Tesco, that the worst is yet to come.", "Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said getting back to power sharing depends on whether the Irish Sea border is removed\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said he does not believe problems with the Northern Ireland Protocol will be resolved before May's Assembly election.\n\nThe party's first minister Paul Givan resigned over the issue, causing the suspension of the Stormont Executive.\n\nThe protocol puts a trade border in the Irish Sea.\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme getting back to power sharing depends on whether that border is removed.\n\n\"I think that the likelihood of agreement being reached is actually quite small,\" he said.\n\n\"That was confirmed to me by the prime minister.\n\n\"He doesn't expect, unless something changes dramatically, that agreement will be reached this side of an election to remove the Irish Sea border.\n\n\"I wish it were otherwise. I want to see the political institutions restored and operating fully restored - we're committed to that.\n\n\"But we want to see Northern Ireland's place within the UK internal market fully restored.\"\n\nUnionists, including Sir Jeffrey and his party, oppose the Northern Ireland protocol, saying it has a placed a border in the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.\n\nSir Jeffrey reiterated his party's position that they had entered back into power sharing at the beginning of 2020, following the commitments given in the New Decade, New Approach NDNA deal.\n\nIn NDNA, the government gave a \"commitment that it would protect Northern Ireland's place within the UK internal market that it would introduce measures to afford that protection\", Sir Jeffrey said.\n\n\"Over two years later, it has not done so and so we believe the UK government has dishonoured the agreement that was the basis upon which the devolved institutions were restored in Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\nThe protocol allows lorries to deliver goods without having paperwork and goods checked when they cross the border from Northern Ireland into the Republic of Ireland\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol was negotiated between the EU and the UK government in late 2019.\n\nBut the UK government now wants significant reform of the agreement.\n\nLord Frost, who helped to negotiate the protocol, subsequently argued that the arrangement was harming the peace process in Northern Ireland.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss is now leading talks over the protocol on top of her current post.\n\n\"Well, we are absolutely clear that the rights of Northern Ireland citizens and businesses to trade freely within their own country must be upheld,\" said Sir Jeffrey.\n\n\"The Irish Sea border must go as it is wrong that people trading within the United Kingdom, businesses ordering component parts, trying to access their supply chains in Great Britain cannot do so,\" he said.\n\nAsked whether he would accept a Sinn Féin first minister, Mr Donaldson said he wanted to win the election and was \"not contemplating defeat\".\n\n\"I'm not prepared to contemplate defeat in this election in advance of an election,\" he said.\n\n\"In a democracy, parties have the right to contest an election on the basis that they want to win.\n\n\"I'm not going to commit to anything until the Irish Sea border will be removed.\"\n\nNo 10 has been contacted for comment.", "Ontario has declared a state of emergency in response to two weeks of protests against Covid restrictions.\n\nThe order came as protests continue to restrict traffic on a border bridge that is vital for US-Canada trade.\n\nBlocking crucial infrastructure would be made \"illegal\" under the order, punishable by up to a year in jail and C$100,000 ($79,000; £58,000) in fines.\n\nOn Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with US President Joe Biden about the border blockades.\n\nThe pair discussed their \"shared challenges at the border\", Mr Trudeau said, with the prime minister promising quick action to resume trade.\n\nAddressing Canadians on Friday, Mr Trudeau applauded Ontario's measure and said that \"everything is on the table\" to ensure the demonstrations are brought to an end.\n\n\"It is it is time to go home,\" he said. \"The consequences are becoming more and more severe.\"\n\nMr Trudeau insisted that the \"unlawful activity\" would end, but said military intervention has not yet been seriously considered.\n\nAbout 100 vehicles - pickup trucks, SUVs and articulated lorries - were parked along the road leading up to the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, festooned with Canadian Flags and signs proclaiming \"Freedom\".\n\nThe atmosphere was noticeably more subdued on Friday than previous evenings, protesters told the BBC.\n\nIf the Ottawa protest has made national headlines for its noise and bluster, then the Windsor bridge blockade has left its mark by making millions of dollars of daily trade come to a halt. The area was mostly quiet, save for the occasional honking horn and the stereo sound of Bruce Springsteen's \"Dancing in the Dark.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, former cross-border truck driver Hank, who did not want to give his last name, said he was there to support his friends who've lost their jobs.\n\n\"We want our freedoms back, we want mandates lifted,\" he said. \"We want life to go back to the old normal not the new normal.\"\n\nWith a judge considering an injunction, and a state of emergency declared, most protesters are waiting to see if police make their move.\n\nHank says he thinks their time in Windsor is running out: \"We can't fight behind bars. We have to keep it peaceful,\" he said.\n\nOntario Premier Doug Ford said the province's emergency order would apply to anyone impeding the movement of goods, people and services along international border crossings, airports, ports and major highways.\n\nThe Canadian province will also provide additional authority so that the personal and commercial licences of protesters who do not comply may be cancelled.\n\n\"Your right to make a political statement does not outweigh the right of hundreds of thousands of workers to earn their living,\" Mr Ford said.\n\nThe country-wide protests against Covid-19 vaccine mandates are poised to enter their third weekend.\n\nA \"Freedom Convoy\" was organised last month in response to the introduction of a new rule that all truckers must be vaccinated to cross the US-Canada border, or quarantine upon their return. The protest has since grown into a broader challenge to all Covid health restrictions.\n\nThe vast majority of Canadian truckers are vaccinated and trucking associations have distanced themselves from the protests, noting most drivers are still working.\n\nThousands of demonstrators have congregated in central Ottawa, others have blocked the Ambassador Bridge - which links Windsor, Ontario, with Detroit, Michigan - and a handful of other border crossings.\n\nAuthorities have warned members of the public to avoid Emerson, a small border town in Manitoba, where trucks and farm equipment are currently clogging the US border.\n\nThe trade disruption has been estimated to cost some C$380m ($300m; £221m) each day.\n\nSmaller protests have been held in Toronto and Quebec City, as well as near provincial legislatures in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and British Columbia.\n\nThe mayors of Ontario's biggest cities issued a joint statement on Monday, condemning the \"irresponsible and damaging\" actions of the protesters, calling for all governments to bring the demonstrations to a peaceful end.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, Canada's capital city filed an injunction with Ontario's Superior Court against people continuing to violate Ottawa's bylaws, aimed at those making noise, idling, fireworks, and encroachments on highways.\n\nAlso on Friday, the Superior Court justice delayed hearing an application for another injunction that would stop protesters blocking Canada-bound traffic at the Ambassador Bridge.\n\nUS officials have urged Canada's government to use its federal powers to end the blockade - especially of the Ambassador Bridge - which has already hit the automobile industry either side of the border.\n\nThe White House said this week that US officials had been engaged with their Canadian counterparts to help resume trade along the border.\n\nPremier Ford's Friday announcement marks the first state of emergency in the province since April, when Ontario implemented its third emergency order over Covid-19 transmission.\n\nIn recent days Mr Ford had faced criticism for not doing more to stop the convoy blockade in Ottawa.\n\nAnd while he repeatedly denounced the weeks-long demonstration on Friday, he also indicated the province would be moving to lift existing Covid-19 restrictions, including the vaccine \"passport\" system which requires proof of vaccination to enter indoor public settings like gyms and restaurants.", "A college spokesperson said the incident was seen by students and staff at its Chaffron campus\n\nA 16-year-old boy has died after he was stabbed at a college.\n\nThames Valley Police said it was called to reports of a boy being stabbed at Milton Keynes College in Chaffron Way at 13:30 GMT. He died in hospital.\n\nAn 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nEarlier, the college said an \"incident\" had been witnessed by staff and students, some of whom had provided first aid. It is not known if the boy was a college student.\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Shearwood, of the major crime unit, said: \"We are in the early stages of our investigation; however, we are following several significant lines of inquiry.\n\n\"We fully understand that this incident may concern members of the public, and as such they are likely to see an increased police presence while the investigation continues.\"\n\nHe added a number of people had already come forward, and anyone with information was encouraged to contact police or Crimestoppers.\n\nIn a statement on Friday afternoon, a college spokesperson said the incident had happened on the Redway - a network of pavements in Milton Keynes - near its Chaffron campus in Leadenhall.\n\n\"We know at this stage that colleagues and students both witnessed the incident and helped to provide emergency first aid - they are being supported by our counselling teams,\" they added.\n\n\"Whilst this incident did not happen on our campus, we do know that the fact it was witnessed by college students will heighten anxiety and feelings of being unsafe.\n\n\"We will therefore be increasing leadership presence and security at our Chaffron Way campus next week to help to provide reassurance.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Our business is growing,\" says Poundland managing director Barry Williams\n\nPoundland is selling more fresh food in a bid to attract cash-strapped shoppers to do a weekly shop with the budget chain.\n\nIt's opening its biggest ever store in Nottingham today which will have shelves of fruit, vegetables and bread.\n\nPoundland has been trialling fresh food in a handful of convenience stores but it's the first time the retailer has stocked these items in a main store.\n\nIt plans to add the new ranges to more than 20 other large stores this year.\n\nIt's already begun rolling out chilled and frozen food and aims to have that stocked in 350 stores by the autumn.\n\n\"It's a natural extension of what our customers are looking for,\" says the managing director of Poundland, Barry Williams.\n\nHis latest shop, on a retail park on the outskirts of Nottingham, is twice the typical size of a regular Poundland.\n\nIt feels like a supermarket with trolleys and belted checkouts, as well as beer, wine and spirits.\n\nPoundland is launching its first large-format store\n\nAlthough grocery sales soared during the pandemic, the going hasn't been easy for discount chains as shoppers returned to the big weekly shop - and did it online.\n\nBut the boss of Poundland says the discounters are starting to grow again.\n\n\"Our business is growing. The size of the basket that shoppers are spending with us is growing quite dramatically.\"\n\n\"I'm seeing shoppers shop around a lot more particularly than what they were doing during the pandemic. There are locations that are coming back to life again, I think shoppers are definitely on the hunt for value now\".\n\nBut, like every other retailer, Poundland is also grappling with rising costs.\n\n\"Inflation is hitting us right across the board,\" says Mr Williams.\n\n\"The cost of transportation and fuel, the cost of containers - that is double digit percentage inflation that we're seeing right now. And if you think of wage inflation for our colleagues, which we're supportive of, that is high single per cent inflation as well. I've got suppliers approaching us, and they all want cost increases\".\n\nThe grocery aisles are fiercely competitive. But with shoppers perhaps more price-sensitive than they've ever been, retailers have to balance how much of their costs to pass on without losing customers to rivals.\n\nThe boss of Poundland says he's determined to keep his prices keen: \"I'm not a magician, I'm not Paul Daniels. I can't magic all of this stuff away.\n\n\"What I can do is work as hard as I can on behalf of shoppers, to make sure that we mitigate as much as we can to protect them. Our view is really clear - that people who work the hardest on behalf of shoppers are the ones who are going to win. The ones who just pass that on to the shoppers. Well, shoppers are king, they can go wherever they want.\"", "Law enforcement takes part in joint drills with the National Guard in the Kherson region of Ukraine on Saturday\n\nMore than a dozen countries have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine amid warnings from Western powers that an invasion by Russia could be imminent.\n\nThe US, UK and Germany are among those who told their nationals to leave.\n\nMoscow has amassed an estimated 100,000 troops along Ukraine's border but denies any intent to invade.\n\nIn a phone call, US President Joe Biden again warned Russian leader Vladimir Putin of the costs of any invasion.\n\nFor his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said invasion warnings could stoke panic, which he called \"the best friend of our enemies\".\n\nThe White House has warned that an invasion could happen at any time, and could begin with bombing from the air. Russia characterised such allegations as \"provocative speculation\".\n\nNon-essential staff have been ordered to leave the US Embassy in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, and consular services will be suspended from Sunday, although \"a small consular presence\" will remain in the western city of Lviv \"to handle emergencies\".\n\nCanada is also moving its embassy staff to Lviv, near the border with Poland, Canadian media reported. UK ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons tweeted that she and a \"core team\" are staying in Kyiv.\n\nRussia itself is also making changes, saying it will \"optimise the staffing\" of its diplomats in Ukraine, citing \"possible acts of provocation by the Kyiv regime or third countries\".\n\nThe US has also pulled some 150 troops who were training Ukrainian soldiers out of the country, citing an abundance of caution. And Dutch airline KLM announced it would stop flying to Ukraine, effective immediately, Dutch media said.\n\nMr Zelensky said that if Western powers had any firm evidence of an impending invasion, he had yet to see it.\n\n\"I think there is too much information in the media about a deep, full-scale war,\" he said.\n\n\"We understand all the risks, we understand that they exist. If you or someone else has additional 100% reliable information about the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine... please share it with us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. I’m staying in Ukraine, for now: Watch US citizen and English teacher Juan Tec explain why\n\nMany countries, including Australia, Italy, Israel, the Netherlands and Japan have told their citizens to leave Ukraine. Some have also evacuated diplomatic staff and their families.\n\nMr Biden told Mr Putin that any invasion would result in \"swift and severe costs on Russia\", White House notes about the call said.\n\n\"While the United States remains prepared to engage in diplomacy... we are equally prepared for other scenarios,\" it said.\n\nThe Kremlin described the call as taking place amid \"peak hysteria\" from the US and its allies, and said Mr Putin had again told his counterpart that they had not addressed Russia's security concerns. But both leaders would continue to talk, it said.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron also spoke to Mr Putin by phone on Saturday, telling him that \"a sincere dialogue was not compatible with escalation\", according to notes released by the French embassy.\n\nWith foreign embassies withdrawing staff and a host of countries now telling their citizens to leave Ukraine, Kyiv still doesn't feel like a city in crisis.\n\nThe government here is telling people to stay calm and united and, in the words of a statement this morning, refrain from actions that undermine stability and sow panic. President Zelensky said the country had to be ready for any eventuality.\n\nAcross Ukraine, foreign citizens are now making hurried plans. Stuart McKenzie, who's lived in Kyiv for 28 years and runs a successful business, hopes to get his wife and two sons out on a flight. But he is ready, if necessary, to pack the family into the car and drive 300 miles to Poland. He loves Ukraine and can't quite believe it's come to this.\n\nAt the British Embassy, we found tight-lipped staff loading bags into a car and driving off. No-one seemed keen to talk.\n\nNot far to the north, across the border in Belarus, Russia's war games are now well under way. Russian defence ministry pictures, released this morning, showed multiple rocket launchers being fired. Moscow still says it has no plans to invade. But there's a lot the Russians can do without ever setting foot inside Ukraine.\n\nIn Kyiv, several thousand people marched through the city on Saturday, chanting slogans pledging loyalty to Ukraine and resistance to any Russian invasion. The march was organised by a right-wing nationalist group called Gonor and anti-Zelensky far-right activist Sergiy Sternenko, but it attracted other people too.\n\nBBC reporter Eleanor Montague says the demonstration was not huge, but was the first significant manifestation of public feeling since tensions escalated, finishing at the Maidan, the city's most famous square.\n\nSasha Nizelska, who works as a nanny in Kyiv, told the BBC that she would resist a Russian attack with all means in her power. The sentiment was repeated by people of all age groups attending the demonstration.\n\nTensions have steadily increased as Russia has continued to deploy troops along Ukraine's eastern border. Russian troops are also staging military exercises in Belarus to the north, while naval exercises in the Sea of Azov in the south-east have led to accusations that Russia is blocking Ukraine's access to the sea.\n\nMeanwhile, some 7,500km (4,660 miles) away on Russia's eastern side, the Russian defence ministry says it spotted a US Navy submarine inside its territorial waters. Officials say the US submarine was near the Kuril Islands and failed to surface when instructed.\n\nThe Marshal Shaposhnikov destroyer took unspecified \"appropriate\" actions and the US submarine left the area, the ministry said. A US defence official has been summoned by Moscow over the incident.\n\nHowever, US officials later contradicted their Russian counterparts' version of events.\n\n\"There is no truth to the Russian claims of our operations in their territorial waters,\" US military spokesman Captain Kyle Raines said in a statement carried by Reuters.\n\n\"I will not comment on the precise location of our submarines but we do fly, sail, and operate safely in international waters.\"", "A suspect was arrested 30 minutes after the woman contacted the wrong police force more than 3,000 miles away\n\nPolice call handlers saved a woman from an intruder 3,000 miles away in Canada after she contacted the wrong force.\n\nThe team at Durham Police, England, were contacted via online chat by a woman who reported an intruder in her home in Durham, Canada.\n\nShe had typed \"I need help, he is in the house\" before falling silent.\n\nRealising the woman's mistake, Durham Police contacted their Canadian counterparts and a man was arrested 30 minutes later near her home.\n\nA spokeswoman for Durham Police said the call handlers kept the live chat open while contacting Canadian officers from the Ontario province, who were immediately sent to the scene in the town of Ajax.\n\nA 35-year-old man was cornered in a nearby yard and Tasered.\n\nPolice said the woman had been attacked and needed medical treatment.\n\nA man has now been charged with breaking and entering, assault and forcible confinement.\n\nInsp Andrea Arthur, head of Durham Police's control room, said: \"This was an unusual incident and a very distressing situation for the victim, but the team remained calm and managed to help our Canadian colleagues resolve the situation quickly and professionally.\n\n\"If we can assist in rescuing a vulnerable victim in immediate danger, regardless of where they live, we will do all we can to help.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liz Truss and Maroš Šefčovič met at Carlton Gardens in London on Friday\n\nThe UK and EU will hold \"intensive discussions\" in the coming days after another round of negotiations between Liz Truss and her EU counterpart Maroš Šefčovič came to an end on Friday.\n\nThe chief Brexit negotiator previously said fixing the Northern Ireland Protocol was an \"absolute priority\".\n\nA joint statement indicated the pair had agreed on the need for progress \"in the interest of people in NI\".\n\nThey said they will \"keep in close touch\".\n\nThe UK foreign secretary and EU Commission vice president spoke via video-conference last week, but no breakthrough was reached.\n\nA meeting of the Joint Committee, the formal body overseeing the protocol, will happen on 21 February.\n\nThat will be the first such meeting of the committee in more than six months.\n\nThe government has insisted it wants to reach a solution urgently, after the collapse of the power-sharing executive at Stormont last week.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) withdrew Paul Givan as first minister as part of its ongoing opposition to the Irish Sea border.\n\nThe party has argued that unless the arrangements are changed, political institutions in Northern Ireland cannot continue as normal.\n\nLiz Truss said she wants to work with the EU towards solutions that deliver for people in Northern Ireland\n\nAhead of the meeting, Ms Truss said: \"Fixing the Northern Ireland Protocol is an absolute priority for me.\n\n\"We have a shared responsibility with the EU to work towards solutions as quickly as possible that deliver for the people of Northern Ireland.\n\nThe protocol keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and EU customs rules are enforced at its ports.\n\nThat arrangement has prevented a hardening of the Irish land border, but it means new paperwork and processes when importing goods from Great Britain.\n\nUnionist politicians have criticised the arrangements and say the Irish Sea border undermines Northern Ireland's position in the UK as well as causing difficulties for some businesses.\n\nThe fact that a statement is \"joint\" would usually be taken as a good sign.\n\nBut today's readout, from the UK's Liz Truss and the EU's Maroš Šefčovič, was also very brief - with a good chunk of the word count used up describing the logistics of the meeting, rather than its actual substance.\n\nRumours that the UK would use today to make a \"big\" new offer have been downplayed by both sides although I am told ideas are always being batted about.\n\nCustoms is the area where there has been the most progress but it is slow-going.\n\nAll eyes now turn to the \"joint committee\" on 21 February - where senior politicians and representatives will meet in Brussels.\n\nIt is a moment to take stock and see what, if anything, can be formally agreed in this period of heightened political sensitivity in Northern Ireland, ahead of the assembly elections in May.\n\nSpeaking after an anti-protocol rally in Dromore, County Down, on Thursday night, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said it was \"the single greatest threat to Northern Ireland's place in the UK in a generation\".\n\n\"The presence of trade barriers within our own country has the grave potential to succeed where decades of terrorism failed, by driving an irrevocable wedge between Northern Ireland and other parts of the UK,\" Sir Jeffrey said.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said the EU should act immediately to \"resolve the problems created by the protocol\"\n\n\"If the EU really care about political stability in Northern Ireland, then they should act immediately to resolve the problems created by the protocol.\"\n\nThe rally also featured TUV leader Jim Allister and Ulster Unionist assembly member Robbie Butler alongside Baroness Kate Hoey and former Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib.\n\nOn Thursday, former prime minister John Major described the protocol as \"arguably one of the worst pieces of negotiation we have seen in recent history\".\n\n\"It is causing an enormous amount of trouble,\" he said.\n\n\"Whether anyone deliberately misled about that I can't say - certainly they were mistaken.\n\n\"But it does help, if you sign treaties, if you understand them before you sign them.\"\n\nFormer prime minister John Major described the protocol as \"arguably one of the worst pieces of negotiation we have seen in recent history\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson repeated his view that the government would trigger a mechanism to override part of the deal, if a breakthrough cannot be reached.\n\nArticle 16 allows either the UK or EU to temporarily suspend the protocol, if it is deemed to be causing significant economic, societal or environmental difficulties.\n\nOver the past seven months the UK government has been attempting to renegotiate the deal.\n\nIn July, it proposed an arrangement in which goods from Great Britain, which are due to stay in Northern Ireland, would not be checked and would have minimal paperwork.\n\nGoods which are due to move onwards to the Republic of Ireland would be checked at Northern Ireland's ports.\n\nThe EU published its own proposals in October, which it said would significantly reduce, but not eliminate, checks on goods.\n\nIt has previously said that the easiest way to reduce checks would be for the UK to sign up to a Swiss-style agri-food agreement.\n\nThat would involve all of the UK following the relevant EU rules, something the government has said it could not accept.", "Thousands more lives could be saved if people knew how to spot the early signs of a heart attack, the NHS has said.\n\nDoctors want people to be more aware of common early symptoms such as sweating and tightness in the chest - and to call 999 if they experience them.\n\nIt comes after a poll found fewer than half of people knew to dial 999 for some of the more vague signs.\n\nThere are more than 80,000 hospital admissions for heart attacks each year in England.\n\nThe overall survival rate for people experiencing a heart attack is seven in 10, rising to nine in 10 for those who seek early hospital treatment.\n\nThe new NHS campaign runs from 14 February to 31 March and tells people to dial 999 if they experience common early symptoms including sweating, uneasiness and chest tightness.\n\nIn the poll of 2,000 people, only 41% said they knew sweating was an early symptom while just 27% knew that light-headedness, feeling weak or uneasy was also common.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS England's medical director, said thousands of deaths could be prevented with earlier treatment if people recognise these vital signs.\n\n\"Sadly, cardiovascular disease causes a quarter of all deaths across the country and we have identified this as the single biggest area where we can save lives over the next decade.\"\n\nProf Powis added: \"It can be easy to dismiss early symptoms as they don't always feel severe, but it is never too early to dial 999 in this circumstance - and the faster you act, the better the chance of a full recovery.\"\n\nThe campaign also seeks to raise awareness of cardiac arrest - which is not the same as a heart attack. There is often no warning with a cardiac arrest and the person quickly loses consciousness.\n\nThose experiencing a cardiac arrest will usually die within minutes if they do not receive treatment. A heart attack can lead to a cardiac arrest.\n\nThe campaign is being supported by celebrities such as One Foot in the Grave actor Richard Wilson and Sky Sports presenter Peter Dale, known as Tubes.\n\nMr Wilson said: \"I've battled with my heart health for a while, and since experiencing a heart attack I've really opened my eyes to the impact it's had on my life.\n\n\"I got more tired, I'm able to walk around less and my memory has suffered as well. The scariest part is that at the time I did not know enough about heart attacks or heart health.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to use a defibrillator and save a life", "Flamur Beqiri is the brother of Misse Beqiri, who appeared in Real Housewives Of Cheshire\n\nA Swedish hitman has been found guilty of murdering a man in front of his family in a tit-for-tat gang war.\n\nFlamur Beqiri, 36, was shot in the back of the head on the doorstep of his home in Battersea, south-west London, in front of his wife and toddler on Christmas Eve 2019.\n\nThe gunman, 24-year-old kickboxer Anis Hemissi, was convicted following a two-week trial at Southwark Crown Court.\n\nTobias Andersson, 32, and Bawer Karaer, 23, also from Sweden, were acquitted of both charges.\n\nEsteven-Alexis Pino-Munizaga (l) was found guilty of manslaughter, while Anis Fouad Hemissi (r) was convicted of murder\n\nThe court heard that Mr Beqiri was a kingpin in an international drugs gang and had been targeted as part of a feud with a rival organised crime group. He was shot a number of times in a killing that had been six months in the planning.\n\nThe killers came to London from Sweden before returning. A local team - Clifford Rollox, 31, from Islington, north London, and Dutch national Claude Isaac Castor, 31, from Sint Maarten in the Caribbean, who were hired to \"tidy up\" the aftermath, were found guilty of perverting the course of justice.\n\nClifford Rollox (l) and Claude Isaac (r) were both found guilty of perverting the course of justice\n\nHemissi was caught on CCTV wearing a latex mask as he opened fire 10 times with a pistol, hitting Mr Beqiri with eight bullets from behind.\n\nHe had earlier disguised himself as a litter picker to carry out reconnaissance.\n\nHemissi, wearing a latex mask, posed as a street cleaner in the days before the shooting, Southwark Crown Court heard\n\nThe following day he was filmed wearing a different mask\n\nThe jury was not told that he had previously been a suspect in the murder of a man shot dead in Malmo, but had never been charged.\n\nLouise Attrill, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said the \"international assassination\", was \"a shocking, cold-blooded and brutal murder of a man in front of his young family on Christmas Eve.\n\n\"The intention was clear - to kill.\"\n\nShe added that \"multiple shots\" had been \"fired at close range\", and the murder had been \"deliberately carried out in a way that would cause maximum terror and trauma given the date, place and circumstances\".\n\nFlowers were left in Battersea Church Road after the shooting\n\nMr Beqiri, who had joint Swedish and Albanian nationality, claimed to be in the music business but had been involved in the international drugs trade since 2007.\n\nHe was the brother of The Real Housewives Of Cheshire reality television participant, Misse Beqiri.\n\nMrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said she would sentence those found guilty over his killing on 18 February.\n• None Murder accused came to UK to 'Netflix and chill'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Unvaccinated British teenagers will be allowed into Spain from Monday with a negative PCR test, Spanish tourism minister Fernando Valdés has told the BBC.\n\nAt the moment everyone over 12 has to be double-jabbed to enter the country.\n\nSome families had already cancelled half term holidays to Spain and the Canary Islands because their children had not yet had their second jab.\n\nPeople aged 18 and over must still be vaccinated to get into the country.\n\nMr Valdés said that 12-to-17 year-olds who have not been vaccinated against Covid will be allowed into the country from Monday 14 February, if they present a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours of arrival to Spain.\n\nThe restrictions will be lifted from 23:00 GMT on 13 February.\n\n\"Great Britain is our main market,\" said Mr Valdés. \"We've been always very keen in easing the restrictions between both countries.\"\n\nAll other UK travellers, excluding children under 12, will need to present a Covid certificate showing proof of being fully vaccinated at least 14 days before arrival in Spain.\n\nIf more than 270 days have passed since vaccination, proof of a booster jab is also required.\n\nPrior to travelling, air passengers have to show a QR code, which they get by filling in a Spanish health control form.\n\nThe announcement comes after many UK families cancelled half-term trips to mainland Spain and the Canary Islands due to the jab restrictions.\n\nHoteliers in the islands said the restrictions had lost them millions of pounds' worth of trade.\n\nHowever, hundreds of thousands of people are embarking on half-term winter sun and ski trips, according to industry body Abta.\n\nHave you been affected by Spain's rule change? Get in touch.\n\nThe UK scrapped coronavirus testing for fully vaccinated travellers from 04:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps described this as \"good news\" for families.\n\n\"The UK has eased international travel measures for Covid-19 and now has one of the most free-flowing borders in the world - sending a clear message that we are open for business,\" he said.\n\nThe Canary Islands, Egypt, Portugal and Turkey are popular destinations for British holidaymakers, Abta said, as are the Caribbean, Dubai, Florida and Mexico.\n\nBookings to ski resorts in France, Italy and Switzerland have also picked up, it said.\n\nThe easing of restrictions on Friday came as Gatwick Airport announced that it would reopen its south terminal on 27 March.\n\nThe terminal has been mothballed since 15 June 2020 as the airport tried to contain costs during the slump in international travel caused by the Covid pandemic.\n\nNow the terminal is reopening as airlines are starting to increase the number of flights they are operating.\n\nBritish Airways is to restart short-haul flights from Gatwick from 29 March and sister airline Vueling will add five new short-haul routes from the airport.\n\nEasyjet and Hungarian carrier Wizz Air have also added more slots.\n\nGatwick chief executive Stewart Wingate said: \"After an incredibly challenging two years for the airport, our partners, local communities and the entire aviation industry, we are delighted to be reopening our south terminal next month.\n\nThe airport has been \"recruiting for some time\", it said, and is still looking for 2,000 staff in roles including security officers, IT specialists, engineers, shop and restaurant workers, ground and cargo handlers and cabin crew.\n\nDespite signs of recovery in the travel industry, Heathrow Airport gave a downbeat assessment of passenger confidence on Friday.\n\nIt said that demand for travel had been weaker than expected in January - 56% down on pre-pandemic levels - \"as the hangover from Omicron continued to suppress passenger confidence\".\n\n\"While bookings for outbound tourism are recovering, inbound tourism and business travel remain weak due to Covid-19 levels in the UK and other countries, international testing requirements and the risk of new border closures in the event of a new variant of concern,\" it said.\n\nHeathrow's chief executive John Holland-Kaye said the removal of restrictions for vaccinated passengers in and out of the UK \"offers a ray of hope, but the Omicron hangover proves demand remains fragile\".\n\nBut some travel firms are more optimistic. This week Tui chief executive Fritz Joussen said the firm expected \"a strong summer\", adding that \"demand for travel is high across all markets\".\n\nNew bookings for the summer were above pre-Covid crisis levels Tui and the group expects summer bookings as a whole to be close to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nJet2 boss Steve Heapy predicted the Spanish government's relaxation of restrictions would lead to an increase in bookings from the UK.\n\n\"The removal of the requirement for 12-17 year olds to be double-vaccinated tells families that travelling to Spain is returning to normal, and after two years of missing out we know how much everyone wants to experience that famous Spanish sunshine again,\" Mr Heapy said.\n\nThe chair of Hays Travel, Dame Irene Hays, told the Today programme this week that the independent travel agent had seen a spike in bookings.\n\n\"In the last week of January we were back to the same levels of bookings as we were in January 2020,\" she said.", "Protesters responded to the music with their own, including Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It\n\nAuthorities in New Zealand have been playing Barry Manilow's greatest hits in an attempt to dislodge protesters camped outside the parliament building.\n\nSongs by the US singer are being played on a 15-minute loop, along with the Spanish dance tune, Macarena.\n\nThe demonstrators, who are angry at Covid-19 vaccine mandates, responded by playing songs such as Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It.\n\nThe protests began on Tuesday when a convoy of vehicles drove to parliament.\n\nInspired by large rallies against vaccine mandates in Canada, hundreds of protesters arrived in the capital, Wellington, to rally against Covid restrictions.\n\nThey adopted the name \"Convoy for Freedom\" and blocked streets in the city.\n\nBy Wednesday their numbers had dwindled to the dozens, but they increased again at the weekend.\n\nOn Thursday police arrested 122 people and charged many with trespassing or obstruction.\n\nTactics used by the authorities to try and get rid of the protesters involved turning on the water sprinklers on the lawn where they were camped on Friday.\n\nBut protesters retaliated by digging trenches and building makeshift drainpipes to re-route the water, the Associated Press news agency reports.\n\nWith sprinklers proving ineffective, Parliament Speaker Trevor Mallard settled on a new approach: blasting out Barry Manilow's greatest hits, which include Mandy and Could It Be Magic, as well as the 1990s hit Macarena and Covid vaccine messages.\n\nUK singer James Blunt tweeted about the tactics, tagging New Zealand police and joking that he might be the man for the job.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James Blunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nApparently someone was listening, as his song You're Beautiful was added to the authorities' playlist on Sunday, AFP news agency reports.\n\nNew Zealand has employed strict Covid restrictions to contain the virus for nearly two years now. Lockdowns and an international border closure have helped to keep infection and death numbers very low.\n\nBut the duration of many restrictions - including a minimum 10-day isolation and a vaccine mandate - has fuelled growing resentment in the community.\n\nPublic polls have shown increasing dissatisfaction with Jacinda Ardern's government, and there has been an increase in protest activity in recent months.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: People can be seen holding up slabs of wood after a floor collapsed in a Hackney bar\n\nThirteen people have been injured after a mezzanine floor collapsed at an east London pub.\n\nEmergency services were called to the Two More Years bar in Hackney Wick at about 16:50 GMT on Saturday.\n\nFirefighters rescued seven people who were trapped after the collapse. Four people were taken to hospital.\n\nOne of them told the BBC he feared he was going to die after he was trapped under the rubble.\n\n\"Everything was crushing me, I was starting to lose breath,\" said James Purdon, 30.\n\n\"It got to the point where I couldn't even cry for help because I had no energy left.\n\n\"I feel like I had seconds left of consciousness before someone managed to clear a passage for me to escape.\"\n\nAfter he was rescued, he said he could not move and he was \"in so much pain\".\n\nThe civil servant said he understands that he was the most seriously hurt of the victims, with injuries to his back, knee and ankle, but no broken bones.\n\nJames Purdon says he feared he was going to die as the rubble crushed him, but he has now been discharged from hospital\n\nA spokesman for Tower Hamlets Council said it is working with the emergency services and a structural engineer to assess the privately-owned building.\n\nOne witness, Amelia, said she was at the bar when the floor collapsed and she tried to help clear some of the rubble.\n\n\"When I saw it come down in front of me I was certain that there would be people dead,\" she said.\n\n\"So we're grateful to be safe. It's made me worry about the building safety of other similar bars in the area.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHal, a mental health worker and therapist from Stratford, was on the mezzanine floor when it collapsed and managed to escape the fall with a few scratches.\n\n\"It sounded like a rumbling, a bit like an earthquake. You can't be prepared for anything like this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe said he was \"pretty much in the middle of the upper mezzanine of the bar\" after a football friendly between Clapton CFC and Stonewall FC.\n\n\"Thankfully I was able to heave myself out,\" he said.\n\n\"We all helped each other out.\"\n\nA mezzanine floor in the single-storey pub in Roach Road collapsed\n\nBrian Jordan, strategic commander at London Ambulance Service, said the collapse was treated as a major incident and teams from the air ambulance were sent to the site.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade station commander Sacha Clement said crews found seven people who were trapped upstairs on the remaining part of the mezzanine floor.\n\n\"Crews used a ladder to bridge between the floor and the internal staircase to get them safely out of the building,\" the station commander said.\n\nLFB said crews from three fire engines from Homerton, Bethnal Green and Leyton fire stations and two rescue units from East Ham and Edmonton stations attended the scene.\n\nHarriet McMahon was sitting under the mezzanine with her boyfriend when it collapsed.\n\nShe described seeing \"clouds of dust\" and hearing \"people screaming\".\n\n\"I thought the whole place was coming down,\" she said.\n\n\"We ran out, we went back in again, we'd left our keys and our phones on the table.\n\n\"We found our stuff in the end. It was horrible. There were people and things everywhere.\"\n\nSadiq Khan thanked the emergency services for their \"swift action\"\n\nAnother man who was in the venue at the time said it was lucky there were not more people sitting directly under the mezzanine floor that came down.\n\n\"There was just this sort of cracking sort of noise and dust started coming down,\" he added.\n\n\"Me and my friend just ran to the side and the whole thing just came down in a matter of seconds.\"\n\nA statement on Two More Years' Instagram account said the venue would remain closed \"for now\" and added: \"Our thoughts are with everyone that has been affected.\"\n\nIt said \"thankfully\" no-one had sustained critical injuries.\n\nA police cordon was set up outside the bar but has since been lifted\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan thanked the ambulance service, fire brigade and police for their \"swift action\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with those affected by the incident in Hackney Wick this evening,\" he said.\n\n\"I wish all those injured a speedy recovery.\"\n\nRushanara Ali, Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, tweeted that she was \"very concerned about the collapse of part of a building at Roach Road\".\n\nA police cordon was set up in the area but has since been lifted.\n\nWere you at the bar or nearby? Did you see what happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch police in Paris fire tear gas at demonstrators protesting against France's Covid measures.\n\nPolice have intercepted hundreds of vehicles trying to enter Paris as part of a protest against France's coronavirus regulations.\n\nTear gas was fired in the city as demonstrators defied an order banning the \"Freedom Convoy\".\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin said more than 300 tickets had been handed out and 54 people arrested.\n\nAuthorities have deployed more than 7,000 officers over the next three days in a bid to stop the demonstrators.\n\nDespite those efforts, some vehicles managed to arrive at the Arc de Triomphe in the city, and tear gas was fired at demonstrators on the nearby Champs-Élysées avenue.\n\nThe groups were inspired by the self-styled Canadian \"Freedom Convoy\" which has disrupted trade on the US border and occupied streets in Ottawa. Similar demonstrations have started to spread around the world.\n\nAustria and Belgium have banned such convoys from entering their capitals, with similar demonstrations also emerging in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands.\n\nOn Saturday, police in Paris said they had intercepted hundreds of vehicles heading into the city. Two were allegedly carrying knives, hammers and petrol canisters, and five were allegedly carrying slingshots.\n\nA video posted online by a journalist and shared by the police showed officers halting lines of vehicles on the city's ring road. Police close to the Arc de Triomphe were seen diverting camper vans and other vehicles away from the area.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Préfecture de Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDemonstrators who oppose France's Covid pass, which requires people to show proof of vaccination before entering public venues, want to gather and blockade the capital across the weekend - suggesting such scenes may be repeated Sunday.\n\nConvoys have organised online and appear to come from various political and ideological backgrounds, making it difficult to estimate how many vehicles might arrive in Paris each day. They have also drawn in others angry at rising prices in France.\n\nSome plan to continue on to Brussels, home of many European Union institutions, for further demonstrations on Monday. City officials there have also banned the planned demonstration.\n\nPrime Minister Jean Castex said on Friday that authorities would be \"very firm\" if the group tried to block the French capital.\n\n\"The right to demonstrate and to have an opinion are a constitutionally guaranteed right in our republic and in our democracy. The right to block others or prevent coming and going is not,\" he told France 2.\n\nMr Castex also objected to the demonstrators calling themselves a \"Freedom Convoy\".\n\nThe word freedom should not be associated with \"virulent attacks against vaccination\", he said, because freedom is not \"contaminating others\".\n\nThe convoys consisting overall of some several hundred cars and camper-vans spent the night at points outside Paris, and from early this morning began driving into the city centre - their aim, apparently, to block the Champs-Élysées.\n\nPolice have set up checkpoints at exits from the Paris ring road, and they're out in force across the capital, stopping cars that look like they're occupied by protesters. By midday they'd issued around 300 fines.\n\nTwo months ahead of presidential elections the government is anxious to avoid any scene reminiscent of the sometimes violent yellow-vest protests of three years ago.\n\nThe protest movement is ostensibly about Covid restrictions, in imitation of the so-called Freedom Convoys in Canada, but many of the participants also proclaim their allegiance to the yellow-vests.\n\nSome intend to proceed to Brussels on Sunday.\n\nFrance's protesters were inspired by the blockade in Canada, which has closed a crossing that sees $1.7bn (£1.2bn) of daily trade between Canada and the US.\n\nTruckers there, objecting to a federal Covid vaccine mandate for those crossing the border into Canada, have occupied the Ambassador Bridge and camped on the streets of the capital Ottawa for days.\n\nA court order ordering them to leave the bridge came into effect at 19:00 local time (midnight GMT) on Friday.\n\nCopycat protests have also emerged elsewhere.\n\nSome 10,000 protesters opposed to vaccine mandates arrived at Parliament House in the Australian capital Canberra on Saturday, local media reported, while police in New Zealand's capital Wellington arrested more than 100 people on Thursday who blocked roads in the city.", "Boris Johnson has received a questionnaire from the Metropolitan Police as part of the inquiry into parties at Downing Street and Whitehall during the Covid lockdowns.\n\nNo 10 confirmed that the prime minister had been contacted by the police and said he would \"respond as required\".\n\nPolice are sending the questionnaire by email to more than 50 people.\n\nThe Met has said the questionnaires will ask what happened and \"must be answered truthfully\".\n\nThe force said on Wednesday its email must be responded to within seven days - and the documents ask for an \"account and explanation of the recipient's participation in an event\".\n\nBut being contacted does not mean a fine would always be issued, the Met added.\n\nThe questionnaire has the same status as information given in an interview under caution.\n\nThe prime minister has come under pressure over the allegations of parties during lockdowns, with several Tory backbenchers calling for him to resign and submitting letters of no confidence in his leadership.\n\nMr Johnson has previously said he was looking forward to the police investigation being concluded and has apologised \"for the things we simply didn't get right\" over the party row.\n\nBoth Mr Johnson and his wife Carrie were expected to be among those emailed, although it has not yet been confirmed if Mrs Johnson has received one.\n\nThe fact Boris Johnson has received one shows the police believe he now needs to account for his actions, and what he was doing at these events, to see whether or not he has broken the law.\n\nGetting a questionnaire doesn't necessarily mean the police will issue him with a fine, or find him to have broken the law.\n\nAllies expect him to draw on how Downing Street is both the prime minister's workplace and private residence. Remember, he previously apologised for being at the 20 May 2020 drinks in the Downing Street garden by claiming he \"believed implicitly that this was a work event.\"\n\nBut politically this is an incredibly damaging situation to be in for a serving prime minister regardless.\n\nWhile some allies have said they would support him even if he received a fixed penalty notice, many Tory MPs think his position would be untenable if he's found to have broken the law.\n\nOn Friday evening, Business minister Lord Callanan told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions the prime minister should continue in his role and would have his support even if he received a fixed penalty notice.\n\nBut former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said it would be \"very tough\" for Mr Johnson to cling on to power if he is fined.\n\n\"It will be difficult, he knows that,\" the senior MP told the i newspaper.\n\nSir Iain added: \"If you've set the laws, and you break them and the police decide you have broken them... and then there's the unredacted [Sue Gray] report - the two things will come together.\"\n\nMeanwhile, former minister Tobias Ellwood - one of the Conservative MPs to have submitted a letter of no confidence in the PM - said the matter needed to be \"resolved\".\n\nHe told BBC Newsnight: \"The nation is looking at this. There's a massive level of trust to be regained. We need to move forward, this is a mess.\"\n\nThe investigation, Operation Hillman, is examining 12 gatherings on eight dates - some of which the PM has already said he attended - to see if Covid regulations were broken.\n\nOutgoing Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick earlier this week suggested that some \"but probably not all\" of those being contacted by officers will end up with fines.\n\nThe initial findings of a separate inquiry by senior civil servant Sue Gray criticised \"failures of leadership and judgement\" over the gatherings in Downing Street and Whitehall.\n\nDetectives investigating the parties have been handed more than 500 documents and 300 images gathered as part of Ms Gray's inquiry.\n\nOf the dates being investigated by the police, Mr Johnson is known to have been present at three gatherings:\n\nThe Met has said it would review a decision not to investigate a Christmas quiz at No 10 after a picture of the prime minister was leaked to the press showing him next to a bottle of fizzy wine.\n\nAmid the fallout from the row, five Downing Street aides have resigned, with Mr Johnson promising MPs he would shake up his No 10 team as a result.", "A health worker in Sierra Leone pictured with a rodent, which can spread the virus to humans by contaminating food or household items\n\nA person being treated for Lassa fever in the East of England has died, a hospital trust has confirmed.\n\nThe patient died at Luton and Dunstable Hospital, run by the Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the person who died was being treated for the animal-borne disease, which is endemic in parts of West Africa.\n\nIt said the risk to the public was \"very low\".\n\nThe death comes as the third case of Lassa fever was identified in the UK in the last few days.\n\nAll three cases were within the same family and were linked to recent travel to West Africa, said Dr Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at UKHSA.\n\nThe cases are the first of the disease to be confirmed in the UK in more than a decade.\n\nNHS East of England has now declared a \"regional major incident\".\n\nThe BBC understands this is because two of the patients were treated at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge before being transferred to a London hospital.\n\nA cousin of Ebola, Lassa fever is endemic in a number of West African countries\n\nIn a statement, the NHS said: \"UKHSA advice is that some staff at the hospitals where the patients have been treated may need to undergo testing and wear more personal protective equipment (PPE) than normal.\n\n\"Staff in direct contact with confirmed cases will have to self-isolate for a period of time. This is standard procedure and precautionary only.\n\n\"Because of the impact this will have on staffing key services in our region, we have declared a regional major incident. This allows the region's healthcare systems to work together to keep services running safely.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the UKHSA said: \"We are contacting the individuals who have had close contact with the cases prior to confirmation of their infection, to provide appropriate assessment, support and advice.\"\n\nA Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust spokesperson said: \"We confirm the sad death of a patient at our trust, who had confirmed Lassa fever.\n\n\"We will continue to support the patient's family and our staff and are working closely with colleagues from the UK Health Security Agency to undertake a robust contact tracing exercise.\"\n\nBefore the three recent cases, eight cases of Lassa fever had been identified in the UK since 1980.\n\nThe recent cases are the first of the disease to be confirmed in the UK since 2009.\n\nDr Hopkins said: \"Cases of Lassa fever are rare in the UK and it does not spread easily between people. The overall risk to the public is very low.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Brandon Lewis said he was \"disappointed\" by the current crisis\n\nUnionist parties should commit to returning to power-sharing if Sinn Féin is returned as the largest party after the election, Brandon Lewis has said.\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary said he was \"disappointed\" by the current crisis, sparked by the resignation of First Minister Paul Givan.\n\nThe move means the Northern Ireland Executive can no longer meet.\n\nMr Lewis said he hoped the executive could be reinstated after the election on 5 May.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has refused to say whether it would nominate for deputy first minister, if Sinn Féin wins the most seats, entitling it to the first minister role for the first time.\n\nUnder Stormont's power-sharing arrangements, the first and deputy first ministers are chosen by each of the largest unionist and nationalist parties - most recently the DUP and Sinn Féin.\n\nBoth ministers have equal powers, and one cannot be in office without the other.\n\nMr Lewis was asked about the scenario by Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nSpeaking from Washington, he said: \"I would like to see parties - both nationalist and unionist parties - whatever the result in May, that they will nominate.\n\n\"The right thing for Northern Ireland is to have the devolved authority of the executive and assembly back as soon as possible after 5 May.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's assembly election is due to be held on 5 May\n\nMr Givan resigned in protest against the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThis is an element of the UK government's Brexit deal with the European Union (EU), keeping Northern Ireland aligned with the EU single market for goods as a means of retaining an open Irish border.\n\nHowever, it has resulted in some additional checks for goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, prompting unionist criticism.\n\nAs Mr Givan's resignation meant Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill was also removed from her role as deputy first minister, the Stormont executive can no longer meet.\n\nNew laws to allow the assembly to continue without a functioning executive were passed by MPs on Monday night.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Lewis ruled out calling an early assembly election at Stormont.\n\nHe said \"it is right\" that the election date remains 5 May.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea manager Thomas Tuchel dedicated his side's first Club World Cup triumph to owner Roman Abramovich after an extra-time win against Brazilian side Palmeiras.\n\nA 117th-minute penalty in Abu Dhabi by Kai Havertz - who also scored their 2021 Champions League winner - means the Blues have now won every possible trophy under the ownership of the Russian billionaire\n\nRomelu Lukaku opened the scoring with a header in the second half before Raphael Veiga levelled from the spot.\n\nPalmeiras defender Luan was sent off in added time as the Blues sealed victory.\n\n\"It is for him, there is no doubt that it is for him,\" said Tuchel of Abramovich.\n\n\"We met quickly on the pitch after the final, he said 'congratulations' and I said 'congratulations, it's for you, it's your club and it's your input and your passion that made this possible' and I'm happy to be part of it.\n\n\"So of course the trophy is for him.\"\n\nMuch like in their semi-final win against Al-Hilal, Chelsea dominated possession but struggled to create chances for much of the final in the United Arab Emirates.\n\nTheir cutting edge looked unlikely to improve when Mason Mount was forced off through injury, just as he was in their FA Cup tie with Plymouth, while Lukaku continued to cut an isolated figure up front.\n\nPalmeiras were content to make the most of their threat on the counter-attack, with the pace of Rony and Dudu stretching the Blues defence, but there were very few clear-cut chances.\n\nThen nine minutes after the break, Lukaku made the breakthrough when Callum Hudson-Odoi sent in his first pinpoint cross and the Belgium striker powered a header past Weverton.\n\nChristian Pulisic, Mount's replacement, went close with a shot from distance after a smart lay-off from Lukaku as the English side looked to cement their control.\n\nBut just past the hour mark, Palmeiras equalised when Thiago Silva was adjudged to have handled in the area and, after a check on the pitch-side monitor, Veiga converted emphatically from 12 yards to send the game into extra time.\n\nWith a penalty shoot-out looming, Chelsea secured the trophy with a spot-kick of their own. Luan's handball was also checked on the monitor before Germany playmaker Havertz fired home.\n\nLuan was then dismissed for a foul on the match winner in the final minute, after the referee was told to consult the monitor for a third time.\n\n'We were running out of lights'\n\nTuchel says he only beat his Covid isolation at the \"second-to-last chance\" to coach Chelsea to their maiden Club World Cup title in person.\n\nThe Blues' German boss was frustrated by having to coach Chelsea in the FA Cup fourth round against Plymouth and the Club World Cup semi-final from his office.\n\nAnd, as time ticked down, he says he made several drives to the airport without even waiting for his Covid test result, such was his desperation to join the Chelsea squad in Abu Dhabi.\n\nHe tested negative at the penultimate chance to reach the United Arab Emirates in time though.\n\n\"We were running out of lights, with the time difference we knew the deadline was coming,\" said Tuchel.\n\n\"So it was the second-to-last chance to make it, the last one would have been to arrive today in the morning. So I'm happy that we made it.\n\n\"I was several times on my way to the airport and several times while I was driving called back because my test was not negative.\n\n\"And finally we made it, I arrived yesterday for dinner, at 8.15 in the evening. Coaching is also about feeling, on the touchline. It's not possible to coach only from the office.\"\n• None Kai Havertz (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 2, Palmeiras 1. Kai Havertz (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Luan Garcia (Palmeiras) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Penalty conceded by Luan Garcia (Palmeiras) with a hand ball in the penalty area. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Two teams of petrol lovers battle against each other in their super tractors\n• None Was this just a freak accident? The story of what really happened when a ship crashed into the sandy banks of the Suez Canal", "Covid-19 restrictions in Northern Ireland are no longer legally binding as of 17:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nThe need for Covid certificates in nightclubs, face coverings, track and trace requirements and the cap on 30 people in private homes are no longer legal requirements.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the remaining measures would instead be issued as guidance to the public.\n\nHe warned Covid-19 had not gone away and remained a threat.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Mr Swann said: \"It is vitally important that we continue to observe the sensible measures we have all learnt to protect ourselves and others.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The NI public has \"a role to play\" in protecting others, Prof Ian Young says\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief scientific adviser Professor Ian Young said Northern Ireland had reached a key milestone in the pandemic but said it was \"not freedom day\".\n\n\"There is still a lot of Covid out there, we all need to do our bit to continue to protect the most vulnerable and wearing face coverings in appropriate settings is an important part of that,\" he said.\n\n\"I hope this is a day when people will move from feeling that their behaviours are covered by regulation to using exactly the same behaviours through choice in response to guidance.\"\n\nMeasures, which had previously been guidance rather than law, such as working from home where possible, have not been changed.\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged that in Northern Ireland the need to self-isolate after testing positive for Covid-19 falls under \"very strong guidance\".\n\nHowever, in England, there is a legal requirement to self isolate.\n\nIt took many journalists by surprise when we learned that self-isolating, following a positive test, falls under guidance rather than a legal requirement.\n\nDuring a press conference on Tuesday, Prof Ian Young answered many questions about what is meant by guidance as opposed to restrictions.\n\nTo all our surprise the answer was no - instead we were informed that has always come under \"very strong guidance\" except when it was required by law to isolate after taking an international flight.\n\nAccording to the Department of Health 'no one ever asked'.\n\nThe restrictions had been due to expire on 24 March, when the legislation underpinning them expired.\n\nThe health minister made an order on Tuesday, which revoked the restrictions.\n\nMr Swann also said it was important to retain the ability to reintroduce restrictions again in case a new variant causes concern.\n\nHe said he would seek to extend the powers granted to the Department of Health by the Coronavirus Act 2020 by six months.\n\nRobin Swann warned that the pandemic is still not over\n\nBBC News NI political editor Enda McClafferty said businesses remained frustrated that there has been no change to guidance on working from home.\n\nThis was beyond Mr Swann's control and he has called for the guidance to be reviewed.\n\nIf individual businesses wish they will still be able to ask people to wear face coverings and enforce measures such as social distancing.\n\nSome have said they intend to do so.\n\nHospitality businesses are hoping that trade will return to normal\n\nSome hospitality business owners have hailed the easing of regulations as the \"beginning of the end\" of the pandemic and said that they hoped trade would now return to normal.\n\nA bar owner said this was a good day for the hospitality industry, but major challenges remained in rebuilding consumer confidence.\n\nStephen Magorrian of the Horatio Group, said: \"We are conscious of the fact that the pandemic hasn't ended, so we still need to be cautious but it is good to see the start of the end.\n\n\"The rebuilding of confidence will be the main thing. We need to make sure that our customers still feel safe,\" he said.\n\nAaron Chism, co-owner of Belfast city centre clothes shop Fuzz Vintage, said his hope was for brighter days ahead.\n\nHe started the business in the middle of the pandemic in October 2020.\n\n\"Hopefully there's going to be more people knocking about Belfast and they'll feel more comfortable to go into shops and we'll get more customers,\" he said.\n\n\"It's been quiet with lockdowns and stuff and then having to be closed. We opened in the middle of things before a second lockdown - it was a harsh time to open a shop but hopefully it's going back to normal now.\"\n\nTranslink is to continue to encourage passengers to wear face coverings.\n\nMeanwhile, train and bus company, Translink, is to continue to encourage passengers to wear face coverings.\n\n\"To help keep everyone safe and in line with the latest guidance, we are encouraging our passengers to wear a face covering, if they can, in stations and on-board buses and trains,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) in Northern Ireland, which represents doctors, advised caution especially given that those most vulnerable in society will be worried about the decision.\n\nDr Alan Stout, from the BMA, welcomed the lifting of remaining restrictions.\n\n\"I think we've got to look at what's in front of us and what we're dealing with,\" he said.\n\n\"The link with the infection and with hospitalisation, with intensive care admission and with death has definitely been weakened. So it puts us in a much more confident position that we can start this journey back to some sort of normality.\"\n\nThe full Northern Ireland Executive cannot meet because Paul Givan resigned as first minister, forcing the resignation of Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill because of the joint nature of the office.\n\nBut individual ministers are still in place and can make some decisions, as long as the issues are not deemed \"significant or controversial\".\n\nIt is understood ministers from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Sinn Féin, SDLP and Alliance all supported Mr Swann - who is a member of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) - in his bid to remove remaining restrictions.\n\nOn Tuesday, four more Covid-19 related deaths were announced in Northern Ireland, along with 2,987 cases.\n\nThere are 476 patients with the virus in hospital.", "Scotland's dental leaders say the backlog for patients getting NHS treatment is \"enormous\".\n\nOfficial data shows people in more affluent areas were much more likely to be seen by a dentist in the last two years compared to poorer communities.\n\nMeanwhile, patients on long waiting lists are resorting to costly private treatment in order to be seen sooner.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was committed to tackling the pandemic-related backlog in routine dental care.\n\nThe shutdown of dental services in the early days of Covid, and then severe restrictions on working practices meant emergency care was prioritised in Scotland.\n\nA lack of routine care such as check-ups and hygienist visits meant a backlog built up.\n\nFigures from Public Health Scotland show there were 858,407 fewer patients seen by NHS dentists in the last two years compared to pre-pandemic times.\n\nThe most recent data, from September 2021, also suggests the number of registered patients getting an appointment within a 24 month period is the lowest on record.\n\nDentists say strict Covid protocols inside practices are partly to blame.\n\nDavid McColl, chairman of the Scottish Dental Practice Committee, said his colleagues had to prioritise people needing urgent, emergency treatment.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"We are still having to prioritise emergency, urgent care and we are still having to follow government guidelines on infection control. That means we just cannot see the same volume of people that we did pre-pandemic.\n\n\"We need to have the government be honest with the public and not pretend that everything is back to normal because healthcare is not back to normal. We are still having to maintain 2m social distancing within the practice and that cuts down on the number of people we can have flow through the practice.\"\n\nDenise Hesketh is one of thousands of Scots who couldn't see a dentist during the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe 58-year-old from Edinburgh has battled dental problems for years, but being unable to see a dentist during Covid meant her oral health has taken a turn for the worse.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It was over a year before I was able to see a dentist and by then it just got too bad. Everything was unstable. It needn't have happened - it could have been repaired.\"\n\nShe now faces a bill of £20,000 for private care, with her NHS dentist unable to offer any help.\n\nDenise in 2019, before her teeth deteriorated\n\nDenise feels her appearance has made her unable to find work.\n\n\"I look so ugly and I try to wear my mask. I try not to smile, and not open my mouth I feel so ugly and have moments where I feel so paranoid,\" she said.\n\n\"Friends are not coming back to me. And getting a job interview, it's not a good look.\n\n\"It is painful and when I eat I have to concentrate on not getting hurt.\n\nSome patients have raised fears that those who pay for private dental treatment are being prioritised.\n\nBBC Scotland has seen an email to patients from one practice in Lanarkshire.\n\nIt states \"Due to NHS restrictions and waiting lists on routine care… there are other options for check-ups for adults and children to pay privately\".\n\nThe email then offers \"dental membership\" allowing people to pay up to £24 a month for check-ups and discounts. And children's check-ups for £35.\n\nThe latest data from Public Health Scotland shows that oral health inequalities are worse than ever before.\n\n45.1% of adults from Scotland's poorest areas managed to see a dentist during the pandemic, compared to 56.4% from the most affluent communities.\n\nChildren in less affluent areas are less likely to have seen a dentist during the pandemic\n\nThe problem is even more acute among children.\n\n73.1% of young people from well-off locations got a dental appointment whereas that figure dropped to 55% of youngsters in poorer areas.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was committed to tackling the pandemic-related backlog in routine dental care, and to ensure dental teams see more patients face-to-face, including those from deprived communities.\n\nIt said an additional £50m and free PPE had been supplied to dentists to ensure NHS dental services were well placed to care for the oral health of the whole population.\n\nPublic health minister Maree Todd said: \"We have done a lot to support dentists - we have helped with improving ventilation and we have supplied hand drills that don't produce an aerosol.\n\n\"I don't think we need to compromise on infection protection and control whilst we are still in the middle of a global pandemic. I am more than happy to wait for clinical advice that tells me it is safe to do that before that change is made.\n\n\"It is vitally important that everyone in Scotland can access an NHS dentist should they wish to. 95% did before the pandemic and we are keen to get back to that.\"", "Alec Baldwin \"recklessly shot and killed\" cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust last year, a lawsuit from her family has alleged.\n\nMs Hutchins, 42, died last year during a scene rehearsal after a gun held by Baldwin discharged a live round.\n\nBaldwin is one of several defendants named in the wrongful death lawsuit.\n\nLawyers for the Hutchins family said she would still be alive if crew members had not cut corners.\n\nTuesday's lawsuit was filed in the First Judicial District Court of New Mexico on behalf of Ms Hutchins' husband Matthew and son Andros, and seeks unspecified damages.\n\nAt a news conference, lawyers for the Hutchins family also presented an animated re-enactment of the shooting.\n\nThey claimed Baldwin and others \"failed to perform industry standard safety checks and follow basic gun safety rules\".\n\nThe lawsuit also faults producers for \"cutting corners on safety procedures where human lives were at stake, rushing to stay on schedule and ignoring numerous complaints of safety violations\".\n\nMr Halls and Ms Gutierrez-Reed have both faced complaints in the past that they did not adhere to on-set safety measures.\n\nThis could be very serious for Alec Baldwin.\n\nA wrongful death lawsuit will focus not on what was done, but on what was not done.\n\nAs both producer and star of the now defunct Rust, he will have to defend himself on several fronts and show that he met safety procedures that should be in place on all film sets and that he fulfilled his duty of care.\n\nThere have been reports that a number of crew members had left the Rust set because they felt safety standards were not up to scratch before the tragedy happened.\n\nThe lawsuit alleges that he recklessly discharged a lethal weapon. That is a criminal offence in New Mexico where the shooting happened.\n\nThe criminal investigation into the incident is still ongoing with the Santa Fe Sherriff's Office, which is trying to determine how live ammunition got on to the set. Investigators have not ruled out criminal charges.\n\nThe weapon that wounded Ms Hutchins was a .45 Colt revolver that was supposed to contain dummy rounds.\n\nBaldwin - the Western film's star and co-producer - had been practising drawing the gun and pointing it at the camera when it fired a single live round.\n\nMs Hutchins, who was setting up for the next scene, was hit in the chest.\n\nThe film's director Joel Souza was also hit in the shoulder but survived.\n\nAround 500 rounds of ammunition - a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and live rounds - were later located on the set.\n\nIn the aftermath of the incident, Baldwin expressed \"shock and sadness\" over what he called a \"tragic accident\".\n\nBut in December, he told ABC News that he had never pulled the trigger of the gun.\n\nLast month, he turned over his mobile phone to investigators after they had accused him of blocking their probe.\n\nSeveral lawsuits relating to the film set have been filed, and Baldwin was previously named in one filing over negligence.\n\nNo criminal charges have yet emerged, but police have not ruled it out. Baldwin has not yet responded to the latest lawsuit.", "Nikolaos Karvounakis claimed to be a member of the International Terrorist Mafia\n\nA man who sparked a major alert after planting a homemade explosive in Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens has been jailed for eight years.\n\nNikolaos Karvounakis, 35, said he was a member of Mexican eco-terror group, International Terrorist Mafia. The device was found on 11 January 2018.\n\nThe former Greek serviceman earlier pleaded guilty to possession of items for a terrorist purpose.\n\nThe device, containing explosive and 58 nails, did not detonate.\n\nAdvocate depute Angela Gray told the High Court in Edinburgh: \"Had it detonated, it would have the potential to cause significant injury and damage to property in close proximity.\"\n\nDefence counsel, John Scullion, had earlier said that Karvounakis had intended to cause disruption, but not physical harm and the device was not set to detonate.\n\nFinding the device prompted a major operation by the emergency services\n\nKarvounakis had bought the components over a period of months and watched instruction videos on the internet to build a viable device.\n\nLord Braid told him: \"Although the device did not detonate, all the component parts for that to happen were present.\"\n\nHe said he took into account that Karvounakis had no previous convictions, had expressed remorse and appeared to have renounced previously held beliefs.\n\nThe judge told him he would have been jailed for 10 years, but for his guilty plea to the offence.\n\nKarvounakis admitted possessing a device containing explosive material for a purpose connected with the \"commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism\".\n\nMr Scullion added: \"It is fair to say he now bitterly regrets what he did and will bitterly regret it for the rest of his life.\"\n\nKarvounakis was jailed for eight years and four months and was told he will be subject to notification requirements under counter terrorism legislation for 15 years.\n\nPolice Scotland welcomed the sentence, and said it was the culmination of a four-year investigation.\n\nDet Ch Supt Stuart Houston, head of the force's counter terrorism unit, said: \"His reckless actions showed utter disregard for the safety of anyone within Princes Street Gardens on the day in question.\n\n\"There is no doubt his presence and engagement online after the event could have easily encouraged others to carry out similar acts, with potentially catastrophic consequences.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Visas offering foreign investors fast-track residency in the UK are being scrapped with immediate effect, the home secretary has confirmed.\n\nPriti Patel said ending Tier 1 investor visas, for those spending at least £2m, was the start of a \"renewed crackdown on illicit finance and fraud\".\n\nThe scheme was introduced in 2008 to encourage wealthy people from outside the EU to invest in the UK.\n\nIt has been under review for some time, after concerns it is open to abuse.\n\nThe announcement had been expected next week amid pressure on ministers to cut UK ties to Russia over the threat of invasion to Ukraine, with a source confirming the decision to the BBC on Wednesday.\n\nBut the move has been brought forward, with the government saying it was part of their \"new plan for immigration\".\n\nThe Tier 1 (investor) visa, often called a \"golden visa\", offers residency to those investing £2m or more in the UK, and allows their families to join them.\n\nHolders of these visas can then apply for permanent residency in the UK, at a speed depending on how much they invest.\n\nA £2m investment allows an application within five years, shortened to three years with £5m or two years if £10m is invested.\n\nBut the route to residency is now being closed with immediate effect, with the government saying it \"failed to deliver for the UK people and gave opportunities for corrupt elites to access the UK\".\n\nMs Patel added: \"I have zero tolerance for abuse of our immigration system. Under my new plan for Immigration, I want to ensure the British people have confidence in the system, including stopping corrupt elites who threaten our national security and push dirty money around our cities.\n\n\"Closing this route is just the start of our renewed crackdown on fraud and illicit finance. We will be publishing a fraud action plan, while the forthcoming Economic Crime Bill will crackdown on people abusing our financial institutions and better protect the taxpayer.\"\n\nThe Home Office said settlement in the UK will now be conditional on applicants \"executing an investment strategy that can show genuine job creation and other tangible economic impacts - passively holding UK investments will no longer be enough to obtain settlement. \"\n\nLib Dem foreign affairs spokesperson Layla Moran said: \"Shutting the door to Putin's cronies is not enough - too many of them have already walked through it with virtually no questions asked.\"\n\nShe urged the government to publish its report into those who came to the UK on the visas.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper also called for the review to be published and said a general plan was needed to \"stop illicit finance coming into the UK\".\n\nShe said \"for years the Conservatives failed to stamp out the influence of Russian money in the UK\" adding that it had \"taken international condemnation of our failures... for the home secretary to act\".\n\nThe Home Office has issued 2,581 investor visas to Russian citizens since the scheme was introduced in 2008.\n\nSeveral changes have been made since the investor visa scheme was launched, including extra checks on how and when applicants acquired their wealth.\n\nBanks are also now required to complete certain checks before opening accounts for applicants - who are also required to submit extra paperwork if their qualifying funds are invested through a chain of different companies.\n\nIn 2020, Parliament's intelligence and security committee argued for a \"more robust\" approach to approving Tier 1 visas as part of a report on Russian influence in the UK.\n\nCorrection: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the number of Tier 1 (Investor) visas granted to Russians as 14,516. The correct figure to the end of March 2020 was 2,581.", "PJ O'Rourke, a best-selling American satirist, columnist and political commentator, has died at the age of 74.\n\nHe defied the leftward trend of American humour - particularly the \"gonzo\" style of irreverent journalism popularised by writers like Hunter S Thompson - by offering a more conservative, but equally cutting and iconoclastic, critique of the nation's culture and politics.\n\nHe wrote over 20 books, including two best-sellers, A Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance.\n\nA member of the Baby Boom generation, he first debuted on the national stage as editor of the storied humour magazine National Lampoon in the 1970s.\n\nO'Rourke went on to work as a freelancer for Atlantic Monthly, Esquire and Vanity Fair, and serve as foreign-affairs desk chief for Rolling Stone.\n\n\"How many unsuspecting Bruce Springsteen fans had been spared a life of brain-dead liberalism by his foreign dispatches and mockery of left-wing pieties?\" David Harsanyi writes of O'Rourke in the conservative National Review.\n\nO'Rourke's rapier wit frequently cut across the US political divide. Although he was a conservative with a libertarian bent, his humour was not solely the province of the right.\n\nOne of his more memorable lines was that Democrats promise that government will make you \"smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn\", while Republicans say that government doesn't work - then get elected and prove it.\n\nHe was a fellow at the conservative Cato Institute, but also a regular guest on the left-leaning MSNBC news network and a panellist on the National Public Radio's faux-game show, Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me. He frequently criticised Democratic presidents, but in 2016 endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton over Republican Donald Trump.\n\nIn the 1990s, he starred in a British Airways advertising campaign, where he poked fun at national traditions like tea-drinking, cricket and gardening while ultimately acknowledging that \"17 million of us Johnny Foreigners would rather fly your airline than any of our own\".\n\n\"I guess you should be proud of that, but that wouldn't be very British, would it?\" he quipped.\n\nHis publisher, Grove Atlantic, said in a statement that O'Rourke, who died of complications from lung cancer, was \"one of the major voices of his generation\".\n\n\"His insightful reporting, verbal acuity and gift at writing laugh-out-loud prose were unparalleled,\" said CEO Morgan Entrekin.\n\nO'Rourke was born in Toledo, Ohio, and attended college at Miami University, with a graduate degree in English from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.\n\nHe was married twice and had three children.", "Coastal areas are expected to see the strongest winds on Wednesday\n\nParts of Scotland, England and Northern Ireland could be battered by winds gusting to 90mph during Storm Dudley on Wednesday, forecasters have warned.\n\nThe Met Office has updated an earlier amber warning to bring forward the start time to 16:00 and ending it at midnight, rather than 09:00 Thursday.\n\nThe Scottish government has warned of the risk of travel disruption.\n\nEngland's National Highways has urged motorists in the affected area to only travel if \"absolutely necessary\".\n\nStorm Dudley has been forecast to bring inland winds potentially gusting to 80mph and up to 90mph on exposed coasts and hills.\n\nPolice Scotland said there was a \"high risk\" of travel disruption.\n\nThe Scottish government said the Transport Scotland resilience room and the multi-agency response team would be active for the duration of the amber warning.\n\nIt added that it was receiving regular updates from the Met Office and Scottish Environment Protection Agency.\n\nNational Highways' head of road safety Jeremy Phillips said drivers should check the latest weather and travel conditions before setting off on journeys and to \"consider if their journey is necessary and can be delayed until conditions improve\".\n\nA second storm - Storm Eunice - is expected to bring strong winds across southern Scotland and also parts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Friday. Snow has also been forecast for parts of Scotland.\n\nA yellow warning for wind has been issued for Storm Eunice.\n\nThe amber warning covers central and southern Scotland, north east and north west England and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle and York are covered by the warning. It also includes parts of Argyll and Bute, Fife, Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders, Cumbria and County Antrim.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Weather This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Met Office said: \"Very strong westerly winds are expected to develop across western Scotland and northern Northern Ireland late Wednesday and extend eastward across southern Scotland and northern England during the evening.\n\n\"There is still some uncertainty in the timing and location of the strongest winds but there is the potential for inland wind gusts of 70-80 mph in places. Gusts of 80-90 mph are possible around exposed coasts and hills.\"\n\nThe Met Office has also issued a yellow \"be aware\" warning for high winds for parts of Scotland, the north of England and Northern Ireland during Storm Dudley. It covers from 15:00 on Wednesday to 18:00 on Thursday.\n\nThis warning was also been updated on Tuesday to shrink the size of the warning area to remove the north of Scotland and extend it southwards to cover Wales, the Midlands and East Anglia.\n\nScotland's transport minister Jenny Gilruth said south and central Scotland were expected to face the worst of the conditions on Wednesday.\n\nShe said: \"The high winds will likely bring challenges for the trunk road network, with the potential for restrictions on bridges, so travellers should make sure they plan their journey in advance, drive to the conditions and follow Police Scotland travel advice.\"\n\nPolice Scotland urged people to prepare for disruption and allow extra time for journeys.\n\nForestry and Land Scotland, which is still clearing up after two recent storms, has urged people to avoid forestry areas during this week's bad weather\n\nScottish Borders Council said residents in the local authority area should prepare for the likelihood of power cuts, road closures and damage to buildings.\n\nForestry and Land Scotland said it was still clearing up damage to forestry caused by November's Storm Arwen and January's Storm Malik.\n\nThe public body said people should avoid woodland and forestry areas during this week's storms.\n\nBEAR Scotland also announced the A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful would be closed from 18:00 on Monday with traffic being diverted to the Old Military Road due to heavy rainfall expected overnight.\n\nIt said the hillside would continue to be assessed throughout the storm period.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Novak Djokovic gave an exclusive interview to the BBC's Amol Rajan\n\nNovak Djokovic should \"reflect on his decision\" not to get a Covid jab, the Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said.\n\nThe men's world number one told the BBC he was prepared to miss top tournaments to defend his freedom of choice.\n\nMr Javid said the only reason Djokovic was able to return to playing tennis \"and earn millions again\" was because of the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe French Tennis Federation said it was \"too early\" to say if Djokovic could compete in May's French Open.\n\n\"We will take a decision, based on the health situation, as soon as possible,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nWatch the full interview, in the UK, on BBC iPlayer and on BBC One at 20:30 GMT.\n\nSpeaking exclusively to the BBC, Djokovic said missing major competitions, such as the French Open, was \"the price that I'm willing to pay\" for the \"freedom to choose what you put in your body\".\n\nThe 20-time Grand Slam winner was deported from Australia last month after the government cancelled his visa in a row over his vaccine status.\n\nResponding to Djokovic's interview, Mr Javid said the reason sports such as tennis had reopened to millions of spectators around the world was because of the success of vaccination programmes.\n\nHe said: \"It's interesting to note that Mr Djokovic thinks it's OK for sport spectators, all his fans, to take the vaccine that allows him to get back to play the sport in front of them and earn millions again, it's OK for him to have them take the vaccine, but the vaccine is not OK for him.\n\n\"I think he should reflect on his decision.\"\n\nFormer British number one Tim Henman, who is on the committee of the All England Club, which organises Wimbledon, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he thought it was unlikely Djokovic would be stopped from playing there as the tournament was planning to follow government guidance.\n\nBut he said by taking himself out of the chance to compete in some Grand Slams Djokovic was \"certainly jeopardising his chances of being the greatest male player of all time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Novak Djokovic describe how his time in a detention centre in Australia left him feeling \"powerless\"\n\nHenman added: \"I think that speaks volumes to his courage, conviction and belief that this is what is best for him.\"\n\nFive-time Wimbledon women's doubles champion Pam Shriver said she hoped the \"right trusted person\" could sit down with Djokovic and \"walk him through all of the steps that make the science and the medicine trustworthy\".\n\nShe said him not getting the vaccine was \"terrible for tennis\" and said he was seen as a leader by many people both in his home country of Serbia and throughout the world.", "Jade Crane, photographed here with the twins at four weeks, said she hopes to bring the twins home soon\n\nA mum to babies thought to be the most premature twins to survive in the UK has called them \"little fighters\".\n\nHarley and Harry Crane were born at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham on 26 October at 22 weeks and five days.\n\nThe pair, now 16 weeks old, have been treated in the neonatal unit since and their parents have been sharing the journey on Instagram.\n\nTheir mother Jade Crane, from Heanor, in Derbyshire, said they hope to bring them home in the \"very near future\".\n\nThe twins may be able to leave hospital on 24 February, their original due date, she said.\n\nIn 2018, twins from Brighton were born at 22 weeks and six days.\n\nMs Crane and her husband Steve had tried to have children for 11 years with multiple IVFs, spending £50,000 on fertility treatments.\n\nThey suffered a few miscarriages and two ectopic pregnancies before falling pregnant with Harry and his sister Harley.\n\nMs Crane said the medical team have been \"absolutely incredible\"\n\nWhen she went into labour with Harry and Harley, who weighed 520g (1.14lb) and 500g (1.10lb) respectively when they were born, she was \"so scared\".\n\n\"But I had a sense of peace and I prayed and prayed for them to make it, for them to cry to show signs of life, which they did\".\n\nThe babies were put into the bereavement suite for parents because doctors expected at least one of them not to make it.\n\nMs Crane said the twins' strength gives her strength\n\nThe twins are \"little fighters\" who \"are surprising everyone\", their mother said adding they have had six operations between them and have suffered sepsis, eye problems, brain bleeds, and lung bleeds.\n\n\"We have got a little way to go still. They have shown their strength all the way through so I have got no doubt we'll be bringing them home in the very near future.\n\n\"The twins keep me going - if they can get through this, I can get through anything.\n\n\"But it is definitely a traumatic experience.\"\n\nMs Crane said the twins' journey has been a roller coaster\n\nMatron Cheryl Griffiths and consultant Chantelle Tomlinson, from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, said: \"We are delighted to have been able to provide neonatal intensive care for Harley and Harry and to support them and their parents, Jade and Steve, in their journey.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mary McCann admitted causing the death of her son Smaller (pictured) and daughter Lilly\n\nA woman has admitted causing the deaths of two of her children in a crash.\n\nMary McCann, 35, of Bamford Avenue, Derby, pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by careless driving while under the influence of alcohol.\n\nDaughter Lilly, four, and son Smaller, 10, died at the scene of the collision involving a lorry and a car on the M1 near Milton Keynes on 9 August.\n\nMcCann is due to appear again at Aylesbury Crown Court for sentencing on 25 April.\n\nThe crash happened between junctions 14 and 15 at around 23:10 BST.\n\nA third passenger, a two-year-old girl, was taken to hospital with minor injuries. The lorry driver was not injured.\n\nLilly, aged four, and Smaller, aged 10, were killed in a crash with an HGV on the M1 near Milton Keynes\n\nSgt Dominic Mahon, from Thames Valley Police, said: \"This was a tragic incident in which two young children lost their lives.\n\n\"My thoughts remain with their family at this incredibly difficult time. Thankfully they will not have to go through the ordeal of a trial due to McCann's guilty pleas today.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Storm Dudley has been forecast to bring inland winds up to 80mph\n\nA Met Office amber weather warning for Storm Dudley has been brought forward by two hours with an alert running from 14:00 until midnight.\n\nMost rail services in Scotland have been cancelled after the warning of 80mph winds during the storm.\n\nScotRail said many last services will be departing between 14:00 and 15:30.\n\nCalMac suspended a number of ferry services on Wednesday morning, and restrictions are in place on the Forth Road Bridge and Erskine Bridge.\n\nThe amber warning covers central and southern Scotland, as well as parts of England and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Scottish government and Police Scotland have warned of disruption across public transport.\n\nNational Highways, the government agency which maintains roads in England, has also urged motorists in the affected area to only travel if \"absolutely necessary\".\n\nScotRail service delivery director David Simpson told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland that people should \"make sure they're home and safe\" by 16:00 as this is when services would stop.\n\nHe said: \"We've got engineers on standby throughout the day, and have extra teams on during the night. We'll be out overnight checking routes where we can.\"\n\nMr Simpson said it was \"unlikely\" that there would be replacement bus services and urged passengers to check the ScotRail website and app for service updates.\n\nThe amber warning for wind took effect at 14:00\n\nScotRail said its services on the Far North, Kyle of Lochalsh, and Aberdeen-Inverness lines will continue to run on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nSome cross-border services will operate too at reduced speeds, though TransPennine Express warned customers that significant disruption of services was likely.\n\nNetwork Rail said the storm had the potential to cause \"significant disruption\" to infrastructure, including blowing trees onto tracks and damaging equipment.\n\nAnd Ferry operator CalMac said it was expecting waves of up to 12 metres (39ft) around the Hebrides.\n\nManaging director Robbie Drummond told the BBC: \"Our team will be working closely with local communities to understand their priorities and also ensure essential goods and services are moved where possible.\"\n\nElsewhere, the A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful in Argyll - a route infamous for landslips - has been closed with a diversion to the old military road until Thursday morning.\n\nEast Ayrshire Council has urged parents to pick up their children from nurseries by 15:35 on Wednesday, while North Ayrshire Council has cancelled all after school clubs due to the weather.\n\nLendalfoot in Ayrshire saw rough seas on Wednesday morning\n\nThe Scottish government said the Transport Scotland resilience room and the multi-agency response team would be in place for the duration of the amber warning.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Scotland, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said: \"The different players, transport providers, power companies, public authorities, are all planning where their resources will be deployed.\n\n\"The local resilience partnerships are working closely with the power companies to make sure, should there be a need for welfare support, that is put in place at the quickest opportunity.\"\n\nScottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN), which supplies power in the north of Scotland, said it was prepared for potential damage to the network and had brought in more engineers.\n\nThe firm urged people to keep their mobile phones charged, keep battery or wind-up torches and beware of fallen power lines.\n\nIt also advised people to keep the national 105 emergency helpline on hand.\n\nSP Energy Networks, which supplies power in central and southern Scotland, issued similar advice, adding that conditions could make it extremely challenging for engineers to fix power cuts - especially if climbing poles or pylons is required.\n\nMost rail services in Scotland were cancelled after the wind warning\n\nThere is also an increased risk of flooding in coastal areas, particularly along the Firth of Clyde, according to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa).\n\nPascal Lardet, Sepa's flood warning duty manager, told the BBC: \"We just want people not to take unnecessary risks.\n\n\"Very large waves can be unpredictable - when they will hit, they may submerge the area where you stand and can project debris and stones. In the past there has been casualties so we don't want that to happen.\"\n\nThe Met Office has also issued a yellow \"be aware\" warning for high winds for parts of Scotland, the north of England and Northern Ireland during Storm Dudley. It covers from 13:00 on Wednesday to 06:00 on Thursday.\n\nA second storm - Storm Eunice - is expected to bring strong winds across southern Scotland and also parts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Friday. Snow has also been forecast for parts of Scotland.\n\nAn amber warning for wind has been issued for large parts of England and Wales, and a yellow warning for high winds and snow has been issued for central and southern Scotland.\n\nTrees in Aberdeenshire fell during Storm Corrie last month\n\nLast month storms Malik and Corrie caused power cuts for 118,000 homes in Scotland and 80,000 in northern England.\n\nThere was major disruption to rail services between Edinburgh and Newcastle and several schools in Aberdeenshire, the Highlands and Moray were closed.\n\nAreas in the north of Scotland were among the worst hit by power cuts and damage during Storm Arwen in November.\n\nForestry and Land Scotland said it was still clearing up damage to forestry caused by Storm Arwen and Storm Malik and urged people to avoid woodland areas during this week's storms.", "A young girl who went missing in 2019 has been found alive in a secret room under a staircase, police in the US state of New York say.\n\nPaislee Shultis, now six, was discovered in a house in the town of Saugerties after a search on Monday.\n\nShe is in good health and has now been reunited with her legal guardian and older sister, the police say.\n\nHer non-custodial parents have been charged with custodial interference and endangering the welfare of a child.\n\nPaislee was reported missing from Tioga County, New York, in July 2019, according to a police statement. She was aged four.\n\nAuthorities at the time believed she had been abducted by her parents, Kimberly Cooper, 33, and Kirk Shultis Jr., 32.\n\nAfter receiving information that Paislee was being kept at a hidden location in the town of Saugerties, Ulster County, police obtained a warrant to search the house. The property had been searched before.\n\nKirk Shultis Sr., 57, who owns the house, was there when the police conducted the search and said he had no knowledge of Paislee's whereabouts, the police say.\n\nBut a little over an hour into the search, one of the detectives noticed that the stairs leading to the basement of the house appeared to be strangely constructed.\n\nAfter removing several boards police found Paislee and Ms Cooper hiding in what the police described as a \"small, cold, and wet\" enclosure.\n\nPaislee was examined by paramedics, and is reported to be in good health.\n\nPaislee's biological parents had lost custody of her and her older sister prior to her disappearance, and police believe that this was the motive behind abducting Paislee.\n\n\"We believe... somebody informed the parents that the older child had been picked up by the legal guardian and by county officials at the time and that caused the parents then to take Paislee and flee,\" Saugerties Police Chief Joseph Sinagra told virtual news channel WNYT.\n\nMs Cooper, Mr Shultis Jr. and Mr Shultis Sr. were all arrested and charged with Paislee's disappearance. The father and son have both been released pending trial.\n\nMs Cooper had an outstanding warrant, and therefore remains in Ulster County's jail.\n\nAn investigation is ongoing and more arrests are pending, the police statement says.\n\nMost children reported missing in the US are found safely after a relatively short period of time, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.\n\nBut it adds that in cases of family abduction, children are missing for the longest period of time for an average of over 10 months.", "Landslides and flash flooding have killed at least 71 people in the Brazilian city of Petrópolis, leaving a trail of destruction after a month's rainfall fell in three hours.\n\nFootage from the area shows destroyed hillside houses and vehicles that have been washed away by the floodwaters.\n\nOn Wednesday, officials said dozens of people had been killed. Search and rescue teams are continuing to look for survivors.", "Clarence House said Prince Charles had \"no knowledge of the alleged offer of honours or British citizenship on the basis of donation to his charities\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is to investigate claims Prince Charles' charity offered honours help to a Saudi citizen.\n\nThe force said it is investigating alleged offences under the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925.\n\nThere have been no arrests or interviews under caution, the Met said.\n\nThe Prince's Foundation said it would be \"inappropriate to comment on an ongoing investigation\".\n\nIt is understood to be continuing to offer its full co-operation to the Metropolitan Police.\n\nClarence House reiterated its previous insistence that Prince Charles had \"no knowledge of the alleged offer of honours or British citizenship on the basis of donation to his charities\".\n\nHe is president of the foundation but is not involved with its governance, with the charity's trustees overseeing its day-to-day activities.\n\nThe Met's decision to investigate follows its assessment of a letter it received last September relating to media reports that Prince Charles' former valet Michael Fawcett allegedly offered to help secure an honour for a Saudi citizen.\n\nAnti-monarchy pressure group Republic reported the heir to the throne and Mr Fawcett to the police last September.\n\nIts chief executive Graham Smith said: \"We hope the investigation will be carried out without fear or favour and be as thorough as it needs to be.\"\n\nAfter the allegations emerged, Mr Fawcett temporarily stepped back as chief executive of The Prince's Foundation, before resigning in November. The charity announced an investigation into the allegations.\n\nThe timing couldn't have been worse.\n\nThe early headlines on Wednesday were of Prince Andrew's settlement with Virginia Giuffre, of how he pays for it and the Queen's woes.\n\nBy lunchtime, things became more complicated, with news of the Metropolitan Police's \"cash for honours\" investigation into Prince Charles's charity foundation.\n\nIt leaves the prospect of the heir to the throne being questioned by the police as part of this inquiry.\n\nThese have been a turbulent couple of days for the royal family.\n\nPrince Charles's team have reinforced their statement that the prince knew nothing of any alleged offer of cash for honours and a knighthood.\n\nThis year was supposed to be one for a celebration of royalty and the Queen's historic 70-year reign.\n\nSo far, it's not the Jubilee making the headlines.\n\nThe royal household will hope the Prince Andrew situation is now resolved and that the Met Police investigation is completed quickly.\n\nBut so far, things haven't been running according to plan.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said in a statement that its decision to investigate alleged offences followed \"assessment of a September 2021 letter. This related to media reporting alleging offers of help were made to secure honours and citizenship for a Saudi national\".\n\nIt added: \"Officers liaised with The Prince's Foundation about the findings of an independent investigation into fundraising practices.\n\n\"These documents were reviewed alongside existing information. The assessment determined an investigation will commence.\n\n\"There have been no arrests or interviews under caution.\"\n\nBusinessman Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz is reported to have donated money to restoration projects of interest to Prince Charles. Mr Mahfouz is not accused of, and denies, any wrongdoing.\n\nHonours - such as MBEs, OBEs and CBEs - publicly recognise people's achievements in public life or commitment to serving Britain and anyone in the UK can nominate a British national to receive one.\n\nHonorary awards are given to people who are not British or a national of a country where the Queen is Head of State.\n\nMost are awarded on the recommendation of an honours committee within the Cabinet Office, which is then sent to the prime minister and awarded by the Queen.", "Waves crashed on the seafront at Blackpool ahead of Storm Dudley\n\nThousands of people were left without power after Storm Dudley hit parts of the North East, Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Lancashire.\n\nAn amber warning was in place for 10 hours then a yellow wind warning from Thursday into Friday comes in as Dudley leaves and Storm Eunice arrives.\n\nParts of the Tyne and Wear Metro were stopped due to storm damage.\n\nAnd damaged overhead wires at Carlisle blocked all lines towards Glasgow and Edinburgh, Avanti West Coast said.\n\nNorthern Powergrid said on Wednesday evening that \"around 14,000 customers have been affected so far\" and its teams have been able to reconnect over 10,000 customers.\n\nBut, in a statement, it added that \"the peak is still ahead of us, and we are remaining on full alert\".\n\nBig waves hit the sea wall at Whitby in North Yorkshire\n\nAt one point nearly 1,700 homes in Wigan were without power. Electricity North West sent engineers to deal with the problem, which was caused by strong winds.\n\nAbout a thousand homes in Durham were also without electricity, with dozens of other areas affected by pockets of outages.\n\nThe Tyne and Wear Metro was suspended between Pelaw and South Shields due to a tree on the line near Tyne Dock, and between North Shields and Tynemouth due to a collapsed wall on a bridge, thought to be caused by the storm, operator Nexus said.\n\nNexus says it is working to make the wall, near Tynemouth station, secure\n\nA tree has fallen on an overhead line between Tyne Dock and Chichester, South Tyneside\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tyne and Wear Metro This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post by Tyne and Wear Metro\n\nDurham County Council urged all drivers to take care, especially those of high-sided vehicles, on busy routes such as the A1M, A19 and A66.\n\nThe Environment Agency had three flood warnings in place as of Wednesday evening at Keswick Campsite and at the River Wye, at Litton Mill, Derbyshire, and 38 flood alerts, where flooding is possible.\n\nThe third warning for the Cumbrian coastline from St Bees Head to Millom, and then along the coast from North Head to Haverigg, said the high tide could cause flooding.\n\nIt added Storm Dudley would bring \"strong winds, large waves and spray\" and \"vulnerable properties\" along the foreshore at Braystones, Nethertown and Coulderton were susceptible.\n\nAn HGV toppled over on to its side on the A696 near Otterburn, Northumberland\n\nThe weather in Redcar on Teesside was mixed for most of the day\n\nFrancis Reavley, from Kirkwhelpington, Northumberland, lost power for five days during Storm Arwen, then two days during Storm Malik.\n\nHis power went off again at about 15:00 GMT on Wednesday and after reporting it to Northern Powergrid he was told it would be back on later in the afternoon, although reconnection times have since been put back.\n\n\"I have no confidence it will be back on then because they just keep putting it back and back,\" he said.\n\n\"I am so frustrated and so fed up with all of this. It looks like we are going to have another dark, cold night.\"\n\nFrancis Reavley is at home in the dark after his power went off\n\nIn Yorkshire, the Humber Bridge was closed to high-sided vehicles while a number of trains between Leeds and London were cancelled due to damage to overhead power lines.\n\nWinds measuring 74mph were recorded at Emley Moor, between Huddersfield and Wakefield.\n\nForecasters said Eunice could also bring snow in high areas.\n\nLondon North Eastern Railway (LNER) advised customers with tickets for journeys between York or Leeds and London King's Cross on Friday to bring them forward to Thursday.\n\nStrong winds on Tynemouth Beach, North Tyneside, before the arrival of Storm Dudley\n\nDudley will affect the north of the UK bringing 60 to 70mph winds, which are not extraordinary for this time of year for those areas.\n\nBut there are travel restrictions and there will be some damage, some disruption and we need to take care and make arrangements as Storm Dudley will pack a punch.\n\nWith an amber warning there's the potential for some trees coming down, possibly on to power lines which could lead to more power cuts.\n\nBut I think we need to be more careful about Storm Eunice - it's going to come in from the South West and it's going to hit a good portion of England and Wales.\n\nWhen we're talking about gusts of wind of 70 to 80mph through inland areas of southern and central England, that is quite extraordinary and we're going to see some extremely strong winds of possibly up to 100mph around coastal areas.\n\nAs Eunice moves in we might well see quite significant snow over the hills of northern England, into southern Scotland and Northern Ireland, so it's not just the wind.\n\nOn Sunday we could see another storm, but the focus for the moment is Dudley and Eunice.\n\nThere was high demand to access Northern Powergrid's power cut map\n\nA generator has been installed at Jubilee Hall in Rothbury, Northumberland, in case the village suffers power outages as it did in Storm Arwen in November and Storm Malik in January.\n\nNorthumberland County councillor Stephen Bridgett said the hall would act as a \"warm hub\" if needed, adding: \"As soon as I see another storm come in, it is a weight on the shoulders.\"\n\nPolice in Cumbria said a \"multi-agency response\" had been prepared to tackle any impact from the storms.\n\nSupt Matt Pearman said: \"All agencies are working together to ensure that our communities have access to the help and support they may require during the storms.\n\n\"We also ask that our communities prepare themselves ahead of Dudley and Eunice and make themselves aware of the key contacts and ensure any vulnerable people within our communities are also aware and prepared.\"\n\nRichard Warren from the Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association urged people to \"stay at home\" during the storms.\n\nHe said he felt sorry for visitors who had come to the Lake District for holidays as the weather was \"appalling\", but said conditions on the hilltops would be \"horrendous\".\n\nMr Warren said there had been 87 callouts since the start of the year, compared with 40 in the same period in 2020, most of which were \"avoidable\".\n\n\"We will go out whenever we have to but even we would be at risk of being blown over and injured if we have to go out in the next couple of days,\" Mr Warren said.\n\n\"Stay at home. There'll be trees coming down and all sorts of problems.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "The river Usk in full flow at Brecon Promenade, Powys, on Tuesday afternoon\n\nA landslide blocked a road after heavy rain as forecasters warn of \"strong and disruptive winds\" to come.\n\nThe Met Office has imposed a yellow warning with Storm Dudley set to bring 70mph winds (113km/hr) to north Wales, Powys and Ceredigion from Wednesday.\n\nAnd Storm Eunice could also cause \"significant disruption\" for Wales on Friday, it said.\n\nThere is a small landslip on the A493 between Pennal and Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, but the road remains open.\n\nGwynedd council said staff were clearing the site and one lane was operating under a stop-go system.\n\nTraffic analysts Inrix said it led to heavy traffic near Gwerniago Campsite.\n\nAnd Traffic Wales reported poor driving conditions on the roads network amid heavy rain and strong winds.\n\nIt led to restrictions on the M48 Severn Bridge in Monmouthshire and the A55 Britannia Bridge between Gwynedd and Anglesey.\n\nMet Office: \"There is still some uncertainty in the timing and location of the strongest winds\"\n\nThe counties of Anglesey, Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Powys and Wrexham have been warned to expect wind gusts of up to 70mph.\n\nThe warning is in place from 15:00 GMT on Wednesday until 06:00 on Thursday.\n\n\"There is still some uncertainty in the timing and location of the strongest winds,\" said the Met Office.\n\nFriday's warning for Storm Eunice is in place until 21:00 for the whole of Wales.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Met Office said road, rail, air and ferry services may all be affected, with longer journey times and cancellations possible, and some roads and bridges may have to close.\n\nIt said the winds may be damaging, leading to falling trees, power cuts and damage to buildings.\n\n\"There is a chance of injuries and danger to life from flying debris, as well as large waves and beach material being thrown onto sea fronts, coastal roads and properties,\" it warned.\n\nScotland and northern England have been warned to brace for 90mph (145km/hr) winds with an amber weather warning.", "A cousin of Ebola, Lassa fever is endemic in a number of West African countries\n\nA patient who died from Lassa fever was a newborn baby, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe child, who died at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital last week, was one of three confirmed cases of the disease, all within the same family.\n\nHundreds of staff there, and at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, have been identified as potential contacts.\n\nNHS England and the UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) would not comment on the death but confirmed contact tracing was under way.\n\nIn an email to staff, seen by the BBC, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Addenbrooke's, said: \"Colleagues identified through our staff contact tracing exercise have been required to undertake a precautionary isolation period of 14 days, and not have patient contact for 21 days.\n\n\"As expected, this is impacting on our staffing levels and has required the temporary closure of a substantial portion of our critical care capacity - with impact on our clinical services.\n\n\"We want to assure you all that cases of Lassa fever are rare in the UK and it does not spread easily between people. The overall risk to healthcare staff and other patients is very low.\"\n\nThe neo-natal unit at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital has also been closed to new admissions, sources told the BBC.\n\nA health worker in Sierra Leone pictured with a rodent, which can spread the virus to humans by contaminating food or household items\n\nNHS East of England declared a \"regional major incident\" last week after news emerged of the infections, the first cases of the disease in the UK for more than a decade.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at UKHSA, had said the cases were linked to recent travel to West Africa, where the animal-borne disease is endemic.\n\nMost people with Lassa fever recover but some can come down with severe illness.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid, on a visit to Clacton, Essex, on Monday, said the situation was \"very much under control\".\n\nPrior to these new cases, only eight had been identified in the UK since 1980, with the last two occurring in 2009, according to the UKHSA.\n\nIts guidance states infections are usually through exposure to food or household items contaminated with urine or faeces of infected rats.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "A BBC investigation has found that women's intimate pictures are being shared to harass, shame and blackmail them on a massive scale, on the social media app Telegram.\n\nWARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS CONTENT OF A SEXUAL NATURE\n\nIn the split second Sara found out a nude photo of her had been leaked and shared on Telegram, her life changed. Her Instagram and Facebook profiles had been added, and her phone number included. Suddenly she was being contacted by unknown men asking for more pictures.\n\n\"They made me feel like I was a prostitute because [they believed] I'd shared intimate pictures of myself. It meant I had no value as a woman,\" she says.\n\nSara stopped going out after her images were shared on Telegram\n\nSara, not her real name, had shared the photo with one person, but it had ended up in a Telegram group with 18,000 followers, many from her neighbourhood in Havana, Cuba. She now fears strangers in the street may have seen her naked. \"I didn't want to go out, I didn't want to have any contact with my friends. The truth is that I suffered a lot.\"\n\nShe's not alone. After months of investigating Telegram, we found large groups and channels sharing thousands of secretly filmed, stolen or leaked images of women in at least 20 countries. And there's little evidence the platform is tackling this problem.\n\nThousands of miles from Cuba, Nigar is having to adjust to a new life.\n\nNigar says she has been forced to leave her country\n\nShe's from Azerbaijan, but says she has been forced to leave her homeland. In 2021, a video of her having sex with her husband was sent to her family, and then posted in a Telegram group.\n\n\"My mum started crying and told me: 'There's a video, it was sent to me',\" she says. \"I was devastated, absolutely devastated.\"\n\nThe video was shared in a group with 40,000 members. In the footage, Nigar's now ex-husband's face is blurred but hers is clearly visible.\n\nShe believes her ex secretly filmed her to blackmail her brother, a prominent critic of Azerbaijan's president. She says her mother was told the video would be released on Telegram unless her brother stopped his activism.\n\n\"They look at you as if you are a disgrace. Who cares if you were married?\" says Nigar.\n\nNigar says she confronted her ex-husband about the video and he denied making it. We tried to get a comment from him, but he didn't reply.\n\nNigar is still struggling to move on with her life: \"I can't recover. I see therapists twice a week,\" she says. \"They say there is no progress so far. They ask if I can forget it, and I say no.\"\n\nThe pictures of Nigar and Sara were both reported to Telegram, but the platform did not respond. Their experience is far from unique.\n\nThe BBC has been monitoring 18 Telegram channels and 24 groups in countries ranging from Russia to Brazil, and Kenya to Malaysia. The total number of subscribers is nearly two million.\n\nPersonal details like home addresses and parents' phone numbers were posted alongside explicit pictures.\n\nWe saw group administrators asking members to send intimate images of ex-partners, colleagues or fellow-students to an automated account, so they could be published without revealing the identity of the sender.\n\nTelegram now says it has more than half a billion active users worldwide - that's more than Twitter - with many attracted by its emphasis on privacy.\n\nMillions moved to Telegram in January 2021 from WhatsApp, which changed its privacy terms.\n\nTelegram has long been popular with pro-democracy protesters in countries with media censorship. Users can post without sharing their name or phone number, and create public or private groups with up to 200,000 members, or channels which can broadcast to an unlimited number of people.\n\nTelegram was used to organise mass anti-government protests in Belarus\n\nDespite Telegram's reputation for privacy, only the \"secret chat\" option provides end-to-end encryption, which ensures just the two people talking can see the message. It's the default setting on secure chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe platform also attracts users seeking a less regulated space, including those who have been banned from other platforms.\n\n\"According to Telegram and its owner, they don't want to censor users,\" says Natalia Krapiva, tech legal counsel at digital rights group Access Now.\n\nBut our research has shown this light-touch approach to moderation has led Telegram to become a haven for the leaking and sharing of intimate images.\n\nTelegram does not have a dedicated policy to tackle the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, but its terms of service make users agree \"not to post illegal pornographic content on publicly viewable Telegram channels, bots, etc\".\n\nIt also has an in-app reporting feature across both public and private groups, and channels where users can report pornography.\n\nTo test how rigorously Telegram enforced its policies, we found and reported 100 images as pornography via the in-app reporting feature. One month later, 96 remained accessible. We could not locate four others, as they were in groups which we could no longer access.\n\nDisturbingly, while we were investigating these groups, an account from Russia also tried to sell us a folder containing child abuse videos for less than the price of a coffee.\n\nWe reported it to Telegram and the Metropolitan Police, but two months later the post and the channel were still there. The account was only removed after we contacted the Telegram media team.\n\nDespite its lenient moderation, Telegram does take action against certain content.\n\nAfter Apple briefly removed Telegram from its app store because of videos like the ones we were offered, Telegram took a more proactive stance on child abuse images. The platform also co-operated with EU crime agency Europol in 2019 to eliminate a huge amount of Islamic State content that had proliferated on the platform.\n\n\"We know that Telegram can remove and [has] been removing terrorist-related content or some kind of very radical political content,\" says Dr Aliaksandr Herasimenka, researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute.\n\nBut the removal of intimate images appears not to be a priority.\n\nWe spoke to five Telegram content moderators on condition of anonymity. They told us they receive reports from users via an automated system, which they said they sort into \"spam\" and \"not spam\".\n\nThey said they don't proactively search for intimate images and, as far as they know, Telegram doesn't use artificial intelligence to do that either. This lack of action has led some women to take steps themselves.\n\nJoanna reported images that were shared without consent in Telegram\n\nJoanna found a naked image of herself from when she was 13 years old in a notorious Malaysian Telegram group.\n\nShe created a fake Telegram profile to join the group, where she anonymously searched for nude pictures and reported them. She also shared her findings with her friends.\n\nAmid intense media pressure, the group was eventually closed down. But during the course of our investigation, we found at least two duplicate groups sharing the same kind of images.\n\n\"Sometimes you just feel so helpless, because we tried to do so much to remove these groups. But they're still coming up, so I don't know if there's an end to it, honestly,\" says Joanna.\n\nTelegram declined an interview with us, but in a statement it told us it does proactively monitor public spaces and process user reports about content which violates its terms of service.\n\nTelegram did not confirm if posting people's intimate images without consent is allowed on the platform, or whether they are removed.\n\nThe rollout of ads on some public channels on Telegram - along with investment - has signalled that founder Pavel Durov is intending to monetise the platform.\n\nThis is likely to increase pressure on Telegram and its libertarian founder to fall more in line with social media rivals such as WhatsApp, which has started to introduce polices against sharing intimate pictures.\n\nIt remains to be seen how long the company will resist greater moderation as it moves into new markets and starts to generate revenue.\n\nFor the women whose reputations have been destroyed and lives damaged by the sharing of their intimate images on Telegram, change cannot come soon enough.\n\nDo you work for a social media company and would like to share your experience anonymously with us? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Network Rail said Scotland's routes were \"back in business\" by 10:00 on Thursday\n\nScotland's railway lines have reopened after Storm Dudley hit the network \"really hard\".\n\nNetwork Rail said they had inspected 1,500 miles of track and only three areas were left with signalling problems - Lanark, Largs and Girvan.\n\nThe track operator said Scotland's railway was \"back in business\" by 10:00 on Thursday.\n\nA second storm, Eunice, begins at 03:00 on Friday, with a yellow warning of snow for much of Scotland.\n\nIt follows closely behind Storm Dudley, which swept across the country on Wednesday and cleared in the early morning.\n\nA yellow warning of wind has also been issued by the Met Office, affecting parts of Dumfries and Galloway, Argyll and Bute, and Ayrshire from 07:00 to 18:00 on Friday.\n\nRoad maintenance provider Bear Scotland said it had gritting trucks out in north east Scotland, where there has already been snowfall, and would be working round the clock to ensure routes remain safe.\n\nNetwork Rail route director for Scotland, Liam Sumpter, said Storm Dudley had brought a \"really tough evening and night\" with many fallen trees on the tracks, and damage to overhead lines and signalling systems\".\n\n\"Storm Dudley hit us really hard,\" he added.\n\nA flood warning put in place by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency in Ayrshire was lifted, but alerts for the area and four other parts of the country remain in place.\n\nArgyll and Bute, Dumfries and Galloway and West Central Scotland are still on alert for coastal flooding.\n\nThe Drumalbin weather station in South Lanarkshire recorded 71mph gales on Wednesday and a gust of 101mph was recorded on Aonach Mor, near Fort William.\n\nA fallen tree blocks the railway line at Beattock, Dumfries and Galloway\n\nOverhead lines were damaged on the railway at Kilwinning, North Ayrshire\n\nScotRail worked with Network Rail overnight to deal with wind damage to power supplies. A fallen tree in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire caused significant damage to power lines.\n\nAvanti West Coast and TransPennine Express warned customers that significant disruption of services was likely on Friday during Storm Eunice, and tickets booked for that day would be valid on Thursday or Saturday.\n\nFerry operator CalMac cancelled services on most of its routes on Wednesday as waves reached 12m (39ft) in some areas. Some services services were still not operating on Thursday.\n\nRain lashed down on commuters in Glasgow during Storm Dudley\n\nMammatus clouds captured during Storm Dudley over the south side of Glasgow\n\nForestry and Land Scotland said it was still clearing up damage to forestry caused by Storm Arwen and Storm Malik and urged people to avoid woodland areas during this week's storms.\n\nMeanwhile, a severe weather warning has been upgraded to red for parts of south-west England and south Wales on Friday - meaning there is a danger to life from flying debris.\n\nThe Met Office warned Storm Eunice could bring winds of up to 90mph, causing significant disruption.\n\nIt said conditions could be even more damaging than Storm Dudley, with stronger winds, heavy snow and possible blizzards in Scotland.\n\nStorm Dudley is the fourth storm to hit Scotland since November. Last month alone, storms Malik and Corrie caused power cuts for 118,000 homes in Scotland and 80,000 in northern England.\n\nScottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN), which supplies power in the north of Scotland, said it was prepared for potential damage to the network and had brought in more engineers.\n\nThe firm urged people to keep their mobile phones charged, keep battery or wind-up torches and beware of fallen power lines.\n\nIt also advised people to keep the national 105 emergency helpline on hand.\n\nSP Energy Networks, which supplies power in central and southern Scotland, issued similar advice, adding that conditions could make it extremely challenging for engineers to fix power cuts - especially if climbing poles or pylons is required.\n\nHow have you been affected by the storm? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "What comes next for Prince Andrew after he settles the claims against him?\n\nIf Prince Andrew had gone to court in the US to fight it out with Virginia Giuffre, it would have made headlines as tall as a New York skyscraper.\n\nThat royal disaster zone has been averted by an out-of-court settlement.\n\nBut it comes with high costs to Prince Andrew, both financial and reputational, and it will be a long road back before there is any chance of clearing his name in terms of public opinion.\n\nHe won't get back any of the royal patronages, military links or the HRH title that were taken away from him.\n\nAnd the many questions raised by his BBC Newsnight interview - about his connections with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein and details such as his inability to sweat - will be left unanswered.\n\nIf not a smoking gun, there is still the unexplained smoke from a Woking pizza oven.\n\nThe implication of this deal means he is potentially paying millions of dollars to someone he still contends he has no memory of ever meeting.\n\nThe deal says that Prince Andrew \"regrets his association with Epstein\", but that picture of the prince with the sex offender will continue to haunt him.\n\nThat even more famous picture of Ms Giuffre, Prince Andrew and Maxwell, taken in London almost 21 years ago, will always be there when his name is mentioned, frozen in digital aspic.\n\nLong shadows have been cast which will be hard to shift.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew says he cannot recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts\n\nPrince Andrew spoke to BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis in 2019 about his relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Watch the full interview on the BBC's YouTube channel.\n\nLegal experts had been predicting that a settlement was the most likely outcome from this civil court case, in which Ms Giuffre had brought sexual assault claims against Prince Andrew.\n\n\"It was the best of the bad options available to him,\" said Gideon Benaim, a partner at law firm Simkins, who specialises in protecting high-profile reputations.\n\n\"If it had continued it would have inevitably damaged him even further,\" said Mr Benaim.\n\nAnna Rothwell at law firm Corker Binning said Prince Andrew's Newsnight interview on its own \"would have given Ms Giuffre's lawyers a wealth of material to use in cross examination\".\n\nBut where does it leave Prince Andrew now?\n\nA few weeks ago his legal team was full of fighting talk about being ready to battle it out in court and wanting to knock down Ms Giuffre's allegations.\n\nNow the tone has changed completely to recognising that Ms Giuffre has \"suffered both as an established victim of abuse and as a result of unfair public attacks\".\n\nThe civil claims against Prince Andrew had already produced damaging headlines for the royals\n\nBut Mr Benaim says the deal avoids any admission of guilt and any personal wrongdoing and stops a case which threatened an endless supply of negative headlines.\n\n\"Reputationally he had to get rid of this - almost regardless of the cost,\" said the lawyer.\n\nPrince Andrew can maintain his innocence, with nothing proven against him, and he could argue that he was paying a price to protect his family from any further damaging coverage.\n\nThe number of zeroes in that payment remains confidential, but it's likely to look like a long row of those emojis of popping eyes.\n\nThere is also some ambiguity about whether it is one or two payments being made.\n\n\"The parties will file a stipulated dismissal upon Ms Giuffre's receipt of the settlement (the sum of which is not being disclosed).\n\n\"Prince Andrew intends to make a substantial donation to Ms Giuffre's charity in support of victims' rights,\" says the joint statement accompanying the deal.\n\nWhether that means separate payments to Ms Giuffre and the charity has not been clarified by Prince Andrew's representatives.\n\nWho is paying for the pay-out could be another issue.\n\nKate Macnab, a lawyer at Reeds Solicitors, says: \"It is likely there will be some demands to know where the payment is coming from - public or private purse?\"\n\nIn terms of what comes next, the settlement contains a line suggesting how he might try to begin restoring his reputation.\n\n\"He pledges to demonstrate his regret for his association with Epstein by supporting the fight against the evils of sex trafficking, and by supporting its victims.\"\n\nAlthough at the moment he might be at risk of losing more links with organisations, than making new ones - particularly anything connected to sex trafficking.\n\nThere will still be constitutional roles. Prince Andrew remains a counsellor of state, unless legislation is passed to change that, which means he is one of four senior royals who could act in place of the Queen if illness meant she was unable to carry out official duties.\n\nFrom the wider Royal Family there might be relief that the case is over, rather than facing a Platinum Jubilee year clouded by allegations and more revelations.\n\nBut for Prince Andrew it's hard to see any way back to public life.\n\nWill he be able to take part in jubilee events or official royal family occasions?\n\nEven with no admission of guilt, or any concessions to the claims against him, his future relationship with the public, and any appearances at royal events, will be awkward to say the least.", "Analysis of more than 30 bottles of wine has found two glasses could be enough to reach the recommended daily sugar limit for adults.\n\nResearch by Alcohol Health Alliance UK found some bottles had up to 59g of sugar - more than a glazed doughnut.\n\nAn independent laboratory analysed bottles of red, white, rosé, fruit and sparkling wine from popular UK brands.\n\nNone of the bottles featured nutritional information on labels as this is currently not required by law.\n\nCalorie content was only displayed on a fifth of the bottles analysed by the lab.\n\nCampaigners are calling for change, to better inform wine drinkers about how many calories and how much sugar they are consuming.\n\nThe NHS recommends adults consume a maximum of 30g of \"free sugars\" per day, which includes sugar in fruit juices and smoothies, or sugar added to food or drink.\n\nAnalysis shows that it's possible to reach an adult's daily sugar limit by drinking two medium-sized glasses of some wines.\n\nAnalysis on more than 30 bottles of wine has found two glasses of some of sweeter wines is enough to reach your daily sugar limit\n\nIt also found lower-strength wines were among those containing the most sugar, meaning they were not necessarily a healthy choice, despite their lower alcohol content.\n\nIn the UK, alcoholic drinks are required to display volume and strength in units of alcohol by volume (ABV).\n\nLabelling must also identify any common allergens, but there are no requirements for ingredients, health warnings or nutritional value as found on many other food and drink food products.\n\nA YouGov survey of more than 12,000 people last year found that 61% wanted calorie information on wine labels - and more than 50% of those surveyed wanted the amount of sugar listed.\n\nIn 2020, the UK government held a consultation on whether calories should be listed on alcoholic drinks - but there was no consultation on whether sugar content should be listed.\n\nProfessor Sir Ian Gilmore, chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance UK, called the current rules \"absurd\".\n\n\"Shoppers who buy milk or orange juice have sugar content and nutritional information right at their fingertips,\" he said.\n\n\"But this information is not required when it comes to alcohol - a product not just fuelling obesity, but with widespread health harms and linked to seven types of cancer.\"\n\nMiles Beale, who heads up the Wine and Spirit Trade Association, says members of the group want people to have access to nutritional information for all alcoholic drinks, but suggested the information should be carried online.\n\n\"[We] have been pushing for greater information to be provided online,\" said Mr Beale. \"The alcohol industry can provide consumers with a far greater variety of information that is more relevant to consumers and which would not fit on a label,\" he added.\n\n\"There is significant variation in the number of calories in different alcoholic drinks and in different servings of drinks. Online is the best way to provide the volume and variety of information that consumers need to make quick and easy informed decisions.\n\n\"It would also cost less to deliver.\"", "The ferry service out of Largs managed to continue on Wednesday, despite the winds from Storm Dudley Image caption: The ferry service out of Largs managed to continue on Wednesday, despite the winds from Storm Dudley\n\nThe managing director of CalMac ferries, Robbie Drummond, has told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that the operator was seeing an improving picture today.\n\nDespite the winds from Strom Dudley, which resulted in waves as high as an eight-storey building, Calmac ran 214 sailings - more than 54% of the timetable - yesterday.\n\nMr Drummond said CalMac was looking to run more services today, but he admitted that the majority of routes would still be subject to disruption.\n\nThe sailings worst affected include Coll and Tiree and Harris and Lewis.\n\nMr Drummond added that the services were on a mix of red, amber and green alert and he urged passengers to check before travelling.\n\nQuote Message: It was very challenging conditions, but we are seeing that reduce and we are aiming to get as many sailings done today as we can before the further bad weather sets in for Friday.\" from Robbie Drummond CalMac Ferries managing director It was very challenging conditions, but we are seeing that reduce and we are aiming to get as many sailings done today as we can before the further bad weather sets in for Friday.\"", "Flammable cladding panels have been blamed for the rapid spread of the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, which led to 72 deaths\n\nA cladding system similar to the one used at Grenfell Tower spectacularly failed safety tests in 2001, the public inquiry into the disaster has heard.\n\nTests had resulted in a \"very rapid, very large fire\" and had to be stopped.\n\nFor the first time the Building Research Establishment (BRE) confirmed publicly the tests had resulted in 20m (65ft) flames.\n\nThe BBC revealed the existence of the tests last year. They had not been made public before.\n\nSarah Colwell from the BRE told the inquiry the results were passed to the government to \"alert and identify\" the problem.\n\nThe test of the aluminium cladding with a plastic layer took place in 2001 - 16 years before the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nIf the results had been widely disseminated, it is possible the Grenfell cladding would not have been installed.\n\nIn the first report of the Grenfell Inquiry, the cladding was cited as the main cause of flames rapidly spreading up the building, leaving residents trapped.\n\nThe 2001 test involved a mock-up of a building on a 9m (30ft) test rig. This was the standard test of its type.\n\nWhen engineers set light to the mock-up, flames spread rapidly, according to results from the test shown at the inquiry.\n\nWithin three minutes the maximum acceptable temperature levels were reached on the outside of the structure, and just over a minute later, internal limits were also reached.\n\nAfter five minutes the flames had reached 20m (65ft) - twice the height of the rig - and the test was stopped.\n\nNormally the rig would be allowed to burn for 30 minutes.\n\nGiving evidence, Dr Colwell said: \"It was very rapid, very large fire growth.\"\n\nShe agreed the test was \"catastrophic\" and experts watching were \"shocked\".\n\nDespite the test, the aluminium cladding had the best national rating for fire spread - Class zero - a standard which has been discredited since the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nThe Building Research Establishment passed the results of the 2001 tests to the government, which had commissioned its work.\n\nDespite the obvious fire risks the aluminium cladding was not specifically banned, and continued to be used on buildings such as Grenfell right up to the fire in 2017 which resulted in the loss of 72 lives.\n\nThe government has a £4bn fund in place intended to remove unsafe cladding on residential buildings 18 metres and over\n\nAsked whether anyone warned the construction industry, DrColwell said: \"I made the department aware of the outcomes. They were obviously in a position to take the dissemination route.\"\n\nA 2004 document summarising the results was leaked to the BBC last year. It had been circulated to an industry group marked \"commercial, in confidence\".\n\nFollowing the Grenfell fire, cladding companies claimed they had been horrified by how fast the flames spread, and that they had not been aware of the risks of aluminium and plastic cladding.\n\nA document produced by the BRE in 2006 following the tests did not mention the 2001 test results.\n\nCounsel to the inquiry asked Dr Colwell which brand of cladding was used in the tests. She said she did not know.\n\nThe product used at Grenfell was Reynobond PE55 made by the multinational firm Arconic.\n\nResidents in more than 1,000 buildings in London still rely on 24-hour monitoring due to potentially unsafe building materials, the fire service has said.\n\nGovernment officials and former ministers will be questioned about what they knew over the coming weeks.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A T-shirt advert for retailer Boohoo has been banned after the advertising regulator ruled it was \"sexually suggestive\" and objectified women.\n\nThe online fashion company's ad showed a model wearing a T-shirt with thong-style bikini bottoms and trainers.\n\nBoohoo, which has been criticised for its racy marketing before, said the model was wearing the T-shirt with a bikini as part of their swimwear range.\n\nThe company said it was disappointed by the ruling, but has removed the images.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it had received a complaint that the ad was offensive, harmful and irresponsible.\n\nIt added that while it understood the product was presented under the swimwear range, it still appeared in website searches for T-shirts and tops.\n\n\"We also noted that neither the partial nudity nor the bikini bottoms were relevant to the product and that the images did not show the product as it would usually be worn,\" the regulator said.\n\nThe \"sexually suggestive\" images pictured the model kneeling from rear-view, sitting on the floor with legs apart and lifting the T-shirt.\n\n\"For those reasons, we concluded that the ad objectified and sexualised women. It was therefore irresponsible and likely to cause serious offence,\" the ASA said.\n\nThe ASA ruled that the ad should be banned and said it told Boohoo to ensure that future ads were \"prepared with a sense of responsibility to consumers and to society\", and that they did not cause \"serious or widespread offence or harm by objectifying women\".\n\nIt's not the first time Boohoo has come under fire for sexualised adverts.\n\nThe ASA banned one of the firm's promotions in 2019 after Boohoo emailed customers with an ad that used the phrase \"Send nudes, set the tone with new season hues\" to market a range of clothes in skin tone colours.\n\nThe regulator said this was \"socially irresponsible\" because young customers could be \"harmfully affected\" by pressure to share sexual images of themselves.\n\nA Boohoo spokesman said the company was \"disappointed\" by the ASA's latest ruling because it \"prides\" itself on its \"inclusive, body positive imagery\".\n\n\"Our marketing reflects the vibrant and confident culture of our brand, and is not designed to intentionally cause offence.\n\n\"We removed the associated images from our website when we received details of the complaint from the ASA,\" the spokesman added.\n\nOnline fashion retailers are more likely than traditional retailers to use \"racy\" marketing, according to BBC analysis of Google search terms.\n\nGoogle uses the term \"racy\" to describe skimpy or sheer clothing, strategically covered nudity or provocative poses.\n\nThe analysis found that on a typical UK High Street fashion retailer's website, 8% of women's modelling images were \"racy\" compared with 16% for online-only sites.\n\nPreviously, the ASA banned an ad by online retailer Missguided for a promotion which it said featured \"highly sexualised\" images and \"objectified women\".", "This was a bleak forecast for the future from Nato's secretary general.\n\nJens Stoltenberg described it as the most serious security crisis in Europe since the end of the Cold War. And he made clear that the threat hasn't gone away.\n\nStoltenberg said he'd seen no evidence that Russia had withdrawn forces from the border with Ukraine and warned that Russia had maintained a massive military force which was ready to attack.\n\nEven if President Putin doesn't give that order, there are still signs this crises will cast a much longer shadow.\n\nStoltenberg said Russia's military build-up showed Moscow is prepared to contest European security with the use of force.\n\n\"I regret to say it's the new normal,\" he said. That \"new normal\" could also mean Nato increasing its military posture.\n\nStoltenberg has tasked Nato military planners to look at setting up new battlegroups on the alliance's Eastern flank - in Romania and the Black Sea region.\n\nNo final decision has yet been taken and Nato insists reinforcements would only be sent to act as a deterrent.\n\nNato is still calling on Russia to engage in dialogue to reduce tensions. But if diplomacy doesn't work the danger is both sides will end up with their armies doing the talking.", "Ukraine's president has called for a day of national unity on Wednesday\n\nAs Western leaders warned of an imminent Russian attack on Ukraine, Yuri Vasylevych and his saxophone quartet played tango to a full house at the Kyiv Philharmonic.\n\nThe musician is used to performing under pressure: when pro-EU protests erupted in violence in 2014, in this grand columned hall the show went on to the sound of shooting.\n\nNow Russia has massed troops on Ukraine's border, to stop it slipping from Moscow's orbit into Nato, and Yuri says he feels his country has a \"gun to its head\" once again.\n\n\"We were hoping to live like France or Britain, other free countries,\" he explained ahead of the Valentine's night performance.\n\nYuri Vasylevych and his saxophone quartet are used to playing under pressure\n\n\"But eight years on, we're still coming to work without knowing whether it'll be calm after our concert or whether there'll be shooting.\"\n\nDespite the musician's unease, and all the dire prophesies of Western politicians and intelligence agencies, the streets of Kyiv have remained remarkably calm.\n\nThe only sign of panic is that word itself graffitied on to a city wall. There's no sign at all of the Russian assault that some sources were so sure of they even predicted it would come on Wednesday.\n\nBut Ukrainians' long experience of living in Russia's shadow makes them wary of recent moves that suggest Moscow may be dialling down the tension, just a little bit.\n\nFirst, Russia's foreign minister advised President Vladimir Putin that it made sense to keep talking to the West and negotiating his security demands.\n\nThen Mr Putin repeated those demands on Tuesday, whilst insisting he didn't \"want war\".\n\nThe same day, his defence ministry announced that some troops were returning to their garrisons \"as planned\" and published video of tanks rolling across a road as a soldier with little flags held up the traffic in the snow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkraine's foreign minister has given the purported evidence short shrift.\n\n\"We in Ukraine have a rule: we don't believe what we hear, we believe what we see,\" Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"If a real withdrawal follows these statements, we will believe in the beginning of a real de-escalation.\"\n\nA few hours later, the defence ministry in Kyiv reported that its website had been hacked. Service at two major banks was also disrupted. The cause isn't clear, but Ukraine has suffered major cyber-attacks before that it has linked to Russia.\n\nWhilst Ukraine's allies focus on dramatic warnings of a full, military invasion - with major cities under bombardment and tanks surging on Kyiv - it was a timely reminder that the country remains vulnerable to less obvious forms of attack, less soaked in risk for Russia, too.\n\n\"Everyone in the West is trying to see a signal for hope in this Russian statement that it's withdrawing some forces from the border, but it actually means the risk of a hybrid invasion may be even higher,\" Ukrainian political analyst Maria Zolkina argues.\n\nShe sees a smaller incursion launched from the eastern regions of Ukraine already controlled by Russian-backed forces as a more realistic threat, likely sparked by a \"provocation\".\n\n\"We have so many examples of when Russia talked of de-escalation and it didn't happen, like just last spring,\" Ms Zolkina points out. \"So this latest could just be a diplomatic manoeuvre, meant to distract.\"\n\nUkraine's allies suspect so. They say Russia has built up its positions in recent days, not reduced them.\n\nBut after all the talk of major military action \"within 48 hours\", Western officials are now urging people not to \"fixate\" on any date and warning that this crisis could be \"very protracted\".\n\nSo Ukraine has not dropped its guard, but it's also refusing to be cowed.\n\nUkraine's President Zelensky has suggested that some countries are overstating the threat of war\n\nOn Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky urged people to fly the flag, wear blue and yellow ribbons and come together in a show of national unity.\n\nA scroll through social media suggests that many city councils across Ukraine are planning mini marches, in a flutter of patriotism and defiance.\n\n\"I thought I'd put a flag on my balcony,\" IT-specialist Alexander said on Tuesday evening in central Kyiv.\n\nHe's had a nervous few days following the war warnings in the news and even made an escape plan with his family in case the city came under attack.\n\n\"I feel a bit calmer now because Ukraine seems to be signalling that it might not join Nato and I like that,\" Alexander admitted. \"Nato makes Russia really angry and that could cause a war, not protect us.\"\n\nOn the same street of hipster cafes and galleries, student Yaroslav said he was resisting his parents' calls to head to western Ukraine for safety.\n\nBut he doesn't believe this crisis is over.\n\n\"Putin flexed his muscles and maybe he got something he wanted - or maybe the withdrawal is just a distraction,\" Yaroslav said. \"But this is not our first fight with Russia and we're ready to hit back if we have to.\"", "Former UK deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg has been promoted to a new senior role at Facebook's owner Meta.\n\nA Facebook post from the company's boss Mark Zuckerberg said Sir Nick would become its president of global affairs.\n\nThe move puts the former Lib Dem leader on a par with Mr Zuckerberg himself at the recently-rebranded firm.\n\nSir Nick joined Facebook in 2018 as its head of its global affairs and communications team. His new role will see him focus on regulatory issues.\n\nMr Zuckerberg said Meta needed \"a senior leader at the level of myself... who can lead and represent us for all of our policy issues globally\".\n\nSir Nick, who served as deputy prime minister as part of the coalition government from 2010-2015, left politics after losing his Sheffield Hallam seat in the 2017 general election.\n\nAt the time of his move to California, it was reported Mr Zuckerberg and chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg were personally involved in his recruitment, hoping to capitalise on his political experience in the face of increased scrutiny of the tech industry and their use of data.\n\nSir Nick has since spearheaded the establishment of Facebook's independent content oversight board, and recently defended the company against the accusations of whistleblower - and former employee - Frances Haugen, who claimed the social media site put profit before user safety.\n\nHis promotion comes ahead of the US midterm elections in November.\n\n\"Nick will now lead our company on all our policy matters, including how we interact with governments as they consider adopting new policies and regulations, as well as how we make the case publicly for our products and our work,\" Mr Zuckerberg wrote in his post.\n\nMs Sandberg said the new role came at \"a crucial time for our company and our industry as new rules for the internet are written all over the world\".", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nSir Mark Todd has been given an interim suspension by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) after a video on social media appeared to show him hit a horse with a branch.\n\nThe former Olympic equestrian champion turned racehorse trainer will be unable to race horses while investigations continue.\n\nThe 65-year-old New Zealander, who trains in Wiltshire, has apologised for his actions.\n\nOn Sunday the BHA condemned the video.\n\nIt appears to show Todd strike the horse multiple times while attempting to coax it towards the water jump in a cross-country schooling session.\n\n\"This interim suspension means that while investigations continue into the circumstances of this incident, Sir Mark will be unable to race horses in Great Britain or internationally,\" said the BHA on Wednesday.\n\n\"The trainer has admitted the individual involved in the video was him, has apologised for his actions and agreed to the imposition of an interim suspension.\"\n\nTodd won individual eventing golds at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 and Seoul in 1988 and earned a knighthood for his equestrian achievements in 2013.\n\nHe became a racehorse trainer in 2019 after retiring from three-day eventing.\n\n\"I wholeheartedly apologise to the horse and all involved for my actions in this video clip,\" he said.\n\nTodd stepped down as a patron of the World Horse Welfare charity which said: \"The treatment of the horse in this video is disturbing and unacceptable.\n\n\"There is no place in the horse-human partnership for such use of force.\"\n\nTodd, whose last winner came 60 days ago, had entered the filly Cape Cornwall Rose to run at Lingfield on Friday.\n• None 'I can't wait to get started': The remarkable story of Christian Eriksen's comeback as he returns to the Premier League", "Heineken, the world's second largest brewer, has warned that it will increase the price of its beers due to the impact of inflation.\n\nThe firm, which sells brand including Strongbow cider, Amstel and Europe's best-selling lager, Heineken, blamed soaring ingredient and energy costs.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Cobra beer also said its prices will rise because of \"vicious\" cost pressures.\n\nNeither firm has said how much their prices will go up by.\n\nHeineken's chief executive Dolf van den Brink said: \"These kind of price increases and inflation, I think we have not seen in a generation.\"\n\nHe added that putting up prices could lead to \"softer beer consumption\" as drinkers reined in their spending due to soaring living costs.\n\nInflation in the UK hit a new 30-year high in January as energy prices, fuel and food costs continued to rise. The cost of living is now rising faster than wages and is expected to climb above 7% this year.\n\nMarmite-maker Unilever, the bakers Greggs and sandwich chain Pret a Manger have all warned on price rises as their costs rises.\n\nHeineken said its input costs were now set to rise by a mid-teens percentage due to the price of barley doubling compared to a year ago and aluminium prices going up by around 50%.\n\nTransport and energy costs have also risen for the business.\n\nIt comes after a strong year for the Dutch brewer, when consumers splashed out on alcohol during the pandemic.\n\nHeineken said that its net revenues increased by 11.3% to 21.9 billion euros (£13.4 billion) in 2021, with sales of its Heineken-branded beer up by 17.4%.\n\nThe brewer's profits rose by 80%, although it said the coming year remained \"uncertain\" due to \"inflationary challenges\".\n\nHuw Dixon, Professor of Economics at Cardiff University and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, questioned the brewer's decision to put up prices.\n\n\"Heineken's strong sales seem to indicate that their profit margins aren't being squeezed even though there might be certain costs that are rising,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It's very hard for us as experts to say whether Heineken's increased production costs are wholly reflected in higher prices for customers.\"", "Virginia Giuffre has filed a civil case against Prince Andrew in the US\n\nAmerican Virginia Giuffre says she was the victim of sex trafficking and abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful associates when she was a teenager.\n\nShe is now at the centre of one of the world's most high-profile legal battles, after launching a civil case against Britain's Prince Andrew.\n\nThe royal has consistently denied her allegations of sexual abuse. But his lawyers' efforts to have the case thrown out at an early stage have so far failed, putting a civil trial in New York in the autumn on the horizon.\n\nHere's what we know about Virginia Giuffre.\n\nMs Giuffre was born as Virginia Roberts in 1983 in the US state of California. Her family later relocated to Florida.\n\nAt the age of seven, she says she was sexually abused by a family friend, and her \"childhood was quickly taken away\".\n\n\"I was just so mentally scarred already at such a young age, and I ran away from that,\" she told the BBC's Panorama in 2019.\n\nLater in her childhood, she was in and out of foster care. And by the age of 14, she was living on the streets where she says she found nothing \"except for hunger and pain and [more] abuse\".\n\nIt was in the year 2000, while attempting to rebuild her life, that she met British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Virginia Giuffre: \"I implore the people in the UK... to not accept this as being OK\"\n\nMs Giuffre was working as a locker room attendant at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, and says Maxwell offered her an interview for the chance to train as a massage therapist.\n\n\"I ran over to my dad who works on the tennis courts at Mar-a-Lago, and he knows I'm trying to fix my life up at that point, which is why he got me the job there. I said: 'You're not going to believe it dad',\" she recalled.\n\nWhen Ms Giuffre arrived at Epstein's home in Palm Beach, she says he was lying down naked and she was instructed by Maxwell on how to massage him.\n\n\"Through that time they were asking me questions about who I was.\n\n\"They seemed like nice people so I trusted them, and I told them I'd had a really hard time in my life up until then - I'd been a runaway, I'd been sexually abused, physically abused… That was the worst thing I could have told them because now they knew how vulnerable I was,\" she told the BBC.\n\nMs Giuffre said what she had expected to be a job interview soon turned into the beginning of years of abuse.\n\nMaxwell was found guilty last month of recruiting and trafficking young girls for Epstein to abuse, and is awaiting sentencing.\n\nWhile Ms Giuffre was referenced on many occasions in court, she was not one of the four women who testified in that case. Maxwell has denied assaulting her.\n\nIn 2015, Ms Giuffre filed a defamation case against Maxwell after she accused her of being a liar. The case has since been settled.\n\nMs Giuffre says she went from being abused by Epstein to being \"passed around like a platter of fruit\" among his powerful associates, as she was taken around the world on private jets.\n\nIn 2001, then aged 17, she says Epstein brought her to London and introduced her to Prince Andrew. A now famous photograph that she says was taken on that night shows the prince with his arm around Ms Giuffre, as Maxwell smiles in the background.\n\nVirginia Giuffre says she asked Jeffrey Epstein to take this picture of her with Prince Andrew\n\nAfter going to a nightclub, Ms Giuffre says she was told by Maxwell that she \"had to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey\".\n\n\"It was a really scary time in my life… I wasn't chained to a sink, but these powerful people were my chains,\" she told the BBC.\n\nIn her civil case, Ms Giuffre alleges that the prince sexually abused her three times - at Maxwell's London home that night, and later at Epstein's homes in Manhattan and Little St James in the Virgin Islands.\n\nPrince Andrew, the Queen's second son, said in an interview with BBC Newsnight in 2019 that he had no recollection of ever meeting Ms Giuffre, and, in response to her account of them having sex in the US and UK, that it \"didn't happen\".\n\nMs Giuffre told the Miami Herald that by 2003 Epstein had lost interest in her because she was too old for him.\n\nShe said she convinced the wealthy financier to pay for her to get training to become a real professional masseuse and he arranged for her to take a class in Thailand. But she was also expected to bring home a Thai girl that Epstein had arranged to come to the US.\n\nInstead, Ms Giuffre met a man on the trip whom she fell in love with and married 10 days later. She moved with him to Australia to start a family.\n\nMs Giuffre now lives in a large house on the coast of Perth with her husband and three children.\n\nShe has founded a non-profit organisation called Speak Out, Act, Reclaim (SOAR), aimed at \"educating and advocating for victims of trafficking\".\n\nFollowing the ruling against Maxwell last month, Ms Giuffre told New York Magazine \"it's definitely not over\".\n\n\"There are so many more people involved with this,\" she said.", "Liam Wiggins has lived in a housing executive flat in the New Lodge area of Belfast for 12 years\n\nThe rent freeze for Northern Ireland Housing Executive properties \"must be seen as a good thing\", a Belfast tenant says.\n\nStormont's communities minister announced on Wednesday she was freezing rents for the coming 2022-23 financial year.\n\nDeirdre Hargey says it is to support residents during the \"cost-of-living crisis\".\n\nThe Housing Executive manages about 85,000 homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nLiam Wiggins has lived in a housing executive flat in the New Lodge area of Belfast for 12 years.\n\nHe said that with the cost of living generally becoming more expensive, any freeze should be welcomed.\n\n\"You go into the supermarket and small increases add up - a penny here, a penny there,\" he said.\n\n\"It might not be a big difference but it's not going up.\n\n\"If the Housing Executive rent was to go up by £10 a month even, to some people that's a massive difference - it's the difference between saying yes and no to something.\"\n\nMr Wiggins said while his rent was not too high, others in the area can pay up to £130 a week.\n\n\"That's nearly a mortgage,\" he said. \"Social housing was introduced to provide affordable housing.\n\n\"So for many this (rent freeze) is one less thing to worry about. It's a good thing.\"\n\nSeveral utilities firms have announced large price increases in recent months, putting pressure on household finances.\n\nDeirdre Hargey said she wanted to support residents who were facing soaring fuel and household bills\n\nSome companies have increased gas and electricity tariffs for domestic customers several times over the past year.\n\nThe cost of food, petrol and other essentials has also gone up and over the course of 2021 inflation rose to 5.4%.\n\nMs Hargey said she took the decision to prevent \"any further financial burden on individuals and families trying hard each day to make ends meet\".\n\n\"As communities minister my priority is to support people, particularly the most vulnerable, who are facing soaring fuel and household bills,\" she said.\n\n\"Right now, tenants need security and a freeze in their rents will provide a bit of stability on an important housing cost in an uncertain climate.\"\n\nHeather Graham lives in a property in Bangor which is run by a housing association and will not benefit from the rent freeze.\n\nShe says the announcement for housing executive tenants is \"unfair\" and feels other low-income households are being left out.\n\n\"I would prefer to be living in a Housing Executive house but unfortunately that (housing association) is what I got,\" Ms Graham said.\n\n\"A place in the Housing Executive is nearly half of what I pay and I still have to pay for the increase in heating costs and food.\n\n\"I also live on my own so I have to do it all with a low income.\"\n\nHeather Graham says she lives alone and struggles with the cost of living due to rising fuel and electricity costs\n\nMs Graham said people living in the private sector are also struggling with the cost of living.\n\n\"I'm just living and there's no spare money,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm paying an extra £10-20 for fuel, gas and electric than I normally would and then there's food shopping and food for my cat.\n\n\"I don't get help from the government and I wasn't eligible for the winter fuel payment after Christmas.\"\n\nThe Housing Executive is a non-departmental public body but it is subject to the overall direction and control of the minister for communities.\n\nThe minister does not have control over independent social housing providers, but she has asked housing associations to consider the financial pressures tenants are facing when setting next year's rent.", "The spill happened off the north Wales coast on Monday\n\nAbout 500 barrels of oil has leaked from a pipe off the north Wales coast.\n\nThe pipe, which runs between two platforms named Conwy and Douglas, was shut off following the leak on Monday and remains closed.\n\nOperator ENI UK said details of what happened about 20 miles (33km) north of Rhyl, Denbighshire, were still being confirmed, but no-one was affected.\n\nThe firm said there would be updates as details emerged but the Welsh secretary said no oil should reach Wales' shores.\n\nA leak of about 500 barrels is just under 80,000 litres.\n\nThe Douglas complex consists of three platforms and is located about 15 miles (24km) off the north Wales coast.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency said its counter pollution and salvage team, together with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, was monitoring ENI's response and was \"assisting partner local authorities in an ongoing response\".\n\nThe spill happened off the north Wales coast on Monday\n\nEnvironment body Natural England said it was monitoring the incident and had \"plans in place\" if any action was needed.\n\nGreg Hands, UK minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change, said he was \"being kept regularly updated\" on the situation and was making sure the ENI fulfilled its legal obligation.\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart added: \"Any residual oil is not expected to beach on the north Wales coastline and teams are in place on the Lancashire coast ready to respond if any oil beaches there.\"\n\nENI is involved with oil and natural gas exploration, field development and production, as well as in the supply, trading and shipping of natural gas, LNG, electricity and fuels.\n\nThrough refineries and chemical plants, it processes crude oil to produce fuels, lubricants and chemical products.\n\nDr Peter Robins said oil spills could disperse back and forth with tides\n\nDr Peter Robins, senior lecturer in physical oceanography at Bangor University, said: \"An oil spill will tend to spread out over the surface of the ocean and it'll spread naturally through the mixing of the ocean waters.\n\n\"Where it's spilt in the middle of Liverpool Bay, there tends to be stronger flood tides so it might tend to drift eastwards, maybe towards the English coast there.\n\n\"At the moment we're experiencing quite strong south-westerly winds and they're going to also tend to push the oil eastwards towards the English coast, I think.\"", "Russia says it has started moving troops and equipment away from Ukraine's borders\n\nRussia's claim that it is moving troops away from Ukraine's border is \"false\", according to a senior White House official, who added that 7,000 extra troops have arrived in recent days.\n\nThe US official also said that Russia could launch a \"false\" pretext to invade Ukraine \"at any moment\".\n\nMoscow says it is moving troops away from the Ukrainian border after the completion of military exercises.\n\nBut Western officials say they have seen no evidence to support the claim.\n\n\"Russia must take real steps toward de-escalation,\" US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz agreed in a phone call on Wednesday, according to the German chancellery.\n\nRussia - which has repeatedly denied planning to invade Ukraine, despite having amassed well over 100,000 troops near the border - calls Western concern over an invasion \"hysteria\".\n\nIts defence ministry has published images purportedly showing troops and equipment returning to their permanent bases after military exercises.\n\nBut according to the senior White House official, who asked to remain anonymous, thousands more troops have arrived in the area in recent days - including some on Wednesday itself.\n\nSpeaking to journalists, the official cast doubt on Russia's assertions that \"it was withdrawing troops from the border with Ukraine\".\n\n\"They received a lot of attention for that claim, both here and around the world. But we now know it was false.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt came hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC: \"We don't see any troop withdrawal yet, we just heard about it.\"\n\nHe was speaking as Ukraine marked a so-called day of unity on Wednesday, with national blue and yellow flags raised throughout the country.\n\nPresident Zelensky declared the patriotic holiday in response to US intelligence reports that Russia could attack Ukraine on the same day.\n\nNato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has also said there are no signs that Russian forces are de-escalating, saying on Wednesday that the threat from Russia had become a \"new normal\".\n\nSpeaking at a summit of Nato defence ministers in Brussels, Mr Stoltenberg said the alliance was considering setting up new battle groups - the smallest type of self-sufficient military units - in central and south-eastern Europe.\n\nHe said this was part of ongoing measures to bolster European defence - on which $270bn (£199bn) had been spent since 2014 - although he attempted to reassure Russia that Nato was not a threat.\n\nFrance had offered to lead one such battle group in Romania, he said.\n\nRussia's foreign ministry said it was \"no longer interested\" in Mr Stoltenberg's statements.\n\nThis was a bleak forecast for the future from Nato's secretary-general.\n\nJens Stoltenberg described it as the most serious security crisis in Europe since the end of the Cold War. And he made clear that the threat hadn't gone away.\n\nEven if President Putin doesn't give the order to attack, there are still signs this crisis will cast a much longer shadow.\n\nMr Stoltenberg said Russia's military build-up showed Moscow was prepared to contest European security with the use of force.\n\nThat \"new normal\" could also mean Nato increasing its military posture. Mr Stoltenberg has tasked Nato military planners to look at setting up new battle groups on the alliance's eastern flank - in Romania and the Black Sea region.\n\nHowever, no final decision has yet been taken and Nato insists reinforcements would only be sent to act as a deterrent.\n\nNato is still calling on Russia to engage in dialogue to reduce tensions. But if diplomacy doesn't work the danger is both sides will end up with their armies doing the talking.\n\nThe scepticism over Russia's claimed withdrawal was also echoed in the UK. Writing in the UK newspaper The Telegraph on Thursday, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss - who is expected to travel to Ukraine shortly - warned the West should not be lulled into a false sense of security.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson earlier told the UN Secretary-General in a phone call there was \"currently little evidence of Russia disengaging\", while his defence intelligence chief Lt-Gen Jim Hockenhull said that, on the contrary, Russia was continuing to build up its forces.\n\n\"This includes sightings of additional armoured vehicles, helicopters and a field hospital moving towards Ukraine's borders,\" he said. \"Russia has the military mass in place to conduct an invasion of Ukraine.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the US State Department warned that Russian officials were planting stories in the media aimed at influencing public opinion in the event of an invasion.\n\nSpokesman Ned Price expressed concern at Mr Putin's baseless claim that \"genocide\" was taking place in eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces have been in conflict since 2014.\n\nPreviously Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz criticised the Russian president for using the term without any evidence, while the US has called the claim a \"reprehensible falsehood\".\n\nEarly on Thursday, Russian media reported that Ukrainian forces had violated a ceasefire agreement by firing mortars at rebel forces in the Luhansk district. There has been no independent verification of the claim and Ukraine has denied shelling the area, instead alleging the rebel forces had opened fire on them.\n\nRussia and Ukraine have deep cultural and historic ties, and both were part of the former Soviet Union.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin wants assurances that Ukraine will not join Nato because he sees any expansion of it as a threat. Nato has rejected that demand.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Putin said that Russia did not want war, but demanded that the issue of Nato membership be addressed now, even though Ukraine is a long way from even starting an application to join the alliance.", "Google didn't detail how it plans to make apps more private\n\nGoogle's plan to limit data tracking on its Chrome browser has been extended to cover apps on its Android-based smartphones.\n\nIts so-called Privacy Sandbox project aims to curb the amount of user data that advertisers can gather.\n\nRival Apple now forces app developers to ask permission from users before tracking them.\n\nThe news will be a blow to firms like Meta, which rely on putting their code on apps to track consumer behaviour.\n\nMeta said this month that Apple's changes would cost it $10bn (£7.3bn) this year. Google's Android operating system is used by about 85% of smartphone owners worldwide.\n\nThird-party cookies, which use people's browsing history to target adverts, will be phased out on Google's Chrome browser by 2023.\n\nIn a blog, Google said it was now extending what it calls its Privacy Sandbox to Android apps, and working on solutions that will limit sharing users' data and \"operate without cross app identifiers, including advertising ID\".\n\nThese identifiers are tied to smartphones and are used by apps to collect information. Google said that it will keep them in place for at least two years, while it works \"with the industry\" on a new system.\n\n\"We're also exploring technologies that reduce the potential for covert data collection, including safer ways for apps to integrate with advertising SDK (software developer kits),\" it added.\n\nThe tech giant did not detail how it plans to do this.\n\nApple decided in April last year that app developers had to explicitly ask for permission from users to use IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers). Data from advertising company Flurry Analytics, and published by Apple, suggests that US users are choosing to opt out of tracking 96% of the time.\n\nGoogle's blog did not name Apple, but referred instead to \"other platforms\" which it said \"have taken a different approach to ads privacy, bluntly restricting existing technologies used by developers and advertisers\".\n\n\"We believe that - without first providing a privacy-preserving alternative path - such approaches can be ineffective,\" it added.\n\nGoogle's attempts to create alternatives to third party cookies on its Chrome browser have not gone entirely smoothly.\n\nIts first proposal -a system called Federated Learning of Cohorts (Floc) - was disliked by privacy campaigners and advertisers alike.\n\nFloc aimed to disguise users' individual identities by assigning them to a group with similar browsing histories.\n\nIts successor, Topics, was announced recently and aims instead to group users in topic clusters selected out of about 350 categories such as fitness or travel. When someone visits a website, Topics will show the site and its advertising partners three of their interests from the previous three weeks.\n\nThe Competitions Market Authority has been scrutinising Google's transition to more privacy-focused systems and said of its plans to extend them to Android apps: \"We will continue to monitor this closely and engage with Google on the nature and detail of its proposals.\"\n\nThe average app includes at least six third-party trackers that are there solely to collect and share online data, according to a report commissioned by Apple last year.\n\nAnd any one data broker is estimated to have data on up to 700 million consumers, according to research firm Cracked Lab.\n\nRegulators, such as the UK's Information Commissioner's Office, are investigating the advertising ecosystem, especially the way ads are sold - known as real-time bidding - which automatically places billions of online adverts on web pages and apps every day.", "The Environment Agency is advising households to protect themselves from possible flooding and urging people to stay away from the coast on Friday\n\nPeople in Cornwall are being urged to only travel \"if absolutely necessary\" this Friday as Storm Eunice is set to cause disruption.\n\nCornwall Council, which issued the warning, said people across the county were \"being urged to take precautions\".\n\nThose living in flood-risk areas along the north coasts of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset have been told to prepare for possible flooding.\n\nPeople are advised to stay away from the coast.\n\nThe Environment Agency said strong winds, large waves and tidal surges were likely to cause wave-overtopping and floods during high tide on Friday.\n\nAn amber weather warning for wind is in place across most of England from 03:00 GMT until 21:00 on Friday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Met Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStorm Eunice is unusual because it has not yet formed, and normally we can follow areas of low pressure across the Atlantic as they develop and give reasonable guidance as to the track and the intensity.\n\nThe exact track and time of wind intensity is difficult to predict, but most of the computer models we use suggest that on Friday, between 09:00 to 12:00 GMT, there may well be damaging gusts close to 100mph (161km/h) along the north coasts of Devon and Cornwall.\n\nThe last time we had such strength of wind was in February 2014, when the Dawlish railway line was washed away.\n\nThis may well be stronger, but the winds being westerly means that the risk to Dawlish is small.\n\nWhilst there is still some uncertainty in the track of Eunice, there is an increasing likelihood of widespread inland wind gusts of 60 to 70mph, (97km/h to 113km/h) and up to 80mph (129km/h) in a few places.\n\nWinds are expected to ease across western areas through Friday afternoon and eastern areas during the evening.\n\nCornwall Council said: \"Residents are urged to pay close attention to the weather forecast over the next two days and are urged to only travel on Friday if absolutely necessary.\n\n\"People are urged to stay back from cliffs and seafronts due to the danger of large waves.\"\n\nDevon County Council said it was also advising people to take extra care when travelling on Friday morning, because of possibilities of flying debris, fallen trees, damage to buildings and homes, roofs blown off and power lines brought down.\n\nHigh winds might also result in temporary bridge closures, including the Taw Bridge in Barnstaple, it said.\n\nKatharine Smith, Environment Agency flood duty manager, said: \"Strong winds could bring coastal flooding to parts of the west, south-west and south coast of England, as well as the tidal River Severn, through the early hours of Friday morning and into the early afternoon.\n\n\"Environment Agency teams are out on the ground closing gates, erecting barriers and clearing screens where flood debris can build up, and stand ready to operate further flood defences if needed.\n\n\"We urge people to stay safe on the coast and warn wave watchers against the unnecessary danger of taking 'storm selfies'.\n\nCoastguards said boat owners should make sure their vessels were properly secured to moorings.\n\nPaddy Cochrane, from Falmouth Coastguard, told BBC Radio Cornwall: \"We would hope that boat owners, anybody who is out on moorings this time of the year, go out, double check your lines, make sure that all your moorings are properly secured, chain-to-chain rather than rope-to-chain if you can, or double up on your ropes.\n\n\"Just ensure that if you live on the coast that everything's battened down because we're going to get a fair old blow come through.\"\n\nWindy weather this week has already affected events and facilities.\n\nIn Cornwall, Truro Farmers' Market on Wednesday was postponed ahead of the storm, and the Jubilee Pool in Penzance announced it was closing until next Wednesday.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Richard Tanner stands before the giant root plate of a Douglas Fir\n\nIt is the untold story of the winter storms. More than eight million trees have been brought down and many are now threatened by another two named storms bearing down on Britain.\n\nForest managers warn that already \"catastrophic\" damage will be made worse by Storms Dudley and Eunice.\n\nThere are warnings that the heating climate is making our weather more severe and unpredictable, and that management and planting strategies must adapt more quickly.\n\nForest ranger Richard Tanner says that he's never seen a real battlefield, but the west shore of Windermere now reminds him of photographs he has seen.\n\n\"It looks like someone's set off a bomb.\"\n\nAll around are the giant root plates of fallen trees, some the size of caravans, studded with rocks torn from the earth.\n\n\"There's three tonnes of tree and then five or six tonnes of earth maybe. And that's all got to be dealt with. We've lost thousands and thousands of trees just on this one property.\"\n\nMr Tanner has looked after the South Lakes property of the National Trust for a decade, which includes the crested beech at Wray Castle. It was a champion, with the biggest girth in Britain and Ireland. \"But Arwen's 90mph winds were too much.\"\n\nWe head south to the other end of Windermere, and Great Knott Wood. In November 2021 Storm Arwen knocked down over a third of it in one night, including dozens of ancient oaks and yew trees. It's still too dangerous to allow the public back in - thousands of trees are weakened and precariously balanced.\n\n\"Put it this way, we wouldn't be here if it was windy,\" says Heather Swift. She has cared for this site on behalf of the Woodland Trust for two decades.\n\n\"We did have this nice, dappled light and shade, but now all the spring plants that are trying to come up, they're stuck under this wet, dark blanket of fallen trees.\"\n\nKelvin Archer manages all the Trust's forests from the Scottish border, down to the Midlands, and across to both coasts.\n\nHe says almost a quarter of the charity's standing woods - hundreds of thousands of trees - have fallen.\n\n\"Climate change means that storms normally only seen in north-east Scotland are now hitting Northumberland and right across to Cumbria.\"\n\nHe says that woods that were \"firm and safe\" are now getting blown over.\n\n\"We are now seeing damage to woods that have been here for generations that can't handle the new storm issues we are having.\"\n\nMany species anchor roots, and woodlands shape themselves in a way to help them withstand our prevailing south-westerly winds. They weren't prepared for Storm Arwen, which barrelled in from the north.\n\n\"I'm a forester because I love woodlands,\" says Mr Archer. \" I come out here because it's a safe space for me. And we're losing them.\"\n\nThe storms are savaging Scotland with the greatest force.\n\nAfter Storm Arwen in November, 4,000 hectares of woodland were blown down - estimated to be eight million trees.\n\nSince then, Malik and Corrie have struck and the damage is now estimated to be 7,000 hectares - the equivalent of around 10,000 football pitches.\n\nDoug Howieson is the head of Operational Delivery for Scottish Forestry. He says the number of storms this winter is \"unprecedented\". He warns that the winds have already \"punched holes\" in the forests, and Storm Dudley, expected to hit tonight, is likely to make them worse.\n\n\"It is critical that we plant in the right place and in the right time now, to shape our future forest's resilience to climate change.\"\n\nA new citizen science app has been launched to help people on the ground to report damage.\n\nLeaving fallen wood and stumps to rot can create new habitats for wildlife\n\nHowever, the keepers of the woods do point out that it's not all bad. Mr Tanner picks at the earth-clogged roots of a fallen tree.\n\n\"Look at this gap, it's ideal for a wren to nest. There is hope for the woods because there is natural regeneration. Over there we've got some hazel coming through, a bit of ash.\"\n\nMany of the felled trees can be sold for timber - although industry experts do say wind-blown trees are often harder to recover and tend to fetch a lower price. Some deadfall will be allowed to rot, creating new habitat. Different species can be planted in the gaps the fallen trees have left to create more diversity.\n\nMr Archer says that it's vital to keep planting trees - even though they can blow down.\n\n\"We've got to sink carbon, we've got to have places for people to enjoy, we need timber and we also need habitats for the wildlife that's around us. We will tidy this up and try to recover this wood for the next generation. It will take 40 to 50 years before anything is back here, but we are dedicated to doing it.\"\n• None Rare, mature trees among those felled by storm", "Children aged between five and 11 in England will be offered a low-dose Covid vaccine, the government says.\n\nOfficial scientific advice concludes the move would help protect the \"very small\" number of children who become seriously ill with Covid.\n\nHealth Secretary Sajid Javid says the rollout will be \"non-urgent\", with an emphasis on parental choice.\n\nNorthern Ireland also said on Wednesday it will be following Wales and Scotland in offering young children the vaccine.\n\nChildren are at a much lower risk of becoming severely ill from a Covid infection, so the health benefits of vaccinating them are smaller than in other age-groups. Also, many will have some protection from already having caught the virus.\n\nSo the scientists on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises governments across the UK, have been weighing up the evidence for immunising five to 11-year-olds.\n\nIt concluded vaccination should go ahead to prevent a \"very small number of children from serious illness and hospitalisation\" in a future wave of Covid.\n\nProf Wei Shen Lim, from the JCVI, said: \"We're offering this to five to 11-year-olds now in order to future-proof their defences against a future wave of infection.\"\n\nHe suggested parents consider getting their children vaccinated during school holidays to minimise disruption to their education from any flu-like side effects of the jab.\n\nThe full guidance says fewer than two children would develop inflamed heart muscle (myocarditis) out of every million vaccinated.\n\nHowever, it estimates vaccinating one million children would prevent:\n\nProf Lim warned other childhood vaccinations include the MMR and HPV campaigns have \"fallen behind due to the pandemic\" and it was \"vital\" that Covid jabs did not disrupt these immunisations.\n\nMr Javid said: \"The NHS will prepare to extend this non-urgent offer to all children during April so parents can, if they want, take up the offer to increase protection against potential future waves of Covid-19 as we learn to live with this virus.\"\n\nHe emphasised that children are at low risk from Covid and that the \"priority remains for the NHS to offer vaccines and boosters to adults and vulnerable young people\" and to catch-up with other childhood immunisation programmes\".\n\nThe vaccine - which contains just a third of the adult dose - has already been used widely in other countries. The US alone has given it to eight million children in this age group.\n\nHowever, the JCVI denied it had been slow to act and said the vaccine had received regulatory approval only in December.\n\nChildren aged from five to 11 who have other medical conditions that put them at greater risk are already eligible for the vaccine.\n\nIn total, about six million children in the UK in that age group will be offered the jab.\n\nTwo 10 microgram doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, with at least 12 weeks between each dose, would be administered to those whose parents decide to take up the offer.\n\nThe Welsh government announced on Tuesday that it would be offering jabs to children after seeing the JCVI ruling.\n\nIt followed reports the committee's announcement was delayed due to a disagreement with the UK government, which says it is \"reviewing the JCVI's advice as part of wider decision-making\".\n\nScotland then followed the next day, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying Scottish ministers had received and considered the same JCVI advice and were \"content to accept it\".\n\nShe told parents and carers of children in the five to 11 age group that more information would be given when plans had been finalised.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said the JCVI decision was \"important and welcome news\" but accused the government of treating children as \"an afterthought\" during the pandemic.\n\n\"Ministers must now ensure all children can access the jab to avoid further disruption to their education,\" she said.\n\nIf you are a parent, do you plan to have your child vaccinated? What are your questions about children receiving a Covid vaccine? Send us your questions and tell us about your plans by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "China's economy is increasingly state-led according to the Biden administration\n\nThe US has accused China of causing \"serious harm\" to workers and firms around the world with its trade policies.\n\nThe US Trade Representative accused Beijing of repeatedly failing to live up to trade commitments.\n\nIt published its annual review of China's compliance with the deal that gave it membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Wednesday.\n\nChina said it is a firm supporter of and important contributor to the WTO.\n\nThe US report is the first since President Biden's appointee Katherine Tai took up office as the top US trade negotiator, and it lays out US concerns about China's trade policies.\n\nMany of the them are long-standing in Washington and are shared by both Democrats and Republicans.\n\nThey include Beijing's subsidies for industries it deems important, restrictions on foreign companies' abilities to do business in China and lack of protection for intellectual property rights.\n\nChina says it is \"building a socialist market economy\" that will allow market forces to determine resource allocation and allow the government to \"play a better role\".\n\nUS Trade Representative Katherine Tai says China's trade practices are harming workers and businesses\n\nThe report says: \"China's embrace of a state-led, non-market approach to the economy and trade has increased rather than decreased over time, and the mercantilism that it generates has harmed and disadvantaged US companies and workers, often severely.\"\n\nIt also points out that the US has won all 27 cases it has brought against China at the WTO, but \"meaningful reforms by China remain elusive\".\n\nThe trade war which started under former President Donald Trump means that more than half of what the world's two biggest economies sell each other is subject to tariffs, or import taxes.\n\nDespite this, trade between the two countries soared to $657.4bn (£484bn) last year after struggling through the pandemic. That's less than $1.5bn short of the record set in 2018.\n\nThe trade relationship between China and the US is arguably the most important bilateral relationship in the world.\n\nIt matters to all of us, and it's not going well.\n\nThe conclusion drawn in Washington that China is buying less from the US than it was five years ago, rather than $200bn more, shows how difficult it will be to make progress.\n\nAnd whether you look at bilateral trade ties, or at a multilateral trade forum like the WTO, relations between the two largest economies in the world are a little bit stuck.\n\nThere's not much evidence that the tariffs have helped either side. Nor is there any great prospect that they will be removed any time soon.\n\nEqually, China's membership of the WTO has not really made it more like the West, and it has certainly had no impact on political freedoms.\n\nThese are two very different economic systems and the rivalry between them will help define the 21st Century.\n\nDennis Shea, who was the US Ambassador to the WTO during Donald Trump's presidency, told the BBC that failure to achieve lasting change was a driving force behind the trade deal the two sides agreed in 2020.\n\n\"We undertook the phase one trade deal to try to exact costs on the Chinese to get their attention and to try to move the needle that way.\"\n\nHe added: \"Interestingly, Ambassador Tai [and] the current administration is still trying to enforce the Phase One deal.\"\n\nIn that deal, the US reduced some tariffs and China pledged to boost US imports by $200bn above 2017 levels as well as strengthen intellectual property rules.\n\nChinese government spokesman Mr Liu Pengyu said trade with the US was growing and that the phase one deal was benefitting the US and the rest of the world.\n\nHe said any differences could be addressed through dialogue.\n\n\"China has been working on joint implementation despite the impact of Covid-19, global economic recession, supply chain disruptions as well as US government's continuous sanctions and suppression towards Chinese entities,\" he said.\n\nFormer US Ambassador to the WTO Dennis Shea says the US China trade deal aimed to make Beijing change its approach on trade\n\nChina has bought none of those extra goods according to research by Chad Bown of the Peterson Institute of International Economics in Washington.\n\nWhile the pandemic hasn't helped, he points out that US farmers and manufacturers have struggled to produce enough goods for the target to be achieved.\n\nMr Bown told the BBC: \"There is no sense in which US-China trade relations will improve anytime soon, but there is also no sense that they are on the verge of getting worse.\n\n\"Unlike President Trump, the Biden administration is not threatening a re-escalation of the trade war and imposition of new tariffs on billions of dollars of trade.\"\n\nPresident Biden and President Xi held a virtual summit in November but achieved little on their trade differences\n\nThe World Trade Organization remains an unlikely place for the two sides to resolve their differences.\n\nThe main dispute resolution mechanism, the Appellate Body, has been unable to function since December 2019 because the US has repeatedly blocked the appointment of new judges, partly over its treatment of China.\n\nThe USTR report says that new strategies are needed to deal with \"the many problems posed by China's state-led, non-market approach to the economy and trade, including solutions independent of the WTO\".\n\nMr Shea said that the increase in Chinese exports to the US and the growing trade deficit it has caused is not just because of US consumers' appetite for cheap Chinese goods.\n\nAnother commitment that China needs to fulfil is a move towards making its economy more dependent on consumer spending, he says.\n\n\"Part of the imbalance is the fact that China has not moved to a consumption-led economy. They're still export-led, production-led\".\n\nThe Peterson Institute's Chad Bown says other countries are increasingly voicing similar concerns.\n\nThe inaugural US-EU Trade and Technology Council meeting was held in Pittsburgh in September\n\nHe said: \"That includes the European Union, as demonstrated through the US-EU Trade and Technology Council, as well as Japan, where the three have formed a 'trilateral' group to identify potential new rules that could address problems posed by economies dominated by state-owned enterprises and industrial subsidies\".\n\nAny improvement in US-China trade relations, says Mr Bown, \"will take time and will [probably] only result from negotiations between not just those two economies, but the other major players as well\".", "The cost of living hit a fresh 30-year high last month as energy, fuel and food prices continued to soar and retailers reined in seasonal discounts.\n\nPrices surged by 5.5% in the 12 months to January, up from 5.4% in December, increasing the squeeze on household budgets.\n\nInflation is now rising faster than wages and is expected to climb above 7% this year.\n\nThe government said it was taking action but Labour urged it to do more.\n\nInflation is the rate at which prices rise. If the cost of a bottle of milk was £1 and then rises by 5p, milk inflation is 5%.\n\nSince pandemic restrictions were eased last year, companies have faced higher wage, shipping and energy costs which they have passed on to customers.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said electricity bills were up 19% in the year to January and gas bills up by 28%.\n\nHousing costs have also been rising, while the ONS said retailers offered fewer sales and discounts in the New Year, compared to the steeper discounts seen last January.\n\n\"Clothing and footwear pushed inflation up this month and although there were still the traditional price drops, it was the smallest January fall since 1990, with fewer sales than last year,\" ONS chief economist Grant Fitzner said.\n\nThe cost of household staples is also rising, with pasta prices up 15%, cooking oil up 16% and margarine soaring 37% in the year to January, squeezing household budgets.\n\nOn Wednesday, Heineken became the latest big firm to warn it was putting up prices following Marmite-maker Unilever, bakers Greggs and the supermarket Tesco.\n\nBestway Wholesale, which owns the convenience store chains Costcutter and Bargain Booze, said rising costs \"absolutely\" meant the firm would cut its range of 25,000 low cost products.\n\n\"Obviously we're working very hard to push down costs and be as efficient as possible, but it's going to be difficult,\" managing director Dawood Pervez told the BBC.\n\nInflation - which has been at a 30-year high since December - is set to get worse in April when the energy price cap is lifted.\n\nIt will push up the average household fuel bill up by £693 a year in England, Scotland and Wales, while a planned rise in National Insurance will also hit people's pockets.\n\nIt's worth recalling, as many older readers will, that although the highest inflation in nearly 30 years sounds scary, it's partly because the last three decades have seen one of the least scary periods for rises in consumer prices - certainly compared to the 30 years prior to that.\n\nThe Bank of England has already put up interest rates twice since December in a bid to tame inflation and could raise them again to 0.75% soon.\n\nTrue, that will be the highest in 13 years. But that's only because 13 years ago, the Bank dropped rates to what were supposed to be emergency lows lasting only a few months due to the financial crisis.\n\nIt's largely because growth in productivity (and therefore pay and living standards) has been so historically weak for the last 13 years, that the decision-makers on its Monetary policy Committee have only just got up the gumption, in the inflationary storm of the last two months, to start raising them again.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday the government understood the pressures families faced and was taking action.\n\n\"We recently stepped in to provide millions of households with up to £350 to help with rising energy bills,\" he said.\n\n\"We're also helping people on the lowest incomes keep more of what they earn by cutting the Universal Credit taper rate, and freezing alcohol and fuel duties to keep costs down.\"\n\nBut Pat McFadden, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said the government needed to do more.\n\nLast week the Bank of England put up interest rates to 0.5% from 0.25% in a bid to tame inflation.\n\nSome analysts believe the Bank - which aims to keep inflation at 2% - will take a more aggressive approach to rate hikes this year and next given the economic picture.\n\nBut Willem Sels, from HSBC Private Banking and Wealth, predicted it would tread carefully \"as it knows that the factors behind inflation are also the drivers behind lower real income, which threaten to limit economic growth\".\n\n\"We expect the Bank rate to rise to 1.25%, lower than the markets' expectation of around 1.75%,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Doherty says he is \"anxious and depressed\" waiting on a call from the hospital\n\nA County Tyrone man who has been waiting six years for a gall bladder operation has said he feels forgotten about by the health service.\n\nJohn Doherty, 55, said he could not understand why he was unable to get updates on his operation.\n\nBBC News NI can reveal almost 475,000 people are waiting for surgery or to see a consultant for the first time.\n\nThe Royal College of Surgeons wants patients to be told how long they will have to wait for treatment.\n\nA spokesperson for the Western Health and Social Care Trust said they were unable to comment on an individual patient's care, but apologised for current delays.\n\nNorthern Ireland's waiting list statistics are the worst in the UK.\n\nNew figures coming out at the end of February covering the December Omicron surge are expected to be much higher.\n\nMark Taylor, a consultant surgeon, said the situation would not improve until services were delivered differently across Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Doherty said he felt anxious and depressed waiting for a telephone call from his local hospital and blamed the government for \"letting him down\".\n\n\"I feel forgotten about, they don't even get in touch with you, not even a letter to say it could happen three months down the line... they say they'll phone back but never do,\" he added.\n\nMr Doherty, who has diabetes, said having a named nurse as a point of contact had helped him, but the wait had taken its toll.\n\n\"I am waiting six years and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. They kept in contact with me about my Covid injections, but no reply about my gall bladder operation, \" he said.\n\n\"There has been nothing since 2020.\n\n\"I am trying to help myself, I am trying to get out and about - walking. I watch what I am eating, I am trying to keep well in case I am called in and I will be ready.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's waiting lists are the worst in the UK\n\nMr Taylor said people who had been languishing for years on lists deserved to know when to expect their surgery so they could attempt to get in shape for it.\n\nHe said about a one third of operations had to be cancelled daily as a result of people not being ready, either their blood pressure was too high, they were overweight or their diabetic control was not right.\n\n\"Pre-habilitation schemes can help to get patients ready for their operation as much as possible, a more personalised pre operation plan is required,\" he said.\n\nThe Royal College of Surgeons said hospitals needed to be used differently.\n\nMr Taylor called on the government to have a proper conversation with the public about how hospitals might look in the future.\n\n\"This is not about closure, this is about the redesign and re-profiling of hospitals to get maximum gain,\" he said.\n\n\"Doing more elective [planned] surgery on named sites and emergency surgery on fewer sites.\n\n\"It's not about some of the public losing out depending on where they live - having to travel a little further is a small price to pay. \"\n\nFormer health chief John Compton said waiting lists were \"out of control\" and that many people were \"suffering real harm and misery as a consequence\".\n\nMr Compton, who published the biggest reform of services in Northern Ireland in 2011, described the current waits as an \"absolute disgrace\".\n\n\"In all these years little has really changed. And today's figures cannot be blamed on the pandemic, it is a flagship of convenience to blame everything on the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nJohn Compton says the pandemic cannot be blamed for waiting lists\n\nMr Compton said someone needed to be appointed to solely look after waiting lists and to have \"executive control and accountability to take decisions\" in how waiting lists were handled.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Mr Compton also said the problem was too big to fix on its own and Northern Ireland needed to partner with the rest of the UK, the Republic of Ireland and the independent sector.\n\nA spokesperson for the Western Health and Social Care Trust said: \"The trust continues to chronologically manage all routine referrals from GPs, and urgent referrals are prioritised after review by clinical staff.\n\n\"Similarly patients waiting for treatment are reviewed by clinical staff and clinically prioritised, and this often means that patients requiring routine treatments can wait a long time because clinically urgent patients take priority.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wales was battered by heavy winds following the arrival of Storm Dudley\n\nWinds of up to 100mph could batter parts of Wales on Friday, with people warned to stay indoors.\n\nStorm Eunice is predicted to cause power cuts, damage to homes, coastal flooding and travel chaos.\n\nThe Met Office has issued an amber warning for Friday because of strong winds, with the possibility of a \"very rare\" red warning for some areas.\n\nIt comes after Storm Dudley caused power cuts, felled trees and blew a trampoline on to rail lines at Cardiff.\n\nTrain firm GWR said: \"The 14:22 Swansea to Paddington service struck an object on the line near Cardiff just after 16:00.\"\n\nLooking ahead to Friday, BBC weather presenter Sabrina Lee warned there could be winds of up to 100mph (160km/h) in coastal areas.\n\nThis could cause flying debris, large waves and falling trees, with Ms Lee saying Friday is \"not a day to venture out\".\n\nShe added: \"We're still keeping an eye on the track of the storm. There is the potential for some areas to be included in a red wind warning. These sorts of warnings are rare.\"\n\nAn amber warning has already been issued for Friday\n\nNatural Resources Wales warned there was potential for \"many\" flood warnings across all coastal areas.\n\nDuty tactical manager Ross Akers said: \"Forecasted high winds could cause a storm surge and large waves which could lead to the overtopping of flood defences along the coast.\n\n\"We are monitoring the situation very closely, but we are concerned that if the forecast does materialise, then we are likely to see significant flooding impacts in many places along our coastal areas.\n\n\"Keep a safe distance from coastal paths and promenades as large waves can sweep you off your feet or you can be hit by debris.\"\n\nA yellow \"be prepared\" warning is already in place from 13:00 GMT Wednesday until 06:00 Thursday, covering parts of north-east, north-west and mid Wales.\n\nStorm Eunice is expected to affect all of Wales from 03:00 until 21:00 on Friday.\n\nMs Lee added: \"For inland areas there is the potential for gusts 60-70mph, possibly up to 90-100mph for some coastal locations.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Wednesday the Met Office said Storm Dudley would bring 70mph winds (110km/h) to Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Anglesey, Powys and Wrexham.\n\nIt warned of damage to buildings, tree falls and power cuts.\n\nBy 17:00, Snowdonia's Capel Curig had experienced gusts of up to 81mph (130km/h).\n\nMet Office forecaster Greg Dewhurst said: \"Exposed areas in Scotland, Northern Ireland, parts of Wales and northern England have seen wind speeds largely between 60 and 70mph, but the worst affected areas have reached and even surpassed 80mph this afternoon.\"\n\nNatural Resources Wales also has flood alerts in place in south, mid and north Wales.\n\nThe M48 Severn Bridge has been closed in both directions, between junction two on the A466 Wye Valley Link Road at Chepstow and junction one on the A403 at Aust, due to the strong winds.\n\nTraffic is believed to be coping well since the closure at 12:00. A diversion is in place via the M4 Prince of Wales Bridge.\n\nTransport for Wales said a trampoline was blocking the line at Cardiff East, affecting services to and from Cardiff Central.\n\nGwent Police warned a tree was \"completely blocking\" the A4043 at Blaenavon shortly after 16:00.\n\nAt Tesco on Cardiff's Western Avenue, part of the roof was damaged and some of the car park fenced off.\n\nAlmost 600 homes were without power in Ystradgynlais on Wednesday afternoon, though this had dropped to 100 by 16:15.\n\nWestern Power also reported a number of other power cuts.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe under-18s clash between Cardiff Rugby and Newport's Dragons has been moved from Cardiff Arms Park to Ystrad Mynach because of the weather.\n\nGale force winds caused minor damage to the stadium, which could not be safely inspected in current conditions, the club said.\n\nThe river Usk in full flow at Brecon Promenade, Powys, on Tuesday afternoon\n\nOn Tuesday, there was a small landslip on the A493 between Pennal and Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, but the road remained open.\n\nThe A55 Britannia Bridge has a 30mph speed limit in north Wales because of strong winds.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool took a huge step towards the Champions League quarter-finals after scoring two late goals against Inter Milan in the San Siro.\n\nThe Reds looked set for a goalless draw in the first leg in Italy until Brazil forward Roberto Firmino got on the end of Andrew Robertson's corner to head his side into the lead.\n\nMohamed Salah added a second with a deflected effort from inside the box which means Jurgen Klopp's side take a sizeable advantage into the second leg at Anfield on 8 March.\n\nItalian champions Inter hit the bar through Hakan Calhanoglu and were on top for long periods of the second half before Firmino struck in the 75th minute.\n\nLiverpool scored from their only two attempts on target and will be firm favourites to progress when the two sides meet in the deciding leg next month.\n\nIt was a particularly memorable night for midfielder Harvey Elliott, who became the youngest player ever to start a match in the competition for Liverpool at the age of 18 years and 318 days.\n\nThe only negative on an otherwise upbeat night for the Reds was an injury to Portugal forward Diogo Jota, who was replaced by goalscorer Firmino at the start of the second half after suffering an ankle injury.\n• None Go straight to all the best Liverpool content\n\nLiverpool have now won seven successive matches in all competitions, with this arguably the most impressive of the current run.\n\nBut Klopp's team had to dig deep as Inter looked the more threatening side after a strong start by the Premier League club.\n\nFormer Manchester City forward Edin Dzeko found himself clean through in the first half before a vital challenge by Virgil van Dijk, who was captaining the Reds in the absence of Jordan Henderson.\n\nThe hosts went close again when Ivan Perisic whipped in a cross, but Lautaro Martinez was unable to give Inter the lead.\n\nIn a fascinating match, Liverpool took the lead through Firmino's glancing 75th-minute header before Salah doubled the lead eight minutes later.\n\nThere is still work to do for Klopp's team but it is going to require something extra special from Inter to turn this tie around.\n\nLiverpool remain in the hunt for four trophies and could have one in the bag by the time Inter visit Merseyside, with the Reds facing Chelsea in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley on 27 February.\n\nDespite it only being half full because of Covid-19 restrictions, there was an incredible atmosphere inside the San Siro for the first meeting between these two clubs for 14 years.\n\nElliott, who does not turn 19 until April, embraced the occasion on what was his first start since suffering a serious ankle injury in September.\n\nThe teenager did not look out of place on one of the most famous stages in world football and produced a cross in the first half which was just cut out before Salah could poke it over the line.\n\nElliott was replaced in the 59th minute as part of a triple change as Klopp attempted to turn the tide as Inter threatened - a move that worked as Liverpool went on to establish a strong advantage.\n\n\"He did the job, he was working incredibly hard, but when you're 18 years old and playing one of the most experienced teams in world football, it is not a walk in the park,\" said Klopp.\n\n\"So it was an important game for him and very helpful for us as well.\"\n• None Goal! Inter Milan 0, Liverpool 2. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Ms Palin seen arriving at court on Tuesday\n\nA jury in New York City has ruled unanimously against ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in her defamation lawsuit against the New York Times newspaper.\n\nMs Palin argued the Times defamed her in 2017 by linking her to a shooting that left six people dead.\n\nThe verdict comes after the judge threw out the case on Monday, saying her lawyers had not presented the evidence required for public figures to sue.\n\nMs Palin is expected to appeal the case to a higher court.\n\n\"The New York Times welcomes today's decision,\" said a newspaper spokeswoman.\n\n\"It is a reaffirmation of a fundamental tenet of American law: public figures should not be permitted to use libel suits to punish or intimidate news organisations that make, acknowledge and swiftly correct unintentional errors.\"\n\nMs Palin originally filed her lawsuit in 2017, arguing her reputation was damaged by an opinion piece written by its editorial board, which said her political rhetoric helped incite the 2011 shooting in Arizona that severely wounded US congresswoman Gabby Giffords and killed six other people.\n\nA fundraising group for Ms Palin had circulated a map of electoral districts that put Ms Giffords and 19 other Democrats under \"stylised crosshairs\", the newspaper said.\n\nIt later corrected the editorial and conceded the wording used in it was flawed.\n\nDuring her witness testimony, Ms Palin accused the New York Times of trying to \"score political points\" with the editorial, which she said left her feeling \"powerless\" and \"mortified\". She also said the newspaper's correction was insufficient - and didn't include her name.\n\nOn Monday, US District Judge Jed Rakoff dismissed the case, saying that Ms Palin's lawyers had failed to show that the newspaper acted with \"actual malice\".\n\nHowever, he made the unusual decision of allowing the jury to continue deliberating. If they ruled in Ms Palin's favour, he would have thrown out the case, but given the likelihood of appeal, he decided that another court \"would greatly benefit from knowing how the jury would decide it\".\n\nThe jury of nine had been deliberating since Friday before given their verdict on Tuesday.\n\n\"We reached the same bottom line, but on different grounds,\" Judge Rakoff told the jurors on Tuesday. \"You decided the facts. I decided the law.\"\n\nIn January, the court case was delayed after Ms Palin - a 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee - tested positive for Covid-19.", "Police said human remains were found in the water after Wednesday's attack in Sydney\n\nA swimmer has been killed after sustaining catastrophic injuries in the first fatal shark attack in Sydney since 1963, Australian officials say.\n\nEmergency services were called to Little Bay beach near Malabar on Wednesday afternoon where human remains were found in the water, police say.\n\nAuthorities in the New South Wales state have not named the victim, and an investigation is under way.\n\nLittle Bay and several nearby beaches are now closed.\n\nAt the time of the attack at 16:30 local time (05:30 GMT) on Wednesday, there were dozens of people swimming, paddle boarding and fishing on the nearby rocks, according to Sky News Australia.\n\n\"Some guy was swimming and a shark came and attacked him,\" one witness told Nine news.\n\n\"We heard a yell and turned around - it looked like a car had landed in the water,\" he said.\n\nAnother onlooker who was fishing on the rocks at the time told ABC news that the swimmer \"was yelling at first, and then when he went down there were so many splashes.\n\n\"He just went down for a swim, enjoying the day, but that shark took his life,\" he said.\n\nNew South Wales ambulance service said the patient had \"suffered catastrophic injuries and there was nothing paramedics could do\".\n\nThe police said the beach would remained closed while officers searched the area.\n\nThe police also urged people to be careful on beaches and follow the safety guidance from Surf Life Saving NSW.\n\nThe guidance says that beachgoers should:\n\nThe last fatal shark attack on a Sydney beach was in 1963 at Sugarloaf Bay.\n\nLast year there were three fatal shark attacks in Australia, including two in New South Wales, according to the Taronga Conservation Society.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Mehdi Ali (left) and Mohammad (right) are among the refugees who have been detained by Australia for years\n\nHuman Rights Watch has condemned Australia's immigration detention policy, pointing out that the country now holds asylum seekers for an average period of 689 days - a new record.\n\nThe group has highlighted the fact one month on since Novak Djokovic was put in an Australian detention hotel.\n\nHis experience threw a spotlight on Australia's policies which rights groups say are abusive and inhumane.\n\nActivists say 32 refugees and asylum seekers still remain in that hotel.\n\nDjokovic spent five days in a Melbourne facility after his visa to play in the Australian Open was cancelled because he was not vaccinated. He revealed to the BBC this week that he will accept missing more Grand Slams if it means he has to get a Covid vaccine.\n\nIn contrast to the tennis star's short stay, a 24-year-old Iranian refugee has been detained in the same building for two years with no prospect of a release date.\n\n\"The residents of this building are desperately in need of freedom,\" said Mehdi Ali, an Ahwazi Arab, a persecuted minority in Iran.\n\nHe fled to Australia when he was 15, but has been detained by immigration authorities for nine years. He said he was enduring a \"real-life nightmare\" in the hotel, and many others in the building had suicidal tendencies after years of indefinite detention.\n\nHuman Rights Watch, which quoted the figure of 689 days from a September government report, said it was the highest ever recorded. It is thought to be the longest timespan by far by a Western nation.\n\nCompared to other nations, where authorities allow asylum seekers to live among the public while their refugee claims are assessed, Australia places boat arrivals in mandatory detention.\n\nThere are currently 1,459 people detained in the system, which has no safeguards on how long people can be held.\n\nHuman Rights Watch calculated that Australia has detained 117 people for at least five years, including eight people who have spent more than a decade in limbo.\n\n\"These statistics shows how completely alone Australia is among like-minded countries, in terms of the indefinite detention of asylum seekers and refugees for years on end,\" researcher Sophie McNeill told the BBC.\n\n\"Under international law, immigration detention should not be used as punishment, but rather should be an exceptional measure of last resort to carry out a legitimate aim,\" she said.\n\nDjokovic's brief stay at a Melbourne detention hotel sparked demonstrations with activists drawing attention to Australia's treatment of refugees\n\nSince 2013, Australia has detained all asylum seekers who try to arrive on its shores via boat, pledging that they will never be allowed to live permanently in the country - even if they are found to be a legitimate refugee.\n\nCanberra has long justified its severe policies by arguing that they serve as deterrence to discourage people from seeking asylum in Australia. It says \"stopping the boats\" has also helped prevent deaths at sea.\n\nDoctors and advocates however have for years pointed out the \"mental torture\" suffered by those locked up for an indefinite period of time by this policy.\n\nThere have been at least half a dozen suicides recorded in Australian detention camps in the past decade. The government has also paid out millions in compensation to detainees who've said they suffered harm.\n\nAustralia's rejection of people fleeing persecution breaches the conditions of the international refugee treaties the country has pledged to uphold.\n\nThe rules are also considered \"arbitrary\" and illegal by refugee law experts, because they only apply to asylum seekers who arrive via sea. Government data shows the majority of illegal migrants in Australia are people who fly into the country and overstay their short-term visas.", "The UK car industry has called for a watchdog to oversee electric car charging prices and the availability of charge points.\n\nThe growth in electric vehicles sales is outstripping the rollout of charging points, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said.\n\nIt said a regulator is needed to monitor the market.\n\nThe government said it was providing £1.3bn to expand the charging network.\n\nOver the decade between 2011 and 2021 the number of charge points in the UK jumped from about 1,500 to more than 48,000, according to industry figures.\n\nBut between 2019 and 2021 the number of electric cars on the road increased much faster than charge points were being rolled out.\n\nMoreover, the charge point rollout was uneven, going faster in the south of England than in the north, the industry body said.\n\nThe SMMT called on the government to set up a new regulator called \"Ofcharge\" - the Office of Charging - to monitor the market.\n\nPublic charging points \"remain critical to consumer confidence and are still relied upon by many commercial fleets, as well as the third of British households that do not have designated off-street parking,\" the SMMT added.\n\nElectric vehicles are seen as a way to cut greenhouse gas emissions from transport, which became the largest emitting sector in the UK in 2016.\n\nBut while there is soaring interest in electric cars, this hasn't yet translated into vehicles on the road.\n\nIn 2020, the number of battery electric cars on the road increased by 114% to a record high of just under 200,000, while the number of plug-in hybrids jumped 35% to just under 240,000.\n\nThere has also been a sharp increase in interest in second-hand electric cars.\n\nHowever, electric cars remain a tiny fraction of the cars on UK roads, representing just 1.3% of the total.\n\nBusinesses have been leading the way with fleet purchases, but the car industry is pushing for consumers to buy into electric cars too.\n\nHowever, many people have concerns about electric cars, with two of the main ones being the cost of buying a car, and whether there are enough charge points, including for longer journeys, the car industry says.\n\nLast summer MPs also raised concerns about the cost of public charging, saying it was far more expensive than charging a car at home. Energy prices have soared since then.\n\nMike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, called for \"clear targets\" and more government support for rolling out charge points.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said the government was providing more than £1.3bn \"to support the continued roll-out of charge points at homes, businesses and on residential streets across the UK, levelling up our charge point provision while supporting the deployment of rapid charge points on motorways and major A roads in England\".\n\nThe government will publish its electric vehicle infrastructure plan soon, the spokesperson said, adding: \"We continue to work with local authorities to ensure they are engaged in the transition, and are encouraging them to make use of the on-street residential charge point scheme which last year committed £20m for the rollout of public charge points in residential areas.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"The US will defend every inch of Nato territory.\"\n\nA Russian attack on Ukraine is \"still very much a possibility\" and the human cost would be \"immense\", US President Joe Biden has said.\n\nIn remarks televised nationally, he said the US was ready to respond decisively to such a move.\n\nMr Biden said Russia had massed some 150,000 troops on Ukraine's borders.\n\nRussia says it is pulling back some of its troops. On Wednesday, it announced that military drills in Moscow-annexed Crimea had ended.\n\n\"Units of the Southern Military District, having completed their participation in tactical exercises, are moving to their permanent deployment points,\" the defence ministry said in a statement, without detailing how many troops were leaving.\n\nFootage broadcast on state television appeared to show military vehicles crossing the bridge to leave Crimea.\n\nBut Western leaders remain wary, with Nato saying there were no signs yet of a de-escalation.\n\n\"On the contrary,\" secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said, \"it appears that Russia continues their military build-up\".\n\nHis comments, ahead of a meeting of the military alliance's defence ministers, echoed Mr Biden's remarks on Tuesday, when he said Russia's withdrawal \"would be good\" but had not yet been verified.\n\n\"Indeed, our analysts indicate that they remain very much in a threatening position,\" the president said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video released by Russia's defence ministry appears to show tanks crossing the Crimean Bridge\n\nAlso on Tuesday, Ukraine said the websites of its defence ministry and two banks came under a cyber-attack. The cause is not clear but Ukraine has suffered large-scale attacks before on its online infrastructure and has pointed the finger at Russia.\n\nRussia's government, however, has denied any involvement.\n\nThere has long been concern that, rather than a full-scale invasion, Russia could use less obvious means to destabilise Ukraine, for example through cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure. President Biden said the US was prepared to respond to any such move.\n\nMr Biden's speech came hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow's security concerns should be addressed and taken seriously.\n\nMr Putin has always denied planning an incursion, and said Russia did not want another war in Europe. However, tensions have been rising since November.\n\nFollowing earlier reports that US intelligence believed Russia could attack Ukraine on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared it to be a day of unity, calling on citizens to wave the country's flag and wear blue and yellow ribbons - Ukraine's national colours.\n\nRussia has deep cultural and historic ties with Ukraine, which is a former Soviet republic.\n\nMr Putin wants assurances that it will not join Nato because he sees any expansion of it as a threat to Russia. Nato has rejected that demand.\n\nMr Biden said he agreed with a proposal by the Russian government to continue diplomacy.\n\nThe US president also warned the American economy could suffer from disruption to energy supply and sharp price increases in the likely event that sanctions were levied on Russia in response to any invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"The American people understand that defending democracy and liberty is never without cost,\" the US president said. \"I will not pretend this will be painless.\"\n\nHe said the administration was working on contingency plans with energy producers and shippers to avert potential supply issues.\n\nMr Biden warned the proposed Russian Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline to Europe \"will not happen\" if a Ukraine invasion goes ahead.\n\nThe US president continued: \"To the citizens of Russia: you are not our enemy, and I don't believe you want a bloody, destructive war against Ukraine.\"\n\nNato expressed \"cautious optimism\" on Tuesday about the Russian military's announcement that it had pulled back some of its troops from the border with Ukraine.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in a call that the US needed to see \"verifiable, credible, meaningful de-escalation\".\n\nEarlier, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that there were \"mixed signals\" coming from Russia, because UK intelligence showed Russian field hospitals were being built near the border which could \"only be construed as a preparation for an invasion\".\n\nVladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia did not want war. He spoke following a four-hour meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.\n\nMr Putin also said Nato had so far failed to address Russia's \"basic\" security concerns. He is demanding that the issue of Ukraine joining Nato be addressed now, even through Ukraine is a long way from even starting an application to join the alliance.\n\nMr Scholz said at the joint press conference that the build-up of Russian troops was \"incomprehensible\", but there was still a chance that diplomatic solutions could ease the tensions.\n\n\"I expressed that the troop build-up is seen as a threat,\" Mr Scholz said at a media briefing. \"Of course we are very concerned.\"", "All children aged between five and 11 in Northern Ireland are to be offered vaccinations against Covid-19.\n\nThe announcement by Stormont's Department of Health follows the latest advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nSome children in this age group began receiving Covid vaccines in December.\n\nBut until now, jabs were only available to children with health conditions that put them at increased risk or those who live with an immunosuppressed patient.\n\nFollowing the updated JCVI advice, all five to 11-year-old children in Northern Ireland will be offered two vaccine doses, to be administered at least 12 weeks apart.\n\nThe injections will be 10-microgram doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine.\n\nThe paediatric dose is a third of the strength of an adult dose.\n\nThe announcement comes after Wales,Scotland and England also announced they would be following JCVI guidance.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said: \"As has always been the case, our vaccination programme will continue to be guided by the expert advice.\n\n\"This announcement by the JCVI underlines the important role that the Covid-19 vaccines plays in protecting people of all ages and has only been taken after rigorous assessment of both safety and effectiveness.\"\n\nHealth trusts would work with the Public Health Agency to put the advice into operation and further details of the roll-out would be released shortly, he added.\n\nThe JCVI said: \"This advice on the offer of vaccination to 5 to 11-year-olds who are not in a clinical risk group is considered by JCVI as a one-off pandemic response programme.\n\n\"As the Covid-19 pandemic moves further towards endemicity in the UK, JCVI will review whether, in the longer term, an offer of vaccination to this, and other paediatric age groups, continues to be advised.\"\n\nThe deaths of five more people who had previously tested positive for Covid-19 were reported in Northern Ireland on Wednesday, along with another 2,889 confirmed cases of the virus.\n\nOn Wednesday morning there were 474 Covid-19 patients in hospital, 12 of whom were in intensive care.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice in Canada's capital Ottawa have cleared a main protest site in front of parliament that had been occupied by demonstrators for over three weeks.\n\nMore than 170 people have been arrested and 38 vehicles seized as officers, some on horseback, continued the second day of a massive crackdown.\n\nSome protesters who resisted were thrown to the ground and had their hands zip-tied behind their backs.\n\nPolice said, however, that operations were ongoing in Ottawa.\n\n\"We won't commit to any end time,\" interim police chief Steve Bell said, adding \"We are in this until it is over.\"\n\nMr Bell said that some protesters had moved from the heart of the protest area near Parliament Hill to surrounding neighbourhoods and that those areas would also be cleared.\n\nIt is one of the biggest police operations in Canada's history.\n\nPolice confirmed on Twitter they had used pepper spray on some protesters, saying: \"You will have seen officers use a chemical irritant in an effort to stop the assaultive behaviour and for officer safety.\"\n\nThe crackdown on the self-styled Freedom Convoy began on Friday morning, when hundreds of police, some holding riot batons, descended into the protesters' encampment in downtown Ottawa.\n\nBut some protesters refused to leave, forming a line in front of approaching officers, linking arms and singing the national anthem, O Canada.\n\n\"PROTESTORS: We told you to leave,\" Ottawa Police tweeted. \"We gave you time to leave. We were slow and methodical, yet you were assaultive and aggressive with officers and the horses.\n\n\"Based on your behaviour, we are responding by including helmets and batons for our safety.\"\n\nPolice said they had made more than 40 arrests on Saturday\n\nPolice said some of those arrested had been wearing body armour and carrying fireworks and smoke grenades. And they criticised people for bringing children to the protest, saying anyone bringing a minor to an illegal protest site could be jailed for five years or fined.\n\nPolice have also accused protesters of launching gas canisters at officers.\n\nA statement released on Saturday by Freedom Convoy organisers said they had asked remaining truckers to move from the protest site \"to avoid further brutality\".\n\nMr Bell said police had the \"mechanisms\" to review all arrests to ensure they were made according to procedure but that protesters had repeatedly been warned they would be forcibly removed if they chose not to leave.\n\nA stand-off between protesters and police on Saturday\n\nHe also said that the investigation into the protests was not over and \"will go on for months to come\".\n\n\"We will hold people accountable for taking our streets over,\" he said.\n\nOttawa police set up almost 100 police check-points on Thursday around the main protest site as well as a large business and residential district to prevent more protesters from entering the area.\n\nThe protest began in January as a truck convoy headed to Ottawa to oppose a vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the US-Canada border and grew into a broader opposition to pandemic restrictions and Mr Trudeau's government, with supporting protests across the country.\n\nAuthorities last weekend cleared the most economically damaging blockade - a bridge linking Windsor, Ontario, with the US state of Michigan. Trucker protests at other border crossings in Coutts, Alberta, Surrey, British Columbia, and Emerson, Manitoba, ended this week.\n\nOnly the blockade in Ottawa, which began on 28 January and paralysed a large part of the city centre, remained.\n\nParliamentarians returned on Saturday to Canada's House of Commons - after cancelling Friday's sitting because of the nearby police action - to debate the decision by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week to invoke a never-before-used emergencies law to resolve the protests.\n\nThe law grants government added powers in times of crisis. It has been used to impose bans on public assembly in some areas of Ottawa and has prohibited travel to the protest zone, among other measures.\n\nPolice removed drivers from their vehicles and towed some trucks away\n\nOn Saturday, the federal government said it had frozen at least 76 bank accounts linked to the protests representing C$3.2m ($2.5m; £1.8m) under the temporary emergency measures.\n\nEarlier in the week, an Ontario Superior Court Judge approved a court order freezing millions of dollars - including some held in crypto-currency - raised from around the world to support the protests.\n\nThe freeze is part of a class-action lawsuit filed by residents and business owners in Ottawa against protest organisers and participants, as well as against all those who donated funds after 4 February.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nGreat Britain had a golden finish to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics with Eve Muirhead's women's curlers crushing Japan 10-3 in Sunday's final.\n\nMuirhead brought watching British team-mates in the Ice Cube to their feet as she scored a superb four in the seventh end to effectively clinch the title.\n\nIt emulates the gold won by Rhona Howie's team at Salt Lake City in 2002.\n\nTeam GB end the Games with two medals after Bruce Mouat's men won curling silver on Saturday.\n\nSkip Muirhead, who won bronze in 2014, finally has a gold medal at her fourth Olympics after returning from hip surgery, while Vicky Wright, Jen Dodds, and Hailey Duff are champions at their first attempt.\n\n\"It's a dream come true,\" Muirhead, who shed a tear or two on the medal podium, told BBC Sport. \"That was my third semi-final, and the two I lost were hard but I bounced back and here we are. We are Olympic champions. It's such a special moment.\"\n• None 'Dream come true' for Muirhead after near misses and hip surgery\n• None How did Team GB fare at the Winter Olympics?\n\nA gold medal caps an incredible 12 months for Muirhead, who led Scotland to eighth at the World Championships last year.\n\nAfter that disappointment nine players were put into a squad selection process and Muirhead, Wright, Dodds, and Duff emerged. They went on to win the European Championships in December before sealing their spot in Beijing in a tense qualifier just weeks before the Games.\n\nResilience was also key all the way through the tournament as they took the title in a manner consistent with the champion side of 2002, who needed a tie-breaker match to make the last four.\n\nMuirhead and her team squeezed into the semi-finals with a record of five wins and four defeats from their nine round-robin matches.\n\nThey faced defending Olympic champions Sweden in the last four and won a thriller 12-11 after the match went to an extra end.\n\nIn the final they were favourites against a Japan team who had stunned world champions Switzerland in their semi-final, and they were ruthless.\n\nA perfectly executed two in the opening end with the hammer (last-stone advantage) put them in control, and crucially Muirhead pulled off a superb draw to steal a shot in the fifth end and a 4-1 lead after five of the 10 scheduled ends.\n\nThat left Japan, who had beaten GB to bronze four years ago, chasing the game, and when skip Satsuki Fujisawa missed a good chance to hit back in the sixth end, the result seemed inevitable.\n\nThe decisive four came in the next end and, though the rules dictated Japan could not concede before the eighth, their hopes were all but extinguished.\n\nAs Muirhead's final shot took out a Japanese stone to lie four, the British contingent in the stands - including the men's silver-medal winning team - jumped to their feet in jubilation, knowing the significance of the play.\n\nBritain's domination continued with a two in the ninth end which forced Japan to concede defeat one end early.\n\nThird Vicky Wright: \"It doesn't feel real. We have all had amazing support, we cannot thank our friends and family enough for everything they have done, everyone who has been behind us to make this dream become real.\"\n\nSecond Jen Dodds: \"I don't think it's going to sink in for a while. I'm so proud of these girls and the way they played in that final and the whole week.\n\n\"We built on every game, we got more confidence every game. Hopefully that was slightly less stressful that the semi-final for all our families.\"\n\nLead Hailey Duff: \"You hope you can close out the game but you always have to really focus, and that's what we did. I don't know what's happened!\"\n\nI can't be any happier for both the women and the men. What a result for British curling. It was such a dominating performance [from the women].\n\nWhat a journey they have been through in these last couple of years and it just shows you the strength and resilience you have to have to make it all the way through.\n\nGreat Britain continued to come back when things weren't working for them. It's a fairy-tale story.", "Justin Welby said a book written by his daughter on her own struggle with depression had encouraged him to get help\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury has said his faith acted as a \"safety net\" during his struggles with depression.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby told BBC Radio 4 it was \"very odd\" to feel the love of God and a \"real, vicious sense of dislike of oneself\" simultaneously.\n\nMr Welby said a book written by his daughter in 2017 had encouraged him to speak to others and get help.\n\nHe first opened up about his depression that same year and in 2019 revealed that he was taking medication.\n\nIn the first episode of a new programme, The Archbishop Interviews, Mr Welby and the author Elif Shafak explored the topics of faith, doubt and depression.\n\n\"My own experience of depression - one of the symptoms of it is self-hatred, self-contempt, real, vicious sense of dislike of oneself,\" said Mr Welby.\n\n\"And that seems very odd when it combines with also a deep sense that I'm loved by god. And in my life that expressed itself almost as a safety net.\n\n\"I would say in my prayers - I may be this terrible person, this failure as an Archbishop, whatever it is, but I know you know me better than I know myself and you still love me. And by that I am held.\"\n\nMr Welby said reading the book I Thought There Would Be Cake by his eldest daughter, Katherine Welby-Roberts, had made a \"huge difference\".\n\n\"She had a breakdown and very severe depression and still suffers from illness, and she's married now with two children,\" he said.\n\n\"And in that there was a chapter about the need to be open to speak to others. And so I did.\"\n\nThe first episode of The Archbishop Interviews airs on Sunday at 13:30 GMT on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.", "Rescuers lowered ropes to help the cragfast walkers to reach safety\n\nMountain climbers have been criticised for a \"lack of judgement, equipment, skills and ethics\" after two members of a four-man group had to be rescued.\n\nThe men from the West Midlands \"lacked experience, suitable clothing and winter equipment\" while on the Llech Ddu Spur in Snowdonia, rescuers said.\n\nTwo completed the spur and made their way off the mountain, \"leaving their friends to their own fate\", they said.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue volunteers led the pair to safety on Saturday.\n\nThe team said the four-hour operation was carried out during wintry conditions after two members of the party became cragfast or stuck and telephoned for help, although they \"had little knowledge of their whereabouts or even the location of the cars\".\n\nA Coastguard helicopter ferried rescuers to a break in the cloud, landing on a ridge above the spur in the Carneddau mountains.\n\nRescuers received a callout on Saturday afternoon to Llech Ddu Spur in the Carneddau mountains\n\nThe rescue party dropped down rope handlines to help the \"cold but very relieved young men\" to safety.\n\nTwo other rescue team members found the party's cars and waited for the other two men who arrived by taxi.\n\nIn a statement, the rescuers said: \"They were eventually reunited with their friends who were being refuelled with tea and pizzas; and for a debrief from the team leader who advised them of their lack of judgement, equipment, skills and ethics (not to abandon the weakest members of the group).\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The scene in Otley after the River Wharfe burst its banks\n\nHomes have been evacuated and roads and bridges closed as heavy rain caused widespread flooding across Yorkshire.\n\nFirefighters rescued people as flood waters engulfed a Knaresborough caravan site as Storm Franklin swept in.\n\nThere are more than 140 flood warning across the north of England and the Midlands, with two severe \"danger to life\" warnings in south Manchester.\n\nThousands of homes across the country are still without power following Storm Eunice on Thursday.\n\nFlooding was reported along the Rivers Calder and Aire in West Yorkshire and the Nidd and Wharfe in North Yorkshire.\n\nThere were reports of high water levels along the River Don in South Yorkshire. In Rotherham, the central rail station was closed over fears the tracks could be submerged by flood water.\n\nSeveral bridges over the River Aire were closed amid fears for people's safety after a large pontoon broke free from its moorings, police said.\n\nVolunteers are helping with flood defences in the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire\n\nMike Ashworth posted a picture on Twitter of part of Otley in West Yorkshire under water, after the \"raw power\" of the River Wharfe flooded gardens.\n\n\"Some days it is almost too much water to imagine,\" he said.\n\nThe Environment Agency also warned of potential flooding in parts of the coast during high tides.\n\nHelen Batt from the Environment Agency said flooding was expected in some areas after heavy rain fell on already saturated ground causing river levels to rise.\n\nShe said the agency had opened an incident room and was activating its flood defences.\n\n\"Obviously it takes a while for the water to work its way through the catchment, so people should remain vigilant,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"Most importantly is to stay out of floodwater.\n\n\"Just 30cm of flood water can float a car. There can be strong currents and obstructions under the water.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe search is continuing for 12 people missing after a ferry burst into flames near the Greek island of Corfu.\n\nThey are all thought to be lorry drivers from Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and Lithuania, Greek authorities said.\n\nFirefighters have spent a second day tackling the flames and the continuing fire has hampered rescue attempts but the ship has been towed closer to land.\n\nA total of 280 people were evacuated and two airlifted from the ferry after being trapped in the hold.\n\nThe Euroferry Olympia, owned by Italian firm Grimaldi Lines, had left Igoumenitsa in Greece for the Italian port of Brindisi when the fire broke out on a car deck.\n\nThe ferry was officially carrying 239 passengers and 51 crew, according to the company. But two Afghan nationals who were not registered as passengers on the ship were also rescued on Friday, the Greek coastguard told AFP news agency.\n\nFirefighters continued to tackle the blaze for hours on Saturday\n\nDozens of people rescued from the ferry have been taken to a hotel on Corfu. One of them, lorry driver Danilo Carlucci, told Reuters: \"We saw death in front of us.\"\n\nThe cause of the fire remains unknown but the Greek coastguard told Reuters a prosecutor had ordered an inquiry into the incident, adding the captain and two first mates had been briefly detained to testify before being released.\n\nAuthorities will have more evidence about the cause of the fire once the fire is out and the ship can be tugged to a safe place, Shipping Minister Giannis Plakiotakis told Greek television. He said when the fire was out, fuel would be pumped out in an attempt to avoid marine pollution.\n\nBut AFP reported the Italian environment ministry said a \"possible spill\" had been detected by an Italian coastguard air crew.\n\nA specialised Greek rescue team was able to board the vessel more than 12 hours after the fire broke out, but smoke has continued to billow from the ferry on Saturday as strong winds rekindled the fire.\n\nAuthorities have given details about the 12 people missing, saying they are likely to be lorry drivers. Seven are from Bulgaria, three are from Greece, one is from Turkey and one is from Lithuania.\n\nBulgaria's Foreign Ministry said 127 Bulgarians had been on board the ferry.\n\nRelatives of missing people have bee waiting for news at the port in Corfu\n\nIt is thought that the drivers may have chosen to sleep in their vehicles rather than the ship's overcrowded cabins, according to truckers interviewed by Greek state TV on Saturday.\n\nDrivers and relatives of the missing people have criticised conditions on the Euroferry Olympia in interviews with Greek media.\n\nThe ferry's operator said the 27-year-old vessel had last completed a safety check on Wednesday.", "Jack Ritchie took his own life in Vietnam in 2017 after years of gambling addiction\n\nThe parents of a 24-year-old gambling addict hope an inquest into his death will speed up changes in betting laws.\n\nJack Ritchie, who had been gambling since he was 17, took his own life in November 2017.\n\nHis mother Liz and father Charles have campaigned for industry reform since he died, urging the government not to delay \"life-saving\" law changes.\n\nA two-week hearing, starting in Sheffield on Monday, will examine the role of gambling in Jack's death.\n\nMr and Mrs Ritchie believe Jack, who started betting when he used school dinner money to play fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs), had an undiagnosed gambling disorder.\n\nThe Ritchies have argued there were no public health warnings about the risk to life posed by gambling products, and that their son was not diagnosed or offered treatment that linked his symptoms to the disorder.\n\nHull University graduate Jack died in Hanoi, Vietnam, while working as an English teacher in the country.\n\nIn September 2020, coroner David Urpeth ruled the inquest, since delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, would investigate issues including the state's provision of medical treatment to Mr Ritchie, and the information available to him and his family about the risks of gambling.\n\nA previous coroner, since retired, ruled in 2019 that the full hearing would be held under Article 2 rules, meaning it could examine whether any arm of the state breached its duty to protect Jack's right to life.\n\nThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the Department for Health and Social Care, and the Gambling Commission have been named as interested persons by the coroner, as have the charities GambleAware and GamCare.\n\nMore than four years on from her son's death, Liz Ritchie says her family is \"very pleased that people are starting to listen\".\n\n\"A very senior legal professional will be listening to the evidence and we're really grateful to him,\" she said.\n\n\"He's listed it for two weeks which gives time for the evidence to be heard and the politicians are listening.\"\n\nCharles and Liz Ritchie set up the charity Gambling with Lives following the death of their son\n\nThe couple have campaigned for reform through their charity Gambling with Lives and support other bereaved families who have had a similar experience.\n\n\"These were ordinary, bright, happy cheerful people and they have been exposed unknowingly to something that is incredibly addictive,\" Charles said\n\n\"It happens very rapidly.\"\n\nA DCMS spokesperson said: \"Our thoughts are with Jack's family at this difficult time and following this tragic case.\n\n\"We will not comment further until the inquest and legal proceedings have concluded.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nAt the fourth attempt, after heart-breaking near misses and career-saving surgery on an arthritic hip, Eve Muirhead finally has her Olympic curling gold medal.\n\n\"Without these girls being so strong, this dream would not have come true,\" said Muirhead, who was in tears on the podium.\n\n\"They helped me become a better curler, and a better person.\n\n\"Together we are a very, very strong unit and I think today we proved that.\"\n\nThe Great Britain team of Muirhead, Vicky Wright, Jen Dodds and Hailey Duff overwhelmed Japan 10-3 in Sunday's final - a routine surge to victory compared with the twists and turns of the previous rounds, and with Muirhead's Olympic past.\n\nAfter four defeats from nine in the group stage, GB only scraped into the semi-finals courtesy of other results going their way and the tiebreak of the 'draw shot challenge'.\n\nIn the last four they came through a gripping, stomach-churning match against Sweden - a win third time lucky for Muirhead, who had lost Olympic semi-finals in 2014 and 2018.\n\n\"Nobody likes to do it the easy way, do they? So we thought we would do it the tough way,\" the 31-year-old said.\n\n\"As a team we showed a lot of resilience. We are very strong and very fit. And I think being physically fit helps you be mentally fit.\n\n\"It shows that if you can be as strong at the beginning of a tournament as at the end of a tournament, then you have a good chance.\n\n\"As a team, there were moments where you doubt yourself. You doubt whether you will make those play-offs, but we never gave up. We just didn't give up, and I think that shows the incredible strength of this team.\"\n\nThe win emulates the gold secured by Great Britain 20 years earlier when Rhona Howie delivered her 'Stone of Destiny' in Salt Lake City.\n\nHowie was in Beijing to witness the latest triumph as a BBC commentator and Muirhead credited her former coach, mentor and fellow Scot.\n\n\"It's funny because several months before I came here I was getting interviewed for a documentary about Rhona's 20-year anniversary,\" said Muirhead, who was 11 when Howie won gold.\n\n\"I remember saying in that, 'I would love to follow Rhona's footsteps. I would love to do what she did because I remember staying up watching it'.\n\n\"To have this moment now and know that I followed in Rhona's footsteps and have this gold medal around my neck, is something very, very special.\n\n\"I can't thank Rhona enough for all of her help and support through the years to help me get here.\"\n\nMuirhead, who became the youngest ever Olympic skip at just 19, had hip surgery in 2018 having played in pain for several years and admitted before the 2022 Games she had not known whether she would return to curling afterwards.\n\nHer Scotland team only managed eighth at the World Championships last year, putting her Olympic place in jeopardy.\n\nNine players were put into a squad selection process as a result of the disappointing finish but the current quartet, plus alternate Mili Smith, emerged.\n\nThe Olympics has been 25-year-old Duff's first major global competition. Dodds has played 22 matches in Beijing after finishing fourth in the mixed doubles with men's skip Bruce Mouat, while Wright is a nurse who returned from her training to work full-time on the frontline during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"I was working full-time up until 2019 when I joined Eve's team,\" said Wright, who Muirhead described as the \"mother of the team\".\n\n\"Then I dropped to one hour a week. Then the Covid pandemic hit in 2020, and I went back to work full-time.\"\n\nShe was working on the wards alongside her training as recently as January before taking time off for the trip to China.\n\n\"I took eight weeks off, so it's back to work when I get back from here,\" she said.\n\n\"A week from today, I am back to work.\"\n\nWhile it may have been a disappointing Games for TeamGB overall - this gold and the silver won by the men's curlers on Saturday their only medals - the final day will live long in the memory of Muirhead and her rink.\n\n\"I'm so proud of the girls, how we played today, because if you can bring your A-game in the Olympic finals that just shows how great and what fantastic abilities we all have,\" Muirhead said.\n\n\"To stand on the podium and get that gold medal around your neck is honestly a moment I'll never forget.\"\n• None Watch the trailer for the extraordinary new series of Killing Eve", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sven and Dominic Good describe the moment a 400-year-old oak tree fell on their house\n\nA huge 400-year-old oak tree uprooted by Storm Eunice came crashing down on top of a family home.\n\nSven Good said he was working in his parents' detached house in Brentwood, Essex, when he \"heard a creak and then a massive bang\".\n\nMoments later the tree smashed through several rooms, causing extensive damage to the property on Friday morning.\n\nAfter shedding a few tears, Mr Good said, the family \"did the very British thing and went to the pub\".\n\nHe said the protected ancient oak in the front garden had shown no signs of instability before, but it came down with its full force.\n\n\"I was on a conference call when I heard a huge breath of wind, a creak, and then a massive bang,\" he said.\n\n\"My girlfriend was working in another room and told me she had heard something, and asked if a window had smashed.\n\n\"I said: 'No, the house has just been destroyed'.\"\n\nSven Good said he heard \"a creak and a massive bang\" when the tree fell\n\nThe tree took part of the roof and badly damaged several rooms on the first and ground floors.\n\nMr Good said his car, which his mother had advised him to move amid storm warnings the previous evening, was also wrecked.\n\n\"Ironically, if I'd left it where I'd originally parked it, it would have been fine,\" he said.\n\n\"We stood outside looking at what the storm had done, and my dad had a tear in his eye - and then we did the very British thing, and said, 'Let's go to the pub for a pint'.\"\n\nSven Good and his partner Anna Parnanen inspected the tree's roots after it fell\n\nMr Good said the fallen tree could actually be holding parts of the house up\n\nA second bedroom was not quite so badly damaged but has been rendered unusable\n\nFriday was spent retrieving important items from the home, but the tree remains where it landed.\n\nThe family has moved back into the parts of the house that escaped damage - albeit with hard hats on.\n\nThey are waiting for a structural engineer and their insurance company to assess the extent of the damage.\n\nMr Good's car was also crushed by the tree\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Eight stamps celebrating the Queen's dedication to service have been issued to mark her Platinum Jubilee.\n\nThe Queen's 70th anniversary of ascending to the throne is on Sunday, becoming the first British monarch to reach the milestone.\n\nThe photographs show her reign over the decades, with the images on the first class stamps ranging from 1957 to 2020.\n\nThey show her official duties - from Trooping the Colour and walkabouts in the UK to international visits.\n\nThis stamp features the Queen and Prince Philip during a tour of the US\n\nThe Queen is pictured here on a 1966 visit to the West Indies\n\nThe photographs featured on the stamps are:\n\nThis scene is from the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977\n\nShe is pictured her in uniform during the Trooping of the Colour in 1978\n\nSimon Thompson, chief executive of Royal Mail, said: \"These stamps are a celebration of the second Elizabethan Age and a tribute to a remarkable lifetime of duty and public service.\n\n\"We are honoured to be releasing them to mark the occasion of the first Platinum Jubilee in the UK's history, a momentous occasion.\"\n\nThis is a scene from a walkabout in Worcester in 1980\n\nThe Queen is pictured here wearing her Order of the Garter robes\n\nThe Queen's Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilees were also marked with special stamp issues.\n\nNone of the set has the silhouette of the Queen normally required on special stamps printed on them, as her image is used in the actual design of the stamp - removing the need for the silhouette.\n\nWhile the Queen's Accession Day falls on 6 February, a special four-day bank holiday weekend in June will be held to celebrate - with festivities including a concert at Buckingham Palace, a service of thanksgiving and a pageant on the Mall.\n\nThis image is from a visit to Canada in 2005\n\nThis stamp features the Queen on a visit to MI5's headquarters in 2020", "Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nGreat Britain's men's curlers had to settle for Olympic silver as Sweden triumphed 5-4 in a nerve-shredding final to claim gold.\n\nBruce Mouat's team took a compelling match to an extra end, but Sweden were able to use their last-stone advantage to score one.\n\nMouat's final shot to try and force a steal did not come off and left Swedish skip Niklas Edin celebrating victory.\n\nHowever, it is Team GB's first medal of the Games and the women's side have the chance to win gold when they face Japan at 01:05 GMT on Sunday.\n\n\"It's still pretty raw,\" Mouat told BBC Sport. \"That's going to be the case for quite a while.\n\n\"I'm trying to think how great our week was and [feel] proud how we went about it.\n\n\"We topped the table and had a really good semi-final performance so I'm trying to think about the other things apart from that game.\n\n\"I do feel proud of myself and my guys. I'm sure down the line I will feel proud of this medal but right now I'm just trying to soak it in.\"\n\nSwedish skip Edin had billed this as the \"clash of the titans\" in men's curling as the two sides met in their third consecutive major championship final.\n\nSweden had claimed the 2021 world title before Bruce Mouat's Scotland team took revenge in the European final in December, and the two sides could barely be separated once again in a match of very high quality.\n\nBritain went behind early on when Sweden took two in the second end and then added a steal of one in the third for a 3-1 lead.\n\nAt that stage it looked ominous for Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie and Hammy McMillan, but after clinging to one with the hammer in the next by millimetres, they built their way back into the game.\n\nTrailing 4-3 in the ninth end, they needed a score of two or more to unsettle Sweden, who were set for last-stone advantage in the final end.\n\nBut when Edin shut off the chance of two with a magnificent shot, Mouat chose to blank and take the hammer into the last.\n\nAnd although the British skip rolled in for one to force the extra end, the odds were stacked against them with Sweden having the buffer of the last stone in the decider.\n\nIn the end, after tense timeouts from both teams, Mouat was left with a difficult hit and roll shot to try to steal one and the match, but it fell short.\n\nInstead Swedish skip Edin - considered one of the best players of all time - now has the gold medal that eluded him when taking silver and bronze at the past two Olympics.\n\n'This will sting for a while' - reaction\n\nLead Hammy McMillan: \"It's not how we wanted to end it. We'll all look back on this and we will be proud, but right now it kind of sucks. We probably weren't our best at the start but we fought back hard.\"\n\nSecond Bobby Lammie: \"I'm gutted for the boys. We fought back well but couldn't get over the line. Looking back it will be a strong week. But right now it hurts.\"\n\nThird Grant Hardie: \"Losing the final is going to sting for a while. Losing any final does but this one is going to take a little bit longer. You need to give those [Sweden] guys a lot of credit especially under the pressure of having not won that gold yet - they played amazing.\"\n\n'They've got years ahead of them' - analysis\n\nBritain came up against Team Sweden who were top of their game. I'm not sure I've seen Niklas ever play so well. Bruce and the guys applied themselves really well but a few mistakes early on gave Sweden the advantage.\n\nThey fought back though and the momentum changed. But it is really difficult going into the extra end without the last stone.\n\nThey've got years ahead of them. I know it seems a long long way ahead but every year just passes and they're going to get stronger and stronger so they have to think about that.\n\nPut the disappointment away - they gave it their all and I applaud them; they are a great team. But a well deserved gold for Niklas Edin.\n• None What's the worst that could happen?\n• None He's back and exploring the detrimental impact of the internet on American society", "Prince Charles caught coronavirus in March 2020 but only had mild symptoms\n\nThe Prince of Wales, who is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19, met the Queen two days ago in Windsor, a royal source says.\n\nThey say the monarch is not showing any symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nPrince Charles tested positive on Thursday morning - it is the second time he has contracted the virus.\n\nThe previous evening, he and the Duchess of Cornwall met Chancellor Rishi Sunak and others at a reception in the British Museum.\n\nCamilla has tested negative for coronavirus, Clarence House said.\n\nBuckingham Palace has not confirmed whether the Queen has tested positive or negative, citing medical privacy.\n\nEarlier this week, Charles held an investiture at Windsor Castle, where the Queen, 95, is currently in residence.\n\nThe 73-year-old heir to the throne last caught the virus in March 2020, when he reported only mild symptoms.\n\nClarence House confirmed he was now triple vaccinated, but would not give any detail on whether he was experiencing coronavirus symptoms this time.\n\nTuesday's investiture carried out by the prince saw Ansel Wong, a Trinidadian-born cultural activist who previously helped to organise the Notting Hill carnival, receive a CBE for services to art and culture.\n\nLondon restaurant founders and chefs Margot and Fergus Henderson were made OBEs for services to the culinary arts while Dr Nisreen Alwan, associate professor in public health at Southampton University, was made an MBE for services to medicine and public health during the pandemic.\n\nAs well as the investiture, it was a busy day for Charles with meetings and engagements including:\n\nOn Wednesday, Charles and Camilla were at a British Museum reception to celebrate the work of the British Asian Trust.\n\nEarlier that day, Charles attended London's National Gallery as its royal patron.\n\nPeople who develop coronavirus symptoms are asked to notify those they have been in close contact with in the previous 48 hours.\n\nIn England, contacts of positive Covid cases who are fully vaccinated should take lateral flow tests for seven days. They do not have to self-isolate unless they test positive.\n\nCharles must self-isolate for 10 full days, but he could be allowed to end this early if he tests negative on day five and day six.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has signalled that these rules could be lifted within weeks.\n\nPriti Patel, Rishi Sunak, Akshata Murthy, Charles and Camilla were among guests at the celebration of the British Asian Trust\n\nCharles had been due to unveil a statue of Licoricia of Winchester on Thursday, a medieval Jewish businesswoman who was a money lender and single parent in the Hampshire city.\n\nClarence House said His Royal Highness was \"deeply disappointed not to be able to attend... and will look to reschedule his visit as soon as possible\".\n\nThe announcement of Charles's positive test was made just after midday, about 12 minutes before he was due to arrive.\n\nMore than 1,000 people were gathered behind barriers in the city's Jewry Street, waiting to see the prince.\n\nThe Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, Nigel Atkinson, helped reveal the statue on behalf of the prince\n\nThe Queen's representative in Hampshire, the Lord Lieutenant Nigel Atkinson, read out a message from the prince to the disappointed crowd.\n\nCharles's message said: \"Ladies and gentlemen, I am so sorry that I cannot be with you today. I am desperately disappointed as I was so looking forward to marking this historic occasion with you.\n\n\"I hope very much that I will be able to visit at a future time but for today please accept my most heartfelt apologies and my very best wishes as you mark this memorable occasion for Winchester.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Camilla has carried on with her planned engagements, earlier visiting Paddington Haven, a sexual assault referral centre in West London.\n\nShe met former Love Island star Zara McDermott and discussed her experience of revenge porn and assault.\n\nThe Queen with Charles, her eldest son, at the opening ceremony of the Senedd in Cardiff in October\n\nThe Queen returned to Windsor Castle, where she met Charles, earlier this week after spending the anniversary of her accession day on Sunday at her Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nThe day before, she had hosted a Platinum Jubilee reception for volunteer groups and pensioners from the Sandringham community, with guests describing her as being on \"sparkling form\".", "The CBI group is calling for a permanent \"super-deduction\" tax break to boost business investment in the UK.\n\nThe super-deduction allowance currently gives businesses investing in certain types of equipment, like machinery, a much higher tax reduction than usual.\n\nIt was introduced at the spring Budget last year, but is due to expire in March 2023.\n\n\"It's started the job but cannot be a one-hit wonder,\" CBI director general Tony Danker said.\n\nThe Treasury acknowledged the tax system has an important role to play in boosting business investment and innovation.\n\nWhen the tax break was originally announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak, it was described as necessary \"bold, unprecedented action to get companies investing\".\n\nBetween 2020 and 2021, business investment was 12% lower than 2019 pre-coronavirus pandemic levels, according to official figures.\n\nMr Danker said: \"The chancellor's super-deduction exemplified the boldness in public policy that we need to inspire investment and get the economy moving.\"\n\n\"Evolving the policy from short-term fix into long-term strategy will give firms confidence that government and industry are aligned,\" he added.\n\nThe policy allows companies, but not individuals, to claim 130% relief against investments they make in new plant and machinery items between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2023.\n\nFor example, if an eligible company spent £100,000 on computer servers, commercial vehicles or office furniture, they would be able to claim £130,000 against their profits subject to corporation tax.\n\nRecent research by the CBI suggests that 53% of firms plan to claim the super-deduction.\n\nOf the 325 companies it surveyed across different sectors, half said they would also revise future investment plans if the relief were made permanent.\n\nThe CBI suggests that a successor to the policy could boost UK business investment by up to £40bn a year by 2026.\n\nIt called on the government to consider the extension in an effort to increase productivity, particularly ahead of the upcoming rise in the corporation tax main rate to 25% for profits over £250,000.\n\n\"Firms are facing the highest tax burden in decades,\" Mr Danker said.\n\n\"But by rewarding firms who put money into their operations, we can unleash new innovation and productivity - the ingredients we need to escape the low-growth trap and build a stronger, sustainable and more equitable economic future.\"\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has also previously said that the tax break seems \"to have been chosen specifically to counteract this disincentive - allowing 130% of expenditure to be deducted with a 19% tax rate is almost exactly equivalent to allowing 100% of it to be deducted with a 25% tax rate.\"\n\nBut Stuart Adam, senior research economist at the IFS, warned last year that the relief could also be open to tax avoidance, or even fraud, \"as companies essentially try to find ways to dress things up as plant and machinery investment to get this generous deduction\".\n\nThe CBI is calling on the government to consider a permanent deduction of 100% as part of its proposals to boost economic growth.\n\nIn response to the CBI's new research, a Treasury spokesperson said: \"The Chancellor announced the super-deduction last March to unlock business investment to spur our economic recovery from the pandemic - and the CBI's analysis reflects this.\n\n\"The super-deduction is helping to power our recovery, and we are the fastest growing economy in the G7 this year.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Boris Johnson says people need to understand the \"sheer cost in human life\" war could entail\n\nEvidence suggests Russia is planning \"the biggest war in Europe since 1945\", Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nHe told the BBC's Sophie Raworth in an interview: \"All the signs are that the plan has already in some senses begun.\"\n\nIntelligence suggests Russia intends to launch an invasion that will encircle Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"People need to understand the sheer cost in human life that could entail,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister was speaking from Munich, where world leaders are meeting for an annual security conference.\n\nThe latest estimates by the US government suggests that between 169,000 and 190,000 Russian troops are stationed along Ukraine's border, both in Russia and neighbouring Belarus - but this figure also includes Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine.\n\nMr Johnson warned that any conflict could be \"bloody and protracted\", saying Russian President Vladimir Putin was possibly \"thinking illogically about this\" and did not \"see the disaster ahead\".\n\n\"I think it's vital for us all now to get over what a catastrophe it would be for Russia,\" he added.\n\nHe indicated that the UK and US would bring further sanctions against Russia than have been suggested before, including stopping its companies \"trading in pounds and dollars\" - a move that he said would \"hit very, very hard\".\n\nMr Johnson added: \"The lesson of [the Russian seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in] 2014 is that you can't just let Vladimir Putin get away with it.\"\n\nAn invasion of Ukraine would strengthen, rather than weaken, Nato, he predicted, saying Western countries could not allow opposition forces to come to \"the false conclusion that might is right\".\n\n\"If [Mr Putin] thinks he's going to get less Nato as a result of this, he's totally wrong,\" Mr Johnson said. \"He's going to get more Nato.\"\n\nWhile a full-blown Russian invasion of Ukraine is yet to materialise, Boris Johnson's latest comments ratchet up the war of words.\n\nThe prime minister raising the prospect of a conflict as devastating as World War II is designed to focus minds.\n\nThe ongoing tensions in eastern Europe have given Mr Johnson, who's faced a myriad of problems at home, a chance to show leadership on the world stage.\n\nAnd on the sidelines of the Munich security conference, he seems to have made some progress on the question of sanctions.\n\nStopping Russian companies' ability to trade in pounds and dollars is a new proposal designed to do serious damage to the country's finances.\n\nUkraine is not a member of Nato or the European Union but has close relations with both.\n\nRussia is insisting its neighbour should not be allowed to join Nato, which it sees as a threat to its security.\n\nWestern nations have accused Russia of trying to stage a fake crisis on Ukraine's border, warning in recent weeks Mr Putin's forces could be preparing to invade at any time.\n\nBut Russia has denied the claims, saying the massed troops are just conducting military exercises.\n\nAsked whether a Russian invasion was still thought to be imminent, Mr Johnson said: \"I'm afraid that that is what the evidence points to. There's no burnishing it.\"\n\nThe prime minister said US President Joe Biden had told Western leaders that intelligence suggested Russian forces were not just planning on entering Ukraine from the east, via Donbas, but down from Belarus and the area surrounding Kyiv.\n\n\"I'm afraid to say that the plan we are seeing is for something that could be really the biggest war in Europe since 1945, just in terms of sheer scale,\" he said.\n\nPeople needed to not only consider the potential loss of life of Ukrainians, but also of \"young Russians\", he added.\n\nMr Johnson was speaking after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and telling world leaders in a speech that any invasion of Ukraine by Russia would \"echo around the world\".\n\nDuring a phone call on Sunday, the prime minister and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed the next week would be \"crucial for diplomacy\".\n\nA No 10 spokeswoman said the two leaders updated one another on their \"respective diplomatic efforts\", including Mr Macron's call with Mr Putin on Sunday.\n\n\"The prime minister noted that President Putin's commitments to President Macron were a welcome sign that he might still be willing to engage in finding a diplomatic solution,\" the spokeswoman added.\n\nShe said Mr Johnson stressed Ukraine's \"voice must be central\" in any talks, and that the two leaders \"underscored the need for President Putin to step back from his current threats and withdraw troops from Ukraine's border\".\n\nLabour said it stood \"four-square behind the UK government and Nato, with shadow health secretary Wes Streeting telling Sky News: \"There should be no doubt on the resolve of the UK, on a cross-party basis, and the resolve of Nato across the alliance.\"\n\nBut he also urged the government to do more to prevent the City of London being a \"centre\" for \"Russian kleptocrats and money laundering\".\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Home Secretary Priti Patel warned the crisis could bring an increased risk of cyber attacks in Britain.\n\nShe said past Russian cyber activity had included interference with UK media, telecommunications, and energy infrastructure, and the government expected to see an escalation of similar operations in the coming months.\n\nIn the same paper, Lindy Cameron, head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), said that \"attacks targeting Ukraine's digital infrastructure could be felt here in Britain\".\n\nShe said that, in 2017, malware used by the Russian military to target infrastructure in Ukraine \"spiralled recklessly out of control to affect many other countries, including the UK'.", "Christopher Stalford was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2016\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician Christopher Stalford has died suddenly at the age of 39.\n\nMr Stalford was a well-known member of the party and had represented South Belfast in the Northern Ireland Assembly since 2016.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said he was deeply saddened at Mr Stalford's death.\n\nSir Jeffrey said Mr Stalford was \"not just an elected representative or a colleague, he was a friend\".\n\nMr Stalford is survived by his wife Laura and four children.\n\nThe DUP leader said his sympathies were with the wider Stalford family on the \"loss of a husband, father, son and brother\".\n\n\"I talked at length with Christopher on Friday night,\" said Sir Jeffrey.\n\n\"He was passionate about Northern Ireland and wanted the best for his constituents.\n\n\"I was never to know how precious that conversation was to be.\"\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said Mr Stalford was \"born to be a public representative\"\n\nBoris Johnson said Mr Stalford was a \"passionate and dedicated servant\" of the people of South Belfast.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin said he was \"deeply saddened\".\n\n\"I conveyed my sympathies to his party leader Jeffrey Donaldson earlier, and my sincere condolences go to his wife Laura, children, family, friends and colleagues in the DUP,\" he said.\n\nDUP chairman Lord Morrow said he had known Mr Stalford since he was a child.\n\n\"As a party, we are shocked and saddened by his death but most of all we are heartbroken for Laura, their four little children and Christopher's wider family who will feel this loss most keenly,\" he said.\n\nThe party's North Antrim MP Ian Paisley said he had \"loved politics and engagement with the public\".\n\n\"We just do not know what a day will bring forward and today a shadow of loss hangs over our party,\" he added.\n\nHe once thought about being a history or politics teacher and before he became a politician he often took part in discussion programmes on radio and television.\n\nAn articulate advocate for unionism, he began working for the then DUP MEP Jim Allister and also for the MLA Peter Weir.\n\nLater he joined the DUP's press team.\n\nAfter 11 years on Belfast City Council he became an assembly member for South Belfast where he was brought up - it was a place he was very proud of.\n\nHe often talked about growing up in Annadale Flats near the River Lagan.\n\nHe once described himself as an Arlene Ultra when Arlene Foster was party leader - but last year he supported Edwin Poots in his bid for leadership.\n\nIn private Christopher Stalford was a very witty man.\n\nHe took his job as a public representative seriously, but never himself. He liked nothing more than winding up colleagues and political rivals.\n\nWhen Stormont returned in 2020 he relished the role of principal deputy speaker and even at moments of political tension his personality and sense of humour shone through.\n\nMr Stalford with party colleagues at the opening of his constituency office in 2016\n\nMr Stalford had worked in the DUP press office for a number of years before becoming an elected representative.\n\nElected to Belfast City Council in 2005, he served as deputy mayor from 2013 to 2014.\n\nIn 2016, he was one of two DUP candidates selected to run for the South Belfast constituency in the assembly election.\n\nAfter the restoration of the Stormont institutions in 2020, Mr Stalford was appointed principal deputy speaker to chair debates in the assembly.\n\n\"His friends and colleagues throughout the world of politics will miss his political contribution, and his constituents his local efforts and leadership across south Belfast,\" she added.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood announced the party's spring conference, scheduled for Sunday evening, would be postponed as a mark of respect for Mr Stalford.\n\n\"Christopher and I knew each other for more than 20 years and this news has come as such a shock,\" he said.\n\n\"You could have a storming argument in the assembly with terse words and raised voices but as soon as you left, he would always have a wry smile and a laugh.\"\n\nDoug Beattie, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, said he was \"lost for words\" at the news.\n\n\"He was someone I liked, respected and who worked tirelessly for his community and country,\" he added.\n\nNaomi Long, Alliance Party leader, said it was hard to put into words her \"shock, sadness and devastation\".\n\n\"Despite our politics often being radically different, Christopher and I had a warm personal friendship, with him often talking to me about his pride in his family,\" said Mrs Long.\n\n\"He was a genuine and funny person, who was dedicated to public service.\"\n\nChristopher Stalford, pictured alongside former DUP leader Ian Paisley, served as deputy mayor of Belfast City Council\n\nTUV leader Jim Allister said words were not adequate to express the shock he felt.\n\n\"His colleagues in the assembly and elsewhere will feel an aching void, though it is his family who above all require the prayers and support of us all,\" he said.\n\nBrandon Lewis, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, offered sincere condolences to Mr Stalford's family.\n\n\"As MLA and principal deputy speaker, Christopher was passionate about crucial issues that affected people across NI and was dedicated to building a better Northern Ireland for everyone,\" Mr Lewis said.", "A woman steps through the branches of a fallen tree in Amsterdam\n\nAt least 16 people have been killed as Storm Eunice carved a deadly trail across Europe.\n\nDeaths were reported in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, the Irish Republic and the UK, as fierce winds felled trees and sent debris flying.\n\nMillions of homes and businesses lost power across Europe and transport networks were left in disarray.\n\nThe Dutch coastguard said it was trying to locate 26 empty shipping containers lost in the North Sea.\n\nGusts of more than 120mph (almost 200 km/h) were recorded on Friday.\n\nFour people died in the Netherlands, all hit by falling trees, and another four were killed in Poland.\n\nThree people were killed on roads in England, two more died in Germany and two people have died in Belgium, including a man hit on the head by a solar panel blown off a building in Ghent.\n\nA council worker in his 60s died in County Wexford, the Republic of Ireland, when he was hit by a tree.\n\nAbout 30 people in northern France were injured in storm-related road accidents.\n\nThe 40ft (12m) shipping containers were lost from the Panama-registered Marcos V around the Wadden Islands, en route to Germany.\n\nThe Dutch coastguard said it was using helicopters and a emergency towing vessel in the search, while ships in the area had also been asked to keep a look out.\n\nADO Den Haag's football stadium in the Hague had part of its roof torn off\n\nRail services in the Netherlands were badly disrupted\n\nElsewhere in the Netherlands parts of the roof of the stadium of football team ADO Den Haag was ripped off in the Hague and high speed trains to Belgium, France and the UK were cancelled.\n\nIn Germany rail operator Deutsche Bahn said \"more than 1,000km\" (620 miles) of track had suffered damage.\n\nA car surrounded by fallen debris in the Polish city of Poznan\n\nPoland still had one million customers with electricity cut off on Saturday afternoon, AFP reported, after the country's north-west took a battering.\n\nFerries across the Channel, the world's busiest shipping lane, were suspended, before the English port of Dover reopened on Friday afternoon. Hundreds of flights were cancelled at airports including Heathrow and Schiphol.", "Zoey had been missing since 2010 when she was about a year old\n\nA dog has been reunited with her owners in California after being missing for 12 years.\n\nZoey had been dumped from a vehicle at a rural property near Stockton and was found by someone who called police, saying she seemed old and ill.\n\nAn animal services officer scanned the dog's microchip and discovered she had been missing since 2010.\n\n\"I definitely didn't expect this to ever happen so I'm really excited,\" said Zoey's owner Michelle.\n\nZoey had been missing for so long the microchip company had listed her as dead since 2015, San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office said.\n\nOfficer Brandon Levin, who scanned Zoey, got her owner's contact details from the chip firm, and found she still had the same mobile number. He said: \"She was in complete shock.\"\n\nThe dog was found about 60 miles from where she had gone missing in 2010, her family home in Lafayette.\n\nMichelle said: \"We got her and her twin sister from the pound when they were six months old, she was with us for about six months.\n\n\"We went to the store for about 20 minutes and came back and she was missing.\n\n\"I'm excited to hopefully bring her back, get her healthy and let her live the rest of her life.\"", "Simon Nellist was a diving instructor and a regular swimmer at the beach where he died\n\nThe family of a British man killed by a shark in Australia have paid tribute to him, saying he had a \"rare gift\" in connecting with people.\n\nSimon Nellist, 35, died in the attack on Wednesday off Little Bay - the first fatal attack in Sydney for 60 years.\n\nThe diving instructor grew up in the west Cornwall village of Ludgvan before emigrating.\n\nHis family released a tribute calling him a \"wonderful human being\" and \"very talented photographer\".\n\n\"Simon was a gentle, kind and wonderful human being. He was a cherished fiancée, son, brother, uncle and friend,\" they said.\n\n\"Simon was funny, compassionate and always had time for people. He had a rare gift of instantly being able to connect with others, gaining their trust and respect.\"\n\nMr Nellist's family said he was a \"proud Cornishman\" who had made Australia his home with his fiancée Jessie.\n\n\"Simon had a great passion for nature and the sea, as well as being a very talented photographer,\" they said, adding that they were very proud of him and would \"miss him terribly\".\n\nMost city beaches were shut after the attack with swimmers banned from the water.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "The Duchess of Cornwall is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19, Clarence House has confirmed.\n\nHer husband, the Prince of Wales, tested positive for the virus on Thursday but Camilla, 74, carried out three public engagements on that day after testing negative.\n\nPrince Charles met with the Queen two days before he tested positive.\n\nLast week Buckingham Palace said the Queen had no Covid symptoms and on Monday said it had nothing to add.\n\nIt is the first time the duchess has caught coronavirus, while Prince Charles has the virus for a second time.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said they would follow government guidelines.\n\nOn Thursday, the duchess described herself as \"luckily\" negative, during a visit to Thames Valley Partnership in Buckinghamshire, saying of her testing regime: \"I've taken it so many times\".\n\nAs well as the visit to Buckinghamshire, Camilla visited the Haven Paddington sexual assault referral centre in west London and opened the Nourish Hub community kitchen in Shepherd's Bush - where she added the finishing touches to a Loobia Polo, an Iranian rice dish, that was being offered to refugees.\n\nThe Duchess of Cornwall met volunteers during her visit to the UKHarvest charity's West London \"Nourish Hub\" on Thursday\n\nCamilla visited The Haven Paddington on Thursday morning, this time with everyone wearing face masks\n\nAnd she met staff at the Thames Valley Partnership charity in Aston Sandford\n\nOn Monday morning, Clarence House alerted the organisations Camilla visited and the media who covered her engagements.\n\nThe encounter between Prince Charles, 73, and his mother came when the prince visited Windsor Castle for an investiture - to meet people who had been honoured in the twice-annual honours list and officially give them their awards.\n\nBuckingham Palace has not confirmed whether the Queen has been tested, citing medical privacy, and has only said that she was showing no symptoms.\n\nWith Prince Charles and Camilla having caught Covid, it shows the pandemic still has a sting in its tail, able to disrupt and cause health worries.\n\nBut we don't really know whether there's a wider royal Covid outbreak or about any potential seriousness.\n\nBecause when it comes to health, it's seen as a private matter.\n\nThe Royal Family might have overlapping and complicated boundaries between their public roles and private identities, but for medical issues, there is a strong convention of palace aides only giving the barest of details.\n\nSo even though we know the Queen didn't have Covid symptoms last week, we don't really know even whether she had a test.\n\nAnd the reasons for the Queen's cancellation of appearances last year were never publicly explained.\n\nThere's an historical precedent for such secrecy. In the past, courts were full of rivals and monarchs didn't want to look vulnerable.\n\nNow it's about the siege of modern media, which is fended off by palace officials with a modern media cliche - that there won't be any \"running commentary\" about the state of the royals' health.\n\nPeople who develop coronavirus symptoms are asked to notify those they have been in close contact with in the previous 48 hours.\n\nIn England, contacts of positive Covid cases who are fully vaccinated should take lateral flow tests for seven days. They do not have to self-isolate unless they test positive.\n\nCamilla will have to isolate for 10 days, but could be allowed to end this early if she tests negative on day five and day six.\n\nHer positive test comes a week after the Queen said she wanted the Duchess of Cornwall to be known as Queen Consort once Prince Charles becomes king.\n\nPrince Charles last caught the virus in March 2020, when he reported mild symptoms, and Clarence House has confirmed he is triple vaccinated.", "This announcement from Buckingham Palace that the Queen has tested positive for Covid is a careful balancing act between telling the public about the Queen getting the virus - while at the same time playing down any sense of alarm.\n\nSo the concern about the 95-year-old monarch has been countered by the assurance that the symptoms are mild and she is well enough to carry on working.\n\nEmphasising this business-as-usual approach, the Queen was back at work on Sunday to sign off a message of congratulations to the Winter Olympics curling teams.\n\nLike for the curlers, the royal brushers have smoothed a path for what might otherwise be a worrying message.\n\nIn terms of what happens next - the Queen is clearly going to be very carefully monitored by her personal medical team.\n\nThe Queen's physician, Sir Huw Thomas, has previously described his \"key priority\" as keeping the Royal Household safe through the pandemic.\n\nBut there are likely to be few details of how she might be treated or updates on her Covid case. Buckingham Palace has already said not to expect any \"running commentary\" in the days ahead.\n\nThis reflects a strong convention of privacy surrounding the Queen's health.\n\nWhen Prince Charles and Camilla recently reported having caught Covid, it wasn't even confirmed whether the Queen had taken a test.\n\nEven though it's believed the Queen has had three Covid vaccinations, only the first has ever been formally acknowledged.\n\nAnd when the Queen cancelled a series of appearances last autumn because of health problems, details of those medical issues were never made public.\n\nFor the Queen's health, the curtain of privacy is kept tightly closed.\n\nSo the confirmation that the Queen has Covid has been something of an exception. And having opened that gap in the curtains, there will be great media pressure for more information.\n\nThis is against a background of a busy year ahead for the monarch during her Platinum Jubilee - and events are likely to reflect the need to be cautious about her health.\n\nSince last autumn, many of the Queen's appearances have been through video screen - and that could be a pattern in the months ahead, with a few personal appearances scattered in between.\n\nA reception she hosted at her estate in Sandringham earlier in February, marking 70 years of her reign, was her first in-person public engagement for several months.\n\nThat was followed last week by hosting an audience at Windsor Castle, after other virtual meetings and video messages.\n\nMarking the start of her Platinum Jubilee this month, the Queen joked about having someone else finish cutting a ceremonial cake\n\nIf the Jubilee has to be adapted to take account of the health of the monarch, it won't be the first time.\n\nFor Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, there was a service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral in London, as there will be for the Queen this summer.\n\nBut the steps up to St Paul's were too much of a challenge for Queen Victoria, and so the service was held outside, with Victoria staying in her carriage.\n\nFor the Queen, catching Covid rounded off what has been a rough week for her family, not least after the negative coverage of Prince Andrew's out-of-court settlement of the civil case brought by his accuser Virginia Giuffre.\n\nWhile this Covid case will focus attention on the Queen's wellbeing, it will also be a reminder of how much the health of the monarchy depends on the Queen.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The survivor is asked \"How are you feeling?\" by reporters as he comes ashore\n\nOne of the passengers missing aboard a ferry that caught fire near Greece on Friday has been found alive, authorities say.\n\nThe Belarusian truck driver, 21, used a ladder to climb down from the ferry on to a tugboat. His first words were: \"Tell me I'm alive.\"\n\nHours later, firefighters found the first body of a missing passenger in a burnt-out lorry aboard the ship.\n\nTen people - all thought to be lorry drivers - are still unaccounted for.\n\nThe rescued man, who appeared to be in good health, told rescuers he had heard other voices below deck.\n\nThe Italian-flagged Euroferry Olympia caught fire en route to the Italian port of Brindisi.\n\nMore than 270 were rescued from the ship and taken to the island of Corfu.\n\nThe cause of the blaze is still being investigated and the captain and two engineers were briefly detained to testify before being released.\n\nSmall fires continued to burn inside the vessel on Sunday after it was towed to a secure area north of Corfu, Greek news site Kathimerini reports. The fires are making it difficult for rescuers to search some parts of the ship which are extremely hot.\n\nThe people missing are all thought to be lorry drivers from Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, Greek authorities said earlier.\n\nThe Euroferry Olympia had left Igoumenitsa in Greece for Brindisi when the fire broke out on a car deck.\n\nIt was officially carrying 239 passengers and 51 crew, according to the company. An Afghan national who was not registered as a passenger on the ship was also rescued.\n\nDozens of people rescued from the ferry were taken to a hotel on Corfu. One of them, lorry driver Danilo Carlucci, told Reuters: \"We saw death in front of us.\"\n\nIt is thought that the drivers may have chosen to sleep in their vehicles rather than the ship's overcrowded cabins, according to truckers interviewed by Greek state TV on Saturday.\n\nDrivers and relatives of the missing people have criticised conditions on the Euroferry Olympia in interviews with Greek media.\n\nThe ferry's operator said the 27-year-old vessel had last completed a safety check on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Watch the winning moment as Eve Muirhead's curlers claim Great Britain's only gold medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics with a 10-3 victory over Japan.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Eve Muirhead nails a crucial shot in the seventh end to earn four points and give Team GB an 8-2 lead against Japan in the women's curling final at the Winter Olympics.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CBI boss Tony Danker says economic growth should be across the UK\n\nEconomic growth must be evenly spread around the UK rather than concentrated in south-east England, the boss of the CBI business group has said.\n\nSpeaking at the CBI's annual conference, director general Tony Danker said that \"levelling up\" could not be left to the free market.\n\nHe added \"high-valued\" sectors, firms and jobs were needed across the UK.\n\nBoris Johnson told the same conference levelling up was still his \"moral mission\" and an \"economic imperative\".\n\nThe prime minister also defended the scaled-back plans for rail in the North, insisting the government's new schemes would still be \"transformatory\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer outlined \"five fiscal rules\" at the CBI conference that the next Labour government intended to follow, saying the Conservatives had \"missed an opportunity to remake Britain\" with the autumn Budget.\n\nMr Danker told the CBI conference that the headquarters of many businesses were currently \"too often based in London and the South East\", with the UK operating as a \"branch line economy\", showing that the free market had failed to create prosperity across the country.\n\nBut he said the rise of new industries such as biotech provided the opportunity for a \"new industrial revolution\" across the UK and \"a shot at redemption\".\n\n\"For five decades we've had no idea how to [tackle the divide], but now we've got industries like clean and renewable energy, life sciences, cyber-security and they don't have to be based in the South East,\" Mr Danker told the BBC's Today programme earlier on Monday.\n\nThe CBI is concerned that old industries such as textiles in Lancashire, shipbuilding on the Clyde, and steel in Sheffield have been allowed to \"die\" since the 1980s.\n\nIt also disagrees with the government's decision to scrap the Leeds leg of the HS2 high-speed rail line, which was originally billed as being key to levelling up.\n\nLast week, the government dropped plans to extend the HS2 line to Leeds and said the Northern Powerhouse Rail route from Liverpool to Leeds would run partly on existing lines rather than new ones.\n\nMany cities became known for the industries which operate in them, such as steel production in Sheffield\n\nThe CBI also thinks firms should be encouraged to cluster in towns, and should have more power in decisions over local infrastructure and in coming up with economic strategies.\n\nMr Danker told the Today programme: \"I do think we need a much firmer, more ambitious growth strategy from the government.\n\n\"At the end of the day, if we [the UK] don't get growth up back to our pre-crisis, pre 2008 growth rates, what we're going to have is cuts to spending, rises in taxes, so growth has to be the North Star.\"\n\nSpeaking at the same conference, the prime minister acknowledged there were \"chronic problems\" underlying the UK economy, including the imbalance between firms which were \"go-getting world-beaters\" and the \"long comet tail\" of firms which lacked the necessary skills and investment to boost productivity.\n\nBut he said levelling-up was achievable and would help the UK become a bigger economy than Germany.\n\n\"If this country could achieve the same kind of geographical balance and dispersion of growth and wealth that you find in most of our most successful economic comparators, and if all our businesses could reach more balance in their levels of productivity, then there would be absolutely no stopping us.\n\n\"We would achieve - what I believe we can - and become the biggest and most successful economy in Europe.\"\n\nLabour's Sir Keir told the CBI conference that the next Labour government would make a \"contract\" with business where it made fiscal discipline and investment into skills a priority.\n\n\"What we need now is a sector-by-sector plan, for the car industry, for the steel industry, for all industry - our competitors are already doing it, we can't afford not to,\" he said.\n\n\"This is our side of the contract - to run a stable government and a tight ship, to equip the next generation for work, to invest in British business and to create a wave of high-skilled jobs.\"", "Watch the moment when Ukrainian officials, including the interior minister, and journalists take cover from what appears to be shelling in the eastern part of the country.\n\nThe incident happened on Saturday, during a visit close to areas controlled by Russian-backed separatists.\n\nUkraine confirmed the group were evacuated to a safe shelter.\n\nRussia has denied claims of an imminent invasion, saying troops are conducting military exercises in the region.", "US court documents allege Jean-Luc Brunel (far right) procured girls for Jeffrey Epstein\n\nA French modelling agent and close associate of the late US financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead in his prison cell in Paris.\n\nJean-Luc Brunel was found hanged in his cell in La Santé prison at 01:00 on Saturday, prosecutors told the BBC.\n\nThe 76-year-old had been held for over a year as he was investigated on suspicion of the rape of minors and trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation.\n\nBrunel's lawyers said he had been \"crushed\" by the allegations, and blamed a \"media-judicial system\".\n\nBrunel co-founded French modelling agency Karin Models in 1977, and MC2 Model Management in the US with funding from Epstein.\n\nBrunel was detained at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport in December 2020 as he was trying to board a flight to Senegal.\n\nHis arrest was part of a French inquiry into sex trafficking and sexual assault allegations against Epstein, focusing on potential crimes committed against French victims and suspects who are French citizens.\n\nProsecutors suspected Brunel of raping, sexually assaulting and sexually harassing multiple minors and adults. They also suspected him of transporting and housing young girls or young women for Epstein.\n\nEpstein was found dead in a New York prison in 2019 as he awaited trial over allegations he ran a network using underage girls for sex. A medical examiner ruled his death was suicide by hanging.\n\nEpstein was already a convicted sex offender, having pleaded guilty to prostitution charges involving a minor in Florida in 2008.\n\nA frequent companion of Epstein, Brunel was considered key to the French probe into alleged sexual exploitation of women and girls by the financier and his circle.\n\nBrunel's alleged victims spoke of their disappointment at the news of his death.\n\nDutch former model Thysia Huisman, who has said Brunel drugged and raped her when she was 18, told the BBC it was frustrating that his alleged victims would never have their day in court.\n\n\"After more than two and a half years of fighting for justice, since I reported Brunel in September 2019, it's a huge disappointment he will never face a judge,\" she said.\n\nOne of Epstein's main accusers, Virginia Giuffre, who has alleged she had been forced into sex with Brunel, said his death had ended \"another chapter\".\n\nShe tweeted: \"I'm disappointed that I wasn't able to face him in a final trial to hold him accountable, but gratified that I was able to testify in person last year to keep him in prison.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The secret lives of Maxwell and Epstein", "Credit Suisse has hit out after a massive data leak has brought to light the hidden wealth of several clients of the bank.\n\nData on more than 18,000 bank accounts, holding more than $100bn (£73.6bn), was leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung by a whistleblower.\n\nIt includes personal, shared and corporate accounts, as well as those opened as far back as the 1940s.\n\nNearly 50 media organisations have spent months poring over the data.\n\nIn their investigations, they suggest they have found evidence Credit Suisse accounts had been used by clients involved in serious crimes such as money laundering or drug trafficking.\n\nBut on Sunday, the Swiss bank said it strongly rejected the allegations and insinuations about its alleged business practices or lack of due diligence.\n\n\"The matters presented are predominantly historical, in some cases dating back as far as the 1940s, and the accounts of these matters are based on partial, inaccurate, or selective information taken out of context\", it said.\n\nIn reports published by media organisations such as The Guardian and the New York Times, it has been claimed the bank opened or maintained accounts for high-risk clients, including criminals and individuals involved in human trafficking.\n\nHolding a Swiss account is not illegal and the leak also reportedly contained data of clients who had done nothing wrong.\n\nThe data was shared with more than 40 media organisations around the world by non-profit journalism group, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.\n\nIt includes bank accounts dating back decades. The majority were opened from 2000 onwards, although the bank's current operations are not included.\n\nCredit Suisse also said on Sunday that it had reviewed a large volume of accounts potentially associated with the matters raised.\n\n\"Approximately 90% of the reviewed accounts are today closed or were in the process of closure prior to receipt of the press inquiries, of which over 60% were closed before 2015,\" it said, although it would not comment on specific clients mentioned.\n\nThe bank added it was \"deeply aware of its responsibility to clients and the financial system as a whole to ensure that the highest standards of conduct are upheld\".\n\n\"These media allegations appear to be a concerted effort to discredit not only the bank but the Swiss financial market-place as a whole, which has undergone significant changes over the last several years,\" it said.\n\nIn a statement published by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the anonymous source explained their motivation for leaking the records more than a year ago.\n\n\"I believe that Swiss banking secrecy laws are immoral. The pretext of protecting financial privacy is merely a fig leaf covering the shameful role of Swiss banks as collaborators of tax evaders,\" they wrote.\n\nIt is not known if the whistleblower is an individual or a group.\n\nThey also acknowledged \"having an offshore Swiss bank account does not necessarily imply tax evasion or any other financial crime\".\n\nCredit Suisse pointed out it had taken \"significant additional measures over the last decade, including considerable further investments in combating financial crime\".\n\nIt follows other scandals for the Swiss bank, including the departure of two of its top executives after allegedly breaking Covid regulations and spying on former staff.", "Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price and the Labour Welsh government's Counsel General Mick Antoniw arrived in Kyiv on Saturday evening\n\nTwo Welsh politicians have travelled to Ukraine as the country stands on the brink of war with Russia.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price and Counsel General Mick Antoniw arrived in the capital Kyiv on Saturday evening.\n\nWestern nations have warned Russia, with 130,000 troops near the border, could invade the country imminently.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has advised against all travel to Ukraine and told all British nationals to leave.\n\nIn a further update on Saturday, the FCDO said: \"British nationals should leave while commercial options remain.\n\n\"In the event of a military incursion, it is likely that commercial routes out of Ukraine will be severely disrupted and roads across Ukraine could be closed.\"\n\nUkrainians take part in military training for civilians in Kyiv\n\nOn Friday, US president Joe Biden said he was convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin had decided to launch an invasion of Ukraine which could start in the coming days, with Kyiv a potential key target.\n\nOn Saturday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he did not know what Russian President Vladimir Putin intends, but said the \"omens are grim\".\n\nMr Price and Labour's Mr Antoniw, who comes from a Ukrainian family, are in the country for four days as part of a UK delegation, which also includes former Labour MEP Julie Ward and general secretary of the ASLEF union Mick Whelan.\n\nTheir stated aim is to show solidarity with workers and minorities.\n\nAfter landing, Mr Price tweeted it was important to \"stand shoulder to shoulder\" with the Ukrainian people.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDuring their stay they will meet Ukrainian workers, LGBTQ+ people, ethnic minorities and human rights defenders.\n\nThey plan to report back to grassroots organisations at home, with Mr Price saying the visit also reflects the historic ties between Wales and Ukraine going back to the foundation of Donetsk by Welsh migrants in the 19th century.\n\n\"The more the Ukrainian people are threatened by Russian aggression and imperialism the more urgent it becomes for socialists, democrats and internationalist to stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity with them - in defence of their right to national self-determination and in defiance of Putin's warmongering,\" Mr Price said.\n\nHe is on the trip in a personal capacity, as is Pontypridd MS Mr Antoniw.\n\nMr Antoniw said: \"In too many of the discussions about the situation in Ukraine, it is the people themselves who are being bypassed. We want to listen to what the Ukrainian people say and to show our solidarity with them. We stand by them and their right to determine their own future and to defend their country from Russian aggression and imperialism.\"", "This satellite image shows what appears to be additional armour and equipment deployed near Valuyki in Russia\n\nUS President Joe Biden has agreed \"in principle\" to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the crisis over Ukraine.\n\nThe talks proposed by France will only take place if Russia does not invade its neighbour, the White House said.\n\nThe Kremlin, meanwhile, said there were no \"concrete plans\" for a summit.\n\nIt is hoped that such talks could offer a possible diplomatic solution to one of the worst security crises in Europe in decades.\n\nUS officials say intelligence suggests Russia is ready to launch a military operation, which Moscow denies.\n\nThe proposed summit was announced by the French presidency after two phone calls between President Emmanuel Macron and Mr Putin, which went on for almost three hours in total.\n\nThe second exchange happened in the early hours of Monday Moscow time, and followed a 15-minute conversation Mr Macron had with Mr Biden.\n\nMr Macron's office said details of the possible summit would be discussed during a meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday.\n\nIn a statement that confirmed the proposal, the White House also said Russia appeared to be \"continuing preparations for a full-scale assault on Ukraine very soon\", and that the US was ready to impose \"swift and severe consequences\" should it happen.\n\nRussia has massed more than 150,000 troops close to Ukraine's borders, according to US estimates.\n\nUS company Maxar said new satellite imagery showed multiple new field deployments of armoured equipment and troops from Russian garrisons near the border with Ukraine, indicating increased military readiness.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment Ukrainian officials run from apparent shelling in the eastern part of the country\n\nThe French presidency said both leaders had agreed to resume talks through the Normandy Format, a group created to resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine that includes Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany.\n\nMr Putin agreed on the need to \"prioritise a diplomatic solution\" to the crisis, it said, adding that \"intense work\" would be carried out to enable a meeting \"in the next few hours\" aiming for a ceasefire.\n\nHowever, the Kremlin later said it was \"premature to talk about any specific plans for organising any kind of summit\".\n\n\"There is an understanding that dialogue should be continued at the level of foreign ministers,\" spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. He added that a meeting was possible \"if the heads of state consider it appropriate\".\n\nThe Kremlin says Mr Putin blames the Ukrainian military for the escalation of tensions. Ukraine has rejected this, saying Moscow is engaged in a provocation campaign aimed at creating a pretext for an intervention.\n\nEarlier, Russia announced the extension of military drills in Belarus, where 30,000 Russian troops are deployed, that were due to end on Sunday. A Belarusian statement blamed the \"deterioration of the situation\" in eastern Ukraine as one reason for extending the exercises.\n\nSpeaking on CNN, Secretary Blinken said \"everything we are seeing suggests that this is dead serious\" and that \"we are on the brink of an invasion\".\n\n\"Until the tanks are actually rolling, and the planes are flying, we will use every opportunity and every minute we have to see if diplomacy can still dissuade President Putin from carrying this forward,\" he added.\n\nTemporary accommodation in Taganrog, Russia, for people evacuated from Donetsk\n\nHis comments came as unverified reports in the US media suggested Washington believed an attack could be launched imminently.\n\nCBS News reported the US had intelligence that Russian commanders on the ground had received orders to proceed with an invasion and were now making specific battle plans on how to attack.\n\nThe report said an invasion would begin with a cyber-assault followed by a campaign of missile and airstrikes, before ground units attempted to take the capital Kyiv.\n\nAnd an unnamed intelligence official told CNN close to 75% of Russia's conventional forces were now poised at the Ukrainian border. The concentration of Russian forces within striking distance of Ukraine was highly unusual, the source said.\n\nBut Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said an attack \"tomorrow or the day after tomorrow\" was unlikely as no Russian \"strike groups\" had yet formed near the border.\n\nMr Putin has been demanding assurances that Nato will not admit Ukraine, a former Soviet state with close ties to Russia, while the Western alliance denies it poses any threat to Russia.\n\nThere are fears that a Russian military intervention could start a war even bloodier than the conflict in eastern Ukraine which has cost at least 14,000 lives.", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Olympics\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; live text and highlights on BBC Sport website and mobile app\n\nThe Beijing Winter Olympics came to a close on Sunday in a touching ceremony.\n\nAlmost 3,000 athletes competed in 109 events across 15 disciplines during the past two weeks.\n\nInternational Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach called for political leaders \"around the world\" to be inspired by the athletes' \"example of solidarity and peace\".\n\n\"This unifying power of the Olympic Games is stronger than the forces that want to divide us,\" he said.\n\nBach said the athletes had \"given peace a chance,\" with his comments coming amid rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine.\n\n\"Each and every one of you strived to achieve your personal best. We were deeply touched how you were wishing and cheering for your competitors to achieve their best as well,\" he said.\n\n\"You not only respected each other: you embraced each other, even if your countries are divided by conflict.\"\n• None How did Team GB fare at the Winter Olympics?\n\nBach also encouraged countries to continue vaccinating against Covid-19, saying: \"If we want to finally overcome this pandemic, we must be faster.\n\n\"We must aim higher, we must be stronger, we must stand together. Vaccination means caring for each other.\n\n\"In this Olympic spirit of solidarity, we call on the international community: give equal access to vaccines for everybody around the world.\"\n\nGreat Britain leave Beijing with two medals - gold in the women's curling and silver in the men's event.\n\nCurling skip Bruce Mouat, who led the men's rink, was the flagbearer for Team GB at the closing ceremony.\n\nThe Olympic flame was extinguished, with the next Games taking place in Milan-Cortina in Italy in 2026. The Winter Paralympics begins in Beijing on 4 March.\n\nThe Beijing Games were engulfed by the controversy surrounding Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva and the teenager's failed drug test.\n\nThe positive test came to light after the Russian Olympic Committee won gold in the team figure skating, with the 15-year-old becoming the first woman to land a quadruple jump at an Olympic Games.\n\nHowever, the medal ceremony was delayed, with it coming to light that Valieva had tested positive for a banned drug used to prevent angina attacks.\n\nAfter a series of appeals and re-appeals, Valieva was allowed to compete in the remaining individual events, but it has led to questions about her coaching team and the fairness of children competing in Olympic events, particularly as she crumbled in her final event.\n\nNone of the podium athletes from the event have received their medals, with the IOC asking the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) to investigate the positive result.\n\n\"Every athlete wants a fair playing field and we also want to protect the health and mental health of athletes,\" two-time Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold said on BBC TV.\n\n\"The biggest thing I have learned is remembering athletes are humans. We need to protect our young athletes.\"\n\nThere have been moments of brightness. Norway will leave Beijing with a record 16 gold medals and 37 in total, having dominated in the snow.\n\nChina's 18-year-old Eileen Gu became one of the stars of the Games with gold in the big air and halfpipe, while snowboarder Shaun White closed his career on the slopes.\n\nThe biggest sporting surprise was America's Mikaela Shiffrin, a heavy pre-Games favourite to clean up in the skiing events. She crashed out of three of her best events and did not manage to grab a medal in the others.\n\nWhile the Games have been a success for China, who secured their best Winter Olympics medal haul, questions over human rights abuses and the safety of tennis player Peng Shuai that dominated the build-up to the competition remain.\n\nThis is Great Britain's lowest medal total since 2010, where they won a sole gold in the women's skeleton.\n\nUK Sport set a target of three to seven medals but there were a number of near-misses and disappointment in the sliding events, making it the first time since 2002 that Britain have failed to win a skeleton medal.\n\nSnowboarder Charlotte Bankes, 2018 skeleton bronze medallist Laura Deas and alpine skier Dave Ryding were among the medal hopes, but struggled for rhythm and form in Beijing.\n\nBritain's first medal of the Games came on Saturday in the men's curling, before Eve Muirhead's rink claimed gold on the final day.\n\nSally Munday, the chief executive of UK Sport, said the \"greatest progress can come if we really learn from disappointment\".\n\n\"I also know that whilst the last 24 hours has created real joy, there are a number of our athletes who will leave Beijing disappointed,\" Munday wrote.\n\n\"Whilst there have been some memorable performances, many did not achieve the results they came for and no-one will be more disappointed than the athletes themselves.\n\n\"We always knew that Beijing 2022 would be a challenge like nothing they had previously experienced.\n\n\"We also know that the jeopardy that makes sports on snow and ice such a compelling spectacle for those of us watching is also a recipe for uncertainty. This undeniably played its part in preventing some of our medal hopes from achieving their dreams.\"\n• None Watch the trailer for the extraordinary new series of Killing Eve", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch this video to see how The O2's roof looks a day after Storm Eunice hit\n\nEnergy companies are working to restore power to thousands of homes, as forecasters issue new yellow weather warnings for parts of the UK.\n\nGusts of up to 70mph are predicted in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on Sunday, while heavy rain is due in Cumbria, Lancashire and West Yorkshire.\n\nIt comes after one of the worst storms to hit the UK in decades killed three people on Friday.\n\nStorm Eunice tore through the UK, toppling trees and destroying roofs.\n\nThe Met Office's Greg Dewhurst said there would be \"a slight easing in the wind\" on Saturday night, but added \"it's not long before they pick up again tomorrow to lead to another windy day across the UK\".\n\n\"This will have an impact on the clearing up process over the course of the day.\"\n\nA yellow warning for wind has been issued for England and Wales on Sunday from midday until 15:00 GMT on Monday, while Northern Ireland and north-west England are covered by the same warning until midnight Sunday.\n\nIn addition, there is a yellow warning in place for rain, from midnight Saturday until 18:00 GMT on Sunday, for Cumbria, Lancashire and West Yorkshire.\n\nIn an update on Saturday, the Energy Networks Association said about 155,000 customers remained without power in the south and east of England and Wales, while some 1.22 million had been reconnected.\n\nPeople braved wet and windy weather in Westminster in central London on Saturday\n\nThere was ongoing \"major disruption\" to rail services \"across most of Great Britain\" on Saturday, as operators cleared debris from the tracks and brought trains back to the intended destination.\n\nSome routes operated a limited service, but most continued to advise customers not to travel unless essential.\n\nGatwick, Heathrow and Manchester airports said operations were mostly back to normal, after more than 500 flights to and from the UK were cancelled on Friday - on a weekend likely to be busy with half term traffic.\n\nFriday's Storm Eunice was preceded by a rare red weather warnings for coastal areas of south-west England and south Wales, along with south-east England, indicating a danger to life\n\nFive flood warnings were still in place in England on Saturday afternoon.\n\nInsurance payouts for damage caused by the storm could total between £200m and £350m, according to early estimates from the consultancy firm PwC.\n\nMohammad Khan, General Insurance Leader at PwC UK, said insurance losses would mainly relate to \"damage to homes, commercial properties and vehicles from falling trees and flying debris\".\n\nLast year, the Association of British Insurers estimated the cost to the insurance industry from Storms Dennis and Ciara at a combined £360m.\n\nPolice forces and local authorities across the country reported being inundated with phone calls related to the storm.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade declared a major incident - receiving 1,958 calls on Friday, three times more than the previous day.\n\nThe South Central England ambulance service declared a critical incident due to demand on its emergency services.\n\nThe rooftops of three houses in Kilburn Park Road, in north-west London, were torn off by strong winds on Friday, leaving the road filled with debris\n\nA female passenger in her 30s died in Highgate, north London after a tree fell on a car on Friday afternoon, police said. The driver, a man in his 30s, was taken to hospital.\n\nA man died in Merseyside after debris hit the windscreen of a car he was a passenger in. The driver was not injured.\n\nIn Alton, Hampshire, two men were in a pickup truck when it was crushed by a falling tree. The passenger died at the scene while the driver was taken to hospital with serious injuries.\n\nWaves crash against the sea wall and Porthcawl Lighthouse in Porthcawl, Bridgend, Wales\n\nAmong those injured were a woman with her baby, who was hit by a tree in Bedford - hurting her but leaving the baby unharmed.\n\nA driver in Wiltshire was in a serious condition and two passengers were taken to hospital after a car collided with a fallen tree, while others were injured in south London and Henley-on-Thames by falling trees and debris.\n\nThe O2 remains closed across the weekend \"whilst urgent repairs take place\" - with rapper Dave's concerts, due to take place on Monday and Tuesday night, also postponed.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to reschedule the shows to play as soon as humanly possible,\" said Dave, in a statement issued by the venue.\n\n\"I'll be back with a plan as soon as I have it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Meet the man behind the Big Jet TV phenomenon\n\nEunice is the second storm in a week to hit the UK, after parts of Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland were battered by Storm Dudley.\n\nEunice also brought dangerous conditions to areas across north-west Europe.\n\nIn Ireland, a man in his 60s was killed by a falling tree in County Wexford. Three people also died in the Netherlands after being hit by falling trees, and a 79-year-old man was killed in Belgium.\n\nTwo people have died in Poland after trees fell onto their cars, a fire service spokesman said.\n\nUpdate 21st February: An earlier version of this article included a picture of what purported to be a trampoline flying in mid-air during Storm Eunice in Builth Wells, Wales. It has since come to our attention that the picture is not genuine and so we have removed it from the article.", "The Home Office is investigating claims racist WhatsApp messages were sent by immigration staff working for a firm it pays.\n\nThe messages - first reported by the Sunday Mirror - allegedly sent by Mitie staff, remarked on Syrian refugees, MP Diane Abbott and the home secretary.\n\nThe Home Office said its professional standards unit was probing the claims.\n\nMitie said the staff concerned had been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.\n\nIt did not confirm how many workers have been suspended.\n\nIn a statement, Mitie said the allegations were brought to its attention by a whistleblower and insisted there was \"no place for racism, bullying or discrimination\" in its business.\n\nThe Sunday Mirror revealed the alleged comments were made on a WhatsApp group containing about 80 Mitie workers, with offensive messages being exchanged since March 2020. Mitie said the group was \"not a company channel\".\n\nThe paper reported the messages were posted by Mitie workers whose duties include escorting immigration detainees and running detention centres.\n\nMitie added: \"As soon as we were made aware [of the claims], we commenced an investigation which is ongoing.\n\n\"In light of the seriousness of the allegations, we have suspended those colleagues about whom complaints have been made, pending the outcome of the investigation.\"\n\nThe messages revealed by the paper allegedly included remarks about Syrian refugees, Chinese people, Priti Patel and Ms Abbott, a Labour MP and former shadow home secretary.\n\nThe alleged racism was said to be within Mitie's \"care and custody\" division.\n\nThe texts were reported to managers and the WhatsApp thread was deleted last month, the Mirror reported.\n\nShadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said the messages were \"sickening\" and called for a review of Mitie's contract.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the department was \"investigating the allegations relating to Mitie staff's behaviour and conduct\".\n\nThey added: \"Mitie will update the immigration minister update next week on the steps being taken to ensure the highest standards are always met and that individuals in their care are treated with dignity and respect.\"\n\nFounded in 1987, Mitie describes itself as a facilities management company that delivers \"critical public services within the immigration, justice and care sectors for vulnerable adults\".\n\nIn 2017, it was awarded a 10-year Home Office contract to provide immigration services worth an estimated £525m.", "The Queen will be 96 when the main Jubilee celebrations kick off in June\n\nBuckingham Palace has unveiled the full line-up of celebrations to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee this year.\n\nStreet parties, a concert with some of the world's \"biggest entertainment stars\" and a chance to see the Queen's homes up close are all part of the plan to mark her 70 years on the throne.\n\nIt will culminate in a four-day UK bank holiday weekend from 2 to 5 June.\n\nThe first event begins on Monday, with a competition to invent a new pudding to celebrate the Queen's reign.\n\nFinalists will be judged by an expert panel including Dame Mary Berry and Masterchef's Monica Galetti.\n\nThe winning recipe will be made available to the public and the pudding will be enjoyed at Big Jubilee Lunches during the bank holiday weekend.\n\nOn 6 February the Queen will become the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking a 70-year reign.\n\nA series of celebrations will take place throughout the year.\n\nThe Queen marked 50 years on the throne in 2002, with the Duke of Edinburgh by her side\n\nShe rode in the Golden State Coach as part of the celebrations\n\nAs with the Queen's Golden and Diamond Jubilees, the first week in June has been chosen for the celebratory weekend, with the summer offering a better chance of good weather than February.\n\nTo create the four-day weekend, the late May Spring Bank Holiday will be moved to 2 June and an additional one-off bank holiday on 3 June created.\n\nIt is not clear which events the Queen will attend herself. She was advised by her medical team to rest for several weeks after an overnight hospital stay in October.\n\nThe majority of the jubilee duties will probably be given to the rest of the family, including the heir to the throne, the Prince of Wales, alongside his wife the Duchess of Cornwall.\n\nThis jubilee will be the Queen's first without her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died in April last year.\n\nIt's going to be puddings, parties, parades and pageants, in honour of the platinum jubilee.\n\nThere isn't really a template for celebrating a British monarch's 70-year reign, because it's not happened before.\n\nThe nearest was Queen Victoria's 63 years and elsewhere you have to go back to 18th-Century France and Louis XIV, who reached 72 years.\n\nIn this current bleak mid-Covid winter, the jubilee offers the warming prospect of a four-day bank holiday in June, with concerts, parties and pubs open until 1am.\n\nThe \"platinum pudding\" competition is in the tradition of royal-related dishes like Coronation Chicken, invented for the Queen's coronation in 1953. So expect a lot of trifling puns.\n\nThe celebrations are also a reminder of how much the Queen has been a constant figure. A recent study showed for 85% of the population she's the only monarch they've ever known.\n\nThis will be a marker for memories in many people's lives.\n\nPrince Philip joined the Queen on board the Royal Barge Spirit of Chartwell as part of the celebrations in 2012\n\nThe Queen taking part in a Silver Jubilee walkabout in 1977\n\nDuring the festivities, Sandringham and Balmoral will be open for visitors to enjoy the celebrations across the long weekend in June.\n\nAnd during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, a River Of Hope - made up of 200 silk flags decorated with images of hope drawn by children - will make its way along the Mall in central London.\n\nAs part of the Queen's Green Canopy initiative, some 60,000 trees have already been planted to mark the year, as people have been encouraged to \"plant a tree for the jubilee\".\n\nOn 10 January the Platinum Pudding Competition starts. Members of the public are invited to create a dish to dedicate to the Queen's reign.\n\nFrom 12 to 15 May, more than 500 horses and 1,000 performers will take part in a 90-minute show at Windsor Castle, taking the audience on a journey through history from Elizabeth I to present day.\n\nThe first day of the long weekend is Thursday 2 June and will see Trooping the Colour held in full for the first time since the pandemic. There will be more than 1,400 parading soldiers, 200 horses and 400 musicians taking part. Tickets are available to the public from next week on this site.\n\nAlso that day, Platinum Jubilee beacons will be lit in more than 1,500 locations across the UK, the Channel Islands, Isle of Man and UK Overseas Territories. For the first time, the capital cities of Commonwealth countries will also light beacons.\n\nOn Friday 3 June - the second day of the Bank Holiday weekend - a Service of Thanksgiving for the Queen's reign will be held at St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nOn Saturday 4 June the Queen will be joined by members of the Royal Family at the Derby, held at Epsom Downs. There will also be a Platinum Party at Buckingham Palace, with members of the public invited to apply to attend a live concert. Performers have yet to be named, but it is billed as bringing together some of the world's biggest stars to celebrate the most significant moments from the Queen's seven-decade reign. The ballot for UK residents to secure tickets will be launched in February.\n\nOn Sunday 5 June people across the country will be invited to sit down together to take part in the Big Jubilee Lunch, with street parties held across the UK. That day's events will also include the Platinum Jubilee Pageant, which will feature 5,000 people from the UK and the Commonwealth performing around the area of Buckingham Palace. The palace promises \"pomp and ceremony, street arts, theatre, music, circus, costumes as well as cutting-edge visual technology\".\n\nPrimary and secondary school children are invited to create a picture of their hopes and aspirations for the planet over the next 70 years. A selection of these will be transferred on to silk flags, which will carried by secondary school pupils in the pageant.\n\nIn July, three displays marking the Queen's accession to the throne, the coronation and jubilees will be put on at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse. It will include portraits as well as the jewellery and outfits worn for each occasion.\n\nWhat are your plans for the Jubilee? Or if you have a pudding recipe you'd be willing to share, please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nEilish McColgan broke Paula Radcliffe's 21-year-old British half marathon record with a stunning run at Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates.\n\nThe 31-year-old Scot finished sixth in one hour six minutes 26 seconds, eclipsing Radcliffe's mark of 1:06:47.\n\nMcColgan's milestone in just her second competitive half marathon also beat her mother Liz's best of 1:07:11.\n\nEthiopia's Girmawit Gebrzihair Gebru emerged from a strong field to take victory in a course record 1:04:14.\n\nElsewhere, Adam Clayton beat his own Scottish indoor 200m record, clocking 20.86 seconds at Texas Tech Track & Field.", "The River Wharfe in Otley, West Yorkshire, after bursting its banks\n\nStorm Franklin has hammered parts of the UK with strong winds and heavy rain.\n\nThere is severe flooding in parts of Northern Ireland and flood warnings remain in place across England, Scotland and Wales.\n\n\"Severe disruption\" means Network Rail is advising customers to check before they travel on the railways.\n\nFranklin comes days after Storm Eunice killed three people and left 1.4 million homes without power.\n\nThe highest wind gust speeds on Monday morning reached 79mph in Capel Curig in Wales, and 78mph in Orlock Head, Northern Ireland. On Sunday night, 87mph was recorded at the Needles on the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe Met Office issued two weather warnings for earlier on Monday: an amber warning for wind in Northern Ireland, and a milder yellow warning for wind covering Wales, Northern Ireland, most of England and parts of south-west Scotland.\n\nStorm Franklin is the third named storm in a week - following Dudley and Eunice - the first time this has happened since the storm-naming system was introduced in 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Monday evening, UK Power Networks said it had restored electricity to 98% of properties across east and south-east England but 8,500 remained without power.\n\nEnergy minister Greg Hands said power outages were a \"horrible thing\" to happen to households and lessons would be learned for the energy network.\n\nHe said: \"Quite often very significant lessons do get learned - the 105 emergency number for power outages was a lesson learned from a previous storm.\"\n\nManchester Airport diverted nine flights on Monday morning because of storm winds. It is understood the planes were holding to land before being diverted, but the airport says the weather has not affected departures.\n\nBritish Airways has said winds made it difficult to unload baggage from its planes - causing delays for passengers after landing. The airline has also struggled to land and restock planes on time, affecting inbound and outbound movements.\n\nElsewhere, the O2 arena in London will remain closed until Friday, when a UB40 concert is expected to go ahead as planned, after Storm Eunice shredded sections of the roof.\n\nGeorge Goodfellow, from BBC weather, says the forecast for the rest of the week is best described as unsettled: \"We're expecting further spells of wet and windy weather for most of the coming week, and some parts of the UK will see strong winds at times.\n\n\"It looks as though the strongest winds will generally be towards the north west of the UK. Whether the winds will be strong enough to warrant the Met Office naming another storm is a bit uncertain.\n\n\"Warnings are usually issued based on the risk of disruption/hazardous weather, so I think the question is will it become significantly windier than normal. If so then warnings are likely, and I wouldn't rule out a named storm.\"\n\nStorms have been more frequent in the last week because of a strong jet stream running across the Atlantic and the UK - the coming week sees the jet stream move \"a little further north\".\n\nNorthern Ireland has seen severe flooding with locals trying to prevent rivers from bursting their banks\n\nIn Northern Ireland, heavy rain has caused severe flooding, with counties Londonderry and Tyrone the worst hit.\n\nNorthern Ireland Electricity said at the peak there were 10,000 homes without power during the early hours of Monday morning - that number has now fallen to around 330.\n\nA car is left covered in foam in Portstewart, County Derry\n\nParts of the River Severn and the Bristol Channel coast are on flood alert and emergency teams have erected flood barriers to try to stop the waters from reaching homes.\n\nCounty councillor Karl Lewis said Llandinam in Powys, central Wales, had been left looking like a \"disaster zone\".\n\nNational Rail is advising customers to check their routes before travelling.\n\nCrossCountry trains, which runs services from Aberdeen, through Birmingham and to the South West, is \"strongly recommending\" that people do not travel on Monday.\n\nGreat Western Railway (GWR) and South Western Railway joined CrossCountry trains and \"strongly\" advised against travel on Monday, and said disruption on routes are expected.\n\nSoutheastern railway withdrew its \"do not travel\" advice but warned its customers that they should expect delays and allow extra time for their journeys.\n\nChiltern Railways warned disruption will continue into Tuesday morning, \"including trains and carriages being in the wrong places\". It said customers should only travel on Monday \"if their journey is absolutely essential\".\n\nIn West Yorkshire, the Thackley railway tunnel closed due to flooding.\n\nAnd Rotherham Central station will remain closed until at least Tuesday - a picture shared by Leeds City Station on Twitter shows the extent of the track flooding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Leeds City Station This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This livestream has now ended.\n\nThe UK prime minister is asked about the Ukraine crisis and No 10 parties on this week's Sunday Morning with Sophie Raworth.", "Russian and Belarusian soldiers have been training together\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin and his ally Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko have extended military drills which were due to end on Sunday.\n\nA statement cited the \"deterioration of the situation\" in east Ukraine as one reason for keeping an estimated 30,000 Russian troops in Belarus.\n\nThe move will add to fears that Russia plans an invasion of Ukraine, which shares a long border with Belarus.\n\nWestern leaders have accused Moscow of seeking a pretext to send in troops.\n\nRussia has denied it plans to invade its neighbour.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the extension of military exercises shows the world is on the brink of war.\n\nThe BBC's Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford said the announcement - made by the Belarus defence ministry - is another strong signal that Russia is not prepared to back down in its stand-off with Western countries over Ukraine.\n\nIn a phone call on Sunday, Mr Putin told French President Emmanuel Macron the Russian troops would eventually leave Belarus, the French presidency said. Mr Putin blamed the Ukrainian military for the escalation of tensions in the Donbas.\n\nFrance said the pair agreed to work for a ceasefire on the contact line in eastern Ukraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment Ukrainian officials run from apparent shelling in the eastern part of the country\n\nThere were more explosions in the east Ukrainian conflict zone through the night and into Sunday.\n\nDetonations could be heard from the separatist-held city of Donetsk while both sides said they had come under heavy shell fire.\n\nAs explosions boomed out in Donetsk on Sunday morning, Russian-backed rebels in Luhansk accused government forces of crossing the front line to mount an attack which killed two civilians. No proof was given for the allegation but Russian investigators opened an inquiry.\n\nCivilians from separatist-held regions are being evacuated to Russia\n\nThe rebels and government forces accused each other of violating the ceasefire dozens of time on Sunday. Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed on Saturday as international monitors reported that ceasefire violations had increased dramatically this week.\n\nThousands of civilians are being evacuated from the separatist territories into Russia while men of fighting age are being mobilised to fight.\n\nSpeaking as she prepared to leave Donetsk for Russia by bus with her four-year-old daughter, an evacuee who gave her name as Tatyana told Reuters news agency: \"It's really scary. I've taken everything I could carry.\"\n\nThe frontlines in eastern Ukraine are rarely silent - at the very least there is sniper fire between Kremlin-backed rebels and Ukrainian forces. But now the big guns are back. In recent days there has been a barrage of artillery and mortar fire. We heard it ourselves at frontline positions in Novotroitske.\n\nWe reached the trenches on foot, crossing flat ground where snow has given way to sucking layers of mud. Two fresh-faced troops led the way, standing stock still at the rumble of shelling a few kilometres away.\n\nAt a sandbagged lookout position 24-year-old Taras told us there had been three days of heavy incoming fire. \"I think Putin is doing it on purpose to provoke us,\" he said. \"The situation has gotten worse, but we tolerate it, and we wait.\"\n\nUkrainian forces say they have orders not to return fire - except in exceptional cases - as Russia is \"looking for any excuse to invade\".\n\nTaras had a deadpan expression, and a phlegmatic approach to a possible invasion. \"They might raze us to the ground,\" he told me, \"and they might not. And we don't know if we will have support or not. If it gets too hard, we will open fire too.\"\n\nRussia has mustered up to 190,000 troops including separatist forces in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, according to US estimates.\n\nWestern leaders, meanwhile, are preparing sanctions against Russia in case of an invasion.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson told BBC News sanctions would hit \"very very hard\". He said he had seen evidence Russia is planning \"the biggest war in Europe since 1945\".\n\nThe President of the European Council Charles Michel has said the EU is ready to impose massive sanctions on the Kremlin - even harming its own economy if necessary - to confront Russian military aggression.\n\nBut Ukraine's President Volodymr Zelensky has accused Western leaders of a \"policy of appeasement\" towards Moscow and demanded security guarantees for Ukraine, which officially aspires to join both Nato and the EU.\n\nMr Putin has been demanding assurances that Nato will not admit Ukraine, a former Soviet state with close ties to Russia, while the Western alliance denies it poses any threat to Russia.\n\nThere are fears that a Russian military intervention could start a war even bloodier than the conflict in eastern Ukraine which has cost at least 14,000 lives.", "Lufthansa and Swiss Air Lines will suspend flights to the Ukraine capital Kyiv from Monday amid growing fears of a Russian invasion.\n\nGermany's Lufthansa said it would also stop flights to Odessa, a key port on the Black Sea.\n\n\"The safety of our passengers and crew members is our top priority at all times,\" said Lufthansa.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Sunday that Russia is planning \"the biggest war in Europe since 1945\".\n\nLast week, the Dutch airline KLM said that it was suspending flights to Kyiv.\n\nThe Lufthansa suspension is expected to remain in place until the end of February.\n\nSwiss Air Lines - which is a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group - said on Sunday that it would suspend its flights to Kyiv from Monday up to and including 28 February.\n\nBoth Lufthansa and Swiss say they will continue to monitor the situation closely and that they are in close contact with national and international authorities.\n\nSwiss added: \"The safety of our passengers and crew members has top priority at all times... The affected customers will be informed accordingly.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Lufthansa said: \"Affected guests will be informed and rebooked on alternative flight connections.\"\n\nThe airline usually operates 74 flights to Ukraine every week under its Lufthansa banner or the other carriers it owns which include Austrian Airlines, Eurowings and Swiss.\n\nLufthansa said it would continue to fly to Lviv in Western Ukraine.\n\nMr Johnson told the BBC that evidence suggests that Russia intends to launch an invasion that will encircle Kyiv.\n\n\"All the signs are that the plan has already in some senses begun,\" he said.\n\nRyanair and Wizz Air also operate flights to Ukraine and last week said they would continue to fly to the country. Ryanair is the largest airline which flies between Europe and Ukraine, followed by Wizz Air.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, Wizz Air said it was monitoring the situation closely and reminded passengers to check their inboxes regularly for further information about booked flights.\n\nA Wizz Air spokesperson said: \"Currently, we have not made any changes to our schedule and all of our flights to/from Ukraine continue to operate as normal.\"\n\nRyanair's chief executive Michael O'Leary said last week: \"It is important not to panic.\n\n\"Is it our duty and obligation to support the people of Ukraine as long as there is no war or missiles flying there.\"\n\nThe UK's Foreign Office has advised that British nationals \"should leave while commercial options remain\".\n\n\"In the event of a military incursion, it is likely that commercial routes out of Ukraine will be severely disrupted and roads across Ukraine could be closed,\" it said.\n\nLast week, the Ukrainian government pledged to keep the country's airspace open. It said it was ready to assume financial obligations for flight safety amid concerns of rising insurance costs for airlines to keep flying into the region.\n\nIn July 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down while flying near eastern Ukraine's conflict zone. All 298 passengers and crew on board the flight between Amsterdam and Kuala Lumpur were killed. The victims included 80 children.\n\nAn investigation by the Dutch Safety Board found that the plane crashed after being hit by a Russian-made Buk missile.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City say they are \"shocked and appalled\" at abuse suffered by Phil Foden and his family backstage at Saturday's Amir Khan-Kell Brook fight.\n\nFootage has emerged on social media of a confrontation at Manchester Arena between members of the public and a group including the England midfielder.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) say they have received no report in relation to the incident.\n\nBut they are conducting further enquiries after reviewing the footage.\n\nCity said they were aware of a video that \"shows Phil Foden and his family being harassed and abused\".\n\n\"We are shocked and appalled about the nature of the abuse and ensuing assault on one of Phil's family members,\" their statement added.\n\n\"We will continue to give Phil and his family all the support and assistance they need.\"\n\nIn a statement, GMP said they are \"aware of a video circulating on social media showing a disturbance at the AO Arena\" on Saturday.\n\nThey added: \"We are conducting some further enquiries into the circumstances surrounding the incident.\"\n• None Our coverage of Manchester City is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything City - go straight to all the best content", "Workers dug with spades and shovels through the rubble and muck in a dense fog on Saturday\n\nSearch and clean-up efforts continue in the Brazilian city of Petrópolis, five days after flash floods and mudslides that have killed at least 171 people.\n\nThe victims include at least 27 children and teenagers, while more than 120 are still missing, officials say.\n\nRepeated downpours have hampered the work of emergency teams, with authorities saying it is unlikely anyone will be found alive.\n\nAbout 900 people are being housed in schools and shelters.\n\nWorkers are digging with spades and shovels through the rubble and muck, with teams of volunteers helping in the efforts.\n\nThe search is being carried out with hand tools and chainsaws in unstable areas, with teams being helped by 41 sniffer dogs.\n\n\"It's impossible to bring in heavy machinery up here,\" Roberto Amaral, co-ordinator of the local fire department's special rescue group, told AFP news agency. \"So we basically have to work like ants, going little by little.\"\n\nIn one of the worst-hit neighbourhoods, up to 80 houses on a hillside were hit by landslides.\n\nIn unstable areas, the search is being carried out with hand tools and chainsaws\n\nUp to 80 houses on a hillside were hit by landslides in one of the worst-hit neighbourhoods\n\nOn Sunday, a massive clean-up effort retrieved more than 300 vehicles that had been swept away by the floods as the city, a popular tourist getaway north of Rio de Janeiro, tries to reopen for business.\n\n\"We need our streets clear so we can speed up the job of getting our city back on its feet,\" Mayor Rubens Bomtempo said.\n\nTuesday's rainfall exceeded the average for the whole of February, triggering landslides and floods. President Jair Bolsonaro, who flew over the disaster zone on Friday, said the city was suffering from \"enormous destruction, like scenes of war\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deluge of rainfall causes a landslide and flooding in Petrópolis, Brazil", "The A470 was unpassable at Llandinam after the River Severn burst its banks\n\nResidents had to be evacuated and seven people were rescued by boat after the River Severn burst its banks during Storm Franklin, a councillor has said.\n\nKarl Lewis said one person was taken to hospital as a precaution after flooding left Llandinam, Powys, looking like a \"disaster zone\".\n\nIt was the third named storm within a week and came just days after Wales was battered by Storm Eunice.\n\nDozens of flood warnings were in place and high winds caused further damage.\n\nMr Lewis, county councillor for Llandinam, said four properties in the village were flooded after heavy rain and strong winds caused the river banks to burst at about 16:00 GMT Sunday.\n\n\"We've rescued seven people out of four properties near the River Severn when it came across the road,\" he said.\n\nHe described those rescued as \"elderly and frail\", adding: \"It's like a disaster zone. The river levels are dropping now, but the A470 remains impassable.\"\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) has issued more than 20 flood warnings, with north Powys the worst affected.\n\nAt Meifod, the River Vyrnwy reached 3.817m (12.5 ft), beating the previous high of 3.79m (12.43 ft), while the River Severn in Newtown reached 4.106m (13.47 ft), eclipsing the record of 3.63m (11.9 ft) from 2008.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Branty This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHundreds of homes were still without power on Sunday evening after widespread damage was caused following 92mph (148km/h) winds.\n\nA yellow warning for wind is in place across Wales until 13:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nA woman on Twitter said a small stream near her mother's home in Caersws, north Powys, now resembled a river.\n\nIn Powys, the A470 between Llangurig and Rhayader was closed due to flooding, according to Dyfed Powys Police, as was the A458 at Cyfronydd, Powys and A487 Dyfi Bridge in Machynlleth.\n\nSara Gibson described difficult driving conditions on the A458 in Powys, as river levels continued to rise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sara Gibson This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNigel Brinn, an executive director at Powys council, said: \"We are expecting river levels in the north of the county to be comparable to their peak during Storm Dennis.\"\n\nStorm Dennis brought record rainfall to Wales in February 2020, resulting in some of the most significant and devastating flooding seen since the 1970s.\n\nA footpath along the River Severn in Newtown, Powys, is completely submerged by water\n\nNRW said flooding was expected in Powys on the River Teme in Knighton, along the River Severn around Welshpool, and on the River Vyrnwy at Llansantffraid, Llanymynech and Meifod.\n\nIt said flooding was also possible around large parts of the Welsh coast and on several rivers including the Dee in Wrexham and Denbighshire, the Usk estuary in Newport and the Wye estuary in Monmouthshire.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Cardiff by Camera This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 3 by Cardiff by Camera\n\nMeanwhile, travel on roads and railway lines continues to be disrupted following damage caused by Storm Eunice.\n\nGwent Police said several roads were affected by the weather on Sunday evening, including the A472 in Newbridge and a number of routes in Newport. In Cardiff, Cathedral Road is closed after a tree fell on to a property.\n\nThe tree crashed down on to properties on Cathedral Road in Cardiff\n\nCardiff resident Yoko Hargreaves, 23, who lives on Cathedral Road, described sitting down to watch television and looking up to see a tree crashing into her property.\n\nHer house was unscathed and she thinks a few tiles were damaged next door, adding: \"It was really shocking. I think we anticipated the worse of the storm was taking place on Friday so to suddenly have a tree come down on the property today was really unexpected.\"\n\nChristchurch Road in Newport has been closed after a tree fell into the road\n\nIn Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales Police said it had closed Cyfarthfa Retail Park after receiving reports of insecure roofing.\n\nTens of thousands of homes had been without power as workers from Western Power and Scottish Power worked to restore electricity over the weekend.\n\nThe worst affected areas have been Gower, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion, according to Western Power.\n\nSabrina Lee: \"Storm Eunice has resulted in weakened or damaged trees and structures\"\n\nA third storm system has been named in the space of less than a week; first Storm Dudley, then Storm Eunice and now Storm Franklin.\n\nGusts of 50-60mph (80-97km/h) are expected quite widely, possibly closer to 70mph (113km/h) for some coastal locations\n\nWhilst the peak wind gusts will not be as high as those recorded in Storm Eunice, the spell of very windy conditions could delay the Storm Eunice clear-up.\n\nIn addition, there is a greater chance of disruption than usually observed with winds of this strength, as Storm Eunice has resulted in weakened or damaged trees and structures.\n\nThe roof has been torn off the gym at Merthyr Tydfil's Bishop Hedley school\n\nThe roof of a school gymnasium \"peeled back like a piece of cardboard\", according to the head teacher, who said: \"This could have been a catastrophe.\"\n\nSarah Hopkins, of Bishop Hedley secondary school in Merthyr Tydfil, said it happened on Friday when there were no children present, with debris inside the building and the floor now covered in water.\n\nMs Hopkins said scaffolding needed to be put up to secure the roof but winds had been too strong for that to happen.\n\nWhen children return after half-term, they will be able to use another sports hall or indoor 3G pitch, with Ms Hopkins adding: \"This is just a building. It could have been so much worse.\"\n\nThe windy weather has whipped up a sea of foam along Aberystwyth promenade\n\nThe power cuts have brought out community spirit, with warm drinks and biscuits being offered to anyone without power by Amman United RFC in Glanamman, Carmarthenshire.\n\nAnd Pembrokeshire council has urged family and friends to check on users of personal alarms, saying they have a 24-hour battery as a back-up in the event of a power cut.\n\nVolunteers also came forward to help with a clean-up at Greenacres Rescue in Little Haven, Pembrokeshire, where rabbit and geese enclosures were blown around \"like they were dolls houses\".\n\nA roof blew off a stable and the main office - a static caravan - was \"torn apart\" but no animals were hurt and well-wishers pledged more than £2,000 to help with costs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJulie James, Minister for Climate Change, said she had \"huge gratitude for the people who've worked their socks off this weekend, and getting prepared, and then helping to clear up the aftermath\".\n\n\"If we can't get the world's temperature to come down, we're going to be seeing more and more of these events,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Sunday Supplement.\n\nAerial view of engineers clearing a fallen tree from the tracks near Llangadog, Carmarthenshire\n\nTransport for Wales said its \"emergency amended timetable\" would continue to run until further notice following damage caused by Storm Eunice.\n\nIt advised rail passengers to check their journeys before they travel on Sunday and Monday.\n\nSeveral roads remain closed due to fallen trees, power cables and debris, including Goetre Fach Road in Killay, Swansea, where tiles were blown off a chapel roof.\n\nThe M48 Severn Bridge at Monmouthshire has been closed due to the strong winds and restrictions are in place on the A55 Britannia Bridge between Anglesey and Gwynedd.", "The GB women's curling captain, Eve Muirhead, has said it \"really hasn't sunk in\" that she's finally won a gold medal at her fourth Olympics.\n\nShe praised the rest of her team - all of them making their Olympic debut.\n\nMuirhead, who became the youngest ever Olympic skip at 19 in Vancouver 2010, wasn't sure if she would even compete this year due to health problems and hip surgery.", "Reservists in the Ukrainian Territorial Defence take part in military exercises on Saturday\n\nUkraine's president has said his nation will not respond to provocations amid a deadly escalation in fighting in rebel Russian-backed eastern territories.\n\nBut Volodymyr Zelensky told world leaders Ukraine would defend itself against Russian aggression.\n\nTwo Ukrainian soldiers were killed on a third day of clashes between Ukraine's military and Russian-backed rebels.\n\nUS President Joe Biden said he was convinced Russia would invade Ukraine, but Moscow has denied this.\n\nWestern nations have accused Russia of trying to stage a fake crisis in the eastern regions as a pretext to invade.\n\nBut speaking to a security conference in Munich, President Zelensky said Ukrainians were \"not panicking, we want to live our lives\".\n\nHe accused Western leaders of a \"policy of appeasement\" towards Moscow and demanded Ukraine be given new security guarantees. President Zelensky travelled to Munich despite being warned by US officials that it was unsafe to leave his country.\n\nHis comments came as monitors reported a \"dramatic increase\" in attacks along the line dividing rebel and government forces in eastern Ukraine. There were more than 1,400 explosions in the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk regions on Saturday alone, monitors said.\n\nSome people boarded buses after residents in the city of Donetsk were ordered to evacuate\n\nDenys Monastyrsky, the Ukrainian interior minister, had to be hurried into a bomb shelter after coming under shellfire while he was touring the front lines.\n\nRebels in the self-declared people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk have ordered a mobilisation of all men of fighting age and urged other civilians to evacuate to Russia. The separatists claimed, without providing evidence, that Ukraine was planning to attack.\n\nMany did not comply with the evacuation order, instead remaining at their homes.\n\nRussian media released a series of unverified reports of attacks or attempted attacks inside rebel-held territory on Saturday.\n\nRussia launched a criminal investigation into reports, denied by Ukraine, that shells exploded on Russian territory in the Rostov region, about 1km (0.6 mile) from the Ukrainian border.\n\nAs reports of shelling continued, Germany and France became the latest Western countries to urge their citizens to leave Ukraine. The German airliner Lufthansa will suspend flights to Ukraine for a week from Monday.\n\nAs Western leaders met in Munich, Russia was putting on another demonstration of its military capabilities. It says it launched advanced hypersonic missiles as part of strategic nuclear drills, which were overseen by President Vladimir Putin.\n\nRussia has been holding military exercises in Belarus, close to the border with Ukraine. The drills followed a build-up of Russian troops - estimated by the US to be between 169,000 and 190,000, which includes rebels in eastern Ukraine - along Ukraine's borders.\n\nUS Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said Russian forces were beginning to \"uncoil and move closer\" to the border with Ukraine.\n\nIn an earlier speech to the conference, US Vice-President Kamala Harris accused Moscow of trying to create a fake pretext for invading Ukraine and warned the consequences for Russia would be \"severe and swift\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as US Vice-President Kamala Harris warns Russia of consequences if it invades Ukraine\n\nUkraine, a former Soviet republic with historic ties to Russia, is not a member of Nato or the European Union but has close relations with both.\n\nRussia is insisting Ukraine should not be allowed to join Nato, which it sees as a threat to its security.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Jamal Edwards speaking in 2016 and 2017, sharing business advice and the reason he got into film-making\n\nPrince Charles and rappers Dave and AJ Tracey are among the many voices paying tribute to entrepreneur and YouTube star Jamal Edwards.\n\nEdwards, who has died at the age of 31, is the son of singer and presenter Brenda Edwards, who said she was \"completely devastated\".\n\nThe Prince of Wales paid tribute to his work for The Prince's Trust.\n\nDave simply wrote: \"Thank you for everything. Words can't explain\" while Tracey said he was a \"legend\".\n\nPrince Charles was among the figures paying tribute to Jamal Edwards\n\nEdwards was the founder of SBTV, an online grime and rap music platform which helped launch the careers of artists like Dave, Ed Sheeran and Skepta. He first got into film-making after his parents gave him a video camera as a Christmas present when he was 15.\n\nBorn in Luton and later moving to west London, he was appointed an MBE for services to music in 2014. A pioneering figure in British rap and grime music, Edwards attended the Brit Awards earlier this month, and was understood to have performed as a DJ at a gig in north London on Saturday night.\n\nHis company confirmed his death to the BBC on Sunday, saying he died that morning. His mother said he \"passed away after a sudden illness\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Prince's Trust described him in a tweet as \"an incredible innovator and entrepreneur.\"\n\nActor Idris Elba tweeted that Edwards would \"be missed\", while businessman Sir Richard Branson, who wrote the forward for Edwards' 2013 book, Self Belief: The Vision, tweeted that the star was \"a truly extraordinary young man who made a huge difference to so many people's lives\".\n\nI May Destroy You star Michaela Coel said: \"May his passion, joy and relentless desire to platform British artists be an inspiration.\"\n\nFormer prime minister David Cameron, who is chair of the National Citizen Service's Board of Patrons, paid tribute to Edwards for \"supporting and inspiring young people to be the best they could be, leading from the front and showing what's possible with hard work and determination\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan tweeted that British music and entertainment \"has lost one of its brightest stars\", while Chelsea Football Club added that Edwards - a Chelsea fan - was \"an inspiration to many, we're honoured that he was part of our Chelsea family\".\n\nIn 2019, he directed the Chelsea FC remix video of grime artist Capo Lee's Style and Swag, and the video featured several of the team's players.\n\nIt's impossible to overstate how important Jamal Edwards was to British rap.\n\nHis YouTube channel, which was started \"on a £20 phone\" while he was still at school, has given early exposure to almost every key player in the game. Stormzy, Skepta, JME, J Hus, Lady Leshurr, Dave, AJ Tracey, Krept & Konan, Headie One… the list is endless.\n\nTo an extent, SBTV was formed out of frustration. \"Everyone in my area was an MC and I remember thinking, 'Why can't I find these online? I'm going to film people in my area and upload it to Youtube',\" Edwards told BBC Radio 1Xtra in 2017. \"And from there it just started building and growing.\"\n\nSBTV arrived at a crucial time, showing that grime could thrive online, while police were attempting to shut down gigs with the controversial risk-assessment form 696.\n\nThe channel's success meant Edwards became known as an entrepreneur and businessman - but he was a reluctant frontman. \"I wanted to be the Banksy,\" he said. \"I wanted no-one to know who I was.\"\n\nThat changed in 2011, when he featured in an advert for Google Chrome. His name was searched more than a million times. and people started approaching him for selfies.\n\nBut he put his fame to good use - raising awareness of mental health, funding youth centres and encouraging other young entrepreneurs.\n\nMusic remained his true passion, though, and he never stopped supporting the artists he loved. As recently as December, he encouraged Ed Sheeran to record a new verse for a song he'd discovered by Nigerian artist Fireboy DML. That track, Peru, climbed to number two in the UK charts, giving the African star his first international hit.\n\nEdwards took no credit - he never did - but hundreds of artists have similar stories. His loss will be felt throughout the UK music scene.\n\nBBC 1Xtra DJ and presenter Nadia Jae told Newsbeat that Edwards \"helped me with my career\", adding: \"He's helped so many people, put them in places that they never would have been and did a lot of the pushing of doors to make sure that our industry is as fruitful as it is now.\"\n\nShe added: \"He had a heart of gold, I don't know anyone who has a bad word to say about Jamal.\n\n\"He broke so many barriers, I don't know if we're ever going to get another Jamal.\"\n\nPresenter and comedian Mo Gilligan, who hosted this year's Brit awards, tweeted: \"A truly humble and blessed soul. Your legacy will live on for years and you've inspired a whole generation.\"\n\nRapper Lady Leshurr said: \"He gave me opportunity after opportunity to showcase my talent from Brum into London. We need to keep his name and brand alive.\"\n\nSinger Jessie J, whose early appearances on SBTV helped get her noticed, said her \"heart is broken\". Her Instagram post included clips of them appearing on Channel 4's Celebrity Gogglebox together.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by jessiej This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActress Linda Robson, who sits alongside Edwards' mother Brenda on the Loose Women panel, said on the ITV show on Monday that Edwards had taken her own son, the musician Louis Dunford, \"under his wing\".\n\n\"Brenda did such a good job with her son because he was a proper gentleman,\" Robson told presenter Charlene White. \"He really was the loveliest boy... Thanks to Jamal my son is now going on tour this year with Jake Bugg.\"\n\nWhite dedicated the entire show to their friend Brenda while describing her late son as \"a powerhouse\" who \"changed the UK music scene in a way that we've not seen for generations\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charlene White This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRapper Youngs Teflon, who featured on SBTV, told the BBC: \"If I had one word for Jamal it would be selfless.\n\n\"Almost every artist has a story - he just touched so many people. Rappers, singers, presenters.\"\n\nHe added: \"His thing with me was never stop, never get disheartened…. He made me feel I had a purpose. It meant a lot and it went a long way.\n\n\"He will be remembered in every conversation when it comes to pioneers. This will be the person that put me on or gave me my first opportunity.\"\n\nAt a vigil in west London, fans and friends also paid tribute.\n\n\"He was the hero of Acton. He was the guy who showed you could make it out without being a drug dealer, without getting involved in crime or anything,\" Zachary Thomas told the BBC.\n\nDominic Magliore said: \"It's hard to accept it. I heard about it yesterday and I saw him on Friday, we was hugging, laughing and having a good time & everything seemed ok.\"\n\nSam Borelli said: \"Jamal was the guy that showed kids from low-income households that you are not limited to what your grades might tell you. He made the musicians that made me, if you know what I mean, with a camera he got for Christmas.\"\n\nActor and director Adam Deacon posted that he was \"honestly heartbroken\", saying: \"Jamal was one of the nicest, most down to earth and humble men I've met in this industry,\" he said. \"He always gave me time even when no-one else would.\"\n\nSinger Gabrielle described Edwards as \"an incredible young man\", and Transport for London employees and writers All on the Board, who share inspiring quotes on social media, also paid tribute.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by All On The Board This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 3 by All On The Board\n\nThe Voice Newspaper added their whole team was \"saddened and shocked\", saying: \"Gone waaay to soon. He made an amazing contribution to promoting black music, to entrepreneurship, and so much more. An incredible talent who will be much missed. RIP.\"\n\nIn a tweet, the organisers of the Mobo Awards said they were \"deeply saddened\" to learn of Edwards' death.\n\nThey added: \"As the founder of @SBTVonline, his groundbreaking work & legacy in British music and culture will live on. Our hearts and thoughts are with his friends and family.\"\n\nBirmingham-based rapper Jaykae is an example of one of the acts that SBTV has helped to achieve success. Although he only broke through to mainstream chart success as the featured rapper on Top 20 hit Flowers two years ago, his videos have been featured on SBTV for more than a decade.\n\nDescribing Edwards as a \"legend\", Jaykae tweeted: \"I think I can speak for us all as artists and as supporters of UK grime/rap scene when I say I owe this man so much! Helped me sometimes without even speaking of it.\"\n\nIn a 2013 interview with the BBC, Edwards said he filmed friends rapping or singing and began to upload the videos to YouTube to allow other friends to see them.\n\n\"You can say my videos had mixed reviews to begin with, some people didn't get them, but others thought they were sick [good],\" he said. \"So I started to put them up on YouTube so everyone could see them, and it just grew from there.\"\n\nSBTV - his London-based platform for discovering emerging artists and named after Edwards' own rapper moniker SmokeyBarz - has now grown to 1.22 million subscribers on YouTube.\n\nIt featured early music videos from artists including J Hus, Emeli Sande and Stormzy - and dozens of other British acts who were not widely known at the time.\n\nEdwards, pictured in 2020, wrote a book in 2013 called Self Belief: The Vision: How to Be a Success on Your Own Terms\n\nAs Edwards' profile grew, he also entered the fashion world, walking the catwalk for Hermes, fronting a collection for Kurt Geiger and then posing for Primark in order to illustrate his own belief that \"affordable fashion is important\".\n\nHe wrote a book - described as a mix of a memoir and a business manual - called Self Belief: The Vision: How to Be a Success on Your Own Terms.\n\nHe often tweeted motivational tips to inspire his followers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEdwards also founded JE Delve, a grassroots charity that provides youth clubs as well as learning and work opportunities for young people in west London, where he grew up after he and his family moved there from Luton.\n\nHe worked with a handful of other youth charities and regularly made visits to speak to teenagers, including at both Acton High School and West London College where he had studied, to answer questions on business success and self-motivation.\n\nEaling MP Rupa Huq shared a selection of photos of Edwards on social media as she paid tribute to the \"local hero\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Rupa Huq MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nKell Brook (left) came out on top in his grudge match with Amir Khan Kell Brook sensationally beat Amir Khan in the sixth round, with the referee stopping the contest, to settle one of the most bitter and long-running feuds in British boxing. A packed-out Manchester Arena witnessed a demolition job from Sheffield's Brook, 35, who showcased timing and power to win in emphatic fashion. A fight which had been in the making for over 17 years - with the two former world champions having traded words but never punches - ended with Khan and Brook embracing. The thrilling encounter might mark the end of both men's fighting careers, with Brook admitting that, although he felt he was back in top form, retirement was on his mind. \"I can live at peace with Amir Khan on my record,\" Brook said. \"My mojo is back and I love this game. We will listen to loved ones and see, but I'm back, baby. \"I can walk away but I could fight [Chris] Eubank [Jr]. I don't like Eubank. If the fight is right I will fight - I'm a prize fighter.\" Khan, also 35, admitted after the sixth defeat of his career that he had struggled to switch on during the fight. \"Forty fights is a lot of fights. Winning two world titles, going to America... I need to sit down with my family, but it's more towards the end of my career,\" he said. \"That love of the sport is not there any more. When I was in the ring [before] I had that excitement, but I didn't have it. I felt quite flat and maybe that's a sign I should be calling it a day.\"\n• None 'I'm an old man' - Khan considers retirement after loss Barnstormer from the first bell Brook dominated the contest from the first bell The bout may have taken place with both fighters in the twilight of their careers, but a raucous crowd of over 22,000 - which included former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher and Manchester City footballer Jack Grealish - showed just how big a draw Khan and Brook still are. Brook looked focused as he strutted to the ring to Kanye West's 'All of the Lights', his trademark entrance music almost drowned out by the boos of the crowd. Khan - in a white and gold robe - looked slightly more relaxed as he made his ring walk, accompanied by stablemate, former opponent and current world champion Terence Crawford. Khan and Brook locked eyes in the final seconds before the first bell and after all the wait, there was no caution from either fighter as fans were treated to a thrilling opening round. Khan demonstrated he still had hand speed in his arsenal with quick combinations in the opening half of the round. But Brook continued to stalk his opponent across the ring and caught Khan with a shot which wobbled the Bolton fighter. Khan was then on unsteady legs again towards the end of the round. The referee stepped in to stop the fight in the sixth Rounds two, three and four followed a similar pattern. Khan would start well, coming quickly out of the blocks, throwing feints and jabs, making his opponent miss and occasionally connecting with a single shot. But Brook's relentless, brutal attack continued in the fifth round. He was dragging a marked-up Khan - who seemed to have lost his defence and hand speed - around the ring like a rag doll. By now it was one-way traffic and in the sixth round, two right uppercuts followed by a left hook - all connecting - forced referee Victor Loughlin to intervene. Should Khan and Brook hang up their gloves? While a loss to his most bitter rival will be a tough pill for Khan to swallow, it should not define a career of which he, his loved ones and fans of British boxing can be proud. The manner of his defeats by Breidis Prescott, Danny Garcia and Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez - all vicious, stomach-churning knockouts - often made Khan, and the supposed fragility of his chin, the butt of jokes among boxing fans. Khan (right, 40 fights) and Brook (left, 43 fights) have both had long careers in the pro game But his talent, achievements and impact on the sport surpass that of most boxers. Khan is a fighter who single-handedly carried the torch for Team GB's boxing squad at the 2004 Olympics, winning silver in Athens. He is a fighter who paved the way for future Olympic stars such as Anthony Joshua, Nicola Adams and James DeGale. And he is a fighter who, after being thrust into the limelight of professional boxing aged just 17, went on to beat quality champions such as Marcos Maidana, Zab Judah and Devon Alexander and become a unified world champion. For Brook, retiring on a high could be a satisfying way to leave such a gruelling sport, but he has suggested he will take time before confirming his next move. Should he hang up the gloves, he too can leave the sport with his head held high. While Khan is often praised for never ducking a challenge, Brook too has dared to be great. In 2014 he travelled to the champion's home city when he beat American Shawn Porter on points in California to become IBF welterweight champion. Brook also moved up weight divisions when he lost to Kazakhstan's ferocious puncher Gennady Golovkin, and eight months later was defeated by pound-for-pound American star Errol Spence Jr. If Brook does continue, he will not be short of options, and leading the pack could be a blockbuster bout between Brook and Eubank Jr, one that is likely to capture the imagination of both boxing aficionados and casual fans.\n• None What's the worst that could happen?\n• None He's back and exploring the detrimental impact of the internet on American society", "The Queen has tested positive for Covid, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nThe monarch is experiencing \"mild cold-like symptoms\" but expects to continue \"light duties\" at Windsor over the coming week, the palace said.\n\n\"She will continue to receive medical attention and will follow all the appropriate guidelines,\" it added in a statement.\n\nHer eldest son and heir, the Prince of Wales, tested positive on 10 February, after meeting his mother on 8 February.\n\nIt is understood a number of people have tested positive at Windsor Castle, where the Queen resides.\n\nLater on Sunday, the Palace issued a congratulatory message from the Queen to the Team GB Curling teams.\n\nShe heralded the teams' \"outstanding performance\" at the Winter Olympics, which led to the women securing a gold medal and the men silver.\n\nShe added: \"I know that your local communities and people throughout the United Kingdom will join me in sending our good wishes to you, your coaches and the friends and family who have supported you in your great success.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"sure I speak for everyone in wishing Her Majesty The Queen a swift recovery from Covid and a rapid return to vibrant good health\".\n\nLeader of the Opposition, Labour's Sir Keir Starmer, also wished the monarch \"good health and a speedy recovery\", adding: \"Get well soon, Ma'am.\"\n\nThe positive test comes days before England is expected to drop the legal requirement to self-isolate for those who catch Covid, as the last virus restrictions are set to be removed.\n\nOutlining the thinking behind the government's upcoming \"living with Covid\" plans, Mr Johnson told the BBC it was time to \"shift the balance away from state mandation\" and said the public can \"get their confidence back\".\n\nOn the eve of her Platinum Jubilee marking 70 years on the throne on 6 February, the Queen carried out her first major public engagement for more than three months, meeting charity workers at Sandringham House.\n\nThe Queen, who will be 96 in April, had her first vaccine in January 2021 and is believed to have had all her follow-up jabs after that.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said she had been taking life \"rather more easily\" since spending a night in hospital for medical checks in October last year.\n\nIn November, the Queen missed the Remembrance Sunday service with a strained back, weeks after being advised to rest by doctors following the hospital stay.\n\nIt was the first time she missed the ceremony at the Cenotaph in London as monarch, other than when she was pregnant or abroad.\n\nWhile on light duties it is likely the Queen will be reading documents from UK government ministers and Commonwealth representatives sent to her every day, approving and signing them where necessary.\n\nMeanwhile, BBC health correspondent Jim Reed said newly-approved antiviral drugs could aid the Queen's recovery.\n\nHe said the drugs were now a key way to cut the risk of vulnerable people needing hospital treatment, although it was not clear if they would definitely be offered to the monarch.\n\nCurrently, the available antivirals need to be taken within three to five days of contracting Covid.\n\nThe drugs approved for use in the UK include Paxlovid and molnupiravir, which have both demonstrated in medical trials they significantly reduce the risk of hospital admission or death.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Queen attended her first official engagement since coming into contact with Prince Charles, holding a virtual meeting with two new ambassadors to the UK.\n\nThe following day, she smiled as she suggested she had mobility problems during a meeting with defence staff. Standing while using a walking stick, she pointed to her left leg and said: \"Well, as you can see, I can't move.\"\n\nThe tone of this message from Buckingham Palace seems designed to convey important information about the Queen's health, but at the same time play down any sense of alarm.\n\nSo the concern about the 95-year-old monarch catching Covid is set against her being well enough to continue working.\n\nAs if to emphasise business-as-usual, the Queen was back at her desk this morning to sign off a congratulations message to the Winter Olympic curling teams.\n\nIn terms of what happens next - she is clearly going to be very carefully monitored by her personal medical team.\n\nThe Queen's physician, Sir Huw Thomas, has previously described his \"key priority\" as keeping the Royal Household safe through the pandemic.\n\nWe know the Queen had a first vaccination last year and suggestions she has had all three vaccinations have never been denied.\n\nBut the Queen's health is usually kept as a firmly private matter, with only the barest of details being revealed.\n\nWhen Prince Charles and Camilla had Covid last week, there wasn't even any confirmation whether the Queen had been tested.\n\nSo it is a significant step to announce she has Covid - which in turn will create pressure for updates.\n\nRead more from Sean here.\n\nPrince Charles, 73, tested positive on 10 February while, his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, 74, tested positive for the virus last week.\n\nIt was the first time the duchess had caught Covid, and the second time for Prince Charles.\n\nThe Royal Household has its own physicians, and the Queen's is Sir Huw Thomas, a consultant at St Mary's Hospital in London and professor of gastrointestinal genetics at Imperial College London.\n\nHe is \"head of the medical household\", which is part of the Royal Household looking after the health of the family.", "Emma Worthington with her husband and their four children\n\nAs schools struggle to keep classes going during the latest wave of Covid-19, how are pupils, their parents and teachers coping with the disruption?\n\nThe disease continues to spread fast through the school-aged population, with people aged under 19 accounting for 41% of all cases in the past week.\n\nThe infection rate is highest in children aged 10 to 14, according to figures from NI's Department of Health.\n\nBBC News NI spoke to a parent and a principal facing the challenges.\n\nMax, 10, has contracted Covid twice in five months\n\nSince the school year started last September, only one member of Emma Worthington's family has managed to avoid Covid-19. That's one of out six.\n\n\"I feel like if somebody else tests positive in this house, I'm just going to lie down and cry. I can't do it anymore, I'm done!\"\n\nBut one of Emma's sons made up for that this week by catching Covid for a second time.\n\nThe Worthingtons have been affected by both the Delta and the Omicron waves, but thankfully none of them have become seriously ill and most, including Emma, were asymptomatic.\n\nHowever, she remains very concerned about the infection risk they pose to her 78-year-old father.\n\n\"My dad lives in a flat joined on to my house so we were very Covid-aware with him, because he's elderly.\"\n\nMrs Worthington, who works part-time, is mother to six-year-old Eve, 10-year-old Max, 12-year-old Maddie and their big brother Kal, who is 16.\n\nShe and Max were the first to test positive last September, which resulted in him missing two weeks of school at the start of the academic year.\n\nThe pair isolated together for 10 days and managed not to infect other family members.\n\nBut on 27 December, with Omicron circulating widely, her husband and their daughter, Maddie, both tested positive, meaning Maddie missed a few days of the new term.\n\nThen about a week and a half into the January term, Maddie's little sister, Eve, also tested positive and had to begin her isolation period. But even that wasn't the end of it.\n\n\"So she [Eve] tested negative on Saturday morning, which was her day nine, so she missed about a week and a half of school,\" Mrs Worthington says.\n\n\"And then Max came in - I'm not joking you, it was literally five minutes later - and said: 'My throat's sore.' And he tested positive again... you couldn't have made it up.\"\n\nMrs Worthington has, so far, managed to avoid the virus this time around but has to spend more time at home because her younger children have not been able to attend class.\n\n\"Even though I'm testing negative, I'm still very aware of Max having Covid - and people obviously are a bit strange when you say that he has Covid - so I'm minimising my contacts.\"\n\nAs her husband works in England during the week, her father would usually help with childminding or picking the children up from school, but she cannot risk that at the moment.\n\n\"It just really impacts on your life, it impacts everything. It's draining as a mum... I feel like I'm just trapped in this house.\"\n\nMrs Worthington is still following the guidelines but is now pondering the merits of isolation rules for schoolchildren.\n\n\"I'm in two minds - I'm fed up of it but I can see the reason for it.\"\n\nBrian McGrath says it is a difficult task to find cover for staff who cannot come into work\n\nAt one school in County Fermanagh, almost a quarter of the staff were off work this week.\n\nHowever, the principal says they have managed to keep all of their year groups in the building, for now at least.\n\nIn total, 37 people are employed at St Ronan's Primary and Nursery School, Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, nine of whom were not at work on Tuesday.\n\n\"At the moment I have four teachers off with Covid, or isolating,\" says principal Brian McGrath.\n\n\"I also have four classroom assistants off, mostly Covid-related also, and a secretary who is absent.\"\n\nHe says it is harder for a rural school to secure last-minute cover from substitute teachers.\n\n\"It's been a difficult task trying to get cover to make sure all kids are attending school, that all children are being taught,\" Mr McGrath says.\n\n\"On Friday last week, after making 25 calls to substitute teachers, we were very unsuccessful in being able to source anyone,\" he adds.\n\n\"The people just aren't there at the moment.\"\n\nThe principal came close to having to tell some year groups to stay at home for remote learning, until a contact within the school recommended a substitute who was available for work.\n\nBut with four of his 17 teachers off, Mr McGrath has had to redeploy staff to cover all necessary work.\n\nSpecial needs teachers, who should be helping small groups of children who need the most support, are now taking mainstream classes, and classroom assistants are making phone calls to substitutes.\n\n\"Our main aim is to try and keep all children in school at the one time, to make sure that they're here and they're being taught and that's the place they need to be,\" the principal says.\n\nIt has been a difficult start to the new term across Northern Ireland.\n\nAlmost 20% of pupils were not in school in the week from Monday 24 to Friday 28 January, according to the latest figures from Stormont' Department of Education.\n\nThat regional picture is reflected in St Ronan's, where the older year groups have been worst affected.\n\n\"We have two classes, at the moment where there's more than 20% absence due to Covid-related illness,\" Mr McGrath said.\n\nThe principal paid tribute to his staff for their \"flexibility\" in covering their colleagues' roles, but the solution is not without problems.\n\n\"I suppose the overarching priority at the moment is that we keep the school functioning for all kids.\"", "Civilians have been joining weekend drills outside Kyiv\n\nDmytro Dubas thought his war was over. Now the US is warning of an all-out Russian invasion of Ukraine and the veteran volunteer fighter can't ignore it.\n\n\"Last week I was pretty disturbed; I even went to my psychologist for help,\" he admits.\n\nFor months, Ukraine's Western allies have been pointing to Russian troops massing on the border. That's prompted military analysts abroad to produce endless maps covered in arrows that confidently predict how Vladimir Putin's troops will advance on Kyiv.\n\nUkrainians who'd be in the direct line of any such incursion are far less convinced it will happen.\n\nBut all the war talk is unsettling.\n\n\"Russia can always transfer troops to the border in a matter of days and then invade, so this build-up is nothing different,\" Dmytro argues, in his Kyiv flat.\n\nIn 2014, then working in sales, he joined the flood of volunteer soldiers pouring east when heavy fighting against Russian-backed forces erupted. There's been a formal ceasefire in place since 2015 but it breaks down regularly and the threat of a sudden escalation in the violence is ever present.\n\nBut Dmytro had returned to civilian life, storing the reminders of his time in the trenches in an old ammunition box painted and re-fashioned as a coffee table in his living room.\n\nNow he's calmed his nerves by preparing for the worst possible scenario: filling his car with fuel, buying emergency food supplies and signing-up with the territorial defence force to brush-up his skills.\n\nWestern intelligence agencies have ascribed all sorts of plans to Vladimir Putin, including besieging Kyiv. Ukrainian officials from President Volodymyr Zelensky down have batted-back that idea, wary of spreading panic.\n\nAt the same time, city schools are practising bomb scare or air raid drills, social media is full of official guides to preparing an emergency \"grab bag\" for evacuation and people have begun plotting their escape route which mostly involves driving west as fast as they can.\n\nEven pensioners have been joining weekend drills in woodland outside Kyiv where concrete factory ruins covered in graffiti stand-in for a battlefield. The men are too old to sign formal contracts, but military trainers don't turn them away.\n\n\"I don't think the Russians will invade now thanks to our Western allies giving us weapons,\" 61-year-old Vasyl Nazarov says during a break from crouching on the ice and swivelling back and forth to train his weapon on an imaginary enemy.\n\nIt's his first session so his \"gun\" is a wooden cut-out for now.\n\n\"I don't believe they'll reach Kyiv but we have to be ready for that,\" Vasyl adds.\n\n\"I think the West's threat of terrible sanctions will stop Putin,\" Serhiy Kalinin agrees, flicking a cigarette butt into a snowdrift.\n\nIt's a few decades since the 64-year-old finished his mandatory military service so he wanted a refresher course.\n\n\"The enemy is at our border,\" he says. \"So everyone should be prepared.\"\n\nAt the privately-owned Priamyi TV channel, Russia's deployment of some 100,000 troops to its border with Ukraine has now become \"topic number one\".\n\nPresenter Taras Berezovets describes Russia's president as \"unpredictable\" and worries about Mr Putin's \"idée fixe\" that Ukraine has never been a sovereign nation.\n\n\"Putin wants to stop a nation making its own choice, like Soviet leaders did in Eastern Europe for decades,\" the journalist says.\n\nHis own biography captures some of the complexity of this conflict: his first language is Russian as he's originally from Crimea which Russia annexed illegally from Ukraine in the wake of mass protests in 2014 demanding closer ties with Europe.\n\nBut Mr Berezovets says his roots don't make him pro-Moscow, or part of any supposed \"Russian world\".\n\n\"We made our choice in 2014 and it's clear: we don't want to be part of the Russian 'empire',\" he says firmly. \"Even if there's no chance of joining the EU or Nato, our target is to be part of Western civilisation which means the rule of law, freedom of speech. These are things Ukrainians are ready to fight for.\"\n\nDespite the Western intelligence reports, Dmytro Dubas and his friends don't sense that an all-out fight over Ukraine's future is just around the corner.\n\nThe veterans have made plans to send their families to safety, just in case, and agreed where the fighters will meet up and how they'll arm themselves.\n\nBut that done, they're focussed on business as usual not an external threat they have to live with long-term and geopolitical forces they can't control.\n\n\"It's a famous meme that the biggest headache for Ukraine is being next door to Russia,\" Dmytro shrugs, at a gathering of close friends and colleagues in his kitchen.\n\nA fellow veteran volunteer rattles off a whole lot of crises his country has already seen and survived: from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster to two revolutions then war in the east.\n\n\"It's normal in Ukraine for everything around to be in flames,\" Artem smiles.\n\n\"If you think of war every hour of every day you just go crazy,\" another friend, Yuliia, agrees.\n\n\"After all, we can't just pick up Russia and move it, however much we might like to. It's our neighbour and we have to live with that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Understand the Ukraine crisis with Ros Atkins in less than six minutes", "The duchess visited Twickenham as she began her role as England rugby patron\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has become the patron of English rugby, taking roles previously held by Prince Harry.\n\nShe becomes the figurehead for both the Rugby Football Union and Rugby Football League.\n\nThe duchess commended how the two sports organisations helped in \"bringing communities together and helping individuals flourish\".\n\nPrince Harry handed back the honorary roles when he stepped down as a working member of the Royal Family.\n\nThe duchess marked her new role with a visit to Twickenham.\n\nShe met players from England's men's and women's rugby union international squads and went on to the pitch to join a skills session run by head coach Eddie Jones.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge will now be one of the public faces of the Rugby Football Union, which acts as the governing body for grassroots and elite rugby union in England, with 1,900 member clubs.\n\nThe duchess takes on the patronage ahead of the Six Nations competition starting this weekend\n\n\"As rugby clubs have re-opened across the country, players, officials, and volunteers are celebrating being back in the game together, and we know the support of the duchess will be greatly valued,\" said chief executive Bill Sweeney.\n\nThe dual role will also see the duchess as patron of the Rugby Football League, covering professional and grassroots clubs and wheelchair rugby.\n\n\"We are delighted to welcome her as we prepare to host men's, women's, wheelchair and physical disability rugby league World Cups in England this autumn,\" said rugby league chief executive Ralph Rimmer.\n\n\"Our sport's history has been built on a commitment to tackling inequalities and we honour that through our focus on having a positive social impact well beyond the pitch.\"\n\nThe patronages have been awarded by the Queen, who was herself patron of the Rugby Football Union, before Prince Harry took over for five years up to 2021.\n\nThe announcement comes ahead of this year's Six Nations rugby union competition, with the first fixtures this weekend.\n\nThis competition will see the duchess as patron of the England team, coming up against her husband Prince William, who is patron of the Welsh Rugby Union. His aunt Princess Anne is patron of the Scottish Rugby Union.", "Yasmin Chkaifi's family said her death was preventable\n\nThe husband of a woman stabbed to death in the street by her violent ex-partner has said he is \"so grateful\" for the time he had with her.\n\nYasmin Chkaifi was killed by Leon McCaskie in Maida Vale, west London, on 24 January, weeks after a warrant was issued for his arrest.\n\nJoseph Salmon told the BBC his wife was \"smart, clever and witty\".\n\nOther members of her family said she had a \"big, caring heart\" and would still be alive if police had done more.\n\nThe police watchdog is investigating the case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Joseph Salmon, the husband of Yasmin Chkaifi, says not enough was done to protect her\n\nThe warrant, saying McCaskie should be held without bail, was issued on 4 January after he failed to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court in relation to an alleged stalking protection order breach.\n\nHe was hit by a passing car as he attacked his former wife and also died at the scene. The driver of the car was released without charge on Tuesday.\n\nPaying tribute to his wife, Mr Salmon said: \"I'm grateful for the chance to talk to her, marry her, be happy with her, and fall in love with her.\"\n\nHe added that both he and his family were \"at a loss\" and \"heartbroken\".\n\n\"I just think domestic abuse is a very bad problem and, if there's no education about it from very young, if things aren't sorted, if men can't keep their hands to themselves, I don't know what we're going to do,\" he said.\n\nMcCaskie was hit by this car whilst stabbing Ms Chkaifi to death\n\nAzhar Elfaddi, Ms Chkaifi's cousin and best friend, said: \"She was probably the smartest and wisest woman I knew. She was just a simple, loving, amazing woman. I've never seen anyone compare to her, her parenting, as a person, her heart.\n\n\"She was always forgiving, she never really liked to speak bad about people.\"\n\nAnother cousin, Inass Elfaddi, said it was \"sad that no one did anything about it\" and she had many questions for police.\n\nShe said: \"It could have easily been prevented.\n\n\"I think I would asked why her case wasn't a priority, why [McCaskie's] warrant wasn't a priority, why his criminal record wasn't enough for him to be searched for, as you did have a warrant?\n\n\"Obviously they didn't see him as a threat.\"\n\nAzhar Elfaddi says her cousin never complained\n\nThe Met Police said it was unable to comment because the case had been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThe force previously confirmed the stalking order had been obtained against McCaskie, who also used the surname McCaskre, but not whether he had been arrested in relation to the alleged breach.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Letters are all about timing...\n\nPutting in a letter of no confidence against the prime minister is not as straight-forward as it might sound for some who are looking to the next stage of the process. A former minister has told me they have decided to make their own submission, but are waiting until they are sure they have the numbers to oust Boris Johnson. You see, once the 54 letters have come in and triggered the vote, under the party rules, another challenge could not be mounted for a year. \"What we can't have is the prime minister free from challenge for another 12 months,\" the ex-minister told me. They say other colleagues also don't want to \"jump the gun\" too, adding: \"What's holding people back is the worry a leadership contest may give him a mandate to continue.\" While the \"right thing to do\" would be to put their letter in, they add, the \"pragmatic approach\" was to wait longer - given the full Sue Gray report, policy inquiry and a \"steady drip of allegations\" were still to come. \"The end is almost inevitable. The question is - is now the right time to put a letter in? We need to be sure we can win the vote.\"", "A pilot was forced to make a ''touch and go'' landing after encountering strong winds caused by Storm Corrie.\n\nThe British Airways flight from Aberdeen got into trouble as it was trying to land at London Heathrow Airport.\n\nThe rear of the plane appears to brush the runway before returning to the skies and then attempt a second landing.", "Boris Johnson has promised the government will \"publish everything that we can\" about parties in Downing Street during lockdown.\n\nThe comments follow confusion earlier over whether any potential fine for Covid rule-breaking imposed on the PM himself would be made public.\n\nNo 10 initially refused to \"speculate\" over this but later said it would \"provide what updates we can\".\n\nLabour said the public had a \"right to know\" about any punishment of the PM.\n\nThe party's deputy leader Angela Rayner, tweeted: \"This shouldn't be a big deal... An ounce of transparency shouldn't be this hard to get from Boris Johnson.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police, which is looking into possible rule-breaking at 12 gatherings, has itself ruled out itself naming anyone who is given a fixed-penalty notice for wrongdoing.\n\nBut the force added that it would reveal the total number of penalties issued for each identified event, and explain what they were issued for.\n\nLabour complained that this meant Mr Johnson - who attended three of the gatherings and has refused to say whether he attended a fourth - could potentially be fined without being named.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman would said he would not \"speculate\" on whether Mr Johnson and any staff found by the Met to have broken Covid rules would be named by the government.\n\nBut, at a later briefing, journalists were told: \"Obviously we are aware of the significant public interest. with regards to the prime minister, and we would always look to provide what updates we can on him specifically. But beyond that I can't get into individuals.\"\n\nAsked if that \"hypothetically\", should Mr Johnson be fined, No 10 would make this public, the spokesman replied: \"Hypothetically, yes.\"\n\nQuestioned during a visit to Ukraine as to whether the full details of senior civil servant Sue Gray's findings about the gatherings would be revealed, Mr Johnson said: \"Of course we will publish everything that we can when the process has been completed.\"\n\nAngela Rayner said the public needed to know if the PM was fined\n\nMs Gray handed over the details of her findings to the Met last week, but published a restricted version of her own report on Monday, after police asked her to do so for fear of \"prejudice\" to their own investigation.\n\nThe prime minister has admitted attending three of the gatherings under investigation by the police:\n\nHe has refused to say whether he was at an alleged party in his own flat also on 13 November 2020, the day his senior aide Dominic Cummings left Downing Street.\n\nIn a Q&A session on his blog on Tuesday, Mr Cummings claimed he had spoken to people who were in No 10 on that date.\n\nWhen asked if there were photos of the prime minister at parties under police investigation, Mr Cummings wrote: \"I've spoken to people who say they've seen photos of parties in the flat.\"\n\nOn Monday the Met Police said officers investigating parties in Downing Street had been handed more than 300 photos and 500 pages of documents by Ms Gray's team.\n\nDominic Cummings left his role in Downing Street on the day of two parties under police investigation\n\nConservative MP Mark Harper, a former chief whip, told the BBC that any senior civil servants or ministerial advisers who are fined over the Downing Street gatherings should be named.\n\nThe same applied to Mr Johnson and his wife Carrie, should they be punished, he added, but not junior staff.\n\nLabour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP are calling for Mr Johnson to resign, with some Tory MPs doing the same.\n\nFifty-four of them must write to the chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbench MPs to trigger a vote of no confidence in Mr Johnson, and a potential leadership challenge.\n\nIt is not known how many have done so, but Conservative MP Peter Aldous revealed on Tuesday that he had written a letter, declaring this to be in the \"best interests of the country, the government and the Conservative Party\".\n\nBut Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"[The PM] recognised that, as Sue Gray said, the standards expected in No 10 were not as they should have been.\n\n\"He said he did take responsibility and he apologised, and he provided a plan of action.\"\n\nAsked if Mr Johnson had admitted to breaking any of the rules himself, Mr Raab said: \"The prime minister has been very clear that he acted in good faith at all times.\"", "Prosecutors in Serbia say there is no evidence to suggest that Novak Djokovic submitted falsified Covid test certificates to Australian authorities.\n\nA BBC report last week cast doubt over the tests, suggesting the serial numbers were out of sequence with others from a similar time.\n\nThe tests were provided to exempt him from rules barring unvaccinated people.\n\nSerbian authorities have not explained the discrepancies identified by the BBC.\n\nDjokovic's visa was rejected and he was later deported before the start of the Australian Open tournament. The Australian government cancelled his visa on \"health and good order\" grounds and not because his documents were falsified.\n\nThe Belgrade Public Prosecutor's office has now said that the Health Ministry confirmed the documents were authentic.\n\nThe office says it inspected the \"electronic database\" which contains details of tests and results and it shows that Djokovic's initial positive test and his later negative result were both valid.\n\nDocuments submitted by his lawyers to federal court in Australia included two Covid (PCR) test certificates, one with a positive result on 16 December and one with a negative result on 22 December.\n\nA German research group called Zerforschung first picked up on the discrepancy that the earlier test had a higher confirmation code than the later one.\n\nThey wrote a blog titled \"Novak Djokovic's time-travelling PCR tests\", and partnered with German news site Der Spiegel who reported on the issue.\n\nDocuments submitted to the federal court in Australia included one from the acting director of Serbia's official health body, confirming the dates on these certificates accurately reflected when the tests had been carried out.\n\nThe serial numbers on the documents were out of sequence with others collected from around the same period, the BBC reported.\n\nBut Serbia's prosecutor's office said on Wednesday: \"It was established that Novak Djokovic was tested multiple times and the... test results from December 16 and December 22 were valid.\"\n\nThe prosecutor's statement comes on the eve of a meeting between the tennis player and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.", "Marks & Spencer and Aldi have reached a settlement in a trademark dispute over caterpillar cakes.\n\nM&S had accused the German discounter of copying its Colin the Caterpillar cake.\n\nThe supermarkets confirmed they had reached a settlement, but declined to give details.\n\nM&S said it was \"pleased\" with the outcome, and Aldi said its Cuthbert the Caterpillar cake was \"free\" and \"looking forward\" to seeing his fans.\n\nAldi stopped selling its cake in February 2021, and in April last year M&S accused the supermarket of infringing its Colin the Caterpillar trademark.\n\nThe discounter later brought out a limited edition for charity.\n\nBoth supermarkets confirmed on Tuesday that an agreement has been struck but declined to release details of the \"confidential\" deal.\n\nAs first reported by the Telegraph, High Court Judge Timothy John Bowles allowed the legal claim to be withdrawn on Thursday, and it emerged that the retailers had signed a \"confidential agreement\" over the claim in November.\n\nAn M&S spokesman said: \"The objective of the claim was to protect the [intellectual property] in our Colin the Caterpillar cake and we are very pleased with the outcome.\"\n\nAldi Stores UK said in a tweet: \"Getting out early on good behaviour, keep an eye out for Cuthy B this spring\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn Aldi spokesperson said: \"Cuthbert is free and looking forward to seeing all his fans again very soon.\"\n\nFans of the party food favourite celebrated the end of the dispute on social media too.\n\nColin the Caterpillar was launched by M&S more than 30 years ago, and has had substantially the same appearance since about 2004, apart from Halloween and Christmas versions.\n\nM&S also has related products such as Connie the Caterpillar.\n\nColin has been used in charity work, and is central to M&S's partnership with cancer campaign group Macmillan.\n\nThe M&S caterpillar is made of sponge cake with milk chocolate and buttercream, decorated with chocolate sweets and a white chocolate face.\n\nM&S was the first retailer to sell a caterpillar cake, but many supermarkets have since come up with similar products.\n\nAldi launched the Cuthbert cake in 2019 and has sold limited editions to fundraise for Macmillan, as well as Teenage Cancer Trust.\n\nAldi's Cuthbert has performed a skydive to raise money for charity\n\nOther cakes include Waitrose's Cecil, Sainsbury's Wiggles, Tesco's Curly and Asda's Clyde the Caterpillar.\n\nM&S and Aldi are also involved in a separate dispute over allegations the discounter copied an M&S \"light-up\" gin liqueur product.\n\nThe M&S spokesman added: \"Like many other UK businesses, large and small, we know the true value and cost of innovation and the enormous time, passion, creativity, energy and attention to detail that goes into designing, developing and bringing a product to market, and building its brand over many years.\n\n\"So it is understandable that we want to defend our intellectual property and protect our suppliers, many of them small businesses that have worked with us for decades.\"", "Ever tried doing a jigsaw which has half the pieces missing?\n\nIt's frustrating. It's confusing. You never see the full picture.\n\nWelcome to the world of Kremlin politics.\n\nPuzzling out what Vladimir Putin is thinking and planning is challenging, to say the least. That's how the Kremlin likes it: keeping everyone guessing.\n\nWhat is President Putin's plan for Ukraine? Is Moscow preparing a full-scale invasion? A more limited operation? Or is the sabre-rattling simply brinkmanship, coercive diplomacy (at its most coercive)?\n\nThe pieces of the puzzle we do have are causing concern in the West:\n\nWashington has now replied in writing to Moscow's security demands. The Kremlin says it will analyse America's response.\n\nIn the meantime, the tough talking continues.\n\n\"Do not put Nato infrastructure on Ukrainian territory. We ask our 'partners' in Nato countries to get out. Get out from our borders. Get out from post-Soviet countries, because it's threatening to Russian people,\" says Yevgeny Popov.\n\nMr Popov, who hosts a talk show on state TV, is also an MP from the party of power, United Russia.\n\n\"Time is running out,\" Mr Popov warns me. \"You have to make a decision. Fast.\"\n\n\"Otherwise it will be a tremendously dangerous reaction for the whole world. Some Western officials said that Russia has no balls. Guys, do you really want to see it?\"\n\nRussia has been staging military drills near Ukraine's borders\n\nIn public, Russian officials insist that Nato is a danger to Russia's national security.\n\nI'm sceptical. I find it hard to believe that Moscow truly sees the alliance is a threat.\n\nOnly 6% of Russia's borders touch Nato countries; the Kremlin has good relations with some Nato members, like Italy and Hungary; it's even sold weapons systems to Nato member Turkey.\n\nAnd keep in mind that Nato (in the shape of Norway) has been on Russia's border for more than 70 years.\n\nPlus, there is no sign whatsoever of Ukraine, Georgia or other former Soviet states being accepted into Nato in the near future.\n\nSo why is the Kremlin fixating on the Nato alliance?\n\nPartly for domestic reasons: to get the Russian people to unite against an alleged external enemy.\n\nBut also, perhaps, as an excuse to use this moment to reshape the European security order to Moscow's benefit; to re-establish Russia's sphere of influence and try to rewrite the results of the Cold War.\n\n\"Putin believes the West exploited Russian weakness in the 1990s, that Russia wasn't treated fairly and didn't get what it deserved. He wants to change that,\" believes Andrei Kortunov, director general of the Russian International Affairs Council, a think-tank linked to the authorities.\n\n\"His argument is very simple. Now the balance of powers has shifted, it's no longer the West-centred unipolar world. You should listen to us and take our concerns seriously.\"\n\nSo what will Moscow's next step be?\n\nWithout all the pieces of the jigsaw, we can only guess. It may depend on whether America's offer to negotiate with Russia on some aspects of European security will be enough to satisfy Vladimir Putin.\n\nIf it's not, if the Kremlin leader is determined to dismantle the current European security architecture, military confrontation is possible and long-term friction between East and West.\n\n\"I hope Putin will be satisfied with what he got so far,\" Mr Kortunov tells me. \"I think to some extent he was successful. He enforced a dialogue on the West. So, he could argue his mission was accomplished; that keeping tensions on the Ukrainian border helped him incentivise the West to consider Russian proposals.\n\n\"But he may have a different interpretation. He may say the West is trying to engage Russia in endless and pointless negotiations and that Western penetration into Ukraine will continue.\n\n\"Domestically, though, Russian society is not eager for a big war on its doorstep. Russians are not eager to participate in a major military operation in Ukraine,\" Mr Kortunov adds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ukrainian Marta Yuzkiv is preparing to defend her country but says she doesn't want war", "A cancer charity welcomed the new laws as a \"significant move to a tobacco-free Northern Ireland\"\n\nA new law making it illegal to smoke in a car with children has come into force in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt brings the law into line with other regions of the UK and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt is already illegal to smoke on public transport or to smoke in work vehicles used by more than one person.\n\nAnother new law, banning the sale of e-cigarettes and other nicotine inhaling products to anyone aged under 18, has also come into force.\n\nFines of up to £2,500 will be imposed by the PSNI and environmental health officers.\n\nThe PSNI has said police will take an educational, advisory and non-confrontational approach when enforcing the new legislation until the end of February 2022.\n\nCh Insp Graham Dodds said this would \"see people initially given warnings rather than being issued with fines, which would give time for public awareness of the offences to build\".\n\nA cancer charity has welcomed the new laws as a \"significant move to a tobacco-free Northern Ireland\".\n\nNaomi Thompson, from Cancer Focus NI, said the laws would \"protect children's health\" and reduce the perception for children that smoking is normal behaviour.\n\n\"We know that children who regularly see adults smoke are more likely to try smoking,\" she added.\n\nPreviously, Health Minister Robin Swann said tobacco use remained a primary cause of preventable ill-health and premature death in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe minister said the number of young people taking up smoking in Northern Ireland had been \"steadily decreasing in recent years\" but he did not want to see this trend being replaced by vaping.\n\nA ban on smoking in vehicles carrying children has been in force in England and Wales since October 2015.\n\nIn Scotland and the Republic of Ireland, a ban took effect in 2016.", "Boris Johnson is under fresh pressure after three Tory MPs joined efforts to oust him as prime minister.\n\nEx-minister Tobias Ellwood said on Wednesday he submitted a letter of no confidence in the PM, amid the ongoing row over lockdown parties in No 10.\n\nHe was joined by backbenchers Anthony Mangnall and Sir Gary Streeter, who also called for a vote on his future.\n\nThe BBC is aware of 17 Tory MPs who have submitted letters of no confidence.\n\nOf these, only nine have publicly confirmed that they have taken this step, and the situation remains fluid. Only the chairman of the backbench 1922 committee Sir Graham Brady knows the exact number.\n\nAt least 54 MPs need to write to Sir Graham to trigger a vote on the PM's leadership of the party.\n\nMr Johnson is seeking to head off a potential leadership challenge from Tory MPs angry about his response to reports of parties in government buildings held whilst Covid restrictions were in place.\n\nSpeaking to the Sun, the prime minister rejected calls for him to resign, telling the newspaper he was \"focused\" on leading the Tory party into the next general election.\n\nCulture Secretary Nadine Dorries, a close ally of the PM, attacked the latest MPs to put in letters on Wednesday, claiming they were \"a handful of egos [who] want to make it all about them.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's selfish, doing Labour's work and it's really not helping their constituents.\"\n\nOnly a dozen Conservative MPs have called publicly for Boris Johnson to go. More of them privately have claimed to have sent letters of no confidence, though well short of the 54 required.\n\nSo far, this effort has not been hugely co-ordinated.\n\nOne of the PM's longstanding critics told me that today's three letters felt like \"a wave\" of opposition, but it would take more to sweep the PM from power.\n\nAnd over the next 48 hours there will be discussions aimed at better managing the process.\n\nPotentially rebellious ministers and ex-ministers had wanted to make their move only after the full Sue Gray report was published or after May's local elections, whichever was the sooner.\n\nThe assessment was that there would be more chance of unseating Mr Johnson at that stage, with bad election results or bad behaviour providing ammunition.\n\nBecause while it takes 54 MPs to trigger a confidence vote, 180 would then be required to ensure his removal.\n\nWith some of the rebels motivated not by ideology but by a desire to protect the party's - or their personal - reputation, the prime minister's position remains delicate.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, the prime minister refused to confirm press reports that he was at a party in his Downing Street flat on 13 November 2020.\n\nThe gathering is one of 12 events in Downing Street and Whitehall being investigated by the Metropolitan Police for alleged Covid-rule breaking.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford claimed Mr Johnson misled MPs in December last year when he denied being at this event.\n\n\"Surely he doesn't need to wait for an investigation to tell us exactly where he was?\" asked Mr Blackford.\n\nMr Johnson said processes had to be followed and he was getting on with delivering the government's recovery plan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tobias Ellwood MP says the Conservatives \"require a new leader\"\n\nMr Ellwood, who chairs the Commons Defence Committee, called on the PM to \"cut to the chase, to call a vote of confidence in himself\" and said the party was on a \"glide path to a very, very dark place\".\n\nHe told the BBC the prime minister had not shown enough \"contrition\" in his Commons statement on Sue Gray's report, on Monday, and had already had plenty of time to make the changes he had promised.\n\nAnthony Mangnall, Tory MP for Totnes and South Devon, also revealed shortly after PMQs he had submitted a no-confidence letter in the PM.\n\nHe tweeted: \"At this time I can no longer support the PM. His actions and mistruths are overshadowing the extraordinary work of so many excellent ministers.\"\n\nWriting on his Facebook page, South West Devon MP Sir Gary Streeter, a Eurosceptic who was first elected to Parliament in 1992, said he had not taken the decision \"lightly\" to submit his letter.\n\nBut he added: \"I cannot reconcile the pain and sacrifice of the vast majority of the British public during lockdown with the attitude and activities of those working in Downing Street\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ian Blackford says If the PM is fined for attending a lockdown party, he must resign\n\nAnother former minister told the BBC on Wednesday they had resolved to submit a no-confidence letter in the PM, but they are waiting until they are sure he would lose the subsequent vote.\n\nThey added that colleagues \"didn't want to jump the gun,\" because if Mr Johnson won a no-confidence vote then under Tory rules he would be safe from another challenge for a year.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, backbencher Simon Hoare said he had given \"serious thought\" to sending in a letter, but he was persuaded the PM \"gets the scale of the challenge\".\n\nBut he warned: \"I'm not saying we're in the last-chance saloon, but closing time is getting closer.\"\n\nMr Johnson is also facing calls to withdraw a claim he made in the Sue Gray debate on Monday that Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions (DPP).\n\nTobias Ellwood and other Conservatives have criticised the PM for these comments, with Mr Ellwood suggesting it was one of the reasons he decided to submit a letter of no confidence in him.\n\nSir Keir has called Mr Johnson's comments a \"ridiculous slur\" - and he made a brief statement on them at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nAddressing Conservative MPs, the Labour leader said: \"Theirs is the party of Winston Churchill. Our parties stood together as we defeated fascism in Europe.\n\n\"Now their leader stands in the House of Commons parroting the conspiracy theories of violent fascists to try and score cheap political points. He knows exactly what he was doing. It's time to restore some dignity.\"\n\nThe Labour leader was head of the Crown Prosecution Service in 2009 when Surrey Police interviewed Savile and consulted a CPS lawyer, who decided there was insufficient evidence for a prosecution to take place.\n\nThe CPS has said Sir Keir was not the reviewing lawyer on the case, and there is no mention of his involvement in a 2013 review into the case.\n\nNazir Afzal, a former chief crown prosecutor for the North West, said on Monday: \"It's not true. I was there. Keir Starmer had nothing to do with the decisions taken.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, senior Tory Sir Bob Neill called on Mr Johnson to withdraw his claim - calling it \"baseless and unworthy\".\n\nHe joined former Northern Ireland secretary Julian Smith, who said on Tuesday the PM's accusation was \"wrong and cannot be defended\".", "Pret a Manger is raising the price of its coffee subscription service to £25 a month prompting criticism from some of its customers.\n\nThe High Street chain said ingredients and staff costs were rising, and that VAT was about to go back up.\n\nSome subscribers, who were previously paying £20 a month for up to five \"barista-prepared\" drinks per day took to Twitter to complain.\n\nBut others said the subscription still represented value for money.\n\nThe 25% price rise will come into effect from Thursday for new subscribers, and from 16 March for people who already have a subscription.\n\nPret created the subscription service in a bid to win back business lost during lockdowns. It created an initial buzz on social media, but some customers complained that popular drinks weren't always available and former Pret staff said the scheme's popularity had left some workers feeling overwhelmed by their workload.\n\nA Pret spokesperson said: \"Since we launched the Pret coffee subscription in 2020, prices for ingredients such as coffee beans and milk have gone up, VAT is increasing to 20%, and we've invested in additional pay for Pret Team members.\n\n\"We believe the coffee subscription continues to offer great value.\"\n\nHowever Twitter user Sam Anton wrote: \"This isn't acceptable. You can't put prices up without consultation, especially when the quality of produce is deteriorating. I'll be cancelling my subscription. Disappointing.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sam Anton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther customers described it as \"bad news\" and some said they were cancelling their membership.\n\nBut other customers said the subscription still represented value for money.\n\nTwitter user Jodie Portugal wrote: \"Just received an email from #pret stating that my subscription will be increased to £25 a month for 5 drinks a day, which by itself would be about £150+, so for the cost of an extra drink and croissant I still save a fortune.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by jodie portugal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother customer tweeted they'd be prepared to pay £40 for the subscription.\n\nPret said in an email to customers that of the extra £5 charge, about £2 will cover VAT, £1.50 would go on paying staff more, and £1.50 will offset inflation.\n\nThe sandwich chain announced in January that it was going to boost pay for thousands of workers to £10 per hour.\n\nIn addition, in April the tax people pay when they buy goods and services - VAT - is set to return to 20% after being cut during the pandemic.\n\nAs an employer Pret will also have a larger National Insurance bill to pay from April, following the government's move to raise NI rates to fund NHS and social care spending.\n\nPret uses Arabica coffee beans, and the price Pret pays for these has risen by 40% from 2020 levels, while the cost of milk has also gone up, it said.", "Met police chief Cressida Dick (L) was given a two-year contract renewal last September\n\nThere was tension between the home secretary and Downing Street over whether to try to recruit a successor for Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick in the wake of the controversy over the Sarah Everard case, multiple sources have told the BBC.\n\nPriti Patel and No 10 both had concerns about leadership at the Met, and discussed whether or not to try to find a new commissioner.\n\nThere was widespread anger over the force's handling of the case and the treatment of female protestors holding a vigil for Ms Everard, who was killed by a former Met officer Wayne Couzens.\n\nBut it's understood that both Ms Patel and Boris Johnson were unenthusiastic about the likely internal candidate, senior Met officer Neil Basu, who had previously criticised the PM's comments and was seen in No 10 as \"too political\", sources say.\n\nHowever, the home secretary did consider going through the recruitment process where a civil service panel interviews candidates, before recommending the candidate to her.\n\nTwo sources familiar with the discussions said Ms Patel was \"overruled\" by Downing Street, and the decision was taken to extend Dame Cressida's contract for two years.\n\nAnother source disputed that account, and said once the Home Office and No 10 had \"worked through all the options\", extending the commissioner's contract was the compromise.\n\nIt is understood the home secretary wants to begin the search for the next Met commissioner - the most powerful policing job in the UK - this summer and is keen to look to candidates outside the force.\n\nThe relationship between the most senior politicians in the country, and the most senior police officers in the country is rarely easy.\n\nUnder this government, and this Met Commissioner, it has been tricky indeed.\n\nThere's unhappiness again in the last 24 hours over how some Met officers were revealed to have behaved, and tensions and accusations of cover up around the Met's investigations into parties in Downing Street which has held up the full investigation into what exactly what went on in Number 10.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"In September 2021, following consultation with the Mayor of London, the home secretary extended the commissioner's term until April 2024.\n\n\"This extension was agreed in order to provide continuity and stability as we emerge from the coronavirus pandemic and deliver on our promise to recruit more police officers while driving down crime in the capital.\"\n\nThe Met would not comment.", "There was a restraining order in place to protect Yasmin Chkaifi from her abusive ex-husband\n\nA driver who used his car to try to stop a woman being stabbed by her stalker ex-husband in west London has been released without charge.\n\nHe was arrested on suspicion of murder and later bailed after Leon McCaskie, 41, died when he was hit while killing Yasmin Chkaifi, 43, in Maida Vale.\n\nThe Met Police said it had been decided the 26-year-old would face no further action after a review of the evidence.\n\nThe man said he was grateful and thanked those who had supported him.\n\nMs Chkaifi was attacked near both her and her abusive ex-husband's homes on the morning of 24 January.\n\nIn an update to the case, Det Ch Insp Neil Rawlinson said it was \"vitally important that when a person dies there is a thorough investigation into all of the circumstances and this has taken place\".\n\nHe added that the driver was now considered to be a \"vital witness\" to the investigation and he had been \"offered support from professionals to help him come to terms with the terrifying situation he was confronted with\".\n\nLeon McCaskie was killed at the scene of his ex-wife's stabbing\n\nThe man released a statement through his lawyer in which he said the Met had taken a \"sensible course of action\", and that he would continue to help them.\n\n\"I hope that in my actions a message has been sent to society: should you see an evil it is a duty upon you to stop it with your hands,\" the statement said.\n\n\"If you cannot, then you should stop it by speaking out; if you cannot, then at the very least you should hate it with your heart.\"\n\nPost-mortem examinations found that Ms Chkaifi died from multiple stab injuries, while McCaskie's cause of death was multiple injuries.\n\nAn arrest warrant had been issued for McCaskie, who also used the surname McCaskre, on 4 January - nearly three weeks before he stabbed his ex-wife to death - after he failed to appear in court having been accused of breaching an interim stalking protection order.\n\nAt an inquest hearing earlier on Tuesday, Det Ch Insp Rawlinson told Westminster Coroner's Court: \"Leon McCaskie and Yasmin Chkaifi had been in a relationship that ended several years ago. There were allegations of domestic abuse, and a stalking prevention order had been put in place against Leon.\"\n\nThe coroner, Prof Fiona Wilcox, gave her sympathy to her family, saying: \"This is a truly shocking and distressing death and I cannot imagine what you must be going through at this time.\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct has begun an investigation into the Met's contact with Ms Chkaifi in the weeks leading up to her death, following a referral from the force.\n\nThe inquests into the deaths of Ms Chkaifi and McCaskie are to be reviewed on 25 July.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One in every five pupils were absent from school during the last week in January\n\nThe number of pupils in school during the last full week of January was the lowest of the 2021-22 academic year so far, according to the Department of Education.\n\nJust under 20% of pupils were not in school in the week from Monday 24 to Friday 28 January.\n\nDepartment data showed 82.2% of pupils were educated in school that week.\n\nHowever, about one in every 30 pupils (3.5%) was self-isolating and learning from home so were not marked absent.\n\nJust over one in every 20 pupils (5.2%) was not in school due to Covid-19, the highest rate of the 2021-22 academic year.\n\nHowever, the majority of absences (8.5%) recorded by schools were for unspecified non-Covid reasons.\n\nSpecial schools and non-grammar post-primaries had the highest rate of pupil absences.\n\nThe Department of Education data was based on information provided by schools.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, 41% of all cases in the past seven days have been in people under the age of 20, accounting for almost 12,000 recorded infections.\n\nThe greatest number of cases were in people aged 10 to 14 (15.3%).\n\nThe highest infection rate among all age bands was in girls aged 10 to 14, with 3,515 positive cases per 100,000.\n\nBy contrast, people aged over 60 make up just 6% of all cases recorded in the past week.\n\nJust under one in every 10 teachers on average was also absent for Covid-related reasons over the week 24 to 28 January.\n\nThat is according to data on the attendance of the school workforce, which is also published by the Department of Education.\n\nThe absence rate for classroom assistants was slightly higher, although about one in every 20 teachers and a similar proportion of classroom assistants was out of school for non-Covid reasons.\n\nAccording to information provided by schools, just over half of teacher absences due to Covid-19 were covered by substitute teachers.\n\nA minority of schools have had to send some classes home for remote learning\n\nHowever, the vast majority of teacher absences in special schools (86%) were covered by substitute teachers.\n\nSome schools have reported difficulty getting substitute teachers when staff are off.\n\nSome post-primaries have also reported problems in getting \"subject-specific\" cover for pupils taking GCSEs, AS and A-Levels.\n\nA minority of schools have had to send some classes home for remote learning on specific days due to staff absences.\n\nHowever, according to the most recent department remote learning survey only six primary schools had to send the whole school home for remote learning for at least a day", "Tesla is recalling nearly 54,000 vehicles because a software feature lets them roll through stop signs.\n\nThe company will issue an over-the-air software update that disables the Full Self-Driving Beta (FSDB) \"rolling stop\" function.\n\nElon Musk, the firm's chief executive tweeted that there were no safety issues and the cars just slowed down.\n\nAll-way stop signs, common on North American roads, require drivers to halt completely, before proceeding.\n\nAccording to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA): \"Failing to stop at a stop sign can increase the risk of a crash.\"\n\nIn recall documents, the electric vehicle maker notes that if certain conditions are met, the \"rolling stop\" feature is designed to allow the vehicle to travel through all-way-stop intersections at up to 5.6mph without coming to a complete stop.\n\nIn January, Tesla met with NHTSA to discuss the rolling-stop feature, and shortly afterwards decided on a voluntary recall.\n\nIt covers some 2016-2022 Model S and Model X, 2017-2022 Model 3, and 2020-2022 Model Y vehicles.\n\nTesla says it is not aware of any collisions, injuries or fatalities related to the feature.\n\nMr Musk tweeted: \"There were no safety issues. The car simply slowed to -2mph and continued forward if clear view with no cars or pedestrians.\"\n\nThe news follows the announcement in December of a recall of 475,000 Tesla vehicles in the US for potential issues involving rear-view cameras and the boot.\n\nAnd in August the NHTSA opened an official investigation into Tesla's \"self-driving\" Autopilot system.\n\nThe safety administration said it was acting, following 11 Tesla crashes since 2018 involving emergency vehicles.", "Jeff Zucker at a CNN event in New York City in 2019\n\nCNN president Jeff Zucker has resigned from the network after failing to disclose a romantic relationship with a senior executive.\n\nThe 56-year-old Mr Zucker said in a memo to colleagues that he was \"wrong\" to not report the relationship as required.\n\nThe relationship was discovered during an investigation into the conduct of fired CNN anchor Chris Cuomo.\n\nMr Zucker is considered one of the most powerful media executives in the US.\n\nIn the message sent on Wednesday to the network's staff and shared online by CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter, Mr Zucker said that he was asked about his consensual relationship with a colleague during an investigation into Mr Cuomo's time at CNN.\n\nMr Cuomo was being investigated over efforts to help his politician brother, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, fight allegations of sexual harassment.\n\nMr Zucker said that he had worked with the colleague for two decades and that the relationship had \"evolved in recent years\".\n\n\"I was required to disclose it when it began but I didn't,\" he said. \"I was wrong. As a result, I am resigning today.\"\n\nMr Zucker's memo did not identify the colleague with whom he had a relationship but CNN named her as Allison Gollust, the network's executive vice president and chief marketing officer.\n\n\"Jeff and I have been close friends and professional partners for over 20 years,\" she said in a statement quoted by Mr Stelter on air. \"Recently, our relationship changed during Covid. I regret that we didn't disclose it at the right time.\"\n\nMs Gollust was an executive at NBC Universal during Mr Zucker's time at that network as CEO.\n\nIn 2012, Ms Gollust was named as communicators director for Andrew Cuomo. She joined CNN the following year after only four months in that role.\n\nIn her statement, Ms Gollust added that she intends to stay at the network. Both she and Mr Zucker are divorced, the New York Times reported.\n\nMr Zucker joined CNN in 2013. Under his leadership, it broke viewership records in 2020 and saw the most viewers in its history during January 2021 - partly as a result of the US Capitol riot on 6 January.\n\nSince then viewership has gone down, falling nearly 90% this January compared to the same time last year, according to Nielsen ratings.\n\nAt CNN, Mr Zucker faced criticism from those who believed the network gave too much coverage to the former president, especially during the Republican presidential primary. Mr Trump has also criticised what he saw as unfair coverage.\n\nDuring his time at NBC, he approved Donald Trump's reality TV show \"The Apprentice\".", "A trial to extend the school day in Wales has started.\n\nEducation Minister Jeremy Miles said 13 primary and secondary schools and one college would take part in a pilot scheme - adding an extra five hours a week for groups of pupils.\n\nJosh, a pupil at Abertillery Learning Community in Blaenau Gwent, said: \"I think I'll cope quite well. I might just have to go to bed a bit earlier.\"\n\nA total of 1,800 children will have a longer day for 10 weeks and take part in sessions such as art, music and sport, as well as academic lessons.\n\nBut trade union NAHT Cymru said it had not been provided with any evidence to support extending the school day and raised concerns about the potential extra workload on staff.", "Tech giant Amazon has announced 1,500 new apprenticeships across the UK.\n\nThe 40 schemes range from engineering to health and safety and includes more than 200 apprenticeships which are degree level.\n\nAmazon employs more than 70,000 staff in the UK and said the scheme would help more people get the skills in demand in the job market.\n\nBT Group recently announced plans to recruit more than 600 apprentices and graduates for September 2022.\n\nThe group, one of the UK's largest private sector apprenticeship employers, said it would recruit for posts in its engineering, customer service, applied research, and cyber-security areas.\n\nThe latest recruitment drive for both companies comes as firms in the UK and the US report growing problems filling skilled roles. Amazon has also previously offered a signing-on bonus of £1,000 to fill some roles.\n\nAmazon's apprenticeships programme covers a wide range of areas including publishing, retailing, marketing, and a programme focused on environmental, social and corporate governance.\n\nThe firm's UK country manager John Boumphrey, said Amazon was \"proud\" to have created the 1,500 apprenticeships which would \"help even more people get the skills that are in demand in today's labour market.\"\n\nHe added: \"We want to be the employer that helps people take their careers to the next level, whether you're just starting your first job or making a career change, in every community that we serve across the UK.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, said the announcement is \"testament to the strength of the British economy, with GDP back at pre-pandemic levels, employee numbers at record highs and unemployment falling\".\n\nHe added: \"With the vast majority of Amazon's workforce located outside of London and the South East, these additional 25,000 jobs highlight the success of our Plan for Jobs in helping to ensure greater opportunities across the country.\"\n\nStephen Isherwood, chief executive of the Institute of Student Employers, told the BBC the move \"reflects what we hear from many employers, that apprentice training routes deliver an increasingly important source of talent.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Isherwood said the government needed to make \"significant improvements\" to the \"patchy careers provision in schools so that students and their parents are more aware of the alternatives to university\".\n\nJulian David, chief executive of industry group techUK said that increasing numbers of its members were now offering apprenticeships, but added that the plans the government had set out so far were \"still leaving people behind as technology innovation is accelerating faster than the pipeline of people available to fill the gaps\".\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Department for Education for a response.\n\n\"While the pandemic and remote working have unfortunately slowed down apprenticeship adoption for some companies, it is clear that the sector is aware alternative routes to careers are an answer to today's digital skills crisis,\" Mr David added.\n\nFor employers who hire apprentices under 20 years old, Mr Isherwood said the government needs to increase the \"financial incentive to recruit\".\n\nAnother option, he said, would be for the government to allow employers \"greater flexibility in how they spend their levy pot.\"\n\nLast year, business group the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development said that UK employers had lost £2bn over the previous two years in apprenticeship levy funds that they were unable to spend.\n\nLast September, Amazon announced it was looking to hire 55,000 staff globally for corporate jobs and roles in robotics, research and engineering.\n\nAbout 40,000 jobs will be in the US, with 2,500 in the UK and the remainder mostly in India, Germany and Japan.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn almost 500-mile long bolt of lightning that lit up the sky across three US states has set a new world record for longest flash, scientists have confirmed.\n\nThe bolt in 2020, extended a total of 477.2 miles (768 km) and spread across Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.\n\nThe previous record was 440.6 miles (709 km) and recorded in Brazil in 2018.\n\nLightning rarely extends over 10 miles and usually lasts under a second.\n\nAnother lightning flash recorded in 2020 - in Uruguay and Argentina - has also set a new record for duration at 17.1 seconds. The previous record was 16.7 seconds.\n\n\"These are extraordinary records from lightning flash events,\" Professor Randall Cerveny, the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) rapporteur of weather and climate extremes, said.\n\nAccording to the WMO, both records took place in areas prone to intense storms that produce \"megaflashes\".\n\nSatellite imagery of the lightning strike from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\n\nProfessor Cerveny added that greater extremes are likely to exist and are likely to be recorded in the future thanks to advances in space-based lightning detection technology.\n\nThe WMO warned that lightning was a hazard and urged people in both regions and around the world to take caution during storms.\n\n\"These extremely large and long-duration lightning events were not isolated but happened during active thunderstorms,\" lightning specialist Ron Holle said in a WMO statement.\n\n\"Any time there is thunder heard, it is time to reach a lightning-safe place\".\n\nPreviously accepted WMO 'lightning extremes' include a 1975 incident in which 21 people were killed by a single flash of a lightning as they huddled inside a tent in Zimbabwe.\n\nIn another incident, 469 people were killed when lightning struck the Egyptian town of Dronka in 1994, causing burning oil to flood the town.\n\nThe WMO notes that the only lightning-safe locations are \"substantial\" buildings with wiring and plumbing, rather than structures such as bus stops or those found at beaches.", "Adulterated cocaine has killed at least 20 people and left 74 in hospitals around the Buenos Aires region of Argentina, the authorities say.\n\nInvestigators believe the illegal drug was either laced with some kind of poison or \"cut\" with another substance.\n\nThe regional security minister called on any users who had bought cocaine in the past 24 hours to throw it away.\n\nReports suggest the drugs were bought in the same shanty town and nine arrests have been made.\n\nInvestigators are awaiting the results of post-mortem examinations to compare drugs seized in raids with those consumed by the victims.\n\nThose affected come from the Hurlingham, Tres de Febrero and San Martín districts of the capital region and were taken to 10 different local hospitals.\n\nOutside a hospital in Hurlingham, an empty police car was attacked and damaged by people related to one of the victims, local media reported.\n\nCocaine (hydrochloride) is a highly addictive stimulant extracted from the leaves of coca plants and is generally snorted.\n\nA 2019 report on drug consumption in the Americas listed Argentina as the country with the third highest rate of cocaine consumption per person after the US and Uruguay.\n\nIn San Martín, police identified four of the victims as Hernán Castro, 45, Martín López, 36, Dino Melgarejo, 33, and Fernando Yacante, whose age was not given, the Buenos Aires Times reports.\n\nRaids were launched after one user reportedly told police they had bought cocaine from an individual in the Puerta 8 shantytown in Tres de Febrero.\n\nCocaine was subsequently found in similar packages to those provided by a relative of one of the people who had died.\n\nSergio Berni, the security minister for Buenos Aires province, said: \"Every dealer that buys cocaine cuts it. Some do it with non-toxic substances such as starch. Others put hallucinogens, and if there is no form of control, those things pass.\"\n\nOn this occasion, however, the drug was cut with a harmful substance as part of a \"war between drug-traffickers\", he was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.\n\nAuthorities suspect the substance used to cut the cocaine contained a strong sedative, the agency adds.\n\nAnother official, San Martin attorney-general Marcelo Lapargo, said: \"This event is exceptional. We have no precedent.\"\n\nHe added: \"We think the substance was added deliberately, it's not a processing error.\"\n\nVictims are believed to have suffered convulsions and sudden heart attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A scheme to alert schools if their pupils have been affected by domestic violence is to be extended in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 77 schools are to be added to Operation Encompass in February as part of a pilot programme.\n\nIt has already been running in 60 schools in Newry and south Down since September 2021.\n\nThe scheme has been in operation in police forces in England and Wales for a number of years.\n\nOperation Encompass aims to help children affected by domestic violence by getting them immediate support from staff in their school.\n\nIf the PSNI is called to an incident and a child is present, they will inform school staff responsible for safeguarding before the start of the next school day.\n\nIncidents of domestic violence and abuse have increased in Northern Ireland recently.\n\nFor instance, the number of domestic abuse calls made to police over the Christmas period in 2021 rose.\n\nEducation Minister Michelle McIlveen said during the pilot scheme 51 referrals had been received by schools from the PSNI\n\nDetails of the extension of the scheme in schools in Northern Ireland was revealed by Education Minister Michelle McIlveen, in response to an assembly question from Sinn Féin MLA Linda Dillon.\n\nThe minister also said that 51 referrals had been received by schools from the PSNI of incidents involving 106 pupils since the pilot scheme in the Downpatrick PSNI area began in September.\n\n\"Stage two of the pilot scheme is due to start in February 2022 and will add a further 77 schools,\" Ms McIlveen said.\n\nOperation Encompass will eventually be rolled out across all schools in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe scheme is a partnership between the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), the Safeguarding Board Northern Ireland (SBNI), the Education Authority (EA) and schools.\n\nIt came into effect after new domestic abuse laws were introduced in Northern Ireland in 2021.", "Boris Johnson has expressed deep concern about Russia's hostile activity on the Ukrainian border, in a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe PM told Mr Putin any further incursion by troops on the border would be \"a tragic miscalculation\" by Russia.\n\nThe Kremlin said the two leaders had \"a detailed exchange\" in which Mr Putin reiterated Nato's \"unwillingness\" to address Russia's concerns.\n\nMoscow denies planning to invade neighbouring Ukraine but has deployed an estimated 100,000 troops near Ukraine's borders.\n\nDuring Wednesday's phone call, Mr Johnson warned against any Russian invasion into Ukraine and emphasised to Mr Putin the need to respect Ukraine's territorial integrity.\n\nIt comes as US President Joe Biden announced his intention to send extra troops to Europe this week.\n\nBoth leaders agreed \"that aggravation was in no-one's interest\", a Downing Street spokesperson said.\n\nThe pair cited issues such as climate change, the situation in Afghanistan and the Iran nuclear deal where Russia and the UK benefitted from open channels of communication.\n\nThey agreed to apply this \"spirit of dialogue\" to the current situation in Ukraine \"in order to find a peaceful resolution\".\n\nThe current tensions on the Ukrainian border come eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backed a bloody rebellion in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nMoscow accuses Nato countries of \"pumping\" Ukraine with weapons and the US of stoking tensions to contain Russia's development.\n\nRussia's core demand is for the West to guarantee Ukraine will not join Nato, a defensive alliance of 30 countries.\n\nDuring the phone call, Mr Johnson highlighted Nato's open-door policy - which states Nato membership is open to any European state - and its status as a defensive alliance.\n\nBut Mr Putin says the alliance is refusing to address Russia's legitimate security concerns about Nato military activity encroaching into eastern Europe.\n\nSome 2,000 US troops will be sent from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Poland and Germany, and a further 1,000 already in Germany will go to Romania.\n\nThe US troops being deployed will not fight in Ukraine but are intended to ensure the defence of US allies.\n\nRussian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko described the US deployment as a \"destructive\" step that heightened tension and reduced the scope for a political solution.\n\nMr Putin has accused the US of trying to draw his country into a war in Ukraine and using any subsequent confrontation as a pretext to impose more sanctions on Russia.\n\nThe UK has also threatened sanctions against Russia in the face of any invasion. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said legislation was being prepared to target a wider range of individuals and businesses associated with Mr Putin.\n\nOn Monday, the UK government announced it was giving Ukraine £88m to promote stable governance and energy independence from Russia.\n\nMr Johnson, who visited Kyiv on Tuesday, has been accused of using the situation on the Ukraine border to divert attention from troubles at home, after weeks of negative headlines about parties in Downing Street and discussions about his leadership.", "The case of a Rastafarian woman who sat naked in a police cell shows officers need greater understanding of minority groups, ex-senior officers have said.\n\nYvonne Farrell said she was humiliated after sitting naked in a cell for three hours following her arrest by Hertfordshire Police.\n\nShe successfully sued for wrongful arrest, receiving an apology and £45,000 in compensation.\n\nHertfordshire Police said it \"didn't get everything right on this occasion\".\n\nSir Peter Fahy, the former chief of Greater Manchester Police, said officers needed to be equipped to deal with a complex, diverse, society with far higher expectations and accountability.\n\n\"There needs to be a wider examination of how current structures and working practices shape police culture and how minorities - and sadly many women - are treated,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMs Farrell was arrested after she sat on her partner's car in Stevenage when a tow truck arrived to take it away in August 2018.\n\nWhen she refused to give her name at the police station, she was taken to a cell where a CCTV camera monitors the detainee at all times.\n\nShe was asked to remove her clothing, with a replacement \"crop top and hot pants\" left in the cell.\n\n\"I'm a 50-plus-year-old woman and a Rastafarian. Where are they going, giving me those items of clothing? I called them back and I said, 'Listen, this is not suitable clothing. I need something long to cover',\" she told the BBC in an interview from her new home in the Caribbean.\n\nA police custody officer may remove a detainee's clothing if they believe it could be used to cause physical injury, damage property, interfere with evidence or used to escape.\n\nMs Farrell said officers said they were taking her clothes because she would not tell them who she was.\n\n\"[They said] 'We don't know anything about you, so you can harm yourself. So with that, we're going to take your clothes.' That was the excuse that they gave. It's not good enough.\"\n\nMs Farrell said the officers should have respected her religion, which states that Rasta women should dress modestly, and given her appropriate clothing.\n\n\"I could have been a Jewish woman. I could have been a Muslim woman. To me that looked like a teenager's outfit. That just shows they wanted to humiliate me - they did humiliate me,\" she said.\n\nHertfordshire Police's professional standards department initially rejected Ms Farrell's complaint. She then enlisted the help of solicitor Iain Gould, who specialises in claims against the police.\n\nThe force apologised for the way Ms Farrell was treated and agreed to pay her £45,000 damages. But it did not address her claim that she had been forced to take her clothes off.\n\nIn a letter, Dep Ch Con Michelle Dunn said: \"I accept that you should not have been arrested.\n\n\"I am extremely sorry for any injuries that you suffered as a result of the actions of Hertfordshire Police. On this occasion we got it wrong. I apologise unreservedly.\"\n\nMr Gould said he frequently encountered instances of police misusing strip-search powers, because many of his clients entered custody following alleged unlawful arrests and disputed the need to provide personal details as a form of protest.\n\n\"In response to this, the police often use the sanction of a strip-search to enforce the person's compliance through a very physical act of degradation and humiliation,\" he said. \"In my opinion, it is a low-level form of torture, deliberately implemented in many cases, not to safeguard a detainee's welfare, but to break their spirit.\"\n\nDal Babu, a former Metropolitan Police chief superintendent who served as one of Britain's most senior British-Asian officers, said it appeared to be a \"catalogue of mistakes\" by the police.\n\n\"The treatment of a Rastafarian woman stripped naked, with no thought on cultural sensitivity was wrong. The failure of Hertfordshire Police's internal investigation demonstrates the need for police to understand the religious needs of communities.\"\n\nMs Farrell has now moved to the Caribbean due to this experience.\n\n\"I could never have a relationship with a police officer... I would never be able to come in contact with them. And it would be because I would be always carrying what they'd done to me. And they still wanted to get away with it. And that's hurtful.\"\n\nHertfordshire Police said in a statement: \"The fair treatment of people detained in custody in Hertfordshire is very important. Following a review of the circumstances we accepted that, regrettably, we didn't get everything right on this occasion four years ago. We were in regular contact with the complainant's legal team throughout and the force agreed to settle the matter in recognition of the distress caused. The matter was settled amicably.\"\n• None Met apology to woman over language in strip search", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Sheen dubbed the manner the work had been displayed as \"uninspiring\"\n\nAn original Banksy painted on the side of a garage in Wales could be broken up and moved to England.\n\nSeason's Greetings was bought by John Brandler after it appeared in Port Talbot in 2018 and taken to a building in the town.\n\nBut an agreement to keep it there has expired, and Mr Brandler wants it taken to Ipswich next week.\n\nActor Michael Sheen said it followed \"an old story\" of items with \"real value\" being moved over the border.\n\nSheen paid for security for the painting for the first few weeks, and then the Welsh government covered the cost.\n\nThe mural, which appeared on the garage of former steel worker Ian Lewis, depicts a child enjoying snow on one side, while the other reveals a fire emitting ash.\n\nMr Brandler said his offer to buy the painting from Mr Lewis was the lowest of five, but he had \"100%\" intended to keep it in the town in the hopes of creating an international street art museum.\n\nThe Welsh government then paid to move it to an unoccupied shop in Ty'r Orsaf to be viewed by the public.\n\nMr Brandler said he has now been told he must pay tens of thousands of pounds in construction costs to remove the front window from that site so the artwork can move elsewhere.\n\n\"As things stand, it's coming out on 8 February, being put on the back of a lorry, and it's going to Ipswich or one other place,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Brandler said there was a \"50/50 chance\" he could break \"it up into bricks\" and take it \"out the door in pieces\".\n\n\"It means I don't have to bother moving all the steel work, it means I don't have to pay tens of thousands of pounds to take out the window. Then we would put it back together again and get it restored,\" he said.\n\n\"We know restorers can do wonders with paintings. This is on concrete blocks, this isn't on porcelain or an 18th Century canvas.\n\n\"It won't be difficult to put them back together again and paint out the cracks. And it means I can put them in the back of a transit [van] and drive off with it.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Neath Port Talbot council said it had been quoted a fee in the region of £100,000 per year to continue to loan the artwork, something Mr Brandler denies.\n\nHolywood star and Port Talbot native Michael Sheen says there has been a \"lack of ambition\" with the way the artwork has been displayed\n\nSheen, who is from Port Talbot, said he hoped Season's Greetings could still be used to bring people in the town together, even though it was leaving.\n\n\"Everyone was incredibly excited about the fact that Banksy had chosen to do a piece in the town,\" he said.\n\n\"There's been poetry and songs and other art works being done and that's been fantastic.\"\n\nHowever, the actor also said there had been missed opportunities and the way the artwork was displayed for the past few years was \"a little uninspiring\".\n\nIts location in the town centre has meant almost all viewings have had to take place through a window.\n\n\"I suppose, in some ways, it follows a pattern where there's something of great potential in the town, and there's a lot of great ideas, but the ambition and the vision doesn't really materialise,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't know the ins and outs of what happened and why that might have happened, but there's maybe a lack of ambition, a lack of follow through, a lack of financial support, and then the thing of real value tends to get extracted from the country and goes off into England, it's an old story.\"\n\nMr Brandler said the mural was only likely to re-appear in Wales \"just after hell freezes over\", but he did hope it could be used in new locations to spread the message about pollution and climate change.\n\nFormer Neath Port Talbot council leader Rob Jones said he hoped Banksy would consider picking a location owned by the council if he ever revisited the town.\n\nSeasons Greetings appeared on two sides of a garage depicting a child enjoying snow falling - the other side reveals it is a fire emitting ash\n\n\"I think it's very difficult, when an item is in private ownership, to come to an agreement that satisfies both the private owner and the public purse,\" he said.\n\n\"There was a heavy financial demand in relation to keeping it in Port Talbot, and we gave to justify whether in fact spending public money for that purpose outweighs what we need to spend money on.\"\n\nThe council said Season's Greetings had inspired a \"great interest\" in street art, and it would continue to support new artists to come to Port Talbot.", "Homes have been found for 4,000 Afghan refugees but 12,000 remained in \"bridging accommodation\", MPs were told\n\nSome 37,000 asylum seekers and Afghan refugees are living in UK hotels at a cost of £1.2m per day, MPs were told.\n\nThe home secretary said there was a struggle to find permanent homes for thousands of refugees months after they were evacuated from Afghanistan.\n\nPriti Patel told the Home Affairs Committee the current policy was \"thoroughly inadequate\".\n\nThe Home Office was developing better ways of working with local authorities to find permanent homes, MPs heard.\n\nMs Patel said: \"We do not want people in hotels, we are looking at dispersed accommodation.\"\n\nShe said there were efforts under way to use Ministry of Defence buildings for more asylum accommodation.\n\nThere are 25,000 asylum seekers currently in hotels and another 12,000 people rescued from Afghanistan.\n\nHome Office official Tricia Hayes told the committee homes had been found for 4,000 Afghan refugees so far and the 12,000 remained in \"bridging accommodation\".\n\nShe said her department had been working with the Local Government Association and with councils to develop a new way of working on asylum schemes,\n\nShe said there was a financial and policy imperative of \"cutting the cost that we're currently incurring in hotels, which is now racking up to about £1.2 million every single day\".\n\nThere were now improved communication systems, such as a dedicated portal to connect people who could offer accommodation with councils and the government to help match them with families, she said.\n\nMs Hayes added: \"We're incredibly grateful to the 300 councils that have already stepped forward to help us, but we can always do with more.\"\n\nConservative MP Tim Loughton told Ms Patel that one Afghan refugee in his constituency with young children was in a hotel with \"appalling food\" and \"terrible conditions\".\n\nHe said he was called a troublemaker and told to shut up and leave when he complained.\n\nMs Patel asked him to provide her with more details, adding that it was an \"awful situation\".\n\nUPDATE: The Home Office clarified on 3 February 2022 that the total UK hotel bill for migrants was in fact £4.7m per day.", "A new innovation and research centre in the Glasgow area is part of the UK government's latest \"levelling up\" plans.\n\nThe UK government said the \"Silicon Valley-style innovation accelerator\" for Glasgow would create new jobs.\n\nThe research centre would be one of three across the UK sharing £100m in funding.\n\nMichael Gove said the UK government was on a \"moral mission\" to boost prosperity in poorer areas.\n\nThe levelling-up secretary said Glasgow was one of many UK cities which had \"huge potential but contain inequalities which hold too many back\".\n\nThe Scottish government said any extra funding was welcome, but said it was \"unacceptable\" for UK ministers to make spending decisions in devolved areas without \"meaningful consultation or engagement\".\n\nThe first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have been invited by Mr Gove to join what he hailed as a \"new collective effort to level up\" the whole of the UK.\n\nHe said it was important for \"all layers of government - UK, devolved and local - to work together\".\n\nHowever ministers in Edinburgh and Cardiff have accused the UK government of seeking to sideline them by making spending decisions in areas of devolved responsibility.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the funding was \"rehashed money\", and that the UK government had \"muscled in\" for \"partisan political reasons\".\n\nShe said: \"It's really just an attempt by a beleaguered Westminster government, with an utterly discredited prime minister, trying to distract people's attention.\"\n\nThe Welsh government has made similar complaints, with economy minister Vaughan Gething describing the funds as \"half-baked, incoherent funding pots hatched in isolation in Whitehall\".\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said ministers had \"not been consulted in any way\" on the plans for an innovation centre in Glasgow.\n\nThe research centre would be in the Glasgow City region area, where Glasgow and neighbouring councils have joined forces for initiatives to encourage economic growth and create jobs.\n\nThe UK government has allocated a £4.8bn fund to support regeneration, transport projects, and education across the UK as part of its levelling-up programme.\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack said: \"Initiatives such as the Glasgow City region becoming an Innovation Accelerator, unlocking access to a share of £100m of new funding, will help Scotland continue its vital role in keeping the UK at the forefront of global science and research.\"\n\nThe move was welcomed by the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, which said it was an \"appropriate acknowledgement\" of the quality of academic research and industrial links in the area.\n\nLevelling up is largely a political project to back up electoral gains made by Conservatives in the north of England. These were areas where voters felt their cities, towns and regions had been left behind.\n\nSince the 2019 election, £11bn has been committed to it, and the National Audit Office reports today that it has lacked adequate evaluation of whether it is making any difference.\n\nIt points to expert advice that its spending on small-scale infrastructure improvements do not have much impact on economic growth.\n\nEven before the money was approved, the spending watchdog said there was none of the normal testing of policy to make sure it couldn't be achieved more efficiently by other means.\n\nIt was rushed. But the rationale and the strategy has been hard to define, and Whitehall has found it difficult to get to today's grand reveal.\n\nBecause the political project is about England, much of Michael Gove's statement is about the distribution of resources within England.\n\nHoy is one of the 70 islands that make up the archipelago of Orkney, which will be invited to the UK government's \"islands forum\"\n\nAt least as significant is the redistribution of power: 23 years after devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, this is the first comprehensive plan to devolve power across all of England.\n\nSome elements extend across the UK. One of 12 \"national missions\" is to raise pay, employment and productivity in every region, and to narrow the gap between the south-east and the rest.\n\nThere's a measurable target also on high-speed broadband across the UK, and likewise on people's perceptions of their town centres and of their wellbeing.\n\nGlasgow city region has already been chosen to get an accelerator hub to transfer research and development from universities to business, sharing £100m with the West Midlands and Manchester.\n\nUK funds to replace EU research funding are also to be pushed beyond London, Oxford and Cambridge.\n\nWatch out also for an islands forum, seeking to draw together the shared interests of islanders around England and Scotland and possibly into the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.\n\nThat's one of the areas in which \"levelling up\" could run into devolution territory and a familiar constitutional turf war, adding to post-Brexit ways in which the UK government wants to be seen to have impact on the ground.", "The problem that the government seeks to solve with its \"Levelling Up\" agenda is clear - the fact that the UK is one of the world's most geographically unequal major economies. Not just that, the inequality in the economic performance of the UK's regions has grown materially over the past three decades.\n\nWhile that has for many in politics during that time been an inevitable side-effect of having one of the world's fastest-growing regions - Greater London - this White Paper marks out a new consensus, that this inequity has been a choice.\n\nOther nations around the world have conducted intensive strategic plans to close regional disparities such as this, for example Spain and Germany.\n\nThe origins of the prime minister's use of the phrase \"levelling up\" are in his 2019 Conservative leadership election promise to equalise per pupil spending in English schools, and in some work on social mobility done by former Education Secretary Justine Greening.\n\nBut Levelling Up is not about doing the same for disparities in public spending on, say transport, between London (£882 per head in 2019/20) and NE England (£315 per head). Or even spending on science and technology in the North West (£76 per head) and the South East (£122 per head).\n\nIndeed the pledges on spending in the 'Levelling Up' White Paper are rather limited, reflecting the fiscal situation. But there has been some surprise that there is no new money above existing resources, nor are there new commitments beyond the existing Spending Review, for what the PM describes as his \"defining mission\".\n\nWhere a mission such as this has been achieved, in say, post-unification Germany, there have been massive fiscal transfers worth £70bn a year or a total approaching one and a half trillion pounds.\n\nThe result was that a 40% productivity gap between East and West Germany closed to 15% and the stark fact is that GDP per capita and in some east German regions now exceeds that in some northern English regions.\n\nCan entrenched patterns of economic geography really be changed without footing a very significant bill? The answer to this question goes to the heart, not just of the PM's declared \"mission\", but the coherence of his 2016 & 2019 political coalition. It does seem to require a permanently bigger state, doing more.\n\nThe United Kingdom's regional disparities are artefacts of our economic history and also the result of the choices made by successive governments.\n\nThe end result of all of this was a concentration of political, economic, and cultural power in and around the capital city to a degree not seen in most major nations. That has had a knock-on impact on other regions, depriving them of capital and talent.\n\nTo turn this around, to \"Level Up\" as the prime minister puts it, is a very long-term and stubborn mission. It is not especially new. Decades ago the government promised to shift departments out of London - some got as far as Croydon.\n\nThe regeneration efforts of the new Labour governments after the late Lord Roger's Urban Taskforce Report saw billions poured into major cities, the establishment of development agencies, attempts to attract foreign capital for property-led regeneration schemes, and decisions made by elected assemblies. One of the key differences in the new announcements is the focus on smaller towns, as well as larger cities.\n\nSo there are 12 missions laid out in the White Paper. They all aim to show progress towards closing productivity, educational and transport gaps. For example, \"local transport connectivity\" will be \"significantly closer to the standards of London\" within eight years. Does that mean a Tube or tram system? How much closer exactly?\n\nAll this illustrates that \"levelling up\" is very much a set of processes rather than a set of defined actions or targets. Critically, all these missions are set for 2030, and therefore it will be challenging to judge delivery at the next election. But the mission is very ambitious indeed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London elites \"haven't really understood all of the problems\" faced by people in Grimsby and Cleethorpes, says Michael Gove\n\nThe government will \"fail\" people who voted Conservative in the 2019 election unless it fulfils its promise to \"level-up\" the UK, Michael Gove has said.\n\nThe levelling-up secretary told the BBC the government was on a \"moral mission\" to boost prosperity in poorer areas.\n\nIt will set out its plan in a long-awaited policy paper on Wednesday.\n\nBut critics say the government's flagship agenda lacks funding and uses \"recycled money\".\n\nThe government has allocated a £4.8bn fund to support regeneration, transport projects, and education across the UK as part of its levelling-up programme.\n\nWednesday's policy white paper will outline how these funds will be spent and plans to expand devolution in England, with more elected local leaders.\n\nThe paper comes at a time when the government is attempting to seize the initiative after weeks of damaging headlines about parties held in Downing Street, when strict Covid lockdowns were in force.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Grimsby, one of the constituencies the Tories won from Labour in 2019, Mr Gove said the country had been \"over-centralised\" for too long, with \"elites in London\" not understanding the problems of people in \"overlooked\" communities.\n\n\"Unless we are the government for levelling up, then we will fail the people who voted for us in 2019,\" he added.\n\nIn the white paper the government will set three targets to be achieved by 2030:\n\nMichael Gove was clear: failure when it comes to \"levelling-up\" isn't an option.\n\nBig promises were made to people who voted Conservative for the first time in 2019 - and he acknowledged the government had to deliver.\n\nHe said it came with a \"moral price\" - interesting language in the current political climate.\n\nBut the challenge is huge - addressing deep-rooted regional inequalities in the wake of a pandemic, with serious questions about the cost of living.\n\nThe centrepiece of the white paper is expected to be the idea of shifting power and money from London to communities around the country, with the creation of more elected leaders - mayors like those in Birmingham or Manchester.\n\nWhile there's support for the idea of meaningful devolution in England, the fear for some is it will mean years of wrangling about local government structures.\n\nCritics, including Labour, say the whole thing lacks vision and funding.\n\nThe government points to work already started, and the promise of regeneration to come.\n\nMr Gove acknowledged people wanted to see improvements quickly - but real change would take time, perhaps years.\n\nFor a government trying to reset after recent turmoil in Westminster, time and patience might be short\n\nMany voters turned to the Conservatives for the first time at the 2019 election, as Mr Johnson won seats traditionally held by Labour in northern areas of England.\n\nBut repeated delays to the government's levelling-up white paper have frustrated some Tory MPs, particularly those elected in parts of the country historically dominated by Labour.\n\nIn 2021, the prime minister appointed Mr Gove to the new role of levelling-up secretary to fulfil that campaign promise and turn election promises on levelling up into a strategy.\n\nCritics say the government's levelling-up policy lacks vision and funding, with Labour claiming communities will be left worse off after years of austerity under successive Conservative governments.\n\nLabour has set out its own five-point plan, including better broadband for towns and villages, action to tackle anti-social behaviour in city centres, and more affordable housing.\n\nWhen asked if there was any new money in the policy paper, Mr Gove said he was making use of funds made \"available to my department and to others in the Spending Review and tilting it\".\n\nBut he denied that the Treasury had refused him more money ahead of the paper.\n\nHe said change needed to happen quickly and visibly - but it was also \"a long haul\" and levelling up wasn't just a \"hanging basket here or there\".\n\n\"It's a moral mission, and it's an economic mission, and it's one that the prime minister is committed to,\" Mr Gove said.\n\nAsked about the recent turmoil in Westminster over lockdown-busting parties, Mr Gove insisted the prime minister was doing a \"brilliant job\".\n\nAsked if he'd stand in any upcoming leadership contest he said \"forget about it\", adding: \"There's not going to be a leadership contest.\"", "The 20-year-old striker, who made his debut for the club in March 2019, was arrested on Sunday\n\nManchester United footballer Mason Greenwood has been further arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and making threats to kill.\n\nThe 20-year-old was arrested on suspicion of rape and assault on Sunday.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said it had been granted more time to question him having previously been given an extension on Monday.\n\nManchester United have said he will not play for the club until further notice.\n\nGMP said the player was arrested on Sunday after the force \"became aware of online social media images and videos posted by a woman reporting incidents of physical violence\".\n\nIt said magistrates had granted a second extension to keep him in custody until Wednesday.\n\nA force spokesman said inquiries were ongoing and a woman was being \"offered specialist support\".\n\nManchester United said the club \"did not condone violence of any kind\"\n\nVideo game developer EA Sports said the forward had been removed from FIFA products.\n\nA statement said Greenwood had been removed from active squads in FIFA 22 and also suspended from appearing in FIFA Ultimate Team packs and Ultimate Draft.\n\nSportswear firm Nike previously said it had suspended its relationship with the footballer.\n\n\"We are deeply concerned by the disturbing allegations and will continue to closely monitor the situation,\" a spokesman said.\n\nGreenwood, who made his debut for the club in March 2019, signed a four-year deal in February 2021 after rising through the ranks of the academy.\n\nOn Sunday Manchester United said the club \"did not condone violence of any kind\" and had been made aware of the allegations but would make no further comment until the \"facts have been established\".\n\nIn a further statement, the club said it \"reiterates its strong condemnation of violence of any kind\".\n\n\"As previously communicated, Mason Greenwood will not train with, or play for, the club until further notice,\" a spokesman added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Putin was speaking after talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Moscow\n\nRussia's President Vladimir Putin has accused the US of trying to draw his country into a war in Ukraine.\n\nHe said America's goal was to use a confrontation as a pretext to impose more sanctions on Russia.\n\nMr Putin also said the US was ignoring Russia's concerns about the expansion of Nato, the Western military alliance which Ukraine is seeking to join.\n\nThe US and its allies accuse Russia of planning to invade Ukraine, something Russia has repeatedly denied.\n\nOn Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted that the US was \"committed to preventing a conflict that is in no one's interest\".\n\nMeanwhile, Spanish newspaper El Pais has released what it says are confidential documents the US and Nato sent to Russia last week - including offers of talks on cutting back on nuclear weaponry and trust-building measures in exchange for reducing tensions over Ukraine.\n\nA Nato official told the BBC the alliance never comments on alleged leaks. President Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow was aware of the report, but that they did not publish it and did not want to comment on it, according to AFP news agency.\n\nIn recent weeks Russia has moved about 100,000 troops - equipped with everything from tanks and artillery to ammunition and air power - to Ukraine's border.\n\nIt comes eight years after the country annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backed a bloody rebellion in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nMoscow in turn accuses the Ukrainian government of failing to implement an international deal to restore peace to the east, where at least 14,000 people have been killed and Russian-backed rebels control swathes of territory.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky however warned on Tuesday that a Russian invasion would \"not be a war between Ukraine and Russia - this would be a war in Europe, a full-scale one\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Understand the Ukraine crisis with Ros Atkins in less than six minutes\n\nSpeaking after talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Moscow, Mr Putin said: \"It seems to me that the United States is not so much concerned about the security of Ukraine... but its main task is to contain Russia's development. In this sense Ukraine itself is just a tool to reach this goal.\"\n\nRivalry between Russia and the US, which still possess the world's biggest nuclear arsenals, dates back to the Cold War (1947-89). Ukraine was then a crucial part of the communist Soviet Union, second only to Russia.\n\nMr Putin said the US had ignored Moscow's concerns in its response to Russian demands for legally binding security guarantees, including a block on the Nato alliance's further expansion to the east.\n\nHe suggested that if Ukraine were granted its wish to join Nato, it could drag the other members into a war with Russia.\n\n\"Imagine that Ukraine is a Nato member and a military operation [to regain Crimea] begins,\" the Russian leader said. \"What - are we going to fight with Nato? Has anyone thought about this? It seems like they haven't.\"\n\nThe US meanwhile insists it is fully committed to dialogue. Speaking after a call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday, Mr Blinken said he had emphasised US willingness to continue discussing \"mutual security concerns\".\n\nEarlier this week, the US said it had received a written response from Russia to a US proposal aimed at de-escalating the crisis in Ukraine. But hours later Russia's deputy foreign minister said that was not true and a source told Ria news agency it was still preparing a response.\n\nAccording to the documents published by El Pais, the US proposal suggested \"reciprocal commitments by both the United States and Russia to refrain from deploying offensive ground-launched missile systems and permanent forces with a combat mission in the territory of Ukraine\".\n\nIt included a pledge to hold talks about reducing nuclear weaponry and missile launchers, on condition that Russia reduces its threat to Ukraine.\n\nThe US also suggested a \"transparency mechanism\" to address Russia's concerns about US missiles in Europe. The US proposed a way for Russia to confirm there are no cruise missiles at Nato bases in Romania and Bulgaria, in exchange for the US doing the same at two Russian bases of its choice.\n\nThe documents said the US would discuss all issues that affect European security with its allies.\n\nFor months, Ukraine's Western allies have been pointing to Russian troops massing on the border.\n\nUkrainians who would be in the direct line of any such incursion are far less convinced it will happen. But all the war talk is unsettling.\n\n\"Last week I was pretty disturbed; I even went to my psychologist for help,\" Dmytro Dubas admits.\n\nIn 2014, he joined the flood of volunteer soldiers pouring east when heavy fighting against Russian-backed forces erupted.\n\nDmytro had returned to civilian life, storing the reminders of his time in the trenches in an old ammunition box painted and re-fashioned as a coffee table in his living room.\n\nNow he's calmed his nerves by preparing for the worst possible scenario: filling his car with fuel, buying emergency food supplies and signing-up with the territorial defence force to brush-up his skills.", "Gas supplier Firmus energy has announced its prices will increase by more than a third in its Ten Towns Network.\n\nThe 33.57% increase will take effect from 24 February 2022, and is the fourth increase by the company since last spring.\n\nThe Utility Regulator said it would bring the average household gas bill in the Ten Towns area to £1,293 a year.\n\nIn April 2021, the average bill was £518.\n\nThe move will affect about 55,000 customers in the Ten Towns area, which includes Antrim, Armagh, Ballymena, Coleraine, Craigavon, Londonderry and Newry.\n\nDr David Dobbin, chairman of Firmus Energy, said the company had no choice but to make a further increase due to the sustained high prices in wholesale gas markets.\n\n\"Very low gas stocks, reduced Russian supplies and concerns about the Ukraine situation are all combining to keep European gas prices high,\" he said.\n\n\"The market crisis has been well publicised, and markets look increasingly like they are going to remain high for some time.\"\n\nIt was not just a Firmus issue, but a challenge by every local and national supplier of gas and electricity, he added.\n\n\"Regrettably, we, in Northern Ireland, are at the mercy of the global wholesale gas market and are unable to influence these prices,\" he said.\n\n\"We know this is another unwelcome increase which will have a disproportionate effect on those of our customers who are the most vulnerable.\"\n\nHe said the company had been providing financial support to a Department for Communities scheme to help those in need.\n\nThe Utility Regulator previously warned that gas prices would increase in the coming weeks.\n\nThe wholesale price of gas makes up more than half of consumers' bills.\n\nThe Utility Regulator approved the tariff increase, with chief executive John French saying there was no sign of prices falling.\n\n\"This will regrettably mean that the average annual household gas bill in the Ten Towns area will increase to £1,293 per year,\" he said.\n\n\"The unparalleled increases in the cost of wholesale energy at a global level have persisted and continue to impact on supplier costs.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there appears to be no end in sight during 2022 for significantly above trend wholesale prices.\n\n\"However, if wholesale prices begin to reduce, our system of regulation in Northern Ireland allows us to act to make sure that reductions are fully passed onto consumers as quickly as possible.\"\n\nSchool principal Paddy McCabe said the rise in gas prices had seen bills at St Oliver Plunkett Primary School in West Belfast rise from just under £10,000 in October, November and December 2020, to more than £30,000 in the same months of last year.\n\nHis school has not yet been hit by the next price increase to come from Firmus as it is in Belfast, outside the Ten Towns area.\n\nSt Oliver Plunkett Primary School has seen its gas bills jump form £10,000 to £30,000\n\n\"We will have to make very, very difficult decisions in the near future,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"I've been very fortunate and our budget's been relatively healthy - after this, it won't be.\n\n\"It's not something to look forward to and it does cause sleepless nights.\"", "The system can work out if a face is older or younger than 25\n\nMajor supermarket chains have begun testing an automated age-verification system, to avoid the wait for staff at self-checkouts when buying alcohol.\n\nThe trial will use cameras that can estimate each customer's age.\n\nIt is part of a Home Office test of technologies to assist with the selling of alcohol.\n\nAsda, Co-op and Morrisons are installing the system in some shops. The same technology is already used in Aldi's checkout-free shop in London.\n\nIf customers consent, the camera will guess their age, using algorithms trained on a database of anonymous faces.\n\nIf it decides they are under 25, they will need to show ID to a member of staff.\n\n\"Waiting for age approval at the self-checkout is sometimes frustrating for shoppers,\" Robin Tombs, chief executive of Yoti, the company providing the technology, said.\n\n\"Our age-verification solutions are helping retailers like Asda meet the requirements of regulators worldwide and keep pace with consumer demands for fast and convenient services, while preserving people's privacy.\"\n\nThis is not facial recognition, Yoti is keen to stress, which tries to match individual faces to those on a database.\n\nAnd the system will not retain the images it takes.\n\nTested on more than 125,000 faces aged six-60, the algorithm, on average, guessed their age to within 2.2 years - 1.5 among 16-20-year-olds.\n\nAsda's senior director of retail innovation Geri Hebberd said the supermarket was excited to test the technology and \"looked forward to seeing what our customers think\".\n\n\"We know how time pressed some of our customers are, so we always want to make things quicker and easier for them when they shop with us,\" she added.\n\nPrivacy concerns were raised, in 2020, when 18 Co-op shops tested a facial-recognition system, from start-up Facewatch, that alerted staff to customers with a record of \"theft or anti-social behaviour\".\n\nAnd meanwhile, Sainsbury's tested a hidden artificial-intelligence-enabled detector that sent video footage to security staff if customers pocketed an item.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Understand the Ukraine crisis with Ros Atkins in less than six minutes\n\nUS President Joe Biden is to send extra troops to Europe this week amid continuing fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Pentagon says.\n\nSome 2,000 troops will be sent from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Poland and Germany, and a further 1,000 already in Germany will go to Romania.\n\nMoscow denies planning to invade but has deployed an estimated 100,000 troops near Ukraine's borders.\n\nIt called the US deployment \"destructive\".\n\nThe tensions come eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backed a bloody rebellion in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nMoscow accuses the Ukrainian government of failing to implement the Minsk agreement - an international deal to restore peace to the east, where Russian-backed rebels control swathes of territory and at least 14,000 people have been killed since 2014.\n\nThe US troops being deployed will not fight in Ukraine but will ensure the defence of US allies.\n\nTheir deployment is in addition to the 8,500 troops the Pentagon put on alert last month to be ready to deploy to Europe if needed.\n\n\"It's important that we send a strong signal to Mr Putin and, frankly, to the world that Nato matters to the United States and it matters to our allies,\" Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters.\n\nBut on the question of alleged invasion plans by Mr Putin, he said: \"We still don't believe he's made a decision to further invade Ukraine.\"\n\nHe also said that a US proposal \"leaked to a European news outlet\" was genuine. He appeared to be referring to a story in Spain's El País newspaper about a US offer of talks with Russia on cutting back on nuclear weaponry and trust-building measures in exchange for reducing tensions over Ukraine.\n\nRussian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko described the US deployment as a \"destructive\" step which heightened tension and reduced the scope for a political solution.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin discussed Ukraine with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson by phone on Wednesday.\n\nMr Johnson told Mr Putin \"all European democracies have a right to aspire to Nato membership\", a Downing Street statement said. Russia opposes Ukraine joining the security alliance.\n\nMr Putin drew attention to Ukraine's \"chronic sabotage\" of the Minsk peace agreements and Nato's reluctance to respond appropriately to Russia's justified concerns\", the Kremlin said in a statement (in Russian).\n\nThe Russian president has accused the US of trying to draw his country into a war in Ukraine.\n\nHe said America's goal was to use a confrontation as a pretext to impose more sanctions on Russia.\n\nThese are combat-ready troops but they are not expected to be fighting Russian soldiers - if they were the deployment would be much bigger. After all Moscow is not seen to be directly threatening Poland and Romania.\n\nSo their greater value is symbolic: to reassure Nato allies in eastern Europe who are worried that the Russian military build-up around Ukraine could spill across their own borders, and who have requested reinforcements. And to send a message to Vladimir Putin that Nato matters to the US. So any move he might make on Nato allies would trigger Article 5 commitments to come to their defence.\n\nJoe Biden is trying to show this resolve without undermining chances of a diplomatic solution. He is not sending a lot of troops, and notably, none to the Baltic states right on Russia's doorstep.\n\nBut these deployments are the most concrete sign that the current crisis is broader than Ukraine, that it's over the post-Cold War security infrastructure in Europe.\n\nRivalry between Russia and the US, which still possess the world's biggest nuclear arsenals, dates back to the Cold War (1947-89). Ukraine was then a crucial part of the communist Soviet Union, second only to Russia.\n\nMr Putin said the US had ignored Moscow's concerns in its response to Russian demands for legally binding security guarantees, including a block on the Nato alliance's further expansion to the east.\n\nRomania, which is hosting some of the newly deployed US troops, is home to a US-built Aegis land-based missile defence station, which Russia has described as a security threat since it opened in 2016.", "Williams played gay robber Omar Little on HBO's The Wire\n\nPolice in New York and Puerto Rico have arrested four men who allegedly sold the drugs that actor Michael K Williams took before his overdose death.\n\nWilliams, most famous for his role as Omar on HBO's The Wire, was found dead in his Brooklyn flat in September 2021.\n\nThe four men are accused of narcotics conspiracy. Police say they sold drugs laced with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid blamed for thousands of drug deaths.\n\nA medical examiner has ruled that the 54-year-old's death was an accident.\n\nThe suspects include Hector Robles, Luis Cruz and Carlos Macci - who were all arrested on Tuesday and are expected to make their first court appearances on Wednesday.\n\nIrvin Cartagena was arrested on Tuesday in Puerto Rico and is expected to go before a judge on Thursday.\n\n\"This is a public health crisis. And it has to stop,\" US Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement announcing the arrests.\n\n\"Deadly opioids like fentanyl and heroin don't care about who you are or what you've accomplished. They just feed addiction and lead to tragedy.\"\n\nInvestigators have obtained surveillance footage of the men allegedly selling drugs to Williams on the street the day before he was found.\n\nPolice have obtained footage of the alleged drug deal\n\nThey allegedly continued to sell the drugs at residences in Manhattan and Brooklyn even after they learned that their drugs had killed Williams, officials say.\n\nAccording to the Daily Beast, NYPD detectives treated his death as a homicide, and used surveillance cameras throughout the city to trace car licence plates to the suspects.\n\n\"Treat this case as if Michael K Williams was hit by a bullet,\" one police official instructed his officers, he later told the website. \"Make believe he got shot.\"", "Adele has four nominations for this year's Brit Awards\n\nTwo weeks after postponing her Las Vegas residency, Adele has announced she will perform at the Brit Awards.\n\n\"I'm really happy to say that I am performing at the Brits next week!!\" the star wrote on Instagram.\n\nTuesday's ceremony will mark the singer's return to the stage where, in 2011, she gave a career-changing performance of Someone Like You.\n\nWhile in the UK, Adele will also give Graham Norton her first interview since postponing her 12-week Las Vegas run.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to it,\" she said of her chat show appearance, adding: \"Oh, and Rich sends his love.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by adele This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe latter comment was a response to tabloid rumours that her relationship with US sports agent Rich Paul was on the rocks.\n\nSome reports had speculated that relationship troubles derailed her Las Vegas residency. Others have said production issues and arguments over the set design were to blame.\n\nIn a video announcing the postponement last month, Adele said that \"delivery delays\" combined with an outbreak of Covid in her team had caused the delay. She has yet to confirm new dates for the 24 postponed shows.\n\nShe last performed live on two TV specials to promote her new album 30 in November.\n\nAdele has four nominations at this year's Brits, with 30 up for the coveted album of the year prize.\n\nIf she wins all four, she will equal Robbie Williams as the artist with the most Brit Awards - 13 in all.\n\nDave, Ed Sheeran and Little Simz also have four nominations this year, and will all perform on the night.\n\nHowever, US star Doja Cat has pulled out after members of her crew tested positive for Covid.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Five Insulate Britain campaigners have been jailed for defying a court order preventing them from protesting on the M25.\n\nThe activists, who held a demonstration on the motorway in September, were all charged with contempt of court.\n\nBen Taylor, Ellie Litten, Theresa Norton, Stephen Pritchard and Diana Warner were given jail terms lasting between 24 and 42 days.\n\nEleven others from the group received suspended prison sentences.\n\nA number of High Court injunctions were put in place after Insulate Britain's road blockades last year.\n\nThe injunctions were granted to National Highways and Transport for London following a series of protests by the group.\n\nTheresa Norton, Diana Warner, El Litten, and Steve Pritchard glued themselves to the steps of the court on Tuesday\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, members of Insulate Britain draped a black flag from a balcony in the Royal Courts of Justice that said in white lettering: \"Insulate or die.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, four protesters walked out of court and glued themselves to the steps of the building. They were removed by police and taken into custody.\n\nAhead of sentencing, the judge said the four would not be punished for those actions, but added that it did \"demonstrate their anxiety to continue the protest with which we are dealing today\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Motorist: \"I need to go to the hospital, please let me pass. This isn't OK... how can you be so selfish?\"\n\nThe series of co-ordinated climate change protests, which called for the government to insulate all UK homes by 2030, began around London and the South East last autumn.\n\nThe action caused major disruption for drivers and led to angry confrontations between motorists and protesters.\n\nPolice also warned the group's tactics could lead to \"serious injury or death\".\n\nInsulate Britain blocked the M25 on a number of occasions\n\nA High Court injunction was granted to Highways England in September after Insulate Britain blocked parts of the M25 five times over a fortnight.\n\nAt the time Transport Secretary Grant Shapps warned that protesters faced \"possible imprisonment if they flout [the court order]\".\n\nIn December it was revealed that policing the protests over the previous three months had cost forces more than £4m.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has been put \"on notice\" by the London mayor after \"shocking\" behaviour by some officers was found.\n\nA report by the police watchdog found \"disgraceful\" misogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment among PCs based mainly at Charing Cross.\n\nA mayoral spokesperson said Sadiq Khan told Dame Cressida of his anger at \"a return to the bad days of the Met of his childhood in the 1970s and 80s\".\n\nAmong the findings, the report by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) found the officers had joked about rape, domestic violence and killing black children.\n\nThe mayoral spokesperson said Mr Khan and Dame Cressida Dick had taken part in a \"very frank discussion which lasted for well over 90 minutes\" about the force and the changes needed.\n\n\"The mayor made clear to the commissioner how angry he is with a return to the bad days of the Met of his childhood in the 1970s and 80s, and that neither he nor Londoners will put up with this.\n\n\"He has put the commissioner on notice. He said the Met needs to urgently show it has an effective plan for restoring the trust and confidence of Londoners in the police and to drive out the culture of racism, homophobia, bullying and misogyny which clearly still exists within its ranks.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a source close to Mr Khan said: \"If the commissioner is not able to do so, then the mayor will have to consider whether she is the right person to lead the change needed at the Met.\"\n\nIn its report published on Tuesday, the IOPC made 15 recommendations and said: \"We believe these incidents are not isolated or simply the behaviour of a few 'bad apples'.\"\n\nThe IOPC London regional director, Sal Naseem, described the officers' behaviour as \"disgraceful\" and \"shocking\", adding: \"We know from other recent cases that these issues are not isolated or historic.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel \"appalled and sickened\" by a report showing misogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment in Met Police\n\nThe Met Police commissioner is appointed by the Queen following a recommendation from the home secretary, although the views of London's mayor are considered as part of the process.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said earlier she had been left \"appalled and sickened\" by the report.\n\nFollowing the report's findings, the Met said it was \"deeply sorry\" about the revelations and a \"series of measures\" had been taken \"to hold those responsible to account and stamp out unacceptable behaviour\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This week's cabinet \"away day\" might have been moved from the grandeur of the prime minister's country house to the depths of Downing Street, but the agenda was still centred on one thing - \"levelling-up\".\n\nThe much-repeated motto is meant to sum up the government's central mission. In reality, its meaning still remains a mystery to many.\n\nBut it is about to get the Michael Gove treatment.\n\nHe's been tasked with turning the slogan into a strategy. Thursday's meeting of the cabinet was about him outlining his thinking to fellow ministers and getting a sense of theirs in return.\n\nIt's understood ministers were due to deliver presentations to their cabinet colleagues - including Mr Gove and the PM - on what their departments had planned for levelling up.\n\nSo what do we know about the thinking of the still-fairly-new levelling-up secretary?\n\nWhen he appeared before a select committee earlier this week, Mr Gove offered his interpretation of Boris Johnson's favourite catchphrase, saying it was about \"making opportunity more equal across the country\".\n\nDelivering that will be harder than defining it.\n\nIt is my understanding that one of the first priorities is streamlining the work that's currently spread across various government departments and attempting to give it focus.\n\nThere is recognition, even in some corners of government, that so far there's been something of a scattergun approach that's seen different schemes and themes fall under different departments without any real coherence.\n\nCritics have gone so far as to call it confused and chaotic.\n\nMr Gove is keen to replicate a system that was used for both Brexit and the government's Covid response, which would see cabinet committees set up to keep the \"levelling-up\" agenda on track, with a strategy committee chaired by the prime minister and an operations committee chaired by, guess who? The levelling-up secretary, of course.\n\nThe new man in the job also wants to streamline funding.\n\nThere are currently multiple pots of money that come under the banner of \"levelling-up\" that councils can compete for.\n\nBut critics say it takes too much time and resource, and risks leading to funds being handed out unfairly.\n\nMr Gove wants to simplify the system.\n\nAnd then there's how to measure success.\n\nWhen the government's \"levelling-up\" white paper is published towards the end of this year, it is expected to set out what the government wants to achieve and metrics against which it can be held accountable - something else that has so far been identified as lacking.\n\nWhether ministers can meet their own targets is, of course, another matter.\n\n'Pride of place' is one of the main themes for Mr Gove's vision\n\nSo beyond reworking the system, what about the substance?\n\nMr Gove has said he thinks the key to \"levelling-up\" communities is improving four areas; local leadership, living standards, public services and \"pride of place\".\n\nSo far, there has been much focus on the physical, from transport schemes to transforming town centres.\n\nEducation, skills and of course jobs are likely to feature heavily in future plans.\n\nThe white paper, due in December, is also expected to contain proposals to give more power to local leaders to shape their communities.\n\nIt could mean more metro mayors like Andy Burnham in Greater Manchester or Andy Street in Birmingham, although there's already resistance to that idea in some sections of local government.\n\nAnd then there's the difficult issue of housing, which successive governments have failed to adequately address.\n\nBoth the prime minister and Mr Gove believe decent housing is central to this agenda, and say they are committed to getting more homes built.\n\nBut the government had its fingers burnt when it proposed highly controversial changes to the planning system last year.\n\nMinisters claimed the changes would modernise outdated processes and speed up much-needed house building.\n\nBut there was a furious response from those who thought it would mean more development in over-crowded parts of the south and allow local people little or no say.\n\nIn light of the backlash, Mr Gove \"paused\" the plan, and while he is still committed to reform, it is my understanding that he doesn't intend to resurrect the most contentious aspects.\n\nSo as it stands the government is sticking to a house building target of 300,000 new homes a year, but as yet has no clear plan to meet it.\n\nIt is just one of the challenges of what is a colossal agenda.\n\nThe plan on planning was paused by Mr Gove - but he still wants to hit house building targets\n\nKey to the overarching approach will be Andy Haldane, a former Bank of England chief economist who's been brought into government to work alongside Mr Gove and lead the \"levelling-up taskforce\".\n\nIn his work with the Industrial Strategy Council, he has already set out areas he believes are key to tackling regional disparities - ranging from investment to innovation and infrastructure - but he's also stated that transformation takes time.\n\nWith the pandemic having been so dominant, it has already been almost two years since the election in which the government made big promises to improve the lot of communities across the country, and only now are we expecting the white paper outlining the plan.\n\nThere will be an awful lot riding on it.", "Naturalists have been recording the appearance of spring blossom for centuries\n\nClimate change is causing UK plants to flower almost a month earlier on average, according to a study.\n\nJust as autumn leaf fall is being delayed by warmer weather, flowers are appearing earlier on trees and shrubs.\n\nBut while some might welcome these untimely blooms, scientists are warning of the risks.\n\nThey say if the trend continues, there are knock-on effects for birds, insects and whole ecosystems.\n\nEcological mismatch may kick in, which would have a dramatic effect \"on the functioning and productivity\" of nature and farming, said lead researcher, Prof Ulf Buntgen of the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"Our climate system is changing in a way that affects us and our environment,\" he told BBC News.\n\nDog rose flowers are a source of nectar for insects\n\nGlobal warming is causing spring to arrive early and autumn to come late in many places, and not all plants and animals are adapting at the same rate.\n\nScientists warn that if species get out of sync with each other, this could have disastrous consequences - a concept known as ecological mismatch.\n\nPollen, nectar, seeds and fruits of plants are important food resources for insects, birds and other wildlife. And if flowers appear too early they can be hit by frost, damaging the harvest of fruit trees.\n\nThe study looked at hundreds of thousands of observations of the first flowering dates of native trees, shrubs, herbs and climbers recorded in a citizen science database, known as Nature's Calendar, that goes back to the 18th Century.\n\nThis encompassed the whole of the UK, from Shetland in the north, and Northern Ireland in the west to Suffolk in the east.\n\nThe Cambridge researchers compared the first flowering dates of 406 plant species with climate records, finding that early flowering is strongly correlated with rising global temperatures.\n\nTo balance the number of observations, they divided the full dataset into records until 1986, and from 1987 onwards, finding that the average first flowering date from 1987 to 2019 was almost a month earlier than the average first flowering date from 1753 to 1986. Herbs saw the largest shift, flowering 32 days earlier.\n\nCommenting on the research, published in the journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Dr John David, RHS head of horticultural taxonomy, said plants are flowering earlier as a result of global warming, just as leaf fall in the autumn is being delayed by warmer weather.\n\nHe added: \"The main focus of this study is on native plants and so we don't yet have a clear picture of the full impact of these changes on garden plants, but would expect a similar pattern and have seen indications of this in our own RHS gardens such as the apple flowering times in our orchard at RHS Garden Wisley.\"", "The Met said it was \"deeply sorry\" for the findings in the IOPC report\n\n\"Disgraceful\" misogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment have been discovered within the ranks of the Met Police by the police watchdog.\n\nOfficers were found to have joked about rape and exchanged offensive social media messages, leading to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) to make 15 recommendations.\n\nMost officers investigated were police constables and based at Charing Cross Police Station, the IOPC said.\n\nThe Met said it was \"deeply sorry\".\n\nIn its report, the IOPC said: \"We believe these incidents are not isolated or simply the behaviour of a few 'bad apples'.\"\n\nThe inquiry was launched in March 2018 into nine linked independent investigations concerning serving police officers from the Met.\n\nInvestigations began after an officer allegedly had sex with a vulnerable woman in a room inside a London police station, the IOPC said - although this allegation was never proven.\n\nOf the 14 officers investigated, two were dismissed for gross misconduct and put on the barred list, preventing future employment with the police.\n\nAnother two resigned and several others faced disciplinary action, the IOPC said.\n\nNine are still serving with the force, while another is working as a contractor in a staff role.\n\nThe inquiry found evidence of messages exchanged between officers that were often highly sexualise, violent and discriminatory, and which were defended as \"banter\" by police officers.\n\nThe IOPC said the messages included:\n\nIOPC regional director for London, Sal Naseem, described the behaviour as \"disgraceful\" and that it fell below the standards of the force, but he said the Met was working to change its cultural issues.\n\n\"The learning report we are publishing today is shocking and contains language which is offensive,\" Mr Naseem said.\n\n\"Some may find it upsetting.\n\n\"However, we felt it was important to provide the context for the public, the Met and other forces for why such hard-hitting recommendations are necessary.\n\n\"While these officers predominantly worked in teams in Westminster, which have since been disbanded, we know from other recent cases that these issues are not isolated or historic.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said being a police officer was a privilege\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel described the officers as \"sickening\", adding: \"The public rightly expects the behaviour of the police to be beyond reproach - standards must be raised.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"utterly disgusted\" by the findings.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Bas Javid said the officers' actions happened between 2016 and 2018 and since then every Met Police employee had been spoken to about responsible use of social media.\n\n\"I am angry and disappointed to see officers involved in sharing sexist, racist and discriminatory messages,\" he said.\n\n\"It's clear we have a lot of work to do to ensure bullying and discrimination does not exist in any part of the Met.\n\n\"We recognise that there is need for real change in the Met and we are committed to creating an environment that is even more intolerant to those who do not uphold the high values and standards expected of us,\" he added.\n\nOf all the shocking things about this IOPC report, perhaps the most shocking is the breadth of the disgraceful conduct.\n\nThe officers were bullying and sexist. They were misogynistic and used the word \"gay\" as an insult.\n\nThey made jokes about the Black Lives Matter movement and mosques, and used derogatory words to describe disabled people.\n\nThe unit has been disbanded, but the IOPC has warned that the incidents were not isolated.\n\nIt has seen evidence of similar behaviour in more recent investigations.\n\nA Met Police statement said: \"The conduct of a team of officers at Charing Cross police station in central London does not represent the values of the Metropolitan Police Service.\n\n\"We are deeply sorry to Londoners and everyone they have failed with their appalling conduct and acknowledge how this will damage the trust and confidence of many in the Met.\n\n\"Since this reprehensible behaviour was uncovered in 2017 we have taken a series of measures to hold those responsible to account and stamp out unacceptable behaviour.\"\n\nSeparately, an independent review of culture and standards within the Met Police is currently being carried out by Baroness Louise Casey, in the wake of the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by serving police officer Wayne Couzens. It will examine the force's vetting, recruitment and training procedures.\n\nA two-part independent inquiry chaired by Dame Elish Angiolini QC will also look at Couzens' conduct during his career, and whether any red flags were missed as well as whether allegations made against him were properly handled.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Officer 'had sex with woman in station'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. I don't know if Sir Jeffrey voted for me, says Edwin Poots\n\nIt is disappointing that Edwin Poots has not accepted the decision to reject his bid to stand for the assembly in South Down, a DUP MP has said.\n\nLagan Valley MLA Mr Poots said he only agreed to switch constituency to help party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson get elected to Stormont.\n\nMr Poots said he would challenge his party's decision not to select him.\n\nBut East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson said a challenge by Mr Poots would not overturn the decision.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) officers endorsed Diane Forsythe as the South Down candidate at the meeting by way of a secret ballot, replacing current assembly member Jim Wells, who has been deselected.\n\nMr Poots insisted Sir Jeffrey encouraged him to stand in South Down for the assembly election just days before DUP officers rejected his nomination.\n\nSir Jeffrey is currently MP for Lagan Valley.\n\nMr Wilson said he was among those who interviewed Mr Poots and Ms Forsythe during the nomination process.\n\nSammy Wilson criticised Edwin Poots for his reaction to not being selected in South Down\n\nHe said Ms Forsythe was \"by far the best candidate\" and that in the constituency, \"her selection has been positively received\".\n\n\"Diane is both the party officers' and the party leader's choice for South Down,\" he said.\n\nMr Wilson went on to say that if Mr Poots challenged the decision, the outcome would be the same as it would go the the party officers and leader.\n\n\"It is disappointing that Edwin has not accepted the decision, especially because he has a seat of his own which he is free to contest and there are other vacant places available which he could have chosen and is still free to choose if he so wished,\" he said.\n\nMr Poots argued that he had been told by Sir Jeffrey that he should put his name forward for selection in South Down.\n\n\"I was being encouraged to stand in South Down up until the middle of last week by the party leader,\" Mr Poots, who is Stormont's agriculture minister, said.\n\n\"That was the last conversation we had.\"\n\nAsked if he felt Sir Jeffrey had reneged on a promise, Mr Poots said: \"I don't know if that was the case, as there were 11 party officers and it was a secret ballot\".\n\nHe added he was not aware if Sir Jeffrey voted for him as \"they hadn't had that conversation yet\".\n\n\"Previously our conversations were about either Jeffrey or myself going in South Down, and when I started thinking about this, I didn't know what other names were in\" he added.\n\nMs Forsythe's selection must still be ratified by the party executive.\n\nMr Poots said he had not been aware that Ms Forsythe was in the running for the nomination as \"for me it was about facilitating Jeffrey's return to Stormont\".\n\nThe DUP said it does not comment on internal party processes.\n\nHowever, a senior source within the party disputed Mr Poots' version of what happened before last week's nomination meeting.\n\nThis all lifts a curtain on private DUP business and reveals that all is not well.\n\nEdwin Poots' version of events is that he was being offered this alternative seat, and he believes he had this deal, but the deal didn't materialise.\n\nIt doesn't play well publicly for the DUP. It reignites those tensions that we witnessed last year during all the leadership battles.\n\nFor Mr Poots, the South Down decision is not the final decision.\n\nHe's banking on going to the executive and getting that decision regarding Diane Forsythe to be overturned and getting his name on the ballot paper.\n\nHe will be gambling on the fact that he has got allies in the room and will be number crunching to see if he has that support he needs.\n\nAs far as he's concerned, his political career is not over.\n\nEarlier, Mr Poots told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme he had engaged with Sir Jeffrey for two months on the issue of where he would stand in the election.\n\nHe said some \"very silly people\" had leaked elements of the nomination process to the press.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, he told BBC News NI the possibility of running in Lagan Valley was \"not entirely\" gone, but something would need to change \"radically\".\n\nAsked if he might find an alternative route back to the assembly, he said there could be lots of \"different permutations\".\n\nDiane Forsythe has been selected to stand in South Down\n\nThe DUP currently holds two seats in the Lagan Valley assembly constituency, belonging to Mr Poots and First Minister Paul Givan.\n\nSir Jeffrey has signalled his intention to return to the Northern Ireland Assembly and is also expected to be a candidate in Lagan Valley.\n\nMr Poots was elected leader of the DUP in May 2021 after the ousting of Arlene Foster, but he resigned just 21 days later.\n\nHis appointment and the process that led to it had caused divisions within the party and several members of the South Down constituency office quit the party including Ms Forsythe.\n\nThey later returned when Sir Jeffrey was ratified as leader, saying they felt happier under his leadership.", "A record rise in energy bills is set to be announced on Thursday, but the government may step in to reduce bills by £200 for many households.\n\nThe energy regulator will detail how much bills can rise from the beginning of April, with forecasts they could reach £2,000 for many homes.\n\nEnergy firms are likely to be given loans to help them cut customers' bills, the BBC has been told.\n\nMinisters may also extend targeted help for those in need.\n\nBut there are doubts over whether the measures will be ready by the time higher prices start on 1 April.\n\nEnergy bosses have told the BBC that they have been kept largely in the dark about the government's plans.\n\nWhile some have described the plan to lend money to energy companies, to allow them to reduce bills as credible, they say they are worried that the details of the plan have not been thought through.\n\nEnergy firms are struggling under the weight of surging wholesale gas prices, and passing on some of that rise to consumers, driving up the cost of living.\n\nRising energy bills have helped push inflation up to a 30-year high, leaving the government under pressure to intervene.\n\nThe Treasury's \"rebate and clawback\" scheme, first revealed in The Times, would involve providing around £5-6bn in loans to energy firms to enable them to lower bills.\n\nBut the scheme has raised concerns among providers because the money would still have to be paid back eventually.\n\nEnergy bosses told the BBC they expect the plan would include recouping the money from households over three to five years as wholesale costs fall.\n\nHowever, the bosses said wholesale prices are not expected to fall significantly any time soon.\n\nOfgem was meant to reveal April's price cap - which sets how much providers can charge for gas and electricity - next Monday, but it has brought the announcement forward.\n\nThe government's announcement, which could come as early as Thursday, may also include an extension of the warm homes discount and changes in other benefits.\n\nOne of the UK's biggest providers, EDF, said in a statement it would welcome government action, but gave no details of any plan nor the timing.\n\nPhilippe Commaret, the firm's managing director for customers, said: \"Ballooning wholesale gas prices are driving energy bills up and customers need government to act now, especially to support those most in need.\n\n\"We look forward to hearing from government urgently on how it will help struggling households beyond the support energy companies already provide. Delaying action adds to the stress and anxiety households face.\"\n\nIt is feared Ofgem's announcement will take the average annual domestic energy bill from 1 April to about £2,000 for 22 million households, up from about £1,300.\n\nThat has intensified calls in recent weeks for the government to step in to help struggling households.\n\nCitizens Advice revealed they have already seen a record number of people turning to them for advice on energy debts.\n\nThe cost of living is forecast to rise further this year, along with interest rates.\n\nAcross the economy individuals and companies are reporting price pressures. On Wednesday, a survey found that shoppers are seeing the sharpest rise in prices for a decade.\n\nThe cost of broadband and mobile phones, raw materials, transport and fuel, and food and drink are among a wide range of products and services now on the rise.\n\nThere are also planned tax rises in April, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson under intense pressure to scrap an increase in National Insurance. But he, and Chancellor Rishi Sunak, said at the weekend the NI rise would go ahead.", "Typhoons from Lossiemouth were involved in the RAF mission\n\nRAF jets were scrambled to intercept four Russian military aircraft to the north of Scotland.\n\nTyphoons from RAF Lossiemouth in Moray and a Voyager fuel tanker from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire were involved in the mission.\n\nThe RAF said the Russian aircraft did not enter UK airspace.\n\nIncidents like this - known as quick reaction alerts - are not uncommon and involve RAF crews shadowing Russian military aircraft near UK airspace.\n\nThey have occurred since the Cold War era.\n\nThe US and its allies have accused Russia of planning to invade Ukraine, something Russia has repeatedly denied.\n\nTwo Russian Tu-95 Bear H, which are long-range bombers, and two maritime patrol Tu-142 Bear F aircraft were tracked by the RAF near the \"UK's area of interest\".\n\nAn RAF spokesman said: \"Quick reaction alert Typhoon fighters based at RAF Lossiemouth supported by a Voyager from RAF Brize Norton were scrambled today against unidentified aircraft approaching the UK area of interest.\n\n\"Subsequently we intercepted and escorted four Russian Bear aircraft.\"\n\nThe RAF has previously said it responds to Russian military aircraft entering the UK Flight Information Region, the UK's controlled zone of international airspace, because they can pose a hazard to other air users.\n\nIt said the Russian planes often did not talk to air traffic control or \"squawk\" - broadcasting a code ensuring they are visible to other air users and air traffic controllers on the ground.\n\nA Tu-142 aircraft photographed by an RAF pilot last year\n\nA recent incident included RAF Lossiemouth Typhoons intercepting two Russian Tu-142 Bear F aircraft over the North Sea in March last year.\n\nTu-142 aircraft are used for reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare.\n\nRAF Lossiemouth on Scotland's north east coast is a base for dedicated quick reaction alert pilots.\n\nThe air station is also the home to the RAF's new fleet of Poseidon submarine-hunter aircraft.", "For Boris Johnson, this trip to Ukraine was a change of subject, a change of place.\n\nFor a few hours on Tuesday the political difficulties of the last few days could be left behind and replaced by the more grave matters of European security.\n\nHe arrived in Kyiv to make a show of support for a country facing the threat of invasion, a country where political survival has a more visceral, existential meaning, far removed from the exaggerated metaphors of Westminster.\n\nMr Johnson told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky that Britain would always stand up for his country's freedom.\n\nHe promised him £88m in aid and he had a clear warning for Moscow: if a single Russian toe cap crossed the border, they would be met by a resolute Ukrainian army that would put up \"a very fierce and bloody resistance. I think that parents, mothers in Russia should reflect on that.\"\n\nMr Johnson also warned Moscow there would be an \"automaticity\" about any economic sanctions that would be levelled against Russia if it invaded Ukraine.\n\nSo the messaging was clear - robust support for Ukraine, robust deterrence for Russia.\n\nThe question is whether this message was tempered by Mr Johnson's political preoccupations at home, all of which are being followed closely by diplomats overseas.\n\nIt has not gone unnoticed that while President Macron of France has been having regular telephone calls with President Putin, Mr Johnson's call with the Russian leader on Monday was postponed by the row over lockdown parties in Downing Street.\n\nIn fact, one of the noteworthy aspects of this crisis so far has been how much the West has managed to stick together with a united message, even though there are differences over policy.\n\nMr Johnson has his difficulties, the new German government is finding its feet, Mr Macron is in a tough electoral fight, the Americans have a president whose tongue occasionally slips.\n\nBut despite that, analysts say Russia has been surprised at its inability to divide its opponents.\n\nMr Johnson was not the only European leader in Kyiv on Tuesday - the Polish prime minister was there. Others are expected shortly.\n\nThere is a realisation - as Mr Zelensky pointed out - that if fighting breaks out, this would not be a conflict just between Ukraine and Russia; it could become a fully-fledged European war.\n\nMr Johnson's critics have accused him of using the crisis to try to look statesmanlike amid a damaging domestic controversy.\n\nBut perhaps they might also have criticised him if he had chosen not to come to Kyiv to engage in a confrontation in which the stakes remain high.", "Towns like Workington in Cumbria hope to benefit from the government's levelling up policy\n\nOne thing Tory MPs agree on when it comes to \"levelling-up\" is that not many people know what it really means.\n\nIt is one of Boris Johnson's favoured catch phrases, one he frequently uses to describe a broad ambition to spread wealth and opportunity more fairly.\n\nBut for something so central to the government's plan for the country, some of its own MPs aren't clear about the plan to deliver.\n\nWhile Tory MPs support the idea, one said: \"So far it's a lot of buzzwords that aren't meaningful.\n\n\"It needs to be more than just a slogan.\"\n\nAnother demanded \"meat on the bones\".\n\nAt the forthcoming Conservative Party conference, there will be pressure on the prime minister to spell out how he plans to realise this key election promise now the pandemic is less demanding of government time.\n\nMinisters point to schemes that are already underway as evidence that \"levelling-up\" has started: moving civil service jobs out of London, funding to improve high streets and town centres and multi-million-pound infrastructure schemes.\n\nThis attention and investment have undoubtedly been welcomed - some even think it's started to have an impact in their constituencies - but for others it'll take much more.\n\nJo Gideon, the MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, says: \"The challenge has been the need to be seen doing something quickly.\n\n\"In the early stages there was a need for shovel ready projects - you cannot change decades of decline with shovel ready projects alone.\n\n\"I'm not dismissing that - it is important to been seen to be doing things, it is important for the psyche of people who have felt left behind for a long time that they can see and feel something happening.\n\n\"But the spirit of levelling up is more about opportunity, and you can't build this opportunity overnight.\n\n\"It is less about shiny new buildings than concentrating on the real grassroots - whether people can make ends meet, pay their bills.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Levelling up is not a jam-spreading exercise\"\n\n\"Levelling up needs to start at a much more basic level in places like Stoke-on-Trent.\"\n\nConservative MPs talk of the need to combine physical improvements like better housing, high streets, transport and broadband with skills, training and crucially jobs.\n\nAnd there is real worry about the impact of spiralling energy costs, rising prices and planned tax increases on the most vulnerable communities.\n\nWhile no-one thinks there are easy solutions, most recognise there is a political risk to failure, particularly for a party that made big promises to newly won seats in the Midlands and the North.\n\nOne senior Conservative MP said: \"I think even if they get through the next election, I think they'll run out of road very quickly if they're not shown to deliver.\"\n\nMichael Gove was recently brought into turbo-charge the agenda, running the newly named department for Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.\n\nHis appointment is widely regarded as a good thing within the Tory party, bringing some political clout and policy firepower to the brief.\n\nHe's due to produce a white paper later this year which promises \"bold new policies\", and before then his conference speeches will no doubt be watched closely for signs of his thinking.\n\nFor some, meaningful change must involve shifting power and money out of Westminster to allow local communities to make decisions about their areas, with multi-year budgets and the political clout to attract private investment.\n\nJake Berry, chairman of the influential Northern Research Group of Tory MPs, says the civil service is \"institutionally biased\" towards investment in the south.\n\nHe said Whitehall needed a \"complete overhaul\" if the government was to deliver on the agenda, warning it would fail if it was just \"government as usual\".\n\nHe says: \"I'd like to hear the prime minister reaffirming his commitment to full devolution across the north, because it's only when you empower people in the north to spend their own money, make their own decisions and set their own political trajectory and destiny will the levelling-up agenda deliver.\"\n\nThe prime minister has promised more powers for local leaders in English counties, but there is already grappling over how this might work in practice.\n\nDiscussions over local government structures may not sound exciting but they could be crucial, if politically challenging.\n\nFor some the concern is that political focus on the Midlands and the North could mean other areas are overlooked.\n\nSelaine Saxby, the MP for North Devon, says her constituency is not all afternoon tea and trips to the beach.\n\n\"I've had conversations with the Number 10 team and there is an understanding that it's more than the red wall or the northern powerhouse,\" she says.\n\n\"I just hope they reflect what we as MPs have fed in, that it is about the whole country, coastal communities, areas where there are pockets of deprivation.\n\n\"I hope we can talk about all those things.\"\n\nThe prime minister has promised to rebalance the economic and social opportunities of the entire country; no easy feat.\n\nIt is a bold ambition widely backed by his party, but one of his first challenges might be persuading some of his own MPs he has the clarity and commitment to deliver.", "Unless ministers rethink the detail of plans to reduce regional inequality and \"level up\" Britain, the scheme could fail whole communities, says a charity.\n\nThe Salvation Army says thousands of lives could be harmed if the plans do not embrace the needs of residents.\n\nBBC News is following the fortunes of the levelling up agenda in the seaside town of Rhyl, which has the two poorest neighbourhoods in Wales.\n\nRhyl is one of dozens of British towns eligible for a share of the £4.8bn levelling up fund under the UK government's flagship policy to reduce regional inequality.\n\nBut some locals question how the money is being spent and ask who benefits from the changes.\n\n\"Things are looking really bright for Rhyl,\" says Jamie Groves, managing director of council-owned Denbighshire Leisure Ltd.\n\nBehind him lies a vast expanse of sandy beach and a sparkling sea.\n\n\"Rhyl had decades of promises and master plans, decades of all these visions and not one person delivered them,\" says Mr Groves, who grew up locally.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Levelling up: Lessons from Rhyl on how to use the money\n\nA stroll on the prom reveals new bars, restaurants and hotels, plus the revamped Victorian Pavilion theatre where Welsh icon Tom Jones will perform in September.\n\nMore than £120m from Denbighshire County Council, the Welsh government and the EU has helped transform the ageing promenade which fell into disrepair when the tourists spurned \"Sunny Rhyl\" in favour of sangria on the Costa del Sol.\n\nThe vision is for high quality facilities and the jewel in the crown, the SC2 waterpark, is fully booked for the summer - but some locals feel priced out.\n\nA few streets away, Peter Saunders watches three of his 12 children play in a paddling pool he inflated and plonked in a parking bay outside his house.\n\nLike many residents who spoke to the BBC, he bemoans the loss of the free paddling pool that once stood on the site now occupied by SC2.\n\nIt costs £48 for two-and-a-half hours in the waterpark for a family of four, although there are sometimes concessions.\n\nFor Peter, who says the town has many large families like his, the waterpark \"just costs too much money... It's not right really, not for the people of Rhyl.\"\n\n\"In an ideal world most visitor attractions would be cheaper,\" Mr Groves admits, but he adds: \"We've got to strike a balance between affordability and viability.\"\n\n\"We actually think this presents really good value for money,\" he says, pointing out that the waterpark employs local people.\n\nIt would probably take one of the town's many seagulls less than a minute to fly from the Good News Mission to the seafront in search of chips to scavenge - but it feels a world away.\n\n\"People need to come three or four streets back and see where the poverty is,\" says Natasha Harper, an outreach worker based at the former church which helps about 100 families a week.\n\n\"We had one family who were sleeping on the floor for quite a while because they couldn't afford beds.\"\n\nShe wants the people making decisions about the town to visit \"for 10 minutes... and maybe the money wouldn't be trying to make the front look pretty but actually put into where it's needed.\"\n\nThe SC2 waterpark - a landmark attraction, but beyond the pocket of some in Rhyl\n\nThe difference of opinion over the waterpark highlights national tensions over how to transform the fortunes of some of our poorest communities.\n\nThe Salvation Army says coastal areas in particular are \"in dire need\" but its report, published on Wednesday, highlights a lack of consultation.\n\n\"We want to encourage the government to listen to the communities who need their help, look up from the spreadsheet and see what we are seeing on the ground,\" says Rebecca Keating, the charity's director of employment services.\n\nTourism jobs were an early casualty of the pandemic, says Suzi Taylor\n\n\"The pandemic has been devastating for the area in general,\" says Suzi Taylor, an employment development co-ordinator with the Salvation Army in Rhyl.\n\n\"In an instant the tourism stopped. The jobs which people rely on were in one fell swoop gone.\"\n\nThe number of people claiming unemployment benefits in the resort rose sharply.\n\nThis includes not just people who lost their jobs but also those whose earnings fell low enough to be eligible to claim.\n\nDenver Jeff dislikes relying on hand-outs but looking for a job during successive lockdowns was tough.\n\nThe 64-year-old former labourer says it was \"impossible for me because I didn't have internet, the libraries were shut so I couldn't use their tablets, the job centre was shut\".\n\nDenver Jeff started a new job as a cleaner on Monday\n\nThe Salvation Army helped him find a part-time job as a cleaner at a local supermarket.\n\nSuzi says any attempt to level up Rhyl must start with better skills training for the many local people on short-term or zero-hour contracts.\n\nA lot of local jobs \"just don't give the financial security that people need to be able to move on and see there's more to life than benefits\".\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said levelling up would encompass \"all areas of the country, with billions of pounds of investment to support and regenerate communities, including coastal areas\".\n\nOfficials will take into account \"productivity, unemployment and skills\" when identifying areas most in need of support, the spokesperson added.\n\nDenbighshire County Council's leader, Hugh Evans, says he understands how locals have felt neglected in efforts to change the town: \"but we had to start somewhere\".\n\n\"The challenge is marrying up the level of investment to the benefit of the people in the more deprived areas.\"\n\nHe says money has been invested in improving schools and housing and hopes the levelling up funds will improve Rhyl's decaying town centre.\n\n\"The vision is quite clear: It's about a good place to live, a good place to visit and a good place to work.\"", "Switzerland will begin lifting its Covid-19 restrictions from Thursday, when the mandatory work-from-home rule and the quarantine requirement for those coming into contact with someone who has Covid will be lifted.\n\nA proposal to lift all further restrictions - including the Covid certificate, limits on public and private gatherings, and the wearing of masks - has been submitted to the cantons (provinces) and could take place as early as 16 February, depending, the government says, on whether case numbers indicate the Omicron wave has peaked.\n\nSwiss health officials believe the country is moving out of the pandemic and towards a situation where Covid-19 is endemic.\n\nThey say the lifting of restrictions is justified because the feared pressure on hospitals due to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant did not materialise.\n\nSwitzerland has recorded more than 12,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic, and continues to have one of the lowest vaccination rates (around 66%) in western Europe.", "Bethany Vincent and Darren Henson were found fatally stabbed in their home in Louth on 31 May 2021\n\nA man who murdered his ex-girlfriend and her nine-year-old son has been jailed for a minimum of 40 years.\n\nBethany Vincent, 26, and Darren Henson - also known as DJ - were found stabbed to death at their home in Louth, Lincolnshire, on 31 May 2021.\n\nDaniel Boulton, 30, was found guilty of murder on Tuesday following a trial at Lincoln Crown Court.\n\nDJ's father, Kieran Henson, said: \"No sentence in the world will be enough for what he has done.\"\n\nBoulton had pleaded guilty to manslaughter mid-trial but had continued to deny murder, claiming he was suffering from a mental health condition at the time.\n\nPassing sentence, Mr Justice Pepperall said Boulton had subjected Ms Vincent and her son to \"abhorrent physical and psychological abuse\" and described him as a \"very dangerous man\" who took \"pleasure\" in inflicting violence.\n\nDuring his trial the court heard Boulton walked 28 miles to Ms Vincent's house on High Holme Road where he stabbed her nine times.\n\nHe then went upstairs to DJ's bedroom and stabbed him 14 times. Both mother and son suffered fatal injuries to the heart, as well as the head and other areas of the body.\n\nBoulton went on the run and was arrested about 24 hours after the killings following a manhunt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProsecutors said Ms Vincent had a restraining order against domestic abuser Boulton but he \"repeatedly\" broke it and continued to harass his ex.\n\nShe and her son had been due to move to an address unknown to Boulton just a few days after they were murdered, the court heard.\n\nMr Justice Pepperall described Boulton as a \"manipulative and controlling\" man and said his violence towards Ms Vincent was \"borne out of a desire to control her life and a deep sense of frustration when you did not get your own way\".\n\n\"Your abuse ran far deeper than the cuts and bruises that you inflicted in earlier offences against her, but included vile psychological abuse.\"\n\n\"You patronised her, you put her down, you made her feel small, you criticised every aspect of her life. You expected her to forsake her family, you insisted that she give up her own son, and you even uttered the most horrific threats about wanting DJ dead in her presence.\"\n\nThe judge said the killer had \"a deep hatred of DJ\", adding: \"I am sure that you targeted DJ because of a hatred motivated by his autism and your irrational fear that such condition would somehow affect your own son.\"\n\nDaniel Boulton was arrested at Hallington House Farm, not far from Louth\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Mr Henson said the pain of losing his son was \"unbearable\" and that the moment police told him his son was dead would never leave him.\n\n\"I will never again hear him shout daddy. The pain and heartache kills me everyday,\" he said.\n\n\"Those are words no parent ever wants to hear. They will be in my mind forever.\"\n\nBethany's parents said their lives \"will never be the same again\" and spoke of their \"pain and emptiness\".\n\nHer sister, Chloe Vincent, said Boulton had \"ruined our family's life forever\".\n\nAs he delivered the sentence, Mr Justice Pepperall said he had \"given anxious consideration\" to imposing a whole-life order due to the seriousness of the case.\n\nHowever, he added there was a possibility the 30-year-old may never be released, even after serving the minimum term.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA woman said she \"could have been killed\" after her Range Rover burst into flames on her drive.\n\nLauren Griffiths, 37, from Hendy, Carmarthenshire, said the £58,000 car was \"well alight\" 25 minutes after she parked outside her home.\n\nHer house was damaged and the fire service spent two hours trying to control the blaze on 21 January.\n\nShe claimed Land Rover was refusing to take responsibility, but the firm said the cause was yet to be determined.\n\nMs Griffiths said she was returning home from work on the M4 when a message lit up the dashboard saying it was \"OK to drive but with caution\".\n\n\"When I got home there was some smoke coming out of the grill and my son said he could see sparks,\" she added.\n\n\"At that point my son was getting quite distressed and asked me to get out of the car.\"\n\nLauren Griffiths' car was a wreck after the fire and there was also damage to her home\n\nThe mother-of-two was with her 11-year-old as it began losing power before she reached home.\n\nUnable to turn the car off, she went inside to call the RAC and was on the phone when her son began crying and said the car was on fire.\n\nMs Griffiths called 999 and went to the back garden.\n\nThe flames spread to Lauren Griffiths' home and that of a neighbour\n\nThe two climbed a fence and went through to a neighbour's property.\n\n\"There was a massive explosion, there were loud bangs as the tyres went and car debris was everywhere,\" Ms Griffiths said.\n\nLauren said the wind caused the flames to spread to her house: \"I felt as though I was watching someone else's life, I was so helpless. There was nothing I could do.\"\n\nLauren Griffiths says someone \"could have died\" in the fire, which spread to her house\n\nSince the blaze she said her family had been \"living day-to-day\".\n\nShe added: \"We've lost everything. Thankfully we can stay at my partner's and have his support.\"\n\nWhen she called her Land Rover dealer the day after, she said \"his eyes nearly popped out of his head\".\n\nBut she said communication with Land Rover had been \"slow\" and claimed the car firm was unsympathetic, dubbing its response \"shocking\".\n\nThe car was well alight within 25 minutes of parking, Ms Griffiths said\n\nShe wants Land Rover to explain why her car caught fire and said the company refused to take responsibility as her car was seven weeks out of warranty.\n\nShe said: \"I'm really angry that Land Rover will not accept any liability… my son could have been killed, I could have been killed.\"\n\nLand Rover said: \"Customer safety is our highest priority.\n\n\"We are aware of the incident and we sympathise with Ms Griffiths' experience, the cause of which is yet to be determined.\n\n\"We are in regular contact with Ms Griffiths and are doing everything we can to support her and her family.\"\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it was called to a fire at 19:43 GMT which destroyed the car and caused smoke and fire damage to Ms Griffiths' home, but the cause was believed to be accidental.\n\nThe fire service believes the fire was accidental", "Mason Greenwood, who made his debut for Manchester United in 2019, was arrested on Sunday\n\nManchester United footballer Mason Greenwood has been released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of raping a woman.\n\nThe 20-year-old was also arrested on suspicion of assault on Sunday following allegations on social media.\n\nHe was then further arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and making threats to kill on Tuesday.\n\nManchester United previously said the forward would not return to training or matches until further notice.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said Greenwood was arrested after the force \"became aware of online social media images and videos posted by a woman reporting incidents of physical violence\".\n\nIt said magistrates had granted a second extension to keep him in custody until Wednesday but he had now been bailed pending further investigations.\n\nManchester United said the club \"did not condone violence of any kind\" following the arrest\n\nFollowing the striker's arrest, video game developer EA Sports said Greenwood had been removed from FIFA products.\n\nIt said he had been taken out of active squads in FIFA 22 and suspended from appearing in FIFA Ultimate Team packs and Ultimate Draft.\n\nSportswear firm Nike previously said it had suspended its relationship with the footballer.\n\n\"We are deeply concerned by the disturbing allegations and will continue to closely monitor the situation,\" a spokesman said.\n\nGreenwood, who made his Manchester United debut in March 2019, signed a four-year deal in February last year after rising through the ranks of the academy.\n\nOn Sunday, the club said it \"did not condone violence of any kind\" and had been made aware of the allegations but would make no further comment until the \"facts have been established\".\n\nIn a further statement on Tuesday, the club said it \"reiterates its strong condemnation of violence of any kind\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hannah Lowe was named the winner at a ceremony in London on Tuesday\n\nA collection of modern sonnets inspired by poet Hannah Lowe's decade teaching in an inner London school has been named the Costa Book of the Year.\n\nLowe's book The Kids was described as \"a joy to read\" by the chair of judges, BBC journalist Reeta Chakrabarti.\n\nLowe has won £30,000 for her \"poignant, witty, thoughtful and universal\" work.\n\nIts 66 sonnets convey the highs and lows of teaching A-level English, and offer fictionalised portraits of some of her adolescent students.\n\nThe collection also draws on Lowe's own experiences as an teenager and a mother.\n\n\"It is fresh, it is original,\" Chakrabarti said. \"When I first picked it up, I thought, goodness me, I haven't read anything like this before.\n\n\"It's a book of poetry that is written in the sonnet form, but it is so fresh and immediate and modern that you sometimes don't feel like you're reading poetry. You just feel like she's speaking to you.\"\n\n\"Boredom hangs like a low cloud in the classroom.\" That is the opening line from one of the many memorable sonnets in The Kids, and demonstrates how thoroughly modern they are.\n\nThey are engaging and entertaining too. The poems are divided into three sections. First, Lowe writes about teaching. \"If gloom / has a sound, it's the voice of Leroy reading / Frankenstein aloud.\"\n\nThe second reflects on her own school days with unforgettable lines on adolescent desire: \"His voice was like a shirt unbuttoning.\" The final poems are about motherhood and splitting up with her partner.\n\nLowe's book was chosen from the five individual category winners, which were announced last month\n\nThey offer a particularly fascinating glimpse into Lowe's experience teaching English at an inner-city London sixth form in the 2000s. The majority of her pupils were from minority backgrounds, and one poem is called The Only English Kid.\n\nAnother girl was hostile for months, with \"the late strut-in, teeth-kissing, rolling eyes\", until she discovered Lowe's father was \"half Jamaican, half Chinese\". Lowe can only conclude that the \"whiteness of her skin\" had caused \"confusion, chaos\", and after that the girl was \"nicer\".\n\nThere are also some bold and disconcerting poems. Lowe takes her pupils to see the film Notes on a Scandal, starring Cate Blanchett as a teacher who has an affair with a schoolboy. Another poem, titled Boy, is about a pupil who would \"ignite a little flame\" whenever he waved at her.\n\nThe sonnet, with its 14 lines and strict rhyme scheme, dates back centuries. But in this collection, Hannah Lowe has taken it to unexpected places - with richly rewarding results.\n\nLowe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday that sonnets have \"a particular energy\", and having to fit a structure \"pushes your imagination to a new place\".\n\n\"So often you'll find yourself going beyond the memory and beyond the documentary truth, even,\" she said.\n\n\"And then the sonnet, it just seemed like the right form for these poems, because I was often having to teach the sonnet.\"\n\nShe also explained: \"I started writing poetry because I enthused myself about poetry through teaching it. I sometimes felt I was the only person getting enthused in some of my lessons.\n\n\"But there's a direct relationship, which is why, in a way, it made sense for me to then write about teaching.\"\n\nFrom Ilford in east London, she left teaching in schools in 2012 and now lectures in creative writing at Brunel University.\n\nLast month, The Kids won the Costa Poetry Award, one of the five individual categories in the Costa Book Awards. Those five then went forward to be considered for the overall book of the year accolade.\n\nThe final deliberations took several hours, Chakrabarti said. \"We really found it a difficult decision because the quality of the entrants was very high.\n\n\"It was a decision that we were all behind because it most fulfilled the sort of book that we were looking for - something that speaks to the moment but that's also timeless. We think this is a collection that will last a long time and we hope will become a classic because it fully deserves to.\"\n\nThe Costa Book Awards are among the UK's most prestigious book prizes and have been going for 50 years. The Kids was also shortlisted for this year's TS Eliot Prize.\n\nThe other Costa Book Award winners were:", "Vaginal oestrogen tablets - a type of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) - could be available in chemists depending on the outcome of a consultation.\n\nUnder the proposals, women would be able to get them without a prescription instead of going to see their GP.\n\nHRT is used to treat menopause symptoms - and 150,000 women have prescriptions.\n\nDoctors caution that pharmacists and women need to be well informed on the choice of treatments available.\n\nThe UK medicines regulator, the MHRA, is proposing to reclassify a product called Gina10, or estradiol - which treats vaginal dryness caused by lack of oestrogen - as a pharmacy medicine. This change would make it available to buy in chemists.\n\nThe tablets, which are inserted into the vagina, are for women aged over 50 who have not had a period for at least one year.\n\nPharmacists will have access to training materials and a checklist to help them identify women who can be offered the treatment, the MHRA says.\n\nThe regulator is now asking GPs, pharmacists and the public for their views on the proposal as part of a consultation which is open until 23 February 2022.\n\nMinister for Women's Health, Maria Caulfield, said menopause support was \"a key issue\" which the government needed to do more to address.\n\n\"This consultation is another step forward to ensure women's voices are being heard loud and clear on how they want to access HRT to reduce the impact of the menopause on their lives,\" she added.\n\nAs part of its Women's Health Strategy, the government has set up a UK-wide taskforce to focus on the menopause.\n\nIn October, it was announced that the cost of repeat prescriptions for HRT would be significantly reduced in England, but the changes have yet to be brought in.\n\nHRT replaces the hormones that are missing during the menopause - particularly oestrogen - and relieves symptoms, such as hot flushes, night sweats, sleeping problems, brain fog and mood changes.\n\nIt is available as tablets, skin patches, gels and pessaries.\n\nSome types of HRT slightly increase the risk of breast cancer and blood clots in some women, but the risks are small and usually outweighed by the benefits, NHS advice says.\n\nThe Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) said they welcomed improved access to HRT, but stressed that women should still feel able to talk to a doctor about their symptoms and discuss all treatments available.\n\nDr Edward Morris, RCOG president, said \"every woman will experience the menopause differently\" and that meant treatments needed to be tailored to individual needs and symptoms.\n\nMenopause specialist Dr Louise Newson called the vaginal tablets \"a local hormonal treatment\" which could treat irritation and also help combat urinary symptoms.\n\nAccording to Dr Newson, 80% of women going through the menopause experience those symptoms, but only 8% access treatment.\n\n\"It's different to HRT and it doesn't reduce the health risks of the menopause, but it is very safe,\" she said.\n\nDr Paula Briggs, a consultant in sexual and reproductive health at Liverpool Women's Hospital, said that making HRT available over the counter would be \"a good thing to do\". But she said it needed to be done carefully, by ensuring education for pharmacists and women on how to access the right treatments.\n\nShe also said pharmacists should be able to look at patients' medical records to check their history before advising on a treatment.\n\nThorrun Govind, from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said the proposal was \"an important step in the right direction\" and would particularly benefit those who struggle to access healthcare, while also helping busy GPs.\n\nShe said the Society supported scrapping prescriptions charges for HRT products altogether in England.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from a US talk show after saying the Holocaust involved \"two groups of white people\".\n\nABC News said Goldberg would be off-air for two weeks after her \"wrong and hurtful comments\".\n\nThe actress and TV personality said on ABC's The View that the Nazi genocide of the Jews was \"not about race\".\n\nShe apologised but then caused further offence while attempting to explain her remarks on a late-night show.\n\nIn a note to staff on Tuesday night, ABC News president Kim Godwin wrote: \"Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments.\n\n\"While Whoopi has apologised, I've asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments.\n\n\"The entire ABC News organisation stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.\"\n\n\"These decisions are never easy, but necessary,\" she added in the memo, reported the Hollywood Reporter.\n\n\"Just last week I noted that the culture at ABC News is one that is driven, kind, inclusive, respectful, and transparent. Whoopi's comments do not align with those values.\"\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Goldberg issued her third public apology.\n\n\"Yesterday on the show I misspoke,\" she said to open the talk show.\n\n\"[The Holocaust] is indeed about race, because Hitler and the Nazis considered the Jews to be an inferior race.\n\n\"Now, words matter, and mine are no exception. I regret my comments and I stand corrected. I also stand with the Jewish people.\"\n\nThe 66-year-old Oscar-winning actress, who has been on The View since 2007, first made the controversial comments on Monday's show while discussing a Tennessee school board's banning of a graphic novel about the Holocaust on the grounds that it showed nudity, profanity and suicide.\n\nAmid the uproar, she released an apology hours later.\n\nBut on CBS' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday night, while attempting to clarify her comments, she said the Nazis had lied and actually had issues with ethnicity not race, which caused further offence.\n\nIt is not the first time Goldberg has caused controversy.\n\nShe said in 2009 that film director Roman Polanksi - who pleaded guilty to \"unlawful sex with a minor\" in 1977 - was not guilty of \"rape-rape\".\n\nShe also defended Bill Cosby as he faced sexual assault allegations, before reversing course amid a backlash.\n• None Goldberg's second 'sorry' over Holocaust remarks", "The search for survivors continues in Quito, Ecuador after Monday's deadly landslide killed at least 24 people.\n\nIt was triggered by heavy rainfall in the capital, the heaviest the country has seen in almost 20 years.", "Flooding across South Australia has disrupted major supply chains and left outback communities cut off.\n\nThe military has been called in to deliver food and essential items.", "Cells collected during smear tests for cervical cancer might be useful for detecting early tumours elsewhere, such as in the breasts and ovaries, research suggests.\n\nScientists say they have found tell-tale signatures in these neck-of-the-womb cells linked to other cancers.\n\nLooking for these patterns could provide a warning doctors can act on, they say in the journal Nature Communications.\n\nWomen are already invited for routine cervical-cancer checks and, every few years after the age of 50, breast-screening mammogram scans.\n\nBut despite much research, there is still no reliable screening test for early ovarian cancer. These tumours are often more advance and harder to treat when they are found.\n\nCells that turn cancerous often show distinctive early changes at the molecular level.\n\nAnd researchers believe they have found some in smear-test samples that could help identify women at higher risk of specific other cancers, not just cancer of the cervix.\n\nTo identify down the most important ones linked to breast and ovarian cancer, Prof Martin Widschwendter and colleagues analysed cervical smear cell samples from:\n\nThey now recommend studies with more women to confirm their results.\n\nProf Widschwendter told BBC News: \"What we are talking about is identifying women at higher risk who might not otherwise know it.\n\n\"They can then have additional cancer checks.\n\n\"It's a bit like checking blood pressure to see who is at risk of heart problems.\"\n\nThe work was funded by The Eve Appeal research charity that hopes to drive improved treatments for gynaecological cancers.\n\nDr Julie Sharp, from Cancer Research UK, said: \"Screening for cervical cancer is already an invaluable tool, so it's interesting to see if cell samples taken through screening could be used in future to detect other cancers.\n\n\"However, we need further research to see how accurate this method is at detecting women with ovarian and breast cancer.\n\n\"Like the authors of this research, we look forward to seeing larger trials over longer periods to establish whether cervical cells could diagnose other cancers at an earlier stage.\"\n\nAbout 20 women a day are diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the UK\n\nIt often causes symptoms similar to other more common and less serious conditions, including:\n\nIf you regularly have one or more of these symptoms, which are not normal for you, it is important to book an appointment with your GP.\n\nBreast and cervical screening is also recommended for some trans or non-binary people. Talk to your GP or gender-identity clinic about this.\n\nMen can develop breast cancer too and should not ignore symptoms such as a lump.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has faced calls to resign over lockdown parties in Downing Street\n\nAnd then there were three.\n\nIn one day, another trio of Tory MPs from different parts of the Conservative Party made the decision to add their names to the small number of their colleagues publicly saying that Boris Johnson's time in office is up.\n\nIt doesn't mean that the prime minister yet faces overwhelming opposition from his own side.\n\nRemember, wherever public opinion is, whatever the latest allegation against No 10 is, it's Tory resistance to the leadership that could trigger a vote that might hasten Mr Johnson out of office.\n\nBut it does mean that the prime minister and his allies' attempt to grab control of an unruly party, and to get back to conversations that have a direct effect on voters, is failing to convince their own side.\n\nIt means that those MPs who have decided that they agree privately that Mr Johnson has become a liability, not an asset, may feel more able to speak out when they are next asked the question.\n\nIt means, too, that No 10 are not managing to close down the conversation about the prime minister's leadership.\n\nIt means, too, that the small group who are happy to make the public case for him to stay look increasingly like outriders than reasonable brokers just trying to cool tempers that have temporarily run hot.\n\nIt does not mean, though, that the consensus has reached a stage where the prime minister's time really is up.\n\nBut it does mean that the Tory party is still distracted by the question of who will, and who ought to lead them into the next election.\n\nAnd for as long as that is still a matter of debate for the party, it's a vital question for the world outside.", "Cars were burnt out after the disorder in May 2021\n\nTwenty-seven people have been charged over large scale disorder which broke out in part of Swansea last May.\n\nDefendants aged between 15 and 44 face charges for the offence of riot, while two were also charged with arson with the intent to endanger life.\n\nAll are due to appear at Swansea Magistrates' Court between 2 and 4 March.\n\nCh Supt Trudi Meyrick, of South Wales Police, said residents were subjected to \"terrible scenes of disorder\".\n\nThe disorder broke out on the evening of 20 May after a vigil to 19-year-old Ethan Powell, who had died suddenly, turned violent.\n\nFootage posted on social media captured some of the disturbances\n\nCars were burnt out and windows smashed as the violence continued for several hours.\n\nPolice said seven officers were injured during the disorder.\n\nSouth Wales Police has since apologised for its slow response after an independent review said residents were left \"unprotected\".\n\nThe marks of the riot were left on the street the following day\n\nCh Supt Meyrick, policing commander for Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, added: \"The investigation team were resolute in their commitment to fully investigate the disorder that happened that night; residents of Mayhill were subjected to terrible scenes of disorder which caused serious harm and distress to the community.\n\n\"The judicial process will now run its course and we await the outcome of that process.\"", "The government has written off £8.7bn it spent on protective equipment bought during the pandemic, accounts show.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care documents show items costing £673m were unusable, while £750m of equipment was not used before its expiry date.\n\nThe largest write-off - £4.7bn - was because the government paid more for it than it is currently worth, now that global supplies have recovered.\n\nNo 10 said the purchases were justified - with 97% of items suitable for use.\n\nA further £2.6bn of equipment was judged to be unsuitable for use in the NHS, the 2020/21 accounts show, but the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) believes it could still be sold or given to charities.\n\nAt the start of the pandemic, countries around the world were clamouring for personal protective equipment (PPE), sending prices soaring.\n\nNo 10 said \"we stand by the decision to purchase the items that we did\", saying the approach was \"justified\" to get PPE to the front line.\n\n\"We were acting in a highly competitive global market with many countries imposing export bans and obviously we were seeking to secure PPE for frontline clinicians,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman gave the example of protective aprons, saying they were now worth about a third of the price they were selling at in the earlier stages of the pandemic.\n\nBut he said it was important to ensure there were sufficient supplies at the time.\n\nThe spokesman said that \"97% of PPE ordered was suitable for use and we're seeking to recover costs from suppliers wherever and whenever possible\".\n\nNo 10 said the government was now able to \"mitigate\" similar problems in the future by \"massively increasing our onshore-based PPE production\".\n\nLabour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Pat McFadden, said that coming after disputed reports of billions written off due to fraud in Covid support funds, this would be \"galling to hard-working households\" facing tax rises.\n\n\"These levels of waste destroy any claim the Conservatives have to be careful stewards of the public finances,\" he said.\n\nLiberal Democrat health spokeswoman Daisy Cooper said the government was \"inept\", adding: \"They cannot be trusted with our money and are totally out of touch.\"", "DUP minister Edwin Poots has ordered his officials to halt Irish Sea border checks from midnight.\n\nHe had been threatening to act, as part of the DUP's ongoing opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nMr Poots said he had taken legal advice which meant he could direct the checks to stop in the absence of executive approval for them.\n\nSinn Féin, the DUP's power-sharing partners, criticised the move as a \"stunt\".\n\nAside from staff from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera), which Mr Poots oversees, border posts also employ local authority environmental health staff.\n\nIt remains unclear what they will do in light of Mr Poots' order, although pre-Brexit checks on livestock are expected to continue.\n\nNorthern Ireland Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, of Sinn Féin, said it was an attempt by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to \"unlawfully interfere with domestic and international law\".\n\nThe protocol was agreed by the UK and EU to ensure free movement of trade across the Irish land border after Brexit.\n\nBut unionist politicians have been critical of the arrangements, saying they are damaging Northern Ireland's place in the UK.\n\nA UK government spokesperson has said the operation of checks \"is a matter for the Northern Ireland Executive\".\n\n\"We have been consistently clear that there are significant problems with the protocol which urgently need fixing, which is why we are in intensive talks with the EU to find solutions,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nUnder power-sharing arrangements, if the matter was put to the executive, it would need an agreed approach from both the first and deputy first minister if changes were to be made.\n\nSinn Féin has previously said it will block any attempt to halt border checks.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss is expected to speak to EU Commision Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič again on Thursday.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss is due to talk with Maros Sefcovic later this week\n\nThe UK's former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost said he believed that the protocol still needed to be dramatically altered.\n\n\"The best way of resolving this situation would be for the EU to negotiate seriously with us to change the protocol so that these unnecessary checks aren't required in the first place,\" he said.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said the move, if officials do follow Mr Poots' direction, would be a \"breach of international law\".\n\nHe said on Wednesday night that the British government had \"an obligation to comply with international law\".\n\n\"Surely that's not too much to ask as we all work to find agreement on flexible & pragmatic implementation of the NI Protocol,\" he tweeted.\n\nUnder the Northern Ireland Protocol, checks on goods from Great Britain must take place at Northern Ireland's ports to make sure they comply with EU laws.\n\nBut Mr Poots believes the checks are unlawful and cannot continue without approval from the Stormont Executive.\n\nLast week, his bid to force an executive rethink on the issue was blocked by Sinn Féin.\n\nMr Poots said he had received legal advice on Wednesday\n\nHe said legal advice he had received on Wednesday confirmed that the implementation of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) checks required approval from the Stormont Executive.\n\nMr Poots said that meant he was able to direct the checks to cease, and he had issued a formal instruction to his department's permanent secretary to halt all checks not in place on 31 December 2020 as of midnight tonight.\n\nThe body which represents manufacturing businesses in Northern Ireland, Manufacturing NI, responded to the decision by saying it was advising its members to continue to enact the measures that they had been.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Manufacturing NI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBusiness leaders have previously told politicians that trading issues needed to be resolved as \"a matter of priority\".\n\nAnthony Harbinson has only been in post as the top civil servant at Northern Ireland's Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) for seven months.\n\nNow he finds himself with a difficult political dilemma - to follow or not to follow orders from his minister?\n\nEdwin Poots believes he has a democratic mandate to issue instructions on the checks, and that his legal advice backs that up.\n\nBut critics argue that civil servants are already bound by current law on the protocol and must not stop their work.\n\nThen there is the other question of how Westminster will respond.\n\nIt stepped in before to remind Stormont of its legal obligations when it comes to operating the protocol.\n\nBut that was two years ago, and the political temperature has risen significantly.\n\nWith the assembly election only months away, Number 10 could take a back seat on this for now but there is every chance the issue could still end up in court.\n\nA spokesperson for Daera said Mr Poots had received \"senior counsel advice and has issued an instruction on that basis\".\n\nA spokesperson for Belfast City Council, which is responsible for making sure Belfast Port meets environmental health standards, said it would engage with elected representatives and statutory partners on Thursday \"and assess the situation at that point\".\n\nThe BBC has also contacted the UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs for a response.\n\nThe minister added that he would prepare a further paper for the executive seeking approval for the measures in due course.\n\nSinn Féin maintains that Stormont has a legal obligation to enforce the checks, and that the executive agreed in May 2020 to designate Mr Poots' department to perform the controls.\n\nThe protocol created a new trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK\n\nMr Coveney said the protocol was part of an international treaty.\n\n\"So, to deliberately frustrate obligations under that treaty, I think, would be a very serious matter indeed,\" he said.\n\nAn EU diplomat told BBC News the move \"won't do the UK's reputation any good\" and questioned the legality of the decision.\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill tweeted that the DUP were \"fixated on their own priorities, which are clearly at odds with where the wider community is at\".\n\nThe reaction of the European Commission will be key in this.\n\nThe Irish government will be very concerned as well. That raises the question - if stuff isn't being checked at the Irish Sea then where is it being checked?\n\nWill the companies sending stuff here - will they still fill out the export health certs, will they still produce the Common Health Entry Documents even if there is nobody to actually carry out the physical inspections?\n\nMight they want to do that for their own legal certainty? That's another question I'm not certain about.\n\nAn industry source was suggesting that the advice they would give is that to have legal certainty you should do what you've been doing under grace periods as it stands.\n\nThat will be an individual decision for businesses - particularly the big supermarkets.\n\nThe Alliance Party's John Blair said it was \"not a time for causing further disruption\".\n\n\"The minister knows the solutions won't be found in the assembly or the department - it's a matter for the joint UK-EU committee,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the Alliance Party would consider \"very carefully\" how the matter progresses in the coming days before deciding whether the decision should be challenged in court.\n\nMatthew O'Toole, the SDLP's Brexit spokesperson said the order given by Edwin Poots to civil servants was \"outrageous\" and that the general public was more concerned with other matters.\n\n\"The pretence that this is the biggest issue facing political leaders is a scandalous lie,\" he said.\n\n\"It will not command the support of the Assembly or the Executive and it will be challenged.\"\n\nThe move was welcomed by Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister, who said the protocol implementation was \"never compatible\" with Northern Ireland's position within the UK.\n\n\"The fundamental question though remains, why did it take a year to do this - a year which included excuses and justifications for the very checks Minister Poots now abandons,\" he said.", "Goodwillie was at Stark's Park to watch Raith Rovers' 3-3 draw with Queen of the South\n\nRaith Rovers' decision to sign David Goodwillie has been described as \"badly misjudged\" by the chief executive of Scottish Women's Football.\n\nAileen Campbell said the move could have \"devastating\" consequences for the women's game in Scotland.\n\nAuthor Val McDermid said Raith Rovers' girls and women's teams had started to sever ties with the club.\n\nGoodwillie was ruled to be a rapist and ordered to pay damages in a civil case in 2017.\n\nTwo Raith Rovers directors and the captain of its women's team have resigned in protest at his signing.\n\nMs McDermid has withdrawn her sponsorship of the club over the move.\n\nBut the club has defended its decision, which it said was primarily based on Goodwillie's abilities on the pitch.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, Aileen Campbell urged the club to reconsider its decision.\n\nThe chief executive of Scottish Women's Football, who is a former MSP, said: \"The fact the women's club have lost their captain as a result of this is devastating.\n\n\"That would be a devastating consequence to lose women from the game as a result of this poor decision.\"\n\nMs McDermid told BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour that she was now focusing on supporting the Raith Rovers' girls and women's teams, from under-10 to senior level.\n\nShe said the signing of Goodwillie had left the women's teams \"appalled and horrified\".\n\n\"They had a meeting last night and the upshot of that is, essentially, they want to completely distance themselves from Raith Rovers Football Club,\" she said.\n\n\"They are currently, as we speak, having new shirts printed that don't have the Raith Rovers crest on them.\n\n\"They are committed to playing their fixture on Sunday not at Stark's Park, Raith Rovers' ground, but at another ground in the town, at the Windmill pitches.\"\n\nMs McDermid said they were also talking about changing the name of the club and were \"adamant they no longer wish to be associated with Raith Rovers\".\n\nShe said she would sponsor the team's new shirts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. McDermid says she was given assurances that the deal would not happen\n\nThe author also said that she had been assured there was no substance to rumours that Goodwillie would join in the January transfer window.\n\nShe said she spoke to Raith Rovers' chief executive, who told her the club had \"no interest\" in the player.\n\n\"Next thing I know she is negotiating his transfer, so there you go, that's the kind of people we are dealing with here,\" she said.\n\nMs McDermid, whose father was a scout for the club, told the programme the signing and its fall-out had been \"heartbreaking\" for her.\n\nThe author was the Scottish Championship team's main shirt sponsor, but said that deal would now end this summer as a result of the signing.\n\nBBC Scotland has asked the club for a response to Ms McDermid's comments.\n\nJudy Hamilton, chair of the Raith Rovers Community Foundation, said she had been shocked to learn about the signing on Monday night and believes the decision \"was not risk assessed\" by the club.\n\nVal McDermid has withdrawn her support and sponsorship of Raith Rovers football club\n\nThe captain of the club's women's team, Tyler Rattray, resigned in protest, as did directors Bill Clark and Andrew Mill and supporter liaison officer Margie Robertson.\n\nOn Wednesday First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said footballers were role models and urged the club to \"think again\" about its decision.\n\n\"We are talking about a football player who, in a civil court, was found to have raped a woman, who as far as I am aware has never really expressed any real remorse or reflection and I think that sends a really damaging message,\" she added.\n\nMs Sturgeon said society still has a long way to go to address issues such as sexual violence and misogyny.\n\nShe added: \"I would hope Raith Rovers reflect very carefully on the groundswell of opinion that has been expressed over the last 24 hours, from all walks of life but particularly from their own fan base and perhaps think again about this decision.\"\n\nFormer UK prime minister Gordon Brown, one of the club's most high-profile supporters, also said he could not support the signing.\n\nThe statement from Raith Rovers has not gone down well.\n\nThe references to David Goodwillie's abilities, and the underlining of the decision being about football, did little to quell the unrest that continues to grow.\n\nIf anything, it may well have made matters worse for the club. Those opposed to the signing of David Goodwillie were well aware that football was the reason.\n\nRaith Rovers gambled on the flak being manageable. For them it was a risk worth taking.\n\nThere is some sympathy for the club's position. Various people from within the game have told me that the fall-out is unreasonable and that football should be an outlet for rehabilitation - but none of those were willing to say so in public.\n\nThat in itself is telling. The position taken by Raith Rovers has left them publicly isolated - a situation they are willing to accept, for now.\n\nGoodwillie, a former Scotland international, was pictured watching from the stands on Tuesday night as his new club drew 3-3 with Queen of the South.\n\nIn a statement, the club said it had signed the 32-year-old because he was \"a proven goal scorer\".\n\nIt said their \"foremost consideration\" was \"his footballing ability\".\n\n\"While acknowledging the gravity of what happened 10 years ago, as a club we fully support and encourage rehabilitation, and many factors influenced our signing. But first and foremost, this was a football-related decision,\" it said.\n\nGoodwillie's signing for Clyde in 2017 also attracted criticism, but the club defended its decision and said people should be allowed to rebuild their lives after mistakes.\n\nClyde supporter Fin McKay contacted a phone-in on BBC Radio Scotland's Mornings programme to praise Goodwillie's contribution to the Scottish League One club.\n\nDavid Goodwillie joins Raith Rovers after five years at Clyde\n\nMr McKay said: \"He had been an absolute role model at Clyde, an exemplary professional. No issues with him whatsoever.\n\n\"The abuse that he gets, or he did get initially when he joined Clyde, from other fans is the worst abuse I have ever heard any footballer get on any subject, ever. Absolutely disgusting.\n\n\"And he got it regularly and not once did he react to it, apart from scoring goals and celebrating.\"\n\nGoodwillie never faced a criminal trial over the rape accusation after prosecutors said there was not enough evidence.\n\nDenise Clair, who waived her right to anonymity, said she was raped by Goodwillie and another player in 2011 after a night out.\n\nBoth Goodwillie and Dundee United player David Robertson accepted that they had sex with her but maintained it was consensual.\n\nThe judge in the civil case ruled that they both raped Ms Clair, who had been \"incapable of giving meaningful consent\", and ordered them to pay her £100,000 in damages.", "Germany's refusal to send weapons to Ukraine has puzzled and angered some allies. But the reasons why Europe's most powerful country is standing back are historical and complex.\n\nThere's a great grassy plain to the east of Berlin where the soil tells terrible stories.\n\nAs farmers plough, their blades disturb human bones, weapons; the fragments of one of the most brutal battles of World War Two.\n\nIt was spring 1945. Hitler was hiding in a bunker in Berlin, his troops in retreat. Soviet forces advanced from the east across the plain but, above them on a hill called the Seelow Heights, the Nazis had taken up a defensive position.\n\nIt was, by all accounts, a muddy, chaotic bloodbath. The Soviets eventually prevailed, hastening the end of the war, but it's estimated up to 30,000 of their soldiers were killed.\n\nTo visit the memorial at Seelow Heights is to understand how deeply entrenched this country's history remains in the minds of many Germans - and how the horrors of the 20th Century still influence its foreign policy today.\n\nIt is one of the reasons Germany has refused to send weapons to Ukraine, prompting a furious response from politicians there.\n\nThis is, by and large, a nation of pacifists.\n\nAn annual survey reveals that most Germans believe diplomatic negotiation is the best way to resolve conflict. German troops rarely participate in anything other than peacekeeping missions; there are few exceptions - and they were controversial - including the Balkans in the 90s and, more recently, Afghanistan.\n\nIt's also, ironically, one of the world's biggest arms exporters (though its output is dwarfed by that of the US and Russia). And it has strict controls over where weapons are sent, even if Angela Merkel's government was sometimes accused of not sticking to those rules.\n\n\"Germany has a longstanding policy of restraint when it comes to military conflict of all sorts and weapons export is seen as fuelling conflict rather than reducing conflict,\" says Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff from the German Marshall Fund. \"This longstanding policy says that Germany does not export arms into conflict zones.\"\n\nGermany has departed from that principle, to arm Peshmerga fighters battling IS in Northern Iraq. But the situation in Ukraine is different, he says. The reason is history - the Nazi killings of millions of people in Ukraine and Russia.\n\n\"To export arms into the bloodlands that Germany helped to create, to supply one part of the bloodlands with arms… against the other part of the bloodlands… is an anathema in the German political debate.\"\n\nThe situation on the Ukrainian border is testing Germany's new coalition government.\n\nChancellor Olaf Scholz - who probably thought Covid would be his greatest challenge - is now under pressure from his international allies to shift his country to a new, more hawkish position.\n\nHis government - a coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and Free Democrats - came to power at the end of last year promising a values-based foreign policy and even stricter constraints on arms exports.\n\nResisting calls - even from some within that government - to send weapons to Kiev, Chancellor Scholz has instead paid for a field hospital, offered to treat wounded soldiers in Germany and is sending 5,000 helmets to Ukraine.\n\nBecause there's another reason for Germany's reluctance - many here simply don't believe that sending weapons will solve the crisis.\n\nScholz's foreign minister, Green politician Annalena Baerbock, points out that Germany is a financial donor to Ukraine and believes that is more effective than sending arms.\n\n\"I do not think it's realistic to believe such weapons exports could turn around the military imbalance. The best protection is to prevent further aggression. The strongest weapon, if you want to use that word, is that we, united as Nato members, as EU states, as the G7, make clear every new aggression will have massive consequences.\"\n\nChancellor Scholz favours the dialogue-based approach pursued by his predecessor. Angela Merkel was instrumental, along with President Emmanuel Macron of France, in setting up the so-called Normandy format under which Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia aimed to establish a ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine. It's hoped that same format might work now.\n\nNils Schmidt, foreign affairs spokesman for the chancellor's social democrats, says \"France and Germany are mediators and I think it's not very appropriate for a mediator nation to send weapons to Ukraine, to one conflict party, because we are trying to promote a diplomatic solution.\"\n\nAnd Germany is well placed for such diplomacy. Chancellor Scholz may not have Mrs Merkel's clout with President Putin. But, thanks to their histories, Germany's relationship to Russia is unlike that of many other Western countries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ukrainian Marta Yuzkiv is preparing to defend her country but says she doesn't want war\n\nThousands of German firms do business there. Many Germans - including Angela Merkel - grew up behind the Iron Curtain, learning Russian at school. Her ability to communicate regularly with Vladimir Putin when other leaders could not, was often attributed to their shared experience of life in the Communist East.\n\nWhat puzzles - and angers - many around the world (and a fair few in Germany too) is why Chancellor Scholz isn't playing his most obvious card.\n\nThe two countries' economic ties are perhaps most controversially embodied in the Nordstream 2 pipeline, which, if and when it comes online, would double the amount of Russian gas coming into Europe via Germany.\n\nChancellor Scholz is under pressure to scrap the project by way of a sanction against Russia. That he has not yet done so is, critics argue, emblematic of Germany's self-interest.\n\nIt's a sore topic for his government. His social democrats, who say the pipeline is a private economic project, are behind it. But his partners, the FDP, say it's political and the Greens would dearly love to let it go.\n\nMr Scholz has indicated that, should Russia invade Ukraine, all options will be on the table, including the pipeline. But, in his quietly spoken way, has gone no further, prompting some to wonder whether history will judge him canny or weak and hesitant.\n\n\"It's wise to have a certain level of strategic ambiguity so that Putin cannot start calculating which price he would have to pay in case of doing this or that,\" says Nils Schmidt. \"That's why is so important to have all these options on the table.\"\n\nAnd, in the meantime, as Vladimir Putin tests the nerves of the West, Germany faces fundamental questions about its pacifist instincts.\n\nEven towards the end of the Merkel era, calls were growing for Germany to take on a more substantial military role on the world stage.\n\nAnd, as visitors to Seelow Heights, who imagine the screams of Katyusha rockets and the shouts of dying men, will understand, Germany knows very well what is at stake - and the cost of getting it wrong.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel \"appalled and sickened\" by a report showing misogyny, discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment in Met Police\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has said she was \"appalled and sickened\" by the behaviour of Metropolitan Police officers revealed in a report.\n\nThe officers mainly based at Charing Cross, in London, were found to have joked about rape, killing black children and beating their wives.\n\nThe Met said it was \"deeply sorry\", after the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) published its findings.\n\nBut Ms Patel said the force had \"problems\" with its culture.\n\nShe told the Commons Home Affairs Committee that examples of \"appalling conduct\" by serving officers could not be dismissed as \"one-off\" incidents.\n\nAsked if the Met was institutionally misogynist, she said it had \"cultural and attitudinal\" issues, suggesting a \"failure of leadership in some quarters\".\n\nBut she said she had confidence in Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick to make the changes that were required.\n\nPressed about Ms Dick's future, Ms Patel said she was \"very clear and upfront with the commissioner about the problems… I'm very challenging with the commissioner and I will continue to be so.\"\n\nMs Patel did not rule out launching a major inquiry into policing, like the 1999 Macpherson report into the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, which labelled the Met \"institutionally racist\".\n\nThe home secretary said: \"There are no excuses for the appalling behaviour and what we have seen in that IOPC report and it is quite clear there are cultural problems and issues in policing.\"\n\nBut, she added she wanted to \"find out what on earth is going on\" through existing, smaller scale inquiries launched after the murder of Sarah Everard by Met Police officer Wayne Couzens, before deciding whether to go further.\n\nOne probe, led by Dame Elish Angiolini QC, will look at previous criminal and misconduct allegations against Couzens, and whether any red flags were missed when he was vetted.\n\nA separate review, led by Baroness Louise Casey, is looking at the culture and standards within the Met Police, and its vetting, recruitment and training procedures.\n\nThe IOPC launched its investigation in 2018 after an officer allegedly had sex with a vulnerable woman in a room inside a London police station - although this allegation was never proven.\n\nIn its report, published on Tuesday, the police watchdog identified \"bullying and aggressive behaviour; 'banter' used to excuse oppressive and offensive behaviours; discrimination; toxic masculinity, misogyny and sexual harassment\".\n\n\"We believe these incidents are not isolated or simply the behaviour of a few 'bad apples',\" the IOPC said in a statement.\n\nOf the 14 officers investigated, two were dismissed for gross misconduct and put on the barred list, preventing future employment with the police.\n\nAnother two resigned and several others faced disciplinary action, the IOPC said.\n\nNine are still serving with the force, while another is working as a contractor in a staff role.\n\nIn Parliament on Wednesday, MPs expressed disgust at the findings of the IOPC report, which Home Office Minister Kit Malthouse said described \"abhorrent behaviour\" that \"shamed\" the Met Police.\n\nConservative MP Matthew Offord, who called for the urgent question, criticised the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.\n\n\"We need leadership on keeping London safe and that is not happening,\" Mr Offord said.\n\nMr Khan has said he was \"utterly disgusted\" by the findings, adding: \"Anyone found to be responsible for sexism, racism, misogyny, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, bullying or harassment does not deserve to wear the Met uniform and must be rooted out.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Met said: \"We are deeply sorry to Londoners and everyone they have failed with their appalling conduct and acknowledge how this will damage the trust and confidence of many in the 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